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Speaker 1: the last show, I recommended Cody Clemens to go yeah,
Speaker 1: and he didn't, so I got my stake back in
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Speaker 1: and we're gonna do all these series. But I had
Speaker 1: to bring up my boy Cody Clemens because he is
Speaker 1: ding homers' just not exactly what I wanted him to.
Speaker 2: That's literally always how it goes right. You make the
Speaker 2: pick and then the next day I'll hit two. But
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Speaker 2: just put it right back into it right and hope
Speaker 2: to you the next day. So yeah, it seemed like
Speaker 2: a good matchup for Colemens, and I think it was
Speaker 2: his was it is? I saw Roger quotes week it
Speaker 2: was his fiftieth career or one hundredth career home run.
Speaker 2: I'd be fiftieth. One hundred would be a lot for
Speaker 2: Cody Clemens.
Speaker 1: Got to be fiftieth. But I know he has what
Speaker 1: seventeen or eighteen so far this season? Not too that.
Speaker 1: But I feel like we already we've already spent enough time,
Speaker 1: I think on Cody Clements. Do you want to talk
Speaker 1: about that riveting World Cup game that went one to
Speaker 1: zero or should we just recap every baseball game?
Speaker 2: I will say it was a good, really really good
Speaker 2: World Cup Final. Yeah it was. I've never seen it
Speaker 2: go to overtime without a shot on goal by the
Speaker 2: other team, so or a shot period, excuse me. So
Speaker 2: that was interesting. But I did really enjoy this World Cup.
Speaker 2: I will say as a guy that was kind of
Speaker 2: like whatever about it. I had a great time, and
Speaker 2: I want to just put that out there.
Speaker 1: I'm glad you had a great time. That's the Spain.
Speaker 1: Congrats to Spain. Goat to go.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, let's jump right into it then, and we'll
Speaker 2: start with a six series here for Red Sox fans
Speaker 2: in particular Red Sox raise Game one doubleheader, and Game
Speaker 2: one was a blowout ten zero. Red Sox Jake Bennett
Speaker 2: was stellar, tossing six scoreless, allowing just one hit. Masataki
Speaker 2: Yoshidah homerd on his way to a three hit game,
Speaker 2: as did Carlos and Arvaiyaz Socks extend their win streak
Speaker 2: to ten in that blowout ten zero win. Go to
Speaker 2: Game two, Will Your Bread You homer twice, the second
Speaker 2: being a go ahead homer in the third inning, where
Speaker 2: the Red Sox would hold on to a five to
Speaker 2: three win. Junior Camenaro did hit his twenty ninth in
Speaker 2: a losing effort, but the Red Sox win. They're eleventh
Speaker 2: right on a bullpin day. Then he go to Game three,
Speaker 2: back and forth game as both teams traded homers. Jami
Speaker 2: Jones left the yard for the first time since being
Speaker 2: acquired by the Red Sox. Victor Mason Junior and Johnny
Speaker 2: DeLuca homer for the Rays, sending them into the home
Speaker 2: half of the seventh with the six to three lead,
Speaker 2: but the Red Sox pushed two across to make it
Speaker 2: six to five, sending will Your a Bred You to
Speaker 2: the plate, and of course this guy just had a
Speaker 2: series man one man on and having already homered earlier
Speaker 2: in that game, he launched another go ahead to run
Speaker 2: homer and the Red Sox would hold on to win
Speaker 2: seven to six. You go to Game four, Victor Mason
Speaker 2: Junior pushed one across on an inside the park homer,
Speaker 2: but it was all Red Sox from there. They scored
Speaker 2: six unanswered, two of which coming on a Wilson Contrere's homer,
Speaker 2: and the Red Sox shut the door six to one
Speaker 2: to complete the four games sweep of the first place Rays.
Speaker 2: Thirteen consecutive wins for the Boston Red Sox. What a
Speaker 2: series for? Will you are a bre you? What a
Speaker 2: series for the Red Sox who just I mean and
Speaker 2: was pitching, but they swung it in this series. That's
Speaker 2: the big thing.
Speaker 1: All of a sudden, the Boston Red Sox are fifty
Speaker 1: and forty eight. They're six games back the Tampa Bay Rays.
Speaker 1: They are locked into well I shouldn't say locked, but
Speaker 1: currently right now they hold the third wild card spot
Speaker 1: with a plus forty five run differential, which is thirty
Speaker 1: one runs clear of Tampa Bay in first it's been
Speaker 1: a combination of a lot of great things. Number One,
Speaker 1: the pitching has done a really good job. I know,
Speaker 1: the offense kind of took center stage, especially Willi or
Speaker 1: brayw and deservedly so. Wilson Contrez continues to hit Willi
Speaker 1: or Bray who is hitting. A whole lineup is hitting,
Speaker 1: but these pitchers continue to lock it down. Like I
Speaker 1: posted Cy Young odds between Cese and Schlitzler after Schuitzler
Speaker 1: had one of his worst starts of the season, even
Speaker 1: though he only give up three earned runs. And I
Speaker 1: have Red Sox fans in the comments of said tweets saying,
Speaker 1: Sonny Gray deserves some love to be in there, and
Speaker 1: I go, oh, all right, hold the phones. But at
Speaker 1: the same time, he's putting in an era below three.
Speaker 1: He's been dominant. Of course, you have the whole slew
Speaker 1: of lefties, and it just shows that anything could happen
Speaker 1: in baseball and is why it's the best sport in
Speaker 1: the world. Not long ago, the Red Sox were in
Speaker 1: a tail spin. They were what fourteen fifteen games under
Speaker 1: five hundred. We saw a Breslo hit piece every day.
Speaker 1: We have ikf basically being like, we don't want to
Speaker 1: play at Fenway Park. We have Trevor story coming out,
Speaker 1: we have other players on the Red Sox basically saying, yeah,
Speaker 1: this team kind of sucks. You'll get Boston media they've
Speaker 1: given up. And then thirteen straight baseball's the best. It's
Speaker 1: the best.
Speaker 2: And that's why, like I always joke about, like our
Speaker 2: job in particular, it's just impossible to not eventually sound
Speaker 2: dumb in respect that, like we always have to react
Speaker 2: to what's happening in real time, and these seasons are
Speaker 2: so long that it can literally look like everything is dead.
Speaker 2: I mean Red so on the field optically, top to bottom.
Speaker 2: It was a nightmare and it has been a nightmare.
Speaker 2: It's been really a year from hell. I've even seen
Speaker 2: I know Bill Simmons is in a big baseball guy,
Speaker 2: but he's a big New York or New England sports guy,
Speaker 2: and he's like, this is the most from hell Red
Speaker 2: Sox season I can ever remember. Right, Like that seems
Speaker 2: to be the sentiment all year long. And because Major
Speaker 2: League baseball is such a marathon in the regular season,
Speaker 2: even when it's like rock bottom. I've seen it with
Speaker 2: the Mets a million times too, where they hit rock
Speaker 2: bottom three times in one year. It ain't getting better
Speaker 2: this year. I can promise it's too late in this year.
Speaker 2: But in other years we've seen them hit rock bottom
Speaker 2: and then make it make it through on to the
Speaker 2: other side. So that's what's amazing about the marathon that
Speaker 2: is this Major League Baseball season. Is even for us
Speaker 2: when we're doing the show and we're checking in week
Speaker 2: after week and we're on our eighth consecutive week of
Speaker 2: being like, jeezus, Red Sox seems a disaster. It's such
Speaker 2: a long season that if you have the pitching in place,
Speaker 2: you can make this thing happen and you can turn
Speaker 2: things around. And the Red Sox have a two point
Speaker 2: four to four e as a staff since July first.
Speaker 2: That's second in Major League Baseball, behind only the Tigers,
Speaker 2: which is an interesting wrinkle there. But it's been amazing
Speaker 2: to just see the way that the Red Sox have
Speaker 2: pitched the ball. And I think that's also kind of
Speaker 2: given a little bit of life to the offense too,
Speaker 2: that all of a sudden is starting to swing it
Speaker 2: a little bit better.
Speaker 1: I also want to shout out one hitter on the
Speaker 1: Red Sox, and his name is Caleb Durban. I know,
Speaker 1: if you look at the full season numbers, right, they're
Speaker 1: not great. He's got an eighty nine WRC plus. But
Speaker 1: if you were watching Caleb Durban earlier, early in the season,
Speaker 1: you could make a sound argument he was the worst
Speaker 1: player in Major League Baseball. It was a negative war.
Speaker 1: He couldn't get anything going offensively. And he's seeing the
Speaker 1: guy that he was traded for in Kyle Harrison, completely
Speaker 1: dominate in Milwaukee. So he's hearing the chirps day in
Speaker 1: and day out in the Boston market, a new market.
Speaker 1: It cannot be easy. Yeah, a lot of players who
Speaker 1: aren't mentally tough, they might fold, might just have a
Speaker 1: horrible season. But lately Caleb Durbin has been swinging it
Speaker 1: the defense. He is just ironclad over there at third base.
Speaker 1: And I think those season long numbers are going to
Speaker 1: only continue to tick up. Like I think it's one
Speaker 1: of the great mental battles, one of the twenty twenty
Speaker 1: sixth season. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well, also because it was mental ending. He went out
Speaker 2: and made a real adjustment. Making a mechanical adjustment in season, yeah,
Speaker 2: is a significant one. Is so hard to do. I mean,
Speaker 2: Durbin's a D three guy grinded his way all the
Speaker 2: way to the show, and you know, if anyone's able
Speaker 2: to kind of make that adjustment and make it work,
Speaker 2: it's a guy like him. But I agree, and I
Speaker 2: don't think it's a coincidence. Of course, there's a lot
Speaker 2: out other factors, but I think a key piece in
Speaker 2: pushing this thing forward here for the Red Sox has
Speaker 2: been Durbin going from one of the worst hitters in
Speaker 2: Major League Baseball to a net positive and a guy
Speaker 2: that's making impact in a lot of different ways. What
Speaker 2: you're seeing from Willyer who hasn't been bad by any stretch,
Speaker 2: but like he hasn't been Willyer first all out of
Speaker 2: this year. Now just kicking it into gear as well.
Speaker 2: That's I go back to the burning questions and it's like,
Speaker 2: you know they're going to pitch, they can potentially make
Speaker 2: some trades. Now Connolly early, he seems like you avoid
Speaker 2: anything major there. Got to come back and see him
Speaker 2: on the mound, but he's already getting ready to get
Speaker 2: on a throwing program. Stuff like that. Where does he
Speaker 2: fit in when we're seeing guys like Patrick Sandoval throw
Speaker 2: the ball well and different arms that I've barely ever
Speaker 2: even ever heard of coming up here and getting out.
Speaker 2: It's like, it's gonna be fun to see how the
Speaker 2: Red Sox navigate the deadline because they don't have to
Speaker 2: trade from the farm necessarily, a lot of teams are
Speaker 2: gonna want pitching, and they can bolster their team by
Speaker 2: trading away from just the ridiculous pitching that they have.
Speaker 2: Shout out Jake Bennett, great again. I was so wrong
Speaker 2: about that trade. I thought it was crazy for them
Speaker 2: to go get a guy that I thought was more
Speaker 2: of a five starter for Louis Paraus. Paraos has really
Speaker 2: struggled since coming back from TJ. Bennett is a guy
Speaker 2: that they've made tweaks to the arsenal and he's immediately
Speaker 2: looked much stronger than he did last year, as a
Speaker 2: guy that could be a really strong four starter and
Speaker 2: even flashing middle rotation type of stuff.
Speaker 1: And speaking about that trade, remember were when we were
Speaker 1: trashing the Kyle Harrison move, and you know, with new
Speaker 1: information will change her mind now. Of course I still
Speaker 1: would rather about that Harrison. But the reason I brought
Speaker 1: it up is I want to shout out a couple
Speaker 1: of the guys that they got over in the trade,
Speaker 1: like Andrew Monasterio has been putting together fantastic abs, Anthony
Speaker 1: Siegler has been a spark plug. I'm just saying at
Speaker 1: this point the trade isn't nearly as bad as what
Speaker 1: we thought. It was still advantage Milwaukee, but the gap
Speaker 1: I think got a little bit closer.
Speaker 2: It's been fun to watch Seguer do his thing, too,
Speaker 2: I think to your point, I mean, they've been batting
Speaker 2: this guy in the leadoff spot and he's been great
Speaker 2: switch hitter. All of a sudden, Ken just pesky at
Speaker 2: bats and doesn't punch out and can play a lot
Speaker 2: of different positions if you need him to. But they
Speaker 2: really don't just need him to play second base. But
Speaker 2: I think Seguer, to your point, it seemed like they
Speaker 2: kind of grabbed a bunch of bench bats and kind
Speaker 2: of glad they have him now. And Seaguar has been
Speaker 2: more than that, you know, since he's come back and
Speaker 2: up there and again, I think it has been as
Speaker 2: solid option for them when you beat the Rays. Four
Speaker 2: games sweep is really tough. There's still fourteen games over
Speaker 2: five hundred. But man, I mean, you hope that this
Speaker 2: isn't the start of a skid for them, because I
Speaker 2: mean four games in a row to one team sometimes
Speaker 2: could signify the start of a skid. But I think
Speaker 2: they are just running into baseball's hottest team right now.
Speaker 1: They are. But at the same time, like the Rays
Speaker 1: have dominated at the trop they're like a anaconda that
Speaker 1: just gets you in their grip and they squeeze the
Speaker 1: life out of you. You know, their pitching is still
Speaker 1: really solid in the rotation, right. McClanahan did not have
Speaker 1: a great start on Sunday, but you can kind of
Speaker 1: throw that to the wayside because ultimately he has been
Speaker 1: very solid. You know, Nick Martinez has been great. He
Speaker 1: was named an All Star and Drew Rasmussen. So it's
Speaker 1: like and then their bullpen is still solid. But it's finicky, right,
Speaker 1: They're not the most talented team in the American League.
Speaker 1: If you just looked at rosters, they probably wouldn't even
Speaker 1: rank inside the top five. Yeah, I don't think they would, right,
Speaker 1: So they got out to a hot start. They're a
Speaker 1: good team, not a great team. So to me, I'm
Speaker 1: not surprised that they couldn't salvage one against the Red Sox.
Speaker 1: That they might go on a little bit of a skid.
Speaker 1: When you look at all the Fangrafts projections, like a
Speaker 1: lot of them still have the Yankees winning the division.
Speaker 1: I think the Yankees stink too. Yeah, nobody's that good.
Speaker 1: So for me, the Rays are quote unquote the best
Speaker 1: team in the American League. But to me, that's not
Speaker 1: saying much. They just happen to have the best record
Speaker 1: at this point. So again, I just wouldn't be surprised
Speaker 1: if they went on a little bit of a skid.
Speaker 1: I still think they're a playoff team. I still personally
Speaker 1: think they're gonna win the division. I don't think the
Speaker 1: Yankees catch them, but could they get bounced in the
Speaker 1: first round, of course, I just I don't have no
Speaker 1: I don't think anybody's really afraid of the Rays unless
Speaker 1: you're facing them at the track, the trap where plan
Speaker 1: Ahead and Martinez are lined up, right, it's kind of.
Speaker 2: Where And I'm with you in the first saying the
Speaker 2: first place my mind goes when you say all that
Speaker 2: is you need to This is a team that just
Speaker 2: needs to add, you know, they need to aggressively add,
Speaker 2: and you can get excited. One last note from the
Speaker 2: comment section for Arcle twelve. Great shout on Tearan Guerrero
Speaker 2: came over from NPB. He's like thirty five years old.
Speaker 2: I watched him come up with the Marlins a while back,
Speaker 2: and always through a fuel, but I mean throwing fuel
Speaker 2: with command. Now and twenty to the thirds innings, he's
Speaker 2: walking less than one per nine and he's struck out
Speaker 2: more than ten and a half per nine. That's been
Speaker 2: huge for them as well. And again more reinforcements coming.
Speaker 2: You look at what they could potentially get even having
Speaker 2: like an IKF in the folder. Right now, they're starting
Speaker 2: sunk che Chang. I know he's been all right, but
Speaker 2: he can only survive that for so long.
Speaker 1: At least over the last week. He's been good. He's
Speaker 1: been good. He's been good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I mean Sheda swinging it. They're surviving without
Speaker 2: durand because they get Jamia Jones and he's hitting and left.
