WEBVTT - Yankees Walk-Off Braves 0:00:01.280 --> 0:00:07.120 He wanted to talk at all. Holy caw, the Yankees 0:00:07.160 --> 0:00:09.680 won a game in extra innings? How about that? How 0:00:09.760 --> 0:00:11.920 you doing? TK doing good man? 0:00:11.960 --> 0:00:14.360 That was a good, good win, a much needed win, 0:00:14.400 --> 0:00:16.919 as the Red Sox also won their games. So they're 0:00:16.960 --> 0:00:19.959 battling off Boston. But good to get a win there. 0:00:20.079 --> 0:00:23.200 I believe I looked it up earlier. Their last walk 0:00:23.200 --> 0:00:25.960 off was in back in May when Aaron Judge hit 0:00:25.960 --> 0:00:28.280 a home run against the Tampa Bay Rays to walk 0:00:28.280 --> 0:00:30.000 it off. So nice to get that. 0:00:30.440 --> 0:00:32.080 I think that might have been his last home run 0:00:32.120 --> 0:00:35.080 before he went down with the injury too. That was 0:00:35.120 --> 0:00:36.800 while he was hurting, and it was like a pop 0:00:36.920 --> 0:00:40.640 up to right field that just carried out of the ballpark. Well, 0:00:41.159 --> 0:00:43.160 not a big crowd tonight. A lot of people, I think, 0:00:44.040 --> 0:00:45.720 you know, turned off the game when it was two 0:00:45.760 --> 0:00:48.680 to nothing going into the ninth inning. The offense for 0:00:48.720 --> 0:00:51.960 the Yankees tonight was not good, but it came through 0:00:52.120 --> 0:00:57.160 at the right moment. The Braves hit two solo home 0:00:57.240 --> 0:01:02.000 runs Riley and Olson, but the Yankees battled back in 0:01:02.040 --> 0:01:05.280 the ninth inning. You had a big double by Austin Wells. 0:01:05.560 --> 0:01:08.800 You had a what was it a double by Ben Rice? 0:01:08.840 --> 0:01:10.040 That hit the wall. I don't know if maybe you 0:01:10.080 --> 0:01:13.400 got a single out of that, but he smoked it anyway. 0:01:13.400 --> 0:01:15.040 That tied up the game, and then the Yankees won 0:01:15.080 --> 0:01:17.959 it on a sackfly. We got to talk about the 0:01:18.000 --> 0:01:21.640 defense tonight because there were some great defensive plays you had. 0:01:22.280 --> 0:01:25.760 Ryan McMahon made a fantastic play George Lombard Junior. The 0:01:25.880 --> 0:01:28.640 arm strength on that kid is insane. And then you 0:01:28.720 --> 0:01:33.039 had a fantastic over the shoulder catch by Luis Garcia 0:01:33.319 --> 0:01:36.319 and it all added up to a Yankees win and 0:01:36.360 --> 0:01:40.560 TK this was a big win because Boston won again. 0:01:41.120 --> 0:01:43.040 How much are you sweating Boston right now? 0:01:43.920 --> 0:01:48.680 I'm big time. I'm worried. They are playing unbelievable baseball. 0:01:49.920 --> 0:01:52.560 I would say in the last forty games they are. 0:01:52.880 --> 0:01:55.000 I mean not only record wise, obviously, but they are 0:01:55.000 --> 0:01:58.440 the best team in baseball. I'll give you guys a 0:01:58.440 --> 0:02:01.120 little nugget here, but I have a friend of mine 0:02:01.200 --> 0:02:03.280 who has a friend, so it's a bit of a 0:02:03.280 --> 0:02:05.560 friend of a friend situation who's kind of close to 0:02:05.600 --> 0:02:08.400 the Red Sox front office. And the word that I 0:02:08.440 --> 0:02:10.920 heard was that one of the things they did was 0:02:11.320 --> 0:02:13.640 simplify it for the players, meaning they took one a 0:02:13.639 --> 0:02:16.320 lot of the analytic guys out of the dugout the 0:02:16.360 --> 0:02:19.840 guys with the iPads. It's just too much information. It 0:02:19.919 --> 0:02:22.519 was just too much information for them. They kind of 0:02:22.560 --> 0:02:24.520 simplify things and they were just kind of like, get 0:02:24.560 --> 0:02:26.720 out there and play baseball. See the ball, hit the ball. 0:02:27.000 --> 0:02:29.400 It's not that analytics are bad and information is good, 0:02:29.760 --> 0:02:31.960 but sometimes you got to streamline things a little bit. 0:02:32.000 --> 0:02:34.680 And ever