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Friday, April 18, 2008
Sampson rocked in first and Rockies run away with win
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Chris Sampson tried his Jason Jennings impersonation and almost pulled it off by lasting two-thirds of an inning and giving up six runs. But Sampson is pretty resilient and I have confidence that he’ll bounce back. But for now his ERA has shot up to 8.74.
Three random thoughts
- I was pretty confident that if the Astros could get to the bullpen early they would have a really good shot at winning since the Rockies went 22 innings last night. But the Rockies offense gave the team a 6-0 cushion and once the Rockies bullpen did enter the game, they only gave up one run. But the bullpen is just as spent now as it was before the game so maybe the Astros can still squeeze a win out of it.
- Speaking of bullpens, the Astros’ is almost in just as bad of shape having pitched five innings yesterday and 8 1-3 tonight. Here’s hoping Wandy Rodriguez can go about seven innings tomorrow.
- It’s good to see Hunter Pence go 3-for-4 tonight after getting off to a rough start.
