Astros vs Rockies GAME 4 LIVE PLAY-BY-PLAY August 26th, 2025

Astros vs Rockies GAME 4 LIVE PLAY-BY-PLAY August 26th, 2025

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I am you. You love me. You are love. You are me. We love us. We are love. We are love. We are true. We are God. I remember. I accept. I become. I am. I am. I am. I am. [Music] Oh yeah. [Music] Well, good morning, good afternoon, good evening, good day, good night, good sir, good ma’am, good gentlemen, good lady, ladies, children, listen up. It is Ghost Dros live playbyplay time for the Houston Astros. Once again, under the authority of the dome, baby, we all live on the flat earth field. The flat earth diamond. The flat earth ba baseball field covered by the Houston Astros. It doesn’t matter if you’re a Mets fan or Dodgers fan or a Cubs fan. Doesn’t matter. You are under the authority of Houston Astros around here. That’s right. Welcome in. We had a day off yesterday. It was nice. I didn’t do too much as far as content here. I did take time to make a video about Yordon simply because that’s important. I think that a lot of people don’t realize just how important it is. I just showed a couple of clips of Yordon smacking the ball and putting the hurt on various pitchers. If you haven’t had the chance to listen to my my YouTube short, it’s actually almost three minutes long. If you’re wondering why I posted it as a short rather than a a widescreen video, it’s because it actually turned into a much longer video than I thought it was going to be. When I did all the research and put the script together, sat down and recorded it, I realized a couple of things. Number one, I I really wasn’t feeling well yesterday. I’m going to be honest. I’m I’m still not feeling as good today. But I feel like I’ve been able to manage it a little better. I’ve got two fans on me right now. Um I’ve been having some some pains over here, some pains over here. Uh I’ve been having some uh hot flashes, slight feelings of nausea, and some uh pains in my head and stuff like that. These are all bad signs for somebody with the conditions that I have. So, I have to be very careful. There’s kind of a certain threshold. Once I get to that threshold, I should go to the emergency room. So, uh, we’ve also been under a heat wave the past couple of days. And I will say that although it still doesn’t get quite as hot out here where I’m at, I’m in a good location thankfully, but I don’t have an air conditioner. I only have fans. So, I did struggle a little bit, but uh last night when I was first able to go to sleep, I did sleep for about 5 hours and then I thought maybe after that I wouldn’t be able to go back to sleep, but I just felt so terrible. So, I repositioned my fans really close to me. I tried to make make myself as cold as possible, and that that really helped. So, I was able to get back to sleep and sleep for several more hours, but yesterday was was a really difficult day. So, I didn’t get too much done in the way of video. I wrote some of my book, but even that I I was hoping to finish a chapter of my novel yesterday, but I wasn’t even able to do that. I was only able to finish about a third of the chapter. Today I’m going to be fasting. I’m not going to be eating. I just I just can’t be bothered with cooking and eating today. I think that my body really needs s I mean I I don’t know if I want to say sad to say or it’s difficult to say, but it’s true. I think that if I don’t fast right now, I’m I’m taking away the best opportunity my body has to get better. So, I’m just going to I’m going to stick with my electrolyte drinks and I’ll have a little bit of coffee. Not too much. And that’s pretty much it for today. No eating is planned for today. But we’re back in Dyking Park in Houston for game one. The Astros finally back at home from this uh road trip. I think we’ve got about 10 games at home right now coming up. Something like that. Are you talking about the Rockies picture? He’s kind of like a a mountain man. He’s like a man made of Colorado Rockies. Is that who you’re talking about, Jay? You’re talking about the Rocky’s pitcher. Supposed to be kind of like a half man, half mountain, half Colorado Rocky. But yes, Yordon is back. Bubba M Bubba MF Ford, welcome back. Good to see you here. Mark Bryant, what’s up with you? Good to see you. J Paul, hello. Of course. Good to see you. Yes, that’s right. Astros lineup gets one step closer today with Yordon back. If we had Jake Meyers in there, how nice would that be? Kind of surprised to see that they put Yordon fourth. That means he won’t have the opportunity to hit in the first inning unless we get base runners. But I’m hopeful we can get a base runner today. So, I think we’ll see Yordon in the first. What do you think? I I want to do a simple poll for today. I’m going to This is a very simple poll today. I’m going to ask about Yordon getting a dinger. There we go. guys are excited to have him back. Well, I definitely need to change that to my headset. You guys can hear that, right? Julia is talking to Joah Spotter right now. That was nice. Alvarez came off the field from warming up there and he waved at the crowd. That’s nice. You know, a lot of times whenever the crowd is cheering for the players and they’re coming off the field, they just ignore the crowd like they’re not even there, right? Jake’s rehabbing with Sugarland tomorrow. That’s right, Jake. Paul, I’m kind of surprised. I really thought Jake would be back before Yordon, but the Astros lineup today. Let’s take a look at it right quick. Even though the Astros are going to be on the field first, Jeremy Pena is first at shortstop. Batting second, Carlos Korea at third base. Batting third, Jose DH, Yordon Alvarez playing in left field, batting cleanup. That’s two surprises for me. Not only is he playing in left field, he’s also batting fourth. Two surprises for me with Yord on today. Batting fifth is Christian Walker at first base. Batting sixth is Jesus Sanchez in right field. Batting seventh is the Batman Keratini, Victor Keratini, who’s also catching. Batting eighth is Mauricio Dubon at second base. And wrapping it all up at in the ninth slot is Blade Rogers, Jacob Melton in center field. You know, this uh lineup overall is not bad. The weakest link in my opinion is Melton. Hope Sanchez continues to make lots of contact today. We need him not only to be hitting and driving in runs, but also hitting the bombs. You know what I’m saying? Just how amazing would it be? I mean, look at the guys we got in the lineup. Pena is an all-star already. Kareah is already an all-star. Altuve is an all-star. Yordon’s an all-star. We’ve got several other guys who could get hot and play like allstars. Walker, Sanchez, Keratini, Dubon, Jake Myers coming back. If Jake Myers were in this lineup instead of Melton, I would really really like this lineup. If Meyers is in this lineup today and Melton is not. And I know we have Diaz as an alternate to Keratini, but honestly right now I’d rather have Keratini in the lineup for a couple of reasons. Not that Diaz is bad, it’s just that Keratini gives us more options. And I feel like he he helps to make it more difficult for the opposing teams to select their pitchers. But with Jake Meyers in the lineup instead of Melton, if I were to see this lineup, I would think, man, this is one of the best lineups I’ve seen in a long time and one of the best lineups in the MLB. It’s just how I feel. Put aside the fact that they’ve been pretty cold up until recently when the bats finally woke up. But when they’re playing, when every one of these guys is playing to their potential, every one of these guys you see here, the Astros lineup is pretty darn dangerous. Hunter Brown running onto the mound now with Victor Keratini at home plate. We are just moments away from the first pitch. There comes Alvarez, baby. Heading out to left field. What a great day. Hunter Brown on the mound. Keratini behind the plate and Yordon back in left field. Krispy, get out of here with that nonsense. I’m going to put you in timeout for 10 seconds. We’re saying that the lion says, “Hm is a supplement I take. It’s a naturally occurring anti-at catabolic metabolite. Great for calorie deficits. Maybe worth the research.” Well, I don’t have a calorie deficit. I’ve been eating very a very uh decent amount a good decent amount of calories actually. But I’m going to stop eating so I can fast and let my body go into autophagy. Um I’ve just got too many blockages in debris in my body. Tyler Freeman is going to be the first batter to face Hunter Brown, followed by Mickey Moniac and Hunter Goodman. So, we’re going to have Hunter versus Hunter today. Hunter Goodman versus Hunter Brown. And I have a feeling that Brown is going to deliver because when Brown says, “What can Brown do for you?” You say, “Strike out, baby. Strike them out. Ground them out. You know what I’m saying? Yo, you know what I’m saying? Word up. I even changed my background lights to an orange color as a special tribute to Yordon Alvarez today. I haven’t had a chance to change my video that plays in the background though, my background screen. That’ll take a little more time to work out, but I’ll get on it. Hunter Brown is ready and on the mound. First pitch of this series is on the way. Here it comes. Right in there. Strike one, 96 miles an hour, 0 and1. Hunter Brown wastess 0.0 time. Hey Brendan, good to see you. Hello Nightbot. Ken Starks. The moment we’ve been waiting for. Welcome back Ken. Good to see you. Here’s the pitch. The 01 low, just a tad low. One in one to Freeman. I see Freeman on the screen and I think Freddy Freddy Freeman. But Freeman was traded, was he not? Away from the the draft Dodgers. Here’s the next pitch. This is grounded off his foot. One ball, two strikes, 95 mile per hour. Stinker. Shrewley says that Yordon had four doubles in rehab. Seems like his left his doubles go to left field a lot. I’m calling Crawford boxes. That’s a good call. You’re a smart man. You’re paying attention. You’re paying attention. That’s one of the reasons why I gave the choice, right? Instead of just saying yes or no, he homers or he doesn’t. I made I decided to make it a little more challenging. If he does homer, I want to see how many people get the location correct. Here comes the one two pitch. Swinging a miss. Hunter Brown starts off with a foul tip miss on the outside and a nice cutter. A four pitch strikeout. But is the word I’m looking for. Absolutely beamous. Mickey Moniac comes to the plate. A lefty batting 256 but 210 on the road. Here comes the pitch. Oh, that’s crushed a right field. But woo man, that line drive was crushed. But right into the glove of Sanchez, who happened to be playing very deep. He caught it on the warning track right in front of the wall. Man, that was destroyed. Luckily, it was just a line drive. If he had some lift on it, that would have been gone on the very first pitch. Two up and two down with five pitches. Hunter Goodman. Now, it’s Hunter versus Hunter. There is an anime in Japan called Hunter Hunter. So, this is the real life version of Hunter Hunter. Hey, Fox at Bat. Welcome in. Thank you for being here. Here comes the first pitch to Goodman. Fouled off 96 on the inside. Krispy wants to know if his hand was so injured, then why are they playing him in left field? What was the actual injury? It was never clear to me. Well, I I’m surprised too to see him playing out in left field. Honestly, that’s the bigger surprise. I thought they would have they would be I’ll get it out right in just a second. Here’s the pitch. Woo! On the inside. Strike two. Nice pitch by Hunter Brown. 0 and2 is the count. I feel like um putting him batting fourth is kind of strange. I thought they’d put him third, but putting him in left field actually in the game, that’s even more surprising to me. Low and outside. So, I don’t know what’s going on. I don’t know what’s going on. Crispy. Bubba says he was handling business over there. Yes. Here comes the pitch. Swing and a miss outside. Look at that. Nice. Another beautiful strikeout for Hunter Brown. And in just a few pitches, about 10 pitches, Hunter Brown has two strikeouts in a line out to start the game. Good start. And they are hurting my eyes with a stupid commercial about Sho Show Otani’s dog. I do think it’s kind of foreboating though because they end this commercial with the dog saying, “Yeah, I wonder if he’s going to let all that success go to his head.” So they make it sound like the dog is going to be be corrupt, but I think it sounds more like they’re talking about Shoi Otani. So Hunter Brown with nine pitches so far this game, seven strikes. That’s right. That’s the kind of first inning you like to see, Mr. From Valdez. Yes, sir. I’m looking at you, From Valdez, because you know Fromber definitely watches my broadcast. So, Fromber, pay attention. Take notes on what Hunter Brown is cooking. I absolutely agree, Brendan. I hope the umpires are pretty good today. So far, so good. Hey, Patrick, good to see you. How you doing, big man? Hope things are well. Thank you so much, Patrick. Yesterday and last night, uh we’re not so good. It’s um I don’t know if it’s because of the weather or what, but um I was getting really close to uh going to the hospital. I just uh wasn’t sure if I was dealing with a moment or dealing with a threshold to something much worse. But you know, right now I’m kind of stabilized. Thank you for asking. I do appreciate that. Absolutely. Glenn quietly wandering. Friend of mine IRL. He says, “Morning Mr. B. I’ll be in the background unloading that trailer I mentioned the other day. Have a good call.” I like the emoji there. Looks like you’re really going to enjoy it. Sarcasm intended. Py at the plate takes the first pitch way outside from Tanner Gordon. 7.11 erra. And today we look to tan Tanner’s high. Do you know what I’m saying? 83 right in the middle of the zone there on the slider. Fouled off by Pñena one and one his account. Thank you very much, Glenn, by the way. And enjoy the unloading that trailer. I mean, I know that that’s no fun. Just the little bit of stuff that I did yesterday felt like it felt like I was unloading a trailer all day long. That’s that’s what kind of shape I’m in. But best of luck to you, bud. This is bounce to the shortstop who fires over to first and gets Pena for out number one. Three pitch bounce out for Mr. Gordon. Fox atbat. Three days of weekend with the family. I’m back. That’s nice. Where did you guys go? Did you go out of town somewhere? Go do something fun. Carlos Koreah, South Korea at the plate, baby. The Flash is down. Very first pitch. Koreah liked it. He went after it at the bottom of the zone. misses that slider for the first strike. 