WEBVTT - Not Taking It In Stride 0:00:05.120 --> 0:00:07.080 Is this a great game or what with the Hall 0:00:07.120 --> 0:00:09.959 of Famer Tim Kirkshon. I'm his son, Jeff Kirkshon, and 0:00:10.119 --> 0:00:13.000 we are just one day away from Independence Day. 0:00:12.960 --> 0:00:16.439 So happy July fourth, Dad, Yes, And what do you 0:00:16.440 --> 0:00:18.400 have planned for July the fourth, Jeff? 0:00:18.640 --> 0:00:22.840 So we have our like the world's cutest small town 0:00:24.200 --> 0:00:27.360 Fourth of July parade in skip Back, Pennsylvania. And you know, 0:00:27.400 --> 0:00:30.080 they bring all of the fire trucks through all of 0:00:30.120 --> 0:00:31.080 the floats. 0:00:31.160 --> 0:00:32.160 It's really adorable. 0:00:32.200 --> 0:00:34.120 So what we do, Dad, is we wake up early, 0:00:34.400 --> 0:00:38.120 we bring chairs down to the pike right to skip 0:00:38.159 --> 0:00:40.879 Back Pike, and we set them out early. Go back 0:00:40.920 --> 0:00:43.879 to your house. We can walk there, and then we're 0:00:43.880 --> 0:00:46.200 gonna have some friends over with their kids, all walk 0:00:46.280 --> 0:00:49.919 down together and do a little pool party after the parade. 0:00:50.000 --> 0:00:52.520 It's gonna be awesome. I'm really looking forward to it. 0:00:52.760 --> 0:00:54.760 Right, I have a white Claude, Jeff. That'll be great. 0:00:55.480 --> 0:00:59.240 I will be flying to San Diego on July the fourth. 0:01:00.040 --> 0:01:03.680 We'll be doing the Rangers at the Padres on Sunday 0:01:03.760 --> 0:01:07.560 Night Baseball. It's the second of two games that night 0:01:07.640 --> 0:01:11.440 on ESPN Sunday Night Baseball. So I'm very excited. About that, 0:01:12.160 --> 0:01:14.160 So let's go July the fourth. Can't wait? 0:01:14.480 --> 0:01:16.360 Yeah, you're gonna be on a plane on the fourth 0:01:16.440 --> 0:01:18.280 of July. Do you think you'll be Are you gonna 0:01:18.280 --> 0:01:20.759 be at night or is it a day flight. 0:01:20.880 --> 0:01:23.080 It's a morning flight, so I will be there plenty 0:01:23.120 --> 0:01:26.200 of time for the game and for the fireworks at 0:01:26.240 --> 0:01:29.720 Petco Park on Friday night July the fourth. 0:01:30.280 --> 0:01:34.039 I remember the first time we went to Petco Park, Dad? 0:01:34.040 --> 0:01:37.000 Do you remember this first trip at dude? That was 0:01:37.319 --> 0:01:41.440 your only trip there? First we went to Legoland, That's right, 0:01:42.080 --> 0:01:44.720 that was part of the trip. And yes, we ended 0:01:44.800 --> 0:01:49.280 and we went to SeaWorld, I believe Clyde and Theemour 0:01:49.920 --> 0:01:53.200 and then we then we went to Petco Park. Yeah. Yeah. 0:01:53.280 --> 0:01:57.720 Does Russell Wilson look like a trainer at sea World? 0:02:00.200 --> 0:02:00.440 Right? 0:02:00.520 --> 0:02:02.760 I mean when we did our Dan Levintard episode, that 0:02:02.840 --> 0:02:06.200 one came out from Jeremy Ted Shay Similist that was 0:02:06.240 --> 0:02:06.600 on it. 0:02:06.920 --> 0:02:08.600 I remember going to SeaWorld, Dad. 0:02:09.000 --> 0:02:11.720 Is there a place you and I feel more out 0:02:11.760 --> 0:02:13.399 of place than SeaWorld? 0:02:14.160 --> 0:02:17.480 Uh? Yeah, Jeff. Neither one of us is very good 0:02:17.480 --> 0:02:21.760 in the water. You're worse than I am, But neither 0:02:21.800 --> 0:02:24.280 one of us are that good on land either, if 0:02:24.320 --> 0:02:25.440 you're really thinking about it. 0:02:25.480 --> 0:02:30.440 So, Dad, did you hear the story of the passenger 0:02:30.480 --> 0:02:34.080 who fell off of the Disney Dream cruise ship? A 0:02:34.200 --> 0:02:37.440 five year old supposedly reportedly fell off a cruise ship 0:02:37.800 --> 0:02:42.240 and dad jumped in, saved the child, and treaded water 0:02:42.320 --> 0:02:44.560 for twenty minutes until the rescue boats got there. 