Joey Loperfido Gets First Big League Home Run

The Astros pull out a tremendous victory over Oakland with the final score 8-1. With things starting to turnaround and pickup for the Astros, Joey Loperfido gets his first big league home run extending the league to six. Taking on Milwaukee today, can the Astros extend this winning run they're on?  

Episode Transcript

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Saulisbury O s okay, let's dothis. Sean Salisbury to usc truth,
longtime friend Shawn Salisbury, Bryan Lima, go Lobos. This is the Sean
Salsbury Show. Trying to get intoValhalla Golf Club. The second round delay

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due to an accident with the deathof a pedestrian hit by a shuttle bus.
Scheffler tried to go around the traffic, drove right past cops. They
tried to stop him. There wasan incident that occurred. He got arrested,
booked, and released. He's actuallyon his way to back to the
golf course, according to excuse MeAdam schefter. Jeff Darlinson of ESPN was

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on scene. He was a witnessto that incident. It's been a crazy
morning over at a hall of golfclub. Hope everybody is saying staying safe
after those big time storms rolled throughthe city last night knocked out power to
over two million. I just checkeda there's over eight hundred thousand people still
without power. Let's talk astros.Joey loperfdo the rookie hit his first home

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run of his major league career lastnight and this out sounded on the broadcast
eight three to one, and lowBrafito cranks what deep to right field,
back at the wall prow and hewill what's that? What go? First?
Big league holdrat Joey low Perfido andthe Astros league is six to nothe
e. That was Robert Ford onthe call right here on seven nine year

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home for Astros baseball, Lo Braffitogetting it done for his first career.
Chat that inning was you talk aboutsomething that came in and hit in a
hurry, load up the bases,Yiner clears him with a gapper left center,
Jake. I mean no, soonerthan the crowd stopped cheering and Myers
doubles and then low Perfido goes deepin the right in the right field,

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I mean you blinked, and itwas it was nothing nothing bl Then it
was what that's with three four?I think that made it six nothing and
it was like, WHOA, whatjust happened? And then obviously Christian Xavier
went in there, Like I said, I got home after all that craziness
and walked right in and two minuteslater that happened to my house and it

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was friggin' it was you want tothat is who the Astros are when the
onslaught is going good, right,and think about the bodies. Yiiner Dias
wasn't regular starter last year. He'sregular here and he can break. Jake
Myers is the center fielder, butalso it's spot time. We're wondering when
he's actually come through at times thisyear. Low Berfeedo gets his first home

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run. And this team, Iknow it's Oakland, but they're still pros
and they needed this going into thisseries. They had and Javier eight strikeouts,
one walk. They have started thestarting pitching to keep walks down over
the last four or five starts,which is huge for them, and not
giving free passes. And one swingof the bat changes the course and they're

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now getting some timely hitting basis packtwo outs yiner Gapper, another two out
hit Boom and an RBI Myers andthen a two out home run. So
it looked like the Astros. Andby the way, don't look now.
The crazy thing about is teams thatthat did start like they did and we
got to twelve or thirteen games underfive hundred don't have the ability a lot

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of times to overcome that. Thisteam's talent never says twelve games under five
hundred and now. But they're they'rethe way they were playing did But now
you're getting good pitching back into thebullpen, timely hitting and guys that were
Bregmant two more hits last night.He's up over two twenty now pushing two

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thirty. It's starting to look likethe Astros. And I'll guarantee you if
this continues for another series or two, the rest of Major League Baseball is
going to say, oh hell.And that's with the big left hander still
not hitting, and at some pointpoint in time he will go all ham
on him, I'm telling you,And when he does, he might break
a few seats in the stands.You don't want to try to catch that

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ball when he finally starts to unload, because he will do that. You
know it's coming. You worried aboutif it's coming with with jord On,
I can't worry about it. I'mI'm not worried. I'm a little bit
concerned just because of how bad theat bats have been. Yeah, it
is with missus fastballs, stringing,swinging through change up, swinging a damn
near everything. The decisions are unlikehim. Pitch selection rights as a concern

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he's waving in some non competitive pitches. So if one, but if he
does dial in and you know howthat goes in bunch of his brother and
he can load you up for aboutsix weeks and carry you. So it's
a good thing. This looks likewho we thought we'd see coming out of
spring training. Yeah, that's it'sa concern for me. Uh but if,
if, and when he gets itrolling, you know how it goes

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man that the dude will catch firereally quick. Christian Xavier last night,
six innings, two hits, noruns, struck out eight, walk just
one. And then how about SeanDubin coming in and throwing three solid innings,
giving up just two hits, onerun, two k's saving the bullpen
as they get ready to battle apretty damn good Milwaukee Brewers team who was

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in the building tonight. In thegame last night, Bregman had a double,
Myers had a double. Yannard Diazhad a double. Obviously, we
just heard the home run call forJoey Lo Perfito. That was his first
of his MLB career runners in scoringposition, three for ten for the Shrows
last night. Even though it wasthree for ten, it was the timeliness

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of their hitting, which we've beentalking about all year, Brian, and
it happened. I mean, andthose three that six runs were scored with
two outs, Yes, two outtimeliness last night, because you never know
if you get if they get outof the inning and you start fielding man
a little slighty, then Oakland allof a sudden it starts to roll and

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they beat you three to two ina game like this, The winning close
games timely hitting. And you know, Dana Brown told us on Wednesday,
then when Bregman or the week beforeon Wednesday, then when Bregman gets rolling,
he's the key and everybody will feedoff it. Well, I don't
know. Starting pitching looks like itstarted to feed off it. The other

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guys are getting into the act,including Bregman himself. It is It's amazing
what goes on with the energy ofthis team when a couple players get into
the act. And I know we'regoing to hear the naysayers say across the
country that it's oh, it's theOakland A's Well. Going into the series,

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Oakland had more wins than the Astrosdid and we're scoring some pretty good
runs. Yeah, and fortunately Imean for the Astros, they haven't been
able to see the closer, butthat I mean in a close situation,
a real, really close game atthe back of that where he's pumping one
to oh three yea miller and theythey've been able to elude him for the

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most part, because that's a goodthing. Get a lead big enough where
you don't have to face that caton a regular basis, on a nightly
basis. You know, the othernight when he came in, he hadn't
pitched in like eleven days. Yeah, well, how do you not get
that do more work? I don'tcare give a damn what the situation is.
Apparently he doesn't need it with theway he comes in and range.
Yet, guy's a freak. Yeah. He is pumping hundred and two hundred
and three miles an hour, andhe pitches once every eleven days. And

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he's got more line pitch too.He's really good. He is really good.
Somebody else that's starting to heat up, Alex Bregman. Let's look at
the adjustments that he has made toget himself back right at the plate.
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