What sounds wrong about this?

Woody pitched six innings, and gave up three runs. His third straight quality start. In comes Brad Lidge, who at the time this article is being written, has pitched 2 innings of scoreless ball. Overall, Bradley has not allowed in a run in 9 of his last 11 appearances. Nice recovery on his part, to say the least. At the plate, the Astros have collected nine hits through eighth innings. Humberto Quintero chipped in with a two out RBI in the fourth inning. The middle of the lineup, Lance, Carlos, Luke and Pence has gone 5 for 13 with a couple of walks. All this, and I neglected to mention that Craig recorded two hits of his own. That puts his total at 2,959 for his career. All these things individually should add up to an Astros win.

On the other side of the bill, the Cards came in having started off as poorly, 10-16 as they had at any time in club history. Adam Wainwright hadn’t been able to allow less than five runs in his past three starts. Five game losing streak, scuffling to say the least. Sure, Albert got his former teammate for a two RBI double in the fifth, but other than that…nada mucho for Prince Pujols.

The scoreboard categories are as follows in the sport of baseball:

Runs-Hits-Errors-LOB (runners left on base)
The Astros lost the first category, which in the end, is all that matters. In spite of that, the fact that the Astros had a fat 17 in the last is just as frustrating to me. Generally, one can determine the first, by looking at the last. Speaking of looking at the last, these two clubs will go at it tomorrow with the loser taking last in the NL Central.

A potentially interesting statistic popped into our heads during today’s game. More on that tomorrow.

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