00:00We don't have a highlight for our player of the game, but I will tell you it's Jason Alexander.
00:05Six innings, a four-hit shutout baseball, a walk, 4Ks, 80 pitches.
00:10Clearly one of the best outings of a season for anyone that has started a baseball game for the Houston
00:16Astros.
00:16And it counted for a dub tonight.
00:19There you go.
00:19Alexander, as bad as he's been in appearances for the Strohs, he's a perfect 1-0 with a 730 ERA.
00:28The numbers don't matter.
00:30But the dub does, and Alexander was available postgame to talk about it.
00:34Jason, I don't know when you were told that you were starting this game, but the way that you got
00:39off to a good start here, it looks like you were prepped for it.
00:41Tell me about your game planning preparation going into this one and how you executed.
00:46My game plan going in was honestly to just trust the changeup and get it going early and often.
00:53And I knew it was going to be a big pitch for me.
00:55It's kind of my best pitch, so that was what my game plan was.
00:59I've seen that before from you.
01:01To be able to contribute in this way, too, and help this club out, especially bouncing back after a tough
01:05loss last night.
01:06Sorry.
01:07Just being able to help this club bounce back after a tough loss last night.
01:11Yeah.
01:11You know, that's what I come here to do.
01:13I want to help the team win and just put my best game forward.
01:17Vasquez did a great job back there, kind of piloting the game plan back there.
01:23And, you know, it was great working with him.
01:25The defense was amazing, and offense got going early, and it was just a fun game.
01:29How are you handling this season?
01:30I know we've seen you a few times come up for short stints.
01:34How are you handling that?
01:35How are you able to, you know, be ready when your time has come?
01:38Um, that's something I think about a lot in the offseason of just what my job is.
01:43Um, just, you know, trying to get the team innings, quality innings, and, um, help, you know, help the bullpen
01:48when I'm needed and, uh, just help us win games.
01:52And helping the Astros win games is something that he has not done until tonight.
01:57His first two outings have come against Baltimore and the Dodgers.
02:01The Astros lost both of those, 10-3 and 12-2.
02:05Uh, his first outing of the year for the Strohs against the Orioles, he gave up five earned runs.
02:11Did the same thing against the Dodgers.
02:14Five earned runs.
02:15Tonight puts a big fat zero up there.
02:18And tip of the cap to, uh, that dude.
02:21Who's got a really good head on his shoulders, uh, obviously.
02:24Now, this was game 50 for the Astros tonight.
02:28Game 50.
02:29They're 20-30 on the season.
02:31Uh, 8-16 away from the icebox.
02:35Jason Alexander, per Chandler Rome, uh, give him credit for this observational tweet,
02:42just authored their fifth start of at least six scoreless innings.
02:46Peter Lambert has done it twice.
02:48Mike Burroughs once, Spencer Arrighetti once.
02:51And now you can add Jason Alexander to that very short list.
02:55I mean, we know we haven't seen these kind of performances, uh, a lot this year.
02:59And in fact, you now know it's just been five.
03:02Five times.
03:04And, you know, I would venture to bet that you see more quality outings going forward from those guys.
03:15Mike Burroughs has shown the propensity that he has it in his arsenal.
03:19He can do it.
03:20Spencer Arrighetti is the best thing the Astros have going right now.
03:24Uh, Peter Lambert isn't far behind.
03:27And if you can get this version of Jason Alexander going forward, and I don't mean like, hey, six innings
03:34of shutout baseball every time, big dog.
03:36But I'm talking about, like, no walks, you know, or have that not be an issue.
03:41He issued one free pass tonight.
03:43Okay?
03:43But it's about the free passes.
03:46Period.
03:46When you're talking like three, four, unless you're Spencer Arrighetti and you're an Astro pitcher, you ain't getting away with
03:52that stuff this year, you know?
03:53Yeah.
03:54So just keep it to a minimum, and I think these guys can start to see some success.
03:58And, I mean, these guys need to continue to step up, especially with Hunter Brown being out.
04:02You know, you knew someone was going to have to step up in his absence, and I think we're seeing
04:09that.
04:09We're starting to see that now.
04:10Now you just hope and you pray that they can continue to do that.
04:14Yeah.
04:14With every out.
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