Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast) - 209 | Teams Start Clinching, the Reds are Rolling, and Dance Fighting

Episode Date: September 21, 2020

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Hello and welcome to talking baseball. We've got about one week left of the regular season. Things are happening. Baseball's going on. Let's do it. Hello and welcome to talking baseball. My name is Jimmy. I got Jake with me.

I got BBD behind the dish. I'm coming to you from New Jersey. Jake's coming to you from Manhattan. And BPD is coming from New Jersey. We're in Roosevelt's. Jake's at Roosevelt Studio South. I'm in Roosevelt's studio Mid-Atlantic headquarters.

And that's that. BPD, what's your Roosevelt Studios name? Jake gave it a name on Waken Jake today, but the name he gave it also didn't pay us money to be named that. Okay. I don't know if we should say it. One of Ploof's old sponsors. Oh, Magnum Condoms?

Yeah, Trojan. I had Trojan for BPD. Oh, okay, cool. Well, yeah, so still quarantining. I got in the car, drove out of the city, and I'm now quarantining on the bottom floor of my parents' place in New Jersey so I can get some fresh air and some sunshine. I feel great.

I feel better. So that's good. Jake, update on your health. We'll find out. Still waiting for it. But I don't know. I'm okay. Had some symptoms could be generic.

Eric tired and sick could be the Rones. We're, uh, we're still getting our results back, but we're, uh, playing it safe, quarantining, uh, until the MLB playoffs. We started the same day the players did, uh, just a blind coincidence, not actually planned in any way, but, uh, it was cool, though. We did text each other and it was like, oh, cool. Yeah, it was almost like, uh, okay, confirmed that we, we're doing the right thing. So.

So. Yeah, man. I'm doing all right. You know, the wake and Jake song, noodle on my left, Jess on my right was very real this morning. It was actual. So, you know, living it out again. And yeah, man, just funny.

We, you know, put in some work, get the office. And this is the second time we had to like abandon ship. Which, man, we'll, everyone, we will be able to look back at 2020 one day and have a couple laughs about it. as of now and through November, don't expect it, but hopefully next year. And hey, at least the sports world is still incredible, especially the baseball. Jim, the baseball. Yeah, I know.

I slept for most of Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. So I didn't get to watch a lot last night. I was keeping up with some stuff. But I'm very excited to hear about the games that you present. I don't know what happened. I'm very excited to look at standings and see how they shuffled. I know that the National League has some more going on for. Some people are out.

Should we just get going? I think so. I think so. I have the East Coast, right? Looks like it. All right. Here we go. This is what happened in the eastern region.

Here we go. Philadelphia and Toronto team. teamed up for a four-game set double-header to start it off, and Philly wins big. Led Zeflin goes complete game shutout with 9Ks. Harper goes, boom. Philly won the second half of the double-heder as well by one run this time. Harper double-tied in the sixth, bomb single for the lead.

Philly wins game three, three-to-one. The last was out duels, Ryu, Blue Jays, what the hell? You've lost a lot now. Then they win game four. Taiwan Walker was good. Tay Oscar hit another home run. Toronto salvages the set. They don't get swept by the Phillies,

but Phillies take three out of four from Toronto. Good for them. The Nationals and the Marlins squared off for five games, including double header and a double header. So four seven inning games. Eric Fettys, best start of the year, Jake, in the game one. And then Sixtho's worst start of his career in game one.

In game two, Brian Anderson had seven R-Barrows. Reyes for the fish. So the fish split the first double header. Then they have a regular old game. Miami wins 7 to 3. Patrick Corbin had a bad outing. Then they have another double header. And the Nats win 15 to nothing in game one.

And then the fish went two to one in game two. Alcantara with a nice outing. Six innings pitch, one earned run. So the Nats win two and the fish win three of the five games there. Miami just keeps on going. The Braves and the Mets had a three-game set. Atlanta won two of them. The Mets won.

One of them. Max Fried made his return. He threw 80 pitches, five innings pitched one-earned run. He went up against Mats, who sucks for the Mets. Braves won big, 15 to 2. The Mets win the middle game, 7-2. Ian Anderson and Shane Green gave up seven combined for the Braves. So there's some scary stuff for the Braves who are just like have a magnifying glass for

every pitcher that takes the bump. In game three, the magnifying glass shined bright on Kyle Wright, who pitched really well. Him and Porcelo dueled for a while, and then the Mets bullpen blew it. Acuna came alive. He had to home run, a double four RBIs on the day. Yankees in Boston had a three game set. Yankees won the first two. They lost the third. Gary Sanchez gets alive. He saves the day in game one. In game two, Jay Hap tossed eight scoreless while striking out nine. He's been really good. His last six. starts and in game three, Sox rookie, Tanner Hawk dazzles. Six innings pitched only one hit for Tanner Hawk.

Rounding it out, the Rays and the Orioles, they played five games. The Rays won the first four. They could not get the sweep. In game one, it was B smell and D cream, and they both only allowed one run and the Rays took the lead late. In game two, Adamas hit a three. on home run. In game three, Glass now struck out 10 over five innings, only allowing one earn run. That's pretty crazy. And in game four, Charlie Morton did his thing. But Baltimore doesn't

get five games swept because Means struck out 12 over 5.1 innings. So many strikeouts. Tampa Bay wins four out of five, though. That's it. That's what you've got in the East Coast. We got not too much movement. You know, the Yankees are very solidly the second seed in the ALE East right now. They are a four game set coming up against Toronto. And Toronto is four games back. So that's like in punching distance, but the Yankees are pretty solid second place. Rays are very solid first place in the American League. And then in the National League, Braves are still solid first place. They're three games ahead of Miami. And Philly has jumped up to be part of the mix there.

