Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast) - 222 | ALDS Game 3's and NLDS Game 2's

Episode Date: October 8, 2020

Jomboy, Jake, & Plouffe recap a day in which all four postseason games were really fun to watch unless you like the Yankees. 4:15 Marlins-Braves 14:45 A's-Astros 25:00 Rays-Yankees 39:30 Padres-Dodgers Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Hello and welcome to talking baseball. We had four games yesterday. We've got four games to recap. We had drama. So much drama. Hello and welcome to talking baseball. Thank you very much for joining us. Those of you have been with us for this whole run.

We love you. Any new listeners, appreciate you too. Coming to you live from the Roosevelt Studios in the Bronx. That's R-S-V-L-T-S dot com slash John Boy. Get yourself some fun. Swag. My name's Jimmy. Sit next to me, he's Jake.

We got Trevor coming here from California and producer Bug Bug Dude behind the dish. Four games yesterday will be eight minutes on the clock per game. We will recap, give our thoughts, let you know what happened. If you missed any of them, it's hard to watch all four games, but Treb did it. I did. How you doing, Trev? I'm doing great. I'm doing great.

an excellent day of baseball as we talked about before the show I had a great day on our picks and the Homer draft and what's really cool is we're seeing guys step up and apparently the Rays had a mooky bets like player

just stashed away at the alternate site and he has really taken off and I love when that happens. So I had a good day yesterday how about you guys? Should we call this guy up? He plays at an MVP level. I don't know.

Like you said, don't trade with the race. If you're a baseball team, just avoid that. Don't want to take away at bats from Hunter Renfro. Yeah, man, we're seeing some dudes stand out. Excited for belly, man. He obviously robs the homer. He hits a homer. Hopefully he can put his postseason hitting woes behind him.

And yeah, man, some strong performances. You know, we're not looking back at any Marcus Simeon blow in the game and said we're looking at Marcus Simeon hitting a big homer and the A's do some good stuff. Braves continue. They're pitching. So it's, you know, said it before, say it again, baseball's hot in the streets and it's fun, man.

Yeah. Cheap, cheap-hender going op-o tank job to save the season? Huge. Did you get what you wanted? Yesterday you were requesting drama big games. Yeah, I mean, that Dodgers Padres was must watch. The A's, I mean, we'll get there, and I don't want to jump ahead. We are a Cron Pod.

We are a Cron Pod. The A's are up 4 to 2, and then in one inning they're down 7-4 in a 2-0 game. Season on the line, they just blew it to the bad guys again, and then they fought back, and then the Dodgers and Padres are having a high school street fight last night. Like, I love it. Yes, the knob got turned last night. Oh, turn the knob. Turn these knobs, Daddy.

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The first game, as always is the Braves. They always play first. We had the rookie Ian Anderson going up against Pablo Lopez. The Braves win on two solo shots from the same two dudes that hit home runs in game one. How about that? Darno goes deep. Swanson goes deep. And that's it.

Ian Anderson deals. He's the real deal right now. He goes 5.2, only gives up three hits, zero earned runs. He hands it to their bullpen of the guys we talked about yesterday. Names that you know, you've never thought of them as killers, but here they are all getting it done,

the experience and all that. Darren O'Day, Madzick, Will Smith, Melanson, They go scoreless, hitless, those four. Marlins only get three hits. So when the Marlins had four hits, the Braves, no, no, the Marlins only had three hits. The Braves only had four hits. Just two of them are home runs.

Pablo Lopez missed his spot twice. The darno one, he might have hit his spot. The darno home runs kind of badass. Pull those hands in right there. Pulled those hands in and got it. The Swanson home run, he wanted a high fastball. it got, it was a low fastball and Dansby, kudos to him, and not the kind of guy that you think is going to crush a mistake like that.

And that's the game, two nothing. I don't know, you got anything, Jake? Don't tell Dansby that. He's got that chip on his shoulder. Oh, yeah. Got traded, man. He, uh, he's feeling it good for him. Good for Darno, Darno.

Another, he was a big prospect going back a few moons for the Mets. He had a big injury history. He got cut by the. the Mets last year. Mm-hmm. And then he started playing really well for the raise. The Braves gave him a nice little contract, and we were kind of like, you know, why don't you go pay a yes money or something like that?

Darno rake this whole year, OPS in the 9th. He bats clean up on a team with Ozzy Albies, Ronald Acuna Jr., Freddie Freeman and Marcelo Zuna. And it's not like a gimmick. He's doing the damn thing. So awesome for him. Ian Anderson, he had a 195 ERA in the regular season, 32.1 innings. His playoff performance is now 11.2 innings in the two starts, 17 punches, five hits, three walks.

So, I mean, it's not like guys are just hitting it at people, like he's doing it. Jim Cot and Buck Showalter in the booth were drooling over him. They were like, yeah, that's what you want a pitcher to look like, baby. So I don't know excited for the Braves and hey Pablo Lopez he shoved to The Marlins they got beat though And I you know something nice about the playoffs You find out more of the story you know we've been tracking kind of these Marlins pitchers all year

They said it a few times which you know you get that on a broadcast But the Pablo Lopez story with when they originally banged the season He was thrown with his dad every day They were quarantining together Then the season comes back dad has a heart attack and passes right before the season. And then the Marlins got COVIDed. So he was in the hotel room by himself with all of that emotion. So to find out that story, you know, Pablo Lopez got a fan in me and I think he got a lot of other fans last night.

