Even more scary for everyone: the Astros are 11-6 (or thereabouts) without Tucker, who is an RBI machine and was on his way toward another all star appearance.
King Tuck, please come back! this is so similar to when Uncle Mike aka Michael Brantley went down in his final two years with the Astros and it felt like getting him back would be just what the offense needed to really just dominate. So instead, the Astros ofc have to just squeak by instead of dominating as they should be doing (sans injuries), but hey... whatever it takes, am I right? (WITHIN REASON)
Yep, when the Astros pitching gets healthy, they will be a force to reckon with. Probably won't be until next season. Imagine have these starting pitcher's next season: Javier, Verlander, Urquidy, Brown, and Blanco. Backup starters Arrighetti, France and McCullers if he ever gets healthy.
As of tonight, Astros are 39-40, 4.5 back of Seattle for the divsion and 3.5 back for a Wild Card spot. Still need our pitching staff to get healthier and ready for the postseason.
@@tylerlittle499 41-40 now! lets see how they deal with the blue jays should be at least a 2-2 series with blanco and Valdez pitching the last the games and Astros are hot rn so they might take first game too with brown pitching. Only downside of the stros rn is their pitching if they can step it up rest of season Astros can stay contenders
If Astros make the postseason, they’ll come in hot. I doubt most teams want to face Astros in the first round. I think sports media want it to be Yankees vs Dodgers. Hope the Astros ruin that for them, again.
Thank you for this video. One thing you missed though is that Kyle Tucker hasn’t been playing since early June. They swept the Baltimore Orioles without him. Can’t wait for the King to come back!!
Hell, sweeping the Orioles WITH him would still have been impressive, but yes... doing it without him was even moreso. But it's really the pitching that has disappointed more than the offense or defense this year. Once they're hitting on all cylinders for longer than a few days at a time, they will be a force to be reckoned with. I hope they can maintain this momentum increase through the All-Star Break in a week or two.
Astros fan throughout the season: Beginning: we always start every season bad 2017-2023 April: What’s happening? We are the worst in the west and maybe the league!!!??? May: ok we are improving, please keep this up June (now): We are back!!! Let’s Go Astros!!!
This Astros team reminds me of the 2001 Oakland A’s. They got off to a horrible start, but began surging right before the halfway period. A’s started at 39-42 and would go on to win 102 games after an insane second half. After seeing this streak and the Astros sweeping the Orioles, I think 100+ wins this season is possible. Will it be difficult, absolutely, but with Jose Abreu gone and Loperfido back out there, I think they can do it.
@patrickcheatham2997 you really believe they'll win 60 games before they lose 22 games? It's not impossible but their schedule is not that easy. If they win over 90 it would be impressive. Unlikely
@@jerrygomez3825 Astros proved they could go toe to toe with really good teams such as the Orioles last week, and their lineup is red hot. Also, pitching has become a lot better since Abreu left. Hunter Brown looks like an ace in the making with what he’s been doing. Reminds me of Chris Carpenter in 2011, rough start but became a shutout pitcher in the second half.
You think the trash can comments hurt us stros fans feelings? Cope buddy. Cope. We don’t care about the sox and their Apple Watches. If you ain’t cheating u ain’t trying.
I was lucky enough to catch my first in-person 'Stros game in years on May 19th. You mention Tucker NEVER chases, but it's not quite true, at least from my experience that day. What he did was fascinating, though. Tucker started that day's game in green cleats. He struck out three times in a row. He changed cleats to a different color. He then homered twice in a row, scoring 4 RBIs and making the difference in the win. Baffling, but awesome.
The fact you mention tucker but were coming back with him in the IL our pitchers have just really stepped up and with abreu gone and loperfido and dubon getting consistent playing time its just clicking
Im all for pro kyle tucker propaganda but in this stretch where we swept the O’s he was not playing. its the fact that the line up now has more contact with mauricio dubon playing more and less easy outs (abreu).
