All series talk goes in here. DO NOT GIVE PLAY-BY-PLAY! If you need PBP try Yahoo, ESPN, or Sportsline. 4-18 Chris Sampson, RHP (1-0, 0.00) vs. Aaron Harang, RHP (2-0, 5.40) 6:10 on KNWS 4-19 Woody Williams, RHP (0-2, 5.63) vs. Bronson Arroyo, RHP (0-2, 3.48) 6:10 on FSN
W L Harangatang will be tough though. Berkman hopefully will wakeup, ST is over. Woody needs to get it going.
Very interesting pitching matchups; Sampson & Harang are both sinkerballers who have to keep the ball down, down, down to be successful, especially at the Great American Launching Pad & **** "Chili" Emporium. Arroyo reminds me very much of a younger Woody, stuff wise. Woody has had problems all year with missing his spots up in the zone. If he does that against Cincy Arroyo's given up 8 ERs in his 20+ innings, yet they've scored only 3 runs for him and have lost all 3 of his starts. Outside of 1 bad game (4 ER, .1 IP)by the usually reliable Todd Coffey, their bullpen has been absolutely nails so far this season: 38.2 innings of 1.63 ERA ball. Much of this good work has been done by former Astros David Weathers & Saarloos, with a big assist from 80 year old Mike Stanton. Former #1 overall draft pick turned 20 year old drug addict Josh Hamilton has really taken advantage of his first...err...crack at MLB.
No doubt. Heard a couple of interviews with him, Opening Day I think, he's a hard guy not to root for.
With nature and the schedule, I'm about tired of these two-game series. I've been without baseball for six freaking months already; give me some four-game wraparound series and some doubleheaders, dammit!
Harang is overrated in my opinion. He had a couple of decent stretches last year but he's only slightly above mediocre.
the two rainouts pissed me off but really with the Rockets a serious title contender just watch the Astros and don't worry about the little things till a few hours pass from our championship parade downtown
He's still drawn 12 walks this year... which is very much like himself. The hits will come... just be patient.
