the same bosox that just got their ass handed to them by the rays? this isn't football. this isn't a sport where you can do the whole, "well we beat team x ...and team x is better than team y ...so certainly we can beat team y for that reason" thing. the astros are a roughly .500 team right now losing to another roughly .500 team. oh, to play in the NL West.
Just wondering... I wasn't able to watch the game but I was looking at the box score... what does fielder's indifference mean? Ex. "- G. Blum to second on fielder's indifference "
means they didn't care. they let him take a base. no throwdown...no concern about him taking the base.
I don't see where you're going with this statement, as the Rays have a better record than the Red Sox... But didn't the Astros take a series from the Rays not too long ago as well? So the Astros can take a series from the Rays (an excellent team this year, so I don't know why you're still using them as a standard for crappiness), and they also take a series from the Red Sox, a traditionally strong team, but they can't hold their own against the Dodgers? One of the most offensively challenged teams in the league? You're right, this sport isn't football, but I wasn't saying that just because so and so beat team X, that so and so should beat team Y, I was just saying that with the momentum the Astros gained from beating such a team as the Red Sox, they shouldn't suffer a series loss to the Dodgers so easily. The Stros went 1-3 against a crappy Dodgers team at home. This is acceptable? I'm not saying that the Astros should be in first place in the central, and that they should be winning every single game, I'm just pointing out that this was a weak performance by them and that they probably shouldve won. I might not have shown it in my post, but I was also very surprised to see that the Dodgers were doing so well, because I fullheartedly expected the Astros to go 3-1 in this series.
On the flipside, the Astros got their asses kicked by Milwaukee, NYY, and Baltimore - maybe they shouldn't have beaten Tampa Bay or Boston in the first place. You can play this game forever. In baseball, good teams lose to bad teams all the time. The bad teams win 40% of their games; the good teams lose 40% of their games. Tampa Bay swept the Cubs and Boston, and lost to the lowly Astros. Boston is one of the best teams in baseball and lost to the lowly Astros. On and on and on.
Common thread. The Astros gave up runs in the top of the 1st every game this series. They lost 3 of those games. It's hard to win when you always start the game from behind.
A shame we couldn't beat the lowly Dodgers after nailing the Rays and Red Sox. Don't give me that crap about good teams, bad teams. The fact is it's an absolute letdown after beating those two teams to lose to a pathetic team like the dodgers. Even if we are pathetic too. We're a better pathetic than the Dodgers. Game, Set, Match. - Harry Potter.
How does the team lost three out of four to the Dodgers at home? It just seems like everytime the Astros start to get rolling and make up some ground, they immediately give it all back. Big road trip as it has the potential to end our season by the all star break. Meaningless baseball for the remaining three months of the season will really stink.
