Well boys we finally lost 1 game after winning 7 in a row. We had two guys out there on a rehab assignment and didn't use up any valuable arms in the bullpen. We fought till the end when it could have been easy to throw in the towel. Not worried at all after this game. I will not touch the beard till we win the whole thing. No matter how patchy and ugly it gets!

Max's rough outing and the offense not doing anything for the first 4 innings really hurt the team.

Let's hope the bats are more involved tomorrow - I'm looking at you Semien and Seager - and that pitching by platoon pays off.

Can't win them all. Need to get hot early tomorrow.

Astros have hacked pitchcom, they just dont want to use at home like the did the outfield spy cam and traschcan.
Thats why they do better on the road. Owner wasnt punished in first cheating scandal, will continue to cheat

DallasAg 94 said:

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Losses suck, but considering this was a BP game getting rust off a bunch of P.

We battled back and kept it close. Looking for a W tomorrow and we're good.

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Plus we got their top relievers in the game. We play three straight days, so may help Thursday or Friday.

Our top relievers did not throw.

They say nothing's more American than grabbing a hotdog, heading to the ballpark and watching nine guys from the Dominican Republic make magic on the field. -Will Ferrell pic.twitter.com/8BOCvXDEZG

— Baseball Quotes (@BaseballQuotes1) March 14, 2018

Really good game by both tonight. Good defense

Max wasn't ready
Will Smith is Will Smith
I liked Sick Yordan better

Let's get the next two

sburg2007 said:

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Tomorrow is a bullpen game too. We really need to jump on urquidy early.

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Yes and no. Max hadn't pitched in a month.

Heaney/Dunning are ready.

Not a horrible way to lose. Still a decent game. Didn't use any arms. Stros had to use Pressly and Abreu (albeit for only a few pitches).

CampingAg said:

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Not a horrible way to lose. Still a decent game. Didn't use any arms. Stros had to use Pressly and Abreu (albeit for only a few pitches).

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Finally had success against some relievers.

awww brotherbear got his feelings hurt…… better stay on the Stros thread

JWinTX said:

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I still think our only way of winning this series is to win it in Houston. They're just too damn comfortable on the road, but in this ballpark, they take hard. They EASILY could've been in double digits again, just like the previous 4 games they played here. We have exactly two pitchers that can beat them as starters and they don't pitch again until Friday and Sunday.

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Got to win at least one in Arlington then end it in game 6. I feel like game 7 in Houston is a loss.

Would much prefer not going back to Houston at all but losing tonight just makes that tougher. Going to need lots of runs tomorrow.

kyledr04 said:

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JWinTX said:

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I still think our only way of winning this series is to win it in Houston. They're just too damn comfortable on the road, but in this ballpark, they take hard. They EASILY could've been in double digits again, just like the previous 4 games they played here. We have exactly two pitchers that can beat them as starters and they don't pitch again until Friday and Sunday.

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Got to win at least one in Arlington then end it in game 6. I feel like game 7 in Houston is a loss.

Would much prefer not going back to Houston at all but losing tonight just makes that tougher. Going to need lots of runs tomorrow.

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They've clicked big time at our place in every game but the one we won back in June. I just don't think that's gonna change. Getting one would be huge at home. Remember, they are not 17-9 on the road in the playoffs since 2018. That's remarkable. Only twice in that run have they lost two road games in a row, one of which was in the World Series against Atlanta that they lost in 6. They just don't lose much on the road, but here is like they are their most comfortable.

kyledr04 said:

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Yeah its crazy how much they've run wild in Arlington. It's so strange. I told a friend that maybe it's just our time to be that team that comes through and goes all the way. But of course years of failure and BAS is rough.

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BAS and being a lifelong Rangers fan are basically the same in my opinion. Although the Ranger fan has dealt with a much harder pain than anything the Ags have been thru. 2011 would be the equivalent of fumbling the ball on your own 20 with 30 seconds to go and the other team has no timeouts and that somehow leads to them winning at the gun in the national championship game.

Only the 1986 Red Sox can come close to understanding our pain.

So much whining in here. Did you guys really think we were going to sweep the Astros? They won 1 game against 2 pitchers on a rehab assignment and Will Smith. You guys act like we threw the kitchen sink at them and lost 10-0. Relax.

Was good to see the bats start to come around last night. Need Seager to come out of his mini-funk. Need Jung to build on his plate discipline from tonight. Heaney and Dunning need to be good too.

Scherzer did about as well as I was expecting. My wife was griping about them pitching him last night until I reminded her that we will need him if we advance and last night was much better to get his first game back under his belt versus the next round.

Losing sucks. I knew we weren't going to sweep this team. We just gotta make sure that we get 1 at home. I can live with taking 2 chances at Minute Maid to get 1.

We can't afford going back to Houston needing to get 2.

Water Boy said:

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So much whining in here. Did you guys really think we were going to sweep the Astros? They won 1 game against 2 pitchers on a rehab assignment and Will Smith. You guys act like we threw the kitchen sink at them and lost 10-0. Relax.

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Agreed. But I'm more worried about the bats. If not for Jung we score zero last night. Top of the lineup isn't getting it done the last couple games. That's my concern because we know how quickly this group can go into a funk.

Need Heaney/Dunning to shove tonight

Win tonight, then it will be all hands on deck with Monty starting Friday to close it out

Are there any numbers on our in-zone swing percentage? Man, Semien, Seager, and Adolis never saw a pitch in the zone they didn't like. They don't care if it's 2-0, 2-1, 3-0, or if the pitcher has thrown 8 straight out of the zone. We made more than a handful of outs last night in hitters counts. At one point Javier had thrown somewhere around 25 balls and 25 strikes and we had one baserunner in the game (walk).