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#29 | The Yankees Win a lot While the Giants Lose a lot
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Andrew and Liam return in an out-of-cycle episode to discuss some baseball. The Yankees start of strange but end very strong while the Giants continue to slide, only winning one series and getting swept twice by the same team in two weeks. Meanwhile, Andrew brought a desk home that ended up costing a pretty penny despite being free and did the 9/9/9 challenge in Colorado.
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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Intro
1:52 Yankees tie the Blue Jays
17:19 Giants SWEPT by the Dbacks
29:47 Yankees tie the Rays; Game 2 Postponed
42:24 Yankees SWEEP the Royals
47:12 Giants beat the White Sox 2-1
47:56 Giants SWEPT AGAIN by the Dbacks
52:48 Yankees beat the A's 2-1
1:00:17 Andrew Bought a Desk
1:02:18 Giants lose to the Rockies 1-2; Andrew did the 9/9/9 Challenge
1:08:25 Upcoming Series
1:11:00 Check out "Cat and the Cosmic Campfire"
1:11:41 Outro
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Transcript
Introduction and Personal Updates
00:00:10
Speaker
Hello, welcome to Two Front War, bi-weekly podcast that covers the Yankees and Giants' 2026 season. I'm Andrew, with me, as always, is my friend Liam. Hi, Liam. Hello, Andrew. drew How's your two and a half weeks gone? We are recording this kind of out of cycle. Also, this episode is going to be uploaded out of cycle, but you already know that because you're listening to it.
00:00:29
Speaker
Yeah. I just had a little trip down to Colorado. That was fun. And watched the Giants get beat. ah But we'll get to that when we get to it. But ah yeah, like what have you been up to, Liam? You started a new job? Yeah, I had, ah I was just like observing yesterday, new job type stuff.
00:00:48
Speaker
And I already have to come in with a big ask because i was turned on to this ah movie set and I want to be there for as many days as I can with that whole crew. But this new guy still has to like train me. So, and it's not at a very like busy part of the season for what he does, but and just want to be able to do both Yeah, that's just fine we You know, we don't make money off of this show. And so prioritizing something that makes you money over something that doesn't is, ah you know, nothing wrong with that. Nothing wrong with that. Funniest part, only one of these things is paying me. Oh, shoot. Oh, no.
00:01:22
Speaker
Oh, no. Well, prioritizing something that will more directly lead to hopefully you making money is better than something that probably won't. So there we go. That's thats a little bit better. i think that's the... not to Not to bring down our... That's just where we're at, guys. That's just where we are.
00:01:41
Speaker
I'm lucky with my terrible work schedule to where I get to at least watch, you know, at least two games live. you know Even a little bit on nights when I work night shift.
Yankees vs Blue Jays Series Recap
00:01:50
Speaker
Yeah, so let's get into this. Yankees and Blue Jays, four-game series. Oh, standings real quick. Your Yankees sitting at 3624 as of the morning of June 3rd.
00:01:59
Speaker
Also, happy Pride, Liam. Thank you. it's Also, happy three days before my birthday. Yeah, happy three days before your birthday. You're going have a good time. Good time. You're gonna be whopping 23. Yes, you do know that. Good job. Good job.
00:02:14
Speaker
I can math. I know that every year you get one year older. Let's see here. Yeah, so Yankees Looking pretty good. The Giants have one more win than the Yankees have losses.
00:02:28
Speaker
So that's a sad stat. Yes, yes, yes. Has anything improved on the... No. No? No. No. No. No, no, no, no. No specifics. Has there anything improved? No. Next question. No, na na na no, no, no, no.
00:02:42
Speaker
Yeah, okay. Let's talk about your Yankees.
00:02:47
Speaker
There gonna be two at least a division consequential series that were supposed to happen at the very least. It was four games against the Jays and three games against the Rays, but we'll talk about the Rays in a little bit. We split the series with the the Blue Jays, two games to two.
00:03:03
Speaker
We won the first two and then lost the latter two. So... I don't know. How how would you rank splitting something like that? Is that that a good split bet? You know, I think it depends on the team that you're playing against. i think the better the team, the more accessible a tie is.
00:03:18
Speaker
because things can get weird, especially depends on where it falls. I don't know exactly where in the schedule this fell, but like if you get into a four game series after you do, you know, two, three game series, that can be rough on on your rotation. can be little no days off, you know?
00:03:31
Speaker
So I think there's like a context there. i think there's some nuance there on playing a series. I mean, I guess it's better than, you know, losing it because you just end the series where you started. Well, I guess the division of rivals, that's that's definitely something that you got prioritize winning.
00:03:45
Speaker
Yes. But overall, I mean, it's ah that's kind of weird, right? Because it's like, well, it's the Blue Jays, you know, World Series runner up. But they're also bad. But then also they're bad. They're having, they're struggling this season. So it's like, okay. um So I guess neutral. I feel neutral on the on the splitting the series.
00:04:01
Speaker
Might as well get into details about the game so we can suss it out. Unless like you lose one of these games like off an error or something. There are some errors to talk about, but nothing I don't think that really sticks out like that coming down to it.
00:04:14
Speaker
Game one, it was Ryan Reithers against ah Patrick Corbin. Yeah, first two games were wins. Other two games were losses. First inning, Paul Goldschmidt started us off like he typically does when he's leading off with a leadoff homer. Start the game, sets the tone. 1-0 pretty quick. Going into the fourth, Wethers facing Ernie Clement. He threw a changeup. It was a foot off the dirt.
00:04:36
Speaker
So you're expecting, to like, all right, there there's no way. That thing can like travel up or anything. can only really go down. It's kind of like, ah all right, your free ball pitch. Yeah. But... he takes him long he fished for it wow uh ernie clouette took him long that's just the worst when somebody hits a uh home run off of you that on a pitch that had no business being a home run yeah no business being a home run and also with two other people on bases yeah that's um that is rough Put him down after that.
Jazz Chisholm's Media Backlash
00:05:06
Speaker
Things don't really look up really until the seventh. Judge singles and Bellinger brings him across. ah Tied off five five with a two run shot. Grisham walks later and Chisholm hits a two run homer off the foul pole, which is like the big image of the game because he was pumped up after that. I've struggled to remember if ESPN posted it, but it was just like he kind of like needed it at that kind of moment. Everyone was down on Jez then. People were less down on Judge going forward. And people are really down on jazz now because he went on Jimmy Fallon's show and said they were going to be or Kimmel. Jimmy fallon Fallon. Okay. Yeah. I know my Jimmy's. i Yeah. I saw that the, the blue Jays, was it the, or was it the rays? Some, some announcer I saw was like, wow, they really let them on like, you know, the tonight show is while hitting two 30, like two 35 or something. Uh, what do you think about that? Well, while Jazz can be very, very full of himself, I think he is the first first Yankees player, but also first maybe baseball player in general. When he's like loud, he gets like the brunt of like some media backlash. like They'll go right in for him just because, you know, he no offense to him. he's a I think he's the best second baseman right now just in terms of war in the AL. If not, he's the second best. I'd have to i'd have to check. it's the oath Especially all-star voting coming up.
00:06:17
Speaker
Yeah, nobody cares about defense in today's game. No one does. and Unless you're bad at it. Yeah, he hasn't really... He only cares you're bad. He hasn't really backed up the the superstar status with the bat the way historically high performers typically do. and Do you think he's going to regret the 30-30 season that he was he was No, that he said something crazier.
00:06:38
Speaker
forty thirty or forty forty he said he was goingnna go fifty fifty 50-50, okay, alright, well here we are, approaching the halfway point. No, we're close. Fucking no, we're close. Oh, no. But i i don't i don't take anything he says as gospel, I think he's kind of more of ah a spark plug, a good energy guy like that, so, I mean, yeah you gotta to first believe it, and if he believes it enough to say it, then it's gonna come out there, and maybe, you know, a 50-50 season is a little too much, but World Series win is not out of the realm of possibility at all.
00:07:10
Speaker
No, no, absolutely not. Second of the division, as right now. One game behind. Finished up game one, Bednar struggled to hold on. He let one run come across, but he eventually closed it out for a seven six win. Okay.
00:07:21
Speaker
okay That was game one. Game numero dos. It was Will Warren falling behind. ah relatively where Will Warren versus Dylan Cease, so he had his work cut out for him because they just had a named guy on the mound. I'm sorry, I just dropped my wish.
00:07:37
Speaker
Oh. Here it is. w Yeah, just name Guy on the other side of the mound. Will Warren allowed three straight runners to score in the fourth? rough Dillon Cease later lost his command at the bottom of the half, though. So they were kind of mirroring each other more so than, you know, they had to get out in front of, you know, the opposite pitcher at any point. So it became a little bit more interesting of a contest and I think fit uniformly with the last game around there.
00:08:05
Speaker
And that it kind of went back and forth a little bit through in the fourth. Cease lost control. He walked two batters and Ryan mc McMahon hit a three run homer to tie the game at three three So coming across halfway through the game, it was basically everyone starting from scratch again.
