Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast) - 48 | The Series is All Tied Up At Two

Episode Date: October 27, 2019

The Astros walked in to Washington and won back to back games. Urquidy gives a great performance. Bregman hits a grand slam to blow the game open. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices 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.

The Astros rolled into town and took two games of their own. It's all tied up. We got a series. What's going on, everybody? Welcome to talking baseball. My name is John Boy, and I'm joined, as always, by my co-host, Jake. He's in Denver. I'm in New Jersey.

We're talking about Z-World series, all tied up at two. a a game similar to game two. Game four has kind of mirrored game two and did game three kind of mirror game one. Some late runs to put the dagger

by the Astros. Corbin takes a loss and your kitty kind of looks like he was the man. So there's a lot to talk about going into game five tonight. It is the sports equinox. Jake's third favorite day of the year and this episode is sponsored by Stanley Bloom. That sounds like a furniture company.

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Doing fantastic, Jim. We're here doing fantasy football stardom or sitem. Thanks for tuning in. No, we do baseball in this podcast. No football. No football. And, yeah, I don't know. I mean, it's kind of like everyone expected.

If you had to, if everyone had to place a bet through four games, who was going to have the best start for Houston, you'd say Jose or Keady. And baseball is an easy game. Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. I love when things add up, you know? Yes. Because I'm not good at math, so I need things to just kind of, you know, lie where they lie. And Jose or Kiti going five shutout makes the most sense.

It's what we knew. And then it was what was the game going to be around that. So that's the story. So, I mean, Zach Granky going whatever he did. 4.2 1 earned run. I mean, that's good. It's not Rikiti level.

No. No, not at all. And then you had Verlander, six innings pitched four and runs. Bad. Not great. You don't want that. And Cole, seven innings pitched five earned runs.

Give me Jose your kitty. Yeah, it's just, I mean, it's the tough part for Houston. and it's can we roll her kitty out there every day? Yeah. How quickly can he bounce back? Cudos to AJ Hinch for not throwing her Kiti out there earlier because it's got to be tempting when you got that in the hole.

Uh-huh. To sit on him until game four is crazy. And it's, I mean, AJ Hinch managing Houston and the Mets at the same time. It's just incredible what's going on down there right now. I was playing disc golf yesterday and hanging out at youth flag football games and youth little league games. Do you see anyone there? Yeah, I hung out. I said how to Todd Frazier and we hang out.

But Todd's awesome. So that's cool. I mean, he was just like coaching his son's flag football game. It's like, you know, he's just a dad. Do you have any input? No, they had it. Dude, you know what's funny? His son is the age where, you know how in baseball there's coaches pitch?

Sure. In this flag football league, I don't know how old his son is. Probably five, six, seven. It's coaches QB. So like, oh, nice. How fucking fun is that? The dad's won, yeah. The dads are having a blast.

I was like this. That would piss me off as a kid. How old are they? Like five, six. Okay. So, yeah. that's still cool. And a lot of it is handoff plays.

Right. But every now and then, the coach just tells his 11, 5-year-olds, everyone go deep. And then he just looks around and then throws it. I'm like, that's awesome. Give me a kid. I want a QB in a 5-year-old football league. I'd tear it up. Ooh, if you have a kid in the Jersey Shore area, make sure you know where it is.

Yeah, I always know where your kid is, I'd say. Right. But. You don't want to lose your kid. You're threatening to get a kid so you can play football. I was going to have my own. Right. It's a five-year plan.

Okay. That may, well, numbers still kind of don't add up there. But we'll get to that at the end of the show, I think. Okay. Well, anyway, yeah, hung out. So what's this, what's this Mets nonsense?

I mean, we shouldn't do a whole thing on it because it is the World Series and it is the Mets. But, uh, dude, Brody Van G.M. and Hinch are best friends. He's the best man at his wedding. Oh. So the Mets keep saying,

hey, we've got this bombshell manager. It's like, okay, that's probably Brody Van G.M.'s best friend then, A.J. Hinch. Is A.J. Hintz a free agent? I don't know Hinch's contract situation, but I think it's one of those things you can figure it out if you need to. I think Hinch is, is like, yo, Brody, you're my friend.

