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#16 | THE YANKEES ADVANCE TO THE ALCS
19 Plays1 year ago
0:00 Intro
0:33 Yankees ADVANCE to the ALCS
11:48 Liam gets spicy
14:12 Has Jazz Chisolm reinvigorated the Yankees/Royals rivalry?
18:10 Padres/Bums go to Game 5
23:19 Outro
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Transcript
Setting the Tone with Excitement
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Speaker
me as always is Liam. Liam, how you feeling? Let's go! What a boring game. Boring? Nah.
Yankees Advance to ALCS
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Speaker
Oh, so the Yankees won. They thank you one they did beat out The Kansas City Royals are going to move on to the ALCS against you the Tigers or the Guardians. A game, by the way, which is going to go to game five. So I think he's going to get some good, good rest, um especially since in or the the Tigers and the the Guardians are going to have a day off tomorrow. So travel day, then a game. So and then probably like another day or two off. So Yankees are going to be
00:01:06
Speaker
fully rested. They're going to be ready for game one. They're going to be ready.
Garrett Cole's Performance Analysis
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Speaker
um Garrett Cole started. ah He had a shaky, shaky game one. ah I know that they probably consider it to be more like. I mean, Yankees probably seem to or Yankees fans probably side as like a not good start. I think the normal. The average baseball fan would be like,
00:01:34
Speaker
That was a good, that was at an average start, that was a decent average, but not what you want. Not what you want from Garrett Cole. Garrett Cole pitched seven innings, six hits, one run, four strikeouts. So Yankees win three, one. He did a lot. He had a lot of control of this game, which is what he was missing during the last outing. Yes, he knew exactly what he had to do on top of that. So maybe it was like The extra day of rest, he took a day off from visiting the home pitching gym or whatever it may be. But he got on top of it, and he had a fantastic outing tonight. So or where do you want to start with this game?
Early Game Strategy and Impact
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Speaker
We might as well start at the very beginning, because the Yankees got on the board in the very beginning. They did, yes. ah ah Glibber Torus gets on. And then it's a a double.
00:02:41
Speaker
And then ah Juan Soto comes up and brings him in. Three, three pitches in the game. Yankees on the board. That is something that you definitely want to see. But they were aggressive. and it it It paid off really early. They were on top of their shit. They were. Oh, my God.
00:03:02
Speaker
And no one proceeded to score until the fifth inning. But you know, runs don't really, our lack of runs doesn't mean that there were good hits or there's bad. um Aaron Judge.
00:03:17
Speaker
got You know one run he had well he had to he has two credited at bats one hit one run and No strikeouts this time and two walks. He got he got walked twice. Yep So which is what I was talking about last time he should get credits for the walk He's he's been getting and he had a very productive day today on top of getting his first hit of the series. Yes, this was Yes, I was very happy when And that just got a stolen base and that's stolen base. Yes. Yes, he did get that.
Cole's Relief and Holmes' Redemption
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Speaker
Oh, my God. Clay Holmes relieved. Garrett Cole in the seventh. How'd you feel about that? Were you were you nervous? Were you? I wasn't nervous this time around. I you're like, I think you I think he's fine. He's he's settling. He's had his best. I think he had his best outing since being demoted from a closer. OK.
00:04:15
Speaker
Yeah, the thing was just like a like the the pressure of being a closer just fine. That was eventually prop maybe if you want to say is that it's well, I mean, sure but also the position is just different. Yeah, it's like also like not a bad thing if the pressure gets you because like we've we've talked we've talked about it a lot that the the pressure for a closer there has to be immense. And it's it's going to get to everyone. I mean,
00:04:44
Speaker
and look at the Giants with Camilla Deval, right? He last year was a 75 saves. And this year was just he was struggling. So it's a hard position. So it's good to see him that he gets that he gets the ah
00:05:08
Speaker
He's breaking the the thought the the Expectations he's exceeding the expectations people had Form going in so his his free agent year is not gonna be as Disastrous as it may have been if the season ended in September August. is a continues to kill it the greatest postseason hitter of our era he's uh look at the uh the box score right now he's band average 375 um that is that is great um i mean see soto 286 you got sand 375 and then you got birdie at 286
00:06:07
Speaker
Although, was this his first game at first, or is this his second? He got it. He got in in game two. OK. So they flip flop. They flip flop the games between Waldo and Birdie, whoever gets the standard first base for the for the day. So I'm fine with. Yes.
