Speaker 1: Giants Tigers the finale in a great day out here,
Speaker 1: Temperatures will be right around seventy maybe a little bit
Speaker 1: above at game time and logan web on the mound
Speaker 1: is the Giants the chance to take this series from
Speaker 1: the high flying Tigers who have come in here red hot.
Speaker 1: I'm John Miller of Today's Tony Vytello Show, and Tony,
Speaker 1: before we talk about today's game. Yesterday a ball was
Speaker 1: lost in the sun in center field and Drew Gilbert
Speaker 1: going for it, and then all of a sudden it
Speaker 1: appeared he just couldn't see it, and that ended up
Speaker 1: being a big play in that game. He didn't have
Speaker 1: his sunglasses on, so and I know the sun was
Speaker 1: kind of in and out sometimes behind the cloud sometimes.
Speaker 1: Tell us about that play and the background on that play.
Speaker 2: Yeah, if you were at to backtrack, the first out
Speaker 2: of the game was a fly ball to Jung who
Speaker 2: and he makes some things look easy. But I turned
Speaker 2: to the pitching coaches and asked, do you think you
Speaker 2: guys could have caught that fly ball? Because it probably
Speaker 2: appeared routine if you just saw the catch, But the
Speaker 2: lead up to it was the ball was dancing all
Speaker 2: over the place and The reason I bring that one
Speaker 2: up is the nature of playing outfield here is an
Speaker 2: extreme challenge. It's a uniquely shaped park, the wind is
Speaker 2: always swirling, and then the sun can be an issue too,
Speaker 2: especially when you play a four o'clock star time. That's
Speaker 2: kind of unique. It's going to change things as well.
Speaker 2: So that's kind of the baseline is you got to
Speaker 2: be good here, and you've got to be well prepared,
Speaker 2: and you got to grind it out and then too
Speaker 2: a mistake or two, I hate to say it, or
Speaker 2: probably inevitable, you got to have a short term memory
Speaker 2: and you got to forget it and you got to
Speaker 2: move it on. And no one wore that mistake worse
Speaker 2: than Drew Gilbert, to the point Gary Pettis went up
Speaker 2: to him and just said, hey, you got to have
Speaker 2: your head up and you got to move on, because
Speaker 2: he knows he you don't want to let your pitcher
Speaker 2: down at any time, especially when we're dying for these
Speaker 2: guys to throw strikes. It was a well struck ball.
Speaker 2: He did have to break back on it the sun
Speaker 2: was in and out. But I think the drilling down
Speaker 2: the sunglasses thing was a discomfort with the pair that
Speaker 2: he had. Sometimes he had him on, sometimes he didn't,
Speaker 2: and he didn't feel good seeing the ball with those on.
Speaker 2: So he makes an adjustment with Gary today on some sunglasses.
Speaker 2: But the bottom line is your room for air out
Speaker 2: there small. So again, you've got to be prepared, and
Speaker 2: part of being prepared is dealing with the sun one
Speaker 2: way or another. And you know how much it changed
Speaker 2: the game score wiser, who wins, I don't know, but
Speaker 2: it made the game look sloppier than it needed to be.
Speaker 2: So it's a mistake you don't want to repeat.
Speaker 1: And of course, I mean the Giants never did score,
Speaker 1: and it only had two hits for the whole game,
Speaker 1: so maybe they just weren't going to win that game
Speaker 1: one way or the other. Now, FP Santangelo in the
Speaker 1: booth with me yesterday brought up back in the day,
Speaker 1: and I grew up watching guys with these. They had
Speaker 1: to flip down glasses that could be even attached to
Speaker 1: the bill of your cap, and you could not wear
Speaker 1: them or the ball got hit and you thought, well,
Speaker 1: I'm going to need him to keep track of this ball.
Speaker 1: Then you can flip them down. But those are kind
Speaker 1: of now just part of baseball in.
Speaker 2: History yeah, I think Ryan Samberg was, you know, maybe
Speaker 2: it was just my experience kind of the most famous
Speaker 2: version of that. He always had them on and as
Speaker 2: a second baseman you rarely have to look up. But
Speaker 2: with all those day games at Wrigley he played before
Speaker 2: they had lights, he would be quick to flip those down.
Speaker 2: But for me as an outfielder, I think you air
Speaker 2: on the side of the sun's ever going to be
Speaker 2: an issue. Having those things on is best preserved. Those
Speaker 2: things do still exist. You don't see him as often,
Speaker 2: but we've had you know, it was an opponent. I
Speaker 2: remember in spring training the guy's got him on, but
Speaker 2: he didn't flip them down, and the sun became an
Speaker 2: issue on a flyball to right field. So, no matter
Speaker 2: how it is, how you do your pregame stuff. Washington,
Speaker 2: I just had a conversation with the infielders on the
Speaker 2: need to do something in particular out there during pregame.
Speaker 2: You got to protect your career and then ultimately when
Speaker 2: the game starts, you got to protect your teammates and
Speaker 2: do whatever you got to do, whether it's a equipment,
Speaker 2: you know, gear to make sure you follow a ball
Speaker 2: off your shin, you stay healthy, You got to put
Speaker 2: yourself in a position to be healthy and to help
Speaker 2: the team.
Speaker 1: So the Giants and the Tigers today Logan web By
Speaker 1: the Man. We'll talk about that a little bit when
Speaker 1: Today's Tony Bicello Show continues now more twenty three hour
Speaker 1: with the Skipper of the Giants, Tony Bicello. And I
Speaker 1: know Bryce Eldridge. He's had some issues with his thumb.
Speaker 1: How is he.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's good health wise. I think he's in the
Speaker 2: midst of for the first time in his career. He's
Speaker 2: hitting at the top of the order. He's being asked
Speaker 2: to do a lot. There's a lot of information now
Speaker 2: on him on how to attack him. He's officially a
Speaker 2: big leaguer and it's tough business, and it becomes a
Speaker 2: mental game too, is how do you come to the
Speaker 2: park every day? In One of his strengths is his mentality.
Speaker 2: You've seen little blips on the radar screen where he's
Speaker 2: not true to that confident, positive self that is so
Speaker 2: awesome to be around. And it's because you have to
Speaker 2: deal with failure. You take b meetings or punches, whatever
Speaker 2: you want to call it. And I think he's got
Speaker 2: to realize that he's had as much success as any
Speaker 2: hitter we've had this year, and stay confident and stay
Speaker 2: the course as these repetitions start building up, because it's
Speaker 2: a tough game.
Speaker 1: So here we go, Giants Tigers, the rubber match of
Speaker 1: the series, and that's the Tony Vitello Show for today.