[Official] Mariners @ Astros

It was a little irritating watching the first 2 innings of: strikeout-double play-inning over, but man it was a fun game, crowd was going nuts and NOT ONCE did I watch someone walk up to the plate and think "well here's an out" which is a lot different than last year or many years leading here.

 

It isn't, but the other team's ace was also on the mound.

Dallas Keuchel is our ace.

 

Having both Beltran and McCann will be big this year, even if they are not producing big numbers anymore.

If Giles have a bounce back year, watch out!!!

 

A tiny sample size used contradictorily in a space of two sentences.

 

Why didn't Hinch play Carlos Delgado? It's time to fire Hinch!

 

Might as well just strictly follow the Twins. After all, they are on pace to average 7 runs a game'

 

It sure is nice to go from not having any baseball to a game almost every day for the next 6 months

 

It's great no longer seeing Castro, Rasmus or Gomez in the lineup and thinking automatic outs.

 

you realize we were facing arguably a top 10 MLB pitcher right?

 

I cant remember an Astros squad that didn't have at least one automatic out guy playing regularly. This year wont be any different. We just dont know who its going to be yet or how many there will be.

But your right, it wont be any of those three guys.

 

I was confused after the CC homerun with Beltran's at bat. Beltran swung once and was out. Swear the graphic read no strikes. I might have been tuning to amc to watch the Gus fringe poison don hiladio scene, but I clicked back quickly.

Anyways great game. the offense doesn't always have to score 5 runs. It was nice seeing batters 4-9 actually make the pitcher work. Aoki was robbed of another hit with a sensational defensive play by the Ex royal. Correa also. And altuve could have gone 1/3 with a walk but got to antsy with Alex on base and swung at dirt. that's baseball.

 

Yea, its tough when your season is over after one game

 

Yeah...it's like posters being overly concerned about not getting enough men on base the first game of the season.

 

Sure.
Was looking over Hisashi Iwakuma stats. He has gotten arguably worse every year since 2013.

http://www.espn.com/mlb/player/stats/_/id/30965/hisashi-iwakuma

We should be able to put guys on the bases today.

Not overly concerned. Just a point in fact.

 

So I haven't really paid attention to ST, but am I right in assuming Lance's terrible numbers are due to him trying out his new change-up?

 

More his throwing mechanics. He changed it up a little to put less stress on his elbow.

 

Exactly. If they put the same number of well-hit balls into play on average, that could easily amount to 2-3 more runs per game. Also, I'd be willing to make a small wager that Beltran and Altuve won't account for 66% of the team's K's in a single game anymore this season.

 

I don't know about the boards, but the M's announcers pretty much thought they had just 1 big mistake to Springer and otherwise played relatively well--just faced a buzzsaw. They were much more concerned about Felix than the game.

But generally they were extremely complimentary of the Astros' play and offseason moves. Gushing about Keuchel, and didn't even comment about the edge calls he was receiving which the M's pitchers didn't necessarily get in return. And recognized that Correa crushed a ball that 95% couldn't keep fair. And that Giles was filthy/impossible to hit. And loved on Marisnick's defense even early in the game. They also loved the updates to the ballpark

 

My comment was sarcastic.

 

Marwin hitting 11-25 against Iwakuma. Little surprised to see Gattis in the lineup with the two LHPs coming up tomorrow and Thursday.