August 15, 2024 • 10 mins
Brian Bogusevic, former Astros outfielder and Space City Home Network analyst, joins Next Up following Wednesday's 2-1 win over the Tampa Bay Rays to complete back-to-back series sweeps. Mauricio Dubón ended his drought at the plate, recording a RBI single in the top of the 10th inning that would serve as the game-winner and extend the Astros win streak to eight victories. At the beginning of the season, "they were finding ways to lose games," but now, as the Astros hold a 2.5-game lead in the AL West, "you got to be able to win in different ways," Bogusevic said. Jeremy Peña has showcased his hitting power as of late, smashing three homers over the last four games. "He was coming off a tough stretch," but "he worked his way out of it." Ronel Blanco was having a great outing, throwing 73 pitches in six scoreless innings, before he was forced to exit when a comeback ball grazed his index finger. While the Astros offense has been up and down, starting pitching has continued to be consistent during this winning stretch. "You can feel this starting pitching staff feeding off one another." The Astros will look to continue their winning streak when hosting the Chicago White Sox for a three-game series starting Friday. "The White Sox are really, really bad... I would be disappointed if they didn't sweep."
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome and friend of the station, Friend of the show.
Brother does great work on Space City Home Network. Man
you so toss off the mound back in his days
as an astro and transition to the outfield.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Brian had a had a forced gump suit on the
other night.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
What was that?
Speaker 3 (00:19):
It was a little forced gumpy Bogi?
Speaker 1 (00:21):
What is he talking about? What you have on? Gordion
didn't understand.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
I don't know, I don't know. Tell me about it.
Gordon dress made what.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
To offer me chocolate, a box of chocolate because.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Beside him, I wouldn't let you sit beside me either.
Welcome me and Brian bogus Sevic, former draft selection first
round of he is does great work as an astros
analyst on Space City, Buggy eight and one on the road,
when the bats cooled, the arms held them down. How
you feeling now that they return home? Counting bogus Sevic,
that's two and a half games, first place ahead of Seattle.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Yeah, really good and for a lot of reasons. But
I mean you said it right. The bats did it
early in the trip, the pitching did it the last
couple of games. So when you're playing like that, right,
Complimentary Baseball it's not just one thing dominating every game.
That's a recipe for winning lots of games, because you're
not gonna be able to do the same thing every
(01:15):
night over and over again. You got to be able
to win different ways.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Talking Brian bogas Sevic and yeah, Brian, it's funny. The
Askers have had a lot of games this season that
we've looked back on and went, man, they should have
won that game last night felt like one they had
no business winning. You get two hits on the night
bats just aren't doing much of anything. But kudos to Debaud.
He finds a way to get that run across with
two outs in the extra innings, hater does his thing.
(01:40):
That just seems like one of those games we're gonna
look back at at the end of the year and go,
that was a big one again.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Yeah, that's the kind of game that you know, you
could walk away from it and just say it wasn't
our night. We weren't sweeting the bats well. But that's
such a big difference between what's been happening recently and
what was happening at the beginning of the year. The
beginning of the year, they were finding ways to lose games.
It was what is going to happen today that's going
to lose this game for us? Whereas now it looked
(02:07):
just really looks like an entire dugout full of guys
that knows they'll figure it out. They don't know how
they're going to do it in a given day, but
they'll just figure it out.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Yeah. Good to see Mauricio Dubon, who we've seen in
spots come up big. Been a while, like some of
those others. I think about a guy like Jeremy Pinya.
As matter of fact, let's do that as we pivot
from Dubon, who was the hero last night, Jeremy Pinja
gets the Astros on the board, back to back jacks
for him. Bregman's home run streak four consecutive games comes
to an end. What are you seeing out of guys
(02:38):
that had not been playing so well? I think about
a guy like a Jeremy pina He's on fire in
the month of August. What is his ops? It's like
seven to ninety two or something like that.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Yeah, Paanya has really turned it on, especially from spout
power standpoint, over the past week, and it's a really
good lesson for young players. Not just about kid. I'm
talking about young players in the big leagues of how
to stay engaged and how to keep affecting games even
when you're not swinging it well. Because he's coming off
(03:08):
a tough thread. I think at one point he was
like four for thirty five, four for forty or something.