But good for the Braves, man. They just keep doing the damn thing. And they can pitch. They can pitch. I have a question that's not about this game. There's nothing left to talk about Jake. You really killed it right there. I got to be honest. Appreciate you. Go ahead, Jim. Who's the GM of the Mets when they made the R.A. Dickey trade? Ooh. I should know that.

Wasn't Phillips, right? 2012 Mets GM. Sandy? Sandy something. Alderson? Maybe. Yeah, I think it was Alderson. Well, when you type 2012 Mets GM, that's what comes up.

Yeah. good trade flipped one year of weirdo dicky for Thor and Darno Darno didn't work out for the Mets and then they moved on from him But It's like Darno Or Dicky and Tully

Yeah Sell high Dickies yeah yeah that's that was That's an incredible Fucking knuckleballer who won the Sy Young The thing Buying into a knuckleballer who won the Sy Young All right

whatever. I just was reliving that trade and it looks hilarious now. I do want to say a few things on the game if that's right with you guys. Would love that. Yeah. Number one, yes. Put some respect on Ian Anderson's name. First of all, the guy has done it all. Ion.

It's pronounced ion, so why don't you put some respect on his name? Whatever it's pronounced. I'll call him whatever he wants me to call him. Yeah. Probably Ian. He's doing to me. Probably Ian. Yeah, probably Ian. Ion thing just got busted. Eye on.

Eye on. My guy has been doing it all year long. Put some respect on the name. And then I go back. I want to see your pedigree. Who are you? What are you? Where's he from? Where's he from? Yeah. Shenandoah. Shenandoah baby. The Shenandoah shade. But the thing about it is we should have known this is coming. This guy's a third overall pick. It's not like he came out of nowhere. This guy's legit. So now you get freed and Anderson at the top of your rotation. The Brazier are looking legit. for years to come. They got those guys so cheap, dude. Acuna, cheap. Seven years 100? Is that what it was?

That's cheap. Can I tell you something? You're going to make you like? Ozzy Ali's cheap. I tell you something's going to make you like Ian Anderson a little more? Sure. Grew up a Red Sox fan that hates the Yankees. I don't care about that.

Yeah? Because then when you get into pro ball, you don't care about anything. Well, I'm just telling you, you're a Yankee hater, so you probably like him. I'm not a Yankee hater. I'm not. really not. I like, I'm like, you rooted for this out. Jimmy hater. There you go. I like seeing your guys misery. Zer he loves company. You like acting like it, but you don't actually like it. Hey, we're talking

about Braves Marlins. We can talk Yankees later. I'm telling you. If the Braves can do this with their, if the Braves can do this with their bullpen, if Ian Anderson can give them these starts, we'll see what Kyle Wright does today and what they do with their bullpen because I think up 2-0 in the series. They're going to kind of chill on the bullpen guys we've been talking about. They both pitched two days in a row.

I think they'd rather save them in game three and have a full attack rest game four. So we'll see what the plan is with Kyle Wright game three today. But if their bullpen can do this, go four shutout innings, and then their pitchers can hand a ball to them. If they can win two nothing games,

the Braves are very scary. I didn't think they could win two nothing games. They're proving me, wrong. So go Braves go. Will Smith and Mark Berlanson were like have been legit relievers for quite some time. You know, Darren O'Day's kind of kicked tire has been around and and the other guy who pitched yesterday was too. Tyler Matzick. Kind of a young. He's good. Lefty. Whatever. Was he a starter at some point? I feel like he was. Maybe getting somebody mixed up. But these guys have been doing it for a while. So they have a good mixture of young talent, veteran presence. I just look, Freddie Freeman's a

free agent after next year. That's going to be an interesting thing for them. It seems like that guy's going to be a ray of his whole career. I mean, it looks like. Awesome. What's the news? Wow. I thought that was break. He hit the passing news. I thought it was breaking news. But it's supposed to be the two minute bell. But like I said, these guys are set up for success. They have these guys on really team friendly contracts so they can go out and spend on Freddie if they need to. They can lock up, I mean, they're going to try to lock up Max Fried and probably Ian Anderson this offseason. If I was them, that's exactly what I would do. I remember I was reading an article.

I forget if it was this preseason or last preseason. And one of the short kings of baseball, who I respect said, you know, if the Braves don't win multiple titles in the upcoming decade, it's a massive failure. And I was like, whoa, multiple titles. Like, that's heavy. And the reason they said that is because they still have health. help on the way. This dude, Kyle Wright, they've got other pitchers coming. Like, we saw Ronnie and Acuna and Freddie's been there. Like, they've got more help on the way. They are set up.

And they're real flexibility to go get the pieces you need. That's exactly. That's the recipe, man. Hamils and Azuna come off the books next year. We're getting into a little too much stuff. Hey, fish, fight, baby. Ian Anderson has a twin brother who was his catcher in high school. Interesting. So. It's in AA.

