WEBVTT - Ryan Waldschmidt Calls Game, D-backs Stun Dodgers With Walk-Off Homer 0:00:09.560 --> 0:00:12.920 Hello, and welcome to another episode of Snakes Territory, part 0:00:12.960 --> 0:00:15.640 of the Foul Territory Network. Be sure to like this video, 0:00:15.680 --> 0:00:17.759 subscribe to our channel. Maybe you leave us a five 0:00:17.840 --> 0:00:21.680 star review wherever you get your podcast. I am Jesse Friedman, 0:00:22.120 --> 0:00:25.640 joined by not only Jack Summers but also our good 0:00:25.680 --> 0:00:29.880 friend Alex Weiner from Arizona Sports is here with us 0:00:29.920 --> 0:00:32.680 as well, and fellas I guess, I guess we all 0:00:32.760 --> 0:00:36.160 just saw something kind of cool. Huh. 0:00:36.520 --> 0:00:38.519 Yeah, Well, we're lucky to have Alex here, and I 0:00:38.600 --> 0:00:41.280 wanted to He's got about two minutes before he's got 0:00:41.280 --> 0:00:43.199 to go write his articles, but I just wanted to 0:00:43.200 --> 0:00:45.840 get his first take on what he saw tonight. 0:00:45.720 --> 0:00:48.000 Just how cool it was. I mean, the atmosphere of 0:00:48.040 --> 0:00:50.519 this game was. I mean, Meryl Kelly talked about it 0:00:50.560 --> 0:00:54.000 as playoff like as we've seen all season, both with 0:00:54.440 --> 0:00:56.480 you know, the crowd on the Dodgers side the crowd 0:00:56.520 --> 0:00:58.640 on the Diamondback side, and I felt like the Diamondbacks 0:00:58.680 --> 0:01:01.120 fans were about as loud for like a Dodgers game 0:01:01.160 --> 0:01:03.760 as I've heard in a while. When Cormack Carroll made 0:01:03.800 --> 0:01:05.880 that catch in the second inning, and then of course 0:01:05.920 --> 0:01:09.280 when walshmid hit that ball in the ninth So, just 0:01:09.319 --> 0:01:11.560 in terms of like the intensity of the game and 0:01:11.600 --> 0:01:13.560 having a rookie come through in the ninth inning in 0:01:13.600 --> 0:01:15.000 that kind of a moment, I just thought it was 0:01:15.080 --> 0:01:16.520 kind of a special night for the team. 0:01:16.400 --> 0:01:19.039 At the clubhouse. Yeah, the back and forth was tremendous. 0:01:20.040 --> 0:01:23.480 What really stood out to me was during the and 0:01:23.520 --> 0:01:26.480 I mentioned in when we're talking to Toy, the entire 0:01:26.560 --> 0:01:29.760 forty six thousand stood up and were screaming during the 0:01:30.280 --> 0:01:33.839 arnato at that, of course, half screaming for a strikeout, 0:01:34.000 --> 0:01:36.640 half screaming for a base hit, but all forty six 0:01:36.680 --> 0:01:40.000 thousand chanting and cheering back and forth. It was pretty intense. 0:01:40.040 --> 0:01:40.800 It was a lot of fun. 0:01:42.240 --> 0:01:44.319 Well, Alex, I know you got a run, but before 0:01:44.360 --> 0:01:47.840 you go, I am curious. Were you surprised that Edwin 0:01:47.920 --> 0:01:51.840 Diaz threw a slider there to Ryan Waldschmid, Because it 0:01:52.520 --> 0:01:54.880 sure looked to me like he did not have feel 0:01:54.960 --> 0:01:58.800 for his slider and his fastball seemed particularly nasty tonight, 0:01:59.200 --> 0:02:02.240 and yet he through a third slider in the bat. 0:02:02.280 --> 0:02:05.480 I think it was to Waldschmidt, and it was the 0:02:05.640 --> 0:02:07.640 location was not ideal. 0:02:08.000 --> 0:02:11.400 Not not great, right, A little bit On one hand, 0:02:11.480 --> 0:02:13.400 you know, the book on Waldschmid is trying to throw 0:02:13.480 --> 0:02:15.160 that slider low and away out of the zone, try 0:02:15.200 --> 0:02:17.760 to get him to fish for it. But after it 0:02:17.840 --> 0:02:20.359 clearly seemed like he didn't have the right feel for it. 0:02:20.520 --> 0:02:23.040 Like you mentioned, the fastball was working for him. A 0:02:23.080 --> 0:02:25.800 little bit surprised because he would just risk, you know, 0:02:25.919 --> 0:02:28.280 spiking that ball or just hanging one. And you know, 0:02:28.360 --> 0:02:31.040 Waldy only had one career home run going into this tonight, 0:02:31.080 --> 0:02:33.280 but it's been hitting the ball prety darn well lately, 0:02:33.360 --> 0:02:35.600 especially when he's been getting the pitches in the zone 0:02:35.680 --> 0:02:36.720 and checking off the ones he's. 0:02:36.560 --> 0:02:37.400 Not supposed to go for. 0:02:37.960 --> 0:02:40.400 So a little bit yeah, for sure, I mean that's 0:02:40.480 --> 0:02:42.360 kind of how you want to attack him. But yeah, 0:02:42.560 --> 0:02:43.320 it was a hanger. 