April 10, 2025 • 8 mins
Concluding their three game series yesterday early in the afternoon the Astros looked to be closing out their series against the Mariners with a victory, but fell short in the final stretch of the game with things falling apart late in the eighth and ninth inning. With a huge late turnaround, the Mariners pull out the game victory along with the series win over the Astros with a final score of 7-6 following a series final of 1-2 for the Astros. Assessing how things fell apart late in the eighth inning as the Mariners continue and rally on back throughout the ninth for the win, Sean and Dan hash out a few possibilities as to what the Astros could have done differently and what needs to be done in such dire situations moving forward, that would have resulted in another series win for the club, following the loss gained yesterday afternoon.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Round one of the Masters underway. Two players are on
the course and Sean, we already have a leader, Davis
Riley Parr on the first you are the current leader
at the Masters.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
I mean he hadn't got to the clubhouse yet, but
all the golf course he's a leader.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
That's it. I mean, if nothing, do you think it holds?
Probably not.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
You don't think if I had to guess, I don't
think that Davis is going to be the ten Cup
Roy McAvoy.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
If he made Parr for seventy two straight holes, top twenty,
top twenty, top twenty. I mean I think winner, even
par gets you a top twenty finish and in an
invite back.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Yeah yeah, what do they say.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Top twenty and ties maybe or something right, get you
an invite back? Yeah, even par So basically, I mean
you want to win the tournaments, even par you're in
the money and get you back.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
I mean, you know the US Open, stuff like that.
Even Parr might even win.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
The Do we know the weather over the weekend, because
then it gives me an idea of you get an
idea where the scores might be if it softens up
a little bit.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Depending on how these guys are going to play it
with all that.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Rain passes through, Yeah, just to do we're expecting clear
if we're expecting clear skies and it's but it's still soft,
maybe from early from moisture or something. I don't know
what the weather's been in Augusta. So just curious of
what kind of scores they're gonna start posting. You'll get
a pretty good idea when they first start looks calm
behind some of the shots we see on television.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
I was gonna say, so right now, it's in the
low fifties and it's sunny out, so you know, probably
just dusting off the do a little bit, but supposed
to be in the seventies later today and mostly sunny.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Let's see.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
I think they could get some rain tomorrow, but then
in the sixties and seventies on Saturday and Sundays. So
a little mixed bag there, a little bit on that.
But we'll be keeping you up to date on what's
happening in Augusta. All right, you know something we want
to talk about, and that is spot Who's Who's to
blame for? Yesterday? And Sean, I mean a couple of
(02:04):
days ago and we did the show, I said, Yah,
you know, using Taylor Scott. Don't really get that, you know,
maybe even lifting Cam Smith. Yeah, but yesterday there's nothing
that Joe Spotta could have done. I mean one of
the things you mentioned it that I had mentioned it
of Luis Contreras. Oh, how do you put Contraras back
(02:24):
out there?
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (02:25):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
He threw six pitches, he got two quick outs. What
else do you want him to do?
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Yeah, I don't know, And I'll tell you what. He's
getting some work early on, isn't he. I mean, how many?
Pretty damn efficient.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Like I said, it's hard to be better than six
pitches and two outs.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Yeah, that's so. I don't have a problem with that,
do you now?
Speaker 1 (02:47):
So?
Speaker 2 (02:47):
I when when people put it on him and then
it didn't it didn't turn out well, But it can't
just be I mean, you're staring down, you think, and
I'm trying to preserve a bullpen, and you know, you
never know how long the game's gonna go or where
you are.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
I don't I the move did not bother me.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
I didn't have a problem with it, especially how efficiently
when when you're saying the enem it was and at
the time I didn't even realize it was six pitches,
you know, but you kind of felt it was pretty
urgent anying and under ten pitches.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
I had no problem with with it.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
That's why I was asking the question before I went
to break, is was this a Joe problem Joe a spot.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Of issue yesterday? And to me, it wasn't. I didn't.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
I did not think, like I said, you're gonna question
decisions all the time. But I also know that Joe
a spot and a brave that that wasn't Joe spots
gig right, he rolled up, What did Dana Brown tell
us yesterday? Goes? Well, obviously our eight to ninth are
solidified and locked in pillars. That's exactly right, well, locked
(03:47):
in and pillars, but we did not. You just didn't
get that yesterday. So those things happened. But that can't
be when Joe spot is making a decision for him.
Of course you run, you mean you think this this
is who who he is, This is one of our guys.