I don't want to do business with you. Right. Because, like, why would you want to join the Mets? Get paid a lot. You might have two rings after this. I don't know, but we'll circle to that. The Mets have a lot of talent. They just have one of the worst run front offices ever.

I wouldn't want to dip my toe into that. I wouldn't say worst run front offices. I'd say worst run organizations. Okay, whatever the difference is there. I don't really know. But there wasn't one. Yeah. They retired a guy's number just to change the headline.

Did we talk about that on this show? What am I funnier storylines? So anyway, Hinch future Met Manager doing well for the Astros as they tie this up. And now the Astros get home field advantage as it goes to. Who's going to win the World Series, Jimmy? This is my favorite question to ask on this show. The Astros. And I said when the Nationals are up to O, I said, I think the Nationals are going to win the World Series.

But if the Astros win the next two, I reserve the right to change my mind and I have and that's how that's how this show goes we're not first take where we just have to lock into opinion and then defend it with all our might I don't care I'll flip flop all over your ass yeah that's uh they've been calling you the flip flop um man unreal and if you're a nationals fan listening sucks yeah sucks you uh who uh who i just had one of my weird he's coming to my head is like if a giant was invading your town i i'm talking like early 1200s not a lot of technology giants coming in he's about to underestimate the 1200s oh i never do dancing plague um but the giant comes into town it's like oh the giant's here he's

going to eliminate our town and it's like well let's fight the giant and then like oh wow first two shots you ripped out its eyeballs and it's like okay we're going to take down the giant. And now the giant's just, like, pissed off. He threw one of his eyeballs back in. It still works. Oh, I thought it was going to be like a blind giant. Like a blind giant actually can cause more damage

because he's just waving his arms and stomping everywhere now. And you're like, this was better when he had an aim. Right. Yeah. Cool visual. Jake, thanks for that. Thanks for tuning in, everyone. We'll talk to you after game five.

Isn't blind giant a band? Could be. Blind giant Yeah, it is There's a couple There's one called These Blind Giants And the name of their single Is Witch Magnet

So they're in deep into like That world of witches and giants It's a good time of year for them Oh, tough break They have zero monthly listeners Ooh It's a rebuilding year for these blind giants Yeah, they're just kind of figure it out

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Patrick Kurt Corbane, inviting the Astros to come as you are. In the nation's capital, top one, Breggie Smalls with the juicy RBI single followed by Ula you lie, Infield single Michael Brantley scored Two nothing after one. Meanwhile, for the Stroes,

Jose left the National saying, You're Keating me. Jose or Keity with five shutout innings. What a boost for Houston. What a blow for the Nats. Speaking of blow for the Nats, Robinson, Trenos, hang him and bang them, babe. Two-run, go-for ball.

Nats would push one across on a Soto RBI, Roundout, it's four to one into the seventh. Hey, bro, you tits man or an ass man? Neither. I'm a Bregman. Alex goes all Denny's on him with the grand slam off my king Fernando Rodney. It's eight to one, and that would be your final. Houston locks up the series at two games apiece.

You're kidding me. You're kidding me. Put that on his shirt, Houston. Come on, Houston. better about it. You're kidding me? Oh, that's pretty good. Also, I went with the little Kurt Cobain in the beginning, huh? Yeah, Kirk Corbin, Corbin, Corbin, it's all there. Nirvana. Yeah, I was on that cover of that album. You were the baby. Baby penis. They found that baby and they like reshot the cover with him as like a fifth, like an adult,

like a 20 year old or something like that. Nice. Some band did that. I met a girl once in San in Florida. Nice, dude. Yes, thank you. I was in seventh, I was in eighth grade. I don't know how old she was. I'm going to guess eighth grade as well. Maybe seven. You guys still stay in touch? Haven't stayed in touch since the three days that we hung out together. She, uh, was super into Kurt Cobain

and, um, brought out like this yearbook, of scrapbook that she made for Kurt Cobain and Nirvana. And then she like was showing me, all the pages in the hotel lobby or whatever we were hanging out. And she started crying and stuff. And I was like, this isn't something you should reveal to the public about yourself. Yeah.

She was so young. And then I can never think about Kirk Covey and Nirvana without thinking about that crazy girl who made a scrapbook and cried flipping through her own scrapbook. So thanks for bringing that into my head, Jake, on this Sunday morning. Parenting's brutal, man. Like when your kid gets locked into something, And what do you do?

