PHNX Arizona Diamondbacks Podcast - Corbin Carroll’s TWO-HOME RUN NIGHT Powers Diamondbacks Past Mets

Episode Date: August 29, 2024

Corbin Carroll and the Answerbacks are BACK! The Diamondbacks rallied late on Carroll’s second career grand slam to beat the New York Mets 8-5. We are discussing Carroll’s two-home run night, Eduardo Rodriguez cruising until the 5th, and the bullpen continuing to be dominant late in games for the D-backs.An ALLCITY Network ProductionSUBSCRIBE to our YouTube: https://bit.ly/phnx_youtubeALL THINGS PHNX: http://linktr.ee/phnxsportsMERCH https://store.allcitynetwork.com/collections/phnx-lockerALLCITY Network, Inc. aka PHNX and PHNX Sports is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by the City of PhoenixPHNX Events: Get your tickets to PHNX events and takeovers here: https://gophnx.com/events/bet365: https://www.bet365.com/olp/open-account?affiliate=365_03330244 Use the code PHNX365 to sign up, deposit $10 and choose your offer!Disclaimer: Must be 21+ and physically located in AZ.  If you or someone you know has a gambling problem and wants help, call 1-800-NEXT-STEP, text NEXTSTEP to 53342 or visit https://problemgambling.az.gov/Sanderson Ford: The Sanderson Ford Summer Sales Event is here and they are teaming up with the boys of summer for a final Playoff Payoff Sale. You get the payoffs like deals on 24 Ford Bronco Sport Big Bend. Lease one today for as low as $299 a month for 36 Months with only 10 percent cash down.Zbiotics: Go to https://zbiotics.com/phnxdbacks to get 15% off your first order when you use PHNXDBACKS at checkout. Pre-Alcohol is backed with 100% money back guarantee so if you’re unsatisfied for any reason, they’ll refund your money, no questions asked. Branded Bills: Use code PHNX at https://www.brandedbills.com/ for 20% off your first order!Mint Mobile: To get your new 3-month unlimited wireless plan for just 15 bucks a month, go to https://mintmobile.com/diamondbacks.  $45 upfront payment required (equivalent to $15/mo.). New customers on first 3 month plan only. Speeds slower above 40GB on Unlimited plan. Additional taxes, fees, & restrictions apply. See MINT MOBILE for details.Gametime: Download the Gametime app, create an account, and use code PHNX for $20 off your first purchase. Terms apply.Circle K: Join Inner Circle for free by downloading the Circle K app today! Head to https://www.circlek.com/store-locator to find Circle Ks near you!Shady Rays: Exclusively for our listeners, Shady Rays is giving out their best deal of the season. Head to https://shadyrays.com and use code: PHNX for 35% off polarized sunglasses. Try for yourself the shades rated 5 stars by over 300,000 people.Check out FOCO merch and collectibles and use promo code “PHNX10” for 10% off your order on all non Pre Order items.Rugged Road: Gear up for your next adventure with Rugged Road Coolers - Your ultimate outdoor companion! Head to http://ruggedroadoutdoors.pxf.io/ALLCITY and use code PHNX for 10% off!When you shop through links in the description, we may earn affiliate commissions. Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Ski and welcome in to another edition of the PHNXDBacks podcast brought to you by our friends at Bet365. Of course, you know it's never ordinary. A bet 365. Make sure to sign up, use our code of Bet365 or PHNX 365 when you do. Choose your offer and find out once again why it's never ordinary over there at Bet365. And of course, it is never ordinary watching an Arizona Diamondbacks game or a Corbyn Carroll season, I guess. Damon, what the hell did we just witness tonight? Of course, welcome in PHNX D-Backs.

My name is Derek Montia, occasionally known as the rightful and probably forever mayor of PHNX. This man next to me is the people's producer himself, Damon Dogg. And holy shit, Corbyn Carroll is back. Yeah, I mean, we've been waiting for it all season. I think Derek with like, the guy we kept liking it to, right, is is jrod on the mariners he had a really really bad sophomore season he was slumping worse than corbin probably even was and then just went on a tear where he was the best hitter

in baseball for a month two months straight to end the year hope that looks like what we're seeing with corbin carroll right now to be honest it's crazy uh diamondbacks win the night by a score of eight to five of course uh they have just been very very good at baseball damon very good at baseball improved to 76 and 57. Their 21 wins since July 29th continues to lead MLB. And since August 1st, the D-backs lead the majors

with 26 such occurrences where they scored two plus runs or more in the sixth inning or later. Diamondbacks did that tonight on Corbyn Carroll's second career grand slam in his big two home run night. This man just became, if not already, a Diamondbacks legend

a solidified Diamondbacks legend. He hit home runs number 16 and 17 tonight. The D-backs, 28 games with two plus home runs or more are the most in Major League Baseball. This offense is the best offense in baseball, Derek. That's not surprising. I feel like every offensive stat you'll run down, you would be like, they're at the top or their top five. I mean, that's-

Especially since July, right? Nothing new. Right. Like July 7th, that is a very important. very important date that we bring up quite often around here, but it felt like a pivotal time where a lot of things change for the Diamondbacks. A lot of things change for Gino and Corbin. Corbin has 14 home runs now since July 7th. David's future bet of Corby and Carroll hitting, what was it, 22 and a half over, 22 and a

half of runs, right? It was dead. It was dead in June. We got through a month of June where he did not hit a single home run and it was a dead bet. But he was a dead bet. But he was. I want it out of my face. Right. Yeah, because it's there every day. Every time you open up the app, it's up there at the top. And now I have a new message, Derek. We want 18.

That's all we care about. We're on to the next one. On to the next one. We get 16. We get 17 and we go on to the next one. His home run in the fourth inning was his longest career home run at Chase Field and the second longest of his career. That very, very hard hit ball went 440 feet.

Corbin is back. Corbyn's back. He's swinging with one hand. He's doing the thing. He's, his eyes light up when he, like you're looking at the replay in slow motion. His eyes absolutely lit up at that ball that he hit off of Edwin Diaz.

