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Gameday Thread, #27: 4/29 vs. Astros

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Houston Astros @ Arizona Diamondbacks


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Jack Cassel
RHP, 1-0, 5.40
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Edgar Gonzalez
RHP, 1-1, 4.66

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Another largely-unknown starter goes for Houston - it's only Cassel's sixth career start, with just 27.2 major-league innings to his name, even though he'll be 28 before the season ends. He's replacing the injured Wandy Rodriguez, and got the win in his only previous outing, allowing seven hits and three earned runs in five innings, as the Astros beat the Reds.

We send out Edgar Gonzalez, who has been remarkably consistent, allowing three earned runs during each of his last three outings - though ended up with a loss, a no-decision and a win in them. A 4.66 ERA is not bad for any #5 starter - and if Edgar falters early, we may get to see the debut of eagerly-anticipated prospect Max Scherzer. He pitched 23 innings for Tucson, with a 1.17 ERA and a stunning K:BB ratio of 38:3. However, any decision there may depend on how Micah Owing's bullpen session goes - he rolled his ankle running the bases during his last start. With an off-day Thursday, he'll have an extra day to recover.

Today's Gameday Thread tip concerns the use of the 'Recommend' button on comments. Give it a shot if you see something that amuses, educates or entertains you: if enough people like a comment, it will be shown for newcomers to the thread with a green background, so they can enjoy it too. I'm deliberately keeping the threshold to get highlighted low; it's a nice way to show your approval of good posts.

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Today’s lineup:

C. Young cf .225
S. Drew ss .272
O. Hudson 2b .260
C. Jackson 1b .345
M. Reynolds 3b .255
J. Upton rf .323
J. Salazar lf .304
C. Snyder c .217
E. Gonzalez p .167

Wolf moves up to the 2 hole and Salazar gets the start in order to rest Bam Bam’s hammys against the RHP.

by foulpole on Apr 29, 2008 8:23 PM EDT   1 recs

YEAH Jeff!

by snakecharmer on Apr 29, 2008 8:46 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Those other guys:

K. Matsui 2b .256
M. Bourn cf .198
M. Tejada ss .337
L. Berkman 1b .312
C. Lee lf .260
G. Blum 3b .206
J. Cruz Jr. rf .087
J.R. Towles c .193
J. Cassel p .500

by foulpole on Apr 29, 2008 8:25 PM EDT   0 recs

Uh-oh

Speaking of pitchers you might want to pitch around… =)

"Hold on a minute, there are three important, brilliant, and complicated reasons why you should listen to me."

by kishi on Apr 29, 2008 8:38 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

This year Cassel is 1-2 with a single and 2-10 career. I wouldn’t worry too much about him. ;-)

by foulpole on Apr 29, 2008 8:41 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Don't argue with unarguable statistics!

He’s batting .500, man! You can only stop him half the time!

"Hold on a minute, there are three important, brilliant, and complicated reasons why you should listen to me."

by kishi on Apr 29, 2008 8:45 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Oops

(2nd inning comment). This is your fault, foulpole.

by britdback on Apr 29, 2008 10:16 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Cassel's hit...

I felt was inevitable given your comment and the awesome jinx power this site seems to have at the moment.

by britdback on Apr 29, 2008 10:18 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

lol Edgar had nothing to do with any of those hits? If anything we need to get some kind of super deluxe, antigravity, other worldly mojo for Ed-it’s-Gon. ;-)

by foulpole on Apr 29, 2008 10:24 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

soco's keys to the game

1) Grab me an egg burger at Fatburger with the missus
2) Stop by a store to get an ice pack for the missus’ busted hand (nothing I did, I swear!)
3) Come home for some D’backs baseball
4) Dread tomorrow
5) Dessert?

