ASTROS POSTCAST: The Houston Astros Are On Step Closer To Missing Postseason After Another Loss

ASTROS POSTCAST: The Houston Astros Are On Step Closer To Missing Postseason After Another Loss

This is the Astros Post, your instant game reaction for the Houston Astros, part of the Locked On podcast network, your team every day. [Music] Let’s try and talk some facts tonight on the Locked on Astros postcast. And fact number one is that this team does not want to play in the postseason. We talked about it last night. They’ve given us more evidence tonight as they get smacked around by the Oak or excuse me the Athletics once again six to nothing the final. They’ve not let a baseball game in a week now. Uh they are an embarrassing embarrassing display of professional baseball right now and they are going to go home with their tails tucked between their legs and they should be embarrassed for how they’re going out in 2025 as the run of postseason success in the city of Houston is coming to an end this season with what this team is doing. Hello and welcome to the Locked on Astros postcast. Appreciate you guys for staying up late, watching live tonight if you’re with us. If not, or if you’re watching later on, we appreciate you as well. Make sure that you always come back when the games are over, unfortunately, tomorrow. A little side note for you before we get into the um meat of the show tonight. We will not have a game or a show tomorrow. We will have a game tomorrow. We will not have a show tomorrow after the game because I will be unavailable for that one, unfortunately, because it is a day game tomorrow. And I’m going be honest, I’m not going to be missing anything based off what this team’s been uh been out there doing. Hey, what is it that you’re talking about more than anything else in this one? This is what you’ll be talking about. Same story. I’m a broken record. I’m willing to admit that. I’m a broken record when it comes to what we’re talking about every single night because what we’re talking about is the same damn thing over and over. This team can’t hit. This team looks lifeless. This team is that you know the old saying one, two, three Cancun. They feel like they’ve got one, two, three Cancun on their mind. And we have never ever ever ever ever seen this in this era of Astros baseball. It’s truly mind-blowing to me. I never saw this coming. Now, I knew the challenges that this season would present. I was never the most optimistic person about this iteration of this team coming into this season, but I still thought they’d win the American League West because the American League West is still a joke and they’d kind of default into it like they do every year and they’d get back and we’ll see how deep they can go into the postseason. They’ve been incredibly unlucky when it comes to health this season. and their arms got absolutely wrecked all year long and they were able to for a good period of time hold off all that bad stuff and for a brief moment there excel after it’s like that adrenaline rush you know that hey we’re going to step up and do it with all these guys that aren’t you know big leaguers and kind of like everything you know in life in general general, everything kind of finds its its normal level. And that ended up happening to this baseball team. And unfortunately, the normal level for the level of talent that they have minus all the guys they’ve lost this year is a bad baseball team. The facts are just the facts. I’d have to go get the exact number. I can see if I can do that here as I’m uh, you know, talking to you guys. I just thought of this. If I, trust me, if I thought about this earlier, I would have done this before the show instead of doing it while the show is going on. But these are the things that happen once you get talking to yourself and you think of things. But since they played that series in Los Angeles against the Dodgers, uh that series where they swept the Dodgers of our Fourth of July weekend, without a doubt the highlight of the season, they won a game 18 to1, 6-4, 5 to1. Since that game, this baseball team, a damn it, doesn’t do it for me. I don’t want to do math in front of you guys. It’ be embarrassing for me, but they’ve lost more games than they’ve won. I can tell you that. But after that series, they were up seven games in the division. And well, you know what’s happened since then. Here we are. You know, it’s got you got no chance too when your one guy of hope, Hunter Brown, isn’t able to go out there and be Superman tonight. You know, he wasn’t. He got beat up a little bit. He’d been on a great run. I think 10 consecutive starts of two runs or less, something like that. Five innings, four runs, six hits, five strikeouts. Picks up his ninth loss. He’s 12-9, 243. He’s gonna end up top three in the Sai Young boat, I believe. And he’s got way less to show for his incredible season than than he should. You know, he could pitch again. What’s today? Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday. He could pitch Sunday on short rest if they were in a win or go home situation. But I’m going to go ahead and say that that was the last time you see Hunter Brown tow him out for the Astros in 2025. And Ryan, I’m going to go with your math here. I hope that you’re right. Thank you for that. This sounds right. 