Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to another episode of Snakes Territory, part
Speaker 1: of the Foul Territory Network. Be sure to like this video,
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Speaker 1: joined by not only Jack Summers but also our good
Speaker 1: friend Alex Weiner from Arizona Sports is here with us
Speaker 1: as well, and fellas I guess, I guess we all
Speaker 1: just saw something kind of cool. Huh.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, we're lucky to have Alex here, and I
Speaker 2: wanted to He's got about two minutes before he's got
Speaker 2: to go write his articles, but I just wanted to
Speaker 2: get his first take on what he saw tonight.
Speaker 3: Just how cool it was. I mean, the atmosphere of
Speaker 3: this game was. I mean, Meryl Kelly talked about it
Speaker 3: as playoff like as we've seen all season, both with
Speaker 3: you know, the crowd on the Dodgers side the crowd
Speaker 3: on the Diamondback side, and I felt like the Diamondbacks
Speaker 3: fans were about as loud for like a Dodgers game
Speaker 3: as I've heard in a while. When Cormack Carroll made
Speaker 3: that catch in the second inning, and then of course
Speaker 3: when walshmid hit that ball in the ninth So, just
Speaker 3: in terms of like the intensity of the game and
Speaker 3: having a rookie come through in the ninth inning in
Speaker 3: that kind of a moment, I just thought it was
Speaker 3: kind of a special night for the team.
Speaker 2: At the clubhouse. Yeah, the back and forth was tremendous.
Speaker 2: What really stood out to me was during the and
Speaker 2: I mentioned in when we're talking to Toy, the entire
Speaker 2: forty six thousand stood up and were screaming during the
Speaker 2: arnato at that, of course, half screaming for a strikeout,
Speaker 2: half screaming for a base hit, but all forty six
Speaker 2: thousand chanting and cheering back and forth. It was pretty intense.
Speaker 2: It was a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: Well, Alex, I know you got a run, but before
Speaker 1: you go, I am curious. Were you surprised that Edwin
Speaker 1: Diaz threw a slider there to Ryan Waldschmid, Because it
Speaker 1: sure looked to me like he did not have feel
Speaker 1: for his slider and his fastball seemed particularly nasty tonight,
Speaker 1: and yet he through a third slider in the bat.
Speaker 1: I think it was to Waldschmidt, and it was the
Speaker 1: location was not ideal.
Speaker 3: Not not great, right, A little bit On one hand,
Speaker 3: you know, the book on Waldschmid is trying to throw
Speaker 3: that slider low and away out of the zone, try
Speaker 3: to get him to fish for it. But after it
Speaker 3: clearly seemed like he didn't have the right feel for it.
Speaker 3: Like you mentioned, the fastball was working for him. A
Speaker 3: little bit surprised because he would just risk, you know,
Speaker 3: spiking that ball or just hanging one. And you know,
Speaker 3: Waldy only had one career home run going into this tonight,
Speaker 3: but it's been hitting the ball prety darn well lately,
Speaker 3: especially when he's been getting the pitches in the zone
Speaker 3: and checking off the ones he's.
Speaker 2: Not supposed to go for.
Speaker 3: So a little bit yeah, for sure, I mean that's
Speaker 3: kind of how you want to attack him. But yeah,
Speaker 3: it was a hanger.
Speaker 2: I think he was ready for it too. I mean,
Speaker 2: you know, listening to him talk about it in the clubhouse,
Speaker 2: I feel like he was thinking that he might get
Speaker 2: another one. He was, he was all dialed in for
Speaker 2: that pitch.
Speaker 1: I've got the pitch chart here, and yeah, there were two.
Speaker 1: There were two sliders earlier. The at bat Number three
Speaker 1: was kind of way off the h at the outer
Speaker 1: edge of the plate. Number four was also kind of
Speaker 1: a hangar. Wald Schmidt filed that one off and then yeah,
Speaker 1: the sixth pitch of the at batch just kind of
Speaker 1: right in the heart of the plate. Ryan Waldschmid did
Speaker 1: not miss it four hundred and eleven feet. I was,
Speaker 1: at least from the broadcast, I wasn't really sure if
Speaker 1: that pitch was gone. H did you guys wasn't like
Speaker 1: pretty safely gone right off the bat.
Speaker 2: Actually, Waldy himself wasn't even one hundred percent sure. He
Speaker 2: said he took off out of the box thinking I've
Speaker 2: got a run because I need to get on the
Speaker 2: third base so that make it easier for the next
Speaker 2: guy to come in. He didn't realize was gone till he,
Speaker 2: you know, around the first base. Tory said that he
Speaker 2: didn't see it right away, that I think it was
Speaker 2: the hitting coach Joe Madden.
Speaker 3: Now that was the first one to hop up out
Speaker 3: of the dugout.
Speaker 2: Yeah, kind of everybody followed, Yeah.
Speaker 3: I thought I was going to bang off the wall personally, and.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, it looked like it looked like a
Speaker 2: gapper and then at the last minute it went out.
Speaker 2: I was a little surprised.
Speaker 3: Huh, Right, I got a JCOB concert to write through.
Speaker 3: But thanks for having me Fellas.
Speaker 2: Thank you much friend.
Speaker 1: Thanks for hopping in Alex. We appreciate it. I guess
Speaker 1: Alex has like a real job that he's supposed to
Speaker 1: do from the ballpark, so fun of him to stop buying. Nonetheless,
Speaker 1: Jack just an unbelievable win here for the Diamondbacks, final
Speaker 1: score of four to three, a game that was looking
Speaker 1: good for a while there, Diamondbacks up to nothing after
Speaker 1: five innings, Merrill Kelly had a no hitter going, and
Speaker 1: then things just kind of turned south gradually in the sixth, seventh,
Speaker 1: and eighth innings. Dodgers able to put up a run
Speaker 1: in each of those frames. And it started in the
Speaker 1: sixth with Merrill Kelly. It seemed like the command just
Speaker 1: very much fell off. I know you and I were texting,
Speaker 1: and you were wondering if Merrill's command might fall off
Speaker 1: in general, just because he'd been sitting down for a while.
Speaker 1: The d Backs their bottom of the fifth against Roki Sasaki.
Speaker 1: He was pretty lengthy, which is a good thing, but
Speaker 1: it also meant that Merrill had to kind of just
Speaker 1: sit there and wait for a good while, and his command,
Speaker 1: sure enough, was not as sharp coming back out in
Speaker 1: the sixth couple of walks there, and then he winds
Speaker 1: up leaving the game. It looked like Toy was gonna
Speaker 1: take him out anyway, I think, but Merrill wound up
Speaker 1: having to leave the game regardless. Trainer Max Esposito goes
Speaker 1: out there and MARYL. Kelly exits the game with cramping.
