The Start of a New Streak

Apparently I was worried about nothing. The Astros shook off the one blemish on their record and preceded to start a new losing streak.

Plus they got the new streak off in striking in an exciting way. For a while they had me worried that they would embark on a winning streak. They took a 2-1 lead into the 7th inning. Pitcher Felipe Paulino then decided to put the game away. Paulino allowed two doubles to lead off the 7th allowing the Cubs to tie the game. Feeling not enough damage was done, Paulino then walked the next two batter and loaded up the bases. Setting up the game winner for the Cubs, Paulino was pulled and reliever Tim Byrdak entered. Not wanting to let Paulino or the team down, Byrdak sealed the Astros fate by giving up a 3 run homer to give the Cubs the lead for good and a 7-2 win.

After a 5 run outburst yesterday, the Astros returned to a tried and true method of losing - don't score many runs. For the 7th time in 11 games, the team failed to score more than 2 runs. While they can score a lot of runs and give up a lot more to lose that would be playing with fire. Better to keep the scoring to a minimum.

One good thing lesson to learn from this game. Despite the late lead, the Astros didn't panic. They found a way to loss the game and their confidence.

Let's keep get a nice long losing streak going 'stros! 1-161 is the new goal.

In closing I have one announcement. On Monday I'll give the details but I'm going to start a campaign that I hope will spare us watching to many prolonged Astros games.

Go 'stros! Break the losing records!