Speaker 1: It's time to raise the roof for our latest regular
Speaker 1: season podcast. Welcome back to the pod everyone, I'm your
Speaker 1: host Alex Murphy. Today we have one of our famous
Speaker 1: Raise interview podcast, a compilation of interviews from recent Raise games,
Speaker 1: basically all over the last week. And if you guys
Speaker 1: haven't seen what the Race have done, the Rais are
Speaker 1: in a six game winning streak right now. They just
Speaker 1: took down the Cleveland Guardians today in the second game
Speaker 1: of their series in Cleveland. The Rays are thirteen and
Speaker 1: one against the entire American League or the American League
Speaker 1: teams that they played so far this year, and for
Speaker 1: whatever reason, they're five and ten against specifically the n
Speaker 1: OL Central because the Rays basically ran through what seems
Speaker 1: to be the best division in baseball right now, all
Speaker 1: within the first month of the year. But the Rays
Speaker 1: are eighteen and eleven, and right now, the Raids are
Speaker 1: firmly in a playoff spot if the playoffs were to
Speaker 1: begin today, which would be weird considering that it's only April,
Speaker 1: but still, the Rays are playing out of their mind
Speaker 1: right now, just in an incredibly good baseball team in
Speaker 1: all facets of the word. It seems like even when
Speaker 1: it seems like things have been down the race have
Speaker 1: found ways to win tonight's game, specifically Nick Martinez, who
Speaker 1: I think that it's a good reason to now believe
Speaker 1: if you didn't believe before, and maybe that was a
Speaker 1: me thing, but if you don't believed before about spring
Speaker 1: training not matter. And considering that Curtis Meat hit like
Speaker 1: six hundred and then didn't do anything spring training doesn't
Speaker 1: matter because Nick Martinez was basically downright off when spring
Speaker 1: training and now he's one of the league leaders in
Speaker 1: all of baseball in earned run average. He has allowed
Speaker 1: one run over his last two starts. He's been absolutely
Speaker 1: stud for this team. If you guys haven't seen, he
Speaker 1: had that really good outing in his last start against
Speaker 1: his former team, the Cincinnati Reds, and now Toonati against Cleveland.
Speaker 1: Seven shutout innings. He kept his pitch count low, he
Speaker 1: pitched a contact, he struck guys out. He was incredible.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's been one of the best pitchers, probably
Speaker 1: the best pitcher for the Rays this season if we
Speaker 1: have to pinpoint someone, so incredible stuff from him. The
Speaker 1: bullpen was incredible towards the end of the game. I
Speaker 1: know that Ian Seymour kind of ran into a little
Speaker 1: bit of trouble. Kevin Kelly was able to shut things down.
Speaker 1: Then Cole Sulzer in the ninth inning got the save.
Speaker 1: Things got a little bit dicey, but the Rays were
Speaker 1: able to find a way to push through. There was
Speaker 1: a bit of a scare early on because Junior Camenaro
Speaker 1: filed a ball that hit the ground and hit his jaw.
Speaker 1: But according to Kevin Cash, he is good to play
Speaker 1: or ready to play for tomorrow. I don't know if
Speaker 1: that means that he's going to start or if he's
Speaker 1: gonna come off the betcher what's going on, but he
Speaker 1: is going to be available for tomorrow. So that's a
Speaker 1: pretty big deal for the Raise. But yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: this team has been really really good in this month,
Speaker 1: eighteen wins and we still have two more days left
Speaker 1: in April as of this recording. Incredible stuff from this team.
Speaker 1: But going into the interview, so, like I said, interviews
Speaker 1: basically over the last week or so, if those interviews
Speaker 1: include Ryan Pepio, Nick Martinez, and Kevin Cash. This is
Speaker 1: from April twenty. First, the Pepio interview is essentially just
Speaker 1: him talking about his current rehab stuff, so you know,
Speaker 1: interesting stuff there if you want to follow that. The
Speaker 1: pregium postgame interviews from April twenty fourth, so pregame interviews
Speaker 1: Junior Kamanaro, Sean McClanahan, Jake Fraley update on his injury,
Speaker 1: and then Kevin Cash again going into postgame interviews for
Speaker 1: April twenty fourth, Cash, Junior Camenaro, Aronda, and Drew Rasmussen.
Speaker 1: And then for April twenty sixth, which was that Sunday
Speaker 1: game in their last series against the Twins, with the
Speaker 1: Raids ended up getting a three game sweep of the Twins.
Speaker 1: I believe that's their third series sweep so far this season.
Speaker 1: Postgame interviews there Kevin Cash, Griffin, Jack Jesse Schultens, Jonathan Ronda,
Speaker 1: and Yondi Diaz. A big shot when it comes to
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Speaker 2: Please give us maybe an update of where you are cash.
Speaker 3: It made it sound like we're not going good.
Speaker 4: Yeah, great, Yesterday was great.
Speaker 5: Last week was a very easy week after getting the
Speaker 5: injection Monday last week in Nashville, so you know, we
Speaker 5: had that Sunday home game and we could go watch
Speaker 5: a little bit of that and then flew to Nashville
Speaker 5: and got the injection on Monday and came back first.
Speaker 5: Last week was pretty relatively easy week for me, just
Speaker 5: to let that do its work. Still a weekend, you know,
Speaker 5: itching to get back out and play. So obviously I'm
Speaker 5: very nitpicky on how I'm feeling and all that stuff.
Speaker 4: But yes, it was great.
Speaker 5: I mean, I played catch just sixty feet and didn't
Speaker 5: feel one hundred percent. But it's as to be expected.
Speaker 5: I got an injection a week ago. It's still gotta work.
Speaker 5: It's time and got to you know, clear out the inflammation.
Speaker 5: I've thrown a lot of innings on my legs and
Speaker 5: just have some normal wear and tear and everything. But
Speaker 5: it's just go out every day, kind of take it
Speaker 5: day by day and see how my body's feeling, how
Speaker 5: I'm reacting, and just continue on the program. So today
Speaker 5: it was anasier day. Tomorrow get back out there and
Speaker 5: play catch and hope it was a little bit better.
Speaker 3: Was yesterday your first time playing catch?
Speaker 4: Yeah, after an injection?
Speaker 5: Yeah, last week was you know, the first few days
Speaker 5: were pretty chill, nothing, and then it was kind of
Speaker 5: get back into movement exercises and just kind of get
Speaker 5: it back and going and then.
Speaker 4: Slow ramp up with the catch.
Speaker 5: But I threw a bullpenally the day I flew to Nashville,
Speaker 5: so just to do everything I could to keep my
Speaker 5: arm from you know, obviously lose a week, but it
Speaker 5: wasn't like I hadn't thrown you know before that.
Speaker 6: A lot you mentioned, like the updowns and the stop
Speaker 6: starts and then yeah, kind.
Speaker 7: Of when does it aggravates you the most?
Speaker 5: If you go it's weird because there's a lot of
Speaker 5: things I can do that feel very normal.
Speaker 4: And then I get on the mound and get into throwing.
Speaker 4: You get in your leg and load.
Speaker 5: And when getting your legging load, there's just a lot
Speaker 5: of instability and just I'll lean toward fall towards third
Speaker 5: base or you know, it'll like catch her not catch
Speaker 5: for me, and you know, drift and just feel like
Speaker 5: I can't get into my legs and mechanically, so you know,
Speaker 5: you get on the mountain and you get a big situation.
Speaker 5: You're trying to make a pitch and you don't necessarily
Speaker 5: know what your leg's about to do. It's kind of
Speaker 5: hard to do, kind of hard to x get pitch
Speaker 5: when struggle where your body's gonna be.
Speaker 8: At the time.
Speaker 3: He has any more imagery or anything, or.
Speaker 4: No, I did.
Speaker 5: I mean, I've had MRI. I've had three different X
Speaker 5: rays looked at it. Those are more fun because those
Speaker 5: take about two minutes. The MRI is about good forty
Speaker 5: five minutes, So no, I haven't any When I was
Speaker 5: a naturally with few more X rays just uh, each
Speaker 5: of the different doctors I've gone and see they want
Speaker 5: their u however, they want their positions for the X race.
Speaker 5: But I haven't had any more MRI since the original ones.
Speaker 3: And haven't talked to some people will be at the sixty.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you have the initial.
Speaker 2: Thug that you were beat on their first home standings
Speaker 2: to kind of manage this kind of frustrating.
