Not wanting to sound too hopeless, this was my sign off in the Recap after Saturday night’s loss to Seattle:
Tomorrow is Dallas Keuchel’s turn to be the stopper. He goes against Erasmo Ramirez, who is taking the place of “King” Felix Hernandez in the rotation tomorrow. In limited time he is 0-2 with a 10.24 ERA. Time for the bats to break out and put the Mariners back in their place.
The line on Ramirez today: 5 IP, 0 Runs, 3 hits, 3 K’s.
When the game tying RBI hit of the game for the Astros was on a 73 MPH check swing ground ball, well, let’s just say, I don’t think the Astros bats exactly had a break out game today.