Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast) - Phillies Dominate Arizona 10-0 in Game 2 | 733

Episode Date: October 18, 2023

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Hello and welcome to talking in baseball. ALCS happened yesterday. The NLCS happened today. And that's what we're talking about. We're safe. Hello and welcome to talking baseball. It is October 18th. This episode is brought to you by Seatkeek Code Johnboy Postseason.

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Then the next night you've got to take your wife out and she wants to go to the theater. Boom. Done. Thanks, seat geek. Jake goes second. Treb, how you doing? James, Jacob, BBD, all the people going to theater with their wives. What's up?

I've been there. It's not that bad, guys. Like give theater a chance and being serious. It's like sports, but there's no sports. Home Farmer Way was really good, if that's what's called. Okay. I don't mean to be mean, but, you know, kind of a downer of a game. It's nice to see some homers.

I'm sure Phillies fans aren't feeling the same way, but 10-0, and it just felt like even more. more than that at times during this game. You got to give credit where credits do. I'm down to talk about it, though, a little bit. Jake, how are you doing? Trevor, David, I am, I'm okay. I don't love what happened for my snakes tonight.

Trevor, something that people like about plays or shows and things of that nature, different from sports is a lot of times you don't see them have necessarily a bad performance. and my snakes fans, they were up against it tonight. Not the game they wanted. And yeah, they've got quite the hill to climb that I'm sure we'll talk about at the end of this. But, man, I'm okay. I felt bad for Dalton watching the game tonight. And, man, Phillies.

That was, I guess that part was fun. You can't throw mistake pitches. And the first pitch... And I know they're not trying to throw mistake pitches. That's not what I'm saying. But like, you can't... If your fastball isn't locating in the first inning, then get through it without your fastball.

Or just pivot because, man, you can't find it in the first against the top five in this order. Seven, top seven. You can't be like, don't worry. I'm just going to find my fastball. And then I'll, like, no, you've lost. in searching for it you've lost. That's what seems to be happening.

Look, we always talk about teams that come on score first, especially on the road in this environment. Corby and Carroll reaches in the first inning, hey, man, an air gift, thank you very much. 10 pitches later, two strikeouts later, Aaron Nola's out of the inning. I mean, setting the tone is important. You get a guy on,

and 10 pitches later, two strikeouts later, you're out. you hand it over to the Phillies who are going to score. I mean, that's what they do. And that one-nothing lead, I mean, look, I know it's one run, but it just felt like more the entire game. It just felt like Arizona, and this is because obviously Nola was pitching so well, you have to give some credit to Nola. He's been incredible in this postseason, but they just didn't seem to have anything going at all.

You got to burn it. Yeah, sure does. Oh, Sergei. Whoops. Phillies try to take a 2-0 series lead. He's got a funky leg kick, and he loves to pitch. His name is NOLA, NOLA, NOLA, NOLA, as Aaron would take on the snakes, and Merrill Kelly Kapoor, as he tries to be the business pitch for Arizona.

Bottom one, ice tray is cold. Turner to the seats, one nothing in the third. I think I'll go to Waltham. I think I'll hit a homer. Schwabber doubles the lead, and then he doubles his pleasure with another one. Second homer of the night. Merrill Kelly only gave up three hits, but they were all homers. And on the other side, no runs for no luck and the snakes.

Real Mudo hits one into. to the marsh that sends everyone Bome as it's getting real Mudo for Philly as they cast out a line and catch another win. Nola Hoffman Strom Kerkering, they shut out the snakes.

Phillies, blow them out 10-0-0 final. A lot of puns in that one. A lot of fun. Well, a lot of time to write it. Unintentional. Unintentional. Yeah, I agree with that. You guys want to talk about Corby and Carroll not stealing?

Hate it. Hated it. Hated it. Hated it. It's what we talked about last game. You're talking about putting those early runs on the board. Yeah. Corbyn Carroll, one of the premier base dealers in baseball, 50 plus stolen bases.

