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Maddux looks to ground ‘Stros
By john | August 19, 2007
Greg Maddux will be going for win 342 today against 24 year old Matt Albers. Albers, a Houston navtive, will be making his 11st start of the season. He’s 3-5 with a 5.99 ERA on the season and has been placed back into the rotation due to an injury to Chris Sampson.
On August 14th against the Dodgers Albers allowed 3 runs in 6.2 innings recording a plethera of outs on grondballs.
Maddux on the other hand pitched 5.2 scoreless last time out against the Colorado Rockies. He lowered his ERA to 4.00 and picked up his 8th win despite allowing eight hits. He also struck out four.
Game time is 1:05 PT so that’s 4:05 ET folks. The game will be on Channel 4 for our San Diego viewers and FSN for all of us in Texas.
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