Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast) - Three Sweeps in the Wild Card Round! | 898

Episode Date: October 3, 2024

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Hello and welcome to Talking Baseball. Three team season ended today. We're getting one do or die tomorrow. Houston's gone? No way, right? Let's talk ball. Bill Mayton. You're there.

Mitchell. So much happened. So much happened, dog. Hello and welcome to Talking Baseball. We're starting to record Wednesday, October 2nd. It's going to go into October 3rd. My God, a dynasty of sorts might have ended today, and it feels like it was a week ago.

The New York Mets were steps away from playing the Phillies for the first time in the postseason, and now they might not. The Baltimore birds having some conversations while the Royals, America's team. And then the original America's team, the Padres, Uh, just took out a shell of the Braves. We got a lot to cover.

Trevor Plouffe, how you doing, dude? I'm doing great, Jake. You mentioned a lot going on. I was going to do Jackson Meryl. Then you hit me with the film. Made ton and I was like, who hit the homer? Who hit the homer? Because so much, I got my notes here.

A lot of things happened, dude. Jackson Meryl kept hitting the shit out of the ball. It's kind of like all he does. I don't know, man. I'm excited to hear your burns. Oh. I told you I'll get you something special if you make me laugh. I probably won't get it to you, just like I won't give.

Yeah. Yen hap his bottle of wine, but. Yeah. Yenap like that comment, by the way. Yeah, Trev, I don't even, there's so much I want to horse around a lot. I mean, our guy Jackson, Merrill, taking a couple steps in and having those young legs to get back on what could have made it an interesting inning. And just hitting everything that's, there's so much.

I got a Houston Astros take. I have a Houston Astros take. Jackson Jove, Jackson Tariot? What's going on? I forgot about Jackson Joe being named Jackson. Jackson Holiday. Oh. Did he meet the roster?

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Are we cron pod, no? You sure are. The Houston Astros would ask, what can Brown do for you with young Hunter trying to survive? Tyler Holton hears a who in the upstart Tigreys. Like the chess club in high school,

nobody can score until Parker Meadows goes pole dancing. One nothing on the solo shot off the tree and right in the six. Only mistake by Brown, who is great, but these Astros will not go silently into the night. John Singleton, friend of the pod, Jose Altovae with a sack fly of swords down the line. Two-run lead, but they let young Jackson Joe Bluth off the hook, which led to a top of the eighth that'll be remembered in Detroit for a long time. Carrie Jesus was a carpenter

walks across water and home plate to tie it and Andy Abagnas has a swing for all the Astros haters It's like a Christmas swing because everybody is coming home Hinch in the kittens take down the boogeyman that he created as Detroit wins 5-2 and takes the series 2-0-0 final What was the Jackson-Jobb? is Jackson Joe Bluth

I didn't keep running with the joke there Joe Bluth Arrested Development I don't know if you've dipped your toe in that Not familiar yeah An all-time TV character Will Arnett And I should have made a follow-up joke on it

But I'm running a lot of steam What next to Jolly He'd stole the life out of you man Then the life got taken out of him Thanks for everyone that was in our live stream Trev, this game is the only game we're going to cover from the month of September. It feels like crazy, man. The baby tigers, they did it.

Part of it still doesn't feel real. Part of me feels like I'm going to turn on a game tomorrow and see El Tuvei hit a lead off Homer. They're out. They're out. I mean, look, as soon as they won game one, with what the guys they were going to throw to day, particularly because Houston hasn't seen this bullpen too much. These guys

that, you know, the, whatever, whether it's Holton, Hanofy, Hurd or Brisky, they haven't seen them too much. You see these guys a second day? Like, if there's going to be another game tomorrow, they're going to have to do that again. I think that's a difference maker. But you win that first game and Scoobo gives you the outie that he gave

you. This was going to be a very difficult game for the Houston Astros to score runs in. I mean, when you have guys that are on their game like they have been and you're just seeing difficult matchup after difficult matchup not being able to see a guy twice it's it's not fun as a hitter and we kind of saw that you know early on houston three they grind in they ground into three double plays during the game which i think was big uh but i think you just i mean yeah so much happened i want to say you just got to give

credit to the tigers because you kind of do um but that's not the whole story i don't know man Parker Meadows, huge homer, like you mentioned, off the pole, puts about 1-0. And then I think the game's biggest decision and maybe the most controversial decision was bringing in Jackson Job in the bottom of the seventh there. This kid is how many big league innings is he have? Not a lot. I think we've got four big league innings coming into this. It's crazy.

You put him into that situation. It's a one-nothing game. That's a really tough spot. Three against the white socks. So I, you know, just a little caveat. I know this guy's like going to be the guy. He's a stud, all this. But that is an interesting spot to put him in.

I guess if he's on the roster, you're going to use him. But shoot, man. And he looked like nervous. Right. Should be. By pitch, single. a bunt, an Aaron Torkelson, sackfly, like you mentioned, all of a sudden it's 2-1, and I was like, okay, still first and third now, he comes out of the game, and Kyle Tucker

hits into a-tel play. And at that moment, I said, that's freaking, that's massive because A-Rod right here, or maybe it's different than A-Rod, because does A-Rod want a one-run lead or a two-run lead? I think he would rather have a one-run lead, right? Isn't that the saying? That might be one of those rod-ism. I think he might have said that. I think you got that.

