Sunday Morning Hot Links

*Masked Marvel wrote up the recap of the Astros' 2nd win of the season.

*He also wrote a comparison piece about Tyler White and the 1945 Giants' Mike Schemer.

*A.J. Hinch, on Rasmus and his two homers:
There's a look to him where he's controlling exactly what he's looking for, and when he gets it, he does a ton of damage.

Rasmus:
Yeah, mean. Baseball's good. Today's good.

*Carlos Correa says what everyone pretty much agrees on: That new slide rule needs tweaking.

*In David Laurilia's Sunday News & Notes column, he talks to Josh Fields about how he has evolved as a pitcher.

*Vince Velasquez's opening impression with the Phillies: 6IP, 3H/0ER, 9K:3BB in 40-degree weather with a stiff breeze. He had to touch his butt a little bit.

*Altuve, Correa, and Springer make up Joel Sherman's 2nd-best trio of position players in baseball.

*The Astros turned to Bizarre Foods guy Andrew Zimmern for help with their menu.

*The family of Ross Stripling - the Dodgers pitcher who is coming off Tommy John and was pulled after 100 no-hit pitches - respects manager Dave Roberts' decision.

*What on earth happened to the Roggits?

*Rangers catcher Robinson Chirinos has a broken arm. Shin-Soo Choo may have a not-minor calf injury.

*Before you go, from our mans Robert Flores:

#Astros
Tyler White right now pic.twitter.com/BZridppBFc

— Robert Flores (@RoFlo) April 10, 2016

Saturday Morning Hot Links

*G4 recap from the Masked Marvel

*Dallas Keuchel had some thoughts about the game-ending out call:

Are we even playing baseball anymore??? #unbelievable

— Dallas Keuchel (@kidkeuchy) April 9, 2016

*A.J. Hinch:
It's a joke we lost the game based on that when there wasn't intent or contact. It was a baseball slide. 

Colby Rasmus:
There wasn't anything malicious about that slide. I just picked up my leg up and went on past the bag a little bit there. It's crazy. They didn't even attempt to make a throw, and they can end the game on that.

*BREAKNG NEWS: Starting pitching has been terrible since G1.

*Carlos Gomez wants to retire a Brewer. That's cool. I want Doug Fister to retire 27 Brewers pretty quickly tonight.

*Chris Devenski and his "circle of death" had a hectic 24 hours.

*Tyler White joined Ken Caminiti as the only Astros with seven hits in their first four games. Now he's the only Astros with eight hits in his first four career games.

*A.J. Hinch joined everybody else in being happy for Tyler White's success.

*Joe Prince - who sang the Star Spangled Banner and God Bless America for the Astros for over 25 years, passed away.

*The Cubs believe they - and Kyle Schwarber - can overcome his complete knee injury.

*The poetry and dilemma of Ross Stripling's no-hit bid.

*The legend of Vladimir Guerrero, Jr.