0:02:45.919 --> 0:02:47.880 How long was it the fall? 0:02:48.480 --> 0:02:51.760 About four decks is what they say, into the water. 0:02:52.200 --> 0:02:56.400 The dad jumped in after right after the child fell in. 0:02:56.520 --> 0:02:57.120 He jumped in. 0:02:57.520 --> 0:03:00.400 How he saved his five year old son? 0:03:00.840 --> 0:03:03.360 Yeah, yeah, I'm a son or daughter, I'm not sure, 0:03:03.400 --> 0:03:07.640 but yes, And it just speaks volumes. Dad, And I 0:03:07.720 --> 0:03:10.400 know we joke about me being a terrible swimmer, but 0:03:10.680 --> 0:03:15.840 I would jump in so fast, so quickly after my daughter. 0:03:16.040 --> 0:03:18.840 My world's completely changed when I became a dad almost 0:03:18.880 --> 0:03:24.560 two years ago. Like I remember you saying, you don't 0:03:24.560 --> 0:03:26.800 even know love until you have a child. 0:03:26.880 --> 0:03:29.040 And that's no disrespect to people without kids. 0:03:29.400 --> 0:03:32.880 Meaning it's just a different channel of love that you 0:03:32.960 --> 0:03:35.040 have for your children than that you have of your 0:03:35.040 --> 0:03:38.240 own parents, or of your spouse or of your dog. Right, 0:03:38.280 --> 0:03:40.880 It's just a different channel of your heart. 0:03:41.080 --> 0:03:42.080 And yeah, I'm a. 0:03:42.120 --> 0:03:44.240 Terrible swimmer, and I jump in immediately, and I like 0:03:44.320 --> 0:03:46.280 to think there would be some sort of God intervention 0:03:46.400 --> 0:03:49.040 to make me a good swimmer again in order to 0:03:49.040 --> 0:03:50.520 save McKinley's life. 0:03:50.440 --> 0:03:54.360 Yeah, you is no telling what what can what comes 0:03:54.360 --> 0:03:56.320 from with inside you. You don't even know you have 0:03:56.400 --> 0:03:58.400 it when you don't even remember this jet. But when 0:03:58.400 --> 0:04:01.360 you were a really small child, you got trapped underneath 0:04:01.360 --> 0:04:05.200 the car and I picked up the car and saved 0:04:05.200 --> 0:04:05.680 your life. 0:04:05.760 --> 0:04:07.280 Did you know in a matchbox car. 0:04:10.720 --> 0:04:15.080 That's enough of that, speaking Jeff, speaking Jeff of obituaries 0:04:15.200 --> 0:04:19.919 or which were not. Of course, I wrote Johnny Bench's 0:04:20.040 --> 0:04:24.400 obituary this morning, and he's not sick. He's okay. That's 0:04:24.440 --> 0:04:26.800 the point. Johnny Bench is our favorite player. It was 0:04:26.880 --> 0:04:30.400 our favorite guest of the podcast last year. But in 0:04:30.600 --> 0:04:34.640 order to get things in the bank at ESPN, you 0:04:34.800 --> 0:04:37.760 have to do these things just in case. So Johnny 0:04:37.760 --> 0:04:40.800 Bench is fine. Nothing's going to happen to Johnny Bench 0:04:40.800 --> 0:04:44.400 for another twenty years, our hope is. But I just 0:04:44.440 --> 0:04:46.000 want you to know this is what I do on 0:04:46.040 --> 0:04:48.320 a daily basis. I have to do things like this, 0:04:48.640 --> 0:04:50.039 not easy to do, by the way. 0:04:50.520 --> 0:04:53.080 That is I mean, I remember years and years and 0:04:53.200 --> 0:04:56.400 years ago, you had to write an obituary for your 0:04:56.480 --> 0:04:59.520 dear friend and one of your mentors, Peter Gammons, when 0:04:59.720 --> 0:05:02.880 they're he was a little touch and go there medically, Dad, 0:05:02.960 --> 0:05:06.320 that was maybe brand aneurism. 