# Banged-Up Astros Limp Into Crucial Mariners Showdown Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/crush-city-territory-a-houston-astros-podcast-7134562/banged-up-astros-limp-into-crucial-mariners-showdown Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/crush-city-territory-a-houston-astros-podcast-7134562/banged-up-astros-limp-into-crucial-mariners-showdown.md Podcast: [Crush City Territory: A Houston Astros Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/crush-city-territory-a-houston-astros-podcast-7134562) Published: 2026-05-11T02:38:36+00:00 Episode link: https://omny.fm/shows/crush-city-territory-a-houston-astros-podcast/banged-up-astros-limp-into-crucial-mariners-showdown Audio file: https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/arttrk.com/p/2D5E6/mgln.ai/e/1246/clrtpod.com/m/podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/551b08a3-28fb-475b-9864-b33100f0b3ea/f06d6d40-a462-484f-bd62-b44700290092/audio.mp3?utm_source=Podcast&in_playlist=1cb46f5d-4f7d-435c-a5a8-b33100f0b3fe Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/crush-city-territory-a-houston-astros-podcast-7134562/episodes/banged-up-astros-limp-into-crucial-mariners-showdown Duration seconds: 2492 ## Resource Playing without all of Carlos Correa, Yainer Diaz and Jeremy Peña caught up to the Astros, who scored one run in their final 18 innings of a series loss in Cincinnati to fall nine games below. 500. The defending AL West Champion Seattle Mariners come to town on Monday. Tyler Stafford and The Athletic's Chandler Rome preview the series and discuss what can be done to mask the offense's absences before weighing in on a controversial decision made by manager Joe Espada. Buy two months of BlueChew Gold and get the third for FREE with promo code FOUL at  BlueChew.com Use code FOUL for 10% off at https://www.royalretros.com/discount/FOUL?aff=82 for vintage-inspired sports apparel celebrating classic teams, leagues and eras, including the Houston Colt .45s  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/crush-city-territory-a-houston-astros-podcast-7134562/episodes/banged-up-astros-limp-into-crucial-mariners-showdown/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/crush-city-territory-a-houston-astros-podcast-7134562/banged-up-astros-limp-into-crucial-mariners-showdown.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.