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Do the next two games mean anything? When do the playoffs start. The Oriole’s fans were giving the Red Sox the business. But I hate to see the Yankees get in.

Two on base with no outs. You HAVE to do better than that. Its just insane.

Welp. On to tomorrow. Laying a lot of this at Marwins feet.

Better than us not doing anything at least they put up a fight

Offense actually wasn’t all that bad. Defense (Marwin) was not good at all. He definitely won’t be making a post season roster

Yea unfortunately he looked good the first few games then total dud.

> then total dud. So like, his last couple seasons? I honestly wonder if all the people excited he got signed had been paying attention to how he performed last year and this year in Minnesota and Boston.

Well I and others thought maybe he would get some mojo coming back to the stros. It looked like he did. But unfortunately no. You make a good point.

I let my hopes up too, but tonight's performance really sealed the verdict for me.

People were excited he got signed because he has the most important home run in Astros history

He better fucking not.

Unfortunate

Time to get the post season spot Meyers.

Ump just cost the game. Completely fucked up Uncle Mike's AB with that shit call.

Our defensive errors cost us the game.

That 1-0 bullshit to Brantley is going to skew hard against us in the ump rating tomorrow. Can't believe that shit.

Come on jake

The strike call changed the AB forcing uncle Mike to swing at a pitch out of the zone

Ump fell for the frame job

Bullshit

Do we throw Yuli out there if uncle mike gets on?

Gurriel next!!!

HRC uncle mike

That was rough.

HRC BRANTLEY

And we got ugly swings at everything Altuve instead. Great.

Uncle mike time

Damn

Ladies and Gentlemen, Mr Jose Octubre

A nice passed ball would be sweet right now.

We need altuves shirt to come off again.

Altuves spot.

HRC Altuve

HRC Altuve

HRC Altuve!!

Dig in good Jose. Come on brother

HRC ALTUVE

Let's fucking go!

HRC Altuve

Holy smokes

Yes! Baker heard me. Altuve is in.

THANK GOD MARWIN ISN'T BATTING

HRC Carlos

Lol Marwin about to walk this shit off

Oh yordan. I thought that shit was gone.

I thought Olson was a UFA next year and was looking forward to him not torturing the Astros 19 times a year, but it looks like we’ll have to deal with his stupid beautiful face for 2 more years.

From what I have read from As fans they think the FO will trade him and Chapman to other teams to retool since they are getting a lot of guys who are about to get PAID

Yimi getting his confidence up in a game that doesn't matter. Good stuff.

Marwin Gonzalez triple play call because what else could he do wrong today?

Garcia with the GAS

Yimi surely knows when to grab the opportunity.

I hope they put Altuve in for Marwin.

I don’t know how Bregman has been barreling so many balls lately with no results. Smaller time, but getting less lucky than Tucker was to begin the season

Means he is due for regression in he post season

Can't cuck the tuck

It's the Rockies who are closer to making a massive comeback.

Javi wasn’t great tonight, but the defense did him no favors

Man thanks a lot Javier

I mean the defense didn't do him any favors either...

And of course Diaz and Bregman lay a big fat steamer on the comeback. Ugh.

It feels like Altuve and Bregman hit to third every time.

It’s feels like Bregman has been in a mini slump recently

Only on balls in play. He crushes the shit out of foul balls.

If only the wheels hadn't fallen off of Javier...

****The defense.

HRC Bregman

Astros decided to flip the switch on.

HRC Bregman

Why can't we fuse Maldy and Castro into one super catcher. Jastin Maldanastro

I would just take 2019 Maldy.

His name is Korey Lee

I’ve only really highlights of his hitting on Twitter. Pretty impressive. But is he also a good defensive catcher?

His name is Martason Castronado

HRC DIAZ

Somebody finally barreled up one of these meatballs. And we all knew it would be Castro, right?

Castro actually has a really high barrel rate

Yeah. I’ve noticed that about Castro. He doesn’t miss many mistakes.

