Speaker 1: All right back here at Fenway Park, it's time for
Speaker 1: the postgame rap. It's a two man postgame rap this afternoon,
Speaker 1: and Hobby, what can you say? You know, the Giants
Speaker 1: are playing short, they're banged up, a couple more guys
Speaker 1: hurt today, and then you come in here against a terrific,
Speaker 1: terrific Red Sox team who are hot. And you know,
Speaker 1: you play inspired baseball, you grind, you know, you lose
Speaker 1: a couple one run games, but right now, it's just
Speaker 1: really hard for the Giants to go up against a
Speaker 1: team the caliber of the Red Sox in this ballpark.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're limited, And I think when you look at
Speaker 2: what's going on right now, you look at the opportunity
Speaker 2: that a lot of these young guys are going to have,
Speaker 2: and I think, you know, if you go big picture
Speaker 2: in a sense, you could see what the Giants did
Speaker 2: last year bringing up Ryce Eldridge and getting him some
Speaker 2: opportunities in September and what that turned into for this year.
Speaker 2: So you hope some of this will bear fruit going
Speaker 2: into twenty twenty seven and maybe even towards the end
Speaker 2: of next month, where some of these guys are starting
Speaker 2: to get some footing up here and getting into some
Speaker 2: experiences that they haven't had before because so much of
Speaker 2: the minor leagues is so scripted. So now that you
Speaker 2: get up here, you're able to kind of just play
Speaker 2: the game and try to figure it out. And I think,
Speaker 2: you know, again, they fought, they showed resilience last night.
Speaker 2: They snatched it, you know, de feet from the jaws
Speaker 2: of victory, and you thought maybe they would land a
Speaker 2: little flat this afternoon. But I thought there was an
Speaker 2: inspired effort and they played really well and everyone contributed. Again. Unfortunately,
Speaker 2: you lose a Damis and you're losing some other guys.
Speaker 2: Barakoto another one that you hope the injuries aren't as
Speaker 2: serious as they might have looked.
Speaker 1: And two, I mean, so many strange things have happened
Speaker 1: with the Giants this year. They've lost a lot of
Speaker 1: games in strange different ways. But even today, Hobby, you
Speaker 1: think about the play that was overturned in the ball
Speaker 1: and left field where Bear could have leaped up, look
Speaker 1: like he caught it, but then they challenged it and
Speaker 1: it just skimmed the wall, it looked like, so they
Speaker 1: changed the car. They overturn the call it turns out
Speaker 1: to be instead of the third out, it's an RBI
Speaker 1: double and then that extends the inning and the Red
Speaker 1: Sox score two more times. It turns out to be
Speaker 1: a three run inning. So you're talking a couple inches
Speaker 1: right in the difference between three runs in the game.
Speaker 1: It's little things like that that just have not gone
Speaker 1: the Giants way this year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's well said when you look at
Speaker 2: what some of the things have transpired, even in this
Speaker 2: road trip. Again, there's a couple moments here and there,
Speaker 2: or there might be a couple of ground balls that
Speaker 2: aren't turned for double plays, or you only get one
Speaker 2: of the two and that ends up spiraling a little
Speaker 2: bit and add on runs. And it's the big leagues
Speaker 2: and there's no excuses to be made here, but cleaner
Speaker 2: baseball needs to be played, better, pitching needs to happen,
Speaker 2: more timely hits. And I think again, as you go
Speaker 2: through this and the more experience that some of these
Speaker 2: young guys get, they're going to understand what's asked to
Speaker 2: them and try to execute. And that doesn't make it
Speaker 2: easy because it is the big leagues. But I think
Speaker 2: when you look back at this, you face the best
Speaker 2: bullpen the league, and you put up a little bit
Speaker 2: of a fight and you're facing the quality pitching staff,
Speaker 2: and the way the Giants stayed in the game was
Speaker 2: to not give free opportunities. They had one walk. I mean,
Speaker 2: they made the Red Sox earn their way. But again,
Speaker 2: that's what happens when you're facing a team that has
Speaker 2: an awful lot of confidence, is playing for something.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you mentioned that bullpen, and you know, two
Speaker 1: more innings today for the Red Sox Guerrero and Chapman.
Speaker 1: My guys throw one hundred miles an hour coming in
Speaker 1: and it turns out eight innings pitched in this series
Speaker 1: by that bullpen and no runs, no runs a lot,
Speaker 1: which really doesn't surprise us. I mean, that's maybe the
Speaker 1: backbone of their team, right, and think about the postseason.
Speaker 1: That's a big deal, right, If your bullpen is really good,
Speaker 1: that can carry you a long ways.
Speaker 2: In the postseason.
Speaker 1: They got a nice mix for a team.
Speaker 2: We've seen it. We've seen it be very successful as
Speaker 2: of late in the postseasons. You can when you can
Speaker 2: shrink a ball game and take the pressure off these
Speaker 2: starters to maybe go you know, honestly, you've seen it
Speaker 2: where you can script it where Hey, you're out there
Speaker 2: for fourteen outs and then we're going to bring in
Speaker 2: and the bullpen will eat up the rest. You've stretched
Speaker 2: it out. Now you've got four lefties that they can chat,
Speaker 2: Tracy can choose from down there. I mean, you don't
Speaker 2: see that very often, and then you back it up
Speaker 2: with four righties. Everyone has a different look, but the
Speaker 2: main overarching theme is it's just velocity and power down
Speaker 2: there that the giants are missing with what we have
Speaker 2: right now in the bullpen.
