Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast) - Road Teams Take WILD Championship Series!

Episode Date: October 14, 2025

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Hello and welcome to talking baseball. Some drama in Milwaukee. The Dodgers seal the win late. And how about Seattle? They take two in the Great North. Let's talk ball. Rokey. South really catch.

Yeah, I changed it up. No catch. No catch. Hello and welcome to talking baseball. Presented by Seatgeek. Use code J.M. Playoffs for 10% off your playoff tickets. and all of our special playoff edition going live after games is presented by Team Mobile.

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late in Milwaukee. And what a job by Seattle. How are you? I'm doing good. Another fantastic day of watching ball. You know, the first game kind of got out of hand there. Seattle put it away late. And then, sorry for spoiling the show if you didn't see that one.

And then, yes, something I think we're going to talk about a lot in the Dodgers Brewer series, especially on the Dodgers side, when to leave your starters in, when to take them out. We're going to be debating that. Snell obviously Cruz. That was a lot of fun to watch. But definitely a great game, especially the second one.

I can't wait to hear what you got, Pop. I know you got some good stuff because when you're at home, you cook it up a little bit better. I have a little more time to get in the recipe. And I don't have to go home through the subways at 1 a.m. And yeah, like yesterday night, it was raining. And I had to get off a stop early because the subway It was just like, we're not stopping at that stop.

So the perks of New York City sometimes. So yeah, doing it from the lab tonight. Some cushy dreams. We'll hit the pillow. We'll hit it hard tomorrow. As we're live streaming, we live stream the early game. Tomorrow we're live streaming Dodgers Brewers. If you haven't checked those out, you should.

It's a lot of fun. For now, you know, we've kind of let the games dictate where we're going. And I think we just got to roll off that NL game because that drummer at the end was good. It snells like the NLCS as Blake and the Dodgers would go on the road to face the one seed, the Milwaukee Brewers, as they'd go opener before the mighty Quinn Priester. Top four, that funky Muncie Grand Slam double play. You've never seen that before, an all-time highlight, somehow leaves zeros on the board. Top six to right, said Fred, does his, little turn on the catwalk. It's 1-0. Dodgers. It's stay that way into the ninth. His name is

Mookiee Betts. I said, Poppy, RBI walk. It's 2-0. Snell was unhittable, minus 1. 8 innings pitch, 1 hit, zero walks, 10-Ks, but 27 outs. We got beer makers on the bases. Tereo. Sack Fly, its base is loaded for Terang? And boy, is it a six sport, so much. times. The Dodgers get it done and they win game one to one final. Great job. Pop standings in this series. The Dodgers 1 and 0. Brewers. Oh and 1. My goodness. What a game. There's a lot to talk about. There is a ton to talk about. I want to get started late, but we have to save that. Does starting late and early begin with Snell because Trev, this is a guy that we've loved for a while.

You know him a little better than me. His personality cracks me up. Also, his two Cy Youngs in different leagues get overlooked. And the fact that this man was a free agent one year and couldn't get the big offer. And then he puts together another nice season with the Giants. And the Dodgers sign him and everybody goes, oh, earmuffs, bleep. and here's why because when he wants to be

the man is unhittable for eight innings I mean he was filthy he walked nobody Jake faced the minimum because Caleb Durvin gets on base and he picks him off which is awesome he calls his own pitches

like he plays Fortnite what else do you want from this guy he's an absolute stud I mean yeah we can talk about him all night long because of what he did against a brewer's team that's just look they're scrappy they put together good at bats and you say that and they got guys that can hit the ball of the ballpark as well but he was dominating the entire game and there

was a couple pitches there was a salick three two curve ball where he took it and sal's like what am i like what am i supposed to do against that like when you leave hitters be fuddled the way he did tonight i mean that's when you know like a guy like kim is on and and and when a guy with the stuff of blake snail is on and has control of three different pitches, locating wherever and whenever he wants. I mean, you get an outing like this. So the only thing you go to,

if you're going to keep going on Snell, is why wasn't he in there for the ninth? I don't know if we need to get there just yet, though. Yeah, I don't think we do that yet. And dude, he's incredible. The fastball at 97, the changeup that he just spammed to Ritey's. you know, for a couple innings there and there was nothing they could do.

And then he would mix in that curveball, like you mentioned that it's, you talked about his video games. Dude, it feels like he's playing MLB the show. He just actually has, like baseball is his actual video games for the night when he's pitching.

Like, he plays by no rules. He's the Joker. He doesn't have society's rules of pitching around him that he's just like, I will continue to throw the change up. And that's 3-2 to Freelick, and then he followed up. I think he faced a ton of Ritey's in a row when he was spamming the change-up.

