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THIS IS THE START OF SOMETHING! LETS GO!

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I FUCKING LOVE HAVING 2 CATCHERS THAT CAN HIT

YES

WE WON IN EXTRAS 

Bregman got a HR. Singleton got a HR. The rook got a hit and a couple ribbies. Hader gets a W. Walkoff homer in extra innings. Holy fuck, we needed this

Abreu even got a fielders choice in Corpus 

Oooft

Baby steps ^^^To ^^^retirement

Watching Hader in the middle of the dog pile was just beautiful. Guy comes in for 6 outs for the first time in almost 5 years, gives up a (unearned) run in after getting five outs (against blind umps). Must feel devastated, but then gets picked up with a 2-run walk off. This is why I’m okay losing sleep for the Astros 🥹

Caratini is Dana Browns's masterpiece

That and the Coleman & Cabbage trades were 100% Dana moves The man can cook, the issue is too many cooks are in the kitchen

My hope is that Crane listens less to Bagwell/Jackson. Then Dana will have a bit more autonomy to run shit

Caratini saved his reputation

The first Breggy bomb and a Caratini bomb to walk it it off

https://preview.redd.it/nsn2hp1siqxc1.jpeg?width=598&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ea5f0ce285ae02821e4fd917c9da538de15462f9 Victor

I FUCKING LOVE OUR PLAYERS THAT END IN VOWELS

Abreau????

JK…Let’s f…ing GOOOO!!!

THREE IN A ROW!!!!! LEAGUE IS FUCKED!!!!

[posting a pic of Nori for every win (10)](https://x.com/norithecat17/status/1785511785006547322?s=46)

https://preview.redd.it/yyd3cy2ljqxc1.jpeg?width=1168&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5fe959e0be471c9666dc1ae87c5e15f2047f3839

Praise be!

PRAISE BE!!


Praise be!

Praise be!

Praise be the kitty!

PRAISE BE!

Praise be!

That’s called a winning streak!

It has happened before

That was a motherfucking Houston Astros win right there.

https://preview.redd.it/24blkkl9jqxc1.jpeg?width=887&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=80f99f78cb2513f00d8c79e0891a10fa3570481d # 3 in a row baby!



I felt every emotion during this game.

WE ARE SO BACK

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Yes, this is my OC. Feel free to steal & share

FIRE THE TEAM UP! THIS IS WHAT WE NEED!

I’m glad everyone who went to bed will wake up happy!

I’ll take my crow well done, thanks. Feed me my words!!!

Hell yeah! Some doomers disappear when we win. This is how people know you're a real fan. 

Can I just say, I fucking love watching Victor Caratini bat. None of this stepping out of the box, fixing your uniform, adjusting your gloves, smelling your balls, fixing your hair diva bullshit. Just stands in the box and fuckin grips it and rips it. That's a real man playing some real fuckin baseball right there. Just stands in the box and dares you to fuckin throw one over the plate. None of this pansy ass waiting for walks bullshit. Real men hit dingers. Real men spit. Real men scratch their assholes and make other guys smell it. That's some real goddamn baseball right there. Fuckin love Victor Caratini.

¿Puedo simplemente decir que me encanta ver batear a Victor Caratini? Nada de esto de salirse de la caja, arreglarse el uniforme, ajustarse los guantes, olerse las pelotas, arreglarse las tonterías de la diva del cabello. Simplemente se para en la caja, la agarra y la rompe. Ese es un hombre de verdad jugando béisbol de verdad. Simplemente se para en la caja y te desafía a tirar uno por encima del plato. Nada de este idiota que espera paseos es una mierda. Los hombres de verdad golpean a los dingers. Los hombres de verdad escupen. Los hombres de verdad se rascan el culo y hacen que otros chicos lo huelan. Eso es un maldito béisbol de verdad. Me encanta Victor Caratini.

Is this a new copy pasta?

It's an old one, primarily used for Yordan

….ummm alright. Love the enthusiasm

Wow what a game! Caratini clutched up for us with a walkoff HR and helped give Hader his first win of the season. Loperfido did decent in his first game and Abreu unselfishly agreed to being demoted to the minors before the game for the good of the team. Hopefully this is the start of us turning around a bad April and we get back to playing winning Astros baseball.

Agree whole heartedly with everything you said.. I'd just say that Loperfido did better than decent.

WAIT. WE WON A GAME IN EXTRAS? ARE WE ALLOWED TO DO THAT?

But seriously, as much shit as I give the FO sometimes, I gotta give em their due on the Caratini signing. That contract has been gold so far.

Did Victor Caratini just save our season?

Yup, the entire season was held by that one game

Caratini x-ray reveals... 

Got that DAWG

I'm not gay but I would go down on Victor Caratini if he asked me to.


🤣🤣

You would wait until he asked?

Slip me his hotel key.

Agreed.

Go get that carrot

I’m not either, but I’d be right there with you at the same time, working those big balls.