Speaker 5: Yeah, of course. I mean I thought it was a
Speaker 5: whole lot of nothing. I think we all did, and
Speaker 5: it's just kind of not bounced back or you know,
Speaker 5: still feeling things.
Speaker 4: It's just it's a weird one. You know.
Speaker 5: It's tough because it's I can walk around and it
Speaker 5: can do things, and I feel like I'm fine, and
Speaker 5: then I get to do my job and I physically
Speaker 5: am struggling to do that, and so obviously it's frustrating,
Speaker 5: and I'm getting frustrated when I'm out there because I'm
Speaker 5: trying to do what I know how to do, and
Speaker 5: you know, I've thrown thousands and thousands of pictures. I
Speaker 5: know where my body's supposed to be and to be
Speaker 5: able to execute something get in the zone.
Speaker 4: And not being able to do that.
Speaker 5: It's it's hard, and then you know, you sit there
Speaker 5: and you watch the guys going down there and do
Speaker 5: their things.
Speaker 4: You miss road trips, you missbus rids, the planes.
Speaker 5: Like being a home in my own bed, that's great,
Speaker 5: but I'd rather be in a whole tell with the
Speaker 5: guys hanging out and going out and playing games. And
Speaker 5: even the ones when they were in Minnesota and it
Speaker 5: was thirty degrees and snow and I was like, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: I might be eighty degrees and sunny in Florida, but
Speaker 5: put me on a plane and get me there with
Speaker 5: the guys. So you know, mentally going through it, but
Speaker 5: you know, we've got enough guys in here that have
Speaker 5: gone through stuff.
Speaker 4: And you know, I missed time in twenty three, so
Speaker 4: I've been there before.
Speaker 5: But it's just it's a hard one because a lot
Speaker 5: of expectations for the team.
Speaker 4: With a lot of excitement, you know, and then not
Speaker 4: be a part of it.
Speaker 5: It's it's been hard, but it's been fun to watch
Speaker 5: the guys, you know it's at home, watch the games
Speaker 5: when they're on the road, and then get a front
Speaker 5: row seatull I'm here and the guys who went out
Speaker 5: and doing it and pitching and playing defense and hidden.
Speaker 4: It's just been a lot of fun to watch. What
Speaker 4: do you.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think it's hard to know. I think it's
Speaker 5: hard to put a timetable. It's just a day to me, honestly,
Speaker 5: it's a day to day thing. It's how you know,
Speaker 5: I think the the initial sixty day thing. When I
Speaker 5: told I was doing it, I obviously frustrate about it.
Speaker 5: But it also gives me time where it's not like
Speaker 5: I have a strict timeline where I need to be back.
Speaker 5: Where it's okay when you're ready, when you're strong, when
Speaker 5: it feels like you're comfortable, you can go out there
Speaker 5: and execute pitchures, when you got guys on base in
Speaker 5: a big situation, when I want to run ball game
Speaker 5: or something trying to get an out, then and I
Speaker 5: feel comfortable I can do that, then it's hey, all right,
Speaker 5: here we go, not hey, you need to be back
Speaker 5: by this date whether how you feel. They don't want
Speaker 5: to do that to me, and that's not good for
Speaker 5: the benefit of the team. So it's see how I'm
Speaker 5: feeling each day, see how the throwing progression goes, and
Speaker 5: you know, push myself and I'm doing everything I can't
Speaker 5: I'll get back out there. It's you know, been here
Speaker 5: since nine this morning. I'm trying to do whatever I
Speaker 5: possibly can, so I'm metching to get back.
Speaker 4: But I don't necessarily have a date or a timetable
Speaker 4: for you.
Speaker 5: It's just see how I feel each day, let the
Speaker 5: program go and continue going forward. And you know, obviously
Speaker 5: frustrated after day one of throwing, but it was day one,
Speaker 5: h so tomorrow hope.
Speaker 4: Would be better.
Speaker 9: Fine.
Speaker 6: Thanks, As we've talked about, you're very familiar with over there,
Speaker 6: a lot of the similar guys when you run that team.
Speaker 7: What do you feel like the against that?
Speaker 10: I think it'd be a lot of fun, right, adds
Speaker 10: another layer to, you know, to the pitching game, more
Speaker 10: of a cat and mouse, and you know, obviously it
Speaker 10: should be a lot of fun. You know, Steve has
Speaker 10: caught me a bunch. They've seen me play now for
Speaker 10: for a couple of years, so uh it as for
Speaker 10: for an extra.
Speaker 11: You know, level of excitement and talking too yesterday about you,
Speaker 11: he was just so complimentary of obviously the guy you are,
Speaker 11: what you meant to that clubhouse, what you meant to him,
Speaker 11: What did it mean to you to be able to
Speaker 11: play for him?
Speaker 7: And obviously it was great.
Speaker 4: I loved it.
Speaker 10: I had such a great time. Man, he wants to
Speaker 10: win so bad and I obviously we share that. And
Speaker 10: so again, like we talked about yesterday, he keeps it lose,
Speaker 10: he keeps it fun, and he makes it so easy
Speaker 10: to play, play for him, and you know, same same.
Speaker 8: Goes for cash.
Speaker 4: You feel similar, Yeah, very very similar.
Speaker 10: Yeah, again I said it yesterday, no knock on Teto,
Speaker 10: but I'm playing for a younger Tito.
Speaker 8: It's a it's been a lot of fun.
Speaker 12: With the familiarity you have with those guys. Is they're
Speaker 12: kind of the extra level of the chess.
Speaker 3: Match to you.
Speaker 10: Yeah, there can be you know, obviously you don't want
Speaker 10: to straight too far from from what you do well,
Speaker 10: but there's gonna be. Yeah, there's gonna be, uh, you know,
Speaker 10: a lot of familiarity.
Speaker 4: And again I think it adds to uh.
Speaker 8: That actual level of excitement.
Speaker 2: Saw the frustration of playing against.
Speaker 3: Different when he's on your side.
Speaker 10: Yeah, it's an He's such a dynamic player, and it's
Speaker 10: it seems like even just one game that I've seen
Speaker 10: him play this year, it seems like every year he's
Speaker 10: mature and grown into an even more established superstar.
Speaker 4: And so.
Speaker 10: I mean if he if if he's not beating you
Speaker 10: with a long ball, he's beating you with with with
Speaker 10: stealing bases, taking the extra bag with his defense. And
Speaker 10: so I mean again, someone like that, you know, very
Speaker 10: very enjoyable to play with. And you know we have uh,
Speaker 10: you know we have guys like that on this team too.
Speaker 10: That that's very exciting to watch.
Speaker 6: How impressed have you been with you have a couple
Speaker 6: of guys down, really important key guys with obviously being
Speaker 6: one of them in your bullpen, but it seems like
Speaker 6: slotting guys in like Jesse and tell the others.
Speaker 8: Were able to pick up the slack.
Speaker 6: Are you pretty impressed with how this organization.
Speaker 8: Continues to do that?
Speaker 10: Yeah, it's not it's that's not easy to do, right,
Speaker 10: But the guys coming up, if you know, when their
Speaker 10: name is called there they're ready and and you know,
Speaker 10: giving a chance to win ball games, and that's important,
Speaker 10: right This can be an opportunity for them to show
Speaker 10: that they can be you know, a mainstain in in
Speaker 10: a in a on.
Speaker 8: A big league roster.
Speaker 10: And I think those guys are proving that they're throwing
Speaker 10: the heck out of the ball and uh giving us
Speaker 10: a chance to win. And it's it's a hard position
Speaker 10: to be in, right, you know, losing, you know, not
Speaker 10: having Pep and not having Boil in the rotation hurts us.
Speaker 4: But these guys have you.
Speaker 10: Know, slid in nicely and transitioned nicely into you know,
Speaker 10: helping us win ball games.
Speaker 8: And I think it shows good to back up to.
Speaker 7: Your time with Tito is someone who's always learning and
Speaker 7: always learning.
Speaker 8: What did you learn playing under him? It's made you
Speaker 8: a better.
Speaker 10: Play to win the game, you know, play to win
Speaker 10: the game. It's it's always uh, I don't know the
Speaker 10: right word really, but I don't want to say refreshing,
Speaker 10: but it's not you know, uh, it's not really the
Speaker 10: best way to describe it. It understanding that we're you know,
Speaker 10: we're playing to win the game. I think gives us
Speaker 10: direction right as players with you know, with Cincinnati, he
Speaker 10: came in at the right time where you know, guys
Speaker 10: were already shown that they can play at the big
Speaker 10: league level.
