PHNX Arizona Diamondbacks Podcast - POSTGAME: D-backs Wild Card Dreams Fading Fast After DISASTROUS Loss to Dodgers

Episode Date: September 26, 2025

JOIN THE SUPPORTERS CLUB ➡️ https://tinyurl.com/yc6km2r4The Arizona Diamondbacks saw their postseason dreams take a major hit after falling in the series finale to the Dodgers. Yoshinobu Yamamoto delivered exactly as expected, and once again, a dominant Dodger starter shut down the D-backs’ lineup. We break down Torey Lovullo’s bold decision to rely on Jalen Beeks and Nabil Crismatt, what this loss means for Arizona’s position in the Wild Card race, and why the absence of 100-game winners for the second straight season could actually be a positive for MLB.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/ALLCITY — including us here at PHNX — is teaming up with Big Brothers Big Sisters of America for an exciting three-year partnership. To learn more, visit https://www.bbbs.org/allcity/APS:  Find instant rebates, discounts and special offers on smart thermostats, energy-efficient appliances and more at https://marketplace.aps.com/default/heating-cooling/smart-thermostatsBranded Bills: Use code BBPHNX at https://www.brandedbills.com/ for 15% off your first order!Zen Leaf: Visit our friends at Zen Leaf (http://zen-leaf.store/phnx) for 50% off using promo code ZENPHNXSpencer’s Appliances: Visit Spencerstv.com and use code PHNX5 for 5% off appliances OR use code PHNX10 for 10% off TVs, audio and mattressesChicken N’ Pickle: Family friendly fun awaits! Visit chickennpickle.com to plan your visit today!Phoenix Raceway: Tickets, hospitality and upgrades are still available for the NASCAR Championship Series October 31st through November 2nd! Visit the link HERE to get yours now!Visit Mountain America Credit Union to learn more about their MyStyle Checking Accounts!bet365: https://www.bet365.com/hub/en-us/app-hero-banner-1?utm_source=affiliate&utm_campaign=usapp&utm_medium=affiliate&affiliate=365_03485317 Use the code PHNX365 to sign up, deposit $10 and bet $5 to get $150 in bonus bets!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/Branded Bills: Use code BBPHNX at https://www.brandedbills.com/ for 20% off your first order!Gametime: Download the Gametime app, create an account, and use code PHNX for $20 off your first purchase. Terms apply.Shady Rays: 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.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!Monarch Money: Use Monarch Money to get control of your overall finances with 50% off your first year at https://www.monarchmoney.com/phnxAll Pro Shade Concepts: Call 623-204-1476 or visit https://allproshadeconcepts.com/ now to schedule your free estimate!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.

It's over. It's over. It's never been more over. Time of death, 426 p.m. Thursday, September 25th, 2025. Well, no skis tonight. No screaming. Not even alive from Studio K. Even though we are, in fact, live from Studio K, presented by our friends at Circle K. It's not their fault. This loss happened. This one's on Tori Lavello. Welcome in to the PHNX DBAX podcast right here on PHNX. My name is Derek Montia. Occasionally know. as Circle K, according to one, Trajan Wealth, Tori LaBello himself. But welcome in to the show. Thanks for being here. I needed somebody to commiserate with gnawing this traffic awful getting over here

from the ballpark, but it just felt like it was salt in the open wound of the Diamondbacks, eight to nothing loss in the series finale to the Los Angeles Dodgers. Of course, this show is brought to you by our friends at Bet365. Make sure to go download that Bet365 app. Use our code of PHNX365.

When you sign up, you'll get yourself some bonus bets for following a few easy steps. Over at game time, make sure to use our code of PHNX. You'll get $20 off. They're already low last minute ticket deals. Welcome in, guys. Of course, this one absolutely sucks, and this is definitely the end of the Diamondback season.

At this point, they absolutely would need a miracle for them to make the postseason, and they are all but statistically eliminated from postseason. It's going to take a whole lot of things to happen in order for this team to do it after, today's loss and it doesn't help that it was against the Dodgers that the Dodgers are the ones that essentially ended the Diamondbacks postseason hopes. I am not alone. I'm not the only angry person in Studio K. I am here with the one, the only Damon Dog on the ones and twos and Damon dog.

I'm past anger, Derek. Yeah, anger. Anger doesn't even begin to describe it. Depression. All the feelings. Yeah, all the feelings is right. This was a tough one, man. This was this was a tough one. I think, you know, last night you were telling me to calm down, Derek. And I don't want to take it back to last night and be like, oh, Damon, you're so right, even though, you know, typically. You would never do that. No, no, no, no. You never take victory laps on things you were correct about. But last night, when it got announced that Nabile Krasemat was going to be starting today,

Zach Gallen was going to be pushed back. I'm sorry, Jalen Beeks was going to be starting. Nabil Krasemat was going to be getting the bulk of the work as the second pitcher. And that Zach Allen was going to be pushed back, that was the season for me, David. Yeah. Like it was it was the combo of that plus the loss last night where I was like you can't afford to lose anymore and there's about in my opinion Yamamoto versus Jalen Beaks and Nebile Krismat, you have a very, very unlikely chance of actually winning that baseball game. I think it's a pretty, pretty shocking decision unless there was something that went into it further. And there's still there there was something that went into it a little further. and we actually did get an explanation on that prior to the game. This is what Tori had to say about the reason why they skipped Zach Gallen start

and turned to this bullpen game. Yeah, I think Zach could use the extra day of rest. That was a big piece of the puzzle. Same with Erod. And we felt like we were going to need one day of a bullpen outing to, to pick up the slack and it was either going to be tomorrow or today. And we just thought today would be the best opportunity for us to win a baseball game, being able to match up with the guys we have against their team.

