Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to another episode of Snake's Territory, part
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Speaker 1: Friedman alongside Jack Summers and Jack. Diamondbacks did pretty well
Speaker 1: against the Los Angeles Dodgers over the weekend. Could they
Speaker 1: have had a sweep? Yes, maybe we will discuss later
Speaker 1: in the episode, but they still win the series on
Speaker 1: Sunday and Eduardo Rodriguez has had quite a few good
Speaker 1: games for the Diamondbacks this year, but Jack this one,
Speaker 1: considering the circumstances the opponent, it might have been his
Speaker 1: best outing of the season.
Speaker 2: I keep waiting for, you know, the collapse to happen,
Speaker 2: and it just isn't happening. I mean, this guy what
Speaker 2: a stud I mean, you know the outing that he
Speaker 2: had today, one hundred and fifteen pitches. I know you're
Speaker 2: going to go into his whole stat line, but that's
Speaker 2: what everybody's focused on. I mean, you know, nobody's thrown
Speaker 2: one hundred and fifteen pitches for the Diamondbacks this year.
Speaker 2: Erod had one hundred and five. Is his previous season high.
Speaker 2: And it's only the fifth time in the Tory Leavello
Speaker 2: era that a pitcher has thrown one hundred and fifteen
Speaker 2: or more pitches, you know, and Tory had four relievers down,
Speaker 2: as he said in the post game. And you know,
Speaker 2: one comment I made was, Hey, if things had gone
Speaker 2: sideways for e Rod in the seventh or Clark or
Speaker 2: Ginkel didn't, you know, have success closing out the game,
Speaker 2: there would have been criticism about picture usage and whether
Speaker 2: or not to pull them and all of this stuff.
Speaker 2: But we don't know what we don't know, And in
Speaker 2: this case, we didn't know that Tory had four relievers
Speaker 2: completely unavailable today, probably at least one other that had
Speaker 2: rather stay away from so great stuff today.
Speaker 1: What a stud Just to set the stage for e
Speaker 1: Rod going back out there for the seventh, I was
Speaker 1: pretty convinced that Erod was done after six. He was
Speaker 1: at ninety seven pitches. It was like, all right, this
Speaker 1: is typically around where Tory would pull someone. We figured
Speaker 1: that Taylor, Clark, Kevin Ginkel, and Juan Mario were all available.
Speaker 1: I guess Juan Mario might not have been available. Maybe
Speaker 1: he was among the four starters or the four relievers
Speaker 1: that Tory said were not available for him. But yeah,
Speaker 1: ninety seven pitches. He goes back out there for the
Speaker 1: seventh inning, and the way Tory described at post game,
Speaker 1: it was basically, if Erod gave up a base runner
Speaker 1: that was going to be it. He was going to
Speaker 1: go to Taylor Clark out of the bullpen and try
Speaker 1: to one plus Taylor Clark and have him finished the
Speaker 1: seventh inning and go the eighth, which would have been
Speaker 1: a tall task. And the seventh inning didn't start great
Speaker 1: for e Rod. Keith Hernandez put on a heck of
Speaker 1: it at bat, who was eleven pitches is when all
Speaker 1: was said and done. But eventually Erod wears him down,
Speaker 1: gets him to fly out, and then he made relatively
Speaker 1: quick work of Miguel Rojas a three pitch ground dot there.
Speaker 1: And then Otani comes up, and it's like, oh, man,
Speaker 1: if he could get through Otani a left on left
Speaker 1: matchup and then pass it off to the bullpen for
Speaker 1: the final two innings, that would just be huge. And
Speaker 1: sure enough Erod did exactly that. Otani went oh for
Speaker 1: four in this game. He had just won hit the
Speaker 1: entire weekend, and yeah, it was. It was really impressive.
Speaker 1: And this was not just Erod dominating the Dodgers in
Speaker 1: this one Jack, this was e Rod putting on a
Speaker 1: show against the Dodgers throughout the season. Twenty four innings
Speaker 1: this season in four starts against la an era of
Speaker 1: one point eighty eight, I believe is where it landed.
Speaker 1: And if you include his August thirtieth start from from
Speaker 1: last year, he's been on a nice little run here
Speaker 1: against the Dodgers for a while now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And you know, it's just funny. We all tend
Speaker 2: to look at things like head to head batting stats,
Speaker 2: you know, for the hitters that they're going to face.
Speaker 2: I mean it's it's natural to look at them. We all, oh,
Speaker 2: so and so's you know, done this against this picture.
Speaker 2: And if you look at the Dodger numbers against e Rod,
Speaker 2: I mean it's startling. There are six batters that all
Speaker 2: played today that have over it had came into the
Speaker 2: game over one thousand ops, some over twelve hundred, fourteen
Speaker 2: hundred and fifteen hundred, Ki k Hernandez, Miguel Rojas, Andy
Speaker 2: Pajes fifteen plus, fourteen plus, twelve plus, and in Freddie Freeman,
Speaker 2: shohe Otani and Tiasco Hernandez all well over one thousand
Speaker 2: to eleven hundred ops against e rod All in significant
Speaker 2: app bats twenty six thirty, two thirty two. So I mean,
Speaker 2: you look at that and you say, oh boy, you know,
Speaker 2: he must have been lucky to get through all this.
Speaker 2: Sooner or later, these guys are going to get him again.
Speaker 2: But if, as Jesse just said, if you look at
Speaker 2: you know, what he did over his last five starts
Speaker 2: dating back to August thirtieth of last year, it's a
Speaker 2: one and a half era. And if you look at
Speaker 2: his career prior to August thirtieth of last year, e
Speaker 2: rod z Era was well over seven against the Dodgers,
Speaker 2: you know, he had six starts and like a seven
Speaker 2: point four something eer. And then all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: starting from August thirtieth last year, he's dominated them. I
Speaker 2: mean not just been pretty good. He's dominated the Dodgers
Speaker 2: all this year and even back to August thirtieth. So
Speaker 2: canfredict baseball, but it also is a good lesson on
Speaker 2: some of those head to head stats based you know,
Speaker 2: batting stats against pitcher don't mean a whole lot, even
Speaker 2: when there's twenty five thirty played appearances in eleven twelve
Speaker 2: hundred ops, and yet you know that can be turned
Speaker 2: on its head for a full season.