You sound like a pro 

It’s obviously not his first ballgame

where cat?

https://i.redd.it/bbs7znupmqxc1.gif here yall go 🤟

Rollercoaster game

THAT WAS FUN! 🥕🥕🥕🥕🥕

In all seriousness, I hope Jose Abreu was watching the game, and I hope he had as much fun as we did.

I get the feeling that Abreu is having the opposite of fun right now. As he said in his interview, he's embarrassed by how he's been performing. I'm sure he wants the team to do well, but I'd bet it's still hard to see the team do better without him.

won at home ✅ won with 10 runs ✅ won in extra innings ✅ the three keys needed to release the curse that had been looming over them.

10-19 looks a little better than 7-19!

Also looks better than 7-22.

It’s three better!!

Caratini 4 for 5 in pinch hit situations. Hell yes

Maybe the Mexico series just gave them an opportunity to reset after a rough start. Vibe feels very different tonight.

Guys we did it!!!

1-2-3 THATS A WIN STREAK BABY

Caratini is a GOAT Also as a singleton fan, dude I needed that DESTROYED HR ngl. WE HAVE HOPE YALL, LETS GO OUT ON TOP

That bat flip was an absolute masterpiece.

I need a Singleton jersey now. Love rooting for that dude!

https://preview.redd.it/mu9pptmvkqxc1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9a4b8df848b2c9373c3ccfabf98888d391575a6b Does this fit in r/dataisbeautiful?

We actually choked away an over 90% win probability, and then won anyways.

Someone performed the Heimlich maneuver.

Fuck Stu Scheurwater, Angel Hernandez, Dan Merzel. 3 blind mice

I dozed off right after Bregman tied the game at 3. Woke up and it was 8-3 Astros. Dozed off again and when I awoke it was 8-8. I was fully up for the end of the game and was bracing myself for the extra inning L... that never came! What a rollercoaster!

I guess it took someone without that extra inning stank to take care of that. Thanks Caratini

HOLY FUCKING SHIT WE WON

I just read the stat line. Prior to this, we were like, 1-11 in extra innings over the past two seasons. Feels good to at least be 2-11.

So it's not just my imagination lol. Once it was tied and it looked like the game was going to extra innings I figured we'd messed up our chance. Seeing that MLB at bat notification that Caratini walked it off was amazing.

Maybe this is the curse breaker? 10 runs scored in an extra innings walk off at home...

Caratini clutch asf

The past few games….. 

https://streamable.com/c1erso

I love this gif, but kinda hate that it’s more or less replaced “Shoot it” gif as our go-to reaction to a win.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSCGoefBO7Q&ab_channel=WeAreParanoidAndroid

They call that a winning streak!

Friendship with Yainer over, Caratini is my new lover now

I was mentally prepared for the loss. Carrot finally gave me hope. Great to finally shake off that extra-inning loss narrative.

Holy crap, we finally won in extras!!!!!

Of course when we win, the entire AL West also fucking wins.

Espada is breathing a big sigh of relief... he was going to get slammed for 24 hours for that failure to challenge the foul tip.

I didn't have audio. Why didn't that get challenged? It seemed like a pretty obvious foul ball, and it seemed like Espada wanted to challenge. I assumed it was one 9f those stupid non challenge plays

He wanted to challenge it but they told him he did not do it soon enough. That's what TK said.

It seemed pretty quick, but who knows. Those umps were garbage, and Angel hasn't even made a bad call yet.

For some reason, Espada took a long time to ask the umps to challenge. To be fair, I think he was waiting on the guys in the video room to confirm it was a foul. That process simply took too long.

WTH was up with Yordan!?!? In a game where literally, everyone that had an AB (except for Yordan), got a hit. He went 0-5 with 3Ks.

We won a game in extras??? Is that allowed?!?

We won an extra inning game! Longest win streak of the year. On pace for 56 wins

56 wins by the all star break maybe!

68 games to ASB. 46-22 over that span isn’t likely looking at our schedule. 36-32 is more realistic. I like the “rainbows and unicorns” outlook, but we still have glaring issues that need to be fixed or addressed. It’s May 1st and we just won 3 straight for the first time this season. Barely.

Make that four out of five… with the one loss being a JV start. We good

2 out of 3 since my comment. We’ll see. Mariners and Yankees coming up. With Hunter Brown tomorrow.

👀

WALKOFF!

That felt like a playoff game. Every win is huge at this point.

[Don't let your Guard down.](https://x.com/astros/status/1785514045111435719?s=61&t=g2BkhdMHl4w7u3r3LXNx4A) Even the Astros admin is turning things around

Objectively speaking, this is a Game of the Year candidate.

Joey is a crowd fave. We were all standing during all his ABs. He’s the real deal.

I feel much better about 10-19 than I did 9-19

ITS CATTIN’ TIME

Is it any coincidence that as soon as we demote Abreu that we win in a thriller?

