WEBVTT - Seconds, Please! 0:00:05.200 --> 0:00:06.880 Is this a great game or what with the Hall 0:00:06.920 --> 0:00:09.840 of Famer Tim Kirkshin. I'm his son, Jeff Kirkshon, and 0:00:09.880 --> 0:00:12.600 we are officially into. 0:00:12.320 --> 0:00:14.120 The second half of the baseball. 0:00:13.640 --> 0:00:17.119 Season, right. It's so good, Jev. And you celebrated the 0:00:17.200 --> 0:00:20.840 second half by redoing your unfinished basement. I am so 0:00:21.160 --> 0:00:24.040 proud of you. This is exactly how I would have 0:00:24.120 --> 0:00:30.120 done it. It is impeccable now in your unfinished incredibly organized. 0:00:30.240 --> 0:00:32.360 I had to go in there with McKinley, your daughter, 0:00:32.479 --> 0:00:36.440 my granddaughter this morning to find something, and everything was obvious. 0:00:36.520 --> 0:00:39.400 She pointed at it knew exactly what she wanted because 0:00:39.440 --> 0:00:41.599 everything is so organized. Way to go. 0:00:41.800 --> 0:00:45.200 Yeah, So our basement studio, which we're coming to from 0:00:45.280 --> 0:00:47.479 right now, is in one section of the basement. Then 0:00:47.479 --> 0:00:49.280 there's like a whole section that's got a big couch 0:00:49.320 --> 0:00:50.120 and a TV and. 0:00:50.680 --> 0:00:52.400 A roller coaster explained. 0:00:52.560 --> 0:00:57.240 And our friends London and Chris, they have two girls 0:00:57.280 --> 0:01:01.040 themselves and they have this plastic little Tyke's roller coaster 0:01:01.120 --> 0:01:03.320 that I guess their girls aren't playing with much anymore. 0:01:03.360 --> 0:01:05.160 And McKinley loves it. 0:01:05.240 --> 0:01:07.880 Well. I was down here this morning for an hour 0:01:08.000 --> 0:01:11.760 with her. It was absolutely glorious. But she gets on 0:01:11.800 --> 0:01:14.440 the roller coaster. Now it's just a small roller coaster, 0:01:14.920 --> 0:01:18.039 and I haven't seen this before, but she gets on it, 0:01:18.080 --> 0:01:21.080 and I keep thinking she's gonna fall off. Instead, it 0:01:22.000 --> 0:01:25.160 was great. She loved it, and she has nothing. I'm 0:01:25.160 --> 0:01:27.560 the worst of all time with roller coasters, as we know. 0:01:27.880 --> 0:01:31.680 I'm afraid of them. Anything it's too high, anything that's 0:01:31.680 --> 0:01:34.520 too fast, anything moves too quickly. I can't do it. 0:01:34.560 --> 0:01:35.240 Well, dad. 0:01:35.280 --> 0:01:38.800 And she also hit a milestone. She'll turn two on 0:01:38.880 --> 0:01:41.480 August the tenth. She hit a milestone. 0:01:41.520 --> 0:01:42.800 She knows her name. 0:01:42.800 --> 0:01:46.320 Now, right, So she said today McKinley Kirchen today, and 0:01:46.360 --> 0:01:49.280 I could understand the kirkchin. She said it better so 0:01:49.560 --> 0:01:52.680 than some radio show hosts that I've been on have 0:01:52.760 --> 0:01:54.960 said it over the years. So I'll take it. It 0:01:55.000 --> 0:01:55.400 was great. 0:01:55.440 --> 0:01:57.320 I have the very first time she ever said it 0:01:57.360 --> 0:02:00.880 on video, and so I brought a clip with us today, 0:02:00.920 --> 0:02:01.640 So let's play that. 0:02:02.480 --> 0:02:10.080 And what's your name, Kenny Kirchen, Good Carol. 0:02:10.880 --> 0:02:12.359 So that's McKinley Kirkchhin. 0:02:12.760 --> 0:02:13.959 That's so cool. 0:02:14.120 --> 0:02:16.600 McKinley kirchen. My daughter who you know? 0:02:16.680 --> 0:02:19.680 Emily and McKinley did a podcast sitting in these very 0:02:19.760 --> 0:02:23.400 chairs as well. Really yeah, I mean McKinley talks a 0:02:23.400 --> 0:02:25.320 lot but doesn't really say much, you know what I mean. 0:02:25.560 --> 0:02:30.280 It sounds like you, hey, hey, just kidding. 0:02:30.400 --> 0:02:31.120 That was a good one. 0:02:31.400 --> 0:02:33.480 But thank you for the compliments on the unfinished basement. 