Locked On Mariners - Daily Podcast On the Seattle Mariners - Dodger Blues: No-Hitter Edition

Episode Date: June 25, 2021

D.C. had already scheduled Dodger fans Jon Miller and Jason Hernandez to appear on today's program, and then the Dodgers wind up getting no-hit by the Cubs last night. The three gentlemen discuss last night's historic, record-tying 7th no-hitter of the season -- which none of them remembered to mention on the air. The discussion of foreign substances continues, as well, sparked by an incident in which Joe Girardi requested Max Scherzer be checked twice in one inning. The trio discuss this incident, and Jon Miller gives the umpire's point of view, 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.

Today on Locked-on Mariners, I have two Dodgers fans on the show, and I make their lives a living hell. Yay. Welcome to Locked-on Mariners, part of the Locked-on Podcast Network, your team every day. Here's your host, D.C. Lundberg. Yes, neither of my guests are going to be too enthusiastic about our first topic, I believe, but I honestly don't blame them. But hey, Mariners have been no-hit twice, and this is only the first one for the Dodgers this year. I'm D.C. Lundberg, and it's another one of those shows, ladies and gentlemen, that I have no idea how it's going to turn out, because again, I'm exhausted. But welcome to this Friday edition, as it were, of Locked-on Mariners, part of the Locked-on Podcast Network.

Please remember to download and follow this program on whichever podcasting app that you personally care to use. Ask your smart device to play Locked-on Mariners podcast or any program here on the Locked-on Podcast Network, or T. O-P-N or Tloppin, of course. As you may have heard in the background, as the music was fading in, I have two Dodger fans on the show. You've heard the many times on this program before. In fact, one of them was on this show yesterday, and that is Locked-on Mariners contributor, John Miller.

John, how are you today? I'm okay. Yeah, I don't blame you. And the other one, Jason Hernandez, are getting the same boat as Mr. Miller? Oh, let's get it over with. Let's get the pain over with. Bring it on. Bring it on. Come on. A, the Dodgers have a 44 and 31 record right now. They're good. And they've only been no hit once. But look at it this way. The Rangers, Indians, and Mariners have all been no hit twice this year.

So there's something to look forward to in Los Angeles. There's probably another no hitter on the horizon. Yes? Oh, that's... Well, there's three teams that have been no hit twice this season. I know. Yes. And, yeah. Boo. We're not going to be. going to talk about one of them, but we'll talk about the Rangers and the Indians, perhaps. But yes, last night at the ravine, the Los Angeles Dodgers were no hit by the Chicago Cubs. You know, this is the first decent team that's been no hit this year. Dodgers are not bad, but they did get no hit by the Chicago Cubs.

It was a combined no hitter. The starting pitcher for the Cubs went six inings. It was Zach Davies. And he walked five. The Dodgers walked eight times. in his ballgame, ladies and gentlemen, so it was an odd no-hitter. And Mr. Davies was followed by Ryan Tepera, then Andrew Chaffin, who looks like he should be playing for the 1986 Red Sox, and then the game was closed out by Craig at Kimbril. Each one of the four Cubs pitchers, by the way,

walked at least one hitter. The Dodgers actually walked more times than they struck out, and Cubs batters struck out more times than Dodger hitters did. So there's at least something there. Walker Bueller started. for the Dodgers. He also went six innings, but he gave up five hits, three runs they were all earned. Two

walks, as opposed to Mr. Davies, five walks. I'm trying to find the good parts for the Dodgers. I'm here, ladies and gentlemen. Mr. Bueller struck out six and allowed two home runs to Javieras and Wilson Contreras. Gentlemen,

any thoughts on the game? I'll start with you, Jason. Oh, you want to start with me? You should probably end with me, because I have a lot of thoughts on this one. Well, no, I'll just give this thought. Craig Kimball had no freaking idea that he had pitched a no hitter. He had no idea. It was hilarious. Oh, yeah? You know,

Willie gave him a fist bump, and Kimball had this look like, okay, something's up. And then it was, it was right in Tepera who ran out and said, like, you don't know what just happened to you. Like, he kind of shook. It said, like, you don't know. Like, you have no idea.

