Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast) - Astros Throw a NO-HITTER that Changes the Entire World Series | 571

Episode Date: November 3, 2022

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Hello and welcome to talking baseball history. A no hitter in the World Series first since Trev's Don Larson to talk in baseball. Little players only in the playoffs. Jimmy literally getting puked on right now. And so did Philly's offense last night, Trev, BBD. History. It was kind of a weird one because it was, I don't know. There's a lot of buildup in Phillies in this Phillies offense, and then they're, and then they go quiet.

Trev, how you doing, dude? Jacob, BBD players only. Here we go. I'm sorry for James. I've been a part of something like that before. It's not fun. So we're sending our best to you, buddy. What a game.

The Jets. Dang it. I just have to use my big word, bro. Oh, no. The juxtaposition of these two games. That was your big word? that you were wheeling out for the people. Oh, man, I had it so good, too.

But these two games back to back, bro, are incredible. You set the World Series record for homers in the game and then you go out and get no hit. Oh, man, A-Rod just says it best. It's baseball, baby. What an open. What an open. Man, and that Trevor Ploof Open was brought to you by Seekke.

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I got a little bit of a burn. I say we do that. We get through it and then we dive in because, yeah, I mean, the Phillies offense was the story of the playoffs and now a little bit of history. So if you got for the most one, a little warehouse burn. It's not special. Oh, Phillies up two games to one over Houston.

Aaron Nola, the LSU tagger, whose last name is literally, Orleans, Louisiana versus Christian Javier Bardium as he tried to keep the sky from falling on Houston's season. We're scoreless into the fifth. Bacest his hucks. We're bringing in Alvarado first pitch. Oh, right off your dong. Hit by pitch is one nothing, Astros. And then Greg E. Smalls, he's sicker than your average. Three nothing after the two RBI double. Honest Kyle Tucker hits the sacrifice fly to get one more running, and then Yuli, you lie. Oh, no, and it's 5-0. Oh, boom.

5-0-Astros. And it would stay that way, Trev, because of the Phillies bullpen, and this Javier was perfect. He wasn't perfect. Two walks, but no hits. He kicks it to Abrae, Montero, and your guy guy. Brian and Presley. It's a no hitter in the World Series the first time we've seen this since Don Mars and kind of perfect game.

But Houston, they shut down the mighty East Lillies offense. They take a pivotal. Game four, five, nothing final. It's early. It's early. I added a B and pivotal. My friend Kyle said it sometimes. He goes, words are hard.

It's true. we're, I mean, we're a labor pod that covers baseball now. So we're just figuring out this whole thing on the fly. Trev, I was watching this game with the Shea Station boys, Jerry and Jolly. We were having a good time. And yeah, man, it was one of those things where, you know, the Philly crowd was rocking. You're doing this whole, the difference between 3-1 and a 2-2 series is so massive. Nola was bending, not breaking.

he breaks and then you're like, wait, the Phillies don't have a hit? So I don't know. Give me walk through this game from your perspective for me. Yeah, you know, we saw that Javier was on right away. Nola, you're right in the second inning, you know, some big strikeouts. You're thinking like if you get through that, are you going to settle down? And he did until he didn't. And that's kind of been the theme of this series.

and a lot of the postseason actually these big innings, five run innings, massive crooked numbers. And both these teams can do that in a heartbeat. We saw that last night with the Astros. That inning was pretty nuts. I think a lot of people are talking about Topper's decision to go to Alvarado there. I think in the moment everyone was kind of in on it. You know, Nola loads the bases. Who are you going to bring in?

You know, they have Alvarado out there. rested and the first pitch he throws, maybe a little too rested, right? Right? And Yordon's butt, just right on it. And you're like, okay, one nothing. Here we go. He gets ahead of Bregman. Looks really good on him, but Bregge's at bat was just, that was incredible, dude. And he kind of like made an adjustment, made a bat. You kind of saw him like, I don't know if he's going up there trying to pull the ball, but that's what it seemed like he was doing. And then he's kind of like settled in to just be like, no, man, you can't really do that. against Alvarado and laser to right field.

What a beautiful, beautiful swing there. They add on, then you're right. Javier was pretty much untouchable. And some of the stats that are coming out now about his last six, seven starts are like incredible. Even in the playoffs, I think he's only given up two hits in the playoffs. It's pretty amazing to see. And then, you know, their bullpen.

