Speaker 1: Giants Guardians the finale. Good morning to you. I'm John
Speaker 1: Miller with Giants manager Tony Bicello and Tony last night.
Speaker 1: What a game that was for the Giants and Vici
Speaker 1: barr Koco kind of took over an inning. There so
Speaker 1: many people contributed, but he's the one who knocked in
Speaker 1: the run with the two out of head and then
Speaker 1: he saved a couple of runs with a diving catch
Speaker 1: in the same inning.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a tremendous effort out of him and
Speaker 2: just a great game. Afterwards, I was kind of going
Speaker 2: back to the locker room and my first instinct was like,
Speaker 2: what a fun game. But then I thought about it
Speaker 2: and I was like, that wasn't fun at all. It
Speaker 2: was every moment was stressful, and that inning defines it.
Speaker 3: He barely makes a catch.
Speaker 2: He got a stressful ending going on with two guys on,
Speaker 2: but inches make the difference, and he made a great
Speaker 2: diving catch and then same thing.
Speaker 3: It wasn't a ball he hammered.
Speaker 2: It was, you know, just well enough hit into the
Speaker 2: sixth hole that it got us one run and that
Speaker 2: ends up being the difference in a you know, tightly
Speaker 2: contested game.
Speaker 1: I from upstairs. On the catch that he made off
Speaker 1: the bat, I thought, well, that's a hit. Then I
Speaker 1: was desponding out there, and then all of a sudden
Speaker 1: he makes the cag How did it look from where
Speaker 1: you were?
Speaker 2: The first reaction was dang it, because it would have
Speaker 2: taken a sports center play out of a sabby, but
Speaker 2: we could have been out of the inning. You know,
Speaker 2: a ground ball gets hit with two outs and you think,
Speaker 2: man howser's cruising, and next thing you know, it's back
Speaker 2: to back hits and here comes, you know, another good swing.
Speaker 2: And the first reaction for me was the same thing
Speaker 2: was damn it. You know, here's at least a run
Speaker 2: and this inning is going to continue on. Next thing
Speaker 2: you know, he goes flying into the air and making
Speaker 2: a catch similar to what he made it Oracle, And
Speaker 2: then there was one at Oracle.
Speaker 3: He went a little bit towards the line.
Speaker 2: He seems to have done very well throwing the baseball
Speaker 2: and making that play coming in.
Speaker 3: I think, like all of our outfielders, if we can.
Speaker 2: Get these guys more reps and more comfortable around the
Speaker 2: outfield wall, they can take a step further in their development.
Speaker 3: But right now it's just fun to have.
Speaker 2: Vic out there every other day, every couple of days
Speaker 2: and see him grown.
Speaker 1: The game ends up with Dylan Smith comeing in and
Speaker 1: he inherits a runner and immediately throws a wild pitch and.
Speaker 3: I'm like, oh my god, here we go.
Speaker 1: I did. But then he gave one of the great
Speaker 1: performances late in the game of two innings, say five strikeout,
Speaker 1: and he struck out the side with that runner a
Speaker 1: second in the eighth inning.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that was a true save situation. And
Speaker 2: I guess at some point we'll like name a closer.
Speaker 2: That's a little foreign to me.
Speaker 3: I don't you know.
Speaker 2: I don't see why you've got to put yourself in
Speaker 2: a box. You do do definitely have a If you
Speaker 2: had a preference, you want a guy that is consistently
Speaker 2: your ninth inning guy, you know. But for him, there's
Speaker 2: some flexibility, And we saw the eighth inning as a
Speaker 2: potential save opportunity, and it became that when he threw
Speaker 2: the ball in the dirt, he throws.
Speaker 3: Every pitch with conviction. And you know, he's young.
Speaker 2: Sometimes it's wilder or it's in the dirt, but you know,
Speaker 2: leaving that running runner strand at second was awesome, and
Speaker 2: then just a total body of work.
Speaker 3: Look at it.
Speaker 2: Any saving the big leagues is difficult to get. A
Speaker 2: two inning save is incredibly difficult. On the road is
Speaker 2: even more. And then just a one run gap. So
Speaker 2: you put it all into one, it's about as difficult
Speaker 2: as you can.
Speaker 1: Get, right, Giants, Guardians. We'll talk about today's game, the
Speaker 1: rubber match of this series when we continue now more
Speaker 1: twenty three hour with the skipper of the Giants, Tony Icannel,
Speaker 1: and today Landon Roope shakes the hill and he's up
Speaker 1: against a very strong right hand and one of the
Speaker 1: best for the Guardians, Gavin Williams. What can you tell
Speaker 1: us about Williams?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean Gavin's Parker Massek and Gavin are there
Speaker 2: are two guys they've.
Speaker 3: Had all year long that are there guys.
Speaker 2: And you know, talking with Stephen Boat, he's going to
Speaker 2: be given a long lease. So it really becomes kind
Speaker 2: of what our season has been, how well do we
Speaker 2: do against the starter? And Cleveland's bullpen is so good,
Speaker 2: so you know you've got ninety to one hundred pitches
Speaker 2: in front of you to compete against this guy. We
Speaker 2: really need to make our mark and our lineup is
Speaker 2: he's been very neutral, consistent, consistently good against righty's and lefties.
Speaker 2: But we've got a lot of lefties in the lineup,
Speaker 2: so that's kind of the game within the game is
Speaker 2: how can our left handers do against Williams, who's got
Speaker 2: a pretty good arsenal. Like I said, against righty's and lefties.
Speaker 1: In the lineup today, one of those lefties, Turner Hill,
Speaker 1: we could kind of pinch it double the other night.
Speaker 1: He's got a big rooting section here, maybe more in
Speaker 1: the stands for this series than even in San Francisco,
Speaker 1: where he had forty tickets left.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it was a lot more than forty
Speaker 3: the other night. And we'll be today here.
Speaker 2: You know, Mariette is a couple hours from here, but
Speaker 2: from this area, and it's good to consistently kind of
Speaker 2: keep those guys rotating. I think we'll be able to
Speaker 2: keep our outfielders fresh from here on out.
Speaker 3: We got a lot of game, especially when you're.
Speaker 2: Throwing that extra braves game, but also try and go
Speaker 2: for favorable matchups or at the very least put guys
Speaker 2: in a position to succeed. And you know, today he's
Speaker 2: in a good spot to show his family and friends
Speaker 2: what he can do.
Speaker 1: Williadmas back? Is he fully healthy from that?
Speaker 3: That back problem is you know, if.
Speaker 1: You look pretty good at the plane.
Speaker 3: No, he did. He swung it well.
Speaker 2: I think part of that is being fresh of mind
Speaker 2: and fresh of body. But I think we'd be overextending
Speaker 2: ourselves if we said he was one hundred percent or
Speaker 2: even close to that. If you ask him, he's just
Speaker 2: gonna say I'm good. But I tried to watch pretty closely,
Speaker 2: and he made an incredible play going up the middle.
Speaker 2: He had a base stolen, it ended up being strike three,
Speaker 2: and he had the hits.
Speaker 3: So he's moving quick.
Speaker 2: He's playing well. But I do think it's something that
Speaker 2: we'll try and keep a close eye on and something
Speaker 2: that we'll try and pry the honesty out of him
Speaker 2: on how he feels. But I think he's playing out there,
Speaker 2: grinding through probably some discomfort.
Speaker 1: Giants, Guardians, the finale, the rubber match, and that's the
Speaker 1: Tony Bicello Show for today.