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Huge Rams fan, and I'm really excited for 0:02:43.960 --> 0:02:45.760 the season, and I love breaking it down, but I 0:02:45.800 --> 0:02:49.600 will say I love breaking down baseball even more. You 0:02:49.680 --> 0:02:52.200 got five series, I got ten. Let's round it up 0:02:52.200 --> 0:02:52.760 for the people. 0:02:53.200 --> 0:02:57.040 Let's do it and Game one in Marlin's Reds was 0:02:57.160 --> 0:03:01.040 the pitchers duel that we all wanted, Case Burns versus 0:03:01.040 --> 0:03:05.040 Sandy al contra It delivered. Burns tossed seven shutout innings 0:03:05.080 --> 0:03:08.280 while Sandy offered seven of one run ball himself, but 0:03:08.360 --> 0:03:11.600 that one run actually ended his consecutive innings scoreless streak 0:03:11.760 --> 0:03:13.880 at twenty five and two thirds innings, the best of 0:03:13.960 --> 0:03:17.360 Sandy's career. The lone run came on a Gino Suarez 0:03:17.440 --> 0:03:19.560 RBI single. Who's actually been swinging the mat pretty well 0:03:19.760 --> 0:03:22.680 all of a sudden. Reds win one zero, Chase Burns 0:03:22.720 --> 0:03:24.600 approofs of fourteen to two. It's gonna be one of 0:03:24.600 --> 0:03:26.280 those times where I care about the record and we'll 0:03:26.320 --> 0:03:29.320 shout it out. Game two plenty of scoring this time 0:03:29.360 --> 0:03:32.280 around with the game, except not for the early part 0:03:32.320 --> 0:03:33.960 of the game. It went into the eighth with the 0:03:34.000 --> 0:03:36.600 Reds up four to three, but the Marlins would go 0:03:36.680 --> 0:03:39.760 on to put up five unanswered to lockdown an eight 0:03:39.960 --> 0:03:43.520 four victory, four for four day for Jacob Marcy. Of course, 0:03:43.760 --> 0:03:46.560 Marlins fans love to see that. Joe mack homerd in 0:03:46.560 --> 0:03:48.920 a three hit performance and again the Marlins even up 0:03:48.960 --> 0:03:51.160 the series in Game two. Then you go to Game three, 0:03:51.480 --> 0:03:55.400 another fun pitching matchup Uri Peres versus Nickelodola. Adola hasn't 0:03:55.440 --> 0:03:57.520 been as good this year, but still very talented. Of course, 0:03:57.640 --> 0:03:59.760 Ury has been on a heater and has really seen things. 0:03:59.800 --> 0:04:02.280 Clay our Guy podcast, he put out a sick video 0:04:02.360 --> 0:04:05.800 also just breaking down what has changed with Yury and 0:04:05.800 --> 0:04:08.320 how good he has been. And that was before this outing, 0:04:08.520 --> 0:04:11.360 I think, and we still ends up seeing another fantastic 0:04:11.360 --> 0:04:15.480 outing here from Yuri. It was scoreless until the eighth, 0:04:15.800 --> 0:04:18.360 but that's when the Marlins bats woke up. Erberto Hernandez 0:04:18.400 --> 0:04:20.760 launched a solo shot, Griffin Conan came off the bench 0:04:20.760 --> 0:04:23.040 and drew a basis loaded walk to bring in another run, 0:04:23.360 --> 0:04:25.640 and then the floodgates really opened in the ninth inning, 0:04:25.720 --> 0:04:28.040 where the Marlins put up five more runs for good measure, 0:04:28.320 --> 0:04:30.800 seven to one, fish they take the series. They improved 0:04:30.800 --> 0:04:34.080 to three games over five hundred. The Reds kind of 0:04:34.080 --> 0:04:37.480 look lifeless the Marlins just didn't look great, but they 0:04:37.520 --> 0:04:39.840 keep just kind of grinding it out here and they 0:04:39.880 --> 0:04:41.520 do what they needed to do to kind of stay 0:04:41.560 --> 0:04:42.880 in the hunt. With the way some of these other 0:04:42.920 --> 0:04:44.480 teams in the top of the wild card are playing. 0:04:44.640 --> 0:04:46.240 By taking two out of three in a series, they 0:04:46.240 --> 0:04:46.680 should win. 0:04:47.120 --> 0:04:49.000 And I want to ask you about the Marlins too, 0:04:49.080 --> 0:04:51.320 because you said to yourself they're kind of grinding out 0:04:51.320 --> 0:04:54.320 wins right now, and I understand, but looking at the 0:04:54.320 --> 0:04:57.279 totality of the season, the Marlins have a plus twenty 0:04:57.360 --> 0:04:59.520 run differential. They're two and a half games out, They're 0:04:59.560 --> 0:05:02.640 sixty f four and sixty one. If the Marlins were 0:05:02.680 --> 0:05:06.120 in the American League, they would be what two and 0:05:06.160 --> 0:05:09.080 a half games above the Orioles for that last wild 0:05:09.080 --> 0:05:12.400 card spot. So, yes, the Marlins on the outside looking 0:05:12.400 --> 0:05:14.760 in on the playoffs. But at the same time, they're 0:05:14.760 --> 0:05:18.800 having a really strong season. They're just on the outside 0:05:18.800 --> 0:05:21.359 looking in because they're in a league that is full 0:05:21.400 --> 0:05:24.280 of juggernauts. So I just wanted to get your more 0:05:24.400 --> 0:05:26.839 overarching thoughts on the Marlins this season. 0:05:27.240 --> 0:05:30.000 Yeah, I think they've been really solid, man, Like you 0:05:30.360 --> 0:05:33.280 saw that. I think this stretch and over the next 0:05:33.320 --> 0:05:35.640 week to week and a half, especially the series they 0:05:35.640 --> 0:05:37.640 have coming up. They play the Phillies this week. The Phillies, 0:05:37.640 --> 0:05:41.560 we'll talk about they've been really solid of late. Tough 0:05:41.560 --> 0:05:43.760 pitching matchup, tough draw off for them too, Like they 0:05:43.760 --> 0:05:46.320 don't get Sandy or yurigoing so and they get some 0:05:46.360 --> 0:05:48.280 of the top arms for the Phillies. Like that's going 0:05:48.320 --> 0:05:51.080 to be a defining series, I think. But I think 0:05:51.080 --> 0:05:53.520 for this season overall, it could have really fell apart 0:05:53.520 --> 0:05:55.400 for them after that losing streak, like it could have 0:05:55.400 --> 0:05:58.320 the wheels could have completely fallen off. They snapped that 0:05:58.920 --> 0:06:02.160 twelve game losing stream and they end up coming back 0:06:02.160 --> 0:06:04.560 now and playing really solid ball of weight. So I 0:06:04.600 --> 0:06:07.040 feel like this has been a defining characteristic of this 0:06:07.160 --> 0:06:09.919 team is that they won't really go away. Are they perfect? 0:06:10.040 --> 0:06:10.080 No? 0:06:10.240 --> 0:06:13.360 Are there times where the offense kind of disappears, Yeah, 0:06:13.400 --> 0:06:16.240 But they find ways to win games. Different guys in 0:06:16.240 --> 0:06:18.599 the rotation step up, Like Max Meyer was that guy 0:06:18.600 --> 0:06:21.520 when Uri was working through things. Sandy's always kind of 0:06:21.520 --> 0:06:24.000 been that solid arm. But since Meyer hit the IL, 0:06:24.240 --> 0:06:26.880 Yuri has kicked things into another gear. And Sanuel Contra 0:06:26.920 --> 0:06:30.360 has been spectacular, So he has really played his way 0:06:30.360 --> 0:06:32.279 into like you're not gonna win the Cy Young, but 0:06:32.360 --> 0:06:34.960 like he's gonna get some down ballot votes and finish 0:06:34.960 --> 0:06:36.000 in a respectable spot. 0:06:36.160 --> 0:06:38.200 I think he's gonna lead major League Baseball and innings 0:06:38.200 --> 0:06:40.159 this year, if I'm not mistaken. I think the last 0:06:40.160 --> 0:06:42.880 time I checked, he was pacing major League Baseball in 0:06:42.880 --> 0:06:46.000 innings pitched, being that classic innings eater that Sandy is, 0:06:46.240 --> 0:06:48.200 and he's still getting pretty good results. It's been a 0:06:48.200 --> 0:06:50.080 little bit of an up and down season for him, 0:06:50.080 --> 0:06:51.960 but at the end of the day, it's still Sandy 0:06:52.040 --> 0:06:54.440 Is and he's been awesome over the last few months. 0:06:54.760 --> 0:06:56.279 Yeah, And I think that's what they needed him to 0:06:56.279 --> 0:06:58.480 be with how many short starts they've had and kind 0:06:58.520 --> 0:07:00.360 of bullpen games or whatever it may be. But I 0:07:00.440 --> 0:07:01.880 mean to answer the question, I think it's been a 0:07:02.080 --> 0:07:04.400 good season overall for the minds, and as long as 0:07:04.400 --> 0:07:06.880 the wheels don't fall off again here, like if they're 0:07:06.920 --> 0:07:10.320 playing meaningful games through September, I think it's it's a 0:07:10.320 --> 0:07:13.320 pretty exciting, you know, season for them. That said, I 0:07:13.360 --> 0:07:17.040 think starting next year, I do think for the sake 0:07:17.080 --> 0:07:19.640 of Marlins fans, the goal needs to no longer be 0:07:19.640 --> 0:07:22.080 better than we expected and needs to be like, hey, 0:07:22.160 --> 0:07:23.920 let's try to sign some players and you know, and 0:07:23.960 --> 0:07:26.120 make the playoffs for good or actually, you know, make 0:07:26.120 --> 0:07:27.280 it out of a wild card round. 0:07:27.520 --> 0:07:30.120 Makes total sense. I just think it's important to refer 0:07:30.240 --> 0:07:33.520 back to the opening win totals that bet MGM puts 0:07:33.560 --> 0:07:38.400 out to kind of contextualize what were the preseason expectations, 0:07:38.520 --> 0:07:40.680 because you know, we're in the middle of August, we 0:07:40.760 --> 0:07:43.760 kind of pretend what these teams were quote unquote projected 0:07:43.800 --> 0:07:46.040 to be. And the Marlins, with a month and a 0:07:46.040 --> 0:07:49.920 half left of the season are only eight wins away 0:07:50.000 --> 0:07:53.080 from their preseason win total, which they're gonna fly by. 0:07:53.520 --> 0:07:56.679 So in terms of what Vegas and the smartest people 0:07:56.680 --> 0:07:59.320 in the world thought the Marlins would be, they have 0:07:59.400 --> 0:08:03.440 far exceeded those expectations. So it's a again to your point, 0:08:03.840 --> 0:08:06.840 it's great to do that, but let's start spending some 0:08:06.920 --> 0:08:09.680 money and then let's start competing. But to be fair 0:08:09.720 --> 0:08:12.120 to them, like I said, pointing back to my earlier point, 0:08:12.360 --> 0:08:15.120 they'd be well within the playoffs if they were just 0:08:15.160 --> 0:08:16.040 in the American. 0:08:15.760 --> 0:08:18.520 League, and then maybe they would have approached the deadline 0:08:18.560 --> 0:08:20.480 differently if they were in the American League. As well, 0:08:20.560 --> 0:08:23.440 So that's the interesting wrinkle. And then the Reds Jack 0:08:23.480 --> 0:08:26.040 on the radio call referred to them as lifeless, and 0:08:26.600 --> 0:08:28.880 so he never does that. Even he said I never 0:08:28.920 --> 0:08:32.160 called teams lifeless. He said a lifeless they feel lifeless. 0:08:32.160 --> 0:08:35.800 And I just I love Tito like he's a legend. 0:08:35.840 --> 0:08:37.440 I've made fun of him a few times, like hitting 0:08:37.440 --> 0:08:39.680 find behind runners and all that stuff with south Stewart, 0:08:40.120 --> 0:08:43.560 but I just let him finish the year. Obviously, I 0:08:43.640 --> 0:08:45.400 just don't know if he's the guy for the scene, 0:08:45.440 --> 0:08:49.480 and it's not all on him. But until Crawl gets fired, 0:08:49.520 --> 0:08:51.760 I don't know they're gonna need to sha shake something, 0:08:52.000 --> 0:08:55.679 shake some things up. Excuse me, geez. I think managerially 0:08:55.720 --> 0:08:57.560 they're gonna need to shake the roster up too. But 0:08:57.640 --> 0:08:59.400 I do think there's just a little bit of a 0:08:59.400 --> 0:09:02.439 disconnect there. It doesn't feel like the teams that bought 0:09:02.440 --> 0:09:04.560 in at this stage. And and I just don't think 0:09:04.640 --> 0:09:06.480 Tito can be the guy going in the next year. 0:09:07.800 --> 0:09:12.600 I understand that I think that Tito, when managers are discussed, 0:09:12.679 --> 0:09:14.559 kind of gets the benefit of the doubt just because 0:09:14.559 --> 0:09:17.040 he kind of is that legend. But if you ask 0:09:17.080 --> 0:09:20.560 a Reds fan how Tito has done, you know, in 0:09:20.600 --> 0:09:22.960 a Reds uniform, I don't think there would be a 0:09:22.960 --> 0:09:25.160 lot of positivity. But I still think the number one 0:09:25.160 --> 0:09:27.840 problem is that front office. Yeah Crawls on that rant, 0:09:27.920 --> 0:09:31.000 Nick Krawl is the biggest problem. I don't think addressing 0:09:31.040 --> 0:09:34.320 Tito is really going to change. Yeah, organizational structure, and 0:09:34.360 --> 0:09:36.680 that's what they need changed, and it starts with the 0:09:36.679 --> 0:09:37.319 front office. 0:09:37.400 --> 0:09:39.200 Yeah. The only other thing I'll add is, you know 0:09:39.240 --> 0:09:43.200 Gino swinging in a little bit. Yeah, they're around. 0:09:43.360 --> 0:09:45.760 They're hanging around. Like I understand why Jack said they 0:09:45.760 --> 0:09:48.280 were lifeless, but it's not like they've created like some 0:09:48.360 --> 0:09:50.400 other teams that we're here to talk about in this 0:09:50.520 --> 0:09:53.800 roundup of completely created. The Reds are still competing. But 0:09:53.840 --> 0:09:55.720 I agree on a day to day basis, it just 0:09:55.760 --> 0:09:57.719 feels like there's no juice there. And I think that's 0:09:57.720 --> 0:09:58.840 what Jack noticed on the call. 0:09:59.040 --> 0:10:01.040 Yeah, which is which is it's just been tough to watch. 0:10:01.080 --> 0:10:05.760 But we'll go to Phillies Versus Twins and game one 0:10:05.800 --> 0:10:07.720 I was at. It was the Field of Dreams game 0:10:07.880 --> 0:10:11.080 technically speaking here, and it was a lot of fun, 0:10:11.160 --> 0:10:14.200 but it was all Phillies. Kyle Schwarber Homer twice Brandon 0:10:14.200 --> 0:10:15.839 Marsh left the yard on the way to a seven 0:10:15.880 --> 0:10:19.280 to one route. Aaron Nola struck out nine and five 0:10:19.320 --> 0:10:21.840 innings of one run ball and it was a really 0:10:21.840 --> 0:10:25.000 fun experience. Game was so much fun. Shchwarber leaving the 0:10:25.040 --> 0:10:26.640 yard twice. With the way the wind was bowling in there, 0:10:26.679 --> 0:10:29.080 I thought nobody was getting out. Schweber was even drink. 0:10:29.360 --> 0:10:31.840 Yeah, yeah, you were about to say it. I was, 0:10:31.840 --> 0:10:35.360 like Schwarber said pregame that nothing was flying out to 0:10:35.480 --> 0:10:38.360 right field. And then first ab he crushes one out 0:10:38.400 --> 0:10:39.040 to right field. 0:10:39.160 --> 0:10:41.240 It was good. I watched him in batting practice, like 0:10:41.280 --> 0:10:43.280 literally hitting balls and then looking at his like his 0:10:43.320 --> 0:10:45.640 teammates and shaking his head and going, oh my gosh, 0:10:45.679 --> 0:10:48.400 this is going to be a nightmare because everything was dying. 0:10:48.679 --> 0:10:51.480 And sure enough he sneaks those two out, one with 0:10:51.520 --> 0:10:53.120 no help one the other the second one maybe with 0:10:53.160 --> 0:10:54.920 a little bit of help. And then Nola's been really 0:10:55.000 --> 0:10:56.880 solid of late. And even if if he could just 0:10:56.880 --> 0:10:58.320 be a four y r A the rest of the way, 0:10:58.360 --> 0:11:00.440 I mean, the Phillies are in good shape. You go 0:11:00.480 --> 0:11:03.360 to Game two, all Phillies again. They tagged Connor Prilip 0:11:03.400 --> 0:11:05.560 for eight runs while Jesus Wizardo toss six and two 0:11:05.600 --> 0:11:08.240 thirds innings of one run ball with nine punch outs 0:11:08.440 --> 0:11:11.640 nine to one final. There then Game three, the Twins 0:11:11.640 --> 0:11:14.560 got off to a five zear o lead, brooks Lee 0:11:14.640 --> 0:11:18.319 launched a grand slam, Cody Clemons also hit a solo shot, 0:11:18.400 --> 0:11:22.160 but then the Phillies scored seven unanswered. Alex Bowm hit 0:11:22.160 --> 0:11:24.640 a three run shot in the fourth, sorry in a 0:11:24.679 --> 0:11:27.120 four run sixth, and then the Phillies tacked on three 0:11:27.200 --> 0:11:29.319 more in the eighth to take the lead and hold 0:11:29.360 --> 0:11:33.960 on seven to five Phillies victory. They sweep. It's one 0:11:33.960 --> 0:11:38.679 thing to get swept, but this third game being the 0:11:38.720 --> 0:11:41.360 one that like you get swept with is the one 0:11:41.360 --> 0:11:43.000 that really hurts. Because if that was game one, then 0:11:43.040 --> 0:11:44.760 you loast the next two. It's like all right, clean slate. 0:11:45.120 --> 0:11:48.319 This one really really hurts because you already had a 0:11:48.320 --> 0:11:50.840 frustrating series. You've got boat race in the first two 0:11:51.360 --> 0:11:54.600 and then you're in the lead. You should at least 0:11:54.600 --> 0:11:57.920 salvage the series here at home, and you have this 0:11:58.040 --> 0:12:02.200 back breaking loss baseball, so like they could just bounce 0:12:02.200 --> 0:12:04.160 back tomorrow or the next game and you know, be great. 0:12:04.440 --> 0:12:06.199 But this is one where I am really interested to 0:12:06.240 --> 0:12:08.520 see if it carries over into the next series. 0:12:10.000 --> 0:12:14.640 So as a four point three percenter, as a Twins 0:12:14.720 --> 0:12:19.040 Nation believer, as a Minnesotian sort of, I live in Chicago, 0:12:19.120 --> 0:12:21.920 it's like kind of close to Minnesota. I have rallied 0:12:21.920 --> 0:12:24.280 around this Twins team all year. I'm not waving the 0:12:24.280 --> 0:12:26.720 white flag. Don't ask if I am, because I'm not. 0:12:27.920 --> 0:12:34.160 But do I have my normal animunition, No, I do not. 0:12:35.000 --> 0:12:41.480 It's getting tough. The pitching just isn't there, and it 0:12:41.559 --> 0:12:43.800 sucks because this team is still a top ten offense 0:12:43.840 --> 0:12:46.440 in baseball by WRC plus. I still believe in the 0:12:46.440 --> 0:12:49.920 offense that hasn't left. But you saw the final scores 0:12:49.920 --> 0:12:52.079 of the series, Like when they don't hit, they lose 0:12:52.120 --> 0:12:54.000 seven to one, and when they do hit, they lose 0:12:54.000 --> 0:12:57.000 seven to five. It's just kind of where we're at 0:12:57.000 --> 0:12:59.080 with them. I want to focus on the Phillies though, 0:12:59.320 --> 0:13:02.599 because on this podcast, I think we've been given the 0:13:02.600 --> 0:13:03.640 Phillies some flack. 0:13:04.240 --> 0:13:04.480 We have. 0:13:05.040 --> 0:13:07.440 We've been talking a lot about this offense, nothing about 0:13:07.480 --> 0:13:09.560 the rotation. All we do is praise the rotation with 0:13:09.600 --> 0:13:11.560 a three headed monster. We still love Duran in the 0:13:11.600 --> 0:13:13.880 back end, and we still think they have a solid bullpen. 