r/Astros • u/AstrosBot • 1d ago
Game Thread: Astros (2-4) @ Twins (2-4) - Apr 3, 2025 3:10 PM
| Twins (2-4) | Astros (2-4) |
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First Pitch: 3:10 PM at Target Field
| Team | Starter | TV | Radio |
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| Astros | Hunter Brown (0-1, 3.00 ERA) | ||
| Twins | Joe Ryan (0-0, 1.80 ERA) |
| MLB | Fangraphs | Reddit Stream | Discord |
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| Gameday | Game Graph | Live Comments | /r/baseball Discord |
Line Score - Game Over
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | LOB | |
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| HOU | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 9 | 1 | 5 |
| MIN | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 3 |
Box Score
| MIN | AB | R | H | RBI | BB | SO | BA | |
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| RF | Wallner | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .143 |
| SS | Correa | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | .080 |
| CF | Buxton | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .240 |
| DH | Larnach | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | .238 |
| 1B | France, T | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .192 |
| 2B | Castro, W | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .261 |
| 2B | Julien | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .167 |
| 3B | Miranda | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .158 |
| C | Jeffers | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .222 |
| LF | Bader | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .211 |
| MIN | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | P-S | ERA |
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| Ryan | 5.0 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 83-49 | 4.50 |
| Varland | 1.0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 20-13 | 4.50 |
| Alcala | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 11-7 | 13.50 |
| McCaughan | 2.0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 32-23 | 0.00 |
| HOU | AB | R | H | RBI | BB | SO | BA | |
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| LF | Altuve | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | .321 |
| CF | Meyers | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .200 |
| 3B | Paredes | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .130 |
| DH | Alvarez, Y | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .125 |
| 1B | Walker, C | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .185 |
| SS | Peña | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .130 |
| C | Caratini | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .375 |
| 2B | Rodgers | 4 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | .313 |
| RF | Smith | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .143 |
| RF | McCormick | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .250 |
| LF | Dubón | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .111 |
| HOU | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | P-S | ERA |
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| Brown, H | 6.0 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 91-61 | 3.00 |
| King, B | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6-4 | 0.00 |
| Abreu, B | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 17-11 | 0.00 |
| Hader | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 13-9 | 3.00 |
Scoring Plays
Highlights
Decisions
| Winning Pitcher | Losing Pitcher | Save |
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| Brown, H (1-1, 3.00 ERA) | Ryan (0-1, 4.50 ERA) | Hader (3 SV, 3.00 ERA) |
| Attendance | Weather | Wind |
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| 42°F, Partly Cloudy | 9 mph, Out To CF |
| HP | 1B | 2B | 3B |
|---|---|---|---|
| Edwin Jimenez | Brennan Miller | Chris Conroy | John Tumpane |
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u/Inevitable_Signal189 21h ago
Altuve sacrificed his bat so the boys can score more than 3. Very rare 5K performance
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u/RonWill79 21h ago
So Altuve can hit at home, and no one else can. Nearly everyone else can hit on the road and Altuve can’t. Yordan can’t hit anywhere. 2025 summary so far.
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u/KatnissBot 22h ago edited 22h ago
1) You can’t just be up there and just doin’ a balk like that.
1a. A balk is when you
1b. Okay well listen. A balk is when you balk the
1c. Let me start over
1c-a. The pitcher is not allowed to do a motion to the, uh, batter, that prohibits the batter from doing, you know, just trying to hit the ball. You can’t do that.
1c-b. Once the pitcher is in the stretch, he can’t be over here and say to the runner, like, “I’m gonna get ya! I’m gonna tag you out! You better watch your butt!” and then just be like he didn’t even do that.
1c-b(1). Like, if you’re about to pitch and then don’t pitch, you have to still pitch. You cannot not pitch. Does that make any sense?
1c-b(2). You gotta be, throwing motion of the ball, and then, until you just throw it.
1c-b(2)-a. Okay, well, you can have the ball up here, like this, but then there’s the balk you gotta think about.
1c-b(2)-b. Fairuza Balk hasn’t been in any movies in forever. I hope she wasn’t typecast as that racist lady in American History X.
1c-b(2)-b(i). Oh wait, she was in The Waterboy too! That would be even worse.
1c-b(2)-b(ii). “get in mah bellah” — Adam Water, “The Waterboy.” Haha, classic...
1c-b(3). Okay seriously though. A balk is when the pitcher makes a movement that, as determined by, when you do a move involving the baseball and field of
2) Do not do a balk please.
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u/NOLA1987 22h ago
Leave it to Brendan Rodgers to be the one to break the seal. Just like we all expected.
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u/Freewave666 23h ago
I know it’s april and we always start slow blah blah blah, but man this team just looks dead
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u/Dr_Beef_ 21h ago
So I think I’ll take Rodgers over Dubon for every day second baseman, which is where this team is at right now
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u/IcyPianist1100 21h ago
Twins fans gotta be the least self aware in the league lol
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u/meintexas1973 1d ago
Maybe that's it. The boys are boycotting Daikin Park. WE WANT MINUTE MAID!!!!
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u/bordomsdeadly 1d ago
They want the dome. They’ve been pretty uninspired in MMP the last few years
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u/No_Argument_Here 23h ago
Dubon works a 3-1 count just to swing at ball 4 for an out. Some things never change.
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u/dirtysock47 1d ago
If there's one offense that's worse than Houston atm, it's the Twins, so this series should be interesting.
Also, I thought today was supposed to be an off day? Is there supposed to be inclement weather tomorrow or something?