Speaker 8: And now it was like, all right, you know.
Speaker 7: Let's let's have a purpose.
Speaker 10: And why we're doing this, right, We're trying to win
Speaker 10: ball games. Get to the playoffs, have a deep run,
Speaker 10: and so there's a great you know, there's a great
Speaker 10: step for those young players last year to give themselves
Speaker 10: a conference that they know they can, they know what
Speaker 10: it takes to get to the playoffs, and now they're
Speaker 10: you know, I think it's leaked over into this season
Speaker 10: with uh, you know, with how they're playing.
Speaker 12: Some talk with how well all the teams in that
Speaker 12: division are doing from somebody who was in there last year,
Speaker 12: Is it surprise you does hee kind of the way
Speaker 12: those teams all seem to have set forward right now.
Speaker 10: I don't know if surprised is the right word, but yeah,
Speaker 10: that that division. You know, the last few years, you know,
Speaker 10: you had Chicago Milwaukee kind of running things, and then
Speaker 10: you know, even the last two years in Cincinnati, we
Speaker 10: felt like we can take a crack at it. But
Speaker 10: now they're really showing, you know, that they belong at
Speaker 10: the top of those standings. And then you know, Pittsburgh
Speaker 10: maybe the most surprising, just because you know, they had
Speaker 10: the young players, but they were kind of missing a
Speaker 10: few pieces, and they seem to have found those pieces
Speaker 10: and put together a really nice pitching staff, you know,
Speaker 10: to to have their say in the top of those standings.
Speaker 10: So even though it's early, it's it's a division that
Speaker 10: should be fun to watch.
Speaker 8: Thank you. Yeah.
Speaker 6: Steven Matts has been remarkably consistent over his first four starts.
Speaker 3: How has he made it so look so seamless, at
Speaker 3: least returning to the.
Speaker 8: Rotations he's dumb.
Speaker 13: I mean, he's pretty efficient. He attacks the strike zone
Speaker 13: really really well. I thought his last starting against Chicago
Speaker 13: and they came out swinging. The bats were very aggressive,
Speaker 13: and it didn't deter him from throwing early count strikes.
Speaker 13: He just probably made a little bit more quality strikes
Speaker 13: and then do some soft contact. But veteran guy knows
Speaker 13: how to pitch happy. He's on the mound today for
Speaker 13: us make.
Speaker 3: You guys challenge today.
Speaker 13: Very look very talented young pitcher. Strikeouts are up, walks
Speaker 13: are down pitches at the top of the zone. With
Speaker 13: his fastball, I mean, it's a simple approach. It's pretty
Speaker 13: much fastball slider, and he's going to use them both
Speaker 13: fairly equally. But we're gonna need to do everything we
Speaker 13: can to not do him any favors by expanding above
Speaker 13: the zone with that fastball. Easier said than done, because
Speaker 13: he's got a lot of carry.
Speaker 3: On the division.
Speaker 12: Yesterday a little bit, there's been some talk about kind
Speaker 12: of the surprise that that division has been so far.
Speaker 3: If teams about five hundred or whatnot, is anything the
Speaker 3: central Yeah, you've seen them all already.
Speaker 13: Well, I mean talented teams. I mean just saw the
Speaker 13: Reds one game, so it's a little tough. But I
Speaker 13: mean we went into Milwaukee. That bullpen is stacked. I
Speaker 13: mean every they got their very balanced righty ft and
Speaker 13: they're all throwing upper nineties hundreds. Then you go to
Speaker 13: Pittsburgh and you look at that club that it's a
Speaker 13: pretty stax starting rotation. And they're getting another guy back
Speaker 13: in Jared Jones here soon, which we know is very talented.
Speaker 13: And then they've done some nice things offensively with you know,
Speaker 13: b Lyle's contributions adding to their offense. So no doubt
Speaker 13: it's a talented division. And I'm guessing we'll be happy
Speaker 13: to be done with him here soon.
Speaker 2: You got them wings animation Sunday.
Speaker 8: And yeah, yeah, I think we're in a much better spot.
Speaker 13: Really appreciate Trevor Martin's performance yesterday to get us through there,
Speaker 13: and only need one more picture he came in. We
Speaker 13: were thinking that we had about fifty pitches with him
Speaker 13: two and a third. I think he's gone two innings,
Speaker 13: but not a third up. But he seemed totally fine.
Speaker 2: When you went for your career, you played against your
Speaker 2: former teams like Nick's doing tomorrow.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 13: I but I can appreciate Nick being, you know, a
Speaker 13: way more established big leaguer and having a bunch of
Speaker 13: friends over there and coaching staffs that he's you know,
Speaker 13: rubbed elbows with for a couple of seasons and had success.
Speaker 13: So I mean, he's gonna know most of those guys
Speaker 13: getting in the box against him.
Speaker 8: So it'll be unique.
Speaker 13: But knowing Nick the pro that he's shown to be,
Speaker 13: he'll probably put the blinders on and just focus on
Speaker 13: trying to make pitches, uh, the way he's done all
Speaker 13: season for us.
Speaker 7: Guys face him.
Speaker 8: He's off to a cold start this year.
Speaker 13: Yeah, just go up and have our good at bats. Certainly,
Speaker 13: Taj has pit throwing the ball very well, very similar
Speaker 13: to we saw a lot of spurts of that. Know
Speaker 13: that there's a ton of ability for Tash to be
Speaker 13: a special pitcher. I'm happy for him that he's doing that.
Speaker 13: Here early part of the season. Know that we have
Speaker 13: our hands full, but like to think that we.
Speaker 7: Can go out and have some good at bats.
Speaker 8: He took them at their yard.
Speaker 3: What did you see from that team then? And what
Speaker 3: do you.
Speaker 13: It was cold, really cold. Look, Derek Shall has done
Speaker 13: a nice job over there. Those guys have played well
Speaker 13: this season early on. We see enough of them in
Speaker 13: spring training to where there's some familiarity, but know that
Speaker 13: they're gonna do little things to help their team win.
Speaker 8: We're gonna try to do it on our end. We've
Speaker 8: talked a lot.
Speaker 6: About Yanni but continuing to stack up milestones in this
Speaker 6: franchise us to appreciate the consistency he brings every.
Speaker 9: Day in her cloud.
Speaker 8: That's probably the best word to describe.
Speaker 13: Yanni, with consistency at the plate. I know we've had
Speaker 13: some stretches early on in season where he hasn't gotten going,
Speaker 13: but then you look up in the middle of the
Speaker 13: season or at the end of the season, and his
Speaker 13: numbers always seem to get to a really productive, impressive spot.
Speaker 8: I'm happy for the success.
Speaker 13: That he's had early on, and we feel really good
Speaker 13: when he comes up to the plate and I'm glad
Speaker 13: that he's generating or being a part of some of
Speaker 13: these milestones because he's earned it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know about the picture you've gotten trade.
Speaker 8: Yeah, a little bit interesting.
Speaker 13: I don't know a ton about him. I'm excited for
Speaker 13: him to get here, get to know him. I briefly
Speaker 13: had a conversation with him. We like his fastball, and
Speaker 13: I'm sure Kyle and Jorge will get to work on
Speaker 13: doing everything we can to help help him. I know
Speaker 13: his numbers a little bit right now, but we've gotten
Speaker 13: some guys with numbers that maybe haven't had the most
Speaker 13: impressive stat line to start at ten inning stretch, and
Speaker 13: they're able to reset themselves. So hopefully this helps them,
Speaker 13: and he can help us.
Speaker 8: A little beat up and.
Speaker 2: A couple of guys got out a period of time,
Speaker 2: but it can great help to get somebody in there
Speaker 2: to help.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 13: Yeah, well, I mean right now, with where the bullpen is,
Speaker 13: I think we need to be opportunitimistic and this is
Speaker 13: a guy we like.
Speaker 3: Freda said he's feeling better.
Speaker 12: Maybe he said he's available if you need him, or
Speaker 12: you guys just can't careful with him.
Speaker 13: At this That's kind of what I heard from Joe.
Speaker 13: We you know, briefly talked on the off day. Joe
Speaker 13: and I still some soreness anticipated, there is gonna be soreness.
Speaker 13: But get him moving and see how he feels and
Speaker 13: hopefully is available.
