WEBVTT - April Madness 0:00:06.080 --> 0:00:09.000 Is this a great game or what with the Hall 0:00:09.039 --> 0:00:11.720 of Famer Tim Kirkshin. I'm his son, Jeff Kirkshin, And 0:00:11.800 --> 0:00:16.079 this is our second week doing three episodes back to 0:00:16.120 --> 0:00:18.840 back to back in a week. So today we're gonna 0:00:18.840 --> 0:00:23.280 get takeaways Quirtchins on a crazy Baseball weekend. Tomorrow because 0:00:23.280 --> 0:00:25.959 the NFL Draft is coming up this week, we're gonna 0:00:25.960 --> 0:00:30.640 have Mel Kiper, who obviously is just a character of 0:00:30.640 --> 0:00:33.360 all characters, Dat and an NFL expert in a draft 0:00:33.360 --> 0:00:34.519 expert for ESPN. 0:00:35.080 --> 0:00:36.479 Right, can't wait for Mel? Way? 0:00:36.520 --> 0:00:39.760 Do you listen to how weird Mel is? But weird 0:00:40.040 --> 0:00:41.400 in a really good way? 0:00:41.920 --> 0:00:44.680 And then of course another episode on Thursday to get 0:00:44.720 --> 0:00:47.640 you through your work week. So wherever you're listening right now, 0:00:47.720 --> 0:00:50.440 make sure to hit that subscribe button, whether it's on 0:00:50.600 --> 0:00:54.320 Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, you name it, we're there. And 0:00:54.320 --> 0:00:56.480 you can also listen at Great Game or what dot com, 0:00:56.520 --> 0:01:00.200 Share the podcast with a friend. Easter weekend is behind this. 0:01:00.320 --> 0:01:00.600 Dad. 0:01:00.800 --> 0:01:03.360 Unfortunately, and I think a lot of families go through this, 0:01:03.440 --> 0:01:06.440 there was some sickness in the Kirkchten family, so we 0:01:06.440 --> 0:01:08.920 were unable to all be together. We were supposed to 0:01:08.920 --> 0:01:13.160 be doing this episode together. But Dad, in natural dad fashion, 0:01:13.720 --> 0:01:16.120 I get a weekend at home when I was supposed 0:01:16.120 --> 0:01:18.920 to be traveling. So what did I do? Did I 0:01:19.000 --> 0:01:20.480 go out and play golf with friends? 0:01:20.560 --> 0:01:20.600 No? 0:01:21.840 --> 0:01:23.960 Did I spend extra time with the family? Kind of 0:01:24.400 --> 0:01:28.920 What I did was completely repainted the playground in my 0:01:29.000 --> 0:01:32.639 backyard because when my wife found out that we aren't 0:01:32.680 --> 0:01:36.400 traveling this weekend, she said, time for projects. 0:01:37.840 --> 0:01:38.160 Jeff. 0:01:38.200 --> 0:01:43.280 I completely redid our playground, sanded it, stripped it, repainted it, 0:01:43.319 --> 0:01:46.720 and then I redid the border that the playground sits 0:01:46.800 --> 0:01:48.760 on and brought in all new mulch. 0:01:50.120 --> 0:01:53.120 Jeff, I'm gonna ask you again, are you sure you 0:01:53.240 --> 0:01:57.360 are my son? Because as we've acknowledged from the poor 0:01:57.520 --> 0:02:02.440 Pop Pop segment on this podcas cast, that I stink 0:02:02.880 --> 0:02:06.800 at so many things. All I tried to do for 0:02:07.000 --> 0:02:11.760 Easter weekend was put a picture of Brooks Robinson, a 0:02:11.919 --> 0:02:17.560 poster of Brooks Robinson into a frame. A child could 0:02:17.560 --> 0:02:21.000 have figured this out and I couldn't, so I had 0:02:21.000 --> 0:02:24.040 to give it to your mom my wife, Kathy, who 0:02:24.080 --> 0:02:27.720 of course did it in five minutes, did it perfectly. 0:02:28.280 --> 0:02:32.639 Whereas you were out painting and putting together an entire 0:02:32.840 --> 0:02:34.359 playground in your backyard. 