Astros series

[Malike]

I saw a stat somewhere that Bautista has upwards of 20 ERA vs Houston

[rm5678]

16 minutes ago, Malike said:

I saw a stat somewhere that Bautista has upwards of 20 ERA vs Houston

Most of that is probably from Kyle Tucker.

[Malike]

9 minutes ago, rm5678 said:

Most of that is probably from Kyle Tucker.

They also dropped 4 runs on him last year in a blown save, it doesn't appear it was all Tucker.

[Sanfran327]

It just occurred to me that to win this series, we'll have to basically sweep them, because that game was all but won last night. 

[Frobby]

1 hour ago, Malike said:

They also dropped 4 runs on him last year in a blown save, it doesn't appear it was all Tucker.

Those samples are too small to have any meaning at all.  

[Malike]

3 minutes ago, Frobby said:

Those samples are too small to have any meaning at all.  

Sure, I'm just pointing out that a guy who never really gets murdered has been murdered twice by the same team.

[Alasdaire]

11 hours ago, sportsfan8703 said:

Tucker is a really good player. Bautista couldn’t get a fb by him and didn’t want to throw the split 2-2 with the bases loaded. So he threw a pitch that everyone knew was coming. It’s a learning moment. Hopefully, in the playoffs Bautista doesn’t “give in” and trusts his stuff. If you walk in a run, so be it. This just shows how 102 isn’t nothing anymore if they know it’s coming right down the pipe. 

I agree with this generally. Fuji is a good example. His fastball velo is as high as it gets, but guys still routinely hit it hard because they're waiting on it.

I think Felix has had the success he has had not only because of the velo/movement on the four seamer, but also because he has pounded hitters with it up high. His fastball above the zone is one of the nastiest pitches in baseball because high heat always looks tempting to batters out of the hand and they have to worry that it's the splitter and will end up in the zone. So they wind up swinging at 100+ MPH way outside of the zone, which is difficult to do anything with.

He really didn't attack that area against Tucker. He probably didn't want to walk a run in and so threw five straight in the zone after it went 2-2.

I will say that very few hitters in baseball have the bat speed to foul off so many pitches like Tucker did. That's why Felix dominates most of the time. The problem is that the teams we need to get through have guys who do have those hands/timing.

[Roy Firestone]

were simply not taking advantage of opportunities..

[Roy Firestone]

we are flat tonight...and not a good time for that..

[Jagwar]

4 hours ago, rm5678 said:

Most of that is probably from Kyle Tucker.

The dude already has 5 grand slams in his young career. That's Eddie Murray-esque

[Roy Firestone]

id love even a double here...or hell..just a base hit...

[Roy Firestone]

we cant take advantage of anything tonight..lots of 2 out runners...not being brought in...

 

 

 

[bpilktree]

The Astros has about 4-5 hitters but you can’t let the other guys turn the lineup around on you to get to those guys because they will beat you if you keep giving them chances.  Last night lead off walk to number 9 hitter tonight 3 straight walks to turn the lineup over.  

[MacAdoo]

24 minutes ago, bpilktree said:

The Astros has about 4-5 hitters but you can’t let the other guys turn the lineup around on you to get to those guys because they will beat you if you keep giving them chances.  Last night lead off walk to number 9 hitter tonight 3 straight walks to turn the lineup over.  

At least Elias went out and got a high leverage bullpen arm at the deadline to make sure that kind of stuff doesn’t happen against playoff caliber teams like Houston down the stretch and in the post-season…

[milbest77]

4 minutes ago, MacAdoo said:

At least Elias went out and got a high leverage bullpen arm at the deadline to make sure that kind of stuff doesn’t happen against playoff caliber teams like Houston down the stretch and in the post-season…

He already signed Michael Givens!!!!!