Well, Tori did bring up that Zach had been sick the last two outings that he pitched. And I imagine that that went into this decision. It still makes absolutely zero sense why this team made the decision, why Tori, why the front office, whoever made the decision, I feel like it was Tori. I mean, didn't Zach pitch well when he was sick? He did. He did. I mean, we tweeted out the Michael Jordan flu game picture in regards to him.

And that's also because he's a huge North Carolina fan. I just don't get it, man, because it's like we don't have the luxury of being like, hey, Zach Gallen, I think, you know, maybe you could go, but you might need another day of rest. It's not, you don't have that at all. Zach Allen to go out there and give you like a one earned run type of performance. No more rest days, no more any of that. You have to pull out all the stops and that had to be after last night's loss. Right?

After last night's loss, it's like, you know, every game is a must win and the next one you lose. Essentially eliminate you. Doesn't actually eliminate you, but essentially eliminate you. It puts you in an impossible position going into San Diego. Now, overall, the Diamondbacks track record does not bode well for them going into that series and winning it. They would need to have won two out of three. Now they essentially need to sweep the series in San Diego for them to have a chance. Right.

So that's not going to happen. I hope I'm wrong about that, but I am pushing all of my chips in on that not happening. And I think everybody here in the chat is probably doing the same, right? So the fact that this game wasn't taken as a critical game and they turned to a bullpen game. They made the decision not that long ago to turn to a four-man rotation, moving to Beal Krizmat, who is now going to be suffering the blame for this and shouldn't considering what he has done for this team this season. He gets moved to the bullpen, pitches one inning after having what,

probably entirely too many days of rest, and then gets asked to essentially start in this game after Jalen Beeks goes out there in the opening inning. And honestly, everything that Tori planned, like, fell apart. the minute that the second inning started, I understand that the plan was to have Jalen Beeks go out there and pitch to both Joe Hottani and Freddie Freeman.

That's the reason why they had him as an opener. And then the Dodgers countered by moving to Oscar Hernandez up to third in the lineup, thus pushing Freddie Freeman to the fourth inning. And look at, or excuse me, not to the fourth spot, second inning in this case, because Jalen Beeks goes out there. He has a nine-pitched first inning.

He gets out of it. And then Tori sends Beeks back out there for the second inning. I didn't like that move. I understood the move. I understood that Beeks was there to pitch to Otani and Freeman. I just didn't like the updown for Jalen Beaks. And of course, that instantly results in Jalen Beeks giving up a solo home run to Freddie Freeman for the Dodgers' first run. Now, with the way that the offense performed today, which we will get to, it doesn't really matter what happened the rest of the game because they did nothing.

They did nothing. They had one inning where they basically had something going and, you know, it fell apart because Jake McCarthy kind of made a base running error. and they weren't able to put together any kind of, you know, hit to get some of those runs in scoring position in. But in this case, that one home run given up by Jalen Beaks was enough. Of course, it did not work out. He had an inning and pitched. He gave up one hit, one earn run, zero walks, one strikeout.

Now, before we talk about Nabil Krizbant, let's talk about this comment from Tori Lovolo prior to the game. This is what Tori had to say. about Nebile Chris Mott and what the inning, what the pitch count was going to be, how long he was planning on leaving Chris Mott out there for. That's a good question. We were just arguing about that in my office. I don't know that answer. I don't know that answer. So we're going to read and react the same way we always do. It's going to be on him. If he's out there and he's effective, we're going to stay with him.

If it starts to wobble a little bit, like we have no margin for air zip. We got to move fast. So that's that'll be our mindset. Wobble a little bit. Yeah. Well, it did happen fast. There wasn't a lot of time between the time this game went from 4-0 to 7-0 really quickly. But it did feel at one point, like regardless of what was happening out there,

Tori's mindset had changed about pivoting fast if Krisma wobbled a little bit. He went out there throwing change up heavy, which again is what, Chris Mott does. He threw it 42% of the outing. He gets a lot of ground balls. He throws a ball that, again, he's not going to strike a lot of guys out. He's just going to get a lot of outs. He did not get a lot of outs today. He also went fastball sinker curve. The home run to Andy Pahas

was a curve ball at the bottom of the zone. And then, to be fair to Chrismott, the Otani home run was a change up that was so insanely well below the zone that you just have to tip your cap to Otani for being that kind of guy. However, throwing an 82 mile per hour pitch to show Hey, Otani is

probably going to be ineffective unless you're changing speeds and have a complimentary fastball to go along with it, which he didn't in that particular pitch, in that particular bat to Otani. But he was awful today, unfortunately, on a day when the Diamondbacks needed him the most. He went out there, gave them three innings pitched, seven hits, seven runs, five of which were earned,

two walks, two strikeouts. The defense behind him wasn't great and did not help out. That allowed additional runs to score. but again, this is just a pretty, it was a pretty terrible overall performance here, you know? And again, we have, I asked Tori LaBolo after the game if the lack of offense there early led to him leaving Chrismott in there longer,

and this was what he had to say. A little bit. I think after four, you know, you start out and things up, and we, I know I left him in there for another couple of two run, home runs, right? A little bit. I felt like I needed to see a little bit more and I was going to make maneuver. But it happens fast. You know, you give a team an extra out, make a bad pitch, you put them on via a walk, and they can clip you in a second. So it's, you know, it just happened really quick between the Freddie and was it Freddie and Otani. The next thing, the other game was blown

out. So yeah, it probably did. We were four runs down and I just want to stretch things as far as I could so I didn't have to use up an entire bullpen. It just didn't work out. Two strikeouts today for Nemele Chrismott. Again, we do have to fire up that Circle K strikeout meter. It deserves better. Let's be honest. Let's be honest. The Circle K strikeout meter deserves better.