I wear Astros t-shirts every week at least about half the week, and have been doing so all April and May long. I may not go to many games in person, and I'm blacked out on MLB TV and don't have cable, but... being an Astros fan for much or most or all of your life means never giving up, never saying die, and trying hard not to doubt (too much... obviously sometimes there's room for a little doubt). I hadn't given up this year. But even in years I've given up, I still represent with orange and blue Astros gear, no matter how good or bad the team is, IOW! Go, ASTROS! ;D
I can't believe you didn't mention how many of their pitchers are injured either temporarily or permanently. A third of our staff was called up from AAA haha
ok but like fr everyone cancels the astros for cheating whenever literally EVERY team tries to look at the pitch… The astros js got caught🤷♀️and that was forever afo
I thought the 2019 Nats taught us about not worrying until August. It’s just the same case repeated, any team, yes even the Marlins and Angels still have a chance to make it through the postseason. I’m a dodger fan and I wasn’t going to say anything until September personally because you just never know who might get on fire and who might fall off their horse. Either way, I’d rather the Astros be as far away from 1st-10th round pick as possible.
People don’t realize that the astros have a slow start every year, its just this year was a bit worse than the others but every year the astros don’t play to their full potential until the summer starts
For as amazing as Kyle Tucker is, he isn’t even the reason for the surge. He’s been injured for all of June. Luckily his replacement Joey Loperfido is a beast at plate and is hitting with amazing consistency. The real difference has been the improvement in pitching. Pressley and Hader have finally gotten it together and are doing well out of the bullpen. Hunter Brown has been one of the best pitchers in the league over June after posting an ERA over 9 in April. Spencer Arrighetti has shown a lot of development in June too. I also think the release of Jose Abreu was a major wake up call for the team as well. Along with that, Alex Bregman has finally found his swing and gotten his mojo at the plate back, he always starts the season slow so this wasn’t any surprise for long time Astros fans.
@@CryptoPaysMeDailyI'm not trying to defend for Hader but I do believe he still has that fire to get back to dominating. I think he needs a year because the National League is practically a triple-A league while the American League is the real deal and much harder to play in. That's why the American league usually wins the all-star games and World Series. World Series winners AL - 68 vs NL- 51
@@robk9388 that may be true but hader gets no pass from me. Dude has been dumpster juice. We need better pitching and we let that one top prospect slip away on waivers 🤦🏾♂️
Ehh the Astros have been getting it done with Tucker on the IL. More credit is deserved for guys like Jake Myers and Bregman for turning up the heat offensively..
I’m a few weeks late, but thanks for shining the spotlight on Kyle Tucker! Once he’s back in the lineup, the Stros offense will be back among the best in baseball.
last year, this year, and that year they started 15-30 back in the early 2000s (in the Biggio/Bagwell/Berkman era) were all pretty bad April/May starts to the season. The Astros are just experts at coming back from the cellar, it seems. I wish they could do it within more GAMES, tho (come back from really large deficits), but they just had a come-from-behind win late in Saturday's win over the Mets and a come-from-tied win late in Sunday s win over the Mets, so... that gives me hope they can keep that up and ALWAYS be in each and every game, win or lose, yanno?
Bregman too on the pitch selection.. His key is when he’s getting that fastball away does he go to right field with it?.. When he’s doing that he’s dangerous, and it gives the team 2 guys in the lineup that opens opportunities for others..
And that too but Bregman etc were all cold but now they’re starting to heat up. When we have most of our pitching back and all our guys healthy, watch out
Starting pitching is still a major concern. They’re scrapping their way through the season but there aren’t any reinforcements coming to help. As a Astros fan, I don’t believe this is sustainable….
@@bobbygetsbanned6049It also plays into the mentality of the other players on the roster. Knowing you have an auto out in the middle of lineup is devastating.
Not all Abreu's fault. Bergman was hitting below the Mendoza line until June. He's hitting ~.350 since. Hunter Brown went from just awful to an ERA of 1.16. Blanco has been a gem.
Been saying this all season. Everyone was so quick to write them off. I compare them to the Chiefs. They might have a slow start and raise some questions about still being a championship contender, but come playoff time they will always be there. And if you want a chance to win it all, you have to go through them.
Everyone knew this day would come. That said they are DESPERATE for pitching. I literally can’t count how many starters are on the IL. I believe that the pitch clock is to blame. A LOT of teams are experiencing an unusual number of pitchers out, and sadly with tommy john.
Pretty cool what the Stros are doing. Seems like a couple weeks ago they were 9 back of Seatle, and now, what, 3.5. But do they have the pitching to keep this going. Blanco, the most innings he's pitched was 120 last year. Is he gonna be gassed after the break. Brown, can he keep up this insane pitching. Probably not. Verlander is obviously iffy. Arighetti, his velo is improving, so that's a positive. Love to see em go out and get a pitcher that won't cost them an arm and a leg, someone like Quantrill. Enjoying it for now, but we'll see.
