Locked On Mariners - Daily Podcast On the Seattle Mariners - Seattle Mariners DOMINATE Detroit Tigers to Take Game 3 of ALDS

Episode Date: October 8, 2025

Ty and Colby break down the Mariners' 8-4 win over the Tigers in Game 3 of the ALDS, including a big night from the offense and an even bigger night from Logan Gilbert.Check out our Patreon!Follow the show on Twitter: @LO_Mariners | @TyDaneGonzalez | @CPat11Follow the show on Bluesky: @lockedonmariners | @tdg | @mlbcolbySupport Us By Supporting Our Sponsors!5-Hour ENERGYEnough with boring, flavorless caffeine, it’s time to give your caffeine a flavor upgrade with 5-hour ENERGY®️ shots. Get the favorites you love or be bold and try something new in-store and online at https://www.5hourENERGY.com or Amazon today. NutrafolSee thicker, stronger hair with less shedding in just 3–6 months with Nutrafol. For a limited time, get $10 off your first month’s subscription and free shipping when you go to https://Nutrafol.com and enter the promo code LOCKEDONMLB. ZippixGo to https://ZippixToothpicks.com and use promo code LOCKEDON for 10% off your first order.Zippix Toothpicks—energy and focus, anytime you need it.PrizePicksDownload the PrizePicks app today and use code LOCKEDONMLB to get $50 in lineups after you play your first $5 lineup.PrizePicks — Run Your Game.Click Link Here: https://prizepicks.onelink.me/LME0/LOCKEDONMLBMonarch MoneyTake control of your finances with Monarch Money. Use code LOCKEDONMLB at https://monarchmoney.com/lockedonmlb for 50% off your first year.GametimeDownload the Gametime app, create an account, and use code LOCKEDONMLB for $20 off your first purchase. Terms apply. Download Gametime today. What time is it? Gametime.FanDuelToday's episode is brought to you by FanDuel. Football season is around the corner, visit the FanDuel App today and start planning your futures bets now.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) Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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Link in the description. Marrits take game three of the ALDS, 8 to 4 tonight in Detroit. Logan Gilbert was six strong. We'll talk about his fantastic night. We'll talk about this offense, putting it all together. We'll talk about tomorrow's game. We now know who's starting that one as the mayor's look to clinch this series and go to the ALCS for the first time since 2001. And it looks like that game will be played at noon Pacific time tomorrow so long as the Yankees hold on to this.

At the time of this recording 9 to 6 lead over the Toronto Blue Jays at Yankee Stadium. But yeah, so 8 to 4 the final score. this game, though, was more of a beat down than that final score would indicate. The Tigers get three runs there on the ninth. Made things a little scary there because Caleb Ferguson just couldn't throw strikes. But this was really a complete game from the Mariners across the board. Logan Gilbert was fantastic.

The offense was able to score multiple innings, and they did it in a multitude of ways. They hit homers. They moved the line a little bit. And most importantly, they took advantage of some Tigers mistakes. So Colby, reaction following this huge, huge win. Yeah, I think the best way to classify this win was passive dominance. Like it wasn't just like a beat down from inning one.

It wasn't like you scored nine in an inning and just coasted after that. It wasn't like the Tigers didn't have chances to get back in this game. And at the end of the day, they did kind of. but yeah it was just kind of passive dominance he scored two in the third two in the fourth one in the sixth one in the eighth two in the ninth you hit some home runs uh so you got really good starting pitching and with the exception of one guy really good bullpen uh tonight so just phenomenal pitching on top of it it's just if you remove Caleb Ferguson from the equation uh this is a eight to one game where the tigers have what three hits like it was just sheer dominance in

kind of a slow creeping way because again it's not like the mariner sat in any where they scored four and another where they scored six you just kind of one here two here one here or two here uh and yeah so it was just about as as clean of a win as you could hope for i mean you know jp made a throwing error that actually wasn't an error because you can't assume a double play yet another genius rule of scorekeeping defenses. So Logan gets tagged with an earned run, even though he, you know, induced the perfect double play ball.

