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Sunday, April 6, 2008
Bats fail Backe again
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Brandon Backe again pulled off a quality road start, giving up just two runs through six innings but the Astros could only muster two runs themselves and lost, 3-2.
Five random thoughts
- The first inning was a killer. The Astros had men on second and third and nobody out. But Darin Erstad struck out and Michael Bourn was thrown out trying to score on a fly out by Carlos Lee.
- Oscar Villarreal was tagged with the loss after giving up a seventh-inning home run to Derek Lee. That broke the 2-2 tie and the Cubs held it.
- A Miguel Tejada home run in the seventh inning tied the game. It was Tejada’s first homer of the season and he improved his batting average to .231.
- Dave Borkowski pitched a scoreless eighth inning to keep the game within a run. he’s been dependable for three years now.
- Jimy Williams. Phil Garner. Cecil Cooper. What do these three have in common? They all like to sit starters. Tomas Perez, Geoff Blum and Erstad got the starts. I understand that Lance Berkman and Ty Wiggington are still hurting from yesterday, but that should mean that guys like Mark Loretta are just going to have to miss a day off for the greater good of the team.
