Astros manage only 2 hits in 2-0 defeat.
WP: Carlos Carrasco (8-5)
LP: Brett Oberholtzer (5-12)
contributed by Sphinx Drummond
Real Ale Brewery out of Blanco, Texas has become my favorite Texas craft brewery. Beer Advocate gives the brewery an outstanding 90 score. I love their Lost Gold IPA and the Devil’s Backbone Belgium-style tripel. Their Fireman’s 4 is popular in Central Texas and is their biggest seller but it’s not close to being their best offering. Anyway, they are expanding their operations with a new bottling line in an effort to meet rising demand. I don’t know if or what products are available in Houston but with the increased production, they will have a much wider distribution base that will cover the whole state.
Brett Oberholtzer deserves to have a beer named after him. Oberholtzer, sounds like a Dunkelweizen or maybe a Weizenbock. Okay, maybe he hasn’t earned that honor yet but he does deserve to have more wins they he has this season. He has had a couple of bad games and a few Oswalt innings but for the most part he has pitched really well and hasn’t gotten a lot of run support. I think he has pitched a lot better than his record. Wednesday was typical.
Jose Altuve can’t be stopped though, he was the only Astro on the team that picked up a bat with hits in it. He got the only two hits allowed by Indian starter Carlos Carrasco. As the season winds down Carrasco is really finding his groove and looks to be half of Cleveland’s dominant one-two punch with Kluber next season.
Thursday the Astros try to pull off a series split when Scott Feldman (8-11 3.95) goes against Danny Salazar (6-7, 4.22) in a 7:10 pm CST start time.
Weather: 73 degrees, roof closed.
Wind: 0 mph, None.
T: 2:20.
Att: 18,474.