Houston Astros 2024 Season Thread

[UTexasFight 9428]

2 minutes ago, Mitch Hedberg said:

Dubon did have some good at bats. I think he saw almost 40 pitches tonight. Got to give him credit.

28 but yeah

8, 9, 3, 8

[Hornsbay22 467]

Sweep!!! Winning ugly is always nice.

[HtownHorn 14663]

Just now, WBT said:

10 over

Cleveland or Baltimore & NY need to start losing so we can sneak into the 2 seed

Yankees currently down 2-1 to the White Sox. They already lost a game in this series. I'm not worried about the Yankees at all, they lineup is worse than ours and they have the two best OFs in the AL.

[tx 3 putt 76868]

2 minutes ago, HtownHorn said:

What are you talking about? Do you understand baseball substitutions? Hey guys, I think we found Espada's surly account.

Hmm doesn’t that have take double switch at the same time

[dr99 559]

9 minutes ago, Gourmand said:

TIGERS WIN

 

ASTROS WIN

[tx 3 putt 76868]

5 more wins to 70 

 

[HtownHorn 14663]

2 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

Hmm doesn’t that have take double switch at the same time

No. Diaz wasn't the DH. So, Leon PR and he could have played any position in the field. You could have PH for Dezenzo with Caratini, and played the bottom of the 10th with Leon in RF, Dubon at 1B, and Caratini at C.

My best guess is Espada doesn't understand the rules which is why he didn't PH one of his shitty hitters for one of his better hitters.

Edited August 15 by HtownHorn

[tx 3 putt 76868]

12.5 game swing in less than 2 months is damn impressive. That’s some fucking baseball 

[Dnaguy 11916]

1 minute ago, Hornsbay22 said:

Sweep!!! Winning ugly is always nice.

todays game……

[hornmpa96 2618]

Any word on why they pulled Blanco?

Just curious if it was the baseball hitting his hand or alternatively they are just trying to limit his innings. He was under 75 pitches when he was done with the 6th.

[tx 3 putt 76868]

3 minutes ago, HtownHorn said:

No. Diaz wasn't the DH. So, Leon PR and he could have played any position in the field. You could have PH for Dezenzo with Caratini, and played the bottom of the 10th with Leon in RF, Dubon at 1B, and Caratini at C.

My best guess is Espada doesn't understand the rules which is why he didn't PH one of his shitty hitters for one of his better hitters.

Leon PR for Diaz

Caratini now catching 

 

isn’t that how you tell the ump ?  Caratini is hitting for Diaz if his spot comes up again 

 

 

 

1 minute ago, hornmpa96 said:

Any word on why they pulled Blanco?

Just curious if it was the baseball hitting his hand or alternatively they are just trying to limit his innings. He was under 75 pitches when he was done with the 6th.

Im a little worried here 

Edited August 15 by tx 3 putt

[HtownHorn 14663]

Just now, hornmpa96 said:

Any word on why they pulled Blanco?

Just curious if it was the baseball hitting his hand or alternatively they are just trying to limit his innings. He was under 75 pitches when he was done with the 6th.

Probably worked out the way they wanted as they need to limit his innings the rest of the season. Ort just didn't get it done in his 1st try at a high leverage situation.

[tx 3 putt 76868]

Damn what a great road trip, before a brutal 2nd half of August 

Edited August 15 by tx 3 putt

[tx 3 putt 76868]

 

[Hornsbay22 467]

2 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

Damn what a great road trip, before a brutal 2nd half of August 

Crazy I almost forgot it started by hitting a new rock bottom with the walk off by that Oklahoma team.

[tx 3 putt 76868]

2 minutes ago, Hornsbay22 said:

Crazy I almost forgot it started by hitting a new rock bottom with the walk off by that Oklahoma team.

1 of 162 

let’s get that 10  game streak brown has talked about all season 

Edited August 15 by tx 3 putt

[Rimbo 25911]

I'd like to propose a toast to A J Hinch, that beautiful man.

Thanks to our wins and his squad the last two days have seen us gain a 2.5 game lead over Seattle.

 

[WBT 20561]

11 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

Leon PR for Diaz

Caratini now catching 

 

isn’t that how you tell the ump ?  Caratini is hitting for Diaz if his spot comes up again 

No, you don't have to make that move until you go back in the field.  Leon would hit if his spot came back around that inning.  Unless you ph for him.