0:13:13.960 --> 0:13:16.160 It's just how do we get the Phillies over the top. 0:13:16.440 --> 0:13:18.600 And I think Phillies fans have been asking the same thing, 0:13:19.679 --> 0:13:24.120 and it starts with finding bats outside of the Schwarber 0:13:24.280 --> 0:13:26.680 and the Harper, because I think banking on a trade 0:13:26.720 --> 0:13:31.280 turner resurgence at this point is just wishing and hoping 0:13:31.760 --> 0:13:35.600 that the trade turner of old returns. But if Bryson, 0:13:35.640 --> 0:13:37.280 Stott and Alec Bohm are going to hit the way 0:13:37.320 --> 0:13:41.240 they are started August really really well. On Sunday, Bryson 0:13:41.280 --> 0:13:43.800 stock goes one for five with an RBI and a run, 0:13:43.960 --> 0:13:48.360 Alec Bohm two big hits right going just in the 0:13:48.360 --> 0:13:50.640 month of August, Bryson stopped before that one for five 0:13:50.679 --> 0:13:53.800 showing had a two hundred WRC, plus Alec Bohm one 0:13:53.960 --> 0:13:57.680 forty hitting three sixty seven and then has a two 0:13:57.679 --> 0:14:01.840 for four day. If those guys can be solid, we're 0:14:01.880 --> 0:14:05.160 not asking for you to automatically turn into Harbour and Schwarber. 0:14:06.360 --> 0:14:11.040 We're just asking for solid hitters. And those two are massive. 0:14:11.320 --> 0:14:12.880 And you see what the Phillies look like when those 0:14:12.880 --> 0:14:15.200 two are hitting, because they don't need a lot, they 0:14:15.240 --> 0:14:18.920 just need somebody and now they got two somebodies and 0:14:18.960 --> 0:14:22.560 I'm watching and I'm like, it's interesting. 0:14:22.160 --> 0:14:24.640 And then you at with a Rise to add to that. 0:14:25.120 --> 0:14:27.680 It's just it's it's it's compounded. And it was funny 0:14:27.720 --> 0:14:30.000 after the game, the Field of Dreams game, you know, 0:14:30.000 --> 0:14:32.600 in the presser, Don Mattingly was kind of ask like, well, 0:14:32.600 --> 0:14:34.840 you know, outside the obvious, what is what is Ariase 0:14:34.840 --> 0:14:37.520 brought to the table? And one of the other things 0:14:37.520 --> 0:14:39.960 that he mentioned, aside from just how good the at 0:14:40.000 --> 0:14:42.440 Bats are is is the energy and the spark that 0:14:42.440 --> 0:14:45.720 that Ariaz brings because he's like a lot of our 0:14:45.760 --> 0:14:48.360 guys there. They go about their business, but it's very 0:14:49.120 --> 0:14:51.400 not even in a negative way, but very like even keeled, 0:14:51.440 --> 0:14:53.640 sometimes just just kind of flat. And it's a good 0:14:53.680 --> 0:14:55.360 thing in a lot of ways, but sometimes we need 0:14:55.360 --> 0:14:58.080 that guy that's gonna, you know, spark us be a 0:14:58.120 --> 0:15:01.280 little bit of a life u a life creator and 0:15:01.320 --> 0:15:03.400 just I would say, just an energy creator, I should say, 0:15:04.160 --> 0:15:06.480 in the clubhouse and check things up a little bit. 0:15:06.760 --> 0:15:09.360 And I think that's what a Rise has kind of 0:15:09.400 --> 0:15:11.600 been for them, and I think he's been a spark 0:15:11.880 --> 0:15:14.400 on the field and in the clubhouse as well. So 0:15:14.720 --> 0:15:16.520 you see that paired with the fact that, yes, since 0:15:16.560 --> 0:15:19.800 the All Star Break, prison Stott's been as good as anybody. 0:15:20.640 --> 0:15:22.840 It's been really impressive to see, I mean pretty much 0:15:22.840 --> 0:15:25.640 since the break. It's a one seventy one WRC plus 0:15:25.640 --> 0:15:27.560 from Scott. You know he's going to defend. He's walking 0:15:27.600 --> 0:15:29.480 as much as he's struck out. And Bom has been, 0:15:29.680 --> 0:15:31.800 you know, really good as well, as you mentioned. If 0:15:32.160 --> 0:15:33.560 they've got that, like all of a sudden, there's a 0:15:33.560 --> 0:15:37.120 little bit more length to this lineup, and you don't 0:15:37.440 --> 0:15:39.120 you feel like you can get back around to the 0:15:39.160 --> 0:15:40.760 top guys even more easily, Like they don't even have 0:15:40.840 --> 0:15:41.320 to slug. 0:15:41.320 --> 0:15:41.560 It's on. 0:15:41.720 --> 0:15:44.560 But if they pick up a base hit or draw 0:15:44.600 --> 0:15:46.880 a walk and they're not going down in order, you're 0:15:46.880 --> 0:15:49.920 sending it back around to the top more more quickly 0:15:49.960 --> 0:15:52.040 and more consistently too, to get more at bats to 0:15:52.080 --> 0:15:52.840 your top dogs. 0:15:53.200 --> 0:15:55.400 It's crazy. It's like the three best teams in baseball 0:15:55.520 --> 0:15:58.160 right now are all in the National League Wild card 0:15:58.240 --> 0:16:01.240 race right if we're talking about I know the Cubs 0:16:01.240 --> 0:16:04.040 didn't certainly didn't have the best series against the Cardinals, 0:16:04.040 --> 0:16:06.200 but they've given themselves a little bit of a lead. 0:16:06.480 --> 0:16:08.520 But then you got the Phillies sweeping the Twins, and 0:16:08.560 --> 0:16:11.040 you got the Padres taking a series against the Guardians, 0:16:11.120 --> 0:16:12.920 and you got the Diamondbacks taking a series all the 0:16:12.960 --> 0:16:16.040 road against Atlanta. Like, all four of those teams are 0:16:16.080 --> 0:16:18.120 gunning for it. It's going to be an incredible racetown 0:16:18.160 --> 0:16:18.960 the stretch. 0:16:19.080 --> 0:16:22.440 Yeah, which leads me right into that Cub's Cardinals series, 0:16:22.600 --> 0:16:25.120 which was a lot of fun, a lot of fireworks. 0:16:25.200 --> 0:16:28.520 Game one, though not as much of a fireworks show. 0:16:28.720 --> 0:16:31.040 It was a good Old Pictures duel, mostly because of 0:16:31.320 --> 0:16:35.360 Clay Holmes, and his home debut for the Cubs was stellar. 0:16:35.840 --> 0:16:39.320 Six and two thirds, shutout, just one hit. Sales Auzuki 0:16:39.360 --> 0:16:41.440 lauched a three run homer and that was the difference 0:16:41.560 --> 0:16:44.800 three zero Cubs in Game one, But the Cardinals, they 0:16:44.840 --> 0:16:47.320 really took control of the rest of the series. Game 0:16:47.360 --> 0:16:50.160 two will forever be known as the Matthew McGreevy game, 0:16:50.200 --> 0:16:53.520 as he tossed six innings without allowing an earned run 0:16:53.560 --> 0:16:55.600 on his way to his fifth victory. There Now, it 0:16:55.640 --> 0:16:59.360 was the Joshua Bias, and it will forever be the 0:16:59.480 --> 0:17:03.960 Joshua Game, the greatest debut we have ever seen in 0:17:04.040 --> 0:17:07.399 Major League Baseball. Three homers. Homers in each of his 0:17:07.480 --> 0:17:10.960 first three at bats to all fields too, like pull 0:17:11.040 --> 0:17:15.720 side nuke, dead center, backside bomb. That's the best part 0:17:15.720 --> 0:17:18.119 about baseball. Any day you show up to the yard 0:17:18.280 --> 0:17:20.880 as a fan, you have a chance to see something 0:17:20.880 --> 0:17:23.120 that's never happened before. And we get that in Joshua 0:17:23.160 --> 0:17:27.119 Bias is Taye. Look at Matthew Boyds was watching on YouTube. 0:17:27.119 --> 0:17:29.159 You couldn't believe it. And of course if you get 0:17:29.160 --> 0:17:31.560 a three homer performance from from one of your guys, 0:17:31.600 --> 0:17:34.240 you're probably gonna win that game. Cardinals win eight to four. 0:17:34.280 --> 0:17:36.520 But we'll circle back on Bias when we recap the 0:17:36.560 --> 0:17:40.240 series because Game three, Hunter Dobbins continues to look solid 0:17:40.240 --> 0:17:43.600 since he's returned from an ACL injury with the Cardinals, 0:17:43.720 --> 0:17:46.560 and now Edward Cabrera made his return from the IL 0:17:46.600 --> 0:17:48.879 for the Cups. He did not look very solid. Jordan 0:17:48.880 --> 0:17:51.680 Walker and Alec Burlson both homered and drove in four. 0:17:51.880 --> 0:17:54.120 Dobbinsaws five innings a two run ball with seven k's, 0:17:54.119 --> 0:17:56.000 and the Cardinals won eleven to four. They take the 0:17:56.119 --> 0:18:00.359 series in Wrigly. But I mean, the story has to 0:18:00.400 --> 0:18:07.040 be Joshua Bias and his incredible you know, incredible MLB debut. 0:18:07.280 --> 0:18:10.000 I'm really glad that you mentioned where the homers were 0:18:10.160 --> 0:18:12.639 because I think that was the most impressive part of 0:18:12.680 --> 0:18:17.639 an already incredibly impressive debut. Right first pitch, he sees 0:18:17.960 --> 0:18:24.600 four fifty dead central off Matthew Boyd. Second ab pismissal 0:18:24.640 --> 0:18:28.439 to left, just unloads pull side on a liner and 0:18:28.480 --> 0:18:32.679 then does this same thing opposite field. I want to 0:18:32.680 --> 0:18:36.040 ask you though about him long term, right, Yeah, some 0:18:36.080 --> 0:18:40.240 guys have great debuts. His was incredible, but moving forward 0:18:41.280 --> 0:18:44.800 even this season and beyond, Like what should Cardinals fans 0:18:44.840 --> 0:18:46.640 expect from Joshua Bias? 0:18:47.320 --> 0:18:51.760 Really tough player to assess in the respect like I 0:18:51.840 --> 0:18:56.120 am skeptical as a prospect. I just was have been 0:18:56.119 --> 0:18:59.720 skeptical about if he's going to hit enough, Like I 0:18:59.760 --> 0:19:03.520 think the swing gets long and as a result, he 0:19:03.560 --> 0:19:04.879 has to cheat a little bit, and when he has 0:19:04.920 --> 0:19:06.840 to cheat a little bit starts to result in like 0:19:06.880 --> 0:19:09.439 some chase. I think you can tie him up inside 0:19:09.480 --> 0:19:12.320 a little bit. But what's become abundantly clear is that 0:19:12.400 --> 0:19:15.000 if you make a mistake, he's going to vaporize it. 0:19:15.400 --> 0:19:17.280 And so I think he's going to be a good 0:19:17.320 --> 0:19:19.720 mistake hitter. We've seen it through this year where how 0:19:19.720 --> 0:19:22.080 good he has been sit thirty four homers in Triple 0:19:22.119 --> 0:19:25.679 A this season. Like the power is ridiculous, it's elite batspeed, 0:19:25.800 --> 0:19:27.560 but I do have some concern. It's kind of one 0:19:27.720 --> 0:19:30.919 swing for you know, the center of the zone mostly 0:19:31.200 --> 0:19:33.480 and there's not that much adjustability. I think the worst, 0:19:33.480 --> 0:19:35.440 he's going to crush lefties. But I do skw o ver. 0:19:35.480 --> 0:19:37.120 There's people out there that think this guy can be, 0:19:37.320 --> 0:19:40.840 you know, an elite power threat and make it all happen. 0:19:41.040 --> 0:19:42.760 He's a sneaky athlete, but I just think in the 0:19:42.760 --> 0:19:45.199 box he's a little bit of a stiff mover. I 0:19:45.240 --> 0:19:46.840 think it's going to result in a little bit more 0:19:46.840 --> 0:19:48.920 whift and chase, and he's going to be a volatile profile. 0:19:49.320 --> 0:19:51.760 But he's one of those guys that when he's hot, 0:19:52.359 --> 0:19:54.399 you know what we saw with as Marie Valdez, like 0:19:54.600 --> 0:19:56.199 you could have this home run barrage. And he's a 0:19:56.200 --> 0:19:58.399 better athlete than Valdez, and I think he's more accomplished 0:19:58.440 --> 0:20:01.760 even you know, offensively, but you'll see those home run 0:20:01.800 --> 0:20:03.880 barrages and then he'll be one of those guys though too, 0:20:03.920 --> 0:20:05.600 where when he's a little bit out of whack and 0:20:06.000 --> 0:20:09.159 pitchers are executing, and I think inside, I think stuff 0:20:09.240 --> 0:20:12.040 inside is gonna be the really important thing. Hard sinkers 0:20:12.080 --> 0:20:15.639 in and sliders away. That's where he could start to 0:20:15.640 --> 0:20:18.280 get into some tough stretches. But what a start to 0:20:18.320 --> 0:20:20.600 his career. I think he's gonna kill lefties, which he 0:20:20.720 --> 0:20:23.760 showed by what he did to Matthew Boyd. And regardless, 0:20:23.760 --> 0:20:25.560 this is going to be a spark for their team, 0:20:25.600 --> 0:20:28.800 whether it's in mostly a lefty killer role or riding 0:20:28.800 --> 0:20:30.360 the hot hand or whatever it may be. And he's 0:20:30.359 --> 0:20:31.960 a fun young piece. Still to add to the fold 0:20:31.960 --> 0:20:32.640 for the Cardinals. 0:20:33.040 --> 0:20:35.040 Is Gino Swarez a decent comp. 0:20:37.080 --> 0:20:39.280 It's similar and I think if it works out, you know, 0:20:39.480 --> 0:20:41.520 that's what you're hoping like the top can look like. 0:20:41.560 --> 0:20:43.560 But yeah, I would say that's kind of a reasonable 0:20:43.960 --> 0:20:45.960 like push and pull of what you deal with, and 0:20:46.040 --> 0:20:48.479 if it works out, it could look like that. But 0:20:48.520 --> 0:20:51.080 forevery Gino Suarez. There's you know, some guys that just 0:20:51.080 --> 0:20:53.040 don't hit it off. Unfortunately it's just. 0:20:53.000 --> 0:20:54.800 The way that you know, you broke it down. Where 0:20:54.800 --> 0:20:56.960 I'm thinking about a Gino Suarez, right, he could have 0:20:57.000 --> 0:20:59.080 a fifty homer year and then he could have years 0:20:59.119 --> 0:21:01.080 where he hits below two one hundred and doesn't even 0:21:01.119 --> 0:21:03.960 get it. I think it comes and strikes out a 0:21:03.960 --> 0:21:05.679 lot and just kind of goes through ups and downs. 0:21:05.680 --> 0:21:08.040 But when he's hot, like he could be a guy 0:21:08.200 --> 0:21:10.720 moved at the deadline, let's say, for a big package, 0:21:10.760 --> 0:21:13.320 even as a rental, because you're like, we need all 0:21:13.359 --> 0:21:15.640 of those homers because this guy's hot right now. Now. 0:21:15.680 --> 0:21:17.959 He did go over to Seattle and barely did anything, 0:21:18.000 --> 0:21:20.919 but you understand the premise of a player like that, 0:21:21.000 --> 0:21:22.520 where he's going to go through ups and downs, and 0:21:22.560 --> 0:21:25.960 the ups are outrageously awesome and the downs are really tough. 0:21:26.000 --> 0:21:28.880 So I'm just thinking back now, I tweeted out after 0:21:28.880 --> 0:21:30.399 he hit those three home runs, I just got so 0:21:30.480 --> 0:21:34.800 freaking excited, because how can you not basically get ready 0:21:34.840 --> 0:21:39.280 for Jordan Walker to Joshua Biaz over the next half decade. 0:21:39.600 --> 0:21:42.160 Maybe I'm got a little bit excited. 0:21:42.359 --> 0:21:46.720 It's possible. I'm skeptical. I think the hit tool and 0:21:46.960 --> 0:21:52.000 approach is limiting, but there's been guys with way more 0:21:52.080 --> 0:21:55.159 hurdles to clear that have cleared them and with the 0:21:55.240 --> 0:21:56.879 kind of upside that he has and made it happen 0:21:56.960 --> 0:21:59.560 so like it's gonna be fun to watch, though, and 0:21:59.840 --> 0:22:01.560 he earned himself the opportunity. This is a guy at 0:22:01.560 --> 0:22:03.880 points in the minor leagues was striking out thirty five 0:22:03.920 --> 0:22:06.280 plus percent of the time at the lower levels. Swing 0:22:06.400 --> 0:22:10.320 was was terrible. He really improved it drastically. I'd us 0:22:10.320 --> 0:22:12.680 a guy that was struggling at the lower levels until 0:22:12.720 --> 0:22:15.280 last year where he really broke out, changed his swing, 0:22:15.520 --> 0:22:17.680 made all of these big improvements and is so much 0:22:17.720 --> 0:22:20.760 better than he once was and obviously now showing that 0:22:20.800 --> 0:22:24.680 to have that ability shine through, I think he's game plannable, 0:22:24.720 --> 0:22:26.480 but at the same time, you can make a career 0:22:26.600 --> 0:22:28.479 crushing mistake. So I'm excited to see how it all 0:22:28.480 --> 0:22:29.000 shakes out. 0:22:29.480 --> 0:22:31.080 How much time do you want to spend on Royals 0:22:31.080 --> 0:22:32.960 Angels twenty minutes an hour? 0:22:33.119 --> 0:22:35.159 Yeah, put see how quick we can go through it. 0:22:36.280 --> 0:22:39.320 Game one, back and forth game Michael Massey and Jack 0:22:39.359 --> 0:22:41.760 Caglion Homer has ended up propelling the Royals to a 0:22:41.840 --> 0:22:43.440 seven to six victory. 0:22:43.440 --> 0:22:43.640 There. 0:22:43.720 --> 0:22:46.439 CAGs continues to swing a hot bat, but Michael Massey 0:22:46.600 --> 0:22:49.000 has had a pretty nice series as well. Game two, 0:22:49.040 --> 0:22:51.840 though nobody at the plate was was very comfortable because 0:22:51.880 --> 0:22:57.440 Reed Detmer's was ridiculous, eight innings of two hit, shutout 0:22:57.440 --> 0:23:00.919 ball with no walks and eleven strike outs on just 0:23:01.040 --> 0:23:04.080 ninety two pitches. But shout out Randy Dobnak as well. 0:23:04.080 --> 0:23:06.640 He won five and two thirds scoreless, with the Nolan 0:23:06.680 --> 0:23:09.320 shan Well RBI single being the only scoring in the 0:23:09.320 --> 0:23:11.560 eighth inning. But man, when Demers is on like this, 0:23:12.640 --> 0:23:14.280 you start to look at him and say, like, man, 0:23:14.800 --> 0:23:16.960 how good could this guy be if he pieces it 0:23:17.080 --> 0:23:19.440 all together? And this year has been a big step 0:23:19.520 --> 0:23:23.359 in doing that. This outing maybe the best example of that. 0:23:23.840 --> 0:23:27.840 But Game three, Noah Cameron said it here, it's my turn, 0:23:28.080 --> 0:23:30.920 and he answered back with a gem of his own, 0:23:31.359 --> 0:23:36.439 a complete game one hitter, striking out eight. Michael Massey 0:23:36.480 --> 0:23:39.520 did it again. He homered, as did Bobby Witt Junior, 0:23:39.640 --> 0:23:42.119 and the Royals win three zero, but one hundred and 0:23:42.200 --> 0:23:47.040 fifteen pitches for Cameron, who just was working all four quadrants, 0:23:47.400 --> 0:23:50.159 really getting guys to chase at the bottom, filling up 0:23:50.200 --> 0:23:50.639 the zone. 0:23:50.920 --> 0:23:52.000 Only the one walk. 0:23:52.400 --> 0:23:55.159 What a performance there, And I love seeing a guy go, 0:23:55.280 --> 0:23:57.520 you know, letting them, letting him go the one fifteen 0:23:57.800 --> 0:24:01.679 to complete the game. Royals take the series, and you 0:24:01.680 --> 0:24:04.560 know for a series that not a lot of people 0:24:04.560 --> 0:24:06.720 probably in the baseball what we're paying attention to, and 0:24:06.760 --> 0:24:09.440 a no. Two offenses that you know, don't do themselves 0:24:09.520 --> 0:24:12.359 too many favors. I thought it was more about attestament 0:24:12.400 --> 0:24:14.720 to two talented left handed pitchers that when they're on 0:24:15.160 --> 0:24:17.480 it's really fun to watch. It looks completely different, but 0:24:17.520 --> 0:24:18.560 it was really fun to watch. 