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Speaker 1: Hey, Hi, Hello, Welcome. This is Big Fish Small Pod,

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Speaker 1: a small podcast here on the Fish Stripes Network where

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Speaker 1: Daniel Rodriguez and myself Andrew Rdahl talk about Marlin's baseball

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Speaker 1: some topic in ten minutes or less. I've been focusing

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Speaker 1: on the hitting side of things for this Marlins team,

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Speaker 1: and today I want to talk about just like a

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Speaker 1: small concept to the really like it's so simple. It's

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Speaker 1: just holding space as a real key for hitting at

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Speaker 1: the major league level. We saw it clearly in last

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Speaker 1: night's win over the Saint Louis Cardinals when a Jazz

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Speaker 1: Chisholm junior stood in and he really like he won

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Speaker 1: the game with this swing. But he took just like

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Speaker 1: a beat like Yadi or Molino. I guess was doing

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Speaker 1: something behind the plate, and he took a beat as

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Speaker 1: the batter just kind of like looked at him and

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Speaker 1: brushed him off, like showed him like the bottom of

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Speaker 1: his hand, just like he like pushed away Yady a

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Speaker 1: little bit, not physically, just like in the box. He

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Speaker 1: made it his spot. Jazz was going to like fully

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Speaker 1: be there. He was going to move the offense forward.

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Speaker 1: Then he took just like a huge rip and just

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Speaker 1: a great home run blew the game open, really like

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Speaker 1: solidly won the game. This Marlins team, going back last

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Speaker 1: couple of years, has had some issues in like the

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Speaker 1: late innings pitching, so to see the Marlins get up

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Speaker 1: five to zero, it felt like the game was out

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Speaker 1: of that like save range and finally into that like

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Speaker 1: the Marlins have won hit sort of range, you know,

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Speaker 1: as we all watch baseball with different expectations of what

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Speaker 1: is a likely outcome and get into states of panic

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Speaker 1: because of it. Anyhow, it was a fun game. Another

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Speaker 1: thing that was really like present there was Brian Anderson

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Speaker 1: taking a couple of walks. He's had like a batter

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Speaker 1: that's had some issues at the plate to start the year.

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Speaker 1: In addition to like, you know, everyone you would consider

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Speaker 1: to be a slugger on the roster, they've been like

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Speaker 1: a bit cold getting it going. But Brian, who's like,

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Speaker 1: you know, lacking that real like mammoth power upside as,

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Speaker 1: like a Jorge Hilaire. It felt like just on Twitter

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Speaker 1: that like, I don't know, it seems that the tone

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Speaker 1: had turned somewhat sour on the guy, and something about

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Speaker 1: him is just the way he plays so emotionally, like

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Speaker 1: when he's frustrated, he like wears it when he's like,

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Speaker 1: you know, just having like one of those rough days.

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Speaker 1: He does that like he'll do like a grimace at

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Speaker 1: the plate. And today just like running the basis just

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Speaker 1: a bit of like a like a like almost like

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Speaker 1: a sprightly run to third following Jacob Stallings, just an

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Speaker 1: interesting little moment of it. Just seemed like a much

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Speaker 1: looser player who was less like trying to make it

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Speaker 1: at the plate and more you know, like at the

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Speaker 1: plate and making with it. Totally want to talk about

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Speaker 1: Miguel Cabrera as well, the way he holds himself out

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Speaker 1: the plate like very obviously like willing to just like

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Speaker 1: take a pitch. But it seems like every pitch he

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Speaker 1: might like aggressively swing at, he's up there to hit.

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Speaker 1: And that's obvious just watching him, the way he's ready

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Speaker 1: to like pounce on every single pitch. I mean, even

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Speaker 1: like saying that it oddly fits for him as a

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Speaker 1: Tiger of all mascots, just pouncing on pitches. Clearly creative

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Speaker 1: in my prime. So what really you see with Miguel

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Speaker 1: Cabrera in this pursuit of that like three thousand hit

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Speaker 1: is just an unbelievable commitment to getting that hit at

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Speaker 1: the plate nearly three thousand times. Now. Of course he's

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Speaker 1: said the things this week that are all right about

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Speaker 1: like going for the win and that's what matters. And

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Speaker 1: that seems to be like one h like his intent

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Speaker 1: at the plate where he's going for the hit. But

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Speaker 1: he'll certainly take a pitch, he'll take a walk, he'll

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Speaker 1: take an intentional walk in the opinion of a game

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Speaker 1: with thirty thousand fans you know there to see him

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Speaker 1: admitted that he had no real choice in the matter.

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Speaker 1: I mean, the pitcher and catcher are just there to

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Speaker 1: like make the batter make his pour of swings as

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Speaker 1: possible and back down out. But obviously other plans from

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Speaker 1: the Yankees pitchers and coaching staff to just give Miguel

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Speaker 1: a base. Really interesting to see this three thousand hit

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Speaker 1: a go on some like protracted streak where I'm thinking,

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Speaker 1: maybe he doesn't just doesn't get a hit for the

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Speaker 1: next month and then this just like constant tuning in

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Speaker 1: to this Detroit Tigers broadcast. For me and I assume

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Speaker 1: many others, it'd be like a cool, cool experience to

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Speaker 1: see like a player get to that point and I

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Speaker 1: mean it would have been cool to see him do

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Speaker 1: it in Miami. So it's one of those times whereas

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Speaker 1: a Marlins fan, it really helped to just take a

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Speaker 1: step back and like appreciate the whole of what's going

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Speaker 1: on in the league. Not that I mean the Marlins

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Speaker 1: game is anything other than like kind of just like

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Speaker 1: a knockout offensive win, but hey, it might just add

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Speaker 1: something to your weekend to tune in more to Miguel

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Speaker 1: and the Detroit Tigers. For the podcast, I've been Andrew Riddall,

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Speaker 1: and just for your information, the Marlins will be facing

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Speaker 1: the Atlanta Braves at the usual six point forty, so

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Speaker 1: I hope this was a bit of a step back

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Speaker 1: to take a step forward into this one. We'll have

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Speaker 1: Nicole Cahill's season preview up on the website later and

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Speaker 1: Fish Stripes Live as always before the game, so you know,

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Speaker 1: as always before the first game of the series. You

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Speaker 1: get it right now. Thank you for listening. Again, I've

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Speaker 1: been to Andrew Wardall