WEBVTT - Ketel Marte Homers Again, Brandon Pfaadt Shoves As D-backs Win 8th Straight vs. Giants 0:00:09.160 --> 0:00:12.760 Hello, and welcome to another episode of Snake's Territory, part 0:00:12.800 --> 0:00:15.319 of the Foul Territory Network. Be sure to drop alike 0:00:15.400 --> 0:00:18.560 on this video, subscribe to our YouTube channel, maybe leave 0:00:18.640 --> 0:00:21.639 us a five star review wherever you get your podcast. 0:00:21.760 --> 0:00:26.000 I am Jesse Friedman alongside Jack Summers and Jack. It 0:00:26.040 --> 0:00:29.560 was all Arizona Diamondbacks tonight in their game against the 0:00:29.640 --> 0:00:32.839 San Francisco Giants. They win by a final score of 0:00:32.960 --> 0:00:36.640 eight to two. Brandon Fott was excellent in five and 0:00:36.680 --> 0:00:40.960 a third innings. Catel Marte Homard for his fourth consecutive game. 0:00:41.400 --> 0:00:45.240 There's nothing like a series against the Giants to get 0:00:45.240 --> 0:00:46.440 this team back on track. 0:00:47.600 --> 0:00:48.519 Yeah, it's amazing. 0:00:48.600 --> 0:00:51.040 I mean now they've won eight in a row to 0:00:51.120 --> 0:00:54.240 start the season against the Giants. That's a franchise record 0:00:54.720 --> 0:00:58.400 to start the season. Who actually was set last night 0:00:58.400 --> 0:01:02.160 at seven, So they've extended that to eight against any 0:01:02.200 --> 0:01:05.000 opponent to start the season. So yeah, it would be 0:01:05.000 --> 0:01:07.119 great if we could play them all the time. 0:01:09.400 --> 0:01:12.880 The Diamondbacks are now thirteen and two. I believe we're 0:01:12.959 --> 0:01:16.920 up to against the Giants and Rockies combined. That leaves 0:01:16.959 --> 0:01:20.679 them thirty and forty against all other teams. But hey, 0:01:20.800 --> 0:01:23.560 It now adds up to an above five hundred record, 0:01:23.560 --> 0:01:26.720 as the Diamondbacks are now forty three and forty two 0:01:27.000 --> 0:01:31.319 after this eight to win over the Giants, Jack, I 0:01:31.440 --> 0:01:35.520 guess we'll start on the pitching side of things. Brandon 0:01:35.560 --> 0:01:38.679 Fought deserves a lot of credit for setting the tone 0:01:38.720 --> 0:01:41.920 for the Diamondbacks early on in this one. He was 0:01:42.120 --> 0:01:45.880 extremely efficient, of course, working on a limited pitch count 0:01:45.880 --> 0:01:49.080 in this game. Tory Lavello said before the game that 0:01:49.120 --> 0:01:52.720 he thought Fought could get to around five innings something 0:01:52.840 --> 0:01:57.600 like that. Five innings seemed optimistic from what we heard pregame, 0:01:57.920 --> 0:02:01.200 and Fought was able to go even beyond that and 0:02:01.320 --> 0:02:03.920 pitch into the sixth in this one. 0:02:04.160 --> 0:02:05.840 Yeah, I had a few questions about it. 0:02:05.880 --> 0:02:07.400 In the first inning, I mean, he gave up the 0:02:07.440 --> 0:02:09.560 base hit to a rise and then the three outs 0:02:09.600 --> 0:02:12.200 that he got were all on pitches in the middle 0:02:12.200 --> 0:02:14.400 of the zone, A couple of fastballs and a sweeper 0:02:14.680 --> 0:02:16.880 that were all like pretty much right in the center 0:02:16.919 --> 0:02:19.119 heart of the zone. But he got two pop ups 0:02:19.120 --> 0:02:21.480 in a flyout, so they must have had some late 0:02:21.520 --> 0:02:22.440 movement that. 0:02:22.800 --> 0:02:26.080 You know, we're fooling the Giants' hitters. 0:02:26.120 --> 0:02:29.040 And then from there you know, he only gave up 0:02:29.160 --> 0:02:32.480 two more hits and both of them were to arise, 0:02:32.560 --> 0:02:34.880 so you know, it was really efficient. 0:02:35.000 --> 0:02:39.079 He was throwing strikes, he was attacking the zone. Great outing. 