WEBVTT - D-backs Spoil Casey Mize's Padres Debut, Hang 10 Runs on San Diego 0:00:09.480 --> 0:00:12.799 Hello, and welcome to another episode of Snake's Territory, part 0:00:12.840 --> 0:00:15.680 of the Foul Territory Network. Be sure to like this video, 0:00:15.760 --> 0:00:18.680 subscribe to our channel, maybe leave us a five star 0:00:18.760 --> 0:00:21.880 review wherever you get your podcast. I am Jesse Friedman 0:00:21.920 --> 0:00:25.760 alongside Jack Summers and Jack. Just a couple days ago, 0:00:25.880 --> 0:00:31.000 the Arizona Diamondbacks were interested in trading four Casey miz 0:00:31.080 --> 0:00:33.160 That was the reporting that was out there. We talked 0:00:33.200 --> 0:00:36.600 about him as a target. And then the Diamondbacks go 0:00:36.720 --> 0:00:39.640 out and they face him as he lands with the 0:00:39.680 --> 0:00:43.720 San Diego Padres. They score eight runs on nine hits. 0:00:43.760 --> 0:00:46.120 They knock him out in the fourth inning, a big 0:00:46.159 --> 0:00:49.199 win for the Diamondbacks, Jack by a final score of 0:00:49.280 --> 0:00:49.840 ten to four. 0:00:51.159 --> 0:00:51.360 Yeah. 0:00:51.440 --> 0:00:54.360 I mean, talk about a game dripping with irony and 0:00:54.680 --> 0:00:56.560 just you know how many times have we had to 0:00:56.600 --> 0:00:58.360 say you can't predict baseball tonight. 0:00:59.240 --> 0:01:01.120 It's really credible what we just saw. 0:01:02.240 --> 0:01:06.720 And uh, some crow will be eaten on this episode. 0:01:07.640 --> 0:01:10.200 It's a trend. It's a trend around here. We love 0:01:10.240 --> 0:01:12.080 it when that happens. Yeah. 0:01:12.120 --> 0:01:16.040 The Diamondbacks offense was I think the primary storyline of 0:01:16.040 --> 0:01:18.840 this game. Mitch Bratt was also a big storyline. We'll 0:01:18.920 --> 0:01:21.800 we'll talk more about him later in the episode, but 0:01:22.200 --> 0:01:25.920 Diamondbacks had some wasted opportunities in the first couple of innings. 0:01:25.920 --> 0:01:28.200 It kind of looked like Casey Myz was maybe going 0:01:28.280 --> 0:01:30.920 to settle in, but then the d Backs able to 0:01:30.920 --> 0:01:33.040 push across a run. In the bottom of the third, 0:01:33.120 --> 0:01:36.399 Gabby Moreno hits a sack fly there, Tim Tawa hit 0:01:36.480 --> 0:01:38.960 a solo home run. After that, d Backs pick up 0:01:39.000 --> 0:01:41.760 a two to nothing lead, and then in the fourth inning, 0:01:42.400 --> 0:01:46.080 this d Backs offense just goes off. James McCanns starts 0:01:46.080 --> 0:01:50.520 that inning with a flyout, but then it goes double, single, single, single, 0:01:50.640 --> 0:01:54.360 single walk, and at that point Casey Mice was out 0:01:54.400 --> 0:01:57.320 of the game. D Backs continued to tack on after that. 0:01:57.360 --> 0:01:59.680 With Kyle Hart in the game, they ultimately push their 0:01:59.760 --> 0:02:03.400 lead up to eight nothing in that inning. And yeah, 0:02:03.440 --> 0:02:06.000 it was just kind of stunning to watch Jack. I mean, 0:02:06.040 --> 0:02:09.480 this was not just Casey Mei's worst start of the season. 0:02:10.000 --> 0:02:12.800 This was arguably the worst start of his career. That 0:02:12.960 --> 0:02:15.840 eight earned runs, those eight earned runs that he allowed, 0:02:16.120 --> 0:02:18.400 that was a career high for him. 0:02:18.919 --> 0:02:21.000 Yeah, I mean, and the funny thing was everyone was 0:02:21.040 --> 0:02:23.120 worried about his velocity, and it wasn't down. It was 0:02:23.160 --> 0:02:25.200 about the same, you know, a slight dip at the 0:02:25.280 --> 0:02:27.640 end of his outing, but that was a long inning, 0:02:27.720 --> 0:02:30.480 so you kind of expect that, so it wasn't a 0:02:30.560 --> 0:02:33.680 velocity thing, so, you know, and early in the game, 0:02:33.720 --> 0:02:36.360 I mean, you know, he threw some splitters in in 0:02:36.360 --> 0:02:39.200 that first and second inning, and I'm thinking, oh boy, 0:02:39.240 --> 0:02:41.200 here we go with another guy with a good splitter. 