Speaker 1: John Miller, F P. Santangelo back here at Oracle Park.
Speaker 1: What an excellent ceremony before the game as five giants greats,
Speaker 1: Brandon Bell, Brandon Crawford, Joe Panic, Pablo Sonoval, an entire
Speaker 1: infield's worth, a lot of World Series rings in that
Speaker 1: group and the catcher, Buster Posey, and they were all
Speaker 1: celebrated before the game, and it was a lot of
Speaker 1: great memories and some laughs and maybe even a tier
Speaker 1: or two because those were great guys, great teams and
Speaker 1: some of the best ever seen as a group, as
Speaker 1: a team with three World Series championships in a five
Speaker 1: year period.
Speaker 2: I thought it was great for Buster Posey to hear
Speaker 2: the fans cheering for him again today and to be
Speaker 2: around his old teammates. You know, it's been tough sledding
Speaker 2: around here lately, and you know he's wearing it based
Speaker 2: on the season they're having, So it was kind of,
Speaker 2: I think good for him to be out up there
Speaker 2: and remember how much he's loved in the city and
Speaker 2: how many great things he's done for.
Speaker 3: This franchise and to be back with his old teammates.
Speaker 3: That was pretty cool, indeed.
Speaker 1: So that was before the game, and then the game itself.
Speaker 4: It was sort of the.
Speaker 1: Maybe there were some days like that in twenty ten,
Speaker 1: because I remember that was the year it seemed like
Speaker 1: the Padres all of a sudden they blossom does an
Speaker 1: outstanding team. They were in first place most of the year.
Speaker 1: At one point, the Giants were way behind him in
Speaker 1: the standings that year, and the Giants, even when they
Speaker 1: would win games, struggled to do it. They were forever
Speaker 1: getting the bases loaded and not scoring or maybe scoring
Speaker 1: a run on a wild pitch and then still winning
Speaker 1: the game. And it was always frustrating and Dwink hyper
Speaker 1: Finally with a win that they had that where they
Speaker 1: felt like they should have scored twelve runs and got
Speaker 1: three runs and one three to two, Kuiper said, I've
Speaker 1: got a new marketing slogan for the Giants, Giants Baseball,
Speaker 1: It's torture.
Speaker 4: So there were some.
Speaker 1: Bad games along the way and a lot of frustrations,
Speaker 1: and yet they won. And I think it was pointed
Speaker 1: out more than once today and maybe Buster when he
Speaker 1: talked about it, because I think Mike Kruco did ask
Speaker 1: him about winning that championship in twenty ten, which was
Speaker 1: his first year he was he had gotten his baptism
Speaker 1: in the big leagues the year before, but just briefly
Speaker 1: that he came up in May of that year, and
Speaker 1: he was a big reason that they were able to
Speaker 1: make it all the way and win the Pennant and
Speaker 1: then win the World Series. But and he was the
Speaker 1: first to bring up well, and we had, you know,
Speaker 1: Matt Caine and Tim Linskin and Madison Bumgarner, and so
Speaker 1: we had a lot of guys who knew what it
Speaker 1: took and they were always in a game with those
Speaker 1: guys on the mound.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And the one thing that Buster said today that
Speaker 2: resonated with me is they were fearless and that you
Speaker 2: can't play this game scared.
Speaker 3: And no truer words were ever spoken.
Speaker 2: Because if you play this game scared at this level
Speaker 2: against the greatest players in the world on a nightly basis,
Speaker 2: you're not going to succeed.
Speaker 3: It's going to eat you up.
Speaker 2: And the successful teams, the guys that stay here for
Speaker 2: a long time, the guys that have great careers, they're
Speaker 2: all fearless.
Speaker 1: So for the giants of twenty twenty six, and we
Speaker 1: saw a lot of them. You pointed out while we
Speaker 1: were watching the ceremonies, all these young guys, and then
Speaker 1: there are eight guys who made their major league debuts
Speaker 1: this year, and which also I couldn't help but think
Speaker 1: about that, because that group that won those World Series
Speaker 1: twenty twelve, twenty fourteen, if you go back two three
Speaker 1: years before that, when Matt Kane came up one year,
Speaker 1: Tim Linskin came up another year, and Pablo Sondoval came up,
Speaker 1: and the Giants had one year in there, well, they
Speaker 1: had what sixteen seventeen players made their major league debuts
Speaker 1: in the same year where they really sort of retooled
Speaker 1: and they rebuilt, and it was the genesis of those
Speaker 1: three World Series championships in the five years.
Speaker 3: They built their winning culture.
Speaker 2: And I think it was big for all the Giants players,
Speaker 2: even though it didn't translate in today's game, it was
Speaker 2: big for all the Giants players.
Speaker 3: They were all on the top step.
