The Astros beat the New York Mets 3-1 on Opening Day, led by a solid pitching performance by Framber Valdez. Rookie phenom Cam Smith also got his first hit on the first pitch he saw. Payne and Pendergast react to it here.
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00:00Hey, what's happening everybody? And I know it's rainy outside, but if it feels, it feels
00:05sunny on the inside here. If it feels, if you could cut the electricity with a knife,
00:09it's because the Astros are undefeated. They're one and all got a, yeah, we've got a sun lamp
00:14on us. A metaphorical sun lamp. Astro fever, man. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That was a, and it
00:20ended up being exactly what you would want in an opening day. You don't want it to be
00:25boring. It's just go out, you know, Hey, you win by three runs. That can be kind of
00:30boring sometimes. I'd rather, I'd rather have my two best relievers come really, really,
00:38really close to just dashing it all against the rocks. Yeah. Each put three guys on base
00:45is Brian Bray. You in the eighth walks three guys gets out of it. And then Josh put Josh
00:51a showman about it. Nope, no outs. We're just gonna, we're just, and, and made the
00:59actual score closer by giving up a run. Yeah. But then struck out Juan Soto to end the game.
01:06How are you doing this morning? My friend, you feel good. I'm good. I feel good. I feel
01:10good. I've got my circle of trust already. After one game, everybody knows that in baseball,
01:14you should make the sweeping judgments after one performance. Anybody who claims otherwise
01:20is a fraud. And, uh, the there's a, now this will, it won't be a comp, a conclusive circle
01:27of trust. Um, but I gotta tell you right now, hater, not in it, not in it, not in it. No,
01:32I don't need to hear about Taylor Scott warming up for an hour and a half to bail out your
01:37set up guy and your reliever and your closer. Yeah, man. Yeah. That was a little nerve wracking.
01:42I'm going to mention, I was surprised. Framboise was coming out for the seventh inning. Thank
01:47God he did. Yeah. Thank God he did. Yup. Yup. Framboise was, I guess if we're going, and
01:52by the way, welcome in everybody three to one, the Astros win yesterday. Maybe you were,
01:56didn't get a chance to watch it. Didn't see the final score three to one. They win. So
02:00they're wanting to know Hunter Brown going tonight. So that'll be good. Uh, as we alluded
02:04to there, uh, Josh Hader and Brian Abreu, you both walking a tight rope, but in the
02:09strikes out the highest paid athlete in North American sports to end the game. So that was
02:15good. It would have been incredibly annoying for multiple reasons. If, if Soto had won
02:19that game for us in that spot, it would have been as much as, as much as ESPN doesn't really
02:27cover baseball as much as they used to. It still would have been all over. Cause that's,
02:31that's a big moment by Juan Soto. Oh yeah. And the hater, a hater robbed them of that
02:35potential big motor punched him out. And it looked like early in that at bat that
02:38hater was just going to pitch around him. And then I guess just try to pitch to Pete
02:43Alonzo instead, who was on deck, um, because he went to two and over three and oh, I can't
02:48remember, but he, I know the first two pitches were well out of the zone. I'm like, Oh God,
02:52this you're Josh Hader, man. Don't nibble. Come at, I don't care that it's Juan Soto
02:56come after this guy. I was okay with the strategy. They were kind of hedging. He just, he nibbled
03:01and then, and then worked his way back to a full count and then he just went for it.
03:06All's well that ends well, I guess. But yeah. So, um, so Framboise I think was the big story
03:10there. And Framboise was a little shaky early on. You know, I know, I know seven shutout
03:15inning, so he didn't give up any runs anywhere along the way, but, but he was, you know,
03:18the, the pitch count got a little up in the first inning. The, the outs were hard hit,
03:22you know, yet the, the very first out of the season was a gold glove style line drive catch
03:27by Jeremy Pena, where he climbed the ladder big time to go up and get that.