It's untouchable as well. I mean, this is the kind of team the Astros can be. They can just come and absolutely abuse you. I mean, you saw it firsthand this year because there was another combined no hitter against your team. They looked pretty similar to this one. So this Astros team is scary, man. At any given moment, they bounced back from that game yesterday to do this. And that's why they're the favorites.

Yeah, and with the Phillies who had been kind of dominating in Molling, in their own fashion. We talked about them breaking history the night before the juxtaposition, if you will, with their offense. We've talked a lot about high-level talent. It's kind of part of the reason I've bought into this Philly's way. And I hope going forward in baseball, we see teams paying for the high-level talent and figure out the rest because I want to believe in talent in baseball and sports and less of the, yeah, my organization gets the best out of everything. like, no, go out and get Castellanos and Real Mudo and Harper's and those guys. Christian Javier was their fourth starter in this series.

Their fourth. And yeah, if you chop up his last five starts, I don't think he's giving up an earned run. They got to combine a hitter earlier this year. He is 25 years old. And yeah, it's one of the most beautiful things about baseball when you get into pitch mixes and how guys do it. I mean, this guy's essentially a two-pitched dude. And 70% of them are 94 mile per hour heaters,

which, hey, don't get me wrong, that's nice. But Alvarado comes in and he's touching 101. And, you know, it's the story of baseball is the Velo, Velo, Velo, but whatever Javier's fastball has on it, and I think it's got to be that rise that makes it one of those invisible balls that you'll hear a prospect in your organization throw. I don't know if your prospect throws one, but I guess this guy does because, man,

don't get me wrong. He was dotting. And when he was mixing in the off speed, he was throwing nice ones and locating that too. But there were some 93, 94s that had a lot of the plate. But some of the best hitters in the world, your Schwabers, your Harper's, the heart of that Phillies lineup, who are all hot or were coming into this game, they couldn't square them up. I mean, do you think after a little bit, does that,

get more mental than physical? Or, I mean, do we have to say, you know, obviously Javier was incredible? I mean, I think look at the bottom of the fourth inning. And he goes through Riyomoto, Harper, Castianos, strikes him all out swinging. And if you watch the game and you just consistently saw the Phillies underneath the baseball. And almost on both pitches, too. You know, the slider sometimes he would kind of sweep instead of kind of come down. and you'd see them swinging under that one, but specifically the fastball, it's not necessarily rise.

I know we kind of use that word to describe it, but it just doesn't come down as much as other people's fastballs. And once you sit there as a hitter and you've seen, I don't know, a million pitches in your life and 99% of them kind of come down at the same angle and you understand like the trajectory of the ball and where your barrel needs to be in relation to where you last see the ball. And then there's a couple guys, you know, the elite spin guys, the guys, the guys, the guys that just have this and the ball just doesn't go or it's supposed to go and that's the bottom line dude that's why you see like Bryce Harper goes what the fuck man I think that's what he said like

what the fuck bro like he just it's you are up there and you're expecting to barrel the ball and then you just don't hit it and it hits the catcher's glove and you're just it is mentally frustrating you know what you have to do you know you try to tell yourself get on top of the ball but it's just again, the visual is so tough. And sometimes or most of the time you saw Javier going up top. Then every once in a while he kind of pulls one down. And that thing looks like as a hitter, like it's going to hit, you know, the grass. And then it just rides and stays there at your knees.

It's a very difficult at bat. And like you have to, you know, for these Phillies hitters, not many of them have seen Javier. You have to see these guys a couple of times and like figure something out a key for yourself. to make your barrel go where it needs to be because it's just not natural. And you're going to get a lot of unnatural swings and just, I mean, you're right. If you just look at the miles per hour and kind of the pitch makes, you're like, what? But really, if you just watch the swings and how far away some of these guys are from the ball

and consistently swinging under it, it's cool, man. I hope whatever Javier has, whatever Ranger Suarez has, of Nester Cortez Jr. has, whatever these pitchers that, you know, it looks just a little different when they do it, but it's also incredible. I mean, this is a no hitter in the World Series. And I know the combined no hitters, not as sexy, obviously, but I also don't care. You shut out the Phillies and you no hit them, that there is an extra twist of the knife there. The bullpen deserves as much love. I know Javier goes six with two walks and nine Ks. everyone knows that baseball feeling when a starting pitcher is dominating and someone comes out of the bullpen.

