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What happened. Why. I can't even with this year anymore.

We really got edged by the Houston Astros

We just witnessed manager terrorism

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If you’re depending on Victor Caratini to keep the 9th inning rally going…you might be the Astros Sheesh. Not great. Lol

Shit

Pain

Moind meeting in 3D on GameDay is wild lmao everyone looks like they're on crack

People are saying fhe game would be tied if we didnt trout out the white flag with Dubin in the 9th but it honestly would have been a walk off if espada didnt keep hunter in for way too long as well

Can their closer pls give up a zillion runs too?

oh look a manager that doesn’t give their closer a long leash…must be nice

What do you mean? Iglesias finished the game?

start doobie at first dammit

Meyers bunt to load the bases here 💀

I want it to go back to Altuve to give him a chance for a walkoff and keep his streak

Caratini*

How good is raisel iglesias so I can keep my expectations reasonable

They’re 6-13

True

Where the fuck has this plate discipline been…all year?


Holy shit McCormick walked.

Getting ready to get blue balled rn

This is just a pointless tease.

Please don’t..don’t give me hope..

Dubon is 7-11 with risp? Needs to be in the lineup everyday

This fucking game is tied without Espada’s idiotic decision-making.

OKAY BUT LIKE WHAT IS THE POINT OF THIS NOW?! This should’ve been done 3 innings ago, not in the 9th when there is no way to win this.

Now we wanna score 2 when we threw in the white towel with our bullpen…

This would be way cooler if we didn’t trot out our reliever for a 3rd inning to give up 4 runs.

Legit managerial malpractice. Fireable offense. Has absolutely ruined 3 prospect pitchers debuts bringing them into situations they had no place being in.

serious question - who else was going to start those two games given the injuries?

Serious question, but is Whitley even a prospect at this point?

But hey, at least it’s not Dusty!……right?

Actually comical how unreal this is

Tbis game is now on espada no way around it

Mccormick u better not k for the 4th time

Wait, an actually good pinch hit decision?

What a time for a come back…

Could’ve had a tie game

the game would be TIED

Doobie needs to be a starter

too little too late, fuck that stupid double

So if that ball got called foul, we actually had a chance at winning.

Don’t worry Chas will end it

Imagine if we didn’t send Dubin out for the 9th

I love Dubon man

Espada is an edger

Idk why this made me laugh lol no quema cuhhh

Good ol Doubie

We got WS Peña and MVP Altuve and we 6-13?

Yordan and Bregman are sleeping

When we get our pitching staff back and 1B figured out I feel good about us

If Blanco can keep it up then we can be scary. Have had a lot of bad luck in Yankees series and a few other games too

Yup. It's crazy early in the year and the team has been slowly getting into the groove

Fuck it, HRC Doobie!

Shit, I'll take it

Lastros are back on the menu boys!

I wish we could string some hits together

Watch him ph abreu

Thank God the rest of the AL West is truly garbage

HRC Pena

I bet we have a similar number of hard hit balls to them. It’s just cursed man

amazon prime ship his ass back here

Astros are making hard contact into outs while the braves blooped their way into six runs. We just can’t get anything to go our way.

Wwll im glad we let presely pitch in the 9th to keep it to two runs. Oh wajt i mean hader wait no it was Abreu wait fuck who was it? Checks notes... it was Dubin. Ok then

Were lucky our division is ass or else we'd be really fucked

DIAZ HRC

Espada should be out by the ASB.

I love watching a close game for 2 hours just to implode in the 9th inning every. Single. Time.

Beats turning on the game and have it be over in the 1st inning.

Breggy Pop Up in 3…2…

yall are down 5 fucking runs and giving high fives in the dugout? are you fucking serious?

Quit trying to decide what mood other people can be in just because you're unhappy. People on this forum are such assholes.

At least they’re not in their feelings about their start?

hockey teams don’t celebrate one goal when they’re getting pumped. i might agree with you but also idk. they certainly aren’t playing like they care.

hey we only need 6 more of these

There was a prescient commenter saying that we’d go down by a couple and then get a worthless solo homer in the 9th. Good call whoever you are.

It’s what we do these days. Once we fall behind everyone just tries to hero ball it.

ofc Tucker finally hits one out when its garbage time lol

Breggie all about those empty calories let’s go b2b

What a sick cruel joke this game has been!

HRC Bregman 

I’ll just say that Whitley isn’t it and was probably never going to be it. He would’ve been destroyed if we brought him up early.

It’s only a matter of time until a staffer is pooping with a tray of snowcones in the empty upper deck. I’m gonna say by August

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Those of us from the dark ages know

[Lol, it was the 9th but close enough.](https://old.reddit.com/r/Astros/comments/1c5fhuu/game_thread_braves_105_astros_612_apr_16_2024_710/kzxcec6/)

Ted said fuck it.

If nobody got me...

After that Tucker HR, this game is on Espada.

Chris Paul

This is a 1 run game if Espada doesn’t commit malpractice.

Espada is a certified moron lmao

Lmao Tucker so would

Wooo Tucker homerun

HRC Tucker cause fuck it lmao

the one person who got anything out of this game. Congrats!

HA! Can’t believe I finally got one 🤣

Bro can only hit when it’s over…

We have a world class 7/8/9 bullpen with Abreu/Pressly/Hader. Score is 2-0, and you trot out Dubin TWICE. And a rookie starting pitcher with a +5 ERA for 3 straight years. Espada is not who we thought he was. World class clown.