This season reminds me a lot of 2005 when the Astros started off terrible and the Chronicle(newspaper) printed their tombstone when they were 15 or 16 games under .500. They then proceeded to play .900 baseball and were back to .500 around the allstar break from what I remember. They ended up going to the world series for the first time that year where they got swept.
As a lifelong Astros fan, this video pleases me. Thank you for your blatant appeal to all of Houston to subscribe to your channel, good sir! I shall do so right now. ;)
[replying to myself with some longwinded rambling bc I didn't want to spam up my OP with it... sorry in advance for the tldr, tho... but JIC you care to read it, DD:] Srsly, tho, some good objective points by you as well, not just unabashed Astros praise. This is my first video of yours, so I have no idea which team or teams you root for, but... it doesn't really matter, you've got a good style and tone. [I did just notice that behind you is a Toronto Blue Jays WS champs banner and you showed an Astros/Blue Jays clip from early in April this year, so I'm guessing that may have answered my question... I like the Blue Jays as well, I was rooting for both the Mariners and them to make it to the playoffs the past few years when both teams were so close but weren't getting in every year... keep on beating the Yankees, Blue Jays, that's the main thing!] I don't know that the 2024 Astros start was THAT bad a start... well, okay, the parts where the Astros were in 4th or 5th place in the AL West was pretty damned bad, but they pretty quickly got to 3rd place behind Seattle and Texas. It started to turn around when they won both the games against the Colorado Rockies in Mexico City several weeks into the season. THAT was pretty badass. And at that point, they were IMO no worse than the 15-30 start they had in the early 2000s which made the Houston Chronicle infamously put a giant tombstone on the front page of the entire paper or at least the sports section, one or the other (both?! por que no los dos?!? ;D) and yet made it to the ALCS or the WS that year (don't remember offhand which year that was, either 2004 or 2005, IOW). So um... yeah, we've been here before. Astros kinda suck in Aprils and May. It's even happened more recently than the 2000s. At least once or twice before in the current AL dynasty 2017-present years, so.... Thank goodness (for us Houstonians, at least) that they can turn it on in June (usually). Now it's just a marathon, not a sprint, to see what happens in the end. As I mentioned in an edited-to-add above, I do like Seattle a lot, too, so I'm glad we're chasing them right now instead of Texas! ;D
Damn didn’t even mention Christian Javier, Lance McCullers, Luis Garcia, JP France or Jose Urquidy being out. That’s a starting rotation on some teams in addition of JV being out
The head coach is not letting the pitchers pitch what they want best way they were losing at first I don't know if they're letting the pitchers pitch what they want now, but you remember Dusty Baker he was letting the pitchers pitch what they wanted, but the area that Dusty Baker messed up on was when Dusty would take out the pitchers, and the other team didn't even get a run; you don't do that! you take out the pitcher when the other team getting runs especially on the playoff game or more than that in the world series game and that's what Dusty Baker was doing that's why the Astros lost
The Astros have spent almost the whole year with an entire starting pitching staff - Verlander, McCullers, Javier, Garcia, and Urquidy - on the injured list. They are back over .500, on an 11-2 win streak. Looks like MAMA (Make America Mad Again!).
The AL West is weak this season. Currently, the Astros are 46-44 (0.511). Yes, I believe the Mariners will not last in first place. However, I wouldn’t be expecting a World Series parade this season in Houston.
Guys, guys… Guys… Please always remember that baseball is not about who’s better. Believe me, I have seen better teams lose unexplainably to horrible teams and it makes no sense any way you look at it. It all boils down to who’s HOT. Right now, the Houston Astros are on fire, if they keep this synergy they can compete in the playoffs easily. Really in truly though, when it comes to the final 4 and the world series, the only team that’s ever going to win is who’s hot, who’s stealing bases, who’s getting hits to get off base, the teams that are actually making movements each inning and not staying stagnant and allow the other team opportunities to get points and fuel their detriment. edit: the start of the season the Braves started out hot, now they slowed down and then the Phillies started to be hot, now they are starting to stagnate as well.
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Regular season is the astros spring training.
😅
Fr dude it is insane lmfao
Truer words have never been spoken.
That's why I say wait till after the All-Star game the MONSTER will wake up
Haha! That's good, Brah
Even more scary for everyone: the Astros are 11-6 (or thereabouts) without Tucker, who is an RBI machine and was on his way toward another all star appearance.
