They're winning!
Well, originally (on Friday) I had planned to write about how great it was that the Astros seemed to have found their bats...and then I went to the game yesterday.
I went with a friend who is not as familiar with baseball as I am, and in the first inning, she asked who Eric Munson was. I told her that he was our back-up catcher, and as I was in mid-sentence, I looked at the board where the line-up is posted. It was then that I noticed a problem: only 3 of our starters (Ausmus, Everett, and Wilson) were playing. The line-up was as follows (although Ausmus and Wilson may be switched).
Palmeiro RF
Lamb 3B
Burke 2B
Munson 1B
Ausmus C
Lane CF
Wilson LF
Everett SS
Buckholz P
While Burke and Lamb have started many times before (and I have confidence in them, as well as in Palmeiro), what's up with our back-up catcher playing first base and batting in the clean-up spot?? And Lane in center (he's really not fast enough to cover the necessary ground)? And why in the world would Garner decide to give Biggio the same day off that he gives Berkman (whose wife had their baby yesterday) and Ensberg (who has a shoulder injury and is day-to-day)? Then, to make matters worse, Garner doesn't pinch hit in the ninth inning when we're within 2 runs! Um hello, we're a struggling .500 team who's on a 4-game winning streak; I don't think it's a good time to just give one away! But who am I?
The good news is that we're beating the Braves 9-4 in the 5th inning right now. Go 'stros!
I went with a friend who is not as familiar with baseball as I am, and in the first inning, she asked who Eric Munson was. I told her that he was our back-up catcher, and as I was in mid-sentence, I looked at the board where the line-up is posted. It was then that I noticed a problem: only 3 of our starters (Ausmus, Everett, and Wilson) were playing. The line-up was as follows (although Ausmus and Wilson may be switched).
Palmeiro RF
Lamb 3B
Burke 2B
Munson 1B
Ausmus C
Lane CF
Wilson LF
Everett SS
Buckholz P
While Burke and Lamb have started many times before (and I have confidence in them, as well as in Palmeiro), what's up with our back-up catcher playing first base and batting in the clean-up spot?? And Lane in center (he's really not fast enough to cover the necessary ground)? And why in the world would Garner decide to give Biggio the same day off that he gives Berkman (whose wife had their baby yesterday) and Ensberg (who has a shoulder injury and is day-to-day)? Then, to make matters worse, Garner doesn't pinch hit in the ninth inning when we're within 2 runs! Um hello, we're a struggling .500 team who's on a 4-game winning streak; I don't think it's a good time to just give one away! But who am I?
The good news is that we're beating the Braves 9-4 in the 5th inning right now. Go 'stros!
posted by paige at 9:29 PM
1 Comments:
I stand corrected; apparently Munson's bat was responsible for a few of our runs yesterday...3 home runs I believe (not bad for a "back-up catcher").
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