Open Thread, Braves vs. the Enos Cabells
We move on from the woeful Marlins to the worst team in the bigs. Houston’s offense is punchless. Jed Lowrie’s having a decent year. He’s on the DL. Our old pal Jordan Schafer is hitting .219, and they’ve traded two of their better hitters in Carlos Lee and Chris
His ‘fro could beat the 2012 Astros
Johnson. Their pitching ain’t a hell of a lot better. Wandy Rodriguez was pretty good. Traded. Brett Myers was OK as closer. Traded.
You think Mike Bourn’s glad he’s here and not there?
So tonight Huddy gets to face Armando Gallaraga. He got jobbed out of a perfect game a couple years ago, but it’s been downhill since. He was released in April by the Orioles, whose rotation does not resemble those of the mid-90s Braves. He was just called up from the minors, where his ERA was around 4. After that, it does not get a damned sight harder for the Braves hitters this weekend with Lucas Harrell and Bud Norris hurling.
As always, though, one can never guess what might happen on a major league diamond each night. Still, it will be disappointing if the home team doesn’t take two of these three and thus end the 10-game homestand at 8-2. That’s good baseball.
the classic Atlanta Braves trap game.
Hey, Enos Cabell was a helluva lot better than the guys Houston will be putting on the field this weekend. And did you guys see that Derek Lowe got DFA’d yesterday by the Indians?
I get the impression Chip wishes he could’ve dressed up as Han Solo.
I’m thinking more of a Priscilla Queen of The Desert kinda guy.