It's still, he gets tagged with an earn run out of that. So Logan was even better than his stat line would indicate, but also maybe not as good as the stat line would indicate. It was kind of a weird night for Logan, as it often is now, like it's just kind of becoming Logan's thing. But yeah, I would just, I think, again,

aside from the Caleb Ferguson appearance, which was utter disaster. No question about it. You just really dominated this game. Like I never really felt like they were going to lose this game. Like there were certainly times where I'm like, oh, the Tigers can get right back in it here. But like I never seriously thought that like the mirrors might not win this one.

So it really was just kind of, again, just passive, quiet dominance. And you did it tonight without Julio really contributing. You did it tonight without Polanco contributing without Nailer. contribute your three four or five win hitless tonight josh the other way has had some really good swings in this series and just nothing to show for it like he had that one you know early on in this game where it looked like he hit that ball about 600 feet thanks in large part to the terrible camera angles of fox sports um which by the way that's not just a camrica park thing that they were a couple of instances like that at t mobile park in this series as well uh but uh yeah i mean like it feels like

he's close. It feels like he's close. Right. It doesn't feel like he's, I mean, like, the fly out to right center field, that's just the wrong place to hit it in America. If you hit it 20, if you hook it 20 feet to the right, that's way out, you know, and so, he also had a screaming line drive that was like right at Carpenter and Carpenter actually caught this one.

So, yeah, it's not like Naylor had a bad night. It's just that he went hitless tonight. Yeah. Yeah. You got some real contributions out of your 7, 8, 9 tonight, which, you know, is a huge difference from how games one and two went. Dom Canzon with a walk, Victor Rubles with a big double, which leads to the mayor is breaking the ice.

Victor Rubles. It's all downhill after that, though. He had a very weird game. He had a very weird game. He read that ball that JP hit that he wound up scoring on. He read that ball wrong, though. And it looked like he was going to plan himself there at third. and then the throw gets by Dingler

and then he takes, he makes a risky, risky, risky decision to go home on that one. But it also has a great slide to get his foot there and keeps his foot flat. Yeah, keeps his foot flat on the ground, beats the tag to score there. But then, you know, he gets on second later on in this game after Kerry Carpenter just bungled what should have been an easy catch.

Yeah. And then he tries to steal third. with two outs. With two outs creates an out there at third. So yeah, weird, weird game. Yeah, bat that he just, you know, he just punted by just trying to punt for a hit repeatedly. But anyways, yeah, it's, it was just passive dominance. And still, you know, again, some mistakes.

Victor had a couple of them, you know, and JP had one made up for it. And then some, though. But, yeah, that's a last guy to mention there is, yeah, JP goes two for two tonight. has the big home run after, you know, the errant throw, which wasn't actually an error, but whatever. It was an errant throw that would have resulted in a double play there, but didn't. But he makes up for that. He gets that run back that scored on the throw immediately, the very, very next half inning. It's great timing, too.

You don't want to give the tigers any reason to think that they're back in it. And you just punch them right back in the face after you make that little mistake. so and that was and that was kind of the theme all night long right the the marries scored two and what was it the third inning yeah they scored two yeah and they had an opportunity for more there where they had jack flaredy on the ropes Julio strikes out Polanco strikes out nailer hits the ball that I said look like it was going to go yeah it looked like it was going to go 600 feet that ends the inning and you're thinking like okay well that's a huge missed opportunity there if the tigers you get at least one here in the next half inning,

then they're going to have some momentum. But the, you know, Logan gets through that inning and the Mariners' offense gets right back after it. Gino hits the home run. And Cal drives in the fourth run of the game. And again, like, you know, after JP botches that throw, he comes back,

he hits the home run, makes it five to one, gets that run back. Just a great, great night from the offense. And like you mentioned, they did it without getting really anything from Julio, from Polo, and from Josh Nailer. So nice to see the other guys come through. Obviously, Cal, but like, nice to see Radio Rosarena with a couple of hits tonight. A. E. E. Hino Souris get on the board. Yeah, with that huge.