They have the wild card. They're currently, the Phillies are currently the seven seed in the playoffs. Miami and Atlanta are pretty solid in the playoff picture. Nice stuff, Jim. Yeah. The big series by the Phillies, they face the limp and blue jays. And, you know, you talk kind of game story, but how a series plays out. out and Toronto blows that second game of the double header, which gives Philly two wins in a day,

really gets them back on track, and it kind of keeps Toronto spiraling, keeps Philly safe for now. But man, is it, we've now got one, two, three, four, four teams that are either 500 or a half game above between the Phillies, the Reds, the Brewers, and the Giants. So that's some good chaos. Atlanta, got to be happy to see Max Fried back and twirling it. And the Rays get back on track. It's the Orioles, but the Rays had been in a little bit of a fog for a little bit, you know, winning those four in a row.

And then, yeah, John Means dropping dick at the end. But, you know, the Rays, this was good for them to get the ship back. on track. The Braves, Jake. Max Freed is back. Kyle Wright had a really good start coming off of a six things pitch three and run start. Uh, you know, we have some Braves fans in the patron chat. Jesus, we have some Braves fans in the patron chat. I still don't know like what their, uh, pitching path to victory is, you know, freed obviously he gets a start. Is Anderson getting a start? getting a starts. Hamill's getting a start. Who's getting the starts for the Braves? I believe right now it's freed, obviously the one. And then the two, I would believe, is Anderson.

From everything I know Braves fans feel free to correct me, but he's got the body of work and is built up at this point. And then that would leave game three is the all hands on deck where you see where Hamels is at. You know, you can have Kyle Wright available that can give you some some length options, but I'd assume that's what it's looking like. And man, they're, whoever it is, they're stumble into a tough playoff series, whether it's, because, well, I guess they can still get the two seed. So I don't know, man. I mean, the Cubs in Atlanta are currently tied for the two and the three.

And again, the three seed is going to play the six, which is going to be the second best team in the central. So that's looking like St. Louis or Cincinnati, who both now it's, Braves, St. Louis. Both those teams could pitch a little bit. Does Milwaukee get in the mix? Or if Atlanta can jump up to the two seed, then you're looking at the first wild card, which, again, could be a plethora of teams.

So interested to see how that sorts out. Yeah, I mean, if you're the Braves, the number one thing is you have Max Friedback. He's having one of the best years of any pitcher, and you're confident with that going into game one. Yeah, the game one's good In the American League Toronto has the wild card No one's coming for them You know, it's just a seeding thing

And I think they're going to be the eight seed It looks like it The bottom fell out a little bit They do, you know, they get a win on the last day They're hosting the Yanks in Buffalo So I mean, in theory they can do some damage Those are two teams heading in opposite directions but yeah, it looks like if things stay the course, which you'd have to assume at this point,

Toronto would be the eight seed, which honestly, I think if we are being full honest with the rosters, Toronto is really the only weak link in the AL. The other team you could give an argument would be Houston, but they're still Houston, and they've actually got a couple guys turning it on. So I think that one seed in the east is going to be pretty. I think the A's aren't incredibly scary right now. Oakland? Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. But I mean, hey, playing three against Houston, you know, you're going to see Grinky and you've got a lot of guys that do have playoff experience. I was just like I was adding the A's to that list of Toronto is the least scary playoff team. Right. then Houston, then the A's for me.

Oh, okay. Wow. Yeah, I don't know. I think their body of work still speaks, speaks pretty well and having to go to Oakland for a three-gamer. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I was just, I was talking like deep chances. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, I was saying it as like just first round, if we had to rank the teams one through eight, I mean, Toronto is the, if there were tiers, Toronto is its own tier in the AL.

So I think that first seed might be kind of important. And right now it's Tampa Bay, a half game up on the White Sox. Yeah. Tampa's scary. Glass now struck out 10 over five. When he's right, I mean, you saw that one Yankee start. When he's right, there's almost nothing you can do. It's like weighted out.

But he also has his days where he's not. Right. So you can hope for that. Yeah, I'm kind of interesting. If I'm the White Sox, it sounds dumb, but I think you really want that one seed because I think you like your chances against Toronto a lot better than Cleveland. Yeah, or you want three seed so you can play Houston.

I mean, you don't, Cleveland is the scariest of the bottom three seeds. Well, we know Oakland's punting to face. Yes, yes, yes. Houston slash Seattle. So, all right, you want to do the Central? Let's do it. I will start it off and then I will pass it to you, young Jake here.

We go St. Louis and Pittsburgh. They played five games against each other. Started on Thursday when Pittsburgh won five to one, Stephen Bralt with a complete game, two hit, one earned run outing. How about that, Stephen Brought? Then they go to a double header. Trevor Williams, Lutz in five run runs in game one, St. Louis wins six to five.

