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Episode Date: April 11, 2023

The Mariners have suffered their second consecutive extra innings loss and third of the year, this time falling by a score of 3-2 to the Cubs at Wrigley Field. Colby and Ty go over some of the head-scratching decisions by Scott Servais, Seattle's offensive struggles, Luis Castillo's solid day on the mound, Jarred Kelenic's monster home run, and more.We’re raising money for Feeding America! 34 million Americans are food insecure, including 9 million children. Feeding America turns every dollar raised into 10 delicious meals to feed the hungry. We have set up a direct donation fund you can access by heading to https://teamfeed.feedingamerica.org/participant/13390 If you can’t donate, remember that we are donating 10 cents for every new YouTube subscriber we gain in the next month. By hitting the subscribe button, you’re donating one meal to somebody suffering from hunger!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 | @CPat11For more of Ty and Colby, check out their Patreon: patreon.com/controlthezone/Ultimate Pro Baseball GMTo download the game just visit probaseballgm.com or look it up on the app stores. Our listeners get a 100% free boost to their franchise when using the promo LOCKEDON (ALL CAPS) in the game store.RocketMoneyStop throwing your money away. Cancel unwanted subscriptions -- and manage your expenses the easy way -- by going to RocketMoney.com/lockedonmlb. 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.

off their three game series with the Cubs with an absolutely infuriating extra innings loss. Our thoughts on what happened tonight coming up. Colby, hit it. You are Locked on Mariners. Your daily Seattle Mariners podcast, part of the Locked on podcast network, your team every day. It is Monday, April 10th, 2023. This is tiding Azales and Colby Bennett for the Lockdown Mariners Post game show brought to you by Ultimate Baseball GM.

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The link as well as our social accounts is also in the description below. 3-2, the final from Wrigley Field, another Mariners loss and extras this time to the Chicago Cubs. And Colby, before we get into anything else here, I know you want to talk about the J.P. Crawford Fund. So floor is yours. Let's just get that out of the way. Oh, coming in strong. it is the dumbest thing I have seen in baseball this year without exception. What is the virtue of playing for one run as the away team and extra endings?

By the way, J.P. Crawford, awful bunter. He's not good at it. We've seen it time and time again. He's not good at bunting. Dylan Moore, not good at bunting. And what does Scott ask them to do every single time they get in that situation? Hey, go do something you're really terrible. at and get it done at a high leverage.

And what is the payoff if he gets that job done? They intentionally walk Julio and now any ball on the ground and you're out of the inning without a run. And by the way, let's say they intentionally walk Julio and tie Francis to sack fly, right? And now you're up three to two. Who cares the other team can tie the game without a hit? All right. And by the way, your bullpen is down and you have a guy out there who you're using who has

on a good day, 45 grade control. maybe today was more like 35, like it has been for most of this year. There is absolutely no reason whatsoever to play for one run because scoring one run in that situation is essentially the same as scoring zero. You have to assume that you are going to lose that game. Maybe you score zero or one run. And by the way, here's the other problem with this. Scott couldn't afford to get to the 11th.

He didn't have the extra arms to use tonight. So scoring one run in the hopes that maybe you can get to the 11th is an idiotic strategy in and of itself because you don't have the arms to cover these extra innings right now. All right. So there's zero part of that strategy that makes sense. Nothing about that makes sense. And if you don't trust J.P. Crawford to get a hit in that situation, then you shouldn't be your starting shortstop. It's very simple. Maybe he doesn't get it.

He probably doesn't because you know why? every single batter who walks up to the plate at any given moment is highly unlikely to get a base hit. That's just math. That's statistics, right? But your odds of winning that game are so much higher if you let JP swing. Because what's the worst thing JP could do? Hit into a double play. Okay, Julio's up with a guy on third and two outs.

