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#26 | The Yankees Have a Rough Road Trip and the Giants Salvage Theirs
10 Plays2 months ago
Andrew and Liam sit down and talk about their teams and the rough trips they have had. The Yankees go 1-2-1 while the Giants finish 4-5 after dropping the first two series. There's a slugfest in the Bronx and drama in Cincinnati! Let's talk about it!
Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
4:52 Yankees lose to the A's 1-2
12:00 Giants beat the Phillies 2-1
17:30 Some baseball terms
19:50 Yankees SWEPT by the Rays
33:13 Giants lose to the Orioles 2-1
40:50 Yankees Split an offense heavy series with the Angels
48:40 A peek at Cal Raleigh and OPS+ explained
49:35 Yankees/Angels revisited
53:30 Giants lose to the Reds 2-1, Giants make moves, and getaway day drama
1:08:52 Yankees SWEEP the Rays
1:20:25 Giants beat the Nationals 2-1
1:32:00 Thoughts on Tony Vitello
1:34:33 Upcoming series
1:39:20: Alex's Corner
1:39:50 Outro
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Transcript
Reunion and Season Kickoff
00:00:11
Speaker
Hello and welcome to Two Front War, bi-weekly podcast that covers the Yankees and Giants' 2026 season. I'm Andrew, and with me as always is Liam. Hi, Liam. Hey, Andrew. It been two weeks since we last convened. That it has. That it has. This has a been a quick April, may I say. Overall, yes, it has been a quick April. When I was looking through the script, I forgot we played against the Phillies.
00:00:34
Speaker
And that's why got take my notes immediately after the game. Otherwise, i will forget
Balancing Life and Baseball
00:00:40
Speaker
what happened. have you been up to, Liam? I was training for for basically one week and then networking events, film festivals a week after that. So the whole time has been a blur. I definitely squeezed in some time for baseball. That's good. There was a there's a good like three, four games there where I you know i had to had to basically just watch the highlights or hear people talk about it on Yes Network.
00:01:01
Speaker
okay Okay. Yeah, that's definite it definitely color in my world view. I've been productive, but Yankees have been productive in a different way. It would be nice if you could watch the games after they air. You know, that wasn't a highlight reel. I i probably can.
00:01:16
Speaker
It's just i'm getting home I'm getting home at like
MLB Game Access Frustrations
00:01:18
Speaker
nine now. Are those stores somewhere, though? I thought like once the game's over, and MLB just post a condensed game. I have no idea. maybe Maybe I can get it through Yes Network. I just got to like dig through like schedule, click on there and be like, okay, if there's some hidden link for full game. Just got to find it. I bet those, server like whatever our drives those are on, get filled up pretty quickly.
Phone Contracts and Baseball Access
00:01:41
Speaker
Oh, yeah. Or they they reduce the quality down. You're just like watching in like 420.
00:01:45
Speaker
Yeah. 480 480 480p we used to have games in there's a 480i which is like every other line is new and they keep flip-flopping between the two yeah interlaced interesting video format that was big like early YouTube.
00:02:06
Speaker
Yeah. Cause it's the closest they can get to HD. You ever go find digital an old YouTube video and then you see how it's like not available after like you look at like even the ones that are like 720 and like you're watching it and you're like, I cannot believe I thought this looked good all those years ago. It's 720.
00:02:22
Speaker
looked better all those years ago because the the screens were designed for that image in mind. now Nowadays, we we might have a different color space that it outputs too. Yeah, that's true. Gotta go find some old, like, cell phone with a keyboard on it and go watch a YouTube video on 720 to see if it looks good. That's how I i first started watching chena Conroy. It was on this old Samsung phone that slid up and it had had ah a keyboard. and We had unlimited internet access through it because I was just the standard at the time. so This was like just before I got the iPhone 3G. Because like before the iPhone accidentally hitting the internet on your phone was a scary, scary thing you could do because it would just eat up your minutes ah back when
Podcast Script Organization
00:03:02
Speaker
we had minutes. Oh, yeah. that That was that was a big thing with the iPhone to move away from calculating stuff by minutes to data.
00:03:10
Speaker
Yeah. And then it used to be truly unlimited. It it wasn't until 2020 that I finally got off my unlimited data plan for the Internet, which I think hindsight should not have done that. But but baseball got to me. I wanted to watch baseball. And the one thing that my old contract wouldn't do is with AT&T. The one thing they wouldn't do is let me have a hot spot. It was tied to the contract. and They said, well, you can get a hotspot if you get a new contract.
00:03:35
Speaker
So I got off a probably like an over like probably like 20 year contract got out of got the new one with limited data. now then Now I get a warning at the end of each month that I used up two gigabytes. But enough of that. This is already going to be ah a long enough episode as
Yankees Series Analysis
00:03:49
Speaker
is. you get You got a lot to talk about. Yeah, if you saw... You let me know pretty early. Yeah. I'm looking at these notes. know my portion of the script, but it is it is extensive. Because i'm trying to take better notes. so i'm trying to I'm trying to get better. trying to hashtag be best. Yeah, I'm trying to figure out how I like my notes my notes put down. maybe i mean I don't remember from from season one, but I just like get back in the swing of things season season two. I'm like, eh. Yeah, it was it was mainly, I guess it was early enough in the season where I'm like literally given like inning by inning breakdown.
00:04:22
Speaker
So yeah at a point, I ditched that. Yeah, yeah that would make it too long. i'm I got to figure out how reformat this script because was getting lost. I have so many... have in this list format that goes from number to letter to lowercase i's, like lowercase the like Roman numerals, back to numbers.
00:04:41
Speaker
It gets... It gets a little crazy look at and and formatting. I got i got a little bit lost, but oh we'll figure it out. We'll figure it out. I love my obtuse lists.
00:04:51
Speaker
All right, Liam. Yankees, sit in 13 and 9. Yeah, that they that they do, which is not the... Maybe I would be a little bit more enthusiastic if if they kept up that that same that same energy that they had for the opening first like week or two. It's not for the first week or two. Unfortunately for you, and not every team can be the Giants. Oh, yeah.
00:05:12
Speaker
You know, you can't play against the Giants for all 162. If you could, you'd be undefeated. But your first place in your division, that's something. Somehow, still, even though that we dropped an entire game to the team I think who is currently in second place, the Rays.
Yankees vs A's Highlights
00:05:27
Speaker
Tampa Bay Rays, kind of out of nowhere. But that's ah that one series...
00:05:31
Speaker
Yeah, that's one series away. You to take out the not Oakland, not Las Vegas quite yet athletics. The Sacramento A's. They finally got their Sacramento jerseys because they're like, oh, okay. They just need something to do more so.
00:05:44
Speaker
Yeah, they're like, okay, maybe we're going to be here for a while. All right, series your your series against the A's, how how how'd that go? you see Well, it started out good, didn't didn't end all that good. We'll tackle that slowly as it comes to it. The the first game in the series, unlikely hero Ahmed Rosario. We were we were thinking he going to be a platoon piece or whatever really, but his back got hot here and he's kind of justified his place in the lineup moving forward. Two home runs this game. Okay. okay What's his position for you if he's a platoon guy? play utility I'm told he can play anything on the left side of the field being third, shortstop, second. okay I'm seeing him mainly put in for for third base work. That's just how it is. there There are some games later down the stretch that Ryan McMahon has moved over to to shortstop, which I've given my opinions on already. I'm not a fan of that in almost any circumstance. Game one, it was all about him, though.
00:06:37
Speaker
Home run in the second, no one was really expecting. And then home run later in the game to put him up for good. Yanks win 5-3. Nick Kurtz flash flashing some flash in his MVP status. I'm sure you he's going to be in the hunt this year. Good production from Caballero, good production from Wells, which we don't really see later down the line, so I've got to give them their flowers now.
00:06:57
Speaker
oh yeah Earlier in the game, Judge got ah i got to base on an E2. We were originally thinking it was a strikeout, but it turned out his back clipped the glove of Langoliers. You've never seen E2 all that much. No, you don't. So he gets to walk a little bit.
00:07:12
Speaker
I think the instances of catcher's interference is has definitely increased because of how far back batters are now in the box and how forward catchers are to get better frames. Might also help out ABS. I don't know. There might be a science to ABS stuff maybe with how you want to position your catchers. on ah Well, yeah, because ABS until the middle of the plate, oh the ump is doing it from the back.
00:07:37
Speaker
But that's also been a thing before ABS. So I don't think ABS has that much of effect on. Maybe maybe it will now, but but I think it's still too new to to have that effect. Going from there, game two, former Yankee Luis Severino versus Will Warren. This is one of the games I was i was just talking about. McMahon at short, Rosario at third, Caballero is set kind of because he's is not hitting all that much as compared to the two. And you want to keep the hot bet in, which i'm I'm surprised, you know? yeah You play with your gut type feel here.
00:08:06
Speaker
He's been ah finally able to make decisions. Yankees hater, Yankees hater. maybe Maybe. People are a little bit mad about some Aaron Boone decisions, but we'll cross that bridge when I get to the bullpen. We can talk about that yeah later. That's always a hot topic.
00:08:23
Speaker
the biggest That's the biggest hindsight is the bullpen utilization. But bullpen just construction too. like Okay. A little weird again. We'll we'll we'll talk about that. We'll get there. We'll get there. ah Very early on, Grisham scored on a belly single. The bases were loaded for a rice hit by pitch and Judge got got to walk to put Yankees up very early to nothing. No other offensive production other than that until the end of the game. That sucks.
00:08:49
Speaker
That sucks. Warren ah fears to load the bases with McNeil, literally the inning right after that. But Butler decides to go home instead of just like going straight to first. Put the A's on the board pretty early. And then also in the top of the third, bases loaded for Kurt sounded scary. But Max Muncy steals home on a wild bounce pitch. So all the momentum just completely so completely swung in the direction of
Yankees' Struggles
00:09:13
Speaker
the A's. And Warren got pulled in the fifth. That sent me like scrambling through Google. He said Max Muncy.
00:09:20
Speaker
max muncie is on the ace where yeah he's on the age but no it's a different max muncie it's not the one that i'm i'm used to seeing i i think mlb network whenever their paths may cross i've been bringing that up i don't know how much this other max muncie has been playing because he's a young dude he's like 23 22 yeah he's 23 let's see what here is his first season what's his position third base as well what a coincidence I don't know if they have played each other formally yet, but I remember on MLB Network, my grandpa got very confused. Yeah, I bet. Like, when did he get traded? I'll look up their schedule. You can keep going. No problem. No problem. Not really much to talk about. I'm just looking through my notes to see when the A's scored one more time, if I even put it down. Bednar closed it out. He's our official closer and i don't know any other baseball team that would willingly have Bednar as the closer. They play each other at the end of June. At the end of June.
00:10:14
Speaker
Right before the All-Star break? Yes. ah June 29th, 30th, and then July 1st. Okay. Very, very, very right before the All-Star break. Yeah, it was just a little bit bit a little bit of a small ball in the ninth that put him over the edge, and the Yankees couldn't respond. Even in the eighth, Rice, Stanton, and Jazz went down in order. So letting this game get away from you completely because you have no offensive production whatsoever.
00:10:37
Speaker
And that would continue into the next game where the Yankees were no-hitting to the sevens.
Giants vs Phillies Recap
00:10:42
Speaker
I know what that feels like. No run production, small lead. Barely a lead at all. they They were tied for so much. they Once they got the lead, they gave it the next half inning after that. Wow. oh yeah That'll happen. So I, uh, Weathers was good all in all. I think he's my MVP for the series. He went eight innings, only letting up a one earned run on seven hits.
00:11:00
Speaker
Seven strikeouts. No walks. Hey, let us see it. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Ryan McMahon, my LVP, across ah seven plate appearances in three games played. He had three strikeouts in one walk. So he's he's at the bottom of my order. Winnable games if he just had competitive bats, but no competitive bats to be seen starting from like into the second inning in game two. And and and having that bleed into game three for, you know, the tenuous no hitter that they were having. Not all that good. Not all much done much good to talk about right there. So this is the Yankees first series loss.
00:11:31
Speaker
Yes, this is, I believe. Well, sure everything gets better after that. oh No. Well, do you have anything else? I can spoil it right now because we then immediately go into the first series sweep. Oh, no.
00:11:47
Speaker
Against the Rays. and Not the team to do do it against, too. All right. And I'll talk about how much I admire how the Rays played play these games, by the way. All right. Well, before we get to that, let's talk about i like about you the Giants, who at the end of this little stint, say at nine and thirteen tied for fourth place in the division, tied with the Rockies. Not a good place to be. These are the 2026 Colorado Rockies. They're the first baseball team ever.
00:12:15
Speaker
That's true. They are doing a lot better. oh When you put it like that, you're in good company. Yeah, I guess. So the first series is ah against the Phillies. Giants win 2-1. They win the series 2-1. So first series win of the year. no it's not. Second series win of the year.