0:24:19.160 --> 0:24:21.720 Yeah. I was watching No. Cameron's start, and you know 0:24:21.800 --> 0:24:23.840 the game whack a mole or it's like a ball, yeah, 0:24:24.119 --> 0:24:26.440 and you try and whack it. Obviously, it felt like 0:24:26.520 --> 0:24:28.320 he was doing that with his fastball and change up, 0:24:28.560 --> 0:24:31.320 where it's like you would expect heater, but then here 0:24:31.359 --> 0:24:33.440 comes the changeup, but guys are swinging over the top. 0:24:33.720 --> 0:24:36.960 And then he looked like he was blowing by fastballs 0:24:37.119 --> 0:24:39.520 you know in the load to mid nineties. Nothing crazy 0:24:39.600 --> 0:24:42.280 at all, but guys were just getting blown back because 0:24:42.320 --> 0:24:44.719 they kept guessing, and they kept guessing wrong. And then 0:24:44.800 --> 0:24:46.800 all of a sudden you realize, wait a minute, Noah 0:24:46.800 --> 0:24:49.360 Cameron has a no hitter through five. Then he's got 0:24:49.359 --> 0:24:51.760 a no hitter through six, and now we're through seven, 0:24:51.800 --> 0:24:53.640 and then he finally gave up a hit. I think 0:24:53.680 --> 0:24:55.960 it was in the eighth if I'm not mistaken, but 0:24:56.240 --> 0:25:01.040 just a really really good outing, a pitcher that is 0:25:01.080 --> 0:25:03.480 now strung together a couple of good outings in the row. 0:25:03.920 --> 0:25:06.399 And I'm really looking for the Royals to just have 0:25:06.600 --> 0:25:09.000 any pieces to build on because we know about Bobby 0:25:09.000 --> 0:25:12.400 Wood Junior, Carter Jensen I think will be a good 0:25:12.480 --> 0:25:15.080 catcher in this league, but lately it just hasn't really 0:25:15.119 --> 0:25:18.920 been there. And then Michael Garcia has not taken that 0:25:18.920 --> 0:25:22.080 step forward, He's taken a large step back. He's been hurt. 0:25:22.200 --> 0:25:27.400 You got CAGs, So it's like CAGs and Bobby who 0:25:27.440 --> 0:25:30.760 in the rotation. Maybe Noah Cameron. Right, it's not been 0:25:30.800 --> 0:25:33.040 his white season. He's pitching to a low four ZRA, 0:25:33.720 --> 0:25:35.320 but you see what he looks like when he's on. 0:25:35.600 --> 0:25:38.320 And last season he was solid for them too. So again, 0:25:38.560 --> 0:25:40.200 at this point in the season with the Royals were 0:25:40.200 --> 0:25:42.720 looking for building blocks and Noah Cameron is proving it 0:25:42.800 --> 0:25:43.240 right now. 0:25:43.480 --> 0:25:45.439 Yeah, and at WURS, you know you've got just a 0:25:45.520 --> 0:25:48.600 solid inning, zeting type of guy that can go out 0:25:48.640 --> 0:25:50.360 and compete for you. But yeah, I mean to take 0:25:50.400 --> 0:25:53.040 it into the seventh. I think it was on the 0:25:53.080 --> 0:25:55.800 no No and then the other side though, is you 0:25:55.840 --> 0:26:00.119 look at the the offense for the Angels. I mean, oh, 0:26:01.040 --> 0:26:03.040 it's been tough to watch Netto of late. 0:26:04.320 --> 0:26:06.600 I don't think, I gotta be honest, like watching him. 0:26:06.640 --> 0:26:08.480 I don't like watching him at all. It's just I 0:26:08.560 --> 0:26:10.320 don't know if he cares. I think he's just selling 0:26:10.320 --> 0:26:13.200 out to hit bombs like it does kind of seem 0:26:13.280 --> 0:26:15.600 like it, and I mean, it's gonna Missen so much. 0:26:16.119 --> 0:26:18.320 It's it's crazy how much he's because he's a guy 0:26:18.359 --> 0:26:21.160 that when he came up, the hitting ability and we've 0:26:21.200 --> 0:26:22.960 seen that even the early going of his big league career, 0:26:23.000 --> 0:26:25.359 the hitting ability was was such a big strength of his. 0:26:25.640 --> 0:26:28.400 Jose Siri hit clean up in this game, like von 0:26:28.440 --> 0:26:30.920 Grisson broke up the no hitter, he hit third and played. 0:26:31.320 --> 0:26:32.399 He's actually been okay. 0:26:32.520 --> 0:26:33.320 He's been pretty good. 0:26:34.119 --> 0:26:36.040 He's been okay, and he's proven it gonna. 0:26:35.800 --> 0:26:38.920 Be a decent big leader. Trout's been scuffling a little bit, 0:26:38.960 --> 0:26:43.760 and I mean, yeah, Meckler, Guzman, Perraza, Darnaut, Josh Lowe, 0:26:43.800 --> 0:26:46.520 it's it's it's not it's not a fun watch right now. 0:26:47.160 --> 0:26:50.680 I like, I do like real quick. Blake Wyman kind 0:26:50.680 --> 0:26:53.119 of a funky lefty. He's been pretty good for the 0:26:53.160 --> 0:26:56.080 Angels and several outings to start his uh you know, 0:26:56.119 --> 0:26:57.719 big league career. I believe it is. I don't even 0:26:57.720 --> 0:26:59.640 know if he's been up before. Every time I tune 0:26:59.640 --> 0:27:01.160 and he looked decent. That's all I. 0:27:01.119 --> 0:27:04.600 Got on There we go the rough? Did you think 0:27:05.200 --> 0:27:06.960 on the Just Baseball Show we get a diamond in 0:27:07.000 --> 0:27:08.920 the rough guy at Royals Angels. 0:27:08.760 --> 0:27:11.960 Blake Wyman, funky might get left. He's out for a 0:27:12.000 --> 0:27:15.680 handful more years. Note from podcast P. Noah Cameron is 0:27:15.680 --> 0:27:19.040 a sub one five over thirty seven innings since he 0:27:19.080 --> 0:27:22.000 started calling his own pitches. That's why we got podcast P. 0:27:22.680 --> 0:27:24.720 I know he's the best, and that's why I feel 0:27:24.760 --> 0:27:28.159 like what I was watching was him almost deciding what 0:27:28.200 --> 0:27:29.359 are you sitting? 0:27:28.920 --> 0:27:32.680 I was, Yeah, it was chess. I thought, well, that's 0:27:32.680 --> 0:27:35.480 even that. He makes them performance even more insane to 0:27:35.520 --> 0:27:38.960 your point, like he knew exactly what to go to 0:27:39.160 --> 0:27:43.359 and when he must read swings really well, which that'll 0:27:43.359 --> 0:27:45.359 be a fun story. Thanks for that note, podcast, But 0:27:45.440 --> 0:27:46.879 if I ever seen no Cameron, I got ask him 0:27:46.880 --> 0:27:47.280 about that. 0:27:47.520 --> 0:27:48.040 Absolutely. 0:27:48.119 --> 0:27:50.040 Actually I might. I'm gonna be I think going to 0:27:50.119 --> 0:27:53.159 Kansas City in September to potentially check off the final 0:27:53.760 --> 0:27:57.400 of my stadiums. But we get the final series here 0:27:57.680 --> 0:28:02.240 and it's a banger. Brewers versus Dodgers. Game one, Shane 0:28:02.400 --> 0:28:05.080 Johan versus Rokie Szaki was scoreless into the fourth when 0:28:05.080 --> 0:28:08.240 the Brewers scored twice before scoring two more runs in 0:28:08.600 --> 0:28:10.480 were two runs in the fifth and two runs in 0:28:10.480 --> 0:28:13.159 the sixth. Uh made it four to two Dodgers on 0:28:13.200 --> 0:28:15.479 their side as well, though a two run shot by 0:28:15.520 --> 0:28:19.280 Max Muntsey gave them the lead. The Brewers got to 0:28:19.440 --> 0:28:21.440 Edwin Diaz though, because when it was four to two 0:28:21.520 --> 0:28:23.960 going into the ninth, they got to dz for three 0:28:24.160 --> 0:28:27.320 runs in the ninth. As the struggles continue, brew crew 0:28:27.320 --> 0:28:30.040 hold on for a five to four comeback win. I'm 0:28:30.040 --> 0:28:31.600 sure we're going to talk a little bit about Edwin 0:28:31.760 --> 0:28:33.040 at the end of this series, and I know you've 0:28:33.040 --> 0:28:35.880 already talked about him a little bit. Game two, Yoshnibu, 0:28:35.920 --> 0:28:37.800 we have a Mooto takes things into his own hands 0:28:37.920 --> 0:28:40.240 with six innings of one run ball with nine strikeouts, 0:28:40.240 --> 0:28:43.479 while Andy Pyes and Tommy Edmond both homer three to 0:28:43.480 --> 0:28:47.040 one win for the Dodgers. Go to Game three, Jacob 0:28:47.080 --> 0:28:51.160 Mizerowski was stellar again opposite of Justin Robleski. The mizz 0:28:51.280 --> 0:28:54.280 allowed one run in six innings with one walk and 0:28:54.320 --> 0:28:57.560 six strikeouts, while Joey Ortiz and William Contres both Homeward. 0:28:58.000 --> 0:29:01.480 Brewers win four to one, and then Game four, Logan 0:29:01.560 --> 0:29:05.760 Henderson out duels Trek Scouble, going seven frames of one 0:29:05.880 --> 0:29:10.280 run ball allowing just three hits. Now you really see 0:29:10.280 --> 0:29:12.080 why the Brewers wanted to hold onto this guy. 0:29:12.120 --> 0:29:12.360 Man. 0:29:12.640 --> 0:29:15.720 He just continues to get better. He executes so well, 0:29:15.840 --> 0:29:18.920 the command is just so damn good, and he had 0:29:19.080 --> 0:29:23.040 these Dodgers' bats just off balance the entire game. Scooble 0:29:23.160 --> 0:29:25.840 was solid. He gave up just one run in six 0:29:25.880 --> 0:29:28.760 innings of his own work, but he did scatter seven 0:29:28.800 --> 0:29:31.240 hits and the Brewers kept the pressure on the Dodgers' bullpen. 0:29:31.320 --> 0:29:33.920 Jake Bowers had four hits and drove in two. Jackson 0:29:33.960 --> 0:29:36.240 Troo had three hits with a pair of doubles, and 0:29:36.480 --> 0:29:39.400 the Brewers win six to two, taking three of four 0:29:39.440 --> 0:29:41.840 in LA. The Dodgers continue to struggle a little bit. 0:29:42.600 --> 0:29:46.200 And I think this was incredibly impressive from the Brewers. 0:29:46.240 --> 0:29:48.360 It's one thing to just take three out of four 0:29:48.360 --> 0:29:52.600 from the Dodgers in LA. That's already fantastic, but what 0:29:52.760 --> 0:29:57.120 is this game? Thirteen straight, fourteen to fifteen. They've been 0:29:57.120 --> 0:29:59.440 on this West coast road trip. It feels like since 0:29:59.480 --> 0:30:01.920 the All Star break started, they'd never get an off day. 0:30:01.920 --> 0:30:04.720 They're running through their bullpen arms and they were struggling 0:30:04.760 --> 0:30:07.080 a little bit and the Cubs were gaining ground on 0:30:07.120 --> 0:30:09.360 them in the division. And what do they do. In 0:30:09.480 --> 0:30:15.360 Brewers fashion, they say, nope, that's over dominate a team 0:30:15.520 --> 0:30:19.640 like the Dodgers. And in the Henderson versus schoobl game, 0:30:20.080 --> 0:30:24.480 Henderson wins, and on top of it, Logan Henderson since 0:30:24.560 --> 0:30:28.680 the trade deadline, has a better era than Trek Schoobel does. 0:30:29.160 --> 0:30:32.440 And so I know I put out that take originally, 0:30:32.440 --> 0:30:33.880 I think it was on the show and then we 0:30:33.920 --> 0:30:36.680 made a clip or whatever. I made the take that 0:30:36.880 --> 0:30:39.120 I was upset with the Brewers that they didn't trade 0:30:39.160 --> 0:30:42.440 Logan Henderson. And really it wasn't even about Logan Henderson. 0:30:42.840 --> 0:30:45.920 It was just frustration in the moment for a Brewer's 0:30:46.000 --> 0:30:48.720 team to make that big splash and to trade from 0:30:48.760 --> 0:30:51.840 their glut of a farm system. But then after watching 0:30:52.040 --> 0:30:55.520 one more Henderson start, I said immediately. I have to 0:30:57.120 --> 0:31:00.280 get this take back like I was wrong all of it. 0:31:00.320 --> 0:31:02.840 I'll stand in front of it. I'm not gonna let 0:31:02.880 --> 0:31:05.360 him go one more start without me admitting that that 0:31:05.480 --> 0:31:08.800 was a bad take because Henderson was too good, simply put, 0:31:08.880 --> 0:31:11.760 to be included in a Terrek Schooble trade, especially for 0:31:11.760 --> 0:31:12.720 a rental like. 0:31:12.840 --> 0:31:13.880 Five years of control. 0:31:14.720 --> 0:31:17.680 It's just too good. I don't even care if you 0:31:17.680 --> 0:31:20.560 had Louiset paying you to the package. Just Logan Henderson 0:31:20.880 --> 0:31:23.840 is too much. That's how good of a pitcher that 0:31:23.920 --> 0:31:26.600 he is. And now you're laughing. Maybe maybe I'm going 0:31:26.600 --> 0:31:30.040 out too far. Middle ground, Yeah, maybe find a middle ground. 0:31:30.200 --> 0:31:32.480 All I know is I'm a big fan of Logan 0:31:32.520 --> 0:31:35.680 Henderson and he turned in just another good start. But 0:31:35.760 --> 0:31:39.200 I think outside of Milwaukee, which I really wanted to 0:31:39.280 --> 0:31:42.320 highlight and praise them, how is the main focus not 0:31:42.480 --> 0:31:44.200 what's been going on with Kyle Tucker. 0:31:45.720 --> 0:31:49.040 Yeah. I mean, yeah, Milwaukee, great ball and they played 0:31:49.080 --> 0:31:52.240 a good series. But Kyle Tucker, it seems like it's 0:31:52.320 --> 0:31:54.479 kind of becoming a mental thing too. And it's why 0:31:54.560 --> 0:31:56.720 Dave Roberts said, you know, he was out of the 0:31:56.720 --> 0:31:58.920 lineup in one of the games because of the frustrations 0:31:58.960 --> 0:32:00.800 of playing at home giving a day off to work, 0:32:00.840 --> 0:32:03.520 and I thought that was interesting too. That kind of 0:32:03.520 --> 0:32:06.120 only added fuel to the fire in the conversations around that. 0:32:06.920 --> 0:32:09.120 What's interesting Peyton sent me this note as well, like 0:32:09.240 --> 0:32:11.400 the hard hit percentage in the evs are basically the 0:32:11.400 --> 0:32:14.600 same home versus road for Kyle Tucker, but the surface 0:32:14.680 --> 0:32:18.120 level stats are are crazy different. On the road, Kyle 0:32:18.200 --> 0:32:21.600 Tucker's been pretty much Kyle Tucker eight forty ohps at 0:32:21.600 --> 0:32:24.760 home to five sixty six ops. You got almost one 0:32:24.800 --> 0:32:26.959 hundred point different batting average one ninety two versus two 0:32:27.040 --> 0:32:29.880 seventy five, and an ops plus of sixty one at 0:32:29.880 --> 0:32:33.600 home versus one thirty eight on the road. So the 0:32:33.640 --> 0:32:37.560 other note is that twenty five percent of his batted balls, Like, 0:32:38.360 --> 0:32:41.880 first of all, he's swinging at the first pitch nearly 0:32:41.920 --> 0:32:44.640 half the time, and he's doing that ten percent less 0:32:44.640 --> 0:32:46.240 frequently in the road, which Peyton pointed out to me, 0:32:46.280 --> 0:32:48.520 which I think is interesting. It's almost like he's pressing 0:32:49.560 --> 0:32:51.320 at Dodger Stadium, like he feels like he has to 0:32:51.880 --> 0:32:55.080 do something more there. And it's one of those things 0:32:55.120 --> 0:32:57.600 where it might have started off as a weird coincidence, 0:32:57.760 --> 0:33:00.880 but as it starts to mount on you, all of 0:33:00.920 --> 0:33:03.240 a sudden, it becomes a self fulfilling prophecy. And I 0:33:03.240 --> 0:33:06.560 think that's kind of where we're at. I just feel 0:33:06.600 --> 0:33:10.840 like he already had some weird bad batted Wallock, and 0:33:10.880 --> 0:33:13.080 then now at Dodger Stadium with him also still not 0:33:13.120 --> 0:33:16.120 generally performing to the way that Dodgers fans wanted. He's pressing, 0:33:16.160 --> 0:33:18.280 he feels the booze a little bit, and it's become 0:33:18.320 --> 0:33:19.920 just a really difficult place for him to play. 0:33:20.600 --> 0:33:23.320 But we're just talking about offense, and I actually just 0:33:23.320 --> 0:33:25.840 texted in our private chat to podcast p I was like, 0:33:26.680 --> 0:33:29.520 is it possible to look up Home Road splits on defense? 0:33:30.720 --> 0:33:32.840 And Peyton goes, I don't know if those are trackable, 0:33:33.480 --> 0:33:34.760 but I'm going to tell you what I see with 0:33:34.800 --> 0:33:37.800 my eyes, and it feels like a lot of the 0:33:38.560 --> 0:33:41.920 bad defensive plays that Kyle Tucker has a lot of 0:33:41.920 --> 0:33:44.240 them are at Dodger Stadium right arm we were just 0:33:44.240 --> 0:33:46.080 talking in the discord, I know you saw the same 0:33:46.120 --> 0:33:49.160 exact play in Sunday's game where he's tracking back to 0:33:49.200 --> 0:33:52.400 the warning track. Not an easy play. You're Kyle Tucker, 0:33:52.520 --> 0:33:54.360 you make that play I think they even said it 0:33:54.400 --> 0:33:57.800 on the broadcast nine and ninety nine times out of 0:33:57.840 --> 0:34:00.680 a thousand, and it wasn't just that he dropped the 0:34:00.720 --> 0:34:06.720 fly ball. It was clear frustration afterwards and then a 0:34:06.880 --> 0:34:08.239 light jog to the ball. 0:34:08.480 --> 0:34:10.520 Yeah, that was the weird part, And that's the part 0:34:10.560 --> 0:34:12.160 that Cubs fans because when I asked, it's like, why 0:34:12.160 --> 0:34:14.880 do you guys hate him so much? Because he's always 0:34:14.880 --> 0:34:16.239 been one of my favorite players to watch. It was 0:34:16.840 --> 0:34:18.520 when he struggled. It was the way that he's struggling, 0:34:18.560 --> 0:34:20.239 and I know he's kind of a nonchalant guy, so 0:34:20.280 --> 0:34:22.320 I think some of it, maybe in the early going 0:34:22.400 --> 0:34:24.759 was a little bit maybe unfair because just kind of 0:34:24.760 --> 0:34:27.520 the way he plays almost looks like he's trying less 0:34:27.560 --> 0:34:29.960 hard than he is. I think sometimes he is trying hard, 0:34:30.120 --> 0:34:32.600 just kind of the way he moves. But I think 0:34:32.760 --> 0:34:35.680 there was a point in which it just was like, hey, 0:34:36.280 --> 0:34:38.120 there should be a little bit more urgency here and 0:34:38.160 --> 0:34:39.839 we're not seeing it. And I think the same thing's 0:34:39.880 --> 0:34:42.480 happening now in LA. And the other point that that 0:34:42.520 --> 0:34:44.480 podcast P did bring up, though offensively, that I think 0:34:44.520 --> 0:34:46.840 is interesting, twenty five percent of his batted balls in 0:34:46.960 --> 0:34:49.640 LA are pulled ground balls, and his barrel percentage against 0:34:49.680 --> 0:34:52.280 fastballs doubles on the road. It's just feels like he's cheating. 0:34:52.480 --> 0:34:54.799 He's over aggressive, he's pressing too much in LA. But 0:34:54.840 --> 0:34:58.560 it's funny combining that with the fact that the effort 0:34:58.640 --> 0:35:00.800 isn't always there as weird. At least last year I 0:35:00.800 --> 0:35:02.000 gave him the benefit of the doubt. I'm like, he's 0:35:02.000 --> 0:35:04.000 dealing with the calf thing. Maybe he was banged up 0:35:04.239 --> 0:35:07.000 contract year. He's playing through it, but he just doesn't 0:35:07.000 --> 0:35:10.360 want to really really get hurt. So maybe not busting 0:35:10.400 --> 0:35:12.480 it down the line could be justifiable when you're dealing 0:35:12.520 --> 0:35:14.760 with it with a calf thing and you know you're 0:35:14.840 --> 0:35:17.879 still a star potential bat, like you're there to hit 0:35:19.440 --> 0:35:21.960 this year. I don't. There's no way to defend it, 0:35:22.320 --> 0:35:25.239 and it's been a tough watch. He looks like he 0:35:25.280 --> 0:35:26.360 doesn't want to be out there. 0:35:26.800 --> 0:35:29.400 And what stinks about Kyle Tucker too, is that Kyle 0:35:29.440 --> 0:35:33.160 Tucker is not good because he's a good hitter. Kyle 0:35:33.239 --> 0:35:38.239 Tucker is a great player because he's phenomenal on all 0:35:38.280 --> 0:35:40.960 sides of the ball. I mean, Kyle Tucker at one 0:35:41.000 --> 0:35:43.759 point was one of the best defensive right fielders in 0:35:43.800 --> 0:35:46.000 all of baseball. Kyle Tucker is a guy who can 0:35:46.040 --> 0:35:50.120 steal thirty bases and is a borderline elite base runner. 0:35:50.920 --> 0:35:53.800 But the problem is, it's almost like he now thinks 0:35:54.000 --> 0:35:57.279 all he can contribute is with the bat, and he 0:35:57.400 --> 0:36:00.319 lets it bleed into the defense, he lets it lead 0:36:00.400 --> 0:36:03.400 in to the base running. He's not as aggressive on 0:36:03.440 --> 0:36:07.040 the bases anymore, he's not making those defensive plays, and 0:36:07.080 --> 0:36:10.440 he's almost reduced himself. And again, this is all speculation. 