Locked On Mariners - Daily Podcast On the Seattle Mariners - MARINERS POSTCAST: Cole Young WALKS OFF Minnesota Twins in MLB Debut

Episode Date: June 1, 2025

Anderson Hirst and Christopher Crawford react live to Saturday's game between the Twins and Mariners. How did Bryce Miller fair? How did Cal Raleigh homer on that pitch? How good was the bullpen, and how great was it to see Cole Young come through to win the game in the 11th inning.Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors!Wonderful PistachiosGet snackin' and get crackin' with the snack that packs a protein punch. Visit WonderfulPistachios.com to learn more! Supply HouseJoin the TradeMaster program today at SupplyHouse.com/TM and start ordering plumbing, HVAC, and electrical supplies with just a few clicks. Plus, use promo code S-H-5 for 5% off your first order. That’s SupplyHouse.com! Monarch MoneyTake control of your finances with Monarch Money. Use code LOCKEDONMLB at monarchmoney.com for 50% off your first year. FanDuelRight now, new customers can get TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS in BONUS BETS when your first FIVE DOLLAR BET WINS! Download the app or head to FANDUEL.COM to get started. Bet with FanDuel—Official Partner of the NBA. 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) Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

This is the Mariners Postcast. Your instant game reaction for the Seattle Mariners. Part of the Locked-on Podcast Network, your team every day. Outta kid. Outta kid. Cole Young Legacy game. He will remember this one for his entire life. Gets the walk off and the Mariners get the win in game two of the Minnesota Twins series.

I forget what the final score was. Was it four three? It was five to four, my friend. By four, real quick, I have a fun stat that I just saw on my screen. Oh, there you go.

Let's go. Fun stat. Last player to have a walkoff hit in their MLB debut. I just saw this on Twitter, unfortunately. I won't, I won't spoil it for you. Former Mariner or current Lerner legend kind of.

Samad Taylor. So, hey. Yeah, that's kind of fun. You know, hopefully Young's a little better player than Taylor. If we're just being,

uh, keeping it 100, as the kids say. but kind of fun. That's the last two or both of the Mariner organization. Yeah, that's fun. Anderson Hertz here with a host of the Locked on Mariner's Postcast. To my left is Christopher Crawford.

He will help me get through this because I can't do it by myself. I really appreciate you guys tuning in. You guys are awesome for hanging with us. The Mariners, I hope this means new vibes are here. I really, really do because the last three days have been tough for us, Mariners fans. We're going to talk some Bryce Miller. We're going to talk some Cole Young. We're going to talk some J.P. Crawford. And the bullpen. I think it's time to shout them out a little bit because they're excellent today in a good way in ways that we have not seen recently. So

let's get our original thoughts on Bryce Miller coming back. What did you see in his, what, Was it four innings, three point two innings, something like that? Four innings, yeah. Yeah, he did go four. Okay. So how do you think he looked to you, Chris Crawford? Are you worried about something injury related still being there? How did his stuff look to you?

How was Bryce Miller start today? You know, it's an interesting one because it definitely could have gotten a lot worse, right? Like, if you take away the second inning, he doesn't give up any runs, right? So that's good. That second inning was pretty rough, though. And I saw some signs that suggested, boy, it sure would have been nice to get Bryce Miller a rehab start. It sure looked to me like a guy who needed a rehab start. I wonder how much his start was affected by those alarms going off.

For those who missed it, there was a little bit of a delay that happened in this game because of, they called it unsafe conditions for them to continue to play with the alarm going off. That was kind of interesting. But the stuff was just okay. The command was just okay. I didn't notice a big uptick and velocity. People can correct me if I'm wrong, but it looked like he was mostly operating at 94,

which, you know, can work. I kind of prefer to see him in that 95, 96 range a little bit more often because he relies so much on that four seamer and the two seamer as well, of course. But I thought he was just okay. It was far from an abhorrent start. And if you consider it a rehab start and a hope that he gets back on track, I guess my concern is that we've seen a lot of these Bryce Miller starts in 2025. We've seen a lot of very average at best pitching from him.

And I will say this, he is the guy that I am trusting the least of the big five. Of the five starters that you have, like George Kirby's stuff to me has looked excellent. Excellent may be too strong of a word, but it looks wrong. Yeah, it hasn't been stuff. It's been command. And I believe George Kirby will come back and get this command figured out. it's the stuff and the command for Miller that have really concerned me so far in 2025. And, you know, we were talking about this before we started.

