 Today is Monday October 7th and the Dodgers bats came to life and the Braves rose from the dead What's going on everybody? Thank you for tuning in to talking baseball My name is John boy, and I've got my co-host Jake coming you from Denver We are actually recording this on Sunday night. It's currently 11 20 PM Eastern time and the Dodgers are up, but the game is not finalized So give you some insight there. I got to make an airport run tomorrow So we're doing it tonight instead of a tomorrow morning. This episode is sponsored by Joel Silva Which his name was silver for a while But then they started getting super cute with it and just changed it to Silva They silver silver silver and gold Scotty Reed Scotty with an I SCO TT I think that's a female Scotty No E on the end no E Scotty I don't know. I don't know good. I'm happy for them. Okay, and Robert Brooks Yeah, Bobby Brooks all day Bobby Brooks was here. Those are our most recent patreon supporters go to patreon.com slash John boy media you can be the next Patreon sponsor it's $2 a month helps us out a great deal as we grow and Get everything rolling and thank you to everyone that's been listening and leaving reviews The numbers have been great as these playoffs roll on Jake. How are you doing? I'm good James. I'm good a big big weekend of baseball another good day of baseball The NL get back NL got back into it Braves Cardinals man. It doesn't get much better than that and yeah, like like Jimmy said and Maybe we'll twist the open tomorrow if we do have a for run come back in the ninth If the Nationals can keep it at four right now Colorec just won the Colorec Soto round three battle again. I love that and might oh Yeah, I mean it's it's ridiculous. It sucks Sucks pretty bad for Soto unless you get some Well, I I mean like literally next year that can't happen. So that that sucks for Soto So, yeah Hunter Strickland's in which and we're not a big Hunter Strickland I was just gonna call him the human white flag. That was a little rude, but Yeah, good day of NL baseball that a Appending something crazy in the ninth inning the Cardinals and the Braves is the story anyway So I think that's why that's why we're rolling and fatigue in an airport trip, but we're we here the Braves Cardinal the National League Who actually I was gonna say the National League series have been better But if the Dodgers just hold on and win this then I think Ray's Astros was the better game than this one. So it's kind of split But the the Braves Cardinal series has been the best of the four, right easily easily. Yeah Yeah, and yeah, I think Ray's have to win one. They have to win their game three tomorrow, too To I think enter the conversation because I mean hey for half this game Washington one One inning Washington Ethan blew it bra Yeah, we'll get into that. We'll let we'll talk Braves first because it's This is still going on Do you have a burn? I Don't have a burn. I could like ad lib one, but I don't have one ad lib one. That sounds fun Okay, unless you don't want to No, I can I mean it'll be a little sloppy, but I don't know maybe maybe people like it Maybe they'll just goddamn hate it. All right, cool. Those are the options on your mark get set burn Game three. We are in St. Louis where the dirty birds take the field. No, that's not right The Cardinals host the Braves. We've got the old man Adam Wayne right as he tries to write the ship verse the Braves and Mikey that's Soroka the Oka and what a pitchers do Wow We have on our hands except Jim. This is classic how this series is gone second inning We get the big old sack fly call the carpenter if you need some help Marcel the shell he scores Jim Soroka goes one hit through six He ends up going seven innings pitch two hits only one earn run, but guess what Adam Wayne right was better 120 pitches out of the 38 year old 7.2 shutout. We go to the ninth and can Carlos Martinez Tina's close it. We saw it in the first game. We wondered if it mattered. Guess what Jim? It did the pride of Vandy handsome Dan's be swanson RBI double and then Adam David Duvall strokes another one mr. Clutch of this playoffs 3-1 Braves Melanson can do it Braves win 3-1 devastating for the birds Yeah, there's this is a great game Soroka the young gun verse way now Soroka pitch is great. The one run was Like you said, it was a hustle double a little flare baseball little flare shot hustle double for Ozuna and then I think it was Yachty moved him over on a ground ball up the middle and then Carpenter sack fly them in and that was one nothing and that took you all the way to the ninth inning And there were some big at bats along the way where Wayne right was just throwing the curve I mean it is the pitch he throws 100% of the time. That's not true. Russell Martin just took a 2-0 fastball from Strickland fucking deep Well, now I'm glad I called him the human white flag because yeah, that was that was a bomb Holy call. Oh, holy cannoli. Holy Holy Mackerel Yeah, that was a bomb 2-0 bomb from Martin. So that Dodger series is over nothing for us to worry about There's not gonna be a seven run tonight's game tonight's game series may be over. So it's interesting now I'm gonna say it like it's a fact both both favorites and road teams immediately take a game on the road the Braves were the favorite and When you really think about it like after they're after you split the first two games you boil it down the gnats and the Cardinals were in three game series where they had two home games like they were in a