I'd rather have a two-run lead. Yeah. And so, you know, they get out of that inning. And now it's your one swing away no matter what. You know, two runs, obviously you got to get someone on base. And that just changes the dynamic of an offense and changes, you know, the pressure in that situation. It's like, okay. Like, we're still right there.

First and third, get the ground ball, they'll play. Wow, that's awesome. And then Presley gives it up. I don't know. Like that's, what great it bats by the tigers during that inning. It's what we've seen them kind of do. Hit balls back up the middle. Like have good approaches at the plate.

So, you know, Carrie Carpenter does it, Vierling does it. And then a horrible wild pitch, Diaz just like with the leg out kind of tries to scoop the slider by Presley. they tie the game up and I thought that could have been avoided with just a regular role blocking nature but that wasn't there and yeah I mean I guess the bigger bats the Abanya's a bat by the way

2018 where was I playing in a Texas farm system I don't even know somewhere in Texas spring no triple A me and Andy Abagnas teammates yeah fingerprints all over that Wow. I didn't know. I know I'm just talking now,

because I'm just trying to go over the game, trying to remember it. Todd Frazier. Yeah. During that at bet. Josh Hayter on the mound, throwing heaters. I see him shake off once. You know, hears it in his head.

He's like, no, like, you can just tell he wanted to blow it by Abagnas. And Abagnas kept, like, getting his barrel to the ball. Now, he was just underneath it. He was fouling pitches off. but the timing was there. And Todd was like, I think he got to throw a wrinkle here. I think you got to go down and then with a slider. And next pitch, sure enough,

Hayter does not get the ball up enough. And that's what allows Abanya is to get the barrel finally to the ball. And that was it, man. That was crazy. And an awesome at bat right there, and that effectively ended the Astro season. Yeah, it's, A couple things.

Like you're saying, there's almost, there's almost too many thoughts. You know, Andy Abagnas highlighted the other day. He's batting against a lefty, got pinch it immediately. He's in there to hit lefties for what the tiger's current formula is. So again, it goes to that, you know, we kind of call it that raise player empowerment of like, hey, lefty, you got to be ready. That's you. He comes in.

And, again, I don't know how much it matters. I don't know how Hader is the next day. but did you need to use them in that first game when you were down three? And that's the stuff you think about when... Also not a save situation, which is just... I don't know what it is with Closer. But the non-save situations are weird for them. Yeah, that spiked ball.

I mean, that kind of can't happen. And yeah, I want to give it up because Hanifie, Herder, and Gunther, If you asked me the scouting report before the big game, I don't know what I could have given you, Trev. You know, I don't know if I'm doing that to knock myself down a peg or a reminder that you guys know your team better than us, but these guys came in and when they look at the box score of what ended,

I think a version of the Houston Astros that will be talked about for as long as until I turn into Tim Kirkgin, and I'm squeaking on the broadcast. And do you remember when Josh Reddick used to have a cigarette in the game? Like, you did. He did. I think I got that from you. Josh, we're a fan of you.

I don't know, man. Like, these kids did it. And it wasn't the prettiest, but they got the pitch and they got the double play when they needed it. got the up bat when they needed it. And we're seeing a lot of infield singles and blocking balls the other way. And if you got that play in the infield, you need to make it. Otherwise, you're going to pay and look around at all the other games today. And I don't know, man.

Like, I think there has to be some honesty hours about Houston that this whole year they haven't felt like Houston. Like there was what, that one three week span where it felt like we were regurgitating. like, you know, actually since April 23rd, Houston's been the best team in baseball. We got a lot of those this year. It was like the tiger since August. The Twins. The Padres.

Yeah, it was like, okay. The Mets. We were the first ones to butter night stats, guys. Like, you guys can't all just start butternifing the stats. Everyone's stop. You know, this. I got a couple things for you. Okay, please.

First of all, we're talking Holton, Herder, and Gunther. not really a law firm. Could be. Could be. Oh, yeah. So we know that some of the lefties in the Astros' lineup are the biggest threats. Gordon Alvarez.

Kyle Tucker, I mean, Jason Hayward, Singleton hit today. They were over this game. And there was times where they came up in big spots and the lefties got the lefties out. You neutralize those lefties that takes a lot out of the Houston Astros' lineup and they're able to do this. that. My biggest hot take. And I don't know if it's a hot take, dude.

I don't think it really is. I think one team look young and the other team look old. I think the Houston Nationals kind of looked old. And I didn't really see a lot of like what you saw with the tigers or kind of what you're seeing right now

with the Padres, like the excitement, the exuberance, like wasn't really there. Yeah. Like in the 19th, inning of the first game. It was there. But that was the crowd helping out. And then, you know, they had some good at bats. But the tigers were able to just be, I think because of those, those double plays that they hit into, those are such momentum kills. It just didn't ever seem like

they had it. You know, I guess after Altuvae brings a sack fly in and Pena makes a, you know, a great slide there, they take the lead. Yes, some exuberance was there. I get that. But in the other parts of the game, you know, they're just. just in my mind, that's what I saw. I said, this is a young team, this is an old team, and it's kind of happening like that right now. Yeah, I mean, the other thing I'd say, and this is bizarre, right?