00:08:21
Speaker
Cease's control issues continued. He walked Trent Grisham, Ben Rice, then a loaded two-run homer, breaking the tie and vaulting the Yankees ahead five to three At that time, it was Rice's sixth of his career, tying him with Judge for the team lead.
00:08:36
Speaker
Judge has not been doing so hot recently. I only bring that up, so it's a little bit more climactic when I say when he eventually breaks it, he gets back into the swing of things. Boone was also tossed in this game. I did not write down what inning I'm forgetting. let me and I can't find what inning it was in.
00:08:52
Speaker
Anyway, either way, I won't waste a lot of time going into all that. But it was his... Lost my spot in the script. Boone was tossed from the game after aggressively arguing. Yes, I remember this Dalton Varshow trapped the ball on a diving catch. And I've heard that it was more so Boone still stewing over Anthony Volpe being called out all the way back in the fourth. This is a little little bit later on than that. so Okay, he's got some drama. a little bit drama there.
00:09:18
Speaker
Accusations of inconsistent umpiring. Yes. Classic. I don't have the clip on me, but if we did, we should have we should have reacted to it. So, my bad. You're always bringing clips. I gotta to make sure I bring clips sometime.
00:09:28
Speaker
Yeah, well, I'm only able to to do that because I have OBS on my PC. I watch on my PC. But I can't do it so much because I do watch it in the Discord server with some friends. True, true, true.
00:09:39
Speaker
Other than that, in the ninth, Camilo Duvall got his first save of the year. Yay, okay, right? I think the Giants broke him by forcing him to get those 70-something saves that one year. That one year, perhaps.
00:09:51
Speaker
Even then, he still gave up a sack fly to Vladimir Guerrero Jr. So final score, at it did end up being 5-4. He still had two runners in scoring after he gave that up, but he induced a ground out at the end to Anthony Volpe.
00:10:06
Speaker
So all's well that ends well, I suppose. And then the other two games were boring and low scoring in comparison. Yeah. Game three, lose two to one. yeah Game four, lose two zero. Schlittler back on his sheet. It was Schlittler and Yesavage for game three. It was mainly Yesavage dominating through six. Schlittler ran out of gas around the seventh, but they were going bar for bar pretty much and throughout the whole thing. Pitchers duel these last two games. Yeah. Well, I'll correct myself if I'm wrong with the last game, but I'm pretty sure. He had eight strikeouts, just allowing two hits over six. over six
00:10:41
Speaker
He struck out Aaron Judge in three at-bats. He yikes. Wow. He was my MVP for this. All right, just in case I had Schlitter down for that. wanted to make sure I got his stats right, but I just have him failing.
00:10:52
Speaker
Yeah, got into like an 11-pitch battle with
Giants' Trade Speculations
00:10:56
Speaker
Jimenez. Okay, not great. Yeah, no. Drangwock, I pitched two strikes. He walked in, Ernie Clement, to make it Flitler was pulled. Jake Bird came in and then gave a sack fly to Vlad Guerrero Jr., making it 2-0. That's how the two runs got there.
00:11:12
Speaker
Facing Varland, the Yankees in the ninth showed signs of life. After collecting two hits, Paul Goldschmidt hit a sharp comebacker straight back to him. There was a tying runner on, and Ahmed Rosario, who I have very nice things to say about coming up, He was blown away by a 99 mile an hour pitch to end the game.
00:11:28
Speaker
Then it was Rodon versus Spencer Miles. Rodon has been very unlucky as of recent. A lot of people have overlooked him fans are already putting together their trade packages, their speculation for Tarek Skubal. Interesting.
00:11:41
Speaker
Yes. yeah Mock trades that were considered a reasonable two seasons ago were crazy. They included Schlittler and Rice at the time. And they've since broken out a lot. So they got Rodan. Yeah, you got Rodan if you wanted to just plug him in with a... Well, he's just back from an injury, right?
00:12:01
Speaker
Yeah, he just came back from an injury. Okay, so so maybe you maybe hold off on the whole... like This is this is going back to like my resolution for this season, right? Was no hot takes. And then I declared the giant season dead in the start of May. Not too unfairly. Yeah, you know what? Not too unfairly. It's going to think it's going up not being a hot take. But yeah, like you get a guy who's who's I don't know what people are are what fans are thinking when they're talking about like, let's trade this guy. He's terrible. It's like, okay, he's terrible. Who wants him then? And what are you going to get? If someone's having like an absolute garbage, you know, season, who are you going to get? What are you going get in cash?
00:12:35
Speaker
Is that what you're going to get in in her return? I think they'd sooner move to the bullpen than than trade him. They'd give up like, ah you know, some of their name pieces down in the farm. And I dread giving up George Lombard Jr. right now.
00:12:46
Speaker
Yeah, it's like, you know who you trade is you trade somebody who's doing really good, but in a position that you can sacrifice. Like that's like sometimes you can get a someone could like have a really good season and that actually ends up getting them traded rather than somebody who's doing terrible. And also he came back from injuries. Like, calm down. You guys are second place. Relax.
00:13:06
Speaker
You're not in bad shape just yet. He can still become, you know, get back to to where he was. It was, yeah it was one nothing early. He gave up a, Vladro was on base, but he gave up a double to Varsho, which scored him making one nothing, but he went a full five.
00:13:21
Speaker
He only gave up that a one run and struck out seven. i that that That's more than a strikeout. So got sorry got I got a question for you on how yeah how you see strikeouts. um Because when I'm seeing these numbers, I realize like, you know, I hold the Giants to a different standard than I do the whoever it is they're playing.
00:13:37
Speaker
And whenever I see the Giants have six, like when they strike out, like they get six strikeouts in the game, I'm like, terrible, terrible. Six strikeouts is awful. But then whenever I'm looking at the starters and they get like six, seven strikeouts, I go, oh boy, we need more of those.
00:13:49
Speaker
So is it your you bolt your bullpen thing? They can't get strikeouts? No, well, no, that the bullpen's is not too bad about that. It's just like whenever I see...
00:14:01
Speaker
Like the Giants pitchers, you know, get six, seven strikeouts in a game. I'm like, okay, we need more. I think it's mainly because the offense kind of sucks or does suck. But like when the Giants strike out, you know, six, seven times, a I go, this is awful. You know, you're doing terrible.
00:14:16
Speaker
But like, it's funny how, you know, for the pitching side for the Giants, they get six, seven strikeouts. I go, ah not good enough. Like more, more, more, more. What's the number of strikeouts for the team, I guess, like for your your offense that you get to before you go, you know, good or bad?
00:14:33
Speaker
I don't know. I personally don't have one. I tried looking at it on a pitcher-by-pitcher basis. and Okay. I mean, more than a strikeout in an inning sounds pretty good way if you're a starter going five. Yeah.
00:14:44
Speaker
Like Radon has done. A lot of former Giants this game. Yeah, I'm looking at that. We got Duvall came in in the seventh. Yeah, we're done. Going five. Hung a slider to George Springer, and he launched it over to left field. so score went 2-2. But then ah Tyler Rodgers came in for the Blue Jays.
00:15:02
Speaker
Tyler Rogers, let's go. i miss him. I miss him so much. I don't miss it. I don't miss playing him in the show. Yeah. And I'm very happy. you You know, you know where I think I am with the giant season right now.
00:15:15
Speaker
I think I'm going to start watching Blue Jays games whenever Rogers is out. I think you want to start watching Brewers games whenever Kyle Harrison is starting. Do you want to switch teams midseason? No, no, i'm not gonna do that. Fuck.
00:15:29
Speaker
Should I? I put it the table. You know, maybe maybe maybe when the Giants are officially eliminated, I'll jump to the... When will that be? Probably soon.
00:15:40
Speaker
You sure? No, I don't know. I don't know. I mean, statistically, anything is possible. Statistically, yeah, as possible. They are currently sitting at 23 and 38. Don't you remember? Don't you remember 2019 Nationals?
00:15:53
Speaker
Don't you remember? No, I don't. I don't remember anything pre-COVID. Yeah, you know those are the before times. They need a history book to remember how things were when people were better drivers.
00:16:05
Speaker
And I'll save that for later. I'll save that for later. That does tie into my Rocky series. So how Tyler Rogers do? He did pretty good. How about my boy do? you ah He got an inning-ending double play.
00:16:20
Speaker
Grounder out of Aaron Judge. Aaron Judge, very bad this this season, like I said before. yeah Jeff Hoffman pitched the ninth to close out the game, but Aaron Judge went 0-4 in this game and 1-15 in the series.
00:16:34
Speaker
Yikes. Ten straight games without a home run or an RBI. Yeah, he is my LVP for the series. Dang. He struck out eight times. Oh. No walks? No. Wow. I think I think i would've worked i think i would have wrote that down. maybe he had one walk.
00:16:48
Speaker
He either had one walk or one hit because his batting average was 0.67. Yikes. and MVP goes to Cody Bellinger. Two runs off four hits, two RBIs, three walks, one strikeout, 13 at-bats. Okay, okay. Get a.308 batting average,.438 on base percentage. Nice, nice, nice.
