WEBVTT - Padres do-it-all pitcher Kyle Hart joins Friar Territory 0:00:09.240 --> 0:00:11.760 Everybody. Welcome to Friar Territory. It's part of the Foul 0:00:11.840 --> 0:00:15.520 Territory Network. I am Darren Smith alongside Marty Caswell, per 0:00:15.640 --> 0:00:19.120 usual and the third member of our team. He's sort 0:00:19.160 --> 0:00:20.960 of a jack of all trades. You never know. We 0:00:21.000 --> 0:00:22.760 could start the show with him, or we can end 0:00:22.760 --> 0:00:24.919 the show with him, or maybe he just comes on 0:00:25.000 --> 0:00:26.599 in the middle of the show. You never know. But 0:00:26.720 --> 0:00:29.840 Kyle Hart, who's a picture with the podres, spending some 0:00:29.920 --> 0:00:32.320 time with us here on Friar Territory as we get rolling. 0:00:32.360 --> 0:00:34.919 You can subscribe to the show on YouTube wherever it 0:00:34.960 --> 0:00:37.159 is that you get your audio podcast. The podres have 0:00:37.159 --> 0:00:39.519 won three straight games. They will face the Brewers as 0:00:39.560 --> 0:00:42.199 we are recording for the second time coming up on 0:00:42.240 --> 0:00:45.080 Tuesday night. Kyle Heart, welcome to Friar Territory. Thank you 0:00:45.200 --> 0:00:47.239 very much for starting the show with us. 0:00:47.760 --> 0:00:50.560 Thank you, guys. Yeah, that's a good intro. I would 0:00:50.560 --> 0:00:53.040 say Mason Miller lives down the street, though, we might 0:00:53.080 --> 0:00:54.480 want to end the show with that guy. 0:00:55.520 --> 0:00:58.520 Okay, good, Yeah, Well I like that idea. I mean, 0:00:58.560 --> 0:01:00.279 you never know. I didn't know it till a couple 0:01:00.320 --> 0:01:02.080 of minutes ago that we would start the show with you, 0:01:02.120 --> 0:01:04.880 But like I said, you do a little bit of everything. Kyle, 0:01:04.920 --> 0:01:07.000 how's life treating you? Tell us a little bit about 0:01:07.040 --> 0:01:09.759 the experience of twenty twenty six from your standpoint being 0:01:09.800 --> 0:01:12.200 a part of this team, the ups the downs for 0:01:12.280 --> 0:01:15.000 you personally, for the squad itself, it's been an interesting 0:01:15.040 --> 0:01:15.880 year to say the least. 0:01:17.000 --> 0:01:19.520 Yeah, No, I mean, I like where we're at right now, 0:01:19.600 --> 0:01:23.800 especially as a team for me personally. You know, started 0:01:23.840 --> 0:01:27.600 off all right, spend a little bit of time in Olpaso, obviously, 0:01:27.680 --> 0:01:30.039 kind of come come back up just really to cover 0:01:30.160 --> 0:01:34.440 Mason on his bereavement list, and then you know, was 0:01:34.520 --> 0:01:38.080 lucky enough to pitch well, and a couple other injuries 0:01:38.080 --> 0:01:40.280 and things popped up, so I've you know, just kind 0:01:40.280 --> 0:01:43.600 of ridden that out. But I think last night was 0:01:44.480 --> 0:01:46.200 one of the more fun games that we've had and 0:01:46.800 --> 0:01:50.480 kind of encapsulates like where we're at as a team. 0:01:50.520 --> 0:01:52.360 You know, it could be a rollercoaster of a game, 0:01:52.400 --> 0:01:54.800 but we're gonna, we're gonna, you know, try to find 0:01:54.840 --> 0:01:56.240 a way to win it. 0:01:58.320 --> 0:02:01.440 I remember when you got option to triple A and 0:02:01.840 --> 0:02:05.080 I remember specifically something that your manager, Craig Stammon said, 0:02:05.560 --> 0:02:08.040 which was, you know, we told Kyle Hart he is 0:02:08.120 --> 0:02:11.680 a big league player, but this is baseball and it 0:02:11.720 --> 0:02:14.120 becomes a little bit of a numbers game, and you know, 0:02:14.520 --> 0:02:17.359 he's got to explain that decision to