00:12:32
Speaker
Game one, I was at work, so my ability to take notes was was not as great. But this ties Mets game four for a worst loss of the season, game one. a Game blown out sucks, don't get me wrong.
00:12:44
Speaker
But the blot happens like it did on opening night. There's a low level of numbing that is strong enough to prevent your ability to produce hope. but But the team led this game most of the time with a 4-0 lead. Warning bells were ringing as the offense went completely cold and not scoring since the fourth inning. While the Phillies took the lead in the seventh with four runs and making the score six to four, which would end up being the final score. And another game with zero bench moves was just too much.
00:13:07
Speaker
Once again, that's something that that continues through this is Tony Vitello's seemingly lack of bench
Giants' Clubhouse Dynamics
00:13:13
Speaker
moves. There seems to be like a little bit a pendulum swing. Gabe Kapler was, you know, infamous for that. You know, like like just burning contracts up left and right on series that sometimes didn't seem to matter, like at the point at the at that time, just because The matchups were there, you know, at least on paper, just bringing up some dude from AAA because like the other teams were not good at hitting lefties. So I was like, OK, like, sure, these veterans don't know how to adjust. Like, we'll bring up this this this dude who who's only been in AAA. You know, he'll he'll be able to strike them out because he's a lefty for game one. My highlights are going to be starter staying calm. We had Houser, Adrian Houser, pitch himself of an ugly inning. On offense, we had aggressive base running. Arise turned a single into a double. Low light. How does one... How did he get that done? I probably should have took better notes. Just turn on the jets. Yeah, he just turned on the jets. I believe this one was a fairly shallow hit in the right center. I think that most players probably would have stayed on first, but he risked it and turned into a double. Low lights for that game. We have Barucki. He gives us the lead because of bad, bad pitching, and the offense does not score. He also is my LVP. He went 0.1 innings pitched, two hits, two earned runs, one walk, and a hooray after that game of nine. Sheesh.
00:14:33
Speaker
Devers is my LVP for offense. He went four at-bats, no hits, no runs, no RBIs. and I don't seem to have an MVP because sometimes that just happens. Sometimes it's just like that. oh I do have an MVP here. MVP is going to be Chapman. He went, he had four at-bats, two hits, one run, two RBIs, one strikeout, and a triple. In game two, there's a much-needed win for the team. Vitello, for some reason, revealed that there had been a total of three incidents in the clubhouse between players, with only one of them being reported by the media.
00:15:02
Speaker
The no details have been revealed about the other two. Another missed up for the new manager who will spend the rest of the season under increased scrutiny doubly after the horrendous start. But the team had an amazing game with Daniel Suzak starting as a catcher, having a good game defensively and a historic game as well. He went 6-7 and tied the record for a career a career start of six going 6-for-6 for the first time since I think this is 60s.
00:15:24
Speaker
On top of that, most of the lineup has shown showed up with six runs off 12 hits. Robbie Ray was seemingly backed into his normal form and dominated as well. Ryan Walker once again had a nerve wracking outing, but got out of it. And after depressing game one is it was a much needed win and seeing the team smiling again has been great.
00:15:40
Speaker
For game two, my highlights went Robbie Ray. He went 6.2 innings pitch. He threw a total of 109 pitches, which was controversial at the time, but ended up working out. it's It's one of those. It's a hindsight. That's like one of the most like frustrating things with baseball fans is that we do everything with hindsight. Everything we do is is with hindsight. That's true. 109 pitches. If he gave up the lead, you know, we'd be like, why didn't you pull him out sooner? He was at, you know, 90 something pitches. Right. But he pitched great. So we're okay with it. He had seven strikeouts, three walks, three hits, no runs.
00:16:10
Speaker
On offense, we had Chapman. He went three for four, two runs, one RBI, one strikeout. We had a Ryze who went one for three, but with two RBIs, one sack, a sack fly, and a strikeout. And then Suzak, he went three for four with a run and two RBIs. My lowlights for game two, Ramos went cold. He struck out three times in a row and only got on base on an error. And we had a pinch runner, Oliva, who got picked off on first base. My LVP for game two is No one for pitching on the pitching side. No one on defense. For offense, it's going to be Ramos who went 0-3, one run, and three strikeouts. And one of those strikeouts was a called strike three. Game three. Work got in the way of enjoying this game, but the Giants shut out the Phillies for the second day in a row, so and the Giants won another series. With back-to-back shutout wins, the team now goes on a long road trip to
Baseball Terminology Explained
00:16:57
Speaker
the East Coast. And for game three, i didn't have, because I couldn't watch it, i don't can't really say... who was who was hot who wasn't because sometimes the line line score doesn't really show you yeah doesn't give you good uh good indication if someone strikes out or they ground out or fly out or whatever i can i can always forgive it as long as it was a battle and you're dealing with a full count those hurt less than one like first pitch you know ground outs uh you gotta make that the opposing pitcher grind And then I guess if we have anyone listening that doesn't fully ah understand terms, and we can briefly talk about those. Sure. I don't know what terms you want to talk about. Oh, could talk about, we could do call strike three, two types of strikeouts. You can do, I guess three types really. You've got your swinging strikeout is you got two strikes, swing, swing your bat, miss. So swinging strike three, you have a called strike three yeah that's indicated Strikes are indicated by Ks. A backwards K is a called strike three, meaning that you had two strikes.
00:17:51
Speaker
You did not swing the bat and the umpire called strike three. That's out. It's like well the worst kind strikeout. Then you got the weird one, drop strike three. As long as first base is empty and there are, I think it's just as long as first base is empty. If the catcher drops the ball after strike three, the batter can run to first base. And if they reach first base, they're safe.
00:18:09
Speaker
It's really weird rule. Not too sure why it's a thing, but it is. Hardly anyone ever makes it to first base, and it's really frustrating when they do. It makes you want the rule to go away. And then sacrifice. There's two types of sacrifices. You got a sack fly. That's a fly ball that's caught. But if somebody scores, it does not count against your batting average. It does not count as an at-bat. And then you can also do a sack bunt, which is similar, but bunting. But we don't really see that, all those minis. Nobody knows how to bunt anymore. I just played a team that got a lot of bunt power. Hardly anyone butts. Notable one power. But no, no. The reason no one wants because fans kind of don't like it. I think that's the main thing. Like if it was productive and fans and, you know, kind of love it, I'd see more people doing it. I think I I'll stick that. I think a lot of the reason don't see a lot of bunts right now is because there's no incentive to. Yeah. Yeah. Like you're not bunting if there's two outs. Certainly not bunting on two strikes.
Yankees vs Rays Strategy
00:19:01
Speaker
It'd be really stupid to do that unless you have a guy with like certified jazz jazz. He's fast, right? I do it with Lee. Lee on third.
00:19:09
Speaker
He's fast. He's grandson of the wind. Oh, yeah. Trying to think who else I'd have confidence doing that. Stanton. Oh, God.
00:19:21
Speaker
I'd i'd have a a throw a fit if I saw that. ah A squeeze bunt? If I saw Stanton bunt at all. either you say if ah I was thinking Stanton on third.
00:19:32
Speaker
Trying to do a squeeze bunt. Oh, Stanton on third. Oh, geez. I'd throw a fit if that happened, too. Oh. that'd be just the most like pick it up and just like stand it in a way type deal. You'd be maybe two feet off third base by the time the ball like rolled five feet. All right, your next series against the Rays. Yes. Yeah, nothing else to add. I mean... highlights. It just goes straight to lowlights.
00:19:55
Speaker
Yeah, I just put the lowlights. Ironically, I guess you can say the first game was somewhat competitive. But other than that... i mean, the score makes it look like a 5-3 loss? 5-3 loss. First game was Luis Hill versus New York legend Steve Matz. Steve Matz looked phenomenal here. I'm surprised that... I don't know if the Rays have locked him down long-term. I think ah think he might be on one-year deal.
00:20:20
Speaker
But even then, he looked like total ace material. I'm surprised that you know he wasn't a hotter prospect in free agency, to be honest. A two-year deal, $50 million, Google tells me. He signed on December 16, 2025. Yankees bat didn't know how to hit it. Judge was absolutely iced. so this is his walk year? This is walk year? No, I think next year's walk year. Okay, okay. Let me check if he has a, if it, maybe next year has like a team. No, it's not saying next year is a team or mutual or player option. So I think they have him for for two years flat. I'm saying his payroll is estimated. Hmm. Interesting. 35 going on 36. So maybe that's the that's the main factor.
00:20:54
Speaker
the The main factor. 100%. Wanted to dish out money for a guy, but he looked he looked incredible during this game. Judge got totally iced. So Satan went from first to home off a triple from Amon Rosario. Crazy. Caused by a bad fielding from ah Chandler Simpson. It's all right because Chandler Simpson completely redeems himself throughout this entire series. Oh, man. the whole through line through all these games is that the rays are really fucking fast.
00:21:19
Speaker
Okay. These are Olympic sprinter training little guys right here. There's there's always the, the argument, Oh, what if you put like Usain Bolt on the base path? Is he going to outrun like whoever, when I think, you know, base running is, you know, a skill in itself, you know, track your, you're following like a straight line for most of it, unless you got, unless you're running like a 200 or 400 and up or something where, you know, the curves come
Game Strategies and Player Roles
00:21:42
Speaker
into play. But It's a skill to you know place yourself correctly on the base path under a list of scenarios, and it seems to be the race's strength because these these guys are running and gunning it. I forget who it was. I think maybe it was Chandler Simpson later on in the series. He reaches first on a sack bunt, which is why I was getting on that stuff. A little earlier. They're just like, yeah, everyone's safe run scores. Fuck it. Other than that, the Yankees are just getting small ball to death throughout this.
00:22:11
Speaker
Heel's final line was four innings pitched off three hits, three earned runs, three walks. So not an amazing start. you You were looking to change the narratives coming in here, thinking that, you know, Heel might be a solid piece. You can be your five guy or your four guy, but...
00:22:27
Speaker
That's just not looking like it. Was Luis Hill the one that was giving, like i don't know, attitude, I guess, maybe, about like being a starter? Or was that someone else? I think that's someone else. I don't know. Maybe?
00:22:38
Speaker
Maybe. Maybe he was moved to the pool. I don't know. I think that was last year. That was last year. so Maybe it was Stroman. Stroman. Yeah, it was Stroman. I'm sorry, Luis Hill. I didn't mean to disrespect And I don't know where Stroman is. i let Last time I heard he might he might be getting picked up by the Rockies.
00:22:57
Speaker
It was the last thing you want hear as a pitcher having to go to mile high. Yeah. either Have fun with your 40-year-old. As of time of recording. What else happened? Game one. Matt's dealing. hill Yeah, Hill didn't have a ah good start. This is his first start coming back up from rehabbing a little bit ah in the minors. Yankees had to offer a guy back up to the Cardinals from the Rule 5 draft. He was on the opening day roster. He hadn't made his MLB debut yet, and there there were some close calls. Him like warming up in in the pen. you know He's going to... He's going to come in the game for the New York Yankees. Never ended up happening. So he's back ah at a Cardinals AAA. Oh, right. Because he's supposed to be utilized. Had to get designated to to make room for Luis.
00:23:45
Speaker
Yeah.
Player Stats and Surprises
00:23:46
Speaker
As soon as the the Yankees went up, it was just another instance of them giving the lead right on back. Right on back. Right on back. Hendrick took over from Bird. He ended ah his final split with a.1 innings pitch, two hits, one earned run, one strikeout. Duvall then came in and Judge didn't do him any favors. I don't think it was an earned run. I don't think he's credited with an earned run in this game. But Judge kind of let a ball just drop right in front of him after he was making a concerted effort to kind of run for it and go get it. He just stopped after a while. And I thought it was... Was it an error? Did Judge get credited in error? No, I don't i don't think he was credited in error. Then it would be an earned run. It would be an earned run? Maybe it was. Yeah, unless it was an error. Even just, like, eyeballing it. I also should mention, this is the first ah time in the drop since... Its roof got ripped off? it's Yeah, its roof got ripped open, finally repaired, so they're not probably hanging in a Steinbrenner field anymore. Dang. This is the first... Ray's home game and back in the trap. So I know the trap is also weird because, you know, you can lose the it is yeah you can lose the ball and the the white ceiling. Yeah, well, again, because it's, if you don't know, if it's domed yeah as a roof. But then also has a ton of catwalk, a bunch of layered catwalks like that. There's like different levels of the catwalks. Which is also very interesting just from a design standpoint. Yeah, it really is because there's like one level of catwalks. If you hit that, the ball's considered dead. Then if you get like no different than a foul ball, but then there's like another layer of catwalks. If it hits that layer, it's still considered a live ball and it'll, it'll mess people up. Can't get a new stadium sooner in my opinion. Nope. Hopefully in Pete. And actually in Tampa, in Tampa Bay. Yeah.
