Locked On Mariners - Daily Podcast On the Seattle Mariners - Mariners Shut Out Guardians on Back of Ty France, Luis Castillo's Big Nights

Episode Date: March 31, 2023

That's Seattle Mariners baseball, baby! In a formula that was all too familiar, Seattle used dominant pitching and timely hitting to win yet another Opening Day game, taking down the defending AL Central champs 3-0. Colby shares his nine takeaways, Ty gushes about Matt Brash, and the guys preview the weekend ahead!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/GametimeDownload the Gametime app, create an account, and use code LOCKEDONMLB for $20 off your first purchase.FanDuelMake Every Moment More. Don’t miss the chance to get your No Sweat First Bet up to ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS in Bonus Bets when you go FanDuel.com/LOCKEDON.FANDUEL DISCLAIMER: 21+ in select states. First online real money wager only. Bonus issued as nonwithdrawable free bets that expires in 14 days. Restrictions apply. See terms at sportsbook.fanduel.com. Gambling Problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER or visit FanDuel.com/RG (CO, IA, MD, MI, NJ, PA, IL, VA, WV), 1-800-NEXT-STEP or text NEXTSTEP to 53342 (AZ), 1-888-789-7777 or visit ccpg.org/chat (CT), 1-800-9-WITH-IT (IN), 1-800-522-4700 (WY, KS) or visit ksgamblinghelp.com (KS), 1-877-770-STOP (LA), 1-877-8-HOPENY or text HOPENY (467369) (NY), TN REDLINE 1-800-889-9789 (TN) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Ty France went three for four with a three run blast. Luis Castillo absolutely shoved. Matt Brash took Jose Ramirez's soul and those weren't the only positives from an epic opening day shutout win over the Guardians. Let's talk about it. 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 Friday, March 31st, 2023. This is Tyne Gazzalus and Colby. Pat note for the Lockdown Mariners podcast brought to you by GameTime. Download the GameTime app, create an account, and use promo code Locked on MLB for $20 off your first purchase. Last minute tickets, lowest price, guaranteed. Thank you so much for making us your first list and subscribe, like and turn on alerts if you're watching on YouTube or subscribe and leave a five-star review on your preferred podcast platform if you like what you hear. And if you want to hear from us even more, please

consider signing up for our Patreon by scanning the QR code right above my head. The link as well as our social accounts is also in the description below. Yesterday was almost a perfect opening day. The Astros lost. The Angels hilariously lost to the Oakland Athletics. And the Mariners shut out the Guardians by a score of three to nothing. Luis Cascio, absolutely amazing yesterday. Six scoreless inning, six strikeouts, just one hit aloud.

Thai France goes three for four looking healthy as ever. Nearly misses a home run in his second to last at bat by about a foot. and then hits a game-winning three-run blast after the Mariners failed to bring across any runs with runners in scoring position. They could not get any hits. They had six consecutive hits in the first six innings of this game and just couldn't do anything with them. But France finally broke through.

That's all the Mariners needed. Andreas Munoz, a little bit of an iffy ninth inning, but he ends up closing the door. And Colby, I know you have some takeaways here from this game. So let's get right into him. Sure. So I'll just read them verbatim off on my phone right now. Takeaway number one, I feel like we need music under this. Look for some royalty-free music, Ty. Okay, that's enough. Not your music. Like real good music. Like somebody who's actually wrote music before, that type of music.

Someone hit us up. Give us some music. Give us some beats to throw on the shirt. So we're open to it. Sure. So number one, verbatim, Castillo, 98 in the first, L.O.L. Yeah, remember all those people? Oh, my God, Castillo's only throwing 93. It's devastating. Yeah.

He's going to be Robbie Ray this year. Took him, what, four or five pitches to get to 97, and then he finished it on 98. Yeah, Castillo was just, you know, absolutely filthy. We'll get to him again later on. But if you were concerned, it all. all about Luis Castillo's velocity. Stop. It's fine. Number two, Julio's nemesis still slider away. He chased one from Bieber and his first at bat. A pretty good one. Bieber had a good slider last night. He wasn't, Julio wasn't the only guy who struggled with that pitch. But he did in fact struggle

with it, although he did come up. And despite not having any hits, Julio did tag a couple of balls. So that's nice to see I don't think anybody's concerned about Julio But he did hit a couple of slicing line drives That unfortunately got Marine layered Number three Ty Francis A good hitter