He also had a nice walk in the first, too. Nice and bad. He did. He did. And then like a, you know, like we talked about the 7, 8, 9 guys. Huge, huge, huge. Gino also made a nice play in the field the barehanded play Was that McKinstree who tried to bond Which that to me was For that to me

That to me was the play of the game Honestly Because You know The first runner gets on And yeah meadows buntz Yeah it was meadows and it was a really good bunn And Gino bare hands it

And I didn't I didn't see the replay But watching it live it seemed like his footwork kind of got messed up and he was a little bit off balance. Just kind of throwing backwards, like throwing off his back foot, falling backwards and all that.

But he still had enough on the throw to get him by step. And that would have been a huge momentum shift if Meadows got on there because you got Carpenter waiting. And then, you know, yeah, that was just a huge, huge, huge, huge moment in the game. I thought that really was the play of the game. Yeah, so just great night from the offense. even better night from Loden Gilbert though.

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That's 50% off your first year at monarchmoney.com with promo code LOC, KED, O N, MLB. And you're listening to the Lockdown Marreras podcast for instant reactions following every Mariners playoff game. Be sure to tune into the Marriss Postcast with Anderson Hurst and Christopher Crawford available on both the Lockdown Merritt's YouTube and podcast feeds. So all last week in the lead up to this series, we talked so much about our concerns about Logan Gilbert's inconsistencies and his inability to put guys away in a timely fashion all year long. But tonight, he did just that more often than not and did so with, frankly, not that great of command. But there were times over the course of this start where we saw the Logan Gilbert, we know

in love. He had some nasty, nasty moments. I mean, even in the first inning where he was leaving a lot of stuff over the plate. They were getting good quality contact off of him. He bullied Riley Green with a couple of disgusting splitters to end that inning.

And he eventually really started to settle in the deeper into a start he got and like he smoked Colt Keith for example. He smoked Riley Green again. Like he had some truly, truly nasty moments. Like for the

most part, we saw Walter tonight and in the end he wraps up his night six innings pitch just one run given up on four hits seven strikeouts

no walks and it couldn't have come at a better time because this is a swing game right whoever lost this game was going to be playing with their backs against the wall tomorrow and thanks a large part

to Logan Gilbert the tigers are going to be that team tomorrow so just a fantastic fantastic start from Logan one of the best he's had all year. Yeah, I mean, it's hard to argue against that. He pretty easily could have gone, well, at least started the seventh inning.

You know, I don't blame Dan for the decision he made. I'm just saying he probably could have gone out there and been fine. Yeah, he was at 85 pitches. Yeah, he did have one 20 pitch inning and a 19 pitch inning. But his sixth inning and his fourth inning were like the best we've seen Logan in a long, long time. So he was, you know, pretty well, you know, pretty good in pretty good shape to go deeper if the Mariners had needed it. But that's just not really how the playoffs work. What's interesting about Logan's night tonight, along with the kind of the iffy command, as you talked about,

is that he threw his slider more than any other pitch, which is a bit dangerous because it's his worst pitch, statistically speaking. And tonight it wasn't, it wasn't bad. It wasn't rate, but it wasn't bad. I mean, the average exit Velo on that pitch tonight was 81.7 miles an hour. And he actually had. It was kind of bad early on if we're being real. Yeah. It's kind of bad like in the first couple of endings.

But yeah, what was it? I think it was the third. Maybe it was the second inning where, or no, it was the third inning. His second time facing Carpenter, uh, he was able to get him off balance,

uh, on a slider on a backdoor slider, uh, to strike him out. And that's where it felt like the slider started to turn around for him a little bit. Yeah. I mean, at the end of the day,

again, average exit Vilo about 82 miles an hour. It's not bad. I mean, it's not it's medium contact. That's fine. Six whiffs on 17 swings, 35%, you know, whiff rate on that. That's a good number, especially for him. He threw it 37 times, 25 of them were strikes. Like, that's a really good number. And what's also interesting about that is that he threw 20 splitters. Only six were strikes. Five of them were swung on a mist at. So, You know, that that's 83% whiff rate there. But the splitter really seemed to just be setting up the fastball and the slider. So it was really a case of all three pitches kind of working together. And Logan had good results on all of them. You know, his fastball, you had a 36% whiff rate. Again, anything over 30% on a forcing fastball is considered elite.

