PHNX Arizona Diamondbacks Podcast - POSTGAME: Lourdes Gurriel Jr. HOMERS TWICE But Padres Outlast Diamondbacks in Extra-Inning Loss

Episode Date: August 6, 2025

📬 Arizona sports in your inbox! https://gophnx.com/newsletterAfter winning three straight — including Monday’s series opener against the Padres — the Diamondbacks looked like they were back on track. Down late, Geraldo Perdomo and Lourdes Gurriel Jr. sparked a gutsy rally that pushed the game into extra innings, but the Padres ultimately proved too much to handle. We’ve got more on Gurriel’s two-homer night, Perdomo’s elite on-base ability, and another solid, bend-but-don’t-break outing from Ryne Nelson.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-thermostatsChicken 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.

Well, Lordus Guriel Jr. and Geraldo Podomo tried to do it on their own, and they got pretty far. Extra innings game, but the Diamondbacks did lose this one by a score of 10 to 5 in extra headings. That doesn't make much sense. We're talking about it in 30 seconds. Don't you go anywhere. Well, live from Studio K, you're not going to get a Johnny Venerable out of me. It's the PHNX DBAG show right here. And Studio K, presented by our friends of Serpike, Jermayor PHNX, occasionally known as Derek Montia.

I got the one, the only, Danielle Cortez, joining me to 9. I'm back, baby. After taking some beautiful pictures for us tonight out of the ballpark, I felt like your energy might have willed them to an 11 inning game, but unfortunately, the Diamondbacks fall short. I don't want to say fall just short because they end up kind of getting creamed here in 11 innings, but they did make this one exciting, losing this one of the Padres 10 to 5. Welcome in to you all.

Glad to have you guys here. We got our guy Damon Dog on the ones and twos. He's not going to be very happy tonight. You know that because this team came so close to, taking two out of the first two games here in this series against the Padres with some really, really special heroics by one Lordis Gurriel Jr. But unfortunately, they fall short here. The score still doesn't make any sense to me. It almost, it makes my brain malfunction. 10 to 5 and 11 innings. I got to get taller, though, because I'm way too short sitting next to you.

What a weird game, man. It really was a weird game. When's the last time you've seen a 10 to 5 game in, not the 10th and I'm 11th. Yeah, no, there was an extra innings game recently through by two other teams and it was the same thing where all, even though it was an extra as one team was being the hell out of another team. It's so weird. It's so weird, especially when you have a chance to win the game in the 10th.

It's, it's, yeah, man, that one kind of hurt. Yeah, it absolutely did. The Diamondbacks had a chance to win. Not to mention the fact that there's other opportunities, including Jake McCarthy getting thrown out at home base. That definitely feel like those ended up coming back to bite the diamondbacks, even though they did get on base first here in this. game but they now snap their three game winning streak.

They are four and eight in extra innings games this year and their record currently sits at 54 and 60. This was the longest game of the year for the Arizona Diamondbacks. Yeah, I'm glad so what I'm joining the police game for, huh? We felt every minute of it. I feel like peedy on our on our coyotes. They're like, oh, it's so late. Can we just wrap it up?

Oh, yeah. No, I'm excited to be here. Yeah, no, it did. It felt like it, huh? It did. It really felt like it. It was, that was such a baseball game. Yeah.

It was just so strange. It had every strange little bit to it. And it just felt like, you know, we're looking up at like the two and a half hour market. Oh, we're only in the six inning. Yeah, that alone was. Just a regular nine inning game felt like it would have been very long in this one. Yeah, no, it was a, it was a weird game. A lot happened and then nothing happened and then everything happened.

And then it was, yeah, just weird. Neither bullpen was very reliable, including one Mason Miller. Lardis Burriel Jr. did bank MLB history tonight, hitting the fastest pitch ever to be hit for a home run. It was 103.9 miles an hour, so basically 104 miles per hour. And that was Lourdes' second home run of the night. But we got to get there first. And, of course, the big thing about this was Lourdes and Heraldo,

kind of doing it on their own. Yeah. They didn't get much support offensively from the, rest of their team. But it did feel like these two guys were almost trying to will this team to a victory tonight. It starts in the first inning with two outs for Aldo Pardoma walks and then Lourdes hits his first bomb of the night. That's a two-run home run to put the diamondbacks up two to nothing. It was Geryl's 13th of the season. It went 404 feet, 105.6 exit Velo. And then, of course, turns on the biggest one there, going in the eighth inning with two outs. Once again,

Perdomal walks. And he gets on base for the 58th. time since July 1st. He is now tied with Vladimir Guerrero Jr. for the most, for getting on base the most over that span dating back to July 1st. But yeah, Perdomo, again, he

found a way to score early on in the game in the fourth inning where he kind of moved over on a wild pitch, scored on a wild pitch. Then here in this inning with Perdomo on base, Lordus Guerriel Jr. hits another two-run bomb to tie the game up at five and send it into extra innings eventually.

Um, but most impressive part about this is the fact that it was that that insanely fast, fastball. 104 miles. I mean, just watching Mason Miller pitch is something. I, I, I, I was sitting there like right on the on deck circle. I saw it and I looked on my phone to like, like to see, because I knew he was throwing flames, right? And I was like, I thought there was a type like, 104 and he turned on it. Like I was selling them before the show the fact that he pulled it. Yeah.

104 miles an hour. Like is pretty crazy. No, that was a that was a very Heraldo Pardomo game Two patient walks Yeah Both home runs Followed a super patient

Grinding Heraldo Pardomo Two Out Walk And then the double moving over in a wild pitch Scoring on another wild pitch It was just such a it was a classic Horoldo Perdomo game That's what he does I mean the Diamondbacks named

Geraldo Pudomo their heart and hustle Award winner today And that's like I don't even know what that award really is Yeah, I mean, it's just kind of a thing. Like, I know that it does kind of cover like a guy that's the, that has like the intangibles in baseball typically, you know, but it's also kind of like just a fan favorite award, right?