And then it was Javi Baez, who pretty much put him in a headlock saying, yeah, now I know something happened. And that's when Kimbril realized that they had just thrown a combined no-hitter. So, you know, because it's so blasé to throw a no-hitter these days because it's a seventh one. It is the first combined one, but still. Well, it was the first combined one. And kind of ironic, the Dodgers, they have a penchant for doing this because the last time the Dodgers were no-hit,

it was also against the Chicago Cubs. Oh, really? And that was the Jake Arieta no-hitter 60. years ago. And the previous time the Dodgers got no hit. Oh, oh, that was also a combined no hitter. DC, I think you should know about that one, right? Oh, yes, indeed.

That would be June 8th, yes. June 8th, because it was my friend Calvin's birthday. He got surprised by his girlfriend's, uh, his girlfriend got him tickets to that night's game as a surprise, and it happened to be the combined no hitter, uh, against the Dodgers. Of course, I forget what year it was, but it was a while ago. 2012. 2012, yes.

So. That was brought up. Okay, since here at the Mariners Encyclopedia, do you happen to know at least one or two of the pitchers that pitched that night? I'm just curious if you remember. Yeah, Kevin Millwood started, and he had to be removed because of an injury. Otherwise, he would have gone later. Oh, that's right.

Yeah, Lucas Letgee pitched in that game. Brandon League pitched in that game. The bartender, Tom Wilhelms, and I believe got the final out of that ball game. Was Furbush a part of that game? forbush? I think so. Good Lord you're an encyclopedia of Mariners stuff. I really should give John a crack at this, shouldn't I? No kidding. John,

I will bring up the list, and I'll see if I missed anybody. Yes, I missed one. Do you want to try to guess who the other one is? No. All right, I'll go through it. Kevin Millwood started with six innings, had to be replaced because of an injury. The Safeco Field mound was then re-ferbushed, when Charlie, Furbush took it again. Yes, indeed.

Then Stephen Pryor, who I don't remember Stephen Pryor much at all, to be honest. He was a gentleman. Stephen Pryor pitched a third of an inning. Lucas Letke pitched a third of an inning, followed by Brandon League for two-thirds of an

inning, and the bartender had the last inning to close it out. One-nothing game, by the way, very close game. Yeah, so a little, fun little note as far as the Dodgers being no hit. It doesn't happen that often, but when it does, it's either the Cubs or the Mariners, apparently, I guess.

Yeah, well, that's a distinction that I think that the Mariners would like to have, because if memory serves the daughters were good that year, too. They were all right that year. They were all right. They didn't win a pennant that season, but they were pretty good. Still an impressive no-hitter by the Mariners. I'm kind of happy for you guys that winning the pennant is the mark of a good season or not, where the marriage is struggling to stay above 500.

When you're the Mariners, that's not the no-hitter you want to remember from that season. No, because there was one later on, and I happen to know a bunch of people at that one, too. Felix Hernandez's perfecto was later on in the 2012 season. We can talk about that a little later if we want to, but I want to bring John Miller to talk about last night's game if he has any thoughts on it. Nothing in the game seemed to make sense to me, the fact that there were eight walks against the Dodgers. and nothing happens. This is just odd. It's an anomaly that a team of that caliber would get on base that much

and just accomplish nothing out of it. Yeah, I'm looking through the boxboard. I didn't see the game. So I'm looking through the inning play-by-play, and the fifth inning was the first inning in which the Dodgers did not have anybody on base. They walked twice in the first inning, Max Muncie, and then Clay Bellinger's son both walked with one out and two. but respectively.

They walk eight times and can't do anything. You'd think that maybe they'd get a sack fly out of it or something like that if there's no hits? No, no runs. No base runners in the fifth or sixth innings. And Jock Peterson. Oh, Jock Peterson is no longer a Dodger, never one. They did walk once in the seventh.

