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[Official] Astros @ Braves

Discussion in 'Houston Astros' started by Castor27, Aug 19, 2022.

  1. Surfguy

    Surfguy Member

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    We should just forfeit tomorrow and go home with a day's rest.
     
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  2. CK Johnson

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    Doesn't matter. Dodgers are winning the world series because Vin Scully died and there'll be a cringe #ForVin hashtag afterwards.
     
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  3. HTown2017Champs

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    THIS 100%
     
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  4. Mr.Scarface

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    For what? The pitchers didn't get it done.
     
  5. conquistador#11

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    If that were the case they wouldn't need help from mismanaging of our relievers.
     
  6. CinematicFusion

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    Every playoff team can beat us in a 5 game series.
    All playoff games will look like this game tonight.
    Need clutch hits and shut out bullpen to win.
    Didn’t happen tonight.
     
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  7. Stephen66

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    This is true, and we are not playing good baseball right now and haven't been in a long time. I hope it's just the dog days, but there is a lot of difference between Us and the Braves. a LOT...

    And if it's a close game, we are at a huge disadvantage in the managerial position. THAT shows up in the playoffs.
     
  8. Landry's Tooth

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    Neris and Maton off the playoff roster.

    Give me Lee as a third catcher and Matijevic who has some juice if he can connect... they could use a lefty on the bench...
     
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  9. Stros66

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    Bingo. Tucker, Altuve and Mancini no show.
     
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    Dusty is just a bad decision-maker in these type of close games. Over a season, he's solid but he'll always pull up short in these situations in the close, huge moments.
     
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  11. Surfguy

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    You can't blame the shift unless they were playing out of position from what the percentages indicated to line up for. In that case where they got hits assuming we were shifted correctly...then they just got lucky. We lost on the roulette wheel that time with the weak-ass double.
     
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  12. Landry's Tooth

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    Yordan is the best hitter in the game if you take Judge off the juice....

    Don't think that isn't a huge impact...
     
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  13. Mr.Scarface

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    LOL. Yes, pitch him only in clean innings with no runners on base. Pitch him ONLY in the 8th inning. Any other time he is unreliable. REALLY?
    No Montero or Neris in close? Who else are you going to pitch when there is more than 2 innings need to be covered? You guys are ****ing delusional.
     
  14. CinematicFusion

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    It’s baseball, Yankees, Astros don’t look great right now. Braves, Dodgers look incredible.

    But that doesn’t mean it will be like that in 7 weeks.
    Astros just need to get hot at the right time.
     
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    That was a killer!
     
  16. Qan

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    Well from what everyone is saying, I guess I'll not bother and stop now; see y'all next year.
     
  17. STR8Thugg

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    We would get swept by this team in the playoffs. 100%. We don't even compete with these ****ers.

    This BP is just absolute trash. We don't look playoff ready at all. And don't even come at me with what about the Yankees.
     
  18. htownrox1

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    Letting the calm sink in:

    We NEED Yordan. Point blank period.

    Management needs to take a long hard look at the relievers. This ain’t gonna cut it come playoff time. Take a long hard look at Brown and Martinez in triple A.

    Find a way to have these 9 in the lineup at all times:

    Altuve
    Bregman
    Alvarez
    Tucker
    Mancini
    Peña
    Yuli
    McCormick
    Vazquez/Maldy

    I don’t care what you have to do but you gotta have those starting at all times.

    All this talk throughout the season of our bullpen being elite is cute but come playoff time we’re not playing all of the MLB, we’re playing legit teams. High leverage situations. We need dependable relief pitching.
     
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    10-9 so far in the month of August, which is usually the teams worst month by far.
     
  20. STR8Thugg

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    The Braves would sweep us in 3 out of a 7 game series. We will get annihilated tomorrow and go home with our tail between our legs yet again to those **** faces.
     

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