Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to another episode of Snake's Territory, part
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Speaker 1: Friedman alongside Jack Summers and Jack A couple hours into
Speaker 1: the Diamondbacks Sunday finale against the Reds, the vibes were
Speaker 1: not high. Reds put three runs on Mitch Bratt. D
Speaker 1: Backs looking to be on the verge of maybe a
Speaker 1: series loss. That would have felt really rough on a
Speaker 1: number of different levels. But the Diamondbacks come back. They
Speaker 1: score one run in the sixth, four and the seventh.
Speaker 1: It's a five to three win and really big on
Speaker 1: a lot of different fronts. Jack, and also the Diamondbacks
Speaker 1: thirty ninth comeback win this season. That is second in
Speaker 1: all of baseball.
Speaker 2: Come back today.
Speaker 1: Yeah, technically, yes, the Cubs now have forty, but I
Speaker 1: feel like it shouldn't count because they were down to
Speaker 1: nothing and they won nineteen to two.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well then that would constitute a comeback win, but
Speaker 2: not of the same milk as what happened with the
Speaker 2: Dbacks today. And your words of you know this team
Speaker 2: is never as good as you think it is, and
Speaker 2: it's never as bad as you think it is. Just
Speaker 2: keeps ringing in my head. I was thinking about that
Speaker 2: all afternoon.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that is kind of the theme of the season.
Speaker 1: Just when you're sort of ready to count this Diamondbacks
Speaker 1: team out, they go out and they do something like
Speaker 1: they did late in this game, And just when you're
Speaker 1: starting to feel confident, more guys start getting hurt and
Speaker 1: the Padres and Phillies keep winning. And we'll get into
Speaker 1: some of the injury stuff a little bit later, but
Speaker 1: it was a really, really big win.
Speaker 3: Jack.
Speaker 1: It's hard to describe how brutal a series lost to
Speaker 1: the Cincinnati Reds would have felt that this weekend. Diamondbacks
Speaker 1: come through. In the seventh inning, they were down three
Speaker 1: to one. They got three guys to reach base to
Speaker 1: start that inning, James McCann takes a walk with the
Speaker 1: first two guys on, and later in that frame, Ildemar
Speaker 1: Vargas delivered what felt like one of the more important
Speaker 1: hits for the Diamondbacks this season, a two run triple.
Speaker 1: It flipped a three to two deficit into a four
Speaker 1: to three lead, and the Diamondbacks led the rest of
Speaker 1: the way.
Speaker 2: Yeah, even like the inning before that though, you know,
Speaker 2: it was Corbyn Carroll really that kind of lit the
Speaker 2: fire again. You know, hit his sixteenth triple of the season.
Speaker 2: He's really going after that twenty twenty twenty twenty thing,
Speaker 2: you know, twenty stolen bases, homers, triples and what's the fourth.
Speaker 3: One, doubles.
Speaker 1: I think it's doubles, which feels silly because twenty doubles
Speaker 1: is not like a huge accomplishment, but it sounds better
Speaker 1: when you say twenty twenty twenty twenty. So yeah, he
Speaker 1: very much has a shot at that for sure.
Speaker 2: So you know, he scored on Gabby's sacrifice fly and
Speaker 2: you know, which was a kind of interesting play. But
Speaker 2: in the end of the day, like that really is like, okay,
Speaker 2: it's a three to one ball game, you know, and
Speaker 2: you still got a chance here. Now wait, wait a minute,
Speaker 2: we were flat, we were dead. This game's over, the
Speaker 2: season's over because we lost the seriesly the Reds and
Speaker 2: then all of a sudden, like you know, with I
Speaker 2: even jokingly posted the old Undertaker meme of him sitting
Speaker 2: up upright suddenly off the mat, you know, and it
Speaker 2: just really felt like that like, Okay, they could come
Speaker 2: back here. I had a sense of that when Corbin
Speaker 2: did that. So that preceded that seventh inning comeback winning rally.
Speaker 2: But it was kickstarted by Corbyn, I think. And the bullpen,
Speaker 2: of course. I mean, you know, the bullpen. We're going
Speaker 2: to talk about Mitch Bratt, but the bullpen was fabulous today.
Speaker 2: I mean, they give him six scoreless innings, kept that
Speaker 2: game right where it was and gave them a chance.
Speaker 2: And so like the real heroes, the real goats of
Speaker 2: this were the bullpen.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no doubt.
Speaker 1: The Diamondbacks bullpen has on the whole been an asset
Speaker 1: for them this season. It continues to be one of
Speaker 1: the most baffling things about the twenty twenty six Arizona
Speaker 1: Diamondbacks is their bullpen. I think pretty clearly has helped
Speaker 1: them win more games than it has lost for them,
Speaker 1: and it's just been enormous this season. Harado Correo the
Speaker 1: first man out of the bullpen in this one. He
Speaker 1: gives up a ground row double, comes back and strikes
Speaker 1: out three straight reds hitters in pretty dominant fashion. I
Speaker 1: know he did issue a couple of walks in the
Speaker 1: next inning, and that's been a trend with Herado Correo,
Speaker 1: but hey, he was I think he arrived at seven
Speaker 1: am this morning, he said after the game, and it
Speaker 1: was just be ready sort of situation, and he was ready.
Speaker 1: The Diamondbacks needed him, and it's good to see him
Speaker 1: back in the big leagues.
Speaker 3: Jack.
Speaker 1: I know the circumstance are not necessarily ideal. We'll get
Speaker 1: into those a little bit later. But Coreo was really
Speaker 1: effective for this team when he was up in the
Speaker 1: big leagues earlier, and he kind of set the tone
Speaker 1: for the Diamondbacks bullpen in this one.
Speaker 2: I'm going to sell you out here a little bit, Jesse,
Speaker 2: and I just want everybody to know that he does
Speaker 2: get emotional sometimes over certain things, not as much as
Speaker 2: I do usually, but I think the career send out
Speaker 2: was a tough one for you to swallow on a
Speaker 2: lot of levels. And behind the scenes, I got to
Speaker 2: see a little bit of a Jesse that you guys
Speaker 2: don't usually see. He did not like that move. So
Speaker 2: seeing him come back and pitch, well, I'm sure that
Speaker 2: made you very very happy today, my friend.
Speaker 1: It just yeah, I continue to say that the guy
Speaker 1: at a zero point six six era and usually you
Speaker 1: don't get sent down when those are your numbers, especially
Speaker 1: when the underlying stuff, you know, just from a rass
Speaker 1: stuff standpoint, is what it is with Careo, his stuff
Speaker 1: is maybe as electric as just about any Diamondbacks reliever.
Speaker 1: So anyway, Herado Coreo is back. Taylor Clark followed that
Speaker 1: up with an inning and a third clean there. He
Speaker 1: was very efficiental he needed ten pitches to get those
Speaker 1: four outs. And then it was Jonathan Mawiseiga in the
Speaker 1: seventh inning, Juan Mario in the eighth, Brandon Garcia in
Speaker 1: the ninth inning. I guess the one note there is
Speaker 1: Garcia allowed a bass hit with two outs in that frame.
