Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast) - Yordan Alvarez Stuns Seattle AGAIN to Take 2-0 ALDS Lead | 556

Episode Date: October 13, 2022

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Hello and welcome to talking baseball. The Mariners go down two games against the Astros and Jordan Alvarez. We're going to talk all about that. Let's do it. Hello and welcome to talking baseball. It's brought to you by Seatgeek. My name is Jimmy. We got Trevor.

We got Jake, producer BBD, in the corner. Only one game took place on October 13th with the other AL series getting rained out and postponed. So it's only a one game recap here on talking baseball. Again, brought to you by Seekek. You guys know they're doing everything with us as playoffs. And you can use code John Boy playoffs to get 10% off any tickets. It doesn't even have to be baseball. You want to go to football?

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We're recording right after this. Ready to rip, guys. All right. You got acorns on the desk over here. Show me your acorn. Oh, nice. That was the nickname for one of our buddies flasted. Never mind.

Let's do the burn. Peener. Yeah, as it was Ken. All right. You're up. Still is, Ken. He's alive. How are your Dominican Daddy?

Small Glove King Framber Valdez versus The Mariners rock. La Piedra, Luis Castillo, boogity, boogity, boogity, boogity, bottom two. Kyle, honest, Abe, Lincoln, almost roofs one. That ball was up there, solo homer. It's one-nothing Houston. But in the fourth, there's a Framber alert for a missing throw home. He throws it away.

One run will score, and then Dylan wants more, and it's two to one. Mariners after four, but in the sixth, I am your daddy. Yordon does it again into the Crawford Box's opposite field. Oh, the pitch is off the plate. It's three to two. Make it four to two. As Alex Bregman, after the intentional walk, slaps one the other way, how about the fortitude to stay with it?

And speaking to stay with it, Trev's former guy, Ryan Presley, saves it after almost blowing it. Houston takes game to four to two final. All right, Trev, your Mariners. You want to, you want to, you think they're dead? This might be the most helpful thing you can do. Oh, man. Mariners fans right now might be dying for you to dead them again.

It's going to be very difficult. They're, uh, I don't want to say. it again, bro. They're dying. Seattle, all of Seattle wants you to call them dead. They're dying. They're dying.

For you to, okay. They gave their best bullet today, man. They really did. Luis Castillo was absolutely nasty. But Jeremy Payne, it just keeps getting on base in front of Yorda. He keeps getting this guy up to the plate.

So much so that we're walking a dude with technically really not a base open, but they got a guy named Alex Bregman, who happens to me, my best friend behind him. They did everything they could to win this game. But the Astros, like I always say, man, with these guys and the Dodgers and the Braves, too, they just keep coming for you, no matter what. And in the end, four runs, all they needed.

Yeah, I mean, Alvarez is obviously the story. That home run was ridiculous. I tweeted about Pena, and it's almost like I want to talk about him a little more because he's not the obvious story, but three times in these two games, Pena's come up with two outs, and all three times he has gotten on base to get Yordan Alvarez up that same inning, and all three times runs have been scored by doing that. Twice, Yerdon Homers, and then the last time they walk Yardon and Bregman comes through. And it's cool, he's like his little sucker fish, you know?

Like, you know, Yuron's the whale. but Pena's doing some doing some groundwork for him. Obviously, you're on as a whale. I mean, he's just nuts. Jake, you said his best left-handed hitter ever? Best left-handed hitter in baseball right now.

You know, go look at the stats. It's, you know, we have Soto fever because that guy was doing stuff. We never saw a young left-handed hitter doing. We still have Soto fever. and let's see it kick back in again. But we need more Yordon because, man, he's the best hitter on this team. You go through the guys, Al Tuve, Tucker, you know, Yuleiguriel won the batting title last year.

And they're not on the same level. I think there were two guys who won dotted this year. It's Yordaun and Judge. And Yordaun's 25. Like, he's entering his prime. And yeah, the interesting thing I think they said at the end, which is some, you know, like you said, if they intentionally walk Yordon without kind of a base open. David Cohn says it a lot on broadcast that, you know, if there's other bases open,

that's still a base open. Like, why do we care so much about forcing someone along? Hey, Alex Bregman behind him, that guy's a stud. And it was incredible the second half. But Jeremy Pena is also one of the best fastball hitters on this team and in baseball. and putting him in front of Jordon Alvarez, the whale, as he's been called on different by baseball media people, you're not going to bounce sliders in the dirt to Pena. Oh, no.

So, Dusty set up a little death trap at the top of that lineup. And did it not feel like, did it not feel like a little bit of experience mattered today? like Houston was dealing with Castillo and, you know, he was, looked as good as a pitcher look, but they saw the bloop and then they got the blast and that was, that was kind of it. Well, experience and skill. I mean, they're good, but Bregman coming up when you walk out versus get the Bregman, Breggman's like, uh, guys, I, I can do it too. It just takes the fastball to right, which is not trying to do too much with it.

