August 5, 2025 • 8 mins
Moving on from their series sweep by the Red Sox in Fenway, the Astros shake back a bit as they roll down to Miami, taking the opener from the Marlins with an 8-2 victory. Still first in the AL West and hoping to strafe off more wins regarding a bit of a setback coming out of the All-Star break and the trade deadline, Sean and Dan share a few pointers to note following yesterday's win, along with a few new names to note that have gained some popularity here in Houston.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Sway, you get a miss wag, a bit strikes out
on the splitter and that is the ball game. Astros
into three game skin take a Game one in Miami,
winning eight to two.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Robert Ford, not Robert Hord, Robert Ford with the very.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Happy final, big shot, Bob, Robert or last night he
did not.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
It was.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
It was our normal crew of Robert Ford and Steve Sparks.
But you just heard Robert Ford give you the very
happy final last night from there in South Florida as
the Astros getting back on the winning track. And with
that we say away we go in good morning here
on the Sean Salisbury Show. And Sean I threw it
out on Twitter last night and it's as simple as
can be. You put the ball in play, well, good
(00:47):
things can happen. And the Astros in that fourth inning
last night, for the five runs that they erupted for, well,
when a novel concept they put the ball in play.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
They did, and that was big and it was never
in question after that, and that was a looked a
similar to the day before the other way.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
Yeah, it's just a shoe was on the other foot.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Exactly right, big inning, and sometimes those are hard to overcome,
and usually they are, especially when they're that big. And
then you know, they got help from a lot of
people last night to play. Even though ball wasn't flying
out of the park, they were getting a lot of
extra bates hit clutch hits at the right time, you know,
from Correa Kartini got into the act, Christian Walker got
into the act, Jeremy Paine a couple times in the act.
(01:26):
They the Diaz that's exactly right, loaded up and did
a great job. And I'm gonna tell you phenomenal performance
of scoreless for what's six. I thought the pitching performance
last night, considering think about the pressure they're and knowing
people are coming back wondering is this my gig or
(01:47):
isn't it?
Speaker 4 (01:48):
Where am I going to be in this rotation.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
And coming off And they needed it off a three
game losing streak in Boston. They needed to have that
performance in a beginning like that allows you to settle in.
But they got everything downe and they needed to get
done last night, including the win, and uh, I thought,
I thought they did a hell of a job. I know,
the back to back home runs for pinchhit home runs
off King, but that's at the point when you have
(02:11):
the lead, that validates, even though you never like to
see it, That validates what we're talking about. Give yourself
some latitude and leeway. Can't be always being two to one,
three to one, three two games where one swing of
the bat one way or the other caused a problem.
Two solo home runs meant what last night nothing exactly right.
Could have been might as well have been two singles. Now,
ego and pitching. If you're the pitcher, you don't like
(02:32):
it as good as he's been this year King has,
but they it didn't. It wasn't like a two to
one game where that's where you had the leeways. Okay,
they get away with a couple of them, a couple
you know, pinchhit home runs, no harm, no foul, all good,
take care of your business. But it all starts with
scoring quickly and jumping on them and then forcing them
to chase, and then giving yourself the latitude that if
(02:55):
you miss a pitcher two and they you still win
this game.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
So there you have it. It looked it looked nice, Like.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
I said, it was just I don't want to say
mirror image, but it looks early similar to what the
what the Astros had to go through with Fromber and
they couldn't get out of that. They couldn't overcome their
poor inning defensively and you know as a pitcher, and
they never could catch back up and never got anything done.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
Same thing happened last night.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Get back into the offense in a second. But I
mean you touched on him a little bit, Jason Alexander.
Where I think last night we would have been fine
with get to the fifth inning and then you let
the bullpen go to work from there. But when you
find out what today's game is a bullpen game, his
six innings is even more crucial for you to be
able to get.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
Last night and he delivered.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Yeah, and I don't And you're right that the attitude
of of get me to five. But I'd like to
switch my thought process and I think he'd I screw
get into five there, you get to six, not on
those damn weighted balls. Yeah, get to six innings. Has
(04:01):
our guy Rob Dibble would say, get get to six innings?
