WEBVTT - UNBELIEVABLE O's comeback to win the series. Trade deadline looms. 0:00:07.640 --> 0:00:09.680 Well, there have been some crazy days in Birdland in 0:00:09.720 --> 0:00:13.400 twenty twenty six. Maybe this moves to the top of 0:00:13.440 --> 0:00:18.040 the list. Trailing the Tigers seven to nothing today at 0:00:18.079 --> 0:00:22.560 Comerica Park and facing Trek Scoubele two times Cy Young winner, 0:00:22.920 --> 0:00:25.640 which means the Orioles, who lost fourteen to nothing last night, 0:00:25.880 --> 0:00:29.040 were seven nothing down today looking like a third straight 0:00:29.080 --> 0:00:29.920 series loss. 0:00:30.480 --> 0:00:31.720 They rallied. 0:00:32.120 --> 0:00:35.880 The Orioles beat the Tigers in twelve innings today, ten 0:00:36.240 --> 0:00:36.800 to nine. 0:00:37.240 --> 0:00:38.040 They actually went. 0:00:37.920 --> 0:00:40.760 Eighteen straight innings in this series with no runs and 0:00:40.800 --> 0:00:43.840 then scored a flurry up ten runs to come back 0:00:43.880 --> 0:00:48.440 and win today. Welcome to Birdland Territory. The tone of 0:00:48.440 --> 0:00:50.080 the show is a little different than it looked like 0:00:50.080 --> 0:00:53.280 it might be a couple hours ago. And I don't 0:00:53.280 --> 0:00:55.360 know if they saved the season, but I think they 0:00:55.400 --> 0:00:57.160 at least saved. 0:00:57.600 --> 0:00:58.520 All of Baltimore. 0:00:58.640 --> 0:01:01.279 Saying you can't beat by now if you've lost three 0:01:01.320 --> 0:01:03.840 straight series and you go three and six, which is 0:01:03.920 --> 0:01:07.520 what they were facing until the comeback. What do you 0:01:07.520 --> 0:01:09.520 guys make of a bizarre day? 0:01:10.120 --> 0:01:12.640 Yeah, it was a wild game there, and I think 0:01:12.640 --> 0:01:14.399 you're right, Steve. I think it did kind of save 0:01:14.440 --> 0:01:17.319 all the You can't keep this team together now. They 0:01:17.400 --> 0:01:19.399 just lost three in a row and it was not 0:01:19.480 --> 0:01:22.160 looking pretty there. But those games as a player are 0:01:22.480 --> 0:01:24.400 what it's all about. Like when you come from behind 0:01:24.440 --> 0:01:27.080 like that against a two time in a row Cy. 0:01:27.000 --> 0:01:28.480 Young Award winner and the bullpen. 0:01:28.520 --> 0:01:30.240 They had their best arm, one of their best arms 0:01:30.240 --> 0:01:32.160 out there, and you're able to come back to that 0:01:32.200 --> 0:01:34.800 seven to nothing game. That is that's a happy flight 0:01:34.840 --> 0:01:37.560 coming back from Detroit, and that's a huge series win 0:01:37.600 --> 0:01:40.160 there when they really really needed it. And as a player, 0:01:40.200 --> 0:01:43.000 that doesn't get any better than that. 0:01:43.000 --> 0:01:47.480 That was just such a schizophrenic like series. Guys like 0:01:47.840 --> 0:01:50.320 that was one of the more bizarre because go back 0:01:50.320 --> 0:01:53.360 to Monday where Kyle Bradish on the mound, you feel good. 0:01:53.400 --> 0:01:55.360 Bradish didn't have it, but you know what, the bullpen 0:01:55.400 --> 0:01:57.720 picked them up and the offense. I thought that was 0:01:57.920 --> 0:02:00.320 some of their best approaches that we've seen in quite 0:02:00.360 --> 0:02:03.200 some time. They only struck out three times. It was awesome. 