Speaker 1: Unfortunately for him. That's been kind of a trend throughout
Speaker 1: his Diamondbacks career.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Meryl said that there wasn't really any indication before
Speaker 2: that sixth inning. He said it was hot and for
Speaker 2: you know and Muggy throughout the building today as well
Speaker 2: as on the field. Of course, when there's forty six
Speaker 2: thousand plus fans in the stands, you know you're gonna
Speaker 2: it's gonna get a little hotter. But Tory noticed about
Speaker 2: seven or eight pitches in that things weren't quite right,
Speaker 2: and that's when he started maneuvering into seven. Eight pitches
Speaker 2: into the inning is when he got up. So you know,
Speaker 2: it just took a little while to get him, get
Speaker 2: him warmed up and ready to get in the game.
Speaker 2: But by the time Merrill threw that last pitch, you
Speaker 2: could see the way he finished off the pitch and
Speaker 2: was kind of walking awkwardly that something was wrong, and
Speaker 2: we all assumed it was cramping, and sure enough, an
Speaker 2: inning or two later, they confirmed it light It was
Speaker 2: a right leg hamstring cramp. Speaking to Meryl just now,
Speaker 2: he said he's fine. Both Torri and Merrill said he's
Speaker 2: going to make his next start. The last time this
Speaker 2: happened to Merrow was May of last year, May of
Speaker 2: twenty twenty five, and you know, he had quite a
Speaker 2: few of these episodes over the previous two three years,
Speaker 2: but hadn't had it happen well over a year. So
Speaker 2: you know, here we go having to kind of worry
Speaker 2: about that again a little bit. Hopefully, uh, things will
Speaker 2: cool off here in the valley by next week, and
Speaker 2: then you know he's going to be down in Hot
Speaker 2: Lanta tryly pitching down now. I'm not sure if he
Speaker 2: lines up for the Atlanta seat. And then there's a
Speaker 2: series up in Boston, so we'll see where I haven't
Speaker 2: looked that far out on rotation, we'll see where Merrill
Speaker 2: lands on that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, counting on Phoenix, Arizona to cool off in early August.
Speaker 1: That's a bit of an uphill battle, unfortunately, but Regardless
Speaker 1: of the way Merrill's outing ended, He's still a really
Speaker 1: big part of the storyline of this game to go
Speaker 1: out there and fire five not only scoreless but no
Speaker 1: hit innings and just give the Diamondbacks offense some opportunity
Speaker 1: to kind of catch its breath against a really hard
Speaker 1: thrower in Rookie Sasaki who's been throwing the ball really
Speaker 1: well lately. D BAC's able to push across that second
Speaker 1: run there in the fifth inning, and then Merrill left
Speaker 1: the game with a lead. Despite what happened. What happened
Speaker 1: there in the sixth Toy was pretty aggressive out of
Speaker 1: the bullpen. Juan Mario comes in into that sixth inning,
Speaker 1: is able to get a big strikeout of Max Munsey
Speaker 1: to get the Diamondbacks out of that inning. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, this was This is a really good outing
Speaker 1: for Meryll Kelly overall. Certainly, his struggles against the Dodgers
Speaker 1: over the years are well documented. I know it had
Speaker 1: been a couple of years since he lined up to
Speaker 1: face the Dodgers, which was kind of felt odd given
Speaker 1: how much the Diamondbacks play them. But five and two thirds,
Speaker 1: one run, two hits, there were four walks, but also
Speaker 1: four strikeouts. You'll take that from Mary Kelly against this
Speaker 1: Dodgers offense.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean through the first five innings, you know,
Speaker 2: there was one hard hit ball against him, and that
Speaker 2: was the Tommy Edmund drive to write where Corbyn Carroll
Speaker 2: just made the unbelievable home run robbing play. His chase
Speaker 2: rate was forty percent. He was fourteen for seventeen on
Speaker 2: first pitch strikes. You know, it was really a very
Speaker 2: very strong performance from Merrill Kelly, stronger than most of
Speaker 2: the ones that we've seen from him this year up
Speaker 2: until that sixth inning. So you know, we'll take that
Speaker 2: with a great deal of pleasure. Kelly looks like he's
Speaker 2: for the most part back looks like, you know, five
Speaker 2: or the last six or six or the last seven
Speaker 2: outings have been pretty darn good for him, and that's
Speaker 2: just a huge thing for the Diamondbacks heading down the
Speaker 2: stretch here over the last two months.
Speaker 1: A couple of other big moments in this one. The
Speaker 1: Diamondbacks were again aggressive in the seventh inning with the bullpen.
Speaker 1: Taylor Clark started that inning, struggled, gave up three hits
Speaker 1: in four batters, and then Tory goes out and gets
Speaker 1: Brandon Garcia, and Garcia faces Miguel Rojas, a pinch hitter.
Speaker 1: Rojas does single against him, but then he dials up
Speaker 1: a really big double play with sho Heo Tani at
Speaker 1: the plate. That might have been the big Obviously, the
Speaker 1: wald Schmidt walk off is the biggest moment of the
Speaker 1: game by far, but just setting the stage for wald
Speaker 1: Schmidt to come through late in this one, that might
Speaker 1: have been the biggest moment. I mean, basses loaded one
Speaker 1: out with Otani at the plate, Like, this is why
Speaker 1: the Diamondbacks are the flowing Brandon Garcia in this way,
Speaker 1: this is the case to not make Garcia the closer
Speaker 1: and to make him available anytime you need him in
Speaker 1: the highest leverage moments of the game. It felt like
Speaker 1: from a pitching standpoint, that's kind of where the Diamondbacks
Speaker 1: got their edge tonight.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it was a little bit spoiled by
Speaker 2: giving up the leadoff home run.
Speaker 4: The Andy Pa has the fair the very next pitch
Speaker 4: he threw. Yes, Yes, but yeah, that was a huge moment.
Speaker 4: I mean, even then, at least it was still only
Speaker 4: a one run game.
Speaker 2: He recovered from that home run with three groundbouts of
Speaker 2: four to three, six, three, four to three on my
Speaker 2: score sheet, So I mean, tremendous work by Brandon Garcia.
Speaker 2: And look, you know, someone's going to groove a pitch
Speaker 2: every once in a while, and these are professional hitters.
Speaker 2: You're never going to get away completely unskate. You know,
Speaker 2: I will stick with what I said. I mean, it
Speaker 2: would be nice if they had one other strong lefty
Speaker 2: in the bullpen to kind of work through some of
Speaker 2: these situations and give them a little bit more flexibility.
Speaker 2: But this is what they have, and you know, I
Speaker 2: thought it was a very good deployment at the time,
Speaker 2: and it worked out well. So let's be results oriented here.
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Speaker 1: we didn't know either until about half an hour hour ago.