Make it even less pressure. And today, with with this,
like I said, yesterday kind of figured out what they
didn't have. They had to announced a starter for today.
You've kind of got an idea what they were going
to do. But that's how you approach this thing where
you don't as a pitcher, don't say like, yeah, I
(04:22):
got to five and a third so that's enough. I
mean it start and it you know, we sit here
and say, okay, baseball's gotten to the point it feels
like that if you get to five and two thirds innings,
we're starting to put you on our shoulders and hero worship. Right,
But you go in there and you take care of that.
You go six scoreless and you take care of your business.
Not only are you saving a bullpen, you're also creating
confidence among the guys.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
And don't think that doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
I'm just telling those guys behind you, they want to
know what's going on with you?
Speaker 4 (04:49):
Would would how good are you? Under pressure?
Speaker 3 (04:52):
How good are you? In quite frankly, everybody passed past
Hunter Brown and fromber on the mound in truth? Are
they not trying to?
Speaker 4 (05:01):
Uh? Aren't they battling for their starting pitching job right now?
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Easily knowing Yeah, you're bad. No matter who you are.
It doesn't matter who it is Jason Alexander. It doesn't
matter if it's Gordon and if everybody was healthy and
ready to go. Those the front two, yes, the other
three and when the colors is out there all battling
for a shot to be three, four and five. Yeah,
and he posted his score. But also what that does.
(05:24):
It tells the guys behind you that he's that the
guy's throwing good pitches. Get people out, working fast and
getting things done, man, and it does matter. And then
a bullpen said, they're saying, oh, they just saved us
twenty five pitches or whatever it could be, right, getting
an extra ining. So the thought process of you know what, no, no,
no five is not enough. Let me get you guys
to six and it'll all be scorreless. And so the
(05:46):
guys behind you, and that that confidence starts to build
to where if you have a six man rotation, or
if you have a guy that has to spot start
for you, you're not sitting there saying Jason Alexanderson over
his head, he shouldn't look and I know who it is,
but they've been playing pretty good baseball. He sure as
hell wasn't in over his head last night and was
a hell of a performance. And everybody, like when we
(06:09):
mentioned Sanchez got himself he what was a double. He
had hit his double two. They took care of it.
Dubon took care of his. I mean it was an
impressive performance up and down the lineup and uh and
chasing Alexander Rodoby. When I say proud, stand up and
give a thumbs up. That was important last night.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
No, it absolutely was. And he's able to give you that.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
I mean, you touched on King giving up those couple
of home runs and then also a double on that inning,
but even after the home runs came back struck out
the next two guys like almost kind of like all
right enough, like what's it Hans Kruber and die hard
enough jokes?
Speaker 4 (06:42):
Oh yeah, that was.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
That was Brian King in that inning of just being like,
all right, hey, you got a three times.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
It ain't gonna happen anymore, right, And you know what
if that means that was your performance. It doesn't happen
to you very often this year and it hasn't once again.
Six runs gives you the latitude you go up there,
you have two solo home runs when it's six to nothing.
You can live with that, and I don't have to
rush to the bullpen to think, oh my gosh and
(07:07):
then you get it done and then you fight back.
Kind of shows his resilience, which has been typical of
that bullpen what they've been about this year. But make
no mistake given them that big inning allows Jason Alexander
to pitch a little freer, even though he was pitching
really well anyway. But that just gives you a little
attitude and I don't think we can overestimate how important
(07:27):
that is.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
And it was. It was a really good especially coming
when they needed.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
It, because you don't know what's going to happen in
a bullpen game like this today, You don't, you have
no idea. And it was because if I'm not mistaken
that I mean, I don't think the Mariners played last night, but.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
Rangers took care of Yes, they did.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
And in the American League, you know, you know that
it's that there's five six teams that can win it
and you're trying to post your score and win this division.