0:02:39.080 --> 0:02:41.960 I mean, you know, obviously a soft landing against the Giants, 0:02:42.240 --> 0:02:43.200 but you can't take. 0:02:43.040 --> 0:02:44.600 Anything away from Brandon Fought. 0:02:45.200 --> 0:02:46.760 You know, he went out there and did exactly what 0:02:46.800 --> 0:02:48.480 he had to do and even gave them more length 0:02:48.520 --> 0:02:51.840 and was expected. So a very successful return to the 0:02:51.919 --> 0:02:54.920 rotation for him, hopefully something he can build off of 0:02:55.160 --> 0:02:58.400 a little unfortunate that, you know, he gave up that 0:02:58.440 --> 0:03:01.280 home run to arise and had a walk off the mound. 0:03:01.280 --> 0:03:02.079 Bait with that. 0:03:03.360 --> 0:03:05.560 I don't think anybody was really very happy about that 0:03:05.639 --> 0:03:11.080 particular development. But as I said, you know, elsewhere, I 0:03:11.160 --> 0:03:14.000 don't know what they're dealing with in the bullpen and 0:03:14.040 --> 0:03:16.840 who's down and which guys have sore arms, and so 0:03:16.919 --> 0:03:18.919 if he's trying to squeeze a couple more outs out 0:03:18.960 --> 0:03:20.760 of him so that he can you know, bridge the 0:03:20.760 --> 0:03:23.520 gap in the bullpen, then that's what he was trying 0:03:23.520 --> 0:03:23.760 to do. 0:03:25.360 --> 0:03:27.960 Yeah, seems like if this game had been closer at 0:03:27.960 --> 0:03:32.280 that point, Tory probably doesn't let Fott face Luisa Rise 0:03:32.360 --> 0:03:35.600 for a third time. Arise was two for two against 0:03:35.600 --> 0:03:39.040 Fought already in the game and entered the game ten 0:03:39.160 --> 0:03:41.680 for twenty one. I believe it was in his career 0:03:41.720 --> 0:03:46.440 against Brandon Fought. Luisa Rise is just utterly dominated Brandon 0:03:46.480 --> 0:03:50.000 Fought throughout his career and today was certainly no different. 0:03:50.600 --> 0:03:54.680 But yes, despite the sour note that this game ended 0:03:54.720 --> 0:03:57.240 on for Brandon Fought, it was an outstanding out and 0:03:57.320 --> 0:03:59.920 you can see the final line here five and a third, 0:04:00.240 --> 0:04:04.200 three hits, one run, one walk, two strikeouts. Again just 0:04:04.280 --> 0:04:07.880 sixty six pitches forty two of those strikes. He was 0:04:07.920 --> 0:04:11.960 super efficient in this game. Of course, unsurprising Jack that 0:04:12.040 --> 0:04:16.200 the Giants stacked their lineup with left handed hitters six 0:04:16.240 --> 0:04:19.280 of the nine guys in their starting lineup, where lefties 0:04:19.760 --> 0:04:23.480 teams always do this against Brandon Fought given the pretty 0:04:23.520 --> 0:04:28.239 significant platoon splits there, and the question for Fought often 0:04:28.640 --> 0:04:31.440 is what is he going to do against left handed hitters? 0:04:31.480 --> 0:04:34.200 What's going to be the plan of attack? And in 0:04:34.240 --> 0:04:37.279 this game, I thought he had two pitches working pretty 0:04:37.279 --> 0:04:40.760 well against lefties. Both the change up and the cutter 0:04:41.200 --> 0:04:43.920 stood out to me in this one. Here, I have 0:04:44.120 --> 0:04:46.760 a graphic of every change up that Brandon Fought threw 0:04:46.760 --> 0:04:50.599 in this game, you can see, much like Eduardo Rodriguez 0:04:50.640 --> 0:04:54.800 in yesterday's game, the command of the changeup was really excellent. 