better position almost but they both lose the first game because the good rises to the top and Carlos Martinez was his name closer to get it right. Yeah, you're all over it, babe I said and we both said make note that they got to him even though that they didn't beat him in game one Make note that they got to him because that's gonna give them confidence going into the next time and Man that they tore him up like they were just sitting on his off speed And okay Sorry gonna get anything past them. Yeah, the big decision was was with Billy Hamilton on third base as the tying run and Two outs one more out you win the game. Do you face McCann? Or do you walk McCann to get to Dan's be Swanson who's been talked about a lot on this podcast down the stretch of the season? They opt to walk McCann and face Dan's be I think it's the right move because McCann's a lefty and his Martinez's slider plays into his swing and his slider plays better to righties. I believe The you know the The outside slider, so I understand that move but he opened them up with like a Changeup or a flat slider right down the middle Swanson crushed it Like how can you throw that pitch after having the mound visit? You took the time to say let's walk McCann and pitch the Swanson yacht. He's up there This is how we want to attack them. They make the game plan and then that's the first pitch Crazy bad Yeah, and you're When you walk when you intentionally walk McCann What you are doing is you're putting your team in the best position to win. It's righty on righty Dan's be struggled since he came off the L. He showed signs towards the end and he's he's been okay this series He's been more than solid. I mean he ends up three for four today And McCann I think it's kind of funny what we came into this game We were looking forward to kind of the grizzly veterans like Wayne right in McCann going at it in some of that stuff I McCann ends up 0 for 3 on the day I mean you you second guess it in hindsight if if it's a classic case of like wow that that was if if Martina's had gotten Swanson out. We'd be saying wow Fantastic move he did it and it looks terrible. I still think it's the right move just a wrong result You can make the right move and be wrong and the result not be in your favor Like I if I had to do it again, I think I'd do it again I think yeah, I mean it the pitch is the problem. It's a terrible pitch. It's it's the same thing if they If they pitched to McCann and he he rips one they say oh should they have walked McCann to get to Swanson And if they if they pitched to McCann and got him out, they'd say yeah, they trusted his guy So it's a almost damned if you do damned if you don't good on Dan's be You we he has been a well-spoken topic on talking baseball for whatever reason I think a slump and Vanderbilt got involved, but good for him. He's uh, He's he's the hero Well, Josh Donaldson's a hero He's not the hero Josh Donaldson needs to be mentioned Josh Josh Donaldson in this whole situation set makes everything possible by hitting the lead-off double No, that's not why he's the hero Go on he's just because how much he was screaming in the dugout, right? That makes him he's a top storyline the yelling hero. They'll say I mean he got the most FaceTime It's like Todd Frazier of the 2017 Yankees cameras were just all over Donaldson the entire time I mean, it's Jim used to film weddings, you know with the action is you go to it and that's Donaldson It's great cinema. Yeah, that's fucking And then Dan's be with the pretty boy hell. Yeah, such a hot boy Then Duvall dude comes up again the pinch hit a Homer against Flaherty game two or three to do game to and And then this this he actually had to have a good at bat and he he hit another Another like slider or breaking ball went down and got it and just flipped it That's the big that's the game winning hit right there. Like Dan's be cool. He tied the game But Duvall gets the game winning hit. So he's having a hell of a series Yeah, and I tweeted it. I tweeted it during the seventh inning I think it hit the point where Wayne Wright was being so awesome and so fun and such I mean such just His he's already tied to st. Louis fans hearts. This is kind of icing on the cake What an incredible performance a buck 20 pitches And meanwhile the 14 year old Soroka on the other side goes out in just straight shoves good for him I'm glad like we said before it'll be good for baseball if this guy goes out and has a good playoff start because he's probably the most underrated or Most under known guy in the game I mean, he's the best pitcher on the second best team in the National League and nobody knows who he is so that was awesome and Yeah, I said I tweeted during the seventh inning whoever loses this game is going to be Absolutely devastated across the threshold like you can't point to Hunter Strickland You can't point to anyone at this point in the game. It's just daggers and I Mean they did it in st. Louis. Good good for the Braves There was a couple of bats that stood out to be I tweeted about him Freddie Freeman was sitting curveball and Getting curveballs from Wayne Wright and couldn't hit him Tried the gift like he took a fastball down the middle because he wasn't looking for a fastball and he still couldn't hit him They were talking the announcers were talking about it like yeah Well Wayne Wright's doing a real good job of like keeping the break low So even though he recognized his curve He's going after it and it's too out of the zone to even