Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast) - Is Phillies vs. Padres DONE + Astros Take 3-0 Lead | 565

Episode Date: October 23, 2022

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Hello and welcome to talking baseball. Myself, Trevor Plouffe, BVD. The Yankees are dead. The Phillies are more alive than they've ever been. Let's talk some baseball. Hello and welcome to talking baseball. Presented by Seat Geek, Code Johnboy playoffs, 10% off. At Seatkeek, download the app and go check them out.

Trev, what's up, man? What's up, man? How are you feeling it? I don't see any Yankees gear on you. I don't know what's going on. I've been wearing this little kid's necklace for about four weeks because a guy in the Yankees wears it. So maybe I'll stop doing that at some point,

but the times are bad. I've heard many people call for you to take that necklace off, but I think you got to stick with it. I got to be honest with you. I don't think the Yankees' problem is your, childish necklace. I think it's probably the lack of offense. That's just me, though. I mean, there's people calling for me to play left field and bat third. So let's, I'll do a quick Jakey burn in the game and then Trev, we can, I mean, kind of Barry,

Barry the end. We're going to deep dive into this game, just as yeah. Yeah. So let's go. Yeah. Uh, uh, burn it baby. That's. go welcome to the boogie down Bronx these Yankees are different treb we've got garrett cole yankees ace on the bump first christian stan Javier as houston tries to go up 3 oh in the series top two fly ball to right center oh my god beta and judged two of the yankees best Defenders fly ball drops off a Bader's glove, and you know what happens next. McCormick stakes one to right. Short porch job 335.

It is two nothing Astros. It would stay that way into the sixth Mancini and Vasquez. The sack fly and single a couple of their trade deadline acquisitions. It's five nothing. And as you mentioned, Trev, that nothing was truly. nothing. The Yankees's offense had one hit through eight innings. Javier, Naris, Stannick, Brown, Montero, Abrae, Houston. They win 5'0. And they bury your yanks. That was my favorite burn. You were giddy. You're still giddy. Are we that bad?

Are Yankees people that bad? I don't root against the Yankees. In fact, full disclosure, it's pretty good for our company when the Yankees do well. Sure. Okay. But this brand of baseball they're playing right now is just not a good baseball. And I don't know if it's the Astros thing. It talks about before on this show. Yankees, they're the Twins Daddy.

That makes the Astros the Twins grandfather because my, oh my, are the Astros, the Yankees daddy. How many runs are they scored in this series? Four. Two on an error. Four runs in three games and they struck out 41 times. It's just not getting the job done. I could narrow, and I want to give credit to Houston, but I kind of want to just talk a little bit about the Yankees first. Your left field play has been atrocious. Just outfield play in general has been atrocious. You've started three different people at shortstop. Two of them are rookies. Okay. One guy, everyone's been. calling for his head all year long. I don't agree with that, but you can't figure out your

shortstop situation either. And then your bats go quiet. Like silent. Like that one movie where you can't talk whether the monster comes against you. That's what the Yankees are acting like right now. I'm like, goodness. Meanwhile, the Astros are firing. And they haven't even needed to sweat, dude. It's like they come up in the situations they need to. They come big. Their pitching has been incredible and I can't tell if it's like you have to give all the credit to their pitching or the Yankees bats just going cold. I don't know what it is, but man, it's just been a lopsided series in last night like you're saying. It was the same exact thing. One hit, a Stanton double until the ninth inning. A couple singles there. It just, I don't know, man. It's getting out

of control right now. It's got to feel bad as a Yankees fan. I actually do feel bad for Yankee fans right now. I was happy. The Bronx was was buzzing pretty good for this game. 5 p.m. Houston Yankees. You know, Cole. Yeah, I think Yankee fans, I thought they were going to come in a little more timid. Like they'd need to. No, they came in hot.

They were ready to go. The crowd was buzzing. Cole has a clean first. The Yankees offense goes down. And then, yeah, man, when you see a two-out fly ball in the playoffs get dropped. And, you know, everyone seen baseball by this point you you know if you let the baseball gods come in they'll come in and um you thought McCormick hits one to right 335 it bounces off the top of the wall

and Trev we spent a lot of time talking about wind and we spent a lot of you know loser talk and you know you play where you play for the Astros and for the Astros and for for the Yankees, for that to happen, McCormick, the nine-hole hitter to find the shortest of the porches. And then in that one swing, you've provided all of the runs the Yankees offense has had in three games because they got two off of a Framber error. Yeah. He basically sealed it.

