Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast) - Both NLDS Series Get Tied Up 1-1! | 555

Episode Date: October 13, 2022

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Hello and welcome to talking baseball. Both of the National League Divisional Series are tied up at one game apiece. How about that? Let's talk all about them. Hello and welcome to talking baseball. My name is Jimmy. His name is Jake. We got Trevor in the middle and producer BBD in the bottom of your screen.

We're all wearing green, which might have been on purpose, but was definitely an accident. Three different shades of green on the screen besides BBD who is in our best-selling item. Hmm. You know that, Treve? Beavers? The tie-dye hoodie is our best-selling item. Also, I went to Thanksgiving. I went to my sister's wedding and all my aunts and uncles were wearing it or requesting I give

him a discount for it because it's getting cold again. And that is the warmest, heaviest hoodie ever. Yeah. It's awesome. If you're trying to not jack it, but you want more than like your traditional hoodie. Yeah. If it's not going to rain, but it's going to be cold. and you don't want to wear like a hoodie and a jacket.

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Go to as many games as you want. John Boy Playoffs is the code 10% off. Jake, let's get right into the Philly Braves. Game number two, three-hour rain delay, but they got it. in and can you let me know what happened in a burning fashion after a three hour rain delay it's wheels up in Atlanta as Zach in the Phillies would try to see if Kyle is the right man for the Braves to even the series at one apiece quick first inning's got both starting pitchers on track so many zeros on the scoreboard it looks like Ian hap's next contract we're scoreless

through five until Ronnie gets hit by the pitch. Dan's Bay walks her home late night, but Matt Olson dates my daughter. RBI single greases off Reese's glove. Young thick with the riff, about a 25-foot infield single, and you darn know the Braves weren't going to go down two games to nothing. Kyle Wright shoves, Danesby and Riley with incredible catches, and the Braves Penn is great. Rose as they take game two, three, nothing final.

Tie and tight. Great job by Ian Hap to get all those zeros on his next contract. Believeable. How many, how many zeros, eight at least? Eight, that would be through four innings. I threw in another. Get through the fifth. Why not?

Oh, okay. Trev, how you feeling about this game or the series? What you got? I love the series. You know, this was, a game, the Phillies. You're hoping to get you have Wheeler on the mound, but you got Kyle Wrighted, dude.

The offense didn't show up or Kyle Wright just kind of shoved. They brought the A-plus bullpen in. Everyone looked good. I thought the Braves just played a real complete game here. And it's not like they swung the bat's great. I mean, the inning against Wheeler. It was a couple free passes. You know, he hits Acuna,

and that looked really scary, man. He stayed down the ground for quite some time. ended up playing after the game. He said, I already missed one postseason. Don't want to miss another. That's going to be interesting to see, though, how he responds. The off-day is probably good for him, but, man, it's going to be achy. Then I believe it was Dansby Walk.

And then just some, this was the John Smolton and put the ball in play and good things happen. People. Unless you have the Braves left side of the infield. Unless you, yeah, exactly, unless you hit it at somebody and then they make the play and you're out. but these didn't happen that way. The ball sneaks under Reese's glove. I don't love the way he approached it. Kind of went down on the ground for it.

Essentially letting the ball play him. It's a tough play. There's no doubt about it. But he's got to make that play. I'm sure he said the same thing. And then you get Austin Riley, man. Swinging bunt, nothing you can do. Wheeler was like, I think he asked Bum.

Is that one going to go foul? And Bum's like, no, bro, nothing you could do. 55 miles. Sometimes it happens. Exit Velo. And then Darno just, you know, he kind of gets full by the slider, but recognizes it early enough. He's got the butt out kind of swing, but the path is just long enough. That's what they always say about Jake, just long enough.

Path to God is short and narrow. Jake has got a tattooed by his winner. Look at some of those toys. John Smoltz was fired up. Some of those toys that girls use. They're not all massive. I, for me, I do think for Smolton A-Rod, you know, the guys that, Smolton A-Rod, the guys that love, you know, the bad baseball players more than the good ones,

it seems comes the postseason, which is just ridiculous. I will say, to hit the ball out of the park in Atlanta, you had to turn on it down the line and hope it got there, because Ozuna thought he got one. We saw a couple fellas that thought they hit homers. Michael Harris, Deuce thought he got a hold of one. Harper hits one to the track. The ball wasn't getting out.

I don't know if there's some of our weather geeks, if Trout wants to call in and say, you know, about the high, the low pressure after a storm comes through and the ball doesn't travel as well. So someone was going to have to put a rally together. And yeah, it is tough in hindsight that if Riser makes that play, which wasn't easy, but he said he should have made it. And, you know, Matt Olson on the other side, I think he probably makes that play. You know, Philly's defense, which had come up to the

task, it ends up letting them down. And it's also, baseball happens fast, man. Zach Wheeler's got two outs. I think he was like seven pitches in that inning. And then that inside fastball, clips Ronnie on the arm, a little bit of a delay as they check on him, make sure he's okay. I don't think it was funny business on Atlanta. He got hit in a not great place. So they were checking that out. And then Dan's Bay draws a big walk. He's the guy who's, you know, in those big spots in the Mets series.