0:02:41.240 --> 0:02:43.480 But then he kind of ran away from that pitch, 0:02:43.840 --> 0:02:46.400 didn't throw so many after the first inning or two, 0:02:46.520 --> 0:02:48.959 and then it just you know, all got away from him. 0:02:49.360 --> 0:02:52.000 The d Backs started out zero for five with runners 0:02:52.000 --> 0:02:54.639 in scoring position, and they ended up six for fourteen, 0:02:55.639 --> 0:02:58.200 So they went six for their next nine with runners 0:02:58.200 --> 0:03:01.320 in scoring position. So, you know, we always talk about 0:03:01.360 --> 0:03:04.720 the risk numbers and often they're highlighted early in the 0:03:04.760 --> 0:03:07.359 game when things are looking a little rough. Six for 0:03:07.440 --> 0:03:09.840 fourteen tonight, guy, that's pretty pretty dark good. 0:03:11.160 --> 0:03:14.000 You'll certainly take that. That is not bad. 0:03:14.639 --> 0:03:17.920 Casey Mice, of course, faced the Diamondbacks earlier this season 0:03:18.080 --> 0:03:20.400 and had a lot of success six innings of one 0:03:20.480 --> 0:03:23.840 run ball with nine strikeouts at Chase Field back on 0:03:23.919 --> 0:03:27.639 March thirty, first but yeah, this was just a bizarre 0:03:27.680 --> 0:03:30.960 game for him. He generated just two whiffs throughout this 0:03:31.120 --> 0:03:34.280 outing on seventy seven pitches. Granted he hadn't pitched in 0:03:34.320 --> 0:03:37.800 eleven days. The Tigers scratched him in his last start 0:03:37.840 --> 0:03:41.120 before the deadline, so you'll wonder if maybe maybe that 0:03:41.240 --> 0:03:43.960 had an impact. But I guess if we want to 0:03:44.000 --> 0:03:47.040 make the storyline Jack that the d Backs actually won 0:03:47.080 --> 0:03:50.000 the trade deadline, I mean that's fair, right, Like we 0:03:50.360 --> 0:03:52.200 can say that at this point, right. 0:03:52.800 --> 0:03:55.080 Well, I mean, you know, a bullet dodged all that 0:03:55.120 --> 0:03:58.920 good stuff. I mean, you know, imagine if they had 0:03:58.960 --> 0:04:02.640 gotten Casey my and inserted him in the rotation tonight 0:04:03.080 --> 0:04:06.040 over Mitch Brett and San Diego did to him what 0:04:06.080 --> 0:04:09.560 the Diamondbacks just did to him. You know, we'd be 0:04:09.680 --> 0:04:11.040 lighting our computers on fire. 0:04:12.320 --> 0:04:16.720 I think it's a reminder for me that, especially with rentals, 0:04:17.360 --> 0:04:21.279 like even if on paper you win the trade deadline, 0:04:21.320 --> 0:04:24.520 when it comes to rentals, two months of baseball is 0:04:24.800 --> 0:04:28.480 just not a long time. And really anything can happen 0:04:28.680 --> 0:04:32.240 in that small a sample size, And so there is 0:04:32.320 --> 0:04:34.440 this element of like, hey, even if you go out 0:04:34.480 --> 0:04:36.920 and get a starting pitcher who's legitimately good or a 0:04:37.000 --> 0:04:41.000 hitter who's legitimately good. All that really matters is how 0:04:41.080 --> 0:04:43.919 they perform over a two month stretch, and that's just 0:04:44.000 --> 0:04:46.440 a that's a that's a small sample. 0:04:47.400 --> 0:04:48.720 And while I. 0:04:48.600 --> 0:04:51.839 Certainly don't think we're dismissing Casey Miyes over over one 0:04:51.880 --> 0:04:54.560 bad outing, I don't think that would be reasonable. But 0:04:55.000 --> 0:04:57.160 is it possible that Myz goes out there and has 0:04:57.200 --> 0:04:59.800 a you know, four to seven five era for the pod? 0:05:00.880 --> 0:05:01.600 Totally right? 