0:05:06.320 --> 0:05:08.760 And they called me and said at midnight and said 0:05:08.760 --> 0:05:10.680 you better write this. He might not make it through 0:05:10.680 --> 0:05:12.640 the night. And with tears in my eyes, I wrote 0:05:13.080 --> 0:05:16.360 an oh bit on Peter Gammons and I told him 0:05:16.360 --> 0:05:18.000 about it, and then he said, show it to me, 0:05:18.080 --> 0:05:19.720 send it to me. I can't wait to read it. 0:05:19.760 --> 0:05:22.920 Which thank god, we haven't needed any part of it. 0:05:22.960 --> 0:05:25.440 So, you know, the old saying is that you, you know, 0:05:25.480 --> 0:05:27.520 you'd always want to attend your own funeral to see 0:05:27.520 --> 0:05:29.400 what people have to say about you. Are you gonna 0:05:29.400 --> 0:05:30.640 send Johnny Bench. 0:05:30.480 --> 0:05:33.560 The o Ben No, of course not, Guys. 0:05:33.560 --> 0:05:35.920 He's a guest, he's a friend of the show. He's 0:05:35.960 --> 0:05:39.200 a guest on the show. I want to bring him 0:05:39.240 --> 0:05:42.279 back just so you could read his opus to him 0:05:42.320 --> 0:05:43.520 on the podcast. 0:05:43.600 --> 0:05:46.320 We have to do it, all right, all right, all right, 0:05:46.360 --> 0:05:49.120 we'll get him on the show again. I hope we 0:05:49.279 --> 0:05:51.440 already used up one time. We don't get too many 0:05:51.440 --> 0:05:53.560 shots at Johnny Bench's greatest catcher ever. 0:05:53.839 --> 0:05:56.240 Oh, you scared me so much when you said that, 0:05:56.520 --> 0:05:58.680 but you said it so nonchalantly. I was like, there's 0:05:58.680 --> 0:06:01.160 no way he's going about the Johnny Bench isn't gonna 0:06:01.160 --> 0:06:03.640 make it through the Oh my goodness, gracious, Okay. 0:06:03.680 --> 0:06:08.520 Wow, let's thank Ron Darling for yesterday. That's just absolutely 0:06:08.760 --> 0:06:12.719 a great interview talking about the forty year anniversary of 0:06:12.800 --> 0:06:18.320 maybe the craziest game ever played, these sixteen to thirteen 0:06:19.440 --> 0:06:24.200 victory by the Mets over the Braves forty years ago 0:06:24.880 --> 0:06:25.440 in the Rick. 0:06:25.360 --> 0:06:28.279 Camp game yes on fourth of July, and it was 0:06:28.279 --> 0:06:30.520 so interesting to hear from him coming in at three 0:06:30.560 --> 0:06:33.360 o'clock in the morning to pitch. If you didn't listen 0:06:33.440 --> 0:06:36.440 to the last episode, maybe save it for tomorrow on 0:06:36.560 --> 0:06:38.680 the fourth of July and you can kind of be 0:06:38.720 --> 0:06:41.279 reliving that game forty years later on the day it 0:06:41.360 --> 0:06:44.360 actually happened, very very neat. So thank you to Ron 0:06:44.480 --> 0:06:47.920 Darling and Dad. Thank you that you're not wearing your 0:06:47.920 --> 0:06:49.800 Hawaiian shirt for this episode. 0:06:49.839 --> 0:06:51.640 Back to back episode, So I'm just glad. 0:06:51.720 --> 0:06:53.600 That was pretty bad. By the way, Jeff, do you 0:06:53.640 --> 0:06:57.120 remember the movie I made when we went to Mom 0:06:57.160 --> 0:07:00.320 and I went to Maui. Do you remember Maui the movie? Yeah? Right? 0:07:00.440 --> 0:07:04.520 Was the Was that the single stupidest thing you've ever seen? Dad? 0:07:04.760 --> 0:07:09.040 We had a little video camera and we just chronicled 0:07:09.160 --> 0:07:14.480 the entire trip to Maui, and my favorite moment was, 0:07:14.520 --> 0:07:16.400 because we were trying to do all sorts of things, 0:07:16.400 --> 0:07:20.080 we found an outdoor basketball court with a rim that 0:07:20.200 --> 0:07:24.200 was seven feet high. Seven okay, And back then I 0:07:24.360 --> 0:07:28.560 was younger and I could jump, and I bought a 0:07:28.600 --> 0:07:32.080 basketball while we were in Maui, and as part of 0:07:32.120 --> 0:07:36.800 the Stupidest Maui the Movie ever, I dunked a basketball 0:07:36.880 --> 0:07:40.640 a bunch of times on camera, and I showed the 0:07:40.680 --> 0:07:45.360 movie to friends and family and one of my uncles said, Tim, 0:07:45.440 --> 0:07:47.880 was that was that a ten foot hoop you were dunk? 0:07:48.320 --> 0:07:53.400 He was serious? I said, no, it was a seven 0:07:53.480 --> 0:07:54.480 