Locked On Mariners - Daily Podcast On the Seattle Mariners - Mariners Take Series Opener Against Still-Cheating Astros

Episode Date: July 7, 2023

The Seattle Mariners cruised to a relatively easy victory to open up their four-game set against the Astros. George Kirby took advantage of an aggressive Astros lineup and Eugenio Suarez blasted 2 home runs en route to a 5-1 win. J.P. Crawford also played a starring role with a solo home run and two sparkling plays at shortstop. Colby and Ty discuss it all on the postgame show. Plus, did Chas McCormick attempt to cheat in the ninth inning? Well, yes. Finally, the guys address the latest trade rumors surrounding the club.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 | @CPat11Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors!IbottaRight now, Ibotta is offering our listeners $5 just for trying Ibotta by using the code MLB when you register.Just go to the App Store or Google Play store and download the FREE Ibotta app and use code MLB.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 TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS in Bonus Bets when you go FanDuel.com/LOCKEDON.SleeperDownload the Sleeper app and use promo code LOCKEDON and you'll get up to a $100 match on your first deposit.  Terms and conditions apply. See Sleeper’s Terms of Use for details. Currently operational in over 30 states. Check out Sleeper today! 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.

Thanks to George Kirby, Gino Souris, and J.P. Crawford, the Mariners didn't allow yesterday's bump of the road to snowball into something bigger. Our thoughts on the Marys 5 to 1 win over the Astros coming up here on the Locked On Maras postgame show. Colby hit it. You are Locked on Mariners. Your daily Seattle Mariners podcast. Part of the Locked on podcast network, your team every day. Ahoy, sailors. It is Thursday, July 6th, 2023. This is Tadang Azales and Colby Patine. the Locked-on Mariners Postgame show brought to you by Sleeper. Swing for the fences on Sleeper Picks and you can win up to 100 times your money. Download the Sleeper app and use promo code locked on and you'll get up to $100 matched on your first deposit. Terms of conditions apply.

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You can now get a free seven-day trial to check out the show. The link as well as our social accounts is in description of this episode. 5 to 1, the final score from Minute Made Park. The Mariners take game one of this four game series with the Astros. We're going to talk George Kirby. We're going to talk

Gino Suarez and the rest of this Mariners' offense. But we need to start with Kirby, who was really good tonight. Quite a few hard hit balls given up. Might have gotten a little bit lucky. But overall, really nice night, Kirby, who easily could have threatened for a Maddox. He had three separate innings

that needed just six pitches to get through. However, in the other three and two-thirds ending is that he threw, he averaged about 20.4 pitches. So that's the story on that one. he also ends up giving up a run in the seventh, and that leads Scott's service to pull him in favor of Matt Brash, who limits the damage with a nasty slider to Bly Madras to end that threat.

The Mariners getting relatively easy, five to one win down in Houston. So Colby, you know, it's obviously not an Astros lineup that is at full strength. No Yordon Alvarez, no Jose Altuve, but still a really talented Astros lineup. So how did Kirby get this thing done at night? Mostly luck, gave up a ton of hard hits and like so many balls almost left the yard. It was insane. But in actuality, what it appears what George Kirby did is that he took the game plan

that has been the most successful against him, which has been very aggressive early on fastballs. And he kind of turned it on its head a little bit. It was a right-handed heavy lineup for the Astros tonight. It was a very aggressive lineup for the Astros tonight. And Kirby's kind of response to that was to throw more sinkers and sliders than forseemers and curveballs. So it appeared to be a very deliberate, you know, a pretty deliberate game plan on Kirby's part to throw a pitch that either ran into Ryddies or away from them. not a lot of pitches that have vertical movement tonight from from Kirby and that seems to me to be pretty intentional. He only had six whiffs in this entire game.

So Houston was putting the ball on play. But again, they were being aggressive. 93 pitches, 48 swings, 15 called strikes. They were being super aggressive with Kirby particularly on the two seamer. And George was just fine with that because when they were, you know, hitting the ball hard, they were mostly hitting it on the ground. And Seattle's defense is pretty good. Infield defense is pretty good when you have JP and Cabiero up the middle.