In game two, Jake, I do not know if you saw this. The Pittsburgh Pirates were up, and then they allowed a sixth run, sixth inning, and the rally went as follows. Walk, catchers interference, walk, sack fly, fielders choice, throwing error, fielder's choice throwing error home run. Yeah. And St. Louis won the second game of the double header.

Just embarrassingly bad performance by Pittsburgh in that sixth inning. In game four of the set, St. Louis had a five run. Seventh inning rally that included two walks, two hit by pitches, two singles, and a double. So another pit lost more than you won, but I'm not trying to take anything away from you. I'm just trying to shine a light on pit. What the hell, dude? Just some terrible innings out of Pittsburgh. And then St. Louis won the last game two to one. I believe that was a clean win. I didn't take any notes because I was asleep. St. Louis wins four out of five against Pittsburgh, much needed four out of five. The White Sox and the Reds squared off for a three

game set. Reds win game one, Castiano's, Barnhart, Votto, and Winker all go deep. The bats are coming alive in game two they have bower on the bump he goes seven innings pitch two and runs but the bullpen gives up three more and that was bad because kichle and co held the red scorelish white socks win the middle set but cincinnati wins the series jake i think it's like their third in a row we can talk about cincinnati as much as you guys want they're doing what we've wanted them do all season they're pretty scary now um in that game three the white sox walked 11 batters. So White Sox, what up?

I think it was Dylan Cs and the pen. They walked 11 batters. Cleveland and Detroit, some played four games in Cleveland. They needed some wins badly. They went three out of four from Detroit and they get some good pitching and they get some good hitting. Jose Ramirez takes rookie Casey Mize deep twice in game one. In game two, Plesack went 7.1, zero earned runs 11 Ks to get the one to nothing win.

in game three Detroit actually won Das Cameron had a go ahead single so that's fun for him and then does Detroit split no cookie Carasco shuts them down seven innings pitched one hit zero and runs 11 K's in game four Cleveland wins that one to take three out of four against Detroit Gardenhire retired

in the middle of this series so Detroit had a turnover at the manager position what else happened in the central trick okay Jim The Cubs hosted the Minnesota Twins, Trevor's, Minnesota Twins, and game once, Kyle Hendrix, with some might call a standout performance of sorts. Wink, the only run scored in this game was a Willie Contreras, RBI single, and the first Rich Hill.

Looked pretty good himself, but one-nothing Cubbies. Twins bounced back the next day, Big Mike Pintana. People in Minnesota are talking about him. He goes five shot. A five run seventh by Minnesota. Alec Mills, your guy, Jim, he ran out of gas. Maybe, didn't watch, but that's what the box score told me. And then Sunday night baseball, the twins come back for nothing.

Berrios heard everyone in Minnesota talking about Big Mike. He goes six-shot. Max Kepler home runs, starting to salvage his season a little bit. So Minnesota takes two out of three from the Cubbies, and then Kansas City at Milwaukee and boogity, boogity, boogie. Jim, the brew crew sweeps. Yelly with a homer in the first, but his was only a solo. Jacob Nottingham with the Grand Salami and Arcia, our guy, three-run homer,

9-5 in the first in the second game. Holy sleeper, sigh, young Corbin Burns. Learn the name, people. Six shut, 9Ks, his ERAs down to 177. Ryan Braun, a friend with a home run. And then for the sweep, it's Jim's Dan Vogelbach. He hits two Vogel bombs, 5 RBI, Lin Blum with the W, Milwaukee sweeps. They are up to 500.

And that's what's going on in the Central. So great job by both of us. We were great. Thank you. White Sox and the twins have clinched. No one's clinched in the NL Central. And, you know, the Cubs are in first place. They have a three and a half game lead on the Cardinals who are two games above 500.

The Reds are 500. The Brewers are 500. Jam, I've got good news. I'm going to say, I'm going to be the first to announce it. The Cubs have clinched. They've got four coming up with the pirates. Okay. Great.

Yeah. Big time. Jake called it. Yeah. Not like you, not like you predicted it. like when you call a state in the election. Yes. Like you're just so confident.

The ballots are in. Yes. Like you've called it. Like, yeah. Okay. Yeah, no,

it's a mess, man. Cincinnati right now is the eight seed. Um, because they're 500 and only because they're 27 and 27. The brewers are also 500, but they're 26 and 26. The giants are also 500,

but they're 26 and 26. So because, because the Reds have played, I mean, two more games. They're ahead right now, like in there in the eight seed, but it's like the weakest position in the eight seed ever. This is a mess.

It's a mess. Jim, I've got something exciting for you. The Brewers and Reds are about to play three in Cincinnati, so we will get some separation there, and it feels like those teams somewhat control their own destiny, and then the Brewers finish with five against the Cardinals. So, I mean, this, this is going to continue throughout.

And I mean, how funny would it be like, imagine if the Phillies slip up, we could end up getting, we could end up getting four NL Central teams, this division that we've put down all year. Well, you also have the giants who are hosting the Colorado Rockies for four games looking at the Reds and the Brewers saying,

hey, you guys beat each other up. We'll just try and sweep these Rockies. rocks into the old dust bin and walk away with this. It's going to, it's, this is a fun, a fun week for standings right now with these three teams. It is. It is. And it's, uh, race for 30.

