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Speaker 1: another fantastic win for the Raise, another series win for
Speaker 1: the Raise. They just can't seem to stop. They can't
Speaker 1: stop winning. I mean they want to at a three
Speaker 1: against the Marlins, just swept the Orioles. As of today
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Speaker 1: which includes manager Kevin Cash. We have starting pitcher Drew Asmussen,
Speaker 1: shortstop Taylor Walls, and relief pitcher Ian Seymour in that
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Speaker 1: order Kevin Cashdrew Rasmussen, Taylor Walls, and Ian Seymour. We're
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Speaker 3: Pre run game. But there were a lot of little
Speaker 3: moments that matter. The walls coming up after four test
Speaker 3: grounds out and that and getting trips huge.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was huge for us hung in there. You know,
Speaker 4: we had to put some pressure on Press really talented pitcher,
Speaker 4: but Wallsy to find some a gap up there to
Speaker 4: clear the bases was massive that game. I know, six
Speaker 4: two six'. Three that was a really tight. GAME i
Speaker 4: mean they were putting pressure on us. NonStop he also
Speaker 4: made just some tremendous defensive plays as. WELL i mean
Speaker 4: that double play that he started and finished is you,
Speaker 4: know highlight real.
Speaker 5: Worthy you.
Speaker 3: Know on the other, Side seymore coming in out of
Speaker 3: the bullpen face was.
Speaker 4: Loaded, yeah came up, big took a deep breath through
Speaker 4: strikes in that. Moment you, know obviously we're looking for,
Speaker 4: aus but you got to get, strikes get, it get
Speaker 4: ahead of those. Guys are figured that we were going
Speaker 4: to See hernandez at some point started him off with
Speaker 4: a strike and then got kind of got a soft
Speaker 4: line line out To wallsey. There BUT i, Mean seymour
Speaker 4: has done some good things for, us and maybe none
Speaker 4: bigger than that one to kind of quiet their most recent.
Speaker 5: Threat what about the pressure overall they put on your you,
Speaker 5: know still a bas is getting, HITS i mean on the,
Speaker 5: pitching yeah, it but it wasn't.
Speaker 4: Easy, Yeah, NO i mean that team over, there that's
Speaker 4: a good, team AND i mean we've felt coming in
Speaker 4: like whatever their record, is they're they're they're they're better
Speaker 4: than that. Record they've got a lot of, athleticism a
Speaker 4: lot of, speed and they got guys that throw the
Speaker 4: ball really well for, Him so knew there were a
Speaker 4: lot of. Challenges happily that we were able to hang
Speaker 4: in there rest see.
Speaker 3: His half other, games but he seemed to come up
Speaker 3: with pitches.
Speaker 5: When yeah he.
Speaker 4: DID i felt like the entire game was a grind
Speaker 4: for all of us out, there and nothing was coming,
Speaker 4: easy and that's a credit to The, marlins But rass
Speaker 4: certainly when he needed to make some pitches there because
Speaker 4: it felt like there was traffic on the basis quite a.
Speaker 4: Bit they were taking advantage, of you, know stealing bases
Speaker 4: knowing and you had to make. Pitches you had to
Speaker 4: get a couple of swing and miss, there a couple
Speaker 4: of ground, balls soft contact wrasts another good.
Speaker 3: Outing but we keep talking about this stretches as being
Speaker 3: a hotch. Dream but you now have gone a month
Speaker 3: without losing the, series series you. Win that's the market
Speaker 3: of the team that's consistently.
Speaker 5: Good.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no we're a good. TEAM i feel like that
Speaker 4: we're representing ourselves very very. Well we got to do
Speaker 4: little things, right and you, KNOW i feel like the
Speaker 4: guys have done. That and the combination of the three
Speaker 4: guys kind of sitting in the middle and then all
Speaker 4: the traffic that gets created around him allows us to
Speaker 4: score some.
Speaker 3: Runs, me do you measure a season by? Series?
Speaker 4: No probably? Not probably.
Speaker 5: Not what does it say to you That walls is
Speaker 5: hitting so much better with the basis loaded.
Speaker 6: Than his career?
Speaker 5: Average AND i, MEAN i don't know if there's a
Speaker 5: way to explain it or, not but he's obviously incredibly.
Speaker 4: Clutch, YEAH i, mean he wants to do well for
Speaker 4: in every, opportunity but he knows when he comes up
Speaker 4: in those situations it's it's huge to get that. Production
Speaker 4: whether he's hitting eight or. Nine he's having a lot
Speaker 4: of good at bats here, lately and and picked us
Speaker 4: up with some like you, said big big hits. Clutch,
Speaker 4: okay all.
Speaker 5: Right the pressure that team puts on, you not only
Speaker 5: but the whole pitching staff running and, hitting and it
Speaker 5: wasn't an easy task.