And it was like, okay, here comes Yelich. Maybe Yelich he tries to groove a fastball and Yelie's ready for it. He threw him a first pitch curve ball that started as his head, ended up as a high strike. And literally unhittable except by my doppelganger Caleb Durbin. I've said it before. Like, you just, everything comes out of his hand the same. and everything's spinning very tightly. So you can't, that's one of the things you can pick up on from the batters box out of the hand is, you know,

if things look different in the way that they spin. But everything is so tight with him, it just looks the same. And then all of a sudden, you know, obviously we all seen Jimmy's, you know, when he traces the pitches and pitch Ninja does the same thing. But it's like, you just don't know where they're going to end up. And by the time you do, it's too late. That's exactly what's going on with Blake. And like I said, when he has control of those pitches, the way he did tonight, it's lights out. I do want to say one thing.

How come John Smolts always says people at home just don't understand? It's like they know. You don't have to keep rubbing it into people that they didn't play Major League Baseball. I got that a couple times. I was like, what are we doing here, man? Because you're a person at home. I know it. But I'm just saying it's like you don't got.

to rub it in. I guess that was the, that was the other game, but. Yeah, Smoltsy, he, he can accidentally come off condescending sometimes. The reason I brought Smoltsy, even though he's not calling this game, is because I'm, like, very, like, cognizant of that now to not say that, because I don't want to, like, put people down. Like, right. Yeah. Well, I will circle back more on broadcasting manners later. Smolsey has a couple, he has moments of brilliance on the broadcast that you get it. Um, and then there's, um, and then there's, other times you're like, are you trash talking me right now, John Smoltz? We'll get to that in the future.

Hey, the good news is, Trev, by talking about Snell pitching, we basically covered one side of the game for eight innings and the other side. And I think Bobby's got the Freelick curve. He's like, dude, look at the bat toss, the helmet toss. That is just a sign of frustration. And dude, that's, you know, one of the signatures of this Brewer's team is a pitch like that. they can normally grind off against a lot of guys or see another one or slap it the other way. And Sal Freelich is just like, what is that?

I even think about the pitch count, 103, eight innings. He struck out 10 people. Like, you know, guys that strike out a lot of people, you know, they tend to throw more pitches. That makes a lot of sense, right? Yeah. You know what this is, Trev? No walks. The guy that walks everyone, the guy that everyone who's scared to give a contract to because he might walk you.

don't I'm hot on my I was hot on Snell's free agency and Alonzo's free agency and now Pete's going to do the same thing. We hyper focus on the one thing they don't do great well Pete's not a great defender he might not age that well. Snell

walks guys sometimes. Everything else they're amazing. And the Jake we're falling for it dude. The clubs are like hey well you guys talk about Snell he can't throw strike so we could bring the price enough for this here. It's propaganda. I told every team.

A kid. Analytics genius, Jake. Go sign Snell and Alonzo. Anyways. He plays video games. You can't sign that guy to a long term deal. He always looks high. He doesn't even drink or smoke. He does. He looks high. That's half of the game.

The other half of the game, Milwaukee. They go with the opener, Ashby. Smart. Who, you know, an opener looks smart when it works and it does work best. Otani and Freddie, the two lefties in that top four. Teosker lines out.

Freddie strikes out to end it. Quinn Priester comes in and he looks good. I don't know if we fast forward to the fourth inning because it's the most viral play of the postseason so far. This is a play that my friends who aren't following baseball are talking about because if you have any sort of sportman in you and baseball, you're like, what just happened? Yeah, I mean, this is something that we could probably spend some time breaking it down.

Bases loaded here, Max Muncie. Yeah, puts a charge into that one. I thought it was gone. Freeland carous it somehow. In the moment, I thought he caught it. But then, you know, clearly on the replay that showed that it hit the top of the wall. And he went up and got that. That was a grand slam.

I, like, didn't catch that right away, but he got over the wall, brought it back. It hit the wall. He catches it. So it is a live ball. and then it was just I don't want to call it bad base running although it looks like bad base running it's confused base running is what it is

I'm a bad base running Will Smith had probably the worst of it there Teo didn't do too bad of a job the only thing is you gotta know that once the ball hits a player that's your tag he doesn't have to physically catch the ball really?

Yes okay because I think about think about if it was the other way around and the guy just has a ball and it goes and they just juggle it in yeah no i've thought about that i've thought about that for years or why guys don't catch the ball lower and stuff like that no that when he went back when he went back i was like ah shit he started out right just tag that's what you're supposed to do on a ball like that will smith uh with one out right there that's what it was is one out right uh he was like almost a third base which you need to be off enough to where you can score but still get back and tag the third base. You don't need to be that far because if you're off enough and that ball gets down, worst case scenario, you're on third base with one out. Most likely you're going to score after that ball comes down.