0:02:03.720 --> 0:02:06.200 Then they followed that up with their worst game of 0:02:06.240 --> 0:02:09.360 the season. It was the largest shutout loss that they've 0:02:09.400 --> 0:02:12.440 suffered since two thousand and four. They didn't have a 0:02:12.520 --> 0:02:15.720 runner in scoring position. That's how bad of a game 0:02:15.760 --> 0:02:18.200 it was, and then you're trailing seven to nothing, you're thinking, 0:02:18.200 --> 0:02:21.720 oh my gosh, the season's over, it's done, it's buried. 0:02:22.560 --> 0:02:26.920 For them to dig deep, that was unbelievable. And you 0:02:26.960 --> 0:02:29.600 can say a lot of things about this Foriols team 0:02:29.639 --> 0:02:32.440 this year, and we know all of the flaws, but 0:02:32.880 --> 0:02:35.800 they fight, they battled, they scratched, they claw and that 0:02:35.919 --> 0:02:39.280 was their twenty fifth come from behind win and doing 0:02:39.320 --> 0:02:41.839 it in you know, you take the two run lead 0:02:41.880 --> 0:02:44.520 in the eleventh and then boom the first pitch, Rico 0:02:44.600 --> 0:02:48.800 Garcia home run, Spencer Torkolsen another gut punch. But they 0:02:48.880 --> 0:02:52.840 kept scratching and clawing, and that clubhouse they deserve a 0:02:53.000 --> 0:02:56.480 ton of credit for not rolling over when they were 0:02:56.480 --> 0:02:58.240 down seven to nothing against Schooble. 0:03:00.240 --> 0:03:03.720 What was the Oriel's biggest comeback win since June thirtieth, 0:03:03.840 --> 0:03:07.720 two thousand and nine. In that game at home, they 0:03:07.760 --> 0:03:09.920 went to the bottom of the seventh trailing the Red 0:03:09.960 --> 0:03:13.240 Sox ten to one. They scored five and the seventh 0:03:13.240 --> 0:03:16.240 and five in the eighth and one, eleven to ten, 0:03:16.880 --> 0:03:19.760 ten to one, down eleven ten win. Today it was 0:03:19.800 --> 0:03:23.120 seven to nothing, down, ten to nine win. And so 0:03:23.240 --> 0:03:27.440 this is the biggest comeback victory since June thirtieth, two 0:03:27.480 --> 0:03:31.359 thousand and nine against the Boston Red Sox. Just crazy stuff. 0:03:31.400 --> 0:03:34.000 I did not see this coming in any way. I 0:03:34.080 --> 0:03:37.400 was getting my notes ready for a certain article to 0:03:37.480 --> 0:03:41.200 write and then had to scrap that. And I'm sure 0:03:41.240 --> 0:03:43.840 there were a lot of media guys and fans getting 0:03:43.880 --> 0:03:48.320 there the angry comments ready that. Again, this doesn't save everything, 0:03:48.360 --> 0:03:51.800 but my gosh, to beat this team today with Scuba 0:03:51.920 --> 0:03:54.440 out there, it just I don't know what the win 0:03:54.560 --> 0:03:58.160 probability was. We'll have to get to MLB Network to 0:03:58.200 --> 0:04:00.440 tell us. It had to be really low. Yeah. 0:04:00.600 --> 0:04:03.680 I saw Steve's seventh inning, and Sarah Langs does a 0:04:03.720 --> 0:04:08.480 great job for MLB Network. Heading into the seventh they 0:04:09.520 --> 0:04:12.160 they had a point seven percent chance of winning the 0:04:12.200 --> 0:04:14.480 game and they ended up winning it. So it's it's 0:04:14.640 --> 0:04:16.880 unbelievable point seven percent. 0:04:17.520 --> 0:04:19.479 You know what, really I kept thinking about when I 0:04:19.520 --> 0:04:21.760 see them come back like that, and you hear Coltonkwser's 0:04:21.760 --> 0:04:24.000 comments after the game, is what we've been kind of 0:04:24.040 --> 0:04:26.880 hearing from these guys. Every single guy has been talking 0:04:26.920 --> 0:04:29.040 about this clubhouse and how they have each other's back, 0:04:29.279 --> 0:04:32.120 and that win today really showed that these guys really have. 0:04:32.120 --> 0:04:32.840 Each other's back. 0:04:32.960 --> 0:04:35.359 They could have folded there very easily, down seven to nothing. 