Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast) - Twins End the Losing Streak! | 722

Episode Date: October 4, 2023

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Hello and welcome to talking baseball. Game one of the postseason came and went four games, four results. That's right. Every game was finished. Let's talk about them. Hello and welcome to talking baseball. It's October 3rd for a little bit longer. And to be very honest with you guys, right off the bat, it's 11.18 p.m.

I need to be out of this office in an hour's time or I will miss my train. and then there's not another train to 630 and then I have to Uber, but then I probably have to wait forever for that because it's a long over. So I might leave if we're running really late, but just letting the audience know. I might be out of here. Stop talking. Let's start barking.

All right, Trebs, twins, BBDs, Phillies. Yeah. Hines and snakes and Jimmy's Rangers. Yeah. That works. Speaking of, my Rangers up first, Jake, want to burn it?

Boom. We're headed. to the trop to kick off the 23 MLB playoffs. Glass now would try to be Tyler the creator for Tampa as they took on the Texas Rangers and they bear it all with their full Monty, Jordan Montgomery, on the mound. Young is hung. The sack fly is underrated. It's one-nothing Texas. Make it two on a wild pitch. And then Jose Siri does not care. But in a bad way this time, bizarre throw to third. It's 4-0-0 Rangers.

The same amount of errors, the raise-hat goo! And they get shut out. Yikes. Montgomery to Chapman to the Kirk. Texas wins 4-0-5. It was brought to you by Seat Geek. Make sure you guys are tuning into our live streams. And make sure you're downloading the Seeky Gap.

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but that's why I'm here for you. That's why I'm Poppy Gordo. Download the Seek app. Go watch some playoff baseball or any other event. Seatgeek, Jim. Just some bookkeeping before we get into the chatter. Jordan Montgomery, seven innings pitched. Zero earned runs for him, and then the bullpen comes through for the Rangers.

Chapman gets an inning. LaClerc get an inning. It was four run lead, not three, so, you know, and not a safe situation or hold, so they didn't blow anything. So they did well. On the other side, Glass now five innings pitched, three earned runs, four runs. Not entirely his fault. Eight Ks, the five walks are bad.

That's bad. and then the rest of the bullpen for the raise was pretty nasty, Da Vinci, Dekeman, and Kittridge. But this game came down to the raise being absolutely awful on defense. Trev, did you catch any of this one? I watched this game, and this is about as good as you can want as a Rangers fan or a Rangers player. I mean, you get Monty going seven innings pitched 93 pitches,

and then you can turn it over two clean innings, which I think is important, because Monty was in a little bit of trouble there, you know, to finish off the set. But Chapman comes in. We're always worried about the Rangers bullpen because they've just been, you know, they've been atrocious. And this wasn't some sort of offensive barrage. I mean, you know, four runs. That's not exactly a done deal for the Rangers throughout the season, but you give Chapman a clean inning of work.

The adrenaline's there. LaClerc has been pretty dang good for them. He gets his inning. And like I said, I mean, this is, if they could have drawn it up prior to the game, this is it six hits by the race four airs and just it looked it didn't look good for the race

Randy Rosarana did his thing I guess you can find some silver lining in that like he was hitting the ball he's supposed to be your guy but other than that it just it was all Monty dude like it was incredible now you got some help defensively behind him this guy Evan Carter that we've talked about young kid had a great game a couple nice grabs

Robbie Grossman hitting third for your Texas Rangers goes into the drop and they win game one for nothing. I love it. I was a little shocked to see Bobby Gross hit in third, but hey, split it up with the switch hitter, sure. Some old school managing by Bochie there.

Having him in front of Garcia and Lowe is kind of crazy. Whatever. Rays played awful. The defensive performance by the Tampa Bay Rays that when we say our corny lines of like, Ray's going to raise or, you know, going back, you know, the past, five, six years of Ray's outfielders, you can find guys that are gold glove caliber,

platinum glove caliber, like, you know, even when Brett Phillips used to hop in for them, like special outfield defense. They had one year, I forget if it was last year or two years ago, that the rays were kind of sloppy. They felt like they tightened it up this year better, and then they came out today in four errors, and there was more ugly plays around it. And they also put a zero on the scoreboard. And I think the pivot point in this game, besides the race just being sloppy and being a, like a dead overall 3 p.m. game. Jordan Montgomery, catching the bunt. Like, Monty, not known for his pure athleticism.

