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Speaker 2: what's going on? Wild weekend of baseball? I'm excited to
Speaker 2: recap it all.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was a fun It was a fun weekend.
Speaker 3: I feel like a lot because we're getting to that
Speaker 3: point of the season post deadline, Like you're gonna get
Speaker 3: some matchups sometimes of teams that are maybe not as
Speaker 3: invested in winning at the stages others. But for the
Speaker 3: most part, we got a lot of games of match
Speaker 3: or a bunch of series of matchups of teams that
Speaker 3: are in it, or at least relatively in it. Like
Speaker 3: we didn't have too many like, for lack of a
Speaker 3: better term, like kind of loser versus loser matchups here
Speaker 3: this weekend.
Speaker 2: I'm watching a lot of these American League games, and
Speaker 2: I just have to remind myself that teams that are
Speaker 2: four or five games under five hundred are still a.
Speaker 3: Lot, very a lot.
Speaker 2: I could be watching and be like, man, this team
Speaker 2: is just not very good, but then they eke out
Speaker 2: a win, and then I check the standings and I'm like,
Speaker 2: wait a minute, is this a playoff team? So I
Speaker 2: have to continue to recalibrate my mind to decide who's
Speaker 2: good and who's dot. And it's tough, but at least
Speaker 2: I have you here, and we're here to break it
Speaker 2: all down and try our best. Who's good, who's dot?
Speaker 2: You know, we'll figure it out.
Speaker 3: I think some of it is like who's the least bad,
Speaker 3: and that's what we're like. What it gets the playoff
Speaker 3: time and whoever squeaks in is going to be like
Speaker 3: some of these wild card teams, who's the least bad
Speaker 3: and set up to be potentially do this And I
Speaker 3: think we've got some of those answers this weekend. But
Speaker 3: what we'll start on an interleague an interleague game here,
Speaker 3: interleague series, I should say, Blue Jays versus Phillies, And
Speaker 3: this was kind of a series and these the Phillies
Speaker 3: are a pretty good team. I felt like neither of
Speaker 3: these teams wanted to win some of these games here.
Speaker 3: And you go to Game one, Jose Soriano's Blue Jay
Speaker 3: debut opposite of Zach Wheeler. The Jays got to Wheeler
Speaker 3: for four runs on seven hits and five free passes.
Speaker 3: He threw one hundred and sixteen pitches in what was
Speaker 3: a battle for him. And it wasn't only a bat
Speaker 3: the only battle of the day, as the Blue Jays
Speaker 3: hitting coach David Popkins was eventually ejected for getting on
Speaker 3: umpires about where Wheeler's foot was on the rubber. He
Speaker 3: may have had a case, but Wheeler does this kind
Speaker 3: of all the time, and it's got a larger interesting conversation. Anyways,
Speaker 3: the Blue Jays would end up winning this one five
Speaker 3: to four, but Wheeler still got his licks in post game,
Speaker 3: and I quote, you know, they've got a lot of sorry,
Speaker 3: excuse me. You know, they've lost a lot of games
Speaker 3: over there, so they're probably trying to pick some things
Speaker 3: up to complain about. I hear him, but he didn't
Speaker 3: have a good start that game. Yeah, so we all
Speaker 3: gonna say whatever he wants. He's the man to me.
Speaker 3: We're gonna go to game two real quick. But I
Speaker 3: just wanted your quick thoughts on rubber thing. There's some
Speaker 3: video out there where his foot really is kind of
Speaker 3: off the rubber. But he's also kind of done this
Speaker 3: and got away with it for a while. It's an
Speaker 3: interesting conversation.
Speaker 2: Yeah, here's the thing. He starts on the rubber and
Speaker 2: then he takes his foot off while he's in the
Speaker 2: wind up, so I'm not totally sure the exact rules
Speaker 2: of how it is. And I'm one of the biggest
Speaker 2: biggest Zach Wheeler fans on the planet. I've routinely said
Speaker 2: on this show, even in Trek Scooble at the peak,
Speaker 2: even if Paul Skins at the peak, I would still
Speaker 2: prefer to have Zach Wheeler pitching Game seven of the
Speaker 2: World Series with the death being pointed at Earth. So
Speaker 2: I'm as big of a Zack Wheeler fan as you're
Speaker 2: gonna find outside of Philly. However, didn't love that quote
Speaker 2: because you're making fun of the Blue Jays while you're
Speaker 2: getting hit by the Blue Jays. And why are the
Speaker 2: Blue Jays so bad this season? It's because they have
Speaker 2: the worst offense in baseball, or at least bottom three
Speaker 2: in runs scored per game this season. So didn't love it.
Speaker 2: But I understand Wheeler gets pissed off when he's done
Speaker 2: the same thing over and over throughout his career. We're
Speaker 2: gonna talk about the Braves Yankees game. Chris Sale got
Speaker 2: ejected even before the game started the following day because
Speaker 2: he was still pissed about the back call where he
Speaker 2: was in the wind up. But he didn't declare it.
Speaker 2: So it's like these older pitchers, especially the dog days
Speaker 2: of summer, like we're a game one hundred and sixtet,
Speaker 2: they're just fed up with all that. So I was
Speaker 2: gonna understand where Wheeler was coming from, but at the
Speaker 2: same time not his best quote.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I love the thirty seven year olds now or
Speaker 3: they're just like, I don't give a shit, man, I'm
Speaker 3: gonna throw I'm gonna throw my stones even if the
Speaker 3: if it's from a glasshouse right now, and normally it's not,
Speaker 3: just in this specific scenario, it kind of was. Regardless,
Speaker 3: the league has kind of made some comments here and
Speaker 3: there about Wheeler. If I'm not mistaken in the past,
Speaker 3: it's like, as you mentioned, like the foot goes up
Speaker 3: and down, but the second time he kind of like
Speaker 3: pops it up and down he brings it off the
Speaker 3: robber towards first base, and it also creates a really
Speaker 3: unique look. So I'll be interesting if there's anything more
Speaker 3: that comes that next time out. We had more interesting
Speaker 3: things going on with real quick or old guy in
Speaker 3: a legend, but this was more positive. In Game two,
Speaker 3: Max Schurzer makes his third start off the il for
Speaker 3: the Blue Jays, and he was solid for his second
Speaker 3: consecutive outing, going five in a thirds innings of two
Speaker 3: run ball, and his four strikeouts pushed him past Walter
Speaker 3: Johnson for tenth all time. I thought, that was really kuman.
Speaker 3: That's an awesome, awesome mark to reach when you're top
Speaker 3: ten all time in passing a name like Walter Johnson,
Speaker 3: who was like, obviously, he's a legend. Like also not
Speaker 3: really a real person to me, more of like a
Speaker 3: figment of my imagination. Back to the game, Vladdie Junior
Speaker 3: solo homer in an RBI single made things two zero
Speaker 3: until the sixth inning, when Trey Turner and Bryce Harper
Speaker 3: went back to back to Chase Sherzer and tie things
Speaker 3: up before pushing two more runs across against Spencer Miles
Speaker 3: to go up four to two, and Andre Semenez two
Speaker 3: RBI double tied things up in the eighth, and then
Speaker 3: Nathan Lucas hit a two run shot in the eleventh
Speaker 3: to help seal it for the Blue Jays, who take
Speaker 3: Game two seven to five. Game three, another back and
Speaker 3: forth thriller that made its way into extras als. Weberhmer twice,
Speaker 3: but the Jays kept clawing back. We went into the
Speaker 3: bottom of the tenth with the Jays up six to five,
Speaker 3: but Bryson Stott tied it with an RBI single. Then
Speaker 3: Derek Hill walked things off with a single of his own.
Speaker 3: Shout out Jesus Lizardo. He didn't get the win, but
Speaker 3: he struck out twelve and seven innings of two run ball.
Speaker 3: Philly salvage the series and take the third game.
Speaker 2: Did you have met any major takeaways from this, because
Speaker 2: my biggest takeaway is just that watching this Phillies team,
Speaker 2: I can totally understand the allure come October when you
Speaker 2: have front three of Wheeler and Sanchez and Lozardo, and
Speaker 2: you know they added a couple pieces to the bullpen
Speaker 2: at the trade deadline, you still got Duran and the
Speaker 2: ninth I understand that they are going to pitch, but
Speaker 2: they're just not going to go anywhere if the offense
Speaker 2: is this sluggish. And I don't mean to use this
Speaker 2: word like it sounds a little bit to meaning, but
Speaker 2: this is what I feel when I'm turned on Phillies
Speaker 2: games lately. It's such a boring team. Yeah, they're so boring.
Speaker 2: I mean, yes, when Schoorber hits a couple of home runs,
Speaker 2: but he hasn't hit one of those in a while.
Speaker 2: Bryce Harper is really having a fantastic season, but in
Speaker 2: reality has nothing to do with those two guys. It's
Speaker 2: just a lot of the guys in the lineup, like
Speaker 2: Bryce and Stott has been hitting better, which is nice,
Speaker 2: but over the totality of the season, it's been a
Speaker 2: lackluster performance from him. We've talked at length about Tred
Speaker 2: Turner's struggles, and then it's like, why am I getting
Speaker 2: excited to watch Derek Hill. He had the walk off
Speaker 2: hit in that game. He at least shows a little
Speaker 2: bit of fire. Sometimes it's just an offense that is
Speaker 2: just kind of like they go to the ballpark, they
Speaker 2: do their research, they might get a hit or not,
Speaker 2: who cares, and then it's over and maybe they won.
Speaker 2: I don't know. It's just a boring offense.
Speaker 3: I think it's not a coincidence of the one game
Speaker 3: they do win. It is the game that Schwarber goes
Speaker 3: deep twice, and it just feels like they're living and
Speaker 3: dying by him or Harper. And I love the addition
Speaker 3: of a Riaz like. I think he has added a
Speaker 3: little bit of spunk to this lineup, which has been huge.
Speaker 3: I mean, without a rise, it's just a snooze. But
Speaker 3: I think even Phillies fans, I just I sense it
Speaker 3: like this feels like and of course we say this
Speaker 3: when we say the last few years, we've said if
Speaker 3: not now, then when with the Phillies, and it feels
Speaker 3: like this year is like, this is the worst Phillies
Speaker 3: team we've seen in several years, and this will be
Speaker 3: the one that somehow makes the run, you know. But
Speaker 3: I just it does feel like to me it's a
Speaker 3: little bit weaker than the last you know, a couple
Speaker 3: of years of Phillies teams. That said, with the pitching
Speaker 3: they have, they get hot. Some of the bullpen reinforcements
Speaker 3: can help. Ryan Kirkering has been struggling. Hopefully it's just
Speaker 3: getting that out of his system now. But yeah, it
Speaker 3: does feel like if if you're not getting that special
Speaker 3: Schwerber performance like we got in one of the ball
Speaker 3: games with two homers, or you know, Harper doing his thing,
Speaker 3: it can get a little bit frustrating. I like what
Speaker 3: Ariaz brings to the table, but yeah, this is still
Speaker 3: a team that I think they are just kind of
Speaker 3: what they are, which is like this wild card team, which,
Speaker 3: as in the past, we're looking at them as a
Speaker 3: team that can really make a push for the division.
Speaker 3: It's one of the more feared teams in the National League.
Speaker 3: To me, they're slightly above the rest of the wild
Speaker 3: card teams, and like we're gonna talk about d Backs
Speaker 3: and like, I think they have a little bit more talent,
Speaker 3: but I don't think these teams are that different, and
Speaker 3: it's just a little bit lesser of a Phillies team
Speaker 3: than we're.
Speaker 2: Used to speaking about the wild Card. The Blue Jays
Speaker 2: are three and a half games out and in last
Speaker 2: place and seven games utter five hundred. That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: It's like I'm watching the Blue Jays that win a
Speaker 2: series and all of a sudden, wait a minute, they're
Speaker 2: not dead. They're not dead. Nobody's dead in the American
Speaker 2: League outside of the Royals and the Angels and maybe
Speaker 2: the Mariners after this past weekend. But we'll talk about
Speaker 2: that later.
Speaker 3: So let's go to the Angels, who I can confirm
Speaker 3: I went on Saturday. This team is dead. They do
Speaker 3: not have a pulse game one, though they had a
Speaker 3: little bit of a pulse George Glassen made his return
Speaker 3: to the big leagues for the Angels, and Mike Trout
Speaker 3: on his thirty fifth birthday, which you know, anytime we
Speaker 3: get to see Trout go deep, always going to be fun.
Speaker 3: And Nolan Shanwell homer in the seventh gave the Angels
Speaker 3: a four to two lead, but the Marlins made it
Speaker 3: interesting in the ninth with the tying run being gunned
Speaker 3: down at the plate on a gem of a throw
Speaker 3: by Jose Sirie. Angels hold on four to three. Game two,
Speaker 3: all Marlins who bounce back and bounce Walbert Urania in
Speaker 3: the third inning, Sandy al Contra was stellar, breaking the
Speaker 3: franchise record for ningx pitched when he finished his one
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Speaker 3: got Jack's call ready to go right. Yeah, let's hear
Speaker 3: Jack nail this real quick to two is cut on
Speaker 3: and missed. It was a cutter on the bottom rail.
Speaker 1: And Sandy's got the honor he's always coveted the most.
Speaker 2: Sandy al Contre has gotten more outs than anyone who.
Speaker 1: Is ever put on a Marlin's uniform.
Speaker 2: Great, yeah, cher love shows for that.
Speaker 3: And it's not like it's like the or anything where
Speaker 3: it's like he surpassed some legend Ricky in Alaska. Look
Speaker 3: I love Ricky in Alaska, but you know it was
Speaker 3: It's a really special moment there for I think Jack
Speaker 3: nailed it. Sandy. All he cares about is availability, durability.
Speaker 3: Obviously wants to be dominant as well, but like that
Speaker 3: is the core of who he is and everything he
Speaker 3: prepares for. And just get another classic Sandy line here.
Speaker 3: Seven innings, three hits, no runs, one walk, eight k's.
