Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast) - Twins Tie It Up & Rangers Take COMMANDING Lead | 726

Episode Date: October 9, 2023

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Story Ellie, Orioles. Download the app, Code John Boy Postseason, 10% off. Click the link. Trev Plouf out in Calabasi. It's Sunday. You've had a day.

We've all had a day. How you doing, Big Dog? Big Sports Day over here. Big Sports Day. Two playoff games, a Rams game. Kind of did it all day. I've had a great one. I'm excited to talk ball with you guys, though.

You had a big weekend. I don't think the Orioles are bad. I think Texas is just kidding hot at the right time. Holy Snikes. No, no, it's been a good week for me, a good week for baseball, everything. I thought the games were great today, both of them, to be honest with you.

Yeah, I mean, obviously, you know, at one point I think it's 9-3 in that birds game, so they show some fight and you start doing all the, you know, Hopefully things matter later. The Henderson Homer Hicks puts up a big day after we come to find out. He might have been the guy that left Gunner out to dry in that first game. But yeah, I don't know. You know, there's been a lot of chatter here and just within the office recently.

Like five games for these Ds, I don't know. With the current wild card, we're going to have to deal with that in the off season. And maybe we'll talk to our guy, Raul, and Morgan's sword, our rules experts. That was an electric episode last year. But this is what we've got. And Texas goes up to, whoa, Minnesota. How about it, Trev?

I mean, we might as well get into it, right? That's why we're here. Please burn, baby, burn. I can't wait to dive in. The Orioles would need some performance enhancers with Greyrod taking the mound against the Tejas Rangers and Jordan Belfort Montgomery would hope to be the wolf of Camden

and walk away with two Rangers road wins in Baltimore. Bottom one, this hicks, this hicks, unstoppable. Two RBI. Let's go, birds only problem. Texas would put up the next nine. How are your catchers and outfielders? Tavares and Garcia RBI hits. Heim and how about Trev, your fingerprints all over this series?

Mitch Garver with the Grand Salami. It's 9 to 2, Texas. Hey, the birds fought after that. We saw Mateo have a big day at the dish. Mount Castle Henderson, Hicks with the three-run yacker in the ninth. But it is not enough. The Texas Rangers hold on. They win 11 to 8.

Monty to Bradford for 3.2. Spores, Burke, and LeClerc rings. Texas is going back home with a two to nothing lead over the Baltimore Orioles. I missed the first part. You went over my head. You said gray rod needed performance enhancers. That was awesome. I missed it.

I knew you'd like that. I know you like when I twist the knife with our guy who did cheat the game. A little bit, a little bit. Well, bit you did. People say I'm too positive on this show. There's some people I'm not positive about. Yeah. You got to, you know what?

It takes very little to be on your mess side. It takes a lot to be on your not-like side. And for those people, you give it over there. But that's not what this is about, Trev, because this is about your former organization, the Texas Rangers, taking a 2-0 lead. And I, I guess the only thing,

LT up for you and this is more series-wise than individual game. I've hinted at it a couple times. I've said it that like Texas has been given me a little bit of AL-Philly vibes. I said it with every Philly series last year and I ended up being the Antonio Bandaris gift where he's got the coffee and he's leaning back laughing. That the Phillies last year in almost every matchup, they were, there was better defense, there was better bullpens, there's better base running, but they mashed.

And that's what the Texas Rangers are doing. They put up nine in the first three innings. Trev, you win a lot of games that way. Look, this team, when it gets right, is perfect for the postseason because of what they've shown during the regular season we've talked about before. They're streaky.

They're able to run off long streaks, long win streaks. They're also able to put 11 spots. on the board. They're able to do all these things that mask some of their faults, like the bullpen. Shout out to our guy Bradford that came in today for the Rangers,

goes three and two-thirds, three-heads, four-cases, no runs, no walks. In a game where they're going to have to navigate five innings with their bullpen, with the Texas Rangers bullpen, that everybody knows the statistics,

how bad they were. He comes, he takes three of them on his own. This is to be three and two-thirds. of them on his own. That's nice Homer, Mitch Garver. Nice five spot in the second. That's probably one of the biggest things of the series, if not, of the game, if not the whole series right there,

what Bradford did. I mean, we've talked so much about this Rangers bullpen during the year. We've talked about it as a potential Achilles heel coming in the playoffs. We've done the whole dance with like, hey, you know, we've seen teams survive it. And yeah, that Bradford effort, man, especially with where the game ends up, Trevor. I mean, it ends up being a three-run game. You know, you get the Hicks Homer late.

