Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast) - 502 | Braves ROLLING, Astros Throw TWO Immaculate Innings, & Mikolas Loses a No-Hitter

Episode Date: June 17, 2022

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Hello and welcome to talking baseball. We are going to recap the week that was in Major League Baseball, and I'm excited to do just that. Hello and welcome to Talking Baseball presented to you by Seat Geek. It's episode number 502. My name is Jimmy. He's sitting next to me's Jake. We got Trev in California, not for long,

and BBD behind the dish. Little groundskeeping here before we even start. pre-recording this episode Thursday at 1230 p.m. So there are some series that have not been concluded yet. The reason why we are pre-recording this episode is because Trev is about to fly east to come here for the weekend as we put on a big floor hockey tournament that you guys will see in a couple months time if you watch the warehouse game stuff. So there's some games not missed. And also Trev's going to give us the NL and then he's off to catch the flight because it's. it's like actually what, in the air in like three hours or so, Trev?

Something like that. Yeah, three hours. I did pre-record for the pre-record, my standout performance and my awards. So you will see me at the end of the show. This is like Inception. Like what timeline are we in? Who knows? It's a freaking simulation.

We always tell you people that. And Jake is the court gesture of the simulation. Jake, what's up, bro? Always joking, Trevor. James, BPD, everyone. Hope you're enjoying your Friday as you listen to this. Man, I love baseball. Just put it out there.

I'll just straight up put it out there. And I'm excited, dude. I mean, some of the, like, the Braves are rolling. My Yankees cannot be stopped, Trev. God, you would have looked so good in those pinstripes. Thick boy, Trev, no facial hair. I'm excited to see you. We're going to have a lot of fun this weekend.

And I'm excited. I'm excited. I'm excited. I'm also excited. I'm excited. I was doing a lot of little pivot to the AL. I was supposed to have the NL. So I had to switch gears this morning. But I had some fun watching the stuff.

You know what series I particularly enjoyed? Ooh. Watching and reading it up on. Rangers Astros, the Battle of Texas. Yeah. Some great domino effect baseball. I just asked Ryan to pull the footage so I can make a breakdown on it

and just like the domino effects of baseball. You know, if you steal this base, what can happen then? Because it was in both games, one and two in that series. We'll get to it when we get to it. Taylor Hearn, whoops. Texted him.

My guy. Does he like you? Taylor Heard does like, he likes us. It's almost a little confusing because he's awesome. And it's just like, He don't really like us, right? He does.

Yeah. Did he do the height chart? Did you have the height chart? Yeah, he's on there. He's on there. Only beat by Bobby Skinner. I want to like Taylor Hearn. Okay.

All right. And I do like him. Okay. I do like him. But whenever you hang out with him, he's too big. He's tall. We do a sitting down hang, you know. Yeah.

Scrubs him. He's a big. You got to sit down with him. Grab some share. Lower his chest. chair too. Yeah. Guys stud.

Trev, I'm excited to hear about what happened in the National League. Are you ready to give it to us? One second. Okay. That's fair. My clock up. Trev, it's going to be brought to you by Draft Kings,

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The National League. And you're off. My people, we are going to start out up in the nation's capital. There's a team there. They're called the Nationals. Not very good. The team came in to play them. They are very good.

It's the Atlanta Braves, who have now won 14 in a row after this sweep. 9, 5, 10, 4, 8 to all Braves. They hit 3rd. homers in three games. People. Ion Anderson, not having a great year, but we still say his name whenever we can. Four innings pitch, four and runs, but the Braves backed him up with the bats, five homers in game one. Freed, not a great outing. Five and two-thirds. Four earned runs. But again, the Braves backed him with the long ball five homers again, and then Spencer Strider came in and did his thing in the last game. Braves get this sweet. It's not all good news for the

As they lose Ozzy Albies to a fractured left foot. Nationals were without Soto. He exits game one and sits game two and three. So that's not good. Braes get the sweep. They are rolling. Shea Station, Mets. Watch your back.

The freaking boys drank their Pedia light. Moving on to Chicago. It has not been a fun summer for baseball in Chicago. Padres at the Cubs. They've won all three so far. We got game four happening today. 4-1, 12-5-195 Padres. Are you kidding me?

The relief pitchers for the Cubs, 22.91 ERA, that is not good. Darvish dealt against Steel in the first game. Machado had to go-ahead RBI single and Hosmer, the two-run double in the eighth inning. Second game, Mania, not a great start. Hendrix five innings pitch one-run run. Mania gave up five and four, but it doesn't matter because the Padres scored four in the six. Six and the seven to take the lead. Voigt had to go ahead.

Three run. Double game three of that series, whether it's not a good start. Three and two-thirds, four in runs. It doesn't matter. The Padres scored and scored six in the fifth, including Machado's two-run, home run. He's got 1,500 hits, people.

News out of San Diego Tatis not healing fast enough. What? For the Padres medical team. Whatever that means, he'll be back. Don't worry about it. But the Padres have swept so. far. Three out of four. Moving on to the Brewers and the Mets in New York. The series is split so far. They've only played two games. Game three is tonight. 4-0 Mets in game one, 10-2 Brewers in game

two. Basically, it's the pitch in Bassett. It goes eight shuddy in game one against the brew crew who needs to find their offensive stride. They found it in game two behind Corbyn's six innings pitched two earned runs. The Brewers scored seven in the fifth inning of that game. Two, council gets win 564s for the most as a Brewers manager. Series split so far. This is a playoff matchup baseball right here. Game three happens tonight, split so far.

Moving on to St. Louis. Almost the sweet. Cardinals take three or four from the Pirates. 753191, all Cardinals until yesterday the Pirates. best of them six to four. Zach Thompson first career start goes five innings pitch five earned runs in that game. Goldie with the go-ahead Homer in the seventh after the Cardinals tied it with five runs in the six. Liberator five shuddy innings in game two.

Goldschmidt is an absolute freaking beast. He's basically done in every single game this year. Game three, it was the Michaelis, almost no hitter, down to the last strike. And Cal Mitchell hits the ball right over Bader's head. about that. In game four, Flaherty comes back. Not a great start. Some heirs there. Pirates take that one. But the Cardinals do take three or four. They're

rolling. Marlins at Phillies. Phillies take two of three. Three, two Phillies. Eleven, nine, Marlins and three, one. Phillies. I don't have a lot of time left. We'll talk more about these afterwards. Gibby pitch as well. Stubbs with a walkoff Homer. Hoskins with a walkoff

double, so they did it late in the game. The Phillies did. They took two out of three. In the last series, Reds, Debex. Reds take two out of three because Malibu Mike's a stud. We'll talk a little bit about that. Joey Votto's doing TikToks. He'd like it. And that's what happened in the National League. Hey, hey, hey, hey. Now we don't have the full series here so I can do a standings a little bit. Like the Braves obviously interested there, they've won 14 in a row and are now only four games behind the Mets. It was like 10 games not that long ago, I feel like. It's definitely.

at some point. Philly, eight and a half back. In the NL, do do to do, the Cardinals stay in first place and pick up a game over the Brewers.

And in the West, the Padres and the Dodgers are now tied in the winning percentage, but the Dodgers are up one in the loss column. Interesting. I want to go to Atlanta first,

Trev, if you don't mind. I want to talk about the Braves. One of the notes I read was that the Braves have outscored their opponents by 48 runs during this stretch. That was at one point. But the other one, I read the wrong bullet point. They've gotten an MLB leading 29 home runs from the bottom third of their lineup. They're kind of all going.

You know, at least all producing somewhat right now. And that's kind of what we were not seeing out of the Braves early on in the year. two straight games with five home runs. I mean, that's how you're going to win games, especially against a Nationals team without Soto. They're not going to score a ton of runs. So the Braves went and did the thing. And, you know, like you talk about schedule,

you talk about playing the nationals, you got to beat these teams. And that's what they've been doing. It's been a little soft part of their schedule during the 14 games. But, I mean, 14 games in a row. Vibes are high in Atlanta right now. Four games back.

I mean, that is... pretty inconceivable when you're talking, you know, two weeks ago what they were facing. You know, I think Mets fans have got to be thinking, can we get our pitching back, please? Can we get our, can we get our guys back? Because that lead is shrinking and it's daily, it's going down. If you're bravos sucks, you're going to lose Ozzy, although he wasn't having an Ozzy. I'll be kind of start to the season. So it's almost, we'll see you when we see you.

And yeah, man, I mean, Dansby, we talked about him last episode. and what he's doing, young. He's thick. He's Austin Riley. Ronnie, obviously, Michael Harris, the kid coming in, playing some center field while also an 894 OPS out of him, 328 batting average. I love these Braves.

I'm glad they got going. And, hey, we'll see where the standings land at the end of the year. But you mentioned it was an easy schedule or easy part of their schedule. You know, if a team goes 10,000, and four, that's really good. To go 14 straight, that's nuts. And like you said, kind of everything has to be clicking because if one day

your starting pitcher or your bullpen or your defense, if something doesn't show up, you lose. Hot take Jake. Braves rolling. I love it. Trevor, uh, Ozzie's out and Arcea has been playing at second base. He's been a shortstop for a long time.

but not played a lot of second base at all. I guess Braves fans, is this the solution until he, until he tempers until you need to find a second one? Like, can he run it here until they get a return? Trev, is that an easy thing? Like as a team, are you like, you play shortstop? You can play second base?