But at least you still walk away with free any size polar pop today. So with every K, you win at Circle K. End of season, Derek. The water that's being used to crank this thing up is just, it's struggling. It's struggling. There needs to be some real changes over here at Chase Field. It's, it's, they're down to using my tiers to power the circle K strikeout meter, which is pretty effective at salt water.

What is going on? It's broken. Oh, no. Oh, you guys broke the strikeout meter. Well, don't forget tech strike to 31310 to start saving on fuel food and drinks after every D-Backs home game. Well, this is it. This was the end of the line for the Diamondbacks at home, at least barring, like I said earlier,

some sort of miracle. The rest of the bullpen was fine. Austin Pope made his debut today, and he was pretty good. He gave the Diamondbacks two innings pitch to it, one walk, one strikeout. Taylor Rashi also ate up a bunch of innings. So they at least kept the game there,

but what was there? This game was over very early, and you got to at least kind of respect to the fact that so many DeBacks fans stayed there until the better end. I know if I was there watching an 8-0 game, and I was, in fact, I was calling Shane, asking him if I could come back here and just start the show early. And he said, no, Damon's doing a show. And I was like, can I come back and take a nap? And he was like, you have to stay there and you have to deal with this.

And I did. And, of course, we watched a team that has had a pretty miraculous run. A lot of things have made it so the Diamondbacks were even in the wildcard race up until this point. At this point, they might not even finish the season above 500 now that they sit here at 80 and 79. So, I mean, I know it's not a joyful moment, but Damon, before we can't send him up the mountain anymore, can we send little Geraldo Pardomo up the mountain just one more time? Are we actually doing this right now? I mean, is it too joy? You're right.

Let's not. It's supposed to put a smile on our face there. I need a smile on my face for the love of God. Just send them up the mountain. Never again. We might never do it again. We might need to seriously up the standards over here in D-Backsland. Because I'm not sure that these back-to-back over 500 seasons are hitting the way, Derek.

That maybe Mount 500 would make you think that they should hit. We might need Mount post-season or something to come into play here. But I still don't understand the moves here made. And now the Diamondbacks, like I said, do need a miracle. Here is what Tori had to say about needing to sweep the Padres. We got to go play good baseball. That's it. The mindset is we are, we backed ourselves into a corner.

We know where we stand and we got to go out and we got to fight our way out of that corner. That's it. And potters are a good team. So I can sit here and tell you, we got to sweep them. We do. I think that's kind of the mindset. We got to win every game we can and we got three left. Well, I don't know, man.

I appreciate the sentiment, but I think that that's going to be a very, very tough task overall here for the Diamondbacks. And I really wasn't going to play it, but just for Killer X because I love him so much. Let's hear from Tori overall on this loss. Here was his opening statement. Yeah, this was not a great day for us. We just never got anything going offensively. you know look got to give me on the moment of some credit he was attacking the zone he was pitching backwards with really good stuff and we just never figured out that part of the

puzzle but like i always tell you guys we can i feel like we can score runs against anybody so for us to walk off the field it'd be date nothing is nothing that we had um we had forecasted or expected and you know offensive we've got to be better that's it you're talking about margins there there is none we're we're right up against it's hard and and as tight as you possibly can be. And we've got to get out to San Diego, flush this one, and make sure we're playing good baseball. You know, little things, well, you know, we don't give good teams extra outs.

You're going to run into some problems. And that's what we did today. We made some mistakes on the mound. And it just didn't go the way we wanted to. They scored four runs two times. That's the difference in the game. We've got to continue to pound away with our stuff. We've got a pound away at finishing off hitters.

We just couldn't get that done today. So, yeah, this is frustrating. It's frustrating today. It's been frustrating before. We've been able to go out and somehow, some way, play a good game the following day. And that's what my standard and expectation will be. Well, Damon, I guess I wanted to go to you on this. Obviously, I understand an 8-0-0-0-0-8-0 game impacting the offense.

right? Like it's much harder for you to even think you have a chance of coming back when the deficit is this large. But it's also hard to say that you could really see the Diamondbacks getting anything going offensively against Yamamoto. So I don't know. Like I said, it felt like with the way that they were not producing at the plate, a two run lead, a four run lead, whatever lead the Dodgers had was enough. We also saw this team just come back against this bullpen a couple of nights in a row. So I don't really know how to feel about that. I don't know how to feel really about any of this, to be honest. I mean, I think last night I was a lot more. I know everybody was so mad at Tori. Everybody was like, you know, what an egregious decision to, you know, bun to per domo. Yes.

And, and, you know, I, while I don't agree with it, I'm also not, like, incensed by it. No. I kind of get it. Because logically, no matter who's at the plate, unless the guy can't bunt, that's the move to make. If you have a lead in the bottom of extra innings and all you need to do is score that ghostrunner, the automatic conclusion is that you bunt them over. Well, I don't want to turn this into like justifying that decision because people are going to get upset with us.

I'm not justifying the decision. I'm just saying, though, like that's the problem. All I was going to say was that this decision to not start Zach Gowan, which seemingly based off that response, it was a decision that was made when there was a choice of starting Zach Gowan tonight, that's unacceptable. Right. That's unacceptable. With this situation, I've been all for the like, well, you know, here we go.