How is that any worse than what you were just putting yourself into? It doesn't make sense. It's beyond moronic that Scott continues to do this over and over and over again with JP Cross. You have to let him hit or he shouldn't be in your lineup. If you trust JP to play every single day at the shortstop position for you, then you have to stop asking him to do things he's not good at. J.P. Crawford has never been a good bunter. It is not in his skill set.

Stop asking him to do it. He's not good at it. It's the same idiotic idea that maybe he can steal some bases this year. Stop. Understand what your player's strengths are. Play to them. Okay. J.P. Crawford is significantly more likely to get a base hit or draw a walk there than he is to lay down a good punt that leads to multiple runs being scored.

That is the key. When you are the away team, you need multiple runs in extras to feel like you have a shot to win, especially with a down bullpen. And when you're throwing out a guy right now who's really struggling to know where the baseball is going. It's moronic. It's beyond moronic that Scott would continue to ask players to do something they're not good at. and we see people with platforms right now onto it. Is it really too much to ask for JP Crawford to lay out on a good punt? Yes, it is. He's proven it time and time again that it is too much to ask, so stop asking

him to do it. It's not rocket science. What are your players good at? Ask them to do that. Stop asking him to do things they're not good at. And they've proven over a half a decade in Major League Baseball that they're not good at it. Stop asking them to do it. It's the antithesis of putting your guys in the best position to succeed. And this game for me, really, about 80% of that clubhouse tonight gets an F.

And that includes Scott's service. This was terrible. Not only the decision to bunt, I didn't like the decision to pinch hit Kelnick for Pollock, you know, because Paulick is one of your best nine hitters. And he's shown so far that he's at least okay against Ritey's. I would have preferred to hit, you know, to pinch hit Kelnick later on in the lineup. I didn't feel like that moment really demanded that kind of move from service. The one thing, though, that really got my goat was the decision not to walk Nico Horner. The game-winning run is at third and the bottom of the 10th.

Set up the double play. I know Danesby Swanson is on deck, but you got to try and find something here. You got to try and hang on to any little bit of opportunity to make your, way to the 11th inning. And there was nothing beneficial for them to pitch to Nico Horner. There was no benefit to that. No, because Horner is going to strike out about 11 to 12% of the time. That's what he does.

Dan Sby Swanson, the last two years, has posted 25, 26% strikeout rates. You need a strikeout or a ground ball. Horner is going to put the ball in play. I don't care how good your pitcher is and Brash is really good at getting strikeouts. Horner is going to put the ball in play. You have to make that assumption based on the numbers. Dan Sby Swanson has a much higher probability of not putting the ball in play. Scott didn't care.

Yeah. Yeah. So, you know, obviously nothing is going to top the whole Robbie Ray decision in the ALDS. You know, I want to make that clear. But this was a really rough game from Scott tonight. Also, by the way, I thought it was a little odd. They didn't ask Castillo to go out and get a couple more outs, took them out of the game at 91 pitches with the bullpen as thin as it was. I don't know, man.

And you're trailing two to one. Like, I don't understand that decision either. So yeah. Yeah. It just epic failure across the board, with the exception of Louise Castillo. Yeah, no. Castillo, you know, kind of lost himself there for a little bit in the fourth, was able to level out there. It gave them six quality endings tonight.

So, yeah. And then obviously, Kelnick, you know, again, I didn't like the decision to bring and bring him in at the exact. time that they did. But he ends up being a, you know, a big piece of this. I mean, he was the reason that we ended up even having a 10th inning in this game. And the Mariners ended up having a chance to win this game and extra innings. But I, you know, this was just, it was an awful night for the offense. I mean, you know, some of that just bad luck. They hit the ball pretty hard at times. And it just went right to guys, which kind of seems to be the story so far this year. Yeah. I mean, it was a really frustrating.

performance against the pitching staff that let's just be real about it isn't great probably middle of the packs yeah the middle of the pack at best uh it's a roster in general the the cubs have a roster in general that would be really scary if this was 2017 i mean you couldn't score runs off of mark lighter and the corpse of brad boxburger today yeah think about that for a second Brad Boxburger hasn't been a good reliever for about half a decade. You couldn't do anything against him. Yeah. Yeah.