0:02:34.440 --> 0:02:37.240 I am so honest to god, Jeff's so proud of you. 0:02:37.600 --> 0:02:39.799 I just don't know how you're so good at this 0:02:40.240 --> 0:02:41.520 when you are my son. 0:02:41.919 --> 0:02:42.120 You know. 0:02:42.200 --> 0:02:45.280 I did make a standard dad mistake, though, and that 0:02:45.600 --> 0:02:49.519 was completely underestimating how much mulch we would need. I 0:02:49.600 --> 0:02:52.679 think every man and woman who has done any yard 0:02:52.680 --> 0:02:55.720 work has done that. We got twenty bags, Dad, and 0:02:56.480 --> 0:02:58.600 I went back get this. I went back to the store. 0:02:58.639 --> 0:03:02.440 I got twenty more bags, right, and then I laid 0:03:02.440 --> 0:03:05.200 out twenty bags and I'm going back after we record 0:03:05.320 --> 0:03:08.440 the podcast to get twenty more. So Dad, not only 0:03:08.480 --> 0:03:12.639 did I miss it, I missed times three. R Think 0:03:12.639 --> 0:03:14.160 about how bad that is, Jeff. 0:03:14.280 --> 0:03:17.240 I've done it before, I've multiplied it by four and 0:03:17.320 --> 0:03:19.880 still not had enough, Which is why I don't do 0:03:20.040 --> 0:03:22.760 the mulch anymore, because I'm not very good at it 0:03:22.800 --> 0:03:24.200 and I'm really bad accounting. 0:03:24.440 --> 0:03:26.400 You ever look at it and you're like, oh, if 0:03:26.400 --> 0:03:29.000 I just doubled what I did, that would be good. 0:03:29.280 --> 0:03:32.280 And now I was completely wrong. So that was my 0:03:32.440 --> 0:03:36.040 Easter weekend. To everybody else who celebrated, a happy Easter 0:03:36.200 --> 0:03:38.080 to you, and we're excited. 0:03:38.120 --> 0:03:38.280 Dad. 0:03:38.360 --> 0:03:40.560 Let's dive right in because you said before we even 0:03:40.600 --> 0:03:45.040 started recording, this was a crazy weekend in baseball, and 0:03:45.120 --> 0:03:48.000 you are not prone to hyperbole, Dad, So I'm excited 0:03:48.000 --> 0:03:49.480 to hear what you have for the takeaways. 0:03:49.560 --> 0:03:52.720 Well, we have to start with Friday at Wrigley Field. 0:03:52.840 --> 0:03:58.000 The Cubs beat the Diamondbacks thirteen to eleven. Sixteen runs 0:03:58.040 --> 0:04:01.680 were scored in the eighth inning. That's the most run 0:04:01.800 --> 0:04:06.960 scored in any inning in the history of Wrinkley Field, 0:04:06.960 --> 0:04:10.160 which of course goes back over one hundred years. It 0:04:10.200 --> 0:04:13.400 was insane. It was the first nine inning game, nine 0:04:13.440 --> 0:04:18.279 inning game ever in which both teams scored at least 0:04:18.360 --> 0:04:22.280 ten runs from the seventh inning on. So the Diamondbacks 0:04:22.320 --> 0:04:26.640 got ten runs in the top of the eighth, the 0:04:26.680 --> 0:04:29.360 Cubs got six in the bottom of the eighth to win. 0:04:29.480 --> 0:04:34.000 So the Cubs became the seventh team ever to give 0:04:34.080 --> 0:04:37.160 up ten runs in one inning in a game and 0:04:37.320 --> 0:04:38.080 still win. 0:04:37.960 --> 0:04:39.400 The game, which is incredible. 0:04:39.800 --> 0:04:42.800 But the interesting part, the most interesting part to me 0:04:43.160 --> 0:04:47.240 was that the official score in the game gave the 0:04:47.360 --> 0:04:52.359 victory to Ryan Presley, who pitched the ninth inning for 0:04:52.600 --> 0:04:56.680 the Cubs in a save situation. He comes into the game, 0:04:57.480 --> 0:05:01.400 I had thirteen to eleven. He pitches the top of 0:05:01.440 --> 0:05:06.200 the ninth, which in any case is a save. Instead, 0:05:06.279 --> 0:05:10.200 the official scorer gave him the victory because he thought 0:05:10.240 --> 0:05:14.120 that Ethan Roberts, who had gotten the last out of 0:05:14.200 --> 0:05:17.360 the top of the eighth, therefore would have made him 0:05:17.360 --> 0:05:20.159 the winning pitcher. Because the team took the lead in 0:05:20.200 --> 0:05:23.440 the bottom of the eighth, The official scorer used his 0:05:23.640 --> 