00:25:18
Speaker
St. Pete's just so out of the way. Yeah. So yeah, ah Judge kind of lets it drop in front of him. I'm i'm struggling to remember if he was credited with an error or not, but I watched it back because like initially I thought like, oh my God, he completely let this ball drop. Then I was like talking myself into like plausible deniability. where i would reveal like You don't know, the drop ceiling and all that, yada yada. But then it happens again, maybe in another game or the same game. Either way, i was just like kind of baffled that stuff like this was happening. And whenever the balls hit on the ground, kicks up a lot of like whatever. I think it's like might have a turf outfield or whatever. Either way, whenever a ball hits out there in the trap outfield, there's some impact to it, which I found it interesting. I'm going to take a look and see if there's an error given. All good. There was a sack grounder. I didn't write what what player to make it five two
00:26:00
Speaker
Rays, Ben Rice came in for a pitch hit solo home run. Put comeback question mark. Stanton and Rosario get on in the ninth with no outs. But Jazz grounds into what looked like a double play, but he ended up being safe at first upon review. And then he steals second, so it keeps him in pretty good position. But Gritchick, my gosh, goes down swinging. And I don't know when you can justify just not having him here fairly soon when someone's healthy. and needs to make a start. I'm sure he can switch it up and he's going to get DFA'd. Trent subbed in for Caballero, but he pops up and that's the end of game one. 5-3 loss. ah There was an error that game. I'd i'd say that's Judge then, unless I'm forgetting something big. Error. Nope, it went to Hendrick. It was feeling error by Hendrick. For Duval. Nothing for Duval, nothing for Judge. No, for Duval, here we go. He was not credited with the run. He did not get an earned run. Mm-hmm.
00:26:49
Speaker
Well, I think the, the, okay, no, no, I see what you're saying now. Uh, you know, the, the base runner was put on previously. Oh, okay. Okay. that That was put on by Hendrick. Gotcha. Gotcha. Jake bird also phantom good outing.
00:27:01
Speaker
Okay. Yeah. So if that was a, if that was Hendrick, uh, that had the run, he got credited with only one of the one run. Okay. Okay. All right. My fucking game to Christian Billy get into scoring position early, but it was just a tease. Nothing really happens. And Freed gets hot early. So I'll be like, okay, cool. maybe Maybe we don't have to worry about all that much coming into coming into this game. We can, you know, give the offense some time to shine. Maybe they're, maybe they were just attention starved, you know? Austin Wells, first home run of the season, I believe. Second solo shot to make it. Yankees won nothing. Then Ryan McMahon got his third hit of the season, which I guess you got to take it how you can get it. But the inning ends after Christian Popfly. It's only his third hit? Third hit, yeah. That's... I didn't write down the date for this game.
00:27:41
Speaker
Yikes. That's ah April 14th, I think. Thank you, Andrew. That's... crazy. but i for eleven april like that i rose about say that That sounds maybe a little bit better. I was just about to believe that. Oh my god. Yeah, this is this is where I put Judge. Looks like he lets another ball just drop in front of him. That would up the score to 1-1. Rice gets on in the second but is left there. But he's having a crazy start this year. I think he's going to be my MVP for the series. Don't quote me until we get to game three belly mates two great catches but the hits are deep enough that the rays either get a runner on base or advanced runners so yeah they're able to score on that to get themselves to lead one uh two to one caballero comes up big and puts the yankees back up with a bases clearing double make it three two uh three two and freed is left in all the way to the eighth which like okay Okay. Pretty good outing all things considered up until this point to face Andy Diaz with the runner on third.
00:28:33
Speaker
And it doesn't go well. This is where he finally gets pulled after the Rays make it 3-3. And judges stealing bases, which is another thing that we got to talk about. Such a big guy. This is kind of, i mentioned this previous episode, but this has kind of become, i i guess it's going to be a staple throughout his play this season.
00:28:48
Speaker
He's just being aggressive on the base path for such a big dude such as himself. I believe he had a football background. I believe Jazz talked to him about that. But he's he's fearless. He's stealing bags. So whatever season Jazz was going to have, I think Judge is going to have now. Judge is going have 50-50 season. You heard it here first, Phil. Okay. All right. All right. Put that on the ah the hot take board. yeah Because I think we talked about that, that Jazz Cowan earlier. And either I thought it was like a 30-30 or a forty forty something a little more attainable. He said he was going to go 50-50. Get the fuck out of here. Oh, yeah. that That is something that is not going to age
Giants vs Orioles Recap
00:29:20
Speaker
well. Man, if you don't... Did you see someone saw ah ah online was like, fifty fifty season? Yeah. It was like, if it's 50 strikeouts. 50 cut stealing. I wish I gave up with that. 50 cut stealing. Yeah.
00:29:36
Speaker
if So yeah, i Judge still second and ah he gets to third off a belly sack fly, but he doesn't score. They walk right to get to g Gritchick again. i don't know. I don't know who the fuck Gritchick is. Get out of here.
00:29:54
Speaker
In the 10th, Ickys find a way to take a 4-3 lead. I think on some small ball. I didn't write down why. i just write i think I just wrote down the Rays do the same because they've been small balling all night. Some sack bunts with a runner on first. Yeah, that was the one where I think... I like this bullet point you have. Rays do the same and they are so fast. they're so fucking They're so fast. It could have been any number of players on this team. They're so fast. They're just like, yeah, small. like most Most routine ground up the middle ever, and they still find a way to make it to first before the ball can get there. It's crazy. That's why I lose my mind anytime I see players just slow down on on the run to first. i like, get there. Force an error. Do something. You you can do things. You have...
00:30:38
Speaker
you know you You have free will. And this game ends with the ah Jazz stumbling in the middle of the base path. Can't make the relay to first in time and can't get up to tag the runner that was in front of him. That was the one where he has that PR disaster where he says he didn't know what the rule was. Yeah, was PR disaster. I don't know how bad it is in retrospect. I think it's more just him kind of playing to the media, like trying to be the newly humbled ball player who got, you know, some egg on his face. So he just he just like keeps talking after he he says he made a bad fielding attempt. Yeah, don't don't don't be cute. So i don't I don't think he's as stupid as as we we are led to believe. Yeah, don't be cute about it though. You can only be cute about it whenever like you're winning or or the play worked out. Mm-hmm. And that compiled with the, I'm sure the, our first episodes thing where he gets ah just caught playing with his sliding, sliding glove didn't help either. Yeah, I think people lower were just, right are kind of ready to hate on him because he also hasn't been all that good. Yeah. You're only allowed to have an ego when you're good. Yeah. But there's not much to talk about in game three. It was a Schlittler versus Rasmussen. Cam didn't look all that good going into this game. I didn't even bother to put up his, his final stat line, but the race have been playing very consistent ball, just small ball and these Yankees to death. Yankees don't score until the seventh.
00:31:54
Speaker
I think they only scored two there anyway. So it would be five, two judge hit a two run home run in the ninth. So now you're starting to think, Oh, maybe, maybe they got something going on, but I didn't believe until Rosario had that double, but that was the only thing that gave me home, but it was all for not nothing. Nothing really came of it. Five, four loss MVP of the series. Ben rice hit 500 off eight at bats, one RBI, three runs off foreheads. LVP could either be a jazz for hitting one something or Grish for not having a runner RBI attributed to him. Hmm. So just, just kind of, just kind of that. Oh boy. Did you do you just finish game two or game three with that series? I just finished game three. Not much to talk about game three.
00:32:33
Speaker
Yeah. They didn't really put up runs until the seven. One of those games. Yeah. Whenever you have a, whenever you have a team that has speed, that's like when, when small ball really shines. that you don't need you don't need those they can turn singles into into doubles really and stealing is a pain and oh yeah and then i think they stole home twice oh wow yeah then like they could easily turn singles into rbi singles it gets you know at worst then at like best you know you have runners on the corner uh yeah it is playing against speedy people is is scary yeah we can move on to the uh the next series for the giants yeah I got you. They went to Baltimore. First series for the road trip. And they lose.
00:33:16
Speaker
and They lose the series. One to two. It's another stressful, terrible, no good series. But we win game one. All righty. So that was fun.
Giants' Tactical Changes Needed
00:33:24
Speaker
And so the Jays take the first game of the series finish off with the first win streak of the season. Landon Roop took the mound. And while he did have a few command struggles, took the win after six innings, only giving up one run. The offense really shined here with a total of 12 hits and six strikeouts and three Ks in a row did not happen. Lee notably got out of his funk going two for four with the double and two run home run. yes for him For some reason, Lee just loves the East Coast. Whenever he's struggling, send him to the East Coast for a little bit. He's going to get some hits, maybe even a home run. It's going to get back into the swing of things. Yep. Not sure what it is about the East Coast, but even his ground out in the fourth was productive, which he is notorious for ground out and them not being productive.
00:34:01
Speaker
You'll see a lot on his line be like, oh, four, three ground out, four, three ground out, four, three ground out. Maybe every once in a while, double play. Casey Schmidt really shined as DH, going 3-for-5 with two runs, one RBI, and three doubles. The bullpen did mostly fine, with Brubaker being the most stressful of the relievers, only going 0.2 innings, giving up two walks before being pulled out. And again, the Giants win 6-3 with aggressive hitting and Tony not letting Roop go too deep or letting Brubaker flounder for too long. Game two, I did not watch it because I had D&D, but I think I should not do other things when the team plays because it feels as bad as if bad things happen when I do. This time, a small collision involving a rise. Making a defensive play led to a game of leapfrog and a foot into Arai's wrist. He ran into a collision between him and ah an Oriole. He was later taken out of the game and given day-to-day with the wrist contusion. He's fine now.
00:34:47
Speaker
Thank God. who The Giants would go on to lose the game. And I they think Arai is not getting pulled out. Had something to do with it. Game three was terrible. The Giants played terribly. They're getting perfect game for the first four innings going one, two, three. Oh boy. Yeah.
00:35:05
Speaker
second at batt in the fifth to break it up with a single and would eventually score the offense was a common problem have continued and the giant sles six to two schmidt was the only one to score the most egregious event was when a ball was popped into right field and the fielder gerard and caracion let it drop he replaced lee and lind lee definitely wouldn't have made it He then bizarrely throws it to third, not in time to confuse Matt Chapman, who was thankfully paying attention and caught the ball. This led to two runs and the game being split open. My highlights for game one was pitching. Luke Gage got out of a nasty inning with two outs and runners on first and second.
00:35:36
Speaker
On offense, Schmidt, he went three for five, three doubles, two runs, one RBI, two strikeouts. Lee but it was also a highlight. He went two for four with one run, one home run, two RBIs, but one double. For game three, I didn't have anything for pitching. For offense, it was Casey Schmidt breaks a perfect game with a single, and Casey Schmidt scores twice and hits a solo home run in the night. Lowlights for game one. Brubaker, he went 0.2 innings pitched, 15 pitches, one strikeout, two walks. Blade Tidwell, one inning pitched, 18 pitches, one strikeout, three hits, two earned runs, giving up one homer. Game three, nothing from the pitching side or defense side. For offense, I put everyone except Casey Schmidt and Suzak.
00:36:17
Speaker
MVPs game one, Luke Gage. He got out of a dangerous momentum shifting inning. Offense was Casey Schmidt. Game three was just Casey Schmidt going two on offense, two for four, three hits, one run, one home run, and one RBI.
00:36:31
Speaker
And my LVPs for game one, i had nobody for anything, anyone, because we won. At game three, offense, the entire lineup, except for Schmidt and Suzak on defense. This was, oh no no sorry, this was a different game that I'm thinking of. Jorara Encarnacion, he's going to make a few appearances as LVP. But for this one in game three, he did not hustle to a fly ball into right field, which hits the ground, is a hit, and eventually leads to the game being blown open. she ah There's really not much to say. It's just more bad baseball from the the Giants. I guess I can tell here a little bit. The utilization of the bench is not great. We've only seen for a bench, you've got Suzak, you've got Christian Koss and Gerard Encarnacion mainly. Those are like the big, big three bench players, right? With Suzak obviously being the best. We've only seen Christian Koss once, which is insane. We see him play. The only time we've really seen him was as a pitcher.
00:37:24
Speaker
He's a position player pitcher. We got blown out. And i think that was against the Mets. I think that was his only appearance. When Arise got hurt. Let me take a look here. want to take a look here because I want to see who replaced him.
00:37:36
Speaker
Koss replaced him. Okay. So we we got to see him when Arise got hurt. He went one for one. He got a hit. Or got double. So that's only time we got to see him and play otherwise. It's kind of hard. Like, I don't know where you put him because Arise has so far had really good defense. That gets shown in the next series or the next two series. And he's definitely not going to be getting a day off. Like, Arise, you know... He's not going to be asking for a day off. So there'll be up to Tony to be like, you got to take a break. But you've got Koss, who's like mainly so a second baseman.
