GDT: Astros vs. Rays, 6/30/2018

[fanastro]

Cionel Perez will get his audition today.

[astrosdoug]

The only two probable hits JV has allowed were the Duffy single and the Ramos double in the 1st. Everything else has been BB, HBP, lucky dinks, and stuff that the defense should have gotten to.

[bannedfan]

Jun 30, 2018 14:56:22 GMT -6 astrosdoug said:

The only two probable hits JV has allowed were the Duffy single and the Ramos double in the 1st. Everything else has been BB, HBP, lucky dinks, and stuff that the defense should have gotten to.

Marwin doesn’t have Correa’s range.

[astrosdoug]

Jun 30, 2018 14:56:05 GMT -6 fanastro said:

Cionel Perez will get his audition today.

might not be a bad thing in the big perspective.

honestly I don't know why Harris was warming up instead of Cionel

[marshall]

Jun 30, 2018 14:57:29 GMT -6 bannedfan said:

Jun 30, 2018 14:56:22 GMT -6 astrosdoug said:

The only two probable hits JV has allowed were the Duffy single and the Ramos double in the 1st. Everything else has been BB, HBP, lucky dinks, and stuff that the defense should have gotten to.

Marwin doesn’t have Correa’s range.

or arm... and neither Reid nor White have the footwork to salvage a near miss throw.

[astrosdoug]

Jun 30, 2018 14:57:29 GMT -6 bannedfan said:

Jun 30, 2018 14:56:22 GMT -6 astrosdoug said:

The only two probable hits JV has allowed were the Duffy single and the Ramos double in the 1st. Everything else has been BB, HBP, lucky dinks, and stuff that the defense should have gotten to.

Marwin doesn’t have Correa’s range.

Yep, having Yuli and Correa out is costing the Astros some runs/games just due to the poorer defense.

Nuno is prone to the crooked number, though, so this could still become a game.

[astrosdoug]

Statcast had that third strike to George clearly out of the strike zone. Poor guy can't catch a break.

[blcoach8]

Wave the white flag.........Justin finally has a bad game and the offense does it's normal act at Tropicana Field. Springer looks worse than before he had the day off. Team failed to show up........forget this one. Bring Perez in to pitch and see what he can do. No need to waste the pen on this stinker of a game.

[astrosdoug]

Perez is good for 100 pitches... may as well let him finish it.

[bannedfan]

And having to endure the Rays TV announcers doesn’t help. It’s a brag fest today.

[blcoach8]

Jun 30, 2018 15:05:38 GMT -6 bannedfan said:

And having to endure the Rays TV announcers doesn’t help. It’s a brag fest today.

Announcers of teams who struggle to play .500 ball should not brag.  Sort of like the idiots who do the Rangers games bragging about all the homers they hit against the White Sox last night

[astrosdoug]

I believe that is the Astros' first balk this season

[bearbryant]

hope George is ok

[unionstation82]

Verlander needs some rest it appears. His effectiveness has waned a little recently.

[unionstation82]

Jun 30, 2018 15:10:35 GMT -6 bearbryant said:

hope George is ok

What happened?

[bearbryant]

Jun 30, 2018 15:11:16 GMT -6 unionstation82 said:

Jun 30, 2018 15:10:35 GMT -6 bearbryant said:

hope George is ok

What happened?

got a glove on a foul ball .. tumbled into the seats

[astrosdoug]

maybe Hinch can work it so JV only has one more start before the ASB. And ask the All Star Team manager to not put him in the game, just leave him there as an honorary member.

[marshall]

Jun 30, 2018 15:11:16 GMT -6 unionstation82 said:

Jun 30, 2018 15:10:35 GMT -6 bearbryant said:

hope George is ok

What happened?

He went over the fence into the stands going after a foul ball.

[bearbryant]

Jun 30, 2018 15:12:27 GMT -6 astrosdoug said:

maybe Hinch can work it so JV only has one more start before the ASB. And ask the All Star Team manager to not put him in the game, just leave him there as an honorary member.

Hinch is the All-Star team manager

[astrosdoug]

Jun 30, 2018 15:14:25 GMT -6 bearbryant said:

Jun 30, 2018 15:12:27 GMT -6 astrosdoug said:

maybe Hinch can work it so JV only has one more start before the ASB. And ask the All Star Team manager to not put him in the game, just leave him there as an honorary member.

Hinch is the All-Star team manager

well that makes it easy then

[bearbryant]

Gattis in the batters box is not unlike Fred Flintstone at his turn to bowl

[bearbryant]

what a game between the Twins and Cubs this afternoon. Four lead changes and it's 10-9

[astrosdoug]

Jun 30, 2018 15:25:17 GMT -6 bearbryant said:

what a game between the Twins and Cubs this afternoon. Four lead changes and it's 10-9

Astros-Rays game could still go that way. The Astros bat around here, and it's a new game. 

[koolade2]

Just once you would like to see this team come back for a large deficit to Help the SP out. Especially one like Verlander who has suffered two losses because they didn't score.

[bannedfan]

Jun 30, 2018 15:27:55 GMT -6 koolade2 said:

Just once you would like to see this team come back for a large deficit to Help the SP out. Especially one like Verlander who has suffered two losses because they didn't score.

They came back from 5-0 vs. Toronto.

[koolade2]

we can see now that the Playoff teams will load up with LH pitching. They are absolutely at their worse facing LH pitching. They need to learn how to hit LH pitching.

[astrosdoug]

McCann's grounder was the hardest hit ball of the night for the Astros at 102 mph.

Josh looked like he nearly could have stolen home

[bannedfan]

Jun 30, 2018 15:32:51 GMT -6 koolade2 said:

we can see now that the Playoff teams will load up with LH pitching. They are absolutely at their worse facing LH pitching. They need to learn how to hit LH pitching.

They’re hitting .277 vs. lefties. .258 vs. righties.

[bearbryant]

That's old Philly veteran stadium concrete under that carpet

[astrosdoug]

I'm starting to wonder whether Hinch isn't saving Cionel to make a spot start. He's prepared to put Harris and Sipp in this game but not Cionel it looks like.