0:04:35.640 --> 0:04:38.000 Terrek School's coming back out in the seventh and you're thinking, 0:04:38.480 --> 0:04:39.960 what is this team going to do to come back? 0:04:40.000 --> 0:04:42.440 How Okay, if they get it close, maybe that's a 0:04:42.480 --> 0:04:44.839 moral victory, but moral victories aren't doing anything for the 0:04:44.839 --> 0:04:46.560 Ools right now. But to come all the way back 0:04:46.640 --> 0:04:48.880 and tie that game, and then to have the lead 0:04:48.920 --> 0:04:50.880 and give it up in the eleventh and just still 0:04:50.880 --> 0:04:52.760 come out on top, it goes to show a lot 0:04:52.760 --> 0:04:54.600 of the character and really what these guys have been 0:04:54.600 --> 0:04:55.560 talking about since April. 0:04:56.880 --> 0:05:00.159 There's so many under the radar moments of this game, 0:05:00.240 --> 0:05:02.479 and there's going to be a ton when you win 0:05:02.520 --> 0:05:05.320 it in this type of fashion. But how much have 0:05:05.440 --> 0:05:10.200 we talked during these episodes? Two out runs against the Orioles. 0:05:10.200 --> 0:05:13.760 It's killed them. Well, they scored seven runs with two outs. 0:05:13.760 --> 0:05:16.440 But I think one of the most underrated APT bets 0:05:16.480 --> 0:05:19.640 in this game, so Leoti taveris he drove in the 0:05:19.640 --> 0:05:22.120 first run of the game to make it seven to one. 0:05:22.680 --> 0:05:26.760 Jeremiah Jackson had a twelve pitch at bat and drew 0:05:26.800 --> 0:05:31.320 a walk. Jeremiah Jackson had five walks all year long, 0:05:31.800 --> 0:05:34.000 and he drew a walk in a twelve pitch at 0:05:34.040 --> 0:05:37.200 Bet and then it was the onslaught Jackson Holiday with 0:05:38.279 --> 0:05:42.200 out two RBI hit. Taylor Ward drove in two more runs. 0:05:42.240 --> 0:05:44.760 Then it's seven to five, and none of that would 0:05:44.760 --> 0:05:47.400 have been possible if Jackson ended up striking out at 0:05:47.440 --> 0:05:50.800 seven to one. You go into the eighth inning and 0:05:50.839 --> 0:05:53.560 you're probably thinking that you're done. So I think the 0:05:53.680 --> 0:05:57.400 Jeremiah Jackson at beat really, you know, it should not 0:05:57.480 --> 0:05:58.200 go overlook. 0:06:00.480 --> 0:06:04.440 And the Orioles scored in the sixth inning Monday, then 0:06:04.440 --> 0:06:06.640 it didn't score in the final three innings. They didn't 0:06:06.640 --> 0:06:09.280 score nine innings Tuesday, and they didn't score in six 0:06:09.320 --> 0:06:14.279 innings today. That's no runs eighteen innings. There's so many 0:06:14.279 --> 0:06:17.240 oddities from this series. We pointed out this series stat 0:06:17.880 --> 0:06:20.080 that for eight of their last nine series they had 0:06:20.080 --> 0:06:22.680 scored thirteen runs or less. I mean, the offense really 0:06:22.760 --> 0:06:25.800 damning for the oriol offense, and in this series they 0:06:25.839 --> 0:06:28.960 got eighteen in two games it didn't score and one 0:06:29.279 --> 0:06:32.320 It's just bizarre. And I further, I'll add this, the 0:06:32.360 --> 0:06:35.680 Oriols won a series where they're starting pitching, which has 0:06:35.760 --> 0:06:40.160 been great had an ERA of ten forty three. They 0:06:40.160 --> 0:06:43.920 gave up seventeen earned runs twenty runs over all overall 0:06:44.200 --> 0:06:47.960 in fourteen and two thirds this series and still won it. 0:06:48.200 --> 0:06:52.160 And again Scooba was starting and Yeah pitched Trevor Rodgers. 