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Speaker 1: Today is April ninth, and this is Fish Stripes Podcast

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Speaker 1: with an episode of Big Fish, Little Pod and looking

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Speaker 1: at last night's lost against the Mets, the drum has

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Speaker 1: been beaten all the way around. On Twitter, Anthony Reeber

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Speaker 1: had a moment to talk with umpire Ron Kuopa as

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Speaker 1: a poor reporter, and reportedly Ron has said with regards

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Speaker 1: to with regards to Confordo in the ninth inning of

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Speaker 1: last night's game, that the guy was hit by the

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Speaker 1: pitch in the strike zone. I should have called him act.

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Speaker 1: So that's what I mean by the drum has been

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Speaker 1: beaten all the way around. This Marlin's loss has resulted

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Speaker 1: in everyone's acknowledgment that of just an umpire's simple mistake.

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Speaker 1: Now in that ninth inning, to that point, Anthony Bass

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Speaker 1: had already blown the save on a Jeff McNeil home

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Speaker 1: run on a sinker that stayed in the middle of

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Speaker 1: the zone. It did not cut to a corner, it

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Speaker 1: did not get out of the way of the bat.

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Speaker 1: It was a poorly located sinker, and Anthony Bass has

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Speaker 1: had noted control troubles so far this year. In his

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Speaker 1: first blown save of the year, this is now his

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Speaker 1: second in two chances. His sinker tonight was the issue,

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Speaker 1: but last week it was the splitter. He didn't even

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Speaker 1: throw it that last night. He's clearly acknowledging some mistakes

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Speaker 1: of in games and taking accountability trying to be better

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Speaker 1: for it. And thankfully, unlike the final judgment of umpires

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Speaker 1: in Major League Baseball and last night's game, it can

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Speaker 1: be a progression for Anthony Bass, who still has the

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Speaker 1: same stuff that he's featured. He just needs to make

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Speaker 1: some tweaks to locate his pitches consistently, and obviously ELI

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Speaker 1: has a lot to say on that subject in the

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Speaker 1: game recap, And ultimately, what we saw last night is

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Speaker 1: with that final score of three to two, we saw

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Speaker 1: a Marlins team that only scored two runs against Taiwan

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Speaker 1: Walker and the Mets, and that is not good enough.

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Speaker 1: This Marlins team has only scored more than two runs twice,

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Speaker 1: both times were against the Rays. One time they scored

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Speaker 1: four runs. Then on their victory, their Saturday Night win,

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Speaker 1: they scored twelve runs, and undeniably that twelve run night

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Speaker 1: was a night that the offense broke out, so to speak.

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Speaker 1: But the bats haven't come alive for any meaningful amount

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Speaker 1: of time. Yet in twenty twenty one, that's yet to happen. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: if this were in the middle of June, you might

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Speaker 1: say the bats are cold. But since it's the start

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Speaker 1: of the year so far, we've just seen the bats

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Speaker 1: be cold. By no means will that be the case.

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Speaker 1: There are a lot of reasons to kind of find

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Speaker 1: promise in these Marlins bats. For instance, Starley Marte he

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Speaker 1: struck out four times in the first game, but has

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Speaker 1: reached big safely every game since then. Corey Dickerson had

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Speaker 1: an important double today, drove in John Birdie for a

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Speaker 1: run that represented just a solid hit for a veteran

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Speaker 1: player that gets a fair amount of scrutiny for his

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Speaker 1: lack of production. But it's kind in like nomenclatcher as

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Speaker 1: a quote professional hitter, and there are many strengths of

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Speaker 1: Corey Dickerson's game. Looking at his approach at the plate,

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Speaker 1: what he does regularly is he takes pitches. He takes

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Speaker 1: a lot of pitches. He makes a pitcher work when

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Speaker 1: he needs to, when he's down in the count, he

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Speaker 1: chokes up on the bat and he'll foul off pitches.

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Speaker 1: This Marlins team has a generally disciplined approach. Looking at

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Speaker 1: Baseball Reference, there in the top five of three to

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Speaker 1: zero counts. They are in the top five of just

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Speaker 1: contact percent and avoiding the swinging strike. This team as

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Speaker 1: a whole is focused and succeeding at the idea of

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Speaker 1: making contact and defending the zone and doing all the

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Speaker 1: defensive things right against a picture. But what they haven't

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Speaker 1: done yet with any sustained success is putting the ball

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Speaker 1: on the ground ahead of them and between the lines

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Speaker 1: and hit after hit. Looking at the Cardinal Series, we

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Speaker 1: saw just a lot of runners left on base. It's

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Speaker 1: a lack of teeth in the lineup. They have an

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Speaker 1: approach that has put some pictures in hot water. Think

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Speaker 1: about Gant in that Cardinal Series where he would get

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Speaker 1: wild and the Martins and get the bases loaded, but

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Speaker 1: they wouldn't convert. They'd get a leadoff double by Jazz Chisholm,

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Speaker 1: but they wouldn't convert. Then yesterday against Fleridio was similar issues. Apologies,

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Speaker 1: not quite yesterday. This was recorded last night. But against

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Speaker 1: Flairty they did not really score. Yesterday against Tywan Walker,

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Speaker 1: they did not get too deep into the box score.

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Speaker 1: It's sad. I mean Corey Dickerson had two of the

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Speaker 1: team's five hits, and on five hits, you you're not

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Speaker 1: going to get more than five runs. You just aren't

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Speaker 1: going to even with the walks. It's one thing to

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Speaker 1: have a team and get a pitcher in hot water.

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Speaker 1: You can make an opposing pitcher sweat, you can make

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Speaker 1: them work. But ultimately this team needs to be knocking

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Speaker 1: out starters. They need to be winning. They need to

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Speaker 1: be a reason why the Marlins are in a position

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Speaker 1: to win the game in the ninth not just because

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Speaker 1: they got a couple of runs and their pitchers. Their

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Speaker 1: starting pitcher dominated or did what Nick Knighter did today,

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Speaker 1: which was got into some trouble but ultimately did win

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Speaker 1: his matchups against the Mets when they mattered. This Marlins

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Speaker 1: team needs to be winning the matchups when they matter,

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Speaker 1: and they need to be making more matchups matter. Saturday,

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Speaker 1: the Marlins will look to avenge this systematic failure of

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Speaker 1: Major League Baseball and show these Mets who they are.

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Speaker 1: Show this National League East Division favorite New York Mets

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Speaker 1: team that can only win with just the goofy help

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Speaker 1: of Major League Baseball, or whatever systematic failures they can

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Speaker 1: capitalize on or will this Marlins team set them straight?

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Speaker 1: So Saturday game is at one ten. Jacob de Gram

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Speaker 1: gets the hill for the Mets. Trevor Rodgers will be

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Speaker 1: going for the Marlins, and until then, today's off, plenty

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Speaker 1: of time to speculate, plenty of time before lineups are

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Speaker 1: unveiled tomorrow morning and we see how this Marlins attack

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Speaker 1: will line up against the Mets ace. We'll be back

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Speaker 1: to your years on Monday