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#18 | Yankees Dominate for a Game 2 Win
27 Plays1 year ago
Arson Judge has woken up! What was looking to be another night of questionable offense from the Yankees, Aaron Judge wakes up and the Yankees take Game 2 of the ALCS with authority.
TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Intro
0:26 Yankees win Game 2 6-3
15:49 Thoughts on coverage of Judge's struggles compared to Ohtani's
17:26 Liam baits Andrew
18:16 Other thoughts
24:13 Outro
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Transcript
Yankees vs Guardians Game 2 Recap
00:00:16
Speaker
little Johnson to the postseason. I'm Andrew and with me as always is Liam. Hi Liam.
00:00:26
Speaker
Liam. um We just watched game two Yankees Guardians. ah Guardians at Yankees if you will. Yes. Yankees versus Guardians and that's her cup of tea. Yeah. And Yankees win in a 6-3 final score. Yes they did.
00:00:46
Speaker
How are you feel?
00:00:51
Speaker
This was the game that I was asking for last episode for the most part. OK, yeah. So I'm ecstatic. Oh, yeah. So I mean, let's just let's just get right into it, right?
Gerrit Cole's Pitching Performance
00:01:10
Speaker
Want to start off with Gerrit Cole? Sure. All right. So Gerrit Cole.
00:01:15
Speaker
a 4.1 innings pitched and a total of where's the and four strikeouts one of those strikeouts Or his last strikeout, a looking strikeout. There's also the six hits associated with that. Yes, six hits and 200 runs for walks. So I guess we'll start with your prediction from last episode. He was still the better starting pitcher of the game. He was, but that was not your prediction. Your prediction is that he would do better than he did on from his last start. That is true. I did say that he did.
00:02:13
Speaker
would I don't think he did say that no you know but I mean you can score this for those 4.1 eights so he's credited with to or to run runs to or and runs yes and I think as far as the as far as the pitching side goes that that that was the the worst part i mean i think uh giant or giants yankees getting in the wind and uh your your worst picture being garrett cole uh there's uh worst ways i can prepare for that the people pen is elite they are yes clay homes
00:03:01
Speaker
Clay Holmes, Tim Hill, Tommy Kainley, Tim Hill, much, much better outing than yesterday, last night.
Clay Holmes' Crucial Escape
00:03:09
Speaker
um Clay Holmes dominant point two innings got out of that mess with ah with Gary Cole left him with the bases loaded. Gary Cole did have a very rough
00:03:26
Speaker
very rough, what was the second inning, or third inning, or I guess fourth inning, fifth inning. I thought I wrote down one of his rough innings. Fifth inning was his worst inning. Fifth inning was his worst inning by far. um But Clay Holmes,
00:03:43
Speaker
Saved him. Just let let one run. Mm hmm. Which is like I think the best outcome out of a base is loaded to out situate or one out situation. Mm hmm. So good on clay homes. Who got the win? Who got the win? That's a good question. He did. No, I'm saying he got the lead. He did use credit with the win. He wasn't even though he only went for innings. Clay Holmes. No, Clay Holmes got the win.
00:04:13
Speaker
I'll clean homes together with yeah okay I got confused for a second I'm i'm mixing names okay yeah sorry I was just kind of bouncing back and forth cold Garrett holes I mean the the the Yankees very aggressive I mean glaber He starts off with a lead off double. He he gets lead off hits like nobody's business. Yeah, he he goes three for five credited with two runs, one strikeout. Currently averaging two ninety two.
00:05:00
Speaker
Then also in the first inning, you know, after Soto gets on. You know, I was probably my my Aaron Judge K counter and then Rochio error saves him. Yeah, and that scores labor. Yeah, so that that was That was great. I was saying that the Yankees can't rely on and Box and fielding errors, but you know to after two games you might be expecting that this might be the norm for this series Yeah, I mean it's looking it's looking like that the the the Guardians defenses is not doing great there. There are two errors Guardians
00:05:42
Speaker
with both of them. Very rare for their defense. um
00:05:48
Speaker
And then, the you know, the Yankees, they were only able to get the one run in the first, but hey, they got they got by be up to almost 30 pitches in that first inning.
Strategic Decisions: Walking Soto?
00:06:03
Speaker
He only goes one point one innings, giving up ah five hits, three runs, two of those earned.