So, yeah, it seemed like an intentional game plan on Kirby's part to just, you know, be around the zone, you know, pound the zone with the fastball. And he's a slider as the second primary, not the four seamer. So, yeah, you know, it is kind of a different way to dominate from Kirby. seeing Kirby be able to rack up strikeouts and whiffs tonight he didn't and and that looked like it was mostly by design. And it was, you know, 44% two seamer, 30% slider. I think that's intentional and that's that's a counter punch to the right-handed heavy lineup that the Astros are kind of forced to run out there right now.

So overall it was it was a good night from George. We've seen better. But, you know, anytime you go into Houston, you give up one run in six and two-thirds and in that joke of a ballpark. It's a pretty good night regardless of the lineup that you're facing. So, yeah, overall, I would say that George was good, not great tonight. And it's a pretty good capper on what has been a really solid first half for George Kirby. And yeah, the important thing is he got through it.

He's healthy. And now he can kind of reset in the All-Star weekend. We'll see if he pitches in the game. I don't know if he will or not. But it'll be nice. George essentially gets now more or less the next 10 days. off before he has to start thinking about his next start. So good way to get in the first half.

And George, you know, he was throwing pretty hard tonight. So that, that also a good sign. Kirby's final line tonight, six and two-thirds innings pitch, six hits allowed, it's one earn run, one walk, kind of a BS call on that one, but whatever. Three strikeouts on a big strikeout night for him. We've seen quite a few of those. Oh, well, nine hard hit balls, but still pretty efficient night for George. George, he finishes his all-star first half with an 8 and 7 record.

And 17 starts, 107 and 2 thirds innings pitched. 102 hits allowed over that time, 37 earned runs, 744 Ks per 9. 084 walks per 9, 309, ERA 330 FIPP, 369. Nice. X-FIP. So good first half for Kirby. And hopefully sign of things to come in the second half. All right, let's talk about this offense.

which had a weird night, conflicting night. He scored five runs down in Houston. Could have been more, but good night for Gino Suarez. Good night for Jay McRofford. We'll talk about that. Just a moment,

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over the Houston Astros. Game 2 of the series is tomorrow night and you catch all the action on the Mariners hometown broadcast Sirius XM via the SXM app. Colby for a while the mayor's offense rather had just two hits but they were able to make them

count. Two home runs from Gino Suarez, J.P. Crawford. Gino adds a second home run a little later on in the game to add some insurance, a 420 foot bomb to left center field. Good to see those balls finally go over the wall for Gino. So good for him. Thoughts on the offense tonight?

It was okay. Scoring five is always a good night, almost regardless of how you do it. But, you know, there still are missed opportunities up and down the lineup. And you're starting to see some guys, you know, mainly Jose Cabiero. really starting to kind of regress down to the mean. And it's tough to flip the lineup over tonight. You know, Kelnick had a rough game again. Cabrero obviously had a rough game.

Mike Ford, you know, after exploding on the 4th of July back-to-back offers actually gets ejected in this game. He should have been on first. It was a while. It was ball four, but, you know, it is what it is. And so, yeah, thankfully tonight it was the Gino show. And, you know, JP certainly helped out with his solo home run. but yeah, offense needs to be a little bit better, just up and down.

You can't rely on these two home run games, and, you know, particularly tomorrow you're going up, well, the next two days, you're going up against Hunter Brown and Framberra Valdez. You're not going to just play home run derby with those arms. So you're going to have to, you know, when you get the opportunities, you're going to have to get that hit to drive in multiple runs. And, you know, Cal was able to get an RBI single today after, you know, Gino blooped the double into center field. So offense was okay, not a ton of hard hit balls, not a ton of bad, bad bit luck or anything like that. It was just okay.

They did draw four walks, which is nice to see. But they struck out far too much, which is a recurring theme for this team. But hey, you know what? You hit three home runs. You score five runs. You really didn't get that many opportunities with guys in scoring position. But when you did, you failed except for one time. But hey, at the end of the day, you scored five runs.