It's one game here or there in, you know, March, whatever, in April. This is, how could you defend this? How could you sit here and say that it's okay to not start on paper the pitcher who has the best stuff in your entire rotation? When your season is on the freaking line, man. And it's a situation like this where I'm sitting up here pissed. I can't cuss. I just want to say nasty bad words all the time. Oh, I do too. I do too. I want to say all of the bad words. And I was reprimanded by somebody in the chat for even saying the bad words I can say. So I don't know what I can say. I don't know what I want to say. I am kind of speechless about this loss. I sat there for a very long time on the final day at Chase Field. And I just watched this team get their ass handed to them. And that is a curse word, I can say. And it was pathetic. You know what I mean? It was such a abysmal end to what was slowly becoming. a resilient season, a season about a bunch of young guys coming together, playing selflessly,

and overcoming the odds to make it to the postseason. Let's not get it twisted. The Diamondback should never have even been in this position. And the only reason they are is because the Mets are an absolute abysmal. They're a failure. And I, at this point, hope that if the Diamondbacks don't make it in the wild card, that one of the other teams do. And the team that I want to, want to make it into the wild card, you guessed it, the Miami Marlins. That's the team I want because they are going to come up from behind and skunk everybody. No, I'm joking. I don't care who, which one of these losers makes it into the final wildcard spot. But the only reason why any of these teams are in the races because the Mets absolutely blew it. And now they have to win

a very tough series themselves in order for them to maintain their spot in the playoff picture. And at least, at the very least, the Diamondbacks didn't collapse. like that and at the very least the Diamondbacks don't have the Mets payroll to be collapsing at this point of the season. But these are all, this is copium, by the way, Killer X. And I didn't spam you yesterday or I didn't ban you yesterday for saying stuff about Tori. I banned you for spamming the chat. You were annoying and I wanted to get rid of you. I wanted your words out of my face. That's the truth. And now you're back and I'm happy you're back. You are a good sport and I we'll give you that. But we're going to take a quick break. And on the other side of this break,

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Coverage is subject to individual policyholders meeting underwriting qualifications. State availability, other terms, conditions, and exclusions do apply. All right, Damon. Well, for the third straight game in a row, the Diamondbacks got absolutely skunked by the Dodgers offense or starting pitch. Excuse me. They were dominated today. Yoshinobu Yamamoto was as advertised in 18 innings in these three games. Dodger starting pitchers have allowed one earn run. That was in yesterday's game by Blake Snow.

Yamamoto today went six innings. He allowed just four hits to the Diamondbacks. Two walks, seven strikeouts. He reached his 200th strikeout of the season. Woo, big deal. Dodgers clinched the NL West on our, field, who, big deal. I will say this.

I will say this, Derek, before you say your thing, screw Major League Baseball and Rob Manfred for deciding, hey, let's make the Dodgers and give them the Diamondbacks on the road for their second to last series of the season. They were trying to instigate something with that, weren't they? They absolutely were trying to instigate. They knew what was going to happen. You know what? I give it, I give credit where credit is due.

I was with some of the Dodger media members in the elevator after the game as we were going down to the clubhouses. And our guy Fabian from the athletic, he's great. He basically was disregarding the idea that the Dodgers would even celebrate that big overall. And he definitely said that they had more class than to go jump into the pool, which was an interesting way for even somebody that covers the Dodgers to say that in regards to what happened in the past. And again, no police officers on horses this time.

no armed security guards just I guess mutual respect from division rivals and they celebrated in the clubhouse and kept it there maybe I'm wrong by the time this airs this will be a freezing cold take and we'll hear about moogie bets doing cannibals into our spa but overall this was a terrible way for the season to go out especially for the diamondbacks offense to not really muster up much of a fight even if this was held close even if jalen beaks and abil chrismont did their job The only time the Diamondbacks got anything going was in the third inning against Yamamoto. They had their best chance of scoring off of him of the day. Tawa walked to lead off the inning. And then Jake McCarthy grounds into a fielder's choice with one out. Prudomo singled. And then Kattel would hit basically a Texas leaguer that drops into the left field. It was missed.

The catch was missed. And all three men would have been safe. But Jake McCarthy kind of got hung up in. no man's land in between second and third base. Are we ready to, Derek? I'm sorry. I don't mean to cut it. No, no, but no, I was almost waiting for this.

So like, go ahead. Are we ready to admit what I said earlier in the season? I believe we had Danielle on the show when it happened. And she didn't want to hear what I had to say in terms of it. And I think in part because there's some personal relationships that are going on there. She likes Jake. But I said I think Jake is an extremely low IQ baseball player, whether it's defense whether it's base running i don't care about his athleticism i think he makes

mental mistakes constantly that are debilitating to this team he even his defense like you think he should be much better than he is he takes bad routes to the ball i'm like times up man times up it's been enough like the inconsistency is what it is but what we can't have is you making physical like fielding and base running errors that are going to hurt this team like it is what it is at the plate but the other stuff you can't have no you're right and i think think that the thing about Jake is exactly how you put it. I don't think you could have put it any better. It's a low baseball IQ.

It's the lack of knowledge. It's not the lack of athletic ability because Jake's fast. He's at times, I mean, the bats that he was putting together last night and tonight are awful. And I mean, again, it's, that's more problematic. I have no idea what he's doing at the plate. But defensively, he's also been a liability at times making bad judgment on the ball. And again, it's not about his. athleticism. It's about thinking that he can get to a ball that he shouldn't be even trying to get to,

right? So I don't know, man. I mean, there's definitely something to that. Also, again, this team just overall didn't put together more than that particular inning, right? So that wasn't going to be enough for them to get back in this game regardless. And again, a lot of things had to work in their favor. But Yamamoto with the way he was pitching today, it felt like runs were going be a premium for the Diamondbacks. So anything over four runs felt like it was going to be obviously some sort of, you know, some sort of problem for the Diamondbacks. I think that is the reason why Tori said what he said earlier. Once they were down four to nothing, they decided to leave Nabil Kismat in there for all three of those innings. And the reason why is because

with that deficit they were done so why waste another bullpen arm that you're going to most likely need in San Diego. I think the problem with Tori's managing though in regards to this entire situation, including the call to move Zach back has been the idea that there's still a tomorrow when there really isn't. There was, you know, and maybe he foresaw this. Maybe like Damon said, Damon said that this was going to be the game. They were going to lose almost guaranteed looking at it on the three games.

schedule. That's what made last night's loss hurt so bad, and that's what made winning that game so crucial. So, you know, and again, in this one, the Diamondbacks in that instance would have had bases loaded with one out. Instead, they have runners on first and second with two outs, and they don't do much. But they also weren't the sharpest defensively when they needed to be. Haraldo Perdomo misstepping on the bag there in the second inning, which allowed the Dodgers to load the base, was ruled a hit, but was charged to an E6. Those runners would score. There was a fielding error on Catelle Marta in the fourth inning. It was just a sloppy game.