And then twice again in the eighth. No, that's Patrick Wisdom. That's Patrick Wisdom. So it was once in the eighth. See, I'm looking at the play-by-play. How dare you? How dare you, slander, co-ed? Bellinger, he's an MVP for crying out loud.

I love what you said, but I also laugh at it. Like, come on, Cody Bellinger got an MVP. I know. I'm being facetious. I remember a few years ago on Players Weekend when he decided to wear Cody love on his uniform. And that's a porn name. So I don't know how he got away with that. Oh, no.

But I want to defend myself. I'm looking through the play-by-play here on him. MLB.com, and the Cubs and the Dodgers both wear blue hats and their pictures are very tiny. So that's why I saw walk, Patrick Wisdom, right next to the next inning. And then obviously I got the top and bottom of the inning mixed up. But Mooky Betts was the only Dodger to walk in the 8th. And then Chris Taylor, yes, former mariner Chris Taylor led off the ninth inning with a walk. But then Craig Kimbril struck out the side, including Cody Belly.

The MVP, yes, yes, what, what. And then Future Hall of Famer Albert Pooholz. And then Will Smith, who was obviously thinking about DJ Jazzy Jeff struck out without recording a ball on three straight pitches. Oh, okay. Oh, come on. Will Smith and I have to make that joke, Jason. You know what? There's a couple things that I want to mention about this game since you mentioned Doc Peterson.

Can you actually, I'm sorry, Jason, but can you actually save that for B Block because we're right up on our trivia corner? I do want to hear it, but I also want to stick to our. time constraints today. So hold that thought while I ask the following trivia question. Very simple trivia question. A little memory game for you today. Who was the first overall draft pick 10 years ago? I'll tell you who it was after this word from fully loaded. Today's episode is brought to you in part by fully loaded chew. Fully loaded is tobacco free long cut and pouches that gives you the same pack, dip, spit, and buzz you're used to without tobacco. Available in nine flavors. Fully loaded, Chew is made with all food-grade ingredients and tobacco-free nicotine, the peers form of nicotine

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Fullyloaded chew.com. Answer to the trivia question, who either of you gentlemen remember who the first overall draft pick was 10 years ago. We're talking 2011. I remember. John, you remember? No, I don't.

Who is it, J.D.? I remember both those picks top of the board. So just after him was Trevor Bauer and from the same school, Garrett Cole. You are wrong about the second pick, but Garrett Cole was the first overall pick. Trevor Bauer was number three. Number three, sorry, yeah.

They're both from UCLA. They're both from UCLA. Yes, the Mariners had the number two selection. John, do you remember who that was? Mariner's first selection, number two overall, 10 years ago. You were hurting my brain. I haven't had coffee. What are you doing, D.C.?

We're recording much earlier than normal, ladies and gentlemen. I just got you off the hook, John. But we are recording earlier than normal. We are recording earlier than normal. That's not a lot. I have no idea. No. All right.

Danny Holtson Did he even play in the major leagues? He did, and he's one of those picks that's frustrating because it was injuries that did it. He was progressing fine, and then he just went through a whole string of injuries, and you really felt bad for the kid because it wasn't his fault that his development was stalled like that.

He did wind up making the major leagues after a brief retirement, pitched a few innings out of the bullpen with the Cubs, a couple of years. ago. 2019, I want to say. Could have been 2018. I don't remember.

But that didn't work out because of the injuries. It was a shame. This was actually a pretty good draft. Dylan Bundy was number four. Anthony Rendon went number six. Archie Bradley was in this draft. J. Spangenberg.

Go over the first round. C.J. Crone was in this draft. Sunny Gray. I mean, look at the, among the first round draft choices, only three of them did not make the major leagues. That's a good draft.

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about to commence today with John Miller and Jason Hernandez. Jason, you were just about to bring up a thought when we had to go to the trivia corner because I at least want to try to stick to our time constraints on this particular episode. You may now go for it, sir. Yeah.

