Locked On Mariners - Daily Podcast On the Seattle Mariners - Mariners Fit Juan Soto For Golden Sombrero in Logan Gilbert's Career-Best Start

Episode Date: August 9, 2023

What would appear to be a run-of-the-mill 2-0 win for the Mariners on a random Tuesday night in the middle of August was anything but. Logan Gilbert spun arguably the greatest start of his young major league career while simultaneously giving Juan Soto the worst night of his major league career. With 12 strikeouts, no walks, and just one hit allowed over seven innings, Gilbert etched himself into Mariners history while giving his club a sixth consecutive victory and pulling them within 2.0 games of the American League's third and final wild card. Ty hops on the mic to offer up his first reaction to everything that went down at T-Mobile Park, including Gilbert's night, what the Mariners pitching staff did to Soto, and some of the struggles Seattle's offense endured.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 | @CPat11Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors!GametimeDownload the Gametime app, create an account, and use code LOCKEDONMLB for $20 off your first purchase.FanDuelMake Every Moment More. Don’t miss the chance to get your No Sweat First Bet up to TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS in Bonus Bets when you go FanDuel.com/LOCKEDON.SleeperDownload the Sleeper app and use promo code LOCKEDON and you'll get up to a $100 match on your first deposit.  Terms and conditions apply. See Sleeper’s Terms of Use for details. Currently operational in over 30 states. Check out Sleeper today! DaveDownload Dave today at Dave.com/mlb. You could get up to $500 in 5 minutes or less! No credit check. No late fees. FANDUEL DISCLAIMER: 21+ in select states. First online real money wager only. Bonus issued as nonwithdrawable free bets that expires in 14 days. Restrictions apply. See terms at sportsbook.fanduel.com. Gambling Problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER or visit FanDuel.com/RG (CO, IA, MD, MI, NJ, PA, IL, VA, WV), 1-800-NEXT-STEP or text NEXTSTEP to 53342 (AZ), 1-888-789-7777 or visit ccpg.org/chat (CT), 1-800-9-WITH-IT (IN), 1-800-522-4700 (WY, KS) or visit ksgamblinghelp.com (KS), 1-877-770-STOP (LA), 1-877-8-HOPENY or text HOPENY (467369) (NY), TN REDLINE 1-800-889-9789 (TN) 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.

Folks, let me tell you something real quick. That wasn't Logan Gilbert we saw on the mountain night. No. No, that wasn't even Walter we saw on the mountain night. That was Heisenberg. Say his name. You are Locked on Mariners. Your daily Seattle Mariners podcast.

Part of the Locked on podcast network. Your team every day. Oh, I'm feeling good after that one. Ahoy, sailors. It is once again Tuesday. August 8th, 2023. This is Tadang Azalz for the Locked on Mariton, Maritist Postgame show. Thank you so much for making the show

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You can now get a free seven-day trial to check out the show. The link as well as our social accounts is in the description of this episode. nothing the final score from team mobile park mariners take the first of two from the podres and despite a really frustrating game for the mariner's offense man did i have a hell of a lot of fun watching this one and that's because logan gilbert was sensational tonight quite possibly at the very best we've ever seen him in his young major league career and you know what screw it i'm gonna say it

recency bias be damned hyperbole be damned this was the greatest start of logan gilbert's young major league career, especially when you factor in the opponent, right? Yes, the Padres entered this game, 55 and 58, three games under 500, but listen to the names in this lineup that Gilbert had to go through tonight. Hassan Kim having a career year. Fernando Tatis Jr., having a really good year slumping as of late, but still really good year overall. Juan Soto, arguably the best pure hitter in major league baseball right now.

Mani Machado at his best, one of the best players in the sport. Zander Bogart's really good player as well. Jake Cronomworth, having a down year but still a very talented dude who had one of the Padres three hits tonight. Gary Sanchez having a little bit of a revival. Garrett Cooper, really solid hitter that they acquired from the Marlins last week. There is some legitimate talent in this Padres lineup. This is one of the better lineups just from a pure talent standpoint in our

sport today. And Gilbert shredded right through them and found himself in some rare company tonight, joining Felix Hernandez as the second pitcher in Mariners history to record 10 plus strikeouts, no walks, and allowing one or fewer hits in a game. And oh, that time that Felix did it? Yeah, just a random afternoon in August of 2012. what was until like five weeks ago the last perfect game thrown

in major league history so yeah pretty good start there by Felix and if not for the pitch count Logan Gilbert also would have gone the distance tonight because the Padres had no answers for him they really had no answers for the Marriest pitching staff

in general Matt Brash kind of a up and down outing for Brash but he made it through unscathed no runs allowed right Andreus Munoz great outing from him Matt Brash

