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It’s not the Battle of the Marne, but he is soldiering on.

Ibanez’s toot blan

Morton starting to miss

Mauricio Dubón homers (7) on a line drive to right center field. Yainer Diaz scores.

Baez bonesaw RBI

Valdez getting a little BABIP to offset things. But Dingler as DH doubles.

No runs in the second inning? None at all? FIRE HINCH!

It’s time for Charlie Morton to rise to the occasion in the second inning.

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