Munro will be on a Jimy Williams type short hook. We have a pen full of guys that can pitch a significant # of innings if necessary. Backe should be able to give a couple of innings if we need him. This could very well be 7 innings of the bullpen if Munro isn't on his game. Garner will not wait too long to find out. My prediction is we win 2/3, but the Dodgers will take 2/3 from the Giants and the Braves will do the same to the Cubs. GO ASTROS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
espn has the probable pitchers as Munro, oswalt and hernandez. really dont like carlos as the last pitcher . hopefully its tbd
ESPn probables are never accurate. They let a trained monkey write a guys name in on every 5th day. MLB.com has the more accurate list and they have it as TBD, If the game counts you will see Roger or Backe pitching.
Won't Backe be on normal rest for Sunday? If we win the first two and the Giants lose one, I think I'd throw him out there. Worst case scenario: Clemens in one game playoff. Best Case: Clemens pitches in Game 1 against the Braves.
If we are one up with one to play I would probably still throw Clemens. I really feel like Garner will throw Clemens and try to get a win and clench. Then he will have a rested Backe for game 1 and Oswalt for game 2. If he throws Backe on Sunday and we lose then Roger throws the Playoff game. If he wins who starts game one. You would have to have Roy probably go on 3 days rest, then backe go on 3 days rest in game 2. I'm ok with ROy on 3 but Backe on 3 scares me.
On Yahoo it shows that Hernandez is the starter for game three vs Colorado. http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/teams/hou
Munro's not getting the corners early. If you can, I'd pitch around Helton and Burnitz as much as possible! OH MY GOD! BIGGIO! EDIT: ok.. neither Viz or Biggio saw that. Bear down now Pete... its not your fault.
I dunno about that... their numbers are more of a product of having to bat more from the left side, since there are so many more right-handed pitchers. To say that they're "all around worse" from the right side is probably not a true statement... but its not entirely false either (only because of the lack of AB's and practice they get from the other side of the plate). Honestly... if you gave them 2 right handed at bats every game, and 2 left handed ones... you'd see pretty even stats throughout the season from both sides. Hell... Lance says he has much more power from his right side (see HR derby), and Beltran is a natural right-hander anyways. Regardless... they're special players. Switch-hitting is Beltran's "6th" tool.
I wonder how long Pete Munro can keep "just barely" escaping big innings like he has so far. bot innings the Rockies had men in scoring position.