But he's still playing great defense, he's still running the bases,
he's breaking up double plays to extend the innings, just
doing small things that affect the outcome of the game
and keeps you feeling like you're contributing. And then it's
(03:29):
much easier to break out of a slump if you're
just dwelling on the fact that you're not hitting and
feeling sorry for yourself and just kind of dragging around
the field, that something's going to last a whole lot longer.
He just he worked his way out of it, not
just in the cage figuring out things from a swing standpoint,
but just busting it on the field.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
And you mentioned busting it on the field, and yes,
he does deserve some criticism. I don't know what the
bleep that was two nights ago, where he's trying to
throw the ball to first base. The Zenzo, the ball
is nowhere closed. I don't know how he didn't get
scored an error on that none the less, but I
do appreciate Pinya consistently is running down through first. He's fast.
(04:06):
We know that he has kind of a unique gait
in how he runs. But he is out there playing hard,
unlike whatever the hell that was by pedro Leon, Bogie,
What was going through your head when pedro Leon is
just what is it? Strutting in gallivantly pulling up on
thurday and extra innings top of the tenth last night, Well, as.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Soon as I saw Siri getting behind that ball, I said,
oh man, you better bust because he's going he's going
to try to get you. It doesn't matter if he's
on the warning track, Siri, he's going to try to
get you. And they you couldn't really see it that
well in the replay, but the shortstop Jose Cabiro, who's
one of those dudes who's just going to do whatever
he can to screw with you. He stood right in
front of pedro Leon, blocked his view. Pedro Leon never
(04:51):
saw Jose Siri catch that ball, so he got a
late start and then he's just figuring that he's going
to cruise in there, so it's a late start and
then you know, way too casual with it. It's a
teaching lesson. It's a good way to learn a lesson
because it didn't actually screw up the game. But yeah,
I'm sure there were plenty of veteran guys who pulled
them aside after the game and said, hey man, you
(05:13):
got to run harder than that, and you got to
fly no matter what in that same realm.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
And I want to ask you about the pitching, but
real quick on that same topic. So some people saying,
maybe they should have sent Jake there and maybe he
gets tied down at the plate, do you go super
aggressive there and trying to make it three to one
or I could have gone either way on that, because
I mean, he's probably gonna get thrown out at the plate,
but if he doesn't, you go up three to one.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Yeah, so the timing of the play says you hold
him right. It's a hard hit ball, it's straight at
the outfielder, so he gets to come in on a
running start. And then it's Jose Siri with a plus
plus arm and you're playing on turf, so you're gonna
get a good house. Like all those things say, you hold,
but if you send him number one, you still have
(05:57):
to make the exchange, right, You still have to catch
and tag, and that's not always easy to do. You
can screw that up and just effect of where you're
at in the lineup right, it's Chad McCormick coming up.
He's struggling more than anybody right now. So if there's
ever a situation to push it and just hope that
the play doesn't get made even though the timing of
it says you're probably going to be out, that would
be the situation to do it.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Brian, It's it's amazing. In eight game win streak, and
hey you got the lowly Chicago White Sox coming to town.
But this starting pitching, what they've been doing. We're seeing
Fromber pitch his best he's pitched all year. We're seeing
Spencer or Getty and Hunter Brown pitching their best. You say,
Kakuchi through thirty starts has been fantastic. I mean, it's
it's crazy what they're getting right now out of the
starting pitching with Justin Verlander knocking on the door getting
(06:40):
ready to come back.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Yeah, you can, you can feel it building, right, Like
sometimes teams get hot, as you know, units get hot,
and you can feel this starting pitching staff feeding off
of one another, taking things from other starts and implementing them,
and you know, you get that momentum building and you
don't want to be the guy that screws it up.
And you know, more than anything, what was lacking in
(07:04):
the starting rotation early when they're all injuries and you're
filling and just trying to find guys to throw it
was the consistency of just go out there and have
a quality start, right, don't have the big disaster start
where we're down big early and we have no chance.