The Cubs bullpen is a disaster, and you made them look like they were the 2014 Royals. Yeah. Like, you know, at the end of the day, right, blame whoever you want. Your pitching staff gives up two runs or just two runs in general in nine innings. You should win that game. Yeah. You shouldn't need extras to win that game. Not against this pitching staff.

Yeah. And let's just make it clear, you know, just because we're criticizing, you know, Scott's service. Doesn't mean we think that service sucks, but there are some things that he does that are incredibly frustrating. Yeah, yeah. Fire Scott's service. I bet there's actually going to be a couple of people that do say that. Absolutely. Yep.

Yeah. But there are some things that he does and continues to do that are incredibly frustrating, like the asking J.P. Crawford and guys like Dillamore as well to Bunt and situation. situations like this where it's just it's not beneficial for you. And again, I just don't get the logic behind pitching to Horner and the bottom of the 10th at all. Yeah. Him being on base means nothing to you except for the possibility of, you know,

getting a double play there on Danesby Swanson, which is, you know, highly unlikely, given that it's Danesby, but not impossible. And plus, you could always play for the strikeout because Dansby will strike out a little bit above league average. Warner is an elite contact hitter. Danesby Swanson is not. Yeah. there's nothing about Scott's decisions and extras today that was logical yeah nothing yeah uh just

really disappointing stuff you know again it's very early but uh the mariners continue to lose in very frustrating ways here in the early season and uh it's i'm growing tired of it but you know i can deal with a couple of them but tonight tonight i i i feel a little peeved i'm not gonna lie this this isn't just four and seven it's a bad stretch type of thing i mean it is but the way they're losing is what makes it frustrating because they're leaving the bases loaded against bad pitchers they could win a they could easily be like all right so they're four and seven so they played a loving games they could easily be like eight and three right now yeah and we're not talking about them right we're not even talking about them having to go out and just be like

otherworldly in their play either to get there just make the routine plays yeah play smart clean baseball and you're probably at least six and five probably seven and four yeah defense wasn't great again tonight I mean brash can't play catch from 35 feet away yeah just doesn't set his feet doesn't make a good throw that was atrocious the Murphy throwed a second on the

half attempted seal just terrible set the whole thing up by the way lead off walk comes around to score again yeah lead off walk followed up by an error sloppy defense what yeah yeah wow yeah there's some ongoing trends here from the Mariners that need to be put to a halt immediately. So hopefully they get back to the drawing board here and put a stop to this.

Justin Topa. Yeah, Topa. Hey, Gabe Spire again? Yeah, I mean. These guys keep on showing out. So some silver linings tonight, including Jared Kellnick's mammoth home run. We're going to be talking more about that in just a moment. But real quick, a reminder of this episode of Lockdown Mariners is brought to you by Ultimate

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their third extra innings lost so far this season that does not feel great this is not a spot the mariners have found themselves in much over the last couple of years they have tended to typically win uh these kinds of games but uh chaos ball has not reign supreme thus far now jerry kellnick though continues to stay hot at the dish and he kept the mariners alive in this game there wouldn't have been extra as if not for him he hits a mammoth mammoth 414 foot bomb to tie this game in the top of the ninth 11 miles per hour off of the bat coli first home run of the season for kelnick couldn't have come in a better and more important way but once again the mariner's let Jerry Kellnick down after he has a big two days in a row two days in a row Jerry Kellnick has tried to play hero for this team and uh it just hasn't succeeded and yeah for his teammates to uh drop the ball literally literally yeah yeah so uh yeah i just

tweeted it feels like every time Kelnick will have a big hit and like the eighth or the ninth or extras. And it's just like, oh, man, that, that's it right there. That is what is going to catapult Jared Kelnick to the next level. And the Mariners' bullpen blows it. I remember very vividly he had a pinch hit, go ahead, two-run homer against Tampa last May, I think it was. And Paul Sewell immediately gave up a three-run homer in the ninth yesterday and today.