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Speaker
ah
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Speaker
The got down here that. ah
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Speaker
I cannot read my handwriting. know Oh, ah yeah, the Royals. They pull off a crazy double play in the fifth inning. I forget who was on on on on first, but they had to run back. Almost sound like a ah a Pirates' Cup situation, except from versus other and yeah yeah and he he you know to do for if the yankees were going to lose it was big is they surrounded a lot of people on base and if they lost it would have been because they couldn't convert Yeah, they didn't leave as many as they in game one. No, but today they only left seven on base. Still notable. Still a still notable. Yeah, still not not great. And the Royals defense was on point tonight. So they they went down with a fight. They went down swinging and on that front. It's just Yankees pitching had the answers. Yeah. Every way you looked.
Game Tensions and Near Brawl
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Speaker
um
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Speaker
And then in the sixth inning, bench is clear. Yes. That was weird. ah Throwback to the old, the the rivalry of of old days, but i I liked what I saw. It was, it came off Volpe getting it out at second. Very smart play. I applied the tag where he needed to. I applied the tag twice.
00:08:05
Speaker
Yeah, just to tip to give have a baseball reference, making sure he's got all of his bases covered because he he was off. Who was that? Royals player again? Was it, I think it was Melendez? Melendez, yes. Melendez did not like that. It started with like a side eye and then it turned into some. Now then Chisholm got then Chisholm got Chisholm did not like it. Chisholm probably didn't like it as more than Fulpy.
00:08:31
Speaker
Yeah, and then didn't even get cold. Got got in there. And that's Garakol's thing. He's sticking. He'll stick up for any boy in the clubhouse. And it delayed just long enough to make it look like that could kick. a I was a little bit worried for Cole, for Garakol there after after after the game started again. So he was using a good rhythm and it took him a little bit to.
00:08:58
Speaker
To kind of get it back. um We almost give up that that Homer but luckily Soto was there to catch it right at the fence rather bullpen fence how do you feel about judge right now? Fine I've been fine with him for the series even though it's largely been unproductive and ah in terms of hits but Happy that he's probably feels like a giant weights been lifted off the shoulders getting a hit today.
Anticipating the ALCS Opponent and Judge's Role
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Speaker
Oh, yeah I expect good things going into this next series that we got going on. Yes, whether it's against the Tigers or the Guardians I think this one you would hope that the next series is the one where judge ah Goes off. Yeah, it goes off and I think it's I think he has to I
00:09:55
Speaker
um Especially that high up on the batting order I Was I was watching the there's There's the final ending it was the final three outs
00:10:12
Speaker
I was just watching one by one goal by, I was watching Luke Weaver just go out there and absolutely shove one, two, three inning. But as yeah as it was... Luke Weaver, two strikeouts. As it was going down. Ends with the fly out to Aaron Judge. as As it was going down, I was thinking, this is the year, like this is the one.
00:10:36
Speaker
so like I think and that This that's what this series has got me thinking. Yeah, I mean, I mean obviously the answer is yes, you're not You're not gonna go through this whole podcast. You're like now maybe next year
00:10:50
Speaker
ah game one game one win next year is like ah it was fine but you know maybe next year and but no just thinking about what we have coming up I feel very optimistic on what the Guardians are going to do this next game against the the Tigers. So yeah maybe maybe it's them. Maybe it's it's them. And it's a rematch of the ALDS from 2022 series I attended the last game of. That's right. You did. I forgot. Very good game. Very entertaining atmosphere. One of the best crowds I've been a part of. If not the in a postseason, you know, watch a postseason game.
00:11:35
Speaker
The only thing that might have rivaled it was seeing a Yankees Red Sox game. Oh, yes. Which i I was also a part of. So those are the only two crowds like that. Rifle each other that I've been there for. And I don't want to play like not devil's advocate, but start putting things out there, but OK.