0:36:10.600 --> 0:36:13.960 This is just what it feels like from watching Kyle Tucker. 0:36:15.880 --> 0:36:18.960 And that's the worst part about it. And that's why 0:36:19.000 --> 0:36:21.400 I wanted to bring up the defense and the base running, 0:36:21.400 --> 0:36:23.600 because those are qualities of Kyle Tucker that made him 0:36:23.600 --> 0:36:24.680 the sixty million dollars. 0:36:24.719 --> 0:36:26.320 It was to some of his parts, Yeah. 0:36:26.239 --> 0:36:27.960 Yeah, exactly. It was because he was a five to 0:36:28.000 --> 0:36:31.120 a player. He's incredibly well rounded. But now it's like 0:36:31.200 --> 0:36:33.000 he's not a good defender and he's not running the 0:36:33.000 --> 0:36:35.480 base as well, and at home he simply can't hit. 0:36:35.560 --> 0:36:38.120 It just looks like a completely different player. And for 0:36:38.200 --> 0:36:39.600 him to get a rest. I don't know if that 0:36:39.719 --> 0:36:43.000 was from Dave Roberts like he said it or the 0:36:43.000 --> 0:36:45.560 front office or Kyle Tucker. I know what they could 0:36:45.560 --> 0:36:48.200 say publicly, but who knows what it really was like 0:36:48.360 --> 0:36:51.560 in that locker room, that conversation. It's just not good. 0:36:52.080 --> 0:36:54.480 And they need him right now, Like. 0:36:55.000 --> 0:36:58.359 Seven games up the division. Though I win a third 0:36:58.400 --> 0:36:59.799 straight World Series, they need him. 0:37:00.080 --> 0:37:03.560 They need him. You know, Max Munsey's been been great, 0:37:03.600 --> 0:37:06.560 I mean, and you're still getting an overall productive Otani, 0:37:06.600 --> 0:37:08.120 but you know, with the struggles of Mookie and some 0:37:08.200 --> 0:37:09.840 other guys being a little bit hot and cold, like 0:37:10.719 --> 0:37:13.200 having a good Kyle Tucker would really change things. I 0:37:13.480 --> 0:37:16.720 think the most obvious and pressing aspect though, is Edwin Diaz. 0:37:16.920 --> 0:37:19.040 You've talked about this on the show though, and like, yeah, 0:37:19.160 --> 0:37:20.960 I still think he's gonna be fine. Like I think 0:37:21.000 --> 0:37:22.399 he has to throw through it, and that's what they're 0:37:22.400 --> 0:37:24.800 expected like doing is the loose bodies thing. It's different 0:37:24.840 --> 0:37:27.280 for everybody and how they come back and how they feel. 0:37:27.320 --> 0:37:29.960 And he's just gonna have to keep throwing through it 0:37:30.000 --> 0:37:32.320 because you're gonna need Edwin Diaz too if you're gonna threepeat, 0:37:32.440 --> 0:37:35.399 so that it's gonna be fascinating to see how those 0:37:35.400 --> 0:37:38.640 things continue. But I think for for the Brewers. They 0:37:38.640 --> 0:37:41.560 went in there four game set to take three. I 0:37:41.600 --> 0:37:43.960 don't care what form of the Dodgers they currently have, 0:37:44.960 --> 0:37:47.279 the Brewers reminding everybody that you know, this is a 0:37:47.320 --> 0:37:51.280 team that can match up with anybody, and just everyone 0:37:51.360 --> 0:37:53.920 kind of did their job in this series. And Chorio 0:37:54.040 --> 0:37:55.600 is doing that thing in the second half where he 0:37:55.640 --> 0:37:58.319 really heats up, and when he does that, look out. 0:37:58.680 --> 0:38:01.240 Also last thing is Jake Bauer has been an awesome story. 0:38:01.520 --> 0:38:05.680 Four hits in that last game. He has opportunistically taken 0:38:05.680 --> 0:38:07.799 advantage of i think a larger role than he was 0:38:07.800 --> 0:38:10.879 expecting and has really been a huge piece for them 0:38:10.880 --> 0:38:12.839 in one of the breakout bats we talked about him 0:38:12.840 --> 0:38:14.920 in Surprises, one of the breakout bats of the year. 0:38:15.200 --> 0:38:17.000 No doubt about it. And that's what the best team 0:38:17.000 --> 0:38:19.719 in baseball does. Backs against the wall. You go take 0:38:19.760 --> 0:38:22.520 three out of four from the Dodgers. Seventy seven wins 0:38:22.600 --> 0:38:27.080 now for Milwaukee best in baseball and three wins above 0:38:27.440 --> 0:38:30.640 teams like the Dodgers and the Braves and the Rays. 0:38:30.760 --> 0:38:33.920 Incredibly impressive season, and it's probably just gonna keep continuing 0:38:33.920 --> 0:38:34.960 because the Brows are awesome. 0:38:35.400 --> 0:38:37.880 Before we hit the break, I'd be remiss one thing 0:38:37.920 --> 0:38:41.280 I do need to mention about the Angels Ben Joyce. 0:38:41.880 --> 0:38:45.560 Ben Joyce, he had laboram surgery and he's throwing one 0:38:45.600 --> 0:38:48.640 of five. Labram surgery and throwing one O five is unbelievable. 0:38:48.680 --> 0:38:50.640 That guy must have one. He's a freak. Two he 0:38:50.719 --> 0:38:53.919 must have worked his ass off post top to come 0:38:53.960 --> 0:38:57.400 back from that. Just really cool. He's worth watching. You 0:38:57.440 --> 0:38:58.759 can turn on in the nine if they're in a 0:38:58.800 --> 0:38:59.480 safe situation. 0:39:00.160 --> 0:39:02.640 Is fun, no doubt about it. Before we hit the break, 0:39:02.920 --> 0:39:05.480 thank you everybody joining us here live on YouTube. The 0:39:05.520 --> 0:39:07.560 best way to support these YouTube live streams if you're 0:39:07.640 --> 0:39:09.239 enjoying the show is make sure to just hit that 0:39:09.280 --> 0:39:12.279 subscribe button and also hit that like button. And thank 0:39:12.320 --> 0:39:15.360 you to everybody for filling up the comments section on YouTube. 0:39:15.360 --> 0:39:17.640 We really really appreciate it. And then if you're listening 0:39:17.640 --> 0:39:20.080 to us after the fact on audio, best way to 0:39:20.080 --> 0:39:23.360 support the show is by leaving a five star review 0:39:23.480 --> 0:39:28.640 podcast p which mine's sending us to Hampton Farms, peanuts 0:39:28.760 --> 0:39:39.279 or a break. You choose, all right. Next series up 0:39:39.560 --> 0:39:44.359 is the Orioles taken on the Tampa Bay Rays Game one. 0:39:44.920 --> 0:39:47.440 Orioles win six to five. We get a two to 0:39:47.440 --> 0:39:50.000 two tie going into the seventh, highlighted by a Colton 0:39:50.040 --> 0:39:53.200 Cowser homer, and in the seventh Dylan Beaver's ripped a 0:39:53.600 --> 0:39:56.440 single to score two, and then Gunner Henderson followed that 0:39:56.520 --> 0:39:59.480 up in the eighth with his twentieth homer of the season. 0:40:00.040 --> 0:40:02.719 Has been red hot since the moment I dove into 0:40:02.719 --> 0:40:05.240 his struggles late rally. In the ninth of the Rays 0:40:05.280 --> 0:40:07.759 fell just short and the Orioles win six to five. 0:40:07.880 --> 0:40:11.040 Chris Bassett slid in his return five and a third 0:40:11.360 --> 0:40:13.759 two earned runs, moved to Game two, Orioles win four 0:40:13.800 --> 0:40:15.959 to three and ten innings. It was a sixth inning 0:40:16.000 --> 0:40:19.719 battle between Ian Seymour and Kyle Bradish as the Orioles 0:40:19.719 --> 0:40:23.239 got two off homers from Pete Alonzo and Christian and 0:40:23.360 --> 0:40:26.480 carnassion Strand, while the Rays got a big time triple 0:40:26.760 --> 0:40:29.040 from Cedric Mullins that brought in a run. But in 0:40:29.040 --> 0:40:30.839 the bottom of the ninth, the Rays were down three 0:40:30.880 --> 0:40:34.040 to two and Cammonaro dribbled one to third and beat 0:40:34.080 --> 0:40:37.160 the throw to tie it. And he was hyped and 0:40:37.200 --> 0:40:39.440 we had the extras, but he wasn't hype for very long. 0:40:40.120 --> 0:40:43.120 In the tenth, Tyler O'Neal singled to center to score 0:40:43.200 --> 0:40:45.600 Kowser and that was enough to win it. Moved to 0:40:45.960 --> 0:40:49.799 Game three. Can the Rays avoid the sweep? Nope? Orioles 0:40:49.920 --> 0:40:54.200 boat race them ten to two. Ryan Valaid homerd in 0:40:54.320 --> 0:40:57.360 the fourth to open this scoring and Freddy Peralta was 0:40:57.400 --> 0:41:00.520 cruising through four, but it was all Oriols from there. 0:41:00.680 --> 0:41:04.880 Cowser homer it again. Alonso and Cees had RBI doubles, 0:41:05.200 --> 0:41:08.520 Jackson Holliday had multiple RBI hits, and Trevor Rodgers went 0:41:08.640 --> 0:41:12.960 six strong with two runs allowed. Orioles sweep and sit 0:41:13.080 --> 0:41:16.800 in the last wild card spot in the American League. 0:41:16.880 --> 0:41:18.759 I want to talk about Pete Alonso because I feel 0:41:18.760 --> 0:41:23.959 like he's having an underrated season Offensively. Mets didn't want him, 0:41:24.120 --> 0:41:27.680 nobody values first base hitting anymore Orioles did, and he's 0:41:27.800 --> 0:41:30.560 been just an awesome hitter all season long. But how 0:41:30.560 --> 0:41:33.799 about the pickup of Christian and Carnassi o Strand I 0:41:33.920 --> 0:41:36.000 was surprised that the Reds just kind of dropped him. 0:41:36.000 --> 0:41:37.880 It must have been a forty man crunch or something. 0:41:38.160 --> 0:41:40.440 It's just a guy who's been hurt that never really 0:41:40.480 --> 0:41:43.120 got a shot. But when he was up in Spurts, 0:41:43.160 --> 0:41:45.680 he displayed the power and is a true power threat. 0:41:45.719 --> 0:41:47.840 I'm just surprised that they dropped him off for nothing, 0:41:48.280 --> 0:41:50.759 but good for the Orioles for picking him up and 0:41:50.800 --> 0:41:53.840 inserting him into the lineup. And he's been a power 0:41:53.880 --> 0:41:56.200 threat as soon as we're on that uniform. 0:41:56.400 --> 0:41:57.680 He's one of those guys that I mean, you can 0:41:57.680 --> 0:41:59.960 plug him in, ride the wave and when he's hot, 0:42:00.080 --> 0:42:02.080 like absolutely can give you a bit of a jolt, 0:42:02.120 --> 0:42:03.759 and you know, just to be able to plug in 0:42:03.800 --> 0:42:06.880 the meantime, I think has been big for them. Samuel 0:42:06.880 --> 0:42:10.640 Osio is already close to returning too. He just was 0:42:10.640 --> 0:42:12.879 playing Triple A put some great swings on balls from 0:42:12.880 --> 0:42:14.680 what I saw, So you're gonna be bringing him back 0:42:14.680 --> 0:42:16.919 into the lineup soon as well. And yeah, you mentioned 0:42:16.960 --> 0:42:19.799 Pete Alonzo. Peter Alonzo. Since the All Star break, and 0:42:19.800 --> 0:42:23.080 this is not including Sunday's game, he's sitting three oh 0:42:23.120 --> 0:42:26.359 seven with a one to sixty one WRC plus he 0:42:26.520 --> 0:42:28.799 and it's not just like he's launching homers every day. 0:42:29.080 --> 0:42:31.040 He's and this is always the underrated part about Pete 0:42:31.080 --> 0:42:33.439 is he's a good freaking hitter. He's just a good hitter. 0:42:33.600 --> 0:42:35.640 So when he heats up it's not just the homers. 0:42:35.680 --> 0:42:37.759 He's giving you doubles. He's getting you big bass hits. 0:42:37.760 --> 0:42:39.839 He's not striking out much like he has been one 0:42:39.840 --> 0:42:42.160 of the better hitters since the break. You pair that 0:42:42.200 --> 0:42:44.880 with like every time I think Gunner's breaking out of it, 0:42:44.880 --> 0:42:46.920 he like slows down a little bit. But Gunner's been 0:42:46.920 --> 0:42:48.880 putting good swings on balls late. We got robbed a 0:42:48.880 --> 0:42:50.840 couple of times on Sunday, but I've been liking what 0:42:50.840 --> 0:42:53.120 I've seen from his abs, and obviously anything from where 0:42:53.120 --> 0:42:55.239 he was before will be an improvement. I thought this 0:42:55.280 --> 0:42:57.799 team was dead, I really did, and no one's fully 0:42:57.840 --> 0:43:01.120 dead in the American League. But Shane By has snapped 0:43:01.120 --> 0:43:04.600 in and given them quality start after quality start. Bradish 0:43:04.640 --> 0:43:06.440 has settled in, Trevor Rodgers is settled, and all of 0:43:06.440 --> 0:43:08.680 a sudden, you're like, well, and with bro what Brandon 0:43:08.680 --> 0:43:10.880 Young's doing, You're like, you got a pretty good shot. 0:43:11.160 --> 0:43:13.399 Four days out of the week. Bassett came back, as 0:43:13.400 --> 0:43:16.120 you mentioned, and it's it's interesting, all of a sudden 0:43:16.160 --> 0:43:18.560 they're doing that with Blaize Alexander getting hurt, who's been 0:43:18.560 --> 0:43:20.840 one of their bigger pieces this year, that they go, 0:43:21.120 --> 0:43:22.960 you know, just to be able to plug in different areas. 0:43:23.040 --> 0:43:26.720 As I mentioned, they're gonna get Pisillo back. It feels 0:43:26.760 --> 0:43:28.640 like we can change the narrative around the American League 0:43:28.640 --> 0:43:30.479 in which team's gonna sneak in pretty much every given 0:43:30.640 --> 0:43:33.279 week in roundup. But the Orioles are playing their way 0:43:33.320 --> 0:43:36.080 now into the fact that they're gonna be playing meaningful games, 0:43:36.239 --> 0:43:38.960 you know, through the rest of this season probably. And 0:43:38.960 --> 0:43:41.279 then one other underrated thing was Dylan Beaver's was banked 0:43:41.360 --> 0:43:43.080 up a lot of this year. He's healthy and he's 0:43:43.080 --> 0:43:45.360 starting to come alive a little bit. I think a 0:43:45.400 --> 0:43:47.400 lot of their players that even like if they're not 0:43:47.560 --> 0:43:50.680 fully breaking out, they were really struggling, they're at least 0:43:50.719 --> 0:43:53.919 not like superch like super struggling anymore, and they're giving 0:43:53.960 --> 0:43:56.799 them competitive at bats. You combine that all together with 0:43:56.880 --> 0:43:59.000 a hot Pete Alonso and you're seeing a really good 0:43:59.040 --> 0:44:00.839 team all of a sudden, with the way that they've 0:44:00.840 --> 0:44:01.320 been playing. 0:44:01.760 --> 0:44:04.720 Been impressed with Tyler O'Neal as well. Since the calendar 0:44:04.760 --> 0:44:07.200 turned to August, he's put up a one sixty three 0:44:07.239 --> 0:44:10.720 WRC plus, hitting close to three hundred, slugging over five hundred, 0:44:11.200 --> 0:44:14.759 and he's got three home runs, so that's obviously a 0:44:14.760 --> 0:44:18.399 big addition. And somebody who they signed which hasn't really 0:44:18.400 --> 0:44:20.319 given them anything, but if he can help them get 0:44:20.320 --> 0:44:23.239 into the playoffs, I'm sure Orioles fans will be like, 0:44:23.239 --> 0:44:25.680 you know what, water under the bridge, money well spent. 0:44:25.760 --> 0:44:27.520 If you can keep hitting like this and we get 0:44:27.520 --> 0:44:30.799 to October. And it's really just on the offense if 0:44:30.880 --> 0:44:32.719 the Orioles want to make it, because the pitching is 0:44:32.760 --> 0:44:37.200 doing their job. The bullpen has been solid, the starting rotation, right, 0:44:37.239 --> 0:44:39.640 you already mentioned Shane Bosse. You know, we had a 0:44:39.680 --> 0:44:42.520 tough start in his last turn, but at the same time, 0:44:42.680 --> 0:44:47.520 like that's like his first bad start in what two months, 0:44:47.960 --> 0:44:51.480 So your total point is absolutely true. Kyle Bradish is 0:44:51.480 --> 0:44:54.400 still the dog. Brandon Young, like you said, Trevor Rodgers 0:44:54.480 --> 0:44:58.399 just is automatic. Six innings, two runs at this point, 0:44:59.480 --> 0:45:02.799 you know, they got they have a decent staff. They 0:45:02.880 --> 0:45:04.480 just have to hit. And right now they're hitting and 0:45:04.520 --> 0:45:07.120 their winning. It's really that simple for them. It's just 0:45:07.200 --> 0:45:09.560 about them consistently stringing those together. 0:45:10.040 --> 0:45:13.239 Yeah, and I think for the Rays, like they also 0:45:13.239 --> 0:45:15.160 to beat them at the trop sweep them at the 0:45:15.200 --> 0:45:17.840 trap pretty pretty crazy. I'm never gonna sign the Alarms 0:45:17.840 --> 0:45:19.839 on a series from the Race the Oreos, who played 0:45:19.840 --> 0:45:23.000 the Race tough all year long. So just one of 0:45:23.000 --> 0:45:25.120 those series if you're the Rais and just see how 0:45:25.160 --> 0:45:25.799 you bounce back. 0:45:25.960 --> 0:45:28.520 It's almost with the Rays. It's like you were due 0:45:28.520 --> 0:45:31.080 for this. You came into the you came into this 0:45:31.200 --> 0:45:33.920 series forty one and eighteen at home? What are you 0:45:33.920 --> 0:45:36.960 the nineteen twenty seven Yankees, Like, what are you talking about? 0:45:36.960 --> 0:45:41.320 Like it's an unsustainable win loss record. So it doesn't 0:45:41.360 --> 0:45:44.600 surprise me that a hot Orioles team who's played well 0:45:44.640 --> 0:45:47.719 against the Rays and knows the trop well came in 0:45:47.760 --> 0:45:50.040 and won a series and those baths just got hot. 0:45:50.080 --> 0:45:53.200 Like if I'm the Rays whatever, like I wouldn't give 0:45:53.200 --> 0:45:55.200 a shit, really if I'm the Race. It's more the 0:45:55.200 --> 0:45:57.400 only reason I would is just because it's a division 0:45:57.480 --> 0:45:59.200 rival and you want to beat. But in terms of 0:46:00.200 --> 0:46:02.400 you're in first place, it's not like the Yankees are 0:46:02.400 --> 0:46:04.600 playing well, the Red Sox are on a slide. You're 0:46:04.680 --> 0:46:07.120 five and a half games up, you know, in the division, 0:46:07.239 --> 0:46:09.000 like you could afford. 0:46:08.719 --> 0:46:11.160 This, and Freddie had one of the better starts we've 0:46:11.160 --> 0:46:13.239 seen them in this year was short leash. But you know. 0:46:13.239 --> 0:46:14.840 I thought it was actually too short of a lesion. 0:46:14.840 --> 0:46:16.759 That's why part of the reason why the Rais ended 0:46:16.840 --> 0:46:18.279 up blowing it. I think they should have let you know, 0:46:18.360 --> 0:46:21.239 Freddie finish out the fifth inning there. They didn't, but 0:46:21.280 --> 0:46:22.960 he was solid for four and two thirds. 