Roosevelt's had the race to 20. The race for 30 is here. And I, uh, I think the way that this season has been going out. I mean, I want to say that pretty much all of these teams are going to back their way in. Maybe we'll have one team that comes in confidently and we're proud of them. Maybe it's your fills, Jim. I mean, they've got four with the Nats who have pretty much given up. But then they finish with three at the raise.

So it depends what the rays are putting out. It's going to be a mess. We will next episode on Friday. I mean, we'll still be playing out literally every scenario. I hope one team's out of it on Friday. I don't think so. Yeah. Ha, maybe, though. You know, if the Reds or Brewers decide to sweep, that really helps.

But I mean, then the Brewers would have five with the Cardinals, you know? Like, it's still, it's still there. The Indians needed some wins. They had lost eight in a row. And they get four against Detroit and they win three out of the four. And they get some good pitching matchups as well. They're one of the scarier teams. And they're going to be that six.

seed like we said or seven seed like we said um i mean their top three pitchers are pretty good i think there's some awards coming their way or some whatever wink wink but yeah it's it's fun it's fun they're good good for them and get for the twins clinch and they take two out of three and they get some good pitching performances as well and they read they've retake the four seed and get home field advantage, which, you know, I guess the only people that care about this are twins fans and Yankees fans, but I think it's very important. I really do. Who gets that four seed and gets to host the series between the twins and the Yankees? Two best home records in the AL. It might be in all of baseball between the twins and the Yankees.

Twins, they've got an off day today, and then they'll host this. Tigers for two. So they're saying we're going to win both of those. And then they finish hosting the Cincinnati Reds for three, who those games may mean a lot more to them, technically than they do Minnesota. So that's that's kind of the big what to watch for in the ALE, is that kind of four or five with the rest of it being matchups.

In the NL, it's literally everything except the Dodgers. What about the? Well, oh, yeah, yeah. Let's do the West. So we can round the six. out. You got me?

We can round it out. I hope so. West Coast update from young Jake. Jim, I know this was a series. You were getting excited for the Padres first, the Mariners. Padres take two out of three. The first game, I think what's important is Chris Paddock six-inning shuddy. Look at the Pelicans, Manny Machado, two home runs in that game.

San Diego takes a first game. first. Seattle bounces back. Justice Sheffield, six innings pitch, one earn run. Ty France and Luis Terence, two of the people that got traded to Seattle had at ribbies in that game. But San Diego takes the last one in 11. That was an ugly box score how they did it, but they did it. And San Diego is going to the playoffs for the first time in 14 years. Good job. Padres, baby Texas at LAA god disgusting both of you teams

pool holes two home runs he passes LAA he passes Willie Mays not LAA so that's pretty incredible O Toney Homer Cody Kyle Cody got his first MLB win I'm not even going to tell you who won the games because it just doesn't matter San Francisco at Oakland Jim the first two games are six nothing

Chris Bassett, Bassett, 6.2 shuddy. His ERA is down to 257. Matt Olson with the three-run, home run. In the second game, Baby Jesus Lazzardo with six shot. Jake Lamb, Homer. How about Jake Lamb coming back? And Jake Deekman, my guy. I'm going to talk about him a little later as well.

San Francisco gets the final game 14 to do. Tyler Anderson good, Mike Minor, bad, crawdaddy, and rough with four ribby days. And then the Dodgers, they take three out of four from my rocks. They win the first game nine to three. It's tied at twos in the seventh. Dodgers put up a six spot, Seeger and Rios Homer. Dodgers, 15 to six, mooky belly, Taylor, three RBI days,

Kershaw the next day, seven innings pitch, one earn run. And then your guy, Antonio sends a Thel goes 6.1, one earn run. A three-hit day for Fuentes. Reminder, still Aeronado's cousin. He's hitting 3.48 this year. Go get it, Josh Flentes. And then Arizona at Houston. The Zach Bowl, game one,

Galin Outlast Grinky, Cole Calhoun with another two-homer gang. Get hot to finish the year, Cole Calhoun. But then Houston takes the final two, both three-two victories that Houston was down to nothing. Luke Weaver improved. proves his record to one in eight on the season in the second game.

And then in the final game, Madbom and Erkiti were both good. But two times the Springer-Dingers and one was inside the park job, Houston comes back. They win the series. And that's what's going on in the left coast. Wow. Oakland clinched a playoff spot.

There will be basically the one seed coming out of the west. Houston is six games behind them. So they'll be the two seed. And they're one game over 500. In the NL, as you said, Padres clinched, Dodgers clinched. And the Giants are 500. Still hanging around, still fighting it or out. But Rockies are out.

Do you have any hope for the Rockies? We can say they're out, right? They're playing for first the Giants like you'd mentioned. I wanted them in the Mets, who I also had paired with the brewers, who got their sweep and they're back in it. You know, I wanted them to each have two losses available. Like you could finish this week, you know, and you go five and two, that's realistic.

They both, each team kind of blew one game in their series, and you have to assume that's the dagger. You know, if you're a Rockies fan, you're saying you're taking four from the Giants, and that's going to write the ship, not looking great. Rockies fans always have hope from their miraculous year. What was that, 06, 07? But no, they needed to split with the Dodgers, and they didn't do it. All right.