0:02:33.520 --> 0:02:36.440 I get it from you are type, a overorganized type. 0:02:36.480 --> 0:02:38.480 So that section of the basement is right next to 0:02:38.480 --> 0:02:40.960 our studios, and you gotta be able to find your stuff, 0:02:41.040 --> 0:02:41.639 you know what I mean. 0:02:41.760 --> 0:02:44.480 Yeah, yeah, So, Jeff, before we get to the second half, 0:02:44.520 --> 0:02:47.280 I forgot to tell you this last week. Hunter Brown 0:02:47.840 --> 0:02:51.720 of the Big Train, of course, Houston Astro's All Star pitcher. 0:02:52.200 --> 0:02:54.320 I saw him at the All Star Game, and I 0:02:54.360 --> 0:02:57.040 forgot to tell you this, but I'd love to ask players, like, 0:02:57.080 --> 0:02:59.760 who did you meet here that you've always wanted to 0:02:59.760 --> 0:03:02.480 meet And it's like the first time and it's always well, 0:03:02.480 --> 0:03:05.040 they got to shake, you know, Sho Hay's hand, or 0:03:05.080 --> 0:03:07.080 you know, I met Aaron Judge for the first time. 0:03:07.440 --> 0:03:10.200 Hunter Brown looked at me and he said, Joe Tory. 0:03:10.880 --> 0:03:14.680 Joe Torre is eighty five years old, and Joe Tory 0:03:14.800 --> 0:03:19.079 was there as like the legendary manager who was in 0:03:19.120 --> 0:03:21.399 the dugout with Aaron Boone for the All Star Game. 0:03:21.480 --> 0:03:23.919 Actually went to the mound to make a pitching change. 0:03:23.960 --> 0:03:26.120 It was so great. Joe Tory is one of my 0:03:26.160 --> 0:03:30.120 favorite people ever. And Hunter Brown said, I said, Hunter, 0:03:30.200 --> 0:03:31.760 you know he was a great hitter, and he looked 0:03:31.760 --> 0:03:34.040 at me and he goes, I know like that, like 0:03:34.280 --> 0:03:36.000 he didn't want to just meet him because he's this 0:03:36.240 --> 0:03:40.000 decorated Hall of Fame manager. He also recognized that Joe 0:03:40.040 --> 0:03:42.920 Tory was a great player in his day. 0:03:43.200 --> 0:03:46.440 I think there's such a united effort between players and 0:03:46.520 --> 0:03:49.520 former players. I mean, we've heard so many great stories 0:03:49.560 --> 0:03:53.400 of Ted Williams, for example, nineteen ninety nine All Star 0:03:53.480 --> 0:03:57.120 Game Fenway Park. Just wanting to talk to these players 0:03:57.200 --> 0:03:59.160 about what do you see when you're up there? How 0:03:59.160 --> 0:04:02.160 do you read the ball? Because they have something in common. 0:04:02.520 --> 0:04:05.560 They can do something that ninety nine point nine percent 0:04:05.560 --> 0:04:07.120 of the world can't do, and that's hit. 0:04:07.000 --> 0:04:10.880 A fastball right. Absolutely. And speaking of the Hall of Fame, 0:04:11.000 --> 0:04:15.160 Jeff Tomorrow's guest is Big Billy Wagner, Hall of Fame 0:04:15.400 --> 0:04:19.479 relief pitcher. He will go in on Sunday. I will 0:04:19.520 --> 0:04:22.640 be in Cooperstown this weekend. I will leave I will 0:04:22.640 --> 0:04:26.360 go there Friday. Cannot wait. It's my favorite weekend of 0:04:26.400 --> 0:04:29.680 the year. And Billy Wagner just told us all sorts 0:04:29.720 --> 0:04:32.840 of stories, a couple which I've never heard before, and 0:04:32.920 --> 0:04:34.960 he made us laugh and he made a smile, and 0:04:35.040 --> 0:04:38.800 Billy Wagner insisted that he's five, 't ten. I still 0:04:38.920 --> 0:04:41.520 question that. But for later on today, we'll have a 0:04:41.560 --> 0:04:44.840 team tim where we're gonna have the shortest players at 0:04:44.839 --> 0:04:46.920 each position in the Hall of Fame. 0:04:46.920 --> 0:04:49.120 It's gonna make us feel very comfortable. 0:04:48.800 --> 0:04:51.599 Right, Billy Wagner yelled at me. It was really funny. 0:04:51.640 --> 0:04:54.160 He was hilarious. All right, So you'll get that interview 0:04:54.200 --> 0:04:57.560 tomorrow on the feed. So make sure dad takeaways. 