Speaker 1: Diamondbacks starting pitching overall is extremely good over the weekend.
Speaker 1: Brandon fought on Saturday, seven scoreless innings. We already talked
Speaker 1: about Marri Kelly in our last show five and two
Speaker 1: thirds of one run ball there. It was a one
Speaker 1: point three seven era for the Diamondback starting rotation in
Speaker 1: the series, and I think that is pretty clearly the
Speaker 1: biggest reason that they come away with a series win.
Speaker 1: Some other e Rod notes here Jack. The final lines
Speaker 1: seven innings, five hits, two runs, two walks, nine strikeouts,
Speaker 1: the one hundred and fifteen pitches. As you said, there
Speaker 1: were a couple of key moments that stood out to
Speaker 1: me for him. In the top of the fourth, it
Speaker 1: looked like things were maybe getting a little shaky. Tommy
Speaker 1: Edmund hit a really hard line drive that was caught
Speaker 1: to start that inning. Then Mookie Betts walked on four pitches,
Speaker 1: and then e Rod threw first the first two pitches
Speaker 1: out of the zone to Kyle Tucker. It was a
Speaker 1: two to zero count. There kind of felt like the
Speaker 1: wheels were coming off for him a little bit, and
Speaker 1: then Gabby comes out for a mound visit and e
Speaker 1: Rod throws strike one to Tuck, strike two to Tucker,
Speaker 1: gets Kyle Tucker to fly out, and then he struck
Speaker 1: out taoscar Hernandez to end that inning. Diamondbacks had a
Speaker 1: bit of a defensive mishap in the six as well.
Speaker 1: You really could argue that Erod should have only given
Speaker 1: up one run in this outing. With Freddie Freeman at
Speaker 1: first and two outs in the sixth, Kyle Tucker hit
Speaker 1: a double down the right field line, and it was
Speaker 1: not exactly a model sequence of events in that spot.
Speaker 1: Corby and Carroll got to the ball relatively quickly, but
Speaker 1: he bounced the throw to Ildemar Vargas as the cutoff man,
Speaker 1: and Vargas seemed like kind of surprised. I guess that
Speaker 1: the Dodgers were sending Freddy Freeman to begin with. His
Speaker 1: throw to home plate I think was a two hopper,
Speaker 1: not really competitive at all, and Freddie Freeman is a
Speaker 1: lot of things still at this stage in his career,
Speaker 1: a good base runner is not one of them. Nonetheless,
Speaker 1: the Diamondbacks able to at least limit the damage, and
Speaker 1: it's because e Rod came out and struck out. The
Speaker 1: next hitter was able to get out of that jam.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a little concerned, I mean to throw
Speaker 2: from Carol. I mean the ball bounced kind of right
Speaker 2: in front of Argus. I think he kind of was
Speaker 2: surprised and he kind of had a hot back to
Speaker 2: get it, and that may have been why he kind
Speaker 2: of hesitated. And then he, as you said, didn't get
Speaker 2: a good throw off. So a couple of bad throws
Speaker 2: and a really poor relay overall. We've talked about before
Speaker 2: how Corbyn's arm might you know, was sore to begin
Speaker 2: the season. It might have that looked like a sore
Speaker 2: arm throw to me, so, you know, and Vargas was
Speaker 2: out there pretty far. That was the other thing that
Speaker 2: really stood out to me was how far out Vargas
Speaker 2: went for that throw. Yeah, you know, it wasn't like
Speaker 2: he was ten feet behind the infield dirt. He really
Speaker 2: got out there while Corbyn was going into the corner
Speaker 2: and digging it and it was such a short distance
Speaker 2: to cover. So that's to me why it was so
Speaker 2: shocking that the ball bounced and he couldn't get it
Speaker 2: to him on the fly. So something to keeping on
Speaker 2: with regards to Corman in his arm. You know, hopefully
Speaker 2: there's no injury there, but he had a sore arm
Speaker 2: early in the year and he kind of worked through it,
Speaker 2: but it may have red its head again.
Speaker 1: E Rod in that spot, despite the extra run scoring there,
Speaker 1: he was able to work out of the jam. I
Speaker 1: think it was tia Oscar Hernandez, the next hitter that
Speaker 1: he just blew away with fastballs, and I thought it
Speaker 1: was kind of cool Jack that E Rod's fastball velocity
Speaker 1: seemed to get higher as the game was going on.
Speaker 1: He averaged ninety two point four in the sixth and
Speaker 1: then ninety three point three in the seventh. Those are
Speaker 1: his two highest fastball velo innings of his entire outing,
Speaker 1: and those are the last two innings that he pitched.
Speaker 1: And of course the seventh inning he started at ninety
Speaker 1: seven pitches and finished at one hundred and fifteen. He
Speaker 1: was still pumping it in there at ninety three miles
Speaker 1: an hour. So the pitchability right now with e Rod
Speaker 1: is excellent. He was twenty two for twenty eight first
Speaker 1: pitch strikes, just five of the seven and teen balls
Speaker 1: in play by Dodgers' hitters. Were hard to hit. I know,
Speaker 1: the strikeouts are what they are. He had nine of
Speaker 1: them today to kind of boost his strikeout rate a
Speaker 1: little bit. But he just knows how to pitch. And
Speaker 1: it kind of feels like we just got to throw
Speaker 1: the analytics out the window at a certain point, Jack,
Speaker 1: because he just continues to go out there and do this.
Speaker 2: Well, we don't have to throw him out the window,
Speaker 2: but we can note their improvement, right. I mean, his
Speaker 2: FIP dropped in this game to three point eighty four
Speaker 2: and that's compared to his ER two point seven, So
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, it's getting close to under a
Speaker 2: run difference and you know whereas before it was like
Speaker 2: over a two run difference. And the RA has gone
Speaker 2: up a little bit, but the FIP has come down significantly,
Speaker 2: So you know, that's kind of what you were hoping for, right,
Speaker 2: Not that his RA ballooned and that was what closed
Speaker 2: the gap and regressed to the mean, but that his
Speaker 2: FIP actually improved and that's what we're seeing. So you know,
Speaker 2: hat tip once again to Dwaughter Rodriguez. You know, where
Speaker 2: would the Diamondbacks be without him? That's a cliche at
Speaker 2: this point, but he's just been a phenomenal stud for
Speaker 2: this team, and they're very, very lucky to have him.