And you don't care who it is. You say, all right, thank God. As long as I don't have to see that guy anymore, what does a bray you do? Strikes out the side. And then you got Montero who comes in and, you know, he looked like a world beater. He looked well rested and back at it. And then your boy, Presley, who, you know, his pitch mix from the closer position is, unique and fun and wipeout.

So I think before getting to the Phillies and Alvarado and, you know, what what they have to look at inside, obviously the pitching that's going to get talked about for the no hitter and just how dominant they were. And then one inning, one inning putting a crooked number up there. And that's, that changes the tie to this whole series, man. I mean, 3-1 with the Phillies in Philly. having been undefeated with a chance to win tonight,

or Houston with JV back on the bump, knowing it's going back to Houston for two, to put that fifth inning together, and for each of their pitchers to put that performance. I mean, that's a 106 win Houston team that is trying to show the world that they are those dudes. Forget about the no hits. this little equation for Dusty, this is what he wants.

My starter goes six, a nice quality start for six, and then I can bring Abrayu, Montero, Presley. I have other guys, too. Don't worry, if we need more, I got more, but this is kind of, these are his guys right now. Yeah, the pitching is, you're right. Usually when a guy's no hitting you and has nine case through six innings,

anyone looks appetizing, but not these dudes. It's kind of like more of the same. It's a lot coming at you. You feel like you can't breathe as a hitter sometimes when you know you're facing a staff that is, you know, one rested and two just filthy and feeling it and hot. Like, you know, sometimes these guys will go through some cold streaks, not right now.

And the Astros did exactly what we said they had to do. Like you got to silence the crowd, okay? I know they didn't score until the fourth inning, or was it the fourth inning or the fifth inning? The fifth inning. But Javier not letting them get any runs on the board or any hits. Like they had no chance to like cheer really, you know, a couple walks and that's it. You know, so sometimes you silence the crowd with the offense, but also you can do it if a guy's out there dominating the way Javier. We heard some boo birds out there last night.

So that's funny. The juxtaposition of the crowd cheering to the booze was. also interesting part of this world series. I think a great use of the word, Trev. I think we have to dive into the fifth inning because, I mean, honestly, Philly's in Houston-wise, not too much going on outside of that. I mean, you know, again, the part of the no-hitter was like, oh, was there that special defensive player or whatever?

Our guy, Gene put the barrel on one, but it was right at Tucker. I know expected batting average kings were all about that. It never had a chance to be a hit. There was really nothing. There's no hope. Swarber had a ground ball. They called foul that was close. Sheesh.

What did you think about that? Let me ask you this. This is Major League Baseball. $11 billion in revenue, apparently. That was the last number that came out. It's pretty good. 11 bill. Staying.

Peace. We need a little bit better technology on the basis there. I think we could do that. Maybe like a little like laser that just goes up. I mean, having the guy standing, like, right there and trying to look down at a ball going 100 miles an hour past his legs doesn't make a lot of sense. I mean, I'm not saying it was fair or foul. What had changed again.

Just saying, like, I'd like to have some changes. Would have been nice to have a little better technology than, you know, a 50-year-old man gets in on the fly. Getting out of the way. Yeah. You need to think about stuff. And that, man, yeah, that's one of those, I don't know, end of the day you get no hit so you can't really dig in your heels about that if you're Philly.

But yeah, it would have been nice to get that no hit off the board and what could have been a double with the runner on first, I think. Yeah, let's get the tech going MLB. It's not scary. This is. It is scary for them. You know what? Bring us in.

We'll figure it out. Me and travel get the perfect juxtaposition of old technology and new technology, and we'll figure it out. I've been watching this guy on YouTube called John. Boy showing me how like cricket integrated technology really well. Jim boy. Pretty good. Yeah.

Mid. Jim was mid. I don't. I just want to watch the games, man. Top five. Nola comes back out. He started, you know, he was, he looked like Nola when he was executing. He looked good.

It looked like in the fourth he gave up, he gave up a couple hits to Gurriel and Vasquez. We've seen especially, you know, I think it's something to watch going forward. Like we, in our heads, like, oh, World Series baseball, adrenaline pop. And dude, I'm tired. Like these players on the field are tired. These pitchers who are going extra innings than, you know, are your rotation who's at home right now, who's swinging the golf club or on the beach. These guys are still emptying the tank.

I think we saw it a little bit with Ranger. I think we've seen it with some of the Houston pitchers. when it starts to come unraveled in a World Series game, because your maximum effort, it's the World Series, I think it starts to come a little quicker than it normally does in the regular season. He comes back out for the fifth single, single, McCormick-Altuve-Pena.