He was the problem. Peter Moyland on baseball today. Go listen to Trevin Rosie there. Said that that's the guy he wants up in their World Series moments. Dansby Swanson. He draws the big walk, which allows Matt Oly. He does. He leans into a ball pretty good.

Goes off Hoskins laid. And then the baseball gots. just fully kicked in. Are you kidding me? You know, Young Thick, Austin Riley, who's going to get a lot of MVP votes. Nubs won down the line. And, dude, when Travis Darnow is right, he is one of the hottest hitters in baseball when he's hot. Analytics. That burn that you did earlier was also brought to you by Draft Kings. I forgot to let the people know that.

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This game felt like a playoff game in the sense that you can pinpoint some things that were big. Those defensive plays, Reese not making the defensive play, and it's kind of the turning point. Like when Dansby made that catch were the runners on, I know when Reese did, or when Young Thick,

when Austin Runes, Riley made his, there was one out and one on, and now that's two outs. And he went a long way to grab that one up against the tarp, which is... There was nobody on, um, for two outs. Two outs. Harper was on deck. Well, shit. Which is just as impactful.

Which is just as impactful because Harper's been needing people to get on in front of him. Harper's stats in this series are nuts. Or in the playoffs in general, I can even say, because in this series he's got a 571 batting average and a 625 on base in the, and the, two games. So, geez, that's crazy. In his four playoff games now combined,

he's got a 429 with a 500 on base. Reis and Schwab, you got to get on base in front of Harper. So when he's getting these hits, they fall so he can get a little more pitches to hit if there's a runner on first. And they asked Topper about that.

He said he's not going to change the lineup. He's going to keep those two guys he likes the stability of it. He believes that they're coming around. He thinks Riser got into some and has better swings lately. I mean, what do you do? I mean, if you're him, you've been running that line about there all year long. Do you put Seguera at the top and move Shorber down or something like that?

I mean, these are the guys that you have, like, if they're not going to go, you're not going to win in this postseason. So it's like you need those guys just to get going. Do you just continue to give them the bats to get out of the funk? That kind of sounds like what he's. he's going to do. He said Reese's swing has looked better because he's putting the ball in the air. And you think Schwab's professional enough to make the adjustment. I don't know, man. I kind of agree.

I think you just, I think you got to stick with what got you there and let these professional hitters. These are veterans. Let them kind of figure some stuff out. But on the same token, you're right, James. You got to have guys on in front of Harper, the guy that's doing damage. And maybe that's the move. Maybe Segura moves up to the top. And you put Schwabre down.

take a little bit of pressure off him. I don't know, man. That's a tough call. We had a good little debate with Chris Rose because me and Joe's were sitting there like, hey, if you're the Phillies, you split in Atlanta. Like, you know, I think if you told Philly fans, that's how you would have come out of this.

I think they would have shook your hand. I want to shake your hand. How things happen sometimes. It feels a little different. That Chris Rose is saying, like, Phillies are probably a little disappointed. I was like, I get it. you had a chance as a close game.

And by the way, that Dansby play, two outs in the sixth, the same time when Acuna gets hit by the pitch in their rally starts. So imagine if that a blooper drops. Kyle Wright has, you know, an amazing postseason game going on and instead of blooper drops and Harper's up. That's the kind of stuff where series changes. If you're the Phillies, I respect you leaving it for one more game. Like we're going back to Philly.

We haven't had a playoff game there. Let's let these dudes do their thing. but, you know, if you get the same results again, you know, I love Rob Thompson saying we're not going to change it. If they lose game three, I bet they change it. We got Castiano's going off. Cassiano's going and Bryce Harper hitting fourth. I realize.

Get him up in the first inning minimum. I realize, you know, clean up and baseball's changed a lot, but, you know, Bryce Harper, yeah, you got to move him up. Even if it's just a flip-flop with Real Mudo, like 3-4, that's fine. Well, Schwerber looks, I don't know. I haven't watched every Schwerber at bat, but they're not pitching to him scared. Like if you look at how they're approaching Reese,

it's all low in the zone, at his knees, being careful, right, was hitting his spots. Then you look at Schwerber, fastballs, like kind of in the zone, fastball's in the zone, fastball's in the zone. And that, he probably will run into one because that's what he does. But they're not pitching, like, scared of him right now.

And Jake's big old question when crafting a lineup is what does the opposing team not want to see right now? They don't want to see Harper up in the first inning. And as long as they hit their spots, they can make it so Harper's not up in the first inning. So I think you've got to put him three minimum. Yeah, we'll see what he does. I mean, sounds like he's not going to do that,

but I agree with you. Like maybe it's a thing like he wants to get them back in Philly and maybe get that jolt to get them going. Because that's best case scenario for them is get those guys going. I agree maybe you move Harper up so get them up in the first inning maybe you just leave it if these guys start to bang if they don't

Jake I think you're right I think he probably does make a call game four and switches things up just to try to create something because when you're down 2-1 to the Braves or if that happens that's not a great situation I think the

the other thing for me that needs to be mentioned a little more is the Braves good bullpen. Minter, Eglacius Jansen. We get the news before this game that Matt Sicks getting T.J.

