How do you like that? The Astros extend their record to 4-0 over the Padres this season, and Roy gets his 4th win of the season in a distinctly Roy-esque performance, with a 3-1win at Petco Park.
Want to hear my favorite Petco Park story? You don't have a choice, unless you scroll down. So the Padres opened Petco Park, and you could buy bricks to go on their sidewalk, or wherever, and have them engraved. So someone bought a bunch of bricks, and had them say Break Open Your Cold Ones, Toast The Padres! Enjoy This Championship Organization. Of course, what does the first letter of each word spell? BOYCOTT PETCO. To the Padres credit, they left it. No need to invite PETA to a baseball game.
What were we talking about? Oh yeah, the Astros' win last night. Multi-hit games from Berkman, Lee, and Oswalt, with Lee leading the way in the Pitches Seen department (18, in four PAs). Once again, the Astros didn't draw any walks - more on that later this morning.
RBIs from Lee (single), Blum (sac fly), Pudge (homer) accounted for the runs; Lee's and Blum's came in a two-run 6th inning that broke a 1-1 tie.
But the real story is Roy's second complete game of the season, and this one - unlike vs the Twins - was a win. Let's regard...
Roy: 9IP, 2H/1ER, 8K:2BB, 17 first-pitch strikes (FPS) (54.8%), 36 non-contact strikes (NCS) - 25 called strikes, and 11 swinging strikes. 110 pitches, 74 for strikes.
His only real trouble came in the 4th...
Eckstein: HBP
Hairston: Doubled
Gonzalez: IBB
Kouzmanoff: Popout to SS
Wild pitch scores Eckstein
Headley struck out looking
Alfonzo struck out swinging
And that was it. From the Headley AB, Roy got the next 17 batters to end the game.
Man of the Match: Roy. No doubt. ERA is now down to 4.02.
Goat of the Game: I'm giving this one to Kaz Matsui, and if anyone can give me a reason to rescind it, I'm open to the idea. 0x3 with a K and saw 12 pitches all night.
We didn't come out here to play tiddlywinks, son.
-Hal Smith
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Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Monday, June 29, 2009
Matchup for G74 - Astros @ Padres
Late game tonight, in which Roy Oswalt tries to beat Josh Geer to extend the Astros' 2009 winning streak over the Padres to four games. The Padres came to town in May, and left without a win in the three game series.
The Padres are 33-41, 5-10 over their last 15 games, 14 games back of the Dodgers, and just took two of three from the Rangers in Arlington. Heath Bell has converted 20 of 21 save opportunities.
The Astros are 35-38, are 8-7 over their last 15 games, are four games back of the NL Central lead, and the bullpen has 13 losses.
Incidentally, this is a rematch of G31 that the Astros won 12-5. Oswalt went 6IP and got his first win of the season.
Let's revisit, shall we, that game?
Astros vs. Geer:
Matsui: Single, Flyout to LF, HBP (SB)
Bourn: Groundout to 2nd, GO to SS, Single to LF
Pence: GO to SS, GO to SS, Walk
Lee: RBI single to LF, Walk
Tejada: HR to LF, 2-run single to LF
Erstad: Single to 2B, GO to 2B
Pudge: Walk, Single to LF
Keppinger: GO to SS, GIDP
Padres vs. Oswalt:
Gerut: Flyout to LF, Flyout to CF, swinging K
Eckstein: GO to C, HBP, (Rodriguez batting - Single to RF)
Gonzalez: Popup to 3B, Flyball to CF, 2-run HR to LF
Headley: Single to CF, HR to RF, swinging K
Hairston: GIDP, Double to LF, Flyout to CF
Kouzmanoff: GO to 2B, swinging K (Giles batting - Single to RF)
Hundley: Walk, looking K, Walk
Burke: Flyout to CF, Popout to 2B, Popup to SS
So the Padres got Roy for six hits - three of them for extra-bases, two of those for homers.
