Houston Astros Baseball

Why Can't We Score ????

There are two VERY important things to keep in mind as we watch our Astros in what seems like a free fall into failure.

1) Geoff Blum isn't going to have the highest Batting Avg. We have a good offense, in fact we have a really good offense. They just haven't really shown up yet. Our key players haven't quite caught up to their normal and that's why we can't score runs.

Player/ Current AVG/ Last yr AVG

Berkman .241/ .278
Lee .278/ .303
Tejada .273/ .296
Pence .179/ .322
Towles .238/ .375 (40 AB)

2) Pitching and defense wins games. So far our pitching has been very good. We have 5 Quality Starts so far which has us tied for 4th out of all of baseball. Also, we could have had more if certain starters were not pulled for pinch hitters. My main concern is that this pitching won't hold up, which it most likely won't, then we would have wasted these great starts (just like last year).

It seems that in recent years this team has had slow starts. This year seems to be no exception, I just hope that we aren't too far back when we start to get going that we lose our motivation.

Another positive would be that we are tied for 2nd in all of baseball in fielding percentage(.994).

A negative would be the comparison between our starters and relievers in terms of ERA. Out starter were suppose to struggle while our bullpen would pick up the slack. So far it would appear the opposite is true.

Starters ERA 3.83 (8th in NL)

Relievers ERA 5.73 (13th in NL)




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