Ben Anderson. Trying to look at what else we got from this game. Yeah, I mean, three hits for the Marlins. Only four for the Braves, like you said, but they made them count. They're pitching. Yeah, I think we're good here. I mean, Braves look good. If they can win that kind of game and they can win the games where their offense goes crazy,

that's a good sign. Like, that's more, if they banged again and won like 10 to 4 and like everyone was hitting, they okay. We know they can do this, but this is a little more impressive that their pitching can hold up. Joshua Cook in the chat just mentions it quickly. Chris Martin, Shane Green, and AJ Minter, three show relievers didn't pitch for them this day. Like, they got a pen, man. Yeah.

I got to say this, though. Say it. It's not like the 27 Yankees line up they just went through, though. If they go on and face the Dodgers, I think these conversations could change. They face the Marlins and the Reds. I'm not, yeah, I'm not trying to say the. Everyone's thinking it. They ain't going to win games like this.

They're playing who they're being. They're playing who they're scheduled to play and they're doing a good job. Next. Next. Houston Astros, A's. Good game here. Do I have the wrong game? No, you got it, baby.

9-7. 9-7. This was Erkidi gets the start because Grinky's got arm stuff going on. Baby Jesus. A's need them. They both end up with pretty similar stat lines by the end of it. 4.1, 4 earned runs. Orkini gives up 4 yackers.

Lazzardo gives up too. And, yeah, I mean, the big inning, besides the two whole hitters who hit home runs in the first inning. Stats that exist, but don't matter. Go check them out. You know, the series felt like it was over. The big guys homered Olson and Simeon for the A's. They got the lead. It's 4 to 2.

top five, and then the bad guys, the Astros, they put up five in the fifth, and you're like, damn, well, it's over, huh? But Chad Pinder, with the big Apotako three-run homer to tie it, they get a couple sack flies in the eighth, and Liam Hendrix drops it on the table. Three innings pitched, one hit, four K's, only 37 pitches in three innings on the table. A's get a win. And they, well, they needed it. Dumb sports analysis.

Remember when we were doing the pregame show? We were doing the pregame show. And I remember that Liam Hendricks was available. And I was like, oh, that's kind of the only thing that's a difference maker for me, like mentally. I mean, he's the only one bringing the Vim and vinegar. He goes single. And then the ump calls a phantom catcher's interference. And you're like, oh, shit.

Two on, no outs. Yeah, what was that? This is a terrible situation. And Liam Hendricks drops his Australian uncircumcised penis on to the table. I'm not confirming nor denying. Confirming lived in Australia. My brother was born in Australia. Circumcisions are very not a thing in Australia.

Saw a lot of classmates naked when I lived in Australia. Yeah. You're not lying. changing into our speedos for swimming. How old were the kids you saw naked? We're talking grade one. Okay. Year one.

They say year. They say year one, year two. So you're saying you saw a lot of six, seven-year-olds. No, no, eight, nine, ten-year-olds naked. Okay. Oh, yeah. I know a lot about the schooling system in Australia. They don't necessarily go and finish high school.

They go into trade school. Yeah. And after like fourth grade, they go. into all boys and all girls schools and that takes you through high school if you go we would make fun of this one guy Luke Hughes I don't know if you guys remember that name because he only went through grade 11

so we were just calling him a dummy because he didn't finish high school and he'd be like mate that's not how we do things in Australia I was in trade school to be an electrician I'm like okay can you talk like to Luke you dummy can you talk like Luke Hughes more I don't like that I'm not a good

I'm not a good accent person but I want I want to say something. When I was in grade two, my school got robbed and my principal got beat up while we were in school. Our school got robbed twice while we were there in Australia because we were right off the train line. Well, they'd rob the bank. They'd hop on the train and they'd take it to our stop. And then they'd get off and rob our school. It happened twice in the two years I was there.

And one time they'd just beat up our principal. Her principal had to, you had a black guy. He came on the announcer and he was like, you know, I do. I'm not going to do Australian accent, but, you know, I dialed 0-0-0-0. That's like their 9-1 or something like that. But I got beat up. Take the day off, Prince. Treve, you were saying.

Yeah. Liam Hendrick's Difference Maker, got out of the jam. Yeah, I believe he's available again today for one. Oh, yes. Yeah, yeah. Like, he's coming. Chee Pinder. That's Chad Pinder.

That's what everyone calls him. Chi. I'm very friendly with him. I loved him when we, played together we developed a really nice bond so i've been talking to him throughout the playoffs and he had a baby in august or something like that i'm asking him how it's going he's he sent me the saddest text oh oh my god you know it's going great being a dad is great except i haven't seen my son or my child i forget what he has i'm sorry i don't want to mess it up uh i haven't seen my

child since it was born oh so like you know he saw the birth that had to go back in and that kind of quarantine and he was been around the players all that stuff so this guy hasn't even seen his kids he's going opo homer he's got oppo juice we talked about the juice that he has and another thing about him he's one of the unsung heroes of the playoffs we always look for those guys randia razorraine is one of them but he's kind of like the best player ever yeah she pender's the guy that's coming up and showing up playing third base matt chapman's not there can play all over I love it, man. That was such a huge moment. Like I literally got off my couch and like screamed and my wife was yelling at me because

my daughter was snapping. Whatever. It was awesome. Go Chi. I too have scared your daughter. A couple big things for me. Top of the lineup, Simeon Lestella Pinder, all get on base three times each. The top three hitters three times. That's good. Olson moves up in the lineup. He hits the Moondog. He has a walk as well. he looks a little better.