Because this is the whole thing with baseball that one game is messed up. These three games might be messed up. Like, we got one three game series out of this. And, hey, I don't know which way you want to point. You could give compliments to a lot of these kids throwing the ball that we're learning about. I mean, we'll,

vest. Pitchers I don't want to see in the postseason right now. Tough to beat Will Vest right now, which I know he had a great year, but it's also being right at the right time. In two games, the Houston Astros that I think they're built on hitting. Like, you know, there's been really good arms that have come through. I mean, Cole Verlander, like he obviously gets the nod. Yeah, I don't know if I agree with that. But it's a part of the formula, for sure. Altuve, Correa, uh, George Springer to Yordon to Kyle Tucker. I don't know. I guess that's for a different day.

They had one extra base hit in two days. Yeah. And it was Yordaun hitting that weird off the ball wall where he walked a second in the first game. So yeah, I don't know if that's age. I don't know if it's compliments to the chef that is the Detroit Tigers pitching. I don't know if it's a weird amount of luck that we won't be able to embody in these sports in these short series.

because I go back to the Jason Hayward ball that, you know, a foot higher, a foot to the right, a foot to the left. We're talking about an Astros walkoff in this game and we're killing the tigers in any of their hopes and dreams. So shout out to the kids for doing it. Getting the first run, we do this every year is so important. And Parker Meadows, talk about getting your hands in, Treb.

I mean, you know, I know. But my God, getting his hands in on that to get the barrel on it. 35 degree angle. 100 off the bat. Yeah. It's a moon ball. It's a moon ball. And I just think if we're, we're being real, this Astros team, you know,

Victor Caratini playing first base, both of these games, that's different. That's been a tough spot for them all year, yeah. That's been a tough spot the past two years. But remember, Abraeu actually kicked in last postseason and it was like, okay, so he's back to being a bad man. the outfield in the corner center field spot, like that had a little funk to it. And at the same time, like I said,

that Hayward ball gets down yesterday, Ryan Presley and Josh Hayter, you know, eight times out of ten, those guys are closer to flawless than getting hit, that it could have been a different story, but it's not. And the Tigers who have been the hottest team in baseball, like Houston was for a stretch.

God, I think they officially crossed into like, I don't want to see those cats. Like, they're, Oh, 100%. I think that's what's impressed me is that we know about the pitching. It's been great. I think during the year, we wondered how they were going to keep it up.

And I really don't know if it is sustainable. I think even Hinch says, like, I don't know if that's sustainable through 162, but it was for two months. And that's what they did. You, yeah, it's just, you have that. So the pitching's been great. But the quality of abats that these guys have been taken

has been really, really impressive. And I mean, even, I feel like it goes one through nine. The numbers obviously aren't, I mean, it's a really small sample size here. And you can go back to the season. The numbers aren't great, but I think they're just like the quality of the abats, the abats that they're working,

it's impressed me. they got a little zombie to them. Like it's a mix of kids and it's a mix of like, well, if we die, we were dead, dude. So I might as well go out and give it my best because we, 0.2% chance to make the postseason. And now they're going to go on and play the Cleveland Guard Dogs. It's an AL Central year.

It always has been. Three teams from A.L. Central still in the playoffs. I mean, again, we got a ton of ground to cover. Is there anything else between these two teams you want? It's officially Alex Bragman season. Where is you going to go? That's all I got. We'll see.

Interesting. He's going to be one of the big names of this offseason. Altuvae quotes about that. We've got a, we're going to have a preview episode come out probably late tomorrow night after the Mets Brewer's game three that we're going to preview all of the DS series for you. So you'll hear about Tigers Cleveland then. For Houston, I mean, I think people know,

and this is where we've landed on the term fan media, a lot of Yankee fans in this office, and a lot of eyeballs open wide. Like, wait. That's so soft. They're really. Dude, I, team soft. I mean, I know you know I'm normally the other team,

but I've seen what those guys do that the Yankees They don't want to see them. The Yankees expectations just got really real that they've got to take down two ALE Central teams to get there. And it makes potential heartbreak, I think, even more real. Also, AJ Hinch is he's having somebody write up

his post-game celebrations. He had another one-liner in the hip today. I'm on to you, Okay. I'm on you. Someone's writing it. This one today was, I don't know who,

but someone let these tigers get hot. And I mean, Tim Kirkchin just, how, the AJ Hinch, the manager that did it, and now he's the manager of Detroit. It's not a bad,

I'm turning, I'm turning into him. That's what's happening. He's, Tim Kirchian doesn't talk about the game. He talks about people that he's met in the past that remind him of something that's happening in the change. Trev, I told you, like, we were doing some work around the office. I know people don't think we do.

And I actually walked out to get lunch, but I was watching on my phone at one point, like, catching my one breath of fresh air from the day. And I was listening on my phone. And Kerrigan was just listing off all-time tigers. And I was like, no. And he was, like, definitively saying, this guy's the best thing. Yeah. I'm like, dude, what? He was, Al Kaline's the second best,

Al Kalin's the second best defensive, he's the second best defensive right fielder's ever played. And I'm going, now I'm racking my head. I'm like, is he talking about Clemente? Like, he kind of gets the respect. And I'm like, hey, pop, I didn't see a lot of Kline, but I'll take Ichero over him. I'll take each row.

