Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast) - 221 | ALDS Game 2's and NLDS Game 1's

Episode Date: October 7, 2020

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Hello and welcome to Talking Baseball game two of the ALDS, game one of the NLDS are under, no, they've happened. They've happened. We're going to talk about them. What's going on, everybody? Thank you for joining us, talking baseball. We're going to recap the games that happened. Coming you live from the Roosevelt Studios here in the Bronx. My name's Jimmy.

Jake's over there. Treves over there. Bug, bug dude in the corner. And this is talking baseball. How's everyone doing? We got four games. some surprises, some new storyline, some dumb strategies, some good strategies, some drama, some objections, some injuries.

Jake, how are you? Good morning, hustlers, as if you're still living, get on down. I'm doing well, Jim. A tough night for our yanks on a couple different levels. It's all right, because guess what? The Razor are a really good baseball team. They started Tyler Glass now last night. That's good.

I think the big winner from yesterday is the Atlanta Braves who are saying, hey, we've got a stacked bullpen, we've got a stacked lineup. I don't care that we only have one starting pitcher. Even if he gets hit, we're still going to be able to poke a. Treves Astros are rolling, and the Dodgers just win kind of an almost boring fashion, which feels like what the Dodgers have done all year because they're wildly good. And all right, Slay, I think today's got to be Chaos Day. need a ninth inning rally. I need, I need something to happen today, Treve.

I could go for a nice relaxing day, Trev. No, no, no, no, no. I could go for a nice slate of boring games until we get to the Yanks. What are you got, Treve? You watched every game yesterday. I did. I watched every single game yesterday. I don't know, I don't know what to think right now. Obviously, as we see it now, the Braves look really good, the Dodgers look really good, the Astros look really good. I think this series between New York and Tampa is going to be so far seems like the best series in the division round. But some good performances yesterday. I told you guys it was a little cloudy in the morning in L.A. Guess what? The sun came out. Ball was still flying in L.A.

Thanks for that inside. My boy Chi Pinder. Yeah. When Opo three quarters up in right center, I don't know what is going on with the balls. It's nuts. I mean, Pender, that Pinder home run I like showed Jake in the middle of whatever show we were doing because I was like, holy shit. And then Stan's home for him.

He does have power because he had the longest homer at the Coliseum in 2017 as well. And it was one of the longest in all of the major leagues that year. So he has power, but. Those games have felt like two different halves. Like, after

the fifth inning, it's a pitcher's park and in the first half, it's just the bandbox. So that's pretty well. Are we starting there? No. I mean, we're a Cron pod. We're a Cron pod.

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But yes, we are a Cron pod and the first game of the day. was the Braves facing off against the Miami Marlins. Alcantara versus Max Fried. We got eight minutes on the clock to discuss this one. Trev, I want you to start.

Wow. I was just getting the chat up, but you caught me right now. I watched this game. Huge. It was huge that I watched this game. It kind of, you know, it got broken open in the,

my boy maxed you know he looked okay didn't look as sharp as we thought he would look um got bit by a homer but the brave's offense came to play where are you guys there you are right here baby braves offense came to play acunia going absolutely mammoth and then getting hit again which seems to be a a theme with these two teams doesn't matter what pitchers on the hill they want to attack acunia up and in he gets hit i i don't think it was intense I don't know about you guys. Freddie Freeman coming up. What do you,

what did you think about that? I don't think it's intentionally. No, I don't think it's intentional at all. I think Alcantara would be really dumb. But I think Acuna has every right to be like, what the fuck? Yeah.

It's five times. I hit a home run and then you hit me. Fuck you guys. I think like the pitching, the pitching coach said, hey, throw inside and if you miss, miss in. And they've missed in five times this year,

six times this year. Yeah. Well, Urania's on purpose. Like, that's like, it's whole thing. But, yeah, I think, you know, I think that changed everything. Ocuna was fired up, like, fired up in the dugout. I mean, he was the story. If you were to watch and not know anything, you'd be like, that guy seems important.