Speaker 3: Marlins wins seven to zero and Jack wins with the call.
Speaker 2: Game three.
Speaker 3: Grayson Rodriguez tried to follow up his best start of
Speaker 3: the year, which came across came against his former team,
Speaker 3: the Orioles, but he struggled in the first ending, allowing
Speaker 3: three earned runs before set or three runs before settling
Speaker 3: in to strike out eight and four frames. He actually weird,
Speaker 3: weird watch, Like first enning, I'm like, oh my gosh,
Speaker 3: this guys, it's just this is sad, this is depressing.
Speaker 3: I'm eologizing him. And then he looks really solid after that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you said in the discord, he looks like he's
Speaker 2: pitching hurt. And I had the game on one of
Speaker 2: like the corners, and I really start focusing and I'm like, uh, yeah,
Speaker 2: what is going on? And then he started rattling off
Speaker 2: decent innings and I thought to myself, Okay, maybe he's
Speaker 2: not but it just doesn't look quite like the same
Speaker 2: Grayson Rodriguez. But at the same time, did any of
Speaker 2: us expect that in year one of the Taylor Ward,
Speaker 2: Gras and Rodriguez trade. The reason we didn't like it
Speaker 2: in the first place was, yes, this season for Grayson
Speaker 2: off an injury might be a lost season, but you
Speaker 2: still get him for extra years of control. So I
Speaker 2: still stand by the graceon Rodriguez is going to be
Speaker 2: able to fight back from this. But this year has
Speaker 2: just kind of felt like a lost season, and it
Speaker 2: still feels like he's not quite himself.
Speaker 3: Yeah, what I saw from him is just some of
Speaker 3: these throws he's guiding it. I feel like all these
Speaker 3: different injuries he's had, it's probably had him overthinking the
Speaker 3: mechanics some. But then when he was thrown free and easy,
Speaker 3: and some of these middle innings really sharp in eight strikeouts,
Speaker 3: some really good change up, some good sliders, Blue ninety
Speaker 3: seven past Kyle Stowers, but it didn't really matter because
Speaker 3: once Grayson Rodriguez was bounced, the Marlins absolutely blitzed the
Speaker 3: Angels bullpen Griffin Conine Homer twice one hundred and fifteen
Speaker 3: mile per hour. Homer, I think, get like, I forget
Speaker 3: what the degree like. I think it was like a
Speaker 3: fifteen degree launch. It was something ridiculous, but absolute laser
Speaker 3: beam from him. And then he hits another one off
Speaker 3: of Tyler Hyeman that was like a tomahawk for the
Speaker 3: second Homer. Marlins win twelve to three. They take the series,
Speaker 3: and they climb back over five hundred, and they sit
Speaker 3: three games out of the final wildcard spot. Not a
Speaker 3: ton to take away from this series. The Angels are
Speaker 3: a really tough watch. I can say that, but you
Speaker 3: know you can. I'm enjoying like a little bit of
Speaker 3: Denser Guzman. I think he's growing into a solid player
Speaker 3: for them, you know. I it's funny the first couple
Speaker 3: endings I saw of Urania, I'm like this, I get
Speaker 3: why they trade to Jose Soriana. They kind of have
Speaker 3: like a young Soriano blossoming here. And I still really
Speaker 3: do believe that g Rod's the big X factor like
Speaker 3: if he can finish the year strong, capture some of
Speaker 3: those moments more and get into next year where he
Speaker 3: could just be a serviceablefore I this Angel's rotation more
Speaker 3: than we bad in the bats, even thought George Classen
Speaker 3: not a great outing but has been really good in
Speaker 3: trip Away over the last handful of outings. It was
Speaker 3: better than obviously his first two outings this year at
Speaker 3: the big BIGU level. Like the pitching side of things
Speaker 3: has come together a little bit, it's just really tough
Speaker 3: to watch them like they just kind of fall apart
Speaker 3: big time. And for the Marlins, like the bats had
Speaker 3: been non existent of late. Great time to try to
Speaker 3: get the bats going. But it's gonna be a reality
Speaker 3: check now against the Pirates this coming week to see
Speaker 3: if the bats are really coming to life or not.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's been the disappointing part about watching the Marlins
Speaker 2: lately is I've been so used to turning on the
Speaker 2: Marlins game, getting Jack on the call, and as soon
Speaker 2: as you turn it on, Jack calls and that's a
Speaker 2: line drive to center for Auto Lopez.
Speaker 3: You know, is yeah tenfhit right.
Speaker 2: But he's been struggling. Xavier Edwards has been struggling a
Speaker 2: little bit. Like I know, Kyle Stowers had a nice
Speaker 2: hit this weekend, but overall it hasn't looked all that great,
Speaker 2: been a little bit inconsistent. Javier Soinoha has been great
Speaker 2: though at least that's a nice hitter in the lineup.
Speaker 2: And then you're coni, Yeah, he's.
Speaker 3: Been huge for them. I mean they went from like
Speaker 3: platuning him and they still kind of do, but like
Speaker 3: patuning him all the time and batting him seventh sometimes ninth,
Speaker 3: to like he's sitting clean up now and like he
Speaker 3: came through today. He's an fifty ops guy. Yeah, which
Speaker 3: is awesome. The two homer day I think bumped him
Speaker 3: up even higher, which is exciting. But again, this Pirate
Speaker 3: series will be a big reality check. Also, Kyle Stowers
Speaker 3: has had a lot of hamstring issues this year, like
Speaker 3: two different flare ups, and I think had another hamstring
Speaker 3: issue today that I wouldn't be surprised if that keeps
Speaker 3: him out. That's gonna be interesting. What do they do
Speaker 3: from there. They don't really have another first basement. It
Speaker 3: might be the recently acquired Jonathan Long from the Cubs
Speaker 3: who could come up. It might be Leo Jimenez. I
Speaker 3: don't know. They might have griff place some first. I
Speaker 3: don't know what they're gonna do. Very fascinating. I know
Speaker 3: they wanted to get Augustine Romirez some reps there. He
Speaker 3: ain't ready to just go play first right now, Martin's
Speaker 3: gonna have to figure that out of Kyle Stowers missing
Speaker 3: some time.
Speaker 2: My body feels good. Just let me know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, just go go, uh but be designated fielder at first.
Speaker 2: I could hit a little bit. All I'm saying is
Speaker 2: you put me up against Sugano. I'm getting a hit.
Speaker 2: Just just put me in the back of your mind.
Speaker 2: I don't have to be the first call. I don't
Speaker 2: even have to be the second call. But third, I
Speaker 2: think that makes sense for me.
Speaker 3: This was your only shot. I think was the Angel series.
Speaker 3: Maybe a couple of these arms they had out of
Speaker 3: the pen. I don't know about this here, Shigano.
Speaker 2: I got you with Jack both plugged into the Barlins
Speaker 2: can't hurt to ask, right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll throw a feeler out there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, just throw a feeler.
Speaker 3: Guardian's White Sox Parker messk did Parker messick things again
Speaker 3: in Game one, going seven innings of two run ball
Speaker 3: with eight strikeouts. Noah Schultz on the other side. I
Speaker 3: feel like I got a lot of fun storylines with
Speaker 3: my five series. Here's another fun one. Noah Schultz on
Speaker 3: the other side, ran into some trouble in the first inning,
Speaker 3: but it was his manager's mistake that ended up ending
Speaker 3: his day. Well, Venable didn't realize that it was his
Speaker 3: second visit to the mound, meaning the White Sox had
Speaker 3: to pull him after recording just one out. So then
Speaker 3: David Sanwin had to just wear it for five innings,
Speaker 3: and I mean it just didn't go great for him either.
Speaker 3: He didn't even get to properly warm up, but it's
Speaker 3: not an injury situation, so you don't really get to
Speaker 3: warm up at all, so he had to wear it.
Speaker 3: Not a great outing for him. In five innings. Guardians
Speaker 3: win eight to two on Hell Martinez and Stephen Kwan.
Speaker 3: Homer Stephen Kwan starting to come back to life. I'm
Speaker 3: sure we'll talk about that a little bit more at
Speaker 3: the recap of the whole series. Game two White Sox
Speaker 3: bounce back on a quality start from Anthony Ka opposite
Speaker 3: of Gavin Williams. It was scoreless until the sixth enning,
Speaker 3: when Reyese Hoskins launched a two run shot, but then
Speaker 3: Munataka mura kame answered back in the home half with
Speaker 3: the homer of his own, jump starting a four run inning.
Speaker 3: On Helanau did launch his first career homer, and he
Speaker 3: continues to sprint out of the gate in his MLB debut,
Speaker 3: but the White Sox take it six to three. Then
Speaker 3: we go to Game three, A second ending rain delay
Speaker 3: ended Davis Martin and Joey Cantillo's days at just one,
Speaker 3: ending each, curning things over to the bullpen where twenty
Speaker 3: twenty four first rounder Hagen Smith made his MLB debut,
Speaker 3: and I think it did exactly what I would have guessed, honestly.
Speaker 3: He pitched two scoreless innings, struck out four or walked four,
Speaker 3: and struck out three. So welcome to the Hagen Smith Show.
Speaker 3: I probably won't be the last time you see that
Speaker 3: kind of line. It's gonna be a matter of finding
Speaker 3: the command a little bit more consistently. Obviously, the stuff
Speaker 3: is fantastic. Nicoles in Montgomery three run shot in the
Speaker 3: third was the difference, and they end up winning five
Speaker 3: to three. The White Sox do, and they take the
Speaker 3: series just a big one. This has become a pretty
Speaker 3: fun little rivalry here. This was an opportunity for the
Speaker 3: Guardians kind of quaw back and sneak back into this thing.
Speaker 3: They don't by dropping two out of three, So the
Speaker 3: White Socks are able to broaden their lead in the
Speaker 3: division a little bit here and now have what about
Speaker 3: a three game cushion. I think it's just a frustrating
Speaker 3: one for the guards. Obviously some weird stuff in this series,
Speaker 3: but frustrating none the last.
Speaker 2: It definitely is frustrating, but Stephen Kwan has been anything
Speaker 2: but frustrating since July first. Stephen Kuan is slashing three
Speaker 2: ninety eight, four seventy nine, five point fifteen for a
Speaker 2: one point eighty seven WRC. Plus he has in his
Speaker 2: last thirty games one point eight f one And Stephen
Speaker 2: Kwan is gonna do one of those things again where
Speaker 2: he's a three three and a half win player by
Speaker 2: seasons and what again just still shocks me about Stephen
Speaker 2: Kwan is he's hitting two sixty three. I understand that
Speaker 2: batting average is not the end all be all, but
Speaker 2: like wins, we kind of joke around about it. And
Speaker 2: there's some guys where you just expect more, and I
Speaker 2: expect more from Stephen Kwan hitting two sixty three. Also,
Speaker 2: do you hear over the weekend two where with the
Speaker 2: White Sox Booth kind of clowning Stephen Kwan a little
Speaker 2: bit for not being a power hitter and then he
Speaker 2: immediately goes yard and now, granted for the White Sox Booth,
Speaker 2: I understand why you said that he came into the
Speaker 2: game with one home run, but there's number two that
Speaker 2: is the ultimate announcer chinks. If I'm an announcer, just
Speaker 2: don't mention it, Eddie, that kind of stuff. It's never
Speaker 2: gonna help you.
Speaker 3: Well, when they were saying how he tried to go,
Speaker 3: he was trying to get into more power in the past.
Speaker 3: He shouldn't do that and boom. You know, love to
Speaker 3: see in.
Speaker 2: Center Stephen Kwan. He's been playing a pretty good center
Speaker 2: field too.
Speaker 3: He's a great outfielder, and he's getting more comfortable. I
Speaker 3: think at first it was just the reads are a
Speaker 3: little bit different, just getting used to it. But once
Speaker 3: you get more comfortable, they're like a lot of guys say,
Speaker 3: those reads are actually easier, and with how good he
Speaker 3: is in a corner, it makes sense that Kwan's getting
Speaker 3: good out there, and then four game gap now in
Speaker 3: the division that the White Sox have, and all of
Speaker 3: a sudden they're starting to I don't want to say
Speaker 3: running away with it, but we're about to talk about
Speaker 3: the Tigers series next. They're up three and a half
Speaker 3: on the Tigers, who've been playing some pretty good ball
Speaker 3: of late. And then it's the Twins in the Guardians,
Speaker 3: both four games out. You know, you have another good
Speaker 3: week here, and once it starts getting to like a
Speaker 3: four and four and a half game cushion going into
Speaker 3: the final fifty games, like that's a pretty comfortable gap
Speaker 3: for the division for the White Sox, So just keep
Speaker 3: on pushing, no doubt.
Speaker 2: One player I want to shout out quickly is Chase
Speaker 2: my Drath. I feel like he's just one of those
Speaker 2: grinded out type ball players that is just really good
Speaker 2: at playing the game of baseball. And I've said that before.
Speaker 2: And it's one thing to have a ton of talent.
Speaker 2: You know, you post really high evs, you know your
Speaker 2: arm strength is really high. On Baseball Savant, you got
Speaker 2: some red bubbles. But sometimes those guys aren't actually good
Speaker 2: at playing the game of baseball. They're just very talented
Speaker 2: at baseball. Chase Mydrath is one of those guys where
Speaker 2: he doesn't have any super red savant bubbles, he doesn't
Speaker 2: have any crazy tools, but he's a really, really good ballplayer.
Speaker 2: Another you know, solid start to the month, and you know,
Speaker 2: I remember the Garrett Crochet trade where it felt like
Speaker 2: Chase my Draft was the fourth player in that deal,
Speaker 2: And since all those players have been acquired by the
Speaker 2: White Sox, he's ended up being the most valuable. And
Speaker 2: he's like one of those players where if you're a contender,
Speaker 2: you don't want him to be your best player. You
Speaker 2: don't want him to be your second best player, you
Speaker 2: don't even want him to be your third best player.
Speaker 2: But teams that really compete in October and could even
Speaker 2: win a World Series, they have hitters like Chase my
Speaker 2: Draft who are well above average at playing their role.
