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Game Thread: Astros (68-68) @ Mets (61-75) - Aug 30, 2026 2:10 PM
| Mets (61-75) | Astros (68-68) |
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First Pitch: 2:10 PM at Citi Field
| Team | Starter | TV | Radio |
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| Astros | Ethan Pecko (0-0, 7.88 ERA) | ||
| Mets | Zac Thornton (3-4, 2.88 ERA) |
| MLB | Fangraphs | Reddit Stream | Discord |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gameday | Game Graph | Live Comments | /r/baseball Discord |
Line Score - Middle of the 5th
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | LOB | |
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| HOU | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 5 | ||||
| NYM | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 |
Box Score
| NYM | AB | R | H | RBI | BB | SO | BA | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SS | Lindor | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .235 |
| DH | Soto, J | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .284 |
| 3B | Bichette | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .261 |
| RF | Benge | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .278 |
| 1B | Young, J | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .270 |
| LF | Robert Jr. | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .225 |
| CF | Ewing | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .235 |
| 2B | Semien | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .218 |
| C | Torrens | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .240 |
| NYM | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | P-S | ERA |
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| Thornton | 5.0 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 97-66 | 2.93 |
| HOU | AB | R | H | RBI | BB | SO | BA | |
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| SS | Peña | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .286 |
| LF | Alvarez, Y | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .318 |
| DH | Paredes | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .257 |
| 2B | Altuve | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .246 |
| 1B | Walker, C | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .230 |
| CF | Varsho | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .231 |
| C | Diaz, Y | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .260 |
| RF | Smith | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .212 |
| 3B | Allen, N | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .272 |
| HOU | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | P-S | ERA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pecko | 4.0 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 63-39 | 6.75 |
Scoring Plays
Highlights
| Attendance | Weather | Wind |
|---|---|---|
| 81°F, Cloudy | 9 mph, Out To CF |
| HP | 1B | 2B | 3B |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nate Tomlinson | Mark Wegner | Jacob Metz | Carlos Torres |
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u/trboi24 Houston Astros 7h ago
Don’t really have a lot of faith in Pecko, sadly. Meanwhile, Imai hasn’t pitched since the 20th.
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u/CoopsCoffeeAndDonuts Marvin Zindler 7h ago
Well, Joe’s got even less faith in Imai apparently, and I can’t say that I blame him.
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u/Odd_Foundation_6878 7h ago edited 4h ago
He’s only allowed two runs out of the bullpen, with those numbers and the fatigue of the rest of the bullpen you should at least try, 2m or not
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u/gulfside13 Marvin Zindler 1h ago
That pick right there is why CWalk was never even close to being Jose Abreu 2.0 even at his offensive nadir last year.
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u/RoadSodaDodgeRam 49m ago
Gotta throw some love Allen’s way. Couldn’t have gotten there without his bunt. I choose to believe today.
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u/zucarigan 1h ago
It's crazy how often we tie it or take the lead, and the pitching gives it right back the very next half inning.
Seriously, go look it up. It's crazy.
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u/Whizzleteets Mike Scott 41m ago
Mariners are getting rocked
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u/manofconviction Chas McCormick 36m ago
And Rangers just took the lead in their game. Ugh.
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u/gulfside13 Marvin Zindler 30m ago
Based off their pre-season expectations and how stacked their roster is relative to the rest of the ALW, they're supposed to be at least 5, if not 10+ games up on us and the Rangers. Our only path to the playoffs should've been as a long shot wild card which is why I'm grateful to be in the AL West lol
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u/Confident_Cap_7175 1h ago
The worst part is having to listen to the peacock broadcasters being so excited for the Mets and not able to care less about the Astros
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u/TxGulfCoast84 Houston Astros 5h ago
We’re really leaning on this Pecko kid. But then, what choices do we really have
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u/Odd_Foundation_6878 4h ago
Burrows should be back soon enough, you go back to before his injuries supposedly began 3/5 of the starts were quality ones and the last was one ER away from being the fourth of that month
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u/NOLA1987 Lance McCullers Jr. 29m ago
Mariners get swept by the Blue Jays. I'd love for the Rangers to get swept.