He makes a really nice play there. And if that ball, you know, is just out of his reach or goes off the glove, the rays are set up. It feels like a momentum change. You just had a pitcher hit the deck, which just feels like one of those weird things in baseball. Instead, it felt like you got to. beat. And that's what they did today. And this game could have been uglier. Like Texas left some action on

the bases. Um, it really awful showing by the race. Yeah, the four errors aren't even, they don't even tell the story because there was, I mean, Siri drops the ball where he gets his glove on it and center tracks it down. Like would be a nice catch, but, but it's a playoff game. You need, you need those. Like the Rangers had that in the first inning when, um, um, left fielder, Blanking. Carter made a really nice. Carter made that play. I think it was in the first inning, yes. Yeah. And so you need those plays. And the Rangers got a couple

of them. They got the two Monty plays. They got that one. I believe they got another nice one later in the game. I'm forgetting. The Reyes not only had the errors on simple plays. Yandi misses one under his glove in the first or second inning. First and I think base hit or second inning. And then Siri misses one that he gets to, gets to the spot, hits his glove and

drops. That didn't go as an error. They scored a run on a wild pitch or pass ball. I don't know how they ruled it. So that doesn't go as one of the four errors. It was just really sloppy. And some of the swings at Chapman's pitches were like, I don't know. I don't know if I don't know if that pitch deserved that swing. I don't even, I don't even think the Rangers played like an excellent game to just go and take this from the race and that's kind of got a scary if you're a raised fan i mean even the rangers i mean four runs on nine hits i thought in i thought when um they did not send jonaheim on evan

carter's double and then glasnow gets out of that inning i was like this is bad for the rangers it was one nothing at the time i believe that was in the top of the fourth and you know glasnop gets marcus simeon to pop up gets through the inning no no runs and i was like man that's that to me was momentum shifting. The Rangers not being aggressive. And like if you look at the play, they asked Bochy about it the dugout. If you look at the play, like it probably would have been close, but

I think you just got to send them there. I think you've got to take chances, especially in the trough against the race. But it proved that, I mean, the raise just didn't, like you said, they just didn't play well today, so it didn't matter. You got to wash your hands if you're the raised and just say, this one's gone, forget it,

move on. Yeah. I think they're The Rangers, it's not all the, like I don't, the story isn't fully that the Rays were bad, even though they were. The Rangers were good. Then they get, like, handed the game. Like you said, nine hits, and I think six walks as a team. So they had base runners all the time, and Monty was great. And they made good defensive plays. They had one botched play, same Carter and left, but they made a lot of good plays as well.

So I thought the Rangers played pretty good, but the Rays also handed them some innings and some plays with super uglyness. It felt like this could have been 6-0 early, and it was 2-0. Like that inning that they score on the wild pitch, it was bases loaded, nobody out. And then there's wild pitch, walk, and then Glass Now locks in and punches two tickets. So, yeah, I don't know. This game, credit to Monty, his change-up was really good against a lot of right-handed bats that the Rays put in their right-handed stacked lineup. So a guy like Harold Ramirez, he gets slid up into the three-hole.

He had some tough at bats today against lefties. So, you know, when they're pressing their buttons, and that's also the other side of when we say the Rays are going to Ray, like, God, Josh Lowe is such a good baseball player, and he should be starting tomorrow because it'll be Nate Avaldi, that I do think, you know, the Rays will be able to watch this, and they're going to have, like, a totally different feel because their lineup will genuinely be constructed differently.

The Rays just didn't have any hard hit balls. They had, I mean, Yandi and Randy had two apiece. The rest of the lineup. The other seven guys, zero hard hit balls in this game. Monty did such a good job with the sinker away, change up away, and then to lefties, you got the curve going away from them. I mean, the exit V-los are so low. Because he didn't get a lot of swinging misses for a while.

It was all just, and that's why his pitch count stayed really low. which is exactly what the Rangers needed. They needed a win where they have a start to go seven and two relievers go one apiece. They're set up. They got a Valdi now and a fresh pen in a elimination game tomorrow. I mean, yeah.

Two for 13 for the Rangers with runners in scoring position. I think that's got to improve for them. Because like this is not, the series obviously isn't over. I just think that it's going to take a better effort to beat the race tomorrow. That's all I'm saying. You'd like to think so.

In my head, yeah, in my head, I'm just thinking the rays are going to come out and kind of put together a nice game tomorrow, but shoot, man. I never know. Yandi had a real tough day at first. Siri, he had the throw that he was trying to make up for because he blocked a ball and popped it up. Then he had another ball at the wall that went off his wrist. It was a tough play. Again, that wasn't ruled an error, but I, you know, regular season, Jose Siri, I've seen him catch that ball a multiple times. So, yeah, no, I think if you're the raise, you can watch it.

And it's just so funny that, you know, everyone that got to watch all today's games, like, you watch the raise today. I mean, ick. But that could all be washed off with one decent game tomorrow. Baseball. All right. Moving on. Next.

