Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast) - 208 | Voit Hits 20th Homer, Sloppy NL Standings, & Kyle Gibson's Shutout

Episode Date: September 18, 2020

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Welcome to talking baseball. We've got a whole bunch of games to recap series that were players that did good and bad and the shuffles. And welcome to talking baseball. Thank you very much for joining us today. My name's Jimmy. I'm coming to you from my apartment in New York City. We got Jake. He's coming to you from his apartment in New York City.

Producer BPD behind the dish. He's in his house. No one is at the Roosevelt student. in the Bronx right now as we well no one on this crew Roosevelt's studio south is where I'm at that's where I see yes I see I see as we quarantine before the playoffs just like the players do you know they started their quarantine for the bubble and so are we yeah I don't think our employees know that you know we're bubbling in the playoffs it's just gonna be us in that office

sharing that shower for a month. It's a one-way door. Yeah, so how's everyone doing? I don't know if you're out of the loop or you don't follow other places. I don't know if we've discussed it on this program before. I have COVID came down with it last weekend. And I don't know, I guess getting through it. We're tired. How are you doing, Jake?

Yeah, we're, uh, we're warning out. Oh my God. Those are words. I was going to say we're worn out. We're warning out. Uh, yeah, we want you to get better. We'll see. We had an office, first office field trip where we're a couple blocks away from the stadium and our first office field trip was the whole office got COVID tests. So that was, that was some good team bonding. So yeah, we're going to be home for a little bit. My audio this has. episode is probably not going to be top notch need another chord for that just got it amazon prime be here tomorrow about that ad uh but yeah man on the cord ad for the cord so i'm i'm doing doing okay uh you know jess is probably you know pretty

bummed out that i'll be here for the next 10 to 14 days but that's okay that's okay Is she leaving for for work soon? No Oh Turn let me see your side view Looks like your flow is doing good things Yeah It's hair

It's not good It's not good but I think it's the back is got The back got over the hump There was like a week midweek hump Where it was like you gotta cut it And you persevered And now it's all right back there

If I wear a hat and shower Like it can look like I have douche bro hair going on. But what's really happening, Jim, I think, are you familiar with Dana Holgerson? He's the, is a West Virginia, or he was the West Virginia football coach for a while. Now he's at Houston. Go check out his hair because it's kind of an old man mullet type thing coming in. And I think that's what's happening because my hair is stopping growing on the top of my head,

but it's still growing around the sides, monk style almost. Yeah, male pattern balding, I think, is what they call that. Yeah, but it's still like the other hair is still growing pretty well. Yeah. Yeah, that's a good comp, but you're not close to that. No, I mean, he's like all-time legend status in the hair world, but it's a, it's a baby version of what's going on there. You aspire to be that? I mean, he's got some great picks.

He's hilarious. All right. Hey, there's some cool new standings that have shuffled. What did I say in the intro? Shuffles have stand it. You got the old, kind of the old vaudeville treatment with the intro musmic. The guy with the big cane, right at the end just took you off and was like, all right, we got it. Well, usually when I play the intro music, I have the wave.

So I know when it's about to drop. So I know I can time it. But I didn't have that because BBD played it. So I'm just lost there trying to find how many words I need to say to fill it before we start shaking our heads. So do you want to do some standing stuff quick? No, no, no, let's do it. I'm just excited for when we hit the standings after the back end of every region. Yeah, pretty bizarre.

Yeah. All right. Who has the Eastern region? You do? I believe so. I hope I don't because I don't know shit. Right. Okay.

I have the baseball boogie. make sure it's at an okay volume. Can you hear that? I can hear it. Can the people hear it? I bump it a little. Hmm. Now we're bogeying, baby.

All right, baby. In the east, the New York Yankees, the hottest, scariest team in baseball. Oh, my God. They sweep the Blue Jays. The battle for second place. No, no, no. Game one.

20 to 6. That is 20 to 6. It was Davy Day. Davey Garcia, he pitched fine, but it was just a home run festival. This whole series was a home run festival. Cole goes the next day, he does fine. Tanaka the next day,

he does fine. Jim, some insane stats. Voigt and DJ LaMayhew both had four home runs a piece this series. Kyle Higigashioca, the backup catcher had a three homer game. And they set records. I think it was six home runs in three straight games. I think that was a record, which led to the most home runs

in a three game set. Insane stuff by the Yankees, they are looking good. Speaking of looking good, the Boston Red Sox, they take two out of three from Miami. Miami was coming off that seven gamer that they beat up on the fills. But Tanner Howe, Boston, you guys have a little bit of hope. An actual prospect came up and pitched. He looked good. Avaldi had a solid start. The game Miami won. Jorge Alfaro hit two home runs.

Catchers hitting home runs. I'm here for it. Washington at Tampa, they played two. Yarborough, our friend, he got the W in the first game. Everyone kept putting the stat out there. It's a little skewed because he doesn't always start. But a 16-game non-winning streak for Yarborough. He gets the win.

And then in the second game, Luis Garcia, I think he's the Yard. youngest player in the majors. He's younger than Soto. He homers in the 10th to give the Nats the win. They split the two-gamer. And then we're going to the Ilylladilf, Philly. They win game one versus the Mets, a big Dedy homer. Arieta was good. But the Mets come back in the second two games. Philly's bullpen. DeGrom got hit and hurt in the first game. Mets were down four nothing. J.D. Davis had a pretty big day. Led them back. Mets one, five, four. And then the Mets take the final game 10 to six. Mets went up three. Then it was tied at three three, then it was six three Philly. Then it was tied at sixes. And then it was

10, six Mets. Mets take the series. Do you believe? And then Baltimore hosts Atlanta. They blow out Atlanta in game run, three home runs and a nine run third inning for Baltimore. Tusson and Jackson got wrecked. MVP candidate, you heard me, Atlanta. Reddy Freeman with a pair of R. B. doubles in the second game to win five to one, but Baltimore takes the series. They win five to one. It was a Hamill start, 3.1, three-earned run, 52 pitches. Atlanta needs pitching. They might even be fine with that, but owes wins.

So, hey, and that's what's going on in the east. Gross. Mm. Gross eastern region this week. Mm. Just disgusting. The Yankees. The Yankees did what they were supposed to do.