Just fired up in the dugout. The scoring on first after getting hit, there was no way he was stopping. I think he was just, like, I mean, there was no way he was stopping. That was fuck you bass running And it was beautiful Dude I love Trev do you like watching guys go first to home Like do you find beauty in that

Or is that like a nerdy didn't play the game fan thing Like the way I could I think everybody does Especially if you're the hitter And you hit a ball in the gap You're like get on your horse Yeah But that replay

It's not an easy thing either It is an art art form Because you need the angles You know you take that secondary Of at first base well, you know, you need a good crisp turn at second. And then once you get around second, you can kind of plan your route there a little bit.

But if you're just... I think what's nuts is he didn't even... Don't take good routes. It doesn't matter. You need to do both. He didn't even have a secondary. But he just boomed. And his path was crisp.

Like, it is an art form. That's cool. And so we mentioned it and we'll go through it a little bit. Just recap. I mean, Freed gets knocked around a little bit. the Marlins kind of do their thing, and it's Marlin baseball. Rojas hit the Homer, but then Garrett Cooper with the double, Brian Anderson with the single,

and they had it at bat early on. I want to say it was John Birdie or one of those guys who was just, they left the right side of the infield open, and he just hit, like, the easiest of ground ball, but that's kind of this playoff baseball Marlin stuff that kind of scares you. So everyone's like, okay, are these Marlins really doing it? Braves, bounce back, Ozuna, with the big double after the Acuna hit by pitch.

Appreciate Ronald Acuna. I mean, as five tool as they come. Like, it's crazy that there's so much young talent in this league that, like, Ronald Acuna's reputation and vibe. It's just so weird that, like, we've passed him and we've, like, moved on to Tatis. And it's like, well, he's just as special. Soto takes some of his shine, and all those guys deserve it. Anyways, it's four three into the seventh, and the Braves'

turn it on against Alcantara, who's finishing out. And then Yumi Garcia, who's been the Marlins best reliever this year, and they whoop him around. One earned run all season for Yimmy. And for me, that was the big, like, kind of what I said in my intro. I think the Braves kind of fully announced there here. Darno to center for the three-run Homer. He's been legit. That was a signing that we were kind of nervous about. Like, yeah, he's, he looks okay. sometimes. He kind of goes hot and cold. He's got an injury history. It's paying off for the Braves. Danesby puts on a tack-on-run. Six runs in the seventh. You know, the Braves are tasting themselves. And I mean, Acuna with two hits, Ozuna with two hits, Darno with three, young thick at the bottom with a pair.

And that bullpen is legit, man. I mean, you know, they're not the flashiest, sexy bullpen names. the guys that pump 101 or have that, you know, the pitch ninja slider necessarily. But these guys get out. Darren O'Day, been doing it for 13 years and disgustingly. A 251 career. Like Matzik, Will Smith, Chris Martin Malantz, and these aren't guys that, you know, you go to pitch ninja for, but they get dudes out, their bullpins deep. I think this was a big, like, we're never going to be out of a game.

Even if you get freed, we kind of don't care. This felt big for the Braves to me. I got to disagree with you. I think these are those names. I think these guys have all, there's a veteran bullpen that's been through the gamut and they know what to do to get guys out. I think it's cool.

What's cool with like a bullpen like this is maybe in years past, these guys would have been pushed aside, but with technology and then being able to learn what they do well and then focus on that, some of these guys' stuff starts to play up. because they start pitching to what plays well for them and leaving the other stuff behind. So I think this bullpen is, I mean, you ask any baseball player,

they know every single one of these guys because they've been around the league for so long. So they are a bunch of names in that way. Like you, they are just like veteran dudes. They're show. They are show. And if you guys watch the game, one of the coolest things about this game, the Braves offense came to play,

the bullpen showed up. The defense was there too. Ozzy Albi's at second base made like four or five plays yesterday he's a lot of times on a right-handed battery shifted up the middle a little bit he made one diving play to his left

and then a rocket line drive like right at him that he had to jump I mean nobody here's jumping that high to get it and then my favorite one shallow fly ball into center field nonchilantly goes after it and just basket

catches it like it's nothing They were showing it off last night. The Braves, I've been disrespecting them all year long. After really watching that game, I mean, they look like a complete team. Starting pitching needs to go a little bit. But other than that, I mean, if you're going to hit like they hit and play defense, like they play defense and bullpen like that, this is a scary team. I will say this about the Marlins.