0:05:01.680 --> 0:05:04.559 And like Robbie Ray isn't a perfect starting pitcher either. 0:05:04.880 --> 0:05:07.880 You look at his underlying numbers for this season, looks 0:05:08.000 --> 0:05:10.320 a little bit more like a mid four type e 0:05:10.480 --> 0:05:13.160 er pitcher than you know, the low three mark he 0:05:13.240 --> 0:05:16.039 has up to this point in the season. So you know, 0:05:16.200 --> 0:05:18.359 maybe maybe we're jumping the gun a little bit to 0:05:18.360 --> 0:05:22.120 say the Diamondbacks, you know, won the trade deadline, or 0:05:22.160 --> 0:05:24.000 that it's a good thing they didn't go out and 0:05:24.040 --> 0:05:26.800 get a starting pitcher. I do not agree with that 0:05:26.880 --> 0:05:29.919 at all, But there is this reality of you just 0:05:30.040 --> 0:05:32.839 never know what's going to happen, and and heck, if 0:05:32.920 --> 0:05:35.080 Mitch Bratt pitches like this a few more times the 0:05:35.160 --> 0:05:38.080 rest of the way, maybe the d Backs actually didn't 0:05:38.120 --> 0:05:41.440 need a starting pitcher when when all was said and done. 0:05:41.600 --> 0:05:44.760 Well, I wanted them to go get a reliever over 0:05:44.800 --> 0:05:47.720 a starter, right, you know, And I'll stick with that, 0:05:47.960 --> 0:05:52.320 but that's another story. You know, I was disappointed. Look, 0:05:52.440 --> 0:05:54.000 the one thing I want to say about all this, 0:05:54.160 --> 0:05:57.479 You know, for sure Monday afternoon, you know, we had 0:05:57.839 --> 0:06:01.359 a reaction, and there was some of the in that reaction, 0:06:02.839 --> 0:06:06.760 but we were reflecting the emotion around us, the emotion 0:06:06.880 --> 0:06:09.560 around us in that clubhouse, the emotion around us. 0:06:09.760 --> 0:06:10.960 In that interview room. 0:06:11.560 --> 0:06:14.120 I mean, I have never seen my case and that upset, 0:06:14.200 --> 0:06:18.880 that angry, that disappointed, and you know, as it later 0:06:19.000 --> 0:06:24.160 came to understand, they had a deal in place for 0:06:24.360 --> 0:06:28.239 Clay Holmes, and that deal got mixed because the Mets 0:06:28.279 --> 0:06:32.200 had concerns over medicals that they saw on the player 0:06:32.240 --> 0:06:34.400 that was involved. Who we don't know it is. And 0:06:34.440 --> 0:06:36.840 I'm not going to speculate. I have thoughts, but I'm 0:06:36.880 --> 0:06:39.279 not going to speculate publicly who it might be. It's 0:06:39.279 --> 0:06:44.240 just not fair. But you know, what we were exposed 0:06:44.279 --> 0:06:49.320 to was a team and players, and despite his surface words, 0:06:49.360 --> 0:06:53.200 Tory and of course Mike, these were some really upset 0:06:53.320 --> 0:06:56.640 emotional people. That's what we were exposed to, and we 0:06:56.720 --> 0:06:58.880 had the results in front of us of just the 0:06:58.920 --> 0:07:01.560 new bar trade, so that's what we reacted to. I 0:07:01.600 --> 0:07:04.479 think it was a legitimate reaction. I still think there's 0:07:04.680 --> 0:07:07.120 a long ways to go before we know how all 0:07:07.160 --> 0:07:10.560 this plays out. But for one night, this was a 0:07:10.600 --> 0:07:14.000 fantastic result. I mean, we can't help but be encouraged 0:07:14.040 --> 0:07:16.880 by what we saw from Mitch Bratt, of course, and 0:07:17.040 --> 0:07:20.920 the way the offense performed tonight was exactly what they needed. 