Keep us in the game, and just give the offense
a chance, and the consistency and the steadiness of the
(07:25):
starting rotation. You know, yes, they've won eight games in
a row, but they've been in every game going back
for a couple of weeks now, even when the offense
isn't scoring enough run and that's all you can ask, right,
just keep us in the game. We got a good offense,
we got a very good bullpen. We're gonna win a
whole lot of games that way.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Talk with Brian Bogasavik former Astro brother. I used to
get busy off the mound there and then transition to
the outfield baseball man, through and through joining us for
his weekly here on next up, stayin fleet. That's Gorday
on the other side there. All right, Boga, we'll get
you out of here on this one. A couple quick
ones I think about, and we spoke in detail last
(08:03):
couple of days. Yannire Diaz RBI single last night he
has been protecting Jordan Alvarez, Yanni Diez, also people you know,
and I think about last night specifically, teams are stealing
some bases on him. What are you seeing from Yiannia
at the plate? And why the Astros the last couple
of season haven't issues giving up stolen bases.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Yeah, at the plate is a better approach. He's being
more selective, getting better pitches to hit and allowing his
natural ability to take over. He's got great back to
ball skills as long as he gets pitches in the zone.
That's been the most market improvement. As far as the defense,
they're not stealing on it on him. They're stealing bases
on the pitchers. The pitchers especially a lot of the
(08:48):
guys in the bullpen don't pay a whole lot of
attention to runners. They're not terribly quick to the plate,
and the catchers just don't have a shot. And I
know the philosophy a little bit is when you have
nasty stuff, uh, put one hundred percent of your focus
on your pitch, because if you make your pitch, you're
not going to get beat most of the time. But
you know, last night the race scored a run without
(09:08):
getting a hit. You don't want to put yourself in
those situations.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
All right, we get ready to get you out of here.
White Socks coming in two sweeps currently under our built.
Is it safe and fair to say, Bogasvic sweep into
White Sox. We don't care that they just put up
fourteen runs on fifteen runs on somebody the other night.
This should be a sweep. This year is coming up
at men and made correct, Bogan.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
The White Socks are really really bad, like historically historically bad.
And you know, major League baseball players are major League
baseball players, so you never want to say you expect
to sweep a team, But yes, I would be disappointed
if they didn't sweep.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
All right, that's Brian Bogasvic follow him on social at
Brian b r I A N Boga Savic b O
g U s v I s Boge. Check your social
Gord is being disrespect for. He clearly doesn't understand style.
So check your social boy again. We'll get sports code.
It just with the blue shirt on. It was a
(10:08):
little forced company. First of all, it's a tope or beige.
It's not a white.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
I know a lot of hats maybe stylis.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
This is not what it does. All right.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
I'm gonna take it a Bubba Gump. All right, all.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Right, bro, we'll see you next week. You join yourself
at the ballpark this weekend. Astros off today, we step aside,
we come back. If you want to respond to what
Bogus Sevin had to say, you want to get in
on the game. Last night, Astros winners of eight in
a row two and a half games for the first
time this season, in the lead in the A West,
kJ and Cypress. You'll be next up on the other side,
Legendary KB and me
Welcome and friend of the station, Friend of the show.
Brother does great work on Space City Home Network. Man
you so toss off the mound back in his days
as an astro and transition to the outfield.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Brian had a had a forced gump suit on the
other night.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
What was that?
Speaker 3 (00:19):
It was a little forced gumpy Bogi?
Speaker 1 (00:21):
What is he talking about? What you have on? Gordion
didn't understand.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
I don't know, I don't know. Tell me about it.
Gordon dress made what.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
To offer me chocolate, a box of chocolate because.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Beside him, I wouldn't let you sit beside me either.
Welcome me and Brian bogus Sevic, former draft selection first
round of he is does great work as an astros
analyst on Space City, Buggy eight and one on the road,
when the bats cooled, the arms held them down. How
you feeling now that they return home? Counting bogus Sevic,
that's two and a half games, first place ahead of Seattle.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Yeah, really good and for a lot of reasons. But
I mean you said it right. The bats did it
early in the trip, the pitching did it the last
couple of games. So when you're playing like that, right,
Complimentary Baseball it's not just one thing dominating every game.
That's a recipe for winning lots of games, because you're
not gonna be able to do the same thing every
(01:15):
night over and over again. You got to be able
to win different ways.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Talking Brian bogas Sevic and yeah, Brian, it's funny. The
Askers have had a lot of games this season that
we've looked back on and went, man, they should have
won that game last night felt like one they had
no business winning. You get two hits on the night
bats just aren't doing much of anything. But kudos to Debaud.
He finds a way to get that run across with
two outs in the extra innings, hater does his thing.