00:38:04
Speaker
Right. And we have a rise there. And unless the rise gets hurt, we're not going to see Koss starting at at second. Probably not going to be seeing him get getting pinched either because rise has been pretty good offensively. he's He's so stressful to watch because it's like he he has like this mentality of like he can only hit with two strikes. So he always takes it. He's always taking the first pitch. he's He's literally, he's like taking these pitches. He's taking these pitches.
00:38:28
Speaker
He gets up to two strikes. I mean, it it works for the most
Upcoming Giants Games
00:38:31
Speaker
part. That doesn't make it any less stressful. Is it like a mentality thing? Because like if it is, yeah that has to change. I think it is. I think it is a mentality thing. Like he's like, gotta have. That's into, no, no. In this game, that's unacceptable. Let me pull out my my scorecard, scorebook real quick.
00:38:46
Speaker
and we'll We'll start with this this road trip for the ones that I have notes on. So Arise, he gets a sack. So out of his four at-bats, or four plate appearances, I should say, against the Phillies. Two of them, he had two strikes. One of them was a full count. See, another one, full count, 3-1, 1-2, and then Then he did not start this one in Baltimore because he was hurt. Then gets in Cincinnati, That was the first pitch hit, we got um next game, count. here oh and two one and two oh one oh two then the next game will be oh one one two one one two one oh one see this one we got two two o two two two o two one two for that game next game will be oh one two one uh that was oh oh pop out pop up one two and that's it
00:39:43
Speaker
That's a great A lot of full counts, a lot of O2s. It's very stressful to watch him, but he gets the job done for the most part. He's always taking that first pitch, and it stresses me out. But yeah, this game against Philly, this game against the Baltimore Orioles, not much to say. really don't have anything to say until we get to Cincinnati.
00:40:02
Speaker
And at that, the last game of the series. please It's been, it's just been, it's been rough. We win the series in in Philly and then we immediately drop it in Baltimore, drop it in Cincinnati. Spoiler alert. It's not until we get to DC that things really, I really have fun things to talk about. Oh, geez. That's the last series you're going to, you be able to talk about? Yeah, DC is the last series. Did you guys wrap up or is there one more game? We wrapped it up. Okay. Finished it on Sunday. Cool, cool.
00:40:29
Speaker
Yeah, that's why we pushed this off to Monday, right? Well, just because I had work. off I guess I also also had work. i could ah If i didn't have work, we could have done it on Sunday. No, Yankees would have still been playing. Oh, yeah, true. Yeah, we played late a little bit. we still could have done it on Sunday if I didn't work. we could just done it after the game.
00:40:44
Speaker
Anyway, that that's behind the scenes stuff. My work schedule sucks. Where are you guys at now? You raise... Angels. Angels, okay. The Angles. Didn't lose. Here they might be changing their name again. I hope so. Yeah. The um Anaheim is... Passed a not a law, because cities can't pass laws.
00:41:03
Speaker
They passed an ordinance that only affects the angels. If you're a professional team in Anaheim. There should be a constitutional amendment that only affects the angels. Yeah. but i Bring it back. Like they should definitely either be the Anaheim Angels. I really like California Angels. I think that was that was a pretty cool name. I think they would be the California Angels. That would be hilarious if they went California Angels out of spite. I think I either heard that or the A's might be the California California A's. No, they shouldn't be the California A's because they're moving. They should just be the Sacramentoies. I mean, depending on how how long this state is. i got to check out
Yankees vs Angels Highlights
00:41:39
Speaker
on that saga. Yeah, you know, i think I think we're going to look back at it. Well, I'm not. I want to be like, for the get-go, I think a lot of people from the get-go would be like, that was a dumb move. They should still be playing in the Coliseum.
00:41:49
Speaker
I don't know who thought, I don't know why this guy, John Fisher, thinks the stadium was going to be built could just hang out in Sacramento for a while. Stay in the Coliseum and end up playing in, can you imagine a World Series taking place at a AAA ballpark? No. I don't know. I think the league would like force them to play somewhere else. I don't know where that would be. It would have to be Oracle, right? Oh my gosh. It would have to be. It would be so demeaning if that owner cared. Yeah, it would be. John Fisher, you suck. Me like the Yankees having to play a playoff game in Fenway. Oh, that would be... And Yankee fans would care. And A's fans would care. A's ownership wouldn't care. I wonder how many Sox fans would go to that World Series if the Yankees had to play Fenway. I think they'd scale tickets just to spite.
00:42:36
Speaker
Just to spite. And just not show up. They'd make it look... or Or that. That would also be hilarious. I don't know what World Series tickets go for, though. That would be the big thing. Like, there would definitely be some Boston fans that would, uh... They go for a lot. That would, you know... and No matter the price, you know, they'd do it just to stick it to to NY, but... Let's see here. You're at home now? Go back home? we're at home. Against the Angels. And it's not a series loss, so... Series split.
00:43:01
Speaker
This was four games. This was four games right here. and kind of dropped off after game two of the series just because some life stuff happened but I still got some notes we still got some stuff to talk about oh this series right yeah I remember now seeing it online crazy game one game two as well game one was fun game two maybe maybe maybe maybe if you're not a Yankees fan so Yeah, great for if you're if if you you're a back Mike Trout fan. I'd say game ah game one and game three, they were the most back and forth. The Yankees just so happened to win those two games both of these games. But yeah, it's it's either the the Yankees are competitive and and it's back and forth or the Yankees get you know shuttered and you know the the game's kind of over. Mike Trout my trout is kind of back.
00:43:49
Speaker
You know? Yeah. ah Just him and Judge. Yeah, it was... the on Home run for home run. If you zoom out and and you just look at like the big picture stuff, this was the Battle of the Titans here, Judge and judge and Trout. For like the entire series, but game one especially. it was It was fun back and forth at the very start. Yankees lost five in a row going into today. No Rice to start out. ah Goldie was in for a left-handed pitching. Another thing i I put together is Rice hasn't played catcher yet, which I think coming down the line, I got to give ah Wells his flowers for this series just because he had a pretty good stat line. Okay. Yeah, he hasn't been having a all that good of a series i'll get of a season coming into this series, but that could absolutely change because I don't know how much of a leash you want to give to Will's Iscara catching club. Just just because you kind of know what Iscara is, he's not phenomenal in any aspect of the game except you know behind the dish, the the glove is solid.
00:44:44
Speaker
Cabby and Judge put the Yankees up early, so it's 4-0 in the fourth. Capillero E6 kind of shakes out the momentum, and the Angels rally to tie it soon after that. Warren is pulled in the fourth, and he hadn't given up a run, I think i meant to I meant to say, before this inning. I don't know. In this game, at least, he hadn't given up a run until the fourth, but the Angels tie it, so he gets pulled out pretty quick. g Grisham home run brings back, put him up 7-4. Trout ties it with a three-run home run. Judge Solo home run answers back. Trout again a little bit later gives them the lead back to 10-8, in the ninth after a g Grisham two-run home run. And it's a walk-off wild pitch. That's right. I said that to you and i was like, oh no, Angels. Yeah, you did that. Yeah, that was rough. great crazy, crazy stuff.
Pitcher Performance and Strategy
00:45:27
Speaker
This game, a lot of people were saying the competitive games here were given like late season playing for a playoff spot kind of baseball, which I didn't realize we characterized these games as that, but okay, I'm i'm here for it if that's the thing and if it means my team's winning. it's just one of those fun games that like there gets a point where the hits are just going crazy and it's a high scoring game that it kind of gets to the point where and as long as like everybody has pretty good defense and then ah nobody's like actively like imploding it's just like one of those you know just this is one of those games where like for some reason just bats went off win or lose it's like that was a pretty fun game you haven't had a game like this yet have you absolutely not absolutely not crazy this team no
00:46:10
Speaker
Well, kind of. We kind of did. Christian Koss isn't, you know, popping popping off. He's not here with Trent Grisham. Absolutely the idea but the giants have not. The Giants have not really had a crazy high-scoring game. I think maybe one in D.C. was. I think the D.C. ones are closest to this. But, like, I don't think there has not been a game where both teams scored double digits. Mm-hmm. But it also helps that, you you know, you have a winning record. So you can ah you can afford to have ah a fun back and forth game like that. I'd be having aneurysm. You'd find me dead in my computer.
00:46:42
Speaker
if If this game won't happen to the Giants. and then you end up winning? When would you have the heart attack? ah Probably at that wild pitch. The the walk-off wild pitch. Oh, fuck! Or maybe when Trout ties it with a three-run homer, it'd like, it's over, it's done, we're done, we're cooked.
00:47:03
Speaker
think That's how the Giants' Giants seems feel. The second leads the lead it is lost, it's over. but anyway, sorry. Game two is the only other game I was ah able to to watch live. Everything else, i I'm kind of piecing together a little bit from highlights and all that. But now just even talking about in game two anyway, because they were completely owned by Anaheim from the first inning. It started and did not improve. Weathers only went five innings and gave up four runs. So 7-1 loss. Just complete blah. You can kind of like forget about that game. You could be doing the dishes instead, not miss much. Game three, Yankees won dramatic a comeback fashion. Even though the Yankees did jump out early with a Aaron Judge, two-run single. A home run from Aaron Judge and a Trent Grisham, two-run single, I should say. So they took they went up three three o pretty early. the angles The Angels responded quickly. Logan Ohapi, who I think is a big staple for them. I've kind of seen him around do a bunch of stuff. Catcher, I believe. I love a good catcher who can also hit. And Mike Trout.
00:48:02
Speaker
Unless that catcher is a big dumper, Cal Raleigh. Yeah, honestly. wanted to make that caveat until was just like, nah, I'll just gloss over it. But since you mentioned it, you know what? Yeah. I got to check up on his season, see if he's still as bad as he was facing us. Speak your truth, Liam. Speak your truth. I'm fucking him up.
00:48:23
Speaker
Mike Trout also had another two-run shot. So Angels went up 4-3. Game turned around in the ninth when the Angels made a costly defensive mistake and dropped an infield pop-up that could have been an easy out. Opened the door for the Yankees. Jose Cabanero delivered a two-run double. And that was the comeback win. Nice. Cal Raleigh currently is sitting at two home runs. Batting average of 159. OPS plus 51. Cal Raleigh? Yeah. 151? Okay. Nice. What was his batting average, you said? 159. 159, okay. Yeah, OPS plus of 51. Okay, my dyslexia was coming in clutch there. was all good. Quick thing, if you're new to baseball, OPS plus. It's two stats combined. it's Well, OPS is two stats combined. It is your on-base percentage plus your slugging. But OPS plus shows, anything that has a plus next to it shows how you compare to the rest of the league with 100 being average. Anything above that, above average. Anything below 100, below average.
00:49:18
Speaker
And he sits at 51, which is not good. Compare that to last year. He was OPS plus or his career is 124. What was his last year? 2025. OPS plus was 166. He was going off last year. The World Baseball Classic curse seems to be real. Does appear to be real. Yeah. Anything else for your Angel series? ah Yeah. One more game. Another thing, Bednar got credited with the win for game three.
00:49:40
Speaker
It's interesting. Good. good for Good for him, I guess. Yeah. I feel like my vibe with Bednar would change up so much if he wasn't the closer. You think he's better, like, as ah just a relief guy? I think he's he might be a long relief guy. I think that most of our bullpen is made up of long relief guys, which might have something to do with how the bullpens, you know, hold the meter, which I guess I can talk about this now. I don't know who we're supposed to be excited about when Boone goes to the bullpen. So, like, you know... ah I forgot what I was going to say, but like when you go to the bullpen, you know yeah you can criticize Boone in the past for like the people that he did go to, especially last season with Devin Williams getting chance after chance after chance. But there's no like guy where you're like you're dying to he like have his music hit or whatever here. It's just kind of like he's in a lose-lose situation whenever he has to go away from a starting pitcher who's having a good outing. Yeah. I could throw out some numbers at you, but I think just saying their names is like enough to be like, okay. I don't know. Paul Blackburn is my big pop of of everyone back there.
00:50:42
Speaker
That's a name. Yeah. and know i' I'll just take a look at ah this series, especially Jake Bird, everyone's hating on. He ended this series with like a 27 ERA just in these four games. Rough. don't know what his season ERA is right now. But off one innings pitch, he he gave up three runs. Duval, what about you? 1.1, two one runs off two hits. Duval, man. It's always going to be stressful. I mean, you you explaining the kind of pitcher he is. Last episode, kind of like, just put it in for me like I shouldn't really be expecting anything other
Reds vs Giants Series Challenges
00:51:10
Speaker
than that from him. But even then, it's just... Your cortisol levels will rise. Oh, yeah. The the old shoot through the roof. Yeah, he he's he's an interesting guy. I'm kind of surprised that the Yankees took him. Just because from the beginning, I was like, I feel like his attitude, his demeanor is not... Is not Yankees. Is not compatible with the Yankees. He's way too relaxed. That's a fan base that does not know how to relax. I think he's, yeah I think he was a little, a little frilled. I think this series, there was just like enough, you know, okay that I think I recall seeing a clip of him actually like sweating or however you say, just kind of like being visibly unhappy with himself. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. He's he's had some after his 70 save, 70 saves, 75 save season. He has definitely been struggling. Yeah. Yeah. Just ah just one more game. there's There's not much to talk about. It was another like eleven to four loss.