This is a guy who gets us to this point.
It just didn't work yesterday, and I'm trying to be
a little more patient with it. But it was a
(04:09):
it was a maybe it's because this has just been
one of those weeks we started on Monday, right, I
did not expect what I saw yesterday watching it was
almost getting closer. You can turn the TV off type
of or if you got something else to do, right,
and then you saw what happened. Pretty resilient by Seattle,
but you got you can't throw two pitches that they
can drive and you gotta and it just went sideways
(04:33):
for contraras. But I would have made the same decision
Joe did, absolutely and in that situation. And that's the thing,
you know, Sean is he can't throw strikes. He can't
be the one to put the bat on the ball
with runners in scoring position. I mean, you know the
hitting side of it. Christian Walker, dude, like, let's go, man, like,
(04:53):
let let let's go. Like it's something out of you,
out of that four spot. I need something from you,
like seriously, hurry up. You know east Sook bread is
he gives you some good at bats, but it's also
too let's see him run in the one.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
I had a feeling yesterday.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
I was like, today's day east Stock runs in the one, right,
and that hasn't happened.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
I mean, Yiner Diaz the same deal.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
I mean, you know, you look at the box score
from yesterday and you're like, oh, come on, Dan, ten hits,
but I say, how many extra base hits? Seriously, how
many of those were extra base hits? I mean, I
said it. If I've got a team full of contact guys,
that's fine. If I got a team full of guys
that can steal bases, which you don't do that well either,
then that's fine. But I mean until that changes singles
(05:36):
and solo home runs, that ain't it, Sean, And it's not.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Gonna be it the whole season, I would hope, But
you have they have, and I know that Dana kind
of talked. I don't know if how you failed about yesterday.
I don't want to say talk offul edge, but feelt like, Okay,
he's right, the powers are yiner, and the powers are
gonna come and and you're done not to worry about
it'll come in bunches. But the more it keeps happening
and you're like, okay, this small ball things get a
(06:01):
little old.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Let's let's go play big bopper. Because it's prolonged.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
This was all this was also, Oh, that's exactly this
was this was the runners the year before that, like
where it's just like like is this who you guys
are now?
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Like is this a mental thing? Like what are we
working through here? And the.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
And you know how it is it We always say, well,
it's a new season, but what happens when negative things happen,
you always revert back to that's what it looked like
last year, right, And so we're always making comparisons to
you know, at bats and last year and this year,
even though it's the rosters completely. When we say completely,
I mean it's half different, right as far as positions
and and a lot of places who's filling them. So
(06:43):
it is maddening when that happens. But you don't like
to see the same trend. It's almost like this when
you what a two games, five and what do they
let's see six and seven, five and eight or six
and seven right now? The record five and seven, five
and seven. They've played twelve that's right, they played twelve,
played twelve games because I thought it was twelve games yesterday,
but it was eleven. And so when they open this
(07:04):
series it'll be game thirteen, fourteen and fifteen. So at
that start of it, like okay they I mean the
record wise, and I didn't do Ryan was it who calls?
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Who is it?
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Called earlier and talked about that there starts the last
three or four years. I know we're twelve and twenty
four last year and this is what typically not a
fast starting balling right, Billy, So you know the record wise,
You're like, Okay, I'll deal with it. But like you said,
it's and fans and we all do get caught into it.
And you and I were talking during a break, is
it results? They just you just see the results, right,
(07:39):
not how you got there. But this team because of
the history of last year of not scoring with run
I mean get driving runners home, a lot of new
bodies and hitting a lot of singles. Now, the first
thing that comes to our mind is here we go again, right,
And that's twelve games. You know we're going to be
thirteen games in when they tee it off this weekend.
So I'm trying to see the glass aut full. Say, okay,
(08:02):
I'm going to be the guy. I don't want to
be the guy who starts to break him down this early.
But it's only human nature to do it because we
say in every sport we only got three NFL games
to judge them by. If they're in game four, we
only got twelve games to judge them by, And judging
by it, there's been some good, some bad, and quite frankly,
so ugly when it comes to either individuals or the
way that they're giving up leads that they shouldn't give up.
(08:24):
It was on the twenty sixth yesterday, not the one
guy in the dugout. That's the way I looked at it,
and that's when I teased the top. I'm saying, did
I miss something that made it feel as if Joe
Espotta was the reason?
Speaker 3 (08:36):
By decisions?