(01:40):
That just seems like one of those games we're gonna
look back at at the end of the year and go,
that was a big one again.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Yeah, that's the kind of game that you know, you
could walk away from it and just say it wasn't
our night. We weren't sweeting the bats well. But that's
such a big difference between what's been happening recently and
what was happening at the beginning of the year. The
beginning of the year, they were finding ways to lose games.
It was what is going to happen today that's going
to lose this game for us? Whereas now it looked
(02:07):
just really looks like an entire dugout full of guys
that knows they'll figure it out. They don't know how
they're going to do it in a given day, but
they'll just figure it out.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Yeah. Good to see Mauricio Dubon, who we've seen in
spots come up big. Been a while, like some of
those others. I think about a guy like Jeremy Pinya.
As matter of fact, let's do that as we pivot
from Dubon, who was the hero last night, Jeremy Pinja
gets the Astros on the board, back to back jacks
for him. Bregman's home run streak four consecutive games comes
to an end. What are you seeing out of guys
(02:38):
that had not been playing so well? I think about
a guy like a Jeremy pina He's on fire in
the month of August. What is his ops? It's like
seven to ninety two or something like that.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Yeah, Paanya has really turned it on, especially from spout
power standpoint, over the past week, and it's a really
good lesson for young players. Not just about kid. I'm
talking about young players in the big leagues of how
to stay engaged and how to keep affecting games even
when you're not swinging it well. Because he's coming off
(03:08):
a tough thread. I think at one point he was
like four for thirty five, four for forty or something.
But he's still playing great defense, he's still running the bases,
he's breaking up double plays to extend the innings, just
doing small things that affect the outcome of the game
and keeps you feeling like you're contributing. And then it's
(03:29):
much easier to break out of a slump if you're
just dwelling on the fact that you're not hitting and
feeling sorry for yourself and just kind of dragging around
the field, that something's going to last a whole lot longer.
He just he worked his way out of it, not
just in the cage figuring out things from a swing standpoint,
but just busting it on the field.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
And you mentioned busting it on the field, and yes,
he does deserve some criticism. I don't know what the
bleep that was two nights ago, where he's trying to
throw the ball to first base. The Zenzo, the ball
is nowhere closed. I don't know how he didn't get
scored an error on that none the less, but I
do appreciate Pinya consistently is running down through first. He's fast.
(04:06):
We know that he has kind of a unique gait
in how he runs. But he is out there playing hard,
unlike whatever the hell that was by pedro Leon, Bogie,
What was going through your head when pedro Leon is
just what is it? Strutting in gallivantly pulling up on
thurday and extra innings top of the tenth last night, Well, as.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Soon as I saw Siri getting behind that ball, I said,
oh man, you better bust because he's going he's going
to try to get you. It doesn't matter if he's
on the warning track, Siri, he's going to try to
get you. And they you couldn't really see it that
well in the replay, but the shortstop Jose Cabiro, who's
one of those dudes who's just going to do whatever
he can to screw with you. He stood right in
front of pedro Leon, blocked his view. Pedro Leon never
(04:51):
saw Jose Siri catch that ball, so he got a
late start and then he's just figuring that he's going
to cruise in there, so it's a late start and
then you know, way too casual with it. It's a
teaching lesson. It's a good way to learn a lesson
because it didn't actually screw up the game. But yeah,
I'm sure there were plenty of veteran guys who pulled
them aside after the game and said, hey man, you
(05:13):
got to run harder than that, and you got to
fly no matter what in that same realm.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
And I want to ask you about the pitching, but
real quick on that same topic. So some people saying,
maybe they should have sent Jake there and maybe he
gets tied down at the plate, do you go super
aggressive there and trying to make it three to one
or I could have gone either way on that, because
I mean, he's probably gonna get thrown out at the plate,
but if he doesn't, you go up three to one.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Yeah, so the timing of the play says you hold
him right. It's a hard hit ball, it's straight at
the outfielder, so he gets to come in on a
running start. And then it's Jose Siri with a plus
plus arm and you're playing on turf, so you're gonna
get a good house. Like all those things say, you hold,
but if you send him number one, you still have
(05:57):
to make the exchange, right, You still have to catch
and tag, and that's not always easy to do. You
can screw that up and just effect of where you're
at in the lineup right, it's Chad McCormick coming up.