Logan was at 36% tonight. So, yeah, it was really interesting tonight. Again, 22 fastballs, 15 of those were strikes. The one pitch he didn't throw for strikes at all was the splitter. But when he got anywhere near the zone, the tiger swung and missed at it. So yeah, especially really green. You know, so again, 44% slider, 26% fastball, 24% splitter. And he mixed in six curveballs.

So, you know, nothing, nothing special there about the curveball. But it was just kind of a level changer, an eye level changer. So I just felt like he tunneled really well. tonight. The splitter was effectively wild. It splits not something you typically have great control over, but he had some really bad misses with that pitch. But when he got it near the zone, when he was able to get it, you know, started at the belt and it would drop off the table, he got swing and miss on it pretty much every time. It's just there a lot of times where it started low and it bounced up there or it was way off the plate. But yeah, for Logan to not even like, he had a good splitter tonight, but he didn't have real good command.

of it. And so for him to kind of get through six innings and really should have been six scoreless innings and to just kind of handle this lineup, especially the lefties, which we know are the big threats in this in this lineup, it was a really great night for Logan. And, you know, I think it was kind of a big night in a way for the decision that the Mariners made that a lot of people didn't like at the beginning of the series when they went with Kirby in Game 1 and Luis in Game 2. And the rationale was Logan gives us a better. chance on the road against this lineup in this ballpark and there were a lot of people and he's and he's particularly pitched well in this ballpark i think we talked about this

maybe not on here but on the patreon yesterday like he's been really good at america right so i i think you know it was decision that paid off you know and again it didn't really work the way you thought it would you you kind of you throw your best guy against their bullpen you expect to win that game and then maybe you throw your third best guy against their ace and a game and a game and then maybe you throw your third best guy against their ace in a game you anticipate losing anyways, but you win that one. And then Logan is ready to go here in a ballpark that he pitches well at, you know,

and he doesn't have the home road splits that you're concerned about. So I think Logan looked really good tonight. He looked well rested. You know, he looked healthy, which has not always been the case this year. But maybe good news, maybe bad news, depending on if the team advances or not. He didn't even have great command tonight.

and he was still really good. So does that mean if he pitches again, is he going to get shelled? Is the command going to be that big of a problem? If you know, pitches against the Yankees or Toronto? Or if you can find the command and keep this stuff, can you do something really, truly special in the next round if Seattle gets there? All right.

So the Mariners, as a result of tonight's win or one game away from making the ALCS for the first time since 2001, since I was five years old. So we're going to talk about what's coming up tomorrow. We know who's started for the M's. We'll go over that in just a moment. But first, a reminder of this episode of the Locktime Airs podcast is brought to you once again by game time. The NFL season is here and Fandul is making sure you're ready for kickoff with a can't miss offer.

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And you're listening to the Locked-on Mariners podcast. So the Mariners and the Tigers is going to have to give right back after it. Because the enough time has passed. By the way, we've had to record like, we had to record the start of the second segment like five. times because a bunch of stuff happened. We had lag. Colby had like a coughing fit. It was crazy.

So at this point now, it's really starting to look like the Yankees are going to win this game against the Blue Jays. So in all likelihood, it looks like the Marys are going to have to play in the afternoon tomorrow. Good job, Major League Baseball. Let's play an elimination game at noon on a Wednesday. Awesome. Is that any worse than having a playoff game be on FS2?

Because you didn't want to, you know, Fox didn't want to not run some. Family feud reruns. By the way, we didn't even talk about that. The Mariners won a rain delay game. This is their second game they've won in which a rain delay happened on the same day. The other win also came in Detroit. Yeah, yeah, three hour rain delay.

And then this game started with a challenge. Yeah. On the first batter of the game. It, yeah, it was quite a day watching this play out. But the Mariners seemed to really like hitting a challenge. America and hopefully that continues tomorrow. Yeah, let's hope that they can do that one more time

tomorrow to secure a spot in the ALCS which will still likely be against the Toronto Blue Jays. You know, the Yankees. Heavy favorites still. Again, it looks like the Yankees are going to at least win one game here.

