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We made this a bit interesting late, but the game was nowhere near as close as the 9-5 score indicated. We were losing after the first pitch of the game, a home run to Craig Biggio, and that pretty much was it for the game. The Astros scored in innings 1-6, and we scored 4 in the 7th & 8th, but even with those, the game felt like it belonged to the Astros from the second Biggio hit the home run.
As usual, a team throws a kid making their major league debut against us, and he’s great. Rodrigo Rosario went 6 innings, giving up 2 runs (only 1 earned), and overall had us baffled. When we do that, the other team gets 7 runs in 3 innings and 80 pitches off our guy. Sigh. Any chance we can take this team down for a server upgrade and a reboot? It might do some good, as would my suggestion about putting in the horse.
Also, I don’t know if anyone noticed, but out in left field in this game from Sec 201 or 202 or so, someone had hung a white banner with nothing on it From where I was sitting, it really looked like someone was throwing in the towel – like it was a surrender flag. I called in to the post game show and asked them about it, they had a chuckle, but didn’t see it themselves. If anyone knows who hung that, have them email me, I’d love to talk to them. :)

OK, the Astros come back to town for the Lone Star Series. Does the change in opponent make a difference? Hell no . We lost 12-3. It actually was closer than that until the 9th inning when the entire team seemed to Jay Powell; giving up 7 runs in the top of the 9th to effectively remove any real chance we had of coming back to win this.
I was there. There wasn’t much else to write about – except I got a pretty decent hat as a giveaway item. Oh, and someone popped by again (dude, I’m sorry I keep forgetting your name) to say hello to me. I also seem to have abandoned scoring games on paper, and have gone to scoring games on my Palm PDA using a program called Scorepad.
What? Write about the game? Feh – there’s nothing worth writing about, except maybe Arod had a home run. :)
Game notes here, and addtl notes here.

A daytime game during the week – that means that I don’t get to listen to most of it. This was no different – I only heard the start, when Mario Ramos seemed to be pretty decent in his major league debut. Then Jay Powell came in later. He certainly seems like the next person to ride the train out of town – I wonder why we haven’t made the call yet?
I think I’ve officially given up on this season. Up until our big recent slide, I thought we had a chance to at least be respectable this season – that’s not happening. :(
Bring on the Astros. We’ll sell tickets – which is what I guess it’s all about, eh?
Game notes here.

We lost again – by the same score (4-3) that we lost the night before. We actually got good pitching – Tony Mounce didn’t give up anything in his 6 innings pitched. Alex Rodriguez broke out of his slump with an 2 run RBI home run. Ugueth Urbina had a meltdown, and let the A’s back in the game, and then we lost it in extra innings.
I actually was thinking that Mounce looked pretty good. Plus he’s a lefty – something we could use.
Game notes here.

We lost again. I can’t say I’m totally shocked. It was nice to see us hang in the game, and not lose like 8-0, 12-2, etc…
One very cool thing. Raffy laid down a bunt on the third base side for a hit. FINALLY. He complains about the shift, yet he doesn’t try to beat it by laying down a bunt. He should do this more often!
Game notes here.

Well, it was nice to see Pudge again. That’s about as nice of a thing as I can say. We haven’t scored at all in now over 18 innings!
I’m going to Saturday’s game, I’m hoping they break out of it.
Game notes here.

That was an f’in disgrace. :(
More info about this game on mlb.com here.