Speaker 2: In the White Sux got one, and he's young and
Speaker 2: they're going to have him for a while.
Speaker 3: Well it's interesting, so good back to ball wise, I
Speaker 3: think gave up a little bit of that bat to
Speaker 3: ball like to slug a little bit more of this season,
Speaker 3: and it's been a worthy exchange, right I mean, he's
Speaker 3: up to a one fourteen WRC plus this year, but
Speaker 3: when he needs to, he can kind of shorten up
Speaker 3: Punker down and Peyton put it out like things. The
Speaker 3: only guy to homer off of Mazerowski and Chapman like
Speaker 3: that's he's built to be able to kind of shorten
Speaker 3: up handle the v LO. But then I think against
Speaker 3: some other arms where he feels like he can get
Speaker 3: a little bit bigger and try to do a little
Speaker 3: bit more damage. My drafts found the ability to do that,
Speaker 3: and that's how we've seen him kind of take this
Speaker 3: step forward here where this slugging percentage starts with a
Speaker 3: four this season, and I think that makes a big difference.
Speaker 3: I think it's a great shout on my draft. Who's
Speaker 3: going to turn in, you know, a three coach to
Speaker 3: probably three and a half win season this year, maybe
Speaker 3: even a little bit better than that.
Speaker 2: Like they got their dudes in the middle of the
Speaker 2: lineup with Montgomery and Murakami and Miguel Vargas, but you
Speaker 2: need those role players like a midrath, like a sam Antanachia,
Speaker 2: like they just there winning good balance, served the win games.
Speaker 2: It's a good team.
Speaker 3: It's a really well balanced lineup and the pitching will
Speaker 3: just continue to come together and hopefully Higgin Smith can
Speaker 3: fill a role for them, and you know, as he
Speaker 3: just settles in a little bit more Tigers Giants Game one,
Speaker 3: Adrian Houser piggybacking J T. Brubecker uh the Tiger's bats
Speaker 3: colt while the Giants wore down Cayder Montero for five
Speaker 3: earned runs through six innings. A Willia Damas solo shot
Speaker 3: was the exclamation Giants win five to two in Game one.
Speaker 3: Game two Tigers roar back and Jackson Job's return to
Speaker 3: the mound from Tommy John surgery man was that fun
Speaker 3: to watch. Job allowed just one hit in five scoreless
Speaker 3: innings while the Tigers put up eight runs eight zero
Speaker 3: Tigers win. Job was throwing fuel. I mean we saw
Speaker 3: him up to, you know, courting with triple digits, disgusting changeups,
Speaker 3: just locating to all four quadrants. The breaking balls are sharp.
Speaker 3: It was like a power curvy threw in there. It
Speaker 3: looked like he took the time off to just continue
Speaker 3: optimizing the arsenal one man, I mean, you're going to
Speaker 3: replace Trek scouble, but it's nice at least if you're
Speaker 3: going to subtract from that rotation to bring back, you know,
Speaker 3: one of your top top prospects for a long time
Speaker 3: who can still be a really really good arm for you.
Speaker 3: That was a really encouraging win. And then he is
Speaker 3: followed by the guy that's been their race now, especially
Speaker 3: now that Schoobl's gone, Like this is their dude, Troy Melton.
Speaker 3: Troy Milton, and Logan Webb in Game three dueled it
Speaker 3: out as Melton tossed six scoreless to lower his ERA
Speaker 3: to one point four to six, while Logan web tworld
Speaker 3: eight innings of one run ball himself. The game went
Speaker 3: into the tenth tide at one to one, but two
Speaker 3: runs in the top half set up Tyler Holton to
Speaker 3: strike out the side and nail down the safe. Tigers
Speaker 3: win the series, climb within two games of five hundred,
Speaker 3: one game of a final playoff spot. And it's giving
Speaker 3: the Jack Flaherty trade, but we're still going to sneak
Speaker 3: our way into the playoffs kind of thing again. We'll see.
Speaker 3: But this team, even before the Schooble trade, had been
Speaker 3: trending in the right direction. And I know it's the Giants,
Speaker 3: but it's just the way that they're winning here. You
Speaker 3: had to done in Game one. But the Tigers are
Speaker 3: just throwing the heck out of the baseball and they're
Speaker 3: picking up the hits when they need to. The offense
Speaker 3: is gonna be the question. But obviously you're not gonna
Speaker 3: replace Google, like I said, but I have a belief
Speaker 3: that this staff is just going to continue to hold
Speaker 3: its own and they've been throwing the ball as well
Speaker 3: as just about anybody over the last two months.
Speaker 2: Troy Melton is number one in ERA since twenty twenty
Speaker 2: five among starters with at least ninety innings, Number one,
Speaker 2: and he has right now arguably the best cutter in
Speaker 2: all of baseball, and it's not arguable if you look
Speaker 2: at run value where he ranks at the tippity top
Speaker 2: of run value when it comes to cutters. And when
Speaker 2: you watch him sling that cutter, it's like this hard
Speaker 2: slider almost but it's coming in the low nineties. It's
Speaker 2: a disgusting pitch. And then that six to four frame
Speaker 2: averaging ninety six to ninety seven with the heater touching
Speaker 2: triple digits at times, but he gets close to seven
Speaker 2: feet of extension. So it's got to routinely feel like
Speaker 2: triple digits when you're in the box. But offensively, I
Speaker 2: know he didn't have the greatest series. I think I
Speaker 2: only saw him get one hit this weekend. But if
Speaker 2: your Don Alvarez disappeared off the face of the planet,
Speaker 2: live with me in this reality for a second, the
Speaker 2: American League MVP would be Dylan Dingle and Dingler.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was gonna I was ready for that point.
Speaker 3: I wanted to make it. I'm glad you.
Speaker 2: Did go out.
Speaker 3: He's gonna get He's gonna finish top three in MVP voting.
Speaker 2: And as he should. It's well above average defense behind
Speaker 2: the plate with an ops that's knocking on the door
Speaker 2: of nine hundred. Maybe that's a little bit of an exaggeration.
Speaker 2: It's in the eight to sixty range. But ask yourself,
Speaker 2: for everybody listening, how often do you get that combination
Speaker 2: uh eight sixty ops from the catching position and your
Speaker 2: catcher is arguably a top five defensive catcher in the
Speaker 2: entire sport. And I remember I ranked him, what was
Speaker 2: it ten, on my top ten catchers list. I think
Speaker 2: a week in I came on the show and I said, wrong,
Speaker 2: everyone forget like the men in black thing when they
Speaker 2: when they clicked that, I wish I could do that
Speaker 2: through our entire audience. Like that was one of those
Speaker 2: takes where I just had to see it to believe it.
Speaker 2: And then even just a week of it, I saw
Speaker 2: it and I was like, what am I talking about?
Speaker 2: Like what a stupid take this guy is, Like, we're
Speaker 2: gonna ran catchers going into the next season. How is
Speaker 2: Dylan Dingler not the number one overall catchers one? Right?
Speaker 2: Because Goodman, you might say, well, Hunter Goodman as the
Speaker 2: same type of bat. Drake Baldwin might have the same
Speaker 2: type of bat. Shay lang Lears might have the same
Speaker 2: type of bat. They're nowhere near the defender that Dylan
Speaker 2: Dingler is, No, So I just wanted to make sure
Speaker 2: to give him his flowers, even though I know he
Speaker 2: didn't have a great series this weekend.
Speaker 3: Really fun prospects, like kind of trajectory to was banged
Speaker 3: up well, I mean even in Ohio State was playing
Speaker 3: center field at one point, then made the conversion, the
Speaker 3: conversion over to the dish, and then you know, offensively,
Speaker 3: it kind of like gradually progressed and then twenty twenty
Speaker 3: it's gonna be his breakout, and then you had the
Speaker 3: COVID shortened season, so it was really hard to get
Speaker 3: your exact idea of who he was going to be.
Speaker 3: They still take him relatively earlier in the Campe Round,
Speaker 3: and then injuries really limited him in the minor leagues,
Speaker 3: and it's just all really come together. I remember updating
Speaker 3: a write up in twenty three on him, and going
Speaker 3: into twenty four, I was like, this guy looks different.
Speaker 3: He looks explosive, he looks healthy, and it's just he
Speaker 3: hasn't looked back, and it just seems like he gets
Speaker 3: better every single time you check in. And what's also
Speaker 3: crazy is Kevin McGonagall is gonna get some down ballot
Speaker 3: votes as well in the MVP conversation, I think, which
Speaker 3: is nuts to think about in the American League. So
Speaker 3: I mean to wrap on this series. It's just where
Speaker 3: you add on the Tigers, cause, like I think they're
Speaker 3: gonna hang around in this thing. When you add Joe River,
Speaker 3: Ryan's gonna come back and no matter what you think
Speaker 3: about him, like he's another piece to add to them.
Speaker 2: I thought he was too old to pitch, Yeah he's
Speaker 2: I thought he wasn't allowed or something.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, they're going to force him to retire in
Speaker 3: the next year, so they're gonna squeeze out as much
Speaker 3: as they can.
Speaker 2: Hear, has a pitcher ever had a prime from ages
Speaker 2: twenty seven to thirty three? Or is did? That's too old? Yeah?
Speaker 3: And so if he can come back off the hammy,
Speaker 3: I think. I think this is an interesting pitching depth
Speaker 3: scenario where they've got a lot of different guys. The
Speaker 3: bullpen's starting to click. The Tigers have the number one
Speaker 3: ERA for since June first three point zho one ERA.
Speaker 3: The next best is a three point two zero, which
Speaker 3: is the Red Sox, and they've been obviously what they've been,
Speaker 3: so it's interesting, just something to monitor.
Speaker 2: Tigers can absolutely do it. They have one of the
Speaker 2: best run differentials in the American League. Going into the weekend,
Speaker 2: their run differential was better than the freaking Boston Red
Speaker 2: Sox and as we sit here today, Arham they have
Speaker 2: the best run differential in the American League plus eighty seven.
Speaker 2: Next best is the Red Sox at plus eighty four.
Speaker 2: Third best is the Yankees of plus eighty two, fourth
Speaker 2: is the Rays at plus forty six, is the White
Speaker 2: Sox at plus thirty seven, and then everybody else is
Speaker 2: in the red. So yes, the Tigers are the best
Speaker 2: team in the American League, but they're on the outside
Speaker 2: looking in of the playoffs because that's what the American
Speaker 2: League is this year. Just makes absolutely no sense coming
Speaker 2: into our YouTube live chat from King Raj for a
Speaker 2: two six kind of wild that the Tigers have the
Speaker 2: two oldest pitchers in baseball and Justin Ferlander and River
Speaker 2: Ryan True. I love it.
Speaker 3: I love it. We go to the final series for
Speaker 3: me here and this might have been one of the
Speaker 3: best series of the weekend. Man Roki Sasaki Dutchess to
Speaker 3: Dodgers versus t Backs Game one. Roki Sasaki was sharp again,
Speaker 3: but Merrill Kelly was great opposite of him. Despite all
Speaker 3: of his historical struggles against the Dodgers, he took a
Speaker 3: no hitter into the sixth before allowing a pair of
Speaker 3: hits and leaving the game with cramping in his leg.
Speaker 3: A go ahead solo shot by Andy Pieyes on the
Speaker 3: top of the eighth would hold until the bottom of
Speaker 3: the ninth, when rookie Ryan Waldschmitz spp up to the
Speaker 3: plate with one man on and one out, ripping a
Speaker 3: walk off, two run shot to left center off of
Speaker 3: Edwin Diaz to win the game four to three. What
Speaker 3: a moment for Ryan Waldschmid, who's really started to pick
Speaker 3: it up for him for the d Backs and no
Speaker 3: guy that they were getting a lot of calls about
Speaker 3: at the deadline, Hasen said, we can't, we can't subtract
Speaker 3: him from this team, and he helps them win Game one.
Speaker 3: You go to game two. Yoshinoba, Yemmoto and Brandon Fott
Speaker 3: traded zeros but had two more zeros in his back pocket,
Speaker 3: tossing seven innings of shutout ball, allowing just two hits.
Speaker 3: A Kyle Tucker solo homer in the eighth broke the
Speaker 3: seal on the game, but back to back triples by
Speaker 3: Heraldo Perdomo and Corby Carrol in the bottom of the
Speaker 3: ninth tied things up. The Diamondbacks couldn't push across the
Speaker 3: winning run on third base with no outs in that
Speaker 3: bottom of the ninth, so it went to the tenth inning,
Speaker 3: where an infield single by show hey Otani gave gave
Speaker 3: the Dodgers the lead, and then Jack Dryer shut the
Speaker 3: door in the home half. Dodgers win two to one.
Speaker 3: That was a tough one for the d Backs because
Speaker 3: again they had a chance to win it there and
Speaker 3: then just kind of bled out on a couple of
Speaker 3: different paper cuts in the tenth. Then you go to
Speaker 3: Game three. Eduardo Rodriguez was fantastic while the d Backs
Speaker 3: chase Justin Roblaski by scoring two in the first and
Speaker 3: two in the second, and then creating traffic on the
Speaker 3: basis in the fourth to meet the end of his line.
Speaker 3: Eduardo Enriquez escaped the jam and the Diamondbacks actually did
Speaker 3: not score the rest of the game, but it didn't
Speaker 3: matter because of e Rod's dominance. Seven innings, five pits,
Speaker 3: two earned two walks, nine k's. He retired show hey
Speaker 3: Otani for the third time of the day on his
Speaker 3: one hundred and fifteenth pitch. Diamondbacks went four to two,
Speaker 3: take the series and take the season series over the
Speaker 3: Dodgers for the first time since twenty eighteen, now sixty
Speaker 3: three and fifty six, sharing that second wild card spot
Speaker 3: and third wild card spot with the Phillies.
Speaker 2: What a series. Unless you have two hands on the
Speaker 2: wheel when you're listening to this, I want you to
Speaker 2: get out of pen and paper and I want you
Speaker 2: to write this shit down because I'm calling it right now.