I mean, Miami loses, the Phillies lose, the Braves lose, and the race split. It's gross. The NL East, man, was supposed to be this powerhouse division, and they all stink. Yeah. Like the Braves are going to win by default. All the teams that are, all the playoffbound teams lost besides the Yankees. Oh, hey, don't let those miracle Mets get high. Not, Jim. Race to 30.

I might start, I might start like a swear jar. Oh. And it's if you act as if the Mets are going to the postseason, you have to put money in the jar. Okay. And then if they go to the postseason, I'll double it. Okay. Jim, it's not the Mets. I just, I do have a theory that either the Mets, the Brewers, my Rockies might be dead.

But I still think one of these teams is going to have a. good week, get to 30 wins and sneak into the playoffs. There's one week left. Yeah. They have to go like eight in three. Like it's not crazy. That is crazy. They haven't done it all season.

We did this last episode. All right. The Mets have never done that all. They never had a stretch like that all season. So to think they just have to have their best stretch as a team ever. It's a kind of crazy thing to say. but the Reds did. Just like the Yankees did.

The Reds did it too. It's still this weird short season, man. I understand what you're saying. We haven't seen it, so that is the safe way to lean. But also, teams are kind of building up for this part of the year. Yeah, I don't know. I mean, it's a mess. They're so bad.

Yeah. I mean, you... you know all the teams all the teams not in the playoff picture are bad you lose also the same thing for all those teams i just mentioned i mean you essentially lose a series and it's over but that's uh i guess the beauty of this extended expanded playoffs they still got a chance they got the next six met's next six are against atlanta and tampa bay hey Atlanta just lost to the orials and tampa's been struggling themselves um as far as the rest of the east coast the yankees back in second place.

Or maybe they started in second place when that series started with Toronto. I forget. But they're, they're, uh, they're two and a half. Ahead of Toronto now in second place. I don't think they're going to look back from that spot.

They're chasing other things now. Uh, Toronto is now the eight seed and the race stay as the one seed. So I don't, I don't think that Toronto can fall out either. I mean, we've been saying that the AL is locked up and it's locked up. It looks like Toronto is going to get the eight seed,

and the Yankees are now trying to steal the four seed from the twins. Yeah, I mean, Toronto is saying we get another shot at the Yanks, but what we just saw the Yanks due to them, you probably can't come back from that. Yeah, I mean. They don't have, they don't, they don't have, they don't have, they can't. I mean, the AL picture, I mean, we can start locking a few things in Toronto is most likely the eight or the seven.

they're right behind Cleveland. And then Houston has been pretty much locked into that six spot, twins and the Yankees fighting for 5-4. And I guess there could still be a shuffle at the top. The White Sox, still the one team in the AL. Yeah. Pretty good. Over in the NL, we kind of already did it.

I mean, the Braves are the one seed and Miami's the two. Philly is the eight right now. Yeah, 24 and 25. It's crazy. That's what I'm saying. I know. I just struggle with... That eight team is going to suck.

Yes. So, you know, I hate the false hope. It's giving fan bases. Right. And I understand what you're saying. Like, you know, some team, you know, it could be, you know, maybe the Philly stay. It could be Milwaukee. It could be the Mets.

you know, I don't know who it is, but like some team's going to land in that eight hole and be like, we made the playoffs. And it's like, did you? Yeah. Like, you know, once we get there, we can make, we can do damage. And it's like, can you? Hey, I don't want to see DeGrom in a three game set. He's one guy. And I'll probably lose the game anyway.

That would be very Metsy. All right. Let's go on to the Central. Here we go. Yes. You're starting us off. I'll clean it up. Yeah, like that. Cleveland and Chicago, they played two.

A couple exciting games, Jim, 6, 5, Chicago. This game was back and forth all day. Baez hit a bomb early. Frankie Lindor with the two-run, tying home run in the ninth. But the Cubs, they win on back-to-back hit-by pitches, including the game-winning hit-by pitch with the bases loaded to Cameron, Maven, Cleveland. Again, they are sliding. And the Cubs take the second. Savali versus Lester,

both with solid starts. And Lester, some emotional stuff, could be his last start at home as a cubby. Oscar Mercado, a friend homered after he had a bad start to the season. But Javi Baez hits the walkoff single. The Cubs take both games. And then Cincinnati, the bungals, no, the Reds. They finally do what we thought they might be capable of. They sweet. Four against the Pirates. They win the double header day. Tyler Stevenson saves them on Bauer Day with the pinch hit, walk-off Homer.

Votto homered in both ends of the double header. They were down one, and then they scored three in the fifth and the six to blow them out, nine four in the second game. Michael Lorenzen, our guy, tough start to the season. He gets the spot start because Sunny Gray was hurt. He goes five innings pitch, one run. Amir Garrett gets his first save. He had a fun press conference about that.

Parker Barnhart, a friend. He homered. And then Luis Castillo, seven innings shuddy, 10 days to take the final game, one-nothing Jim. That's awesome. Kansas City and Detroit played. Detroit one game one.

Boyd was good. Kansas City won game two. Singer was good. Minnesota and the White Sox had a big old series, Jake, big all four games set. Chicago White Sox won three out of the four. In game one, Taylor Rogers lost it in the eighth with two walks, then a single from Adam Engel.

Chicago White Sox take game two as well. Dunning out pitches Dobnack, Anderson, and McCannbolt, Homer, and Luis Rodubert stole two bases. How about that? In game three, Buxton hit a two-run homer off of Gialito, then Suno hit a two-run homer off Matt Foster, and the twins win a game five to one. Game four, is it going to be a split series, or will the White Sox win? White Sox win four to three. They tied it in the, it was tied in the six. J.D. hits the home run, gets ejected. And then Dyson, Abraeu, a Leo, a Leo. All team up to take it back. White Sox take three out of four from the twins. They just keep rolling. It's pretty crazy. And then St. Louis and Milwaukee, they had a five game series, double header, regular game, double header. Milwaukee wins the first one. It goes into extras. Kim pitched really. good again. Bron tied it in extras than Hira wins it. The second game of the first doubleheader

De Jong had the go-ahead single in the nine. Then they play a real game. Jay Flair gets the start, real tough start for him. Yeli and Brun go back to back in the first and then they just keep scoring forever. Milwaukee wins 18 to 3. St. Louis wins the first game of the next double header. 4 to 2. Wayno gives up too early, but then settles down for the complete game. Seven innings win. Milwaukee wins the second of the second game of the second doubleheader. Ron had a three-run home run in the first.