I'll take Vlad's senior in his prime was pretty nasty. I don't know. Me and I... I'll take Abraham Lincoln. I don't know. I think there's one day when I get invited to like Buster Olney, Kirkajun, Jason Stark's like house

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It's one-nothing Royals into the fifth. Cedric the entertainer gets rid of the O's for. the O's their first run. A solo dong like a good night out were tied up at one. Lugo and Eflin were both solid outings. The bullpens were great. The defense was good, but the birds get out wit again. Infield single for Bobby, 4.2 shutout from the Kansas City pen, and it's over before it started for the Baltimore birds again. Royals two. Orioles, one. Orioles, one. as they complete the mini sweep. You like to be tied up, huh?

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Trev, I don't know how Kirkaginny I have to get about this. We're going to have a lot of offseason to talk about stuff that's probably unfair to these Baltimore Orioles for what is now a five game postseason sample that is 0 and 5. but in this game, man, there was some big defensive plays. MJ Melendez into the wall. In a way, it was good playoff baseball.

And in a way, I feel for the people of Baltimore, man, like this is, this is brutal. They were close, but they just didn't come through when it counted. And I think what you mentioned,

like the defensive plays were, that was the story of the game. Because you can watch, like, great fundamental baseball by the Royals in the first inning. Bobby Witt moving the runner over, Vinny driving him in, then Cedric answers to the Homer.

But the difference is, the Royals made all those great defensive plays. You know, Melendez goes and gets it. Massey saves a run by diving to his right. Jordan Westberg, the ball that Bobby Witt had the go ahead RBI on. I'd love to know your thoughts, Trev. I think he got to go too there.

In your mind, if you leave your feet, Bobby Witt Jr. is the fastest guy in baseball. So you have, like, in your mind, you tell yourself that before. If I'm leaving my feet, if I'm not going to my left towards first base, I got to look to second for the force out there. Gunner was a little late getting there, but... You got to leave that throw. That was the end.

You're not getting Bobby. That was the go-head run. You're not getting Bobby. I think you tell yourself that as an infielder. Yeah. At second base, I would say, if I'm leaving my feet to my right, Bobby's out of the question. If I'm leaving my feet to my left, then yeah, I got a chance.

But with the force out at second base, I think, you know, maybe he just was caught up in the moment and said, I got to get rid of this thing no matter what. Maybe he didn't see Gunner there because Gunner was a little late. But I think, I mean, that's little stuff like that when these games are, you know, when they mean so much in these short series, like those are the things that change the game. Massey makes his play. And Westberg just, I mean, he made a great play, but Bobby Wood beat it out. Yeah, and I guess, because at first I was like, damn, that's tough.

You know, Jordan Westberg is trying to make a play. It's Bobby Witt. With that dive up the middle and there's zero chance to get Bobby Witt. He's one of the fastest baseball players down the line that even if Gunner's a step behind or whatever, you got to try for second because it goes from 0% to 10, 15, 50. I have no clue. But you're right, in a play where there is a ton of, there is a ton of great plays defensively,

and every guy that came out of the bullpen and whether that's because of the defensive help, kind of did their thing. That was it. I think Orioles fans are yelling right now. What about the fifth? Cedric hits the homer. They load the bases up.

They have nobody out. They have Anthony Santander at the plate. and they get nothing. Pop up. Pop up. Colton Couser takes a swing off his knuckles or his chest, whatever it was. That was tough. And then, yeah, then it was Adley.

And it's just, I think those two situations. Obviously, you got to mention that. You don't score with bases loaded, nobody out. Then you miss the defensive play. And here we are. a two-one game, man. Hey, and I, yeah, this, the pitch from Zerpa. Yikes.

Shout out Zerpa, like, he wasn't AAA, like, in, like, August, dude. He had demoted. Yeah, I think he, uh, whatever happened he found it. I think his like last seven coming into the postseason were cleaning. Yeah, he found something. If MLB guys are swinging at that. Yeah, and hey, you know, as. you know, bullpen

we're still in a weird place with with baseball because something about it feels dirty, but Zerpa, Schreiber, who they traded for before the season, and we were like, okay, Royals, like knock yourself out with Schreiber. Long was bounced around a little bit. Boobich, who was supposed to be one of their

young starting pitching core, who has found something in the pen. And Lucas Erson. I got some Boobich rookie cards. Okay. It seems like a big prospect. They had a lot of his stuff, yeah. Yeah, Royals do something crazy this October,

and we'll find some kids in Casey for you to flip them to. God, I, uh, hey, man, I'm a Yankees fan. I admit that. Adley Rushman, dude. I know he got the one single. He had another 2-0 pitch down the middle that he just took, and he couldn't pull the trigger on, And he ends up pulling the trigger on a worst two-one pitch.

And now he's got two strikes on him. And again, it's where this game is weird. You don't know what's mental, what's physical, what's baseball. I mean, we had some Orioles fans, because I asked this last time, I was like comment what's going on. They said there was a bad foul pitch or something in a game in June. And hey, who knows? And that coincides with his slide.

Yeah, I saw that. You know? So you never know. But that's the difference in these games. And I'm not putting it solely on Adley Rushman because the difference could have been if Mount Castle runs into one. The difference could have been if Santander ran into one. Like Gunner goes oh for the series.