00:06:08
Speaker
one walk and you look at the two strikeouts so what do you think about what do you think about that move in the second inning to walk soda to walk soda they they walk soda to get to judge right and then judge it was in the second inning what did you just do in the second inning ah he got the sack fly that's there we go yep Yeah, I got my I was just looking over my notes. Yeah, no, I wasn't going to. I wasn't going to get to get a sack fly RBI. um I mean.
00:06:52
Speaker
I think that was the best outcome for the Guardians. I don't like I mean, with the the way the judge has been playing in the postseason so far. Risky, but but would you have would you have made that decision?
00:07:07
Speaker
um
00:07:11
Speaker
Yeah, I think so. Really? Yeah, I think so, because I think that.
00:07:19
Speaker
That ah sort of as of right now, right now, like as as everything stands that, you know, moment in time, so it was a better hitter and you minimize the damage by just getting losing the one run instead of. Getting, you know, getting the two runs in with potentially with soda.
00:07:40
Speaker
I'm surprised because we're in the same boat here. Oh, really? Yeah. OK, so you have also done the same thing. I would also done that so judge struggling contemporarily and then going to Wells who can't hit you anything right now. getting Getting to him to get a second out, believing in the guy that you're bringing in, I would have done the exact same thing. Yeah.
Wells' Batting Struggles
00:08:07
Speaker
Speaking of Wells,
00:08:12
Speaker
Averaging point oh eight three he went over for two strikeouts ah Said ah Aaron Boone has a lot of faith in him that he will eventually grow into this Mm-hmm batting fifth position. so Okay batting fourth. I should say
00:08:31
Speaker
I don't, nothing leads me to believe it will come during these playoffs, maybe in the future, but I also wouldn't move him from where he is right now. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Yankees are five and one in the postseason now with this current lineup. Yeah. Cause I won the three from yeah. Five and five and one.
00:08:55
Speaker
So I wouldn't break anything. Putting him between judge and Stanton, yeah if the outs are working like they should, there's at least maybe one person on base. Wells does a good job at eating up pitch count because he'll stay in there for at least five pitches. Yeah. yeah that That's something that I noticed too is that. that you might yes for the picture will get the K but at what cost exactly so yeah cats that's interesting trade-off you brought up Stan speaking of Stan the the Guardians were able to shut him out today he went 0 for 4 no strike yeah so he was due he was due for yeah he was due for one that's really not like anything that's like yeah you know I'm not shocked yeah it's like not like a time to retire old man yeah I was just like yeah okay like it happens
00:09:48
Speaker
Everyone on in sports media who is covering baseball could not stop talking about October Stanton.
Jazz Chisholm's Aggressive Play
00:09:55
Speaker
Yeah, I mean just to give you an idea like how Amazing Stan has been in this postseason. He went 0 for 4. He's still above 300 That's good. Yeah, that's really good ah What's not good is jazz Chisholm Yeah He's back. Yeah, that was. He finally got his hit and he immediately almost immediately undid it felt. Yeah, he he he got charged with a caught stealing.
00:10:27
Speaker
ah And then he got picked off. um Now, do you think what do you think that comes down to? Do you think that just comes down to the team trying to be more aggressive or just rookie mistakes?
00:10:42
Speaker
I think that was him specifically being aggressive. Okay. I'm going for something maybe you shouldn't have. Yes. so
00:10:54
Speaker
Very embarrassing, I think, for a player. Especially once so outspoken. Everyone's been a hyper fixate on. Oh, that too. That too. Yes. Under come down. Yeah, the. But like also just when when you ignore your your coaches, you know, whether they be the first third or someone, the manager up the dugout giving signs.
00:11:18
Speaker
Just ignoring them or choosing to do stuff is kind of like, yeah, you got listen to them, they're there for a reason. sometimes sometimes Not getting a ah signal is is the signal this big and don't do anything Because I don't even know if they were like looking to give him anything I think he was that was completely voluntary like yeah when they weren't gonna give him any signal of any kind because they just they're Focused on something else or they're assumed. He's just gonna stay put Yeah, focus up on who's that bad right now. What's wild is that if?
00:11:52
Speaker
He didn't do that. The score would be the final score would be 73. I thought early in the game, the. And this is going to sound kind of ah kind of wild, maybe, but in the. Early game, you know, when the scores three zero, I'm already thinking like, oh, boy, is this.
