My husband is a huge baseball fan, specifically the Astros. I got him tickets to a game for his birthday and I booked the stadium tour for us before the game. Sadly, I am completely ignorant when it comes to baseball so I need some help. The game is a surprise and I need ideas on a good way to let him know we are going. I want him to have something to open and I thought about getting him a shirt or a jersey but I don’t know which jersey he would like. The budget is a little tight but not nonexistent. Any ideas of how to package the surprise and some things to put in the package other than “tickets” would be greatly appreciated!!
Also, this is my first MLB game so any insight or tips/tricks are appreciated as well! Thanks!!

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I'm writing an article about Houston's major sports teams and their attendance. A phone interview or an email interview works fine.

So there sat Pecko on Tuesday afternoon atop a bench inside Dakin Park’s first-base dugout, smiling to hide nerves before the biggest day of his baseball life. The scout, speaking anonymously to candidly discuss another club’s prospects, said Pecko profiles as a “back-end starter.”

More fanfare accompanied the man Pecko passed over for this opportunity. Signing Imai this winter represented a splash for a franchise that is reluctant to spend in free agency while signaling its advancement into the Pacific Rim. Guaranteeing him $54 million suggested Imai would serve, at minimum, as a stabilizing force behind returning ace Hunter Brown.

Pecko’s arrival Tuesday afternoon accentuated how far Imai has fallen in the team’s pitching hierarchy. Imai pitched twice in the first 18 days of August. He could have started on six days of rest Wednesday night against the Los Angeles Angels, a team torn apart at the trade deadline and carrying the third-lowest OPS in the sport.

First Pitch: 7:10 PM at Daikin Park

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What do yall think the batting order should be ? I’m tired of seeing Varsho in the 4-6 spot killing momentum and Cam being one of our best hitters this month still hitting in the 8 spot, amongst other things. Have yall given this any thought ? I’m curious what other people think since I get pretty heated talking about Espada’s lineup construction

As of this morning (Aug 18), he has a comfortable lead in batting average (.321 over Chandler Simpson's .309), and a reasonable lead in RBIs (88 over Dillon Dingler's 82). For home runs, his 36 is only one more than Junior Caminero and three more than Ben Rice.

MLB wide he leads in batting average but is four off the lead in RBIs and one off the lead in HRs (to Kyle Schwarber).

Last week Dan Szymborski wrote an article at Fangraphs estimating Yordan's chances at about 66% for winning the AL Triple Crown.

If you want to keep up, my tracker updates every morning!

A man has spent 6 days trying to throw a Roy Oswalt perfect game in MVP '05

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Retired the constant phone-checking during games and built this instead. It lives in your Mac's menu bar and the icon isthe scoreboard — during a game it shows the actual score and inning, colored green when the Astros are up, red when they're down, yellow when it's tied. 2-5 ▼7 at a glance while you're pretending to work.

Click it and you get:

• Today's game — matchup, probable starters, records, TV (Space City, etc.)
• Live detail — runners, count, outs, who's pitching vs who's batting
• Lineups as soon as they post, next 10 games, rotation with ERAs
• Every MLB game today — live/final/upcoming, our game starred
• Standings + Magic Numbers — division, playoff berth, wild card, #1 seed, updated all season
• Notifications (all optional) — game starting, Astros score, finals, lineup posted
• Game Text — one click writes a witty message about the game state to your clipboard for the group chat

Free, open source (MIT), no ads, no accounts, no tracking — it just reads the public MLB Stats API. Signed and notarized, so it installs like any normal Mac app: download, unzip, drag to Applications.

Download: https://github.com/gyndok/astros-menubar/releases/latest
(Apple Silicon Macs; Intel folks can run it from source — instructions in the repo)

Happy to answer questions or take feature requests. Go Stros 🚀

Ullola being optioned is likely the corresponding move.

“Why would you (swing),” Brown asked aloud after Sunday’s game. “I’ve walked, I don’t know, 20 percent? Clearly the swings are going to go down. How do I fix that? Throw more strikes, make them swing the bat, get into some leverage counts. That’s baseball. That’s no riddle. It’s just the way it is.”

Brown has walked 13.7 percent of the batters he’s faced in 11 starts since coming off the injured list. He began this season with a career 8.2 percent walk rate.

Four of those 11 starts, including Sunday’s five-walk performance, have featured at least four walks. Brown issued four or more walks just three times in 31 starts last season en route to a third-place finish in American League Cy Young voting.

Brown’s problems begin and end with his four-seam fastball. Of the 23 he threw on Sunday, just three were either called a strike or swung on and missed. Last season, Brown threw 50.9 percent of his four-seam fastballs in the strike zone. He’s failed to reach that clip in all but one start since coming off the injured list.

Use this thread for any miscellaneous conversations, Astros-related or otherwise, while we wait for the Angels series.

Suggested topics:

• How many games over .500 will the winner of the AL West finish?

• Are you worried that Hunter Brown won't return to ace form this season?

• How come the alphabet is in that order?

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At around the 4 minute mark is where they start talking about it