Do we want to say the matchup for tomorrow with Valdi versus Eflin? And we kind of laughed because they looked pretty similar in their player pictures. And their careers are similar. They're the same guy. So watch out for that. I think Eflin's a little taller, but I get what you're saying. I can see that.

Yeah, they're similar of the same. Just head shot. They showed tomorrow's pitching matchup, and you could have just kind of erased the screen and been like, these brothers pitching the big leagues. And again, that's the 3 p.m. start in St. Pete. Both Zach Eflin listed as 6-6 of all D-6-2.

Oh, big Zach F. Yeah. Yeah. One's that one. Big feet, too. Mm-hmm. Whatever that means. Trebs twins.

Ooh. Get your popcorn ready. The formerly baby Jays and Kevin Gossman would take on Trebs, Minnesota twins, and Pablo Escobar Lopez would try to snort away their 18-game losing streak. Bottom one, take out the rolls. Royce, baby. Two run. Homer in his first playoff at bat.

Top three, Royce, Donna Lewis has twins fans saying, I love you, always forever. Second home run of the day. Jay's only push one run across on a Keirmeyer single. Lopez Varland, Tealbar, Jackson, Duran. Sounds like an awful K-pop band, but the curse is lifted. Twins win.

Three, one. final. Good job. The Twins, even though they did get out hit in this game. Blue Jays had six hits, twins had five hits, twins had two homers off of one man's bat. Gossman did not pitch well, but the Blue Jays bullpen combined for five innings of two hit ball and zero earned runs. Pablo Lopez pitched really well, and then the Twins bullpen combined for two-point. No, no, 3.1, sorry. So, so stupid. Of one hit ball.

So both bullpins did really well. Gossmann struggled. Aerod was kind of adamant that they had a tip on him. And I guess in the past, the twins have been really good at laying off his splitters. I don't think it really looked like that, in my opinion. And it looked like Gossman was just pretty wild at the front. But there were some at bats where they really, like in Joyce's second Homer at bat, he really spit on the splitter. So Trev, you're close to these guys.

Do you think if they got anything on Gossmann? Just like every team, they have people looking for stuff like that. As soon as Arod said that, first of all, I was just like trying to like, I don't know, whatever. It was too early in the game. I'm not going to start down that path, okay. But I didn't, I haven't gone back and looked. But obviously, there's a possibility that the twins had something. Splitter guys are some of the guys that you're going to get tips on easier than most because they have to preset the splitter.

And then you're going to see some movement, whatever. it is. I'd assume the Jay's video people are also looking at it, especially before a playoff start. If they missed that and there was something, shame on the Blue Jays. But this was, this was the Royce Lewis show, obviously, obviously. And Pablo pitch great. I think that needs to be said. He gave a really strong outing. Couldn't get out of that last inning after the Keirmeier knock. Then Varland comes in. And this is a guy I've been saying like, hey, he he's going to be a big part of it. I think it was one pitch, laser, two pitches, laser for an out.

Then he doesn't even go back out there. And the Twins, you know, as the Blue Jays, they have, I feel like the Blue Jays are a very complete roster. Like, they have the starting pitching. The offense hasn't really been there, but you can kind of like look at their lineup and dream upon it. But the bullpen's also been very good for them. Twins are the same way. I think their bullpen is up there with anybody's bullpen right now. And like the amount of people they can go to and actually trust.

might be the most in the playoffs. Like they, there's like five guys that Rocco will trust in high leverage situations. And I don't think you can say that about most teams. So we saw it today. Field bar throwing that curb ball, which is nasty. Jacks, I think,

allowed the first bat or first pitch. It was Vladdy hits a double into right center. And then he settles up and just starts throwing that sly ball. And it's filthy. And he gets out of that inning. And then Duran comes in. Everyone's looking for 105. and he just starts throwing those banger curveballs.

It's like, it's tough, man. So this is a, this is about as good as you can do for the twins. You know, you wish you had some more hits later in the game, but you're going up against a tough bullpen. You're trying to just preserve the lead. You know, Julian gets pinch hit for.

I know it was a lefty, so Farmer comes in, but they also try to get Julian kind of out of there later in the game for defense. Michael A. Taylor makes some nice catches. Max Kepler made some nice catches. I mean, this was a great, great game for the Twins. Michael A Taylor sure did leave his mark on this game. A couple big catches that if one of those goes differently,

it changes the whole course of the game. And the other play that Trev, you might have to reel me or us in. Two outs. Kevin Kiermeyer, chopper to third. There's rumors you're bringing Sequence back for this very play. Kiermire chops one to third, goes under the third baseman's glove. Boba Chet's on second, two outs, reminder. And he kind of run, jogs out the play,

and he kind of doesn't have his eye on the ball, and then it trickles past the third baseman. And then whose hand does it end up in? Carlos Correa, like the biggest infield-throwing threat to ever play the game, nails him out at home plate. And there you go. Instead of a run scoring, Toronto getting their first run on the board, having still two runners on base and a potential to make a big inning out of it.

