Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast) - HISTORIC Wild Card Series Force Elimination Games!

Episode Date: October 2, 2025

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Hello and welcome to Talking Baseball. We are live because we have three Wildcard game three tomorrow. Maybe four Dodgers are still playing. Let's talk ball. Casey Meis. Aaron Dredd single. Okay. Good for him.

That's the goal. That's like the goal, Dong. Hello and welcome to Talking Baseball, presenting you by Seat-Geek-Code-JM playoffs. I am Jake StoryElli at Talking Jake. That is Trevor. at Twins Fan 69. Rob Chiracco is producing his buns off.

Dalton Feeleys updating us live in the room. Dodgers and Reds are finishing maybe. The Dodgers bullpen is doing Dodgers bullpen things. It's 8 to 4 in the 8th. Trev, big day of baseball, this wild card series that's gotten a lot of critique, some of our own, because something about the format doesn't seem right. Or maybe, you know, to go to our analytics. friends, maybe it's been small sample size.

Because we haven't gotten a ton of game threes. We are currently getting three as every team bounce back today. How you doing, Coach? It was me. It was Jeff Passon, tweeting about managerial opening. Six o'clock in the morning I'm laying in bed naked talking to Jeff Passon. Okay. On my phone. Okay.

I don't know, man. I'm excited. Look, I didn't think we were going to get any. I said one game three. I thought it was going to be the Detroit Tigers and the Cleveland Guardians because they're just a mess when they play each other. But the Yankees, you know, they figured some stuff out. The Padres, Manny Machado, doing Manny Machado things. They hit off lefties.

That's awesome. And it was a homer. Home, a homer. The regular season doesn't mean anything, apparently. I'm excited to talk ball with you. I know you got the burns ready. I know we're going to cron pot it up. Let's just get into it, pop.

I special one for San Diego, Chicago. Couldn't believe my brain. went there. Stay tuned for that. Thank you for everyone who's tuning in. What was, yes, Coach Trev.

For the people that were mad at me for calling this the real Eddie Vedder Bowl, have they not seen Eddie Vedder at the stadium singing the seventh inning stretch two days in a row? That feels too personal. I'm sorry. Like, they got the Vedder Bowl wrong. Let's,

we're a Cronpod when it comes to playoffs. We think we're kind of making it up on the fly somehow. Are we live? We are live on the internet. That's Eddie Vedder. That's Trevor Plouf in the past. Roki Sasaki's coming in for the Dodgers. Let's go to Detroit Cleveland, who kicked off the day.

The Tigers would hope to be the demise of their rival guardians with Casey, but it'd be no easy task as it's a full house in Cleveland against Danny Tanner, Bibi. It's a vibe after Tanner escapes trouble in the first. and George gets curious as Valera goes Big Fly, it's one-nothing guards. El Mago ties it up in the fourth. Of course, we're tied at ones. It would say that way into the eighth, but Cleveland fans are back on the hook after

Rocio, feeling like Peter Pan after turning on a hunch piece. Daniel Schneiderman with the RBI double, and Bo nails it down with the three-runner Homer, Believeland takes game two, six one final. A lot of movie references right there, Coach. Yeah, you know, a hook, that's a big one for a lot of people in our age range. Yeah, that's right on it. Rufio. Rufio, Rokio, I mean, come on.

It was good. The standings for this series, one one apiece. Nice. And those standings were brought to you by our good friends at Sea Geek. Make sure you guys, if you're not going to a game three, what are you doing? And maybe if your team's not doing in this sport, maybe the football, which is in full swing. Maybe it's concert season for you. Joe Bros? Billy Ilish?

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playoffs 10% off any tickets at sea keep coach trev where do you start with your central a well I mean I guess we'll start from the beginning Jake that's where once upon a time in Cleveland Ohio Stephen vote put out a rookie

who's never stepped foot on a big league baseball field he put him in center What is going on? Chris Rose was born in 1902. Yeah, man, and they were talking. That was where I start. That's where I want to start because it's insane.

I put a tweet out there talking about it. And I was like, in my head, I got a big baseball brain. I do. I hated it. I'm like, listen, it's already nerve-racking for the guys who have to go play in the playoffs that have played Major League Baseball before. We saw Rodriguez boot a ball. You know, it just happens.

It's nerve-wracking. But to have your first game be that time, a day game in the playoffs of a must-win game is absolutely insane. And you know what? Shout out to this guy, Tanner Bybee. Because if he doesn't throw a sack all over the mound and strike three dudes out, like we're taught, the guardians are done. Yes, I said it. These late night episodes, you've become more aged up than me.

You're naked looking at Jeff Passett. But that's what happened. I know. I mean, he boots a routine fly ball. He's got to feel like, where's a shovel? I want to dig a hole and just crawl in it and just never come out of it. But then Bibi fucking locks it down, man. So, that changed everything.

Are you going at, and you're not. I want to preface this because you're not going at Chase DeLotter who gets thrown in. No. What's he supposed to do? He's a kid. He's nervous. 34 games at AAA this year. He,

yes. He hasn't played since July 11th, I think, was his last actual game. 40 career games at AAA, 36 at AA. And here he is in the yawf. It's insane. And I'm, there's part of me that loves when we actually highlight. the young talent.

But there's a part of me that's like, what the hell is this? Especially when we see it from some of the teams that might be hiding guys in the minor league's not paying them. I know there's injury stuff here. But either way, just in here you go, kid, knock yourself out. Yeah. And so, okay, so then my big baseball brain was like, well, look,

the Guardian's offense stinks. Like that's just facts, people. I'm sorry. It is what it is. That's just how it goes. So I'm like, hey, if Stephen Vose, thinks this guy can provide an offensive spark great turns out he makes the the defensive play of the game like what what a wild turn of events for him and if you

don't know what I'm talking about it was when the Tigers tied the game I believe that was in the fourth inning yep was it top of the fourth yeah right of the green double after another misplay by the Guardians outfield they're having a tough time out there right now Valera just misplays the ball. Riley Green's the second base. We get two walks, load the bases, Hobby Baez, base knock,

Dylan Dinkler's trying to score, and Dilauder, like, mid-throw, sees McKinstry, going to third base, changes directions. He was just trying to throw it to the cutoff, man.