Speaker 1: I know, there's only you know, there's still a couple
Speaker 1: months left in the season and maybe things could change.
Speaker 1: But if the season were to end tomorrow, Eduardo Rodriguez
Speaker 1: is the most valuable player on this team, right, I
Speaker 1: mean that's I think that's where I land right now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's either him or Gabby, right, you know,
Speaker 2: it's one of those two. And you know, you can
Speaker 2: make arguments either way, because Gabby's great, not just that
Speaker 2: he's hitting, but I mean, you know, he's he's catching
Speaker 2: good ball games, he's handling pitcher as well. You know,
Speaker 2: he's grown a lot, I think in those areas of
Speaker 2: his game. I think he's calling better games. I think
Speaker 2: he's just the way he's handling pitchers is really improved.
Speaker 2: I Mean we've all known he's had the physical tools
Speaker 2: that he can throw, and you know, he's pretty good
Speaker 2: at framing and all of that. But I'm more impressed
Speaker 2: with how he's controlling the games. And like you talked about,
Speaker 2: you know, the timing getting out there talking to him,
Speaker 2: you Rod, when he did I mean that may be
Speaker 2: a standard time to get out there and talk. But
Speaker 2: maybe more so with a rookie or a young pitcher
Speaker 2: and less so with a veteran. But Gabby can march
Speaker 2: out there whenever the heck he wants. At this point,
Speaker 2: he's the guy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Gabby has been extremely valuable for the Diamondbacks as well.
Speaker 1: He had an RBI double in this game. Not a
Speaker 1: whole lot of offense for the Diamondbacks overall in this one,
Speaker 1: but they got just enough, and we're going to talk
Speaker 1: about that after this break, So don't go anywhere. We'll
Speaker 1: be back right after this here on Snake's territory.
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Speaker 1: get into the chaos of Saturday here in a moment,
Speaker 1: but before we do, the Diamondbacks did get just enough
Speaker 1: offense in this Sunday game. Kaateel Marte had the big
Speaker 1: blow in the first inning, a two run home run
Speaker 1: against the left handed pitcher no surprises there. Katel feels
Speaker 1: like he's done pretty much all of his damage offensively
Speaker 1: against lefties for the past couple of months at this point.
Speaker 1: But a big swing there for Katel Marte and then
Speaker 1: Dbacks come right back. In the bottom of the second,
Speaker 1: Tyler Locklear led off that inning with a bloop double
Speaker 1: down the right field line. Ryan Waldschmidt then laid down
Speaker 1: a bunch, which I'm sure made you very happy, Jack,
Speaker 1: And it worked out amazingly well because Justin Robleski threw
Speaker 1: it away and Walt Schmitt winds up advancing to second.
Speaker 1: Locklear scores, and then the d Backs score another run
Speaker 1: later in the inning, Gabby Moreno hit an RBI double,
Speaker 1: So the d Backs had a four to nothing lead
Speaker 1: through two innings of this baseball game. And I think,
Speaker 1: particularly given the way that last night's game ended and
Speaker 1: the emotional let down that all of that was, Tory
Speaker 1: referenced this in his press game. In his postgame press conference,
Speaker 1: it was pretty impressive to see the d Bacs just
Speaker 1: go out there and start laying it on Justin Robleski
Speaker 1: right away.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was great knocking him out of the game
Speaker 2: until you got to the Dodgers' bullpen, which was a
Speaker 2: little odd, but yes, it was awesome to see the
Speaker 2: fast start. We kind of half expected that four runs
Speaker 2: would not be all they would get on the day.
Speaker 2: You figured to end up with at least five or six.
Speaker 2: They did miss some opportunities to tack on I think
Speaker 2: they ended up over seven with runners in scoring position.
Speaker 2: It was a tough weekend in that regard. As Jesse
Speaker 2: pointed out to me, I had tweeted out a chart
Speaker 2: pre and post May twenty fifth, but that was a
Speaker 2: little bit skewed unintentionally because it did overlook the fact
Speaker 2: that the batting numbers with runners in scoring position up
Speaker 2: until today, even despite last night, were still like two
Speaker 2: ninety three for the month of August, and they were
Speaker 2: about two thirty seven for July. So it wasn't like terrible.
Speaker 2: It was the one sixty two in June that really
Speaker 2: tanks the numbers, and so.
Speaker 1: You know, to you in June, oh gosh, yeah something.
Speaker 2: I won sixty one sixty something. Don't exactly quote me,
Speaker 2: I was in the one sixties, but you know, I
Speaker 2: mean from They had a walk leadoff walk by Walt Schmidt,
Speaker 2: which was nice to see because he hasn't been getting
Speaker 2: a lot of walks lately on top of other things. Obviously,
Speaker 2: the big home run the other night was more than
Speaker 2: made up for that. But it was just nice to
Speaker 2: see him draw based on balls. And then Heraldo Padomo singled,
Speaker 2: and then that was it for the Diamondbacks offense. Fifteen up,
Speaker 2: fifteen down. The minute they got Robleski out of the
Speaker 2: game and all the right handed believers one after another
Speaker 2: came in. That was it. Fifteen up, fifteen down for
Speaker 2: the rest of the game. You know, obviously because of
Speaker 2: the work that was done by Iron and then Taylor
Speaker 2: Clark and Kevin Ginkle. My heavens yet, I mean pumpkin
Speaker 2: ninety seven ninety eight mile an hour fastballs. He was
Speaker 2: feeling it, you know, kind of got away from the
Speaker 2: slider and just here it is, here's my fastball. Hit
Speaker 2: it if you can, and they could not. He did
Speaker 2: a really great job in the ninth inning, so you know,
Speaker 2: all's well, that ends well on that score. Kind kind
Speaker 2: of do raise my eyebrows a little bit at the offense.
Speaker 2: They just still struggle against right handed pitching.
Speaker 1: Yeah, today's game was sort of a perfect encapsulation of that.
