Speaker 1: Hey buddy, it's around the park with crookerd Kype, And
Speaker 1: today we're going to talk about pitching a defense and
Speaker 1: we're going to do that when we come back. Hey buddy,
Speaker 1: it's around the park with Crook and Kuype. And this
Speaker 1: is game three of this three game series with the
Speaker 1: Giants of the Tigers, and it's the rubber match and
Speaker 1: it should be a well pitched game today. But that's
Speaker 1: not what I want to talk about, okay. But yesterday
Speaker 1: during the pregame ceremony, when the Giants honored Buster Posey
Speaker 1: and Pablo Sandoval and Brandon Belt and Brandon Crawford and
Speaker 1: Joe Panic and enshrined them forever in the Hall of Fame,
Speaker 1: it really got me thinking about what those championship teams
Speaker 1: were all about twenty ten, twelve, and fourteen. They were
Speaker 1: about pitching, and they were about defense. They were about smart,
Speaker 1: they were about instinct, and you know, we hear it
Speaker 1: all the time, but they were an absolute true example
Speaker 1: of high IQ baseball players on the base pass, on
Speaker 1: the on the defensive side. And I thought that Friday
Speaker 1: night this series, the Giants played one of their best
Speaker 1: defensive games of the year. I guesst a very good
Speaker 1: Detroit team and they won that game because of their defense.
Speaker 1: Yesterday they played one of their poorest defensive games of
Speaker 1: the year and they lost the game. But in seeing
Speaker 1: the five that we honored, it just reaffirmed how important
Speaker 1: defense is.
Speaker 2: You Know what I really found interesting and I was
Speaker 2: super happy about, is the fact that for the last
Speaker 2: thirty some years in the broadcast booth, I've had to
Speaker 2: sit next to a pitcher. I was so happy that
Speaker 2: they were all infielders on the field yesterday, and if
Speaker 2: you just kind of took a quick look at who
Speaker 2: was on the field, you thought, well, that's how they won.
Speaker 2: They won with those five guys. Pitchers had nothing to
Speaker 2: do with it. And the bottom line is is it
Speaker 2: going to be more buller opposite? It was really all
Speaker 2: about the pitching with a little bit of a different
Speaker 2: group every year, but then they're really solid guys that
Speaker 2: were there every year, and of course the bullpen. But
Speaker 2: the one thing that was a staple definitely was the defense.
Speaker 2: And you're right there could have been Mark Glere an
Speaker 2: example of how you win and lose games. The game
Speaker 2: on Friday and then the game yesterday. After that one inning,
Speaker 2: I left I don't want to see it anymore because
Speaker 2: it's this place had such a great vibe that I
Speaker 2: just didn't want to see any more of the mistakes.
Speaker 2: I mean, thrown to the wrong base overrunning fly balls.
Speaker 2: He was like, oh man, they're killing our fans. But
Speaker 2: thank goodness for that great group that was on the
Speaker 2: field before the game, because it was almost as if
Speaker 2: the current guys yesterday playing defense got to pass well.
Speaker 1: And you know, the point you make about the defense
Speaker 1: is better than the pitch, and the pitching is better
Speaker 1: the defense, well, the whole part about it good defense
Speaker 1: is that a pitching staff will trust that defense and
Speaker 1: they have no fear of putting the ball in play
Speaker 1: because the first thing that happens when you have a
Speaker 1: team that isn't a good defensive team, you get in
Speaker 1: the strikeout mode early because you don't think the play
Speaker 1: is going to get made. And when you get in
Speaker 1: the strikeout mode, that's not the place to It's not
Speaker 1: a good place to be. You're showing your best pitches
Speaker 1: early in the count, you're falling behind. You know, it,
Speaker 1: just it's not good. And the trust that the Giants
Speaker 1: had with their defense and their pitching staff during The
Speaker 1: tenure of all those great players in the three championships
Speaker 1: was the trust that they had in one another. And
Speaker 1: now you see it as they're all retired and they
Speaker 1: get around one another, and you see the admiration because
Speaker 1: as those five guys were there yesterday, I mean, you
Speaker 1: had pitchers who were there in the audience, you had
Speaker 1: a felt, you had Javio Lopez, you had Sergio Romo,
Speaker 1: and the hugs that they gave those five guys after
Speaker 1: the ceremony was over were from the deep part of
Speaker 1: their soul and that was a beautiful thing to watch.
Speaker 2: I asked Belt if he was the best athlete of
Speaker 2: the five. He laughed and said he was. Well, you
Speaker 2: know who the best athlete of the five was? Who
Speaker 2: Pablo Sandebal
Speaker 1: And I agree, and that's around the park with Kruk
Speaker 1: and Kai enjoyed this great game.