September 8, 2025 • 13 mins
With football season officially underway now and fall beginning to creep in, baseball season begins to intensify as the weeks dwindle and teams fight for postseason slots. Concluding another part of their Silver Boot Series against their interstate rivals, the Texas Rangers went on to take two of the three games from the Astros, resulting in a series final of 1-2 for the Astros. With the day off, set to tee back into action tomorrow in Toronto against the Blue Jays, Steve weighs in on the Astros' series loss and weekend in Arlington, followed by what to expect rolling into these last 18 games of the regular season.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And we do that right now as he joins us
during an off day up there in Toronto after the
Astros lose to out of three, falling yesterday to the
Rangers forty two sparky one part in that game, you've
got Jose al Tuove up the plates.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
I think he had.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
A runner around. I'm trying to remember exactly what the
situation was, but it was the reaction of L two
A after he strikes out, slams his bat down. You
don't see that a lot out of him. Is this
just kind of the frustration for him is really mounting.
And that was one of the rare boil up moments.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
You know that the offense was pretty inconsistent in Arlington.
They certainly pitched well in that to win all three
of those games, and they did scratch a claw and they.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Beat the Grom, one of the best pitchers in baseball.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
But for whatever reason, yesterday just felt like they weren't
able to get any tracks and swinging it pitches out
of the strike zone has been a big problem.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Part of the problem. But it's kind of a jackal
and hide season so far for this Astros offense. Right now,
they're going through.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
A little bull Steve.
Speaker 5 (01:06):
Is it just as simple as that this late of
the season, people can get on streaks wins and you know,
winning and losing streaks. But this is who they are,
and you just got to hope they get hot at
the right time. Come now in postseason. Correct, I mean
to be able to deal through the inconsistencies. That'll be
the brilliance in this team, to be able to continue
to stay resilient and find ways to get that three
or four game winning streak in a seven game series
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or late in the season when you've got to be
to Seattle or a Texas Rangers team to get in.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
That's about who they are this year. Correct. At the
plate especially, I agree.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
And at their best I think they can score, but
there's been too many times this year where they've just
gone away. I think right now you start to recognize,
all right, your don's our guy. What do we do
to get guys on base? Where they have a team
has to pitch to you. I mean, this is what
it's going to center around.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Yep right now. And we'll see some other players with
san Chaz and Walker and some guys popya from time
to time, but right now, it's.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Centered around Jordan on the other team has these circled
they don't want to pitch to him. You got to
try to figure out out a way to get somebody.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
On base where they have to stan.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
I think right now, I think that's what the Astros
have to have to do as far as lineup construction.
Speaker 5 (02:16):
Steve, what's the most and it's not even the critical
or complimentary, is what is the most baffling thing, aside
from injuries that you've witnessed watching this team for one
hundred and forty plus games this year.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
I think it's almost baseball as a whole that I
just don't see guys move around in the batter's box.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
And that was the first thing that just popped into
my mind.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
When you ask that question, is you know, you get
a guy that throws a lot of cutters and pitches
like that, why not just get on the dish and
take that away from him, make him do something uncomfortable.
But guys just don't do that anymore. And I'm not
sure why. I think guys just want to get off
their their A swings, but they don't want to adjust
and make movements in the batter's box and I'm not
sure why they don't do that anymore. I think that's
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a good plan against certain guys that are one sided
as far as their approach.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Again, Steve Sparks joins us every Monday at this time
here on the Seawan Salisbury Show. And along those same lines, Steve,
you pitched in the majors. I mean, you you knew
how to follow a game plan and do all of that.
When you watch some of these at bats, I mean,
do you see adjustments? Do you see a team that
is adjusting to what the pitcher is throwing, or do
you think it's just kind of the run of the mill. Hey,
(03:23):
we know what we can do and just going out
there and trying to do exactly that.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
You know what, when the team's not hitting well, Dan,
you don't see many adjustments typically, you know. And there's
some days where they just hit the ball pretty hard
right at some people. And saw that without Tuova actually yesterday,
outside of that strikeout where he got upset, he had
a couple of balls card And that's about all you
can do, is you can you can get a pitch
and try to drive it and see if you can
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put them together and string them together.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
But they don't make really hard contact as far as
exit velocity. They're either the last or second to last
team this year as far as exit velocity.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
And you got to hit the ball hard consistently to
be able to put up runs.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
The Astra's pitching has been really.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
Solid all year long. Who met it, doesn't matter who
it is. They've been able to plug and play very
well in that department. Fromer had a quality start yesterday.