Milwaukee takes three. St. Louis takes two. It doesn't really help Milwaukee much. It hurts St. Louis because both those teams are out of the playoff picture now. With Sincy doing good. And Jake, the Cincinnati Reds.

I'm ready to talk all about them. They've earned it. And that's all we've been saying. One back to back series. Wanted to see series wins. On top of that, I think they've won like seven in a row. And they took over second place.

Now, they still have a losing record because, you know, the rest of the division kind of left it wide open for them. They've won five in a row. But, uh, they won the series before that. Jim, at the same time, if we won, want to get excited. I mean, their schedule picks up again. This is the pirate. This is what they should have been doing all year. We're going White Sox Brewers Twins the rest of the way for the Reds.

They're a game below 500 still. I mean, it's going to be a mess between the last wildcard team and the second team in the NL Central. Yeah, and they have three games against Milwaukee who's still like in the mix. I don't know. It's so messy. I'm almost like I feel like a mom who's the playroom is like just an absolute mess who tells the kids to clean it up and the kids keep calling her into the room and like mom

do you do want the books to go here mom do you want the toys to go here how should I roll up the carpet well I don't know why the kids are rolling up carpets and the mom says I don't care how it's done but the next time I come in this room it better be clean. That's where I'm at with the NL playoffs.

It's too messy that I don't have interest in how it's going to clean itself up. Just let me know when it's clean. And I mean, that's kind of what I'm saying. Like, dude, these brewers control so much of their own destiny. I think they finish with another four or five gamer with St. Louis. And they play the red. So it's, again, if a team has a good week, which is Cincinnati, and now we're talking about them, you're in, and it's bizarre,

and I wish the mess was going to be cleaned up. But I think we're going to be here doing our, you know, last Friday episode before the last weekend of game saying, like, well, let's see it because it's a mess. It's a big time mess. Right now, so like as it stands, it would be L.A. versus the Phillies, Dodgers Phillies, round one. Which I don't have any faith in the Phillies,

but they have two good pitchers. Right. And then you got the Marlins versus the Padres, which again, that's two really good pitchers, Sixtho and Pablo. And then you have the Reds Braves. Ooh, I mean, that's scary as hell if you're Braves fan. I mean, I think Cincinnati would be favored in that series

if it started tomorrow. Yeah, Braves, yeah. And then you have Giants Cups. Cups. Have a luckier year. It's nuts. So yeah, I don't know what to make of the NL Central. So from a pure talent perspective, like, who do you think the final four teams in the NL should be?

Like, if you got to make the playoffs. From talent. From pure talent. Like, I think the Reds would be there for both of us easily. Dodgers. And Padres are the easy. Well, no, I'm saying, I'm saying the bottom four. Excuse me for the playoffs.

Oh, that's a less fun conversation. I think that's why it's more fun. Well, who are your top for? Dodgers, Padres, Cubs. And Atlanta for now. I don't, I mean, they have no pitching. Right. Really good lineup and Max Fried and a good bullpen.

Like, they've kind of earned. that i'm just saying for filling out the rest of the playoff bracket i don't care talent wise it's probably reds phillies no cardinal i mean cardinals pitching has been st louis yeah i mean and st louis phillies phillies for sure with wheeler and um nola and then all the star power you have offensively there yep like you know i think phillies cardinals Marlins because of their starting pitching. Yeah. But I could be,

I could be leaving people out. I don't know. No, I think you're right. I think, I think the ideal other four teams to get in would be Miami, Philly,

St. Louis, and then Sincey. Yeah. Sorry, Milwaukee and San Fran, who San Fran, you're above 500. So,

yeah, we'll get to doing that. We'll get to the West then. In the AL Central, White Sond. are the what's the saying something of the roast no something of the roast is that what you're looking at BPD finish the saying for me I don't know where to begin looking for that saying but the prime roast the prime they're good I don't know what

are you looking for bell of the ball sure the bell of the ball Okay. The White Sox, bell of the balls. Eating roast at the balls. Eating roast at the balls. The White Sox are the one seed. And then you have Cleveland who's lost. What's Cleveland doing?

Dude, they've been a disaster. I know we're not supposed to talk about the upcoming, uh, upcoming series, but they finally got a Bieber win. And I think they're playing the royals, but they went on a full skid. I mean, dude,

think about a week ago, the Yankee. stunk and we were wondering if they were going to fake make the playoffs we knew they would but and then cleveland we were talking about how they could be the best team in the league because they get a good start every day and then t f a man things fall apart they do they do jake yeah um what what's so they won yesterday i'm trying to see how many did they lose in a row i think it was like near seven or something this is bad i feel like Like I recall hearing eight for what that's worth.

And the Cubs, dude, both walk-off losses, hit by pitch. Like if the Cubs, the Cubs and the Braves, man, if they draw a good, bad team in that three-game set, I don't know. I mean, at least the Cubs still have Darvish and Hendricks. The Braves, man. And Alec Mills. Okay. Shut your mouth. Disrespecting him all time.

your guy i'm going to i'm going to be alec mills for Halloween you swear nope okay i had a dream that you uh you killed yourself via airplane or helicopter you you hijacked a helicopter and crashed it and the last thing you did is you took a selfie of yourself and said see you later bud and texted it to me you had that as a dream i woke up full sweat fever dreams i'm sick Very scary. Tough. The only comfort I found is like you wouldn't even be able to get the helicopter off the ground. Yeah.

Oh, my God. Yeah. I wouldn't be able to turn it on. Yeah. Well, maybe it's a key ignition thing. Even then. It's super sad, man. Don't do it.

Yeah. All right. Let's go to the West. Let's do the West, Jim. The Dodgers and the Padres faced off, Jake. Battle for the best in the West. Game one was a doozy. Denelson Lomet versus Kershot was 1-0 in the 6th.

The true pitcher's duel. Grisham hits the home run to tie it in the 6th, and then the Dodgers implode in the 7th, and the Padres take game 1. In game 2, Gonsal and deal, seven innings pitch, one-earned run, Dodgers win 3 to 1. And then they go bullpen day,

kind of for the Dodgers' bullpen day, is Gratterol to Caleric to May as the premier guy, the bulk guy, the five innings pitched guy. and Dodgers win that as well. So they kind of, you know, just push back a little bit on baby bro, who's now, you know, faster, taller, stronger, and cooler. We've still got some man muscle of ourselves. So just back off.

