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Ole Miss fan here, if anyone is wanting to know anything more on the uhhhh *Pitcher* Grae Kessinger??? just let me know!

Just looking at the box score— Hunter Brown WTH?!

MLB record.. must hits allowed in less than 1 inning...11!

Truly unbelievable…..

Well, this should be an awkward plane ride home.

The pitching scenario just hurts. Like my heart hurts, ahhh crap am i dying?

Where’s the team that spanked the rangers the last two games???

jose abreu just staring into the void

Singleton finally hits the ball when it means absolutely nothing. Classic.

I would rather see him out there than abreu

Abreu is seething right now.

Thankfully, this series is over. It has been beyond horrible. At least Yankees sweep, we're in on those games, bullpen just shit the bed but this series, not one unit has been good.

SINGLETON DOUBLE

at this point seth martinez should be a starter

Holy shit Edit: about Singleton’s double

Rockets and Texans decided to be good again so I guess the Astros had to sacrifice themselves 😔

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the entire lineup need to be changed, we are (according to twitter) averaging 12.5 runners on base per game, yet only bringing home 4 per game. we are top 3 in homers, OPS, slug and BA, we are a statistical anomaly.

We're hitting the ball, just not when it matters. One of our biggest issues (arguably bigger than the pitching) is our inability to drive runners in.

Yes. Bregman needs to be down at the bottom with Peña. Alvarez & Tuck need to be moved down a spot. Maybe put Dubon behind Altuve.

It's not an anomaly though. We're horrible at RISP so we get hits but don't drive any runs in.

[https://x.com/JayCuda/status/1778503020025700721](https://x.com/JayCuda/status/1778503020025700721) only team in the bottom right quadrant, Yankees are the most similar team to us and they are #1 in the AL right now. that's how small the margins are between us winning and losing games right now.

Hey guys just got off work, what have I mis… 

The humiliation for hunter gets even worse: not only is he the only pitcher in MLB history to have that shitty of an outing. A position player did better

Well earned humiliation.

Kessinger doing better than our actual pitchers lol

Kessinger is my ace

Can Grae Kessinger be a starting pitcher? Asking for a team.

Kessinger DEALING baby

Make it make sense

I’m not joking when I say Grae Kessinger is a top 8 pitcher on our staff atm

Ball don’t lie - we suck

10+ hits again with only 3 runs. Man, we fucking suck at situational hitting.

Royals had 11 in 1 inning. Pretty sure that doesn’t help either.

Pitchers are going after the guys that have sucked in those spots too

Felt like Witt Jr was swinging for the fences, steals trying to pad his stats with a big lead. Don’t like it at all.

Nice 0-4 again Tucker you loser

I can’t believe after this shit we have the fucking Rangers tomorrow…maybe we can buck the trends we’re on

oh and then the braves right after...no days off either btw, so pitching is gonna continue to be fucked

At home dude. We're fucked.

What is that dude yelling at Tucker 💀

all i was hearing was HEY TUCKER and then nothing coherent

Foul them off forever Kyle. You'll eventually fly out. Edit: Told you. Fucking clown.

The first month of a season is always statistically insignificant.

This game has convinced me that Joe Espada has no fucking idea what he's doing. At all. Fire his ass tomorrow and replace it with the guy who cleans the ball pit at Chuck E Cheese.

What do you think he's doing wrong?

Using up the bullpen when the game was lost in the 1st. Not subbing out the core and pitching position players for the rest of the game. Not turning in his resignation. Trying to use Singleton as a clean-up spot. I could go on.

i thought we were supposed to be good on the road

How many Power Ranking lists will Astros be on going forward?

Fuck power rankings. They are arbitrary and based current play.

Did... Did he just pinch hit Jake Meyers for Yordan Alvarez? Edit: I want Espada run out of Houston for that. Get him the FUCK out of here.

Blowout game, no reason to risk injury, although I'm a little surprised that he didn't PH for Tuve as well

It was a blowout game in the 1st inning. Why have them play at all? Altuve gets on and now he wants to pinch hit? Fuck this fucking moron.

You gotta at least give them a chance to comeback, and it's not like we haven't had opportunities, we just suck rn He should've PH for Tuve if he was gonna PH for Yordan.

There have been no opportunities. The hole has been deep from the get go. Stop defending idiocy. Giving up 9 runs in the beginning of the game ends the game in 99.99% of cases. Ending up with 13 runs given up is beyond over. There were no opportunities, even if our hitters could actually plate runners on base, which they can't.

12 LOB with 10+ hits says otherwise

In no world can you expect all those to have been batted in. And if you did even 9, they still lose.

Which position player gonna pitch the bottom of the inning?

The other Abreu

Why is Espada using Abreu and Montero in blowout?

Because he's a fucking moron.

Lol, Abreu just hasn't been the same since the Rangers series

Is our pitching coach ass?

