Astros at Pirates
by poorboywilly on Mar 23, 2010 12:55 PM EDT
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PrintFinally our Pirates are back. Seemed like a long time ago they played, especially with the rainout infuriatingly corresponding with a televised game. Looks like the opening day lineup to me, although it might be Maholm getting the start on opening day.
- T.J. Steele CF
- Kazuo Matsui 2B
- Jason Michaels LF
- Pedro Feliz 3B
- Chris Shelton 1B
- Edwin Maysonet SS
- Humberto Quintero C
- Drew Locke RF
- Felipe Paulino P
Pitching: Felipe Paulino, Brandon Lyon, Shane Loux, Gary Majewski
Pirates
- Andrew McCutchen CF
- Akinori Iwamura 2B
- Garrett Jones RF
- Ryan Doumit C
- Jeff Clement 1B
- Lastings Milledge LF
- Ronny Cedeño SS
- Andy LaRoche 3B
- Ross Ohlendorf P
Pitching: Ross Ohlendorf, Anthony Claggett, Steven Jackson, Jeremy Powell
Where are all the Astros? I know Berkman is hurt, but seriously, Feliz in the four-hole? Where are Lee and Pence?
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Ohlendorf
Ks Steele swinging. Matsui chops it off the glove of Iwamura, they are calling it a base hit
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Michaels
singles to left, 1 down runners on first and second. Feliz walks on five pitches to load the bases.
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Shelton
line singles to left, 2-0 Houston.
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Maysonet
flies out to right. Quintero fists a hit to load the bases again.
I take full responsibility for jinxing us by mocking the Astros lineup. Sorry…
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Locke grounds out
to Iwamura to end the half. McCutchen, Iwamura and Jones due up, 2-0 Astros.
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Iwamura
swinging strikeout
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Jones
line drive single
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Jones almost picked off by Quintero. Doumit walks.
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Milledge check swing K
end of the first, 2-1 Astros.
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Paulino groundout to Iwamura
Steele bunts, throw in the dirt, Clement can’t pick it. Steele safe at first.
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Matsui
RBI double down the line in right. 3-1 Astros, one out.
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Matsui steals third
Michaels sac fly to right, 4-1 Astros, two outs.
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Feliz
groundout Iwamura…he’s getting a lot of work today. 4-1 Astros, Cedeño, LaRoche, Ohlendorf due up.
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Cedeño
quickly grounds out to second, LaRoche flies out to Michaels.
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Ohlendorf out
End of the second, 4-1 Astros.
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Shelton walks
Ohlendorf pickoff attempt into the stands…Shelton to second. Ross not sounding sharp today.
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Quintero
doubles off the wall, Shelton scores 5-1 Astros.
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Locke
grounds to Cedeño, and so does Paulino to end the half. Top of the order due up.
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McCutchen
infield hit up the middle, off the glove of Maysonet.
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Iwamura
called out on strikes, “maybe an iffy strike three call”
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Shelton
makes a fine play to get Jones out. McCutchen must have gotten thrown out stealing, because they went to commercials…end of the third, 5-1 Astros.
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thanks
totally missed it. Was it Paulino or Quintero?
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by poorboywilly on Mar 23, 2010 2:10 PM EDT up reply actions
Steele
leadoff double—back-to-back curveballs, maybe he’s working on his curve today they say.
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Matsui
can of corn single to right. Then he gets picked off, luckily Matsui froze on the paths or he might have gotten to second with Clement checking Steele on third.
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Ohlendorf
Ks Michaels, goes full and walks Feliz.
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for a little bit of a grain of salt
they commented several times on his curveballs. It sounded like he was throwing a lot of them and also struggling with locating them, so hopefully he was trying to work the junk out of his curve today.
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by poorboywilly on Mar 23, 2010 2:19 PM EDT up reply actions
Well guess he needs more tweaking
b/c he was hammered today.
by dulciusEXasperis on Mar 23, 2010 2:21 PM EDT up reply actions
Shelton
doubles off the wall in right, Steele and Feliz score. 7-1 Astros. Chases Ross from the game.