The birds fight a little bit. Yeah, if that 3.2 goes the way it did for the rest of the bullpen, we could be talking about the crazy playoff game that this postseason has been looking for. But Bradford, you know, Monty's final line, four innings, four earned nine hits. Like if you told Baltimore fans that before the game, I think they'd be fist pumping. But if you told them about Bradford's 3.2 shuddy, the lefty, 25-year-old Cody Bradford,

he deserves to have his whole name shout out, 51 pitches out of the pen. And it's monumental for this game and potentially and probably at this point, the series. You go up to no-0 and you're going or 2-0 and you're going back home. They're going to win this series. statistically speaking. I mean, I don't know what it is. I actually heard it shout it out on some broadcast. It's very difficult to lose when you go up 2-0 in a 5-game set

and you're playing the next 2 at home. So the Rangers are obviously in the driver's seat. They got to Grayson Rodriguez, who we were looking at his pitches. There's 75% four-seemers on the season. Jake he's right at 50% with that. So I don't know if that was a game plan thing. I don't know if he had no feel for anything else.

But I don't think just, Steve, check if you can get some team statistics on fastballs. I don't think that's a weakness of the Rangers. I think that was more of a feel thing for him. And if you're going to go attack them like that, you're going to have some big swings and big endings like that. And I guess no other swing was as big as my guy, Mitch Garver, who, how many homers were there in the field?

I think there's only 30 homers total hit in left field at Camden Yards all year long. He had a no doubter. Ain't no doubt in that one. And the beautiful facility that is Camden Yards, you know, having a couple moments and even in that ninth inning, and I've always wondered for Orioles fans,

you know, this fence goes up and it also kind of comes with the new wave of Baltimore, right? Like Adley gets called up last year. We're starting to win a lot of games. This year is amazing. 100-win team, Baltimore Orial team. Like, you're probably a big fan of that wall, right? I'm assuming right now I'm not a birds fan.

In that ninth inning, Aaron Hicks goes yard. Three-run homer. Okay, there's one out. We have a sliver of hope to potentially rock this series and save our season and all of that. The next batter, it goes 3-0 to O'Hern, takes a fastball. 3-1. he drives one opposite field big lefties been so good for him this year at a lot of ballparks that would have

been back to back homers the place would be going bananas instead it's a fly ball out evan carter learning the outfield on the fly just did everything he could to make sure it ended up in his mitt and uh so i don't know like i i remember when that wall first came out we were pretty hissy at it I doubt from these two games. That's Baltimore or Orioles fans' takeaways. I guess as a sidebar, I'm just curious, like, where Orioles fans are with it, because it makes it a different game.

And that's why, you know, for all the talk about, we've joked about Baltimore bringing in starting pitching, and maybe they will in future years and all that. I think the reason they saw Heaney in game one was because he was lefty. I think it was the reason Bochie was excited to go to Monty in game two, because not only did that affect Baltimore's line, but it affects the game.

33 homers over the left field wallet Camden yards this year. 33. By far the fewest in the big least in the left field section of a field.

Mitch Garber had no problem with it though. Just to go no doubter on us. A couple of plays that we could talk about. This is kind of like silly hindsight.

top, but that's kind of what we do here. It ends up 11 to 8. You have the Grace of Nardriguez, Mitch Garber again, swinging bunt, weird kind of cue ball, takes them into foul territory, he has no lane to throw it up her face, kind of lollipops it over because he doesn't want to like, you know, make a throwing air and make things even worse.

But, you know, that's a play that needs to be made. Now, how could it have been made? A couple things. I think Mount Castle at that point, You know, when you get a ball that's bunted, like in that area or up the third base line in, you change your feet. Now, your left foot is now on the base and you kind of square up to the play. Every other time when it's just a ground ball to third base, grab ball to a short side,

second base, your right foot is on the base, and you're going out stretching. Those balls, you square up. So you put your left foot on the base and you square up to the play. He did that, and he played a phenomenal game over the base. there. I'm not like trying to take away from him. We're just going over baseball plays here, people. When you see your guy have to bust it into foul territory, you've got to go on the other side of the base and try to give him a lane to throw. If he did that, the ball is so much faster than the runner. You only need a split second. You need to get over there and let him just hammer the ball

to you. That's now, that's one run. Now it's 10 to 8. Mateo in the ninth inning, simeon ground ball, infield in. Have to play at home. bottles it, takes that out at first instead of getting the run at home. That's another run. Now we're looking at 9 to 8. It's a completely different feeling. You don't need a bloop in a blast or two bloops in a blast. You just need a blast.

Against a bullpendant struggles. So like, you know, you go back to all these different things. But in the end, it's just like, you know, don't give up 11 runs, I guess. Yeah, I mean, it's tough. At the end of the day, I mean, Grayson's line 1.25 earned. and you want to see duality of man. I mean, him getting the punch out in the first inning, and he's all sorts of hyped up.

