Speaker 1: Okay, postgame rap time after a win that I bet
Speaker 1: you a lot of people did not expect was coming.
Speaker 1: When when all the moves got announced today and we
Speaker 1: saw more of the veteran, established, every day Giants players
Speaker 1: go on the injured list and there's so many of
Speaker 1: them now. Bryce Eldridge goes on the bereavement list, and
Speaker 1: these guys get called up, some of whom Giants fans
Speaker 1: don't know anything about. And then you got Chase Burns
Speaker 1: on the other side for the Reds, who's been one
Speaker 1: of the very best pitchers.
Speaker 2: In the game.
Speaker 1: I bet you most people weren't thinking that this was
Speaker 1: going to be a five nothing Giants win.
Speaker 3: This is a first place team. If they had this
Speaker 3: line up from the beginning of the.
Speaker 4: Year, you know, I'll tell you what happened to that
Speaker 4: I thought was really impressive. The Giants defense was spectacular,
Speaker 4: and I think that they complimented the effort of the
Speaker 4: pitching staff in a way that the pitching staff tonight
Speaker 4: they were hitting their they were hitting their spots. Would
Speaker 4: you have a pitcher that's hitting their spots. A good
Speaker 4: defense can anticipate the location because they see were the
Speaker 4: catcher's setting up and when they know that you're throwing
Speaker 4: a certain side of the plate a certain speed, they're
Speaker 4: going to have a cheat step.
Speaker 2: It's a lean.
Speaker 4: Sometimes it's not even a very big not even a
Speaker 4: step at all, but it's a lean. And I thought
Speaker 4: that the outfield tonight was spectacular. Their jumps were spot on.
Speaker 4: I thought that we saw a really nice game from
Speaker 4: Christian Coast at short stop, complimenting location. And it's such
Speaker 4: a valuable thing when you think back to the Giants
Speaker 4: teams when they were making their runs, they complimented their defense,
Speaker 4: complemented their pitching staff, and tonight's game was that way.
Speaker 4: And look at the result. I mean, one of their
Speaker 4: best defensive games of the year.
Speaker 2: I enjoy that.
Speaker 3: And you can do that without making any spectacular plays true,
Speaker 3: and that's what they did.
Speaker 1: And I think in a lot of ways, that's when
Speaker 1: a manager, a GM, a front office is a value
Speaker 1: any young guys coming up, I think that's often the
Speaker 1: kind of stuff they're looking for. It doesn't have to
Speaker 1: be this spectacular stuff, doesn't have to be a big
Speaker 1: home run or a heroic moment.
Speaker 2: Late in the game. It's like, can you play the
Speaker 2: game fundamentally?
Speaker 1: Can we be a guy that can you be a
Speaker 1: guy that we can trust in the late game situations
Speaker 1: with a game on the line, just to make the
Speaker 1: right decision to stay calm on the field.
Speaker 2: And I think those are big.
Speaker 1: Things that these guys have to prove when they get here.
Speaker 4: Well, these two guys in the outfield with Turner Hill
Speaker 4: and left and Gilbert and center and McCrae and right field,
Speaker 4: they were incredible.
Speaker 1: Turner Hill is a pretty good little ballplayer. I think
Speaker 1: he is. He does a lot of things well. I'm
Speaker 1: impressed by him so far.
Speaker 5: He hit a ground ball in the eighth and eighty
Speaker 5: second and I thought that's the first time he's put
Speaker 5: a ball in play that he didn't crush. I mean,
Speaker 5: he's just been in shots. He hit a ball off
Speaker 5: the bricks over the three sixty five side early on
Speaker 5: that knocked in the second run of the game, and
Speaker 5: we're kind of getting used to see him hit balls
Speaker 5: like that. So it's kind of cool because he got
Speaker 5: up here right away, looked like he was not overawed
Speaker 5: by being in the big leagues. He seemed to handle
Speaker 5: the adrenaline and all the things you look for from
Speaker 5: a guy getting here for the first time, and he
Speaker 5: got here on a high right. He was at the
Speaker 5: most confident level. He could be hitting three fifty two
Speaker 5: when he got here. He knows he can play here.