So that was, you know, that was a bomb. Man, A.J. Minter, do you guys know he led baseball and relief appearances this year with 75? Jeez, too many. AJ Minter with a good 1997 Eddie Gordado season,

just throwing a little more cheese. Minter comes in, lights out. Raisal Iglesias, he's my favorite stuff in baseball. And on the Schwabber topic, he threw a fastball right down the middle to get him out. And he knew Schorbo couldn't hit it. And then Kenley, I know we've talked about him a lot recently because he's a big topic. And when it's not right, it feels off. And it probably feels off because he's six, seven. He's built like a left tackle. His arms are everywhere. His legs are everywhere. The timing is off. It's an uncomfortable at bat to watch through the TV. Never mind stand in on, and you see it with Bryce Harper, who's as locked in as anyone in the playoffs, swinging at a

three, two pitch that's at his eyeballs. But it's because it's like you just try to see the ball and hit the ball against Kenley, which, man, the way he's looked recently, those guys are a problem. He's so tough to pick the ball. You don't pick it up until late. So he has He's got the big arm up, like you said, with the glove hand, then he pulls it down. And some guys, you can see early, they present the ball to you early, and you're able to pick it up, and you can kind of, you know, get the trajectory in the tunnel and all that. Kenley just makes it difficult to do that. That's why you're going to see some of those swings at the top of the zone.

You're just not picking the ball up early enough. And when you pick it up, it just darts to the left. It's a slider once you see it. And then once he sees you start open. opening it up, if like, if you're a lefty and he's bearing it in on you, he's got one that can kind of run the other way. Like, he makes that thing dance. And then now we have a little bit of extra power. Bebers, you got that picture of? He and his beard have this single white hair. I couldn't stop staring at that thing. And I told myself, he's going to go look in the mirror

and he's going to have a decision to make. He just pitched really well, and I got this single white hair. It looks like a Superman S. Do I pull it or do I leave it? And now I cannot wait to see him on the mound again to see if he pulled it. Things might change.

Gotta stay. I have a singular white beard as well. White hair in my beard. I actually have a ton. I die now. Yeah, you have a lot. Yeah. Well, now I want to die it properly.

Really? Yeah, I've been dying my beard half this year. Oh, die it properly. I said if you die it properly, like D-I-E-T, would go brown again. But that never worked. I think if I had a proper death, my beard color would change. Eat, ate healthy.

Oh, diet. Diet. Oh, that would be wild. There's probably some Gwen. Yeah, Gwen's Paltrow Company. probably gives you something to die. He said no. Maybe that would work more as a preventer.

I don't know if we talked enough about Kyle Wright. I mean, he was very impressive. I don't know if Braves fans listening are going to be like, hey, guys, you didn't really mention Kyle Wright at all. This guy is, and I kind of want to talk about the resurgence of the curveball. This postseason is full of pitchers that throw curveball as one of their top two pitches, which MLB is not full of those guys in the last five years it hasn't been. But, I mean, you had Kirshaw.

His slider is actually a better pitch. He throws a curve. You got McKenzie on Cleveland. You got, um, right. He throws curveball's number one pitch. There's a couple others that I was bouncing around seeing and I was like, damn. Clevenger's got a curve ball. Cole knuckle curve.

Cole was throwing all curves in his game here. Garvish was thrown 60 mile per hour curve. Garvish throws 12 different pitches. It's nuts. The best. Uh, Kyle Wright, Vandyman, obviously. Your 1999 Cy Young winner, 21 wins this year. Um, yeah.

And hey, especially after that long rain delay. I know Trev, you get mad about how pitchers get to act sometime, but, you know, three-hour rain delay before a playoff game. That's normally a formula for a starting pitcher to say like, I got out of my routine. And it's so funny, the quotes after the game were like, yeah, he rode the bike for a little bit,

and he kind of was just cool talking to teammates. It's like, whoa, that works? How could that work? So good for him and Wheeler. who Wheeler, I think if we're being real, was kind of more dominant. Like his pitch count was so low until that the last inning, where if Racer fields that ball again. But no, young Kyle Wright, who, you know, when you go through all of the Braves

and the guys you like in their lineup, the guys you like in their pen, and the guys you like in their rotation, Kyle Wright's kind of one of the new kids on the block that you'd mention at the end. And he's any other team, you'd say, like, yeah, this guy's been incredible this year. 21 and 5, a 319 ERA. And good for him, dropping it in a big game. Yeah, he pitched, man. He pitched.

And, you know, this is a big reason why the Braves were able to storm back and be as good as they were this year. You know, you have this guy kind of. I mean, I don't want to say he came out of nowhere, but he never had the type of success that he had this year. And he attributes it attributes it to a lot of different things. He says, I love the defense behind me. I try to let them work. He's not a huge strikeout guy. He will rack up some case, depending on the game.