you, and sometimes, 0:02:17.360 --> 0:02:19.040 you know, you wonder if that's just a little bit 0:02:19.040 --> 0:02:22.600 of lip service. But from Craig Stammon's experience, right having 0:02:22.800 --> 0:02:26.960 performed in that role, it sounded really sincere. And I 0:02:27.000 --> 0:02:28.519 know it's easy to say that sort of stuff. I 0:02:28.520 --> 0:02:30.519 don't know that it makes Kyle Hard or anybody else 0:02:30.520 --> 0:02:32.640 in that situation feel better when you're the one on 0:02:32.639 --> 0:02:35.600 the airplane duel Paso, But I wonder if you could 0:02:35.680 --> 0:02:37.400 talk to us a little bit just about you know, 0:02:37.480 --> 0:02:40.200 what that might have meant from his standpoint when he says, 0:02:40.240 --> 0:02:42.160 this guy's a big league pitcher, he should be pitching 0:02:42.160 --> 0:02:43.960 in the big leagues. He will be back pitching in 0:02:43.960 --> 0:02:46.800 the big leagues at some point, but yet you're the 0:02:46.800 --> 0:02:48.680 guy that's ending up packing your backs. 0:02:49.480 --> 0:02:49.720 Yeah. 0:02:49.760 --> 0:02:52.079 I think it was pretty clear, you know, with our 0:02:52.840 --> 0:02:56.560 roster construction, especially the bullpen side of it, like, so 0:02:56.919 --> 0:03:00.320 you know, where's the flexibility at as a move needs 0:03:00.320 --> 0:03:04.839 to be made, And AJ and Josh thinks they were 0:03:05.000 --> 0:03:07.960 very clear when they re signed me. Part of my 0:03:08.120 --> 0:03:12.240 resigning was the flexibility, and so I was appreciative of 0:03:12.320 --> 0:03:15.080 just the upfront ness that I received when it happened. 0:03:15.120 --> 0:03:17.680 And it really wasn't a big deal at all. I 0:03:17.720 --> 0:03:21.280 wasn't pitching bad, but I wasn't exactly tearing it up either, 0:03:21.320 --> 0:03:23.680 So there were some things I kind of went down. 0:03:24.880 --> 0:03:27.799 The familiarity with the Triple A coaching staff helped a lot, 0:03:27.840 --> 0:03:29.480 so we just kind of hit the ground and worked 0:03:29.520 --> 0:03:33.079 on those things, and you know, like I said, opportunity 0:03:33.200 --> 0:03:35.640 opened back up and was able to kind of come 0:03:35.840 --> 0:03:38.000 come out, come back up, and just jump right in. 0:03:38.120 --> 0:03:40.880 So I knew more likely coming into this year I 0:03:40.920 --> 0:03:42.880 would spend a little bit of time down there. Hopefully 0:03:43.000 --> 0:03:47.640 that that time has been filled, but you know, it 0:03:47.720 --> 0:03:49.080 is what it is, and like you said, it's the 0:03:49.120 --> 0:03:50.400 business of this game. 0:03:51.200 --> 0:03:51.400 Kyle. 0:03:51.440 --> 0:03:52.840 I remember a comment you made, I think at the 0:03:52.920 --> 0:03:55.960 last home stand after one of your surprise starts, when 0:03:56.000 --> 0:03:57.760 you mentioned that there was a time when you were 0:03:57.760 --> 0:04:00.640 optioned to El Paso last season and you were in 0:04:00.680 --> 0:04:03.280 a very dark place and Craig Stammond, who was a 0:04:03.280 --> 0:04:06.280 special assistant to aj pub at the time, really got 0:04:06.280 --> 0:04:08.000 you out of that dark place. Could you explain to 0:04:08.080 --> 0:04:10.480 us what happened at that time and what you were 0:04:10.480 --> 0:04:12.440 feeling and what Stamond's role in all this. 0:04:13.760 --> 0:04:16.640 Yeah, I don't like I don't want people to take 0:04:16.720 --> 0:04:19.159 dark Place wrong. I was just I was just kind 0:04:19.160 --> 0:04:21.760 of down on myself, and not so much even from 0:04:21.800 --> 0:04:24.440 a baseball side. Just you get sent to al Paso. 0:04:24.600 --> 