0:46:23.480 --> 0:46:27.520 And speaking about another team in this division, the Red 0:46:27.560 --> 0:46:31.600 Sox lost series to the Pirates this weekend. Game one, 0:46:32.000 --> 0:46:34.600 Pirates went eight to four. Rafael Flora has got the 0:46:34.640 --> 0:46:36.839 scoring started for Pittsburgh with a homer, and then they 0:46:36.880 --> 0:46:39.040 just piled on in the fourth and fifth as Million 0:46:39.120 --> 0:46:42.080 Valdez had an RBI double. Flores came up big again 0:46:42.160 --> 0:46:44.480 with an RBI single, and Brandon Loo hit a three 0:46:44.560 --> 0:46:47.799 run homer his twenty sixth of the season to put 0:46:47.800 --> 0:46:49.759 the game out of reach. And Bubba Chandler tossed five 0:46:49.760 --> 0:46:51.680 innings to two run ball the Lower Zira to four 0:46:51.719 --> 0:46:53.680 to two three. He's been fun to watch. But in 0:46:53.719 --> 0:46:56.040 Game two, Red Sox win four to zero because Sonny 0:46:56.080 --> 0:46:58.960 Gray said, nope, I ain't losing shit. Take a bow, 0:46:59.120 --> 0:47:03.360 Sonny Gray. Seven innings, no runs, seven k's is the 0:47:03.400 --> 0:47:05.480 area's down to two sixty five. He's hunting for that 0:47:05.560 --> 0:47:07.600 cy Young. I know he's got two horses in front 0:47:07.600 --> 0:47:11.200 of him, but incredible season from him and William Bray 0:47:11.239 --> 0:47:14.799 You Homer Monasterio and Jami Jones said RBI hits and 0:47:14.880 --> 0:47:17.520 Joe Jones on the other side for Pittsburgh did pitch well. 0:47:17.600 --> 0:47:20.560 He just allowed one run in five innings with seven punches, 0:47:20.600 --> 0:47:23.239 but obviously they got shut out. Game three, the rubber match, 0:47:23.280 --> 0:47:25.840 Pirates win eight to three, and they mounted a seven 0:47:26.000 --> 0:47:29.560 zero lead early as Brian Reynolds and Brandon lou had 0:47:29.680 --> 0:47:33.240 multiple RBI hits. Connor Wong with Homer in the fifth 0:47:33.320 --> 0:47:35.880 a three run shot to narrow the gap, but then 0:47:35.920 --> 0:47:38.600 we had a long rain delay. Game ended quietly as 0:47:38.719 --> 0:47:41.960 Nick York ripping an RBI single was the lone run 0:47:42.040 --> 0:47:45.920 after that delay, and that was it. Pirates win. They 0:47:45.960 --> 0:47:49.279 win the series. Red Sox drop a couple another Red 0:47:49.320 --> 0:47:51.399 Sox said, it's sixty six and fifty eight. There's still 0:47:51.400 --> 0:47:54.280 five games up in the Wild Card. Like overall, they're fine, 0:47:55.200 --> 0:47:58.839 but ever since that crazy run, they've started to fall 0:47:58.880 --> 0:48:01.320 flat on their face a little bit. On the other side, 0:48:01.360 --> 0:48:05.760 the Pirates are trending up sort of. They're still keeping 0:48:05.800 --> 0:48:11.200 things moderately interesting. It's just with the Pirates, their numbers 0:48:11.239 --> 0:48:14.280 are better than they are. They're a top ten offense 0:48:14.320 --> 0:48:18.280 this year by WRC plus. Like, they have good names 0:48:18.320 --> 0:48:18.920 in the rotation. 0:48:19.000 --> 0:48:20.640 Yeah, they're liable to do this at any time. 0:48:20.760 --> 0:48:24.040 They added Luke Weaver to the bullpen like. It's a 0:48:24.080 --> 0:48:27.919 good team that has been ravaged by injuries this year 0:48:27.960 --> 0:48:32.000 and Paul Skeens had to skip his start on Sunday. 0:48:32.080 --> 0:48:35.120 It's been a weird year. It's been a weird year 0:48:35.400 --> 0:48:37.239 for the Pirates, and I got to be honest, I 0:48:37.280 --> 0:48:41.000 expected better. But this is an example of a series 0:48:41.040 --> 0:48:44.120 that shows Pirates fans like they are good. It's having 0:48:44.280 --> 0:48:46.200 kind of a wacky season. 0:48:46.400 --> 0:48:49.400 I do agree. I think it's it's a team that 0:48:49.480 --> 0:48:52.040 was I think put together and to be better than 0:48:52.080 --> 0:48:54.399 it has been. And yeah, things have happened, and even 0:48:54.480 --> 0:48:57.000 you could just say Skiens, if he was Skiens, that 0:48:57.080 --> 0:49:01.000 they expected this year. They're probably right at five hundred 0:49:01.080 --> 0:49:04.399 and and probably right in the in at least much 0:49:04.440 --> 0:49:07.080 closer to the wild card conversation. I mean, they win 0:49:07.160 --> 0:49:10.239 this game, uh, the final of the series too. In 0:49:10.280 --> 0:49:14.920 it where you scratch the scratch, Skens have Lake Baker 0:49:15.280 --> 0:49:18.160 starting and going three innings. He's been mostly a reliever. 0:49:18.280 --> 0:49:20.040 You know, he's been a reliever all year, sometimes going 0:49:20.080 --> 0:49:22.440 multi inning but not three. And then Hunter Barco on 0:49:22.440 --> 0:49:24.960 the piggyback and you win that ballgame. As you mentioned, 0:49:25.000 --> 0:49:27.560 the bats came alive and uh and in a series 0:49:27.600 --> 0:49:29.520 where do they see all of the top i'ms no, 0:49:29.600 --> 0:49:31.640 but they still saw Sunny Gray. Jake Bennett's been efficient 0:49:31.640 --> 0:49:34.280 and effective this year. Big thing for me is Sonny 0:49:34.280 --> 0:49:36.680 Gray Man, like this guy at his age to just 0:49:36.719 --> 0:49:39.359 not even be fading at all, like at the end 0:49:39.360 --> 0:49:41.439 of this year, to go seven shutty, get that era 0:49:41.640 --> 0:49:43.680 down to two six five. He has just been so 0:49:43.800 --> 0:49:47.160 much fun to watch this year and just you're seeing 0:49:47.200 --> 0:49:50.560 I think a form of a picture that this stuff 0:49:50.600 --> 0:49:53.360 is still really good. But you're seeing him like just 0:49:53.360 --> 0:49:55.880 just develop into this way of being able to know 0:49:55.920 --> 0:49:59.239 how to maximize his arsenal execute well and he just 0:49:59.280 --> 0:50:02.759 looks like that's surgical polished arm at thirty six years old, 0:50:02.760 --> 0:50:04.480 and he's just a really fun arm to watch. 0:50:05.200 --> 0:50:07.440 So it's interesting this comes to us from Blue JAYSM. 0:50:07.480 --> 0:50:10.439 Two three seven. Ever since Red Sox acquired Adley, they've 0:50:10.440 --> 0:50:13.600 been struggling. Are we on in division? Curse watch? 0:50:15.840 --> 0:50:18.879 You know, I think coming back from injury is always 0:50:18.960 --> 0:50:22.520 tough with a new team. But I already have friends 0:50:22.520 --> 0:50:26.240 that are Red Sox fans who are rarely rational telling 0:50:26.239 --> 0:50:28.279 me that they don't like Adlie. I go, I already know, 0:50:28.320 --> 0:50:30.479 like you heard it here first, I congrats, you're first 0:50:30.480 --> 0:50:33.799 on the take that your your new catcher stinks. I 0:50:33.840 --> 0:50:36.200 think Adwy's going to be a good asset for them, 0:50:36.200 --> 0:50:38.400 But this is part of the risk when you acquired him. 0:50:38.400 --> 0:50:40.200 He gets hurt. He's been hurt a good bit, and 0:50:40.200 --> 0:50:43.839 that's usually contributed to sometimes some sporadic play. He's gonna 0:50:43.840 --> 0:50:46.080 need some time to get his feet under him. And 0:50:46.200 --> 0:50:48.160 obviously what he brings to the table value wise is 0:50:48.200 --> 0:50:50.120 beyond just what he does with the bat. But he 0:50:50.160 --> 0:50:53.319 hasn't done anything with the bat so far yet. So yeah, 0:50:53.360 --> 0:50:55.200 I mean, I think that's part of it. But I 0:50:55.239 --> 0:50:57.520 also think it's just a little bit of a a 0:50:57.520 --> 0:50:59.279 little bit of a slide. After the team was, you know, 0:50:59.440 --> 0:51:01.640 the high on the planet, there was always gonna be 0:51:01.680 --> 0:51:03.600 a little bit of a normalization period. Still a really 0:51:03.640 --> 0:51:06.400 good team, and again the Pirates got hot at the 0:51:06.440 --> 0:51:06.920 right time. 0:51:07.560 --> 0:51:09.960 Yeah, Connor Wong hit a homer on Sunday, But going 0:51:10.000 --> 0:51:13.719 into Sunday's game. Connor Wong in six games since the 0:51:13.719 --> 0:51:16.439 deadline is hitting one forty three, one eighty two, three 0:51:16.520 --> 0:51:20.359 thirty three and Atlee Rutchman seventy one, two, seventy eight, 0:51:20.360 --> 0:51:24.000 oh seventy one. Yeah, great idea. All right, you ready 0:51:24.040 --> 0:51:26.279 to move on to the next series. We got the 0:51:26.640 --> 0:51:30.279 d Backs taking on the Atlanta Braves. Game one, d 0:51:30.360 --> 0:51:34.359 Backs win two to zero. Brandon Thought is a changed man. 0:51:35.800 --> 0:51:41.080 Seven shutty, two hits, no walks, seven strikeouts. We were 0:51:41.080 --> 0:51:43.920 talking about him in our Discord podcast. P was chiming 0:51:43.960 --> 0:51:47.120 in two and I forget who said it, but immediately 0:51:47.200 --> 0:51:49.640 I was like, that's a great take. He said, he 0:51:49.680 --> 0:51:53.600 almost looks like prime Michael King right now. Chris Sale 0:51:53.719 --> 0:51:56.120 on the other side, was also awesome. Toss six innings 0:51:56.120 --> 0:51:57.840 a one run ball with nine ks to lower his 0:51:57.920 --> 0:52:01.240 he rated two to one six. He's aging like fine wine. 0:52:01.680 --> 0:52:03.480 Just the Braves didn't score, so they didn't win. I 0:52:03.560 --> 0:52:06.080 did the d Back score Moreno had an RBI ground out, 0:52:06.120 --> 0:52:09.200 Tim Tawa had a homer. Just great pitching from this 0:52:09.239 --> 0:52:12.520 one from Arizona, holding Atlanta to just three hits all game. 0:52:13.280 --> 0:52:15.759 Moved to Game two. D Backs offense showed up in 0:52:15.800 --> 0:52:18.400 this one, ten to three win. The Braves put up 0:52:18.440 --> 0:52:20.760 two in the first inning, highlighted by Ronald Acuney junior 0:52:20.760 --> 0:52:23.440 home run, but from there it was all snakes. It 0:52:23.520 --> 0:52:25.400 was six to two after the fourth, highlighted by a 0:52:25.440 --> 0:52:28.120 Nolan Arenado homer, and then in the seventh Aeron od 0:52:28.120 --> 0:52:32.319 ohomer it again, his twentieth Aeronautos got twenty homer and 0:52:32.360 --> 0:52:35.239 then Iil tomorrow. Vargas added the exclamation point with a 0:52:35.239 --> 0:52:38.959 three round home run and the greatest pitcher alive, Edward 0:52:39.040 --> 0:52:43.040 and Rodriguez just keeps shoving ever since the World Baseball Classic. 0:52:43.080 --> 0:52:46.120 This guy, this guy's hair is on fire. Six innings, 0:52:46.120 --> 0:52:49.239 five hits, two earned, five punches, his eras down to two, 0:52:49.360 --> 0:52:51.440 seven to one. What a season. But in Game three, 0:52:51.520 --> 0:52:53.520 Brave salvage they win five to three. It was one 0:52:53.560 --> 0:52:56.520 one tie going into the fifth, highlighted by Gabby Moreno homer, 0:52:56.880 --> 0:52:59.279 but Acuna broke that tie with an RBI double, But 0:52:59.320 --> 0:53:01.680 two innings late, Vargas tied it back up with his 0:53:01.800 --> 0:53:05.040 second homer in as many games, but then Maddio matt 0:53:05.080 --> 0:53:08.120 Olson rock to three run homer to center, his thirty 0:53:08.280 --> 0:53:11.520 sixth of the season and the Braves close it out. 0:53:11.560 --> 0:53:14.560 Bryce Elder pitched really well, toss six innings, one run 0:53:14.600 --> 0:53:17.160 ball with five strike ups. But I want to ask 0:53:17.200 --> 0:53:20.400 you about that take in our discord about Brandon Fott 0:53:20.480 --> 0:53:23.879 looking like prime Michael King. What do you think about 0:53:23.880 --> 0:53:26.760 the changes that Brandon Fott has made. 0:53:27.120 --> 0:53:30.200 I think that's fun because it is interesting, like with 0:53:30.360 --> 0:53:33.240 King when he's executing and it's it's like execution dependent, 0:53:33.320 --> 0:53:37.080 but he got really good at executing consistently. I think 0:53:37.080 --> 0:53:39.480 with thought, you know, do a little bit of a 0:53:39.480 --> 0:53:42.680 tweak where a little bit less of the slider, more 0:53:42.800 --> 0:53:45.120 more change up, a little bit more for steamer, so 0:53:45.160 --> 0:53:47.399 he's more four seam change up, and then I think 0:53:47.440 --> 0:53:50.120 it's still setting up the breaking balls will work morizontally. 0:53:50.880 --> 0:53:53.080 It's helped him keep left. He's at Bay a lot more. 0:53:53.239 --> 0:53:55.240 I mean podcast he has it up here since returning 0:53:55.239 --> 0:53:58.120 from Triple A. You see that four seam usage up, 0:53:58.719 --> 0:54:00.319 which of course is going to cut into the sinker 0:54:00.400 --> 0:54:02.880 usage a good bit. The four seam changer kind of 0:54:03.040 --> 0:54:05.400 change up tunnel that he creates works really well. That 0:54:05.480 --> 0:54:07.560 sweeper was still really good right on right, but now 0:54:07.600 --> 0:54:09.400 you're not throwing that to lefties, as much, and then 0:54:09.400 --> 0:54:12.160 he still has the cutter to bridge and the curve ball, 0:54:12.239 --> 0:54:13.839 So I just think you've got to respect all the 0:54:13.840 --> 0:54:17.080 offerings more. I think it's changing the way that you 0:54:17.080 --> 0:54:20.839 can try to prepare for Brandon Fought and the arm 0:54:20.880 --> 0:54:22.640 angle and just the funkiness. Like this is a guy 0:54:22.640 --> 0:54:24.640 that we've seen have a lot of success at the 0:54:24.640 --> 0:54:26.680 big league level and have a lot of success in 0:54:26.719 --> 0:54:30.040 the playoffs and you know, and really high leverage contexts, 0:54:30.080 --> 0:54:32.680 and just to come back and make that a little 0:54:32.719 --> 0:54:35.319 bit of adjustment and have the success immediately, I think 0:54:35.400 --> 0:54:39.040 is really encouraging and huge, big reason why this Diamondbacks 0:54:39.080 --> 0:54:40.440 team is where they are right now. 0:54:40.680 --> 0:54:43.640 No doubt about it. Anything else on this series, because 0:54:44.000 --> 0:54:45.799 you know, we could talk about the Atlanta Braves, but 0:54:46.200 --> 0:54:48.520 it's kind of like the Rays, like whatever. He dropped 0:54:48.520 --> 0:54:51.200 a series to a hot Diamondbacks team who you know 0:54:51.360 --> 0:54:53.520 is really in the hunt, while you guys have a 0:54:53.600 --> 0:54:58.600 solid division lead offense didn't really show up this weekend. 0:54:58.640 --> 0:55:00.560 But at the same time, you kind of got pieced 0:55:00.600 --> 0:55:03.319 by a starter that is just on fire right now 0:55:03.360 --> 0:55:06.120 and you haven't seen you know, his new pitch mix, 0:55:06.200 --> 0:55:09.640 and you know how he you know, sequences everything, so 0:55:10.280 --> 0:55:12.080 and then they got the big homer for metalson and 0:55:12.160 --> 0:55:14.880 they salvaged this series. Like I didn't really have anything 0:55:14.880 --> 0:55:17.040 on Atlanta and on the d back side, I really 0:55:17.120 --> 0:55:19.719 just wanted to focus on Brandon Fox, Yeah, because I 0:55:19.719 --> 0:55:21.480 feel like he is the story from the series. 0:55:21.840 --> 0:55:24.400 Since he's returned, opponents are hitting one eighty four against 0:55:24.440 --> 0:55:26.840 that change up that he's throwing again twice as much. 0:55:27.480 --> 0:55:29.719 But the other crazy part is that the fastballs, whether 0:55:29.719 --> 0:55:31.919 it's a four seamer or the sinker, were getting crushed before. 0:55:32.040 --> 0:55:34.320 I at least hit pretty hard before. Since he's returned 0:55:34.840 --> 0:55:37.440 foughts holding opponents to a one forty one batting average 0:55:37.440 --> 0:55:40.520 on the fastball, but a one seventy two slug on 0:55:40.560 --> 0:55:42.719 that four seamer as well, compared to in that span 0:55:43.160 --> 0:55:45.319 the sinker is about a four to thirty six slug 0:55:45.360 --> 0:55:47.759 three zero eight batting average. So to be able to 0:55:47.880 --> 0:55:50.239 go to that four seamer have the success that he's 0:55:50.239 --> 0:55:53.560 having generate some more whifts and weak five balls, which 0:55:53.640 --> 0:55:56.279 also sets up the change up. It's been huge for him. 0:55:56.400 --> 0:55:58.400 And again that sweeper still doing its thing, he just 0:55:58.400 --> 0:55:59.880 doesn't have to lean on it as much because it's 0:55:59.880 --> 0:56:01.680 not pitch that you want to be, you know, spamming 0:56:02.120 --> 0:56:04.640 too much, because again, Righty's can start a game plan 0:56:04.680 --> 0:56:06.200 for it a little bit more, and of course left 0:56:06.239 --> 0:56:07.719 eas are going to see it a lot better. 0:56:08.080 --> 0:56:10.520 Do we have any update on Corbyn Burns because I'm 0:56:10.560 --> 0:56:16.400 just thinking, if you get a healthy Corbyn Burns by October, 0:56:16.520 --> 0:56:19.960 Let's say the Dbacks make the playoffs, you go Burns 0:56:20.800 --> 0:56:26.600 five E, rod Soroca. Yeah, we're talking. That's like the 0:56:26.600 --> 0:56:29.880 best rotation they've had since the twenty twenty three World 0:56:29.880 --> 0:56:30.399 Series run. 0:56:30.560 --> 0:56:33.279 Yeah, the hope is that Burns could be back by 0:56:33.320 --> 0:56:36.160 early September and can make a hand like several starts 0:56:36.200 --> 0:56:38.760 before the playoffs. And I mean, if you get that, 0:56:38.760 --> 0:56:41.400 that's really exciting. I think just anything from Burns, and 0:56:41.440 --> 0:56:44.680 then also, you know, Justin Martinez is getting I think 0:56:44.680 --> 0:56:48.360 pretty close, pretty close. And then also the Dbacks just 0:56:48.400 --> 0:56:51.080 activated to Jordan Lawler, who hit five homers in four 0:56:51.120 --> 0:56:53.120 games on rehab, and like, that's a guy that can 0:56:53.160 --> 0:56:55.719 plug into a lot of different places to you know, 0:56:55.760 --> 0:56:58.520 help this offense. So but I think I think you 0:56:58.520 --> 0:57:01.080 could see Martinez back really really soon, and what that 0:57:01.080 --> 0:57:03.000 would do for a bullpen that's already been playing great. 0:57:03.040 --> 0:57:06.600 Is exciting, extremely exciting. Let's go over to the Yankees 0:57:06.640 --> 0:57:10.919 against the Blue Jays. Game one, Blue Jays went three 0:57:10.960 --> 0:57:13.200 to one. Shout out Shane Bieber. I thought he looked 0:57:13.239 --> 0:57:16.240 so good. Six innings, four hits, one earned five strikeouts 0:57:16.560 --> 0:57:19.520 in a huge game against Garrett Cole. And speaking about Cole, 0:57:19.560 --> 0:57:21.360 he was great too. Six innings and two run ball 0:57:21.400 --> 0:57:23.840 of five hits allowed five k's zerra is down a 0:57:23.880 --> 0:57:25.560 three to two to two, but the Jays did just 0:57:25.880 --> 0:57:28.640 enough to win. It was scoreless until the sixth. Most 0:57:28.720 --> 0:57:31.680 pitchers were dealing, but then Trent Grisham went yard, but 0:57:31.680 --> 0:57:34.320 the Jays would answer, and then some as George Springer 0:57:34.360 --> 0:57:37.600 and Alejandro Kirk both had RBIs and then in the eighth, 0:57:37.920 --> 0:57:41.680 Alejandro Kirk supplied the Dagger with a home run. Game two, 0:57:42.560 --> 0:57:45.040 Blue Jays went four to one. Cam Schlitzler did his 0:57:45.080 --> 0:57:47.240 best to keep the Yankees in this one, pitching into 0:57:47.280 --> 0:57:50.360 the six while only allowing one run and striking out seven. 0:57:50.800 --> 0:57:54.040 But the j staff highlighted by Ricky Tiedeman's debut. Even 0:57:54.080 --> 0:57:56.200 though Ricky Tiedeman did allow the only run in this game, 0:57:56.240 --> 0:57:58.920 but it was cool seeing him making his debut. You 0:57:58.960 --> 0:58:02.160 know is I think he only got what five outs, 0:58:02.160 --> 0:58:03.640 but I don't know. I thought it was cool. It's 0:58:03.640 --> 0:58:05.960 one of the Blue Jay's top prospects. The whole blue 0:58:06.040 --> 0:58:08.160 Jay staff shut it down and Charles McAdoo led the 0:58:08.160 --> 0:58:10.960 offense two RBI hits just enough to get the win. 0:58:11.200 --> 0:58:13.439 And then in Game three Yankee salvage. They went four 0:58:13.440 --> 0:58:16.720 to three in ten innings. Dylan se saw what Schlitler 0:58:16.760 --> 0:58:18.960 did and said, I'm gonna one up you kind of. 0:58:19.240 --> 0:58:21.760 He pitched it into the seventh, and he allowed just 0:58:21.800 --> 0:58:24.200 two hits in two runs with ten k's, but the 0:58:24.280 --> 0:58:28.200 Yankees ground grinded it out in order to avoid the sweep. 