0 and one is the count. Robert Garcia, welcome in. Good to see you. How’s it going with you? Good to be in the chat. Let’s get the good vibes going. Absolutely. A little low. Ball one. One and one. We absolutely need the W. One ball, one strike. Koreah. One out, nobody on here in the bottom of the first. Oo, that was a nice pitch on the very bottom of the zone. Strike two. One and two is the count. Ken wants to know what the COVID situation is over here in Japan. Uh, I haven’t really heard anything about it recently. I think there was some type of uptick several weeks ago and some of that coming out of China. But what’s interesting is that I always see a lot of news about people getting sick and having problems in China. I I have a few news sources that are very good, plus my friends in China. And then always after that, that’s low and outside. The count’s even two and two. But always after I see this news and I hear about this news, I always hear China and Chinese like the loyalists, you know, the national nationalists. Korea Korea fouls that one off. 94 on the inside the count stays two. But anyway, the nationalist starts chiming in and blaming Japan for it. They say tourists from China are coming back from Japan with CO, but I don’t hear anything around here about there being a COVID problem. Koreah fouls it off again. The count stays two and two. Gordon is now up to nine pitches, so he’s going to have to get at least 10 before he can face anybody else. I appreciate that, Lynn. Thank you so much. Hope you feel better. Absolutely. Right field hit. There we go. Koreah has a really good at bat there. Forces Gordon to throw several pitches. Fouls him off. Gets an opposite field hit to first first base side. Nice little line drive. That brings up my hero, Jose Altuve. Now, the cool thing here is if it works out as planned, Altuve, whether he gets out or gets on base, it gives Yordon an opportunity at the plate with runners on in the first inning. So, Altuve pops up the very first pitch, but luckily it goes out of play. Michael Fontno, welcome in. Thank you so much. Let’s go Stros indeed. Ken says, “I can’t remember his name, but the guy always holding a bat while talking baseball says his current lineup is the most dangerous in the league.” Or this lineup. It’s like a podcaster or video guy. Guy always holding a bat. I’m not sure who you’re talking about. Albe takes the next pitch low and outside. It’s one. Fox at bat says, “Three days at the beach, Puerto Varta, Mexico.” That sounds awesome. I have never been to Mexico, but I would like to go one day. There are many places that I’d like to go. Here’s the next pitch. Wow. Ripped foul line drive hard. Very hard. Down the left field line into the net. That would have been into the corner for sure. He hit that so freaking hard. He might not have been able to make a double out of it. Come on, Aluve. You’re the man, bro. Yeah, me too. Brendan, here comes the one-two pitch to Altuve inside. Altuve looked like he was really ready to swing but went up inside. He pulled back. The count is even. Two and two. Koreah on first base. Altuve at the plate. One out. Yordon on deck. Here comes the toss in the dirt. bounces away. Koreah walks back to first base. Full count. Lynn says, “Ghost throws.” Indeedly doodly ghosts. Let’s win this. Yo, since Glenn is listening in while he’s unloading stuff, I should make regular references to that. I need to maybe I should make an unloading song instead of just the coffee song. Here comes the full count pitched to Altuve. He pops this one up. Is it going to be in play? Yes, it is. Goodness gracious to the catcher. Full count. Altuve works it all the way to the full count and he pops it up. Yordon comes to the plate for the first time in over three months, guys. It’s been like more than three and a half months. Airord on baby. Welcome back indeed. Here we go. Yordon at the plate for the first time since May 2nd. Here’s the pitch outside. 95 mile per hour fast ball. Let’s see if Tanner Gordon is scared to death. Can you imagine being this pitcher? First time Yordon is back and you’re the guy that’s got a pitch to him. You don’t want to break down, do you? Koreah is on first base with two outs. Here’s the one pitch to Yordon. 85 miles an hour low and outside check swing. They say he did not go. Yeah, you’re right, Delion. I was really really hoping that he avoided the double play. Even if he got out, as long as it’s not a double play. Absolutely, you’re right. Two and 0 is the count. Here comes the pitch. Low and outside again. Look at that. Already it’s caused him to not pitch in the zone. Doesn’t it bring back memories of how pitchers used to pitch to Yordon when they would not really pitch it in the zone? Here comes the three 0 outside. They walking four pitch walk. Well, in a way you can say that basically it’s just like it’s just like how it used to be. Things are just like they used to be, are they not? A four pitch walk around the zone just kind of putting it out there where he might be able to get to it, but not dangerously close. And that brings up Christian Walker with two runners on. First pitch to Walker on the way. Ah, he lifts that one straight up into the outfield. He didn’t straighten it out. He could have gotten a homer there, but he sends it to the right fielder for out number three. But one hit for the Astros with Koreah. Two runners left on. You know what? But but what just happened here? What just happened here is a perfect example of what I was explaining in my short video that I made about why Yordon’s presence matters. so much. Whenever they have him in the lineup, it causes the pitchers and the managers to do things a little differently and that creates more opportunities for the other Astros. And what we just saw in the first inning is a perfect example of that. Now, granted, we didn’t take advantage. Walker flew out. But I’m telling you that for for those of you who don’t know this, okay? And you don’t see what I do sometimes when I do a little bit of data research. I mean, I’m not sitting here all day long every day doing data research. I can’t do that anyway because of the uh the DVT that I had in my leg a couple of years ago. I had a blood clot in my leg. So, you know, I can’t stay sat in a chair for a really really long time. you know, I need to get up and move around during the games and during the day. I can’t stay sad at the computer. You know, sometimes, um, you know, I have to do a lot of different things to kind of keep the blood flowing. But I can tell you this, there are times where I just kind of get a a wild hair. And when I get that wild hair, I start doing some research. And I decided to do a little bit of research about how the Astros perform with Yordon in the lineup. And on average, now it I I had to do some digging over the past couple of years in order to get this data because I wanted a healthy Astros lineup with Yordon in it. A healthy Yordon. So, a healthy Yordon and a healthy Astros lineup versus a healthy Astros lineup generally without Yordon. And I I wanted to look and see what is the run differential with Yordon in it’s almost one complete run per game additional on average. How awesome is that? Here’s the pitch from Hunter Brown. He’s facing Jordan Beck. That’s up and in 93 miles an hour ball one. But but here’s the thing. Your Don is not hitting in a run every game. It’s just his presence and causing the pitchers to adjust and the managers to adjust which pitcher is in the game. 81 miles an hour on the inside. The knuckle curve gets the strike. One ball, one strike to Beck. Hunter Brown has the count tied. But what we just saw with Yordon getting that four pitch walk, that is a perfect example of the Astros getting more opportunities just because Yordon’s in the lineup. And that’s the one thing that nobody was talking about. Nobody was talking about that. This is what we mean when we say a a hitter provides protection for the other hitters. And that’s the main benefit of having Yordon Alvarez in the lineup way up high. Two balls, two strikes. Robert says, “The morning show with Robert Flores and D. Rosa and some lady that talks baseball.” Ah, okay. I guess that’s the the guy with the bat. Is that what you’re talking about? There we go. Look at that beautiful knuckle curve in the dirt. Jordan Beck goes after it. Look at that. nasty. He couldn’t help himself. He He went digging. That ball bounced off the plate. Out number one and strikeout number three for Hunter Brown. And now Brenton Doyle. Is that the plate? Here comes the toss up high. 96 miles an hour. Ball one. You’re on. Yeah, he’s scared. All right, the pitch that’s the thing that a lot of the pitchers are like that. Some of them get the the snoody nose and they try to say I can take this guy and then he takes him deep. You know, 95 in the top of the zone, fouled off. One and one is the count. Krispy said he saw the first home run, first career homer in 2019 with Yordon. That’s nice. That’s a special memory. I like that. Thanks for sharing that, Krispy. Yeah, and that was a buzz kill by Walker, but it’s okay. This is hit into center field, but Melton is able to float back and grab Hey, look at that. Melton is no longer Blade Rogers. Did somebody get word to him? He is no longer part of the adult baseball player club. Blade Rogers has left the industry. He has decided to go back to corporate life. Guys and gals. Blade Rogers is no more. He is now just regular old salary man Jacob Melton. He shaved off the stash. He betrayed us all. I wonder if Brian King is upset about that. First pitch to Ezekiel Tavar is a knuckle curve above the zone for ball one. Two down, another strike out and a fly out for Hunter Brown. He’s up to 18 pitches. Here comes the 19th. That’s grounded straight to Pñena who scoops it up and fires it over to first. But the throw over there is a little off the bag. However, Christian Walker is able to make the tag and get the out. So, a little bit of good first baseman baseman. How do you h how would you say that? Baseman’s basement. Basemen. Yeah. First baseman. A little bit of good first baseman and by Christian Walker. I just coined a new term. Let’s see here. Uncle Joe wants to know how Yordon how was Yordon injured earlier the season to begin with. Um I’m with Dion on that. I think it was a stress fracture and he he played with it actually for a while. And by the by the way, I did post a little bit of an article. Maybe I can share this with you guys and you can understand why Yordon Yordon got hurt. Maybe you heard earlier this season that or Yordon played for a while while his hand was hurting. And of course, you know that he wasn’t doing very well. And for for us Astros fans who’ve been here uh since the beginning of the season, you know that Yordon when he did play, he wasn’t doing very well. And then we found out that he was actually playing playing with pain. Well, this morning it just so happens that I was reading an article where they were talking with Yordon and they discussed this playing that he did earlier this year. Now, check this out. He said that there have been times before where he’s he’s had some pain in his hand or his hands and it’s just kind of normal. He just keeps playing and it goes away because that’s I mean and I understand that. I I understand that. Anybody who’s not or has not played a sport, if anyone who’s not an athlete who has played a regular sport, maybe they can’t understand that. They think, well, if you’re hurting, why would you play? Well, because there are different types of hurt. There there are types of hurt that go on and on and on. Uh oh, look at this. The very first pitch. Are you kidding me? Jesus Sanchez goes deep on the very first pitch by Tanner Gordon. Look at that. Sanchez and he points out to the bullpin. He’s the first one to put some runs on the board for the Astros with the very first pitch off Tanner Gordon. First hit at home in the Astros uniform. Yordon smacks him in the head. Craig gives him a little smack. Jesus Sanchez. Jesus Sanchez. Beautiful. Victor Keratini is now up at the plate. One to nothing Astros. That’s in the dirt for ball one. Jesus 93 low and outside but in the zone. Strike one. One and one. Here’s a pitch low and outside again. This time too far outside. Two balls and one strike to the Batman. It’s interesting for us to have backtoback lefties. Right. Let’s go Batman. Wow. He rips that one alluve style into right field right into the net. Nice strong line drive. Lean back, son. Yep. Here’s a pitch. Wow. 94 just below the zone. Called strike three. You can see that that Well, that’s the homer by Sanchez. He just crushed it. Boom. He knew it was gone as soon as he hit it. Mauricio Dubon at the plate with one out, nobody on. He fouls this one off on the right side for strike one. Yeah, you’re right. I mean, Predis was like the king of driving up the pitch count. He was really a big help with that. Here comes the pitch way outside. Yeah, that’s the thing, Krispy. Whether Yordon is in a slump or not, he’s still Yordon Alvarez. So, he forces them to come up with different game plans, and that makes it easier for the rest of the Astros hitters. Here’s the pitch to Dubon. Little outside. Two balls and one strike to Doobie. Here comes the 2-1 pitch. Right in there with the fast ball, but fouled off again. Two and two is the count. Shrewy says Milton going for the reverse Samson. Reverse Samson. That’s funny. Sanchez is Yordon Jr. instead of 44, he’s four. That’s funny. And he’s a mini me. Dubon checks his swing. They say he did not go. Gordon is now up to 32 tosses. Doobie takes a timeout. Steps out of the box. Next pitch is going to be his 33rd. One out, nobody on. Full count. Yeah, David, I agree. Hopefully we do get Myers back soon. Yeah, he absolutely has been having a stellar career. Here’s a pitch. Hit high in the air on the infield. The second baseman is right underneath it. Puts it away for out number two. Jacob Melton, the baseball player formerly known as Blade Rogers, comes to the plate. We’ll see if the reverse Samson works like Shrewley says. Will it work when he shaves off the stash? The stash shave. Here’s the first pitch. Hey, it does. Very first pitch. He goes all Sanchez on it, but that was a mini mini Yordon. Stayed in for a single. We got a runner on first base. slider right in the middle. He took it to task. Took her to task. Can’t even imagine having Pretty Myers in this lineup. Yeah. How awesome would that be? A guy that forces a lot of pitches and another dependable 300 plus hitter speedster. Throw to first base and Melton is back. Jeremy Pñena is at the plate with his massive 840 OPS. It is down a little bit compared to where it used to be, but he’s still batting .305 despite the slump. Here comes the next pitch. He rips it down the left side. That’s Oh, foul. He says foul. Could have been a double for Pñena. Let’s see how close that was. Woo! Man, it just curved foul. Ken says, “Walked and this is my surprised face.” Here’s the pitch low inside. One ball, one strike to Pena. Come on, Flash. Let’s go flash. There comes a 1-1. That one is fair. All the way out into left field. Probably going to be a single. Yep. The left fielder is able to get over there and stop it before it gets to the wall. Pñena is on first. Melton is on second. Two out Magic going on right now. Oh man, can you imagine if we score a few runs and get back to Yordon with some bases loaded action? Good grief. Let’s do it. I’m starting to I’m starting to get scared on my screen right now. I see Carlos Kareah at bat. Altuve on deck and Alvarez in the hole. I’m salivating. Two runners on, two outs. Come on, Kareah. Work your magic, baby. We don’t need much. You know what to do. Here’s the pitch inside. Ball one. Yeah, he does. Ken Starks Hunter does have a nasty knuckle curve. It is great. It’s a powerful weapon. Yeah, Krispy. Good problems to have everybody healthy. Pettis back little outside ball two. Nice call by the umpire. He didn’t bite on calling that edge. And we have other things other players coming back. Other things to look forward to. Rennell Blanco. Man, I can’t wait to get Blanco back. He was a workhorse. Hey, still Viper. Welcome in. Good to see you. 94 up and in. 3 and 0. 