0:05:28.400 discretion here and gave the save to a no save 0:05:28.480 --> 0:05:28.920 in the game. 0:05:28.960 --> 0:05:31.880 He gave the win to Ryan Presley because he. 0:05:31.880 --> 0:05:36.479 Didn't feel like anyone deserved the victory for the Cubs 0:05:36.520 --> 0:05:39.680 who had pitched in that eighth, And he do follow this, well. 0:05:39.480 --> 0:05:42.400 It's because and correct me if I'm wrong. Ethan Roberts 0:05:42.440 --> 0:05:45.479 only faced two batters. The first batter he faced, he 0:05:45.520 --> 0:05:48.720 gave up a solo homer and then he got one out. 0:05:48.800 --> 0:05:51.840 So he pitched one third of an inning, gave up 0:05:51.960 --> 0:05:57.039 one run, and recorded one out. So the official scorer 0:05:57.120 --> 0:06:00.840 has the discretion to determine was it a win outing, 0:06:01.040 --> 0:06:03.719 was it an outing that deserved the win? And I 0:06:03.760 --> 0:06:06.600 think it was a great call. Some people might say, oh, overreach, 0:06:06.720 --> 0:06:09.760 but because technically yes, he was the pitcher of record 0:06:09.760 --> 0:06:11.680 when they came back and won, but he didn't do 0:06:11.760 --> 0:06:13.200 he gave up a run, he. 0:06:13.200 --> 0:06:14.080 Got one out. 0:06:14.600 --> 0:06:16.440 I don't think he put in the work to deserve 0:06:16.480 --> 0:06:18.520 the win. So I love the call on the official scores. 0:06:18.640 --> 0:06:23.000 The official score has the discretion to decide win or 0:06:23.080 --> 0:06:26.240 save in that situation. So I got three different text 0:06:26.279 --> 0:06:29.359 messages Jeff, just from friends of mine saying have I 0:06:29.600 --> 0:06:31.239 ever seen this before? 0:06:31.600 --> 0:06:33.039 And the answer is I have. 0:06:33.360 --> 0:06:37.520 Many years ago, Mariano Rivera was going for the all 0:06:37.600 --> 0:06:40.760 time save record and he was in a similar spot 0:06:41.279 --> 0:06:44.359 and the official score gave him a victory because no 0:06:44.400 --> 0:06:47.320 one else before him pitched effectively. 0:06:47.080 --> 0:06:48.760 Enough to get the victory. 0:06:48.760 --> 0:06:51.599 And marianno greatest guy in the world, said hey, I'd 0:06:51.720 --> 0:06:55.000 rather have the save than the victory. But they gave 0:06:55.120 --> 0:06:58.599 him the victory nonetheless, So these things can happen. 0:06:58.720 --> 0:06:59.839 Just another reminder. 0:07:00.160 --> 0:07:04.000 Official scorer job is very difficult, and when you asked 0:07:04.040 --> 0:07:07.279 the official scorer to give more discretion to something, I'm 0:07:07.320 --> 0:07:10.239 not sure that's always a great idea. The game should 0:07:10.360 --> 0:07:13.400 tell you exactly who's the winner and who gets the same. 0:07:13.840 --> 0:07:16.600 You know, I know I'm jumping ahead, Dad, but and 0:07:16.640 --> 0:07:19.680 we talked about when we wanted to talk about Max Freed, 0:07:19.760 --> 0:07:21.760 but I think we have to talk about it here 0:07:22.440 --> 0:07:24.520 now that we're talking about official scorers. 0:07:24.640 --> 0:07:27.120 Right, yes, right now, this is it. 0:07:27.520 --> 0:07:33.240 So Max Freed actually lost a no hitter in the 0:07:33.280 --> 0:07:36.840 eighth inning, but he really lost it in the sixth inning. 0:07:37.000 --> 0:07:39.679 Let me explain. So the Yankees were playing at Steinbrennerfield 0:07:39.760 --> 0:07:44.400 against the Rays, and Max Freed gave up an error 0:07:44.720 --> 0:07:47.880 in the sixth inning. Paul Goldschmid the first basement, tough 0:07:47.920 --> 0:07:50.160 ball to him running to first is the fastest guy 0:07:50.200 --> 0:07:52.920 in major leagues, in the major leagues right now, and 0:07:53.040 --> 0:07:56.680 Chandler Simpson for the Rays, and they ruled it initially, 0:07:56.760 --> 0:07:59.280 the official scorer ruled it an error in the sixth inning, 0:07:59.440 --> 0:08:01.600 so we can continue. He's got a no hit bid 0:08:02.480 --> 0:08:05.000 between the top and the bottom of the eighth inning. 