Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast) - The Mets Don't Break Up Double Plays (Jimmy's Three Things)

Episode Date: April 2, 2024

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Hello and welcome to Jimmy's three things. I got three things I want to talk about in the baseball world. Today, one is McNeil, the Mets, sliding, breaking up double plays, not breaking up double plays. I did about as big of a deep dive as I've done in a while because I just kept going down a rabbit hole and getting kind of very curious into what I was finding. Two, Oakland's committing errors at an all-time pace. And three, we had a no-hitter in Houston. I might just poke around those two things and watch some video and say. Thank you very much for tuning in. If you enjoy this show or talking baseball in general,

the series recaps, the midweek episode, subscribe to the channel. I'm going to take a sip of my coffee, and then we're going to dive in to topic number one. Topic number one, McNeil and Reese Hoskins, the fight. I did a breakdown on it. I was very interested in it. In my breakdown, this part kind of really made me think like, wait, what?

Because they watched the replay, and then McNeil turns after watching the replay, and he says, you think that's fucking okay. And you can see Reese is like, yeah. So there's just a disconnect between what's a good slide, what's a bad slide, what's allowed, what's not allowed, what's dirty, what's not dirty, what's not dirty, what's aggressive and competitive, and what's dirty. And McNeil seems to think that anything aggressive and competitive is dirty

because a lot of MLB players that I reached out to, Trevor Plouf, who does talking baseball. And then he reached out to other guys like, that's not dirty. It's aggressive. It was late. but he's trying to break up the double play within the rules of the game and didn't get anyone injured. Dallas Braiden tweeted out like, you learn to move your feet around the bag. You just planted there. So the first thing in the rabbit hole, I'm just going to give you the rabbit hole that I went down in

chronological order. Number one, this picture was flying around the internet from Braves fans saying like, old McNeil's done a dirty slide too. Look at this slide. He's way offline out of the base path. So I said, all right, let's go find that play. I want to see if he's, I want to see if he's done. that, you know, if this is just a screenshot or is that really a dirty play? So I pulled up play and here it is. Volgoback hits it to second. McNeil slides and they run in each other. It's not dirty. He's really just sliding way early. Like if you want to say the cut off of the grass, I don't know if my curse is on screen, the cut off of the grass right there, that's kind of like early or late. Just just an easy way to gauge. If you slide after that, it's,

a little late, aggressive. If you slide before that, you're giving yourself up because he's not really trying to get to the bag there. I think he didn't realize the shortstop was going to come into him. So I didn't think that was dirty. It ended up helping, but I didn't think that was dirty on McNeil's part to his credit. Now, where things got weird is I went and I was like, well, let's see if McNeil has any dirty slides. So I went and I searched every time McNeil's been on first base, and there's less than two outs. So the team is going to try and turn a double play, and there's a ground ball to the infield. I wanted to see what that looks like.

And what I found kind of blew me away. And I'll just show you all the videos that I found now. And what you're looking for is this plays is McNeil's the runner on first and how he tries to break up double plays. There is a 6-4-3 Taylor. Card to short. Velasquez makes another good play. Starts in inning. Copper out to Adama's, to Lowe one first.

Right in pain you. Now Tuve with the easy turn for the six four. A ball riding Bernie, the turn by Diaz. Rojas, the flip to Castro, he off balance. Double play ball right at Iglesias, the turn by Alberto for the six. Kim will go to second for one on to first. And double play ball right to Crawford, the turn. So as you can see, he doesn't try to break up the double play.

It's almost like it's not an option in his head. I watched 160 instances in his career, and I had to cut a lot down because this got too long. A lot of them look like this. I mean, the play ball right at Bullgarts. And the turn by Gonzalez. That's why he did it. You saw him move into the spot, and it started.

I mean, he's not even, he's being considerate. He's being gentlemanly. He's saying, hey, I don't want to get in the way of what you guys were doing. You want to turn the dough plate? Go ahead and turn it. Who am I to try to stop it? Donaldson on the back end out at second. There's the grounder.

Camargo to second for one. For Harrison Garcia. Down to third walls goes to second for one. Lowe. Panic to Crawford. Be two. Obes to right. Could be two.