Mark Kana behind him gets on base twice. I love that they had to win this game. You know, it wasn't Houston blowing it. The A's almost blew it. They come back and they win this game. Deekman, also good out of the pen. He was their other scariest option this year. And Bob Melvin hit some buttons.

We talked about that. Moved Olson up in the lineup. Kep Chad Pinder playing third base. They've been playing Lamb against Ritey's, believed in his guy, and it paid off. I love it. You got some buttons hit and they worked

and you lit the couple guys that need to be lit for Oakland. I'm feeling good about them. Yeah, I think Houston might be playing for a game 5 too with Tibid going today and a lot of arms being used. And they're tweeting at Carrabis before the game. They're all, they were acting before this game like they already won the series. The Astros account?

No, like players. Oh, McCullors. McCullors. And then he deleted his Twitter. Correye. Like. He deleted his Twitter? McCullors did because he

Because Because he got He went into the mud and Soft He's soft and he's soft and He tried to not be soft and It's probably my worst take I've ever given on this show I apologize for that take everybody

It's okay We know what you're Kind of know what you're going for You're like if you was on a team with me I think I'd be into it Which you kind of have to if you're on a team I wouldn't let that happen Because I look at my outfit today

I'm pureish, the driven in snow. Pierce man in baseball, they say. Correa was treating Adam too. He was just, there was the quotes going on, Martino got involved and I don't know. The whole thing was just messy. Why are they denying that Martino

news? Like it's very nuts. It's very clear you guys want. It's crazy. It's very clear you guys are driven by the hate you are receiving. And that's fine. Like, I have almost applauded them for that. Yeah. And now they're like, that's not true. They're insane. They're just in a

it's not that they're insane. It's not that they're in a blender of delusion. They're in an impossible situation. How are you supposed to act? Like they cheated. Just shut up and play. I mean, that's the best thing they could do is just absolutely say nothing. And then we would say something about that too. They're an impossible situation. I mean, there's no right way for them to do anything. Like they're they're hated and they're going to be hated, dude. Like that's, that is, the reality of the situation. And like, I think, I think they've realized that. Like, whatever they do, people are just like, dude, shut the fuck up.

You're a cheater. When you have to live with that, like the rest of your career, when you experience the opposite end of that, when you were the beloved franchise and the beloved team of baseball, like, they don't know what to do, dude. It's really hard for them. That's kind of what I was talking about this year. Like, I feel for these guys. Like, they're not like bad people, dude.

like they're not like i mean i don't know is osuna still on the team because he's a bad person but but they're not bad people they did a bad thing and they weren't able to pay the price for it like a guy that does steroids he pays his toll he goes and gets suspended they didn't have any of that so people are pissed at them and now they're just in this world where they're like dude what the fuck like people hate us and there's no way we're going to get out of this hole it's tough, man. Yeah, but don't like... They're handling it poorly. Yeah. I agree

it's a tough situation. They also did it. Yeah, I know. That's the biggest part. Don't rob a bank if you don't want to be called a bank robber. I really, really, really, one day we're going to find that. Like, who the fuck started this whole thing?

Like, was it Beltran? We got a lot of off-season two. Let's get some games. No, it was... Was it Cora? No. The front office The front office Well they said that

But no dude that's Okay let's do this in the off season You got playoff games we're talking about Fuck those guys A's and five next There had to be a player that said Fuck it Let's do it and let's do it this way sorry

Yeah I agree The next game is Yankees race The Yankees Oh the next game is actually Hold on You guys aren't going to want to to miss this. Is it brought to you by Draft Kings, Jim?

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Each up to $500 deposit bonus requires 25 times play-through restriction supply. See, draftkings.com slash sportsbook for details gambling problem. Call 100 gambler. All right. Game three. Ray's Yankees, Tanaka versus Morton. Morton looked great. He was crisp.

Tanaka was anything but leaving a lot of pitches over the heart of the plate. being a little predictable with his pitch mix. The Rays take advantage. The Yankees cannot get out the bottom of the Ray's order. Wendell, Adamas, Kiermeyer, Perez, the 6-7-8-9. They have eight hits combined and six RBIs. The Yankees offense can't get anything going against Morton, really. They got him in one inning when he was out of the stretch.

he was pretty not great when he was in the windup. He was absolutely dominant. This game for me falls on Tanaka. And we said this multiple multiple times. I said about a lot of things. Until you're not, you are. And I say, until you're not a beast in the playoffs, you are. He's not anymore.