[UTexasFight 9428]

5 minutes ago, WBT said:

10 over

Cleveland or Baltimore & NY need to start losing so we can sneak into the 2 seed

It could happen but hard to imagine us getting above the 3 seed.

we’d still be in 4th right now if we were in the Central.

but easiest path is still probably Cleveland, albeit a tall order. They’d need to continue to play .500 ball, which is what they’ve done since June 30. That leaves them with 92 wins. To match that, we’d have to finish 27-15, .640 the rest of the way. Not impossible, but definitely not easy. Especially considering it’s take us 110 games to get to 10 and we’d have to more than double that in only 42 games.

That final series of the regular season could really mean something. Somebody could really be screwed after that (we won the series in Houston 2-1 so that could prove helpful)

 

 

[tx 3 putt 76868]

2 minutes ago, UTexasFight said:

 

That final series of the regular season could really mean something. Somebody could really be screwed after that (we won the series in Houston 2-1 so that could prove helpful)

 

 

 

that might be a road trip 

[ChickenSandwich 9825]

32 minutes ago, dr99 said:

LFG

[Huckleberry 32845]

11 minutes ago, UTexasFight said:

but easiest path is still probably Cleveland, albeit a tall order. They’d need to continue to play .500 ball, which is what they’ve done since June 30. That leaves them with 92 wins. To match that, we’d have to finish 27-15, .640 the rest of the way. Not impossible, but definitely not easy. Especially considering it’s take us 110 games to get to 10 and we’d have to more than double that in only 42 games.

Astros are playing .631 baseball since being 12-24. That's 84 games of sample size. So going .640 over a 42 game stretch is unlikely but not out of reach. 

[UTexasFight 9428]

3 minutes ago, Huckleberry said:

Astros are playing .631 baseball since being 12-24. That's 84 games of sample size. So going .640 over a 42 game stretch is unlikely but not out of reach. 

Right.

doable but by no means easy. We’re middle of the pack on SOS (14th hardest). Cleveland has the 9th hardest schedule remaining.

(O‘s 21st, Yaknees 26th)

[Gourmand 7774]

1 hour ago, Rip76 said:

2. How can Altuve be playing 2nd, and be on the dugout phone at the same time?

underrated post

 

[tx 3 putt 76868]

52 minutes ago, Huckleberry said:

Astros are playing .631 baseball since being 12-24. That's 84 games of sample size. So going .640 over a 42 game stretch is unlikely but not out of reach. 

[tx 3 putt 76868]

 

[perfectchaos007 6623]

After all of those 1 run losses we had in the first half of the season, these last couple of games have been well appreciated. 

[UTexasFight 9428]

Before tonight, when’s the last time a team won a game with 1 hit through 9 innings?

When’s the last time there were 3 or fewer total hits by both teams through 9 innings?

 

2  2  1

1  2  0

 

Probably should have been 

2  2  2

1  1  0

Edited August 15 by UTexasFight

[Scraps 13560]

Two OTTO matos, used to call me fatso
Now you call me Castro, my rap flows

[HtownHorn 14663]

Can he play the OF, because otherwise why the fuck do we need another shitty pitcher?

[Gourmand 7774]

Didn't see this posted earlier

 

 

[Victor Lazlo 1776]

1 hour ago, UTexasFight said:

Before tonight, when’s the last time a team won a game with 1 hit through 9 innings?

When’s the last time there were 3 or fewer total hits by both teams through 9 innings?

 

2  2  1

1  2  0

 

Probably should have been 

2  2  2

1  1  0

I don’t know the last time, but remember this from my youth. Ken Johnson of the Colts pitched a no hitter and lost 1-0. That sneaky fucker Pete Rose bunted in the ninth and Johnson threw it away.

https://sabr.org/gamesproj/game/april-23-1964-ken-johnson-pitches-a-no-hitter-for-houston-and-loses-the-game-to-reds/

[UTexasFight 9428]

8 hours ago, Victor Lazlo said:

I don’t know the last time, but remember this from my youth. Ken Johnson of the Colts pitched a no hitter and lost 1-0. That sneaky fucker Pete Rose bunted in the ninth and Johnson threw it away.

https://sabr.org/gamesproj/game/april-23-1964-ken-johnson-pitches-a-no-hitter-for-houston-and-loses-the-game-to-reds/

Thanks for sharing that.

was well aware that Johnson was the first to lose a 9 inning no-hitter, but can’t say I knew any of the details. For sure not that Rose reached on a bunt error…or that another error allowed him to score 

[kevwun 15759]

I hope they nailed Rose in the ribs the next time he played them.