He gave up three on runs and seven innings and
can't ask for much for that more than that, and
Hunter was unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Pitching's pretty good. They've got eighteen games left.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
They've got to figure out a way to score four
more runs more consistently.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Steve with that.
Speaker 5 (04:38):
So for fans that are trying to figure out, okay,
you know, where do we find And I know if
we all had the answer, we'd bottle it up and
sell it for a lot of money. But so what
gives you at the plate, with all the inconsistencies and
lack of adjustments and lack of just driving the baseball
and hit it hard, like you said, what makes us
think that that's going to change in eighteen games?
Speaker 3 (04:59):
I just think they have players.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Potential, the talent, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
It's potential.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
Yeah, And I know you don't want to hang your
hat on somebody that's not in the lineup, But if
they were to get Paradous back in there too, that
would help a lot too. And I think I've told
you that, you know, he means a lot to that
offense with how many pitches he would see, just making
the other team work a little harder, and maybe a
guy gets fatigued and makes a bad pitch to somebody else.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
So, uh, they certainly have enough guys.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
Now you're starting to get way more whole. Jake Myers
feels good wherever you can slot him in the lineup.
I like him in the ninth holes. He's done a
great job there. And if you're gonna bat jord On second,
I like having a nine hole hitter who gets on
base quite a bit to pair with Paynia. You give
yourself your best two chances of on base percentage to
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get on base for jord On. But I think they
have enough good players, uh to win, to win ball games,
and they're pitching. It's been probably just lockingly good this
year considering all the injuries. But I think they can
keep a minute.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Well, I mean and Steve, you know, Saturday night they
are up for eleven runs and a huge part of
that was Christian Walker and Jiner Diaz. But then yesterday, Joe,
I mean, he told Sean at FanFest last year, I
don't want to use a ton of different lineups.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Why do you switch the lineup? Then?
Speaker 1 (06:20):
If those guys hit so well in the seven and
eight spot, why are you moving them up in the order?
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Again?
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Well, it's matchups, Dan, I mean, you look at the
matchup and you're as a manager, you're trying to say, Okay,
I see this guy, what does he do? Well?
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Uh, some guys, I mean, you hate to say this,
and I'm not going to call out any name.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
There's there's two or three guys though, that don't hit
Velocity well. And they're just not the guys that you
won in there in a big situation.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
So you got to put them down to the line
never keep them out of the lineup because Velocity kills them.
And we say that, you know, I go over scating
reports of the other teams for every series and there's
going to be three or four guys that just don't
handle ninety five plus and it's.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
It's right there. It's on a bunch of different websites.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
You know, you can find out which guys just can't
handle it, and that's why you match up, you know,
de Los Santos, who throws hard out of the Astros
bullpen in a certain pocket because there's three out of
four guys coming up that don't handle the heat and
that's his pocket.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
And you're just trying to match up guys to for success.
And I think I don't think guys.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
Care that much outside of maybe the top three guys
in the lineup where they really hit.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
In the lineup on a day to day.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
Basis, you know, you got to earn a certain spot
in the lineup if you're if you're going well, maybe
you could go in and say, hey, man, you know
I could drive in more runs for you if it's
so such and such.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
But there's not enough guys that can probably say that
right now.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
So you're just trying to mix a mess because of
who you're facing that day.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Steve, does it add it? Does it get to a point?
Speaker 5 (08:00):
I mean the pitching which you've mentioned has been for
the better part of a couple of years, well through
this whole run these years, but these last couple years
when the hitting, you know, leaving runners in scoring position
has come up big and again this year.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
It doesn't matter who it is.