Speaker 2: It's August ninth. If the Diamondbacks face the Dodgers in
Speaker 2: the playoffs, they are going to upset them and kick
Speaker 2: them out of the playoffs. This Diamondbacks team is not
Speaker 2: afraid of the Dodgers. They simply are not. Even when
Speaker 2: they're not playing well, they can beat the Dodgers. And
Speaker 2: when they are playing well, Like I know, the Dodgers
Speaker 2: are in this stretch at the moment, but I don't
Speaker 2: even think if they were playing well that they would
Speaker 2: have beaten this Diamondbacks squad. And I'm not saying the
Speaker 2: Diamonbacks then are going to go on to win the
Speaker 2: World Series. I'm just saying that if these two teams
Speaker 2: meet in the NLCS, in the wild Card round at
Speaker 2: LDS whatever, the Diamondbacks are going to upset the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: This is how the Dodgers don't win the World Series.
Speaker 2: It's not going to be getting to the World Series
Speaker 2: and losing to an American League team. It's not going
Speaker 2: to be getting to the NLCS and facing the Brewers
Speaker 2: or the Phillies or the Braves. It's gonna be this
Speaker 2: pesky d Backs team that ends up upsetting them. I
Speaker 2: want that take out in the open. I believe it
Speaker 2: to my core watching this series, like I've watched so
Speaker 2: many of these d Backs Dodgers series, even when the
Speaker 2: d Backs go into La and they beat the crap
Speaker 2: out of them. Like when we had Buster only on
Speaker 2: what was it Thursday of last week, he was talking
Speaker 2: about teams that could potentially give the Dodgers a run
Speaker 2: now that they're vulnerable, and he was talking about the
Speaker 2: Padres and I said, Buster, do not sleep on this
Speaker 2: Snakes team. This Arizona team, for whatever reason, matches up
Speaker 2: with them so well and gives them so many headaches.
Speaker 2: That's my take. D Backs upset the Dodgers in the playoffs.
Speaker 2: Dodgers do not three pat Now, if the Dodgers do
Speaker 2: beat the Dumbacks in the playoffs and I'm wrong, consider
Speaker 2: them three times back to back.
Speaker 3: You think this is the only team that can take
Speaker 3: them down.
Speaker 2: I really do. I think it's the only team that
Speaker 2: could take them down.
Speaker 3: That's funny. I don't hate the take. And this is
Speaker 3: the exciting part about the d Backs team. Part of
Speaker 3: why I believed in this team being a playoff team
Speaker 3: is that I just I felt like there was so
Speaker 3: much more in there and in the biggest part is
Speaker 3: having a healthy Gabriel Moreno. I think he's a top
Speaker 3: three or four catcher in the game. He's and at
Speaker 3: his best with the This is another guy as good
Speaker 3: bat to ball wise as anybody at the position. Doing
Speaker 3: decisions have gotten so good. He's sneaking a little bit
Speaker 3: of more power out there too, and just watching him
Speaker 3: defend is so much fun. I think this is another
Speaker 3: one of the best at the position when you take
Speaker 3: everything into account, and what he's done for this team
Speaker 3: I think is really exciting. And I just keep going
Speaker 3: back to like, you're gonna get Justin Martinez back potentially
Speaker 3: sooner rather than later. And with Kevin Ginko throwing the
Speaker 3: way like this bullpen's already been shockingly great and you're
Speaker 3: gonna add Martinez to that, that really helps. And then
Speaker 3: Brandon fought. Now it's getting hard to deny whatever he
Speaker 3: figured out since coming back, it's real and he looks
Speaker 3: really good and so if they have that Brandon fought too,
Speaker 3: Like that's who helped them make the run to the
Speaker 3: World Series last time. Ryan Ultimith settling in, you know,
Speaker 3: the addition of Lars new Bar I think is just
Speaker 3: helping link in this lineup a little bit. Gettel Marte
Speaker 3: I think starting to come back to life. Heraldo Perdomo
Speaker 3: is really coming back to life, and that's the biggest part.
Speaker 3: It just seems like things are starting to really come
Speaker 3: together here. This has been the team I really thought
Speaker 3: could do it this year. They're going to get in
Speaker 3: the playoffs. I think it would take a collapse for
Speaker 3: them that's get into the playoffs, and then it just
Speaker 3: comes down to, you know, the matchups there and Soroka's
Speaker 3: coming back off the IL this week. Corbyn burns by
Speaker 3: sometime in September. I don't know. Things could just line
Speaker 3: up for this team.
Speaker 2: I think it's going to And two quick things on
Speaker 2: the Dodgers before we get to my series. Number one
Speaker 2: is when is it okay to start talking about Mooki Bets.
Speaker 2: Mooki Bets is an eighty five WRC plus, meaning Mooki
Speaker 2: Bets is fifteen percent worse than a league average hitter.
Speaker 2: Now thankfully still playing pretty good defense over there at short,
Speaker 2: which means his value is at least going to be decent,
Speaker 2: But staring down the barrel of a one point three
Speaker 2: f war and watching Mookie Bets at the plate just
Speaker 2: have zero. There's no power in there anymore. Since the
Speaker 2: All Star break, he's slugging under three hundred. That's not
Speaker 2: the that this is not Mooky Betts. We can talk
Speaker 2: about Kyle Tucker, we can talk about which was, yeah,
Speaker 2: he hasn't been bad. It's been Mooky who is in
Speaker 2: the fifth spot in this lineup. Or they bound him
Speaker 2: around a couple of times, and he just looks like
Speaker 2: an automatic out to me, and even when he does
Speaker 2: hit the ball, it's just like these weak grounders, right.
Speaker 2: And then the closing situation with Edwin Diaz. I mean,
Speaker 2: this is becoming a problem, right, And you know you
Speaker 2: could say, well, let's go over to Tanner Scott. That's
Speaker 2: the easy option there. But it's not like he's looked
Speaker 2: all that great, like Dave Roberts when he came out
Speaker 2: and said, you know, we're evaluating the situation, but there's
Speaker 2: not a lot of guys that we can turn to
Speaker 2: right now because a couple other guys are not pitching. Well,
Speaker 2: I understand it's a tough, but then you listen to
Speaker 2: Freddy Freeman talk about it, and he says I'm not
Speaker 2: worried about any of this. We're good. They are a
Speaker 2: great team. They're the best team in baseball. I still
Speaker 2: believe that. But they're not a perfect team. So again,
Speaker 2: this happens every fucking year. I'm actually like this happens
Speaker 2: every year. Arm going into the season, people say the
Speaker 2: season is over, it's over, Dodgers already won. Everyone go
Speaker 2: to bed, no need to watch baseball. I'm canceling my
Speaker 2: MLB TV subscription. I'm through with it. And then we're
Speaker 2: in August ninth and the Dodgers are getting passed by
Speaker 2: the Braves and the standings. The Brewers have already passed them.
Speaker 2: The Cubs are right. Clubs are a game behind, Cubs
Speaker 2: are a game behind. Snell is just making his return.
Speaker 2: Glass now is still hurt. Otawi is not on the
Speaker 2: mound yet, and they get Trek Scooble, They lose the
Speaker 2: scoople start, The offense doesn't look good, they don't have
Speaker 2: a closer right now, and even last year they almost
Speaker 2: lost the World Series. So it's just another reminder not
Speaker 2: to freak out and disavow baseball just because the Dodgers
Speaker 2: are signing free agents. It's the best sport in the
Speaker 2: world because you never know what's gonna happen.
Speaker 3: Yeah, pahes is tapered off a little bit the Devil's advocate,
Speaker 3: and I think with Dodgers is well, I'm glad they're
Speaker 3: getting it out of their system now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's another good point. They're not perfect. Figerates them
Speaker 2: for the playoffs.
Speaker 3: They're not perfect. That's what this But at the same time,
Speaker 3: like from a Dodgers like flip side of it is,
Speaker 3: if you're going to work through some stuff, now is
Speaker 3: the time to do it. But it gets late fast,
Speaker 3: and you could also still not feel like you're playing
Speaker 3: your best ball going into the postseason. It'll be interesting
Speaker 3: to see. But yeah, I thought this was a great
Speaker 3: series for the d Backs. Continue to struggles for the
Speaker 3: Dodgers and we'll just kind of monitor and see how
Speaker 3: they sort some of these things out. But helps when
Speaker 3: you have Trek Scuoble to give you, you know, the quality
Speaker 3: start now after Yeah, mo Moto gives you quality starting
Speaker 3: Rookie Sasaki has been a really fun story to see
Speaker 3: that the way that he's starting to really settle it.
Speaker 2: Definitely let's move over to my ten series, but real quick,
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Speaker 2: go over to the Red taking on the Washington Nationals
Speaker 2: Game one. Nats win five to three. Dalan Lyles three
Speaker 2: run homer to open this game put Washington in the
Speaker 2: driver's seat, but the Red spot back with three solo
Speaker 2: shots that they're owned to tie it up in the
Speaker 2: second and third inning. Gino McClain and Ellie all got
Speaker 2: in on the fun, and a two run homer from
Speaker 2: Harry Ford in the fourth ended up being the difference
Speaker 2: here as Caid Cavali settled back into toss a quality
Speaker 2: start with eight strikeouts and the Nats bullpen shut it down.
Speaker 2: Shout out Kid Cavali. He currently leads baseball in starts
Speaker 2: with three earned runs or less, has put up a
Speaker 2: really solid season at the front of the Nationals rotation.
Speaker 2: Moved to Game two, NAT's win eight to two. Ableemic
Speaker 2: or Tes scored two on a scal single to start
Speaker 2: the scoring in the third, but Ginoswarez would answer back
Speaker 2: with a two run shot, his second homer in as
Speaker 2: many games. But then the floodgates just opened for Washington.
Speaker 2: Burns lost only his second game of the year, allowing
Speaker 2: five earned in five and a third and Andrew Alvarez
Speaker 2: on the other side for Washington allowed just one run
Speaker 2: over five and a thirds innings. Moved to Game three,
Speaker 2: the rubber match, well not really national sweep. They win
Speaker 2: seven to one. NAT's bullpen game was very effective and
Speaker 2: the offense did plenty enough to win again. Aba melek
Speaker 2: or Te'z rock to homer. Ruiz went three for three
Speaker 2: with an RBI. Daleen lyle Vivas each had two hits
Speaker 2: as the Nationals sweep the Reds. The Reds are playing
Speaker 2: pretty good ball there. For a little they were at
Speaker 2: least making it interesting in the division. They actually got
Speaker 2: up to fourth place at one moment, and then the
Speaker 2: Nats swept them, and then that's just like a solid team,
Speaker 2: right watching your body crue in their bullpen this week,
Speaker 2: and I'm like, that's a good Jake Bird. Shut the door,
Speaker 2: Jake Bird. I was just about to say, Jake Bird,
Speaker 2: shut the door. Like it's it's still a team that
Speaker 2: won't go out quietly. As everyone can see live here
Speaker 2: on YouTube, the Nationals are quite out of it yet
Speaker 2: four and a half games out of a wild card spot.
Speaker 2: It won't be easy, right You got to catch teams
Speaker 2: like the Phillies and the d Backs. But at the
Speaker 2: end of the day, a really good hot stretch from
Speaker 2: Washington and we know that they can get hot. They're
Speaker 2: right back in this thing.
Speaker 3: And I'll get to them in a second. I look
Speaker 3: at the final game as just like the epitome of
Speaker 3: what's wrong with the Reds and how they handled the deadline.
Speaker 3: All three pitchers that went should be in another uniform
Speaker 3: right now. Brady Singer to Burke to end Tone, all
Speaker 3: of those guys should be gone and should have got
Speaker 3: you prospects. And look, I know they they got off
Speaker 3: to that nice start after the deadline was almost I
Speaker 3: was thinking about it for a sec. I'm like, oh man,
Speaker 3: they're gonna rattle like ten and I'm gonna have to
Speaker 3: do like an apology video. But even then, I mean,
Speaker 3: look after the sweep, they're six out. They have almost
Speaker 3: no chance to get back into this thing, and that
Speaker 3: was the expectation. So it's just it's silly that they
Speaker 3: didn't sell. I think this was a reminder of that.
Speaker 3: But I do want to focus on the Nationals who
Speaker 3: did sell certain pieces. But also, like we talked about,
Speaker 3: why I love their deadline, was got these controllable bullpen
Speaker 3: pieces that can help them now, which because you're comparing
Speaker 3: it to what they had before, which is just they
Speaker 3: had some iron mics in there, and now you have
Speaker 3: some guys that can actually get out to even if
Speaker 3: they're a little bit raw upgrade and you have it's
Speaker 3: not like they traded Louis Garcia and it's just like, oh,
Speaker 3: let's just call up whoever they wanted to play Abbamela Cortez,
Speaker 3: like they wanted to clear the way for him, And
Speaker 3: is he gonna be Louis Garcia? I don't know, but
Speaker 3: this guy has the ingredients to be an above average
Speaker 3: big league back at first base, and he's looked like
Speaker 3: that right out of the gate, and he homeward today
Speaker 3: as we're recording this. So the fact that they they're
Speaker 3: not replacing him with the traffic cone, they wouldn't replace
Speaker 3: Carsie with the traffic cone. Their bullpen is much improved.
Speaker 3: Will Deon give them three huge innings and Jake Bird
Speaker 3: shut the door like their acquisitions are immediately helping them,
Speaker 3: and these are guys that are going to help them
Speaker 3: down the line as well. I loved this deadline for
Speaker 3: the Nationals because it didn't fully shut the door on
Speaker 3: the season for them, but it also still had the
Speaker 3: big picture in their vision, and I think this series
Speaker 3: is a perfect example of that. They're a better team
Speaker 3: than the Reds, and they sold and they're still in
Speaker 3: a better position to make the playoffs. These are two
Speaker 3: organizations that are operating on different levels here, the Nationals
Speaker 3: and Tobony being the higher one.