What was the hat? You know? What was that one? If I go backwards here, when I was finding these, there were some like that where he just run straight through, doesn't slide at all. He never really tries to slide and get to the bag. He's not really trying to get in the way. So that was really weird to me and kind of eye-opening.

Like, oh, he's very respectful. So he thinks that you shouldn't try to break up double plays. And then I was like, okay, let's go watch what Reese Hoskins does. who's slower than McNeil, and McNeil has this, like, reputation as like a blue-collar grinder, like tough player. So that kind of really surprised me to see all of that. I went to Reese Hoskins, who's slower, I think 20%. I think Hoskins is like, I think McNeil's 50% in sprint speed,

and Hoskins is like 25. So here's every time Reese Hoskins has been on first base, and there's a grounder to the infield, less than two out, so the team's going to try and turn and double play. and here's how he attacks it. That's trying to turn two. On left side, Kronoworth will go to second base for one on the first. It'll be off the mark.

Short stop. The young has it. Goes to second for one. Back over to first night. And Dundon, the second for one. They won't turn the double. So as you can see, what Hoskins does is he gets his ass down the line quick. When he gets to that cutoff point that I was talking about, he gets big like a bear,

like you're trying to scare a bear, ah, you know. throws his hands up, gets kind of upright with his chest, and then drops down into the base. And as you can see on these highlights, he induces a lot of bad throws and breaks up the double play. He's never injured someone at second. That's a good example of what he does. He's never injured the player.

You know, there might be contact, but within the rules, and he's, it's winning baseball. I mean, he's doing everything he can. He's like, hey, I don't have speed, so I'm not going to be safe here. let me try and do everything I can to play winning baseball, and that's what he's doing. And this was, again, I had to cut this down.

There was just a lot of examples of this where he's inducing bad throws, putting pressure on the fiel, and it's working. McNeil was the complete opposite. He was granting people double plays. I was very confused. I was like, this is odd. So, oh, this, I have so many more of these from McNeil.

See, I color-coded it. pink was to the shortstop, yellow was to the third baseman, and blue was to the second baseman. And yeah, so Reese breaks up a lot of double plays by using his big body and getting to the bag down late. Again, he never hurt anyone. It's just, it's still part of the game. The rules didn't make this not part of the game. But I'm beginning to think the Mets might think the rules made this not part of the game. Because I kept digging, right?

Well, first I wanted to compare Reese and McNeil. Again, McNeil is faster. Here's a ball, hit to the shortstop, and flipped to second base. Very similar play. Reese is already in frame, and he's sliding. He's not going down until he hits that cutoff point of the grass, where McNeil is giving himself up way early, has no interest in being part of the play, and just says, there you go, go ahead, turn it.

So that was wild. And then I said, okay, let me find one. in a close game because that's unfair if one game doesn't matter and the other game is really close. So up top you have Phillies. They are tied at zero in the bottom of the fourth inning base is loaded. Down below, the Mets are up two in the sixth inning. And I also wanted to find balls that were hit similar. So if you see on my premier timeline, this blue marker, that's when the ball hits the bat.

So the ball hits the bat, I synced that up. And then the ball is hit to the shortstop. and as they flip it to the second baseman, you can see Reese Hoskins is in frame, and he's about to get big on him like a bear and then drop down to make it hard. And McNeil just comes into frame now and has no interest in playing competitive baseball on this play.

Just gives himself up and makes it easy. And I was like, that's crazy. And then I wanted to make sure people didn't think I was cherry picking a bagelion. So I put two Reese Hoskins on the right. and eight McNeil on the left. And again, this point where the blue marker is on my timeline is when the bat hits the ball. And if you watch through to when Reese gets to the bag, he's by the cut on the two on the right already.

And McNeil is nowhere in frame on the bottom four. And on the top four, he's like going down already and not really trying to break it up. So that blew me away, man. It's like, what's going on here? Is this just a McNeil thing? is this a Mets thing? And then I was, I was, is this around the league thing? Like, what is this?