So one of my favorite memes Yeah dude hits You know it's funny against the homerine He had off of Karen Shaq It was actually the pitch before Was the pitch he probably should have done damage on It was 1O and he got that fastball middle in and he found it back and he was a little late on it and you're just like uh huh that's that's

that's the pitch you pull down the line for the home run and then of course france gets a pitch out over the plate it wasn't even a strike and he just kind of flips it into the right field seats for a home run just barely cleared the wall but it all counts so tie france dude can hit if you can say i can't believe that was the one that cleared i know right right right like you got geno's double yeah kelnick kelnick the one that he flew out to straw it was like me medium deep center field too. It didn't even get to the warning track. Yeah, Julio's opposite field threat.

There might have been one or two more. Double. Yeah, the double that missed going over the wall by like a foot. Yeah. Yeah. So ball did not carry last night at all, but somehow Francis did. So go figure. He did hit it to the shortest part of the ballpark, though.

So good placement. Sure. Number four here, Jared Kalnick looked really comfortable. Last night, he carried over what he did in spring. Two hard hit. falls, one of them for a base hit, the other one, probably at least a double in June, maybe even a home run. Just, you know, unfortunate 104 or something like that off the bat and just died. Do you know what the SBA on that was?

I think it was 800. That's brutal. Yeah, it is. It is. But Kelnick, even in the strikeout, didn't chase, right? He stayed within the zone. He just looks like a comfortable guy. Everything carried over from the spring.

So obviously, he still has to produce numbers. for this to be real. But yesterday was a really good start for him. And the strikeout that he had, you know, that was a great at bat, worked full count, and then just Bieber had just the most perfect pitch.

Perfect placement. Yeah, just amazing. Nothing you can really do with it. Number five, Mariners' bats were better than the stats show last night. Beaver was good.

Don't get me wrong, but the Mariners had quite a few hard hit balls, quite a few medium, medium hard hit balls. You know, for example, Colton Wong had three hard hit balls when O for three. You know, it happens sometimes. I thought Tommy Lestella actually looked pretty good considering how few out bats he got. Didn't smash anything.

I think he only had one hard hit ball. But the other two were medium hit balls, which do have a decent chance of falling for hits. So Lestella actually looked okay. Wong was a lot better than his O for three would indicate. We talked about Kelnix, you know, deep fly out. Julio had a couple hard hit balls that just didn't. land. So I actually thought the Mariners put together some really good at bats off of a really good

pitching staff. So overall, I think the offense was better than the three runs that they produced. You know, just sometimes it doesn't go your way. And it seemed to happen a lot to the Mariners yesterday. Honestly, the worst hitter last night was probably, yeah, was Teoscar Hernandez. Definitely, Tejo. Yeah, which pains me. It really pains me.

Ty is officially jinxed Teo. I was, I was in pain last night watching some of those at best. Yeah, especially the last one, the strikeout, like you got all the momentum on your side after the France home run. Put the dagger in a man. Yeah. Oh, God, I wanted it so bad. And it just, yeah, two strikeouts, right, for, for Teo or three?

Yeah. I think it was two. They were not close. They were not. They were not competitive that bad. Hopefully tonight will be better. Back to Castillo real fast. We talked about this in our pitching preview.

how Castillo last year was pretty much four seam, two seam slider once it came over. But he actually had a really good change up. And last night he kind of brought it back. He dusted it off a little bit. Through it 13 times. He got three whiffs and three called strikes on it. So 46% called strike plus whiff rate on a changeup that Castillo is right now feels like it's his at best, his third best pitch. That's a really exciting development.

Castillo didn't even really have a great slider last night. No. It was the sinker. The sinker was disgusting last night. Right. Well, I mean, for Seamer also. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, the two fastballs. They're two separate pitches.

