Locked On Mariners - Daily Podcast On the Seattle Mariners - MARINERS POSTCAST: Seattle Mariners IN FIRST PLACE after routing Los Angeles Angels

Starting point is 00:00:03 This is the Mariners Postcast. Your instant game reaction for the Seattle Mariners. Part of the Locked-on Podcast Network, your team every day. All right, I'm going to try and do my radio play-by-play announcer thing here. Eight was great. Nine is mighty fine. I like it a lot. Guarantee Rick Riz just did that, by the way.

Starting point is 00:00:32 I mean, if he did, I swear to God I didn't hear it. I'm not trying to copy him or anything, but it's just, it's what everyone does. When you go through these types of winning streaks, man, nine in a row for the Seattle Mariners. And my God, can we just petition to play every game at home? Can we petition play every game at home for the Mariners and then on the road for the Seahawks. Can we just switch those? Yeah, it's kind of weird, isn't it? It used to be kind of the opposite.

Starting point is 00:00:57 Yeah, right? Instead of half and half, like, can the Mariners take all the Seahawks home games and the Seahawks take all the Mariners' road games? I'd make that trade, right? Sure. Yeah, yeah. I mean, I think the Seahawks might get a little mad at you because of money, but... Yeah, you're probably right. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:01:14 But John Stanton, with the extra money he'd get, can probably pitch in a little bit. Oh, I'm sure. He's well known for that. Yeah, he likes to give money away when it isn't necessarily monetarily valuable. But, oh, man. Welcome to the Mariner's podcast, Anderson Harris, Chris Crawford, with you. The Mariners just absolutely shellack. the Los Angeles Angels.

Starting point is 00:01:36 I don't even look, 11 to 1, I believe, the final score. 11 to 2. 11 to 2, that's right. That's second solo shot. George Kirby was fantastic. I liked the decision to not let him go 7, by the way. He was at over 100 pitches, just kind of, you already won the game. We'll get to that in a little bit.

Starting point is 00:01:53 Offense was great, couple really good endings. And boy, the Mariners needed a game like this where there was no stress in it because this bullpen needed a rest. And they absolutely got it today. So Chris Crawford, initial thoughts on today's game. Your Seattle Mariners are in first place on September 14th, folks. It's, it's been a while. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:02:17 It's been a while. I can't remember it. I mean, I remember 2001 for a lot of reasons, and in part because it was a very fun Seattle Mariner year, but also other stuff. And the Mariners clinched later than they were going to because of that, stuff. And this is obviously very different, but it's just so cool to see this team playing. We've talked about it all year, Anders, the ceiling and the floor of this team.

Starting point is 00:02:48 And the ceiling of this team is just phenomenal. Phenomenal. And, man, everything was so good today. The offense was spectacular. George was spectacular. the results behind the Seattle Mariners today were spectacular. Finally. Finally. Thank you, Atlanta. Thank you, New York,

Starting point is 00:03:14 metropolitans, who are, boy, the third wild card spot in the National League is quite the pillow fight right now. And, man, that was just, this was fun. Those last two nights, last night was fun, you know, watching Brian Wu and all that stuff. But seeing everything come together like this, as we have seen the last two Sundays. The last two Sunday.

Starting point is 00:03:37 All year for this Mariners team has been a good day. It's been really fun to watch them finish series off, even the ones that they lose. They've always found a way it seems like to get that job done on Sunday. But the Seattle Mariners played like a World Series contender today. And they have now for nine weeks. Craig, I thought they were absolutely done so. I don't think you're alone.

Starting point is 00:04:00 Here's a little sidebar thing. I started planning a vacation. I started planning a vacation. Like, you know what? I'm going to need to do some stuff. And you guys all know that my year has been rough pumpkins. And I needed something. So I started looking into it.

Starting point is 00:04:18 I'm sure glad I didn't book anything because, man, I think this team has a chance to be special. And just getting this out of the way and make sure you subscribe to Ty and Cole because they'll talk about this. Yeah. They still got the most important road trip. in the history of the Seattle Mariners coming up. And I don't think that's hyperbolic. I don't think it is at all because of what you have a chance to do

Starting point is 00:04:40 because of what you haven't done over the last 24 years. Yeah. But this was special stuff. And the Seattle Mariners, you beyond control your own destiny now. It's completely in your grasp. What you do over these next dozen games, it's really special. Quick shout out to James. Really, you know, for those on the podcast,

Starting point is 00:05:03 James says my wife passed away Saturday morning. I appreciate that you are here with us today. And hopefully, I know it by no means makes up for your loss. But hopefully the Mariners are giving you some solace in your life right now because God knows that we all go through things. So we really appreciate you hanging out with us and we're here for you, man. So a quick shout out to James on that one because you're a regular and we appreciate being with you being with us.