00:11:56
Speaker
The, the tigers are very good. Their strong point is their, is their pitching, which they have a very unique approach to their kind of spearheading this new age of having one real starter, one or two real starters. Yeah. But also people haven't, haven't been saying this and I wanted to, I was looking for a way to like talk about it the past two episodes, but their manager was the manager of the Astros originally.
00:12:27
Speaker
Mmm 2017. Oh 2017 Astros. Okay. Okay, so I don't maybe I'm putting out some nice poetry some nice Thematics on what a win or a loss could mean for a series like that Yeah, but it's something that's in the back of my mind. Do you think the do you think because nobody got punished?
00:12:50
Speaker
that like some of the anger has been just kind of focus on the Astros, just like as a name and not so much the individuals. Yeah. And like, do you think like if people brought like it like if Yankees fans brought trash cans to the hypothetical Yankees Detroit game that like you think people would like, are they calling the Tigers trash or do you think like people will be able to pick up that? Oh, they it's because the manager was on the cheating Astros.
00:13:20
Speaker
Now, I'm not one to say that Yankees fans aren't the smartest tools in the shed. But I don't know if they'd go as far to make that connection. Well, yeah's been like well I just think like baseball fans in general. All right. But Yankees fans would have to be the perpetrators. Yeah. Yes. That's what I'm saying. Like like they bring the trash cans to Yankee Stadium and just start banging away.
00:13:41
Speaker
I don't know if we had that in us, even though we love making fun of 2017 Astros related stuff a lot. So it's just something that that's been in the back of my mind. And I got to finish the book Cheated. I'm still like halfway through after all these years. It's just I was reading it in the middle of school. So it's just kind of been in my bookshelf, but very nice read, very entertaining read. Yeah.
00:14:06
Speaker
um ah ah You wanna talk about jazz Chisholm? He went to 0 for 3. He had one walk and one strikeout. Yeah, him and Wells are the two struggling. Also Wells, 0 for 1 strikeout. Do you think that they just got lucky? Quote from Chisholm is,
00:14:41
Speaker
I mean, the Yankees won, but like Chisholm really wasn't. that big of a piece in it. um obviously so sense At least offensively. it is there It is their first series of the postseason. yeah So I'll hold off on on making judgment. But Jess said he wanted the atmosphere. And the atmosphere has been there. And he hasn't been much to be found, aside from maybe a game. yeah so i mean i mean just maybe Maybe it's just the Tigers have their have his number specifically. You mean the Royals?
00:15:16
Speaker
The the royals yes, the royals have them specifically but depending on what he does against yeah, cleveland or detroit. That'll be the Thing of note because he was the villain really firm Yeah, like i'll like all things considered like what just saying that they got lucky it was like It's pretty benign like in the like insult, you know the city the the team the fans is that they just said they got lucky. So it's kind of funny, like, that's the thing. But I mean, hey, like, whatever, like you got the atmosphere going. We got a we got a very. It'd be very interesting to see if the. I mean, I'm sure it is that that that that comments going to be sticking in in Kansas City for a while.
00:16:09
Speaker
Probably if that's what people the TBS has been showing clips of the old post-season rivalries that the Yankees have gotten into with Kansas City and and regular season for for that matter.
00:16:23
Speaker
back in the back in the 70s and in the early 80s. So they it's a team with history and bad blood between them going back way when it's just, you know, rivalries become irrelevant sometimes over time. Yes. Yeah, I mean, I mean, the other thing like rivalries although they have they have ebbs and flows.
00:16:47
Speaker
ebbs and flows in. Sometimes they come back in. Yeah, it only takes a little bit for grandpa to come out of the woodwork and saying, oh, I remember back in the day when blah, blah, blah, and the benches cleared. And we hate these guys. It takes and it becomes a larger narrative. so Yeah, they can come back and in the most interesting times.
