DAT 6/22: HOU 5 NYY 7 F

Geaux Yankees!!!

We get to actually watch the Stros lose on Fox this week. How joyous!

Let's go boys

The random area in the middle of North Carolina is confusing. Is there a pocket of die hard Yankees/stros fans in NC?

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Duke is NY South

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Vegas must be NY West

I stopped following each AB yesterday, when I had enough of our selfish style of play. IDC what analytics says when it comes to one run late in a close game. You don’t have to bunt, but you can still situationally approach your AB.

My personal opinion of Bregman as a player took a hit yesterday. Straw leadoff double. I went back and watched his AB. Had a pitch to hit to right side, yet pulled every swing, including his 3-2 K pitch. Later in a 1 run game game batting leadoff, he swings 3-0 for a lazy fly to CF.

Chirinos, who admittedly doesn’t have the same bat skills as Bregman, takes a first pitch strike outside corner after a Gurriel leadoff double. Perfect pitch to get a job done.

BTW, on both occasions that we never attempted to advance the runner (and I don’t mean bunt), the next batter put balls in play that would have scored the run.

And I understand this possibly is a result of the organization’s philosophy more than the individual, but the Astros need 1 game out of 4 to secure HFA in case of a tie, and we all know how are games went in 2017 ALCS in NY and HOU.

Ever since the AD trade was announced, the Stros haven’t won a game.

Coincidence? Who the f*ck knows.

I assume they won't spark until George returns from his rehab which should be over Sunday. Springer needs to get paid.

Wahoocs, good post. We are not playing very good situational baseball. As you explained, we had several opportunities to move runners with no outs from second base and didn’t even try. It’s not like bregman and chirinos are incapable of hitting the ball to the right side. And it’s really the whole team when we go into these funks.

Now this isn’t the team’s biggest concern but I’m disappointed in bregman’s offensive play this year. He’s too homerun focused right now and his avg is suffering because of it. He’s too good of a hitter to be at .260. What was wrong with all the doubles he hit last year and passing the torch to the next guy? Maybe he feels he has to do more with the other guys hurt. Idk. But he needs to be better for the team to be better.

And Hinch needs to be better too. Nobody knows what he’s saying privately about those at bats that didn’t move runners but his postgame explanation is “We’re just not getting the big hits”. Well no shite, AJ. 7 hits and 7 walks yesterday. 14 baserunners and only 1 scored? Seems to happen to this team more frequently than it should. Let’s hope we’re not in that funk come playoff time because we’re not the type of team that looks to move runners and manufacture runs.