Speaker 3: He looked sharp.
Speaker 1: He was throwing ninety nine miles an hour, kind of
Speaker 1: just a chopper single up the first baseline that got through,
Speaker 1: and Tory was very aggressive in that spot. He had
Speaker 1: Kevin Ginkle ready to go for Dane Meyers, who's a
Speaker 1: right handed hitter, doesn't really have much pop at all
Speaker 1: against righty's much better numbers against lefties this season, and
Speaker 1: even as good as Brandon Garcia has been this year,
Speaker 1: Tory pulled him in that spot. Kevin Ginkle came in,
Speaker 1: Ginko got a ground ball. Unfortunately, Yodamar Vargus not able
Speaker 1: to make the play game glass to face another batter,
Speaker 1: and it took a while, but eventually he wore down
Speaker 1: Tyler Stevenson and got the final out. I thought it
Speaker 1: was an interesting managerial.
Speaker 3: Move, though, Jack.
Speaker 1: I was surprised at how aggressive Tory was in that spot,
Speaker 1: and frankly, in the moment, I was a little puzzled
Speaker 1: by it. I think personally I would have just rolled
Speaker 1: with Brandon Garcia.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was fine with it. You know, they showed
Speaker 2: him a little bit earlier, starting to warm up, get
Speaker 2: loose slowly in the bullpen, and I was like, okay,
Speaker 2: that's interesting, you know. So clearly I had a little
Speaker 2: bit of time to kind of wrap my brain around
Speaker 2: what Tory was thinking there. And then I'm looking at
Speaker 2: the lineup and I thought, okay, well, if anybody gets
Speaker 2: on bass, he's definitely not going to pitch to Myers.
Speaker 2: He's going to bring him in. So, you know, you
Speaker 2: look at Myers' track record, I mean it's quite a
Speaker 2: bit worse against right hand to pitching. And also, let's
Speaker 2: be honest, I mean, as good as Brandon Garcia is
Speaker 2: and as nasty as as stuff is, he has had
Speaker 2: some command issues lately, and so you know, instead of
Speaker 2: pushing him to go to the fifth batter and deal
Speaker 2: with that, you know, he brought in a fresh Ginkle
Speaker 2: and it worked. So look, we're all being results oriented.
Speaker 2: But at the time, I mean, you know, I was
Speaker 2: texting with you, and I was texting with our good
Speaker 2: friend Jeff Irving, who hopefully is listening today, and you know,
Speaker 2: back and forth with a few different people, and I
Speaker 2: was and also of course our guy Alex Deegostino. So
Speaker 2: I had like multiple text threads going and everyone's like,
Speaker 2: what is he doing? What was he doing? And I
Speaker 2: was telling everybody. I was like, I'm okay with this,
Speaker 2: I really am. So you know, for me, it's fine.
Speaker 1: I know Ginkle is before the fact, yeah right, fair enough,
Speaker 1: fair enough. Yeah, Ginkle has looked pretty good as last
Speaker 1: couple of times out. He's had a rough month of
Speaker 1: August on the whole, so I think, you know, maybe
Speaker 1: I was sort of thinking through some of those moments,
Speaker 1: and you'd hate to have a game where Gang just
Speaker 1: has an off day. He's forced to face the minimum
Speaker 1: three batters even with two outs in the game.
Speaker 3: But all is well. That ends well.
Speaker 1: D Backs were likely to win this game no matter
Speaker 1: what Toy did in that spot. Just felt like an
Speaker 1: interesting aggressive decision on his part in that moment. But yeah, offensively,
Speaker 1: Diamondbacks able to push across enough even though things were
Speaker 1: pretty lean throughout most of this game. Ildemar Vargas. I
Speaker 1: mentioned the defensive MISSQ and the ninth inning, but that
Speaker 1: was really a footnote in what was by and large,
Speaker 1: a really good game for him. Jack two for four,
Speaker 1: two runs batted in, He had a double and triple
Speaker 1: in this one, and he just continues to be a
Speaker 1: god send for this team. He can play all over
Speaker 1: the place. Despite the MISQ and the ninth He's been
Speaker 1: great defensively at a variety of different positions, and I
Speaker 1: feel like we have to continue to sing the praises
Speaker 1: of Ildemar of Vargas because I don't know where this
Speaker 1: team would be without him. The number of gaps that
Speaker 1: he has managed to fill and his ability to transition
Speaker 1: from billing, you know, a first base gap, to a
Speaker 1: second base gap, to just moving around the diamond in
Speaker 1: the way that he does it has been invaluable for
Speaker 1: this team.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I of course, you know, I had another anti
Speaker 2: moment where I commented on Twitter that, you know, after
Speaker 2: hitting those two home runs in Atlanta had gone on
Speaker 2: to go two for twenty one, and then then his
Speaker 2: next at bat he doubled, and then two at bats
Speaker 2: later he tripled in for the game winning hit. So
Speaker 2: you're welcome, folks. I'll take credit for that.
Speaker 3: That's how that works for sure.
Speaker 1: A good game from from Vargas, good game from Corbyn Carroll,
Speaker 1: as you referenced earlier, a double and triple in this one.
Speaker 1: I guess we should talk about Mitch Bratt at least
Speaker 1: a little bit here, Jack.
Speaker 2: While while we're on offense, I just still want to
Speaker 2: bring up Tim Tala. Two more hits, two hits run scored.
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, what can we say, Tim Tala
Speaker 2: just hits?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I know that he's been pretty streaky.
Speaker 1: It feels like he'll string together a few really great
Speaker 1: games and then things can be a little rough for
Speaker 1: him for a few days after that. But his OPS
Speaker 1: is now up over seven hundred on the season. The
Speaker 1: defensive versatility is very much there with him as well.
Speaker 1: He's done a good job at first base, so yeah,
Speaker 1: he continues to help this Diamondbacks offense stay afloat. On
Speaker 1: the pitching side, Mitch Bratt was not great for the
Speaker 1: Diamondbacks in this one. Just three innings, five hits, three runs,
Speaker 1: three walks, three strikeouts. The walks are well documented, Jack,
Speaker 1: his command just seems to kind of fall off at times,
Speaker 1: and sometimes it's several walks happening in a short period
Speaker 1: of time, and we saw that again in this one.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, I mean he had what twenty seven pitches
Speaker 2: I think in the first inning, and then he had
Speaker 2: an eight pitch second inning, and those pitches were all
Speaker 2: pretty competitive, but it's the bottom of the order and
Speaker 2: then he just got whacked. I mean, you know, double single,
Speaker 2: double strikeout, base hit, you know, to give up the
Speaker 2: three runs there. He ended up, you know, struggling to
Speaker 2: finish up the third inning with another walk, so you know,
Speaker 2: he walked three in all. I don't know, I don't
Speaker 2: know what's going on there. I mean, I think Jeff
Speaker 2: Brantley said something on the broadcast, which really, you know,
Speaker 2: everyone talks about mechanics, but Brantley said, every single pitch
Speaker 2: he's throwing looks like max effort, and that really rang true.
