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). 6-30 Taijuan Walker, RHP vs. Collin McHugh, RHP 7:10 7-1 Hisashi Iwakuma, RHP vs. Jarred Cosart, RHP 7:10 7-2 Chris Young, RHP vs. Brad Peacock, RHP 1:10
With McHugh and Cosart going, we will win one of those. Chris Young is insanely due for some regression, I think we tee off on him. WLW
Because he is 4-23 in the past week or so. Because we almost swept the Tigers with Altuve-Springer-Singleton at the 1-2-3. Because Porter makes reasonable decisions.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Astros lineup: 2B Altuve CF Presley RF Springer 1B Singleton 3B Dominguez C Castro DH Guzman SS Marwin LF Hoes P McHugh</p>— Brian McTaggart (@brianmctaggart) <a href="https://twitter.com/brianmctaggart/statuses/483713121396072449">June 30, 2014</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Porter is definitely all over the place... maybe if he'd have given Fowler the random day off here and there (like he does with everybody else), he'd be a little healthier (instead, he's played in every game since he came back from the stomach bug). However, Qualls is unavailable after nights of pitching 9 and 12 pitch innings, and he definitely can't pitch multiple innings. Yet he brought in Fields to close in 3 consecutive games (each with decent pitch outings) earlier this year which resulted in a BS the third game (granted maybe this is Porter learning from his mistakes, and taking the ultra-cautious route... but that's also the problem with inexperienced managers who like to tinker).