0:08:05.600 --> 0:08:11.520 The official score changes that error into a hit. So 0:08:11.960 --> 0:08:15.760 Max Freed lost his no hit bid while he wasn't 0:08:15.840 --> 0:08:17.480 even on the mound. 0:08:18.360 --> 0:08:21.920 Okay, Jeff, look, first off, I watched the play with 0:08:22.000 --> 0:08:26.880 Paul Goldschmid, who's an excellent defensive first baseman. I would 0:08:26.920 --> 0:08:30.680 have scored that a hit initially because it was a 0:08:30.720 --> 0:08:34.280 tricky second hop, not an easy play, And if you 0:08:34.440 --> 0:08:38.679 watch where Goldschmidt was on that play, he has ranged 0:08:38.800 --> 0:08:42.880 way towards second base. Max Freed, great fielding pitcher, would 0:08:42.920 --> 0:08:47.120 have really had to move in order to beat Chandler 0:08:47.480 --> 0:08:50.720 Simpson to first base. He might be the fastest player 0:08:50.720 --> 0:08:53.600 in the league. He's three point nine from home to 0:08:53.640 --> 0:08:55.040 first in the minor league. 0:08:55.120 --> 0:08:58.200 So what I would have looked at was, even. 0:08:58.000 --> 0:09:02.040 If gold Schmid had handled that cleanly, would he have 0:09:02.160 --> 0:09:04.760 been able to get it to Max Freed on the 0:09:04.880 --> 0:09:08.280 run to beat Chandler Simpson to first I would have 0:09:08.280 --> 0:09:08.840 scored it. 0:09:08.720 --> 0:09:09.480 A hit at Jeff. 0:09:09.520 --> 0:09:14.440 Again, the official scoer has the discretion to change his 0:09:14.600 --> 0:09:17.640 call at any point during the game, and you can 0:09:17.760 --> 0:09:21.280 change it after the game once it is reviewed. It 0:09:21.400 --> 0:09:25.640 was just a cumbersome situation that Max Freed lost his 0:09:25.800 --> 0:09:27.959 no hitter without giving up a hit. 0:09:28.440 --> 0:09:31.200 But normally, Jeff, it's the other way around. 0:09:31.520 --> 0:09:34.560 Normally, a guy's got a no hitter and suddenly, I mean, 0:09:34.600 --> 0:09:36.400 he's given up a hit and they change it to 0:09:36.480 --> 0:09:40.160 an error in order to you know, project his no hitter, 0:09:40.280 --> 0:09:42.880 which you shouldn't do. But Bill Matthews in this case 0:09:43.280 --> 0:09:46.760 made a decision that he made a mistake earlier in 0:09:46.840 --> 0:09:49.040 the game that should have been scored a hit. I 0:09:49.120 --> 0:09:52.040 know it's tricky, but I am all for the official 0:09:52.080 --> 0:09:55.880 scorer doing what he did, because again, it's a really 0:09:56.160 --> 0:09:57.200 really hard job. 0:09:57.240 --> 0:09:59.160 When you examine that play, I think it's a hit. 0:10:00.160 --> 0:10:02.800 Let's move on more takeaways from the crazy weekend in 0:10:02.840 --> 0:10:03.680 Major League Baseball. 0:10:03.720 --> 0:10:04.439 What do you got? Well? 0:10:04.520 --> 0:10:08.240 Yoshi Ya Yamamoto of the Dodgers is off to an 0:10:08.280 --> 0:10:12.640 amazing start. Dodgers, of course, are still at least through Sunday, 0:10:12.920 --> 0:10:16.360 behind the Padres, who are really good. But Yamamoto, he 0:10:16.559 --> 0:10:21.760 first five starts thirty five strikeouts, one point zero zero er. 0:10:22.120 --> 0:10:25.520 So the last Dodger to have an ERA that low 0:10:26.200 --> 0:10:29.559 with that many strikeouts through five starts was Fernando Valenzuela 0:10:29.640 --> 0:10:33.000 in nineteen eighty one, which was arguably the greatest start 0:10:33.120 --> 0:10:36.400 to a season by any pitcher ever. And that was 0:10:36.600 --> 0:10:41.320 Valnzuela's amazing nineteen eighty one season. Just a reminder how 0:10:41.360 --> 0:10:45.000 good the Dodgers starting pitching is. And Yamamoto is, who 0:10:45.120 --> 0:10:48.000 was good last year then got hurt, He's even better 0:10:48.400 --> 0:10:53.720 this year. And then they're the Brewers, the relentless aggressive Brewers. 