June 27, 2025 • 12 mins
Not slowing down, the Astros are hot and rolling following last nights Game 3 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies, ensuring the series win for Houston but also attaining a sweep over their postseason rival. Throughout the series and tracking phenomenal starts, outstanding bullpen stretches and superb timely hitting, the Astros are back on a 4 game hot streak as we continue on through the first half of the season. Rolling into their highly anticipated series against the Cubs and welcoming back Kyle Tucker and Ryan Pressley back to Daikin, Sean and Dan take a moment assessing how important and what message yesterday's series sweep sends to the league along with some pointers to be mindful of going into this series against a few former Astro players.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, thank you, Cameron Smith.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Appreciate that and appreciate the Astros sweeping the phil eats.
And you just heard Robert Ford give you the final
score from it yesterday's game right there. And with all
that we say away we go and good morning here
on the Sean Salisbury Show. Good morning, Uh it is
it is a great morning. Love Fridays, Love my Fridays.
I just love them.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Uh you think that a bray You threw some cheese
up there, just a bit up, a little off speed
stuff to get you. He had those guys clueless at
the play.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
And it was not an easy part of the order either.
He had two, three, four right there in the ninth
and you're only up by one. So you're like, if
somebody gets on, this could get interesting. And he said,
I don't have I don't just have one strikeout for you.
I don't even have to just have two. I have
three for you.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
It was he got uh or robber, then he got boom,
you get boom alec boom chasing, and then he got
the uh and it was really impressive. You will not
see maybe the I mean maybe, let's hope they do
it regularly, but against the team that good. You're not
(01:12):
gonna see a better all around pitching performance by the
Astros or anybody else for three straight games against a
competitor like that. I'm not talking about against the team
to thirty games out of first place. I've done about
a World Series hopeful team, even though it was SAMs
Harper with that lineup and they're pitching, and to go
in in pitch like that back to back to back days,
(01:36):
to take the entire series and to get it out
of starting pitching and bullpen and win them and again
another one run game, and also being able to come
from lead, come from I mean, get the tie, and
then which doesn't count as it come from behind, but
then to respond immediately with Cam Smith's base hit.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
And a bray You's.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Thinking he's got to keep it, you know, Well it's
you know, one o coming, Oh it's one to one
now then boom, now it's two to one, and now
I got a chance to go get The only bummer
about the game is it? Is it Hunter Brown didn't
get to win.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
It's about it.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
But I'm telling you both those pitchers again, Sanchez, Hunter,
they were awesome. It's just what a what a an
example of if you're going to show somebody say, I get,
I want to show you three games in a row
of how you're supposed to do it defensively in pitching.
(02:33):
You saw it. It was, it was a phenomenal I
was and when I an amoraged probably a little overboard,
but I was. I was like that they can't this
pitching these last well the season, but just these last
few days. It kind of epitomized who they'd been. But
you don't that's not I'll tell you right now that
ain't gonna happen to Philly again this whole year where
they get I'm talking about where you are, where they
(02:55):
can barely put the bat on the ball back to
back days seeing pitching that you're gonna get three straight
days of that. You may get three good pictures, but
the odds are that one of the performances going to
end in four and a third and they get knocked
out right of the box that you know, of the
off the mound.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
I just I don't know, maybe we are. I'm not sure.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
That there's enough buzz for what the pitching staff's doing
in this town. I understand it usually is like this.
Then post All Star break football start they start to
creep in. You're in that day when people are taking vacations.
Maybe I'm wrong, but you know how you get that
feeling that you walk around it feels like everything's everybody's
talking about the Astros, and I think they are. I
don't know if maybe they're just having a hard time.
(03:43):
All of us are like, they're good, but man, they're
they're they're over, They're doing some things that we didn't
expect them to do. And so you're kind of sitting
back saying, man, either I'm superstitious and I'm gonna keep
this approach to it, or I'll catch you post July
fourth to see where we are. Well, here you are.
I'm not sure over this course of time, considering the
(04:07):
circumstances with injuries, that you've seen them pitch better in
the last five or six years. And and i'm including
when Verlander's on here and the rest of it, and
they're going good. I'm talking about just to boom, and
they've had bigger names. They've had SI well the year
Cole and Verlander were here, and you could have given
the cy younger Cole and Verlander. I mean all that,
(04:27):
but I'll tell you through all their times. What you
saw pitching bullpen and starting pitching the last three days.
