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#14 | Yankees Take Game 1 in a Dynamic Opening Against the Royals
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What a wild game that was! Yankees take game 1 of the ALDS against the Royals with a score of 6-5. The game made history with 5 lead changes, the first in Postseason history! Let's talk about it.
TIME STAMPS:
0:00 Intro
1:27 AL and NL scores
2:23 Yankees beat the Royals 6-5
21:21 Outro
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Transcript
00:00:27
Speaker
yeah, yeah.
Yankees vs Royals: A Historic ALDS Game
00:00:28
Speaker
Yeah, we just finished watching the Yankees Tigers, or yeah, Tigers, no. The Yankees Royals game, oh my god. Yankees Royals game. Game one, ALDS.
00:00:42
Speaker
And Yankees won. They won 6-5. 6-5. So very good. It was a pretty crazy game. I got this got this thing right here, Liam. You got a thing with you? Yes, from ah Susan Slusser. No, it's not Susan Slusser. Sarah Lanes. The Royals Yankees game is the first game in postseason history with five lead changes. Wow.
00:01:10
Speaker
Yeah, so you guys you made history. We made history here. it It definitely felt high, high tension. It felt like there were like the chance of battle for power.
Playoff Game Recaps
00:01:20
Speaker
Yes. um Before we get into the game, let's just go over the the other games are real quick. We did not watch them. Let's go over the scores to get your your your idea. wait Quick thoughts about them if you have any. We'll start off with Detroit, Cleveland.
00:01:38
Speaker
ah Cleveland wins 7-0. My momentum ah prediction from last episode is not going to pay off, it doesn't look like. Okay, looks like my pessimism on the Tigers is... they think I think one game is sample size enough.
00:01:58
Speaker
oh No, but we'll we'll see where how it goes. Metz-Phileys, Metz win game 1, 6-2. their their momentum that they haven't they haven't lost and then uh... right now the Padres Dodgers game is currently goings bottom of the fourth and others lead six-five two outs runners-up the Dodgers took the lead yeah let's talk about the Yankees okay and uh... the royals what do you think we are you feeling after this game after the showing this uh... this uh...
Yankees Pitching and Strategy Analysis
00:02:34
Speaker
five lead changes throughout the the game. I got some things right, I got some things wrong. um the The Yankees lived and died when it came to you know all the all these lead changes by their pitching. It's just who was comfortable in what position. Cole didn't get off to all that good of a start. He found his groove but then lost it after After two After two outings, um But Yankees offense showed showed fight people that You want to step up stepped up? ah Verdugo is a name that comes to mind Yes, yes But it's just Their postseason roster as was released earlier today and
00:03:27
Speaker
Uh, less bullpen arms, less arms in general than people were hoping for. So if one starter has a really bad outing and they have to rely on the bullpen for most of the game, the game after that is is looking sour. Well, the, um, like they sound in the broadcast, the both teams, both teams did that. And the the strategy seems to be because tomorrow is Saturday or Sunday is a day off for the teams that, uh,
00:03:57
Speaker
that was probably the reason why they did it to get to get more people on the bench because you can bring in a different start the was it the game three starter you can bring the yeah starter and for relief after four days rest yeah three days rest rather uh... so so which you which is an interest which is an interesting way of uh... to go about it i mean how many years has that happened in the past can you recall uh...
00:04:27
Speaker
um But yeah, that is an interesting strategy. Probably didn't work so well for either of the teams, considering that they're throughout the whole game, there's only one pinch hit. that yeah That was on the royal side. So they they ended up kind of risking the the bullpen for people that they didn't even play.
Offensive Highlights and Defensive Errors
00:04:51
Speaker
I say Yankees had better defense this game, too.
00:04:54
Speaker
No, yes, absolutely. Especially even though there was that one one error at one very scary error. So the team that did walk away with one error, ironically, had had better defense out of the field.
00:05:09
Speaker
um
00:05:14
Speaker
just Looking at some some stats here um on the game day. Oh, you want again to get into some some highlights? Sure. I have, yeah, that's where you go. He, he got his, hit he got his big at bat. He goes two for three, uh, one walk, uh, two hits, two runs. I think that for me, like if I were to pick, uh, an MVP, it'd probably be him. Really? Yeah. Cause I mean, produced, uh, they get a home run. He's big time. you got Yeah. No, you're not now. So, so he, yeah, he produced big time. He got,
00:05:54
Speaker
ah he he He's responsible for half those runs. With that one RBI and two runs, two of those runs were were his. ah Soto's definitely up there, three for five. Although he did not get any runs. He didn't get brought in, which is sad.
00:06:14
Speaker
Glaber is sneaky good with only one hit. Worked two walks today, two BI, one home run. True, true. He put them on the board to start the game. Yes. Do you want to talk about the elephant in the room? Being? Arson Judge? Yeah, not a good day today. One walk, one run, three strikeouts. I mean, even you can, contributing a run off one walk just shows like,
00:06:48
Speaker
Maybe maybe it it speaks more to his spot in the batting order, but not if that's a throwaway position, i i I'd still take his eye with such a big batter's box over maybe some average guy, but not not his best performance today.