I mean, it's really both of them we're discussing. And then you had the change up. The one he threw to strike out Stephen Kwan was absolute filth. And he was, and he was even laughing a little bit. You can see him when the camera panther. It's like, I posted a screenshot of it too when he was smiling. I forget who he struck out after when he was smiling. But it's just like you when you know you're redacted.

ridiculous. Like he knew, like he was feeling himself last night a little bit. You could tell. He was. He was. You know, if his hair didn't get in the way, he probably would have gone six,

you know, no hit innings, but, or maybe it slowed it up enough, but it looks like JP was positioned well to, to handle that ball. But yeah, he was,

he was awesome. I think he had 22 whiffs last night, uh, or 22 called strike plus whiffs last night, which is a pretty good number. I think he had 12, of whiffs, if I'm not mistaken. I don't have savant in front of me, but just

going off of memory, yeah. So yeah, Matt Brash, um, 80 grade stuff, 40 grade control. Yep, something's never change. He's disgusting though. Oh my God. Oh, my God. I want to talk about him more in the next segment, but yeah.

If Matt Brash had 50 grade control, he's basically Devin Williams on steroids. So, yeah. Speaking of of Brash, I thought it was interesting. Brash for the middle of the order. Yeah. Seawald gets the second half of the order.

Yeah, it was 6.7, 8, I think. 6.7.8. Munoz gets the top of the order. So 7th, 8th, 9th inning. Is this what we're going to see? Is it just going to be, is Munoz the closer? Is Seawald? The bridge now is, you know, is brash the new high leverage guy?

Because I think if you're going off what we saw last year, Munoz probably should have pitched the seventh because he was going up against Ramirez, but whatever. They clearly trust Brash and Service said that he's going to get a lot of high leverage opportunities like that this year. So, yeah, we'll see that is just kind of based on matchup or just kind of how it fell this time. But I did think it was interesting. It was Brash Seawald Munio's in that order.

And then last but not least, T-Mobile Park last night, absolutely electric, rattled Karen Shaq to his core. They were counting down the pitch clock. Yeah. He sailed a couple to the backstop. Oh, yeah. After he had the pitch clock violation, and the very next pitch he sails that fastball right over Zanino's head.

I saw that. I was like, oh, he's done. Oh, it's over. Yeah, yeah, it's over.

It's a wrap. And then JP just kept on pestering him, kept on fouling pitches off. Such a great, probably the best at bat of the whole night. That was, was 0 and 2 as well. And so look,

did the mirrors catch a little bit of break on the foul ball that wasn't called? Yeah, sure. They did. Did they take advantage? of it. Yeah. Absolutely they did. And T-Mobile Park was a huge part of that. Karen Shaq was rattled.

And it couldn't have happened to a worse reliever too. Oh, God. I so hate Karen Shaq. He even chopped off his nappy hair because he didn't want it to be like, oh look, I'm not cheating, even though I'm just, you know, wiping sweat on my hand every single time. His pants are painted on him, by the way. Yeah.

If you're going to wear pants that tight, you need to do more squats. That's all I'm going to say. Yeah. Yeah. By the way, speaking of, Did you watch the player introductions before the game? No. Oh, okay. Robbie Ray's pants look even tighter this year.

His whole uniform looks tighter. I guess we'll see it tonight. We'll see it tonight for sure. But yeah. We will. But yeah, Team Mobile Park, the vibe and the energy just felt really good even on TV. You know, it was funny to read the stories about them counting down the pitch clock with Karen Shack on the mound. It definitely had an effect, you know.

Yeah. Karen Shaq's a really good reliever even though he's probably a really good cheater but he's a really good reliever and you rattled him. You got in his head and as a result he made some bad pitches and the Mariners walked away with a win so good job Team Mobile Park. Yeah we're not big

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He was kind of the talk of this game despite Luis Castillo's performance, Ty Francis's performance, because, I mean, you go on Pitching Nenj's Twitter right now. It's all about Matt Brash. Matt Brash in the first game of the year might have won pitching ninjas pitch of the year. at the very least it might be a contender because you're going up against one of the five, ten best hitters in all of baseball and Jose Ramirez and you spin him like a bayblade I think Aaron Goldsmith on the radio broadcast

said that Matt Brash corks screwed him into the earth Yes Aaron Goldsmith in midseason form already All right of course so glad that Goldie is here and he's ours And he explained the core Earth's core and whatnot like, yeah. Goldie is is A plus and hey, you know what? Underrated offseason acquisition slash extension right there.

Aaron Goldsmith, he's great to have him back. Chills. Yeah, chill. I mean, sure. We'll give to photo credit for that one. Why not? I mean, Caesar Hernandez, Aaron Goldsmith. Right, right.