I mean, he had the last a bat. And did he? You know? Like I know that's me being a jerk. Like 1,000 percent, but like Ersig. Sheesh. He gave him the business. He gave him the business.

the business, man. Yeah. Again, there's going to be an interesting Orioles offseason. Santander was huge for them. Corbyn Burns. And it's going to be interesting to see what this new, this new ownership regime, who said they were going to spend and bring guys in.

You got options. We used to call, we called the baby birds. We used to call Blue Jays what? Hey, man. The baby Jays. I, uh, I mean, look, I'm a guy that ever played in the playoffs.

I'm just a guy watching the game, just a guy observing what's going on. I'm not saying that's what's going to happen to them, but there's a time where these players, these young guys who have had immense success over the last two years in the regular season, to get to where they want to go, they have to have the success in the postseason.

They haven't been able to do it yet. Yeah, I had a, another thing that if this was talking Orioles, I would have thrown out yesterday. And I think I mentioned very briefly, I like Cedric Mullins at bats the most yesterday. Like, could he have potentially been slid up the lineup instead of the eight guy? I don't know. It's a lot of questions when you don't win. And when you do win, even if it's a two-one game, Matt Quattaro and the Royals,

they feel like Super Heard. Bobby Witt in a 1-0 in a 2-1 game somehow has both game-winning RBI. Pasquintino back has the first RBI and the first inning in the first run scored. Their pitching is nasty. And they're going to go on to face my Yanks. And their pitching is a problem.

and if they stay in games, which every playoff team stays in games, like look around at all these series. Like the pitching gets that much better that you don't see a lot of crooked numbers on the board, that they're a scary team, man. They're the real deal. They are.

I mean, I think that we're seeing a change and kind of, well, maybe it's just going back to what used to win baseball games. games too. You certainly need home runs in the postseason. If you out home or your team, you're going to probably win. But how many infield hits have we seen? How many extra bases taken have we seen? And it's the teams that have gone more athletic, faster, and focused on, you know, some defense. You know, the Royals have been one of the best defensive teams in the league. And it showed today, they take the extra base and they get a guy on. And they were

stealing it will essentially. Like every time the Royal's pinched ransom, they just took second base and makes a difference, dude. Well, and that's, I'm going to actually make Dalton do it. Infield singles

and opposite field hits. Just, yeah, we've seen a lot of that in the next years you're probably going to talk about. Just flick it and a hit a rally in the playoffs. Just flick it, bro. So easy. Hey, RIP to Pete Rose.

hitting's all with your hands I watched the clip that went around the internet the other day easy game there's a lot of stuff going around the internet sure is there's a lot baby hippos

I'm not into the baby hippo yeah mud dang do I get it I keep blanking on the name there's a lot of stuff that pops up on my Instagram feed looks like

Sydney Sweeney's working with a new product. Royals. We'll be talking Royals, Yanks. Again, coming up in that preview episode, congrats to the Royals. Kind of a tough. They run a lot, which is tough for the Yanks. They got a tough lefties.

They got a lot of lefties in the pen. And the Orioles, yeah, it's going to, a very interesting off-season for them. I got to look it up now. have some time. What's that? Just keep going. That baby hippo? No. Oh, boy. I'm getting it up. And hey, know what I might look into?

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oh god sell prez might hit garrick cole really well just in my mind that made sense he doesn't one for 15 one homer though big sally don't hate chasing the strike zone's just a concept to sal um don't know what the numbers say

but the rest of the pitching staff he has no problem hitting homers off okay We'll be there. Grab some M&Ms to watch Mania and Montas in Milwaukee, Algonquin for the good place. But potentially the sad place if the Mets can make them grimace. Top one finding Nimmo as he fishes an RBI single. But Jackson ate his Cheerios.

Lead off Homer for the kid. But the answer backs answered back. Francisco, that's a fun name. Alvarez and Lendor with RBI's. It's three to one Mets and the second, and it stay that way into the eighth. The kid has arrived. Cherio goes Yabo again,

and Trev, the freshman is great, but don't forget about the sophomores. Garrett Mitchell leaves the park. The Mets are stunned, and Devin Williams won't help that. Game three tomorrow, as the crew survives 5-3 final. I've been getting absolutely hammered in my bracket.

Tigers move on. Kansas City moves on. I said that San Diego and the Mets would end the series in two games. That obviously didn't happen here. It's been tough for me. I got San Diego right, though. This was a hell of a series, dude. this has been a hell of a series

like two teams playing great baseball right in front of her eyes and at no point during either of these games has anything felt comfortable like we talked about yesterday like when the Padres went at 3-0 I'd say it's over

it doesn't feel that way at all here and the games have proved that as well Jackson Trio is the guy yeah it's the guy I mean, you just don't see people have the power to right field like he showcased there. You know who had power like that? As a right-hander, Chris Davis. Okay.

Okay. Just like turn his wrist over. He had one of the weirdest swings. But he had prodigious power to right field. And Trio hasn't really shown that this year. I think they said only four of his homers have been Opo. the one he hit in the 8th. As a big boy, Homer.

That was insane. That is just, I mean, look where it hits off of. That thing's got juice behind it, man. That's a reminder, he's 20 years old. Like he looks every bit of star. Don't do that. He sure does. He sure does.

How old's Wons Soto. Hey, Trillo looks older than me. And he's a lot better at baseball. And he's gotten paid. So we're good about that. We're not going to talk about his age. This is just a great game. I loved everything that happened.