3 and 0 to Koreah. What if he puts one right down the middle? That’s like a home run derby ball and Craig goes deep on it. Or is he just going to be taken all the way? Let’s see. Here comes the three 0 pitch. It’s high and inside. Four straight pitches. So he four pitchwalked Yordon. He four pitch walked Koreah. And now he’s got José Altuve with bases loaded. Altuve flew out to the catcher, but he did work the count earlier up to fool. And they’re going to come out and talk. They don’t like what’s going on here. All we need right now is for Altuve to keep it going. This is another opportunity. The Astros are playing right now. So far, the Astros bats, the Astros pitching is working like it’s built to, working like it’s supposed to. There we go. What’s up with you, Steel Viper? I’m glad you came in early. Kind of exhausted, but I’ll try to stay for the whole game. Hey, man. Do your best. Just glad to see you here. It’s Yordon’s game back, man. I’m glad you’re able to come in a little early. Thank you for your hard work. I know you’ve been working hard. You seem to be always working. Always busy. Howdy, fisheyed fool. Good to see you. Absolutely, Uncle Joe. We need we need multiple runs. Altuveet has seven grand slams in his career. Lucky number eight. That one’s in the dirt. This place would go crazy. I I think Yordon would start laughing if he stood on on the deck right now cuz right now he’s on deck. He’s watching out Altuve at the plate with with uh two outs, bases loaded. If he hit a grand slam, Yordon, I think, would start laughing at that. Here’s a pitch. This is hit hard to left field all the way out. Is it going to drop? No, caught on the run at the track. Altuve very close to dropping one in the left center field area, but we got one run out of that from Sanchez. The problem with that that rally is it started with two outs. We had two outs and nobody on. Then we loaded the bases and Altuve gave it a nice ride out into left center field, but the center fielder was playing over just far enough to catch it on the run. We go into the top of the third. Astros up one to nothing. Man, oh man. Oh man. Oh god. Oh man. Oh man. Oh god. Oh man. Oh god. You guys know that that terrible movie scene? All right, we’ll be back in just a moment. I’m going to go out here and grab something. I’ll be right back. Ghost Rose, don’t you goes anywhere? Alrighty then. I made it back before the first pitch. Unbelievable. No, I didn’t. It just wasn’t updated for some reason. Second pitch is in there for strike two. So, Hunter Brown starts off warming Bernabel. Mr. Burnabel. Burnabel sounds like a girl’s name. Burnabel. Here’s O2 pitch a little outside. Burnabel, what are you doing out there with those gentlemen? You know that’s unladylike. That’s what it sounds like. Here comes the next pitch. The one, two, swinging a miss. There’s that nasty knuckle curve we were talking about earlier. Another strike out for Brown. How about that? Seven retired by Hunter Brown. Four of those are Ks. 23 pitches and 16 strikes. That brings up Kyle Caros. Caros. Kyle Caros. Caros. Something like that. That’s in there. Another knuckle curb. But right in the zone. Strike one. One away. Nobody on. Predis and left field. No way. No way. Predis would sooner be at first base. But if Walker is doing well, that’s a strike. 0 and2. If Walker is doing well, what do you do? Altuve in left field and sometimes at second, sometimes just DH. This is hit up the middle, right into the gap. On the 02 count, Hunter Brown doesn’t get the strikeout. Instead, he drops a pitch right in the zone. And that’s the first pitch of the game. I mean, first pitch, that’s the first hit of the game for the Rockies. There comes the pitch. 95 right in there. Ryan Ritter at the plate. Batting 256 this season. 213 on the road. 0 and one is the count with a runner on first. One out. Here comes a pitch from Brown. Here’s the toss. That’s inside. He breaks his bat. The toss to second. Pñena tried to go to first. Are they gonna say he’s safe at second base on the transfer? I think the runner hit Pena as he was trying to make the exchange. I’m not so sure about that. They’re saying that the runners are safe on first and third. They’re not going to review that. Okay. The the runner hit Pena’s glove and knocked the ball out, but it looked like Pena’s foot was already off the bag before that happened, but the umpire says, “No, the ball came out. He’s safe.” So, the runner went to third now. They lay down the bunt, but it goes foul. Tyler Freeman now at the plate. That was a strange play. Broken bat to second base. Tossed to Pñena. But when the runner hit Pena’s glove as he was trying to exchange and throw to first base, it came out. It looked like his foot was already off the bag. So, I feel like the runner should have been out, but the umpire called him safe. I’d like to go back and look at that again. Walker gets the ground ball at first base, but the runner at third scores. Caros crosses the plate on the tapper to first base. The game is tied one to one. Runner on second with two outs. That was a very strange strange strange inning. I think they’re going to charge Pñena with two freaking errors. 95 miles an hour above the zone to Mickey Moniac. One and0 is the count. There shouldn’t have been a single error there, but they’re going to charge two errors to paint you. That’s what I heard. It’s not on the screen yet, but that’s what I heard. 96 above the zone 2 and 0. So that runner is not charged to Hunter Brown. It’s charged to Pñena. This inning makes no sense. That whole play just broke my mind. Here comes the two pitch. Swinging a miss, lowing outside on the change up. Two balls and one strike to Moniac. Two outs. Runner on second. Hunter Brown up to 28 pitches. 28 pitches, but 21 strikes. Here comes the next pitch. Nope. He comes off the mound. Fakes a throw to second. I hope so, Brendan. No more Walker Ger back to back in the lineup. I certainly hope so. I certainly hope so. Welcome in Casey. Good to see you back. 98 on the outside edge. Strike two. Good call by the so far. The ump’s calling pretty well. Two balls and two strikes. The Moniac. Yeah, I mean Aluve gave it a really nice ride, so can’t be upset about that. Here’s the pitch. This is hit hard into right field and it’ll be down for a hit. He’s being waved around from second base. Here’s the throw. It’s way too late. Two to one. The Rockies are now ahead. So Mickey Moniac, the only left-handed batter in the lineup, smacks it into right field off of Hunter Brown and drives the runner in from second base, who was already off and running. With two outs, he had no reason to hold up. So the Rockies are now leading the Astros two to one. That’s the first earned run for Hunter Brown. Both of those runs would have been on Hunter Brown if there hadn’t been an error earlier charge to Pena. Here’s a pitch 97 high. Okay, now on the screen they’re just showing one error on Pena. Just one. So they debated it. No errors, two errors, one error. They settled on one. I think it should be none, but that’s just me. 0 and one to Hunter Goodman. Here comes a pitch from Brown. He’s trying a steal at second base. They say got him. Dubon applies the tag really quickly. He thinks that he’s safe. It was a really quick throw, but the throw was not in a good location by Keratini. They’re going to challenge it. It didn’t look like he was out, but the umpire called him out. We’ll see. Don made a really good catch and tag. Yeah, he’s safe. Dubon made a really good play on it. But I don’t think it was enough to get him. We’ll see. If it stands as called, that’ll be the end of the inning. But if it’s overturned, it’ll be one ball, one strike with two outs and runner on second. That’s close. Still looks like he’s safe, though. But I don’t know. Do they think it’s enough to overturn it? Is it clear? I have a feeling they’re going to they’re going to overturn it, but I hope they don’t. My heart says call him out. My brain says they might not. They might overturn it. We’ll see. Yeah, Brendan, the the first run in wasn’t Hunter’s fault. Well, luckily we don’t make many errors and crispy I don’t even consider that an error on uh Koreah’s part or Aena’s part rather. I don’t I think they misjudged that as an error. Should not have been an error. Here’s the call. Yep, they overturned it. He’s safe. I thought they would. Runner on second with a 1-1 count to Hunter Goodman. Yeah, that’s right, Travis. That’s hilarious. Can you imagine us normies getting a blister at work and the employer says, “Look, you need to take a few months off. Get better soon.” Yeah, we actually we we need you to be at 100% and no less before you come back in because we can’t risk you getting hurt again. Can you imagine being treated that way? And you you get injured and you’re not 100% for like two years, so you don’t come back, but they keep paying you your full salary. Can you imagine that? I’m telling you, man. It’s amazing. This is crushed to left field. That’s gone. Absolutely gone. Into the Crawford box is no doubter. Four to one. Hunter Brown suddenly falling apart. So Hunter Brown has a really great really great first couple of innings and here has just fallen apart. Three hits. One of those a two-run shot on the very first pitch after the break. So this is what happens sometimes when you slow down a game. You stop a game so long. Hunter Brown did take a few warm-up pitches though. Four to one the Rockies over the Astros. 97 on the inside to Jordan Beck. Two outs, nobody on. Yeah, I will say that we don’t really have to worry about their pitchers. I mean, their their guys are very hitable. They’ve gotten lucky so far, but the Astros will come back. Trust me, we will win this game. I know it. Strike one. 40 pitches now for Brown. He was doing so good and then he just broke down. But at least he only has three earned runs. Here comes the toss. 96 high. Two and one. Yeah, Travis. They make a ton of money. Even the guys that are riding the bench, you know, they can make a million dollars a year. People might complain about that. Oh, this guy, you know, he’s one of the low guys that only makes $1.6 million a year. Well, I don’t even make right right now. I don’t even make $12,000 a year. And that’s that’s serious. my health. It really sucks because the way the system is set up is my health isn’t good enough to to work, but there’s also no there’s a lack of support available for me. So, what am I supposed to do? Here comes the two ball, two strike pitch. Knuckle curve misses low full count. You could take away 10% of the salary of one of these guys and that’s a ton more money than I will I will see in my situation but it would change my life. Swinging a miss low and outside. Strike three. Another strikeout for Hunter Brown but not before he gives up a couple of runs. And by a couple, I mean three earned runs and then one other one that was really his fault. I I I believe that these four runs should have been charged to Hunter Brown. I don’t think that Jeremy Pñena deserved a an error on that play, but that’s just my opinion. Four to one at the end of the inning. We go to the bottom of the third. The Astros have four hits. The Rockies have three. But it’s one of those situations where the Rockies are being more efficient. Three runs, four hits. Do up for the Astros. Yordon Alvarez. Alvarez with no runners on. Christian Walker after that and then Jesus Sanchez. Sanchez with our only RBI today. His two-run or one-run bomb rather Yeah, Travis. It’s And it’s a game. These are adult men. These are adult men playing a game. It’s a child It’s a childhood game. It’s a game we learn in childhood and we play for fun. And they’ve taken it and turned it in. Well, it’s just it’s no different than than football or basketball or anything else. They take these sports and they turn them into these big things. I did see an article about this a long time ago that talked about why we do this. First strike thrown to Yordon this entire game out of five pitches. Interesting. 44 pitches now to number 44. Here comes the toss. Yordon swings and fouls it off. The first swing, baby. 0 and2 is the count. But they talk about how when there’s there’s nothing for men to do big like war, you know, protecting the country, protecting their homes, then they got to do competitive things. 93 fouled off. Somebody told me one time that American football is the closest thing that men can do to to having war without actually having war. I don’t think it’s quite that comparable, but I understand what he was trying to say. 0 and2 is the count. Here comes the next pitch from Gordon. Alvarez takes that one low and inside for ball one. An embarrassment of riches. Yordon hits this one pretty deep out to left field. That was pretty deep. Close to the Crawford boxes in the warning track there in that little nook, but caught for out number one. That was close. That was close. That was close. One away. Christian Walker comes to the plates. Believe it or not, Christian Walker leading the Astros in RBI’s. Here’s the first pitch. 83 on the inside. Strike one. He calls. Timeout. Steps out of the batter’s box. Tener Gordon up to 50 pitches with this next delivery. Absolutely, Sam. Let’s get some runs. Yeah, in this game we should get no less than five more. Brendan, you’re right. Here comes the pitch. This is crushed left field, but just foul. Broke his bat. They brought him another one immediately. What’s up, John? Good to see you. It’s funny how Walker grabs a new bat, sprays something on it, and goes straight to the plate. If Alt has to get a new bat, he gets some kind of sandpaper or something and scrubs the bat down. Completely different process. 50 pitches for Gordon. One out. 0 and2 is the count to Walker. Here comes the toss. right in the bottom of the zone. Strike three. Walker goes down looking. So he goes and he gets him another bat. And he looks totally lost. Totally indifferent to that. Isn’t it funny? The look on his face. The look on his face was like he goes into a convenience store and he says, “I’ll I’ll take a a pack of gum.” and they say, “We’re sold out.” And he just stands there thinking about it for a moment. Doesn’t say anything. Just chewing the old gum that he has in his mouth. And then finally walks away. That’s the way Walker just looked. Jesus Sanchez back at the plate. First pitch in the bottom of the zone. Strike one. Sanchez with a homer. Is he going to jack another? Here comes the toss. Oh, another one in the bottom of the zone. He called that a ball. Wow. I thought he was going to ring Sanchez up. That was an identical pitch to the last one. Shocking. One ball, one strike. Yeah, that’s right. Crispy just stared at it. This is hit hard to right field. Holy cow. He blasts that one, but it goes foul into the upper deck. Man, that one had home run written all over it. One ball, two strikes to Sanchez. But what Krispy said is what I was thinking. Walker got a new bat. Don’t know why. Didn’t even swing it. Just stared at strike three. Here’s the next pitch. Sanchez swings again, but this time the ball is way low and he misses it. And that’s strike three out three. Nothing doing for the Astros. At least they got a little traffic in the first couple of innings, but in this inning is three up and three down. Nothing doing. Hunter Brown back up on the mound in the top of the fourth with 44 pitches, 31 strikes, three earned runs. Should be four. The Astros are losing four to one. We’re down by three. And I think I will pour myself a second cup of coffee. But should I play the coffee song? Where is my coffee song? There it is. Copy break song break. [Music] download a cup of coffee. That’s right. That’s true. [Music] I love the harmony they put in there. That’s hilarious. Just good stuff. [Music] All right, we are back. The knuckle curve misses for ball one. Brenton Doyle at the plate. He fouls that one off. 83 knuckle curve on the inside and low one and one is the count. Hey Darl, my morning is going okay. Yesterday, last night kind of rough. I feel like