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Hello everyone!  We've got our opening day starter on the mound, here's hoping we can find some consistent offense throughout the game today.  At least a few hits, we've just been so quite with the bats (yesterday's late-inning rally notwithstanding).  Lineups:

Pirates

  1. John Raynor CF
  2. Delwyn Young 2B
  3. Lastings Milledge LF
  4. Garrett Jones RF
  5. Jeff Clement 1B
  6. Bobby Crosby SS
  7. Ramón Vázquez 3B
  8. Jason Jaramillo C
  9. Zach Duke P

Pitching:  Zach Duke, Anthony Claggett, Jack Taschner, Javier López

Astros

  1. T.J. Steele CF
  2. Jeff Keppinger 2B
  3. Jason Michaels RF
  4. Carlos Lee LF
  5. Geoff Blum 1B
  6. Pedro Feliz 3B
  7. Edwin Maysonnet SS
  8. Humberto Quintero C
  9. Roy Oswalt P

Pitching:  Roy Oswalt

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wasn’t working. Milledge up to bat, Oswalt struck out Raynor and Young.

Lee apparently tracks down a deep Milledge fly to end the half.

by poorboywilly on Mar 26, 2010 1:08 PM EDT reply actions  

Hey it's back

Steele got on base and stole a base, but other than that no damage in the third. Young, Milledge, Jones due up for the fourth.

by poorboywilly on Mar 26, 2010 1:45 PM EDT reply actions  

Wakey wakey

Duke doubled, otherwise bupkis (sp?). Raynor taking the golden opportunity to fan twice so far.

by azibuck on Mar 26, 2010 1:46 PM EDT reply actions  

lol

I think it is “bumpkis”, but also not sure.

Young grounds out, and my feed is fubared again…sigh

by poorboywilly on Mar 26, 2010 1:49 PM EDT up reply actions  

Heh.

It’s actually “bubkes” (a word borrowed from Yiddish). Though various other spellings are acceptable to varying degrees.

by Vlad on Mar 26, 2010 3:42 PM EDT up reply actions  

look's like

MLB is having issues. All the audio feeds have been turned off. At least they’ve been ramping up the boxscore activity in the last week, now it’s only a few batters behind. :)

by poorboywilly on Mar 26, 2010 2:04 PM EDT reply actions  

Box is way behind of course, but 1-0 Pirates

Stings double, Clement singled him in. Duke stellar through 4.

by azibuck on Mar 26, 2010 2:06 PM EDT reply actions  

Zach Duke is batting 1.000 with a 3.000 OPS. 2 for 2 with 2 doubles

by ElDuce on Mar 26, 2010 2:17 PM EDT reply actions  

Duke was cruising for a while there. He was supposed to go 5 or 6, but they let him go back out for the 7th since he had set down 10 in a row going in and was under the pitch count. He got the first two there then gave up his second single of the day, so they pulled him. Left the field to a nice ovation.

by ElDuce on Mar 26, 2010 2:44 PM EDT reply actions  

Vazquez

Is there any reason we’re wasting at bats on vazquez?

by Sage18 on Mar 26, 2010 2:50 PM EDT reply actions  

you got to showcase him if you want to trade him.

by psudynasty on Mar 26, 2010 3:22 PM EDT up reply actions  

The two lefties (Lopez and Taschner) had a tough inning out of the pen. It was 2-0, now it’s 4-2. Lopez gave up a walk, a bunt single, then a ground ball single past the diving Josh Harrison at third to score a run.

Taschner proceeded to walk another guy, then give up a 3 run triple. 3 runs charged to Lopez (his first of the spring), 1 to Taschner.

by ElDuce on Mar 26, 2010 3:12 PM EDT reply actions  

that really irritates you

we managed to scrape out some hard-earned runs against a tough starter, and our pen comes in and walks some guys, give up a few hits and a bunch of runs.

by poorboywilly on Mar 26, 2010 3:18 PM EDT up reply actions  

reminds me of last year. actually. it should remind duke too. that happened to him many times last year.

by agent00 on Mar 26, 2010 3:20 PM EDT up reply actions  

Robbie Grossman got a single in his only AB of the spring thus far.

by ElDuce on Mar 26, 2010 3:18 PM EDT reply actions  

bottom ninth

Gonzalez on second, Harrison at the plate

Harrison pops out (apparently, the Astros announcers were more concerned with the dude’s sunglasses than the play by play), two outs.

by poorboywilly on Mar 26, 2010 3:23 PM EDT reply actions  

sorry

that was top of the ninth. Apparently it’s 4-4 now, heading to the bottom of the ninth as Kratz foul tips a strikeout.

by poorboywilly on Mar 26, 2010 3:26 PM EDT reply actions  

Powell in to pitch

Castro, Maysonnet and pitchers spot due

by poorboywilly on Mar 26, 2010 3:29 PM EDT reply actions  

flyout

to Grossman just left of center

by poorboywilly on Mar 26, 2010 3:30 PM EDT reply actions  

Shelton bats

fly ball to deep right, Raynor back and “makes a diving effort for it, not necessarily a good one” but misses the ball. “He looked like had it measured…but didn’t take a good route to the ball, didn’t find the wall”. “Don’t want to be too harsh on Raynor…it didn’t look pretty that’s for sure…that’s a fly ball that’s typically caught”.

Kata pinch runs for Shelton.

Chris Johnson two-run HR to center, “well over the wall”. Astros win 6-4.

by poorboywilly on Mar 26, 2010 3:34 PM EDT reply actions  

Sounds like there may have been some odd wind.

They were saying that Grossman didn’t have a good read on Johnson’s HR, either.

by Vlad on Mar 26, 2010 3:44 PM EDT up reply actions  

Greg Brown’s call on John Raynor’s attempt to field a flyball was pretty good.

“Raynor makes an effort out there…not necessarily a good one…”

by ElDuce on Mar 26, 2010 3:34 PM EDT reply actions  

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