GAMES 24-26 - April 25-27: Passed Over, Again...

GAME 24: Houston 3, St Louis 2
GAME 25: St Louis 4, Houston 3
GAME 26: St Louis 5, Houston 1

Word for the Day: "WAH!"

After spending the weekend celebrating the end of Passover with even more cooking and eating and drinking and guests, I was really looking forward to going online tonight to find that the Astros had a big juicy win today. Something fun to watch on the mlb.tv archive while packing up all of my Passover stuff for another year. Unfortunately, it was a crummy loss; even after three baseball-free days I wasn't in the mood to watch it.

When I last saw the Astros, they were in the throes of a big scoring bonanza. Meanwhile, in my absence, they have gone back to their low-scoring ways - only managing 7 runs over the weekend. That was good for one win on Friday night - maybe I'll watch that one tonight at midnight.

One odd thing about these games: In previous years there has always been a very strong rivalry between the Astros and the Cards, but it's always been characterized by what appeared to be a respectful sportsmanship. That doesn't seem to be the case this season: Pujols roughed up Towles in the earlier series, and Backe exchanged some loud words with him as a result. Then in this series, there were two pitching incidents that caused the benches to clear, although nothing came to blows. Maybe it's just the new Astros, it's a very different team this year.

The Astros are off to Arizona for their next series. That means games that start at 9:40 PM my time, so I'll have won't have any excuses for not going to the gym on the way home from work. Time to pay the price for all that Passover food and wine.