They're out of it. It's 3-0. And man, that took the wind out of my sales, man, because that didn't feel like my brand of baseball. He's been doing that so well. Carlos has been separating his offense from his defense all year long. He hasn't had a strong offensive. year, you know, a couple of spurts here and there, but defensively, he's been solid. And that's

kind of what you, you'd expect from a guy, you know, he's a professional. He really is. This game for the twins, I'll go back to that play, but it started off like, oh shit, Kiroloff and Max Kepler zoo a ball down the right field line. That was an easy out. They missed that. And then Polanco grabs two seams, throws it into the dirt. Kiroloft gets stepped on. People are flying all over the place. I'm like, what is going on right here? Then they locked it in. This play was it was amazing because where Carlos was

when the ball went under Polanco's glove. And clearly, Bichette did not know that Carlos was shifted over basically behind Segregation. I don't know how he didn't know that. He plays short stuff himself. He should know. But the distance that he covered to get this ball and then like this is the thing for me and if I

was to do a sequence episode, I'd focus on this. The you have to set your feet up. Like he's going to bare hand that ball. So your steps have to be in order. Like you have to grab that ball with your right foot, one more step, plant on your right and throw. So you have to line up your steps while you're going to it

because he knows he's going to bear hand and have to throw across his body. And like everything just lined up perfectly. He threw a strike right to Jeffers. Jeffers did a great job. He's a big boy back there. So he's going to block the plate. And you're right, man. I mean, that was, you know,

it could have been a big inning for the Js instead. It wasn't. Do you think Bichette, like when they show the replay, he kind of, in my head on that play, you round third hard and then look to pump the brakes a little bit, kind of what Yelie did on second in the Brewers game later on, which I thought he just, that was unlucky for Yeli, where this, Bichette put him in a bad place to score. Instead of, he should have been running, rounding hard, then kind of look at your coach

or look back at the play, see that you can go and you're set up to score. but he went slow approaching third, then kind of had to figure it all out. I thought he was going to make the play. That's why. He thought Polanco was going to come in, make the play, and he's just, and then he didn't. Yeah, but he was just caught there.

You even see guys do that to distract the guy at third basement. Yeah. Like going hard. So I don't know. Maybe we're being too harsh on it. But my dude, Kiermeyer came up with two runners on both times. One time he taps the perfect infield singular.

Singler. that's a new term. And then the next time he comes through. And I said, Keirmeyer's a good postseason player. And he got him based three times today. So I guess the guy who I used to not like that much, I'm a big fan of.

You should love him. He's great. Yeah. Like him a lot next year. Yeah. Wink. I mean, do we talk enough about Royce? I mean, I think we got to kick it to you.

Yeah. Honestly, it's he. I will say this. He's been out a couple times this year with injury. And every time he comes back, it's like he hasn't missed time, which is not common, dude. I mean, he hadn't seen a major league pitch.

I said this on the live stream. I don't know. Two weeks, basically. And he comes back, and his first two of bats, he's homers, puts a team on his freaking back. I mean, that's momentum. You have the lead.

Now it's up to your pitchers just to go out and get it done, and which the twins did, but shoot, man. Like, I don't know what to say about this kid. He's really, really good. And all the people they were saying it, like the Rod Carew's and all this, you know, the Hall of Famers that around the Twins,

they were saying, this guy's special, this guy's special. I've seen him. He's been hurt and hasn't been on the field a lot. But when he has been on the field, it's been, it's been special, dude. It really has. Like, I think we're looking at a guy who is going to be, like a household name like a Corbyn Carroll is. Like he's he's like on that level of player.