Yeah, Caesar Hernandez signed a minor league deal today with the Mariners, a guy that we've talked about a couple times in the past for the Mariners. They're taking a little flyer on him on a minor league deal. This year's Jonathan VR. There we go. Check. There you go. Dude, this wasn't even the first time that Brash got Ramirez off balance, right?

He got him on his knees on what was called a ball. I only saw that one out of the corner of my eye because I was doing something else. I thought it was a strike. Was it actually? Yeah, I thought he swung too, right? So, all right, so I wasn't tripping on that. And then he puts him on his butt on the. on the strikeout

just one of the I mean we've seen a lot of filthy performances out of Matt Brash this was by far the filthiest considering the competition and who he did it against I don't know man the way he looked in that playoff game against Houston true the last game last year like

getting Altovae to look like an idiot yeah yeah but yeah I mean how about how about 3-2 in a zero-zero game on opening day and Brash goes to the slider like screw the fastball I mean nope I get this anywhere near

the strike zone I'm gonna get a strike like that's how Brash has to feel about his slider and he dropped a beautiful curve ball to start the app bat too like Brash is something else

so Savant had it as a slider the one that he struck Ramirez out on but that looked more like the knuckle curve to me they're actually kind of similar yeah yeah they're really similar

it's hard to differentiate right especially if he throws it hard it kind of turns into like a slurve more so than a knuckle curve it looked like a slider to me but again sometimes I can't tell the difference between because most curve balls they're loopy and the slider is more of a you know a quick fade out yeah yeah and both of brash's breaking balls can do both of those things pretty much at any time and yet they spin differently so it's got to be so confusing as a hitter when you're sitting there like oh that's curveball spin and then

you're like, oh, no way, that's a slider. I'm sure. Yeah, his knuckle curve is like two to ten. Yeah. Two to nine. Like, it's a really weird looking pitch. Yeah. Yeah, he throws it harder.

Yeah, I think so. The one that he got Ramirez on was what, 87, 88, something like that. Yeah. God, what a, that ending gave me great joy. I'll say, that's the very clean version of how it made me feel.

Ty, I'm going to put you on the spot here before we transition. or I don't know we're about to transition to segment three or not, but better inning. Kendall Graveman against Houston or Matt Brash against Cleveland. The very first inning of Kendall Brayman, his first start ever for Seattle. Yeah, against the Astros in 2020 or the sending for Brash. I'm going to go with the sending for Brash.

I think it topped it. I mean, dude, he put Jose Ramirez, Jose Ramirez, not just some random dude. Jose freaking Ramirez on his butt on opening day. Yeah, I mean, he definitely, you know, corkscrewed him. But honestly, I think you could argue that wasn't even the best inning of the night. Rick Castillo gave up that hit. Yeah, and then he struck out the next three guys.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're just like, whew. So that, so that comebacker, that fully hit his hair, right? He said that it got, it was like 50% his head, 50% his hair. But that would mean it hit his neck, right? Like it would be boom, boom. So maybe hit the hair first and then like graze the neck. I don't know.

It was scary. But when you watched the replay, it looked like it just hit like right where you. I just thought of that. I hit his hair. Yeah. So I mean, whatever. Thankfully, he was okay. He came back and they're like, oh, man.

Well, I was worried too because he put up his throwing hand to try and block it. I'm like, no, don't do that, bud. Don't know. No, Luis. I'd rather he break a finger than take a 95 mile an hour ball to the head. Yeah, yeah. Still, it's like, so that was scary. And then, of course, he comes back.

He strikes out the next three guys, like almost laughing his way off the mound. And you're like, oh. Yeah, like I said, he was feeling himself last night. He really was. Everyone was amped yesterday. It was awesome. The energy, it wasn't just the ballpark itself. The team was just they were, they were amped.

They were able to create their own energy as well. That was a lot of fun. And the dances back. The dance is back. I was kind of wondering if the dance would come back and back. Because, you know, teams swap out celebrations every year. They like to keep it fresh. Like every year's different.

So we should have a different. And they're like, nope, this is who we are. Also, did you see Julio doing the dance outside of the circle? Come on, just let Julio into the circle. If he ran part of it. Like, if he ran in there fast enough, they would have. Because it took them a while to get the circle going. Oh, yeah.

Colton Wong was a little confused on what to do, I think. Yeah. He's new. He's new. He'll learn. He'll figure it out. You didn't watch us in the playoffs last year. You had time.

