Speaker 1: Giants and Guardians from Cleveland and beautiful summertime weather eighty
Speaker 1: degrees humid as the Giants take on the Guardians. I'm
Speaker 1: John Miller with Today's Tony Vitello Show with the Skipper
Speaker 1: of the Giants and Tony for the Giants. It was
Speaker 1: not a good day on Sunday for the Giants. And
Speaker 1: I saw in the paper that you had a meeting
Speaker 1: with your squad about that.
Speaker 2: What can you tell us about that?
Speaker 3: Yeah, more just with the pictures, and I think they
Speaker 3: met again today while I was out on the field
Speaker 3: with the position guys doing our early work, and really
Speaker 3: it's pretty basic. It's all about attacking the zone. And
Speaker 3: I think we've been guilty of overthinking things out there.
Speaker 3: There's so much, you know, analytical information that's out there.
Speaker 3: You and I got our the opponent starting pitcher, Foster
Speaker 3: and Griffin the information and it's it's mind boggling how
Speaker 3: much is on the sheet. But when the game starts,
Speaker 3: I think you just got to compete and that starts
Speaker 3: with attacking the zone. And we got to call it
Speaker 3: the ABS zone too.
Speaker 2: This year. I mean, we're here.
Speaker 3: In Cleveland where they infamously lost to the Marlins in
Speaker 3: one game where the strike zone was bigger than.
Speaker 2: The ocean, and that just doesn't go on anymore.
Speaker 3: So I think hitters being more selective has been a theme,
Speaker 3: and we've gotten better at that as the year's gone on.
Speaker 3: But if anything, the strike throwing from the pitching staff
Speaker 3: has just kind of plateaued and it hasn't been sufficient.
Speaker 3: And hopefully that was an all time low. The other day,
Speaker 3: we had eleven walks and hit by pitch. That was
Speaker 3: pretty key in that game. Sometimes you call that cost
Speaker 3: of doing business, but both theme or both meetings, the
Speaker 3: theme was pretty simple.
Speaker 2: You have to attack the strike zone.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and eight of those runs for Colorado were runners
Speaker 1: who got on base free of charge in that game,
Speaker 1: So it reallysh just did not get away with anything.
Speaker 1: Now for a fin and there could be any number
Speaker 1: of things that a fan was looking at in that game,
Speaker 1: but there was a wild pitch that wasn't all that wild,
Speaker 1: ended every right behind the foot of Drew Cowen. He
Speaker 1: just didn't know where it was. He's kind of in
Speaker 1: a panic at that point. But the runner at third
Speaker 1: took off. So how did you read that play?
Speaker 2: What happened? What should have happened.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Well, I think Veen was pretty far off the bag.
Speaker 3: He's a plus runner and he kind of plays with a,
Speaker 3: you know, an interesting swagger about him. He's like three
Speaker 3: inches from the hitter when he's in the on deck circle,
Speaker 3: for instance, and he's got all kinds of other stuff
Speaker 3: going on, and you know, he took a chance, and
Speaker 3: if anything, you give him credit for having conviction to it.
Speaker 3: But if you were just gonna kind of do video review,
Speaker 3: the runner should not go there. The ball did not
Speaker 3: travel far enough from the catcher. But with the crowd
Speaker 3: noise and the swing moment in the game, I think
Speaker 3: we just got a little too caught up in the
Speaker 3: moment and it took longer than it should have to
Speaker 3: locate the baseball. And next thing, you know, it looked
Speaker 3: like a smart aggressive play as opposed to if we
Speaker 3: tag that runner out, it's a huge gift and we
Speaker 3: get out of that any it's a tie ball game.
Speaker 3: We have an extra app bat, you know, compared to
Speaker 3: what the Rockies have left, and you'd like to think
Speaker 3: we win the game, but who knows.
Speaker 2: But it was a big moment in the game the Giants.
Speaker 1: That was then and now it's Cleveland, and we'll talk
Speaker 1: about that when Today's Tony Vytello Show continues. Now more
Speaker 1: with Tony Vytello, Giants manager. And with all the injuries
Speaker 1: that's made life a little more difficult. What's the latest
Speaker 1: on Willy A Damas.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Willie's got a fully active day today.
Speaker 3: So when you go out there and you watch our
Speaker 3: team stretch and then do everything else that comes with pregame,
Speaker 3: you'll see Willy involved in that, and more than likely
Speaker 3: he'll be available to pinch hit tonight. He definitely, at
Speaker 3: a minimum, would be available to pinch hit tomorrow. And
Speaker 3: then you know, I don't like making false predictions, but
Speaker 3: I'd be surprised if he didn't get a start before
Speaker 3: we leave Cleveland.
Speaker 2: But at a minimum, it should be Boston for sure,
Speaker 2: all right.
Speaker 1: And then finally, a lot written the last couple of
Speaker 1: days and said about hug Boat Wilkinson, Yeah, and coming
Speaker 1: up with the Giants. He's a guy that the Giants
Speaker 1: acquired for Patrick Bailey or in that deal, whom the
Speaker 1: Giants will see this week. And tug Boat, I guess
Speaker 1: is here but not necessarily on the roster today.
Speaker 3: Yeah, just taxi today, not eating up a roster spot,
Speaker 3: if you want to call it that. And yeah, tug
Speaker 3: boats here, you said Wilkinson. The other day we had
Speaker 3: a meeting and someone used his full name, and I
Speaker 3: had no idea who we were talking about. You know,
Speaker 3: I've got a lot of I got to meet with
Speaker 3: him in here in the office for quite a bit.
Speaker 3: We got some history and saw him pitch when he
Speaker 3: was a freshman in college, and we know a lot
Speaker 3: of similar.
Speaker 2: People and it was a good catch up.
Speaker 3: He's a fun personality, but really where his personality shines
Speaker 3: is when he's got the ball in his hand. He's
Speaker 3: not scared. Gresh and I talked earlier today about when
Speaker 3: he pitched.
Speaker 2: Against Team USA.
Speaker 3: That lineup was filled with your Schwarbers and your everybody
Speaker 3: else's and he showed no fear in the three innings
Speaker 3: he threw against those guys. So at some point he'll
Speaker 3: get in the beat, get the ball in his hand,
Speaker 3: and hopefully he lets those positive traits he has shine.
Speaker 3: But it's good to have another new face here. It's
Speaker 3: been fun seeing all these young guys get their first
Speaker 3: call up and of course the memories that will come
Speaker 3: with it.
Speaker 1: Giants Guardians Game one of the series. The Guardians still
Speaker 1: very much alive in the Wild Wild American League. And
Speaker 1: that's the Tony Vtello Show for today.