King Tuck, please come back! this is so similar to when Uncle Mike aka Michael Brantley went down in his final two years with the Astros and it felt like getting him back would be just what the offense needed to really just dominate.
So instead, the Astros ofc have to just squeak by instead of dominating as they should be doing (sans injuries), but hey... whatever it takes, am I right? (WITHIN REASON)
😮l😮😮😮😅😮😅aba aba 😅😅
Hunter Brown going 4-1 with a 1.16 ERA in June has been huge. He might have been the worst pitcher in baseball in April.
him and arringhetti but even arringhetti feasted on the rockies today
brown was the worst pitcher in innings 1 and 2 in april, but 3-7 was top notch.
@@jayangek3532 Spencer "Mr. Spaghetti" Arrighetti is having an epic 2024 so far and I am HERE for it, as they say.
How was this made 6 days ago and the first name you bring up is Kyle Tucker......he hasn't played in a month?
Yep, when the Astros pitching gets healthy, they will be a force to reckon with. Probably won't be until next season. Imagine have these starting pitcher's next season: Javier, Verlander, Urquidy, Brown, and Blanco. Backup starters Arrighetti, France and McCullers if he ever gets healthy.
As of tonight, Astros are 39-40, 4.5 back of Seattle for the divsion and 3.5 back for a Wild Card spot. Still need our pitching staff to get healthier and ready for the postseason.
1 week ago to the day.. Thery were 10 back.. Lets go STROS!!!!
fuuuck your pitching staff
40-40 now!!!!
@@tylerlittle49942-41 🙂↕️
@@tylerlittle499 41-40 now! lets see how they deal with the blue jays should be at least a 2-2 series with blanco and Valdez pitching the last the games and Astros are hot rn so they might take first game too with brown pitching. Only downside of the stros rn is their pitching if they can step it up rest of season Astros can stay contenders
The Astros are inevitable
Yup
The most inevitable thing about them is Jose Altuve
Spookface clown 🤡 altuve should have been banned from mlb for cheating
@@thepoisonouspotato3631nah joe abreu
Que the Ben Verlander quote “The Astros are inevitable”
If Astros make the postseason, they’ll come in hot. I doubt most teams want to face Astros in the first round.
I think sports media want it to be Yankees vs Dodgers. Hope the Astros ruin that for them, again.
Astros are one of the few teams who just truly understand how to win. I wouldn't want my team running into them in the postseason
@DugoutDiaries you spit out straight facts without being biased. 🤙
Who's your team?
But to be fair, Astros-Yankees ALCS, and a Astros-Dodgers World Series would be cinema for baseball fans.
@Aphrachu I would love to see Astros vs Phillies round 2!
They’ll fold, they are terrible Vs teams with .500 or better record
Just imagine when we get some pitchers and tucker back. We'll be unstoppable!
Fr. Altuve got hit in the hand with a fast ball and broke his hand probably so we got an other il
@@AriComet14x Ray came back negative, go cry
It’s coming
Astro’s getting better 😤😤
Thank you for this video. One thing you missed though is that Kyle Tucker hasn’t been playing since early June. They swept the Baltimore Orioles without him. Can’t wait for the King to come back!!
Hell, sweeping the Orioles WITH him would still have been impressive, but yes... doing it without him was even moreso.
But it's really the pitching that has disappointed more than the offense or defense this year. Once they're hitting on all cylinders for longer than a few days at a time, they will be a force to be reckoned with. I hope they can maintain this momentum increase through the All-Star Break in a week or two.
Astros fan throughout the season:
Beginning: we always start every season bad 2017-2023
April: What’s happening? We are the worst in the west and maybe the league!!!???
May: ok we are improving, please keep this up
June (now): We are back!!! Let’s Go Astros!!!
This Astros team reminds me of the 2001 Oakland A’s. They got off to a horrible start, but began surging right before the halfway period. A’s started at 39-42 and would go on to win 102 games after an insane second half. After seeing this streak and the Astros sweeping the Orioles, I think 100+ wins this season is possible. Will it be difficult, absolutely, but with Jose Abreu gone and Loperfido back out there, I think they can do it.
