Locked On Mariners - Daily Podcast On the Seattle Mariners - Bryce Miller Makes MLB History With Scoreless Outing in Mariners' 6-1 Win Over A's

Episode Date: May 25, 2023

The historic start to Bryce Miller's major league career continued in a big way with a six-inning, scoreless outing in the Mariners' 6-1 win over the A's on Wednesday night. Ty hops on the mic to quickly discuss Miller's accomplishments, Sam Haggerty and the offense's fun evening, and Eugenio Suárez and AJ Pollock both leaving the game early.Help us out by filling out our survey!Be sure to follow or subscribe to Locked On Mariners wherever you prefer your podcasts! For questions and other inquiries, email: [e-mail] the show on Twitter: @LO_Mariners | @danegnzlz | @CPat11FanDuelMake Every Moment More. Don’t miss the chance to get your No Sweat First Bet up to ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS in Bonus Bets when you go FanDuel.com/LOCKEDON.Ultimate Pro Baseball GMTo download the game just visit probaseballgm.com or look it up on the app stores. Our listeners get a 100% free boost to their franchise when using the promo LOCKEDON (ALL CAPS) in the game store. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Bryce Miller continued his historic start to his major league career with another scoreless outing. My thoughts on his night and more coming up here on the Locked-on Mariners Post-game show. Let's get into it. You are Locked-on Mariners. Your daily Seattle Mariners podcast, part of the Locked-on Podcast Network, your team every day. Ahoy, sailors, and welcome to the Locked-on Mariners Post-game show. I'm your host, Tiding Azales. And yes, I did say, after all last night, that there was a lot of,

would be no show on Wednesday, but guess what? I lied. You have a really fun Mariners win to talk about six to one victory over the Oakland athletics tonight at T-Mobile Park. At least I'm going to be talking about the victory tonight. Fortunately, Colby unable to join us again tonight. He's working as he does on most weeknight. So we will get his thoughts on tomorrow's show, his takeaways from this one. But tonight we're still going to have a little bit of fun. We're going to talk some Bryce Miller. We're going to talk about this offense. We're going to talk about the fact. The Mariners are above 500 for the first time since May 15th and just the third time overall this season.

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and the A's are already 31 games under 500. are really bad. That said though, what we're seeing out of Bryce Miller, what we have seen over these first five starts is something that we as a community of baseball fans have never seen since they started recording stats for this great game. This comes from Sarah Lange's. Listen to this. Bryce Miller Tonight became the first pitcher since at least 1901 to go six plus innings pitch

and allow four hits or fewer in each of his first five career appearances. There isn't another word that I can think of to describe Bryce Miller's start to his major league career than unreal. It's unfriking real

what he's doing right now. And yeah, again, I get it's against the A's, but that shouldn't at all diminish the fact that he is just flat out dominating right now. And he's, I mean, at least as far as tonight goes, doing it just on one pitch alone. He threw 90 pitches tonight. 73 of those fastballs. 73 of the 90 pitches he threw tonight fastballs.

through the slider eight times, change up seven times, and the sweeper just a couple times. He ended up inducing a 32% cold strike plus whiff rate on the fastball. 11 whiffs on 40 swings. He was just daring this A's lineup to hit the fastball and they just flat out couldn't.

They just couldn't do it. They really couldn't do it. two hard hit balls on the night as a whole. Miller finishes his night, six innings pitched, no earn runs on two hits, six strikeouts, one walk, one hit by pitch. His ERA now sits at one, one, five. He's really good.

He's been really, really, really good. Still very early. But considering the way that rookies across the American League have overall disappointed. It's a couple of exceptions to that. Obviously, Yoshida, he's likely the favorite. Josh Young as well.

It's going to be up there. But it might be time to start throwing Bryce Miller's name into the ring on that front, at least early on here. Because again, you know, it's hard for pitchers to win awards like that. But he's doing something that, right now that we've never seen before in major league history and when it gets to that point

it doesn't matter what the opponent quality is certainly helps it's certainly there for context purposes context obviously very important when we talk about these things but this is special this is really really special stuff that we're seeing out of bryce miller so the mariners ended up having a big fourth inning and then bats went quiet for a while they did add another run

on a Tay Oscar home run to the pen to make things six to one in this game but the game was ultimately decided in the fourth inning we're going to talk a little bit about this offense tonight in just a moment but real quick a reminder of this episode of the