Dodgers win two out of three. A's in Colorado met up for a two-game set and they split it because why would they do anything? But Antonio Sensatella with a complete game, one earned run. win for the rocks. And in game two, Fires was good. And Jake Lamb got involved again.

Which I find fun. The traded for him was getting involved. Both of the scores there were 3 to 1. San Francisco at Seattle at San Francisco. Why'd you put the notes like that? Because they were supposed to play in Seattle, but they got smoked out.

So Seattle was the home team in San Francisco. They moved the series. Awesome. Well, San Francisco wins both games. In game one, was trying to find one pitcher or one hitter to highlight because I'm trying to make these shorter. Impossible. Eight Giants had hits, seven had RBIs, and they used seven pitchers who all did well. It was a complete team effort win by the Giants in game one.

In game two, Wilmer Forrest had a two-run triple to take the lead late. The Giants won six to four. Arizona and Anaheim played in Arizona won two of the three games. Texas and Houston. Houston gets three really quality pitching performances, Jake. Her kitty seven innings pitched one-earned run in game one. McCullors looked really good in game two, and then Framber in game three, six point one,

11 strikeouts, one earned run. Houston wins two out of three, but the best pitching performance came from a member of the Texas Rangers in game two. Kyle Gibby, complete game shutout. Talk about that. a little more later on. And that's everything that happened in the West Coast. Great stuff, Tim. My first question to all of our Houston fans, because Jim, you do mention they got three nice starts, Erkiti, McKellers, and Framber.

They also, their bats went dead. I mean, they won the final game, two to one. Kyle Tucker hit a two-run homer. That's it, over two days. So I'm wondering if they're more happy with the pitching, or if they're more worried about the hitting right now in Houston? Well, I think you've got to be, if I could put myself in a Houston Astros fan's shoes, which I usually is my one o'clock in the afternoon. Yeah. Put some lipstick on, lock the door.

Yes. You're happy with the pitching. You just tell yourself the bats will come alive and you really, really need pitching for the postseason. And, you know, they didn't just get good starts. that really good three really good starts in a row and her kitty comes back framber you know did dusty baker murder him in the hundred degree heat making him go out for the eighth inning it comes back so i think you could i think it's easier to tell yourself oh one series your pitching wasn't

there hitting wasn't there but at least the pitching came back Arizona LAA literally nobody could care Cole Calhoun's return to anaheim what just more on that later just so passionate. S.F at Seattle at SS, this game gets moved because Seattle was a smoke fest. San Francisco just kind of wins game. I think our Seattle dream

is dying on us, Jim. Oh, it's dead. Yeah, yeah. I saved that now. And I kind of said at the beginning, the AL playoff picture. I've said this since the deadline, but it is firmly, like, firmly 100%, the eight teams in the playoffs.

It was a pipe dream rooting for Seattle to do it. But, you know, they're dealing with some other stuff, like not having a lot of talent and the whole state's on fire and all that. Those hurt. Those hurt. Rocks and A's split two. Why not? Sonsetella. My guy.

Big game. Jake Lamb playing for the A's. That's kind of fun. A little change of scenery. Sure. Jake Lamb. I know. He got involved.

he's been pretty bad uh but get some a's magic kid keep and your name is jake lamb think about that would you rather that name or your name ooh i don't the last name for me is kind of the winning piece yeah you have an awesome last name yeah it's so many people pronounce it yeah sure um do you think anyone's ever mispronounced jake lamb's last name uh-huh Uh-huh. Jake Lomb. Yep. Because sometimes when people have very, very easy last names,

right. People think it can't be that simple and then they do weird shit to it. Sure. Like my mom's main name was Papa. Right. And she would get people like, Papa, and like, thinking, it's like. Paper. Yeah, paper.

She's like, it's Papa. Like, how could you fucking mess that up? Well, she's also a very mean. woman. And then in the, I got PBD with that one. The Primo, the Primo box series in the West Coast gym was Dodgers, Padres. Again, we kind of got excited for a little bit of anarchy and the Padres took game one, Lamet, Prisham Pimps, the Homer, Dodgers implode. But this, if you're a Dodgers fan, this has probably been your only like important series of the season and your team bounced back and look good.

Yeah, and especially coming off the first game where, you know, you got upset because Grisham hit the home run off Kershaw and celebrated, which was so annoying. And then Muncie has the mental brain fart with pro fart going home, and then he throws the double play ball. You know, they implode it. Throw fart. What's that?

The second, the double play ball was a throw fart. There was a brain fart on pro far, and then there was a throw fart. on not pro far. So it was tricky. It was ugly. Yeah. It was like a little mini implosion. So the fact that they can just come back and win the next two and be like,

we don't care. It's cool. Yeah. Some fortitude. That's what the Dodgers need. Good mental fortitude. And they can basically, I mean, now they have ensured that they've pretty much won the West.

They'll line up their pitching. And they can look at this series and be like, hey, this series was kind of important. And we won it. So I think they're like, good. Yeah. That's probably what they're saying. That's probably what they're saying. Probably Dave Robert's speech.

This was an important series and we won it so good. Important series, we want it so good. What's the one today? How about that? Yeah. Hey, God damn it, Mariners. You stink. Minus 52 in the run differential for the Mariners this year.

That's worse than the Angels. I mean, let's not harp on them. traded pieces like they like this was it it's not like the angels it's a miracle run where they were not trying to win and they accidentally you know stumbled into a lot of good so jim it's a good end of the series season for the mariners like if you're a mariners fan you're you're happy right now jim your angels yeah this is 0.9% chance to make the postseason so what was the stat that you tweeted out that oh my god Every pitcher not named Bundy or Haney is winless this season.

Yeah, before Griffin Cannings win the other night, outside of Bundy and Haney, Angel starters were 0 and 30. Brutal. So. It's bad. Oh, for the season. Are you over your rocks? Are you think they're doing, they're doing?

They are in the. NL slog technically. They're playing four against the Dodgers and teaser. They lost the first one and it was like a tied game and then they blew up. So I mean, it most likely all falls down this weekend. If they could somehow survive the Dodgers series, then they've got to, because I think they end with an easy schedule. I think they're getting pushed out of the slog.