Speaker 2 (08:37):
It was results problem, the lack of execution that cost
him yesterday one hundred percent.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
It was I had zero problem with Contreras going back
out there. I mean, obviously I've been pining for O Kurt.
What are you gonna do?
Speaker 3 (08:49):
All right?
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Coming up next? Once this happens to you, you can't
go back. We'll talk about it right here. Sean Salisbury
Show
Round one of the Masters underway. Two players are on
the course and Sean, we already have a leader, Davis
Riley Parr on the first you are the current leader
at the Masters.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
I mean he hadn't got to the clubhouse yet, but
all the golf course he's a leader.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
That's it. I mean, if nothing, do you think it holds?
Probably not.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
You don't think if I had to guess, I don't
think that Davis is going to be the ten Cup
Roy McAvoy.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
If he made Parr for seventy two straight holes, top twenty,
top twenty, top twenty. I mean I think winner, even
par gets you a top twenty finish and in an
invite back.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Yeah yeah, what do they say.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Top twenty and ties maybe or something right, get you
an invite back? Yeah, even par So basically, I mean
you want to win the tournaments, even par you're in
the money and get you back.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
I mean, you know the US Open, stuff like that.
Even Parr might even win.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
The Do we know the weather over the weekend, because
then it gives me an idea of you get an
idea where the scores might be if it softens up
a little bit.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Depending on how these guys are going to play it
with all that.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Rain passes through, Yeah, just to do we're expecting clear
if we're expecting clear skies and it's but it's still soft,
maybe from early from moisture or something. I don't know
what the weather's been in Augusta. So just curious of
what kind of scores they're gonna start posting. You'll get
a pretty good idea when they first start looks calm
behind some of the shots we see on television.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
I was gonna say, so right now, it's in the
low fifties and it's sunny out, so you know, probably
just dusting off the do a little bit, but supposed
to be in the seventies later today and mostly sunny.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Let's see.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
I think they could get some rain tomorrow, but then
in the sixties and seventies on Saturday and Sundays. So
a little mixed bag there, a little bit on that.
But we'll be keeping you up to date on what's
happening in Augusta. All right, you know something we want
to talk about, and that is spot Who's Who's to
blame for? Yesterday? And Sean, I mean a couple of
(02:04):
days ago and we did the show, I said, Yah,
you know, using Taylor Scott. Don't really get that, you know,
maybe even lifting Cam Smith. Yeah, but yesterday there's nothing
that Joe Spotta could have done. I mean one of
the things you mentioned it that I had mentioned it
of Luis Contreras. Oh, how do you put Contraras back
(02:24):
out there?
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (02:25):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
He threw six pitches, he got two quick outs. What
else do you want him to do?
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Yeah, I don't know, And I'll tell you what. He's
getting some work early on, isn't he. I mean, how many?
Pretty damn efficient.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Like I said, it's hard to be better than six
pitches and two outs.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Yeah, that's so. I don't have a problem with that,
do you now?
Speaker 1 (02:47):
So?
Speaker 2 (02:47):
I when when people put it on him and then
it didn't it didn't turn out well, But it can't
just be I mean, you're staring down, you think, and
I'm trying to preserve a bullpen, and you know, you
never know how long the game's gonna go or where
you are.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
I don't I the move did not bother me.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
I didn't have a problem with it, especially how efficiently
when when you're saying the enem it was and at
the time I didn't even realize it was six pitches,
you know, but you kind of felt it was pretty
urgent anying and under ten pitches.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
I had no problem with with it.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
That's why I was asking the question before I went
to break, is was this a Joe problem Joe a spot.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Of issue yesterday? And to me, it wasn't. I didn't.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
I did not think, like I said, you're gonna question
decisions all the time. But I also know that Joe
a spot and a brave that that wasn't Joe spots
gig right, he rolled up, What did Dana Brown tell
us yesterday? Goes? Well, obviously our eight to ninth are
solidified and locked in pillars. That's exactly right, well, locked
(03:47):
in and pillars, but we did not. You just didn't
get that yesterday. So those things happened. But that can't
be when Joe spot is making a decision for him.
Of course you run, you mean you think this this
is who who he is, This is one of our guys.
This is a guy who gets us to this point.