The head of the snake, literally, your star player. He gets on. And like you said, it was a gift from Trey. And we talked about it last time. Like, game one, part of me got it. We talked about this on the live stream a little bit, and we'll be back tomorrow night, jam baseball, come tune in. I think last night the snakes came in so hot and heavy

that it wasn't like, hey, Corbyn Carroll, you got to go out snag that bag. I think the snakes were coming in like, hey, we just lit up the Dodgers. Let's go light up the Phillies and put up big runs. Tonight, after that happened, and Wheeler shut you down for a little bit, and that Corbin opportunity felt like it felt just different.

you come out today and you get gifted one, and you're waiting for him. They've got the camera. Instead of having the camera on the catcher, they've got the camera on first base because they want and expect to see Corby and Carol to go. And he just never went. And you saw him getting the happy feet a little bit.

He never went for it. It ends up becoming laughable now because this game ends up being 10-0. But for a while, this game was too nothing. How about throw down a bunt even if you're not going to steal? Like, you know, be you. You're supposed to be, like, disruptive. You're bunting your butts off against the Dodgers.

They just feel like they haven't, even when they've got runners on, they have not played the brand of baseball that like, and I don't watch them all season, obviously, but that I saw in the first version, Dodgers was like, hey, once we're on base, we're fucking nuisance. And that's part of our game. And it didn't, it wasn't really that that was happening. Meanwhile, the Phillies pitching is insane.

They now have the, second lowest ERA and first games of postseason. Thank you to Sarah Lange for tweeting that out. 1.39. Only bested by the 1983 Orioles. NOLA was ridiculous. I mean, and they matched up against Arizona's two studs too, and we thought this was going to be, you know, maybe a couple of games here where runs are at a premium. The Phillies, like, no, do we mash the ball? That's who we are. If we pitch like this too,

like awesome. And now they're starting to expect it, getting greedy with a great bullpen too. They're really just firing on all facets of the game. They're stealing bags or at least trying to at some points. I know Harper got thrown out, but they're aggressive on the base pass. Kyle Schwerber's taking the extra base. Jake Cave getting greedy, Jake, at the end of the game, obviously, because your name's Jake. Greedy.

But yeah, they're doing everything right right now. Nola's 3-0 with a 0.96 in his starts this postseason. I don't know, man. What is there to say? I mean, they're getting hits with Orange's Court position. They're hitting homers to get up and take early leads. I have a question. Sure.

Do you think Sal Franks won pitch? He's going to play dividends deeper into the series? The man so nice, they named him thrice, Trevor. Yeah. I don't know. We talked about this a little bit, and we can almost segue into the next game. Philly's dominated.

That, yeah, I'm interested in an opener for Arizona in game three. I'm interested in shaking up the middle of the lineup. Like Tommy fans at bats, we're not competitive tonight. And I don't know. I mean, it's straight panic button, and it should be. Going back to this one a little bit, But Merrill Kelly, for five innings, held this lineup to two runs, which at this point does feel like it deserves snaps.

These guys are monsters. He struck out the side in the fifth. Kyle Schwerber comes up to lead off the inning, which, let's say this game did have a different path, and it was 2-2. Maybe the snakes go to their bullpen. I think Merrill's pitch count was in the 80s. He comes out and he faces Schwerber, hadn't give up a homer on his change-up all year,

and Schwarber hits one 427, I believe. And it was a low and away strike. It was a change-up. But that's kind of the problem. The Phillies will beat you. What was that four, Trev? Four in a row. Four change-ups in a row to Schwabber.

Oh, boy. So, you know, should don't make a mistake. Don't show a guy like that four pitches in a row. it was down in a way, but if he sees it enough, you're going to go out there and get it. I mean, I just love his swing right now. It's so compact and so perfect. You're totally right, James. If you make a mistake in that guy's zone right now, it's going to be hit 105 plus off the bat.