Andreas Munoz Revenge Games obviously Duh But yeah what a start From Logan Gilbert tonight Amazing stuff One of the most dominant pitching performances I've seen it a long time

Right one of the most dominant group efforts When you talk about Just from a defensive standpoint From the Mariners tonight Because it wasn't just Gilbert He got some help tonight Also from you know Humb played umpired

Doug Eddings but from his defense as well, Julio had an amazing night with obviously that home run robbery of Fernando Tassiz Jr. With a fake out where he faked out the entire stadium made everyone think that that ball went over the wall

before he dramatically revealed the ball in his glove. That was pretty awesome. He also made a great running catch to save what would have been a double and did that with ease. And then had a diving play which kind of took a little bit

of a bad route on, but we'll ignore it. Still a great play. Great recovery from Julio on that one. He was fantastic in the field tonight. Really, the only miscue here was the booted ball from Dillamore that gave the Padres their first hit. And scores did it really need to be a hit? Because that looked like an error to me.

And if they had scored it as such, we would be talking about seven no-hit innings for Logan Gilbert tonight. Again, it was the pitch clock. or the pitch clock the pitch count rather that was Gilbert's demise in this one if you will right that stopped him from going the distance uh Gilbert pretty much through the kitchen sink at the Padres which was awesome this is when Gilbert is at his best or when he's been at his best this year when he is using all of his pitches effectively five whiffs on the fastball four on the splitter five on the slider one with the knuckle curve the splitter the splitter actually was isn't as much of a weapon as I thought it would be against the Padres' lefties, at least Soto, right? He did get the one strikeout, the swinging strike three on the first set bat for Soto. But after that, didn't really throw it against Soto.

He threw it two more times. Both of them went for balls. That was about it. He actually really found a lot of success against Soto specifically with the slider. And speaking of Soto, he had... his worst night in his major league career. So while Gilbert had his best, Gilbert and company gave Soto,

again, arguably the best pure hitter in major league baseball right now, his worst night in his career. So a lot happened in this game. A lot happened for a random two nothing game on a Tuesday night in Seattle in the middle of August. We're going to talk more about Soto and what the Mariners did to Soto tonight in just a moment. But first, a reminder, this episode of the Lockdown Marriers podcast is brought to you by BetterHelp.

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over the San Diego Padres game to the final game of this two games set is tomorrow. You can catch all the action on the Marys hometown broadcast with Sirius XM via the SXM app. Emerson Hancock, presumably making his major league debut in that game. So a lot of exciting stuff happening for the Mariners, especially on the pitching front. And I want to continue talking about this Mariners pitching staff and specifically what they did to Padres Superstar Alfielder Juan Soto. Juan Soto entered this game with 730 major league games under his belt. Tonight was game 731 for Mr. Soto, who is.

only 24 years old still, incredibly young and has already played that many games, right? This is the same man who is currently running a 19.2% walk rate and a 17.3% K rate. That's his career numbers. He is walking more than he is striking out in his entire career, over 731 games. well, 730. Those numbers are before tonight. But you get the point.

He has rarely ever struck out three times in a game. And he has never, well, until tonight, struck out four times in a game. But again, the Mariners changed that tonight. Gilbert had three strikeouts of Soto. Gilbert is the first pitcher in Soto's career to strike him out three times in the same game. And then Andres Munoz to record the second out in the top of the knife, struck him out with a backdoor slider, nasty backdoor slider to Soto to make it four.

Juan Soto wore the golden sombrero for the first time in his major league career tonight. Yeah, let that sink in. Again, let me read you the numbers again. 19.2% career walk rate, 17.3% career K rate. Dude doesn't strike out ever, let alone three times and then four times in a game. Hell, it was even impressive when he struck out the first time. When Gilbert got him the second time, I was like, oh my God, this is an incredible start from Logan Gilbert. it just got better and better and better and then Andres Munoz got a piece

Again, Andres Munoz's revenge game of course Matt Brash revenge game didn't go that great But still scoreless outing for Bat Brash so good stuff A. J. Preller down in San Diego weeping knowing that he's about to get fired for making trades like Matt Brash for Taylor Williams like Andres Munoz Ty France Taylor Tremelo Luis Trens for Osinola, Dan Altafila, and Austin Adams. Yeah. Yeah. It's a really good night.

