Locked On Mariners - Daily Podcast On the Seattle Mariners - D.C. to Comissioner Manfred: "Get Off My Lawn!!"

Episode Date: September 21, 2020

D.C recaps the final two games of the Padres series in San Diego, including yesterday's extra-innings affair. Which means that once again, he complains about the stupid free runner rule, and may or may not mock Commissioner Manfred in the process. To close out the show, D.C. shares a story about his great-grandfather, whose birthday it would have been today. 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.

Thank you for tuning in to Locked-on Mariners, part of the Locked-on Podcast Network, your team every day. Here's your host, D.C. Lunberg. Well, Monday is upon us once again. I know that's not good news, but the good news is that's another week of Locked-on Mariner's, part of the Locked-on Podcast Network. Please remember that you can download rate and subscribe to this program on Apple Podcast, Google Podcast, Spotify, Stitcher Radio, or whichever podcasting app, that you personally care to use. Ask your smart device to play Locked-on Mariner's podcast

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series in which the Mariners acted as the home team in Petco Park in San Diego, California, United States, Earth, whatever. Yeah, first game was Saturday. Actually, the second game was Saturday. After dropping the opener on Friday, Mariners came back in one, four to one. Mariners scored in the bottom of the first inning. Dylan Moore scored on a tie France RBI single, former Padre, tie France. Top of the third inning, Padres get one right back to tie the ball game.

and then in the bottom of the third, Luis Torrens hits a two-run double to bring the Mariners to a three-to-one lead. Bottom of the fifth inning, Kyle Lewis adds an insurance run. I guess it's not an insurance run that early in the ballgame. On a solo home run, and the Mariners would win by that four-to-one final.

Just as Sheffield started, pitched very well. Once again, six innings, six hits. Just the one run, it was earned. Only two walks. Yeah, that could be better, but that's not bad. And five strikeouts. Bonnie Sadler came in for an inning of scoreless baseball, struck out one. Kendall Graven, an ending of scoreless baseball, and Yoshihara.

Or as he's known in Japan, Hirano Yoshihisa, an inning of scoreless baseball did give up three hits, but earns his third save of the season. Crawford went one for four in this game, J.P. Crawford, Kyle Lewis won for four with that solo home run. Kyle Seeger went O for two, but he did walk twice. Tai France went to two for four. He was pinched run for by D. Strange Gordon later on the ballgame. Luis Torrens 2 for 4.

Evan White won for 4 and Tim Lopes, one for 3. Pardon me. The Astros also won on Saturday by a score of 3 to 2 over the Diamondbacks. The good news is that the Mariners didn't lose any ground, but they didn't gain any ground either. Yesterday, Sunday, September 20th, this was an 11-inning ball game. I thought the extra inning rule was supposed to prevent 11-inning ball games. I thought they were all going to be only 10 or fewer from now on. Oh, I guess the commissioner was wrong, wasn't he?

Yeah. Yep, 7 to 4 was the final in this one. Mariners got the scoring underway in the bottom of the fifth inning on a Tim Lopes RBI double with Evan White's scoring. Sixth inning, Will Myers hits a three-run home run to bring the Padres to a three-to-one lead. Then in the bottom of the eighth, Dylan Moore answers with a two-run home run to tie the ballgame.

Game would be tied through regulation, which means that the baseball game is over, and now it's time for youth tee ball. Oh, yay. Fernando Tatis drove in Jorge Mateo, who was the pinch runner on second base to begin the inning. I don't remember who the actual runner was supposed to be, nor do I give a crap. Jorge Mateo pinch ran, Jerks and Profar grounded out to advance him to third base, and then he was promptly driven in by Fernando Tatis Jr. bottom of the 10th, the Mariners tied up on a sacrifice fly by J.P. Crawford to score Tim Lopes, who had advanced a third base on a flyout by Luis Torrens. So tied after 10 innings, the game inexplicably goes to the 11th inning, which I was under the impression was never going to

happen again. Oh my. You can tell I hate this rule. Can't you, ladies and gentlemen? Mitch Morland in the top of the 11th inning, pardon me, hit an RBI double, pro far, hit a single and to score another run and then Grisham reached on a fielding error by Dylan Moore to score yet another one. So the Padres score three that inning and take it by that seven to four final. Justin Dunn had started the game for the Mariners lasted five and two-thirds innings, pardon me, two hits, three runs, all of them earned on that Mani Machado home run, six strikeouts and four walks. This is a pretty typical outing for Dunn. A lot of strikeouts, a lot of free runners put on base.