like do anything with but if you look at the swings It's like oh shit. He was sitting curve and still couldn't do anything And know what I think is funny Jim and maybe I'll retweet it tomorrow morning if I can find it I should be able to but I I tweeted out something David Cone who calls the games call some of the games for the Yankees you you're if you're a baseball fan You're familiar with Coney. He's a really great broadcaster. He's into analytics But he's also like he gets being a an athlete and competitor and a dude and he's just pretty silly to go along with it But he talked about the evolution of the strike zone and how I mean if you think about those You know 90s Braves teams and you picture Maddox and Glavin Just throwing basically as far off the plate as they can go testing the umpire to see how much of the edge they get The strike zone isn't that way anymore because we have metrics So this the strikes of the plate is kind of the plate now The strike zone has now gone higher and I think someone with Wayne Wright's curveball I think when you start started to see his career go downhill It was because the strike zone was changing and now with that high strike He can start that curveball above your head and it comes in at the letters and that's a strike And that's like a dangerous pitch that was not called a strike for the past five years or so It's all vertical now with the strike zone. Yeah The go watch the Kerry would there's a documentary like a little e-60 type ish documentary on Kerry Woods 18 strikeout game And they talk about that and there's an umpire in it who says like well Before they started to giving us the Q score If a pitcher wanted to throw it in that spot and he was hitting that spot We gave him the strike even though it was off the plate. That was just how it was and That Kerry would game like he's got some and it's like Can you imagine that being called a strike now? I mean it it there and I hear you are the guy so I get scared when I say stuff like this But luckily we're too busy for it, but you could put some side-by-side footage that would just be straight comical I mean Glavin and Maddox literally used to like they'd get a strike On the edge and then they'd go off another inch And they just they would just push it and some umpires would be like yeah hit in the mint straight three And it'd be like what dude. Yeah, that's not even close But uh, yeah, man Wayne Wright's performance today is just I Am so happy for both pitchers like Adam Wayne right is winding down his career He gets to go out with and he's not done. I mean Adam Wayne right might pitch another three years I have no idea, but 38 year old Adam Wayne right gets to say he threw a buck 20 shutout innings in the playoffs That's awesome and Soroka gets on the board with that incredible start So I'm happy for both of them. Just twirling it Wayne right did put the team in trouble at one point. He loaded the bases To Acuna and then Albee's I believe Albee's had his number today. They had to bring in Andrew Miller bases loaded one run game Versus Freddie Freeman. That was the biggest at bat. I I said hey go get Go get your TVs on go watch us at bat I thought it was gonna be awesome is a two pitches pop out. It's very boring at bat big moment Very boring outcome unless you're unless you are one fan base 29 other fan bases boring Yeah, I mean and I think my my thought on that was you know, Andrew Miller wasn't great this year He kind of hasn't bounced back from injury But if you're a Cardinals fan that was the exact batter you brought him in for and he did it Andrew Miller starting to make make up for some of that money. He didn't get during the season Good for him Do you think it's brave series? I think it's gonna go five. This is just screaming five I think both NL series are screaming five to me to be honest Well this one I just want it to go five because the games have been so fun and and yeah, I think So here's here's my thing Normally if you're looking at a series like this that is, you know, incredible games back and forth You know, St. Louis is at home again tomorrow And they're just a good baseball town back against the wall season on the line Normally you look at that and you're like, you know, they're they're gonna have everything It's going game five if you're the Braves If you let it get to game five, you're letting Flaherty on the mound again and Yes, he made two mistakes But he got his playoff start out of the way and I don't think you want to see that guy in game five So I think game four is gonna be full tilt You're not gonna see the Braves kind of going like if we win that's nice But if we lose all right, we're going home for game five. You're going home But so is Jack Flaherty. So I don't know man. I'm I'm tuned in. I that series. I don't think you can predict anymore I think it's Flip a coin. I think if these teams played it this sounds so corny, but I genuinely believe it if they played a hundred games 5149 brace. Okay, I'll say that holy smokes. Yeah, you're always going out on limbs Such I'm a limb guy. I was one time in a tree stepped on a limb. It was a dead dead branch. I fell filled with limbs What do you think about this series? I? Haven't looked into the next couple games So who are the starters tomorrow? Do you just say them? We have Let me get it four games tomorrow. It's a lot of games, right? So it's gonna be Michael. Yeah, they have the three This series has gotten no ratings like they have the worst time. So they've never been the