Speaker 2: Tony Voitelo was on the top step to realize what
Speaker 2: it means to be a San Francisco Giant, to learn
Speaker 2: the history of this organization, how great it's been. So
Speaker 2: like I said, it didn't translate today, but hopefully some
Speaker 2: of that resonated with those guys.
Speaker 3: And they know what it means to wear the orange
Speaker 3: and black.
Speaker 1: And there were games where the team did not do well,
Speaker 1: didn't play well even in twenty ten during that stretch,
Speaker 1: but more often than not they would rebound from that
Speaker 1: and play an excellent game the next day. So and
Speaker 1: now that you've got Logan Web on the mound tomorrow,
Speaker 1: so let's see if they can bring that little blast
Speaker 1: from the pass back and play a great one tomorrow
Speaker 1: and get some great pitching from Web. And if they do,
Speaker 1: if they can win it, they'll take this series from
Speaker 1: one of the hottest teams in the land right now.
Speaker 1: The Detroit Tigers are playing really well with outstanding young talent,
Speaker 1: and they may have the foundation here for being a
Speaker 1: contender and being a top team for many years to
Speaker 1: come with this group that they brought in here to
Speaker 1: Oracle Park.
Speaker 3: Logan Web complete game, shutout tomorrow. I'm calling it right.
Speaker 1: Now, Okay, put in a call, all right, So today,
Speaker 1: not so much to talk about eight to nothing, and
Speaker 1: we'll come back and pick some players after this.
Speaker 4: Do we have to say anything besides that? To DC
Speaker 4: back after this?
Speaker 1: John Miller at Pace and TAngelo back here at Oracle
Speaker 1: Park after a miserable game today, but the great pregame
Speaker 1: ceremonies will say that. And this is the segment now
Speaker 1: where we choose our players of the game. So FP,
Speaker 1: I'm giving you this golden opportunity to go for oh.
Speaker 2: I got the first pick today. All right, there's only
Speaker 2: two of them, so thank you. I'm gonna go Williadomas.
Speaker 2: He got one of the giants two hits. But we
Speaker 2: talked about it during the broadcast. He's changed his approach.
Speaker 2: He's working on things he wants to be better. The
Speaker 2: last couple of months of the season, he's doing the
Speaker 2: toe tap downs of the leg, kick the line, drive
Speaker 2: to the left field, and he made the old Marvus
Speaker 2: SkELL catch over his shoulder going into the left field,
Speaker 2: one of the better plays we've ever seen Willia Domas make.
Speaker 2: And he's made some really good plays. So that was
Speaker 2: a good play, a big play in the game. And
Speaker 2: I'll go with Willie today. There's not a lot left
Speaker 2: for you, but I'm gonna go with Willie.
Speaker 4: Oh.
Speaker 1: Now, that was a great play. There was a runner
Speaker 1: aboard and Jabier Bayez was on dak So and really
Speaker 1: it didn't look catchable. And how many times do you
Speaker 1: see a guy do what he did and then they
Speaker 1: lunge for the ball with their back to the infield
Speaker 1: and they can't get it or tips off the edge.
Speaker 4: Of their glove. But he somehow caught it and held it. Wow.
Speaker 1: Spectacular, So so many great things happened in those first
Speaker 1: five any but then all the walks. Tigers went ahead
Speaker 1: without ever getting a hit in the sixth inning on
Speaker 1: four walks, including the basis load to walk by Spencer Torkelsen,
Speaker 1: the Petaluma native.
Speaker 4: So I'm going with the local guys.
Speaker 1: Spencer Torklesen, Tiger's second leaning home run hitter who waited
Speaker 1: it out, got the walk, got the RBI, and that
Speaker 1: proved to be the game winning RBI of the game.
Speaker 3: Good fick.
Speaker 2: I'm going to pick for a Kipe and Kruk and
Speaker 2: say Belt, Crawford, Panic, Posey and Pablo.
Speaker 3: They're taking them all.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and we took them all many many times, for
Speaker 1: all those many years. So a good call for old
Speaker 1: times sake. Thanks for the memories, guys. All right, So
Speaker 1: what's on deck? And that's tomorrow sponsored by your California
Speaker 1: Ford Dealers. What's on deck? It's the Rubber Match of
Speaker 1: this three game series and Logan Webb, who's been pitching
Speaker 1: really well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, flush it, get them tomorrow, win a series. Let's go.
Speaker 4: That'll be tomorrow, the one to five start.
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Speaker 4: Tiger's over.
Speaker 1: The Giants will come back with some highlights or highlight.
Speaker 1: This won't take long, and let me just give you
Speaker 1: a little clue. Probably the major highlight had nothing to
Speaker 1: do with the game that was played here today, but
Speaker 1: rather a ceremony before the game, So just stay tuned
Speaker 1: for that. Highlights are next.