Speaker 2: He's in the first couple of games. So yeah, I'm
Speaker 2: really interested to see how it continues here. And yeah,
Speaker 2: I think I guys like in Wardo Rivera throwing the
Speaker 2: ball well I wasn't even really familiar with before. So again,
Speaker 2: a lot of reasons to be excited if you're Red
Speaker 2: Sox fan, right now, no doubt. We go to Rangers Braves.
Speaker 2: Game one, Braves blow the Rangers out of the water
Speaker 2: while Chris Sale shoves Baldwin, Baldwin, Olsen and Riley Homer.
Speaker 2: The Braves piled up nineteen hits and Chris Sale tossed
Speaker 2: seven innings of two hit scoreless fifteen to one Braves.
Speaker 2: Game two, Braves got off to a four to one
Speaker 2: lead with the Rangers kept hanging in before an Evan
Speaker 2: Carter two run shot tied it in the sixth. They
Speaker 2: pushed across two more in the same frame and held
Speaker 2: on to a seven to six win to even the series.
Speaker 2: The Rangers did. Then you go to Game three and
Speaker 2: Game three I kept watching this feeling like the Rangers
Speaker 2: were just actively going out of their way to hurt themselves,
Speaker 2: but at the same time, it also was just a
Speaker 2: ridiculous offensive onslot from Drake Baldwin and Austin Riley. Drake
Speaker 2: Baldwin went five for five with two homers. Austin Riley
Speaker 2: was three for four with two homers and drove in four.
Speaker 2: This was a ridiculous offensive performance between the two. A
Speaker 2: why a Langford homer late made it a little bit
Speaker 2: more interesting, but ultimately eight five win for the Braves
Speaker 2: and they take the series. I don't have any major
Speaker 2: takeaways other than the Braves bats are waking up I
Speaker 2: think big time, and that's really interesting. Austin Riley having
Speaker 2: the series that he had, I think is huge. Drake
Speaker 2: Baldwin having the series that he had after the roll
Speaker 2: off of the IL that was clearly just residual effects
Speaker 2: from the IL. My main thing with this team is
Speaker 2: just like, Okay, Baldwin, you expected him to get going again,
Speaker 2: but getting him going like this Riley getting him going
Speaker 2: is even bigger if this could be the beginning of
Speaker 2: a positive stretch for him. And then the next is,
Speaker 2: you know, Ronald Coune Junior's homering and rehab assignment, so
Speaker 2: he might just join this team while they've got momentum
Speaker 2: build him back up again.
Speaker 1: Yeah. The Braves are an interesting team because when a
Speaker 1: team starts so hot and they're so talented, we cover
Speaker 1: it and then they might not be playing that well,
Speaker 1: but they're not playing horribly where it's a massive crash
Speaker 1: where we cover that as well. And when we talk
Speaker 1: about the Braves on the roundup, it's kind of one
Speaker 1: of those conversations. Yeah, they lost two out of three.
Speaker 1: Not the greatest performances, but what are you going to do,
Speaker 1: bravesand just kind of throw it behind you for a
Speaker 1: good bit. Now, the Braves have not been playing great baseball.
Speaker 1: They started as baseball's best team, and now they've kind
Speaker 1: of fluttered in, right, The Phillies caught up to them,
Speaker 1: the Marlins caught up to them. You look at even
Speaker 1: some teams in the American League, or excuse me, the
Speaker 1: National League Central, like the Brewers overtook them when we're
Speaker 1: looking at record, right, the Cubs are competing with them
Speaker 1: as well. So for Braves fans, I'm sure they're watching
Speaker 1: and they're not overly complaining because it hasn't crashed down,
Speaker 1: But they've been playing kind of mediocre baseball here for
Speaker 1: a while, and I think it's in large part because
Speaker 1: the bats have just been kind of lame for lack
Speaker 1: of a better word, Right, Drake Baldwin when he came back,
Speaker 1: he wasn't good at all. It was his biggest slump.
Speaker 1: I think you sent out a tweet earlier today where
Speaker 1: you said that slump post injury is probably the worst
Speaker 1: stretch of Drake Baldwin we're going to see in a
Speaker 1: long time, right, they didn't have a Kunya. Matt Olsen
Speaker 1: was playing good, not great, Michael Harris good not great,
Speaker 1: like there was a lot of guys right. Dom Smith
Speaker 1: wasn't having this unbelievable rue like he was earlier. Mauricio
Speaker 1: Dubon was playing well, but he wasn't playing as well
Speaker 1: as he was earlier. So it's got to be tough
Speaker 1: to watch it as a Braves fan. But then they
Speaker 1: have a series like this where they beat the shit
Speaker 1: out of some good pictures. I mean, they took Nathany
Speaker 1: Evaldi to Church, right, they beat the crap Outam Mackenzie Gore,
Speaker 1: who's just having a tough season at this point. But
Speaker 1: it's not like they just kicked the shit out of
Speaker 1: the Rockies and Coors or the Angels or something like that.
Speaker 1: They beat some good pictures and beat them bad. So
Speaker 1: as a Braves fan, this must have just been a
Speaker 1: fun series to watch. I know you only won two
Speaker 1: out of three, but I feel this felt like a
Speaker 1: better series than we've seen from the Braves kind of
Speaker 1: been a while. Of course they've had better showings than this,
Speaker 1: but this felt towards the upper echelon.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and even the lost right back and forth game,
Speaker 2: a couple of big swings by and you got a
Speaker 2: dud from Owen Murphy. He's still kind of finding his footing.
Speaker 2: And so think Murphy's gonna be a good Major League
Speaker 2: baseball like starter at for a long time. But your
Speaker 2: rookie goes out and gives you a dud. Bullpen has
Speaker 2: to pick up seven innings, like, and you lose by
Speaker 2: one run and your back still gave you a shot.
Speaker 2: You put up six, right, So I think when you
Speaker 2: will get a series where you put up as a
Speaker 2: team twenty twenty nine runs, I think it was like,
Speaker 2: there's a lot to be excited about here, I think,
Speaker 2: and this might be a spark for the Braves, and
Speaker 2: I just circle Austin Riley. Yeah, I know, Matt Olson's
Speaker 2: going to swing it like you know what what Ozzie
Speaker 2: Alby's is at this point. And just again, now seeing
Speaker 2: Baldwin get going again is great, but he kind of
Speaker 2: figured he was going to eventually get going. Jim Jarvis
Speaker 2: has been awesome since they brought him up, but at
Speaker 2: the end of the day, they need Austin Riley driving
Speaker 2: in runs and and in this series he did plenty of.
Speaker 1: That and real quick. On the Rangers, if you get
Speaker 1: into a slugfest, you're probably just not gonna win. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the Rangers MO this year has been solid, starting pitching performances,
Speaker 1: the bullpen really coming in and shutting the door, and
Speaker 1: the Rangers scoring enough to win ball games. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: been an average Rangers win this season. So if you
Speaker 1: have the Braves firing on all cylinders offensively, they're just
Speaker 1: not good enough to overcome that. Sorry, And I'm invested
Speaker 1: in the Rangers. I have them pented, I got them everything.
Speaker 1: I believe in them. But in that case, there's just
Speaker 1: a tier above of an MLB team, and the Braves
Speaker 1: played to what we think the Braves can, which means
Speaker 1: the Braves are gonna win two out of three. I
Speaker 1: was honestly kind of proud of the Rangers that they
Speaker 1: even took one. With how the Braves were swinging.
Speaker 2: And I think big series in Langford overall, he swung
Speaker 2: it really well throughout the series. That's gonna be big
Speaker 2: spark for them if he just can stay on the
Speaker 2: field and then continue to do what he's been doing.
Speaker 2: No doubt we go to Pirates Guardians.
Speaker 1: Game one, one.
Speaker 2: We were so excited for, was postponed due to air quality,
Speaker 2: so we played the doubleheader on Saturday. We still get
Speaker 2: the pitching matchup that we wanted between Jerry Jones and
Speaker 2: Gavin Williams, I would say delivered in a lot of ways.
Speaker 2: Jones was stellar. He struck out nine over five innings
Speaker 2: of one run ball, while Williams did allow five earned
Speaker 2: in six innings, but he struck out eleven. The Pirates
Speaker 2: hit three homers with two run shots by a newly
Speaker 2: acquired Jacob Gonzales and esmer Lean Valdez, who we'll talk
Speaker 2: about more on him in a second, along with a
Speaker 2: solo shot by Nick Gonzales. Pirates win seven to one.
Speaker 2: Game two. Pirates led three zero going into the eighth,
Speaker 2: but that's when the Guardians tied it up, sending it
Speaker 2: into the bottom of the ninth, knotted up at three,
Speaker 2: where Travis Bizana launched a two run walk off home
Speaker 2: run to seal the victory. Fun note, Christian Curtis was
Speaker 2: awesome in his MLB debut, tossing five shutout in a
Speaker 2: piggy and piggyback duty for the Pirates, but the Guardian's
Speaker 2: bullpen did not allow run after picking up for Logan
Speaker 2: Allen in the fourth, and the Guards end up winning
Speaker 2: that game five the three. But Christian Curtis, he was
Speaker 2: a guy that wasn't even sure if he was going
Speaker 2: to pitch again at a certain point, dealt with nervous
Speaker 2: who's in his elbow after a botch Tommy John surgery
Speaker 2: had his stitches pushing against the nerve. He had to
Speaker 2: get another like emergency surgery to kind of fix that.
Speaker 2: And at the time of getting that surgery, doctors weren't
Speaker 2: sure if Curtis was gonna be able to throw a
Speaker 2: baseball again. So not only is he thrown a baseball,
Speaker 2: he's a guy that actually really likes a prospect towards
Speaker 2: the back end of the top ten and the Pirate
Speaker 2: system for us, And it was really impressive to watch
Speaker 2: him in his big league debut. Looking forward to I
Speaker 2: know the option him back down. He was the extra
Speaker 2: man for the double header, But I think Curtis is
Speaker 2: going to have a long big league career. Great fastball.
Speaker 2: We go to Game three, Paul Skeen snaps back into
Speaker 2: it and turns in seven innings of one run ball
Speaker 2: and the Pirates scored seven runs, so you're gonna win
Speaker 2: that game most often, as Meerlyien Valdez homerd again his
Speaker 2: twelfth homer in his first thirty one MLB games seven
Speaker 2: to one, Pirates that they take the series. As Marleen Valdez, Dude,
Speaker 2: this has been a crazy start to his big league career.
Speaker 2: It seems like all of his swings are geared for
Speaker 2: hitting the ball, like like Josh Donaldson was the Bringer
Speaker 2: of Rain. Feels like as Merlene Valdez is like next
Speaker 2: up right now with the way that he literally he's
Speaker 2: trying to hit the ball straight up into the air
Speaker 2: as far as he can, and I mean their moonshots.
Speaker 2: I watched him kind of really follow up what was
Speaker 2: a breakout campaign in the minor leagues last year in
Speaker 2: the Arizona Fall League, and he puts some stupid swings
Speaker 2: on balls. Now there's some questions if he's gonna chase
Speaker 2: too much and with too much, and I think there's
Speaker 2: gonna be a correction period where he's gonna struggle. But
Speaker 2: right now, because he's aggressive and he hits the ball
Speaker 2: hard and he's just swinging for damage. Any mistake right now,
Speaker 2: even non mistakes. Valdez is punishing them, and he's playing
Speaker 2: a huge part. This hot streak is a huge part
Speaker 2: of keeping the Pirates afloat right now.
Speaker 1: No doubt about it, and I think the Pirates deserve
Speaker 1: a lot of credit, notably for this offense. Right We've
Speaker 1: talked about the rotation and how it's been a little
Speaker 1: bit disappointing. Right Paul Skins turned it around and tossed
Speaker 1: an awesome game against the Guardians, but it's been a
Speaker 1: disappointing season for his standards. Jared Jones just started to
Speaker 1: click over his last three starts, and those three starts
Speaker 1: have been amazing, but before that when he returned from injury,
Speaker 1: wasn't great. Bubba Chandler has not taken that next step.
Speaker 1: Mitch Keller's normal second half where he pitches to a
Speaker 1: five era has basically happened in the first half. But
Speaker 1: then you have Braxton Ashcraft who has stepped up. But
Speaker 1: I think going into the season, even as someone who
Speaker 1: took Pirates over seventy six and a half wins, it
Speaker 1: was in large part because of the starting pitching, and
Speaker 1: you thought, all right, we're excited about Connor Griffin. I
Speaker 1: personally remember, you know, slamming the table for O'Neal Cruz.
Speaker 1: Both of them have been injured on at right Spencer
Speaker 1: Horowitz looked great, got injured again arm This is the
Speaker 1: number one offense in Major League Baseball against right handed pitching,
Speaker 1: Number one, Dodgers, number two with a one to sixteen
Speaker 1: WRC plus, Pirates with a one seventeen WRC plus. I
Speaker 1: think Brian Reynolds has really really done well this season.
Speaker 1: You know, even acquiring Jacob Gonzalez.
Speaker 2: He I was gonna say that move. Yeah, I love
Speaker 2: the urgency of that move, leveraging the draft saying I
Speaker 2: know that team out there, specifically the White Sox are
Speaker 2: going to really you know, want to add to their
Speaker 2: to their draft pool here to pull some of these
Speaker 2: deals off. Let's jump start the trade market here and
Speaker 2: let's get someone that's gonna help us hold it down
Speaker 2: at short and so Connor Griffin's back. Like, that was
Speaker 2: urgency that I think was great from the Pirates.
Speaker 1: How about your two favorite prospects, Endie Rodriguez and Nick
Speaker 1: Gonzalez when you covered them like these guys are finally
Speaker 1: starting to kick it in gear. This is the classic
Speaker 1: not wrong, just yeah, not.
Speaker 2: Wrong just early. I loved Endy Man. I was very surprised,
Speaker 2: and I really think injuries played a large part in
Speaker 2: his struggles, and unfortunately he's hurt again, but it's like
Speaker 2: a strained glute. I don't think they'll be too much here,
Speaker 2: but we've been watching him be a huge part of
Speaker 2: this team both as a catcher and I think can
Speaker 2: also just provide just steady offense for them. Like I
Speaker 2: loved him as just a switch hitting, exciting bat. So
Speaker 2: one thirty eight WRC plus from him in thirty eight
Speaker 2: games with five or thirty five games with five homers,
Speaker 2: Like that's a great piece for them as a switch hitter.
Speaker 2: And then yeah, I mean Nick and Zalez. There was
Speaker 2: definitely bias, probably laiden into that because of just watching
Speaker 2: him go through you know, the college route as well,
Speaker 2: and just seeing him be the best player on the
Speaker 2: kate by a mile. But seeing the way that he
Speaker 2: has developed now, I mean, this is one of the
Speaker 2: better batting average guys in the game, and he's mixing
Speaker 2: in a ton of doubles, sneaking out homers here and there,
Speaker 2: you know, when needed. And I think another guy that
Speaker 2: was very much decimated by injury and with a couple
Speaker 2: of doubles today, he's got his WRC plus up to
Speaker 2: one to seventeen. On the season, he's hitt in three
Speaker 2: to eleven. So both these guys I think have been
Speaker 2: huge and not only just helping the Pirates just stay
Speaker 2: a far, but I think with the injuries that they've had,
Speaker 2: if you didn't have Gonzalez swinging it the way that
Speaker 2: he has been swinging it, if you didn't have Rodriguez
Speaker 2: swinging it the way he's been swinging it, I think
Speaker 2: this offense would look a little bit different because it's
Speaker 2: just really balanced from top to bottom, even with some
Speaker 2: of their key guys missing.
Speaker 1: One hundred percent. And then on the Guardian side, you
Speaker 1: got anything.
Speaker 2: I mean nothing, nothing major. Really, he ran into Paul Skins,
Speaker 2: you still piled up hits, just just couldn't really push
Speaker 2: him across.
Speaker 1: That's the power thing that I was talking about on
Speaker 1: the one burning question, right, Bazanna gave him the power
Speaker 1: and then they ended up winning that game, but that
Speaker 1: was it. It's like you can get some singles here and there,
Speaker 1: but if guardballing guardballing and you don't have your magic,
Speaker 1: it's it gets real slow, real fast. They need someone
Speaker 1: who's going to hit for some power. And again, it's
Speaker 1: just kind of another series of you want Kyle Manzardo
Speaker 1: to hit those homers, but he's not. Like they need
Speaker 1: somebody to step up because Jose Ramirez is not going
Speaker 1: to provide the thirty nine homers that he did last season.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, And it's just that's the biggest thing for me.