I, again, I sent videos to some players that I know and talk to. And they were like, what? That is crazy. What is going on? They were like, Reese looks normal. That's like what you're supposed to do. So then I had to dig deeper because I was watching the Mets game last night. And Lindor, on a double play ball, ran through the bag.

And then the announcers kind of talked about the strapped. strategy to that, but to be honest, I forget and I couldn't figure out what the strategy was. So I'm going to have to go find that footage right now because I couldn't prep it. Let's go see if I can find it. Okay, I found that it was a double play to end the first inning. Lindor just runs through the bag and they explain why here. Again, this is me hearing it for like the first time because I don't remember what they said. Play that end at the bottom of the first inning.

I'll be biased with the glove flip. And you see that Lindor does not slide there. This is something that is relatively new in the game where players are being instructed to do this. Yes, and the idea is that if they don't get the out there, they have to go tag and the runner from third is going to score. And also another thing too. Okay.

If they don't get the out, if they don't get the out, if they don't get the out, they have to go tag him, and the runner on third will score. So if the, if the, if they don't get the out at second, so if the fielder, what? If the fielder botches the, like misses the bag with his foot, that's what they're preparing for?

There's runners on first and second. Slow ground ball. So, they're saying, don't try to slide and make this what they standard strategy would be like hey try to do a late slide

and make this dude uncomfortable turning this double play within the rules and without injuring him and if he throws the ball away the runner that was started on second that's at rounding third rounding third right now will score on a bad throw right so force a bad throw

Or make him so uncomfortable, he doesn't want to throw it away and he eats the play and doesn't turn to. They're saying their Mets are instructing them to casually jog through the base in case this dude's foot isn't on the bag. So then he would turn around and go tag Linder. And while he's doing that, the runner on third will score. That's crazy weird. I think the Mets think you can't break. up double plays. So I watched this last night.

I was like, wait, what? What are you doing? What's happening? So then I went back into the deep dives and I found all the other Mets players last year that kind of have speed and should be hustling and breaking up double plays. And I searched for instances when they would be tasked to like make the dude uncomfortable to throw it. So here's what I found.

They all right. They all right. Ureis to second for one. On the first. What's toward the middle? And a great diving stop by Abrams. The turn by Garst. The middle right in Rojas.

Juggles takes it. They all do it. To the back. Second. Actually the third. So, so. What is that? There's not a runner on second.

That could be rounding third in this one. So like that strategy doesn't even make sense, even though it doesn't make sense already. This is a tie-to-time. game in the third inning and instead of trying to make break up the double play that's the third so soon play ball right at franco long with the turn and it should be two bold the second for one over to first tied him up there you go double three only down to third haze goes cross by to the left side chance for two the turn by and Rivera high hop to second kattel for one

All right here. Perdomo. Martel. Softly hit, but Vogelbach doesn't run well, and it's a double. Play ball right to Seeger. The turn by Semi. Double play ball right at Arcea. The turn by Albi.

Go to third. Ground on a hop. Adamas, nice play. Throw the second picket. Three. Barte not running well, and it's going to be a third chance for two. Vargas to second at Garcia. Sharply one hop by Anderson.

He gets the out of second. And I'm not. Where was? where are they what is going on my only saving grace was and metz fans if you're still watching i'm so sorry i was running this by metz fans in the office being like guys what what's going on they said they never noticed this uh alonzo and uh cana last year they acted normal rounded slowly the third dera with the sidearm tossed that is the same as the rees Hoskins slide you know good job by pete he's at the cut of the grass he's getting down late he's throwing his arms up he's trying to

make them uncomfortable. Here's Alonzo again. Look at this. Nice. So some guys, I guess, aren't listening to whoever's telling them to not do this. Here's Canna. And yeah, he's, he's playing hard. He doesn't, not want them to turn this. Look at that slide. You know, and he gets the player here, Oswaldo. And that's legal. And that's fair. Aswaldo's got to move his feet. You got to come through the bag. You can't just stand on the bag. So, you know, Alonzo and kind of great stuff. And then I thought, okay, before I make this video, I got to check around the league. I got to make sure this isn't widespread and just because like the Yankees don't do it,

I've never noticed it. Or, you know, even Mets fans that I talked to, they didn't even notice it. So I checked around the league and I'm going to give you guys the link to check. But yes, not every team is doing this. Sure, there's slow guys that they don't get down the line. They're not going to. there's kind of guys that might be injured or hurting and, you know, or the game's lopsided.