Starting point is 00:05:32 We love you, man. Thank you for letting us know, but are everything with you, man. Yeah, yeah. We really, and we appreciate how, you know, we're a part of your life. So thank you so much. Anyways, back to Mariners baseball here. This was just about as complete of a game as you can get from your Seattle Mariners. Let's start with the start with George Kirby.

Starting point is 00:05:55 It looked fantastic today. Finally starting to get that command back, I feel like, because he was dotting up that backdoor sinker. lot today. And yes, you got a few calls from the Empire. It looks like the Empire once you saw the score was like, hey, let's just, let's get out of here, you know. But no, I don't, I don't care. Like, George Kirby did what he needed to do today and he needed this bounceback effort. It was nice to see Furious George, furious in a different way than we've seen Furious George as late. And, you know, if you want to point to the fact that the angels are 10 pounds of crap in a

Starting point is 00:06:32 five-pound bag. They are. They are really, really, really bad. And they're going to swing and miss a lot. I believe George Kirby has about 87% of his strikeouts this year against the Los Angeles Angels. Don't look that up. I would not be surprised.

Starting point is 00:06:47 Don't look that up. And by the way, I love that Dan gave him a chance to go get that final out too. Like, you know what? Go do this. Go tie your record. Two runs is not indicative of how George Kirby pitch. tonight whatsoever. There was one bad pitch, one. And it broke up the perfect game. It was a pitch right down the middle of the plate that got absolutely hammered. And I still don't know

Starting point is 00:07:13 how that second Homer got out of the park. Yeah. That was a perfect pitch. Perfect pitch. And it just better piece of hitting by Paraza. He's been against the angel special. But let's see if we get this version of George Kirby going forward because everything was located for strikes today. I'm looking at the strikeouts right now. Nine on the four scene fastball, three at the sinker, one off the slider, one off the knuckle curve. Fastballs can beat the Los Angeles Angeles of Vanaheim. We saw it yesterday. We saw it the game before that. We saw it the game before that. Let's see what happens on the road here, but this is, this felt like get right, George. Yeah. This felt like it right, George. And it felt like that when he had the 14 strikeouts earlier,

Starting point is 00:07:58 in the year too, right? And it did lead to some good stuff. Yeah, he goes... He goes... He goes... He goes... Six point one innings, three hits, two runs, both earned 14 strikeouts. They have 14 on... 14, yeah, he ties that... How do you got 13?

Starting point is 00:08:18 No, 14. He did get to 14. Yeah. Got it. All right, sounds good. That's my bad for even questioning MLB.com there, but... Anyways, on the other side of the break, we'll talk about this offense. We'll talk about how special some players are playing right now, and then one player is not. But some guys got some rest today,

Starting point is 00:08:40 which is absolutely needed at this point in the season. Any day where you can get some guys off their feet for half a game is so, so, so important. Cal gets number 54. I don't even know why it took me eight and a half minutes to get to that, but Cal Raleigh gets number 54 to tie Mickey Mantle for the most home runs by a switch. and major league baseball history. So we'll talk about that here on the other side of the break here on the Mariners Postcast. Stay tuned. We'll be right back.

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Starting point is 00:12:58 That's Nutraful.com promo code locked on MLB. Welcome back to the Cs. Gosh, we already did the Seahawks Squads show. Welcome back to the Mariners. If you did hear us earlier today, thank you for coming to the Mariners postcasts as well. On Locked on Mariners, Anderson Hurstier, Chris Crawford with me as well. Mariners win this one for a four game sweep. First four game sweep of the season.

Starting point is 00:13:26 And as Chris, he says, next 12 games have me at the edge of my seat. As Chris said earlier, this is a huge road trip. I think, and I'm not saying that, And we talked about this one, the Mariners at the beginning of August, went nine and one in their first 10 games. And then, you know, I remember Chris saying that gave you a little bit of wiggle room on the road trip. I was a little pushbacky. I was like, no, you got to keep this good run going. I'm going to be flip-flop here.

Starting point is 00:13:54 I'm going to say because you were so good in this homestand, I mean so good, that you have gained yourself. I understand you're at this time in the season where every win means everything. You're not going to win the rest of your games, period. End of story. I mean, if that happens, I would be very much appreciative of it, but it won't happen. Okay. So I hope they prove me wrong. I hope Etsy which proves me wrong.

Starting point is 00:14:22 But it just, you've gained yourself a little bit of slack for this upcoming road trip. If something were to happen, I don't think it will. because I feel like I'm really confident with where this team is at right now. But like I said, we've been in this position before. I don't know what you think, Chris Crawford. No, I would agree with you except for the fact, the fact that it's Houston makes it that there is no legal room in that case. What it does allow is, again, Ty and Colby will talk about more about this.