So it's hard to say that this lineup or that this offense was bad tonight because they put up five. And if you put up five runs with your pitching staff, you're going to win a lot of games. So I think you have to say the offense was acceptable, but it needs to be a little bit better, especially in the next two days. Marin's had three, five, six, eight, nine hard hit balls. But you mentioned the strikeouts, 11 strikeouts to just four walks. That's not a ratio that you want to. see out of this offense, but one that we've seen far too often this first half. Nevertheless, though, don't want to focus too much on the negatives because you did score five runs.

And again, you know, big night for Gino, big night for JP. JP was awesome tonight. Obviously, the rope that he hit over the right field wall, really impressive. He's already got eight home runs this season. His career high is nine. So he's almost certain to break that. and then some sooner rather than later. On top of that, he also, of course, as J.P. Crawford does flash the letter. He made a really nice play in the bottom of the knife to get Chas McCormick.

Now, Colby, Chas McCormick tried to pull off an A-rod. Tell us about that. Yeah, cheater's going to cheat, whether it's to win the World Series or to try and not get thrown out at first base on July 6th. But you guys didn't see it or are you wondering there was some confusion about the great play that JP made. It took the umpire a while to make the call.

And there was, you know, McCormick kind of pointed back at France like he was trying to tell the umpire or something or, you know, whatever. So there was some confusion around that play. So maybe it went unnoticed by most people. But it was, it was weird. It was weird looking at the play at first. I wasn't quite sure what it was. And then somebody posted a video that shows McCormick very clearly swatting at the glove of Thai France as he passes him, essentially trying to knock the glove out of position to catch the ball. It's clear as day.

They zoom in on it. You can see it. This isn't one of those things like Arod argued he was running and he just naturally like chopped at. Nope, he stuck his arm out, you know, basically to try and close line Ty France's glove out of the way. It's a cheap play. It is cheating, regardless of what the Astros fans in the comments will tell us. Although the Mariners won today. So I doubt there's many of them in our comments tonight.

So it's cheating. Like there's no way around it. That is cheating. You are attempting to knock the, you're attempting to stop the first baseman from catching a throw. That is cheating. They caught them. It's clear as day.

I don't know of anybody in the media caught it. I don't know of anybody on the Mariners caught it. I'm assuming Thai France will tell them about it. What will the Mariners do? Probably nothing. you know, they can't really afford to pick fights right now. But I bet there's a call made to the league office. I bet there is some, you know, there should be a fine.

Because again, this isn't one of those things where you can be like, oh, no, he was just, you know, the way he was running, like his motion. He extended his arm out and purposely knocked at Ty France's glove. He cheated or he tried to. And he didn't even do it well. The Astro is not cheating. Well, what? I know.

Shocking. The Astros is failing at. you know not getting caught cheating oh my god that that's so surprising but it happened i mean you can see the video for yourself it's on twitter right now um again do i think anything will come from this no i i think maybe you throw behind mccormick or something like that um but again you can't really pick fights right now your your team that's just kind of starting to build momentum um you're you're facing a opponent that is damaged right now um and you have your hands full uh over the next two days again because Brown and Framber are both having really good years.

So yeah, you're kind of, I don't think anything major will come from this, but it's definitely cheating. And it's available for anybody to see. It's obvious for anybody who's basically not an Astros fan. I mean, if Julio Rodriguez had done the same thing, the Astros fans would be all up in our comments tonight, calling him a cheater and calling him to be suspended. But it wasn't Julio. It was McCormick.

and it was dirty and it's against the rules and he'll probably get away with it, which is the unfortunate thing because the Astros, they always get away with it. That's just the way it is. Somehow this is Scott's Service's fault. Yeah, just like it was Scott Service's fault when they hit Ty France. And I can't believe, I can't believe Scott ordered a hit on his own first baseman. Because Scott picks everything. It's always Scott services fault.