since then they've been playing great. They got 0:02:34.720 --> 0:02:38.560 a great pitching performance tonight as well. I think that, yes, 0:02:38.600 --> 0:02:41.760 the Yankees one tonight, but going as what the offense 0:02:41.800 --> 0:02:43.920 has been the last couple of weeks, the last month 0:02:44.000 --> 0:02:47.000 or so, even you know, and the Yankees being heard, 0:02:47.240 --> 0:02:49.520 I expect the Red Sox to eventually take the Yankees 0:02:49.560 --> 0:02:50.799 over if they keep playing this way. 0:02:50.880 --> 0:02:53.680 So yeah, well let's get to the good, the bad, 0:02:53.760 --> 0:03:01.480 and the ugly. And as you can see, uh, there 0:03:01.520 --> 0:03:03.640 was not a lot of great stuff for the Yankees tonight. 0:03:03.680 --> 0:03:07.040 Ryan McMahon had a couple of hits. George Lombard Junior 0:03:07.080 --> 0:03:10.919 had another hit and a walk. Trent Grisham's slump continues. 0:03:10.960 --> 0:03:12.800 He has just been awful, t K. And we were 0:03:12.800 --> 0:03:14.240 gonna talk about and we can talk about it as 0:03:14.280 --> 0:03:17.600 soon as we're done with this, whether or not. Trent 0:03:17.639 --> 0:03:20.480 Grisham and Spencer Jones like, who's gonna be the center 0:03:20.560 --> 0:03:23.680 fielder when Bellinger comes back here pretty soon, because neither 0:03:23.720 --> 0:03:25.760 one of them is hitting very much right now. Spencer 0:03:25.840 --> 0:03:28.000 Jones hit a couple of balls to the warning track 0:03:28.040 --> 0:03:31.080 tonight that goes gravity. Both of them were caught. Jazz 0:03:31.160 --> 0:03:34.320 Chissel went over three, he's down to two fifteen and 0:03:34.560 --> 0:03:38.480 uh for the Braves, Akunya Junior had a couple of hits. 0:03:38.520 --> 0:03:40.480 Drake Baldwin had a couple of hits. Olsen with the 0:03:40.520 --> 0:03:43.640 home run, du Bond with the home run or with 0:03:43.680 --> 0:03:45.760 the base hit. Sorry, Austin Riley with a home run. 0:03:46.280 --> 0:03:50.320 Uh Hasan Kim hitting sixty seven oh for two but 0:03:50.680 --> 0:03:53.880 uh yeah, that is your good, the bad, and the ugly. 0:03:57.800 --> 0:03:59.600 We got to talk a little bit about Max Freed. 0:03:59.600 --> 0:04:01.920 We're gonna break him down in just a minute, but 0:04:02.440 --> 0:04:08.240 DK let's get to the nitty gritty. So Max Free 0:04:08.280 --> 0:04:12.040 does feel like he is back, and that is huge. 0:04:12.480 --> 0:04:15.040 The offense feels like it has not changed very much though, 0:04:15.040 --> 0:04:20.719 even with the additions of Lombard Junior and Garcia and Ramos. 0:04:20.800 --> 0:04:23.840 Ramos had a double and I think a walk tonight, 0:04:23.920 --> 0:04:26.560 and Garcia had a couple of walks. But still this 0:04:26.640 --> 0:04:29.919 team just is not putting together any kind of rallies. 0:04:29.960 --> 0:04:31.000 It's mystifying. 0:04:32.160 --> 0:04:34.200 Yeah, I mean, Lombard's actually the guy that kind of 0:04:34.200 --> 0:04:37.000 got it going, you know, in the in the ninth 0:04:37.040 --> 0:04:40.599 inning there, and you know Grisham. It's funny Grisham. I 0:04:40.720 --> 0:04:42.920 kind of went back and forth where I was very 0:04:43.000 --> 0:04:45.839 vocal that I did not believe in giving him the 0:04:45.920 --> 0:04:50.560 qualifying offer, kind of expecting him to turn back into 0:04:50.600 --> 0:04:52.919 a pumpkin, so to speak. And I think if you 0:04:52.920 --> 0:04:55.640 look at Trek Grisham's numbers this season, he's very much 0:04:55.720 --> 0:04:59.240 the player that he's been his entire career, and last 0:04:59.279 --> 0:05:03.440 season is clear the outlier. Even what worries me about 0:05:03.480 --> 0:05:07.680 Grisham Derek is like, defensively, it looks smooth, like I 0:05:07.720 --> 0:05:10.560 almost think if he looks like Robinson Cano in the outfield, 0:05:10.600 --> 0:05:13.000 like just in terms of how he fields the ball 0:05:13.320 --> 0:05:16.279 