00:00Woo, that's just, that's a lot there on the D-line.
00:03All right, as we get you rolling here, the Astros,
00:07they're going to get started here in Colorado and try to avoid getting swept.
00:11Did not have that one on the bingo card, fellas.
00:14Did not have that one.
00:15Lose a series of the A's and then try to get swept by the Rockies back to back.
00:19And you've got to have, and guess who's there to save today?
00:21The stopper.
00:23Oh, God.
00:24The stopper.
00:25Oh, Lord.
00:26Is this the new CJ?
00:28Big start.
00:30Christian Javier is the new CJ?
00:32Is that what he is?
00:32Christian Javier gets the ball tonight.
00:36Listen, it would behoove this offense to get off to a really good start
00:40this first inning before.
00:41It would be nice if he could have maybe a 2-3-0 lead
00:45before he steps on the mound in Colorado.
00:47But this is nice if Lose was in the lineup to help with that as well.
00:51I think he's sick.
00:52He is.
00:53He's rooster-telling.
00:54He's sick of this.
00:55Yeah, that's what he is.
00:56You've got the squirts, man.
00:57Is that what it is?
00:59Got to be.
00:59I mean, what else is keeping you out?
01:01A little cough?
01:02Yes.
01:03According to Chandler Rome, Carlos Correa had been sick since yesterday.
01:06Yeah.
01:06Carlos Correa!
01:08Messed around, got off on that L-tempo after a game or something.
01:10Hence.
01:11Hence his absence from the lineup today.
01:14Correa is back at the ballpark and did a little light pregame workout.
01:18Unclear if he'll be available this afternoon.
01:21So, it looks like he's not in the starting lineup.
01:24Maybe he can pitch it or something a little bit later on.
01:26But the lineup tonight, Pena at short, D.H., Alvarez, Altuve at second, Paredes at third,
01:33Walker at first, Smith, Loprofito, Myers, and Vasquez gets the start after a night game,
01:41after a day game.
01:42So, that is the lineup today as they will, as we said, avoid getting swept by the Colorado
01:49Rockies, one of the worst teams in baseball.
01:51What is it?
01:54Nothing.
01:55All nothing.
01:56You somehow put an old W in Vasquez's name.
01:59What did I say?
02:00Vasquez.
02:01Vasquez.
02:01Did I say Vasquez?
02:02I put a Q in there.
02:03That's what I did.
02:05Vasquez.
02:05Oh, Vasquez.
02:06I like Quiz, man.
02:07Put a Q in there.
02:08Not a W.
02:09Put a Q in there.
02:09Vasquez.
02:11Is it Vasquez?
02:11Did I say Vasquez?
02:12Vasquez.
02:14Christian Vasquez.
02:15I love you for it.
02:16That was good, man.
02:17Well, first of you all kissed my ass.
02:18O'Quizzi.
02:19O'Quizzi.
02:20Is what you can't do.
02:22Could have moved on about it.
02:24Every time you say Pena wrong.
02:25I don't.
02:25I don't.
02:26I'm just going to correct you.
02:27We could have moved on past it.
02:28We all know it.
02:29Everybody in the audience knows it.
02:30SGA.
02:32We all got it.
02:33No.
02:33But no.
02:34Christian Javier.
02:34Christian Javier.
02:35He has got to give them something today.
02:37This is.
02:38Like we talked about it yesterday.
02:40Is he potentially flirting with coming out of the rotation?
02:45I think he's probably helped right now by the Hunter Brown injury,
02:48which seems to be a little bit longer than just the 15-day IL that maybe we thought.
02:53But he has been awful this year thus far.
02:59Not pitching deep in the games.
03:01Not really doing anything when he's in games.
03:04He's walking batters.
03:05Not striking guys out.
03:06Giving up runs.
03:07As you said earlier in the week, he's just not even giving you a chance.
03:12When you're down 4-5-6-0 in his starts, they got to get something from him today.
03:187-1-3-5-7-2-4-6-10.
03:20Those of you on the Base Power text line, YouTube, and Twitch.
03:23What is the floor?
03:24What is the floor of acceptance today for you from Christian Javier?
03:28If he goes out and does this, you're like, all right, okay, I can work with that.
03:32Like last night, Mike Burrows, I could work with what he did last night.
03:36Give me five and a little over five innings, three runs.
03:39I can work with that.
03:40I can work with that.
03:41Christian Javier has not done anything that I can work with right there.
03:45So, where are you at floor-wise with Christian Javier today?
03:53I need five and three.
03:55I need five innings.
03:57I need three or fewer runs.
03:59I mean, yeah, look, I mean, he's better than that.
04:03I mean, he's better than obviously the stat line.
04:06I mean, but he's better than the Astros not being able to depend on him.
04:11And right now, the Astros need him.
04:14And it's early season, and I know, but if it was the last month of the season
04:18and this was happening, you need Christian Javier right now to get out there
04:22and give you a quality start.
04:23Not literally a quality start, but just a start that is of some level of quality
04:28where it doesn't look like the damn wheels are coming off
04:30and you don't give the team a chance to win.
04:33So, look, I'll go five.
04:36I'll go five and three or fewer.
04:38Five and three.
04:39Wow.
04:39Okay.
04:40So, not quite quality start, but you need five innings.
04:43Because he has been in the three, three and two-thirds, you know,
04:48five, six runs range is what he's done with his three strikeouts to nine walks.
04:53So, it has been a struggle.
04:56I'm in the same range, man.
04:59Can you get me four and three?
05:01Four?
05:02Listen, I'm talking about the floor.
05:04You're going to tax that damn bullpen again.
05:06Well, I mean, I'm going into it believing he's going to tax the bullpen.
05:09That's at least your worries.
05:10I'm just saying right now, where was that?