Speaker 2: So he just can't come back soon enough. And even
Speaker 2: just just to bolster this offense, even if he isn't
Speaker 2: playing at the peak of his powers, I think will
Speaker 2: be super helpful because you just get to the bottom
Speaker 2: of this lineup sometimes and you know, I know they
Speaker 2: play the matchups and it looks different, but I'm looking
Speaker 2: at like the Sunday lineup. Man, it's it's yeah, I
Speaker 2: think Khlia Watson could ultimately be a solid book platoon guy.
Speaker 2: But you go Watson, even though Minzarto has been swinging that.
Speaker 2: You go Manzardo to Watson, to Gabriel Arius who strikes
Speaker 2: out forty percent of the time, to Patrick Bailey to
Speaker 2: Pete Haupin and you and Stephen Kwan's leading off and
Speaker 2: he had two hits today, but like he's been terrible
Speaker 2: so you have a couple guys in the middle of
Speaker 2: your order that you're hoping are gonna produce. How How
Speaker 2: are the Guardians gonna string hits together? We know they're
Speaker 2: not gonna slug, so are they gonna string hits together
Speaker 2: with that current offense? It's gonna be hard. I still
Speaker 2: love this team. I think they can find ways to
Speaker 2: make it work and match up their way to success.
Speaker 2: But they need to go out get a bat as well.
Speaker 2: On top of you returning one of their key guys here,
Speaker 2: and I do wonder ralphie Velaskaz really enjoyed talking to him.
Speaker 2: We just put out that interview on the call up
Speaker 2: their top prospect right now, big power bat in first
Speaker 2: base really settling in up there in TRIPAA. Is that
Speaker 2: a guy that they try to bring up to give
Speaker 2: them a spark. He's ahead of his years, is twenty
Speaker 2: one year old. Maybe he can't rule it out.
Speaker 1: I'm also looking at Gavin Williams. He needs to be better.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is the guy at the top of
Speaker 1: the rotation and he has frontline stuff. We see it.
Speaker 1: We see all the punch outs, but after that five
Speaker 1: and run performances there is above four can happen. He's
Speaker 1: got to be better, right. We're gonna hold Gavin Williams
Speaker 1: to a high standard deservedly, so we know that he
Speaker 1: can be a dominant arm. We saw it early on
Speaker 1: in the season, but lately, like when Gavin Williams towse
Speaker 1: the Rubber Guardians better win most of those games, and
Speaker 1: he's not been putting them in a position to win.
Speaker 2: We'll go to Marlins Brewers Game one. They were scoreless
Speaker 2: in going into the fifth inning when Griffin Conine launched
Speaker 2: a solo shot, then in the home half of the fifth,
Speaker 2: Joey Ortiz matched him with one of his own. It
Speaker 2: stayed tied at one until the tenth, when Garrett Mitchell
Speaker 2: walked it off with an RBI single, two to one. Brewers.
Speaker 2: You go to Game two. More offense in this one
Speaker 2: is The Marlins got off to a three zero lead,
Speaker 2: but the Brewers scored eight unanswered on a slew of doubles. Jelich, Chorio,
Speaker 2: and Mitchell all had two RBI days and Garrett Mitchell
Speaker 2: put on a defensive clinic out there in the outfield.
Speaker 2: You go into the ninth inning with a pretty big
Speaker 2: lead and a con nine three run shot in the
Speaker 2: ninth made things interesting, but ultimately McGill shut the door
Speaker 2: eight six Brewers. You go to Game three, Marlin's trying
Speaker 2: to get one back here and snap a five game
Speaker 2: losing streak. Juri Perez continued his dominance since returning from injury,
Speaker 2: tossing six innings of a one hit, scoreless ball with
Speaker 2: nine straight outs, but Robert Gasser was sharp in five
Speaker 2: innings opposite of Perez, allowing just one run and whiffing
Speaker 2: five and the story Ruiz solo shot in the third
Speaker 2: was the only run until the ninth inning, when you
Speaker 2: got Pete Fairbanks versus William Contreras with two men on
Speaker 2: and one out, and Contreras launched a three run walk
Speaker 2: off home run to complete the sweep three to one. Brewers.
Speaker 2: Marlins dropped their sixth straight. After being one of the
Speaker 2: best teams in baseball and the hottest teams in baseball,
Speaker 2: there now the coldest team in baseball, and Peter, they've
Speaker 2: got a closer problem.
Speaker 1: Yes they do. Pete Fairbanks cannot have the ninth inning anymore,
Speaker 1: and that's putting it as nicely as humanly possible. How
Speaker 1: many right, they're fifty two and forty eight. Now, how
Speaker 1: many of those losses are because of Pete Fairbanks? And
Speaker 1: I know that's a meaning question, but it does feel
Speaker 1: like it's more than it should be.
Speaker 2: That's the crazy part is because like he's only which
Speaker 2: I felt like it was like almost like an and
Speaker 2: Della affecting. He's only blown three saves this year, but
Speaker 2: the amount of times that he has come in and
Speaker 2: tied games and just keeping it up, yeah, I can't
Speaker 2: even I can't even fathom. I think by by b
Speaker 2: War he might be a full negative win. I need
Speaker 2: to double check that, uh, because he's been He's come
Speaker 2: in plenty of times and leverage and it's just been brutal,
Speaker 2: even the saves. Dude, And I think I mentioned it.
Speaker 2: He was my one burning question for the Marlins was
Speaker 2: can this guy actually close games? And yeah, going into
Speaker 2: today's game negative one point zero b War, which I
Speaker 2: it's just just crazy.
Speaker 1: Can I rid Can I read you a quick stat? Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's got a six six ERA, thirty two appearances this
Speaker 1: year and thirteen saves as the closer. So right, he's
Speaker 1: not maybe blowing saves, but he's not converting saves either, even.
Speaker 2: When he gets them. Like it's it's a line drive
Speaker 2: out and then two warning track fly outs, and you're like,
Speaker 2: oh my gosh, how do we get out of that?
Speaker 2: And I really feel for for Fairbanks, like all by
Speaker 2: all accounts, good dude clearly wants to succeed. But the
Speaker 2: thing with me is like the body language is bad,
Speaker 2: Like he just seems like he's lost out there. He's
Speaker 2: missing badly with breaking balls or the heater, and it
Speaker 2: looks like he's almost frustrated with the lack of feel
Speaker 2: that he has, like he can't find it. And it
Speaker 2: feels like he determines that quite quickly into his outing,
Speaker 2: and you just you see the body language which is
Speaker 2: just like it's it causes the hitters a foam with
Speaker 2: the mouth. You start to see it within two batters,
Speaker 2: you know, the closer get frustrated and wear it and
Speaker 2: you're like, okay, you know, here we go and contres
Speaker 2: knew he's gonna hang one there and he hung a
Speaker 2: breaking ball and that was that. I mean, when you
Speaker 2: when you pay thirteen forty million dollars for a closer,
Speaker 2: especially if you the Marlins guy better be good and
Speaker 2: when he's not, like, it's really tough because these are
Speaker 2: one of those stretches where Martins are gonna have to
Speaker 2: win a lot of close games to get into the
Speaker 2: playoffs here, and if you've got a five game skid
Speaker 2: and you have a chance to steal a one zero
Speaker 2: game to end that skid, that's where you need your
Speaker 2: expensive closer. And he's been the opposite, right, so Big
Speaker 2: Mike Peterson went and ending in a third of perfect ball. Again,
Speaker 2: that's my candidate for the closer role. The problem is
Speaker 2: they have a couple other guys hurt, so I don't
Speaker 2: know what they're gonna do. Because you have Bender hurt,
Speaker 2: you have King hurt. So if you make Peterson the closer,
Speaker 2: Peterson's been in this extremely valuable like fireman role where
Speaker 2: it's because hey, you need to punch out, Big MIC's
Speaker 2: gonna go throw you in one hundred with twenty two
Speaker 2: vert and get that punch out. So then who's the
Speaker 2: fireman guy? I think it should probably be Tyler Phillips.
Speaker 2: So you put in the bullpen, bring up Braxton Garrett
Speaker 2: so he can start, and then Phillips can get back
Speaker 2: into more of a leverage role. I don't know. They
Speaker 2: have a lot of things to figure out there, because
Speaker 2: in July, where every game matters and you're trying to
Speaker 2: figure out where you're out at the deadline. You can't
Speaker 2: give away any more games with your closer.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, too, been a lot of
Speaker 1: low scoring games because the offense hasn't necessarily showed up
Speaker 1: and Griff and Co nine leads the team in ops yep,
Speaker 1: but a couple other guys have not jumped out after
Speaker 1: the break and we're kind of slowing down during this
Speaker 1: six game losing streak. I want to talk about Milwaukee,
Speaker 1: but I do want to ask you about this current offense.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it was. It was interesting too because
Speaker 2: Griff had a three game homer streak and I think
Speaker 2: he started one of those games, and and I think
Speaker 2: the game he started he got pinched at four in
Speaker 2: this in the seventh, so it was it was encouraging
Speaker 2: to see him get the start in the third game
Speaker 2: of the series against a left tam you know, and
Speaker 2: you know, kind of try to ride the hot hand
Speaker 2: there and play the guys that are swinging it. Not
Speaker 2: over platoon it, but Otto Lopez goes down and they
Speaker 2: think it's minor, but like that, that's tough. If he's
Speaker 2: missing some time, And yeah, I mean it's it's a
Speaker 2: really good Brewer staff, So you know that that's gonna
Speaker 2: and it start when you go from Guardians to Brewers
Speaker 2: and you already were kind of swow as an offense.
Speaker 2: That's where you can really feel suffocated. And I think
Speaker 2: that's been a big part of it. But yeah, even
Speaker 2: with Griffin homering in three straight games, it just seems
Speaker 2: like the runs were quite hard to come by for
Speaker 2: the Marlins and something that they're going to need to
Speaker 2: figure out and kind of get going here, which is
Speaker 2: going to be difficult when Otto Lopez, who's been the
Speaker 2: most consistent hitter in Major League Baseball arguably, you know,
Speaker 2: is that going to be out maybe for the next
Speaker 2: few games.
Speaker 1: No doubt. And on the Brewers side, Garrett Mitchell put
Speaker 1: is just putting the team on his back right now
Speaker 1: because you look at the Brewers offense and there's not
Speaker 1: a lot of like explosive guys right now, Like Bryce
Speaker 1: Terrang is playing well right Cooper Pratt has even hit
Speaker 1: the ball pretty well since the calendar turned over to July.
Speaker 1: Early returns overall are like okay, but lately he's been
Speaker 1: hitting They don't need.
Speaker 2: Him to be much either, like, just defend and steal
Speaker 2: bases and give you good abs in the eight or
Speaker 2: nine hole and you're thrilled.
Speaker 1: Contreros has had his moments, but it's not a team
Speaker 1: firing on all cylinders. But they still find ways to
Speaker 1: win games. And I think that's what makes the Brewers
Speaker 1: so good. Right when Kyle Harrison goes down, who's gonna
Speaker 1: step up? Is it Shane Rowan, because yeah, he was
Speaker 1: great winnings. He's been like you know, in the past
Speaker 1: four or five starts, he's looked awesome. Logan Henderson has
Speaker 1: looked great, right, So it's just next guy in line
Speaker 1: and again, they're not playing great, but they're winning. And
Speaker 1: that's what great teams do, is even when it's not
Speaker 1: all going right. You're not like the Red Sox where
Speaker 1: it feels like nine guys in their lineup have a
Speaker 1: one forty WRC plus or better. You look at Milwaukee's
Speaker 1: past two weeks, it's like four of them, and yet
Speaker 1: they're still the second best team in all of baseball,
Speaker 1: right behind the Dodgers. And another series win for him.
Speaker 2: Well, and you mentioned the pitching, like Logan Henderson gave
Speaker 2: you five innings of three hit, one run ball. The
Speaker 2: only run was that solo shot to Griffin. And then
Speaker 2: you have the game two, which ended up being a
Speaker 2: little bit more of a slugfest. But Shane Roman gave
Speaker 2: you six innings, a three run ball and struck out nine.
Speaker 2: You're gonna win a lot of those games, especially when
Speaker 2: Max Meyer, you know, an extra rest kind of gives
Speaker 2: the Marlins a dut on the other side. And then yeah,
Speaker 2: in this last game, I think Robert Gaser's a good
Speaker 2: back into the rotation arm and and I think I
Speaker 2: feel a role pretty nicey for them, and I just
Speaker 2: I think Gasher's gonna end up being a decent piece
Speaker 2: for them as they continue to just kind of push
Speaker 2: forward here and wait on when they can potentially get Harrison.
Speaker 1: Back, no doubt.
Speaker 2: Let's talk Cardinals, Dbacks, Cardinals d Becks. This was a
Speaker 2: really interesting series because I want to preface with two
Speaker 2: teams that were kind of up in the air, right,
Speaker 2: what are they going to do with the deadline? I think,
Speaker 2: you know, you lean it being a little bit more
Speaker 2: aggressive for the Diamondbacks given where they're at. But this
Speaker 2: is a series we're going into it. How the Diamondbacks
Speaker 2: performer is really going to help them gauge that, and
Speaker 2: Mike Casan all but said that to his team before
Speaker 2: the series, like not just the series, that it's pretty
Speaker 2: much on you guys, like I want to buy, but
Speaker 2: you guys need to make make it so that I
Speaker 2: can buy with how you play for the next couple
Speaker 2: of weeks, and like it's on you guys, which I
Speaker 2: think more GM should do. It's just transpennerent treat this
Speaker 2: like the playoffs because it's it's important right now so
Speaker 2: that we can make the playoffs. And I bring that
Speaker 2: up because I saw that level of fight from the
Speaker 2: Diamondbacks in this series.
Speaker 1: Going to be one except the Catel Marte not challenging.
Speaker 2: That would be the one thing. But if there's an
Speaker 2: exception anything, it'll probably usually be something like that with
Speaker 2: Ketel Martine. Unfortunately, Game one, Mary Kelly and Michael McGreevy
Speaker 2: were sharp, allowing one earned run in five innings and
Speaker 2: six in the thirds innings, respectively, So Mary Kelly went
Speaker 2: make should I say that cleaner? Mary Kelly allowed one
Speaker 2: earned in five innings and Michael McGreevy allowed one earned
Speaker 2: in six and a third. JJ Weather homeward in his
Speaker 2: in the fifth, his fourteenth of the year, and then
Speaker 2: Corbyn Carroll had a two run game time homer in
Speaker 2: the eighth, also his fourteenth of the year. Von Herrera
Speaker 2: pushed to go ahead run across on a sack flying
Speaker 2: the ninth before Riley O'Brien escaped some traffic to nail
Speaker 2: down the save, But as Peter alluded to, there was
Speaker 2: a call third strike out of the zone for the
Speaker 2: final out of the game that kadtel Marte did not
Speaker 2: challenge despite having both challenges available. I do we have
Speaker 2: it playing on YouTube. If you're watching, you literally have
Speaker 2: fans patting themselves on the head saying, challenge it. If
Speaker 2: it's right down the middle, you think you challenge you.
Speaker 2: I have two challenges. The game's over. Challenge it. Maybe
Speaker 2: maybe your eyes deceive you. You have to use it. I
Speaker 2: don't know if Katella didn't know the situation. I don't
Speaker 2: know if you like if the argument is he thought
Speaker 2: it was a strike. Your eyes deceive you all the time,
Speaker 2: especially with Riley O'Brien on the mount and everything that
Speaker 2: his pitches move like crazy. Challenge it. I don't know
Speaker 2: how how that happens. And if I was a Diamondbacks
Speaker 2: and Caudel ends up breaking in these other games. But like,
Speaker 2: those are the things that would drive me crazy.
Speaker 1: No, yeah, one hundred percent. I mean, like we were
Speaker 1: all talking about it in the discord after, like, what
Speaker 1: the what the hell? Oh, what's going on? Right? You
Speaker 1: just had that talk from my ks, then you have
Speaker 1: the two challenges left. He must have just had a
Speaker 1: total brain fart and not thought that they had any
Speaker 1: challenges left. Yeah, or he thought it was a strike,
Speaker 1: which again.