Like, I don't know. My mom had to be pretty weirded out that I was obsessed with Terrell Davis, the Broncos running back. And, uh, Belanger. Yeah, Clay Bellinger, Cody's dad, the utility infielder, uh, writing a paper on him in third grade. Like, yeah, that's weird. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. I don't know what you do if your daughter, like, flips through a, like, the scrapbook of the depressed singer who killed himself, but used drugs and. made good music. I don't know what you do. I think you... You know what her parents said?

You should show that to boys you meet. That's what her dad said, knowing that they'd scare him away. Yeah. That's actually... That's Dad 101. Yeah. Show this to that guy you like. See, that's tough, though.

That's a double-edged sword because what if she finds the one guy that's like, this is the coolest thing ever? Let's cut ourselves. Then you're fucked. That's a bad move. Jim, what are your thoughts on this baseball game? Um, Corbyn blew it. Astros turned it on, man.

You know, two-way two hits, Brantley three hits. Bregman three hits. I'm very happy for Bregman. I wasn't enjoying Bregman doing awful, to be honest with everyone. I like that it hit the darkest of times. And the errors at third should have been the end of that. Game three, him going 0 for five. I was like, this kind of blows now.

intentional walk they kind of poke the bear there yes intentionally walking to get to we got to sad time so i uh i'm happy with that fernando rodney did exactly one of the two things i ask him to do it's either be lights out or be awful yeah and this game met the status quo of this series you know hey nationals you don't want to use anyone but hudson and do little. You need your pitchers to go six plus so you can hand it over to those two guys in the pen. They didn't. I mean, Rainey comes in and walks to. Rodney comes in, gives up a single, then the grand slam, then walks two more and then whatever happened gets pulled. Like that's what everyone kind of expected. They held it together for a couple days. We didn't expect that. But I mean,

And this felt like, yeah, this is how this is supposed to play out, for me at least. Hudson and Doolittle haven't pitched since game one, which is kind of wild, just because they had the blowout and then they lost the last two. And yeah, I guess that's got to be the hot topic in Nationals land right now is, I mean, yes, you're losing four to one. But Alex Bregman's up. I mean, you kind of should go Hudson or Doolittle there to keep it a game, right? With them not pitching the day before, I haven't, I went to sleep last night and I woke up and did this. So I haven't seen any scuttle butt. Like I don't know what the conversations national fans are having or Houston fans.

But I would guess that's that's a conversation. Like why with two on in the seventh inning of a three run game like nip this in the bud real quick and give the offense a chance? That's what I would guess. Yeah. Rodney had been doing well, but he's not as good as he's not your best guys. It's that high leverage situation. Use your high leverage guys in the highest leverage spot. They clearly like Rodney against Bregman.

That's who when they intentionally walked Brantley, it was Rodney and Bregman. So they kind of like that matchup. But, yeah, World Series. And when you see Bregman starting to get the bat going, you got to know that's not going to be a winning formula for you. I mean, they are down three runs, so I guess there's something there. Yeah, man, and the ever-important first inning. Astros put two up in the first.

It could have been more. Frendone doesn't pick one, and they get the double play ball off Chorinos, which he shows his face later. But yeah, man, it felt like when the Astros pushed two across in the first and then Erkiti held in the first, like that was a win. because like erkidi could have gotten pulled if erkidi got in trouble in the second they like would have pulled him and you can't do that with corbin so once he got through the first it was kind of like you kind of did your job or kitty won five strong man i was i was blown away that he was still in there

his previous two performances is postseason he didn't clear 50 pitches um so i mean you kind of assume that again he's a rookie he hasn't been like on a on a regular routine or anything But yeah, man, five-inning shutout. Best start for Houston this World Series. Are you worried about Soto? No, no. I mean, Soto can go back to having an insane narrative with one big swing in game five,

or game six or seven, to be honest. But, yeah, I don't know, you see him in that big swing. spot, bases loaded. He gets the ground out and to run scores, but it's kind of like, we are now nurtured to expect a lot more from him. I meant like, you know, since

turning 21, tides have changed. Right. No, he's, um, I don't think he knows how to, he doesn't know how to fit into his 21 year old body yet. Father time is undefeated. Yeah. For some. No.