@patrickcheatham2997 you really believe they'll win 60 games before they lose 22 games? It's not impossible but their schedule is not that easy. If they win over 90 it would be impressive. Unlikely
@@jerrygomez3825We’re coming dude. It was just a matter of time. Wait till we get healthy 😮
@@jerrygomez3825 Astros proved they could go toe to toe with really good teams such as the Orioles last week, and their lineup is red hot. Also, pitching has become a lot better since Abreu left. Hunter Brown looks like an ace in the making with what he’s been doing. Reminds me of Chris Carpenter in 2011, rough start but became a shutout pitcher in the second half.
This. Every year at the beginning we are terrible. Nothing new. It's shortly after that they make the comeback and go all the way finishing off huge.
The Astros have a heart of a champion
Somewhere, Rudy T is smiling as the Astros do their best Rockets impression. ;D
And a trash can as a warrior banging a drum in a war
@@InstinctVSM There he is knew one of you lame f*cks would pop up. Do some research idiot. Ohh and don't like your own comment, its cringy af.
And d trash cans?
You think the trash can comments hurt us stros fans feelings? Cope buddy. Cope. We don’t care about the sox and their Apple Watches. If you ain’t cheating u ain’t trying.
ASTROS FAN FOR LIFE❤️❤️❤️⚾️
4th of July and 45-42. Took the 4 game series from the Jays 3-1. We back in it
Lol jays like that’s impressive
I was lucky enough to catch my first in-person 'Stros game in years on May 19th. You mention Tucker NEVER chases, but it's not quite true, at least from my experience that day. What he did was fascinating, though.
Tucker started that day's game in green cleats. He struck out three times in a row. He changed cleats to a different color. He then homered twice in a row, scoring 4 RBIs and making the difference in the win. Baffling, but awesome.
The fact you mention tucker but were coming back with him in the IL our pitchers have just really stepped up and with abreu gone and loperfido and dubon getting consistent playing time its just clicking
JUST THINK WHAT WE COULD DO WITHOUT 17 PITCHERS ON THE INJURED LIST
Bro Lance JV ronel Javier and framber and Luis would be deadly
And if they had the 2022 bullpen
call down
Houston loves the Astros, win or lose.
Texas loves the Astros, not just the city of Houston.
@@TexanUSMC8089 Well, right on!
Im all for pro kyle tucker propaganda but in this stretch where we swept the O’s he was not playing. its the fact that the line up now has more contact with mauricio dubon playing more and less easy outs (abreu).
If you weren’t wearing your Astros gear at 7-19, you probably weren’t wearing it in 2014 and probably shouldn’t wear it now.
“Wake me up in June” is my battle cry.. When you’ve been watching baseball for half a century you learn things..
I wear Astros t-shirts every week at least about half the week, and have been doing so all April and May long. I may not go to many games in person, and I'm blacked out on MLB TV and don't have cable, but... being an Astros fan for much or most or all of your life means never giving up, never saying die, and trying hard not to doubt (too much... obviously sometimes there's room for a little doubt).
I hadn't given up this year. But even in years I've given up, I still represent with orange and blue Astros gear, no matter how good or bad the team is, IOW! Go, ASTROS! ;D
Another win against the Rockies today would be big.
And it happened.
@@tdog5878and a sweep over the orioles and the series win over the mets
It’s the Rockies
I can't believe you didn't mention how many of their pitchers are injured either temporarily or permanently. A third of our staff was called up from AAA haha
This has been my take on it exactly. Also, nice content. I subbed.
40-40 …. With the win this afternoon.. missing seven starting pictures, two bullpen arms and Kyle Tucker
We are on fire!
ok but like fr everyone cancels the astros for cheating whenever literally EVERY team tries to look at the pitch… The astros js got caught🤷♀️and that was forever afo
I thought the 2019 Nats taught us about not worrying until August. It’s just the same case repeated, any team, yes even the Marlins and Angels still have a chance to make it through the postseason. I’m a dodger fan and I wasn’t going to say anything until September personally because you just never know who might get on fire and who might fall off their horse. Either way, I’d rather the Astros be as far away from 1st-10th round pick as possible.
I would love to see your update after the 7/27/24 win over the Dodgers. What a game, even without King Tucker.
Yess please
A lot of teams are looking over their shoulder...rightfully so. As the Astros continue to get healthier, watch out in October.
Let's not forget Kyle is on the IL and has been for almost a month. And he still has those numbers!
Here come the ASTROS. Just watch them! Love my Astros. ❤⚾️❤
The Astros are the wrecking ball you can't outrun.
Didn’t even mention that in this 7 game run, Tucker hasn’t even been playing. He’s been out for 3 weeks.