Speaker 1: Right I mean, they did awesome against Justin Robleski. They
Speaker 1: were six for sixteen with three walks against him. It's
Speaker 1: like a five hundred on base percentage basically while he's
Speaker 1: in the game. And then Corbyn Carroll strikes out. That's
Speaker 1: the last batter that Robleski faces. Predictably, Dave Roberts being
Speaker 1: pretty aggressive, he goes to his bullpen there in the
Speaker 1: fifth inning. And yeah, as you said, the Diamondbacks didn't
Speaker 1: manage a single base hit even a base runner the
Speaker 1: rest of the way. And I liked at these numbers
Speaker 1: again before the game, and they still shocked me. Like
Speaker 1: I knew the Diamondbacks had significant splits comparing, you know,
Speaker 1: facing lefties versus facing righty's, but I'm not sure I
Speaker 1: saw it. I knew it was quite this significant. Entering
Speaker 1: today's game, the d Backs had a two to seventy
Speaker 1: six average a seven to eighty one OPS against lefties
Speaker 1: this season. They're one twelve WRC plus against lefties, ranked
Speaker 1: fourth in all of baseball entering today. You flip it
Speaker 1: around against righty's, the d Backs were hitting two thirty
Speaker 1: one with a six eighty three OPS against righty's entering today.
Speaker 1: Those numbers, of course, have only gone down after the
Speaker 1: for fifteen or oh for fourteen. In this one. The
Speaker 1: d Backs have an eighty eight WRC plus this year
Speaker 1: against rights, which is tied for dead last and all
Speaker 1: of baseball. And while, as you said, all as well
Speaker 1: that ends well the Dbacks were able to score enough
Speaker 1: runs to win this game, it does cause me to
Speaker 1: think a little bit jack, to like, what would this
Speaker 1: team look like in a postseason series? What kind of
Speaker 1: weaknesses could a team really try to exploit in a
Speaker 1: short series, especially think about the wild Card round, and man,
Speaker 1: it feels like that the way to beat this Dbacks
Speaker 1: team is to just throw as many right handed pitchers
Speaker 1: as you possibly can. It doesn't even feel like they
Speaker 1: have to be like awesome right handed pitchers right now.
Speaker 1: I mean just any right handed pitcher is having their
Speaker 1: way with this offense right now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's got to be fixed. I mean, I don't
Speaker 2: really know all the answers. Obviously, Corbyn coming around against
Speaker 2: righties would help you sure expect that, you know, the
Speaker 2: whole thing. Earlier in the year. I mean, he had
Speaker 2: these phenomenal numbers against lefties. Those have dropped. I mean,
Speaker 2: it's still over three hundred batting average, but I mean
Speaker 2: it was four fifty or something absurd like up and
Speaker 2: up until mid late May, I think, you know, so
Speaker 2: he's really fallen off against lefties and falling off in general.
Speaker 2: Kattelle mentioned is not as I'm sorry, catelig Mench isn't
Speaker 2: hitting right handed pitching very well. And those two guys,
Speaker 2: I mean, regardless of the handedness of the pitchers, that's
Speaker 2: those are the guys that have to find consistency and
Speaker 2: have to be stars in order for this team to
Speaker 2: have a chance to get all the way to the
Speaker 2: promised land of the postseason and do anything when they
Speaker 2: get there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Diamondbacks, Yeah, runners in scoring position. Was not a
Speaker 1: not a great weekend for that. As you said, they
Speaker 1: were zero for seven in this finale, two for thirty overall,
Speaker 1: or sorry, four for thirty overall over the weekend, which
Speaker 1: is a one to thirty three batting average. Not great.
Speaker 1: And Jack, that's an unfortunate segue into a Saturday's game,
Speaker 1: which we won't spend too much time on. It was
Speaker 1: a bit of a bummer, but it was still one
Speaker 1: of the most interesting baseball games of the season for sure.
Speaker 1: Diamondbacks and Dodgers were in a scoreless tie for the
Speaker 1: vast majority of the game. Brandon fought seven scoreless innings. Yamamoto,
Speaker 1: the d Backs had their opportunities there. He gets away
Speaker 1: with five and two thirds scoreless. D Backs down one
Speaker 1: nothing going into the bottom of the ninth inning, and
Speaker 1: it started about as well as you could have imagined.
Speaker 1: Jack back to back triples Heraldo Perdomo and Corbyn Carroll
Speaker 1: against Edwin Diaz. It really felt like the d Backs
Speaker 1: were about to hand Diaz his second loss in as
Speaker 1: many days. And then that just didn't happen. Gaby Moreno
Speaker 1: hit a hard line drive. Just kind of tough luck there,
Speaker 1: could tell. Marte pops up the d Backs unable to
Speaker 1: score there in the ninth. Dodgers push across a run
Speaker 1: in the top of the tenth, questionable defensive positioning with
Speaker 1: Tim Tawa sticking pretty close to first base. Sho Heyo
Speaker 1: Tani hit like a seventy three mile an hour ground
Speaker 1: ball that winds up going for an infield single that
Speaker 1: drove in a run. And then Ryan Waldschmidt, the hero
Speaker 1: from the day prior, hits into a double play in
Speaker 1: the bottom of the tenth. Kind of a fitting end
Speaker 1: to that one, unfortunately, just given how many missed opportunities
Speaker 1: the Dbacks had.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was painful. It was a painful game to watch.
Speaker 2: There were just so many things in that game. Obviously
Speaker 2: all of the two for sixteen with runers in scoring position,
Speaker 2: and one of those hits didn't bring in a run
Speaker 2: by the way, I think it was, you know, got
Speaker 2: to run into third base. So when you have that
Speaker 2: many opportunities and of course you have you know, the
Speaker 2: run around third and nobody out to win the game,
Speaker 2: and you don't pull it off. Some of the explanations
Speaker 2: that Tory gave post game I wasn't very satisfied with.
Speaker 2: Neither was Mark Grace. He kind of went off before
Speaker 2: the Tory's postgame interviews and made a number of complaints.
Speaker 2: For example, why have Tim Tawe try to bunt on
Speaker 2: two pitches and then end up striking out? You know?
Speaker 2: And I agreed with that, although I've advocated for the
Speaker 2: bunt often in extra innings when you're down by a
Speaker 2: run and you need a crooked number, that was the
Speaker 2: time to let Tim Tawis swing away and not rob
Speaker 2: the a bat from him by having him screw around
Speaker 2: trying to get a butt down so you don't play
Speaker 2: for the tie when you're home down by a run
Speaker 2: with the extra innings, that's my And then having Tala
Speaker 2: hold the run, hold the runner on with Otani up.