foot high who. 0:07:55.640 --> 0:07:58.320 Still pretty good for a guy your height to jam 0:07:58.360 --> 0:07:59.480 on seven feet. 0:08:00.640 --> 0:08:05.400 Jeff, you could just dunk on seven feet. 0:08:05.480 --> 0:08:06.840 I could dunk on eight feet. 0:08:07.680 --> 0:08:10.520 Yeah, and yeah, you could be Kyle Schwarber in a race. 0:08:10.720 --> 0:08:12.880 I don't think I think you don't think I could 0:08:12.920 --> 0:08:14.080 dunk on an eight foot rim. 0:08:14.160 --> 0:08:16.000 I think you could dunk on an eight foot rim. 0:08:16.120 --> 0:08:18.400 Yes, we're gonna have to do a video of that. 0:08:18.760 --> 0:08:23.640 Now, is your rim still adjustable in your front It is? Okay, 0:08:23.680 --> 0:08:27.160 we have a gorilla in the front yard. Not your 0:08:27.320 --> 0:08:30.840 not your first one either. You you recently upgraded. And 0:08:30.920 --> 0:08:32.640 I don't know if anybody this. 0:08:32.600 --> 0:08:34.880 Is where I'm such a snob, Jeff, when it comes 0:08:34.880 --> 0:08:38.400 to outdoor basketball hoops. And I've told you this. If 0:08:38.440 --> 0:08:41.520 you're gonna put a hoop in the yard, it has 0:08:41.600 --> 0:08:45.040 to be an in ground hoop. It can't be on wheels. 0:08:45.280 --> 0:08:47.600 And I don't want to offend anyone who has a 0:08:47.640 --> 0:08:50.880 hoop on wheels, But if you want to be really 0:08:50.960 --> 0:08:54.320 good at shooting of basketball, you need to shoot it 0:08:54.400 --> 0:08:57.520 at a rim that is in the ground and it's 0:08:57.559 --> 0:09:00.400 not going to shake or move every time you hit rim. 0:09:01.240 --> 0:09:02.040 Ain't that the truth? 0:09:02.120 --> 0:09:02.360 Dad? 0:09:02.679 --> 0:09:04.199 Let's go into the take one. 0:09:05.120 --> 0:09:08.360 Okay. Well, I visited you on Monday, and that night 0:09:08.480 --> 0:09:11.559 I went to see the Phillies game's Jack Wheeler pitched. 0:09:11.600 --> 0:09:16.280 He pitched another great game, and it just just shows 0:09:16.320 --> 0:09:19.160 you how great the pitching is in the big leagues. 0:09:19.200 --> 0:09:21.600 We talk about this all the time, but I saw 0:09:21.679 --> 0:09:24.480 Mike Shilt, the Padres manager because they didn't score any 0:09:24.520 --> 0:09:28.040 runs off of Zach Wheeler and reliever. And he just said, 0:09:28.320 --> 0:09:30.560 like after the first inning, he just looked and said, 0:09:30.600 --> 0:09:33.360 oh my goodness, Like, what are we up against here? 0:09:33.400 --> 0:09:37.120 And he essentially said what I say every night. When 0:09:37.120 --> 0:09:41.040 these really good pitchers have their best stuff and they 0:09:41.160 --> 0:09:46.120 can command it, the hitter has virtually no chance. I mean, 0:09:46.160 --> 0:09:49.360 we talked last week about or the other day about 0:09:49.679 --> 0:09:51.960 you know, last week we had twenty four games in 0:09:51.960 --> 0:09:55.320 a two game span, twelve of them were shutouts. Never 0:09:55.440 --> 0:09:59.360 happened in the history of baseball. And you know Tuesday 0:09:59.440 --> 0:10:02.520 night last night before we taped three more shutouts. It 0:10:02.640 --> 0:10:04.920 happens all the time. And Jeff, just look at the 0:10:04.960 --> 0:10:09.560 strikeout rates that we're talking about. Raphael Devers, pretty darn 0:10:09.600 --> 0:10:14.120 good hitter, just finished twelve strikeouts in four games. No 0:10:14.320 --> 0:10:18.360 San Francisco Giant has ever done that that many strikeouts 0:10:18.520 --> 0:10:21.440 in four games. This is the same Devers, great hitter 0:10:21.800 --> 0:10:27.080 who started the season over nineteen with fifteen strikeouts. Aaron 0:10:27.200 --> 0:10:32.679 Judge at this taping has ninety seven strikeouts this season, 0:10:33.360 --> 0:10:37.160 and he is the best hitter in the game. Shohei Otani, 0:10:37.240 --> 0:10:39.760 who might be the second best hitter in the game 0:10:40.200 --> 0:10:43.880 struck out for the one hundredth time on Tuesday Night. 