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13 minutes ago, HtownHorn said:

This ump is why we need the challenge system, and it shouldn't be two or three challenges per team. It should unlimited until you get three wrong. This ump has maybe missed at least 10 so far that I've seen.

It’s a joke we don’t have it yet 

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We're about to be the only team in the division above .500.  M's now only 2 up on the Angels and the Angels have moved a game ahead of the Rangers for 3rd.

We're also 3.5 back of the Yankees for the 2nd bye.

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7 minutes ago, WBT said:

We're about to be the only team in the division above .500.  M's now only 2 up on the Angels and the Angels have moved a game ahead of the Rangers for 3rd.

We're also 3.5 back of the Yankees for the 2nd bye.

Mariners 3-10 last 13, averaging 3.5 runs per game.

time to fire another hitting coach 

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On 6/5/2025 at 7:56 PM, Scraps said:

Dana just went off on Don Kelly....kelly went off field. Dana then went off on umps

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/sports/astros/article/gm-dana-brown-frustration-rain-delay-pittsburgh-20362513.php

 

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PITTSBURGH — Houston Astros general manager Dana Brown said he was looking to protect the team’s players during a heated exchange with Pittsburgh Pirates officials during Thursday’s rain delay that occurred on the field and in front of TV cameras.

A delay of 3 hours, 22 minutes preceded Thursday’s series finale at PNC Park, which was scheduled to start at 6:40 p.m. ET. About two hours into the delay, Astros manager Joe Espada and Pirates manager Don Kelly emerged from their clubhouses and met for a discussion behind home plate.

Two umpires joined the meeting, followed by several Pirates officials, before Brown arrived and made what looked to be heated remarks addressed primarily to Kelly. Brown was demonstrative as the two exchanged dialog before Kelly left the group and returned to the Pirates’ dugout.

After Houston’s 8-2 win, which ended at 12:26 a.m. ET, Brown said his concern stemmed from his team facing a quick turnaround to Friday’s opener of a three-game series in Cleveland, and that he was advocating for postponing the game, and acknowledged that he “got a little frustrated.”

“My thing is I want to protect all of our players at all costs, and I was frustrated that we were starting so late and that we couldn’t find a window to get a (potential) makeup game,” Brown said outside the visitors’ clubhouse at PNC Park.

“If we were here tomorrow, it wouldn’t be a problem. But the fact that we had to get on the flight and go to Cleveland and post in Cleveland tomorrow against a good team, getting in late. And I had my ace going too (Thursday). Bad weather, I was worried about guys getting hurt. So I kind of showed it.”

Kelly, named the Pirates’ interim manager after the team fired Derek Shelton last month, was not asked directly about his interaction with Brown after the game.

Asked if he regretted the display of frustration, which occurred in view of those fans in the ballpark and TV cameras, Brown said: “No, not at all. Look, it’s a natural reaction to being the GM of a club and starting a game three-plus hours after it’s supposed to start … on getaway day.”

At that point, Brown said, schedules were being compared for a day to possibly make up the game, if postponed, but finding a date that worked for both teams was “tough.” Brown acknowledged that the decision of whether to play Thursday rested with Major League Baseball, not the Pirates.

Forecasts during the day showed a potential for rain in the evening. The possibility of moving the game to an earlier start time was not discussed, though, Brown said.

“We never talked about moving it up, because I don’t think it was an 80 percent or a 90 percent chance of rain, it was always under 50 percent chance of rain,” Brown said. “And that’s probably why they didn’t think about moving it up, they thought we’d have no problem.

“But on getaway day, it’s always tough when you have to wait around. That was my frustration — we’re waiting around three-plus hours, we’ve got to get on flights, we’ve got a tough team to play tomorrow, it’s early in the year. We’ve got to be able to make this game up.”

 

A decision of whether to play Thursday still had not been made when the discussion at home plate ended, Brown said. He said the parties again looked at the schedules for a date that would work for a make-up game but “we couldn’t match up the days, so we had to end up playing.”

For the first 70 minutes of the delay, no rain fell at PNC Park. But Brown said starting on time, with the potential for an in-game delay, was not something the Astros wanted, as it might have interrupted the start of frontline left-hander Framber Valdez.

Not long after the home-plate meeting, the Pirates’ grounds crew pulled the tarp from the infield and began to prepare the field for play. First pitch was thrown at 10:02 p.m. ET. The game ended at 12:26 p.m. ET, after which the Astros left to board their flight to Cleveland.

“We’re going to get in late, guys will probably get to bed about 3:30 in the morning, if we’re lucky,” Brown said. “But that was my concern. We’ve got a lot of schedule left, so I want to protect the boys.”

 

Espada, postgame, said that in the discussion “we were trying to figure out what was best for both of our teams under the conditions.”

Asked if he was OK with how the delay was handled, Espada said: “Yeah, you know, we needed to wait for God to hold (off) on the rain … So we waited and then we won the game and won a series.”

 
 
 
 

 

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