oody No More

It took more than a month’s worth of starts, but Houston native Woody Williams has his first win as pitcher for his hometown team. His key two out single scored Adam Everett (who reached on one of the Reds three errors) and gave the Astros a 3-2 advantage. The score did not change throughout the remainder of the game, as the team took the first three from Cincinnati in their four game series.

A week ago, the Astros were 10-15 and doom and gloom was apparent everywhere one looked. Winning six out of last eight games has put at least a temporary halt to all of that. In those eight games, seven have seen quality starts from Astros starters, who lead the league in that category. Lance’s slugging percentage has gone up seventy points, and that was before today’s bomb. He has homered in each of his last three games. However, it was a play yesterday that probably made Drayton McLane and Tim Purpura the happiest. After Lance was walked in the top of the first inning, Carlos Lee promptly knocked a home run. As a result of that, the Reds and other MLB teams know that if they try to avoid Lance, they’ll have to pay by facing Carlos with at least one runner on base.

With the middle of the Astros lineup doing their jobs, we wrote in an earlier entry, everybody else can settle into their roles. I don’t think we can correlate Adam Everett and Luke Scott’s recent successes to Carlos and Lance hitting the ball better, but who knows. What we do know is that this team is only one game under .500, and will be going for the sweep tomorrow.

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