you can't keep getting away with this. So yeah. Yeah, only the actual is going to get away with stuff. It's really, really funny that that happened to because like, I don't know,

an inning or two beforehand, you and I were talking amongst ourselves and being like, yeah, Chasmac is a pretty good player. Yeah. We're actually praising him. I like,

I like Chazapermic. Yeah. It's like a 115, 120 WRC plus guy. He plays a pretty good center field. Yeah. Yeah. You know,

he's starting to hit. Ritey's this year more than he ever has. You're like, yeah, you know, this guy's a pretty good. He's a pretty good player. Well, screw you, Chaz. Whoops. Yeah, who, who's named Chaz with an S at the end?

Like, who's named Chas in general? Yeah, like, like, first off, in general, who, why would you name your child, Chaz? But second of all, why is it with an S at the end instead of a Z? This is weird. Weirdo energy. Chaz. Chas is his legal name, by the way. it's not charles it is chas kane mccormick wow so that that is certainly a choice by his parents boy i tell you

what if the orioles weren't trying to pick fights right now by their stupid king felix batista thing we would be going all in on chas right now just because he's made himself an enemy um you know what tie frances had enough collisions at first base to last him a lifetime so that's the other thing too, man. You know, like, if he, like, knocks that glove over and the ball bounces off the glove and hits France in the eye or if he actually just hits France or clips him or anything like that, no. Ty France could be on the IL. It's a dangerous play. McCormick should be punished for it. He's not going to be. Like, don't expect to see a suspension for Major League Baseball when you wake up tomorrow. It's not going to happen. And as far as I know, the Mariners haven't reacted to it or done anything about it. So they'll probably just let it go. But yeah, at the end of the day, never forget, chat. McCormick, filthy cheater. Bad one, but a filthy cheater, nonetheless. You're listening to the Lockdown Maris Postgame show.

Thank you again for making us your first listen after the Marius 5 to 1 victory over the Houston Astros. Again, game two of the series. Tomorrow you can catch all the action on the Marius hometown broadcasts with Sirius XM v. the SXM app. So in that game, we've got Luis Castillo versus Hunter Brown, 10 home runs over over Castillo's last four starts. It's been a pretty concerning trend for him.

Thoughts on Castillo heading into the start? That doesn't seem like a good mix, all those home runs and then Minutemay Park. Yeah, don't give up home runs. Yeah. Like, that seems pretty easy to say. You know, it's always tough because not every home run is created equal.

And certainly there's a lot of junk home runs that are hit. in that junk of a ballpark, but it's, you know, we'll see what he can do. He's got to stay out of the middle of the plate. For the last few times out, Castillo has had really good stuff at times, and then he'll just have an inning where everything is down the middle. And it's something that he has to fix. Castillo doesn't need incredible command to get guys out. He doesn't have to, you know, live off the edges of the plate.

He can be in the middleish of the plate. He just can't be dead red, you know, central when he makes a mistake. So we'll see what that. they can do again. It is a down lineup. You're not going to have Yordon. You're obviously not going to have Altuve. But, you know, Kyle Tucker can certainly provide damage. Obviously, Alex Breggman with that short porch, same with Jeremy Pena. And, you know, even the, the cheater, Chas McCormick, you know, can take advantage of that short porch out there. So, yeah, you got to stay out in the middle of the plate. You hope you're getting the Luis Castillo. You saw from the last three innings against Tampa.

But, yeah, you just, you really don't know right now, Castile. has to be more consistent. But yeah, it's a big game. You know, you're going up against a rookie, one who's having a really good year in Hunter Brown. But, man, if you can win tomorrow, you're kind of playing with house money a little bit because now you've clinched a winning road trip,

which is what we wanted in the first place. But then you only have to split one of the two games against Framber or Blilack to win a series and go into the break with some serious momentum. So it's kind of tough to envision them winning that, that for Amber start, but you never know how those things go. But yeah, tomorrow's game, you know, pretty important, but it's good to win the first one. You can kind of set yourself up for the next couple after you win the first one.