So he got way too far. And then he thought the free that caught it. So he's sending, I think who was it, Edmund, sending Edmund back to first base. It was a shit show. The left field umpire made the right call. he waved it off right away. So I think Contreras saw that because he knew exactly what to do.

That's why he didn't apply the tag at home plate, which was very smart of him because he got one out, reached out like a first baseman, gets the force out, then walks over to third base double play. It was, it went from a 4-0 Dodger lead to an inning-ending double play. And I don't know, man. It was, to me, that's like the beauty of baseball. It was awesome.

If you're a Dodgers fan, you hate it. it. If you're a Brewers fan, you loved it. If you're a casual, I think you loved it. It was awesome to see. Yeah, the way you talk about Contreras there, it's kind of funny. The old catcher joke, there's only one guy facing the right way. Like, he was the guy that could see all of it happen in front of him, and he played it the right way.

Where, yeah, I think you're right. I think if you need to point blame, it sadly goes to Tayasca with what you said about when it hits the fielder. That's when the tag up can begin. because, okay, keep juggling out of baseball. That's probably a good rule. And then, yeah, for everyone else, there's a reason this play is going so viral and is so chaotic

because we never seen South Relic over the wall. The ball hits the wall. We can't really tell. You just see him catch it. And then the chaos that ensues after that. Yeah, I mean, felt like a crazy playoff moment, one of the moments of the playoffs. And again, I'm not turning this into a Snell conversation again.

But, okay, think about everything we see in these playoff games. Like, okay, if your starter, if your pitcher goes out the next inning after something like this happens and they walk the leadoff hitter, you start telling yourself, we're about to score, we're about to lose this game. So again, compliments to Snell's complete and utter dominance that you don't let the rhythm of baseball unravel you. because that's one of a grounded into double play on a 400 foot ball that never hit the ground. And yeah, and Freelick hasn't been playing center field. He's been playing right field. So he goes up and does that.

It's just an incredible play by the Brewers. That's what they do. They're a run prevention team. I don't know, man. It was, it was incredible. It was. Should it be walled into double play? Because that's what the ball hit.

Is that what they're calling the GIDP? Grounded in the double play, I think, is what's in the books currently. It doesn't feel right. So it has to be. Yeah, it can't be. And in same play. And I had the same thought as you. I'm like, okay, if the Brewers hold right there to no runs and then they go score runs,

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See dkng.com slash audio. So Trev, Snell goes essentially perfect. It's eight innings. We go to the top of the ninth, and we have a similar situation play out with Yerebe searching for it on the mound. Slash, okay, Kike tries to give himself up bunting, goes O2, hits a squibber through the right side. Treb, you like to take notes during the game. It's electric, and we're proud of you. I don't normally, but when I write something down, I like to think it means.

something. Ron Darling, your guy, the original sound clip of this show. He just said it, and his demeanor and his talking voice is so good for who he is. He goes, it's October, so that's a base hit. And I've just heard, I've never heard someone sum it up better. Like, that's any other time a year that's, that goes right to the first baseman and it ends the inning. Instead, it's October and it's Kike. So after going down 02 bunting, it's through the right side with the exit Velo of three. And then they're now set up that they intentionally walk Shohei.

So Trev, I'll kick it to you. Where are we at with that? Because you kind of kicked back the first time when it backfired on the Phillies and it backfires again. Yeah, I mean, that's the second time they walked him during the game. They did that twice with bets. I'm not mistaken, right?

Paul Hayes, you got to give him some credit for getting that bunt down on your rebate. He's not an easy guy to bunt on. I mean, let me tell you that right now. Like that guy slinging, especially when he's not around the zone, he was wild tonight. You square around and try to say, I'm going to stay in there on a 98-mile-hour buzz saw on you. Gets the good bunt down. I immediately thought they were going to walk Shohei, just because they'd done it earlier in the game. But, yeah, leaves you no margin for air.