0:04:54.839 --> 0:04:56.880 You can see a lot of these pitches down below 0:04:56.920 --> 0:05:00.600 the zone or on the lower outside corner to a 0:05:00.680 --> 0:05:04.200 left handed hitter. That's pretty much exactly where you want 0:05:04.200 --> 0:05:07.279 that pitch. And then you can see here with the cutter, 0:05:07.720 --> 0:05:10.160 that's a pitch that you're you're generally trying to throw 0:05:10.320 --> 0:05:13.520 high and inside to left handed hitters, and you can 0:05:13.600 --> 0:05:17.520 see that here. Brandon fought consistently on the the up 0:05:17.560 --> 0:05:21.120 and in a sort of portion of the zone against 0:05:21.160 --> 0:05:24.320 the lefties with that cutter. So, uh, you know, it's 0:05:24.440 --> 0:05:27.359 just one game, but you could you could see the 0:05:27.400 --> 0:05:30.440 plan of attack for for fought in this one against lefties, 0:05:30.440 --> 0:05:31.960 and it worked really well for him. 0:05:32.720 --> 0:05:35.560 Yeah, that's what we were calling for before the game, 0:05:35.680 --> 0:05:37.400 is you know, to see what he was going to 0:05:37.480 --> 0:05:40.040 do facing left handed hitters. We knew he'd see a 0:05:40.080 --> 0:05:41.760 lot of them. I think you had six in the 0:05:41.760 --> 0:05:45.640 lineup tonight. So great work there, Jesse pulling those up. 0:05:46.080 --> 0:05:49.159 Couldn't have illustrated any better exactly what he did to 0:05:49.320 --> 0:05:52.240 neutralize lefties tonight, with the exception of one of them. 0:05:52.760 --> 0:05:55.760 Yeah, yeah, Louis their eyes just sort of in a 0:05:55.839 --> 0:05:59.640 in a different category. He is sort of stands alone 0:06:00.320 --> 0:06:02.800 out of this Giant's offense. I mean, his batting average 0:06:02.800 --> 0:06:05.440 is now up to three thirty one an eight thirty 0:06:05.520 --> 0:06:08.560 six ops. I don't know, Jack, is this the time 0:06:08.600 --> 0:06:11.520 where we talk about Luisa Rise as a trade candidate 0:06:11.520 --> 0:06:13.719 for the Diamondbacks? You want to just sneak that in here. 0:06:14.880 --> 0:06:17.839 Well, we were kind of chatting, you know, like we're 0:06:17.839 --> 0:06:19.000 not the only ones to think of this. 0:06:19.160 --> 0:06:21.599 But you know, if you think. 0:06:21.400 --> 0:06:24.240 About where the Dbacks have a weakness, you know, their 0:06:24.520 --> 0:06:25.760 their first baseman. 0:06:25.600 --> 0:06:27.080 Or not getting the job done. 0:06:27.480 --> 0:06:29.920 They're basically last or second last, I think the last 0:06:29.960 --> 0:06:34.279 in the league and first base ops and you know, batting. 0:06:34.040 --> 0:06:35.920 Runs and however you want to measure it. 0:06:37.000 --> 0:06:39.960 And while a Rise may not be the slugger that 0:06:40.200 --> 0:06:44.080 everybody would like to have at first base, I'd rather 0:06:44.160 --> 0:06:48.200 have a slug light you know, three hundred batting average 0:06:48.240 --> 0:06:52.799 than a slug light one fifty batting average. So there's 0:06:52.880 --> 0:06:55.720 that to consider. He's on a one year deal, twelve 0:06:55.720 --> 0:06:56.480 million dollars, so. 0:06:56.440 --> 0:06:57.640 He wouldn't be all that expensive. 0:06:57.680 --> 0:07:00.279 You pick him up with you know, two plus in 0:07:00.320 --> 0:07:03.240 the season, you're only you're only paying about you know, 0:07:03.360 --> 0:07:07.600 four million, maybe five tops, if they did something quick quickly, 0:07:07.720 --> 0:07:10.400 and the fact that it's you know, two and a 0:07:10.440 --> 0:07:13.160 half month rental means the prospect costs might not be 0:07:13.640 --> 0:07:16.520 super high. Of course, you wouldn't want to trade with 0:07:16.600 --> 0:07:20.160 a division rival for anything that would anybody that would 0:07:20.320 --> 0:07:24.160 cost you big time on prospects, So it depends on 0:07:24.200 --> 0:07:26.400 what the Giants are looking for. I think there's some 0:07:26.440 --> 0:07:29.040 teams out there though, that would be pretty interested in 0:07:29.080 --> 0:07:31.040 bringing in a rise at the deadline this year. With 0:07:31.120 --> 0:07:33.840 the season he's having, he's healthy, his legs are good, 0:07:34.600 --> 0:07:36.800 he's been playing really good defense at second base. He's 0:07:36.840 --> 0:07:39.640 even stealing bases this year, so he's got his legs 0:07:39.680 --> 0:07:42.960 under him and it's showing. So his market's going to 0:07:43.000 --> 0:07:44.600 be fairly brisk, I would believe. 