But in most cases, when it's a close game and you have a double play ball, guys are trying to break up the double play. They're trying to slide late, make that field are uncomfortable within the rules of the law and break up the double play. So that at least saved my soul a little bit. But I don't know what's going on in Queens. It seems like they're in strutely. did I think maybe they have the rule wrong.

So I will post a link to this search that I did for you guys. So you can go check it out. And what I did was, here's all the parameters. So I did 2023 season. Okay. Balls hit to the shortstop in third baseman. All right. There's zero outs or one out.

So you need two. Runners, not on second, not on third. runner on first. So you're going to turn two. Badded ball type, ground ball. And then just to, because you get like 200 options to find better ones or, you know, to even like limit it a little more. I did batting score difference, three runs.

So it's a three run game. And then I did the exit velo on the ball 80 miles per hour to 95 miles per hour. Because if it's over 95, they're going to turn that so fast that the runner doesn't really have time to get down there. But anywhere between 80 and 95. That's a double play ball where the runner has time with a lead to go make something happen and break it up. And then you can, all you got to do is change the team. So you can check out how your team does this.

The only warning I'll give is Mariners. You guys were very similar to the Mets, but I think it's mostly, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, Penny Oswarez from last year. But like, man, go to the Angels who last year were, you know, well, they were in it for a while and then in the last two months they weren't. They, like, they had 17 instances because we really dwindled it down. And if you just watch a bunch of theirs, I'll pop them all out and we'll just watch

so you guys can see like, if you want to do this at home, this is just how you do it. Just hold option or command, open new tab. And then, you know, just skip ahead to the ball. and got down, through the hands up, tried to break it up. Yep. Hands up at the cut, trying to get down. Very normal. Here we go.

Oh, that was an error. Those will pop up. You'll see those every now and then. Okay, here we go. Right there. Hands up, sliding late, trying to break it up. So Angels fans, if you tuned in, you know, you got other problems you care about, but this isn't one. So this is what I did all last night.

just checked every team to figure out, I just didn't want to make a video about the Mets and have it be widespread around the league, you know, but if you do this same search and you find the Mets, it's, it's, it hurts my baseball soul, you know. Look at this. What are we doing? What is going on? Okay, that one got botched. What are we doing?

This is Nimmo. He's fast. So, yeah, you can go to this search and I'll put the link in the YouTube and what are we doing? And you can see if your team, what the organization does. Do they tell people to break up the double play or do they tell people to run away and not try to make anyone uncomfortable and just give up and. Say, oh, you guys want to turn two? Who am I to get in the way? Very bizarre behavior.

I don't really get it. And like I said, it kind of hurts my soul a little bit to watch. Because just because you can't slide past the bag, all you have to do is slide in the vicinity of the bag, maintain contact with the bag, and you're fine. Like, Reese's slide was a legal slide. The reason it looks dirty, and I'll go back to the premiere video of it, The reason it looks dirty is because McNeil bobbles this ball.

Also, McNeil just stands on top of the bag because I think he thinks you can't do this, but you can. You're supposed to like run through it. All the times you see the second baseman run through the bag, catch it and move their body forward with momentum. Now, this throw wasn't great. And then he drops the transfer. So instead of watching out for the runner, he's like, you know, worried about the ball maybe. But he's just planted. Normally he throws that and that back leg.

comes up and that's what happens when Reese goes down instead the back leg stays down because he didn't throw it you know think about a throwing motion that leg would swing forward and he'd be on the other side of the bag Reese doesn't know he's going to bobble the ball he bobbles the ball a lot of people said that Reese cleated him and I was like what do you mean like he spikes weren't that up they're like the same level as the foot spikes up like get him in the shin and some of the videos I showed earlier, they did have spikes up. And then it is awkward that he lands on the other foot. But again, at the time Reese goes down,

he doesn't know Bady's going to bobble this ball and stay planted with both lakes. He thinks he's going to throw the ball and end up on over here, you know? So it ends up, it's bad and it doesn't look good, but it's mostly incidental. And it's still a legal slide. I just think the Mets have been told that those slides are illegal, and that's why we had this confusion. You think that's fucking okay. You're allowed to slide.