They didn't practice this in spring. Yeah. Good one. Good one. Good one. Stumping for the Brewers on our ship. But yeah. So again,

real fast, I don't want this to be overlooked. Munoz struggled a little bit, whatever. He didn't pitch a lot this spring. It's going to be fine. But, you know, let's give some love to Paul Seewald,

kind of the forgotten guy here in the middle. Great ending from him. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, you know, Castillo and Brash, were absolutely nasty. Munoz struggled a little bit,

and so that's what everybody's talking about. But Seawald pitched a really flawless eighth inning. Basketball, 92, 93, Slyder had some good bite. So let's not overlook what Paul Seawall did last night. That was pretty important. CSWal, baby. He picked up right where he left off. Matt Brash picked up right where he left off.

And Munoz, like he said, he'll come around. He's, I mean, that was what, his fourth appearance of the whole calendar year. So, you know, he'll get it figured out. hung a slider there to Rosario. You know, Ramirez took advantage of, you know, where the defense was aligned and all that in the outfield. Teo just couldn't get to that ball. It's whatever.

It happens. And you know what? At the end of the day, didn't give up any run. So it's still pretty good outing for Andres Munoz overall. All right. So we're going to be previewing tonight's matchup and the rest of the weekend here with the Mariners and just a moment. But real quick, a reminder of this episode of Lockdown Mariners is brought to you by

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Look, it's opening day for everyone. And you with your itchy trigger finger on the video clip yesterday. That was only valid yesterday. It's now day two. The grind has officially begun. It's opening week, all right? It's not opening day. You're one of those.

It's my birthday month people, aren't you? Yeah. And for me, since I was born on the first of May, I get the entire month of May. That's my whole month. That's the month of Thai. Gross. So gross.

So tonight, we've got Bob Ray on the mound against Hunter Gaddis, who I'm going to be real with you. I don't know a lot of bad. out. All I know is he looks like he looks like someone that's definitely named Hunter Gattis. He's got an incredible beard. So he's got that working for him. I don't know a ton else about him. I know that he's someone that Guardians fans don't really think will end up sticking in the rotation long term. But he gets the start tonight. Kind of surprised that he's going game too,

considering that I think he was a late add to the rotation with the injury to Trista McKenzie. I think that's just about keeping everybody else in their original slot. Right. So what do you got for me on Gattis? Which do we know? Yeah, minor league performer, Mrs. Bats and the minors hasn't really translated to the big leagues. He's only got about eight innings in the big leagues under his belt. And he's given up 15 earn runs with seven home runs during that time.

He's been hit hard. And when you look at the stuff profile, it's fastball cutter mostly. Fastball is 92, 93, cutters, you know, 89 to 91. both pitches are about average from my understanding major league average the change up is kind of the actual weapon here he's got a curveball he's i think it's a curveball it might be a slider he's got a curveball it's more of a get me over pitch it's more just change the eye level type of get thing the change up is the pitch he should be trying to get to but he did not throw that change up much last year in the big leagues uh so he really wants to do fastball cutter the problem is

is that both of those pitches are averageish at at least that's how they looked when he made his debut last year. So it's really the change-up that he should be looking to throw more, but we'll see what they decide to do. You know, you don't want to judge anybody off of their last seven and two-thirds innings, especially a young arm like this. So things change. I don't know much.

What about his profiles change? But from last year's looks, that's kind of what it was, average fastball, cutter that he uses, you know, pretty reliably, but it's not great. And an underutilized changeup that's, you know, a legitimate major league pitch. ditch. So he's kind of, you know, sounds to me kind of Taylor Dolar Dish. That's that's my understanding of about what Gattis is. So as for Ray, we've talked about him a lot. You've been very high on him, especially over the last couple weeks here. You picked him as your Cy Young winner and your bold predictions, at least.

Really interested to see how he attacks guys like Jose Ramirez heading from the right side. How much is he going to be using that splitter against Ritey's tonight? And really excited to see the efficiency of the slider, the backfoot slider. And the velocity, of course. Velocity is there now. We've talked about this over the last few days. He's 95-96. Or he was 95-96 in spring, whereas last year he was like 91-92 to start the year.

It was a little concerning. He's right where he needs to be. So hopefully that leads to a hot start. Now we get to put that to the test. So what are your expectations for Ray against this Guardians lineup tonight? No hitter. All right.