27 and 39 since that series in Los Angeles in July. Christopher says 29 wins. Whatever it is, it’s in that range. It’s bad. They’ve lost more games than they’ve won in that period of time. And I think I’m going to save my big picture overall outlook on it for Sunday. Um, we’ll have a postgame show Sunday when the season wraps up. I’m I’m going to keep saying the season’s going to wrap up on Sunday, unfortunately. Um, and we’ll do a uh we’ll do a longer show than normal on Sunday for these postcasts. You know, usually these shows are 15 to 20 minutes long. We’ll probably be in that 30 to 40 minute range on Sunday because we’ll kind of let it all out. It’ be my last chance to talk Astros with you guys until they come back um in late March in 2026. And um kind of place the blame where it needs to be placed. You know, figure out what you’re going to do and who’s going to be held accountable for what and how you fix it. This sucks, man. They got spoiled for a very long time. Very, very long time. But can’t always be that great. At some point, it does go back the other way. And hopefully this isn’t the beginning of a uh down period of Astros baseball. And just looking at it real quick, I don’t know the exact, but in July or in August, 13 and 15. And now in the month of September, they’re nine and 12. It’s the exact opposite of what the Astros have done for years. We’ve talked about that. Typically in September, they know how to turn it up and turn it on. And they have done none of that. Not even for a brief second have they shown one little tiny ounce of ability to go out there and be a team that is dangerous that could get in could make a run. I tried to hold on to my hope for as long as I could and it just it’s not there. It’s not there. Like I said, this absolutely sucks. And look, if there’s anybody out there trying to sugarcoat anything, trying to put positive spin on it, then they’re just drinking Kool-Aid. And I know that there’s some of those people out there. There’s nothing good about it at all, man. Few more games to do though. We’ll talk about him, of course. Let’s talk about tomorrow because here’s the thing. I’m not mathematically done. Let’s talk about tomorrow next here in the Lockown Astros Post. Before we get there, I want to tell you guys about Rouette. 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I have no singing ability. Or um this is the end. You know, one of those, you know, just kind of fits the mood. Somber. I think somber is the way to put it. I I I’m not even mad anymore. I’m really not frustrated, I guess, but I think somber is the way to put it. I see the writing on the wall. I hear the fat lady singing at the end of the road here. Light at the end of the tunnel, and it’s not the the light that you’re looking for. It’s coming to an end Sunday. Now, they’re technically not dead. But here’s the problem. They’ve got four games left. They’re a game out. behind the Detroit Tigers for Oh, you guys are bringing the good ones here. If you got your songs for What’s the theme song for the Astros in 2025? Here you go. Darkness Hello Darkness My Old Friend. Let Biscuit break stuff. Uh Whitney Houston. Why does Why does Heart So I don’t I don’t know that song. If that’s a song, maybe you got that one wrong, but you can keep sending those in. Um, but the it it’s coming, man. It just feels like it’s coming. But Detroit is only a game up, four to play. Now, they do hold the tiebreaker, which is the problem. So, I mean, let’s be honest with it here. The Astros probably have to go three and one over the last four to have a chance. And you’re gonna need Detroit to continue to just vomit all over themselves like they already have. You guys bringing in a couple more here. Why? By Jada Kiss. Na na na. Hey hey hey. Goodbye. Yeah, it’s a good one, too. I don’t know the name of that song. Why does it hurt so bad by Whitney Houston. Okay, thank you Marcus. Um, and yes, thank you to Common Sense here. Detroit does have to play Boston. So, there is that. And Boston’s still fighting for that top uh wild card spot. So, and they could still technically be knocked out if Detroit went on. The whole thing’s a mess. They’re not not dead. They look as dead as they can be. As I mentioned earlier, the Astros have not had a lead in a baseball game since last Wednesday. Those are their run differentials down to now on the season. Plus seven. Seven. Seven. Hell, the Guardians are going to win the Central. It looks like they’ve got a negative -2 plus seven. I unfortunately think the Yankees are going to cakewalk to the World Series this year again and probably lose, whatever. Sorry, guys. I’m not I’m just not having fun. I know you’re not either. We’ll see if they pull it off tomorrow. Like I mentioned, unfortunately, we will not have a show tomorrow. I will be in the air in an airplane uh at the control stick. So, I got other things that are going on that I can’t do. So, uh we’ll do that. Uh I’ll do that. You guys watch the game. We’ll be back Friday night hopefully talking about a win. Hopefully talking about them having a chance to make the playoffs. We’ll see. So, all we can do at this point is just say we’ll see. Enjoy the rest of your Wednesday night. Thanks for stopping by. We’ll talk to you Friday. locked on a post.

Another night, another pathetic showing from the Houston Astros against the Athletics. Michael Connor discusses the loss on the Locked On Astros Postcast.

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