Yes and no. I mean, it's, as you can imagine, everything's just kind of turned around for you at second base. The double plays are tough. With the new rules where a guy has to slide into the base and you're not really worried about getting. you're shit taking out. It makes it a little bit easier.

You can kind of just set up and do it. The turns are different. You know, when you have to feed the ball to second on Veloclay, I would say that's probably the hardest transition. As a short stop, it's everything's natural. It's going that way.

And at second base, it's just the opposite way. So that's a feed that he'll have to work. I'm sure they're out there doing that a lot. Him and Dansby need to get comfortable together. So they should be out there flipping double plays, you know, learning where each other, like the range is there for the shifts and stuff like that.

Second base, you know, shifting too is a little strange. Going out there and playing that short right center or right field, excuse me, is something that's different. I don't know if Orlando's the solution or not, but right now he, running them out there.

Hey, and I, you know, this is, people are probably familiar. Orlando Rcia, he was the Brewer shortstop for four or five years or whatever it was. He's 27 years old. And by the way, in AAA, was hitting a little bit this year, 282, 351, and 867 OPS.

He's still 27, and we talk about organizations. How often have we talked about your San Francisco Giants coaching staff? Clearly, the Braves organization is pretty well run. Maybe they tap into a little something, or maybe they don't at all. Come back, Ozzy. We love you, that hair. Hmm. They tapped into Jesse Chavez doing it for them.

Like, I love the old guys. Just kind of, like, just sticking around Jolly, actually. actually gave him a shout out today on baseball today. So you know it's a big deal. You know Mets fans are freaking out if they're given compliments to Jesse Chavez in the back end of the Braves bullpen. I love that. And Strider's been huge for the Braves in the stretch.

And apparently people have been calling him Doc Holliday for like 10 years. So that's fine. You didn't know that. But you didn't know that. So it's still a good connection for you to make. There was a pitch ninja of Spencer Strider the other day that, Fastball 98, slider 89, I think. And halfway to the plate, they are there.

Fastball's up and in, sliders out of the zone. It's gross. During this stretch, O'Kuna has actually been cold with the bat. Still helps him out on defense a lot. But interesting to note that, like, he came back, and I think that sparked a lot of this. And now with his bat being relative, maybe he's had timely hits, I'm not just positive,

but I just know the numbers are colder. They're still doing it. So it's not just him, obviously, from the other stat, I said, bottom of the order. Great job. Marlins Phillies. Is that a big one? Is that we want to go next? Yeah, let's go to it.

We're time hopping here. I like that. Marlins fills. Phillies still, you know, their one game above 500 as we record this took care of business. That's a tough Marlins team to go out and win a series against. So we're happy with that. I watched a lot of Gibby start, which was yesterday. nasty got that like two seamer working again i thought he was kind of like banging that a little bit but

it was back is it like here is it like here we're gonna talk i gave uh i gave give me my standout just so damn spoiled wow so we can't go into too much about it but i mentioned some things that he was doing with that tune into that later on the show but eight innings pitched one ernie good what's up dog love that got to love that two walkoffs for the Phillies in here this was uh Reese with the walkup double and that was when uh sandy gets pulled from the game and they bring lefty left against dddd gets the hit first pitch ties the game Hoskins walks it off and sandy's pissed well i said i want to hear your guys take because i said i think he was mad at himself for walking two guys to start that inning um after the game

maddingly said that no matter what the fourth batter was going to the bullpen. I don't know if I necessarily believe. I'm curious to see what you guys thought. Or if anything else came out that I knew. I saw that about him a little bit when he was mad, but you want him to be mad. I mean, either at himself or that he's not able to clean up his own situation. Like I would not want a complacent pitcher walking off the mound there. I mean, you would.

He did, though. That's the weird thing is he walks to two guys, but he gets the double play ball. So now it's just a runner on third base with two outs And like as a manager, you could let him go But madding me said we Before the end, he knew that Maybe he did, maybe he didn't, I don't know But I agree with you, you wanted to be fired up

I think managers always kind of lie about that Because I think you're right If Sandy Alcantara If he gave up a broken bat single And then he struck out the next two And he looked nasty like I don't think Donnie's going to the bullpen I think you let him ride

So I don't know And yeah, you had it, Jim. You don't want your star pitcher coming out of the game being like, who. Thank you out. I was, I want to be out there anymore. Yikes. There's a lot of times where that happens, by the way.

They might not show it, but they're like, thank God. Yeah. Please. It was a couple in the games I was watching. Hoskins first career, uh, walk off, I believe. Really? Yep. It says it's first walk off RBI of Hoskins's career.

And so maybe you had to walk off feelers choice or some shit like that. Or like if walk off, I don't. know what that means. Bryce Hart, no, and then Alcantara, 20 scoreless streak snapped when Bryce Harper hit the double off of him. Reeser's going nut job, Treb. I don't know how close you guys are at this point, but if you're looking to send some texts and suck up, he's gone full nut job.

Last nine games, five homers, 447, 500. 1.47 OPS. So he gets hot in a hurry. He was hanging around league average OPS and now he's up to 821. Have you seen what they've had Matt Veerling doing? Hanson? These are the positions he's played in June so far.

Center field, left field, second base, right field, third base, center field, first base. Now, some of those are defensive replacement for one inning at the end of the game, but they had him start a game. at second base and at third base. And I was looking it up. And like in his minor league career,

eight games at third base and you got to go like pretty far back. Actually, I think they started doing triple A. But yeah, it's kind of weird. Just go out there and play, kid. If a guy does that, you throw all defensive metrics out the window. Unless they're good, then you really praise the guy. If they're bad, that's not his fault at all. Like trying to be a good second base and third base,

then outfielder is. Nobody can do that, dude. It's impossible to be good at all those positions. Unless he is, then he deserves all the credit in the world. Pretty small sample size so far, but that's tough. Marwin Gonzalez has impressed me with how good he is at every position. I want to give him a shout out for that because it is cool. Okay.

Matt Veerling, Phillies, they've never cared about defense. Are you healthy? Can you throw? You got a glove? Get out there, kid. I think I made up a fake boom quote where he said we're here

to bang baby that's all they care about Hoskins go ahead Homer right in game two in the 8th but then the bullpen blew it it for them so that kind of sucks you know you're the hero and then you're nothing then Gibby did his thing

did you see the I don't know if he's worn these before did you see the jazz chisholm glasses he had on I kind of mention it in my standout too Jake go check out yesterday okay I'm Googling it Castiano is hitting for average

no power this month since his return I believe what was he on the aisle for Ardian could have been could have been hmm blanking he needs an iPhone I think that's all he needs

was he on the IO maybe he wasn't. Let's do. What I'm thinking of. Let's go to Brewers Mets. Two games there, split. Feels like a playoff type scenario here. You know, first game, Basset deals.

Like, oh, where's the offense for the brew crew? They need to go make a move. Then they score 10 runs in the second game. So weird. When you see him hit, when you see the brew crew put up 10, you're like, that seems like an oddity. It doesn't seem like a Brewers type game. And I wish,

It was not like that. I wish they had already made these offensive upgrades that have been promised to me. But that's all for not now. But Brewer's finding ways to win. I mean, you've got to go, like, Corbyn Burns on the mound. You can kind of bank on it. Score 10 with Corbin on the mound. You're going to win that game.

Seven runs in the fifth inning of that game, too. And then, you know, you got to give a shout out to counsel. He said, 564 is the winningest Brewers manager of all time. Got to love that for him. Pretty cool. I know the guys love him. Like in love with them? Who's second?

Some might be. What's wrong with that? Who's the second best manager of all time? Ooh, I want to guess. I'd guess Ned Yost. I'm no, I actually have no idea. Not Reneky. Not Reneky.

I have it. You want it? Yeah, I want. Ned Yost is third, Jake. Fuck shit, damn. Phil Garner. Bill and I, the science guy. Also tied for first in ejections,

Brewers Manager, objections. Some good news for the brew crew. Woodruff will make a rehab start on Saturday. And Colton Wong expects to return on Saturday when he's eligible. He had a calf thing going on. And also, I guess, good news for the Mets. Burns went up and in and took, or hits starting Marte on his wrist,

but the x-rays were negative, so he's day-to-day. Hopefully he just kind of has a few days off because that's always scary, man, around the wrist and the hand and stuff like that. We want these teams healthy, full strength. That's what good baseball is all about. That is what it's all about.

Padres just win? They just win. Cubs are so bad. Yeah, the Cubs pitching. I mean, I don't know what you do. I don't know how you finish this. I don't know what they're going to do to get through a season. You know, right now, like they're just,

there's going to be a lot of young arms getting shell-shocked and up too early. And I mean, look at this offensive numbers of this series, dude. The Padres hit 371 as a team. They scored 12 runs, then 19 runs. I mean, that's incredible. Doing this all without Tatis, the Cubs, I think, are like, kind of the reason. in here. We talked about the TPP, like, where are the Cubs? Like, what, what are they doing? Are they going for it? Are they not going for it? They sign Suzuki. They sign Stroman. Like, okay, that marks the, that's

a signal they're going for it. But it's just, it's not there. And it's going to make for a curious trade deadline. It's going to make for a curious offseason for them because they are, I said today on it's a rudderless boat, man. Where are you going to go? Where do you think they go? I mean, Seriously, in their organizational timeline, where are they? I mean, Miley, Smiley and Strowman are all on the IL. I don't know how, I don't know the, you know, some of them have strained, let me see, strange shoulder for Miley, strained oblique for Smiley, inflammation for Stro.