But dude, I mean, this is, I said it yesterday would see Rosie, man. You have to hit on these draft picks. This guy was the fifth overall pick and the Braves, you know, seemingly hit on this guy. 21 games won this year. I know that doesn't mean a lot to people, but I've been watching the Nolan Ryan documentary. And it means a lot to be now because I'm back to old school baseball. And those old school numbers, 383 fucking strikeouts. Are you serious?

Kyle, Kyle, right before. this season. 2018 to 2021. He was 2 and 8 with a 6-5-6 ERA and 21 games. Had a big start

in the postseason. I know they, last year, they lost that game, but I think he went five innings, one earned and had an awful start in 2020

when he was like no one knew who he was, kind of. They made him throw pitches too, but he still battled. Yeah. Go doors. All right.

On this game and this series, the next game is on Friday, pending rain. the forecast down there, but I think the Yanks is about to get delayed. So who are the pitching matchups, Jake? Do you have them? The next game we're heading to Philadelphia.

The crowd should be pretty rowdy there. Holy smokes. I know we've been excited for San Diego and a couple of the other Seattle. Philly has been a while, and that's a rowdy. That fan base gets rowdy. Anyways, Nola will be pitching for Philadelphia, and that was part of Chris Roses. Did this loss hurt more? because, man, if you had Nola with a chance to close it out at home in front of a raucous crowd,

still a nice situation. And for the Braves, we think, we think they're not going strider. We haven't gotten an update on that. We believe they're going with the Saltman Charlie Martin, which, again, a bad consolation prize for game three. You're fairly, though, it's a three-game series now and you have two home games. Yeah. So you got to spin it that way and make yourself feel good about what you did.

in Atlanta. All right. That's that series. Good stuff. I guess any, Trev, anything for final words that you would look for in game, game three that we haven't talked about yet? Oh, not really. We covered everything. I mean, this, Atlanta's defense showing up and doing what they did, you know, snagging a few of those extra outs. I mean, Danesby's ball probably has to be caught. You know, it was a great play by him, kind of out there on no man's land going and getting it. And again, I'm talking about leaving Harper on deck,

not bringing up with runners on base is excellent. Is that going to be the difference, man? We know Phillies D has been a problem for them all series long. Like they shorted up, though, and they were winning ball games. They got to continue to do that. I think defense is going to be paramount. I know Nola is going to be Nola, but these games are going to be close.

And, you know, you saw a defensive miscue like that can kind of open the floodgates up. And if you're Philly, you've just got to lock that down. Something we didn't mention. and I don't think there's anything to really say about it. Cinderguard comes out of the pen. Yeah. Look good. And look good.

But it's just kind of like a lot of people might not have expected that or a lot of casual fans that don't follow the NL or only follow playoff baseball. We're like, what? Out of the pen. Hair was full Cinderguard. His first playoff game since the 2016 wild card. Baseball moves quick. Yeah.

All the bullpens have looked good, I guess, except for Seattle's. Like every bullpen has looked like kind of like lights out. That's their starting pitcher too. Rob Ra. It was a starting pitcher. Well, Molyoskiy up a Homer and Seawald Walk Walked a few guys. All right.

Thanks for watching that recap if you're on YouTube. We're moving on to the next one. Jake, the night game. Dodgers versus Padres. Dodgers have a 1-0 lead in the series. We've got a good, good pitching matchup. Can you burn this game to remind people what happened for me, please?

A couple of the old. Old Dog Daddy's in game two. Clayton, Sex, Pot, Kershaw, and the Dodgers try to end this series and go up to O while San Diego says, I need a you, you, you as Darvish takes the pill. Couple annual all J.M candidates go solo dong in the first. Mani Machado and Freddie Freeman, fire me up. It is one, one after one. Max Muncie, that junkie Muncie.

Two, one after his solo homer, just a little fat. Mani Machado with the RBI double. It's two to two. Croninworth gets an extra strike, and he makes it count. It's three to two Padres. Trey Turner is turning on balls. Are you kidding me? Ties it up at threes.

The star power is out in L.A., but in the six. Jurekson Profar. Curacao, what's up? Four to three. then Croninworth puts the icing on the cake with his homer. Five to three Padres, the goose is loose. Padres bullpen holds. Speaking of bullpins doing stuff, my goodness.

Darvish survives the San Diego Padres bullpen holds. Hader four out, save. And Padres take game two and split them in L.A. Before they head back down the five to the 405 to San Diego. Those traffic directions, is correct? I think you just stay on the five, I'm pretty sure. Oh, traffic that time at day. It'll meet the five down in Anaheim, I believe.

