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Speaker 3: Take theituation. I mean, yeah, the pitch before he kind
Speaker 3: of took an odd twing for Johnny, but it didn't
Speaker 3: phase him at all. I got another sinker down on
Speaker 3: the zone and carried it for a big home run
Speaker 3: to get us on the board.
Speaker 4: Believes it's help.
Speaker 5: Give you that conferance, what you like about the way
Speaker 5: you keep it help.
Speaker 3: I mean he's so good at that. You know, that
Speaker 3: approach with the contact and you know they run a
Speaker 3: bunch of lefties against us today and trying to find
Speaker 3: that right bought to get a guy in there. Ben
Speaker 3: came up and was ready to go and smoke the ball.
Speaker 3: We needed every run. I mean, the Angels were challenging the.
Speaker 6: Offense, and the scored on the fellow home or two
Speaker 6: singles and two base footed walks.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, look, I think those bases, little walks,
Speaker 3: I mean, they're just as important Yondi's at bat huge.
Speaker 3: I think Cedric had the other one, you know, understanding
Speaker 3: you got to come to him and the way he's
Speaker 3: swinging the bat, they're gonna be very careful. But didn't
Speaker 3: help the pitcher out at all. And runs have been
Speaker 3: a little challenging to come by. We'll take them however
Speaker 3: we can get them.
Speaker 7: Junior pretty good defensive.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he made a nice, really nice play to his left,
Speaker 3: covered some ground, got up really quick and fired it
Speaker 3: over there.
Speaker 7: That same for a second. He was pretty hardered himself.
Speaker 7: He earlier in the season. Have you see him mellow
Speaker 7: at a little bit in his personality?
Speaker 3: I mean, I think he's in a pretty good spot
Speaker 3: mentally right now. He's very competitive like we've always known,
Speaker 3: but I think he's doing a lot of things that
Speaker 3: he's happy with and just wants to find that to continue.
Speaker 7: This month that he's put together what he's.
Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, we're fortunate to have him right in
Speaker 3: the middle of the lineup, and I know the separation
Speaker 3: you gotta have. The rity's are always a thought with
Speaker 3: Yandi Cammy together, but you got a factor and Johnny's
Speaker 3: sitting there right in the middle of the damage that
Speaker 3: he can do. He uh spiked himself, I believe. Uh yeah,
Speaker 3: I've clipped his knee up with the other spike. You're asked,
Speaker 3: as crazy stuff can happen, Yeah, but he's fine.
Speaker 6: Yeah, what's important of this series to get this team back.
Speaker 5: On the track.
Speaker 3: They're all important. We want to win every series we play.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 3: I do like that we came home and we were
Speaker 3: able to find a way to win a series after
Speaker 3: you know, a challenging road trip.
Speaker 7: To get into the win the effort.
Speaker 9: Want to say about today's performance?
Speaker 10: Oh, very what you have to leave for everybody?
Speaker 8: You know?
Speaker 10: Uh, crazy check mcclan. I have to live. You know,
Speaker 10: pretty good? I y, I used man, pretty good.
Speaker 9: They're starting to leg and they're hitting too to that,
Speaker 9: you know, pretty yeah for the boys to it your
Speaker 9: defensive performance, you had that one play and that she
Speaker 9: just went crazy over over.
Speaker 4: In that defensive performance that you had.
Speaker 3: How have you tried to continue to grow in that area?
Speaker 7: And what did you like about your performance?
Speaker 4: Than?
Speaker 10: You know, I work here a lot. I work here
Speaker 10: a lot with my difference and we gotta continue.
Speaker 9: We gotta continue, right thing, and you know, thank you
Speaker 9: out for another the great day and for everybody here
Speaker 9: and well we gotta continue, well continue, and you know
Speaker 9: we gotta get big go and we together of the team.
Speaker 7: How good is it be able to make a play
Speaker 7: like that they've given? How much work would seen you
Speaker 7: putting in?
Speaker 10: Very happy, you know, fair happy. I say, wow, you know, uh,
Speaker 10: thank go way. We give me that re storty to
Speaker 10: like that. And and you know, Creditie Prady, William.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 10: A lot of a lot of teams, a lot.
Speaker 9: Of you know behind me just to score to score.
Speaker 10: And you know, credit to William. It's a metsy guy.
Speaker 6: And credit to him from Arondo home run today and.
Speaker 10: I run, I I say, how you do die boil down?
Speaker 10: You know, great hitter.
Speaker 7: Just the offense as a hole. You guys score in
Speaker 7: different ways.