It just depends if he's going to put it in the air or enough. Trey Turner's bat fell out of his hands. Then he sprayed the stick him on there, and then he hit a home run. Thoughts? Good advertising for the pintar stick. Spray. We should get some of that. Can I tell you about good advertising?

I don't like this. I don't like to stick them. Why not? The spray, it's too sticky. It's too sticky. And then it kind of goes away and creates like this filmy layer on your bat. You have to keep doing it. How out tight did you hold the bat?

Tell me when to stop. A lighter, lighter for sure. Wow, really? Yeah, knuckles. Nuthcles, nothing was are kind of hovering. If I came from behind you while you were in your stance and I swatted the bat, would fall out of your hands easily with the grip you have? If I did I do I get like to try to grab it?

No no no no reactions no you're you're frozen and in squeeze. Probably not easily but you probably could hit it out. Yeah. You want those you want those hands. Okay. And if you don't want your ball stick them to your legs, you should get yourself some Tommy John. Tommy John.

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Now I have a request. Okay. Next Tommy. No, no, no. Next Tommy John Reed. I'd like, as you're doing the read, to slowly be pulling your, tucking your shirt into your boxers and pulling your boxers up.

And then when you reveal it, all you do is stand up. Or you stand up. That's like a, that's like a Gwen Stefani thing. Doesn't Gwen Stefani like she does like the shirt into the like the men's boxers? Yeah, yeah. And the holoback girl. So you could do that, Jake.

Yeah, pretty relevant hot topic, Trev. She's on the voice right now. Hot topic? And she looked good on the voice yesterday. You were probably scared to go into Hot Topic, you wuss. He definitely was. He didn't go in there. She could go into Hot Topic?

Out of your mind. Mom, I don't want it. Yeah. No, your mom's not bringing you in there. No. Yeah. I had a joke. Anything about this one, or should we tee up game three just a little bit? Eat up, baby.

I don't know. I hope they do a little something. You're coming back to Arizona. Brandon fought. The rookie is supposed to pitch. He did have a nice outing last time, but previous to that, he has not been. I would love if they opened with a lefty, whether that's Mantiply Nelson or Sal Frank. You have three of them.

They're going to open. The Phillies don't change shit because they're going to beat you their way. I would throw one of the lefties. It kind of gives you an instant risk reward. At this point, if this was a casino, I would be playing risk reward if I was the Diamondbacks because you need to change up the juju in a big way in this series.

I would attack those two lefties to start the game. If you get a clean opener inning, you've gotten through that crew once. That's massive. Then you could kick it to fought. It's the same thing. I'd even shuffle up the middle of the lineup a little bit. I'd slide fan down, maybe move a Moreno or Lordus up.

Christian Walker gets a hit in his last at bat, which he looked a little lost. So, hey, I'm trying to feed the snakes anything, but they've made the task as hard as it can be. You have to win game three anyway, anyhow. You still haven't used your good bullpen. Could be scary, them facing the Phillies for the first time. And then even if you do all this, you're just trying to find a way to bring the series back to Philly,

which is just the house of horrors for anyone you play. One game at a time, Jake. One game at a time. That's how you have to do it. They need to come out tomorrow, the Diamondbacks, and not tomorrow. I mean, the next game.

And jam their baseball down the Philly's throat. And I love the opener. Like, fought, going, facing that lineup, like in the first inning, when they're so comfortable now, Like you need to bring someone in here that's going to throw some nasty pitches and just, you know, all of them are 0 for one first time through.

And then maybe that like makes them a sad. They emote as a group, their team. And they'll all be sad. And then you bring in fought. And then they're like, oh, no. So I agree with that. And then you got to, you got to bunt and make stuff happen.

It's your ballpark. Yeah. Something has to change. I'm kind of in on everything, which is surprising. I usually don't agree with you, Jake, when it comes to baseball strategy. It means some things. We like to, what do we like in Jake Ulytics, score more runs?

Big time. Long. Cuban ballplayers. Long lineups. Long lineups is a good one for us. Like, say Nick Castellanos hit in seventh. Yeah. Short tail, we say in cricket.