0:04:28.760 My family stayed back in San Diego, so I think 0:04:28.800 --> 0:04:31.880 it was more so being away from them for the 0:04:31.920 --> 0:04:34.440 first time in a while. And you're not where you 0:04:34.480 --> 0:04:36.520 want to be, your career is not going the way 0:04:36.560 --> 0:04:38.960 you wanted to go. I think that's that's the tough 0:04:39.000 --> 0:04:41.360 part of it. But I didn't know Craig really well. 0:04:41.560 --> 0:04:45.359 And he came down watched me pitch. I struggled mightily 0:04:46.040 --> 0:04:50.760 still starting at that point, and he could tell that 0:04:51.680 --> 0:04:54.640 I was not competing the way I needed to be. 0:04:54.800 --> 0:04:57.960 I was just out there throwing, hoping things would go 0:04:58.040 --> 0:05:00.719 well and that I could find myself back on a 0:05:00.720 --> 0:05:04.960 big league roster. And and he kind of lit that fire, 0:05:05.360 --> 0:05:09.960 helped me regain that perspective. And then simultaneously we started 0:05:09.960 --> 0:05:12.880 to make some some mechanical changes and stuff, and and 0:05:13.000 --> 0:05:16.600 so just him coming down there and not going through 0:05:16.640 --> 0:05:19.919 the motions as a special assistant, like Hey, Craig, we 0:05:19.960 --> 0:05:21.600 need you to go down there and check on some guys. 0:05:21.640 --> 0:05:24.800 Like he came down and was willing to to to 0:05:25.279 --> 0:05:28.440 to work and to see like who needed help, who 0:05:28.480 --> 0:05:30.919 needed who needed to look at some things differently. And 0:05:30.960 --> 0:05:34.640 I was certainly one of those guys. So I was 0:05:34.680 --> 0:05:38.560 really appreciative of it, and it quite frankly, helped me 0:05:38.680 --> 0:05:39.760 kind of get back on track. 0:05:40.839 --> 0:05:43.920 You've had, You've had quite the unusual journey in baseball. Really, 0:05:43.960 --> 0:05:45.760 it's an incredible story. You make your debut with the 0:05:45.760 --> 0:05:49.039 Boston Red Sox Red Socks, excuse me, and then you 0:05:49.040 --> 0:05:51.080 don't see you don't see the bigs for for years, 0:05:51.080 --> 0:05:53.200 and you get your chance with the Padres. What is 0:05:53.240 --> 0:05:55.480 it like for you every single time you get an 0:05:55.480 --> 0:05:58.120 opportunity to just to walk into a major league ballpark 0:05:58.440 --> 0:06:01.400 and for them to call upon you. Yeah. 0:06:01.440 --> 0:06:04.240 I think I use the word perspective again because I 0:06:05.040 --> 0:06:07.240 really think I do a good job of not taking 0:06:07.240 --> 0:06:10.960 it for granted with how close I was to probably 0:06:10.960 --> 0:06:13.800 being out of this game. So every day that I 0:06:13.839 --> 0:06:18.160 get to spend time with these guys in the clubhouse, 0:06:18.200 --> 0:06:21.159 on the plane, if we go golf or if I'm 0:06:21.200 --> 0:06:23.919 just sitting back, you know, watching more home through the 0:06:23.920 --> 0:06:26.760 eighth inning. Like, I don't take any of that for granted. 0:06:27.480 --> 0:06:29.880 It really is one of the best jobs you can have, 0:06:30.560 --> 0:06:33.640 and a really special part for me is just bringing 0:06:33.680 --> 0:06:36.840 my family along and getting to experience the things that 0:06:36.880 --> 0:06:40.640 we've gotten to as a group. Has probably been one 0:06:40.640 --> 0:06:43.200 of my favorite things, because, like I said, I was 0:06:43.240 --> 0:06:47.000 really close to probably being done, and and so every 0:06:47.080 --> 0:06:48.120 day is a blessing. 