and how he moves out there, but metrically the range 0:05:16.320 --> 0:05:19.120 isn't really there. You know, He's definitely not that gold 0:05:19.160 --> 0:05:22.280 Glove caliber outfielder that he was, you know, not at all. 0:05:22.279 --> 0:05:25.400 It's not even close. So I think it's like, even 0:05:25.640 --> 0:05:29.440 with Bellinger being injured currently, I'd rather have Jones in 0:05:29.520 --> 0:05:32.680 center and have Grisham in left and Ramos and right 0:05:32.839 --> 0:05:34.880 and do it that way just because I'd rather have 0:05:35.000 --> 0:05:38.479 Jones and center. And I realize that Jones is not 0:05:38.520 --> 0:05:41.000 really hitting all that much. I mean, obviously neither is Grisham, 0:05:41.480 --> 0:05:44.480 but I'm more so of the mindset that Grisham is 0:05:44.520 --> 0:05:46.599 not going to be on this team next year. Spencer 0:05:46.640 --> 0:05:48.599 Jones has a high likelihood of being on this team 0:05:48.600 --> 0:05:50.560 next year, and I'd rather him get the run and center, 0:05:50.600 --> 0:05:53.640 and defensively he's the better player. Offensively, they're kind of 0:05:53.680 --> 0:05:54.080 the same. 0:05:54.880 --> 0:05:56.800 Yeah, I agree with you. I think the trade off 0:05:57.120 --> 0:06:01.800 is that you're gonna get more strikeout with Spencer Jones, 0:06:01.800 --> 0:06:03.960 but he's also going to probably hit for more power 0:06:04.240 --> 0:06:07.200 than Grisham, and he's a better defender. He's a plus defender, 0:06:07.240 --> 0:06:11.200 I think, whereas Grisham really isn't that great anymore out there. 0:06:11.520 --> 0:06:14.440 The one thing I definitely agree with the audience on 0:06:14.640 --> 0:06:17.320 is that Grisham cannot be in the leadoff spot anymore. 0:06:17.560 --> 0:06:19.560 I Mean, this guy is hitting like one hundred for 0:06:19.680 --> 0:06:22.200 like a month. At some point, you got to make 0:06:22.200 --> 0:06:24.520 a change there. I think the Yankees not getting a 0:06:24.640 --> 0:06:27.200 rise is going to come back to bite them because 0:06:27.279 --> 0:06:30.000 Jazz is washed. Jazz is awful. He's having a terrible year. 0:06:30.200 --> 0:06:32.839 Jazz doesn't even look like he's trying anymore. He doesn't 0:06:32.839 --> 0:06:36.480 even look like he cares anymore. So I don't want 0:06:36.480 --> 0:06:39.240 to pick on Jazz too much, right but this is 0:06:39.240 --> 0:06:42.840 the impression I get from him. He was hoping he 0:06:42.880 --> 0:06:45.120 would have a huge season so that he could get 0:06:45.120 --> 0:06:48.000 a massive payday. Imagine thinking that you had a pretty 0:06:48.000 --> 0:06:51.880 good chance to win three hundred million dollars in the lottery, 0:06:52.480 --> 0:06:56.080 and then a couple months later, it's pretty clear you're 0:06:56.120 --> 0:06:59.800 not going to win, and in fact, in fact, your 0:06:59.839 --> 0:07:03.000 career might be winding down quicker than you thought. Nobody's 0:07:03.000 --> 0:07:06.280 gonna give this guy a big, long term contract. I'm 0:07:06.320 --> 0:07:08.840 not sure that he can hit the type of pitching 0:07:08.880 --> 0:07:15.120 that exists in Major League Baseball anymore. He's unfocused. He's 0:07:15.680 --> 0:07:18.800 I mean, an okay defender. He makes some runs with 0:07:18.840 --> 0:07:23.520 his legs sometime sometimes, but I just feel like he 0:07:23.600 --> 0:07:25.920 has packed it in mentally, and I think the Yankees 0:07:25.920 --> 0:07:27.400 are gonna regret not getting a rise. 0:07:28.480 --> 0:07:32.000 Yeah, man, I was really all really about getting a rise. 0:07:32.640 --> 0:07:36.080 I think Philly is lucky to have grabbed him. He's 0:07:36.120 --> 0:07:38.600 exactly you know. It's just that he doesn't fit what 0:07:38.640 --> 0:07:41.200 the Yankees like, which is home runs. It's a guy 0:07:41.200 --> 0:07:43.560 who doesn't strike out on a lot, you know, he's 0:07:43.600 --> 0:07:46.320 a