0:06:52.279 --> 0:06:54.559 As it turned out, not by a huge margin because 0:06:54.560 --> 0:06:57.480 some of those runs were charged in. It just was unlikely. 0:06:57.839 --> 0:06:59.520 I don't know what it's going to mean, but I 0:06:59.560 --> 0:07:06.520 think in the trade scope, it means they're still in 0:07:06.520 --> 0:07:09.520 that murky in between area that it can't seem to get. 0:07:09.400 --> 0:07:11.800 A a Yeah, And I feel like they've been in 0:07:11.840 --> 0:07:14.960 this same exact territory for three or four weeks now. 0:07:15.000 --> 0:07:16.280 It's just like you feel like they're out of it, 0:07:16.320 --> 0:07:17.640 then they're back in, and now they're back. 0:07:17.920 --> 0:07:19.440 I don't know. I don't know where they stand. 0:07:19.480 --> 0:07:21.880 I mean, there was rumors on MLB trade rumors yesterday 0:07:21.920 --> 0:07:25.040 of Cole and Kowser and Jackson Holliday being kind of 0:07:25.360 --> 0:07:27.720 chopped around by the Orioles. So it's just I really 0:07:27.760 --> 0:07:29.200 have no idea where this is going to go, and 0:07:29.200 --> 0:07:30.800 it's gonna be really interesting to see how it all 0:07:30.800 --> 0:07:31.240 plays out. 0:07:31.280 --> 0:07:33.360 Honestly, Steve, I. 0:07:33.880 --> 0:07:38.480 Have no idea. There's just so much smoke surrounding the 0:07:38.520 --> 0:07:41.400 Orioles right now where I still John Morosi, right when 0:07:41.400 --> 0:07:43.320 I was at the tail end of the show, coming 0:07:43.400 --> 0:07:46.520 in near Cano is one of the most coveted setup 0:07:46.560 --> 0:07:49.960 men on the trade market. So it's and you, Brad, 0:07:49.960 --> 0:07:53.200 you brought up Jeff Passing, bringing up Kowser and Jackson, like, 0:07:53.920 --> 0:07:57.120 I have no idea what to expect, but I'm really 0:07:57.160 --> 0:08:00.520 excited to see what happens and then these next days 0:08:00.840 --> 0:08:04.440 leading up to the trade deadline. But they could just 0:08:04.520 --> 0:08:07.520 go so many different directions, and quite frankly, at this point, 0:08:07.600 --> 0:08:09.040 I don't know if I'd be surprised. 0:08:11.440 --> 0:08:12.720 It's bizarre. It's bizarre. 0:08:12.800 --> 0:08:15.240 There's just no I think if you're michae Elias, you 0:08:15.320 --> 0:08:19.240 must be talking with your staff and confused. There just 0:08:19.280 --> 0:08:23.640 is no clear cut direction and anything they do could 0:08:23.640 --> 0:08:26.320 turn out great or could totally be a bust. If 0:08:26.360 --> 0:08:30.080 you give up future assets for two months of a 0:08:30.120 --> 0:08:33.520 player that doesn't help you get in it, man, that's 0:08:33.520 --> 0:08:36.240 gonna look bad. On the other hand, Tim and Brad, 0:08:36.400 --> 0:08:41.000 excuse me, guys, excuse me microphone. There there was a 0:08:41.400 --> 0:08:45.360 stat of Baseball America put out don't hit me any ground. 0:08:45.160 --> 0:08:47.439 Balls, just to let you guys know. That's that's how rough. 0:08:48.600 --> 0:08:51.760 There was a stat of Baseball America put out saying 0:08:51.800 --> 0:08:54.480 something like less than ten percent of players traded at 0:08:54.480 --> 0:08:57.720 the deadline have a certain number of war like most 0:08:57.760 --> 0:09:01.800 of them don't pan out, yeah times trading prospects. I mean, 0:09:01.800 --> 0:09:04.920 that's the way Dave Dombrowski fields in Philadelphia. He's never 0:09:04.960 --> 0:09:08.360 met a prospect he wouldn't trade, Yeah a j preller. 