Speaker 2: I didn't agree with that. So there were some things
Speaker 2: there that, you know, and Torri got Garcia up three
Speaker 2: times in that game before he finally got him in there.
Speaker 2: He was holding him back, uh for the top of
Speaker 2: the order if he had to. Uh, Brandon fought. Had
Speaker 2: he not gotten out of the seventh inning, and I
Speaker 2: think it was Tucker that was going to come up,
Speaker 2: then they would have brought in Garcia to face Tucker.
Speaker 2: But otherwise, you know, Brandon fuck got out of the inning,
Speaker 2: and so they went elsewhere in the bullpen. And you know,
Speaker 2: Jonathan Isaaca, unfortunately is just really struggling against lefties this year,
Speaker 2: and his sinker is not usable against left handed batters.
Speaker 2: He's just he's getting crushed and so it's a difficult
Speaker 2: spot to be in. I get it. I criticize people
Speaker 2: who criticize bullpen management too much, so I don't want
Speaker 2: to go there too much. But it was nerve wracking
Speaker 2: to see Garcia get up and not getting in the
Speaker 2: game and get up again and not getting the game,
Speaker 2: and then finally getting the game. That didn't feel right
Speaker 2: to me. So hopefully there's no repercussions on that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this Diamondbacks bullpen has definitely been heavily taxed in
Speaker 1: recent days and we've started to see that catch up
Speaker 1: with them a little bit. Fortunately on Sunday they're able
Speaker 1: to get out of out of there with a win.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it was it was one of the most difficult.
Speaker 1: Actually didn't watch the game live. I was I was
Speaker 1: hanging out with some friends, which in retrospect, I didn't
Speaker 1: feel like I had to go back and watch every
Speaker 1: single moment of the game because it it's it sounded
Speaker 1: like a very difficult game to watch, and even watching
Speaker 1: the condensed game afterwards, I was like, oh man, this
Speaker 1: is a this is a rough one to lose. But
Speaker 1: I think you said it well last night, Jack that
Speaker 1: when we were when we were chatting like the Diamondbacks
Speaker 1: probably didn't deserve to win Friday's game, and yet they did,
Speaker 1: and they probably should have won Saturday's game, but they didn't.
Speaker 1: And that's just baseball, Like you're gonna you're gonna win
Speaker 1: some games that you should have lost. You're gonna lose
Speaker 1: some games that you should have won. The hope is
Speaker 1: that when the dust settles at the end of the year,
Speaker 1: you've maybe pulled out a few more that you should
Speaker 1: have lost than games lost that you that you should
Speaker 1: have won. And I think the d Backs are still
Speaker 1: in a pretty decent spot in that regard, Like, this
Speaker 1: team has won quite a few close games. I don't
Speaker 1: have their their record in one run games in front
Speaker 1: of me right now. I think it's still pretty good.
Speaker 1: But yeah, this is a team that has generally come
Speaker 1: through in big moments when they've needed to, and winning
Speaker 1: two out of three. You'll certainly take that against the Dodgers,
Speaker 1: and in the process, the d Backs also win the
Speaker 1: season series with the Dodgers. They take seven games to
Speaker 1: the Dodgers six. It's the first time since twenty eighteen
Speaker 1: that the Diamondbacks have managed to do that.
Speaker 2: D Backs are twenty one and seventeen and one run games.
Speaker 2: They're five and seven and extra innings.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the extra innings thing hasn't been hasn't been great.
Speaker 2: But yeah, it's just a weird thing for them. They're
Speaker 2: fifteen and sixteen in blowouts run within five runs or more.
Speaker 2: So you know, in my opinion, I think that this
Speaker 2: team may not have enough firepower to advance through the playoffs,
Speaker 2: but you know, we'll have to see how they get there.
Speaker 2: Let's it's a pretty good segue into standings and where
Speaker 2: they are and just go for there.
Speaker 1: Diamondbacks, with this win, now have a game and a
Speaker 1: half lead on the San Diego Padres, at least as
Speaker 1: of us recording this. We're recording here on Sunday evening.
Speaker 1: By the time you all get around to watching or
Speaker 1: listening that Padres Astros evening game is probably over, so
Speaker 1: we apologize we don't have the latest update here for you,
Speaker 1: but it's a game and a half lead over San
Speaker 1: Diego right now. The Marlins are three games out, Cardinals
Speaker 1: are three and a half. The Phillies did win today.
Speaker 1: I think it would have been a sweep to the
Speaker 1: Toronto Blue Jays if they hadn't. It was another chaotic
Speaker 1: extra inning game for them, but they came away with
Speaker 1: a win. So d Backs and Phillies stay tied for
Speaker 1: the second and third wild card spots, and then it's
Speaker 1: San Diego game and a half behind them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I mean, basically, Cubs, Marlins, the Cardinals, and
Speaker 2: Nationals all one pirates lost and appear to be fading away.
Speaker 2: So you know, look, it's all going to come down
Speaker 2: to the final weekend. I was kind of sitting here
Speaker 2: playing with it today and where I think it lands.
Speaker 2: I think we're going to think we're going to need
Speaker 2: at least eighty six eighty seven wins to get in.
Speaker 2: That's my opinion, even though the current pace is about
Speaker 2: eighty four, maybe eighty four and a half after winning today.
Speaker 2: But I just think that, you know, between the d
Speaker 2: Backs and the Padres, one of these teams is going
Speaker 2: to get hot and need to stay hot enough to
Speaker 2: get to about eighty seven. That's my opinion.
Speaker 1: I think the pace is eighty six. I look this
Speaker 1: up shortly before we went live. D Backs are seven
Speaker 1: games over five hundred right now, so figures that they're
Speaker 1: on pace about ten over by the end of the season.
Speaker 1: So they're on pace for a roughly eighty six seventy
Speaker 1: six record. I guess maybe you're going off the rest
Speaker 1: of season fors Jack, which would.
Speaker 2: Calculated their their their pace was like eighty four and
Speaker 2: change or something like eighty four and a half before
Speaker 2: the win today, So I was just guessing what it was.