0:04:57.080 --> 0:05:00.320 All right, million takeaways to start the second halb the 0:05:00.360 --> 0:05:02.960 start of the second half, because everything is fresh and 0:05:03.000 --> 0:05:05.400 you say, all right, we're going, we're moving, we're rolling. Well. 0:05:05.920 --> 0:05:08.360 The second half is the same as the first half. 0:05:08.440 --> 0:05:12.360 For Trek Schoopl, who had another great performance on Sunday 0:05:12.440 --> 0:05:16.479 Night Baseball, no walks, eleven strikeouts, Jeff Now he's averaging 0:05:16.560 --> 0:05:20.520 one point one walks per nine innings and eleven point 0:05:20.600 --> 0:05:24.400 six strikeouts per nine innings. That leads the Major leagues 0:05:24.640 --> 0:05:28.200 this year. No pitcher has ever led the major leagues 0:05:28.320 --> 0:05:32.560 in both of those categories qualified pitcher in the same season. 0:05:32.880 --> 0:05:34.800 That is where he is heading. And he did it 0:05:34.880 --> 0:05:38.799 last night. Jeff wondering, is my wife gonna give birth 0:05:38.880 --> 0:05:42.000 tonight during the game. That's how close they are to 0:05:42.120 --> 0:05:44.880 having a baby? Which I mean, seriously, how does a 0:05:44.920 --> 0:05:49.400 pitcher go out there knowing his wife might be giving 0:05:49.440 --> 0:05:51.760 birth in the fourth inning of the game and he 0:05:51.839 --> 0:05:53.880 goes out and throws a gem against the range? 0:05:54.000 --> 0:05:56.719 Well, hold on, dad, I don't know if you know this, 0:05:56.839 --> 0:06:00.359 but I played in a rec league kickball game just 0:06:00.480 --> 0:06:03.800 hours before my wife was induced with McKinley, and I 0:06:03.839 --> 0:06:04.560 had two hits. 0:06:04.880 --> 0:06:06.240 So I mean, are we. 0:06:06.240 --> 0:06:09.680 Talking about Sunday Night baseball rec league kickball? 0:06:09.720 --> 0:06:10.560 I think they're the same. 0:06:10.680 --> 0:06:14.120 Are they called hits in kickball? Also? Yeah, you called 0:06:14.160 --> 0:06:14.600 it a hit? 0:06:14.880 --> 0:06:17.680 Yeah, I hit one. I had two home runs in 0:06:17.720 --> 0:06:18.839 my career and kick yeah. 0:06:18.960 --> 0:06:21.000 I keep telling you you're a good athlete. I don't 0:06:21.040 --> 0:06:23.120 want to hear about this anymore. But I still don't 0:06:23.200 --> 0:06:25.839 understand how you kick a kickball with your left foot. 0:06:25.880 --> 0:06:26.760 What is wrong with you? 0:06:26.920 --> 0:06:29.400 I just had a conversation with somebody about this. Yesterday 0:06:29.440 --> 0:06:32.880 we had some friends over and he my buddy Tom. 0:06:32.920 --> 0:06:36.360 He's dominant right hand everything except for any stick sports, 0:06:36.640 --> 0:06:36.960 so he. 0:06:36.920 --> 0:06:38.200 Plays hockey left hand. 0:06:38.600 --> 0:06:40.280 And he said, what about you, because we were talking 0:06:40.279 --> 0:06:44.080 about both of our daughters, like McKinley, my daughter seriously 0:06:44.160 --> 0:06:47.479 right handed and everything, throws a ball, coloring, whatever. But 0:06:47.520 --> 0:06:49.120 I said, I do everything right except for I kick 0:06:49.120 --> 0:06:51.240 a ball left footed. And he goes, how do you know, 0:06:51.400 --> 0:06:54.800 I said, if you were to football, punting, kicking, soccer 0:06:55.160 --> 0:06:57.360 left footed, I can't even kick with him. I couldn't 0:06:57.360 --> 0:06:58.840 even try, probably tear an acl if. 0:06:58.720 --> 0:07:00.960 I tried, right well, I was thinking about Derek Scuoble 0:07:01.040 --> 0:07:03.480 last night. What happens if his wife has the baby 0:07:03.560 --> 0:07:05.440 in the third inning? What does he do? I think 0:07:05.480 --> 0:07:08.040 he stays and pitches the game wouldn't be fair to 0:07:08.120 --> 0:07:10.480 the team, or the bullpen or anything else. Plus, I 0:07:10.480 --> 0:07:12.880 think once you make the commitment I'm pitching tonight, you 0:07:12.920 --> 0:07:15.200 have to finish. Never forget the story, though, Jeff from 0:07:15.280 --> 0:07:18.080 nineteen ninety, I'm sure I told you this. Tom Browning, 0:07:18.480 --> 0:07:21.440 late Tom Browning, reds pitcher at the time starting pitcher, 0:07:21.520 --> 0:07:23.720 really good run through a perfect game in the big leagues. 