0:09:09.520 --> 0:09:10.400 Yeah, so true. 0:09:10.440 --> 0:09:11.960 And it's just like, because you just don't know what 0:09:11.960 --> 0:09:14.880 the future is gonna hold, and you you trade for 0:09:14.960 --> 0:09:17.800 a guy that maybe just fits the team that he's 0:09:17.800 --> 0:09:20.400 on and he's really comfortable there, and you change scenery. 0:09:20.679 --> 0:09:22.800 Some guys it works, But I just feel like when 0:09:22.800 --> 0:09:27.000 you get traded in that final two month window, it 0:09:27.120 --> 0:09:29.319 just gets really difficult to perform at the level you're 0:09:29.720 --> 0:09:32.680 accustomed to because everything gets flipped on its head and 0:09:32.679 --> 0:09:34.719 you just don't know what direction it's going to go 0:09:34.760 --> 0:09:36.440 from there and how you slot in on that team 0:09:36.480 --> 0:09:38.640 and getting to know the guys, and it's just there's 0:09:38.679 --> 0:09:40.200 a lot of stuff that kind of gets thrown your 0:09:40.240 --> 0:09:42.120 way there and that that final two month window. 0:09:43.480 --> 0:09:47.280 Yeah, Brad, you lived it. I can't imagine just from 0:09:47.600 --> 0:09:51.200 a human aspect of it, where okay, using your point 0:09:51.240 --> 0:09:56.240 Baltimore to Atlanta and brand new environment, brand new organization, 0:09:56.360 --> 0:09:58.800 brand new teammates, like so much new, new, new new, 0:09:58.920 --> 0:10:01.720 and you're just throwing into the mix in a team 0:10:01.800 --> 0:10:04.480 that's in a pennant race, like your head's got to 0:10:04.520 --> 0:10:04.960 be spinning. 0:10:05.360 --> 0:10:06.079 Yeah, definitely. 0:10:06.520 --> 0:10:08.120 When I got traded over there, I was a good 0:10:08.160 --> 0:10:11.640 situation because we had former Oriel pitching coaches who were 0:10:11.679 --> 0:10:13.240 over there, and they basically sign me down and just like, 0:10:13.600 --> 0:10:14.199 do what you do. 0:10:14.280 --> 0:10:16.080 Forget about what happened in the first four. 0:10:15.880 --> 0:10:18.120 Months, just do what you do, don't worry about what 0:10:18.160 --> 0:10:20.640 they're expecting from you, go out there, pitch your game, 0:10:20.760 --> 0:10:22.199 and everything will fall into place. 0:10:22.240 --> 0:10:24.240 And it just helped a lot with that. But not 0:10:24.360 --> 0:10:25.320 every situation is like that. 0:10:25.360 --> 0:10:26.920 You're not going to get traded to a team that 0:10:27.280 --> 0:10:29.440 literally had a pitching coach that I had for two 0:10:29.559 --> 0:10:32.240 years in their front office helping me out and worked 0:10:32.240 --> 0:10:34.040 with me throwing bullpens and this kind of stuff. 0:10:34.080 --> 0:10:37.319 So you just never know what kind of situation you're 0:10:37.320 --> 0:10:38.000 going to be sent to. 0:10:39.360 --> 0:10:42.880 A couple reminders for the viewers, keep following us killing 0:10:43.000 --> 0:10:47.360 our podcast outlets of course Apple, Spotify and others, and 0:10:47.400 --> 0:10:51.040 of course subscribe to YouTube as we slowly but surely 0:10:51.120 --> 0:10:55.000 get closer to four digits. We're seeking a thousand subscribers 0:10:55.040 --> 0:10:56.960 and then we're going to seek more than that once 0:10:57.000 --> 0:11:00.360 we get there. But keep following us there and on 0:11:00.400 --> 0:11:01.960 this show today, we're gonna do a lot more on 