Like the Cardinals, Brewers, and even the men. Mets right now. They're pushing the Rockies like off the, the mountain and being like, hey, like we actually have to deal with some stuff here. So just get out of here. You're not part of this. And the Mets are next to go.

Yeah. No, it's, I mean, they're playing four against the Dodgers at home and they lost the first one. So like, it's, this is, this is probably where it ends. The race for 30. Damn. Sorry about your rocks. It's okay.

Hey, they fight. The who? The Nationals. You know, like I'm disappointed in the rocks. Oh, I told you.

Oh, I haven't told you this. Okay. I think MLB has the fix-in against the Nats this year. Oh. Because, dude, I don't think they're going to play 60 games.

And I think they might be the only team that doesn't. So MLB had to make sure they were so bad that it wasn't a discussion point. Okay. But yeah, they're awful. Oh, you know, we didn't talk about the Cardinals? Yeah. The Cardinals don't make the playoffs.

That's going to be the biggest, like, what was it all for feeling ever? Like, if they, because right now they're not in the playoffs. And they quarantined, Jayflair was throwing balls at mattresses, as Trev likes to remind us. They didn't play. and now they're doing double headers like every three games. And if they don't even make the playoffs, I feel like there's going to be a big like, we just got Truman showed into some real world baseball television show

where we were the dummies that just got got. They are, well, I think the counter argument would be people telling them they were the dummies for going like the casino or lake thing or whatever it was. but I think they're playing the Pirates this weekend, and I think they have two double-headers, but they lost the first game to the Pirates. And I think the narrative, especially if you're a Cardinals fan, is about to flip.

This team's exhausted. It was too much, blah, blah, blah. And so, you know, they better take care of the pirates. They, I mean, they got a double-hutter today. Yeah. And that's the thing. I mean, you win two seven-inning games against the pirates, and you're back to 500 and you're looking great.

You might be back in the sixth seed by the end of today. It's true. Disaster, NL. Where's that thing I like looking at, Jake? Where is that thing you like looking at? Now it says Oakland is 11 and 5 against above average teams. I guess because Houston's over 500 again? Yeah.

It's a weird chart. A little bit. They were one and two last time we did this. Oh, and San Francisco went back over 5002. It's wild. They were one and two to 11 and 5. That's something you just check at the end of the year. But I like checking in all the time.

And it's funny because I know, I think over the course of a full season, that does ring pretty well. It's like, okay, who'd you play? But the fact that, you know, depending where the Giants, if they land at 30 wins, like that's going to make the A's look that much better? I don't know. Bizarre year.

Zar year. Someone in the patron chat asked where that is. I linked it. All right. Linked it. You want to move on to awards and stuff? Yeah, I think so. All right.

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Jake, who would your one team be? My one team this weekend? Yeah. Oh my God, I'd have to look, Jim. I didn't know you'd put me on the spot like that. Just say a team. Um, um, um, Baltimore, depending who they're playing. All right.

Everyone go, go put your money on Baltimore. One buck. One dollar. You get a hundred in return. God, I hope they have a good matchup. They're playing the Texans. I don't love it. How about the Chiefs?

Chiefs. Isn't that a revenge game? Chiefs. Isn't the Ravens a nice revenge game? Yeah, but it's in, it's in Houston. DeShon's good. Chiefs. Chiefs.

Chiefs. Chiefs. Houston is a baby. It's me as a baby. I thought you said they're, the parents. He's a baby. Okay.

No, no, no, no. Standout performances. Stand out performance. Kind of bullshit because we had so many, really good pitching. Yeah. Lines. Three complete games, Jake.

Yeah. Do I go first? Sure. BPD's not in his head. Yes. You're first. Yeah. So just...

I mean, you were supposed to do the East first today, so I didn't know if we were switching or what. I was? Yeah. We'd have been doing it that way. Oh, my bad. You're good. Show works.

Pretty flexible. You know, why because you had filled out the scores. Right. So when I saw that you filled out the scores for the East, I was like, oh, Jake has the East. And then I scrolled down to the West and it wasn't empty because you filled out both. But my brain still thought just by C8 East filled out first. Genuinely, zero problem for us or the listeners. Kyle Gibson's my standout performance. Now, I did struggle because I don't, I don't necessarily. need to talk about Kyle Gibson at this point in the season.

He's not in the playoffs. But it's his first complete game shutout in his career. And Gibby's been around. Love that. He's got a complete, he's got one other complete game. And it was back on August 17th, 2016. He goes complete game shutout against Houston,

whose offense was struggling, but he's part of the reason it struggled. Three batters reach in the first inning, Jake. two walks. He also had two caught stealing, so he didn't record every single out by pitching. Tucker got thrown out and Springer got thrown out. Other than that,

he was pretty damn good. That's the best outing of his career. So I wanted to let people know about it. He's a friend of the program. He came on to this show and talked to labor dispute nonsense with him. Way back when Trev's political friend. Ghiby, stand down.

We got to get to Texas spring training next year. Sit down with Gibby, Lance Lynn, this squat up. I think he's superior. Oh, always. And it's pretty cool. I mean, best start of his career. When you say that, I mean, that is pretty cool. He does it against Houston, see the state of that lineup.

But yeah, complete game, Shuddy, you know, gave Texas a chance to win that series, not that they should care. And I think there's a What a Burger twist here. I think something with our guy Taylor Hearn, who we also interviewed on here, they got him Whataburger or he didn't like Whataburger, and they made him eat it or something. And I think that directly led to the Complete Game Shutout.

That's badass. Yeah, so add. Do you like Whataburger? You know what? It wasn't great for me. When I moved to Dallas initially, I had Whataburger and Taco Bell within the same distance. And like if I was flipping a coin or drunk, it was going to be Taco Bell. Yeah, but you're a Taco Bell guy.

I am. I am. But I like, I gave Whataburger a chance. I went there a few times. I just couldn't find my wheelhouse on that menu. You like backyard burger? It's okay. I like backyard burger.

Okay. Okay. Huge. Good job, Kyle Gibson. Good job, Kyle Gibson. Good job, Gibby. Jim, I'll do my standout performance. That's all right with you.

