As I said, I did not want Roger to pitch on 3 days rest. Since Oswalt will not be available until game 3, I did not want the Astros to leave their two top pitchers on the bench the first 2 games at Atlanta. If Roger pitches in game 1, he wil be able to pitch game 4 also. Backe pitched a great game and evn had 2 RBIs to boot.