Speaker 6: Today, yeah we knew coming in, there you, know one
Speaker 6: of the better decision making groups in. Baseball and on
Speaker 6: top of, that they have really high bat to ball,
Speaker 6: ability which is, yeah you, know that's a challenge in
Speaker 6: its own. Right you, know if they swing at, strikes
Speaker 6: they take, balls and then on top of, it they
Speaker 6: have the ability to put back to. Ball good things
Speaker 6: happen when the ball's in play for an, Offense so
Speaker 6: on top of, it and then, yeah you know there's
Speaker 6: an extra, layer the added layer of the fact that
Speaker 6: they run and then they do that at a pretty high,
Speaker 6: clip you, Know and so, yeah there's a lot of
Speaker 6: there's a lot of external pressure that's put onto a
Speaker 6: pitching staff by a lineup that can do those. Things
Speaker 6: and and you, know that's kudos to them with who
Speaker 6: with with who they, are and and you, know sticking
Speaker 6: to their.
Speaker 5: Game taylor obviously the huge basis load of. Trouble his
Speaker 5: stats maybe aren't something to speak, of but the bases,
Speaker 5: loaded they're. INCREDIBLE i, mean what does that say to,
Speaker 5: you is this guy comes up with the.
Speaker 6: CLUTCH i, mean very similar to what we just talked
Speaker 6: about with their. Lineup you, know his own awareness is,
Speaker 6: incredible and so you, know what he's done over these
Speaker 6: last couple of weeks has been. Special it's been fun to,
Speaker 6: watch you. KNOW i think with him we usually talked
Speaker 6: about how great the defense, is but without what the
Speaker 6: bat's been, DOING i mean over these last two or
Speaker 6: three series has been incredible for. Us BUT i mean
Speaker 6: it does Come it does come back to can you
Speaker 6: control the strike? Zone and he does a really good
Speaker 6: job of that at all. Times and so you, know
Speaker 6: it's been a really fun couple of weeks to, watch
Speaker 6: just with him at the dish specific specifically That's.
Speaker 3: Drue no surprise that it came up big today with
Speaker 3: a couple of double plays that really.
Speaker 7: Helped out big, time can.
Speaker 5: YOU i, mean it doesn't get, all doesn't.
Speaker 6: Never you, know it's something That i've had the privilege
Speaker 6: to watch now going on what the my sixth season
Speaker 6: here in something we've done consistently is run out of
Speaker 6: defense that that just continues to produce outs for us
Speaker 6: at a at a really high. Clip and, uh you,
Speaker 6: KNOW i think it comes down to our. Athleticism but
Speaker 6: then on top of, it how much time guys. Spend you,
Speaker 6: know if you were to come here and watch our pre,
Speaker 6: game every single person's out there every single day making
Speaker 6: sure to get their defensive work in and and and you,
Speaker 6: know just trying to improve on what they already do really,
Speaker 6: well which is, uh it's something special to see from
Speaker 6: a pitching staff's. Perspective it also gives you a ton
Speaker 6: of confidence every time you take the.
Speaker 5: Ball thank.
Speaker 3: You.
Speaker 5: Yep you speak about your mindset in that situation based
Speaker 5: as load do they have a mountin? Conference you go up,
Speaker 5: there are you looking to looking to go for the
Speaker 5: ambush or what are you?
Speaker 8: Thinking, Yeah i've been trying to be aggressive early to
Speaker 8: a certain. Spot you kind of, GET i, MEAN i
Speaker 8: took one right down the middle of the first at,
Speaker 8: bat and, uh that kind of gave me the sights
Speaker 8: of WHERE i needed to kind of have, it especially
Speaker 8: early in the. Count SO i just wanted to go
Speaker 8: up there being aggressive to that. Spot and it was
Speaker 8: a pitch very, Identical so just try to be aggressive to.
Speaker 3: It you don't have a different mindset when the bases are,
Speaker 3: Loaded but do you focus in? More do you hone
Speaker 3: in more when when you come up in those?
Speaker 8: Situations maybe, SUBCONSCIOUSLY i don't, know there's no intention. TO
Speaker 8: i try, to you, know take the same. Focus if,
Speaker 8: anything you try to take a little bit of the
Speaker 8: pressure off of yourself when you go up. THERE i
Speaker 8: feel like a lot of times it's easy to try
Speaker 8: to do too much or or overdo things in those.
Speaker 8: SITUATIONS i feel like most of the Time i'm trying,
Speaker 8: to you, know do, it do. Less the focus is still,
Speaker 8: there but you, know trying to just stay within, myself
Speaker 8: focus on the things THAT i need to focus, on
Speaker 8: which is basically just being aggressive to a pitch and
Speaker 8: a certain, location and and that's really that's really.
Speaker 5: It are you aware of your career stats with the bases? Loaded?
Speaker 9: No, no clue they're crazy crazy. Good, yes FORTY, RB
Speaker 9: i some thirty one eight b's go tell cash and
Speaker 9: put me in clean.
