AL West Battle Heats Up: Astros Lead as Texas Gains

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00:00let's go to the al west here houston is the leader right now seattle is two and a half back

00:05texas is four back houston has dropped six of the last 10 seattle has dropped six of the last 10

00:11texas has won seven of their last 10 so texas is trending upwards but they do chase by four

00:16how do you see this division stacking up at the end yeah i think it's still just too much for with

00:22with the amount of games that we have left it's going to be tough to make up that ground especially

00:26when then you look at the mariners schedule uh they also everyone plays the rockies here down

00:33the stretch i swear but they got three against the rockies but i will say like it's not necessarily a

00:38cakewalk it's three at home against the cardinals three at home against the angels three at the

00:43royals who are going to fight till the bitter end three at the astros which that series is going to

00:47be circled and they got to go win on the road there like that's something that's been a little bit of a

00:51challenge for them those three aforementioned the rockies and three against the dodgers to wrap

00:55things up so you flip that around though it's not like the astros is a cakewalk either they've got

01:01three at the jays who are going to be fighting tooth and nail three at the braves we're playing

01:05better ball right now three against the rangers at home that mariners series we mentioned three at

01:10the athletics which can turn into anything and then they close out with three at the angels so i think

01:13it's a little bit easier maybe for the astros but i really think those schedules are very comparable

01:18and a lot's going to come down to that series of those two teams against each other i can absolutely see

01:23that shaking out and then texas is the wild card that you would throw in here are you factoring

01:27texas out entirely i think it's gonna be hard to make that up no probably i mean four back on september

01:348th is very hard to make up but all of a sudden you know seattle loses houston loses and texas wins and

01:39then you're right back in the conversation texas is pitching no eovaldi i felt like was going to be

01:45the thing to do him in no eovaldi and no seager i feel like is surely the thing to do them in

01:50but this is baseball you never really know how weird it can be you think texas is on the outside

01:55looking in i do because of that he i feel like that you know they would need to go in a crazy

02:00stretch where they've got like a guy giving them six impressive innings every single time out and

02:05eovaldi being in that rotation would help that that said kelly has been fantastic lighter continues

02:10to throw well uh but i think it's going to take a miracle run from them to get the division

02:14okay we got a minute who wins the al west and why al west i i still think the mariners i think

02:22the mariners will will finish strong here get a little bit hot down the stretch j-rod does his

02:27thing uh when you pair him with with cal uh i think this team is just going to swing it well enough and

02:32the pitching will do its thing houston for me is my pick because hunter brown is throwing the ball

02:38exceptionally well right now and yordan alvarez is swinging out of his freaking mind at the moment

02:44welcome back to the fold yordan alvarez he's swinging like he was never hurt and he missed five months

02:48this year which is absolutely amazing it will be a showdown in the american league west