So my thought, a couple thoughts from last night's game, you mentioned Jock Peterson. Hey, this was Jock Peterson. Hey, this was Jock Peterson. first game back at Chavez Ravine since being let go by the Dodgers. Jock Peterson received his World Series ring in last night's game.

So he had a nice, almost two-minute-long video tribute to him. All the fans stood and applauded. So it was great to see Jock Peterson back with the Dodgers, and you could tell when they took pictures before the game, he was thrilled to be there. And as far as the game itself, yes, it was a combined-o-hitter for the Cubs, but the Dodgers certainly had their chances.

They just couldn't get anything, you know, really going. And when you talk about the locks, this is something the Dodgers have been very good at this season, is drawing out the batts. Zach Davies threw 94 pitches in six innings. Probably could have gone another inning, but you could tell that he was kind of struggling to get outs. I mean, yeah, usually I'll jump in here and I'll say usually, you know,

in a game like this, I'll ridicule a manager for pulling somebody like that, but he walked five in six innings. He wasn't exactly on his game. Well, you mentioned you that. Like, you don't blame a manager for pulling someone who's not so much struggling, but struggling to get effective outs. Zach Davies faced 22 batters in six innings, which is quite a bit above the norm. 94 pitches in six innings is a lot. I'm going to do the math. Yeah, that's, uh, That averages out to... That's about 16. It's 15 and 2 thirds pitches per innings.

Yeah, that's a bit over what you want to see per inning. Wasn't economical. Five walks, like we said. I'm sorry, JD. But they were long at-bats. That's the thing. They were long at bats. There was a lot of five-pitch, six-pitch at-bats,

which is something, again, the Dodgers have been good at. Mookie Betts. He's very good at that. Cody Bellinger, you know, he's an MVP for a reason. Yeah. And also Chris Taylor, who, By the way, DC, Chris Taylor, he was acquired in a trade for Zach Lee. Yes, yes, me.

Just reminding you. Well, yeah, fine. Hey, you gave me something earlier? I'm giving it right back. That's fair. I know. I did say former mariner Chris Taylor when I was talking about the game, however. Hey, you know what?

I got to give credit to the Cubs. Got to give credit where credit is due. It was a good, no-hitter. You know, congrats to them on getting another. no hitter against the Dodgers, their second one in six seasons, as we mentioned. But, hey, that's fine. That's fine. The Dodgers are still 44 and 31. They're still defending world's champions. So it's fine. That is true. John, you want to jump in here with anything? No, I think Jason covered it very well.

All right. So we're not quite up on our next break quite yet, so I guess we'll go into our next topic. There was one other thing, Jason, that you were talking about with John and myself a few days ago, and that had to do with the subject that you and John talked about a few weeks ago on the episode that John guest hosted where you were when you talked about foreign substances on baseballs, and something happened with Joe Girardi and Max Scherzer that you were kind of hacked off about, as it were. There's been a lot of things that I've been hacked off about, and it started with the Joe Girardi, trying to, I guess, check Max Scher not only between innings, but during the game.

It was in the middle of the fourth inning, and all of a sudden, Joe Girardy is coming out and saying, hey, why don't you check him now? Apparently, we can have random searches now. And Joe Girardi kind of went up to the umpire, and he basically yelled at him and say, hey, check him now. So they go up to Max Scherzer, and Scher just has this look,

I was to say, are you freaking kidding me? Not those exact words, but I have to censor myself because I don't want to get the bleeper out. However, Scher was more than ticked off. And I was ticked off about it because I'm not okay with the rule change in the middle of the season. And I know we talked about this, John and I a few weeks ago. And this was kind of when it was starting, which is why I wanted to bring it up even back then. I wanted to bring it up because I had a feeling that this was going to happen. and a topic that needs to be brought up.

