The early season slumps continued for the Astros. The sheers numbers tell us a few big-name players will start slowly each year and this season is no different. Here's what they were doing going into the contest:įurthermore, George Springer (1 for 20) was on the bench Wednesday night because Baker wanted to give him a "clear your head day," according to Chandler Rome of the Houston Chronicle. A handful of those players were on the field at Minute Maid Park on Wednesday night. The season is young and they'll figure it out before long. Several star players around the league have started the season slowly. The Dodgers are absolutely loaded, especially offensively, and getting the best possible version of Seager this year would make them even more formidable come postseason time.
He's about to entire what figures to be the prime of his career. It feels like Seager has been around forever - it does to me, anyway - but he turned only 26 in April.
On Wednesday, Seager continued his torrid start with a second inning solo home run against Javier. Also, weirdly, Seager was averaging only 2.83 pitches per plate appearance, third-fewest in baseball. His 96.8 mph average exit velocity put him among the top five percent in the league. He went 7 for 20 (.350) with only one strikeout in his first five games and he was hitting everything hard. That first year back from Tommy John surgery can be tough, even for position players.įew players in baseball have been more locked in than Seager in the early going this season. 272/.335/.483 batting line that is both very good and comfortably below the. In his return from Tommy John surgery last season, Dodgers shortstop Corey Seager authored a. Might as well keep running Javier out there in the interim. Jose Urquidy is still a ways away from rejoining the team. Javier presumably did more than enough to earn another start Wednesday night. The Astros have been hard by pitching injuries early this season, so much so that they're set to sign 43-year-old Fernando Rodney out of an independent league to help the bullpen. Wednesday was his first MLB start and only his third start above Double-A. Javier tossed a scoreless inning in relief in his MLB debut on Saturday. He allowed only two hits and struck out eight.Īstros manager Dusty Baker pushed Javier - he threw 82 pitches and his velocity dipped into the 90-91 mph range in the sixth inning after sitting 94-95 mph in the early innings - and was rewarded with a strong outing. The 23-year-old held the powerful Dodgers lineup to one run in 5 2/3 innings. Their scouting report says "his deception and creativity could make him a No. Stepping into his vacated rotation spot was rookie righty Cristian Javier, who MLB.com ranks as Houston's No. For now, Verlander will be shut down a few weeks, then reevaluated. The Astros lost ace Justin Verlander to a forearm injury over the weekend and his season may be over. Here are three takeaways from Wednesday's game.
ASTROS VS DODGERS SCORE SERIES
The two-game series in Houston is over and any bad blood remaining from Tuesday's incident will have to wait until the Astros visit Los Angeles for a two-game series from Sept. It doesn't happen often, but it does happen every once in a while. Since adopting the tiebreaker rule - when a runner starts the inning on second base - in 2018, only seven percent of minor league extra-inning games extended beyond the 11th inning. Wednesday's game was the sixth extra innings game of the young season and the first that went beyond 11 innings.
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