And mid-throw, you see his eyes shift. He goes over there and fires a dart to third base, and they tag McKinstree out. before ding their scores and the game is tied now 1-1 instead of the tigers being up and it's the biggest play of the game by far

what a crazy crazy game was horrible base running by McKinj Street just garbage base running there's no other way around it if you want to make sure that run scores to go ahead run stop yeah stop and Trevor make a beat

go to third but then stop you don't slide into third base Your guy Jimmy Norp, one of the newest Johnboy Media employees, and half facetious half not way, has been screaming about how good Zach McKinstree is going from first to third. And this happens in that moment. They are the best team going first to third. I understand that.

But not at that point. You don't make the first or the third out at third base. That is like the oldest rule in base running. Haven't we debated that one before? like just don't get out at third base. Yeah, I mean, it's just, but it's in your head from the time you're 90 years old.

Like before you, you like learn fielding ground balls and then the next thing you learn is don't get thrown out at third for the first or last out. Obviously a lot happened in this game, but I think like that to me was, it was just insane,

like thinking about Chase DeLotter. He was in like, he was in Arizona, taking live BP. hadn't been in a real game since early July, and he's out there on a big league field for the first time ever. That's what they said on the broadcast. Don't, I mean, that's, don't fact check them.

Don't fact check me. Trev. In the playoffs. I just, I just tried to bring up his baseball reference, and it doesn't exist yet technically, because he hadn't played in a major league game. His minor league stats are on there.

No, man, it's, it's Looney Tunes, and the amount of youth on the field for Cleveland, comma, both these teams, but especially Cleveland. it's really hard to be good at baseball that we're sending flyers on guys and the guys playing for Cleveland, a lot of their offensive stats on the season are, I don't want to say shocking,

but I guess compare them to the Dodgers or compare them to a couple of these other lineups that are out there. And all of that being said, it's tied at 1-1 going into the 8th because it obviously is because it's a Cleveland Detroit game. The manager literally joked about that, the night before. And, well, Trev, how about this?

Into the game for Detroit is Troy Melton, the 24-year-old prospect, Newport, California. Hello. And he throws a hunch, and his hunch got turned around by your guy, Rochio, who there is a, hey, as much as I've been putting down Guardians hitting stats, Rochio is in that pile.

there is something about this cat if we're talking it factors with guy Rokio has something Saddam Rafael has something and in this moment him turning on 100 through the shadows and that kind of pop the top off for Cleveland yeah I mean he's he's a slow heartbeat guy

I would describe him as that but you know he's not he's been a better hitter in the second half but that's still a sub-seventh 700 OPS, but I've seen this guy. I'm a central believer, and I talk to Chris Proz all the time at the gardens. I've seen this guy just get big knocks or make a big play all the time. Like it happens quite often with him.

He's great. You watch him play defense. It's so smooth. It's phenomenal. But then there's just something about the bat. Like he gets the job done, man. Not typically, typically like this with a big swing and to put one in the seeds. but I think that is the best way to describe them slow heartbeat.

And Rob, we need to make central believer shirts. I'll tell the crew that because that's hilarious. And then, yeah, like we're going to dance around with all these game threes as we start seguing it. It's just the bullpen usage from today gets interesting as we go into tomorrow. You know, what's our guy? Tyler Holton throws 31 bullets. in this game, which he is going to be a part of the Tigers recipe tomorrow,

but that's for a reliever. That's a lot of bullets to follow up on. I guess anything else from this one, Trev, because it will tee up tomorrow a little more, but as I'm getting ahead of some of the phrases we're about to say, like it's going to be everyone's got spikes on. It's all hands on deck because whoever loses tomorrow, their season's over, so you might as well burn your good reliever

for however many pitches because it could be the end of the season. I guess is there anything else from this one? No, I expect another really close game. I know this one and the score didn't, you know, it doesn't seem like it was a close one, but it was up until the Rokia Homer and the big eighth inning there. So I expect, you know, it's, are we going to see more sloppy Cleveland outfield play?

Like, that's, they got to clean that up. But it's going to be, it's going to be a hell of a game. man like these two teams they truly do play exciting close baseball games all the time and tomorrow like the game three all hands on deck between these two teams i think you said the cubs podrays might be the best ball of any of these series i think this one might be the best ball because we're going to see terry um excuse me a j hinge and vote they truly are also playing like chess against each other. So I think that's a lot of fun to see. They've managed against each other so much. So they know each other's moves and it's like almost like a fake punch to counter punch all these

different things. I think that's a fun aspect of this of this series as well. But yeah, I expect a close game and one team to capitalize on a mistake and they'll move on. And it looks like it's going to be your guy, Jack Flaherty to start with the pill against Slade, suck on these nuts. Sikoni, sorry. And yeah, you're right. Like everyone's seeing each other's relievers throughout the season. The 15 and a half game comeback, they're going to do it again at 1 p.m. tomorrow. And another big thing for the Tigers, Coach Trev, one for 15 with runners in scoring position today

that you emphasize this enough when you talk about your central believing that you need those clutch hits. It's a part of the reason the Guardians find a way. One shy of the MLB record for runners left on base in a nine inning game. Can I, I mean, give you one example of the chess game that I was talking about? I wrote this down because I saw it during the game. So, Vote had Heron warmed up and Kerry Carpenter is up. Now, the first game, Hinch kept Carpenter in against the lefty citing, like lack of run probability in the situation.

