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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. There we go, Munoz. There we go. That's the Andres Munoz that we all know and love. The slider just whipping itself off the table, 100 mile per hour fastballs.

Starting point is 00:00:31 Oh, man, it feels good. The Mariners win this one, 6 to 3 over the Baltimore Orioles moved to 35 and 32 on the season, but it wasn't without strife. It's just, oh, man, the bullpen all of a sudden after being mostly really good all year long is starting to falter a little bit. And, you know, I don't know if there's just something to do with getting them repetition a little bit more often. But, you know, Matt Brash struggles, but then ends up getting out of an inning.

Starting point is 00:01:04 Cooper Chriswell looks great, but they put him out for the seventh, which was a little questionable, in my opinion. Even Emerson Hancock today looked okay, kind of labored through the first few innings, ended up figuring it out a little bit, but did enough to get through five. And it felt like if you had tried to get him out there for the sixth, then it would have maybe unravelled a little bit. but he did well to kind of limit the damage to just a sacrifice fly. And the Orioles can hit, guys. The Orioles can hit. So all in all, you get a good win in a ballpark where the Mariners have struggled kind of recently.

Starting point is 00:01:48 So good, good win overall. Let's start with Emerson Hancock. We start with the start here on the Mariners Postcast. My name is Anderson Hurst. Look, he similar to Munoz yesterday and Brash today. for whatever reason he couldn't land his breaking pitches as much today. So he ends up kind of going four-seem sinker. And, you know, we're at that point of the year.

Starting point is 00:02:13 We're getting close to halfway where it's, I don't want to say, the dog days of summer just quite yet. But, you know, you're past your early season sort of jolt of energy of starting the year. And then you start to settle in a little bit, right? so that can be both a positive thing and a negative thing, positive because you can get yourself in a routine, but when you're like maybe a pitcher and you rely too much on that routine and something gets thrown off a little bit,

Starting point is 00:02:43 or maybe it's a little more humid in Baltimore, and you can't get the grip on the pitch. These little things make a huge difference, right? So, but I got to give Emerson Hancock tons of credit. Like his final line doesn't look great, five innings, three hits, one run, two walks, and three Ks. but he did kind of what he needed to do to win the baseball game today. And that's the thing I want to focus on is the Mariners,

Starting point is 00:03:08 while still not necessarily firing on all cylinders, this was a game where they just needed to do what it took to win the game. They weren't thinking about tomorrow. They weren't thinking about, you know, saving guys for later in the series or anything like that. This is all about today's game. And I feel like when that is the case, more often than not, you can kind of figure everything out later. realize there's smarter ways to go about it, right, when you have multiple options.

Starting point is 00:03:35 But sometimes you don't. I feel like they could have maybe trotted Emerson Hancock out there for the sixth inning, although I don't actually don't hate getting Chris Well for the sixth. However, if you're going to do that, don't try and get two innings from Chriswell. If you're telling me you need to get multiple innings in order to get to Bizarro in the 8th, and then Brash to the ninth, supposedly. I would have rather trotted Emerson Hancock out there for the sixth, Chriswell for the seventh, just one inning,

Starting point is 00:04:10 and then having Bizarro and Brash, right? I don't know if that was the plan going in today. I don't know if they were forced to use Andres Munoz in the end or if he was always going to pitch. But either way, I only want Cooper Criswell pitching one inning. He does well to bounce back after yesterday's outing today in the sixth inning. he looks great and then comes in the seventh and he's the same issues that was bothering, you know, Mariner fans yesterday reared its head today.

Starting point is 00:04:38 So, I mean, there's a lot of different ways to look about this. We'll kind of dive deep into the bullpen usage a little bit later on in the show. But bottom line is the Mariners win the game. They do what it takes to get it done. The offense, score six runs. Like a lot of people are kind of frustrated with the offense. they've actually not been an issue in the last, I want to say, a couple weeks. They've been, I don't know the exact numbers in terms of runs per game,

Starting point is 00:05:07 but I'm looking just at the Mariners game log. And it's just, it's not an issue. It's more like small ball situations. It's getting the big inning instead of just getting one when you have the bases loaded. But it's little things like that that have been bothering this team. It's not big things like the offense can't score runs. They get six runs yesterday. They get, what is that?