0:07:45.840 --> 0:07:48.280 I'm looking at his Baseball Reference page right now. He's 0:07:48.320 --> 0:07:51.840 at two point four Baseball Reference war entering today, and 0:07:51.960 --> 0:07:55.200 the guy's on pace for a five war season, which 0:07:55.440 --> 0:07:58.000 which could be his best season ever. I mean, he's 0:07:58.440 --> 0:08:02.040 never had a five war season by Baseball Reference numbers, 0:08:02.080 --> 0:08:04.920 So I think you're right. The market there is going 0:08:05.000 --> 0:08:09.040 to be robust, to say the very least on the 0:08:09.080 --> 0:08:12.200 offense side of things. The Diamondbacks were able to get 0:08:12.240 --> 0:08:16.040 going early in this game. Lordis Guriel Junior. He did 0:08:16.040 --> 0:08:18.840 the thing jack With two on and two out in 0:08:19.000 --> 0:08:22.120 the bottom of the first inning, Lordis got a two 0:08:22.120 --> 0:08:25.720 to oh fastball middle in and drove it out into 0:08:25.800 --> 0:08:29.400 left field, and it actually looked like it was going 0:08:29.480 --> 0:08:32.160 to be a one to one count. You can see 0:08:32.200 --> 0:08:35.640 the pitches here. Lordis took a curveball off the outer 0:08:35.840 --> 0:08:38.920 edge for ball one. The second pitch was a curveball 0:08:39.000 --> 0:08:42.920 low that was originally called a strike. And then Lordis 0:08:43.120 --> 0:08:47.880 pretty aggressive in that moment, challenged that call and flipped 0:08:47.960 --> 0:08:50.520 a one to one count into a two oh count. 0:08:50.720 --> 0:08:54.080 And you know, I don't know if that necessarily made 0:08:54.120 --> 0:08:57.520 the difference in the bat but when you're up two 0:08:57.559 --> 0:09:00.680 to oh, it allows you to be a different level 0:09:00.679 --> 0:09:03.880 of aggressive. And Lordis came out with one of his 0:09:04.000 --> 0:09:06.880 best swings of the season on the very next pitch. 0:09:08.080 --> 0:09:10.360 Yeah, that was a moonshot. That was thirty seven degree 0:09:10.400 --> 0:09:13.120 launch angle. I mean it was you know, he banged it, 0:09:13.200 --> 0:09:15.640 but it was it barely got out. It's just like 0:09:15.679 --> 0:09:18.720 two three rows deep I think at the most, but 0:09:19.160 --> 0:09:25.520 went travel three what eighty nine on thirty seven degree 0:09:25.640 --> 0:09:29.080 launch angle, So you know that was another way to 0:09:29.120 --> 0:09:31.960 describe a moonshot, right, he got it up there, But 0:09:32.000 --> 0:09:34.480 he's been hot, right, I mean, you know I tweeted 0:09:34.480 --> 0:09:36.480 out right after the homer. He was then at that 0:09:36.520 --> 0:09:39.520 point seven for twenty one with three doubles in a homer. 0:09:39.880 --> 0:09:42.080 He later came back and doubled one more time in 0:09:42.120 --> 0:09:45.840 the game. So you know, Lord of scuriel hot streak 0:09:45.880 --> 0:09:48.679 seems to be upon us and we've been waiting for 0:09:48.720 --> 0:09:52.160 it for a long time. And you know, more please 0:09:52.240 --> 0:09:54.920 because they really need it. But if you know you're 0:09:54.960 --> 0:09:58.120 five through nine in the order, if Lord of Scuriel 0:09:58.240 --> 0:10:00.760 is starting to bang the ball, then then you you 0:10:00.840 --> 0:10:04.520 got a much better chance to lengthen your lineup and 0:10:04.600 --> 0:10:06.240 start putting someone's on the board again. 