Isn't it? Yeah, it's basically. I told Noah earlier when they said that on the broadcast that it would be news if Jerry didn't win the heart and hustle war. Who else is going to, who else is going to win it? I mean, maybe Corbyn. Upset of the year. I'm not saying that as like this team doesn't hustle, right?

Like this is a hallmark of a Toro Ovello team. They put in the work. They hustle. They play hard. Perdomo is different. He's different. He is. I mean, like he's reached base safely now in 14 straight home games.

And like I said, he's been on base now 58 times since July 1st, tied for the most in MLB with Vladimir Guerrero Jr. Who also got on base three times tonight. And he's two ahead of Fernando Tatis Jr., who was also playing in this game. He might have heard of him. as well. Who didn't get on base today? Took it 0 for 6?

He didn't. And every time he was up, it felt like a threat. We had some big moments there. I mean, obviously the bullpen fell apart, but offensively, you know, the big miss there is in the bottom of the second. Jake McCarthy gets on base with a leadoff triple and the snakes fail to score Jake McCarthy. He was thrown out at home attempting to score on a contact play, on a contact play, on a go

on contact. Alec Thomas ground out. I mean, not to, Alec Thomas has been great. lately. I'm not going to be smirched the good name of our young king. But I will also say that Alec Thomas, I feel like, does have a high likelihood of hitting a soft ground out to the right side, which I feel like is just asking for that exact thing to happen. Yep. Yep. Yep. That's what happens. That's just, it's, it's, it's so frustrating. It is. In the moment, I was like, this is going to end up being big for them. But then when the Padres went up by five to three and it felt

like it felt like they were going to be fine, right? But I felt like it wasn't really going to matter. But then again, this game goes to XRAIDA. Yeah. And how much it did matter. When you're playing against a good team like the Padres, right? They're in a playoff position. You've got to take advantage of the runs when you can get it.

Absolutely. And it's just, and again, like we're not not harping on anything. This isn't a debax thing. This is just a baseball thing, right? You have a runner on third with one out. You go on contact. And, you know, it's been a thing in baseball my entire life. and I, to this day, don't get it.

Well, I know you're as much of a Tory Lovolo apologist as I am, as much to this, you're going up several people in our chat. I'm not even an apology. I'm not going that far. I will die for tell you. I will die on that hill. The timing of that was so funny because as you said that, Derek, Killer X literally put in the chat.

I hope Danielle is not a Tory show like everyone on this now. Oh, I didn't know. It's worse. It's worse. No, I'll take it. I'll take the heat. Killer. Killer X also called me an obsessive X the other day just because I simply was talking about how much Merrill Kelly meant to this organization while talking to our friend Jeff Wilson from the DLS Rangers.

But this is a man that comes in our chat every single day to scream fire Tori. So he knows something about being obsessive X himself. What I will say, though, is that Tori definitely, it felt like he got outmanaged in this game because there were just little things that happened here and there, including an extra innings, right? And I'm not trying to make a dig, but putting Catele-Marte on first base, right? And then having, he didn't end up rolling or he didn't end up getting into the double play. But setting up the double play there with the ghost runner of Corbyn Carroll at second place was a very smart, like, baseball manager move. You know what I mean? And there were just little things like that that I will agree that they, that he got outmanaged tonight.

I wouldn't call it out. Well, I mean, sending Jake McCarthy there. sending Jake McCarthy there. That might have been up to Jake to go, but it felt like a contact player. That's the contact play. And that's, you know, I don't put that on the manager. That's just kind of what baseball does. That's on Jake McCarthy, just not being a very high IQ baseball player, in my opinion.

Wow. I don't know if I go that far. And I think that. He likes to throw a wild accusation. You know, I think that's completely fair and justified. You saw it again tonight with the double for Manny Machado that should have been caught. Yeah. I think that you see moments in, like,

like gaffs like this from Jake consistently. Yeah. And again, you know, like I'm not fully on board with everything that Tori did tonight. He deserves some blame in my opinion. But I just, that the Jake McCarthy running home thing is on Jake. Meanwhile, we're going to talk about the bullpen. But while people do want to blame Tori for the bullpen, I do not. Because Tori was not out there pitching.

Tori was not Kyle Nelson out there not being able to throw a strike. Not his finest hour, that's for sure. Also, what was this? are doing behind home plate? It was a rough day. What was going on the night there behind home plate? And I mean that this is one of those instances where I do not feel like this went against the Diamondbacks solely. This was just a bad nightly guy on plate for a home plate.

This is one of those days where I wish I was sitting in the boozy seats as a fan. To heckle. Oh, where I could hackle. Oh, yeah. Are you kidding me? No, yeah, not his finest day. There were a couple. There was a Lord of Strikeout. I have it in my notes somewhere that that they kind of lost it, but it was a strike.

I mean, none is as egregious as the miss call on an adult Texas Jr. Boy, there were some bad calls today. But like you said, it was both ways. So like that's kind of a thing. It was, yeah, yeah, man. I don't know, man. It was rough. This one sucked, especially with the fact that the Diamondbacks did give us all hope, right?

in this one with tying it up and sending it to extra innings. But for me, this game came down to no longer having the weapons in the bullpen to be able to compete in an extra innings game like this, especially against the Padres who have statistically the best bullpen in all of baseball. And then they went out and added to it with one Mason Miller who was throwing the ball faster than I've ever seen a baseball thrown tonight at Chase Field. So not an easy task to come back, but still something impressive.

that they did. And I know we have more here from Lordus Curiel Jr. through his excellent translator tonight to talk about, again, he was kind of bummed out, right? And I think Nick Picoro from ASE Central asked him about it, like, that if he was playing it, like, cool or whatever. And I could tell, like, his demeanor was just more of, like, sad, you know? Like, it's like you go out there. You do have this impressive night. You have this two home run game. You did hit a ball that was 104 miles per hour off of Mason Miller for a home run and made history. And yet, you know, you're sitting here with a loss at the end of the day. And it's hard to be excited.