0:02:43.520 --> 0:02:45.200 I think he was ready for it too. I mean, 0:02:45.240 --> 0:02:47.280 you know, listening to him talk about it in the clubhouse, 0:02:47.560 --> 0:02:50.560 I feel like he was thinking that he might get 0:02:50.560 --> 0:02:52.400 another one. He was, he was all dialed in for 0:02:52.480 --> 0:02:52.919 that pitch. 0:02:54.120 --> 0:02:57.760 I've got the pitch chart here, and yeah, there were two. 0:02:57.960 --> 0:03:01.200 There were two sliders earlier. The at bat Number three 0:03:01.400 --> 0:03:03.920 was kind of way off the h at the outer 0:03:04.080 --> 0:03:06.320 edge of the plate. Number four was also kind of 0:03:06.320 --> 0:03:09.560 a hangar. Wald Schmidt filed that one off and then yeah, 0:03:09.600 --> 0:03:11.480 the sixth pitch of the at batch just kind of 0:03:11.880 --> 0:03:14.240 right in the heart of the plate. Ryan Waldschmid did 0:03:14.280 --> 0:03:17.760 not miss it four hundred and eleven feet. I was, 0:03:18.240 --> 0:03:20.640 at least from the broadcast, I wasn't really sure if 0:03:20.680 --> 0:03:23.640 that pitch was gone. H did you guys wasn't like 0:03:24.040 --> 0:03:26.760 pretty safely gone right off the bat. 0:03:28.040 --> 0:03:30.840 Actually, Waldy himself wasn't even one hundred percent sure. He 0:03:30.880 --> 0:03:33.200 said he took off out of the box thinking I've 0:03:33.200 --> 0:03:34.760 got a run because I need to get on the 0:03:34.840 --> 0:03:37.560 third base so that make it easier for the next 0:03:37.560 --> 0:03:39.640 guy to come in. He didn't realize was gone till he, 0:03:39.840 --> 0:03:42.560 you know, around the first base. Tory said that he 0:03:42.560 --> 0:03:46.240 didn't see it right away, that I think it was 0:03:46.800 --> 0:03:48.160 the hitting coach Joe Madden. 0:03:48.240 --> 0:03:49.720 Now that was the first one to hop up out 0:03:49.720 --> 0:03:50.320 of the dugout. 0:03:50.480 --> 0:03:53.120 Yeah, kind of everybody followed, Yeah. 0:03:52.760 --> 0:03:54.920 I thought I was going to bang off the wall personally, and. 0:03:55.040 --> 0:03:57.880 Yeah, yeah, yeah, it looked like it looked like a 0:03:57.920 --> 0:04:00.280 gapper and then at the last minute it went out. 0:04:00.520 --> 0:04:01.600 I was a little surprised. 0:04:02.320 --> 0:04:04.880 Huh, Right, I got a JCOB concert to write through. 0:04:04.920 --> 0:04:06.040 But thanks for having me Fellas. 0:04:06.040 --> 0:04:06.720 Thank you much friend. 0:04:07.680 --> 0:04:10.120 Thanks for hopping in Alex. We appreciate it. I guess 0:04:10.120 --> 0:04:12.480 Alex has like a real job that he's supposed to 0:04:12.560 --> 0:04:17.480 do from the ballpark, so fun of him to stop buying. Nonetheless, 0:04:18.120 --> 0:04:21.680 Jack just an unbelievable win here for the Diamondbacks, final 0:04:21.760 --> 0:04:26.800 score of four to three, a game that was looking 0:04:26.839 --> 0:04:30.760 good for a while there, Diamondbacks up to nothing after 0:04:30.839 --> 0:04:34.360 five innings, Merrill Kelly had a no hitter going, and 0:04:34.400 --> 0:04:38.920 then things just kind of turned south gradually in the sixth, seventh, 0:04:38.920 --> 0:04:41.080 and eighth innings. Dodgers able to put up a run 0:04:41.400 --> 0:04:44.159 in each of those frames. And it started in the 0:04:44.240 --> 0:04:47.680 sixth with Merrill Kelly. It seemed like the command just 0:04:47.960 --> 0:04:50.200 very much fell off. I know you and I were texting, 0:04:50.240 --> 0:04:53.760 and you were wondering if Merrill's command might fall off 0:04:53.800 --> 0:04:56.839 in general, just because he'd been sitting down for a while. 