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Seth and Sean overreact to the Astros losing 3-0 to the Angels yesterday on opening day.
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00:00So opening day yesterday, uh, Astros lose to the angels three to nothing. Um, we'll get into the
00:06game itself in a second. I mean, this is part of the game itself, but like the outcome and whatnot,
00:10this was early in the game though. I I've never seen this before. And I don't know if we're ever
00:15going to see it again. You're on Alvarez hit a ball that would have been, had the roof been open,
00:21that would have been maybe one of the most majestic home runs in the history of Dyke and
00:26park. It was so it's, it was the height of a pop-up except it was going to go. It
00:33was going to go
00:34off into the stand somewhere. I was wondering if maybe he's going to break a window out in right
00:38field. It looked like it was going to have the height of the, the, the one where the seat is
00:43painted orange, like up in the sixth level. And, uh, but it hits a girder and doings off into foul
00:49territory. It bounces into foul territory. So the initial call was foul ball. And then the
00:55umpires all got together, presumably pulled out a book of ground rules that have no rule in there
01:01for Jordan Alvarez hitting a ball off the rafters. And they reviewed it. I would imagine conferred
01:06with New York on a little bit. I have no idea what the process was. Ultimately it was still
01:10a foul ball. Here's what it sounded like on the broadcast. This ball hit high, hit deep, hit near
01:16the rafters. Will it come down? Oh, it just hooked off the rafters and it's a foul ball. It hit
01:23the
01:23rafter and went into foul territory. That ball was going to be a home run. That ball was coming
01:28down right in the middle of your screen and hitting it and kicking right. But yeah, I'm
01:32with you, TK. That was in fair territory. Easily fair. Easily fair when it hit the, I don't think
01:38we've seen one of those. After review, the call on the field is confirmed. It's a foul ball.
01:44That's what I was prepared for, Seth. I'm like, I, you know, I'm watching the game and I'm
01:48looking and I'm going, this hump is going to come on. And I know that the callus and
01:52blum were in, you know, they were appropriately, you know, had a little bit of wishful thinking
01:57going on, but I, even they were saying, boy, I just don't know about a, an umpire saying,
02:02you know, using their judgment to say it probably would have been a home run.
02:06Well, or it would have been a ground rule double potentially. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The, um,
02:12so that, that stunk, uh, it's hard for me to get mad at the design of the stadium or whatever,
02:19except this does, it feels like a couple of times a season, the broadcasters and everybody
02:23else involved is trying to remember or figure out exactly what the rules are after the ball
02:28hits a girder. Yes, there's that there is. And we'll hear from a spot on this in just a second.
02:34I think there's also the fact that, Hey, it wasn't, you know, it was in the low eighties yesterday.
02:39Uh, it was overcast. Yeah. Um, you know, the, that, uh, it's opening day. Uh, there were,
02:47I think probably plenty of Astro fans that would have been fine with the roof being open.
02:50And if the roof were open, then Jordan Alvarez probably has his first home run of the year,
02:54right? You know, it's, you know, you know, butterfly effect, maybe because the game is there.
02:58The, you know, the roof is open. You know, it's guy sees a different pitch or something. I have no
03:02idea. I think it's generally, it's gotta be below 77. It's, uh, for them to open it up. Right.
03:09I'm not throwing any shade at the Astros or major league baseball for keeping it closed. I'm just
03:13saying there's a lot. I'm pointing out that there's, there are fans out there that I've seen both on
03:17social and our text page saying, well, dammit, I wanted the roof open yesterday. If the roof were
03:21open, he'd have had a home. Yeah. I just like, uh, the, I totally side with the Astros on this
03:26because if they had had the roof open and that for one, nobody would have known, nobody would have
03:31said, thank God the roof was open because you're never, we haven't seen somebody hit the girder,
03:36the rafters out that far in that deep into right field. Um, and there would have been at least
03:4110,000 complaints from people about how hot it was. Hey, you've got a roof for a reason. Why
03:46aren't you using it? Yep. Yep. No, I'm just, I'm just expressing the voice of the voiceless
03:50here. The faction of people out there saying open the roof and he's got a home run. Here
03:54is Joe Spada's thoughts on the aborted Jordan, uh, home run. No, we'd rather have the roof
04:00close. I don't, that's probably the second ball I've ever seen hit that part of the roof.