Speaker 5 (08:12):
Does there come a point in time when the burden
to carry that becomes too much? Yet here we are
one hundred and forty plus games in and they're still
doing their thing. But man, it just feels to me
like it's almost overwhelming, like you're the truck pulling a
trailer at times, not intentionally, but the way the hitting
because five runs, one run, no runs, two runs, it
becomes I mean, where you got to go out there
(08:33):
and pitch your best every single night without there's not
a lot of room for air. That's got to be
a burden to bear. And you've pitched in the league
and you watch it every day. That's got to be
tough to stomach at times.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
You know, I think you probably do go into games
every once in a while thinking, all right, I can't
afford to make a mistake, yep, and especially you know,
and I think Connor probably went into that game pitching
against Jacob Dground for the second time where they played
on May fifteenth and one nothing game was on the
short end of it through a complete game that lost
(09:04):
went into that game knowing that a man I cannot
afford to make a mistake, that's.
Speaker 5 (09:09):
Going to be a lot of runs scored, right, Steve,
with those two guys right right.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
You know what, Sean, But I mean, I hear what
you're saying.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
But I think the Astros, you can just say, like overall,
when you're looking at a total picture.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
They pitch better than they hit. You know, They've just
been very good at that.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
And in hitting can go, you know, in the little
peaks and valleys, and it depends on who you're facing
and how you feel at the plate and how tired
you get at certain points. But I love this time
of year. You know, we're playing in cool weather. I
think it's we're in Toronto right now. It's fifty five
degrees a lot of times. That gives you a little
jolt of energy too. And this time of year, I
(09:48):
think when you're in it and you're playing baseball games,
I think it's the gift of baseball for players who
have earned that right to play in meaningful games. Is
I here's some free energy because these games matter and
you're not going to feel the aches and pains that
you did a month ago, and I think that's where
they are right now, and I expect him to play
(10:09):
pretty well these last three weeks in and we'll see
where that lines them up as far as matchups in
the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
But I like their chances of these last three weeks.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
Speaking of matchups, you might see this team in the postseason.
You're going to see for the next three what do
you see from Toronto?
Speaker 3 (10:25):
A lot of bangers.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
You know, Springer's got a nine to fifty ops, He's
he looks like he did back in Houston, and bar
shows come around.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
There's a lot of hitters. Baschet's having an unbelievable season.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
Guerrero, Uh, there's a lot of good hitters, and they've
got a lot of good starting pitchers, but their bullpen
that's cost.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Them a lot of games.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
So I think the Ashes can go into a series.
When you talk about meetings before a series, you talk about,
all right, man, let's put up the best abs we
can early in the ball game, but don't forget this
bullpen struggling and we're never out of it.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
So I think we'll see nine inning ball games matter a.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
Lot in this series. I think both teams bullpens will
play a big role.
Speaker 5 (11:06):
Steve lets not bury the lead French fries with gravy.
You're in Canada, you're gonna do it.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Right, I'm not doing it great.
Speaker 5 (11:16):
Yeah, kind of the fish and chips thing. But the
vender go go vinegar on the fries, so no gravy.
That poot poutine, Yeah, poutine. It's one when I I've
never known about that. When I first went there and
played kid, I'm like, this is some delicacy. But apparently
I was late to the party, but late to the party,
which has been Yeah, oh I'm over that.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Nice.
Speaker 5 (11:39):
So Toronto's beautiful city too, it should be fun, Steve,
I love that town. He's expensive as hell, but boys
did a great city.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
It seems like it's always one of those popular ones
on the MLB road trips. Sparky, you're the best man.
We appreciated every single week. You do it with my
Ryder Cup team too.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Cup. He going out first, Sparky, you good? What's going
out first?
Speaker 3 (12:01):
I would definitely go out first, Righter, Cup, Yeah, I
would do that.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Oh.
Speaker 5 (12:05):
He set the tone in the singles, You're gonna start out,
start the US a chance.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
All of that and then you know he's trying to dry.
He's good.
Speaker 5 (12:12):
He's got to bury bacaroy nine and eight up nine
with eight to go.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Just put a staple on it. Have the caddies swing
in the flags.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Stick wrong. Let's not get it wrong about ability. But
I take pressure situations. I can play my best. I
just don't know if it's the best compared to other people.
Speaker 5 (12:29):
But Steve, as we always say, solid ball striker, though
no great golf track, solid ball striker.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
I mean, really.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
Really, that's like the girl at the problem that has
a great personality.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
That's exactly or in your words, the baseball player that
puts together a.