Speaker 2: You know, sometimes when somebody articulates something that you're seeing
Speaker 2: with your eyes, but you not sure what you're seeing.
Speaker 2: And when he said that, it's like ding, That's what
Speaker 2: it is. I mean, here's the guy that throws, you know,
Speaker 2: eighty nine to ninety ninety one on a good day.
Speaker 2: Looks like he's trying to, you know, max effort every
Speaker 2: pitch to try to be able to compete at this level.
Speaker 2: And you know, I mean it's hard to blame him.
Speaker 2: It can't really survive in Major League Baseball with the
Speaker 2: eighty nine mile an hour fastball these days. So you know,
Speaker 2: he's trying to hump it up to ninety one ninety
Speaker 2: two consistently, and that's what he's doing. He's overthrowing. It's
Speaker 2: not the purouette that's causing It's not the purouette that's
Speaker 2: causing him to miss his target because that happens after
Speaker 2: the pitch. It's the max effort.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's a that's an insightful point. Definitely
Speaker 1: tracks with what we've seen from Bratt this season on
Speaker 1: the whole. It's a four or five four e er.
Speaker 1: I think you can you can still stomach that. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's he's been at least viable for the Diamondbacks, but
Speaker 1: there are you know, this is back to back outings
Speaker 1: of only going three innings, So if if that trend
Speaker 1: can killers, Yeah, if that continues, then I guess the
Speaker 1: word viable is not really fitting there anymore.
Speaker 3: I know he had a couple of.
Speaker 1: Other really good starts earlier this month, but the Dbacs
Speaker 1: could really use some more consistency, especially with some of
Speaker 1: the injury news that we're going to get into later
Speaker 1: in the show. Before we do that, the first couple
Speaker 1: games of the series, Jack, let's hit on those real
Speaker 1: quick Friday not competitive Diamondbacks get out in front in
Speaker 1: the first inning, Gabby Moreno hits an RBI single, They
Speaker 1: tack on several more runs in the front few frames there.
Speaker 1: Eduardo Rodriguez goes out there five and two thirds innings,
Speaker 1: no runs allowed, on a day where he still didn't
Speaker 1: have his best stuff, and he just continues to impress.
Speaker 1: It was a great day for Jordan Lawler in particular.
Speaker 1: That was good to see after a rough showing in Boston.
Speaker 1: That was one of the more complete wins this team
Speaker 1: has had this year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean you look at that, you say, Okay,
Speaker 2: nine to nothing. Look at the way they played, you
Speaker 2: kind of hopeful, Oh, we got Soroka going the next day.
Speaker 2: You know, there's a chance that they could sweep this series.
Speaker 2: And you know, it sure felt like that after Friday night. Unfortunately,
Speaker 2: Saturday night happened, and Saturday night happened with a short
Speaker 2: outing from Michael Soroka, you know where he left the
Speaker 2: game after just three and thirds innings. He gave up,
Speaker 2: ended up, giving up six earned runs, left a couple
Speaker 2: of inherited runners out there that both came in to score,
Speaker 2: and you know, just did not have any Really, he
Speaker 2: wasn't sharp. He just wasn't didn't have his command, didn't
Speaker 2: have his stuff. We later found out why, but that
Speaker 2: was really disappointing in the moment. The team did try
Speaker 2: to come back, but they weren't able to. Torri went
Speaker 2: to Zach Lttel in that game with you know, two
Speaker 2: on him and one out in the fourth inning, and
Speaker 2: a lot of people criticize that move, I think, you know,
Speaker 2: especially because of the results, because Hotel immediately gave up
Speaker 2: a hit, he walked a couple of batters, you know,
Speaker 2: and by the time that inning was over it was
Speaker 2: six to nothing. But I want to point something out.
Speaker 2: Already down four to nothing in with one out in
Speaker 2: the fourth and runners two runners on the Diamondbacks win
Speaker 2: percentage was already down to eleven percent. Yes, technically it's
Speaker 2: a winnable game, and a lot of people will shout
Speaker 2: that at me, But that game you're not gonna win
Speaker 2: more than one out of every ten times. And so
Speaker 2: to argue that Tori should be using a high leverage
Speaker 2: reliever to you know, in the fourth inning of a
Speaker 2: game you're losing four nothing with two runners on base
Speaker 2: and only one out, it's just not a good argument.
Speaker 2: It's not how teams and bullpens are managed. Sorry, yeah, I.
Speaker 3: Agree with that.
Speaker 1: I think in the moment it was easy to criticize
Speaker 1: and be like, oh, you know, you're waving the white
Speaker 1: flag or whatever you.
Speaker 3: Want to say.
Speaker 1: But you know, Zach Lytel entering that game, it had
Speaker 1: one really good outing with the Dvacs and one really
Speaker 1: bad outing with the Dbacs. So you know, maybe it
Speaker 1: comes in and does what he did in his first
Speaker 1: outing with the diamond against Colorado, maybe dials up a
Speaker 1: double play and is able to keep them in the
Speaker 1: game for a while. So unfortunately it was it was
Speaker 1: not that type of day for Zach Lateel. He ultimately
Speaker 1: is designated for assignment, and we'll dive into some of
Speaker 1: the roster news a little bit more later in the show,
Speaker 1: but before we get into all of that stuff, we
Speaker 1: are going to talk a little bit of katel Marte.
Speaker 1: There's been some more news here in the past few days.
Speaker 1: The Diamondbacks also had their meeting with katel Marte since
Speaker 1: our last episode. That happened on Thursday, so we'll give
Speaker 1: some updates there, and then we'll circle around to Lttel Soroka,
Speaker 1: the latest on Corbyn Burns, a lot of other interesting
Speaker 1: roster and injury updates, so don't go anywhere. We'll be
Speaker 1: back right after this here on Snake's territory.
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Speaker 1: way well, Jack Cotel Marte continues to be a storyline
Speaker 1: with this Diamondbacks team since our last episode. The d
Speaker 1: BACS had a three hour meeting with Katel Marte on Thursday,
Speaker 1: talking about the details of his disappearance in Boston earlier
Speaker 1: in the week. Marte was also, as I'm sure everyone
Speaker 1: is heard by now, he's been placed on the ten
Speaker 1: day injured list with knee inflammation. That continues to be
Speaker 1: a storyline. Will be monitoring as he tries to work
Speaker 1: his way back. Seems like it might not be too
Speaker 1: too long for Katel. But the big storyline Jack on
Speaker 1: Friday was that Katel Marte was seen at a casino
Speaker 1: out by Salt River Fields and this happened during the
Speaker 1: Diamondbacks Friday night game. I don't think you or I
Speaker 1: thought this was as much of a story as it was,
Speaker 1: but we should hit it nonetheless, Jack, what did you think?