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Taschner
in to pitch, Maysonet flies out to right. End of the half, Doumit, Clement, Milledge due up.
In other news, the (horrendous) Pennsylvania lottery commercial is playing now. It really seems like the don’t start playing them until after 2:00 PM ET. Is it like alcohol, they figure you can’t start in too early in the day?
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Doumit
broken bat hit over the SS.
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Clement
also broken bat hit, Doumit has to kind of dodge the shrapnel
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Milledge
GIDP. Doumit on third.
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apparently
Doumit got out in the DP, Clement was left on second, so Clement makes it to third as Cedeño singles to right.
However, LaRoche grounds out to third. End of the fourth, 7-1 Astros.
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Quintero
flies out to right. Locke singles. Paulino in to hit again, but doesn’t appear to be bunting.
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after speaking with the third base coach
Paulino does bunt, LaRoche makes a nice play and gets Locke at second.
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Steele flies out to Milledge
end of the half, pitcher’s spot, McCutchen and Iwamura due up.
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Vázquez pinch hits
strike three called. Cutch got out real fast somehow. Iwamura doubles down the line to left.
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Jones flies out
We’ve had plenty of baserunners, seven hits and a walk, but can’t capitalize at all. End of the fifth, 7-1 Astros.
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Vázquez stays in on a double switch
gets a grounder from Keppinger. Michaels hit to center, he gets pinch run and Claggett picks off the PR. Feliz grounds out to Cedeño. End of the half.
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Lyon pitching for the 'Stros
Doumit makes the first out. Clement chops out to short
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Milledge
lines out to short. End of the sixth, 7-1 Astros.
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Claggett still pitching
Shelton crushing us. Weak pop hit to shallow right.
Maysonet doubles off the wall. Shelton scores, Maysonet to third on the throw.
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Cedeño charged with error
on the relay. Kratz is catching, Moss in left, Raynor in center, Young in right, Pearce at first.
Claggett Ks Cash, first out, 8-1 Astros.
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Locke
hits a ball to right field. Scrappy is turned the wrong way, spins around, and smashes into wall as ball falls. Locke into third. Maysonet scores, 9-1 Astros. Scrappy appropriately appears to be OK after lying on all fours for a minute.
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groundout
to Cedeño, runner stays at third. Two down. Steele jammed, infield single over Claggett that Cedeño can’t make a play on either. 10-1 Astros.
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Keppinger
mercilessly fouls out to Pearce. Stretch time.
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Cedeño
watches strike three. LaRoche does something. Vázquez draws a walk. Raynor grounds out. End of the seventh. Shhhhh…the bats are sleeping.
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Stephen Jackson pitching
Jeremy Farrell at third, D’arnaud at short. Pearce gobbles up a grounder unassisted.
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Matt Kata
home run “well out” to left. 11-1 Astros.
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Ori grounds out
Majewski stays in to hit, strikes out.
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Farrell
up to hit, he was double switched into the pitcher’s spot. Hits a nice line drive to right field, but is caught. I think Scrappy got out. Kratz draws a four pitch walk.
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Pearce grounds out
end of the eight. Can the Pirates get at least one inning where they don’t get smacked around? I guess Taschner only gave up one hit in fifth, but still.
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Powell pitching
Got my request, quick inning. Didn’t even hear what happened except Farrell got an assist for the second out and caught a soft liner to end it. Pirates’ last chance, Moss, D’arnaud, pitcher’s spot due up.
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d'Arnaud
singles to right field, just barely cut off.
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Ngoepe pinch hitting. He goes 3-1 and then walks. Vázquez up.
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Vázquez
fouls out to Cash. Raynor is the last chance.
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Raynor flies to right foul territory
Locke makes the catch as he’s bending over the railing. Old fashioned beatdown, 11-1 Astros. Pirates committ three errors, leave seven on base, and generally sound inept today. Powell and Taschner the only rays of sunshine today.
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