Speaker 8: I'm in two basis loaded walks just kind of you'll
Speaker 8: take runs anyway you can get.
Speaker 10: 'em, right, yeah, yeah, you do 'em. Yeah, and they
Speaker 10: don't put the good day.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 9: We gotta we gotta mac our approaching and we gotta put.
Speaker 10: Him play in the ball and that's what we do
Speaker 10: to it.
Speaker 7: Thank you.
Speaker 8: Yeah, great outing from him.
Speaker 4: You know we needed it.
Speaker 8: Uh, Rubbert match today go out and uh you know,
Speaker 8: put together dominant performance like that and and allowing us
Speaker 8: to you know, play defense behind him and try to
Speaker 8: put a few runs up and take.
Speaker 10: A lead was huge.
Speaker 7: A couple of players that really fired him up. The
Speaker 7: one that you made in the hole, of the throw
Speaker 7: and then Junior's play in the fifth. Can you think
Speaker 7: us through way saw on yours?
Speaker 8: Yeah, on mine, I just knew change up was coming,
Speaker 8: failed he probably had to. I mean, it's it's hard
Speaker 8: to not be out in front on his change up
Speaker 8: because you have to respect his fastball so much.
Speaker 4: So, UH saw it off back to my right.
Speaker 8: Knew I had a good chance of getting there, and
Speaker 8: I really just need to make a good throw to
Speaker 8: first to get him. And then Junior was a heck
Speaker 8: of a play as well, probably a ball maybe I
Speaker 8: can g love it, but there I don't think that
Speaker 8: there's a chance I can get an out by how
Speaker 8: close that that play was. So for him to be
Speaker 8: able to get dirty there, catch it and come up
Speaker 8: and make a good throw pretty pretty efficiently, it was huge.
Speaker 5: Junior just noticed about how much he's been working in
Speaker 5: that potent area.
Speaker 4: Just what have you noticed too about defensively how he
Speaker 4: wants to.
Speaker 3: Get better there?
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean I think the drives there. You know,
Speaker 8: he just has to continue to go out and and
Speaker 8: and work hard, make the right adjustments, understand maybe things
Speaker 8: that you know he could improve at, or things that
Speaker 8: you also have to kind of understand who you are
Speaker 8: as your personnel and your strengths and weaknesses, and understanding
Speaker 8: you know, he doesn't have to go out there and
Speaker 8: be a gold Glove defender, so you know to take
Speaker 8: that next step. Like all it is making the routine plays,
Speaker 8: catching the balls right at you, ultimately just being ready
Speaker 8: and and you know, taking it pitch by pitch, expecting
Speaker 8: the battle to be it being hit to you every
Speaker 8: single time. And I think that mentality, he's gonna do
Speaker 8: nothing to get better. Left you think it was out
Speaker 8: and off the bat. I knew I squared it up,
Speaker 8: but I knew I hit it really high. I honestly
Speaker 8: didn't think. I thought I was probably gonna be a
Speaker 8: flyout to the track. And then as it kept carrying
Speaker 8: and where it ended up when he started to get
Speaker 8: to the wall, I'm like, dang, there's chances goes over.
Speaker 8: And then he robbed it, and I'm like, dude, you
Speaker 8: have a kidding. I'm like, if I had like nine
Speaker 8: or ten of them and you took one away, fine,
Speaker 8: but I got zero, Like.
Speaker 7: Let me have one.
Speaker 4: You had a slab before, thinks so yeah, New York.
Speaker 10: Yeah, gets come home and take you beat.
Speaker 7: At three and kind of do a bunch of different things.
Speaker 8: Mm hmm, it is, yeah, I was thinking about that
Speaker 8: today for his I guess it's off our game as
Speaker 8: we felt the past week or so. We've only lost
Speaker 8: one series out of out of the three that we played,
Speaker 8: so uh, you know, to to split one, take one
Speaker 8: and then and lose one. You know, it's it's not
Speaker 8: as bad as I feel like we feel, you know,
Speaker 8: compared to how I guess they'll kind of all we
Speaker 8: were playing before that skit happened, but this is a
Speaker 8: step forward. I think Carrie carry that over into tomorrow
Speaker 8: and will be good.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was just cleaner all the way around. It
Speaker 4: starts with pitching and defense.