0:10:44.160 --> 0:10:47.280 This and these guys are great, but when you're facing 0:10:47.440 --> 0:10:52.120 pitching like this, you have very little chance. And now 0:10:52.200 --> 0:10:55.040 Jacob de gram of course is back. He's not the 0:10:55.160 --> 0:10:59.000 Jacob de gravavold, but he's still pretty darn good. Fourteen 0:10:59.080 --> 0:11:02.840 straight starts now, at least five innings pitched and no 0:11:02.960 --> 0:11:05.679 more than two earned runs. And here's what's happening now. 0:11:05.760 --> 0:11:09.200 Jeff like Otani came into the league with a big 0:11:09.240 --> 0:11:12.040 old leg kick, and that's where the power. That was 0:11:12.040 --> 0:11:14.640 his starter, that was his trigger, that's how he got 0:11:14.679 --> 0:11:18.600 things going. But so many hitters now, including o'tani, you 0:11:18.679 --> 0:11:21.839 have abandoned the leg kick because you're not going to 0:11:21.920 --> 0:11:25.040 catch up to one hundred miles an hour until you 0:11:25.400 --> 0:11:28.000 just go to a toe tap or have no stride 0:11:28.040 --> 0:11:31.480 at all. So many hitters today have had to adjust 0:11:31.600 --> 0:11:34.880 the way they swing the bat because the pitching that 0:11:34.960 --> 0:11:37.880 they see is so amazingly good. 0:11:38.440 --> 0:11:41.520 It's quick, it's fast, it's scary, it's impossible to keep 0:11:41.600 --> 0:11:44.520 up with. Anybody who thinks they can even make contact 0:11:44.559 --> 0:11:47.880 against a major leaguer right now is absolutely crazy. 0:11:48.000 --> 0:11:51.120 We've been over this, stupid Kirkchon quandary a million times. 0:11:51.120 --> 0:11:53.760 But average fan against any pitcher in the big leagues 0:11:53.760 --> 0:11:57.520 today one hundred swings, no contact, no hits, no balls, 0:11:57.520 --> 0:11:58.839 and play zero chance. 0:12:00.080 --> 0:12:00.240 Yeah. 0:12:00.320 --> 0:12:04.440 The last takeaway is that the as through Tuesday, the 0:12:04.480 --> 0:12:08.920 two longest winning streaks in the major leagues belonged to 0:12:08.960 --> 0:12:13.960 the Miami Marlins at eight games and five games by 0:12:14.040 --> 0:12:17.280 the Pittsburgh Pirates. And this is why baseball is the 0:12:17.280 --> 0:12:20.040 greatest game, Jeff. Two weeks ago, they were two of 0:12:20.080 --> 0:12:22.840 the five worst teams in baseball. Now they have the 0:12:22.840 --> 0:12:25.920 two longest winning streaks in the game. This is why 0:12:25.960 --> 0:12:29.560 the game is so beautiful. Is just the ebbs and flow. 0:12:29.720 --> 0:12:32.520 I just don't make any sense. And I'm not suggesting 0:12:32.600 --> 0:12:35.160 this is going to continue for the Marlins or the Pirates, 0:12:35.440 --> 0:12:37.720 but the fact that they have played this well for 0:12:37.840 --> 0:12:41.880 this period of time is really good. Paul Skins, by 0:12:41.920 --> 0:12:44.400 the way, who you mentioned the other day, the poor 0:12:44.440 --> 0:12:46.840 guy never gets any run support. Now he is the 0:12:46.880 --> 0:12:49.760 first he's the first pitcher ever to have an ERA 0:12:50.200 --> 0:12:54.720 this low. That's one forty four during a ten start stretch. 0:12:55.280 --> 0:12:58.679 And during that stretch he had zero or one victories. 