And when you have a guy struggling like that to kind of find the strike zone, it is what it is. But, you know, Mookiee end up having to make, you know, have a good at bat. And that, that to me, when they scored that run, I think that's when Dave Roberts decided to Snell was not going back out. And maybe I'm wrong. Maybe Sasaki was up and they were going to use him no matter what. but I think that was like okay he's we were putting Sasaki and we got the insurance run I think after the game Shahati was interviewing Blake Snow and he said like what was the

she asked what the conversation was he's like nothing he just told me I was done that was it expect a little more fight out of you snow let's go after all we've been through together in the playoffs I expect a little more fight out of you with the manager um but yeah and then you know so this 2-0 and then you bring in sasaki and i think i think we i think we got to go there now like where are you at on that i think you already know my feelings and you could say it's you know hindsight that sasaki wasn't going to have his stuff but i also think don't you want to keep them from seeing him as much as possible and you got a guy dealing on the mound who's 103 pitches who is just absolutely cruising i think i think you stick with your guy and

that situation. I agree with you. I don't think they were going to do that. And we've, you know, Dave Roberts has been pushing buttons and some of them haven't been agreed with in live time. But again, this one ends up working out to a degree. Trev, I just, again, you know, those of you at home that don't know baseball, I'll smoltz everyone.

No, like, dude, if you've played in a game in middle school, literally, I'll go back before that. And they take out the person you can't hit against. Yeah. Everyone on the team feels it. And like, that's literally what happened in Milwaukee tonight. Roki Sasaki's been gross. Tonight was the first night he was a little wild.

So the Brewers took advantage of that. And Jake Bowers having had bat, dude, come in off the bench and be ready after swinging through a 3-1 splitter from hell. to recollect himself and drive that ball. Yeah, that was an interesting pitch choice. I thought they were going to go right back to the splitter. If a guy can't lay off right there, juiced up for the heater, like he clearly was.

He got it on 3-2 and nailed it. I thought they were going to go back there. I think Sasaki, they were saying, I didn't really see this in a lifetime, but Ron Darling was saying that Bowers was trying to call time-out and didn't get it. So Sasaki kind of like sped up his motion, just tried to get one over the plate,

maybe, but he didn't miss that one. Yeah, I was listening to that live. I didn't know what that was about because I thought he, I thought Bowers called time after the three one. I thought Terang didn't call time after the almost hit by pitch. But, yeah, have to have to double check the records on that. By the way, the Snell conversation that we started at, no, dude, I think we've lost our minds.

I think Snell should absolutely stay in that game. He was unhittable. Like, he wasn't at his season high. pitches. He wasn't at his crew. Like, what are we doing? Is the NLCS? Like, that's, that's insane to me. Anyway. And he gave him a huge contract. Like, he's like, this is the time. If there's ever a time to say, let's let Blake, you know, throw 115 pitches. Now is the time. What other time is there going to be? He's looking that good. The stress innings are what? Zero. That guy didn't look very stressed to me. Not at all, dude. He's calling his own pitches. What they're doing?

he's got to do out there. He looked great. Is he ever going to throw a complete game? Like in the playoffs, like this was the time to do it. Like he, everything pointed to keeping him in. You got,

you, you have a, a rookie closer who's not a closer. You know what I mean? Like, your bullpen has failed you in the playoffs for the most part. Trevor, you're not going to give it,

like, if he goes out and does this again, whatever he pitches, game five. And he gets pulled. And when he's, cruising like this. I'm going to lose it, man. I'm going to lose it. Trev, we are bouncing back against some of the analytical things that we jumped way too

deep in. To think about four years ago, Snell got pulled in a World Series game because it was the third time through. So we're still on the way back up that imagine if the Dodgers lost this game, this probably would have been the first combo we had. And they almost did. They were a Bryce Terang left leg reaction from potential. losing this game. But that's even a step away. Bowers puts the great swing on one to keep it going. The contraris at bat.

I mean, put that in show that to someone learning baseball. And they just, they described it so well. They said he's aggressive early because he's hunting his pitch. But when he has two strikes, he commands his own a little more. Yes, like we used to play baseball. You know what?

I'll hand it to trine in the though. I think this is big for him. So maybe it ends up like being great for the Dodgers. You walk Contreras and they had a close of his face. He goes, we're all right. Like, we're all right. Yeah. And like cool, calm collected. Does he almost hit Terang in the leg? Yes. Terrang's got to be kicking himself right now. Like, oh my God. It's so hard in the moment though to just stand in there. Some guys know how to do that. Most guys don't. It's just, just straight instinct to get out of the way of the ball. Hey, we also, we skipped a great at bat by Yelly.

It would be, it be, feel sinful to not talk about that. Um, him survive in a Sasaki at bat that again, he threw Yelly a death splitter that was like, hey, if he throws that again, the game could be over. Uh, Yeli survives that. Contreras, he missed a first pitch slider. Uh, his first time seeing Trinan that, you know, again, note that for later in the series, maybe hits that straight back goes on to have an incredible bet. His two-two take on the fastball up was just, I don't know how. I don't know how. I didn't have that ability against 72, Smaltzy. So, and then, yeah, it goes down into one at bat against Terang, that man, he had, he had their best numbers

with runners in scoring position this year. Like, what seemed like, what seemed like the last year and a half of Dodgers postseason games. I think they're 17 and 6 now over the last two years. And it just felt like they got the insurance run. Snell shoved. And it was and then it was like, wait, maybe they're not going to get this. Terang, I think he had a first pitch that he fouled off that was his best pitch to hit at the bat. And then dude, just where baseball is a brutal sport, he almost gets hit. And then he ends up chasing a high heater, hunting a fastball. Just brutal, man. A bunch of Dave Roberts bots have entered the chat.