Speaker 4: He made a play on Stevenson's ball to left field,
Speaker 4: and earlier in the game when he comes over, he's
Speaker 4: playing left field, left handed player. He comes over to
Speaker 4: the ball, cuts it off and he does a three
Speaker 4: sixty to get in position to throw back the ball
Speaker 4: to second base. On that play, when guy's three sixty,
Speaker 4: their circle can get big, big steps, slow release gives
Speaker 4: more more time to the runner to get to second base,
Speaker 4: very compact steps to get into a real short circle
Speaker 4: and got himself in position to throw second base. It
Speaker 4: was beautiful playing and he held into a single. Those
Speaker 4: were little things that take away ninety feet. And this
Speaker 4: is a game to night where we were seeing the
Speaker 4: Giants give ninety feet. They were taking ninety feet. They
Speaker 4: were exciting game.
Speaker 5: I love them. When you're talking inside baseball like.
Speaker 3: That, the game inside the game, I get nine innings
Speaker 3: of it.
Speaker 2: WHOA how lucky are you? Wow?
Speaker 5: Well, don't get used to it.
Speaker 2: I know it was. It was a really fun game.
Speaker 3: How about the first four hitters for the Giants are
Speaker 3: six for seven in the first two innings.
Speaker 1: Crazy Chase Burns had never given up four straight hits
Speaker 1: in his whole career until the first four hitters of
Speaker 1: the game tonight.
Speaker 5: Boom boom, boom, boom.
Speaker 2: They were rockets. They were all rockets.
Speaker 1: Somehow the Giants walked out of that any It was
Speaker 1: a great start to the game, thinking the should add more.
Speaker 5: It's awesome.
Speaker 2: Love that was.
Speaker 1: That was pretty cool. All right, we'll pick players right
Speaker 1: after this. Okay, let's pick players of the game. Mike,
Speaker 1: you get to go first tonight.
Speaker 4: All righty, well, I'm going to take Ryan Walker. Everybody
Speaker 4: in the Giants kingdom knows the trials and tribulations that
Speaker 4: he has endured this year, and he had two clean
Speaker 4: innings today.
Speaker 5: And you know, he.
Speaker 4: Pitched through an unfortunate situation in his first inning when
Speaker 4: there could have been a play that could have been
Speaker 4: made and it wasn't made, but he pitched through it,
Speaker 4: left two guys stranded, and then he throws another inning.
Speaker 4: He was great what we saw him when his mechanical
Speaker 4: problems were so inconsistent, and really, you know, we saw
Speaker 4: some misses from him that were literally four and five
Speaker 4: feet away from an intended target. He did not overthrow
Speaker 4: the ball. I think guys can get so eaten up
Speaker 4: here with velocity that they overthrow and they lose their
Speaker 4: release point. I think it happened to him because tonight
Speaker 4: he wasn't overthrowing the ball, but he was painting ninety
Speaker 4: five with deception and in movement, and he was fantastic.
Speaker 4: And I think that he really made a stride in
Speaker 4: correcting himself down in the Sacramento. That will take him forward,
Speaker 4: and you know he'll look back on this time perhaps
Speaker 4: and maybe the turning point in his career. But I'm
Speaker 4: taking Walker. We root hard for him. He's a good
Speaker 4: guy and I thought he pitched well tonight and did
Speaker 4: not overthrow, showed a few.
Speaker 1: Of those old four singers, which we don't see from
Speaker 1: him all that often.
Speaker 2: I think that could be a good thing for him.
Speaker 5: Excellent point, Ye.
Speaker 2: Good pick, Good pick, Mike.
Speaker 3: I'm going to take Gilbert because I thought he set
Speaker 3: everything up with the first bat of the of the
Speaker 3: game for the Giants, set the tone. The longest double
Speaker 3: of the season for any player in the major leagues
Speaker 3: is yes, literallyty four feet and then he came up
Speaker 3: with the shortest double in the Major League his next
Speaker 3: time up.
Speaker 2: So Gilbert take there's a lot of skills.
Speaker 4: Forty eight feet for the second hit, and the contact
Speaker 4: did not.
Speaker 2: Make a noise, But he'll take it that.
Speaker 3: I'm taking him.
Speaker 5: That's a good way to hit a double, only you know,
Speaker 5: one hundred and forty eight feet and then it hits
Speaker 5: the ground and abruptly makes a ninety degree turn left.
Speaker 5: I haven't seen any of those.
Speaker 3: Hard to do, but he pulled it off.