And I think all the Yankee fans were looking around like, oh, no, I, I think Yankee fans were at grips going down to these Astros. These Astros are a better team. They're a better organization. But you believe in baseball and you believe in sports and you got to believe in the Bronx, right? And then to have that happen, my God, they popped the bubble. And then you need offense to create anything. And Trev, I don't know, dude.

Like it's, it's starting to get to the point where if me, Jimmy, BBD, we're doing talking yanks. And I know you were laughing at some of our notes. But, you know, you end up coming off as an asshole because I know how hard it is to hit. I mean, I, you know, if I went to the 55 mile per hour cage right now, I would not put on a display. And these guys are doing something much tougher against an incredible pitching staff. Javier is a stud. you know, what those guys in that Houston bullpen have done all year is incredible. That being said, man, I don't know.

Like, what do you do? Give, like, to say give better at bats, I realize that that sounds dumb, but I don't know, man. They got nothing. It happens sometimes. I mean, bats go cold during the regular season, and that's what we'll say. Man, they're just cold right now. They're going to get hot. But in the postseason, you don't have the luxury.

of coming back to the next series. And that's basically what's going on. You have to give a lot of credit to what Houston's been able to do on the pitching side of the ball. You know, we thought my guy with a curveball from hell, Lance McCuller Jr. was going to get this game. But it turns out he hurts his elbow on a champagne bottle, which is awesome. It's a great story to tell. Like, hey, how did you hurt yourself?

Well, I was popping champagne, and I was in the big leagues and hitting my elbow. I'm still going to be there for game four or whatever. Javier has been nasty against the Yankees this year. So, you know, they flop from or they swap from their three to their four guy, and he's lights out. And the way he was kind of adding, subtracting with his off speed pitches, he threw one nasty one to judge. Judge looks a little bit overmatched right now with some of that spin going on.

But it is. I mean, it's a combination of the Astros having an incredible pitching staff. We know how well they did during the regular season. That's translated right into the postseason. Dusty, like, kind of pulling all the right strings there with his bullpen. it was just impressive, man. And there really is nothing you can do. As a team, you know, you try to have a unified approach.

You have a game plan. You're going into it. Like, for instance, today, you're going up against a guy with a nasty curveball. Like, you're going to have, as a team, to figure out the tunnel where it's got to start for it to be a strike. And if it doesn't start there, you got to lay off. You got to try to get hitter's counts against him. We can't be waving off-spie pitches out of the zone. Let's try to really get our plate discipline up, see some pitches, whatever it has.

whatever has to be, you have to have a unified approach. But even that's not enough, man, because it's just one of those things. You know, they say hitting is contagious. Look at what the Phillies have done, man. Like, those guys are getting hot all together at the right time. Right now, there's no one really stepping up for the Yankees. Because sometimes that's all you need, dude, is one guy to be up there giving you really good at bats. Because it's like, oh, okay, it can be done.

We can't get on base. We can't have these good at bats. We can work it. But they don't have that. right now. Like they, like they're big dogs who I told you, man, you need to step up. Like not really stepping up. So it has to be. No. And it just, it just hasn't come. And that's why they're down 3-0 in this series. And, and I know, I know Jimmy would want to say this that it, because it, this sounds like

we're blaming Judge, but it's, it's blaming how the Yankees are built. But so much of their offense is built on Aaron Judge being the bad man. Um, and he's currently having, having a tough series. So I am not pinning all of this on Aaron Judge. I mean, the incredible season, but the Yankees offensive formula is like, Judge needs to be MVP level. And then around that, then you hope to get the Glaber hit or Carpenter runs into one, or Rizzo or Stanton.

And without that, it's just been empty. And yeah, man, I, uh, more credit. to Houston. I mean, they're doing this. El Tuveh hasn't done anything. He gets his first hit. Same batting averages. The top of their lineup last ever, one for 14.