0:11:02.000 --> 0:11:05.680 the deadline. We're gonna talk about Jackson holiday didn't start, 0:11:05.720 --> 0:11:08.640 but he finished. Well, we're gonna talk about the oils 0:11:08.679 --> 0:11:11.280 on the road. It's gotten a lot better. We're gonna 0:11:11.280 --> 0:11:13.280 touch on Caden Hunter and what he did at Double 0:11:13.360 --> 0:11:16.120 A today in his Double A debut for the Chesapeake 0:11:16.160 --> 0:11:18.839 Bay Socks. So we got a lot coming up. Stay 0:11:18.920 --> 0:11:20.800 with us Burdland Territory. 0:11:24.480 --> 0:11:27.439 There is one place to be on trade deadline day 0:11:28.120 --> 0:11:29.360 watching Foul Territory. 0:11:29.400 --> 0:11:30.199 Of course. A. 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Couple topics to hit on as 0:13:32.840 --> 0:13:35.360 the O's get that stunning win against the Tigers today 0:13:35.440 --> 0:13:41.000 ten to nine in twelve innings. I was very surprised 0:13:41.080 --> 0:13:43.560 Jackson Holliday didn't start today. I know it's a lefty. 0:13:43.679 --> 0:13:47.720 I know it's Eric Scoogle six for eight in the 0:13:47.840 --> 0:13:55.079 series five twenty eight ops since July eighth ops over 0:13:55.200 --> 0:13:59.040 one thousand. I don't get it, guys, to me, if 0:13:59.040 --> 0:14:01.840 he's your one one was, he's a guy who's a 0:14:01.840 --> 0:14:03.720 big part of your future, and you believe he is. 0:14:05.559 --> 0:14:07.920 This is the challenge you want for him, right? Are 0:14:07.920 --> 0:14:10.000 we telling the young guys we got to keep you 0:14:10.040 --> 0:14:12.760 away from the best pitcher in the league. Don't we 0:14:12.800 --> 0:14:15.400 want him thinking I'm as hot as I've ever been. 0:14:15.679 --> 0:14:18.160 I'm going to go get three hits off Scooball today. 0:14:19.080 --> 0:14:20.240 Yeah, I agree with you, Steve. 0:14:20.280 --> 0:14:22.960 I think we've kind of seen this trend all year long, 0:14:23.000 --> 0:14:26.280 where lefties can't face lefties, rights can't face rightings, and 0:14:26.320 --> 0:14:28.800 you are slotted as you can only as a left 0:14:28.920 --> 0:14:30.520 you can only face rights, and as a writer you 0:14:30.600 --> 0:14:31.560 can only face lefties. 0:14:31.600 --> 0:14:32.560 But I agree with you. 0:14:32.640 --> 0:14:34.240 Jackson Holliday has been one of the best hitters. And 0:14:34.280 --> 0:14:36.480 it's not just the last seven games. Looking back at 0:14:36.520 --> 0:14:38.800 his numbers over the last thirty, he's got a fifty 0:14:38.920 --> 0:14:41.520 ops and to me, that's as high as anybody on 0:14:41.560 --> 0:14:43.520 the team right now. And I just to me, like 0:14:43.560 --> 0:14:46.040 you said, being the number one overall pick and all 0:14:46.160 --> 0:14:49.200 the accolades that came with him coming through the minor leagues, 0:14:49.480 --> 0:14:50.960 he's starting to come into his own as a major 0:14:51.040 --> 0:14:52.840 league player. Yeah, the power is not there as much, 0:14:52.880 --> 0:14:55.400 but that will come. I think being such a young player, 0:14:55.440 --> 0:14:59.200 we kind of lose perspective on how many short like 0:14:59.240 --> 0:15:01.040 he hasn't had many that's in the major leagues as 0:15:01.080 --> 0:15:02.680 it is. So for me, it's he's got to be 0:15:02.720 --> 0:15:04.080 out there on a daily basis right now. I don't 0:15:04.080 --> 0:15:06.400 care if it's lefty, righty, whoever he's facing. I need 0:15:06.440 --> 0:15:08.000 to have him in the lineup. And especially when it's 0:15:08.000 --> 0:15:10.560 coming down to crunch time here with the trade deadline 0:15:10.560 --> 0:15:12.960 coming up, and when you're right there for a chance 0:15:12.960 --> 0:15:13.600 for a wildcard. 