Please. I'm going to do Byron Buxton of the Minnesota Twins. And a couple times here, we're going to mention Trevor Ploose's name, disgusting. He does have a two-homer game yesterday. It ends up being the game. They lose the whole Donaldson sweeping over the plate, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. He homered in every, uh, the past three games. And again, what was an important series to both of these teams in the A.O. Central. And more importantly, Jim, he's going nuts. He's got 12 home

runs and 111 at bats this year. Byron Buxton, it's not who you picture. Uh, his OPS is right around 900. His slugging is 622, which is right below Nelson Cruz. And Buxton, he's always kind of been the bonus piece. He's either been hurt. He kind of hasn't been in it and he's kind of, you know, this Minnesota lineup. He's almost the nine-hole guy. I think he hit seventh the other day. They're missing a guy or two. But Byron Bucson, man, you know, it was formerly the number one prospect in baseball,

a special defender, a special runner that you'll find on a baseball field. He's hitting Yopos, champ. And if Byron Buckson can hit at a 900 clip, that's a guy he entered. like MVP territory. So Buxton, a couple home runs in one game, three straight games with a homer. Well, it would have been four

if they didn't reverse the call on Alloy. But again, you're bragging about that because you only got the home run because Alloy didn't want to throw the ball. He, uh, and if I, if I break out the butter knife a little bit more, Jim, and his last eight starts,

seven home runs. So he's a one inside the park. He's boogieing. He's fast, man. Fast. Running. Can you like talk, you said us Lance Lynn and Gibby in a room like,

you know, just inferior. I mean, imagine like, hey, let's, let's catch some fly balls with buck. Like it wouldn't,

I don't know, we wouldn't look like humans? I don't know. Yeah. I think so. Yeah. So Buxon gets it.

Then Plouf kind of went on a tirade that it doesn't matter. Everyone makes plans. I think if you're Minnesota and you don't get home field, I think you're dead in the water. So I do think it matters a little bit. Okay. Being in the home team would be more nice.

I mean, in Minnesota. Especially out of region home team. Yeah. you know if if you're going to chicago or cleveland and there's no fans you've been doing that all season it's probably routine but when you leave the region it's going to feel different so if you have to leave the region as the away team i think that is a little dude how about the n l is going to feel like the home team in the world series is they're playing every game of the ds Or the CS in those ballparks. Well, it's Houston and Dallas, and then the World Series is straight Dallas, right? So what if the ALCS is the, where's the ALCS being,

or NLCS being played? Dallas? I think it's Houston and, or maybe it's, maybe it's just Houston and then I would make, I would make, the NLCS is also in Arlington, and the World Series is just in Arlington. So that's what I'm saying.

So if that goes seven games and two NL teams play all seven games in Arlington, and then the World Series is in Arlington, those people are going to, those outfielders are going to know that wall better than the AL team that comes in. They just played a bunch of games. They're going to have a slight, slight advantage on knowing the ground. I'd like to hope the World Series doesn't come down to knowing the outfield slightly better, but you never know, that's baseball.

Yeah, interesting. I would have put the ALCS in Houston. Yeah. So you don't get the comfort level up. I have another one. If it's L.A. or the Padres who are probably the top two choices you would think to come out of the NL at this point, they're almost definitely still going to be one in four.

They would play their NLDS series in Arlington, too, so add some more games to that number. yeah you're gonna get comfy maybe too comfy oh yeah like when you wear sweats all day and you're like no gross well not me but most humans yeah yeah what do we do next i think uh soundboard is that the right thing yeah dirt nasty's on fuego that means I'm on fire baby like wakeo

I put a lot of people on the infuego list I love it I love it Volgolbach has been really good since being a brewer Jake this guy sucked with the Mariners he played like two games with the Blue Jays he started 10 games in a row as a brewer you got a 406 batting average of

472 on base percentage How about that? Man, and it's kind of funny because you wonder, you know, the Jays picked him up and then the Brewer's DFA smoke and pick up Bogleback. And it's like, are you just moving pieces to move pieces? And I think it kind of worked, though. Yeah, crazy. Quang Hung Kim, Kim, for the Cardinals, his last four games started,

he hasn't allowed an earned run. I mean, he's like, their best pitcher. Pretty unreal. I picked this dude up and they're like, yeah, it might be in the bullpen and my start, fifth starter. It's been lights out. Oops.

It's been lights out. So he's on there. Some Yankees, but I mean, they hit six home runs in three games in a row. So DJ and Voight, Jake told you, those guys are hot as hell.

Yeah, it's tough, it's tough, Jim, because they do deserve more love. And I think you and I are tip tone a little bit because we have a Yankees podcast for Yankees, fans. But I mean, these Blue Jays have been really good this season. So I know it wasn't no Ryu,

but I mean, their, their bats went nuts. Yeah, I don't know about those pitchers have like Rar Rourke has him a good. Taiwan Walker has. Yeah, but Derek Fisher died for him. So. Yeah, for his sins. Brandon Nimmo's got four multi-hit games in a row. And in September, in September, 12 game, 373. adding average 418 on base percentage 1.OPS. Good job, Brandon Nimmo. The Miracle Mets. Another guy in that Mets lineup.

Oh, my God. Do you know BVD hates Nimmo? Well, why would you like him? I mean, he gets hot, though. Like, he's good. I mentioned Nimmo and he pushed someone in the streets of the Bronx. Was it a Nimmo? Was it a Nimmo.

Look, there's Brandon Nimmo, and then he pushed him. No, is that guy I know. in the Bronx name Nemo and BBD kind of everything just went red for a second. Yo, Nemo! It's really unfortunate because he is elderly, but

hmm. Happens. You hate Nemo? BD? Yeah, I don't like it. I think he's the easiest guy to dislike. He's good, though. I remember I don't like him on Wakanjigand. The way he runs out walks is like an instant reminder to the worst

kid on your Little League team every year. And it's like an instant, yep, don't like that guy. I don't know anything else about him. So I'm just judging it on the way he runs to first base after getting walked or hit by pitch. All that stuff is like, it's like one notch too much. If he did it like one less of a thing. Oh, you don't even like him. That's really nice to you, be it.

It's like 10 notches too much. The dude sprints after getting hit by pitch. He gave him a best jog. I'd be behind it. A brief job. do the show diving after um all the plays i'd live with it but my thing is he's not like the first guy in melb history to do this i mean we have guys come along and do this then peter rose do that i wasn't alive for him so i don't know all right p p p p um i'd never seen someone sprint to first

the way nimo does in major league baseball have you can you think of anyone else in our time it's crazy It's easy. It's easy to hate that. Yeah, I get it. I mean, hustle player. That's not hustling. I mean, yeah. I mean, the ball's dead.

