Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast) - Blue Jays Dominate • Mariners Even Series!

Episode Date: October 6, 2025

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Hello and welcome to Talkin Baseball. Toronto pumps the Yanks again in the first playoff win in Seattle in about 25 years. Let's talk, Paul. You savage. Jorge Polanco still gets some. Oh, might be right. Hello and welcome to Talkin Baseball, presenting you by Seek. My name is Jake Storelli.

That is Trevor Ploof. Trev, I'll kick to you. Obviously, I'm down about the Yanks because it went about as poorly as it could go in Toronto for 48 hours. Your fingerprints are all over the Seattle victory. How are you doing, Big Sauce? I'm doing okay.

I told you I'm a little bit under the weather. I'm obviously going to play it. I'm playing through it, Jake, because that's what I do, and especially during the playoffs. think I'm going to miss something? Absolutely not. Tough one for you. I actually feel for Yankee fans right now. I do. It's been two non-competitive baseball games at the biggest moment.

Against the team that I feel like you guys have tried to little brother this entire year. Like at least online, that's what I saw. And it's just turned the exact opposite. We'll get into that one. Two great games so far up in Seattle that we'll talk about. But yeah, I mean, just when you think you got a finger on like what's going to happen in the postseason, like, shit is always just different. It really is. And that's the beauty of it, Jake. That's the beauty of life. You know, there's twist and turns.

It's free will. We are in a simulation that we think we are at least. But there's free will. Heavy. Heavy. Yeah, I mean, hey, careful with that shit, man. You're talking to a Yankees fan that was trapped on a train car in the heat. for about two hours today.

And that's outside of the two-hour train ride at Ari was. So, yeah, I'm in it. And hey, Blue Jays Yankees. Yankees don't treat Blue Jays fans as Little Brother. They just hate us. And they should in previous years. And now they are opening up a can. That first time, quote unquote, little brother has really brought the fight,

and they are pumping us. us. Unfortunately, we are going to save that for the second one because it was just a pumping. And I'll tell you how good you Savage was and how sick Vladis Homer was and how much they dominated. But we had something special happen in Seattle. And just a reminder, Seatkeek is bringing you guys this playoffs. And if you use code J.M. playoffs, you'll get 10% off your playoff tickets. And our special playoff editions of Talking Baseball are presented by Team Mobile. So whether you stream the game, check stats on the road,

or experience ballpark perks with magenta status, you're ready to stay connected wherever your fandom takes you with T-Mobile. Head on over to T-Mobile.com slash network. Let's do it. La Piedra, Louise Castillo, would hope to prevent Seattle from rock bottom as they'd have to go scoble diving against Terek to not lose the first two games of the series. scoreless until bottom four.

Marco Polo. Polanco goes yard call off scobs. It's one-nothing Mariners. It stay that way into the seventh. Twin homers for twins legend. Jorge Polanco, it's two-nothing. Mariner's top eight, Seattle. They get nailed by Josh's defense,

and they're torched up in Detroit again as it's a tied game after Spencer's two run double. but bottom eight Seattle's strength up the middle. Cal rallies them with a double, and Julio brings him in with one of his own, Senor smoke them if you got him, and blaze it, baby, because Seattle has won their first playoff game in 25 years.

Mariners even up the series at one game apiece. I gave away the standings. Yeah, you did. Both teams in the standings, one in one. A beautiful series, man. A beautiful burn by you. You mentioned my fingerprints all over. If you don't know, me and Jorge Polanco, former teammates. I brought him to...

Where were we, man? We were somewhere on the road. I brought him into... I believe it was a sacks. I bought him a couple suits. That's what we used to do back in the day, because we were gentlemen. Now it's just a bunch of hoodlums and hoodies and sweatpants on the airplanes.

