Speaker 1: Son is shining the giantship back into San Francisco to
Speaker 1: take on the Cincinnati Read the start of a seven
Speaker 1: game homestand I'm John Miller with Tony Viitano, Giants manager.
Speaker 1: And first off, the injury list keeps growing and yesterday
Speaker 1: a couple of your guys ended up having to be
Speaker 1: removed from the game. So let's start with Willia Damas.
Speaker 1: How is he and what happened to him yesterday? And
Speaker 1: how is he now?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think he's good in spirits. Unfortunately physically he's
Speaker 2: going to be down with an il stint because of
Speaker 2: that elbow. It's his lead elbow, you know, on the swing,
Speaker 2: it makes it very difficult, and it was something that
Speaker 2: was completely out of his control. He makes a competitive
Speaker 2: slide into home plate, catcher's knee kind of rammed into
Speaker 2: his elbow, so's it's labeled as a sprain and then
Speaker 2: there's some other more fancy words that doctors would add
Speaker 2: to it, but essentially a sprain of the elbow. So
Speaker 2: you'd hope it's it's no more than the ten day.
Speaker 2: But I do think the I L is completely necessary.
Speaker 1: Right now, Barry Koto had to leave the game and
Speaker 1: it looked kind of sureous. He was on the ground
Speaker 1: there for a while after the fan interfered him that
Speaker 1: wall along the sidewall.
Speaker 2: What's the story with him, Yeah, so he's got, you know,
Speaker 2: basically a hyper extension of his knee, and because it's
Speaker 2: the knee area, you're always sensitive to that same thing.
Speaker 2: It's almost impossible to get around anything other than making
Speaker 2: it ten days down. So again, you hope to get
Speaker 2: him back and in a swing of things to build
Speaker 2: some confidence going into next year. If he can play
Speaker 2: at the end of the year and get back to
Speaker 2: swinging it. He's one of those guys you'd like anybody
Speaker 2: to come off the bench and perform right away, but
Speaker 2: most guys are gonna be like Barakoda. Put him in
Speaker 2: a rhythm, get him a bunch of at bats, and
Speaker 2: you'll see the true version of him show up. And
Speaker 2: I do think in the future he can really help
Speaker 2: us with the bat.
Speaker 1: Now, Bryce Albridge, the I guess the bereavement list. Is
Speaker 1: he on the bereatment list.
Speaker 2: What's the story for his grandfather? And you know, initially
Speaker 2: just being a young guy, and also it's the same
Speaker 2: for me. We had it come up earlier in the year, thought, hey,
Speaker 2: why would you not miss one day for an important
Speaker 2: event family situation. But it requires three days. So the
Speaker 2: initial plan was to miss the day. He's already on
Speaker 2: the East coast close to Virginia where he's from and
Speaker 2: where all that that has taken place today. But three
Speaker 2: days is necessary, so we'll get a bonus day with
Speaker 2: his family and make it back here on Wednesday.
Speaker 1: Okay, so three guys that need to be replaced. Who
Speaker 1: are the reinforcements?
Speaker 2: Well, let's add one more.
Speaker 1: JT.
Speaker 2: Brew Baker from the dive on the bunt, you know,
Speaker 2: kind of some rib bruising there, So Brew will also
Speaker 2: be on the il due to that situation. So with
Speaker 2: all that, Walker comes up, Grant McCrae, and of course
Speaker 2: Furman's going to play second base tonight. And then Shaye
Speaker 2: wickhamb too will be added to the group.
Speaker 1: All right, now, now that's a name that we've seen
Speaker 1: these other guys that you just named earlier, what about
Speaker 1: Wickhams wickeds toast about him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so he's a versatile infielder. You know, we claimed
Speaker 2: him and we're not the only team interested in him.
Speaker 2: Can play shortstop, is going to play third base today,
Speaker 2: capable of playing left field, got a really good balanced swing.
Speaker 2: He used to kind of have a lot of extracurricular
Speaker 2: activity going on in this swing, and I think it's
Speaker 2: it's been kind of a cut out the fat situation
Speaker 2: for him, and so that's one thing I'm excited to
Speaker 2: see is how that plays for him at this level
Speaker 2: with an efficient swing. And then the cool thing about
Speaker 2: him is he was WBC teammates with Jung hou Lee
Speaker 2: with a little bit of his background, so those two
Speaker 2: guys were excited to see each other.
Speaker 1: Today. Cincinnati Reds are here started a three game series,
Speaker 1: and we'll talk about that when Today's Tony Bicello Show
Speaker 1: continues Now more Tony by Tello and the Reds come
Speaker 1: in a team that has one of the outstanding young
Speaker 1: pitchers in the game this year, Chase Buruns. He's fourteen
Speaker 1: and two. He was on the All Star team. Can
Speaker 1: you give us a scaling reporter as to what your
Speaker 1: hitters are gonna be up against with him?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I coached him in college, so all
Speaker 2: too familiar with them. And you know, lefties have always
Speaker 2: been able to handle him better than righties, but he
Speaker 2: has shored that up pretty well. So now it's righties
Speaker 2: are barely getting into him, and lefties he's holding down
Speaker 2: to a pretty good number. So when you combine those two,
Speaker 2: he's got a great record. He has thrown to change
Speaker 2: up a lot more than he did in college to
Speaker 2: help with lefties and even occasional mix into righties. But
Speaker 2: his bread and butter has always been a high v
Speaker 2: low fastball and a nasty, nasty slider that's really tough
Speaker 2: to see. It's one of those you know, Eric Miller's
Speaker 2: a little bit like this. You could tell your hitters
Speaker 2: don't swing at the slider, but they may swing because
Speaker 2: they're seeing fastball up until the last minute. So a
Speaker 2: high fastball and a hardbreaking slider down in the dirt
Speaker 2: creates a pretty good length from top to bottom of
Speaker 2: a zone that maybe isn't the strike zone, but the
Speaker 2: zone he starts to create for a hitter. So it's
Speaker 2: gonna be up to our hitter to squeeze that and
Speaker 2: sandwich that down into a smaller strike zone and try
Speaker 2: and do something with either of that fastball, which is
Speaker 2: definitely more preferable than the slider, but either or So
Speaker 2: here we go
Speaker 1: The Giants and the Cincinnati Reds And that's the Tony
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