But now that this rule has come into effect as of this week, I think it's ridiculous because you're taking away not so much an advantage. But as you've said, D.C., pitchers have been doing this for decades. They've been doctoring balls left and right. I mean, look no further than, you know, Gaylord Perry doctored balls. You know, balls were doctored in the 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, like pretty much since since the dawn of baseball. Yes, but we have to make the distinction between

what Gaylord Perry was doing using Vaseline or K-Y jelly or whatever he was using on his balls and pitchers using brazen and sunscreen or some other sort of stick them for grip. I mean, there's a difference between the two. And I think we do have to make that distinction, but we will continue this conversation

because we are up against the break at B block now. Yes, so we'll continue this in the next. segment, don't you worry, gang. If you got a question or a comment, please send it in to Lockdown Mariners at gmail.com, and I will read it and reply to it on the air in a future Mayabike episode. I will not personally read it. My personal secretary, Clive Braithwaite, the fourth will read it. If he still has a job after the stuff that he's pulled on the last few episodes that he is on,

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Why am I talking about this? Thank you, Joey Martin, for bringing us back to Lockdown Mariners for the final time, not only today, but for the final time this week, talking about substances on balls. And Jason Hernandez was just about to, this is the second time I've cut him off this show, unfortunately. I feel bad about that, but at the same time. That's okay. I made to meet grasshoppers, so it's fine.

Yeah, that is true, so I guess that is, I guess that's fair. It's a few years coming, and I don't know where I'm going with this, Jason, so just continue what you were saying before we had to go to break. So just a couple things on this. Yeah. As far as the StickyTack versus Rosen and sunscreen, we've been having Rosen for a long time, and I get that. But something else that wasn't interesting development.

we're starting to see some Japanese baseballs come in just for show just to see what they're like and they already have some some of the not sticky tack but something kind of similar to that to get better grip I think they use wasabi do they not not wasabi I'm sorry guys but now now there's a discussion as to whether or not we should be adapting those kind of baseballs because that's always been a big thing the past few seasons is the baseballs are changing they're getting lighter they're getting heavier

they're flying out of the ballparks. This has become not so much a problem, but a distraction for Major League Baseball. And having this rule change in the middle of the season, it is not a good look for Major League Baseball. Some of these pitchers are giving a big old middle finger to Rob Manfred. Well, kind of as they should, not necessarily for that particular reason,

but I call them Kaiser Manfred for a reason. Doing this in the middle of the season, I mean, you have to try to wean pitchers off of something like this. Who is the fellow with the devil rays? The devil rays. The rays. That's it.

Yeah, Glasnow. Thank you. He's right on the money about it. He just got injured recently because he had to tighten the grip on his ball. And I kind of looked this one up to a little research. So the muscle that he injured is not on the lateral part of the elbow. It's on the interior part because he has to tighten his grip. And, you know, when you make a fist, which muscles does that?

tend to engage the ones on the inside of your arm, right? Yeah. That's what he injured. You know what's stupid? I'm actually doing that right now just because I'm that, I'm out of it right. Well, and guys to add something to this, there needs to be some clarification because what happened with Gerardy and Scherzer to set a little bit of context to what you had mentioned, Jason. Scherzer had just been inspected by the umpire slash TSA agents before the iny. Yes.

And then he strikes out one of the Phillies batters, and Gerardy comes out and says he needs to be inspected again. I mean, yeah, there's nothing new with mid-inning checks, but that's effectively the second check of the inning. What the hell did Gerardy think was going to change in between that at bat? I think he was trying to get under Scherzer because Scherzer is one of the best. and shortly after that, Gerardi did get tossed. As well, he should. Yes. Yeah, but going back to what Glasnow said,

I think everyone listening, they should at least try to simulate holding a baseball and try to simulate holding something tighter and see which muscles that engages. And it's usually the one closer to your wrist. That's what got injured. So I don't blame Glasnow for sounding off on that. And he absolutely should sound off on that

because I think it's ludicrous to change this in the middle of the season. Give players time to acclimate a little bit before changing stuff up right away. Otherwise, you're going to have a player just dropping trow completely like Sergio Romo almost did the other night. You know, we're going to see some, as my friend so eloquently put, we're going to see some C and B at some point this season because pitchers are just not having it. They're not thrilled with the idea of mid-any. checks. But hey, maybe they could do what hockey does.