Go ahead and show me a time where you've seen
it better over the last eight years in the in
a three game series against the team that good. When
you're hittings giving you two runs or one run, you're
(04:48):
not getting eight runs where there's no there's no security
in any of these games, meaning they were they were
grinded out. You're one swing away from all these games
being decided differently. So to me, and maybe we're just
settling in because I don't even know if I'm giving him.
I mean, I sit here and say, you would have
begged for this record fully healthy, at the All Star
(05:09):
break hit or at the beginning of July. If I
said this was the record, you would have said, no way.
And I'm talking about jord On twenty home runs and
Bragman and Tucker starting in the corner outfield and Quarner infield.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
We would have said this, give me this record. We're
on our way to a World Series.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
That's how you'd have felt watching even with some flaws
and the hitting. You just said, this team's different because
the names and the rapper of the name has changed.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
This is who the Astros are. But it's just different
to me. I am.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
I don't know if maybe are because we lowered expectations
that you're like trying to find We're all trying to
find our way back in saying well, man, maybe they
are better than we thought. Well, those guys that do
the scouting and the coaching and the playing. The good
thing about that is most of them don't listen to
what we think about him. You know, like, well, they're
going to battle for a playoff and it is early.
(06:03):
There's still another whole half the season, but we only
got eighty games of Judge eighty one. Now for the Astros,
you can't tell me that you're not just pleasantly surprised
but on borderline shocked about how they've done this.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
It really is.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
And I mean, I know this city loves the Astros,
and I know there's buzz, but I'm talking about that
buzz where it's like, do we realize what we're seeing
here and what they just did these last three games
with that pitching staff. But it's been It's not an aberration.
That's what they've been doing all year. Now to do
this for a buck sixty two, you say how do
you sustain it without somewhere there's a major slump. Maybe
(06:40):
there's not this I don't know, but I can tell
you there will not be three games better from a
pitching staff, maybe in a league against a good team
doing what they did for those three games the rest
of this baseball season. It'll be hard pressed for the
Astros to do that against the A's, let alone the
Phillies just because it's baseball.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
People are really good.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Hard But I'm telling you, you want to talk about taking
it to another level and just getting it done.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
I did.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
This team's different, and you know what, different may be
really good because with that pitching staff, there's not a
team in the American League that they cannot beat in
a long series.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Three for twenty one with runners in scoring positions, seventeen
runners left on base, you score five runs the entire
three days. I give you that just as a blind resume.
What are we talking about over these three games? We're
talking about them getting swept. We're talking about because that's
the thing you went on Tuesday night. One nothing, that's
(07:41):
a hey, a pitch got away from you with a
runner on base, two run homer. You lose that game,
two to one. Wednesday night, you win two to nothing.
Maybe you gave up a three run homer in the
third inning, or you know, you gave up a two
run double and then somebody hit a solo home run
in the fifth inning. I mean, you're still getting good
pitching at that point, but three losses because well, then
(08:01):
we're looking at the offense. This was a Phillies team
that was playing really well coming in too. They just
beat the Mets two out of three to take the
division lead, and they had won eight of the last ten.
So Harper or no Harper, there's still a really good
team coming.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
In as well. Harper, no Harper, Jordan, no yord On
true very the similarities with that left handed power and
guys that make a difference on their team and just
add energy when they're in the lineup, let alone good
play the I don't think Schwarber hit a ball out
of the infield in three games. I'm dead serious, I'm
trying to remember. I don't think he did. I don't
(08:37):
think he's got what twenty four home runs. A guy's
going to hit forty five right before the seed he
just is I mean, I don't think he got a
ball out of the infield in three games. I don't
think and I'm not that's not hyperbolic. I'm not sure
a ball he hit left the infield. So to teep
that down and to you know, make great pitches by
(08:58):
a bray you where you didn't have hater of available
because his back to backer. I just it was a
masterful pitching Tuesday Wednesday three game series.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
It just was.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
And you know what the other Cats, if you're complaining
about the Astros hitting and you're Philadelphia, they got great
pitching they could be complained about. I mean not complaining.