They scored four off Max Fried. The bullpen shut them down. They're going to have to see this bullpen again and hopefully they're, they get familiar with them. Familiarity? What's that word? Familiarity? Yeah.

Wins out. Because they were having a lot of fun, and they brought a lot of mojo to the start of this game. So I still think the Miami can win a game here. I don't think it's like, I agree with you, Jake, that the Braves have become a monster, like they've woken up. But the Marlins did get to free.

They got four runs. I think they banged a home run, lead off home run, and then they got a couple runs in the third inning as well. In the second inning, it was a lead-off home round at the first. So I'm not like out on the Marlins, but they need to, they're pitching and needs to be perfect. Like, it's going to be tough for them. But I like the brace.

Trev, me and Peter Moyland are best friends. I've referenced this a couple times now. We message a lot. I don't know your guys full relationship, but we were messaging during the Braves and Yankees game, and he had a good joke. It's a little bit at your expense. So I don't want you guys to start beefing. Wow.

But it made me laugh. He said, this sounds like a ploval. comment, but is the 2020 Braves bullpen the best ever? I don't get, I don't understand where my name comes in on that. He's just saying, he was just saying he was coming in hot. He was coming in hot. He believes in it. Okay.

He believes in it. I don't know how to feel about that, but hey, I'm on people's minds. You're on. There you go. There you go. That's a win. Moving on. Game two of the day.

Houston Astros beat the Oakland Athletics. to two. Mania gets banged around for four earned runs. Framber Valdez goes seven innings pitch, two earn runs. Perides and Presley come out and shut the door on the A's. I watched a little of this game early on. Then I took my nap in the John Boy Media headquarters nap room. For the last couple innings, I had no faith in the A's coming back.

When I woke up, I said to the office, said A's didn't come back. And there was like grunts. Like, A's look bad. You just missed a double play. Like, it was like, oh, are you guys going to have some life? And then they hit a lame double play. Okay. So it was bad vibes.

But the A's have to use minor for two innings. Trevino comes in. Petit comes in. But Mania, not great. Which I'm going to pat myself on the back for her. Just I don't think he's ever, like, whatever. I've never been like, got Mania on the bump. A's are rolling today.

Framber gives more of that vibe at this point anyway. Jake, you watched them out of this game. Trev, you watched every game. Trev watched every game, which is big. What you got on this one, Trev? You're Astros. You get the start again. It's turned into a Homer Bowl there.

I don't know how many runs have been scored outside of hitting home runs, but it can't be many. I mean, yesterday, Springer with two, Maldonado hit one, Davis and Pinder on the other side. And the ball is just flying out of there. There was only 12 hits total in the game, you know, but they were big hits. They were homers. And if you're going to continue to do that with the Astros lineup and the way they've actually pitched, we talked about the Astros pitching was like we didn't know what to expect. They pitched well in this series.

Now they got Greenkey going today, right? No, he's out. He's hurt. What happened? We'll get to that for the talking. Okay, I thought, okay. Well, that changed a lot. Yeah.

But if you're going to continue to hit homers and have running. on base when you hit those homes, which apparently that was Dusty's plan because I heard him say that. We need to have some runners on before we hit those homers. Need a walk before the homer. That's what they did with Tucker and Gray and came on. Good plan, Dusty. Way to go. Dusty has a plan.

You know, the A's offense better get hot, quick. And they don't look like they're, uh, they need Olson to go. You know, without Olson, without Chapman going, that's, those are two big bats in their lineup. And like I said, Olson, he hit the homer, but that's about it. From what I've seen, and Jake, you can confirm or the A's aren't playing with the Vim and Vigor that they said they were going to play with. They need their guy, Luriano to step up. You know, Matt Chapman is a significant thing. And while the A's were, you know, Jake Lamb, remember how electric that was for a while.