So yeah, we'll see what they can do. But Castillo, he's got to be more consistent. It really is that simple. And he's he when he misses, he can't miss down the middle of the plate. Don't look now, but the Mariners are only seven back in the ALS. picked up another game on the Rangers who lost again this time to the Boston Red Sox tonight gave up a lot of runs the Red Sox

I was 10 to 6 I don't know if that was the final score or not You're telling me the historically good pitching And the historically good numbers with runners in scoring position For the first 50 games Didn't translate to the next To the next 30 Yeah

What? Crazy right? No Yeah They spent their way to be the best team in baseball Ty it was very clear this was going to last all year. This was the best offense ever.

Yeah. We crowned them the best offense ever in Major League history. Yeah, Leone Tavares is like a MVP candidate, you know, Adelis Garcia is like suddenly a 300 hitter. I don't know if that was actually the thing. He was having a really good starts of the year. Yeah. Yeah, the Rangers still good. Still a good team.

Point still stands though. like a lot of a lot of stuff that shouldn't have been happening was happening during those first 50 games so that happens you know even it happens with good teams and it happens with bad teams uh but you know texas clearly obviously they're a good team they're probably going to make the playoffs but am i surprised at all that they've fallen back to the pack a little bit over the last month or two or really the last you know 35 games no no i'm not uh but uh yeah obviously you know you're still seven back so don't have a lot of room to talk But hey, you know what?

The Texas Rangers aren't filthy cheaters like you Astros. Good point. Good point. The Marin has also picked up a game on the Yankees. I don't know if they picked up a game on anyone else, but the Yankees were the... All the Astros. Well, yeah, yeah. But the Yankees are, I believe, still the third wild card team in the AAL.

So I picked up a game on that spot. So I believe they're now four back of the third wild card with, you know, a few teams to leapfrog, but it's still early. you know, again, look, I asked a while ago, could, could you get to like five back in the West by the All-Star break? That's not, that's probably not going to happen, but I'll take, you know, seven or six. Like, that's, that's within reach. That's possible. Sure. I mean, just keep winning and the standings and take care of themselves. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, you know, you have a shot here to, you know, to really do some damage. If you win the two of the next three,

as you go into the break, the entire narrative of your season shifts because now you're a team that's catching momentum at the right time instead of a team that's limping into the All-Star break. And that is where the Mariners came very close to being. I don't think people are giving enough importance to that when they had on Saturday against Tampa Bay. Because if you lose that one, you're sliding at that point. And you're going into this stretch. You don't have any momentum. The vibes are down and all that stuff. and the fan base is kind of out of it, like bouncing back after that huge loss where you just

kind of imploded, it's massive. And now they have a shot to, you know, take two from Tampa, take two from San Francisco and take two, three, or maybe even four from the Houston Astros. And that would be quite a way to finish off the first half of this year. Well, and tonight, you know, you talk about bouncing back. I mean, we talked about this. that this team has oftentimes taken, you know, one or two steps forward and then like three or four steps back. And you lose a really weird game last night. You obviously could score just a lot

of frustrating stuff happening in that game. Yeah, just terrible defense and the outfield, particularly. But, you know, to come back tonight, have a nice convincing win, stop the bleeding. don't let it snowball into anything bigger. You know, that's, that was really, really important. That's not something we've seen often from this team. And so, you know, hopefully that mentality, you know, continues and their ability to do that, even when they do have these little bumps in the road,

um, continues. So yeah, good stuff all around. All right. Unless you have anything to add, I think that's going to do it for us for tonight. Um, Yeah, no, not really. Just, you know, I don't know if you saw it, but this morning, Morosi linked the Mariners and the Cardinals again, young pitching for offense type of deal.