04:05Um, and you know, obviously the ball, wherever he strikes that ball was in play, it landed
04:11foul. So, you know, it's foul ball, but if you land this fair, we, we played as it. So,
04:15um, he crushed that ball, that ball landed upper deck. That's the biggest, the biggest
04:19thing for me with that. And, and look, it would have been nice to get a nice one, nothing
04:23lead in the first thing. It would have been nice to score a run yesterday. Let's just put
04:25it, let's just put our cards on the table. I threw after all the injuries, you know, after
04:30the slow start in spring training, I was very happy, even though the outcome was a foul
04:35ball to see your Don Alvarez do something superhuman and see him do something that you
04:40could probably name, you know, maybe two other left-handed hitters who could do that
04:45exact same. You know what? Because outside of that play, which wasn't even a hit and
04:50Joey Loper Fido, not a whole lot going on yesterday offensively. And you know, Cam Smith
04:56had a steal. That was about all the excitement you had on the base pass. They loaded the bases
05:00at one point for Carlos Correa and he hit it. Right, right, right. And he hit a, right.
05:06Yeah. Cause Soriano was really good for the angels, but he did walk a bunch of guys. So
05:10they loaded the bases. I don't know, midway, you know, fourth, fifth inning, something like
05:13that. And here comes Correa. This is it. You know, first full season back with the Astros.
05:17He's the, he's the man. And he, you know, he just hits a weak fly ball to left field.
05:21It was, it was soft contact all over the place for both teams. And the, the, they were just
05:26swinging and missing it. Everything, everything that you worry about the Astros and their judgment
05:31at the plate and everything, the stuff that was supposed to be a point of emphasis going
05:35back to spring training of 2025. It looked like the same Haggard offense. I was, I was,
05:41I was angry by the seventh inning. I really, I really was. And I was trying to kept telling
05:46myself it's the first game, Seth 162 games in a season. And I'm like, no, this is 163rd game
05:51of this. This is like, no, uh, don't, don't give me your 162 games. This is game 163 of the
06:01Astros
06:01offense being limpid and non-functional. I would say of the things that are that, that to overreact
06:09to negatively, um, Hunter Brown did pitch for it. He didn't give up any runs, but he wasn't vintage
06:15Hunter Brown. He didn't make it through the fifth inning of the game. There was a lot of soft contact.
06:20Yeah. He was pitching around Mike trout to the point where you're wondering after trout walks
06:25for the third time, I was just, just walk him. What the hell? Just doing intentional. Um, but,
06:31but he also, he was inaccurate. I think, uh, callous at one point, it said he was 16 of 30,
06:3616 balls in his first 31 pitches. Um, so it was a combination of that and the soft contact that
06:42really ran up his pitch count. Yeah. He had four blocks. Also, both the starting pitchers had four
06:47walks in this game. So I'm not worried about Hunter at all. It's just, uh, it would have been
06:51nice to see him go six innings in that game. That's all. Um, as a result of him only going
06:56four and two thirds in came AJ blue ball to pitch two and a third who other than this one
07:02pitch,
07:02he was outstanding. Here's Mike trout and he hammers one deep to left field. The Astros had
07:10walked him three times his first three times up. And now he puts the angels on the board with the
07:16first run of the game trout hitting one deep over the Crawford boxes and left field to give the angels
07:22a one nothing lead. Yeah. He smoked it. Um, yeah. AJ blue ball decided to be the guy to pitch
07:27to Mike
07:27trout. And you saw how that Mike trout still has juice, man. Uh, he, uh, he, he, he hit that
07:33baby
07:33over the tracks. The two things from yesterday that again, it's game one 63. It's not game one
07:38is game one 63 that that reared up one of which we had talked about yesterday, which was okay with
07:43runners in scoring position, how they're going to do, um, had a big opportunity, couldn't do anything
07:48with it. But then when Mike trout, who's stolen 14 bases since 2020, uh, in his first time on
07:57base, easily steal second. And you're reminded, Oh yeah, we should have talked about that this
08:02morning. The Astros inability to hold, hold runners on the, on bases. Um, and that Yiner
08:07is really bad at throwing guys out second. Yep. Yep. That's a, that, that reared its ugly head.
