August 21, 2025 • 5 mins
Closing out their series against the Tigers, the Astros leave Detroit with another series loss, making it their second series loss in a row, following yesterday's day game with the final score of 7-2. Somehow, the Astros continue to hold first place, leading the AL West Division with the Mariners still on their heels, roughly 2 games behind them. Rolling up to Baltimore after recently seeing the Orioles at home, Sean, Dan, & Chris analyze the Astros' recent two series losses and what adjustments must be made if they intend to sustain their lead in the division and secure a postseason spot.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Gordy, we had a Dana on I want to get
your stuff on it. We had Dana on yesterday obviously,
and I get the hunch coming out of that that
it's your honor bust that if he doesn't play well,
I mean that they're they're throwing a whole load on
his shoulder, saying he's got to carry it. And that's
a tough task to have for a guy who's been
out a hundred days or whatever. It's right, what do
(00:21):
you think about this team's I know they can turn
it on or off, but this is an average playing
team right now.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Plate, So we did a box cast Rous and I
last night, presented by Carbuck Brewing, and we you know,
I said, look, it's important we take a step back,
like we're in the moment right now, this is going sideways,
but take a step back.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Let's take it from a real motion.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Yeah, And we realize every season there's a stretch like
this where they hit a little you hit rock bottom,
where it feels like this team ain't winning jack, they
making the postseason, they're trash all this stuff. But just
a few weeks ago, in fourth of July weekend, they
looked like the World Series champ sweeping the Dodgers. So
(01:02):
it's the ebbs and flows of a season. This is
rock bottom. Yes, this is as bad as it gainst
we thought when they got swept by the A's a
few weeks ago that that was it. But I mean,
I just and Dana's got the right mind, You've got it.
You can't. We've had so many fans throughout this uh
Houston right when football was king fifteen years ago here
(01:23):
and then Astros came back and it was a baseball
town again. So many people brought the football mentality to
baseball where it's two losses in a row and it's overreaction.
I'm jumping off the bridge. Where's in baseball? You can
lose six in a row and still win the World Series?
Speaker 2 (01:37):
But do the optics change it for baseball?
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Because there's Andy Wait in the next day, the optics
the drama of every single game. Do the optics change
your thoughts on the Astros?
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Well, it can go.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Are you seeing enough to tell you that they can
turn it around? Like we're talking about again, Well that's
what I'm saying. I just think like there's a chance
they going to Baltimore this weekend. Win three out of
four we got oh, okay, they're back. Okay, yeah, like
so you're just waiting for where's that home of Okay.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
We're good. What about Fromber? I mean, he's a head
case right now. I don't know what. I don't know
what's going on with him. Yeah, I mean I saw
somebody tweet out yesterday like basically, the Astros have to
get great starts out a Hunter and frober valdas the
rest of the way.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
And look at what Rombert did yesterday.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
That was that was a mess. He's had some of
those moments where he has that inning, that first inning
where you're like, what the hell is this? And then
he settles down.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
So the problem is settling down when you give up
six is hard to get back into the way the
team's hitting.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
There's the way this team's sitting right now. Yeah, they can't.
They can't score to save their lives.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
So now it's I need Hunter Brown and Jason Alexander
to really go out.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
There and pitch well yeah, and then crazy that Jason
Alexander is the one that you're like counting on. Yeah, hey,
maybe about him going out there? Now, who's this kid?
Brandon Young? Or whoever this is. The kid had the
no hitter going on just a week ago. Do you
see him again? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (02:52):
I see him again in the night. Oh they do?
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Yeah, now now glass half full. Oh we just saw
this guy. We know, we know what he's got, we
know his stuff. We get the scouting goodport on him. Yeah,
you almost got no hit on that scouting your board.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
He almost got a perfect gamed too. Yeah. Craziness. So
we'll see it. But it uh so.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
With that, how long do you wait on from I
mean from how long do you wait on your on
from here?