Jordan Alvarez has been silenced. Kyle Tucker, honest Abe. But the guys who have gone, Bregman, Pena, you know, even McCormick at the bottom there, Vasquez contributing.

Yule Gueriel is is there's, you know, one of the scariest bats in this series right now. That Houston, man, they are, they are so well run. And they have been. And that's been the whole thing that people, you know, if you want to get stuff twisted up in 17 and 19 or whatever, it's this organization went above and beyond to figure out the ways to be the best. And that's like their whole motto.

It's increasing at the margins and being better in every aspect wherever we can. They took that too far a couple times. And that is what it is. And we deal with that however you mentally want to deal with it. But everything else is incredible, man, that they are better in every facet of the game. And I think some of the stuff that the Yankees current organization doesn't appreciate. you know, setting the same top of the lineup or having, hey, kid, you want to be the shortstop? Like, here's the gig.

Let's find out for three weeks and not do that in the postseason and just throw someone else out there. You can point to some injuries and, you know, you're talking about how the Yankees have poor left field defense. You know, Andrew Bentendee was the guy they brought in to be the contact defense guy. DJ LaMayhew, the Yankees' best contact and, you know, solid defense wherever you put them. That being said, it feels, and you know, this is heavy stuff and, you know, go check out talking Yanks for a lot of deep dives this year. There's organizational philosophies with the Yankees that are wrong. And a lot of those and the disconnects on this team are because of how they make decisions. They kind of have a group of people that make decisions.

And I think what that leads to is we got a little wonky last night on talking yanks and we compared it to making a salad. But as a team you're making it. And so you start out saying like, oh, I think we want like a chicken Caesar type salad. And then someone's like, oh, well, you know, we need some tangerines in there. Like tangerines will help the salad be tastier. And then someone's like, actually, let's swap out the dressing, like, you know, a good vinaigrette. And then, but then by the end, you get this salad that's kind of just like, what the hell is this?

Like, these parts don't go together. We should have just gotten a chicken Caesar and ran that. They're overthinking it. And it's because they're getting their ass kicked by Houston and they don't really know why. I mean, I know everybody knows why. It's a more well-rounded team. I mean, they just have more depth at every single position

that you can have depth that. Alex Bregman, my friend who we text, very sparingly, is going off, leading this team. They just seem more cohesive. That's the bottom line, dude. Like when you see the Astros play ball,

they do know their roles. They do know what part of the salad they belong to. You know, there's the croutons over here. There's the dressing over there. Nice crisp romaine. Chopped. perfectly. You don't want massive slices. Sometimes you like it if it's a wedge salad, maybe, but this isn't a wedge salad. They know what kind of salad they are, and they go out and play

ball, bro. You talk about Andrew Benintendi. I think he might have saved the Yankees in these playoffs, and he was in left field. I think you're totally right. The left field play has been atrocious. There's not another word for it, dude. You got away with it in the Guardian series because they can't hit either. But that's not going to be the case with the Astros. In that sequence of events when Cole comes out of the game, which was hilarious because he looked so mad. And it was like he was thinking, I better not blow up right now, even though I want to blow

up on Aaron Boone. I'm not going to do it. So I actually give him props because he didn't show his manager up, although his face you could read between the lines. He comes out of the game. Trey Mancini puts a really good swing on a nasty pitch to hit a fly ball left field. you can't let two dudes tag up on you on that ball. You can't let them go to second and third.

Maybe you let Kyle Tucker go to third base, but then you throw the ball to second base and keep the double play in order. You can't let both the dudes tag up, and it looked like he just nonchalantly got it and he throws the third no chance. So then the next ball gets hit out there. That's a catchable ball for most left fielders.

I love John Carlos Stanton. he's a very good baseball player. I think he's going to be a Hall of Famer. I think he's going to hit 500 home runs. A lot of things he does well. Defensively in left field, not so much. The ball falls in front of him. Two more runs come in.

It's just that's a game-altering sequence of events right there that I think a left-fielder who's defensively competent changes. And, you know, it's not a five-run lead. You know, all of a sudden it becomes still a three-run lead. And I don't know, dude. It's, it's, it's, Trevor, we did all this and you, you could circle on a ton of things. And then it still comes back to that zero runs, one hit through eight innings. And the reason Juncaro stands out playing left field is because he can hit.