[Wulaw Horn 19064]

11 hours ago, Huckleberry said:

Astros are playing .631 baseball since being 12-24. That's 84 games of sample size. So going .640 over a 42 game stretch is unlikely but not out of reach. 

To your point about it being unlikely but not out of reach I’m not sure this team has actually gotten hot or lucky to speak of on any particular run. And the health hasn’t been great. If we are a true talent 630 win team (more or less 100 wins) as I think we might be, and we get hot, we might fuck around and play 750 or 800 ball in September like this kind of teams usually do for a month. 

[UTexasFight 9428]

3 minutes ago, kevwun said:

I hope they nailed Rose in the ribs the next time he played them.

Sounds like that’s what Johnson tried on the throw to first 

[UTPhil2006 3804]

28 minutes ago, Wulaw Horn said:

To your point about it being unlikely but not out of reach I’m not sure this team has actually gotten hot or lucky to speak of on any particular run. And the health hasn’t been great. If we are a true talent 630 win team (more or less 100 wins) as I think we might be, and we get hot, we might fuck around and play 750 or 800 ball in September like this kind of teams usually do for a month. 

Decently tough Sept. Got some easy games with Angels and As but then also Padres and DBacks and Guardians. Hopefully that last series vs the Indians is for the 1 seed 

[Guadaloopy 10958]

7 minutes ago, UTPhil2006 said:

Decently tough Sept. Got some easy games with Angels and As but then also Padres and DBacks and Guardians. Hopefully that last series vs the Indians is for the 1 seed 

[UTexasFight 9428]

9 minutes ago, UTPhil2006 said:

Decently tough Sept. Got some easy games with Angels and As but then also Padres and DBacks and Guardians. Hopefully that last series vs the Indians is for the 1 seed 

Peg the #1 seed at a conservative 95 wins (only one of the Yankees, O’s or Guardians would need to play 5 or 6 over .500 the rest of the way to reach that).

to match, we’d have to finish 30-12… add in our current 8 game winning streak that really means 38-12 (.760) over the final ~third of the season.

[runthebone 7966]

I don't care about seeding.  Just make it in and get some rest for the guys who need it.  No one is going to want to play the Astros in the playoffs, but I don't give a fuck whom we face.  We can play all the games on the road, and that might be better.

[kevwun 15759]

Half the team hits better away from Houston anyway.

[texashorne 1177]

55 minutes ago, kevwun said:

I hope they nailed Rose in the ribs the next time he played them.

Now I've changed my mind regarding him not being in the hall of fame. 

[UTPhil2006 3804]

Just now, kevwun said:

Half the team hits better away from Houston anyway.

I just want the 1 or 2. Getting that bye is key. 

[texashorne 1177]

3 minutes ago, UTPhil2006 said:

I just want the 1 or 2. Getting that bye is key. 

This

[Scraps 13560]

I just want the Yankees because fuck them. Daddy needs to send his piece of shit kids home again

[UTPhil2006 3804]

3 minutes ago, Scraps said:

I just want the Yankees because fuck them. Daddy needs to send his piece of shit kids home again

..in the semis 

[kevwun 15759]

Ripping their hearts out in the ALCS is the most fun.

[n64ra 1080]

19 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

I like how everybody out west decided to start winning except, of course, the Rangers.

[UTPhil2006 3804]

1 minute ago, n64ra said:

I like how everybody out west decided to start winning except, of course, the Rangers.

And 4 of those wins were the White Sox 

[Mitch Hedberg 2090]

1 hour ago, UTexasFight said:

Peg the #1 seed at a conservative 95 wins (only one of the Yankees, O’s or Guardians would need to play 5 or 6 over .500 the rest of the way to reach that).

to match, we’d have to finish 30-12… add in our current 8 game winning streak that really means 38-12 (.760) over the final ~third of the season.

42-0. Show me a loss.