0:07:24.080 --> 0:07:26.880 He's in the bullpen because he's a starting pitcher, and 0:07:27.240 --> 0:07:29.840 his wife is in Oakland with him for the World 0:07:29.920 --> 0:07:34.560 Series in nineteen ninety Reds and A's and she goes 0:07:34.600 --> 0:07:37.800 into labor and he's got to go to the hospital, 0:07:38.320 --> 0:07:41.560 so he doesn't even tell anyone where he's going. He 0:07:41.640 --> 0:07:44.200 goes to the hospital and full you to four. Okay, 0:07:44.800 --> 0:07:47.760 the game gets late and it gets close, and suddenly 0:07:47.840 --> 0:07:49.880 lou Panella calls down to the bullpen and says, you 0:07:49.960 --> 0:07:52.680 better get browning up just in case we go to 0:07:52.720 --> 0:07:54.760 extras and we might need some help. And they say, 0:07:54.960 --> 0:07:59.160 he's not here. He's gone. So he was at the 0:07:59.240 --> 0:08:02.680 hospital where his wife gave birth to a healthy child. 0:08:03.080 --> 0:08:05.240 So I saw him the next day because he went 0:08:05.320 --> 0:08:08.400 to the hospital in his uniform. I said, Tom, didn't 0:08:08.400 --> 0:08:11.120 anyone say anything that you were in your uniform? And 0:08:11.160 --> 0:08:13.720 he goes, no, he said, I think they just thought 0:08:13.720 --> 0:08:15.600 I was like a big fan of the team. 0:08:18.360 --> 0:08:19.320 That is incredible. 0:08:19.680 --> 0:08:22.119 Well, you know you mentioned if she went into labor 0:08:22.120 --> 0:08:25.200 in the third inning. At least my experience, I was 0:08:25.200 --> 0:08:27.640 not involved at all in that baby being delivered. 0:08:27.720 --> 0:08:29.920 Shout out to the nurses, Shout out to the doctor. 0:08:30.320 --> 0:08:32.840 I was just there for moral support, that of which 0:08:33.080 --> 0:08:35.760 I'm an overly optimistic guy, and even I broke down 0:08:35.760 --> 0:08:36.240 at one point. 0:08:36.280 --> 0:08:37.280 I said, I can't do this. 0:08:38.000 --> 0:08:40.880 You need to stay strong. You're not doing anything, Jeff. 0:08:40.920 --> 0:08:42.400 So I think she would get through it. 0:08:42.520 --> 0:08:46.840 Women are mothers, are incredible, They're powerful. It's magic what 0:08:46.880 --> 0:08:48.439 they can do, and us guys are just along for 0:08:48.520 --> 0:08:50.079 the front. 0:08:50.280 --> 0:08:52.960 Wait, Stan all right, Speaking of being great, though, the 0:08:53.000 --> 0:08:56.800 Brewers have won ten games in a row through through Sunday, 0:08:56.880 --> 0:09:00.000 they are now tied with the Cubs for the best 0:09:00.160 --> 0:09:04.080 record in the National League, and they are just behind 0:09:04.080 --> 0:09:07.160 the Tigers for the best record in Baseball. The Brewers 0:09:07.240 --> 0:09:10.640 are dangerous, Jeff. Now that they've got Jacob Mazerowski for 0:09:10.679 --> 0:09:13.400 the whole second half and Brandon Woodruff has come back 0:09:13.440 --> 0:09:17.600 from major arm issues to join the rotation with Freddie Peralta, 0:09:17.679 --> 0:09:19.960 they have a chance to be very dangerous. And I 0:09:20.040 --> 0:09:22.679 tell you that, Jeff, because the first World Series I 0:09:22.720 --> 0:09:25.280 ever covered was in eighty two and the Brewers were 0:09:25.280 --> 0:09:28.440 in it against the Cardinals, and it was such a 0:09:28.520 --> 0:09:30.600 thrill for me because I'm a beat guy covering the 0:09:30.600 --> 0:09:33.480 Texas Rangers. But I'm going to the World Series and 0:09:33.520 --> 0:09:36.720 I'm writing