What's wrong with that? All right, that was Jimmy's first thing. And to be honest, I like these videos to be around 20 minutes, and that was a deep dive into a first thing. So I'm going to speed up the next two things. Oakland's committing errors like absolutely crazy. And Blanco through a no-hitter. I don't know if I'm going to be able to get into all of these that much.

So let's just speed through it. I'm going to maybe I'll dice it up. I'm going to search around. I'm going to find some interesting stuff. Topic number two. Oakland A's are committing errors at an all-time pace. And it's sad. I haven't seen all the errors from last night's game.

So I'm going to go watch them. But if you look, this was their first game. They lost to the Guardians. They committed one error. Okay, one error. It's fine. No problem. Their very next game, they committed two errors.

Oh, shit. Their third game, two errors as well. No. Their fourth game. three errors. Uh-oh. And their fifth game, five errors. Uh-oh.

Asterix, I had rhodicism as a kid growing up, and I couldn't pronounce my R's, and I had to go to speech therapy. So if I say errors, weird at any point in this video, you can make fun of me, but just know, you're rude. Uh, I was a well-wowed kid. And to all my, uh, roticism kids out there, just strengthen that tongue, work hard at it, you know.

It can be fixed. I talk all day now. Top of the first, one runner on, no outs. Swing and a miss. Throw down the second. My dude, is that my dude Langliliers? My good, is it, actually, is that him? Yeah, I just did a video on this guy.

His pop time is incredible. His arm strength is incredible. Look at him, pick this ball, scoops it, and then probably makes a good throw. Well, that's a little far. But they're just not giving, if he doesn't make a perfect throw to his glove, they just let it go to the outfield.

He had two others. Same thing. God damn. Kind of looks like me there, huh? People have said this before, but right here. Ha! I see it. All right.

Next error. So, okay, this one's put in play. Same situation. Runner on first, no outs. What? Oh, shit. Okay. Okay.

pitch don't tell me all right thank god you caught it in right field they're trying to throw at home oh my goodness these are errors you don't see off the shin pad is anyone backing them up man all right top third two on again no outs again oh nice pick and what what the hell All right. Nice pick at first base. Doesn't go to second, I think, because he can't get it out of his glove cleanly, even though by the time he does get out of his glove, he still can. Someone might have been yelling. Pivots to first and the pitcher's not looking so he's got no target.

And then the pitcher, when the pitcher's running, when the pitcher stops to turn and look at him, he slows his feet down. So then the target's offline. Oh, man. This is ugly. Okay. We're in the third now. Two outs, pick off.

Oh, you can't be doing that. I mean, we can't be making extra throws if we're the A's. That's not allowed. That's a bad recipe. Shit, man. That's ugly. I don't like that. I don't like that at all.

That's ugly. Topic number three, Astros got their first win, and it was a no hitter by Ronell Blanco. Ronell, Ronald Blanco. Tell me how to say his name in the chat. I, in the comments. I like looking at no hitters and complete games in this way. There might be easier ways to streamline getting this info,

but this is kind of just how I've done it because I've made breakdowns on no hitters and I wanted to collect data while being able to get the video. So I have nine tabs open for each inning. And so in the first inning, he threw 19 pitches. And I'm just going to flip through in the second inning. He threw 13. That's a decent amount.