Speaker 2: To summarize what you just said, there are levels to
Speaker 2: this shit, all right. Let's move over to the A's
Speaker 2: taken on the Boston Red Sox, and it went exactly
Speaker 2: as we all thought. Game one, Red Sox win thirteen
Speaker 2: to one. Not sure what was more impressive, Peyton totally
Speaker 2: or the Red Sox offense, because Peyton totally struck out
Speaker 2: fourteen over six innings with two hits and one run
Speaker 2: with the walk to lower his era to three point
Speaker 2: two zero on just eighty four pitches. Incredibly efficient, dominant
Speaker 2: outing from totally Every starter in the Socks lineup had
Speaker 2: a hit. Six of them had multiple hits. Duran homerd A. Bray,
Speaker 2: you went two for two with three RBIs. Yoshida had
Speaker 2: two hits and two RBIs. Just pure domination from start
Speaker 2: to finish. But we moved Game two, A's win seven
Speaker 2: to three. How about gage jump for you? Rather take
Speaker 2: a bow? Six inning, six hits, two earned eleven punches
Speaker 2: against the hottest team on the planet. Jonaheim, who should
Speaker 2: be in another uniform, but hey, he's helping the A's
Speaker 2: win games right now. Yeah, broke the two to two
Speaker 2: tie in the fifth with an RBI single. Then in
Speaker 2: the six Donovan Walton two run double gave the A's
Speaker 2: a five to two lead, and Tyler soderstrom solo shot
Speaker 2: was the daghe we moved to the rubber match. Game three,
Speaker 2: and yes, the coldest team in baseball beat the hottest
Speaker 2: team in baseball. A's win four to three. WILLI M
Speaker 2: brad you broke a two two tie in the fifth
Speaker 2: with a sack fly, but Jonaheim answered in the eighth
Speaker 2: with a big RBI double. But what decided this game
Speaker 2: happen in the ninth as Max Munsey, the A's Max Mounsey,
Speaker 2: not the Dodgers. Max Munsey ripped an RBI double to
Speaker 2: give the A's the lead, and then they closed it
Speaker 2: out again. The coldest team in baseball goes on the
Speaker 2: road and beats the hottest team in baseball to win
Speaker 2: the series. Now, the A's have been a full blown disaster.
Speaker 3: It's been as bad as the Red Sox has been good,
Speaker 3: and the Red Sox has been good as good as
Speaker 3: any team we can remember.
Speaker 2: Isn't baseball the best? Like? What the hell? What are
Speaker 2: the A's doing going into fed Way and taking this
Speaker 2: series and two nice wins, not like lucky bounces, and
Speaker 2: they win a one run game that could have gone
Speaker 2: either way. I mean the last two games of the
Speaker 2: series again, eleven to six. I know, I guess technically
Speaker 2: Game three was kind of a one run game, but
Speaker 2: at the same time they deserve to win that game.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: It was fun series to watch. I don't know if
Speaker 2: it's one of like tangible takeaways. The Red Sox are fine, Like,
Speaker 2: it's just one series. You were the hottest team on
Speaker 2: the planet. You were due to lose. It would almost
Speaker 2: be impossible. If you keep winning series like this, I
Speaker 2: would almost think there's some devil voodoo magic out there. Also,
Speaker 2: the idiots on the internet, the Red Sox are cheating.
Speaker 2: How dumb can you be? Can we just enjoy a
Speaker 2: hot streak without you pulling out your tinfoil hat? And
Speaker 2: I understand as occasual tinfoil hat myself, I get it,
Speaker 2: but I understand maybe it's just shit talking, but people
Speaker 2: on the internet are dead serious.
Speaker 3: It's just well, if they were cheating, they definitely would
Speaker 3: have taken care of the athletics. Yeah, I think would yeah,
Speaker 3: unless unless this is where they we can't tip them off.
Speaker 3: We got to drop two or three here. But now
Speaker 3: I think this is why baseball is amazing. And also
Speaker 3: there's probably a scenario where the Red Sox where they
Speaker 3: can't lose right now, went into the series and said,
Speaker 3: oh my gosh, I mean this team can't win right now.
Speaker 3: We're at home. This will be easy, this will be easy,
Speaker 3: and they blitz them in Game one and they probably
Speaker 3: Coast a little bit in two and three, and they
Speaker 3: get surprised there because it's a major League baseball team
Speaker 3: and so some guys I can swing it. So yeah,
Speaker 3: no major takeaways from me here either. But the Athletics
Speaker 3: They've still have some guys that can swing it. But
Speaker 3: I thought it was the pitching performances. Gage Jump has
Speaker 3: that in him. He's gonna be a good arm for them,
Speaker 3: and I think he's gonna be middle rotation piece for them.
Speaker 2: And J. T.
Speaker 3: Ginn just continues to be a quality, quality arm for.
Speaker 2: Them, no doubt about it. All. Right, Let's move over
Speaker 2: two the Mets and the Pirates. Game one, Mets win
Speaker 2: six to four. This game was over by the third
Speaker 2: inning as Carson Bench had two RBI singles and Marcus
Speaker 2: Semion ripped the three run home run. Francisco Lindor had
Speaker 2: an RBI single as well, and the Mets bullpen held
Speaker 2: off a late rally by the Pirates for the win.
Speaker 2: Zach Thornton continues his underrated campaign, tossing five shutout innings
Speaker 2: to lower zero eight to two to five to two.
Speaker 2: Mets got a guy for next year. Game two, Pirates
Speaker 2: blank them nine to zero. Bubba Chandler is starting to
Speaker 2: find it on six shutout innings with five strikeouts, and
Speaker 2: the Pirates offense beat the crap out of Robert Stock,
Speaker 2: putting out eight runs and three innings, and Jake Mangham
Speaker 2: led the way with three hits to get his batting
Speaker 2: average to three hundred. Nick Gonzalez and Ronnie Simon both
Speaker 2: combined for five RBIs, but then in the rubber match,
Speaker 2: Mets destroy them eleven to one. Sell the team Champs
Speaker 2: rained down on the Pirates as they got blasted by
Speaker 2: the Mets. Boba Schett led the way, going five for
Speaker 2: five with three RBIs, Jacob Young had three hits, Alvarez
Speaker 2: and Luis Robert homerd and Sean Maniah was brilliant, gowing
Speaker 2: seven innings, allowing three hits in one run with eleven strikeouts.
Speaker 2: Totally turned his season around. And the loan to home
Speaker 2: run or the loan run excuse me, came from a
Speaker 2: Jake Mangham home run. Jake Mangham, how about? Pirates are
Speaker 2: dealing with injuries in their lineup. It's a bad stretch
Speaker 2: for Pittsburgh. It feels like every single time I check
Speaker 2: the standings, they're falling down. Down down, and some of
Speaker 2: their starting pitchers continue to struggle. Carmen Majinski, Army got
Speaker 2: another chance of the road, you got shell yet to
Speaker 2: not go well. I don't be decloud on the guy.
Speaker 2: We're more just talking about his comments from earlier on
Speaker 2: in the season, how he almost demanded a trade because
Speaker 2: he was kicked out of the rotation. Here's your shot
Speaker 2: didn't go exactly too well. I still think he's a
Speaker 2: fine pitcher. I was more just joking around, and you
Speaker 2: know this was a series. Two teams played baseball this weekend.
Speaker 3: Arm Yeah, I don't have any major takeaways other than
Speaker 3: like Sean man Ia, Like I know that the Pirates
Speaker 3: have had issues against leftist relative to how they hit righty's,
Speaker 3: but I mean that we've seen that Sean Manya before.
Speaker 3: That's not like totally totally out of nowhere. And when
Speaker 3: you look at what Manya has started to piece together
Speaker 3: over the last several outings, he looks a lot more
Speaker 3: like the guy that you know, the Mets gave a
Speaker 3: lot of money to, So maybe something clicked here, like
Speaker 3: they still have him under control for next season. If
Speaker 3: that's a guy that can end up just being serviceable
Speaker 3: for them in whatever role it is, like, it seems
Speaker 3: like he's at least got a little bit of life
Speaker 3: back in and in that arm. So just something to
Speaker 3: monitor there, because you mentioned they've got a guy in
Speaker 3: Thornton and absolutely could be a back into the rotation
Speaker 3: guy for him. They've got Christian Scott, They've got, you know,
Speaker 3: several key pieces that I think you can feel like
Speaker 3: you've got an Olan McLain obviously headlining it as well.
Speaker 3: Start to piece together this rotation a little bit and
Speaker 3: maybe you don't have to do as much work as
Speaker 3: it feels like with how bad the team has been
Speaker 3: Pirates kind of similar to the conversation. Now, this series
Speaker 3: with the Marlins, I think is gonna be really interesting
Speaker 3: because I think depending on how that goes, one team
Speaker 3: could really start sinking, and it seems like it could
Speaker 3: be the Pirates, but who knows. I think what will
Speaker 3: end up happening is it's a close series, like it
Speaker 3: always is. One team takes two out of three and
Speaker 3: you don't feel super confident about what the takeaway is.
Speaker 3: But I think if the Pirates don't take that series
Speaker 3: against the Marlins, you know, it could start to slip
Speaker 3: away for them a little bit.
Speaker 2: Here, no doubt about it. And Zach Thornton I just
Speaker 2: want to go back to him real quick. He kind
Speaker 2: of feels like the Mets version of Jake Bennett on
Speaker 2: the Red Sox, where it's this crafty lefty who's gotten
Speaker 2: really good results so far. I still think I prefer
Speaker 2: Bennett as a pitcher, but this fifth rounder, you didn't
Speaker 2: expect a lot from him. He wasn't one of the
Speaker 2: top Mets prospects, Jake Bennett, not one of the top
Speaker 2: Red Sox prospects, but game the shot and it's just
Speaker 2: took full advantage of that opportunity. I love guys like
Speaker 2: that where you know, again you're giving a lane and
Speaker 2: you you do as much as you can too, you know,
Speaker 2: earn a spot, and I feel like he's earning a spot.
Speaker 3: And then last shout O'Neil Cruz. I think on rehab
Speaker 3: they can't get him.
Speaker 2: Back enough or what's the fact, at least for them,
Speaker 2: but they need more, they need more to But it's
Speaker 2: not really even about the offense though, arm I feel
Speaker 2: like it's about the pitching. Yeah, I mean, have fun
Speaker 2: with the Camelo Devall experience, right, and you know they
Speaker 2: have Luke Weaver now, but it's the starters. Paul Skins
Speaker 2: is a four era, Joe Jones has been struggling. Now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like you know, it's not pitching. That's what the
Speaker 3: whole team was built on.
Speaker 2: So exactly, if they're not pitching, they've got no shots.
Speaker 2: So I think it's all on the pitching. If the
Speaker 2: Pirates want a rebound, all right, let's move over two
Speaker 2: Braves versus Yankees. Okay, we got Game one. Yankees win
Speaker 2: three to two in ten innings. It was a pitchers duel.
Speaker 2: I mean, this whole series was pitching related between Max
Speaker 2: Freed and Tyler Molly. Molly went six shutout innings with
Speaker 2: nine punches free pitch into the seventh without allowing a
Speaker 2: run and shruck out seven against his former team. Austin
Speaker 2: Riley was the first to put a run on the
Speaker 2: board with a solo shot in the eighth, and then
Speaker 2: Matt Olsen did the same in the ninth, but the
Speaker 2: Yankees rallied back in the ninth. Well started it with
Speaker 2: an RBI double. He's been playing a lot better lately,
Speaker 2: and then Ben Rice smacked a single to bring in
Speaker 2: the tying run and we head to extras. In the tenth,
Speaker 2: Yankees held Atlanta scoreless and then Ryan McMahon hit a
Speaker 2: sackfly to walk it off for the Yankees. Moved to
Speaker 2: Game two. Yankees win five to four. Spencer Jones started
Speaker 2: scoring in the first off Chris saale I was shocked.
Speaker 2: Arm we got Spencer Jones at the lefty crush and
Speaker 2: Chris sail I'll take it and then did it again
Speaker 2: to tie it up at two with an RBI triple
Speaker 2: in the fifth, and the Yankees got the lead on
Speaker 2: a controversial back call. What Wise came out to argue
Speaker 2: and got ejected. George Lombard Junior and rond Dcunya Junior
Speaker 2: traded solo shots late, but a Ben Rice homer in
Speaker 2: the eighth ended up being the difference as the Yankees
Speaker 2: held off a late Braves rally and moved to Game three.
Speaker 2: Braves tried to avoid the sweep, and they did it.
Speaker 2: They went two to one in ten innings. Cam Schlitler
Speaker 2: and Grant Holmes had an excellent pitchers duel, but Matt
Speaker 2: Olson broke it open with a home run in the seventh,
Speaker 2: but Trent Grisham would answer in the eighth with his
Speaker 2: eleventh high leverage home run since twenty twenty five, the
Speaker 2: most in the majors. Now, it's been a disaster watching
Speaker 2: him defend, but I still think the guy can hit.
Speaker 2: But the Braves would have the last laugh ultimately, as
Speaker 2: Michael Harris singled to score Kim in the tenth. Stat
Speaker 2: lines on both pitchers. Schlitler seven innings, three hits, one
Speaker 2: earned eleven k's, no walks, his eras at two to one.
Speaker 2: He made the Braves look like they've never seen a
Speaker 2: fastball above ninety seven miles an hour. They saw three
Speaker 2: of them couldn't do shit with it. And remember, the
Speaker 2: Braves came in with the sixth best offense in all
Speaker 2: of baseball against ninety seven miles an hour higher. They
Speaker 2: had nothing with Schlitler and Toulsen, but the Yankees at
Speaker 2: the same time could not square up Grant Holmes six
Speaker 2: shutout innings with only three hits allowed. His ERA is
Speaker 2: at three four seven. A really solid season so far
Speaker 2: for Grant Holmes and arm. I gotta be honest with you,
Speaker 2: as a Yankee fan watching Freed Cole Schlitler, it got
Speaker 2: me excited for the postseason. Knowing that Aaron Judge and
Speaker 2: Cody Bellinger are going to eventually come back watching Luis Garcia,
Speaker 2: you know, play some good defense. Actually, George Lumbard Junior
Speaker 2: is incredibly exciting. We all saw the report he was
Speaker 2: quizzing players on what Grant Holmes throws. Obviously didn't matter
Speaker 2: because Grant Holmes shoved it up our butts. Yeah, but
Speaker 2: you know has hit a couple of home runs already,
Speaker 2: played really really good defense. Remember he's twenty one. And
Speaker 2: I think I saw someone put this online and I
Speaker 2: don't mean to steal it. I just forgot who said
Speaker 2: it in the moment that were in the honeymoon phase
Speaker 2: for Grant Holmes, all right, not Granholmes, for George Lombard
Speaker 2: Junior or just everything is special, but at the yeah,
Speaker 2: I want to enjoy the honeymoon phase, Sue me. I'm
Speaker 2: a enjoying it. Well.