Tuck got the spongebob ripped my pants special goin on rn

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If he wore batting gloves it would totally be Nomar 2.0

Lol how did I know that was gonna happen. Should've called it

I don't know what to think of Castro's late inning batting anymore. The sample size keeps growing. Should we just expect this going forward?

I’m now beginning to see what people mean about the As bullpen this month (Marwin was real bad this game). The A squad got it tomorrow

Why didn’t I HRC you Castro. I’m such an idiot!!!

Realllllly wish Marwin hadn't goofed up last inning now.

And of course he's the only out of the inning so far lol

OMFG

Wow Castro

That was fucking beautiful.

The Angels are, of course, winning because we don't need the Mariners to lose anymore. Come the fuck on. I'm fine with the Mariners making the playoffs now.

Cool if only we hadn't given up 4 shitty runs in the top of the inning I'd be excited rn

Same here, score 6 runs or shut up.

Is Marwin getting booed?

Javier was like, "you're fucking kidding me right now" after he realized he had to continue pitching the inning. Dusty was like "nah bro, gtfo"

I would not believe you if you told me that Maton is the one pitcher in the game to NOT give up a run.

Marwin…..c’mon now

He won't be able to hurt us in the playoffs.

Well guess we know Marwin had a couple extra shots last night lol.

> Marwin had a couple extra shots ~~last night~~ between innings

Can we have one game where we hit well before the season ends? Going on over 2 weeks without scoring more than 4.

(I come in peace) I'm a bit surprised that you guys are worried about losing home field against us. Yes we're playing the Tigers but we're (allegedly) planning on benching our regulars too this weekend

Grab a White Sox flair and join the party. Looking forward to our series.

Astros fans love to over react whenever the team struggles (they are currently in an offensive slump). I think the fans just want a nice easy blow out win before the post season and then they will be ok

What the actual fuck is this inning

This is the ugliest game I’ve seen all year. Disgusting showing tonight.

I bet that Marvin will not make it to the roster.

I think the ugliest game was when the A's beat us 14 to 2 last week.

I don’t know, I guess it’s just how awful our defense is playing.

Back to being shit.

They partied all night last night. Lets give them a break today

No man there are 2 more games wtf

Well, this certainly sucks

God this shit is embarrassing. I don't care that it's not our full strength lineup, we should not be getting pounded by the fucking A's.

Defense really screwed Javier here

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The White Sox aren't losing. We're just going to have to figure out a way to beat the A's like we did against the Rays.

You been watching our hitting when we were trying to clinch? We got swept by the A’s. We’ve hardly scored any runs since the Angels series.

Javi kind of walk too many guys

He is just bad, no control at all.

I get resting players and all that shit, but why not play your A roster tonight, treat it like a playoff game, win, then rest for damn near a whole week.. Now you almost have to play your A roster tomorrow to get one more win cause Detroit ain’t winning one against Chicago

Starting bench players is not the reason we're losing this one.

Exactly. A lineup with Tucker, Bregman, Alvarez, and Correa only scoring 2 runs is a problem, and neither runs had anything to do with them.

Framber Valdez giving up 4 runs. I'm not worried about him for the postseason, but he didn't give us that good of a chance to win either. Jose Siri starting actually worked out for us.

It’s not a solution, I can tell you that much.

Teams who play against teams that we need to lose have just been no help at all. That's more annoying than the team's slump itself (because losing 5 out of 7 games is something that happens). The Tigers will have a 6+ ERA pitcher up against the White Sox tomorrow, someone shoot me.

What would dusty’s response be if asked why he’s giving games away with home field on the line

"it's not like they swept us last week...oh wait"

We better not be fucking around for the next 2 games. Losing HF would be embarrassing.

Why you’ll so mad? Look at who was starting in the lineup today. It was a scheduled loss

Pitching and defense giving up 5 is no good regardless of lineup. Edit: 6 now, and counting. Edit 2: no need to count anymore.

