EastCoastAgNc said:Joe Espada on Yordan Alvarez getting hit twice tonight by the Rangers: “We did not like that.” He didn’t want to talk about it any more than that.
— Matt Young (@Chron_MattYoung) April 13, 2024
Maybe having an all out brawl tomorrow will bring the team together
wangus12 said:EastCoastAgNc said:Joe Espada on Yordan Alvarez getting hit twice tonight by the Rangers: “We did not like that.” He didn’t want to talk about it any more than that.
— Matt Young (@Chron_MattYoung) April 13, 2024
Maybe having an all out brawl tomorrow will bring the team together
Hell it worked for TX last year
Texaggie7nine said:Sex Panther said:
Loperfido just hit a grand slam
Was that 2 HR by Loperfido in 1 inning?
Meanwhile in Albuquerque, Joey Loperfido has hit two home runs in the seventh inning, including a grand slam. He's got nine home runs in Triple-A Sugar Land's first 13 games.
— Chandler Rome (@Chandler_Rome) April 13, 2024
Find him any spot in Houston. Grand slam Loperfido pic.twitter.com/FRBD7qAL4w
— Michael Schwab (@michaelschwab13) April 13, 2024
EastCoastAgNc said:wangus12 said:EastCoastAgNc said:Joe Espada on Yordan Alvarez getting hit twice tonight by the Rangers: “We did not like that.” He didn’t want to talk about it any more than that.
— Matt Young (@Chron_MattYoung) April 13, 2024
Maybe having an all out brawl tomorrow will bring the team together
Hell it worked for TX last year
Worked for Seattle the year before that. If you can't win the game, at least win the fight.
wangus12 said:EastCoastAgNc said:wangus12 said:EastCoastAgNc said:Joe Espada on Yordan Alvarez getting hit twice tonight by the Rangers: “We did not like that.” He didn’t want to talk about it any more than that.
— Matt Young (@Chron_MattYoung) April 13, 2024
Maybe having an all out brawl tomorrow will bring the team together
Hell it worked for TX last year
Worked for Seattle the year before that. If you can't win the game, at least win the fight.
I want to see Yordan break someone
OKAY KING TUCK GET THE BOYS FIRED UP pic.twitter.com/P5LILZFhZh
— APOLLO MEDIA (@ApolloHOU) April 13, 2024
Dana Brown, upon the sight of rising flood waters around his home “guys dont worry it’ll stop raining eventually” https://t.co/WMbtfFkSn2
— Shoulda DFAd our Corner Infielders (@quallsastros) April 10, 2024
jopatura said:iBrad said:Boiling Denim said:
Really starting to wonder about Espada not getting any of those numerous jobs he interviewed for…
Who else did they interview internally? We pretty much kept everyone so is there sour grapes over Espada? Is the rest of the coaching staff mailing it in?
I think it's simply the case of guys being hurt and/or sucking. Not much the manager can do. GM keeps bringing up arms and they keep getting shelled. Guys you thought you could depend on are now getting shelled, too. It doesn't really matter who's making out the lineup right now.
And you've got two guys in the lineup that drove in 90+ runs last year not driving in any so far without decent bench options to stick in the lineup in their place.
Some of the coaches had the wheels falling off last year. Personally I thought they needed to refresh the hitting coaches after the World Series, but understood why it would be a bad look. They need to go now though.
I don't love Espada, but all the injuries and the weak pitching staff isn't his fault. Dana should have made at least one more pitching move in the offseason - I think we all saw this coming to an extent.
** NEW UMPIRE AUDITOR RECORD **
— Umpire Auditor (@UmpireAuditor) April 13, 2024
Umpire Angel Hernandez rang up Wyatt Langford on three consecutive pitches out of the zone.
The strikeout pitch missed outside by 6.78 inches.
This was the largest miss on a called strikeout in Umpire Auditor history. pic.twitter.com/BWmizkDsmD
Tucker on the Alvarez HBP: “We didn’t really appreciate it, whether it was an accident or not. Missing four times in, almost hitting twice and them hitting, probably not really a good look.” pic.twitter.com/7K87F9z858
— Brian McTaggart (@brianmctaggart) April 13, 2024
Source: Astros are calling up RHP Shawn Dubin from Triple-A Sugar Land. Another fresh arm. He's thrown in two games this year -- the most recent being a 13-pitch outing Wednesday.
— Brian McTaggart (@brianmctaggart) April 13, 2024
A 114 mph blast on a ball in-game relays soft 7 raw power. My goodness. https://t.co/ileQVtM0ID
— Ben (@midzee4) April 13, 2024
linkdude said:A 114 mph blast on a ball in-game relays soft 7 raw power. My goodness. https://t.co/ileQVtM0ID
— Ben (@midzee4) April 13, 2024
1876er said:
It's April 13. Can we start worrying about this team just not being good now?
On José Abreu and the Astros’ first base situation - https://t.co/7UxIxmCdUe
— Chandler Rome (@Chandler_Rome) April 13, 2024
Marvin said:
Uh oh, you better be gone for the season!
Astros are the anti-Ags right now...Ags started off hot and the "keepin' it real guys" kept saying "it's early" and "we haven't played anyone yet" blah blah blah. Well, it turns out we're pretty freakin' good and last night talk about not leaving runners on base...wow.1876er said:
It's April 13. Can we start worrying about this team just not being good now?
Mathguy64 said:Marvin said:
Uh oh, you better be gone for the season!
This is the only thing left here. The rest went into the vacuum of space. And nothing else happened iYKWIM.
Seth Martinez and Bryan Abreu are the only two relievers on the 26-man roster with minor-league options. Can't imagine either of them goes down. Joel Kuhnel, who threw 52 pitches last night, would seem the most likely move. https://t.co/L9XMmKJAfo
— Chandler Rome (@Chandler_Rome) April 13, 2024
linkdude said:
Looking ahead, we'll definitely miss Sale and Morton in ATL's rotation. Seems like we'll face some order of Reynaldo Lopez, Allan Winams, and Max Fried. Slight boost to our chances, notwithstanding our own options.
The Porkchop Express said:
Let's play the game. What's our record after?
Currently 4-11
30 games?
60 games?
81 games?
I'll start:
10-20
27-33
39-42
Albuqurque is a big time hitters park but that was out of any stadium. His stats are pretty interesting. He didn't hit the ball in play once in 6 PAs (3 HR, 2 K's, 1 BB). He also committed an error at 1B while being involved in some sort of bizarre double play from first to third?linkdude said:A 114 mph blast on a ball in-game relays soft 7 raw power. My goodness. https://t.co/ileQVtM0ID
— Ben (@midzee4) April 13, 2024
Astros recall Shawn Dubin and option Joel Kuhnel to Triple-A Sugar Land.
— Matt Kawahara (@matthewkawahara) April 13, 2024
