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Because Altuve almost had that.

Semien's been dreadful. I'd rather have him bunt than swing away.

Not scoring after 1st and 2nd nobody out...then having your closer sit for that long with no real options behind him. Yikes.

Leclerc sitting for so long is not working out.

The rule is that if you intentionally throw at someone the umps can throw you out. You do it and you live with the consequences. You gotta remember that Dusty had Graveman throw at Abreu in game 5 in 2021 cause Rodon hit Altuve early in the game. When it comes to enforcing their unwritten rules, guys like Baker and TLR don't care what the situation is.

Leclerc's been sitting on the bench for 25 minutes.

It was so obviously intentional. And the Astros really don't get the benefit of the doubt cause it's not the first time they've done something like this against the Rangers.

They have to toss Bryan Abreu after that. It was so obviously intentional. Toss that b**** Maldonado too.

Wow the Astros are some serious bitches. They plunked Garcia after his bat slam and it was very intentional.

Jose has no chance against 100+ MPH fastballs anymore.

Yes it was half a foot outside. The ump missed an obvious strike 3 on Maldonado to lead the inning off too. I guess you can call it even.

This Home plate umpire is blind.

Don't put your batting gloves in your back pocket anymore...

Does the batting glove count as part of Semien's body?

The Sox couldn't get him out either. If you don't get the bottom of this Astros lineup out, good luck.

Bradford constantly pumping in 90 MPH fastballs to Yordan and Abreu certainly was a choice...

The Rangers are gonna lose these last 2 games cause they couldn't get Maldonado out.

Scherzer's stuff looks decent. This is probably as good as you can hope for if you're the Rangers.

Snell is going to win the NL Cy Young and Montgomery earned himself a ton of money by pitching well in the postseason. We're not sniffing either of those 2 pitchers.

Hedges might become useless once they have automated strike zone calls. Guy is an absolute black hole in the lineup, but frames well and plays good defense. Perez would benefit massively from not having to frame pitches, but might also be too old at that point.

I thought Lucas was for sure done with us, but seeing how badly he struggled without Katz as his pitching coach might change his mind.

I think the series will depend on how many good innings they can get from Scherzer. If he goes out there and pitches well for 4 or 5 innings today and they win, the series is theirs.

To be fair, he wasn't very good on the Dodgers last year and they definitely have good coaching and player development.

Astros are bad at home this year, but being down 2-0 is something the Astros aren't used to.

This Rangers bullpen is gonna be that team's undoing. I really don't get pitching around Abreu that much. He didn't get a single fastball.