Speaker 1: We were thinking of doing a show tomorrow morning. That
Speaker 1: was our plan, and then we're like, hey, Jackson the ballpark,
Speaker 1: let's just go live after what wound up being a
Speaker 1: really fun win for this Diamondbacks team. So shout out
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Speaker 1: in this one, Jack, I guess the biggest one that
Speaker 1: stands out to me is Corbyn. Carrol had a pretty
Speaker 1: nice play and right field in this one. And had
Speaker 1: he not made that play, I guess we're still playing
Speaker 1: baseball right now, then maybe this one goes into extra innings.
Speaker 1: It's hard to say.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean I was stunning. I thought, oh, that's
Speaker 2: gone immediately, and then you know, to see him climb
Speaker 2: up well over the top of that fence and pull
Speaker 2: that back in. I was funny listening to Ryan Walshman
Speaker 2: talk about it. He said, you know, he was trying
Speaker 2: to yell to Corbyn and help direct into where the
Speaker 2: ball was, but he says, I was too far away,
Speaker 2: the crowd was too loud. He didn't hear a word.
Speaker 2: I said, he was on his own and then he
Speaker 2: said he lost the ball because of the angle of
Speaker 2: the lights looking towards the right field. So you know,
Speaker 2: I had to go back and look at it a
Speaker 2: couple of times. I have the game feed on my
Speaker 2: computer during the game so I can go back and
Speaker 2: watch replays because you know, it's a little far down
Speaker 2: the right field line. He's old eyeser are not the best,
Speaker 2: so it helps to see live. But all the way
Speaker 2: down in that right field corner you're leaning out going
Speaker 2: like this, it's it's a little tough to see. So
Speaker 2: it was fun watching the replay again see just how
Speaker 2: high up over the wall he got, and you know,
Speaker 2: Meryll with his hands up in the air and just
Speaker 2: and Corbyn had a pretty big smile on his face.
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, the kind of chasure cat, you know,
Speaker 2: So I got away with something there. Smile that he
Speaker 2: had on his face really said at all. By the way,
Speaker 2: a cool little some note Corbyn Carroll's girlfriend saying the
Speaker 2: yeah anthem tonight.
Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe maybe that had something to do with us
Speaker 1: seeing a rare Corbyn Carroll smiled during the game. I
Speaker 1: don't know, maybe felt like he had to knowing that
Speaker 1: she was watching. But yeah, just an unbelievable moment for Corbyn. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: not a not a notable day for him. Offensively, that
Speaker 1: continues to be a work in progress as he tries
Speaker 1: to find his way out of the slump he's been
Speaker 1: in the past couple of months, but the defense has
Speaker 1: certainly remains elite. Corbin entered this game at ten outs
Speaker 1: above average according to Baseball Savant, that's in the ninety
Speaker 1: seventh percentile, and he's kind of just done this every year.
Speaker 1: I mean last year was ninety six percentile, the year
Speaker 1: before that was ninety six percentile. I know, the arm
Speaker 1: with Corbin is never going to be awesome. We've seen
Speaker 1: some positive movement there, sounds like early this season he
Speaker 1: was dealing with an injury that kind of held him
Speaker 1: back in that regard. The arm is never going to
Speaker 1: be elite, but hey, if he's going out there making
Speaker 1: catches like this, it's just another way that he can
Speaker 1: add value to the game even when he's not clicking offensively.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I think also just I want to
Speaker 2: go back to that Nolan Arnado at that too. That
Speaker 2: just the atmosphere during that at bad for me. I
Speaker 2: mean that was the most exciting thing of the game
Speaker 2: up until obviously the walk off homer. That's a sudden
Speaker 2: jolt of and happiness and excitement. But the tension that
Speaker 2: was building during that Arnatto at bat, I mean, that's baseball,
Speaker 2: you know, twelve pitches fouling off, pitch after pitch after pitch,
Speaker 2: and I know that it ended unfortunately, you know, with
Speaker 2: him reaching out and putting a pretty rough swing on
Speaker 2: that last pitch, but you know, he was going against
Speaker 2: Tanner Scott, who's got some nasty movement, and you know,
Speaker 2: battling like that with the bases loaded in a playoff
Speaker 2: like atmosphere, with forty six thousand people screaming, that was
Speaker 2: probably one of for me, one of the most enjoyable,
Speaker 2: exciting moments of the season. So I'm sharing my emotional
Speaker 2: viewpoint on it, not just the analytical viewpoint. To me,
Speaker 2: that's what baseball is all about, you know, It's it's
Speaker 2: the build up of the tension. It's a it's not
Speaker 2: a sport for the faint of heart. Baseball is going
Speaker 2: to do that to us. It's going to put us
Speaker 2: on the edge of our seat. It's gonna crush our
Speaker 2: hearts at times but this is what we're here, folks,
Speaker 2: and I just wanted to share that for me, that
Speaker 2: that at bat was the most exciting part of the game.
Speaker 1: That was such a fascinating inning as a whole. I mean,
Speaker 1: Scott came out and I think made pretty good, pretty
Speaker 1: quick work of Perdomo and Corbyn Carroll, and then Gabby
Speaker 1: Moreno hits that double and it kind of opened Pandora's
Speaker 1: box for the Dodgers because then Katel Marte is up.
Speaker 1: We all know what Katel did in his last bat
Speaker 1: against Tanner Scott. That was the way the Diamondbacks last
Speaker 1: game against the Los Angeles Dodgers ended with a walk
Speaker 1: off home run, So no surprise there. With first base open,
Speaker 1: the Dodgers walk him. But then it's Lars Newbar, and
Speaker 1: as Tory said the other day, he's gonna pinch hit
Speaker 1: for Lars Newbar. Lars is not here, as you know,
Speaker 1: someone who's gonna face both lefties and righty's in all situations.
Speaker 1: The d Backs are gonna go get Ildamara Vargas from
Speaker 1: the bench in those kind of spots and eel tomorrow.
Speaker 1: I know we've at times talked about how like, okay,
Speaker 1: how sustainable is this. He's sitting three forty five this
Speaker 1: season against lefties, and I think Ildamara Vargas against left
Speaker 1: handed pitching, like, that's a skill that we know he has,
Speaker 1: that's legitimate, that he's had for a long time, And
Speaker 1: it felt like Scott just wanted no part of Ildemar
Speaker 1: of Vargas. I think it was three sliders that were
Speaker 1: all pretty far out of the plate, and then it
Speaker 1: was a fastball that I think did clip the zone,
Speaker 1: but the umpire didn't give Scott the call, and so
Speaker 1: Vargas walks. And now you've got the bases loaded with
Speaker 1: two outs and Nolan Arnado at the plate. And I
Speaker 1: showed it earlier, I'll go ahead and do it again.