We haven't said his name in a little bit at all. At the same time, the A's started to have the formula here. Crush Davis hits another one, and it's like, okay, is this dude back in a threat? Because he can be kind of that guy. I think he's got the most barrels in the playoffs so far. Stats. And Manaya shuts him down the first two innings. So it's like, okay, let's get going.

He comes up against the bottom of the lineup. He gets Gurriel, Reddick single, Maldonado, and here's George Springer. Miss strike call, home run. And then it's 2-1 and all of your good energy and your good energy and your good juju is out and now the bad guys are back and doing it. I don't know, Framber gets better as the game goes. His stuff shows that. They said it.

And if you watched, I mean, he, and with this stadium in the way it's playing, you're playing two different ballparks. You're playing the first game, a night game at Petcoe, and you're playing the second half of the game is like at Coorsfield. Or vice versa, excuse me. So I don't know. A's need a little magic. I'm, you guys might be mad at me in about a half hour.

I'm not out on these A's. Maybe it's just blind being an idiot. I do think the Granky News is impactful. What I do really like for Houston, Anoli Paredes comes out again. And if they want to do stuff this playoffs, they need someone else in the bullpen to step up with Presley. And they've made it pretty clear that he would be the guy. And he does it on back-to-back days.

So I do think that's impactful. along with George Springer, by the way, with his two home runs in this game. He's got 17 homers and 54 playoff games. That's a 51 homer place over a buck 62 in the playoffs. Connecticut guy. If I'm the A's, I'm looking at their lineup from yesterday. And I know Matt Olson's been struggling, but they had him hitting 6th. In a homer bowl, I need all of my big dogs up.

at front. I think in game three, they know they got to score runs. Put your horses up the top of the order. Let them get there at bats and try to do what they do. Especially Davis now. He's been crushing the ball. You know, get him out of the five spot. Put him in the two spot. Put him in the three spot. Whatever you have to do, get your horses up there to score some runs. I don't like lengthening the lineup down in the six hole. I don't want that.

I want to give him confidence. Put him backwards. he belongs up there in the meat of the order and let him go off because that that he got you there or he's the guy for you one of your guys like let him be your guy bo-mell is your guy triv do you think he shakes up the lineup today he's got to okay he's got to because this didn't work yeah two runs on six hits didn't work you know as much as i love tommy the stella you know let's let's get our boppers up there i like that all right game third of the day is Yankees Rays.

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You were into that. Yeah. The restrictions apply 18 and up. And now that they've changed that, it's kind of like, come on. The red text blows now. It's a lot of stuff. Treve, your Yankees. You watch this game.

game. We're just two whiny, hot Yankee fans that people follow because of our looks. You bet leadoff and tell us what's up. You're the leadoff guy today. I'll talk about the Yankees because you guys don't need to talk about them. You guys can talk about the race. I said they need to score five, six runs a game to win in this series. They scored five and they ended up just giving it up too many. John Carlos Stanton Looks like a man on a mission The first homer great

The second homer Now as a guy that's been in the second deck at Petco Before the balls were juiced Let me tell you something Where he hit that ball last night Balls are not supposed to go there They're not supposed to go there Like that was

The perfect swing, pitch, Velocity, everything you could do right there That's as good as you can hit a ball and that was, to use a James Shields term, big game James, Majestic. But in the end, it wasn't enough. The Rays were doing what the Rays do. They're pesky. They can hit Homer's two.

They can pitch. The bullpen came in. I thought it was really interesting, and I'll kick it to you guys. Can you see that? I can't. Oh, great. It's a big home run. It was a big home run.

And they said it went 470 or something. Get the fuck out of here. That ball went 600 feet. I think they said 4.58 and everyone was like, no. 4.50. Stat cast is Santa Claus. A lie. Is Santa a lie?