Okay. So in the third inning, he threw six. So that's the bottom of the order. Got through well. fourth 12 11 9 again so he breezed through the bottom twice it looks like then a top 11 10 and at the end 14 so then I like going you can see the pitch breakdown here or actually this isn't going to be the right thing I want to see pitch tight breakdown so in the first inning it was mostly four seam fastball and sliders three change ups so we threw three pitches right away sometimes people save those

in the second inning he went with change up okay so much bigger mix mostly change up didn't throw the four seam a lot in the second inning I wonder if there was more lefties up or righties I'll have to check that out and then to the bottom of the order the first time through

let's see what he did here did he throw a mix oh okay he introduced the curveball one curveball a lot of times people will use the bottom of the order to throw a pitch that they didn't throw the first time through so they can get a feel for it before the top comes up. So then let's see the first inning. Who gave him trouble? It went, I just, this will give me like pitch by pitch data a little bit

and I can look at the result of the pitch. So we go ball, ball, ball, swing strike, ball, oh, so he opened up with the walk. I haven't looked at this at all. I was watching the Yankees and I fell asleep. Opened up with a walk. What was his? Ninthage pitch, zero hits, zero runs. two walks. So the first batter of the game was a walk. Hey, maybe that helped them out. You know, pressure of a perfect game, gone. If you get behind, you can walk. I didn't do it a lot. Then Vladdy struck out and he went fastball, fastball, or all the balls here. Fastball ball, slider ball, both. Fastball, called strike, fastball, blocked ball. Then he went change up to Vladdy. Okay. Change up, change up. And then he went change up to end the inning.

against Darsho. Let's see that one. So change up to the righty. In. Just wasn't expecting it, I guess. He said Darsha, Varsho, D'Alton Varsha. Just was not expecting that at all. So the second time through, he throws the change up more. I guess he's like, hey, that worked.

I ended the inning with a change up. Rinell was probably like, if that's who was catching, like, let's just do that again. So then he gets Alejandro on two pitches. And he got the change up was the pitch. Man, this is something Javier did to the Yankees. They didn't know he really had a change-up anymore. It's an awkward swing.

Ground out. Okay. Then Ernie Clement comes up. Ooh, just got dark in this room. Automatic light turned off. Called strike, ball, ball. Hit into play on the change-up again. So that was, at least the first time through,

the first two batters, the three-batters, didn't really face it. And then they were just got a good thing going with this change-up. Cool. All right. And then let's see. Keirmeier 2-0 to Keir-Meyer, and he throws the change up 2-0. Kier-Meyer's going to crush a 2-0 fastball. He's going to try to crush one.

And he goes, oh, what a pitch. 2-0 is a fastball count because you don't want to go down 3-0. So he's throwing a change up here, which he's not throwing for a strike. It falls off. So it's going to be ball 3, but they are banking on Keir-mire swinging. So their report say, hey, this guy's going to swing 2-0, which he did. That's a nice, that's fun. then they went back-to-back change-ups on Kirymeyer here

so the 2-0 was a change-up that he swung over and they went back to it and he got him again that is fun they went three times in a row all right they went three change-ups in a row to Kirmire and this at bat that one that was in the zone and he fouled it off a little too high then went back to the fastball and then hit him with a slider when the count was full this is ballsy pitching and that's dead center slider kind of just I don't that's not really a good pitch.

I just think it's, again, somewhat of a fastball count. Not really anymore these days. And Keirmeyer's looking fastball. That's cool. All right. Third inning, bottom of the orders up for the Js, and he goes through him with six pitches. What's this?

Okay, IKF, it just goes slider, slider. It makes sense. I think IKF's just going to see a ton of sliders because his back foot just like totally goes crazy. Look at his back foot, leaves the ground, like way before impact. It's just sliders. sliding.

Put a charge in that one, now. Gavin Bizio. Call strike, called strike, swinging strike. Nice pitch. Vizio just taking the whole way. Off of that fastball. He goes with the change-up. So Vizio just took that as well.

O2 in a hole. Wasn't really ready for either of those. And then, damn. Change-up was nasty. All right. So he breezed through that. Oh, George Springer first. Oh, he went.