He rose used to do it. The ball's dead. It's not hustling. Once you get to first base, keep going. Well, he doesn't do that. He can. Yeah. Cole Calhoun, he goes back to Anaheim.

He hits three homers in the three games. he went six for 13 with a walk. So he liked to be in home. Wasn't he home. We like being back. Jose Ibrahim, six games. He's got four home runs in his last six games.

11 RBIs, 542 batting averaging his last six games. Tim Anderson gave him a nice big hug. Because they clinched the playoffs. And it's his first time going to the playoffs in seven years or something like that. Pretty non-seat. He, uh, him and DJ LeMayhew, I think, are the highest AL wars right now for position players.

It's pretty nice. Yeah. Verdugo, Jake, he's hot. Yes. Back-to-back games with three hits. And in his last 18 games, he's got a 373 batting average and a 413 on base percentage. Verdugo, still doing it in Boston. Get it going.

They called up how. Have some fun for the final couple weeks, Boston. as the Celtics start to die. I heard they were being called the Meltics. Yeah. It's a fun to play on words, I think. What words? Oh.

Jared Walsh, last nine games. Yeah. 4.50. I'll be honest. I don't know who Jared Walsh is. Someone in the patron chat said, if you guys don't talk about Jared Walsh, I curse you to the moon and back.

Who's Jared Walsh? Bad news. he's on the Angels. Yeah, I know that. He's playing some first base for them. And I think he was a prospect of sorts, but he got his kind of cup of coffee and he stunk. And he's doing like, I'm back in the big leagues.

I'm staying. And he's raking. He works good. Me and Beaver have been laughing on Waken Jek's because his name popped up a lot. And it's like, all right, dude, you want to be involved, huh? Yeah. Jared Walsh. He's got a beard.

Yeah. And he's from. He gives me Muncie vibes. gives me Muncie vibes. Yeah, a little Moncy vibes. He's from Wisconsin and then you look at him and you're like, oh, of course you're from Wisconsin, dude. Yeah.

I should tell him that. Yeah. Yeah, very much like obviously. Well, he went to high school in Georgia. Georgia. That's a hell of a mix, huh? He was born in Wisconsin. It's just like, that's power.

Those are two power states. Yeah. Baseball player from. Wisconsin and Georgia. Yeah. It's interesting. He went to Peachtree High School. Page Trey.

I think that's all I have in Fuego. It's good. It's good. Thank you. Thank you. Race to 20? I think it is time for the Roosevelt's race to 20. And I mean, Jim, I don't know if you want to

cue up any, like, we are the champions type music or something like that, or maybe the. the Trevor ploof is a goddamn fool type song but yeah man the race to 20 and we just did it slash Luke Voight did it and it's unreal man we get to watch Luke Voigt every day

I got it I got a cue that he's got the race 20 Roosevelt's we did it we did it okay and thanks to Roosevelt's you know before the season the Vegas The Sharp said, will anyone hit 20? Knowing that idiots like us would easily pick the over. And guess what?

The idiots were right. Because Luke Voight gets to 20. Again, the Yankees were just destroying this Blue Jays pitching. Playoff Blue Jays pitching. But Luke Voight has been awesome all year. He's been dealing with some foot stuff. So sometimes when he circles the bases, he get a good limp out of him. he's been just such a monster, Jim.

Jake, do you think that Voight having footstuff actually helped him hit more home runs like it galvanized his body? Because if we get him on an interview, I'm going to ask this, would you rather hit a home run than run perfectly healthy around the bases? Or would you rather hit a home run than limp in the opposing team's face? Yeah. Because the answer is so easy. Yeah, and I mean, there's even more moving parts there.

I mean, he hit a double the other day and he just, he looked miserable. He was like, oh, my God, now I got to be on second base. Like, you know, I got to judge on a single if I'm supposed to score type stuff. So, yeah, I do think as the foot stuff added up a little more, that it helped his cause for this. Because it's like, well, I'm hitting home runs. I might as well keep doing it. Yeah. And it's so badass to limp home.

Yeah. And like you're the MLB home run leader and you're injured. And it looks like Jose Abrae is still on pace, right? Jose Abraeu? Yeah. What's he at? How many? He's at 17.

Whoa. Yeah, I don't know. Our guy hasn't updated the sheet that I like. Oh, my guy updated the sheet. He's got 17 over 50, which that's on pace for 20.4. So I'd like to get another one on there. Oh, we're getting live updates now. Live updates.

So, yeah, I'd like to see Jose get there. Cruise and Trout are still on pace 18 and a half-ish. So, again, a hot series. They're back. But Voigt did it, man. And it was just impressive, man. And, okay, as Yankee fans, I'll watch him take, because he takes these big old hacks and they're fun. And I'll see him swing through a slider and I'll be like, okay, you know, is that taking him off a little bit?

And then no, he just comes back either that at bat or the next at bat and he pokes another one. It's crazy. They're monster shots, too. Yeah. Someone in the Patreon chat just referred to BPD's mom as mom. Mama bug bug. Mama bug bug bug. Mama bug bug bug.

That's some Ozark shit. Okay. So we still got some more. I think another person will do it and will really rub Trev's face in it. Sure. Moving on to the watching of the slumping. I only have three guys on here. You want to let any late chickens.

I like it. I like it. I think we got a tidy up slump watch. Maybe keep it to the big fish and you've got big fish. Jim, let me speak on one of them really quickly. All yours. Yon Moncada. Jim.

Ofer in the twin series. Again, kind of a big series. Everybody on the White Sox is hitting except Yon. And maybe he's getting jealous of the go-tee-old. things. Have you seen Jose Abraeu and Eloyloid? They've got these little goatee ponytails coming in. They're trying to go like. I think Breuers had that for a while, right? They're trying to, well, I mean, they've got a crew doing it now. And I, so I think Moncada might be getting jealous of that. But the bigger thing is I watched a few of his at Batsman and he was

lost. It was bad. He was, he took two fastballs right down the middle and then just struck out and was like, all right, I'll see you guys later. He did it from both sides of the plate. And as a switch hitter, that's the worst feeling ever. He lost it from both sides. So that's definitely, if this was talking White Sox, they're definitely saying, like, we just got to get you on right for the playoffs, baby.