Logan Evans is right there. And Logan Evans, while not great and nowhere near as talented as Bryce Miller in the long term and what Bryce Miller has done in his career so far. But you do have an option. You do have an option. And I wasn't exactly overly enthused by what I saw from him today. Yeah, well, let's not bury the lead. Let's get right into the big story. And it's Cole Young makes his debut, has the walk-off hit, question mark.

A deal of a choice. Yeah, I was trying to figure out the best way to explain it. Hey, it's still a walk-off. It's not a walk-off. It's not a walk-off. Put it in play. It's all you got to do, right? Sure. In that situation, yeah, how did he look to you? Like, is this a long-term thing? Are they just going to have him up until maybe they make a trade? Or is this like, he's our guy, right? now for the rest of the year. I think he's their guy. I think he's their guy. Now, if this is a disaster, then you're going to have to make a change. Like, you can't have two guys in your field that just can't flat out hit. We'll talk about another guy in the infield who actually

did pretty well today, two guys in the infield who actually did pretty well today, actually. But I thought he looked good. I love that he came out swinging. He came out in that very first abat. He got a pitch to drive. Just happened to get underneath it, you know. I don't think he looked overmatched in any of his at-bats. And in, let's talk about that in the 10th. Just putting the ball into play, making contact there.

And sure, it was, I think the average ex-velo-or, or the average X-velocity. The exit velocity on that was probably like, negative 4 or something along those lines. He didn't put that ball hard at all. But he put it in play. And what was really impressive to me

was what he did in the at-bat prior, drawing that walk, drawing that walk in the extra innings to make, give them, chance to win that game. I think this was a very solid debut from Cole Young. You know, one for four with an RBI isn't something that is going to like get you in Cooperstown or anything close to it. But all things considered, he had to be a bundle of nerves. And I thought I thought he played a very solid game. Didn't really get a chance to show much defensively, but made it one

chance that I saw handled it with a plum. Very solid debut. And this will be one he remembers for a long time. I think he had a couple double plays turned as well. So it wasn't nothing. in terms of just the defensive, like it didn't stick out, which was a good thing. I think that never was going to be a huge concern. I don't think for him coming up, but you can tell me more about, you know, how he was expected to be defensively. Sure. But I think overall, just for the teams, like the, this was a, I don't need it win.

Like, oh, you had to have it. You can't, you can't continue this skid that you've been on, especially with how bad the vibes have been. Like, you're going to go on skids throughout the season. It's going to happen. But just how the last. four games have gone, I guess three games, but you needed to stop it. You needed to kind of, all right, that's not the team we are.

And it almost looked like it was going to be that again. Yeah. With attacks bullpen kind of going out unable to kind of keep the lead after. Also, another big story about this game is J.P. Crawford, massive, massive, massive home run in what was at the bottom of the seventh inning. Right. And he, on a three, two pitch, just absolutely Kurt donked on one. Yeah, it was so great to see him drive the baseball because, boy, to say he has not been showing any semblance of power whatsoever lately is quite the understatement. So for him to take advantage of that mistake and to just absolutely shellac a baseball was so wonderful to see.

And, you know, the results from the top of the lineup again, we're actually pretty good. They, you'll take what you got. Randy had a little bit of a tough day today, but I will take those results, but it's so great to see Crawford come through in a moment like that. It stinks that it doesn't end up being the game winner, although, hey, without that,

you don't have the Cole Young game winner. And so that was, that was Carlos Vargas being super unselfish and allowing Cole Young to get the game winner instead. Sure, we'll go with that. Why don't we? Why not be optimistic? Why not?

Yeah, so, and Julio gets two hits. Like, JP really good, not just with the home run. He had two other hits as well, three hit night, including a walk. So overall, very, very good. I'm going to, we're just going to get to this now because, like, we didn't, we weren't able to celebrate Cal Raleigh yesterday because of what happened. But let's push that to today and just talk about how great our catcher is. Oh, it's, it's so special.

It's like so special to see this. And I don't think there are many dudes who can hit the home run that he hit today. Because that pitch was up in his eyes. I believe the wonderful Sarah Langs said it was, it definitely was the highest ball above the ground that anyone has ever hit for a home run in Mariners stat cast history. But I think she said it was like four to half feet. That's like two thirds of an Altuve. like up there.