0:10:53.800 --> 0:10:57.000 Jeff Sunday, they stole nine bases in one game. 0:10:57.200 --> 0:11:00.280 Okay, Jeff. There are two teams. 0:11:00.120 --> 0:11:04.720 The Tigers and the A's, who don't have nine stolen 0:11:04.760 --> 0:11:09.120 bases this year, and the Brewers did it in one game. 0:11:09.320 --> 0:11:09.600 Jeff. 0:11:09.640 --> 0:11:13.600 We're trying to bring the athleticism back into the game 0:11:13.640 --> 0:11:17.760 by making the bases bigger, and the you know, the 0:11:17.760 --> 0:11:20.160 the rule where you can't throw over, you know, the 0:11:21.360 --> 0:11:23.760 to first base more than twice without it being a back. 0:11:23.880 --> 0:11:26.400 All that stuff. It's working. But this is how the 0:11:26.400 --> 0:11:27.480 Brewers play. 0:11:27.640 --> 0:11:30.880 They put they put pressure on you all the time 0:11:30.920 --> 0:11:35.240 with the way they run the bases. Also, Euhanio Suarez, 0:11:35.280 --> 0:11:37.360 I got a kick out of this. He plays, Jeff 0:11:37.840 --> 0:11:40.400 for the Diamondback. So he's at the plate the other day. 0:11:40.400 --> 0:11:42.880 I don't know if you saw this, but a pitch 0:11:43.240 --> 0:11:46.319 went in the dirt and then kind of bounced up 0:11:46.320 --> 0:11:46.840 in the air. 0:11:46.960 --> 0:11:49.400 While Euhanio Suarez is at. 0:11:49.240 --> 0:11:54.520 The plate, he reflexively takes his right foot and dribbles 0:11:54.640 --> 0:11:59.320 the baseball on his foot like two or three times, 0:11:59.800 --> 0:12:02.800 and and then using his left foot, he kicks the 0:12:02.840 --> 0:12:07.280 ball over towards the dugout. You know what this shows me, Jeff? 0:12:07.280 --> 0:12:08.920 It shows me that he used. 0:12:08.800 --> 0:12:12.480 To play soccer. And one reason that he's. 0:12:12.280 --> 0:12:17.679 A good Major League baseball player is his feet really work. 0:12:17.920 --> 0:12:18.680 I'll never forget. 0:12:18.720 --> 0:12:21.240 I did a story on omarvus Scale, you know, thirty 0:12:21.320 --> 0:12:26.160 years ago, about being this unbelievable great defensive shortstop. So 0:12:26.200 --> 0:12:29.000 I went to see him in Seattle in the off 0:12:29.040 --> 0:12:31.360 season on Super Bowl Sunday, by the way, And while 0:12:31.400 --> 0:12:33.680 I was talking to him for this story, we go 0:12:33.760 --> 0:12:36.280 out into his garage and there's a soccer ball in 0:12:36.360 --> 0:12:40.040 his garage and he takes the soccer ball and just 0:12:40.320 --> 0:12:43.040 dribbles it on his foot for like three minutes without 0:12:43.080 --> 0:12:46.560 losing it. And I said, Omar, when's the last time 0:12:46.600 --> 0:12:49.080 you did that? He goes, I haven't dribbled a soccer 0:12:49.080 --> 0:12:50.080 ball in ten years. 0:12:50.320 --> 0:12:52.440 Three minutes. He bounced it. 0:12:52.360 --> 0:12:55.360 Off his foot because he could because he had such 0:12:55.840 --> 0:12:59.320 great feet. Another reminder, so that Jose I Glaciers guy, 0:12:59.400 --> 0:13:02.160 the great singer who's also a really good baseball player, 0:13:02.600 --> 0:13:04.319 Omar Viscale told me. 0:13:04.640 --> 0:13:06.719 And I thought Omar had the greatest hands I've ever 0:13:06.760 --> 0:13:07.840 seen on anyone. 0:13:08.679 --> 0:13:12.720 He said, Jose Glaci's hands are just as good as mine. 0:13:13.240 --> 0:13:16.760 But the reason I'm even better than him defensively is because. 