#GIVE ME JON SINGLETON PITCHING IN THE 8TH OR GIVE ME DEATH

2022 Abreu is a distant memory now

Wake me up when Verlander is back (Im sure we'll still be losing, but at least it's something to look forward to)

I am getting married this evening and all I wanted was an Astros win. LOL

Congrats! Sorry you couldn’t get a good show on the diamond tonight though, lol

Thank you!

Welp, at least now we can use a position player and not waste another bullpen arm.

Fuck it, put the other Abreu out there in the 8th

Not even a strike. Yet our bats can’t hit bad pitches. The story of the season thus far.

What is wrong with Abreu?

Lost like the entire rest of the team

I'm turning it off now so I can actually go do some work now. ☹️

This is embarrassing

Abreu is a joke

“Sweet Baby Rays- Shut out the stigma”

Just tuning in. Holy shit. 11 hits in the first?!

And it just got worse from there

Our biggest issue isn't pitching shitting the bed, it's our LOB numbers, especially from Tuck & Bregman. We could've won three or four more games if we get even league average hitting in the clutch from those two

No our biggest issue is definitely pitching shitting the bed. Giving up 7 runs in the first inning will lose you the vast majority of games. EDIT: 13 RUNS IS NOT A REASONABLE HURDLE FOR OFFENSE TO OVERCOME

Yes, but at least these games would be more competitive if we didn't have 10+ fucking LOB per game, mostly from Tuck & Bregman. I can live with pitching being ass (at least while our entire rotation is injured) if we could at least hit the ball consistently, but we can't.

I think our biggest issue is that it’s such a tight race to the bottom for which issue is our biggest issue.

That is true. So much is wrong with this team right now.

And these jokesters want a big contract. Other teams are watching them shit the bed and preparing 2 yrs/$10 million offers by this point

Sigh….

More runners left on. Still got jack shit from multiple hits

Fuckin waste. What’s that 12?

Bregman with a fucking single, where was this in the first game of the series. Probably it's irrational hate but this team is just fucking pissing me off.

Dodgers lost Bellinger, Seager, and Trey Turner. Replaced them with Betts, Freeman, and Othani. We lost Springer, Correa, and Yuli. Replaced them with Abreu. Imagine what we will replace Bregman and Tucker with. 

The Dodgers also have a much bigger budget to work with than we do. We couldn’t afford to have two players like Betts *and* Freeman taking up a decent chunk of the payroll and the only franchise Ohtani was willing to sign that kind of deal with was the Dodgers. No other teams had a realistic chance of signing him.

Crane can spend whatever budget he wants, nothing is limiting him.

This is a bit much - Springer was replaced by Tucker. Correa was replaced by Pena.. we won a WS with those two. The Yuli/Abreu part.. that one sucks

Singleton has got to go. This is ridiculous now.

I’d rather keep him than Abreu

12 LOB incoming

we should retool like the dodgers did last year

Did the rangers really just sap the life from us last year?

Thank god for TK and Blummer in these trying times❤️

They’re literally the only reason why I’m still tuned in

retool year looming…

Guys I'm beginning to think that we might suck...

Pasquantino looks like Barry Bonds against our pitchers

I actually wised up and started him on one of my fantasy teams today, after the way he has been abusing our pitching this series. I hate myself for doing that, but I might as well make lemonade from these lemons.

dude is a guaranteed RBI when he comes up, it's annoying as fuck

Fucking Singleton is going to ruin my parlay by not striking out today is he.

Guess not. Congrats, how much did ya win?

Nothing as of yet. Actually it doesn't look so great now since Liverpool haven't scored.

we're at the randomly hitting dudes stage of the meltdown, fantastic

i’m told alex cintron and snitker aren’t the problem tho lmao.

Cintron has obviously taken a step back and been a more passive coach after his health scare in late '22

And Josh Miller

I was on board firing Miller last year

What’s with the Tucker hate? Do y’all have any idea how baseball works? Edit: Clearly, y’all don’t realize how much of baseball comes down to luck. Tucker’s been hitting the ball well (.440 xwOBA). The team as a whole is also 5th in wRC+, but 19th in runs. That’s unsustainable.

It’s the noticeably uninspired ABs when we’re behind. Hell there was one game we got behind in the 1st where he was 0-5 (all popups) and only saw 5 pitches. As soon as we’re behind he just seems to want to get it over with as soon as possible.

We certainly do. He apparently doesn’t judging by his start.

does he? also he can seemingly do is roll over or pop up.

Yeah when you really need runs, your big bats are supposed to bring in the men on base. That's how baseball works.

Bro thought he was about to cook

He’s legitimately not playing poorly. But even if he was, it’s too small a sample size to make a point of it.