08:13That was an issue. A spot is getting some criticism for leaving blue ball in too long from some folks.
08:18A spot was asked about that after the game. Um, what was your thought on leaving blue ball in for
08:23over two innings? That's the whole idea of carrying those guys, you know, now blue ball obviously will
08:28be down for a couple of days. We do have a couple of guys that can do what blue ball
08:31just did. So,
08:33you know, moving forward, that's the whole idea of having some guys that can give you, um, multiple
08:38innings and blue was really good up to 98. Um, just really good stuff. He, he just continues to get
08:45better and better. Blue ball is an interesting one, Seth. And yeah, you and I were talking about this
08:48off the air when I read that text, I'm like, well, some guys are stretched out differently than other
08:52guys are to be able to do that. Blue boss been a starter for his, for his whole life, pretty
08:57much
08:58other than any, it's called up to the big leagues. I wonder, cause, cause I agree with a spot. I,
09:04you
09:04know, you give up a home run to Mike trout, that's going to happen. He's historically one of the
09:08greatest players in the game. I wonder when they go to a six man rotation, if blue ball comes in
09:13and has
09:13a couple more appearances like this, um, if they start to think about stretching him out to be the
09:19sixth guy in the rotation. Right. And I think, um, as far as the question of whether you leave blue
09:23ball in or not, I think that they're doing what they planned on doing with them, especially on a
09:28day where a hundred Brown can't go deeper into the game. But also I think the question should more be,
09:33okay. Should he have pitched to Mike trout? If you know, if a hundred Brown wasn't pitching to
09:38Mike trout, it's still a very close game and blue balls pitching to Mike trout. All of a sudden he
09:42hits a
09:42home run. I guess that would be my one question about it. Credit blue ball for having the guts
09:47and the balls to do it. But I, yeah, he came in and his first, his first strikeout was 98
09:52.6 miles
09:53per hour is the fastest pitch he's ever thrown in major league baseball in a big spot. Yeah. He had
09:57to get that last out of the fifth inning. Yeah. Hunter got fired up after that. Yep. Yep. That was
10:03good to see. Um, okay. A lot of people weighing, pointing out that, Hey, this Astros loss was one big,
10:11like big red X on a day of red X's for the Houston sports scene. Yeah. Uh, it was a
10:17terrible,
10:18this is the base power text line, terrible Houston sports day. Astros lost check Cougs loss check
10:24Longhorns lost check. We forgot about that. Yeah. Longhorns had made it to the sweet 16. They lost
10:30yesterday to another text. All Houston sports teams suck. I'm never watching any of them ever again.
10:35Everybody die. Yes. Yes. Everybody go. Everybody die. Everybody. You know what? I got a little tip
10:44of the cap to Christian Walker yesterday. I thought Christian Walker, he had a hit, which is only
10:49happened three times yesterday for the Astros, but also that we saw twice yesterday, some really tough
10:57to judge pop-ups to, uh, to the right of, uh, the first baseline and Christian Walker made,
11:04it was, it looked like it was really tough ball to judge and he made a nice catch on it.
11:09I mean,
11:09it's not superhuman rating, but you saw the angels have almost three collisions on the same play and
11:15not be able to handle a foul ball right there. Yep. And, uh, so, uh, good, good for you, Christian
11:19Walker. He made a nice play at first too. I can't remember which one it was like, uh, there was,
11:25there was one instance where he made a pretty nice. He had a scoop at first base. The runner
11:29coming down the line was, was safe, but, um, but he, it was one of the soft contact, you know,
11:35it was one of the, one of the soft contact infield hits that Hunter Brown gave up, uh,
11:39where either Paredes or Correa barehand, it was Paredes barehanded it and threw it to first base.