And then in the second inning after the lollipop throw, looking around, like, where am I right now? Like, the game starts moving quick. Man. And these two offenses, and I'm, it's not over for Baltimore. I want that out there. It's obviously a big hill to climb in this Texas team. looks diffy and honest mount Everest bro not a hill you want to you want to talk about what scares me

the most uh trav on you know machissimo something this show is number one in the world in five walks to seeger yeah like that's i mean good for good for him i don't love that man like if i'm going to lose a playoff game 118 and i walk your best hitter five times that doesn't feel right to me um unfortunately for us, Robbie Grosson was taken out of the three hole and they had put Mitch Garver in there who goes two for six

with five RBI. I mean, that probably had something to do with it a little bit. You know, it's like, hey, let's let's not let this guy beat us. Let's let Mitch Garver do his thing. He ended up doing his thing. Right.

You got to give credit to Mitch Garver. But I don't, I don't hate not letting, I wish the twins would walk Jordan Alvarez every single ever. I really do. It's a bad man. But yeah, I mean, I think that's more of a tip of the cat to Corey Seeger right there. Yeah, but if you're tipping the cap and you're getting beat, it's just like, all right. Man, so I don't know. The Rangers lineup, Lioti Tavares scores three runs. There's your nine-hole hitter.

Carter actually doesn't get slid up. Yeah, he stays in that five spot, but his postseason still looks good. And like we said, Corey Bradford, I mean, 3.2 winnings, 51 bullets out of the pen. And yeah, if his line, and we said this about the first game too, Trev, and I guess I'm putting that in now a more hope bucket, if Cory, or if Bradford's line,

Cody Bradford's line says 3.2, 1 earned, or 3.2 earned, and those couple plays Baltimore did not make the Mateo play. This game is there. This game is there. And that's what we're saying about the first game where they had a couple opportunities. Texas makes the double play.

Heim throws out Gunner, which we come to find out in the presser this morning, that it was Hixie, mid-season acquisition, that missed the sign, who ends up having a massive day today. I don't know. Texas's lineup looks phenomenal. Top to bottom, there's no easy outs.

It's a daunting task, and I don't know if it's time to segue out. I guess what else do you have from this game? Everyone says good pitching will beat good hitting except when you have a lineup full of guys that are on. The relentlessness of that. If you have a team that's kind of firing, you know that, okay, like, I got this guy, but then who's coming up?

Oh, and then who's coming up? Oh, it's when you have as a pitcher, and Lord knows I wasn't one, thank goodness. Gosh, that would be horrible if I was a pitcher. When you have to go through a lineup like this, and there's just no, you said, just right there, there's no easy out, so there's no just, I can count on this guy being an out. when the Rangers are feeling this good, just makes it really, really difficult. So you said Baltimore is not done,

but it's going to be daunting. Because this Texas Rangers team is going to score runs. At home, they're going to be energized. The crowd's going to be nuts. I mean, they are, they're surprising a lot of people, I think. Yeah, I mean, it's kind of, I don't want to keep comparing them to the Phillies

because they're their own team and the Phillies are still doing their own thing. But this team will just mall you to do it. This is an 11 spot. They gave up 8. You know, it's not necessarily pretty. But 11 will get it done a lot of the time. And if you are the Baltimore Orioles, Cedric Mullins, 0 for 5.

He's got a big O-4th Street going. Any of his last splits you bring up are tough. They face the two lefties to start this series. They'll be running into a Valdi at home, which, I mean, bless your heart with that. Texas boy in Texas, a guy who's got his playoff scars. It's an extremely daunting task. I guess what I'll say is Baltimore could have won the first game. I don't know if you can say Baltimore could have won this game.

Like Texas did their thing. they ended up making it half closer than it felt. If you win game three, the pressure does flip. Because if you're playing that fourth game in Texas, yes, dude, if you're playing that fourth, if you're playing that fourth game. You win two games in Texas to pressure flip, sure. No, if you're playing that fourth game in Texas

and they know if they don't win this game, you have to go back to Baltimore. Were they just won two games? Not saying it's a house of horror, but the fact that you're kind of letting them off the rope. Like. Disagree. I think that the Rangers are very, very confident,

and I don't think if they lose game three, they're going to feel the exact same way about game four. They got to win one out of the next three games. That's a great feeling to have. Eovaldi on the mound, going up because Dean Kramer, like, they're hot, Bob, they're hot. What are you going to say?