Speaker 1: Sure, Yeah, something in the mid eighty range. How many
Speaker 1: wins it's going to ultimately take to to land that
Speaker 1: third wild card spot. It's it's always hard to say,
Speaker 1: even as we're you know, within a couple months at
Speaker 1: this point, but yeah, the Diamondbacks need to go out
Speaker 1: and just keep winning, and they managed to do that,
Speaker 1: taking two out of three from the Dodgers. Uh, it
Speaker 1: does feel like the Dodgers are a team that, like,
Speaker 1: like the d Backs, there's no intimidation factor there. You
Speaker 1: don't get the sense that the d Backs of any
Speaker 1: level of intimidation facing them. They seem to be pretty
Speaker 1: amped up maybe, if anything, to face the juggernaut of
Speaker 1: Major League Baseball. And I was looking looking at some
Speaker 1: some head to head numbers from recent seasons. You go
Speaker 1: back to twenty nineteen through the end of twenty twenty three,
Speaker 1: the regular season in twenty twenty three, the d Backs
Speaker 1: were twenty three and fifty seven against the Dodgers in
Speaker 1: that span, which is mind boggling just how bad that is.
Speaker 1: Twenty three and fifty seven. And then from the start
Speaker 1: of from when Clayton Kershaw through the first pitch in
Speaker 1: the playoffs in twenty twenty three to present, the Diamondbacks
Speaker 1: are twenty two and twenty against the Dodgers since then.
Speaker 1: And I know, like, I don't know if I fully
Speaker 1: believe what I'm about to say, Jack, but I'm gonna
Speaker 1: say it anyway. I think that if any team in
Speaker 1: the National League is going to knock out the Dodgers
Speaker 1: in the playoffs, I kind of think it's the Arizona
Speaker 1: Diamondbacks at least at least I think they might have
Speaker 1: a better chance in my head in a head to
Speaker 1: head matchup. Not because I'm like looking at the rosters
Speaker 1: and being like, oh yeah, like what are the Dodgers
Speaker 1: going to do, you know, against Michael Soroka in Game
Speaker 1: three or whatever it is, But there's just something about
Speaker 1: this Diamondbacks team playing the Dodgers. I'm throwing all the
Speaker 1: analytics out the window right now. It just feels like
Speaker 1: the Diamondbacks are a type of team that could go
Speaker 1: into Dodgers Stadium when it really matters and actually knock
Speaker 1: the Dodgers out of the playoffs. I'm not sure I'd
Speaker 1: trust any other NL team to be able to do that.
Speaker 2: Well. I mean, the Diamondbacks have already ruined baseball once
Speaker 2: by beating the Dodgers in twenty twenty three. Yeah, and
Speaker 2: so LA had a temper tantrum and they went out
Speaker 2: and you know, spend a billion dollars on players just
Speaker 2: to try to you know, overcome that, and they successfully
Speaker 2: did so, and they won back to back World Series.
Speaker 2: So heading into the lockout and whatever happens coming out
Speaker 2: of the CBA, where you know, some of those big
Speaker 2: money contracts may end up being difficult for them to
Speaker 2: deal with. I'm sure there'll be some kind of grandfather
Speaker 2: clause or whatever. But you know, if there's going to
Speaker 2: be either increase revenue sharing or some limitation on payroll,
Speaker 2: that's going to put at least a dent in the Dodgers'
Speaker 2: ability to dominate so much financially. It would be absolutely
Speaker 2: fitting if it was a DBAK set once again close
Speaker 2: the book on the Dodgers dominance.
Speaker 1: That would be something that would be something I guess
Speaker 1: we're getting ahead of ourselves a little bit maybe having
Speaker 1: that conversation.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the d.
Speaker 1: Backs, their playoff odds are still basically a coin flip
Speaker 1: at this point, so you got to get in in
Speaker 1: order to have a shot at that.
Speaker 2: Of course, And you know all of these words are
Speaker 2: recorded and can be picked up and thrown back in
Speaker 2: my face. But hey, we're here to have fun, guys.
Speaker 1: I like that perspective. Yes, we have more to get
Speaker 1: to in this episode. The Diamondbacks made a very interesting
Speaker 1: free agent signing sort of out of nowhere on Sunday,
Speaker 1: so we're going to dive into that. We're also going
Speaker 1: to preview the upcoming series against the Rockies, so don't
Speaker 1: go anywhere. We'll be back right after this. Here on
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Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 1: As d Wardo Rodriguez was spinning his gem against Los
Speaker 1: Angeles Dodgers, Mike Hazen was on the phone, or maybe
Speaker 1: this happened hours before. I don't really know what the
Speaker 1: timing was, but the Diamondbacks have signed right handed pitcher
Speaker 1: Zach Lateel to a free agent contract. The news at
Speaker 1: least broke during this game between the Diamondbacks and the Dodgers,
Speaker 1: and this kind of this very much came out of nowhere.
Speaker 1: I didn't really We've talked about Dennis Santana, the d Backs.
Speaker 1: They have this opportunity to kind of take some shots
Speaker 1: on guys that maybe get let go by other teams
Speaker 1: Lateel was designated for assignment last week by the Washington Nationals.
Speaker 1: He has a four point nine to seven ERA on
Speaker 1: the season a one point three to four whip. The
Speaker 1: strikeout numbers have never been great for him. This year,
Speaker 1: he is a fourteen point six percent k rate, which
Speaker 1: is which is quite low, but he does have a
Speaker 1: three point one eight ERA when working out of the bullpen,
Speaker 1: and it seems like maybe that's the Diamondbacks plan for him,
Speaker 1: not as a traditional reliever, but maybe as a bulk
Speaker 1: innings guy who has an opener come into the game
Speaker 1: before him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And in his case, for most of the time
Speaker 2: when they used the opener in front of him, which
Speaker 2: the Dbacks may or may not do, that he came
Speaker 2: in like in the third inning, so the openers would
Speaker 2: go the first and second inning and then he would
Speaker 2: come I think one of the games he came in
Speaker 2: actually in the first because I think the opener got
Speaker 2: in trouble. But the other games where he was the
Speaker 2: bulk pitcher, he'd come in typically in the third inning.