all the game stories. It was absolutely the best, 0:09:37.000 --> 0:09:39.520 and so many of those Brewers I'll never forget how 0:09:40.280 --> 0:09:42.760 much I enjoyed being around. One of them, of course, 0:09:42.840 --> 0:09:45.800 was Jim Gantner, their second baseman. His nickname was Gumby, 0:09:46.240 --> 0:09:48.720 and Gumby was like the most popular guy on the 0:09:48.760 --> 0:09:52.079 team and a tough, hard nosed little guy. But in 0:09:52.120 --> 0:09:56.680 the offseason he also had a lube business, like where 0:09:57.240 --> 0:10:02.840 like you would like change somebody's so as part of 0:10:02.920 --> 0:10:07.959 an auction item for the Brewers, Jim Gander would go 0:10:08.080 --> 0:10:12.439 to your house and change your oil in the driveway, 0:10:12.720 --> 0:10:17.280 and he is the second baseman for the Brewers. Gumby 0:10:17.400 --> 0:10:19.760 would go to your house and change your oil. I 0:10:19.800 --> 0:10:22.760 don't care what anyone says, Jeff, that is the greatest 0:10:22.800 --> 0:10:24.040 auction item. 0:10:24.240 --> 0:10:24.880 Of all time. 0:10:25.559 --> 0:10:28.000 It's better than when Kevin Malone in the office offered 0:10:28.040 --> 0:10:30.280 to do your taxes federal and state. 0:10:33.120 --> 0:10:35.959 Oh God, it's so good, all right. Trade deadline's also 0:10:35.960 --> 0:10:36.640 coming up, Jim. 0:10:36.920 --> 0:10:39.520 I have never been this excited for a trade deadline. 0:10:39.559 --> 0:10:42.480 I think with the expansion of the wildcard, Dad, it 0:10:42.559 --> 0:10:45.400 makes a lot more people buyers, which I think makes 0:10:45.440 --> 0:10:47.880 it difficult because there's more spots and more buyers. But 0:10:48.240 --> 0:10:50.360 I'm ready for some big moves this season. 0:10:50.160 --> 0:10:53.800 And Euhano Suarez of the Diamondbacks might be the biggest 0:10:53.880 --> 0:10:56.680 name to move. He's got thirty five home runs, He's 0:10:56.679 --> 0:11:02.079 an above average defensive third baseman, now team leader, Yankees, Mets, Cubs, 0:11:02.160 --> 0:11:04.640 all sorts of teams are gonna want this guy. My 0:11:04.720 --> 0:11:08.040 guess is he's gonna move. So he started this. He 0:11:08.160 --> 0:11:12.480 just had two straight multi homer games. The record is 0:11:12.880 --> 0:11:17.000 three straight multi homer games, and the last time it 0:11:17.040 --> 0:11:20.360 was done was by Jeff Devannon, who was just like 0:11:20.440 --> 0:11:23.720 a kind of a infielder in the big leagues. He 0:11:23.800 --> 0:11:28.240 hit thirty three career homers. He hit twelve during the 0:11:28.280 --> 0:11:31.440 two thousand and three season, but in two thousand and 0:11:31.440 --> 0:11:34.200 three he got to June the first with two home 0:11:34.320 --> 0:11:37.600 runs for the season, and then hit two home runs 0:11:37.600 --> 0:11:42.880 in three consecutive games. Seriously, how does that happen? I mean, like, 0:11:43.200 --> 0:11:46.760 Babe Ruth never did that, you know, Barry Bonds never 0:11:46.800 --> 0:11:50.120 did that. Hank Aaron never did that. Jeff Devannon did that. 0:11:50.200 --> 0:11:51.560 He was the last guy to do it. 0:11:51.640 --> 0:11:54.120 So six of his thirty three home run. 0:11:54.080 --> 0:11:57.880 Came in a three days fan two in each game. 0:11:57.960 --> 0:12:00.280 This is why baseball is so beautiful. All Right, you 0:12:00.280 --> 0:12:04.240 saw the Ronald Lacuna throw. It's several days late, but 0:12:04.360 --> 0:12:05.560 you saw the throw right. 0:12:05.640 --> 0:12:08.680 It was unbelievable. It was it was shades of Roberto 0:12:08.720 --> 0:12:09.840 Clemente in right field. 