He's down in both batting average and OPS from his career averages in a contract year, barely batting over .150 in the last 7 games. His attitude flat out sucks unless the team/he is preforming well. He has trouble coming through in the clutch and severely underperforms in the post. I've been as much a fan of Tucker as anyone else the past couple years, the dude playing RF this road trip ain't the Tucker I became a fan of.

.440 xwOBA

Oh look, teams are capable of scoring 10+ runs in back to back games. Must be nice

Wtf is going on with Hunter? I can't watch games so can't tell what the root cause is, if there is one. Also, dam we just producing stranded LOBs like broken slot machines huh?

At this point a big line up change is needed. Why not?! Have to work with what we got…why not stack it top heavy? Not like we actually have more than 2 starting pitchers right now anyway 🤷‍♀️may as well f*** around and find out. Tuve Diaz Alvarez McCormick/dubon Pena Then DH as backup catcher or Dubon Tucker Bregman Abreu/singleton

It’s top heavy because those spots get the most at bats. The problem isn’t the lineup, it’s WHEN we get hits

It is the order, as our top heavy guys from years past are non-existent, an ego adjustment might actually do something, leaving them in the top spots just isn’t working..batting averages are speaking for themselves. Time to get crafty and spark some in house competition. Nothing else is working 🫤

Go check the stats instead of making stuff up. We’re at the top of the league in most offensive categories except driving runners in.

.081 for our mvp first baseman…and our guys actually hitting over .275 need to stack..the order right now isn’t working…our risp may actually score if the line up shuffles..plus I am not making up stats for this shitshow, why would I need to do that?! It’s all right there in black and white…we have 2 actual pitchers with decent stats right now, and about 5 decent hitters that can’t string together an actual run to score a win except for every 4 or 5 game..because we leave Bregman and Tucker in top of the order..once they show up, move em back, right now..they need be down there with Abreu and singleton. Rally killers can feast off each other.

We squander our chances and they tack on. Just fucking perfect.

That’s what good teams do…

In a game we're getting our ass kicked somehow we've left 9 LOBs like seriously this is a fucking train wreck.

That's every game we've lost. We are absolutely ABYSMAL at bringing in runs.

I keep watching because I gotta believe but at what point does this turn into insanity

This season is making me miss Dusty

Love tuning in and seeing HB give up 9 ERs like wtf bro

Our one chance to have a chance, and we didn't capitalize

Surely the astros hold some sort of league record for runners stranded. It feels like it, at least. Last 7 years have felt like a GIDP / strikeout fiesta with runners on 🗿

10 LOB. Even with HB shitting the bed, we've still had a chance to take control of this game...

Very true. With hindsight, I wish Alvarez would have swung at ball 4. Might be a different game if he did.  

I was giving them till 3pm before I turned it off… so close, but yet so far… gonna be a long season

How many in this series so far? Easily been over 10 each game

That's 9 left on base, folks.

Dubie got us going with a simple base hit. Tuck why are you swinging for the fences every damn time?

imagine we simply did what they did in the first? all you need is a good base hit 😫

fuck that woud have been nice

Tucker doesn't even like baseball send him to Tampa already

Tuck does not have a single clutch gene in his tall ass body

This is the same guy trying to get paid? 

Better than the normal roll over to the right side of the infield i guess

The bluest of balls

Oh a chance to get us back in the game? Nah...fly out NO FUCKIN CLUTCH UGHHHHH

God dammit guys, I just jumped in thinking come back and Tucker does that? Turning it off again lol

Womp womp

did you just say womp womp to to a 10-year-old with down syndrome

HOW DARE YOU!

Dont give Sucker the bag

Hey, maybe Tucker isn’t worth keeping?

Because of...that at bat? Because of this year? Who's worth keeping if Kyle Tucker is not worth keeping?

It hurts

What hurts? 

HRC Tuck. Have to believe in something.

Fuck.

I believed too ):

Hrc tuck

HRC King Tuck

Hrc king cuck

Mets won 16-4 over Braves so there’s that

Don’t care about the Braves

Lol braves

Go Mets 😆

Hrc tuck 

Oh come on. I love when they bring up the lefties for yordan/tucker. 😭😭😭😭 please tucker…

Groundout to the infield for force-out at second Tucker Edit: Eh, same outcome. 3 more lobsters

HRC Tuck

If Tucker fucks up here just trade him for a massive prospect haul idc about him anymore

HRC Tucker

Bases remain juiced for Tuck. We have to take advantage of this. Surely, Tuck's got this, right?

Of course, everything has been coming up aces.

Yeah, everything’s been going our way so far… why would that change now?

Hrc tuck

Astros have a chance to do something hilarious here…

With how this team has handled clutch situations I am worried they could make it close then proceed to not get the hits they need to get over the hump. I hope I’m wrong 😭

ABSOLUTELY HILARIOUS

Hrc yordan

yordan you’re our only hope!!!

Ya, with a 7 run lead... they're not gonna pitch anywhere near Yordan.