I guess any Baltimore, like, are you pointing to youth or anything? Is this, should we be giving more love to Texas or should we be giving Baltimore a little more of a like? Well, look, I mean, I think the Dodgers are probably

going to be in the same situation tomorrow. You're relying on a young pitcher, a rookie, to kind of like get you back. into a playoff series, that's all difficult. No matter how good a guy has looked during the regular season, these are young men who, you know, look, I haven't been in the postseason, and it can get, the adrenaline can be kicking,

and things can feel a little bit different. I mean, we're going to get to the Twins game, but their veterans showed up today. Carlos Correa, who I think is third now in postseason RBS and postseason history. Like, he showed up because he's been there. It's not, it doesn't, affect guys that have been there so often like it does the young guys. So I'm not saying it's all

like that, but you can bet that, yeah, postseason's a different animal. Yeah, I'm, I'm excited to see a little captain obvious here, but how the Orioles come out in Texas. Are we going to see them, you know, kind of remember your zombie mariners, like, hey, dead man walking, like let's play with our hair on fire. We put ourselves in as tough a position we have, like, screw it. Let's go mess around and go nuts. Or are we going to see them? Like, you know, if Texas, if those bats start going, I mean, that's going to be a little bit of. If you, if you score, let the Rangers score first and Yovaldi starts to settle in, then it's good night. So you got to get out there and try to, you know, puts some runs across early. Why does everyone say play with your hair on fire? Brandon Hyde

actually said that after the game today. Why? Um, you know, there's got to be an origin to that, right? Yeah, I don't know. It's got to be an old, like, battle thing or something. You wouldn't play well if your hair was on fire, I don't think. You'd play out of control. Yeah, I don't know. Sounds like not a great saying.

Yeah, that sounds awful. Yeah. Hair on fire. It's just people that do those, like, shots where you light the top of them and they catch their face on fire. Never understood, though. Don't think you'd be playing baseball if that happened. We don't need fire and booze. I've done that before.

Flaming Dr. Pepper? I mean, I've obviously done it, but like... They're delicious. That's how they get you. And Trev, that was the hello fresh game of the day. It's been a crazy schedule this postseason. And man, a crazy schedule can make it easy to fall back into your dinner time recipe rut. you know you only got one or two things up your sleeve you end up falling into it you end up having

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the description. Anything you want to close off with Texas Baltimore, Trump? Did Beaver's ever find out the Rangers against fastball statistics? I did not find anything there. That's a stat I'm not great at finding. Team stuff against specific pitches. Let us know.

Hair on fire. Hair on fire. It looks like, it originates from like a Navy phrase. We have that. around the turn of the century. I think that got popular. Let's move on, I think, from that one. Okay.

Let's play excited. Orioles, let's go. Orioles, let's go. Yeah, I want to see it. I would love to see them make it. Hey. Get it back to Baltimore. Give me a percentage.

Give me a percentage. I'm so bad at percentages. Chris Rose asks me that all the time. and I say one of that I think is like right and people are like what though you've had a couple disasters on this show you you said the like like when the Padre's top four

we're gonna homer every time like sometimes the numbers get a little jumbled up there I get a little little wild percentage that they're gonna bring it back to Baltimore very little I don't know five or is that too much okay no I don't know I think that's in the realm

like more than more than 10 probably would have been like irresponsible I'll go Unless you like full believe in them. If Baltimore wins game three, I have it going back to Baltimore. Like if they get the first one in Texas, I'm getting both. Okay. I mean, dude, I'm not rooting against Baltimore.

I'm not rooting for Texas. I just, you lose two games at home and you're going into the Lions demo. Nathaniel Valdi on the mound, the offense that's hot. I don't know, man. It's a daunting task. You better let your hair on fire. Yeah. That's all we do with this on this show.

Freak. Should we talk about America's team? Please. Minnesota would need their new ace Pablo Sanchez Lopez to become a backyard baseball legend. Meanwhile, there'd be a Framber alert in Houston as they're searching for their 2023 trip to the ALCS. as Carlos strikes one to the Correa RBI double big for both sides that he does it. One nothing. Minnesota, the farmer in the dough, the farmer in the dough.

Hi-ho the Dario, the farmer hit the ball. Kyle Farmer, two-run Homer, Trev's Guy Guy, Guy. Correa again with the two RBI single and just like that. Woo-hoo. 5-0 Minnesota. Eduardo Giulienne with the RBI singer. It is 7-0 Minnesota. Jordan goes yard and that's obvious.

But that's it, Trev, because Pablo Lopez, seven innings, shut out to your guy, Brock Stewart. And then Duran, Duran, the Minnesota Twins. Take game two. in Houston. Trevor, talk to me. You got to, like, I know that I'm supposed to be objective on this show,

but you got to let me, like, have this a little bit, man. I saw something today that really made me upset. The guys from barbecue baseball, I'm messing that up. You guys know what I'm talking about. They wrote an article about the twins and how, like, they led the league in strikeouts this year. and their ranks from like 2011, 2011, 2017,

which is exactly when I was on the Twins. It was all 30th in the big league. So excuse me if I'm fired up for my boys because they got a guy like Pablo Lopez on the mound, shoving and doing it and not even tiring out, throwing over 100 pitches against an Astros offense that scares every single. pitcher in the big leagues.

