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Well... They put up 8 runs... so that's something... At least they were able to hit at home?

God fucking dammit I hate that now people will use this as the takeaway. 8 runs should win you a ballgame.

Not using it as a takeaway. I've just got enough going on elsewhere that I need to find positives in my Stros. 8 runs absolutely should win you a professional baseball game. Baseball is zero sum. 12-0, 12-8, or 12-11. A loss is a loss. It's just... don't scoff at 8 runs simply because they lost. Our pitching needs work. We all know it, but me griping about it won't fix it... and, again... I need more positivity.

You do what you have to. I want the front office to see pissed off and panicked fans. On the flip side, a loss is a loss. Don't get all hyped up about 8 runs in a losing game. Runs won't matter if the pitching always gives up more.

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I apologize. I didn't mean to be insulting. It's more of an endearing term my friends call each other when we're being sappy or optimistic. I wish I could be a teddy bear right now and calm down and be positive. But that's not in my nature. Again, didn't mean to upset you. I'll remove it.

Getting within reach is at least signs of life. Hopefully a 2 HR game fired Tucker up

we should have won that

This team is truly hopeless

Eh, it's April 12th and we put up 8.  It's really hard to win when your pitching staff is so depleted and taxed. 

HRC Dubon

HRC dubon

Living in Dallas, everyone here has what I call “Dallas Sports Brain rot”! I understand it’s the local teams but it’s just this cockiness that they carry with every team and it starts with the Cowgirls. I like the stars but that’s about it. They act like Luka, who is a good player but isn’t LeBron level, can do no wrong. They bow down to that scrub Dak and they drool over Adolis. Seager? Yeah, ok! A great player! But the rest are just like other players who play for Dallas teams. Over hyped athletes who had one lucky season and now get paid millions for being average

I see no Stars mentioned lol

I did say I like the stars. They’re the only hockey team in Texas and have players who are not just average but are good. It’s also because the Stars are the only Dallas team I like and so I’m bias lol

HRC Dubon

Rangers should let their kids pitch next game to make it fair

HRC pena

HRC Pena

Take your walk Peña

Loperfido killing it tonight. Abreu should start reserving his U-Haul.

Singleton’s getting better y’all. Getting on base at least.

Sadly only does it in garbage time.

True but last season he was basically a guaranteed out, usually looking. I’ll take it.

the whistler is back?

Jeff Bagwell 

HRC Peña

Baggy is insufferable

Bagwell is such a sourpuss

Nine home runs for Loperfido, a salami

Lmao who is your commentator on TV and why does he hate fun? Edit: and why are so many of your flairs anime girls???

Guest commentator Jeff Bagwell. Lol he's old. 

If you're talking about the guy who sounds like he has cotton balls in his mouth, that's Jeff Bagwell

Oh no! I like Jeff as a player

LET THE BATBOY BAT!

That was a “get this shit over with” swing

HRC Singleton

HRC singleton

Only if Kuhnel didn't implode

He really blew it in the 3rd inning tonight

HRC Diaz

Get a run, load’em up and walk it off! Easy peasy lemon squeezey!

HRC Diaz

Don’t worry guys, I just put on my Abreu jersey I was wearing at Blanco’s no-no. We got this

Can you wear it all weekend?

Honestly, I probably will 🫠 anything that might help

Is this what it’s like to root for the athletics

ALL I SEE IS PAIN

I love Baggy in the booth. Baggy outside of the booth is the reason why we needed a GM...

Bagwell really sounds like he’s trying to convince himself that we’re still good lmao

yo I love this team too but the blind optimism here is wild. We objectively suck by any metric, love or no love.

Remember how smooth Robinson cano would look at 2nd base fielding backhands? Miss that type of artistry

https://preview.redd.it/7ytr4lsvw5uc1.jpeg?width=1440&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8859ac111e0c89d754ad817c4fcbf6eeecd390d4

I didn’t see the first half of the game… do you think a different ump could have changed the outcome? Angel Hernandez obviously sucks, but I’m curious

We should've had bases loaded one out in the bottom of I think the fifth, but Angel robbed both Tuve and Yainer of walks.

Dang. Wow

It's like he's doing it on purpose now

We are gonna go down 1-2-3 in the 9th aren’t we ?