00:17:07
Speaker
That was That was my That was our as the Yankees Blue Jays series. I had nothing to do with it. I don't actually play for the team. All right. You ready for the Giants? Yes. Alright, game
Giants' Struggles Against Diamondbacks
00:17:20
Speaker
one.
00:17:20
Speaker
oh so this is the first series. They, uh, on the road, went to Arizona to go face the D-backs. They got swept. Giants swept by the D-backs. Rough. Uh, game one, I actually tapped out. Uh, this is the first time I tapped out this season.
00:17:33
Speaker
In the middle of the fifth inning for this one, after an atrocious Ray outing, Ray did with awful, awful, awful. Uh, I don't know if he was tipping his pitches or what, but but the D-backs were on him. He went 5.1 innings. He gave up nine runs. Eight of them are Offense was dead as well, except that there was a cool Adamus solo home run in the second inning. That gave me hope.
00:17:52
Speaker
ah Highlights for pitching? None. Offense, Adamus, one solo, one out solo home run in the second, and he worked a one-out walk in the fourth. Bader had a leadoff double in the third, and then Arise got a sack fly to score Bader in the third. On defense, I have a Ray highlight. He picked off a runner stealing second. Okay.
00:18:10
Speaker
I have the scorebook right here. Let me see if I can find... the today yeah right here picked up a runner stealing second give you an idea how bad his outing was he had 13 pitches after the first inning 37 after the second 62 after the third oh my god and then 71 in the fourth so bad so don't even know i forget what the score was it so long ago i don't care what the score was they they got destroyed so that's the one where i think they lost like by like double digits That's when they sent out ah Christian Koss, poor guy. He's since been sent down to AAA. Poor dude comes out as his second time being a pitcher, position pitching, another position player pitching. And then his first at-bat gets drilled in the head. Oof. Yeah.
00:18:52
Speaker
Yeah. So that sucks. Poor Koss, dude. that That's rough. Low lights for game one. Ray in the first inning. Bases loaded. Gives up a grand slam. On defense, Chamin errors in the first, which loaded the bases and led to the grand slam. And that's how that one earn one run was not earned for Ray. Haas errored and threw the ball in the center field trying to catch the runner. Runner goes to third. And then my LVP is going to be Ray. 5.1 innings pitched. One strikeout. Two walks. 11 hits. 10 runs. Nine earn. Because, you know, I quit out early. Yeah. So that's when I so i cut out. when he had, I think one fewer run.
00:19:28
Speaker
So that was bad. That was, that was just getting blown out. Game two gut punch loss. I should have got the clip. I think if you're listening to this podcast, you've already seen it. So the the game had amazing defense by the Giants. The Giants looked promising early with three runs in the second and two back-to-back solo home runs by Devers and Adamas.
00:19:45
Speaker
Devers had an amazing defense, particularly in the sixth. He got all three outs unassisted. Unfortunately, three runs were all the Giants were going to get, and there were five instances of runners in scoring position all all game, two of which had a runner on third with fewer than plus fewer than three outs there. Duh, all fewer than three outs. I think I meant two. Fewer than two outs that were not capitalized capitalized on and that just can't win games.
00:20:07
Speaker
Rupp had a decent start going seven plus innings. It would be Kylian ultimately who would get the L after getting pulled with two runners on and Gage giving off the first home run off a lefty to Cattell, Cattell Marte, for the season and a three-run walk-off. That's where you see that infamous clip of Cattell Marte hitting the home run, three-run homer to to end the game. And if you're it's the Giants broadcast, it's ah Dwayne Kiper who just is quiet.
00:20:30
Speaker
it It just says unbelievable. I remember seeing this. Yeah. The Giants now sit at 10 at this moment. The Giants are now 10 games under 500. And I made the mistake of buying tickets to their games too early in the season. Read that as before the season started. And all the tickets were really expensive because they were looking really good despite the the sliding last year. Giants have great attendance. They do. Yeah, they a ton of their games have still been sold out despite where they are. I'm getting real tired of KNBR and the hot takes, get tired of fans and their hot takes. You know, I'm not saying that we're not having a good season. You know, it's salvageable. It's not salvageable.
00:21:04
Speaker
I don't know. there's when When you're starting to blame the fans for going to the games and be like, and that's why the front office or like ownership isn't going to do anything about the roster. I think you're putting the blame on the on the wrong people completely.
00:21:16
Speaker
but I just think that's like insane, insane thing to say, you know? Now the Giants are like in this weird spot because it's kind of like who's going to be trading this year. And like the thing is, is like with the the Giants talking rebuilds, like people talking about rebuilding with the Giants. Alex Pavlovich, beat writer for the Giants, also co-host of Giants Talk. He said that everybody like fans me to understand when they're talking about rebuilding the team, they are solely talking about trading Logan Webb. That's the only part when you, when you talk about rebuilding the giants, you're talking about, there's only one person you can trade and that is Logan Webb. Logan Webb season ends or his contract ends pretty soon. So I don't know if he's even going to, you know, humor the giants or if he's just going to jump ship at this point. Can't blame him.
Giants' Potential Rebuilding Phase
00:22:00
Speaker
Can't blame him whole career so far with the giants. and he's been to the playoffs once where the giants have that in 2021, where the giants had that 107 game win series, win season, just to fall to the Dodgers on a controversial chick swing call.
00:22:14
Speaker
not that Not that they would have been able to beat the the Braves. I think that's agreed by both teams. is It didn't matter who won that series. They were always going to lose the Braves because they were just tapped out for because of the DS, NLDS.
00:22:27
Speaker
Fun little fact, that's only the fifth time in franchise history that the Giants and Dodgers have met in the postseason. Which is crazy to think about. Yeah, that's wild. So I don't i don't know. I don't know what the the thing is. And like when they talk about like, you know, trading people, it's like, okay, who's going take Devers' contract? Even if you do trade him, you're still going to, there's no way a team's taking that contract, right?
00:22:46
Speaker
What's his contract? It is a big one. it's like 200 something million. Let me look that up. Because I just looked up Logan Webb's contract. He is 313.5 million until 2034. four ten years the f free agent ti twenty thirty four 27 million this year, 28.5 next year. Yep.
00:23:04
Speaker
Going forward. So nobody's going to take that. So the Giants are like ah Willie Adamas. No one's going to take that either. Also because I don't think he has, I think he has a no trade clause. And then same thing with, you know, Matt Chapman. It's like he can't, the whole intent of that ah contract, which was the largest contract and in Giants history since I think Puster Posey, but I think Devers may have overtaken that one.
00:23:25
Speaker
like he's going to end his career with the giants jung-ho lee he holds all the power with his contract so he's not going to go anywhere you know because of his struggles so like our like our only real trade pieces are going to be arise which is like i guess you could trade him because we only have him for the one year and he has really great defenses like he has gold glove caliber defense he like he might be an all-star because of his defense but the turnaround he has thanks ron washington is crazy is crazy Bader could also be traded. Even though he kind of stinks.
00:23:56
Speaker
Even though, yeah, yeah. But like out of like all the players though that you that you could like trade, you know, it's, it's web arise and Bader and you're not going to get anything for Bader, you know? So yeah, like, I don't know. Like the, and I think also maybe, maybe the front office is looking at this season as a loss Not like, not or or not, maybe not. Oh, I mean, obviously it is a loss wherere where we're at, but I'm i'm so curious about who's going to be trading at the, at the trade deadline, you know? Cause, cause usually like, okay, even if your team is effectively like out of playoff contention, right? You could still start trading to prepare for the next season, right? Yeah.
00:24:35
Speaker
But next season is going to be a lockout. It's like, do you think do you think that this trade deadline is going to be way quieter than last year? Explosively winning our team? Yeah. Yeah. that That's what I think is going to end happening. see that, definitely.
00:24:47
Speaker
Absolutely. Yeah, but then I wonder, like, well, who's – yeah, I guess you take over the contracts. But, man, I feel I am scared for anybody who is on their last year. That's going to be – that's got to be stressful. Let's make it fun of the Mets.
00:25:01
Speaker
Yeah.
00:25:04
Speaker
but especially after the year he's having he's not opt down of anything yeah i look at that met's ah made a good move i guess oh maybe not ah how is devs this series Devers a series for against the D-backs. He's getting better. April is his historically his worst month of the year.
00:25:23
Speaker
And this one was in this April was the worst April of his career. Worst month of his career. So game one, he goes. Actually, you know what? Let me take a look at his Mace stats for the year. Mace stats? I think I can get him quicker.
00:25:38
Speaker
I got him. Okay. He's hitting 306, 33 hits, 5 homers, 19 RBIs, 19 runs scored in 28 games this but this last month. Okay, so he's he's he's he's coming back to to form. I think we the Giants fans are...
00:25:55
Speaker
scarred and we're going to be kind of done with everybody that says you know oh it's a he's a slow starter after after the way that this season started you know it's like oh we can't have those we cannot have slow starters you got it you just got to get into it faster Going back to Cattell Marte real quick for this this game, the second game.