Every single one is terrified of the Houston Astros, especially down in Houston. I don't care what their home record was this year. Don't put that in the comments. They are terrifying. And Pablo Lopez went in

there and did his thing. Top of the zone four seam. Slider down in the zone. Hammering the freaking off speed when he needed it. It was about as good of a pitching performance as you could ask for, and the twins needed. They got a great bullpen, a great bullpen.

But you got to, you've got to have an effort like this from your ace every once in a while, especially against the Astros. He did it. It was incredible. He kept your dawn at bay, which is wild to me that we even pitched to him. But I think he struck out twice against Lopez, if I'm not mistaken. Got nasty on him, too. So to me, the story of the game is Lopez.

and shout out my boy Farmer and shout out, I mean, Correa had an unbelievable at bat there against Framber. An unbelievable, he ended his night with that single up the middle. But this was about Lopez, man. And it really, I actually put this tweet out. It was the veterans with the twins. Guys that have been there and done that, Carlos Correa, like I mentioned earlier in the show,

I think he's third now time, all-time postseason RBI behind Bernie Williams and who? Somebody. Somebody really good. Bernie Williams twice. Maybe. It was answering, bounce back performance for twins that they desperately needed.

And I mean, you talk about momentum shifting. Now they go home to Minnesota, where we saw that crowd show up in the wildcard. They get to go home. Now it's a three games set, best of three, and you get the first two at home. and you got Sunny Gray on the freaking mound. Like it's a good day to be a Twins fan.

Nobody's over, like, I'm not like overly optimistic about anything because I know what these Astros can do. But the boys showed up today, man. Like they showed a lot of fight. There's a bunch of different things. I definitely like want to hear what you say about it. And then I kind of want to get more into the degree of the game. But sheesh.

I was excited today. Had to win this game. I mean, no middle. area. Whatever percentage I would give on Baltimore being able to bring it back to game five, I'm, you know, probably between 5, 10 percent. Like, you know, Texas looks great. If Minnesota lost this game to Houston, I would have been less than that. I would have been a two or a one. Like, and that's, that's less it, that's less at the good people of Minnesota. That's seeing what these guys have done. They've gone to the ALCS, the past,

six seasons. You've heard that a lot on this show for a reason. Pablo Lopez with a big boy start, and I, you know, this is a little bit of podcast, joky humor, but today they won the trade, man. I know it's going down as the most fair trade of all time, but when you have Eddie Julian, to come up and do what he's done, you needed this guy. You needed this guy during the ploof years. You needed this guy now. and I don't know how we're doing pitcher war Pablo Lopez 3.3, that's off. That's just off.

Second in the ailing strikeouts. I don't understand that either. Nobody does because it's all fake. And every team has their own and we can make up our own and get a front office job tomorrow if we want it. Here's my analytics. Pablo Lopez really good.

And he had a couple, how about this, Trev, we're athlete to athlete for a second. Yeah, let's do it. Pablo Lopez is a guy. Like he gets called up by the market. He's really good. He gets traded to Minnesota to kind of be more of the guy.

He is the guy. Everyone that talks about him is, he says he's this world-class human. I think he's like, aren't both his parents' doctors and like every team he's buying? Very smart. Isn't his nickname like the professor or something like that? Like he's got some shit like that. Like you said with Houston, I don't want to say all that goes out the window with Houston. But I don't know, man.

You step up in Houston, the team that has all those bad guys. Al Tuvae. I dare you to put that first pitch over the plate. Yordon, Bregman, the whole lineup. Like, you saw it in his fist pump. He struck out Yordaun in the sixth inning, and it was a nasty changeup, man. It was, he went first pitch curveball, all fast balls, three two count, nasty, perfect changeup away. And he gave himself a little fist pump. Like, yeah, I am that guy. And then he turned back to the catcher and gave him the love because he was like, that was a great pitch call. Confidence is a very real thing. You talk about it with players, whether it's getting the bag or getting married or having a kid and stuff like that. I do think that stuff matters.

Like I might be buying Pablo Lopez-Sai Youngstock next year because I think the confidence meter just went to a new level. And if this series goes five, he's going to be ready, which that's an interesting dynamic. And Trevor, this got brought up by Fayout, all-J-M team, Fayow. He was like, hey, next game is Sunny Gray at home. The twins are going to be favorites. Javier has not been the Christian Javier. He was last year.

Like, Minnesota has now, they did their job. They took one in Houston. You hear that basketball, baseball, whatever it is. And I guess the only other thing I'd say, I mean, dude, Correa, obviously being Correa, and the fact that he comes from that team and the personality he is, that's a layer, a bubble layer over this.