0:15:15.120 --> 0:15:18.080 It just goes back to a conversation we've been having 0:15:18.120 --> 0:15:23.400 so much guys, where having the the just the natural feel. 0:15:23.720 --> 0:15:26.880 You had two hits in yesterday or excuse me, three 0:15:26.960 --> 0:15:29.680 hits and yesterday's game Jackson Holiday had two of your 0:15:29.680 --> 0:15:32.440 three ins. He was six fraight in the series. Like 0:15:32.480 --> 0:15:35.320 you said, Steve, I just have a feel for it. 0:15:35.360 --> 0:15:38.320 And you can go back to July eighth, because that's 0:15:38.360 --> 0:15:41.240 the beginning of this really really hot stretch where he 0:15:41.360 --> 0:15:44.920 is an on base percentage over five hundred, and he 0:15:45.000 --> 0:15:47.320 had that four hit game against the Cubs. He was 0:15:47.360 --> 0:15:50.160 four for four. Remember he wasn't in the starting lineup 0:15:50.280 --> 0:15:53.160 the very next game. It just doesn't make much sense 0:15:53.200 --> 0:15:57.680 to me. And Holiday, he's using the entire field, he 0:15:57.760 --> 0:16:00.320 spraying the ball all over, but some one thing that 0:16:00.320 --> 0:16:04.160 I'm most excited about in this now seventeen game stretch 0:16:05.000 --> 0:16:07.760 Jackson Holiday. In his minor league career, he had an 0:16:07.840 --> 0:16:14.040 elite strikeout to walk ratio in this stretch ten walks 0:16:14.400 --> 0:16:19.440 to nine strikeouts, so more more walks than strikeouts in 0:16:19.480 --> 0:16:23.120 this now seventeen game stretch. So that has me really 0:16:23.160 --> 0:16:24.240 excited for Jackson. 0:16:26.000 --> 0:16:27.520 He went two for three in this game and he 0:16:27.600 --> 0:16:29.440 drove in three runs. He didn't get in the game 0:16:29.560 --> 0:16:32.920 till the seventh inning. Eight for eleven this series. He's 0:16:32.920 --> 0:16:35.800 now hitting two sixty for the year. And by the way, 0:16:35.840 --> 0:16:40.760 his ops for the year is seven sixty seven MLB 0:16:40.880 --> 0:16:44.920 averages what around seven point fifteen or something. That is 0:16:44.960 --> 0:16:48.120 a higher OPS for this year than Adlie Richman and 0:16:48.200 --> 0:16:52.960 Samuel Basio. He trails a couple people like Alonzo, but 0:16:53.080 --> 0:16:55.320 he's ahead of Gunner, He's ahead of Adley, He's ahead 0:16:55.360 --> 0:16:58.080 of Basio. He's ahead of most of them who have 0:16:58.120 --> 0:17:00.800 played regularly for the Oriols this year. Taylor Ward as well. 0:17:01.240 --> 0:17:03.640 This came out of nowhere. What a hot streak. We'll 0:17:03.640 --> 0:17:06.719 see how it goes for this kid. But Tim, you're 0:17:06.760 --> 0:17:10.720 right when he and Ben McDonald kept noting a swing 0:17:10.760 --> 0:17:13.359 adjustment or change and maybe not as much loft. 0:17:14.040 --> 0:17:16.200 Are you guys seeing that. I have a hard. 0:17:16.000 --> 0:17:19.399 Time just with the naked eye viewing it without a 0:17:19.480 --> 0:17:21.399 side by side, you know, from like a couple of 0:17:21.440 --> 0:17:22.359 weeks ago or something. 0:17:22.400 --> 0:17:26.200 Well, I think something that's important to point out with Jackson, 0:17:26.280 --> 0:17:28.879 like he doesn't need to be a home run hitter. 