0:58:28.200 --> 0:58:30.600 And how about Ryan weathers Arm on the other side, 0:58:30.640 --> 0:58:33.400 He was even better than Cease and better than Schlitler. 0:58:33.640 --> 0:58:35.960 Pitched into the eighth while allowing just one run with 0:58:36.080 --> 0:58:39.680 four punches, lowering his aire to three, five, six, and 0:58:39.760 --> 0:58:42.320 Jose cabiiro broke the one to one tie with an 0:58:42.400 --> 0:58:45.320 RBI single, but Ernie tied it up in the ninth 0:58:45.640 --> 0:58:47.400 on a sack fly and we sent it to extras, 0:58:47.400 --> 0:58:49.720 and then Ben Rice's two run shot, his thirty third 0:58:49.760 --> 0:58:52.680 of the season in the tenth ended up being the 0:58:52.720 --> 0:58:56.400 difference and another conversation that we were having in the discord, 0:58:56.440 --> 0:58:59.400 and I'm so glad Podcast p broke this down again 0:58:59.480 --> 0:59:01.280 in Our Distant If you want to join the best 0:59:01.280 --> 0:59:03.840 baseball group chat in the world, we're having conversations like 0:59:03.880 --> 0:59:05.760 this all the time. You can find the link to 0:59:05.840 --> 0:59:09.600 join in the episode description. But he was talking about 0:59:09.840 --> 0:59:14.400 pitch usage tweak, not as drastic as a Brandon fought, 0:59:14.880 --> 0:59:18.320 but it's definitely a different pitcher podcast Beef. You could 0:59:18.320 --> 0:59:22.040 throw it up first half four one five ERA ninety 0:59:22.080 --> 0:59:25.560 seven innings as you can see a forcing dominant guy. 0:59:25.600 --> 0:59:28.480 He's got five pitches all above ten percent, so he 0:59:28.680 --> 0:59:31.600 mixes and matches, but the for seane led the way. 0:59:32.160 --> 0:59:36.320 Now that for seam usage went from twenty seven percent 0:59:36.360 --> 0:59:39.480 in the first half to just ten percent in the 0:59:39.520 --> 0:59:42.920 second half. Throwing his sinker more. His change up is 0:59:42.960 --> 0:59:46.440 now his most used pitch with the sweeper and the slider, 0:59:47.160 --> 0:59:49.760 and he's posted a one to nine to eight ERA. 0:59:50.040 --> 0:59:54.840 He only trails Troy Melton among qualified pitchers in ERA. 0:59:55.000 --> 0:59:57.800 In the second half. Aram I said the Yankees were 0:59:57.840 --> 1:00:03.040 getting a left handed missile this off season. They handed missile, 1:00:03.080 --> 1:00:04.120 don't they well? 1:00:04.120 --> 1:00:07.080 And this stuff with him is so fun because honestly, 1:00:07.120 --> 1:00:09.920 I've seen each of his offerings be above average or 1:00:09.920 --> 1:00:13.240 better at certain points. Like really you see the fastball 1:00:13.680 --> 1:00:16.760 perform when he's feeling good. I mean it's it's lively, 1:00:16.920 --> 1:00:19.600 But I've seen that slider be disgusting. I've seen that 1:00:19.720 --> 1:00:21.680 change up looked like a plus pitch, which was a 1:00:21.720 --> 1:00:24.720 new layer for him as well, to really improve over 1:00:24.760 --> 1:00:26.600 the last couple of seasons, you know, before the trade, 1:00:26.640 --> 1:00:31.000 even you know in Miami, Like he has the ability 1:00:31.040 --> 1:00:33.240 to kind of ride what's working for him, but also 1:00:33.360 --> 1:00:36.480 just to tweak and adjust and see what works against 1:00:36.520 --> 1:00:41.280 certain lineups, and it's it's truly a disgusting four pitch 1:00:41.360 --> 1:00:44.240 mix that that really works. So seeing him just being 1:00:44.240 --> 1:00:46.920 able to like you know, adjust and maybe push the levers, 1:00:47.760 --> 1:00:50.120 pull back on certain offerings, use the other ones more. 1:00:50.960 --> 1:00:53.160 He's somebody that can absolutely do that because of how 1:00:53.160 --> 1:00:55.320 good they each are, and sometimes it's just a matter 1:00:55.360 --> 1:00:57.360 of what he's got to feel for in that time 1:00:57.400 --> 1:00:59.240 as well. I love that you shout it out tied 1:00:59.280 --> 1:01:00.960 him into, by the way, because there was a point 1:01:01.000 --> 1:01:03.120 where this was arguably the best left in of pitching 1:01:03.160 --> 1:01:07.400 prospect in baseball. Unfortunately, he's just never been available. Injuries 1:01:07.440 --> 1:01:10.200 have really ravaged him. He burst onto the scene in 1:01:10.200 --> 1:01:12.760 twenty twenty two tetament uh seventy eight and two thirds 1:01:12.800 --> 1:01:16.120 innings at a two to one seven ERA across low A, 1:01:16.240 --> 1:01:19.040 High A and Double A, and then everyone's lined up 1:01:19.040 --> 1:01:21.120 really excited to see him. Only throws forty four innings 1:01:21.160 --> 1:01:23.640 the year after that, and then twenty four only through 1:01:23.640 --> 1:01:26.040 seventeen and a third, missed all of twenty twenty five 1:01:26.040 --> 1:01:28.080 with Tommy John and then in twenty twenty six he's 1:01:28.080 --> 1:01:30.200 just been hurt even to start the year, dealing with 1:01:30.200 --> 1:01:32.040 the neck issue some other different things, and so he 1:01:32.120 --> 1:01:35.480 has barely thrown this year. As he came back recently, 1:01:35.680 --> 1:01:37.520 that was enough that the budget said, let's just get you. 1:01:37.800 --> 1:01:40.440 Let's just get you on the big league roster and 1:01:40.680 --> 1:01:42.400 get your thrown at the big league level and see 1:01:42.400 --> 1:01:44.360 if we can work you back into you know, more 1:01:44.400 --> 1:01:48.840 lengthened roles from there. But it's a nasty, nasty angle 1:01:48.920 --> 1:01:51.720 that he creates. It's a lively fastball from that angle. 1:01:52.000 --> 1:01:55.320 He's got great secondaries. The slider is a really good 1:01:55.320 --> 1:01:57.480 pitch for him, and the change up has flashed as well, 1:01:57.560 --> 1:01:59.760 so he can be a really good lefty reliever at 1:01:59.800 --> 1:02:02.040 work and is probably where he lands now because of 1:02:02.080 --> 1:02:04.960 the injuries, but still a very talented twenty three year 1:02:05.000 --> 1:02:07.040 old arm that the blue Jays, you know, I have 1:02:07.120 --> 1:02:09.720 been hoping, you know, and dreaming on huge upside for 1:02:09.720 --> 1:02:10.400 for a long time. 1:02:11.080 --> 1:02:13.000 And the pitching for the Blue Jays has been the 1:02:13.000 --> 1:02:15.800 biggest reason that they've clawed back in this hunt. Even 1:02:15.800 --> 1:02:19.760 though they lost on Sunday to the Yankees, they're now 1:02:19.840 --> 1:02:22.120 just being sorry. 1:02:22.760 --> 1:02:24.920 To take two a three though, So it's it's deck building. 1:02:25.280 --> 1:02:28.080 Take two a three year a game back. You had 1:02:28.120 --> 1:02:30.880 one seven of your last nine. But the thing is, 1:02:31.000 --> 1:02:34.040 the lineup is kind of Alejandro Kirkin friends now the 1:02:34.160 --> 1:02:38.760 friends like Charles McAdoo and Bateman Like this comment says, 1:02:38.840 --> 1:02:41.960 it's the Bateman mcadow era in Toronto right now. Like 1:02:42.000 --> 1:02:43.880 they're filling a role nicely. But at the end of 1:02:43.920 --> 1:02:46.480 the day, it's been on the backs of this pitching staff, 1:02:46.520 --> 1:02:48.920 and notably in the bullpen. I mean, Mason Flew Hardy 1:02:48.960 --> 1:02:51.320 I think has a great Tyler Rodgers has just put 1:02:51.360 --> 1:02:56.240 together a phenomenal season the bullpen, right like that has 1:02:56.360 --> 1:02:58.560 been the best part about this team, and they're getting 1:02:58.600 --> 1:03:01.440 really solid pitching performances from guys like Dylan Ce's, from 1:03:01.520 --> 1:03:04.400 guys like their new edition Jose Soriano, and then you 1:03:04.440 --> 1:03:07.720 get timely enough hitting with a shut down bullpen and 1:03:07.760 --> 1:03:10.400 starting rotation. That's how you can string together wins. But 1:03:10.440 --> 1:03:12.680 if you truly want to get back into this race 1:03:12.720 --> 1:03:16.120 and you want to be a playoff team, the offense 1:03:16.360 --> 1:03:18.640 has to pick it up. Simple as that. Glad he 1:03:18.760 --> 1:03:21.040 just got put on the IL, the seven DAYIL with 1:03:21.080 --> 1:03:24.600 a concussion. Hopefully he comes back, you know when he performs. 1:03:24.640 --> 1:03:28.160 But the Jays need to string together offense because, as 1:03:28.160 --> 1:03:31.680 you can see right a good example, Brandon Fisher hadn't 1:03:31.680 --> 1:03:33.880 allowed to run in August. He's been a really good 1:03:33.960 --> 1:03:38.960 reliever for the Blue Jays. One mistake, blue Jays lose 1:03:39.000 --> 1:03:41.400 the game. Right, That was the first mistake he's made 1:03:41.560 --> 1:03:45.720 all month. And the other guys really didn't make mistakes either, 1:03:46.240 --> 1:03:48.280 But all it took was that because they only put 1:03:48.360 --> 1:03:52.320 up three. The offense needs to figure it out. So 1:03:52.360 --> 1:03:54.720 I get they're playing better, but it's just hard for 1:03:54.760 --> 1:03:56.840 me to really buy in until I see that offense 1:03:56.840 --> 1:03:58.880 turn it around. And even though they took two out 1:03:58.920 --> 1:04:04.320 of three from the Yankees. The Yankees offense is just awful, awful, awful. 1:04:04.800 --> 1:04:08.080 So again I'm giving them credit because you take a 1:04:08.120 --> 1:04:11.640 series from the Yankees, it's always good. But to really 1:04:11.680 --> 1:04:13.760 believe in the Blue Jays, I gotta see the offense 1:04:13.760 --> 1:04:14.120 do more. 1:04:14.600 --> 1:04:16.720 Fair enough, I think that's fair, it's fair enough, but 1:04:16.720 --> 1:04:19.240 the pitching always is keeping their season alive, suresers even 1:04:19.280 --> 1:04:22.120 video this last three starts right, which I'm always gonna 1:04:22.200 --> 1:04:25.200 enjoy seeing him just pile up numbers. But yeah, I'm 1:04:25.240 --> 1:04:25.800 with you there. 1:04:26.840 --> 1:04:30.560 All right, let's go over to the Gnats and the Mets. 1:04:30.600 --> 1:04:34.680 Game one. Mets win four to one. Lindor and Jared Young, 1:04:34.760 --> 1:04:37.640 Homard and Robert Stock pitched it into the fifth without 1:04:37.680 --> 1:04:40.840 allowing an earned run, and Code I Sanga. 1:04:40.400 --> 1:04:41.480 Earned his closer. 1:04:42.160 --> 1:04:45.440 He's in fun development there. Andrew Alvarez, who I think 1:04:45.440 --> 1:04:48.560 it's just had a really underrated season, pitched into the 1:04:48.600 --> 1:04:50.840 six for the Gnats while allowing just two runs. But 1:04:51.160 --> 1:04:52.960 that's offense we'll shut down, so what can you do? 1:04:53.600 --> 1:04:56.280 Then the Mets win five to four. Again, two early 1:04:56.360 --> 1:04:58.520 runs off the bat of Jared Young put the Mets 1:04:58.520 --> 1:05:00.360 in the driver's seat. But then that's what fight back 1:05:00.600 --> 1:05:02.800 and eventually take the lead in the sixth, highlighted by 1:05:02.800 --> 1:05:05.880 home runs from Andre Schaparro and Brady House. But then 1:05:05.920 --> 1:05:10.040 Carson Bench, who is He's making the National League Rookie 1:05:10.040 --> 1:05:12.840 of the eear race kind of interesting? He homered in 1:05:12.880 --> 1:05:15.280 the bottom half of the six and then Alvarez Francisco 1:05:15.320 --> 1:05:17.160 Alvarez came up clutch in the bottom of the ninth 1:05:17.200 --> 1:05:20.480 to tiet and then Lindor walked it off with a 1:05:20.560 --> 1:05:24.320 single game three. Can the Nats avoid the sweep? Nope, 1:05:24.640 --> 1:05:28.280 Mets win four to three. Now, the Nationals did get 1:05:28.280 --> 1:05:30.520 out to a too a lead, highlighted by an abbamelch 1:05:30.720 --> 1:05:34.480 Ortez home run, but from there was all Mets. Torrens 1:05:34.520 --> 1:05:36.720 hit his fourth home run his last seven games to 1:05:36.720 --> 1:05:40.160 give the Mets the lead, and Jared Young, what a series, 1:05:40.680 --> 1:05:46.640 supplied the Dagger with an RBI double. Now this kind 1:05:46.640 --> 1:05:48.200 of felt like, I want to focus on the Mets. 1:05:48.240 --> 1:05:50.240 They just sweat. But it almost felt like, all right, 1:05:50.440 --> 1:05:53.840 NAT season is over six sixty six now, Like it 1:05:53.960 --> 1:05:57.000 just felt like, if you're gonna claw your way back 1:05:57.000 --> 1:06:00.000 into this, anything can happen. The Nationals at the end 1:06:00.080 --> 1:06:02.320 of the day have the exact same WRC plus, as 1:06:02.320 --> 1:06:05.520 the Dodgers do this season second best in baseball Cubs 1:06:05.520 --> 1:06:07.960 at one to eleven knots and Dodgers at one ten. 1:06:08.960 --> 1:06:12.520 But you can't be dropping all three to this Mets team. However, 1:06:12.560 --> 1:06:15.640 the Mets have been playing better. They with no pressure 1:06:15.640 --> 1:06:19.360 on them right now. The Mets have played all season. 1:06:19.400 --> 1:06:22.200 Well yeah, so I think you're really seeing how much 1:06:22.280 --> 1:06:24.880 James Wood anchored this lineup. And James would, I mean, 1:06:25.480 --> 1:06:27.880 he's young as he is and still feels like he's 1:06:27.880 --> 1:06:30.360 still reaching his potential. I mean, he was one of 1:06:30.360 --> 1:06:33.360 the best sluggers in the sport for much of this season, 1:06:33.400 --> 1:06:36.520 and you know, for an offense, I was cooking on 1:06:36.560 --> 1:06:39.960 all cylinders. It was I think there's even an effect 1:06:39.960 --> 1:06:43.600 on Abrams when you don't have Wood behind you. So 1:06:43.800 --> 1:06:47.160 just just that impact I think is being felt here. 1:06:47.240 --> 1:06:49.560 And when we talked about how the Nationals can maybe 1:06:49.600 --> 1:06:51.560 hang around, it's okay, well, they made the bullpen better 1:06:52.240 --> 1:06:55.000 and they have this offense, but when you lose the 1:06:55.560 --> 1:06:58.440 nucleus of that offense, they're pitching all right, It's not 1:06:58.480 --> 1:07:00.520 like they got you know, the doors blown off. For anything. 1:07:01.040 --> 1:07:03.120 They lost it was four runs, five runs, four runs. 1:07:03.200 --> 1:07:05.480 They just didn't hit. And we haven't really seen a 1:07:05.560 --> 1:07:08.160 Nationals team this year that hasn't hit. So I think 1:07:08.200 --> 1:07:10.160 a big part of that is has just been not 1:07:10.240 --> 1:07:13.760 having James Wood and probably you know, Avamla Cortiz has 1:07:13.760 --> 1:07:16.280 been good, but and it's been really really solid. Honestly, 1:07:16.280 --> 1:07:18.040 he's been a great start to his career. But when 1:07:18.120 --> 1:07:20.600 you lose, when you lose Wood to injury and subtract 1:07:20.600 --> 1:07:22.720 Tolis Garcia, like I think you feel it probably a 1:07:22.760 --> 1:07:25.480 little bit more. And that's just been I think what's 1:07:25.520 --> 1:07:28.760 happened here with this offense. But I still like where 1:07:28.760 --> 1:07:31.520 the Nationals are headed. Yeah. For the Mets, I think 1:07:31.520 --> 1:07:33.360 you're seeing them just play. Yeah, as you mentioned, with 1:07:33.400 --> 1:07:35.920 nothing to lose. Francisco Indor I think is just healthy 1:07:36.280 --> 1:07:37.800 and I think that's been the biggest thing for him 1:07:37.960 --> 1:07:40.800 in the second half for Londor. Seven homers in twenty 1:07:40.800 --> 1:07:43.000 seven games, a one fifty seven WRC plus. This is 1:07:43.000 --> 1:07:44.560 one of the best catchers six, one of the best 1:07:44.560 --> 1:07:47.160 short stops in the game, and we're seeing that he's 1:07:47.200 --> 1:07:50.040 just been hurt simply so I think he's healthy and 1:07:50.480 --> 1:07:54.000 looking comfortable again and playing well. But you know, I 1:07:54.000 --> 1:07:56.400 think for the Mets, you're just hoping to build some momentum. 1:07:56.440 --> 1:07:59.160 The young players are playing well. Ben just making impacts 1:07:59.160 --> 1:08:02.080 on all fronts, right, great defender in a corner, swinging 1:08:02.080 --> 1:08:05.120 the bat well and you know, at least that's pretty 1:08:05.160 --> 1:08:06.640 much all Mets fans can ask for here is just 1:08:06.840 --> 1:08:08.720 playing some good ball and seeing your young pieces like 1:08:08.800 --> 1:08:11.560 Christian Scott made another had another good start. You know, 1:08:11.720 --> 1:08:15.520 really build some momentum going in the next Season's. 1:08:14.440 --> 1:08:17.120 Built some momentum going in the next year, right, Mets fans, 1:08:17.120 --> 1:08:19.880 how bad it? You know? The young guys are playing well? 1:08:20.479 --> 1:08:23.719 Good stuff? All right? We got five series left, podcast 1:08:23.760 --> 1:08:32.040 p would you hit us with our last? Whoah? Okay? 1:08:32.200 --> 1:08:36.919 We got the Padres and the Guardians Game one, Padres 1:08:36.920 --> 1:08:39.400 win seven to five. Cleveland got out to a three 1:08:39.400 --> 1:08:41.760 to zero lead early on homers from Nate Low and 1:08:41.800 --> 1:08:44.800 Brian Rochio, but then the Padres got to Gavin Williams, 1:08:44.800 --> 1:08:47.960 Bogarts and Tatis homerd Tatis's homer by the way, I 1:08:47.960 --> 1:08:50.639 don't know if podcast he has it once fifteen off 1:08:50.680 --> 1:08:54.920 the Batch just absolute rocket geeze and then Campusano had 1:08:54.920 --> 1:08:56.439 a two run double and all of a sudden it 1:08:56.479 --> 1:08:59.360 was five to three. Padres camp Pisano added another RBI 1:08:59.479 --> 1:09:03.160 double late and Bogart's had another RBI as the Padres 1:09:03.200 --> 1:09:06.840 stay red hot. Game two, Guardians win six to one. 1:09:06.960 --> 1:09:10.240 Joey Cantillo dominated in this one, tossing six innings of 1:09:10.280 --> 1:09:13.439 one run ball with seven k's. Joe Adell, Patrick Bailey, 1:09:13.479 --> 1:09:17.120 and Stephen Kwan all had RBI doubles and Cleveland cruise 1:09:17.200 --> 1:09:19.840 to an easy win. Moved the game three Padres blank 1:09:19.920 --> 1:09:21.479 him or at least I think so. That was the 1:09:21.520 --> 1:09:22.960 last time I checked. It was the top of the ninth. 