Speaker 2: Well, I just kind of want to roll back a
Speaker 2: little bit. First on the injury part. You know, because
Speaker 2: I was in a room with Tory on Friday, I'm
Speaker 2: sure many people saw the snippets here and air the videos,
Speaker 2: and I did write an article if you happen to
Speaker 2: catch my article about it. But the key point that
Speaker 2: I want to bring up is that Tory indicated that
Speaker 2: Kattell's biggest issue, at least with the team was the
Speaker 2: handling of the injury and a communication around the knee injury,
Speaker 2: and that's what his frustration revolved around, according to Tory.
Speaker 2: Now we haven't heard from Catel yet, but that's how
Speaker 2: Tory characterized it. At the same time, he expressed his
Speaker 2: own feelings of frustration and he used the word betrayal.
Speaker 2: He felt very betrayed by the whole situation, so that
Speaker 2: was a very strong word, all while at the same
Speaker 2: time refusing to say specifically what was said during the meeting,
Speaker 2: but obviously he got some things off his chest. He
Speaker 2: said that he did say that Kutell acknowledged where he
Speaker 2: was in the wrong as well in this situation. So
Speaker 2: that's kind of the gist of it. If you want
Speaker 2: to see my article on it, there is one if
Speaker 2: you date back a few days now with regards to
Speaker 2: the casino thing. Look, I was surprised by it. My
Speaker 2: initial reaction was probably the same as ninety five percent
Speaker 2: of people, like, oh, could tell, what are you doing? Man?
Speaker 2: But the reality is this, and a lot of people
Speaker 2: really aren't clear on this. Very few players are hanging
Speaker 2: around the clubhouse or the team while they're on the
Speaker 2: injured list. They'll come in and out from time to time,
Speaker 2: as will come in, they'll show up. Sometimes a pictro
Speaker 2: will come in to do a bullpen session at Chase Field,
Speaker 2: but for the most part, they go to Salt Riverfield
Speaker 2: in the morning, they work out, they get their work
Speaker 2: in there, and you don't even see them at Chase Field.
Speaker 2: We go. I mean, maybe they come in and out
Speaker 2: when we're not around, but they're just not around very much.
Speaker 2: That's normal. That's the normal thing. Now in this situation
Speaker 2: where they're trying to calm everything down, the last thing
Speaker 2: that they needed actually was could tell in that clubhouse
Speaker 2: or sitting in that dugout while on the injured list
Speaker 2: on Friday night. That would not have been what they
Speaker 2: needed or wanted. However, I'm sure nobody also wanted to
Speaker 2: see him out at night at the casino. It's just
Speaker 2: the quote unquote bad look. It didn't look great. But
Speaker 2: as Tory said, he didn't break any rules. He wasn't
Speaker 2: doing anything wrong. His free time is his time. He
Speaker 2: could go to a movie, he could go to a concert.
Speaker 2: He chose to spend his time at the casino his wife,
Speaker 2: and you know, it's it's not a great look. It's
Speaker 2: probably would have been smarter and better for him to
Speaker 2: just stay home that night instead of go out that night.
Speaker 2: But that's what he chose to do. As Toy said,
Speaker 2: he's a grown man. But that's not the reason to
Speaker 2: be upset. We could tell if you're upset, we could
Speaker 2: tell it should be because he didn't show up on
Speaker 2: Monday in Boston. Period, that was the issue.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I totally agree there.
Speaker 1: I think if you, if you buy into could tell
Speaker 1: Marte having a knee injury that has put him on
Speaker 1: the injured list, then there's nothing wrong with him doing
Speaker 1: this in that sense.
Speaker 3: Is it a bad look?
Speaker 1: You could make a case for that and I probably
Speaker 1: wouldn't disagree with you. This is what Tory Lavello said
Speaker 1: the day after the incident. He didn't say a whole
Speaker 1: lot about it the night of, but the next day
Speaker 1: he said the optics weren't very good. It's not a
Speaker 1: choice I would make. I'm sure it's a choice a
Speaker 1: lot of people in this room wouldn't make. Couldtell is
Speaker 1: a grown man and he can make his own decisions.
Speaker 1: He did not break any rules. He was fully able
Speaker 1: to go there and do what he wanted to do.
Speaker 1: Like I said, he makes his own decisions when he's
Speaker 1: here in the clubhouse. We work together on a lot
Speaker 1: of things, not just him, all the players. They have
Speaker 1: their own lives and they can do whatever they want
Speaker 1: in their free time. So not a great look, But yeah,
Speaker 1: Cautel Marte did not break any rules by doing that,
Speaker 1: And I think there's still bigger questions to answer about
Speaker 1: exactly what happened earlier in the week. I think that's
Speaker 1: where the focus really should be, as well as him
Speaker 1: working his way back from this knee injury and hopefully
Speaker 1: making an impact on this Diamondbacks roster before too long?
Speaker 1: Do you have anything else to add on the Katel thing, Jack,
Speaker 1: before we move on to some other stuff.
Speaker 2: I would rather just talk about baseball. Look, I know
Speaker 2: everybody wants to know what I think, well, obviously, what
Speaker 2: I think is it really sucked that he didn't go
Speaker 2: to the ballpark Monday, and I think that the communication
Speaker 2: around that was bad. I'm happy that he didn't have
Speaker 2: some kind of crisis issue that would endanger his life
Speaker 2: or anybody of his family, and then whatever else it
Speaker 2: is has to be worked out. How he's gonna walk
Speaker 2: back into that clubhouse and you know, talk to his
Speaker 2: teammates and smooth things over, and you know how he's
Speaker 2: going to respond when he gets booed his first at bat,
Speaker 2: because I think there's going to be more boos and cheers,
Speaker 2: and you know what the pressure is going to be
Speaker 2: like on him, how he plays when he comes back.
Speaker 2: This isn't going away. We're gonna have to deal with this.
Speaker 2: So enough for today. I don't want to talk about
Speaker 2: it anymore today.
Speaker 1: That is very fair, And with that we will move
Speaker 1: on to some roster news that we got before Sunday's game.