So he wanted to keep him in. He felt like it wasn't right to switch him out for Jones because the, even if he switched Jones, the run probability wasn't there. So in this game, um, uh, vote brings in heroin. Right. And Jemmae Jones comes in. He gets to the strikeout though, but like, because he didn't take about the game before, vote goes there, all these different things back to it. I don't know if I explained that well, but I wrote it down and it happened a long time ago. But it is the chest match between those two guys. Like I said, like a fake punch the first night, this time it happened. I just think it's fascinating.

There's not a lot of times. I think a lot of times we do talk about managers and this guy outmanaged each other. The other one, it's like, that really didn't happen. Like the whole thing was scripted. I think between these two guys, because they face each other so often, they're so familiar with the rosters,

there really is a little bit of deception and true managing going on. Yeah. And again, the Yankees series, I obviously have my finger on the pulse the best. And man, it's crazy to watch between the lefties and righties because the Yankees have,

have a couple platoon guys and Cora loves to press the button to make the Yankees press the button that, yeah, especially these division rival games that I think we were hesitant on at first because something felt wrong about that. There is another level to these teams just knowing each other so well

is throwing a couple wrinkles in there. Trev, let's keep Cronpot on our way through. By the way, Canadian baseball theory, Jake, Bo Nailer. He's got the clutch gene too. So when we take over the Rockies, which the position opened today, congratulations to Bill Schmidt, we can start implementing Cuban ballplayers and Canadian ballplay. That's a rowdy clubhouse. Holy shnoy.

I didn't know Bill Schmidt looked like that, by the way. Okay. I mean, exactly what I should have imagined. Let's head to the friend. That guy does not like analytics. I can tell if I'm looking at him. Sure don't. Do we?

I ain't about it. Let's head to Wrigley. Chicago would throw the whole Kittridge and Caboodle trying to advance San Diego with Dylan hoping to stop the season from C-Sing. Jackson Merrill Lynch Banks are run in the first with his sack fly. M-A-C-H-A-D-O.

Manny just broke Chicago. Two-run Homer from Manny Money and the Padres pitching was death to the cup. especially the Grim Reaper. My goodness. Ceas, Moroan, Miller, and Suarez combined for the shutout. San Diego takes game two, three nothing final. Standings update in this one, one to one.

Okay. Wow. Thank you. Thank you, Trevor, for the stand. Sorry, I was trying to pop the chat. It's been so long since we've been like. I'm trying to pop the chat out. You haven't been live in a minute, huh?

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You missed it. I think you were reading the end. you miss me. I show my skims. Oh, yeah. I heard Rob Giggle. We bring the ad on the screen, so I can't see you for a second there. So I guess if you want to show me again, maybe at the end. Trev, big game at the Padres. You questioned some of their at bats yesterday between shadows and demoralizedness.

They get the early run here, which is massive on opener day. and then Manny, look at the Pelicans, Manny, to go along with a shutout performance. This is kind of the formula for the Padres. This is exactly what they want. Early lead, let's get our guys in. They were, I mean, absolutely nasty. I think that we have to start with the pitching. I mean, quick, quick hook for cease, which is fine because they are just ready to go.

Moriho nasty, Miller, absolutely filthy. I mean, everybody getting the job done. This is what, I mean, this is winning baseball for the Padres. And even they got to help with a homer. That's been their M.O. all season long. Oh, they can't hit against lefties. They can't hit homers. They did it today.

And a little bit of small ball here and there, I think is appropriate for a series like this, even against a team that can play defense like the Cubs. But, you know, double steals are always in, coach. And Kittridge. who someone said not so much a journey man because he did spend a lot of time with the race and then recently

he's got four total teams under his back but my goodness I was going to clock how slow he was to the plate but I don't think I need to it's like a 1-5 to a 1-6 so great I mean that's advanced scouting I guess on the Padres part but like

he's just got to be better and I think it's I think it's tough I don't mind like a reliever late in the game with a lead like I want to strike guys out I'm not going to worry about the runners but early in a game it just feels different is that like any sense they're often not in those scenarios that's probably an overlooked thing with the opener thought process i don't i don't know i don't know why that makes sense to me like okay maybe the team is more

willing to steal and and like maybe get thrown out early in the game or maybe they wouldn't do that later in the game. But the double steel is huge. I mean, um, then the Jackson Merrill Sacks fly. You get the lead and it's really all they needed. But man, he with the big Homer, I think that's another place to go to, um, in this game. Why are we pitching to Mani Machado with the base open? Shoda on the mound still. I, I don't, I don't understand that one at all. Craig Counsel just said it was confidence in Shoda and that's it. Made a mistake, which he, he did. And man, he did not miss it. But I, I, I, I don't understand. I feel like you pitch to the lefty behind him, like 10 times out of 10?

There's a really good argument there. Why are they, they're paying him $8 million. He's got a name font like Eddie Vedder headlining a tour for Cubs Fest, and you're pitching to this guy. I don't know, man. I don't mean to be a Craig Counsel hater, but I think I got there a little bit after that poster, which is not his fault,

I can't believe you went Cubs Fest on me. I erased that from my memory and you know that gets me hot. It's not counsel's fault. It's not counsel's fault. This one was counsel's fault. This one was. Hey, it's, uh, hey, Treve, I'm glad you brought that up because it's the beauty of the postseason because that ends up being, uh, the only runs, Imanaga gives up.

And when you look back at that in a game of this magnitude, um, having Merrill on deck who, you know, we love young Jackson Merrill, Merrill, but left. on left and Mani Machado and who he is in this league. Yeah, yeah. That's a, you know, you wonder, I mean, what was the pitch count on that? Because it was O, oh, it was the first pitch splitter, hung it. And that's, man, splitter is. Mani was like, I wasn't sure that I was going to even get to go in the box.