And the Mets were out on the Mets as well? Yeah, again, I wanted both those teams to go into this last week, having two losses to give up to get to 30 wins. and the Mets, they were in that last game with the Braves, and they had nothing, couldn't get a run across, and then their pen blew it. So you'd have to assume they're dead minus straight miracles at this point. Okay.

Good to know. I agree with you. Which team has the most amount of games left? So the twins only have, the twins only have five games left, Jake. Dodgers and the Rays, and a lot of other teams have six. Who's got the most?

Yankees have seven. Cardinals have 10 left. Yeah, Jesus. But I thought the Cardinals don't have any more double headers. Let's see. I mean, they've got a five gamer with, um, to finish out the year.

Yeah, they have one double header left on Friday. So does that math work out? Are they going to come short of games? One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Yes, they're going to come short. Jesus.

Is that going to be a disaster? They're only going to play 58 games according to this. Unless there's double headers that have been scheduled that just aren't on baseball references calendar. Yeah, I mean, I'm looking at another calendar and they've been there kind of throughout the season. So I mean, God, how ugly is that going to be for baseball if we get into decimal points?

Yikes. So, I mean, the nationals, we don't care about them. The Giants have eight to go. Okay. I just want to see everyone, are the Giants going to get 60? Yeah, the Giants have 60 on their schedule. So that's kind of wild for the Cardinals. And again, think about this NL Central we've been talking about.

How loud is our guy Trevor Bauer going to get if the Cardinals get in by percentage points and they had two games left or whatever. I mean, holy smokes. Yeah. I'm trying to think about like the, what would the math be that would like, where it would be like, holy shit,

but I'm not smart enough to do it. What's going on in my head, and again, not a math pod, but it would be, you know, the Cardinals in theory could lose both of those games or the Cardinals in theory could win both of those games. Yeah. Those are the options.

Right. Or split. That would be the other. Yeah. They lose one and win one. Right. Wow. Anything else you want to do?

I mean, I can't even focus too much on the wild card and all that because we've kind of given it enough attention, but good for the reds. They're winning. They're still in a race here because that whole, that whole crew. I mean, and the Phillies are one game above 500 in the sites. It's just, again, a lot of political stuff. It's too close to call. You know, Milwaukee, we thought they were going to, that game they blew.

We thought that could possibly knock them out. They're back to 500. Giants, you keep fighting. So, yeah, and I think the only other thing to note, Houston, I don't want to say get back on track, but they're above 500. And, dude, George Springer, who had a tough go of it for a while, his numbers are starting to get back into George Springer category. And he's been, he gets, he might be, I don't want to say the most overlooked.

I did this last playoff year. But again, like, you say Altuvae Correa and some of the other names before you say Springer, and he's got the World Series MVP. Um, yeah, his, his OPS is back up to 875 and for a while he was down in the dump. So that's, that's big for them. Good job. I think he's on in Fuego coming up. Ooh, teaser.

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Gambler. Stand out performance. Stand out performance. Jake, I got a guy. Yes. I got a guy. It's a Cinderella story. It's not Cinderella story,

but it's a cool story. It's Cookie Carasco. Yes. There's a lot of good. pitching pitching performances this weekend. There was a lot to choose from, so I had to try and find a storyline I liked a little different.

Carrasco's been dominant. I mean, this start, he struck out 11 guys in seven innings, and he only allowed one hit. It's going against the Tigers, so it's a younger team, but he had five,

one, two, three innings. He struck out 11. He's got a one-for-one ERA in their last five starts. I don't think people think of him as those numbers, you know, like I don't think anyone thinks of him as bad or subpar or even just slightly average. But like, that's really good. And it's part of a pitching threesome with Plesack and Bieber. That is scary. So he's my standout today. What he's been doing is awesome. You know, like I wanted to do HAP because I feel like people definitely don't think of

Hap as being good. And Hap's last five games have been good, but they haven't been that good. Cookies got him beat. Yeah. And, uh, you know, they need to desperately needed to turn it around the Indians. They got a lot of good pitching and he's part of that goodness. So I want to give him some love, give the Indians pitching some more love, even though they get so much already. That's a good outing from cookie.

Carrasco had a couple, he had one or two crazy years there that were piggybacked. but everything around it was a little inconsistent. And then, I mean, he had cancer and now he's back and he looks really good again. And yeah, I mean, you'd assume he's their game three guy and a guy you can trust. Plus, they'll have other arms to go with him. But Carasco's hot. And yeah, man, I mean, when he's right, he's disgusting. He's a guy that has a couple legit years out there.

And yeah, I mean, the, the, seven seed that nobody wants to see uh your cleveland indians hose ramirez getting hot um but yeah i mean it's it's all about that pitching and those guys can take a series from you and you you don't have an option yeah yeah so who's your standout my standout performance jim as a guy who i think might have gotten one this year early on. It's Kyle Hendricks, Jim. He goes eight innings, 10Ks shutout against the Minnesota twins who have been crushing it and bopping around in games that mattered.

Again, the twins are fighting with the Yankees for that. The Cubs are fighting for the second seed in the NL. Hendrix comes out, eight shuddy, Jim. his season on the year, his ERA's down to 293, his career ERA is 313. He leads the NL and innings pitch this year with 73.2, which with that Cubs bullpen is kind of huge. He's got the lowest walks per nine in Major League Baseball. ERA plus is 151, and the guy needs to get more love. You know I've been tasting Darvish all year.