00:12:13
Speaker
Did did the Yankees win or did Cleveland give the Yankees the win? Mm hmm. Because you had that you had that error or that Rochio error and. For a good chunk of the game, I was like, oh, boy, like without that error, you know, it's a one run game, two run game. Well, then they did, but then they quickly broke out. So that narrative was destroyed. So point differentials at the end of the day. Point to the Yankees really going at it and getting
Yankees' Efficiency Concerns
00:12:41
Speaker
this win.
00:12:41
Speaker
yeah Um, one issue that I'm, I'm still seeing here is, uh, they're, they're runners in scoring position and left on base. Uh, they today, they went two for 10 with risk and they left seven on base. So it's the kind of team they are. And, but when you don't have to be happy about it, yeah but you can't get too mad. This is kind of how they play all season.
00:13:11
Speaker
Yeah, but is Do you think that that's going to work when you get to if you guys face off the the dodgers?
00:13:23
Speaker
Depends you don't have you can leave however many people you want On base. You just got to drive more across the plate at the end of the day What do you think about that risk? What'd you say it was again? What do you think of the risk the the risk was two for ten two for ten? Yeah
00:13:42
Speaker
I mean, that two those those two times get it's six runs. I mean, I chalk it up to what I said before. It's going to happen. That's kind of baseball. They they play. you know it's You drive one across, but you still put one on. It's just you're adding by subtraction. Yeah. I got my ah my notes here for that the jazz game picked off. then I put jazz doubles, picked off like a dweeb.
00:14:14
Speaker
Uh, but in that same inning Rizzo gets a double, um, not the RBI because, uh, they called it a E nine on the, on the guardians. So he was robbed of an RBI and I don't believe they, uh, yeah, they did not change that decision. I don't agree with that decision. Um, I don't think that there's no, so I don't think there's like any stopping, uh, who was it on base? Was it, was it, it wasn't full be, was it? Yeah. It was wopi. Okay.
00:14:43
Speaker
Yeah, like I don't think there was like any stopping Volpe just because of how fast he was. Yeah I'm i'm glad he's not hitting lead off anymore. I said this earlier in the season. I'll continue to say it him as a baserunner in A spot in the lineup where he will be a baserunner most of the time is a net positive And then Bottom of the seventh probably the probably like the headlines of the night.
Aaron Judge's Redemption
00:15:15
Speaker
Aaron arson judge to run Homer. ah That was he needed that he needed that everyone needed to hear it. So um I think we'll be talking about this about a judge struggle for a very long time. Imperatively they got he had his big moment. So
00:15:39
Speaker
hopefully narrative narratively speaking, I don't think he has to hit bombs for the rest of the offseason for people to get on this case again, but I don't expect him to go bombless for the rest of the postseason. Do you think that the the conversation around the judge's struggles in the postseason are overblown? And do you think that Otani's No, you know, no runners on on on base batting average, which he's like zero for like what 19 or something. Oh, geez, I didn't know. Yes, real bad. he He has not got a single hit with empty bases. This this entire or not the entire post, maybe the entire postseason, actually. I don't know, like, do you think that. They sound bad, but they don't.
00:16:30
Speaker
I think way heavy on my conscience um or my opinion of either of them as players. I'm just a hater. and I know how much you hate your professional. I just wanted to kind of get your your opinions on that just because sometimes it can get get annoying that like you got too I mean, have have you seen the commercial the and MLB commercials about like how of they're like once in a lifetime or but two times or something like that, and it's like Otani and Judge. And it's like just seeing that like, yeah, there's like these MLB commercials like, oh, they want they want New York, L.A. so bad. Yeah. Like they're not even hiding it. That's what the MLB wants. And
00:17:17
Speaker
That's kind of bold. This is kind of bold having that commercial like the championship series. I hope that fires up the Mets. But this is about the other New York team. Did you know that Otani's childhood rival, Fujinami, is currently with the Mets?
Otani's Rival Fujinami
00:17:33
Speaker
Really? Yep. Oh, that's interesting. Got a nice little storyline there that the MLB is going to ignore.
00:17:40
Speaker
I mean, he's, he's in AAA. Oh, okay. I thought he was on the team right now. No, no, no, no. Okay. Well, nevermind then. Maybe you should have worded that he was not with the Mets, but he was playing on the AAA team. Well, I mean, he isn't with the organization. Oh my God, he baited me. How dare you? How dare you? I really, I really would have doubled down on your Mets fandom. Yeah, I would have. I would have bought the jersey.