Speaker 5 (12:45):
Really good at put together great bath. Whatever you do,
just don't short side yourself. Another good golf turn now
to state, don't short side yourself.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Solid solid outing here, sparky, you threw strikes. We appreciate it, buddy,
and we'll catch up with you again this time next week.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Great stuff, brother, Thank you.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
You got to take care of guys.
And we do that right now as he joins us
during an off day up there in Toronto after the
Astros lose to out of three, falling yesterday to the
Rangers forty two sparky one part in that game, you've
got Jose al Tuove up the plates.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
I think he had.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
A runner around. I'm trying to remember exactly what the
situation was, but it was the reaction of L two
A after he strikes out, slams his bat down. You
don't see that a lot out of him. Is this
just kind of the frustration for him is really mounting.
And that was one of the rare boil up moments.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
You know that the offense was pretty inconsistent in Arlington.
They certainly pitched well in that to win all three
of those games, and they did scratch a claw and they.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Beat the Grom, one of the best pitchers in baseball.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
But for whatever reason, yesterday just felt like they weren't
able to get any tracks and swinging it pitches out
of the strike zone has been a big problem.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Part of the problem. But it's kind of a jackal
and hide season so far for this Astros offense. Right now,
they're going through.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
A little bull Steve.
Speaker 5 (01:06):
Is it just as simple as that this late of
the season, people can get on streaks wins and you know,
winning and losing streaks. But this is who they are,
and you just got to hope they get hot at
the right time. Come now in postseason. Correct, I mean
to be able to deal through the inconsistencies. That'll be
the brilliance in this team, to be able to continue
to stay resilient and find ways to get that three
or four game winning streak in a seven game series
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or late in the season when you've got to be
to Seattle or a Texas Rangers team to get in.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
That's about who they are this year. Correct. At the
plate especially, I agree.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
And at their best I think they can score, but
there's been too many times this year where they've just
gone away. I think right now you start to recognize,
all right, your don's our guy. What do we do
to get guys on base? Where they have a team
has to pitch to you. I mean, this is what
it's going to center around.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Yep right now. And we'll see some other players with
san Chaz and Walker and some guys popya from time
to time, but right now, it's.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Centered around Jordan on the other team has these circled
they don't want to pitch to him. You got to
try to figure out out a way to get somebody.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
On base where they have to stan.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
I think right now, I think that's what the Astros
have to have to do as far as lineup construction.
Speaker 5 (02:16):
Steve, what's the most and it's not even the critical
or complimentary, is what is the most baffling thing, aside
from injuries that you've witnessed watching this team for one
hundred and forty plus games this year.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
I think it's almost baseball as a whole that I
just don't see guys move around in the batter's box.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
And that was the first thing that just popped into
my mind.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
When you ask that question, is you know, you get
a guy that throws a lot of cutters and pitches
like that, why not just get on the dish and
take that away from him, make him do something uncomfortable.
But guys just don't do that anymore. And I'm not
sure why. I think guys just want to get off
their their A swings, but they don't want to adjust
and make movements in the batter's box and I'm not
sure why they don't do that anymore. I think that's
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a good plan against certain guys that are one sided
as far as their approach.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Again, Steve Sparks joins us every Monday at this time
here on the Seawan Salisbury Show. And along those same lines, Steve,
you pitched in the majors. I mean, you you knew
how to follow a game plan and do all of that.
When you watch some of these at bats, I mean,
do you see adjustments? Do you see a team that
is adjusting to what the pitcher is throwing, or do
you think it's just kind of the run of the mill. Hey,
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we know what we can do and just going out
there and trying to do exactly that.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
You know what, when the team's not hitting well, Dan,
you don't see many adjustments typically, you know. And there's
some days where they just hit the ball pretty hard
right at some people. And saw that without Tuova actually yesterday,
outside of that strikeout where he got upset, he had
a couple of balls card And that's about all you
can do, is you can you can get a pitch
and try to drive it and see if you can
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put them together and string them together.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
But they don't make really hard contact as far as
exit velocity. They're either the last or second to last
team this year as far as exit velocity.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
And you got to hit the ball hard consistently to
be able to put up runs.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
The Astra's pitching has been really.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
Solid all year long. Who met it, doesn't matter who
it is. They've been able to plug and play very
well in that department. Fromer had a quality start yesterday.