His Velo is up. He looks disgusting. Kyle Hendricks, if the Cubs do stuff this year, he's going to be a massive part of the story. Because guess what, Jim? He also has a 298 career playoff ERA in 51.1 innings. The dude is disgusting. He doesn't get disgust enough because the stuff isn't necessarily pitch ninja all the time. But Hendricks is awesome.

He shuts down one of the best lineups. Heading into the postseason, he's had an amazing year. Yeah. I like him, the professor. Yeah, big time. That's his first game with double-digit strikeouts this season. Get it going. And it's his third time completing the eighth inning.

I mean, his last three starts, eight innings pitched, one run, 7.2 and one out away from completing the eighth inning. Two are in runs. Eight innings pitch, zero and runs. In his month of September, it must be so stupid when you combine it. 1.2 ERA, four starts. Crazy.

The whip is under zero. I mean, one of the best pitchers in baseball. Yeah. Seven and four are the Cubs in his starts. you did thinking what's that like get give me eight and three i know you'd expect that to be better right a little bit yeah who cares cubs fans cubs fans good standout jake thank you very well done very well done next up dirt nasty's on fuego that means i'm on fire baby like wakeo you put some guys on here

I did, Jim. I did. Let's see. I'll go, I'll do some of the hitters. And then save me my guy, Jake, God damn it. How about this outfield crew, Jim?

Your guys, Cole Calhoun. He had his revenge series against Anaheim, the series before. He kept it going. He's got six homers in his last six games. That's all 1.7. Speaking of 1.7 OPEC, is Jose Ramirez. I just left the crew of outfielders.

Went to Jose Ramirez. He's short. He's stocky. He hits. I like him a lot. Back to the outfielders. George Springer, eight game hitting streak. You like that. Five homers and eight games. Again, one of those was inside the park. But Springer is getting going and it's a good time for him to get going. He sets the tone for that Houston team. And then Bryce Harper, Jimmy's homer draft, theft against Toronto. Uh, he's got it going. He had the multi-homer day last week, Harper season, a little outfield crew there, Jim.

Yep. Cole, Cole Calhouns hit six home runs in his last six games. Is that good? Yes. Yeah. It's very good. Hap's been good.

I told you about that. Please second. Carrasco. You want to talk about your dude Jake? Before you talk about your dude Jake. Yeah. Um, most RBIs on the weekend. and Brian Anderson.

Yeah. Triples is a 13-way tie between, I'm just joking, I'm not going to list 13 names. And most doubles goes to ass crabs. So there you go. Your weekend. Brian Anderson, I left him out of the rising sunrises in the East conversation. And that was on me. He's solid.

I think the other guys have bigger star potential, but Brian Anderson's doing it. Jim, I was just, we go through, you know, the box scores and try to get the stories of these games. I clicked on one, and I saw Jake Deekman, the nasty lefty for the Oakland A's, and his ERA was zero.

And I was like, huh, is that, you know, did he miss some time? What's going on here? Jim, I clicked in. 18.1 innings pitched. And I know this is, uh, oh, on the John Boy radar.

No earn runs, no run runs. There's not like an error loophole or any funny business. When Jake Deekman has been on the mound, the Oakland A's have not let in a run. So, A, tough first name, and he's battled through that for his whole life. But Jake Deekman, holy smokes. Yeah, I think he's got one inherited runner has scored out of three. So only one opposing player has crossed home plate. while he's on the mount in 18.1 innings.

And it's, it's been tough to give the relievers love this year. It's such a small sample. But I just thought it was funny. I mean, the Hater storyline was going for a while. His ERA, and again,

reliever ERA, but haters ERA is up close to five. Jake Deekman, a disgusting lefty. Good for him. Good for him. Yeah. It's hot.

Feeling it. well do you want to do the Roosevelt's race to 20 i mean it's already been one but i have news for you jake tell me the news jim voitz won the race to 21 yeah big time it just keeps going and i think we only have one other player that's on pace for 20 at this point i think everyone else has bowed out i believe josea brayu is the only other person that's on pace to hit 20 Um, Trout bowed out. He's on pace to hit, you know,

no one else is even on pace to hit 19. The next highest is to asker Hernandez, who's on pace to hit 18 and a half. But, uh, thank God, Voigt did it. But he's already at 21. Abreu's on pace to hit 20.

He's at 18. Um, kudos to Vegas. Good line. We're, that's going to be tough. Free money. Yeah, we'll see if Jose Abrae who gets there.

It'd be cool to have another one up there. Or, you know, someone would have to go full nut job, which is how Luke Voight got there against the Blue Jays last week. And, hey, we try not to overtaste our Yankees on here because we are Yankee fans. Man, Luke Voigt this weekend felt like he had a mass series, and his stats were still really good. He got the one late homer to add to it. But Luke Voight's fun.

If you get a chance, watch him. He's got a little Sosa hop when he catches one. Lost a little water weight this year. Like Lufoy. Yeah. Jose Ibrahim, get to 20, kid. Where are they playing? What's the White Sox sketch?

