Locked On Mariners - Daily Podcast On the Seattle Mariners - George Kirby Eats Yankees For Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner in Mariners' Walk-Off Win

Episode Date: June 1, 2023

The Yankees scored 20 runs in the first two games of this series, with 15 of those coming against Bryce Miller and Logan Gilbert, but George Kirby kept them at that number with eight dominant, scoreless innings of work in a brilliant bounceback performance following his rough outing against the Pirates last Friday. Ty goes over the numbers on Kirby's night, then discusses Cal Raleigh's walkoff single, J.P. Crawford's play of the year contender, and Scott Servais' smartest in-game move in a while on tonight's postgame edition of Locked On Mariners.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 TWO THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS in Bonus Bets when you go FanDuel.com/LOCKEDON. 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.

pitching in defense. That's how the Marriers want to win. I'd prefer they score a few more runs than they did tonight. But hey, you know what? We'll take it. What do you say? One last show for the month of May. Let's do it. This is the Locked-on Mariner's Postgame show. You are Locked-on Mariners.

Your daily Seattle Mariner's podcast. Part of the Locked-on podcast network, your team every day. Ohoy, sailors. This is the Locked-on Mariners Post-game show brought to you by Fandul, the official sportsbook partner of the Locked-on Podcast Network. Make every moment more visit Fandul.com slash locked on today to get started. I am your host, Tadine Gazzalas. It is Wednesday, May 31st, 2023, and your Seattle Marrists folks have walked off

the New York Yankees won a nothing to salvage a game from a series that really couldn't have started any worse than it did. The Yankees scored 20 runs of the first two games of the series, but, you know, you know what, that's all they walked away from the series with because George Kirby and the rest of the Smaris pitching staff shoved tonight, eight scoreless innings for Kirby. We're also going to talk about Paul Seawald's inning because something pretty interesting happened during that frame. We're also going to talk about Justin Topa's inning. That was a really good one to keep the Yankees off the board in the top of the 10th after an unfortunate J.P. Crawford

error. But hey, before that, JP had a really nice game defensively had arguably the play of the year so far for the Mariners. Julio Rodriguez also flashing the leather in this one. We're also going to talk about Cal Raleigh, obviously. He walked this thing off. He was the hero in this one. So let's do all of it. Let's start with the man of the hour, though. George Curry bounces back in a big way from arguably his worst. second worst start of his young major league career last Friday against the pirates. He was

flat out, dominant tonight, eight scoreless endings as I mentioned, just three hits allowed, seven strikeouts, no walks, as per usual, with a George Kirby start. He was feeling really freaking good tonight. I got

to tell you, 1.7 miles per hour up from his season average on his fastball velocity. He reached 99 miles per hour for the first time in his major league career tonight on that sinker. The sinker and the four seamer both eight, 34% called strike plus whiff rate on the fastball, on the foursamer rather, and then 45% call strike plus whiff rate on the sinker. Just nasty stuff from Kirby all night.

And if it wasn't for a couple of innings where there were some elongated bats, he may have very well gone the distance, but you know what? That may not have mattered because the Mariners, unfortunately, were not able to score any runs until we reached extras. It was not a good night for this Mariners offense against Clark Schmidt and the Yankees.

They only muster five hits, including that last one from Raleigh, which sealed the deal. He didn't waste any time. He stepped up in the box, worked himself into a two-two count. Jose Caballero, pinch running for.

for a. U hitting of Suarez as the automatic runner to start at the bottom of the 10th. And then Raleigh drove one to right field to score Caballero. And that is your ballgame Mariners improved to 29 and 27 on the year. So they stay above 500 by two games heading into a much needed off day before they hit the road for an eight game road trip. They finish this homestand seven and three. So despite the three,

blowout losses in five games. The mayor has had a very, very successful homestand overall. Just wish that the first two games of the series went a little bit better than they did. But nevertheless, they finished this thing out on a high note and should feel pretty good about themselves before they make their way down to Arlington for a very important three game series with the Texas Rangers this weekend. So yeah, Kirby, fantastic tonight. that was huge for him just mentally after just a brutal start against the pirates and to do it against this lineup and the way that he handled Aaron Judge who finished tonight O for three and he did walk but that was an intentional walk which was in my mind the smartest in game move we've seen from Scott's service in at least a while I want to talk about that more in just a moment but first

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Thank you for making this show. Your first listen after the Mariners won nothing victory over the New York Yankees in 10 innings. the Mariners again got an off day tomorrow we're going to be doing a mailbag so get your questions in on Twitter we should have a tweet up by now or if not soon very soon and you can send your questions there we're going to be answering some of your Mariners questions on the show tomorrow colby and i colby of course working tonight so not able to join me for this one uh but uh yeah uh you can catch the Mariners and the Rangers

when that series gets going on the Mariners hometown broadcast with Sirius XM via the SXM app. I knew I was forgetting something to mention, so there you go. All right, so Scott Service, pretty good night for him. And really because

of what he did in the top of the ninth of this game. So Paul Seawald comes of the game. George Kirby went 95 pitches through his eight scoreless ending. So it was time for him. to shut it down tonight. They go to Seawald, and he gets the first two outs,

and Aaron Judge steps to the plate. No one on, but it's Aaron Judge. He already has three home runs in the series. He has just flat out dominated the series, and once the wing of the bat could basically put the nail in the Mariners' coffin. And what does Scott Service do? He doesn't allow Seawall to throw a pitch to him. He tells CB Buckner, hey, we're walking, Judge.