The rain kind of fucked him in Cleveland. But, I mean, this was just not a good outing by Masseur or Tanaka. Not sharp at all. Hagashioca, the catcher at the end, said, Yeah, I think we were very predictable. Kiermeyer seeing that first pitch hanging curve, first pitch hanging slider in the middle of the zone, he did that a lot.

And Kiermeier said, yeah, I figured he was going to throw me one of those, so I was waiting for it. And that's a big home run. Bummer. Trevor, you're Yanks. I got just a few questions. The whole Higashioka starting thing, I'm torn because I do think you should reward players

that earn that distinction and have been playing well, but Gary Sanchez has earned the right to struggle a little bit and still be in the freaking lineup, man. So this was a reach for me. This is a reach for me. Teams that, I read this today, I need to get this stat up, but I'll give it the correct stat later, but you need to out-homer teams in the playoffs.

That's what wins playoff. The teams that out home or the other team in playoff games win over 70% of the time. So the old notion that you got to move runners over and do all this shit in the playoffs is not true. You need to score runs. You score runs by hitting homers. You need to have one of the better home run hitters in the game in your lineup. Like let him figure it out. Live and die with your dudes, man.

Like don't try to get cute and put Higgy in there. Like I love Higgie. He's a good dude, but this is Gary Sanchez we're talking about. And I think, like, we're probably going to see Gary Sanchez in the day because why? Higgy went 0 for 3. If you really believe in Higgy, he better be back in there today. Because you're going to take a one game sample size and then say, oh, actually, he's not hot. He's not hot.

Let's put Gary back in there. To me, that was a huge mistake. I mean, look, what was the final score of being 8 to 4? Gary Sanchez pumps one. The game totally changes. I just don't understand why the Yankees are trying to get cute with everything. right now. I just don't. I just don't get it. That move, what

you're saying is fair. He was being applauded. It was being applauded throughout Yankee Twitter. What you're saying is fair, but it's also problem 10 on the list. And unfortunately, Gary Sanchez's bad play made this a situation. Kyle played nice, which you said, you know, you like

rewarding guys. But also, Gary's played like shit this year and the end of last year. A lot of Gary's good baseball numbers from last year are the first. Are the first. anymore? We don't know. We don't know. I mean, things got to be talked about and reworked. The catching situation, they call it day-to-day, and I think it is. Tanaka gets lit up. You know, playoff Tanaka, we were on that. He's looked bad. His two

playoff starts this year. That stinks. Chad Green comes in. They use one of their good relievers, trying to limit the damage. He gets pumped. And you just can't do that. Charlie Morton looked good. um looked good and and he's a really good pitcher and he can do that um and trevi yeah kind of what you're saying with the home run stuff you know it the raise it feels like if they beat the yankees it should be with pitching defense and timely hitting right um but man they outmash the yankees in a lot of the games this year and again it's these guys that if you look at their baseball reference you know it doesn't make sense on paper. Kevin Kiermire.

Randy Rosarena, I can't even really talk about right now. Michael Perez, their backup catcher. He shows Bunt the first two pitches, gets down 02, hits one Oppo Field at San Diego, piss missile, peacocks it. So they out hit the Yankees. The Yankees couldn't stop the bleeding. You know, the race scored four out of five innings

from the second through the six, which, like, that's just a bad feeling when you can't stop the other team. Joey Wendell has a 583 bad on-base percentage these three games. They're just, he's, like I said he's an aggregating, aggravating fuck, but the rays are really impressive. Like, I'm not trying to take anything away from them. They utilize, like, it's, you know what they do? You know how Native Americans used to kill the Buffalo? But they made sure they used every single bit of the Buffalo.

They didn't disrespect the Buffalo by just leaving it to die. Every bit of it got used, Trev. That's how the Reyes used their lineup and their roster. Every thing that they can squeeze out, they do. If Joey Wendell needs to check swing to beat the shift, he'll check swing to beat the shift, and he'll have a 600 on base percentage. Perez needs to homer off an 02 pitch in the zone.

He'll do it. It's impressive and it's frustrating as Yankee fan, but it's definitely impressive. Okay, so let's go back to the Homer thing because this is the Yankees game. This is their offensive plan is to mash baseballs. And it's a lot of teams plan to do that, especially in today's game. They realize the value of that. It's similar to the warriors coming in and just reigning threes and just taking the league over.

That's what's happening. It's the Patrick Mahomes effect. Let's put up 35 a game and see what happens. Like that's the way sports are going because it gives you a better chance to win. teams out-homering their opponents that want 78% of playoff games since 2010. They're 19-1 this year when you out-homer your opponent. Yeah, James Smyth, who does a lot of research for Yes Network.

If you ever want a thread, reach out, and I'll feed you his thread because he's been on this for like years now and he's got a long thread just full of stats. Well, it's going against the like, home runs don't win in the playoffs. And it's like, no, no, no, no, no. they do they they're the thing that i want to give our audience the reason why and a really short explanation of why it's because you're you and and score runs typically people say

you're going up against really good pitching and it's going to shut down those homers the opposite end of that is you're going up against really good pitching and stringing together three hits in an inning is is very hard but if you pump one pitch like you can do that. So the whole like get them on, get them over, get them in thing. Like, okay, like, yeah, you have to maybe do that too. You can't just completely... Don't hurt.