Speaker 2: Like if you thought it was a strike, who cares,
Speaker 2: the game's over? Tap your head, you extend the game
Speaker 2: by at least ten more seconds.
Speaker 1: I wish we learned in a postgame presser what his
Speaker 1: thoughts were, but we didn't hear anything after. So it
Speaker 1: was just kind of one of those things where it's like,
Speaker 1: so it goes almost no words is a lot of words,
Speaker 1: if you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, So that was a frustrating one, but team
Speaker 2: bounces back and in game two, Brandon Fott continues to
Speaker 2: be effective since returning from triple A, allowing two earned
Speaker 2: in five and a thirds innings. Marte Gabriel Moreno and
Speaker 2: Nolan Arnado each had two hit days and the Diamondbacks
Speaker 2: bullpen continues to be effective despite all odds, five to
Speaker 2: three Diamondbacks win. Then Game three was the one that
Speaker 2: really kind of told me, hey, this Dbacks team, you
Speaker 2: know that they're not going to lay down seven zero
Speaker 2: lead in the fifth for the card They get up big,
Speaker 2: but the d Backs, especially at home, never go away.
Speaker 2: Could tell Marte drove in a run in the sixth,
Speaker 2: you had a couple more runs driven in on what
Speaker 2: shouldn't say driven in, walked in, Gabriel Moreno walked to
Speaker 2: the basis out of town and walk we were walk
Speaker 2: to the basis water. That made it seven to three,
Speaker 2: but then you still had Ryan Sanak get out of
Speaker 2: the jam. Then you go into the seventh inning and
Speaker 2: a two run shot from Herodo Perdomo or two run
Speaker 2: shot was inside the parker made it seven to five,
Speaker 2: and then Noan Aronado tied it up with a two
Speaker 2: run shot of his own at seven to seven going
Speaker 2: to the bottom of the tenth, and Max Kepler walked
Speaker 2: it off with a double eight unanswered to erase a
Speaker 2: seven zero deficit for the Diamondbacks to take the series.
Speaker 1: Baseball is a funny sport because both the Diamondbacks and
Speaker 1: the Red Sox are fifty and forty eight as we
Speaker 1: sit here currently, and I feel like if you ask
Speaker 1: people what their opinions are on both teams at this
Speaker 1: current moment, they'd be completely different. People would say, well,
Speaker 1: the Red Sox are definitely buying what a run. This
Speaker 1: team is really coming together. Watch out for them in
Speaker 1: the playoffs. And then you look at the Diamondbacks and
Speaker 1: you say, thank god they won this series at home
Speaker 1: after their GM said if you win, you gotta buy
Speaker 1: right And the lineup is still it's missing the juice
Speaker 1: that it's had in previous seasons where they just hang
Speaker 1: a crooked number on you like that where it's speed
Speaker 1: and it's defense and it's such a dynamic offense with
Speaker 1: three guys at the top of Perdomo's taking a little
Speaker 1: bit of a step back, but then he played a
Speaker 1: little bit better. Like the Diamondbacks are just a very
Speaker 1: confusing team for me and have really been all season long,
Speaker 1: because when I watch the Diamondbacks, I feel like I'm
Speaker 1: just missing something, like there just isn't that thing that
Speaker 1: makes me want to say, all right, maybe you're not
Speaker 1: playing that well right now, but I see something and
Speaker 1: I'm gonna stick with you. But at the same time,
Speaker 1: then they come back and win again like they did
Speaker 1: on Sunday, kind of gets me going again. They are
Speaker 1: probably out of all thirty, maybe the most confusing to
Speaker 1: me because I also again, Brandon Fought is another good example.
Speaker 1: Four straight starts pitching into the six inning or more
Speaker 1: to earn runs or less. But I've seen a lot
Speaker 1: of bad Brandon Fought. Is this the start of something
Speaker 1: great or is this just a good stretch? You know,
Speaker 1: Merril Kelly, Gallon's on the shelf. They've lost Soroka, they've
Speaker 1: lost Ryan Nelson, Cormyn Burns still hasn't come back yet.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know. I thought I didn't
Speaker 1: like the bullpen, Now I do. I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't bullpen is crazy. I don't know how they're
Speaker 2: doing this, but they are, and they've deployed guys in
Speaker 2: the right spots and made it happen. And there's what's
Speaker 2: interesting about this team is the amount of pieces that
Speaker 2: they can add from within. We've talked about, you know,
Speaker 2: the pitchers and Burns is going to be really late,
Speaker 2: but being able to get maybe Justin Martinez back and
Speaker 2: aj Pucket sounds like he still we'll probably come back
Speaker 2: at some point this season, and then Soroka should be
Speaker 2: back soon rather than later. Jordan Lawler is a big
Speaker 2: one for me. I think he really figured something out
Speaker 2: this year. He's been so he was swinging it a
Speaker 2: lot better in very limited example, but even in spring
Speaker 2: training the swing mechanics look better.
Speaker 1: Uh, and he just hasn't been able to stay on
Speaker 1: the field.
Speaker 2: So I mean, what that guy would do, even if
Speaker 2: he's a league average hitter or close to it, with
Speaker 2: the speed and defense that he brings, you know, to
Speaker 2: just lengthen this lineup a little bit, what would help
Speaker 2: a ton. So yeah, I'm interested to see, but tough
Speaker 2: team to figure out one hundred percent. I like the
Speaker 2: fire that you know is kind of lit under them
Speaker 2: and see, you know, if they kind of do what
Speaker 2: they've done the last few years in the second half,
Speaker 2: which is just kind of make a push. And on
Speaker 2: the other side, it's really hard to win a series
Speaker 2: and put put the dumonbacks away in Arizona.
Speaker 1: It just is.
Speaker 2: And I think like with the bullpen that the Cardinals have,
Speaker 2: like it's not bad, but some of those arms, like
Speaker 2: this is a place for them to struggle, and I
Speaker 2: just think that's kind of what happened in the final game.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's one of those where it just shit happens.
Speaker 1: He throw it over your shoulder and just go all right,
Speaker 1: let's move on to the next. Jeordan Walker twenty one
Speaker 1: straight games on base, carrying over from before the break,
Speaker 1: won the home run derby. He's hitting close to three hundred.
Speaker 1: He's pacing the National League and RBIs I think he's
Speaker 1: still the leader. But every single time I turn on
Speaker 1: the Astros game, Jordon's up driving somebody in. So like
Speaker 1: maybe maybe jordont overtook it, but what I do know
Speaker 1: is that he's pacing the National League. Like what a
Speaker 1: season from him. JJ Weatherholt has been great. But again,
Speaker 1: I still think the Cardinals are going to be a
Speaker 1: playoff team. I've been pretty consistent about that for the
Speaker 1: last like two or three months. This doesn't change any
Speaker 1: of that bad series. You move on.
Speaker 2: Shout out Michael McGreevy, the goat he's up to. You know,
Speaker 2: everyone talking about the underlying metrics regression whatever, the sample
Speaker 2: keeps getting bigger. Yeah, we're at one hundred eight innings
Speaker 2: now of a sub three E and he went out.
Speaker 2: This would be the game where the regression hits right
Speaker 2: from a gravy out in Arizona. Nope, Nope, one earned
Speaker 2: and six and a third and two nine to two
Speaker 2: ERA for Michael Grievy. Guy's a walking quality start.
Speaker 1: This is the guy who if your dad or mom
Speaker 1: or anyone older in your family is constantly yelling at
Speaker 1: the TV about analytics, yeah, tell them to go watch
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Speaker 2: Nobody pitches anymore, no one holds runners on.
Speaker 1: He does it all. Go watch Michael McGreevy. Then show
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Speaker 1: White Sox taken on the Blue Jays. Game one, White
Speaker 1: Sox win twelve to four. A five runs second inning
Speaker 1: from the Socks put this game out of reach, highlighted
Speaker 1: by a Sam Antonachi home run on the Blue Jays side,
Speaker 1: Luis Arius, George Springer and Brandon Vellens Wala homer. But
Speaker 1: this was an avalanche of runs from Chicago from start
Speaker 1: to finish. Antonachi, Colson, Montgomery, and Midrath all had multiple
Speaker 1: hits and Brydon Montgomery had four RBIs and Spencer Miles
Speaker 1: had his first major hiccup for Toronto, allowing six earned
Speaker 1: over four innings. Moved to Game two, Blue Jays win
Speaker 1: one to zero. Arm I remember we were talking about
Speaker 1: this game on the weekend preview, and it was Davis
Speaker 1: Martin taking on Shane Bieber, two pitchers that I think
Speaker 1: both of us were aligned where we had no idea
Speaker 1: what they were going to get us. Could have been dominant,
Speaker 1: could have been bad, both dominant. Bieber delivered his best
Speaker 1: outing of the season, tossing six shutty three hits, six strikeouts,
Speaker 1: and Davis Martin certainly competed. He allowed just one run
Speaker 1: over five and two thirds, but the offense was shut out,
Speaker 1: so of course he took the loss, and the loan
Speaker 1: run in this game came on a George Springer RBI single.
Speaker 1: In Game three, White Sox win three to zero. They
Speaker 1: blank him. Sean Burke take a bow six and two thirds,
Speaker 1: two hit ball, no runs, five strikeouts. His era's down
Speaker 1: a three to two zero. He's turning into the White
Speaker 1: Sox best pitcher, even with Davis Martin having an awesome
Speaker 1: year and Treya Savage was great in this game through
Speaker 1: five innings, but in the sixth Coulson Montgomery hit a
Speaker 1: homer and Brada Montgomery had an RBI single. White Sox
Speaker 1: win the series and they are still in first place
Speaker 1: with the Guardians tumbling against the Pits Berg pirates. What
Speaker 1: was your biggest takeaway from this one?
Speaker 2: Bieber? Honestly, just because I also just have a bias
Speaker 2: towards that guy. I just want to see that guy succeed.
Speaker 2: He just seems like a rose pro. I've always enjoyed
Speaker 2: watching him throw. He's overcome a lot of injuries and
Speaker 2: just coming back again here and looking as rough as
Speaker 2: he has looked. I just really, I really want to
Speaker 2: see that guy succeed.
Speaker 1: Oh.
Speaker 2: He's also just a very fun pitcher to watch because
Speaker 2: he executes the command. It's generally so good. And for
Speaker 2: the Blue Jays, like I know, it feels like it's
Speaker 2: slipping away and you drop another series and you just
Speaker 2: can't hit. But man, if it does slip away, then
Speaker 2: Shane Bieber's a decent trade chip. So it just benefits
Speaker 2: them for Meeber to throw the ball. Well, I can't
Speaker 2: escape the obvious elephant in the room. The Blue Jays
Speaker 2: cannot hit, They cannot hit, Nope, And it's gonna be
Speaker 2: what does them in because the odds of these this
Speaker 2: and this is the funny thing we're just talking about,
Speaker 2: like the marathon that is Major League Baseball season. But
Speaker 2: it ain't a marathon to the to the trade deadline.
Speaker 2: That's just about a sprint now, right, And I just
Speaker 2: don't know how these bats can get going enough in
Speaker 2: this short period of time. And the thing is, too
Speaker 2: is like your picture did their job. The White Sox
Speaker 2: are a great offense, and in the final two games,
Speaker 2: your pitchers limited the White Sox to three runs combined
Speaker 2: in the final two and you could only win one
Speaker 2: of them, and you're lucky that you won one of them.
Speaker 1: That's been the thing with the Blue Jays hall season long,
Speaker 1: is they can't sink both at the same time. They'll
Speaker 1: get stretches where their offense looks okay, and that's when
Speaker 1: the pitchers just give up a trillion runs in this series.
Speaker 1: Their pitching look great against a good offense, and nobody
Speaker 1: shows up offensively. A Springer, I guess, I guess, But Vladdie,
Speaker 1: I mean, among the stars in Major League Baseball, he's
Speaker 1: having one of the most disappointing seasons in the game. Right.
Speaker 1: It's bad abs he's put and then when he hits
Speaker 1: the ball hard, it's on the ground. I've been saying
Speaker 1: it all year because it's the same thing I keep
Speaker 1: watching over and over again. It's like the definition of
Speaker 1: insanity is doing the same thing over again and expecting
Speaker 1: a different result. That's what I'm seeing right now from Vladdie.
Speaker 1: It's insanity how bad his abs are. But I want
Speaker 1: to talk about the White Sox, and notably Sean Burke,
Speaker 1: because I wasn't lying when I said that Sean Burke
Speaker 1: might be a better pitcher than Davis Martin in our
Speaker 1: discord Shout out the discord. You can join through the
Speaker 1: link of the episode description. Someone asked Peter, or they
Speaker 1: might have just asked the group, and I chimed in
Speaker 1: because I was watching Sean Burke at the moment, and
Speaker 1: they said, who's better, Davis Martin or Sean Burke? And
Speaker 1: I said, well, you can't argue with Davis Martin's production,
Speaker 1: but who's better? From watching Sean Burke looks dominant. In
Speaker 1: his last six starts, He's allowed to earned runs once,
Speaker 1: all other times one earned run, and then of course
Speaker 1: in his last start on Sunday, no earn runs. And
Speaker 1: now it is against the Blue Jays offense. I get it,
Speaker 1: but at the same time, this isn't new for him.
Speaker 1: He's lowered a Zra into the threes. I think low
Speaker 1: threes now low three two three two yeah, exactly, to
Speaker 1: be exact, So, I mean this guy is a real
Speaker 1: arm because I think the White Sox right now, you've
Speaker 1: got you get your offense right. Yeah, Kyle Teel is
Speaker 1: still struggling, but like you fine, exactly, Like I think
Speaker 1: he's going to be fine, but you are looking for
Speaker 1: starters for the long term. Dave has proven that he's
Speaker 1: that guy, but who else? Right, it's probably not Anthony
Speaker 1: k You know, Hagen Smith hasn't come up and helped.
Speaker 1: Noah Schultz has been too inconsistent to really stamp him
Speaker 1: as part of the core. You hope. So he's super talented,
Speaker 1: but you don't have any proof yet. Sean Burke is
Speaker 1: providing proof and ex cudding for them.
Speaker 2: Well, and those two guys at the top. Like the
Speaker 2: fact that you're having a conversation of which of these
Speaker 2: guys is better? Like a year ago, that question may
Speaker 2: have been like which of them is better to be
Speaker 2: a five starter for your four starter for you a bet?
Speaker 2: So like the fact that it's which of these guys
Speaker 2: that are at the top of a rotation are better?
Speaker 2: I think is really exciting. I do agree. I think
Speaker 2: the Burke like the Burke fastball shape, and I think
Speaker 2: the way that that sets the tone. So so six
Speaker 2: six to forty, I think there's a little bit more
Speaker 2: going for him there. And I just think when you
Speaker 2: have the fastball shape that Burke has, it's going to
Speaker 2: help him a little bit more. He extends down the
Speaker 2: mound well also, like I think he is a little
Speaker 2: bit of a higher floor, as interesting as that is.
Speaker 2: And yeah, two development successes for the White Sox guys
Speaker 2: that again we'll take there trending more like depth arms
Speaker 2: at certain points now are solid, solid rotation pieces for you.
Speaker 2: And even more reason I think for the White Sox
Speaker 2: to say, like, hey, we we should go out and
Speaker 2: be a little bit more aggressive at the deadline because
Speaker 2: we've got two solid rotation pieces. We've got other irons
Speaker 2: in the fire that like maybe Schultz makes that lead,
Speaker 2: you know, maybe maybe we can bring somebody up and
Speaker 2: they make an impact. But we've got a couple of
Speaker 2: strong guys. Let's go get a third and I hope
Speaker 2: they do it.
Speaker 1: Johnny Cash, I agree with you. Sean Burke is that dude,
Speaker 1: and he is a dog. For all those listening, the
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Speaker 1: let's go over to Mets taking on the Phillies Game one,
Speaker 1: which was on Thursday, which I thought was so mean
Speaker 1: of Major League Baseball. I know, of course it's probably
Speaker 1: a TV thing where they're trying to get another game
Speaker 1: in primetime, but they didn't even give the Mets and
Speaker 1: Phillies like a real All Star break and then they
Speaker 1: were like, oh, well you could take a day off tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Mean, I saw Tray Turner. I saw Trey Turner in
Speaker 2: the airport when I when I flew into Palm Beach
Speaker 2: and I'm walking out and I'm like, why is Trey
Speaker 2: already flying back? And I was like, oh, yeah, he's
Speaker 2: got to go back now, kind of like he's holding
Speaker 2: his kids, like instead of having an extra day at
Speaker 2: home with the family.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I again, they didn't really get a real All
Speaker 1: Star break. Game one, Mets went four to one. Again.