Starting point is 00:05:39 Sorry, six runs today, seven runs on Friday, seven run or one run on Wednesday, eight runs on Tuesday. Like, they're scoring runs and enough to win games, especially if you're pitching does its job. So I'm not saying it's a perfect offense by any stretch of the imagination. I still want to see Julio kind of break out a little bit more than he has recently. He's kind of starting to falter a little bit offensively. But he's trading that off and he made two great plays in center field today.

Starting point is 00:06:09 One of them was that challenge play in the bottom of the eighth inning. And it really saved, it literally saved a run. And good on Dan Wilson for challenging that as well. We'll get to that in a little bit. But Josh Naylor, he's the main kind of guy for this game. That grand slam was just an absolute beauty to see. And, you know, you can actually bat flip it when you, when you hit the home run, looking at you, Sam Basalo.

Starting point is 00:06:36 It's just, I would be so mad, by the way, if I were an Orioles fan. And you go from, you know, thinking you hit a game, sorry, game leading three-run, home run, to an inning-ending double play. And you bat flip on it, which is quite hilarious. but it's hilarious because it's not us. But Josh Naylor actually knows when he hits a home run and kind of pimps it a little bit, looks at it, and that was sweet. But Randy Rosarena, again, three hits today, including an RBI.

Starting point is 00:07:09 He continues to be the Mariners' best offensive player. Yes, he gets caught on the base path, and yes, that is frustrating. Cannot happen anymore. It's just too frequent that it's happening. I wonder how much of it is a focus thing and how much of it is an overaggression thing. because they talked about it a little bit on the broadcast that they're going to be overly aggressive, especially when not just on steals, but on sending someone from second base to go score or maybe a shallow fly ball tagging up, right?

Starting point is 00:07:43 They're going to be more aggressive. And I generally am a fan of aggressive base running. I think if you put pressure on the other team to make a play more often than not if it's a 50-50 play, you feel like you should be able to, you know, kind of come through with that because it has to be a perfect, you know, throw and a perfect catch and stuff like that and a perfect tag in order for it to get the out. But you have to have calculated risk, right? It can't just be sending them every single time. And I don't know what the instructions are with Rosarena in terms of his base running. If it's him doing it on his own, if it's EY at first base telling him, hey, get an extra jump here.

Starting point is 00:08:22 I'm noticing with this step. Because you could tell when he did get picked off. It wasn't that he was leaning. He started running. And I forget he was pitching for Baltimore at that time. But I think it was, yeah, I can't remember who it was. But it took him a half second to realize that Randy was off. So that's one of those situations where I think they just write it wrong.

Starting point is 00:08:46 But they need to fix it because you cannot keep getting this many outs on the base paths. I like the aggression. Just dial it back a little bit moving forward. Other guys that get hits today, Cole Young at the top of the order continues his hit streak. Now he goes one for five at the K, not exactly what you want from the top of the order. But you're forced into these situations because of injuries. And that's the other thing, guys. No Colt Emerson, no J.P. Crawford, no Brandon Donovan, no Cal Rale. I mean, at this point, if you're making an entire healthy roster of the Seattle Mariners,

Starting point is 00:09:21 those four guys are playing every single day, right? So that's four of your nine guy, almost half your lineup that is out right now. So piecing together good offensive performances like today is going to be huge. But yeah, I mean, it's big time that Josh Naylor was able to get that home run because it was one of those situations where at least earlier on in the game, it felt like the Mariners weren't going to get much offensively. and relatively understandably so because of who they had in their lineup today. You got Ryan Bliss, Johnny Parade, and Patrick Wisdom as your bottom three.

Starting point is 00:09:59 But, you know, Dom Kanzone gets two hits today, including an 112 mile an hour double. He just continues to mash the baseball. I want to see him play every single day. Luke Riley goes over four. Randy gets three hits. We talked about Josh Nader gets two hits, including a grand slam. And that is enough to win the game. Let's come back.

Starting point is 00:10:22 Let's talk about kind of piecing together the bullpen to finish these games because there's a lot of discussion online about, you know, if the Mariners did the right thing with, you know, piecing together the bullpen. Obviously, they win the game, but process versus result, right? You can still have a bad process and get the right result. Did they do that today? Did they, do you think they did what they should have done?