I don't know if they're returning. As an organization, I'm not searching for that answer because I really don't know they weirded me out last offseason, but I'm just like, how do you get through three and a half more months? You can't do what you're doing right now and give up this many runs and you lean on this many arms. You're going to ruin some young kids' careers. I think we talked about it. If you remember the Mets trade a couple years ago where they got a couple like quadrupley arms and they were really excited about that,

like these are guys that we can send up and down. Like when the Cubs are making trades this year and they're going to sell, I mean, this team is broken. Like I think those are going to be valuable guys for them. for the organization to get through. And Jim, I know you were talking about the kind of the rhythm of baseball or the ripple effect. You may hear about that.

You know, first game of their last series with the Yankees. Extra innings. One-one game. They lose it in 13th innings. The rest of the series, they fall apart. This game, steel goes toe to toe with Darvish for seven. And then the bullpen comes in, gets rocked, and then you're giving up double digits on back-to-back days.

And man, becomes a long summer real quick. Pretty brutal. Oh, Padres too, baby. Yeah, the Padres side is. What the hell was that Tatis News? Yeah. He's not healing fast enough. According to the training staff that had some probably bad timeline about healing.

Yeah, but all right. So, I healed as much as they thought he would have. That's just, here's what they said. Yeah. He's eligible now to catch fly balls, whereas before he was only eligible to catch ground balls. Who are these doctors? What is that, bro? In fact, I think catching a fly ball is less like hard on your body and your wrist than a ground ball.

I say, I don't know. I don't know what I'm smelling here, but this smells so fishy and weird. I don't know if it's just me, but that that is not. Like the president Oh, that good joke of there. Damn it. Preller came out and said, another MRI scan continues to show healing,

but it was not quite at that level for a full green light. But even if that's true, I just don't feel like you say that. I don't know what, whatever, that's weird. Something's odd about the way that's being said and presented. Because you're right,

like they just get the timeline wrong? And they, yes, yes. They gave a bad timeline. But now they're pinning it on like his body. everybody's different like some people heal fast some people don't like it's how could you that's why timelines are dumb and I and honestly that's why organizations don't like to get timelines out you put a number on something and it doesn't show up then you're like oh tautis is soft or tautis is a bad healer it's like oh no is it is that true or you just put a bad timeline out

there for people yeah one minute left um cardinals did the damn thing I think they're my favorite team in baseball right now until the brew crew makes a move i got the cardinals as being a better team than then we all know that jay flare comes back not a great start for him but it's good to see him out there on the mound tyler heinemann that magician bunted and made him throw a ball away i know that was kind of a funny moment for uh me tyler and probably jack too after the game jack's very crazy during the game good but i love you guys i will see you tomorrow tomorrow tomorrow don't don't don't skip the, you know what, don't skip the reds in the, in the diamondbacks, okay? My snakes?

Don't do that. You think we're not going to talk about perdomo, bro? Love you, Trev. Hi, Trev. See you later. Yeah. Be good, Big Daddy. Thank God.

I thought we were skipping the Reds and the snakes. I totally forgot. Let's start the show. What do you got on your snakes? I love them. Best team in baseball. No, man. I mean,

Reds and Debex. Two fan bases I'm very close to. No, Reds fans and you have never really... It's not that you don't get along, you just never have been introduced. Right. We get a 12-inning game in there if you're one of the people who watched all 12 innings.

I mean, Sessa and Poppin? Don't. You can't say that on the air. Actually, that game was a ton of fun. That's right. this was the shutout game through nine innings. They start going extra innings, and the Reds snakes came back a couple times. They couldn't get it done.

And then Gallen Castillo, actually, that final game is a really fun pitcher matchup. So this was great, but I take back my claps if you watch this series. You got some good baseball. It's worthwhile. Hell yeah. Reds won the first two. Yeah.

Those getaway day snakes, though. I'm going to look that up. I won't, but I think on getaway days, the snakes are really good. All right. Look it up. Analytics. We can look that up, man. Look that up.

Can look that up. Anything else in the National League you want to go over? I don't think so. I mean, I know Cardinals were quick there. Cardinals had the largest come from behind victory of the season for them. Yeah. They were down five nothing. They came back, game tying home run on a hanging curveball for Dylan Carson.

Carlson. who they're very excited about. Yeah. He's starting to hit again. And he's a tank. And I read this whole article talking about how much they like him. And Jim, you have to remember our Cardinals, a historic franchise. Tim Carson's wearing number three.

So like, yeah. You better go, dude. They need to retire that number. Is your favorite character from Ozark? Three. Probably the little girl. Ruth? Ruth.

I don't know how little she is. I think the character's like 24. Yeah. Petit. She's petite. She's actually six foot flat. That's a lie. Certain shoes.

I think that was the flat thing, he said. Flat shoes. Flat shoes. Oh, okay. Yes, yes, yes. All right, let's move on. Jack Flaherty's back.

We love Jack. Jay Flair. He definitely wasn't laughing about the bunny threw away. No. Like the most intense dude in the world. Still don't think he's laughing about that much. No.

Yeah. Oh, yeah, Trev texted me. Not into it. Probably mad at Trev. Yeah. Sorry, Jack. That's fine. All right.

You want to hear about the A-O? I do want to hear about the American League. The Astros traveled all the way to Arlington to play the Rangers. They lost game one. Jake, this was a fun comeback by the Rangers. First time the Astros have squander to lead past the seventh inning. Small ball, does them in.

The Astros come back in game two. Yes. Nice base running by El Tuve. Tucker finalized it with a big homer. Good job. Then the Astros faced Tyson Miller making his second start for them. And they take care of business right quick and win the series because the Rangers need the spot start.

They win the Tyson Miller. The Cubs DFA'd him. so sorry Tyson you'll get him talk to her and he knows about bad starts and then overcoming it the white socks and the tigers played three games and you're going to like this jake the white socks swept the tigers swept them they slashed 398 batting average as a team the white socks 38 batting average as a team lance lynn made his return joe kelly made his return they hit they hit they hit they hit they hit hinge called the team meeting after the game called having to use three position players to pitch embarrassing.

Hinch, you're right. It was embarrassing. And like, what's going on? Bad. The Reyes and the Yankees have played two of their three games. The Yankees took game one, two to nothing. Cole got the shutout. Klobber pitched well, but gets two unearned after the Ray's outfielders drop

and then throw the ball around. In game two, the Yankees' face. McClanahan, who's having an amazing season. The Yankees toss Nestor, also having an amazing season. McClanahan, they walk kinder-flefa to get Higashioch up, and he pops a three-run homer down the line. Unearned runs because the raised outfielder dropped the ball. Common theme, they play game three tonight.

Twins and Mariners, twins took two out of three from the Mariners. The twins won the first game and the third game. They really like their new one, two, three. Arise, Buxton, Correa, the ABC lineup. I like it, too. Three games have done in that order, and all three they scored in the first inning. It's something like that. Ryan comes back.

Dumpage's great. Gray gets the shutout. Gilbert tossed a good game for the Mariners to win theirs. Orioles and Blue Jays played two out of three. Their game four is coming up today. Blue Jays won game one. Blue Jays won game three. Orioles.

Game two. Vladdy gets his first walk-off of his career. The Blue Jays are hitting like crazy and also Cucci. Not good, not good, not good, not good, not good, not good. But Burrios, nice start. Manoa, awesome, as always. A's and Red Sox. Red Sox won both games so far.

They play game three today. Pivotta goes eight innings again. And then Winkowski, rookie for the Red Sox. gets called up and he pitches really well as well. Purdue gets his first home run since April or something.

That's fun. I think that's it. I think that's all the American League. I think that's all. I felt like time was going slow. I felt like the music was on half speed. You got a standings update for me? I sure can find one,

but I think I closed out that tab by accident because I'm dumb. Because I'm dumb. A dumb person. I mean, I'm guessing. The Yankees extended their lead, and the Red Sox caught up with the raise. We were kind of talking about it before we went live, too, so it's an educated guess. Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do.

Okay, I'm pulling it up, just filibustering. The Yankees are in first. 46 and 16. They are now nine games up on the Tour of Blue Jays. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Raes are in third, 11 games back with the Red Sox sneaking up on them. game and a half back of the race, Orioles are birds. The White Sox sweep, but only gain a game in the standings

as the twins win two out of three. And the Cleveland Guardians are in second place in that division still. They actually gained half a game. And then in the AL Houston, gains a lead on second place, Texas Rangers, in that rubber match where the Rangers through Tyson Miller is a second start, and he has actually been like a reliever. lately and then they're like

it was a bad start. But I like the Rangers in the Houston series. Is that where you want to start? Sure, I guess. That's where the sheet starts. Hearned 5.1, three earned in game one. Yeah, so in game one, the Rangers had 13 come from behind wins on the season

and they just had two against who do the Rangers just play the twins? No, no, no, they just played the... Roy. Previous to Houston, who did the Rangers play? Is that the question? White Sox? White Sox.

Yeah, and they had two come from behind there. And on the other side, the Astros are 30 and 0 when leading after 7, after the 7. 30 and 0. And that was a situation presented. And the Rangers, did you see any of this? I really like the way this game ended. It might be a breakdown. Yeah, the Rangers steal more bases than anyone else in the league.