So this is the game. get me over curve maybe because it's the first batter of this inning second time through and he pops it up was not expecting a curveball went fourth pitch well this is kind of fun I'm having fun with this exercise sorry if this is boring you I guess you just turn off the video

and bow out but I've kind of just been talking out loud this is like what my brain this is what I do when people throw no hitters I just go through it like this all right so then he uses the change up again to get Vladdy because I believe he didn't use that first time through. He didn't use it till later on. No, he threw one to Vladie the first time through. Damn, he's throwing it for a strike, man. He's thrown it for a looking strike because I think

they just don't know it exists. He goes, get me over curveball to Turner. So this was a plan. Let's show him the curveball the second time through. They're not going to know it's coming. Let's just sneak strike one by him. If they swing in it, it's going to be off balance. Because they're not going to sit first pitch curveball because you didn't throw it at all the first time through. It's your fourth pitch. Cool pitching. Eventually gets Turner on the changeup. So the change-up was the pitch. The change-up was the nasty pitch. Bar Show comes up and he just gets a smattering of change-ups again.

Man, a lot of these at-bats ended with change-ups. Going to the fifth inning now. 11 pitches in the fifth inning. Alejandro Kirk, slider, slider, slider. So now it's slider-heavy. Kirk, Ernie Clement. He goes, another first pitch curveball. Didn't work this time.

Let's see. So he's just using this curve balls It get me over curve So if you Ooh that wasn't really get me over He kind of wanted him to chase there Then he's through the slider after that Strike on the fastball

Ooh with two strikes went to the changeup Didn't get the K On Clement One two pitch Changeup in the zone He'd been freezing a lot of people with that From what I watched That was fouled off

So off of that they go Oh okay you're gonna foul off the change up You know it exists now you're ready for it. How about this slider? Popped up, awkward swing. So upset with himself. Nice play. And then Keirmeier comes up.

Another first pitch curveball. How many first pitch curveballs did he throw? Did he throw a curveball on any other count? Look at that. Keirmeyer's just like, you fucker, dude. How come they're not telling each other? Hey, second time through. He's going first pitch curve.

Eventually someone's got to jump that. He's had face by Kearmeyer's like, you fucker. Didn't know that was coming. And then change up. to get him out. Damn, man. Good pitching. Fun. But Blue Jays, you got to pick up on this stuff. Okay, so then he gave ICF all sliders his first time through. Slider, slider, all fastball this time out. And then a slider to finish him off where he hits it into play. Okay. Fastball, fast, oh wow, look at this. Bizio, all changeups, three in a row. He threw four changeups in a row here.

I wonder if they got, he just really liked it. Pitch one to Bigio. change up inside, swing and miss. Pitch two. Oh, that is exactly where he wants that pitch. Didn't get the call. It was a little low. Right down the middle with the change up. Jesus, just begging them to hit it.

He's like, do you guys know about my change up yet? Because if you sit on it, you probably hit it. Oh, my goodness. First pitch right down the middle, man. And I think he was, I think to Springer's credit, I think he was kind of sitting on that. Just was on top of it because it's got some slight dip. Kind of nuts, man.

What inning did I just do the sixth? Yeah. Seventh inning. Laddie's up again, slider, change-up, slider. No fastball is this inning. Two fastballs in the whole inning. Wow. Turner gave him a first pitch out.

All change-ups, all sliders. Eighth inning. Only three fastballs. All change-ups. changeup was just absolutely like working. And in the ninth inning, only two fastballs. Damn. So like the last at bat,

Vladdy comes up and they got to know the scouting report and the numbers like, hey, he's really liking that change up. He only threw two fastballs the last couple innings. So he shows him fastball right away up top. You build off that. So now it's 1-0 and now you go change. up in the zone low that's a really nice pitch okay now it's one one and he's gonna just go double up that change up trying to get him to swing and miss there good for glad he doesn't bite

also pressure of a no hitter on the line right here what was that slider that was just like kind of a nothing slider I think that didn't do much hovering there but it's at a good spot up and in is why he's trying to do more with that and then a change up away only thing I want to do I want to look up one thing before I get out of here I want to look up, I'm going to cancel out the inning, and then I'm going to look up pitch type, and I'm going to put in curveball, and then I'm going to search how many curveballs he threw in this game, and then I'm going to four, and then I'm going to go pitch count. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, and it was all second time through the order.

So I think he had a very, very good plan there. Second time through, we're going to go first pitch curve balls because we didn't show them the curve at all the first time through, so they're not. It's not in their head. That's cool. It's good pitching. Thank you guys very much for watching. I recorded this and it took a long time.

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