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Still no outs five runs scored runner on third.

they’re calling for the cart.

Man, it looks like the centerfielder is severely injured. This is bad…

This is almost indecent. The Houston area is pretty big. And their fan base is pretty wide. Somewhere a small child wanted to watch this game forced themselves to throw up so they could stay home from school and this is what they’re getting instead.

Wild pitch and it’s four runs

Might as well get six this inning.

Ha. Wild pitch or pass ball 3–0.

Torque ground rule double RBI

Andy Ibáñez singles on a ground ball to center fielder Taylor Trammell. Jahmai Jones scores. Gleyber Torres to 2nd.

Ibanez at least got the man at Second.

Lead off walk. Need a DP.

Charlie Morton’s brief talk with Daniella was revealing about the way AJ can manage players although I doubt he has a one-size-fits-all “plan.” Morton actually got pretty serious as he talked about joining the Astros when AJ was Manager, and how he actually treated him like a person instead of as an object or a function. I’m interpreting here, but I’m pretty sure this is what he meant. That’s something he wasn’t used to, except maybe when he was in the minors. My guess is AJ has an idea of the players he can get reach on a personal level to motivate, and those who its best to have some distance from because that is their particular comfort level. Players are not entirely expressions of statistical functions, which is something measurable, and apparently the part that isn’t reducible to that is manageable and can be motivated at least in AJ‘s eyes.

Full throttle. Pedal to the metal. No prisoners. We love the smell of napalm on a nice afternoon. Houston, you have a problem. Hasta la vista baby.

The Astros are due to bounce back sometime, but let them do that somewhere else.

NASA scientists with their board of calculations, 1957

People who rise to the top of organizations are frequently aggressive operators, and not “men of the cloth” with a love for the textures and history of the of the institutions they have conquered.

He looked leaner and perhaps healthier, which is possibly too much to hope for, but it sure looked like Kirk.

I think 154 games is a rational thing for a variety of reasons. But I’m 73 years old and I am only familiar with a 162 games schedule from when I started astutely following box scores in 1961. I’m not sure how much nostalgia there is for a 154 games other than in nursing homes. I think the health and well-being of players would improve with a 154 games schedule. I always breathe a sigh of relief when the Tigers have a day off just because the bullpen gets a rest. I can use the day off too, although my skin is actually crawling for a game to follow on off days because I’m an addict.

Since I followed this mostly on game day, I went back and watched the 10th on TV and I could’ve sworn I saw Kirk Gibson in the crowd at field level.

I think I like this team again!

Winning this way is almost more fun than a homer just because of the sheer, senseless serendipity of it.

What a humiliating way to lose game. Ha!

HA!