1:09:23.040 --> 1:09:25.040 I think they won five to zero. Yeah, five zero 1:09:25.360 --> 1:09:27.799 five zero. Casey Maiz made his return to the American 1:09:27.840 --> 1:09:31.960 League Central and dominated, throwing six shutout, which is three 1:09:32.040 --> 1:09:35.920 hits alowed, and Luis Renifo, Gavin Sheets, Jace Bowen, and 1:09:36.040 --> 1:09:40.920 Jay Cronoworth all homerd Padre's cruise to a series win. 1:09:41.280 --> 1:09:48.800 Are I just think I don't know how to cover 1:09:48.840 --> 1:09:51.680 the Padres? I really just don't think I do. And 1:09:51.720 --> 1:09:56.960 I'll tell you why. The last three years before this one, 1:09:57.680 --> 1:10:02.759 I have bet Padres season futures and they have fallen 1:10:02.800 --> 1:10:04.840 flat every time, and I say, Nope, this is the year. 1:10:04.880 --> 1:10:06.879 The bullpen's too good. This team has built for October 1:10:06.880 --> 1:10:08.960 and they just haven't done it. And this was the 1:10:09.000 --> 1:10:11.840 first year I took a position against them, and a 1:10:11.840 --> 1:10:14.960 big one under eighty five and a half wins Padres 1:10:15.000 --> 1:10:18.599 to miss the playoffs, and I think I'm gonna lose both, 1:10:18.760 --> 1:10:20.280 and I think it's gonna be the only win total 1:10:20.320 --> 1:10:23.439 I lose. I think I just shouldn't talk about them anymore. 1:10:23.439 --> 1:10:25.320 I just don't know what the fuck I'm talking about 1:10:25.360 --> 1:10:28.680 when it comes to the Pawdrace. I I'm wrong no 1:10:28.720 --> 1:10:30.760 matter what I say, So you talk about them, I 1:10:30.760 --> 1:10:31.000 don't know. 1:10:33.840 --> 1:10:37.160 I mean, dude, it's a really tough team to assess. 1:10:37.560 --> 1:10:39.960 I think I never know what Preller's doing at the deadline. 1:10:40.000 --> 1:10:40.439 I don't know. 1:10:40.600 --> 1:10:41.519 I don't know anything. 1:10:42.160 --> 1:10:44.400 This this is I mean here, I think you should 1:10:44.360 --> 1:10:48.000 sum it up to this. The Padres have since the 1:10:48.040 --> 1:10:49.720 All Star break, and that's gonna be theme of just 1:10:49.720 --> 1:10:51.720 what I'm referencing throughout this episode, because I think it's 1:10:51.760 --> 1:10:56.559 important context. Now, roughly thirty game sample, they have three 1:10:56.560 --> 1:11:00.320 of the top ten players offensively since then. It's ty 1:11:00.400 --> 1:11:02.360 France who's been doing it all year, really, but at 1:11:02.360 --> 1:11:05.519 a one seventy six WRC plus for Fernando Tatis Junior 1:11:05.560 --> 1:11:08.280 to one seventy four and Jackson Merril to won sixty eight. 1:11:09.360 --> 1:11:12.479 Your pair of that with the pitching reinforcements that you 1:11:12.520 --> 1:11:15.520 added and then the bullpen that they have gradually. Rodriguez 1:11:15.600 --> 1:11:18.080 is a weapon and a half. One of my favorite 1:11:18.080 --> 1:11:20.360 relief prospects in a long time, and seeing him put 1:11:20.360 --> 1:11:21.759 it together has been awesome. 1:11:22.320 --> 1:11:24.439 What the other guys slept on? Another guy slept on, 1:11:24.479 --> 1:11:26.599 Like I'm watching him and I'm like, he's a good reliever, 1:11:26.640 --> 1:11:28.160 but he just keeps doing it over and over again, 1:11:28.200 --> 1:11:29.800 and I got I guess he's elite. Now I don't know. 1:11:30.000 --> 1:11:32.519 He don't know what they've got, guys, man, And all 1:11:32.560 --> 1:11:34.799 of a sudden, now there they've got that final wildcard 1:11:34.800 --> 1:11:37.479 spot with the with the DBACS losing, they're holding on 1:11:37.520 --> 1:11:39.360 to the third wild card spot in the game up there. 1:11:40.200 --> 1:11:42.840 The other one that's nuts is like Luis when Hepho 1:11:43.240 --> 1:11:47.280 was released, right and then they pick him up in 1:11:47.360 --> 1:11:49.920 twenty five games. In the last twenty five games, Louis 1:11:49.920 --> 1:11:52.960 when hepos hit in three, twenty two, four, sixteen, fourty 1:11:53.000 --> 1:11:57.840 eight with a one forty nine WRC plus, that's a 1:11:57.920 --> 1:12:00.160 huge jolt. We were there was a point where like 1:12:00.200 --> 1:12:02.599 who is gonna hit in this lineup? And now you 1:12:02.640 --> 1:12:04.680 have your guys, your main guys hitting, and then you've 1:12:04.680 --> 1:12:08.599 got even Louise Renhifo hitting too, so it's it's it's 1:12:08.680 --> 1:12:12.040 really amazing to see that. And then yeah, like the 1:12:12.080 --> 1:12:14.920 bullpen has just been fantastic. And then he paired that 1:12:14.960 --> 1:12:17.160 with the starting pitching reinforcements to get a start like 1:12:17.200 --> 1:12:19.640 that from myz after the slow you know, beginning with 1:12:19.680 --> 1:12:23.519 the Padres. This team's scary. Now I do think they're scary. 1:12:23.680 --> 1:12:25.840 I think the Padres are forced to be reckoned. 1:12:25.479 --> 1:12:28.160 With on the Cleveland side. I just don't really know 1:12:28.200 --> 1:12:33.439 how to evaluate them because my eyes see a mediocre team. 1:12:33.439 --> 1:12:35.240 If I'm being completely honest, Yeah, yeah. 1:12:35.120 --> 1:12:36.040 I was wrong about them. 1:12:36.040 --> 1:12:37.920 I think they're one and a half games out of 1:12:37.960 --> 1:12:39.880 wild cards. You might have, you know what I mean, Like, 1:12:39.960 --> 1:12:42.920 I don't know who don't America. They're all just a 1:12:43.040 --> 1:12:45.559 bunch of teams. It's going to be on someone to 1:12:45.600 --> 1:12:47.679 go on a run. I'm not impressed with any of them, 1:12:47.800 --> 1:12:50.320 so your guess is as good as mine. I mean, 1:12:51.240 --> 1:12:54.000 the Orioles have the final wildcard spot at sixty one 1:12:54.040 --> 1:12:58.840 and sixty three. The Guardians are the fifth team on 1:12:58.880 --> 1:13:01.040 the outside looking in of that last wild card spot, 1:13:01.080 --> 1:13:03.120 and they were a game and a half out at 1:13:03.160 --> 1:13:05.640 sixty and sixty five. I don't know, the Mariners are 1:13:05.640 --> 1:13:09.519 still technically in it, and like I think right now 1:13:09.560 --> 1:13:13.400 on Sunday Night Baseball, they're winning. Right now, they'll be 1:13:13.400 --> 1:13:14.720 like two and a half games out of the Like 1:13:14.800 --> 1:13:16.360 I don't know who else. 1:13:16.960 --> 1:13:19.960 Chase the latter hit the eil. That one hurts for 1:13:20.040 --> 1:13:22.599 the guards for sure, yep. But you know they add 1:13:22.680 --> 1:13:24.920 jo adell On Helen asmen great since they brought him up. 1:13:24.920 --> 1:13:28.360 They add Nathaniel Well, like this team should be playing better. 1:13:28.600 --> 1:13:32.360 They actually added decent pieces. But I think it really 1:13:32.439 --> 1:13:34.160 comes down to, like can jay Ram get his feet 1:13:34.160 --> 1:13:37.559 back under him and be, you know, top five player 1:13:37.560 --> 1:13:39.679 in the game jay Ram, because I think this team 1:13:39.720 --> 1:13:41.760 only you know goes as far as you know what, 1:13:42.720 --> 1:13:44.960 He's able to take them. 1:13:44.560 --> 1:13:48.240 Real quick from groovy T two, six, three, four Padres 1:13:48.240 --> 1:13:51.000 winning the World Series. I think in order for them 1:13:51.040 --> 1:13:53.880 to break through, I won't bet on their futures like 1:13:53.960 --> 1:13:58.320 I won't bet Padres playoffs, World Series stuff like I've 1:13:58.360 --> 1:14:01.000 done over the last three years and I'll just kind 1:14:01.000 --> 1:14:03.320 of let him go so they can win the World Series, 1:14:03.400 --> 1:14:05.320 because clearly I just have no idea what I'm talking 1:14:05.320 --> 1:14:07.720 about when it comes to the San Diego. 1:14:07.360 --> 1:14:09.120 Padres quick correction. I don't know if he hit the 1:14:09.160 --> 1:14:11.639 il yet doatter as we're recording this, but he did 1:14:11.680 --> 1:14:12.000 leave with. 1:14:11.920 --> 1:14:15.360 A hamstring thing, and usually that you know what follows. Yeah, 1:14:15.360 --> 1:14:16.720 there you go. All right, let's go over to the 1:14:16.720 --> 1:14:19.240 White Sox versus the Tigers. Game one, White Sox win 1:14:19.400 --> 1:14:22.840 nine to five. Ben Malgieri gave the Tigers a two 1:14:22.840 --> 1:14:24.880 to one lead early with a home run. I feel 1:14:24.880 --> 1:14:27.280 like I butchered that last name. But a five run 1:14:27.320 --> 1:14:29.559 fourth inning for the White Sox put this one out 1:14:29.640 --> 1:14:32.759 of reach as Tristan Peters and munatuckam Era Coammie Homeward. 1:14:33.000 --> 1:14:36.040 Brandon Montgomery had a two run triple. Miguel Vargas also 1:14:36.160 --> 1:14:39.680 homered an inning later. But shout out Malgieri, let's see 1:14:39.680 --> 1:14:43.120 if that's right, freaking over, go ahead, I think it is. 1:14:43.280 --> 1:14:43.920 I think you got it. 1:14:44.360 --> 1:14:45.640 There we go. That's what I thought I heard on 1:14:45.680 --> 1:14:47.920 the broadcast, but then reading it, I just feel like 1:14:48.000 --> 1:14:50.200 I'm saying it wrong. But you know, it is what 1:14:50.320 --> 1:14:53.719 it is Baul Noer, not a wordsmith homer for Detroit, 1:14:53.880 --> 1:14:56.040 he homered again, but it just wasn't quite enough, and 1:14:56.200 --> 1:15:00.120 micgil Vargus homeward again the twenty seven this year Game two, 1:15:00.160 --> 1:15:02.400 White Sox win four to three. Colsi Montgomery broke the 1:15:02.439 --> 1:15:04.240 one one tie in the third with a two run double, 1:15:04.560 --> 1:15:07.519 and Wardo Valencia would answer for Detroit, he's been great 1:15:07.600 --> 1:15:09.479 for them, and then Glabird tied it up with an 1:15:09.600 --> 1:15:12.760 RBI double, but in the seventh, Andrew Bennattendi ripped an 1:15:12.840 --> 1:15:15.439 RBI single which ended up being the winning run. Moved 1:15:15.479 --> 1:15:18.559 to Game three. Can the Tiger salvage Nope, White Sox 1:15:18.640 --> 1:15:21.120 take control seven to five. Detroit got out to a 1:15:21.160 --> 1:15:22.800 three to zero lead in the second and then made 1:15:22.840 --> 1:15:24.800 it four to one in the third on a Cole 1:15:24.920 --> 1:15:28.960 Keith homer, but the Socks came roaring back Drew Romo homer, 1:15:29.200 --> 1:15:31.640 Coles Montgomery tied it up with an RBI single, and 1:15:31.760 --> 1:15:34.240 Muna Tako Murakami rocked a two run shot for the 1:15:34.320 --> 1:15:37.519 lead his twenty eighth, and then Vargas hit his twenty 1:15:37.680 --> 1:15:41.120 eighth home run the same for some breathing room, and 1:15:41.200 --> 1:15:43.400 the Socks sweep you know what the series said to me, 1:15:43.520 --> 1:15:47.920 arm the White Sox said, this is our division. Yep, 1:15:48.680 --> 1:15:54.000 this is our division. That had to be peak for 1:15:54.120 --> 1:15:56.680 White Sox fans. I mean, you got the Tigers on 1:15:56.720 --> 1:16:00.160 their tail, you got the Twins, and you got you know, 1:16:00.240 --> 1:16:04.880 a couple other teams at least playing decent ball kind 1:16:04.920 --> 1:16:08.920 of on their tails. And this was a huge series. 1:16:08.960 --> 1:16:12.360 They improved his sixty five and fifty eight. Now when 1:16:12.400 --> 1:16:15.519 we look at the American League Central and just look 1:16:15.760 --> 1:16:20.920 at the division, five and a half games up, massive series, 1:16:21.080 --> 1:16:25.439 probably the biggest series of the weekend for any team. 1:16:25.680 --> 1:16:29.360 I thought, statement, statement statement. I think if you gave 1:16:29.880 --> 1:16:32.680 Chris Getz a crystal ball and said that this is 1:16:32.760 --> 1:16:34.960 how it would go after the deadline and this would 1:16:34.960 --> 1:16:37.640 be the series that you have against the Tigers, I 1:16:37.680 --> 1:16:39.800 wonder if you would have bought more aggressively. You're five 1:16:39.840 --> 1:16:41.080 and a half up in the division. I know you 1:16:41.120 --> 1:16:43.520 got to look at the big picture, but now you're 1:16:43.920 --> 1:16:46.320 most likely barring a crazy collapse, like you're in a 1:16:46.360 --> 1:16:48.559 really good position to win this division and put yourself 1:16:48.920 --> 1:16:51.439 in the driver's seat in the playoffs. And look, I 1:16:51.840 --> 1:16:54.400 think they made some sneaky pickups and you know, we'll 1:16:54.400 --> 1:16:58.360 see what happens, but man, like five and a half, 1:16:58.720 --> 1:17:01.840 this series was pivotal. I think just just set up 1:17:02.360 --> 1:17:05.280 the final little couple of months here where you've got 1:17:06.280 --> 1:17:07.720 a month and a half, I should say, you've got 1:17:08.400 --> 1:17:10.000 a chance here if you're the Tigers, if you have 1:17:10.040 --> 1:17:11.240 a good series, you could be a game and a 1:17:11.280 --> 1:17:14.720 half out of the division. And instead you're five and 1:17:14.800 --> 1:17:17.519 a half out and your only hope feels like is 1:17:17.600 --> 1:17:20.160 the wild card barring a White Sox collapse, and the 1:17:20.160 --> 1:17:22.640 White Sox have just been holding strong, and so I 1:17:22.760 --> 1:17:26.120 just think to have this series where the team that 1:17:26.160 --> 1:17:27.960 seemed like they were heating up, we're talking about like, hey, 1:17:28.000 --> 1:17:30.320 could the Tigers kind of make this little run without 1:17:30.360 --> 1:17:32.880 Schooble and blah blah blah. Maybe they still can, but 1:17:33.080 --> 1:17:36.200 the White Sox pretty much just stiff armed them and 1:17:36.360 --> 1:17:38.840 created a ton of space and it sets them up 1:17:38.960 --> 1:17:43.240 really really nicely here. It's I think the White Sox 1:17:43.360 --> 1:17:45.240 kind of saying there's levels to this shit, and they're 1:17:45.360 --> 1:17:47.720 just a better team right now than everybody else in 1:17:47.800 --> 1:17:49.880 that division. Comfortably, it did. 1:17:49.840 --> 1:17:52.240 Feel like a Derrick Henry stiff arm just like, get 1:17:52.280 --> 1:17:54.320 the hell out of my way, this is my division. 1:17:55.280 --> 1:17:57.840 I want to shout out Chase my draft again. It's 1:17:57.840 --> 1:18:00.960 been great in August. But how about Randall? I mean 1:18:00.960 --> 1:18:04.120 the Yankees dea fade him. He's picked up for nothing, 1:18:04.720 --> 1:18:06.719 and ever since he's gone over to the White Sox, 1:18:06.760 --> 1:18:09.160 he has an ops over eight hundred. Like he's been 1:18:09.200 --> 1:18:12.800 an incredible pick up for them, and it's just been 1:18:12.880 --> 1:18:16.080 guys filling a role like Munataka Murakami in the month 1:18:16.120 --> 1:18:19.120 of August has a one away WRC plus he's been good. 1:18:19.479 --> 1:18:22.120 But it's the my drafts, it's the gritschuks, it's the 1:18:22.200 --> 1:18:25.960 Tristan Peters. Edgar Carrow has been great in five games 1:18:26.000 --> 1:18:28.519 in August. Ever since Preira has come up and you know, 1:18:28.680 --> 1:18:30.120 hit a home run. I know he's only played a 1:18:30.160 --> 1:18:32.720 handful of games, but he's done well. Like it's just 1:18:32.840 --> 1:18:35.400 a team feeding off each other right now, and not 1:18:35.680 --> 1:18:37.680 a team that anyone wants to get in front of 1:18:37.760 --> 1:18:38.200 at the moment. 1:18:38.800 --> 1:18:40.280 No, not at all, not at all. And then the 1:18:40.360 --> 1:18:42.719 only other thing I'll say is, like the obvious gaping 1:18:42.800 --> 1:18:46.240 hole for them is catch a position and you're gonna 1:18:46.280 --> 1:18:48.800 get Kyletzeal presumably back in the next couple of weeks. 1:18:49.680 --> 1:18:51.280 I think the biggest thing you're looking at is can 1:18:51.320 --> 1:18:54.160 we get Kyle Zeel comfortable with his feet under him 1:18:54.160 --> 1:18:56.760 for the playoffs? And if you have a healthy Kyletzteal, 1:18:56.800 --> 1:18:58.400 he doesn't even need to be what he was last year. 1:18:58.640 --> 1:19:01.160 If he's given you league average off and some decent 1:19:01.240 --> 1:19:03.479 defense compared to what they're getting from the catcher position 1:19:03.600 --> 1:19:07.080 right now, that would be a huge, huge plus for 1:19:07.160 --> 1:19:09.920 them too. So it's fun to watch. And then, you know, 1:19:10.360 --> 1:19:14.160 I'm excited to see what they get from you know, 1:19:14.320 --> 1:19:16.800 some of these younger arms, like Hagen Smith, he's been 1:19:16.840 --> 1:19:18.840 walking some guys, but they're swinging miss stuff there. If 1:19:18.840 --> 1:19:20.479 he hits his stride, it's another weapon out of the 1:19:20.520 --> 1:19:22.960 pen on the left side. Obviously, some of the starters 1:19:23.000 --> 1:19:26.080 have settled in decently well. So yeah, I'm interested to 1:19:26.080 --> 1:19:26.760 see how things go. 1:19:27.600 --> 1:19:31.400 Yeah. Also a correction on my end, I didn't actually 1:19:31.479 --> 1:19:33.080 say every sin Peyer is still a White Sock, but 1:19:33.120 --> 1:19:34.840 I didn't mention the two games that every sin Per 1:19:35.040 --> 1:19:38.759 played with the White Sox in August hit four hundred 1:19:38.800 --> 1:19:40.920 with a three forty two WRC plus. But he is 1:19:41.000 --> 1:19:44.479 now currently a Saint Louis Cardinal. Thank you to podcast 1:19:44.520 --> 1:19:49.519 p All right, let's move over to Rockies Versus Giants 1:19:49.640 --> 1:19:54.280 riveting series. Everyone watched this weekend appointment television. Game one, 1:19:54.400 --> 1:19:57.599 Rockies win five to two. Kyle Frielan was brilliant eight innings, 1:19:57.640 --> 1:19:59.960 four hits, one run, lowering r to six to two. 1:20:00.120 --> 1:20:00.360 Seven. 1:20:01.400 --> 1:20:03.639 Both teams trade runs in the fourth, highlighted by Bryce 1:20:03.680 --> 1:20:06.200 Eldridge home run, but then in the fifth Moniac brought 1:20:06.280 --> 1:20:09.960 home a run and then Zach Vin sent one into 1:20:10.400 --> 1:20:13.439 McCovey Cove. Game two, Giants win seven to one. This 1:20:13.600 --> 1:20:15.599 time it was all Logan Webb as he topped six 1:20:15.680 --> 1:20:18.280 innings one run ball with seven strikeouts and no walks. 