Speaker 2: Good pick, smooth.
Speaker 1: There are I mean, there are lots of guys to
Speaker 1: pick tonight, but I'll take Devers just because Devers is
Speaker 1: getting picked.
Speaker 2: On right now.
Speaker 1: You's seeing so much left handed pitching and it's almost
Speaker 1: like I don't care what right hand or you throw.
Speaker 1: It could be Chase Burns or Mizzerowski or whoever, if
Speaker 1: it's a right hand or Devers is feeling good at
Speaker 1: the plate, and man, he crushed those two balls in
Speaker 1: the early part of the game.
Speaker 6: He did crush those. That home run swing was awesome.
Speaker 6: So I'm going Devers. Good pick, pick, good pick, all right,
Speaker 6: Dave very good. So well, I'm going to go then with.
Speaker 5: Jason Foley because he's he came in and he is
Speaker 5: the guy that wasn't in the game, all of a
Speaker 5: sudden he's in so and he's usually going to be
Speaker 5: in there the six, seven, eighth, ninth inning. So and
Speaker 5: then he had this string of right handed hitters and
Speaker 5: he had a couple of runners on base. So when
Speaker 5: he got in and the third place hitter up, so
Speaker 5: he struck him out, and struck the next two guys
Speaker 5: out of the next inning and retired everybody. So and
Speaker 5: so he kind of took a a handle on the
Speaker 5: situation where the Reds could have a couple of bassts,
Speaker 5: They might have had a couple of runs have been
Speaker 5: back in the game. So I'm going with Jason Foley.
Speaker 4: That's a good pick. He did something night I'd never
Speaker 4: seen before. He came out of the bullpen in that
Speaker 4: mode where the starting pitcher was injured, so you get
Speaker 4: all the time you want to get ready. He took
Speaker 4: six minutes stretch and doing his calisthenics on the infield,
Speaker 4: and for thirty one thousand people looked like Jack Lane
Speaker 4: Kype was throwing ice cubes at him.
Speaker 3: I was like, oh man, that hurts, But when you
Speaker 3: think about it, that's what he does in the bullpen
Speaker 3: before he throws, So he just did it on the field.
Speaker 5: I thought was pretty cool. He did his routine. I
Speaker 5: know that you've talked in the past many times we've
Speaker 5: seen guys all of a sudden they coming again the
Speaker 5: stony pitcher got hurt and they weren't expecting to be
Speaker 5: in and they couldn't handle it. They were not prepared.
Speaker 5: They weren't mentally prepared, much less physically prepared. And so
Speaker 5: he I don't know, he's a veteran, but and I
Speaker 5: don't know that he was prepared to come into a
Speaker 5: game at any time for any reason in the third inning,
Speaker 5: but he made it work. So I think he showed
Speaker 5: a lot. Know what he did.
Speaker 4: I'm glad you brought him up. I've had to do that.
Speaker 4: It's tough because you feel the pressure. People want you
Speaker 4: to go. Come on, let's go eight, let's go. And
Speaker 4: he took his time, got a strikeout at any of
Speaker 4: the third He was good, good three strikeouts.
Speaker 1: Now we know the whole key to doing that is
Speaker 1: just do your old stretching routine out on the field
Speaker 1: by the mountain exactly thinking he couldn't have done better.
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Speaker 1: it's going to be a similar kind of lineup with
Speaker 1: all these it's right now for these young Giants players,
Speaker 1: even the ones who aren't big prospects, it's a great
Speaker 1: opportunity to make a good impression and put yourself in
Speaker 1: the plans of this team that's looking for performance right now.
Speaker 4: So Joey Moffatana we had as a manager and with
Speaker 4: the Cubs when I was there and he was a
Speaker 4: third base coach, and Joey always was very short to
Speaker 4: the point he'd make a point and I'll never forget.
Speaker 4: Somebody was on the bench saying, you know, but they
Speaker 4: don't know what the pressure of being a young guy
Speaker 4: coming here trying to find a comfort zone. I mean,
Speaker 4: it's pressure there. And Joey looked at him and said,
Speaker 4: what do you think it's like in the playoffs? So
Speaker 4: deal with it. This is your opportunity to do something
Speaker 4: with it. Greatest advice ever was tough love, and these
Speaker 4: guys have that opportunity.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a good point, well, said Joey. He was good.
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