But, man, what a series this has been? and he took some really good changeups and it was interesting man because the the mariners were laying off scoops change up the effect of this wasn't there like we usually see out of that Jorge gets that count to 2-0 right there and you're geared up for a heater

but because his slider is also 90 miles an hour 97 heater 90 miles an hour the slider and this thing was just center cut basically no vertical drop whatsoever. I mean, that thing was a cookie and polo didn't miss it, but that was just the start in this game, Jake. It was all they got off scubel. Jorge Polanco, that's a name that's going to be remembered in Seattle for a long time.

And good for him. I mean, going back to this offseason, I remember him coming off a weird year in Seattle. And when he re-signed, it was kind of like, okay, I didn't know that this was a happy marriage, But now look where we are today, that, you know, two homers off scuba. I don't think anyone's done that since Goldschmidt in 21. I feel like I heard that on the broadcast. Yes, 2021. Okay, nice.

And then the fourth, this is where postseason history blows my mind. Polanco is the fourth Mariners player with a multi-homer postseason game. It's Ken Griffey Jr. It's Edgar Martinez. and it's Jay Buneer. So that's insane. Polanco will be remembered by a bunch of Seattle youth that's been deprived of baseball for years.

Absolutely. The second homer that he hit off Scoobes was a 3-2 heater. And I think when you get to that count, he's like, well, we've been laying off the change-up. I hit his slider out for a homer already. He's probably going heater and just got another one, another mistake pitch by Scoob. It was a challenge pitch, I guess you could call it, but did a really good job there.

But then those kitties had some fight in them, and that was a really cool inning to see there. Brash on the mound, and torque comes up huge. Gets a fastball, which is obviously Brash doesn't, he's like 60% sliders, and it's a nasty one, but he's able to, like, shoot it down. A.J. Prisinski called it on the broadcast. He's like, look, this guy's on the slide. That's why he's late on that fastball. But it's also why I kept his hands inside of it enough to get the barrel there

and kind of like swim it down the line. I got stuck up underneath the right field wall, the little pocket there on the bottom, which allowed everybody to score. And at that point, I was like, oh, no, this isn't going to happen again, is it? He is, look, I mean, the Tiger's offense, there's some guys they can get you, but to be successful, they have to get, like,

the big hit at the right time. and if they go on runs with that, that's kind of what they, that's how they've gotten their victories. And I was like, is this going to happen again? But immediately following that up, Seattle Stars answered the call, man.

That was the thing. You got to have your dudes be dudes and in the bottom of the eighth. After surrendering the lead, you go out there and put one up, which is a beautiful thing. Cow with a great swing, and then Julio jumping on the first pitch.

I believe that was an off-speed pitch. Splitter. He goes and does it, man. It was a thing of beauty because Seattle, when we went there for the All-Star game, we watched the Home Run Derby. And I thought it was one of the cooler moments I've experienced at one of those events is when they were chanting Julio. And the place was loud. But, you know, it's the Home Run Derby. It's the All-Star Game.

It doesn't mean much at that point. It was cool. But before he hit that, the whole place going off chanting his name and to come through there. I mean, you could see how fired up he is. There's also a butt right on the screen right now. Crazy. What's up with that camera work? They thought they nailed it and it was straight into ump butt.

The producer's probably like, fuck. Stay on them, stay on him, stay on them. Oh, God damn. Here it comes again. Watch here. We're going to get the reaction. It's going to be great. Oh, big one.

But. Stay on them. Oh, dump butt. It is very Seattle right there, right? That's Seattle, baby. man okay there's still still layers to impact with this

I mean it's so much I know it's hard to I don't even know how to like approach games like this I know talk about brash and the pitchy through to Kerry Carpenter I know Carrie Carrie Gary got one slider that stayed up a little bit and you mentioned Kyle Finnegan there A the splitter which is feeling like the pitch of the postseason so far um

Hinch says before the game he'd like to stay away from Finnegan if he could and it's like well I don't should we even be saying that because that feels worse after what happened today and he leaves two splitters up to Cal and Julio and that ends up being the difference in that inning. Credit to send your smoke coming off a two inning outing which he'd only done three or four times this year and he looked nasty embarrassed the tiger's bottom of the lineup a little bit and you couldn't let Glaber or especially Kerry Bonds get another look at it because yeah I mean Carrie Carpenter is obviously the bad man.