0:07:22.360 --> 0:07:24.320 We'll get to Brat Moore here in a moment. I 0:07:24.360 --> 0:07:27.960 do want to stick on the offense here. Diamondbacks had 0:07:28.520 --> 0:07:31.840 five different hitters with multiple hits in this game, Corbyn Carroll, 0:07:31.920 --> 0:07:37.000 Tim Tawa, Eildemar Vargas, Tyler Locklear, and Ryan Waldschmidt. I mean, 0:07:37.040 --> 0:07:39.600 we could really highlight any of those guys, but I'm 0:07:39.600 --> 0:07:46.240 going to start with this graphic here, which shows that 0:07:46.240 --> 0:07:49.600 that Tim Tala, excuse me, had four of the five 0:07:49.720 --> 0:07:51.520 hardest hit balls in this game. 0:07:51.600 --> 0:07:54.120 Jack pretty pretty impressive stuff here. 0:07:55.400 --> 0:07:57.640 Yeah, when he hit that home run, that's when I 0:07:57.720 --> 0:07:59.880 really felt like, oh wow, they got a good chance 0:08:00.240 --> 0:08:03.040 to beat Casey Maize, and I started you know, looking 0:08:03.120 --> 0:08:08.080 up and I see Bryce Swartz also was thinking along 0:08:08.080 --> 0:08:11.240 the same page as I was. I quoted in game 0:08:11.320 --> 0:08:15.280 all we on Twitter Tim Tower's numbers since being recalled 0:08:15.320 --> 0:08:18.600 from Reno, and as of right now, he's batting two 0:08:18.680 --> 0:08:23.000 seventy six in twenty five games, and he's got five 0:08:23.080 --> 0:08:27.560 homers and five doubles and eighteen RBIs after his three 0:08:27.560 --> 0:08:31.240 for four tonight with the sackfly two RBIs. So, I mean, 0:08:32.760 --> 0:08:36.240 and the thing that's really cool about Tim is he's 0:08:36.240 --> 0:08:38.920 playing first base, he's playing center field, he's playing third base. 0:08:38.960 --> 0:08:41.760 He made a really nice play at third base tonight. 0:08:42.080 --> 0:08:43.480 I think it was the only put out he had 0:08:43.600 --> 0:08:45.600 up until that point until the very end of the game. 0:08:46.720 --> 0:08:50.360 And you know that that just kind of signified to me. 0:08:50.440 --> 0:08:52.520 I mean, he's made some really nice plays at first 0:08:52.720 --> 0:08:54.720 you see him ranging in center. I spoke to him 0:08:54.720 --> 0:08:57.840 about it on Monday night, and of course, you know, 0:08:58.360 --> 0:09:00.839 immediately just giving all the credit to the coaches and 0:09:00.920 --> 0:09:03.440 for helping him. I was asking him, how is he 0:09:03.520 --> 0:09:07.680 staying sharp at each position, because he's playing each position 0:09:07.880 --> 0:09:10.319 like a starter, And he gave all the credit to 0:09:10.400 --> 0:09:12.440 coaches and the work that they had put in with him. 0:09:12.679 --> 0:09:15.160 And then immediately said, yeah, but that one ball I 0:09:15.200 --> 0:09:17.480 didn't dig out of the dirt tonight, that's going to 0:09:17.520 --> 0:09:19.880 stick with me. So, you know, this is a gamer, 0:09:19.960 --> 0:09:22.760 this is a grinder, and it's just great to see 0:09:22.800 --> 0:09:23.360 him having. 0:09:23.200 --> 0:09:24.240 Some success. 0:09:25.440 --> 0:09:29.360 Elsewhere with the offense. Ryan Waldschmidt had three hits as well. 0:09:30.000 --> 0:09:32.840 We've talked about the batting average on balls and play, 0:09:32.920 --> 0:09:35.800 the fact that maybe there's some regression overdue there, and 0:09:35.920 --> 0:09:38.800 yet Ryan Waldschmitt just did use to go out and 0:09:38.840 --> 0:09:41.880 have games like this. He did hit the ball particularly 0:09:41.920 --> 0:09:44.240 hard in this game as well. These were not you know, 0:09:44.280 --> 0:09:46.800 bloops that were dropping in. We've seen some of those 0:09:46.840 --> 0:09:50.559 from him, but these were three really, really well hit baseballs. 0:09:50.679 --> 0:09:52.880 And his batting average for the season is up to 0:09:53.040 --> 0:09:53.880 two ninety eight. 