0:04:56.920 --> 0:05:00.000 The d Backs their bottom of the fifth against Roki Sasaki. 0:05:00.000 --> 0:05:02.320 He was pretty lengthy, which is a good thing, but 0:05:02.400 --> 0:05:05.000 it also meant that Merrill had to kind of just 0:05:05.040 --> 0:05:08.000 sit there and wait for a good while, and his command, 0:05:08.080 --> 0:05:10.599 sure enough, was not as sharp coming back out in 0:05:10.640 --> 0:05:13.760 the sixth couple of walks there, and then he winds 0:05:13.839 --> 0:05:16.440 up leaving the game. It looked like Toy was gonna 0:05:16.440 --> 0:05:19.600 take him out anyway, I think, but Merrill wound up 0:05:19.640 --> 0:05:23.480 having to leave the game regardless. Trainer Max Esposito goes 0:05:23.520 --> 0:05:26.719 out there and MARYL. Kelly exits the game with cramping. 0:05:27.120 --> 0:05:30.000 Unfortunately for him. That's been kind of a trend throughout 0:05:30.040 --> 0:05:31.120 his Diamondbacks career. 0:05:32.120 --> 0:05:35.120 Yeah, Meryl said that there wasn't really any indication before 0:05:35.160 --> 0:05:37.960 that sixth inning. He said it was hot and for 0:05:38.040 --> 0:05:41.240 you know and Muggy throughout the building today as well 0:05:41.240 --> 0:05:43.440 as on the field. Of course, when there's forty six 0:05:43.520 --> 0:05:46.559 thousand plus fans in the stands, you know you're gonna 0:05:46.560 --> 0:05:50.440 it's gonna get a little hotter. But Tory noticed about 0:05:50.560 --> 0:05:54.080 seven or eight pitches in that things weren't quite right, 0:05:54.680 --> 0:05:57.680 and that's when he started maneuvering into seven. Eight pitches 0:05:57.680 --> 0:06:01.040 into the inning is when he got up. So you know, 0:06:01.080 --> 0:06:02.800 it just took a little while to get him, get 0:06:02.839 --> 0:06:05.120 him warmed up and ready to get in the game. 0:06:06.000 --> 0:06:09.000 But by the time Merrill threw that last pitch, you 0:06:09.040 --> 0:06:12.240 could see the way he finished off the pitch and 0:06:13.120 --> 0:06:15.840 was kind of walking awkwardly that something was wrong, and 0:06:15.880 --> 0:06:18.400 we all assumed it was cramping, and sure enough, an 0:06:18.440 --> 0:06:21.520 inning or two later, they confirmed it light It was 0:06:21.560 --> 0:06:25.680 a right leg hamstring cramp. Speaking to Meryl just now, 0:06:25.720 --> 0:06:28.120 he said he's fine. Both Torri and Merrill said he's 0:06:28.160 --> 0:06:30.960 going to make his next start. The last time this 0:06:31.040 --> 0:06:33.720 happened to Merrow was May of last year, May of 0:06:33.760 --> 0:06:37.480 twenty twenty five, and you know, he had quite a 0:06:37.520 --> 0:06:41.400 few of these episodes over the previous two three years, 0:06:42.120 --> 0:06:45.080 but hadn't had it happen well over a year. So 0:06:45.320 --> 0:06:48.120 you know, here we go having to kind of worry 0:06:48.120 --> 0:06:51.880 about that again a little bit. Hopefully, uh, things will 0:06:51.880 --> 0:06:54.080 cool off here in the valley by next week, and 0:06:54.120 --> 0:06:56.440 then you know he's going to be down in Hot 0:06:56.480 --> 0:06:58.839 Lanta tryly pitching down now. I'm not sure if he 0:06:58.880 --> 0:07:01.280 lines up for the Atlanta seat. And then there's a 0:07:01.320 --> 0:07:03.920 series up in Boston, so we'll see where I haven't 0:07:03.920 --> 0:07:06.719 looked that far out on rotation, we'll see where Merrill 0:07:06.760 --> 0:07:07.240 lands on that. 0:07:08.839 --> 0:07:12.720 Yeah, counting on Phoenix, Arizona to cool off in early August. 