If if we're complaining, meaning about Astros hitting, imagine in
Philadelphia getting that pitching, which you got three really good
(09:30):
days of pitching and losing all three. And so if
we're complained, we won, those that didn't score much left
a bunch of runners. How do you think those Cats
are filling? Schwarber's walking out of this saying I'm not
sure in the three game series in my life, if
at least a ball hasn't left the infield where I'm
flying out the deep center or a deep right field,
so it was as masterful of me. It's in the
(09:52):
middle of the week it's right around the holiday with
July fourth coming, kind of get lost in the shuffle.
Don't kid yourself as they look back and say, Okay,
hey man, where did you gather another bit of confidence?
You're gonna get a bunch of people saying, take you
back to the Tuesday Wednesday Thursday series before July fourth,
the week before July. The pitching staff, you'll say, you'll
(10:14):
go back to these three and say that kind of
defined who we were this year. And they you got
to give them credit. They each and every single person
who took them out stepped his game up and realized
the height of the situation. Even though it's June, they
took it. It felt to me like they treated like
this three game series man, and we had single elimination
were down too, and we had to sweep them boom boom,
(10:36):
or five game series and then went boom, boom boom.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
If the old days would go three or five or seven, depending,
but they they there was a I don't know, and
there seems like a sense of calm about them under
duress this year, which is different.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
I like it. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
I just as for my optics wasn't in the ballpark
in any of the three games we watched them all.
Their pitching was spectacular.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Now seventeen and seven in one run games this year,
thirty wins at Diking Park this year. Of your forty eight,
and you talked about the top hitters in the Phillies lineup, Turner,
Schwarber and boem Oh for twelve. You throw Costianos in
there for the top four. They were one for sixteen
yesterday and they weren't much better than the whole series.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Dude.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
They kept them in the ballpark, and they kept runners
away from the base pass especially in scoring position, and
they got great pitching the entire time. Scattered a few
hits here and there, but took care of their biz.
Like I said yesterday, the only thing not to like
was it Hunter Brown and get to win well once again, dudes,
pumping it up at ninety nine.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
He's really freaking good.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Man Lowers lower's the era to one to seventy four
on the season. Yeah, you mentioned he doesn't get the
win because he goes the seven innings, doesn't give up
an earned run, three hits, nine strikeouts in the performance.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
That's getting it done.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
As the Astros now bring in another really good National
League team, the Cubs, over the weekend, so we talk
about that, but mentioning how good the pitching has been.
Just how good has it been? The numbers tell you,
and they tell it directly. We'll talk about it right here.
It is a Shawn Salisbury Show, Sports Talk seven to
ninety
Hey, thank you, Cameron Smith.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Appreciate that and appreciate the Astros sweeping the phil eats.
And you just heard Robert Ford give you the final
score from it yesterday's game right there. And with all
that we say away we go and good morning here
on the Sean Salisbury Show. Good morning, Uh it is
it is a great morning. Love Fridays, Love my Fridays.
I just love them.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Uh you think that a bray You threw some cheese
up there, just a bit up, a little off speed
stuff to get you. He had those guys clueless at
the play.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
And it was not an easy part of the order either.
He had two, three, four right there in the ninth
and you're only up by one. So you're like, if
somebody gets on, this could get interesting. And he said,
I don't have I don't just have one strikeout for you.
I don't even have to just have two. I have
three for you.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
It was he got uh or robber, then he got boom,
you get boom alec boom chasing, and then he got
the uh and it was really impressive. You will not
see maybe the I mean maybe, let's hope they do
it regularly, but against the team that good. You're not
(01:12):
gonna see a better all around pitching performance by the
Astros or anybody else for three straight games against a
competitor like that. I'm not talking about against the team
to thirty games out of first place. I've done about
a World Series hopeful team, even though it was SAMs
Harper with that lineup and they're pitching, and to go
in in pitch like that back to back to back days,
(01:36):
to take the entire series and to get it out
of starting pitching and bullpen and win them and again
another one run game, and also being able to come
from lead, come from I mean, get the tie, and
then which doesn't count as it come from behind, but
then to respond immediately with Cam Smith's base hit.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
And a bray You's.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Thinking he's got to keep it, you know, Well it's
you know, one o coming, Oh it's one to one
now then boom, now it's two to one, and now
I got a chance to go get The only bummer
about the game is it? Is it Hunter Brown didn't
get to win.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
It's about it.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
But I'm telling you both those pitchers again, Sanchez, Hunter,
they were awesome. It's just what a what a an
example of if you're going to show somebody say, I get,
I want to show you three games in a row
of how you're supposed to do it defensively in pitching.