They were down six to one at one point in this one. So, hey, maybe they built up a ton of momentum coming back down, you know, six one. And maybe they can go on a little bit of a run a little bit of a run here. I mean, that would be good for the Mariners if they are going to advance if, you know, the Yankees and Blue Jays went four or five. Just the, you know, the deeper that series goes

for the Mariners. I mean, like it couldn't hurt. So, so yeah, but you know, job's not finished. Mariner's got to take care of business and it would be great if they could just do so tomorrow. But, you know, they're in the driver's seat right now. I mean, worst case scenario, you're going back home to play another playoff game. which you know you play very well at home obviously you would likely have to face tarrick scubel we'll talk about that a little bit more here in a second though because it's possible the tigers

might get desperate enough tomorrow to use scubel in some capacity now would that necessarily rule him out to also start a game five who knows and i've kind of buried the lead here though bryce miller is starting for the merrists we'll see if uh the idea here is to piggyback uh Bryce with someone, whether that be George Kirby or Emerson Hancock potentially. Now, the nice thing is, again, like, Wu doesn't, or sorry, Miller doesn't have to go six innings or five innings, like you would, in a regular season game where you'd be like, we really need Wu to go five or six because the bullpen, like, bullpen's fine. I mean, I can't imagine any scenario you're using Caleb Ferguson in tomorrow anyways.

And Bizarro through nine pitches, Munoz through nine pitches, Brasth through 12. and they had yesterday off and they have tomorrow off. So bullpen's going to be totally fine. So if you can only, if you only can get like nine to 12 outs from Bryce Miller, that's probably fine. But yeah, I just, I don't know what to trust.

I don't know what to count on from Bryce. He has been mostly bad this year, although a little better in some of his recent starts. But also like, how does Bryce attack this? If he's like, hey, your job is to get as many outs as you can. Don't worry about going deep.

Is the Velo going to spike? Are we going to see a lot more splitters than we normally do? Because he's just leaving it all out there. Like is the plan for him to go three innings and then maybe Hancock? Like, I don't know. Are you going to trust Caleb Ferguson to face the lefties in the third inning? Absolutely not. I mean, I don't think Kinch will pinch hit all the righties in the third,

but maybe he does. It's an elimination game. It doesn't matter. like can Caleb Ferguson throw strikes? Yeah, that's the bigger issue. But he's a veteran. He's pitching a lot of playoff games. Probably not, but yeah, I don't feel.

You would think that a veteran would, you know, maybe throw strikes up seven. But whatever. All the thing, like, you told me that the Mariners reliever wasn't going to throw strikes tonight and told me Matt Brash pitched. I would have been heavy on that. Sure. Yeah. But anyways, yeah, I don't, so I don't feel great about it.

Now, the nice thing is, is that. Detroit, because you won this game, their backs are against the wall. They're probably going to have a pretty quick hook on Mize. They might go to Scoobel in this game, which would more than almost certainly knock him out of a game five scenario, at least as a starter. He's not going to throw 50 pitches tomorrow and then throw 110 on Friday. But, you know, the bullpen, we know the Tigers bullpen's not great. They didn't have to use any of their big arms tonight. well, they really kind of only have the one or two.

But the mayor's offense really like sitting in Camerica. The Tiger's bullpen is really not good. Casey Meis has been wildly inconsistent in the second half. So there's an opportunity to jump on him here. So it's definitely a winnable game. My concern is more on the pitching side. Like how do you get to Bizarro Spire, Munoz? Yeah.

Like if you can get to them with the lead, I feel really good. But how do you get there with Miller and probably? probably Hancock, maybe Kirby, we'll see, I don't know. So, yeah, I just, because I'm not quite sure how they're going to handle the pitching staff tomorrow, I don't feel great about it. But again, you are a better team than Detroit. We've said that constantly throughout. You do have a big advantage because you're up two to one right now.

And, you know, your team really likes hitting at Comerica and they've crushed it every game they played there. And yeah, so I think overall, I feel pretty good about them advancing. I hope it happens tomorrow, but I have real concerns about what Bryce Miller is going to look like, how many outs he's going to be able to give you. And if you can't give you enough outs and, you know, is it possible that he has a negative impact on a potential game five,

maybe? But then again, also, what are the Mariners alternatives? But to start Bryce Miller. Yeah. I mean, Kirby on short rest.

