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A Saturday night game? That is nice for a change. I know some others prefer day baseball but night games are much easier for me to be able to watch.
Makes no difference down there. They always use artificial lighting and climate control at the Astrodome, Albert…Talk about a tough place to tater up. Satchel Paige called it, ” A Pitcher’s Paradise.” I once lost my rental car in the circular shaped parking lot surrounding the dome after attending a Cardinal/Astros game in the mid 80’s. I finally found it after about an hour when 90% of the vehicles had cleared out. I was beginning to think I’d been victimized by a car thief. I was soaked with sweat from walking around in circles in the jungle heat of Houston…Haha!
Ha that is awful 1TD. Houston is a city more of parking lots than city so I could see how you could forget where you parked there.
Reminds me of when my wife and I were getting her moved from California and we decided to stop at the Grand Canyon on the way back. The car was full of her belongings and we forgot which animal sign we parked at there. We walked around a hour trying to find her car thinking someone had stolen it and all her belongings but finally found it. I guess 17 hours driving in a day can make you more forgetful.
Yeah, that’s a bad feeling. My wife was about 6 or 7 months pregnant at the time of my fiasco in the Astrodome parking lot, but she stayed sitting at a location near the exit gates until I finally located the car and retrieved her. No cell phones to keep in contact back in those days. She told the story to others while poking fun at me for years and years. I deserved it…Haha!
For the two games I attended at the Astrodome I recall fairly small attendance which resulted in a lot of echoes. At any rate, I’d never been to a baseball game under a roof, so it was fun and interesting. Until I lost my car…Haha!
Yet another Houston TBA…..sweet! Since the turn of the century, coming into the 2026 campaign, teams facing announced pitching TBA’s win at an eyebrow raising 73.4% clip. What else is amazing is Jose Soriano of the Angels 5-0 record and his miniscule 0.28 ERA. Jose has only allowed 1 run in 32 2/3 innings. Jose just may be taking a run at besting Gibby’s astounding 1.12 ERA in ’68.
Soriano has been very good to start the year but a single bad start would bloat his ERA. I don’t expect him to keep it up too much longer.
The pitcher who has been more impressive to me is out of the pen and that is Mason Miller. It is futile hitting against him at this point 76% of the batters that have stepped up to the plate against him have struck out. He has allowed 1 hit and 1 walk. His numbers can’t stay that good but talent wise I think he may be the best RP in baseball and will dominate for years to come as long as his arm doesn’t fall off.
Gibson’s 1.12 ERA is absolutely amazing, but you also have to keep in mind that he maintained that unbelievable number over the course of 304.2 innings of work in ’68. Soriano won’t finish up anywhere near to either a 1.12 ERA or that sort of a workload.
Was not aware of Mason Miller’s sweet start to the campaign…..thanks Albert. But we’re only looking at 9 1/3 innings. Soriano has logged just under 33 frames. TD is correct in that Soriano won’t be flirting with a Gibson-ish ERA by season’s end, but he may finish under the Mendoza Line…..numerically speaking.
Another little fact that may be worthy of note is that last season there were 13 CG shutouts in the entire Big Leagues. Bob Gibson worked 13 CG shutouts in ’68.
Edit…Alcantara is the solitary pitcher to work one this season. I’m more than a little surprised there’s been an intance of one this early.
Who would have thought the NLC would be the toughest division in baseball? Nary a team with a losing record. The Cubs at 10-9 are sitting in last place.
JJ Wetherholt (L) 2B
Iván Herrera (R) C
Alec Burleson (L) 1B
Jordan Walker (R) RF
Nolan Gorman (L) DH
Masyn Winn (R) SS
Ramón Urías (R) 3B
Nathan Church (L) CF
José Fermín (R) LFMaybe my least favorite Cardinal hurling tonight. I wish we could upgrade this rotation spot and use Pallante in middle relief and blowouts.
On the lost car episodes, in April 2007 my cousin and I were in Kansas City for a sports collectibles show, and took in a Royals-Blue Jays game. I believe it was Scott Rolen’s Jays debut after the hissy fit he and Tony LaRussa had the year before.
Anyway, we could not find the rental car after the game and were walking all around the parking lot at night. But it had the robotic door opener. I kept holding the keys up high and pushing the button while we looked for lights flashing. Eventually that worked and we saw it, but it took a good 20 minutes walking around before we hit on it.
The out-of-town scoreboard so far for today:
The Reds came back from a 4-2 deficit after six and beat the Twins 5-4 at the Hubert H. Mondale metrodome.
The Cubs handed the Mets their 10th straight loss. 4-2 Cubs the final at Wrigley.
And the Brewers and Marlins are tied 1-1 in the middle innings at Joe Robbie Stadium in Miami.
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I know a lot of you are not old enough to remember, but there was a time when pitchers actually used to pitch a WHOLE GAME!
Ten in a row placed in the wrong column for the Mets and there’s still twelve days until April comes to a close. That’s as painful as a large luxury tax. Additionally, they’re alrady 6.5 games off the pace in the NLE where the Braves have jumped out to nice start this season. I know it’s a 162 game grind, but the first month of a season can make or break any team.
1td?
Don’t forget about 1973.
The Redbirds lost 20 of their first 25 games, starting out 5-20.
And they came within a whisker of winning the NL East that year.
And here’s a out-of-town scoreboard update:
Milwaukee downs the Marlins in Miami by the score of 5-2.
And the Pirates are ahead of Tampa 4-0 in the 4th at Forbes Field. The game is currently in a rain delay.
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