Houston Astros 2015 Game Thread

[RaoulDuke79]

Hernandez looks like piss today so far.

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Okay, go ahead and get him out now. Terrible.

[RaoulDuke79]

Well, both starters have settled down since their awful 1st inning.

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I'd really love to see this lineup with Correa and Singleton instead of Carter and Villar, especially with Lowrie still on the DL.

[RaoulDuke79]

Holy tits, Tucker with a huge 3-run HR to tie it up!

Battle of the Bullpens now.

[RaoulDuke79]

Castro gets in on the action and hits a huge 2-run single to take the lead 9-7! Really great AB from him(followed immediately by the predictably bad AB from Villar).

This team and its ability to come from behind late in games is really fun to watch so far this year.

[RaoulDuke79]

Nice win and great to see them split the series after dropping the first two, especially on the road against a good team.

Both Seattle and LAA lost today too. Good times, and much welcome after that other Houston team decided to piss all over themselves and their fans last night.

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[Mr. E]

Altuve is leading the AL in All-Star voting at 2nd base!

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Crazy:

[tweet]https://twitter.com/astros/status/603705848339267584[/tweet]

They've left 16 runners on base in this game so far and were trailing 4-1 going into the 7th before Gattis tied it up(nice job by Tucker as well, hustling to 1st and not giving up on what looked like a routine double play to end the inning).

[RaoulDuke79]

Well, need one more rally in the 9th. Only a 1-run game!

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Well, piss. Tucker almost the hero again, but not quite.

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I wonder if the Astros can break the record for running into outs at home plate this season, whatever it is. Seems like we're on a pretty good pace for that to happen.

[RaoulDuke79]

Pitcher Fausto Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Hernandez Camacho needs to be out of the rotation soon. Very soon. Tonight would be soon enough, I suppose.

[Mr. E]

Carlos Correa debuts tonight!!!

[RaoulDuke79]

Hell yes! Very excited to see him play.

They're bringing up Vincent Velasquez to start on Wednesday as well. That means my wish has come true, Fausto Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Hernandez Camacho is moving out of the rotation and into the bullpen, and hopefully to the street soon after that!

McCullers/Keuchel/Velasquez going against the Sox. Hopefully the offense gets its **** together this series. Probably won't be easy tonight though:

Chris Sale enters Monday night's outing with 19 2-3 consecutive shutout innings. He has been nearly that good in his career against the Houston Astros.

The left-hander figures to have a good chance to add to his team-high 79 strikeouts since Houston (34-24) has struck out an AL-high 531 times. He has 33 strikeouts in 24 innings in three career starts against the Astros, going 2-1 while allowing one run.

https://sports.yahoo.com/news/astros-wh ... --mlb.html

[RaoulDuke79]

The lack of offense has been terribly frustrating lately. So many failed opportunities with RISP.

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http://mediadownloads.mlb.com/mlbam/2015/06/10/mlbtv_houcha_153318083_1800K.mp4

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Time to stop the damn losing streak tonight. Won't be easy going against Felix, obviously. Then again, for some strange reason I have a feeling this will be the game they finally get some offense going and get a win!

Probably just the vodka talking. We shall see.

Anyways, Altuve is back in the leadoff spot tonight and Springer hitting 3rd. Altuve's been having pretty bad AB's for a while now but hopefully he can get his mojo rising again(hopefully Springer can keep his going too, he's been great lately).

Not sure why Correa is hitting 6th, I think Altuve/Springer/Correa would make more sense but whatever.

Go Astros!

[RaoulDuke79]

Well, this is pretty crazy and really **** awesome! Holy tits...