The Astros had a hard time getting it together in game 2 against the St. Louis Cardinal on Wednesday and were hit with a 6-1 loss. The St. Louis victory evens the series at a game a piece and the teams will play the final game on Thursday night. The loss gives the Astros a 30-24 record and drops them a game behind the Cards for control of 2nd place.
As the title states, the offense had a very rough time getting anything going as they could only put together enough hits to collect 1 run. They only totaled 4 hits in the game and got the best game from Ty Wigginton who went 1-for-3 getting his 2nd homer of the season. He also got his 8th RBI of the year and brought his batting average up to .270. The other 3 hits came off the bats of Michael Bourn, hitting his 3rd triple of the season, Miguel Tejada and Lance Berkman but none of them could put any runs across. As a team they left 4 runners on base and 2 were left stranded with 2 outs and runners in scoring position.
Wandy Rodriguez was given the start for Houston and never made his way through the 5th inning. In that time he was tagged for 6 hits, 6 runs, 3 earned and 4 walks. He was given the loss for the game bringing his record to 1-1 this season and his ERA to 2.89. Jose Valverde came in just to get some work and pitched 1 inning giving up a hit and getting a strike out.
Both hitters and pitchers had their fair share of troubles in this one as they both hurt the team evenly. They will need collect more hits in the deciding game 3 on Thursday which will give the winning team control of 2nd place in the NL Central.