People don’t realize that the astros have a slow start every year, its just this year was a bit worse than the others but every year the astros don’t play to their full potential until the summer starts
Yeah, this year was just horrible, but I’m sure most fans expected us to turn it around
@@natedawg906 yeah i know, not to mention injuries killing us but we’re too resilient to just fall off completely
We haven’t had Tucker for a month lol
Annnd now they have a winning record and were the best team in the league for the month of June.
THIS.
They weren't bad in May either.
Astros always start off slow. But we heat up June/July and go on our rampage! Go Stros!!!
We needed to get Abreus awkward situation out of the way. We struck lightning with Verlander, Abreu was asking too much.
4 out of the 5 pitchers from the 2022 championship rotation are on the IL…there’s no team in baseball that can completely ignore that
Disaster to dynasty
Just need to FIRE Espada and we will be ok
Awesome video! 🌟
Two games out now and on a roll! Yordan's bat is getting hot as well......watch out!!!
For as amazing as Kyle Tucker is, he isn’t even the reason for the surge. He’s been injured for all of June. Luckily his replacement Joey Loperfido is a beast at plate and is hitting with amazing consistency. The real difference has been the improvement in pitching. Pressley and Hader have finally gotten it together and are doing well out of the bullpen. Hunter Brown has been one of the best pitchers in the league over June after posting an ERA over 9 in April. Spencer Arrighetti has shown a lot of development in June too. I also think the release of Jose Abreu was a major wake up call for the team as well. Along with that, Alex Bregman has finally found his swing and gotten his mojo at the plate back, he always starts the season slow so this wasn’t any surprise for long time Astros fans.
Hader has been a bust for the most part and Pressley needs to retire. I have never seen 2 pitches blow more games. Pretty unreal.
@@CryptoPaysMeDailyI'm not trying to defend for Hader but I do believe he still has that fire to get back to dominating. I think he needs a year because the National League is practically a triple-A league while the American League is the real deal and much harder to play in. That's why the American league usually wins the all-star games and World Series. World Series winners AL - 68 vs NL- 51
@@robk9388 that may be true but hader gets no pass from me. Dude has been dumpster juice. We need better pitching and we let that one top prospect slip away on waivers 🤦🏾♂️
Altuve is having another great year. Legend!
The Astros are showing signs of life, MLB watch out!
Ehh the Astros have been getting it done with Tucker on the IL. More credit is deserved for guys like Jake Myers and Bregman for turning up the heat offensively..
Above .500 now. And with Tucker on the IL for most of June. 🧡🔥
I’m a few weeks late, but thanks for shining the spotlight on Kyle Tucker! Once he’s back in the lineup, the Stros offense will be back among the best in baseball.
Of course they bounced back! It's a marathon, not a sprint!
This literally happens every season and people always act surprised. It just took them extra long to get back on track this year
This year was horribly bad tho
@@AyushKhanapurenot really last year was
@@IsaacBatflipgoat1 I didn’t really start watching baseball till this year so I just assumed that the astros were worse this year
@@AyushKhanapureyeah we were was worse this year. Last year I don’t remember even being 4 games under .500
last year, this year, and that year they started 15-30 back in the early 2000s (in the Biggio/Bagwell/Berkman era) were all pretty bad April/May starts to the season.
The Astros are just experts at coming back from the cellar, it seems. I wish they could do it within more GAMES, tho (come back from really large deficits), but they just had a come-from-behind win late in Saturday's win over the Mets and a come-from-tied win late in Sunday s win over the Mets, so... that gives me hope they can keep that up and ALWAYS be in each and every game, win or lose, yanno?
Bregman too on the pitch selection.. His key is when he’s getting that fastball away does he go to right field with it?.. When he’s doing that he’s dangerous, and it gives the team 2 guys in the lineup that opens opportunities for others..
Winning record now. Sweeping the Orioles was a good start at beating the stronger teams, which they've struggled to do.
Astros are coming for ya'....Go Astros!!!!!!!!
Learn from 2012 Giants. Didn't had a good record in the beginning, but ended winning the WS
And they've now won 9 of the last 10 games. You just can't ever count this team out.
We catching our stride at the perfect time and Tucker still not back yet 💙🤘🏾🧡
Zombie astronauts. We back from the dead cuh.
