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8/22 GC vs. Houston
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CF Jay
3B Carpenter
LF Holliday
RF Beltran
1B Craig
C Molina
2B Descalso
SS Furcal
P Lohse
ASTROS
2B Altuve
SS Gonzalez
1B Wallace
LF Francisco
3B Moore
RF Pearce
CF Barnes
C Snyder
P Norris
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Re: 8/22 GC vs. Houston
Wallace hit that ball a long way ...
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Re: 8/22 GC vs. Houston
I can't do the "Why can't the Cardinals hit Bud Norris?" thing tonight. I just can't.
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artie_fufkin wrote:
I can't do the "Why can't the Cardinals hit Bud Norris?" thing tonight. I just can't.
Life can be a struggle sometimes ....
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Astros announcers (I have their feed tonight ) , described Craig's run around the bases as "laboring"....
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Lohse throwin' gopher balls tonight ...
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Thought Holliday had one there ......
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If Lohse ..........
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Jon Jay is a ...
Well, you guys know the rest.
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.......hoss .
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Astros announcers (I have their feed tonight ) , described Craig's run around the bases as "laboring"....
Did Brownie laugh like it's the funniest thing he's ever heard?
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I have a feeling this game is going to end either with the Cards winning 9-2 or the Astros winning 4-3.
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I have a feeling this game is going to end either with the Cards winning 9-2 or the Astros winning 4-3.
Hope you're wrong. I'm not feeling a 6 run 8th inning.
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Insurance run from Molina ...
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......ain't no thang .
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Re: 8/22 GC vs. Houston
There's been a lot written about the inconsistency of the offense, but honestly, they score 0-3 runs as much as everyone else. My problem isn't so much with that as it is games like last night where Bud Norris only gives up three runs because of a wild pitch, despite the fact that Bud Norris sucks ass.
Last Friday, James McDonald entered that game having given up four or more runs six times in 10 starts. He proceeds to shut the Cardinals down. He got hammered in San Diego yesterday.
Jeff Karstens is awful on the road, but he basically breezed through the lineup.
Barry Zito had one of the worst walk rates in all of baseball. Five days earlier the Mets(!) tore him apart. Well, he waltzes into Busch Stadium and throws 6.2 innings, walks none and gives up two runs. Then the Rockies assaulted him at SBC or whatever they call it, then the Padres did it again on Saturday.
Go back to August 2 at Colorado. The Rockies call up Alex White, who had been brutal. What happens? He somehow escapes the four inning threshold and throws 5.1 solid innings. Since then he's thrown 4 mediocre four inning starts.
And so it goes. I know there's a lot of random variation in baseball, but I don't think that a starter who is on a streak of being terrible, magically turns it around against the Cardinals, then sucks in his next start is random.
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There's been a lot written about the inconsistency of the offense, but honestly, they score 0-3 runs as much as everyone else. My problem isn't so much with that as it is games like last night where Bud Norris only gives up three runs because of a wild pitch, despite the fact that Bud Norris sucks ass.
Last Friday, James McDonald entered that game having given up four or more runs six times in 10 starts. He proceeds to shut the Cardinals down. He got hammered in San Diego yesterday.
Jeff Karstens is awful on the road, but he basically breezed through the lineup.
Barry Zito had one of the worst walk rates in all of baseball. Five days earlier the Mets(!) tore him apart. Well, he waltzes into Busch Stadium and throws 6.2 innings, walks none and gives up two runs. Then the Rockies assaulted him at SBC or whatever they call it, then the Padres did it again on Saturday.
Go back to August 2 at Colorado. The Rockies call up Alex White, who had been brutal. What happens? He somehow escapes the four inning threshold and throws 5.1 solid innings. Since then he's thrown 4 mediocre four inning starts.
And so it goes. I know there's a lot of random variation in baseball, but I don't think that a starter who is on a streak of being terrible, magically turns it around against the Cardinals, then sucks in his next start is random.
So to what do you ascribe this maddening lack of consistency? It used to be that salad-tossing lefties shut them down, but they're clobbering lefties this year.