He's thinking in that situation, it is a very strange thing to be on deck with an open base. And look, people go, oh, you're not the type of hitter, man. anyways. I've been intentionally walked before people, okay? Yeah. Yeah. Check the baseball reference. It's a weird situation to be in because you're like, okay, I need to be like on it mentally. I need to like be ready to hit. But then in your mind, like, there's no way they're pitching to me. So like there's just a little bit of you're dancing a little bit and you don't know what's going to happen. You're expecting just them to put the four up and all of a sudden you got to walk in the box. Kudos to Mani for like locking it in their first pitch hanging spot. See you later. That's a vet. I cannot wait for Rob to put the montage of your five intentional walks together.

Do I have five? Five career intentional walks. They don't want it. I can't imagine how much you peacocked those. It's like a little, there's a little extra cup grab on the way through. Yeah, and you wonder, you know, in that situation, do they do, are they doing the like, hey, you know, let's, why don't you bounce a split and see if Manny chases it and get yourself

in the count. I don't know. I don't know what was going on there, but instead, the splitter, dude, the splitter is such a tricky pitch in this game right now that I don't know what to do with, because when you throw it right, it's unhittable. When you throw it wrong, that thing is a BP fastball that goes a mile. Do you know who did intentionally walk in this game? Who's that? Mike Schilt. Yeah. He did it in the bottom of the fourth. Yeah. Walks Carson Kelly. That menace Carson Kelly, April, Daisy winner, Carson Kelly. And he goes to Moran who gets PCA. Like that, to me, makes so much sense.

Like that, to not walk, manny, I don't, there's no good reason there. And you could say I trust my pitcher. But, dude, it's not the time to have your pitchers back. It's just not. It's not. You're right. And on the other side of this, we, We complimented the Cubs for deploying their bullpen.

You mentioned Morahone. Mason Miller puts on a show in his last 23.1 innings, zero runs. So that's pretty good. You know our guy Kyle on socials. He's not scared to say the lukewarm take or the hot take. He's very much a believer that Skeens and Mason Miller are the two best pitchers to ever play this game. It might be the two most talented.

They're going to have to show me a little more. But Mason Miller through the fastest pitch in playoff history today, struck out his first five hitters he saw. And it's special, it's obviously special arm talent. And the control he has is the difference maker. It's, what are you going to do, man, against that? You just sit down. What?

I'm watching the montage right now, watching it back. Genuine question. are you just sitting fastball and swinging at three pitches that might be fastballs? Like, I don't know what you do. I don't know if I've ever faced somebody throwing 105, bro. Like the guys that throw hard. Tell you what, you haven't. Chapman?

Mr. The role is Chapman. I don't know about 105 he ever hit against me. I face guys throwing 100. I think you tuned to down against you got to be on the heater. Right. Did you ask me a question? No, no, no, no, I made a subtle jab.

I said Chapman toned it down against you. You were his 96. No. No, he didn't. You were a lefty masher. I was a power threat. You were a lefty masher. Still are.

I faced Eras Chapman in Cincinnati. That's how old I am. Fastest pitch from Errol of Chapman to Plouf was 101.1. That's coming in quick. Thank you, Rob. That's coming in quick. And that was a, I was a, oh, no, it was a ground out. Oh.

I got the bat to it. Oh. Anyways. Yeah, I mean, look, this, this game worked out perfectly for the Padres. It'll be their formula again tomorrow, essentially. Yeah, there are some interesting Shilt quotes because, you know, a couple of these guys are prized possessions of the Padres that are going to be pitching on their third day in a row. that have thrown multiple bullets.

Again, insert your lame phrase here that everyone with your spikes on. And hey, if you don't use Mason Miller and you lose, well, he gets the whole offseason to rest. So it's going to be interesting to see how they navigate that. And are the Cubs going to do anything with their lineup? I mean, there's a couple guys that are down bad right now, Trev. Yeah, I mean, who are you going to replace? I know.

Who are you talking? You're talking about PCA? He's been taking just some really, really bad swings. Tough swings, coach. Who did he strike out against 3-2 slider in? Who was that? Was that Miller? I don't think it was Miller.

Cease? I think it was Cease. And he went to swing, then tried to stop swinging, and then tried to make contact again, and just. Yeah, it was tough. If you got 30 seconds with PCA, what would you tell him going in tomorrow?

I'd have to really go over video. I have to really, really go over it. It would be, I'd just try to pump him up. Yeah. And he's been trying to bunt, but not until like two strikes. I would say, hey, like, bun, I don't care if Manny Machado's up on the grass.

I don't care. Like, that will help you track the ball. like lay one down go ahead try it out what's hey it ain't gonna be worse right i would tell him get one of those try to lay it down see if that changes anything um but i would i would have him in the cage right now over over speed tracking 105 not swinging just seeing a bunch of pitches just trying to slow his rhythm down a little bit right now because right now he's not seen the ball he's just not watch this swing yeah so he's just moving moving in a bad pattern and not allowing himself to see the ball.

Like nothing is working right. He doesn't have a lot of movement right there, but it's just not synced up well at all. So go, again, whatever machine you got back there that can throw the shit out of the ball, go stand in and see 100 pitches. And that's it. And then go ball out. Yeah.

Yeah. Happer, our guy, hitless. PCA, our guy, hitless, Shaw, hitless. But again, look at the guys throwing and look at the stats on San Diego. There's not a ton of impressive numbers over there. No. We've seen two, I mean, we've seen two very impressive pitching performances all around. It's kind of lead.

You know, I love a couple older dogs, Trev. You, Darvish and Jameson, I believe, are going to kick it off tomorrow. And again, they will have as much leash as when they get in trouble and both these teams will ride out everyone in their bullpen because both these teams kind of like everybody in their bullpen. And when the Cubs muddied up game one, that was the game they won. The Padres today, they used their A bullpen, they won that. It's going to be fun.