So they get on. I forget who got the hit to start it off, but they pinch run Colberson. He steals. The next ball, he would have got hit into a double play, but he goes to third now. So they bring the infield in, and it's just off the shortstop's glove.

Like they hit three balls that would have been outs, but because the defense was shifting to the runner on third, they were hits because then Duran gets on. He steals second and the next hit is, I think Brad Miller poked one through or blooped one over. So it's pretty cool that they're just running. Seek Duran, baby. Yeah, he doesn't even have a lot of steals on the season.

Only 11 games for him, but he's raking. Yeah, Adelis, Simeon, our guy Eli White now in the aisle, racking up a lot of the shots. And then had a real hit during that rally. I love real hits. Yeah. I like bloops or C and eyes.

And then game two, the Astros were the ones that came back. They scored four off of Josh King and the eighth. Four runs in the span of nine pitches. So Rangers didn't really know what hit him. And Seeger made a pretty interesting decision. So Altuvae goes first to third. It's not first and third is no outs. Ninth inning.

Two-run game or three-run game. It's four to one. Seeger comes home to get Altube instead of turning the double play. It's the ninth inning. I think you turn the double play to get two outs and you give them a run. And now it's, you know, one out and two runs. The Ketheim throws it away. And then Altuvae scores and then the other two runners get the second and third.

And then fielders choice scores and then Tucker Homer. So it happened quick. So I thought both those games were fun. Okay. What do you think there? You think you got to get that double play? I'd have to watch it I don't know

I mean It was a double play You really like to cut down that run So if you got a shot at it I don't know I mean I don't love Seeger's defensive shortstop When he was with the Dodgers

So I don't know I'd have to rewatch that one My opinion You wanted him to turn it sounds like To watch it again I watch it once but yeah Altuio was like dead dead Like he wasn't even really running

I don't know. That's weird. And then Glennado got COVID-I-L. So they brought up Tyson Miller, who they got off waivers. He doesn't get out of the first inning. Four hits, two walks, six earned, just throwing the outside to the outside part of the plate over and over and over again. And then Astros threw two immaculate endings in this game.

Yeah, that was a, that's pretty wild. I watched those. We might hear about more of that later. But it was funny, not a couple balls in. not over the dish. Oh, okay. A ball's not over the dish. They got a favorable,

Naton got a favorable strike three call. And then the other ones, Rangers, like, swung at, so I don't, those don't bother me at all. But if you're the Rangers, it's also like, hey, you got to get the pulse a little bit,

know what's going on. Yeah, you can't really know what's going on until you get, like, two pitches away. I get, the second one you can. Yeah. Like, a first emacculane, kind of sneaks up on everyone. Wait, is that?

Sure. Let's see what's next on my sheet here. Next on your sheet. White Sox and Tigers. I found some interesting notes on the White Sox, man. So Joe Kelly comes back. Lance Lynn comes back. Chicago's relievers have worked at least four innings in 37 of 61 games.

I talked about that against the Rangers, how they're just like getting put in these extra innings and then bullpen days and all that. Chicago, in the past seven games, the bullpen has logged 42 and two-thirds innings. The rotation, 23 and one-third. Not great, Bob. No.

They get Lance back. They get Velazquez back too. So, yeah, it's kind of one of those things. Right now they have it listed as a six-man rotation. You know, I don't know if it's Velasquez. I don't know if it's, you know, Kopeck or whoever, but if you got to shuffle someone back there to help get that on track,

you're right. you know, you said Joe Kelly looked good, so they called him up. It also sounds like they needed help. Yeah, it sounds like you need some bullets. But he did look good, but then Hendricks went on the IL. Velasquez just came back from the IL. So he was like a opener type. So like they're like some of them are natural instances.

That's happening. Seas had a good start against the Tigers. And he actually, one of those funny things were like Dylan Seas dominates the Tigers. 10 and O with a 191 ERA, 75 strikeouts and 11 starts against Detroit. Tough. Got your number. Yeah, I'm sorry to drink a little White Sox Kool-Aid.

I will say, man, their bullpen right now. This was a team that we looked at it. Pre-season before the lockout, they still had Dirty Craig Kimbril. Right now Hendricks is out. Graveman. Joe Kelly, you know, he's been heard a little bit, bit this year. Right now, he's like, he's the setup guy. It's him and Graemean.

So, you know, Aaron Bummer on the aisle, Gare Crochet out for the season. Hendrix now in the aisle. They're going to need their starting pitchers to step up. Luckily, they have starting pitchers that very well can step up and try to reset things back there. But they get a sweep, which they needed a bad way. Their first sweep since May 6th. A little funny business in the dugout might hear more about that later. For the White Sox? Yeah. Okay, because the Tigers did some funny business.

They were, yeah, they were after the dugout, right? They had an internal team meeting. Oh, you're talking about that. I thought you don't know what I saw us. They had a team meeting, but the Tigers found their belt, their macho man belt that they're a Colin bought last year. They hadn't hit a home run in like 10 games. And then Willie Castro, first pitch of the game, goes deep, gets the belt.

So they're feeling good about that. Tucker Barnhart burned his back. sent a picture to AJ Hinch of his bat in a fire. And now he thinks that's helped him get on the right track. So we're at that point of the season for the Tigers. Yeah, man. They scored five runs for the ninth time in the game they lost game one. Like it's bad, bad.

I think like three weeks ago was the first time I was like, I was like, hmm, let me check out some Tigray stats. And yeah, it was like the saddest, it was the saddest page on the internet. Mm-hmm. Like, unreal that, yeah, your 30th in OPS, your 30th in runs,

your 30th in homers. And Jim, this is the part that's going to sting you the most. If you're not doing any of that, you might as well get aggressive on the bases. They're 30th in steals. So there's nothing. Nothing.

Nothing. Their eight game homiless streak was its longest since 89. But that streak was over, two seasons so as to end the year and start the year. Single season, 1972 was the last time they went that long without hitting a homer.

Good to see Rocket Clemens' kids on the bump. Cody gets out there. I'm fully old man at clouds. Yeah. It's too much. But now I was two weeks early. Because now on... You're right on time.

On being like we're out on pitchers, like position player pitching. Because when I tweeted it, I got a lot of shit. But now I'm seeing everyone also say, okay, like this isn't a spectacle anymore. It's not even a party. It's just a bad. If we're going to do that, like, let me go out there.

Let a fan. It's just a bad. Why not? Billy Crystal. Yeah. Like, let's add some entertainment value if we're really going to do that. Have a manager pitch. Yeah.

Who would be your top managers you'd like to see go out there and pitch? Ooh, that's a great question. Thank you, Judge. Top manager like to go out there and see pitch. running through all the managers in my head running through all the managers in my head shit kind of blanking I just keep

I just keep getting in shape managers like I went down the So you don't want a snicker one Yeah snicker was up there I went like I'd love to know what that toss looks like You know I went like Kora and I was like no I went boom no I went Rocco Baldelli no I was like all the you go Tito would probably be fun but I've seen that

Larusa is kind of Oh, LaRosa. There it is. I don't know. I'd love to see him pitch it. No, he'd die. That's the thing. Then it's almost dangerous.

Yeah. No, I'm... Are wildly out of shape managers out of fashion? I think so. Then I thought Kevin Cash. I mean, they kind of went young and sexy for a while, remember? Brendan Hyde? Like, the ace tinglers and guys like that.

Yeah, and then even the older guys, you know, Mel, it's not... You know, my pick's always been Scott's service because of that neck. Yeah, but he throws a great BP. I know. He's a catcher. I know. Darts. That's why it would be a good product.

Yes, it would. All right. Next. Right. I ranked. Yankees Rays. We have talking Yanks, so we won't dive deep into this,

but Yankees are playing Unreal ball and just get wins. And if you drop a ball in the outfield, they're going to take advantage. I mean, the raise dropped two balls in the outfield in the first two games. The first one led to two runs scoring, the second one led to three-runs scoring.

So they have that take advantage of factor that I always talk about right now, dialed up. Like if you make a mistake against this Yankee team, they're good enough. If you make a mistake, they will fucking make you pay immediately. As the Yankees fan, the most fun team I've watched in a long, long time.

And the raise, I mean, half of their lineup right now, you're not getting like anything. Like Kiermire Walls, Phillips, Bruhan, The raise hitting is entering a very day. They're kind of like a bottom five hitting team in baseball, which, you know, hey, they're kind of a top five pitching team. That's raise a little bit. But to be a bottom five hitting team, it's getting a little risque.

They are missing three guys now. Franco, Zunino, B. Lowe. I mean, Franco and Lowe are supposed to be a chunk of their offense. But Zanino was good last year. Part of the reason I got mad when they traded Austin Meadows before the season is that if something like that happens, your lineup is empty. He's also not hitting, but that's just because he's on the Tigers. Yeah, exactly.

If he was on the raise, he'd have an 850 OPS this year. The Yankees starting pitching continues to be otherworldly. I mean, them and the Dodgers are on their own planet, basically. Yeah. Judge Moore-Homers, blah, blah, blah. Twins and Mariners? Twins took two out of three here. I don't know who I would have liked to see there.

Because I want both these teams to keep winning. I like the Mariners. I think the Twins have the Central. I'd like the Mariners to keep winning. I think the Twins are fine. I mean, the Guardians are surprisingly close to the twins, and I think the White Sox are starting to figure it out. So with that in mind,

like, I guess when you just read that to me, like, I kind of had an exhale that was just like, the Mariners, man. Like, when? And I'm starting to lean never. And you know I'm not that guy. Oh, come on now. I'm a baseball hope guy.

