Slow going for the Bats

[Kingdom]

Expected to at the very least, have a pretty good offense, Houston bats have been held in check. While there's been some power, there really hasn't been many on when the homeruns happened. For example, Carlos Lee has 3 doubles and 3 homeruns, but only 5 rbis. Berkman, also only 5 rbis, Pence with only 1 rbi. The alarming facts swirling the astros right now are the high strikeout totals (over 60) vs. only 23 walks, and with that, a team OBP under .300

Somewhere Saber turns away in disgust. And Juan Pierre smiles.

You expect things to be a little slow for youngsters like Michael Bourn and JR Towles, both hitting a little over .200 (to Towles credit though, his OBP is .400) and Pence recently went through.. a dicey situation, literally, when that pane of glass just jumped out of nowhere and attacked him.

Mark Loretta is looking terrible, in fact it can be argued Brandon Backe looks better swing the bat right now.

[browntown653]

THE BOURN IDENTITY

JR Towles is going to be a good player, just a random thought