He's struggling more than anybody right now. So if there's
ever a situation to push it and just hope that
the play doesn't get made even though the timing of
it says you're probably going to be out, that would
be the situation to do it.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Brian, It's it's amazing. In eight game win streak, and
hey you got the lowly Chicago White Sox coming to town.
But this starting pitching, what they've been doing. We're seeing
Fromber pitch his best he's pitched all year. We're seeing
Spencer or Getty and Hunter Brown pitching their best. You say,
Kakuchi through thirty starts has been fantastic. I mean, it's
it's crazy what they're getting right now out of the
starting pitching with Justin Verlander knocking on the door getting
(06:40):
ready to come back.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Yeah, you can, you can feel it building, right, Like
sometimes teams get hot, as you know, units get hot,
and you can feel this starting pitching staff feeding off
of one another, taking things from other starts and implementing them,
and you know, you get that momentum building and you
don't want to be the guy that screws it up.
And you know, more than anything, what was lacking in
(07:04):
the starting rotation early when they're all injuries and you're
filling and just trying to find guys to throw it
was the consistency of just go out there and have
a quality start, right, don't have the big disaster start
where we're down big early and we have no chance.
Keep us in the game, and just give the offense
a chance, and the consistency and the steadiness of the
(07:25):
starting rotation. You know, yes, they've won eight games in
a row, but they've been in every game going back
for a couple of weeks now, even when the offense
isn't scoring enough run and that's all you can ask, right,
just keep us in the game. We got a good offense,
we got a very good bullpen. We're gonna win a
whole lot of games that way.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Talk with Brian Bogasavik former Astro brother. I used to
get busy off the mound there and then transition to
the outfield baseball man, through and through joining us for
his weekly here on next up, stayin fleet. That's Gorday
on the other side there. All right, Boga, we'll get
you out of here on this one. A couple quick
ones I think about, and we spoke in detail last
(08:03):
couple of days. Yannire Diaz RBI single last night he
has been protecting Jordan Alvarez, Yanni Diez, also people you know,
and I think about last night specifically, teams are stealing
some bases on him. What are you seeing from Yiannia
at the plate? And why the Astros the last couple
of season haven't issues giving up stolen bases.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Yeah, at the plate is a better approach. He's being
more selective, getting better pitches to hit and allowing his
natural ability to take over. He's got great back to
ball skills as long as he gets pitches in the zone.
That's been the most market improvement. As far as the defense,
they're not stealing on it on him. They're stealing bases
on the pitchers. The pitchers especially a lot of the
(08:48):
guys in the bullpen don't pay a whole lot of
attention to runners. They're not terribly quick to the plate,
and the catchers just don't have a shot. And I
know the philosophy a little bit is when you have
nasty stuff, uh, put one hundred percent of your focus
on your pitch, because if you make your pitch, you're
not going to get beat most of the time. But
you know, last night the race scored a run without
(09:08):
getting a hit. You don't want to put yourself in
those situations.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
All right, we get ready to get you out of here.
White Socks coming in two sweeps currently under our built.
Is it safe and fair to say, Bogasvic sweep into
White Sox. We don't care that they just put up
fourteen runs on fifteen runs on somebody the other night.
This should be a sweep. This year is coming up
at men and made correct, Bogan.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
The White Socks are really really bad, like historically historically bad.
And you know, major League baseball players are major League
baseball players, so you never want to say you expect
to sweep a team, But yes, I would be disappointed
if they didn't sweep.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
All right, that's Brian Bogasvic follow him on social at
Brian b r I A N Boga Savic b O
g U s v I s Boge. Check your social
Gord is being disrespect for. He clearly doesn't understand style.
So check your social boy again. We'll get sports code.
It just with the blue shirt on. It was a
(10:08):
little forced company. First of all, it's a tope or beige.
It's not a white.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
I know a lot of hats maybe stylis.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
This is not what it does. All right.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
I'm gonna take it a Bubba Gump. All right, all.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Right, bro, we'll see you next week. You join yourself
at the ballpark this weekend. Astros off today, we step aside,
we come back. If you want to respond to what
Bogus Sevin had to say, you want to get in
on the game. Last night, Astros winners of eight in
a row two and a half games for the first
time this season, in the lead in the A West,
kJ and Cypress. You'll be next up on the other side,
Legendary KB and me
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