Speaker 1: This was just an unbelievable at bat. I had the
Speaker 1: same thought as you, Jack, even though this didn't end
Speaker 1: well for the Diamondbacks, just as like a baseball fan
Speaker 1: in general, it was like, Okay, like Nolan Arnado, this
Speaker 1: this baseball legend, future Hall of Famer against one of
Speaker 1: the best relief pitchers in all of baseball, and Tanner
Speaker 1: Scott just going at it. And I thought it was
Speaker 1: cool too. I heard on the postgame show you asked
Speaker 1: Tory about this, and Tory also kind of talked up
Speaker 1: this at bat as being an awesome moment, even though
Speaker 1: it didn't go the Diamondbacks way, like Ronado struck out
Speaker 1: with the bases loaded in two outs. It was crushing
Speaker 1: in the moment. Granted, everything's happy when you know, when
Speaker 1: you win on a walk off, but for for a
Speaker 1: while talking about this moment and just kind of how
Speaker 1: much he was taking it all in.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Toy even talked about how he you know, saw
Speaker 2: I don't know if they that part was on the television,
Speaker 2: but he saw the fan I think, you know, like
Speaker 2: he turned around and he was looking up in the
Speaker 2: stands and he saw like a fan going like this
Speaker 2: with his hands in his head, like couldn't look like
Speaker 2: that kind of stuff that he dialed in on, you know,
Speaker 2: in a moment, like just kind of looking around and
Speaker 2: keyed in on that. So yeah, I mean, it was
Speaker 2: It was cool. It was baseball, It was pure baseball.
Speaker 2: It was gritty, it was tough, you know, and like
Speaker 2: I said, it was it was a great moment for
Speaker 2: me to enjoy it just as a baseball purist, if
Speaker 2: I may again, even though it didn't work out, I
Speaker 2: mean it would have been a hell, you know, and
Speaker 2: he came close, man, I mean, you know, he ripped
Speaker 2: a ball down the line that just kind of hooked
Speaker 2: foul and then he you know, that would have been
Speaker 2: a basis clearing double right there on the spot. You know.
Speaker 2: So that would have been a pretty cool way to
Speaker 2: jump ahead and then go close it out as well.
Speaker 2: But we got to give Waldy as props. I mean,
Speaker 2: you know, I think that Ryan Waldschmidt. We've talked a
Speaker 2: lot about. You know, Okay, the strikeout rates high, and
Speaker 2: he's got an unsustainable babbit and all that, but he's
Speaker 2: making adjustments, he's making changes, he's improving little by little,
Speaker 2: and you know, obviously when you get a walk off
Speaker 2: like this. He told us tonight, this is the first
Speaker 2: time he's ever hit a walk off home run since
Speaker 2: travel ball, like when he was twelve or thirteen. Wow,
Speaker 2: he had never done it in high school, college or
Speaker 2: the miners. So he said, he's had walk off hits before,
Speaker 2: but it was his first walk off homer. And even
Speaker 2: I had like a little sidebar chat with him, and
Speaker 2: I said, hey, you know, I'm an analyst and I
Speaker 2: do what I do, and so I'm going to look
Speaker 2: at the numbers and I think you've seen some of it.
Speaker 2: And he laughed, and he goes, don't worry. He goes,
Speaker 2: you're not telling me anything. I don't know. And there's
Speaker 2: nobody a harsher critic than myself and all of that.
Speaker 2: Very very nice guy, you know, took it all very well,
Speaker 2: and I appreciated him for that. So Ryan Waldschmidt, I mean,
Speaker 2: you know, this is a guy that the Dbacks are
Speaker 2: really counting on, and hopefully this is something that propels
Speaker 2: him into a more consistent approach at the plate. I
Speaker 2: think what he's learning from this, you know, the at
Speaker 2: batch and maturity. Little by little, you can see it
Speaker 2: coming around and so more. Please. But this is really
Speaker 2: what they needed, and it's a good thing that they
Speaker 2: didn't trade him.
Speaker 1: I guess, yeah, I was just thinking the exact same thing.
Speaker 1: I mean, if if anyone out there was thinking the
Speaker 1: d Backs should have been willing to trade Ryan Waldschmith
Speaker 1: for a rental, I mean, after tonight, given what he's
Speaker 1: meant to this team in the second half so far,
Speaker 1: is a really hard case to make. I mean, especially
Speaker 1: given like I know, Jordan Lawler could be back here
Speaker 1: pretty soon. But if Ryan Walschman isn't on this team,
Speaker 1: I mean, I guess, I guess Tyler Lockleer maybe plays
Speaker 1: first base every day, Tim Tawa shifts out to center
Speaker 1: something like that. But you know, it's not as if
Speaker 1: the Diamondbacks have all this depth right now of quality outfielders.
Speaker 1: It's kind of just been Corbyn, Carroll and Wright and
Speaker 1: them just kind of trying to put things together in
Speaker 1: center field and in left field, and you know, the sustainability,
Speaker 1: the babbit all that stuff, like, there are some conversations
Speaker 1: to be had there, but the guy is hitting two
Speaker 1: ninety two with a seven forty eight ops and playing
Speaker 1: a pretty darn good center field in the process. We
Speaker 1: certainly saw that in the game yesterday against San Diego.
Speaker 1: I mean, that just has so much value, and it's
Speaker 1: sort of like, heck, even if you're talking about a
Speaker 1: controlable piece, even if you're talking about Jose Soriano come
Speaker 1: into the Diamondbacks. I think he made his debut for
Speaker 1: Toronto tonight, didn't get out of the fifth inning. I'll add,
Speaker 1: that's that's a a. I don't know if it's obvious
Speaker 1: that you would rather have Jose Soriano right now than
Speaker 1: Ryan Waldschmidt, and certainly Walschmidt is under club control for
Speaker 1: a whole lot longer than Soriano would have been. So
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to like absolve Mike Hazen of any
Speaker 1: responsibility here or saying that there was no way for
Speaker 1: the d Backs to get more at the deadline without
Speaker 1: dealing Waldschmidt. But you feel pretty good holding on to
Speaker 1: this guy Jack and having him be a Diamondback for
Speaker 1: a long time.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, look, I think it was a totally
Speaker 2: reasonable stance that I'm not trading Ryan Walshmian for a rental. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you know, which that was a stance, and that was
Speaker 2: the correct stance, and I don't think anybody's going to
Speaker 2: argue that I never criticized that specifically, you know, not
Speaker 2: trading Walshman for a rental. So you know, this is
Speaker 2: where we're at. By the way, I think Ray lost
Speaker 2: to night. He gave up four runs in five innings
Speaker 2: with like five walks or something, So not a great
Speaker 2: night for him either. Just a little sidebar there. Deeb
Speaker 2: actually pretty well today, with the rest of the division
Speaker 2: and the wild card contenders mostly losing, except for I
Speaker 2: think the Cardinals.
Speaker 1: That is a great segue, Jack. Here are the NL
Speaker 1: wild card standings after this one. The Padres did lose.