But, man, what the heck, Mariners? Like, how I've said every episode, it feels like the Padres are giving me good news. Mariners, it feels like the exact opposite. I mean, they lost a series and they almost got a new fight. And you're like, all right, that's not, that's bad. They lost by one run in game one. I mean, flexing pitch pretty.

well, but that ABC lineup. I love that. We love letters. A rise single Bucks and Homer. That's what they did against Cole, too. But those three, yeah, they're doing their well. And then Ty France, he has an RBI after,

you know, I think Penn Murphy, our dude, blew a game in this one. Easy on that. Trevor was giving him love. And then I believe he blew game three, which was the rubber match. I think he did. Not Penn. Yes.

He allowed three earn. runs. Mariners did score zero, so I won't really blame Penn. But yeah, yeah, not great job. Words, wordage was wrong. He didn't blow the game, but he had a bad outing. The Battle of the Bastards is this weekend. Dude, Mariners, what's going on?

Angels and Mariners teaming it up for five. That's going to be some like pissy, angsty stuff. That's like, those are like two middle school teams that are both finishing their season. They're four and seven. And they're like, I hate those guys. They stink. We're better than them, though.

We're so much better than that. People like to say that we're the same as this team. Yeah. That's going to be fun. Routing for both. The twins did pitch back-to-back pitchers whose name, whose first name starts with J.H. Evan gets tossed.

What's that? Nevin gets tossed in that series. Oh, yeah. Locke. Yeah. Johan and Harel? That's how you pronounce. those names?

I think it's Jarrell. Just with an H. But then is, but the other, you got cotton, he's on, beyond the, and then Yohan is with the J.H.

Okay. Wow. Yeah. Really? Throwing everyone for a loop there. Good job by the twins. Their hitting is very good. And I guess their pitching is,

uh, held the, held the Mariners to two and then zero. There's a coach I want to watch pitch. Rocko? Mariner's pitching coach. Our guy. Yeah.

I'd like that. Logan Gilbert deserves some love. Yeah, he's good. Six shuddy. Blue Jays win two out of three against the Orioles. Okay. In game one, they won 11 to 1. In the fifth inning, they scored seven runs.

Six of them with two outs. They sent 11 men to the plate. Just kept going and going. Meanwhile, on the other side, Manoa goes one hit over seven. And his pitch count was only at 86, but they were like, let's just save you up. We got a big lead.

He's like, could throw a complete game every time. He's incredible. He's the ERA leader. He's the win leader, which again, that matters on your team. That means you're winning games.

And yeah, Jim, he's not punching a ton of tickets, less than a strikeout an inning. Are guys just a bulldog and he goes to work? And he's in the Cy Young race. right now. I think he leads it right now, right? I don't know. There's a lot of fun names actually. There's some, yeah, there's some good competition. Cacucci does not have it again in game two. Orioles get to him. He's got 1060 already in June so now, so far three games and one of them was zero point two, but still it's just not good.

For the Orioles, Jorge Lopez got the last five outs to win game two. He's having a good season. and Jorge Mateo had a nice bare-hand play at short to get Boba-Shett. So that's how they locked down that one-run game. Classic, if it went 10, the Blue Jays were winning it. Sure. Situation. They just kept like whatever then. And then the Blue Jays win the rubber match.

You can't lose a series to the Orioles right now. If you're the Blue Jays, you've got to keep going. Not to knock the Orioles. They are a pretty pesky team. But the Blue Jays win it in the 10th. Vladdy gets his first walk off. Another decision here, Jake. They don't intentionally walk him.

and Vladdy told Kirk, who was sitting behind him, said, get ready, they're going to walk me. And then they didn't. And he said, well, game's over. That's Vladie's quote. When they didn't, I said, well, the game is over right here. And he hits a single. Would you have walked Vladdy to get to Kirk?

Kirk's pretty good, too. Kirk's pretty good. You get the force out and slow. I guess what I would say is Vladdy in June, I've mentioned he had a bad May, a 681 OPS, which for a lot of players, isn't a bad may he's 1.1 and in 14 games of june and it feels like MVP Vlad is here that yeah i'd probably take a kirk bet triple play in order lad on on first and kirk up but you're still

going to lose the kirk bet so maybe they just want to like hit the shouse you know maybe maybe jose beryos third consecutive quality start yeah yeah orio side of things mount castle has found the power stroke. 12 of his last 14 hits or extra base hits. He's got a 776 slugging in June. Look at that. Hey, Orioles, I know we don't talk a ton about you. A pretty brutal division,

and you guys are still going at it. Adley gets his first home run. We love that. But, like, when you look at the top half of the Orioles lineup between Hayes and Mount Castle and Rushman and Cedric Mullins, like, I know we've said it a few times this year. It hasn't been said. in a little while.

Like the product in Baltimore is pretty nice. Yeah, line up in defense, actually. They make some fun plays, too. Is there another series in the A-L? Or I'd just do them all. A's Red Sox. Oh, A's Red Sox. Boston win game one, six to one.

Povetta goes eight innings again. He just loves... Full pension, baby. He loves pitching. And then in game two, Winkowski took the bump against Cap. And he goes, five shut up for his first career win. So Rdugo had a two-run homer, and he was excited about it because he hadn't had one in a long time.

I don't know anything on the A side of the ball. Sorry, Oakland fans. I do not hate you. I just, this was the last one on my research list. Right. My train arrived. I heard Cap was pretty wild, and he, he wasn't about it. I know they're playing game three today, and it sounds dumb, but for the Red Sox with this moment,

momentum like get your get your sweep on do it good just now's the time summer's here that feels like a song well missy elli get your freak on get you get get get get get get get get love missy that's a lock that you would love missy yeah i mean it's i'm i get compared to missy elliott a lot by uh if people had a conversation like who on talking baseball is most like missy elli yeah yeah You know? If that happened, for sure. Show, sound off in the comments about who you think has the most Missy Elliott in their game.

Well, I mean, I think it's you as well. Devers and Bogarts, Jim. Devas and Bogots. They're not bad. They're good. I mean, it sucks what the Yankees are doing because that whole stat about the Red Sox winning 12 of 14 and losing ground or whatever. or whatever it is. But I am, I am scared of,

I don't know what too. Right. But the Ray's Red Sox and Blue Jays all have top six records in the AL. You know, they're not bad teams. What the Yankees are doing right now is crazy, but if the Yankees fall down or if you get to a playoff series, it's not like it's not going to be a game. Yeah.

So I would like one of those three teams to just just fall. out of it and I don't have to worry about them. But right now it's, I don't know which two it is, but I'm going to be very worried come September as a Yankees fan, between the Red Sox, the Blue Jays and the race. I don't know what two will last. I'm hoping that only two last, or I'm only none last, to be honest. But you know what I'm saying? Like, I can't sit here and shit on them because as the Yanis fan because the Yankees are playing amazing because they're also playing good baseball. Blue Jays are crazy talented. They were one of the favorites coming into this year. And some of the guys you wouldn't mention first. Like,

we thought Minow would be good. We didn't think he'd be. this good. Like, they've also got some spots that it's like, okay, Vladdy's going again. like the J's are the Jays. The Red Sox, I mean, dude, that's a, they were in the CS last year. Yeah, no. So, like, the fact that they're done and they, they can officially say, like, oh, we had a shit start to the season, but that's, like, over. Yes. Like, they are clear, they're five games over 500. Like, they put that in their rear view. Put that in their rear view. Ray's, eh, mid. Yeah, Jake's out on them.

Been out on them. I need them to stop. Trade Austin Meadows. This is a genuine question, not shit talking. Have the race been bad on defensively all season? Or are we just witnessing it? Because when we went down to Tampa,

it was the infield, those booting balls. And which led to runs. And then two of the first three games now, it's the outfield. Rosary throws one away. He doesn't catch one. Phillips dropped two or drop one in his glove.

because that's an oddity for me if the rays aren't defensively sounds. Yeah, I mean, some of the defensive stats I look at, I mean, Phillips' otherworldly outs above average outfield jump. So I think it... That one's a blip. I think it's an outlier there. And I've seen Randy have good plays, but I've also seen them blue plays.

Oh, yeah, Randy's... In a historic... The last several years, they've been anecdotally a really good defensive team. So if they've just dropped off a little this year... Or maybe they've dropped four balls, but they were just happening to be against the Yankees. You know what they're missing, Jim? And right now they're missing guys.

Joey Wendell. Yeah, Jerry Wendell would tighten him up. You think you'd walk, you think you'd walk around in the shower after dropping a fly ball if Joey Wendell was still on the team? No. After knowing what his brother did to him?

I want to go in there. Let's go to the I-O. All right. And we're off. James, we're leaving. We're going back home to the left coast. How about a little coconut, records. Trevor Plouf was in the building for Angels, Dodgers, and his best friend who doesn't know

him, Tony Gonsolin dropped it. Yet again, dude, 6.1 shutout from Tony Gonsolent. It's unreal. Let's talk about him even more. I know we've picked it up, but Cinderguard 4.2, 1, Ernie. The Angels didn't hit this whole series because literally the next night, Mr. Anderson, goes 8.1. No hit up until that point. He ends up giving up one earn run after the show hey triple to break it up. But I mean, talk about a bad time to be a halo. The team, I know it's two games, but they hit 083. They had five hits. The Dodgers had four extra base hits in the two days. Trey Turner did his thing. but the pitching for the Dodgers is what separates them as a franchise. Will Smith with a Homer.