Speaker 3: The thing I keep thinking about is like the better
Speaker 3: he does, the more unrealistic. Like these Yankees fans expectations
Speaker 3: are going to be on Lombard and if he's a
Speaker 3: one fifteen WRC plus with above average defense, they're going
Speaker 3: to be passed or something. But I mean what he's
Speaker 3: been to just spark this offense that really needed it
Speaker 3: with the quality at bats that he's given, and this
Speaker 3: is exactly what they envisioned when they brought him up, right,
Speaker 3: He was one of the hottest hitters in the minor
Speaker 3: leagues when they brought him up, and that's I think
Speaker 3: why they wanted to ride the high hand and just
Speaker 3: try to jolt this offense a little bit to pair
Speaker 3: with Garcia, who they brought into jolt the offense a
Speaker 3: little bit, right, So I think it's been awesome to
Speaker 3: see that. This was like a felt like and I
Speaker 3: know they would only play ech other in the World Series,
Speaker 3: but just kind of like a playoff preview of how
Speaker 3: this Yankees team, even if the offense is not performing
Speaker 3: to the best of its abilities, can still just beat anybody.
Speaker 3: Because when you've got Cole, who's really looking more like
Speaker 3: Cole the more he's just kind of got the work
Speaker 3: good back under him since coming back from elbow surgery.
Speaker 3: Schwitzler just again making an interesting after the start that
Speaker 3: we saw from don't cease to continue to make this
Speaker 3: alsy young conversation so much fun. And then Freed, who's
Speaker 3: just always going to be able to give you a
Speaker 3: quality start like they can go toe to toe with
Speaker 3: anybody with those guys on the mound, as you alluded
Speaker 3: to with the playoff series side of things, and I
Speaker 3: mean this Braves line ups fantastic and they kept them
Speaker 3: at Bay the entire series. So I thought it was
Speaker 3: really impressive stuff from on the pitching side from the Yanks,
Speaker 3: And like again, when you have those three guys, you're
Speaker 3: going to be tough to beat.
Speaker 2: No doubt about it. But at the same time, it's
Speaker 2: getting me excited. But I also have to remember in
Speaker 2: the back of my head, they got to hit. Like
Speaker 2: Judge has to come back healthy. Cody Bellinger has to
Speaker 2: come back and look like the Cody Bellinger at the
Speaker 2: start of the season, not the Cody Bellinger that we
Speaker 2: saw when Aaron Judge got injured and he cratered offensively.
Speaker 2: Now he's still an All World defender and left field,
Speaker 2: still a good base runner, He's just a good ball player.
Speaker 2: But at the same time, like he has to hit.
Speaker 2: If the Yankees want to make major noise here, they
Speaker 2: need those two guys to come back strong. Because Ben
Speaker 2: Rice is going through a little bit of a slide
Speaker 2: and you're seeing what the Yankees offense looks like. He
Speaker 2: hit his thirty second home run in the year this weekend,
Speaker 2: which was big, kind of snapped a homerless streak a
Speaker 2: little bit for him. And when he's not hitting, it
Speaker 2: gets tough. And Austin Wells has been hitting, which is good,
Speaker 2: and like that's just great for his confidence at the
Speaker 2: end of the day. But they need to hit and
Speaker 2: they haven't been hitting. But they still took two out
Speaker 2: of three from a really good Braves team.
Speaker 3: And shout out Tyler Mallley, like we're clowning that trade,
Speaker 3: Like you're not gonna go get a real, real impact
Speaker 3: arm and Maalley gives you six a three hit shutout,
Speaker 3: nine k's. If he keeps doing that, obviously we can
Speaker 3: eat some crow. But that's going to be interesting to
Speaker 3: see if Mali can follow that up.
Speaker 2: Also, I think Mike g is very upset that I
Speaker 2: did not include the Cubs in my team that is
Speaker 2: going to beat the LA Dodgers. Is there anything more
Speaker 2: hipster than Peter picking the d Backs as the team
Speaker 2: most likely to take down Sodgers over Braves, Cubs, Brewers, etc. Lol,
Speaker 2: Mike G, let's be honest. You want me to say
Speaker 2: it's the Cubs and I understand the Cubs beat them
Speaker 2: in a regular season series, but what I'm looking at
Speaker 2: as a team that is not afraid of the LA
Speaker 2: Dodgers and plays them well every single time. And it's
Speaker 2: a divisional team. So I know you love their Cubs.
Speaker 2: Of course they could, but I'm focused here on the
Speaker 2: d Backs. Let's now focus on the Cubs. How about it.
Speaker 2: They played a series this weekend against the Royals and
Speaker 2: they won that series. Let's talk about Cubs Royals. Game one,
Speaker 2: Cubs win, six to four. It was for to one
Speaker 2: Cubs by the end of the second as Pca and
Speaker 2: Saasa Zuki both drove in two on singles. Carter Gents
Speaker 2: would answer back with a homer, but so did Paeder
Speaker 2: Ramirez for the Cubs. Never really that close of a game.
Speaker 2: Kevin Gosman was great in his debut. He tossed seven
Speaker 2: innings of two run ball. Game two, Royals win six
Speaker 2: to three. Royals got all four runs they needed to
Speaker 2: win in the first three innings, with Tags starting it
Speaker 2: off with a homer and then ending it with an
Speaker 2: RBI double. In the middle of that was a two
Speaker 2: run single from Josh Rojas, but the Cubs brought the
Speaker 2: game to within one, highlighted by an Ian Halp homer,
Speaker 2: but yet another homer from CAGs late was the dagger
Speaker 2: moved to Game three, the rubber match, Cubs destroy them
Speaker 2: ten to two. Before we get into the offensive onslaught
Speaker 2: from Chicago. Shout out Matthew Boyd tossing seven innings a
Speaker 2: two run ball to lower Zira to three five zero.
Speaker 2: I know he's been a little bit banged up, but
Speaker 2: has really turned in a solid season for them. But
Speaker 2: now let's talk about the offense. Ian Happ his twentieth
Speaker 2: homer of the year. That's his fourth straight season with
Speaker 2: twenty plus homers and has now done it in five
Speaker 2: of the last six seasons. The one season he didn't,
Speaker 2: he hit seventeen home runs and that homer was one
Speaker 2: of or one of his three hits on the day.
Speaker 2: Miguel Amaya homer for the Cubs, Bush and Bregman had
Speaker 2: three hits each. It was a route Cubs win the series.
Speaker 3: They should, but a couple of things that sent out
Speaker 3: to me seeing Gosmin like that, I think you're gonna
Speaker 3: just see an invigorated Gosman here at the change of scenery,
Speaker 3: And it was just encouraging even against the Royals to
Speaker 3: see that series. I love Pedro Ramirez and I think
Speaker 3: he's gonna play a pretty big role in the team,
Speaker 3: especially with Matt Shawby and Hurt. I thought he was
Speaker 3: gonna be a guy that teams were gonna very much
Speaker 3: request at the deadline. I'm sure they did, but the
Speaker 3: Cubs holding on to him, I think says a lot.
Speaker 3: He added power this year. He's super versatile, he can
Speaker 3: do a lot of different things. He's sneaky on the
Speaker 3: base paths, great back to ball, really good approach. Like
Speaker 3: I love Pedro Miraz and he's been a difference maker
Speaker 3: for this team to plug whatever different gap that they have.
Speaker 3: And you know, I feel like the numbers should be
Speaker 3: better with with Bregman of late, just because it feels
Speaker 3: like when I'm checking in, I'm seeing a lot more
Speaker 3: quality at bats. But I feel like with Bregman, two
Speaker 3: are already seeing it. To see a different story all the
Speaker 3: time of like he helped this pitcher with something, he
Speaker 3: helped this hit or with something. And so I know
Speaker 3: Cubs fans are frustrating at times, are frustrated at times
Speaker 3: with with Bregman, but I also think that's a guy
Speaker 3: that's going to be like very helpful come postseason time.
Speaker 3: And since July first, Bregman's got a one to fifteen
Speaker 3: WRC plus if he's playing the defense he's capable of
Speaker 3: and doing all the other things, you know, beyond the
Speaker 3: box score. I feel like this guy deserves a little
Speaker 3: bit more love than he's getting the other side of it, though, Caglione,
Speaker 3: dude sick, game like he's just when he's hot, it
Speaker 3: is awesome, and I still think like it's all loading
Speaker 3: for I think the next full season that we have
Speaker 3: for a monster campaign for him.
Speaker 2: Since June first, Jack Caglion has played fifty five games
Speaker 2: with fifteen homers. He's slugging five sixty six. But the
Speaker 2: two numbers that jump out to me are him the
Speaker 2: fact that he's only striking out twenty three percent of
Speaker 2: the time and he's even hitting two eighty eight for
Speaker 2: a one point six f war Like the defense is okay,
Speaker 2: and he's kind of molding into more of a complete hitter.
Speaker 2: I'm not ready to call him a complete hitter yet,
Speaker 2: but I think the worry when he came up from
Speaker 2: the minor leagues is yes, the power is going to
Speaker 2: be there. But is he just going to punch out
Speaker 2: too much? Right? Is that? Is that just going to
Speaker 2: happen with CAGs? But no, CAGs has looked really, really solid,
Speaker 2: especially over the last two months, and is turning in
Speaker 2: an overall solid season. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I always thought the bats of ball was underrated with
Speaker 3: him because people conflated it with horrible swing decisions. And
Speaker 3: so as the swing decisions has gotten better, you're seeing
Speaker 3: a guy that actually is a better feel to hit
Speaker 3: than you'd think start to shine through here and the
Speaker 3: power start to shine through. Cubs pitching staff just starting
Speaker 3: a round in a form because of the guys that
Speaker 3: they've added. But also, you know, I Monaga has been
Speaker 3: good overall, Peterson's giving them a couple quality starts, and
Speaker 3: it just seems like with Cabrera potentially coming back, Zephyr
Speaker 3: John out of the pen, Cubs bullpen is Eric sou mean,
Speaker 3: the Cub's deadline is really kind of helping, I think
Speaker 3: solidify what is a team that is becoming more easy
Speaker 3: to believe in by week.
Speaker 2: Just a really good team. Before we move on to
Speaker 2: my next five series to end it, Blue Jay's M
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Speaker 2: Next series up, Twins versus Brewers. Game one, Twins win
Speaker 2: eight to six. Jackson Troo led the game off of
Speaker 2: the homer and by the end of the second it
Speaker 2: was four O Brewers, but the Twins wouldn't go down
Speaker 2: without a fight. Josh Bell hit a two run shot,
Speaker 2: Kayln Culpepper hit his first career homer and his first hit,
Speaker 2: and Austin Martin tied it up with an RBI double.
Speaker 2: Excuse me. The sixth inning decided this one as RBI
Speaker 2: hits from Really Slewis and Josh Bell ended up being
Speaker 2: the difference. Moved to Game two, Brewers win four to three.
Speaker 2: Twins got all three runs in the second, then went quiet.
Speaker 2: Excuse me. Bryce Terrang tied it up at three in
Speaker 2: the fourth with a two run single, and then Andrew
Speaker 2: Vaughn brought home the eventual winning run in the eighth
Speaker 2: on an RBI single game three. Brewers win four to
Speaker 2: three in ten innings. Jackson Troo homer to lead off
Speaker 2: the game, then we went quiet until the fifth, where
Speaker 2: brooks Ley tied it up with a homer of his own.
Speaker 2: Brewers took command in the fifth as Jake Bauers homered
Speaker 2: and David Hamilton ripped an RBI double. In the next
Speaker 2: half inning, Cody Clemens rocked one to right center, his
Speaker 2: twentieth home run of the season, to tie it up
Speaker 2: at three all against Jacob Izzarowski, and after three quiet innings,
Speaker 2: we had to extras. In the bottom of the tenth,
Speaker 2: though Jake Bauers punched one to left to bring home
Speaker 2: Bryce Terrang to walk it off and take this series.
Speaker 2: But shout out Luis Laura made two insane catches in
Speaker 2: one game. Thankfully he's okay after the second one. He
Speaker 2: bashed into the you know fencing there in Milwaukee and
Speaker 2: also shadow Chicken Mazarowski for recording his two hundredth strikeout.
Speaker 2: But he went up against my twins, and you can't
Speaker 2: expect to shut out my twins like that arm you
Speaker 2: know this.
Speaker 3: One hundred and I mean a couple of big grabs
Speaker 3: were the difference between the Twins taking this series and not.
Speaker 3: I mean, they really hung in there in every game
Speaker 3: you win by two runs and then you lose the
Speaker 3: next two games four to three. And that's why the
Speaker 3: Brewers are so damn good though, Like when it's razor
Speaker 3: thin and it's a one run game, like they're gonna
Speaker 3: be tough to beat. I've said it, I said a
Speaker 3: lot on the call up, Like when I was in
Speaker 3: spring training at spring training in Arizona and just talking
Speaker 3: to some people and walking the backfields. I've always been
Speaker 3: a big fan of Louise Lara, but talking to some
Speaker 3: people in the Brewers org about Laura, every single person
Speaker 3: told me that guy's gonna win go gloves. Okay, it
Speaker 3: was just it was like it was like it was
Speaker 3: like a trained line for them, and I know it wasn't,
Speaker 3: but it's just everyone was in agreement that Laura is
Speaker 3: gonna win gold gloves and like, and it was always
Speaker 3: gold gloves with Anasts. It's been cool to see just
Speaker 3: immediately how good he's been defensively, and obviously he's a
Speaker 3: really good bats of ball guy. The offense is gonna
Speaker 3: come along, you know, as he gets more reps. We've
Speaker 3: seen flashes of it. He's a great player. That's gonna
Speaker 3: be a great asset for this team as well. With
Speaker 3: Cooper Pratt hitting the shelf, that does stink because another
Speaker 3: young guy that was really helping them. We saw Andrew
Speaker 3: Vaughn start a third.