0:12:58.760 --> 0:13:02.080 That is the lowest year since nineteen thirteen when earn 0:13:02.160 --> 0:13:05.760 runs became official. So that's low cra by any picture 0:13:05.840 --> 0:13:08.120 in a ten game stretch, and during that stretch the 0:13:08.120 --> 0:13:12.040 pitcher only had had one or zero victories. That's how 0:13:12.280 --> 0:13:14.560 little support Paul Skeins has got. 0:13:15.240 --> 0:13:18.120 That's very sad. All right, Dad, what about the cork Gins? 0:13:18.160 --> 0:13:19.080 What do you have for us? 0:13:19.200 --> 0:13:21.680 All right? So, Jeff, Tuesday night, I'm watching as many 0:13:21.720 --> 0:13:25.120 games as I can up at my office and Andy 0:13:25.200 --> 0:13:27.720 Van Slyly called me to tell me. In the Cubs 0:13:27.760 --> 0:13:32.680 game he saw something that he's never seen before. Three 0:13:32.760 --> 0:13:36.199 Cubs got thrown out on the bases in one inning. 0:13:36.360 --> 0:13:39.080 So the three outs were made and the batter didn't 0:13:39.120 --> 0:13:42.400 make the out in any of them. So he said, 0:13:42.440 --> 0:13:44.600 I've never seen that. And then you got a bunch 0:13:44.600 --> 0:13:46.560 of texts, and I got a bunch of texts and 0:13:46.600 --> 0:13:49.520 tweets and everything like when's the last time this happened? 0:13:50.120 --> 0:13:53.839 So I, of course, of course, you know, texted Frank 0:13:53.840 --> 0:13:57.040 from the Elias late last night because I know I've 0:13:57.080 --> 0:14:00.400 seen this before. I just can't remember when I saw it. 0:14:00.440 --> 0:14:03.440 So the last time this happened was in nineteen ninety one. 0:14:04.280 --> 0:14:07.760 The Angels were facing Mike Fetters in the sixth inning 0:14:07.880 --> 0:14:11.040 and they had two clot stealings and a guy out 0:14:11.120 --> 0:14:13.760 trying to stretch in one inning. So that was the 0:14:13.840 --> 0:14:18.040 last time nineteen ninety one? Wow, at three bat that 0:14:18.240 --> 0:14:21.480 three guys reached on base, reach base, three batters reach 0:14:21.560 --> 0:14:23.800 base and were all thrown out in the same inning. 0:14:24.320 --> 0:14:24.880 That's crazy. 0:14:24.960 --> 0:14:26.840 Yeah, a bunch of members and I would listen them all, 0:14:26.840 --> 0:14:28.880 but there were so many that messaged us, so thank 0:14:28.880 --> 0:14:30.400 you for being on top of that saying when was 0:14:30.440 --> 0:14:31.440 the last time this happened? 0:14:31.480 --> 0:14:33.640 We got it right, We got it for you, all right? 0:14:33.720 --> 0:14:36.240 Will you a brave you of the Red Sox hit 0:14:36.320 --> 0:14:39.960 an inside the park homer and a grand Slam in 0:14:40.080 --> 0:14:44.000 the same game. First player to do that since Roger Marris, 0:14:44.480 --> 0:14:47.320 who seems to be in every podcast these days. Did 0:14:47.360 --> 0:14:50.800 it be nineteen fifty eight? So I looked up Jeff 0:14:50.920 --> 0:14:55.200 the most home runs by anyone without an inside the 0:14:55.200 --> 0:14:58.880 park homer? This is not a surprise, but Albert Poolhols 0:14:58.920 --> 0:15:02.320 hit seven hundred and three homers without an inside the 0:15:02.320 --> 0:15:06.640 park homer. I think that's the most, but I know 0:15:06.880 --> 0:15:08.880 that he never hit one and he had seven oh 0:15:08.920 --> 0:15:12.440 three and Glenn Davis hit one hundred and ninety two 0:15:12.480 --> 0:15:15.760 homers in his career, which is the most by anyone 0:15:16.080 --> 0:15:18.880 who retired without a Grand Slam homer. So we have 0:15:19.000 --> 0:15:22.000 seven oh three and one ninety two and William brayhw 0:15:22.080 --> 0:15:24.000 did it both in the same game. 0:15:24.600 --> 0:15:26.880 Wow, that's kind of crazy, right. 