Edwin Diaz had absolutely nothing for the Arizona Diamondbacks. Talk about a waste of $19.7 million. That man came into the fucking ball game and stunk up the joint, man. Yeah, I mean, Edwin Diaz was not good. He was all over the place for the, for the, you know, the first part of the inning. Got some walks.

The Diamondbacks got a lot of people on base. And then Corbyn is just, the baseball is a volleyball right now. It looks huge. Right. Like it didn't even look like he even like connected with it that well. He just, he got really under it. But he, but he hit it so hard that it just kept carrying. And it feels, I feel special again.

Corbyn Carroll's back in my life. life in MVP form and this this is everything i'd ever dreamed of the entire season you you have these nights where you just can't sleep you know and you don't really know why your mind is racing you're sitting there in bed you're like why what what is wrong with me and it's nothing is there wrong with you it's what was wrong with corbin carroll that's what your mind was focused on what is wrong with our corbs and how can we get him right you know and of course this was uh this was this is just a big night for Corbyn Carroll, big night for this team. Things, you know, of course, they went up early, Jock Peterson,

who had a tremendous walk where he feigned bunting a couple of times. It got on base, which was tremendous to see. He had a big smile on his face after that. He hit a home run in this one. His two home run in the third was his 21st of the season. He helped put the Diamondbacks up more. Their first run of the game came from a Luis Guillaume, incredible at bat, where he just battle in that at bat.

and got the Diamondbacks first run there in the second inning. But the Mets battled back. Eduardo Rodriguez, I don't know what happened. I don't know what happens in these terrible fifth innings against the Mets. This is a show, right, where shit just fell apart for the Diamondbacks of the Eduardo Rodriguez. He was cruising. He threw his fastball and his change up well.

He got eight whips. He did not allow a hit or a base runner through the first four innings. But then when he got into that fifth inning, things just fell off. part. Yeah, when I was watching the game, what I was thinking was like, I feel like we're not, we shouldn't be in an Eduardo Rodriguez start and when he has zero runs given up and be like, this is a gem that he's going to throw because I don't think he's that guy really. I think he's kind of the guy who's going to give up three, four, pretty much every game, but he's going to keep it you in the baseball game every single game.

Like that's what they signed him for. He's not going to, I don't think he's that that high. stuff kind of guy. I don't know, Zach, Zach here might be on to something. He says it's because Steve said he was throwing a perfect game. Well, Steve loves it. But to be fair,

Steve also brought up the grand slams leading, leading baseball and Graham slams when Corbyn walked up to the plate. So he set that moment up pretty well. And I was, during the time I was ready to crucify him for it. But he got it right. So, you know, pops to Steve on that one.

Great question from Tyler Hurd, known troublemaker. Tyler says, Why is Derek not at the ballpark with Jesse? Well, because there were already people demanding that we start this show. Do I need to go through some of those early messages that maybe you guys don't think we see? But I totally saw where you guys are like, get the show on the road. Let's get going.

Do you know how long it would take to start? Do you know how long it takes for Jesse to be here? That wouldn't even be when we would start. I don't even know when we would get our shit together. If somebody wasn't here already getting the show going. But big things to do you start like started late today. If Eric was at the ballpark with Jesse, we'd be getting postgame shows until like 12 a.m.

every single that. You'd be midnight. It would be the earliest you would see us around here. But, you know, again, there were a lot of very encouraging things about Erod's start tonight, five in third innings pitch, five hits, five earned runs that all came there in that fifth inning, one walk, five strikeouts for him. So not a pretty line, not a great outing, but he looked great for a considerable portals. of it. He really did. Yeah. I mean, he really, I think he's a great pitcher. Like I, I, it's so much better than what we had at the

beginning of the season where we were like, maybe Slade can give us a good start here or there. Yeah. Like Tommy Henry, what do you say, big guy? But, you know, now we like if, if Erod's going to go out there every game and give it, give you a solid outing, a six innings pitch, three runs given up, like, it's hard to ask much more out of your, you know, three, four starter. And I'm happy with that kind of performance. I know it kind of fell apart, but I still, I kind of think Tori should take him out before the sixth inning there before he let it become a five, four game. I mean, he clearly lost, lost it the inning before.

And I was like, that's enough of, of Erod tonight. But Tori kept him out there. We lost the lead. And then the bullpen shut it down. The bullpen absolutely shut it down. three and two thirds innings pitch, scoreless. And they can just just continue to do it. I mean, Yinkle came in and he was huge trying to get out of that inning.

He allowed one, not two strikeouts in an inning and two thirds innings pitched. Ryan Thompson gets one hit, one strikeout in his inning pitched. And then J. Mark comes in and closes things out with his one inning pitch and one strikeout. So, I mean, this was this was just another stellar performance by the bullpen that kept the Diamondbacks in it. Obviously, you know, a big part of the team being able to come back is that even when they were down, they were down five to four, right? That's still a close game and you still mentally feel like you're within shouting distance of coming back and taking the lead back yourself. They did that. And Corby and Carroll again, I mean, I don't know what to say about, you know, how good he's been.

But 14 home runs in, you know, July 7th. So we're talking about a month and three weeks. like that's just a wild amount of power from him considering, you know, that we're talking about two home runs prior to that, you know? Yeah, I mean, the stats insane. Like, he, he was on like a absolute stinker of a season, if we're calling it like it is. Like, it was, it was the power numbers were just not there whatsoever. And then he started to find his doubles and his triples back a little bit about halfway

through the year, but he still wasn't hitting the home runs. and then now everything is going over the wall for him. So, I mean, if, like, what I was envisioning was, if Corbin's going to play like this at that MVP level, we had him last season, then when Catelle comes back, and if he comes back, you know, firing like he has been all season, the Diamondbacks now have two of the best hitters in baseball in their lineup again. And that doesn't include Christian Walker and Gabi Moreno and guys like that as well.