You can't completely abandon that type of baseball, but it's the homers. It's the homers. So that's like, that's the whole thing with me is like, Gary Sanchez, fastest player ever to 100 homers, right? Yeah. History of the game. It's a homerun hitter. A.L. In the A. Rion Howard.

I also have 100 homers in my career. Whatever. Dang. God, I don't want to just be the Yankees, bro Was that little tidbit at the end? Just be the Yankees. How many homerage you got, Trevor? Are you at 102, something like that, 107? I forget.

BPD, you're at Trevor Ploofs that guy. 106. 106, thank you. That's awesome. Yeah, and Trevor, I think what the development needs to be is kind of what a tidbit you said there, like the get them over that stuff. That still needs to be in more players' bags.

Like, you know, there should still be half the lineup. that should have that in the bag that if you need to get a runner over, you can do that. And I think that'll be part of the evolution of this. But yeah, home runs win games, and I think that's the biggest bummer right now of Yankee fans or maybe a fear factor of me and Jimmy's offseason. Giancarlo Stanton is playing like a lunatic. You know, he should be the story of the postseason if the Yankees were winning games. He hits another Moondog.

He's out of his mind. I think he has six homers in five games, former MVP, that so many Yankees, fans have written off because of injuries and he's not Aaron Judge. Well, right now, Judge stinks. He needs to get it going. And yeah, I mean, you know, Yanks have put themselves in this situation and, hey, they got the bad man waiting for game five. We'll see what they can muster up for game four. But the Rays are beating them. They rolled out more of a lefty lineup today with Tanaka. And I think the Yankees expected that yesterday with Davy. So they're starting to puppet tier just a little bit. They had to,

to use Castillo at the end of the game. It was his second back-to-back day. So we'll see if that becomes a factor at all between their other guys. But guess what? If they have a lead, Anderson and my arch nemesis, I blank on his name every time. Fairbanks. Those guys can each. Those each can put in two. I like Kearmeier. He's the best. But yeah, no, Yanks like Yangets. You got to go, man. They get beat. So we talked about this. I called Jake last night. Sorry, Jim. called Jake. I FaceTime Jake last night.

I was making breakdown. We're in the same room. You were crushing it, bro. Great breakdowns last night. Thanks. But I said, I said, I feel like game four

is just as much of a must win for the race as it is for the Yankees. Clearly it's a must win for the Yankees because if they lose, they go home. But G. Cole? Game five? I'm terrified of that shit. I'm terrified of that. I don't give it.

fuck about short rest. This is Garrett Cole on the mound. I'm curious to see how Cash... I can't even think about it because Game 4 the Razor favored and they have all the advantage in the world. I got to see what Cash has up at the speed. Do you think he empties the chamber today?

Yeah. It's going all out today. It's an elimination game you have. It depends the score. Ordin and Chapman can go today and tomorrow. We'll do this in the pregame show. I'm talking about cash. Yeah. Cash releases fucking stable of 95ers. It depends. It's going to depend on the score, and I think game paths have, you know. And yeah, besides Diego, Anderson and Fairbanks can go today and tomorrow.

So they're 100% pitching. Kevin Cash, if they're down 4-1, which was the opposite of yesterday, no. I think they've got guys they trust to try to keep it and save those guys, you know, to go two, three innings tomorrow if they want. Like those guys can go Hendricks mode. I think we'll talk about it on pregame show. this does need to be said, Trev, and I don't know if you saw it, and I did try to preface because I didn't want it to be whiny.

There was a couple back-to-back umpire situations that did change the momentum of the game. We're not blaming the umpires. I brought stats for you. I knew this shit was coming. Yeah, because I texted you, so producing. No, the stats say that the raise actually got it worse than the Yankees. But that one, because after that situation in the fourth, it leveled out, I hate, whatever.

But, I mean, that strike about. out, throw him out. I don't think it changes the game. I think the Yankees still lose. That strike him out, throw him out double play was a bad call and like it's a crazy change in that inning. You go from two outs no one on. Yes.

I'm a momentum guy. I'm not blaming the umpires. I'm also a momentum guy. So I get where you're coming from. It's it's sad that this is a storyline in the postseason, man. Like it shouldn't be. It's not just Yankees games. I mean, it's every game there's been really bad calls. so bad.

All right. Next game, this is the one with all the drama. Padres, Dodgers, nuts. One run game, back and forth. Dugouts empty. People are yelling. A go-ahead home run was pulled back in. Tatis hits it.

I mean, I made the breakdown on it, but that single play is like the most athleticism you'll see out of the three players involved. Like the pitcher made it. a pitch. They hit or rocked it, and then the defender pulled it in. Last year's MVP, this year's new stud, and then a guy that throws BP, but it comes out of his hand 100 miles per hour. Crazy game. A lot more happened than just that. It goes back and forth. It's four to one Dodgers. The Padres come and make it four to three. The Dodgers say,

no, thank you. We'd like a bigger lead again. They make it six to three, and then the Padres get a little Chippy in the 9th. Start coming back. They take out Jansen, which is a huge move by Roberts, and they bring in, was it Kelly? Joe Kelly.