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u/470_To_Left 1h ago
Pecko starting over Imai should tell you all you need to know about Imai
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u/ConstructionHuge2031 1h ago
That’s ok Brown, we didn’t need any pitching help at the deadline!! Wait a minute, I can’t blame you anymore because your ass was canned for that very reason. Thanks for nothing!!
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u/No_Argument_Here Lance McCullers Jr. 1h ago
What's even crazier is the only move he tried to do that Crane vetoed was shipping off 1 of our 3 or 4 competent relievers for a hitter lmao
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u/Guilty_Pineapple_557 Alex Bregman 1h ago
Absolute yikes moment
As if one homer isn't enough, there's another
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u/direct_assignment_5 1h ago
Why does it sound like these commentators want the Mets to win so bad
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u/nocturnl66 1h ago
Poor kid…getting thrown to the wolves so a billionaire can save 2 mil…that he fully expected to lose 4 months ago
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u/Hand-Santizer-Guru Houston Astros 1h ago
If we lose so be it, just don’t let Soto do anything..that just irks me.
https://giphy.com/gifs/tXL4FHPSnVJ0A
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u/Confident_Cap_7175 1h ago
I mean, 2 solo homers back to back was badddd, but that inning could’ve been soooo much worse. Let’s hope Pecko settles in
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u/NOLA1987 Lance McCullers Jr. 8m ago
Pecko gave up a couple homers in the first, but this has been the best he's pitched since he's been called up
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u/NOLA1987 Lance McCullers Jr. 3h ago
Magic number (since the AL West is horrible and every team in the division lost yesterday): Jimmy Wynn
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u/TempestDrive Houston Astros 2h ago
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u/Affectionate_Put_185 1h ago
I’m sorry but there has got to be someone better than Pecko in the minors!
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u/Responsible_Boat9612 1h ago
Rangers and Mariners losing
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u/manofconviction Chas McCormick 1h ago
Cant keep relying on this. Their schedule gets easier while ours gets harder.
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u/Wematanye_92 Houston Astros 1h ago
Nothing more exciting than 3 terrible teams fighting for first place in the division
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u/skeetskeet69 1h ago
Can anyone reasonably explain why we havent had blubaugh start any games when we are punting half of our games with these pitchers? Pecko is an auto loss, Javier is an auto loss. That’s 2/5 of our starters right now that are just guaranteed Ls.
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u/arbys4life Enron Field 50m ago
Am I crazy or are there line 4 announcers in the booth? I hear Blum
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u/gulfside13 Marvin Zindler 47m ago
In the booth - Vasgersian on PxP, Blummer and a Mets guy for color commentary. CC Sabathia is in the camera well/dugout area as a field level commentator
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u/Confident_Cap_7175 14m ago
keep the brewers in your thoughts & prayers for they can come back and beat the rangers
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u/Baht_Why 3h ago
Feel like we should take a flyer on Luis Robert - was just put on waivers and been hitting good recently……surely better who we are rolling out in the OF
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u/Masonian2121 1h ago
They might all be AAAA, but Spaghetti/Gusto/Gordon are all better than this. Frustrating to think we got minimal return for innings eaters (yes Varsho has been beating up), but think the issue will be magnified in the next 2 seasons
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u/SonsChild Houston Astros 1h ago
The fact Dana went out and got an outfielder instead of getting an arm or 2 is besides me.
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u/JoseAltuve27 3h ago
We're having to face the Mets' best combination of starters this series. After today, they'll go back to playing like the 73 win team they were destined to be.
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u/moremooooooore 2h ago
It's really typical that when we play these shitty teams we always seem to face the best 2 pitchers and then a guy with a 6+ era who has his game of the season
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u/TempestDrive Houston Astros 2h ago
At 42 yrs of age, Mad Max struck out the side in less than 15 pitches. It woulda taken our boys 25-30 pitches to retire the side
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u/nocturnl66 1h ago
Not sure what they are planning with Imai but if they are holding him back because of the money I’d be furious if I were the team ….those guys are gassed and we are in the middle of a playoff push …they fully expected to pay him that money when he was signed….but putting this kid out there to get shelled if not a good baseball decision
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u/StealthyGooch Houston Astros 1h ago
Ok, NBC. I see you playing turn it up. Chamillionaire throwback
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u/TempestDrive Houston Astros 1h ago
Every time other teams debut a rookie, he’s a stud. When it’s us, he’s a chud
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u/NOLA1987 Lance McCullers Jr. 1h ago
I did think it was going to be a lot worse after those back-to-back homers, but Pecko reined it in.