Speaker 3 (03:20):
This? That's their interest because the eight team was kicking
out around yesterday. So the plan was he played what
was that two nights ago? Last night wasn't off night.
The plan is then play back to back in Corpus
tonight and tomorrow so he can play back to back games.
Or feel good he comes out of Friday feeling good? Okay,
Do I wake up Saturday morning, put him on a
plane first thing in the morning, send him to Baltimore
(03:40):
to play Saturday Sunday with an off day Monday. Or
do I say, hey, hang back here, rest rest, We'll
hit the cages Saturday and Sunday, we'll get off day Monday,
and then Tuesday against the Rockies, you'll be right here
in Houston. That's the that's the conundrum. Now, WAXT seem
to think because off day Monday, Yeah, send him up
(04:02):
to Baltimore, put him out there Saturday Sunday. He'll get
his rets day Monday again. If he's going back to
back today tomorrow, do I really want him to go
back to back to back to back?
Speaker 2 (04:14):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 3 (04:15):
So that I would lean towards keep him here, have
him debut Tuesday against Colorado.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Judging from Dana Brown, Dan and Gordy yesterday when I said, well,
two for four, how much more you got to see
to get you to get him here sooner than later?
Let get the abts to major league level. Said well,
we've come this far and this waited this long. You
don't want to all of a sudden flip the switch
and boom, let's go, pop the you know, pop the capital.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Let's go now.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
My gut tells me they're thinking see against Colorado at
home against the Rockies. Chance for him to rake you
know what he does in this ballpark, just to even
keep him off a plant, just relax, you know, treatment,
get it going, stay away, casual swings, warm up a
little bit, and get going. The team to him so
(05:01):
that that's the kind of you're talking about. They need him.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
What happens if you score zero tonight, zero tomorrow, there's
you're going on Saturday. Dana is going get him on
a damn plane now.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Yeah, and it won't It won't be a bit. It'll
be one of those G seven twenty seaters. Okay, it'll
be jim fastic and get there plane be sent.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
In a perfect world, I'd like to hold him here
till Tuesday.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
If I was a betting man and had to bet it,
here's a thousand bucks, you got it, And I am
a betting man. But if they gave me those odds
said you had to bet it, my thousand will go
towards his first start. We'll be back here against Colorado
on Tuesday
Gordy, we had a Dana on I want to get
your stuff on it. We had Dana on yesterday obviously,
and I get the hunch coming out of that that
it's your honor bust that if he doesn't play well,
I mean that they're they're throwing a whole load on
his shoulder, saying he's got to carry it. And that's
a tough task to have for a guy who's been
out a hundred days or whatever. It's right, what do
(00:21):
you think about this team's I know they can turn
it on or off, but this is an average playing
team right now.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Plate, So we did a box cast Rous and I
last night, presented by Carbuck Brewing, and we you know,
I said, look, it's important we take a step back,
like we're in the moment right now, this is going sideways,
but take a step back.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Let's take it from a real motion.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Yeah, And we realize every season there's a stretch like
this where they hit a little you hit rock bottom,
where it feels like this team ain't winning jack, they
making the postseason, they're trash all this stuff. But just
a few weeks ago, in fourth of July weekend, they
looked like the World Series champ sweeping the Dodgers. So
(01:02):
it's the ebbs and flows of a season. This is
rock bottom. Yes, this is as bad as it gainst
we thought when they got swept by the A's a
few weeks ago that that was it. But I mean,
I just and Dana's got the right mind, You've got it.
You can't. We've had so many fans throughout this uh
Houston right when football was king fifteen years ago here
(01:23):
and then Astros came back and it was a baseball
town again. So many people brought the football mentality to
baseball where it's two losses in a row and it's overreaction.
I'm jumping off the bridge. Where's in baseball? You can
lose six in a row and still win the World Series?
Speaker 2 (01:37):
But do the optics change it for baseball?
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Because there's Andy Wait in the next day, the optics
the drama of every single game. Do the optics change
your thoughts on the Astros?