It's hard to be happy about it. And so Lourdes was asked a little bit about that. We have some more from Lourdes in the clubhouse. Here's what he had to say about his night. No, more than the situation of the game that was, no, in the state. And to end up to the game, it was exciting. But, well, we're not quite a short. So, yeah, no, it's the real meaning it was in the time of the game and what it meant to the team to tie the ballgame.

That was the most important thing. I mean, unfortunately, it didn't turn into a win, but that was the most exciting thing. It was exciting for all of us. Yeah. You were very close to that. Yeah, yeah. I put in the group chat we had. Like, that was literally the craziest thing I've ever seen.

I don't think a lot of people can gauge anything over 95, just how hard it is. And I still can't get over it. He pulled the ball. It would be one thing to take it the other way. But he pulled 1004 is crazy. But that's another thing. A lot of things, like being around baseball my entire life, being around the debacks, basically, literally my entire professional career.

people don't really see that side of the game right where there is a motion after the game but for the most part it is all right we lost the game onto the next one right so it was that was interesting to see see a little emotion because it's a little bit of a rarity yeah and tonight was interesting too because we didn't have tori lobello after the game we basically went straight to the clubhouse it's one of the first times i've even honestly been in the clubhouse and seeing guys still in their uniforms, right? Like, because most of the time, by the time we come out there, guys have already showered and changed or they're in the process of that. Usually they're in like a t-shirt, as you can see, Lordus in this clip. So this one, we were in there while it was fresh. And all I can say is that the mood was somber. And there was no, there was just a lot of sitting around looking a bit shell-shocked

and understandable because- Yeah, that one hurt. Like us, right? We're sitting here saying, like, how does this game end? 10 to 5. Well, it ends 10 to 5. Especially, I think the big thing is it ends 10 to 5 after

you blank them in the top of the after you blank the Padres in the top of the 10th. That's the big thing. As you blink them, you keep Luis Reyes off because you I was telling day before the show. You have to win in the bottom of the 10th because you know Luis Rae. You do.

He's not going to take an 0 for 6. Yeah. You have to win. Yeah. And then to lose that after blanking, blanking a very good pod race team,

getting Fernando Tatsis out. You ran out of pitchers. And you run out of pitchers. They didn't even have a long reliever for them to put in there because he's pitching tomorrow. Right. It's, it's a hard one.

It's a hard one to, it's a hard one to lose. But, uh, yeah, you know, that's just baseball, man.

It just, for me, it shows how undermanned the diamondbacks really are. And again, this game, uh, it was aided by the fact that, several pitchers weren't very effective, and Tori had to turn, especially Kyle Nelson,

who didn't record a single out, had to turn to entirely too many guys in this game, especially with it going 11 innings. But back to Lourdes on the foul balls here against Mason Miller. Obviously, we know at times that hitters can get timed up well with those foul balls, and this isn't really anything new, but especially helpful when you're hitting a guy that's throwing 103, 104 mile per hour gas. This is what Lourdes had to say about utilizing. those foul balls to get the timing down.

Yes, that's all right. It's a little bit in a rhythm and you can't definitely. And not just on that at bad, but on any at bad in general. I mean, once you get an opportunity to do that,

yeah, it will give you an advantage to timing better. It's also wild that Lord has had such a big night when the Diamondbacks needed him so badly, considering he's kind of in a drought here as far as home runs are concerned. Yeah. We know Lordus is very streaky, but it'll be interesting to see if this is the beginning of something, uh, him getting hot.

Yeah, and you could start to see it sort of come together in the, ooh, almost at Oakland in the athletics series. We don't call them that. Oh, yeah, there was a, there were a couple, uh, it, a kind of like, like, slump breakers, right? Where you, you, you, bad contact, they tend to drop or a bad contact ground. Paul finds a way through. He's like, okay, maybe now he's going to find it.

And sure enough, here it is here. Yeah. Yeah, it's tough. Yeah. Well, here's what Lourdes had to say about his home run drought. Yeah. Yeah, he's, I don't want that mentality, no, of what it has passed, but, nothing, it's a lot.

And, yeah, yeah, so I was a round. Yeah. He's, he's happy that that happened. Obviously, you try not to think about that fact, but it's, It does play a role on him. I mean, luckily, he was able to make good contact with that. It's a wild way to break out of a home runless slump is to come out and hit two home runs, including a historic one that is the hardest thrown ball that was ever hit for a home run.

Lordis was asked by my guy, David Brandt, from AP, about what it's like to hit a ball like that. His response was pretty hilarious. This is what he had to say to David. I can try one time. I have to prove it once because that's a reaction. Yeah, definitely just reaction. I mean, he just said, one time you would like to try it. Give it a shot.

Get in there. Get in there against 104 mile per hour gas. I know when they have us take BP that it's on like 60 miles an hour. And that thing looks crazy to me. It looks insane. Man, I miss Media VP. Bring back Media BP. I miss media BP too.

I miss making a fool of myself and I miss watching Nick Piccoro rake because that guy... Do you remember when I almost broke my pinky diving on a ball? I do. I do for a ball off. Josh, listen, I'm not going to let my boss Josh Rowl. I just get a like dump one in there. I'm going to dive for a ball. His batting practice was crazy.