I mean, I don't even need to tell you guys what happened. You saw it. So someday Jared Kelnick will hit a true walkoff and it will be magical. But for the love of God, I mean, can you just let the man have his moment once? Yeah, for real, for real. I feel bad for him, man, because like he's doing everything he can right now to put the team on his back, like Greg Jennings. And it's just, it's not happening. It's just the Mariners continue to say no, you shall not pass, Jared.

And it's, it's incredibly frustrating for a guy that's really, it seems like, He is really starting to turn the corner here. It was really nice to see him get into one. Wasn't a huge fan of his first at bat. He swung at ball four. Did hit the hell out of the ball. It just went right to Mark Lider's glove. But.

Not to look at the Exavilo. Oh, was the Exavilo? It was only like 83 or something like that. I thought that was one of the 100s. No, no. I was looking at. I was Colton Wong. I was Colton Wong's.

Okay. I thought Colton Wong. Yeah. I remember they had three or four hundred plus mile per hour hits in that, in that any, well, not hits, but,

you know, batted balls. And I thought, I guess I read it wrong. And I thought Jared was the one, was the first one. Maybe I did read it wrong because it would make way more sense, but just,

no, it wouldn't, it wouldn't make it, because like he swung, like, that pitch was like almost a foot outside of the, outside of the zone into the other batters box. Like,

so I don't know. To be fair to Jared, there was like a 45 to 60, chance that tonight's home plate umpire would have called it a strike just to be fair that that is true that is true that so it was atrocious all night long uh man man a lie that was awful uh but yeah by the way hey colton wong two hits tonight off the bench good for him good for really nice yeah fans booing him former cardinal former brewer sure by the way tonight put put it really into perspective how much the mariners love former n l central players

They have a lot on their team. Yeah. I mean, hey, by the way, you know what? Doesn't happen. Bad players don't get booed on the road for no reason. So I don't know. Maybe Colton Wong is getting booed for a reason. Having never played for the Cubs, I don't know.

Now he's got three hits in his last two games. Yep, and a walk, I think. The bats are getting a little bit better. Hopefully this is a sign because they really need it because, boy, I tell you what, Julio had another awful game today. And Ty France wasn't much better. So dude,

Francis at bat drove me in saying the last one took two piped pitches down the middle of the play What are we doing, man? You were the number two hitter. Take the bat off of your shoulders. What are we doing? Like, come on. Get aggressive, man. Yeah.

And you got a, you got a pitcher who's struggling. He's definitely going to put a ball in the zone. Like, because he's having a really hard time finding the strikes out. Yep. Exactly. Like,

it's just, yeah, that wasn't a great job of, uh, by France to read the situation there, in my opinion. Everybody had awful at bats tonight, though. Nobody had a, you know, just a straight, clean line. Yeah, I mean, look, at the end of the day, you have to hit.

Again, going back to one of the first points I made, if your pitching staff gives up two runs in a nine-in-a-game, you have to win that game. Figure it out. Yeah. Also, Cal Raleigh with another hard hit ball that goes right to someone. Yeah. I mean, I thought that was gone off the bat.

I thought that was a lease off of the wall. Yeah, I thought it was over his head or because I know they kind of have that weird cut out. Yeah. In Wrigley. Yeah. By the way, Wrigley looks pretty good on TV. I haven't seen it in a while. Okay.

I was going to say the opposite. You don't think it looks good on TV? When the Ivy is dead, that ballpark is ugly. That ballpark is ugly. That wasn't great. Yeah. Like when the Ivy is in, sure. Yeah, absolutely.