The boys in Sedona Red slugged it out with a pretty pesky poltergeist, then stayed on to dance the night away with some of the lovely ladies who witnessed the disturbance.

by soco on Apr 29, 2008 8:50 PM EDT   0 recs

Why, what’s tomorrow? :(

by snakecharmer on Apr 29, 2008 8:53 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

DbacksSkins tracks soco down to find out what happened to mrssoco’s hand. =)

"Hold on a minute, there are three important, brilliant, and complicated reasons why you should listen to me."

by kishi on Apr 29, 2008 8:55 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Well I'm right here

not like I’m hiding.

The boys in Sedona Red slugged it out with a pretty pesky poltergeist, then stayed on to dance the night away with some of the lovely ladies who witnessed the disturbance.

by soco on Apr 29, 2008 8:56 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Oh it's ON......

"Juan Cruz has Freddy Krueger stuff. Welcome to Elm Street." -- Mark Grace

by DbacksSkins on Apr 29, 2008 9:24 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Inventory at my work

I’ll be there till the wee early of the morning

The boys in Sedona Red slugged it out with a pretty pesky poltergeist, then stayed on to dance the night away with some of the lovely ladies who witnessed the disturbance.

by soco on Apr 29, 2008 8:55 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

pimp

"Juan Cruz has Freddy Krueger stuff. Welcome to Elm Street." -- Mark Grace

by DbacksSkins on Apr 29, 2008 9:21 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Ugh

You have my sympathies. I have not-fond memories of doing inventory at a previous job. Two weekends a year, and the majority of the staff has to stay until that point when it’s no longer too late at night, because it’s now too early in the morning.

"Hold on a minute, there are three important, brilliant, and complicated reasons why you should listen to me."

by kishi on Apr 29, 2008 9:05 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

The Marlins are flashing some leather in FL and are knotted up at 6 with the Dodgers going into the bottom of the 6th.

by foulpole on Apr 29, 2008 8:51 PM EDT   0 recs

The Radres are in Phil. and trailing 2-1 in the bottom of the 7th.

by foulpole on Apr 29, 2008 8:52 PM EDT   0 recs

They're definitely NOT

the Radres

"Juan Cruz has Freddy Krueger stuff. Welcome to Elm Street." -- Mark Grace

by DbacksSkins on Apr 29, 2008 9:24 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Philly has blown this one open and now lead the Padres 7-2 through 7.

by foulpole on Apr 29, 2008 9:37 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Idea for Drew's nickname

Quickdraw?

We will meet in Red 3 at the hour of scampering.

by hotclaws on Apr 29, 2008 9:03 PM EDT   0 recs

WHOA--

was that Jim rocking out on the commercial??

"Juan Cruz has Freddy Krueger stuff. Welcome to Elm Street." -- Mark Grace

by DbacksSkins on Apr 29, 2008 9:22 PM EDT   0 recs

I missed it!

What commercial? I can rewind..

by snakecharmer on Apr 29, 2008 9:25 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Commercial montage for "Oh, that Byrnes", before they asked the question.

It looks like they have a very brief clip of Jim rocking out. I think it’s clear enough that when you get to the spot, you’ll know it.

"Juan Cruz has Freddy Krueger stuff. Welcome to Elm Street." -- Mark Grace

by DbacksSkins on Apr 29, 2008 9:28 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Will have to keep an eye open for that!

I await ‘charmer’s opinion on this matter.

by Jim McLennan on Apr 29, 2008 9:41 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

I'd have to see it again to be positive,

but I’d say I’m 75% sure.

"Juan Cruz has Freddy Krueger stuff. Welcome to Elm Street." -- Mark Grace

by DbacksSkins on Apr 29, 2008 9:42 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Now I'm very curious.

"Hold on a minute, there are three important, brilliant, and complicated reasons why you should listen to me."

by kishi on Apr 29, 2008 9:43 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

It looked like

Jim standing up, headbanging, flashing the sign of the devil.

"Juan Cruz has Freddy Krueger stuff. Welcome to Elm Street." -- Mark Grace

by DbacksSkins on Apr 29, 2008 9:48 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

I demand evidence via YouTube.