So, I mean, I think this lineup could. be it's already the best lineup in baseball you know throughout the season i think as or at least the nl has the most run scored i it's with with katell coming back it could be you know extremely dangerous in the postseason uh our guy piece of yoshi says keith was crucifying a dc on the sny feed i'm guessing for the tag for the tag at home that was a good throw by lordis we don't see that unreal throw by lord the best throw we've seen this season i would say yeah i'm I'm the most critical of anybody out of this, this, you know, D. Bex Outfield's arm. But, like, Lordus has the best arm in terms of power that's like quantifiable.

And, but he's just really inaccurate. And that was the most accurate throw he's had all year. And ADC, it was just kind of a lazy tag, I feel like. Like, if he's stuck with that play the whole way, that's a, that's an easy out. Yeah. May's devil is right, by the way. J. Mart with Savior is very fitting. I think somebody else in the chat.

Michael Rokickey said, can we talk about J-Mart's entrance music? Electric. It's electric. And very fitting. Message received J-Mart because he has been the savior, right? Like, I don't think Jesse asking the question at Tori's press conference yesterday was out of line. And I thought it was odd that Tori was so committed to saying that he's not ready to name Justin Martinez as the closer of this team. when his actions clearly show that Justin Martinez is the closer of this team, right?

Like, I get it because of the idea that especially as you get into the playoffs, you know, you probably feel more comfortable with a veteran in there, someone of Paul Seawald's caliber in there in those moments. But the reality is Paul Seawald is not what he's been and J. Mart is filthy. That's the reality of the matter. And J.Mart is getting the experience. now, right? Where those big moments aren't closing in on him so much. They're not

so overwhelming for him. And it feels like he's done a better job at handling those moments. I had the same reaction while I was watching where I was like, why are we still doing this with the whole J-Mart, Seawald situation at this point? Like, Torrey said yesterday,

what was it? His best bullpen that he envisions for the Diamondbacks is Paul Seawald closing games down in the ninth. He said that yesterday. I mean, I just don't understand how we could get at this point. I brought it up to you yesterday after our postgame show because I heard that for the first time. What benefit does that have for the Diamondbacks? Because in the current, Justin Martinez is better than Paul Seawalt. Projecting for the future, Justin Martinez is better than Paul Seawald. So because Paul Sewald's 34 years old, Justin Martinez is 23. He just turned 23.

So, I mean, like, there's, it makes no sense in any regard for the future or for the current to keep having Seawald groomed for this role. And it just, it's, it's not something that, that, you know, like, I just can't wrap my head around it at all. No. I mean, and most people can't. It's kind of like, I feel like we keep having these discussions. There's just these times where there is somebody that is supposed to be the. guy in that role. There's another player that is playing better than them, outperforming them. They are struggling. And there's no reason why not to go with the guy that's performing better

consistently. It's not a small sample size any longer. You're looking at Justin Martinez's performances throughout the year. You look at Ryan Nelson's, Ryan Nelson's performances over the last two months, right? These are two guys that absolutely played their way into earning that playing time. not it's not just like a oh hey look at this one outing that he had that was incredible let's make this guy our closer no justin martinez uh is as as torrey said he was the guy that everybody at the all-star game was asking him about he's the guy that every manager and player comes up to him and speaks to him about like he's oddly this anomaly that everybody can recognize has some of the most incredible stuff they've ever seen out of a pitcher uh especially a 22 23 year old kid right

Yep. And yet, you know, the hesitance is there to not just go with Justin Martinez. Now, lips are moving, but actions are something else, right? And Tori might say that he's not the closer. It doesn't mean that he's not the closer and he's not coming in in high leverage situations in the ninth inning and shutting the game down. So maybe it's a ploy by Tori to not overwhelm Justin Martinez. You know, maybe that title, it might be something that might be a little too much. maybe that's something that Tori feels like maybe that title is something too much for somebody of Justin Martinez's age to to handle because then that means

you're the guy right like so I will give I'll give Lavello credit for one thing and that is managing young players right sure every young player that comes up from AAA happens to have some sort of even if it's a short stretch of just being incredible when they make

their major league debut right you have all of these guys that come up. Yulbert Diaz, Justin Martinez, Adrian del Castillo, right? Like there's something to be said about the fact that Tori knows how to at least handle the mentality of that adjustment, that leap from being a minor leaguer to making your debut and playing in major league baseball, right?

And so I trust him there with that. And there might be something to that, right, of not officially naming him, but still naming him that, you know. Like, I see what you're saying. And I, like, I hope that's the case. But what my mind goes to automatically is, well, why, then why is he saying the thing about how he envisions his perfect bullpen or his best bullpen down the line? Like, there's no need to throw that part in there, though. There is.

There is. That, like, it's almost a, it's almost twofold, right? Because on one hand, you're not overwhelming Justin Martinez with the idea that he's the closer. He's the guy. And you're also inspiring a guy that you believe in still. in Paul Seawald and you're saying publicly that you believe in him and that you feel like he's going to one day come back to be in your closer role. There ain't much time left, right? Like, I mean, Paul Seawald isn't the closer of the future. Paul Seawald most likely is a member of

this team beyond this season. But that doesn't mean that Tori doesn't want to try to get some sort of value out of Paul Seawald between now and when he's no longer part of this team, right? I don't want to see Paul Seawald in high leverage situations. You say that ever again for the rest of the season. You say that, but if he returns to being the Paul C. wall that he was, you do, right? Like, you just want to see that. I agree with.

Not over J. Mark. No, that I agree with. Not over J. Mark. But that's not necessarily the only place where he could have value coming out of the bullpen. Right? Like, we said it a little bit earlier. Someone said it in the chat earlier.

Like, J. Mark comes in the game in the ninth inning. And people are like, oh, shit. that's the guy who throws a hundred miles per hour with a nasty splitter. And like it just drops out of a seat and you don't know how to read that at all. And then when Paul Seewald comes into the game in the ninth and people go, oh, sweet, 93 miles per hour, 92 miles per hour up in the up in the zone. Two pitches that he throws. Like that's just a completely different mentality between the two guys.