He is. Happy for him, Trev. And I know there's a lot of discourse about Royce Lewis leading up into these playoffs. And yeah, he looks apart. He's got the pedigree. And I think slightly transitioning to, you know, tomorrow's game, like the twins,

felt in control of this game the whole time, which was exciting, and they get rid of the 0 for 18 and the playoffs and all of that. That's done. It's in our rear view. I guess if I'm looking back, and we kind of had a weird moment thinking about this game because the Ray's Rangers game is going on, and you're kind of like, what is this? Like, this just feels off. This game, it felt like the twins were in control, and then, Jimmy, you were kind of checking in, like, wait, is this like a good game? I mean, it's 3-1. We got some tying runners on and all that stuff. I guess if I'm replaying, it for Toronto. That Matt Chapman Ball travels another foot or two,

and we could be talking about a Blue Jay's lead or tie game. Gossman in the whole, is he tipping? Is he not tipping? His final inning, he strikes out the side, and it looked like he changed up his splitter a little bit, so you wonder if there was just something going on? But at the end of the day, if I'm

the Blue Jays, I say, okay, the new kid got us twice. And like, I was it, right? Like, I know the twins were more in control of this game and they had some guys having good at bats and Eddie Julian gets rung up on a bad call. Sorry, Trev. But if I'm the Blue Jays, I can pretty easily say like, okay, so let's maybe be careful with the Lewis kid tomorrow and then we just go win? Yeah. Baseball.

Go Twins go. Schneider coming out and complaining about the pitch when the twins just got got by a bad strike call. This was the worst ump of the four games, buying on plate. Yeah, he missed some, he missed some pitches. What was I going to say? Oh, yeah, the third time up, I believe they decided not to pitch your way. He got him a 3-0, threw him a breaking ball on 3-0, then threw him like another splitter 3-1.

And so they've already, yeah, that game plan is already, that's like already in their head. But the thing is, man, I'm telling you, there's more to that twins offense. And I think we'll see it tomorrow. Well, Lewis was just spitting on the pitch. Because yeah, 3-0 in the second up at bat, too. and then he looked at a fastball down the middle

and Gossman went forcing him again right, like right down the middle and it was like, well, dude, nah, nope. Hey man, I think they were third in runs per game in the second half in all the baseball. Like they've been kind of sneaky firing for quite some time. Can I tell you what? Yeah.

I just got a little excited for tomorrow because I didn't realize that Jose Berrios was getting the pill in game too against his former. team against Sunny Gray, who I feel like they have some of the same off-speed stuff. So I'm pretty jazzed up for that. I heard Burius is throwing it. Still a Twins fan at heart.

Yeah, that's the one that told me that. For sure, yeah. All right, let's do game three. The National League. Game three is brought to you by, actually game three is brought to you by, we're doing an event in New York City at the Taylor. So if you live around here, you're traveling around here. October 7th,

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Arizona fought to get in the playoffs, and they'd give the kid Brandon the pill. While Usher Super Bowl starts with some Corbin, got to let it burns for the crew. Tyrone Taylor swiftly hits a two-run homer with some accent music by Carlos Santana. It's three-nothing beer makers, but the snakes march their way down to HR

and say, Carol, Carol, Corbin goes yard. Catel back to back like a good night out. We're tied up at three more Eno, Gabby homers. And then Christian Skywalker sends one to the Dagaba system. Fought to Mantleply to Castro to Nelson, to Thompson to Ginkl to Seawall. Snakes win, 6-3 final. My favorite game of the night, a back-and-forth affair. Lots of fun was had by everyone.

everywhere. Big home runs, cool pimp jobs. So there's a poem I wrote. Sick. Yeah. Thank you very much. That was a poem.

Was that it? That was the end of the poem. A tight poem. Yeah, I wrote it. I like that. I actually really like short poems. There's a hykoo and a half.

A high calf. Burns does not get the job done. Four innings pitch. Four earn runs. both teams have to use all of their bullpen basically to make this the slowest game of the bunch. The Diamondbacks bullpen was well executed and really efficient. I mean, they all kind of let a base runner on and they all got pulled when they needed to and damage was limited.

A lot of that due to Longoria and some defense, but impressive job from them to get. How many? I mean, what did they get? They got six in a nine. 6.1 out of the bullpen. I don't know how much that hurts from tomorrow. Imagine Gallen goes 7.1 tomorrow. Like, that's awesome if he does that.

Thought was bad, but they pulled him at the right time. And Williams has a really bad outing for Brewers. I think that's the biggest takeaway here. You know, snakes did what they had to do. The electric players were electric. I mean, Carol and Marte doing it. Gabby Moreno. I mean, every single one.

one of those guys, hit it, and showboated. Enjoyed it. Like they were ready for the moment. And then the bat by Walker was absolutely incredible. And that's the biggest thing to me was, okay, you have Arizona's bullpen comes in, does drop. I honestly thought they left spot in there too long. I, I don't know.

It looked like some good hit. It did. their bullpen comes in and does the job. Who's this ginkle kid? By the way, Jake, why weren't you telling us about him all season long? Maybe you did, maybe I didn't listen. They get the job done. That's a huge boost for them because you have Gowan and these guys can throw them back to back days.