This series is the toughest, it has been, in my opinion, the toughest one that one of these teams is going to have to end their season because there's loads of talent. And this is casual shots fired at Cleveland and Detroit. These are different tiers of teams. Do we have a time for this game tomorrow? Is it changing? I believe this is, our Dodgers won, right?

I believe it's going one, five, and eight, one, three and eight. I'm assuming Red Sox Yankees is eight. You have that correct. So this is going to be at three? No, this is the five. Cleveland, Detroit at three. So four o'clock central? Four central, baby.

So we'll start the game in the shadows? Perfect. Start in the shadows. Perfect. Harvish will be shoving. 18 pitches in the shadows? Oh. Okay.

It's a good autobiography for a pitcher. You mentioned the quote about Shilte. He said, all hands on deck tomorrow, but we're also going to take their temperature and be smart. And then Mason Miller says, whatever Shilty needs, M. Orhon says, no matter what, I'm available for you.

for tomorrow. Yeah. Give me the ball coach. Yeah. That's the difference between coach quotes and player quotes right there. Um, Trev, let's hop over to the Yankees versus the red side. The rivalry. Yankees fans wondered if the season would rode on behind Carlos in an elimination game or

if it would be another cold play facing Brian if we were all Bayo for Boston. Bottom one. They put him on ice yesterday. but Rice, Rice, Rice, Baby. Two-run Homer to get it started, but just like the warehouse games, the story was unstoppable as Trevor gets the two RBI single. Bottom five.

Oh, Captain, my Captain. Definitely a single off Jaron Duran's glove, but the lead is gone instantly as ploof goes Trevor again, tied at threes with the story, Homer. Rodon gave a Yaleman's effort, six innings pitch, three earned six Ks, Never forget what Fernando Cruz did. Saves the day.

Austin doesn't go 316, but it's enough for some sweet jazz music. We're making babies tonight, or nine months ago for Jim. Rodon to Cruz to Williams to Bednar. Yanks take a dramatic 4-3 victory. I'm not dreading talking about this one. I actually want to give a lot of credit to your Yankees. Standings in this one, both teams, one-in-one. Thank you.

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Make sure you guys go check it out shop. at Johnboy Media. Trev, what do you want to ask? What do you want, Papa? Well, number one, I sent you a picture of you and Nathanielo together, and I got nothing from it. Yeah, I mean, I was live streaming. I talked about it on the live stream.

Maybe another picture, maybe the turtlenecks in your head a little bit. I well it started out because nathaniel low wearing the turtleneck short sleeve is outrageous outrageous outrageous it's outrageous with the with the mustache and he has the hat that's like i can't even do it i think me and nathanielo can bring a similar energy i don't as far as as far as doppelgangers go no i'm not a doppelganger but trev you sent a picture of me side by side with nathaniel low. So I don't know. Because you were in a mock turtle as well.

Okay. It was about the turtling. I thought you were saying we were doppel game. Oh my God. There was no, there was no words. Like, it was just a picture of us. What do they teach you at Central Connecticut? Nothing.

Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. I don't, I just, I think a lot of credit goes to the Yankees. It goes to jazz chis. Clearly the player of the game. We gave him a little bit of shit yesterday

for his post-game press conference, although we agreed with being mad because what did we say? Play your good players, Boone? If I was benched being a 30-30 guy, I think I wouldn't be happy. I think I would have thrown chairs in the locker room. That, to me, like, when we look back at that,

are we going to say what? Yeah, yes. That might be the straw that broke the camel's back, Campbell and this one is analytics. Wow. You're not going to play your 30-30 guy in a three-game set, game one.

Let's attack Garrett Crochet with Ahmed Rosario and Jose Caballero. That'll really get to Garrett Crochet. Maybe nobody was going to get to him, but shit, man. I know. And then you spent a whole day making a lineup that doesn't have a lefty lane

and the game ended on a lefty lane. But that was yesterday. today's today. And if you're appointing a manager, a managerial finger, today would be at Cora. Cora pushes buttons with his pitching to push buttons at the Yankees. Pulled Bayo quick, which Bayo has been struggling down the stretch. Might have run out of steam one of his first full,

full major league seasons where he put together a really nice year. He had no strikeouts when Cora pulls him out of the game. and he had a fully rested bullpen, essentially, because Crochet handed the ball to Chapman. And the Yankees putting all their lefties in. Corriss says, hmm, well, let's go and get this. Let's mess with the Yankees and see if they'll react. It worked mostly, especially if Jaron Duran squeezes that ball,

which is a game-changing moment in that one. It looked like he was in between diving or not diving, and it kind of catches him in the heel of that big Yankee Stadium. and then it does end up getting catches up to the Red Sox in the end. Here's the Duran one. You got to have that. That Garrett Whitlock is out there in a tied game and the pitch count is starting to add up, starting to add up.

Chapman is up in the pen. Cora is notorious for his win at all costs. We're going to put all our chips on the table. The problem is Austin Wells gets the hit. Jazz scores full count. so Jazz was running. He can fly. It was closer than I thought at home plate.

I already thought that run was in. Nice throw by Eaton, who these Red Sox have young players just coming out of the woods, who are ball players. Then they're in a weird spot that they didn't have someone ready up. Whitlock stays out there. He doesn't have the same juice. Volpe gets a hit.

McMahon walks. He throws 47 pitches, gives up the lead, which will bring up some questions going into tomorrow. Yeah, I mean, I said yesterday I don't think Cora wanted to use Chapman for more than three out. I think he wanted to give him a clean inning because he sat for so long yesterday

and then it started out poorly in that night. So I think that's where his head was at. But now I don't think, I mean, I don't know if Whitlock is available for tomorrow. I know he'll say he is, but how many pitches he throw, 47? It's a lot. It's a lot of pitches to come back from.

If anything, if he is out there, like how effective of candy B, how sharp is everything? That's something to take a look at. But I do want to say this. How about the Yankees? Like, defense was spectacular for them today. Jazz, man.