00:51:57
Speaker
so o I think the big thing I just want to say, Oswald Peraza, the other Aussie that the Yankees had, this is kind of his revenge game. Angels jumped out ahead 2-0 off a home run from him. Yeah. Good on him. I liked seeing a former Yankee kind of do well, especially a guy i don't think that maybe have gotten the best shake just because there wasn't a consistent spot for him to get some playing time. But that was kind of nice. Judge and ah Stanton tried to make it competitive with some homers of their own, but... Nothing really regained after the six. Peraza, Von Grissom, and Josh Lowe just helped put this game away and put it far out of reach. Joe Adele even had a grand slam in the eighth, which i you're just kind of laying on the hurt now. Come on, buddy.
00:52:37
Speaker
Yeah. You can't beat Aura Farming forever. He's having a great season. Yeah, is. Was it the Mariners? He robbed the three home runs and then grand slam? Mm-hmm. Nice, nice. All right, ready for for the red series? i should I should at least put a... Jake Berg can be my LVP. Who do I want be my MVP? Caballero has ah had a pretty good pretty good series. He played ah all four games, 15 at-bats.
00:52:59
Speaker
Highest OPS of... Second highest OPS of the series. Judge had the highest. No surprise there. Yeah. Good to see a guy like him. You know, getting up as much. he had the highest on-base percentage. I'll say... I'll reason that is the reason he is my MVP for the series. Jose Caballero. Congratulations. Good sir. Everyone give Caballero...
00:53:18
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wo
00:53:21
Speaker
Yeah. All right. You're ready for the Reds. oh I'm ready for the Reds. I played against the Reds in in Little League and we won our our little championship there. I'll hope you remember that. Go for it. Because the Giants did not win. we lose the series again. one two But before we get into game one, there were moves to be made. We had Ryze with the contusion and we have Harrison Bader on the aisle. Yes. Yes. 10 days for a hamstring strain. Also, Jared Oliva is on the IL for 10 days for a hamate fracture. He might be gone um longer because that usually requires surgery. Hamate fractures. Very hot right now.
00:53:55
Speaker
Very in fashion. Very in style. Yeah. It's a bone in your hand. Are hamate fractures going end up being the Tommy John for hitters? I'm not educated enough to give you a good one on that. I just feel like the handmate has been pretty big. There's quite a few of them going into the season with these fractures. The bone in your hand, it's like on the pinky side, I think. So apparently that can get fractured pretty easily. It's a very small bone, but it gets fractured because of the way that players are holding bats now. It's pretty low on the bat. And whenever the ball hits the knob or if it hits your hand, the odds of that bone fracturing is pretty high. So all of it's probably going to be out for a while because that does require surgery. I guess we'll see how serious. I don't think there's any word on how serious the fracture is yet. Harrison Bader out on the hamstring, which has been giving him a problem since the World Baseball Classic, also spring training. So we had some call-ups. Drew Gilbert, the psychopath, he's brought up 289 batting average. He's one, if you remember last year, getting choked out in the dugout. Yes, yes, yes. So he comes up, he has a 289 batting average, 389 on-base percentage, 400 slugging, 789 OPS in AAA. Also brought up was Will Brennan, 392 batting average, 389 on-base percentage, 549 slugging, 938 OPS. I was a little bit concerned with Drew Gilbert's numbers because, you know, you're always expecting those numbers to drop a little bit when they come up from AAA. I thought Will Brennan was going to be okay because, you know, almost 400 batting average is pretty crazy. Ended up being the opposite. Drew Gilbert doing pretty good. Will Brennan, eh, not so much. So game one, Giants left Baltimore for Great American Small Park to hopefully regain confidence with much needed home runs. Robbie Ray took the mound and all in all pitched just fine. He only gave up two hits, which were two solo home runs, easily surmountable. But you realize that the Giants have the worst outfield from an offensive perspective. Giants ended up losing one, two and a very unusual score for the ballpark. Willie Adamas was a lone run, hitting a solo homer in the fifth. But the Giants had a bad time, leaving six runners on base, going over three with runners in scoring position.
00:55:39
Speaker
Suzak, he pinch hits for Bailey in the ninth. Almost ties the game with a hard swing. Unfortunately, it went to the deepest part of the ballpark and ended up being a fly out. But anywhere else in that ballpark, home run. And the game would have been tied. So Suzak is just, it's getting to the point at this at this point now. where we there There are fans openly questioning, not just fans, but like media, actively questioning Bailey's position as starter. Really? Yes. He is not doing great. He's great defensively. No one can take that away.
00:56:07
Speaker
Suzak has had some pretty questionable ABS challenges. Patrick Bailey, not as much. Let me take a look at some stats for you. So we got Patrick Bailey. He is currently sitting at minus 0.4 war. Batting average of 151. 211 on base percentage. slugging. OPS. Guess what his OPS plus is? Couldn't tell Seven. Compare that to Daniel Suzak. He has.3 war. 478 batting average. Jeez. And 23 at-bats 53 at-bats. Yeah, no. Just the numbers indicate that you should be given some more chances now. Somehow only one run, but five RBIs. His on-base percentage is 500. Slugging is 652. OPS of 1.1. OPS plus 230. So it is... So um from an offensive perspective, like, it's kind of crazy. So people are wondering, like, hey you know, like, that was... I say some people, it's just Giants fans are like... hey, do you think we should have like a Patrick Bailey rule? Like there's the Otani rule. And like, should we, should he be allowed to play two catchers? like Like one, this, this guy is the, the offensive guy. He like, he only bats for the the catcher. Like he bats for the DH, but for the catcher. Oh, DH for the catcher type deal? Yeah, a DH for the catcher. You have two DHs, one for the pitcher, one for the catcher. Maybe the DH for the catcher has to be a catcher as well. i don't know. That's what people are like. we should have we should have a Bailey rule. ah But yeah, like Bailey's really struggling offensively. Continuation from last year, like the the offense has been, you know, for the last decade. But it 7 OPS plus for Bailey. It's rough. Highlights for game one for pitching none offense lead doubles and Adamas gets a solo home run on defense. Bailey gets a pickoff throw and Z inning and or arise steals a hit on a hard hit liner. or Arise has had some really good defense this series. It's kind of funny because you know, he was he's brought on the team for his his hitting ability and the idea was like, well, hopefully his ability to hit outweighs, you know, his historically lackluster defense, right? Yeah. For whatever reason, he's decided to to be like, what if hear me out? I get a gold glove this year. He's had a lot of some really good defense so far. Very uncharacteristic of him. Game two, another day, another loss, another series
Mailey's Struggles and Giants' Loss
00:58:10
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loss. Mailey made his first start at Great American Ballpark since he left the Reds and he struggled. He gave up back to back home runs in the first inning. He would end up giving all eight runs the Reds scored with four total home runs. For this game, the Giants lose eight to three. When the Giants were able to close the gap just a bit, turning an 0-4 into a 2-4, Mealy was there to make sure the gap widened. The game essentially became an instant loss with Mealy being forced to eat innings to preserve the bullpen. There was better utilization of the bench with the whole thing being used, but perhaps it could have been better, though it would have been tough. Schmidt was DH once again. While Adamus was struggling, he went 0-4 for strikeouts. At the end, it didn't matter as Adamus' last strikeout was a bases loaded situation and there was no bench.
00:58:52
Speaker
More frustration mounted when Encarnacion, ooh, this is rough. Encarnacion, who pinch hit in the seventh for Gilbert. And for that particular one, he gets a single. He gets a single and Adamas is the next batter who gets, ah who strikes out, right? Damn.
00:59:08
Speaker
So Pinch in the seventh was seemingly caught off guard that he'd be finishing the game and unprepared was not in right field when the inning started because he misplaced his glove. I'm surprised I didn't hear this. I'm surprised I didn't hear about this. Yeah, he misplaced his glove. Couldn't find it Wasn't out on the field. So Brubaker, during Steers at bat, gets credited with the ball or gets charged with the ball, which makes Brubaker angry. So then on top of that, so Brubaker's already mad because he he starts the inning 1-0. And then during that at bat, the ump gives Steer a very late timeout. Brubaker had already started his windup when the timeout was granted. Mm-hmm.
00:59:41
Speaker
He was at risk of getting thrown out. He was the only net steer. He was the only net the ump. And the ump, he made the less than ideal move of walking towards the mound while he's getting yelled at. But Brubaker turns around, avoids getting thrown out, which frustratingly steer gets a hit, but he would not score. There were two outs. The bullpen, once again, shut down the offense, not giving
Giants' Defensive Success
00:59:59
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up a single run. And the Giants lost eight to three for game two for highlights. None for the pitching side on offense. Suzak to RBI double should be noted that Suzak started this game. I guess two RBI double. There's a rally in the seventh. We get one run, four hits, bases loaded. Lee walks and eventually scores. Ed Lee also gets a double.
01:00:16
Speaker
On defense, Suzak picks off Cabrian Hayes on second, which is interesting. It is kind of weird. Cabrian Hayes took way too big of a lead off second to get picked off. Okay. So it's more it's more on him than the yeah than some good fielding there, all
Game MVPs and Tensions
01:00:29
Speaker
right? Yeah, because getting picked off second to third is way more rare than getting picked off first to second. you gotta Just like even physically, you got to make the whole 90 degree turn. Yeah. 180 degree turn. For game one, my MVP, I put Bailey. In game two, it's who's that. Who goes two for four, no runs, two RBIs.
01:00:46
Speaker
So now we get into game three. Game three is where the drama starts. It's a weird one. Three parts frustrating, one part amazing, one part weird. Ended up being a pitcher's duel, which is, i don't know what was up with this team. What pitcher you got on the mound?
01:00:59
Speaker
On the mound, we have Landon Rupp. Giants went six straight innings of 1-2-3. Damn. While the Reds found themselves victims of a no-hitter. Eventually, the Giants broke the hit list streak and scored three runs off three hits. And capitalized on Error de la Cruz. Yeah. The Giants even got a little revenge for Steer's tripping from yesterday. I forget who we hit. We hit someone. Rup hit someone. I think was Steer, actually. So everyone thought, okay, we're even, right? The Reds said no. Things came to a head in the eighth win for whatever reason. The Reds felt revenge was not finished, and the pitcher, Phillips, intentionally hit Adamus, who was 0-3 with the strikeout his last inning.
01:01:32
Speaker
so Also, Adamus is just a nice guy, right? Yeah. so kind of like He's kind of like the weird, why'd you hit him? It's someone who's not as nice. Yeah. I don't know who that would be on the lineup. Anyway, so Phillips gets ejected, right? Because he intentionally hit Adamus. Yeah, and it happened afterwards. So the no-hitter was broken up, and the game remained 3-0 Giants. Eric Miller gets brought in for the ninth, and things got
Social Media Moments
01:01:51
Speaker
wild. Oh, i don't know if you saw it. I didn't get a video of it. Maybe I should have. When Adamus gets hit, he's so sassy. He just throws his bat and then just hands on his hips, just staring at Phillips.
01:02:01
Speaker
He just hands hips, stared at Phillips. He starts walking towards him, but gets stopped by the Elm. And then the Giants ball boy, who is the Giants ball boy? Or not ball boy, bat boy, grabs the bat and then walks with Adames down to first, staring at Phillips, just shaking his head. Oh yeah, I did see that. I didn't see that. The Giants did interview with him on Instagram. He'd be like, hey, what's it like being, you know, his official title is not Batboy. It's Dugout Assistant or something like that. But ooh la la. Yeah, his name's Riley. Hilarious. When I see the Giants next month. Ryan stood on business. He did. He did. Riley stood on business. Yeah, Riley stood on business. It was hilarious. I'm going to see if I can get his autograph if he's there in Colorado. Please do. That was awesome. Oh, God.
01:02:46
Speaker
ah But you'd love to see it. Anyway, so Eric Miller
Miller vs Stewart Confrontation
01:02:49
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comes in. He's brought in for the ninth, and things get a little wild. He ends the game with the strike of Sal Stewart. Sal Stewart having a good season. He has, at this point in time, he has more home runs than the Giants as a team. this is Miller's first career save. So he celebrates, right? He does the flex. He yells, sit down. Notably, he's looking at the Giants dugout when he's celebrating, right? So he's not directing this towards the Reds. Sal Stewart took exception to Miller's flexing and starts yelling at Eric Miller. Eric Miller, who's a big guy. le Let me grab his, because Sal Stewart, I don't think is very big, at least in comparison. I'm short, so everyone's big to me.