One of them like puts fear into a hitter like a closer ideally should. and Paul Seawald is just he doesn't have that and that's fine but that's not where Paul see well needs to have value necessarily we'll see you you you we've already seen it from tory where his words say one thing but his actions show something else right and at times I feel like he's managing more than just a baseball team he's managing like these things becoming bigger news stories and he's managing you know the clubhouse he's managing the vibes right the vibes are so good that's all we hear about this team it's the reason why right sometimes a good manager damon as you know knows how to talk to people right a good manager isn't just a bad person

that just makes you feel bad about yourself all the time and just always does that a good manager inspires you he makes you want to work harder for him he does not make you want to absolutely quit on him and tell him to go f himself right So that's the reason why Tori is a good manager and other people aren't, right? And so it's about handling people. It's about knowing people. And that's why Tori is beloved. That's why people that play for Tori play their goddamn hearts out for them, right?

So, I mean, and that's, we're seeing that this season. This team has no quit in them, especially lately. And this was another one of those nights where they just didn't have, they didn't have the quit. Yeah. I mean, they, they didn't. And they've been doing that consistently down this stretch where they've been playing well, where they've been winning a lot of games late. How about Pavin?

The patience from Pavin Smith to take a walk there. Edmond Dia is coming in and, you know, like that. And kind of setting the tone, set in the tone, right? Of course, Jerry walks because that's how it works. And then the second Jerry walked, it was like, okay, Corbyn Carroll's hitting a bomb. And that's what happened. And that's what happened.

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Do we have any... Yeah, we actually did have a political ad we had to run. Political ads to run. Yeah, unfortunately. Like, I'm getting tired of these, but they do make really good points, I think. Some of them are pretty informative. Let's see if this one is. What do we got?

When it comes to the election for pH and ex-Mare, there's only one real choice. And that choice isn't Greg Esposito. but don't just take our word for it. Listen to the man himself. He vote for my opponent, Derek Montia. I encourage you. Let's listen back to that one more time. You vote for my opponent, Derek Montia.

I encourage you. If he doesn't even trust himself to be the mayor of PHNX, why should you trust him? Espo, he's not just radical. He's dangerous. And even he knows that he can't be allowed to win. He vote for my opponent, Derek Montia. I encourage you.

Ethical standards in PHNX officials is responsible for the content of this advertising. That's wild. I did not expect him to concede like that. He said that? I miss. I must have missed that. It was on today's PHNX Sun Show where, again, another one of those ads aired. Something about his crazy conspiracy theories, his tinfoil hat club.

I don't know. Espo is a crazy person, so I really don't keep track of all of the insane things he says. but whatever this group is, they definitely have been keeping track. And the watchdogs of society. It's the watchdogs of society. The ethical, what is it, the ethical standards of PH&X officials? That's a, that's a funny acronym. That's a funny acronym.

Well, we need to move on now. Of course, well, no further ado. No further ado. Most of the time we make them, we keep them in a little box and make them wait until the third segment. But let's bring him in. It's the trader himself, Benedict Freeman. and Jesse here to allegedly be on my side for a little while, and then he's going to turn around and side with Espo.

I don't know, but welcome in, Jesse. Big night for Corbyn Carroll, big night for the Montia campaign as well, according to those attack ads. But more importantly, Corvin Carroll's two home run night, just this team can't stop coming back from behind. Nope, you're muted. Yeah, there's no, no. See, this is the Esposito campaign, just kind of personified right here,

just, you know. There we go. Now you got me. Much better. Much better. All right. I just wanted to start out by saying that, you know, based on, on some of the, some of the press that I'm seeing on Espo side, I'm now leaning toward running as an independent.

Still a little bit undecided, Derek. Maybe I will join your ticket and run as vice mayor. That's, that door's closed. I already brought on Bradley. It's Montia Bradley, 2024. I'm proud to stand with Archie. and I look forward to my new vice mayor, not stabbing me in the back at the first chance that he gets.

That's crazy. That's crazy he thought he could just jump back on. Just jump back after seeing some of the new information that's been released. I mean, there's a lot. There are 500 more of those coming. That's just the tip of the iceberg as far as those attack ads are going. But Jesse, what a night for Corbyn Carroll, two home runs, including his second career grand slam.

Yeah, I mean, I tweeted it out. a little while ago, Corbyn Carroll hit two home runs in his first 87 games this year. That is not a small sample size, Derek. 87 games is more than half of the major league season. And Corbyn had two home runs through 87 games. I believe that runs through July the 6th. At that point, we were, you know, having conversations about whether Corbyn would hit a single home run this season at home, you know, whether he would break double digits in home runs

this season. At that point, it did not really seem like a guarantee that he would. would and now you look up and he has 17 homers on the season and he hit 25 last year like he very well at the pace he's going right now could wind up with 25 again this season. I from the beginning of the year and in those in those early a couple of months when when Corbyn was really struggling felt that you know he he very well could bounce back. I think we all expected him to bounce back on some level but you know you get so far into the season with an OPS that starts with a five and you feel like the end of season numbers even if you finish strong just aren't really going to be there and you know maybe Corby doesn't finish with the 870 OPS that he had last year he still has a ways to go but at this point you're looking at a guy who's been I believe a slightly above league average hitter for the season and that's a testament to just what he's been able to accomplish here over the last month and a half and it hasn't just been that he's been productive. It's also been his, his clutch factor, his ability to come through and hit these

home runs in some very timely spots. And there's no greater example of that than the grand slam with two outs that he hit tonight in the eighth inning against, of course, one of the better closers in baseball in Edwin Diaz. And he was really struggling. So it's like, I'm not going to give Edwin Diaz all, you know, all the credit to Corbyn because Edwin Diaz couldn't find the strike zone and yeah you match that up you know where where a pitcher naturally gets desperate to try to not walk another guy with corbin's streak that he's been on i mean 36 straight games where he's reached base safely and he has what you said 17 home runs so 15 of those home runs have happened since july 7th like the man is just uh he's been incredible especially lately right i mean three home runs in

his last two games. And he's just really dialed in. So it happened. And it's exciting that it happens because, you know, they bring Edwin Diaz in for that, you know, for out save. And, you know, it's not, doesn't exactly go their way for the New York Mets there. But let's take a look at the count presented by Desert Financial Credit Union, because this game, of course, was a little bit of a wild one.