0:12:09.920 --> 0:12:13.360 Right. So, Clemeny made so many great throws. He is 0:12:13.400 --> 0:12:16.319 the greatest defensive right fielder ever and the greatest throwing 0:12:16.360 --> 0:12:19.240 outfielder that I have ever seen. So he made this 0:12:19.559 --> 0:12:22.240 famous throw in the seventy one World Series, which I 0:12:22.360 --> 0:12:25.600 watched live and never forgot it. But I did apparently 0:12:25.640 --> 0:12:28.360 forget it because Merv Retmand, who was a hitting coach 0:12:28.400 --> 0:12:31.000 for the Rangers when I covered them in the early eighties, 0:12:31.400 --> 0:12:34.160 I said, that throw from Clemenny, I can't And Merv 0:12:34.280 --> 0:12:37.360 was the runner on the play. And I'm talking to 0:12:37.400 --> 0:12:41.400 Merv and I had forgotten, sadly that Merv was the runner. 0:12:41.600 --> 0:12:44.079 And I said, when Clemeny threw that guy out at 0:12:44.160 --> 0:12:48.240 third and Merv Rehtman goes that guy that guy was 0:12:48.280 --> 0:12:50.400 me and he said, and I was safe at third. 0:12:50.720 --> 0:12:54.800 He was. The difference is irv Retmand knew that Clemeny 0:12:54.840 --> 0:12:57.839 could throw it from there to third base in the air. 0:12:57.920 --> 0:13:01.040 And make a great throw. The Yankee run for good. 0:13:01.280 --> 0:13:02.880 He forgot he didn't even slide. 0:13:03.640 --> 0:13:06.480 That can't happen, JEP. Doesn't take away from the amazing 0:13:06.520 --> 0:13:09.719 throw by Acunya. Let's just be clear. Roberto Clemeny has 0:13:09.760 --> 0:13:13.240 the greatest throwing arm ever. Acunya is amazing, but he's 0:13:13.280 --> 0:13:14.800 not as good as Roberto Clemtty. 0:13:14.840 --> 0:13:15.760 There's so many clips. 0:13:15.800 --> 0:13:18.959 I love this of Roberto Clemene making throws to home 0:13:19.520 --> 0:13:22.360 with nobody coming right, you know, because they just they're 0:13:22.440 --> 0:13:24.720 just like, we're not going like so he's making this 0:13:24.760 --> 0:13:28.720 beautiful throw right, catches it right here, right, and there's 0:13:28.720 --> 0:13:31.200 nobody coming because it's like we're not running on you anyway, dude. 0:13:31.240 --> 0:13:34.400 Why infield was such a great thing to watch when 0:13:34.440 --> 0:13:37.120 I was growing up and when I was covering early on, 0:13:37.400 --> 0:13:39.920 I would get to watch these great right fielders throw 0:13:39.960 --> 0:13:42.520 to the plate without anybody running, but you could see 0:13:42.559 --> 0:13:45.480 how strong their arms were. It was great, speaking a 0:13:45.520 --> 0:13:49.040 strong Aaron Judge hit another first inning homer on Sunday. 0:13:49.280 --> 0:13:53.240 That's thirteen first inning home runs this year. The record 0:13:53.640 --> 0:13:57.720 is eighteen, set by Judge last year and Alex Rodriguez 0:13:57.920 --> 0:13:59.839 in two thousand and one. So let's keep an eye 0:13:59.880 --> 0:14:02.440 on that and we'll stay in New York. The Mets 0:14:02.480 --> 0:14:06.840 retired David Writes number five on Saturday in a wonderful, 0:14:06.960 --> 0:14:11.600 heartwarming ceremony at City Field. Did you watch any of it? 0:14:11.600 --> 0:14:13.359 It was so beautiful. 0:14:13.400 --> 0:14:15.559 I saw his whole family arrive for it. It was 0:14:15.600 --> 0:14:16.880 a really really special day. 0:14:17.320 --> 0:14:20.160 And I want to you to tell me this. 0:14:20.280 --> 0:14:24.840 Where does he land amongst the greatest Mets of all time? 0:14:24.960 --> 0:14:27.680 Well, you understand, Jeff, the Mets have never had an MVP, 0:14:27.920 --> 0:14:31.200 which is still incredible. They've been there since nineteen sixty 0:14:31.240 --> 0:14:33.960 two and have never had an MVP. So to answer 0:14:34.040 --> 0:14:36.560 your question, and this is we're going to throw this 0:14:36.600 --> 0:14:39.320 out there for all Mets fans. We need your help 0:14:39.360 --> 0:14:42.800 because I find this to be really difficult to answer. 