My hand got caught. It's crazy behavior. Damon can relate though. Damon would definitely break his hand trying too hard. 1,000%. 1,000 percent. That's called a battle scar. We were pickleball teammates.

I get it. I would still die for that team, Daniel. I know you would. I don't know if you'd die for this team, though, anymore. Those days might be over. But what I will say is, again, Lourdes' demeanor had a lot to do with the fact that despite all of this excitement, it was a letdown. It's a loss. And, like, again, I think you can live with a six to five loss in extra innings.

Yeah, the 10 to 5 is a little char. 10 to 5 is a little jarring. Yeah, this is what Lois had to say about not getting the win and that being the most important thing. Not that is that, it's that, the mentality of me, is always in ganar, right?

And at final, what's going to do this and that, in a way, not serve to win, is what, at the final is difficult to assimilars.

Not necessarily, I mean, yeah, he does feel proud of it, but the fact that he's kind of, of cool about the whole situation is because the main role or the most important part is that he couldn't help the team win. I mean, at the end. So that should trump better anything else. And he definitely helped the team win. He put the team on his back and tried to carry them across

the finish line single-handedly, but those eight dudes got heavy eventually. And unfortunately, he did not get the job done there. But I really feel like it comes down to. the fact that you look across the board and you got corbin carroll going o for five tonight you got kateau for four with one intentional walk and there wasn't much help from anyone besides raldo perdomo uh the young guys chipped in a little bit here and there but for the most part uh no multi hit games here from from anybody besides lordis and uh for that reason it's fairly obvious that he is our king snake for tonight's game going two for five with two home runs and for rbi you just feel like once again this this is something we talked about early on in the season

season before the pile of injuries started happening and before that was a big reason why they were losing games. It felt like offensively they would get contributions from some just not enough and it would always kind of change, but it would always like be two guys, not three. And you feel like the wins you would see three guys contributing. You would see a good night for more than just one or two players in the starting lineup. Yeah, one player very rarely wins you a baseball game. Fair. Um, two players very rarely went to a baseball game. And the fact that there was so little contribution elsewhere, um, is, is, is really another

main story. Really, really a story of missed opportunities and self-inflicted blooms, I think for both teams. For both teams. Yeah. I mean, how, I, what I had it in front of me. How many people, how many men left on base did the, did the pot rate have? It was crazy. 14.

14. Yeah, that's, yeah. Yeah, the debacks had quite a bit too. Oh, they were awful with runners. Yeah. It was sweat. Let's see, team with runners in scoring position. O for 13, not going to win you.

A whole lot of baseball games doing that. No, me, Gustav. We're going to talk about the pitching and the lack of being timely with your hitting. On the other side of this break, don't you go anywhere. You're watching the P.HNX Diamondback Show. Well, tonight is definitely a night where you can use some of the fine products from our friends at Pure Edibles. Pure Edibles is a full-fledged candy company that was founded right here in Arizona. They're available over 130 dispensary statewide.

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It really did feel, though, like maybe if Nelly could have just got one more out, that maybe, just maybe this game might have come around a little differently. But Nellie did bend but didn't break here against the Padres. He got knocked around in the second inning a little bit. Gave up a solo home run to Zander Bogart's to lead off the inning. than Ramon Luriano, who fell just a home run shy of the cycle at night, he tripled. Jake Crono worked doubled scoring Luriano to make it a two-two game. But after that, again, Nelson does what he does well, which he makes adjustments and he rebounds.

He said he was very comfortable throwing his slider and his cutter tonight, which he threw his slider more than normal. He threw his four seam 60% of the time. He threw his slider 21% of the time. and he threw his cutter 14% of his outing. So again, a decent mix of pitches here, as you can see. He was keeping that four-seam fastball up. Very effective. When he does that, you don't see too many below the belt.

And that's something that Nellie does incredibly well. His line, he goes five and two-thirds innings, gives up six hits, two-run runs. He walked two and struck out eight. Should Tori have let him finish the sixth inning is the big question right now? He was out of 100 pitches, which, again, is his highest pitch count of the season. He struck two guys out. Why don't you stick with him? At this point in the season, when you're really playing, like, let's, I mean, let's be honest here.

Let's like, look in the mirror. You're not playing for the playoffs. You're playing for next year. Sure. You're not going to push one of your younger guys that you're really counting on to step up next year to go over his pitch a lot, man, right? On this team? On this team? With this curse?

Yeah. With a UCL and an elbow just covered and a forearm tightness? No. No. No. Why? Yeah. So I get it.

And we talk about pitch efficiency and you take away that second inning and he like this is this is a solid. Yeah. Like efficient game from him. You take away the second inning. Right. And really you're talking about a younger guy again. He's not super young anymore but like he still is a younger. guy so he's still approaching his prime that you're asking to to be your guy right now right he is he is

kind of the guy at this point um to face adversity come back the way he did and then you leave on a high note is is is really what you're looking for at this point you don't want it to go to a disaster in that last out and to be fair a lot of a lot of innings seem to go sideways on the diamond backs after they've gotten the first two outs yeah which that inning did right so sure did no surprise there What the big surprise was is that the bullpen couldn't throw a strike. And God damn it, I don't know how I can say this, but like, I don't even care how good you are. I don't care if you get rocked for a home run. The idea of watching Ryan Nelson pitch in the game the way he did.

And then watching Kyle Nelson, no relation, come into the game and immediately throw 12 balls and three strikes was ridiculous. Wasn't great. I mean, it was ridiculous, right? Almost a reverse immaculate inning. Yeah, it was like the yes hitter by Brandon Fought. No any, no, no outs recorded, one earned run. Look at this. Look at this.