He gave up three on runs and seven innings and
can't ask for much for that more than that, and
Hunter was unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Pitching's pretty good. They've got eighteen games left.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
They've got to figure out a way to score four
more runs more consistently.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Steve with that.
Speaker 5 (04:38):
So for fans that are trying to figure out, okay,
you know, where do we find And I know if
we all had the answer, we'd bottle it up and
sell it for a lot of money. But so what
gives you at the plate, with all the inconsistencies and
lack of adjustments and lack of just driving the baseball
and hit it hard, like you said, what makes us
think that that's going to change in eighteen games?
Speaker 3 (04:59):
I just think they have players.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Potential, the talent, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
It's potential.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
Yeah, And I know you don't want to hang your
hat on somebody that's not in the lineup, But if
they were to get Paradous back in there too, that
would help a lot too. And I think I've told
you that, you know, he means a lot to that
offense with how many pitches he would see, just making
the other team work a little harder, and maybe a
guy gets fatigued and makes a bad pitch to somebody else.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
So, uh, they certainly have enough guys.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
Now you're starting to get way more whole. Jake Myers
feels good wherever you can slot him in the lineup.
I like him in the ninth holes. He's done a
great job there. And if you're gonna bat jord On second,
I like having a nine hole hitter who gets on
base quite a bit to pair with Paynia. You give
yourself your best two chances of on base percentage to
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get on base for jord On. But I think they
have enough good players, uh to win, to win ball games,
and they're pitching. It's been probably just lockingly good this
year considering all the injuries. But I think they can
keep a minute.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Well, I mean and Steve, you know, Saturday night they
are up for eleven runs and a huge part of
that was Christian Walker and Jiner Diaz. But then yesterday, Joe,
I mean, he told Sean at FanFest last year, I
don't want to use a ton of different lineups.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Why do you switch the lineup? Then?
Speaker 1 (06:20):
If those guys hit so well in the seven and
eight spot, why are you moving them up in the order?
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Again?
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Well, it's matchups, Dan, I mean, you look at the
matchup and you're as a manager, you're trying to say, Okay,
I see this guy, what does he do? Well?
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Uh, some guys, I mean, you hate to say this,
and I'm not going to call out any name.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
There's there's two or three guys though, that don't hit
Velocity well. And they're just not the guys that you
won in there in a big situation.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
So you got to put them down to the line
never keep them out of the lineup because Velocity kills them.
And we say that, you know, I go over scating
reports of the other teams for every series and there's
going to be three or four guys that just don't
handle ninety five plus and it's.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
It's right there. It's on a bunch of different websites.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
You know, you can find out which guys just can't
handle it, and that's why you match up, you know,
de Los Santos, who throws hard out of the Astros
bullpen in a certain pocket because there's three out of
four guys coming up that don't handle the heat and
that's his pocket.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
And you're just trying to match up guys to for success.
And I think I don't think guys.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
Care that much outside of maybe the top three guys
in the lineup where they really hit.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
In the lineup on a day to day.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
Basis, you know, you got to earn a certain spot
in the lineup if you're if you're going well, maybe
you could go in and say, hey, man, you know
I could drive in more runs for you if it's
so such and such.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
But there's not enough guys that can probably say that
right now.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
So you're just trying to mix a mess because of
who you're facing that day.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Steve, does it add it? Does it get to a point?
Speaker 5 (08:00):
I mean the pitching which you've mentioned has been for
the better part of a couple of years, well through
this whole run these years, but these last couple years
when the hitting, you know, leaving runners in scoring position
has come up big and again this year.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
It doesn't matter who it is.
Speaker 5 (08:12):
Does there come a point in time when the burden
to carry that becomes too much? Yet here we are
one hundred and forty plus games in and they're still
doing their thing. But man, it just feels to me
like it's almost overwhelming, like you're the truck pulling a
trailer at times, not intentionally, but the way the hitting
because five runs, one run, no runs, two runs, it
becomes I mean, where you got to go out there
(08:33):
and pitch your best every single night without there's not
a lot of room for air. That's got to be
a burden to bear. And you've pitched in the league
and you watch it every day. That's got to be
tough to stomach at times.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
You know, I think you probably do go into games
every once in a while thinking, all right, I can't
afford to make a mistake, yep, and especially you know,
and I think Connor probably went into that game pitching
against Jacob Dground for the second time where they played
on May fifteenth and one nothing game was on the
short end of it through a complete game that lost
(09:04):
went into that game knowing that a man I cannot
afford to make a mistake, that's.