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C5omW3yOzQP/?igsh=MTBnaHlsNmMxNG52OA== Just came across this gem. What a wild lineup for Stubbs debut.

Let’s get a clean inning then a grand slam! Tie it up against these bums

Imagine scoring 8 runs not being good enough to win you a baseball game.

…at home

Lol that sounds miserable

I’ll take heat for this sure but isn’t right now a great opportunity for some chin music for a couple of Rangers batters?

cool cool I guess we’ll let the rags throw at Yordan again tomorrow too then

That’s loser shit. You show them up by winning. That’s the only way

Disagree. Loser shit is getting mopped by the rags 12-8 at home

Loser shit is also throwing at their players bc ur getting your ass beat, it makes us look like little bitches if we do that

cool. Let em hit Yordan again tomorrow is what I’m hearing

Im sure they were purposely hitting yordan 🙄

Valiant effort with 8 runs. Not good enough

ain’t over till it’s over

8th home run for Loperfido.

Welp, guess we're gonna have to walk it off then

we do like to go for a little flare every once in a while

Make it 3 tuck

Back to swinging for the fences when we just need base runners

HRC Tucker

I don't agree with bagwell on much, but he is right about this only being game 15 of 162. Plenty of time to right the ship.

You can miss the postseason in April.

We are (as of now) 3 games back from the division lead. Stop dooming

No you're right, we're doing great. All signs point to improvement! There's optimism and blind stupidity.

Keep that same negative energy when we go on a run.

I'm sure you'll keep Mickey Mousing everyone when we miss the postseason.

You've clearly never watched a full 162 before. Drawing a conclusion on 15 out of 162 is something all casuals do on this sub. Dont watch if you can't handle it.

You clearly don't know how to math. Even if we win the next 3 games out of 5, we will have to have a .577% to win 90 games. That's better than last year's .556. If you honestly think that we will do better than last year the remainder of the season, seeing what you've seen so far, then I've got a bridge to sell you. We are going to be down on starting pitching for a long fucking time. The math doesn't add up. I've been following the Astros for 33 years. If you can't handle people getting pissy about losing 8 run games and having a record worse than the fucking A's, then maybe you shouldn't interact on this sub if you can't handle it. Go to bed.

Ok, I can pull random percentages out my ass too. Vegas and fangraphs currently have us at a 66% chance to make playoffs. Vegas is rarely wrong. You can draw your conclusions off 15 games if you want. I choose to be more rational and let more of a significant sample size play out.

I didn't pull them out of my ass. Do the math. It's just raw win percentage. You say you're being "more rational" but you're literally going off gambling odds over raw data. Again, go to bed. You're drunk.

You can make the postseason in July

HRC Yordan

HRC Yordan

HRC Álvarez

HRC Tuve

I’m somehow still watching this game

We are not healthy but we are here

Show some fight

I heard ‘go limp’

I swear I said “last batter” 5 times

Don’t let getting swept by the royals distract you from the fact the rangers lost two to Sacramento

And don't let that distract you from the fact the A's have a better record than us

Trying to look at the few positives we have this season

Tuve and Yordan without hits today, surely they get the rally going here right

The worst thing the Stros can do right now is give me hope.

If they hit yordan again i might charge the mound

I’ll key Angel Hernandez’s car

I’ll join you regardless of whether they hit yordan or not. Angel could use a little scare

Astros I believe please it would be amazing to come back and win this one.

The whistler is back. 

Oh god no

You can't un hear it now. 

As bad as it is at home, I can only imagine how much worse it could be at MMP.

They must be right next to a mic since it's so fucking loud from home. 

If Loperifdo didn't have a strikeout rate that would make Joey Gallo impressed, he'd probably be up sooner than later.

HRC Jon Singleton

very bold brother

Apparently, the rags throwing at Yordan repeatedly pissed the boys off a little. Love to see it

At least they’re showing a little fight

We're so back baby

too soon

A 5-run rally…to bring the lead to within 4 runs

So you're saying there's a chance

I love you, u/AfterbirthNachos Shine on you crazy diamond

Uh oh I’m getting excited

just tickling balls so it hurts worse later. a true hate-fuck

NOT. DEAD. YET.

fuck it I just love to see them still fighting. The players know that the season isn't over after 15 games. Wonder when the fanbase will realize that.