0:06:49.480 --> 0:06:52.200 When you mentioned close to being done. I don't know 0:06:52.200 --> 0:06:54.520 if that's because of you know, surgery, coming out of 0:06:54.520 --> 0:06:57.880 college or something along the professional way, but I think 0:06:57.880 --> 0:06:59.960 people know. Also a part of your journey has been 0:07:00.560 --> 0:07:03.680 pitching in Korea. How did that happen? If you could 0:07:03.680 --> 0:07:05.880 tell us a little bit the cliff Notes version of 0:07:05.880 --> 0:07:09.000 how Kyle Hart ended up pitching and pitching successfully, I 0:07:09.040 --> 0:07:12.200 guess winning the equivalent of the cy Young Award in Korea. 0:07:12.440 --> 0:07:13.760 How did that all come about for you? 0:07:15.280 --> 0:07:17.760 Yeah, that's a long story. That's a whole other show. 0:07:17.760 --> 0:07:22.520 But the cliff Notes basically, I got on with Tacoma 0:07:22.600 --> 0:07:25.760 in twenty three as a depth piece in Triple A, 0:07:26.480 --> 0:07:29.880 and that's where this particular Korean team scouted me and 0:07:29.960 --> 0:07:35.200 I was throwing eighty nine ninety two maybe and had 0:07:35.240 --> 0:07:39.000 no offers in the twenty four offseason, not even a 0:07:39.000 --> 0:07:43.280 minor league offer, and the NC Dinos reached out to 0:07:43.280 --> 0:07:45.680 my agent. We kind of struck a deal. Obviously, I 0:07:45.680 --> 0:07:50.360 didn't have a whole lot to negotiate and went over there. 0:07:51.040 --> 0:07:54.480 Probably the biggest cliff note is they helped me with 0:07:54.520 --> 0:08:01.480 the sweeper quite a bit, and that pitch propelled that 0:08:01.640 --> 0:08:06.040 season for the most part, and then had helped me 0:08:06.080 --> 0:08:08.240 get back over here in my opinion. Obviously did some 0:08:08.280 --> 0:08:11.840 other things really well too, but was able to stay healthy, 0:08:11.840 --> 0:08:14.400 throw one hundred and sixty innings and and learned a 0:08:14.440 --> 0:08:18.200 new pitch, you know, so that was really really really crucial. 0:08:19.120 --> 0:08:22.560 And the Korean cy Young Award, I hope I'm going 0:08:22.640 --> 0:08:25.320 to go right here, the Choi dong Wan Award. Is 0:08:25.320 --> 0:08:25.680 that right? 0:08:25.880 --> 0:08:29.600 That's correct? Yeah? You should you should google that that 0:08:29.600 --> 0:08:32.320 that man uh after this and and look at the 0:08:32.360 --> 0:08:35.040 career that that guy had. I think he in one 0:08:35.040 --> 0:08:37.560 of the Korean series. It's a seven game series. I 0:08:37.600 --> 0:08:41.920 think he threw three of the five games or something, 0:08:42.040 --> 0:08:45.240 and they were all complete games. I seriously, you should 0:08:45.240 --> 0:08:46.640 look him up though, he's crazy. 0:08:47.280 --> 0:08:49.440 Where is that award? Is that with an arms distance? 0:08:49.480 --> 0:08:50.960 Do you have it with you or is it someone? 0:08:51.040 --> 0:08:53.520 Well? I do not, I do not. It's in Cincinnati 0:08:53.559 --> 0:08:55.520 at home. Yeah, I wish it's really cool. 0:08:56.040 --> 0:08:58.160 Before we take this first break, Kyle can can you 0:08:58.200 --> 0:09:00.240 give us what did you learn any Korean? Much? Do 0:09:00.280 --> 0:09:00.920 you have a phrase? 0:09:05.160 --> 0:09:10.040 My favorite phrase is susan daw, which is basically what 0:09:10.080 --> 0:09:13.040 you say after a game, whether you win or you lose, 0:09:13.080 --> 0:09:15.440 you say susan daw. And that's just a quick way 0:09:15.480 --> 0:09:18.040 of saying like, hey, we worked hard today. You know, 0:09:18.080 --> 0:09:20.800 way to play hard. So I say it to I 0:09:20.840 --> 0:09:22.960 say it to Mooney every day. You say it whether 0:09:22.960 --> 0:09:23.680 we win or lose. 0:09:25.360 --> 0:09:29.600 Mooney's a character, he's he