Diamondbacks outscore the Mets eight to five. They out hit the Mets nine to six. They were three for seven with runners in scoring. position to the Mets 2 for 5. Diamondbacks had four extra base hits to the Mets 3, which that extra extra base hit ended up being very, very important. And then, of course, expected batting average now, Jesse. I don't know if you've been here for this yet, but it's a very exciting in our stats,

XBA, now on the board, 272 for the Diamondbacks to 242 for the Mets. The crowd shamed us and made fun of hard hit percentage to the point where it went away. And the minute we took it away, these, these, this entire audience just was infuriated that hard hit percentage was gone. But this is what we live with now. And the Diamondbacks, this is what this is what Diamondbacks are now, a team that you never know when they are going to come back. And honestly, like, this was another one of those games that even though they were down,

I don't think many Diamondbacks fans lost hope when they were down by one run, especially after seeing what they did, you know, late last night, that they couldn't come back late here again against this Mets team. Yeah, I mean, if you're really seriously doubting this team when they're down one run going into the seventh inning, like I don't really know what to tell you at this point because it almost feels to me, Derek, and granted, I don't really have any concrete numbers to back this up, but it almost feels to me like it is the exception for the Diamondbacks to not come back in a situation like this. it almost feels like it would be surprising for the debacks to be down by a run going into the seventh

inning and not find a way to claw their way back as they did today. That's just been the narrative for this team here over these past few weeks where they just, they just find ways to win games and they're finding ways to win games. Of course, without three of their best players and Christian Walker and Catel Marte and Gabriel Moreno, they're continuing to find ways to win games and they did it again today. and this was shaping up. I mean, if the diamondbacks had been unable to come back in this one, it was shaping up to be one of the more brutal losses of the season.

I mean, you've got Eduardo Rodriguez. I'm sure you guys have touched on this. You've got Erod perfect through four innings. And then things just totally fall apart for him in the fifth. The Mets claw their way back, tie the game at four. And then the way that they took the lead was not great for the debacks, right? It's Starling Marte, bunting his way on, stealing second, advancing to three. third on a ground out scoring on a shallow sack fly on a tag that was pretty clearly

not played well by Adrian Del Castillo. He should have been more aggressive rather than sort of waiting for Starling Marte to come to him. And that, I mean, that looked like it might be the difference in this game. And yet again, the Diamondbacks find a way to come back. Well, and again, outside of that, you know, Grand Slam, the Diamondbacks didn't add much else on. If Corby and Carroll wouldn't have come through for this team in that moment, you know,

know, this probably would have been one of the most heartbreaking losses of this stretch, at least, like taking us back to those early days of April and May, where we experienced quite a few heartbreaking losses over that time frame, right? I still have nightmares about that Brave series, Jesse. I still can't get over it. But of course, that reality that we live in is Corby and Carroll was the hero tonight. And of course, there's no doubt that he is our king snake of this game. Two for five tonight, two home runs.

runs five RBI, second career grand slam, and again, just, uh, just, just absolutely on fire. And I mean, you love to see it because you know how much this guy loves baseball. You know how much Corby and Carroll loves to play this game. And to be honest, his struggles early on, I felt like we're more heartbreaking than other people on the team because, you know, he was so good last year. And you just kind of could feel the, the confusion, the, the, the, the, the, him kind of being lost as to what, you know,

what exactly was wrong. And it's, it's so great to see him back, you know, being this player that we kind of knew he was and, and felt confident that he could get back to being. Yeah. I mean,

in this stretch since July 7th that we keep referencing, Corbyn has 15 home runs in that span. And he has 39 hits. So 15 of his 39 hits since July 7th have gone over the fence. That's almost half. That's about 40. which is utterly outrageous. It's just been, you know, for a while there, it was Corbyn, you know, hitting some home runs,

but things still didn't quite look the same. He was still popping up a little more than you'd like, rolling over the top a little more than you'd like. And gradually, it feels like he's getting back to the guy who, you know, is still hitting boatloads of home runs, but is also finding his way on base at a little bit higher of a clip more in line with what you saw a year ago. And the timing here has been fantastic, right? I mean, with the Diamondbacks losing those key players that I mentioned earlier,

you needed other guys to step up. You know, Josh Bell was was only going to have a thousand OPS for so long, most likely. After coming over, we've seen him slow down a bit. Jake McCarthy has been outstanding, but you kind of figured he might slow down a little bit. And we've seen a little bit of that recently. But, you know, as those other guys have maybe started to struggle a little bit, You've had Corbyn Carroll continuing to be what he's been over the last month and a half. And Jock Peterson, of course, also played a big role tonight with that Homer.

He continues to be outstanding. So they've found ways to win even without those three key guys. And I tried to tell you, Jesse, about my wife bringing home animals and me not wanting to get attached to them. It's happened. I love Luis Guillaume and I don't want to give him back. I want to adopt him and I want to keep them here forever, right? like this is a guy that was sitting at home and you know tonight it's i know it's just in that bat i tweeted about it i talked about it earlier but he just absolutely battled in that in that first at

bat that he had to give the diamondbacks their first run there in the second inning and i mean it was just something that you don't really see out of a lot of guys on this team outside of maybe her aldo perdomo at times jock peterson too gives them some very quality at bats where he kind of sits in there and battles and takes what's given to him and yeah he might end up based with a single or whatever, but he's still like worked the count. He made the pitcher work and he saw a lot of pitches. And it's just a lot of information being picked up from from that pitcher. And you do a lot for your team when you can do that.

Giorme was showing that veteran, you know, kind of that veteran experience by being up there. And like it just, it felt like he got kind of got the offense, you know, kick started there early on. And he just continues to be another great pickup for this team, you know, while they're dealing with all of these injuries that you brought up. Yeah, I'm glad you brought that up. That was, you know, obviously not quite as pivotal as Corbyn's at bat in the eighth inning. But one of the hinge points of this game for sure, I mean, you had put a little bit of pressure on Luis Severino in that frame, but you hadn't actually pushed a run across yet. And you have Guillermo going up there, just fouling off tough pitch after tough pitch and eventually knocking that single to the opposite field.