Speaker 1: This was on Thursday. This was Homer party, but most
Speaker 1: of them came from the Mets Alvarez homer twice. Baty homered,
Speaker 1: but the loan run from Philly was on a Trey
Speaker 1: Turner homer. Christian Scott dominant over five and two thirds,
Speaker 1: allowing three hits, no runs, seven shrikeouts to lower his
Speaker 1: ERA to two eight seven. Aaron Nola quality start six innings,
Speaker 1: three runs, six k's, but he did allow those three
Speaker 1: homers because that's what Aeronola does. His era's at five
Speaker 1: six eight moved to Game two. Phillies win six to one. Again,
Speaker 1: this was on Saturday. Schwarber started the game with a
Speaker 1: two run shot and Tyrone Taylor answered with a solo
Speaker 1: shot in the second, but from there it was all Phillies.
Speaker 1: That was the lone run has us Zardo allowed, going
Speaker 1: five innings with seven strikeouts, lowering his ERA to three
Speaker 1: four to three. Hearing a lot of people in our
Speaker 1: Discord Shout Out podcast p calling him the if man,
Speaker 1: talking about his underlying metrics. He'll never be those. Hey,
Speaker 1: Hay Suzardo is one of the league leaders in shrikeouts
Speaker 1: and he's got a three four to three ARA. Let's
Speaker 1: put some respect on his name. Trey Turner homerd Boehm
Speaker 1: and Harper had RBI singles cruise to a win Game three.
Speaker 1: Mets win six to one. Five runs from the Mets
Speaker 1: in the first two innings ended this one as McLean
Speaker 1: was downright filthy, shrinking out ten. He threw some curveballs
Speaker 1: arm where I was like, holy shit, he's gross pitching
Speaker 1: in jappost at one of his curveballs thirty six hundred RPMs.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just stupid. He threw one to Harper.
Speaker 1: I actually felt bad for Harper. It was so nasty.
Speaker 1: I was like, that's just that's unfair. So again, six shutout,
Speaker 1: two hits, allowed ten punchies. Lindor went three for three
Speaker 1: with three RBIs, including a homer the first four bats,
Speaker 1: and the Mets lineup aj Ewing won Soto Bashaddon. Of course,
Speaker 1: Lindor had multiple hits. Hey, Mets win the series. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so that more of a like a Mets thing, or
Speaker 1: is it like Philly's what the hell? Come on, that's
Speaker 1: the whole brod derby. Sanchez gives up all three runs
Speaker 1: at the altar, gave it the right out the break,
Speaker 1: you lose to the Mets. Come on.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the vibes are a little a little low right now.
Speaker 2: I was gonna point out too real quick when we're
Speaker 2: talking about tops Chroman cards like that. I've known a
Speaker 2: few no on mcclaim cards. My favorite thing about it,
Speaker 2: for those that are watching on YouTube is he's hitting
Speaker 2: in his boat first. So I think that's gonna sick
Speaker 2: in like ten years, when Nolan McLain's just this established
Speaker 2: stud pitcher, people are gonna forget that he came up
Speaker 2: doing both a little bit and you will get his
Speaker 2: first card. It's Nolan McLain with an elbow guard, you know,
Speaker 2: getting ready to take it, take a swing. But no,
Speaker 2: I think, look, it's at the moral victory part of
Speaker 2: the Mets season. There's two things. Hope that the rentals
Speaker 2: that you're going to trade away start balling a little
Speaker 2: bit so you can improve their trade value, and two
Speaker 2: find the moral victories for next year. Christian Scott's given
Speaker 2: you that, and Nolan McLain. I don't think anyone was
Speaker 2: concerned about him long term, but you want to see
Speaker 2: this guy have a great second half and go into
Speaker 2: next year and say, all right, we've got our number
Speaker 2: one with Christians or number one with Nolan mclan. We've
Speaker 2: got a number three yearsh potential type of guy like
Speaker 2: Christian Scott. We got to fill in now from there,
Speaker 2: but at least we've got two really good young arms.
Speaker 2: I think this start for mcclan was spectacular, the two
Speaker 2: hits only only walking to and we talk about putting
Speaker 2: guys away because sometimes he doesn't get the chase that
Speaker 2: you would that you would get sometimes I think the
Speaker 2: pitches are just too big. You got the chase, he
Speaker 2: got the whift ten punch outs. That's my big takeaways, Like,
Speaker 2: you can't even be mad about the Phillies. This was
Speaker 2: a guy that has the stuff to be a frontline starter,
Speaker 2: showing us that.
Speaker 1: No doubt about it with the Phillies. A couple interesting
Speaker 1: comments from postgame pressers. Trey Turner was asked kind of
Speaker 1: about about his down season. Yeah, and he made a
Speaker 1: comment about his batting average on balls and play and
Speaker 1: how it kind of doesn't make any sense and based
Speaker 1: on the quality of contact like in previous years he's
Speaker 1: always been he's got a ton of speed. He knows
Speaker 1: he still has it. Sprint speed would agree with him,
Speaker 1: but I saw like his batting average on balls and
Speaker 1: play is like two sixty two seventy. That's just not
Speaker 1: what we're used to from Trey Turner. So it does
Speaker 1: tell me like, all right, you know he's aware of this,
Speaker 1: He's not in his own head. It does seem like
Speaker 1: like he feels like he's hitting the ball okay, he's
Speaker 1: just not getting the results, which actually I like that
Speaker 1: from a hitter rather than just sulking like he knows
Speaker 1: it's sometimes with baseball, it's a long season. Guys to
Speaker 1: go through spells. If he feels good about the process,
Speaker 1: Trey Turner has done enough to earn our respect where
Speaker 1: it's like, all right, I trust you to get out
Speaker 1: of it now. At the same time, he's got to
Speaker 1: get out of it, and this was a good series
Speaker 1: from him. Yeah, he's got to get out of it right,
Speaker 1: and I think he eventually will. Alec Bohm also had
Speaker 1: some comments when he was asked what's going on with
Speaker 1: the Phillies offense right now? And he made a comment
Speaker 1: that like I agree with and I don't agree with.
Speaker 1: He said, the pitching is just really good. In Major
Speaker 1: League Baseball. You run into some bullpens that just have
Speaker 1: high octane stuff. These starters are excellent and some guys.
Speaker 1: Guys just go through lulls, and I agree with the premise. However,
Speaker 1: the Phillies have had a tough stretch in July, and
Speaker 1: it's been against the Pirates, the Royals, the Reds, the Tigers,
Speaker 1: and now the Mets, so they're not exactly going through
Speaker 1: regauntlet of pitching. I think there are bigger problems afoot. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think the problems sit with we're kind of waiting
Speaker 1: on Schwarburne Harper to come back through the lineup. Obviously
Speaker 1: he can't say that, and Boom has actually had a
Speaker 1: better few months, so he's not the problem. But the
Speaker 1: guy at the top of the lineup has been the problem,
Speaker 1: and the guys after Alec Bohm have been a major
Speaker 1: problem that he's not gonna say the truth. I will
Speaker 1: problem with the Phillies offense. It's not just because pitching
Speaker 1: is great, even though I do agree it's really hard
Speaker 1: to hit a baseball. These guys are disgusting.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, it's not gonna get any easier. So that's
Speaker 2: why I don't really get that explanation, like, yes, it's hard,
Speaker 2: but like you're gonna still be facing big league bullpens
Speaker 2: with high octane stuff after this too, So yes, it's
Speaker 2: really hard. Yeah, there's gonna be stretches where it's not
Speaker 2: going right, but the whole point is to figure out
Speaker 2: why it's not going right. And maybe it's just the
Speaker 2: ebbs and flows of it. But I agree with what
Speaker 2: you're saying. It's not like they were facing like even
Speaker 2: just talking about with the Marlins. They could say, hey,
Speaker 2: we ran into the Guardians and the Brewer. If we
Speaker 2: don't pick it up in the next series, then there's
Speaker 2: something going on with us. But maybe that's just a
Speaker 2: six game stretch where ran into some tough, tough bullpen arms.
Speaker 2: You run into the Dodgers and the Padres bullpens and
Speaker 2: it's just like, ah, gosh, it's just we can't get
Speaker 2: it going. If you don't get at the starter, you're cooked.
Speaker 2: I think there's obviously merit to it. But I agree
Speaker 2: with you, like the whole premise I think with this
Speaker 2: Phillies offense right now, and like the frustration is that, like,
Speaker 2: who who is the guy that you're looking forward to
Speaker 2: coming up in the order outside of the obvious, And
Speaker 2: I just I just don't know who that is. And
Speaker 2: you're very much hoping that it gets around to the top.
Speaker 2: I think it was big that, you know, Turner had
Speaker 2: the series that he had in Boma, as you mentioned,
Speaker 2: has continued to be better since he was really not good.
Speaker 2: But I still look at this team, they're gonna need to,
Speaker 2: you know, address the back of this lineup. Quick shout.
Speaker 2: Gabriel Winknis did one of the craziest things I've ever
Speaker 2: seen on a baseball field. There's a fly ball. He
Speaker 2: seemingly lost it in the sun. His glasses were on.
Speaker 1: The top of his Oh yeah, I saw that.
Speaker 2: He took the glasses off the top of his hat,
Speaker 2: put them on his eyes, found the ball again and
Speaker 2: caught it. I've never in my life seen that, and
Speaker 2: I would go blind staring at the sun before I
Speaker 2: do that.
Speaker 1: He was in a bad position and he couldn't make
Speaker 1: the throw in and the runners advance because of that.
Speaker 1: Put your damn glasses on. But I agree, it was like, wait,
Speaker 1: did I just kind of say, see what I thought?
Speaker 2: I saw. The fact that he was able to put
Speaker 2: the glasses on while the ball was in the air,
Speaker 2: find the ball and make the catch some one of
Speaker 2: the craziest things I've ever seen.
Speaker 1: I agree that was cool. Let's talk about the second
Speaker 1: hottest team in baseball behind the Boston Red Sox, and
Speaker 1: that is the Baltimore Orioles, as they took on the
Speaker 1: Astros this weekend and swept them out of their own building.
Speaker 1: Game one, Orioles win, three to two. Houston had a
Speaker 1: two to one lead going into the eighth as Peter
Speaker 1: Lambert was fantastic the best arm this year six innings
Speaker 1: of one run ball with ten punchies, but then Taylor
Speaker 1: Ward took the game into his own hands, rocking a
Speaker 1: two run shot to give Baltimore the lead and the
Speaker 1: win moved the game two Orioles four to two, and
Speaker 1: eleven innings, it was a one to one tie going
Speaker 1: into extras as Arraghetti allowed just one hit and one
Speaker 1: run over five innings and Trevor Rodgers pitched into the seventh,
Speaker 1: only allowing one run and striking out eight. Both teams
Speaker 1: trade runs in the tenth, but an eleventh inning rally
Speaker 1: started by Tyler O'Neill sealed the Orioles sixth straight win
Speaker 1: moved the game three. Orioles win, five to two. Brandon
Speaker 1: Young spun a gem, tossing seven innings a one run
Speaker 1: ball with seven strikeouts. What a season he's had, rocking
Speaker 1: a three to two five el Hunter Brown did not
Speaker 1: make it out of the fifth after allowing four runs
Speaker 1: as Leo di Taveres and Gunner Henderson had RBI hits,
Speaker 1: Kobe Mayo and Josel Tuove traded homers. Late Orioles sweep
Speaker 1: seven straight wins. Are them. They sit forty nine and
Speaker 1: fifty one. They're two games out of the final wild
Speaker 1: card spot. But as of course, as soon as they
Speaker 1: win seven in a row, the Red Sox win thirteen
Speaker 1: in a row and they're just, you know, what is it,
Speaker 1: two games above them in the standings. Before we talk
Speaker 1: about the Orioles this past weekend, I do want to
Speaker 1: ask you about the Kyle Bradish extension. They bypassed two
Speaker 1: years of arbitration and they gave him five years ninety
Speaker 1: million dollars. When that initially came in, I felt that's
Speaker 1: a good deal. I don't think it's like a steal
Speaker 1: for the Orioles, where you know, I thought they would
Speaker 1: give him one to ten by the game ninety. I
Speaker 1: think for Bradish at twenty nine years old, flashed great
Speaker 1: stuff in the middle of his career. Tommy John's surgery
Speaker 1: hasn't thrown a ton of innings, but this year he's
Speaker 1: been available, he's been really solid. He's shown flashes a
Speaker 1: few years ago, pitched to a two to eight three era,
Speaker 1: but of course those there are those injury concerns. Peyton
Speaker 1: also mentioned in the discord in zone wif is a
Speaker 1: little bit down right. He's not quite as nasty, but
Speaker 1: lately he has been so to me just seemed fair.
Speaker 1: It's almost I thought in my mind, what would an
Speaker 1: extension me five years? Ninety million? Like, I think they
Speaker 1: both got it right.
Speaker 2: And I think if that's the case, great because the
Speaker 2: I thing you look at the free agent market and
Speaker 2: you say, well, what are we gonna add? You know
Speaker 2: coming up soon? We might as well just take the
Speaker 2: time now to lock up our pitching a little bit
Speaker 2: longer now, Like look, a lot of the question has
Speaker 2: been around, you know, the pitching staff long term for
Speaker 2: the Orioles. But now you look at you got Bradish
Speaker 2: locked up, You've got bas locked up. And I think
Speaker 2: both you still hope can give you a little bit
Speaker 2: more and Bratis we've started to see that. I think
Speaker 2: Bradish can be really, really good, and we've seen that,
Speaker 2: but at worst, both these guys are going to be
Speaker 2: solid aning xeting type of arms. I think that from
Speaker 2: what we've seen, they can give you high threes at
Speaker 2: worst like a low fours and and I don't think
Speaker 2: you're ever going to be like regretting that deal. And
Speaker 2: I think both are going to be better than that.
Speaker 2: I think both these guys are mid threes guys. I
Speaker 2: think Bradish in particular can be a low threes guy,
Speaker 2: and we've seen that, you know, I think of late
Speaker 2: as he started to settle in more and more so
Speaker 2: I like it just anytime you're you're locking up more
Speaker 2: pitching for yourself, especially with where the are kind of
Speaker 2: at organizationally, I think it's a great move.
Speaker 1: And I really like how this Oriols rotation is rounding
Speaker 1: into form. Right. You already talked about Bradish and Boz,
Speaker 1: but Trevor Rodgers continues to dominate our guy. Schroeder in discord,
Speaker 1: I think brought up a good point where it's like
Speaker 1: that early blip, like people were like, oh now he's regressing.
Speaker 1: That could have just been a blip for him, and
Speaker 1: he's actually a dog because lately, I mean, this guy's
Speaker 1: been phenomenal. I know he scattered eight hits, but he
Speaker 1: just has an innate ability to get out of trouble.
Speaker 1: I think he's going to turn and have a similar
Speaker 1: kind of stretch that Andrew Abbott has with the Cincinnati Reds,
Speaker 1: except Trevor Rodgers gets to pitch in a slightly better
Speaker 1: environment for pitching than pitching in Great American Ballpark. When
Speaker 1: you make a mistake as a Cincinnati Red pitching there,
Speaker 1: it's going to hurt you a lot more than where
Speaker 1: Trevor Rodgers is pitching. But especially you know as a lefty,
Speaker 1: you're going to face a lot of righties. Those righties
Speaker 1: want to pull the baseball, and it's really hard to
Speaker 1: hit his alriety at Camden Yards. But then you keep
Speaker 1: going down the line like Dean Kramer. Again, he didn't
Speaker 1: have his best start, but he's still got good stuff,
Speaker 1: Like he's a perfectly fine back of the rotation type
Speaker 1: arm at times, like he looks like a really solid
Speaker 1: number three. And then Brandon Young is god send. I mean,
Speaker 1: the bullpen is still not great, even though Jenny your
Speaker 1: Cano is awesome, Rico Garcia is awesome, but without Ryan Helsley,
Speaker 1: it's been tough like it's not a great bullpen. The offense,
Speaker 1: they've gotten contributions from guys that they haven't really gotten
Speaker 1: from all season long. But my biggest takeaway from the
Speaker 1: Orioles during this hot stretch is this rotation is good.