0:09:55.080 --> 0:09:56.440 One of these days, I'm going to write a book 0:09:56.480 --> 0:09:59.080 that's titled you Know How I Learned to Relax and 0:09:59.120 --> 0:10:00.280 Embrace Inflate bab. 0:10:02.840 --> 0:10:04.920 I think there's a big market for that book. I 0:10:05.040 --> 0:10:09.880 think I think that that's that's a widely appealing bestseller 0:10:10.679 --> 0:10:15.439 in the works for sure. No, No, not at all, 0:10:15.559 --> 0:10:20.000 not at all. Yeah, another really good game for wald Schmidt. 0:10:20.000 --> 0:10:23.240 Eildemar Vargas four runs, batted in in this one as well. 0:10:23.400 --> 0:10:27.079 Just a well rounded effort for the Diamondbacks offense against 0:10:27.280 --> 0:10:30.080 once again a pitcher that we at least thought was 0:10:30.120 --> 0:10:33.839 good coming into this one. Casey Myzra was two point 0:10:33.840 --> 0:10:36.680 seven zero entering this start. It was three point four 0:10:36.840 --> 0:10:40.440 zero by the end of it. Pretty impressive stuff for 0:10:40.600 --> 0:10:43.880 the Diamondbacks to just jump on him. And things did 0:10:43.880 --> 0:10:46.679 get a little bit interesting late in the game. Kevin 0:10:46.720 --> 0:10:50.280 Ginkel did not have his best outing tonight. Paul Sewald 0:10:50.640 --> 0:10:53.520 came in and got the final out of this one. 0:10:53.720 --> 0:10:55.839 I guess just a footnote there. I know you've been 0:10:55.880 --> 0:10:58.480 talking about this for a while, Jack, that this Diamondbacks 0:10:58.480 --> 0:11:01.720 bullpen has maybe agressed, and we did see a little 0:11:01.720 --> 0:11:03.040 bit more of that in this one. 0:11:03.840 --> 0:11:06.120 Yeah, I mean, it's just been kind of creeping in there. 0:11:06.240 --> 0:11:08.800 You know, it fits and starts obviously, you know, as 0:11:08.800 --> 0:11:11.960 you pointed out to me, you know, Garcia Mario have 0:11:12.600 --> 0:11:17.840 still been excellent in our career. Is you know, he's 0:11:17.880 --> 0:11:21.120 been fantastic as well. You know, it's not straight truck, 0:11:21.200 --> 0:11:24.320 but we're just seeing you know, besides Thompson and Seawald, 0:11:24.360 --> 0:11:28.800 we're seeing rough outing here, rough outing there from you know, 0:11:28.880 --> 0:11:31.600 other guys taking turns a little bit more frequently than 0:11:31.640 --> 0:11:34.080 we had been up until a couple of weeks ago. 0:11:34.160 --> 0:11:36.200 So you know, it is what it is. 0:11:36.240 --> 0:11:38.280 I mean, it's we're at August fifth and a lot 0:11:38.280 --> 0:11:41.880 of guys are getting tired, and it's going to. 0:11:41.880 --> 0:11:42.680 Be really interesting. 0:11:42.720 --> 0:11:45.480 You know, when we have a little bit later discussion, 0:11:45.800 --> 0:11:48.840 we'll see how they kind of re engineered the bullpen 0:11:48.880 --> 0:11:51.760 a little bit, and you know, and that's going to 0:11:51.760 --> 0:11:54.160 be in conjunction with what happens with the starters and 0:11:54.360 --> 0:11:58.560 returning players, and it's going to be an interesting and 0:11:58.600 --> 0:12:01.760 fascinating thing to track how they manage this going forward, 0:12:01.840 --> 0:12:05.960 both from a roster perspective and workloads and roles and 0:12:06.000 --> 0:12:08.560 who's going to be used in what situation. A lot 0:12:08.600 --> 0:12:09.520 of moving parts here. 0:12:11.240 --> 0:12:14.880 Mitch Bratt was, of course, arguably the biggest story but 0:12:14.960 --> 0:12:17.520 at least one of the biggest stories for the Diamondbacks 0:12:17.520 --> 0:12:19.800 in this one. So we are going to talk a 0:12:19.800 --> 0:12:21.760 whole lot of Midge Brat, But first we're going to 0:12:21.840 --> 0:12:24.440 take a quick break, so don't go anywhere here on 0:12:24.600 --> 0:12:25.400 Snake's territory. 