And how about the Player Development Team.in AAA AA...man...Loper, King, Salazar, Aranhgetti...etc..Great Job
Abreu is the one that put the team in such a big hole to climb out of good riddance to him
and also the pitching
And that too but Bregman etc were all cold but now they’re starting to heat up. When we have most of our pitching back and all our guys healthy, watch out
You mean bagwell*
He should be banned from Minute Maid.
Hate bagwell, not abreu
Exactly
Went to the game last night, 7/9/24. The Astros are now only a game and a half away from first place. Go Astros!
The 3 inevitability's of our modern age: Death, Taxes, and the Houston Astros making the playoffs year after year. Go 'Stros.
Starting pitching is still a major concern. They’re scrapping their way through the season but there aren’t any reinforcements coming to help. As a Astros fan, I don’t believe this is sustainable….
Great observations on Kyle
Jose Abreu was the problem. Astros record this season with him on the roster was 17-28. Their record without him is 23-12.
Damn that's crazy, 1 guy shouldn't make a big difference in a team sport but somehow Abreu was horrible for this team.
@@bobbygetsbanned6049It also plays into the mentality of the other players on the roster. Knowing you have an auto out in the middle of lineup is devastating.
Do you think we should make any trades Pete Alonso would rake at Minute Maid park
@eliharris4270 If Pete Alonso or Vlad Jr is available they have to make a push. The Astros need a star 1st baseman.
Not all Abreu's fault. Bergman was hitting below the Mendoza line until June. He's hitting ~.350 since. Hunter Brown went from just awful to an ERA of 1.16. Blanco has been a gem.
Been saying this all season. Everyone was so quick to write them off. I compare them to the Chiefs. They might have a slow start and raise some questions about still being a championship contender, but come playoff time they will always be there. And if you want a chance to win it all, you have to go through them.
Me too. What's funny is, alot of the NFL fans can't stand the Chiefs either...just because they're proven winners
WE JUST CHOOSE TO TURN IT ON A LITTLE LATE BECAUSE IT IS SO FULLFILLING TO CRUSH YOUR HOPES AND DREAMS OF US NOT WINNING OUR DIVISION.
Haha. I knitted a sweater for an octopus. I made an extra hole for all its hopes and dreams.
Here for end of August and Astros are #1 in the division 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽
GM Dana Brown was hoping to cut the 10 game deficit in half by Aug 1. As of July 5, it’s down to 2 and reinforcements are coming…. Scary Hours.
Astros are on the heels (2 out) of the Mariners right now. After the break, they should get Tucker back, plus a couple pitchers including Verlander.
Everyone knew this day would come. That said they are DESPERATE for pitching.
I literally can’t count how many starters are on the IL.
I believe that the pitch clock is to blame.
A LOT of teams are experiencing an unusual number of pitchers out, and sadly with tommy john.
And Luis Garcia is starting his rehab in single A right now
Amazing video ❤️
The Astros are the way.
Pretty cool what the Stros are doing. Seems like a couple weeks ago they were 9 back of Seatle, and now, what, 3.5. But do they have the pitching to keep this going. Blanco, the most innings he's pitched was 120 last year. Is he gonna be gassed after the break. Brown, can he keep up this insane pitching. Probably not. Verlander is obviously iffy. Arighetti, his velo is improving, so that's a positive. Love to see em go out and get a pitcher that won't cost them an arm and a leg, someone like Quantrill. Enjoying it for now, but we'll see.
They are back !!!
This season reminds me a lot of 2005 when the Astros started off terrible and the Chronicle(newspaper) printed their tombstone when they were 15 or 16 games under .500. They then proceeded to play .900 baseball and were back to .500 around the allstar break from what I remember. They ended up going to the world series for the first time that year where they got swept.
Why would you say this? We get it, you know Astros baseball history. This is a different decade, different team, same name
@al1engreyassh0le4 Sports stats are usually a series of trends. Sure they are irrelevant but why not?
I'm in a much better mood going into July now.😁
don’t ever estimate my Astros.
As a lifelong Astros fan, this video pleases me.
Thank you for your blatant appeal to all of Houston to subscribe to your channel, good sir! I shall do so right now. ;)
[replying to myself with some longwinded rambling bc I didn't want to spam up my OP with it... sorry in advance for the tldr, tho... but JIC you care to read it, DD:]
Srsly, tho, some good objective points by you as well, not just unabashed Astros praise. This is my first video of yours, so I have no idea which team or teams you root for, but... it doesn't really matter, you've got a good style and tone. [I did just notice that behind you is a Toronto Blue Jays WS champs banner and you showed an Astros/Blue Jays clip from early in April this year, so I'm guessing that may have answered my question... I like the Blue Jays as well, I was rooting for both the Mariners and them to make it to the playoffs the past few years when both teams were so close but weren't getting in every year... keep on beating the Yankees, Blue Jays, that's the main thing!]