0:15:26.720 --> 0:15:31.840 Pretty cool. Justin Foscue of the Rangers broke an OH 0:15:31.880 --> 0:15:36.200 for forty four stretch. It's stretched two years Tuesday Night, 0:15:36.920 --> 0:15:40.120 OH for forty four jet position player. The last position 0:15:40.280 --> 0:15:44.600 player to have anything that long was Chris Davis in 0:15:44.640 --> 0:15:47.920 twenty eighteen nineteen. I remember this distinctly. He was OH 0:15:48.080 --> 0:15:52.920 for fifty four. Yeah, Jeb, we just talked about the 0:15:52.960 --> 0:15:55.000 average fan. He had one hundred of bats at a 0:15:55.040 --> 0:15:58.600 major league No. No major leaguer OH for forty four, 0:15:58.800 --> 0:16:03.040 major leaguer zho for fifty four. Just not happen. Ronald Lacuna, 0:16:03.120 --> 0:16:05.920 junior leadoff guy for the Braves Tuesday Night, struck out 0:16:05.960 --> 0:16:08.880 four times. So that's the twenty first time we've been 0:16:09.240 --> 0:16:13.080 charting this all year, twenty first time that a leadoff 0:16:13.120 --> 0:16:15.520 guy has struck out four times in a game. That's 0:16:15.560 --> 0:16:19.360 the most ever before July fourth in baseball, history, which 0:16:19.400 --> 0:16:22.480 stands to reason because strikeout rate, which we've been talking 0:16:22.480 --> 0:16:25.960 about a lot during this podcast, is what it is. 0:16:26.320 --> 0:16:29.800 It's at a historically high level as it is, as 0:16:29.840 --> 0:16:32.080 it has been every year for at least the last 0:16:32.160 --> 0:16:33.000 fifteen years. 0:16:33.320 --> 0:16:35.520 Do I have this right that Ellie de la Cruz 0:16:35.960 --> 0:16:41.120 just passed Tony Gwinn's all time strikeouts. I did not 0:16:41.320 --> 0:16:45.840 know that, but yes, I'm surprised it took this long. Yeah, 0:16:46.080 --> 0:16:48.960 and think about the years of service. Ellie de la 0:16:49.000 --> 0:16:52.200 Cruz started his career in twenty twenty three and he 0:16:52.280 --> 0:16:58.200 currently has the total is four hundred and fifty four strikeouts. Okay, 0:16:58.240 --> 0:17:01.800 I'm just confirming this as I type. And Tony Gwyn, 0:17:02.160 --> 0:17:05.879 obviously a legend, played for almost twenty full seasons and 0:17:06.000 --> 0:17:08.960 his strikeouts four thirty four. 0:17:09.160 --> 0:17:13.680 So yep, yeah, yeah, more people will strike Several more 0:17:13.720 --> 0:17:17.120 people will strike out. Well, several people will strike out 0:17:17.119 --> 0:17:20.240 two hundred times this year. Tony Gwyn didn't strike out 0:17:20.240 --> 0:17:23.480 two hundred times in the decade of the nineties. Just 0:17:23.520 --> 0:17:24.520 think about that first. 0:17:24.520 --> 0:17:27.760 It's unbelievable, right, Okay, A couple last things. 0:17:27.840 --> 0:17:32.840 Jeff Steve Sparks, our new best friend broadcaster for the Astros, 0:17:33.040 --> 0:17:35.560 and of course, a good major league pitcher in his 0:17:35.680 --> 0:17:37.919 day sent me a text in the middle of the 0:17:38.000 --> 0:17:42.000 night with the attendance Jeff last night, but Tuesday night 0:17:42.040 --> 0:17:45.919 between the Rockies and the Astros, the attendance was thirty 0:17:46.040 --> 0:17:49.800 thousand three to oh three. What does that mean to you, Jeff, 0:17:49.880 --> 0:17:51.840 thirty thousand three to oh three. 0:17:51.920 --> 0:17:52.760 It's a palindrome. 0:17:52.840 --> 0:17:56.840 Palindrome. That's the second time this year. Steve pointed out 0:17:57.200 --> 0:18:01.840 that the Astros have had a palindromic attendance. And he 0:18:02.040 --> 0:18:04.439 keeps track of these things, and he asked, can I 0:18:04.520 --> 0:18:07.240 be a seam head? What are you crazy? You're a 0:18:07.280 --> 0:18:09.720 bigger seam head than I am. And he pitched in 0:18:09.760 --> 0:18:13.840 the big leagues. It was really good tendance levels. 0:18:13.920 --> 0:18:18.320 These are the things that bring us joy, very unfortunately right. 