And you're right, a couple of those Matt Brash sliders. Well, he was on them. So I thought Carrie was going to get him right there. He threw him during that at bat, right before the Tiger scored, he threw him a slider that he missed,

was a hanger. Then he went change up, which was a great pitch. But Carrie was on that as well. But he ends up striking him out on like the nastiest, backdoor backup slider. It wasn't on purpose. I think Cal was set up inside.

But as Wainwright said on the broadcast, these guys did a good job tonight. It was a ball the entire way. And you just saw a few other pitches go that way and stay out there. This one starts out, nips the strike zone, just as it crosses the plate. Great pitch by Bresch. I mean, dude, I'm so happy that the Mariners won that game. The Tigers didn't deserve to win it, man. They got three hits.

They got three hits. Okay, were they timely? Did Scoobel settle down and go seven and given that? Sure. But three hits shouldn't win you a baseball game. They shouldn't, man. And if you would have told me, Jake, you get your crystal ball out and you said, oh, hey, Luis Castillo's going to go four and two-thirds, and they're going to have to use five pitchers again tonight.

I said they're going to lose that game. But credit to them, they got the tub. I get that thought process, and they said that on the broadcast a little bit, but that was actually one of the decisions that got made in this game. That was different. Dan Wilson, instead of staying with Luis Castillo, he goes to. to Spire out of the bullpen. Yeah, because we were talking,

we were talking crap about him on our show yesterday. And Carrie Carpenter. Thank you for listening, Dan. We appreciate you. Yeah, they shoot the bullpen earlier. It pays off. Spire looks disgusting. And Carrie Carpenter has, you know,

pretty significant splits that, yeah, the tigers are only going to have so many opportunities, which that just feels so obnoxious to say, because isn't that like, that's short form for saying it's not a good lineup. Like, you know? I mean, it's not their calling card, Jake. I know.

So I don't think we hammer that point home enough yesterday with the lack of the move and why he made the move this time around. Carrie Carpenter, they're extremely drastic splits. He rarely faces lefties during the year. 638 OPS and only 60 at bats against lefties this year

as opposed to an 812 OPS and 373 of bats versus Ritey's. So he just doesn't see him that often and when he does he hasn't been very good. That's why we were shocked that didn't happen last night. Pretty standard.

We figured it would happen with Spires bringing him in at this point. So Wilson, look, that was his first playoff game managed last night. made a mistake, corrected it. I think you got to give him a pat on the back. He made the adjustment. That's what this game's always been about, Trev.

You know that. And then, yeah, just a note on that Torkelson double that does tie it up. It's something that I feel there's going to be another step two between pitching and defensive shifts that, you know, there's something too. Brash didn't want to keep showing him the slider. But also, look where Josh Naylor was standing on. on that right side of the infield.

It was only him over there that that makes me question the pitch even more because you're not aligned to do that. And in baseball, you know, like a football coverage, you kind of can't reveal fully what you're doing. Like, I don't know. It's just an interesting part of the game that I feel like the athletes and the nerds haven't fully aligned on you. I mean, I don't know.

I'll disagree a little bit there because Brash doesn't really have pitches is that Torkelson should be hitting down the line. Like that sinker, you should be rolling that over to the left side of the infill. That's why they have guys moved over there. The slider as well, maybe a punch one that way. But to inside out a sinker like that,

I mean, that's kind of like an anomaly. Unless you're a guy, the captain, Derek Jeter, and there's guys that do that, it's not typical for Torkelson, but it looks bad. When you're shifting and the shift gets beat, it looks like the, worst looking thing in sports.