The Marys have won six in a row now. The Blue Jays lost to the Cleveland Guardians tonight, so the Marys are now two back of the third and final wild card in the American League. And it really feels like they're going to do this. It really feels like the magic is back. Doesn't it? Let me know in the comments below if you think the magic is back. for this team. I do. I think so. I definitely think so.

Unfortunately, they weren't able to pick up a game on the Astros because King, King Felix, Batista over in Baltimore gave up a go-ahead grand slam to Kyle Tucker in the top of the ninth in that game. Orioles had a six to three lead. I think they were actually up six to nothing at one point or maybe six to one, something like that. And yeah, they blew that lead. So, I mean, Unfortunately, the Mariners did not get any help from their next opponent who's coming to town for Felix weekend. Obviously, Logan Gilbert, getting the festivities started early on that front by having a Felix-esque performance tonight.

But still, great night for the Mariners. Great night for the pitching staff. Great nights overall in the standings, even though, again, they didn't get any help from the Orioles. But they did get help from the Guardians. and they're continuing to put some distance in between them and the rest of the teams that are kind of in the mix there in the wild card. Boston got obliterated by the Kansas City Royals tonight, 9 to 3. I'm actually trying to see what the score of the Rangers game was.

Yeah, they beat the brakes off of the A's. So no help there either. So no help on the division front, but some help there in a wild card race. So again, overall, great night for the Mariners. Lastly, let's talk a little bit about this offense. The first, a reminder of this episode of the Lockdown Marys Postgame show is brought to you by eBay Motors. And I'm going to need to bring up the ad here. Apparently, I didn't get prepared enough and did not have the ad right here on my Google Chrome.

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You can catch game two of this series tomorrow night on the Marys hometown broadcast with SiriusXM via the SXM app. Again, presumably that is going to be Emerson Hancock's major league. debut really looking forward to that Colby and I will be talking about our expectations for that one even though we already kind of did that earlier today on the earlier show

the AM show whatever you want to call it we're going to go over that some more tomorrow but yeah exciting stuff on that front all right so I want to wrap up here talking a little bit about this this offense which again wasn't good tonight

well it was good until they had runners in scoring position right which I'm sure a lot of you right now are typing furiously away at your keyboard saying well that's that's just marrida's baseball and it feels like that but again need I remind you that the numbers actually show that the mirror is really good with bases loaded especially this year but yeah not tonight uh eugenio swores was a big part of those uh struggles as well three strikeouts of the night two of them coming in those key situations with opportunities to put some runs on the board. They ended up scoring their first run of the game on a pitch clock violation, which resulted in ball four with bases loaded to Cal Raleigh. And that pitch clock violation was committed by a former Mariners prospect, I guess you call him. I mean, technically he was a prospect, but he was like 27 years old when they traded him. a lefty reliever Ray Kerr who went over with,

ooh, what was the other guy's name? I'm spacing. Oh, Corey Rozier. Corey Rozier. He went over to the Padres with Corey Rozier in the Adam Fraser trade in November of 2021. So got to see Ray Kerr had no clue that he was on the Padres of roster until they showed him on the broadcast, warming up in the bullpen. And I was like, oh, hey, that's Ray Kerr. All right.

Anyway. But, yeah, he wasn't particularly good tonight, but the mayors weren't able to take too much advantage of that. But they were able to get the first run off of the, on the board off of Kerr, thanks to his big oopsie, as we'll call it. And then Dillamore with a triple over the head of Trent Grisham, a couple of innings later gives the mayor some insurance there with the second. run that scores Tom Murphy all the way from first. And that was it. Again, the Mariners really struggled with runners and scoring position, but overall put together a pretty solid night, right? Like Julio had some good at bats.

JP went three for four. There were some good nights, you know, throughout the lineup. But still, when they needed that big hit, they just weren't really able to get it for the most part tonight. So that was really frustrating. But thankfully, you know, the pitching was so. out of its mind tonight that it didn't even matter the Padres weren't scoring tonight so the Mariners at the end of the day did their job and they won six straight like I mentioned and

they are now two games back of the third and final wild card and the American league that's going to do it for me thank you so much for joining us here on the locked on Mariners post game show or joining me here on the lockdown marries post game show I'm kind of on autopilot and I just you know say the things that I typically say when I got cold We're here, but Colby is working tonight. But yeah, thank you for joining me here on the Lockdown Mariners Postgame show. I'm Tadang Azales. Be sure to give the show a follow on Twitter at LO underscore Mariners.

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