I’m trying to stabilize today. Singer inside ball two two and one. But thank you for asking. I’m not going to lie, I didn’t know if I was going to be able to be on today. Yesterday and last night I was wondering if I was going to have to go to the hospital. Actually just wasn’t feeling well. Right in the middle of the zone and hit out to center field. Melton is underneath it and puts it away for the first out of the inning. Brenton Doyle goes down for the second time tonight. Ezekiel Tovar comes to the plate next to face Hunter Brown. Krispy, you remember earlier I put you in timeout for like 10 seconds? I’m going to put you in timeout for one minute now. Be more positive. Stop. Don’t Don’t dump that negativity into the chat. Please keep it to yourself. Here comes the next pitch. This is hit hard left field, but right at Yordon. Hey, the big man puts it away. Good job. Two away. 49 pitches for Brown. Warming Bernabel. That sounds like the name of a of a southern story, right? Worming Burnabel. Maybe it’s about a a a southern bell. Swinging a miss, by the way. Strike one who becomes quite cold-hearted because some tragedies in her life and just some guy wanders in from out of town is able to break through that ice, bring her around to enjoy life again and trust again, love again. Warming Burnabel coming soon in fall of 2025. Swing and a miss. One ball, two strikes to Burnabel. Gu would you guys go see warming Burnabel with your girlfriend or your wife? Because I don’t think that would be a man’s movie. That’d be a chick flick, right? Hey, let’s go see the new Marvel movie. No, I want to see Warming Burnabel. Well, okay. Look at that. Strike three. Didn’t even have to throw a pitch. Timer violation by Burnabel. So Hunter Brown gets another strike out courtesy of the umpire. That’ll do, pig. That’ll do. Nice. Three up and three down for Hunter Brown in the fourth inning. Really quick. How about that? 51 pitches in four innings. Not bad. Bottom of the fourth coming up for the Stros. Who do we have coming up? Victor Keratini, the Batman, followed by Mauricio Dubon, and then the baseball player formerly known as Blade Rogers, Jacob Melton. Let’s see here. Hashman says, “Closed out the game when it said end of the inning. Didn’t know they challenged that play.” Ah, you’re talking about the one earlier, the the uh call at second base. Daryl says, “It’s always a blessing to see you.” I appreciate that. That’s very kind of you to say. Are you trying to to warm my heart like in the warming Burnabel story? Well, it’s working. You’re getting you’re getting to this southern bell’s heart. [Laughter] Ross says, “SMH.” Dang, Rockies. Hey, man. You know, it takes a little time to get to the top when you’re climbing the Rockies. It takes a little time to get to the top and there’s going to be a little bit of challenge along the way, but once you get to the top, you can turn around and enjoy the view. You know what I’m saying? The Batman is at the plate. First pitch on the way. Opposite field swing on that 92 mile per hour fastball. Fouls it off. Come on, Batman. Let’s do it. Do it. Do it. Do it. Yep. Ken says, “I’m glad to see some of the farm guys come up and make some big money. I might as well at least for a little while.” I mean, even if they come up and they’re just making like 1.1 1.2 million a year, they go back down to the miners. They’re still making that money if they have a contract. Here’s a one-1 pitch to Keratini. Opposite field Q shot, but Keratini is not a speedster, so he’s able to throw him out at first. One down. The Batman, his grappling hook fails and he falls to the ground. He’s going to have to go into the bat cave to reconsider his strategy. Mauricio Dubon Dooby-Doo comes to the plate with one out, nobody on. Here’s the pitch. A little low. Ball one. Hash man. I I agree. I think the Astros will win. It won’t be same old same old. We’re going to win. The hitting cometh. Here comes the pitch. Dubine crushes it to left field all the way out of the Crawford boxes right off the wall. He’s going to have himself a double. He’s going to have to rush in there. He slides in. They call him out. Are you kidding me? He’s sitting there and they’re going to he’s going to wait to see if they’re going to take a look at it. Man, Doobie put that one way out there about halfway up the wall. The throw in. They called him out. Ah, he kept his hand on the base. And they’re not going to challenge it. That’s out number two. But that is a hit. It’s considered a single. Milton is at the plate swinging him in strike one. That’s unfortunate right there. Doobie gets caught stretching at second base. Jack Frost starting to call Jack. really loaning inside. Yeah, it doesn’t even look like him, does it? Looks like a completely different dude, but it’s already growing back. That’s the funny thing. It just wants to be there. Here’s the pitch. He fouls it off. One ball and two strikes. Yeah, they definitely need to get some runs, but it’s not too late. It’s never too late. As long as there are outs remaining, it’s not too late. Here’s the pitch. 95 at the top of the zone. The umpire calls. Strike three. Melton lets it go. He’s dissatisfied, but it was close, my friend. It was right on the line. That’s out number three. And strikeout number four for Tanner Gordon. We go into the top of the fifth. Hunter Brown will be back up on the mound after a short inning by the Astros bats. Intense Blue Devil says, “Good evening. Go. My wife and Thomas Fitzpatrick told me about you. My wife is a huge fan of the Stros, but I’m here to show some love from a Red Sox fan man. Go Stros.” Well, okay. Yeah, I’m I’m definitely not a Red Sox fan, but you know, they’ve got a huge long history. They are a baseball city for sure. Thank you for coming in. Thank you for the kind words. It’s interesting that your wife is a huge Astros fan and you’re a big Red Sox fan. If you guys can get along, then you must have a really good relationship. Thank you for being here. I appreciate the subscription and the support. Ghosts indeed. Good luck to the Red Sox except when they’re playing the Astros. you guys took Bregman. But then again, I’m not I’m not unhappy about it. I’m glad we got Pettis and now I’m glad that we got Koreah. I I really liked Bregman. I mean, he came from LSU and I appreciated that I went to LSU. Hashman. Yeah, he he might have had it, but it wasn’t close enough to overturn, so they didn’t try to challenge it. It was played well. You’re right, Doug. It was played well by the field. Whether we like it or not, that’s the truth of it. Abel says, “After a loss, I always like to see how the Astros bounce back.” Yeah, especially at home. Now that they’re back at home, they had a day off. It’s the beginning of a new series with a new team. How do they take it now? Now they’re down on the mat. I feel like they’re it’s if you look at the fighters, you got you got a strong fighter who’s favored to win and the first fighter got a couple of lucky shots in. We’ve kind of stumbled and fallen on the mat a couple of times. Wow. Is that a catch? No. Line drive hit on up the middle on the very first pitch by Hunter Brown. Keros gets a single. Jacob Melton dove for it. was not able to come up with it. Uh, it bounced right before it got to his glove. Nice effort by Melton. Ryan Ritter comes to the plate with a runner on. No outs. Evan Gatis. No batting gloves, no elbow or shin protectors, no rosin. Just a giant of a man with a stick of wood. Yeah. in the dirt. You know, that’s how Kyle Tucker used to kind of bat, right? He never used batting gloves for a while, but I think that after he started getting dinged up, he realized that he needed more protection. Krispy, with that comment, I’m going to put you in timeout for 10 minutes. Seriously, think about your comments right now. I I don’t want that kind of garbage in my in my chat. Right now, you’re just being emotional and I can’t have that. I’m sorry. I got to protect my chat and everybody else. So, calm down. One ball, one strike. Here comes the pitch to Ritter. Oh, did he hit him? They say it got him on the hand. They’re going to send him to first base. Hit by pitch. Now runners on first and second with no outs. Tyler Freeman, the leadoff batter, comes to the plate. Oh, right on the back of the hand. That hit him nice and hard. That was not even a deflection. That was a dead stop hit. Boom. It hit him and went straight up. That had to be painful. But he’s acting like it didn’t hurt. Two runners on, no outs. First pitch to Freeman is on the way and he’s bunting. He bounces it behind the plate. Strike one. Gatus also didn’t seem like the kind of guy you’d want to mess with. Yeah, tough guy, right? Blue Devil says, “Same for the Astros, unless they play the Socks. I’m also an LSU fan, too.” That’s cool. Do you watch LSU football? I love me some LSU football. Whoops. I think I left that up there way too long. That’s definitely going to be a copyright claim. He shows bunt again, but lets it go way high. Ball one. One and one. Hopefully the Rockies choke. Well, they’ve already scored four runs, so even if they don’t score anymore, I wouldn’t call this a choke. Hunter round fakes the throw to second base. One ball, one strike is the count to Tyler Freeman, the leadoff batter for the Rockies. Runners on first and second here in the top of the fifth. Here comes the pitch. He shows bun again. He does lay this one down. It’s right to Hunter Brown. He looks around and then goes to first base. Seemed like he might have had an opportunity to go to second, but he decided to go to first base. So now runners are on second and third. You can judge for yourself. Did Hunter Brown had time to go to second? I think he did. I think Pena was covering and he could have gone to second. That’s my feeling. But whatever. I guess he don’t didn’t want to risk a throw to center field. So he held the ball. One down and the next batter is Mickey Moniac. He fouls this one off. 97 mile perph fast ball. Strike one. Daryl says, “Every day I see you, it always makes my day.” Daryl crazy. Here comes the 01 pitch to Moniac. 96 above the zone. Fouled off again. 0 and2 is the count. Yeah, Ross. That’s exactly what I’m thinking. Cough. Cough. It’s not time to pull Brown. I wouldn’t say that. He’s not He’s not doing that bad. Not yet. Here comes the 0 and two. Oh, we almost went on that high fast ball, but it was a little too high to be competitive. One ball and two strikes. Oh, you do watch LSU football. That’s pretty cool. Are they your favorite football team or do you have another university team that you like? Here comes the one two pitch low and outside. fouled away. Threw the bat out there at the change up. Got lucky with the foul ball. Count remains one and two. Brendan, I wouldn’t say that the Astros are falling apart. What is with the sky is falling crap. Get that crap out of here. What is with you guys today? Not everybody. Most of you guys are really positive and upbeat, but a couple of you just drop in comments suddenly that that like, “Oh my god, the sky is falling. These guys suck. We’re never going to amount to anything. there. You know, the Astros are are blowing up like a nuclear bomb. It’s going to destroy the Earth. Are you kidding me? We’re in the top of the fifth and we’re down by three runs. Be quiet. Be positive. Don’t be silly or I will put you in timeout. And I’m not kidding. I’ve already put one guy in timeout several times. 97 fouled off. Count is two and two to Mickey Monia. Brendan, one more negative comment, man. I’m gonna have to put you in a shortterm timeout. Aush. This is hit hard into left center field all the way to the wall. Off the wall and that’ll score two. Now it’s unfortunately a problem. You you are now hidden from this channel. I don’t even know why I haven’t. I think you changed your name is what it is. Cuz I I I blocked you from this channel before. I believe I got tired of your negativity. It’s all you ever say. For those of you who don’t know, Aush is a guy who only says negative things. Six to one Rockies on that double off the wall by Monia. Josh Miller out on the mound with the infield and Hunter Brown having a little discussion. From did it in one inning. It took Hunter Brown about four and a half innings to get to six runs. Astros are down by five, but still, I don’t think that that’s a big deal. If they were playing a really tough team, I’d be more concerned about the ability to come back. If you can’t be positive right now, then you just should stop watching baseball. Should stop watching all sports, should stop dealing with people, should stop doing everything with everybody else and work out what’s going on inside your heart. You know, to being negative is a personal thing, you know, has nothing to do with anything on the outside. Here comes the 01 pitch. One strike to Hunter Goodman in the dirt. Keratini grabs it. Runner stays on second. One ball, one strike. NC State. I see NC State. I was in Winston Salem for about a year and a half. Way, way back around 1999. I was going to go to a university up there and then uh changed my mind. We wound up or my wife wound up getting pregnant. It was unplanned, but we had some trouble with it because she didn’t want to be pregnant. I was very excited about it and we went back to Louisiana. Two balls, one strike. Here’s a pitch. Swinging a miss. 85 mile per hour knuckle curve. That was a good pitch. Two and two is the count to Hunter Goodman. Runner on second with one out. We got 83 votes on the poll. I’m going to go ahead and close it now and we’ll see what happens. 43% say that Jordan will not have a dinger today. 24% say yes to right field. 16% yes opposite field. Center field 15%. This is a tapper. Hunter Brown grabs it and throws it to first. Moniac goes to third base, but there are two outs now. I’m going to say that Yordon does get a home run today, but it’s oppo into the Crawford boxes. That’s what I’m going to say. I’m going to go with the 16% group. Here comes the pitch. 96 low inside. Strike one. Jordan Beck at the plate. 0 and1 is the count. Well, they’re not really bums. They might be the worst team in the MLB, but they’re still an MLB team. So, they got some pros on there. They got some guys who can do stuff, you know. Hunter Goodman batting 275. 98 up and in swinging a miss. 0 and2 is the count. Not everybody on the Rockies team is a bum. And anything can happen on any given day in a major league game. That ball’s in the dirt. One and two. There goes the World’s parlay. That’s funny. Yeah, that’s right. That’s funny. Ken Keratini runs like he’s pulling a trailer. Yeah, that’s true. Here comes a pitch. Swinging a miss. Strike three. Hunter Brown gets another strike out, but he gives up a couple more runs. It’s six to one. The Astros have a fiveun deficit to overcome. Very efficient with the hitting and scoring are the Rockies today. Five hits and six runs. The Astros also have five hits, but just one run. Two errors charged to the Stros so far today, costing them at least one of those runs. Bottom of the fifth coming up. Astros have five more innings of hitting to come up with some runs. No reason to really be worried. Well, you know, Zach, what you just said is is the reason why betting is stupid. betting is literally stupid. I mean, unless you’re rich and you can just afford to throw away money and it’s fun for you, it’s a hobby for you, then in that situation, I think it’s fine. But for most people, most people are betting with the hope to win money because they want more money or they need more money. And anybody who bets because they need more money or they think they need more money or they want more money, those are the very people that shouldn’t be betting. And it’s because of stuff like this. If the Astros actually don’t win this game and a ton of people all over the world lose on this game, whose fault is it? It’s not the Astros fault. Astros are just playing a game. It’s the better’s fault for being dumb enough to bet money on the games. Ross says, “Stop betting on the Stop betting on everybody. Stop betting on anybody. Just stop betting. Good grief. How hard is it? Just stop betting. Hello Astros. It’s Hello Kitty nights. This is probably why the Astros are hitting softly tonight because they’ve got soft night in Dyke Park. Got guys wearing Hello Kitty uniforms or jerseys. 