White Sox are playing. Cleveland Indians. Cleveland in the cubby, so he's going to have to earn it. I mean, Abraeu's stats on the season are pretty. good he's got a 335 batting average in the MVP race yeah i mean voids ain't bad he's got 286 with a 348 on base percentage they both have a 650 slugging that was that was that was that was really fun i know we have one more update with the race to 20 and and and brought to you by roosevelt's and john boy media rs vlts they also sponsor our studios i got tons of fun shirts jakes wearing

him right now um ambino that was cool to see how many people were in it, how many people faded, how many people surged to the top. I don't think at any point, we, we were like, Voitz's going to be the guy until a week away. Like, he kind of came out of nowhere where, you know, Tatis was, he's at 15 still. Tatis was in the, it was cool to watch that progress and to do the updates twice a week. So I'm really glad we did that with Roosevelt's. it'd be cool to do one of those like speed charts that you get lost in on

Twitter where it's like oh run leader do and here's Tatis and there's oh luke void yeah um yeah okay okay cool chomp watch um punch um punch Jake I have some interesting ones for you please Dansby Swanson remember I threw him on last week and we were like well, he did have the big home run. So the series wasn't all that bad. It kept going. He doesn't have a hit or he's got two hits in his last nine games, two for 37.

The slash line is a 0, 5, 4 batting average of 163 on base percentage. Nine games now. So we're a decent enough sample. He's in a slump. And we can say he's slumping right now. He's having a great year. So hopefully a little slump rebusts the energy before the playoffs for Dansby. but that's there.

Lindor, Big Fish, won for his eight, last 18 in his last five games. He's not hitting. Trent Grisham, he doesn't have a hit in his last four games. He's been a piece for San Diego all season.

J.D. Davis line this weekend. It's really interesting, Jake. So he actually got walked like six times. Some like that. Let me find it. It was a stateless. line that I knew you'd find interesting.

Okay. J.D. Davis got walked six times. He went 0 for eight with six walks. Why are they walking J.D. Davis so much. Like, he doesn't demand that. Yeah. I'm a big J.D. Davis guy. I think he's got a lot of pulse type hits for the Mets this year. Again, there's zero analytics in there. It's just liking a guy and feeling like he's, he's important part of the Mets lineup. But, yeah, I mean, that seems a little off. He got walked four times in the freed game. Interesting.

So I don't know if that's a slump. He was hit list, but he had six walks. He could have used him. Could he use them. Yeah. Did I put anyone else on here? I know you had some. You have the rest.

Who do you got? Yeah, I, you know, I was kind of clicking through the slumper. to see if there was anything to see if I could find a little theme or just some big fish or what. I had a couple big boys pop up and I had a couple young guys pop up. Everyone was one for 15. So the one for 15 gang, a couple big boppers in the AL Central, Miguel Suno and Carlos Santana, one for 15. Those teams will want to get those guys going before the playoff action.

And then a couple young bloods, Vlad Jr. and Kyle Lewis going to. for that rookie of the year also both went for one for 15 so that's my one for 15 crew the one for 15 crew I like it I like it I was I was going to look up pitchers that have slumped in the last couple their last couple outings just to throw them on here but instead I ran into like this isn't slump watch anymore like denelson lemette has struck out double digit guys in his last three starts yeah and hasn't given up more than one earned run a game he's got a zed 087 ERA in his last three starts. And then the other guy, oh yeah, again, I was looking for slumping pitchers,

but the numbers that jumped out on me, the other guy is Bassett for the A's. He's got a 046 ERA in his last three starts. He's given up one earned run in basically 20 innings. So not Slump Watch, but we didn't really give those guys credit. And they clearly deserve to be known as hot as fuck pitchers right now on the coast and now we've done it so get off her back about it okay we did it i didn't know if lamette did did lemette pitch this series i know bass it did lemette pitched last night i believe okay

i believe 20 they went into extras with uh Seattle right did nelson he was getting a lot of calls like there was like a strike out of kyle lewis or the podgers denouncers are like what the hell kind of funny when the podgers announcers are good um who got mad do you do you have anyone that got mad i got mad i'm trying to think rod ron gardner retired he's been mad for his career yeah i'm interesting retirement let me just check the ejections list real quick uh levolo tori lavello got ejection did Brian Goodwin, the center fielder for the Reds got ejected by Mike Estabrook. Sure.

Yo, I was checking out the ejections. I don't think Joe West has ejected anyone this season, which would be sides. Risen and he throughout the GM, yeah. Yeah, but his crew, I was Googling his crew on the, and I don't think that they've, because it's him and and um herne of whatever i can't think i was shocked i was like whoa the crew hasn't ejected a player or coach they've only ejected uh gm kind of odd how about it yeah you're englandez has angel hernandez ejected one person phil nevin it's crazy all right we got awards jake awards awards awards i actually don't have one i'm going to have one up on the spot uh

So you can go first. Do you have one? Yeah, my award, and I wrote it down, and I know the concept, but I'm fully forgetting how I got there. But my award is the dance fighting award, Jim. Oh. The dance fighting. And it goes to Eric Crats and Todd Frazier. Two of the most beloved guys in baseball this weekend.

took the bump and threw some knucklers that were dancing a little bit. Cratsies was actually like good. Tratsies was good. Todd's was pretty loopy and he got a little, a lot of love from the ump. But I don't know. I just thought it was funny. I mean,

genuinely, if you did a most beloved guys in baseball, like silent vote, I think these two guys would end up on the top five. They both ended up on the bump. They both ended up throwing knucklers. I mean, Cratsies was awesome. A good slow-mo knuckle replay.