Speaker 1: The Phillies lost as well. Phillies made a late comeback
Speaker 1: attempt in their game, I think it was against Toronto,
Speaker 1: but they fell fell just short at the end. So
Speaker 1: Diamondbacks now technically occupy the second wild card spot. They
Speaker 1: have the tiebreaker with the Phillies right now. Phillies in
Speaker 1: that third wild card spot then, and then San Diego
Speaker 1: now two games out, the Cardinals three and a half,
Speaker 1: and then everyone else is four games out or more
Speaker 1: at that point the Cubs do keep winning, Jack, I'm
Speaker 1: not I'm not feeling, you know, so bullish about the
Speaker 1: diamondbacks chances to catch Chicago. Given the way that PCA
Speaker 1: in particular is playing right now, he looks like a
Speaker 1: very legitimate MVP candidate alongside show Heyo Tani. But yeah,
Speaker 1: the Diamondbacks are are in a pretty good spot once
Speaker 1: again in the wild card race, and you know, maybe
Speaker 1: maybe we do got to start pulling out the NL
Speaker 1: West standings here, Jack, because I think it's what down
Speaker 1: to seven games now seven and a half. D Backs
Speaker 1: are seven and a half out of out of first
Speaker 1: place in the NL West. So yeah, maybe we're still
Speaker 1: getting a little ahead of ourselves there. If the Dbacs
Speaker 1: find a way to magically win the next two games
Speaker 1: as well, maybe that conversation gets a little more interesting.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, you get this down the five and
Speaker 2: a half games, five games, and you know, you have
Speaker 2: a little bit of a race there. So we'll see
Speaker 2: what happens. But you know that I mentioned it in
Speaker 2: the last show and I was kind of almost tongue
Speaker 2: in cheek, like, hey, this could happen, you never know,
Speaker 2: and obviously another win tonight and shaving a little bit
Speaker 2: more off of tonight. You know, I'm still skeptical like
Speaker 2: everybody else. But I'll just say it again. Man, would
Speaker 2: that be hella cool? Yeah? That would just be the
Speaker 2: most awesome thing, And there's no other way to describe it.
Speaker 2: I mean, that would just be an amazing thing. And
Speaker 2: you look at just weird things that are happening in baseball,
Speaker 2: like the Red Sox, you know, going from the worst
Speaker 2: record in baseball. I think they were thirty two and
Speaker 2: forty six or something, and since then they're thirty one
Speaker 2: and five. I don't know the exact numbers, but they're
Speaker 2: on another nine game winning streak. You know, weird things
Speaker 2: happen in this sport, and you know, hopefully Dbacks can
Speaker 2: make something really weird happen as well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, even if it was just like a
Speaker 1: Grace in September, I mean, that would be pretty fun
Speaker 1: in and of itself. Gonna be a serious uphill battle
Speaker 1: for the diamondback to make up that much ground, But
Speaker 1: who knows, Jack, Dodgers have now lost seven consecutive games,
Speaker 1: which is something that I never really thought I would
Speaker 1: say in the year twenty twenty six. They do not
Speaker 1: have a win in the Trek Schooble era, if you will.
Speaker 1: So they're they're kind of reeling right now. And I
Speaker 1: have to be honest, watching Edwin Diaz tonight, I'm a
Speaker 1: little surprised that the Dodgers got him back from what
Speaker 1: was a pretty significant injury and just immediately plugged him
Speaker 1: back into these sorts of situations. It feels like they've
Speaker 1: they've got to have better options on that team right now.
Speaker 2: He's allowed runs in three of the four games that
Speaker 2: he's pitched since he's Yeah, so you know, I'll say
Speaker 2: again more please.
Speaker 1: The Dodgers signed Diaz to a three year, sixty nine
Speaker 1: million dollar contract this offseason, and I believe he's now
Speaker 1: pitched about ten innings and those ten innings have not
Speaker 1: been good, not at all. Granted, there's deferrals in there
Speaker 1: as well, so maybe it's not a true sixty nine
Speaker 1: million dollars, but it's still a whole lot of money. Jack,
Speaker 1: I know you have some injury news for us. What
Speaker 1: do you got on that front from Chase Field?
Speaker 2: So we have a whole lot, We have a whole
Speaker 2: lot of injury news. I mean, the word came out
Speaker 2: earlier today. Many people may already be aware. Ajpuck's season
Speaker 2: is over. He will not be back this year. He's
Speaker 2: shut down for the year. He suffered that shoulder capsule
Speaker 2: sprain during his rehab and it's not going to be
Speaker 2: able to make it back. There's not going to be
Speaker 2: enough time. Based on his most recent MRI, I think
Speaker 2: or throwing he was still symptomatic and they just shut
Speaker 2: it down. So he'll be a free agent at the
Speaker 2: end of the season. He pitched thirty five fabulous innings
Speaker 2: for the Arizona Diamondbacks to a one point seven eight ERA.
Speaker 2: Of course, most of that work was done in twenty
Speaker 2: twenty four from the trade deadline on, and we wish
Speaker 2: Ajpuck the best. We don't know if he'll ever pitch
Speaker 2: again for the Diamondbacks. Of course, that would take a
Speaker 2: contract and for him to come back here as a
Speaker 2: free agent, So we'll see where things land there. None
Speaker 2: of that's predictable at this time. So that's the first
Speaker 2: thing I want to mention.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that is that is a bummer. It is not
Speaker 1: all that surprising, though, given you have elbow surgery and
Speaker 1: then you have a big shoulder issue on the heels
Speaker 1: of that, It's like, all right, it felt it felt
Speaker 1: like it was going to be a miracle for Puck
Speaker 1: to make it back in time.
Speaker 2: Right next, Well, I'm going to jump to Tommy Troy,
Speaker 2: even though that's not really the top priority, but I've
Speaker 2: been asked about it a couple times by John and
Speaker 2: the chat. So Tommy Troy tomorrow will be taking live
Speaker 2: BP to test out how that shoulder feels. So once
Speaker 2: he has that live BP session tomorrow, seeing how that
Speaker 2: sprain DAC joint has responded, see if he's still symptomatic,
Speaker 2: then they'll decide next steps. Typically in this situation, he
Speaker 2: might play a couple of continuation camp games, or what
Speaker 2: they call bridge camp games over at the Salt River Fields,
Speaker 2: and if those go smoothly, then they'll start to transition
Speaker 2: him out on a rehab assignment. With as crowded as
Speaker 2: the outfield is and going to be very shortly. You know,
Speaker 2: who knows when he'll be back on the major league roster.
Speaker 2: We'll just have to see how all of that plays out.
Speaker 2: It's just not anything that we can answer at this time.
