Speaker 1: Giants Rangers. This road trip continues and actually concludes today.
Speaker 1: It's the final game of the series, last game of
Speaker 1: the trip. Dave Fleming alongside the Giants manager Tony Vittel.
Speaker 1: I know what the end result last night was disappointing.
Speaker 1: There were a lot of things you talked about after
Speaker 1: the game that were positives from last night. I wanted
Speaker 1: to ask you about Blade Tidwell because we saw him
Speaker 1: as a starter in the big leagues for the first
Speaker 1: time this year. Last night, I thought there were a
Speaker 1: lot of positives with him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, he gave you, you know what I would
Speaker 2: deem a quality start, and that's you know, at least
Speaker 2: get to the fifth inning or through the fifth inning,
Speaker 2: manage the game in such a way that we still
Speaker 2: have a good opportunity to win. And it wasn't off
Speaker 2: to a great start, but I think the fact he
Speaker 2: was challenged and able to kind of hold things together
Speaker 2: was reminiscent of Whizz's first two outings. Both of his
Speaker 2: were great, but they weren't without adversity, and I think
Speaker 2: that's where you really get to see a guy able
Speaker 2: to handle himself. A big out was two outs, guy
Speaker 2: gets a base hit, and then he goes three to
Speaker 2: one on the nine hole hitter. You got Jack Peterson
Speaker 2: standing there wait on deck and he was able to
Speaker 2: get strike too and then ultimately get out of that inning.
Speaker 2: We were talking in the dugout. That's just kind of
Speaker 2: a glimpse of what you have to be in order
Speaker 2: to be a winning starter is navigate through the lineup
Speaker 2: and also navigate through some situations to where stuff doesn't
Speaker 2: pile up on you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree with that. I was just talking with
Speaker 1: Blade before you and I are chatting, and he was
Speaker 1: telling me about his change up and aways tried to
Speaker 1: tinker with you know, he was experimenting sort of with
Speaker 1: a split change. Now he's back to his old grip,
Speaker 1: and I think that it will be a difference maker
Speaker 1: for him ultimately, because we saw Seger have some good swings,
Speaker 1: like another weapon against left handed hitters that could maybe
Speaker 1: put him over the top.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no doubt. And I mean some of the pitches
Speaker 2: Seeger smoked foul were pitches that you either have to
Speaker 2: take or you're probably going to hit a foul if
Speaker 2: you swing it. But at times there was also hard
Speaker 2: contact from him and Nemo where Blade kind of cut
Speaker 2: the ball into lefties a little bit. The more he
Speaker 2: can do to kind of keep pitches fading away, and
Speaker 2: then when he goes in it's in with intent or
Speaker 2: it's on purpose or part of the game plan. I
Speaker 2: think the more he opens up doors to be effective
Speaker 2: against those guys just as much as he is against righties.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, So since you mentioned wiz Carson, wizen Hunt
Speaker 1: gets the ball today, and every start for him is
Speaker 1: important as he tries to establish himself.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know, the last two haven't gone exactly
Speaker 2: the way that he wants, but he's had two big
Speaker 2: time starts for us this year, so I think this
Speaker 2: one will be interesting just to see kind of where
Speaker 2: is he at, and it can be kind of a
Speaker 2: punchback start for him where he goes out there with
Speaker 2: a little extra determination. And I think something too behind
Speaker 2: the scenes going on is just him not trying to
Speaker 2: do too much. I think the first two opportunities were
Speaker 2: one and done's and he kind of knew that. And
Speaker 2: you know, as advantageous as that is to go back
Speaker 2: and forth between here and Sack, it does make the
Speaker 2: outing kind of simple. It's like, hey, I get one
Speaker 2: crack at this, I'm gonna enjoy it. And then when
Speaker 2: you get to where you're probably gonna be in the
Speaker 2: rotation for a while, the mind can start to spin
Speaker 2: a little bit, and what do I have to do
Speaker 2: to lock this down and stay here and do this year?