(02:33):
You saw it. It was, it was a phenomenal I
was and when I an amoraged probably a little overboard,
but I was. I was like that they can't this
pitching these last well the season, but just these last
few days. It kind of epitomized who they'd been. But
you don't that's not I'll tell you right now that
ain't gonna happen to Philly again this whole year where
they get I'm talking about where you are, where they
(02:55):
can barely put the bat on the ball back to
back days seeing pitching that you're gonna get three straight
days of that. You may get three good pictures, but
the odds are that one of the performances going to
end in four and a third and they get knocked
out right of the box that you know, of the
off the mound.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
I just I don't know, maybe we are. I'm not sure.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
That there's enough buzz for what the pitching staff's doing
in this town. I understand it usually is like this.
Then post All Star break football start they start to
creep in. You're in that day when people are taking vacations.
Maybe I'm wrong, but you know how you get that
feeling that you walk around it feels like everything's everybody's
talking about the Astros, and I think they are. I
don't know if maybe they're just having a hard time.
(03:43):
All of us are like, they're good, but man, they're
they're they're over, They're doing some things that we didn't
expect them to do. And so you're kind of sitting
back saying, man, either I'm superstitious and I'm gonna keep
this approach to it, or I'll catch you post July
fourth to see where we are. Well, here you are.
I'm not sure over this course of time, considering the
(04:07):
circumstances with injuries, that you've seen them pitch better in
the last five or six years. And and i'm including
when Verlander's on here and the rest of it, and
they're going good. I'm talking about just to boom, and
they've had bigger names. They've had SI well the year
Cole and Verlander were here, and you could have given
the cy younger Cole and Verlander. I mean all that,
(04:27):
but I'll tell you through all their times. What you
saw pitching bullpen and starting pitching the last three days.
Go ahead and show me a time where you've seen
it better over the last eight years in the in
a three game series against the team that good. When
you're hittings giving you two runs or one run, you're
(04:48):
not getting eight runs where there's no there's no security
in any of these games, meaning they were they were
grinded out. You're one swing away from all these games
being decided differently. So to me, and maybe we're just
settling in because I don't even know if I'm giving him.
I mean, I sit here and say, you would have
begged for this record fully healthy, at the All Star
(05:09):
break hit or at the beginning of July. If I
said this was the record, you would have said, no way.
And I'm talking about jord On twenty home runs and
Bragman and Tucker starting in the corner outfield and Quarner infield.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
We would have said this, give me this record. We're
on our way to a World Series.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
That's how you'd have felt watching even with some flaws
and the hitting. You just said, this team's different because
the names and the rapper of the name has changed.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
This is who the Astros are. But it's just different
to me. I am.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
I don't know if maybe are because we lowered expectations
that you're like trying to find We're all trying to
find our way back in saying well, man, maybe they
are better than we thought. Well, those guys that do
the scouting and the coaching and the playing. The good
thing about that is most of them don't listen to
what we think about him. You know, like, well, they're
going to battle for a playoff and it is early.
(06:03):
There's still another whole half the season, but we only
got eighty games of Judge eighty one. Now for the Astros,
you can't tell me that you're not just pleasantly surprised
but on borderline shocked about how they've done this.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
It really is.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
And I mean, I know this city loves the Astros,
and I know there's buzz, but I'm talking about that
buzz where it's like, do we realize what we're seeing
here and what they just did these last three games
with that pitching staff. But it's been It's not an aberration.
That's what they've been doing all year. Now to do
this for a buck sixty two, you say how do
you sustain it without somewhere there's a major slump. Maybe
(06:40):
there's not this I don't know, but I can tell
you there will not be three games better from a
pitching staff, maybe in a league against a good team
doing what they did for those three games the rest
of this baseball season. It'll be hard pressed for the
Astros to do that against the A's, let alone the
Phillies just because it's baseball.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
People are really good.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Hard But I'm telling you, you want to talk about taking
it to another level and just getting it done.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
I did.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
This team's different, and you know what, different may be
really good because with that pitching staff, there's not a
team in the American League that they cannot beat in
a long series.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Three for twenty one with runners in scoring positions, seventeen
runners left on base, you score five runs the entire
three days. I give you that just as a blind resume.