And they're trying to get as many hiters in as they can. And he had the only hit. So like, and by the way, what you're saying about Stanton, it's not about Stan. It's about the Yankees. They hadn't played him in the outfield all year. Exactly. So now, now here you go. you got this thoroughbred horse that you're in the, during the season, you're horribly afraid to put out there, but your season's on the line and you have to do it.

Like, you can't have that mindset. You need to, it's baseball, it's consistency. It's running it out there. And the Yankees don't have that. And Houston, Houston does. And it lines up for one more today. Treve, we've been laughing a little bit. We're doing a live event at a bar that, uh, I don't.

Is it therapy? Is it a funeral? I don't know. But I decided because I was mentally like, should we cancel it? Like seriously? Like what are we doing? And I was like, you know what? We're going to have a fun time with some fucking Yankee fans.

And maybe we'll start looking at next year's roster. Or Trev, maybe, maybe this team. You just got to win one. And then you got to win another. And then another. And then another against the team that fucking tortures you. before we move on to the next game, I'm actually sad on missing that live event.

Maybe I'll FaceTime in because that's going to be something. Bottom of the lineup contributing. I want to give more credit to the Asher's. I feel like it's kind of been a Yankees pity episode so far. The bottom of the lineup. Because Al-Tubei, Yordon, and Kyle Tucker are 3 for 34 in the ALCS. That's not a good recipe for them, unless they're getting production from somewhere else.

In game one, McCormick was the 8-hitter. He reached base three times. He hits a homer. Maldonado has an RBI double. He's the ninth hitter. Game two, Maldonado, the ninth hitter, reaches base three times, including on an 0-and-two count ahead of Bregnan's homer.

Getting production, getting on base. Game three, McCormick, obviously, with a two-run homer. Mancini is a seven-hitter, has a psyched fly, and then Vasquez comes up with a single. You have to get that production from the bottom of your lineup. We're seeing it with the field. It doesn't have to be consistent all the time, but you have to be able to get some of it out of there,

especially when your top of the lineup is struggling. Credit to the Astros, man. They're like a real deal, legitimate, full squad baseball team. Everything about the lack of Yankees hitting is a compliment to Houston as well. Like, you know, the Yankees hit a bit during the year. And, you know, batting averages and small samples, I know you can mess with it and all that. and batting averages and everything,

but you can still use stats to paint a picture. Rizzo's hitting 111, judge is hitting 083, Torres is hitting 091, Carpenter is hitting 111 after hitting zero up until his last at bat. So Josh Donaldson, 11, Cabrera and Trevino, zero's on the board. Matt Carpenter, who was 0 for, I think he was 0 for 10, with 9Ks. He gets to hit in his last step bat,

and he basically locks up the third best hitter on the team with that. So times are dark. Times are dark. Nestor and Lance with colors tonight. That's fun. It's great. I mean, look, and the Yankees can win this game. They can, you know, force the series, I guess.

What's the game four? We're going for a sweet. Yeah. I don't know. I'm sorry, man. It's, it ain't going to happen. And I don't know if it's better for you guys just to lose tonight and just like,

rip the bandit off or what? I'm not really sure. You tell me. Yeah. No, it's, it becomes kind of a rude sports conversation, right? But like, I don't know.

I want Nestor to do fantastic. Like, I still, I still want all these guys on the team to do well. We're not rooting against anyone, but they're, they're out. outgunned and I don't know.

Would it be fun to make, to make Houston a knees buckle and have to take a flight home and play game six in Houston? But I'm not even dreaming. I'm not dreaming. And I like to dream. I think, I think we're going to get a funeral in the Bronx tonight.

Okay. Let's move on. Let's move on. Let's go on to, BBDs, Phillies versus your Padres, Trevor. And this is fun postseason. I mean, be careful if you're the next pitch you're coming in. Let's, I guess we can burn it quick, pebs.

Burn it on. Bona, no, no, hell of the game. What a series, too. Intense. We're heading out. Trevor Pluth has juice in Philly. Philadelphia as the Padres and Phil's go for game for a little opener day. How about it?