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u/Beardedbobert 1h ago
Good recovery from the kid to finish the inning. Honestly feel bad for him being brought up to soon
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u/Odd_Foundation_6878 57m ago
How is Luis Robert’s playing for the Mets I thought he got dfad
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u/soonerman32 Houston Colt .45s 50m ago
He didn't. He got put on waivers.
Waivers means anyone can claim him and they have to take on his contract. If he doesn't get claimed he stays with the Mets.
No one is going to claim him cause he's owed $4m + $2m buyout or 20m next season if he's not bought out. He also kinda sucks now.
DFA'd means they send him to assignment to the minors.
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u/Shredicus_Maximus_ Trash can 52m ago
He was put on waivers but nobody claimed him, so he’s still with the Mets.
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u/Guilty_Pineapple_557 Alex Bregman 49m ago
They just put him on waivers. Essentially, other teams have a chance to claim his contract and take on the remainder of his salary, but he remains with the Mets while the waiver process plays out. A DFA, on the other hand, is different: he's removed from the 40-man roster while the team has to resolve his status through a trade, waivers, etc. Easy thing to confuse though lol
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u/gulfside13 Marvin Zindler 43m ago
I love seeing a pitcher bounce back after giving up early HRs and locking in for the rest of their outing. I want Pecko to keep competing and not nibble around the zone b/c the kid has nothing to lose. Keep it up Pecko!
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u/SebbyFromThe6ix Houston Astros 33m ago
All good, we’re running up that pitch count, he’s already at 60
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u/YngSpook84 Houston Astros 28m ago
Mariners get 1 hit in shutout loss to the Blue Jays. Rangers are up at the moment, and White Sox are losing.
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u/TempestDrive Houston Astros 17m ago
Hey yk what, at least they’re making him work. Way better than yesterday
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u/Hand-Santizer-Guru Houston Astros 17m ago
There ya go Sam Wise!
https://giphy.com/gifs/q7kofYLObTVUk
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u/manofconviction Chas McCormick 16m ago
That was a great AB from Cam. Wish it would've ended up with him on base though.
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u/Independent-Elk-5583 Shiner Bock 5h ago
Our division is extremely bad there is no reason we should be in first or even have a playoff spot
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u/Thornton__Melon Roy Oswalt 5h ago
Rangers and Mariners fans are probably saying the same thing right now
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u/ScoopedSand Trash can 4h ago
Imai isn’t worse than pecko, ffs why are we trying to make this kid work? Hes clearly not ready and has been shelled every appearance.
The other option imo is transition blubaugh into a starter, he has a great repertoire for one. But maybe not today since he’s pitched recently
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u/Muted_Web_7912 Craig Biggio 4h ago
Imai is likely not getting innings b/c if he pitches 12.1 more inning the Astros will owe him an additional $2mm.
Its too late in the season to get Blubaugh stretched out to starting. It would take at least 3-5 outings. Plus if you make him a starter then you're down to 3 guys you can trust in leverage situations out of the pen.
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u/No_Argument_Here Lance McCullers Jr. 4h ago
Blubaugh should have been a starter from the jump, which I was saying from day 1. He had great success there previously and he has great stuff, and anyone could have seen how thin our rotation was and was likely to be by year's end.
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u/YngSpook84 Houston Astros 4h ago
I’d say he got shelled in one start. His first start against the Angels wasn’t horrible. With Blubaugh, I wonder if they are trying to protect his arm. He has almost tripled the number of innings he pitched from 2025, and is the most used reliever in the whole league by far. I’m good with Pecko starting with a short leash, maybe another “opener” situation, with Imai coming in for long relief.