Yon. Yon. Yeah. Okay, you spoke on him. Matt Olson, he was won for his last 18. Now his one came in the most recent game, so maybe he's on his way out of it, but it's not good. Not great.

And Akuna, his last seven games, he had 29 played appearances. He has two hits. 0.83 batting average. 2.08 slugging. That's not good. Not good. The opposite of what you want to do. Bad.

Bad. Uh-huh. Norm, what's going on with Okunia? I mean, if you don't have Akunya being hot or any pitchers. Cole Hamils went like three in a third. with 300 runs 53 pitches you want to do a quick segment

who got mad we'll move on we got other second who got mad we got mad Donaldson got mad Roberts got mad the Donald thing's pretty funny whoa I'm sorry about that Jakey burps

has been out in a big way yeah the Donaldson thing was good it was good entertainment and I do, you know, they end up losing that game. And you get ejected for that. Oh, you're getting ejected for that. I saw some people playing the umpire like, wow, we got another umpire. Every time I post a breakdown, I get people like no matter what, you know, a lot of times umpires are quick to eject them.

But like, oh, ums are so soft, like he ejected him for like, dude, that's an ejection. I think Donaldson knows that's an objection. Yeah. And I get people like, this is why baseball is hemorrhaging fans. What are you talking about? This is a viral clip. This is literally doing the opposite.

Yeah. Anything I make a breakdown of isn't a reason why baseball's losing fans. It's literally the most, it's literally the very opposite thing that's happening there. We're gaining fans here. This was very entertaining. Yes.

I think, you know, some of the Joe West type antics would be outside of that. But, dude, it was just, I mean, all of the comments on Twitter, YouTube, wherever, and I mean, it just shows like what's wrong with the country now. Like half of the reactions were like, this is badass. Josh Donaldson is my new idol. And the other half were like, could it be more Bush League? What are we doing out here?

And it's just like, all of you should kind of shut up. It's kind of fun. ridiculous. He got a bad call and showed up the ump he get tossed like a a plus B plus C yeah we figured it out equals a book what was that a plus B plus C equals a book Abik a book mm-hmm I got you got B Bd going you do it now B B BD D oh god oh my god Jesus yeah audio listeners love my god uh jake what's your award yes i'm r pod um jim my award a very very vaunted award is the john mcnoughton award john mcnaughton john mcnaughton john mcnaughton art award i mean i don't know john mcnaughton did i know john mcnaughton is

oh no way i had to i had to look it up okay Okay, hold on. Let me just Google John. I'm glad that you're doing a sought out award. Yeah. If you Google John McNaughton Art, it gets very political, very fast. So now I'm worried. Yeah. Yeah. I'm worried about your award. Well, his most famous piece of art is titled the Forgotten Man Award. Okay.

Or it's the The Forgotten Man. And Jim, it's been the Forgotten Man this whole season. talk nl slog we talk slop we talk how we hate all these teams jim there is an nl team out there that in their last okay quick turkey math a okay um okay um okay that is 17 and 8 over the past month or so that's in the playoff picture. It's the San Francisco Giants, Jim. And I know, you know, this isn't supposed to be a full-blown team award. They started out 8 and 16. They are now 25 and 24, keeping their nose right above the NL slog, above 500. And, dude, I just think we always, every pregame show, we're like, yeah, the Giants, okay, yeah,

okay, the Giants, cool. They keep winning. Uh, Trev has a crush. on Longoria, cool. Their lineup, like you mentioned in that one game, is pretty well balanced, man. Brandon Belt almost has a one dot OPS. Yistremski all year. He's around 9-5. Donnie barrels, Alex Dickerson. This lineup is pretty real, and it's not a lot of the brand names, you know. But this lineup at least deserves some love. Wilmer Flores is doing it for the second straight season. We didn't know what that signing was about at all. Their lineups pretty good. Their pitching ain't going to do much for you. And if they are in a playoff series, nobody is going to pick them. But credit to them, man, for staying above the NL slog. They've been the forgotten

man all season. Good job. Do you think they have any chance of winning in the postseason? My only caveat would be a special Johnny Quato day. Otherwise, no. That's just like one game, though. Right. But, I mean, they actually, you know, Kevin Gossman has put together a pretty nice year. I mean, no, it's not a pretty team and nobody would pick them. But they, for the time that we spend on Reds, Brewers, slog teams, you know, my rocks.

I've talked about them a lot this year. The Giants, the Giants have earned it. there a nose above that the forgotten man okay i'm gonna pull a move straight out of jake story ellie's play yes yes and i'm gonna i'm gonna give out the landing strip for your pugues no no the john mcnaughton art two award oh oh oh oh do you know who john mcnaughton is not really if I'm being honest no the most famous piece is a piece called the forgotten man yes all the presidents and then kind of the common man sitting on a bench america right about him yeah so it's kind of the forgotten man award what i'm giving out to one stoto two two yes the john

well john mcnaughton art two award yeah thank you uh you know in parentheses forgotten man one because you no no no no no no i didn't do you don't know i didn't see that on yours. My whole thing was in parentheses. It's going to Juan Soto because he's really good. Yeah. And I don't think he's going to get any credit for anything because MLB,

as you heard earlier, Bill has it in for the Nats. Yeah. The fix is in. And he leads the league in intentional walks this season. Yeah. And his numbers are insane. Yeah. And he leads the league.

he's tied for worst sack hits oh zero okay any other stats you need you hit you hit all the big ones um we we did a little bit on one of the pregame shows the other day he's got more walks than strikeouts what he's doing at his age is crazy his ops is close to one dot two um yeah i mean it sucks at the fix was in on the Nats this year. But, yeah, I'm sorry, Juan. Do you really think they're not going to get to 60 games? I mean, they have them scheduled. I mean, there were one rain delay from a disaster.

And hey, Jim, you know, if they go 12 and 1, they hit that 30 number. Who did they play? the Nats are finishing with five at Miami. Miami games then. They're in like a standings race. Four, four versus Philly, four versus the Mets. Three double headers. All those teams want games to play.

For sure. Big time. I think they'll try to get all those in. All right. No wheel today because my body's hit its limit. body's hit its limit and i need to leave go sleep so okay with everyone thanks everybody thank you guys very much for hanging in there hopefully we i get better and more energy and stuff i'm dying right now i'm gonna play the music bye