And I get to play the result there a little bit. Huge for Seattle. Genuinely, when you say the year 2001 and think about what you were doing, like, that's, it's crazy. They have not won a playoff baseball game in that time period. And I don't know, it's, it's playoff season where we're separating the best of the best teams. And I just want to go back to Luis Castillo.

like, you know, Mariners fans were pretty bummed that Brian Wu wasn't going to be a part of this series, and I get it, you know, the quality start streak and all that. Like, Luis Castillo is still this guy. He finished his season with four starts, 25 innings to a 107 ERA. The guy has a nails postseason record that, you know, he came into today three starts with a 183RA. And again, like look at what different teams are having to tap into, whether that's lineup-wise or pitching-wise via injury. And here the Mariners go to this guy who, you know,

coming into any season, he could be the best Mariners pitcher. Yeah, I mean, they worked in the first inning through 25 pitches in the first. That was, you know, I'm sure at that point, that's when Wilson's head starts spinning with, okay, what moves are I going to make? And I'm probably going to have to make him sooner than later. right that that's what starts that off that thought process off um but again i'm i'm very happy for seattle uh i've been there a ton calling games we've done the all-star game it's always a great place to watch a baseball game i like the city uh there's been some interesting developments i

would feel like downtown but still just awesome i they deserved this one man like they needed to see their team win a postseason game in front of them and the big boy stepped up and i loved I love that it was Julio. I love that it was Cal. That's that to me. And then, you know, Josh Naylor, he makes the air, and then they come back and they pick up their teammate. He's expecting a baby.

He's not thinking about anything right now. He's trying to get through this. But it was just awesome. For the city of Seattle, great job. Naylor's thinking about his outfits a little bit. I didn't see it. He had a good one pregame. He had a belt.

He had like a, a, cheetah belt in this game and he had like purple diamond shoes last game. Oh, I saw the purple diamond shoes. I guess I didn't notice the, uh, the, I had a leopard skin belt when I was in high school. That was a thing. Whoa. Not real. Let's unpack that. Not real. That's good. I was a punk rocker. Uh, scubel. I think we all know who that guy is, but, uh, 43 strikeouts in his first five career postseason games. That ties him for second most in MLB history. He's tied with Mike Mussina. Number one is Bob Gibson. So yeah, scoobles in some rare air. Yeah, and the two homers, they kind of like take away from a great outing. Sevennings pitch two runs. That's

beyond a quality start right there. He gave the Tigers every single chance, but like I mentioned, three hits. Yeah. Yeah, it's crazy. Some of the at-bats, that bottom of the lineup outside of Jovey, some of those stats are looking really rough. Let's see, Gino having a tough postseason so far, Nailer, Randy, with some of the biggest swings you'll ever see in a baseball field. I was watching Gino after Polo hit those two home where Scoves gets mad and just strips them down. Like that's tough. It's tough to have school mad. I believe it up to the second one, it was a one, two, three.

Like, oh, all right, whatever. Next game off day tomorrow. Logan Gilbert for Jack Flaherty. So like I said, how I thought game one might have been the most important one for the Mariners. They flipped the script and now, you know, scuba at T-Mobile on a potential game five also doesn't seem as daunting. and Logan Gilbert, it feels like you might have the pitching advantage in game three. So they have now, in this five-game set, reflipped this series on its head.

All they got to do is win one in Detroit to bring it back home. Do you want to face scoble again? No, but now it's been three times this year that he started against you. And, you know, damn the numbers, you've won the game. Yeah. So I'm into it, man. This can be a great series. That J.P. Crawford Dragbunt, though.

I didn't know he has played the most games as a shortstop in Mariners history. That's pretty awesome, man. Pretty crazy. Him and Rod, right? And a good dude, cook the tri-tip. I cooked the tri-tip yesterday. We always go there. All right, let's do some Yankees, Blue Jays, folks.

The Yankees would hope to not go down 2O with their gladiator Maximus Fried on the mound, while the BJs would hope to suck the life out of the Yankees, savages in the box? How about you savage on the mound? Trey was unhittable. 5.1, zero hits, one walk, 11Ks, but could he get support from his offense? Toronto can only hang 12 on him in the first five innings.

My goodness, Ernie hits a Clement mixer. Welcome to the Varshow. Trey was great. Trey was great. Vladdy hit one for four. 12-0-0-Js in the fifth, so they played the rest of the nine innings anyways, but Toronto wins game one, 13-7 final.