But I'm, I'm into it. But when the Ivy is dead, I don't know. I didn't like the way that it looked tonight. No. By the way, don't look now. Teoska Hernandez's batting average is almost above 200. Yeah, he got a, what, another single today?

And that was that was it, right? And I think he had another hard hit out. Okay. Yeah. So things starting to turn around a little bit for him. He also had a strikeout against Drew Smiley, which don't give me started on Drew Smiley. I don't want to, I'm so hurt already.

I just, the Mariners have never seen a current. ball and that's the end of that sentence. There is no second part of that sense. I can only assume that the Mariners have never seen a curveball because they had no idea what to do with that pitch. All right. Well, I want to ask you about Luis Castillo and talk a little bit about tomorrow's game because we're once again going to be doing a post game show after tomorrow's game. Hopefully it doesn't run up against the clock like tonight is because you've got to get out of here here in a few minutes. but let's first talk about So Rare before we get into that.

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to the Lockdown Mariners Postgame show. Thank you so much for tuning in here after the Mariners three, two extra endings lost to the Chicago Cubs to start this three game series. Mariners two games away from wrapping up their first road trip of the season. Luis Castillo

got the start tonight and finally allowed a run he actually allowed two runs for the first time in 2023 go six innings pitch six hits two earn runs two walks five strikeouts on 93 pitches he gave up one two three four five six seven eight nine hard hit balls what did you think about castillo's night tonight colby i thought he was pretty good um not great uh he was cruising through the first three innings, but we did notice when somebody got on base and he had to go from the stretch, his command definitely dropped at least a full grade, maybe even a grade and a half. And, you know, it's, you look at the one inning where the Cubs did their damage, how does it start? Lead off walk.

So, yeah, when guys got on base, Luis kind of struggled to find the strike zone consistently. We saw him run a lot of deeper counts in the fourth and fifth and sixth. But overall, he was pretty good. It looked like it was exactly what the doctor ordered early. The Cubs were super aggressive against him, and he was through three innings. I think he had thrown something like 30 pitches, roughly. It looked like, all right, he can go seven or eight tonight. This is great.

This is exactly what you need. And then the fourth just kind of, you know, happened. It happens innocently enough with a walk, but you combine that lead off walk with the fact that Castillo's command really took a hit when he went to the stretch. and the Cubs were able to string some things together. So velocity was fine for this time of the year. I thought the four seamer was pretty good. Overall, I think it was a really solid outing. And again, anytime your starter goes six and gives up two runs, it's good.

Like there's no such thing as a bad two run six inning outing, right? It doesn't matter how many hard hit balls you give up. You found a way. So, you know, it would have been nice to see Scott kind of push him maybe, see if he can you, you know, six in a third, six and two thirds, maybe even seven. I don't know what is what is pitch count limit is. But at this stage of the season, it shouldn't be too much to ask for Cassio to go out there and try and get you another out or two on, you know, 10 pitches or so.

So, you know, we'll see how it looks, you know, we'll see how it looks the pitch count thing, how it builds up throughout the year. But yeah, overall, he was really good. Just the one little hiccup in the fourth inning where he struggled. but it was solid. It was very solid. I don't think it's fair to characterize it as anything less than good. He gave you a chance to win.

That's what's ultimately important here. The offense, offense let him down. That's the story of this game, really. By the way. Offense, some defensive miscues as well. By the way, the bullpen also gave you a chance to win this game. You get walked off.

It's always easy to blame the bullpen, but. No. Topo. Not with an automatic runner. No. Topa was good. Spires looks like a real find right now. He's very good. Seawald was really good. One, two, three inning.

And, you know, Brash gives up a hit. And he gets lost because of it just because he gives up one hit. Not even a hard hit ball. Just a blooper. And he loses. Did your heart sink a little bit when Jan Goams made contact with that one pitch from Seawald there to end the bottom of the night, though. No.