03:31It's the new MLB logo. I took about seven different screen caps of that catch. I mean,
03:38that was a, that was a hell of a catch. Oh no, Sean, when he's at the apex and it looks,
03:44it looks like he's nine feet in the air. I mean it real well, realistically, I mean,
03:49he's probably 10, his hands probably 10 feet in the air. He probably could have dunked
03:52at that moment. And, uh, it was, that was an impressive catch. He made a couple of good
03:57plays in the first. No, he did. He did. I mean, Pena did nothing to quell my enthusiasm
04:05vibe. Nobody offensively was, was a killer yesterday. They, they got done what they needed
04:10to get done. It was good to see, you know, Christian Walker, Christian Walker hit the
04:13ball hard yesterday. That was hard. Yeah. They were hard outs. Um, okay. So the very
04:20first out of the season was Jeremy Pena climbing the ladder. The last out of the first inning
04:24was Jose Altuve on a play that if you're watching on the TV copy, you're like, Oh God,
04:30Oh God, these two are going to, these two are going to plow into each other. And it
04:34turns out that Altuve just Kelly leaks the thing and cuts in front of Jake Myers. He
04:40did exactly what we described that the Myers might have to be doing is just jumping in
04:45front of everybody, running all over the place, being a bad team player because he has to
04:49make every catch in that moment where Altuve. And I think if you're an Astros fan, you watch
04:53the game, you know, the exact plan I'm talking about the last out of the first inning where
04:56there's clearly very little communication on the part of Jose Altuve as to what was
05:01going to happen on that Myers was Myers was trying to call him off. Yeah. Um, did that
05:06make you in the moment more nervous, less nervous or to you, is it, Hey, it's just one
05:11play when it comes to Altuve and left field.
05:13I think it's one play and it's not one that you haven't seen from veteran outfielders
05:19at times in the fact that he made the catch. And now if he had, if he had botched the catch
05:24and taken away, what would have been an easy catch for Myers then? Yeah. If there had been
05:29a collision, sure. Then it obviously the outcome makes it a lot easier, but I'm just trying
05:35to look at Altuve as like a young George Springer or even an older German judge was George and
05:40Marwan that collided and out in the outfield. Right. Was it not the Marwan was glaring George.
05:48I'll tell you the, the, the, the collision that I remember that might be more relevant
05:53to this one because it was a, with a left fielder and an infielder was when I can't
05:57remember it was last year, the year before it was early on when Jordan was kind of taking
06:02over some of the reins in left field and Jeremy Pena bounced off of your Don Alvarez on a
06:08fly ball to left field. Like that defensive back bounced off of Andre Johnson back in
06:13the day against the Cardinals. Like it was, yeah, that, that was, that was the one that
06:17was the one that I was thinking of in the, in, in the moment. But I'm with you. I look
06:21Altuve is going to get better at this stuff. You know, he, he went on to, to command Jeremy
06:27Pena off of a pop fly to short left field late in the game to charge. So that was good
06:31to see. Good to see just communication in general, right? And, and Cam Smith had a near
06:37catch in, in right field that could have ended up being a double, but it was not an error.
06:43It would have been a nice catch if he had made it. He had just, he was sliding and would
06:47have caught it at his hip on the ground. I, you know, I think there's a good chance Kyle
06:52Tucker would have just caught that on the bounce, at least the way he's been playing
06:55the last couple of years where it looked like he was making business decisions so that it
06:59wasn't an error. It would have been a nice catch if he had made it. You know, I think
07:03maybe midway through the season, he makes that catch, but so far you can see the potential
07:08for some issues defensively in the corner outfields over the first few weeks, but they'll,
07:13they'll get better.
07:14I promise you this, Sean, Jose Altuve will be a better outfielder three weeks from now
07:19than, than he is right this moment. It's a safe promise. I don't think you're going out
07:26Smith was a big story yesterday on the broadcast. They multiple flashes over to his family.
07:32He had 30 people in the stands yesterday. He showed up at the ballpark yesterday, Seth.
07:36I like this moment of self-awareness. Did you see this? He showed up at the ballpark
07:40with it looked like we look to be three dozen boxes of three dozen, three boxes, three Shipley
07:48donuts boxes, dozen boxes of Shipley donuts.
07:52I like the self-awareness on two fronts. One bringing donuts in for your teammates
07:57as the rookie in the clubhouse, especially after a big deal was made of you making the
08:01team the day before. And number two, that he went to a local institution in Shipley's
08:06to get the donuts.
08:07Well, it was a, and it was a little bit more than that. It wasn't like he did it just like
08:11off the top of his head. It was requested. It's as close as it comes to hazing these
08:14days. And, but he had to, he had to seek out an open Shipley because the first one he went
08:21to was in an office building. He probably just looked at his Google maps or something.