Last night was huge, so they what they stayed. The
Rangers stayed the course and now your three game games
up on Seattle with a half game last night
Sway, you get a miss wag, a bit strikes out
on the splitter and that is the ball game. Astros
into three game skin take a Game one in Miami,
winning eight to two.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Robert Ford, not Robert Hord, Robert Ford with the very.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Happy final, big shot, Bob, Robert or last night he
did not.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
It was.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
It was our normal crew of Robert Ford and Steve Sparks.
But you just heard Robert Ford give you the very
happy final last night from there in South Florida as
the Astros getting back on the winning track. And with
that we say away we go in good morning here
on the Sean Salisbury Show. And Sean I threw it
out on Twitter last night and it's as simple as
can be. You put the ball in play, well, good
(00:47):
things can happen. And the Astros in that fourth inning
last night, for the five runs that they erupted for, well,
when a novel concept they put the ball in play.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
They did, and that was big and it was never
in question after that, and that was a looked a
similar to the day before the other way.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
Yeah, it's just a shoe was on the other foot.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Exactly right, big inning, and sometimes those are hard to overcome,
and usually they are, especially when they're that big. And
then you know, they got help from a lot of
people last night to play. Even though ball wasn't flying
out of the park, they were getting a lot of
extra bates hit clutch hits at the right time, you know,
from Correa Kartini got into the act, Christian Walker got
into the act, Jeremy Paine a couple times in the act.
(01:26):
They the Diaz that's exactly right, loaded up and did
a great job. And I'm gonna tell you phenomenal performance
of scoreless for what's six. I thought the pitching performance
last night, considering think about the pressure they're and knowing
people are coming back wondering is this my gig or
(01:47):
isn't it?
Speaker 4 (01:48):
Where am I going to be in this rotation.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
And coming off And they needed it off a three
game losing streak in Boston. They needed to have that
performance in a beginning like that allows you to settle in.
But they got everything downe and they needed to get
done last night, including the win, and uh, I thought,
I thought they did a hell of a job. I know,
the back to back home runs for pinchhit home runs
off King, but that's at the point when you have
(02:11):
the lead, that validates, even though you never like to
see it, That validates what we're talking about. Give yourself
some latitude and leeway. Can't be always being two to one,
three to one, three two games where one swing of
the bat one way or the other caused a problem.
Two solo home runs meant what last night nothing exactly right.
Could have been might as well have been two singles. Now,
ego and pitching. If you're the pitcher, you don't like
(02:32):
it as good as he's been this year King has,
but they it didn't. It wasn't like a two to
one game where that's where you had the leeways. Okay,
they get away with a couple of them, a couple
you know, pinchhit home runs, no harm, no foul, all good,
take care of your business. But it all starts with
scoring quickly and jumping on them and then forcing them
to chase, and then giving yourself the latitude that if
(02:55):
you miss a pitcher two and they you still win
this game.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
So there you have it. It looked it looked nice, Like.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
I said, it was just I don't want to say
mirror image, but it looks early similar to what the
what the Astros had to go through with Fromber and
they couldn't get out of that. They couldn't overcome their
poor inning defensively and you know as a pitcher, and
they never could catch back up and never got anything done.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
Same thing happened last night.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Get back into the offense in a second. But I
mean you touched on him a little bit, Jason Alexander.
Where I think last night we would have been fine
with get to the fifth inning and then you let
the bullpen go to work from there. But when you
find out what today's game is a bullpen game, his
six innings is even more crucial for you to be
able to get.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
Last night and he delivered.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Yeah, and I don't And you're right that the attitude
of of get me to five. But I'd like to
switch my thought process and I think he'd I screw
get into five there, you get to six, not on
those damn weighted balls. Yeah, get to six innings. Has
(04:01):
our guy Rob Dibble would say, get get to six innings?