"Hold on a minute, there are three important, brilliant, and complicated reasons why you should listen to me."

by kishi on Apr 29, 2008 9:48 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

You're going to have to ask 'Charmer.

I don’t have any way of getting ahold of it.

"Juan Cruz has Freddy Krueger stuff. Welcome to Elm Street." -- Mark Grace

by DbacksSkins on Apr 29, 2008 9:49 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Do or do not! There is no try!

"Hold on a minute, there are three important, brilliant, and complicated reasons why you should listen to me."

by kishi on Apr 29, 2008 9:50 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Sorry Jim, it's not you

This guy wasn’t blond and was larger than you.

by snakecharmer on Apr 29, 2008 10:02 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Oh well.

"Juan Cruz has Freddy Krueger stuff. Welcome to Elm Street." -- Mark Grace

by DbacksSkins on Apr 29, 2008 10:03 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

How Funny

MLB Gameday Audio is playing the Suns Game instead of the Dbacks game - Oops

by dstorm on Apr 29, 2008 9:41 PM EDT   0 recs

I remember having the same problem with it last year. Great work, guys.

"Hold on a minute, there are three important, brilliant, and complicated reasons why you should listen to me."

by kishi on Apr 29, 2008 9:42 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

No!

Bad EdGon!

"Juan Cruz has Freddy Krueger stuff. Welcome to Elm Street." -- Mark Grace

by DbacksSkins on Apr 29, 2008 9:43 PM EDT   0 recs

A lead off bb to a speedy guy isn’t the way to start this one.

by foulpole on Apr 29, 2008 9:43 PM EDT   0 recs

SNYDERMAN

guns down Kaz Matsui. Nice job.

"Juan Cruz has Freddy Krueger stuff. Welcome to Elm Street." -- Mark Grace

by DbacksSkins on Apr 29, 2008 9:44 PM EDT   0 recs

Matsui runs straight into the web spun by Snyderman!

by singaporedbacksfan on Apr 29, 2008 9:45 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Snyderman stops another thief!

"Hold on a minute, there are three important, brilliant, and complicated reasons why you should listen to me."

by kishi on Apr 29, 2008 9:46 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Nice play by Wolf to come up with that ball and make the tag.

by foulpole on Apr 29, 2008 9:44 PM EDT   0 recs

I'm sorry

This wolf thing doesn’t work for me. He’s just Drew. I don’t think you can escape his essential Drewiness. We should just embrace it.

by britdback on Apr 29, 2008 9:46 PM EDT to parent up   1 recs

+1-2-3-4-5

"Hold on a minute, there are three important, brilliant, and complicated reasons why you should listen to me."

by kishi on Apr 29, 2008 9:51 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

And in other news

Hairston just hit his second homer of the game for the Padres, but they’re still down by three with only one out remaining in the ninth.

by Jim McLennan on Apr 29, 2008 9:45 PM EDT   0 recs

So, has he now peaked over the Mendoza line?

;-)

by foulpole on Apr 29, 2008 9:46 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

.212 at time of writing

Of course, Carlos Quentin is hitting over .300…

by Jim McLennan on Apr 29, 2008 9:47 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

It’s nice to hear that Q has recovered from his sholder problems.

by foulpole on Apr 29, 2008 9:49 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

AKA the Hairston line

"Juan Cruz has Freddy Krueger stuff. Welcome to Elm Street." -- Mark Grace

by DbacksSkins on Apr 29, 2008 9:50 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Astros radio guys...

say missed hit and run. It look that way to y’all?

Phear T.S.'s Crawdaddies...

by TexSkins on Apr 29, 2008 9:45 PM EDT   0 recs

yeah, probably

They say he got a terrible jump.

by snakecharmer on Apr 29, 2008 9:46 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Awesome.

Great way to start. I need a jinx to get the Astros going. Any takers?

Phear T.S.'s Crawdaddies...

by TexSkins on Apr 29, 2008 9:47 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Who did you get to jinx us??

"Juan Cruz has Freddy Krueger stuff. Welcome to Elm Street." -- Mark Grace

by DbacksSkins on Apr 29, 2008 9:50 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

I dunno.