And you could definitely tell that there was a lot of, I don't know, maybe a lot of pressure on this team at this point. But we heard from Herald O'Prodomo after the game. He talked about if last night and that loss had a hangover effect. Not really. You know, we can't hear with the same energy. Just we didn't do our job, you know. A lot of mixed day. A lot of mental areas.

like me, like I probably tried to be too quick. On Grumbo to, to, uh, tower, try to be, you know, I feel I had the baseball when I see the video was out of the bay. Like I say, it was a lot of mental arrow today and we just, we're just going to move up for that and be ready for tomorrow. Well, I hope that they are ready for tomorrow because those next three games will decide everything and it already feels like it's a task. too big to ask of them.

But Tori disagreed, at least personally, here's what he had to say if last night's loss had a hangover effect, and it did. Maybe, I'm not going to lie. I didn't sleep at all last night. Probably had like three hours of sleep. I can't imagine anybody around me slept good. But that's part of it.

It's a business. You've got to find a way to get it done. So I felt like as I was walking through the clubhouse, the guys were a good spot. we just gave up those early runs and I think that was a difference we just couldn't get some footing and Yama I would start making bitches

Perdomo today one for four two strikeouts he had that error Ketel Marte was one for four with a double that was the Diamondback's only extra base hit in this game Adrian Del Castillo he was one for four today and Blaze Alexander one for three with a walk and I think this was the first time I didn't see him

with a skinned knee after the game bleeding in some way so I don't know if that's a good sign or a bad sign. Probably, probably a bad sign, right? It means he didn't put it in the effort. He didn't put them in the work today. But people do very much want me to give Jesse Jr. back to them, maybe to take on the road with them in San Diego just as a final shot.

And like, if the boys want to stop by here on the way to the airport or whatever, I'll gladly hand him over. I'll do whatever it takes to kind of get us more baseball games for October, even though that feels very unlikely. But here's what Geraldo Perdomo had to say about still being in the postseason hunt. It means a lot, you know? Everybody is ahead over here, what was going on with all the team.

And like I said, yesterday or two days ago, we just got to go and win some again. That's the last three end of the season, and we have to hear everything we had in time. El Gayao in the chat says Yamamoto is just that good. you are not wrong. That guy has been impossible lately and this starting pitching staff. Otani,

Blake Snell and Yamamoto had a 0.50 ERA spoiler alert. I know we're going to get to that in the numbers here, but just very difficult for the Diamondbacks to get anything done against this pitching staff. And today they were just in

too big of a hole for them to try to muster up a comeback against the bullpen like they've done the last two nights. But you're absolutely right and this is what Geraldo Perdomo had to say in regards to Yamamoto or Geraldo Perdomo had to say about Yamamoto and how good he was today. Yamamoto is one of the best pitcher in the league, you know. That's why they pay him $325,000, you know, so we just, like I say, I feel we, we probably get out the Arab

plane. We don't get on base against him and he gets you said, he beat us, you know. Like I say he's a great picture, he got all the credit, but we're going to get better. I like how Derek he goes, that's why he's paid $250 million. Yeah. Just throwing that out there. Just casually throwing it out there. Well, there is a good reason for that. Yeah.

I mean, I just think it's funny, like, as much as, you know, I think these guys are professional athletes, they look at the people on the other side of the diamond and say, like, we can beat these guys. But they also know at the end of the day, deep down that this stuff, Dodgers team and this Dodgers lineup is just stacked full of superstars making, you know, nine figure type of contracts. And it's just a little bit different gravy. Yeah. Well, I know that, of course, there's a lot of things in regards to that particular concept, right? Like the Diamondbacks, you hear Tori say it. You hear the players say it, right? They say stuff.

They use certain language like those guys are just guys in a different uniform. That's just a dude over there, right? It's just a way to make it smaller and to not, you know, not give yourself anxiety over the fact that you're going to go out there and pitch to Otani in the first inning, right? And credit where credit is due, a lot of these guys did an excellent job. I felt that Austin Pope did a great job. I felt like Brandon Garcia last night did not deserve to be put into that situation in the 11th inning coming back in. I understand at that point that it was, you know, just a matter of not having a lot of arms

in the pen. but I thought he pitched excellent. I thought he was incredible in the 10th inning. And again, this is a young man that is just getting his first major league time. Austin Pope again making his major league debut. These guys did a great job, you know, but of course it was weird. It's the whole Dodger Diamondbacks thing is such a weird dynamic. I was talking with my guy Alex Weiner, who by the way is amazing over at 98.7.

and I'm very much going to miss sitting next to him and Jack Summers, like I do every week to watch baseball and just talk about baseball. But, you know, he comes from the Los Angeles area, and he was kind of talking to me about the Dodgers fans that come out to this. It was a very well-organized effort. There were groups that put together travel packages to come here to Chase Field. The Dodgers fans, to be fair, that I saw, were very complimentary and nice. And the funniest thing that I saw was how many of them were in the team shop

buying specifically the city connect gear, but buying Diamondback stuff. Like, dude, I have a story about that. I was in a unnamed sports apparel store. Okay. One that is far worse than our friends at Rallyhouse, I will say. They're all worse than Raleigh. Considering that there was a huge collection of Dodgers hats all over the place. And the worker at the store said everything's half off, except for playoff baseball teams.