A lot of people saying, you can't let Snell go back out there for the ninth to get his pitch count up. It's like, dude, yes, you can. Yes, you can. There's actually two options. There's no magic number. People think there's this magic number of pitches. It's about talk to anybody that's in, you know, the pitching,

I don't mean what you call it now. You know, pitching, coaching at the highest level. there's no number. It's about stress more than anything. And he had zero stress. Literally faced the minimum batters, people. And it's more about why we're talking about is because we've seen this before at Blake Snow.

And it's backfired when they've taken them out early out of the race in 2020. So look, Dodgers got the win. They were the better team tonight. I hope this series has more games like this because it was awesome. Yeah, and that's the interesting note going forward. Because like we talked about going in the series and Pat Murphy has talked openly about.

He calls his team average shows while meanwhile on the other side you have, you know, what could be two inner circle Hall of Famers. Like if you have a utility Hall of Famer, I think Buckey Betts has entered the chat as that guy. And Shohei Otani is already cemented himself in baseball history and will continue to. that the Brewers went 6-0 against them in the regular season. Game one comes down to this and goes down like this. That I'm interested, like, are all of these games just going to be electric? Because there's a chance, right?

Like, what the Brewers are doing, what the Dodgers have built, there is a chance that, like, if the Dodgers come out tomorrow and they get a big blow early, kind of like we saw with Seattle, although Toronto recovered. I wonder if the dark thoughts start sinking in. I know that's not Pat Murphy's M.O. I know that's not this Brewer's team MO. But it's in the back of my head.

I think it's in the back of every baseball fan set. I mean, if you're calling the series over after tonight, I'm not into it. I think his Brewers team is too good. I think they got Blake Snelled tonight. You tip your cap. I know the Dodgers have good starting pitching. but they've been able to hold show hay down.

I know they watched them a couple times and I think they've got to continue to do that. I don't know. I believe in this Brewer's team. I truly do. Again, they won the most games in all of baseball this year. And there's a reason for that. They know how to win. I'm hoping for a long series here and I think we're going to get it.

That's the Dodgers six start of six plus innings pitch this postseason. That's as they only had. two last year of that many. Snell's game goes basically toe to toe with Don Larson's perfect game in 1956. Like Trev mentioned, in order. No one had done that in minimum of eight innings since Don Larson's perfect game. First pitcher in postseason history, 10 plus strikeouts, one or no hits, zero walks over eight innings, just a special day.

And dude, we've skipped over Freddie. They showed they showed the highlight of Freddie in Atlanta flipping the scoreboard in 2020 or was that 2018 or 2021 against Milwaukee. And then here he is. He hits an absolute moonshot. I mean, you don't see a lot of home runs that high. I think Sarah Lang's had it is the second highest postseason run since we've been able to track that. and he almost hits another one later in the game. Yeah, also in the fourth inning, I believe,

wasn't that Isaac Collins went up and got one against the wall for him? Oh, Isaac Collins, yeah. Yeah, Isaac Collins back in there tonight. Pat Murphy trying to push all the buttons. Yeah, I mean, Freddie's a stud. The Dodgers are going to, I mean, I think their offense is going to come to life, but the Brewers also have really good pitching.

Like, this is not like, they're not the average Joe's. So I know that's like more of a gimmick. Look at this catch. Great catch. This is going to be a good series. I'm telling you. I got a good feeling about this. Okay.

I love that for you. I love that for us. We will be, again, we're going to be live streaming this game tomorrow. Hey, Brewer's, you had a tough night at the plate. Here's Yoshinobu Yamamoto. And for Milwaukee, it'll be Freddie Peralta. So should be a fun one. I mean, those are, those two pitchers have been each of these two teams kind of

ones throughout the entire season. And we'll see it tomorrow. You're ready to jump over to Seattle, Coach Trev. Or Toronto, excuse me. Seattle with a chance to win the first two road games behind

Logan Gilbert, while Toronto would go with their new stallion, Trey Yassavage. Rookie, splitter, can pitch. He's you savage. Top one. Julio, grab the stretch, hits one to Bruno Mars, it's 3-0-0 Toronto, but on Canadian Thanksgiving, the birds fight back.