Bring in Kelly. He's wild. Walks two. And then just a crazy, crazy game. I don't know. What do you got, Jake? Oh, yeah. The Dodgers do it.

Hey, Zach Davies gets five innings. Four runs, but that's the longest start by double for a Padre starter. Kershaw Show, he's doing his thing until back-to-back Jacks by Machati and Hosmer, and are we doing the whole San Diego, slam Diego thing? It's the belly play. He robs a homer. He hits a homer. Huge for Cody.

I hope this changes his postseason experience. Dude's got an OPS in the 5. He was the MVP last year with a 1.035. Like, it's just not right, and there should be a leveling out. And yeah, man, I mean, I love the Padres making it scary. It was must watch. That ninth inning is as good as baseball gets. It was must watch.

It was good for baseball. And, I mean, they take out Kenley. Tatis and Machado are spitting on pitches. It's awesome. Hossamer loses a 1-1 pitch, and that kind of ends the game. But great baseball. think, you know, the Ken Lee stuff is impactful for the Dodgers going forward. I mean, get Trinan or Graterall in that role. Like, I mean, Joe Kelly's going to walk, guys. I like

Trinan, man. We've been kind of teasing that all year. The guy's got experience. He's got one of the best relief years in the books. But anyways, Kenley doesn't have it. Mookie Betts. They had a nice that steal on McClan, the rookie the other day that we were giving Glaber love for. Mookie and Belly did that on the basis. Drew Pomm comes in the game. First pitch they steal. Nobody's thinking about it. Just good baseball.

So, yeah, I mean, holy smokes. If the Padres had won this game, which they were really close to, I think we would be Padreying up. Dodgers are up 2-0. They're a better team. They're great. They survive. Go Dodgers.

Then the story of this game was Angel Hernandez was behind the plate, and we didn't really hear anything about it. Yeah. crazy. Yeah. Because that's been a storyline in every other game. These umpires are really making their presence known. But Angel, I mean,

I didn't see anything egregious, but I didn't watch completely every single pitch. But yes, what a great game. And the Kenley Jansen situation, I think the Dodgers understand how to handle him. Like, they're going to continue to put him in the closer role, especially when they have a three-run lead or something of that nature, but his leash is going to be short.

Because they've been going through this for a couple, years now. He was okay this year during the regular season, not great. He's still their guy, but because of the depth, like, they're going to, they're going to have a short leash with him. And I know all of my Dodger buddies, when he comes in, it's like, they're biting their nails. They know what's going to be a problem. But got the job done last night. The whole Machado and Gradorall thing was interesting because we talk about all the time. on this you want to have fun and do the bat flips and show off and do all that shit that's fine dude but like understand that you're going to be on the other end of that too i've always told

pitchers that's what i always tell pitchers you guys you strike someone out you go and do all this shit don't be mad when a hit or hits a homer and pimps it it's the same way the other way Machado, you want to take the bat by the barrel and throw it towards your dugout and do that and be cool about it and be on slam Diego and we do all this shit. Don't be mad when Gratterol does something silly too. It was silly. No doubt about it. I actually. Don't say, don't say fuck you, fuck you.

Fuck you. I've got a big problem with Machado and how he threw the bat. I think Tim Anderson should sue him. Ooh. I mean, that's that's. that's Tim Anderson's move. Yeah. No one did it before.

And then he kind of like, you know, it's his signature move. It's not, look, it's just, he's stolen valor. Like, if any team shouldn't be upset, it's the freaking Padres. Dude, I don't care. As long as he didn't say just like, as long as the fact that the only thing Machado could think to say in that instance was, fuck you, fuck you, fuck you, makes it like annoying or makes it look bad. If you was like, oh, I don't hate Machado yelling there. I've never seen a pitcher do what Gratterol did after giving up a home run.

Long fly ball out. Long fly ball out. Home run in like 80% of ballpark or something like that. Home run there. Yeah, home run there. Yeah, everywhere. And I don't care. I just, I don't care about any of it really.

Like, I'm not mad at anything. I just wish Machado didn't just say, fuck you. I wish he's like, I don't know, said something else, but I don't mind him to screen there. What are you going to say? It's across the dime and you can't be like, hey. Like, shut the fuck up. I'm going to get you next time. I'm going to get you later. And he came up against him. That's the exact same thing he said.

Jimmy said, fuck you. I'll see you. These players don't have wit, Jimmy. He does. No, like, fuck you. Like, to me, that comes off like he's personally insulted by Gratero. Like a personal insulted. But I don't care if they get into a shouting match there. I think that's all fun. And I don't care that Machado was a little.

a little bit like, dude, what are you doing? That's what I'm saying. What are you doing? Let these guys get hot. I don't care. I like that they're hot, but like, yeah. But dude, it's the whole thing. If you're gonna do it, you gotta be able to take it.