Speaker 2: That was weird.
Speaker 3: Andrew Vaughn starting on third on Sunday. I won't pretend
Speaker 3: to have watched anything that he did defensively, but just
Speaker 3: interested to see if that continues. That was a fascinating development.
Speaker 3: I guess they could sub him out late, which they
Speaker 3: did in this past game. But the Twins slow start
Speaker 3: out of the you know, after the deadline came back
Speaker 3: to life a little bit. I thought this was a
Speaker 3: good series overall. That should be encourage The Brewers are
Speaker 3: just one of the baseball's best teams, and you're gonna
Speaker 3: have a hard time winning a series, especially when Misraski
Speaker 3: starts one of those games and the Brewers are at home,
Speaker 3: and that's unfortunately what happened. But this Brewers team is
Speaker 3: really good. I think they could use Cooper Pratt back
Speaker 3: sooner rather than later. I think it's a minor handy
Speaker 3: thing if I'm not taken, but in this Brewis team
Speaker 3: is just so good.
Speaker 2: They're so good and their bullpen is so good and
Speaker 2: I'm glad. Uh. John Richie on our YouTube live chat said,
Speaker 2: abniry Rebay had a hell of an eighth inning. Felt
Speaker 2: like he had to get five outs with his squeeze calls. Lol.
Speaker 2: And I know and he it was almost his fault
Speaker 2: that he didn't get one of those outs. He could
Speaker 2: have turned that double play when the ball came back
Speaker 2: to him and then he skipped it over. And I
Speaker 2: liked how the Brewers, I think it was his The
Speaker 2: pitching coach came out and kind of gave him a
Speaker 2: mound visit settled him back down. But abnery Rebay, man,
Speaker 2: the last time he's given up a run, give me
Speaker 2: a date. I think the last time adniry Rebay has
Speaker 2: given up a run.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna guess early. I'm going to guess like July tenth.
Speaker 2: June nineteenth, geez, twenty eight innings scoreless streak the longest
Speaker 2: in MLB right now, and abnery Rebay's got a two
Speaker 2: to five ERA on the season. In twenty twenty five,
Speaker 2: it was a one six seven, Like we can't forget
Speaker 2: Abner Ribey was sent down to the minor leagues with
Speaker 2: an ERA at seven in twenty twenty four and is
Speaker 2: completely rebounded. Brewers trusted at him and that trust has
Speaker 2: resulted into one of the best relievers in Major League Baseball.
Speaker 2: Anything else on the series before we move.
Speaker 3: On, I know Payn wants us to shout out to
Speaker 3: catch Mark Coley made former Marlins far man Mark Coley
Speaker 3: in double as see. This is one of the craziest
Speaker 3: catches for those watching on YouTube and if you're just
Speaker 3: listening on audio, look it up. So look at Mark Coley.
Speaker 3: He jumps to rob a home run. It pops out
Speaker 3: of his glove, but he falls on his back because
Speaker 3: he bounced off the wall. As the ball pops out
Speaker 3: of his glove, it's flying in the air. He lands
Speaker 3: on his back and then catches it again from his back.
Speaker 3: It's one of the best catches you will ever see
Speaker 3: with the Biloxi team. Double A for the Brewers, which
Speaker 3: is the best minor league team in baseball by the way,
Speaker 3: they are the Avengers for minor leagues.
Speaker 2: The hand eye coordination there is out of this world.
Speaker 2: I tweeted about it once I saw it too, and
Speaker 2: I said This is one of the best catches I've
Speaker 2: ever seen, because one thing to rob a home run,
Speaker 2: and it's another thing to be able to have the
Speaker 2: awareness where if you miss the robbing of the home
Speaker 2: run and you put the ball in the air and
Speaker 2: you're down on your back and you catch it like that. Yeah,
Speaker 2: for anybody listening on to audio, just to kick it up.
Speaker 3: Now he's like a bench player for them too, which
Speaker 3: is the funny part. But it's sick moment for Mark.
Speaker 2: Coley, no, no doubt about it. All right, Let's go
Speaker 2: over two Rockies versus Cardinals, Game one. Cardinals win three
Speaker 2: to two. Cardinals got all three runs in the second
Speaker 2: and the third, highlighted by any Vonne Herrera home run,
Speaker 2: and that was all they needed. Is Kyle Lahey allowed
Speaker 2: two runs over five innings and the Cardinals bullpen shut
Speaker 2: the door. Lay He has had a very underrated season,
Speaker 2: posting a three four five ELRA. Game two, Rockies win
Speaker 2: eight to six. Jake McCarthy led the game off with
Speaker 2: the homer and then they pushed the game to five
Speaker 2: to two on RBI hits from Cole krag Hunter Goodman
Speaker 2: and TJ. Rumfield and McCarthy Homeward again late as Jordan Walker,
Speaker 2: but it wasn't quite enough for Saint Louis. We moved
Speaker 2: to Game three, Cardinals went seven to four. Cardinals got
Speaker 2: out to a four to one lead after five innings,
Speaker 2: highlighted by a four hundred and forty one foot nuke
Speaker 2: from Alec Burlson, an absolute no doubterer. Rockies would tie
Speaker 2: it up in the next two innings on home runs
Speaker 2: from Brent Sullivan and Hunter Goodman, but RBI hits in
Speaker 2: the eighth from Weatherholt and Herrera sealed the series win
Speaker 2: for Saint Louis. Are On. One of my favorite futures
Speaker 2: from the beginning of the season was over sixty eight
Speaker 2: and a half wins, and I tweeted out, still have
Speaker 2: no idea how this team opened with a win total
Speaker 2: that started with a six. You and I both did
Speaker 2: the win totals at the beginning of the season. I'm
Speaker 2: pretty sure you had the over as well ten more
Speaker 2: wins to cash it. I was just a stupid line
Speaker 2: for a Cardinals team. I understand that they lost a
Speaker 2: couple of pieces, but they also got rid of sixty
Speaker 2: starts from Michaelis and Eric Fetti. The eight and a
Speaker 2: half wins was a stupid line. Thanks, thank you so
Speaker 2: much to our friends at bet MGM.
Speaker 3: Yeah a rare l for MGM. Well for us, Yeah,
Speaker 3: that's it was an awesome pick. And yeah, one thing
Speaker 3: when you look at this young offense and the pieces
Speaker 3: they had and who they could potentially have coming up,
Speaker 3: and it's all kind of come to fruition and then
Speaker 3: some I think even when you made that pick, I
Speaker 3: don't think you expected it to potentially be eclipsed in August,
Speaker 3: but odds are it could potentially, which is the amazing
Speaker 3: thing about where this team is at and I think
Speaker 3: where they're going to be, you know, next year, in
Speaker 3: the year after that with the present controllable talent that
Speaker 3: you can't fully credit him Boom four obviously, but then
Speaker 3: also now the farm system that they've cultivated a little
Speaker 3: bit as well. They did what they're supposed to do.
Speaker 3: They took two out of three. The Rockies are you know,
Speaker 3: always gonna be a little bit pesty. Jake McCarthy has
Speaker 3: been an awesome story. Again the Rockies. That was a
Speaker 3: savvy pick up for them going into this season. And
Speaker 3: now you extend maniac, you have McCarthy, you have some
Speaker 3: good outfielders for you. McCarthy is up to a one
Speaker 3: nineteen w RC plus sitting three to zero six on
Speaker 3: the season, and he's up to like a two point
Speaker 3: five f four s in turn of the three war season.
Speaker 3: I was a guy that was kind of left for scraps.
Speaker 3: They traded him for like a lot of ticket prospect
Speaker 3: that the d Backs did. Uh, And we're pretty much
Speaker 3: done with him, and I don't blame him. He was
Speaker 3: really bad last year. It's been really cool to see
Speaker 3: him turn around. And yeah, I understand that anyone can
Speaker 3: you know, start to pick it up at course, but
Speaker 3: I think it's just clear that Jake McCarthy is a
Speaker 3: better hitter this year and now another solid building block
Speaker 3: piece for them, who, by the way, has a one
Speaker 3: nineteen WRC plus away from course too.
Speaker 2: It was a battle of my futures. My biggest overall
Speaker 2: future was the Rockies over fifty two and a half wins.
Speaker 2: I also took him sixty plus wins at plus three seventy.
Speaker 2: I took him sixty five wins at plus nine point fifty. Now,
Speaker 2: based on my current projections and a lot of the
Speaker 2: fangrafts projections, armed they're projected to win about sixty four
Speaker 2: point two games. Right now, I think they get sixty five.
Speaker 2: Do you believe in ro October? Can we hit plus nine
Speaker 2: fifty arm?
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, that is crazy odds?
Speaker 2: I do.
Speaker 3: I do think they they eke it out.
Speaker 2: Let's get it out all right, Let's get it all right.
Speaker 2: Let's go over two. We got the Orioles and the Rangers.
Speaker 2: Game one, Rangers win two to one. Kobe Mayo's RBI
Speaker 2: single in the second was all Baltimore put up as
Speaker 2: the Jock Peterson two run homer ended up being the
Speaker 2: difference and the Orioles wasted a really strong start from
Speaker 2: Shane boz Is. That home run to Peterson was one
Speaker 2: of three hits he allowed that day over eight innings
Speaker 2: with nine shrikeouts. But I have Aldi on the other
Speaker 2: side pitched great pitching of the six only allowed one
Speaker 2: earned run. Game two, Rangers win five to one. Jacob
Speaker 2: de Gram shut it down through five innings with nine punchies,
Speaker 2: but he made one mistake and Jackson Holiday ripped it
Speaker 2: for a solo shot. But that was all she wrote
Speaker 2: for Baltimore as Jake Berger gave Texas the lead with
Speaker 2: an RBI single and Corey Seeger ripped a three run
Speaker 2: homer and the Orioles wasted another good outings. Kyle Bradish
Speaker 2: won six innings and allowed just one earned run, moved
Speaker 2: a game three, though Orioles get revenge, salvaged the series
Speaker 2: and win ten to five. And it was fireworks early
Speaker 2: as Baltimore jumped all over Kumar Row for five runs
Speaker 2: in the first two winnings, highlighted by homers from Pete
Speaker 2: Alonso and Colton Kowser and Brendon Nimo would answer with
Speaker 2: a three run shot in the third, but then Jordan
Speaker 2: Montgomery came in for Texas his first appearance in twenty
Speaker 2: twenty four. Remember him, you go over that well. Four innings,
Speaker 2: three runs, Alonzo Homard again, Tyler O'Neil Homard, and this
Speaker 2: one was over. Rangers won't go down without a fight.
Speaker 2: Arm in this division, and.
Speaker 3: I think they're dead, like it is terrible. They just
Speaker 3: bounce back.
Speaker 2: I still believe in this lineup, like Ezekiel Durant has
Speaker 2: been one of twenty five player by war this year.
Speaker 2: You got Sieger back, you got Langford, you got Nemo,
Speaker 2: you have Jake Berger having a great season. You got
Speaker 2: Jock Peterson setting the table at the front like it's
Speaker 2: a good offense and it's so funny. Though, when you
Speaker 2: think Rangers, at least the recent versions of the Rangers,
Speaker 2: maybe outside of their twenty twenty three World Series run,
Speaker 2: is you think De Gram and Evaldi and a bullpen
Speaker 2: with not a lot of names but really good production.
Speaker 2: This year, Gram has got an ra in your four.
Speaker 2: You've always got an Era above four. Mackenzie Gore has
Speaker 2: been a disaster, but they've hit a little bit. I
Speaker 2: don't know it's their numbers are I don't know what
Speaker 2: to think about them. What am I doing trying to
Speaker 2: analyze the Rangers right now? I don't know.
Speaker 3: It's literally impossible. But this was an encouraging series. And
Speaker 3: I will say too, like this Oriels team's playing better
Speaker 3: ball of late, and like I didn't think they played
Speaker 3: badly this year. The bats were a little bit slow,
Speaker 3: but it wasn't like they're playing you know there they
Speaker 3: were opposite of dud Arms. You had to face Jacob
Speaker 3: de Gram and then you had to face an eighty Evaldy.
Speaker 3: But I thought Shane Boz has been fantastic, Yeah, fastic.
Speaker 3: All of a sudden last fourteen starts eighty five ningc
Speaker 3: spitch to a two eight six era and this was
Speaker 3: a you know, a cgl essentially for bos eight innings
Speaker 3: like they went the distance the obviously, it just just
Speaker 3: was unfortunately a game where they couldn't get anything going offensively.
Speaker 3: Tyler O'Neil has picked it up a little bit over
Speaker 3: the last couple of weeks, but it's just the games
Speaker 3: where they don't have it. It's like, oh for three
Speaker 3: Gunner Henders, no for four, ped alwan so holiday in
Speaker 3: the three hole. I don't know why.
Speaker 2: Oh he's been good though. Now he's their only bat
Speaker 2: right now outside of ped Alwanso. I mean Gunner Henderson, Dude,
Speaker 2: what we talked about Mookie Betts Gunner, it's the same conversation.
Speaker 2: Made what I thought was two costly errors on one play.
Speaker 2: They gave it a single on the read, but his
Speaker 2: throw home was wider. I forget. It's one of the most.
Speaker 3: Shocking bad seasons too. I can remember we talked about
Speaker 3: cal Rowlean. Obviously that's like as shocking dot com. But
Speaker 3: I thought Gunner was going to make a leap to
Speaker 3: be in the MVP two conversation this year and instead,
Speaker 3: it's been a massive step back where it's to work.