So you think Tuck ever last thing was fiction. We just can't go down this road again. You joshin. You joshin. Soto, Rodney to Bregman. Yeah, I can't do that. No, not worried about Soto.

I mean, you know, he ends up having the only RBI in a walk. Rendon goes two for four. Dude, look at everything surrounding them. Trey Turner goes O for five. Eaton goes O for three. Kendrick goes O for four. Zimmerman goes O for four. I mean, just nothing there.

Did you see the pitch Bregman hit the Grand Slam on? Yep. It's a pretty good pitch, right? Inside 93 fastball? Well, it's kind of, I mentioned this last time that Smoltz said, like, it's kind of known that Bregman's approach as he looks middle in until he gets two strikes. So, I mean, it's tough to say. It's a low and in fastball from Fernando Rodney to Bregman.

I'm not going to say it was a great pitch. I would say it's an impressive swing still. Yeah. It's really good. To drive that ball. Did you see Verlander and Cole's reactions? Do you see Cole's reaction? Yeah.

You think that like Cole has to lick Bregman's foot or something now? Definitely seemed like there was a bet in place. And Cole was like, fuck. No, I think that look on Cole's face was like, game like he went into his starting pitching for tomorrow mode right then ooh i like that but verlander kind of like slaps his arm like joking like oh yeah so i think there might have been a bet going on because even when bregman walks down the tunnel cole still like doesn't crack a smile yeah he's like upset by it i like that that he goes into

game mode yeah i think i'm gonna do a happen i think i'm gonna do a break I'm going to do a fake bet, though. Okay. What should the fake bet I do on the breakdown? Fake bet on the breakdown. God, I don't know. LSU, Bregman, A-1 yesterday. I don't know.

Okay, cool, good. Thanks for the help. Well, think about it. Sit on a cake. It's always a good one. Yeah. It's always a good bet amongst friends. Yeah.

You've had to sit on so many cakes in your day. Cake sitter. Cake farts. Jake. Jesus. Jesus. Holy cow. What the F, David Blaine?

Astros are sitting pretty. They have home field advantage with their two best arms going. What storyline do you like more? The Verlander and Cole are now in like bully mode. because they got got and we don't get God. And they go like seven innings pitched each, two hits, like just straight dominance. Or the Nats are like, okay, bring us these guys and they feast on them again.

Yeah, no, we're, we love these guys. Just don't throw her kitty out there. Don't put her kitty on that mound. Which storyline do you like better? After tonight's game, if they just get to Cole again, like that would be wild. So I guess I'm kind of rooting for that. It would also be just as cool to see Garrett Cole go like eight innings pitch, 14 strikeouts in a World Series game five in Washington.

Just angry what the fuck mode. It's like, yeah, you guys fucked up. You got erkiti? That's what Cole's saying. Erkiding me? You're kidding me? Scherzer's on the bump tonight. Buck Johnson says Scherzer's going to dominate.

Yeah, Buck Johnson was all over me for loving the Astros, and he kept telling me to jump on the bandwagon. I'm glad I didn't it. Well, he says stay on the bandwagon. He thought you jumped. No, no, no, no, Buck. Get your wagon out of here. You couldn't jump onto a wagon.

I could jump onto a wagon. What kind of wagon are you envisioning? A little red flyer? Oh, no. I was picturing like Oregon Trail stuff. Yeah, you can't jump onto that. I could jump onto that. Only if the side of it was Velcro and you're wearing a Velcro suit. Oh, I'm catching up from behind.

Oh, yeah, for sure you can jump onto that. Yeah. Yeah. Okay, cool. Okay. I'm glad we settled that because that worked. That worked. Hey, well, this is going to kind of lead us in.

Well, I won't let it lead us in. That's being a pro, Jake. How about Cherinos, dude? Two homers. Yeah, but he's getting helped with that sticker on his bat. The magical sticker. Yeah, that's right. So.

Yeah. So they don't count. Did you see what? Well, we talked about Trinos. That was odd. I don't know if anyone saw it. Like something fell off his bat. He just picks up and pockets it and tells the ump.