Speaker 2: Tommy Troy is probably at least two three weeks out
Speaker 2: from being ready to re enter major league play in
Speaker 2: the first place. I really don't expect to see him
Speaker 2: before September. So that's a Tommy Troy update. And we're
Speaker 2: going to jump right into Jordan Lawler. So Jordan Lawler
Speaker 2: was supposed to play tonight and tomorrow night in Amarillo,
Speaker 2: and after the two games back to back here and
Speaker 2: Amarillo again, then he's going out next week, most likely
Speaker 2: to Reno. Reno plays in Tacoma on Tuesday the eleven
Speaker 2: and Wednesday the twelfth, and the game plan is to
Speaker 2: have him play at least a couple more games there.
Speaker 2: Tory was very forthright about the fact that they want
Speaker 2: to take their time with Jordan Lawler. They don't want
Speaker 2: to push him. He's a scuttled too long an injury history,
Speaker 2: so they're trying to give him enough time to get ready.
Speaker 2: And I'm one hundred percent on board with that. I
Speaker 2: asked story, is there a chance that Jordan could return
Speaker 2: by the Atlanta series on the road or during the
Speaker 2: road trip, and Tory did not rule that out. He said, yeah,
Speaker 2: I think that's a possibility, but he couldn't confirm it,
Speaker 2: of course. So right now, I think what we're seeing
Speaker 2: here is minimum seven more days before Jordan Lawler could
Speaker 2: be activated, could be as many as ten. So basically,
Speaker 2: look for him maybe in the Brave series, if not
Speaker 2: by then, maybe by the Red Sox series out on
Speaker 2: the road. So those are the Jordan Lawler updates now
Speaker 2: when Jordan comes back. I put up a Twitter poll today,
Speaker 2: you know, just what will the Diamondbacks do when he
Speaker 2: comes back? It wasn't a what should they do? It
Speaker 2: was what will they do? And I put four options,
Speaker 2: which was option Tyler Locklear, option Tim Tower because those
Speaker 2: are the two guys with options or DFA, Max Kepler
Speaker 2: or DFA or Hey Barosa well, nobody liked Tory Barosa,
Speaker 2: so everybody voted for Barosa. But I was asking what
Speaker 2: will they do, not what should they do? So Jesse,
Speaker 2: I'm curious your take on that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm looking at the poll now, which has two
Speaker 1: forty six votes by the way, so wow, everyone go
Speaker 1: go follow atsho was their fifty nine on Twitter and
Speaker 1: get your get your votes in. Yeah, so what will
Speaker 1: they do? Option Tyler Locklear, Option Tim Tawa DFA, Max
Speaker 1: Kepler DFA, Ri Barosa. Yeah, I haven't seen the results.
Speaker 1: I'm curious what it'll be. I don't think Option Tim
Speaker 1: Tawa is going to be in there. I think given
Speaker 1: what he's shown just in the past few days, I
Speaker 1: think there's no way people are gonna are gonna want that,
Speaker 1: and I don't think the Diamondbacks will do that. So
Speaker 1: it's one of the other three. Tyler Locklear has shown
Speaker 1: enough positive signs that I think he's in a decent
Speaker 1: spot right now, and that leaves us with Max Kepler
Speaker 1: and Jorge Barossa. So that's tough. I think that Max
Speaker 1: Kepler is in a position where he has to hit,
Speaker 1: and he has to hit kind of soon, and I
Speaker 1: guess that a bat there in the ninth inning was
Speaker 1: maybe a good start for him to kind of get
Speaker 1: things back on track. It was a really nice at bat,
Speaker 1: drawing a walk to set up the Ryan Walschmant walk off.
Speaker 1: But you're gonna need to see Max Kepler sluck. He's
Speaker 1: not on the roster for his defense or for his
Speaker 1: base running. He's on the roster to hit, and specifically
Speaker 1: to hit right handed pitching. And if he's not hitting
Speaker 1: right handed pitching at at least a close to average clip,
Speaker 1: which he has not done at all up to this point,
Speaker 1: he doesn't really have value on the roster, whereas I
Speaker 1: think Hory Barossa, even though people are not necessarily the
Speaker 1: biggest Tory Barrosa fans, I can see that's the sentiment
Speaker 1: out there. He does have some value, as at least
Speaker 1: the perceived value as a base runner late in the game,
Speaker 1: like he did tonight he stole a base, and as
Speaker 1: a defensive substitution, which I know has also been a
Speaker 1: point of controversy here in recent days. Walschmid has looked
Speaker 1: pretty good out there. But yeah, I think I land
Speaker 1: on I think I land on DFA Max Kepler. If
Speaker 1: Kepler continues to struggle as he has, but that's a
Speaker 1: big if. I mean, if he turns things around, then
Speaker 1: I would maybe see it going a different direction.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I'm trying to handicap what the team
Speaker 2: will do, and the one thing that catches my attention
Speaker 2: is just how little Tyler Lockley is playing.
Speaker 1: That's true.
Speaker 2: Very often, the guy that you see that is not
Speaker 2: getting hardly any playing time is the guy that ends
Speaker 2: up getting removed from the roster, right because they're not
Speaker 2: using him anyway.
Speaker 1: It's a good point. It is also the path of
Speaker 1: least resistance sort of, whereas you're not having a DFA
Speaker 1: and he stays in the organization, and that's that's a
Speaker 1: big factor too, right.
Speaker 2: So you know, I think that it's going to be
Speaker 2: one of those two, you know. And I didn't give
Speaker 2: people the option to vote for two, you know, but
Speaker 2: I think it's going to likely be either option Tyler
Speaker 2: or DFA Max, you know. And like you said, Max
Speaker 2: has to hit, and not just hit, but he's got
Speaker 2: to hit with power. He's got to show us some pop.
Speaker 2: He's there to give them some left handed pop and
Speaker 2: threat down there, you know, batting sixth or fifth or
Speaker 2: wherever he's and or seventh wherever he's at in the order.
Speaker 2: You know, he needs to pop a few more here.
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, he's got what two home runs
Speaker 2: and like one hundred and ten plate appearances. He needs
Speaker 2: to pop out a couple more home runs pretty quickly,
Speaker 2: or I think to say, spot that's my opinion.
Speaker 1: Have you have you seen the results on your on
Speaker 1: your poll? I imagine you probably have.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like sixty one percent Barosa, twenty three percent Locklear,
Speaker 2: fourteen percent Kepler, and two percent Tim O'tower. So you know,
Speaker 2: some people are upset. Why is Tim Tower even on
Speaker 2: the poll? License I got to fill out the poll,
Speaker 2: but these are the options that the q backs have.
Speaker 2: The only other person I could have put on there
Speaker 2: was Ryan Waltschman.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think anyone's voting for that right now,
Speaker 1: so anyway.
Speaker 2: But you know I never put I didn't put Tim
Speaker 2: Tower there as a suggestion. I'm just saying, what do
Speaker 2: you think the d backs will do? And so if
Speaker 2: you don't think it's going to be Tim Tower, then
Speaker 2: don't vote there. There's some other updates I think that
Speaker 2: are worthwhile, just kind of running through real quick. If
Speaker 2: I made us, yeah, go for it. So Michael Soroka
Speaker 2: is certainly going to start on Monday. That's where we're
Speaker 2: headed there. They decided to go with e Rod Sunday,
Speaker 2: partly because of the success that he's had against the
Speaker 2: Dodgers and some of those hitters you know, and controlling
Speaker 2: their left handed lineup. So Michael Soroka will go on Monday.
