Phew, crucial win. Diaz came through in a big spot and Alexander still cooking. Gonna be exiting end of regular season . Joe is apparently mentally breaking apart or just panicking pushing all the levers and buttons he can reach. It use to be couple of clearly weird decisions a week to now doing d*mb s**t daily. Putting and leaving Altuve to the game says there is nobody at the wheel. If Altuve would have homered, Espada would have rode on that vindicated rest of the season. Get this stupid absolute c**t out of the manager job. Using Abreu after yesterday framed as "I believe in Abreu" move was more to the statement....we are not making decisions thinking winning of WS, the decisions are made to save manager from being fired. If Abreu will miss any time/games rest of the season/WC round I will sign off firing right away. If the BP trust circle is Abreu and half a pair of blue nuts, you don't solve it by riding them/him to the ground. Everybody is saying good s**t about our current bench coach but I don't think another players manager/friend is the answer. Someone with some experience and attitude/aura that players know he is not one to be fkd with and they see overall the man is doing the work and making decisions he can explain and justify.
They're very good at home and luckily for them they only have like 5 road games remaining and the rest at home. Umps also give them a very favorable strike zone at their ball park. This isn't going to be like years past where Mariners bail us out and free fall. It is going to be a tough for the Astros to stay in the race.
Gotta just keep winning. It's baseball - every team is going to win 30% of their games even if they play terrible and lose 30% of their games even if they play great. And its frequently about when, not who. It doesn't always look pretty. Astros have 16 games left and Mariners have 16 games left. 3 are vs each other. Magic number is 16.
Of course. But they aren't dead yet. They could have just folded after the Blue Jays tied it in the 8th last night. But Yainer and Abreu showed some heart. Good sign.
When Paredes went down, the team fell apart and never recovered. I guess Paredes was the "one too many" factor. It can't be all coincidence.