The Mets are being super aggressive on the base pass. They're having those great swings like you mentioned. You know, shooting the ball through the four holes. Awesome. They said it on the broadcast. The Mets went first to third four times in the first two innings. I mean, taking the extra base. It's been, it really has been like a master class in baseball.

It's been a lot of fun to watch. Besides the pitchers fielding that's been going on there, that I just can't freaking stand. Crazy. It's been, it's been awesome to see, dude. Yeah, I think, all right, so the ride of this game, answering back in baseball immediately the next half inning is important, and the Mets did that and they're up.

And Trev, I, uh, I don't know, man. I didn't like the Mayton move. Um, I know he's been very solid for the Mets. Uh, what I don't know is Edwin Diaz's true availability. The Mets said he was available tonight. Uh, the manager Mendoza said he was available for a few batters. So it sounds like they would have had him on a leash because a reminder, uh, he threw a ton of bullets in that, uh, the first game of that double header.

and he a pitch that was pitching on back-to-back days which guys guys feel that and uh you know it's clearly a decision they had to make before the game of how we're going to do this it's the top of the lineup uh trio is currently the bad man in the series the guy that can't beat you and they kind of let him beat you uh i know it's the tying homer but uh and good garrett mitchell you talk about trios power. I didn't know I didn't know what kind of juice Garrett Mitchell had and that ball got out. I was

wondering if it was going to get down in the gap. It got out of the building. And again, credit to these brewers that did score all year and that we kept trying to remind people of that. I don't know, man. It's very much hindsight is 2020.

Like, Stanick looked incredible and he threw 11 pitches. He threw 11 pitches. He threw 11 pitches. He could have kept them in. I get that. It's so easy for us. It's so easy for us to say that all right now. And we're also talking about the manager unfortunately does have to think about if the worst were to happen. What do you got for tomorrow? So at, you know, if Diaz pitched today, I doubt he'd have a lot of juice for tomorrow. You know, Budo. who looked incredible over two innings in the first game.

You know, he's going to be fully juiced tomorrow. It's just so scary in baseball, man, because there could be innings that aren't very important tomorrow. Probably not, but I don't know. It has the potential to sting. I'll say this. This Mets team doesn't have that attitude. Like, they lost a baseball game today to a good team.

And good on the brewers for getting that rally in because what would we have done? We would have given the same sad. Oriel's were good this year and you just needed a couple more. And Astros, well, they could have done a couple things different. But that's, hey, they're the one team that has bucked a now like 16 out of 18 game trend or whatever it is. Good on them for keeping it together for a couple more at bats. to get this done. Two for 11 with runs in scoring position for the Mets.

I think that's obviously part of the issue as well. You can go first to third and you can do all these things, but you've got to continue to go and pass the baton and drive those runs in. Brewers were 0 for 3, but Trio's got a couple solo homers and Mitchell hits that bomb. And that was an electric moment.

in Milwaukee because you have Trio tied the game up so now all of a sudden you are the place is juiced right yeah places is juiced Blake Perkins gets a knock places like okay okay

then they ground into a double play and it's like okay settle down and then Adomas gets the hit and then Blake Mitchell I mean not Blake Mitchell Garrett Mitchell tore the roof off that place dude it was awesome it's really really cool to see

yeah and I I guess Garrett Mitchell, you know, I referenced the freshman sophomore thing because that was a thing for a minute and then it was instantly gone. And then Trio does what he does with his rookie year. Good for Mitchell, man, who ended up having a nicer regular season than I thought over, again, another shortened season for him. But this guy was a legit prospect that's dealt with some serious injuries. and if I told you go look at the stats on his baseball reference, you would come in low, a career 805 OPS in 116 games. And this is a guy.

We talk about the brewer's depth and how these brewers hit differently. This guy came in as a pinch runner. He wasn't in the lineup for this one because it was Manaya the lefty, who Manaya was really, really good. So this one in a series in three series that's, let's be honest, they haven't sold this new playoff format in any way. If this series was happening four times, we would say this new format is sick.

It's a beautiful baseball reference page right there. It's not bad, right? 121 OPS Plus, stealing bags. Playing center fields. Sure. I had a couple more things, now I'm looking for them. Okay, that's fine.

I believe in those eyes Catch up to a hundred I have one more thing to say I have one more thing to say Oh two more things That's what it was I don't have that written down This is stupid but it's baseball

Like I feel like it really It really works Bottom of the 8th I told you all the time You go ahead in the bottom of the 8th It's the best feeling In the world on a baseball field You know you just have to get three outs

You don't even got a hit in the 9th You're like all right let's go baby So they go ahead with the Mitchell Homer Hoskins pops out within the first two pitches just real quick. I feel like that's just good for the momentum, dude. Don't prolong it anymore.

We have everything going. Let's go get those three outs. That might be just stupid player thinking. But when he hit that fly ball and it was out in like, you know, two seconds after the homer and I was like, you know what? I think that's a good thing. And then the second thing I want to bring up was

Jesse Winker gets the last to bat against Devon. The whole place is booing him. I was like, I was kind of rooting for Jesse Winker in that situation. He was calm, cool, and collected. And he ends up flying out. So do you think he crossed past with Adomis? Like he's running that out?