They're all hype. They're ready to go. They want to do the job. Brewer's bullpen does the job except for their freaking guy who tries to keep it close to put him into the ninth. and Devin Williams gets banged on. That's not the confidence builder that you need. Now he should be okay. I witnessed him hit by the twins and come back

and reel off 20 scoreless endings or whatever. So I'm not too worried about him, but it's not best case scenario for the borrower's to have your guy that's supposed to be closing out games, have that in the back of his head. Like, shit, last night I had to work really hard. They took some really good pitches on me. Christian Walker had an incredible,

a bad against him. And that was, you know, I know the fastball wasn't exactly where he wanted it, but it's still a nasty pitch. And he just put a better swing on it. So this was, I mean, I really enjoyed watching this game. I think both these teams kind of, they match up well against each other. I think if we watched these guys play, you know, throughout the course of the season, like it's going to be very, very much like a 50-50 coin toss type situation.

This was fun. This was the only game. that Switch leads at any point today. And we saw everything come into play, right? Like we were worried about fought. His final line's insane. 2.27 hits, three run, just like trying to survive out there in a playoff game. And at the same time, it wasn't enough, right?

Like they had them on more of the ropes. It doesn't happen. DeBack's bullpenance starts going. Trev, you mentioned the kids and how they pimped him a little bit. Well, Corbyn Carroll, what I did tell you this year is when he hits it, It has some, like, mini show hey, like the ball comes off his bat differently. That was 444. So, yeah, a guy that's not necessarily the biggest emotion guy, he lets it eat a little bit.

Ketel, he'd been around the block a few times. He caught on a line. He's going to enjoy it back to back. And then Moreno goes 425. So these aren't, you know, these are big flies. So them enjoying that. And I don't know, all the at-bats today had a little bit of the fuck you in him of like, we're not supposed to win this game, right?

Because that's what we all said. You know, we got the rookie on the mound. Everyone else is lined up. If we lose this game, whatever. Christian Walker's at bats tonight, he was locked in. His foul balls were scarier than the balls he hit. And then our guy Longo, man.

I mean, we're talking about plays of the day. I mentioned the one that went under the Twins' Third Baseman's Club, Polanco. So Evan Longoria at third base tonight, the turn double play, the snare double play, and then chopper in the middle of the infield loses it. And who knows what goes on in October and where skill and luck and everything lines up. But he ends up losing the ball, ends up back in his hand, Yelly with an aggressive round on second.

I'm with Jim. I think he saw an infielder lose the ball and said, let me get a little aggressive if it kicks away. I've got third and said he's in no man's land and changed a lot of the momentum of this game that Milwaukee was still there at the end. Devin Williams throws a wipeout change up instead of a fastball to Walker. Maybe we're talking about 4-3 and someone gets on and you figure out we're not. Snakes came in, they get the win and they're lined up and they're feeling good, man.

Walker had the hardest hit ball of any of the four games. What was it? 115 off the bat or something like that thing. I think it was a laser. When it mattered. Long ago, oh man. I mean, it was a treat to watch and play. And that's kind of like, you know, why I like him, like a good person.

But he's been playing defense like that his whole career. Like his whole career. And he's still going and like still moving around. And it's, you know, get to his age and my age. He's only like six months older than me, which is always freaks me out. get to our age and I mean I can't imagine doing the shit that he's doing right now

and I try to keep myself and get to shape he's uh he looks as spry as ever out there and game changing plays I'm looking at MLB.com they have the win probability in that

bottom of the fifth you know bass is loaded full count one out he snags that ball that line drive by Taylor minus 22.3% for Milwaukee's win probability right there on one play.

He went out and freaking did it, man. It's awesome. But they had 16 runners. The Brewers had 16 base runners. Yeah. There were 13 balls in this game hit over 100 miles per hour on the exit velocity. How many of those 13 do you think

came off of D-BACs bats? 11. 10. Traps right. 10. Jake's wrong. I check the time. Hard wrong on Jake.

came out before. No, they said it on the broadcast. That's why I knew. Yeah, you're wrong. You blew it. Yeah. Josh Donaldson had two, two of the three for the

for the brewers. Both singles at the middle. Nice at bats for him. Good job. Wilson Contreras deserves some love. He had two hits today. He threw out two base runners. You know, we...

And he looked at him like, are you guys dumb? Like, yeah. Oh. Sounds like he heard everyone saying Morano. the nasty catcher that throws everyone out. Didn't know a bunch of dumb guys came to town. That's the look he had on his face.

He's also mad about the MLB's top 50 players. So he just was like, here you go. But this was the best baseball. I mean, there was hard hit balls. There was really good defense. There was base running, even if they got thrown out, like exciting to watch. The only thing that was bad about was how long it took because there were so many pitching changes.