0:14:43.400 --> 0:14:46.640 Tom severs number one. That's easy. I think Mike Piazza 0:14:46.760 --> 0:14:49.320 is the second greatest Met of all time. I think 0:14:49.400 --> 0:14:52.160 David Wright's the third greatest Met of all time, and 0:14:52.280 --> 0:14:56.440 the fourth greatest is is very much up for debate, 0:14:56.600 --> 0:14:59.960 as is number three. I think also Dwight Gooden, Darryl Straw, 0:15:00.560 --> 0:15:04.800 Howard Johnson, Jacob de Graham. I mean, picking the four 0:15:04.880 --> 0:15:08.160 best Mets players of all time. Not easy now, and 0:15:08.240 --> 0:15:10.080 so let us know in the comments. 0:15:10.200 --> 0:15:10.720 Let us know. 0:15:11.280 --> 0:15:13.680 You can leave a review, you can comment on social media, 0:15:13.760 --> 0:15:15.320 whatever you want to do. Message us at great Game 0:15:15.400 --> 0:15:17.320 or what dot com if you're a met fan, or 0:15:17.400 --> 0:15:18.760 if you're just a fan of the game and you 0:15:18.800 --> 0:15:19.720 know the game well enough. 0:15:19.920 --> 0:15:22.480 First time I met David Wright, chip rookie player, and 0:15:23.120 --> 0:15:25.520 first time we meet him thirty seconds in, I think 0:15:25.240 --> 0:15:28.440 this guy gets it. This guy understands exactly where he 0:15:28.520 --> 0:15:30.480 is and what he's doing. And after his rookie year, 0:15:30.480 --> 0:15:33.000 I'll be close on this story. He goes back and 0:15:33.040 --> 0:15:35.840 lives in his parents' house where he grew up, and 0:15:36.040 --> 0:15:38.960 he was sleeping on the top bunk with his little 0:15:38.960 --> 0:15:41.640 brother in the lower bunk. He's a major League baseball 0:15:41.680 --> 0:15:44.360 player sleeping on the top bunk. This is why we 0:15:44.440 --> 0:15:46.720 have to love David Wright, and we have to love 0:15:46.760 --> 0:15:48.880 what the Mets did with his number. 0:15:49.040 --> 0:15:51.560 So if you are having your kids move in with 0:15:51.600 --> 0:15:54.200 you right now in their twenties, you can ask them, 0:15:54.560 --> 0:15:56.360 why aren't you playing major League baseball? 0:15:57.760 --> 0:15:58.280 Good point? 0:15:58.520 --> 0:16:01.000 All right, dad, Let's move on to thes What do 0:16:01.040 --> 0:16:01.600 you have for us? 0:16:01.680 --> 0:16:04.240 Remember, Jeff, we had the hit by pitch note earlier 0:16:04.280 --> 0:16:06.800 this year that Frank from the Elias found for me 0:16:06.920 --> 0:16:09.040 even though I told him, twenty nine hit batters in 0:16:09.080 --> 0:16:11.280 one day sounds like a lot. First day in major 0:16:11.320 --> 0:16:13.520 league history there ever been that many. So the other 0:16:13.640 --> 0:16:16.880 day TJ. Friedel of the Reds got hit three times 0:16:17.280 --> 0:16:20.400 in one game. Okay, it's thirty ninth times since nineteen 0:16:20.480 --> 0:16:23.160 hundred that anyone has been hit three times in a game. 0:16:23.200 --> 0:16:26.400 That ties the major league record. But the interesting thing 0:16:26.520 --> 0:16:30.280 is this is the third time this year that a 0:16:30.440 --> 0:16:33.560 player has been hit three times in the same game. 0:16:33.640 --> 0:16:38.040 Tyler Freeman and CJ. Abrams also got hit three times 0:16:38.040 --> 0:16:40.840 in a game, so we've already done it three times. 0:16:40.880 --> 0:16:45.280 The only other season in which there were three times 0:16:45.520 --> 0:16:47.960 one batter got hit three times in a game was 0:16:48.000 --> 0:16:52.840 in two thousand and six. Nomar Garciapara and get this 0:16:53.320 --> 0:16:58.120 reed Johnson got hit by a pitch three times twice 0:16:58.640 --> 0:17:02.240 in the same season, including in the same month. It 0:17:02.280 --> 0:17:05.080 was April of two thousand and six. He got hit 0:17:05.160 --> 0:17:07.440 three times in a game, and like three weeks later 0:17:07.600 --> 0:17:09.680 he got hit three times again. Now he got hit 0:17:09.680 --> 0:17:11.919 a lot. He