91 just below the zone against Jeremy Pñena called a strike. That was not a very hitable pitch. Here comes the 01 pitch. Opposite field hit all the way out to the wall. That’ll be down for a double. Pñena is rushing around first base and he will skate into second. No problem. The very first or second pitch actually the second pitch delivered right in the zone. Hit number six for the Stros right in the middle upper part of the zone. And that brings up Carlos Koreah. Carlos Koreah. Top of the bat in order. Let’s get it going. Yordon is in the hole. South Korea on the way. Here is the first pitch from Gordon right in there. 91 miles an hour. So Flash gets on. Now it’s Kareah’s turn and then all two turn. Tanner throws to second base. Py goes back. The crowd moves. the curse of Bagwell. Here comes the pitch. This is hit high out into right field. I don’t know if Pena will tag. Maybe not. He fakes. Not deep enough. One away. Koreah flies out to write. Joseé Altuve comes to the plate. Ah, okay. So, you weren’t around in 99. My daughter was born in 2000. Hunter doing a frumber. Yeah, he’s maybe in between. He was doing well at first and then when he goes and sits on the bench, Fromberg goes and sits next to him and gets in his ear and then he comes out and starts giving up runs. Jose Eluve at the plate. Okay, here’s the pitch. Little high. Ball one. What? What? They called it a strike. Are you kidding me? Look at this. That was about 4 in above the zone. I’m not kidding. 0 and one umpire fail outside. Are you sure that’s not a strike? Ump one ball, one strike. Yeah, you’re right. Yeah, you guys are right. You’re you’re giving the the credit to the Rockies that they deserve. They are not a good team, but they are not just bums. It’s ridiculous to just write these teams off as bums. These are MLB teams we’re talking about. Anybody can win any any day. Strike two to Tuveet. One ball, two strikes. Pñena on second. Come on, Tuveet. We need you, buddy. Here’s a pitch. He hits this one. Uh, it’s a short stop. I don’t think that was a broken bat, but it seemed like it. A soft line drive. Altuve goes down, but that brings up Yordon. So, we only have one runner on, but at least we do have one guy, a fast guy, the Flash in scoring position for Yordon, the big man. Yeah, Hashman, you’re very honest guy. Way outside ball one. Hashman says, “I’m addicted to betting. I don’t suggest people to bet at all. Not good. Yeah, shoot. I mean, like that’s the thing. If you’re if you’re doing what you can afford to throw away and it’s just fun, fine. But like I said earlier, the people who are trying to make money, the people who need to make money or at least think they need to make money and that’s the way they’re trying to do it, they don’t need to be betting. Those are the people that do not need to be betting. Here’s the two ball and no strike pitch to Yordon. Just a little outside. Ball three. Tanner is trying to get those edges, but Yordon is waiting for it. Here comes the three- 0 pitch. High outside four pitch walk. That’s the second four pitch walk from Tanner Gordon. The crowd is booing. Yordon goes to first base. His second intentional walk of the game. Let’s call it what it is. Christian Walker comes to the plate. We could make this a two-run game with a little Crawford box visit. Walker has been hitting really hard recently. As you recall in the Orioles series, he had three home runs in game one, two, and three. Here comes the next pitch. Little low outside, but in the zone for strike one. You’re right, Sam, about betting. Not betting more than you can afford to lose, but let alone an outside ball. One, one and one is the count to Walker. But the problem is it’s an addictive thing. It’s addictive. It’s like saying, you know, I like drinking, but I only drink, you know, one or two drinks. I always limit myself. You can’t drink more than you can afford to to hold. But how many people can drink and stop? You know what I’m saying? How many people can smoke? I mean, smoking is automatically bad for you, but actually drinking is automatically bad for you because it’s a poison. You know what I’m saying? It’s similar in my opinion. It’s an addictive thing. Two balls in one strike. Ripped foul down the third baseline. Two and two is the count on Walker. But anyway, that’s all I’ll say about betting. Do as you will. I’m not going to judge anybody. I’m just saying that’s my angle on it. Jimmy Herget is in the bullpin going for the Rockies. Tanner Gordon up to 80 pitches now. Walker at the plate with a two-2 count. Pñena on second. Yordon on first. He bounces this one foul down the third baseline. Come on, Walker. Yeah, new promotional night. Soft night. It would be nice to get those three runs right here with Walker, wouldn’t it, Hash? Here comes the two- two pitch in the dirt. Bounces over. Catcher is able to keep it in front of him. The runners do not advance. The count is full. If Walker gets on base, we’ll have loaded bases with Jesus Sanchez. Born in 2003, Devil. Wow. Young guy. Here’s the pitch. Opposite field line drive into the crowd. Count remains full. Paying and Yordon were off to the races there. They get the head start. A dinger would be really nice, that’s for sure. Here comes another full count pitch from Tanner. Nope. He comes off the mound instead and fakes a throw to second. The crowd booze heartily. Here’s the pitch. Fouled off again. 95 in the bottom of the zone. Walker staying alive, making Tanner work hard. 84 pitches for Tanner. 49 strikes. 50 strikes now. Here comes the pitch. This is hit hard to left field. It’s going to be caught by the left fielder. Line drive. Once again, a nice hard hit just like Altuve. Hitting the ball really hard, but just not in the right spot. Astros have gotten unlucky with a few of their hits. hitting the ball really hard, tagging it really hard, but it’s just not landing in the right spot. Couple that with the Rockies putting some runs on the board. It’s not a good combination. That’s the end of five. Six to one. The Rockies are winning in Dykin Park on Soft Night, otherwise known as Hello Kitty night. Five hits for the Rockies, six hits for the Astros. Two errors charged to the Stros. Hunter Brown should be back up on the mound in just a moment. He is at 75 pitches with 51 strikes. Brenton Doyle do up followed by Ezekiel Tovar and warming Burnabel. Warming Burnabel. Yeah, Ken, that’s the funny thing about baseball. The only professional sport where you can be successful 30% of the time and still be considered a success. That’s right. H absolutely. Yeah, you’re right, Blue Devil. What a catch that was, but dang, that was rough. Absolutely. Ken, you’re you’re spot on. The MLB didn’t do anyone any favors by partnering with gambling places. cuz I’m telling you when you log on to ESPN or MLB or whatever you’re looking for sports and what you see you always see along with the the schedule game is the line right the gambling line they have integrated them so closely and I remember now you now think about this Pete Rose is gone right don’t you think that Pete Rose is not resting well in his grave I understand. I understand that he broke some rules. I get that. Very first pitch comes into Brenton Doyle and he grounds out to Kareah. Fires him out at first base. That was quick. One up and one down with one pitch. But, you know, not being in the Hall of Fame for his mistakes as a manager when he was a phenomenal player and then now if you look at the level to which betting has gotten to in the MLB. I just think it’s really unfair to Pete Rose. That’s my personal opinion. I’m not justifying his betting. I’m just justifying his performance on the field. That first pitch is high to Ezekiel Tovar. One out, nobody on. One ball, no strikes. Here comes the next pitch. That’s too far inside. Two balls and no strikes. Uh, Blue Devil, I am watching the game on MLB TV. They started offering it a couple of years ago in Japan. to Japanese customers. Finally, here’s the pitch. That one was a little outside, but generously given by the umpire for strike one. Two balls in one strike to Tvar. Well, you know, Hashman, I don’t have a problem with that opinion. Hashman says, I’m not going to lie. I don’t want to be negative. This is looking cooked. Yeah, it does look cooked. This is hit high into left field. all the way out to the wall. Yordon is back by the wall. Yeah. Wow. Look at that. Yordon standing right by the wall. I thought that might go into the Crawford boxes. He literally stood by the wall and put his hand on the wall and made that catch. That was a towering shot, but it stayed in the park somehow. Out number two, warming. Burnabel comes to the plate. First pitch to the Southern Bell. Fouled off at the plate for strike one. But see, Hashban, what you said is a completely different is a completely different um angle and emotion than what was being said earlier by a couple of the other guys. You said you said this is looking cooked. It’s looking cooked. I’m not going to lie. It’s looking cooked. There’s nothing wrong with that. This is grounded to third. Cra scoops that one up, fires it over. Repeat at the first out. And that’s three up and three down. Quick, easy inning for Hunter Brown. Thankfully, here in the top of the sixth, we go into the bottom of the sixth. Astros do up again. Jesus Sanchez to lead it off, followed by Victor Keratini and Mauricio Dubon in the bottom of the sixth. But it it’s different. You know, there’s a big difference between somebody saying, “I’m going to be honest. This game looks looks cooked versus somebody who says, “Why do the Astros suck so bad? Why, you know, this this there’s no way we can win this game. This game is over.” So, somebody stating very directly and very clearly that the game is hopeless, this team is hopeless, their hitting sucks, these are direct negative comments. But when you talk about the way something appears, that’s actually very different because it is true. What you just stated is just a truth. This game looks cooked. It does. It looks bad. Hunter Brown uh has looked good at times and bad at times and it doesn’t look good for the rest of the game. It doesn’t look like the Astros are going to be able to come back. These are just factual statements. But when somebody starts making what they think are factual statements, which aren’t, there’s no way the Astros are coming back. Hunter Brown sucks. Hunter Brown’s the worst starter we have, etc., etc., etc. These are not statements of fact. They’re just lashing out with their uncontrolled emotions, and those are the things that I can’t allow on the chat. So, I don’t have any problems with your comments. Yeah, Blue Devil, that that did look like it was going to be gone, especially the way Yordon was just standing there. with his hand on the wall looking up and then suddenly makes the catch. Pretty crazy. Well, here here’s a little trick for you, Hashban. What’s the difference between faith and belief? Here’s the pitch to Sanchez. He rips this one down the first baseline on the first pitch, but it goes foul. Oh, and one. And what is the difference between belief and knowing? These are different levels. If you want to look at it from the highest form, you could say, I know the astros can come back. I know they have the ability. I know they can. It’s not up to me whether they do or not, but I know they can. Whether they do or not is up to them. It’s none of my business. So why would I worry about it? Why be negative about it? Useless for my life. One ball, two strikes with that foul ball. Come on, Jesus. Royals and Mariners both losing. What’s the score of the Mariners game? I I’ll take a look at that in just a minute. Shoot. Here comes a one-two pitch to Sanchez. Swinging a miss. Strike three. Up above the zone. I’m kind of surprised that they left Gordon in there. But you know what? If he’s not doing badly, why pull him out? He’s up to 89 pitches. One away. And he will face the Batman Victor Keratini. Let’s go. Strike out and a ground out for Keratini today. He goes after that first pitch and fouls it off. 92 right in the zone. Strike one. Yeah, that’s a good question. Blue Devil, if the Astros sucked, why on earth are they 70s something wins against whatever losses they have? They look like one of the best teams in the league. They might not win this, but they’re still fine. Yeah, I mean, look, they’re still in first place in the division. This is hit into left field. Looks like he’s going to fly out easily to the left fielder, and he does. Out number two. Maicio Duban comes to the plate. Last chance to get something going in the bottom of the sixth. The record for the Astros right now is 72 and 59 Blue Devil. First pitch in there for strike one to Doobie. I think my next emoticon, my next uh emoji will be the Doobie. This is hit out into center field. Center fielder gets it on the run and that’s out number three. The Astros are three up and three down. Nothing doing for the Astros. Tanner Gordon wraps up with about 93 pitches or so. Six innings of wonderful pitching. Give the man a hand. He deserves it. He came in with an erra over seven, but he’s thrown 92 93 pitches somewhere in there. 57 strikes. Astros have really hit it hard. They’ve hit a lot of balls. Not just grounders and flyyous, but man, they’ve they’ve really hit the ball hard off this guy, but got unlucky with placement. The problem for the Astros right now is left on base. And for those of you for those of you who haven’t thought about this, I did make a video about this. Stranded left on base runners versus cumulative left on base runners. And I always give you the cumulative. In other words, how many runners were on base when a batter failed to do something positive at the plate? For example, today Altuve leads the Astros in five left on base. That means that when Altuve came to the the plate, at some point when he came to the plate, there were a there have been a total of five runners, base runners, and he was not able to get a hit or a walk or a hit by pitch or a sacrifice fly or an RBI or anything. Nothing positive. it wasn’t able to actually do anything positive at the plate with five different base runners on. Okay, that’s that’s the stat that I use. This is much more important to me than stranded runners because if you strand three runners at the end of an inning, what if you had three opportunities to bring them in? First pitch to Kyle Caros is fouled off for strike one. 100 Brown on the mound now with 83 pitches. So, the Astros as a team right now have 10 left on base. It’s not really bad. It’s not good, but it’s not really bad, but they have had opportunities and a lot of the hits that they’ve almost gotten came with runners on base. They’ve hit the ball really hard with runners on base. They just haven’t been able to to get it in the empty spots, you know. 0 and one is the count to Keros. Here comes a pitch from Brown. Grounded to Pñena. Pñena fires it over the first out number one. 84 pitches now for Brown. Eric, you don’t try to be positive. You either are or you aren’t. It comes from within, my friend. What decides your emotions? Outer people and circumstances or your inner choice. There you go. Think about that. First pitch to Ritter is out of the zone for ball one. One out, nobody on. One and0 pitch on the way in the dirt outside two and 0. Thank you Susan for that update. Padres’s over the Mariners five to nothing. I’m sad that the Padres’s didn’t pull out that game against the Mariners. They should have won that one, right? fouled off two and one 94 mile per hour stinker. Um I don’t really know what to expect from the Astros anymore. A hashman actually. They get blown out at home by the Rockies, maybe even swept by the Rockies. It doesn’t surprise me. And then they go sweep the Dodgers or they destroy the Yankees. Doesn’t surprise me. swinging a miss on the inside. Two balls and two strikes with that stinker. 