0:17:29.000 --> 0:17:32.439 He's put on a lot of muscle obviously for when 0:17:32.480 --> 0:17:35.000 he got drafted at eighteen, but even just over the 0:17:35.040 --> 0:17:38.840 past couple of years. He hit seventeen home runs last year. 0:17:39.359 --> 0:17:42.240 If he's a twenty home run guy, even twenty five 0:17:42.600 --> 0:17:45.520 in a great year, that's fine. Just get on base, 0:17:45.600 --> 0:17:48.879 because he was elite getting on base used the whole field. 0:17:49.000 --> 0:17:51.960 You know. I love the approach that we're seeing from 0:17:52.080 --> 0:17:53.960 Jackson Holiday in this stretch. 0:17:54.680 --> 0:17:56.480 Yeah, that's what That's what I see the most of 0:17:56.640 --> 0:17:58.879 is that he's using the left side of the infield. 0:17:58.920 --> 0:18:00.560 And when you look at the third base, yes, sure 0:18:00.600 --> 0:18:03.840 to hit a ball down a line so far over. 0:18:03.920 --> 0:18:06.159 So if you start hitting the ball more to the 0:18:06.240 --> 0:18:08.240 left side of the field, you spread out the infielders 0:18:08.240 --> 0:18:10.760 and now those balls that are be coming outs find 0:18:10.800 --> 0:18:12.959 holes and he's on base and you don't need him 0:18:12.960 --> 0:18:15.119 to hit the home runs. When you have Pete Alonzo, Taylor, 0:18:15.160 --> 0:18:17.440 Ward Gunner, Henderson Adleye Basaio. 0:18:18.000 --> 0:18:18.760 Just get on base. 0:18:19.000 --> 0:18:21.280 The doubles are fine, and when you can hit guys 0:18:21.280 --> 0:18:23.240 in that's what you're going to be paid to do. 0:18:23.520 --> 0:18:25.480 RBIs are cool too. You don't have hit the ball 0:18:25.480 --> 0:18:27.640 over the fence to get your own RBIs. You get 0:18:27.640 --> 0:18:29.800 balls in the gap, you get base hits with the 0:18:29.800 --> 0:18:32.199 guys on base and runners in scoring position. That's going 0:18:32.280 --> 0:18:33.200 to pay pretty well too. 0:18:35.800 --> 0:18:38.080 Two down notes from today. There were probably more than two, 0:18:38.160 --> 0:18:40.960 but the defense was really bad. If they've lost this game, 0:18:41.000 --> 0:18:43.879 we would be focusing on that. I don't know what 0:18:43.920 --> 0:18:47.679 Peter Lionzo saw on the rundown. He just threw that 0:18:47.680 --> 0:18:50.800 ball on the left field gunner a mistake. So there 0:18:50.800 --> 0:18:55.760 were defensive miscues and another home run from Rico Garcia. Brad, 0:18:55.800 --> 0:18:59.320 do you see anything going on can a pitcher getting one? 0:18:59.440 --> 0:19:01.959 He's yeah something. 0:19:02.240 --> 0:19:04.920 I've been watching him pitch obviously and paying a little 0:19:04.920 --> 0:19:07.520 bit closer attention because of the home run balls. To me, 0:19:07.560 --> 0:19:10.320 it just kind of seems he's not attacking with his 0:19:10.320 --> 0:19:11.120 fastball as much. 0:19:11.160 --> 0:19:12.800 He's trying to get ahead with his off speed. 0:19:13.040 --> 0:19:15.439 His off speed's great, but I think what makes his 0:19:15.480 --> 0:19:17.640 off speed elite, and when he's going through these really 0:19:17.640 --> 0:19:20.120 good stretches is that he uses his fastball to get 0:19:20.160 --> 0:19:22.640 to the off speed. His change up is great the lefties, 0:19:22.840 --> 0:19:25.199 but if you're not showing your fastball in enough, they 0:19:25.240 --> 0:19:27.000 can kind of stay out over that change up, and 0:19:27.040 --> 0:19:29.560 if it's not down down, it's going to kind of 0:19:29.560 --> 0:19:31.240 become a home run pitch. And I kind of found 0:19:31.240 --> 0:19:34.000