And that's our show. Thank you, folks. I'm assuming that he will also be on a pitch counter. I guess in Luis Castillo's case last night, it was more of an innings count because he only threw 76 pitches. Yeah, I was like, dude, come on. Like, you can put him out there, get one or two more out.

I'm thankful for the Matt Brash inning. but like couldn't we I guess it was because it was third time through the lineup but whatever like I'll allow it because it's March but like like obviously in July he's probably going eight or seven and two thirds with that kind of a pitch count honestly he might be going for the complete game you might depending on how fast standings go but I assume they'd like to keep Ray under 100 pitches as well this is a really interesting matchup Robbie pitched against him last year and I think he did pretty well But this is not a team that strikes out. And Robbie Ray is a strikeout pitcher. So it's a really interesting matchup, you know, of, you know, kind of opposing styles. I think we're going to see the fastball 94 to 96 early. I think he's probably got a 97 somewhere in the back in the back of the tank. And then I get my guess is we're going to see the slider a lot.

This is a right-handed heavy lineup or it will be tonight because of the switch hitters. But there's some lefties that you have to get out and you have to pitch really carefully to. and that's where Robbie has the slider. He has a legit weapon against them. I think Ray's probably going to go five, six innings tonight. I think he's probably going to strike out, you know, six, seven guys, maybe eight, which was actually a lot when you're facing Cleveland. And if he could just keep them in the game, I think if he gives up, if he can go, you know,

six, six innings, give up two, three earned, strike out six or seven, keep the walks to a relative minimum. I think that's a really good outing. and it gives Seattle a really good chance to win with Hunter Gaddis on the mound on the other side. Yeah, I'm also interested to see how they deploy the bullpen tonight, if that's what Ray gives them. Are we going to see anyone from last night make another appearance? Or is it more Diego Castillo, Matt Festa, Penn Murphy?

That would be my guess. Yeah. Scott typically stays away from back to backs for the first few weeks, if he can. Yeah, so interested to see how Scott kind of works that. Any thoughts on the two games on the weekend? We got Logan Gilbert versus Aaron Savale tomorrow and then Calquantrol against Marco Gonzalez on Sunday.

What do you think? Yeah, I think you like those matchups. You know, pitching-wise, obviously you never know. Somebody could implode and then your advantage is gone. Particularly Marco, yeah. Right. I mean, and then your advantage is gone. So it's one of those things where it looks good on paper.

I'm expecting, you know, these next three games to be low scoring. I'm expecting them to be tight. These are two teams that mirror each other pretty well. You know, if I think there's a high probability that all three of these games become battle of the bullpins. And we'll see. Maybe that's where Cleveland has the advantage tonight because they didn't have to use Class A last night. But Karen Shaq's certainly not pitching tonight.

He threw 30-some-odd pitches yesterday. So we'll see. I think this is going to be relative low. low scoring series. I mean, remember last year, the Mariners and Guardians played each other seven times. Seattle won six,

but I don't think they won any game by more than three runs if I'm wrong wrong. correctly. So these are going to be close games. You know, they're both offenses that, you know, can score if you make a mistake, but these are two really good pitching staffs. They play good defense. They run the bases pretty well.

They're two really solid teams. So I think this is going to be a real battle here. I think I would give the edge to Seattle. You know, the good news is you got one in your back pocket. So even if you lose these next three, it's really not a disaster, right? And there's not a lot of disasters, four games in anyways. But just find a way to win one of the next two. And then you kind of go in with some house money on Sunday with Marco pitching and you see what happens. So I think the mirrors are in good shape to take this series or at the very least split it. And I think they have the edge, at least on the next two nights on the mound. And then we'll see, you know, what we get for Marco. But I feel pretty good about this series. Yeah, I think there's a pretty clear starting pitching advantage for the Mariners here.

And offense, too. On offense too. Because again, you know, last night they were the better offense, even though that they weren't able to put together any runs until the eighth. Like you mentioned, the quality of a batts that they were having was pretty darn good. I mean, you know, they missed some opportunities. There were Bieber. Bieber hung a couple pitches that they missed on.