Starting point is 00:14:51 A series loss to Kansas City doesn't become as big of a deal. It just doesn't because you're going to have a chance to make up for it. And by the way, some people asking what the Seattle Mariners magic number is right now. So what's interesting is Cleveland has kind of changed things a little bit. Your magic number to clinch a playoff spot over the Texas Rangers is 10. Your magic number to clinch a spot over the Cleveland Guardians is 11. I think I'm doing that math right. Yeah. No, I'm sorry, it is 10 and it is nine over the Texas Rangers. I forgot the Mariners have 82 wins. Yeah, they still have to play well. There's no question.

Starting point is 00:15:32 about that obvious point is obvious for sure that's the big thing right you can't be have such a big difference between home and road no absolutely not no you're 100% right and Kansas City still a tough little team I'm excited to see what Julio's going to do because it seems like every time he goes to Kansas City some absolute magic happens but yeah this is great this is great you have you have some wiggle room what's interesting is and again stay tuned to Ty and Colby what a fascinating series the Rangers and Astros has become. Yeah. Because either way,

Starting point is 00:16:05 something good's happening for the Mariners, either way, something potentially bad is potentially happening for the Mariners. We'll see. I think you have to root for the Rangers in this series now. There's no question about that. But yeah, it's pretty cool stuff. Seattle Mariners' offense was fantastic today, Anders. Just fantastic.

Starting point is 00:16:25 Who is your standout? Probably Jorge Polanco, three doubles. But you had something really special happen today. And this is a homer I've been looking forward to a long time. I think I mentioned it once before. Cal Raleigh with his 54th homer. It ties Mickey Mantle. What's special to me about 54?

Starting point is 00:16:47 And this is silly, just math stuff. 54%. Is that what it is? No. Oh. I didn't even think of that number. What it is, it's 33%. It means you've homered once every three games.

Starting point is 00:16:59 It guarantees even if he doesn't hit another homer the rest of, the rest of the year. I think you will, guys. It guarantees that number. It guarantees that you homered one out of three games. And that is just such an incredible stat for anyone for your starting catcher. It's just a different level. It is. You can tell me anything you want. It's different when it's your backstop that is giving you that type of result. So, man, Cooleo absolutely destroyed a couple of baseballs today. Two baseballs hit over 112 miles per hour. The three doubles from Polanco.

Starting point is 00:17:36 The only guy who struggles today is Aeohaniosuars. Other than that, everybody took good at bats. And here's what I'll also say. I saw a couple of swings from A.ohenio Suarez today and yesterday that suggests he'll be okay to finish the year. In fact, I'm predicting a big road trip from Suarez based on what I thought because he just fouled off a couple. It's similar to what I've seen from Julio at times. When he starts

Starting point is 00:18:00 fouling those balls off into the left field corner, sometimes into the right field corner, I feel like that's when the timing's about to come. And he just missed on a couple of today. The strikeout against the pitchers, the thing everyone's going to point to. And yeah, that sucks, right? I'm not even sure if that was a strike, but hey. He's not even swinging though. Yeah, that's, that was my issue there. And maybe that was a little bit of a, Eugenio saying, I'm not taking this too seriously. He sure took it seriously the last time he faced a position player. Yeah, I did.

Starting point is 00:18:32 I think he had his last home run. Yes, it is. Long story short, everyone good, Gino not so good. Yeah. Yeah, for me, it's like, it seems like, and I don't know nothing, a lot of people pointing that he seems distracted. I don't know if something's going on in his non-baseball life. I don't want to speculate on anything on that front.

Starting point is 00:18:53 but to me it seems like he's sacrificing his at-bats slash approach for figuring out his timing. And like, because I'm used to him having an elite approach where he takes anything that's on the corners and sometimes he'll get rung up in that way. And yes, he still has whiff in his game. But then any miss, like from the pitcher, I mean, any missed pitch, he hits misses. And that's just kind of what he does. and when he lines one up, it's, he gets hotter than the sun. But to me, it just seems like he's trying, he's sacrificing all of that.

Starting point is 00:19:29 He's like, I don't even care if I strike out four times today. I'm figuring out my timing. Yeah. I need to get that right. Uh, that seems like to me what he's going through right now. I don't know if that's what you see as a more professional eye or anything like that, but I'll, I'll, the only reason I would even kind of push back on that, other than that, and you brought it up perfectly, um, of course you did, um, that we

Starting point is 00:19:52 don't know. We don't know what's going on. He was so good to start September. Yeah. He was so good to start September. It's just been some bad bad bad bit luck, but a lot of strikeouts. And swinging at that O2 slider, it's gotten him. It's just gotten him as of late. Thank God that the Seattle Mariners have been so good everywhere else that it hasn't mattered. Yeah. But we need Gino back. We need that Gino that was a He's also made a couple good defensive plays. Totally fine defensively. Totally fine.