Before I do the standings, I just want to do one thing. I'm going to do this for you and all your Yankees fans. The prayer candle. Wow. Yeah. Because you know what? You endured a lot today. Thank you.

Tough train. You've been streaming. I think you guys really need this. So this is for you. Thank you. Okay. Standings. Toronto,

2 and O, and 2. I don't know where to start here, Coach. I know it's not a fun thing for you to talk about, but there's a lot of Blue Jays fans that I think tune into our show.

They talk a lot of crap to me, but now that I'm one of them, we're like, we're in a 12 spot, Clement, Varsho, Vladdy, with a 90-second home run trot, maybe more.

I don't know. It was awesome. He deserved every second of it. I mean, we're seeing now. We talked about, damn this game, dude, it was a bloodbath again. It's the second time I've used that word to describe a game with the Yankees and the Blue Jays up in Toronto, a bloodbath. Canada is beaten the Yankees. Think about that. Not the Yankees, the baseball team, but the Yankees like America. Right.

Anyways, I don't know where I was going with that. I had something to say, and I totally lost it. It's all right. That was a passionate and patriotic speech. I think we've gone too far with... Oh, shh. Please. We talked about how this is a complete roster. They can play defense.

They can hit. They get starting pitching. Kind of figure the bullpen out. They really haven't had to do that in this series yet. So it's funny to me because we talk about, yeah, this is probably a better overall roster, the Blue Jays. But I get, I get fixed.

excited on the Yankees a lot. There's some big names there. There's some real, real talent with the Yankees, but there are some deficiencies, you know, on the roster as a, as a baseball team. And so, like, should we be surprised that Toronto's up to O? Should we be surprised? I don't, the way they've done it, yes, I think we should be surprised because they put a waxing on them. But, like, overall, I think Toronto's showing why, you know, why they are who they are, why they won the season series, why they got the advantage, why they got the buy. So I don't know, man, like, as much as I want to say, hey, the Yankees are, like, screwing this up and Toronto's just had a couple of really good games.

It's, I think overall, they're a better baseball team. They play a much better brand of baseball. That's what I'm trying to say, Jake. There's no doubt about that. And when Vladdy's hot and can hit homers, that changes everything. My tagline that I'm going to probably have to hide behind the next couple weeks was, if you don't have, if your team is not in these playoffs, you should be rooting for Toronto and Milwaukee because they both play beautiful brands of baseball

where every at bat is tough. Everyone plays defense. And yeah, you're right. Now that the postseason juices here, and Vladdy's got kind of his power swing. and Kirk has his power swing. Like that's the one thing you would be saying is missing from these two teams. And it was not. There was basically two games and there were two games.

But there was a 10 to one game and then there was a 12-0 game. Like the Yankees scoring those seven late, those are off Blue Jays relievers who aren't going to be in moments that matter the rest of the way. So hey, you could do the old baseball. Hey, maybe that gets some hot. Maybe that sparked something. And maybe it does. but the Blue Jays basically won a 12-0-0 game

and a 10-to-one game in the past two days, which is as dominant as you can possibly be. I was sitting around watching this game with a few football buddies of mine, and when Alejandro Kirk come up, they were like, who is that guy? And I said, well, let me tell you the story about him, and let me tell you his stats and what he does.

Ride on Q, base it to write. I'm like, this guy's just a hitter, dude. He's just a hitter. There are a fun team to root for. I went in the talking Yanx chat and I said, David Popkins for Twins manager next year. Because twins cannot beat the Yankees. David Popkins found a way to beat the Yankees

and it's just beat him into the ground with offense. He had the biggest smirk I've ever seen of any coach. Wanted you? Yes, of course I would. He got let go earmuffs by the fucking twins. I'm a twin. That's my team. T.C. Bears right there.