Anthony Mosevic cleaned up the sixth inning, pitched a third of an inning, didn't allow anything. Eric Swanson then came in from an inning, and amazingly enough, he didn't allow anything. Zilch. No hits, no runs, no walks, nothing. Good to see from Eric Swanson. I hope that can continue. Johann Ramirez then pitched an inning of his own. A walk and a strikeout. That's also pretty typical from what you're going to get from Johann Ramirez. Kendall Graveman pitched an inning, allowed a hit and nothing else. Hirono pitched an inning allowed a hit and a run. It was unearned.

One walk and one strikeout from Hianon. Donnie Sadler, who took the loss in this ballgame, one inning, two hits, three runs, only one of them earned, two walks, and a strikeout. The best thing that can be said about this particular game, at least it wasn't a cheap victory. At least the Padres won by more than one run. Any extra inning game in which the winning margin is one run is a cheap win and a crap win. Worse news for the Mariners, the Astros won by another three to two five. over the Diamondbacks. So they now find themselves four games behind the Houston Astros for that second spot in the American League West. The good news is that the Mariners are just a couple

games back of the Blue Jays for the second wild card spot. And the Blue Jays have been playing pretty bad baseball lately. They did not play on Sunday. And they play the Yankees on Monday. and the Yankees have just been absolutely clobbering the Blue Jays lately. So we'll see how that goes. The next series the Mariners have that they're going back to Seattle. The air quality is going to allow them to be able to play in Seattle, and they begin a three-game series with the Houston Astros tonight. Marco Gonzalez will tell the rubber who has had a brilliant season,

but unfortunately throughout his career, he's had trouble with the Astros. For the Astros, it'll be Lance McCullors pitching. Tomorrow, the pitching matchup will be L.J. Newsom versus Framber Valdez. That's quite a name. And then on Wednesday, it's a 340 start on Wednesday. Nick Margievich is pitching for the Mariners against former Sy Young Award winner, Zach Grinky. Mariners then have an off day on Thursday.

A couple of items I'm going to discuss in the second half. Going to get back to that horrible extra inning free runner rule, not going to spend a great deal. of time on it, but there is something that I do want to talk about. Secondly, I'm going to pay tribute to a member of my family whose birthday it would have been today. And yes, ladies and gentlemen, this does relate to baseball. Mariner's trivia question has nothing to do with the Seattle Mariners today. On this day in 1979, Royals shortstop U.L. Washington hit home runs from both sides of the plate. What does U.L. stand for? Answer following this message from

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In addition, these were the first two of his Major League home runs. Both of them came in the same game. Both of them came from different sides of the plate, and this was his 172nd game. If you've got a question or a comment, please send it to Lockdown Mariners at gmail.com for consideration for the Friday mailbag segment.

As a matter of fact, as long as it's appropriate, I absolutely will use it. reply to it on the show. Locked-on Mariners at gmail.com, it need not be a baseball question. Ask me about music, ask me about TV, ask me about just about it, in fact, ask me about anything. And as long as it's appropriate and not lewd or crass, I will reply to it on the air. More locked on mariners following this from Belt Bar. Over the course of this program, ladies and gentlemen, I have said just about everything I can say about Built Bar.

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One of them is more that ridiculous extra inning. Runner-free runner rule. I'm not going to dwell on it too much. And then the second half of the second half family time. I'm going to talk about my family a little bit. and one specific family member whose birthday it would have been today. But first, yep, and I said, I'm not going to dwell on it too long, but there's something that I noticed in these games that do go extra innings

that the away team has a distinct advantage. Even if they just score the one run, that forces the home team to score two to win and just one to tie. I know that's really, really obvious, but in practice, I didn't realize just how much of an advantage that this is. This obviously doesn't have much to do with yesterday's Mariner's game because the Padres wound up winning by three runs in the 11th inning. Just an observation that I had, and that gets back to something that I said near the beginning of the season,