Speaker 10: Going back to Yado, what is it about is hitting
Speaker 10: approach that allows him to do as consistent.
Speaker 13: As he I mean, for me, it's timing. I mean,
Speaker 13: he's just got really good timing. You know, it's a
Speaker 13: very simple approach. You know a lot of hitters they
Speaker 13: want to go up and they want to understand, all right,
Speaker 13: what's this guy's balldo, how's it move? The velocity, the
Speaker 13: shape of it. Yandi wants to know one thing, and
Speaker 13: that's velocity. Just tell me what the velocity of the
Speaker 13: fastball is and then he'll go up and make it.
Speaker 13: Just Now, that's also a sign of somebody being really
Speaker 13: really talented. But he's simple and he knows how to
Speaker 13: be on.
Speaker 6: Time, Junior, Just to start this weekend work, I should
Speaker 6: say this, these off days pretty eventful for you. But
Speaker 6: yesterday how did that come to be? With you going
Speaker 6: to that youth youth baseball game?
Speaker 4: We you know, listen to.
Speaker 9: Nicole, Yeah, man.
Speaker 14: A man.
Speaker 15: Show the americal, So he said, yeah, so I felt
Speaker 15: really good. Obviously, Nicole, my personal trainer who I worked
Speaker 15: with this past offseason, texted me reached out to me,
Speaker 15: and she was like, Hey, I got these group of
Speaker 15: kids that you know are obviously big fans, and so
Speaker 15: I was really intrigued from the beginning to try to
Speaker 15: do this for them, because obviously I want to get back,
Speaker 15: and I was thinking back to when I was a
Speaker 15: little kid and you know, looking up the ball players,
Speaker 15: and so I just wanted to give back and do
Speaker 15: do the right thing.
Speaker 6: You got to buy a pizza, you got to take
Speaker 6: some protos.
Speaker 3: How much did that mean to you?
Speaker 6: And how much do you appreciate being involved in the
Speaker 6: community like that, and.
Speaker 16: Like, hey, yeah, in the uh hellofre Go beat down.
Speaker 17: Yeah, obviously a lot.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 15: You know again, I go back to just thinking back
Speaker 15: when I was a little kid, right, you know, the
Speaker 15: ballplayers would do that for me, and so now I'm
Speaker 15: in a position where I can do that for a
Speaker 15: lot of the kids around the local community. So it
Speaker 15: just makes me feel really really good. And then obviously,
Speaker 15: you know, buying them a ton of pizza was was,
Speaker 15: you know, such a good moment. For them and all,
Speaker 15: and so yeah, it's just me giving back.
Speaker 7: Are they more happy to see you think? Or get
Speaker 7: the pizzas.
Speaker 18: Both?
Speaker 14: Yo? Union?
Speaker 15: Yeah, I you know, when I got there, obviously I
Speaker 15: heard the kids starting to screen my name, saying hey junior, junior, junior.
Speaker 15: But then you know, I Nicole told them, they were like, hey,
Speaker 15: focus focus on the game. You know, it's great that
Speaker 15: he's here, but you know, time to lock in.
Speaker 3: Was there any one kid that really stood out to.
Speaker 19: You that either you know, knew you well or hugged
Speaker 19: you or on a special picture anything like that.
Speaker 17: You know, everybody, right, everybody was just there.
Speaker 15: We were all taking pictures and I was able to
Speaker 15: just get to know a lot of the kids, you know,
Speaker 15: all of them, and just you know, be able to
Speaker 15: talk with them a lot.
Speaker 7: But you know, again, I just think back.
Speaker 15: On, you know, when I was in at that point,
Speaker 15: and you know, now just having to be in the
Speaker 15: position that I'm in for them to hopefully be you know.
Speaker 17: Great ball players were great people one day, you know,
Speaker 17: that's what matters the most. And yeah, that's just.
Speaker 4: What we did Wednesday night.
Speaker 8: You went to Top Golf too.
Speaker 16: For we uh of day the Tomo.
Speaker 15: Yeah, I just went with my cousin, right, So that
Speaker 15: night we knew the following day we had the off days,
Speaker 15: so I went with my cousin. Cousin just went to
Speaker 15: relax a little bit, and you know, I just hit
Speaker 15: the ball as hard as I could, gave it everything
Speaker 15: I had, and obviously it went viral, go over the screen.
Speaker 9: Right, yeah, way over?
Speaker 7: What do you think.
Speaker 6: You seem to be feeling well and good at the
Speaker 6: play right now? Is there anything in particular that has
Speaker 6: switched for you? Is it just getting into a.
Speaker 9: Group handle and a mention and home play? Yes, Like.
Speaker 15: I've been feeling really good obviously, right, I gotta keep
Speaker 15: doing my job and you know, keep working, of course,
Speaker 15: but things have been clicking for me at home plate,
Speaker 15: and as the days keep going on, as the games
Speaker 15: keep passing by, you know, I feel really confident in
Speaker 15: what I've been able to do. But again, it's just
Speaker 15: a matter of consistency, keeping keeping the job at hand,
Speaker 15: and you know, just doing my thing up at the plate.
Speaker 6: One of your former teammates today in Taj Bradley, are
Speaker 6: you excited to go up against him?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 9: How thea?
Speaker 15: You know, yeah, of course, right, super excited to see Taj.
Speaker 15: You know, Taj and I were teammates for a little
Speaker 15: bit here in Tampa Bay. But no, obviously you know
Speaker 15: he's over with the twins. But you know, he's just
Speaker 15: a great person. He was a great teammate while he
Speaker 15: was here, and you know, now, you know, things.
Speaker 7: Are a little bit different.
Speaker 15: So now the job for us is to win the game,
Speaker 15: of course when we go out on the field. But
Speaker 15: you know, it was great to have him here, and
Speaker 15: it'll be great to see him here today. Yeah, we
Speaker 15: got to do our job at hand. We got to
Speaker 15: do everything that it requires. And if we got to
Speaker 15: get him out of the first inning, we're going to
Speaker 15: get him out of the first inning.
Speaker 7: You just go back to the visiting with the kids.
Speaker 4: It's hitching if you're only twenty two.
Speaker 2: It wasn't like this isn't like a thirty five year
Speaker 2: old guy saying, oh, I remember when I was a kid.
Speaker 2: Have quickly you've become the kind of guy that people
Speaker 2: get excited to see.
Speaker 9: The moment's fast? How are.
Speaker 20: And went.
Speaker 9: Mile then going to.
Speaker 7: Yeah, you know, like I had to grow up fast, right,
Speaker 7: That's what it was.
Speaker 15: I had a lot of blessings come my way as
Speaker 15: a young kid, and so I've just tried to be
Speaker 15: a lot more mature, you know, mature a lot more quickly.
Speaker 15: And so yeah, that's what I've been trying to do,
Speaker 15: is just kind of take an adult approach to things,
Speaker 15: and you know, again, like you said, just be a
Speaker 15: leader in that type of way.
Speaker 3: Was where was the league?
Speaker 8: Where was it?
Speaker 18: You know?
Speaker 8: Do you know the name?
Speaker 7: I I have it somewhere, but not right now.
Speaker 19: Yeah, near Nicole gym up that way by.
Speaker 9: Pay close.
Speaker 8: Yeah. Do you remember when you were young the first
Speaker 8: big lea who did something like that for when.
Speaker 14: You were.
Speaker 15: Yeah, I don't remember the first time, but I do
Speaker 15: remember a lot of memories when I was younger of
Speaker 15: you know again, major league guys just come into my
Speaker 15: field and you know, spending time with the kids, and
Speaker 15: Hanley ro Hanley Ramirez was.
Speaker 7: One that, you know, I really remember very vividly.
Speaker 15: But again, just like I said before, like guys did
Speaker 15: it when I was growing up. So now I wanna
Speaker 15: give back and do the same thing for the kids
Speaker 15: that are here in the Tampa area.
Speaker 7: Thank you, Thank you.
Speaker 8: Strike throwing the location. After kind of reviewing everything, would.
Speaker 6: You take away from the outing from.
Speaker 21: Just gotta keep you know, working on you know, I
Speaker 21: feel like I've been working on in a year is
Speaker 21: just you know, the aggressiveness, the just kind of attacking
Speaker 21: hitters and you know, just enjoying it out there. You know,
Speaker 21: kind of was able to have this week, you know,
Speaker 21: after I felt like was a successful week weekend last week.