Sorry if we have any. It's a heavy combo for another time. It's not a lie. It's just a guest to admit. It's a 10 p.m. conversation. I want to talk about, we'll get into a little bit about the Yankees trying to be the raise, but the rays were the raise last night. Last night in the ninth inning. The rays were the Yankees.

well yeah they hit some homers but Kevin Cash had a plan because he got what's his name up Nick Anderson up a couple different times last night which I don't love and hopefully doesn't come back to haunt a little bit but

you had faith in his guys Peter Fairbanks last night was couldn't find the zone at all I'm sure you guys were loving that I hate Peter Fairbanks couldn't find the zone at all and Cash is sitting like what do I do what I do oh I have a plan I have a plan don't want to use Nick Anderson tonight.

And then all of a sudden, C.B. Buckner gives him the call on Glaber that was probably the worst call I've ever seen in a baseball game. It was so egregious. It was ridiculous. It was ridiculous. But after that, he gets the K. Gets to Clint.

And then does he K the next guy, too? Gary. Gary. Kay's Gary. He just found it after that. He got lucky and found it after that. I don't want to say it's all because of CB. Like, did he make an adjustment? Maybe. He got another bad one on Clint up. And I don't know if anybody saw my Twitter exchange with Josh Donaldson last night.

My bad were pretty much best friends. You're Peter Moyland. Peter Moyland, I have Josh Donaldson. But calls a tough one on Clint up and forces Clint to swing in that zone. You're not catching up to 99 where that was located. So cash sticks with Fairbanks. It ends up working out. Now he's got a fresh Nick Anderson.

I thought that was a crucial, crucial moment in the game. Him deciding this. I didn't like it at the time, but it sure worked out. Anderson is a problem. He's one of the best relievers in baseball. If you're making a top five list, he better be on it. He's disgusting, and he mows down Yankees like it's his job. Let's get the umpire thing out of the way,

because I don't want it to come off complaining Yankees because the Yankees lost this game for a lot of other reasons. And a Hap escaped a really big jam. We didn't, without throwing a strike. Yeah, Buckler got them. They do do like some ump analytic stuff, and it does show the Yanks got screwed more. Everyone's tagging us and stuff this morning.

Whatever. Buckner sucked. You got to get past it. It's unacceptable on the MLB level. Like, again, what other professions can you just be that bad and continue? I don't think it costs the Yankees the game at all. I just think it's embarrassing for MLB. It's embarrassing for MLB.

Yankees cost themselves the game. Yeah, and Trev, you know, Fairbanks, Castillo, who came in before Anderson. Those are their three right now. Chaz Roe is out when he's right, he's dirty. They've had a couple other injuries. Right now those are their three, like, go. Nick Anderson pitched? Yeah.

Yeah, two innings. Who was warming up in the ninth with Fairbanks? Oh, that was the sidwinder. That was Thompson. I'm sorry. I thought that I saw, that's what I said. I saw Nick Anderson warming up a bunch last night. So it was a different, it was a different guy in the ninth name. I'm sorry. You're good.

I thought I was, I thought he sat him down twice. You played it cool and it didn't come off until I'm cool as a now. Why did you stop me while I was going on? No, it kind of sounded right. I don't know. I didn't know what I thought. The delivery was kind of weird. It's okay. I don't know.

Here's what I'm saying the next day as a Yankee fan. They screwed up the Davey Hap thing. I think that's the consensus on the internet. There's a lot of different ways you could have gone about it. Not that either of them are a lock or any other way you could go about it as a lock, but this was arguably the worst way you could go about it, giving the rookie the start, getting J-Hap up three pitches in. They tried to do Ray's funny business.

The only part they missed about the raise, and this is kind of my mission statement, the Ray's put their players in the best opportunity to succeed. The Yankees didn't do that last night. And then following up, hey, I think this series is going to go back and forth. We're probably going five now. I thought the Yankees could potentially lay the hammer down last night. The Ray's pitched their four best pitchers last night. They went Glass Now to Castillo, to Anderson, to my arch nemesis, Peter Fairbanks,

and they won the game. The Yankees used a litany of their lesser pitchers. Whatever. The race were supposed to win this game. The feeling of it was tough as a Yankee fan. Two minutes. Yeah. You got all of them, baby.