I got a Joe Ryan one, too. I work for him. But they're not in a place to be letting guys like that go. Now he's having extreme success, and he has the roster different, sure. But, man, he has to be, he has to say,

that's the greatest thing that ever happened to me. That's a... There he is. There's my freaking guy. You know what? And he was a good dude, and I said it when he got fired. It wasn't his fault. He shouldn't have got fired. It's just the nature of the business. The hitting coaches always get the brunt of it. And, man, look at that guy. Just living life.

He was having a good time, man. And he should have been. He should have been. Something interesting just while we're on the lineup, and they said it on the broadcast that I thought was interesting, because we get we get roped into the off season every year and when we do team profile and projections, then we hit this, we start getting loopy and we start saying like,

I don't know. Teams, teams five through 20, if it comes together with the baseball gods, they can have a very nice season. They were talking about Toronto's lineup, and they were like, you know, their big move was bringing in Santander, which, you know, actually kind of backfired.

They brought in Jimenez for defense. So in theory you're going another direction there. They just had a lot of guys step up and get better. We expected that from like, Bichette, who did, but he's not playing, which by the way, think about that.

And then no man, it's just like Ernie Clement, dog, Varsho, dog, Barger took a leap, Springer. I mean, dog who took a leap. That was the biggest one during the regular season was Springer.

Yeah. I mean, he's MVP votes. And it's just not what you, But if no one before the season was saying, you know what? I think George Springer gets to MVP form this year. But maybe that's hitting coach. Maybe that's health. Maybe that's something else.

But the Blue Jays are a fantastic team. And Trev, this is before we've gotten to talk about the rookie starting pitcher who went 5.1, zero hits, 12 strikeouts. Oh, was 12? I thought it was 11. It might have been 11. It might have been 11. my bad. It was 11.

It was 6. Five and a third, 11. K's one walk. Sorry. It was only 11. I mean, fourth ever big league start,

correct? Yeah. That's balls of steel. And I had the quote up from him because, you know, he said, he said, I'm built for this.

And he says, I was sitting there thinking about the comment I made the other day where I said, I'm built for this. and I was like, well, I better back that up. You know, you're in the moment,

and you're like, yeah, I'm built for this. And then after it was like, oh, shit, like it's social media. That's going to be everywhere. I better pitch well. And to go out there and do it in front of that crowd who's just thirsty, man. Like, I don't know.

I haven't been up there with you, but I've obviously played there. It's one of the more fun places to play in baseball. When the crowd is rowdy, it is just, it's awesome. I mean, And again, sports has a weird thing of connecting with us, and that's why you're probably listening to this, and we thank you, and it's why I'm sports obsessed,

but like, man, those Toronto games the past two days, I talked about the memory Jorge Polanco created for people. Those two 4 p.m. games, beautiful weather in October and Toronto, roof open in the Rogers Center, and they just pump the Yankees to double-digit lead. when like we were wondering about the pitching decisions like oh no Bassett no Scherer you know judge has good career numbers versus Gossman they just dominated the Yankees the past couple days and the Popkins hitting side of it that you know I got to the to the live stream

late today because I was trapped in basically a mobile microwave that wasn't mobile anymore was, you know, Jimmy, who's, you know, he's got a pretty good pulse on this. He thinks Toronto had something on Max, probably not a full tip, but something. Because I don't know, he really didn't have anything for them. And at the same time, the debate there is, I don't know, it's also strength or strength. I think that's how your guy Smoltsy said it on the broadcast. He's like, you know, Max Fried's intention. is to just get you out weak contact all that the blue jays are contacting going to put it in play

that it's you know in the first inning when you get the alexo kirk double play you're like ooh maybe maybe that's where max can neutralize these guys then they just started hitting frozen ropes that he uh wasn't long for this one i honestly i i prior to this year i would have said man like we got to stop thinking everybody has something on somebody else right i've now what i've talked to people around the league, it is rampant. It is rampant, and there is a hilarious Yankees side to this about a guy that they have in their organization that helps them. I don't know, like, maybe we'll get to it in the offseason

because it's a funny story and just like, I've said this a million times. I'm not a million times, probably twice. That's a long way from a million. It's fine. Buy Bitcoin, $2. Maybe you never know. If you're going to spend,

even a rookie contract $745,000 wherever the heck it is. If you could give five guys $150,000 a piece and say for the year,

your only job is to sit on this computer and tell us what pitch is coming. Go find it. Why doesn't every organization do that? They kind of do. Maybe not five guys And damn if I'm