They bring an Alvarado for that lefty lane that he executed so well last time, that first pitch. And it's something that, you know, I don't want this to be a shot fired at analytics because, you know, Alvarado hits him with the pitch. But when you bring a pitcher out of the bullpen and he's throwing off a new mound and he's in a world series game and he hasn't pitched in a few days, you got to get your ball bearings a little bit. You got the adrenaline pumping hits your on. Where'd that hit him?

A little hit flexor. It's in the butt. I don't know. It's the best place to get hit. If you're going to hit right up there, he's going to have a big bruise, though. Those things bruise like a mofo. 99. to that to that big booty judy um and then bregman you talked about his at bat um that's that's

on alvarado and on bregman uh breggy takes a hundred the opposite field uh the only thing that not to be shots at bregman it's not it's a it's it's it's at alvarado oh two you can't you can't put your sinker over the plate so Alex bregman uh and that simple swing John Smoltz all over it. Just put the barrel out there, flicks it the other way. And then you get, you know, Altuvae and Pena score. There's still no out. So sackfly single, Bing Bong, it's 5-0.

So I don't know. On that inning, what do you have, Trev? I think, you know, that was the right move. You have Alvarado. You mentioned how he's navigated that lane before. It just didn't happen for him. I mean, it's a tough part of the order to get through every single time. You're going to have times or they get you.

I mean, starting off the first pitch, smoking, yord on the butt. That doesn't help your mental out. Though he came back to the next pitch and dotted one up on Bregman. So, like, I don't think it phased him much. I think we just have to give credit to the Astros for putting together good at bats against a really tough pitcher when they needed to do it. I mean, Bregman, yeah, he gets down 02, but, you know, he hits the mistake. and mistakes of 100 miles an hour

they get hit less often but Bragman's a dude I can't tell if he likes me or hates us I don't know what's going on with him ever our relationship is complicated Kyle Tucker puts together a nice abett you know lefty lefty get in the sack fly you know got a good chunk of that

and then Gurriel comes through I mean they're just a they're a good team and they're going to get you you're not going to go through this order especially the middle like that when with runners all over the place and come out unscathed every time. It's just not going to happen.

It didn't happen with the Phillies. They knew that they were going to get up some runs at that point. Two runs is a different ballgame than five runs. The Astros just handle those at bat so well. And once you have down five runs and you have a guy in the mountain doing what he's doing, I mean, that takes the air out of the stadium. You know, it hurts inside if you're the Phillies. They'll never admit that.

But you understand it's going to be tough to get back into the ball game. Yeah, I mean, five's that magic. number from the first game. So I mean, if you're, if you've got a pitcher out there that, you know, you're getting a couple hits here and there or you, you know, fouling off good, good pitches or some, you say, okay, you know, if we could put a one or a two on the scoreboard and, you know, make them think a little bit and we've got all those homer threads. No, you don't have got a hit. So that just super impressive all around by Houston. And, and yeah, it's, it's something that I'm going to try to, I don't want to say tap into more, but Peter was all over this. Jerry was all over this

who are so similar in their beautiful ways and also so different in their beautiful ways. The adrenaline of being a bullpen guy, Alvarado ran out of that bullpen in a crazy Philly crowd and he was telling himself, I'm about to strike out the damn side. And this place is going to erupt and I'm going to keep a zero on the board and we're going to go nuts. First pitch, boom, you just hear the, you hear the balloon pop. And I think we saw it in other examples this postseason. I know people don't love when we only tap into Yankee examples, but Clark Schmidt got a big double play ball against these Houston Astros.

I sent them back out. Fis pumping, stoked, cloud nine, comes out for the next inning. And the energy and the adrenaline just isn't there. He comes out flat, gets pop. I don't know, something to, as we figure out more of these sciences of baseball, ball that are real and with feel. The adrenaline coming out of there, man. I mean, that's, I don't think people really think about running in from the bullpen

with that Philly crowd. Base is loaded, no outs. Like, you're, you can't, you can't replicate that. Is that the word? I don't know. Juxtaposition I don't think is the word here. It's not there. I don't think so.

No. Okay. Yeah, no. That's 100% right. I mean, that's why we always talk about guys that look like they can just chill out there. That's why we give them so much praise. We talk about even Javier, they call him the reptile because he's cold-blooded. Like, this dude is, that separates dudes.