0:13:16.480 --> 0:13:17.079 Of my feet. 0:13:17.200 --> 0:13:21.360 So never ever ever lose track on a baseball player. 0:13:21.280 --> 0:13:24.199 How important his feet are. And we saw that from 0:13:24.480 --> 0:13:25.839 Ujanio Suarez. 0:13:26.120 --> 0:13:29.240 Does it make any difference that Eu Hennio Suarez and 0:13:29.320 --> 0:13:31.800 Omar Viskel have all of the vowels in both of 0:13:31.840 --> 0:13:34.559 their names or is that not relating? 0:13:35.240 --> 0:13:36.760 I am so proud of you. 0:13:37.120 --> 0:13:40.760 I taught you about Ujenio Suarez and all the vowels, 0:13:41.200 --> 0:13:45.120 but I did not recognize that Omar Viskell had all 0:13:45.160 --> 0:13:46.000 the vowels too. 0:13:46.760 --> 0:13:50.160 Jeff, boy, I have of your favorite guys. I have 0:13:50.280 --> 0:13:51.680 corrupted you so badly. 0:13:51.720 --> 0:13:55.840 All right, last thing, Jeff, Yesterday at Fenway Park Monday, 0:13:55.880 --> 0:13:58.719 at Fenway Park, they started a game at eleven ten, 0:13:58.920 --> 0:14:01.600 which they do once year at Fenway Park. 0:14:01.640 --> 0:14:02.880 It's a special. 0:14:02.520 --> 0:14:05.400 Day and they start a baseball game at eleven ten. 0:14:05.440 --> 0:14:09.360 And I only bring this up because Dustin Pedroia one 0:14:09.440 --> 0:14:12.319 of your favorite players, because you're about the same height 0:14:12.360 --> 0:14:15.760 as Dustin Pedroia. He used to show up Jeff to 0:14:15.960 --> 0:14:19.680 every game eight hours before the game began, so if 0:14:19.720 --> 0:14:23.200 it's a seven pm start, he would be there at 0:14:23.360 --> 0:14:26.800 eleven am. David Ross was once a teammate of his 0:14:27.480 --> 0:14:31.680 and David Ross is going out for breakfast at eleven 0:14:31.720 --> 0:14:34.040 o'clock in the morning, and he lives in the same 0:14:34.080 --> 0:14:38.080 neighborhood as Dustin Pedroya. He sees Perroi and he goes, 0:14:38.080 --> 0:14:40.320 where are you going? He goes, I'm going to the ballpark, 0:14:40.400 --> 0:14:43.440 and David Ross goes, It's eleven o'clock in the morning. 0:14:43.480 --> 0:14:44.600 The game is in eight hours. 0:14:44.640 --> 0:14:48.480 The point is when the Red Sox played that eleven 0:14:48.560 --> 0:14:52.640 AM game, when Pedroia was there, he would get to 0:14:52.680 --> 0:14:55.680 the ballpark at three o'clock in the morning. He would 0:14:55.720 --> 0:14:59.040 alert all the clubhouse guys and all the security guys. 0:14:59.400 --> 0:15:02.560 I'll be year at three in the morning. You better 0:15:02.640 --> 0:15:05.040 be here for me. How about that, Jack? 0:15:05.120 --> 0:15:08.920 I love that that work ethic is next level from paint. 0:15:09.680 --> 0:15:11.840 That's what he needed to do in order to be 0:15:11.960 --> 0:15:14.880 ready to play. Get their eight hours in advance. 0:15:21.320 --> 0:15:24.200 Let's jump into the quirk gins from the weekend. 0:15:24.280 --> 0:15:24.640 What do you have? 0:15:25.040 --> 0:15:28.440 Well, that thirteen to eleven game was an entire quirk gin, 0:15:28.560 --> 0:15:31.880 but we also kind of had one Sunday where the 0:15:31.920 --> 0:15:36.720 Reds beat the Orioles twenty four to two, and Noel 0:15:36.800 --> 0:15:40.640 v Marte and Austin Wins of the Reds, the eight 0:15:40.800 --> 0:15:45.000 and nine hitters in the game drove in thirteen runs. 0:15:45.440 --> 0:15:50.840 So the last time any eight nine hitters drove in 0:15:51.120 --> 0:15:54.560 that many runs was the famous August twenty two to 0:15:54.720 --> 0:15:59.600 two thousand and seven game when the Rangers beat the 0:15:59.600 --> 0:16:04.200 Orioles thirty to three, and Jared Salto, Lamachia and Ramon 0:16:04.440 --> 0:16:09.240 Vasquez in that game combined for fourteen RBIs out of 0:16:09.280 --> 0:16:13.440 the eight and nine spots in the order. And that game, 0:16:13.480 --> 0:16:16.920 of course was also played at Candod Yards. 