And you're on taking the fastball to the left opposite way, not trying to do too much with it because your aunt doesn't have to do that much with it it just fucking goes crazy that's what that's cool about watching him swing as he understands the power that he has so he's not trying to generate any he's trying to put the barrel on the ball he knows he's strong enough he's big enough his swing mechanics are good enough that when he touches one it's going to go i thought it was really interesting okay like think about what transpired okay pain yeah works the walk Munoz throws him a 3-1 slider and he swings at it

to get him a 3-2 then he ends up walking him then you walk Yordon to get to a guy that just took Munoz up top the last time he faced him like that's how scary Yordan is

literally Alex Bregman the last time he faced Munoz he hit a home run against him and you're like I'll take my chances with that guy Braggie gets the first pitch, backdoor sinker at whatever was, 98, 99, and just touches it, man.

And Hanager just babbled it just enough. He's got a really good arm out there. He still made a really good throw. If he comes up with that thing clean, we're talking different here. Still a one-run game. I think he might throw Pena out there. He got to the ball so quick,

the ball was hit so hard, but he ends up kind of getting handcuffed with it. This was a great game, but I think you guys are right. Like it just kind of felt like the Astros were coming. I all along. I would, I'm recording a lot of the game on my other computer.

I'm going to go down, hunker down and watch a lot of it because something interesting happened in the fourth inning. Mariners stopped swinging at Frambers curb. Yes. Completely. They swung at the first one big and then they swung at another one big. But the rest completely stopped swinging at Framber's curveball.

They scored some runs. Framber throws the ball away. Then Carlos gets out at first. That stunk because this should have been kept two on with one out. The next inning, Framber comes out with a new glove on. And I'm curious. Didn't recognize that. What that's all about.

So I'm recording it. I'm going to go in the lab. I'm going to see. Once that first runner got on, it looked like, I think it might have been Cal. I think my He went from a glove with holes in the To no holes

Webbing to close My guess and this is like rough rough rough I haven't even looked at it is that maybe they could see his grip When the runner on through the holes in the glove or whatever But he went from a brown light brown glove to a black glove So it was only that inning It's the only inning where they got touched up And they didn't swing in any curveballs

They worked two walks because they just weren't chasing And after the first one Framber kind of gave a look like what yeah i was i was curious about that because i saw them with that approach too i thought look maybe they said we're swinging and missing at this a lot he's presenting it as a strike it's not a strike so let's just if we see it eliminate it but then they were also mentioning on the broadcast how a lot of that had been done with him in the stretch so was that the case like he was in the stretch and they were picking it up because when he got second and third there at the end they had a pitching their pitching coach came out and said go from the wind up yeah something happened something

happened in the fourth inning. In my opinion, and then they, and then they changed the glove. So it could be nothing. We have no idea, I have no idea, but I'm interested. Those are the things that make me curious. And just a little tidbit, if I can give it to you, in the fifth, he did not throw a curve. Yeah. So I, I don't know what that adds to the, to the pot.

I don't know if it, you know, he lost the feel of it or glove funny business. But yeah, that's, uh, I, I tuned into the radio. broadcast for a minute because our stud number one, Marley Rivera, was on the call. So I was listening to Marley a little bit. And she's like, no curves is in it. What's going on? He's going to need his curveball. He loves his curveball. So yeah, something happens. And yeah, she said also, I think after the fifth or before the fifth, so tying this all together, she said that Framber and machete Maldonado like sprinted into the dugout. it together. So something happened.

Yeah. Something weird happened. I'm going to try and look into it and see what's going on. Please do. And by the way, we're talking, you know, the mighty Astros, they did it again. Experience. These guys are killers. If Yule Gurriel

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We're reverse. Be a funny picture. Yeah. Presi did look a little shaky there in the ninth. I wanted to go back to the play you're talking about J.P. Crawfitz, the ball down the line. Tom Kelly used to bring us out and do base running in spring training. And we would work that play. And what he would say is, he talked to first basements about it,

he talked to the runners about it. And what he would say is, if you're on first base and a ball gets hit behind you, you just keep going. You don't worry about it at all. You're never going to be able to get back to the base. You just keep going. And if it gets past him, or he bables it, you try to get the second base. So there's nothing that Fraser could have done right there.

It's just part of baseball. Your Gerell is there holding him on. So essentially he's guarding the line. and it is tough when you hit a ball there and you're like, dude, why do you have to be standing right there? Because off the bat, you're like, I did it. And then you didn't do it, two outs.