A hell of a play by jazz right there. Just to knock the ball down. I preach that to my infielders all the time. They don't understand what I'm talking about. These are 10-year-olds. Keep the ball in the infield. We go like this. You can't see my arms.

You just kind of go like this. Hey, keep it in. We're diving. Jazz, man. This is, Yoshida's like, I just did it again. I'm that motherfucker.

And jazz stops the ball, keeps it to a basis-loaded situation, and they get out of it, man. Like, incredible right there. And then, not only that one, the Devin Williams,

Volpe double play. You know what I'd say about pitchers throwing a bases, man. Volpe. It's a nightmare. If you're to watch baseball games, pitchers just don't know,

especially. to second base. Yeah. Like they can get away thrown to first base for the most part. They practice that quite a bit. The throw to second base

on a comebacker usually, I mean, you have to be ready for anything as a middle infielder. And Volpe kind of was. That was choked off a little bit right there. So a great play by him getting that foot on the base.

And yeah, man. Yankees, they played fundamentally sound baseball. They ran the bases the right way. And the Red Sox didn't. Before that double play, Bregman hits a single that was a tweener ball

that Belly thought about diving forward. Instead, he makes a nice stop on it that sets up that double play. Buck Showalter once blew my mind. He talked about pitchers throwing the bases, and he said, in that situation, pitchers are so used to throwing downhill. Devin Williams is throwing uphill there.

And when they're on flat ground, they're used to throwing downhill, that they're now here. So that's just a weird thought process, someone who's probably watched some of the most, some of the most baseball on this planet, Buck Showalter, and why pitchers can't throw to bases.

Really athletic play by Volpey there. And Trev, if we're, you know, we might have jumped too far ahead. Ben Rice, who gets neutralized in game one with the crochet to Chapman combination and one of the Yankees' borderline, should you start him, should you not start him, he opens up the game with a two-run homer,

which almost makes it instantly feel like, okay, yesterday is gone, today is our day. I mean, that helps set the tone and gets the momentum back. You see the fans going wild. I think that's really important in the series like this.

You lose game one and you're on the brink of your season ending and you get a guy first pitchy ever sees in a playoff game for a two-run homer to give you the lead. I think that's, I mean, it's probably the play of the game. Yeah.

Just setting a tone. I understand the Red Sucks tied the game up a couple different times after that, but the tone setting of that, I think is important. It makes the Yankees feel like we got a shot. Trevor's story is an absolute dog right now, game-tying Homer right after the Yankees took the lead

after the Duran play, so that instant momentum gone. Some of the stuff he's doing as a Red Sox shortstop has only been matched in the postseason by Zanda Bogatz. And yeah, it's for the Yankees season to come down to this and some serious serious nerves throughout the day and are the Yankees going to outsmart themselves? Will the Red Sox

just outsmart them or make them get into trouble? Huge Austin Wells hit 4'3. If you want more talking Yanks, me, Joe's and Jom, John from the hospital, went for about 45 minutes after the game to tee this up. Major Cajonets by Fernando Cruz, who also gets helped by jazz, and he freaks out on the field. He's, he's an energy guy.

He's, he's an adrenaline dump. He's not coming out for the next inning. It's when he's done, he's done. And yeah, man, I, uh, the next chapter of this one, Coach Trev, you know, let me get dramatic on you for a second. Okay. Game three. Young Cam Schlitler, the power throwing right-hander for the Yankees.

Breath of fresh air has thrown, I think, the top 80 fastest pitches for the Yankees this year can hit 100 on the gun, calm, cool, and collected. He takes on young Connolly Early, the Southpaw for the Boston Red Sox with the wipeout slider from hell. He can also hit some 97-9-8 on the gun. Two guys that currently look like future studs for these rotations in a do-or-die game. All hands on deck like everything else. The 8 p.m. game tomorrow. The Bronx is going to be buzzing.

And there's so many fun players with good stories in this one. Cora is going to ugly up the game with all of his lefty relievers. Chapman could come in for three the way Cora manages. It could be Connolly early for three. It could be Chapman for three and how does he navigate the middle. Does one of these young guys put up a, you know, a legendary performance between these two franchises and who of the big boys is going to step up

that I'll be nervous as all hell live streaming tomorrow thank you to everyone that's been joining our live streams if you haven't go check them out it's a wild experience Joe's Mcfly is one of the naturally funniest weirdest weirdest people on this green earth and I just got nervous Is Boone gonna sit his lefties

Currently, we think the only debate is do you start Ben Rice or Goldie? Because young Connolly Early is a lefty, and Paul Goldschmidt has led off first lefties, and he got two hits in the first game off Crochet and Chapman. So it's kind of like, do you attack the kid earlier? Do you save yourself more weapons for later? We'll see. We'll see. There's a McMahon Caballero conversation.

They probably start Caballero because McMahon's left on left at bat's been done. There's some decisions to be made, which is scary for Yankees fans. I would love if Jazz was not in the lineup, just to see what would happen. I think Boone should just prank him a little bit. Oh, a good fake lineup before the game. Yeah. Good fake lineup before the game. I like that.

For the Red Sox. And obviously this is, I will admit, I'm wearing a Yankee turtle neck. I have a little more insight on that side. What's going to be fun over there, Trev. They face two lefties in Frieden-Rodon, so they are going to have a new lineup tomorrow where you're going to see Wheeler-A-Raeu and getting the start, probably Nathaniel Lowe,

probably Yoshida. Are they going to want to leave themselves? A lefty-pinch hit option? So the chess match continues in a, I guess, in a corny way, and you could say this for the other series as well. It is a little bit of bummer. We're not getting five or seven games

because the chess match is just fully on. that's all they get double thumbs up uh you know what uh we need to shout out palmer sheldon we haven't been live in a while palmer sheldon gave a $20 super chat uh hey guys just want to let you all know i'm a huge fan and love what you do even though my rangers aren't in the playoff enjoy it every night have a good night get so much deserve sleep thank you palmer sheldon thanks thank you to our whole our whole little community here who's gonna manage the rangers nobody question druby terra Drew Bue. First candidate. Drew Bittera on the table.

