I hate how this team's offense goes on disappearing acts. I guess it happens to all teams. But, it's like when a few key players don't hit, the rest tend to follow suit. And, run production suffers.
God awful set of 4 games, Saturday was the worst though. Sounded like Yankees stadium in there. Going forward I'd walk Soto with the game on the line and open base. Give me the playoff strikeout king.
Altuve ripped the ball in the 9th Yordan missed by 3 inches of at least tying the game, then crushed one just to the wrong part of the field It’s not like they had shitty I don’t care type of at bats to let the game end
Maybe nobody should show up for home games until they win one at home for a change. The home crowd doesn't make a difference any more.
Im saying we didn’t need him, we could have used that money on other areas, a SP or another offensive player or maybe multiple players.
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/te.../houston-astros-sweep-ny-yankees-19377966.php Relief pitching proved one difference in the series. Yankees relievers were not charged with a run in 15 1/3 innings. The Astros’ bullpen allowed 14 runs, 12 earned, in 15 2/3 frames. Houston held leads after five innings in each of the first three games and surrendered them. Hader, who pitched in three games, took the loss Sunday when Juan Soto beat a 96 mph fastball for the go-ahead single in the ninth inning. Soto, the star right fielder making his Yankees debut this weekend, illustrated another difference in the series. Soto struck nine hits in 17 at-bats in the series, reaching base 12 times in four games. He and series surprise Oswaldo Cabrera, who drove in six runs, carried a lineup that saw sluggers Judge, Anthony Rizzo and Giancarlo Stanton combine to drive in three runs. Houston’s lineup is built to rival baseball’s best and cover for other potential shortcomings. It did not in this series. Astros hitters combined for eight extra-base hits in four games, three from leadoff man Jose Altuve. Just two were home runs, by Altuve and No. 9 hitter Jake Meyers. The Astros were 8-for-41 as a team with men in scoring position, stranding 34 runners in four games. Alvarez, Tucker and Alex Bregman combined to drive in two runs. Tucker struck his first extra-base hit of the season Sunday, a sixth-inning double that scored Altuve. Alvarez went 2-for-17 in the series and did not record an extra-base hit. He produced drives of 394 and 385 feet in the finale that were both caught for outs. “We played hard,” Astros manager Joe Espada said after Sunday’s 4-3 loss. “It felt like playoff baseball. If any something could have gone our way, we could have won two or three of those games. It’s baseball. But I thought we played hard.”