0:07:12.880 --> 0:07:17.920 That's a bit of an uphill battle, unfortunately, but Regardless 0:07:18.160 --> 0:07:21.640 of the way Merrill's outing ended, He's still a really 0:07:21.640 --> 0:07:24.200 big part of the storyline of this game to go 0:07:24.280 --> 0:07:27.560 out there and fire five not only scoreless but no 0:07:27.680 --> 0:07:32.080 hit innings and just give the Diamondbacks offense some opportunity 0:07:32.120 --> 0:07:34.400 to kind of catch its breath against a really hard 0:07:34.440 --> 0:07:37.560 thrower in Rookie Sasaki who's been throwing the ball really 0:07:37.560 --> 0:07:40.520 well lately. D BAC's able to push across that second 0:07:40.600 --> 0:07:43.920 run there in the fifth inning, and then Merrill left 0:07:43.920 --> 0:07:47.440 the game with a lead. Despite what happened. What happened 0:07:47.440 --> 0:07:49.600 there in the sixth Toy was pretty aggressive out of 0:07:49.640 --> 0:07:53.280 the bullpen. Juan Mario comes in into that sixth inning, 0:07:53.440 --> 0:07:55.680 is able to get a big strikeout of Max Munsey 0:07:56.040 --> 0:07:59.280 to get the Diamondbacks out of that inning. But yeah, 0:07:59.280 --> 0:08:01.320 I mean, this was This is a really good outing 0:08:01.360 --> 0:08:05.120 for Meryll Kelly overall. Certainly, his struggles against the Dodgers 0:08:05.160 --> 0:08:08.880 over the years are well documented. I know it had 0:08:08.920 --> 0:08:11.040 been a couple of years since he lined up to 0:08:11.080 --> 0:08:14.800 face the Dodgers, which was kind of felt odd given 0:08:14.880 --> 0:08:18.480 how much the Diamondbacks play them. But five and two thirds, 0:08:18.520 --> 0:08:21.440 one run, two hits, there were four walks, but also 0:08:21.520 --> 0:08:24.840 four strikeouts. You'll take that from Mary Kelly against this 0:08:24.920 --> 0:08:25.800 Dodgers offense. 0:08:26.720 --> 0:08:29.320 Yeah, I mean through the first five innings, you know, 0:08:29.360 --> 0:08:32.120 there was one hard hit ball against him, and that 0:08:32.320 --> 0:08:36.160 was the Tommy Edmund drive to write where Corbyn Carroll 0:08:36.280 --> 0:08:40.760 just made the unbelievable home run robbing play. His chase 0:08:40.840 --> 0:08:44.160 rate was forty percent. He was fourteen for seventeen on 0:08:44.360 --> 0:08:48.480 first pitch strikes. You know, it was really a very 0:08:48.600 --> 0:08:51.679 very strong performance from Merrill Kelly, stronger than most of 0:08:51.720 --> 0:08:53.920 the ones that we've seen from him this year up 0:08:54.000 --> 0:08:56.640 until that sixth inning. So you know, we'll take that 0:08:57.720 --> 0:09:01.080 with a great deal of pleasure. Kelly looks like he's 0:09:01.160 --> 0:09:03.920 for the most part back looks like, you know, five 0:09:04.000 --> 0:09:05.640 or the last six or six or the last seven 0:09:05.679 --> 0:09:09.200 outings have been pretty darn good for him, and that's 0:09:09.280 --> 0:09:12.120 just a huge thing for the Diamondbacks heading down the 0:09:12.120 --> 0:09:14.200 stretch here over the last two months. 0:09:15.120 --> 0:09:18.760 A couple of other big moments in this one. The 0:09:18.800 --> 0:09:22.800 Diamondbacks were again aggressive in the seventh inning with the bullpen. 0:09:22.880 --> 0:09:26.720 Taylor Clark started that inning, struggled, gave up three hits 0:09:26.760 --> 0:09:30.120 in four batters, and then Tory goes out and gets 0:09:30.160 --> 0:09:34.079 Brandon Garcia, and Garcia faces Miguel Rojas, a pinch hitter. 0:09:34.200 --> 0:09:37.200 Rojas does single against him, but then he dials up 0:09:37.240 --> 0:09:40.280 a really big double play with sho Heo Tani at 0:09:40.280 --> 0:09:43.560 the plate. That might have been the big Obviously, the 0:09:43.600 --> 0:09:45.880 wald Schmidt walk off is the biggest moment of the 0:09:45.920 --> 0:09:50.040 game by far, but just setting the stage for wald 0:09:50.080 --> 0:09:53.480 Schmidt to come through late in this one, that might 0:09:53.480 --> 0:09:55.800 have been the biggest moment. I mean, basses loaded one 0:09:55.800 --> 0:09:58.680 out with Otani at the plate, Like, this is why 0:09:58.760 --> 0:10:01.920 the Diamondbacks are the flowing Brandon Garcia in this way, 0:10:01.960 --> 0:10:05.360 this is the case to not make Garcia the closer 0:10:05.640 --> 0:10:08.520 and to make him available anytime you need him in 0:10:08.559 --> 0:10:11.320 the highest leverage moments of the game. It felt like 0:10:11.360 --> 0:10:14.880 from a pitching standpoint, that's kind of where the Diamondbacks 0:10:15.120 --> 0:10:16.160 got their edge tonight. 