Coach Trev, we have one more to wrap up. Oh, just had a leg cramp. I'm okay. We'll do it. We'll do it live. We'll do it live as the Dodgers and the Reds teed it up for one last time. Yoshinobu Yamamoto and the Dodgers would try to make Zach in the Reds feel Littel, but not in the first. Sal Stewart sinks a two RBI single. Reds out in front.

Unfortunately for Cincinnati, the Dodgers scored the next eight. Mookie was all over the place. Kike was all over the place. Miggy Roe, we believe his wife's birthday. We'll double check that one. Tay Oscar gets grouchy. You know the names.

They're back again. But you also know the bullpen this year. It got scary in the eighth. We delayed starting recording as Stewart and Stevenson, the new law firm in Cincinnati. They push a couple across, but Vesia comes in and Roki Sasaki lock it down for the Dodgers. They sweep win two games as they move on. Well, you kind of gave the standings away there, Pop. I did a little at the end.

Yeah, Reds. 0 and 2. Dodgers. 2 and 0. Barely. Dodgers. Sorry. about that. Where do you start, Trev?

Nice try by the Reds. Oh, that didn't feel sincere. That didn't feel sincere. I mean, they gave it a go. Dodgers bullpen, you know, got scared a little bit there. I still think that Dave Roberts hasn't even, like, scratched the real bullpen moves yet. Like, maybe a light bulb went off with, because I didn't, we were recording, so I didn't see Rokey's inning, but from what our chat was saying, he looked.

absolutely filthy. Yeah. Like, yes, yes. Like, use that guy. Do that.

That makes a lot of sense. That's where these, and this is a little rude to the Reds, but this felt like practice playoffs for the Dodgers. Like, game one felt like a, very rude, but yes. Day one felt like a fan appreciation game. Like, oh,

you want to see Snell, strike everyone out? You want to see, watch Show Hey Homer over here. What? Here's Day Oscar. And then this one, and that is rude to the,

the Reds because the Reds were in this. They had the bases loaded. Yamamoto works out of it, lets out a nice roar on the mound, and that's the inning. The Dodgers really open it up. But the tryout part of this, Trev, there's a lot of times that we've said, hey, if this Dodger bullpen wants to figure something out, maybe it's Emmett Sheehan. And his bullpen debut here went about as poorly as possible. So Roki has been the highlight for them that you have to think Roberts, when he needs it, is now going to push that button. Yeah, not much you do with that, huh, pal? And he's got to be built up to go more than one inning.

And I don't know if that's a plan for them or not. And then what happens in a five-game set? What happens in a seven-game set? I don't know. I think a lot of credit goes to Yomoto for settling down. Teosker with the big air in the first inning. Shout out your boy, South Stewart. Yeah.

Not the fleetest of foot over there, but he got a knock, put him up 2-0 after Teosker's little air in right field. but Yamamoto's settling down and getting through everything was very, very nice. Here's the air by Tay Oscar. Long way to go. Long way to go. When you start chopping your steps like that, if you're not on the balls of your feet, you know, you start healing it up a little bit.

The eyes start to bounce. Yeah, so it's no earned for Yamamoto. 113 pitches, which also should be of note with the Dodgers starting pitching depth and the way the playoff format is going, they're allowed to let Yamamoto go a little further because he's probably going to get extra days rest because they can go glass now and Shohei. So, yeah.

They have tomorrow and Friday off. And then, yeah, so they can all just pitch on regular rest. Two games, extra off day. So, again, just a little, as we're looking at this playoff format and figuring it out. And he gets some important outs for them, which when you look at what this Dodgers bullpen did, again, that's another kind of important twist to this.

The other thing of note over here was that, well, Zach Lattell gets the start, which I'm, you know, not trying to send shots across the bow at him, but Nicolodolo coming off basically his best outing of the season, and he, you know, the prospect type to what he's done at the major league level, kind of thought he was going to be, if we were talking about the rest of, in a couple days. We thought it was going to be Hunter Green, Lidolo, Andrew Abbott.

Instead, Lodolo comes in for 1.2 clean, 14 bullets, gets pulled out of the game, and Nick Martinez comes in. And, I mean, to be frank, he just, he gets dodgered. Yeah, the Lodolo thing's interesting. He didn't have great numbers against the Dodgers this year. I believe it was like six earned runs and 10 innings pitched. That's a Chris Rose stat. he sent me. So they asked, they asked Tito during the game about Lutel. He said he just knows how to navigate a lineup. He felt confident that he could do that here.

Not going to get a ton of strikeouts, but he's not going to get scared by the big moment. So this is, and I'm going to give Chris Rose another shout-up because he knows Terry very, very well from his days in Cleveland. And he says he falls in love with guys. That is his thing. And it's proven to help him a lot. and it's proven to kind of bite him from time to time.

You see who did not get to pitch in this series. Your closer didn't get to pitch. Andrew Abbott didn't get to pitch. Chase Burns, who's like their Roki Sasaki in that bullpen, didn't get to pitch. So it's, I guess maybe there wasn't time for it to happen in a two-game series that end of the being. But I think he'll be, I think Tito will wake up tomorrow and be like,

shoot, it's probably some things I would have done differently. Yeah, it's the relief is a great point when Santion comes in and he, he was throwing heavy and looked pretty good. Chase Burns finishes it. Yeah, there's the Reds. I think that was what was jarring about this. When the Dodgers did pitch everyone, they're yelling at me. Did I miss that too?