I don't know that the 2024 Astros start was THAT bad a start... well, okay, the parts where the Astros were in 4th or 5th place in the AL West was pretty damned bad, but they pretty quickly got to 3rd place behind Seattle and Texas. It started to turn around when they won both the games against the Colorado Rockies in Mexico City several weeks into the season. THAT was pretty badass.
And at that point, they were IMO no worse than the 15-30 start they had in the early 2000s which made the Houston Chronicle infamously put a giant tombstone on the front page of the entire paper or at least the sports section, one or the other (both?! por que no los dos?!? ;D) and yet made it to the ALCS or the WS that year (don't remember offhand which year that was, either 2004 or 2005, IOW).
So um... yeah, we've been here before. Astros kinda suck in Aprils and May. It's even happened more recently than the 2000s. At least once or twice before in the current AL dynasty 2017-present years, so.... Thank goodness (for us Houstonians, at least) that they can turn it on in June (usually).
Now it's just a marathon, not a sprint, to see what happens in the end. As I mentioned in an edited-to-add above, I do like Seattle a lot, too, so I'm glad we're chasing them right now instead of Texas! ;D
Damn didn’t even mention Christian Javier, Lance McCullers, Luis Garcia, JP France or Jose Urquidy being out. That’s a starting rotation on some teams in addition of JV being out
The head coach is not letting the pitchers pitch what they want best way they were losing at first
I don't know if they're letting the pitchers pitch what they want now, but you remember Dusty Baker he was letting the pitchers pitch what they wanted, but the area that Dusty Baker messed up on was when Dusty would take out the pitchers, and the other team didn't even get a run;
you don't do that! you take out the pitcher when the other team getting runs especially on the playoff game or more than that in the world series game and that's what Dusty Baker was doing that's why the Astros lost
Over .500 now look out!
Passed them Rangers Mariners are next 💯
Not enough credit goes to our scouts. We bring guys up and they mostly succeed. Some subtle call ups have really helped too.
AND NOW WE ARE #1 BABYYY!!!!!!!!!!!🧡💙🧡💙🧡💙🧡
Tucker has been injured and not playing most of the month. Did you do your homework?
What about Dubón?
All while Framber Valdez is our only healthy SP. Also, if Tuck played like himself in the postseason last year we would've won the World Series
Their record with and without Abreu is ridiculous
GO STROS!
Now they are .500! LETS GO STROS!
H- Town.... guess there not the laughing stock of the league anymore.. we're the new Evil Empire... remember... haters will hate
They do seem to have turned it around, but injuries are pilling up. If they can get healthy quickly then they can once again make a playoff run.
Nice job with the video
Astros getting warm!!! Just IN TIME
We need Tucker back bro!!! He is missed so much in the lineup.
Hunter brown has been cooking lately, so credit to him after a terrible start to the year
The Astros have spent almost the whole year with an entire starting pitching staff - Verlander, McCullers, Javier, Garcia, and Urquidy - on the injured list. They are back over .500, on an 11-2 win streak. Looks like MAMA (Make America Mad Again!).
The Astros Win a world Series every time a Hurricane Hits Houston: Thank You Beryl: October Baseball 2024 World Series Champions this year.
I love Jose abreu. But man as soon as we dropped him the team just seems completely different
The AL West is weak this season. Currently, the Astros are 46-44 (0.511). Yes, I believe the Mariners will not last in first place. However, I wouldn’t be expecting a World Series parade this season in Houston.
Guys, guys… Guys… Please always remember that baseball is not about who’s better. Believe me, I have seen better teams lose unexplainably to horrible teams and it makes no sense any way you look at it. It all boils down to who’s HOT. Right now, the Houston Astros are on fire, if they keep this synergy they can compete in the playoffs easily. Really in truly though, when it comes to the final 4 and the world series, the only team that’s ever going to win is who’s hot, who’s stealing bases, who’s getting hits to get off base, the teams that are actually making movements each inning and not staying stagnant and allow the other team opportunities to get points and fuel their detriment.
edit: the start of the season the Braves started out hot, now they slowed down and then the Phillies started to be hot, now they are starting to stagnate as well.