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as the mayors look to sweep the a's and start the year 7 and 0 against the worst team in major league baseball now I got a question for you folks how much would could a walde chuk chuck if a Waldichuk could Chuck Wood. Now, in this instant, if Wood was runs,

then the answer would be a lot. That could also be applied to strikeouts. He had seven of them in just two and two-thirds innings pitch. The bearers, thereabouts, didn't look particularly competitive against Waldichuk after he came in in the second inning. The A's rolling with an opener, Austin Pruitt who gave up a couple of hits in the top of the first,

but made it through that frame. Scoreless. Waldichuk is making things work with the sweeper. The Mariners were having a tough time picking that pitch up as they have been a lot of the times this year. But they finally broke through with a big five run

fourth inning, which started with Sam Haggurty, who had an opportunity with bases loaded and won out a little bit earlier on in the game and had an infield pop up. The Mariners ended up not scoring in that inning, but he redeemed himself. And, you know, we've been speaking negatively about Sam Harity to put it lightly here on the Lockdown Mariners podcast, specifically my co-hosts. But I did say last night that, you know, I agreed with the sentiment that

Haggertie's spot on this roster, to me at least, not as valuable as maybe someone like Jake Shiner, Mike Ford in the interim before Dillamore ultimately gets called up because I think that is what the corresponding move will be once more is ready to go. But I got to give credit where credit is due. Sam Haggardie kind of bawled out tonight. Kind of did.

look he got a fastball pretty much center cut in his second and bat of the game but he put a really nice swing on it to line it down the left field line and give the mariner's two nothing late breaks the ice in this game he's also playing first base tonight just the third time he's played first base and actually played it pretty well he had a really nice spinning grab um spinning tag later on in the game after Jose Cabiero switched over to third base

place of Hayohenis fours we're going to be talking about that situation just a little bit it was a good night for Haggerty I again I don't know how long he is for this roster this still doesn't change

how I ultimately feel about his spot on this roster as well and I think really if you want to try and get the most out of Sam Haggerty he still needs the opportunities that he'll get in AAA because he's just he's not going to get those opportunities he's not going to get the at-bats that he really needs

at the major league level right now with how the Mariners are currently deploying their guys. There's always the outside shot that Colton Wong is the guy that he does get DFA'd to make room for more on the 26-man roster. I just don't think they're going to do that. I think it's a little bit early to pull.

the trigger on that front. I know he's been really bad. I know most of you hate Colton Wong, but this is a guy with a lot of track record. Colby talked about it on yesterday's main episode. I think they're going to still try to ride things out here with Wong for at least a little bit longer and give Haggardie, again, the opportunities that he really, really needs. But overall, good night for Haggerty, who came through with a one for three night, the two RBI double, and also a walk, and then again, pretty decent night at first base, considering that he's only played that position three times within the span of what a month. So good stuff overall for Haggerty.

Julio tonight, two for five. had an RBI, opposite field single in that big fourth inning. But the three times that he recorded an out, however, all strikeouts. J.P. Crawford with a two-hit night as well. Cal Raleigh with a two-hit night from the right side. He put in some work on the right side. AJ Pollock with a couple of hits as well. A.5, I believe, off the bat on his second.

single of the night, first single and infield single. I don't know what happened there with the lead misty as because Pollock certainly not slow by any stretch of the imagination, but not necessarily a burner either, but he was able to beat out, would look to be a relatively normal looking, you know, ground ball to short. But yeah, good night for Pollock. Jose Cabiero got a little bloop single as well so another night

another Jose Caballero hit another night of Caballero doing something cool he also walked a couple times and then of course Tay Oscar Hernandez like I mentioned the home run solo home run in the bottom of the seventh after the A's finally got on the board

kind of a weird inning for Matt Brash some defensive miscues there from Colton Wong, obviously, really tough ball to play there for Wong, but Cabiero, just completely whiffing on a, on a bouncer to third.

Teo, the data on the home run for Teo, 106 miles per hour off of the bat, 417 feet. That ball would have been a home run in 28 of the 30 major league ballparks, just not Arizona or Colorado. So,

let's talk about E. E. E. E. Swerres, I'm going to take a quick look at Twitter here to see if there's more information about E. E. E. E. E. Hennino Svarez. Yeah. So here from Curtis Crabtree. Scott Service said E. E. E.Henio Suarez came out as he got hit by Julio Rodriguez foul ball in the on-deck circle in the first inning. A.J. Pollock was also removed from this game.

for Taylor Tremel and that's also because of an ailment Pollock apparently, according to service, felt something after stealing a base and also came out late. So that's not great when you pair that with the Thai France injury which appears to just be a bruised wrist.

X-rays last night came back negative after I got done recording last night's show but he of course didn't play tonight. We'll see if he plays tomorrow, but it might be a good opportunity to get him some rest. But if you're also going to be down Pollock and Suarez, you're going to be pretty, pretty light on the bench. So I also have to wonder at that point

if maybe they make some sort of move on that front, maybe send down a pitcher like Taylor Saucato to just get an extra bat in there if Swares, Pollock, and France are all unable to go. We'll see. Hopefully this is not a long-term thing for Gino because, I mean, we don't know how bad this thing is with France, and if the last two years are any indication, lower arm injury for Thai France means that he is going to struggle.

