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Meg Rowley

9:06

(that nickname is courtesy of one Craig Goldstein)

Ace

9:06

Ooh... that felt like the Nats best chance (Soto against Verlander, high stress inning...)

Ben Clemens

9:06

I mean... it's an odd lead.

Now if the Astros can somehow get to either 2 or 4

9:07

Yikes

Meg Rowley

9:07

Houston WE currently at 67%

Dennis

9:08

and WE for this game?

Meg Rowley

9:08

That is for this game

Lunar verLander

9:09

Wait, one of those hands had Ace-King of clubs, then someone drops an ace of clubs on his pocket rockets...what gives?!?

Ben Clemens

9:09

Yeah, not a strong showing by the poker fact checker there.

AntiTaubman

9:10

Is Reddick still the most un-clutch player on the Astros?

Meg Rowley

9:11

If you're going by our clutch stat, which keep in mind concerns how much better or worse a player does in high leverage situations than he would have done in a context neutral environment” and also compares a player against himself (so a player who hits .300 in high leverage situations when he’s an overall .300 hitter is not considered clutch.), it's actually Bregman

Ben Clemens

9:12

A lot of Reddick's unclutchness always came from the fact that he had the platoon advantage far less often in high-leverage scenarios, as I recall.

Meg Rowley

9:12

Reddick does fine by that measure

Juan Pursuit

9:12

Ben - The article you linked to is very hilariously wrong. He gave out three F’s and two were Gavin Lux and Wll

Ben Clemens

9:12

I mean.... if you're reading that article for accuracy, you've made a wrong turn somewhere.

This is Mickey Moniak's grade:

Draft grade: A dinner bell that rings, a meal under a silver cloche, a beguiling aroma you can’t place.

Juan Pursuit

9:13

I was intentionally reading it for inaccuracy

Ben Clemens

9:13

Draft Grade for Juan Pursuit: A joke Ben didn't get, a reference so subtle it was indeed perhaps too subtle.

bosoxforlife

9:14

Springer is from my home town. My only rooting interest in the series but it is still baseball, yea!

Ben Clemens

9:14

Hey, count it.

Mayo and Cabbage

9:14

Springer's been cold tonight...about time for a homerun

Ben Clemens

9:14

Didn't he, uh, smack a double off the wall?

Like, two innings ago?

9:15

When I watch Rendon fielding I think he's slow

But he's just so smooth

Not Evan

9:15

It's weird when umpires announce balls in plain English ("ball, outside") but make some weird made-up grunt ("heur-ehr-eet!") to announce strikes. I do not understand this convention.

Eel Ffilc

9:16

So Soto is a childish child? Is there a story I'm missing behind that?

Meg Rowley

9:17

Craig felt that some of Childish Gambino's lyrics spoke to Soto's game and the experience of watching him

Tha baby cakez

9:17

He is a young babe Ruth

Meg Rowley

9:17

also that

Dennis

9:17

it feels like the astros score in the first alot. do they score more in the first inning then in other innings?

Meg Rowley

9:17

a moment

bosoxforlife

9:18

Time to pop some corn, pour lots of melted butter on it, open a cold one and enjoy the rest of the season.

Ben Clemens

9:18

Do you have a popcorn popper rather than microwave?

Meg Rowley

9:18

No, they scored the most runs (127) in the fifth

Ben Clemens

9:19

I feel like that's the way to go, but I'm not much of a popcorn person.

bosoxforlife

9:19

I still do it in a 3 quart pot on the stove with oil.

Ben Clemens

9:19

Oh fancy.

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