Speaker 1: Like it is. They are pitching like a top ten rotation,
Speaker 1: like every single one of their arms keeps them in
Speaker 1: ball games.
Speaker 2: I would say it's a high floor. It's a high
Speaker 2: floor rotation all of a sudden, I very much agree.
Speaker 2: And then you still have the pops like if Ooz shoves,
Speaker 2: You're not gonna be shocked if Kramer shot, or excuse me,
Speaker 2: if I mean Kramer will be a little bit surprised,
Speaker 2: but not shocked of bratish shoves. I won't be surprised.
Speaker 2: One other shout a little bit concerned about hundred brown
Speaker 2: six walks. He's gonna need to figure that out. And
Speaker 2: I was like, again, the burning question for this rotation
Speaker 2: was just the volatility Peter Lambert, as you mentioned the
Speaker 2: ten case, he has been fantastic. What a pickup by them.
Speaker 2: My last question is is this the best player that
Speaker 2: we have ever at Just Baseball broke a signing of yes,
Speaker 2: we broke it. On November three, Peter Lambert agrees to
Speaker 2: a minor LEIG deal with the Astros. Reports arm weight
Speaker 2: and of Just Baseball. Twenty eight year old return state
Speaker 2: side after a season in Japan with the Occult Swallows.
Speaker 2: I don't know if I don't know if I've me
Speaker 2: or anyone who just Baseball's broken signing where a player
Speaker 2: has been better than this. This might be the highest
Speaker 2: war Just Baseball broken signing that we've ever had.
Speaker 1: I think we're battling currently on sources, like people forget
Speaker 1: my name is PD sources because I broke the bonuses
Speaker 1: that JJ Blede got in his contract. People forget I
Speaker 1: was the first one to say he got two million
Speaker 1: dollars or two million dollars incentive. So who's having a
Speaker 1: better year? JJ Blade or Peter Lambert? Because I am
Speaker 1: going to take credit for the entire thing with Yeah,
Speaker 1: to say, freak the incentives, that's good.
Speaker 2: I mean, he's gonna hit those incentives.
Speaker 1: I think he is.
Speaker 2: He's got to hit thoseives. He's been great.
Speaker 1: I think you would that one though.
Speaker 2: You actually seriously what a signing by Lamb by the
Speaker 2: Astros on Lambert and like keeping them afloat. But if
Speaker 2: they really skid there, that's gonna be another good trade piece.
Speaker 1: Here's the problem though, The Astros still kind of stink
Speaker 1: and Christian Walker left Saturday's game, Jeremy Pania returned from
Speaker 1: the IL and then now it looks like he might
Speaker 1: get back on the I l I understand the Astros
Speaker 1: have basically said, no matter what we're buying, Like, sure,
Speaker 1: I guess I understand. Last year of a contract for
Speaker 1: your GM owners want to buy. I feel like it's
Speaker 1: one last run. The Astros are forty seven and fiftyfty four,
Speaker 1: in what world should they buy? Like? I think I
Speaker 1: think their pride is going to end up being their downfall. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like them selling these premium pieces and reloading their farm
Speaker 1: instead of what what are you going to do? W
Speaker 1: How do you turn this round? This offense is yord
Speaker 1: on end friends, and the rotation is wildly inconsistent, and
Speaker 1: you're just waiting for Josh Hater in the bullpen. It's
Speaker 1: not a good team there. And it's not like, oh,
Speaker 1: well they've gone unlucky this year. They're expected win losses
Speaker 1: forty five and fifty six. It's even worse. They got
Speaker 1: a negative fifty three run differential. That's nine runs better
Speaker 1: than the Angels. I think it's a bad decision if
Speaker 1: they buy, Like, am I crazy?
Speaker 2: I don't disagree at all. Like I said, the only
Speaker 2: way that I could really buy into this team fully,
Speaker 2: fully buying, is if the starters started stacking good outings
Speaker 2: going into the not like you say, oh, one hundred
Speaker 2: Browns back Lambert keeps doing what he's doing, AMAI is
Speaker 2: only sucking every third start, and you just kind of
Speaker 2: go from there. Ronel Blanco is gonna come back and
Speaker 2: make a start this week?
Speaker 1: What? Yeah?
Speaker 2: I agree. I think if this team does not get
Speaker 2: hot in the next which I just don't think it's
Speaker 2: gonna be the carousel of injuries and things like that,
Speaker 2: I think it's going to be hard to justify.
Speaker 1: I agree. All right, Let's go over to the Padres
Speaker 1: taking on the Royals Game one. Royals win seven to
Speaker 1: six and ten innings. Lane Thomas homered early and a
Speaker 1: Michael Massey RBI single in the eighth gave Casey the lead,
Speaker 1: but the Padres wouldn't go down without a fight. With
Speaker 1: two outs, ty Franz homer to tie the game and
Speaker 1: we head to extras. San Diego put up three in
Speaker 1: the tenth, so the Royals had a mountain to climb,
Speaker 1: and they did it, highlighted by a two run single
Speaker 1: by Carter Jensen to walk it off. Lugo and King
Speaker 1: allowed just one earn run each. Royals win. Game two,
Speaker 1: Royals win six to one, no extras here. Two Royals
Speaker 1: runs in the first basically sealed to win thanks to
Speaker 1: another Lane Thomas home run. He's been on fire. Tatis's
Speaker 1: homer was the Padres loan run. CAGs and Collins had
Speaker 1: RBI hits and Salvey hit a two run shot. Moved
Speaker 1: to Game three, Padres beat the breaks off from nineteen
Speaker 1: to two. They took out their aggression from losing the
Speaker 1: first two early and often putting up seven in the
Speaker 1: first four innings. Welcome to the twenty twenty six season,
Speaker 1: Jackson Merrill. He went four for six with two homers.
Speaker 1: Ty Frantz continues his great season as the Padres best hitter.
Speaker 1: Low Key two for six with two homers and five RBIs.
Speaker 1: Tatis added a homer as well, ending the game with
Speaker 1: four RBIs. It was the first time this season he's
Speaker 1: homered in back to back games, which when I saw
Speaker 1: that I was like, damn, it's July nineteenth. Luis ren
Speaker 1: Heifo had three hits pure domination from the Padres in
Speaker 1: order to avoid the sweep with the Royals. Like I
Speaker 1: feel like you're just looking for solid contributions from guys
Speaker 1: like CAGs, guys like Collins. Right, you're trying to build
Speaker 1: a young core. You're looking for the Robbins to Bobby
Speaker 1: Wood Junior's batman. But then, of course Bobby Wood Junior
Speaker 1: didn't play on Sunday because he's dealing with a little
Speaker 1: bit of backtightness. And on the Padres side, like, I'm
Speaker 1: starting to see Padres fans like really revolt. I think
Speaker 1: losing two out of three out of the break to
Speaker 1: the Royals was a lot of these fans breaking points.
Speaker 1: But then they win nineteen to two on Sunday, Like
Speaker 1: now they're putting Padres fans in a blender. And now
Speaker 1: we're hearing potentially Mason Miller could be dealt that Preller
Speaker 1: wants to buy and sell. Similarly to the Astros, this
Speaker 1: is another conversation of why in the hell would you buy?
Speaker 1: What have you shown all season that tells us you
Speaker 1: should buy? Do you know who ranks dead last and
Speaker 1: runs per game this year.
Speaker 2: Arm I'm a good guess.
Speaker 1: The San Diego Padres Hembo came on and dropped that
Speaker 1: insane stat that still sits with me, that they're run
Speaker 1: differential from the first inning on until like the seventh
Speaker 1: of the eighth is like negative eighty and in the
Speaker 1: ninth inning. They're this unbelievable team. I think they've been
Speaker 1: arguably the luckiest team in baseball. Yeah, and they're forty
Speaker 1: nine and fifty fifty. They're fourteen games back. I get it,
Speaker 1: your three games back to the wild card. But I
Speaker 1: just again, I don't know how who you're gonna buy.
Speaker 1: You're gonna buy three bats, You're gonna tell Manny Machado
Speaker 1: to hit. I don't know what fixes this team. I
Speaker 1: wouldn't buy, But then again, I'm not aj Brower.
Speaker 2: No, I don't know. And I think the thing that
Speaker 2: may fire him up though, is if I mean, well,
Speaker 2: first and foremost, for Nando Tatis is gonna end up
Speaker 2: turning in like a four war season and end up
Speaker 2: having a pretty nice year, which is great Jackson Merrill.
Speaker 2: Hopefully this is the start of him picking it up.
Speaker 2: If he sees Merrill getting it going too. I think
Speaker 2: that could and I know the second homer came off
Speaker 2: at Tober, but the first one was left on left
Speaker 2: off and Noah Cameron, he had a four hit day
Speaker 2: to wrap up the series. If I think Tatis is
Speaker 2: already going, but if Merrill gets going a little bit
Speaker 2: more here Atcha, it's just like you thought he would
Speaker 2: get going, and he's kind of cooled off a little
Speaker 2: bit now too. I just don't know what the seam is.
Speaker 2: And even before that game, I guess Merri was over
Speaker 2: nine in the series. So I just every time I
Speaker 2: feel like, oh, maybe they're breaking out of it, these
Speaker 2: guys slow down, like Machado back under the Mendoza line
Speaker 2: going into the Sunday game. I don't see how you
Speaker 2: can aggressively buy. I could get like the buy and
Speaker 2: sell controllable pieces approach to set yourself up for next
Speaker 2: year and still kind of give it the college try
Speaker 2: this year. But yeah, I don't get it. And I
Speaker 2: think this series, no matter how many runs you scored,
Speaker 2: with seven of which coming against Tyler Tolbert, like, I
Speaker 2: don't think it's enough to offset what is still a
Speaker 2: disappointing series. You know, you drop two out of three
Speaker 2: to the Royals, which is one of the worst teams
Speaker 2: in baseball, no.
Speaker 1: Doubt about it. Let's go over two. Next series up,
Speaker 1: we got the Twins taking on the Cubs. My Twins
Speaker 1: got back to five hundred by winning Game one five
Speaker 1: to two. A four run third inning from Minnesota put
Speaker 1: this one out of reach, highlighted by a three run
Speaker 1: homer from Ryan Jeffers and Bailey Ober improves the seven
Speaker 1: and three on the season after pitching into the six
Speaker 1: and only allowing to earned while striking out seven. However,
Speaker 1: they fall back below five hundred. Is the Cubs take
Speaker 1: care of business in games two and three. Game two
Speaker 1: Cubs win six to two. Michael Bush and Cody Clemens
Speaker 1: traded homers in the first two innings, but RBI hits
Speaker 1: from Miguelmayah, Nico Horner, and Ramirez put this one out
Speaker 1: of reach. Then Clemens homered again, but another Pedro Martinez
Speaker 1: RBI singles sealed it. Paedro Ramirez, excuse me, wains I
Speaker 1: wrote on Pedro Martinez paydrove Ramirez. Matthew Boyd was excellent
Speaker 1: six innings, one earned four k's. His heires at four
Speaker 1: to one, five and Tod Bradley on the other side
Speaker 1: five earn runs. Not great, and then Game three certainly
Speaker 1: not great for the Twins, great for the Cubs though
Speaker 1: they win ten to one, and Zebbie Matthews got demolished,
Speaker 1: exiting the game after three innings with eight earned ten runs. Technically,
Speaker 1: Bregman homer, Nico Horner had a bass clearing triple, Michael
Speaker 1: Busch had three hits, and on the pitching side, Shota
Speaker 1: was awesome. It was one of those starts on where
Speaker 1: you're just watching showed and it's like, all right, he's
Speaker 1: got location of the fastball and splutter which means he's
Speaker 1: gonna shove and we just haven't seen it a ton.
Speaker 1: But when he's got it, he still got it. Tos
Speaker 1: seven shutty to bring his era below four at three
Speaker 1: to nine one. He's actually turning in an okay season.
Speaker 1: This is another one of those series where it's like,
Speaker 1: I don't have a ton to take away, especially when
Speaker 1: better team wins two out of three at home as expected.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I got one big one for you. Though you
Speaker 2: ask for Nico Horner, you got Nico Horner this series.
Speaker 1: Love it.
Speaker 2: Eight hits, went four for four and one of them
Speaker 2: drove in four runs in the finale. This was hopefully
Speaker 2: the coming out party for Nico, but said Nico had
Speaker 2: to be better. This is the best series he's had
Speaker 2: all year.
Speaker 1: I agree, pca Uh, I'm not worried. I'm not worried,
Speaker 1: but I do remember in an unbelievable first half and
Speaker 1: a really poor second half.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's worth following, but you think that the floor
Speaker 2: has been raised, improved peripherals.
Speaker 1: That's why I'm not sounding any alarms. It's been a
Speaker 1: few games since it was one series. Wasn't a good
Speaker 1: one series? Yeah, it wasn't good, That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 1: But I still think you should be second in MVP
Speaker 1: odds right now behind him Tawny and he is on
Speaker 1: bet MGM. Unbelievable season, close to a nine hundreds. But
Speaker 1: we just be on the lookout because we remember last
Speaker 1: year and I just hope we don't have a repeat
Speaker 1: of last year, right, That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 2: Bregman had a pretty nice series. I think Ifman and
Speaker 2: Nico Horner are swinging it the way that they're capable of,
Speaker 2: and it was obviously a much better series for Nico.
Speaker 2: I was more of a better final game, I should
Speaker 2: say for Bregmant, but the AB's look better if Bregman
Speaker 2: can get going a little bit more Horner, get going
Speaker 2: a little bit, or this offense starts to get a
Speaker 2: lot more potent and exciting. I love their like bench
Speaker 2: pieces like me too. Andrew Ramirez is a boer.
Speaker 1: Offense is just sick.
Speaker 2: He's Ramirez is gonna be a really good player. And
Speaker 2: I don't know if they dangle him as trade bait
Speaker 2: or Shaw's to trade bait if he's back and healthy,
Speaker 2: but they got like shot they can play all over
Speaker 2: the diamond. Ramirez is just this really fun and somewhat
Speaker 2: versatile piece, that great back to ball, sneaky pop. I
Speaker 2: just and then they've got like James Triantos, who plays
Speaker 2: a couple of different spots, contact oriented that's having a
Speaker 2: really nice year. Triple A gubs are gonna make some
Speaker 2: moves and I'm excited to see what they do. But
Speaker 2: they've got a lot of position players throughout this Org Twins.
Speaker 1: We got to start winning ball games, because if we
Speaker 1: start losing ball games, Joe Ryan's gone, Ryan Jeffers is gone,
Speaker 1: Barron Buckston's probably not going.
Speaker 2: No no matter why.
Speaker 1: I'm so clear, but Joe, Ryan and Ryan Jeffers might
Speaker 1: be on the move. We got to start stringing together
Speaker 1: wins or else those guys are gone, and those guys
Speaker 1: are gone, well it's gonna be tough.
Speaker 2: So yeah, not a good matchup for Zebbie with the
Speaker 2: wind blowing out there. Oh same with Taj. But Ober solid.
Speaker 2: This team's pesky, but yeah, they got to get a.