Speaker 21: You know, results might have not been great, but the
Speaker 21: approach was right where I needed it to be in
Speaker 21: right where you know I'm going to try and you know, build.
Speaker 4: Off of it.
Speaker 8: How much you're.
Speaker 7: Appreciating just that the normal of the routines.
Speaker 6: Now you're getting into this more each week, each five
Speaker 6: or six days now, making starts and continuing to.
Speaker 7: Try to improve off each outing.
Speaker 21: Yeah, you know, you get comfortable in regards to your
Speaker 21: routine in terms of I think a lot of your
Speaker 21: confidence comes from that routine and just building upon that,
Speaker 21: you know, kind of maybe refining it at times and
Speaker 21: just kind of understand what your body needs and what
Speaker 21: you need mentally physically, you know, whatever to get ready
Speaker 21: for that fifth or sixth day.
Speaker 3: Saw them but didn't face them. What do you make
Speaker 3: of that lineup.
Speaker 7: In kind of the challenge that they present Minnesota.
Speaker 4: Uh yeah, it's a good team.
Speaker 21: You know, it seemed like they're they're clicking pretty good
Speaker 21: right now, and you know it's gonna be a lot
Speaker 21: of fun.
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 17: I think I think they've got some good hitters.
Speaker 21: I think, you know, we've got some good guys behind
Speaker 21: me to hopefully, you know, maybe take a few.
Speaker 8: Hits away if they if that happens.
Speaker 4: But now I'm excited.
Speaker 21: I'm excited to you know, get out there, face them
Speaker 21: and you know, kind of attack each day.
Speaker 12: I'll pump for you by what Martinez did before the
Speaker 12: off the age seem to take away and kind of command.
Speaker 4: The game like it was awesome.
Speaker 21: It was awesome, you know, seeing Nick do that, it
Speaker 21: was was really cool to see man and uh it was.
Speaker 21: It was good for a lot of the guys in
Speaker 21: here too, in terms of the bullpenion, you know, kind
Speaker 21: of usage and being able to you know, having Nick
Speaker 21: be a veteran and say hey, I'm want to put
Speaker 21: you on my back and we're going to go. It's
Speaker 21: I know, those guys appreciated a ton too, and so
Speaker 21: you know, we starters want to do more of that.
Speaker 6: It's Abo and how he's back here it's gonna be
Speaker 6: on the other side to sure opportunity to see him
Speaker 6: and hopefully get to him early.
Speaker 7: And knock them out of the game early.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 21: You know, I just I just got great stuff and
Speaker 21: you know, we've we've seen it from you know, this side,
Speaker 21: and it's gonna be it's gonna be fun to see
Speaker 21: it from the other side now too. And yeah, like
Speaker 21: you said, hopefully we can hopefully we can get to
Speaker 21: him and you know, get him out before he gets
Speaker 21: too comfortable in the game, because you know, his stuff
Speaker 21: is just electric and it seems like he's learning after
Speaker 21: each start.
Speaker 4: Thanks better, better, Yeah, definitely better.
Speaker 18: Is that still sore?
Speaker 22: Yeah, no, it's still it's still sore. I'd squared up
Speaker 22: the bone about a square as you could do it.
Speaker 22: But like I said, it's a lot better from obviously initially.
Speaker 22: And you know, I told him I was good to
Speaker 22: go today. But they're just kind of trying to stay
Speaker 22: on the safe side of still got some pretty tight
Speaker 22: spots on my calf down toward the Achilles, So we
Speaker 22: obviously don't want to take a couple of days of
Speaker 22: you know, just monitoring it and being safe as opposed
Speaker 22: to going out there. And pushing it and straining a
Speaker 22: calf and being out for quite a bit of time.
Speaker 7: I remember you're telling me like it.
Speaker 8: Was weird because you felt it shoot.
Speaker 22: Up your calf, Like yeah, I mean when I filed
Speaker 22: it off, I thought I fold it off of the
Speaker 22: muscle because my calf immediately locked up. And then by
Speaker 22: the time I got back to the dugout, it was like, like,
Speaker 22: I can't like flex my foot. So I was just
Speaker 22: assuming that it was off the calf just because the
Speaker 22: muscle tightened up so quick. And then I went out
Speaker 22: there for that half inning. Probably shouldn't have, but I was,
Speaker 22: you know, just being stubborn, and I hate doing that
Speaker 22: to guys, like, you know, coming to Johnny and being like, hey,
Speaker 22: I can't go like you gotta jump up and go here,
Speaker 22: and the you know whatever.
Speaker 8: It was the third inning.
Speaker 22: So but when I went out there for that half fitting,
Speaker 22: I couldn't get into my preset.
Speaker 8: I couldn't get into a full sprint. I barely got
Speaker 8: to the fly ball that I got hit to me.
Speaker 22: And then once we came back up here and we
Speaker 22: started looking at it and kind of things started dying down.
Speaker 8: I was like, wow, I did not hit my calf.
Speaker 8: I hit the bone about it, you know, right on
Speaker 8: the bone.
Speaker 22: So I thought it was weird that I hit it
Speaker 22: off the bone and my caf just completely locked up
Speaker 22: on me. But I just I don't know if it
Speaker 22: was a nerve thing or just.
Speaker 8: Where it hit. They just happened to do that sides.
Speaker 8: I like it was like a little front to the
Speaker 8: side of the shin.
Speaker 22: Yeah, it literally missed my leg guard by like this much.
Speaker 8: I don't even know why I wear those things.
Speaker 3: So you think.
Speaker 8: No, No, I think, yeah, I feel like I'm in
Speaker 8: a good spot.
Speaker 22: Like I said, We're just we're just trying to be smart,
Speaker 22: right Like I said, you, I told them that I
Speaker 22: felt like I could go today, and you know, they
Speaker 22: trust that. But also on my side, I also have
Speaker 22: to trust their experience and expertise, you know, with Joe
Speaker 22: and from the training stap side. And I think the
Speaker 22: biggest thing is just you know, making sure that you know,
Speaker 22: with me still having some tightness in the calf area,
Speaker 22: that it doesn't turn into me pulling a calf right,
Speaker 22: because when you have that much inflammation with you know,
Speaker 22: hitting a ball off a spot like that, that information
Speaker 22: holds in that muscle, and you know that the fibers
Speaker 22: and the muscle aren't able to stretch properly, right, So
Speaker 22: like just making sure that it doesn't turn into something
Speaker 22: where I'm missing quite a bit of time just because
Speaker 22: you know, we pushed it and.
Speaker 8: The caf ends up pulling. So and it helps having
Speaker 8: a guy like Johnny that is such a stud.
Speaker 22: You know that guy should be playing every day and
Speaker 22: he's doing a really good job of, you know, handling that.
Speaker 8: So it's it's good game.
Speaker 6: Did the two to three hitters and John him in
Speaker 6: Ronda and Junian caman.
Speaker 13: Aroo, Yeah, big days for both of them and came
Speaker 13: at the right time. And we know how Taj has
Speaker 13: been throwing the ball and we know when he's locked
Speaker 13: in how challenging. But it felt like they saw him
Speaker 13: well early on. Johnny made an adjustment after the first back,
Speaker 13: got struck out on a curve ball, got a fastball
Speaker 13: down for a homer, and then was ready for the
Speaker 13: next breaking ball. So encouraged by certainly the middle guys
Speaker 13: doing the damage.
Speaker 6: You mentioned Taj and getting home on all season is
Speaker 6: up four of you guys tonight. Was that something in
Speaker 6: the game plan they saw just adjustments by those two.
Speaker 13: Yeah, I mean I didn't know he hadn't given up
Speaker 13: a homer, but I mean it makes sense because this
Speaker 13: stuff is really good right now. We were just fortunate
Speaker 13: to get some pitches that we could handle and put
Speaker 13: some really good swings on it two powerful guys that
Speaker 13: you know were behind the ball and knocked them along way.
Speaker 6: True once again, very good tonight got out of that
Speaker 6: jam there in that middle lining when he got the
Speaker 6: first two on.
Speaker 7: What did you see from hens out?
Speaker 13: I mean that was the outing or the game for
Speaker 13: him right there, to go second and third no outs,
Speaker 13: and then to be able to find a way with
Speaker 13: two very good contact hitters, you know, with Clemens and Karanteiny.
Speaker 8: They moved the ball and.