It was a nine-pitched bat. It was part of a 35-pitch inning for Luis Severino. And this all came a day after the Diamondbacks didn't draw a single walk, right? And that's been a trend for this team throughout the season is that they draw walks. They work the count. They have deep, you know, they work some deep counts. And we saw that team sort of come back today. And Guillermo was a great example of that in that spot.

Well, we have some amazing super chats from our friends here in the live chat. Dante Ortiz says, Corbyn murdered Diaz to get back at Frank the Tank. hopefully. I mean, does this mean Paul Seawald is right again? Because if that's the case, we'll take it. Callan Bradshaw says, I want to give Corbyn a little smooch. I think we all want to smooch Corby and Carol, just a little bit. It's a bit varying degrees, some more than others, but I mean, I think we all want to give him a little kiss.

Johnny Walker, again, I won't disclose how long we've been friends because Damon frowns upon that. But thank you for your super chat. He says, go D-Bax. And of course, piece of Yoshi says, are we going to talk about the weird McCarthy stolen base call? Jesse, yeah, let's talk about it. Yeah, I was, you know, trying to sort of take a poll around the press box of what everyone thought of this play.

We didn't wind up asking Tori about it after the fact because it wasn't really very relevant in terms of how the game ended. But yeah, maybe we'll circle back to it with him tomorrow and see what he thought of it. My understanding is that maybe the Mets thought that Jake McCarthy, like his movement was a little bit odd after he saw the ball go into center field. I don't know if they thought that he never touched second base in the first place or if somehow

based on that odd movement, they thought that he needed to touch the base again before going to third. Like he had maybe started off toward first base and then had to retouch second. I don't know if that even would have applied in a situation like that, though. So yeah, suffice it to say all of us were puzzled and didn't really understand why. why the Mets challenge that play, it looked to me like they just thought that Jake McCarthy didn't touch second base

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you know, good pitch, like wasn't really where I wanted it, and then threw me a slider. I ended up pretty middle. Really? And yeah, that was it. Did you know it was gone after that? I looked up at the exit Velo and the launch angle in right field, and I was pretty sure.

So you're seeing that before the wild crops? Yeah. Yeah, you got to give a look to see, you know. Yeah, I mean, I didn't know off the bat, so I gave it a look. Did you look on your 440 footer? No, I was running a little bit. We got a big center field, so, yeah, can never be too sure. How did we have bats before that?

Yeah, it's super, super grinding, just very much. We've been this whole year, you know, a couple big walks, just, you know, take them what the pitcher gives and moving the line. So, yeah, I thought that was very representative. of who we've been as an offense. I know we've talked about this a lot, but your turnaround this season, you know, does May feel like it was five years ago?

Or, you know, how has this turnaround felt for you? I mean, it feels good to play well. So, you know, I think beginning of the year was very much a grind. It felt like I didn't take a breath until, you know, the All-Star break, really. And, you know, from there, kind of was able to get my feet under me a little bit and, you know, come out and have a strong second half. But yeah, I mean, first half, I wouldn't say it feels like five years ago. I think

there were some great lessons learned from it. And, you know, so I hope to keep it somewhat fresh. The man looked at his exit velo and his launch angle, Jesse. I have never been more hyped about hearing what he saw when he looked at after all run. I love Corby and Carol so much. I missed I missed this. I missed the joyful Corbyn, Corbyn Carroll telling us like with this sincerity and this honesty about moments like this.

You know, this is so great. Yeah. And of course, me being me, like I just totally lit up in that moment. I bet you did. Oh my gosh,

Corbyn Carroll can tell if it's over on the launch ankle and the exit of the below. This is the greatest thing I've ever heard. This is the greatest day of my whole life. And I also thought it was very funny that on the, his first homer of the game, which was significantly farther. It went 440 feet. And he was like, yeah, no, on that one, I had to run because center field at Chase Field is,

it's almost impossible to hit a home run in that area of the ballpark. So, yeah, just a huge day for Corbyn. And you heard him talk a little bit there about the struggles early in the season and how he feels like he had some positive takeaways from that. And I think we all kind of figured that Corbyn's struggling. a little bit, maybe not for quite as long as he wound up struggling, but that going through a little bit of adversity might help him in the long run. It's something that he basically hasn't dealt with his entire baseball career,

going, like going all the way back to high school, you know, through the minor leagues. It was just smooth sailing for him. So, yeah, maybe in the end, this really does make Corbyn better for the long haul. Well, what else we got, Jesse? Yeah, we also have Tori Lavello, of course, talking about Corbyn, and specifically his turnaround and just kind of what has been the difference for him here over this last month and a half. He has a great mentality, and that's a separator for him as far as I'm concerned.

And, you know, when you don't have success, you start to make changes and takes a little bit of your confidence away from game to game. And that's just the up and the flow of making improvements and making adjustments. year to year and month a month, but he's a fast learner. It was a matter of time before he figured it out. So I think it was, it was, you know, a little bit of struggle that led to a little bit of, a little bit of loss of confidence. He spoke about that. I know in San Diego earlier in the year, but he's really come out the other end because of the hard work and dedication and the belief that it was going to happen. And the beauty of Corbyn is he's been the same person, the same baseball player, whether he's, to me, and his teammates and his expression on the field,

whether he's had the 630 slug or the 330 slug. You just don't know it, and that's what makes him great. And I think he's right. That's why that question about, you know, does May feel like five years ago? Like, Corbyn Carroll doesn't strike me as the kind of guy that actually does put the past completely behind him, right? Like he's a very analytical person at times And I feel like he's trying to even in his times of success Maybe think back to when he was struggling