01:03:25
Speaker
Eric Miller is 269 pounds. Sal Stewart, on the other hand, is 224 pounds. so Sal Stewart's also big, but everyone's small. Not as big. Yeah, not as big. So Sal Stewart is you know yelling at at Eric Miller, which is pretty crazy because when did he he just debut? No, he debuted last year. He only played 18 games last year, so he's still in his rookie year. Ian was yelling at Eric Miller.
01:03:52
Speaker
And then Eric Miller turns, starts walking towards him. He points at Sal Stewart. And then the whole Reds dug out yelling FU, FU, and FU. With, oh, what's that movie? Where the guy's like, you know, FU, FU, FU, you're cool. He pulled one of those before he gets pushed away by an umpire. eric So Eric Miller is is, you know, getting moved away by. By the home. That's good. This is all good, like, emotions, though. Yeah, very good emotions.
01:04:17
Speaker
Does it feel like ah like more so of a team that's, like, focused on, like, lifting each other up, trying to win? Yeah, I think so. Okay. But, like, also, the the whole Sal Stewart thing is, like, kind of, it was an unforced error. You're a rookie. You're doing great. You're having a great, you know, rookie year. Relax. it was this like It was his first career save. Like Eric Miller did not do anything like crazy. So this Reza started it. So benches clear immediately. Willie and Chapman start playing peacemakers. And I saw somebody describe it as the benches clearing mildly.
01:04:47
Speaker
But I think on a morale side, it was fine. But it did.
Intentional Hitting Debate
01:04:50
Speaker
This did bring up conversations, though, about like hitting guys and like intentionally hitting hitting guys. Where did pretty do you fall on that? I'm not like a fan at all. I think it's pretty childish, but yeah I can understand in a, you know, a clubhouse atmosphere, it at some point, like it might like have to be retaliatory because I know, uh, you know, let's say a a pitcher hits your guy. Yeah. Well, your pitcher kind of has to, has to respond, you know, and either when the, when the catcher comes up or the big personality comes up. Well, I think it definitely depends on the intentionality, right? Like, you know, like you're not hating someone on purpose. I just assume you're, you're talking about it like intentionally. Yeah. Okay, yeah, that's fair. Yeah, it's actually hitting, yeah. Yeah, there's definitely that. Like, there's definitely something that feels lost now that pitchers don't hit that that feels kind of like, oh, maybe we should just stop it with that, you know? But you questions of, like who like, who started it. I guess you could argue the Giants did. You know, it's not Stier's fault that he was granted the late timeout. I don't think that timeout should have been granted, but is what it is. don't know. It's just one of those parts of the game that's, like, kind of weird. And my opinions will change on it based on who's involved. Yeah. Game two. Did I give my highlights for game two? I i i believe so. Yeah, I did. I did.
01:05:59
Speaker
So we'll go to... oh Yeah, yeah, sorry. That game three. That was game three. Game three. ah i I hope... I was like, oh, that was game one? Yeah, no, highlights, game three.
01:06:11
Speaker
Pitching was Landon Roop. He went six innings pitched, 87 pitches, six strikeouts, one walk, one hit, no runs. And I guess also one hit by pitch. Miller, he goes one inning pitch, 24 pitches, one walk, no runs. His first career save, and he triggered the Reds. On offense, Arias gets on base on an error in the sixth and eventually scores. So good job
Giants' Inconsistent Performance
01:06:30
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capitalizing on errors. Got capitalize on errors. The Giants have not been very good at that.
01:06:33
Speaker
Chapman hits an RBI double, eventually scores. Lee, RBI single, eventually scores. On defense, Arias robs a hit on a liner up the middle. And my MVP for game three, Landry Rue. On offense, it's Lee. He goes three for four, one run, run one RBI, one strikeout. On defense, it's Ryze and my lowlights. Nothing on pitching side. On offense, Adamas is caught stealing after a leadoff hit. The team goes six scorelines, innings of one, two, three.
01:06:57
Speaker
No, she's on defense. LVP is only on the offense side. It's Ramos. He went 0 for 4 with strikeout for game one. On game two, pitching was melee. Four he's pitched, six hits, six strikeouts, five walks, eight hits, eight runs, two wild pitches. On offense, it was Adamas 0 for 4, four strikeouts. Game three, my only LVP was Devers. He went 0 for 4 with two strikeouts. Where do you sit with Devers right now? Not great. I think he's going to be making quite a few appearances on the LVP list for ah the season, unfortunately. He leaves a lot to be desired. He's not getting the hits that we i that I'm expecting him to hit. It's kind of rough because with him and Willie, especially being at the top of the lineup, are notorious slow starters. Yes, yes. with Willie Adams especially. Oh, especially Devers. Remember Devers in his last start with the Red Sox? He went 0-4-18. I guess I'm saying especially Adamas because it never seems to happen when he's facing my team. Ah, true. he loves He loves when the Yankees come to town, right? He loves to be in Yankee Town. So he unfortunately ah won't be in Yankee Town for the rest of the season. Not anymore.
01:08:00
Speaker
But it's just rough because Adamas is mostly the leadoff guy. And going four strikeouts is crazy. and Do you think he gets moved down to something a little bit more in the middle? close No, the closest he got down, this the closest he was sent down is hitter number two with Arise being the leadoff. Who would be another leadoff guy? Suzak. Oh, God.
01:08:19
Speaker
Our backup catcher. Maybe Ramos, but he he's a little hot and cold. that That's what I'm getting from him. like the thing the team as a whole just kind of hot and cold it doesn't really matter who leads off at this point but it is what it is is what it i mean even when it just comes to ramos like looking at the breakdown game by game it's just like zero average 500 average zero average yep that's very giants very giants all right liam let's get to this last series this last series of the episode you guys go against the royals you know we we have to talk about something a little bit better now just because ah yankees first sweep in what feels like forever Yeah. guess the Royals team that... i don't know how to feel about the Royals. know, not really keeping tabs on on anyone there. A Royals team lacking... Bobby Witt Jr., I know, is like the guy or whatever. But I think they're tied with the Mets for like the worst record in baseball right now. So whatever page they were trying to turn never really got there. They even lost Yaz in the offseason.
01:09:12
Speaker
so They did. With the Braves now. With the Braves now. Braves are doing pretty good. They are, yes. They are in their division. Yep. absolutely by By a lot. Five games ahead. I think it's them and the Marlins, right? And they're one two. Oh, they're tied with the Nationals.
01:09:25
Speaker
Oh, yeah. the well finish Let's take a look here. You said the Royals. Yeah, Royals are seven and 15 right now on April 20th, which does tie them for worst record in baseball with the Mets. It was the Red Sox with the worst record for a little bit. Oh, they're not far behind. They're eight and 13. Oh, one one more one more win. Watch out for them. yeah watch i Watch out, watch out, watch out.
01:09:43
Speaker
but Good game one, afford to win, even though was powered by a late game hero, Ryan McMahon, finally showing up, doing a, working a little bit of magic with a go-ahead two-run shot in the eighth. It was break his slump. I don't know. That might have been like his fourth or fifth hit of the season. I'd have to pull that up on... Let me check how many hits Ryan McMahon has. Four RBIs, four runs scored, 20 games, six hits. He's got six hits so far this year. How many at-bats? 46 at-bats. Yikes. What's his OPS Plus?
01:10:14
Speaker
Is it lower than Patrick Bailey? He's at seven. It's not giving me his OPS plus. It's just giving me his OPS. OPS 41. 41? Dang, sad. Does Patrick Bailey have the lowest OPS plus in the league? we're having a We're having an OPS plus off right now. Oh yeah, good to see him finally finally doing I Have Faith in the guy when he first got here. A lot of people are ready to be done with him. I mean, i don't know what is his contract structure is looking like. don't know you want to eat the kind of money that the the Royals gave him, but I'm sure it's chump change when it comes to you know big city money. Ben Rice contributed her own homer earlier in the game, which gave the Yankees their initial offense. So it left them over the hump for to win. Pitching highlights came from Kim Schlittler, who was strong, giving up just one run over six innings. Camilo Duvall was the real thing that kind of made the game slip, giving up the game tying homer to make it 2-2. Ben Nahr closed the game out with a clean ninth. Other than that, big picture kind of stuff.
01:11:03
Speaker
Just the Ryan McMahon stuff, like I said before. No, yeah. It's kind of kind of how it is. Game two was a blowout, so. Oh, yeah. Wow. thirteen four With the Giants, with the blowout game, blowout wins specifically, not a big fan of them. Because it always feels like they're going to lose the next one. It seems like without fail, they have a blowout win, they're going to lose the next one. If that happened this series, I'd be in the same boat as you. just I yeah guess the team, the Royals are just bad enough, whereas just like, nah, Yankees got whoever they they put up on the mound.
01:11:34
Speaker
But no, ah especially after the last two series we had, where it was literally back and forth, back and forth, blowout, and just a bunch of close games. Like, I feel if we did get a big like blowout win after that, it would just be like, well, we got to lose like two in a row after that, lose the series, or start off bad against whoever we got up next. I guess blowout win, 13-4.
01:11:55
Speaker
thirteen four blowout win. Cody Bellinger, ah two home runs, five RBIs. The biggest contributor of the day. Ahmed Rosario and Ben Rice also went deep during a decisive inning. It was a five-run third inning, which blew the game open early. so it was kind of like the reverse of, I'd say... The Angels? Yeah, it' i'd say the I'd say the Angels game where they were they won like 7-1. This is our version of that.
01:12:15
Speaker
That's a good way to just put it. ah So it was a kind of a rare, comfortable win for us. Offense just so showed signs of coming back to form, especially against a left-handed pitching. They gave Rice ah a chance to actually bat against left-handed hitter, which is kind of like been the big gripe everyone has been having with Boone. And I don't know how much it is Boone's call for that early in the season.
01:12:36
Speaker
I think it's gotten to the part where it's just like, all right, we're not starting the season anymore. the best The best batter has to be in the lineup because Ben Rice has largely been like the best first baseman in baseball, maybe even the best hitter in baseball. I've been you know i've been thinking for a while. i was like, I kept forgetting who your first baseman is.
01:12:51
Speaker
I just default to Rizzo, but he's retired. He's gone. It's part of Paul Goldschmidt, part Ben Rice. so You guys do have Goldschmidt. I forgot about that as well. That's Goldie right there, dude. Hey, took him from the the Cardinals. take him from the cardinal he uh cardinals didn't want him no girls didn't want him he's older right yeah yeah yeah 34 ish i think better to under promise over deliver 38 never fucking mind oh okay that makes you feel a little bit better but like there's something kind of like off-putting that like we're talking about like these guys are old these guys are old and i'm like is i'm like in the same decade as them You know, like, he's getting up there in age. He's 34. Like, 32 this year. Don't like it. Don't like it. There didn't even know if he would be back with the Yankees this season. He felt like such a Mets acquisition and he would finally fall apart after a good, you know, twilight year. But it hasn't been terrible. Hasn't been terrible. What's his what's his regular season?
01:13:52
Speaker
He's only got a 150 batting average right now, but I don't think that's indicative of the player he is necessarily. I'm just going to deep into his stats right now. OPS plus is a 105 on base percentage of a three, two. I think it's, it's partial. It's partially just a, maybe not and him just not being indicative of the numbers, but also I'd argue rice has been getting more of the opportunities and people are more upset when rice is like taken out or given a day of rest. He should be playing every day, I think rightfully, but I don't know, they they just had this instinct kind of platoon him, like put him in very situationally, where it's just like if he needs to get better against left-handed bats and he's he's shown that he's improved significantly. So I don't see any reason going forward that he shouldn't be playing every day, especially after this series. Long version of of what I was trying to get at. Bellinger also had a multi-homer performance. Escara put up some multiple hits. His first career triple even came in. Will Warren also dominated in his start. Seven innings, 11 strikeouts. only ah He only allowed the two earned runs.
01:14:53
Speaker
So, no, was just a comfortable, coasty kind of win. It was nice to see. This is the game my sister has to do. Oh, okay. that's good That's good. she enjoy it? She got to see a good outing. I don't think there was a giveaway. I'd actually have to double check. The last time she went to a giveaway night, I got my Juan Soto basketball jersey, which is now my Ben Rice basketball jersey. It's the same number. This was against the Royals, you said? Yep. Royals game two, 13-4. No giveaway days. No giveaway day. I'm surprised she went then. Usually goes for giveaways. You guys have not had a giveaway this April. What a May. Star Wars day.