baseball player. And I was really for Louis a 0:07:46.400 --> 0:07:50.600 rise because his defense had improved dramatically over in San Francisco, 0:07:50.800 --> 0:07:55.400 having Ron Washington kind of his ear there. But yeah, man, 0:07:55.560 --> 0:07:59.080 I think at this point, like there's just no way 0:07:59.240 --> 0:08:01.960 in chance that I'd be re signing Jazz even if 0:08:02.080 --> 0:08:04.320 if and I'm expecting Jazz to kind of sign like 0:08:04.360 --> 0:08:07.160 a like a two year contract with a one at 0:08:07.280 --> 0:08:09.720 want like an option to opt out, or a one 0:08:09.800 --> 0:08:11.760 year prove it deal, like that's kind of what I'm 0:08:11.800 --> 0:08:14.520 expecting from him. But even if I'm the Yankees, there's 0:08:14.600 --> 0:08:17.160 just I don't want any part of that anymore. I'd 0:08:17.160 --> 0:08:19.360 love to sign Luis a rise in free agency because 0:08:19.360 --> 0:08:21.680 he will be a free agent. I don't think he's 0:08:21.680 --> 0:08:23.720 gonna sign for a ton of money just because front 0:08:23.760 --> 0:08:27.320 offices don't value what he does. Look, I know this 0:08:27.400 --> 0:08:29.480 is like way too early for the offseason. But two 0:08:29.480 --> 0:08:31.640 things I'm doing immediately if from the Yankees is signing 0:08:31.720 --> 0:08:34.319 Luis a Rise and hiring one Ron Washington to coach 0:08:34.360 --> 0:08:36.559 third base and coach the innfield. Those are the two 0:08:36.600 --> 0:08:40.000 things I'm doing. I'm getting George Lombard Junior, who's already 0:08:40.440 --> 0:08:43.679 showing that he's going to be an elite defender. I mean, 0:08:43.679 --> 0:08:45.120 I don't want to kick him when he's down, but 0:08:45.120 --> 0:08:47.200 there's just no way Anthony Bolti makes that play in 0:08:47.240 --> 0:08:49.920 the hole there or makes that throw. I've seen him enough, 0:08:51.440 --> 0:08:53.160 you know. I'm just Those are just the two very 0:08:53.160 --> 0:08:54.800 easy things that I'm doing if I'm the Yankees. 0:08:55.160 --> 0:08:57.480 So something I was talking about on the show yesterday 0:08:57.559 --> 0:08:59.680 or day before. I'm not sure if you watched, but 0:09:00.640 --> 0:09:03.800 I think it's totally appropriate to compare Lombard and Volpi. 0:09:04.040 --> 0:09:08.920 They're competitors in the same organization. Right at this moment, 0:09:10.200 --> 0:09:15.120 they are in competition for the shortstop position. Okay, Volpi 0:09:15.880 --> 0:09:18.720 is obviously losing that competition. He's down in triple A. 0:09:19.000 --> 0:09:21.120 It doesn't mean we have to kick him, but it's 0:09:21.160 --> 0:09:24.079 not It's not sacrilege to be like, you know what, 0:09:24.440 --> 0:09:28.200 Lombard's better he's just better, right, we're just evaluating. I 0:09:28.200 --> 0:09:30.000 don't think that's kicking somebody when they're down. 0:09:30.640 --> 0:09:30.760 Uh. 0:09:31.000 --> 0:09:36.320 And the evidence, it's impossible to ignore. The arm strength 0:09:36.679 --> 0:09:39.920 is elite for Lombard. And we've got some people talking 0:09:39.960 --> 0:09:42.200 in the chat about whether Lombard would be a good 0:09:42.920 --> 0:09:45.200 leadoff hitter. I think eventually, but I don't think Yanks 0:09:45.200 --> 0:09:47.600 want to put that kind of pressure on him yet. 0:09:47.720 --> 0:09:50.720 But so far in the major leagues hitting three hundred 0:09:50.720 --> 0:09:52.800 and three for ten with a couple of walks, so 0:09:52.840 --> 0:09:55.240 getting on base. He has tough at bats. But I 0:09:55.280 --> 0:09:56.960 want to see him get through the league a little 0:09:57.000 --> 0:09:58.679 bit for you know, maybe a month or so, and 0:09:58.760 --> 0:10:00.839 see how he's doing, see how the hee's pitching him, 0:10:00.920 --> 0:10:02.800 pitching him, because the last thing we need is for 0:10:02.880 --> 0:10:05.640 him to get attacked differently and go into a big, 0:10:05.679 --> 0:10:09.760 long slump, because Grisham has been in a huge slump. 