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Starting point is 00:14:45 application times may vary, rates may vary. Welcome back, Mariner's Postcast. My name's Anderson Hurst. Mariners win this one, six to three over the Orioles. Man, it was a wild game. Lots going on. Let's talk about piecing together the end of this game. We talked about it yesterday with a Munoz blown save.

Starting point is 00:15:06 There were questions regarding this game, even though you get the win. Hancock does well to get through five. I feel like you could have stretched him out a little bit longer, maybe try and get one more inning out of him. But I don't necessarily hate the decision because he was kind of faltering a little bit. Obviously, we talked about not being able to land the breaking stuff, the sweeper specifically. It felt like you were not lucky, but you got what you could out of him through that five innings. And I know you have a short bullpen, especially with the six-man rotation.

Starting point is 00:15:38 So it's not an ideal situation for the Mariners in this one. But you could have probably tried to stretch him out a little bit. And maybe you give up one run or something like that. And that's playing with fire, though. So I don't necessarily hate the decision. And again, we talked about this earlier in the show, the Mariners played to win this game today. And that's what I really, really like to see. So you end up at this point, you hit the Josh Nader Grand Slam.

Starting point is 00:16:04 And the bottom of the fifth, the Mariners, sorry, Emerson Hancock goes not one, two, three, but just he gets the three outs, no runs score. Five to one Mariners after five innings, okay? And then the Mariners in there. sixth, go one, two, three. And then in the sixth inning, you bring on Cooper Chriswell. He does an excellent job, gets one, two, three in his should be just one inning. Mariners go one, two, three again in the seventh. And then Chris Well comes back out for the seventh inning for the Mariners against the Orioles.

Starting point is 00:16:37 So this is where I would have changed things a little bit. I would have gone straight to Brash or Bizarro in this situation. I know Chris well pitched yesterday, and that kind of goes into my thinking with, why are you trying to get multiple innings out of him? I know you're trying to wait with your couple leverage guys until later on in the game, but we need to stop doing that.

Starting point is 00:17:00 We need to stop doing that play. I don't want to say the highest leverage situation is right now, but you have enough guys that you feel good about, in my opinion in high leverage situations that you don't have to save them right use them when they're needed and you're in a winning situation now again you're up by four so it's not a quote unquote save situation it's not a super high leverage i thought it was a perfect place to put edward bazaardo coming in uh not kind of not in a clean inning excuse me sorry um not having to clean up any mess there.

Starting point is 00:17:41 They end up trying to get one more inning out of Chriswell. He walks Kobe Mayo, Blaze Alexander singles, and then you get Sam Huff to ground out, and that's when they go to Matt Brash. Now, I realize Matt Brash has been the guy to kind of clean up dirty innings, so to speak. Come in with guys on base and make sure to put the fire out without a better term for it. He hits Taylor Ward. he walks Gunner Henderson

Starting point is 00:18:10 and then there was a massive challenge by Johnny Parada. It would have been, I think it would have been, it was bases loaded at that point. It was a three two pitch and it is as borderline as it gets with a fastball on the top rail. And Pete Alonzo thinks he's walked in a run and Johnny Parada challenges it. Even Matt Brasch was like, hey, let's get that challenge there.

Starting point is 00:18:35 It turns into a strike and then. And you get Colton Couser to ground out right after that. So it goes from what would have been a walk-in. The base is loaded. Bases would have still been loaded plus a run to the Orioles get no runs out of that after Matt Brash comes in, of course. Excuse me. I forgot about the wild pitch.

Starting point is 00:18:56 So they do score on the wild pitch to score one while Matt Brash is in. But they end up just getting that one wild pitch run. And, you know, it's a massive kind of win for the Mariners there. because that inning could have gotten so gross, so quickly. The Mariners, in their eighth inning, credit to them, add on a little bit. Julio Grounds out, but then Josh Naylor singles for one of his two hits today. And then Randy or Rosarana hits a single after Josh Naylor gets to second on a wild pitch. Just another great at-bat from Randy Roserana, who's been the Mariners' best offensive player.

