After sleeping on it, I still hate this team. 1 fucking run. To follow up just gross performances offesnively 4 of tyh last 6 days, and managing to score less than 100 runs in the month of August.
What's really irritating is this has been the lineup in the last week (more or less) and we've been basement level shit:
Pena- Good offensive player (131 OPS+ this year- 105 for career)
Yordan- Great offesnive player (180 ops+ since he came back from hand injury- 163 for his career)
Altuve- good offensive player (117 OPS+ this season,
Correa- Good offensive player (108 OPS+ as an Astro-
Sanchez- Good offesnive player (115 OPS+ agaisnt RHP in career- which is all he's being asked to do as an astro)
Walker- at absolute worst average offensive player (94 OPS+ this year, 833 and 829 OPS in the last two months after a shitty start with no spring training and nursing an injury, 111 for career)
Yainer- At worst- average offensive player (90 ops+ this year, over 100 after terrible 515 OPS in march/April, 110 for his career)
Urias- At worst average offensive player (113 OPS plus as an Astro, 105 OPS+ for his career)
Smith/Dubon/Melton- Below average/below average/horrific offensive player (dreck, but its basically one spot in the lineup most night).
4 good, 1 great, 3 average, 1 horrific. That shouldn't be a recipe for averaging 3 fucking runs a game over a 32 game stretch or whatever it is right now. It's so infuriating. I pretty much bit my tongue when this team was going so bad in July when the hot streak wore off and the injuries piled up b/c that team was overmatched and just not very good. But this? This is just unmitigated horseshit.
This is not a bad lineup. They are just perfoming like a bunch of chucklefucks who've mailed it in for the season. The starting rotation finally gets their shit together last week and they couldn't score if they were locked in a mexican whore house and kicked the ball around to boot behind Hunter Brown a couple starts ago. Do I blame Framber for that bullshit last night with the grand slam being a mental midget? Sure. A little I guess. But who fucking cares, the second the Yankees hit the 2R HR in the 2nd or 3rd or whenever it was you knew the only way the Astros were scoring 3 would be if the Yankees got up big and grew disinterested in the entire proceedings. The Grand Slam was emotionally and mentally irritating but if you've watched this piece of shit team for the last 5 weeks you knew it didn't matter- this game was already in the fucking can for the Yankees.
Fuck, these bastards need to get their heads out of their asses. A 14-9 finishing kick and they win 90 games, the division for sure and probably get a bye into the second round of the playoffs where they will have Meyers back so a healthy starting 9 with no below average hitters, and a lot of pitching- it will all be right there. Instead- I imagine 9-15 is more likely with an 85 game win and maybe make the playoffs and maybe not b/c holy shit, the shit ass Rangers, absent their best hitter and best pitcher are on our asses and probably about to drop kick us right in the pussy over the weekend after we let the Yankees take liberties with us and finish up a 1-5 week which sees us lose the division lead and maybe end up out of the playoff pictrue altogether.
Am I doing this rant right?