And he said essentially just the Yankees and. Dodgers hats. Then this guy, Derek, who has a D-BACs hat on, says to the worker, well, I'm a Dodgers fan. So, and I, and I just, like, I had to leave the store immediately. You know me. I immediately just, I just packed up my things. I put the hat that I was looking at back on the shelf. And I said, okay, I can't be in the same room as someone wearing a D-Backs hat who claims to be a Dodgers fan. Like, honestly, I respect it because, like, like, honestly, I respect it because, like, Like, first of all, I do think that the Diamondback City Connect stuff is fire. Right now that this entire season is come and gone,

we've had a chance to see all of these teams play in their City Connect jerseys and have all the merchandise come out. The Diamondbacks killed it. They just absolutely killed it with their merch. And I kind of understand the appeal of seeing the Serpienta stuff. Also, I'm kind of a guy that would go to certain other baseball parks. And if they had cool merch, I would probably want a little memento myself, even if it's opposing team gear.

Jesse Friedman almost fried me online because I bought a Chicago Cubs hoodie when we were at Wrigley Field. And I'd probably deserve it. But overall, I just think that it's interesting. And he's, you know, one thing Alex enlightened me about was like, yeah, I don't know if the Dodgers, like, fan base will ever think of the Diamondbacks as being true competition, a true rival. They have the Padres. They have the Giants. They hate both of those teams. Neither of that buying merch would happen with either of those fan base.

with Dodgers fans. So, you know, except the ones that basically wear Padres gear when Padres are good. Dodgers with Dodgers are good. Those in between her. But anyway, for the most part, it's a lot more serious over there in California between those teams. But again, it was a crazy, crazy amount of people there. And it was also a very awkward moment because it was the final home game of the year. And the Diamondbacks were down eight to nothing.

And they had Tori Lavello and his coaching staff do a hat tip to the crowd. And I know most of you would probably relish in the fact that it was the most awkward hat tip I've ever seen because nobody wanted to applaud for this team in this moment, right? Or this manager specifically. Or this manager. And to be fair, like, it's a very awkward, like, it's a bad thing. I know they already have that kind of stuff pre-planned. I know it's the final home game of the year. So you're going to do that stuff and you're going to thank the fans.

And you're going to do, you know, the, you know, the appreciation kind of stuff. but boy did it feel awkward. It felt absolutely awkward with an 8 to nothing game having the manager come out and tip his cap to the crowd because again nobody was with it in the moment. Nobody was with it in the moment.

Also, I kind of have to question if the Diamondbacks jinx themselves with their email offer. Now, I come from a long time ago. I'm an old person as I've tried to warn you guys about on this show quite often. But, and that's credit to everybody that still, like, calls me a young man and says nice things about me.

Like when I say I have a daughter in high school, they're like, nah, you're too old to have a daughter in high school, Randall Gritchick. I'll never forget when you people say those nice things about me, not looking nearly as old as I feel every single morning when I wake up. But when it comes to my past, I remember a time when you had to buy World Series tickets. Like after the fact, after they made it, right? Like there would be a thing about them going there. There would be a presale.

And I don't know if a presale is the greatest idea when you're still not really close to actually making the playoffs. So again, I don't know if the Diamondbacks jinx themselves with that pre-sale offer or not. But anyway. Should I still grab this, Derek? No, you're good. It's fine.

I mean, I just think most of you have gotten it. I think Advantage members, Damon, had like a whole like email sent to them about the you know about like advantage members needing to buy like the playoff package and such and even that was awkward because I saw people online complaining about them like wanting to pay for like all the tickets up front and then they'll refund you for the ones that you don't use and stuff and I don't like any of that I don't like any of this and I think all of it is putting far too much of the jinx out there for the universe but we have not given out our king snake for this game and I thought it would be a great time to do something hilarious once again and not give it to anybody because nobody deserved it but I'm going to give it to somebody I'm going to give it to somebody I'm going to give it to you guys I'm giving it to you the fans for enduring that horror show horror show horror show you pick choose your fighter it's it's it's all bad

It's all bad. This is Derek's new milk. You. Yeah, no, thank you, the fans. I don't like horror movies. Well, I mean, honestly, like, I know that there are people that casually watch this team. I've had the, we all have those annoying friends who right now are trying to get into the team, right? They're like, hey, how are the diamond bag's doing?

I heard it's the end of the season. We're really going to make it or not. And you're like, shut up. You haven't been there. You haven't experienced the trauma that we. we've experienced. You haven't experienced the losses that we've experienced, both physically and metaphorically and emotionally, you haven't experienced any of this. You're going to show up now with six, seven games left in the season and try to hop on the bandwagon. Sorry, this wagon is

full, sir. Well, it's not really full, but we're not accepting any new customers, right? So, I appreciate all of you because all of you guys have been here throughout this entire season, throughout this terrible debacle that was 2025. And considering you guys watched all, maybe not all 162 games, I don't think I even watched all 162 games, but most of this 162 game season, you guys deserve it because you guys are awesome

and just on a personal level. I know we talk about building PHNX in this community, but I can't tell you how much it means to me for Damon and I do have helped build this Diamondbacks community up from being, you know, basically nothing, at one time, you know, very difficult community to find, you know, fellow Diamondbacks fans to what we are now, which is a whole bunch of people that call themselves some players name

enthusiast on Twitter, and they all scream about Tori LaBolo needing to be fired in unison. So, hey, there's something we all came together on this season, or at least you guys did. I'm not part of that. I'm not throwing myself in there. As you know, Damon and I have dinner at Tori's house every Sunday, and I don't want to mess that up. We're not going to do that.