00:07:07
Speaker
okay
00:07:09
Speaker
um Very dynamic game. Very dynamic game. Royals were the first to score off of the. It was after calling the second. ah Yankees take the lead in the third. Royals take back the lead in the fourth. Yankees take the lead back in the fifth.
00:07:32
Speaker
uh... time rose by the game in the six yankees take the lead back to the bottom of the six uh... uh... he had wrong they take the lead in the six and he's not as it's all about two four five two four going to tie the tie in the six and then seven they they take the lead and then that's where it stays for the the rest of the game both teams nine hits uh... look at some of the game day sets uh...
00:08:02
Speaker
The Royals left seven on base. The ah they were two for four with runners in scoring position. Compare that to the Yankees. They left 11 on base and were two for 13 runners in scoring position. um That is
00:08:24
Speaker
Those are some not great numbers for these two teams. The the Yankees leaving the bases loaded was not yes ideal, but they were also, they were in their weakest part of the lineup being, uh, jazz will be, uh, as Waldo jazz, jazz has an excuse. His bat did break, but that, you know, you can remedy that by taking a better pitch, maybe letting one sail by you. He was still early in the count.
00:08:46
Speaker
yeah But Volpe didn't have a good game. Osweldo had a good game defensively. Volpe also had a good game defensively, except for maybe one instance. Osweldo did too, but he was ah him and Giancarlo probably the two weakest bats in the lineup.
00:09:04
Speaker
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00:09:07
Speaker
Both teams or both teams really really early in the game had two very questionable the run homes. It was for the royals, particularly I believe it was Perez. They tried to send him home from second. He was held by a lot. And then the first one was, who was that? Was that Stan? No. I don't think so. Was it Wells?
00:09:43
Speaker
I can't remember who it is. I can't remember who it was either. But they said someone on that was that was ah also an ill-advised send and did not pay off. Yeah, I did not pay off. ah But it just does go showing the the.
00:10:00
Speaker
Strategy for for the the postseason, if not for just this game that they're going to be aggressive and said, you know, talk about that, that jazz Chisholm stolen base.
00:10:12
Speaker
Yeah. Um, that that's another thing about, uh, maybe just the Royals defense. I think the Yankees played better defense out in the field, but that could surely just be by, uh, the optics of how, uh, Royals fielded balls and send them over the plate. Uh, very sloppy stuff, trying to throw home on the Royal side and they just couldn't get it it right where the ball needed
Controversial Replay and Game Impact
00:10:40
Speaker
to be.
00:10:40
Speaker
And that carried over to trying to pick off jazz stealing second base, which maybe if it was a cleaner play, I hold to it that the replay review would have rightfully changed to the royal side, but the Yankees did steal the base off of a replay review that ah definitively showed that jazz should have been out.
00:11:01
Speaker
but ah what what What should have been and what happened is is is different here. And when you want something truly, truly definitive, ah New York being and MLB headquarters of New York might be looking for something different. Yeah. ah It was kind of funny because we were watching it and we had different opinions on what that call was going to be. And you you thought it was going to be overturned and I was like, yeah, it's going to be stands.
00:11:34
Speaker
I'm not surprised that ah that it stands. It's just, it rightfully, it yeah out should have been called. I wonder what they what they see up there. is you know We see the we see the the you know the Zoom headquarters, but we can't see the screens. But like I wonder what they consider to be clear and convincing evidence, since that is the since that's the criteria to to overturn a play or overturn a call.
00:12:05
Speaker
But yeah I mean, yeah, it's like you and the broadcast seems to agree that that was that was clear and convincing that you got tagged out. You know, is a bad slide, but maybe you're right. Maybe it was just said it was a it was it's fielded poorly. Even maybe, but then it's kind of weird, right? Because it's like maybe maybe maybe just because it's. It kind of feels like, well, yeah, like just by virtue of being challenged, right? It's going to be close. It means somebody was a little bit sloppy, right?
00:12:34
Speaker
Yeah. Who knows? MLB is so like secretive about but the ums and like their decision making. they're like yeah it's It's a close game. Let's get the Yankees at breaks for some interesting television. and Maybe you can get away with that in you know the pre-HD era. wow But maybe not so much and in the age of sports betting, where you know and don't know makes a bad call on the internet is immediately like he's betting on the game. essential Um, do you want to talk about that? Volpe air? It was ruled an error by Volpe.
00:13:14
Speaker
Yeah, similar situation, trying to throw someone out at second, and it just completely missed the glove of Labor Torres, the commentator said it was just too wide off the plate, too wide of a throw. And it definitely looked ugly, it definitely looked the part. But you think it should have been an error on Torres?