0:10:17.440 --> 0:10:19.400 Yeah, I mean it was a little bit spoiled by 0:10:19.440 --> 0:10:20.679 giving up the leadoff home run. 0:10:20.720 --> 0:10:24.800 The Andy Pa has the fair the very next pitch 0:10:24.840 --> 0:10:29.120 he threw. Yes, Yes, but yeah, that was a huge moment. 0:10:29.400 --> 0:10:31.120 I mean, even then, at least it was still only 0:10:31.120 --> 0:10:31.960 a one run game. 0:10:32.040 --> 0:10:34.800 He recovered from that home run with three groundbouts of 0:10:34.840 --> 0:10:36.440 four to three, six, three, four to three on my 0:10:36.520 --> 0:10:41.280 score sheet, So I mean, tremendous work by Brandon Garcia. 0:10:41.400 --> 0:10:43.880 And look, you know, someone's going to groove a pitch 0:10:43.920 --> 0:10:46.160 every once in a while, and these are professional hitters. 0:10:46.160 --> 0:10:50.000 You're never going to get away completely unskate. You know, 0:10:50.280 --> 0:10:52.199 I will stick with what I said. I mean, it 0:10:52.200 --> 0:10:54.480 would be nice if they had one other strong lefty 0:10:54.840 --> 0:10:56.800 in the bullpen to kind of work through some of 0:10:56.840 --> 0:10:59.800 these situations and give them a little bit more flexibility. 0:10:59.800 --> 0:11:02.440 But this is what they have, and you know, I 0:11:02.480 --> 0:11:05.280 thought it was a very good deployment at the time, 0:11:05.679 --> 0:11:09.520 and it worked out well. So let's be results oriented here. 0:11:10.760 --> 0:11:13.240 Shout out to all of you who are here with us. 0:11:13.280 --> 0:11:16.600 In the chat, I saw some people commenting earlier like, oh, 0:11:16.600 --> 0:11:19.440 I didn't know you guys were going live tonight, And yeah, 0:11:19.480 --> 0:11:23.240 we didn't know either until about half an hour hour ago. 0:11:23.880 --> 0:11:26.360 We were thinking of doing a show tomorrow morning. That 0:11:26.520 --> 0:11:29.360 was our plan, and then we're like, hey, Jackson the ballpark, 0:11:29.480 --> 0:11:32.400 let's just go live after what wound up being a 0:11:32.440 --> 0:11:34.920 really fun win for this Diamondbacks team. So shout out 0:11:34.920 --> 0:11:37.520 to all of you who are last minute hopping on 0:11:37.960 --> 0:11:40.440 here with us. We really appreciate it. While you're here, 0:11:40.520 --> 0:11:42.720 be sure to drop alike on this video. It really 0:11:42.720 --> 0:11:46.600 helps us out. Subscribe to our channel here on YouTube 0:11:46.679 --> 0:11:49.160 if you have not already, and while you're at it, 0:11:49.160 --> 0:11:52.040 you can hit the bell icon for notifications so that 0:11:52.080 --> 0:11:54.800 you never miss an episode of the show. Thank you 0:11:54.840 --> 0:11:57.200 to all of you once again for being here and 0:11:57.520 --> 0:12:01.920 for supporting us. We really really appreciate other big moments 0:12:01.920 --> 0:12:04.240 in this one, Jack, I guess the biggest one that 0:12:04.280 --> 0:12:07.800 stands out to me is Corbyn. Carrol had a pretty 0:12:07.840 --> 0:12:10.120 nice play and right field in this one. And had 0:12:10.120 --> 0:12:12.959 he not made that play, I guess we're still playing 0:12:12.960 --> 0:12:16.479 baseball right now, then maybe this one goes into extra innings. 