08:25And so he had to go, he had to go find a second location where he could get the Shipley's
08:30boy. Sounds like heavy lifting, finding an open Shipley's. Well, no, it is kind of tricky.
08:36Some of them do it. Some of them aren't open all the time, either in an office building
08:39or there are some strip mall locations that aren't open in the afternoon or in the evening.
08:44Okay. Okay. I mean, the game was at three, so I'm guessing he's going like middle of
08:47the morning to go get them sometime.
08:49But the first one he went to was closed, right? So he had to go. So he did, he showed
08:54at the very least he had a margin of error there. So he had some extra time to do it.
08:58He wasn't on a wild goose chase. Someone is the easy grade. I thought I was the easy grader
09:02on the show. You're giving him points. Shipley's Houston at 10 o'clock in the morning. He went
09:09to it. Well, do you show the reserve your criticism for Shipley itself? The one that's
09:14in an office building, they don't must only be open for breakfast. That is a, that is
09:17a thing. Like sometimes when you don't know where something is and you go to your map
09:20and it says, Oh, here's a Shipley. That happens with Chick-fil-A in malls a lot. Like, Oh
09:25no, here's a Chick-fil-A. You're like, no, you drive there. You go, no, this is the,
09:29this is the Baybrook mall. And there's a Chick-fil-A in the food court. This isn't a Chick-fil-A,
09:34you know? Like, yeah. Plus, uh, I think it was Desenzo. Is it Desenzo? One of the other
09:39young guys got Krispy Kreme, which you see now that would be a bigger, that that'd be
09:43a huge faux pas in my opinion, right? Yeah. You got to get Shipley. If you're in Houston,
09:48you got to pander to both your teammates and Houstonians. When you do, he was, uh, Cam
09:53Smith said it was the first time ever that he was too nervous to eat before the game.
09:57So he had to force himself to eat, but he did a good thing, which is he reminded himself,
10:01this is something that they do a good job of teaching the young, the athletes this these
10:04days, the butterflies are a good thing. You got to reframe it. All it means is that you're,
10:09you care and you're ready. So yeah, you learn to eagerly anticipate the butterflies instead
10:14of, instead of letting them overcome you. So he, he handled that very well. And he went
10:19out and just in a season where they're trying to tell everybody to be just exercise, more
10:24judgment and discipline at the plate. He swung at the first damn pitch. That's right. Get
10:29it going, man. I'm glad you, you know what? And he got the first hit out of his system.
10:33We don't have to sit here. He didn't go over three or over four and we're waiting on the
10:36first, first pitch, first hit, get it out of the way. I love that part about yesterday
10:41for sure.
10:42And we're going to do this every show. Kyle Tucker in a game in which the Cubs scored
10:5110 runs last night, Kyle Tucker went one for five with an RBI. So he's got to be hitting
10:56what a hundred on the season. He's two for 13 on the season so far, whatever that is
11:01under a hundred. No, no, no. He's over a hundred. He's like, he's like, he's like a buck 50
11:05or something like that.
11:06Oh, that's disgusting. He was one 50 entering the day. So he's probably at one 25 or something.
11:10Yeah. So two for 13 is yeah. What a, what a loser. Yeah. Oh my God. How did, how did
11:15Alex Bregman do? Oh, for four with a strikeout, the two or a combined two for 17 right now
11:21on the season for anybody wondering, trying to be Joe baseball, they, he did have a batting
11:27average and Kyle Tucker did have a batting average entering the day because they'd already
11:31played two games against.
11:32Yeah. He was one for eight on the season. So he was one 25 entering the game and now
11:35he's like one 50 something. Yeah. And I apologize. He's a, yeah, he's one, he's hitting one 54.
11:41Yeah. Yeah. He's crushing it. So there you go. And we will continue to, if he was one
11:46for five, he betted 200 yesterday. So I lifted it. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. He was one 25 in my
11:51math together. Damn it. Yeah, man. Yep. All right. A seven, one, three, five, seven, two,
11:55four, six, 10 Astros are wanting to know opening day when that was good to see yesterday for
12:00Amber Valdez, really good to see seven shutout innings and I'm back at it tonight. Hunter
12:04Brown on the Hill tonight for the, for the shrews.