0:10:09.800 --> 0:10:11.559 If you put somebody else in there and he immediately 0:10:11.600 --> 0:10:13.360 goes into a slump, well then it's just like you're 0:10:13.360 --> 0:10:15.600 giving up the leadoff spot for a whole season. I'd 0:10:15.640 --> 0:10:19.000 rather put somebody who can actually hit in that spot. 0:10:19.520 --> 0:10:23.880 I was hoping that it would be Dominga's didn't work out. Honestly, 0:10:24.200 --> 0:10:27.680 I agree with Joel Sherman. I think Jose Cabairo needs 0:10:27.679 --> 0:10:29.480 to be the second baseman for right now. Just go 0:10:29.480 --> 0:10:31.200 ahead and put him in the lead off spot. He'll 0:10:31.840 --> 0:10:34.000 he's fast. At least if he gets on base. He's 0:10:34.000 --> 0:10:35.600 not gonna get on a base a ton, but at 0:10:35.679 --> 0:10:37.440 least if he gets on base, he can steal second, 0:10:37.600 --> 0:10:39.120 you know, and maybe you get a run in the 0:10:39.120 --> 0:10:43.080 first inning. So that's where I'm at. Ryan McMahon, good day, 0:10:43.360 --> 0:10:46.680 had the sack fly to win it. David Bednar, good 0:10:46.720 --> 0:10:59.520 job in the ninth inning, Yankees win this one over win. Okay, 0:11:01.080 --> 0:11:03.280 I'm calling it audible. I've been playing too much Madden 0:11:04.000 --> 0:11:06.360 this afternoon. While I was waiting for the rain delay, 0:11:06.400 --> 0:11:07.679 I was playing a little Madden, and I'm in the 0:11:08.240 --> 0:11:12.000 mood here to use a football term, borrow some football parlance. 0:11:12.200 --> 0:11:14.280 I'm calling an audible. I know we decided on the 0:11:14.320 --> 0:11:17.080 belt winner before we started live, but I'm changing it 0:11:17.160 --> 0:11:21.040 up just from the comments that we're seeing here. So 0:11:21.760 --> 0:11:32.840 your belt winner tonight, mister Ryan McMahon, And I'm gonna 0:11:32.920 --> 0:11:35.560 let you dissent like a Supreme Court justice in just 0:11:35.559 --> 0:11:38.840 a second, but one the original belt winner that we 0:11:38.880 --> 0:11:42.640 had decided on, or that I had dictated was Ben 0:11:42.760 --> 0:11:45.560 Rice because that double to break out of the slump 0:11:45.559 --> 0:11:48.920 there and tie the game in the ninth inning. You 0:11:48.960 --> 0:11:51.680 wanted to go Luis Garcia because of that great play, 0:11:52.440 --> 0:11:55.200 but if you're gonna give him credit for that great play, 0:11:55.200 --> 0:11:57.920 you have to also consider McMahon's great play defensively. And 0:11:58.000 --> 0:12:00.600 McMahon also had two hits and the game winning hit. 0:12:00.840 --> 0:12:04.360 So that is my reasoning behind Ryan McMahon. But feel 0:12:04.400 --> 0:12:05.240 free to dissent. 0:12:06.480 --> 0:12:06.680 Yeah. 0:12:06.760 --> 0:12:08.760 Sorry, I got a little frazzle there, my girlfriend calling 0:12:08.840 --> 0:12:12.480 me mid show. But I think I was going with 0:12:12.600 --> 0:12:16.079 Louis Garcia Junior just because, yeah, that's right, guys, I'm 0:12:16.080 --> 0:12:17.800 in a relationship. I don't live alone. 0:12:17.840 --> 0:12:21.840 Okay, I'm gonna say, we gotta tell her to knock 0:12:21.880 --> 0:12:22.600 that shit off. 0:12:22.880 --> 0:12:24.520 Yeah no, I'll let her know. I'll let her know. 0:12:25.400 --> 0:12:28.000 But I went with Louis Garcia Junior just because I 0:12:28.080 --> 0:12:30.320 thought that play in the ninth inning saved the game, 0:12:30.760 --> 0:12:33.880 just that one play. It was a tremendous play. He's 0:12:33.920 --> 0:12:36.520 not really known for his glove. He's definitely a offense 0:12:36.600 --> 0:12:40.240 first first baseman. He I mean the Nationals were basically 0:12:40.280 --> 0:12:42.240 like they banished him from second and made him a 0:12:42.280 --> 0:12:45.320 first basement's last dagh. But I thought that that was 0:12:45.360 --> 0:12:47.720 a critical play in the game. 0:12:47.840 --> 0:12:49.360 Absolutely, That run scores. 