You're not starting Kirby on short. Not when you're up two to one. Yeah. Again, could I see him, you know, being asked to throw 35, 40 pitches in the middle of this game? Yes, I could see that. But like, hey, George, we're going to start you and you're going to throw us 80 pitches. Like, that's not going to happen. I think tomorrow is the day that George Kirby would typically throw a 35 to 40 pitch bullpen in between starts.

So he could, in theory, do that in the game. Yeah. And that could be the plan. And if he doesn't have to pitch in the game, he can throw his bullpen, you know, after the game or you know in the in the in the dugouts or whatever blah blah blah yeah like you can do stuff like that but you're not going to ask george kirby to go out there and throw 75 80 90 pitches on the day's rest it's not going to happen talking about is like asking moni to go to tomorrow right yeah probably i think you can't do that because like because like you have the off day Thursday

if things don't go your way and if things do go your way you have Thursday Friday and Saturday before you have to play a game one of the ALCS. Like, yes, I think we'll, like, should they be willing to stretch Spire and Munoz and Bizarro to get more than three outs? Yeah, absolutely, because you have the day off. Yeah. You know, and because neither, none of those three guys really threw, Spire didn't throw at all today.

But, like, again, Bizarro and Munoz through nine pitches each, I think. And Brash, for good measure, only through, like, 12. So, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, those guys, you can absolutely stretch them out, go two innings. But I don't think you're going to see him be asked to get more than six outs. And that's really what this conversation comes down to. It's like, how do we piece together 27 outs to win this ballgame?

And hopefully we only need 27. Extras would be tough. But like if Bryce can get us, you know, 10, can Kirby get us six? And then we can go to Spire. and then we can go to Spire Munoz and Brash to get us the last 11, maybe a bizardo too, like to get us the last 11

yes, I think that's probably the plan here. We're not counting innings anymore guys, we're counting outs and that's the big difference between the regular season and the postseason. I think it's going to be Hancock. That's like the second guy. Yeah. I think so too.

Yeah. But we'll see if the new arm slot and all that, you know, plays up as well as it did against the Rockies. Roughly the same quality of a bonus, sure, why not? And, you know, need I remind you what happened the last time, Emerson Hancock

faced the Detroit Tigers. So, yeah, I don't feel great about that idea. I'm just going to be honest with you about that. Sorry. I know, you know, there's a lot of Emerson Hancock fans out there, but, hey, I dare him to prove me wrong tomorrow. I

double dog dare him. I think if Bryce Miller could give you four innings. Of like two run ball. I think you take that and you giggle because now you have your four best relievers needing 15 outs to get 15 outs. You can manage that.

Without having to use Hancock, presumably without having to use Kirby. So I think if you get four innings from Bryce and it's like maybe you're even trailing like three to two or something like that. But if you just get four innings from Bryce, I think you can really piece it together well with just using your high leverage guys, not having to trust Luke Jackson or Caleb Ferguson or Emerson Hancock, for that matter.

I think you can do that if Bryce can give you four. If Bryce can only give you like three or like two and a third, it's hard for me to see a scenario where like Hancock or Luke Jackson isn't being asked to get outs in this game. So it really is, you know, can Bryce get me at least 10 outs, 10, 11, 12 outs? I think you're in pretty good shape. If you can't do that, it feels like you're going to have to score quite a few runs. And, hey, you know, just score eight runs again. You're probably going to be okay.

But, yeah, I don't feel great about it because I don't know what the plan is with the bullpen. And I don't know. Well, I do know. I don't trust Bryce Miller to give you a competitive start, unfortunately. Yeah. I would love to get on here tomorrow and talk about how Emerson Hancock gave you, you know, five outs, five big, big outs to help you bridge the gap to your bullpen. It would be great, but I don't feel, I don't feel good about it.

Huge day tomorrow, potentially. Massive, massive, massive day. Potentially one of the biggest days of Mariners history tomorrow. And we will talk to you guys after the game. I don't think there's any sort of like rain or anything like that in the forecast. So I think that game should start on time. and we'll see how it goes, but we could be in a very different world

the next time we talk to you guys. Please just one tomorrow, I think. All right. That is going to do it for our show. Thank you so much for joining us here on the Locktime Marys podcast for Colby Patnode. I'm Tedding Gazzalas.

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