Speaker 1: Going respect the four point three percenters. I got five
Speaker 1: more series left, but first Reds versus Rockies Game one,
Speaker 1: Reds wins seven to two. There was a one to
Speaker 1: one tie going into the fifth, but in the sixth
Speaker 1: the Reds took control on homer's from Spencer Steer and
Speaker 1: Gino Suarez now Willie Castro homer to bring the score
Speaker 1: to five to two. But an inside the Parker, inside
Speaker 1: the parker homer from Spencer Steer and a homer from
Speaker 1: Elie de la Cruz wide in the lead. Shout out
Speaker 1: Gabriel Hughes Right, he's a first round pick from the
Speaker 1: Colorado Rockies. He pitched well, pitching into the six allowed
Speaker 1: just two earned runs and his ERA sits at three
Speaker 1: one four Sneaky good young pitcher. Brady Singer, though, was
Speaker 1: simply just better, toss seven innings at two run ball
Speaker 1: and he got the win. Game two, Rockies win ten
Speaker 1: to three. Eight runs in the first three put this
Speaker 1: one out of reach for the Reds as TJ. Rumfield
Speaker 1: led the charge with multiple RBI singles. He ended the
Speaker 1: day with four hits and four RBIs, one of those
Speaker 1: hits being a home run. Jose Ravigno homer twice for
Speaker 1: the Reds, but that was it. Louder got blasted for
Speaker 1: eight earned over two and a third, raising his zerate
Speaker 1: to five seven to five, while tomy Yuki Shigano pitched
Speaker 1: into the seventh, allowing three runs, and in Game three,
Speaker 1: the rubber match, Reds win nine to six. Hunter Goodman
Speaker 1: had three homers, though sitting with thirty now on the season,
Speaker 1: trying to be the eighth catcher ever to hit forty
Speaker 1: in a single season, but the Reds said nope, this
Speaker 1: is our game. Last laugh Low Stevenson, and Stewart they
Speaker 1: all homered. It was nine to one after the fifth
Speaker 1: as Ryan Feldner just got crushed. Hunter Green toss the
Speaker 1: quality start while striking out seven and went home with
Speaker 1: the win. Reds win the series. Something I was thinking about.
Speaker 2: I mean the Reds. The report was that they're going
Speaker 2: to trade like, you know, some of the expiring guys. Yeah,
Speaker 2: odds are Geno Suarez won't be a very helpful piece
Speaker 2: with the way that he's playing this year. However, the
Speaker 2: first thing I thought about was like, he costs a
Speaker 2: lot of money, so the Reds are gonna have to
Speaker 2: pay him down. Anyways, whatever acquires you know, Suarrez is
Speaker 2: going to acquire him for nothing.
Speaker 1: Nothing.
Speaker 2: I just feel like a lot of teams should be
Speaker 2: lined up to acquire Gino Suarez for nothing and see
Speaker 2: what could happen.
Speaker 1: Because you know how baseball works. Remember when he was
Speaker 1: acquired by the Mariners and he did nothing.
Speaker 2: Yes, now this year will be the best deadline acquisition
Speaker 2: he's gonna rake.
Speaker 1: I agree, That's how baseball works, right, It's like you
Speaker 1: could get I could see fifteen hobers for Gindo swars
Speaker 1: like a month and a half for no reason. He
Speaker 1: gets away from ballpark.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so he gets away from Great American and becomes better,
Speaker 2: But when you put him in Great American he was worse.
Speaker 2: Like it would just be the most baseball thing ever.
Speaker 2: But I was thinking about them like I would happily
Speaker 2: take a shot on him for what I eaned two
Speaker 2: million dollars and I give you a nobody prospect and
Speaker 2: I can know just do to Deep three and hope
Speaker 2: it lands with with Gino Like that was an interesting
Speaker 2: wrinkle to me. JJ Biday is gonna be an underrated
Speaker 2: deadline piece. I don't know, maybe the Reds have to
Speaker 2: cover some of the incentives. I don't know what the
Speaker 2: incentives are, but yeah, I don't think he'll be very
Speaker 2: expensive financially, so I think a lot of teams will
Speaker 2: be interested in him. And then yeah, I mean the
Speaker 2: other side has been the Hunter Goodman rumors. I just
Speaker 2: we talked about it. I just don't see why they
Speaker 2: would trade him. I can understand just listening, but with
Speaker 2: the years of control that he still has, I'm just
Speaker 2: surprised to keep seeing the Hunter Goodman rumors. I will say.
Speaker 2: And I'm not a big, like big media conspiracy guy.
Speaker 2: I do feel like when the Yankees want somebody they
Speaker 2: and they're not even fully available, certain media members all
Speaker 2: of a sudden like make them sound more available than
Speaker 2: they are.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, that is accurate. Speaking about the Yankees. They
Speaker 1: got fleeced in a trade with the Rockies. TJ. Rumfield
Speaker 1: one of the best rookies in Major League Baseball, and
Speaker 1: we got on hell shavehi. I mean, he's okay in
Speaker 1: the bullpen, but TJ. Rumfield won twenty eight WRC plus,
Speaker 1: which again is park adjusted for cors Field, his OPS
Speaker 1: is near nine hundred. He had another great series this weekend.
Speaker 1: What a pickup for Colorado. This was a guy who
Speaker 1: was blocked by the Yankees and he was one of
Speaker 1: these older first base prospects where it's like he's got
Speaker 1: a hit to be valuable at all. News flash, he's hitting. Yes,
Speaker 1: we got fleeced.
Speaker 2: Great. That was a great pickup by this Rockies front
Speaker 2: office that it's made some some savvy moves and yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean you're seeing just certain guys swing it pretty
Speaker 2: well in that lineup. But yeah, at the end of
Speaker 2: the day, the Rockies are gonna lose most of the
Speaker 2: series they play, even against a not very good Reds team,
Speaker 2: So it's hard to have any other major major takeaways
Speaker 2: other than that South Short with his twentieth homer. He's
Speaker 2: a guy. It's just such an exciting building block and
Speaker 2: we're seeing extensions around the league, and we're seeing the
Speaker 2: Reds just hand one out to Hunter Green. Sal is
Speaker 2: quite a good candidate to extend.
Speaker 1: I think if you're the Reds, no doubt about it.
Speaker 1: Let's go over two Nationals versus A's. Game one, NAT's
Speaker 1: win twenty three to four. This was an ass kicking
Speaker 1: from the third inning on Chaparo homer twice ended with
Speaker 1: four hits. Harry Ford ever since he got called up,
Speaker 1: he's the best hitter alive. It's been like but it
Speaker 1: still counts, as did Dalan Lyle. Curtis Mead had four hits,
Speaker 1: Nunya has had three. Every starter for Washington had a hit.
Speaker 1: Even Jose Tania, who pinched hit he got a hit.
Speaker 1: Six of the nine starters had multiple hits. Underneath all
Speaker 1: of it was a very solid Kate Cavali start, as
Speaker 1: he tossed six innings a two run ball with nine strikeouts,
Speaker 1: lowering a zi Are to three seven eight. Move on
Speaker 1: to Game two, A's kick ass fifteen to one. This time,
Speaker 1: all A's started early with a five run first started
Speaker 1: by a Jake Wilson homer who finished the game with
Speaker 1: three hits. Tyler Soderstrom, Carlos Cortes both homered, McNeil had
Speaker 1: three hits, every order had at least one RBI, and JT.
Speaker 1: Ginn was almost better than the offense. He allowed just
Speaker 1: one hit over six and a third without a run,
Speaker 1: seven shrikeouts, lowering his area to three, four to six,
Speaker 1: and zach Lettel did zach Lytel shit. He gave them
Speaker 1: six innings, but he gave up eight earned. Moved to
Speaker 1: Game three, where the Nats win five to two in
Speaker 1: the rubber match, and this was a much more civilized
Speaker 1: game because Foster Griffin was involved. He just continues his
Speaker 1: amazing season. Can't forget this guy was kicked out of
Speaker 1: Major League Baseball, goes abroad, goes to the MPB, comes back,
Speaker 1: signs a one year, eight million dollar deals. Kind of
Speaker 1: approve it. Let's see if you can pitch now. He's
Speaker 1: got a two six eight ERA. After it's going seven
Speaker 1: innings against this A's team at the sut Drums and
Speaker 1: Cruiz homered, Harry Ford rocked an RBI double, and the
Speaker 1: A's losing ways continue. Arm I mean, the A's forty
Speaker 1: two and fifty seven gauge jump even in that game
Speaker 1: where the Nats got crushed like he pitched okay, but
Speaker 1: then these A's bullpen arms just got to rattled.
Speaker 2: This is the worst bullpen I think in the game.
Speaker 2: Paired with the ballpark award.
Speaker 1: Yeah, at the same time, I don't know. I mean
Speaker 1: that's how you get twins. Bullpen is egregiously paid.
Speaker 2: I just think with this staff, like, it's just it
Speaker 2: gets so ugly. Sometimes the ballpark doesn't help, but it
Speaker 2: just gets so ugly, Like the the Athletics clearly have
Speaker 2: pieces of takatch just kind of this last year, but
Speaker 2: there's still a lot of things that think they need
Speaker 2: to sort out going back into next year. Sounds like
Speaker 2: they're going to be open to some sorts of trades.
Speaker 2: They've even they could potentially move langal Ears. It sounds
Speaker 2: like I think that would be kind of crazy. But
Speaker 2: they're only two years of control and this year is dead,
Speaker 2: and so how good can you be next year? I
Speaker 2: think you try to extend that guy, but it sounds
Speaker 2: like they have tried. He's so close to free agency
Speaker 2: at this point. Why would you not just kind of
Speaker 2: wait it out. If you're Shay, You've been better every year.
Speaker 2: So it's an interesting situation there. Yeah, I think it's
Speaker 2: gonna get ugly for I mean, it already is, but
Speaker 2: I think it's gonna continue to be ugly here for
Speaker 2: the athletics the rest of the way.
Speaker 1: I don't really have anything else, do you now?
Speaker 2: Cool to see Harry Ford up there, hopefully gets some opportunity.
Speaker 2: He's really bad at the start of the erent tryple
Speaker 2: a and as hit his stride and still think can
Speaker 2: be a solid big league catcher and as a unique athlete.
Speaker 2: Back there, Dylan Cruz continues to kind of struggle. It's
Speaker 2: been frustrating there and then it's just been nice to
Speaker 2: see Jacob Wilson pick it up kind of with the
Speaker 2: with the injury behind him, and obviously he's a big
Speaker 2: part of when they're going right. There's just his success and.
Speaker 1: JKG who's Jacob Wilson's filling, But they're finding other roles
Speaker 1: for him because he just keeps hitting. That's a that's
Speaker 1: a really cool story. All right. Let's move over to
Speaker 1: Tigers versus Angels Game one. Tigers win two to one.
Speaker 1: Troy Melton and Kadamontero combined for nine innings of five hits,
Speaker 1: a lot and fourteen strikeouts, but Detroit found themselves down
Speaker 1: one zero going into the top of the ninth, and
Speaker 1: in the ninth how You Lee ripped a two run
Speaker 1: double that ended up being the difference on the Angel side.
Speaker 1: Shout Outdevers. He was awesome. He saw six shutout innings
Speaker 1: with seven strikeouts, but his team just couldn't come through
Speaker 1: for him, and in Game two, Tigers win seven to zero.
Speaker 1: Scooball looked like Scooble, which means was an auto win
Speaker 1: for the Tigers, as he threw seven shutout innings with
Speaker 1: nine strikeouts. Six runs over the first two innings put
Speaker 1: this game out of reach entirely. Colt Keith went four
Speaker 1: for four with two RBIs and Spencer Torkelsen hit two dingers.
Speaker 1: But we moved to Game three, the Angels salvage. They
Speaker 1: win three to two. McGonagall Homer delete off the game.
Speaker 1: Riley greenomered in the ninth. But in between all of
Speaker 1: that is where this game was won. Perraza and Netto
Speaker 1: had RBI singles, so Layer had an RBI ground out,
Speaker 1: which was all the Angels needed. Is Ryan Johnson pitched well,
Speaker 1: two hits, one run over five innings, and then the
Speaker 1: Angels bullpen shut the door. Scary moment Casey Mize exited
Speaker 1: in the fourth after taking a comebacker off the left wrist.
Speaker 2: One nine nine.
Speaker 1: I still haven't seen an update from the Tigers on
Speaker 1: his like X rays negative X. I don't know, so
Speaker 1: I just wrote down TBD. Maybe they gave it update
Speaker 1: while we've been recording. I haven't seen anything on the
Speaker 1: wrist at all. But it's just so unfortunate because when
Speaker 1: mis has been on the mound, he's been dynamite.
Speaker 2: Again.
Speaker 1: In this start, right, he only had given up one run.
Speaker 1: Wasn't his best start, but it was one run through
Speaker 1: three and third, like a normal Casey my start where
Speaker 1: he was probably gonna end up with five or six
Speaker 1: innings of two run ball like he's done all season long. Now,
Speaker 1: some injuries have been you know, soft tissue stuff or whatever,
Speaker 1: and some have been stuff like this. It's just an
Speaker 1: unfortunate injury to a guy like this.
Speaker 2: Well, here's the weird place. It sounds like the wrist
Speaker 2: is okay. I know he wasn't complaining a ton about it.
Speaker 2: We'll get the groin checked out as well and see
Speaker 2: how he feels tomorrow. It's hot. A lot of things
Speaker 2: were going to make that decision, so I guess Miss
Speaker 2: Groin's bothering him too, so hopefully he's okay, because yeah,
Speaker 2: this team's gonna have a chance. They need mis every
Speaker 2: fifth day too.
Speaker 1: So the Tigers currently sit, what are they in the
Speaker 1: standings right now? They're forty six and fifty three. It's
Speaker 1: funny they're expected win loss based on the run differential
Speaker 1: is fifty three and forty six. Again, we were talking
Speaker 1: in our discord and we were talking about whether or
Speaker 1: not School should get traded, and I was like, I
Speaker 1: think they should. I don't think they will, And someone
Speaker 1: brought up a good point where it's like, Scott Harris
Speaker 1: is such a model driven guy. I feel like when
Speaker 1: push comes to shove, he's going to see that they
Speaker 1: probably have a thirty to twenty five percent hits, especially
Speaker 1: with the Orioles stepping up like the way that they
Speaker 1: have right that, it just seems like the playoffs are
Speaker 1: out of reach, where the best thing for this franchise
Speaker 1: is trading schoobl Like, I think a complete disaster. And
Speaker 1: to be honest with you, I'm kind of worried that
Speaker 1: this is more probable than not, as in, this is
Speaker 1: the most likely scenario for the Tigers is that they
Speaker 1: stand pat They don't trade schooble, they don't trade miise,
Speaker 1: they don't trade really any of these expiring contracts unless
Speaker 1: it's like a guy. They don't need it all that.
Speaker 1: They trade for nothing, and they don't really add either.
Speaker 1: They add like cool nerdy pieces.
Speaker 2: I think they're going to.
Speaker 1: See like stuff models for a reliever and we're like, ooh,
Speaker 1: that's like a cool pickup and we announced it. It's
Speaker 1: like a sneaky under the radar move on one of
Speaker 1: our podcasts. And he throws like twelve innings for them
Speaker 1: and does well but doesn't end up mattering.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's what I said. I think it happened.
Speaker 2: I think they're they're they're gonna trade. I think it's
Speaker 2: in the last episode, like they'll trade a couple of
Speaker 2: bad prospects for a couple of bad relievers and probably
Speaker 2: say they bought. But the thing is three games at Chicago,
Speaker 2: so that's gonna be tough. Four against Kansas City, and
Speaker 2: if you want a good temperature test, three against Baltimore
Speaker 2: right after that, yep. And if you survive that temperature test,
Speaker 2: temperature test, how about going into the deadline with three
Speaker 2: at the sun so you have seven games against two
Speaker 2: of the worst teams in the American League, and then
Speaker 2: you have three against a team that you will have
Speaker 2: to separate yourself from. The worst case scenario is you
Speaker 2: take three out of four from Kansas City, you drop
Speaker 2: two out of three from Baltimore, and then you take
Speaker 2: two out of three from the Athletics. You have no
Speaker 2: idea what the hell you are.
Speaker 1: You just do what you're supposed to do instead of
Speaker 1: giving Scott Harris any indication of which way you're headed.
Speaker 2: And that's where I would look at that. And I
Speaker 2: think Scott Harris, as you mentioned, is a very like
Speaker 2: he's just very not only just analytical, but he's a realist.
Speaker 2: He's gonna look at the numbers and he's make a
Speaker 2: decision based on that. If they don't handle that, I
Speaker 2: think it'll be a really interesting decision. But there's a
Speaker 2: real world where with the way that this is set up,
Speaker 2: we'll see how it goes in Chicago. That's going to
Speaker 2: be a tough start to this. But even if if
Speaker 2: you drop two out of three, if you go out
Speaker 2: and take three out of four or sweep Kansas City,
Speaker 2: win that Baltimore series, and then win that Athletics series
Speaker 2: and you go into the deadline. I don't see how
Speaker 2: you can move to derek'schooble. And I think that's a
Speaker 2: very real scenario. And I think that's good because they're
Speaker 2: gonna be what game two games out?
