Game 139 Recap: Braves 1, Astros More

by David J. Phillip - AP View full size photo uploaded September 9, 2009 What an absolute Goat-F**k of a game. Why in the world did Bobby Cox not let Tommy Hanson pitch the ninth? He had only thrown 98 pitches and looked as sharp as I've ever seen him in the eighth inning, but NOOOO! Let's bring in the overworked bullpen guy who had tons of trouble in the ninth inning last night. That's an unforgivable move. Let the kid at least try to get his first major league shutout -- he was as sharp as I've seen him and there's a pitcher's umpire behind homeplate for once. Of course, we could have managed more than one run if we had gotten more than five baserunners. I guess we should be thankful that we got a whole run with only three hits. This team's offense and bullpen is in complete suck-mode right now. As fantastic as the starting pitching was, the rest of the team is on the other end of the spectrum. Props to Joe Simpson in the postgame for really crit...