Speaker 3: So he's hitting two thirteen crazy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's on crazy. Anything else on the series, No,
Speaker 2: not much.
Speaker 3: It's just one of those.
Speaker 2: One of those. Let's go over to the Rays taking
Speaker 2: on the Mariners in C Game one, raised win two
Speaker 2: to one. Jar Rasmussen wants his name arm included in
Speaker 2: the Cy Young combo as he continues to dominate. This
Speaker 2: time it was seven shutty, which is two hits loud
Speaker 2: in eight strikeouts. His Hera's down to two, seven to five,
Speaker 2: Johnny DeLuca and Jonathan Aronda homeward and that ended up
Speaker 2: being enough. It's Julio homer late, but Seattle falls just short.
Speaker 2: Also shout out the old timer home run. Derby got
Speaker 2: footage of Etro, fifty two year old Intro hitting the
Speaker 2: A T Moobile Ballpark. I remember quick story about Intro.
Speaker 2: I was working for the Yankees and it was one
Speaker 2: of my first internships, and he was there taking batting
Speaker 2: practice and I watched Etro hit eleven straight homers into
Speaker 2: the short Remember this s towards the end of his career,
Speaker 2: and I was just like, this is the greatest hitter ever.
Speaker 2: I mean He's control is once in a generation and
Speaker 2: he's still doing it at fifty two. And I feel
Speaker 2: like every year we see a highlight of him pitching
Speaker 2: somewhere else, like pitching not going like you were just
Speaker 2: born to play baseball.
Speaker 3: I really wish we had Buke Savant and like data
Speaker 3: for like peak each row, because I think the combinate,
Speaker 3: like the back to Ball numbers, it would be so
Speaker 3: much fun to look at.
Speaker 2: No doubt about it. Let's move to Game two, Raise
Speaker 2: win three to two. Josh Naylor and Victor Mason Junior
Speaker 2: traded homers early, but Richie Pelasio smacked a two runs
Speaker 2: single to give the Rays the lead and the eventual win.
Speaker 2: Naylor homer late but fell just short again. George Kirby
Speaker 2: four Seattle tossed five innings one run ball, but a
Speaker 2: Tampa bullpen game on the other side was nails moved.
Speaker 2: Game three, can Seattle salvage? Nope? Raise win four to one.
Speaker 2: Cool Young got Seattle on the board first with an
Speaker 2: RBI single, but that was the lone run. Ian Seymour
Speaker 2: would allow, tossing six innings with seven strikeouts, and the
Speaker 2: Raised bullpen shut the door and the Rays got their
Speaker 2: runs of RBI hits from Yandhi Diaz, Cedric Mullens, and
Speaker 2: Liam Hicks and Emerson Hancock for Seattle. He allowed two
Speaker 2: runs in four and two thirds, but he did allow
Speaker 2: nine hits. Arm The Seattle Mariners have now fallen to
Speaker 2: fifty six and sixty three. They're four and a half
Speaker 2: games out of a wild card, or excuse me, four
Speaker 2: and a half games back of the division, three and
Speaker 2: a half back out of the wild card. They're technically
Speaker 2: still in it. But I've said this team is dead
Speaker 2: for a while, and I just think they are, Like, yeah,
Speaker 2: my opinion has not changed, just unfortunately, and like I
Speaker 2: don't want this. I don't want to be right about
Speaker 2: the Mariners being dead when the Mariners are playing good baseball,
Speaker 2: Like I want someone in the American League to step up.
Speaker 2: But unfortunately, I feel like my take just continues to
Speaker 2: be validated.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just not and it's not looking like it's
Speaker 3: gonna get much better anytime soon. I mean, they they
Speaker 3: can't hit. They scored four runs. Yeah the whole series.
Speaker 3: It's not like the Rays we're lighting it up. But
Speaker 3: the Rays they have good pitching. But like, come on,
Speaker 3: like it's just it's in here at home, and I
Speaker 3: know it's not not the best place for you to hit,
Speaker 3: but at the end of the day, like I think
Speaker 3: they've figure that out. Like you don't see the splits
Speaker 3: the same way I feel like that we've seen in
Speaker 3: the best I just I don't know when it's going
Speaker 3: to happen. At this point. It feels like it should
Speaker 3: have happened by right about now. If the Mariners are
Speaker 3: going to get going and if it's four runs in
Speaker 3: three games, I just you've got to figure that this
Speaker 3: clubhouse is starting to just feel the weight of it
Speaker 3: and wonder if they're ever going to be able to
Speaker 3: break out of it. And I just don't think they will.
Speaker 3: Taylor Ward's not going to be able to save you, unfortunately,
Speaker 3: but again they still have time because of what the
Speaker 3: American League is. But I think the Rays, I mean,
Speaker 3: even in a day in a series where they didn't
Speaker 3: have everything offensively, although William Hicks has been such a
Speaker 3: good addition for them already with the at batsy he's
Speaker 3: given the lengthening that he's brought to this lineup, but
Speaker 3: they just the pitching staff just kind of put their
Speaker 3: foot on them and didn't let them move and that
Speaker 3: was it. And it just feels like it's not that
Speaker 3: hard to do that to the Mariners right now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel like Dan Wilson's job is certainly in
Speaker 2: jeopardy after oh yeah, this season. But shout out the Rays.
Speaker 2: Such a good team, seventy one and forty seven record,
Speaker 2: that's better than the Dodgers. Yep.
Speaker 3: And you know Rasmus and again, dude, he's he is.
Speaker 3: I want him on the mound as bad as I
Speaker 3: want just about anybody right now. He is one of
Speaker 3: the best in the sport.
Speaker 2: And the bullpen has been so good, and with Liam
Speaker 2: Hicks in the lineup elongates it a little bit more.
Speaker 2: And you still got Junior, still got Arondie, you still
Speaker 2: got Yondi Diaz and Chandler Simpson as a higher ops
Speaker 2: in Vladimergaro Junior. So that's a stat for everybody. Razy.
Speaker 2: All right, Let's go over to my last series, and
Speaker 2: we had the Astros taking on the San Diego Padres.
Speaker 2: I'm just checking too, because the Sunday night game is
Speaker 2: on right now. We'll talk about that in a second
Speaker 2: Game one. Astros win six to three. Houston got all
Speaker 2: four runs they needed early as Cam Smith, hilmert Walker,
Speaker 2: and Jordon had RBI singles, but the Padres would answer.
Speaker 2: Jackson Merril stays hot, ripped an RBI triple and shit.
Speaker 2: Gavin Sheets brought in another on a double player, and
Speaker 2: then Tatis homer, but then Cam Smith homerd again. This
Speaker 2: thing was over. Game two, Padres win three to two.
Speaker 2: Michael King outdueled Peter Lambert because he tossed six innings
Speaker 2: of one run ball with is three hits and six
Speaker 2: punch outs. Jackson Merrill stayed hot with a homer and
Speaker 2: brought home another on a bloop that was scored a
Speaker 2: force out Taylor Tremmell Homard, but it wasn't quite enough.
Speaker 2: So Astros won one. Padres win one, and currently right
Speaker 2: now the Astros are up two to one, but it's
Speaker 2: in the second inning. What's been going on there? On
Speaker 2: Sunday Night Baseball, Christian Javier gave up run, Randy Vasquez
Speaker 2: gave up two runs. How'd they get it? It looks
Speaker 2: like Taylor.
Speaker 3: Marshall homer, Varsha and another Merril homer, so that actually
Speaker 3: makes it easy to have an immediate takeaway Merrill's back,
Speaker 3: like I think Jackson Merrill is back, and that is huge.
Speaker 3: I think no matter what happens in this game, this
Speaker 3: is these are two teams that have been re really
Speaker 3: tough to read up and down, disappointing more than they've
Speaker 3: been like I would say, exciting, but have hung around
Speaker 3: enough and now I really feel like at the right time,
Speaker 3: are both playing some of the best ball that they've played,
Speaker 3: more so the Podgers, but even the Astros, they're playing
Speaker 3: some of the best ball that they've played. You get
Speaker 3: your new addition barshow Homering with the two run shot
Speaker 3: and then again with Jackson Merrill picking it up after
Speaker 3: we've seen Machada pick it up, after we've seen Tatis
Speaker 3: pick it up. I think both of these teams are
Speaker 3: going to have nice finishes to the season. Where they
Speaker 3: finished will be interesting, but I think both are going
Speaker 3: to play continue to play some of their best ball
Speaker 3: that they played all year down the rest of the way.
Speaker 2: Jackson Merrill since July first, thirty four games, nine homers,
Speaker 2: five steals, He's slashing three eleven three forty three, five
Speaker 2: point fifty three with a one forty seven WRC plus,
Speaker 2: and again that does not include his home run tonight,
Speaker 2: So consider that ten home runs in his last thirty
Speaker 2: five games. Yeah, I'm out. Fernando Tachis Junior one thirty
Speaker 2: two WRC plus, five homer, seven steals, Manny Machado seven
Speaker 2: homers in his last thirty three games for a one
Speaker 2: thirty WRC plus. It's so nice to watch the Padres
Speaker 2: when we can actually watch some offense, because this team
Speaker 2: gets real shitty to watch. None of them are hitting,
Speaker 2: but when those three guys are hitting, when Ty Francis
Speaker 2: continues to hit the way that he is, like now
Speaker 2: you see the vision. And this Padres team is of
Speaker 2: course going to compete, but the Astros at the end
Speaker 2: of the day are winning right now. They might end
Speaker 2: up winning the series, and they continue to play great baseball,
Speaker 2: led by Jordan Alvarez and Jeremy Pania, who are just
Speaker 2: Jordon's the best hitter in baseball currently right now, Aaron
Speaker 2: Judge on the shelf, and then Jeremy Pania is as
Speaker 2: good of an offensive shortstop as there is in the
Speaker 2: game right now. That's not even talking about his Gold
Speaker 2: Glove caliber defense. He's just a really good player.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think getting Pania back in this line because
Speaker 3: Houston can be one of those frustrating lineups too, where
Speaker 3: you're like, oh my gosh, just get it back around
Speaker 3: on please, but getting paying it back in the way
Speaker 3: that he can set the tone, you know, ahead of
Speaker 3: yord On has been awesome, and even though Varshow hasn't
Speaker 3: had a great year, I just I like the spark
Speaker 3: that he can bring and of course the golove that
Speaker 3: you're gonna get there. I want to see. And I
Speaker 3: know that cam Smith has just been hot and cold
Speaker 3: and it's been better of late. I just feel like
Speaker 3: I watched Cam Smith start to pick it up. Oh
Speaker 3: like there we go, he went deep today, and then
Speaker 3: he doesn't play for three days, and it's just like
Speaker 3: I know that they're he hasn't earned maybe completely the
Speaker 3: right to play every day. But I just think, I
Speaker 3: think this is a guy that you need to fully
Speaker 3: get going to reach your ceiling, and I'd love to
Speaker 3: see him playing more. But I also understand that, you know,
Speaker 3: some of the other guys that have been filling in
Speaker 3: Yah points have been pretty good, and Taylor Trummel has
Speaker 3: been pretty good, But like, I think there's gonna be
Speaker 3: a certain point where, you know, Lamont Wade Juniors at
Speaker 3: bats aren't worth eating into. You know, Cam Smith opportunities
Speaker 3: we'll seeing, and Wade's been swinging it pretty well, but
Speaker 3: I just I want to see Smith playing more. I'm
Speaker 3: obviously biased. I've always liked the guy as a player,
Speaker 3: but yeah, I think both these teams are gonna play well.
Speaker 3: I think that the pitching additions have not been there
Speaker 3: for the Padres just yet. Right Mais got bombed, you know,
Speaker 3: but before this weekend, and Ray didn't have the best
Speaker 3: start ever. But I still think with especially King throwing
Speaker 3: the way that he asked, I think this is still
Speaker 3: going to be a team in the Padres that are
Speaker 3: going to be you know, I think tough to slow down.
Speaker 2: No, I totally agree with you. And I'm just trying
Speaker 2: to think who would I rather sit the bench if
Speaker 2: Cam Smith is going to get more outfield work between
Speaker 2: Lamont Wade Junior and Taylor Trammel, And it's hard to
Speaker 2: decide because both of them have a one to ten
Speaker 2: w RC plus and both of them have been really solid.
Speaker 2: From Rocky Fresh, can we give a shout out to
Speaker 2: Taylor Tchamell's been really good again, He's been really solid,
Speaker 2: and I feel like that's what's making the Astros good,
Speaker 2: because sometimes when the Astros are bad, it's because Jordon
Speaker 2: and Jeremy Payney are the only ones hitting in the lineup.
Speaker 2: When you're getting consistent performances from a Christian Walker, from
Speaker 2: a Taylor Trammel, from a Lamont Way junior, even Janer
Speaker 2: Diaz has had some big hits lately. Now you start
Speaker 2: to see what kind of a juggernaut type lineup the
Speaker 2: Ashros can put out there. And it's a good problem
Speaker 2: to have, right because if you're going to give Cam
Speaker 2: Smith more run, it means you're taking out a one
Speaker 2: to ten WRC plus bat. So again, you never know, right.
Speaker 3: And he's such a good defender, so you could if
Speaker 3: you want to ride the high hand like at least
Speaker 3: they have some options here and it's definitely better than
Speaker 3: it was. Uh So, yeah, I like this team. I
Speaker 3: think they're going to hang around and uh both of them.
Speaker 3: But I think what's really interesting is what how TUV
Speaker 3: do you get down the stretch? What Christian Walker do
Speaker 3: you get down the stretch? What yard as you get
Speaker 3: I think he's ok. Peredes is going to be that
Speaker 3: guy and he's already settled back in and been that
Speaker 3: guy for them, He's gonna still turn in a three
Speaker 3: plus win season. But yeah, I think both these teams
Speaker 3: are playoff teams, so it's gonna be fun to watch.
Speaker 2: It will be, and we'll continue to watch here on
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