I haven't heard this yet But I've been talking about a software program For a couple years now I'm assuming everybody does that as well So yes it probably is at this point Where we're looking and finding things More often than not Right

Like it wouldn't surprise me if Seattle had something on scobs change up Or maybe Jorge just saw it better Because he has a really good taste I'm just saying like I would have shot that down in a heartbeat and said, dude, like, it doesn't happen all the time. It's happening so much more frequently now. So guys got to be careful. They all got to wear those, like, gloves with no webbing.

And I don't know what you do, man. I hate those, by the way. Do you start doing the dempster? Is everyone going to start demstering, dude? Yeah. Yeah. It's interesting, man. I don't know.

I don't know. I do. I know that the Yankees are. down 2-0. The games went as bad as they possibly could. The spin zones from Yankee land are, you know, you haven't used literally any of your good bullpen, so they will be overly rested.

Toronto, right? Toronto, I believe, is supposed to be bullpen game day four. They don't have a fourth starter. So if you're the Yankees, you're, you know, You've made the task as impossible as you can. You have to win game three. Analytics Jake kicking in there. Throw me, throw me that 150K, pal.

You got to win that game three. But all of this playoff stuff we talk about, if the Yankees go up four to one in that game and the Blue Jays have a bullpen day the next day, they're probably not going to empty the chamber with their top bullpen guys. So, like, you need to create the ripple effect. And in game four, it would be Cam Schlittler that the last time we saw him, he had the historic rookie performance. So all of that is being said, that's trying to get any hope for the Yankees' offense, which has been horrific the entire postseason.

Do you, the game, we're done talking about the game. Beaver versus Rodon, that's going to be great. I think it's a fun pitching matchup for sure. The move to get Beaver for the Blue Jays, I kind of like was. like, what the heck? What are we doing here? Like, he's got a player option, I believe it is next year. Coming off of big time arm surgery.

Like, what are we doing here? But it's worked out for them. So good job. The judge postseason thing, that's obviously a huge narrative. It gets talked about a lot last night struck out in a big situation. But he's been hitting well. 444 average throughout this postseason. It has this done anything.

I know that the Yankees haven't put themselves in a great position, but has the judge answered the bell? No. Okay. He had one at bat that really mattered, and he didn't come through in that at bat. So, hey, like, he's not the problem. I'm not saying that,

but, you know, that Gossman at bat is currently haunting the team. that yeah and I Hey man it's lame New York stuff But it's secretly every team stuff like what do you do when it matters And these two games have been blowouts So like I unfortunately that's not not judge's fault But I can't really throw that into the mix When I've seen one at bat that was critical

And you looked unjudge like Even that ball that rolls past him in the corner today. It's just, it's just a little off. And he's, he's dealing with the throwing arm thing that, I don't know how much that's involved, but it's, it's, his numbers are crazy. He is not the problem. But he hasn't changed his own narrative. 0 for seven, 4Ks against Shane Bieber. Do you believe and do? I, in my mind, I was like, do judge for sure, Ray, Shane Bieber. It's a funny game. I think he got Bieber in a post. season start. Yeah, I'm just on

roto wire.com judge versus pictures I googles. Let me, uh, let me see if I'm like that. Because I, I said that earlier. A little Guardians, Yanks postseason series? Guardians Yanks 2020. So was the world real? But let's see. Yanks win 12 to 3 final. Colverse Bieber. What a game it was. Uh, judge off Bieber first inning.