01:15:26
Speaker
Star Wars day. I know there's a Hockey Jersey night soon. Mech's free to Mandalorian bobblehead. And then the Blue Jays, May 20th, you might want to take a look at that. They got a MasterCard half price games. Mm-hmm. And then the next day is cap night. And then on the 22nd is John Carlos Stanton basketball jersey night. So I think you, i think those are three games that you got to go to.
01:15:46
Speaker
I got to go to all three of those games. All three of those games, two against the blue Jays and one against the rays, man. Gotta make it all the way out in the city for that. don't know about that one, big dog. Cap night presented by Budweiser. I got a lot of Yankees caps in my house. Wait, what the cap look like? Just regular Yankee cap or does it have Budweiser branding on it? It that kind of change the whole thing? It's all black.
01:16:06
Speaker
There might be a trucker hat. Oh, so so like like they're really leaning into the Budweiser like individual they want. it's like a black hat with a black Yankees logo. I got enough of those was kicking around the house. I'll be good. I'm trying to get a red Yankees hat like Spike Lee. Okay. Maybe they'll have a Spike Lee night.
01:16:21
Speaker
A so Spike Lee night? Do the right thing night? Yeah. Black Klansman night? Oh, no. i don't know about that one. Well, come on, man. great movie. It's a great movie right there. Complimentary yeah KKK hats. It was black. It was his entire point. He was pretending to be in the KKK. Okay.
01:16:43
Speaker
Oh, no. David Duke is played by Venom. OG Venom. ah From Spider-Man 3? Yeah, from Spider-Man 3. I'm blanking on his name right now. Yeah, I am too. Eric Foreman? No. Is that who it No, no, no. No, no. Who who was he?
01:16:57
Speaker
Oh, now you gotta look it up. Spider-Man 3. Sorry, Alex. No, this is the good stuff. This is why people watch the show. Toe for Grace. Eddie Rock, Toe for Grace. Yeah, Eric Foreman. Oh, you meant the character from the show. I didn't watch that 70s show. I did not watch to that seventy show. Somehow the only not scumbag for that whole cast. Yeah, from what I've heard, I remember correctly. Didn't they bring that 70s show back? They did that 80s show. Oh, yeah. So for Grayson that a all or not? I think so. Maybe for like one episode. I don't know. He he he left. ah Oh, no. Is it that 80s show is that 90s show?
01:17:29
Speaker
Either one. They did both, I think. The show. There was a That 80s show, but i don't know was the same people. ah He does not look like he's in it. Kevin Smith is in it. Interesting. Did they do a That 80s show? Is that related? Ryan Reathers was in it. He pitched a That 80s show only had one...
01:17:43
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one season, but it did not have any of the does not look looking at any of the original cast. Oh, interesting. Okay, that's a tangent. I tried i tried to sneak in a segue there. Oh, sorry. tell you know you're okay You're okay. I was just like, who's Ryan Weathers? Oh, the pitcher for the Yankees? Oh, wow. He pitched 7.1 scoreless innings in the in in that 80s show. Crazy. That's an insane stat line to drop right there.
01:18:11
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a ah Yeah, game three, just the final one of the series. 7-0. Ryan Weathers pitched 7.1 scoreless. Pretty good. ah Yankees jumped ahead immediately. Aaron Judge hit a first inning home run near the hot start of the season. Ben Rice also stayed hot homering again in his fourth straight game. Trent Grisham added some insurance runs. Yankees improved record to 13-9, which I think is where we're at.
01:18:34
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We were 7-1 at one point. Now we're down to like 13-9, just like not good. Ah, gotcha. A lot season left. is lot better than 9-13. Yeah. I kind of have to give my LVP to Deval. He pitched a 9 ERA on the one game he was in. He still collected the win somehow, though, which is interesting to think about. Oh, yeah, because... This is just what the stats are telling me.
01:18:55
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This is just what the stats are telling me. Oh, you know, it's because... Wait, he got the win? Apparently. Which game was this? Oh, gosh. It was the second game or third game? That was game one. Oh, game one. Okay. Okay. That makes sense because that means that he comes in, the Yankees are either tied or behind, and then he does his pitching, and then you guys take the lead. As long as he was the last pitcher when you guys took the lead, yeah, he gets to win. Yep. So he has to kind of be my default LVP just for coming into that mid leverage situation and, know, tying, tying the game up like, like he did MVP can be either belly or rice. They had pretty good adding themselves. They have an identical, though. Their sets are almost identical, like just across the board. It's just Bellinger had one more at bat to work with really. And I guess rice didn't have a double. That's it though. Okay. But no, it's just happy to hear about some good baseball. Happy to look at some good baseball. It was I was watching a little bit of this little bit of WrestleMania. So just like my cortisol just immediately improved. Nice. Baseball is my only sport and it's bad for my mental health.
01:19:50
Speaker
You should get into poker. See what that does. Be a fan of a poker player. Oh, poker players after that. ah don't know. i don't really get poker. I need to have the chart next to me. be Like, what do I have?
01:20:03
Speaker
I think that happens literally whenever we play each other. Yeah, we play Liar's Bar. And the amount times that I fold before the yeah three flips, I'm like, I'm out. I don't like these cards. All right. Is that it for ah your Royals? that That's it for my Royals series, yeah.
01:20:21
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All right. Let us get to the Giants. hey giant Last series for this episode, series number eight at Nationals. They go to D.C. and they take the series two to one. Yay. Game one. Crazy. Giants went off early in the game with Webb on the mound, something that is unusual for him to experience. The Giants scored six runs in the second. It should have been smooth sailing, but Webb is still struggling and gave up four runs, nearly erasing the lead. They managed tack on more runs and won 10-5. Ramos was the one who shined with a three-run homer. give you an idea, on that second inning, they wrapped the lineup who got two at-bats. Schmidt was able to get two at-bats that inning, and a Arise was the only one to not get on base.
01:21:01
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that in Arise he grounds out to the first baseman Suzzat he was the first out for that inning he got a single and then got caught stealing second we're not very good at stealing bases this year unfortunate and then Ramos gets his three run homer in the second inning as well after that we score twice in the fourth once in the seventh once in the ninth Giants win 10-5 big wins Game two, it was a nail biter of a game. Defense nearly collapsed in the second inning, nearly taking out Hauser, who ended the first inning with 15 pitches and ended the second inning with 46. Yeah. After that, the Giants were able to close the gap to three to five by the end of the third. The Giants were able to eke a one run lead that was lost with Walker in the night. Walker managed to get out of an ugly. This is a game that went 12 innings. Okay. I think I remember this. So he comes in in the ninth, gives up a run, ties the game. Giants don't score at the top of the 10th. He gets out of an ugly 10th inning. I believe that was bases loaded situation. So really says more about the Nationals for not being able to score bases loaded. I think bases loaded, no outs in the 10th. 10 the game remains tied so it's Killian that comes in to pitch to close it out for better or worse the Giants kept the score tied for the 11th and scored in the 12th with another tenuous one run lead Killian locked in got the final out with a called strike three getting a win keeping the team's morale high and that's the one where we have this crazy throw so I have it sent to you in discord we can do what we did last time
01:22:21
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with Arise's, or not Arise, with Vitello's ejection. So we'll do the same thing. Just get that video loaded up. Keep it muted because I have the audio here. We'll just play the audio. got it right, you count it. One,
01:22:34
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to the one guy to go He's loaded two outs. Divas he hits one hard on the ground is short. Adamas he'll throw.
01:22:46
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He didn't get the out at second but he got the out at first. I don't believe it. I've never seen that. Oh my goodness. And the Giants live to play on He did not get the out, but he didn't panic.
01:23:02
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And he made the throw anyway. he sacrificed his body, went tumbling down. oh crazy. good Good on him for, like, sticking with it, you know? Yeah. Yeah. So base is loaded, two outs. Adamus is the shortstop.
01:23:15
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He gets the ball. He's a ground ball, gets it, runs to second, trying to tag try to force out the runner. Unable to get there on time, there's a collision, and he just like midair throws the ball to first to get the out to keep the Giants alive. Definitely play of the game. So we go to game three. The Giants, this was an ugly one. Giants get shut out. Mm-hmm.
01:23:35
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They dropped last game and their chance at the first sweep of the season as the best went cold after two days of pretty good defense. This game, the Giants were 0 for 10 with runners in scoring position. and The bullpen was great with no runs or hits given up. Ray pitched well, giving up three runs with a two-run home run. It was a last-minute bullpen day for the Nationals, which makes the loss that much worse, especially since they took the opener out in the first inning.
01:23:55
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Mikolas was the starter and he was not good, though Remy Paul's competent offense would have punished. The Nationals committed two errors that also went unpunished. Hopefully this is just a getaway day thing, as the Giants have always been bad at day games. But we shouldn't let the game take away from the fact that the road trip has been somewhat salvaged to a 4-5 record, clawing back from a 2-4 record entering this series. My highlights for game one is pitching. Webb had a five-pitch inning in the fifth inning, which kept him in.
01:24:20
Speaker
Actually, that was his, he ends that inning with 84 pitches. He was able to get it together. So to give idea, he goes 12 pitches in the first, 22 in the second, 55 the third, and 79 in the fourth, 84 in the fifth. And he ends his outing with 98 pitches.
01:24:34
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and he ends is out with ninety eight pitches On offense, we have Ramos for game one. This is all game one. Ramos, he gets a three-run homer in the second, and he walks in a run in the ninth. Chapman, he had a two-run single in the second and an RBI single in the fourth. Devers gets an RBI double in the second. The Giants have 10 batters in the second, score six runs off seven hits. Gilbert gets a solo home run in the fourth.
01:24:57
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Adamas doubles in the fourth. Suzak doubles in the fifth. Schmidt solo home runs in the seventh, and the Giants lead the bases loaded in the ninth. Dad, I think, is the killer. I put that as a highlight. That's that's ah that's an off that's a low light. I don't know why i put that in the highlights. that on You're not supposed to be here. I think that's supposed to be like the giant sleeves of bases loaded in the ninth, meaning that the the nationals.
01:25:17
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Left the bases loaded. On defense, we had Arise, who had just amazing defense. He gets it out at first for What did I mean by this? Just amazing defense getting out at first for a ball closer to first. Oh, closer to first than second in the sixth. Yeah, he shifted hard and was able to get a crazy out. 5-3 double play in the seventh erases the error. MVP for pitching. I just put the bullpen. Three innings pitched. One walk. One hit by pitch. No runs. offense i gave it to ramos who goes one for four one home run one run four rbis and defense for game one is a rise game two pitching i give it to hauser our highlights or hauser settles it after disaster second inning like i said this is how hauser's outing went he goes 15 pitches in the first 46 in the second 55 in the third 65 in the fourth 80 in the fifth and 88 the sixth he goes 5.2 and he's pitched
01:26:05
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ah he goes five point two and he's pitched Walker gets out of a nightmare 10th inning. Killian wins the game with a call strike three in the 12th. On offense, you had a double and Ramos doubles in the second. He has a two run homer in the sixth to tie the game. Gilbert, RBI single in the second.
01:26:19
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Schmidt, he gets an RBI single. The Nats error and send him to second. Sucks for Schmidt because he got he got robbed. That error robs him of his second RBI. Chapman runs through a stop sign on a Nats error and scores on defense. This is awesome. Bailey picks off the runner on third.
01:26:33
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it Empties the bases, making it so much nicer for Hauser. I think I saw that highlight too. it was a great one. Chapman, ah if if whenever I watch at home, i got to I've got to keep OBS open so I can get those those recordings in. Chapman, he gets a 5-3 tag out at home to keep the Nats from winning. Adamas makes an an insane save to get the last out in the 10th. My MVP for game two is Killian, who goes two innings pitched, 17 pitches, two strikeouts, brings his ERA down to 0.9. On offense, it's Ramos. No one on defense. Game three, I have no not no one for pitching. For offense, it's Schmidt. He has a leadoff double in the sixth. Defense, Adonis, a ball hit into no man's land, hits the ground, but Adonis does not get out and hit gets Seforas out at third. Lowlights for game one. Webb struggled yet again. Did not look like he was going to four innings, but his ace status brought him in for the fifth, which ended up being a very short inning and ends up going six innings. On offense, Suzak was caught stealing second in the second inning. Devers strikes out three times in a row. On defense, a double play on a bad throw by Adamas to Devers. Or, sorry, double play is ruined on a bad throw by Adamas to Devers. Error not given. Third in inning is needlessly extended. The Nats score one, and Webb throws three to three pitches. Giants lose their second challenge.