that if you are the away team and you're the first one up there, you've got that free runner sitting out at second base, pinch run your fastest guy, bunt him over, have him steal, get him in any way that you can. Small ball him in. And then you have just forced your opposition, you've taken small ball out of their hands. You've taken that option away from them

because they cannot give up any outs to get that run in because they need two to win, one just to tie. It is a huge advantage to be the away team in a situation like this, and I think that small ball really is the way to go. Or at least I think that is the best way to do it. Obviously in baseball, there's more than one way

to scratch run across home plate. Obviously, there's more than one way to do this. that. But small balling him in seems to be the easiest way to do it. And if you've got a free runner out there, take the opportunity to small ball him in. Take advantage of what you've been given and just have him steal, bunt him over, whatever you'll want to do, get him across any way necessary and force the opposition to score two runs to win. Because when you score that one, As I said, you've taken small ball away from the other team because small ball really is a way to scratch one run across. If you need two, it's not really an option you have.

So take that option away from the other team and score your one run. I hate this rule with a passion. My housemate actually brought this up to me. She says, she told me nobody's ambivalent about this rule. They either really like it or really dislike it. and most people that I know dislike it. And then you've got the commissioner over here saying, yeah, well, everybody who's seen this rule in place is really warmed up to it, and everybody loves it.

Yeah, that's not exactly the case, pal. I really hope this is a temporary rule in place this season only, because I do not want to see it back next year. They've been using it in the minor leagues. I have yet to be to a Spokane Indians game in which this rule has had to have been in effect. Of course, I've only gone to a few Spokane Indians. I haven't lived here very long. But I'm wandering off topic again.

The rule sucks. You know that I hate it. And now we're going to switch subjects. As I said earlier, this would have been the birthday of a family member of mine. My great-grandfather, Bill Trezona, was born on September 21st, 1908. And how does this pertain to baseball, you ask? I will let you know here very, very shortly. We called him Grandpa Tee. Bill Trazona, Grandpa T. and he passed in 1996 at the age of 87.

He had been married since, I think since he was 18 years old, they were married 67 or 68 years. He and Grammity, Laura Trezona. And as a matter of fact, she wound up living to age 100. They were living in Everett at the time of his passing, and his funeral was in Spokane because his roots were always here. As a matter of fact, his funeral was the first time I had ever been to Spokane. I was still living in shoreline at the time.

And, you know, even at that time, even though we were there for a very, very somber occasion, I loved the city. And I kind of felt from that point on that I would always move over here at some point. I didn't think it was going to happen until I retired. But circumstances, one thing led to another near up. In any case, Bill Trezona, a great baseball person. He was a semi-pro pitcher here in the Spokane area in the 1930s in a league called the Twilight League. which no longer exists, obviously.

I don't know when they folded. I don't know anything about this league other than the fact that my great-grandfather pitched in this league. And this was at a time when Major League Baseball players would barnstorm around the country with various exhibition teams

and a team featuring Babe Ruth came to Spokane. And my great-grandfather, Bill Trezona, got to pitch to Babe Ruth. This is a story. that I have wanted to tell on this show since I started back in January, but I also knew that I wanted to save it for his birthday episode. Thank you for letting me indulge in speaking about my family for a little bit here at the second part of the show.

I hope you enjoyed it as well. We are going to call it a show, ladies and gentlemen. We will be back tomorrow morning where I will be joined by Ben Siever, Dr. Teeth, and a weed whacker. Please remember you can download Raid and subscribe to this show so you never miss an episode. Apple Podcast, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher Radio, or whichever podcasting app, might happen to spring to mind. Follow us on Twitter at L.O. underscore Mariners. Follow me on Twitter at D.C. underscore Lundberg.

Thank you for listening to today's episode, ladies and gentlemen. Again, happy birthday and heaven, Granfitte. Miss you very much and Gramat Tea. Join us back here tomorrow, ladies and gentlemen, for another episode of Lockdown Mariners discussing the beginning of maybe the most important series the Mariners have had this year against the Houston Astero. Talk to you then. This is Joey Martin saying join us back here next time for another edition of Locked-on Mariners,

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