That's impossible. Most guys are just topping that baseball off or maybe they line it foul. If you get real, real good contact, you line it foul. No, he mollywopped that baseball. He absolutely clobbered it. I'm watching it right now on the replay. By the way, Bucky Jacobson, thanks for dressing up, buddy. He's wearing a blue and black flannel shirt.

He just love how comfortable he is. Shout out to Bucky. He doesn't like me, but he certainly likes Sanders. It's just, yeah. It was wonderful to see. And just like he's tied for the MLB lead in homers now. So, he ranks so high in so many categories.

And it's great to see that that home run didn't matter. In fact, that home run was massive because it was 3-0. You were doing jack dittily, offensively, and then you're just back into the game with one swing of the bat. Just one swing of the bat. and man, he's just a special player

and trade Aaron Judge to the Cincinnati Reds. Go let him hit. What would Aaron Judge hit in Cincinnati? Like 85, 5,000 home runs, something like that. Go do that. Go hang out and then let Cal get his MVP. Because, you know, I joked about this on Blue Sky.

Follow me on Blue Sky, by the way. The feeling that I get right now with Cal Raleigh is that Cal Raleigh is the 1995-96 Seattle Supersonics, and that Aaron Judge is the 1995-N-Gy-965-196 Chicago Bulls. The Sonics would have won the championship against any other team that year, or that year, most of years. Like, they were an elite basketball team. They just happened to go up against the greatest basketball team ever put together. Cal-Rolli is having a season, I think he's like on pace for like 10 or 11 wins at this point, some ridiculous number like that. It's over 10.

Well, Aaron Judge is on pace for like 64. So it just happens to be one of those things. But that doesn't mean that we can't. Of course it means it doesn't mean that we can't. Just give Cal Raleigh his flowers because he's having a really special year. Real quick, I wanted to touch on Julio's game because there were two really bad strikeouts today. By the way, I do have to give a ton of credit to Louis Varland. That guy is freaking stupid.

And he made Big Dumber, Randy, and Culeo look quite the full in the fifth inning. In a situation I thought we were going to talk about for a long time today, but it ends up being lost. But he does get the two hits, and we have to talk about that defensive play, because that's one of the best mariner throws I've seen in a very, very long time. And if you choose to ignore that, you're choosing to ignore what Julio Rodriguez is. because what he is right now is a above average offensive player and an elite defensive player, an elite defensive player. And that adds up to a really valuable baseball player.

Of course, Anders and I talked about it. We want to see better, even though his stats in high leverage are better, we want to see him better with two outs and running his scoring position. We want to see him better in some, you know, situations where it may not be considered high leverage, but it could become high leverage. Exactly. It could become high leverage if he does something great in that situation. There's no doubt we want him to be better.

But this version, this six-win version of Julio Rodriguez, is pretty dang valuable too. Yeah. And like, I get it. I have frustration with Julio as well. I think we all have like sky high expectations with him, especially after his rookie year and his second year. No question about it. I took a pretty big step down offensively in year third. And I guess my major concerns with him are that that's the offensive player that he is instead of those first two years.

I hope that the hot streak is coming to where that proves me wrong. Sure. But I definitely like understand that he still brings value to you offensively. No question. Or sorry, defensively. And like because of that and him being a good offensive player, maybe not as good as we originally expected him to be. Right. is a very good baseball player indeed.

Maybe we have to just temper our expectations a little bit, but I don't want a gloss over the Cole Young Day. No, absolutely not. The only thing I just wanted to say real quick, though, is that everything Julio Rodriguez has done over the three years suggests that he will be a absolute monster over the summer. That's what he has done. Now, doesn't mean that you can't be frustrated by what he's doing right now.

I thought May was totally fine. April wasn't good enough. May was totally fine. But I would not be surprised. In fact, I will be surprised if he doesn't put up monster numbers in May. But yeah, today's Cole Young's day. Yeah. Let's give him even more shots because the dude, like, we talked about it yesterday.