And two of them were just a couple of three oh, get me over, get me over strikes there. It was, yeah, not his finest hour. I mean, we could call it like it is. Danielle, we were talking about it a little bit beforehand. It's one of the worst pitching performances, this franchise. has ever had the displeasure of witnessing. It was that bad. It really was.

I mean, listen, I'm not a typical sports journalist, baseball journalist, in that, like I said, I spent my entire professional career in and around the deep back. I see them as people. I don't like doing that, but like, you guys are more than welcome to you. I'm not going to pile on them. No, I tell them. I get it. I'm a gas bag.

I'm like, it is hard to watch. I go and hang out with this guy and, like, shoot the crap the next day. We're like, hey, man, I was going to do anything cool last night. You know, like that guy's like, like, I'm supposed to get on this show and be like, yes, cut all of these bums. Get them off of my team. I can't. They're real people to me. I'm sorry.

Nor should you, Derek, but that's not my role. That being said, I'm in this, in this circumstance, I'm going to call it like it is. And like it is is, is as Daniel, as Daniel. Danielle said, the two of those three strikes were down the middle three-o counts. Like, give me strikes. He threw one strike tonight in three batters. You should have heard the crowd. The crowd.

I did hear the crowd. I was right along with him, Derek, sitting in my recliner. The sarcastic applause. Good job. You finally hit the strike. Oh, it was fantastic. The guy's just going to like what is his second. his second outing after injury

like well then you bring in Hoff Daddy aka super bad and I'm calling him that because he looks like Jonah Hill and he sounds like Michael Sarah right so super bad Andrew Hoffman came into the game and I don't think he deserved what he got I don't think that he deserved

to walk in a run it's such a bad position and it was we didn't grab this one but you guys plenty of you did on Twitter the strike the ball four called a tatis was very much a strike. Again, also a reflection here of home plate umpire. Is it Sean Barber?

John Barber had a rough day. He looked like a conversation with Tori. He looked like a very reasonable umpire. Didn't look like your typical, like jerk with a big ego, right? I was like, this guy looks sensible. Boy, was I wrong? Because he wasn't sensible about his strike zone. I mean, I think you'd be surprised at how many bad umpires are good.

people. No, I don't want to know them. That's one thing, working all those Arizona Fallway games that I did all those years, you get to know the umpires and it's like, like, they're such nice people and I don't want to, like, it turns, it like, it humanizes them and I hate that.

I can't say, I can't. Again, Daniel, no thanks. You can keep it. I'm going to continue to live my life the way I do. Listen here, I am like, there are very few people who dislike umpires more than me. and I'm just saying I don't like it when they're nice people like like yeah I want to hate them I want to yeah no there are some out there that I'm like listen angel randas ain't got a job anymore for a reason

because he's terrible and he's a garbage person well and like I'm I like yeah no I hate umpires I'm not defending anybody I do not like um by but that's it's fine what we're going to talk about though is it's it's fine to hate on Nelson right now through three strikes um and again It's like Kyle Nelson was one of those guys that I really wanted to see back on this team Because I think he has been very good in the past I think he will be good I think tonight is just kind of a blip But it's also just frustrating to see overall what The performances overall from this bullpen it wasn't just Nelson Kendall Graedman only recorded one out he gave up two hits tour and runs two walks and a strikeout

Probably the the shining star once again of our bullpen we're not going to give him king snake again But he probably deserves it. Curtis. I was going to fight for it, man. I was ready to go to war with Derek for John Curtis. Zero is up besides that just went out there and pitched for an inning in two thirds and got outs just through strikes. It's kind of wild because I do think at times how funny it is, how most of us couldn't throw a ball into this little box. And yet when someone like Kyle Nelson can't do it, we're like, what is wrong with you? Speak for yourself, man. But I will say that this was just, again, this showed that you almost feel like you need the starters to be in there for seven

innings every single night in order to give this team a chance to win with the condition of this bullpen. There are some pieces that are coming together nicely. Saul Frank has been very good for this team. John Curtis is starting to come around. So far, I really, really like what we've seen out of Andrew Hoffman. But, you know, when push came to shove and the Diamondbacks get into the extra innings in 10th and 11th, they have to turn to Jake Woodford.

And again, I don't know if that is mismanagement by Tori, but he had to do his best to get the team to that point in order to try to win. And when he does get down there, all he has left essentially is Jake Woodford and Jalen Beeks. And quite frankly, I don't know if Jalen Beeks is still a pitcher on this team anymore because he's supposedly not injured, but he hasn't been coming in to pitch in baseball games. And he didn't tonight. He was the only reliever to not pitch in this one besides Kyle Backus. and Tori said before the game he was not injured, but I do not believe him.

I don't know why. But I would expect a roster move to be made by this team, if not one, maybe multiple, with the potential bullpen game in the finale, considering you got Descalfani going there. But again, Ryan Nelson was great, and we have more from Ryan. Here's what he had to say about his outing tonight. I think ran into a little bit of trouble there in the second, left some pitches over the middle of the plate.