0:10:07.320 --> 0:10:10.160 Does this mean your your trade idea with the Seattle 0:10:10.200 --> 0:10:14.080 Mariners is now off? Jerry Depoto lost his window and 0:10:14.160 --> 0:10:15.920 lordis is now staying in Arizona. 0:10:16.960 --> 0:10:20.880 Back off, Jerry, back off man. 0:10:20.920 --> 0:10:23.320 I don't know that the Mariners do have six starting 0:10:23.360 --> 0:10:28.280 pitchers currently, so who knows, maybe there's still something there, 0:10:28.320 --> 0:10:31.840 but yeah, lordis getting hot has I mean, that's something 0:10:31.880 --> 0:10:34.839 the Dbacks have needed for for a long time. And 0:10:34.920 --> 0:10:36.839 he has a long ways to go from From a 0:10:36.920 --> 0:10:40.920 numbers standpoint, his OPS for the season is still just 0:10:41.040 --> 0:10:45.240 right around six hundred, even after having a home run 0:10:45.360 --> 0:10:48.120 in that first inning and a double later in the game. 0:10:48.880 --> 0:10:52.040 But yeah, it was a really nice swing and something 0:10:52.080 --> 0:10:54.439 that we need to see more of from Lordis who 0:10:54.520 --> 0:10:57.000 was his second home run of the season, his first 0:10:57.000 --> 0:11:00.680 home run since May seventeenth, So really not much in 0:11:00.720 --> 0:11:05.480 the way of penia power this season from Lords Guriel Junior. 0:11:05.880 --> 0:11:09.080 The Diamondbacks got several more runs up on the board 0:11:09.120 --> 0:11:12.800 a couple innings later. In the bottom of the third, 0:11:13.000 --> 0:11:16.520 with the bases loaded and two outs, or Hey, Barosa 0:11:17.240 --> 0:11:20.000 had a pretty nice at bat against Landen Group, drew 0:11:20.000 --> 0:11:24.080 a walk that forced in a run, extended the Diamondbacks 0:11:24.160 --> 0:11:27.480 lead to four nothing, and then could tell Marte Jack 0:11:28.160 --> 0:11:31.360 followed that up with a two run single and I 0:11:31.360 --> 0:11:32.960 don't want to say that put the game out of 0:11:33.000 --> 0:11:35.760 reach in the third, but it gave the Diamondbacks a 0:11:35.800 --> 0:11:36.840 really comfortable lead. 0:11:37.960 --> 0:11:40.480 Yeah, and they would then go on to you know, 0:11:40.600 --> 0:11:41.280 add to it. 0:11:41.559 --> 0:11:43.600 But at that point you really felt like, Okay, they've 0:11:43.640 --> 0:11:48.600 got control of this game. And look, Lendon Roup walked 0:11:48.720 --> 0:11:51.880 six batters and he just you know, could not find 0:11:51.880 --> 0:11:54.000 the plate, and so you knew that they were going 0:11:54.040 --> 0:11:54.960 to score more runs. 0:11:55.920 --> 0:11:57.160 And then the Giants bullpen. 0:11:57.200 --> 0:11:58.760 I mean, if you're asking them to go out there 0:11:58.800 --> 0:12:02.160 and get you, you know, five plus six innings, whatever, 0:12:02.760 --> 0:12:04.640 you know you're gonna score some more runs against them. 0:12:04.640 --> 0:12:06.960 And they did, and they did it with some power, 0:12:07.559 --> 0:12:10.400 which was fun to see they did. 0:12:11.080 --> 0:12:14.080 There was some power. A few innings later, could tell 0:12:14.160 --> 0:12:19.040 Marte bases empty hits a solo home run. It was 0:12:19.320 --> 0:12:22.720 an absolute no doubter. I believe came on an two pitch, 0:12:23.160 --> 0:12:26.600 which is not something you see real often, but it 0:12:26.760 --> 0:12:30.559 was a middle, middle slider and count tell Marte did 0:12:30.600 --> 0:12:34.240 it once again. He homered for his fourth consecutive game. 0:12:34.400 --> 0:12:38.079 He is the sixth member of the Diamondbacks and franchise 0:12:38.240 --> 0:12:42.319 history to homer in four consecutive games. And it was 0:12:42.400 --> 0:12:45.440 no cheap shot jack four hundred and thirty one feet 0:12:45.880 --> 0:12:48.200 an absolute no doubter for Kutel. 