The Astros are very very very very very bad.
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The Astros are very very very very very bad.
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Hunter Pence should hide in the Braves locker room until the Astros leave town.
Chuck and Chernoff were banging the Lowe for Granderson drum this am. Apparently, you don’t need to know much about sports to get a job talking about it.
If we’re losing starting pitchers & Granderson (at present) is the Yankees’ top hitter, why would that trade ever happen?
The Astros sale has been finalized, it seems. So it’s possible that they will start to suck less once meddling miser Drayton McLane is out of the picture.
Is it official that Teheran is starting Wed? I’m taking my son to the game and I am pretty fired up to get a first-hand look at him (Teheran, not my boy).
1. Prado 3B, 2. McLouth CF, 3. McCann C, 4. Uggla 2B, 5. Hinske LF, 6. Gonzalez SS, 7. Freeman 1B, 8. Mather RF, 9. Hanson P
Hanson better have a lot of grounders or K’s
Prado and Uggla are about to carry this team.
That’s quite the outfield for a fly-ball pitcher.
Maybe Venters can teach his sinker to Hanson, like he taught it to Jurrjens.
That would be swell.
More Met Misery:
David Wright has a lower-back stress fracture, out “multiple weeks.”
They should just trade Reyes and Beltran now.
Ike Davis is hurt at the moment, too.
Still, they’re only 19-21, they’ve won their last 3 series and they probably need to keep them around—yes, for the sake of the lineup and, let’s face it, the fanbase needs a reason to show up at the ballpark.
But, come trade deadline, it’s hard to imagine those guys won’t get moved.
You know, I bet Ryan Ludwick could be had from San Diego for not a ton. A RH who can play all three spots would see plenty of action. Bet he’d respond very positively to the change of scenery too.
Teheran is starting officially on Wed.
15—Maybe they want LInebrink back!
Rodrigo Lopez pitched today and is now 6-0. Mauro Gomez hit another HR, is up to 7, and has a cool .996 ops.
Anyone know who the potential Atlanta buyer for the Thrashers was? Apparently, that isn’t going to happen and they’ll be heading North pretty soon.
Glavine I thought was interested.
He said he didn’t have that kind of money.
Neither does Nolan Ryan. (And obviously Steinbrenner only spent $100,000 on the Yankees.) If Glavine wanted to be a public face for an ownership group, he could do it.
The Steinbrenner deal was the fluke of a lifetime, though.
Rosenthal…
“…suggests the Braves could target leadoff options Jose Reyes, Grady Sizemore, Denard Span or David DeJesus via trade or free agency after the season.”
I think the Braves will try to keep AAG rather than go after Jose Reyes. But that’s just me.
Atlanta — Keeping Canada Stocked With NHL Teams for 30 Years!!
Reyes will be wayyyyy too expensive. Even though he probably won’t sustain his current pace, I don’t think the Bravos will be in on that one Ken.
Over/under on sacrifice bunts tonight is 2.5. I’ll take the over.
The Astros are worse than messing with Jobu’s rum.
How bout that? Nice play, Martin!
Martin “Brooks Robinson” Prado?
Prado just made a play at third base that Chipper could not have made in his dreams. In his dreams on LSD.
Wow… Are there many all-around players that are better than Prado? There can’t be many.
What a guy.
That was a heck of a baseball play. Haven’t seen one that sweet in a long time.
Thank you for proving my point Prado…
Frediball!
Looks like a really small crowd tonight.
Why not just have hanson bat 2nd if you’re going to bunt every time prado gets on?
Fredi can ride his motorcycle into a ditch. What a damn moron.
Edit: And while he’s doing us a favor, he can let DOB ride along in the sidecar.
Because Hanson is a terrible bunter.
Brett Myers in his photo on MLB Gameday looks like a homeless man.
@39
I can only hope DOB is in the side car.
@42
I swear I was editing that before I saw your post.
You’ve got to be kidding me.
That was awful.
Hinske and AG aren’t the smartest hitters on the team…
Damnation.
Oh, and stop the constant bunting crap, Fredi, you tosser.
@43
Ha!
Smart AB by Freddie. Why can’t our hitters have them with runners on?
Mather had better not be bunting with the pitcher on deck.
Great AB by Freddie! We’ll see the exact opposite from Mather.
The Braves are tied for 2nd in the league with 0.55 sac hits/gm. I’m sure they’ll pass the Cardinals(0.56) for the top spot by the end of the week.
Btw, that doesn’t include sac flys. The Braves are near last in that category.
You know, I’ve given it some thought: without Heyward or Chipper, our lineup is almost as bad as the Phillies’.
Hanson, come on.
Myers is awful. if we don’t put a crooked number up soon, we suck.
Nicely done, McLouth. Come on BMAC!!!!
I’d rather see the stats on number of sacrifice bunt attempts per game, not including the pitcher. We have to be at the top of that list.
Waiting for the DOB interview with Fredi where he asks him about the infatuation with making outs on purpose in the early innings of the game…bet that would be riveting stuff.
Worthless. You have got to be kidding me.
6 baserunners in two innings and no runs yet…
Damn. Well at least we’re getting lots of baserunners and making Myers work.
6 men left on base through 2 innings with no runs scored. That has to be really, really hard to do.
We suck.
61- beat me to it.
I’ve got a Home Depot Know-How Question of the Game:
How the hell do you not score in those two innings?
33% of our outs so far have been made intentionally.
If we bunted more this would never happen.
I’m putting the Braves on double secret probation.
I came up with an excuse for losing these games… Fredi Gonzalez.