Speaker 8: Shane going out and putting together a good performance and
Speaker 8: you know, getting us out of the first ending clean
Speaker 8: and then us arounda coming up big with a homer
Speaker 8: in the first to get on the board early. Defense
Speaker 8: was great all night. I felt like behind them and
Speaker 8: and we came through with a couple of hits. We
Speaker 8: had runners in scorn position. I feel like we've done
Speaker 8: a really good job of getting runners in scorn position,
Speaker 8: especially in less than two outs.
Speaker 7: We've just we've had.
Speaker 8: Good at bad we just haven't had the ball fall
Speaker 8: or been able to move him from third to home.
Speaker 10: I think today we did that.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean he's locked into when he's When he's
Speaker 8: the way that he is now, he can get to
Speaker 8: anything regardless. I mean that pitch what was a O
Speaker 8: two heater probably off down and in. I guess a
Speaker 8: guy with a good fastball, a good change up you
Speaker 8: have to respect to when you get the two strikes.
Speaker 8: And for him to just drop the barrel of the
Speaker 8: bat to it like that and pull it like he
Speaker 8: was dead red sitting on it, it's crazy.
Speaker 4: Your performance And how did you feel today? Well? I
Speaker 4: got the job done.
Speaker 11: You know I I feel like I say this every
Speaker 11: single time, but you know I could have I could
Speaker 11: have done some things better and really really good plays
Speaker 11: behind me today.
Speaker 4: You know, I can't say enough about.
Speaker 11: Junior and the work ethic and you know the plays
Speaker 11: he made today and same with Taylor that ball and
Speaker 11: then the.
Speaker 10: What was it five six hole.
Speaker 4: Label? Offense responded great and you know, Bulwi can doun
Speaker 4: hm really good game.
Speaker 3: I was just gonna ask you about the Junior your reaction,
Speaker 3: you're pretty animated by you saw on him, But a
Speaker 3: little bit.
Speaker 6: Yeah, on his defensive on way you're just how.
Speaker 3: He's continued to try to work and growing up.
Speaker 1: What do you.
Speaker 11: Appreciate about that? You know, I I think you know, Junior,
Speaker 11: Junior took it tough yesterday and you know, he was
Speaker 11: a little frustrated, and to see him getting the early
Speaker 11: reps today and you know, just the way he responded
Speaker 11: was it's awesome.
Speaker 4: Ast I was. I told him, I'm like, dude, that's
Speaker 4: what a leader does.
Speaker 11: The way the way you bounce back, the what what
Speaker 11: you showed today, and the like how you handled yourself,
Speaker 11: Like that's what a leader does.
Speaker 4: And you know, love that kid.
Speaker 11: He's he's so talented and you know the fact that
Speaker 11: there's what twenty two it's it's crazy. It's special what
Speaker 11: he does. And he's only going to continue to get
Speaker 11: better and evolve as a player. And I really hope
Speaker 11: I can, you know, be a part of that.
Speaker 4: I'm watching him.
Speaker 8: When I think he's for Taylor play to make you say, wow,
Speaker 8: that's gonna be pretty special, right.
Speaker 11: I don't want to give him too much credit, but
Speaker 11: uh no, I mean Taylor Walls is the best shortstop
Speaker 11: in the league, and to watch him go.
Speaker 4: To work every single day. It's it's it's truly, it's
Speaker 4: in honor.
Speaker 11: Like there was probably six or seven or eight or
Speaker 11: plays so far the season where I'm like, oh, that's
Speaker 11: a hit and there's Taylor and.
Speaker 4: You know to It gives you.
Speaker 11: A ton of confidence on the mound to be able
Speaker 11: to just say, you know, here's my stuff, hit it
Speaker 11: and know that the guys behind you are gonna take
Speaker 11: carey business.
Speaker 10: I feel like you guys kind of play a little
Speaker 10: bit more like yourselves. Should I have for you know,
Speaker 10: obviously a couple of.
Speaker 4: Long or two, Yeah, for sure. I think it's a
Speaker 4: good way to put it. We played more like ourselves.
Speaker 11: You know that the small ball, the moving guys over,
Speaker 11: you know, great defense, you know, decent pitching, and.
Speaker 2: You know it.
Speaker 11: You know it's baseball. You know there's gonna be times
Speaker 11: we're loso games, but there's gonna be times more times
Speaker 11: we wouldn't games. And I think one thing this clubhouse
Speaker 11: did a really good job of was, you know, not
Speaker 11: getting too high, not getting too low, and so to
Speaker 11: be able to respond the.
Speaker 4: Way we did the series was was was good both
Speaker 4: of you.
Speaker 7: Earlier in the season, you were pretty hard on yourself
Speaker 7: if you kind of fellow whatever in the last couple
Speaker 7: of weeks and you learned a couple of things.
