All you need to know for this game is that Lincecum limped off the field in fifth inning off a come-backer; he later went to get his right knee x-rayed.
We got a few runners home on sac flies as we should to lead 3-2, but we had over a dozen runners left on base. And when Timmy the Kid leaves the game the following facts from last night should be expected:
Yabu retires a side; gets replaced by Hinshaw.
Hinshaw retires a side; gets one out in the 7th, walks someone, gets replaced by Walker. (An eerie note for our OMS Conspiracy: this is a double-switch here, Castillo defensively replacing Hinshaw.) However, please be reminded that at this point the score is still 3-2; the Astros have only two hits all game.
You can guess what happens next.
Walker faces two batters, giving up a hit and two runs; Walker gets replaced by Taschner.
Taschner faces four batters, giving up a GRANDSLAM and a double; replaced by Espineli.
Espineli faces batters, giving up a HR in three pitches first, before getting an out (which was the same batter as the first out of the inning: Michael Bourn), and then finishing the inning.
How good is your scorekeeping? Did you just realize that in 2/3 of an inning, three pitchers gave up 8 runs on 6 hits? In the 8th Hunter Pence had a HR, and Tejada doubled another run home, just to rub it in.
FINAL: 12-4, Houston
Here's the wrap, if you really want to verify this monstrosity. I wouldn't recommend it. What I would recommend is the wrap for Texas v. Boston tonight, the final score of which will floor you.
Not that this game wouldn't do the same thing. Just want you to be happily floored instead.
-MSH
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