I think we want him to do better. Didn't we want him to end or get more involved in the pedal race? I think we wanted that. So, okay, Will Smith. We like that. Randon exited with the wrist in game one and he didn't play game two, so we hate that. Trevor Plouffe caught a fly ball, allegedly.

But nobody's got video of it. Isn't that interesting? The San Francisco Giants take two out of three from the Royals. The Giants took the first two games, and the Royals in our guy, Heasley. Saw him on the sheet last time, wasn't familiar? He's now my guy. Go, Polks. Heasley, it was four innings to earn.

Shouldn't be talking about him. It's something about the name Heesley. It doesn't sit well for me. But I like saying it. And then we mentioned this guy earlier in the air. Jose Coos, I think I'm saying this right. He was a FedEx driver. He gets his first MLB.

win after being a FedEx guy. Now he's in the show. Jim, I think most importantly from this series, Your Giants, Logan Webb 7, Shuddy. It was his first start this year that there was a zero in the run column. We know how pitchers think. That's big for him.

I wouldn't be surprised if that gets him going a little bit. Giants pitch throughout the starters and the relievers. Tyro Estrada, my guy, with the go-ahead RBI in the first game. Jim, the final interleaders. league set. We got two games. They're playing a turd today. Rockies hosted the Guardians and the Guardians won the first two games. How about him? Chris Rose, is he excited? What about your rocks? Are we going to see Chris Rose today?

Rocks are, uh, it's a little bit of an avalanche. The rocks coming down the mountain. And the avalanche are in the Stanley Cup final. Did you watch the game? I saw a clips of it. Guardians won the first game in extras. Charlie Blackman hit a game-tying Homer in the seventh. Don't care, doesn't matter, because it was Ramirez with the RBI double in the 10th. That's a reference nobody really gets.

And then Connor Pilkington pitch the next day. Till the fields, Connor. Owen Miller, game-tying sack fly, Nailer hits the go-ahead RBI double. I don't know. Rockies are done, and Guardians are a part of the season now, so I just need to come to graham. grips with that. And that's what happened in the interview.

I mean, you are a Guardian's friend. I like the Guardians players. Hell, I like Cleveland. Yeah, you do like Cleveland. I like Chris Rose. Okay. How could I not like Josh Naler? Feels like we have similar bodies, but his is extrapolated.

Is his still hitting? Is his body still hitting? Is his body? Is his body still hitting? Is Josh Nailer's body still hitting? Let's see, Josh Naler? 276, 338, and 827 OPS. So I think maybe came back down to Earth a little bit,

but that's still nice. Did you see Stephen Kwan's catch? Holy smokes. He had four hits to series, so cut him some slack. Of course. I mean, come on. He's got an RBI in four straight games. Josh Nailer.

Do you see Kwan's catch? It's a worthwhile watch. Left field, course field. It's massive out there. I think I have, but I can't. He covers a lot of ground, and full extension. And it kind of saved the game for them.

So we love when Rich Homi Kwan does it. So go Guardians go. I guess so, right? Why don't know why? Yeah. Because the Rockies, what's the best they can do? Can they finish above? Okay, there you go.

The Guardians, what's the best they can do? Win the Yale Central. So that's why I'm going to root for the Guardians over the Rockies in this series. I like their players. I and I can't all the the Rockies wore those uniforms again know what I need I can't root for the Rockies when they wear those uniforms that's a rule yeah I'm with you I need a young a young guy okay mm-hmm a massage table and a bottle of wine I need a young guy on Cleveland who's like must watch for like a weird reason like I'm trying to think of an example like I I need them to have an outfielder that has like a, just like a rocket, rocket arm.

Like, not necessarily great at baseball, but it's just like, you got to see this guy throw. I need one, I need one more carnival attraction from Cleveland to buy in. Okay. Is that right? I mean, I thought Fran Mill was your... I love him. He's a monster. He's hurt right now.

I know he's hurt right now, but, like, he kind of is what you're describing. I mean, it is a massive human, and I love that. What about Eli Morgan? He's doing fun stuff. Word for him. I'm rooting for Elaine. And Josh Naylor's kind of. Kind of like also.

Right. He welcomes you to the circus, but like, and you see Jose Ramirez. There's a main attraction of the circus. Oh, I have him kind of like conducting it. Like he's at every stop with you along the way. And like Jose Ramirez, you see him and you're like, wow, that's Jose Ramirez. That's awesome. Fran Mill, it's like, okay, come look at one of the biggest dudes to ever play.

And you're like, this is cool. I need one more party trick. Like, Kwan was kind of it. He was the crazy contact guy. You couldn't strike him out. That kind of faded away. I need like one, like a crazy. base stealer or something like that.

I need one more attraction that when it's late night and it's the eighth inning and I see the Guardians are in it, then I'm like, I got to click over there because I currently don't have that. I got it. Guardian fans sound off in my replies. Dodger sweep, two games set against the Angels. Yeah. Trevor was there.

Trevor was there. Caught a foul ball. People cheered. Maybe. I mean, don't you think someone would have replied and been like, Like, I saw it. I didn't check the reply. So maybe someone did do that.

I think people did tweet. People in the stadium confirmed that it was Travis that caught it? Have we? Do we know what kind of catch it was? No. Like bare hand snack. Glove. He brought his glove.

He brought his glove. Brings his glove when he goes to me. Did he dive over a kid? So there's some rumors about that? I'm not spreading them. No, you're not. You just, you just, well. I saw some rumors about that.

No, you are. I don't know how you. I saw rumors online about that. And then by you sharing them, that is, like, it gets tricky, right? It is like I was re-watching the Joe's Dolphin video. Yeah. It was kind of his argument to you, which wasn't wrong. Because you were like, Joe's, what about those rumors?

And he's like, well, if you're, you're kind of spreading them. I left that shit in Arizona. But Trevor may or may not have, like, stomped on a kid to catch that balls. Are you saying? We don't know. Okay. We don't know. We think he caught it.

That's cool. It was, uh, and Trev would want to be shouting them out. but I know like Squid Velasquez came over and he was hanging out with Teddy ball game and Drew Bue was throwing the pill with him. So pretty cool stuff. Yeah. And Dodgers, I mean, Jim, I think, again, you were, you were on the bus first on this one.

The no-hitter, Allure is just on a downhill chart. What do you mean? So the Dodgers in the second game, they have their guy Anderson who's in the eighth inning. going for a no hitter. And I'm, I just, I can't get dialed up for it. Oh, no hitters are, um, very exciting for your team. Right.

It's almost like a walk off comeback, like down, down, let's say down four in the ninth. If you tell me the Cardinals were, oh, no, I hate the Cardinals. Okay. If you told me the, the blue, the bluebirds, nope, that sounds too much like that. They're not a team. If you told me the. The Rockets. If you told me the stripes were, the Gwinnett stripes were down four in the ninth,

and they came back to win it on a walkoff. If I was a striper's fan, I'd be very, very enthusiastic excited about that. If not, I don't care. I say, okay, cool, that happens. Like, from time to time, that happens. That's what no-hitters have become. Perfect games. I'm all in on.

Right. All in on. But yeah, no hitters. But if, like, a Yankee pitcher starts throwing one, unless it's Clover, a pitcher I like, that I will be excited for it. Tough. That's always the funny thing.

People are like, you'd be excited if it was your friend. I was like, oh, Kluber did, and I didn't give him fuck at all. Number one's own shirt is kind of nice. I liked Klobber. Tyler Anderson, at 282 ERA now. He is 8 and O record-wise. This was the guy the Dodgers signed, who had a career 4-4-4-4-4-4-E-RA.

So that's suspect. What did he do? And he's now a 282 ERA, like potentially an All-Star. I know that's, you know, we only care about all-J-M team, but pretty cool. It is cool. 32 years old. I'm trying to look at his savant to see, like, what did they, what did the Dodgers? Dude and fucking Gonsulin, man.

It's good. And Angels, I mean, don't really talk about it much. They're still trying to get out of their losing ways in there in the middle school battle this weekend for, King of the playground. Yeah. Our third place, man. I want one of those teams to get second.

But... I think they will. But yeah, man. I mean, I want one of them to get first. Tony Gonsolin leads the National League in the ERA. He's good. And you hate him? Is that what you're saying?

Career 241 ERA. He's been lights out. Frustrates me. They just bumped his change up up. It's really not that crazy. Bumped up his cutter and his change. change up throws a change up just as much as this forcing this is Anderson it's not that jarring of a change but working for him so that's good all right let's move on to the second half of the show where

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IG, Facebook, Twitter to see exclusive content and deals. So thanks, Greg. Here's Trevor's standout. Yes. My standout performance goes to none other than my good buddy, Kyle Gibby Gibson. Eight innings pitched against the Marlin, seven hits, but only one earned run. He had the six-ks. That one earned run was on a solo shot, but Gibby had it all working.

The two-seamer or the sinker, whatever you want to call it, was nasty. He got jazz chisholm to give like the helmet thing where like you take a swing on a pitch, like an off-speed pitch. You swing so hard that your helmet goes, he got jazz doing that on a change-up. Jazz is wearing shades that looked just like mine. That's interesting. But the biggest K came on this pitch to Solair. Three-two.