And I don't think Alvarado is out there going crazy, but yeah, there is the adrenaline there. And I think, like I said, he did settle down to Breggling. He just made a mistake on that O2 pitch. And that's when all the runs come in or two more, I think, came in on. that one because Yordon was like his butt was still hurt and he's like can't run that fast. Yeah. Can't run that fast. My butt hurts right now.

So they only got two on that. But yeah, I mean, it's just this Astros team. I think we just have to continue to give credit to them. Pitching, the timely hitting, professional at bats, understanding, you know, that they did need to worry about last night's game. They just needed to get back to Houston. They're doing it, man. they're in a good position right now, a very good position.

And like, this series has been going back and forth. Like we thought Philly's, hey, you're, you are looking good. Go, you know, you win tomorrow night's game, talking about last night. You're going to win the World Series probably. And then Astros just came and snatched it. Put those orange jerseys on and snatched it from. Oh, are we still getting the powder blues tonight from Philly? Yeah, I mean, I'm actually stoked the Astros'

tied this thing up, but I want this to go seven. I think this is a great series. It also would have been cool to see Philly trying to clinch in front of the home crowd against Verlander in the baby blues. Like that's that's a fun like script, right? Right. Like that would have that would have felt a little iconic. But yeah, and I mean, before we get in tomorrow, good on Houston again. 57-year-old Yulee Guriel steals a base in this game. That guy is just completely unreal. Three-for-eight with runners in scoring position for the Astros, all, you know, in that big inning.

And they dominated this game that was, it's a World Series and every game is important, but the difference between 3-1 and 2-2, with the Phillies to win at home. And we're talking about blue unis. Instead, this is going back to Houston. Verlander Cinderguard? How's your, I mean, that's a, if a video game told you that a few years ago,

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Go check out Roman. Ro.com slash talking 20% off. Trev, you were a little creeped out by how I introduced tonight's game between the Phillies and the Astros. So I'll let you do it. It was like the noise you made. You said if a video game told you about this matchup years ago, you would have went what? I guess I was letting out my nerdy out of the park baseball a little bit. Jolly jally poked me last night. They're like, if you were projecting a World Series four years ago, like Noah Cindergarde being

the starting pitcher in game five, he'd be like, all right, yeah, like he's, he's Thor? Is he, are we looking for him to empty the take and throw seven tonight? Like, no, I think high end might be three innings pitch. And then on the other side of it, big JV, who's, I don't think he's. been as sharp as he was the regular seasons this playoffs. He essentially has a chance to drive a dagger through Philly because if he, if he's special tonight, Houston with two games at home to close it out, I don't know. I hope we get outside of game one, which wasn't really back and forth.

It was most, it was big lead, caught the big lead. If we could get the back and fourth game tonight in Philly, I mean, it feels like the only thing this series has been missing right now. I'm interested to see Thor. I think that's JV. I guess that's a tale as well. I mean, we've talked about like the struggles in the world series and can he shake that? He didn't look great game one. Like, you know, like they got to him in game one. So I'm curious to see what's going to happen on that end. Like he has that that ride that they had trouble with last night. Seeing it two nights in a row, is it going to be easier for the Phillies hitters?

Probably. So look for that. Let's maybe see some more of this from JV tonight. And then on the other side, Thor, yeah, I mean, the leash, this big. You have to if you're tougher. This is a must-win game you have to manage like it. I want to see when he's going to deploy his high-leverage guys. Like, is he going to throw Alvarado right back out there?

or is he, you know, what's that decision going to be like? It's going to be difficult to keep these Astros bats down. Like, you're going to give up some runs today. I think if you're the Phillies offense, you understand. We're going to have to bang today. We're going to have to score five runs at least today. So good at bats. Let's get guys on base.

And I think scoring early will be the key in this game. I think it's been that way all throughout the series. And you probably said about any baseball game. But for some reason, with this crowd, I think either way, scoring early really helps the team. The Astros do it. Kind of calms the atmosphere down for them. They can breathe a little bit. The Phillies do it.

The place erupts, and here we go. The pressure's on the Astros. So it's, um, the series is just good. It's the bottom one. Tonight's game is awesome. The juxtaposition of these pitchers, one's going to win the Cy Young. The other team is throwing a bullpen game. Yeah.

The, uh, that English stuff. stuff. If the guy you got out of circle, for me is Sir Anthony Dominguez. How many outs? If he's good, if he's like lights out, it's World Series time, there's a chance you pursue a third inning. Oh, I was saying six. I'm saying six outs. He's looking for that.