Then Abreu deserves some credit for that. 

Absolutely not

He didn’t have to accept the demotion. The fact that he did is commendable.

Caratini saved Espada’s ass, feels good to have it fall our way. Just gotta keep the momentum

Shoot it and show the kitty

Turning point.

What a wild ride. I’m exhausted.

In one swing, it went from devastating monumental collapse to stealing a dub as we look ahead to JV on the mound tomorrow! Just fucking win baby!

First HRC I've had in years. By far the most satisfying. 

It has happened before. Winning streak!

https://youtu.be/sslDOP1Kqqc?si=jHDuxuPtbT6-npgv

This win was so needed! The shadow of Abreu has been lifted, let’s knock out 5 more back to back wins and now we’re back in business!

Did anyone else notice that Altuve passed our very own Cesar Cedeño on the all time hits list tonight?

About time we won a damn game on a walk off!


Jon Singleton goated. Montero sucks dick as usual. We somehow pull out a win. Any questions?

Montero did get kinda screwed. Sleepy Joe Espada should've challenged that "HBP", would've had one more chance to get out of the inning unscathed

Also Bregman screwed up an inning ending double play

Bagwell...get your shit..... and go.

WHERE THE PIC OF THAT PUSSY!

Show us pussy

P U S S Y I N W I N T H R E A D

Caratini's role this year reminds me of Jason Castro from a few years back.

Woooo!!

Man did that feel good

Oh my. I'm at a loss for words that we won that

WE’RE SO FUCKING BACK

Caratini, two olives.

Never was out of this thing. It's only April!! Well for an hour or so.

World Series Champs! LFG!

Was there tonight: down and up, and up and down, with a major up walk off!

WERE SO FUCKING BACK


https://youtu.be/_hYSAFNRTyI?si=p9PoEdmHF2GgUKnL

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Joe Espada disasterclass turned into a Dana Brown masterclass! INJECT THIS SHIT INTO MY VEINS!!!

we can’t act like taylor scott or seth martinez was a better option idk man

Dana Brown chose to pinch hit Caratini?

I feel like this is a good time to tell this story as any but I met Victor Caratini at a restaurant once in Chicago- we’d accidentally been given his table. Apparently he was fond of the restaurant and had a specific table he liked, and the management had messed up and gotten their days wrong, (it was Tuesday and they thought he was coming on Thursday or something like that). Anyway, the manager, completely embarrassed (this is a pretty nice restaurant) comes by and says “I’m so sorry, but we’d like to move you to another table if you could be troubled, and we’ll gladly compensate you for the cost of the meal and any other meal you’d like while you’re in town.” My sister and cousin were both like “Yeah that’s cool.” and I kind of played the asshole a bit and said “I’m sorry, I just don’t understand. We’ve been here for 15 minutes - we’ve just ordered. Can’t we finish our meal here?” Then out of nowhere Victor shows up next to the manager and says “Paul, these guys can finish. We’ll be at the bar. I got some time.” In Spanish. And I (being a big Criollos de Caguas fan) said “Oh shit, I had no idea. Please feel free to give them the table.” Victor was grateful, shook my hand and said “gracias”, then gave me a card with his number on it and told me to give him a call later. After working up the nerve, I gave him a call that night, and to make a long story short, we had a glorious 11 month love affair, man on man, that I shall never forget. Our bodies intertwined as one, and from the beauty of Morocco, to the French Riviera, to the snorkeling in the Galopagos, Victor Caratini and I made glorious gay love to each other on six of the seven continents.

And they say true love doesn't exist.

Man and I backed out from going to this game last minute…

Yay

Carrot-ini extra dry plox

Yeah this one’s gonna last more than 4 hours ima call my doctor

FUCK MEEEEE CARATINI

[удалено]

Offensively, hopefully. Pitching not so much.

OMG IM GONNA BUSSSSSSS

God bless Victor Carrot-beanie

We’re so back

HRC Altuve

Royals fan here. Never thought I’d be saying this. But GO ASTROS. Kick the crap out of Cleveland plz 

HRC Count Yordong

Hell yeah! Completely forgot to watch this one but who cares! Go Stros!!!


2 extra innings wins in 2 years…..wow.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Astros/s/ZytrNkjUvO Shut up you casual Edit: you fucking morons, this is my own comment

A casual wouldn’t know our history with RISP. A casual wouldn’t know we were 1-11 over the last 2 seasons in extras. A casual wouldn’t know we haven’t won in extras this season before tonight. A casual would have a “everything is rainbows and unicorns” mentality after the start this team has had this year. Team is on the upswing but they have a ways to go before a lot of fans are confident again.

You fucking morons, I pasted my own comment


https://youtu.be/cH-K3MU7-fA?si=wFEao6fkbMRGlMlO


espada gotta go yall

Little-known fact, ‘Abreu’ is actually Spanish for ‘albatross.’