0:12:49.480 --> 0:12:51.640 You know, you don't know if they're with this offense 0:12:51.679 --> 0:12:54.480 the way that they've been playing, Like, I really really 0:12:54.559 --> 0:12:56.200 just thought that there was a good chance they were 0:12:56.200 --> 0:12:58.040 gonna lose that game. So that's why I had gone 0:12:58.040 --> 0:13:00.719 with Garcia. You have Max Freed, obviously contender with a 0:13:00.720 --> 0:13:04.160 great start tonight. There were a lot of guys you 0:13:04.160 --> 0:13:05.720 could have gone with, but for me, it was Garcia 0:13:05.800 --> 0:13:06.400 just on that play. 0:13:06.840 --> 0:13:09.280 Yeah, so I'm gonna agree with Wayne that we got 0:13:09.280 --> 0:13:11.400 some great honorable mentions. Let's get to one of them. 0:13:11.440 --> 0:13:15.600 Max Freed, who was tremendous tonight. Six and a third innings, 0:13:15.600 --> 0:13:18.480 three hits, no runs, two walks, seven strikeouts. It's a 0:13:18.480 --> 0:13:20.840 shame that it has to be so stressful because he 0:13:20.840 --> 0:13:22.880 can't get any run support. He deserved to win. He 0:13:22.920 --> 0:13:25.760 pitched well enough to get a win, and the fastball 0:13:25.880 --> 0:13:28.439 was over ninety seven tonight. I think he's fully back. 0:13:28.520 --> 0:13:29.520 I think he's fully backed. 0:13:29.520 --> 0:13:32.680 TK Oh yeah, no, he looked great. He looked fantastic. 0:13:33.400 --> 0:13:35.280 He didn't really look like he was laboring at all 0:13:35.400 --> 0:13:38.680 or whatever anything like that. Stuff looked great. Atlanta's a 0:13:38.679 --> 0:13:41.280 great team, They're one of the better teams in baseball. Also, 0:13:41.480 --> 0:13:44.440 pitching against his former team sometimes there's something like maybe 0:13:44.480 --> 0:13:47.320 they know him better than other teams do just scouting wise. 0:13:47.679 --> 0:13:50.960 So I thought he looked great. You know, I thought 0:13:50.960 --> 0:13:54.000 that they were gonna maybe let him finish up that 0:13:54.000 --> 0:13:56.760 that seventh inning, but I guess they don't want to 0:13:56.800 --> 0:13:59.840 like push it too much coming back from injury. But 0:14:00.120 --> 0:14:03.800 definitely very encouraging. Seven k's. You know, there was only 0:14:03.840 --> 0:14:05.640 I guess that war little misshapp And I think this 0:14:05.720 --> 0:14:07.400 is just because you know, Garcia is a new player 0:14:07.400 --> 0:14:09.360 where you know, there was that back play, but and 0:14:09.400 --> 0:14:11.080 then you saw Boone talk to him in the dugout 0:14:11.120 --> 0:14:12.559 after that, Like when Max is on the mound, you 0:14:12.600 --> 0:14:14.120 always got to be covering the back because of the 0:14:14.120 --> 0:14:14.840 move that he has. 0:14:15.120 --> 0:14:17.600 So yeah, let's get to the game breakdown real quick, 0:14:18.360 --> 0:14:21.920 getting kind of late here. Seven hits for the Yankees, 0:14:21.960 --> 0:14:28.760 three doubles, no home runs, seven walks, fifteen strikeouts. Fifteen 0:14:28.920 --> 0:14:32.040 strikeouts for the Yankees tonight. That is no good. They 0:14:32.120 --> 0:14:37.120 left thirteen men on base tonight and two for eleven 0:14:37.320 --> 0:14:42.080 with runners in scoring position. TK it is astonishing how 0:14:42.120 --> 0:14:44.920 many people they leave on base and how much they 0:14:45.000 --> 0:14:47.680 strike out. Elliott Ramos with the hardest hit ball of 0:14:47.720 --> 0:14:49.760 the night, one oh six point three. I love that 0:14:49.840 --> 0:14:52.200 opposite field line drive from him. It reminded me of 0:14:52.240 --> 0:14:56.720 that Gary Sanchez double from the twenty seventeen ALCS you 0:14:56.760 --> 0:15:01.240 talk about. Just I can mentally replay that perfectly because 0:15:01.240 --> 0:15:03.920 I've seen it so many times and I go there 0:15:03.920 --> 0:15:05.920 in my mind and I just feel, I feel good. 0:15:06.040 --> 0:15:07.280 I feel a good season. 