0:12:16.280 --> 0:12:18.560 It's hard to say. 0:12:18.679 --> 0:12:21.240 Yeah. I mean I was stunning. I thought, oh, that's 0:12:21.280 --> 0:12:24.240 gone immediately, and then you know, to see him climb 0:12:24.320 --> 0:12:26.240 up well over the top of that fence and pull 0:12:26.320 --> 0:12:29.080 that back in. I was funny listening to Ryan Walshman 0:12:29.200 --> 0:12:31.840 talk about it. He said, you know, he was trying 0:12:31.840 --> 0:12:33.760 to yell to Corbyn and help direct into where the 0:12:33.760 --> 0:12:35.960 ball was, but he says, I was too far away, 0:12:36.000 --> 0:12:37.960 the crowd was too loud. He didn't hear a word. 0:12:37.960 --> 0:12:40.120 I said, he was on his own and then he 0:12:40.160 --> 0:12:42.240 said he lost the ball because of the angle of 0:12:42.280 --> 0:12:45.880 the lights looking towards the right field. So you know, 0:12:45.920 --> 0:12:47.320 I had to go back and look at it a 0:12:47.360 --> 0:12:50.080 couple of times. I have the game feed on my 0:12:50.120 --> 0:12:52.480 computer during the game so I can go back and 0:12:52.520 --> 0:12:56.000 watch replays because you know, it's a little far down 0:12:56.000 --> 0:12:58.680 the right field line. He's old eyeser are not the best, 0:12:59.640 --> 0:13:02.160 so it helps to see live. But all the way 0:13:02.160 --> 0:13:04.800 down in that right field corner you're leaning out going 0:13:04.880 --> 0:13:07.640 like this, it's it's a little tough to see. So 0:13:08.480 --> 0:13:10.839 it was fun watching the replay again see just how 0:13:10.920 --> 0:13:13.520 high up over the wall he got, and you know, 0:13:13.640 --> 0:13:16.200 Meryll with his hands up in the air and just 0:13:18.280 --> 0:13:20.839 and Corbyn had a pretty big smile on his face. 0:13:20.920 --> 0:13:24.760 I mean, you know, the kind of chasure cat, you know, 0:13:24.800 --> 0:13:27.760 So I got away with something there. Smile that he 0:13:27.800 --> 0:13:30.120 had on his face really said at all. By the way, 0:13:30.160 --> 0:13:34.199 a cool little some note Corbyn Carroll's girlfriend saying the 0:13:34.480 --> 0:13:36.160 yeah anthem tonight. 0:13:37.559 --> 0:13:39.720 Yeah, maybe maybe that had something to do with us 0:13:39.760 --> 0:13:42.840 seeing a rare Corbyn Carroll smiled during the game. I 0:13:42.880 --> 0:13:45.160 don't know, maybe felt like he had to knowing that 0:13:45.240 --> 0:13:50.160 she was watching. But yeah, just an unbelievable moment for Corbyn. Unfortunately, 0:13:50.920 --> 0:13:54.160 not a not a notable day for him. Offensively, that 0:13:54.240 --> 0:13:56.880 continues to be a work in progress as he tries 0:13:56.920 --> 0:13:58.679 to find his way out of the slump he's been 0:13:58.679 --> 0:14:01.120 in the past couple of months, but the defense has 0:14:01.160 --> 0:14:05.400 certainly remains elite. Corbin entered this game at ten outs 0:14:05.400 --> 0:14:09.160 above average according to Baseball Savant, that's in the ninety 0:14:09.160 --> 0:14:13.000 seventh percentile, and he's kind of just done this every year. 0:14:13.200 --> 0:14:15.839 I mean last year was ninety six percentile, the year 0:14:15.880 --> 0:14:18.960 before that was ninety six percentile. I know, the arm 0:14:19.280 --> 0:14:22.680 with Corbin is never going to be awesome. We've seen 0:14:22.720 --> 0:14:25.960 some positive movement there, sounds like early this season he 0:14:26.120 --> 0:14:29.000 was dealing with an injury that kind of held him 0:14:29.040 --> 0:14:31.360 back in that regard. The arm is never going to 0:14:31.400 --> 0:14:34.160 be elite, but hey, if he's going out there making 0:14:34.200 --> 0:14:36.760 catches like this, it's just another way that he can 0:14:36.800 --> 0:14:40.400 add value to the game even when he's not clicking offensively. 