0:12:25.440 --> 0:12:27.120 Will be right back after this. 0:12:32.200 --> 0:12:35.839 Well, the Diamondbacks still have several more games in this 0:12:36.040 --> 0:12:39.760 important home stand facing some NL West opponents. 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In this 0:14:00.600 --> 0:14:04.240 he was efficient, just ninety two pitches thrown, and maybe 0:14:04.240 --> 0:14:06.880 you're like, all right, one hit, Like maybe he got 0:14:06.880 --> 0:14:10.560 a little lucky here there. The Padres expected batting average 0:14:10.559 --> 0:14:15.480 against him was one nineteen. They made basically no compelling 0:14:15.559 --> 0:14:18.719 contact in this game, and again there was quite a 0:14:18.760 --> 0:14:21.720 bit of swing and miss as well, with far and 0:14:21.760 --> 0:14:24.200 Away a career high with nine strikeouts. 0:14:25.320 --> 0:14:28.720 You know, a guy flashed to my mind watching this 0:14:28.800 --> 0:14:31.920 start tonight and watching him be able to place that 0:14:32.000 --> 0:14:34.040 fastball the top of the zone or a little bit 0:14:34.040 --> 0:14:36.320 above it, sometimes get the call on a ball that 0:14:36.400 --> 0:14:38.880 was probably you know, to get her strike call on 0:14:38.960 --> 0:14:43.880 a pitch that was high. Fortunately, the Padres burned their challenges. 0:14:43.440 --> 0:14:44.560 Very early in this game. 0:14:45.400 --> 0:14:49.040 But older DBAX fans are going to remember Doug Davis, 0:14:49.840 --> 0:14:53.280 and he was pretty underrated pitchers. A left hander, he 0:14:53.400 --> 0:14:55.440 was more or less a league average innings eater, but 0:14:55.520 --> 0:14:58.600 he could give you fairly consistent between like one hundred 0:14:58.640 --> 0:15:02.840 and five hundred and ten plus. You know, his fastball 0:15:02.840 --> 0:15:06.040 couldn't break a pane of glass, but he challenged hitters 0:15:06.080 --> 0:15:08.960 with it all the time up at the top of 0:15:09.000 --> 0:15:13.320 the zone through a good curveball. In that regard, I 0:15:13.360 --> 0:15:16.440 mean the personality wise, how they look, their demeanor, none 0:15:16.480 --> 0:15:18.920 of that's the same. But just there's a lot of 0:15:18.960 --> 0:15:21.840 similarity there for me. And you know, Doug Davis was 0:15:21.880 --> 0:15:24.240 a very effective pitcher for a good four or five 0:15:24.360 --> 0:15:28.040 year run of pitching, you know, above league average, above 0:15:28.080 --> 0:15:31.280 one hundred ra plus and giving the team innings, and 0:15:31.600 --> 0:15:34.640 you know, similar you kind of adjust for the ear 0:15:34.720 --> 0:15:37.840 a little bit, kind of similar stuff. So I think 0:15:37.880 --> 0:15:41.200 there's a pathway here for Brett. And the funny thing 0:15:41.280 --> 0:15:43.920 is is what made me think about Doug Davis was 0:15:43.960 --> 0:15:46.960 Brett walking the leadoff batter three innings in a row 0:15:47.440 --> 0:15:50.040 and then just getting out of it. And I remember 0:15:50.200 --> 0:15:52.720 using used to having a bit of a perverse pleasure 0:15:53.320 --> 0:15:56.520 in watching Doug Davis put guys on base, just to 0:15:56.560 --> 0:15:57.560 see how he was going to. 0:15:57.560 --> 0:15:58.960 Get out of it, because he always did. 0:16:01.080 --> 0:16:03.480 Yeah, that's a fun that's a fun comp I had 0:16:03.520 --> 0:16:06.640 not thought of Doug Davis, but I can definitely see 0:16:06.640 --> 0:16:10.960 where you're coming. From There's something with Brat that I'm 0:16:11.000 --> 0:16:16.040 not sure I've fully wrapped my mind