64 — The first bunt didn’t actually result in an out. Not that I condone the idea.
Not quite sure where Joe’s going with mention of Myers’ boxing if it isn’t to how he’s put it to use in his personal life.
Martin is definitely my favorite Brave….
The bunting is just contagious!
Hinske did that in a game last year against the shift too.
OK, now let’s have a sac bunt from AAG to get him over.
/Fredi
Has Dan Uggla become Carlos Pena? Will Pena 2010 = Uggla 2011?
71- Do you recommend a broad-spectrum antibiotic for that? Or maybe a neurotoxin-laced blow dart aimed at Fredi?
Don’t tell me this is how it’ll end. Please.
Well, we have all seen this script play out many times before. Braves have base runners all night long without the big hit and the other team does squat but hits a hanger into the seats and now we are chasing…ugh
Well, there’s no way Myers is getting past 6 (or maybe even 5), and their bullpen kinda sucks.
Can we get some runs now? Pretty please… with sugar on top.
@78
Myers kind of sucks too, and we see where that’s gotten us.
Myers sucks too. It’s not helping.
Okay, this is where we push a couple runs across and drive Myers from the game….
Wow, Hinske 1st to 3rd on a single to LF…nice
Watching the ESPN game right now and Aaron Boone just talked about how all the guys who came by 3rd base would talk about how nasty Jake Westbrook was. Seems like if that was true he wouldn’t have had so many chances to hear their thoughts.
I’m surprised *anyone* throws AAG a first pitch strike. Runners on nonetheless. let’s get runs!
Don’t worry, we’ll strand these guys too.
Ross and Heyward on the bench with the go-ahead runs in scoring position and we bat Mather. Sigh.
WTF, tell me why in gods name gonzalez wasn’t bunting there?
Mather!
82 — Good call.
MatherMania to the rescue!
Wow, Joe Mather? Who would have thunk it?
My scorn apparently works wonders.
There’s no damn way Hanson can hit a home run here. No way in hell.
I guess Hanson will bat now
now is a good time to try and bunt, Fredi.
Haha!!!!
I wish just once Joe Mather didn’t look confused.
can Hanson hunt in to a double play here?
Bunting for dummies.
LOL fail.
Joey Bombs! Wait, that nickname is a little LaRuss-y.
I had clown music playing in my head watching that replay.
Oh no. This is the worst thing that could happen.. TWO bunts for hits.
Now Fredi is going to think it’s a good idea to bunt all the time.
MORE BUNTS!
right or wrong, check swings should never be called by the home plate ump
I was a little surprised they played the infield in with the go-ahead run on 2nd. Although I think that ball was through either way.
Aaaarg, less grounding into double plays.
Okay, well I might not have gotten the Myers part right, but I’ll take credit for the runs there…
I should have set the over/under at 5.5. Goodness.
He overthrew the 6’5″ guy.
Martin’s having a great game, huh?
If freddy puts sherrill in, we loose by default.
Hung that one.
Need some more runs then, guys. Let’s go!
Prado’s arm still thinks it’s in left.
This team is terrible for blood pressure.
Let’s hope Abad has an eponymous outing.
Kudos.
I’m feelin the Struggla right here.
Uggla’s been a walkin’ fool of late.
YES!!!!! Way to go Hinske!!!!
Whoo!!!!
ERIC!
Hinske!
The Hinske Magic is still flowing.
Hanson deserved that.
And 117 proves to be as predictive as it was pithy.
Why didn’t McCann bunt?
Freeman is useless right now.
My mlb.tv has been atrocious during this game, I saw a flash of what appeared to be Bill Hall charging the mound. Did that happen?
129 — No. He did get taken out in a double switch, though.
How many times can AAG strike out with a runner on 3rd and less than 2 out? That’s seriously at least 4 times now over the past 2 games. Simply incredible.
Can Eric pitch the 9th? He made that look easy.
Haha, ESPN hyperbole at it’s best; Sutcliffe saying that he’s not surprised that La Russa in his first game made the move that might be winning the game.
La Russa is playing Pujols at third to get Allen Craig in the line-up, who is currently 0 for 3 with 5 men lost on base… winning move for sure.
Pujols’s agent (Boras? I feel like I should know, but I don’t care at all) to LaRussa: “So he can still play third base? 10 years and 400 million, then.”
Talk about taking one for the team, Royals reliever gave up 10 runs in the 4th and still finished the inning. Kyle Davies left the game in the first so probably not a lot of choice.
@ 134- It’s sad and cynical but that was my thought too, especially when the ESPN guys kept talking about how Pujols went to LaRussa and volunteered to do it…
Like Davies isn’t capable of giving up even more runs in an inning if they’d give him the chance.
Prado just tied a Braves single game record with 3 GIDPs, shared with 4 others (maybe less than 4 if someone did it twice).
Matty D in 2009, Yunel in 2008, Rowland Office, and Joe Adcock.
Lovely, nicely done Kimbrel!
Braves win!
Glad the Braves won, but I think the home plate umpire was late for a booty call or something, cause that last pitch was not a strike.
Sweet.
Only 2.5 games out now.
A win for the good guys. Really shouldn’t have been that close though.
Davies did walk 3 in the first inning before leaving with some injury, so he definitely could have been on track.
Sweet Jesus the Astros are terrible. It’s really sad to see how far that franchise has fallen, but I’m glad the Braves were the beneficiaries of that tonight.
Meanwhile, Mighty Mike Pelfry and his Amazin’ Mets are leading Josh Johnson’s Dolphins by a score of 1-0 after five.
Recapped.