Because like, I, again, this is a lineup that would really scare me if it was 2017. And I was not about to lose to Yon Gomes. Yeah. I was, I was not right. I was not going to be able to handle losing to Yon Gones. Nico Horner, I can handle because he's a good player. Yeah. John Gomes, though.

If Yon Gomes did a walk-off bomb against Paul Seawald in the year of our Lord 2023, no, no, thank you. No, actually. I look at the outfielders when the ball's in the air, and I saw Caldick had a beat on it. So, like, it's just so much. It was just the crack. I don't know. Something about it seemed like the ball kind of jumped off as bad. I'd be interested to know what the exit feel on that was because it kind of looked like it jumped, but it did not travel that far.

Like, it didn't. Yeah, no, it didn't even make it to the warning track, I don't think. It barely did. It was done. Like, Kellnick had to beat on it the entire way. It was a routine play. but uh goam it was a 92.4 so just a little bit below hard hit yeah xBA of just one yeah routine fly ball so no i i you know from years of sitting up in the third level of mariner

games and not having great depth perception i learned when a ball goes in the air just look down at the at the outfielder see how fast they're running backwards yeah if they're running backwards uh oh uh but jare like you had a pretty easy stroll over there so i was like okay that's an out yeah yeah all right um tomorrow chris flexen taking the bump for the mariners he had a really nice start against showy otani and the angels last time out he's going up against hayden wisnski who's not off to a particularly uh great start this year but uh like you mentioned yeah the slider is uh pretty nice 95 with a slider yeah so uh any thoughts heading into that game outside the you know score runs Look, the Mariners, they started this way last year, too,

and it's kind of a similar philosophy that they have to adapt right now. The Mariners are only going to get one or two really good chances to score in any given game. They have to score multiple runs in those innings to win these games. You cannot have the bases loaded with one out and hit a sack fly and say, oh, good enough. No, somebody for the love of God hit a double and let's clear the bases. all right that was really bad timing for the tweet

that I put out today as well about runners and scoring position fewer than two outs for the Mariners I just now I wasn't necessarily trying to say hey the Mariners are good

good at this but look at the other contenders yeah look at the other contenders though like look at the Astros are literally like the worst team in baseball right now with runners in scoring position and fewer than two outs

they have a 36 WRC plus as a team in those in those situations but it's ridiculous so I just look at look at what the Mariners did today. They had two really good opportunities to score runs. They had one in the, what was it, the third? And they had one, or the fourth, and they had one in extras.

What did they get out of those two situations? One. For the love of God, somebody hit a double. I'm not even asking for a salon. Please. Somebody hit a GD double and let's just, let's put up three runs in an inning. We can do that. Like, that's not asking too much.

That is allowed. That's not against the rules. You don't have to play small ball, Scott. You can go for more than one run at a time without trying to hit him. Real quick. Real quick, shout out to Cooper Hummel. He had a nice diet at the play. No, he didn't.

Why? Dude, he made the biggest base running air you can possibly make. Aside from perhaps getting picked off a third base as the winning run by a left. Well, yeah. Yeah, yeah, that was not good. But, I mean, he did have the double before that happened. Before that happened. And none of it mattered.

Because Hummills a moron who doesn't know. Find out where the shortstop is behind you before you would try to advance on a ground ball with nobody out. I'm trying to be nice here. I'm trying to be nice, man. Just let me. Nobody out. If you're not 1,000 percent sure. Yeah, you shouldn't be going on contact.

You get your foot on the bag and you stay there and you thank the Lord that you're in the majors for another day. because you know what, that's a fast way to get sent back down to AAA. And Colmanch is down there doing his thing, you know. To be fair, I did say at the plate. I didn't say on base. Oh, because he had a bloop double down the line. Whoopty-do. And he walked once.

Look, man. No, no. By the way, stop giving Cooper Hummel. Stop giving him at bats against lefties that belong to Jared Keldick. Why are we pretending that Jared Kemp absolutely has no shot to hit any lefties? Why? Answer me that in the conference.

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