But other than that, I felt like the cutter slider felt really good today. A couple of them that I wasn't particularly happy about. But in general, it felt pretty good. I feel like that's starting to free up some of the other stuff, being able to land some sliders in there for strikes and not be as predictable as it can get sometimes. I feel like it allows the two-strike fastball play a little bit better. But like I said, it would.

wasn't perfect when there was still some stuff I'd like to clean up and definitely try to be a little bit more efficient than it was tonight. But overall, I feel like it's progress is being made and starting to kind of come together. I find it ironic that the two players that we have video of here are the two guys that help this team win the most. And they're the saddest. They're the saddest, yeah. Which happened, huh? Like when you're the one. Well, and I get it too, right?

five and two-thirds innings getting up to 100 pitches, there are things, if you are good at what you do, you have to find ways to improve. And that's definitely one of those ways to improve. If you take out that second inning, like you said, not only does it, you know, does the score change, obviously, but you also have the fact that, you know, you could probably go a little bit deeper. Maybe you get you into the seventh inning even. And at that point, you have a much better chance to win without having to turn to this cavalcade of arms that you're turning to in a game like this. Ryan Nelson did talk about getting taken out at 100 pitches. This is what he had to say about his pitch count.

I mean, 100 pitches by far the most that I've learned this year. So it was good to extend the pitch count. I would have rather not gotten to 100 before the sixth inning as early as I did try to be a little bit more efficient. But yeah, body feels good. I'm glad I could extend it out. there. Taking a step back to us talking about kind of getting you to know them as people. It's been really cool to see Ryan Nelson become what he has become for this team, right?

Because he is a guy that's always seemed like a very down-to-earth, humble guy. He's always been open to Tori doing whatever, you know, whatever he sees fit with him, whether it's keeping him on a shorter pitch count, putting him in the bullpen, asking him to come out of a bullpen and go back into the starting rotation. last year being the best pitcher for this team for a two-month stretch. Like Ryan Nelson has slowly become one of the most consistent, you know, arms the Diamondbacks have, period. And I mean, that included Merrill Kelly and Dan Allen and everybody else that they've had here.

Almost like an afterthought on the, especially on that 20203 team, right? He felt like an after. But he's always just been there. He's been a solid guy, been a been a, solid person. He's always there. He's always, he never, he never, you know, rocks the boat. And just really solid. So I'm, honestly, I'm excited about Ryan, Ryan Nelson. I'm a big, I'm a big Ryan Nelson fan. And Knights 23 says it best. He says, we don't deserve Nelly. We really don't. We really don't. And I don't know where the Diamondbacks would be without it. No. You know what I mean? No. I love the point you

made about him kind of just accepting his role at all opportunities and really just trying to make the most of it and helping this team win baseball games. It's the anti- Rafael Devers. if you will. No matter what, they could ask Ryan Nelson to go back to playing shortstop and he'd go do it. Well, he's a reliever on that playoff roster

and he had no problem, right? Turn in one of the best long relief appearances I've seen in the World Series. And he's just a solid pitcher, man. He's just a guy you want on your team. You also have the fact that, you know, just in general, he's a young guy, right?

And ever since he's come up, he is one of those names, is one of those stories that I include when I'm talking about the fact that this team somehow is always is a good landing spot for young players, right? Even if we see them come back down to earth, young players have this kind of heroic, historic, you know, entry into the Diamondbacks, you know, universe, if you will. And like when I think back upon Ryan Nelson, I think about Dre Jameson, both of them were just excellent when they got called up.

You look at some of the other names. I mean, even Tyler Locklear, you know, kind of is a prospect that the Diamondbacks were like, well, guess what? You're everyday first base now. And he's filled that role nicely, and he's had a couple of good games already, even though he's still fairly young. Yeah, the numbers aren't great on Locklear, but I've been impressed with what I've seen. I like his at-bats a lot. I was telling Damon about this. Like, it's even, I don't know.

You see some of the at-bats that Diamondbacks players have, and it's frustrating, right? You'll see a pop-up, one-pitch pop-up. You'll see them not take a lot of pitches. You won't see them drive the opposing pitcher when they're having a good game. You won't see them drive their pitch count-up. Like, do something strategically to combat the situation that you're in. And it feels like when I see Tyler Locklear take his at-bats, he puts together good at bats. He's patient.

He takes a lot of pitches. You know what I mean? He does a good job. Yeah. And I'm a big, I'm a big hitting nerd. Love swing mechanics. I'm a big swing mechanic's hurt. And man,

I love, he's impressive. Did you get a chance to see the ADC at bat and did it frustrate you to no end to see ADC pretty much just, I mean, he had a guy at second base, right? You can take one of those outside pitches and you can try to dump it in for a single

instead of trying to hit a home run. And that's all I felt about that. I try not to get on young players in a situation right like that, right? It's when, especially as a pinch hitter, you're thrown in there. really cold

you're cold and you get antsy it just happens with young players right it's the same reason why not everybody can be a closer right

it takes a special kind to be put in a high pressure situation so it doesn't make it any less frustrating but like you know I young player I do and at this point

in the season again take a step back we're looking for progression now you're watching the game a little different yes, you want to win, but you're looking, like, you're looking for progression. Where the results don't necessarily matter as much, even though I want to focus on results.

It's not fun. When can I start getting delusional about the playoff? Nobody wants to do that, right? At least of all me, but like, yeah, no, that wasn't, that wasn't, again, wasn't his finest. No. But, but again, it's a young player. He's got to learn. If you, if you think he's going to be part of your future, you put him in that situation, get it out of your

system and hopefully next year or next time even not even next year when you get to that situation it is going to come in handy to be fair you could also say that about corbin and martay tonight because both of them didn't seem like they were taking very good at bats didn't look like they were looking to just take what was given to them and try to get a hit they were yeah i could tell really falling out of his shoes oh my god you can't hit three home runs and one at bat i wish somebody would really tell him that but uh jake woodford he was another guy that had a rough night even though his first inning of work was great. He did a great job in the 10th inning of not letting a run score by the Padres.