Speaker 13: He made some big pitches to get two outs right
Speaker 13: there and then get out with nothing being scoreders.
Speaker 3: Numbers or something.
Speaker 13: Don't no I said that when the first one went off, Yeah,
Speaker 13: it's just very uncharacteristic. See it go above the batter's
Speaker 13: eye and land up there. But we know we can
Speaker 13: hit him, and we got ahold of that one.
Speaker 2: Is it particularly impressive to see him just foot one
Speaker 2: foul then and the next bitch just hit the homer there.
Speaker 13: What was most He broke his bat on the foul ball,
Speaker 13: and that's pretty impressive. Uh, But anytime he finds a
Speaker 13: barrel to it, it's got a chance to go. That's
Speaker 13: just the type of generation, the power that he generates.
Speaker 3: Talk so much about his fastballs, eves that you change.
Speaker 4: Up and play it kind of stand up to it.
Speaker 13: Did a little bit, but I think that's a byproduct
Speaker 13: of the lineup. A bunch of lefties in there, mixed
Speaker 13: in some changees, but had a good feel for it.
Speaker 13: And I think as he's throwing it and he's having success,
Speaker 13: he's just building confidence with it.
Speaker 6: To start with the power game you saw from your
Speaker 6: two three hitters. Yeah, it doesn't happen every day, but
Speaker 6: games by junior in Canada. Yeah, I should say Cammy
Speaker 6: on iron and pretty good advantage one of that.
Speaker 23: Uh yeah, we'll take it anytime it comes.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 23: You know, multi I feel like multi homer games are
Speaker 23: rare in their own right, and so to have two
Speaker 23: in one night, it's crazy. But I mean they're both
Speaker 23: All Stars for a reason, right, They're both really good players,
Speaker 23: and so you know, like I said, we'll take it
Speaker 23: if it comes.
Speaker 6: For you to get out of that jam. You're the
Speaker 6: first two runners on no outs back strikeouts. What we
Speaker 6: have approach going out of that to get out within
Speaker 6: now damage?
Speaker 23: I mean I would say generally, you know, I'd like
Speaker 23: a hitter on her out in the first three pitches,
Speaker 23: and then once we get to two strikes, or if
Speaker 23: we get to two strikes, then you know, we start
Speaker 23: pitching for the punch out. But in a situation like that,
Speaker 23: you know, you're I would have considered a win one
Speaker 23: run scoring, and so ultimately, you know, we're pitching for
Speaker 23: a punch out out of the gate because you're gonna
Speaker 23: have to get one. And then if a sack fly
Speaker 23: or something happens after that, you know, you take that
Speaker 23: for what it is. But like I said, I would
Speaker 23: have taken one run scoring as a win, and so
Speaker 23: to limit it to none was I mean, you know,
Speaker 23: I couldn't have asked for more.
Speaker 6: That change up has seemed to become a weapon for
Speaker 6: you through twenty eight all of last season.
Speaker 7: I think you're through eighteen tonight.
Speaker 6: Yeah, how has that pitch become more of a comfortable
Speaker 6: weapon for you?
Speaker 23: Yeah, we're still getting more comfortable with it. We knew
Speaker 23: you know, just as the scouting report came in, we
Speaker 23: knew there was a chance that I was gonna throw
Speaker 23: a good an amount of them today. But uh, you know,
Speaker 23: execution is still the hardest part with it for me.
Speaker 23: And so you know, it was you we were going
Speaker 23: to test it out early on and see where we
Speaker 23: were at and then go from there.
Speaker 4: And you know, we executed pretty well.
Speaker 9: Also.
Speaker 23: I mean plenty of them that weren't executed very well.
Speaker 23: They just happened to show, you know, show their face
Speaker 23: and in the right counts where you know, you happen
Speaker 23: to throw at sixty feet on the dot instead of
Speaker 23: throwing it, you know, through the strike zone. And like
Speaker 23: I said, those ones happened to show up in two
Speaker 23: strike counts. And you know, like I said, execution something
Speaker 23: we're still working for, we're still striving for.
Speaker 4: But uh it turned out to be okay today.
Speaker 3: Kind of gain confidence and trust in it.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 23: Yeah, you know, we knew we were going to throw
Speaker 23: it to h Buxton, so he was going to be
Speaker 23: the first right hander.
Speaker 4: I think I've thrown one two.
Speaker 23: It was gonna be a different wrinkle because you know,
Speaker 23: coming into the night, don't know if you guys know this,
Speaker 23: but uh, I haven't had the most success, so we
Speaker 23: knew we were going to attack them with it and
Speaker 23: just throw show him a different wrinkle from me. You know,
Speaker 23: that was something that I was curious to see how
Speaker 23: it was going to work out. Neither of them were
Speaker 23: overly competitive, but you know, it was still the right
Speaker 23: shape to to to decent locations in the counts in
Speaker 23: which they were thrown. So uh yeah, you know, confidence
Speaker 23: in it is is only going up, and uh as
Speaker 23: we get more comfortable, we'll we'll definitely be working it
Speaker 23: into the repertoire, you know, a little bit heavier first time.
Speaker 3: The family for.
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, it is.
Speaker 23: You know, I know, I know my wife and my
Speaker 23: son were at at the New York game a couple
Speaker 23: of weeks ago, but uh yeah, this was the first
Speaker 23: time all four of them were to hear.
Speaker 3: Thanks for a multi homer game.
Speaker 6: We talked before the game about kind of some of
Speaker 6: the adjustments you were making. Do you feel that one tonight?
Speaker 7: Yeah, really happy.
Speaker 15: Obviously the win was the most important thing, but you know,
Speaker 15: obviously really happy with the result, which was my first
Speaker 15: career multi hit home run, first multi home run game,
Speaker 15: and you know, obviously the adjustments that I've been making
Speaker 15: that we talked about, you know, they're paying off.
Speaker 6: You're very familiar with taj you play with them the minors,
Speaker 6: you're in the majors. How much did that knowledge of
Speaker 6: him help you tonight?
Speaker 24: Gernandos lib p Pedal So the second one, the.
Speaker 18: Sarpentipoo.
Speaker 17: Yeah, I think that's the first time I've ever faced him.
Speaker 7: Yeah, even in live VP.
Speaker 15: I think that was the first time we ever went
Speaker 15: up against each other. So I know he's a good picture.
Speaker 15: I know what he's capable of. But obviously I'm here
Speaker 15: to compete right now. We're on different teams, so you know,
Speaker 15: he got me the first time, but obviously I got
Speaker 15: him the second time.
Speaker 6: Make it even more fun that Junior had a two
Speaker 6: homer game two, the two of you both competing, I
Speaker 6: guess against each other.
Speaker 18: Mos l is the tai President.
Speaker 7: Yeah, obviously it's super exciting.
Speaker 15: We know the type of player that Junior is and
Speaker 15: to see it on that type of spectacle is obviously
Speaker 15: even more exciting. But again, you know, kind of like me,
Speaker 15: Junior's adjustments that we've been seeing him try to make.
Speaker 15: You know, they're finally paying off. And so it's really
Speaker 15: good thing when it affects all the rest of the team.
Speaker 3: You mentioned that got you the first time.
Speaker 12: How much is it adjusting from it bat to a bat,
Speaker 12: seeing how he's facing you the first time?
Speaker 24: To do what you do that to that, Sean PreO
Speaker 24: is the.
Speaker 15: Yeah, you learned from a bat to a bat, right,
Speaker 15: Obviously you got to have a short memory. You gotta
Speaker 15: forget that. I forgot the first time that got me out.
Speaker 15: But again that's about adjustment, adjusting. So I saw a
Speaker 15: few pitches there the first time around, so again the
Speaker 15: second time, and you know, took it and got the
Speaker 15: result that I wanted.
Speaker 3: For the field to hit that first ball that you hit,
Speaker 3: you know land where it went.
Speaker 8: Well when I hit him?
Speaker 16: If nothing, Uh yeah, you know, if you're good today
Speaker 16: in the home play, uh you know we're gone for
Speaker 16: the uh you know, I know the great game and
Speaker 16: just could be gone.
Speaker 3: But the second one catch that you broke your bat
Speaker 3: on the swing. Fil then to turn back around and
Speaker 3: hit that one.
Speaker 18: Out the center.