Speaker 7: UP i mean it's.
Speaker 1: It's, like it's not just.
Speaker 5: Good is it just just this way it's happened in
Speaker 5: explanation For.
Speaker 8: Yeah, HONESTLY i think it's exactly WHAT i said. EARLIER
Speaker 8: i THINK i make a legit focus to try to do,
Speaker 8: less to be to be aggressive to a very certain.
Speaker 8: Point so you, know MAYBE i do focus a little
Speaker 8: more without really realizing. It but, Honestly i'm just going
Speaker 8: up there trying not to do too much in that.
Speaker 8: Situation i'm just trying to put back to, ball get
Speaker 8: a good pitch to, hit be aggressive, early and then
Speaker 8: IF i get to two, strikes just spoil as many
Speaker 8: AS i can and hopefully find a.
Speaker 3: Hole because he had walked a couple of guys at
Speaker 3: in and have the long at that with four tests
Speaker 3: ahead of that where you expect them first pitch.
Speaker 8: Fastball, now, HONESTLY i mean no like. IT i try
Speaker 8: to keep myself out of that guessing game of what
Speaker 8: pitch is gonna. Come you, know you get gut feelings
Speaker 8: daring at bats or going into. It most of the
Speaker 8: time during at, Bats so if you're setting you up
Speaker 8: and throw a certain, pitch or if a certain pitch
Speaker 8: may be, coming but, uh leading you, know to start
Speaker 8: starting about fresh off there even basically is already regardless
Speaker 8: of what happened. Before i'm trying to just go in
Speaker 8: there really just stand on the fastball and trusting myself
Speaker 8: to adjust.
Speaker 7: Off of that.
Speaker 5: Than just the mindset of not only you but the
Speaker 5: pitching staff to day against that team that puts so
Speaker 5: much pressure on your running and hitting and how you
Speaker 5: guys just kind of weather the storm.
Speaker 10: Here, YEAH i, mean anytime you can come out of
Speaker 10: a series or the, win that's that's what the goal
Speaker 10: is at the end of the. Day but it usually
Speaker 10: just comes down to our plan attack, guys get ahead
Speaker 10: and then expand with two.
Speaker 7: Strikes we were able to do that just enough to
Speaker 7: come out with a series.
Speaker 3: Win you come out of the whole pen looking for
Speaker 3: a strike out in that situation with a man on
Speaker 3: third less than two, hours.
Speaker 7: You just try to get.
Speaker 10: Ahead, yeah and when you get, ahead then you have
Speaker 10: a little bit more freedom to do what you want
Speaker 10: to do and put the pressure on the hitter as
Speaker 10: opposed to having it beyond.
Speaker 7: You SO i was fortunate enough to get ahead and
Speaker 7: get the result that we.
Speaker 5: Wanted what was your mindset With? Hernandez you, know, obviously
Speaker 5: SO i hit along home. Yesterday he comes up in
Speaker 5: another pinch hitting. Situation how'd you approach.
Speaker 10: Him, yeah the same way that we which everyone else get.
Speaker 7: AHEAD i threw a first pitch strike and then it
Speaker 7: sort of puts you in the driver's. Seat i've Actually
Speaker 7: i've Known.
Speaker 10: Araberto we play together in the minor league Since, Lowe
Speaker 10: so that was kind of a full circle moment there
Speaker 10: a little. Bit but thankfully we came out on top
Speaker 10: before or uh maybe In, tripaa but we played. Together
Speaker 10: we were on the same teams From loway To durham
Speaker 10: and in the minor league sing this guy right and all.
Speaker 7: That, yeah a little, bit, yeah but, yeah it's it's
Speaker 7: nice to come out on.
Speaker 5: Top this is your seventh straight series when you know
Speaker 5: you've had some, sweeps but you're just winning series after services.
Speaker 5: Series what does that say about kind of the team
Speaker 5: and the early season that you've been able to to
Speaker 5: stack these things together like you.
Speaker 7: Have, YEAH i mean that's the.
Speaker 10: Goal the goal is to win every series And if
Speaker 10: you do, that you're gonna be in a great position
Speaker 10: to play meaningful. Baseball that's that's what's preached, us and
Speaker 10: it just sort of seems like every day each of
Speaker 10: us have each other's, backs which, is i, mean something
Speaker 10: you can be grateful for and it gives you the
Speaker 10: freedom to go out there and be your.
Speaker 3: Best to a game at the base was, Loaded i'm
Speaker 3: sure the heart's beating a little. Faster do you do
Speaker 3: you want to play off of that or do you
Speaker 3: try to make yourself be a little more, relaxed.
Speaker 10: Just try to throw strikes man at the end of the. Day,
Speaker 10: yeah if you're in the, zone then then better things
Speaker 10: tend to. Happen so that's that's really all my focus is.
Speaker 5: At thank, you, thanks thank.
Speaker 3: You.
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