0:16:16.760 --> 0:16:21.480 Which I got such a big kickout of. So in 0:16:22.080 --> 0:16:27.560 that thirty to three victory, Wes Lyttleton, if you remember. 0:16:27.320 --> 0:16:29.920 Got the save, which we've got such a kickout of 0:16:30.000 --> 0:16:33.200 because his team won the game by twenty seven runs, 0:16:33.480 --> 0:16:36.480 and he got the save because he pitched the last 0:16:36.480 --> 0:16:39.480 three innings of the game effectively, and by rule, you 0:16:39.600 --> 0:16:40.000 get the. 0:16:40.000 --> 0:16:41.720 Save for doing that. 0:16:42.680 --> 0:16:47.920 And yesterday, I mean Sunday, Randy Winn of the Reds 0:16:48.080 --> 0:16:51.720 got the save, his first career save, and he gave 0:16:51.800 --> 0:16:55.480 that his team won by twenty two russ, which I 0:16:55.760 --> 0:16:58.760 just how is he ever going to forget his first 0:16:58.840 --> 0:17:01.880 career save out of the game which is t won 0:17:02.000 --> 0:17:04.840 twenty four to two. And the other thing, of course, 0:17:04.880 --> 0:17:08.280 which was mentioned to me several times by my dopey friends, 0:17:08.320 --> 0:17:11.400 and that's why I love them, is so the battery 0:17:11.520 --> 0:17:15.399 at the end of that game was Randy Win and 0:17:15.600 --> 0:17:16.960 Austin wins. 0:17:17.320 --> 0:17:19.600 So that was our battery at the end of the game. 0:17:19.640 --> 0:17:22.560 People asked me if I noticed that. The answer is, 0:17:22.640 --> 0:17:23.879 what else do I notice? 0:17:23.920 --> 0:17:26.040 Those are the only things I really care about, our 0:17:26.080 --> 0:17:27.600 goofy crazy things like that. 0:17:27.840 --> 0:17:30.720 Well, speaking of I want to shout out jj Elliott, 0:17:30.760 --> 0:17:33.600 who messaged us on Instagram at great game or what. 0:17:33.720 --> 0:17:36.760 You can see exclusive videos and more on our Instagram page, Dad, 0:17:36.800 --> 0:17:41.159 he said. Saturday in Baltimore, Hunter Green pitched against Brandon Young, 0:17:41.640 --> 0:17:45.840 making his MLB debut. This is the newbie matchup. It's 0:17:46.040 --> 0:17:51.199 Young against Green. You know when somebody is green to something, 0:17:51.600 --> 0:17:51.960 all right? 0:17:52.000 --> 0:17:54.000 I thought that was pretty great. 0:17:54.000 --> 0:17:58.800 Look anytime that our listeners and our viewers are adding 0:17:58.840 --> 0:18:02.320 to the show, you can count me in Young and Green. 0:18:02.480 --> 0:18:05.080 I like it. That's good, all right. 0:18:05.119 --> 0:18:08.000 Also this week, Jeff the Pirates won a game one 0:18:08.080 --> 0:18:12.320 to nothing. O'Neil Cruz led off the game with a 0:18:12.359 --> 0:18:14.919 homer and that was the only run scored. In the 0:18:14.920 --> 0:18:17.280 game one to nothing on a home run hit. 0:18:17.480 --> 0:18:20.240 By the first batter of the game. The Pirates have 0:18:20.359 --> 0:18:23.680 been around for well over one hundred years, and that 0:18:23.880 --> 0:18:27.720 is only the second time a Pirate player ever let 0:18:27.760 --> 0:18:29.959 off a game with a homer and they ended up 0:18:30.000 --> 0:18:32.080 winning that game one to nothing. 0:18:32.280 --> 0:18:36.440 Carlos Garcia did it nineteen ninety three against the Marlins. 0:18:36.800 --> 0:18:39.600 And for me, O'Neil Cruz is the only player in 0:18:39.680 --> 0:18:42.320 Major League Baseball history that I can think of that 0:18:42.440 --> 0:18:45.800 has a name better if it were switched, he should 0:18:45.880 --> 0:18:48.840 be Cruise Oz. Every time I see his name, I think, 0:18:49.200 --> 0:18:50.720 just doesn't feel right to me. 0:18:51.560 --> 0:18:54.520 Well, you know, he was named after Paul O'Neill. That's 0:18:54.560 --> 0:18:57.240 why he's got the first name, O'Neil Cruise. 