My thing, Trev, that we said on the postgame recap where we're much hotter for talking Yanks is that the Yankees don't do this strategy against the Indians. They don't do this strategy against the White Sox. They don't do this strategy against the Astros. They only did this sneak attack opener because they wanted to fuck with the Rays. And the Rays didn't even flinch. And the Ray's lineup, yeah, they love matchups and platoons. But it's not even, like, you're not like, if they do make a move in the third inning there and sub-out some of their lefties, righties, like, what's the difference really?

You're not really. Oh, the only thing you're winning as the Yankees is a mind game. It doesn't really help you on the field. You know, so I hate the strategy. I think it's so stupid. That being said, HAP sucked. I mean, Hap still gets the weaker part of the line. lineup. He shakes off the change

up and throws a three too fast. I think it has a terrible call. He doesn't find the zone. He throws the ball away to first. He's just body language is shitty. He benefits from calls from CB Buckner and still is complaining to CB Buckner. So like the strategy

sucked. Hap sucked. And then Johnny Loisaga he sucks and they need to stop using him. But this is the biggest scary part about the Yankees is if they have to use their second tier of bullpen arms, Ottavino, Loisaga. I guess holders in there, but he looked good yesterday.

They're fucked. So, and Jake said the quote yesterday, which I'd never heard before, but he said, you want to win the odd games, one, three, and five. Boone confirmed that in his post game. They asked him, why did you push Tanaka to game three? He said, well, we wanted to look at the pitchers that gave us the most length and spread them out so we can give our good relievers days off when they're not pitching. So they care about games one, three, and five.

Like Jake's saying game four, we may see all the slop back end pitches again. It's very odd. Credit to Glassnow now halfway? No, fuck that. Glass now went five innings pitched four in runs and people are acting like it was an amazing start. If Garrett Cole did that and G. Man Choy hit a solo home run and then a three run shot off him, everyone would be giving Garrett Cole a ton of shit for how bad of a start it is.

So I don't understand why Glass and I was getting so much love. He's nasty. Nastyest pitcher in baseball, in my opinion, on record. Bad outing from him, not what you want from your ace. Their bullpen's scary. I think I could still go pick his pitches if I wanted to. When I watch him pitch, I'm like, I think I could pick something up. I didn't, it's hard to do it when you're watching the broadcast because they don't show

like him winding up and getting set. every time. You know, they're going back and forth through shots. But if I had the straight shot on him, I swear I could pick some stuff up from him. I don't know, I mean, he's got to get a third pitch, man. Like I, he might have the best starting pitcher fastball and he might have the best starting pitcher curveball, but it's still two pitches and Giancarlo's Stanton deposited a couple. And I have faced him. And that's the thing about a guy like that with two pitches. I always love, give me a two pitch guy. I don't care how nasty they are, especially see him. So he's got the

fastball and the big curve. Fastball, got to get down. You just look in that zone down. Even if it's down down, you still want to swing at it because it's going to come up. Curb ball. You look up. It's going to come up anyway. I feel like on those guys, you could just

sit heater and adjust to the curb ball. That's a common statement that doesn't really work usually but with a two pitch pitcher that has that kind of low rising fastball and you want to avoid the top of the zone anyway

and then the pop up curve you can do that. But he's, I mean, look, he's nasty. People don't hit him. But I think you can really have a good approach. I think Stan sees him well because of that.

Yeah, and the Yankees had some black holes. Gary, obviously, DJ for a little bit. Judge. Judge was had a really, really bad game. Every guy,

that bat sucked. But, hey, it's a three game set now. Cole, maybe can go again. Glassnow is done. He can't pitch again in this series.

Maybe a bullpen appearance in the game five, but I think that's kind of all. It's Tanaka and Morton, we'll get into the rest of that going. It's a shit show. Yanks won the Cole game, Ray's won the Glass Now game. The way we got there felt a little uneasy as Yankee fans, but whatever, going to be a big one. Coming up on Tag Baseball Pregame show after this, but first.