11:43And it was not a great throw and he kept it from skipping behind him, which would have allowed
11:48a run. It was that one when Hunter loaded the bases, it was all soft contact. Yeah. Yeah. I'm not
11:53worried at all. I know you're not either. I'm not worried at all about Hunter Brown. Uh, you know,
11:58it's one, a great outing for him, but I, I think he's going to be fine. Cray. I had the
12:03one play
12:03where he just, he didn't get the glove, the ball out of his glove. Yep. And they were, you know,
12:08he's wearing his third baseman's glove, which is bigger. And that annoyed me. Yeah. Not, I wasn't
12:13mad at Correa specifically, but it annoyed me that it was that kind of a day where you can't conjure
12:18up
12:18any offense at all. And we've got things like, Oh, he's wearing a third baseman's glove. And that's
12:22why I didn't get the, get the out third baseman and shortstop wear different gloves, huh? Yeah.
12:27Okay. Okay. I didn't know that. I know the first base, I know it was the way, the way Blum
12:32was
12:32describing it. It's almost like, you know, like you're wearing a lacrosse basket on your hand at
12:35third base. Oh, okay. Okay. Like it was gotta be able to, you know, a little bit more of a,
12:40just being able to hoover up, hoover up things without any time. That makes sense because it,
12:44because it shortstop, you got to be able to get the ball out quickly when you're turning the double plays.
12:48Yeah. And you got, but you've got more time to do something with your feet. Yeah. Shortstop
12:53where at third base, a lot of times it's just sticking your mitt up and grabbing it. Makes
12:57sense. That makes sense. Um, I painted Pendergast with you, uh, on a, uh, on a Friday here. Yes.
13:04I know texters. It's a Friday where it feels like it's a funeral today after yesterday, uh, for the
13:09Cougs whose season is over for the Astros who, uh, who, uh, sent everybody home sad on opening day.
13:16Hey, the good news is you got the rockets back in action tonight at Memphis. I want to tell you
13:20what to, I don't want to, I don't want to just glide past this. Do you think Jesus Sanchez was
13:26going to get two hits yesterday? Ah, yeah. No, no, no, no, no, no gave you 67% of your
13:34hit
13:34production. Thank you. Yes. That was one of the trades of the off season. All right. Trade of the
13:39century. Things we liked. This won't say we have a minute left in the segment. This won't take long.
13:44Loper Fido at the plate. That's it at the plate. At least blue ball hitting 98 on the gun, even
13:51though he gave up the home run to trout. You're done. You're done. You're done hitting the
13:55rafters hypothetical home run. You're done. You're on hitting the rafters. And I found the
13:59national anthem. I don't know the young lady who sang it, but she sang like a songbird.
14:03I didn't see. I was, I was having a, you know, everything, all the little tweaks and updating
14:07my subscriptions and everything. I was, I was, uh, I was like a one batter late. So I didn't see
14:12any of the pregame stuff. Yeah. Um, the, was there a bald Eagle involved too? There was
14:18a bald Eagle. I didn't see that part. I think you had to be at the stadium to see that.
14:21I
14:21saw the clip on social media, but I didn't know if it was new or older. It stuck the
14:25landing. So those are the things we liked about yesterday. The bald Eagle never screws
14:29it up the way people screw up. Somebody screwed up a national anthem yesterday. I don't know
14:34where it was, but it was, it was a pretty bad. Rockets should have put in a bald Eagle on
14:38Wednesday night in overtime. They would have won the game because you're right. The bald Eagle
14:41never screws up. The bald Eagle wouldn't do eight second violation. No, you wouldn't swing at balls
14:46outside the strike zone. It's true. Discipline, which the Astros were doing at about a 50% clip.
14:51Yes. Yeah. At least when Soriano was in, we need at least three or four bald Eagles on the Astros
14:56this year. Soon as Soriano hit 100 that first time. I'm like, God, great. It's going to be a fun
15:01day.
15:02I'm like, God.
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