the press box Blog

I try and watch the Astros when I can but my grandmother watches every game. She says they have not let her down, yet. We like what we see so far!

I wrote a blog on this but it didn't take, so I will profess my thoughts here.

The Astros have a "'27 Yankees murderers" row line-up (Bourg, Matsui, Tehata, Bergman, Lee, Spence, with Erstad down below) that will get their runs against most pitching.
It they don't against a good starter, they will get the bullpen in the later innings if the Astro pitching can hold the opposition to 2-5 runs.
With our mediocre pitching staff, if it gives up 5-10 runs, we will probably lose!
This has happened in about every games, except last nights game against the Cubbies, when they (almost did, but) failed.

This is a interesting team--
It used to be they had 3-4 strong hitters in a row--but now they can present 6 in a row at you which is a BIG help--
If the pitching shapes up--they have as good a line-up as any in the league, I think.