0:14:41.480 --> 0:14:45.600 Yeah, you know, I think also just I want to 0:14:45.640 --> 0:14:48.000 go back to that Nolan Arnado at that too. That 0:14:48.200 --> 0:14:51.200 just the atmosphere during that at bad for me. I 0:14:51.200 --> 0:14:54.240 mean that was the most exciting thing of the game 0:14:54.400 --> 0:14:58.360 up until obviously the walk off homer. That's a sudden 0:14:58.440 --> 0:15:04.400 jolt of and happiness and excitement. But the tension that 0:15:04.560 --> 0:15:08.880 was building during that Arnatto at bat, I mean, that's baseball, 0:15:09.320 --> 0:15:12.320 you know, twelve pitches fouling off, pitch after pitch after pitch, 0:15:12.360 --> 0:15:15.920 and I know that it ended unfortunately, you know, with 0:15:16.040 --> 0:15:19.440 him reaching out and putting a pretty rough swing on 0:15:19.480 --> 0:15:21.920 that last pitch, but you know, he was going against 0:15:21.920 --> 0:15:25.520 Tanner Scott, who's got some nasty movement, and you know, 0:15:25.600 --> 0:15:29.120 battling like that with the bases loaded in a playoff 0:15:29.240 --> 0:15:33.400 like atmosphere, with forty six thousand people screaming, that was 0:15:33.560 --> 0:15:37.040 probably one of for me, one of the most enjoyable, 0:15:37.080 --> 0:15:41.160 exciting moments of the season. So I'm sharing my emotional 0:15:41.240 --> 0:15:44.200 viewpoint on it, not just the analytical viewpoint. To me, 0:15:44.360 --> 0:15:46.720 that's what baseball is all about, you know, It's it's 0:15:46.760 --> 0:15:50.360 the build up of the tension. It's a it's not 0:15:50.520 --> 0:15:53.400 a sport for the faint of heart. Baseball is going 0:15:53.480 --> 0:15:54.960 to do that to us. It's going to put us 0:15:54.960 --> 0:15:57.800 on the edge of our seat. It's gonna crush our 0:15:57.840 --> 0:16:00.640 hearts at times but this is what we're here, folks, 0:16:01.040 --> 0:16:03.400 and I just wanted to share that for me, that 0:16:03.400 --> 0:16:05.400 that at bat was the most exciting part of the game. 0:16:06.680 --> 0:16:10.160 That was such a fascinating inning as a whole. I mean, 0:16:10.240 --> 0:16:13.160 Scott came out and I think made pretty good, pretty 0:16:13.240 --> 0:16:16.960 quick work of Perdomo and Corbyn Carroll, and then Gabby 0:16:17.040 --> 0:16:20.840 Moreno hits that double and it kind of opened Pandora's 0:16:20.880 --> 0:16:25.040 box for the Dodgers because then Katel Marte is up. 0:16:25.320 --> 0:16:27.840 We all know what Katel did in his last bat 0:16:27.920 --> 0:16:31.800 against Tanner Scott. That was the way the Diamondbacks last 0:16:31.840 --> 0:16:34.480 game against the Los Angeles Dodgers ended with a walk 0:16:34.560 --> 0:16:37.800 off home run, So no surprise there. With first base open, 0:16:37.880 --> 0:16:41.840 the Dodgers walk him. But then it's Lars Newbar, and 0:16:42.440 --> 0:16:45.560 as Tory said the other day, he's gonna pinch hit 0:16:45.600 --> 0:16:48.800 for Lars Newbar. Lars is not here, as you know, 0:16:48.840 --> 0:16:52.040 someone who's gonna face both lefties and righty's in all situations. 0:16:52.240 --> 0:16:54.880 The d Backs are gonna go get Ildamara Vargas from 0:16:54.880 --> 0:16:57.280 the bench in those kind of spots and eel tomorrow. 0:16:57.680 --> 0:17:00.320 I know we've at times talked about how like, okay, 0:17:00.320 --> 0:17:03.720 how sustainable is this. He's sitting three forty five this 0:17:03.840 --> 0:17:07.600 season against lefties, and I think Ildamara Vargas against left 0:17:07.600 --> 0:17:10.880 handed pitching, like, that's a skill that we know he has, 0:17:10.960 --> 0:17:13.560 that's legitimate, that he's had for a long time, And 0:17:13.640 --> 0:17:17.120 it felt like Scott just wanted no part of Ildemar 0:17:17.240 --> 0:17:19.760 of Vargas. I think it was three sliders that were 0:17:19.760 --> 0:17:21.760 all pretty far out of the plate, and then it 0:17:21.800 --> 0:17:24.280 was a fastball that I think did clip the zone, 0:17:24.600 --> 0:17:27.320 but the umpire didn't give Scott the call, and so 0:17:27.480 --> 0:17:30.520 Vargas walks. And now you've got the bases loaded with 0:17:30.560 --> 0:17:33.480 two outs and Nolan Arnado at the plate. And I 0:17:33.560 --> 0:17:35.720 showed it earlier, I'll go ahead and do it again. 