96 miles an hour. That was a nice pitch. Blue Devil says, “Never mind. The Socks have one more win, but also one more loss than the Stros.” Yeah. So, I guess pretty much even, right? But the Socks really came on. You know, the my understanding is that the Red Sox have done phenomenally well at home, but have not had had nearly as much luck on the road. Is that correct? Based on my knowledge, this is hit out into right field. Looks like it’s going to be into foul territory. And it is. Count remains two and two. Pretty lowhitting game though, despite the six to one score. Six hits for the Astros, five hits for the Rockies. One out here in the top of the seventh. Two balls and two strikes with one away. Fouled off. I was hoping to say two away there. 90 pitches now for Hunter Brown. If he gets through this inning or not, it will be his last, I feel. Two balls and two strikes. Two Ritter. Here comes the toss. Just a little outside. Full count. Really? This is a ground ball to Koreah on the full count pitch and he fires it to first to get the out and that’s two down. Two up and two down. Let’s take a look. Yeah, I was right. Do Do you see this on the screen? 41 and 25 at home. 32 and 35. They have a losing record on the road. The reason that I I knew that is because there there’s been some talk of the Red Sox question doing some questionable things at home that they can’t do on the road. You know what I’m saying? I’m not I’m just repeating what I heard, by the way. I’m not saying that they did or didn’t do anything. Very first pitch to Freeman is a single into right field and off that pitch, Espatada immediately comes in and calls for a new pitcher. So that’s going to be it for Hunter Brown. He doesn’t make it through the seventh. 93 pitches for Brown. Top of the batting order for the Rockies giving Hunter Brown some giving him a rocky time. Mickey Moniac is due up. We’re going to have ourselves our first relief pitcher of the game in just a moment. All right, hashman. If we pick up three runs, then you’ll believe. Okay. Historically, traditionally, the Astros have been a team that do a lot better in the seventh, eighth, and ninth, but we’ll see if they can relive that tradition today. Yeah, Blue Devil says, “No surprise there. Honestly, I’m curious what they’re saying. The questionable thing is you’re I’m talking about cheating.” Uh, sign stealing. sign stealing specifically. But like I said, I’m only saying that because I’ve I’ve seen people a lot of people say that because if you look at the record at home and then on the road, the success at home is phenomenal and the record on the road is less than 500. They’re they have a losing record on the road. And because of that, there’s a lot of speculation as to why that is. And of course, a lot of people are pointing to the possibility of sign stealing. Now, stealing the signs doesn’t necessarily equate to cheating because, for example, if you have a runner on second base and he can see what they’re calling, he can see what the pitcher is calling, he can relay that to the batter, and then the batter gets a hit, that’s not cheating. That’s just stealing the sign legally. Steven Oret is on the mound 82 below the zone to Mickey Moniac. But I just learned the other day that in the Little League College World Series, even that type of sign stealing is illegal. Did you guys know that? I didn’t know that because it happened recently twice in the same game and the managers and the teams know those rules for sure. Hey, the runner is picked off. Look at that. They get him at second base. Fried Ore goes to first base. The good old lefty. Freeman. Are they going to challenge it? Probably not. Nope, they’re not going to challenge it. Ourt ends the inning with a pickoff move to first base. Freeman tried to steal second base after the first pitch. Oak whips it over to first. Walker fires it to second. Pñena puts the tag on. Gets the out. The third out of the inning. That’s what I’m talking about. Shut that down. Six hits for the Astros and the Rockies at the end of the top of the seventh. Seventh inning stretch time. I’m going to get up and stretch my legs a little bit. How about you guys and gals? I need to do a little stretching. Literal literal stretching. Kind of keep the blood flow going in my legs. Yankees beat the Nats 5 to one. Well, that’s unfortunate, but let them have their day. I’ll be right back. Bottom of the seventh coming up with Jacob Melton, Jeremy Payne, and Carlos Koreah. Ghostros. All right, Jacob Melton at the plate. First pitch on the way. He hits it way up in the air into right field. Second baseman is out. Puts it away. We’re out number one. One pitch, one out. New pitcher in the game for the Rockies. Let me get my glasses on here so I can read the text. It’s interesting because if I if I didn’t need to read any text on the screen, I wouldn’t need to wear these glasses, but the text is just too small for me. Jimmy Herget is in the game. He’s now facing Carlos Koreah. Oh, and I’m sorry, Carlos Koreah is on deck. They were just showing Kareah up close. It’s actually Jeremy Pñena at the plate. Ball one to Pena. Here comes the next pitch on the inside. 93 fouled at the plate. 101 is the count. Let’s see here. Where is this this pitcher’s name? Jimmy Herget. There we go. One ball, one strike, one out. There’s the pitch on the inside edge. 91 miles an hour. Called a strike. Pñena held up. Didn’t really like it, but it was on the edge. Here comes a pitch way outside on the curve ball. That curve ball was so far out there. Looked like an out of control Swiffer. Two balls and two strikes. Big gap between the second baseman and the shorts stop. It’ be nice if Pena could put it through there. Two balls and two strikes. Herget has number 44 like Yordon. Here comes the pitch to Pñena way high and it bounces off the glove. The catcher goes to the back stop. Full count. I thought the Yanks were sign stealing at home too, says Blue Devil. I wouldn’t doubt it, but you know what? I think all the teams are doing it to a certain extent. Astros have been the only team to just become lit literally the trash can for receiving all the criticism. People won’t let it go. It’s nonsense considering how other teams have done just as bad or worse. And those things have just been forgotten about. Even the Dodgers Dodgers have a cheating tradition. Considering all the money they spend, you’d think they’d be able to come up with winners without having to cheat. Here comes a fullcount pitch. Lo and outside. Pñena takes it for another on base appearance. The Flash heads to first base. He does his part by getting on Mr. Baseball. Normally I call Jake Meyers Mr. baseball, but since he’s not here, I think that Koreah is our resident Mr. Baseball right now. Here comes the first pitch. 91 on the inside edge. Strike one. Yeah, you’re right. Yeah, Dodgers are big cheaters. Here’s a pitch. A little too far inside. One and one. Blue Devil says, “I’m guessing the Yankees dislike follows here, too.” Could you rephrase that? I’m not sure exactly what you mean. Here comes the pitch. Low and outside. Two balls and one strike to Koreah Pñena on first base with one out. Bottom of the seventh. J Hernandez. No, we didn’t. We didn’t cheat the Dodgers out of a World Series. What’s this Wii stuff? You’re not an Astros fan if you believe that. This is hit high in the air at second baseman is back. That’s two fly balls to the second baseman this inning. Like I said, you’re not an Astros fan if you think that we cheated them out of out of a World Series. Look at how the Astros and the Dodgers played in Los Angeles. The Astros were clearly the better team and didn’t need any cheating. Only uh a very small minority of Astros utilized the cheating and it was only done in Houston. Superman is at the plate. Speaking of cheating, this man right here never cheated in case you don’t know that. He refused to cheat, but he gets booed every time he comes to the plate if he’s not playing at home. I’m not saying that that the Astros, not all of them, but some of the Astros didn’t cheat. Alua tries to bunt, but fouls it off. 0 and2 is the count. Pñena at first base, two outs, two strikes. Come on, Aluve. Instead of a bunt, how about a Crawford box visit? All teams cheat, Hernandez. All teams cheat. Here’s the pitch. Pñena stealing. Terrible throw. That ball was way outside, but the catcher couldn’t couldn’t really do much to make a good throw there since that pitch was so far outside. Pena gets a stolen base. He had to lunge out there and throw a sidearm throw, but nowhere near the base. Pñena was safe in there easily. So, Pena is now in scoring position. One ball, two strikes to Altuve. A buzzard. You mean a buzzer? A buzzard is a bird. Here comes the one-two pitch way outside again. Two and two. Hashman, I don’t recommend that, but do as you will. There’s a pitch. 87 up and inside. Called a strike. Altuveet goes down looking. That was not a really good pitch to swing at, but it was close enough to the zone to be called strike three. And that’s it for the Astros in the seventh. We got two more innings to go of baseball. Baseball or you can say in Japanese, yakyu. That’s how you say baseball in Japanese. Yakyu for those of you who didn’t know that. Of course, in Japan, if you say uh baseball, baseball, they’ll understand what you’re talking about. They they know that word Japanese style baseball. But yaku is the Japanese word for baseball. So there you go. Learn something new every day. Yeah. Um, I will say Mr. uh, Hernandez, if you want to put a bunch of comments in the chat, try to limit the amount of comments instead of just going boom boom boom boom boom. Try to make it a little less intrusive. And remember to stay positive because if you start dumping a bunch of negative stuff in the chat then you will get a timeout. Just letting you know Stephen Oert likely will be still in the game. He only had one pitch before he picked off the runner at first base to end the seventh inning, the top of the seventh. If he’s still in the game, he’ll be facing Mickey Moniac, assuming they do not have a pinch hitter, and I don’t believe they will. I do have to say though, I’m amazed whenever I I see these videos where they’re showing the people walking around and cheering the team in Dying Park. It’s not just Dying Park, it’s every park. Ogre is on the mound. He is facing Mr. Moniac. One ball and no strikes. Here comes the next pitch. Low and outside ball two. But no matter where they are, which park they’re in, whenever they start showing people walking around in the park and cheering in the park and you know this the spectators all around the park, I’m I’m shocked. It’s like rever reverse culture shock to me because I’ve been in Asia now for so long. This hit high in the air to right. Jesus Sanchez underneath it. Puts it away for out number one. One up and one down. Hunter Goodman is due up. But anyway, what I was saying is I’ve been living in Japan now for over five and a half years. I lived in China for about seven years. And whenever I see the video of all the people in the stands and in the park, I’m like, man, everybody looks like they weigh 500 lb hiding outside. This is why I say it’s like a reverse culture shock to me. I’m not used to seeing so many people so big. Not anymore. Swinging a miss, one ball, one strike. to Hunter Goodman. Goodman had a home run earlier. Two-run shot. Actually, here’s the one-1 pitch way inside. Two balls and one strike. Uh, Blue Devil asks, “I believe Altuve wish he hadn’t gotten the hate he got. He didn’t deserve.” And he’s still getting it. It’s not even past tense. He’s still getting a lot of hate. It’s never stopped. This is fouled off. Two balls and two strikes to Goodman. But my question is, do you dislike the Yankees and how much? Uh, Blue Devil. I of course I don’t like the Yankees. I don’t like their fan base. Most of all, their fan base is toxic. Here’s the pitch in the dirt. Three balls and two strikes. I can tolerate the Red Sox fan base a lot better than I can the Yankees. I don’t consider the Red Sox I mean I think the Red Sox fans are passionate and sometimes maybe maybe they can go a little too far, but generally they don’t bother me, but the Yankees fans are just there too many toxic fans. Strike three, swinging a miss. Okard gets the strike out. Two down, nobody on. But, um, as far as the Yankees themselves, like the team and stuff, um, I mean, they are a one of the most famous organizations and they’re an old organization, quite famous. I respect all that, their traditions and everything. Swinging a miss, Jordan Beck at the plate, strike one, the count’s own one. But the thing about the Yankees is that they think there’s a rivalry between Astros and Yankees and there’s not. This is nice. A little grounder spin move by Ochert. He grabs it. Did you see that? What a nice move there by Steven Ochert. A little fried Ore served up. He spins around, grabs the ball, throws it to first for out number three. How about that? Fried Ochre served up nice and hot. Three up and three down. So Oak has retired three batters, but you could say it’s not really four batters in a row because he picked off the guy at first base, but he has gotten four straight outs. You can say that. We go to the bottom of the eighth. Yordon Alvarez do up, followed by Christian Walker and Jesus Sanchez. I’m calling back to backto-back homers to bring us within two runs. But yeah, actually I I used to have a friend who was he’s a what you call ABC, Americanborn Chinese. He was born and raised in New York City. He talks like a New Yorker. He just looks Chinese and he’s from southern China. Big Yankees fan. Very big Yankees fan. And he and I were friends for a long time. We met in South China. We became friends and he actually helped me out a lot to help me get into school here in Japan to study Japanese. I mean, we’ve been f we’d been friends for like 11 years and then just suddenly earlier this year, he he didn’t like the way I changed my spiritual beliefs. He’s a very I guess you could say he’s anti- relligion, anti-spiritualism, anti- everything that’s not science, you know, but up until that point, we were always able to get along and talk about baseball, talk about the Yankees, talk about the Astros. But one day, he got very upset with me because he he mentioned the rivalry between the Astros and the Yankees. And I said, “What rivalry?” And he just looked at me. He goes, “What do you mean, what rivalry? there’s a very strong rivalry between the Astros and the Yankees. And I said, “No, there’s not.” And he got very upset about that. And I I said, “I think I understand what you’re saying. What you’re saying is from from the point of view of a Yankees fan, the Astros are a rival because of what they’ve done to kick