It depends what time of day because then it's, you know, LinkedIn. Stop, you a raver boy. You hear that? Oh, and what do I say? Trave, a little bit of you surprised the Padres came back. No, not really, dude. I mean, this team is like, they just, I know. the Dodgers overshadow them in the regular

season, but I kept saying it. This team is just full of dudes that don't care about that. And when the time is right, they're going to be ready. And that's kind of how this game felt. I like the scoring to start the game off before the Padres took the advantage for good. It was

score, answer, score, answer. The shutdown endings weren't there. I love that. The offenses came to play. But we know they, I mean, they're capable of beating anybody. Again, this is this is a really, really good team and these series are tough. That ball,

Croninworth hit off trying. Seems like kind of a pivotal moment to me. One, that was probably Croni's best swing maybe in his career. Like the way he leaned back on that, you just don't see it that often. He got to pitch exactly where he wanted it. And he almost went second deck

in right field in those bleachers, which doesn't happen very often. they're playing good, man. Good defense out there. The Dodgers were on the other side of that last night, with Turner having a few kind of misplays there. He let the ball play him on the one double play attempt, and then he had a play where he didn't see Trent Grisham

off the bag as far as he was at first base. Freddie was not holding him on. Trent Grissom had a massive lead than a bigger secondary lead, and I think Turner got this ground. on ball and said he was going to go to second base no matter what. I don't think he saw how far Trent was off. And then boom, he beats it, man. So a couple miscues like that, or they can cost you, dude, and they did.

I, uh, I'm on LinkedIn. Well, I have a, there's a, give your LinkedIn take of the day. All right. I had set up. I'll just pause and wait until we get to the Roberts. Sorry, I told you. When we get to the Roberts pinching the ninth, I have a good transition. That's natural.

Okay. Cut that. I did. I did Wake and Jake yesterday, and I was like, what am I going to do? Because I'm talking about playoff baseball, wherever I talk, whether it's talking Yanx, talking baseball. And I was like, what's my twist? And I was kind of thinking of it, what's the overreaction take from the early

games? And I was like, as much as I want to, I couldn't fully drink the Phillies Padres. Like, I just believe in what Atlanta's, or in the Braves. I believe in what Atlanta's doing. Yankees, guards, I think my overreaction. would be sweet. This series, because of Clevenger being there four right now and going game one, I still believe in Darvish, Snell, and Musgrove so much that now playing the result of it, I love how these Padres are set up. They have Snell and Musgrove at home and a rowdy San Diego

crowd that versed the Mighty Dodgers lineup. Don't get me wrong. It's a five-game playoff series. You know, a first inning grand slam and it could be over. And there go those Dodgers that one 111 games. These Padres are sitting as pretty as I think any team in the DS right now. And in this game, Mani Machado, I know Rosie talked about it on baseball today with you. He is underrated, we end up throwing around words like that probably too much. He is one of the best players in the game. And when you get there, you know, his name could be on a top 10 list and you shouldn't flinch.

and he came to play all year, and he's continuing to do it. As I gave Bob Melvin credit last series for keeping his Padres together, if Mani Machado didn't do what he did at third base all year, they wouldn't be together. And Jay Coroner, I loved what he said after the game. He went over in the three-game series against the Mets. And man, you know, cross-country flight, and you get second life as a ball player,

and now he's been a threat in these two playoff games. these Padres look good. I thought they were going to need another run late, bringing in Hater early with the meat of the Dodgers lineup coming up and you got a goose on the field. You got all the recipe for playoff funny business. But when Josh Hader looks like that, it's a lot harder to have playoff funny business.

And when they bring Hater in, Roberts makes the move that is pretty controversial right now if you look at any Dodgers says what they're talking about because Bellies up, Hater comes in, and they pinch hit for Bellinger, and Dodgers fans were like, yes, send Taylor to the play. He's awesome and good, and he must be healthy because he's on the roster. Outfielder.

And he's an outfielder, and it makes a lot of sense. They don't send him up. Instead, they send up Austin Barnes to hit for Cody Bellinger. And this is where the Dodgers have been kind of ripped by paralysis, by analysis or whatever. And if you listen to David Roberts' explanation for why they went Barnes instead of Taylor in that spot, his Dodgers fans are like, if Taylor's available, Why the hell would you not put him up?

Why'd you put Barnes up against Hater? And we've heard a lot about this. They said that Barnes's swing path is better against Hader's pitches. And that's how now instead of like lefty-righty, it's like short swing, long swing. He said he's got a short swing, which is better against Hater's fastball. And that's the analysis.

That's why that decision was made. I've said this before. I love going on LinkedIn and looking at how big the analytical departments of these teams are. You just go to Dodgers' LinkedIn page and search analyst. 68 employees for the Dodgers that have analysts in their title. The Padres exactly half that. 34.

It's usually around 30. It's way bigger. If you guys want to go check this out, you can do it for every team. Yankees have way more than I would have thought, too. Go to LinkedIn and check that out. You can also do a lot of other stuff on LinkedIn. They're sponsoring the Bern Jake did earlier.

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But yeah, go to LinkedIn and check it out. 68. And I think there's another player that just put us LinkedIn out there. Correa just officially announced. Yeah, let's do that at the end of this and post it as a little separate segment. But yeah, that's too many analysts. I wonder if they have a swing path. analyst. Like it gets

it gets really nitty gritty. Like we know that Yankees have like very specific things. But almost hired Trev. That's a, that's the decision that's a little, how is Taylor not up there? I don't mind it, dude. If you have a guy that can hit pitches at the top of the zone and that's where haters going, I mean, he put a jolt into that ball. That was a good swing.

I mean, he just missed that pitch. If you have an idea that this guy, I mean, that's what you're trying to do. That's why you have an analytics department. Let's find the best lane for dudes. Let's get them in a position that they can succeed. If they thought this was the best chance for them to succeed, you got to roll with it. It's not like Barnes is some slouch.