But it was good. And now it's the, I don't know if they've announced pitchers yet, but this was kind of the situation, you know, with Woodruff out, you were probably going to throw Miley tomorrow if you win this game, but the Brewers lose it. Now I think they have to throw Peralta, right? It's listed as, it's listed as Gallen Peralta, and I think it's got to be Peralta.

Yep. D-Back's in a nice spot. Like we said, Trev, you said, whoever wins game one of the series, you had them winning and you would take that to your grave. I don't have a grave yet. Oh, we have a friend. I do, I do want to, one day I want to sit down and plot out a nice little piece of land to get better. We have a buddy who's got his already bought and plotted.

I would do that. I would do that. And I want a, I want a house. I don't want to even talk about it any longer. But a house, no, you don't want a house like double jeopardy. It's like a mausoleum. Is that what they call it?

Yeah. Places with flooding do that a lot. We're looking, you know, part of the recipe to win a world series besides winning 54% of your games is you have to have some breakout stars in the bullpen. You mentioned Ginkle, I'll double down. The 4Ks, how emphatic he was. Well, they weren't even close to hitting him. 176 ERA plus a 098 whip this year.

Like this guy is a guy, and if he's peaking at the right time and the snakes run continues, you need that. So they peeking at the right time again. Peaking duck. Do they have signs in Arizona for this guy? Like, you know, feeling ginky? We had some funky conversations. Gink fast.

Gink or dink? Different levels of gink today. Well, it's kind of like a when your kink is having a gimp. Hmm. Joe said he was a good big gink guy. Interesting. Brewer's 12 hits. Yeah.

All right. And the last game of the night, the Philly. beat the Marlins. Cool. We'll be back tomorrow. We'll see it. To recap the next games. Fingerprints. Oh, fingerprints. Yeah. Okay. We'll talk about it longer than that. Fine. How's your mode of transportation for the NL East

rivals? It's wheels up for Philly as they defend their NL Pennant while Miami drove up in their Lamborghini Lazzardo. Smack that. foam double smack that Stott single smack that Pache wants some more three nothing fish shows some fight on a de la Cruz infield single but it's a fish fry in philly wheeler alvarado hoffman kimbril fightens win for one final nice job jay i didn't know where you're going with it but you nailed it acons ended up back in my gym mix and the results are paying off in dividends The Phillies with 11 hits.

Every Philly had a, every Philly that started the game had a hit. Only one walk because they were hitting. Zach Wheeler, 6.2 innings, five hits, one run, eight strikeouts, 100 pitches thrown. Alvarado comes in, pitches over the course of two innings for one total inning. he gets the job done. Then they went to Hoffman for one to finish one of those Alvarado things. And then Kimbril comes in, intentionally boxed the runner-third, says,

I don't care about you at all. You're just a dumb little fish. I'm just going to get the last out. Who Oscar Brazzobon pitched in this game. So a lot of people learned about him for the first time. And Bertie had a nice play at shortstop. The Marlins were in this game, but they were never in this game. Like they didn't play bad like the Rays did where you're like,

yo geez raise get yourself together they played their game and they were like per the score and some innings in it but they were never in this game if they were to put runs on the board the Phillies were just going to throw more on the board afterwards you're like okay fine

we need two more to beat you we'll do it that's how I feel about it this one had the same kind of situation that the when Tony Beasley didn't send Jonah Haim, same situation in the first inning there with the Alec Bohm like sack fly ball to right field.

They don't send Schwerber. They don't score and I was like, dang, man, like what? Some people I knew had bet that there would be a run scored in the first inning. Oh, I didn't see that on the street. I'm sorry about that, man. That was...

It was a tough... I don't know what's going on around the league. If we're just not being aggressive on the base pass, that's what you talk about every spring training. We're going to be a great... aggressive on the base pass. Runs are at a premium in the playoffs. Let's do it.

And then we have a couple instances where, like, we just weren't aggressive on the base pass. But Bome's like, you know what? I'm just going to do it again. I'm going to drive him in this time with no sack fly. I'm kind of happy it was like those guys to do it because Stott has been so good all year long. I'm glad that he got a knock.