00:26:15
Speaker
That was a first home run that he had against a lefty. Wow. For the season. there's ah There's been a lot of, you know, Monday morning quarterbacking about, like, why did they turn Cattell Marte around? Because he's a switch hitter. Mm-hmm.
00:26:28
Speaker
um So they made him flip to the the season that he's having to the side that he's, you know, struggling with this year. And they, I don't know. It's kind of like you, because now the question of like, oh, do you look at, you know, historically how this player does or do you look how they're doing this season?
00:26:45
Speaker
And, you know, I'm thinking got to do a little bit mix of both. You got to realize, you know, that that numbers can be can be weighted weird. Maybe someone just had a really good season and maybe you shouldn't always like, you know, look at all that.
00:26:57
Speaker
I don't know. um I don't think it was the worst decision to to do when you see a player struggling. Like, why are you not going to capitalize on that? got look in the now, you know? Yeah. In the end, he still could tell Marte. i think the I think the real question is, why didn't we walk him?
00:27:12
Speaker
Although that would have loaded the bases. So I don't know. i don't know My highlights for this game, you have for pitching, you had Keaton Wendt with bases loaded. He induces a 4-6-1 double play to end the seventh. Killian induced a 6-4-3 double play with bases loaded and didn't give up any runs in the eighth.
00:27:31
Speaker
On offense, you had Devers. He hits a leadoff home run in the second, and it's an oppo double in the fifth. Adamus hit a home run in the second. Suzak hits an RBI double in the second. Chapman scores from first.
00:27:43
Speaker
And then he worked out two-out walk in the fourth. Chapman works so a leadoff walk in the sixth. On defense, you had Roop, Suzak, and Adamus, who executed a strike him out, throw him out to end the second.
00:27:54
Speaker
Then he had Devers, who had a clutch sliding catch to execute a difficult three one relay to force out the runner in the sixth. He had a clutch slide home to get the second out in the sixth inning. And he had a clutch jumping catch on a line drive to get the third out of the sixth. The sixth inning belonged to Devers.
00:28:11
Speaker
Suzak called on a very questionable catcher's... Oh, this is not a highlight. This is a low light. He was called on a very questionable catcher's interference. Two on base in the ninth with two outs also in the ninth.
00:28:23
Speaker
My MVP is going to go to Devers. He went two for four, two hits, one home run, one double, one run, one RBI. Defense is also going to Devers because he gets all three outs in the sixth.
00:28:34
Speaker
Low lights pitching. You had win. He walked the bases loaded with one out in the seventh Miller walks the bases loaded with one out in the eighth and then was pulled. Then you had gauge who gave up a walk off home run. toel marte On defense. You had Adamus. Roof gives up a triple to Corbin Carroll.
00:28:50
Speaker
I don't know if you saw this highlight. He gives up a triple to Corbin Carroll. His helmet falls off. Adamus errors, throwing it at his head. Carroll scores. Yes. I didn't see that.
00:29:02
Speaker
Poor Corbin Carroll gets in the head and then getting yelled at by his third base coach to like go home. Yeah. You gotta risk getting hit in the head again My guy the to score My LVP is gonna be Gage For pitching because he's the one that gave the home run Bader is my LVP for offense He went 0-5 with the strikeout On defense it was Adamas because he errors in the first Causing a run to score ah Game 3 could not watch ah It was a day game I was at work But they lost and they got swept um And the season just just gets worse
00:29:37
Speaker
Let's go back to your Yankees. Back to my guys Who I'm seeing here. hi again. That's rough. Two game series. That's so weird. We got rained out middle game. Ah, OK.
00:29:48
Speaker
So that that game was rescheduled to September. Yikes. All the way back over there. Yikes. Okay. So I already got to think ahead of that at at some point, but at at least a very eventful game one, if nothing else, this is Cole's return.
Garrett Cole's Return and Performance
00:30:06
Speaker
Hey. Eric Cole back from, from injury. He needed Tommy John before last season could even start. So he's, he's finally back on the bump. Now they're, they're even saying that he could have come back post-season.
00:30:18
Speaker
last year i don't think you like really forced it but i think it it's it's better off happening right now yeah i would i would agree it was shaky at first because at the point let' see almost a season and a half yeah at the start of this game everyone was like oh the the whole narrative is like oh garrett garrett co what what what kind of shape is he gonna be in yeah if people posting pictures of him he gained weight just like yeah because he just got out of surgery guys He got out he got out of surgery and also if you has a rehab if you're an old pitcher, you're just going bigger. You're just going to be bigger. It doesn't really matter. Also, let's not pretend that he's like obese. Yeah.
00:30:52
Speaker
CC's a bath. Yeah. You know, he got in shape when he retired. He has a whole, I forget how he ordered it, but his whole thing was like, no, yeah, I pitch better, like heavier set or whatever. Yeah, I mean, that was ah does the same thing with Pablo Sandoval.
00:31:06
Speaker
Yep. he He got real fit in retirement. He was like pushing 300 pounds as an an active player. And now he's like super fit and could and like could potentially even play. I think he's an independent ball right now.
00:31:19
Speaker
And look at this. I'm looking at Garrett Cole's baseball reference page. Already sitting at almost one war for the season. 0.9. He pitched two games. No runs come across. as era yeah zero So everybody calm down. He's six ready Everybody keep Everybody keep back.
00:31:36
Speaker
everybody here be delivered a strong debut six scoreless innings he's pitching opposite a hot Nick Martinez his fastball was still up at 96 I'll bring up someone else's fastball stats for at the end of the episode but got that going on his elbow totally healthy Yankees offense mostly stalled though he got very little run support but quickly I know BMI is like not a good indicator for anything because it was made by a dude in a time where everybody was starving yeah But even on BMI, it has him barely overweight. Barely.
00:32:12
Speaker
BMI of 26, 24 is the top end of healthy. They're saying that healthy is weighing 200 pounds. They're called 6'5".
00:32:24
Speaker
No, he's six boy six four That's still pretty tall. Yeah, okay. So that puts him little bit towards the higher end of overweight on BMI, but still. i don't think it's anything to worry about. It's not. It's it's really not. He's clearly fine.
00:32:36
Speaker
It's not, no. Yeah. yeahre call Everybody calm down. Relax. You know who people compare Garrett Cole to a lot? Who? Trevor Bauer. Huh. If he was good.
00:32:46
Speaker
If he was good? There are two sides of the same coin. Yeah. I think Garrett Cole can talk some shit. Oh, yeah. Which is why he he gets the comparison. Oh, yeah. Well, he remember that that one year. i think this was two years ago.
00:32:58
Speaker
he like threw a pitch like way, way high because ah the I think it was a ray. He kept he kept getting timeouts. This is before the timeout rule. He kept getting he kept calling timeout just as he was coming set and annoyed him.
00:33:13
Speaker
and In the interview, when they asked about it, he just said that he was, you know, readjusting the the the zone. Make him look up, look higher. Garrett Cole's a he's he's funny. He's so funny. He's jokey. He's jokey. And he's ah he's actually cool. Yeah, i like his sense of humor. Very very dry.
00:33:30
Speaker
God, he would have done wonders on Between Two Ferns. Oh, yeah. This fastball is still pretty good. Yankees didn't give him run support. Offense mostly stalled despite three hits from Trent Grisham.
00:33:43
Speaker
Austin Wells briefly broke through. He had a solo homer in the fifth. The Rays threatened to the 7th, but were held scoreless. They then completely capitalized in the 8th after a routine grounder turned into a costly error that sparked a four-run rally.
00:33:58
Speaker
In the 9th, Aaron Judge, still in his slump, was the winning run on base. He wasn't on base, he was he was at the plate. He had a pretty hard-hit ball, but it was brought in the warning track, and the MGs lost. Was this ah was a home game? game or is this Yes, that I have this down as as home as a home series.
00:34:18
Speaker
I hate Tropicana. I hate it. yeah I didn't recognize Tropicana when I saw pictures of it. my the The president of my alma mater threw out the first pitch oh a couple days ago.
00:34:31
Speaker
And I was looking like, where are they? What city? He went out of town to throw this... he went out of out of town to to throw this Should I throw this first pitch? What stadium are they are they playing in right now?
00:34:43
Speaker
I thought Tropicana, one of the things they had in the back, there was like a building. and like They don't have buildings inside the building. I don't know what the hell I'm seeing, but whatever forced perspective thing was happening, in fact I fucked up. Like, oh, that's Tropicana. They got like...
00:34:55
Speaker
i don't know if they had it before they got like large LED. They should have score bugs and all that now. They should have that dude coming out of the wall with his glove. he they are part of the Yeah, part of the field. He should be part of like the field, right?
00:35:10
Speaker
And if the ball lands in his glove, it's an out. That's too fun for the MLB. Yeah, you're right. It'll also be the most frustrating thing. It'll be so frustrating. Alright, so let's see. you So i have to how this skate how does this game
Are Yankees' Defensive Issues a Concern?
00:35:22
Speaker
end? Died on the warning track. fuels glow Okay, yeah. I died on the warning track. Eight aid inning implosion. i put down that's where most of the costly errors came in.
