Astros Continue to Heat Up in May, Contend for AL West Lead

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00:00all right so uh two teams going in different directions the astros are heating up i know

00:05they lost a good pitcher matt in blanco but mccullers gave them the best start maybe he's

00:09ever had yesterday and that's saying a lot he's been around a long time the astros are seven and

00:13three and on the flip side all the good feelings for the a's unfortunately are out the door they

00:17played worse baseball in may than anybody and so you know headed back to kind of what we thought

00:22they were yeah i mean they really have i think one and nine in their last ten and just think

00:27they're giving up runs they're not scoring a ton of runs it's sort of all happening all at once what

00:32many people thought was going to happen gradually throughout the season but yeah i mean houston

00:36obviously we know they're a good team great top end pitching the injuries are starting to pile up for

00:40them but they yeah i feel like they're used to adversity they're fighting through and i just

00:44think with the way they're playing right now compared to more so how the a's are playing right

00:48now it's like you just kind of can kind of see the a's continuing to sink down houston's going to rise

00:53and stay in that mix because i think that's going to be another really good division race where you

00:57got some teams no one's really separated itself from the pack we see a lot of talent we see a lot

01:02of good teams and uh that could be another another division another race for the playoffs last playoff

01:07spot that comes down to who gets aggressive who makes a move who gets that key you know relief

01:11pitcher even if it's just around the margins because that's kind of how tightly those teams are

01:15bunched and we know they're talented teams

01:17voodoo

01:17who gets it so far you will get the____병