Robert's Sportscast - 6/27

Welcome to Robert's sport report. Today 15,416 fans watched the Houston Astros and the San Diego Padres. The starting pitcher for the Padres was Richard who gave up only 2 hits, one of them a single and the other was the big game changer -a home run from Matt Downs, which ended up to be the only run in the game. Richard threw 5 strikeouts 1 of them looking and gave up no walks. Richard pitched until the 8th inning when he had to be replaced by Thayer who got 1 strike out in 1 inning pitched. For the Astros pitching was the name of the game! Harrell, who threw his first major league shut out, made an impressive start. He pitched the whole game, only allowing 5 hits -all of which was singles. He threw 7 strikeouts, 3 of them looking. He gave up 4 walks, 2 of which helped load the bases with 2 outs in the top of the 9th.  But he finished out his shut-out with a swinging strikeout. Harrell also got some help from his defense when, with runners on 1st and 2nd -1 out, a ball was hit through the third base hole and into left field. The left fielder then got and through a bullet to the plate to get the guy out coming from second. That run would have tied the game and sent us into extra innings. Overall it was a very quick game -only 1 hour 59 minutes. Only one pitch was the difference in this ball game.