What's that? Throw their gloves down and fight. That's illegal too. Well, no, this is something that the NHL did recently, and I actually like this rule change. So there is replay, but this one replay per game. And if they challenge and the challenge fails, then that team gets a two-minute penalty against them. So why not impose some kind of penalty if managers want to check pitchers right in the middle of an inning and they don't find anything.

There should be something, some kind of punishment for that, but apparently there isn't, nor will there be. It's stupid. Well, here's the thing. Again, mid-inning checks are nothing new. But if a pitcher's checked at the beginning of an inning, that should be fine for the entire inning. But maybe have a mid-inning check.

If a manager wants to go up there, maybe have that count as one of his replay chances because managers are only allotted so many of them per game. Maybe you do it that way. There it is. That's what I was thinking, too. Use that as a replay challenge. If they fail that, then they lose that challenge.

And this adds on to another compounding problem in baseball, which I know you and I have talked about on another podcast in the recent years. This is just extending the time of game that much more in general. You know, the games of this season, they're longer than ever per nine innings. The average time. per game isn't the same because we're seeing some seven inning games, but the times of game per nine have never been higher.

And it's going to get worse and worse and worse. You're going to have more problems with, you know, mid-inning checks. Then you're going to have the backlash to mid-inning checks. And then you're going to have the backlash to checks in between innings where pitchers are going to be belligerent and say, no, I don't want to, you know, show my belt buckle. No, I don't want to take off my belt. No, I'm going to drop pants. I'm going to do it right in front of you.

And already some umpires, I mean, this is anonymous, but some umpires are kind of getting ticked off about a little bit. Really? And I'm glad John Miller is on. I mean, John, if a player just, like, if you were to check a player and he got belligerent and dropped trout in front of you,

I'm sure you'd be ticked off too, right? I would be a little ticked off. Well, I would have been ticked off if we had just inspected Scherzer and then the manager comes out and says, you need to check him again, what, because he just struck out one of your guys? Okay, so as an umpire, are you more ticked off at the manager doing that

or at the situation? In that instance, it's at the manager, but overall, it's the situation as a whole. I'm the manager because, like, come on, you realize we literally just checked him. But can I jump in here and say that if I'm umpiring a college women's softball game, and one of them decided to drop their pants,

I don't think I'd be that upset. I'm going to leave that one alone. Well, you're married, you have to. Yeah, but I guess it's like one final point to wrap a bowl on this, and I'm going to go back to John on this, since you do umpire. You've had to do checks on this before, yes? Mostly just equipment checks.

Okay, that's what I was going to ask. But as far as checking on the baseballs themselves or checking, like, what's the equipment that you check the most and how often have you checked the baseballs themselves? Whenever a new baseball is brought into play, it's brought to us, and then you're going to pull it out of your ball bag and rub it down a little bit or whatever, make sure that it's not been doctored, obviously, and then give it to the catcher who throws it out to the pitcher. But you're also looking to make sure that the seams are okay, and there's no other oddities in manufacturing with the ball. Yes, John? Yes. Making sure that it is official.

It has the correct stamp and seal of approval, and in major league case, the commissioner's signature and all that. So in your umpiring, what's the piece of equipment that you've checked the most in your umpiring days? That's. Really? Wow. For pitchers, would it be gloves?

For pictures, it would probably be gloves, yes. Okay, okay. All right. I think this is going to get worse before it gets any better. Honestly, I could see some pitchers just really lashing out back on this. Yeah, I can too. But unfortunately, we have to leave it at that for today. Today's pitching matchup, the game begins at 5 o'clock Pacific time, ladies and gentlemen,

against the Chicago White Sucks. It is you say Kikachi for. This is Carlos Rodone, speaking of no hitters. He tossed one against Cleveland earlier in this year. And that was a fun one to listen to on the radio. Tom Hamilton on the Indians broadcast, you'd think he was calling the action for the White Sox because he was so excited, but we've got to go.

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