1:20:18.600 --> 1:20:21.240 Drew Gilbert led the way he's been hot, hitting a homer, 1:20:21.400 --> 1:20:23.920 driving in two on a single, and Devors and Eldridge 1:20:23.960 --> 1:20:25.880 had RBI hits as well. And then in Game three, 1:20:25.920 --> 1:20:30.960 the rubber match, Rockies Stampa win thirteen to seven. Arm 1:20:31.000 --> 1:20:33.360 The Rockies put up thirteen runs on just nine hits 1:20:33.400 --> 1:20:36.439 because the Giants pitching staff walked ten guys and hit 1:20:36.479 --> 1:20:40.400 another batter at a Lamador and Sullivan both homer and 1:20:40.479 --> 1:20:43.840 then three RBIs. Maniac had three RBIs. Eight starters on 1:20:43.880 --> 1:20:46.439 the Rockies had a hit Devor's homer for San Francisco, 1:20:46.560 --> 1:20:49.360 but overall it was an ugly game. My buddy Tray 1:20:49.520 --> 1:20:53.280 was visiting from Colorado, and again he's from Colorado, so 1:20:53.360 --> 1:20:55.760 we were watching the Rockies game because I'm also we 1:20:55.880 --> 1:20:57.519 had the Rockies over fifty two and a half. It's 1:20:57.560 --> 1:20:59.760 the largest future I put out this season and they 1:20:59.880 --> 1:21:04.759 just keep winning, which is awesome, but it was ugly, ugly, 1:21:05.760 --> 1:21:10.080 ugly Giants, Like what do you got? 1:21:11.920 --> 1:21:14.120 I mean, Blake Tidwell had had a nice little stretch 1:21:14.200 --> 1:21:18.519 before that and just just a dud from him. It's 1:21:18.760 --> 1:21:22.639 just tough to get excited about this Giants team right now. 1:21:22.800 --> 1:21:25.920 Like because you have Chapman on the I l Casey 1:21:26.000 --> 1:21:29.320 Schmid out for season, which stinks. You know, Devers is 1:21:29.600 --> 1:21:31.479 putting some good swings on balls here and there, and 1:21:31.960 --> 1:21:34.360 but it's it's a lot of guys that are probably 1:21:34.439 --> 1:21:37.000 not going to be there next year, so that usually 1:21:37.439 --> 1:21:42.120 doesn't bode well for for watchability and and just win 1:21:42.200 --> 1:21:45.040 ability as well. On the Rocky side, Like great to 1:21:45.040 --> 1:21:46.640 see hout Al, I'm Gonnor back up there. I do 1:21:46.720 --> 1:21:48.080 think this is a guy that could still end up 1:21:48.080 --> 1:21:50.479 filling a role for them. Zach Fien. Great to see 1:21:50.560 --> 1:21:53.160 him getting an opportunity. You're seeing some of that power 1:21:53.240 --> 1:21:55.760 that he's really added there to tap into more. And 1:21:56.880 --> 1:21:58.720 I think just seeing those two guys up for the 1:21:58.760 --> 1:22:00.000 rest of the year just to see what you get 1:22:00.560 --> 1:22:03.800 is exciting. So yeah, we talked about the Rockies. At 1:22:03.880 --> 1:22:08.240 least there's young projectable pieces here and I do, I 1:22:08.360 --> 1:22:10.479 really do still believe and I'm a dorm We got 1:22:10.520 --> 1:22:13.040 the hashtag on the screen for him. I just I 1:22:13.960 --> 1:22:16.920 love the Batman I always have and it's some weird 1:22:17.160 --> 1:22:19.080 turbulence for him, but still think it could be a 1:22:19.160 --> 1:22:19.840 nice piece for them. 1:22:20.240 --> 1:22:21.920 I got a feeling that's going to be a not wrong, 1:22:22.120 --> 1:22:26.360 just early guy. Also pop quiz, where are the Rockies 1:22:26.479 --> 1:22:27.719 rank and ops this season? 1:22:28.640 --> 1:22:30.599 Oh? Man, I mean at least they have of course, 1:22:30.720 --> 1:22:38.200 so I'll go eight f five now. 1:22:38.240 --> 1:22:40.160 At the same time, they're like twenty ninth at WRC 1:22:40.240 --> 1:22:42.559 plus because it's Park of Justice. But hey, how about 1:22:42.600 --> 1:22:47.120 those Rocky Yeah, however numbers, Yeah, it's dar to ball, 1:22:47.160 --> 1:22:48.920 you know what I mean. All right, let's go over 1:22:49.040 --> 1:22:52.640 to the Rangers and the A's Game one. A's win 1:22:52.760 --> 1:22:55.439 eight to three. Carlos Cortes got the game going with 1:22:55.520 --> 1:22:58.080 a bass clearing double in the first and Gage jump 1:22:58.200 --> 1:23:00.840 through five shutout in a but then he went out 1:23:00.880 --> 1:23:03.280 for the sixth and Jake Berger made him pay with 1:23:03.320 --> 1:23:05.840 the three run homer, but the A's would immediately answer 1:23:05.880 --> 1:23:08.840 with homers from McNeil and Butler in the A's take. 1:23:08.920 --> 1:23:12.120 Game one moved to Game two, Rangers win five to three. 1:23:12.400 --> 1:23:15.040 Henry Bolty ripped a three run homer for the A's 1:23:15.080 --> 1:23:17.080 in the second, but that was it as the Rangers 1:23:17.120 --> 1:23:21.160 stormed back. Nicky Lopez and Corey Seger had RBI singles, 1:23:21.200 --> 1:23:23.760 and then Wyatt Langford gave Texas the lead on a 1:23:23.800 --> 1:23:27.960 two run shot, and then Jared Kellenick, New Ranger, drove 1:23:28.040 --> 1:23:31.080 home the rangers fifth run on a single rubber match 1:23:31.479 --> 1:23:34.240 A's win five to two. Jake Berger opened the scoring 1:23:34.320 --> 1:23:36.840 with a homer, but Lawrence Butler would answer right back 1:23:36.920 --> 1:23:39.280 with a two run shot to give the A's the lead, 1:23:39.400 --> 1:23:41.599 and Berger would tie back up with an RBI ground 1:23:41.640 --> 1:23:44.280 out in the third, and we went scoreless until the seventh, 1:23:44.760 --> 1:23:47.920 where Geloff and Tommy White homered, which was enough to 1:23:47.920 --> 1:23:50.320 give the A's the series win. Jacob Lopez looked good, 1:23:50.680 --> 1:23:52.960 going six innings a two run ball with six K's 1:23:53.800 --> 1:23:55.720 nice series win with the A's. I want to praise him, 1:23:55.720 --> 1:23:58.240 but at the same time, I couldn't be more frustrated 1:23:58.280 --> 1:24:01.120 watching the Rangers right now. Here's your lane. Yeah, the 1:24:01.200 --> 1:24:04.000 Angels and you have the A's go beat them, pretty 1:24:04.000 --> 1:24:08.519 easy schedule, and they're not just splitting, they're losing. I mean, 1:24:08.600 --> 1:24:13.559 you're just letting the division fall from your grasp. Yeah, 1:24:13.600 --> 1:24:17.599 I mean the Astros are not playing excellent baseball right now. 1:24:17.960 --> 1:24:21.040 I'm not saying they're playing bad baseball, but they left 1:24:21.120 --> 1:24:24.120 an opening if you were to go dominate those bad teams, 1:24:25.160 --> 1:24:27.640 and instead they just lose two out of three to 1:24:27.720 --> 1:24:30.280 those teams. Like if I was a Rangers fan and 1:24:30.400 --> 1:24:33.800 I'm a Rangers futures better, I know I'm frustrated. I 1:24:33.880 --> 1:24:36.280 can't imagine just watching this team being like, it's right 1:24:36.400 --> 1:24:40.519 there in front of you, take it, and they just can't. 1:24:41.680 --> 1:24:43.439 And I think this, if you tell me I gotta 1:24:43.439 --> 1:24:45.400 win a series, I don't know. If there's a lot 1:24:45.439 --> 1:24:49.040 of teams I'm wanting to schedule first before the Athletics 1:24:49.120 --> 1:24:52.200 right now, and just to not be able to take 1:24:52.320 --> 1:24:55.720 that series is tough. It definitely is. And I mean 1:24:55.960 --> 1:24:58.120 the athletics. They lost Soldiers from two. I mean, this 1:24:58.240 --> 1:25:02.479 team is incredibly short ended and just just a really 1:25:02.800 --> 1:25:07.840 tough series for the Rangers. It's frustrating there. I want 1:25:07.840 --> 1:25:09.920 to shout out Henry Boltsey, like I think this is 1:25:09.960 --> 1:25:12.920 a super freak talent. I've talked about him a guy 1:25:13.000 --> 1:25:16.360 that was top fifty because of the things that he 1:25:16.439 --> 1:25:19.559 put together in our top one hundred list before graduating. 1:25:19.640 --> 1:25:23.280 Because it's eighty wheels and you've seen the Reds get 1:25:23.280 --> 1:25:26.760 better in the outfield. It's elite batspeed, but it's usually 1:25:26.840 --> 1:25:29.200 been on the ground. He's shored some of these things up. 1:25:29.280 --> 1:25:31.559 He's improved the approach. I still think this is gonna 1:25:31.560 --> 1:25:33.680 be a guy that you look at maybe next year 1:25:33.840 --> 1:25:35.599 and the year after that. Just the way he keeps building. 1:25:35.720 --> 1:25:37.799 He could put it together and become a really dynamic 1:25:37.960 --> 1:25:40.880 center fielder for them. But other than that, I mean, yeah, 1:25:41.080 --> 1:25:43.879 there's just not a ton to get excited about right now. Offensively, 1:25:44.120 --> 1:25:47.360 Like this is already team that was falling off a cliff, 1:25:47.560 --> 1:25:50.360 that is playing without Nick Kurtz, without Shane lang Lears, 1:25:50.640 --> 1:25:54.560 now without Tower Soderstrom, no Rooker, of course, and you 1:25:54.680 --> 1:25:58.160 lose two out of three it's a really tough series 1:25:58.240 --> 1:25:59.799 for the Rangers, really. 1:25:59.680 --> 1:26:02.559 Tough, and podcast Peace said he has a good Jacob 1:26:02.720 --> 1:26:06.840 Latts note. So this comes to us from podcast peas 1:26:07.560 --> 1:26:11.360 twitter page at Baseball with Peyton bsbl Make sure you 1:26:11.400 --> 1:26:14.519 go follow him. Jacob Lats has twelve four plus out 1:26:14.600 --> 1:26:17.680 saves this season. He is the only pitcher to have 1:26:17.760 --> 1:26:21.280 at least ten such saves in a season in the 1:26:21.479 --> 1:26:28.720 twenty twenties. All Star those numbers. He's form, But the 1:26:28.840 --> 1:26:29.919 Rangers just think. 1:26:30.840 --> 1:26:33.320 That they should put him in the rotation. I know 1:26:34.160 --> 1:26:36.200 he should have stretch him out like he's nasty. 1:26:36.680 --> 1:26:39.360 He really is. All right, Let's go over to the 1:26:39.680 --> 1:26:43.200 Mariners versus the Astros. Game one. Astros win ten to 1:26:43.280 --> 1:26:45.920 seven and ten innings. I said the White Sox probably 1:26:45.920 --> 1:26:47.840 the best series for a team. I think this might 1:26:47.880 --> 1:26:50.360 have been the best game of the weekend. It was 1:26:50.400 --> 1:26:52.960 a wild game. Seattle score two in the first before 1:26:53.040 --> 1:26:56.040 Jordon answered with a homer and then Cam Smith ripped 1:26:56.080 --> 1:26:58.959 an RBI troubled to tie it. Then Pena and Parade's 1:26:59.000 --> 1:27:01.080 made it five to two with our singles. But then 1:27:01.120 --> 1:27:04.080 Seattle battles all the way back. As brock Roden had 1:27:04.120 --> 1:27:06.120 a clutch double to tie it up at the eighth, 1:27:06.479 --> 1:27:08.320 and then we just head to extras and the Mariners 1:27:08.320 --> 1:27:09.960 put up two in the top of the tenth, but 1:27:10.120 --> 1:27:12.799 Parade's and varshow would tie it up at RBI singles 1:27:13.040 --> 1:27:17.080 and then Christian Walker thumped one to left walked it 1:27:17.160 --> 1:27:22.439 off three run homer. Game two, Mariners took out their 1:27:22.520 --> 1:27:25.560 anger from last night with four runs early off the 1:27:25.640 --> 1:27:28.840 bat from Cole Young, Victor Roebliss, and Brandon Donovan, but 1:27:28.920 --> 1:27:31.880 then Vasquez homered for Houston, but Seattle just kept the 1:27:31.920 --> 1:27:34.920 ball rolling. Donovan ended with three hits and three RBIs. 1:27:35.000 --> 1:27:37.040 Cole Young had three hits, one of them being a homer, 1:27:37.120 --> 1:27:40.640 and four RBIs can Zone, j Rod and Naylor and 1:27:40.880 --> 1:27:44.160 Robliss all had multiple hits, and Emerson Hancock on the 1:27:44.240 --> 1:27:47.439 mound went seven strong innings with only two runs allowed. 1:27:47.520 --> 1:27:51.759 And as we sit here right now, cal Rawlely just homer. 1:27:51.960 --> 1:27:54.919 The Mariners lead three to one. So there's the potential 1:27:55.000 --> 1:27:58.160 for the Mariners winning this series. But I see one. 1:27:58.560 --> 1:28:00.800 But I see a one next to the Astros, which 1:28:00.840 --> 1:28:03.840 means Brian wu has gone back to back starts throwing 1:28:03.920 --> 1:28:05.120 well on the road. How about it? 1:28:05.680 --> 1:28:08.720 Yeah, yeah, which is huge. It's it's huge. I mean, 1:28:09.640 --> 1:28:11.720 he's one of the bigger variables. I just think they 1:28:11.760 --> 1:28:14.519 can help this team piece together down the stretch, though 1:28:14.560 --> 1:28:17.320 too obviously most of the variables that are gonna be offensive. 1:28:17.880 --> 1:28:19.719 It's hard with this year is because like the Mariners, 1:28:20.080 --> 1:28:22.680 they need it. They really need to hold on in 1:28:22.760 --> 1:28:24.600 this third game. So we'll see what happens. But like 1:28:25.479 --> 1:28:28.280 I it's I know it's only one series and there's 1:28:28.320 --> 1:28:31.920 still some time left, but you drop two out of three, uh, 1:28:32.560 --> 1:28:34.720 just with the way things have been going already, Like 1:28:34.960 --> 1:28:37.519 I think it would be really galvanizing. You'd hope so 1:28:38.240 --> 1:28:40.040 to go to Houston, take two out of three and 1:28:40.120 --> 1:28:42.479 hope that it can be like the start of something positive, 1:28:42.520 --> 1:28:45.040 like you're searching for anything if you're the Mariners, because 1:28:45.040 --> 1:28:47.400 you're still alive because of how bad you know, the 1:28:47.520 --> 1:28:50.080 American League is. It's that you don't need much to 1:28:50.160 --> 1:28:52.000 have that kind of galvanizing like, hey, we can do this, 1:28:52.080 --> 1:28:53.759 and I think taking two out of three in Houston 1:28:54.000 --> 1:28:54.920 would do that for them. 1:28:55.479 --> 1:28:57.479 Are the Astros gonna win the division at eighty two 1:28:57.520 --> 1:28:58.120 and eighty. 1:28:59.560 --> 1:29:02.080 It's gonna be like the Seahawks that one year and 1:29:02.160 --> 1:29:04.400 then went like seven to nine and made the playoffs 1:29:04.439 --> 1:29:05.880 and then won the first round. 1:29:06.360 --> 1:29:09.280 Look at the NFC South last year, Panthers won the 1:29:09.320 --> 1:29:11.040 division eight to nine on a tiebreaker. 1:29:12.320 --> 1:29:14.479 Yeah, it's gonna be like that. And then that's a 1:29:14.520 --> 1:29:17.120 team that like ends up surprising in the playoffs with 1:29:17.200 --> 1:29:23.880 the World Series because it works. It's gonna be I think, 1:29:23.960 --> 1:29:26.160 one of the worst records to win a division I 1:29:26.200 --> 1:29:30.559 think in a long time. But yeah, like the Mariners are, 1:29:30.720 --> 1:29:33.599 even if they win this, they're kind of they're kind 1:29:33.640 --> 1:29:34.800 of out of it, right, Like, do you do you 1:29:34.880 --> 1:29:36.760 really feel like they can get back into this thing. 1:29:37.520 --> 1:29:40.400 No, I mean I've been out on the Mariners for 1:29:40.520 --> 1:29:43.840 like two months now. Yeah, kind of said that, so 1:29:44.080 --> 1:29:47.559 my just opinion hasn't changed. So I didn't think they'd 1:29:47.600 --> 1:29:49.559 be good two months ago when everyone was saying they 1:29:49.560 --> 1:29:52.240 were gonna bounce back, and I was like, they can't hit, 1:29:52.800 --> 1:29:55.160 and their pitchers all have problems on the road, and 1:29:55.320 --> 1:29:58.040 they're a bullpen arm short of a really solid bullpen. 1:29:58.160 --> 1:30:00.880 Like this team is not as good as everyone is saying. 1:30:01.520 --> 1:30:02.880 And then they're gonna be two and a half out 1:30:02.920 --> 1:30:03.800 if they hold on, And now. 1:30:03.720 --> 1:30:05.040 They're two and a half out there probably gonna make 1:30:05.040 --> 1:30:07.360 the playoffs. No, I stand by what I said. I 1:30:07.400 --> 1:30:09.679 think the Mariners are on the outside looking into the playoffs. 1:30:09.880 --> 1:30:11.439 I mean, if you're two and a half games out, 1:30:11.800 --> 1:30:13.439 like the Guardians are one and a half games out 1:30:13.479 --> 1:30:14.679 at sixty and sixty five. 1:30:15.120 --> 1:30:16.840 That's the biggest thing too, is like, it's not just 1:30:16.880 --> 1:30:18.559 about how many games you are out. And I think 1:30:18.600 --> 1:30:20.240 this is the part that kind of gets lost for 1:30:20.360 --> 1:30:22.439 some for people and even us in the conversation, it's 1:30:22.439 --> 1:30:25.200 how many teams you have to leap frog, right, It's 1:30:25.240 --> 1:30:27.040 not just the games. You have to be better than 1:30:28.120 --> 1:30:31.280 one the Guardians, the Twins, the Tigers, the Blue Jays, 1:30:31.479 --> 1:30:33.840 the Rangers, and then you need to be better than 1:30:34.280 --> 1:30:37.479 the Orioles, so even better than all of those teams 1:30:37.520 --> 1:30:37.800 to get in. 1:30:38.120 --> 1:30:40.240 I think it's a really good point because we can say, oh, 1:30:40.280 --> 1:30:42.400 they're only this much out, but that means every other 1:30:42.520 --> 1:30:44.000 team is going to have to go on a slide 1:30:44.040 --> 1:30:46.040 for you to jump them. And on top of it, 1:30:46.160 --> 1:30:48.200 it's not like the Mariners have been unlucky this year 1:30:48.720 --> 1:30:50.680 where it's like they're one of these teams with the 1:30:50.720 --> 1:30:53.759 positive run differential and if they just start getting things clicking. 1:30:53.880 --> 1:30:57.080 I mean the Mariners negative twenty four run differential, They're 1:30:57.120 --> 1:31:00.640 expected win losses fifty nine and sixty five. This is 1:31:00.680 --> 1:31:03.480 what they are. They're a team that is very inconsistent. 1:31:03.680 --> 1:31:05.479 They can't win on the road, and when they go 1:31:05.640 --> 1:31:07.760 up against teams that are five hundred above their twenty 1:31:07.800 --> 1:31:09.960 four and twenty eight that's who they are. They're below 1:31:10.000 --> 1:31:13.080 average team. It's shocking. I didn't project it at the 1:31:13.120 --> 1:31:16.040 beginning of the season, that's for sure. But how much 1:31:16.080 --> 1:31:16.920 more dotage we need? 1:31:17.280 --> 1:31:22.160 Yeah, right, they're they're really technically one team away from 1:31:22.200 --> 1:31:24.120 the worst record in the league because the Athletics and 1:31:24.160 --> 1:31:26.559 the Angels are tied, so they're closer to the basement 1:31:26.600 --> 1:31:29.639 than they are in the playoffs. But you know, technically 1:31:29.760 --> 1:31:32.599 they could get hot and do it and at least 1:31:32.640 --> 1:31:35.559 they have the puncher's chance there and they if they 1:31:35.600 --> 1:31:37.360 hold on here, they did what they needed to to 1:31:37.520 --> 1:31:40.120 at least win this series. But if I'm you know, 1:31:40.160 --> 1:31:43.080 an Astros fan, I don't think I'm losing much sleep hundred. 1:31:43.120 --> 1:31:45.920 The only thing is Hunter Brown, like five walks again tonight, 1:31:46.040 --> 1:31:52.320 and also the Astros just scored, so yeah, but Brown's 1:31:52.400 --> 1:31:54.360 got it, Like if this Astros team is going to 1:31:54.439 --> 1:31:57.080 make a run and be, you know, kind of a sneaky, 1:31:57.120 --> 1:32:00.600 scary team. Like Brown's got to snap in here, and 1:32:00.800 --> 1:32:02.760 I know he's been putting together some better starts. I 1:32:02.760 --> 1:32:04.799 thought he really snapped in when it was seven shutty, 1:32:05.520 --> 1:32:07.280 but then the last few it's like five and two thirds, 1:32:07.320 --> 1:32:09.439 two runs, six innings, three runs, five innings, three runs, 1:32:10.080 --> 1:32:13.160 like multiple walks in each of those addings. If he 1:32:13.240 --> 1:32:16.120 can snap into something close to what we've seen him 1:32:16.160 --> 1:32:18.400 be in the last couple of years, I feel totally 1:32:18.400 --> 1:32:20.599 different about this team because that could be a guy 1:32:20.640 --> 1:32:23.160 that game one matches anybody. 1:32:23.200 --> 1:32:25.320 No doubt about it. Nick Allen, by the way, hit 1:32:25.360 --> 1:32:28.479 the homer off Bride wil That's baseball for you. So 1:32:28.560 --> 1:32:31.400 that'll do it for this episode of the Round Up. 1:32:31.439 --> 1:32:34.920 Hopefully everybody enjoyed. Again, special thank you to everyone who 1:32:34.960 --> 1:32:36.800 joined us here live on YouTube. 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