And your guy, Kyle Farmer, who you've been on all year, lefty platoon dude, first pitch heater, makes it three nothing that when Pablo Lopez is throwing the way he's throwing, that's how you win game too. Yeah, I mean,

it's an incredible swing by Kyle there against, you know, I mean, Framber is just, you let him settle in and bad things happen. to usually. Kyle didn't let him settle in. And then yes, Correa, to me, Correa, and I've talked about this on the show. It's like he's been such a positive

influence on that clubhouse and especially when you get into the playoffs like this. I mean, the guy, how many times we got to talk about it, his playoff prowess? He's been there, done that. He can explain to guys how to prepare. What's different? What do you have to do to be successful? How do you lower your heart rate? How do you take deep breaths in these moments? How do you

not get thrown at the games when you're mad at the empire? Because Carlos is mad at the umpire tonight. but his abat against Framber there. Framber just continuously going at sinker down, sinker down, sinker down. It is not easy to lift that pitch. Okay, and he'd a line drive with it, but that pitch was down in a way. A lot of people who don't have that ability to slow everything down and understand the situation will get too big on that pitch

or try to do something different with it and rolled over to the short stuff. And instead you have Carlos Correa who like, he's just stoic out there. He's a good ball player. He knows it. He works hard. So he's constant in his ability. A great at bad. He made some incredible plays there at the end.

Shout out not only to him in the ninth inning for making those plays, but Alex Kierloff at first base dancing around helping him out a lot. That was pretty special to see. I'll say this about the twins. They have been horrendous with runners and scoring position this entire post season. They've won three out of four games. I don't know. It's either got to turn around, and they're about to get scorching hot and hit a bunch,

or they're going to have to keep figuring out stuff like this and, you know, maybe hitting some homers. I'm confident in this team. I really am. Still scared of the Astros. I think that the Astros don't care that they lost this game, like, at all. They're going to go in there. They don't care that Sunny Gray is on the mound. They don't care whoever's on the mound.

They're a team that's just going to show up and handle their business. But the twins, I think, showed something tonight that I don't know, a lot of people thought they had in them. How about that? Yeah, I guess, yeah, it's a matter of phrasing there. I don't think anyone could say confidently that they thought the twins had them. I think we've- Pablo going seven against that team and then being able to get the big hit, make some big plays. I mean, I don't know.

It's just you spoke on it. Astros are a different. In the postseason, the Astros are top dog, bro. They are over any other team. The Braves, sorry, great. Great, regular season, Braves, nice World Series, Dodgers, whatever. It's the Astros in the playoffs. It is.

Since 2017, what, they've won two, they've won two, and they've been there, they've been in the ALCS every single time. Every year. Every year. Do you think we were talking about this on the live stream, and just a reminder on our Jam baseball channel, we're going live pretty much every night there's playoff baseball on. I think we're going at six tomorrow because everyone's jazzed up for Philly's Braves

that it's just like, well, screw it. You're a dog, bro. Let's just do it. Everyone's excited for that. We were talking about, do you think, top five, Framber clearly didn't have his A stuff. And who knows, again, twins were putting some good A-Bs together. And Framber, you also never know because, you know. he's also always one pitch away from a double play, it feels like,

and he even got a couple of those today. Top five, Framber, not with his A-Stuff. Michael A. Taylor, single. Donnie Barrell, single. Polanco, sack bunt, or he was trying to sneak bunt. He also had a very loud foul ball before that. Walks Royce Lewis on five pitches, and then Correa's coming up.

we were talking a little surprise the bullpen didn't come out earlier coming off a day where they didn't burn the bullpen and before an off day um and i don't know it that there's a little bit of dusty believing in framber valdez because why wouldn't you um but it also it's it felt it feels like the playoff intensity has turned up with bullpen moves and everything and i don't know that definitely felt like a moment that if you keep it at first you keep it at three in that ballpark, it's always going to feel on the table. And then you leave him in for Correa, two RBI single. That makes it five.

Yeah, I mean, that's definitely, I think Mayton was up and ready to come in the game. It's definitely something to talk about and kind of Monday morning quarterback, the situation, I guess. But Framber Valdez is your guy. It's your best pitcher on your team. Best pitcher on your team. and kind of like what does it tell him or what does it say to your team

if you're taking him out when, you know, it's the fifth inning and you got Carlos Correa up and you can get a double play and I don't know, I just think that Dusty trusted his guy at that time and Carlos made a great swing. I don't think I, sure,

you could have brought somebody in, sure, but I don't think there, I don't think that was a bad decision leaving Framber in there. I think that he got beat by Carlos and a lot of other times he wins that battle. So definitely going to be questioned,

but I don't have that big of a problem with it, I don't think. Okay. So I guess stuff was bad. I know the walk to Lewis, but that was kind of like he wasn't even trying. He had an open base. Yeah, I think at that point he's trying to set up the double play because Correa is a decent candidate for that.