0:18:19.440 --> 0:18:24.040 So, also Tuesday night, Mason Montgomery got the loss in 0:18:24.119 --> 0:18:28.480 the rays A's game, and Mason Miller got the save. 0:18:28.760 --> 0:18:32.280 Mason is used to be I mean, no one was 0:18:32.359 --> 0:18:34.600 ever had a first name Mason until a few years 0:18:34.640 --> 0:18:37.399 ago in the big leagues. And so this was the 0:18:37.400 --> 0:18:41.280 first time that there's ever been any combination in win 0:18:41.480 --> 0:18:44.720 loss save that two guys who got a win loss 0:18:44.800 --> 0:18:47.400 or saved were named Mason. So that was the first 0:18:47.440 --> 0:18:48.480 time we've ever seen that. 0:18:49.040 --> 0:18:51.680 Two Mason's doing big things in twenty twenty five. 0:18:51.960 --> 0:18:55.320 Right, and Brendan Little. Remember we had Brendan Little in 0:18:55.440 --> 0:18:58.400 the other day in our in our pictures of record, 0:18:58.480 --> 0:19:01.960 Well this time we ahead what do we have for 0:19:02.040 --> 0:19:06.560 Brendan Little? The last time a little little league? Yeah, no, no, no, 0:19:06.720 --> 0:19:12.000 it was a little little leisure, little leisure, little leisure 0:19:12.240 --> 0:19:17.080 Little got the win and Mark Lighter Juniors got the loss. 0:19:17.119 --> 0:19:22.119 So the pictures of record were a little lighter, A 0:19:22.200 --> 0:19:25.280 little lighter. I love that. That's what I am these days, 0:19:25.280 --> 0:19:27.600 a little lighter, not like I needed to be. Okay 0:19:27.760 --> 0:19:29.679 that those are the courttions for this week. 0:19:30.119 --> 0:19:32.520 Well, coming up next, we have on this date in 0:19:32.560 --> 0:19:35.440 baseball history, from Ozzie to Oral Dad. Are we knocking 0:19:35.480 --> 0:19:37.720 down one or two numbers from Ozzie to orl today? 0:19:37.760 --> 0:19:40.480 We've got to today because I'm not sure there's there's 0:19:40.560 --> 0:19:43.480 any question and there's no argument on either one, that's 0:19:43.520 --> 0:19:44.120 my guess. 0:19:44.320 --> 0:19:46.840 And then the best of all, Tim and a team 0:19:47.000 --> 0:19:49.320 Tim that's going to make you proud to be an American. 0:19:49.359 --> 0:19:51.400 It's all coming up next on is this a great 0:19:51.440 --> 0:19:51.880 game or what. 0:19:58.119 --> 0:19:59.640 Welcome back to? Is this a great game? 0:19:59.720 --> 0:20:00.359 Or what? Dad? 0:20:00.440 --> 0:20:05.040 On this date in baseball history, July the third, what 0:20:05.080 --> 0:20:05.520 do you got? 0:20:06.280 --> 0:20:08.320 Well? As you know, I try to get Walter Johnson 0:20:08.320 --> 0:20:10.919 into every podcast since I went. Did I ever tell 0:20:10.960 --> 0:20:12.400 you I went to Walter Johnson High School? 0:20:12.600 --> 0:20:13.199 I didn't know that. 0:20:14.720 --> 0:20:18.360 Yeah. So on this date in nineteen thirteen, Walter Johnson 0:20:18.480 --> 0:20:23.240 pitched a fifteen hit shutout. Think about it, a fifteen 0:20:23.520 --> 0:20:27.679 hit shutout. Of course, the game lasted fifteen innings, and 0:20:27.720 --> 0:20:31.080 of course back then it was no surprise when Walter 0:20:31.160 --> 0:20:34.800 Johnson or almost any really good pitcher pitched all fifteen innings, 0:20:34.800 --> 0:20:38.080 but it was the most hits ever allowed in a shutout. 0:20:38.280 --> 0:20:42.040 Also on this date, in nineteen sixty six, Tony Kloninger 0:20:42.320 --> 0:20:46.119 hit two Grand Slams in one game. First National League 0:20:46.119 --> 0:20:49.240 player to hit two Grand Slams in one game, Jeff. 0:20:49.240 --> 0:20:51.960 And if you may not know this, but Tony Cloninger 0:20:52.320 --> 0:20:56.040 was a pitcher, So the first National leaguer to do 0:20:56.080 --> 0:20:59.800 it was a pitcher. And like a couple of weeks 0:20:59.800 --> 0:21:03.919 ear earlier, he had driven in five. On June the sixteenth, 0:21:04.040 --> 0:21:06.920 nineteen sixty six, he knocked in five runs in a game, 0:21:06.960 --> 0:21:10.040 which was the most RBIs in one game ever by 0:21:10.080 --> 0:21:13.000 a National League pitcher. And then he drove in nine 0:21:13.119 --> 0:21:17.440 runs on July the third, nineteen sixty six. Now, let's see, 0:21:17.480 --> 0:21:21.000