0:15:07.640 --> 0:15:11.000 Who just love that team. You tell the Todd Father 0:15:11.120 --> 0:15:12.120 thank you for the memories. 0:15:12.160 --> 0:15:14.160 All right, I will. I'll say he's supposed to be 0:15:14.160 --> 0:15:16.160 on the show. At some point. We're gonna get him. 0:15:16.160 --> 0:15:19.320 We're gonna get crats here as we go towards the 0:15:18.680 --> 0:15:21.520 uh the Pennant race. Here, take a look at the 0:15:21.560 --> 0:15:29.000 division snapshot. So, unfortunately, the Rays did win tonight. They're 0:15:29.040 --> 0:15:30.960 two and one and the Red Sox won. They won 0:15:31.040 --> 0:15:34.040 thirteen to one. So the Yankees remain a half game 0:15:34.080 --> 0:15:36.280 ahead of the Boston Red Sox and still four and 0:15:36.320 --> 0:15:38.760 a half back of the Rays. It's looking like a 0:15:38.760 --> 0:15:41.160 wild card year. I'm just hoping it's not the second 0:15:41.160 --> 0:15:43.000 wild card. I don't want to go on the road. 0:15:43.560 --> 0:15:45.120 No, no way, no way, you want to go on 0:15:45.160 --> 0:15:48.240 the road. But I think that that means that the 0:15:48.320 --> 0:15:50.560 Yankees are probably gonna get bounced early in the postseason. 0:15:50.840 --> 0:15:53.040 I think that winning the division is critical for making 0:15:53.080 --> 0:15:55.320 a deep run. You saw that last year the playoffs 0:15:55.360 --> 0:15:58.000 with you know the Blue Jays. Yeah, you had a 0:15:58.120 --> 0:16:01.040 legendary star from Cam Schlittler, and you were able to 0:16:01.080 --> 0:16:02.760 beat the Red Sox at home. But then you know, 0:16:02.840 --> 0:16:04.480 the Blue Jays were kind of waiting for you. They 0:16:04.560 --> 0:16:07.400 got their pitching set up, you know, they were able 0:16:07.400 --> 0:16:09.400 to align that up, and it's the Rays are not 0:16:09.440 --> 0:16:12.360 going to be easy. Neither are the Red Sox the 0:16:12.400 --> 0:16:14.760 way that they're playing right now now, it's one of 0:16:14.800 --> 0:16:16.680 those things. Eric, Like the beginning of the season, I 0:16:16.680 --> 0:16:18.640 didn't think the Red Sox were that bad, but I 0:16:18.680 --> 0:16:21.160 don't think that they're this good either. Even over this 0:16:21.240 --> 0:16:23.880 forty game sample, they're playing great, but I don't expect 0:16:23.880 --> 0:16:27.120 them to, like, you know, become the best team in 0:16:27.160 --> 0:16:28.800 baseball over the second half of the season. 0:16:28.880 --> 0:16:29.040 Here. 0:16:29.080 --> 0:16:31.040 I think that they will cool off and maybe they 0:16:31.040 --> 0:16:34.920 cool off right in time for October. But at the 0:16:34.920 --> 0:16:38.440 same time, man like you know, it's the same formula 0:16:38.480 --> 0:16:42.160 with this team, the strikeouts, the no big hit. You know, 0:16:42.200 --> 0:16:44.000 they don't get the big two out hit a lot. 0:16:44.120 --> 0:16:46.640 You know that does not work in October. 0:16:46.880 --> 0:16:49.600 Can I interject something? So we're looking at this screen 0:16:49.680 --> 0:16:51.680 now for those of you who want to say batting 0:16:51.720 --> 0:16:55.920 average doesn't matter. The two teams that fill up the 0:16:55.960 --> 0:16:58.840 top five batting averages in the American League East are 0:16:58.880 --> 0:17:02.120 the Rays and the Red so Yandy Diaz two ninety six, 0:17:02.200 --> 0:17:06.480 Chandler Simpson two ninety six, Setian Rafaela to eighty nine, 0:17:06.520 --> 0:17:09.800 Wilson Contraras two eighty eight, and Jonathan Roonda to eighty seven. 