Interesting. Hey, know who's incredible? Devin Williams. Yeah. Came into the playoffs with a 13 scoreless streak and you probably hadn't heard because he does that. Like his numbers on the year are video game stuff,

1-25 ERA, 38 strikeouts and 21.2-2 innings. We thought we'd, like, when Hayter was pitching in Milwaukee, we're like, we've never seen a guy like this. Yes. And then there was Devin Williams like, hey, we'll just trade this guy because we got this guy. So good for him.

Tomorrow night, tune in. We're doing one more live stream. Well, we're doing a bunch more. But the final game of the wild card. I think the John Bean owes in because he wants to put it in his history bank. And we'll have Jolly Olive's very real emotions. And, dude, again, thanks to everyone that did tune in. I think we had over 2,000 for a while tonight, live.

You need more of that. Two and a half. Crazy. Thank you guys. We don't say it enough. You know. I was in the chat a little bit. You always say subscribe.

You were in the chat. And while you're here, yeah, please subscribe all that. You are the chat. I'm in the chat. You're man of the people. I'm like watching these things. I was cooking dinner. I was doing all sorts of stuff.

I'm a Renaissance man. Always been a utility player. It's not. Put you anywhere. I would have loved to tell 22-year-old Trevor Plouf that you're a utility player. Let's we've got one last game to get through.

Let's do it, baby. Braves looking to get Max effort out of Freed and the boys. after their brutal travel in game one, but local San Diego, Disco Joe Musgrove would try to bring them to make weekend plans to visit LA. Top one, Ozuna from the Braves with the RBI sack fly. It's one nothing. Padres load the bases in the first, no outs.

Max freeds himself out of it. But in the second, Padres cycle in the inning arise. single, Machado double, Jackson Merrill, triple. Higgy is your daddy. Five one Padres after the second. San Diego's son provided a little solar power, but it's only a solo dung to make it five, two. In the eighth, deuce for deuce as Harris goes yard, two-run job, five, four Padres. But Albert Suarez's kid bro shuts the door. Get ready to take the five, bro. San Diego takes out the Braves 5-4. See you in L.A. maybe.

Don't even need the 405. You just... You do need the 405. Shit. I think. Okay. If you want to go direct, you're going to have to go a little out of the way

with the five. Four or five turns back into the five. Okay. Yeah. Thank God. Trev, I feel bad that this series is, became an afterthought because game one was an afterthought.

The game they were following was the good game of each of the past two days. And when it's 5-1 after 2 in this Braves team that is missing three superstars in a sport that doesn't have a lot of those, it felt like it was getting late early. I'm proud of Michael Harris, too, who was easily the best player for the Braves in these two games. My God. Putting a little fight and a little bit of a scare in them.

But Padres get it done. Your scare is, you know, Musgrove leaves with an arm injury. But the Padres, everything you looked for, a lot of great performances in the bullpen, a rise hits everything. Tatis is locked in. Machado with the bases clearing double, or, yeah, after he doesn't clear him in the first. Yeah, I don't...

What do you have written down on that paper? Well, I got a lot of things written down. First, you know, this whole, like, San Diego thing, a lot of people been coming out of the woodworks as, like, San Diego Padres fans down. Maybe they haven't. Maybe I'm just noticing now because we're watching them in the playoffs. But, you know, guys that I like I love.

Like, Tony Hawk was there in the front row getting crazy. Yeah, that was sick. all the guys from Blink 1282 were like super into the Padres so Agassioca's playing a guitar that Tom DeLong gave him like it's it's like kind of my high school days like coming back to life like a lot of like flat bills in the stands yeah it's an interesting crowd like some dickies and some black socks skate shoes bro like yeah here we go it's kind of like where I come from

anyways that has nothing to do with the game it was an interesting one Jake because the Braves, they do come out and get that early lead, which I think they had to do. And Max Fried has always kind of had his first inning problems, especially this year. He gets into some trouble, but gets out of it. I'm like, oh my gosh, that's huge. That is massive.

And then in the second inning, six straight, two out knocks. And those are just soul crushers. Obviously, Higgie started that off. Jackson Merrill ended it. It seemed like every time Jackson Merrill was up, he hit an absolute, for lack of a better term, piss missile. Yeah. It's a good word.

Yeah. And, yeah, Atlanta had their chances. But again, even when Matt Olson was up, you know, as a tying run, he's facing Tanner Scott, who he was 0 for 7 against coming into the abat. And it just, he actually put together a good at bat and lines out the profile, but it just didn't feel like it was going to happen. And I don't know, maybe Braves fans felt different. I feel like they didn't.

I felt like they had that feeling as well. That's what I was getting on my social media from them. You know, and then, yeah, they get to Jason Adams, which is nice. But if you don't tie the game there, you got Spores coming in the ninth, and it's like, what are you going to do? Like this Padres team is just built. It's hard to have sustained rallies against them because they have so many people to put out the fires.

A bunch of bullpen guys that they can go to that they really trust. They have a contact hitter in Luisuraise that's just hitting singles all over the place, having greater bats, running up pitchers, pitch counts, getting on base for Fernando Tatis. They just have everything, man. Like Machado look good playing defense today. They have the vibes. They have the vibes, Jake.

In that second inning, I didn't realize it was all with two outs and two strikes on Higgy. That he sends his second homer into the bleachers. Is there a wildcard MVP? There's not. I think he wins it, right? I think there's a chance. Well, we're going to give it to him. Congratulations.