And you hope Bailey doesn't falter against his Padres lineup and bad news. He did. Mani Machado Homer, Brandon Drury with the two RBI double. And Kim Possible as Haasong makes it 4-0 Padres in the first. How's your burger? but it would be not as much sunshine on the other side as Clevenger gets rocked. With the two run home, we're good fortitude to make it fortitude. And then Bryce Hoppe, Philly Legend with the RBI double.

After one inning, it is four to three. Hold on to your kicks. Bryson Stott's an RBI single, tied up at fours in the fourth. But there he is, Juan Soto. has joined the party. It is six to four after his two run. Ding-dong. Oh, Trev.

These Phillies, man, up and down the lineup, a fifth inning where they put up another four spot. Reaser again, Harper again, Castellanos with the RBI single. It is eight, six Phillies. Make it nine. Six, nine, very nice, BVD, Chorbo. Oh my God, that beer doesn't connect, but the bat does. And then Real Mudo puts the icing on the cake with a homer of his own.

Billy's B-Pen comes in and gets it done on a bullpen day, Walter, Brogden, Bellotti, and Cindergarten, Robertson, and Eflin. Phillies take a 3-1 lead in the NLCS over the daddy. Who, babe. Jakey boy, Jakey boy, Jakey boy. Treb. What a first inning that we had there. This is the type of baseball that we love to see.

Bullpen games, you know there's going to be some runs scored usually not this many in the first inning. And this is what Philly's been doing all the time. And actually both teams have been doing this throughout the series answering. Like shut down. innings are very hard to come by against the Phillies and even the Padres and I don't think offense is necessary. They're calling card of their team, but they've been able to answer. They've had timely hitting.

They've had some homers. They got some guys. They can do it. I love Machado coming up right there. There was a bunch of man, he sucks chance going on. And he hits the homer, puts the, huh? I didn't hear anything there. But man, oh man.

This is the Reese Hoskins. kind of coming out party because after the top which i i said before the show started there was the um the jury double there because you have the solo home run in the first great uh jury has this ball to right field hits it great this is not like an easy catch but castiano's almost gets there uh whiffs on that one and they go up but the answer back at that hossins with the two run homer and then bryce has looked absolutely incredible this whole series just driving the ball to right center to left center you really know he's going when things are kind of in the middle of the field and and that's how it's going right now but we're relentless um offensive day for the philly is those top

five hitters man they're all kind of getting hot and rswarber and hoskins were really struggling and they were talking his top are going to move these guys um from the top of the lineup and he said no and i told you guys they can get hot at any moment boy oh boy are they hot real muto doing his thing and I want to say one thing about Rio Muto. And then I'll let you kind of speak on this. I put him in my hot guy list very early on. And people were like, what are you doing? Have you seen J.T. Ril Moutel?

Do you understand what this guy is about? A catcher who can steal bags has like the fastest pop times in the sport. See him with his shirt off one time, will you? The guy is jacked. He's got everything you need, man. What an athlete. Jake, what's up? I almost tweeted that out last night, and you know what it is?

The catcher's mask, whatever it does covering his forehead and, like, his hair normally, it's like in the 90s movie when, like, the cute girl takes off her glasses for the first time, and everyone's like, whoa, dude, when they interviewed him after the Homer and he didn't have the catchers gear on and he had no hat, the hair, and like the little bit of facial hair, I was like, whoa, J.T. Real Mudo. We need to talk about this more. Oh, you guys, man. Philly. Hello.

Trev, I'm going to reverse engineer this, which is a funny term that I just like to use whenever I can. Because I think the story is hitting. So I want to check off some of the pitching a little bit. Nick Martinez shoved for the Padres. he was really the only guy. Every other Padres pitcher until Mora Hone, who gets the final inning,

gave up runs. And Clevenger and Mania, man, Cleve comes out for the start. He's been cheeks lately. Mania comes out. He has not pitched, I think, since October 4th or something like that.

1.15 earned from Mania. Clevenger does not record and out. Those are two pieces that this organization brought in in the past couple years. You know, Clevenger had the bad injury. Mania came in and, you know, was their four or five starter. Meanwhile, for the, for the Phillies, and this is where I, you know, it changes. Bailey Falter gets hit. And Brad Hand gets knocked around or gives up the homer. But everyone else, you've got, you know, one, two, three, four, five guys that did their. job in Brogden, Bellotti, Cindergarde, Robertson, and Eflin.