Speaker 2: And really, I think, going back to his roots of
Speaker 2: his first outing in Atlanta, just here's my day, here's
Speaker 2: my opportunity. I'm going to attack it. I'm gonna be
Speaker 2: who I am and not try and do too much.
Speaker 2: And I think at the end of the day, if
Speaker 2: he does that, it'll be another quality start.
Speaker 1: Yeah, very interesting insights. So we'll watch Wizz and Hunt
Speaker 1: pitch today. We'll have more with the Giants manager right
Speaker 1: after this back here in Texas with Tony Vitello and
Speaker 1: we wrap up this road trip. It's nice to see
Speaker 1: Bryce Eldridge back in there. I know he's been fighting
Speaker 1: it and it's not just been even the last couple
Speaker 1: of days. It's been lingering for a while. He had
Speaker 1: a great at vat last night.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean we talked in the Hitters meeting earlier
Speaker 2: this morning about what a great job our guys did
Speaker 2: on LATS and it was three lefties in a row
Speaker 2: doing it against them and Bryce had the key hit
Speaker 2: and he did it in dramatic fashion coming off the bench.
Speaker 2: It was really our last crack at doing something, and
Speaker 2: it speaks to what type of mentality he has. I
Speaker 2: think he's got baseball toughness. I tease him, he never
Speaker 2: played basketball as tall as he is and he was
Speaker 2: not a foot that's you know, banging helmets around and
Speaker 2: that type of intensity or toughness. But I think he
Speaker 2: has true baseball toughness. And that's one of many moments
Speaker 2: where it kind of shine through. And then no matter
Speaker 2: how tough you are, when you're using your hands to
Speaker 2: hit and your hands are you know, you know one
Speaker 2: of your hands is banged up, you're not gonna be
Speaker 2: at your best. So hopefully a little bit of a
Speaker 2: refresher the last couple of days and he's back to
Speaker 2: being who he is.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And you know, one thing about the reality of
Speaker 1: this roster right now, with so many guys heard and
Speaker 1: a couple guys traded away, is it feels like you
Speaker 1: are gonna use your bench a lot more now going forward.
Speaker 1: We saw it last night. You were pushing a lot
Speaker 1: of buttons during the game.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I think the one thing we take confidence in
Speaker 2: today is the bench is probably gonna be active. Sussak
Speaker 2: is a great weapon against left handed pitching. I know
Speaker 2: he's carried the load the last two days, but I
Speaker 2: think he's fresh enough he can help us. Gilbert, you
Speaker 2: hate not having him in the lineup. He simply needs
Speaker 2: to prove he can do what he did last night,
Speaker 2: be good against left handed pitching. But we can put
Speaker 2: him in for a lot of different reasons today. And
Speaker 2: then Costs is such a weapon, you know, defensively, and
Speaker 2: I think he's starting to figure out third base. It
Speaker 2: is so different timing wise over there. He said yesterday
Speaker 2: was the best he's felt he can help us with
Speaker 2: a bunch hit and run run off the bench. So
Speaker 2: I think it'll be another active day for us, and
Speaker 2: I think we're excited about what we can do if
Speaker 2: this is a tight game, which I'm kind of expecting
Speaker 2: it will be.
Speaker 1: And as a final thought, maybe Basabe'll just keep hitting
Speaker 1: a home run every day.
Speaker 2: I'm all for it. I'm all for it. And you know,
Speaker 2: I think with where he's at today, it's interesting. You
Speaker 2: always want to protect Devers a little bit, and I
Speaker 2: think right now Basabi's such a wild card for the opponent.
Speaker 2: You got to kind of pick your poison a little
Speaker 2: bit there. But more than anything, it's good to have
Speaker 2: his smile, his energy, and his intensity in the lineup.
Speaker 2: I think it's it helps us because of what he
Speaker 2: can do. But he really does kind of have a
Speaker 2: almost kind of a unique or strange, infectious personality that
Speaker 2: kind of bleeds into the other guy's play a little
Speaker 2: bit too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, big time, really fun to watch him play these days.
Speaker 1: That's the Giants manager. Will get you ready for the
Speaker 1: game right after this