premier game And it's been the best games. That's uh, Is it ain't that baseball, huh? Dakota Hudson verse to be determined. It's got to be Kikel, right? You would think yeah So yeah, who unless that's short that short rest, I mean he's a hired gun, right? It's a one-year contract and it's a veteran. It's not like it's a young guy that you're risking something, you know Yeah, go fuck up your career Kikel. Yikes do it in the name of Atlanta Well, and you know who is supposed to be max-free, but they threw him in relief again, which was all right Atlanta He's a reliever now. We didn't know that we thought it was a one-time thing They were like oh wow, it's a two-time thing and it's like oh, he's a reliever now What's why no one's like is it no one's got good bullpen's imagine how bad the bullpen's are of the teams that didn't make the postseason I Mean that's that's kind of the crazy thing I mean the and if you think one of the teams that got eliminated Oakland, they had a bullpen they liked and Then who who was the other what who was the NOL car team who the Nats get I'm blanking The Nats have Not listening to me. No the Nats have do little who do they get that's your question. I can't think of it Geez, that's that's how locked in we've been to the baseball season The nationals played the Brewers and the Brewers had a they kind of had a good bullpen They have weird bullpen sponge. Yeah Brewers game feels like forever ago Feels absolutely forever ago, and yeah, I said it the other day the Yankees Yankees in the rays are the only two teams that want to go to their bullpen right now It's true. I you want to talk about you want to do a makeshift burn of the Dodgers game, which isn't even over yet Let's just talk about it. Okay. Here we go. Talk about Dodgers Dodgers Fine, we're just talking about Jake. They finally erupted Bellinger finally got his hits This is kind of what I wanted to see in one of the first two games It's not bad that it didn't happen yet, but this is what I was saying yesterday or earlier today on the last episode like the Dodgers kind of haven't dodgered yet like the kind of haven't like flexed and they did today and I Think the Nats are dumb. I don't know what's going on behind the scenes, but why bring Corbin in? When Jim they didn't listen to us. They had the exact same idea. We did Except we had it with Scherzer but They went the safe route which was used Corbin here and Then they have a fully rested Scherzer for game four at home And then they have a fully rested Strasburg for game five potentially in LA Yeah, but I would have done that with Corbin as the starter because Scherzer has already proven He can come out of the pen unless his arm wasn't feeling good because he doesn't usually bounce back that quick and that's a lot to ask If it was straight up, we'd rather Scherzer and Strasburg game Four and five of they punted game three with not punted, but they went Corbin out. I Would have went Scherzer out of the pen. He's done it. He proves done it Corbin never done it and he got lit up like they didn't just Nationally small ball. I'm like they lit them up Yeah, and I mean it turns into a hindsight thing if if and Patrick Corbin had two outs and two strikes And then he just completely blew up his curveball He just started hanging them Yeah crazy But I mean he got he got as far as he could without doing it Yeah, and I I don't know I mean maybe the Nats came into this game saying hey, we got one in LA You know, we're playing with a little bit of house money. We we can end this series with Scherzer and Strasburg You know Scherzer hasn't necessarily been Scherzer except in his relief appearance inning It's tough you had a lead in this game and a ball Sanchez what a performance Talk about all the love. I'm giving to Adam Wayne right for those yakkers. How about Annabelle throwing? 71 mile per hour Changeup curveball Ephesus is up there and making the Dodgers look silly. I Was so cool the announcers were like there's another one Did it again? It it was awesome, and it is official Dodgers win 10-4. So we timed it. Well Annabelle was awesome Ryu He was okay. He's not the guy that screams nler a champion in the playoffs Ryu settled down. I mean he gave up the two runs early It was like the hit and then Soto got him and then he had and then he had four scoreless after that And I believe he only I Believe he came out because his turn in the order came up again. I Mean he only had He only had 74 pitches. They were just kind of done with him He I mean five innings pitch four hits two runs two walks three K's Well his spot in the order came up with two on right in a Two-to-one game so I mean it he didn't get taken out because he was starting to look bad on the mound It was just we need a hitter up here. It's a national league. It's an old baseball, baby And and it worked out because I think that's the inning they scored all the runs Yes, they scored seven runs editing. So it was a pretty good decision to take him out of the game there So I think Ryu's good. I think if you're Dodgers fan, you're happy with Ryu The home run sucked, but he settled down after that and if the Dodgers were up five nothing For nothing. I think Ryu stays in the game and probably Gives you another two good innings Yeah, I don't know. I don't I don't have that same belief in Ryu. I don't think he looked that good and Yeah, I mean again, we're we're one one Corbin slider away from saying a very different narrative but that didn't happen and Dodgers have the huge inning