Speaker 1: Yeah, you can't, can't, And I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't don't envy Scott Harris's position. I'll tell you that.
Speaker 1: I was just about to say that I don't envy
Speaker 1: it at all. Let's go over to the Giants taking
Speaker 1: on the Mariners. Game one, Giants win seven to zero.
Speaker 1: Landon Roupe out dueled Bryce Miller, tossing seven shutout innings
Speaker 1: with only two hits allowed, lowering a Zeria to three
Speaker 1: to nine to eight. Bryce Eldridge homers and A Dames
Speaker 1: hit a grand slam. But Game two Mariners get revenge
Speaker 1: win four to three and ten innings. But the Giants
Speaker 1: got out to a three tozer lead, highlighted by homers
Speaker 1: from Rafael Devers and Willia Damez. But the Mariners just
Speaker 1: wouldn't go quietly. Web cruised through six innings scoreless before
Speaker 1: Cole Young timed him up for a three run homer,
Speaker 1: tying the game, and then in the tenth, a sackfly
Speaker 1: from Julio sealed the comeback win moved a game three
Speaker 1: Mariners win six to three. The Giants again got out
Speaker 1: to a two zero lead, highlighted by another Bryce Eldridge
Speaker 1: hall run, but from there it was all Seattle. Luke
Speaker 1: Rayley stepped up as a pinch hitter in a three
Speaker 1: to three ball game in the six and rocked one
Speaker 1: to right center to take the lead, and then Cole
Speaker 1: Young hit a two run shot to give them some
Speaker 1: breathing room. Gilbert tossed the quality start with ten K's
Speaker 1: his sits at three to three to eight, and then
Speaker 1: he handed it off to Bizarto, Spire and Munnos to
Speaker 1: close it out. I thought Sunday was pretty important for
Speaker 1: the Mariners because once I saw the Giants get out
Speaker 1: to that two to zero lead, I was ready to
Speaker 1: just eviscerate the Mariners because they're at bats. I mean,
Speaker 1: this offense just looked awful, Like one swing from Cole
Speaker 1: Young to tie that game up was the only offense
Speaker 1: that they showed in the first two games, like at all.
Speaker 1: And then they managed to win that game. But then
Speaker 1: they got out to that that deficit early. But then
Speaker 1: the offense came to play like shout out, but I
Speaker 1: have another rant that I want to go on. I
Speaker 1: tweeted out cal Rawley has one of the biggest drop
Speaker 1: offs from season to season since I started covering baseball,
Speaker 1: and the tweet went viral, right, I think it's near
Speaker 1: two million views, And it was the single dumbest comments
Speaker 1: section that I have seen on one of my own
Speaker 1: posts in the history of me being on social media,
Speaker 1: and it's been now for five plus years, almost six. Now.
Speaker 1: Number one, you have the people who called it.
Speaker 2: You had called he was going to hit sixty again.
Speaker 1: I knew that he was going to struggle. Really, Einstein,
Speaker 1: no sher Damas. You thought he was going to go
Speaker 1: from a nine win player to hitting a buck sixty
Speaker 1: with a five to seventy five ops, and you're victory
Speaker 1: lapping it is if you are just some genius. We
Speaker 1: all thought he would regress a little bit when you
Speaker 1: jump from a four to five win catcher to a
Speaker 1: nine win catcher. We all said that nobody in their
Speaker 1: right mind predicted one sixty with a five seventy ops.
Speaker 1: That's number one. Number two. A lot of those same
Speaker 1: people were pretending he's a one year wonder. Have you
Speaker 1: ever watched outside of last season? From twenty twenty two
Speaker 1: to twenty twenty four, this guy was nineteenth in all
Speaker 1: of baseball and f four. He started his career in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one with a cup of coffee. I don't
Speaker 1: even count that. Twenty twenty two to twenty twenty four
Speaker 1: is was his career before the sixty home run season.
Speaker 1: Four win player, four win player, five win player one
Speaker 1: fifteen one to twenty WRC plus thirty home runs a year,
Speaker 1: great catcher, perpetual top five guy, and then he sets
Speaker 1: the world on fire with sixty homers in a nine
Speaker 1: win season, So to say he's a one hit wonder
Speaker 1: is just playing wrong. And then you have the quote
Speaker 1: unquote old heads chirping me because of my age that
Speaker 1: I haven't been around to see some saying, well did
Speaker 1: you forget about Cody Bellinger? I thought you covered the game. Hey, newsflash.
Speaker 1: Cody Bellinger after that twenty nineteen epic run, dropped to
Speaker 1: a set an eighty eight ops in the COVID season,
Speaker 1: not a there's a two hundred ops gap between him
Speaker 1: and what cal Rawley is doing right now. And it
Speaker 1: was such a short sample that does it even matter?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 1: I realized the next season was bad, but that's not.
Speaker 2: What I was also hurt, you know, shoulder age.
Speaker 1: Right, so that's wrong, not even close. And then even
Speaker 1: older people than that are saying, I guess we're just
Speaker 1: gonna forget about Brady Anderson. I get back Brady Anderson
Speaker 1: at fifty jacks, you're right. And then he fell off
Speaker 1: to be an eight sixty ops guy with twenty four
Speaker 1: home runs and then back to back to back to
Speaker 1: back seasons with an OPS over OPS plus over one hundred,
Speaker 1: not even in the same ballpark. Yeah, there was, and
Speaker 1: the visceral reaction. I swear I wish I didn't tweet
Speaker 1: it out because people like celebrating. That's the weird part
Speaker 1: season when it's clear he's been working with an oblique injury.
Speaker 1: This guy is not healthy, but he's playing through injuries
Speaker 1: because he's a bulldog. I like, when I woke up
Speaker 1: the next morning, I I hated that comment Sectually. There
Speaker 1: was not a smart comment out of the seven hundred comments.
Speaker 1: It was just visceral hate, propaganda, misinformation, and people just
Speaker 1: straight up lying. The worst comment section I've seen on
Speaker 1: one of my I don't know ever.
Speaker 2: I've noticed it with Cal weirdly too. It's just like
Speaker 2: there's been this kind of level of dancing on the gravel.
Speaker 2: But I don't know why. Yeah, I thought he was
Speaker 2: so much fun last year and.
Speaker 1: Awesome, good dude, like great for the game one. The
Speaker 1: derby is so electric.
Speaker 2: But that's frecking social media.
Speaker 1: It's just it's just as cuctual level where I was like,
Speaker 1: I'm even yeah, two million views, I want to delete it.
Speaker 1: I was like, I hate that.
Speaker 2: I even know you need that? You need that twelve
Speaker 2: dollars and forty six cents from h from Elon.
Speaker 1: Actually you know what, I looked it up. Do you
Speaker 1: don't have a billion viewspace?
Speaker 2: I think like five bucks?
Speaker 1: Right, eighteen dollars? Oh nice, thanks you that's a coffee
Speaker 1: and a half trillion dollars. But Twitter, Yeah, but now
Speaker 1: I agree.
Speaker 2: With you, and I it's part of the reason why
Speaker 2: I think he's only gonna settle back, and eventually it
Speaker 2: might not be this season.
Speaker 1: But I mean, this was a bad series again.
Speaker 2: I'll take the over on three war next year and
Speaker 2: Bellinger like it was a major shoulder issue. Bad year.
Speaker 2: The next year and the year after that was still bad.
Speaker 2: He had to really find it again physically, and then
Speaker 2: he did so we'll see. But yeah, that whole discourse
Speaker 2: drives me insaying one other shout, Bryce Eldridge, He's not slowing.
Speaker 1: Down really either.
Speaker 2: Hit another homer today on Sunday. He's up to a
Speaker 2: one thirty eight WRC plus. Him striking out twenty five
Speaker 2: percent of the time is incredible because in the minor
Speaker 2: league he struck out roughly thirty percent of the time.
Speaker 2: So to be doing that at the big league level
Speaker 2: now and a two hundred and thirty one plait appear
Speaker 2: in sample as a testament to a guy that is
Speaker 2: much much better in the box. Talk about moral victories,
Speaker 2: that's a big one if you're a Giants fan and
Speaker 2: you're you're the Giants front office looking forward to next year.
Speaker 2: As is Land and Route Mariners did what they're supposed
Speaker 2: to do, they take the two of three, and you know,
Speaker 2: hopefully they can just keep building on these series and
Speaker 2: just even in this series, I was fine, if not
Speaker 2: for Cole Young just being a dog and leaving the
Speaker 2: yard twice, series might look a little bit different. So
Speaker 2: I'm interested to see how they follow this one up.
Speaker 1: And the Mariners have kind of done this all year. Well,
Speaker 1: they'll win two out of three and then lose the
Speaker 1: next series. So I'll be watching with a close, full eye.
Speaker 1: Can they buck that trend and start putting together series wins?
Speaker 1: Because we see the talent like clearly they you know,
Speaker 1: they're second in American League Penados right now on Ben
Speaker 1: and Jmr. My gosh, it's because the roster is still great, right,
Speaker 1: It's just about putting it together consistently, which the Mariners
Speaker 1: have not done. But prove us wrong. You'll do it.
Speaker 1: Go put it together consistently, and I will be the
Speaker 1: first to change my tune because when the Mariners are
Speaker 1: playing well, they are electric, and I'm rooting for them
Speaker 1: to play well. All Right, we got the last series last,
Speaker 1: but certainly not least unless you're a Yankee fan. Uh
Speaker 1: Dodgers Yankees Game one Daughters went two to one. Garrickle
Speaker 1: was cruising six shudy before he went out for the seventh.
Speaker 1: He walked Mookie and then Boone came out to get him,
Speaker 1: but he convinced him to stay in months. He made
Speaker 1: him pay, hitting a two run homer that ultimately decided
Speaker 1: the game. Susaki on the other side. I think a
Speaker 1: couple of roundups ago. I told Jack, I'm pretty sure.
Speaker 1: I was like, I just don't believe in Roki in
Speaker 1: the rotation. He hit one hundred miles an hour seventeen times. Yeah?
Speaker 2: What?
Speaker 1: He hit one hundred and one multiple times earlier on
Speaker 1: in the season. He's only hit over one hundred miles
Speaker 1: an hour fifteen times. This season he hit seventeen freaking times. Yeah,
Speaker 1: a Yankee stadium. He looked awesome. He had that in
Speaker 1: the NP too. It just hasn't been there since he
Speaker 1: came here. He must be feeling good. I felt great,
Speaker 1: of course, it was that Yankee Stadium just put them
Speaker 1: in his back pocket. Five and two thirds, no earned runs.
Speaker 1: He did give up one run, but it was on
Speaker 1: a passball, didn't even count and didn't matter anyway. Todgers
Speaker 1: win Game two. Dodgers went eight to two. The Dodgers
Speaker 1: man first inning, Cam Schlitzler strikes out the side. Second inning,
Speaker 1: Max Schuman loses one in the sun, but that was
Speaker 1: the only runner to get on base, and then the
Speaker 1: Dodters timed up Cam Schlitzler's fastball combo and they fouled
Speaker 1: off a ton of pitches and drove up his pitch count.
Speaker 1: He exited after his four and a thirty allowed three runs. Otani,
Speaker 1: Freddy and Pie has all at RBI hits. It just
Speaker 1: speaks to the greatness of the Dodgers. I thought Cam
Speaker 1: Slitler stuff looked good, but the Dodgers once they got you,
Speaker 1: good luck. Five run eighth inning from the Dodgers put
Speaker 1: this one just completely out of reach as a Grisham
Speaker 1: homer and a Vold Prbi single where the lone Yankees runs.
Speaker 1: Yamamoto told the bullpen to take the day off.
Speaker 2: I got you.
Speaker 1: He went the entire game, cg nine innings, four hits,
Speaker 1: two runs, and struck out seven. And we were recording
Speaker 1: during Sunday Night Baseball. The Yankees are actually winning going on,
Speaker 1: Ryan Yarborough, Paul Blackburn, Bred Headrick. How about the boys,
Speaker 1: I mean, shut up. Paul Blackburn two eight e ra
Speaker 1: A and Brett Headrick's been I think the Yankees best
Speaker 1: reliever this year. He's got a one four eight. Will
Speaker 1: kleinb give up a run early and then the rest
Speaker 1: of the Daughter's bullpen how they even score it? Gold
Speaker 1: Schmidt RB I double No Gold is a double. Cody
Speaker 1: Bellinger is an RBI. He's two for two. That's kind
Speaker 1: of it. O. Tony's one for three. I mean it's
Speaker 1: one zero on the seventh. Kind of want to end
Speaker 1: the show to go watch the Element. Yeah, he's probably blowing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that's That's basically the biggest thing here
Speaker 2: is if the Yankees can salvage the series feel a
Speaker 2: little bit better, they get swept. It's just continues to
Speaker 2: be a brutal stretch and you're just counting the days
Speaker 2: until you can get Aaron Judge back. Talk about everything
Speaker 2: we said about McGreevy that the modern, even nastier version
Speaker 2: of that is mmoto or you're anybody if you're pitching
Speaker 2: Ninja Highlight Sky that doesn't even watch the game and
Speaker 2: just likes to see the clips, or you're an old
Speaker 2: school guy that likes to see a pitch or pitch
Speaker 2: your my Moto appeals to everybody. And I thought that
Speaker 2: was a perfect example in that in that complete game,
Speaker 2: and then you mentioned the game plan knowing that, hey,
Speaker 2: you're probably not gonna stack a ton of hits against
Speaker 2: Cam Schlitzler, so let's just get him out of the
Speaker 2: game early. That was quickly their plan, and the Dodgers
Speaker 2: did an unbelievable job of that spoiling and just working
Speaker 2: up that pitch count. This is just an example of
Speaker 2: why they're such a good team. I don't even think
Speaker 2: you think the Yankees have had that bad of a series.
Speaker 2: They're struggling, but I think the Dodgers are just flexing
Speaker 2: their muscles.
Speaker 1: Austin Wells, Grugo te and his ops starts with a four.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's gonna be hard if he's struggling like that.
Speaker 1: This block of Dominguez Jazz, Volpi, Wells, Caballero stinks. There's
Speaker 1: no other way to put it. Like, Tamiga is nice,
Speaker 1: got a hit today. You know, Volpi's actually been pretty
Speaker 1: good defensively. He's not the problem. It's just they got
Speaker 1: nothing from those guys. Yeah, Ellinger has been struggling. I mean,
Speaker 1: Paul Goldschmid is hitting, you know, third in this lineup.
Speaker 1: That's where they're at right now. The Yankees are a
Speaker 1: blow five hundred team when Aaron Judge is not in
Speaker 1: the lineup. Yeah, that's who they are right until Aaron
Speaker 1: Judge returns, which again we got an update I think
Speaker 1: a few days ago it's like better but not good enough,
Speaker 1: not even starting baseball activities yet. Yeah, so like if
Speaker 1: I don't have another GM, I don't envy the position.
Speaker 1: Brian Cashman, are you going all in at this deadline
Speaker 1: with this team? Like you shouldn't. Yankee fans are going
Speaker 1: to demand it though, and then they're gonna get real
Speaker 1: pissed when they don't make that many moves, and I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be like, I get it. Yeah, I would add
Speaker 1: to this team. They stink. They stink Without Aaron Judge,
Speaker 1: they stink.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's fair fair, They've definitely it's been rough and
Speaker 2: some guys could get it going, like Bellinger is better
Speaker 2: than this Ben Rice like stinging like he did, you know,
Speaker 2: through the first few months of the season. A little
Speaker 2: bit more, you can start to get excited. Jazz just
Speaker 2: needs to be better. Those guys are doing that. This
Speaker 2: team is not bad, it's just none of them are
Speaker 2: doing that, especially without Judge in there. The last note
Speaker 2: I had on the Dodgers, I'm just I'm seated for
Speaker 2: Roki Sasaki's next start. Oh if it looks like that, yeah,
Speaker 2: holy crap, because like I said with it with my
Speaker 2: report when he came into the league was fastball because
Speaker 2: of the shape, it's got to be ninety nine to
Speaker 2: one hundred and then everything else is going to really play.
Speaker 2: And it's when it's ninety six ninety seven it's too
Speaker 2: flat and hitters get to it. But with that splitter
Speaker 2: and you're you're exceeding one hundred. That will be the
Speaker 2: NPB version of Sasaki, which we haven't really seen, especially
Speaker 2: as a starter.
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