It looked like Solair thought he was in a back door, the two-seamer. Well, that thing came out straight and then dove the other way. Slide ball, Solair looks silly on it. Phillies have been a surgeon if they want to continue that and try to topple the Mets and the NLEs. Gimmie's got to be a big part of it. And I think this eight innings pitched one earned run on only 89 pitches.

That's a good start. Shout out Gibby. All right. Thanks to Trevor Plouffe, giving Gibby his standout. Sounds good. I think we can just say when a pitcher does that to a better, that he bobbleheads them. When the helmet starts bobbling.

I like that. That's pretty easy. Higgie does that a lot. Yeah, I mean, if he takes the biggest swings ever, though. Like it's kind of a compliment. And he's got great hair, so he's kind of showboating. Oh, okay. Yeah, it, we love Gibby, A.

Still kind of pissed at him about the 10-game win streak. So I'm kind of beefing with Gibby. Maybe he was in the clubhouse in the outfit, and then they lost. You don't know. I don't know. You don't know NATO. I don't know NATO. If Gibby goes, I mean, Nola's having a monster year.

Wheeler's having a monster year that, yeah, it's why. you get talked into about the Phillies. And David Cohn. David Cairn. On towing the slab with a Yankees pitching coach Matt Blake, if you like baseball talk. Coney is just drooling at the mouth because they're talking about Clay Holmes Sinker that when it catches the seams, that seam shifted wake and how it just goes.

And Coney was like, yeah, back in my day, that used to just be, you'd throw one of those and you're like, that was badass. And he's like, now you know how to throw that. And Gibby's talked on our show a little bit about that. that he might have found something. Might have. I'm giving my standout to Miles Mickelis, unless you have chosen him already.

I think he's a Michaelis, but I have not. Michaelis, we've talked about him before. The lizard king, ate a lizard once. That's all I can think about when I see his name, which is unfortunate, because I don't really like the video of him eating a live lizard. You've watched it? Yeah.

Did I? Yeah. Did I like it? No. No. He puts a live listener's mouth and eats it. I watched that. Yeah, we're probably J.JR.

We watched it. We've watched it. I don't want him. Yeah, no, it's not like that cool. The only run that he allows reaches on an error. And then, well, you know, Brian Reynolds reached on error and then Voguey hits him in on a ground out. And that's it, man.

He had a no hitter going into the night. One, two, three, three, five. One, two, three in the six. one, two, three, and the seventh. One, two, three, and the eighth. And then he's an out-of-way, and it's a ground rule double. Yeah, right out of Harry Bader's reach. Pretty impossible play, but Harry Bader,

a guy who pried himself on, you know, his defensive prowess. Would have been, see, that would have been badass if Bader somehow gets to that ball. And then it's like, oh, my God, for the no-hitter. Yeah, and St. Louis is excited, and we tweet, like, chill out. And you got to be very worried about his arm. I hate to be this person, but 129 pitches. Yeah.

They left him in to do it. Yeah. He threw 85 before that, 107 before that. We're talking high stress 109 pitches because he's chasing something down. So hopefully he's all right. But his last two starts for Miles have been awesome. Aiding's pitch two-run runs, 8.2, 0 earned runs. I wonder if they could.

But I would give him a day. I would hope. I don't know what the car. knows can do. So they have an off day today, and Jack Flaherty just came back, so maybe they can give them a six day and maybe this next start is 85 pitches or something like that, and you try to reset. Yeah, you got to balance it a little bit somehow. Cool. Well, that's my standout. And next up is you. Nice one, man. Thanks, dog. Killer boots, man. Um, Oh, it's a pull over. I, so I thought someone took Paul Goldschmidt. He was highlighted for different

reasons, but you just talked about the Cardinals. And I want to talk about this team that's winning 14 straight games. And, Jimmy, I want to talk about an OG talking baseball guy, an OG you guy, young, thick, Austin Riley. James, we know about his massive season last year, kind of the full-blown breakout. He puts up, he puts up a two-home or day. Well, three for four, two Jimmy Jacks, not a big deal. James, did you know this?

Austin Riley is now tied or leading the National League in home runs with 18. Austin Riley? I didn't know that. Okay. I like it. Got a look on your face. I like it. Jim, he also, I believe he's played every day.

I talked about this with Dansby Swanson at shortstop. I think Youngthick Riley's out there every day at third. Yeah. Would you like? I could see Austin Riley and Pete Alonzo being at the same family barbecue, but they're like, you know, three cousins once removed or something like that. And each family talks about them in the same manner. And they finally meet.

They're like, oh, yeah, yeah. People say, I'm like you all the time. Yeah, yeah, yeah. In the 14 game streak, he's got six homers in that time. He's a stud, man. If he came back to Earth a little bit this year, I think we would all be like, well, you know, baseball's tough.

He had the breakout year. Maybe pitchers are learning more about him. His stats are, the OPS is there, and I think he's getting a little hotter that he might catch up on some of the other stuff. But a big part of the reason they've won 14 in a row. Good job by Youngthack. Love them.

A quick segment for you here. This is a brand new segment that's just being added to the show as we speak. There are eight baseball players with the first name, Austin in MLB. You have 10 seconds to name all of them. Go. Austin Riley. Austin Bryce.

Austin Meadows. Austin. Austin. Austin. Um, Austin. Dad. You've died. How many did I say?

How many Austins did I say? You got, did you want last name too? Riley and Meadows. First name you did. name you did really well. I think you only got seven though. You did miss one. But last name, only Riley and Meadows. You didn't get Barnes, Hayes, Romine, Hedges, Nola, or Slater. I think I just said their first name. Yeah, you did great first name. It's two different

scores we were keeping. Okay. Cool. Let's go to the next segment of the show. People wearing hats. Trambois. Now, these kind of are tricky because we're less. games, so I don't know. Probably got no games. Andrew Benintendi, 2 for 8 with a double and a walk. It's decent.

I don't know. 8.33. Corey Seeger, 4 for 12 with a homer and a double. Corey Seeger's off. Jeff Courtney. Luis Robert, 5 for 13 with 3 RBI's hit by pitch. He's off. I mean, the White Sox got 22 hits in game 3 of their series.

It's a lot. 22 and like four walks. Austin Meadows. There's an Austin. three for 10. That's 300 with a double in two walks. And on the Tigers, that's like hitting 800. Yeah, he's off. Tiger short five runs, first time, ninth time all season.

Jorge Solair, three for 13 with the double, 231, no walks. I hit by pitch. He'll stay for now because you want to get him right. Trev just talked about him getting diced up a little bit. That's rude of him. Jorge Salar's hot. Alex Bregman, 0 for 11. That's not good.

Josh Bell, 0 for 9. It's got to be just two games, though. He's all got to be. Oh, Acuna, definitely. Oh, Acuna and Aerona. Both had not great series. Acuna's had a not great, a couple games now. Yeah.

Not terrible, but this last series is bad. So they're on, and then who do you want? You want, Baez, Bell, or Bragman? The three B's, dog. Who do you want? I would go, it's not bias. Yeah. I mean, that's a pretty decent week for a tiger's hitter.

great, that's not bad. He had an RBI. You what, do you think people are going to be mad about that one? You think Ray's going to come at me? Don't sleep on the tigers. You're not hitting anything. Jimmy hates the tigers. That's what they'll respond to that one.

Know what I'll say? Yeah. I love the tigers. And then I'm good. Yeah. I'm between Bell or Breggman. Bell, you get some trade value type stuff, right? Like, that's going to be a part of this season.

Bregman, you know, Houston's good and we want him to be good. and I'd like them to have a race. Like, I'd like someone to challenge the Astros. I don't think it's happening. Okay. We'll put Bell for trade value. We do. Sorry, Bregs.

He reads a lot. Sorry, Braggs. Sorry. That means I'm on fire, baby. Like Waco. Goldie, you were saying something about him. I love Paul Goldschmidt. And Jim, this is why.

Okay. 10 for 16. Four homers. Two devils. Nine RBI. With three walks. Yeah. Nuts.

The dude's out of his mind. Your guy Ryan Moutcastle, weren't you telling me? He's starting to swing for power. He has got Pop had a two homer day. Orlando, Ah, shea. Trying to win that second base job.

Seven for nine helps. Sure does. Two homers. Reese Hoskins, he's hot. You were saying that. Tell him to try to be a friend to him again. Yeah. Jose Brayu.

had a kind of a game-ending home run, 8 for 13, two home runs. Vladdy, yep, getting hot. They're excited about that. They say he's still not fully there, but he's getting there. Oh, yeah. Jorge Alfaro, five for 10 with two homers,

and Ozuna, five for 11 with two homers. Wilson Contreras sneaks in as we need. He's got to get traded. A lot of the, a lot of the cubbies do. Yeah. Not of them do. What team do we want Wilson Contreras on? Because we're Yankee snobs.

We thought catcher might be an up pretty before. the season, but we've kind of loved it. Who needs a catcher? I think people keep saying Padres at them. Padres? Okay. With the Mets? I mean, McCann's coming back.

Al Faro's in Florida right now, so just rude. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. No idea. Do they want to do another trade with the Mets like last year? They're finding all new teams to trade with. It's true. No repeat customers.

Sound off. Here's Trevor's. Oh, do you got Kelsey's thing? we always forget about it. Who's awards brought to us by someone, too? Give me with the Kelsey Awards. I need to hear it. Awards.