Like you said, the Diamondbacks really needed to win it in the bottom of the 10th. They did not. And the 11th was the opposite of the 10th for Jake Woodford. He couldn't get it now. He basically the Padre scored five runs in the top of the 11th. He ends up going two innings pitch, giving up six hits, five runs, four earned. So not a great outing there for Woodford, but not, I mean, what do you expect out of Jake Woodford? I don't really feel like you're expecting him to come into that world.

and need that critical arm. It's a tough position to put somebody in, right? You get the outs. You're not expecting to go out again. Yeah, real tough. And it's weird too, because had they gone, had they scored in the top at the bottom of the 10th, we're talking about how great of a job Woodford did, right?

It's weird. It's a weird position, a hard position to be put in. Mark Grace was fired up for Jake Woodford in the post game, being like, he shouldn't have had to go out there. And he's right. I mean, it's what you guys are saying. Do you mean in the 11th?

Yeah, he's saying he was like, Jake Woodford did his job tonight. And so it's impossible to be mad at him for getting lit up and late when he goes back out there. And the heart of a playoff team's order, right? Like, you're asking a lot of him after that. Not to mention you're facing the bullpen that is statistically the best bullpen in baseball. And you still manage to get two runs against them and tie it up late. So some good, some bad, but ultimately an ugly score.

He should have been pulled, probably. Like, I see some people saying, like, maybe he was being careful with Beaks, but you had some extra bullpen arms. Do we have a, we have a super chat, and I think it's a great question. The super chat from our guy, Peace of Yoshi, asks, is it, is Jalen Beeks dead? and I can confirm if there was any, look, I don't do a good job at being a, you know, being a journalist on this program. But I can confirm for you that Jaylen Beaks is not dead. He is alive.

He passed by me in the clubhouse. He was very much alive. He took a shower and he was a living, breathing human being. So I have no idea why he didn't come out in this game. But before we move on and take a look at the numbers from this one, I did want to hear from Ryan Nelson one more. time because we talked about him being fully on board with whatever he's asked to do. And here again was his response about just being on board with Tori's game plan here

and being taken out of the game at five and two-thirds innings pitch. Yeah, fully on board with what they're doing. And I was surprised to get 100 as well. But, yeah, I know they're looking out for me in my future and my health. So, yeah, whatever decisions they make, I'm on board with. I just feel like in general, it's kind of weird to have an arbitrary number. Like, numbers are a construct of man, right? Like, we created numbers, and then we're going to be like...

What do they really truly mean? 100. 100 is exactly what we need to stop at. I'm just curious about that. But we'll talk more about this on the other side of this break. I have so much more to talk about. And I'm going to yell at Smokey Bear here before. we get out of here. Don't you worry about that. I got some words for him. You're watching the

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We got to talk about this. O for 13 with runners in scoring position. Yikes. They've been terrible with runners in scoring position all season long. And I know this isn't an easy thing to do, right? But, I mean, the Friars were 6 for 19 for 316 batting average. And I'm not supposed to say, oh, hell yeah, to that. My best Stone Colts D Boston boys, that's just asking too much.

Padres had five extra base hits. The Diamondbacks had four. Expected batting average, 322 for the Padres to the Diamondbacks, 201. So again, this game, based on the numbers, shouldn't have even gone into extra innings,

and we should just be glad that Lordus found a way to smash a 104-mile-per-hour baseball for a home run and send us two extra innings to at least have that a little bit of excitement. That's, man, that's what I love about baseball. Sometimes the numbers don't make any sense. Because at the same time, where this game shouldn't have been close in the Padres.

In the Padres direction, Deepak also had plenty of chances to win this game. Plenty of chances. Plenty of chances to win this game. As it is, it wasn't like, well, if this ball broke this way, whatever. No, like, as it was, they could have won this game with those stats, right? Not to mention sending Jake McCarthy on that, you know, contact play. It still is just so egregious.

It's, that's not a send, though. That's a player on contact having to make a reaction type of situation. That's just baseball for the last hundred years. That's like, like that's your complaint isn't with management managing. Your complaint isn't with the players. Your complaint is with the game of baseball. I don't know about that. Like, that's just how it's been played.

I like, I don't get it. I've never gotten it. I don't like it. But it is, it is what it is. I guess I don't know. You're right about that. Well,

it doesn't help the standings tonight. And I don't think many things will, but let's take a look at the drunken orgy of violence we call the N-Hell West. We're getting very close to the Diamondbacks earning those infinity symbols themselves. Diamondbacks sit at 54 and 60. They are 12 games back in the division and nine back in the wild card. The Giants, their season is slowly slipping away as well. They are 57 and 57. Nine back in the division, six back in the wild card.

Meanwhile, the Padres, they don't look so bad. They're currently a wildcard spot and they are only three games back from the Dodgers. and considering the improvements the Padres made, they might have the personnel now to perhaps take the division from the Dodgers. Can I say something crazy? I think the Padres are the best in the division. Well, I mean, after the trades that they made, I think that that's hard to argue with.

However, the Diamondbacks beat up on J.P. Sears yesterday so badly that the Padres went ahead and optioned him to AAA after trading for him at the trade deadline. which is crazy. And that was the Diamondbacks game one win, where, of course, we don't get to do a postgame show after a win. Diamondbacks won that won six to two over the Padres for the third street win. Brandon fought earned his career high-tying 11th win after tossing five and two-thirds innings with two runs allowed.

Really interesting because it's very similar to Ryan Nelson's line from tonight. Five and two-thirds innings, two runs allowed, five hits instead of six hits. He had three walks and four strikeouts. Meanwhile, Ryan Nelson has two walks and H-strikeouts. They're just two old-school guys, right? They're old-school innings eaters. You are very rarely going to lose a game because of Brandon Fott and Ryan Nelson. That's just like that's just the guys they are.