is sneaky, funny. I love 0:09:29.640 --> 0:09:30.320 talking to that guy. 0:09:30.520 --> 0:09:31.160 I'm sure he does. 0:09:31.520 --> 0:09:31.840 Last time. 0:09:32.080 --> 0:09:34.320 I'll stick around here for a second. We do you know, 0:09:34.360 --> 0:09:36.280 want to talk a little bit about the Brewers, about 0:09:36.320 --> 0:09:38.920 the season? Uh, and continue this conversation. We'll take a 0:09:39.000 --> 0:09:41.200 quick time out here on Friar Territory. We will return 0:09:41.280 --> 0:09:43.920 Kyle Hart picture with the San Diego Padres. 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So it's just funny 0:11:03.840 --> 0:11:05.640 to look at the stat sheets see guys like Kyle 0:11:05.640 --> 0:11:09.480 and Wandi Peralta and some of the unique stats that 0:11:09.920 --> 0:11:11.680 you know, the Padres have just had to build through 0:11:11.720 --> 0:11:13.920 here this season. Before we just look ahea it. I 0:11:13.960 --> 0:11:15.440 just have one quick question because I know you went 0:11:15.440 --> 0:11:19.439 to Indiana University, which defending college football champs all of 0:11:19.440 --> 0:11:22.360 a sudden college football power. I grew up thinking about 0:11:22.360 --> 0:11:25.040 Indiana as a basketball school. I know there were a 0:11:25.040 --> 0:11:27.160 really good soccer school. I worked for the Major League 0:11:27.200 --> 0:11:29.640 Soccer team here. I think there's more Hoosiers in MLS 0:11:29.640 --> 0:11:32.599 than any other university. You also, though, were teammates with 0:11:32.640 --> 0:11:35.959 Kyle Schwarber when you went to Indiana. You guys were 0:11:36.000 --> 0:11:38.280 on the team together for a couple of years. Had 0:11:38.320 --> 0:11:39.800 you end up in Indiana, tell us a little bit 0:11:39.800 --> 0:11:43.200 about that. Experience, and obviously everybody knows what Kyle Schwarber's 0:11:43.200 --> 0:11:43.880 become in this league. 0:11:45.000 --> 0:11:49.160 Yeah. Actually, the reason I got to Indiana was Schwarber. 0:11:49.480 --> 0:11:52.040 We were playing summer ball together in Cincinnati for a 0:11:52.080 --> 0:11:56.240 couple of years and he had a few school He 0:11:56.320 --> 0:11:58.560 was almost going to be a Big ten football player. 0:11:58.559 --> 0:12:03.240 I mean, he was an unbelievable linebacker, but he chose baseball. 0:12:04.360 --> 0:12:06.960 Indiana was one of his kind of his top schools, 0:12:07.360 --> 0:12:11.360 and he signed there really early, like early junior year 0:12:11.600 --> 0:12:14.520 of high school, which is late now for the recruiting process, 0:12:14.559 --> 0:12:18.000 but back in that year, it was pretty early, and 0:12:18.040 --> 0:12:20.040 he told me, hey, you need to check this place out. 0:12:20.800 --> 0:12:23.320 I was like a lanky left he throwing eighty five 0:12:23.440 --> 0:12:26.640 to eighty six, which back then again was not terrible. 0:12:27.840 --> 0:12:30.120 And I went over there. They offered me a small 0:12:30.160 --> 0:12:34.520 scholarship and ended up committing. So he was the reason 0:12:34.559 --> 0:12:36.840 I got there, and then we played three years together. 