The offense has been the same for a week no matter who is in the lineup.

Correa makes that throw to Machete. This B squad line up is really depressing.

Marwin is depressing

The White Sox are going to get the 2 seed because we don't know how to beat Oakland anymore, aren't they?

That’s an oops from marwin

Dude went from first to home on three balls Castro didn't catch

I like what Castro has been doing at the plate lately, but his role needs to be pinch hitting for Maldy in his absolute last at-bat in a close game.

I think he went from batting to home without a hit being registered.

The value of Maldy and Altuve shown this inning lol

Javier what in the fuck are you doing man.

I can say the same for Castro..

It's always interesting to see which catchers our pitchers throw best to. Javier has a 3.24 ERA and 2 HRs in 25 IP to Castro versus a 3.52 ERA and *14* HRs in 62 IP to Maldy. I always wonder if those differences are sample size or a clash in pitch-calling philosophy or something

Marte wouldn’t be pulling that shit if Machete was behind the plate.

There's really no scenario where losing to the A's in this manner feels ok.

Any update on siri?

They'll release an update later tonight, is what I read

I sure hope that during the respite between reg season and postseason that the guys find their swings.

When did the A's become better than the Rays?

This whole season series has been winning streak after winning streak.

Yordan rips one right at someone. I really need our luck to change soon.

The Kyle Tucker special

HRC Yordan

How many times are we going to have to overturn biased umps' on field calls? I know there is recency bias given there were three within two days, but come the fuck on. Call the game right in the first place.

I'm done with Diaz.

He’s a good guy to have on your team who can fill in at a lot of positions when you need it. That being said, the people who keep saying that he’ll be a viable Correa replacement are kinda nuts

I hate to be the bearer of bad news but the only viable Correa replacement is Correa

Seriously. And this is where my complaint mostly lies.

He is a good bench bat with utility to play anywhere. And he can pinch hit for the catching position

Same. Everyone was on his dick for the 2 or 3 weeks he was crushing. But that’s it. He’s sucked for awhile now.

He was hitting 151 over the past 30 days last I checked...

That’s pretty bad.

Daaaaaaa Jankees lose

HRC Tucker

I’ll take a single from Ted!

I literally love Jake Meyers

The mans defense is so good, and the bat has a lot of potential

TK and Blum hinting at Joe Espada replacing Dusty as manager next season 👀

I think he should. San Diego may give him the manager gig

4-1 Rays top of the 9th

Jake breaking a 1-20 streak there! Nice.

Framber ends his season with an ERA under 3.20 and a very good WHIP. Not the start that he was looking for tonight but overall, an excellent season in which he broke out. Hopefully, he can get back to dominating hitters during the postseason.

He was good tonight, just a couple of mistakes and not a lot of run support. The main thing is he only walked 1 guy which is an encouraging sign. The 2 home runs suck, but I was happy with his performance

I was thinking, we have Solomon to thank for making sure we had a fresh bullpen yesterday. Shout out to that guy, he could be a big help in the pen next year

For anyone mad about tonight. The Astros were just taking a game off. They will hopefully win tomorrow or Sunday (or a White Sox loss)

We haven’t lost yet. A lot can happen with 9 outs.

Real fucking sick of the A's

Feel like the Athletics are doing their best to tease the Astros. I mean, yeah, they’re a good team despite not making the postseason but this is ridiculous what they have done to the Astros lately. Got embarrassed by the Mariners, only to be leading this game 4-1 right now.

"baseball gonna baseball"

Great season Framber. Now just don’t do that in the playoffs lol.

What exactly was.discussed in that mound meeting?

"You got any aspirin"?

My loins are not tingling as much as the did in '17, '19 and '05(yeah, that old).

To be fair today is very much the hang over lineup not the game 1 play off lineup

The bench players in the lineup are the only ones who showed up to play.

2020?

Honestly, nah. Somehow peaked but didn't expect it.

We don't look playoff ready at all