Speaker 5 (09:09):
Going to be a lot of runs scored, right, Steve,
with those two guys right right.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
You know what, Sean, But I mean, I hear what
you're saying.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
But I think the Astros, you can just say, like overall,
when you're looking at a total picture.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
They pitch better than they hit. You know, They've just
been very good at that.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
And in hitting can go, you know, in the little
peaks and valleys, and it depends on who you're facing
and how you feel at the plate and how tired
you get at certain points. But I love this time
of year. You know, we're playing in cool weather. I
think it's we're in Toronto right now. It's fifty five
degrees a lot of times. That gives you a little
jolt of energy too. And this time of year, I
(09:48):
think when you're in it and you're playing baseball games,
I think it's the gift of baseball for players who
have earned that right to play in meaningful games. Is
I here's some free energy because these games matter and
you're not going to feel the aches and pains that
you did a month ago, and I think that's where
they are right now, and I expect him to play
(10:09):
pretty well these last three weeks in and we'll see
where that lines them up as far as matchups in
the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
But I like their chances of these last three weeks.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
Speaking of matchups, you might see this team in the postseason.
You're going to see for the next three what do
you see from Toronto?
Speaker 3 (10:25):
A lot of bangers.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
You know, Springer's got a nine to fifty ops, He's
he looks like he did back in Houston, and bar
shows come around.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
There's a lot of hitters. Baschet's having an unbelievable season.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
Guerrero, Uh, there's a lot of good hitters, and they've
got a lot of good starting pitchers, but their bullpen
that's cost.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Them a lot of games.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
So I think the Ashes can go into a series.
When you talk about meetings before a series, you talk about,
all right, man, let's put up the best abs we
can early in the ball game, but don't forget this
bullpen struggling and we're never out of it.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
So I think we'll see nine inning ball games matter a.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
Lot in this series. I think both teams bullpens will
play a big role.
Speaker 5 (11:06):
Steve lets not bury the lead French fries with gravy.
You're in Canada, you're gonna do it.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Right, I'm not doing it great.
Speaker 5 (11:16):
Yeah, kind of the fish and chips thing. But the
vender go go vinegar on the fries, so no gravy.
That poot poutine, Yeah, poutine. It's one when I I've
never known about that. When I first went there and
played kid, I'm like, this is some delicacy. But apparently
I was late to the party, but late to the party,
which has been Yeah, oh I'm over that.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Nice.
Speaker 5 (11:39):
So Toronto's beautiful city too, it should be fun, Steve,
I love that town. He's expensive as hell, but boys
did a great city.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
It seems like it's always one of those popular ones
on the MLB road trips. Sparky, you're the best man.
We appreciated every single week. You do it with my
Ryder Cup team too.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Cup. He going out first, Sparky, you good? What's going
out first?
Speaker 3 (12:01):
I would definitely go out first, Righter, Cup, Yeah, I
would do that.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Oh.
Speaker 5 (12:05):
He set the tone in the singles, You're gonna start out,
start the US a chance.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
All of that and then you know he's trying to dry.
He's good.
Speaker 5 (12:12):
He's got to bury bacaroy nine and eight up nine
with eight to go.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Just put a staple on it. Have the caddies swing
in the flags.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Stick wrong. Let's not get it wrong about ability. But
I take pressure situations. I can play my best. I
just don't know if it's the best compared to other people.
Speaker 5 (12:29):
But Steve, as we always say, solid ball striker, though
no great golf track, solid ball striker.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
I mean, really.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
Really, that's like the girl at the problem that has
a great personality.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
That's exactly or in your words, the baseball player that
puts together a.
Speaker 5 (12:45):
Really good at put together great bath. Whatever you do,
just don't short side yourself. Another good golf turn now
to state, don't short side yourself.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Solid solid outing here, sparky, you threw strikes. We appreciate it, buddy,
and we'll catch up with you again this time next week.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Great stuff, brother, Thank you.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
You got to take care of guys.
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