00:18:08
Speaker
what You want his triple A jersey? yeah Well, I would have realized it was a triple A jersey until I bought it like, this looks weird. um And then ah the last note I took was bottom of the eighth, the Verdugo walks due to the pitch clock violation, which I think was like the first violation of like, I guess of note.
00:18:31
Speaker
Um, was I out of the room for that? if and felt let him out of the room for that Yeah. Like he he walked through a pitch clock violation, which is interesting. Okay. Yeah. He didn't score, but like, I don't know. I don't know how many pitch violations there were this, this postseason, especially, or or at least one that, that led to a walk. So.
00:18:58
Speaker
Uh, so no, no game tomorrow, uh, day off. Uh, that was a long game tonight. It was, it was over three and a half hours long. This is your problem. Uh, I guess I don't, I shouldn't really complain cause you're two hours ahead of me. So like, I'm like complaining cause I'm like, it's seven 30. It's almost midnight over here. Yeah. I sleep schedule is fucked. They got a right speech assignment. Gross. But.
00:19:25
Speaker
maybe maybe it's just the yeah a yankee style of baseball but i don't really complain about game lengths the yankees are so entrenched in tradition that they can't even get to the new average they're like nah baseball is fun when it's like half the day at least three hours yeah at least three hours and the thing is like i don't know what it it is because like Well, I think I know what it is. I think it's that the the the Yankees batters are grinders Yeah, they take a lot of pitches. Yeah, they I mean I should I should do the math I should look into if that was a regular season thing too, but it I'll say it's I'll I'll back you up on this one. It does seem abnormal for at least this time of year Although I was also watching a team that had historic levels of strikeouts. So that's also true I mean
00:20:15
Speaker
ah I forget who the Giants played against when Logan Webb had his last his last complete game shut out. It was under two hours because like he was striking everyone out and the Giants were striking out and like the only scored once like the whole game. So I was like, of course, it's going to be under two hours. So like I'm kind of like not used to long games.
Series Outlook: Yankees vs Guardians
00:20:43
Speaker
but But yeah, so Yankees tickets they have the series 2-0 Day off tomorrow, which would be today if you're listening to it when you listen to this today It's uploaded and they come back on a Thursday In Cleveland they got to win two more Yes You think they go for do you think they get the sweep I don't think they get the sweep. I think they definitely win a game in Cleveland. I can't say more than that. You think it comes back to the Bronx? Oh, no, I guess not because I do think it comes back to the Bronx. Oh, no, no, no. yeah it's It's three games. It's thes three games. You do not want it to come back to the Bronx. I mean, ah it would be fun to win it. It'll be fun, but you also don't want to be games. Was that six?
00:21:36
Speaker
Yeah. Game six to come back to the Bronx. The only reason I'd like it to be game six is if they is to win at home. Yeah. I, game seven is unfeasible to me at this point in time. Yeah. Like, like taking the series at home is great for like the vibes, but like, if you do win it at home, it's like, Oh, you had a terrible road trip.
00:22:02
Speaker
Like like you you lost the road trip. yeah you and So it's kind of weird because it's like you don't want it to be one at home, which is like kind of like a weird feeling to have. But it is what it is. So you think the Yankees will end up taking the series? What is this? 4-1? I'd hope that's best case scenario. I think.
00:22:27
Speaker
TBS says the series doesn't really start until the home team loses. so OK, that'll at least be in either game in three or game four. All right. Is there anything else you want to talk about? Do you have any new feelings about the Mets Dodgers series going on? and Any new feelings? um No, not not not really. It's going to be me clenching the whole time. But I will be wearing my my New York Giants hat and in support of the Mets. Yes, you will for the rest of the that series.
00:23:01
Speaker
I can miss you to buy that hat. You did. I bought that hat first from about that half first before I bought the the Giants hat. The San Francisco Giants hat. Very interesting seeing the people and and it's like all old people like old old people that when I wear that hat recognize it as New York Giants and not the Mets, which I thought was pretty interesting.
00:23:25
Speaker
my grandpa's best friend, who still, who he grew up with, but also now lives across the street from him. He was a Brooklyn Dodgers fan way back when, and it was his birthday.
00:23:41
Speaker
back when the Giants had their shot heard around the world, where they won the pennant from the Dodgers. And he spent that entire birthday crying. Oh, like it ah no. That's kind of sad. Wow. I mean, i I think it's pretty funny. A little little sad, but I don't know the guy. All right.
00:24:10
Speaker
liam Yes. Are you excited? I'm very excited. Yeah, I know. It feels real, doesn't it? It really