I don't know, man. Yeah, it's going to be a long series. I mean, or a short one, I guess, you could say. Yeah. It's, um, they have to come. punch early in game three. Like they have to get the lead early. That's it.

Yeah. Do you shake the catcher's hands or the um's hand the first time you go up, but you just kind of touch them with your bat? Oh, I didn't do anything. I mean, maybe if I knew the guy, I was like,

what's up, though? All right. Umpire, umpire for sure. First time. Fuck the catcher. Say that to John.

He's trying to get me out. Like, well, they would say hi to you. Sometimes. Yeah, I mean. I have a team joke,

but I don't know if it would play in the majors. It involves like everyone having a really wet hand and saying hi to the catcher. And just like bumping his chest tractor and splashes. And then the catcher's just like, what's going on? Don't hate it. And then you psych out the catcher that way. He doesn't know what to call.

I probably did say hi to the catcher. I don't know. I don't know why it came off like that. You're nice. You're really nice. Yeah. Some guys I didn't like though. There are some guys I did not.

Name all of them. Presinsky you didn't say hi to. I can't name. No, I like Presidency. AJ and I are great. They have a great relationship. A couple medium men. You and Russell Martin.

Yeah. Never saw I die. I gave my nod, probably. But I didn't really know Russell that well. Oh, okay. New game for you and Jimmy to get us through the next couple minutes. Jimmy's going to name a catcher. You give your reaction.

Russell Martin, head knot. AJ Prisinski. Hey, how are you? What's up? Yeah. He's his former twin. Brian McCann. Head knob.

Victor Martinez. What's up? Flowers. God, he talked too much. I would say hi to him. We were friends. Just put a bunch of gum in your mouth before you go up there. He talked a lot.

And he always like, I don't know. He didn't think I was very good. I was like, Tyler, I'm like pretty good, bro. Like, he'd be like surprised if I got a hit or like, how did you get to that pitch? I'm like, bro, like, I'm hitting cleanup. A little bit of respect. Waiters. Hi, he's.

I didn't really. Yeah, nice guy, but I didn't really know him. Okay, cool. Good stuff. Yeah. Stephen Vogue. That's all I got. Hugs.

Wow. I always love voter. J.R. Murphy. He's the new manager of the Giants. No, he just interviewed, but it'd be cool. Josh Fagley. Bear? I love Bear.

I would, ha. We were teammates, and he hated it. I called him bear. And then so I was like in with the Rangers in spring training. And I was on the other side of the dugout like not playing. And he was like catching. And I was just screaming out, bear while he was hitting.

And he struck out. He gave me the biggest death stare. He was so mad at me. But it was funny because he looked like a bear to me. Like a fucking honey bear. We're talking about Fagley? Josh Fegley. All right.

I got to go into my kids. Yeah, I got to go make my train. I see it. I see it. shit. I see it. He's a great guy. Great guy. It's all to the earth. I mean, look at this pose and this picture. Fagley, what are you doing? This looks like he's a cardboard cutout. Can't be a real pose he did.

That's a honey bear right there. The guy looks like the photographer said, why don't you look out in the distance reflect on your life? Well, they have the famous photographer that's always walk around, you know. He probably made him do that. And just a reminder. Jeff Samarja and Michael Zagra is his name. Jeff Samarja and Michael Yanoa were traded for Chris Bassett, Marcus Simeon,

Rangel Revello, and Josh Feigley. Thank you very much for tuning in. Subscribe to the channel. We're almost at 100,000. And if you're listening at this point on YouTube and you're not subscribed, come on. Yeah, you should subscribe. Jake sucks.

James, please. Jake sucks, James. Usually I never say that. Today I'm asking you to please subscribe. Jake's greeting. You don't agree out baseball. I heard this thing, I was trying to work it in today, and it said, the cows are on the top of the hill.

The stakes are high. Pretty good. It's a good pun.