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Pretty sure Heuer would have easily gotten you Marte.

Probably cause they were looking for a double play. I'm not sure why you need to play double play depth there though. You can still get 2 if you play up the middle.

Not playing a lefty pull hitter like Alvarez up the middle is not what the analytics say.

Well at least we won't accept "we're resting our guys for October" next year. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.

No cause while Hahn fucked up royally at the deadline by getting Kimbrel instead of a RFer, TLR is still gonna allow us to be badly behind the times in terms of analytics. We hit about the same amount of grounders up the middle as the Astros today and we ended up giving up hits on it every time cause our positioning put us nowhere near where the ball was hit. Meanwhile the Astros made numerous plays on the ones we hit.

I doubt any team will pay much for him and his $16 million contract after the piss poor 2nd half and the debacle that was today's performance. I'm afraid we're SOL.

Everything people have been bitching about with respect to this team all season reared its ugly head today. Bad positioning? Yes. TLR making an inexplicable move? Yes. TLR not using the bullpen correctly? Yes. Add all that in and you blow a game you were leading in half way through.

Not to mention he choked that save opportunity against the Red Sox. He looked decent against Toronto with a 3 run lead but couldn't save a 1 run game.

Remember when we were one of the better defensive teams in baseball last year? That was fun while it lasted. We were 9th in UZR last year while the Astros were 28th. Crazy what a difference a season can make.

Oh come on you're nitpicking an at bat when the game was basically out of reach? Did you forget that Jose isn't even close to 100% when he had the flu as recently as 2 days ago? Jose has showed up so far this series. He's not the reason why we're down 2-0.

Except one of those micro decisions directly led to 4 more runs scoring.

He pitched Bummer against 2 righties and a lefty who was 5 for 7 off him before that. That's 100% the wrong time to use him.

Lucas should have had the shortest leash imaginable. Instead Tony let him pitch to 3 hitters, 2 of them walked and the other one almost hit a 2 run shot off him. But La Russa didn't even have the bullpen up until after Brantley's fly out.

Hahaha omg then why the hell did you put him in? Why the hell have we been using him in that role all year? Jesus Christ this is so fucking sad. It's almost like he's saying I wasn't the one making the decisions.

The fact that nobody was even up in the bullpen to start the 5th was absolutely shocking.

That ball was also a rocket. Kimbrel doesn't get no blame here either. For someone who was supposed to stike out 35% of the guys he faced he allowed 2 liners to RF in a situation he's supposed to miss bats in.

TLR wasn't HOF quality in 2011 with his bullpen phone meltdown in game 6. That shit basically cost them a World Series game. He was too old 10 years ago.

It's that way because you made it that way, you dumb fuck. He basically turned a 5-4 game into a 9-4 game by putting Leury in RF. All so he could hit Cesar Hernandez to lead off an inning.

If you would have told me before the playoffs that Luis Robert would be 6 for 8 to open the series, I would have said we would be up 2-0 in the series.

Lucas had good stuff, but the command wasn't quite there after the first inning and the Astros just stopped swinging at his slider. He really should have come at them more in the zone. Those walks killed us today.

Our pitching has been ass this series. 5 runs ain't great, but had we pitched better we might have won this game. TLR also helped put it away with that dumbass decision to have Leury in RF.

Yaz was real close to untying this game in the 7th. The ball he hit was a much harder play than the one Leury missed. He hasn't showed up, but it's not because he's not hitting the ball.

TA hitting a lot like he did against the A's in the playoffs last year. TA, Abreu, and Robert have showed up this series and yet we have 5 runs.

He's saving Kopech for a game 4 that might not even happen.

Hawk's mistake 30 years ago is still fucking us today.