And to like try to learn lessons even when things are going well About times when he was struggling right. So like I know the baseball season is very, very long And you know, there's a lot of guys on this team that it's been like almost the tale of two seasons with them. Especially when you start looking at their numbers after June like it wasn't just one guy that came on after June, it was a lot of players that suddenly just found, found their

way into playing good baseball. What's wild about this with Corbyn with me right now, Jesse, is that, like, one of the things that I kind of, I guess, I just hypothesized, I didn't have anything to base it on, but just one of the things I wondered if the pressure early on was too much

for Corby and Carroll, you spoke about how he's doing this right now without Christian Walker, without Gabby Moreno, without Cotel Marte in the lineup, and there is a lot of pressure. There's maybe more pressure on him now to perform than there was early in the season, considering how big of an offensive threat the guys that are missing actually are for this team. So, I mean, it's impressive that he's been able to kind of overcome all of that, you know, pressure and really just lock in here for the last two months. Yeah, I'm glad you brought

that up. Corbyn was also specifically asked tonight about whether he's felt a little more pressure over with these last few weeks to kind of carry the team, knowing that Walker is out and Moreno's out, and Marte is obviously out as well. And Corbin said no, that he really hasn't felt that pressure. You know, he's, he talked during his post-game presser about the at-bats that we saw at times today and how this team has a knack for just finding ways to get on base. We've really seen that pretty much the entire season. And, you know, Ehio Hennioz Juarez, I guess, we should also mention his name here. He's also carried a lot of the load as some of those other guys have been out. Obviously, this wasn't a great game for him, but there's still only a few days removed from him

having 10 RBI in a three game series in Boston. That was a pretty big deal. And you look up at this point, Derek, and the Diamondbacks have scored 712 runs this year. The next highest run total in all of baseball belongs to the New York Yankees at 678. Not only are the Diamondbacks number one on that list, but they're kind of an outlier. There's 34 runs separating the first place diamondbacks and the second place New York Yankees. That gap is wider than I think the gap between like second place and sixth place or something like that.

So this offense has been just unbelievable. Yeah. And Damon said it earlier in the show where like it feels like with the offensive numbers we go over each and every night, right? We're constantly talking about the team leading major league baseball in this category or that category. their 28 games with two plus home runs is the most in major league baseball. And since August 1st, they lead major league baseball with 26 occurrences of two runs scored in the sixth inning or later.

Again, the other team there with them was the Yankees. And they weren't, I mean, they were close, but it's like, it's impressive that when you start to look at these categories that the Diamondbacks are leading major league baseball in, that they are doing it, you know, against the best teams or like they're, they're doing it beyond. the best teams in baseball. It's not expected, you know, and I think, again, the power numbers especially are very unexpected for this team. The number of home runs they've hit, the fact that they're in that category or that conversation for a lot of the top categories in Major League Baseball was impressive. But, I mean, they still have some concerns, right?

With the injuries that they're experiencing, they're still missing guys. And, I mean, we've still seen some instances where defense wasn't, you know, exactly as we've come to be used to with this team, especially at first base without Christian Walker over there. But really with behind the, you know, behind the plate, right? Like the play tonight was a perfect example of that. It was.

Yeah. And that's that's another video that we can play here real quick. Obviously, it didn't wind up really making a difference in the outcome of this game with what Corbyn did. But I did still think it was important to ask about the Adrian Del Castillo tag in that sixth inning that allowed the Mets to score the go ahead run, a run that it looked. very much like might be the difference in the game,

toward the end of this one. Here's what Tori had to say about that tag play at home play. Talking about that, Bannie and I in my office, we practice fast tagging all the time. Fast tagging is an art. And we talk about it, we practice it,

and it makes a difference. It's as crazy as that sounds, fast tag in spring training, fast tags in some of your early work here. Bandy does a really good job with the catchers receiving throws from the outfield. he hit some balls from the outfield where they work on fast tags. So, yes, I thought it was maybe just he thought he had him because of the timing, you know that spacing and you can see where he is and you just like lay the glove down.

But in this day and age, you can't take anything for granted. The swipe tag in and out of there if the throw beats him is not the case anymore. So Empire made the right call. We just got to be a little bit better. And of course, Marte made an excellent play there sliding in. And we've seen our players do that at the plate this season, right? And so it's, it's unfortunate, but like you said, in the, in the long run, uh, the nine back still win.

The outcome is not impacted by that one particular play. Just an example of, you know, again, how much we miss Gabby Moreno in more than one way. Yeah. We missed his arm back there. We miss his ability to make those kind of plays aggressively at the plate, you know, when, when, when guys are coming into score. And, uh, yeah, it's just, it's, it's, it's, Marino is a different level, even though he's not very, You know, he's not very old himself.

He doesn't have that much experience himself. He plays like a vet back there at times. He does. Yeah. And I think, you know, although the outcome tonight was obviously great. And Adrian Del Castillo, I mean, it'd be hard to really fault the guy too much or, you know, be upset with his performance to date. I think his batting average is still like 350 or something. But there are still some valid concerns here, especially as you look ahead to October.

If the Diamondbacks are going to rock. you're going to roster Adrian Del Castillo over Jose Herrera. This is of course assuming that Gabby Moreno is able to come back from that groin injury before the playoffs. If they're going to roster Delccio Keanu over Herrera, they've got to have a certain comfort level with his defense.

And it's not to say that he can't get there or that I think he's so far away from that point. It's, you know, it's not like Jose Herrera is necessarily the best defensive catcher in the world. Yeah, but you trust him back there more over a playoff run than you do a rookie and Adrian Delcester. STO. And let's be honest, Graby's injury is one of those injuries that could be reaggregated easily.

And that's something that you might not want to, you know, mess around with as far as who you're going with with the backup. Like it's hard not to want to roster ADC with how he's hitting the ball. But, you know, much like we constantly see throughout the baseball season, it feels at times like guys come back down to earth. It feels like maybe, you know, that might help happen over the next month.

we might see his numbers kind of come back down to more reasonable numbers for, you know, somebody making his debut, not just hitting, you know, 375 constantly with a 1500 OPS. But like, you know, this is one of those situations where they do. Yeah, right. Like if they do get Gabby back, they do have to make the right decision here just in case you have a worse case scenario happen. And you do need to go with whoever your backup is throughout the run of your playoffs. Yeah.