00:35:31
Speaker
Yeah, love it when your team who's doing relatively well, just inexplicably forgets how to play baseball for one inning. Like that was weird. Well, that's got to be studied. I guess we could throw this out then guys. Everyone go home.
00:35:45
Speaker
oh we I guess we're playing the rest of the game then. We're out of play. This has been my only career. Forgot how to do it. It happens. Yeah, but it's just so weird when it does. Yeah, ah the the the the big highlight was seeing all the innings that Cole pitched.
00:35:58
Speaker
That was what you probably tuned in for. And then if you tuned in after things start, ah if you stuck around till after things got wrong and you waited all the way into the end. Sorry, I guess.
00:36:09
Speaker
Can I ask a rage bait question? Sure. The eighth inning where you saw that implosion. hmm. how How do you feel about that? Is is that foreshadowing for the postseason?
00:36:21
Speaker
i I hope not. This is a far better team defensively than they I think have been. Yeah, because what do the Dodgers say? How to beat the Yankees? just Make them play baseball. and play Make them play baseball. But there are a lot of different players on the field now. Okay, yeah. but but But it's still the same, you know, coaches, still the same ownership, still the same manager. True, true, true. I assume still the same, you know, philosophy. Yeah. if Caballero is going to be defensively as good as he was, you know, working previous and is only going to fuck up in the postseason.
00:36:52
Speaker
I think that's a him thing. i'm like I'm not, I'm not going to put that on whoever's teaching fielding over, over in the Bronx. That's fair. That is fair. If somebody does great all year and then implodes in the the postseason, is that really, yeah. Like, is that really the coach's fault? Yeah. No. Yeah. Okay.
00:37:09
Speaker
And what? now I got to save that for for next season because I'll talk about the cabbie rotation that we have going on because shortstop is getting a little little crowded. oh Perhaps a little crowded, especially with who we have in the minors. We might be teaching some other people some new positions, but I'll get to i'll get to that yeah in in a wee bit. At the end of the season.
00:37:32
Speaker
At the end of the season. he said it was for next season, right? ah This season too, kind of. I think next season they're going to have some questions that they might want to plug in there. See who who's sticking around, who we want to see.
00:37:44
Speaker
Get some reps. okay Game two, rained out. owamp Game three, which is now game two, was Ryan Weathers versus Drew Rasmussen. How good is Rasmussen?
00:37:57
Speaker
You're already south of four, so not terrible. But weather's, come again, coming in with a lot to prove. He has these flashes of brilliance. And then, you know the you know, it's just growing pains.
00:38:10
Speaker
you got ah Some of these things happen in the majors, especially when you're a young guy. Yeah. Is Ryan Weathers, so this is this is your number three pitcher in the rotation, right? I don't even know. ah i I think I'd put, i think he might be a number five. is he' like Oh, so he's the last guy?
00:38:25
Speaker
i'd I'd say number five. He's still pretty good for a five-year guy. Very young. Yeah, hey, you know, that that's the number five is the guy that you that you accept that is going to lose the game probably. Mm-hmm. So it's not not bad at all. But Schlittler and Pohl are kind of like two of the same, like solid, reliable, can go a bunch of innings guys. And then you have older guys in Rodan. Shouldn't probably go deeper than you'd be allowed, even though I have all the confidence in the world in them, that's the consensus. And then young guys where you want to see them go deeper into games.
00:38:59
Speaker
Hmm. Okay. It's a very weird dichotomy that they have. I'm not talking about Freed right now because he is hurt in case you were wondering. Okay. Yeah. I think that, uh, that seems to be the opposite. Your, your veterans are the ones that go deeper and then the young guys five.
00:39:13
Speaker
Clark Schmidt is, uh, throwing some simple pen stuff. I, I found that when I was looking, and I was trying to look for some Max Freed stuff. I don't know why the first thing I'm seeing is about Clark Schmidt. That's cool. I guess. like for responding well the throwing program Max Freed is responding well to a throwing program that he's in right now. So that's some good good news on the Max Freed front.
00:39:31
Speaker
Anyway, Ryan Reuters versus Drew Rasmussen. it was like This was the big pitching duel I think I was alluding to earlier. They both threw seven shutout innings.
00:39:42
Speaker
Walt Ball's offenses were held in check with no runners advancing pass. Second through all seven of those innings. In the eighth, a Ray's run was wiped out by Cody Bellinger, throwing behind a trailing runner at third or for the final out right before the go-ahead run came across home plate. So I tucked him there. That was pretty cool. The ninth, Ray's reliever Kevin Kelly lost his command and walked Trent Grisham, bringing up Aaron Judge, who was in his slump, who then lined the first pitch he saw the other way, making a decisive moment.
00:40:14
Speaker
bringing the Yankees out in front and giving them the win. That's how those two runs came across. final score was 2-0. How confident are you? Do you happen to have... i don't know if you have the stats. ah How do the Yankees do in one to two run games? Oh, boy Are they winning more? I don't think so.
00:40:33
Speaker
I think the Giants have still yet to win one-run I'm gonna throw my textbook hesitance out out the window. I'm gonna say no. I'm just, gonna say flat out no. Okay, you're not confident.
00:40:44
Speaker
They do really well, as as like you'd expect in big games where it's like, oh my god, the Yankees, the homerun power and all that. If the score is like very close within like, you know, no team is going, if I hear like, yeah, this Yankees game, no team scored more than three runs. I was like, oh, Yankees probably lost this game.
00:41:03
Speaker
Okay. which Which is different than if, ah you know, they got shut out or one of the teams only scored like one runs, if that was the tell. But if it's like, no, both teams had run was coming across the board. No one scored more than, more than three.
00:41:15
Speaker
Okay. I'm going to assume that the Yankees lost that very, in that game. They got held to one run. right. I think before we get to the Giants, I think we should finish off with the Yankees because my next series came at a bad time for work purposes and and I didn't get to watch
Yankees vs Royals Series Highlights
00:41:31
Speaker
it.
00:41:31
Speaker
So let's just finish off your Yankees. My Yankees? I got two series left. Oh, you got two series left. Yeah. How many series do you have left? um Actually, I'm sorry. let's do Let's do this next one, the Royals. Yeah.
00:41:42
Speaker
Yeah, let's do the Royals and then we can go back to the Giants. Oh, my Royals series, then we go back to the Giants? Yeah. Okay, got you, got you, got you. MVP I can I can split between Aaron George and Trent Grisham Trent Grisham just has some great stats here but Aaron judgedge you know not getting out of the slump and all that in big moment so it was good to see that win come across him ah LVP I think I gave to Tim Hill because I can pin game one on him if not I'm sorry Tim if you got that properly but I think it was probably your fault so who cares I think you should cry about it oh
00:42:15
Speaker
And then it was just belt to ass for the entire Royal series. Yankees sweep the Royals. I think this was their 14th consecutive win against the Royals.
00:42:25
Speaker
Wow. I think I believe hearing that. Game one, Will Warren versus Michael Wacca. First inning, of Bellinger lost us launched a solo home run to break the ice open. Cavallaro followed up later in the frame with an RBI single.
00:42:39
Speaker
So Yankees were ahead 2-0 early. Will Warren had some command issues going into the second. Loaded the bases for ah by walking Salvador Perez, Caglione, and Isaac Collins.
00:42:51
Speaker
Michael Macy hit a sack fly, which brought over the first Royals run. But Warren kind of locked down after that. now Nothing really happens until the sixth. Score i was held to 2-1 for all those several frames until Salvador Perez hit a solo home run, tying the game to two I think it tied him for franchise's ballpark record. I think he tied whoever historic black and white images I i was seeing of of the last guy, most home runs in that ballpark.
00:43:21
Speaker
ah But specifically at their ballpark. Yes. Okay. What a very strange, a niche, and very specific stat in the record. Jake Bird came in and surrendered.
00:43:32
Speaker
Towering go-ahead solo home run by Bobby Witt Jr. Down the left field line. The Yankees trailed three two heading into the ninth. But that's still, it was ah one of those weird things. He'll still put himself on the line. Just wish I knew what qualified pitchers for the win off the top my head like this. So it's the last pitcher to be in the game when your team is in the lead.
00:43:53
Speaker
So if Tim Hill comes in in the ninth to close out, right? And then shuts down the Royals. And then the Yankees get but the walk-off. And then Tim Hill gets the win because he's the last one to be pitching. Yeah, he put himself on line for the win, which is... He stole he stole a win, is what you're saying. What happens?
00:44:08
Speaker
yeah Goldspin had a broken bat single. Jazz had a double to put Goldie on third. Volpe had a two-RBI single that went into left field. And then Bednar came in and locked down only walking one batter. So, final score, Yankees win Okay, close game.
00:44:24
Speaker
You know, it wasn't close. What wasn't close? Game two. Game two. Game two was not close at all. there's No. This was laying on the hurt. This was historic, but there's another historic game in this next series that I think I paid a little bit more attention to. Okay.