We needed a spark on this team. We, like, I think people are now clamoring, okay, now we have Cole Young up. Let's bring, let's bring Harry Ford up for Mitch Garber because that dude can't swing a bat. My God. That's been really hard to watch. Yeah. It's been really hard to watch. And I can't help but wonder if there's something injury related.

there because he's swinging without full force. Like you can see that the swing is just so defensive oriented. And speaking of defensive oriented, our good buddy, Luke Arkins brought up that coming into today, Mitch Carver is striking out looking 40.7% of the time in his strikeouts, which is just unacceptable. It's just not an acceptable number. And it suggests that he is scared to swing the stick. Yeah.

Yeah. And you can kind of see that when he's, you're just, it looks like he's just hoping the pitcher Mitches the strike zone. I totally agree. Yeah. So, and you can't have that in your lineup. Like you can't. Like at that point, he provides no value because.

And hitting in the middle of your order too. Like he's hitting six. That's not, you know, it's not two, three, four. It's not even five by definition. But it is somewhere where you are expecting to get some offensive production. Boy, the Mariners six hitters this year. haven't been good enough. It's been a really big problem this year. And we saw it again. Should we talk about the bullpen real quick? Yeah, I was going to, okay, so we kind of have jumped

around a lot. There's been a lot to get to with this. We are excited to talk about a Mariners win for the first time and a while. If you're just joining us, Anderson Hurst, you're Christopher Crawford to my left. We are the hosts of your Mariners postcast live after every single Mariners game. Don't worry. You guys can catch Ty and Colby every single day still on the, Mariner's Lockdown Mariners podcast. But we got you covered on the weekends. So we're here hanging with you guys right after the final pitch. And we're a little bit later than I expected us to be.

But we're still here. We're still here with you guys. There's a lot of you here, by the way. This is ridiculous. Yeah. Thank you guys. Really appreciate it. Saturday night.

You should be going to a movie. I'm just kidding. No, hang out with us. Hang out with us. Every single second should be spent on lockdown sports. Yes. Yes. Come hang out with us.

Okay. So here's what we're going to do. There's a lot of shouts for Unsung Heroes. So I want you guys in the comments section. First of all, if you're here, please like the video. It helps us a ton if you're liking this video so more people can see it. That'd be awesome. We love when you guys come and hang out with us.

And when we can get a larger community, it becomes so much fun just like it is right now. For sure. Second, let's, I want to ask a couple questions about Bryce Miller because I think there's a lot of, like, should he really be here right now? Should we shut him down for a period of time? should he have had a rehab start. So I'll ask you about that. Lots of shouts for Unsung Hero.

So comment in who you guys think that should be. And then we'll talk about this bullpen because it has been a huge point of contention these last few nights with how they've choked away. Let's be honest, choked away some leads, especially in extra innings. But before we get to all that, Chris Crawford, let's talk about fandom. Please. The NBA playoffs are in full swing. Yes, they are, and every night delivers highlight where the performances, major momentum shifts, and can't miss moments. Whether it's a game-winning shot or a breakout player, there's never been a better time to get in on the action.

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So goes four innings today. Didn't look great. I think this is a different scenario than George Kirby coming back because Kirby, it was his first couple starts of the season. This is kind of his spring training ramping up. He has like basically not pitched in major league situations. Correct. Last year, Bryce Miller already has this year. He's, he has struggled at times. He's had this pain. He won in the IL just for two weeks and just a minimum amount of time. Didn't have any rehab starts. So that's where I'll start with you. Should he have? Should he have gone and made a round? rehab start before coming back. You know, and I'm trying not to be Captain Hindsight here where,

of course he should have, because you see how he pitched. Yeah, he should have had a rehab start because you missed two and weeks of not pitching and you miss two weeks after not pitching all that well before. I just would like to get him a get right, a chance to go to Tacoma and just have a nice little day and see how things look. Now, it wasn't a disastrous start. Again, Matt Walner, who is strong like bull, hits a two-run homer against him, and then a ball just out of the reach of Crawford ends up scoring a run as well. So it's not like he was just getting shellacked. Yeah.