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Well, it can go.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Are you seeing enough to tell you that they can
turn it around? Like we're talking about again, Well that's
what I'm saying. I just think like there's a chance
they going to Baltimore this weekend. Win three out of
four we got oh, okay, they're back. Okay, yeah, like
so you're just waiting for where's that home of Okay.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
We're good. What about Fromber? I mean, he's a head
case right now. I don't know what. I don't know
what's going on with him. Yeah, I mean I saw
somebody tweet out yesterday like basically, the Astros have to
get great starts out a Hunter and frober valdas the
rest of the way.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
And look at what Rombert did yesterday.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
That was that was a mess. He's had some of
those moments where he has that inning, that first inning
where you're like, what the hell is this? And then
he settles down.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
So the problem is settling down when you give up
six is hard to get back into the way the
team's hitting.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
There's the way this team's sitting right now. Yeah, they can't.
They can't score to save their lives.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
So now it's I need Hunter Brown and Jason Alexander
to really go out.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
There and pitch well yeah, and then crazy that Jason
Alexander is the one that you're like counting on. Yeah, hey,
maybe about him going out there? Now, who's this kid?
Brandon Young? Or whoever this is. The kid had the
no hitter going on just a week ago. Do you
see him again? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (02:52):
I see him again in the night. Oh they do?
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Yeah, now now glass half full. Oh we just saw
this guy. We know, we know what he's got, we
know his stuff. We get the scouting goodport on him. Yeah,
you almost got no hit on that scouting your board.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
He almost got a perfect gamed too. Yeah. Craziness. So
we'll see it. But it uh so.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
With that, how long do you wait on from I
mean from how long do you wait on your on
from here?
Speaker 3 (03:20):
This? That's their interest because the eight team was kicking
out around yesterday. So the plan was he played what
was that two nights ago? Last night wasn't off night.
The plan is then play back to back in Corpus
tonight and tomorrow so he can play back to back games.
Or feel good he comes out of Friday feeling good? Okay,
Do I wake up Saturday morning, put him on a
plane first thing in the morning, send him to Baltimore
(03:40):
to play Saturday Sunday with an off day Monday. Or
do I say, hey, hang back here, rest rest, We'll
hit the cages Saturday and Sunday, we'll get off day Monday,
and then Tuesday against the Rockies, you'll be right here
in Houston. That's the that's the conundrum. Now, WAXT seem
to think because off day Monday, Yeah, send him up
(04:02):
to Baltimore, put him out there Saturday Sunday. He'll get
his rets day Monday again. If he's going back to
back today tomorrow, do I really want him to go
back to back to back to back?
Speaker 2 (04:14):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 3 (04:15):
So that I would lean towards keep him here, have
him debut Tuesday against Colorado.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Judging from Dana Brown, Dan and Gordy yesterday when I said, well,
two for four, how much more you got to see
to get you to get him here sooner than later?
Let get the abts to major league level. Said well,
we've come this far and this waited this long. You
don't want to all of a sudden flip the switch
and boom, let's go, pop the you know, pop the capital.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Let's go now.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
My gut tells me they're thinking see against Colorado at
home against the Rockies. Chance for him to rake you
know what he does in this ballpark, just to even
keep him off a plant, just relax, you know, treatment,
get it going, stay away, casual swings, warm up a
little bit, and get going. The team to him so
(05:01):
that that's the kind of you're talking about. They need him.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
What happens if you score zero tonight, zero tomorrow, there's
you're going on Saturday. Dana is going get him on
a damn plane now.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Yeah, and it won't It won't be a bit. It'll
be one of those G seven twenty seaters. Okay, it'll
be jim fastic and get there plane be sent.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
In a perfect world, I'd like to hold him here
till Tuesday.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
If I was a betting man and had to bet it,
here's a thousand bucks, you got it, And I am
a betting man. But if they gave me those odds
said you had to bet it, my thousand will go
towards his first start. We'll be back here against Colorado
on Tuesday
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