He's got that in the back pocket. Whoops. You're different. You and you savage built for this. Something like that. Something like that. Yeah. To the beautiful people of Toronto,

that I'm saying that for both sides. The ones that are actually those awesome, true Canadians that we all know and like dream about. Like everyone wants a cool Canadian. friend like just kind of the the happy go lucky like never has a bad day type Canadian you're like I want that in my friend oh that's that's that's that's Minnesota that's who you're thinking right I mean that they're they're cousins up there um you know there's a lot of Toronto fans that have a lot of venom and hey fan how you want a fan uh there's lines for everything but whatever um there's

there's a chance this could be the complete dunk Like if they come out and chop the Yankees down early with that pestilent Blue Jays baseball, it could get ugly real quick. And imagine all those Yankees combos. What if they put up another game like this, Treb? What if we get another tent? Can you imagine? I, my guy Nick Turturro, I don't know what will happen to him.

Jimmy will be going to a dark place you'll be fine because you'll have to be because we're going to have to keep doing the show Yeah I'll be I'll be I'll be dead inside But you'll be good outside And yeah I don't want that to happen

I don't want that to happen It's in a weird way with baseball The Yankees Worst thing and best thing going for them Is that it went as badly as possible Like And it's just baseball ball and sometimes you can flip the script,

but they have to completely flip it. Like there's so many guys in their lineup that just look brutal right now. And yeah, Rodon's going to have to give a memorable performance. And so will Devin Williams, who was, you know, the ire of Yankee fans all year, Bednar who's been great, but these Blue Jays, they are so tough. Is there going to be just the shortest leash possible with Rodon? like, is that even what you want as a Yankee fan? Because I don't think there's a super deep, deep aspect to the bullpen,

especially across multiple innings. So I don't think that's what you can look at. Yes. Will Warren ate it today, so that helps. Yes, it's an elimination game. But the Yankees have two guys they like and two guys they think they like right now in their bullpen. The two guys they like are Bednar and Williams.

The two guys they think. they like are Tim Hill and Camilo Duval. Okay. That I don't know, man, those are four guys. Like, how many innings should you really be asking from them? So they need to start from Rodon. Like, worst case, a two-time through. And if that's the conversation, you might already be,

I was going to say, shit down the river. Is that a phrase? No. I think it's like up a creek with no paddle. That doesn't sound right either Up shit creek Up shit creek without a paddle Shlit

We're saying shlit For all the kids listening Shout out Ernie Clement Shout out Dalton Varsho Vladdy gets the freaking 2-1 pitch I mean 96 But 96 is average now

Inner third Like he freaking That was a bomb And you know Maybe you heard you Maybe you heard you guys saying, oh, he should have a fist pumped on a sack fly. Well, that's because that's why. I would have liked the fist pump more on that.

They can do whatever the hell they want. And they are. And they are. So, yeah, it should be a rowdy Tuesday night in the Bronx either direction. Yeah, there could be booze quick. If the Blue Jays come out in the first inning and score a run, it is going to be the boo birds. like you never heard before.

That's where I'm almost, you know, starting pitchers, sometimes they like to save a pitch for the first time through or whatever. If you're rode on, that first inning, that's like, like you have to treat that like you're closing the game, right? You got to get the crowd on your side. Interesting. Blood in the water. The Yankees normally do bad when there's blood in the water.

Toronto, Shane Bieber. Wow. Let's see, Trev. You got anything else? Love you, Pop. Two good games tomorrow. Dodgers-Fills, Brewers Cubs. You'll be live streaming.

I think everyone recognizes how hard you're working during the playoffs. So snaps for you. I'm giving it my best as well, people. Thank you for falling along. That's all I got. A final stat, because, you know, you mentioned, bus working and Dalt and Rob, John Joe's everyone.

Here's a stat. The Blue Jays have more homers than strikeouts this series, 8 to 7. Is this significant of anything? Thank you guys for watching. Or listening or however you consume talking baseball. Yeah, I think we're going to be live stream in Phillies Dodgers tomorrow night.

And if there's baseball, we're going to talk about it. Should that be my tagline? And if there's baseball, we're going to talk about it. Do what you do with the do. I like that. Like, why isn't that their campaign? I don't know.