You can't run. I mean, you saw him get thrown out in that inning. I said that the other day. day yelled at me. Frambers final wine, 4.1, 7 hits, three walks. I mean, that's, I think saying he didn't have his A stuff is fair, but I get it. I mean, he, you know, he, he, uh, he got a double play ball to pitch the batter before that. He had another double play ball that they couldn't turn. So like, he's, um, he's always, he's always available for that. Um, that was a really funny moment though because AJ Presensky was just

adamant that Jorge Polanco is never going to butt, that Rocco Bell didn't, never bun. And then it was not a sackbunt. Yes, he was trying to button for a base set right there. Although, on the replay, it looked like Bregman wasn't like back. He didn't like scoop back. He was even with the base it looked like. So it's kind of one

of those things as a hitter, you still move back and you're like, hey, man, I can get runners in scoring position here. And at the worst, at the worst, it's going to be a sack button. I move the runners. At the best, we're going to have a base is loaded Royce Lewis coming up who hits Grand Slams every time the bases are loaded. So I don't mind the play from Polanco.

I thought that was really funny, though, that AJ got like that. And then also, I want to make this point real quick before I forget. Adam Wainwright. I believe it was Montero goes up and in on Jeffers and nails him. First pitch, maybe. He goes, you know, as a pitcher, sometimes with that base open, you want to go in. You just know you don't want to miss over the plate. If you hit him, it's fine.

And you know what? I've been telling people that pitchers don't care about hitters health and safety. And Adam Wayne Wright on national TV just said that. I mean, it's confirmed. I actually think Wayno's... He's good. He'll be really good. He needs some reps, but I heard that way now.

And as the protector of hitters on X and in the broadcast booth, that's not going to slide by me, bro. Yeah, Waynos. Wayno's 86, a little tougher than Montero's 96, up by your wrists. I want to hit a Houston thing while complimenting Pablo a little bit again. One, Yordaun Alvarez, historic. And I know we try to, on a night the ball wasn't traveling. Roof open at Minute Made.

Big decision. Ball wasn't traveling as much. Yordon finds away opposite field. Brock Stewart, who is a filth master. 0.65 ERA during the regular season. No problem here, champ. Yordaunza Sicko. Speaking of Sickos, here we are.

Game two. Houston Astros. Minnesota gets their one on the board in the first. Carlos Correa, hell yeah. Go Twins, go. All right, Pablo, go get these guys. It's going to be tough, man. You know, just don't give up a home run to Altuve.

The perfect bunt. The perfect bunt. That, Trev, I talked about this with believing in games having different paths. You know, we talked about the James Outman ball that hit his glove. If Pablo doesn't turn the screws on that inning, this game goes completely different because that's, that's Houston, man. That's Altovae saying, you're going to give me a free base. I'll take that.

Strikes out, Bregman, gets Yordon to fly. out on a scary ball that it looked like he got all of it. He got a little jammed on. And then he gets Tucker that that felt like it changed the whole momentum of the game where it was a huge win for Houston like instant base runner. Hello, we're here to stranded him. And you actually didn't have Al Tuvae swinging for the fence. I'm actually glad you brought that up because I'd forgotten about that. Al Tuve is a ball player. In like the nice, nicest most impactful way you can say that word. He's just the ball player.

I mean, I've played many games at third base with him hitting. And if you move down the line, he's going to hit one in the hole. If you move over to the hole, he's going to hit one down the line. If you move back, he's going to bun on you. If you move up, he's going to hit a double by you. It is very difficult to defend Jose Altuve. And I'm serious about that. I'm not just like making this shit up.

Like he really has that wizardry, you know, where he can kind of direct the ball where he wants to go. Not many people can do that. Jose Al-Tube can do that. And the fact that he goes, yeah, yeah, first pitch against Bailey Ober. I believe Pablo threw him a change up first pitch, just so he was like, I'm not going to do that again. And then sees Farmer back there and says, you know what? Instead of the Homer, I'll just bun and get on for my MVP teammates behind me. And he can really do it all, man.

I love, love watching Jose Al-Tube play baseball. And just a reminder, like, Jose Al-Tube, 33 this year, 32 last year, the last 231 regular season games, he's also done a lot of good stuff in the postseason. 304, 390 on base, a 9-1-8 OPS. Like, he's still in his prime. He's outdoing his career numbers.

Some of those are cooked from some early years where he was figuring out. but like what he's doing is insane. Insane. Does he be a Hall of Fame? I think, well, we don't know what other tricks, Manfred's going to pull out on...