And there's a couple acquisitions in there as well that, yeah, the Phillies, the Phillies pitching, out did the Padres pitching. How much does that tie into the lineup? It could be a lot because it's Hoskins. It's sharper. It's Harper and Real Moodo clicking that, yeah, man, I mean, Philly in that building right now feels invincible. Another Philly reference, sir.

That was good. I didn't catch that one. I'm glad you pointed it out. Okay. Okay. Now I'm hot. You know, so you mentioned all those guys to pitch. There was a lot of them to pitch for the Phillies yesterday. You know who they didn't throw? They're two best relievers right now,

Alvarado and Sir Anthony Dominguez. That is, I think, a massive kind of storyline in here. You get those guys rested for a potential clinching game. here. They have all the good bullpen guys going. It's the Phillies have kind of morphed into the team that we all thought they could be. And I've been kind of talking about this team for a couple years now. I said, dude, like they have a lineup. They can go bang the ball around. And then you have the high end pitching. The bullpen was supposed to be a weakness. And there's a little bit, you know, like there's, what's the word I'm looking for?

Tell me. There's some kinks, chinks in the armor, kinks in armor? Kinks in the armor. You know, like when a legless, and they're about to fight at Helms Deep and they're like, you know, they're seeing the Eurekai come up and they're like, what do we do? And like it's like their armor is, you know, weak at the, like in the shoulder and at the neck. And he like, just shoots one at the neck. And I like, see, I told you.

like there's there's some things out there but they've been coming up big and big situations in this bullpen game i mean you you get the fourth spot things are looking bleak but then uh won soto homer that's the only other offense uh that goes for the padres and then you have that relentless philly lineup and it seems now like you just got i mean six runs they scored san diego but not enough and that's kind of what it seems like right now like you're going to have to try to outscore lineup that's just clicking like five real deal power threats at the top of the line and clicking altogether that is a daunting task and we're seeing san diego have to deal with that right now well and now we're hitting the part of the series because you know with bullpen usage and

how these series are now set up not having the off day you know potentially travel day coming up um San Diego part of their winning formula I mean Martinez is a big part of that uh and can be but he'll be out 43 pitches

but you know the other guys that got hit here you know Mania and Clevenger those guys aren't going to take the bump again in this series um you know that they have their plan with hater who does not pitch in this game as well um and you know I know we'll get to Darvish and we

in a minute. But if you're San Diego, maybe that's what you can take away from this. You know, you had Mania and Clevenger give up eight of the 10 runs and they won't be participating in this series anymore. So that's maybe a little bit of a silver lining playbook, another Philly reference for the Padres, but also. Hey, things got a little rocky for the Padres last night. Yeah, hey, hey now, Embed. the Phillies lineup dude i i mean the dudes are being dudes and coming off of watching the Yankees like it's talk about feeling just night and day it feels like every at bat they have a chance

to hit a two run homer and i would kill to feel that emotion for the Yankees here's some uh i don't have another Philly reference i don't know that's okay we'll get some yeah here's something that you can think about if you're a Padres fan. You got to win three games in a row. But you got Darvish, you got Snow, and you got Musgrove.

And you can say, I can envision a scenario where those three guys have great outings. And we can bring, if Darvish gets the job done tonight, we can bring the series back to San Diego. And we can be in front of our home crowd, and it'll be rocking,

and it puts the pressure on the Phillies. The problem is, is if you got those top five guys hot, swinging the bat, it's just hard to keep up with that. It really is, man. And guess what? You're going up against Wheeler and Nola, dude. Like, this series isn't over. Like, 100% the podgers are still in it. Man, their backs are against the wall, going up against two absolutely stud pitchers with a stud line up going off. It's going to be very, very difficult. And now you can kind of dream. upon a Phillies Houston World Series.

And I don't think a lot of people have that in the book. But I think that might be one of the more compelling, entertaining series that we could have matched up. Well, in sports, you know, we love the balance or the storyline of, you know, a really good offense versus a really good defense. If we get there, I mean, Houston's pitching versus Philly's offense is kind of what you want to see, right? Like, Houston's kind of setting the bar pitching wise across baseball. And right now, the Phillies offensively.