Lucas with the infield single that Nailer throws the option pitch into the dugout, Captain Kirk with the two-out single, and then Nathan Hot Dogg's another one. Bottom two, and we were tied up at threes, but in the fifth, Palanktober continues. Hip, hip, Jorge, with the three-run home run. It's six to three Seattle. J.P. Crawford mentioned with some late RBI. Tri-tip Stakes, and Josh puts the nailer in the coffin. Another six shut from the Mariners bullpen.

It's Gilbert to Bizarro to Vargas to Hancock. Toronto drops game to Seattle wins. 9-3 final. The Savage thing, I get what you're trying to do. I still get a little cringe when I hear that song. Good. Yeah, I think that's what you're going for. The standings in this one.

Toronto fans, earmuffs. Seattle 2 and O, Toronto, O and 2. Oh, my goodness, Jake. And I hate to do this to our friends at the Great North, but this game is brought to you by American crew. I don't think that was intentional. I don't. American crew, they just make a great hair product.

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giving a little homage to Canada after you ripped them to shreds. Yeah, you crushed it right there. Thank you. We got to start in the first inning, man. the guy who's been pretty much unhittable and you savage comes out and looks beatable you know a couple

interesting at bats to start off Randy gets hit with a 3-2 pitch I believe he was it 02 to start it was 02 it was 1-2 he took a slider for strike 3 that did not get called he walked back to the dugout he started walking to the dugout

Trev, if I was a Blue J fan, I would be losing my mind at that. It's the first batter of the game. Yes. And then gets the, yeah, there it is. He starts walking back and you're like, oh, do I not hear a punchout? Gets hit.

Cal Raleigh works a full count. He walks. And then Julio, man. He got ahead. He said he got ahead of him, 02. Then he gets a hanging splitter and just absolutely Ted. two is that thing. That was out over the plate. You know, when those have been effective,

obviously they're down, but into a righty, they're usually more in as well. That one was just out and hanging out over the plate and he did not miss it. So you're saying, okay, 3-0, like that's, you know, you get that big crooked number in the first inning. Usually that means really, really good things for your team, but the Blue Jays did a good job coming back, answering right away, end up tying the game. And then there was just some, you know, the Seattle, the Mariners have got,

is it still the Etsy witch? Like, are we still running on that magic? Did Polo pay another witch to bless his bet? I don't know what it is, but they got this guy Jorge Polanco. That's, that you said there's some stat that can quantify clutch now.

That's awesome. He's the most clutch player of all time, apparently. whatever it is. He is right now. He's the most clutch player in the postseason and breaks the game open, essentially. And then they roll from there, man. It was like Louis Varland has got such good stuff,

but he's been getting over the plate a little bit too much. And Polo just puts like the most beautiful looking, like that's about as good as you could do right there, people, with that swing. Right? There's almost, the way you phrase that perfect, Trev, because I think if you're watching that live, you're like, he got that, but that's probably not out, right? Like, that's probably off the wall. He got just enough to get it out, and then it's back to six to three. Yeah, you tie the game, get it to three three. You have a little kind of uncharacteristic air by Andres Semenez after making a decent play and having a chance

to get a Rosarena out. So all of a sudden, you have him on base, you intentionally walk Cal, you get the strike out of Julio. That's after Varland comes in. So it gets the first guy, boom, boom, boom. And then Jorge does his thing, man. And when it got to six to three,

and you have that second three run home, or you kind of felt like that was the decisive blow. And the way the Mariners' bullpen has been, even though they didn't have to really use their super high leverage guys today, They're looking like a complete team right now. And they have looked like that for some time. But when you're having good pesky of bats,

when you're hitting the long, when you're getting the starting pitching that they're getting, when you're getting the bullpen going like they're going, they look like, you know, the team to beat right now. Yeah, they... This dude is pitching every game. Bizarro's pitched in every. I think he has.

It feels like it. I don't think he came into the last game. He was up in the bullpen. But no, he's, what he has been this postseason is great. Vargas looked good in this game as the game started to turn. And then Hancock, who it was not pretty at all. I was getting frustrated during the live stream because, my God, throw some strikes. He threw enough to get through two clean with three walks.

But you're right. They don't have to use Munoz or Brash, which that can be significant. And yeah, I think the first Bizarro inning, when you say that this game, you know, the three-run Homer obviously changes the formula of the rest of the game. Bizarro comes in as the Mariners had clawed back in this game. Naler makes a funky little play on a squibber down the line from George Springer that, you know, that's a play you want made. but look at, we've seen a lot of stuff this postseason,

and that's a big boy who's not known for his defense, and he flipped a ball later, that that would have started the inning differently. And then Bizarro makes kind of like a barehand play on a Vladdy chopper after Nathan Lucas's third hit of the day, that that inning for me, if the Jays punched back like they did earlier in the game, that's the fifth inning.