But the command still isn't there for Miller. The command just isn't there. And maybe a chance to go down to Tacoma to work on some stuff and to throw strikes and just pound the strikes them, just pound it and work on building up that endurance, I think would have been the right thing. And again, this is not hindsight. This is something that I tweeted out like right in the back. the first inning because you could tell you know he gets the first two strikeouts and that looks

pretty good yeah from that moment on it didn't look great it did not look great to me I still have all the belief in brys miller in the long term I still think bryce miller probably will help more than hurt the seattle mariners in 2025 I think it was a mistake not to have him make a rehab start before making this out of and then my next follow-up to that would be should we even think about shutting him down for a little bit is it this kind of seems like something that's lingering and that it could affect him in the long term if you keep trying to throw him out there, especially as you mentioned earlier, when you have starters like Logan Evans that have proven, and like I'm not saying Logan Evans is to the talent level of Bryce Miller.

Of course not. He's not there. And especially now as he's still kind of in the early part of his development. But he's, you feel pretty confident about him coming up and, you know, getting you five innings, maybe six if he has a good day, you know, against the bad team. But so it's not like these guys are just this massive drop-off. of like, oh my God, what are we going to do without Bryce Miller? You have the options there.

So it's a little curious to me why they were so adamant on kind of forcing him back into it a little bit. Yeah, it is a little weird. It is a little weird. And maybe it was something where they just felt like rest is all he needs. Rest is all he needs to get back to it. But the velocity and the stuff didn't suggest that that was true to me. Now, here's what I would personally do.

And Ty and Colby can probably talk about this more. Make sure you guys are tuning in to Ty and Colby. that next outing on Friday, I'm probably bringing Miller in after an opener. I'm having somebody throw an inning and then having Miller go three, four innings, something along those lines where, you know, it's less pressure for him to be that starting guy.

And if things screw up, you know, then you're relying on that long-term stuff. I personally would have him, and if it doesn't go well in that start against the Angels, place him right back on the IL. Because look, I'm not asking, it's not even service time. manipulation, and it's not any type of manipulation at all.

If he has a bone spur in his elbow, he is clearly hurt. And you can justify placing a player on the injured list like that. Then you have a revamp, I guess you would say, at a little bit different pace, can make a couple of rehab starts. And because of how good Evans has been, or at least how serviceable Logan Evans has been, you can get away with that much more than you probably thought you could have. And oh, by the way, you're probably getting Logan Gilbert back pretty soon, too. So that's another thing that you have to consider.

But in that next outing, I would personally have probably Colin Snyder, Edward Bizarro, open that game, and then they go one or two innings, and then you bring in Miller for innings three, four, five. Maybe he goes two times through the order. Just see how it goes. Yeah, I don't mind that at all. I think that's kind of a good thing, way to shape things up, have him kind of have a different vibe and how he's coming in and stuff.

not as much prefer going right off the bat against the top of the order. So, yeah, I don't mind that at all one bit. Let's do this. Let's talk a little bit about the bullpen. Actually, you know what? Let's do Unsung Hero and Bullpen in the same thing. Because, like, okay, we have been, almost swarped. We have been crapping on this bullpen for the past couple days.

Yeah, and they've been bad. They've been really, really bad. But it was great to see them really pick up the slack today. They had to go, what is that? Let's go 12 innings. So 11. 11. So they went seven innings.

They went seven innings. And allowed zero earned runs, one total run. The one thing I want to say about the bullpen, and it's not a Carlos Vargas pitching thing, this is the second time that I've seen. One of the stupidest throws that I've seen. Oh, yeah. Just eat the freaking baseball. Just eat the base. This game doesn't go on if that's just a single.

because Byron Buxton, they ended up calling that a three-base air, bull crap. Byron Buxton was going to beat that ball to first base. It was taken a Herculean effort from Vargas and a stretch Armstrong stretch from Rowdy to Les in order to get him. And neither of those things were going to happen. I love my big beefy boy, but that ain't going to happen. No, just eat that baseball. Just eat that baseball because the run comes in after, I believe it was Larnik, hits a ball through a run in-field. That's a double play ball.

That is a tailor-made double play ball you get there. 4-6-3, Bada-Boom, Bada-Bank. It was Larnick, yes. Yeah. So that's the only issue I have. But Vargas' stuff looked good. I especially want to give a shout out to Colin Snyder because Colin Snyder got worked and hurt by his defense.

To be fair, like Lioti Tavaris was playing guess outfield. We talked about it during that recap. But his stuff was so good today. That slider was the slider that we saw in 2024 today. And to be fair, took a Julio Rodriguez absolute seed to prevent him from not giving up a run. But after that, Colin Snyder pitched excellent. Huge shout out to Gabe Spire for giving you an inning and two-thirds there. Yeah.