But we are going to take a break right now. And on the other side of this break, we're going to take a look at the unfortunate numbers from this entire series. Don't you guys go anywhere? You're watching the pH next Diamondback show. Pure Edibles was made for a day like this, wasn't it? Pure Edibles was founded right here in Arizona,

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Well, Damon, let's take a look at the count presented by our friends at Desert Financial Credit Union because these numbers kind of make me sad. Of course, the Dodgers out scored the Diamondbacks. Is that a let? It should be 17. Did they score runs in this game? It should be 17 to 9. The Dodgers out hit the Diamondback six to one in home runs.

No home run. The Diamondbacks just had the one home run in game one. Runners in scoring position, Diamondbacks were four for 21 in the series. Meanwhile, the Dodgers, five for 18 in the series. So Diamondbacks did not take advantage of the few opportunities they truly had, and they had a lot of them. Starting pitching ERA, there it is. Ugly, ugly. Dodgers 0.50.

One earned run, 18 innings pitched. starting pitching ERI for the Diamondbacks 4.85. Not terrible, but basically probably close to what they're starting pitching is on the season, right? So the Diamondbacks were themselves, at least starting pitching wise here. But of course, that's not to discredit them. I mean, they still got good performances and quality starts from Ryan Nelson and Zach Gallen, or excuse me, from Brandon Fott. So this is not terrible, but mostly today's weird, you know, whatever you want to call this game, bullpen game, impact this quite a bit.

Dodgers relief pitching ERA 6.75, that's what the Diamondbacks were able to exploit in games one in games two, and then the relief pitching ERA 3.94 there for the Diamondback. So believe it or not, not a terrible ERA considering that they allowed five earned runs today. Those five earned runs were over eight innings. Meanwhile, just two earn runs allowed in this series prior to today's game. So it's terrible. It's awful. It's over now.

Look at the home runs. Look at the home runs. Six to one. That'll do it. That'll do it. I mean, honestly, it feels like the Dodgers had way more than six in this series, to be fair. So the ninebacks did a good job.

It feels like Andy Pa has hit like 20. Yeah. They did a good job of keeping themselves in the game until they, in this entire series, until in the bill chrysmite's, you know, inning there. So, and that's unfortunate. And of course, we didn't get a chance to speak to Nabil after the game, but I still defend that man because I think that given the circumstances

and what he was asked to do for this team, he was excellent, and it's unfortunate that his final adding of the season goes the way it did. But let's see how this loss impacts the Diamondbacks on the wild card standings. Here's the drunken orgy of violence known as the National League wildcard race. Dodgers and Pot, or excuse me, Dodgers, Cubs and Padres there have already clinched their spot. They are 89, 69, 69, and 87 and 72. And, of course, the Cubs could still theoretically lose that top spot, and that changes things significantly in that series between those two teams.

So the Padres definitely have something to play for, at least in game one. Hopefully the Diamondbacks can take that game and then make the Padres not have anything to play for for the rest of the season. But they sit at one and a half games back from the Mets, who right now are 81 and 77, The Reds, they won today in just heartbreaking fashion for us to watch. They were up two to one late in that game, Damon. And we watched live as the Reds robbed the Pirates of the game tying home run in the ninth inning. And that clips everywhere on YouTube right now or on the Twitter and the socials.

You just can't make stuff like this up. You really can't. In that moment, that's where like, I mean, I know these moments happen all the time. And I try to be a man of science. Damon. I try to live in reality and not be like, oh, the vibes. Oh, the magic is happening. Magic isn't a real thing, kids. Hate to break it to you. But magic is happening for the Reds. And it feels like at least with what's happening to the Mets, something's happening for someone. I was hoping it was us, but it might just be happening for the Reds. And that sucks because it's not us.

But again, I just wanted to be anybody but the Mets. I want the Mets to continue to fail. I want somebody else to at that playoff spot because they with the way that they have played don't deserve it. And I want someone to come in and take that from them. I wish it was the Diamondbacks. Their tragic number is now down to two, which means pretty much any combination of Diamondbacks losses and Reds and Mets wins for them statistically ends their season. And that's not great. We don't love that.

But again, at this point, I think everybody is like, this Diamondback season reminds me of one thing, Damon. And that was I visited Six Flags in California on a weekday during like the spring. And I was one of maybe 50 people in this theme park on this day. This is the most Derek start to a story. It really is. Probably ever. I was there with my daughter.

I was there with my wife. We were there because we had season passes to the water park here in town that Six Flags now owns. We found out that our water. park passes, got us season, also season passes to go to the actual theme park in California. So we stopped in on a weekday. We were having a good time, but we were also laughing about how much of a ghost town this theme park was. And at one point we went to the smaller rides for kids because my daughter was younger at the time. They put us on a roller coaster, a little down and back, little fun guy.

And they just kind of let us keep going around. and the guy got to a point where he would stop and ask if we wanted to go. But then stop doing that. And he would just kind of look and see, kind of give me a thumbs up if we wanted to keep going. I was having a great time. I was like thumbs up all around. What I wasn't paying attention to was the terrible time that my small child in between me and my wife was having. She wanted to get off this roller coaster so bad.

And that is the metaphor I'm trying to make for the 2025 season. And where do you fit it? I feel like it's fun. I feel like we keep going around. I feel like we just are, when do we get off this thing? I'm kind of sick of the ups and downs. I'm getting a little nauseous. And that's how I feel after today's loss.