05:13What year was that when they were in the postseason?
05:15I'm to that with Christian Javier.
05:16We were sitting out here, come on, man, just give me three and four.
05:20Give me Zach Grinke.
05:21Just give me three and three.
05:21I need nine outs.
05:24Just give me four.
05:26Can you pitch into the fifth?
05:28Three runs or less.
05:29And can you have more strikeouts than walks?
05:30Folks, that's where I am.
05:33That's where I am with Christian Javier.
05:35He is fighting it, struggling big time.
05:39And they need a big performance because, obviously, that's not the plan to get yourself swept by the Colorado Rockies.
05:50And, to be honest with you, the Rockies have swung the bats pretty well these first two games.
05:54And their ballpark is not really conducive to somebody who is struggling.
05:59And you hope so.
06:00But that's the big deal.
06:02Again, I don't think he's going to get pulled out now.
06:03And if this is one of those one and two-thirds or something, then maybe.
06:07Maybe if it gets worse than it has been, then maybe there's something there.
06:10But I'm with you.
06:12I don't think it gets him pulled.
06:15But he's got to show something.
06:16Well, I mean, look.
06:16You can't have more walks and strikeouts, as you mentioned.
06:19And we've got to get out of the five or six earned.
06:21I mean, we've got to get out of that role, right?
06:24I mean, it's leaving the game really early and taxing the bullpen even more so than a decent start already
06:30does in 2026 baseball.
06:33Giving up, you know, five or six earned runs, you know, walking four or five and striking out one.
06:39I mean, that just giving up a couple of home runs like that, that just it has just been awful
06:44on several fronts.
06:45Like, there's got to be something in Christian Javier, and they need it tonight.
06:51I mean, you've got to get something out of Christian Javier.
06:53You've got to get something out of Lance McCullers.
06:55You can't put all the pressure on Burroughs and MI.
06:57You've got to get something out of the guys that have been Astros for longer than a hiccup.
07:01So, and Christian Javier is one of them.
07:03Yeah, you've just got to be a major league starting pitcher at the very least, and that's not what he
07:08has been.
07:08The floor is low for me, baby.
07:11Four innings, three runs or less, baby.
07:13I can do something with that.
07:15I can work with that, especially what he has been doing thus far.
07:19By the way, they did lose last night, as we said, 5-1, and eventually, Clint, they weren't going to
07:24be able to score.
07:25What did you call it, 7 or 11?
07:267-11, baby.
07:27They weren't going to be able to go 7-11 every game out.
07:29But you spoke about this a couple of times yesterday, and right now, the scary part with the Astros is
07:38they're starting to do things that non-playoff teams do.
07:44And the offense, yeah, they get a day.
07:46They get a day to score one run.
07:48They have been carrying this team and been hot for most of the season.
07:54But that defense jumped up again yesterday.
07:58Already, we know for the most part, they're not going to make plays they shouldn't make.
08:04Like certain guys, maybe Christian Walker might.
08:06Maybe Jake, if he feels it, might a little bit.
08:10But like yesterday, that Bryce Matthews play in left field, man.
08:15Come on, bro.
08:16That's got to get made and let it right to a run.
08:19Yeah, and another Menoyer, too, calling for a pitch review and a 0-0 count like in the first or
08:24second inning.
08:25Yeah, Bryce doesn't get to call for it.
08:26He ain't got the green light.
08:27No, he doesn't.
08:28He doesn't get to.
08:29He shouldn't.
08:29I'm going to tell you, Pendergast is hot.
08:32He is.
08:32I love when Sean gets mad.
08:34Diner, you don't have it.
08:36I think he's got about three guys on the whole team that should even reach for their helmet.
08:40Like everybody else should keep their hand below their ears.
08:43That's it.
08:43Top five in the lineup.
08:45On a scale from just irritated.
08:47No, Altuve does not have it.
08:48From irritated to tied pot.
08:49No, he's got it.
08:50He's got it.
08:50You've got to give Altuve.
08:51I'm just telling you.
08:52On Sean's list, he ain't got it.
08:53No, Altuve is the greatest astro.
08:55He gets it.
08:56He gets to do it.
08:57I'm going to tell you.
08:58You just got to live with it.
08:59Isak, Isak, Alvarez, and who is his third one?
09:05It is.
09:06Correa?
09:07Correa?
09:08It had to be Correa, right?
09:10Maybe it was Christian.
09:11Somebody with a great eye.
09:11It had to be Lowe's.
09:13It's got to be Lowe's.
09:14Yeah, it's got to be.
09:15But that man, Bryce, I don't even think he should have had to slide to make the catch.
09:20And not only did he slide, it hit him in the palm of the glove.
09:23It was damn near a routine fly.
09:25And the Rockies were idiots.
09:28Their guy, he got lucky.
09:29He took off running like it was two outs.
09:31And he should have been doubled up.
09:33Like, oh, what a great read on that.
09:35He didn't hold.
09:36Like, it was, I don't know.
09:38It seems to show up with that defense where they struggle defensively, where they're going
09:44to.
09:44We know that they're not going to.
09:45Like, what was it?
09:46The slow roller.
09:48Johnston's first hit.
09:49The slow roller.
09:50As soon as that was hit, I said, well, I know Altuve's not making that play.
09:55And not to be disrespectful to Altuve, but right now, like, Altuve's probably not going
10:00to make the play out of his range.
10:03I think he's going to probably make most of the plays that he should make.
10:08But slow rollers, he's got to run in and scoop and throw?
10:11No.
10:12He's a left fielder, man.
10:13Give him a break.
10:14He ain't going to make that one.
10:15But you got it.
10:16But you got it.
10:16Bryce, you got to make your left fielder.
10:18He's got to make that catch.
10:18He's got to make that catch.
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