Exactly... the Astros got out of that inning despite the pitching moves, not because of it. The problem is, this reinforces this sort of behavior/tactics for the next time since it seemed to "work". I think Porter has a pitching change incentive in his contract...
Actually it was Brad Mills that did it in 2011: http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20110823&content_id=23659978&vkey=news_hou&c_id=hou
Its waaay too "cute". If you don't want Sipp to pitch to Goldschmidt, but you want him to pitch to everybody else, just walk Goldschmidt. By doing all this, you trade Grossman in the OF for Marwin Gonzalez, you expose the awful Jerome Williams to their best hitter (who he looked like he was trying to pitch around him anyways), ran the risk of having a pitcher play the outfield, and ran the risk of Sipp getting distorted by having to re-warm up (not sure of what to make about the shot-put throws to first... reminded me of Bagwell at the end of his career). It also took 30+ minutes to get all of that done... I thought NL games were supposed to be faster!?
Does anybody have a feed that doesn't freeze every 10 ****ing seconds? Really getting sick of this ****.
Now that we are winning, all these stupid baserunning decisions bother me a lot more Yo Bo, better get this team a little more disciplined if you want to stick around now that you have a little more talent to work with
Well, at some point, if we are going to continue to take steps forward, you have to fix the bad Altuve if you want to get the most out of the good Altuve
He's got some strange instincts... some of them good, some of them bad, and then some of them seem to spontaneously change from good to bad depending on complete randomness. He slides head first into second on the steal (something that I'm not sure the organization fully condones)... and then fails to slide at all on a play at the plate.