So even if he doesn't require an IEL stamp, which appears to be the case, if Gino also has a thing, you're certainly not in a spot that you want to beat. We'll see on Pollack. It didn't seem like he got up in any sort of pain on the, it was a ball four, but he did successfully steal second base. It's not going to count, but he did get in there before the throw. He came up fine, at least that's what it looked like on the TV, but it seems like he tweaked something.

So we'll see how serious that is. We'll see how seriously Suarez injury is as well. And speaking of serious, again, you can catch the Mariners and the A's tomorrow night on the Sirius XM app. Just download the SXM app and you catch all the action

on the Mariners' hometown broadcast. So before we hop off here, before I hop off here, rather, we've got a few questions as of late about where I get my stats from, like pitch data, swing data, etc. The numbers that I read, you guys, I saw it, I believe, Derek, Darren,

I'm sorry if I've messed up your name here, but I saw you in the chat or in the comments of last night's video asking where I get our stats. So, or where I get these stats. So I want to quickly go over that. real quick. So I'm going to do an impromptu screen share and we're going to see how swiftly I can do this now because I have all these graphics up on the screen. This is probably going to look a little bit janky for a second. So just bear with me just a moment. You can see it just popped up there

on the screen. I'm going to try to make it look a little bit better for you guys by doing that. And then we're going to do this. All right. So this. right here, folks, is baseball savant.com. So you know all the fancy numbers they throw up on the screen on the root sports broadcast like X velocity, distance, launch angle, etc. All that data that the root sports broadcast is privy to is also collected and stored on here on baseball savant.com. This is a website created by Major League Baseball with Amazon Web Services.

And as you can see here, I'm on the A's Mariners game page right now, and I can see the top exit velocities from the night. I can see the top distances, top pitch velocity, and the whiffs. Ken Waldschuck tonight, 15 whiffs, just two and two-thirds innings. What a weird start for Waldenczut tonight. Really weird start tonight. Seven strikeouts and five run runs,

just a mind-boggling stat line for him. Very Cole Urban-esque. Bryce Miller also with 13 swings and misses. So I can get the box score right here. This is all your, you know, run-of-the-mill stats, hits, doubles, triples, home runs, RBI, walk, strikeouts, et cetera, current average, current OPS. Hard hit balls are here. The flame emojis indicate a hard hit ball.

So J.B. Crawford had two tonight. Julio had one. Cal Raleigh had one. Tayae had one. AJ Pollock had two. Trimel had one. I already have one. And then if you want to get deeper into the weeds,

you can see all the X of velocities from the game over here. You can see all the pitch velocities from the game. So every single pitch from the game. You can get all the velocities for that. And then if you want more specific breakdowns for all the pitchers, you can go to player breakdowns. And here's all the information you can possibly want on all the pitchers who appeared in this game. Bryce Miller, for example, here.

Here's where I got his pitch counts, 73 fastballs, eight sliders, seven changeups, two curve balls. You can get the spend rates, you get the vertical break, horizontal break. You can get it all. So, yeah, baseball savant, it's a great tool. It's completely free. You can access it right now. You can access every single thing that I just showed you for free, as I'm going to try to get myself squared away here. So yeah, definitely check it out.

If you are looking to get more into stats or you're looking for a place to find all that information in just one solid spot, one go-to spot, a baseball savant is the place to be. So, yeah. So for anyone that didn't know about it, there you go. It's a pretty magical thing. So we love baseball savant over here. It's a great tool for us. I also use fan graphs.com and sometimes baseball reference as well. All right.

So that's going to do it for the show. Thank you so much for joining me here on the Locked-on Mariners Postgame show. My name is Taday Gonzalez. You can follow me at Dane Gonzalez, the C-A-N-Z-L-Z. You can also follow the show at Locked-on Mariners or sorry, at L-O-U-U-U-N-S-G-Nariners. You can follow us at Locked-on Mariners on TikTok and Instagram as well. Check it out. You can also follow my co-host, Colby, on Twitter at CPAT 11.

That's CPAT 1-1. He'll be joining us tomorrow afternoon to give his thoughts and takeaways from tonight's game and get you set for tomorrow night's game as the Mariners go for a sweep against the Oakland A's. Again, you can catch that game on the Mariners hometown broadcast with Sirius XM via the SXM app. hope you guys have a wonderful night go watch some locked on sea hawks after this if you're a seahawks do it say what's up to corbin he used to be my boss you know uh i'll catch you tomorrow peace have yourself a beautiful baseball day go ems