0:12:36.920 --> 0:12:39.800 I stayed five due to injury, and he got drafted 0:12:39.800 --> 0:12:44.360 in twenty fourteen and had a crazy quick path to 0:12:44.400 --> 0:12:46.160 the big leagues and has never looked back. 0:12:47.559 --> 0:12:49.839 Yeah, and now here he is right like setting all 0:12:49.880 --> 0:12:52.160 sorts of records. What he has become in this league 0:12:52.320 --> 0:12:55.480 is absolutely incredible. Kyle, h to the here and now 0:12:55.559 --> 0:12:55.720 with the. 0:12:55.679 --> 0:12:58.520 Po He's the same player too, Sorry to cut you off. 0:12:58.559 --> 0:13:01.760 He's the same player since we were sixteen years old. Like, 0:13:02.320 --> 0:13:04.319 he didn't get drafted out of high school and there 0:13:04.360 --> 0:13:08.079 was forty rounds. I remember being in some middle of 0:13:08.160 --> 0:13:12.160 nowhere tournament in Ohio and he did not get drafted, 0:13:13.559 --> 0:13:15.920 And I'm like, if this guy can't get drafted in 0:13:15.960 --> 0:13:18.320 a forty round draft, I'm not going to ever play. 0:13:19.200 --> 0:13:21.160 And he's been the same guy. You could ask him, 0:13:21.160 --> 0:13:23.559 he's the same hit or just the same amount of power. 0:13:23.679 --> 0:13:25.160 He had more speed back then, but. 0:13:27.320 --> 0:13:30.120 Light tower power. Man, his chip is real places I've 0:13:30.160 --> 0:13:32.840 never seen a Peco Park, like, I've just seen him. 0:13:33.200 --> 0:13:35.320 You know. I'm sorry to you, Darvish, but like, I've 0:13:35.360 --> 0:13:37.199 never seen a ball go as far as that at 0:13:37.200 --> 0:13:39.960 Peco Park, and he's done it in other parks as well. 0:13:40.080 --> 0:13:44.000 So yeah, he's he's definitely a character here. I'm really 0:13:44.000 --> 0:13:46.480 a symbol of modern baseball as well. Kyle. You know 0:13:46.559 --> 0:13:48.840 this team now passed the trade deadline. You started four 0:13:48.880 --> 0:13:51.000 times this year. I think it's so interesting that you know, 0:13:51.040 --> 0:13:53.240 you've really become a glue guy for the podres. You know, 0:13:53.520 --> 0:13:56.439 in an era where we often think that players want 0:13:56.480 --> 0:13:58.000 to have to find roles. I need to know what 0:13:58.080 --> 0:13:59.640 my role is, right because that's how I'm going to 0:13:59.679 --> 0:14:02.360 best form. Your role is like, hey, I don't I 0:14:02.360 --> 0:14:04.400 don't need it to be defined, you know, tell me 0:14:04.400 --> 0:14:05.960 if I'm going to start, tell me a couple hours 0:14:06.000 --> 0:14:07.440 before the game, what do you need me to do 0:14:07.480 --> 0:14:09.679 in the middle? What do you need me to do today, tomorrow, wherever? 0:14:10.160 --> 0:14:13.320 Which is really it's a lot different and contrary to 0:14:13.480 --> 0:14:16.319 everything we've learned about about baseball players. Now we're through 0:14:16.320 --> 0:14:18.280 the trade deadline, tell us what it was like for 0:14:18.320 --> 0:14:21.000 the team that run that you went on right before 0:14:21.000 --> 0:14:23.560 the deadline, and then watching a couple of starting pictures 0:14:23.600 --> 0:14:26.080 come walking through the door there obviously Casey Maiz, we 0:14:26.080 --> 0:14:28.080 saw what he did last night. Or see Robbie Ray 0:14:28.120 --> 0:14:30.400 for the second time on Wednesday? What does that mean 0:14:30.440 --> 0:14:32.680 inside of a clubhouse when you guys fight your tails 0:14:32.680 --> 0:14:35.400 off to put yourself in a position that your general 0:14:35.440 --> 0:14:39.120 manager goes yes, like we're going to invest in this team. 0:14:39.320 --> 0:14:45.320 Yeah. So let me start with I think the Praig 0:14:45.360 --> 0:14:47.320 pulled me in spring training. My role was going to 0:14:47.320 --> 0:14:49.680 be a Swiss Army knife. So none of what's happened 0:14:49.720 --> 0:14:52.520 this year has been a surprise at all. Doesn't make 0:14:52.560 --> 0:14:55.440 it easy, No, it doesn't make it easy. But I 0:14:55.520 --> 0:15:01.000 knew that this was going to be the case. I think, 0:15:02.200 --> 0:15:04.160 you know, the trade deadline, This is kind of my 0:15:04.240 --> 0:15:07.560 first experience of really like seeing it up close. 