Speaker 16: Yeah, yeah, I plea before and I broke him by
Speaker 16: and then I say a team trum is like he
Speaker 16: gave me some pride when what the five, was sorry
Speaker 16: and I tried fast away and I did a hit
Speaker 16: the ball and tried too much and put him playing.
Speaker 7: I hit it in the fit.
Speaker 3: What's the familiarity with Tyers? Do you think that helped
Speaker 3: you at all? Just kind of knowing what he what
Speaker 3: he does and how he does about his business.
Speaker 9: Uh, that is a great picture. That Brady is great.
Speaker 9: You know I played together last year.
Speaker 7: I know I know hang it's a great pitcher.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 16: You know to the I said before the game, I
Speaker 16: tried to hit a good hang and I did.
Speaker 3: It hitting too with Aronda.
Speaker 16: Yeah, I'm as you know, I'm messed four homer together.
Speaker 16: That s acame Aaranda great player. Very hit it by
Speaker 16: and you know you're studying got comforting and home play.
Speaker 15: Uh.
Speaker 7: I'm happy for handing to the.
Speaker 3: Good for you guys to win a game like that.
Speaker 3: We talked about small ball so much the first couple
Speaker 3: of weeks. To do it with the long ball.
Speaker 16: Yeah, you know, not just me, just everybody here, everybody here,
Speaker 16: Poury putty one s uh. You know the picture crazy
Speaker 16: to the picture radmosel unbelievable.
Speaker 9: Uh you know the relisha na.
Speaker 4: Naani.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 9: You know everybody can hear, we'll see seeing something.
Speaker 16: Everybody in that I know, putting one sing but every
Speaker 16: day and yeah, just keep it doing, you know some.
Speaker 9: Sh interest group.
Speaker 13: Jackson's pretty fresh. Came out, he was efficient, got into
Speaker 13: the third ending, did a nice job. And Scholz is
Speaker 13: kind of he's done it every time he's been out there.
Speaker 13: He just you know, limits pitch counts, limits runs, hits,
Speaker 13: base runners. Did a nice job and then bought the
Speaker 13: offense a little at the time against they're starting to
Speaker 13: get some runs.
Speaker 6: He of course seems it's a muscle memory hitting it
Speaker 6: the opposite way.
Speaker 8: What are you seeing in.
Speaker 13: Just the way he's seen him that now, Yeah, I
Speaker 13: mean really good hitter that is pretty locked in. I mean,
Speaker 13: drove a pitch up in a way it looked like
Speaker 13: for for Homer. Yanni's smart enough to know not to
Speaker 13: try to do too much with that pitch.
Speaker 8: Probably your best avenue.
Speaker 13: Is to go that way with it. But two up
Speaker 13: pitches today were the key. Johnny got on top of
Speaker 13: one two to drive in the first two runs. I
Speaker 13: know he's been kind of expanding up there, but he
Speaker 13: made sure he got on top of that one enough
Speaker 13: to pick up the first two runs.
Speaker 8: The season games over five hundred.
Speaker 6: Now, what stands out about the way you guys are
Speaker 6: playing baseball?
Speaker 8: Yeah, we've played good.
Speaker 13: We've a little bit more complete baseball.
Speaker 8: I think the.
Speaker 13: Bullpen has really come on strong here of lately, getting
Speaker 13: some big, big outs for us.
Speaker 8: So very happy by that.
Speaker 18: Kind of a thought on Jackson.
Speaker 13: And you know, he's really talented, he's really good. He's
Speaker 13: gonna be good for us. But we found out, you know,
Speaker 13: years ago, that sometimes you can reset yourself a little bit,
Speaker 13: and uh, he seemed to understand that, get his workloaded
Speaker 13: when you're not just throwing one inning. Maybe there's a
Speaker 13: little bit more availability to mix all your pitches in
Speaker 13: something like fail or.
Speaker 8: Something like that.
Speaker 13: We'll see, I mean, we're gonna talk to see how
Speaker 13: he feels, comes in tomorrow, talk about it. But I think,
Speaker 13: you know, we got a lot.
Speaker 8: To discuss for sure.
Speaker 13: But couldn't be more happy with the way he got
Speaker 13: through two and the third.
Speaker 3: Good hitter, he'd been really good season position.
Speaker 13: I mean, really good hitters lock it in that much
Speaker 13: more when guys are in scoring position. I think Johnny
Speaker 13: does you know he is a good hitter. He does
Speaker 13: both those things. Uh, But like I said, the first
Speaker 13: two pitches he was frustrated, whether he missed.
Speaker 4: Him or he offered at them.
Speaker 13: I think it was pretty well set up that at
Speaker 13: some point in the bat he's gonna go back up again.
Speaker 13: He went up the third consecutive pitch, and Johnny had
Speaker 13: an answer.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 13: I mean that's a byproduct of him getting big hits
Speaker 13: when guys are on base, and then a bunch of
Speaker 13: people in front of them doing a good job of
Speaker 13: getting on base.
Speaker 8: And you know, for him, what do you make.
Speaker 2: Of the fact that you're eleven and one against the
Speaker 2: American League, the National League.
Speaker 8: At this point, not much.
Speaker 13: I don't have nothing.
Speaker 8: I don't know.
Speaker 13: Yeah, yeah, he's okay. I mean, he strained his calf
Speaker 13: and we'll I'll check with him today, and just felt
Speaker 13: like at that point it's probably time for him to
Speaker 13: go get some treatment.
Speaker 8: No, I think it was.
Speaker 13: A play before just moving in the box.
Speaker 8: I'm not sure.
Speaker 6: Good cash you has mentioned, just consistency from you each
Speaker 6: and every time you've been out there.
Speaker 8: I know, maybe.
Speaker 6: The last out in the stat line, but worse thing
Speaker 6: than night you fell out.
Speaker 3: But how did you feel.
Speaker 17: When you're on in today.
Speaker 7: Ah, you know, sometimes enough is enough.
Speaker 25: You know, typically you walk through guys, you throw that
Speaker 25: many balls, bad things going to happen. We avoided that
Speaker 25: until the last thing there. Fortunately, our offense did their job.
Speaker 25: They got us enough runs. Jackson and the rest of
Speaker 25: the guys in the pen did their job kept them there.
Speaker 25: So yeah, sometimes enough is enough.
Speaker 8: Jackson good pitch too.
Speaker 3: Would look like you could have finished possibly that threat inning.
Speaker 7: What what point did you prepare to go in and
Speaker 7: finish that vocal?
Speaker 25: I was prepared after the first inning. You know, they
Speaker 25: kind of gave me that idea of what Jackson was
Speaker 25: going to do out.
Speaker 4: There, So yeah, I was, I was preparing after that
Speaker 4: first one.
Speaker 6: I have to be impressed with your two great hitters
Speaker 6: there in Toronto and Yandi, what they were able to
Speaker 6: do to give you that fourn Aye.
Speaker 25: Yeah, I mean, they're they're animals, you know, they're absolute stides.
Speaker 25: The rest of our lineup is too, you know, just
Speaker 25: about one through nine and the guys on the bench.
Speaker 25: You know, it's great offense, it's fun to fun to
Speaker 25: pitch with.
Speaker 3: We're all here sweeping the series of winning standing. What
Speaker 3: do you like about the way this team's playing right now.
Speaker 25: I think there's just a lot of energy, you know,
Speaker 25: kind of coming off a couple of wins. Like you said,
Speaker 25: the sweep too. It is always tough to come by
Speaker 25: in this leak, so only time you get a chance
Speaker 25: to do that, it's great. Yeah, the guys are feeling good.
Speaker 25: Energy is up. Just goodbyes right now, So it's fun.
Speaker 3: What do you make it good?
Speaker 2: Being eleven and one against alive against the NL.
Speaker 25: Sometimes you know, that's just just the way the ball rolls,
Speaker 25: you know. I like the way we're playing. I think
Speaker 25: everybody in here kind of likes the way we're playing
Speaker 25: all around. So yeah, sometimes you know, just just balls
Speaker 25: the wrong way.
Speaker 8: But it's been good.
Speaker 4: Thank you.
Speaker 8: Do you feel kind of going?
Speaker 4: That?
Speaker 8: Feel pretty good honestly.
Speaker 26: Second up, there's been something that I haven't done a
Speaker 26: whole lot traditionally in the past, But I think it's
Speaker 26: more mental at this point than physical, just getting over
Speaker 26: it and knowing that myself's not gonna drop off.
Speaker 8: Third and one.