And that helped Presley a lot. He was pretty shaky out there. The command wasn't exactly there. Obviously, there's a big layoff in between times he's been on the mound. So I think this is good for Plessy to go through this, get back in the game, you know, finally get the

get the strike out there at the end but definitely something that Mariners fans were just shaking their head out man being like we had an opportunity and the baseball gods are not letting us have it I want to I don't know if I have time to check on it but if I remember Presley

was really good majority of the season but his blips came in package deals like he like he if he he had like they came in like little tight windows um like back to back games is when he faltered does that make sense okay like back to back i don't so yes okay he went three blank then

then he gave up earned run earned run then went like 10 blank then two games in a row gave earned run earn run then a bunch blank and they came kind of together yes a couple times they were like smushed up so i wonder if Astor's fans are fearful that like, uh-oh, when he has one bad outing, he usually has another. Um, or maybe not. I don't know. This stuff look good.

He was just a little erratic. Yeah. I don't think Astro fans are scared of shit. No. They had, they had one of the worst best bullpens in baseball and they come in, Montero. Um, I mean, that guy looks like an absolute weapon.

Um, you know, they, they shut them down. They shut Seattle down again. again. And yeah, you know, Naris, Abraeu, Montero, Presley. I mean, those aren't, you know, if we did a reliever draft, even right now, I don't know if any of those guys get drafted as like, you know, a four-round top relievers and baseball draft. But combined in that Astros bullpen, their lights out. What did you guys think of that move? So you have Framber still on the mound. They come out. He pitches to Dylan Moore, ends up why.

walking him and they decide to bring narris in flip cal raleigh around to his left-handed side um you know i thought that was interesting there's a lot of power there they were relying on narris's splitter there essentially but you had runners on what second and third or bases loaded there his main pitch is a splitter that's in the dirt all the time you talk about having faith in Maldonado number one. And then bringing Nairis in. I think this is his first postseason ever. That was a huge spot right there.

He ends up getting the job done. But I was, I was questioning that move a little bit. I think I might have let Framber go again. Is it Crawford boxes? Is it, you know, getting them the other side for that? I was just Narris.

I don't know. But it was, yeah, it was Balzy. I love it. I think they were just relying on the splitter saying Cal Raleigh, go ahead and try to get the split. I don't know what the numbers are. If they had a lot of head-to-head and Narris has good numbers against them.

I just was curious about. about that move because you let him face Dylan more, but then you take him out and switch Carl Raleigh around to his better side. It was interesting. I ended up working out, but definitely faith in Maldonado to keep those balls in front of them, too. Are you excited for Seattle? This team has only played away games,

and now they go back to Seattle. They're down 02. I still think it's going to be an amazing environment. I hope they win at least the next game. So they get two. they've waited 20 plus years for playoff baseball, that stadium is going to be amazing. I think so.

Being O2 kind of puts a damper on in a little bit, but everyone's already planning on going anyway for game three. You knew you were going to get one of them in there. So I think it will be rocking. And I agree with you. I hope they do win game three, so they get another game in that beautiful stadium with those beautiful fans.

George Kirby. George Kirby getting the pill for Seattle. You know, we talked about Robbie Ray and he's been fading lately and then the Yordon incident in game one, that, hey, maybe that's one of those things where you had to take one step back to take two steps forward. Maybe George Kirby shoves in this game and they would have traditionally given it to Robbie Ray. I don't know. And on the other side, Trev, your Moxie King, a guy who would love nothing more than to tell the 50K people of Seattle that are at their first playoff game in 20 plus years. All right, you can go home now.

This was fun, huh? It's, it's, it's going to be real tough for the Mariners. I'm not going to say the D word. I'm not going to, but they're dying, that's for sure. Say death. Say they're dead. Oh, man. I yelled at Jimmy last year for doing that.

Then I decided to do it this year because I thought it was pertinent and it meant something. But it does mean, and Mariners fans want you to declare them dead now. Like, that's the nicest thing you can do to Seattle. I don't know if I have that much power to do it twice, guys. but what if you did? Maybe I want to see the Houston Astros in their sixth consecutive ALCS, 27 outs away from doing that. ALCS goes through Houston. It's wild.

It's wild. All right. I mean, look, it's going to be Houston and it's going to be freaking the Yankees. And who the guardians are dead? No, no, take it back. The Guardians are dead? Take it back. Take that back.

I asked Chris Rose that I said what I said every team to me in my, head besides the Guardians can win the World Series. And he kind of agreed with me. He said I'd rank them eighth out of the eight teams left. But they're alive. Yeah, they're alive, obviously. But, you know, so is Viseris at the end of. Wow.

That ends the show today. Trev's got to go coach Little League. Thank you guys for tuning in. We'll be back tomorrow. We've got to recap three games. We're not tomorrow, but the next, I don't know when. See you. Jake sucks

I still think it was a massive missed opportunity for Castillo or Framber not to die as dreads blonde and get on the House of Dragon.