Speaker 1: Sway, you get a miss wag, a bit strikes out
Speaker 1: on the splitter and that is the ball game. Astros
Speaker 1: into three game skin take a Game one in Miami,
Speaker 1: winning eight to two.
Speaker 2: Robert Ford, not Robert Hord, Robert Ford with the very.
Speaker 3: Happy final, big shot, Bob, Robert or last night he
Speaker 3: did not.
Speaker 4: It was.
Speaker 2: It was our normal crew of Robert Ford and Steve Sparks.
Speaker 2: But you just heard Robert Ford give you the very
Speaker 2: happy final last night from there in South Florida as
Speaker 2: the Astros getting back on the winning track. And with
Speaker 2: that we say away we go in good morning here
Speaker 2: on the Sean Salisbury Show. And Sean I threw it
Speaker 2: out on Twitter last night and it's as simple as
Speaker 2: can be. You put the ball in play, well, good
Speaker 2: things can happen. And the Astros in that fourth inning
Speaker 2: last night, for the five runs that they erupted for, well,
Speaker 2: when a novel concept they put the ball in play.
Speaker 3: They did, and that was big and it was never
Speaker 3: in question after that, and that was a looked a
Speaker 3: similar to the day before the other way.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's just a shoe was on the other foot.
Speaker 3: Exactly right, big inning, and sometimes those are hard to overcome,
Speaker 3: and usually they are, especially when they're that big. And
Speaker 3: then you know, they got help from a lot of
Speaker 3: people last night to play. Even though ball wasn't flying
Speaker 3: out of the park, they were getting a lot of
Speaker 3: extra bates hit clutch hits at the right time, you know,
Speaker 3: from Correa Kartini got into the act, Christian Walker got
Speaker 3: into the act, Jeremy Paine a couple times in the act.
Speaker 3: They the Diaz that's exactly right, loaded up and did
Speaker 3: a great job. And I'm gonna tell you phenomenal performance
Speaker 3: of scoreless for what's six. I thought the pitching performance
Speaker 3: last night, considering think about the pressure they're and knowing
Speaker 3: people are coming back wondering is this my gig or
Speaker 3: isn't it?
Speaker 4: Where am I going to be in this rotation.
Speaker 3: And coming off And they needed it off a three
Speaker 3: game losing streak in Boston. They needed to have that
Speaker 3: performance in a beginning like that allows you to settle in.
Speaker 3: But they got everything downe and they needed to get
Speaker 3: done last night, including the win, and uh, I thought,
Speaker 3: I thought they did a hell of a job. I know,
Speaker 3: the back to back home runs for pinchhit home runs
Speaker 3: off King, but that's at the point when you have
Speaker 3: the lead, that validates, even though you never like to
Speaker 3: see it, That validates what we're talking about. Give yourself
Speaker 3: some latitude and leeway. Can't be always being two to one,
Speaker 3: three to one, three two games where one swing of
Speaker 3: the bat one way or the other caused a problem.
Speaker 3: Two solo home runs meant what last night nothing exactly right.
Speaker 3: Could have been might as well have been two singles. Now,
Speaker 3: ego and pitching. If you're the pitcher, you don't like
Speaker 3: it as good as he's been this year King has,
Speaker 3: but they it didn't. It wasn't like a two to
Speaker 3: one game where that's where you had the leeways. Okay,
Speaker 3: they get away with a couple of them, a couple
Speaker 3: you know, pinchhit home runs, no harm, no foul, all good,
Speaker 3: take care of your business. But it all starts with
Speaker 3: scoring quickly and jumping on them and then forcing them
Speaker 3: to chase, and then giving yourself the latitude that if
Speaker 3: you miss a pitcher two and they you still win
Speaker 3: this game.
Speaker 4: So there you have it. It looked it looked nice, Like.
Speaker 3: I said, it was just I don't want to say
Speaker 3: mirror image, but it looks early similar to what the
Speaker 3: what the Astros had to go through with Fromber and
Speaker 3: they couldn't get out of that. They couldn't overcome their
Speaker 3: poor inning defensively and you know as a pitcher, and
Speaker 3: they never could catch back up and never got anything done.
Speaker 4: Same thing happened last night.
Speaker 2: Get back into the offense in a second. But I
Speaker 2: mean you touched on him a little bit, Jason Alexander.
Speaker 2: Where I think last night we would have been fine
Speaker 2: with get to the fifth inning and then you let
Speaker 2: the bullpen go to work from there. But when you
Speaker 2: find out what today's game is a bullpen game, his
Speaker 2: six innings is even more crucial for you to be
Speaker 2: able to get.
Speaker 4: Last night and he delivered.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I don't And you're right that the attitude
Speaker 3: of of get me to five. But I'd like to
Speaker 3: switch my thought process and I think he'd I screw
Speaker 3: get into five there, you get to six, not on
Speaker 3: those damn weighted balls. Yeah, get to six innings. Has
Speaker 3: our guy Rob Dibble would say, get get to six innings?
Speaker 3: Make it even less pressure. And today, with with this,
Speaker 3: like I said, yesterday kind of figured out what they
Speaker 3: didn't have. They had to announced a starter for today.