00:13:41
Speaker
No, I think they call it, right? Okay. You you said it should have been an error, an error on labor. Okay, I got them mixed up. and the yeah I got them mixed up. Sorry, not my team. But yeah, it was supposed to be, I was thinking it was going to be on the shortstop. Yeah, that was that was not good. They showed a clip of um of coal and
00:14:10
Speaker
Tim Tim Hill yeah Tim Tim Hill did Tim Hill said about it yeah he was it took him out if he only threw 0.1 innings 0.1 innings yeah so how many pitches do you have that in front of you how many pitches yeah I do it was show me
00:14:38
Speaker
do he threw sixteen pitches eleven and of them for strikes so but but no strike has reported to and then uh... clay homes gets the uh... the win one point two minutes pitched one-hit no runs even though he he looked suspect in in many many Anybody positions? You are not very happy about that. Especially a ball hit right back toward him. Right right at his legs. yeah is He's dropping his hand to go down. But then his glove slips. Tighten up your glove, my guy. God damn. It's October. Yeah. You kind of like think like wonder.
00:15:28
Speaker
Wonder if the gloves stayed on double play you think?
Game Entertainment and Future Concerns
00:15:33
Speaker
No. No. OK. So do you think that that do you think if it would have been a clear double play it would have been deemed an error? Be the worst. I don't know. Be an embarrassing error. Can't say much about that, but it could have gotten an actual out of it and said they got nothing.
00:15:51
Speaker
um All right. Let's see here. ah guys going back to strikeouts real quick judge in kabir uh... both three strikeouts each the inky said eleven strikeouts compared to the royals seven how do you feel how do you have to this this outing this uh... dynamic game this this uh... uh... not going to work
00:16:28
Speaker
It's not great what? Not great cold start. Not great cold start which I don't know what you can do to kind of fix that since it's so late you just kind of hope he figures it out internally because at this point it's just such a psychological game for pitchers.
00:16:47
Speaker
but um it It was an entertaining game to watch, entertaining television, but I don't know if you can coast if this is the performance we should expect from you. We're very back and forth, back and forth. I hope Rodan has a very good outing tomorrow, and I hope, a again, maybe maybe Judge just getting back into the mindset of postseason baseball, but even then, you know, it's
00:17:17
Speaker
It's what everyone can do when there seems to be no way to move forward. You got to make your own magic. That is for sure. Let's see. How do you so do you do you predicted that Yankees sweep the Royals? Do you still feel that way? Sure. Yeah, let's go. All right. Let's go. Let's do it. Come on.
00:17:46
Speaker
do you do you think the uh... do you think the royals went out all out on on this game and like here's gonna be gassed out or it was cast out now i don't think it takes a lot to gas out a hitter especially early in a series like this so i i i don't think they've shown all all of their cards but i think the antiques have shown less um yeah royals uh... definitely are in a despite the loss definitely in a
00:18:15
Speaker
They probably are looking at the Tigers, you know, as the two teams that are people look at and go, how? Why are you here? And they're they're feeling pretty good about themselves. Probably kept it kept it close. Just a few sloppy plays.
00:18:32
Speaker
Looks like the strategy is definitely going to be neutralized judge, and neutralized judge and then. You can keep Soto from scoring runs.
Tommy Pham’s Contract Prospects
00:18:49
Speaker
an Interesting tidbit in the game where we talked about a Tommy Pham last episode. I did a little bit as someone to keep an eye out on. Do you think after this,
00:19:02
Speaker
there, there will be some big budget consideration for Tommy fan. He is going to be 37 next year. He's an unrestricted free agent for the 25 season. But do you think his, his stock has raised to a point where someone locks him down for the remainder of his time and ah something that is a step up for him financially, but also not too easy to move around? How long do you think his contract should be three years?
00:19:29
Speaker
ah Three years would be the maximum for a guy going on the age thirty seven. Um. Yeah, I mean, I think I think so. To be ah to be a dude that is on that's been on the back to back years now to be on to. Post-season contenders. Post-season contenders. We'll see how this goes, but like if the. I think that being on, I don't know if he stays with the Royals, but. But. um I think that he only came in for a little bit. He pinched it. Did he? No, he didn't. Oh, no, he didn't. No, no, he didn't. Sorry. He was playing the outfield last game. Yeah, one for three. One run, one RBI. Did he get the home run? Did he want to have the home run? I got it right here. Home run? No.
00:20:25
Speaker
But but yeah, I mean, but but he he's a guaranteed at least one good at bat a game and yeah for someone his age and can also play right field. Yeah, I will not be surprised. I don't think he's going to be like, you know.
00:20:40
Speaker
No bad blood here, but like, you know, it's not going to be like Brennan Crawford, who's. You know, got picked up by the the Cardinals and then. Just before the season ends, they just release him, like, no I don't think that's good I don't think that's in Tommy Fams future.
00:20:55
Speaker
Mm hmm. Yeah, I could see that I could see him get. Getting his due getting his. birth Yeah, getting his due like like I think for sure, for sure. Being on on a postseason team. Just. Already kind of raises your price. Mm hmm. And so so yeah, I think so. I think you will have a pretty good. Free agency. All right, well, game two will be on Sunday. Sunday? Not on Sunday. On Monday. I'm top of this shit, Andrew. I'm hot. What do you got? Nothing. I don i know. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. On Monday. So we'll we'll come back for that one.
00:21:51
Speaker
I'm very excited. I'll take that option. Yeah, me too.