There weren’t any takers.

Phear T.S.'s Crawdaddies...

by TexSkins on Apr 29, 2008 9:51 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Well

it worked, whatever you did.

"Juan Cruz has Freddy Krueger stuff. Welcome to Elm Street." -- Mark Grace

by DbacksSkins on Apr 29, 2008 9:51 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Come on, Edgon!

Stop auditioning for Scherzer to get a spot in the rotation!

"Hold on a minute, there are three important, brilliant, and complicated reasons why you should listen to me."

by kishi on Apr 29, 2008 9:47 PM EDT   0 recs

DAMMIT TURAMBAR!!

"Juan Cruz has Freddy Krueger stuff. Welcome to Elm Street." -- Mark Grace

by DbacksSkins on Apr 29, 2008 9:48 PM EDT   0 recs

Ouch!

We want Max…we want Max!

by foulpole on Apr 29, 2008 9:48 PM EDT   0 recs

uggg

We will meet in Red 3 at the hour of scampering.

by hotclaws on Apr 29, 2008 9:48 PM EDT   0 recs

Doh!

A double means we are now down 1 – 0…

by singaporedbacksfan on Apr 29, 2008 9:48 PM EDT   0 recs

Gah...

killed by Drew’s traffic cone-esque range and a nubber that found the baseline.

by dahlian on Apr 29, 2008 9:49 PM EDT   0 recs

huge

We will meet in Red 3 at the hour of scampering.

by hotclaws on Apr 29, 2008 9:52 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Indeed

"Juan Cruz has Freddy Krueger stuff. Welcome to Elm Street." -- Mark Grace

by DbacksSkins on Apr 29, 2008 9:52 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Have we heard any word on how Micah’s session went today?

"Hold on a minute, there are three important, brilliant, and complicated reasons why you should listen to me."

by kishi on Apr 29, 2008 9:52 PM EDT   0 recs

Well

from what I heard on the DBacks BP show.

by unnamedDBacksfan on Apr 29, 2008 9:53 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

What did they say? I only get to follow the games by Gameday right now.

"Hold on a minute, there are three important, brilliant, and complicated reasons why you should listen to me."

by kishi on Apr 29, 2008 9:56 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

try the Astros feed

irritating but at least the right sport

We will meet in Red 3 at the hour of scampering.

by hotclaws on Apr 29, 2008 9:58 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Melvin said

Micah is fine and will pitch as scheduled

by dstorm on Apr 29, 2008 10:11 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Thanks.

"Hold on a minute, there are three important, brilliant, and complicated reasons why you should listen to me."

by kishi on Apr 29, 2008 10:12 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

NIIICE K

of Berkman.

"Juan Cruz has Freddy Krueger stuff. Welcome to Elm Street." -- Mark Grace

by DbacksSkins on Apr 29, 2008 9:52 PM EDT   0 recs

Forgive me...

but who the hell is this Gonzalez kid?

Phear T.S.'s Crawdaddies...

by TexSkins on Apr 29, 2008 9:53 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Edgar Gonzalez?

Guy we brought up through the system. Our #5/#6/swing man.

"Juan Cruz has Freddy Krueger stuff. Welcome to Elm Street." -- Mark Grace

by DbacksSkins on Apr 29, 2008 9:54 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

If he doesn't get replaced in the rotation by Max Scherzer,

then he’ll certainly go back into the bullpen when Doug Davis finishes his cancer surgery rehab.

"Juan Cruz has Freddy Krueger stuff. Welcome to Elm Street." -- Mark Grace

by DbacksSkins on Apr 29, 2008 9:57 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Just increased his pitch count a lot though… May very well see Max today.

by singaporedbacksfan on Apr 29, 2008 9:53 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Edgar

The worst thing about Edgar isn’t how many runs he’s given up. It’s his peripherals and how he looks on the mound.

by Philip from LA on Apr 29, 2008 9:53 PM EDT   0 recs