Speaker 2: And so I don't see the Dbacks doing that. But
Speaker 2: we'll find out. I mean, you know, hopefully the deal
Speaker 2: will be official by the time we see Tory on
Speaker 2: Monday and we can ask him about the intended usage
Speaker 2: of him. But he looks like according to Nick mccro
Speaker 2: who's the one that broke the news wrote the article
Speaker 2: about it, it looks like he's going to be a
Speaker 2: swingman and he could be used as a starter. He
Speaker 2: could be used as a bulk guy, could be a
Speaker 2: piggyback guy if a starter goes short. So we'll see
Speaker 2: how they intend to use him. They're only paying a
Speaker 2: pro rated amount of the league minimum. The Nationals are
Speaker 2: picking up his salary. I saw some speculation online about
Speaker 2: the fact that he's got a buyout of his players option.
Speaker 2: The Dbacks are not on the hook for that, that
Speaker 2: is the Nationals. So it doesn't cost the Dvacs anything
Speaker 2: to give us a shot. And as tired as the
Speaker 2: bullpen has been, you know, bringing in a guy that
Speaker 2: has had success as a quote unquote book reliever that
Speaker 2: you could use for two or three innings at a
Speaker 2: time hopefully works out well. Some of the caveats with him,
Speaker 2: I mean, earlier in the year, every time I was
Speaker 2: looking up Zach Gallon's rating on a fifth percentage on
Speaker 2: the fastball, it was Lattel Gallon neck and neck for
Speaker 2: the lowest number in the league. And his sinker numbers
Speaker 2: are not good either. I mean, it's a little tough
Speaker 2: to function out there without a functioning fastball. But maybe
Speaker 2: those fastball numbers were better when he worked and relieved.
Speaker 2: They got to be based on the fact that his
Speaker 2: era is so much better. So we'll see how they
Speaker 2: use them, and you know, they what they have in
Speaker 2: store for him. But interesting signing. I'm not super optimistic
Speaker 2: that he's going to be a big contributor. We've seen guys' length,
Speaker 2: guys come in here and have a good game and
Speaker 2: then have a blow up game and you know, kind
Speaker 2: of go back and forth. So we'll see how Ltel does.
Speaker 2: But at this point, with the bullpen so tired and
Speaker 2: not enough depth, you can't really fault this effort.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, if the Diamondbacks were saying that Mitch
Speaker 1: brad is going down to Reno and they're putting Zach
Speaker 1: Lyttel into their rotation tomorrow, like that would be a
Speaker 1: bit of an eyebrow raiser. Obviously, bratt was awesome his
Speaker 1: last time out, and Latel's numbers this year in as
Speaker 1: a starting pitcher are not particularly good. That that would
Speaker 1: be a little odd in in the role that I
Speaker 1: think the d Backs are going to have him where
Speaker 1: he's he's really a he's really a bullpen guy, but
Speaker 1: a bullpen guy, you can give you some length. Maybe
Speaker 1: they do the opener thing and have you plan on
Speaker 1: giving him four or five innings from time to time.
Speaker 1: I think that sort of makes sense. I mean, if
Speaker 1: you're comparing him with the you know, the Philip Abner
Speaker 1: and Cad Strouds of the world. Right now, Paul Seewald
Speaker 1: is still on the roster. It's not like the Diamondbacks
Speaker 1: have eight awesome relievers that they're rostering right now. There
Speaker 1: is some some room here to give someone else a shot,
Speaker 1: and he does have much better numbers pitching in that
Speaker 1: bulk reliever sort of role. I think I mentioned it earlier.
Speaker 1: It's a three to one eight er, a one point
Speaker 1: one to three whip. His strikeout rate is sixteen point
Speaker 1: one percent, which is still low, but at least you
Speaker 1: can kind of stomach that his walk rate is only
Speaker 1: five percent, So he really he really doesn't walk anyone,
Speaker 1: or at least he hasn't walked anyone in that setting.
Speaker 1: He's held opposing hitters to a six sixty eight OPS
Speaker 1: when entering the game out of the bullpen. So I
Speaker 1: think I see where the Dbacks are coming from here.
Speaker 1: I think in that role it could totally make sense.
Speaker 1: I'm just curious what this looks like. Is this is
Speaker 1: this Mitch Bratt becomes the opener for a couple of
Speaker 1: innings and then you hand it off to Zac Lttel.
Speaker 1: I'm curious what the what the plan will ultimately be.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I mean, look, Mitch Bratt just showed that
Speaker 2: he can go seven innings when he's having a good game.
Speaker 2: So if he's pissing a good game, they're not going
Speaker 2: to yank them. But I mean, if he's having a
Speaker 2: rough time with command and control and walks through innings
Speaker 2: three and four, you know, and the pitch counts climbing,
Speaker 2: then it's certainly, you know, feasible to bring in a
Speaker 2: guy like Lttel. And I think they'd like to bring
Speaker 2: him in for a clean inning, though, like I don't
Speaker 2: think they'd want to bring him in to get him to,
Speaker 2: you know, have to get put out of fire with
Speaker 2: men on base.
Speaker 1: Sure, lets tell it. I also noticed that he had
Speaker 1: a really bad March April, and his r since May
Speaker 1: first is three point nine to eight, So his his
Speaker 1: era for the seasons maybe a little inflated by just
Speaker 1: being really really bad for the first few appearances of
Speaker 1: the season. But yeah, you know, not a guy that
Speaker 1: we think is starting Game one of the wild Card
Speaker 1: Round or something if the Dbacks make it there. But
Speaker 1: an interesting, interesting depth move. Nonetheless, we'll see what the
Speaker 1: team says when that move is made official. Do you
Speaker 1: have anything else on that Jack before we hop over
Speaker 1: to the Rocky Series.
Speaker 2: No, because as we hop over to the Rocky Series,
Speaker 2: we'll be talking about one other pitcher and that's kind
Speaker 2: of related to this a little bit.
Speaker 1: Well, here are the probables for that series against the Rockies.
Speaker 1: It's going to be Michael Soroka pitching for the first
Speaker 1: time in a long time since early June. Early mid June.