It just didn't work yesterday, and I'm trying to be
a little more patient with it. But it was a
(04:09):
it was a maybe it's because this has just been
one of those weeks we started on Monday, right, I
did not expect what I saw yesterday watching it was
almost getting closer. You can turn the TV off type
of or if you got something else to do, right,
and then you saw what happened. Pretty resilient by Seattle,
but you got you can't throw two pitches that they
can drive and you gotta and it just went sideways
(04:33):
for contraras. But I would have made the same decision
Joe did, absolutely and in that situation. And that's the thing,
you know, Sean is he can't throw strikes. He can't
be the one to put the bat on the ball
with runners in scoring position. I mean, you know the
hitting side of it. Christian Walker, dude, like, let's go, man, like,
(04:53):
let let let's go. Like it's something out of you,
out of that four spot. I need something from you,
like seriously, hurry up. You know east Sook bread is
he gives you some good at bats, but it's also
too let's see him run in the one.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
I had a feeling yesterday.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
I was like, today's day east Stock runs in the one, right,
and that hasn't happened.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
I mean, Yiner Diaz the same deal.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
I mean, you know, you look at the box score
from yesterday and you're like, oh, come on, Dan, ten hits,
but I say, how many extra base hits? Seriously, how
many of those were extra base hits? I mean, I
said it. If I've got a team full of contact guys,
that's fine. If I got a team full of guys
that can steal bases, which you don't do that well either,
then that's fine. But I mean until that changes singles
(05:36):
and solo home runs, that ain't it, Sean, And it's not.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Gonna be it the whole season, I would hope, But
you have they have, and I know that Dana kind
of talked. I don't know if how you failed about yesterday.
I don't want to say talk offul edge, but feelt like, Okay,
he's right, the powers are yiner, and the powers are
gonna come and and you're done not to worry about
it'll come in bunches. But the more it keeps happening
and you're like, okay, this small ball things get a
(06:01):
little old.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Let's let's go play big bopper. Because it's prolonged.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
This was all this was also, Oh, that's exactly this
was this was the runners the year before that, like
where it's just like like is this who you guys
are now?
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Like is this a mental thing? Like what are we
working through here? And the.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
And you know how it is it We always say, well,
it's a new season, but what happens when negative things happen,
you always revert back to that's what it looked like
last year, right, And so we're always making comparisons to
you know, at bats and last year and this year,
even though it's the rosters completely. When we say completely,
I mean it's half different, right as far as positions
and and a lot of places who's filling them. So
(06:43):
it is maddening when that happens. But you don't like
to see the same trend. It's almost like this when
you what a two games, five and what do they
let's see six and seven, five and eight or six
and seven right now? The record five and seven, five
and seven. They've played twelve that's right, they played twelve,
played twelve games because I thought it was twelve games yesterday,
but it was eleven. And so when they open this
(07:04):
series it'll be game thirteen, fourteen and fifteen. So at
that start of it, like okay they I mean the
record wise, and I didn't do Ryan was it who calls?
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Who is it?
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Called earlier and talked about that there starts the last
three or four years. I know we're twelve and twenty
four last year and this is what typically not a
fast starting balling right, Billy, So you know the record wise,
You're like, Okay, I'll deal with it. But like you said,
it's and fans and we all do get caught into it.
And you and I were talking during a break, is
it results? They just you just see the results, right,
(07:39):
not how you got there. But this team because of
the history of last year of not scoring with run
I mean get driving runners home, a lot of new
bodies and hitting a lot of singles. Now, the first
thing that comes to our mind is here we go again, right,
And that's twelve games. You know we're going to be
thirteen games in when they tee it off this weekend.
So I'm trying to see the glass aut full. Say, okay,
(08:02):
I'm going to be the guy. I don't want to
be the guy who starts to break him down this early.
But it's only human nature to do it because we
say in every sport we only got three NFL games
to judge them by. If they're in game four, we
only got twelve games to judge them by, And judging
by it, there's been some good, some bad, and quite frankly,
so ugly when it comes to either individuals or the
way that they're giving up leads that they shouldn't give up.
(08:24):
It was on the twenty sixth yesterday, not the one
guy in the dugout. That's the way I looked at it,
and that's when I teased the top. I'm saying, did
I miss something that made it feel as if Joe
Espotta was the reason?
Speaker 3 (08:36):
By decisions?
Speaker 2 (08:37):
It was results problem, the lack of execution that cost
him yesterday one hundred percent.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
It was I had zero problem with Contreras going back
out there. I mean, obviously I've been pining for O Kurt.
What are you gonna do?
Speaker 3 (08:49):
All right?
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Coming up next? Once this happens to you, you can't
go back. We'll talk about it right here. Sean Salisbury
Show
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