the Yankees out of the playoffs year after year. But from the Astros point of view, the Yankees have never been a threat. So, the relationship is out of balance. A rivalry is different. Yankees have never been able to get up on the Astros. And he got very angry about that. But I was just saying the truth. How many Astros fans do you know that really really hate the Yankees because the Yankees are a rival or the Yankees have done us wrong or the Yankees have caused us to miss playoffs or the World Series because that doesn’t exist. Astros don’t like the Yankees. primarily because of their fans. The fans make the whole system toxic. So that’s my soap box about the stankies or the wankies or whatever you want to call them. 95 right in there. Yordon at the plate now with a two- two count. Two balls and two strikes. Here comes the pitch from Lewis Peralta. Uhoh. Left field all the way almost. Oh, almost. He puts it into the stands on the left side. It wasn’t too far from the Crawford boxes. Cal remains two and two against Yordon. Come on, Yordon. You can do it, buddy. Oh, he’s licking his lips. He’s licking his lips. Here’s the pitch from Peralta. Way high. Well, give Peralta some credit. You know, he’s trying to pitch to him. He’s trying to pitch to him. Bless his heart. Full count. Nobody on, no outs. Here’s the pitch to the big man. He hits that one hard again to left field. Way up high and out of play. Count remains full. Blue Devil says, “I’m really starting to like the Astros as a team man. My wife has made me a fan after talking trash about them for so long. That’s why as a Red Sox fan, I send my love win or lose. I appreciate that cuz you got a brain. Obviously, you have a brain. Yordon bounces this one to shortstop and they throw him out at first base. So, he grounds out one away and Christian Walker comes to the plate. You know, all of these people, all of these stadiums full of fans who boo all whenever he comes to the plate, they’re just stupid. They You can’t even get them to explain why. They just say, “He’s a cheater. He cheated.” They don’t know anything. Walker fouls off that first pitch for strike one. The only Astros fan I know is my wife. You know, I’m interested to see what she says. If she if she understands the rivalry, supposedly the rivalry between the Yankees and the Astros that I do, then she’ll probably say the same thing. Yeah, I don’t consider the Yankees a threat. We own them. We own the Yankees. In order for a team to be your rival, they have to get over on you sometimes, and the Yankees do not get over on the Astros, so therefore, they are not a rival. I think she would agree with that. Yes, Ken, you you asked if I have any opportunities or chances to see the Japanese games. Hiroshima, I’m here in Hiroshima and I they do have a professional team here. One ball and two strikes to Christian Walker. That ball was up and outside. One out, nobody on. Caleb Ward is warming up in the bullpin for the Astros. Here comes the one-two pitch. Loading in the dirt. Almost got his foot. Two and two is the count. But yeah, um Ken, the Hiroshima, they’re not doing so well right now. They started off really, really well the first part of the season and they were in second place overall. Walker grounds that one foul down the third baseline. The count stays two and two. So they started off, it’s the same as last year right now. The carp started off doing really well and then just started struggling and that’s what they’ve been doing right now. They’ve they’re they’re down now to like 13th in the league, but they were in the top two. So, here’s a pitch. Little check swing. Did he go? They say he did not swing. It’s a full count, but I I’ve only been to actually one of their games, Ken. Oh. Walker says it hit him on the foot. Walker took his uh legging off and started walking to first base on the on the full count pitch, but he says it hit him on the foot. Oh, it did hit him. Yeah, it did. It’s clear. Okay, so the Astros managed to get the challenge in. They’re going to take a quick review of it. the the pitcher is like, “Hey, that’s that’s ball three, not ball four.” But Walker said, “No, it hit me on the foot.” Okay. Yeah. Houston is challenging the call. They’re saying that it was he was hit by pitch. He clearly was on the review. So, we should have Walker on first base with one out and Jesus Sanchez at the plate in just a moment. We’ll see. pretty clear if you look at the uh the replay. Both angles show it. Now, the first base umpire said he didn’t swing, so he he got lucky there. That would have been strike three. I’d like to go to more games, Ken, but because of uh health and monetary reasons, I don’t I don’t go. But I want to see more. Eric, that’s a funny way to look at it. Yep. Houston retains the challenge. It is a hit by pitch. Walker is on first base. Runner on with one out. Jesus Sanchez comes to the plate. So Skywalker gets on, but Ramon Urias comes to the plate. Udius is pinch hitting for Sanchez. But what Eric said is funny. He says, “It’s not a rivalry if you wish you played them 162 games a year like I do.” That’s exactly right. And that’s basically what I told my friend and I told him as politely as I could. I wasn’t I wasn’t like rubbing in his face or saying, “No, no, man. No.” Oh, you know, I wasn’t saying anything to make him upset or rub it in his face, but I was telling him very directly, you know, Astros fans are more than happy to play the Yankees anywhere, especially in New York. This first pitch is hit out to left field all the way out to the wall. It’s caught in the corner right at the wall. Wow. The very first pitch was driven so deeply by Orias, but it just comes up short a couple of feet from the wall. Makes a bid for a homer, but he doesn’t even get it. 366 feet to the wall. So close. Out number two. Runner remains on first base, Walker. And now the bat man Victor Karatini comes to the plate batting righty. First pitch is outside. Wow. That was three inches outside. A curveball called a strike. That’s coming from a lefthander, guys. Fouled off. Strike two. This umpire has hurt us with a couple of calls. Most of the game he’s been all right, but a couple of calls have not worked out. 96 below the zone. One ball, two strikes to Keratini. Blue Devil says she got into baseball this year. Hates the Yankees as much as I do. Well, you’re a Red Sox fan, so I know you hate the Yankees. I don’t think there’s any other team you hate more than the Yankees. If you’re a true Red Sox fan, it must be the number one hate, right? Keratini hits out into center field, but it curves a little bit and the center fielder has to come back on it, but he’s able to make it. Another unlucky opportunity missed for the Astros. We’re done with eight innings of ball. Six to one. Astros are down going into the top of the ninth. Caleb Bort will likely be back on the mound for or back or rather on the mound for the Astros. Oh, I forgot to change the picture to Orort or uh Steven Oak earlier. No big deal. No harm, no foul. Commercial break in progress. Do you think? Yeah, you’re right, Ken. Dodger fans are insufferable. I grew up with my brother as being a Dodgers fan. Now, I know that not all Dodgers fans are narcissists and not all of them are bad people, but they do. that that organization tends to attract very narcissistic people. And think about this, I was born in Shreveport and when I was just a little baby, we moved to Houston, my mom’s hometown. That’s where all of her family was. My dad got a job at Armco Steel. My brother actually was the the product of another man. So, if you back up to when my mom was in high school, she was a beautiful cheerleader. I wish I had a picture of her, but she was a beautiful cheerleader, way out of my dad’s league. He was just an uneducated country boy. But my mom’s high school sweetheart got her pregnant right after graduation, basically from high school. and uh he took off right after my brother was born. My mom and dad got married. Nobody in the family knew this stuff. I found out this stuff years later. So my brother is actually only my halfb brotherther. My dad gave him his name and then a year later I was born. So I was my dad’s first son. Caleb Ward on the mound. Here’s the pitch. 97 right in there. Strike one. Brendan Doyle. Dubon is out in right field now. Urias is in at second. Here comes the 0 and1 pitch. Woo man. Right at the bottom of the zone but doesn’t get the call. The 97 mileph fast ball. I should have given that one to us. 101 is the count. But anyway, the reason I told you all that stuff is because you can see that we had nothing to do with Los Angeles. We were never in California. We were far from it. Two balls. I’m sorry, one ball and two strikes to Brenton Doyle. Keratini taking a little break after that ball bounced off of his mask. But my brother from a very young age decided to select the Dallas Cowboys, the Los Angeles Lakers, and the Los Angeles Dodgers as his three teams. And of course, back then, these were the top teams. These were considered the best teams, right? These are teams with tradition. And they were at the height of their game. And that’s what my brother wanted because he’s a super narcissist. He didn’t care about local teams. He went after the best teams. And uh I was all Houston guy. I went all in on the Oilers, the Rockets, the Astros. And when the Oilers left, my heart was broken and I stopped caring about the NFL. Here comes a one-two pitch. Nice swing. They say he went around. Are you kidding me? No. They say he did not go around ball two. That ball was in the dirt. Nasty curveball. I want to see a replay. That looked obvious that he went around. Two balls and two strikes to Brenton Doyle. Here’s the next pitch. Swinging a miss. Can’t call that a check swing there. Strike three. One down for Caleb Orort here in the top of the ninth. Astros have one more opportunity coming up in just a moment. Got to have a big ninth inning. Phillies fans are also pretty bad, Ken. But my impression is that Yankees fans and Phillies fans are are haters. Dodgers fans are definitely haters, but they are also entitled. They just automatically assume that they’re going to be in the World Series every year. If they’re not, then it it just breaks their world apart. This next pitch is in the dirt. One and one with that Swiffer. Ezekiel Tovar at the plate facing Caleb Ort. Yeah, if you’re not a Yankees fan, you really hate them. I think everybody hates the Yankees. 98 below the zone. That’s a nice steamer. Two balls and one strike. Yeah, I can believe that, Blue Devil. It’s It’s much easier for a Red Sox fan to be a Dodgers fan than to be a Yankees fan. Way outside on the fast ball. Three balls and one strike to tovar. One out, nobody on. I know that Yankees and Red Sox fans hate each other basically. Astros fans have grown to really really dislike certain teams, but that’s mainly division rivalry and instate rivalry. 98 miles an hour up and in ball four. Tovar gets walked. Three straight non-competitive pitches from Orort. Runner on first with one out. Warming Burnabel. Warming Bernabel comes to the plate. Here comes the pitch. 97 on the outside. Called a strike. 0 and one. Yeah, but it makes sense. Blue Devil. I mean, I I don’t think that Red Sox fans are entitled. I think Red Sox fans are more balanced. They realize that they’ve got a good tradition, a good baseball team, good baseball city, and they expect things out of their team, but they don’t have this entitled attitude that you get in New York and in Los Angeles. That ball’s fouled behind the dugout for an 0 and2 count against Burnab Bale. But you seem like a nice guy. If you come into the Astros chat and you’re fans of some other teams and you’re not bashing the Astros, you’re actually being more positive than some of the upset Astros fans right now. 98 swinging a miss above the zone. Strike out on the heater or gets out number two. Go sit down, boy. Next batter is Kyle Caros. Two for three today. See, this is Look at this. Look at this hitter. He’s batting 306 for the season. He’s two for three tonight. 833 OPS. How can you call all of these guys bums? It’s just not possible. 96 on the outside edge. Strike one. He calls a little timeout. Dyking Park is really silent right now and the crowd is just largely emptied out. It is a school night after all. Even though Hello Kitty night drew everybody out, it wasn’t enough to hold them in. Astros have let him down. Swinging a miss. 0 and2 is the count. Yeah, why not? But my question is, if the Red Sox and the Astros meet in a playoff game, how do you handle that? [Laughter] Maybe maybe what you should do is you should root for the Astros and she should root for the Red Sox. That would be the the deep love way of doing it. One ball, two strikes. Here comes the pitch to Kyros. Nice. Ort gets the swing and a miss on the 84 mileph Swiffer. So, good solid performance. The Astros relievers have just locked it down. Four straight innings with no runs on the board. So, look at that. Hunter Brown. Technically, he’s responsible for six runs on the board, but the relievers have shut it down through four straight innings for the Stros. Astros’s last chance. We need a big inning. Only got six hits. Let’s see. We need five runs to tie it up, six runs to win. So that means we need six more hits. Six hits, six runs, and walk it off here in the ninth inning. Mauricio Dubon is due up, followed by Jacob Melton and Jeremy Pñena. Unless there are some pinch hitters and depending on who’s pitching for the Rockies, there just might be. Oh, tell her I said hello. And Gostros, it’s interesting. What? And I’m also You said she just started being a fan this year. She’s brand new. I know it doesn’t look like it, but this year I turned 50. I’ve been a fan ever since I was old enough to watch TV. nearly 50 years I’ve been an Astros fan. When I lived in Houston, I actually got to see them play the Dodgers and the Cubs in the Astrodome. We saw a few games in the Astrodome and uh whenever I was about seven or eight, we moved to Shrefport, moved back over there in that area and then immediately to Mansfield and then to uh Carmemell and then to uh let’s see where else did we move? If we all then we moved maybe back to Mansfield. Then we moved to uh Grand Cane. We moved all over the place as my dad was trying to find work. He was just working factory shutdown after factory shutdown. Moving all over Hell’s Creation as they say. Juan Maya or Maja is in the game pitching now for the Rockies. The dirty Rockies. First pitch to Doobie is up and inside. Ball one. Come on, Doobie. One and0 is the count. Six hits, six runs. That’s all we need. Here’s the pitch outside. 2 and 0. Yeah, everybody says I don’t look 50. Especially, I mean, right now I’ve got a little bit of hair on my face. I look older when I grow my hair out, but whenever I shave, everyone says I have a baby face. Here comes a 20 pitch. Fouled off. I also have a young spirit. There are things about me that are that are, I guess you could say, mature. But like I’m a very philosophical and deep thinking person, but at the same time I’m also very young in spirit. 98 below the zone, three in one to Dubon. Here’s a pitch outside. Ball four. Dubbie starts it off with a five pitch walk. Good job, relief pitcher. Jacob Melton on deck coming to the plate right now. Astros top of the batting order, licking their lips. Yordon Alvarez thinking about what he’s going to do when he gets to the plate. Here’s the pitch to the former Blade Rogers. That’s in there. 