We don't say it feels like it's over, but once they did, it and it became 7-3 and that bullpen is rolling that yeah it lights out early yeah they kept saying on the broadcast about how bad this mariner's defense how bad they are defensively but you kind of go around if you go around the diamond there's some plus defenders and there's some guys that maybe don't feel that well so i don't think they're as bad as they keep trying to make them sound on the broadcast clearly they're the number two team in this series the blue jays can really get a done. But I think for the Mariners to survive, if you would have told a Mariners fan,

hey, Gilbert's going to give you three. You're like, oh, shit, we're in trouble. But in this case, you know, they went out. I think they, I think Wilson saw he was laboring, didn't have his best stuff. Fine, get him out of there. Bizarro's kind of been his guy, two innings there. Then you get the big lead. Then you're able to kind of use the less leverage guys. And I don't know how Toronto is going to respond. Like they got a hit, man. Like that's, you can say all you want.

Like, hey, the mariners are pitching great. You know they're going to do that. You know they got arms. But you're this offense that's been doing it all year long. You just crushed the Yankees. But then you've gotten a couple games here where you just not have gotten it going offensively whatsoever.

You have to flip the script immediately. And now you're going into Seattle, which is like the worst hitters park that's ever been assembled. and do you expect all of a sudden just to rake? I don't know. Yeah, I mean, I think, I think as you know with baseball, like you just have to wash it. Like if, you know, going back, what was it,

the 2019 World Series where the road team won every game, like what were we saying? You know, when they won the first two games on the road and they were going back home, like, you know, we're probably like, well, this is, this is over, huh? Houston's going to, Houston's going to, like, it's baseball that their first at bat. George Springer could hit a homer. Lucas could go back to back.

And if you're the Blue Jays, that's your mentality on the flight. Like, you still have wiggle room. Like, it's a, you got to win four games. And they took the first two and that, that is what it is. And clearly your bats, Lucas, I mean, Nathan Lucas, we didn't know if he'd be playing today. What a dog. that guy X-ray scan dog in him but there wasn't a lot of help around it man Vladdy who was unconscious like as hot as you could be in the Yankee series and maybe

that was their pitching I don't know or maybe it's baseball but Vladdy doesn't have a hit yet in this series Ernie Clement got one but again he his batting average coming into this series started in the high sixes that yeah that's that's been the difference I think the biggest chance for them was probably in the bottom of the second. Lucas gets that knock. Vladdy ends up coming up first and third, two outs. Like if you take the lead right there, momentum starts to change.

He ends up grounding out to Jorge there. Yeah, I mean, he's got to be a stud. He's got to pick it up. You say the same thing about Barger, who just hasn't really looked like himself lately or the guy that maybe we saw in the first half or up and through July, August. I just like again

Springer's got to do something special like somebody has to spark this offense because right now that's that's been the biggest thing and again you can tip your cap to the Mariners pitching stuff all you want but as a Blue Jays team you just got to go out there you got to put together good bets you got to hit with runners and scoring position

that's just the name of the game right now the Mariners are doing that they're doing all the little things right and they're up to nothing on you Treve I I'm trying to stop myself from being full old head when it comes to baseball and analytics. You mentioned Seattle's defense and how it doesn't grade out that well.

But like you also mentioned, aren't they kind of built in the old school baseball way where it's like, okay, strength up the middle. Like we got a gold glove catcher. J.P. Crawford won a gold glove at shortstop. Julio can win a gold glove any year he wants it. Polanco will leave out of the conversation for now. That like, okay, we're good there. Yeah, do we have a couple meaty guys on the corners? Absolutely. Is Randy a wild card and left that he could make a highlight play or not? Like, this kind of used to be the formula.

I don't think Nailor has been a bad first baseman for the Mariners. He doesn't, well, listen to these words. He doesn't grade out well. What's that mean? He did pitch one away today, which that wasn't so great. But also, he also hit a two run bomb. That's part, that's the art of the deal there. What else did he do? He stole another base. He sure did. Unbelievable. Another nailer steal. What a pretty swing that one is.

I'm very happy, and I've said this before, about multiple teams, but it applies to the Mariners as well. They went out and did the damn thing, okay? Like, they've done things the right way this year. They've had the pitching. What do we say? Go get some fucking offense, man. Well, Cal Ralee, who criticized the team a couple years ago, he's, you know, had an MVP season.