I didn't think it was in any way a treating allegation, but it was definitely different. And Rasmont Tritters like, hey, what fell off his bat? It looks like a sticker. And then someone said, they put. it like the commemorative like sticker type thing on because he hit a home run the game before and he just didn't take it off world series thing like this bad hit a world series that was odd but yeah back to back home runs first guy to do it since last year so that's a stat not worth sharing but they shared it for sure but pretty cool i don't like trinus's beard and i don't like the

quotes he said thought he came off like a dumb dumb but happy for him and did he get a lot of Cushions, why does he wear such a weird catcher's helmet? I don't know. I feel like we missed that there was a cool, what was it, 10 years ago that like catchers helmets became just a free-for-all. Like the hockey mask was allowed and then some people still had the old thing and it was kind of like it felt like every series you saw a different catcher's mask and that was kind of exciting. I hate the hockey mask catchers mask. Sorry, dog. Not a fan. I feel like that was John Flaherty's era. Like he He liked that a lot.

I'm going to Google Chorinos, catcher's helmet, because it's got like an extra wall of padding in front of his forehead, and it looks weird. Okay. I wonder if he had a concussion. Mariznick, two for four.

Good for you, dude. Yeah, I like Mariznick. How about, I mean, I don't know. You could tell us, I just mentioned that Rendon did his thing kind of, but there wasn't too much support around him. Maltube 2 for 5, Brantley 3 for 5, Bregman 3 for 5. 5 RBI's most RBIs in a World Series game by a third baseman, Jim.

You like that? Most RBIs in a World Series game by a third baseman. Correct. No, I don't really care. I mean, that's cool. If Bregman finds that cool, I'm happy for him. But I don't really put a lot of stock into it. Like one game?

Yeah. Was it four? Five. That's cool. All right. There was just four. It's like you just hit a great slam. One home run got you.

So, yeah. It'd be cooler if it was multiple. I'd even think it was cooler if it was five spread out through three at bats than five spread out through two. Nobody cares. Nobody, yeah, this isn't something. That's what I'm saying.

No one cares about this. If Bregman takes pride in that, I'm happy for it. Good for you, Bregman. Yes. So what's going to happen? You want to move forward to this next game? Uh, yeah, I'm trying to think if there's anything else. Uh, Houston Bullpen.

I mean, they, when they got the rally versus James Soto, bases loaded, and then he grounds out, that kind of felt like it. Yeah, I mean, the home run was it. The Grand Slam. Right, but that was before that. Oh, you think it was over before that? If it stays four, I mean, if it stays a three-run game going into late innings. I mean, it was four nothing.

Base is hucked for Soto. If you're the Nats, you're already saying. like, oh, he's about to go yard. We tie this game at fours. When he grounds out and then Harris gets Kendrick, too, which, again, kind of circling back to where we started to this series. I mean, you know, the depth of the Nationals lineup is lesser than Houston's. And Will Harris mows down howie Kendrick.

Yeah. But, I mean, in the later innings, there was the Astros gave up base runners. And if that's a four to one game, maybe it plays out differently. Like there was two on in the seventh. There was two on in the eighth, right? One. Yeah, two on in the eighth. Like they still had the makings of putting something together,

but it was a seven-run game after the Grand Slam. Too little too late. The Jake Story Ellie story. Yeah. That's exciting, though, because that means you're going to do something cool soon. You gave Corbyn some junk. I mean, should Corbyn get a lot of, I don't know if it's dislike or does,

does Corbyn get the blame for this? I mean, they only score one run. He looked pretty bad in the first. Single, single, single, four singles in a row, then a walk. The ground ball, the double play, like, really helped him by Torinos. Yeah. Because it was looking like a bad first inning.

I don't know. He settled down. He had like a nine pitch second. It was only two runs. But then the walk to Kray and the home run to Chorino's like, it's bad. It's a bad outing. You want more from Corbyn.

Yeah. Yeah, Chorino's. And that was the definition of a hangar. That was a bad one. Yeah. All right. Let's take a quick break. Then we'll talk about game five.

Game five, Jake. And now baseball is built on three game series during the regular season, Jake. Did you know that? I think so. I think you kind of could have figured it out if you hadn't. Some four, some two. Two's, yeah. Mostly threes.

Now we got... We saw that five game or to end the year? What was that, Philly's Nats? That was wild, so the Nats are built for this. So a three-game series now, kind of fun. And to open it up, you got Garrett Cole versus Scherzer. Two Sy Young. As Garrett won a Siong yet?