00:17:09
Speaker
um Well, is there anything else you want to talk about? Yankees are lead the league. They have the league, most appearances, advancements to the ALCS. Okay. Okay. 19 19. Uh, did they just take that record or I think, just like dirty just I think they've been having that record, but that's what they sixty bs just, also put up. Yeah. Yep. Um, all right. Well,
00:17:46
Speaker
next game that the uh... yankees will play is uh... it'll be october fourteenth who is this uh... this last game between the uh... that's you so we got quite a bit of a break about also that willll also be game two of metz uh... metz and whoever's wins the a l c f or n l c s and you're talking about that for a little bit uh... medicine Or I guess Dodger's Podrace. Dodger's Podrace. There's an off day today. They go back to LA tomorrow to finish off the DS and... You got face in the Podrace. Oh, after that last game, um it's definitely Shaken. ah it's they They got shot out 8-0. Was it?
00:18:33
Speaker
Yeah, I did want to talk about that because that was a, that's a big thing
Otani's Frustration and Umpire Tensions
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Speaker
for them. Their home turf is one of the biggest advantages, larger year round atmospheres that you can hope for. And for the Padres or for the Padres. Yeah. And they had, they flubbed it. Nothing to show for it. No one sees, uh, he had Dylan Sees just going through a postseason implosion. Uh, who's the second start of the, the, the postseason. And it was his second.
00:19:06
Speaker
second Second... Bad start, I guess. Just a simple way of putting it. and and And that's really only half the game, because they got shut out. No no runs were provided by the bats. That that is also true.
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Speaker
um
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Speaker
So well we'll we'll see. It's going to be very loud over there. They got to go back they got to go back to l LA and make magic happen. So yeah wishing them the best. Uh, did you see how angry Otani got? Over. ah The umpire getting hit by the ball. Oh, I did not see that.
00:19:43
Speaker
Oh, yeah, he was the I don't know if the I don't know if our broadcast showed it, but the the Japanese broadcast showed it. And I'm not much of a lip reader, ah but I think he did here. I think he did hurl a an ejectable word at a the umpire, assuming he was speaking English. but which is And it looked like one of those words is definitely English. and It starts with an F.
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Speaker
ah
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Speaker
But I don't know if the ah if the the Dodgers third base coach was trying to tell Tony to not go to try to hold him back. No, I think he was telling him not to go. Yeah. So i mean that that that's so Tony, man. I the you got to you got to listen to your coach. I saw that for a reason. I saw those two hands go up and I that that was clear to me that he was he was signaling. Yeah. Two hands up is put the brakes on. Yeah. Don't go so.
00:20:42
Speaker
That's what I saw. I don't know if I need to go in further inspection, but even even so even still, I don't think Otani should have gone, nor should he have gotten the call to go. No, absolutely not.
00:20:53
Speaker
ah But, you know, it is what it is. I just feel a little bit for a tiny after a postgame in a postgame interview where he said that in the regular season, that he was trying too hard with runners in scoring position because he thought that that was the only way they could win. And he said that was carried over from when he was with the Angels like, oh, no oh, no. It's like, oh, that's sad.
00:21:19
Speaker
um But, ah yeah, we'll we'll we'll see. I will see how that goes. It's very interesting. I think Padres also kind of have the that. That.
00:21:35
Speaker
Is this seem like a team that that likes to travel a little bit and. Maybe. maybe I can see them, I mean, obviously they want to win in L.A. or they want to win in general, but. Everyone wants to win at home, but I think that they could also be like, well, we can have.
00:21:55
Speaker
if If they win, like you know Tatis is going to face the crowd and like give an elaborate bow. It's going to be so be entertaining to watch. and then that that is if the If the Padres win, that is where my Padres fandom, my bandwagon on hitches and I go back to the Mets.
00:22:19
Speaker
But I really need the Padres to win this one your second favorite team in the league Yeah, like I really I really need the the Padres to win this one cuz like I Don't know if if if the grimace power is that strong? Mmm How would you feel like if if you if you if a genie was like ah I'll grant you one wish and you're like, give me I want to see, show me something from the, the post-season and we'll say that this isn't like May, right? Or June. And then you just see a bunch of Mets fans on the subway, dancing next to a grimace. Like, what was your thought be?
00:23:04
Speaker
wella Whoa. The Ronald McDonald house is doing some crazy advertising, paying the Mets however much to have grimace in the lineup every night. gros in line of b um All right, so I think I think I'll do for this episode what else we want to bring up Do you have any other thoughts about the the Padres Dodgers game? I hope they get it done