Starting point is 00:20:28 And that sounds like an insult or something like that. No, it is, his defense has not been an issue for the Seattle Mariners whatsoever. Is he as good as Ben Williamson with the glove? Absolutely not. Is he still infinitely better offensively than Ben Williamson? Yeah. You bet your sweet bippy. Yes, I heard it.

Starting point is 00:20:47 Yeah, it's just like, I'm fine with him right now. I understand there's frustration. and he's going to go through slumps. It's just who he is as a hitter. Real quick. I love, I mentioned this last night. Yeah. Love what Dan Wilson has done with the batting order.

Starting point is 00:21:01 Yes. I love, love, love. Because, yeah, Suarez, you know, he has the homers. He has the RBI. He's not as good of a hitter as those five guys who are playing ahead of him right now. He's just not. So he should be hitting sixth. What a hell of a weapon you still have is a six-place hitter there, right?

Starting point is 00:21:18 Like, terrific game from J.P. Crawford. He looks like he's starting to figure some stuff out again. Awesome game from Dom Kanzon. Awesome game from Leo Rivas with those three walks. Josh Naler with three RBI. Randy, I'm kind of a tough one, you know, but this offense is really good right now. This offense is really, really good. Please carry it over to this road trip. Thank you for saving some runs, by the way. They were like up 11-0-0-0-1-3, something like that, and then said, no. We're saving some for the road trip. No more.

Starting point is 00:21:57 We are good to go. Mariners win this one, 11-2. George Kirby was excellent. Offense was excellent. A lot of good positives to win their ninth in a row. You mentioned a stat about Jorge Falunco. I'm going to let you say it since you found it out. Oh, sure.

Starting point is 00:22:13 So he doubled three times today. By the way, I definitely asked Alex Mayer and Sarah Lang's the last time someone has hit three doubles and hit into a double play. We'll see which one response first. The winner gets the golden hon moon. Shout out K-pop demon hunters. He tied a record today of Jim Presley's. He's doubled in seven straight games, guys. That's a week worth of two beggars.

Starting point is 00:22:40 That's such an impressive stat. He's on one right now. He is absolutely on one. You could argue that he needs to be hitting higher in the order right now. I don't know if you really want to mess with anything right now. I think you go about Gino, honestly. And yeah, that's the right call that they've made to have Polanco. He hit clean up yesterday and then he hit fifth today.

Starting point is 00:23:03 He's been so good. And we've mentioned it all freaking year. When this offense is good, Jorge Polanco is a major part of that good. As good as Julio is, as MVP, and I still think I'd vote for MVP for Big Dumper. It's not going to happen, but I still think I would make that vote. Jorge Polanco has just been the catalyst to me. He's been that catalyst, and, boy, I want him back next year now, too. I don't think it's going to happen, but I want him back in the year of Our Lord 2026.

Starting point is 00:23:34 Yeah, I mean, look at us. He's in this recent hot stretch, he has an 825 OPS this year. Like, that's really good guys. especially nowadays, guys. Yes. 825 is the old 9-10, right? Yeah. Just make it up numbers out of my, you know,

Starting point is 00:23:52 it's true. Man, he's been good. Man, oh, man, he's been good. And it was great to see Canzon figure some stuff out. Yep. And if you get JP Crawford hidden at the bottom of the order like this, could be special. Could be special, guys.

Starting point is 00:24:08 Let's keep it rolling. Mayors have an off day tomorrow before they start their road trip. so good. David Panky, that is so good. Mariners didn't keep Marco, so they need to keep Polo. I'm so happy right now. End this show so I can go, like, sprint, and just puns are so important, guys. I love it.

Starting point is 00:24:30 I love it. We'll end on that. All right. Mariner's didn't keep Marco's the need to keep Polo. We'll talk to you guys on Tuesday. Thanks so much. Real quick, James, once again, we love you, man. Thank you so much for coming.

Starting point is 00:24:43 and all of the best to you and yours. Yes, James, and then everyone else, because I don't want to just say, because we all have stuff going on. We love being a part of everyone's life here. So thank you so much. Really appreciate it. We'll talk to you guys on Tuesday.

Starting point is 00:24:57 Let's go, Mariner's. Let's make this year special for James. Okay, for James. Yeah.

Locked On Mariners - Daily Podcast On the Seattle Mariners - MARINERS POSTCAST: Seattle Mariners IN FIRST PLACE after routing Los Angeles Angels

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