Send Judge to first base because we want to go after Willie Calhoun. And that is the smartest thing I've seen service do in game in a really long time because I'll tell you what. I would rather face Willie Calhoun with a runner on first if I just need one out than Aaron Judge with nobody on base. Any day of the week. Any freaking day of the week. That is a brilliant move by service and it panned out as Calhoun flies out soft. to Jerry Kellnick in left field. Beautiful, beautiful decision.

Justin Topa, really big moment for him in this one. Very Taylor-Sossado-esque moment for Topa. It's kind of been a running theme with these two extra innings wins here for the Mariners over the last few days. Big extra innings pitching performances from one of their relievers. Topa is the guy in this one. He induces a soft ground ball to James.

JP Crawford to start this off and Crawford seemed to have an easy play to potentially throw out the automatic runner at third, but took his eye off the ball a little bit and ended up bubbling it and everyone was safe. And it's like, oh man, here we go. Right. Isaiah Counter-Flefa steps into the box and he had a in a bat earlier on in this game where he drove the ball

deep to center field, which could have scored go-ahead run, but Julio Rodriguez with a beautiful running grab towards the wall leaping grab to end that threat. Again, he steps in the box and Topa gets them to pop out to

to Ehio Horez. Then he walks Jake Bowers, who was just, of course, a thorn in the Mariners side, former Mariner, despite entering the series with a 70 WRC plus. Bowers walks, and then Anthony Volpe

steps up to the plate and Topa gets him to ground out to Suarez with the bases loaded Suarez throws home which is an incredibly difficult play that Swares made look really really easy to get the force out at home

and there you go two outs. Franchi Cordero now pinch hits for I believe I'm going to look it up for Kyle Higashioka. That's right Cordero pinch hits for Agashi Okina of course

Cordero last year when he was a member of the Boston Red Sox walked the Mariners off with a grand slam so bases loaded extra innings Franchi Cordero's up to the plate got to feel a little nervous even though that Cordero is not a particularly good hitter and he battled with Topa and Topa battled right back with him but Topa got the last laugh

and you know what I didn't see it because MLBTV I don't know how many of you have it but MLBTV loves to do this thing at midnight in your time zone where it will just kick you out of the game that you're watching because it refreshes the homepage

with all the games for that day that it turned to. So I'm sweating it out and I tune back into the game and you know what I see Justin Toba popping off on the mound as he should with a big strikeout of Cordero to end the threat, keep the Yankees off the board, which was huge. Because again, this Marin's offense was not generating any sort of threat, really.

I mean, they were able to get a couple guys in scoring position over the course of the night, but they just couldn't do jack squat with it. So thank you, Cal Raleigh, for breaking the ice and for allowing me to get to bed at a reasonable time. though I did want to do a post-game show here with you guys. Lastly, let's talk about, you know, J.P. Crawford's big play, arguably the play of the year for the Mariners. Glaber Torres with a runner in scoring position,

could have made this game one-nothing. And again, considering the way that the Mariners' bats performed in this one, they weren't able to score until we got an extra inning, an additional inning. They may have lost the game on this swing of the bat from Glaber Torres, 106 miles per hour off the bat and J.P. Crawford with the Michael Jordan Space Jam stretch of the arm somehow

making the grab. You know, we're doing this thing where we're going to act as the unofficial official campaign managers for a Mariners position player who is probably going to have a bit of a hard time trying to make it to the All-Star game. And we gave you three options. We gave you Cal Raleigh.

We gave you Jerry Kellnick. We gave you JP Crawford. And we put a poll up on Twitter. And Jared Kellnick is running away with it. Deservedly so. But I'm telling you, JP Crawford's having a really, really good year. Obviously what he's doing at the plate is great and all that. But defensively speaking, he's having one of his best years. He should definitely be up there for gold glove consideration

when this thing is all sudden done with the way that he's playing because it's just, I mean, he's just playing out of his mind right now. That play against Torres tonight nasty, just nasty. stuff. That was awesome. That has to be top five on SportsCenter, top one, really, if we're being honest. All right. So I think that covers pretty much everything. Appreciate you coming through here, allowing me to chat your ear off a little bit about this game tonight. I was pretty pumped about it. A fun game. Again, obviously would like to see the Mariners score a few more runs than just one. But one was enough to get the job done. And the Mariners, again, improved to 29.

and 27 on the year. They'll enjoy the off day tomorrow. We got a mailbag coming your way tomorrow. So again, get your questions in on Twitter. And once the Mariners get back to action, down in Arlington against the Texas Rangers, you can catch all the action on the mayor's hometown broadcast with Sirius XMV, the SXM app.

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Peace.