Speaker 11: But I can fill I'm still pretty hard on myself,
Speaker 11: and I think that's what kind of makes me who
Speaker 11: I am. And just as a competitor, are they sometimes
Speaker 11: unattainable goals? Absolutely, But you know, I'm not gonna go
Speaker 11: out there and try and just be you know, average
Speaker 11: or mediocre and just accept anything but my best. And
Speaker 11: so you know, it's always that let's strive for excellence this,
Speaker 11: you know, to be great to help this team in
Speaker 11: a ton of games.
Speaker 4: And I think the thing that I've appreciated.
Speaker 11: The most so far is the way I'm able to,
Speaker 11: you know, bounce back and say, you know, it's okay,
Speaker 11: Like you don't have to.
Speaker 4: Be so hard on yourself. It's good.
Speaker 11: But there's a little more gratitude, a little more grace,
Speaker 11: And I think it's it's it's going a little long way.
Speaker 7: It says a video make sure he's a person as well?
Speaker 6: Does it?
Speaker 4: It could?
Speaker 11: Yeah, I'm not gonna sit here and tell you that
Speaker 11: you know, I'm you know, we're.
Speaker 4: Exactly I think I want to be or need to be.
Speaker 11: But you know, I'm constantly trying to grow as a
Speaker 11: person as a teammate, and I think once you think
Speaker 11: you've arrived, like that's that's wrong. There's always room for improvement.
Speaker 11: There's always room for you know, the next step in
Speaker 11: your journey, and I'm always trying to.
Speaker 4: Chase that next step.
Speaker 7: Thank you aspre and and walk us through. How are
Speaker 7: you able to get to it the way that you did?
Speaker 8: Why not stay?
Speaker 10: Yeah?
Speaker 12: When I was implemented on the.
Speaker 5: Aready, Yeah, on the previous pitch, he actually made me
Speaker 5: look a little silly. And when you look at the pitch,
Speaker 5: I mean that's just kind of a pitch that you
Speaker 5: let your hands kind of flow through and your hand's
Speaker 5: kind of do a lot of the work.
Speaker 7: So that's what happened.
Speaker 5: And you know thing the way I was able to
Speaker 5: get a good result.
Speaker 8: A couple of your teammates have said that this month
Speaker 8: locked it and how to play, You've been able.
Speaker 12: To do messingtail movie and I'm missing tal yes, the
Speaker 12: and in case content.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 5: To be completely honest, I feel really good right. I
Speaker 5: feel like the player that I am, you know what
Speaker 5: I mean? So you know I've been able to make
Speaker 5: a lot of adjustments, put a lot of work in
Speaker 5: the cage, and things have flowed well.
Speaker 10: For me, thankfully.
Speaker 6: You like to spoil some pictures and then kind of
Speaker 6: get to the one you want if that's something that
Speaker 6: you've been working on. It seems like you've been doing
Speaker 6: that a lot.
Speaker 12: Of the month when you implemented on the it's the
Speaker 12: ban and momental place by the movie and he.
Speaker 10: Like charm.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 10: I thinks kind.
Speaker 5: Of just the factor of everything coming together right this
Speaker 5: month or lately with my style of player, you know,
Speaker 5: just being able to see pictures, being able to be
Speaker 5: selective with pitches, and just doing the proper job that
Speaker 5: I need to do to get the results that I want.
Speaker 6: In some of the plays that your teammates NICs today
Speaker 6: Junior diving play, Taylor almost back their.
Speaker 10: Base, You've got a pretty good view of that at first.
Speaker 10: What are you seeing from those guys?
Speaker 12: And and may keep one mean Philly used to play.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they make it look easy, right, you know, but
Speaker 5: credit to them for just the work they've been able
Speaker 5: to put in. You know, it's they make it look easy,
Speaker 5: but it's not easy. So you know, I'm really happy
Speaker 5: to have them in my infield. I'm happy to have
Speaker 5: them in my team and be able to be their
Speaker 5: first baseman.
Speaker 7: The series is a whole nice to bounce back after
Speaker 7: a tough one in Baltimore.
Speaker 12: Content implementedo espera Mosque guess the.
Speaker 5: Yeah, of course, right, you know, we went through a
Speaker 5: little bit of a Russ charge, but now we're back
Speaker 5: at home and like you said, you know, we were
Speaker 5: able to bounce back, so you know, hopefully things keep
Speaker 5: playing this way and hopefully we keep this moment.
Speaker 10: I'm going cool.
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