What does that mean? Like, their punishment. Like, he's already come out and said he wished he punished Houston differently. Like, you know... He did... I'll tell you if I didn't do it, though. Let's table all of that for the offseason.

But, like, I don't know. Everything else aside from what I've seen this guy do on a baseball field in his career, I'm not necessarily the smallest tall guy. I think Jose Altovae should be a Hall of Famer. Let's see what he does with the rest of his career. I just read some stuff, just real quick, because I want to give him a shout. Eight-time All-Stars, got an MVP in the bag.

I understand that you might feel differently about that. Anyways, MVP in the bag, eight-time All-Star, two World Series, six Silver Sluggers, a gold glove, I've won the batting title three times, two-time majorly player of the year, ALCS MVP. He's got over 2,000 career hits. He's got a 49.3 career war. He's got 209 homers,

293 stolen bases. This guy's a Hall of Fame, bro. I'm sorry. If that's not a Hall of Fame, I don't know what the fuck a Hall of Famer is. The Hall of Fame's mission is to preserve the sports history, honor excellence within the game,

and make connection between the generations of people who enjoy baseball. No way you can do that without Jose Al-Tuvae, but there's also no way you can do that with a group of other guys who are currently in the hall. So that's more so my hesitation than anything else. Twins beat the Astros. Go twins.

Go twins. Trev, let's talk about tomorrow just a little bit, and it's brought to you by the Drafking Sportsbook. You know the playoffs are in a way. We just talked about it for a while. If you bet $5 on baseball, you will get $200 instantly. and bonus bets.

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eligibility and deposit restrictions apply. Any final twins Houston stuff? Excited for Tuesday flying in? I would love to fly in. I got to get to a game. I probably won't do a Twins playoff game unless they get to the CS. I just don't have it booked yet.

So hey guys, go win so I can come to the CS. Boom. See in Baltimore. Phillies, Braves tomorrow. I think we've teed that up pretty good. That seems to be the matchup everyone's most excited for. Braves putting their magicals. Fried Nola?

Freed Wheeler. Freed Wheeler, that's right. Freed Wheeler, man. I mean, that's, it's everything you want. These two teams, Atlanta, with their backs up against the wall. Great pitching matchups tomorrow. Freed Wheeler, Bobby Miller, Zach Gallant, I mean, the

testosterone. It's incredible in the matchups. And I mean, cannot wait to see how the Dodgers respond to their first game. Are the snakes still playing like absolute madmen? Trev, I know you've been researching like it doesn't seem like

Kershaw was tipping. It just seemed like the boys were bopping. I asked around. The response I got was no. He's got to go out and pitch another game, guys, in this series. If the Dodgers want to win the series, more than likely, he's going to have to pitch another game. I kind of love that aspect of it.

Because I believe it's going to be game five at home again. I believe. Could it be game four? It could be four. I mean, he only threw 35. He could throw tomorrow. He only threw 30 pitches, not even. I don't know.

35, yeah. Let's get to that chapter because, holy smokes, if the snakes do it again, two games in Arizona. It's going to be an awesome night of baseball. Make sure you follow Trevor Plouf on X. Make sure you're live streaming with us. Again, we're going live for the six. Who knows if we run it for the night game? I think we're going to do the recap at night anyway, so we'll get that out to you.

and maybe tomorrow we get our first late inning. We just need a little late inning juice, Trev. What does that mean? We haven't had seven. Oh, you want like a save yet. Like seven. Some, I'm sweaty stuff.

Yeah, seventh inning or later, we haven't had a lead change. Let me say this to Wayno, too. There we go. All right. I don't know why. I don't have beef with you, I actually really like you. Why don't all the pitch?

All the pitchers listen up right now. Tell him, Treb. It's my thing to compliment guys and how good they look on a field and how big their legs are. That's my thing. And don't you be trying to steal that from me? Pablo Lopez does have a beautiful set of legs

and so does Ryan Jeffers. And don't you be trying to steal that from me? I like reading Trevor Plough stuff. He's got a lot of good takes. Thank you, Ron. Pablo Lopez has the uniform figured out. Yeah. Dude, no, he's, he thinks of stuff like that, the Johann Santana jersey to the game and the wild card set.

Calculated. He's the one that came up with the fishing vest and the celebration for the twins. That's Pablo Lopez. He's that guy. I love him. He shaved his head because his brain is so powerful. I can't, I need to have this thing just open to the sun. That's not true.

I made that up. That one's a rumor. Trev, Beeps. Make sure you guys are subscribed to talking baseball. We're so close to 100K. Please subscribe to the YouTube. See you tomorrow night. Go watch baseball today with Trevor.

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