Speaker 3: You've kind of got an idea what they were going
Speaker 3: to do. But that's how you approach this thing where
Speaker 3: you don't as a pitcher, don't say like, yeah, I
Speaker 3: got to five and a third so that's enough. I
Speaker 3: mean it start and it you know, we sit here
Speaker 3: and say, okay, baseball's gotten to the point it feels
Speaker 3: like that if you get to five and two thirds innings,
Speaker 3: we're starting to put you on our shoulders and hero worship. Right,
Speaker 3: But you go in there and you take care of that.
Speaker 3: You go six scoreless and you take care of your business.
Speaker 3: Not only are you saving a bullpen, you're also creating
Speaker 3: confidence among the guys.
Speaker 4: And don't think that doesn't matter.
Speaker 3: I'm just telling those guys behind you, they want to
Speaker 3: know what's going on with you?
Speaker 4: Would would how good are you? Under pressure?
Speaker 3: How good are you? In quite frankly, everybody passed past
Speaker 3: Hunter Brown and fromber on the mound in truth? Are
Speaker 3: they not trying to?
Speaker 4: Uh? Aren't they battling for their starting pitching job right now?
Speaker 3: Easily knowing Yeah, you're bad. No matter who you are.
Speaker 3: It doesn't matter who it is Jason Alexander. It doesn't
Speaker 3: matter if it's Gordon and if everybody was healthy and
Speaker 3: ready to go. Those the front two, yes, the other
Speaker 3: three and when the colors is out there all battling
Speaker 3: for a shot to be three, four and five. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and he posted his score. But also what that does.
Speaker 3: It tells the guys behind you that he's that the
Speaker 3: guy's throwing good pitches. Get people out, working fast and
Speaker 3: getting things done, man, and it does matter. And then
Speaker 3: a bullpen said, they're saying, oh, they just saved us
Speaker 3: twenty five pitches or whatever it could be, right, getting
Speaker 3: an extra ining. So the thought process of you know what, no, no,
Speaker 3: no five is not enough. Let me get you guys
Speaker 3: to six and it'll all be scorreless. And so the
Speaker 3: guys behind you, and that that confidence starts to build
Speaker 3: to where if you have a six man rotation, or
Speaker 3: if you have a guy that has to spot start
Speaker 3: for you, you're not sitting there saying Jason Alexanderson over
Speaker 3: his head, he shouldn't look and I know who it is,
Speaker 3: but they've been playing pretty good baseball. He sure as
Speaker 3: hell wasn't in over his head last night and was
Speaker 3: a hell of a performance. And everybody, like when we
Speaker 3: mentioned Sanchez got himself he what was a double. He
Speaker 3: had hit his double two. They took care of it.
Speaker 3: Dubon took care of his. I mean it was an
Speaker 3: impressive performance up and down the lineup and uh and
Speaker 3: chasing Alexander Rodoby. When I say proud, stand up and
Speaker 3: give a thumbs up. That was important last night.
Speaker 4: No, it absolutely was. And he's able to give you that.
Speaker 2: I mean, you touched on King giving up those couple
Speaker 2: of home runs and then also a double on that inning,
Speaker 2: but even after the home runs came back struck out
Speaker 2: the next two guys like almost kind of like all
Speaker 2: right enough, like what's it Hans Kruber and die hard
Speaker 2: enough jokes?
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, that was.
Speaker 2: That was Brian King in that inning of just being like,
Speaker 2: all right, hey, you got a three times.
Speaker 3: It ain't gonna happen anymore, right, And you know what
Speaker 3: if that means that was your performance. It doesn't happen
Speaker 3: to you very often this year and it hasn't once again.
Speaker 3: Six runs gives you the latitude you go up there,
Speaker 3: you have two solo home runs when it's six to nothing.
Speaker 3: You can live with that, and I don't have to
Speaker 3: rush to the bullpen to think, oh my gosh and
Speaker 3: then you get it done and then you fight back.
Speaker 3: Kind of shows his resilience, which has been typical of
Speaker 3: that bullpen what they've been about this year. But make
Speaker 3: no mistake given them that big inning allows Jason Alexander
Speaker 3: to pitch a little freer, even though he was pitching
Speaker 3: really well anyway. But that just gives you a little
Speaker 3: attitude and I don't think we can overestimate how important
Speaker 3: that is.
Speaker 4: And it was. It was a really good especially coming
Speaker 4: when they needed.
Speaker 3: It, because you don't know what's going to happen in
Speaker 3: a bullpen game like this today, You don't, you have
Speaker 3: no idea. And it was because if I'm not mistaken
Speaker 3: that I mean, I don't think the Mariners played last night, but.
Speaker 4: Rangers took care of Yes, they did.
Speaker 3: And in the American League, you know, you know that
Speaker 3: it's that there's five six teams that can win it
Speaker 3: and you're trying to post your score and win this division.
Speaker 3: Last night was huge, so they what they stayed. The
Speaker 3: Rangers stayed the course and now your three game games
Speaker 3: up on Seattle with a half game last night