01:27:41
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ABS challenge in the third inning, and Chapman errors a throw to first in the seventh inning. LVP only goes to Chapman for defense. One fell throw, luckily not called an error, and then eventually gets an error. Game two is Hauser for lowlights is Hauser hits wood, bases loaded, walks in a run. Walker gives up the tying run, goes into extras. For offense, Lee is thrown at home after starting at first in a 7-6-3 tag. Now, I put this as a lowlight on Lee, but I does have to be pointing out that no one is really to blame for this as the relay was perfect and all three teams would have sent the run. Devers hits an inning-ending double play on the first pitch. Giants failed to bring Ramos home from third with one out in the eighth. The score remains 6-5. On defense, Aaron in the second when he booted a ball, killing a double play that would lead to a zero-outs, bases-loaded situation, and Nats would end up scoring three. My LVP is for game two is goes to Bailey on offense going one for four, three strikeouts. Lowlights for game three is on pitching. Ray gives up a two run homer in the fifth defense, bad route on a fly ball by ah Ramos, followed by a bad relay leads Bailey dropping the ball on what could have been a tag at home plate, preventing a run. But for that game, I don't really have an LVP because it was a group effort.
01:28:51
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Everybody, you get it. is a Nobody, you know, nobody was notably worse than anyone else. Just one of those games. Sometimes there's no LVP, you know? That's the series win. Much needed series win. Could have been a sweep.
01:29:05
Speaker
Maybe it should have been a sweep. It's not, but we just have to deal with it. there Any questions? I'll go with any questions. so No, no, no. um What changes do you really want them, do you want to see made? I think it's a thing. ah Maybe more bench utilization in the last game against the Nationals. You know, you could argue this is a hindsight thing. Maybe, maybe not. I don't know. It all depends on how you feel about platooning. But Drew Gilbert, when the Nats switched to their lefty, Drew Gilbert, the splits are not great. He does not hit lefties very well. But with the troubles that the offense has, you know, Also, you have to deal with Encarnacion and his horrible error. Not error, but when he doesn't have the glove, you know? I guess let me like guess let me start with that. When a player does something like that, you know, whether it's they don't run out a play and it turns out, they you know, to first and they could have maybe been safe or they have a terrible error or they do what Encarnacion did, which I don't think I've ever seen before. The player not being out on the field, being one short on on defense and and getting a ball charged to the the pitcher. You kind of expect them to be like, well, you're benched, right? Like, how do you feel about that? You punish a player by being like, okay, you're you're benched for like the next game or something like that. I mean, maybe in your case, it's better if you want. Like, I think in your situation, no one's like spot in the field or in the lineup is safe. So I can see why that may be, know, maybe a little bit of necessary, but I think i think it's a player by player thing, know? I mean, kind of like we'll take gestures, for example, just because he's easy to pick on. I'm not saying like he makes an error.
01:30:27
Speaker
You bench him. But like if he didn't show up, if he was like, oh, like, you know, I forgot that I'm still playing and he wasn't at second base when the inning started. I'd bench him. and i did way you go Right. Like that's like the whole like Encarnacion thing. It's like it's not like just that you let the ball drop because maybe there's plausible deniability there. But you're not out there for the inning. like You pinch hit. Are you not aware of who's on the bench? Nobody on the bench could be is an outfielder. you know like The bench is Zusak, a catcher, and Koss, infield, infielder. You don't think that you're gonna be finishing out the game. You don't have your your your glove ready. Your glove on, yeah. He had to go back to the clubhouse. It wasn't even the dugout. Like, come on, man. They gave me more prepared than that. So maybe like a little bit more bench utilization. Encarnacion was at this point with with Gilbert. He was ready. He had his his stuff on, ended up not getting news. I don't know if that was like a no, we're not playing you because you screwed up or if it was just at this point in the game, Gilbert was two for two with ah two singles.
01:31:20
Speaker
So and then, know, when it came to that, that first at bat against the lefty, there were no outs. Mm hmm. He was the first at bat of the union or no, he wasn't. Uh, where's Gilbert at? I know he was like, he was going to be the last out. He was out number three, but he was two for two with two singles. It's kind of like, well, do you pinch it for that? Maybe, maybe not. don't know. We got shut out.
01:31:38
Speaker
Who knows? It could be one of those hindsight things. How do you, how do you feel about like the whole, how would you go about that if you were manager? i don't know. That's why I don't get paid the big bucks, I guess. Uh, Maybe I would have pinch hit him in the ninth when it was still lefty on the mound and Ramos gets on with the double. Gilbert ends up, there's a pop up to short. Maybe, maybe the first one would have kept him in two for two. The next one's still lefty and maybe I would have pinch hit him. But that once again, to me, that's, you know, hindsight. But yeah, let's see a little bit more bench utilization. It's kind of funny because like we, like the pendulum has swung so much, you know, from the Kapler era of new inning, new players to, you know, with Tony now with not many bench moves. Yes, he's very, I've noticed that he's very conservative. Yeah, very quick to stick to the guns. Yeah, so we'll see. We'll see how it all all works out. We're going long enough, so I won't get into it. But maybe that's like a next episode thing or when things slow down. as maybe we Maybe as we get closer to the all star break and we see where the teams are, I can give off. Do you think here? Do you think that your team's record is indicative of who they are as a team? Or they a little better, little worse? ah I think it's indicative. You look at their record the last 10 years, and that does include the end of the Bochy years. It's not great. You know, like this this is it's not great. There's just like a lot of blame that that Tony's getting. i think it's overblown. I think that it's... Mostly undeserved. The the media definitely is against him. And that goes all the way back to spring trading with the that that crazy triple play that the Giants pulled off where they're trying to like Tony took strays for that. That is when the the Giants got a triple play against the the Cubs because the Cubs runners screwed up. And I'm like, that's not that is as much Tony's fault as much as it is Craig Council's fault. I mean, it's zero. Yeah. That's the D that that's the, the manager isn't there to make sure he's not telling the defense where to throw the ball. Yeah. Like it's so crazy being like, Oh, he's like, don't, don't give Tony credit for this triple play. Like nobody was giving him credit.
01:33:33
Speaker
That's more on the Cubs than it was. Even the defense, the only, you know, flowers defense gets is that heads up. They knew where everybody was and were able to get the, ah the triple play. It should not have been a triple play because one of the runners was safe on third. And for some reason he thought he was out. So he walked away and then got tagged. I don't It's,
01:33:50
Speaker
And then then you go on to like stuff that's going on now. And I'm like, we have at least two guys who are slow starters. And then everyone else has been like seven of our nine guys have been on the team like this year. and And they were here last year and they're having the same issues. Same problems.
01:34:05
Speaker
The same problems. We got four managers in the last 10 years. Same issues. Not counting. Like we're 500 team. Not counting 2020. Not counting 2021. Well, not counting 2021 because we over 500. Yeah. 107 wins, baby. But yeah, you know, I'll end that later. We'll see how we go and I'll see how my, if my opinions change. Like I said, like I said, this, this is a season of me, no hot takes, not calling for anyone to be fired, not calling for DFA's, not calling for, know, send someone down AAA or call Bryce Eldridge or whatever. next series next series take a look next time two weeks uh that's gonna be may 3rd you've got the yankees have a three game series at red sox going a little boston big big road trip coming up yeah three games at boston three games at houston three games the rangers where they play corpus christi play in abilene abilene Their ballpark is right next to the Dallas Cowboys, who are notably not in Dallas.
01:34:59
Speaker
Saved my thoughts on that. And then I got a four-game series, which we're only going to get three games of in the episode for Orioles. So let's take a look. ritz are we getting you is a four-game series against the Orioles? Yeah. That finishes up Monday night, I believe. that Oh, Monday night. Okay. Gotcha. Yeah, that finishes up Monday night. So yeah, we'll only get to three games. Maybe we could do a pickup.
01:35:19
Speaker
I don't know. We'll play by ear. We should. Yeah, so looking at this. I'm looking at the current records. You know, like I said, it's ah April 20th right now. blas up Easy road trip, you think? You got the Red Sox, who currently sit who are at bed tied for fourth at 8-13. The Astros are also struggling. They're last place in their division right now, 8-15. Then you've got the Rangers, who are ti for first, actually, 11 and 11. And the Orioles are in third, 10 and 12. What's your confidence level for this?
01:35:44
Speaker
I mean, just in terms of just like what I'd be happy with, if we swept the Red Sox and Astros, I'd be fine getting reverse swept by Rangers. Interesting. Honestly. And then I could just chalk it up to, you know what? They've been battling their boots off. They're just tired. Their arms are tired, you know? You want to give them a little break. So what if they lose a series? And then I like to see him put the hurt on again for the Orioles. But yeah, no, from what I hear, the Rangers are a tough team. Yeah, they're tied. Yeah, 11-11. Maybe 500 isn't the... We're still early enough. They got interesting players. They got interesting players on the team. Brandon Nimmo is now playing for them. Jake Berger. Andrew McCutcheon. Oh, that's right. They have McCutcheon, huh? That's right. Danny Jansen. Danny motherfucking Jansen. Do they have Nemo? Yeah, said they got Nemo. They got Nemo from the Mets. Yeah, they got Nemo, yeah. The Mets, yikes. Okay, so for the Giants, we've got a three-game series versus the Dodgers, followed by three-game series versus the Marlins, then end up on a little road trip going three games against the Phillies and then three games against the Rays.
01:36:46
Speaker
These six games are going to be a gauntlet. It's going to be a gauntlet because we're facing Otani, Yamamoto, and Glasnow. Yeah. oh Is Glasnow still good? I think so. Damn it. I don't think we're deep enough into the season where his arm gives out because he refuses to pitch.
01:37:07
Speaker
did did you see ah Did you see Blake Snell's Twitch stream? No. He's dead to me. What do you say? yeah just Just adding on to like, this guy isn't healthy, but he's going to come back and probably be a monster. and He's literally playing the show and someone in chat is just like, yo get off the IR. I'm like, yo, dude, I never even thought of that. Then he like flicks his leg shoulders like, shoulder. Oh, yeah, I did that.
01:37:31
Speaker
Stop being hurt. Oh, God. marlin's Marlins, you should be able to. No, Marlins is going to be rough. They also have pretty good pitching. Damn. On top of that, you know who their new GM is? New assistant to the GM. Thank you. No, I think he's the GM now. He's the GM now? I think so. No. I know it's Gabe Kapler. It's Gabe Kapler, baby. Gabe Kapler. What is he? he's the GM now. He took the position last November. Last November.
01:37:54
Speaker
I thought it was the assistant. he He was the assistant. GM. Assistant to the regional manager. Yeah, but now he's general manager of the Miami Marlins as of last November. So you know what that means? Giants are going to see a bunch of lefties, a bunch of dudes from AAA because that's what Gabe Kapler does. We're also probably not going to know who we're pitching against until day of for each of those three games. Another Gabe Kapler cat classic.
01:38:15
Speaker
We'll see how the Dodgers go. yeah It doesn't sound like you're sounding hopeful here. Well, the one against the Dodgers is like, you know what? If our records were flipped, right? If we were instead of nine and what, 13, we were 13 and nine. thirteen I'd be like, we got this. We could take at least two. But this one, oh my God, I think we'll be lucky to get one, but which really pains me to say. The Marlins, I think coin toss. The Phillies are still struggling. right? You you you won against them earlier. Yeah, Phillies are 8-13. We beat them once. I think we can do it again. And then the Rays are going to be another coin toss. I guess we'll see how that goes. Good luck, sir. You're about to find out why I said these guys are fucking bad. But you know what, though? We got Bailey on defense as a catcher. He he might be faster than and Bailey's thought speed. Oh, no.
01:39:00
Speaker
Really? Doesn't he have like the fastest pop speed? Who? Bailey? It's literally ba all right Bailey's fast fastest pop speed, but also the Rays have the fastest guy in baseball. Badger Bailey has a one point. His fastest is 1.71 seconds. o We'll see. We'll see. We'll see. Alex. We have a question for Alex. We do. Who do you think had the more impressive series between our two teams? And how much of the giant struggles do you place on rookie manager Tony Vitello, former coach for tech bar Tennessee? I'm still stuck on the guy who forgot his mitt. I have nothing else to say. Thank you, Alex. We always appreciate ah your insights and for editing these episodes. I am so sorry. This is two and a half hours long.
01:39:47
Speaker
I'm going to move so much faster this episode too. Yeah, I know, right? Liam, do you have anything to plug? Do you have any way people can find you if you wish to be found? No, I'm a ghost, man. All right, well, need the maybe we should have an Instagram page. with Maybe maybe we should should we should have some sort of of of social media and and advertise ourselves instead of just throwing these episodes out into the void.
01:40:12
Speaker
hoping i mean I mean it's pretty fun to just kind of throw them out into the void you know it is also kind of that that's what that's what NASA was doing to try to make contact with aliens just throw some shit out I don't even know welcome if you're here throw us a comment give us five stars happy to have you but that's that's helpful from what I hear don't give us five stars because it would help us just give us five stars because it would be kind of cool yeah alright I think that's it see you guys in two weeks hopefully the giants are closer to 500 than they are now but I doubt it