The only new bit of information is that apparently the Mariners have told teams everywhere that George Kirby is not available. Yeah. Did they say the same about Logan Gilbert? It wasn't mentioned. Maybe, maybe not. But I have a hard time imagining that Seattle is going to trade from its starting rotation in season. to go get the bat. The only guy that I could see potentially is Brian Wu

only because you're going to take a mouth of the rotation anyway. Yeah, anyway. So, but again, you trade Miller, you trade Gilbert, you trade Kirby, you trade any of those guys. Now you have an even greater hole to fill because starting pitching is even harder to address than really any bat that you could potentially get, say for a few guys, right? So, I mean, even with Wood,

There's only, I think the only guys I would trade woo for on that Cardinals team. Just new bar. No. Not even Newbar? No. Nope. Who? Jordan Walker.

Okay. Maybe Gorman, although I am sensing that I am the low man on Gorman in Mariners' Twitter sphere. He's not a second baseman. Can we stop pretending like he is? But yeah, no, I think somebody like that. I mean, if they did trade Wu for New Bar, I wouldn't be like, mad but I wouldn't do it. I think Wu is

I I might value they would obviously be getting Newt Bar to attract Otani and free agency because they were teammates one of the other stupid things I've seen yeah yeah yeah if you guys if you think about it this way if you trade Brian Wu for the Lars Newt bar

then Otani's going to sign here for only like $75 million so essentially you're trading Brian Wu for Lars Newbar and Shohei Otani yeah because that's that's the kind of logic that some Mariner fans are working with. But, hey, I get it, dream big. But, you know, also dream smart, dream smart.

So, yeah, you know, we'll see if anything happens there. I also saw a report today that the Mariners are pretty aggressively talking to multiple AL and NL central teams, as well as a couple of NL West teams. So does that narrow it down? No, because that's half the league. But, you know, just what I'm seeing. That's a lot of teams, yeah. That is 15 teams right there.

So, yeah, did it narrow it down any? No, not at all. But, you know, we're getting to that time where every little thing is going to be important. Every little thing is going to get reported. And 95% of it. It's going to be all right. Yeah, exactly. Am I right?

Yes, yes. It's a good song to play after, you know, the Mariners lose. But, yeah, we're just to the point now where we're going to get little rumors like that. and 95% of them are BS. You can toss them in the trash. Just remember that. Yeah. Of course,

we'll react to them because that's our job. But just, you know, 95% chance. Yeah. I mean, 95% chance that what you're hearing, like, is, it's just not the case. A lot of chatter.

You know, if we, we ever get Jerry back on, although I think you probably burn that bridge. How? What did I do? We'll let the viewers, decide. If we ever get Jerry back on,

I would be interested to ask him like, like in terms of baseball terms, like how many trades start in the batters box and actually like round the bases and get done? You know what I mean? Like how many times you pick up the phone and say, what about this guy? How many times does that deal get done?

Because I think, you know, John Schneider, the GM for the Seahawks, if you guys don't know, he once said that like 98% of all deals they start never finish. They don't get done. And I'm just curious how that is in like baseball. Like is it how many deals get,

you know, tossed. How many times are you like, hey, what do you think about this guy? And they're like, yeah. Yeah.

Let's talk about it. First of all, yeah, that one. But like how many times do you even get to like exchanging names? You know, like how often does that happen? It's probably not a lot.

I bet the number's lower than even we think. But I'd be interesting. But yeah, it is trade season. So we'll keep an eye on that obviously for you guys. And yeah, we'll do more trade of days and stuff like that. As we get closer, but yeah, just again, you know, just more rumblings about a Cardinals bat for Mariner's arm, which I just, honestly, I don't see it.

But we'll see. Post game show tomorrow? Are you working? No. But I don't, I don't know. We'll see. We'll love doing post game shows like this late at night. True.

But they do so well. And our, and our listeners love them, Colby. Do they? we're all about our listeners, right? They're the most important people here, not you. Sure, it's because the listeners want them, not for other reasons, but okay, sure. All right, get us out of here, Ty. Let's not tempt fate any longer.

Yeah. Yeah. Let's not, uh, not dare. You are tempting fate. Let's go. All right. That's going to do it for our show. Thank you so much for joining us here on the Locktime Airs podcast.

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