around, but like 0:16:16.200 --> 0:16:19.760 teams just really struggle to square him up in a 0:16:19.800 --> 0:16:22.520 way that I don't know if I fully understand, but 0:16:22.560 --> 0:16:24.920 it has felt like a very real thing up to 0:16:24.960 --> 0:16:27.320 this point in his career. I mentioned the one to 0:16:27.440 --> 0:16:32.600 nineteen expected batting average entering or in this game for 0:16:32.680 --> 0:16:35.480 the San Diego Padres. You also look at his numbers 0:16:35.520 --> 0:16:39.360 for the season and you look at the underlying data 0:16:39.680 --> 0:16:42.840 against him, and opposing teams really have not done much 0:16:42.920 --> 0:16:45.600 damage when they've put the ball in play. The issue 0:16:45.760 --> 0:16:48.000 was just, you know, he was walking too many guys, 0:16:48.000 --> 0:16:50.360 and he wasn't missing all that many bats, but there 0:16:50.400 --> 0:16:53.120 seemed to be this kind of soft contact element to 0:16:53.240 --> 0:16:57.240 his game, and we absolutely saw that here here in 0:16:57.280 --> 0:17:00.920 this one. Hard to do better than limiting the Padres 0:17:00.960 --> 0:17:04.200 to one hit over seven innings, I guess if you're nitpicking, 0:17:04.280 --> 0:17:06.880 which you kind of alluded to this, yeah, maybe you'd 0:17:06.960 --> 0:17:09.080 like to see him not walk the first batter of 0:17:09.119 --> 0:17:12.280 an inning quite so often. The leadoff man for the 0:17:12.320 --> 0:17:15.960 Padres reached in innings two through five, three of those 0:17:16.080 --> 0:17:19.040 via the walk, but also those were the only four 0:17:19.080 --> 0:17:23.320 base runners that he allowed the entire night, so you 0:17:23.440 --> 0:17:26.199 really can't be too upset about that, but it is 0:17:26.280 --> 0:17:29.720 this strange phenomenon. I think Bratt talked about this after 0:17:29.760 --> 0:17:33.880 a recent outing, where he feels more comfortable somehow once 0:17:33.920 --> 0:17:38.320 there's somebody on base, and the numbers definitely bear that out. 0:17:38.400 --> 0:17:39.280 Up to this point. 0:17:39.760 --> 0:17:43.760 This is entering today, Bratt had a six h four 0:17:43.920 --> 0:17:48.360 ops against with runners on base and a twelve seventy 0:17:48.400 --> 0:17:52.600 eight ops against with the bases empty. So I don't 0:17:52.600 --> 0:17:54.840 know if that's a thing, Jack. It's maybe something that 0:17:54.880 --> 0:17:58.920 you'd like Bratt to not have to rely on so much, 0:17:59.720 --> 0:18:02.560 but something about getting someone on first base that just 0:18:02.600 --> 0:18:05.400 seems to allow him to dial things in. 0:18:06.480 --> 0:18:08.719 Well, that's an interesting stat I wasn't aware of that one. 0:18:08.760 --> 0:18:10.920 You blow me away, Jesse. It's so much fun doing 0:18:11.040 --> 0:18:13.879 this podcast with you, because you just surprised me with 0:18:13.960 --> 0:18:15.879 stuff left, right and center all the time. 0:18:17.840 --> 0:18:20.080 It kind of blew my mind too. I didn't think 0:18:20.119 --> 0:18:22.680 the difference would be that stark, but it is. If 0:18:22.720 --> 0:18:25.760 you also look at the leading off an inning opposing 0:18:25.840 --> 0:18:29.480 hitters or ten for twenty two with six walks in 0:18:29.560 --> 0:18:32.720 twenty eight played appearances, So like really rough numbers the 0:18:32.720 --> 0:18:35.160 first battered an inning, but then he has this way 0:18:35.200 --> 0:18:37.239 of just kind of dialing it in after that. 0:18:38.440 --> 0:18:42.639 Yeah, is he winding up with nobody on base and 0:18:42.680 --> 0:18:44.240 then going to the stretch or is he pitched me 0:18:44.240 --> 0:18:45.160 from the stretcher all the time? 0:18:45.200 --> 0:18:47.240 You know, I should know that, and for some reason, 0:18:47.280 --> 0:18:48.640 my brain is blanking. 