His second homer and that guy. If you don't know, if you like people that play kind of without a pulse, he's the anti-Jake. Our famous story from this guy, he was a Yankee. We did a podcast with him, one of the first player podcasts we did. We're a little nervous. And at the end of like 30 minutes, I hit him with like, you know, anything you want to talk about Higgie?

And he's like, no, I'm not much for talking. And we're like, okay, good podcast. That's literally the whole thing, pal. Was that in the streets of the Tampa Spring Training facility? In the parking lot of the Yankee Spring Training Facility. So think about that. The ball player.

Was that the Fame 2020 spring training trip? The ball player. We had to re-release those videos, Jake. The ball player that was willing to meet us in a parking lot for the interview just hit back-to-back games with home runs against the Atlanta Braves. Tyler Wade, I believe, also. came out. He sure did. He sure did. Fingerprints all over this Padres.

I mean, and it's a look-alike thing, too, with me and Tyler. Yeah, I guess Padre fans waiting to hear the news on Joe Musgrove, like you said, and it's a great point. Like, I guess until they get until one of the longer series where your bullpen can get tested more, but they're going to have, like, you're not going to get a ton off a bullpen guy because they're going to have someone else, so you're going to have to get their starters and their starters are really good that they have they have Dylan cease and you Darvish lined up to go after going through the wild card tigers are rolling out children and you Darvish like waiting thick neck Tyler Holton is going to go shut down your

yikes you Darvish waiting for like all the guards probably five different Hall of Fame plaques in different parts of the world just chilling just like let me know when you need me um There's Hannafeet. Isn't you Darvish, like, half Armenian as well? Am I crazy to think that? Treve, I don't know. I got a lot in here. I don't have...

Yeah, Beavers is on it. I feel bad. I didn't highlight Zach McKinstry's nice play in the first inning of the Houston, Detroit came, but I don't have Darvish's full lineage. His father is Iranian. Iranian. Did you know that?

Is that Persian? That's that new. I've always struggled. In the Persian Gulf? I've always struggled with that. Someone's like, oh, they're Persian. And I think that's... Yeah, that's like the Iran area of the world.

Okay. Shout out to all our Persian listeners. I'm big in those parts. The Egyptian people and the Persians have had a very nice relationship. They're good. That's what I've heard before. Yeah, I've heard that. Don't fact check.

What? It's getting... You said we weren't fact checking. You know when it's getting late in talking baseball. They're always fact-checking me for some reason. Braves, man, I think, I told, I said Braves fans were going to feel the two sides of the coins. This was either going to be a team that got a ton of heartstrings

because you got Ramon, Luriano, and Gio Orchella Batlin out there. Ozzy Albi's hitting Ritey against Ritey's. My God. Dude, that didn't get talked about enough. Like, what a freaking soldier, dude. Did you see the abat he was taking against Jason at, dude, maybe sequence or maybe. I have to bust out of Jake down.

He's just pulling out against Jason Adam, just like hoping to not get hit by the ball because he's short-arming it and he's throwing pitches that move every direction. And he's battling up there, dude. And he almost got a hold of one. That, yeah, I know for what Braves fans expect nowadays, this team won't be, you know,

won't be hanging in the rafters for a lot. but they at strider they still have everybody they're missing two side young winners I know but like I'm saying like hey this sucks this year this sucks for the Braves right still made the playoffs you were down

Acuna Riley strider and sale it's nuts okay you all those guys are there next year plus the plus the guys that play like they're still very much set up to be a force in this league. I know this year didn't go like you liked, but you, trust me, would you trade places with a Twins fan? Oh, God. Is that the litmus test now? No, I don't think so. Um, they, uh, hey, I'm going to say they're going to pick up the 16 million team option on a, on Ozuna. Um,

Max Friede, your guy guy. Um, it's going to be a, fun offseason for him. And he deserves it. San Diego, L.A. Yes. Five games, the Plouf Brother Bowl. It is a... I need to make my way down for one of those games.

I will say this. And again, we're going to preview this coming up for you guys tomorrow night or the next morning. You mentioned Darvish and Cease, who haven't pitched yet while the Dodgers are not piecemealing a rotation. That's a little too far. Jack Flaherty, first game.

Who they got at the deadline. Man, both of these bullpins. These are going to be fun. These are going to be so fun. Like I shouldn't even be talking about it. Because like you said, I didn't grow up with the black socks and back at it again with the fresh vans. Lifted trucks. Yes.

Zebra belts. Corona extras. Corona extras in the tailgate. cut off Dickie's black socks vans can you put together for game one like your best Cali outfit you got I can't I got all that stuff I wasn't this guy

right you know right yeah wasn't that guy but I was like this guy I went with a couple flat rims I gotta find you'd like and this is a bad way to end a great show I had an outfit I called my Travis Pistrana outfit in college.

It was like a green, like, shout out, Trav. It was like a green, I forget if it was quicksilver or something, and I had like a flat brim green hat I would wear with it. And I'd come out and the fellas would be like, all right. So that's, that's what you're trying to play tonight, huh, pal?

That is the land that I am from. Casta Lake, California, shout out. L.A. San Diego. Ours was this, Castake Lake. And then all of the air. Central. Boogity, boogity, boogiety, boogie. We find out who goes to play the Phillies tomorrow night.

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