0:12:49.080 --> 0:12:51.280 Yeah, he just looked at that and gave a quick 0:12:51.320 --> 0:12:55.199 little bat flip he knew it was gone. Pretty impressive stuff. 0:12:55.240 --> 0:12:56.600 I mean, you know, when he gets hot, we know 0:12:56.640 --> 0:12:59.160 what he can do. But homering him four straight games 0:12:59.160 --> 0:13:02.360 something he's never done before. Kind of an interesting list 0:13:02.400 --> 0:13:05.520 of players that have done it for the d Backs. 0:13:06.520 --> 0:13:10.400 Little walk down memory lane here. The most recent before 0:13:10.520 --> 0:13:13.840 Catel was a Duardo Escobar and he did that in 0:13:13.920 --> 0:13:17.960 twenty twenty one in April. Mark Trumbo did it in 0:13:18.080 --> 0:13:21.880 twenty fourteen. Mark Reynolds did it in two thousand and nine. 0:13:22.440 --> 0:13:25.520 Troy Gloss did it twice. He did it in two 0:13:25.600 --> 0:13:29.680 thousand and five in April and again in September. He 0:13:29.760 --> 0:13:32.040 hit thirty eight homers that year, his loan season with 0:13:32.080 --> 0:13:36.240 the Diamondbacks. And Reggie Sanders did it in April of 0:13:36.480 --> 0:13:39.319 twenty two thousand and one. So that's the list of 0:13:39.360 --> 0:13:42.840 players that have done it. So it's been done seven times, 0:13:42.840 --> 0:13:45.200 but by six players being Gloss did it twice. 0:13:46.520 --> 0:13:49.000 And of course this was not the only history that 0:13:49.120 --> 0:13:53.640 kateel Marte made in this game. Ktel also passed Paul 0:13:53.720 --> 0:13:58.200 Goldschmidt and is now second place on the Diamondbacks all 0:13:58.240 --> 0:14:03.120 time hitless trailing on Luis Gonzales could tell now at 0:14:03.160 --> 0:14:07.360 one thousand, one hundred and eighty four hits I believe 0:14:07.480 --> 0:14:10.640 is where he ended the day. Luis Gonzalez at one thousand, 0:14:10.760 --> 0:14:15.360 three hundred and thirty seven and Jack. That puts Kittell 0:14:15.440 --> 0:14:18.560 within shouting distance. I mean, I think there's a pretty 0:14:18.600 --> 0:14:22.800 realistic chance that a year from now, sometime in twenty 0:14:22.840 --> 0:14:26.480 twenty seven, could tell Marte will be the Diamondbacks all 0:14:26.520 --> 0:14:27.320 time hit leader. 0:14:28.240 --> 0:14:31.160 That sounds about right. I mean, he's not going anywhere. 0:14:31.160 --> 0:14:34.040 He's not going to be traded. Co tell Marte is 0:14:34.040 --> 0:14:36.600 going to be here for a long, much longer time. 0:14:37.160 --> 0:14:39.400 And you know, at this point you have to look 0:14:39.440 --> 0:14:41.120 at it and say, hey, you know, where is he 0:14:41.240 --> 0:14:44.160 on all the franchise lists? Well, here he's here. He 0:14:44.240 --> 0:14:48.080 comes on the hit list. He's only five behind Paul 0:14:48.120 --> 0:14:52.560 Goldschmith and franchise war for position players. Yeah, I think, 0:14:52.760 --> 0:14:56.920 you know, so five war behind Goldie. That's something that's 0:14:57.000 --> 0:14:59.560 very much within range. I mean, he could also pass 0:14:59.600 --> 0:15:03.520 Goldie that by the end of twenty twenty seven. You know, now, 0:15:03.560 --> 0:15:07.640 that may not make him the best franchise position player 0:15:07.640 --> 0:15:10.160 of all time. Goldie's peak is probably a bit higher 0:15:10.400 --> 0:15:14.000 and a little bit more consistent, but you know, Katella 0:15:14.040 --> 0:15:16.760 has a long way to go here before his Diamondbacks 0:15:16.760 --> 0:15:19.360 career is over, and he's going to be all over 0:15:20.080 --> 0:15:21.920 the top one, two, and three. 