Speaker 1: We'll see Michael Soroka start on Monday, Mitch Bratt is
Speaker 1: set to go on Tuesday, Mary Kelly on Wednesday, and
Speaker 1: then for the Rockies, it's gonna be Gabriel Hughes, a
Speaker 1: right handed pitcher going on Monday, Tomayuki Sugano on Tuesday,
Speaker 1: Ryan Feltner on Wednesday. These are not flashy names, Jack,
Speaker 1: but anytime I see a series with three right handed
Speaker 1: pitchers lined up against this Dbacks offense, it does make
Speaker 1: me think like, all right, let's you know, you need
Speaker 1: some guys to start to figure things out there.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, so what I wanted to say is, you know,
Speaker 2: Soroka coming back. He went four innings fifty seven pitches
Speaker 2: on his rehab assignment, and so I think the best
Speaker 2: you're gonna get from him is gonna be about five
Speaker 2: and sixty five or five and seventy. In other words,
Speaker 2: you'll get five, he'll probably touch the fifth inning. But
Speaker 2: if he's going to finish the fifth inning, he's gonna
Speaker 2: have to be fairly efficient and keep that pitch count,
Speaker 2: you know, or around seventy to get there. That that's
Speaker 2: my estimation on his outing. So they're going to have
Speaker 2: to use the bullpen again tomorrow to paper over you know,
Speaker 2: the fact that Soca is still getting stretched out, So
Speaker 2: it's not going to be very long before they actually
Speaker 2: need zach lad Lattel to provide some some bulk innings
Speaker 2: as a long reliever. He won't be tomorrow because I
Speaker 2: don't think he's going to be official and in that
Speaker 2: clubhouse and ready to pitch tomorrow. But you know, as
Speaker 2: they go through the next the rest of the week,
Speaker 2: in the road trip, I think they're going to need him.
Speaker 2: Just a quick note on Gabriel Hughes. He was a
Speaker 2: former first round draft pick and he's got a two six' five,
Speaker 2: fit so you know there he's a little bit better
Speaker 2: than his. Era. SIGANO i don't know how he's doing
Speaker 2: what he's.
Speaker 1: DOING i don't know how he's pulling it, off but he.
Speaker 2: Is he's got a four and a HALF era and
Speaker 2: HIS xcra is well over, seven and his fit numbers
Speaker 2: are way up there. Too you Know, feldner you know
Speaker 2: they should be able to hit. Him so we'll see
Speaker 2: how it. Goes but The, rockies one THING i want
Speaker 2: to say is That Corus field isn't playing quite quite
Speaker 2: so extreme as it has in the. Past it's been
Speaker 2: a little bit more. Muted some of that might be personnel,
Speaker 2: related of, course but the park factors there are like
Speaker 2: one hundred and, eleven which means it's been playing roughly
Speaker 2: eleven percent more hitterish than the Average Major league, park
Speaker 2: whereas in the past we used to seeing that number like, fifteen, one,
Speaker 2: sixteen sometimes as high as seventeen or eighteen in some.
Speaker 2: Years so one eleven's on the lower end of the
Speaker 2: spectrum of what we see out Of Coors.
Speaker 1: Field jake, McCarthy of, course will be returning To Chase
Speaker 1: field in this in this, SERIES dbacs also hosted The
Speaker 1: rockies back In, may so this won't be the first.
Speaker 1: Time But jake is having a very nice season for,
Speaker 1: himself and, frankly The diamondbacks could really use it's someone
Speaker 1: Like jake McCarthy with the year he's. Had he enters
Speaker 1: the series with a one NINETEEN wrc. Plus he's hitting
Speaker 1: up over three hundred three zh six a five eighteen slugging. Percentage,
Speaker 1: yeah as you, Said coursfield is going to have an
Speaker 1: impact for sure on the raw. Numbers but this is
Speaker 1: not just a course field aberration For jake. McCarthy i,
Speaker 1: mean this is probably the best season he's ever. Had
Speaker 1: is w his one NINETEEN wrc, plus which is park,
Speaker 1: adjusted that's the best mark of his. Career and, YEAH
Speaker 1: i mean he's a really key part of an Improved rockies.
Speaker 2: Offense, YEAH i mean he's hitting three eighteen with eight
Speaker 2: homers a, course but he's hitting two ninety with five
Speaker 2: homers on the. Road just hit a couple of homers
Speaker 2: in a Tough Pitchers, Ballpark Bush. STADIUM i had a
Speaker 2: two homer. Game and when you break out HIS wrc
Speaker 2: plus by home and, away it's one seventeen home one nineteen.
Speaker 2: Away so it's not like he's just you, know taking
Speaker 2: a manager of course, field although he, is and everything
Speaker 2: else is just. Met he's actually been really good on the.
Speaker 2: Road obviously he's been hotter. Lately but you, know we
Speaker 2: talk About, JAKE i don't want to do the whole you,
Speaker 2: know regret and trading and you know. Whatever i'm just
Speaker 2: happy For jake. McCarthy i really Like jake. McCarthy i
Speaker 2: think he's a great. DUDE i enjoyed covering him as
Speaker 2: a writer and looking forward to seeing him. Tomorrow just
Speaker 2: hope he doesn't stay. Hot i'd like to see him
Speaker 2: go over twelve and then carry on with his season after.
Speaker 1: Tomorrow, well we'll see what it looks. Like of, course
Speaker 1: there can be a natural sort of emotional letdown when
Speaker 1: you have The rockies coming in after facing The. Dodgers
Speaker 1: there's over one hundred and thirty thousand fans At Chase
Speaker 1: field over the. WEEKEND i don't think it's going to
Speaker 1: be quite as packed for A monday Through wednesday series Against.
Speaker 1: Colorado but The diamondbacks very much need to keep doing
Speaker 1: what they're. Doing they're back to seven games over five,
Speaker 1: hundred WHICH i believe is still their high water mark
Speaker 1: of the. SEASON i don't think they've gotten. Past there
Speaker 1: were thirty one and twenty four back in Late may
Speaker 1: and they have not managed to get to eight games
Speaker 1: over five. Hundred so This rocky series is a good
Speaker 1: opportunity to do. That we are excited to follow along with.
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Speaker 1: jack any final thoughts here as we say goodbye and
Speaker 1: head into this new series Against. Colorado what a.
Speaker 2: Weekend great to see The dbacks takedown The dodgers two to,
Speaker 2: one and onward and.
Speaker 1: Upward thank you again to all of you for being
Speaker 1: here with. Us we really appreciate your, time and we'll
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