You know I'm a sucker for that. Oh, it was great. And his was like a violent movement. The ball didn't rotate at all. It was awesome. So I don't know. I just thought that was fun. Get it out there for the people.

Todd liked the, I did a little breakdown of him. He was like, yo, dude, when's the video coming out? When's the video coming out? I was like, I'll make one.

And then he said, masterpiece. Love you, brother. I was like, what was the other pitch you were throwing? Because the picture was calling one,

two, and three. And three was a knuckleball. He said, one was a fastball. Two was a cutter. Three was knuckleball. I don't know how much the cutter

was different from the fastball there. Oh, Jim. But, uh, that was fun. That cut fastball from Todd Frazier. Um,

sad to forget a word. Sad to forget award. It's my every day. Wow. Do you have any guesses? Sad to forget award. I mean, it's right there. I know you've been planning this one for the last 30 seconds or so, so I don't know.

Lance Lynn. Hmm. Is not like in the running for the AL-Sai Young. he's not going to be in the playoffs. No one cares about his starts anymore. And it's kind of sad because the dude still got a two five ERA on the season. And you just throw your your hands up and say, what's it all for?

Yeah. It's a shame Lance Lund didn't get traded and go bring that bravado and that, that, that big mound of man. To games that matter. I was looking at his numbers, you know, it's got a 2.5 ERA. There are another good seven innings, three-er-run, yesterday or two days ago. It's for nothing, man.

Yeah. Bullshit. It's wasting. Beautiful Lance Lund starts. Would have been nice if, uh, if Major League Baseball let the teams know that the playoffs were going to be played. played every day. Because, yeah, I think you pointed out first,

Lance Lynn would be somewhere right now, pitching games that matters and being a big hunk of sex, and it would be awesome. We'd be talking about him, you know, every other episode. But now we ain't. Now we ain't. Okay, that was my award. Sad. Sad to the sad that we're forgetting about him.

Sad to forget. Sad to forget. You want to do the wheel real quick? Yeah, we got wheel time. Nope, it's the angels. We're not doing the Angels. No way. Playoffbound teams only.

It fucking landed on the Angels again. Jeez. But does the wheel know that we don't about the Angels? Now it says the Reds. Okay. The Reds. You know what? I need to know if we're in an elevator with a Reds fan.

Yeah. A Sunny Gray turned to. it back around? I don't. Our pitch, well, but loss. No, Sonny needs a good start.

Because now that you're actually in the playoff picture, is Sunny hurt? He doesn't pitch since the 10th. Yeah, he was on the I. When's he coming back? I'm not sure. I feel like Sunny.

Whoa. Trained back out for the rest of the year? Is that right? I'm seeing the having, necessarily ruled him out. But he's maybe out for the year. Ooh. Okay.

So you'd like him back. Yeah. Wow. Hey, shout out to Joey Votto. He's had some, he's had, oh my God. He's, he's had some ups and downs this year. His OPS is at 813.

The on base is 355. Jim, the one that I don't know if, oh, no. I mean, oh, no. Oh, no. What's happening. Fucking stop. How is this happening? How do I turn off calls?

Now I kind of want to call you if I'm being honest. Oh, God. Jim, I've got a stat line for you. Yeah. 239 batting average 290 slugging and a 360 on base Shogo Akiyama

is getting on base but everything else is horrible Is that like Hicks? No I mean Hicks has power Shogo's got zero home runs Nice That's pretty wild So that's that is pretty well

Nick Senzel is back I think that can stretch out their line up a little bit if he's right Votto just broke the Reds all time Walk record I saw that reminder by Brayo MVP in the chat Jake what are they doing like I have more questions for Reds fans now that I'm interested in them

like Lorenzen started and he's like you know throwing you threw 93 pitches. Yeah Like, is he a starter now? What's, what's going on? So he made, he made the start for Sunny Gray. And, hey, yeah, he might end up be.

I know he had that five innings pitch, one earn run. I'm not sure of the other start. But yeah, I think, hey, he had that horrible start. His ERAs down to 445. So he's, he's getting better. Sunny Gray will return to rotation on Tuesday against the Brewers. That's huge. So watch that.

Yeah. God, Bowers' ERA is at 1-8. It's crazy. Luis Castillo's been really good. I mean, yeah, yeah. Castillo's been, I mean, his last three starts have been really good. It's, it's. And you can do his last like seven games, two, three ERA.

Archie Bradley's been good since he came over. I mean, it's going to be, are they getting it? in. And then if they do, I mean, there's just a ton of matchups that you'd like them in. Their hitting has struggled all year. And I think they're finally starting to do a little better. They've got the lowest batting average in the National League. So I don't know. I'm assuming for Reds fans, but it's got to be one of those feelings where they're like, hey, if our bats can figure it out just a little bit, we might be dangerous. Yeah. There are a couple losses out of the playoffs still, though.

I know. And that's, that, that Cardinals thing has me freaked out. Something funny's got to happen there because I mean, that just, that has Twitter fiasco written all over it. Thank you guys very much for tuning in. Appreciate you as always. We'll be back with Trevor's tidbits, with voicemails, pregame shows every single day around 12, 12, 30. Jacks, goodbye.