And Bome, like his story in Philadelphia is awesome. He actually played really nice defensively in this game as well. Harper kind of out of. position a few different times but oh the fat guy ship got him like a burger yeah do you see that with the toronto game well yeah you watch that one twins game with kirk i mean they played him like so rudely so far over so far over because he's slow and that's what harper was doing with burger he's so far over on that play that he's like i think i can get this it's he's got no business diving for

that ball as you just head to the bag but because he's already shifting so much because you got a heavier batter up he goes for it and then it ends up actually that's really on wheeler that one though because he didn't he didn't break over there yeah but no one really did they're playing so far away and wheeler thinks he's got time and then the ball found like a perfect little hole I was gonna say oh going back Vladdy didn't move very like none of the first baseman really played a nice first base or at least you didn't like when Vladdy scooped that ball up and then sprinted like you as you saying bolt there was a couple of balls that he just like didn't even like really move for you better be careful trev because i still have people in my

twitter comments i know well i'm just didn't if they watched the game they know exactly what i'm talking they don't they think he's really good at first base because he won a faulty cold glove that's all i really got on this one wheeler shoved yeah and i'm like the recipe there i'm with jim uh this is i don't want to say this is worst case for the marlins but philly was in control everyone on the team got a hit Wheeler was gross. And, you know, that 6.2 earn run is a Jakeberger infield single that if Bryce Harper isn't there, I think a lot of first baseman might just cover first and let the second baseman make the play.

I don't know. Even the play after that, boom knocks down, but he can't make the throw that we're, you're at seven shutout. Alvarado and Kimbril come in. They look like Alvarado and Kimbril to the umpteenth degree. It's as dominant as it is weird sometimes. that yeah Marlins actually had a really nice play

the rundown at home the throwout at home plate that was really nice like the Marlins played good but the Phillies a better team so that's where it's a little even worse case because it's not like a shit we didn't give them our best game we made a lot of mistakes like

I don't know if you did a Rizk has a pretty big limp going right now like this you don't want to do I know part of this stuff kind of stinks but like the city of Philly was easily the best stadium tonight. Like, they look like they're ready to run back.

Twins was pretty cool. It just wasn't nighttime. Twins was good. It was during the day. Like, it's an unfair fight. It was loud there. It's impossible. It was a lot.

You and me 10 years ago going to talk to girls at the bar. I'm the Twins day game. You're the Philly Night game. Oh, the Rays set a record for lowest attendance ever for a playoff game since 1902. That's insane. Like watching that game and seeing empty seats was a Joe. You know why?

Well, I got some guesses, but if we wanted to another show. You could bet on it. It's 3 p.m. Tampa time. 3 p.m. Tampa time at a place, St. Pete time. A shitty stadium that you got a call out of work,

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eligibility and deposit restrictions apply. Out of the four series that are going on right now, which ones have the, or how many do you think, go to a game three? You have two home team wins and two road team wins, so you could just play it safe and say two. I think the Phillies are going to win tomorrow. I do believe that.

I think we all kind of said this on the last talking baseball preview up of what we thought this year's going to go. So I might be different from that, but I think the Phillies are going to win. Yep. I think the twins are going to win. I think Sunny Gray is going to go out there and dominate. I really do. Both home teams, which I think is fair there. And then it wouldn't surprise me to see the Ray's come back and just play better and maybe sneak one out there.

So I'll say game three for the raised Rangers And then What's the other series? Gowan versus Brooke Oh I think it's just one I think I think Last year's only long

They're going to sweep Gallons You guys know I mean he's a badass Oh we know Yeah He's that guy The Brewers did get on base a lot And they did they did

Against the bullpen game and fought Yeah no they played good baseball but I know. But I think the Brewers could figure it out how to scratch one out. The safe guess would be too. And they're the home team. But I don't think more than two.

I think three's in play. I think Miami's done. I think the other three, there's an argument there. Brewers weren't far off. Rays looked the worst out of anyone. Rays looked easily the worst. Here's a thing. MLB teams get all the gate

once it goes past the minimum number of games. So they're going to want, maybe they're going to call in some favors and get a couple game threes here just to start things off real nice. MLB gets all the money? So the first, okay, so in the three game series,

the first two games, they split with the players, whatever the split is. And then once it goes to the third game, or like the if necessary games, they keep everything. Why? That's just how the,

CBA is set up. So like they want like world series five, six and seven is so important. Can we get the players some different representation? That's crazy. Seven game series is the same way. They'll get four. So the players will be the minimum.

Yeah. Four games that the four games. What? And that's the that's the gate split and something else. It's almost guaranteed you get five games in a seven game set. Like the heavy money is there. You guys couldn't even win that one? Everything's fine right now, okay?

I don't know. Let's end the show and let's get to tomorrow. Come on. Let's get the player some money. Shop.com. Check all of our N.OBPA. NLbPA licensed. All right. And congrats to Josh Bell.

He crashes the Phillies in the postseason year after year. All right. See you guys later. Goodbye. Garrett Nola, strap in. dinkle? Oh, you know. Ginkle my dinkle.

Chicks. I gotta pack up. Love you, see you. Later. See tomorrow, James. Subscribe if you're new. And you listen this far.

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