The average MLB road record is 25-29. A quick look at the standings shows that other terrible teams like the Mets, Twins, Blue Jays, Orioles, Angels and Dodgers have similar road records to the Stros. (23-33). People keep saying this and I have no idea why. In 68 PAs against big league LHP, Tucker has posted a .466 OPS. My new most favoritest thing in this forum is the complaining about Hinch because he doesn't yell and scream in the dugout. Talk about getting straight to the point.
Beard, if you get pissed or mad because of a mere comment of Game Over in the first inning, then you have a problem. That is a comment over frustration of a team that does not score against bad pitching on the road. How many times have you heard me and other posters say: "why we make that mediocre pitcher look like a hall of fame"? Knowing that we don't score then we get pissed when our pitcher gives many runs in the first 2 innings, and with our frustration on OUR TEAM we say, game over. And you know what? Many more times than not, THAT HAPPENED. Now, i also give numbers to prove that this is awful. Yesterday, a pitcher with his ERA over 6 dominated us. And the funny thing, next game he will lose the game for sure. Same thing happened in Tampa, Matt Moore. That guy was awful, and look what he did with us. So don't be pissed, just ignored
Agree, but at the beginning we were good on the road but "lately" and that is what is counts for the comment, we are worse road record team in baseball. I don't have to see stats for that because i see my team performed, and before the All Star and after the All star, show me a team worse than us on the road? We really look awful, we can't hit BAD pitching. About Tucker, i will say this. At the beginning, when he was hitting, he was doing fine against lefties. Then he struggled vs righties and lefties. Then he was hitting again, but this time, he was not playing vs lefties. In the minors, he hit lefties. Actually, the scouting was that he is good vs left handed pitching. So i will not take 68 at bats, and probably most of them when he was struggling with lefties and righties to say he can't hit lefties.
And for the record: When i say worse road record team, that is said that team is good but difference between playing at home and on the road makes them look awful in comparison. Is not as we are the Phillies that struggle at home and are awful on the road. That is just a bad team. But Astros win at home, why lose so many on the road with so much talent? Youth? Pressure? No leaders? Instead of arguing about us posters lets argue of why is happening? The principal actors are the players, the GM, the organization, we are just watching the "movie" and making comments. And of course, if the movie was bad, you are not going to hear good comments. If the movie is good, you'll hear good comments. When this team starts winning on the road, i'll be the first one to point that on. Look at yesterday, McHugh was awful in the first, and i made comments on that. How in this world you walk Coco? He scored the winning run. He can't hit at this moment. But, after that, he pitched very good, and i will not say great because he walked a few (the ump was really bad) and there was no member that gave him as much credit as i did. But that is how it is, if they are good, i will say it, if bad, i will say it, if ugly i will say it. Now, if i am talking with a guy that is a fan of the Yankees, i will say it differently, i would say, look this year is for us to get better, if we go to the playoffs, we are 1 year ahead of schedule, we are young and in 2 years we are going to be the Royals in the AL and for a longer period as we have better prospects and younger players, and they don't have a Carlos Correa or Springer on their teams. Now, on this forum I say, we better win the division or make it to the WC because we made 2 trades that we gave a lot of talent to win this year. I can do that here because we ARE ALL ASTROS FAN.
Matchups Fiers vs BAssit Bassit is pitching very good, and lefties are hitting under .200 against him. We need to win this one as we play against the Giants tomorrow and Bumgarner is pitching. The question is we can't hit Chavez, can we hit Bassit? The bullpen of the A's is not good, so we should take pitches and try and beat the bullpen, but then again, Rangers bullpen is worse and we could not do much with it. Does not look good but this is baseball, anything can happen in any given "Sunday" lol
Again... if you think my posts are negative overall regarding this team, you're simply not paying attention. I just bumped a thread two days ago giving positive feedback. I was positive on the very next page you quoted in this game thread. The particular post you're referring to was clearly about road games. Yes, the team has been pathetic, pitiful, and embarrassing in that regard. I've been posting in this forum ever since becoming a member despite the team not being good last year. It's simply wrong to label me a negative, fairweather, poster.
I think Fiers is a fly ball pitcher, big ball park, play Marisnick at RF and Rasmus in LF. Sit Gattis and play Tucker instead (eventough the starter had good numbers vs lefties, but i dont believe he has a good change up so maybe that is a number that is more due few games pitched). We can win but we can't put a lineup that is going to hit ONLY homers. and Hinch needs to start playing guys that are hitting. Examples, Carter and Gattis, take day offs. Play Marwin more, don't sit Valbuena unless is a lefty as he is one of the best hitters on our team in past 15 games or so. Altuve has not walked since July 22, take him out of the first spot in the lineup, CHANGE THE LINEUP!!!!!!!!! I would use Lowrie leading off 1. Lowrie 3b 2. Altuve 2b 3. Correa SS 4. Tucker DH 5. CArgo CF 6. Valbuena 1b 7. RAsmus LF 8. Marisnick RF 9. Castro C I would hit Marisnick 8th so we dont have 3 lefties in a row. But please, unless Altuve is in a streak of hitting .340, take him out of that leadoff spot PLEASEEEEEE
Second half Tucker has an OPS over .900, no reason to take him out of that 4th spot in the lineup. Come on Hinch, why RAsmus? What is going on??? You allow Rasmus to hit vs lefty but not Tucker??? Rasmus in the second half is hitting .227 and an OPS under .700 (.679). No wonder Correa had 2 walks yesterday, they KNOW these stuff, and did not pitch to him. The only reason Carlos Gonzalez hits leadoff or second is becasue of his speed, but lack of walks should move him to the 5th spot. He is not hitting homers this year, but he is a power hitter that is going to hit in the .270's. To have Altuve and Cargo hitting 1 and 2 is very bad as you are not going to get many walks and low OBP. Altuve's OBP is the last 14 days is .312, that is also the OBP from CArgo in his career, you will not win many games with those 2 kind of hitters hitting 1 and 2. We need Lowrie to leadoff, his OBP is .419 plus he works counts.
On April 29th, we were 10-2 on the road. So we have been 13-31 since then. Our 23-33 overall road record reflects better road play than is actually the case. I think how we got here is more important than the final total.
same. sadly we're a long way from that, and need to stay afloat until then. In general, this team, as we know, has streaky hitters. And it seems like the assumption going in was that someone would often be hot, and we wouldn't have too many "multiple cold streaks at the same time" moments. For some reason, that has happened more than once. Right now it's Altuve, Gattis, Carter (perpetually), Valbuena who are down. Random thought--I wonder if, for streaky players in particular, the "contagiousness" of hitting is more pronounced. Meaning, you're more apt to hit more when everyone around you is hitting, but when everyone is cold, it also makes you more prone to going cold. I have nothing to back this up. But I wonder if the expectation coming into the season was that the streaks would be independent, but instead there's some amount of a snowball effect.
You can't just take out a 1/5 of the sample size to make your point stand. We were very good on the road to start the year and terrible since.
My point is, that our road play the last 3 months is more indicative to where the team is now than how we played 4 months ago. So yes, I can give less weight to April than to May, June and July. One road trip doesn't define how one is playing. And the majority of our early road success was a single 8-1 road trip.
We are also losing an unsustainable amount of close games on the road. Since May 23, we are 1-11 in one run games, and 1-7 in 2 run games for a record of 2-18 in close games. Even with our poor situational hitters, that is a profound amount of close losses.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/play-index/inning_summary.cgi?year=2015&team_id=HOU While we score fairly uniformly by inning, we give up an atrocious 5.71 ERA in the 1st inning. Far worse than any other inning. Could it be our starters need a different warm up routine?