And I'll say more than right now, like we came into the year saying, you know, the Phillies are built on offense. And coming to this series even, I said, you know, I like the Padres, but the Phillies can outmash them in their lineup. but I like the Padres and every other fast, it's just a little, a little bit more. Well, guess what? Because the Phillies have that team match your identity when they're doing it, right? That's better. And that can't be beat. And that's the story of this playoffs between, you know, you win.

If you out home or the other team and you score first, all those stats, he keeps seeing, you know, Philly can do that with the best of them. So that being said, I don't think this series is over. The Padres have their big three lined up. They, you know, hater. You're going to need some special bullpen performances. And the guys on the Padre side, it's not like are dead like Soto homers yesterday. Machado's stats are still good.

Josh Bell and Drury are contributing that if you get it back to San Diego, things get a little interesting. I think Philly, and this is going to sound. And Philly's going for the death punch tonight. And Wheeler could shut them out for seven. They could kick it to Sir Anthony and Alvarado. And we could be tipping our hats and start scouting, start scouting Houston. If San Diego gets tonight, you know, then you've got Nola lined up, which that's

obviously, it's another crazy difficult task, but you're back in San Diego. He didn't have a great start in San Diego. He gave some runs. And if you can get there, now think about what. we're talking about. Wheeler and Nola, are their big, bad wolves? Like, there is a path for San Diego. They just made it a very hard path. And by the way, I don't think you're going to hear me, Trev, saying confidently like, Padres in seven, because the Phillies could win 10 to two tonight and it wouldn't be shocking at all. Yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah. I mean, there's plenty of

different ways the series could go. I mean, the most likely thing is, yeah, the Phillies just kind of end it. But I don't think if you're a Padres fan, like, there's, there's no hope of I mean, look at it. Just look at who you have going for you. And if you just get a shutdown inning last night, like, that's insane to me. Like, you have Cleb out there who, like, I know he hasn't been, you know, the Cleve of old, but you have him out there and you're like, I got to feel pretty good. We just banged up their opener. We got Cleve going. If you get a shutdown inning right there, the whole series is different, but instead, the Phillies answer with three. And that's, that is as pumped up as you are about taking a 4-0 lead in the top

the first. It's almost worse for your team to just go back and give up three right away. It's like, dude, what are we supposed to do here as an offense? You're like, how many more do we got a score in that? And then you start to put the pressure on. And, you know, I don't think the podgers is necessarily built for that. If you're going to give up this many runs, the Phillies, I don't think they're built to come back. Although, I mean, God, sometimes I look at their lineup, like, they could swing it. Yeah. It's going to be difficult for them, obviously, to say something very obvious. I'll tell Philly fans this, and they'll probably be mad about it.

It was $15, and it's $15 that I'll maybe never get back. I just put it on Padres to come back and win the series. I don't think it's going to happen. I think it's a losing bet. It was 15 to win like $100. So I was like, screw it. I'd rather have. I'd rather something like that, math guy.

I don't believe in it, but I think crazier things have happened. So, and you know what, Philly? Guess what? Sneaky rooting for you? Because if there's a World Series game in Philly, we might get something going. That's all I'm saying. That's all I'm saying. Anything else, T. Payne.

Shout out to the fans in Philly, man. absolutely shown up and done it awesome awesome what a great atmosphere and bryce is just yucking it up dude doing the film he's bro you're from las Vegas just relaxed he's having 15 years of million billion dollars so i guess you have to like he's uh he's he's a treat man no he's how much he is how much he cares for and that was a cold Tucker kept saying that like just You know, even how well the outfit goes together. Like, you know, from from the hair to the gloves to the socks to the shoes. And it's like, you know, Harper, some of it's a little premeditated.

But guess what? It's because he fucking cares. Like he's, he's, that's it. That's it. That's it for him. And that's how could you not want that from your, your superstar? All right. We, uh, we will be back.

10 a.m. Potentially recapping two games for the last time. Sheesh. Cheesh. Coming up on World Series week. I'll be out there. New York. Treves coming out.

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