Speaker 2: It's not official yet, but Tory al but told us that,
Speaker 2: and he also said it on the radio. Lordis Gouriel
Speaker 2: Junior had to push things back a little bit. He
Speaker 2: had some recent imaging that showed his adductor strain is
Speaker 2: not completely resolved. So Lotis is not coming back anytime soon.
Speaker 2: He appears to be a little bit on the Santana
Speaker 2: rehab program. Drey Jamison hip and Pinchmin is throwing a
Speaker 2: bridge game on Saturday. He's supposed to throw one inning
Speaker 2: and twenty five pitches, and if that goes well, he'll
Speaker 2: probably get ready to transition out on a rehab assignment
Speaker 2: as well. So I wouldn't be surprised at all to
Speaker 2: see Dre Jamison back within a couple of weeks. Justin
Speaker 2: Martinez is continue as rehab with Fresno tonight. He probably
Speaker 2: already pitched. People probably have already seen whatever happened. I
Speaker 2: didn't get a chance to look it up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he threw a scoreless inning with a walk and
Speaker 1: a strikeout. I think it was eight of fourteen pitches
Speaker 1: for strikes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, perfect, thank you. So you know, he's on a
Speaker 2: Tuesday Friday program, and so he's probably going to be
Speaker 2: transitioned either Amarilla or Reno next week. We're not sure exactly,
Speaker 2: but Tory had indicated that Tuesday Friday is what they're
Speaker 2: trying to do. And then the question there becomes will
Speaker 2: they want him to throw back to back games before
Speaker 2: he returns to the majors or are they willing to
Speaker 2: bring him back before he's actually done that. So expect
Speaker 2: him to throw next week Tuesday Friday, and then after
Speaker 2: that they'll decide when they want to bring him back
Speaker 2: or whether he needs to hang out a couple more
Speaker 2: days and then throw it back to back and you know,
Speaker 2: so then you look at another week. So Justin Martinez
Speaker 2: is minimum ten days from returning. Still the way I
Speaker 2: see it, Blake Walston, if anyone's curious about him, he
Speaker 2: threw two innings and thirty five pitches on a rehab
Speaker 2: assignment with Reno, or his scheduled to throw two innings
Speaker 2: and thirty five pitches with Reno on August eighth, Saturday.
Speaker 2: Zach Gallon elbow inflammation through a twenty five pitch bullpen.
Speaker 2: He's on a sixty day il, not eligitible return until
Speaker 2: September eighth. Corbyn Burns finally threw a twenty five pitch
Speaker 2: bullpen today, and it was not announced when he'll throw
Speaker 2: his first live pp. We'll find out about that as
Speaker 2: soon as we can.
Speaker 1: That's an outrageous number of injury updates. Jack, you you
Speaker 1: were working overtime tonight of hutting all those together. Oh
Speaker 1: like now. I guess it's just indicative of the season
Speaker 1: the Diamondbacks have had and the number of players that
Speaker 1: they have on the injured list who could play meaningful
Speaker 1: roles for them down the stretch. I did notice that
Speaker 1: Jordan Lawler was lifted in his game today. I assume
Speaker 1: that that's not a cause for alarm. That he probably
Speaker 1: was just going to play seven innings for Amarillo or something.
Speaker 1: Looks like he was lifted for a I'm looking at
Speaker 1: the box score. Somebody else came in and took in
Speaker 1: a bat. I'm not sure if it was a pinch
Speaker 1: hit situation or a pinch I guess it couldn't have
Speaker 1: been a pinch run situation, but maybe it was a
Speaker 1: defensive replacement. I don't know exactly how it happened, but
Speaker 1: probably not cause for alarm there. David Hageman did make
Speaker 1: his double A debut tonight in that same game that
Speaker 1: Jordan Lawler played in. That feels noteworthy. Hageman five innings,
Speaker 1: six hits, two runs, one earned, three walks, ten strikeouts,
Speaker 1: So pretty impressive stuff there for Hageman. He of course,
Speaker 1: is kind of taking Daniel Egan spot in in double A.
Speaker 1: D Backs kind of shuffled some guys around and promoted
Speaker 1: Haghim into to double A here in the past few days.
Speaker 2: Yeah, great updates. So Jesse appreciates you catching up on
Speaker 2: when I wasn't able to get to tonight.
Speaker 1: I try, then I try.
Speaker 2: It's a team work thing, folks, and you know, we
Speaker 2: got to work as a team work here.
Speaker 1: Jack's really doing the heavy lifting by actually being at
Speaker 1: the ballpark for you know, nine hours on a night
Speaker 1: like this, which, speaking of we probably should get you
Speaker 1: out of here before too long, Jack, but before we
Speaker 1: do real quick. The Diamondbacks did make a couple of
Speaker 1: interesting roster moves here in the past couple of days.
Speaker 1: Cole Drake was optioned after his outing against the Padres
Speaker 1: last night, d Backs bringing Cad Stroud as just an
Speaker 1: extra arm out of the bullpen. We were texting back
Speaker 1: and forth about that last night. Kind of wondered if
Speaker 1: that was a possibility. Certainly didn't expect Drake to make
Speaker 1: another start with Michael Soroka returning to the diamond rotation.
Speaker 1: And then the other interesting roster move is that d
Speaker 1: Backs signed Dennis Santana, formerly of the Pittsburgh Pirates. They
Speaker 1: signed him to a minor league deal. They seem to
Speaker 1: have some plans for him, and he's going out to
Speaker 1: the complex and going to do some work in the
Speaker 1: d Backs pitching lab. There's a connection there between him
Speaker 1: and d Back's new assistant GM, Jeremy Blisch, who previously
Speaker 1: worked in the Pirates organization. So I'm not real bullish
Speaker 1: on this, Jack. I don't know if Dennis Santana has
Speaker 1: ever had the best of stuff, necessarily, and it seems
Speaker 1: like what he has this year is a little bit
Speaker 1: diminished from where he was a season ago when he
Speaker 1: was genuinely a really good pitcher for the Pirates.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Nick mccor got to talk to Jeremy and he
Speaker 2: reported that Jeremy feels like they found something a little
Speaker 2: different this year from last year that maybe they can
Speaker 2: help him fix or correct. So, you know, consider during
Speaker 2: the connection there and the time that they've worked together,
Speaker 2: that does leave some credence and hope that they can
Speaker 2: help get this picture turned around. He was a very
Speaker 2: good reliever before this year. It was great last year,
Speaker 2: So you know, if they can find a minor tweak
Speaker 2: that can help get him back. If there's no underlying
Speaker 2: injury or arm concern that caused the diminished stuff, and
Speaker 2: it's a mechanical issue, then that would be awesome. If
Speaker 2: you know, they found a needle in a haystack here
Speaker 2: and got this guy turned around. So he's pretty great
Speaker 2: last year. I mean you can go look up those numbers.
