Astros Order Torpedo Bats And They Need Them

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The Astros' offense continues to struggle. Now, they're ordering the torpedo bats. It definitely seems like they could use them. Payne and Pendergast react here.

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00:00They have 12 runs in six games well runs 12 runs in six games. Yeah, yeah, yeah, well good job Astros

00:06Yeah, give give them

00:11You guys suck yeah, what the hell this is honestly honestly honestly

00:16Honestly, what the hell honestly? What the hell Sean yesterday? I'm watching the game with my wife

00:22Mm-hmm, so it's the it's the only romantic thing that we do these days

00:26and

00:28Sucks

00:31That's not putting anybody in the mood for anything

00:33Well, I got it's like I take her out for Valentine's Day to to go take the recycling or something. Yeah

00:40So this is the thing here's the thing top of the seventh

00:45Do we get to get to the end of the top of the seventh and I say Brandy?

00:49I'm gonna go out and do a quick circuit out in the weight room had to check off an item on my list

00:53Yeah, yeah

00:53I got usually it's like a three or four minute circuit

00:56And I'll come back in and I'll watch the Astros with this comeback

00:59So I go out and I'm not really paying attention come back in and the Astros are pitching

01:07Yeah, she was pissed it was not romantic at all this is not a prelude to sex I'll tell you that much

01:13No, thanks a lot

01:15Yeah that you guys are like you guys are like, you know what you're like baseball salt Peter, you know, it's just yeah

01:21Yeah, just you just don't you make everything limp you're ready to go, okay

01:27Jordan walks. Yeah

01:29Then Christian why then Walker? Yeah inner pain. Yeah, I would it take like 90 seconds

01:34It was guys to get retired, dude

01:35You and I were texting about this yesterday and I said the biggest thing I'm I'm not angry about them losing games cuz it's 162

01:42Game season they started out Owen for they're gonna win games. Eventually. I'm mad because

01:48They they look

01:50So on plate there, you know

01:52There it's one pitch pop outs from guys who are supposed to be working counts like Christian Walker. It's a three pitch strikeouts

02:00Well, you know, it's just it's it's not even it's not even one of these things are like man

02:05They're just the gods the gods aren't on their side right now. They're hitting the ball hard

02:08They're getting guys on base there were last year's that they were leaving a bunch of guys on base

02:12They're barely getting guys on base this year and even yesterday

02:16Even yesterday when they the runs they scored the three runs

02:20They scored a bloop single by Zach DiZenzo drives in the first run

02:25So the you know a hit probability that was I mean, I didn't have a torpedo bat. Yeah

02:31Can of corn for the center fielder there the best thing the Astros had going for him yesterday was no no torpedo soft contact

02:38Yes

02:38Yeah

02:39And then and then the the inning where they scored their their two runs to make it five to three at the time

02:45They had the Giants botched a pop-up in the infield with Altuve

02:50Jordan Alvarez hard hit ball granted, but it wasn't it was an error. It should have been fielded

02:56Correcting that at least they ruled it ahead. Okay. I mean he did hit it hard

03:00So there's like a hundred and twenty miles per hour off the batter

03:02Yeah, probably was so but but but beyond that let's let's pretend that that was okay

03:08So great Jordan got a hit it first and third they score two runs

03:11First and third with nobody out and it's five to three and the inning ends five to three

03:16It's just it's yeah, man. It's uh, it's not fun right now

03:20It's in Framboise Framboise credit to him for reeling it in. He had a horrible horrible horrible first two innings

03:26I was trying to figure out ways that a torpedo bat might help him

03:32It will run 22 games

03:34Multiple regular regular season multiple home runs. Yeah. Sorry. Did I say hits?

03:40Yeah, okay. Yeah. Yeah, obviously that's dumb. Yeah, I'm losing dings all over the place so

03:46First time he's allowed multiple home runs in 22 consecutive regular season games since that game where he went rogue

03:55Yeah, I

03:56Actually made it made more

03:58I felt better about it when he went rogue because at least he admitted to it immediately afterwards

04:02Where is this one? He's just he left some hanging out over the plate

04:05Yeah, he didn't he didn't go off script and say hey, I'm gonna hang these out over the plate. No, no

04:12So anybody but he he got it together. Yeah, it's just that it's obvious not with this offense

04:18No the way they're hitting five nothing the game's over with this offense read three nothing the game's over with this offense right now

04:23So they head to Minnesota. Maybe a road trip is exactly what they need. They've got their order of torpedo bats

04:29It's gonna be showing up at some point in the next in the next week or so

04:33It was the report from the Chronicle

04:35Was that the Astros are getting on the torpedo bat train here and they've placed an order and it's gonna be here

04:42Waiting for them when they get back for their homestand next Friday, and I'm like, um, you know

04:47The games in between now and then count. Can we not ship this? Is there you can't ship it to Minnesota?

04:52You can't ship these back Jim Crane founded a logistics company. We can't find a way to get 50 torpedo bats to

04:59field up in Minnesota

05:01Look they're not mass-producing these things for the but that's problem with wooden bats or wood bats. Is that the there's only one

05:11Market baseball. Yeah, so it's not like they can just ramp up production at a massive factory in Topeka or something

05:17Yeah, I guess don't they customize them to a specific batter. I have no idea

05:21I think the wood I think I thought I remember reading that maybe I'm wrong

05:25But it's kind of customized for where that particular bad sweet spot is or where he hits it most frequently

05:31So they it's not it's not it's not the shipping. That's the issue

05:35Okay, actual production of the that was my first reaction like what we're not paying for overnight on this thing

05:40These games count these games matter. All right, so that's the Astros

05:44They are two and four right now and thank God they're in the AL West if they were in the NL West with the Dodgers

05:49This season the Dodgers and the Padres are eight. No and seven to know this year

05:53You imagine being a Rockies fan like it's it's it's April 3rd

05:57Your season's over like it's you're done you're five and a half games back and it's not even it's the NCAA tournament

06:04Is it even over yet in basketball and you're five and a half games back in your division?

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