00:44:37
Speaker
I wrote very little for this. I wrote down, if anything, the middle of the lineup guys that were actually producing pretty well. Okay, that's good. It was Slytler versus Falter. It was kind of. It was a bullpen day. Okay, so you saw him for like what? Two innings? I just put down the first pitcher recall seeing who started the game. like I checked the box score. ah Bellinger homered in the first, and it was 4-0 after the first. So complete tone setter. And given the final score, nothing else happened after that.
00:45:04
Speaker
The only Kansas City run that comes in this game is from Bobby Wood Jr. hitting a solo home run. Okay. So other than that, yeah, Yankees brought Yarbrough for the seventh and he ran through us through the way. So it was Schlittler to Yarbrough and that was it just to, uh, the bullpen loves that. Yeah.
00:45:22
Speaker
Ahmed Rosario went four for six. Had four RBIs game. Nice, nice. Volpe went three for six, had a home run. Had two... He had a double and two and two RBIs. Okay. Sorry, Don, for that. I fucked up. I wrote at B. Yeah.
00:45:36
Speaker
and And no errors. No errors. Woo-hoo. He's getting better. He could have four errors in this game as long as it didn't result in a run without forgetting about it. Because he... a he get traded do you think he's very good right now so i don't think so interesting not this season okay that may put it out see i can see him regressing maybe but he's he's doing very good and he's making me eat my words all right so i think he's making a lot yankees fans uh eat their words right now yeah so anthony volpe when his arm isn't being held together with toothpicks pretty good pretty good ball player apparently
00:46:08
Speaker
Game seven, 7-0 win. It was Cole versus Noah Cameron. The third innings, the closest the Royals ever came to scratching a run across against Garrett Cole. I almost called him Michael Cole. But no, Michael Massey hit a one-out double and Garcia followed with a sharp single to right field. Aaron Judge fielded the ball clean and fired an absolute laser to home plate.
00:46:30
Speaker
So Massey was out. Nice, nice. With that shit on the dome. Let's go, let's go. In the fourth, Paul Goldschmidt led off with a single. On the very next pitch, Ben Rice smoked an RBI triple off the left field wall. Aaron Judge then lifted a deep sack fly drive Rice home and gave Cole a 2-0 lead to work with. Top of the seventh, bases loaded with two outs. Goldschmidt works an RBI walk, followed by a Rice RBI, ah two RBI single. I didn't write down what the score was at that point. But it's 7-0 on the 8th when Ryan McMahon hits a two-run home run, which he kind of needs right he kind of needs all the good press he can get right now.
00:47:07
Speaker
So final score was 7-0. That's how that happened. They complete the sweep. I get my MVP to Volpe, and I get my LVP to Jake Bird. All right, then. So we'll get to these two Giants series. First one is going to be at home against the White Sox. I missed a series due to working in the way, but my favorite pitcher, McDonald, got blown up in the fourth inning in his first game. Our favorite pitcher.
00:47:29
Speaker
Or in the first game, giving up nine runs, the Giants lost 9-4. Afterwards, the Giants had back-to-back grand slams in games two and three, winning with 10 runs in the second game and eight in the third.
00:47:40
Speaker
For a quick note, Webb was expected to come back, but he did not make his expected to start. Instead, taking a rehab assignment in AAA and will be expected for game two against the Diamondbacks. that's what we're going to get to now. Oh, Giants ah beat the White Sox. They take the series 2-1.
00:47:52
Speaker
This is the only series that they won this episode. Yikes. The next series is against the Diamondbacks at home, and the Giants got swept again. Yeah, it's it's bad. Game one, Merrill Kelly continues to be a giant slayer, only giving up two runs.
00:48:06
Speaker
A few strikeouts, but many 1-2-3 innings with a more than manageable pitch count through his start. Errors continue to pile on for Willie, leading him to not speak to media after the game, instead punting to Roop, having to explain his continuing rough starts. Not even Tony could explain it.
00:48:18
Speaker
With Ramos hurt, Schmidt continues his adventures as a super utility guy and has his first real struggle in the outfield with an arguable error, but the scorekeeper was kind. The only notable thing to happen in this game was a two RBI double in the fourth by Devers, the only run that the Giants would score.
00:48:32
Speaker
The Giants lose 6-2 and only get five hits. Highlights for this game. i'm Pitching, you got Roop, who gets out of an ugly third inning, starts at 27 pitches, ends at 57, lives the bases with one out, and gets out of it without allowing the D-backs to score. Yeah. As you can see, I'm scraping the bottom of the barrel for highlights. like about Yeah, it's like, you know what? You had a bad inning, but you got out of it. Somehow managed to throw 30 pitches and loaded the bases with one out and managed to not get a run.
00:48:59
Speaker
Crazy. Offense, Adamas, he works a full count leadoff walk in the fourth. Arise hits a double in the fourth. Adamas goes to third. Devers hits a two RBI double in the fourth. Schmidt hits a two out double in the sixth. Eldridge works a two out walk.
00:49:10
Speaker
And Gilbert hits a leadoff double in the eighth. ah defense you have Bader who makes a clutch sliding catch into the left center field wall to get the first out of the game and saves a double and he made a clutch diving catch in the ninth to save a hit and get the last out how many MVPs some lowlights I've got Roop gives up a solo home run in the third Baguero gives up a leadoff walk in the sixth he gives up a no out double runners on third and second in the sixth a single will score both runs Giants down six to two My defense, Adonis errors. There's a ball out of play turning and turning an out into a double. The runner scores on the next hit, ties the game 2-2 in the fifth.
00:49:45
Speaker
My LVP is going to be, the only LVP I have for this game is Paguro. Who goes? Guess guess how many innings pitched? How many? 0.1. 11 pitches, one walk, two earned runs. Game two, the Giants' terrible performance against the D-backs continues to a zero five record for the season. The Giants have some good at-bats and great homers, but with all of them being solos, they can only do so much.
00:50:05
Speaker
Adamas errors again, causing a run to go from go to third and eventually score. Devers failed to perform in a big moment with the bases loaded and two outs, but was called out on strikes, but not after wasting a challenge first.
00:50:17
Speaker
For highlights, I've got on offense Schmidt. He had a host solo homer on the first and an RBI single in the third. Chapman works a one out full count walk in the first, works his two out walk in the fifth to load the bases and works the lead off walk in the eighth.
00:50:30
Speaker
his His stat line for this game is pretty funny. me Let me get that real quick. ah Yeah, so Chapman. Yeah, so Chapman, he has one run, four total plate appearances, but only one at bat. He got walked three times and struck out once.
00:50:46
Speaker
And on that last walk, he did eventually score. Mm-hmm. Eldridge is a one out double in the second. Crazy stat for Eldridge right now is that he's like in the top 10 hitters after only being playing this season for a month. So he is doing some crazy stuff. It's kind of interesting, funny watching or listening to like Rockies fans at the game, like looking at his like OPS and like his slugging within looking at his batting average and being like, what? Because like I think what he started that series is he's hitting like 190 something like 197. So they they're just like looking at it like what's going on here. And I would explain to them like, you know, like i he's only been up for a month. So Adamus hits a leadoff trip on the third hits a two out full count solo homer in the ninth pass hits a leadoff homer in the seventh. Devers hits an RBI double in the sixth.
00:51:30
Speaker
don't have any MVPs for this one. i don't know why. Low lights are going be Molly or Mealy. Gives up a solo home run in the second. Gives ah up gives the D-backs a 3-1 lead. On offense, Schmidt falls victim to a line-out turn to double play. Picked off at first.
00:51:44
Speaker
Devers called to strike three to end the inning with bases loaded in the fifth. Defense, Adamas errors again. Throwing the ball away. Getting no outs and runners on the third. Rodriguez, this is going to be J-Rod. Fails to keep a line drive in his glove.
00:51:57
Speaker
Not charging error. Runner scores. The D-backs extend their lead to 7-3. I think game three I was unable to watch because of work getting in the way. The Giants lose game three. Get swept 0-6 record against the D-backs this
Giants' Continued Challenges
00:52:08
Speaker
year. So let's go ahead finish this off with, do you have anything? Willie Adamus check in. How how we feeling?
00:52:14
Speaker
uh the errors are bad the the errors are bad i don't know it's kind of there's points where it's like please please please just hold on to the ball except to the you like it's like if if he's if the the double play starts with him it's kind of like where he has to make a throw to first it's like you know maybe if the guy just gets a hit that might be better than than the alternative but hopefully that gets that's turned around gets turned around soon But yeah, let's finish off with ah your your names. It's not my guy. You're going against the A's, the athletics. The Oglamento A's. The homeless A's. The lost Oglamento A's. The lost Oglamento A's were like it.
00:52:54
Speaker
Oh. a her her her her good Good stuff for the most part. i don't like game two. Game two is pretty brutal. Okay. Just a game that you don't want to see them end up in a loss with.
00:53:08
Speaker
First game was a little bit out of the ordinary. It was Rodon versus Severino, and Severino got taken out by the second inning. Okay. Yeah, not not that he was doing all that well in the first to begin with. Yankees capitalized on a defensive error and a balk to move a runner into scoring position, leading to an RBI by Aaron Judge. After allowing another single, Paul Goldschmidt hit a three-run homer. I didn't write down who the single came from.