Next game, San Diego Padres versus the Los Angeles Dodgers at Globe Live Field, which is kind of the big. biggest storyline coming from this game. Clevenger can't get out of the first inning. He comes out. You hope that this didn't really injure him more or set him back for next season. I'm hoping they calculated that and it was like, well, you know, let's try to get you back on the mound. If things go awry, it can't damage it further because that would suck for him. And, you know, credit to Cleve for trying to pitch through it and get back on the mound. It's a shitty situation. Because the Padres didn't have to burn. How many relief pitchers are the Padres you?

I looked at this the other day and I was like, What? It looks like your lineup. Eight? So nine pitchers in total, yeah. Nine pitchers in total. I was scrolling through and looking at the lineup and I was like, where's the fucking pitching box score? And I was like, oh, that is it?

Nine pitchers. Yeah. Crazy for the Padres. You know, the game was close for a little bit. The Padres are going to regret. I believe they had the bases loaded one out and didn't do anything early on Bueller. He just like buckled down and struck out the next two guys. That's probably a game-changing miss by the podcast. Audrey's there. But I mean, I think the story is that the globe life doesn't allow home runs.

The Dodgers have to play every single remaining game in the playoffs there. And they're a big, big, big home run team. They still get the win today. It's going to be a weird world series because a lot of balls like they hit a couple last night. Max Muncie included towards the end of the game. Pollock had one. O'J. Pollock. And what's funny, oh, yeah, you're a guy.

What's funny is they've developed this thing. You know, every team is a thing. The Yankees are doing. I think this is like a big dick thing. What is that? Yeah. No, it's two big dicks touching. Yeah, I think that's what it is.

And they're just doing it over and over on national TV. The Dodgers have done the hands thing. Yeah, I called it the barrels are overrated. Barrels are overrated. They're like the biggest analytic statcast team. They have like all. the most revolutionary hitting coaches that preach barrel. So it's kind of weird, but

I call it the dumb octopus. That's looking like a sexy. This was the worst game possible for the San Diego Padres. Everything went wrong and everything was bad. Obviously Cleve gets hurt. Not good. You have three hits total in the game. Not good.

You load the bases up in the second inning. You strikeout twice, not good. Jace Tingler, your manager, gets thrown out of a game for a pitch that was a ball. Were they hitting? No, it was a ball. It was Tamuki.

It was Tamuki, and it was a ball. And he gets thrown out. You can't get thrown out in a playoff game. What are you doing? We've talked about Jace a lot on this podcast before, but it was all around the, I mean, yeah, like I said, you used eight relief pitchers. You lose the game.

The Dodgers don't even really hit the ball that hard. Mookie had a nice double off of Richards, but they looked overmatched, man. It felt like the podgers were never in this game. And they made another costly error. Yeah, Cronin. That was an interesting error because it was a tough play for Hosmer to come back to the base.

Like his footwork was all kind of jacked up there. He should have caught the ball that gave the air to Cronin. but yeah that was um that's how they went ahead dodgers went ahead on that turner scores from third on the air strange strange game never felt like the pagers were in it at all yeah i'm watching that air on loop right now and i i basically it just looks like hosmer was playing too deep he couldn't beat the runner to the bag and give cronanworth a target i don't even think he was on the bag no he is his footwork is all messed up but yeah it leads to a run and it's won nothing at that point and now it's the fifth inning. It's a pretty nice game for the

Padres and then, you know, that leads to a run and then they bang later on. But yeah, I mean, the Padres make errors. And they all seem to, like, you know, they haven't been hurt by them. I don't think that changes the winner loss, but it's just like, they need to not make an error. It's a deflater. And I know, you know, Trev's putting them down because I think after a certain point, yes, this game was Dodgers, Dodgers, Dodgers. They were up one nothing. And, I mean, Nola gets the RBI single. Bueller didn't have his best stuff. He's got four walks going.

And they stole three bags off Bueller. So, I mean, you're putting an environment, like, we're going to Padre you. Like, we're coming for you. And then that happens in TFA things fall apart. You know, they have to go through nine pitchers, including, I think, Weathers was making his MLB debut. So they're having to dig deep in the bag of tricks. Obviously, the Clevenger situation sucks.

