Astros lose series to Reds, take on Kershaw tonight

Houston lost the 4 game series against the Reds 3-1. I went to the ballpark for Sundays game after the 7-0 win Saturday, but was disappointed by a late innings bullpen collapse and a 4-2 loss. Tejada had two hits that went to the wall, but they were both just singles. Not sure what’s the deal there, he seemed to admire one of them and the other one he just didn’t run hard. Maybe his age is finally catching up with him, he is 2 years older this year…One of those long singles scored Bourn from first, but Geary blew the lead on a bad throw to first in the 7th inning, allowing 2 runs to score. The Reds tacked on 2 more, and Houston was only able to get 1 back in the bottom of the 9th. It was a shame that the error caused Paulion to get a no decision in a very well pitched game. He think he struck out 6 in 6 innings.

Yesterday, the Reds rallied again off Geary, when Votto hit a 2 run single in late innings. They won that game 4-3, spoiling a good outing by Mike Hampton. Hampton has looked pretty good so far this season and is pitching better than I had expected.

The injury to Brian Moehler may be a blessing in disguise if Paulino continues to pitch as well as he did Sunday. I was never high on Moehler to begin with, but everytime a starter goes down you have to be concerned. It looks like Paulino will take over his spot and if he continues to pitch well, Moehler will not be missed, at least by this fan.

One positive over the 4 game series is that Berkman and Lee hit back to back long balls. The offense needs to come alive quickly or Houston is going to fall further and further out of the pitcher. I know the season is still young, but Houston has too many pitching questions to answer and needs the offense to produced while it sorts that out.

Tonight’s game doesn’t look very promising, as Manny and the red hot Dodgers come into Minute Maid. We are throwing Russ Ortiz against Clayton Kershaw too, so all signs point to a win by the Dodgers.

For those interested in fantasy baseball, I just posted updates on the progress of my teams on my blog http://myfantasysports.blogspot.com/ through the first 2 weeks of the season.

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