0:15:21.840 --> 0:15:24.520 Of the franchise leaderboard before it's all said and done. 0:15:25.840 --> 0:15:28.520 Yeah, I mean, now that Katel has the no trade 0:15:28.520 --> 0:15:30.560 in place, I mean he's he's going to be a 0:15:30.600 --> 0:15:34.920 member of the Diamondbacks for much longer. And this is 0:15:34.960 --> 0:15:38.760 already his tenth season in the organization. He's he's going 0:15:38.800 --> 0:15:40.640 to start to take over on a lot of these 0:15:40.640 --> 0:15:44.480 all time lists. Should be fun to watch in the 0:15:44.560 --> 0:15:46.880 coming years, for sure. But we have a whole lot 0:15:46.920 --> 0:15:50.320 more to get to. On this edition of Snake's Territory, 0:15:50.440 --> 0:15:53.320 We're going to talk a little more about our observations 0:15:53.360 --> 0:15:57.080 from this game. We'll revisit last night's game, what Eduardo 0:15:57.200 --> 0:16:01.720 Rodriguez did in that one, will talk Standing's, will talk Bullpen. 0:16:02.360 --> 0:16:04.640 We've got some other things to get to as well, 0:16:04.720 --> 0:16:07.760 so don't go anywhere. We'll be back on Snake's Territory 0:16:07.920 --> 0:16:08.640 right after this. 0:16:10.080 --> 0:16:15.479 People dehydration sucks. 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Shout out to 0:17:15.320 --> 0:17:17.640 all of you joining us in the chat. We really 0:17:17.680 --> 0:17:20.560 appreciate all of you being here with us once again, 0:17:20.720 --> 0:17:22.639 really helps us out. If you would drop alike on 0:17:22.720 --> 0:17:25.560 this video. Also, while you're at it, subscribe to our 0:17:25.680 --> 0:17:28.960 channel hit the bell icon for notifications. Those are all 0:17:29.200 --> 0:17:32.639 great ways to support the show. We very much appreciate 0:17:32.760 --> 0:17:34.760 all of you for doing them. We did want to 0:17:34.800 --> 0:17:39.399 highlight one comment from our chat. Of course, you all 0:17:39.520 --> 0:17:42.520 have many insightful points to make, and this is a 0:17:42.520 --> 0:17:46.000 good one from at dB outsider who said, fought at 0:17:46.040 --> 0:17:50.159 noticeable delivery changes or Fought's noticeable delivery changes look to 0:17:50.240 --> 0:17:53.080 have paid off. Back to pitching on the first base 0:17:53.160 --> 0:17:55.640 side of the rubber and no longer puts his hands 0:17:56.000 --> 0:17:59.440 over his head on the wind up, much more compact delivery. 0:18:00.080 --> 0:18:04.080 Good observations here, Jack, And you know, maybe this is 0:18:04.480 --> 0:18:08.680 the key to Brandon Fought unlocking the command that we've 0:18:08.720 --> 0:18:11.040 seen from him at times in the past. 0:18:12.119 --> 0:18:14.719 Well it's kind of interesting, you know, because Brent Strom 0:18:14.720 --> 0:18:16.320 had moved him over to the third base side of 0:18:16.320 --> 0:18:20.920 the rubber famously back in twenty twenty three, So it's 0:18:20.960 --> 0:18:24.160 going to be interesting to see if this sticks and 0:18:24.359 --> 0:18:28.920 how this interplays with his new attack approach against left 0:18:28.920 --> 0:18:32.520 hand hitters. I think that's the key there, But also 0:18:32.760 --> 0:18:35.720 very very good observation about the hands overhead. 0:18:35.760 --> 0:18:38.480 I thought that was, you know, a really smart point. 0:18:38.520 --> 0:18:41.320 I even during the break, I went back and real 0:18:41.400 --> 0:18:43.280 quick and looked at a couple of pitches that he threw, 0:18:43.680 --> 0:18:45.760 and it looks a lot cleaner. 0:18:45.800 --> 0:18:46.840 So great observation. 