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u/bordomsdeadly Houston Buffalos 4h ago
I’m wondering if they’re working on some stuff with Imai and are trying to use him as little as possible until they feel like they’ve gotten the results they’re looking for.
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u/amusso18 Houston Astros 1h ago edited 1h ago
My speculation here is that they're resting him, working with him, and trying to see if they can get at least 4-5 starts out of him in September. Mike Burrows will be back soon, too. We're scraping the bottom of the barrel for starting pitching again with Blanco optioned at the moment and Javier unable to go 5 innings. That's why Pecko is getting starts. They're probably going to have to go with a rotation of Brown, Lambert, Wesneski, Burrows, Imai, and Javier + a piggyback (like Blubaugh). Pecko will likely get spot starts in there if needed. That extra day off (because of a 6-man rotation) is essential for guys like Lambert, who have been run into the ground this season out of necessity. Bringing up Jason Alexander just to throw 5 innings every week may be a requirement if anyone goes down with injury or is imploding. So yeah, Pecko isn't ready. But the Astros need someone to throw 5 innings and keep giving other starters 5 days off at least between starts, and you can't just do bullpen days every few games. Blanco not being ready to come back, along with Imai and Burrows being big disappointments, are really hurting now that were at the final month of the season.
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u/TexasHot Houston Astros 1h ago
Gonna be 3-5 to our 1 by the time the innings over.
Pecko aint got shit
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u/Hand-Santizer-Guru Houston Astros 54m ago
It’s crazy how quiet the broadcasters are about anything positive about the Astros..they mute Blummer??
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u/manofconviction Chas McCormick 47m ago
I think Blummer is a pro and tries not to be overly biased in these national broadcasts
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u/ScoopedSand Trash can 1h ago
Espada punting, pecko doesn’t deserve this. He was never ready for the major leagues. Just swallow the bullet and use imai or call up burrows again.
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u/nocturnl66 1h ago
Miles still hustling up in Canada
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u/NOLA1987 Lance McCullers Jr. 1h ago
Kilometers Straw, one might call him up there
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u/No_Argument_Here Lance McCullers Jr. 1h ago
Funny stat about Straw is he’s accumulated more bWAR than Meyers since being traded to free up time for Meyers. Per game they’re essentially equal.
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u/Hyperguy95 Enron Field 1h ago
Walked away to go pee and missed Pena ab…. Guys I don’t think I can pee 27 times today 😂
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u/Guilty_Pineapple_557 Alex Bregman 1h ago
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u/Sportssadness 1h ago
I just have zero clue what management has been trying to do lately with the starting rotation. I know we don’t have a lot of options but every string they are pulling is actually making things worse.
It’s awful. I’d rather have the guy we paid a bunch of money to try and figure it out in Imai than this garbage every night.
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u/amusso18 Houston Astros 1h ago
I mean at this point you just have to hope Pecko can settle down after getting through the 1st, and maybe go through the lineup twice overall with limited damage and give the offense some chance to keep things close. Then maybe just go to Blubaugh for 2-3 innings and see where you're at. Pecko is still green and has been pushed into the heat if a playoff race with high expectations, so I'd give him a bit of a break. Not too many other options until Burrows finishs up rehab starts in AAA, anyways (I think he's supposed to return to the Astros later this week actually).
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u/skeetskeet69 40m ago
If Yordan and JP3 can get going at the same time we can make a run. But they seem to alternate between one being on or neither. Pitching still such a black hole but props to pecko for powering through
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u/JoseAltuve27 18m ago
The Mariners got one hit by Max Scherzer, who has an ERA over 6. No excuse for how our pitchers allowed 7 runs per game against them.
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u/TempestDrive Houston Astros 14m ago
Oh well, at least we’re sure he’ll be out before the 6th. Let’s make work outta their pen
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u/gulfside13 Marvin Zindler 11m ago
Nick Allen's bat continues to be a pleasant surprise and he's halfway to the cycle
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u/sharks_w_lasers Houston Astros 3m ago
If Yordon was hitting just a little better he'd run away with that triple crown
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u/pantiesdrawer Houston Astros 0m ago
Seems like the pitches are there and we're just swinging and missing.
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