Cleaning House: A Houston Astros Story

[jknott10]

Carlos Lee could almost feel what was coming next, there is just noway possible he couldn't see it coming. I mean the man bad mouthed a team pretty bad so what did he expect.

Houston Astros VS. Miami Marlins
April 14, 2012
Jordan Lyles VS Carlos Zambrano

Jordan Lyles Retaliates on Lee, but doesn't prove to be enough for Houston
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Houston Astros at Houston Astros
Jul 14, 2012	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Houston (1-6)	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	4	10	0
Houston (7-2)	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	1	x	3	9	0
W: Fernando Rodrigues L: Chad Gaudin S: Heath Bell

Scoring Summary
SCORING DETAILS			HOU	HOU

Houston Astros
HITTERS	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	AVG
Schafer, CF	5	1	2	0	0	2	.333
Altuve, 2B	5	0	1	0	0	1	.235
Lowrie, SS	2	0	0	1	1	0	.291
Martinez, LF	4	1	1	0	0	1	.285
Wallace, 1B	3	1	0	0	1	1	.281
Castro, C	4	0	1	1	0	1	.166
Johnson, 3B	4	0	2	0	0	1	.225
Bogusevic, RF	4	0	1	1	0	0	.214
Lyles, P	2	0	1	0	0	1	.666
Gonzalez	1	0	1	0	0	0	.312
Buck	1	0	0	0	0	1	.000
BATTING 2B: Altuve, Martinez, Johnson, Gonzalez RBI: Lowrie, Castro, Bogusevic SF: Lowrie
BASERUNNING SB: Schafer CS: Gonzalez

Houston Astros
PITCHERS	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	ERA
Lyles	5.1	7	3	3	1	4	5.22
Lopez	0.2	0	0	0	0	0	10.38
Rodriguez (L,0-1)	1.2	2	1	1	1	2	1.80
Lyon (BS, 1)	0.1	0	0	0	0	1	15.75

Houston Astros
HITTERS	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	AVG
Reyes, SS	4	0	0	0	0	2	.205
Coghlan, CF	4	0	2	0	0	1	.263
Stanton, RF	4	1	2	0	0	1	.432
Ramirez, 3B	4	2	2	1	0	0	.264
Lee, 1B	1	0	0	0	2	0	.321
Infante, 2B	4	0	2	2	0	0	.333
Morrison, LF	3	0	0	0	0	1	.333
Sanchez,	1	0	0	0	0	1	.333
Buck, C	3	1	1	1	0	1	.333
Zambrano, P	2	0	0	0	0	0	.200
Kearns, LF	1	0	0	0	0	0	.000
BATTING 2B: Stanton 2, Ramirez 3B: Ramirez HR: Buck RBI: Ramirez, Infante 2, Buck HBP: Lee GIDP: Stanton

Houston Astros
PITCHERS	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	ERA
Zambrano	6.0	7	3	3	1	2	3.64
Cishek	1.0	2	0	0	1	2	0.00
Gaudin (W,1-0)	1.0	1	0	0	0	2	3.00
Bell, (S,4)	1.0	0	0	0	0	3	0.00

[jknott10]

Houston did not just do what i think they just did. Game 3 of the 3 game set against the newly hated Marlins turned out to be a dominate game from J.A. Happ going 8 strong innings to help Houston get to their second win of the season.

Houston Astros VS. Miami Marlins
April 15, 2012
J.A. Happ VS. Ricky Nolasco

Houston Astro's were finally able to win their second game of the year off the bats of Jed Lowrie and Brian Bogusevic

Jed Lowrie Homers off of Nolasco in the first inning
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Brian Bogusevic Homers off of Mujica in the eight inning
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Houston Astros at Miami Marlins
Apr 15, 2012	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Houston (1-7)	1	1	0	0	2	2	0	1	0	7	14	0
Miami (7-2)	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	2	4	7	2
W: J.A. Happ L: Ricky Nolasco