Speaker 1: Around eleven am, the Diamondbacks announced that Dre Jamison had
Speaker 1: been reinstated from the fifteen day injured list. They designated
Speaker 1: Zach Ltel for assignment, as I mentioned earlier, and then
Speaker 1: shortly before game time just about twenty minutes or so
Speaker 1: before first pitch, the DBACS recalled Harado Correo from Triple
Speaker 1: A Reno again. He arrived around seven am this morning,
Speaker 1: and then they put Michael Soroka on the fifteen day
Speaker 1: injured list with right arm inflammation. Sounds like Soroka did
Speaker 1: not report any issues after his start on Saturday night,
Speaker 1: but this issue popped up today and the Diamondbacks wind
Speaker 1: up putting him right back on the injured list. Of course,
Speaker 1: he was only able to make a few starts in
Speaker 1: between there. Yeah, it's just kind of been the story
Speaker 1: of Michael Soroka's career. Jack durability has been a challenge
Speaker 1: for him. Unfortunately, that's been the case this year. The
Speaker 1: silver lining here is it sounds like he's by no
Speaker 1: means done for the season. It sounds like he could
Speaker 1: be back before too long, maybe around the minimum fifteen
Speaker 1: day stay.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well Toy said that, but don't believe it. It's just
Speaker 2: that simple. He says that on half the injuries, and
Speaker 2: it never It's never true that Dback seven had one
Speaker 2: player this year come back at the minute him stay
Speaker 2: on the il, not one and yet on the lea.
Speaker 2: You know, some of them he'll say, oh, this is
Speaker 2: going to be weeks, not days, But on many of them,
Speaker 2: I'm hopeful that it'll be yeah, well whatever, you know,
Speaker 2: I'll believe it when I see it.
Speaker 1: Yes, he doesn't really have anything to lose by saying
Speaker 1: that to the media, right. I'm hopeful it'll be as
Speaker 1: short as possible. I'm hopeful it'll be, you know, right
Speaker 1: after the minimum stay or whatever. This is from our
Speaker 1: good friend Alex Weiner. After the game today, Tory Lavello
Speaker 1: said about Soroka, He's going to hopefully be ready on
Speaker 1: day sixteen. The plan is to get him a couple
Speaker 1: of days down, get him back on the bump, and
Speaker 1: miss as few days as possible. You mentioned earlier Soroka
Speaker 1: was clearly not at his best in that game on Saturday,
Speaker 1: and I guess this inflammation helps explain that maybe a
Speaker 1: little odd that Zach Lateel was designated for assignments pretty
Speaker 1: much at the exact same time. We talked just a
Speaker 1: few days ago about how Latel had a shot to
Speaker 1: step into the rotain if the d BACS had a need.
Speaker 1: But you know, after he did what he did on Saturday,
Speaker 1: you're looking at an era over seven in his three
Speaker 1: games with a Diamondbacks. So I don't know how they're
Speaker 1: going to fill this rotation spot. But it's hard to
Speaker 1: make a case that, like Zach Lttel was an awesome
Speaker 1: candidate for.
Speaker 2: That stealing a line from one of our listeners in
Speaker 2: a very good friend of mine to Ltel too late.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's unfortunately it was not a great stay in
Speaker 1: Arizona for Zach Ltel. There was some good vibes with
Speaker 1: his first game against Colorado, but yeah, I think there's
Speaker 1: no reason for us to be like really surprised by this.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is a guy who was designated for
Speaker 1: assignment by the Washington Nationals earlier in the season, a
Speaker 1: team but has a real pitching problems this season. So
Speaker 1: it's unfortunate that latel didn't work out because the Diamondbacks
Speaker 1: absolutely could have used some more length in the bullpen.
Speaker 1: His ability to step back into the rotation, and now
Speaker 1: without Lattel in the picture, without Soroka for the time being,
Speaker 1: lining up a rotation for this upcoming week is going
Speaker 1: to be quite difficult for this Diamondbacks team.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you know, in this case, this picture isn't
Speaker 2: very pitching very well this year at all, and probably
Speaker 2: just doesn't have it anymore, and so good that they
Speaker 2: cut bait quickly. But yes, they are desperate now for
Speaker 2: pitching and they're really up against it. This coming week.
Speaker 1: We'll dive a little bit more into that later in
Speaker 1: the show. We're going to try to like fit the
Speaker 1: pieces together and figure out what on earth the Diamondbacks
Speaker 1: are going to do on Saturday when they have a
Speaker 1: doubleheader against the San Francisco Giants. Not a great scheduling
Speaker 1: situation there. The corresponding moves, As I think I mentioned,
Speaker 1: Harado Correo is back up. He looked good today in
Speaker 1: his outing on Sunday. Dre Jamison was expected to pitch
Speaker 1: in Reno on Sunday, but because of these circumstance as
Speaker 1: the Dbacks bumped him up and brought him back to
Speaker 1: the major So Dre Jamison back from the injured list,
Speaker 1: and you look pretty good at times earlier in the season.
Speaker 1: We know he can give the Diamondbacks more than three outs,
Speaker 1: which has a lot of value for a team that
Speaker 1: doesn't have a whole lot of length right now in
Speaker 1: the starting rotation.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean right now, at least they have two
Speaker 2: guys that they feel like they can go multiple innings
Speaker 2: in Jamison and Correo. So now Correo's only been pitching
Speaker 2: like every four days, so I don't expect to see him,
Speaker 2: you know, before Wednesday or Thursday, you know, this coming week,
Speaker 2: probably Thursday, so you know, Jamis is probably gonna have
Speaker 2: to do some work this week in the CUB series.
Speaker 1: Well, Corbyn Burns is like coming back soon. Question Mark
Speaker 1: Tory Leavello gave kind of a surprising update there. We
Speaker 1: have some updates on some other injured players as well,
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Speaker 1: Will be a big one the next few days out
Speaker 1: at Chase Field, and of course I'm sure there will
Speaker 1: be a decent number of Cubs fans in the stands
Speaker 1: as well. I don't think Corbyn Burns is going to
Speaker 1: pitch in the CUB Series, Jack, but he might pitch
Speaker 1: for the Diamondbacks relatively soon. Tory Lavello told reporters that
Speaker 1: Burns through twenty pitches on Friday, facing live hitters for
Speaker 1: the first time. He is set to go two innings
Speaker 1: and thirty five pitches at Salt River Fields on Tuesday,
Speaker 1: and Tory has said the plan is for him to
Speaker 1: just go every five or six days thereafter, adding an
Speaker 1: inning and around twelve pitches every time.
Speaker 3: Normally, when we see.
Speaker 1: Starting pitchers go through this, you want them built up
Speaker 1: to at least like five innings seventy five pitches or
Speaker 1: so before they would.
Speaker 3: Come back to the majors.
Speaker 1: With Corbyn Burns, though, Jack, it does not sound like
Speaker 1: that's necessarily the case.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, what the indication here is. First of all,
Speaker 2: he said every five six days, so Burns is going
Speaker 2: to have to pitch on the thirtieth Sunday, because there's
Speaker 2: no minor league games on the thirty first. There's no
Speaker 2: affiliated minor league games on the thirty first, So if
Speaker 2: you pitch on the twenty fifth, then he's going to
Speaker 2: pitch again on the thirtieth. From there, his next outing,
Speaker 2: conceivably he could be able to go four plus innings,
Speaker 2: and the question now is that going to be in
Speaker 2: the major leagues or another minor league outing. Because of
Speaker 2: where the Diamondbacks are right now, is Soroka just hitting
Speaker 2: in the IL and some difficult scheduling situations. I think
Speaker 2: that they're probably going to go ahead and just if
Speaker 2: those two outings go well, the twenty fifth and the
Speaker 2: thirtieth go well, there's no issues. I think that they're
Speaker 2: going to spring him back around September fourth or fifth,
Speaker 2: to the latest. That's what I think is happening. Ideally,
Speaker 2: he would have September fourth or fifth to do one
Speaker 2: more minor league game, but I don't think the TVACS
Speaker 2: have that luxury at the moment.