Is he going to win the MVP? I don't know. The more and more I watch this guy, I want him to win the MVP. That's just the truth, man. And I think I even said it. He gets a 60 homers. He should win the MVP.

So maybe I'm on that train. It doesn't matter. Hell of a season. Then you go out at the trade deadline. You make an acquisition to get two guys to bolster your offense. You go and take a chance again on Jorge Polanco. That one seems like, you know,

maybe you weren't expecting him to be a postseason hero, but he has been. So, like, you're getting, these guys to step up. Like they just have done it the right way, man. And Julio Rodriguez deserves. I think I owe him an apology. Like, I think I say that every single year.

Earlier this year, I said, I'd rather have PCA for the next eight years than Julio Rodriguez. I don't know if I feel that way now. Yeah. That was the height of the PCA hype train. I was all over it, bro. He's a local guy. I feel like my fingerprints are on him.

Julio's so damn consistent and so, damn good and you almost feel like consistent meaning like overall numbers are going to be consistent. I know he's laxed in the first half, comes on strong second half, but he feels like a safer bet. Like no doubt right now than PCA, right? And he comes up with a huge swing here to start the game off. Like, hey man, let me just compliment you for a second.

You're a great looking guy. I love the way you play. the game. You've proved me wrong multiple times. You have earned my respect and you probably shouldn't have had to earn it. I'm sorry. It's very hard to be consistently good at this game and you're right. In a way he's consistent while the slow starts have gotten to us. And yeah, man, at mid-year when PCA was on pace for 10 war and Julio's, you know, Julio's OPS I think dropped into the sixes. Yeah, everyone could have gotten by that. And yet, we live in a society that's who had it first, and, you know, Mariners fans were obviously going to ride for their guy.

This was a big year for Julio and where he was on the pantheon of all of this, and he's crushing it. So, yeah, that matters. And sorry for any of the bad words. He was all over the Seattle airport, hot. And let's, you know, maybe some airplane, like his eyes are on the front and Cal's butt is on the back. I don't know, Seattle.

We're coming up with ideas here. I'm an ideas, man. Trev, a, Mitch Garver triple. So I just feel weird if we don't mention that. Pinch hits for Canzone, who'd been having a tough day at the office. His second career triple. Of course it comes in ALCS game two,

which is just insane. But Trev, I think the one guy, we've mentioned him twice. We've mentioned them every Mariners postseason game. He's our best Western Road Warrior people. If you're staying at a hotel, go to Best Western and do it for Jorge Polanco. The most go-ahead played appearances in a single season in Mariners history, 2025 Jorge Polanco 4, 1995 Ken Griffey Jr. 4. So that's nice list, Jorge.

Eight hits this postseason six have driven in runs. and he's the first player in MLB history to have a go-ahead hit in the fifth inning or later in three consecutive games. Stop it! Stop it. Tip of the cap, slow heartbeat guy, just a ball player, man.

It's what he is. He, uh, man, I, uh, he's going to be a free agent again. That could be an interesting free agency. 821 OPS during the regular season. put together a postseason. A career 112 OPS Plus, his one hiccup was last year in Seattle

that made the whole resigning and reunion just feel a little off. But if he's got it figured out and if he continues this postseason run, I don't know. Jorge Polanco's coffee and coffee and sushi. I don't know. Seattle, man. They have the best of both of those, in my opinion. Okay. Yeah, I would assume they'd like to bring the guy back.

I'd hope so. Why not? Off day tomorrow. I guess anything else from this game, Coach Trev? I think we covered it. Okay. Man, game three off day tomorrow. A little Canadian accent came out there tomorrow. Shane Bieber, another trade deadline ad. Maybe this is the trade deadline ad series. Shane Bieber trying to be a stopper in Seattle against George Kirby on the bump.

Off day tomorrow. I'll double check the streaming. Oh, no, I guess the NL will be off, so we will be streaming that game on our J.M. Baseball channel. We got some super chats, which is really cool when we go live, but it's hard for us to hit these on the way through. Question about Terangs hit by pitch. I'm just going to say the names.

Fabian Pasada, Danny Morales, King Matthew, Victor Chavez, Irvine Cattle Ranch, and Mangower. Mangower, 20 bucks, go M's. They're feeling good. They're feeling good out west, coach. I think that's it. We're back tomorrow night, people. Back tomorrow night.

We'll see where the National League is. Thank you guys. Share with a friend. Subscribe all the YouTube stuff that we should probably say more. Thank you guys. They do have good sushi in Seattle. I've been to a couple really, really nice spots there. It was you.

It was me. It was Chris Rose. Oh, yeah. Yeah. We went to that, we like took our shoes off. That was a spot. I forgot about that. You did it great.