I know Taylor is a better overall hitter, but sometimes that is the case. Would it have been different if he sent Taylor up there? I don't know. Maybe he is nursing something. Maybe he isn't feeling 100%. And he's on there for emergency situations. Kind of seem like that would have been one of them.

but I don't mind it, man. You can't run your team one way the entire year and then just decide to up and change it during the playoffs. I don't know. That's what Robbie Ray, that's what Robbie Ray, man, and the Mariners. That's the flip side of it, yeah. Good for Hater, though, on that front.

I mean, one of the worst months post-trade deadline in August, and they stuck with him, and they said, nope, we believe in this guy. And people were saying, oh, that's why the brewers traded him. And then in his last 10 outings in the regular season, he has a zero ERA. And then his first two postseason outings here, he comes to task for the Padres.

So good for Josh Hayter, because that was probably a really rough stretch there in August. His post game interview is pretty funny. He's with Poppy, Rod, and Frank Thomas. And it's, you know, he's getting some questions that you don't normally see from the media from those guys. Who would you rather strike out out of us? He's like, playing baseball games.

The controversial and, well, controversial, but for, you know, pivot point of this game. Sixth inning, Darvish comes back out. He didn't look particularly great. You know, he's going through this Dodgers lineup. So, you know, five innings, three-earned runs. It's never kind of a bad day against these guys. But playoff baseball, he comes back out.

His pitch counts in the 90s. Will Smith, infield single. And then Muncie gets a hold of one that you're like, damn. You know, we sent him back out. out there and now we've got two runners on. We've got to bring in a, bring in one of our bullpen guys to get out of this. And boy, Desuarez, do it. Um, easy. Talk about an easy hunch out of that dude, uh, strikes out Justin Turner and then gets the Lux double play ball. And that goes from two runners on, no outs to no runs and San Diego kind of controlled it the rest of the way.

Yeah, the grader all hitting was also a pretty big pivotal point. First and third, they lay down the bunt and Gratterol comes up and makes the play. That. play doesn't get made. Treve, you think that play gets made over 50% of the time? I don't think so. That's a really, really perfect play by Gratterall. Most of the time that the third baseman's calling him off and saying, get the fuck out of the way and just trying to get an out there.

I think Gradol just went for it the entire time and Monty saw that he wasn't going to stop. So he kind of stopped. But yeah, I mean, that was a bare hand, you know, on the run against your body, against you know, the way you're going, throw to home. And he just dotted that throw too. It was a perfect throw. And it was within plenty of time. I mean, that is, it was huge for them.

And then I, I told C-Rose this last night, too, I had this tweet that I was about to send out. I decided against it. I was going to call Cody Bellinger, Cody Bellarina. That play was awesome. And nobody likes that joke at all. So I'm glad I didn't send it out. Yeah. But it was.

He pirouetted twice and caught it. It was awesome. I like that. Thank you. Thank you very much. Yeah, no, the graderile play was, it was incredible. And then, you know, Suarez pitching out of the trouble. And he does that again in the next inning as well.

I think it was second and third, gets a ground ball out, walks Freeman, and then gets, who do you get to line out? Will Smith lines out to Grisham. I mean, he's kind of, there was runners on for this Padres' bullpen, but they were able to be elusive and get out of these jams. They've been impressive this year's. You think Ranger and Robert Swarer is going to share a mound at one point? Both crazy

stories. Yeah. Swar's a story is crazy. It's awesome. Yeah, it's really wild. Oh, Chris Taylor is healthy and we'll start game three. They announced. Okay. Never mind then.

It's funny. I still believe in the biomechanics. There are some people that can handle that pitch. I could not handle the high pitch. I couldn't, man. I had to make massive adjustments with my posture and everything to get to it, and then it would throw me off with other pitches. So, I mean, that's why many bigger years started to throw the high pitch.

It's very hard to hit. Not many guys are geared up to hit that part of the zone, but there are certain guys that can do it. And a lot of times it's a smaller guys, believe it or not. Dustin Projoya, Brian Dozier, Jose Altova. Well, higher on them isn't that high, is that why? I don't know what it is. they're always reaching for stuff.

I think we're just... It's true. No, it is a pretty funny mental exercise because when I do think Chris Taylor, I think of one of the bigger, like, upper cut kind of swing revolutions. Hater's fastball looked like his dominant pitch, and he puts it high in the zone.

And like you're saying, Barnes puts a good swing on it. And think of the task you're asking either way. You're asking for someone to come. come off the bench and try to hit Josh Hader, which is, it's thankless either way. But it is funny that, you know, the obvious decision would seem to be Chris Taylor. And what? If Austin Barnes gets on top of that ball a little bit more and it drops, we'd call him a genius, right?

But instead, we get to question it. What has Soto done? I mean, I love watching his at bats. and I got excited when I watched these at Bats against the Mets and I was like, damn, I don't want Soto out of the... I was kind of... I wasn't pulling from the Mets over the Padres.