He's probably going to win it. Shurzer's won one. Two top tier pitchers. This is going to be a fun game. I mean, this is... Yeah. The intensity for the Nats to win this game. With Scherzer on the bump at home, pressure is fully on the Nationals.

Yeah, that stadium has to be nothing short of raucous. Rockus? Rockus. But yeah, we've talked about, like, we said it in the Grinky game, Grinky versus Anabal. We're like, okay, yeah, if we had to guess this game before, you'd say, I don't know, Grinky does his job. Anabal gets touched up a little more than them. and we'll kick it to the bullpins.

This one, I mean, if you're not rooting for basically eight-inning shutout from each pitcher, you're kind of not a baseball fan? Yeah. Well, there's some people that don't enjoy pitchers' duels. I think there's plenty that do. I am rooting for both these pitchers to just hang their nuts out and go like crazy. Right, though. If you're a baseball fan and it's Cole Scherzer.

I mean, you're rooting for double shove. Yeah. Maybe, maybe a, the over under we're rooting for, Jake, is four, under four. I was hoping you put it at three. I was thinking about it. I saw you thinking about it. But if it's like the eighth inning and both those pitchers empties the tank and they both turn a two to two game to the bullpen,

we just got eight innings of like fun. Yeah. So that's why I went for. That's, that will be the interesting thing to see, A, where we go with all these playoff games, the first inning. That's going to be your best chance. B. B, scoring runs in the other innings. Yeah.

That would be your other best chance. No, and you wonder, I mean, does small ball come out? Is there, uh, if, if the only rally is in the other? the sixth inning and Garrett Cole's at 96 pitches and there's one out, two runners on. Are they going to pinch hit for him? I mean, vice versa for the Nats and Scherzer. Who's going to do more to help their team with the bat? Scherzer or Cole?

I think Scherzer can give a tough at bat when he wants to. We both have some good NL experience, Cole from his pirate days. Okay, here's how it works, Jake. Okay. You get a point for every pitch scene. Okay. Okay. If you get a base hit, you get three points.

So I can see, I can go down and watch three pitches. You get two points. I can see three pitches, and that's the same as a base hit. Okay, so a base hit's got to be working. That's a good call. Base hits got to be worth five points. Kind of. I know where you're going with this, but it's not.

Yeah. Base hits worth five points. Sack Bunts worth three. Each pitch is worth one. Who's going to outscore the other at the plate? Oh, this old baseball game that people love playing. Dude, National League fans, this is when you hear National League fans say they're playing fantasy baseball, this is what they're playing. Right.

Just scoring it home to themselves. Yeah, I don't care at all. I'm interested to see, as you know, with the Astros teams throughout the years, as we've been seeing them as the Yankees. We've seen different approaches. We've seen them try to take pitches to get Verlander and Cole out of the game. We've seen them attack early because that's your best chance. Do you think both teams are trying to just attack early and hoping they get something,

or is it try to milk them? Attack early. You have to. Yeah. if you let them go deep in the count, like they're going to throw 120 pitches anyway. Yeah. So if you end the odds that they dice you up increase

if you have more pitches seen in the at-bat. Unless they're off, unless Cole like can't find the zone or Scherzor can't find the zone. But if they're on, you have to attack early. If you're the nationals, no one can touch the ball in this game besides Scherzer do little in Hudson yeah i mean you really would scherzer just go until he can't throw anymore yeah when you just said both of them are going to get 120 that just got me excited

well they're both not going to be able to pitch again in this series right um i mean game seven heroics you know mad they're both not going to get a start in this series this is right their last start so yeah they're throw until if they're on they're throwing until they can't throw anymore that's fun it's exciting yeah and also the whole uh at bat fantasy scoring that's right at bat fantasy okay so three so if you see six pitches that's better than actually getting a hit yeah but who sees six pitches or pitcher that is a run just one point because i think that'd be funny okay a run was one point yeah run is the same as one pitch okay who cares that's up to someone else i've got sherser winning seven, eight to seven.

Eight to seven, huh? Yeah. Damn, bold. No, it's got to be more than that. He's going to get three at bat. It's got to be a lot more than that because you said a pitch is a point, basically. Yeah, he's going to be three at bats. He's going to see one is going to be a one, two, three strikeout.