0:18:48.720 --> 0:18:50.760 If anyone in the comments can remind me on that, 0:18:50.920 --> 0:18:54.200 let me know, because if he's winding up with nobody 0:18:54.200 --> 0:18:56.600 on base and then going to the stretch, maybe he's 0:18:56.640 --> 0:18:58.320 a candidate to just go straight stretch. 0:18:59.640 --> 0:19:02.280 Yeah, that's an interesting thought. I'm not one hundred percent 0:19:02.320 --> 0:19:05.639 sure on that myself, but yeah, what we do know 0:19:05.760 --> 0:19:08.359 is Mitch Bratt now has a three point nine zero era. 0:19:09.240 --> 0:19:12.680 I'll go ahead and throw his pitch chart from tonight 0:19:13.200 --> 0:19:15.920 up here. You can see there are a few bigger 0:19:15.960 --> 0:19:19.520 misses here and there some uncompetitive pitches being thrown around. 0:19:20.080 --> 0:19:22.600 But what felt unique about this game is he really 0:19:22.720 --> 0:19:24.920 was in the zone quite a bit. His zone rate 0:19:25.000 --> 0:19:28.720 was fifty five percent, which is very very good. It's 0:19:28.760 --> 0:19:32.480 actually higher than his zone rate was down in Reno 0:19:32.800 --> 0:19:35.560 by a few percentage points. So good to see him 0:19:35.600 --> 0:19:40.320 show that he can hit the plate with regularity at 0:19:40.400 --> 0:19:44.880 the big league level, and some kind of crazy facts 0:19:44.640 --> 0:19:48.280 on this. This is from our pal Alex Weiner over 0:19:48.320 --> 0:19:51.320 at Arizona Sports. He pointed out that Brad is the 0:19:51.359 --> 0:19:54.960 youngest pitcher in d BAC's history to throw at least 0:19:55.040 --> 0:19:58.000 seven innings with zero earned runs and one hit in 0:19:58.040 --> 0:20:02.320 a start. According to Head. There's another nugget here from 0:20:02.440 --> 0:20:06.280 opt to stats that the Diamondbacks just retweeted on Twitter. 0:20:07.400 --> 0:20:09.359 This one's a little bit niche, but it's still kind 0:20:09.400 --> 0:20:13.120 of fun. Since pitches were first tracked in nineteen eighty eight, 0:20:13.200 --> 0:20:17.199 Brat is the only rookie lefty in MLB to have 0:20:17.240 --> 0:20:20.040 an outing where a toss seven or more innings, allowed 0:20:20.240 --> 0:20:23.520 no more than one hit, struck out nine or more batters, 0:20:23.600 --> 0:20:27.679 threw under one hundred pitches, and earned the win. So 0:20:27.880 --> 0:20:30.600 I know, there's kind of a lot of qualifiers in there. 0:20:30.720 --> 0:20:35.160 It seems like OPTA stats really specializes in those, But hey, 0:20:35.440 --> 0:20:37.640 I don't know, Maybe we just say that Mitch Brad 0:20:37.720 --> 0:20:40.480 is the best rookie starting pitcher since nineteen eighty eight. 0:20:40.520 --> 0:20:42.760 I mean, that's what I That's what I take from that. Jack. 0:20:43.640 --> 0:20:46.000 Yeah, well, he's at least the best rookie starting pitcher 0:20:46.080 --> 0:20:46.879 since Paul Schemes. 0:20:46.920 --> 0:20:48.200 How's that sure? 0:20:48.400 --> 0:20:49.280 Yeah, I think we can. 0:20:49.400 --> 0:20:52.920 I think we can say that, uh yeah, really really 0:20:52.920 --> 0:20:55.520 good stuff from Brad in this one. I do think 0:20:55.560 --> 0:20:58.159 it's you know, his like fip inex FIP. If you 0:20:58.160 --> 0:21:00.640 look at his underlying numbers for this season, and frankly 0:21:00.680 --> 0:21:03.040 there's still not in line with a three nine zero era. 0:21:03.640 --> 0:21:06.119 His FIP is five five zero, his ex FIP is 0:21:06.119 --> 0:21:08.760 five nine to two. But we're talking about a pretty 0:21:08.760 --> 0:21:11.360