Make it even less pressure. And today, with with this,
like I said, yesterday kind of figured out what they
didn't have. They had to announced a starter for today.
You've kind of got an idea what they were going
to do. But that's how you approach this thing where
you don't as a pitcher, don't say like, yeah, I
(04:22):
got to five and a third so that's enough. I
mean it start and it you know, we sit here
and say, okay, baseball's gotten to the point it feels
like that if you get to five and two thirds innings,
we're starting to put you on our shoulders and hero worship. Right,
But you go in there and you take care of that.
You go six scoreless and you take care of your business.
Not only are you saving a bullpen, you're also creating
confidence among the guys.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
And don't think that doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
I'm just telling those guys behind you, they want to
know what's going on with you?
Speaker 4 (04:49):
Would would how good are you? Under pressure?
Speaker 3 (04:52):
How good are you? In quite frankly, everybody passed past
Hunter Brown and fromber on the mound in truth? Are
they not trying to?
Speaker 4 (05:01):
Uh? Aren't they battling for their starting pitching job right now?
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Easily knowing Yeah, you're bad. No matter who you are.
It doesn't matter who it is Jason Alexander. It doesn't
matter if it's Gordon and if everybody was healthy and
ready to go. Those the front two, yes, the other
three and when the colors is out there all battling
for a shot to be three, four and five. Yeah,
and he posted his score. But also what that does.
(05:24):
It tells the guys behind you that he's that the
guy's throwing good pitches. Get people out, working fast and
getting things done, man, and it does matter. And then
a bullpen said, they're saying, oh, they just saved us
twenty five pitches or whatever it could be, right, getting
an extra ining. So the thought process of you know what, no, no,
no five is not enough. Let me get you guys
to six and it'll all be scorreless. And so the
(05:46):
guys behind you, and that that confidence starts to build
to where if you have a six man rotation, or
if you have a guy that has to spot start
for you, you're not sitting there saying Jason Alexanderson over
his head, he shouldn't look and I know who it is,
but they've been playing pretty good baseball. He sure as
hell wasn't in over his head last night and was
a hell of a performance. And everybody, like when we
(06:09):
mentioned Sanchez got himself he what was a double. He
had hit his double two. They took care of it.
Dubon took care of his. I mean it was an
impressive performance up and down the lineup and uh and
chasing Alexander Rodoby. When I say proud, stand up and
give a thumbs up. That was important last night.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
No, it absolutely was. And he's able to give you that.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
I mean, you touched on King giving up those couple
of home runs and then also a double on that inning,
but even after the home runs came back struck out
the next two guys like almost kind of like all
right enough, like what's it Hans Kruber and die hard
enough jokes?
Speaker 4 (06:42):
Oh yeah, that was.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
That was Brian King in that inning of just being like,
all right, hey, you got a three times.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
It ain't gonna happen anymore, right, And you know what
if that means that was your performance. It doesn't happen
to you very often this year and it hasn't once again.
Six runs gives you the latitude you go up there,
you have two solo home runs when it's six to nothing.
You can live with that, and I don't have to
rush to the bullpen to think, oh my gosh and
(07:07):
then you get it done and then you fight back.
Kind of shows his resilience, which has been typical of
that bullpen what they've been about this year. But make
no mistake given them that big inning allows Jason Alexander
to pitch a little freer, even though he was pitching
really well anyway. But that just gives you a little
attitude and I don't think we can overestimate how important
(07:27):
that is.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
And it was. It was a really good especially coming
when they needed.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
It, because you don't know what's going to happen in
a bullpen game like this today, You don't, you have
no idea. And it was because if I'm not mistaken
that I mean, I don't think the Mariners played last night, but.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
Rangers took care of Yes, they did.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
And in the American League, you know, you know that
it's that there's five six teams that can win it
and you're trying to post your score and win this division.
Last night was huge, so they what they stayed. The
Rangers stayed the course and now your three game games
up on Seattle with a half game last night
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