Castillo did the same. Yeah, Castillo did the same. also Cassio got a lot of help from the umpire last night as well that zone was pretty wide so did so did so do Bieber yeah it worked both ways it worked both ways that was a that was a big zone that was a really wide zone yeah from right from the get go to the very 3-0 pitch to quon or whatever that was yeah yeah yeah yeah there were a few yeah there were a few sinkers on the outside corner that should not have been strikes yeah yeah yeah and then d'iber got off yeah it's you know It's funny that both pitchers, the righties had to cover an extra like three inches off the outside corner.

And the lefties had to cover about an extra three or four inches off the outside corner. And so it was more of an oval type of strike zone last night. So when you combine that with obviously the really good pitching staffs and the cold weather, like, yeah, surprise, low scoring game that got over pretty quickly. Yeah, two hours and 14 minutes. It was the second quickest game yesterday. Yeah. Kind of makes not a lot of strikeouts, not a lot of walks. Yeah, no scoring.

Yeah. And really no, you know, hits and bunches either, right? The Americans got one hit per inning for the first six innings and that was it. Hit here, hit there, blah, blah, blah. Yeah. I will say the pitch clock thing, just from an aesthetic standpoint, I thought the root broadcast was pretty good. They were able to get in some, some, you know, replays in between pitches.

Yeah. And stuff like that. They did really well, yeah. They were quick on that. They didn't put the, like the pitch clock wasn't just sitting there, like, counting down. They waited until they got to eight seconds before they showed it. And even then you kind of had to look for it on the scorebug to notice it. So I think they handled that really long. For those I missed it, it's where the R is. The root sports are. It turns into the clock at eight seconds.

At eight seconds, right. So I think that's a really nice way to handle it. So I didn't feel like the clock was just beating down on me, but also if I wanted to know how much time, I could look, I could find it. So I think that aesthetically, it looked, it looked fine. I think it looked. fine. I would like, you know, closer to two and a half hour games than 2.15, but I think that's more, yesterday was just more of an outlier. Yeah, yeah, because it was just, it was one of the lower scoring games of the day. And of course, yeah, there was no scoring until the bottom of the eighth.

Right. Only one, only one in inning pitching change as well. Yeah, yeah. And it was in the bottom of the eighth. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, really, yeah, that Karen check ending was the one that really, took a bit of time. Yeah, yeah, we might have. Yeah, yeah. If it was just like a quick like little solo home run to take the lead. Yeah. First pitch solo home run and then it's a one nothing game. Yeah. I'm pretty sure that bottom of the eighth and the top of the ninth took like 20 minutes combined. Yeah. It's it's interesting. You know, I didn't notice it too much though just to to wrap this up. I didn't notice it too much though because the broadcast handled it so well with the replays and all that. I thought they balanced. I mean, as far as like doing your first. I mean, as far as like doing your first. I don't know. I didn't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't. I mean, as far as like doing your first.

official broadcast with the pitch clock and everything. I thought Roots Sports knocked it out of the park. Yeah, I think it plays better on TV than it will on the radio, though. For sure. Yeah. All right. Well, that's going to do it for our show. Whoa, whoa, whoa.

Oh, we got something? You don't want to take to Rake or whatever. Oh, God. We always, we always jinx these guys, though, when we do this. I thought we learned our lesson from, from, from last year. I'm calling my shot. All right. Kelnick goes deep.

tonight. He's going to Yaya Town. He's going to get a cutter middle in. He's going to hit it 370 feet, 107 exit velocity. Just an absolute line shot down into the right field corner for a home run. All right. Damn it. Just going to miss the hit-of-here cafe.

Teo's going to hit the home run tonight. I'll be one night off. Teo's going to get back on the horse here. And you know what? I'll call my shot here. Two-run, home-run, second-and-back. into Eggers for Teo. All right.

I find I'll do you one better. All right. Kellnick. Uh-huh. First at bat. Okay. Two-run shot. Mm-hmm.

Just about six rows from the concourse in right field. Mm. Yep. It's going to be a four iron home run. All right. All right. We'll see. We'll see who's right.

We'll see who's right. Uh, so yeah. We just cursed Taye Osker. and it is a Dera Kellnick, by the way. So I will be watching Kellnicks first at bat, praying it at least gets to a two one count. Combined 0 for eight confirmed tonight

because of what we just said. Sorry guys. Yeah, sorry folks. But hey, hopefully that means... I'm picking Hunter. Yeah, I'm picking Jose Ramirez for four for four tonight. Yeah, totally. Let's use our powers for good here.

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