Speaker 1: The Diamondbacks are definitely going to benefit from getting the
Speaker 1: extra roster spot in September. I think that's part of
Speaker 1: what allows you to do this, like having Corbyn Burns,
Speaker 1: and you know, maybe Mitch brad States in their rotation
Speaker 1: is another guy You're not sure you're getting a ton
Speaker 1: of length from having that extra arm in September really helps.
Speaker 1: The Dbacks also have a decent number of off days
Speaker 1: in the month of September. They have a couple of
Speaker 1: them in the first week of September if you include
Speaker 1: August thirty first, and then they have one off day
Speaker 1: and each week thereafter. So it should allow them to
Speaker 1: be able to deal with with the Corbyn Burns, who
Speaker 1: maybe is only going to give you four innings in
Speaker 1: his first appearance. But there are times, Jack where I
Speaker 1: kind of forget what it looked like for Corbyn Burns
Speaker 1: to pitch with the Arizona Diamondbacks because we didn't really
Speaker 1: see a whole lot of it. There are times when
Speaker 1: I have to like remind myself that he's actually a
Speaker 1: member of this team and signed the biggest contract in
Speaker 1: franchise history. But yeah, getting him back, knowing the getting
Speaker 1: him back, knowing the competitor that he is, maybe it's
Speaker 1: a big lift for this team. There's also part of
Speaker 1: me that's like, yeah, he's coming back from an elbow surgery,
Speaker 1: plus a shoulder injury, we probably should keep the expectations
Speaker 1: relatively low.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not. I'll be pleasantly surprised if he goes
Speaker 2: four innings it only gives up one or two runs. Honestly,
Speaker 2: I mean that's that's where I'm at. Like you said,
Speaker 2: an elbow injury, a shoulder injury. Hasn't pitched since last
Speaker 2: year in June. You know, I expect the velocity to
Speaker 2: be in the low nineties. You know, I don't expect
Speaker 2: to see ninety five ninety six. Hopefully I'm wrong. That
Speaker 2: would be a pleasant surprise, but you know, more unlikely,
Speaker 2: he's probably going to be in the low nineties, below
Speaker 2: ninety five, just because he's you know, usually this is
Speaker 2: what we see, so you know, fingers crossed. I mean,
Speaker 2: Tory did say he's Corbyn Burns, but I kind of
Speaker 2: almost feel like that's setting expectations unfairly high. I do
Speaker 2: not expect the Corbyn Burns that was a cy Young
Speaker 2: contender with the Milwaukee Brewer, or even the guy that,
Speaker 2: while he was maybe getting a little bit lucky here
Speaker 2: and there, pitched pretty good for the d Backs, but
Speaker 2: wasn't a cy Young level Corbyn Burns before he went
Speaker 2: down with injury. You know, I don't expect that guy
Speaker 2: at this time. Now. Maybe he gets to that point
Speaker 2: by the end of September as they roll into the postseason,
Speaker 2: but certainly not early September.
Speaker 1: Elsewhere on the pitching front, Zach Gallon was scheduled to
Speaker 1: throw a bullpen on Saturday. I presumably he did that.
Speaker 1: So Gallan continues to work his way back. We don't
Speaker 1: have a great picture right now of what his timeline
Speaker 1: would look like, but for better or worse, jacket, it
Speaker 1: looks like there's a decent chance the Diamondbacks would would
Speaker 1: need him, or at least would give him a shot
Speaker 1: if he were if he were healthy at some point.
Speaker 1: So he's a name to continue to watch. Ryan Nelson
Speaker 1: is throwing bullpens as well. He appears to be in
Speaker 1: probably just reliever territory. That's been our thought here for
Speaker 1: a while. It's going to be impossible for him to
Speaker 1: build all the way up to a starter's load, but
Speaker 1: if he can come back as a maybe a multi
Speaker 1: inning reliever, a guy who could at least get six
Speaker 1: or nine outs for you, that could be a benefit.
Speaker 1: Also on the pitching front, Blake Walston is throwing in
Speaker 1: another game. I think he's set to make his sixth outing,
Speaker 1: a sixth appearance in Reno. I have Sunday on my list.
Speaker 1: Here is Blake Walston pitching as we speak right now.
Speaker 2: I do not know and have to look.
Speaker 3: I guess.
Speaker 1: I know he said earlier that Tommy Henry is pitching
Speaker 1: in that game, right, but maybe Walston is pitching behind
Speaker 1: him something like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Blake Wilson's coming back as a reliever and now
Speaker 2: as a starter.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, So Walston started the game and went two
Speaker 1: innings today, twenty seven pitches, one run, one walk, two strikeouts,
Speaker 1: and then Tommy Henry actually pitched behind Blake Walston is
Speaker 1: the way that Dbacks have lined everybody up, and is
Speaker 1: still pitching in that game as we speak right now.
Speaker 1: So this is Walston's sixth appearance in Reno. And yeah,
Speaker 1: it was just twenty seven pitches. So maybe he's a
Speaker 1: factor on the big league roster at some point.
Speaker 3: But we will see cool.
Speaker 1: On the position player front, Jack, I guess there's a
Speaker 1: few guys there as well. Lordis Gurriel Junior played in
Speaker 1: Triple A Reno on Friday. I believe it was he
Speaker 1: is starting to get relatively close here. Of course, lordis
Speaker 1: very much struggled for the Diamondbacks earlier this season. I
Speaker 1: think there are still very valid questions to be asked about, like,
Speaker 1: you know, what could lordis actually bring to your roster
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty six given what we saw from him earlier.
Speaker 1: But he is on the comeback trail, and by all indications,
Speaker 1: the Diamondbacks would give him a shot if if he
Speaker 1: was healthy enough to do so. Over who, I don't know,
Speaker 1: that's for them, that's for them to figure out.
Speaker 2: I mean, if he's taking plate appearances away from Ryan
Speaker 2: Wolfsmith and Jordan Lawler, you know there's going to be
Speaker 2: writing on the down to Chase Field rightfully. So, I
Speaker 2: mean that's just where it's at. Look, Lord has made
Speaker 2: a lot of contributions to this team, and you know,
Speaker 2: spent many years as a as a very solid hitter
Speaker 2: in this league. But he has not been that this year.
Speaker 2: And he's just not dependable or reliable. And if the team,
Speaker 2: you know, wedges him in there somehow and starts giving
Speaker 2: him a lot of plate appearances and taking that away
Speaker 2: from the young players that are performing well, I mean
Speaker 2: they're just not They're not just bodies out there. They're
Speaker 2: running around and bringing a lot of energy to this team.