It would have been fun for the city of New York because we're in the city of New York to have like double energy. So I was excited for that. But I liked the Padres and Padres versus Dodgers awesome series. When Soto was up and I was like, oh shit, I don't want to...

I love watching Soto at Bats. What's he done so far? I can't... He had the single before the Machado double that scored a run. But other than that, um, No, like walking game one. That's it.

He played in the Mets series. He had four hits in the three games. So I think he gave a couple of ride. He still hasn't kind of had that Soto moment that you know, just knowing that guy you feel like is coming. Yeah, I don't know. He still feels like a threat. It doesn't feel like, and obviously no offense to Kyle Schorber.

Schorber, you know, has to get in the lab. And he looks a little lost right now. Soto still seems dialed in. he's just looking for that, looking for his one, and maybe he gets it, maybe he won't. And I do think it deserves to be mentioned. The Dodgers, they moved Hassan Kim to the leadoff spot after they had, the Padres, excuse me, after having pro far their last game.

I wonder if a Croninworth, or, you know, now that he's going, if he can sneak back up there. Because like what we said with the fills, you know, Soto hasn't fully clicked yet. Their lead-off hitter, they've been mixing it up. I wonder if they have the ability to kind of flex in a guy who's going. Interesting to see. It's a big, some teams will do it, and some teams won't.

And I think sometimes that's what they did during the year. So I feel like teams have done it, have been successful, but I have no recollection. Maybe I'm just thinking about the Joe Tori Yankee years, and he always made changes in the middle of playoff game, playoff series after doing the whole season of sticking with his guys. So that's kind of where my brain is kind of molded to like, nope, it's fine. It's the playoffs.

You've got to change things. Chili Davis is getting to start. Rob Thompson was his pupil. So maybe we'll see some changes. There's Gerardy's people. Gerardy's people. My time line is messed up. I bet people.

Watching too much House of Dragons. Hey, can we talk about that dragon on the field? That dragon on the field. can we talk about Corona Wars home run just a little bit more I mean that thing I know I kind of already

went over this but I'm watching the replay again what a feeling and it was funny because he hits it and he kind of like takes a step back and everyone's like oh is that going to be fair or foul his teammates are wondering the same thing

and the whole time he's got the best view in the house he knows it's gone he's looking to celebrate with his teammates they're not even looking at him they're looking at the ball like please be fair please be fair and boom man like I said I don't know if he's ever hit a ball

I was like only it was a hundred and six off the bat I believe so he's got a little more juice in the exit Velo but the trajectory it was a beautiful swing has followed through everything and you know what trying to look pretty good too but mistake there and that was a massive run dude

one run means nothing a two run lead is twice as good as a one run lead it's kind of violent I mean, he went down and got it. His lefties, man. His lefties.

Jay Presensky made a good point during the game too. And I haven't seen it. Maybe he missed it and we both missed it. But there hasn't been many Juan Soto shuffles. A couple. So when he Bassett in game three, Bassett threw him two balls and he literally looked at Bassett and said, come on, dude, come on.

Yeah. Throw me a strike. Then the next pitch, Bassett threw him a strike. and he swung big and fouled it back. And Soda looked at him and said, all right, like, thank you. Let's go. And it was awesome.

Maybe he's got to get it going. He's got to start doing that here. It was awesome. Baseball. What do you have for game three here? I, for me, I said, you know, I said Snell Musgrove lined up.

Let's see what Snell we get. You know, does he feed off that San Diego crowd? Does, do we get wild Snell that's, are we going to get four walks through four ratings because he's doing everything to pitch around contact. Let's see what Snow we get. This Dodgers lineup, by the way, you know, I said San Diego's set up well against easily the best team in the regular season and the best lineup. You know, Trey Turner is hitting. Freddie Freeman is hitting and he almost took Hater up top late.

Ball goes off the wall. Like Muncie's hitting, Turner's hitting, Lux is hitting. I guess are they going to do, they said Chris Taylor's going to start. Is that for Bellinger because Lefty versus Lefty? Yes. Because I know Trace Thompson, who's been filling in, he's been, this series hasn't gone his way so far, but he's the righty. You'd assume they're not going to go to Gallo. Gallo made the roster? Yeah.

Defense of replacement. He was out there last night. Defense of replacement last night. And yeah, let's see what Tony G's got. I mean, our guy that was battling for the Cy Young, we've been talking to him all years since Trevor's, you know, high school interest squad practice where he was popping the. mitt. You know, let's see what playoff baseball brings us because I'd love to see Tony G give us a performance we talk about, kind of like we saw who was, oh, our guy Tyler Glass now, new episode of Chris Rose rotation came out. You know, he gave us a special postseason

performance. Will Gonselin give us this? Because he's also going to be on a quick hook, because, you know, he's been coming back and the Dodgers kind of have the quickest hook in baseball anyway. So I just want to see the San Diego crowd and, you know, Trevor Ploose, Instagram, Instagram live guy, Blake Snell twirling it in another big, big game. I'm curious to see how it's going to look because we have seen regular season games. There's a lot of Dodger fans that will travel down there. Someone tweeted out at us saying they're trying to block ticket sales to make sure there was San Diego fans at the ballpark. I think it's going to be electric. No. I think Padres fans are going to

show up for it's been a long time i think snell's going to thrive in that environment uh it is the dodgers you know gonson has looked really good against the podgers this year snows had three starts two of them good one of them not so good against the dodgers uh but he's been pitching great as of late i think we're going to see two quick hooks to be a battle of the bullpen you know snell's going to go four or five gonslin's going to go three four innings and then it's going to be up to the bullpen to go are they going to piggyback anderson anderson is he going to be Game four. A lot of things we got to see.