97 miles an hour. Strike one. Doo be on first base with no outs here in the bottom of the ninth. What will the Astros do today? Here comes the toss. 98 right in there. Swinging a miss. I wonder how many uh how many viewers and likes we have. What’s the ratio? Let me take a quick look. Here comes the next pitch to Melton. He hits this one on the ground. It might be a double play. And nope, they don’t get it. Thankfully, Doobie is throwing out at second base, but Melton is safe at first base. So, we keep our runner at first with one out for Pñena. Yeah, if you guys could switch pull and field the team for a little while, that would be fun. I think two for three today with a single, a double, a walk, and a steel. Not having a bad day, but not an amazing day. Not enough to get the Astros on the board. Low outside. Ball one. 82 people watching the live stream and 72 likes. Well, I think right now the the likes are looking good, but I’m pretty sure that we had a lot more viewers earlier today. So, the likes need to be over 100. That’s on the edge for strike one and one to pay yet. If you have not liked the live stream, please do so now and I appreciate you in advance. If you have not subscribed, you’re welcome to do so. Here’s the 1-1. Pena fouls it off. 97 just below the zone. One and two is the count. If any of you are feeling saucy and want to support the channel, there are multiple ways to donate. If you go through YouTube, that’s welcome, but they do take a huge cut, 30%. If you want to donate through PayPal or buy me a coffee, you can do that, too. I haven’t plugged that at all during this whole game, but I’m just letting you know it’s out there. And I do offer also three membership tiers. If you want to join with a monthly subscription on YouTube, you can. It’s very, very cheap. Two balls and two strikes to Jeremy Pena, but you can also do a subscription through PayPal. on. I’ll get more of that money because they only take like 3%. 99 above the zone. Jeremy Pñena strikes out. So, M Media cranks it up to 98 and goes into the top. No, 99. Goes into the top of the zone there. Right above the top of the zone. Pñena can’t get the bat around fast enough. Carlos Koreah comes to the plate. Are we going to get more than six hits this game or is this going to be it? Are the Astros going to go quietly into the night? 99 outside ball one. Uh yeah, I think it’d be fun to do if uh if I were married and my wife was a big fan of another team and they played each other. I think it’d be fun for us to switch and pull for the other team. It’ be a fun thing to do. Pitch is high. 98 miles an hour. Two balls and no strikes to Koreah. How about we load up the bases for Alvarez and he just brings us within a run. Even with a grand slam, it only bring us within one run. 97 right on the outside edge. Two balls, one strike. Yeah, it does, doesn’t it, Doug? Even the bad teams, they they bring in a guy in the end and he throws 100 miles an hour. What’s with that? And his ERA is basically four. Here comes the next toss that’s in there. 98. So Craya takes two balls and then two strikes. Two and two is the count. Two balls, two strikes, two outs. Runner on second. Here comes the pitch. Check swing. Did he go? No, they say he did not. Full count. Of course, it’s full count. All right, last chance for Korea. Here comes the pitch. 98 on the outside. Fouled away. He has another last chance coming. Is he going to do something? That’s the question. Come on, Craya. I know you can do it. Here’s the 3-2 pitch. Hi. Ball four. So, we have two runners on now. first and second with Superman Altu coming to the plate. Pitching coach wants to come out. He’s done this twice with Altuve at the plate before infield and the pitching coach comes out to have a little chitchat. Altuve not having a good game today from the DH position, contributing essentially nothing to the Astros. He has actually hurt the Astros the most when it comes to batting today because not only does he have no hits, no walks, none of that. He has left six runners on base. The Astros have left a total of 16 opportunities on base and six of those are Altuve. So Altuve basically is responsible for 40% of the Astros stranded runners this game. See if he can turn it around right here. Batting 274 for the season. His batting average has slipped a lot. He held it over 300 for a while. Very first pitch, he flies out to center field. It is out there and he’s under it. And that’s going to be it. Six to one is the final score. And you guys and gals know that my tradition is not to spend too much time on the on the scoring summary because the Astros only scored one time. That was a home run in the second inning. I’ll show you right here. Home run, solo home run by Jesus Sanchez in the second inning. Put the Astros on the board and gave them the lead. And after that, there was nothing. The third inning and the fifth inning, the Rockies scored. The third inning was the the big inning. the beginning of the big innings. Freeman grounded out, scored a run. Moniac singled, scored a run. Goodman homered, scored two runs. Four to one. Moniac double to center in the fifth. Six to one. And that’s where the score would remain. Let’s take a look at the Astros pitching. Man, just a a sad performance by the bats because Hunter Brown was the main the main problem today. Second problem was Astros not getting any scoring done. Stranding runners on base as you see right here. Hunter Brown Hunter Brown stats are right here. 6.2 innings pitched. gave up six hits. That’s not bad. It’s not stellar, but he was charged. He was charged with just two runs. Can you believe that? He was just charged with two runs. And no other no other pitcher is charged with runs. There are actually four runs on the board that are considered not earned runs. That’s nuts. So, the the the runs that are on the board supposedly make Hunter Brown look a lot worse than than it was, but actually I believe that these runs are all on him. They gave uh Pñena two errors earlier and um at first they were debating it. They said two, then they gave him one, then they later changed it to two. I don’t agree with either one of those. I don’t think that he earned any errors. I think that was all on Brown, but whatever. Seven strikeouts is not bad in uh 6.2 innings. Not a single walk. If you actually look at these stats, look at this. 6.2 innings pitched, six hits, two earned runs, no walks, seven Ks. It’s like, wow, he did a really good job. But why are there six runs on the board? Well, because supposedly because of errors. But I disagree. Hunter Brown did not have a good day today. He had one particular inning where he broke down and gave up four runs. And that was the main reason the Astros lost. The second reason was because we couldn’t score any runs when we managed to put guys on base. Ochre pitched 1.1 innings, did really well. No hits, no runs, no walks, one strikeout. Caleb Bort, one inning pitch, no runs, no hits, one walk, three strikeouts. So, we had solid performance from Orort and Oakert. Just that one inning. That’s all it took, that one inning for the Rockies to light up Hunter Brown. That’s my problem with this game. My problem is is even though the the Astros bats were were bad in this game, I’m not going to complain about that so much. I’m going to say that without Hunter Brown pitching good against the Rockies in Dying Park, we’ve got a problem. If I’m not mistaken, whenever they played in Colorado, Hunter Brown also did terribly bad. Actually, we can take a look at that. Let’s go back and take a look at that. I want to make sure that my memory serves me correct. Let’s go back to the 2025 first half schedule. Colorado, where is it? Here it is. Right here. No. Okay, he got the win. Let’s take a look at that game. How did that game go? Let’s take a look here. Okay, so Hunter Brown went six innings in this game against the Rockies. Gave up six hits. It’s basically the same, right? He went six innings today. He went just a little more than six. He gave up six hits then. He gave up six hits today. Had two earned runs then. Had two earned runs today. One walk then, no walks today. nine strikeout or eight strikeouts then I think today he had he had eight or nine. The stats look very very similar. The only difference is that he actually gave up more than just two earned runs in my opinion. He gave up six but it doesn’t show as six. So I remembered this incorrectly. Who was it that pitched bad against the Rockies? It was this game. Was it Fromber? Might have been. No, Walter. But Walter. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Walter is the one that broke down that game. He gave up five runs, but He ultimately didn’t get the loss. He got lucky in that game. So, it was Walter that broke down that series, not Brown. My bad. But still, you know what I’m saying? Brown didn’t perform amazingly well, but he got the job done last time. This time, I think he didn’t have any excuse. It’s much easier to hit the ball in Colorado, right? So, why did they just suddenly light him up in this game? I don’t quite understand. It’s like he regressed. So, let’s do the quick preview for tomorrow’s game. The Rockies will be back in Dyking Park tomorrow at the same time and I will be here, God willing. From Valdez on the V on the mound tomorrow. That means we lose, right? From really needs a good solid game. Seven innings with no runs allowed. That’s what Frober needs. Chase Dollander is on the mound for the Rockies. Another seven erra guy. 82 innings pitched, 94 hits, 68 strikeouts, 40 walks. Holy cow, and 16 homers. So, this guy is giving up he’s he’s getting u not enough strikeouts. He’s giving up a walk basically every other inning on average. 16 homers, 94, more than one hit per inning. Overall, the Astros should light him up, right? You’d think. We’ll see. And Valdez, well, who’s going to show up tomorrow? The the guy who wants that bag at the end of the year or the guy who wants to continue bleeding money because right now Valdez is bleeding money from his future contract. The ESPN matchup predictor says the Astros have a 79% chance of winning. That means if you bet on the Rockies, you will win. These matchup predictors at ESPN are a joke. They’re almost never right. I remember they said that the Dodgers were going to beat the Astros 73% chance and then the Astros destroyed them. It was pretty funny. Who cares about that? Let’s take a look at the scoreboard. What’s going on around the league? Bubba says, “Thanks for keeping us posted. Better game next.” I hope so. Thank you for being here. Thank you for supporting the channel. U Thank you, Blue Devil, for being here. I believe we win tomorrow, too. And tell tell your wife I said bye and go Stros. Let’s take a look at what’s going around the league. The Padres’s are beating the Mariners five to nothing in the fifth inning. So, there’s some good news. Let’s see here. Let’s move down. The Tigers losing to the A’s in the third inning five to four. How about that game? Come on A’s. Go A’s. Red Sox beat the Orioles. Let’s see here. Let’s go down a little further. Anything else of note? Nationals let us down on the Yankees. Hey, look at that. The Twins beat the Blue Jays. Unfortunately, it seems like whenever the Blue Jays lose or the Tigers lose, we’re not able to capitalize on it. We really need to win whenever those guys lose, right? Speaking of the Tigers, did they play or were they off? It looks like they were off. No big deal. Rangers beat the Angels. They are now 500. Welcome back to 500 level rangers. Do you feel special now? 67 and 67. That’s it for today, guys and gals. That’s all I’ve got for you. Somebody just hit the grand salami somewhere. Let me update the scoreboard and see what it says. Maybe in the Diamondbacks Brewers game. because bases were loaded in the ninth and the game was tied. Maybe it’s this one. Let’s take a look. There’s a good chance of it. They’ve got bases loaded in the ninth inning. The Brewers do. Maybe it was them. It’s possible. This game doesn’t affect us, though. I love how everybody get just keeps bashing the the Brewers and talking about them being pretenders. But of course, you know, when it gets into the playoffs, you got to prove yourself. But anybody who says that they’re not a good team, I I don’t understand that. I mean, if the Astros were playing like they were playing this whole time, would they be calling the Astros pretenders? No. They would say clearly the Astros are the team to beat. Let’s see. Let me refresh this. No data has changed on the screen. They must have had a pitching change because this data hasn’t changed. Let me go back and refresh the scoreboard here and see if anything has changed. I don’t see any other games that could have been. All these others are are finalized. The only game still going right now are the Dodgers and Reds, the the A’s and Tigers, the Giants and Cubs, Padres’s and Mariners, Diamondbacks and Brewers. Oh well, no big deal. I guess we’ll find out later. Yeah, you’re right, Bubba. The the Brewers ain’t messing around. And I’m tired of hearing even Astros podcast talking about how the Brewers are pretenders. They’re just hating. We don’t need that. Just give them the respect they deserve. They’re lighting it up and the Astros aren’t. It’s as simple as that. You know, still Viper. Holy cow. I appreciate that. First super chat of the day. Thank you so much for that. Steel Viper with the save. There we go. That was a hater style save. Steel Viper says, “We’ll get him next time. Prayers and good health to everyone.” Thank you so much. I appreciate that. And the same as always goes to you and to everyone else. my prayers, my best wishes, my my love, all of those positive good things to all of you. I might have to take a break today. I’m not sure I’m going to be able to do too much with the heat wave going on right now. I might go find a restaurant to sit in and enjoy the air conditioner for a while until it gets gets cooled off. It’s about 12:00 and uh I really need to cool down. Even just sitting here with the fans on me, I’m still hot. Wearing this hat and the headphones, it gets hot. I do apologize for the Astros not showing up today with the bats, especially with Yord on back. But it is what it is. We’ll be back tomorrow. It takes a little rust. Shake off the rust. Get things jelling again. and we’ll be okay. But once again, thanks to all the likes, the shares, the comments, all of that good stuff. And of course, extra special thanks to Still Viper for that super chat. Thank you so much. It is more appreciated than I know how to express. [Laughter] Yeah, Bubba Night Nightbot it has a mind of its own sometimes. I try to keep the the settings low enough to where they’re kind of fair, but just kind of limit what what seems to be spam, but it’s it’s difficult sometimes to find the sweet spot. Still Viper, you two, you have a great day, too. Thank you for being here. And um still vip uh still viper says I’ve been working long hours as of late late but I’ll try to make it in early tomorrow. Okay. I hope so. I will do my very best to be here as always. If for some reason I am not here is uh because I had to probably had to go take a visit to the hospital but otherwise I’m right here with all of you. Absolutely. Still Viper’s leading the charge in August, that’s for sure. You got the high OPS over 1.0. Your OPS is way up there. Absolutely hitting big for the Ghostro channel. Thank you so much and the community. Anyway, that’s it. All I have left to say as usual is Ghost Rose and I will see you tomorrow’s. Yep, that’s right, Casey. Win some, lose some. See you for game two tomorrow against the Rockies at home in Dyke Park. Until then, have a good one, okay? Good day, good afternoon, good evening.

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