He has two, two inning outings this postseason. He was throwing pretty regularly. You know, our Phillies here, they did wild card, DS, CSS World Series. He pitched in three CS games. He pitched in two DS games and a wild card. We haven't seen them since game one, October 28th. In the Padres game where he pitched two innings, he threw 34 pitches. So if he could be a little tighter than that, if he could get through two innings in

right under 30, I would maybe try the third because you have an off day coming up and you haven't used him in five days, I think. So for me, he's going to be the one that I've got circled. And he needs to be a part of the story because whether it's two and, you know, maybe Cinderguard gives a great effort and the Phillies bullpen outside of, you know, what was that fifth inning still has been pristine after Alvarado the boys came in and got more out so but Sir Anthony he's going to have to be special whether that's two innings whether that's you know one point one but it's the heart of that lineup at the right time I don't know but he's I think if you're the Phillies and we're talking about them tomorrow morning with a with a win Sir Anthony has to be a big piece

of it okay I just in my head went over like an all Ovarado situation. He's going to get that lane again. That's his lane. Yeah. It's the bottom line. He's going to get it again. And how is he going to bounce back from it? Well, he gave up two runs. The first game he pitched in the wildcard series against St. Louis. And then after that went like 10 innings with three hits and one run. So like he's bounced back before he can do it again. He's going to have to do it against Yorda, Bregman, and Tucker. That's difficult, man. But he can do it. And that's him and Sir Anthony, as we dive further into it, Sir Anthony is going to have to take that lane once because then that game won in Houston that they won, Alvarado took it once and then Ranger took it. But Ranger isn't available. So Sir Anthony, when he comes in and maybe that's going to be his test, he's probably going to have to go through Yordaun, Bregman, and Tucker at least, and then it becomes interesting because do you stretch it out the first way and do you tell him to get out Tuve and Pena? Or if you attack that lefty lane and then he's cruising

a little bit, then you've got the bottom half of that lineup. And maybe that sets him up to get the 2.1 or two clean innings. I don't know. That's what our boy Topper and the other fellas are probably discussing right now. It's so fun. It's like, you know, like in Game of Thrones, of dragons, they're all standing over like the war table. Yeah. And they know, they're putting their ships. And I don't even understand what they're doing. It's like, what is that about? Like, yeah, whatever. But you see it in the manager's office or their meeting room or whatever. All of them standing around, there's papers everywhere, coffee going.

You know, they're standing there. They always have their pants on with their undershirt, tucked in, looks weird. Yes. They're old. They don't. The lighting is probably not. I don't try to be cool, but most of them aren't. They're just kind of dorky. they're all talking about this these are the situations here are the lanes let's talk about it and most of the time

like these instances that come up during games like they have plans for every once in a while you'll find one and like oh shit what do we do now this is the fun part man this is like

if you're a coach this is what you dream about dude in the World Series at home or on the road whatever it is but coming up with a game plan they don't get to do that that much during the regular season.

I feel like this is super intense for them, and I like it. Chips are all in. You're, you know, if you're the Phillies off day tomorrow, it's a bullpen day. And I mean,

man, you wonder who else is going to step up. We saw Robertson come out last night. He has another clean inning. Afflin looked a lot better than he had previously. And, hey, if you got to circle another guy, if,

you know, we're hoping, or the Phillies, excuse me, are hoping for three from Sunday. Underguard. You know, that can also be 1.1. And man, a guy like a Kyle Gibson or a Brogden or Baladi, someone's going to have to

have a special outing. And that's kind of what the World Series is about. Or, or those dudes in Houston might just bust it out on both ends again and show you why they are those dudes. Brogden's going to have a lane too. I think that Topper's trusting him a little more. He's got a little bit of funk to him. So, like, you can deploy that at the bottom of the lineup,

kind of, like, messing with those guys. I think, I think that makes sense. Yeah, you're right. All hands on deck, baby. All hands. We will be all hands on deck. Tonight, we're streaming. I think Bebs, we might be trying to recruit the Ice Boys.

We'll see. That would be a weird game five. Always is. Um, Trev, you got anything else? I'm good, man. I'm excited for this series. I wish I was a screen with you, boys. Huge game.

Huge game. I have, so this is what's going to happen tonight. I have baseball practice, and then I'll be listening to the game while I feel. Baseball ball night. I'm in the music right now, I can't hear. Oh, Jake sucks.