That's three. One's going to be a strikeout. That's with another ball. Seven. One's going to be a sackbunt. That's three points, so that's 10. So Sherr's going to win 10 to 8. And you've got Cole winning 1-0?

I don't care. I haven't cared about this. This is crazy. Yeah. It is. This is. No, no nine that. Exciting.

Who do we want to be heroes tonight? Not Chorinos. All the guys we like, is it the like? Yeah, not Chorino. Is it just our like list from yesterday? Yeah. Well, you like Springer. I don't, I'm indifferent.

Give me, give me Bregman. I like bad boy Bregman being the hero again. I think they, I think they took it too far when they intentionally walked to get to him. I think Bregman just didn't sleep that night, stared at himself in the mirror and was like, they intentionally walked to get to me. They intentionally walk someone to get to me. Fernando Rodney. His girlfriend or whoever was like, come to bed, Alex.

They intentionally walk someone to get to me. me, babe. You think I'm going to sleep? Do you think Bregman lets a girl in his hotel room during the World Series? Yeah. You're out of your mind. I don't think. I don't think.

Okay, Buck Johnson says he wants the hero to be Zimmerman. Obviously, we'd love that. Yeah, we're team Zimmerman. Yeah, I think he would be number one on the, like, if you had to pick one guy to hit a game-winning Homer, It's either Zimmerman or Parra. Oh my God. Would they play it after Parra does something? I mean, if they do, that's unfair.

That's too much of an advantage. I think you start Parra. You give them one at bat. Okay. Let the baby shark fly. Maybe start them lead off, give him one at bat. Baby Shark to open up the game. Cole hates it.

and then you And then you replace him in the field And then you replace him in the field And set the line up the correct way The next time through You know who kind of likes Baby Shark? Burlander Granky

Oh yeah Did you see that video of him and his son Like meeting in the hallway That was cool Real nice You're the biggest cranky hater in the world So I wouldn't say that

Uh show everyone your diary You Beer Diary Yeah Beer Diary. I hate Zach Cranke. I just showed everyone. Is, okay.

So, yeah, there's actually, there's a lot of fun heroes on Washington because, I mean, and Soto, 21-year-old Soto could really use it. Oh, yeah. We did Zimmerman. Paro would be a real Hail Mary, but that'd be cool. Scher or Cole getting a big hit, but we already went over the scoring system for that. Yeah, there's a scoring system. place.

Yeah, give you like... Your number one guy that you'd want to be a hero in Houston is Bregman. Al-Tube and then Bregman. Okay. Yeah, I think, I think Al-Tubei. I like that guy. It's cool. Yeah.

Our size. Yeah. And then Zimmerman's probably my number one choice across the board. Mr. National coming through. Yeah. That's pretty wild. All right. Okay, yeah.

Now I'm rooting for that. I'm rooting for, and I want Garrett Cole's last hitter to be Ryan Zimmerman. Like pitch 118, Zimmerman's up there, giving an old warrior at bat. I am firmly rooting for the Nationals in this game. I was rooting for the Astros the last two. Because if the Nationals don't win this game,

it's a six-game series. Right. And I want a seven-game series. Right. Because you needed the Nationals to win yesterday for that. Yeah, I know. You don't think the Nationals have a chance today. I read your diary. It was like Beer Diary. The Nationals have a chance to win today. Yeah, right. And I like Zach Cranky. Okay. I'm very snippy with your diary.

If Max Scher goes out and pitches eight-inning shutout, I mean, we're not going to be here tomorrow being like, you're keating me. You're keating me. Mac Scher, every single pitch looks like his, gee, he's. he's just going to die. I don't know. I don't know how the pitching coach or Dave Martinez, like, knows when Scherzer's gassed. Because from the jump, I'm like, his arms falling off.

His arms falling off on every pitch. It looks like, he looks like a classic, like Disney movie when the aging pitcher, like Kevin Costner and for love of the game, when he like, at the end of this perfect game, he just can't throw anymore. And it's like, just like hurting. That's what Scherzer is just like,

I'm going to empty the tank. every pitch coach. Yeah. You got a lot of career left, man. It's genius. All right. That ends the show. Unless you got anything else to say.

I don't think so. I'm rooting for whoever's down in the seventh inning. Nice. Thanks, guys. We'll see you tomorrow to recap whatever the hell happens tonight. Bye.