Speaker 26: Uh, definitely felt that My first throw I think went
Speaker 26: halfway up the backstop in the middle of inning, so
Speaker 26: I was like, you gotta gotta lock it back in here,
Speaker 26: so that one was an adjustment, but it was going
Speaker 26: to get out there get a better feel for all
Speaker 26: my pitches.
Speaker 4: I thought my stuff got.
Speaker 26: Better as the game went along, and it's just getting
Speaker 26: those consistent quality reps.
Speaker 6: And at what point did you were going to be
Speaker 6: opening this game? I can how you prepare differently than
Speaker 6: maybe you're working out.
Speaker 26: Yeah, I think we talked about it maybe a few
Speaker 26: days ago, just if it lined up, we were gonna
Speaker 26: open for Jesse, And you know, we did a few
Speaker 26: times with.
Speaker 4: Me last year just to get a little reset.
Speaker 26: And you know, to your point, it's it's a little
Speaker 26: bit different of a way of attacking. Whereas if I'm
Speaker 26: coming in later in the game, maybe it was some
Speaker 26: traffic on the base, Like it's almost.
Speaker 8: Like you got to go for the strikeout right away.
Speaker 26: But here when you're opening and starting earlier in the game,
Speaker 26: like you got to pitch a contact and you don't
Speaker 26: need to swing a mess right away. So honestly gives
Speaker 26: me that like mental reset, like just to attack the
Speaker 26: zone again and then stuff like spands out often after
Speaker 26: that just kind of left to work.
Speaker 6: It's actually maybe you get stretched out a little bit
Speaker 6: as much as you want to the workings at the start.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we're talking about.
Speaker 16: It pressed me last year. I think that as well as.
Speaker 26: With that for sure, I mean I think this today
Speaker 26: was like a good a good example of what it
Speaker 26: looks like and we'll see where it where it ends up.
Speaker 8: A little bit too.
Speaker 12: Just as hard as you different pitches, you obviously have
Speaker 12: a pretty an set as well, get opportunities.
Speaker 26: Definitely, I got six really good pitches. It's hard to
Speaker 26: fit those six pitches in a one inning stint. And
Speaker 26: I think, you know, this allows me to sort of
Speaker 26: use all my weapons like we saw today, I reintroduced
Speaker 26: the cutter. I I didn't throw a curveball today, but
Speaker 26: that's definitely an option. Sweeps always gonna be there, change
Speaker 26: ups early and often, and then I got you know,
Speaker 26: the foresaing and sinker. So it just allows me to optimize,
Speaker 26: I think. And there's there's not one hitter that I
Speaker 26: don't think my stuff doesn't play too in that regard.
Speaker 8: When did you know.
Speaker 26: After the second about it?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 26: Yeah, I think we talked for sure going to and
Speaker 26: I think my pitch count was pretty good and they
Speaker 26: just wanted me to simulate the getting the third up.
Speaker 4: So.
Speaker 7: Between coming in the game as far as.
Speaker 26: It's just a different mindset, you know, when I'm coming
Speaker 26: in in the seventh and and on, if it's you know,
Speaker 26: a typical situation where I've thrown in the past, you know,
Speaker 26: a short lead, maybe some guys on base, and you know,
Speaker 26: you got to lock it in from the start. And
Speaker 26: if you're you're going to go in from the start
Speaker 26: of the game, it just allows you to be a
Speaker 26: little bit more free, I think, and just to be
Speaker 26: in more of attack mode and forced them to hit it.
Speaker 26: And uh, I don't have to go for the strike
Speaker 26: out right away, RBI.
Speaker 2: But how have you kind of taken your approach when
Speaker 2: you're coming up with guys on base situation?
Speaker 12: Why not.
Speaker 8: Come on?
Speaker 15: You know, Fortunately the hits have fallen in the right places,
Speaker 15: right you know, I don't feel one hundred percent just yet,
Speaker 15: but you know, again, I've been able to give results
Speaker 15: in the right times, in the right spots, and you know,
Speaker 15: I'm thankful for that. But hopefully we get to you know,
Speaker 15: where I want to be.
Speaker 12: Figure that that it seems like you were looking that
Speaker 12: last pitch for something not able to adjust.
Speaker 24: Them and get to that implemented you know, Honestly, it's
Speaker 24: one of my weak moods. I've kind of given them
Speaker 24: sometimes that window, but you know I was looking for
Speaker 24: it in that situation, so right there I was able
Speaker 24: to get around to it and you know, fortunately get
Speaker 24: the result that I wanted.
Speaker 12: How much do you appreciate Yan these opposite field power,
Speaker 12: just the way that he can.
Speaker 8: Do that after you.
Speaker 15: It's great to see the player that he is and
Speaker 15: be able to get those types for him, for to
Speaker 15: see those type of at bats that he's able to get,
Speaker 15: and you know, he's just of a ball player, you know,
Speaker 15: and it's great to have him on this team.
Speaker 3: Talk about being being sput up.
Speaker 8: Key situation today?
Speaker 6: Is there anything different you've adjusted to to to shows.
Speaker 18: But no implement, no man Salil be playing the fortune?
Speaker 7: Yeah? I just right now, I'm trying to let the
Speaker 7: game flow naturally.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 15: Sometimes I've kind of spilled myself up or I've gotten
Speaker 15: in my own head and things haven't worked out my way.
Speaker 15: But now just kind of letting things come to me
Speaker 15: is that's what's worked and so hopefully you know again
Speaker 15: you want to hit the ball hard, you want to
Speaker 15: connect with the ball, and you know that's what I've
Speaker 15: been able to do and keep things going that way.
Speaker 2: It's been another week today, you guys are five games
Speaker 2: over five hundred.
Speaker 4: How would you think things have gone as it?
Speaker 8: Wine?
Speaker 9: Know what you guys are doing?
Speaker 8: Well?
Speaker 18: Contento now it's the.
Speaker 8: Tail is they.
Speaker 18: Spark to see? Yeah?
Speaker 7: Obviously very happy.
Speaker 15: The hitting the pitching has been connecting at the right
Speaker 15: spots when we've needed it to.
Speaker 17: And you know, hopefully, you know, it continues to be
Speaker 17: that way. Right, good teams, you know, do both things
Speaker 17: really well.
Speaker 15: And so far, you know, for the majority of our games,
Speaker 15: we've been able to hit well and pitch well.
Speaker 7: And you know, hopefully that's what we continue to do.
Speaker 7: Thank you to do.
Speaker 19: Or is it just they give you those pitches out
Speaker 19: there and just put it that way?
Speaker 7: Cause the hand getting those puts.
Speaker 20: No simple implemente.
Speaker 18: They have.
Speaker 15: It's just the pitch that they give me and they
Speaker 15: carry that way, right, you know in those type of situations,
Speaker 15: you know, yes, I'm hitting it with power in a way,
Speaker 15: but you know, just let my bat do the thing,
Speaker 15: do its thing, and you know, let the ball go the.
Speaker 7: Other way, so you're you're not really aiming the other way.
Speaker 4: If it's more reaction both.
Speaker 20: Or mass and no simple and Californo.
Speaker 15: Yeah, it's something that I am conscious of, right, It's
Speaker 15: something that I am trying to do obviously when we
Speaker 15: want to hit line drives, but you know, in those
Speaker 15: type of certain situations, I am looking opposite field.
Speaker 2: You guys, another sweep today, You're five games over five hundred.
Speaker 7: What do you think? What do you like about how
Speaker 7: you guys are playing? With's going well?
Speaker 12: And pre.
Speaker 20: Momento you say, gun, you.
Speaker 7: Know we're doing a lot of good things right now.
Speaker 15: Obviously you know it's still early, but we're playing really well,
Speaker 15: and we know we're in a tough division, but you know,
Speaker 15: things have been clicking for us, and you know, we
Speaker 15: just got to keep that going.
Speaker 2: And one more thing, the way you Jonathan Junior kind
Speaker 2: of the three guys off almost every game when somebody's
Speaker 2: doing something the way you guys have been producing, you'd
Speaker 2: like the whey that's with the three of you.
Speaker 7: You know, the the key is that it's not just
Speaker 7: us three, right.
Speaker 15: You know, you look at Chandler for example, he's in
Speaker 15: the leadoff spot and he's been producing for us as well.
Speaker 15: But you know, again it's just not us three and
Speaker 15: I think that's the key right there. I think it's
Speaker 15: everyone more than just us three.
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