00:53:33
Speaker
So the Yankees were at a 4-1 lead early. 4-0 lead early. Kurtz homeward off-road Don in the first to put it to at least get the A's on the board. But then Severino got taken out of the game after throwing some warm-up pitches. I have it down here. he was taken out with soreness. Okay.
00:53:49
Speaker
So he didn't put a pitch over the plate for that frame. I think in that, I didn't write down what innings some of this stuff happened in. Cabby reaches on a double and Rice drives him in. So that would be... 5-1 whenever that happened.
00:54:01
Speaker
Ryan McMahon and Ben Rice both hit solo home runs in the contest in the third inning and seventh inning, respectively. The remaining run came in when Judge tapped a weak grounder through the infield, which gave Trent Grisham plenty of time to cross the plate from behind third base to make it 7-1. Again, I didn't write down what inning that happened in. Anyway, that was the 8-2 against the A's. Maybe I'm not writing down a lot of innings stuff that's happening in because it was late.
00:54:30
Speaker
These were mainly late afternoon, early evening games. Okay, yeah. oh All the way out in Sacramento. I'm on the East Coast. Yeah, ah awkward times to watch. To watch baseball.
00:54:40
Speaker
Game two, this was the loss. They split this series 2-1. They lost game two. It was Ryan Weathers versus JT Gin. The Yankees fell behind early when Weathers gave up a first inning home run to Shea Langoliers.
00:54:53
Speaker
They cut the deficit to 2-1 in the fourth after a Bellinger walk. Jazz Chisholm single and a defensive misplay that are allowed a run to score, but they stranded runners at the corners.
00:55:05
Speaker
Aaron Judge just missed a go-ahead homer in the fifth, flying out on a ball that, ah that like he flew out, but what was I trying to say here? he got So the ball he hit was a home run in 16 ballparks. It was a home run in 16 ballparks. But now it's AAA ballpark. AAA ballpark. It's crazy.
00:55:22
Speaker
No, He's very interested to think about. Losing my train of thought coming down to the wire here. Oh. Weathers was still in for the sixth. Yeah, he gave up another home run to Tyler Soderstrom. Boone kept Weathers in even after that, going in out for the seventh.
00:55:36
Speaker
And he managed to get two outs, but still looked shaky on his third batter and let him get on base. Boone then came out for what seemed like a mound visit, seemed more like a I'm coming out of here for posterity state kind of thing. He didn't look like he had any intention to take him out, even though the next batter was Nick Kurtz.
00:55:54
Speaker
Okay. And that was one batter too many. Kurtz blew the game open after that with a two run shot. He was then subsequently taken out after that. Yikes.
00:56:05
Speaker
Literally one moment, little too much for for the man. Mm-hmm. It's 6-1 in the ninth, and the pseudo comeback starts to work its way around. McMahon finds a single. Iskar and Grisham both work walks. The A's then swap out for their closer, Scott Barlow, who walks Ben Rice to walk a run-in. a Walks Judge Belly for two more, but then Jazz gets jammed, and that's how the game ends. But, like, what a way to kind of bring this thing down to the wire. Yeah. I was just hoping for some offensive production at some point. Never came. i guess I kind of have to put it on Jazz, even though he did make the effort. He just got jammed up there. Yeah. But that's how that ended out.
00:56:43
Speaker
And then this is the real historic thing I wanted to talk about. This 13 to 8 win in game three. Oh, my God. Will Warren versus Jacob Lopez. The Yankees go down 3-0 early in the first.
00:56:56
Speaker
There was umpires clearly missing a runner's interference. I think they just kind of let it stand to let like you know let the boys play and all that. Okay. And then Grisham dropped a ball right in front of him with like the sun on his eyes, which is very weird. Was he wearing his sunglasses? I believe so, yeah. Okay. But then, Andrew, but then.
00:57:13
Speaker
Okay. They had a 13-run inning. Oh, my God. In the third? In the third. Oh, no. The third was their only inning of production, and they got 13 runs out of it. 12 batters reached base safely. That's the only time they it's the only time they got runners? 12 consecutive batters reached the base. Hey, yeah you know, if if you're only going to score in one inning...
00:57:35
Speaker
That's the way to do it. I guess. They they went through two pitchers. They went through their starter, Jacob Lopez and Michael Kelly. Oh, no. Oh, no. I didn't write down everything that happened just because it seemed like too much.
00:57:49
Speaker
Yeah. Ben Rice delivered two separate extra base hits in that affair. Okay. Bottom of the seventh reliever Tim Hale ran into some trouble giving up a solo shot to Brent Rooker and a three-run homer to Jonah Heum. Jonah Heum? Jonah Heum. I tried pronouncing it. I like to think it's Heum. I have a friend named Heum. And you're Liam.
00:58:08
Speaker
And I'm Liam. Also spelled L-E-I-M. Jonah Heum. F-U. Change the pronunciation to your name. Jonah. I before E, Jonah. Come on, bro. Narrowing the final deficit. So even they gave up so many runs, but even that it was still 13 to seven. The final score was 13 to eight. That's still a five run deficit.
00:58:28
Speaker
Yeah. So not even ah Nick Kurtz RBI double with Fernando Chris in the eighth could stop anything. So that that was that was the ending to a crazy volley volley series right there. The number 10 is an interesting number.
00:58:44
Speaker
Is it? It is. Like when once you get to the double digits, things get weird because usually at 13 to eight, that's only five runs, right? I don't know about you, but to me that feels insurmountable. Right? The 13 part? Yeah, I think so. But like if you had, if, but the score was eight to three, right? I'd be like okay, we can still win this. It's only as the third inning. Mm-hmm.
00:59:03
Speaker
I don't know. How do you how do you feel about that? do Am I onto something here? Is something is there something like psychological about it? I mean, if I were just look at it, I'd i'd think it was like ah Is there something psychological about double digits? i still there Maybe. But even if you were to just hand this over to me, I thought the i think it's the one inning of production that that's getting me. Because if you just threw this score at me, like, oh, the Yankees won, the final score 13-8, I would naturally assume that you know it was spread across more evenly. Yeah, it was like, okay, they got they got like a few, like, they maybe got a Grand Slam. Like, ah oh this happened, and then this happened, and then then then this, you know, kind of thing. It was kind of like a call and response type deal.
00:59:41
Speaker
But nah, I think there was one big ending of production. Everyone took a vacation. Yeah, you see 13 and you think, yeah, like you think, okay, they had, you know, and you assume correctly that they had one run of really good or one inning of really good production and the rest was like standard.
00:59:58
Speaker
Yeah. I mean, no, it was only one inning forever. I wasn't expecting that to be the way that the series concluded, but yeah, I didn't write down an LVP. Okay.
01:00:09
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as We'll close this out with and Giants last series for the episode against the Rockies. Giants lose the series 2-1. I went there. I flew over to Colorado. ended Ended up driving back. You drove back? Yeah. I picked up a desk while I was there.
01:00:25
Speaker
Oh, that's why you had to return
Personal Anecdotes and Miscellaneous Stories
01:00:27
Speaker
the U-Haul. Yeah, that's why I to return the U-Haul. I got a free trailer out of it because they needed the trailer here, so they gave it to me with full coverage by U-Haul and $75 off.
01:00:36
Speaker
seventy five dollars off hey The crazy thing about it, about that $75 off, there you got to remember, nothing nothing is free in this world. I got the desk for free, but the shipping what was $1,000. And that was rough. I probably should have because i want why and Because I don't have a truck and I don't have the ability to tow, right? And so i was like, please, please, please, you know, let me take a van. But they're like ah, that's in-city only.
01:01:03
Speaker
like But a van would be so perfect for what I need to transport. i need to transport one thing. And they're like best we can do is a 10 footer. Like, all right. And after I got the free trailer, the cost actually went up to $1,000, which I was like, okay. And then I got charged for it not filling the truck up. I got charged $11 when I got there. And I was like, they're like, yeah, it's not the same level that you picked it up at. I was like, what? was like, I picked it up at three quarters. Like, is in this at three quarters tank? And the guy was like, yes, it is at three quarters tank. But you know what i picked it up at? what yeah guess Guess what this fraction was as I scroll up. Three quarters point three.
01:01:35
Speaker
yeah it was i actually did not pick it up at three quarters i picked it up at 13 16ths of a tank is the the official fraction one but yeah 13 16ths like all right whoops my bad so i got charged 11 extra dollars for that i was like whatever i just i got home at midnight unloaded the desk it was really heavy and then went to sleep and like ended up being all done with it all all the moving and junk at uh about 2 a.m.
01:02:02
Speaker
And then because I also had a shower, right? And get like to take care of other stuff because I have my cats here. And then ended up going to bed at 2, 2.30. Woke up at 5.30. Picked up the dogs from the borders and then went to go drop off the U-Haul. So I was very tired yesterday.
