No other way to put it: this is a bad baseball team

Absolutely inexcusable to let Abreu hit there with a chance to break the game open

Abreu wears 79 in honor of the max velocity he can catch up to

Chavez yet again pumping that 88 mph high heat right past Abreu

Yes, Hader was very, very bad, but the bigger problem remains that Jesse Chavez in his 17th big league season just blew 91 mph right past Jose Abreu. You’d have thought peak Nolan Ryan was on the bump as late as those cuts were.

Good news: last time the Astros gave up 5 in the first, they went on to score 10 runs

Bad news: this team is entirely disinterested right now

If you spent as much time reading the back of Jose Abreu’s White Sox baseball card as the Astros wanted you to, you wouldn’t have the time to realize he’s a .228 hitter with a .654 OPS and -0.8 bWAR player during his Astros tenure

That object you see currently blocking the sun? It’s the $19 million black hole in the Astros lineup currently occupying first base

Every day Jose Abreu is in the lineup is a day this team is completely unserious about winning a World Series

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Yes, the bullpen has blown 4 games. But if the offense could do, oh I don’t know, quite literally anything, like not getting back picked at third, falling down stealing second, and getting even one hit with RISP, they might have some breathing room. Just a comedy of errors.

That about sums it up

Late on a middle-middle 93 mph fastball to end the second. It’s official: the Astros have a glaring issue at first base. climbingtalshill.com/posts/astros-o…

Oh so RAKE Meyers is back? League is cooked

Two inning ending double plays. Never even sniffed an implosion. Maybe the whole Yainer catching thing wasn’t such a bad idea after all.

3 runs in the first inning with Yordan and Tucker back to back with Chas in the lineup and Yainer starting against a lefty. It’s almost like that should have been the lineup all year

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