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For my award, I'm going Tolkien baseball. The award is called Look to the East. Now, you probably already know this scene. If there's any scene in any movie that gets Coach Treve fired up, and I'm talking like fired up, Roman ready, is this scene with Gandalf at the end of the battle for Helms Deep when all hope seems like. lost. Erdogan and Theodon ride out to try to face the Urukai head on. It's not looking good.

They're outnumbered. They're out man. They're outgun. Things are bad. You see the light from the sun start to shine over the hill. And Aragon remembers what Gandalf told him. He said, Look to my coming on the first light of the fifth day at dawn. Look to the east. Bam! There's Gandalf. Shadowfax goes back on his hind legs. The sun's there. The riders are row. Oh, Hanna with them. They come down the hill. Gandalf shines the light. The Eurichair, like, what is going on? Helms Deep is saved. Gandalf saves the day. This award is going to Tony Catterday Gonsolin. Now, the Dodgers did not know that the rotation needed saving. They didn't know that Kershaw would miss some time. They didn't know that Bueller was going to miss some time.

Hell, they didn't even know what Katterday was going to do for their team. Was it going to be the fifth starter? We're not sure. You know, what he did. He saved the day. He's been an ace for them. Go check out the baseball reference page. I mean, the last six starts that this guy has made. They've all gone at least six innings, and he's given up no more than two earned runs. The ERA is down to 142. The whip is down to 0.8. This guy is pitching like an absolute ace should be in the all-star game. I saw him live dice up the angels where everything was working. splitter, heater, the slurve.

The guy can pitch. His stuff is electric. And Coach Trev told you it was going to be that way when I saw that ball hissing out of his hand. So shout out, Catterday. Meow, meow, meow, baby. You demand. Miao, me, meow. Trev gave such a smile after he said meow, meow, meow, baby.

I know for everyone else is just on screen right now. Yeah, baby. Look at the smile he gave. You'd a man. Catterday. Hey, you stepped all over this one. Trevor had been so mad actually. Yeah, I'm happy.

I'm happy. No, dude, I'm, because I said when I was talking about Catterday, I wanted to even talk about him more, even though we've been talking about him more because he deserves it. So I'm glad we talked about him even more. Nice.

God bless you. My award is the abstinence has a 99% success rate as contraception award. Okay. Who's it going to? Two guys get it. Garcia and Medon. Mm. For being immaculate.

Immaculate. Immaculate. Mary, sinless life. Immaculate conception. Yeah. Had a baby. Immaculate inning is much different thing, Jake.

It's a much different thing. And as we. said. Houston, through two of them in the same game. Has it happened before? I was reading it, and I didn't see anyone say that, but I'm guessing it hasn't, especially the same three batters. Yeah, that's tough. Garcia, Miller, and then Duran. Or no, no, no, no, no. It was, it was Lowe, Duran. Duran Miller. Lowe, Duran Miller. First time. Two different pitchers have thrown emaculate innings in the same game. Jake thinks it was bad umping. There was one call.

A strike three called off the plate. That was a little tough. I mean, it was tough camera angles down there. It was not in the box. It kind of wasn't close to the box. But hey. Screw that box, man. Screw that box.

History. Kirkajun's probably excited. Macculatings are cool. You like them a lot. I think they are cool. I do. I do. I like less than nine pitch inings, better.

Right. I guess. I think I'm constant with that. If someone has a four-pitch inning, I usually part of my recap. Yeah. You like immaculate innings how I like the cycle. Yeah.

I don't hate that. There's more, but I do think that there's obviously more impressive feats. Feats. Yes. But it's still cool. It's just cool. Yeah.

To just be like, whoa, one, two, three, strike, strike, strike, strike. One, two, three, strike, strike, strike. One, three, strike. That is cool. Thanks for playing. Yeah. Hello, good morning, good night.

Do you have an award? I do. Oh, I thought you were not giving an award this week. Shuba do up, do up, do up. I'm giving out the we want the beef award, Jim. We want the beef, not where's the beef? We want the beef. Not where's the beef.

Not where's the beef. I think that's copyright. Copy by whom? It certainly is a big bun. It's a very big bun. Big fluffy bun. It's a very big fluffy bun. Fun

Why is the beef Some ass James Between innings And the White Sox Dugout Yeah We see

Lance Lynn Your guy My guy And super Joe McEwing Crusher of Randy Johnson Former Mets great He's also The third base coach

With the Chicago White Sox We see them In a heated Debate And Lance Lynn steps up to the Mike post game. We had Lance Lynn on this very program. And he told us he's pretty cookie cutter in his postgame interviews.

If he has a bad game, he says he's kind of like, wasn't my day today. If he has a good game, he's like the team one. I love it. He's also a character, some other ones too. He is a character. Like he, Lance Lynn has fun with life. And him and Joe McEwing, they asked what it was about. and he said that he kept telling,

McEwen kept telling Lynn that filet is better than ribeye. And Lance goes on, he's like, I'm more of a ribe guy, but he's a filet guy. He's a filet and Caesar salad guy. Lance Lynn is the best. He does it all with his straight face.

And James, I got tagged in this a couple times, and I alluded to it during the episode. The White Sox need a little internal scuffle. The vibes were bad. big Lance Lynn is back. You want innings? You think Lance is going to give him some innings soon. Eventually, he's got a first start.

He's going to find it. He wasn't great. And Lance Lynn is a pretty big, you know, around 100 games left. You think Lance Lynn's freaking out? He's telling the boys, like, don't worry. I'm back. We're going to get more boys back. And, dude, the way they hit this weekend with a little internal fight.

Like, I want to be surprised. if we get a, you know, since the fire Tony chance, the White Sox are 11 and 3 in a little bit, something like that. I think they're going to start to go. I think it's that point of the year. Seeing how nuts their offense went with still having their rotation, it's White Sox time. I was kind of on the Braves. I'm not going to give myself full credit on this, but I thought with the Brave schedule and them

starting to click, they might go. I think it's White Sox time. I think in two, three weeks we'll be talking about them on top of or pretty close to the division. I was reading a lot of the up on the fight and stuff and people's thoughts and I was in the White Sucks subredits reading a little bit. And they shared the sentiment like, at least nice to see someone caring. And everyone thought Lynn was mad about the shifts. You can see him saying, no, I was mad at my yelling at myself. Guy who yells at himself all the time.

one of the bigger light switch guys who's like don't talk to him when he's on the mound because you're just going to get like an earful but off the bounty is like a like a silly little kid in most of his interviews like a jovial athlete yeah like a jolly guy and then like but like what are you doing joe mckeering it's his first start back yeah first pitchy through goes for a homer and then he gets burned on weak contact like you're going to go talk to that guy yeah are you a nut job maybe do you think randy johnson saw joe mckeering stuff of the plate and it was like, who the fuck is this guy? Look at that batting stance.

I think Randy Johnson was doing everything in his control to not throw the pitch right at Joe McEwing's wiener. He had a lot of hits off, Ronnie Johnson. Pitcher he had the most hits off in his career, Joe McKeown. Yeah. Johnson, 11 hits. You talk about a utility guy. Yeah.

Super Joe. Oh, Randy Johnson. You forget how. Ugly he was. I didn't say that. He's cleaned up really well. I mean, you know, you see him these days. He looks nice with his photo company, but the mustache and the mullet combo is undefeated in

ugliness. Randy Johnson is Shaq for me. Like just so dominant and so nasty. Like neither kind of recorded as the best ever for different reasons. But man, give me those guys in one game every time. Baby, who is our best friend of the week? It's racer eight for 13, two homers, triple, two double, seven RBIs, a walk. Third time this year.

Damn. He and Hap, have the most. Cool, cool, cool, cool. Are we stimulating, simulating? Do you want to? We're running long. Do we have it set up? It's ready. It's ready.

Fire it up. Stimulate me. Hit it hard, hit it fast. Okay, here we go. Where's my sexy music? What the, like, sick. Funky loop, that's what it was called. Okay, stimulator, simulator.

Let's talk about it in the American League. The Twins and the Red Sox would be facing off as a wild card match, a three-game set. Who's winning that? The Red Sox. Ooh, ooh, twins. Do it again.

Losing the first round. Blue Jays and Rays, Battle of the A's in another wild card game. Winner goes on to play the Yankees and it will be? The Blue Jays. Oh, it's a good, good, good, good. I like that. Now let's stay in the AL.

Yankees versus Jays right away. Who win? Blue Jays. Oh, my God. Cancel the fucking show. Astros and Red Sox? Astros. Oh, my God.

Dude, I should have saved that for the end. I'm a completely lost steam. In the NL, the Cardinals and the Giants play a wildcard game against each other. Some history, some fun. Good Fran bases. Cardinals. Fran bases, huh? Cards.

To a trailer. I think that was somebody's name. Padres and Braves. That's a series that are. I don't really want to see. Braves. I'd like to see both those teams against other teams. Okay.

Braves beat the Padres? Yeah. Wow. And then the Braves and the Mets play. Oh, no. The Braves are looking to repeat the cards and the Dodgers. Cardinals. That's unbelievable.

Now we have the Cardinals and the Braves. Huh? In the NLCS. Who wins that? The Cardinals. Wow. And the Asherals. Astros and the J's in the American League CS, and who wins that?

Astros. Astros, Cardinals World Series? Holy smokes. And it goes to Cardinals. Cardinals win the World Series, the stimulator doing its thing today. Unbelievable stuff. Thank you guys for tuning in. We appreciate you.

Hope you have a great weekend. We're going to go play some schoolyard puck. And Jake sucks. Thank you.