He just goes that two-thirds, you know, or just even an inning. Boy, you're talking about Casey Lawrence and high leverage. And we love our Toronto to Seattle connection. We love him. No, we don't. Fair enough. We don't love seeing him in high leverage for sure. Yeah.

By the way, somebody mentioned unsung hero here. Umpire throwing out Carlos Correa. That was bonkers. That was wild. The crazy thing is J.P. Crawford is only the second Matt is shortstop that I have seen in this homestown. Yeah, that's wild. Carlos Correa looked like he was going to straight murder homeboy. Like, madder than, again, say it for like the third time.

and four games matter than a wet hand at that umpire for sure once again the umpiring very questionable uh bring a yes it is what it is but all of the bullpen today deserves their flowers even vargas who makes a silly throw at least he limits it to just the one run right like after the base hits and after the after the three base air excuse me and then after the base hit he pitches well he does the job everybody tonight in the bullpen deserves their flowers and consider the absolute crap factory they were over the last two games and extra innings, that's saying something. It's great to say that the Mariner Bullpen has pitched more like the 2020 to

24 version over these last two nights. So that was wonderful to see. And every single one of them deserves Unsung Hero presented by your company here. Yeah. And Jeff makes good point here. They mentioned this on the broadcast. That's Korea's first ever ejection, which is weird. that he did it from the on-deck circle.

Yeah. Yeah, I've never. What? I've seen guys ejected from the dugout. I don't think I've ever seen anyone ejected from the on-deck circle. Like, I see lots of players just chewing their mouth off in the dugout. It's not for the dugout. It appeared to me what happened.

And Wainwright explained this. Real quick shout out to Benetti and Wainwright. They called a fantastic game. I hope we see them calling World Series games. We won't because that's. not how life works. But it looked like he was just like, don't stare at my teammate, like my player.

Like don't stare down. He was upset with a bad call. Don't stare him down. And it escalated real quick. Rocco Baldelli gets ejected. That was as close to a fight, I think I've seen between players. A player and a while.

And I don't blame him. But I was not unhappy to see Carlos Coray leave the game either. Yeah, great. Lots to talk about in this one. Appreciate you guys coming and hanging out with us. Unsung Hero, we're just going to give it to the whole bullpen because we've been crapping on them the last couple of days. They did their job today.

Having to kind of pick up the slack for Miller coming back right off the IL. So it's great to see that they kind of put the vibes behind them from the last couple days. I hope this means that tomorrow you're going to go and win the series. Yep. because it's a must-needed kind of, all right, we're putting this last week behind us, mate, honestly, even two weeks include, like, we talked about it last night. They haven't really played winning baseball since the San Diego suite. No.

The three games in Chicago, you got lucky to take two out of three against one of the worst teams in baseball. You lost three out of four to the cheating Houston Astros. And then you lost two out of three to the nationals who are a below average national league team. and then you start with last night's game and thank God they got this one tonight. Yeah, you can't afford to lose four straight home series. And if you lose Sunday, if you lose today, guarantee it. Even if you lose Sunday, you still end up losing four straight home series. And that just can't, it's not good.

It's not the obvious point is obvious. But you are not going to be an AL West Division winner if you don't win more often at home than not. In fact, you've probably got to win 45 games at home this year in order to have chance to win the division, something along those lines. Well, they're only 15 and 14 so far this year. They're only 15 and 14. And yeah, go win a series. You have to start winning series at home.

And then you get a chance against a bad Baltimore baseball team to make up some ground tube. Yep. Let's hope that happens. Really appreciate you guys hanging out with us. Once again, it's been an awesome stream. Again, if you're new to, we go live right after every single Mariners baseball game on the Locked on Mariners YouTube channel. this is the Mariners postcast

Ty and Colby is kind of the daily stuff Chris and I do the post game show for you I know you got a national broadcast today so you're not getting a lot of local content coming out with us. It's a fun time. We talk to you guys in the comments. We give you an unsung hero every single night

and we break down the biggest moments from the game. So having a great time with you guys. Like the video if you're here. It helps us out a ton to kind of get it to more people and tell your friends. This is a fun little thing we got going on here. Really appreciate you, Chris Crawford. Thanks for hanging out.

I had fun. I did too. Talk to you guys tomorrow.