Speaker 1: All right, let's take a break. When we come back,
Speaker 1: we'll have our Player of the Game picks, Hobby and
Speaker 1: I so stick around. All right, Hobby, it's time for
Speaker 1: our player Picks of the game. You want to go first,
Speaker 1: you want me to go?
Speaker 2: I think you should go first. You can have a
Speaker 2: couple of picks.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, I'm gonna go with Bryce Eldridge
Speaker 1: two for four today, a couple of hits, a couple
Speaker 1: of hard hits, hard hit balls against a left hander,
Speaker 1: which he doesn't seem overwhelmed by left handed pitching, which
Speaker 1: is a big deal for a twenty one year old kid.
Speaker 1: Picked up another RBI. I thought he had a really
Speaker 1: good series. Maybe the swing is starting to come back
Speaker 1: a little bit, but such a great kid, easy to
Speaker 1: pull forward, but a couple of hits today. I like
Speaker 1: the approach a little bit, So he's my pick.
Speaker 2: I think that's a great pick. And you could even
Speaker 2: stretch that into last night where he's up with the
Speaker 2: bases loaded and he hits a line drive his second base.
Speaker 2: You're he's coming up in big spots, and you're right,
Speaker 2: the moment isn't too big for him, and I think
Speaker 2: again for a twenty one year old, that would be
Speaker 2: he's younger now than the guys that were drafting. It's
Speaker 2: it's pretty exciting when you can look at that, and again,
Speaker 2: it's just more reps for him, more opportunities to have,
Speaker 2: and I think it was a great choice. Left on left,
Speaker 2: he's showing that he's not just a platoon guy won't
Speaker 2: and that's really what you want from a big power hitter.
Speaker 1: All right, who's your guy?
Speaker 2: I'm great choice and I'm gonna pick Jonah Cox just
Speaker 2: because he needs to get a smile on his face.
Speaker 2: He's a more talented, more dynamic player than what he's showing.
Speaker 2: And I know it's been a rough go for him.
Speaker 2: He's been striking out and awful lot, almost fifty five
Speaker 2: percent of his at bats, if not more. At this point,
Speaker 2: he's striking out a lot, but to be able to
Speaker 2: get a home run and he didn't even know that's
Speaker 2: how much it got to him. But he got that
Speaker 2: home run with the base hit up the middle. It's
Speaker 2: a guy that I would like to see more of,
Speaker 2: just to see what you have in I think the
Speaker 2: defense we all know is fantastic, and he hits so
Speaker 2: well in minor leagues. You can't just assume that he
Speaker 2: totally forgot how to hit. But teams are attacking him
Speaker 2: with velocity and it's time for him to just kind
Speaker 2: of make the adjustments. And I thought today he took
Speaker 2: a step forward in that way. All right.
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Speaker 1: the difference in this game. Giants had him early on
Speaker 1: the ropes. They got a couple of runs off him,
Speaker 1: and then Cox hits a home run. He's down three nothing,
Speaker 1: but he settled in He kind of figured, hey, my
Speaker 1: offense is going to get going at some point. And
Speaker 1: when it was all said and done, after throwing twenty
Speaker 1: three pitches in the first inning, he goes seven innings,
Speaker 1: gives up three earned runs, strikes out six, and really
Speaker 1: only eighty four pitches. So he just settled in after
Speaker 1: that long first inning, and I thought he will the
Speaker 1: difference in the game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a fantastic outing for him. The Giants
Speaker 2: pushed him early in that first thing. You thought you
Speaker 2: were going to be able to kind of get him
Speaker 2: to wobble a little bit. He didn't come off a
Speaker 2: great start in Pittsburgh, so it wasn't like he was
Speaker 2: riding with a lot of confidence. But the quick inning
Speaker 2: after quick inning after quick inning, you get your guys
Speaker 2: back in the dugout, and that offense just kept the
Speaker 2: Giants on defense. It was there pushing them. They kept
Speaker 2: leaning on and getting the leadoff runner on that. Ultimately,
Speaker 2: he just fell into a nice groove. And you know,
Speaker 2: for all that being said, he pitched around the little
Speaker 2: league home run, got a big strikeout of Raffie Devers,
Speaker 2: and you know, kudos to him. And again it goes
Speaker 2: back to that bullpen. Yet again able to just kind
Speaker 2: of shut it down, all.
Speaker 1: Right, Typer. What's on deck? Sponsored by your California four dealers.
Speaker 1: The Cincinnati Reds come to town, a team that made
Speaker 1: the postseason last year. Disappointing season this year. Still a
Speaker 1: lot of young talent. And for the Giants, we're going
Speaker 1: to see Adrian Hauser back in the rotation on Tuesday.
Speaker 1: So wizen Hunt Monday, Howser Tuesday, roup Wednesday. So another
Speaker 1: opportunity for a young guy and and howserback in there
Speaker 1: on Tuesday.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, Howser's earned it, right, He's gone fifteen scoreless
Speaker 2: and he's been throwing the ball extremely well out of
Speaker 2: the bullpen and being the bulk guy. And I know
Speaker 2: he wants to be this, be the guy in the rotation.
Speaker 2: That's why he signed that two year deal because he
Speaker 2: wants to be a starter. But ultimately, for wizen Hunt,
Speaker 2: gotta start building, gotta start. How am I going to
Speaker 2: protect my change up? How am I gonna steal strikes
Speaker 2: with something else? Because my change up is so elite
Speaker 2: and I'm interested to see the next progression for him.
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Speaker 1: once again. Final score five to four, Red Sox over
Speaker 1: the Giants. Will have the game highlights when we come
Speaker 1: back to Fenway.