0:17:10.000 --> 0:17:12.199 Not a single three hundred hitter in the division, but 0:17:12.280 --> 0:17:16.880 that's probably because Judge was struggling and hurt. As Wilson 0:17:16.880 --> 0:17:18.840 Contreras as your leader in the division with a nine 0:17:18.960 --> 0:17:23.200 thirty five OPS. Junior Caminaro second, Ben Rice is third 0:17:24.119 --> 0:17:27.040 winner or the leader and wins is Sonny Gray at 0:17:27.359 --> 0:17:32.080 fourteen wins. He has been unbelievable TK fourteen and two 0:17:32.119 --> 0:17:35.920 with a two point seven eight ERA, and he has 0:17:35.960 --> 0:17:38.800 been great at home. He has been great on the road, 0:17:38.840 --> 0:17:41.600 eight and one on the road, six and one at home. 0:17:41.680 --> 0:17:45.560 Sonny Gray having a fantastic year. I'll be interested to 0:17:45.560 --> 0:17:48.080 see how Cam Schlutler bounces back, because every time he 0:17:48.119 --> 0:17:51.679 has a bad start, he seems to rebound quite well. 0:17:51.840 --> 0:17:55.040 I'll take a look back at his recent action here 0:17:55.880 --> 0:17:59.040 and see if I can find his his start by start. 0:17:59.160 --> 0:18:01.399 Let's see, I know we have game logs here somewhere, 0:18:01.400 --> 0:18:02.960 I just can't find it. Oh yeah, here we go, 0:18:03.080 --> 0:18:04.360 game lug. Yeah. 0:18:04.560 --> 0:18:08.400 So I was hearing on Mookie Bets's podcast, like every 0:18:08.400 --> 0:18:11.360 time he goes through a start, like the his coaches, 0:18:11.400 --> 0:18:15.200 his mental coaches show him videos of people like talking, 0:18:15.440 --> 0:18:17.600 you know, talking to ne talk against him and like 0:18:17.680 --> 0:18:20.679 kind of motivating mentally. So Cam, if you're watching, you 0:18:20.920 --> 0:18:24.800 sucks last start and use this as the fuel for 0:18:24.880 --> 0:18:27.040 the next game, all right, man, Like there you go. 0:18:27.119 --> 0:18:30.520 So backround June thirtieth, he gave up six runs to 0:18:30.640 --> 0:18:33.600 the Tigers. Next time out was against the Rays, eight 0:18:33.960 --> 0:18:37.120 innings of one run ball, and then the next time 0:18:37.119 --> 0:18:41.760 that he's stunk was let's see, I guess it was 0:18:42.600 --> 0:18:45.200 four and things against the Dodgers, and then he went 0:18:45.280 --> 0:18:47.720 seven and a third innings of shut out ball against 0:18:47.760 --> 0:18:50.239 the Phillies and struck out twelve and so last time 0:18:50.280 --> 0:18:54.320 against the Cardinals, four runs, six strikeouts, and five walks. 0:18:54.400 --> 0:18:57.800 Unlike him. So all right, TK, let's say a couple 0:18:57.800 --> 0:18:59.360 of voicemails and get the hell out of here. 0:19:03.520 --> 0:19:06.800 I swear this past offseason one of the worst Thinger 0:19:06.960 --> 0:19:10.840 did was offering Trent Grisham that qualifying offer. Not only 0:19:10.920 --> 0:19:14.439 is he not hitting and he's a below average offensive player, 0:19:15.000 --> 0:19:19.320 but defensively, both analytically and in the iepest, he is 0:19:19.640 --> 0:19:24.320 just horrendous. His arm is flat out not good, and 0:19:24.359 --> 0:19:27.960 again defensively, he cannot be so slow. He cannot run 0:19:28.000 --> 0:19:31.399 down any ball. And not only does he give the 0:19:31.760 --> 0:19:36.480 team extra outs offensively, but then attacking your bullpen, attackes 0:19:36.520 --> 0:19:39.360 the pitchers pitching as a starting pitcher, and then attacking 0:19:39.400 --> 0:19:41.760 your offense because they have to make up for extra 0:19:41.840 --> 0:19:44.359 runs that are scoring because he can't run down any ball. 0:19:44.840 --> 0:19:48.080 He is literally the worst move they've made his past offseason, 0:19:48.160 --> 0:19:50.800 and I am just beyond dealt with it. Let me 0:19:50.800 --> 0:19:52.240 know what you think there, thank you. 0:19:53.240 --> 0:19:55.880 I gotta say no notes, no notes on that call. 0:19:55.960 --> 0:20:00.000 Tak Yeah, yeah, I hope that's kind of going back 0:20:00.040 --> 0:20:02.000 and work one because before you even got hurt, he 0:20:02.040 --> 0:20:03.280 was on a bit of a heater and he was 0:20:03.280 --> 0:20:05.760 playing well, and I was like, oh, maybe I was wrong. Nope, nope, 0:20:05.800 --> 0:20:08.000