I feel like I'm ready for one way or another for this to be over because this season has been, as I said earlier, very emotionally draining on all of us as fans. And I think that, again, it's just such a classic. way to cap off the season for this team to have given us all hope, emboldened us with the idea that we could make the postseason and potentially go on a magical run in 2023, despite all of the hiccups, all of the bad decisions, all of the injuries, all of the trades, everything that's happened to this team, we were somehow going to still reach the promised land and make the playoffs, and they're going to fall like one game short of that goal. And again, it's just a fitting end

to everything that we've experienced this year as depressing as that is. It is what the 2025 season has been. So we're going to take a quick break and I hope to maybe probably not going to make you any happier on the other side of this break, but we're going to talk about why there's no 100 win teams in baseball

for the second consecutive year and why that's a good thing. We'll be right back. Don't you go anywhere you're watching the PHNXD Back show. Well, as Damon said, don't go to one of those other terrible sports retail shops and deal with all the Dodger gear that's going to be out, preparation for the postseason run. It was disgusting.

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can always bully me into doing shows whenever you want to. It's one of the many benefits of being a PHNX diehard. But one thing that did get announced today, I guess based on the Brewers losing, was that it is official. There will be no 100 win teams in baseball this season. which is crazy considering what the Brewer's record was at one point, and also crazy considering the expectations for some of these teams that did not come even close to that mark. There's a lot of still, there's a lot of competitive, race is still going on, including that thing that's going on

with the Tigers and the Guardians over there in the AL, and again, the AL, far more competitive. Their wildcard teams are all like 10 games above 500. Meanwhile, here, there shouldn't even be a wildcard race. The Mets should be right up there with the Padres and the Cubs based on what their record was before they started to tumble. And honestly, with the record of the Reds, the Diamondbacks, the Giants, and now even the Marlins, none of us should have even been close.

But thanks to them being awful and thanks to there being a lot of parody in baseball, this stayed fun. It stayed fun for all of us as Diamondbacks fans. And I think that's what we all wanted. I do think that it started to get old hearing about playing relevant games here the final week of the season. It's like, yeah, great, we're playing relevant games. Let's start winning relevant games and let's start getting ourselves into the playoffs. there's something to be said about a team that was 10 games out from the wild card on August 1st making this kind of leap to make up ground and to put themselves back in the race. So I overall think that this was an incredible season of baseball to watch as a whole.

I think there's been a lot of fun surprises. I think there's been a lot of stars made this season. I think a lot of guys have been, you know, again, this is a sign of that. is how this is now two consecutive years where the where major league baseball didn't have a hundred win team. The last time there were no hundred win teams in back-to-back seasons was back in 23, 2013, 2014. So it's been over 10 years or been 10 years basically since the last time. There were no 100 teams in baseball.

I parody, Damon, good for baseball. It's always good to have teams all kind of cluster together. And it just not if you ask Rob Manfred. He would prefer its Yankees Dodgers every year. In fact, that's the goal. I knew you were going to somehow take it in that direction. Yeah. Well, I mean, that's kind of the problem is that, you know, there's teams like the brewers, right?

Why are the brewers so good? What business do they have being, like, the best team in baseball? And even the Tigers, right? Like, I mean, but that is what's great about baseball is that you always, no matter how much you expect it to be the Yankees and the Dodgers every year. Now, it hardly ever happens that way. Yeah, exactly. And we'll see what happens.

We'll see if it ends up the Dodgers and the Yankees again in the World Series, then I'm going to start yelling for collusion with you, Damon. Anyone but the Dodgers, anyone but the Dodgers, anyone but the Yankees. Like I said, that's how I feel about the Mets. I'm not even greedy like that. Let's get the Mets out of there. I don't care about the Yankees. Like, I don't.

Just anyone but the Dodgers. I'm asking for one thing. Derek, you can go and ask for two. But I'm only asking for one thing. as I look up to the heavens. Please, anyone but the Dodgers. Yeah. By the way, I agree with Sean.

We are now a Mariners podcast going forward once the season officially ends. I just want to make everybody aware of that. I know that Valley House obviously won't have Mariners gear, so I want you guys to prepare. You'll probably have to order some stuff online from a different retailer, maybe go to their shop directly. But yeah, we're still rooting for Josh Naylor and Gino Svarez until the end of time. We're about to chameleon style morph into about 10.

10 different podcasts here in the postseason as we root for every team that, you know, plays against one of our enemies. The Phillies, I hope they lose. Whoever plays the Phillies is my, is my second new favorite team. Yeah, 100%. Yeah, for sure. Well, we appreciate you guys. Like I said, you guys have been incredible.

We appreciate you sticking with us all season long. Unless something changes that we're not going anywhere. We'll still be here five days a week. We'll just be at noon. So if you can join us live, that's cool. If you can't, let us know. always willing to adapt. So if a different time works for you guys, we're always willing to try some things out, especially once we start going to those regular weekly shows. We're also

going to have postgame shows and watch-alongs for the postseason, despite if the Diamondbacks are in there or not, because me and Damon aren't going to stop watching baseball just because the Diamondbacks go away. So make sure to keep it locked right here. We are not going to root for any other team besides the Mariners, though. We'll do that, but nobody else. And then we'll do this together as a family. So again, we thank you guys so much for joining us. We'll be back tomorrow with another post game show so make sure to join us for that until then follow us on twitter i'm at cap underscore caveman with a k he's at damondog with a da wg at uh we are at p h and x underscore dbacks but as always all roads lead to at p h and x underscore sports on twitter instagram and facebook

thank you guys so much for being here we'll be back tomorrow until then have a wonderful evening try to have a wonderful evening uh get some sleep we got another one tomorrow and remember kids Baseball is fun, but it's so much more fun when you just pitch that gallon in the game instead of going to a bullpen game.