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And if you're looking up, 0:17:23.880 --> 0:17:26.160 you see you know, the d Backs and they were 0:17:26.400 --> 0:17:27.639 blowing away the Rockies. 0:17:28.440 --> 0:17:29.359 You know, the Phillies had. 0:17:29.240 --> 0:17:31.480 Already won that game, but to win the way you 0:17:31.520 --> 0:17:34.560 guys did a good start from Ksemi's rebound start, a 0:17:34.680 --> 0:17:36.879 huge home run from Jackson Merrill, who's just been on 0:17:36.920 --> 0:17:39.920 a different level lately, and then Mason miller morehone during 0:17:39.920 --> 0:17:41.879 what they do. I feel like that was like a 0:17:41.920 --> 0:17:43.560 signature win for the Padres. 0:17:44.720 --> 0:17:47.520 Yeah, that was definitely kind of classic Padres right there, 0:17:47.600 --> 0:17:50.920 especially against a team like that, you know, the way 0:17:50.920 --> 0:17:52.800 they throw the ball, I mean really the way they 0:17:52.840 --> 0:17:55.800 do everything. It could it could be a tight one, 0:17:55.920 --> 0:17:59.520 you know, and obviously their guy was really really good 0:17:59.600 --> 0:18:02.639 as he has been, so that's what it's going to take. 0:18:02.720 --> 0:18:04.359 As a swing like that, you know, you get it, 0:18:04.600 --> 0:18:06.720 you get a one out knock and a homer and 0:18:06.720 --> 0:18:08.959 and then you've got to take advantage from our end 0:18:08.960 --> 0:18:12.080 and the bullpen, and we did that. So uh, I 0:18:12.119 --> 0:18:14.320 think when you're you know, you're facing the Brewers, it's 0:18:14.359 --> 0:18:16.159 going to be tough again tonight. They've got one of 0:18:16.160 --> 0:18:18.800 their guys going and their bullpen's probably you know, back 0:18:18.840 --> 0:18:23.640 to strength. So I can't be more proud of Jackson 0:18:23.680 --> 0:18:27.080 and just how well he's he's stuck with it. You know. 0:18:27.160 --> 0:18:29.760 I know it didn't start well for him, but the 0:18:29.840 --> 0:18:32.479 process hasn't changed, and now he's starting to see some results. 0:18:32.520 --> 0:18:34.600 And I think the whole team is just so so 0:18:34.720 --> 0:18:37.520 happy for him and and and ready to just roll 0:18:37.520 --> 0:18:38.200 when he rolls. 0:18:38.240 --> 0:18:42.080 You know, last thing, Kyle you mentioned in Miami, you 0:18:42.160 --> 0:18:44.480 are sitting next to Mason Miller, and you know, we've 0:18:44.520 --> 0:18:47.320 loved watching Mason and the whole bullpen. I mean, it's 0:18:47.440 --> 0:18:51.480 truly one of the great strengths in the sport. He sometimes, 0:18:51.720 --> 0:18:53.800 you know, he's got to get ready quickly, right because 0:18:53.840 --> 0:18:55.680 you guys have had some of these laden and comebacks 0:18:55.800 --> 0:18:58.159 seventh inning on Monday night. We've seen it in the 0:18:58.200 --> 0:19:00.760 A thing right for all of you guys, you know, 0:19:00.800 --> 0:19:02.720 what is that? What is that like when you're there 0:19:03.119 --> 0:19:04.920 right and you know, I'm sure you guys are chatty 0:19:05.000 --> 0:19:06.679 a little bit. You know, baseball is kind of a 0:19:06.680 --> 0:19:09.800 long game. What's it like though, when the switch gets 0:19:09.840 --> 0:19:12.439 flipped for you, for him, for guys in that bullpen, 0:19:12.480 --> 0:19:14.879 when it's like okay, red alert, time to go. 0:19:16.400 --> 0:19:21.080 Yeah, I mean, part part of my growing experience has 0:19:21.200 --> 0:19:24.320 been learning how to flip the switch. I always said 0:19:24.520 --> 0:19:27.720 when I was starting, I don't understand how the relievers 0:19:27.760 --> 0:19:29.960