What are we talking about over these three games? We're
talking about them getting swept. We're talking about because that's
the thing you went on Tuesday night. One nothing, that's
(07:41):
a hey, a pitch got away from you with a
runner on base, two run homer. You lose that game,
two to one. Wednesday night, you win two to nothing.
Maybe you gave up a three run homer in the
third inning, or you know, you gave up a two
run double and then somebody hit a solo home run
in the fifth inning. I mean, you're still getting good
pitching at that point, but three losses because well, then
(08:01):
we're looking at the offense. This was a Phillies team
that was playing really well coming in too. They just
beat the Mets two out of three to take the
division lead, and they had won eight of the last ten.
So Harper or no Harper, there's still a really good
team coming.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
In as well. Harper, no Harper, Jordan, no yord On
true very the similarities with that left handed power and
guys that make a difference on their team and just
add energy when they're in the lineup, let alone good
play the I don't think Schwarber hit a ball out
of the infield in three games. I'm dead serious, I'm
trying to remember. I don't think he did. I don't
(08:37):
think he's got what twenty four home runs. A guy's
going to hit forty five right before the seed he
just is I mean, I don't think he got a
ball out of the infield in three games. I don't
think and I'm not that's not hyperbolic. I'm not sure
a ball he hit left the infield. So to teep
that down and to you know, make great pitches by
(08:58):
a bray you where you didn't have hater of available
because his back to backer. I just it was a
masterful pitching Tuesday Wednesday three game series.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
It just was.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
And you know what the other Cats, if you're complaining
about the Astros hitting and you're Philadelphia, they got great
pitching they could be complained about. I mean not complaining.
If if we're complaining, meaning about Astros hitting, imagine in
Philadelphia getting that pitching, which you got three really good
(09:30):
days of pitching and losing all three. And so if
we're complained, we won, those that didn't score much left
a bunch of runners. How do you think those Cats
are filling? Schwarber's walking out of this saying I'm not
sure in the three game series in my life, if
at least a ball hasn't left the infield where I'm
flying out the deep center or a deep right field,
so it was as masterful of me. It's in the
(09:52):
middle of the week it's right around the holiday with
July fourth coming, kind of get lost in the shuffle.
Don't kid yourself as they look back and say, Okay,
hey man, where did you gather another bit of confidence?
You're gonna get a bunch of people saying, take you
back to the Tuesday Wednesday Thursday series before July fourth,
the week before July. The pitching staff, you'll say, you'll
(10:14):
go back to these three and say that kind of
defined who we were this year. And they you got
to give them credit. They each and every single person
who took them out stepped his game up and realized
the height of the situation. Even though it's June, they
took it. It felt to me like they treated like
this three game series man, and we had single elimination
were down too, and we had to sweep them boom boom,
(10:36):
or five game series and then went boom, boom boom.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
If the old days would go three or five or seven, depending,
but they they there was a I don't know, and
there seems like a sense of calm about them under
duress this year, which is different.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
I like it. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
I just as for my optics wasn't in the ballpark
in any of the three games we watched them all.
Their pitching was spectacular.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Now seventeen and seven in one run games this year,
thirty wins at Diking Park this year. Of your forty eight,
and you talked about the top hitters in the Phillies lineup, Turner,
Schwarber and boem Oh for twelve. You throw Costianos in
there for the top four. They were one for sixteen
yesterday and they weren't much better than the whole series.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Dude.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
They kept them in the ballpark, and they kept runners
away from the base pass especially in scoring position, and
they got great pitching the entire time. Scattered a few
hits here and there, but took care of their biz.
Like I said yesterday, the only thing not to like
was it Hunter Brown and get to win well once again, dudes,
pumping it up at ninety nine.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
He's really freaking good.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Man Lowers lower's the era to one to seventy four
on the season. Yeah, you mentioned he doesn't get the
win because he goes the seven innings, doesn't give up
an earned run, three hits, nine strikeouts in the performance.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
That's getting it done.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
As the Astros now bring in another really good National
League team, the Cubs, over the weekend, so we talk
about that, but mentioning how good the pitching has been.
Just how good has it been? The numbers tell you,
and they tell it directly. We'll talk about it right here.
It is a Shawn Salisbury Show, Sports Talk seven to
ninety
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I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!
Dateline NBC
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