Like, come on, man. Everyone's a hypocrite in the heat of the moment. If you're rooting, if you're rooting for restraint or like, everyone, like, you know, like, no one did anything that crazy. Like Max Muncie coming out of the dugout and being like, get back in your dugout. I like that. Yeah. I think it's a let.

It's great. Let them all yell at each other. Who cares? They didn't fight. I dig it too. Let's not encourage that, but let them yell and scream at each other. Their division riles. Bruce Starr, hilarious.

You almost gave up the yacker. You go glove toss to hat toss. I love it. To the boom. Like he's in the breakfast club. I was out of it. I don't know what that was. If we're going to let the hitters and let the kids play, let the pitchers play, let the position players play.

And how often do we see those clips? Like it'll be in the winter And we'll be doing talking baseball And there'll be something from the winter league And we'll be like, look how crazy it is The crowd's going nuts, guys are dancing and yelling, that's what we had. It was great.

It was great. So I got it. I actually didn't see that. I don't know where the heck I was. I might have been picking up food when I called you, Jake. This might have happened. Yeah, you were a jack-in-the-box. Sushi.

I got sushi last night, yeah. Shibuya shout-out Cal-Bass. Sushi from Jack-in-box is gross, Treve. It's probably not. If they had sushi, it's probably good because Jack in the Box is king. Gibby text me. Friend of the pod, Gibby. Kyle Gibson, for those who don't know. He's big on this whole thing about celebrating. We go back and forth all the time. We go, we're talking about it. I mean, it was ridiculous. Never seen someone throw their hat and glove in the seventh. You can't have it both ways, fellas. We get to celebrate two. Pitchers are baseball players too. Like, he was so fired up about it. We got to get Kibby a camera, I think.

It's a great thing. Like Wachado threw his bat. He threw his glove. There's a great parallel there. I've never seen it before. I think that should become Bruce Star's thing. I think he gets out of an inning. Throw the glove.

We're the Dodgers mad when. Oh, my God. I love that. Yeah. After every third out, Bruce Starr just chucks his glove, towards his own dugout and then picks it up on his way to the dugout. No, he has to have someone that's a personal glove catcher come out. Oh, I like that too.

You can't take your own glove up. Like a touchdown celebration. Like if Kike's on the bench, he hops the railing and like catches the glove. If Bruce Star becomes a closer, like that should be his like closer thing. Throw it to the catcher. There's nothing more. There's nothing more embarrassing. And I did this a lot in my career.

I'd be so frustrated running down past first base. You ground out. You're so fucking mad. And the inning. You take your helmet and spike it down. But then you got to go pick it up because you're not an asshole. You're not going to make the first base coach do this. that. So you throw your helmet. Sometimes it fucking comes back and hits you in the face.

Sometimes it goes. So I gardener stop doing it. You got to go pick it up and there's just nothing worse than that as a baseball player. Like fuck, I shouldn't have thrown it because now I got to go. Roberts removing Kenley's I think is the biggest story. But yeah, I throw it at Bruce are throwing a glove is needed. Some final jakey notes. And I've said this my whole life and I'm a human idiot. sports are the best reality TV. I mean, Mookie and Gratterol play huge parts in this game and the whole trade this off season

and the chaos around that. Kenley Jansen, on the bump, the former Curacao Catcher. Did you guys see that clip going around? Of brawny getting thrown out, stealing second in the World Baseball Classic. Kenley Jansen was the catcher. So the converted catcher has now been this closer

for one of the best baseball teams rolling over the past five, six, seven years. He went from dominant to now not dominant, and they've got a whole thing going on. Meanwhile, the hitters coming up. Austin Nola, Aaron Nola's brother for the past couple years, now he's becoming a stud. Trent Grisham, the guy that blew the playoff game last year that started the Nationals Brigade, and then Tatis Machado, I don't have to tell you guys. The storylines that were going on, pitch by pitch, were incredible.

Sports. Sports. We're doing it. We're doing it. Stakes. Hot. Stakes. I enjoy that.

It's the best. Trev's, you know that, California Yankees, baby. Oh, man. And that's what you know, it's funny is I coined that term

to California Yankees. That's mine. I sure did. Thank you very much. Oh, damn it. Huh? I wanted that term.

What's funny is, okay. fucking jakey ball game is that they're going to lose today and everyone's like oh it's all the California guys are bunch of pussy yes yes yeah it's totally going to backfire on me

I'm going to look up this race roster because I'm sure half of them are from California too but check out that conversation on the talking baseball pregame show coming up next I can't wait I can't wait for this four elimination games potentially today yep yep And I always say, I always, I always, I always say I'm rooting for game fives and game sevens.

I'm rooting for no games on Saturday. I could use this, I can use some sleep. Ooh. Rune for no games Saturday. Sleeping when I'm dead and I'm close. I also have to move. Yeah, you got problems. Got a box up a house.

All right. Thank you guys very much for hanging out with us. We appreciate it. Bruce Star, throw your glove after the third out every time. I mean, it's, please do it. Every pitch would be exiles. Yeah, you would need someone to catch it and throw it back immediately. He just tosses up just really slightly above and just caught himself.

To himself. Yeah. See you guys.