I don't know. But you're going to see bullpen because Snell's not going to go deep. Maybe it does, but I would bet pretty decent money he doesn't because it's kind of that. And Gonsland hasn't thrown in so long, so we'll see. We haven't seen Dustin May yet.

We haven't seen the heen dog. That could be interesting. We're going to get Dustin May in some sort of piggyback role to, you know, a couple endings right after Gonson. A little shout out. former Yankee Tommy Canely comes in for the last inning. One of the best changeups in baseball strikes out the side. Let's see if that can matter more for the Dodgers later in this series.

I love that. Do you see him, man? That changeup is so fun. It is good. I forgot to bring this up when we're talking about the game. Mookie Betts attempts to steal second base. Austin Nola just guns him down. Or so it seems.

it looked like he was out by a mile and then he went back the Dodgers ended up challenging this play I think he was safe dude like the the throw got there but I don't think Cronin's worth glove touched him until Muky's oven mitt got to second base

but the problem is the call on the field was that he was out and then the call stands and like it's they didn't have a guess I guess a definitive enough angle, but dude, if you looked at it, he was safe. And that's the, that changes the game, dude.

Little things like that. You had to play with the net too and, uh, oh my gosh. That was weird. Net play. That was a bad call by the empire. That's him trying to insert himself into the game. He was even looking. Oh, man.

Oh, man. I'm watching Canely again against Soto. Soto's like, just confused. Gets out of the way because it looks like, like a fastball is going to hit you, it just drops over the middle of the plate. What? He went Soto, Manny,

Drury. Profar has a cricket swing. The other, some people are talking umps. It's whatever. But Darvish had a funny one where he dropped one of those slow curves. He gave him the,

is that in? Is that out? And then he throws the same. Is that the pitch, Muncie, Pump? Yeah, he threw it same at bat to Muncie, and he pumped him, which that's baseball. Oh, I have so much stuff from this game. It was such a fun game, by the way. I mean, I keep, you keep bringing up stuff.

Muncie being a black diamond chain guy is just not something I had happening. You think someone bought it for him? I've no Max for quite some time now. 2017 Max Muncie, not wearing a black diamond chain. That Hollywood lifestyle, a little co-paychecks there. Changes you. Okay, I see you, Max. City, Jake, L.A. Max.

All right. Thanks for watching the recap. We do have a little bit of news if you're on the podcast app. Correa officially opted out or reported that he's going to opt out. No surprise here at all. Do you think the twins look at this any differently, Trev? You say no one-year deals. They gave him $30 million for a one-year deal.

And they didn't make the playoffs. No harm done? Or could have allowed. lot of that money to pitchers or what? I think they do the deal again. One year deal. He performed well for them, you know, help with some culture stuff. I think it was good. Probably try to lock them in for two.

I mean, I think they might go after some short stops this offseason. I don't know if they're going to get, create a sign back with them or trade Turner to come there because I think the Dodgers are going to be all over Trey Turner, even though he had some defensive miscues last night. He's too good of a player to that. I mean, Zander Bogarts, there's this free agent shortstop pool is kind of back. There's one other guy that we're missing.

Dan's, Dan's me, but they're going to lock him up. Lock it up everyone. We'll see. He's not locked up, and he's the only guy that's not locked up. And, you know, every time the Braves call. Every time the Braves call someone up or, yeah,

do they want to try to do a semi-upgrade with someone like Tray Turner? I don't know if it is. Let's see what the Braves have in store. Correa, I can't see him doing the one-year thing again. I mean, I don't know. He did that and where there's the whole agent side tied to it, that he switched agents. So if he gets a new contract, the agents in on it more.

I don't know. If you're Minnesota, I'm not ruling them out for Correa at all. But with this shortstop class, and we were kind of going through the teams, again, the teams don't jump off the map. Like, you're not looking at the Yankees. And like, well, in a way you are, I guess. But I don't know.

know. I'm interested to see with this shortstop class back. And if you're the twins and let's say it does come down to Correa and you could do, you know, another 35 mil a year, because he ended up having a nice season, I don't know if you could get Dan's Bay for five years at 32 and take a chance at like having a guy. I don't know. That would be a really, a really interesting internal talk. But, you know, got to go shopping at Dior a little bit. Yeah, I don't know. That was a tough quote for me. Hey, to each his own. Tough necklace for me, but you're doing good. If you're listening to this today, we have Astros,

Mariners definitely playing, and it looks like the Yankees are going to get postponed and push to Friday. So we'll be back tomorrow to recap either one or two games, probably just one. Appreciate you. See you later. Goodbye. be the baseball.