Scoring Summary
SCORING DETAILS			HOU	MIA

Houston Astros
HITTERS	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	AVG
Schafer, CF	5	1	0	0	0	1	.289
Altuve, 2B	5	1	3	3	0	0	.282
Lowrie, SS	5	1	3	1	0	0	.344
Martinez, LF	5	0	1	0	0	0	.275
Wallace, 1B	5	0	1	1	0	1	.270
Johnson, 3B	4	1	2	0	0	2	.257
Castro, C	4	0	1	0	0	1	.178
Bogusevic, RF	4	2	3	1	0	0	.281
Happ, P	2	1	0	1	0	0	.250
BATTING 2B: Altuve HR: Lowrie, Bogusevic RBI: Altuve 3, Lowrie, Wallace, Bogusevic, Happ HBP: Happ SAC: Happ GIDP: Lowrie, Martinez
BASERUNNING SB: Schafer

Houston Astros
PITCHERS	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	ERA
Happ, (W,1-0)	8.0	5	2	2	0	4	2.57
Carpenter	0.1	2	2	2	0	1	6.00
Myers	0.2	0	0	0	0	0	2.45Re

Miami Marlins
HITTERS	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	AVG
Reyes, SS	4	0	0	0	0	0	.186
Coghlan, CF	4	0	1	0	0	0	.261
Stanton, RF	4	1	1	0	0	2	.414
Ramirez, 3B	4	0	0	0	0	1	.236
Sanchez, 1B	4	1	1	2	0	1	.312
Infante, 2B	4	1	1	1	0	0	.325
Morrison, LF	4	1	2	0	0	0	.351
Hayes, C	3	0	1	0	0	1	.250
Nolasco, P	1	0	0	1	0	0	.000
Bonifacio	1	0	0	0	0	0	.166
Dobbs	1	0	0	0	0	0	.000
BATTING 2B: Stanton HR: Sanchez, Infante RBI: Sanchez 2, Infante, Nolasco
FIELDING E: Coghlan, Nolasco

Miami Marlins
PITCHERS	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	ERA
Nolasco, (L1-1)	4.2	10	4	2	0	1	2.84
Gaudin	0.1	0	0	0	0	1	2.70
Dunn	1.0	2	2	2	0	1	6.00
Mujica	2.0	1	1	1	0	2	1.58
Webb	1.0	1	0	0	0	0	0.00

Houston's bats were hot today, but the main question is, can they maintain this and keep there bats hot or will they die out. I guess only time will tell, but they looked really strong today as they seemed to figure some things out.
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[lilbiggio]

haha good stuff between Lee and Lyles.. Lyles probably should be suspended for trying to end Lee's existence, but as we know in baseball, accidents happen right?

[jknott10]

Quote: Originally Posted by lilbiggio

haha good stuff between Lee and Lyles.. Lyles probably should be suspended for trying to end Lee's existence, but as we know in baseball, accidents happen right?

Haha it's funny that you say that cuz the next post are actually going to be the interviews from game 2. So we shall see what happens. Next post will probably be in the morning though

[jknott10]

let's go back to before game 3 when there was interviews about what happened.

Quote: Originally Posted by Reporter

Lyles what happened in the 4th inning against Lee? Was that intentional?

Quote: Originally Posted by Lyles

Absolutly not, I was pitching him inside, felt like that was the only way to get him out and was trying to establish the inner half. it just simply got away.

Lee had this to say on the situation:

Quote: Originally Posted by Lee

Theres no doubt about it, it was intentional and that's all there is to it. Yea he came in all night, but that's how he's going to cover it up and make it look like a mistake. I'm not an idiot, and next time we face, bring some popcorn

The 3 game set for Miami is over and Jonathn couldn't be happier. It was getting serious out there and then Houston took game 3, it was about to get ugly and everybody knew it. As Jonathan looks over rosters and figures out what's going to happen moving forward, the secretary yells across the hall.

Quote: Originally Posted by Jessica

Jonathan Bud Selig is on line one

Jonathan thinks to himself, wondering what the hell the commissioner could want.

Quote: Originally Posted by Jonathan

Hey Bud what can I do for you

Quote: Originally Posted by Bud Selig

Im gonna cut to the point. What Lyles did out there the other day was horse chit. I don't kno what your running over there but we don't put up with this.

Quote: Originally Posted by Knott

I don't feel like it was intentional and Lee came at us first. this game is full of emotions Bud

Quote: Originally Posted by Selig

I don't care who started it, Lyles tried to end his career out there and I won't put up with it. Consider this a warning, next time actions will be taken

Jonathan hangs up the phone and is just shaking his head wondering what can be done here. Jonathan is the type of guy that doesn't let somebody push him around and he damn sure isn't gonna let the team get pushed around by some punk that's mad because he got traded.