Speaker 2: They're improving and getting better, you know. And if we
Speaker 2: start to see you know, plate appearance disappear so that
Speaker 2: they can play Lords, I'm not going to be happy
Speaker 2: in neither is anybody else. And I mean, the odds
Speaker 2: are really against getting good results out of that. So
Speaker 2: I'll just say it up front. I don't think they
Speaker 2: should do that. I think that they're going to have
Speaker 2: to figure something else out.
Speaker 1: I know you pointed out I think this was on Twitter.
Speaker 1: The Max Kepler has not played for the Diamondbacks a
Speaker 1: whole lot in recent days. So maybe there's a world
Speaker 1: where the Dbacks would go to Lordis instead of Kepler.
Speaker 1: But obviously Kepler is left handed and Guriel is right handed.
Speaker 1: It's not really a it's not really a match Lordis. Also,
Speaker 1: I'm looking at his numbers in Reno through Saturday, he
Speaker 1: was two for thirteen with two walks but seven strikeouts
Speaker 1: in this rehab outing. Both of those hits are singles,
Speaker 1: not exactly awesome numbers in triple A.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I don't even pay attention to those numbers.
Speaker 2: That's not even the point you know, also, I mean Kepler, Like,
Speaker 2: Kepler's started one game out of the last seven. He's
Speaker 2: not playing. He's already been marginalized. He's probably going to
Speaker 2: lose his roster spot some point very soon. But when
Speaker 2: he comes when if Lords comes back and say he
Speaker 2: takes Kepler's place on the roster, that's you know, who
Speaker 2: is going to get Max Kepler's at bats which are
Speaker 2: almost non existent. Are you gonna just sit Lordis on
Speaker 2: the bench? I don't know what they're gonna do there
Speaker 2: with that even yeah, just because rosters expand, like how
Speaker 2: do you give the rosters expand? But the number of
Speaker 2: positions in the lineup does not.
Speaker 3: That's a great point, be nice if it did, maybe
Speaker 3: I guess.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 1: Tommy Troy is maybe another name we should mention here.
Speaker 1: He faced Corbyn Burns on Friday, was set to play
Speaker 1: in a facility game on Saturday as of that's to
Speaker 1: where Levellows updates on Friday at the beginning of this
Speaker 1: Red series, So so Tommy Troy may be getting close
Speaker 1: here as well. He is a type of player where
Speaker 1: even though he he's another right handed bat who has
Speaker 1: much better numbers against lefties, but he's also the fastest
Speaker 1: player on the roster if you go by sprint speed.
Speaker 1: I think he's even above Corbyn Garrel if you can
Speaker 1: believe that. So that's an element of his game that
Speaker 1: you could see being handy, especially late in games, if
Speaker 1: you want to pinch run him or whatnot. And he
Speaker 1: can cover a variety of positions as well. So maybe
Speaker 1: Tommy Troy winds up being a factor in this thing
Speaker 1: at some point.
Speaker 2: Second base, Yeah.
Speaker 1: You hope they could tell is back here before too
Speaker 1: long and that doesn't wind up being in a flux
Speaker 1: for too much longer. But as of right now, Eldamar
Speaker 1: Vargas holding down the ford over there, very very good
Speaker 1: game on Sunday. As we referenced earlier looking ahead here, Jack,
Speaker 1: the Diamondbacks have a bit of a mess in front
Speaker 1: of them. We mentioned it. There's this double header on Saturday.
Speaker 1: The Giants schedule got weird and it required the Sunday
Speaker 1: game to be rescheduled to Saturday as a double header.
Speaker 1: So the Diamondbacks, they're pitching rotation lines up fine for Chicago.
Speaker 1: They've got Meryl Kelly, Brandon Fott, and WARDA. Rodriguez lined
Speaker 1: up there. But then the Thursday game against San Francisco.
Speaker 1: Roster resource has Cold Drake listed right now. We think
Speaker 1: that Jose Cabrera from from Reno we saw earlier this year.
Speaker 1: We think he is also very much in that conversation.
Speaker 1: And then Mitch Bratt would line up to go on Friday.
Speaker 1: And then you've got Saturday, where yes, MARYL. Kelly could pitch,
Speaker 1: but Brandon Fott could not. So the Diamondbacks really have
Speaker 1: two question marks over the next week. Who's gonna pitch
Speaker 1: on Thursday that in that spot maybe Cole Drake, maybe
Speaker 1: a Jose Cabrera. And then who's gonna pitch on Saturday,
Speaker 1: presumably behind Merril Kelly or in front of Meryl Kelly.
Speaker 3: I don't I don't know what the order would be, but.
Speaker 1: Kelly could start one of those games, not both, and
Speaker 1: with a doubleheader, you probably don't want to run a
Speaker 1: bullpen game out there for either of those.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're just shorthanded here, you know, and that that bolt,
Speaker 2: that double header couldn't come at a worse time for
Speaker 2: the Diamondbacks because of where they are with the rotation
Speaker 2: and Soroka injury and Burn's not ready to come back yet.
Speaker 2: They do get to bring up an extra pitcher, you know,
Speaker 2: for the doubleheader. So there's that, but you know, they
Speaker 2: excuse me, they also have an open spot on the
Speaker 2: forty man roster, so they could also add a pitcher
Speaker 2: to the forty man roster. Maybe there's somebody that they
Speaker 2: feels pitching well enough and performing well enough that they
Speaker 2: could bring them up and try to get three four innings,
Speaker 2: I mean a triple A. You also have human Lynn,
Speaker 2: Dylan Ray, Tommy Henry who's pitching today, you know, so
Speaker 2: there's guys that they could maybe stick on the forty
Speaker 2: even if it's just for a day. But then you know,
Speaker 2: if you got to turn around in DFA and to
Speaker 2: make room, that's that's not great. So you know, you
Speaker 2: start with the forty man roster options and then go
Speaker 2: from there. They're at thirty nine right now, but they're
Speaker 2: gonna need to add had Corvin Burns relatively quickly, so
Speaker 2: that brings you to forty.
Speaker 1: It is a mess. There are no real easy answers there.
Speaker 1: Jose Cabrera has not pitched great lately in Reno. I
Speaker 1: think he gave up like eight runs in his last outing,
Speaker 1: a pretty short one for him. But you look at
Speaker 1: his strikeout and walk numbers in August, He's at nineteen
Speaker 1: strikeouts to four walks, So at the very least you
Speaker 1: feel like he's putting the ball on the plate. He's
Speaker 1: challenging hitters and Reno. Certainly, bad luck is a very
Speaker 1: real thing there, so looking at the underlying stuff, it
Speaker 1: feels like Jose Cabrera would would maybe be the guy
Speaker 1: that they would want to go to here. Cold Drake
Speaker 1: has really struggled his last couple of times out in
Speaker 1: Triple A. I believe it's nine walks in his last
Speaker 1: two outings there, so the command has kind of backed
Speaker 1: up on him the past couple of times out there.
