Talk about the series here. Please no PBP in this thread. Unless otherwise noted all games are on CSN-H (for about 40% I guess). 7-28 Jesse Chavez, RHP vs. Brett Oberholtzer, LHP 7:10 7-29 Jeff Samardzija, RHP vs. Scott Feldman, RHP 7:10 7-30 Jason Hammel, RHP vs. Dallas Keuchel, LHP 1:10
carter with 2 outs and running in scoring position... this is where i miss berkman/bagwell/beltran/kent/pence
Funny because 4 of those guys were not on the only team in franchise history that has won a pennant (yes, I'm not including the bum shoulder, possibly post-roods Baggy in 2005).
So they barely can squeeze out 3 hits against the Marlins on the night I go to the game, but they whallop the Athletics today? SMH, don't understand the Astros of 2014.
Of course, I'm happy with the win and hope this team continues to grow together. Would be nice to see Dex and George back in the lineup soon though...
About a month ago I had finally quit on Chris Carter, I was one of the last holdouts, and then he puts this run together. He's swinging the bat more so he's striking out less this season, although still a lot. Gonna be interestng to see how he finishes. I'm still not really optimistic though.
Did anyone happen to attend the game last night? I was there and prior to the game the Astros played a video on the big screen that I found to be incredibly odd, almost creepy PR spin regarding the Aiken debacle. The video starts out with a digital drawing of the UCL ligament, goes onto define how the ligament works, talks about what happens if the ligament is too small, and then someone from Methodist Hospital appears on the screen (doctor?) as an authority figure to basically tidy up the video message and put a neat little PR bow on it (small UCL bad!!). Now, I'm not downplaying the potential issue around Aiken's smaller than usual UCL, but I'm also not an idiot and found the video to be in poor taste. The propaganda machine appeared to be in full swing at the time and it really rubbed me the wrong way. I suspect the Astros players also caught this while warming up on the field. The whole moment just seemed ill conceived and somewhat slimy.
Did they reference Aiken directly? I know they do a segment during games between innings where they talk about different medical issues affecting baseball.
Why would they do this? I'd venture to guess that half the people there didn't have any clue about the whole Aiken fiasco as is, and to actually spend money on a video production explaining it does seem pretty propaganda-ish. I wonder if it was David Litner who was the doctor (as he was the tam physician who "failed" the physical).