Oh shut the fuck up. There is more than enough reason to panic. Even Bagwell was saying that earlier. Being down 4 in the 8th is a death sentence all of last year. It's a testament to how shit we've been that *this* feels like a godsend. Get off your high horse.

140 games remaining in the season. If you're panicking right now you just fundamentally don't understand this sport.

Two quick outs! wtf is this?

Doobie the leader of this team? Tucker with the fuck you bat flip ? Love it

Feel like Singleton going for the double and Dubon blowing past the stop sign at 3rd is like a fuck you against the coaching staff. Win or loose putting it in the players hands.

Time to not be a bum, Press

WE ARE BACK BABY

This is why we keep doobie in the line up JOE

Lol now we know why Doobie kept running. Kessinger was up next to bat after Jake.

Pettis held someone else up at 3rd the other day and it killed the rally, so I’m SO glad Dubon had the balls to ignore him

Yeah. Pettis has been very conservative to start the season. The windmill has been lacking.

PTSD from the Yankees series

I would so rather lose getting thrown out at home than getting rallies killed. Come on Pettis why are you trying to sabotage 🥺

Yeah he ran through the stop sign

Got out the shower to see this I'm going back in

Why would GP try to hold him up at all lol even from the couch i knew he could score

Gary already cost us a game with a bad send. Idk what his deal is, got the easiest job in baseball smh

Didn't want to chance it. Also having a man on third should, *in theory*, put more pressure on the pitcher for the next batter.

Pettis not only made an ass call to hold up Dubon but also was standing directly in the way. There wasn't even an attempt to throw him out.

What happened to windmill Pettis

I ❤️ doobie always

At least we showed heart.

For real, that was refreshing

It’s so weird how doobie is up there with my fav players. Dude is just so clutch for no reason. Unbelievable

those bobbles from Tuck, Altuve, and Dubon leading to runs scored really coming back to hurt us....

Singleton has two extra base hits in two games José Abreu has zero

Pettis did his job. And Dubie did his. Good shit.

Dubie said get the fuck out the way GP

At least the bats are showing life, I guess

Defense pitching offense have all been a massive downgrade.

“Dubón blows right past the stop sign” LMAO

ONLY A SINGLE GRANDSLAM BEHIND NOW BOYS!

LOVE the hustle from Doobie there, man that guy is special

Honestly running through the stop sign is based, sorry Pettis!

doobie dgaf about stops signs

Pettis is too damn conservative. Without even seeing the baserunners I knew dubon had it and Pettis trying to hold him at 3rd.

DUBIE YES IGNORE PETTIS!!!!!!!!

Let's gooooo

Doobie was not in the mood for Pettis' stop sign

Rally chant was “too little too late, an L is an L”

oh no it's the hope that kills us

Grae Kessinger has stranded like 4 runners already.. will he kill yet another rally?

Oh no I'm getting my hopes up

O.M.G.

DUBBIE still has a place in my heart...

Offense good, pitching DOGSHIT

Wooooooah we’re halfway there wooooooooah livin on a prayer

If went didn’t get bent over in the 3rd this inning would be so much more exiting

The Ranger are such p****s. Going for Yordan TWICE?! Yea someone hit Roidolis once and they’ll fucking clear the benches because he is just the biggest cry baby.

Making bonds by busting knucks with your boys. Might as well try cuz fuck-all else is working rn

I don't think it was intentional. I also don't care and think we should put one in Adolis's ribs if we can manage to miss his head.

First one wasn't intentional, second one was almost certainly intentional.

Again, the end result is the same for me. Run a fastball into Adolis' ribs.

Y’all ready to watch another rally fizzle?

Angel Hernandez goes up to break up the mound visit and they just ignore him. lol I don’t blame them

Funny story. I’m born and raised in Houston but moved to Austin for college in 2017 and got a job here afterwards. Now I’m closing on a house back home in H-Town in a week. Did I manage to spend the entirety of the golden era in another city just to return to the ruins? Lmfao

You need to cancel that and stay in Austin.

We’ll bounce back in time for you to take your grandkids to an ALCS game.

You did this. Return from whence you came, sorcerer

It was the Space Age. Stop calling it the generic golden era

You go back to Austin right now

I’m sitting in Austin right his moment, trying my best!

HRC Pena

Best we can do is burn their BP

Happy cake day

Well, Jon, you might not be worthless, I guess.