It is very Merrill Kelly-esque. It is. It is. They are cut from the same cloth. Well, and it's also the same kind of not too flashy. Ryan Nelson might be a little bit flashier with the strikeout number. Yeah. You know, and it's fastball being so good.

But yeah, it's just going to blow you away. They don't have anything. In fact, a lot of Ryan Nelson's outings lately haven't really come with that many strikeouts. Yeah. They've been like four or five strikeout outings and he still finds a way to get the win. But yesterday was just a good all-around day. Tyler Locklear slugged his first home run as a deback. You had Alec Thomas had his career high fourth straight multi-hit game.

He's been on fire since the trade deadline. And Andrew Hoffman. Superbad came in and made his Debacks debut with one and one third innings pitched. That was spiritual. Two strikeouts. That was spiritual yesterday from Andrew Hoffman. It really was. And that's why I feel bad about that call tonight because

you know, who knows what happens in that three two count. Andrew Hoffman might still be like, you know, untouchable right now when it comes to... I would love to know what he throws in that three two count. Yeah, 100%. He was unreal last night. That that change up, it's like a different funky type of change up that I had never heard of before.

that he throws. I mean, that when he painted that on the corner, oh my God, Eric. I'm doing full, you know, amen prayer hands over here,

watching Andrew Hoffman pitch. He also is a very baby-faced young man, and he makes me feel very, very old, very old. I just have to point that out. But a lot of people do. You both make me feel old, so that's nothing new,

especially you. You make me feel especially old. But what we're going to do is we're going to take one last break real fast. And then, like I said, when we come back, I have to yell at Smokey the bear. And I feel like I'm in the right here.

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He's 81 years old today. It's his 81st birthday. He came to Chase Field to celebrate his 81st birthday with his pal Baxter. And I am furious, quite frankly. I'm furious. And the reason why I'm furious goes far beyond the anxiety that this bear caused me when I was a small child. You don't put that kind of pressure on children and tell them only you can prevent forest fires. Do you know how much...

That's a lot. Do you know how much sleep I lost thinking about that? I was like, there's a lot of forest out there. But, to be fair, it did work. How many forest fires did you? I was eight, though. And I just didn't start any, though. I didn't start any.

You're right. I didn't start any. I didn't start any. I didn't start any forest fires. So it all works. You said that a little too suspiciously. I can't lie. You said that like you were defending yourself, and I wasn't making any accusations that you did.

But the problem I have here he is with his friend Baxter. See, they were having a great time. I'm Baxter signed the ball for him, or maybe he signed the ball for Baxter. I'm not sure how that work, but he is a bit of a celebrity. And for those that may not know, he is also kind of a Padres mascot. So what was he doing at Chase Field? Padres have a history with this bear. Most notably, back in 1984, they did a promotional baseball card series featuring Padres players

and who? Smoky the Bear! Apparently, he dropped the the time. It's just Smokey Bear. I didn't know that. But this was part of a, you know, a broader series to promote forest and wildlife, you know, saving the forest. Conservation. Conservation.

But don't even get me started with this. Because I don't want the pot. The Padres shouldn't have a traveling mascot. And he shouldn't be here at Chasefield. He should have immediately been banned from the building. I didn't think this was an opinion anybody could have. Oh, I have lots of opinions about this. I mean, listen, I worked here for a long time.

I knew there's some strange opinions that people could have. I don't know. I thought it was kind of funny. Here's what I want to know. He had to get walked like guided. Was the guy in the suit 81 years old as well as smoking the bear himself? He didn't do that bad at my job. I was actually a little disappointed that it wasn't a worse first pitch.

I'll tell you what I'm disappointed about. Where is the San Diego chicken? Where? I was ready to ask the same damn question. So ever since the San Diego chicken started hanging. and out with Smokey the Bear and they started doing photo shoots for the Padres. Suddenly the San Diego chicken's just gone. He's missing.

He's out there doing stuff. Apparently he tried to win Comic Con one year and they took the award away from him because he's obviously a professional. But more importantly, you know he's locked in a box somewhere. He is an icon. The San Diego chicken's an icon. How have we lost this icon? How is he not? Like, I don't care about the Padres or ringless bum of a franchise that they are.

But what I don't like is one of the greatest mascots in all of baseball is suddenly going missing. And now we just have this creep, the friar, the swinging friar, just hanging out behind the backstop, just peering at baseball players. Not to mention his names, the swinging friar, which leaves a lot of questions to be asked. But what? Where the hell is this chicken? I want to know where the San Diego chicken is. I'm furious about this. The guy, I don't want to, like, spoil anything to anybody.

Oh, what are you going to say? There's a guy in a suit. There's a guy inside of a suit. No, I don't believe that for a minute. I don't believe that. You take that back. Yeah, I'm sorry. He retired in 2016 after 42 years of playing San Diego chicken.

But he said it, quote, it's not the end. But that's it. But like, is it? What does that? Is it? That's what the deep state wants you to think. He gets it. This guy gets it.

Well, we appreciate you because you guys kind of get it too. We thank you guys for being here. Of course, it's late. We should all go to bed. Thank you, Danielle, so much for joining me. She doesn't want you to follow her on Twitter, so we don't use that website anymore. But where do you want people to see your work? Instagram.

You want to see you want to see my shots from today. That's right. There's some beautiful shots from there. At Danny Shoot Sports on Instagram. Awesome. That's kind of my only social media right now. That sounds very nice. I wish I only had one social media.

I kind of hate it. Hopefully this is in the hand. Hopefully you'll have me back. I will definitely have you back. Thank you so much for your wonderful pictures, like I said, and for joining me and talking ball. I'm at Kappa underscore Caveman of the K. You know this guy is at Damon Dog with the DAWG. We are all

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