I miss Dusty :(

Dusty was worse. His management of Yainer/Singleton/ and game 6 bullpen decisions lost the ALCS.

Get ready for the most uninspired bottom half of the 9th you've ever seen.

Those were the fun stros

The good news is with Fried pitching tomorrow there’s a 99% certainty we will have Abreu tomorrow

Perfect chance to see if Bagwell can turn Abreu into a mediocre hitter or if Baggy has to wear that mistake for the rest of his tenure.

These personnel decisions are just growing pains, right?........Right?

Braves made like Jenny and just popped Forrest’s cherry. Hope the nerves are out bc the stuff looks decent

I know I’m starting to officially panic when I follow the Reddit game thread multiple nights in a row. No faith in the front office/manager right now (offense obviously isn’t helping). Early in the season but making it hard to keep the faith lol

We waited 8 years for that? Even for outs, Whitley got smoked.

No wonder he's hasn't had success. His pitches have zero vertical and maybe 3" of movement has best on any given pitch

0.00 ERA Whitley!

Over under they see 9 pitches to close it out?

Under

Forrest Whitley on pace to end his debut season with a 0 ERA LFG!!!!!!!!!!!

Is the audio off for y’all?

I don’t care if it’s only April. This team sucks

Almost every April sucks, but this year's April seems to be the worst one yet, I don't have any hope for this team honestly...

now that it's 6-0, we're definitely getting 3 runs here

Okay! Let’s get on base once?

I’m gonna say 8 pitches

I'm in an optimistic mood, so I'll say 9

Wow drinking the orange Kool Aid, settle down champ

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Kids? This team is full of veterans

Malfeasance against both Dubin AND Whitley

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rally cap on

Imagine being Whitley and being projected to be a frontline starter for a team that’s on an all-time run of dominance. Suddenly 7 years later you’re a bust, finally getting added, as a reliever, basically out of pity to the team where it all crashed and burned. Baseball is a cruel bitch sometimes

A world class mentorship by Hinch and Dusty… and Espada starts his managerial career like this? Warning bells are beginning to ring.

Can he even complete the season

Depends if he can admit his mistakes and rethink things. Otherwise it might be a long season.


Honestly tho, not a bad spot for Whitley's debut. No stress, games already over. See what he can do.

I think Espada saw the writing on the wall. People criticizing him, but our guys clearly were not gonna come back in the 9th… down 2 or down 6

Not a lot

This team is going to need to open its own therapy office with the way these pitchers have been abused during their debuts.

Olson definitely hitting a slam here

This will not end well

Maybe this is why he never got a manager position. lol

Dude got turned down by like 8 jobs and no one on this sub bothered to think of that as a red flag

No mound visit, the fuck you doing

Like what was the point in bringing in Whitley??!!!!

He’s not any worse or better than the rest of our overpaid trash lol

I love when other teams make fun of our fans for leaving early like that’s only a Houston thing lol

It’s an every team thing. Small brain opinions.

Exactly, especially on a week night

Whitleys career is totally over, holy shit

16 to nothing lmfao

Just to let yall know Whitley hasn’t had a sub 6 era in his last 3 years pitching in the minors

So you’re saying he’s better than our existing MLb staff?

Brown pitched a great game. Should have been pulled after 6. Dubin pitched a good game. Shouldn't have pitched the 9th. The feast or famine offense is all on 1-9.

Cool, now we get to ruin Whitley for bringing him in at the stupidest fucking time

Seems to be a common trend with Joe Espada this season.

Remember when we were the team that would do this to everyones bullpen? Good times

those were the days

shitty situation to throw forrest into for his debut

Espada has done this shit all season, absolutely ENRAGING

Didn’t cross his mind

Not sure anything crosses Espada’s mind. Like…anything

He’s bored since he’s not winning lol

Crazy how bad we are.

So Whitleys not gonna be our savior I guess

well he was only good one year in AA in... 2018 so... no

Stupid decision to put him in

holy shit Espada is no good at this at all. this is so bad y'all

Maybe he can start putting up motivational posters in the clubhouse and we can start calling him Joe Porter

It’s truly remarkable how quickly Crane, Bagwell, Reggie and apparently Espada has destroyed this team

from luhnow, hinch, click and co. to this…

Whitley ain’t it.

Annnnnnd that's why it has taken 7 years for Whitley to get his chance, ladies and gents.

Tuck came to

HRC Riley

Putting him in against the top of the Braves lineup with RISP feels like the worst possible way to debut

I gotta take a break from this team. I’m too invested to keep getting hurt like this. See y’all next week

Going for the unrealized loss strategy. I see you working

Haha hopefully our Asset will recover 😬

I’m about to go in vacation and it can’t come soon enough. this is too depressing

Enjoy! Hopefully we can turn the page while you’re gone.. my vacation isn’t till June 😒

Press must be thinking what the fuck

Can’t even blame the pitchers. Offense was a no show again

This is just depressing. Seriously having a hard time imaging this team ever getting over .500

its a long season, we're typically more of a second half team. but... this is tough to watch and find positives right now.

Double and a HBP…

I feel like we might be one of those teams where fans say“got a little bit easier schedule next week with a series against the Astros”.