Speaker 2: Yeah he was.
Speaker 1: I mean it was a low to eer with the Pirates.
Speaker 1: I know the underlying stuff wasn't quite as strong, but yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it makes sense for the Diamondbacks as just
Speaker 1: kind of another option for them. We have seen the
Speaker 1: bullpen get I think freid is the word that you've
Speaker 1: used here. In recent days, we have seen some regression.
Speaker 1: I think I don't know if we should blame you
Speaker 1: for it, Jack, Maybe you spoke it into existence, or
Speaker 1: maybe you were just seeing the future one of the two.
Speaker 1: But we have seen some regression with the Diamondbacks bullpen.
Speaker 1: Maybe Santana could be a contributor to that at some point.
Speaker 1: Do you have any thoughts on the bullpen situation?
Speaker 2: Jack?
Speaker 1: And what we saw Taylor Clark tonight.
Speaker 2: We're getting past freight and heading into shreddit. Yeah, we are.
Speaker 2: I mean it's just one by one by one by one.
Speaker 2: You know, it was the same six seven guys throwing
Speaker 2: all the innings, right, I mean, you know that just
Speaker 2: have been there since the beginning of the season, haven't
Speaker 2: haven't missed any outings. So now you have Ryan Thompson
Speaker 2: on the al Paul SeaWorld imploded. Kemy Ganko had a
Speaker 2: good outing tonight, but he had a very bad outing
Speaker 2: the you know his previous outing, Jonathan Loisa. I think
Speaker 2: it allowed runs in like four out of five outings.
Speaker 2: You know, Taylor Clark had some regression tonight, Brandon Garcia
Speaker 2: gave up a home run tonight.
Speaker 1: I mean, I wasn't sure I'd ever see that, To
Speaker 1: be honest, I was. I was like, you know what,
Speaker 1: Brandon Garcia has never given up a home I'm running
Speaker 1: the majors, and I'm not sure he ever will. It
Speaker 1: feels like it's impossible, and yet Andy Pa has did
Speaker 1: be impossible tonight.
Speaker 2: It was.
Speaker 1: It was sad to see.
Speaker 2: I think I was looking it up earlier. I think
Speaker 2: since July twenty at the bullpen had like almost a
Speaker 2: five seven five ERA or something like that. It's not pretty. Yeah,
Speaker 2: granted just two runs in there by Eldamar Argus, but still,
Speaker 2: I mean basically the bullpen, the ARA is over five,
Speaker 2: you know for the last three three weeks or so,
Speaker 2: so you know they're they're tired, man. I mean, like,
Speaker 2: this is not a criticism of them. It's not a
Speaker 2: criticism of the bullpen that Hayes them put together or
Speaker 2: any of the pictures in it. They're they're just tired, man.
Speaker 2: I mean, Kevin Kinkle said it to us the other day.
Speaker 2: They all got something going on. They all know, they're
Speaker 2: all feeling something. Yeah, and I'm not gonna name names
Speaker 2: I'm just telling you, like, almost every time I walk
Speaker 2: in that clubhouse, I see two, three, four relievers with
Speaker 2: a big ice pack on the shoulder or big ice
Speaker 2: pack on the arm, you know, and that's arm care
Speaker 2: and that's normal stuff. But they are all banged up.
Speaker 2: And that's why I really felt that the bullpen was
Speaker 2: where they needed to shore up the most. And you know,
Speaker 2: I'll I beat that dead horses. You know now that
Speaker 2: if they're going to show up the bullpen, it's going
Speaker 2: to have to be the Dennis Antannas of the world.
Speaker 2: And you know, hopefully they're able to make some shoot
Speaker 2: moves there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I guess Dennis Santana or you know,
Speaker 1: Ryan Nelson coming back from injury as a reliever, which
Speaker 1: is possible. Maybe Corbyn Burns winds up coming back as
Speaker 1: a reliever when all is said and done. I think
Speaker 1: it's possible they get some boosts there. But yeah, adding
Speaker 1: a reliever at the trade deadline would have been nice.
Speaker 1: I think we're we're all still in agreement on that front. Well,
Speaker 1: we do have one super chat to get to before
Speaker 1: we jump on out of here. Our good friend Mark
Speaker 1: Marx's let's go d backs two more to go, and
Speaker 1: they're in striking distance for the NL West. It is
Speaker 1: true if the Diamondbacks find a way to win the
Speaker 1: next two against the Dodgers, They've now won five games
Speaker 1: in a row against Los Angeles. They were to do that,
Speaker 1: they would be within five and a half games of
Speaker 1: first place in the NL West. Would be pretty wild
Speaker 1: to see them even make that a storyline, given the
Speaker 1: fact that the Dodgers just got Schooball and all of
Speaker 1: the narratives around them ruining baseball and being the undefeatable team,
Speaker 1: you know, the Diamondbacks are. They're They're at least making
Speaker 1: this kind of interesting here in early August. Well, thank
Speaker 1: you to all of you for being with us in
Speaker 1: this late night postgame edition, impromptu edition of Snake's Territory.
Speaker 1: We really appreciate you being here. You can find us
Speaker 1: on Twitter if you haven't already. I am at Jesse
Speaker 1: and Friedman. Jack is at sho Wizard fifty nine and
Speaker 1: our show is at Snake's Territory, and you can find
Speaker 1: Jack's written work over at Arizona Diamondbacks on SI Jack.
Speaker 1: Any final thoughts here from you're sitting at the podium
Speaker 1: where Tory Lavello talked about this game not long ago.
Speaker 2: No, well, it's a nicer background than when I have
Speaker 2: at home.
Speaker 1: That's not saying much, but it's true.
Speaker 2: I will say for anybody that wants to know a
Speaker 2: little bit more about Tory's thoughts and the explanations. I mean,
Speaker 2: it was fairly obvious, but Visa VI, Mitch Bratt, and
Speaker 2: Cole Drake. Make sure check out Alex de Gastino's article
Speaker 2: on Diamondbacks on SI, as well as some of the
Speaker 2: other great stuff he's been writing over there.
Speaker 1: I got to give a plug out to my guy,
Speaker 1: a lot of great stuff from Alex as always. Also
Speaker 1: shout out to other Alex, our good friend Alex Weiner,
Speaker 1: who hopped on with us for a couple of minutes
Speaker 1: on the top of the show. Always always happy to
Speaker 1: have Alex around here, and always happy to have all
Speaker 1: of you joining us here in the chat. Once again,
Speaker 1: we really appreciate your time, and we'll be back with
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