0:18:48.119 --> 0:18:50.440 There wasn't a ton of swing and miss for Fought 0:18:50.480 --> 0:18:54.119 in this game just to strikeouts, but there also really 0:18:54.200 --> 0:18:58.000 wasn't much compelling contact from the Giants at all. Giants 0:18:58.000 --> 0:19:01.439 had a one fifty nine expected batting average when Fought 0:19:01.440 --> 0:19:04.720 exited the game, so it genuinely was just a lot 0:19:04.760 --> 0:19:08.640 of soft contact against him throughout this outing and when 0:19:08.640 --> 0:19:12.320 it came to his command, which of course is very 0:19:12.320 --> 0:19:16.160 important for Brandon Fought, there are some numbers that show 0:19:16.280 --> 0:19:19.239 how good he was in that regard. Fought had a 0:19:19.320 --> 0:19:22.679 fifty one percent in zone rate in this game, so 0:19:22.760 --> 0:19:25.679 fifty one percent of his pitches were in the strike zone. 0:19:26.000 --> 0:19:29.520 League average is forty eight point seven percent, and that 0:19:29.680 --> 0:19:32.480 was really an issue for Fought earlier in this season. 0:19:33.119 --> 0:19:36.560 His zone rate at the major league level entering today 0:19:36.640 --> 0:19:39.760 was forty five point six percent, which is which is 0:19:40.000 --> 0:19:43.119 much lower than where that number has been for Fought 0:19:43.400 --> 0:19:46.040 in the past few years. So good to see him 0:19:46.040 --> 0:19:49.119 pounding the zone. I also noticed Jackie was fifteen for 0:19:49.280 --> 0:19:53.240 nineteen in first pitch strikes and so you know, maybe 0:19:53.280 --> 0:19:57.320 he did throw an occasional fastball or sinker or whatever 0:19:57.880 --> 0:20:00.000 that caught more of the plate than you would have liked. 0:20:00.400 --> 0:20:04.280 But when you have count leverage consistently, you're gonna be 0:20:04.359 --> 0:20:07.000 able to turn more of those into weak pop ups 0:20:07.040 --> 0:20:09.960 and ground balls and that sort of thing. And that 0:20:10.160 --> 0:20:12.679 was the case for Fought tonight. 0:20:12.840 --> 0:20:14.879 Well, you know, as I said at the top of 0:20:14.920 --> 0:20:16.919 the show, I mean it was a nice soft landing 0:20:17.240 --> 0:20:19.960 facing the Giants. We all know that they're not a 0:20:20.000 --> 0:20:22.399 good team, and so you know, we're not going to 0:20:23.040 --> 0:20:25.240 run with this and say, hey that Brandon Fodd saw, 0:20:25.600 --> 0:20:28.000 you know, back to being at his peak self yet. 0:20:28.240 --> 0:20:31.240 But you got to you can only pitch against the 0:20:31.280 --> 0:20:34.040 lineups that you face. And you know, he did his 0:20:34.119 --> 0:20:37.359 job tonight. He did it really well, certainly something to 0:20:37.400 --> 0:20:40.560 build confidence off of. You know, his next start I 0:20:40.560 --> 0:20:44.120 believe would probably come either Sunday against the Brewers or 0:20:44.440 --> 0:20:46.440 Monday against the Padres in San Diego. 0:20:46.880 --> 0:20:47.840 Not really sure how. 0:20:47.680 --> 0:20:50.800 That lines out, but you know, either way, you know 0:20:50.920 --> 0:20:53.880 he's going to be challenged. If more so if it's 0:20:53.920 --> 0:20:55.800 the Brewers, a little less so if it's the Padres, 0:20:55.840 --> 0:20:59.080 they don't hit very well. But this is what he's 0:20:59.080 --> 0:21:00.840 got to face. And then after that he's going to 0:21:00.920 --> 0:21:03.320 have to face the Dodgers. So you know, we'll know 0:21:03.960 --> 0:21:06.440 within the next couple of starts as Brandon fought, truly 0:21:06.480 --> 0:21:09.920 improved or was this just taking advantage of a soft lineup, 0:21:10.200 --> 0:21:13.600 But you know, for tonight we're gonna celebrate it. 0:21:13.600 --> 0:21:14.639