got hit twenty one times that year, 0:17:11.960 --> 0:17:14.119 one hundred and thirty four times in his career. But 0:17:14.160 --> 0:17:17.400 I've always been fascinated by hit batters who gets hit 0:17:17.440 --> 0:17:19.320 all the time. I've told you Mickey Mantle got hit 0:17:19.600 --> 0:17:24.240 thirteen times in his entire career, Tony Gwynn twenty four 0:17:24.280 --> 0:17:27.680 times in his entire career. Really great players fight away 0:17:27.720 --> 0:17:30.000 to not get hit because they don't need to get 0:17:30.040 --> 0:17:31.280 hit in order to get on base. 0:17:31.400 --> 0:17:34.040 Well, Tony Gwynn famously was afraid to break his own 0:17:34.080 --> 0:17:36.520 bat up there, right, So he's not one to crowd 0:17:36.560 --> 0:17:38.159 the plate. I liked, you know, he's the one to 0:17:38.240 --> 0:17:40.399 let the ball come to him, because every time he 0:17:41.040 --> 0:17:43.120 break a bat, it was like losing a family brighter. 0:17:43.320 --> 0:17:47.879 Absolutely, So I looked up eleven different guys have had 0:17:47.960 --> 0:17:52.359 three thousand plate appearances in their major league career and 0:17:52.480 --> 0:17:56.960 been hit less fewer than three times in their careers. 0:17:57.280 --> 0:18:00.400 And these guys got hit three times in one game. 0:18:00.760 --> 0:18:03.720 John Cruk, our all time hero Cruoky, he got hit 0:18:03.800 --> 0:18:07.480 twice in four thousand, six hundred and three played appearances. 0:18:08.040 --> 0:18:11.639 So TJ. Friedel got hit more times in one game 0:18:11.840 --> 0:18:15.159 than Krucky got hit in four thousand, six hundred and 0:18:15.160 --> 0:18:18.000 three played appearance. That's the most played appearances. For anyone 0:18:18.320 --> 0:18:21.080 with fewer than three hit batters. And of course Mark 0:18:21.160 --> 0:18:24.199 Lemke holds the all time major league record. He had 0:18:24.240 --> 0:18:27.679 three thousand, six hundred and sixty four played appearances and 0:18:27.720 --> 0:18:31.080 never got hit by a pitch. And the interesting part 0:18:31.200 --> 0:18:36.720 is Krucky and Mark Lemke were absolutely fearless baseball players. 0:18:36.720 --> 0:18:38.720 So if anyone ever says, oh, they were afraid of 0:18:38.760 --> 0:18:41.320 the ball, they didn't want to get hit, complete opposite 0:18:41.320 --> 0:18:44.560 with them. Lemke was a switch hitter, and it's just 0:18:44.760 --> 0:18:47.240 incredible to me that you could bat, you know, three 0:18:47.359 --> 0:18:50.639 hundred and fifty times a year for ten years and 0:18:50.720 --> 0:18:52.840 not get hit by a pitch. That's what happened to 0:18:52.840 --> 0:18:53.480 Mark Lemke. 0:18:53.880 --> 0:18:56.520 Yeah, I mean I didn't play much ball in my life, 0:18:56.520 --> 0:18:59.040 but I mean nine to you right when you start, 0:18:59.119 --> 0:19:01.240 kid pitch, I got it five times in a game. 0:19:01.280 --> 0:19:03.399 I think kids have no control. 0:19:03.160 --> 0:19:06.120 Right of course, like the big leaders. And that's that's 0:19:06.160 --> 0:19:09.720 part of the hit batter you know, crazy we got now, Jeff, 0:19:09.720 --> 0:19:11.880 We've got a lot of guys with violent stuff who 0:19:11.920 --> 0:19:14.080 don't really know how to command it. And that's why 0:19:14.119 --> 0:19:17.120 the hit by pitch rate is where it is. Hey, 0:19:17.240 --> 0:19:20.720 Elias Diaz had two squeeze bunths in one game the 0:19:20.760 --> 0:19:23.480 other day? How about bad? So his batting line was 0:19:23.600 --> 0:19:27.520 one at bad zero hits, zero run scored two RBIs 0:19:27.560 --> 0:19:30.800 one zero zero two. But I checked Brett Wisely of 0:19:30.840 --> 0:19:34.320 the Giants had two squeeze bunths already this year, so 0:19:34.359 --> 0:19:36.879 he's not the first guy to do it. Just another reminder, Jeff, 0:19:37.000 --> 0:19:39.359