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[Official] Astros @ Mariners

Discussion in 'Houston Astros' started by Castor27, Jul 18, 2025 at 11:32 AM.

  1. Tomstro

    Tomstro Member

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    We’d be in worse shape
     
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  2. Htown Stros

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    Longer than I can endure watching McCullers start games for us.

    Needs to be in the mop up role or DFA’d at this point. Don’t have the luxury of a large lead anymore to keep throwing him out there.
     
  3. conquistador#11

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    Never heard Sparky and Ford sound so disappointed in a player
    . "He's become so predictable." (Lance)
    The way he said it I envisioned him tapping the desk like Silas.


    Everything that was going their way no longer is. Frustrating for sure.
     
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  4. Clutch City1993

    Clutch City1993 Bury Me In The H

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    I was being sarcastic. I usually use humor to pull myself out of bs like the last 10 game span.
     
  5. Houstunna

    Houstunna Mr Graphix
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    Hard for a MASH unit to overcome injuries and s*** defense and 4 runs <3 IP from their starter.

    Astros had their chances but too many obstacles, some self inflicted.

    Avoid the sweep.
     
  6. mvpcrossxover

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    can someone tell me what's this franchise's obsession with hector neris? he's not the same 2022 neris. even the 2022 neris wasn't amazing either

    Bryan Woo pitching tomorrow. good luck hitting him.
     
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  7. BMoney

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    Abreu is out of the circle of trust.
     
  8. BMoney

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    He hasn't had a good stretch in a long, long time.
     
  9. lnchan

    lnchan Sugar Land Leonard
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    This game would be completely different if McCullers wasn't automatically spotting the other team walks and HBPs
     
  10. Snake Diggit

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    Throwing Hader multiple innings is beyond idiotic at this point. Risking injury and almost guaranteed loss. Stupid.

    McCullers’ leash needs to be short. One more start of <4 innings and he needs to be moved to scheduled relief work. They can’t keep running him out there and putting the entire pitching staff in a hole like this. 5 of his 11 appearances have been <4 innings, almost no pitcher in history gets to put up that many/frequency of duds and stay in the rotation.

    If Paredes is out for the season this team is ****ed.

    LF Altuve
    RF Smith
    C Diaz
    1B Walker
    DH Singleton
    3B Whitcomb
    CF Trammell
    2B Matthews
    SS Dubon
     
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  11. The Beard

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    Problem is Gusto and Gordon are not routinely giving us more innings either

    Team can’t wait till the deadline Brown needs to bring in a starter now

    And to be honest if Paredes is going to be out long term, which is likely, we probably can’t wait two weeks to add a bat either. We are putting too many everyday players out there who don’t belong in the majors
     

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