And then, yeah, I think, you know, it was like we were talking about, The story of the Internet last night was, you know, the Dodgers probably could have put up. If this game was at Dodgers Stadium, I think a couple of those balls head out, and it's like a 12-1 game, so you're feeling that a little bit. And I don't know, I think we're starting to put some storylines together, too. You know, the first half of the first eight minutes of this show were about Dodger Stadium and the ball flying out of there, and now we're talking about a stadium where the ball doesn't fly out. So interested to see that impact on the Dodgers.

I think there's, you know, a little sum-sum each way on that. You know, that Pollock ball's got to be a homer. but yeah I mean also the Dodgers are crazy good 43 and 17 in this short season their bullpen does good yeah man they're rolling they did a good job of taking Dustin May out through two innings

they could have just left him in there let him ride get length out of him there but I think Dave Roberts is like this guy looks so good maybe we should start him a game so let's have him throw him two innings, treat it like a bullpen day, and maybe have them ready to go for a game five. Is Lamet pitching today? I guess we can do this on the free game show. No, he's not on the roster. Oh, so Davies or Paddock?

Who's the first name? Davies. Paddock, yeah. Well, the good news for the Paddries is they saves Rosenthal, Pomerance, and Pagan. And they use nine pitchers. They didn't use those three. So if someone gives them a start today and can go six, they've got the guys they want to go 7-8-9 on four days rest now. Does this seem like it's just going to be the Dodgers and everybody else? Like when you watch the Dodgers, you're like, oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Like they were one of the best teams in the league,

and then they added Mookie Betts. This was what I was kind of alluding to before. I think the Braves made it known like yesterday that if they face the Dodgers, they'll make it a fun series. But it's the Dodgers and then kind of everyone else, man. It really is. As good as the Rays were, and the Yankees can be,

and the Braves can be. It's like just, if you're looking at it, you're like, wow, the Dodgers really don't have any holes. They're good. They're good.

All right, that's all four games. Thank you guys for joining us. We're going to go to the pregame show, which you can find on the podcast apps, or you can watch live. You don't need to be a patron to watch the pregame show live. You can watch on YouTube or Periscope or Facebook or wherever.

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Yeah, let's review our shit. Come on. I don't care. It's a world series thing. It's a world series. Wait till the end of the post season. We don't need to raise. We're the Yankees.

Like, we can save it for the world series. Can I make one last point? I forgot to make this on the dog. Yes. A parting point for you. Walker Bueller. They were talking. Walker Bueller.

Hold on, hold on, hold on. Hold on. We need to play the Trevor's parting point. Trevor's parting point sound effect. Tradition. Can we call ploves parting point? I like the peas. Yeah, okay. But my sound bite didn't work for that. Okay. Plouf's parting point. Here it is. Oh yeah. Yep. There we go. Do I talk while the music's going?

Yep. Walker Bueller has a blister. Everybody knows that. What he's been doing on his bullpen days is, and that's where pitchers get their feel. That's the only time they can practice, bullpen days. They've had that thing extremely covered up. So he's not having the feel on the tips of his fingers like he needs to.

That's why we're seeing him get into the game and maybe miss with some pitches not have that exact feel for everything. He walked for yesterday. That's something to watch because they have to get that thing taken care of. of and to take care of it you got to keep it covered covered covered and then it seems like on his start day they're taking it off that's something to watch for he looked good last night but maybe not as sharp with his breaking stuff as he wanted to be and it's not uh didn't have the control that walker typically does watch for that the rest of they not have like a blister remedy yet

they do i think it's either pickle juice or piss which one would you use trev they they do all sorts or crap for it. They do the glue. They glue the shit out of people's fingers. Yeah, like a drama. It's a tough thing. And I don't know who was on the broadcast night. Was it Smoltz? Smoltz was the nightcap. Yeah.

He was talking like, you know, it seems like a little injury. Like, oh, he's got a little blister. But your fingers are the main thing for a pitcher. I mean, that's where you get all of your feel for. So this is a big story. If Walker gets that blister and it gets worse, you know, he's going to be have to probably not pitch.

All right. Thanks, Trevor. Thanks. Ploof's parting point. See you guys.