0:18:57.359 --> 0:18:58.600 That's so cool. I didn't know that. 0:18:58.800 --> 0:19:02.600 Yeah, And speaking of Cruise, Jeff Dylan Cruz of the 0:19:02.760 --> 0:19:09.080 Nationals different spelling, crws great young prospect. He went sixty 0:19:09.119 --> 0:19:12.560 at bats this year, sixty played appearances this year without 0:19:12.600 --> 0:19:16.719 an RBI, and then he drove in four runs. 0:19:16.200 --> 0:19:17.000 In one game. 0:19:17.119 --> 0:19:19.800 So I checked with Frank at the Elias. When's the 0:19:19.880 --> 0:19:23.760 last time anyone went sixty played appearances into a season 0:19:24.640 --> 0:19:27.120 without an RBI and then got four. 0:19:26.920 --> 0:19:28.560 Of them in the next game. 0:19:28.960 --> 0:19:33.200 Ridolfo Castro did that for the Pirates in twenty twenty two. 0:19:33.280 --> 0:19:35.800 He was the last guy to do it. But things 0:19:35.920 --> 0:19:38.320 like that jump out to me speak, all right. 0:19:38.240 --> 0:19:43.959 So, Jackson Holiday hit two grands hit his second Grand Slam. 0:19:44.040 --> 0:19:48.040 Remember of the Orioles, So Frank Robinson. Frank Robinson played 0:19:48.119 --> 0:19:51.160 six years for the Orioles. He only hit two Grand 0:19:51.200 --> 0:19:53.600 Slams in six years. Frank one of the great home 0:19:53.680 --> 0:19:56.600 run hitters of all time. But he hit both those 0:19:56.640 --> 0:20:00.679 Grand Slams in the same game against the Set in 0:20:00.760 --> 0:20:02.960 nineteen seventy. I mean, what are the odds of that? 0:20:03.160 --> 0:20:07.200 In fact, Frank's final thirteen seasons he only hit two 0:20:07.280 --> 0:20:11.639 Grand Slams total, and they both came in the same game. 0:20:12.080 --> 0:20:15.160 That's crazy. And Jackson Holiday's only twenty one years old 0:20:15.160 --> 0:20:17.440 and he's done it twice for the Orioles, right on 0:20:17.480 --> 0:20:20.119 this date in baseball history, Dad, what do you have 0:20:20.240 --> 0:20:20.680 for us? 0:20:21.280 --> 0:20:21.680 All right? 0:20:21.720 --> 0:20:27.680 Well, in nineteen seventy, Tom Severs struck out nineteen San 0:20:27.720 --> 0:20:30.000 Diego Padres in a two. 0:20:29.920 --> 0:20:33.960 To one victory. First up, Jeff. Nobody finishes a two 0:20:34.000 --> 0:20:34.560 to one. 0:20:34.440 --> 0:20:37.600 Game these days, right, there's always a reliever to pitch 0:20:37.640 --> 0:20:40.439 the ninth. But the point is Tom Seavers set a 0:20:40.560 --> 0:20:45.200 major league record with ten consecutive strikeouts. 0:20:44.840 --> 0:20:45.639 In that game. 0:20:46.200 --> 0:20:52.119 The point is with the last ten batters he faced. 0:20:52.280 --> 0:20:55.280 Think about that for a minute, talk about being strong 0:20:55.359 --> 0:20:58.080 at the end. The last ten batters of that game 0:20:58.400 --> 0:21:02.040 against Tom sever struck out. So he struck out the 0:21:02.119 --> 0:21:04.680 last guy of the sixth inning and then struck out 0:21:04.720 --> 0:21:08.720 the side in the seventh, eighth, and ninth. That's how 0:21:08.760 --> 0:21:11.920 great Tom Seaver was. We will be talking about him 0:21:12.119 --> 0:21:14.920 later in this week when we talk about the greatest 0:21:15.040 --> 0:21:16.359 mets of all time. 0:21:17.320 --> 0:21:18.399 And last thing, Jeff. 0:21:18.400 --> 0:21:24.040 From this date, April twenty second, Tito Francona's birthday. He 0:21:24.320 --> 0:21:27.440 is sixty five years old. I want to say today, 0:21:27.800 --> 0:21:30.600