Burns pitch at the end. Okay, we've been recording guys. Again, I'm putting that in a column for us that the game was, over at that point. Yes. Eight to four. It was eight to two. And I just,

if you're the Reds, and part of the reason people were excited about these Cincinnati Reds is everything you just said. There are two pitchers on the back end. The two starting pitchers going to the bullpen. They're young studs, Hunter Green. Like, you lost this game on Lattel and Martinez,

which, hey, Nick Martinez, like, he got the qualifying offer. He has been a dog for them. He has jumped between the rotation in the bullpen. Remember, did he have a complete game shutout, and he was just cranking beers in the post game? And we're like, okay, you, Nick Martinez, you can play on our team. Did he do that?

Is it in San Diego? I remember that, too. It was for the red. I forget where it was, but we were like, okay, you just don't see that a lot anymore, which maybe that's why he's a Tito guy. That part would feel icky. I do think, I mean, the 83 win reds facing these Dodgers that, you know,

Kike Hernandez come October, for some reason something happens, and he is not who he is in the regular season. And that pairs perfectly with Teosker, Freddie, Buki, and Shohei. And Yamamoto and Snell started for them. Like, there's still an embarrassment of riches on this team. And we are finally going to get Phillies Dodgers coming up this weekend, which is about as good as you can do. It's going to be a lot of fun.

The Reds, they had their shot. Top six was their shot. They ended up loading the base. There's nobody out. Mookie gets the ground ball. It wasn't a ground ball per se. It was like a line drive. Like a short hop line drive that enabled him to get the runner at home.

And then Sal Stewart strikes out. Ellie has a chance for a moment. He strikes out. And that's kind of, I think that was it. Because the next inning are the bottom half of the, that inning is when the Dodgers, you know, extend the lead or four runs there to make it seven or two. So, I mean, that was their chance. And if you get a little bit, you got to take it.

And they just didn't do it, man. It really felt like, and we said this last night. I just didn't feel like it was a good matchup at all. Bobo. Otani will be the game one starting pitcher in the NL. You all. That's amazing. Otani Chris Sanchez

Wow It's like you and me Who's who You're right about that sixth inning Bases loaded one run game Into 7-2 Dodgers Dodgers

Kind of an ideal tune-up A couple nervous moments That guys got through And you got your playoff feet under you Reds A build on it, man filled on it. He's still a ton of young armed talent. There should be more in that lineup, especially at that ballpark.

We'll see you guys later. We three game threes tomorrow that we will be watching. We are going to be recording on Friday morning, and that's essentially going to be the DS preview, because we'll have all of that decided. And as a little bonus, as you guys know, we always take care of you a little bit. We're going to give you a little DK,

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Jose Iglesias, to get the start and to get one plus total base in tomorrow's game. Jose Iglesias versus Jameson-Tayone, seven for 13. How do you like that? 538 with a few extra base hits, a 1.462 OPS. That's our signal. This one seems like a layup, but it's a double for us. The Tigers Guardians under seven and a half runs tomorrow since the start of the 2025 season,

including the first two games of this postseason, the under of seven and a half has hit in 12 of their last 15 games. You know, it feels that way. There's been a lot of action on the bit. You wonder if something cracks. It'll be one one in the eight. The triple. Oh, I like this.

John Carlo, no se Puello. Homer. We're going for it. He's 0 and 8. He had a two homer game heading into the postseason that you thought got him back. He is just missing right now. Do or die game.

What I've seen that, man doing the postseason. And hey, each one of these gets a little tougher. I'll go with G-Unit. I mean, I don't really believe in this home run. Wow. Have you seen my bracket, you know. We're picking winners for game three with the homer.

Tigers, Padres, and Yankees all win game threes. In the first three years, this new wildcard format, Jake, as you know, there are only two game threes, two out of 12. in this season we have three out of four. I did pick the Red Sox. I did pick the Cubs. I did pick the Tigers. Those are my picks.

If you want to tell that, you can do that. Yeah, maybe we can loosely tell the people for your home run. Just pick winners tomorrow. If you parlay the three winners together, that number comes out pretty nice. Bing, bang, boom. You know ball. So if you know ball, check out the Draft King's Sportsbook Code, J.M. Baseball. Big one tomorrow, coach.

I mean, you got a big, you got baseball, you got football, you're going to be in it. I'm going to be in it. I'll be down at Sofi. I'm bringing a monitor that I'll stream my phone to the monitor. We tailgating down there watching games. It's going to be a great sports day for me. I can't wait. We do have one guy in the chat saying, talk about the payroll discrepancy between the Reds and the Dodgers.

Why? Why? What? It's baseball. There's no cap. Your owner can spend whatever he wants. I understand the Dodgers have more owners and are working with more money.

I understand that. But the Brewers were the number one seed in all the land. I'm sure their payroll is very close to the Reds, if not lower than it. It's organization-based. The Dodgers paired against a handful of these teams in the Post-Aid. And potentially every team, by the way. They won the World Series last year.

There's a couple teams in the AL that I think stand out that the Dodgers have a lot more than those teams have. And so to a couple of these other teams we're going to see in the D.S. The Phillies are great. Your owner can spend what they want. There's no rules on how much your owner can spend. Sorry, Cincinnati Redsman. That's probably just a sad, sincey guy. His team just lost.

He's mad at the owners. I understand that it's going to be me. It's going to be Ollie. It's going to be Lawrence Butler at SoFi tomorrow. Let's go, people. Wow. Wow. Thank you guys so much.

We'll be back on talking baseball Friday, morning, Friday afternoon for you. If you want to see the live stream tomorrow of Yankees Red Sox 8 p.m. Jake Sox. It's going to be. Let's go, Red Sox. Come on. You turned down money from them. I did.

I'm going to make that shirt. Trevor Plouf doesn't want your dirty money. I'd still be in the league if me and Chili Davis work together. I know it. Hey, please, there's 1,700 of you right now. Will you please like this video? Nice, Treff. Begging.

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