01:02:17
Speaker
but Anyway, ah game one is ah Logan Webb's first start. That's back. He looked like he was he he he wasn't he did not do particularly bad. I would say this is his first stint on the IL in a very long time. It was 15 days. He had the rehab start. He gets pulled out in the fifth inning. I think he had like 80 something pitches.
01:02:36
Speaker
The Giants did have the lead for that when he got pulled. As far as like Webb goes, he looked like a pitcher that came off the IL. It looks like he missed three starts. Yeah. But by no means did he look terrible. He did have an error trying to throw a dribbler tries to throw at first, decided to throw it in the right field.
01:02:57
Speaker
that's like the worst thing that happened but like i said like no big deal the giants had lead when he gets pulled and then the bullpen just absolutely screws it up also if i sound different uh here we are at the end of the episode it's because i i picked something up while i was there i am not feeling good i'm congested you know you said all right to me okay oh i am i'm congested that's why i was muting a lot because i was coughing oh Game two, Adrian Hauser started. I did the 999 challenge while I was there. Hauser could not find the zone. I am done with him. I'm done with him.
01:03:26
Speaker
I played a little game with... ah i for game For the three games, I went with the some friends, and then we had a bigger group for game two. I did the 999, and me and new friend Austin. We're looking at the pitchers ERA for the Rockies and for the the Giants, for the starters.
01:03:44
Speaker
And we were like, does Hauser end up with a higher ERA than the Rocky starter? The answer was yes, and by a lot. Mm-hmm. Hauser starts with like a five point something ERA. The I think it was like five point two or something like that. And then the Rocky starter came in with an ERA of six. So how the Giants could not capitalize the whole series, the whole series, terrible starters when you just look at ERA, right?
01:04:08
Speaker
Could not do anything to them. So the guy had a lower ERA than Hauser did by the end of that game. And by a lot. And by a lot. um I did the 999 challenge. That was interesting. It was $65. The hot dogs were already cold when I picked it up. Oh, geez. Yeah. ah The bread got hard almost immediately.
01:04:29
Speaker
um It's the equivalent of drinking three... three 12 ounces uh three ounce beers or three ounce beers 12 ounce three 12 ounce beers is the equivalent for the beer it's a tall boy and then it's the equivalent of eating four full-size hot dogs i made the mistake of eating before uh the game don't know why i did that austin also did that he had a hamburger we we got to like the fourth fifth inning and we were like why did we eat before we came in And then Austin did end up finishing the the hot dogs.
01:04:59
Speaker
I did not. I got i had two and a half left, two and a half left. But we had quite a few people looking around like watching us do this. We did it though the way that it suits should be done. You know, you don't binge the beer. You don't binge the hot dogs. It's one hot dog, one beer per inning.
01:05:15
Speaker
And let me tell you, I try to do it like, okay, if I can just get the Giants were not helping me out because I kept going one, two, three and like not battling at all. I'm like, I need you guys to extend these innings. Please. Just a little bit longer. Please.
01:05:28
Speaker
the The first. so i sorry, let me go back to the first game real quick. Giants lose in a walk off, get walked off. There's a controversial home run call that looked foul to me, but New York said no, it was not foul.
01:05:41
Speaker
So you can game. Giants just get. destroyed because hauser's on the mound and then um in game two you know we're doing the 999 the lady in front of me shannon i think is her name let me take a look here her name is shannon yeah uh she she took mine and austin's picture and did a little interview with us on x he yeah formerly twitter the everything app i'm gonna forward this to you liam and we'll put the link to it in the description hell yeah Her thing is ah at love the rocks. um It's pretty good. It's Andrew. Yeah, there I am.
01:06:15
Speaker
I'm on the right with the Giants. Obviously. Yeah, obviously. You know, maybe the people listening don't know what I look like. That's what you look like. So that that was fun. She's pretty cool. those Those of you at home, just think of a guy dressed exactly like that behind a microphone. Okay, yeah, that that's me. Although I'm always dressed up like that. Whenever I record these though, like I'm usually in my pajamas and my current shirt is a horribly torn ACDC shirt.
01:06:44
Speaker
So nipples out. Whenever I record, don't know if you knew that, Liam, but the nips are out. Actually, only one nip. Only one nip? It tore in a weird way, this shirt.
01:06:57
Speaker
If you could see it, ah you would tell me to throw it out. nots Not my worst torn shirt, though. So, you know. have any torn shirts. I have a lot. I have a lot. um The third game is a blowout. The Giants win that one 19 to 6.
01:07:13
Speaker
They twenty have 25 hits. There's a grand slam. And I feel empty with that. Really? Yeah, because, well, spoiler alert for next episode, but the Giants lose game one against the Brewers 16 to 2 or something like that.
01:07:25
Speaker
But ah no, like like like, it's just like, okay, like, it's the Rockies, you know? It's in Coors Field. Like, there's always going to be that that weird game like that, at least once, you know, per series, right?
01:07:36
Speaker
So, like, it's kind of like, cool, you know, cool in the moment, but like, when you look at everything like as a whole, just like, whatever, dude. so It's the Rockies, you know? I was stuck listening to a Rockies fan, fake Rockies fan, who was like, this is the worst team in baseball right now. I'm like, uh-uh. It's still you guys for at least one more game. And it wasn't until yesterday that the Giants became the worst team in baseball, tied for the worst team in baseball, three-way tie between the Angels, Royals, and Giants. at All at 23 and 38. All Angels are and Yeah, that's the the Giants. I picked something up while I was there, both a desk and a virus of some sort. I am struggling. I think thatll that'll that's going to be it for the Giants. It was fun. Overall, it was fun. It's always fun to watch baseball, especially when you're friends, you know?
01:08:18
Speaker
So ah not too bad. Liam. Yes. Are you ready for next episode's matchups? uh somewhat if i can give a somewhat spoiler for next episode there are some concerns okay okay well we we'll look at that right now let me read these off real quick uh what's today the third and so we will have you'll have a three game series at home against cleveland a three game series at home against boston go on the road three game series against cleveland and then a three game series or uh you know at cleveland And then a three game series in Toronto to finish that off for the Blue Jays. I believe that's finishing it off.
01:08:57
Speaker
me take a look. Yeah. So those are your next three games. We'll see how they they get through those. Because ah right before a game yesterday, Judge was scratched from the lineup. Was not in it. They lost. They end up losing this game. yep He is out with shoulder soreness right now. Okay. That's how long?
01:09:12
Speaker
Don't know at the moment. Okay. And then for my Giants, we have a, we're on the road, continuing this road trip, three game series against the Brewers. Or sorry, no, four game series against the Brewers. Three game series against the Cubs in Chicago. And then go back home, three game series against the Nationals. And then three game series against Chicago. so Quick thing. We're probably going to do what we did this time for next episode because I'm going to San Francisco to watch the Cubs series.
01:09:39
Speaker
So we're probably going have another out of cycle episode. We will see how that goes. Spoiler alert. It's not going great. The Giants lost 16 to two against Milwaukee. They've already lost the series. I was unable to watch those two games because um the first one I was on the road. Second one, I was dealing with some computer issues. So we will see. ah ah probably be able to watch. And I won't be able to watch Thursday's game because I'll be at work. But I should be able to watch today's. We'll see. There's going to be a lot of us missing with some some baseball.
01:10:06
Speaker
Yeah. You know what It's 162 games. That's OK. Our episodes are long enough as is. Sorry, Alex. yeah But yeah, so and I'm, you know, whatever. Whatever, dude. You know, like, we'll see. We'll see. We'll see how the Giants do. I'm not too confident.
01:10:21
Speaker
I think I'm going to try and change some history. So we'll see. We'll see. Keep an eye out for that. Change history. For Combined Arms, we're not going to do that this episode or next episode. So we will pick that up starting July for June. Just because of how weird this. Those are the only games I'm watching this year.
01:10:36
Speaker
After that, I will be good and I'll have a normal recording session for the rest of the season. Just ended up that June's going to be a very awkward month for us. Yeah, Junia is kind of a weird one. But you know what? That's life.
01:10:46
Speaker
That is life. Liam. Yes.
Promotions and Closing Remarks
01:10:49
Speaker
Before we go, do you have anything to plug? You know, i was. It's someone else's, but then I forgot what it was. Okay. So like normal?
01:10:58
Speaker
No. All right. I do have something to plug. ah One, watch my friend Michael Stream, twitch.tv slash Cinder Varela. Also, you can find his clips on youtube.com slash Cinder Varela.
01:11:09
Speaker
Also available, I think we'll throw we'll throw the link in the description as well. He has a book that he wrote. It's anthology, horror anthology called Cat and the Cosmic Campfire. You can find it on Amazon, available on ebook, Kindle, paperback, and hardback. My hardback version is in the mail. And then the link in the description for that has a is a really cool moment at the end there that I won't spoil, but I was like, ooh, ooh, that was good. And that is, think that's going to be it. I guess we'll see you guys in two-ish weeks or so. Good luck, everybody. Goodbye, everyone.
01:11:41
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Good luck, New York Hits.
01:12:00
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you