Starting point is 00:19:34 End of story. against both sides of the plate. If you add in his mostly positive value on the base paths as well with his stolen bases and stuff like that, absolutely has been the best Mariners offensive player all year long. And then Luke really strikes out after that. So you end up adding on. It's six two Mariners going into the bottom of the eighth, right? This is where Edward Bizarro comes in.

Starting point is 00:19:59 See, if I were piecing things together, I would have gone Bizarro for the seventh, brash for the eighth and I still even with his struggles yesterday we talked about it I would have been planning on having Munoz coming on for the ninth inning because of how much better he pitches when he doesn't have a long stretch of rest and you saw that today we'll get to that in a second uh bazaardo gives up a single to tveris walks jackson holiday uh Kobe mail flies out but then blaze alexander singles to make it six three uh basalo comes in for sam huff and thinks he's hit a go-ahead three-run, a home run, and it ends up being a double play because he flies out to the warning track at center field for Julio Rodriguez.

Starting point is 00:20:46 Julio Rodriguez throws out, who was that at second base, Blaze Alexander at second, and originally they said the run scores because he crossed home plate before the tag went down, but he doesn't. Great challenge by Dan Wilson to make sure they get that off. And that run ends up being huge. Even though it doesn't end up hurting you in the game, I felt like a 6-3 going into the 9th versus a 6-4 going into the 9th. It makes a huge difference,

Starting point is 00:21:17 especially the way we've been feeling about Andres Munoz lately. So a great throw from Julio to get him out at second base. I don't know what the Orioles are doing trying to tag up to second with one out or at that point two outs after Julio catches it. just way too much risk with not enough reward for me in that one. Just terrible base running for the Orioles there. You can see why they're 31 and 36. But also a great tag by Ryan Bliss, who also has a good day today.

Starting point is 00:21:45 I want to give him a quick shout out because he's my unsung hero. Gets the sack fly to get the Mariners first run and gets a walk later on in the game. And in that tag, that's, you know what? For a team, you don't have to necessarily be a great offensive player for this Mariners team right now. I think they have enough tools offensively with, you know, Julio at least being, you know, floating water, treading water offensively. Josh Taylor's been heating up as of late. Randy Rosarano, we talked about him. Luke Rayleigh's been awesome. Dom Canzon's been awesome. Cole Young, Colt Emerson when he's healthy, even J.P.

Starting point is 00:22:20 Crawford. You have enough pieces offensively for this team. I think Gliss being a really good second basement or really good wherever he's going to play. I realize that's not his long-term spot with Cole Young can bring a lot of value to this team and he brings some speed. So good for him, unsung hero, Ryan Bliss. Then the Mariners go one, two, three, don't go one, two, three, excuse me. But they don't score run in the ninth. Munoz comes in for the ninth inning and closes it out and looks much better than he

Starting point is 00:22:47 did yesterday, man. It was a huge difference in the way Andres Munoz pitched today versus yesterday. And I think a lot of it has to do with him not, like the way he picks. is the way he kind of contorts his body. It's all about release point for him with that slider. And it was even a little bit shaky at first. But then once he found it, you could tell he keeps going back to that, right? That's why you need to pitch him more often than just in save situations. And I think that's why the Mariners need to change their philosophy with having a quote unquote closer. Just use guys in high leverage spots. You have enough. You have, I think, five guys that I feel

Starting point is 00:23:25 pretty confident in and you're never going to use all five of them in one game unless it's a playoff game and you go to super extra innings of course but you have five guys so you don't have to have munoz close every game i feel good about ferrera brash spire bizardo and munoz right utilize them don't worry about trying to save them for a specific safe situation and use them accordingly um all right the mariners get the win today we'll talk to you guys tomorrow uh Logan gilbert versus Trevor on the mountain. They're facing the lefty. We'll see what the lineup looks like. Hopefully, Colt Emerson is back. But I appreciate you guys hanging out with us in the Mariners Postcast. Mayerers win this one, six to three. They move to 35 and 32 on the season. Talk to you guys tomorrow.

Starting point is 00:24:08 Have a good one. Go, Mariner's.

Locked On Mariners - Daily Podcast On the Seattle Mariners - MARINERS POSTCAST: Seattle Mariners WEATHER THE STORM vs Baltimore Orioles

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