0:17:36.119 --> 0:17:39.720 This was just an unbelievable at bat. I had the 0:17:39.800 --> 0:17:42.520 same thought as you, Jack, even though this didn't end 0:17:42.560 --> 0:17:45.560 well for the Diamondbacks, just as like a baseball fan 0:17:45.640 --> 0:17:49.200 in general, it was like, Okay, like Nolan Arnado, this 0:17:49.200 --> 0:17:52.280 this baseball legend, future Hall of Famer against one of 0:17:52.320 --> 0:17:55.520 the best relief pitchers in all of baseball, and Tanner 0:17:55.560 --> 0:17:58.280 Scott just going at it. And I thought it was 0:17:58.359 --> 0:18:01.679 cool too. I heard on the postgame show you asked 0:18:01.680 --> 0:18:05.199 Tory about this, and Tory also kind of talked up 0:18:05.240 --> 0:18:08.160 this at bat as being an awesome moment, even though 0:18:08.200 --> 0:18:11.879 it didn't go the Diamondbacks way, like Ronado struck out 0:18:12.440 --> 0:18:14.960 with the bases loaded in two outs. It was crushing 0:18:14.960 --> 0:18:18.200 in the moment. Granted, everything's happy when you know, when 0:18:18.200 --> 0:18:22.879 you win on a walk off, but for for a 0:18:22.920 --> 0:18:25.520 while talking about this moment and just kind of how 0:18:25.640 --> 0:18:27.320 much he was taking it all in. 0:18:28.359 --> 0:18:31.680 Yeah, Toy even talked about how he you know, saw 0:18:31.840 --> 0:18:33.920 I don't know if they that part was on the television, 0:18:33.960 --> 0:18:38.040 but he saw the fan I think, you know, like 0:18:38.080 --> 0:18:39.480 he turned around and he was looking up in the 0:18:39.480 --> 0:18:41.399 stands and he saw like a fan going like this 0:18:41.800 --> 0:18:44.520 with his hands in his head, like couldn't look like 0:18:44.600 --> 0:18:46.960 that kind of stuff that he dialed in on, you know, 0:18:47.040 --> 0:18:49.240 in a moment, like just kind of looking around and 0:18:49.880 --> 0:18:52.119 keyed in on that. So yeah, I mean, it was 0:18:52.200 --> 0:18:54.960 It was cool. It was baseball, It was pure baseball. 0:18:55.320 --> 0:18:59.080 It was gritty, it was tough, you know, and like 0:18:59.119 --> 0:19:00.879 I said, it was it was a great moment for 0:19:00.920 --> 0:19:04.400 me to enjoy it just as a baseball purist, if 0:19:04.640 --> 0:19:07.679 I may again, even though it didn't work out, I 0:19:07.680 --> 0:19:09.359 mean it would have been a hell, you know, and 0:19:09.400 --> 0:19:12.000 he came close, man, I mean, you know, he ripped 0:19:12.000 --> 0:19:14.520 a ball down the line that just kind of hooked 0:19:14.560 --> 0:19:16.440 foul and then he you know, that would have been 0:19:16.520 --> 0:19:20.479 a basis clearing double right there on the spot. You know. 0:19:20.600 --> 0:19:22.479 So that would have been a pretty cool way to 0:19:22.800 --> 0:19:24.680 jump ahead and then go close it out as well. 0:19:24.680 --> 0:19:26.480 But we got to give Waldy as props. I mean, 0:19:27.480 --> 0:19:31.800 you know, I think that Ryan Waldschmidt. We've talked a 0:19:31.800 --> 0:19:34.840 lot about. You know, Okay, the strikeout rates high, and 0:19:34.880 --> 0:19:37.400 he's got an unsustainable babbit and all that, but he's 0:19:37.400 --> 0:19:41.399 making adjustments, he's making changes, he's improving little by little, 0:19:42.600 --> 0:19:45.400 and you know, obviously when you get a walk off 0:19:45.480 --> 0:19:47.639 like this. He told us tonight, this is the first 0:19:47.640 --> 0:19:49.720 time he's ever hit a walk off home run since 0:19:49.800 --> 0:19:53.080 travel ball, like when he was twelve or thirteen. Wow, 0:19:53.960 --> 0:19:56.320 he had never done it in high school, college or 0:19:56.359 --> 0:19:59.840 the miners. So he said, he's had walk off hits before, 0:20:00.200 --> 0:20:03.440 but it was his first walk off homer. And even 0:20:03.480 --> 0:20:05.480 I had like a little sidebar chat with him, and 0:20:05.520 --> 0:20:07.560