And I think it wasn't just the tag play. It was also, he allowed a stolen base to Marte. And obviously, Marte got a good jump. That's not necessarily all on Del Castillo. But opposing base Steelers have gone 15 for 16 with Del Castillo behind the plate so far. That's a little concerning. And it's something that we wondered about when he came up to the big leagues. We've kind of had this sense for a while that catching base Steelers wasn't really a strength for Delcistio, even though he's gotten better at that.

And the other aspect of this is pitch calling. And I think there was maybe a learning moment for Del Castillo and this one as well in that regard, where when Eduardo Rodriguez was really going through it in that fifth inning, you probably would have liked to see Del Castillo go out there and visit with this pitcher and try to at least kind of slow the moment down. And Tori was asked about that post game as well. And he took the blame for it himself. He said that it's really his responsibility to kind of come along,

Del Castillo and call that for a call that himself and sort of make Del Castillo go out there in that moment. But that's another thing where I remember when Gabby Moreno first joined this team last season, it seemed like his instincts in that regard were really good where he was quick to go out there and visit with guys when they were struggling. Del Castillo, I think, waited a little bit too long. Eventually, Tori sent Brent Strom out there. That was after Harrison Bader had already tied the game with that two run homer. So some learning moments. moments, you know, Del Cascio is still in the first few weeks of his career. These things are going to happen. But, you know, the debacks don't have a huge margin for error, especially as you, as you

look ahead to October. A piece of Yoshi. Thank you for your super chat. I have no idea what this is in context to anymore. But he said he fell off the bag to the first base side. I think it was. Yeah, I think that's the McCarthy play. And yeah, I guess if McCarthy fell off the bag to the first base side, then, yeah, they're, there may be thinking that he has to retouch, retouch second base or something along those lines. I think I probably will ask Tori about that pregame tomorrow. So come back and join us for our postage tomorrow. Maybe we'll have a little more clarity on what Tori's perspective was on that.

But yeah, all of us in the press box were fairly confused in the moment. So we'll try to get more information on that. All right. Well, we will be back tomorrow with another post. game show. Of course, tomorrow is also our big Ph. and X Fantasy draft, which, again, I'm not sure if you heard, but I won

the Fantasy Football League last year. I'm staying humble about it. I'm not trying not to bring it up too much, but again, tomorrow's a very important day for the rest of these losers that they try to get some sort of retribution against me. And I look to

repeat as your champion, but we will be back with another episode of Postgame show after tomorrow's 1245 start. So join us for that. And of course, Jesse, you know, I, I know Damon's going to say something about me, you know, talking or bragging too much about the fantasy football leg. Of course, that's a lie. It's a known lie. And Damon's a known liar. But the numbers, they never lie. So what do you have for tonight's number that doesn't lie? Yeah, tonight's number. Let's go ahead and put it up on the screen. Yeah, at 638. This is,

this is Corbyn Carroll's slugging percentage going back to that July 7th date that we keep referencing. That's a pretty, that's a pretty good number, Derek. That's a pretty big number. And you're talking about almost a two-month sample size at this point. So, you know, how many times this year we had the conversation of like, is Corbyn Carol back? And we've said that a lot. And it feels like it wasn't really true for a while. Now it kind of feels like it's true.

Now it feels like you can sort of expect Corbyn, the rest of. of the season to be something like the player that he was last year. And that's not to say there aren't going to be some bumps along the way or that it will all be perfect. But this is a very different player than we saw early in the season. And I think even his numbers at this point don't really do justice to kind of what I would expect from him moving forward. Did you have any injury updates for us, by the way, before we move forward?

I know some information has gotten out there about Ketel and Christian Walker. potentially coming back on the same day, maybe for that giant series? Yeah, again, Tori didn't give maybe as many specifics as you would have liked today, but he did say that it would, he was, he was asked about whether Catel Marte and Christian Walker could come back during this homestand, whether this homestand might be a little too soon for them. And he said, yeah, I think so. He said, I think so as in it is probably too soon.

So I don't think we're going to see Christian Walker or Katel Marcia. in the Dodgers series, which of course is a big deal. I mean, this Dodgers series is really important. You know, after winning this game, I didn't see the outcome of the Dodgers game today. If the Dodgers lost, they did win. Okay. So you're still looking at a, yeah, the Padres did lose. I saw that.

So you're still looking at a three game deficit. But, you know, if you go into that series with a three game deficit and you even just take three out of four, that three game deficit becomes a one game deficit. it. So that series is really important. It doesn't sound like Ketel or Walker will be a part of that. However, Tori also was asked separately about the team's plans for roster expansion, which is September 1st. That's this Sunday.

And he mentioned that bringing in Christian Walker or Ketel Marte could be a possibility. So I wouldn't expect to see those guys in the Dodgers series, but it sounds like there's at least an outside chance that we see maybe one of those guys back on Sunday. No chance. No chance. No. So, yeah, not a ton of specifics there.

We'll just kind of have to wait and see. This is Jesse. This is why we say the numbers don't lie. We can't say Jesse doesn't lie. We can't say Tori doesn't lie. We don't trust any of you because the numbers are the only thing to tell the truth around here. But I will say maybe some advantage to just not seeing those guys right before the playoffs start.

I mean, I know it's probably not. Maybe that feels like a bit of a reach. Well, I guess it's more of a silver lining more than saying like they're doing it intentionally, right? But like there is sometimes with this kind of stuff, there might be a little bit of something. I mean, again, you try to spin it in the best way. And there could be something there, especially. We never know how the playoffs are going to line up and where the Diamondbacks are going to end up who they're going to play. So, oh, well, we will see what happens.

But we will be back here again, like I said, with another post-game show. show after tomorrow's 1245 starts. So make sure to join us for that. In the meantime, you can follow us on Twitter. I am at K-Ur-N-K-N-K-K-K-of-K. Of course, Jesse is at Jesse and Friedman. The people's producer himself is Damon Dog. At Damon Dogg, that's D-A-W-G.

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In the meantime, have yourselves a wonderful night. And remember, kids, baseball is fun, but it's so much more fun when you go from thinking Corbyn Carroll is back to just admitting Corbyn Carroll is him.