Left side: Five
Up the middle: Eight
Right side: Three
The Padres are 33-41, 5-10 over their last 15 games, 14 games back of the Dodgers, and just took two of three from the Rangers in Arlington. Heath Bell has converted 20 of 21 save opportunities.
The Astros are 35-38, are 8-7 over their last 15 games, are four games back of the NL Central lead, and the bullpen has 13 losses.
Incidentally, this is a rematch of G31 that the Astros won 12-5. Oswalt went 6IP and got his first win of the season.
Let's revisit, shall we, that game?
Astros vs. Geer:
Matsui: Single, Flyout to LF, HBP (SB)
Bourn: Groundout to 2nd, GO to SS, Single to LF
Pence: GO to SS, GO to SS, Walk
Lee: RBI single to LF, Walk
Tejada: HR to LF, 2-run single to LF
Erstad: Single to 2B, GO to 2B
Pudge: Walk, Single to LF
Keppinger: GO to SS, GIDP
Padres vs. Oswalt:
Gerut: Flyout to LF, Flyout to CF, swinging K
Eckstein: GO to C, HBP, (Rodriguez batting - Single to RF)
Gonzalez: Popup to 3B, Flyball to CF, 2-run HR to LF
Headley: Single to CF, HR to RF, swinging K
Hairston: GIDP, Double to LF, Flyout to CF
Kouzmanoff: GO to 2B, swinging K (Giles batting - Single to RF)
Hundley: Walk, looking K, Walk
Burke: Flyout to CF, Popout to 2B, Popup to SS
So the Padres got Roy for six hits - three of them for extra-bases, two of those for homers.
Left side: Five
Up the middle: Eight
Right side: Three
Sunday, May 10, 2009
Reactions to G32 - Padres at Astros
Cooper:
“He’s been struggling to get that first win. Hopefully, now, we can roll off a few for him.”
Oswalt:
“I really don’t know what I’m doing right now. I went from a fastball-curveball pitcher to a fastball-slider pitcher all of a sudden. I’ll try and figure it out.”
Pudge:
“Finally, we gave him some runs to work with. We need to score runs for him. If we do that, we’ll be okay.”
Tejada:
“We have to pick up the slack. One thing we know is we have a great hitting team. I know we’re going to hit. There are going to be a lot of games like this coming.”
Padres' pitcher Josh Geer, in one of the most illogical quotes you'll ever read:
“I don’t know what it was, but it was definitely my command. I was all over the place."
Jody Gerut:
“We just have to be better. We've hit a lot of hard balls for outs with runners in scoring position, but we have to start making our own luck. I suppose you do that by looking at your own prep work and asking yourself if you're doing everything to get yourself ready for each game. And if you need to do extra work, are you doing it? If the answers to those questions are yes, then it's just a matter of time before we regain the form we had. I still don't concede that this is our team. It isn't.”
“He’s been struggling to get that first win. Hopefully, now, we can roll off a few for him.”
Oswalt:
“I really don’t know what I’m doing right now. I went from a fastball-curveball pitcher to a fastball-slider pitcher all of a sudden. I’ll try and figure it out.”
Pudge:
“Finally, we gave him some runs to work with. We need to score runs for him. If we do that, we’ll be okay.”
Tejada:
“We have to pick up the slack. One thing we know is we have a great hitting team. I know we’re going to hit. There are going to be a lot of games like this coming.”
Padres' pitcher Josh Geer, in one of the most illogical quotes you'll ever read:
“I don’t know what it was, but it was definitely my command. I was all over the place."
Jody Gerut:
“We just have to be better. We've hit a lot of hard balls for outs with runners in scoring position, but we have to start making our own luck. I suppose you do that by looking at your own prep work and asking yourself if you're doing everything to get yourself ready for each game. And if you need to do extra work, are you doing it? If the answers to those questions are yes, then it's just a matter of time before we regain the form we had. I still don't concede that this is our team. It isn't.”
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