[jknott10]

Just to let everybody who follows this know, I will not be updating this till some time probably Sunday evening. I will have a lot of updates by then. I'm going out of town for the weekend and didn't bring the Laptop. Playing on the vita and the iPad won't let me copy the code for all the box scores. So I will still be getting playing time in from the vita. Just can't update till I get home. Just a heads up

[jknott10]

Finally made it back after a nice little weekend vacation. Im currently a couple weeks ahead of yall in the story due to not having access to a computer. But now im back and will get yall caught up.

The Astros got off to a nice little 4 game winning streak as both Weiland and Norris both proved to be lights out against the Nationals. Weiland threw a 6 hit complete game shutout striking out 12. Norris was able to go the full 9 giving up 1 run on 7 hits and striking out 6.

The short little 4 game win streak came to a end in Washington when they took the last game of the series. But we took 3 out of 4 from them and are feeling good about ourselves at the moment.

But not so fast, this is the Astros were talking about.... The Astros dropped the next 6 getting swept by the dodgers before we was finally able to pick up another win and avoid the sweep in Milwaukee.

Lost the next series to the Reds, but won the next one against the mets. Then lost the series to St. Louis. Which brings Houston the a 10-18 record and sitting 7 games back of St. Louis in the division.

Lowrie has been a stud hitting .333 with 11HR(Tied for the lead league with CarGo) but only 15 RBI. Brett Wallace has sucked all year, Schafer started off strong but getting back to his self at sucking and Chris Johnson isn't far behind him.

That Brings us to today May 6th, 2012. The day before the red hot Marlins come to town and theres nothing more that i would love then to sweep the newly hated Marlins.

Jonathan's office
Jonathan is going over abunch of stats and scouting reports and he's just agrivated to hell and back with this team and the lack of production that has happened as of late.

Quote: Originally Posted by Jonathan

Brad, this is rediculous, your not winning ballgames and your not even trying. You do realize that your job is on the line right?

Quote: Originally Posted by Mills

Yea you've already ran that by me once before, but what can i do, there not even trying anymore, its like they have already givin up.

Quote: Originally Posted by Jonathan

Im sick and f***in tired of this team not producing and its time for some changes. Im bout to make changes and you need to stay on the top of things and make sure we start winning so damn ball games, this is bull chit Brad

Quote: Originally Posted by Brad

Im really not liking your attitude right now Jonathan, I cant force them to produce, theres only so much i can do

Quote: Originally Posted by Jonathan

Your skatin on thin ice buddy, watch it

As Brad leaves the room, Jonathan has work to do... And that consist of making moves. Harrell has been hot in AAA while Jordan Lyles has played like crap. Harrell has posted a 3-2 record and has a sub 1 ERA while Lyles can't even get below a 5 ERA

While Lyles makes a trip up to Oklahoma City to help out the AAA team, Harrell is on his way to Houston as he gets called up.

Maxwell will be taking over the reins in Center for Schafer since he cant figure out how to get on base or be productive in any kind of way. Matt Dominguez is hitting .320 with 3HR and 18RBI, hes getting called up as well to take over for Johnson till he can figure out how to work out the kinks.

The biggest problem here is what the hell are we going to do at first, Thats exactly what Jonathan has been thinking this whole entire time, since the only MLB ready first baseman on this roster Brett Wallace we might just have to dig into the free agency pool and go get somebody, because lets face it, Brett got off to a hot start but cooled off quick. He cant even hit about .200 on the year and that just cant be put up with. So off to free agency we go..... And look at who we find Derrick Lee. He might be a little on the old side, but lets face it, im sure he can produce better then Wallace can and we only have to sign him for the year. Sure somebody should be ready for next year.

As Jonathan is sitting there weighing the odds, he wonders if its really going to be worth Calling up Mr. Lee and trying to get him into Houston for the year.

Quote: Originally Posted by Jonathan

We need to get somebody at first, and quick. We have those stupid a** Marlins coming to town tomorrow and I need somebody that can produce, looks like Derrick Lee might be just the guy im looking for.... let me give him a call

[jknott10]

I feel like I have let some of my readers or what not (if I have any lol) down the last few days as I haven't had any updates. I just want want to apologize if I have left anybody hanging. Work got extremely busy this week as I'm working 6 days a week 12 hours a day at the moment. Will try my best to make updates and continue this story as I have time.