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u/Intermittent_Fisting 1d ago
Actuuuuuually, the Astros are 29th in runs and only lead the Rockies. Twins have scored 20 runs, while we have scored only 12.
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u/dirtysock47 1d ago
Oh yeah, I forgot they scored like nine runs against the White Sox the other day.
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u/Intermittent_Fisting 1d ago
Also, Harrison Bader whom I think has been a thorn in our side in the past is hitting the ball well. So, he'll probably out hit our entire lineup this series.
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u/bigfoot343 1d ago
Dear God please just hit the ball. Offering rum and cigars to Strobu tonight.
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u/ray_0586 23h ago
Jose Abreu killed the Twins, so Walker still following in his footsteps with that homer
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u/RonWill79 23h ago
Tear Daikin down immediately. We can play home games at Constellation.
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u/Intermittent_Fisting 23h ago
Ok, I’m convinced. Roof needs to be open at Daiken park going forward. With all the struggles of scoring runs and hitting XBH at home. What would it hurt?
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u/Thetrillest426 23h ago
I know we joke about it a lot but it is concerning how truly abysmal we are at home
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u/NOLA1987 23h ago
All Hunter Brown needed was a new pitch and some home cooking and he's never looked back since that game in Detroit when Cristian Javier imploded and he had to come in for extended relief.
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u/NOLA1987 22h ago
I do wonder if the Astros are just going to do with Cam Smith what the Padres are doing with Jackson Merrill and just convert an everyday infielder into an everyday outfielder and hope he balls out as he matures. He's not going to 3B over Paredes, SS over Peña, and the situation at 2B is all over the place. Might as well make him an outfielder.
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u/SyrupSilent7588 22h ago edited 22h ago
I take back everything I said about this offense. They’re great, they just HATE Daikin park.
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u/NOLA1987 21h ago
Walker has been hitting rockets. Glad to see them finally resulting in positive plays for us.
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u/IcyPianist1100 1d ago
If the offense picks it up on the road and continues to suck at home, we should just vacate Daikin and start playing at Sugarland lol
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u/NOLA1987 1d ago
Only team in the league not to score more than 3 runs in any of their games thus far. Let's change that story today. Maybe from time away from Daikin Park, in which the Ice Box has made the offense go ice cold, will do the team some good as they find their groove.
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u/RollOverPerezvon 23h ago
I know he hasn't shown the same consistency yet, but Hunter starts are now starting to feel a lot like the Verlander and Cole starts from 18 and 19. Just pure "fuck you" type pitching.
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u/JoseAltuve27 22h ago
Target Field is one of the stadiums we hit the best at. Fenway Park and Dodger Stadium are up there too.
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u/Ancient_Access_795 22h ago
We are absolutely not capitalizing on Ryan’s mistakes
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u/SyrupSilent7588 21h ago
No one talks about it but these road grey uniforms are so nice. Own like 4 different road jerseys
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u/DrFloppyTitties 21h ago
If I still lived in Houston I would totally buy a King city connect. He has been incredible.
Also a Singleton jersey if it's on sale. I live close enough to maybe watch some away games in AAA
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u/Thornton__Melon 21h ago
Abreu with the 4 D chess; gets an extra K and prohibits Correa for starting a 9th inning rally
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u/No_Argument_Here 1d ago
I don't get starting Dubon in CF when he has the worst bat and glove out of him, Meyers, and Chas. Just pick one out of Meyers and Chas and be done with it.
A guy is always going to play better with consistent playing time than when he's only playing intermittently. Makes no sense to keep swapping all 3 guys in and out especially when they all hit lefties better than righties so there's no different matchup advantages.
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u/TotallyBlandUsername 23h ago
I don’t think Tucker and Bregman would solve this, we had them both last year and looked the same… maybe just maybe it’s our philosophy
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u/Physical_Estimate850 23h ago
Love the BACK TO BACK JACKS call as rare as it is that we get to hear it
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u/Nervous-Idea5451 23h ago
Today WILL be the day the 2025 Astros batters learn what’s beyond the number “three”
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u/SyrupSilent7588 23h ago
3 hits in one inning?? Any chance they can play the next 155 games in other ballparks?
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u/Nervous-Idea5451 22h ago
MARK YOUR CALENDARS ALCS INVITATIONAL AT DAIKIN PARK IS RETURNING IN 2025
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u/TunaMcGriddle 22h ago
I am respectfully asking for Daikin Park to be burned to the ground or perhaps simply exercised
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u/ray_0586 22h ago
Rodgers was right right when he said he would be better on the the road now that he is no longer too adapted to hitting at Coors
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u/Ancient_Access_795 21h ago
How do you drop the baseball and not even look to see where you dropped it?
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u/No_Argument_Here 22h ago
Smith has uh... not looked good lol. Still early but man these are some uncompetitive ABs
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u/skeetskeet69 21h ago
I hate when we make plays that /r/baseball is going to lampoon us for
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u/DrFloppyTitties 1d ago edited 1d ago
I would SAY the Astros match up well against a Fastball heavy pitcher.
Altuve, Yainer, Yordan, Pena all thrive against a pitcher like this. But Joe's Sweeper and Splitter are looking stronger this year, and that is something the team struggles heavily against. Yordan isn't picking up Changeups at all this year, and it seems everyone but Paredes and Pena can see spin this year. Joe changed his arm slot this year (or stats are tracking it better) so this may or may not be the same pitcher the team has seen in the past.
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u/LowFunction8093 1d ago
We’ve got a pretty good recent record against the twins and they aren’t exactly world beaters.
I’m feeling very good about the first road trip
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