Series Preview – Rangers @ Astros
RANGERS @ ASTROS June 12-14, 2017 These fucks again. What happened in the last series? The goddamn Rangers (30-32) inexplicably swept the Nationals in Washington, and even held them to six runs over...
View ArticleRed Sox @ Astros – Yet Another Series of Obnoxious Fans
RED SOX @ ASTROS June 16-18, 2017 It’s time for another series preview which, given recent history, means that the pitching matchups outlined below will certainly be obsolete by first pitch tonight....
View ArticleAstros @ A’s – Burning the Midnight Oil
ASTROS @ A’S June 19-22, 2017 While driving in Austin this morning I saw a father and son playing catch in their front yard a couple of blocks from the office. Greg Gibson called them strikes from his...
View ArticleAstros @ Mariners – Eat More Grasshoppers
ASTROS @ MARINERS June 23-25, 2017 What happened in the last series? The Astros (50-24) just polished off a four-game sweep of the A’s in Oakland. The Mariners (38-37) finished up a tour-game sweep of...
View ArticleAthletics at Astros – Straight A’s
ATHLETICS AT ASTROS JUNE 27-29, 2017 What happened in the last series? The Astros got less than 11 innings over 3 games from their starting pitchers. Naturally, they won 2 of 3. Oakland recovered from...
View ArticleSeries Preview – Astros @ Braves
ASTROS @ BRAVES July 4-5, 2017 Happy Independence Day, everybody. What happened in the last series? The Astros (56-27) rebounded from an opening-game thrashing to take two out of three from the...
View ArticleSeries Preview – Astros @ Blue Jays
ASTROS @ BLUE JAYS July 6-9, 2017 The All-Star Break looms. With an assemblage of Astros in the game and no more “This Time It Counts” bullshit I suppose I’ll watch. What happened in the last series?...
View ArticleSeries Preview – Mets @ Astros
METS @ ASTROS September 2-3, 2017 Living in Austin, the worst I got from Hurricane Harvey was some tall weeds that need to be mowed tomorrow. I won’t claim to truly understand what so many have...
View ArticleSeries Preview – Astros @ Mariners
ASTROS @ MARINERS September 4-6, 2017 Magic Numbers (games as of 9/3) To clinch AL West: 13 To clinch AL top seed: 24 What happened in the last series? The Astros (83-53) broke out the brooms against...
View ArticleSeries Preview – Astros @ A’s
ASTROS @ A’S September 7-9, 2017 Magic Numbers (games as of 9/6) To clinch AL West: 9 To clinch AL top seed: 21 (no thanks to the Indians) What happened in the last series? The Maybins Astros (86-53)...
View ArticleSeries Preview – Astros @ Angels
ASTROS @ ANGELS September 12-14, 2017 Last 9pm CDT starts of the regular season. Magic Numbers To clinch AL West: 7 To clinch AL top seed: fuck. What happened in the last series? Didn’t see that...
View ArticleSeries Preview – Mariners @ Astros
MARINERS @ ASTROS September 15-17, 2017 Magic Numbers To clinch AL West: 3 To clinch AL top seed: hahahahahahahahaha What happened in the last series? Houston (88-58) took two out of three from the...
View ArticleALDS Series/Game 1 Preview – Red Sox @ Astros
ASTROS vs. RED SOX American League Division Series Well, here we go. 101 wins don’t make a shit now, and let’s not kid ourselves: baseball’s best offense has no small challenge ahead, facing two...
View ArticleALDS Game 2 Preview – Red Sox @ Astros
ALDS GAME 1 POST-MORTEM Astros 8, Red Sox 2 Took in the game in section 128. Lost my voice and had a blast. Jose Altuve is aight. The only other postseason baseball game I’ve attended was at Enron...
View ArticleALDS Game 3 Preview – Astros @ Red Sox
ALDS GAME 2 POST-MORTEM Astros 8, Red Sox 2 I can think of no other perfect microcosm of this series than John Farrell feeling like he needed to intentionally walk Altuve twice to pitch to the guy who...
View ArticleALDS Game 4 Preview – Astros @ Red Sox
ALDS GAME 3 POST-MORTEM Red Sox 10, Astros 3 The first two innings followed a familiar formula for this ALDS: the Astros staked an early longball-driven lead, then let the Red Sox have some early...
View ArticleALCS Series/Game 1 Preview – Yankees @ Astros
ASTROS vs. YANKEES American League Championship Series It’s not the ALCS matchup we expected – not in May when the Astros went to Cleveland, and certainly not when the postseason started – but it is...
View ArticleALCS Game 2 Preview – Yankees @ Astros
ALCS GAME 1 POST-MORTEM Astros 2, Yankees 1 What happened in Game 1? Just Keuchel doing Keuchel things, striking out 10 Yankees over seven shutout frames. He now owns the lowest postseason ERA as a...
View ArticleALCS Game 3 Preview – Astros @ Yankees
ALCS GAME 2 POST-MORTEM Astros 2, Yankees 1 Even though the Astros lost the 2004 NLCS, Game 5 was one of those games I was going to sock away forever in my memory. The pitchers’ duel. The defense....
View ArticleALCS Game 4 Preview – Astros @ Yankees
ALCS GAME 3 POST-MORTEM Yankees 8, Astros 1 If you read the pitcher/batter matchups in the Game 3 preview then last night’s score shouldn’t be a terrible shock. Coming into last night’s game the...
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