Speaker 1: So no easy answers for the d Backs on the
Speaker 1: pitching front this next week. They need some length at
Speaker 1: as some of these guys, and they might need someone
Speaker 1: to step up that we didn't really expect to see
Speaker 1: here in late August with the d Backs in the
Speaker 1: middle of a playoff push.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, shame on me. I should have been
Speaker 2: looking at the waiver wire as well, see if there's
Speaker 2: anybody else out there who's the next Zach Lttel.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that is also totally possible. I mean we saw
Speaker 1: Nebil Chris Matt and make a bunch of starts for
Speaker 1: the Diamondbacks down the stretch last year, and it wound
Speaker 1: up being actually really good after they traded Meryl Kelly
Speaker 1: at the deadline. So we'll see what happens on that front.
Speaker 1: A big story to watch over the next week. And
Speaker 1: speaking of big stories to watch, the Philadelphia Phillies Jack
Speaker 1: may never lose another baseball game as far as I'm concerned.
Speaker 1: They won their ninth consecutive game on Sunday, completing yet
Speaker 1: another sweep. This time it was the Saint Louis Cardinals
Speaker 1: and they were down sick or they were down four
Speaker 1: to nothing with a runner at second and two outs
Speaker 1: in the bottom of the ninth, and they came and
Speaker 1: won the game by a final score.
Speaker 3: Of six to four.
Speaker 1: That's just what the Phillies do, at least that's what
Speaker 1: they have done here over the past couple of weeks.
Speaker 1: The padres here at seventy one and sixty. They continue
Speaker 1: to win games as well. They complete a weekend sweep
Speaker 1: of the Minnesota Twins, and they stay two games out
Speaker 1: in front of the Diamondbacks. The d Backs two games
Speaker 1: by San Diego four games behind Philly, and then the
Speaker 1: Miami Marlins also won a third consecutive game today over
Speaker 1: the Washington Nationals. There now just a couple of games
Speaker 1: behind the d Backs and four games out of that
Speaker 1: third wild card spot.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you know, one thing is that it's been
Speaker 2: talked about a bit lately, is you know, who knows
Speaker 2: maybe within a week or so, it's going to be
Speaker 2: the Braves that are going to pop up in this
Speaker 2: wildcard race table, not the Phillies. That'd be pretty wild Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 2: d Backs up against it. I talked about last show
Speaker 2: how I've projected that they're going to need to get
Speaker 2: to eighty eight wins, and you know, right now the
Speaker 2: Padres are on pace for eighty eight wins, So even
Speaker 2: that might not be enough. I mean, the Padres just
Speaker 2: you know, are too hot, They're playing too well. I
Speaker 2: think that Fangrass is behind the curve as far as
Speaker 2: how many games that they're projecting the Padres to win
Speaker 2: this year. But you know, can the d Backs get
Speaker 2: hot enough to get to eighty nine ninety wins? I
Speaker 2: don't know. That seems really almost out of the realm
Speaker 2: of reality for what this team is. I mean, they
Speaker 2: haven't been more than eight games over five hundred at
Speaker 2: any point in the season, and they only reached that
Speaker 2: level twice for very brief moments in the very recent past,
Speaker 2: and really seven to eight games above five hundred in
Speaker 2: total has been their high water mark since the end
Speaker 2: of May. So I don't know how the Dbacks are
Speaker 2: going to all of a sudden, you know, get to
Speaker 2: ninety and seventy two or eighty nine and seventy three
Speaker 2: and somehow piped the Padres. That seems not very realistic,
Speaker 2: especially with the pitching injuries that they have. However, they
Speaker 2: play the games on the field, not on our computers
Speaker 2: and not on our podcast, and we promise to dive
Speaker 2: into everything that possibly gives any hope that they could
Speaker 2: do that.
Speaker 1: The Dbacs went three and three on their road trip
Speaker 1: to Boston Atlanta, which again going in would have been like, yeah,
Speaker 1: you'll take that against those two teams on the road.
Speaker 1: They just won two out of three at home against
Speaker 1: the Cincinnati Reds. Not awesome, but like, yeah, that's fine.
Speaker 1: If you do those kinds of things over the course
Speaker 1: of a season, you feel like you're gonna end up
Speaker 1: in a good spot. And yet over these last nine games,
Speaker 1: the Diamondbacks have dropped in the standings right Just this
Speaker 1: past weekend, they lost a game to the Padres.
Speaker 3: They lost a game to.
Speaker 1: The Phillies as well, both of those teams pulling off sweeps.
Speaker 1: San Diego is playing at a one hundred and six
Speaker 1: win pace going back to the All Star break. There
Speaker 1: are twenty three and twelve since the All Star Break.
Speaker 1: The Phillies are now nineteen and fourteen. The d Backs
Speaker 1: are twenty and fifteen, which is good, but it feels
Speaker 1: like it just hasn't been good enough compared to what
Speaker 1: these other teams are doing right now. So it's gonna
Speaker 1: be an uphill battle with just a little over a
Speaker 1: month to go in the season. But hey, we're just
Speaker 1: all thinking about that three game series against San Diego
Speaker 1: at the end of the year, three game series against
Speaker 1: Philly at the end of this month. Feels like those
Speaker 1: are kind of gonna make or break this thing for
Speaker 1: the Diamondbacks.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but they're gonna have to win two out of
Speaker 2: three from the Cups first. They can't lose the series.
Speaker 2: They can still lose ground, they just can't give up
Speaker 2: any more ground.
Speaker 1: So, in conclusion, the d Bacs just can't lose another
Speaker 1: game the rest of the season, and if they may.
Speaker 2: Can't lose series.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's fair, that's fair.
Speaker 2: They need to reel off like seven series wins in
Speaker 2: a row, or they need to go on an eight
Speaker 2: or nine game winning streak their own, I mean something
Speaker 2: like that. They've either got to win seven series in
Speaker 2: a row or they've got to just rip off a
Speaker 2: seven game winning streak like right now.
Speaker 1: That is definitely what it feels like. And yet baseball
Speaker 1: is weird, and sometimes teams that are super hot and
Speaker 1: look undefeatable, like the Padres and Phillies right now, sometimes
Speaker 1: they hit a roadblock, and who knows what we could
Speaker 1: see in the next month plus. But we are excited
Speaker 1: to follow it along with all of you, and we
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Speaker 1: of here and head in to what should be a
Speaker 1: fascinating week for this Diamondbacks team.
Speaker 2: Not a whole lot to add. I think we've said
Speaker 2: enough for today.
Speaker 3: Thank you again to all of you for being with us.
Speaker 1: We really appreciate your time, and we'll be back on
Speaker 1: Tuesday night. It looks like it'll be Tuesday night, a
Speaker 1: postgame show after that Tuesday game against the Chicago Cubs.
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