Corbin. I don't think you can if you bring him in this series I think he's like a loogie. I think he'd be a game five like Ballinger Muncie loogie Because otherwise you can't really use him But I don't know if you're a Nationals fan, you're you're still sitting up straight You've got a game at home with Scherzer on the mound That's all you can ask and then you have Strasburg if you can win that game They have to win the next game by rule That is technically the rule of what will happen in a five-game series That Russell Martin bomb might have been the dagger. Yo, what's Hunter Strickland's numbers look off Hunter Strickland? That's like getting the last guy in the Yankees bullpen. You wouldn't care about that at all It's Russell Martin though, and it's just like we're our bad's better than you are bad. So in your face Yeah, it's double just losing both fan bases with one swing. I love it Yeah, yeah, that's how you gotta do it Jake. You can't Can't be biased here. So Hunter Strickland in his postseason numbers. He's gonna have like a 20 or a Yeah Big bad Yeah Was he ever teammates with Harper or did they not collide at all? Harper and Hunter Strickland they traded for him this year, right? He was a deadline grab Yeah, so they weren't because they had that beef like four years beef right out at Hunter Strickland as one of the bigger losers in MLB He thought carrying a four-year grudge people would think it was like cool Yeah, they're still mad about shoulder still mad about that. You're badass All right, I just looked up Russell Martin stats because you made me feel bad about Saying he's bad, but he's a 6 6 7 Ops and a 79 OPS plus. So he's bad. He's a veteran catcher. That's why he's out there He's not being asked to hit him hitting the home run off Hunter Strickland didn't end this series That's what you said. Oh, I think it's the dagger. No, it's not even close. Yeah, because cuz cuz Like you and I that game wasn't officially won It was like, hey, we may get a rally get some people on base in the ninth inning You can do something and then Russell Martin hits a two-run bomb Four-run lead becomes a six-run lead and you're thinking, okay Well, we officially just lost this fucking game and we're probably gonna lose another one dagger Not even close full disagree. I love it. All the hope went out of everyone's eyes That's that's a solo shot off of Tyler Lyons yesterday and the series being over You're not taking in you just ignored everything I said about how they had hope for the ninth inning And then he took all that hope away. They didn't have hope Well, they did actually I think Nationals fans have zero hope ever There this game This was bonus points for the Nationals. They told themselves We have Scherzer and Strasburg lined up fully rested. We can go get this. That's what they're thinking What if it got Russell Martin's bat hot? He had another home run tomorrow Then you have to apologize to Russell Martin and say he's a quality hitter Russell Martin's a hard because that means he had a really good AL and LDS Russell Martin was the one guy that on the Yankees where I was like This doesn't fit Yeah, you don't this isn't a good fit. He like fighting umpires and shit Get out of here Russell Martin Sounds like you and Russell Martin have some stuff you guys got iron out He's like an Adam Eaton type Yeah, yeah, it's a hard oh Let's move on To the next part of the show in which we preview the games coming up All right, Jake we got four games set coming up again. Are you excited or you're daunted by this Monday for games? It's a lot Because I want to watch all of them man. I'm juiced up get the AL back in it I'm I'm very interested in the NL series. I mean to me. It seems like they're both going five I could be very wrong about that That's especially after the Russell Martin dagger. I'm starting to change all my thoughts on that series, but Yeah, I'm excited. It's a full day of baseball It's gonna be the last It it's kind of like the NCA tournament Like you go into that first week into the NCA tournament and the first day kicks off and you're like this is insane You're you're watching 15 seed Colgate play Duke. You're rooting your head off then kind of by By the middle of the day Friday You're like, oh, yo, I picked 11 seed St. John's to get the upset like what times that game on and it's like dude They played yesterday. You missed it and you're like, oh There's too much basketball going on tomorrow's the last day where it's gonna be like, okay 15 hours of baseball might be a little too much So I'm I'm still gonna try to appreciate it, but it's gonna be a lot for us the Yankees play Last at 840. So and that's when like I need to actually have some energy conserved in my body because man That takes a lot out of me the first game is Astros rays Which is actually the best first game. It's a nice little intro platter for the best news for the rays, too Yeah, well, it's MLB smart because just don't put the trap on TV. They shouldn't they should be radio only this game who Tired John Boy sent in a lot of daggers. They're starting to call you John Boy Martin No, they they haven't the noodle just said that noodles not a day No, such a day, bro Just got a haircut he looks awful Gross. Why does he look so awful? Why'd you get him bad haircut? So Dog groomers are a mess man and like golden doodles are still new so they don't fully know how to groom them and So like if they get a little knotted they have to shave them So we knew that he started to get like a couple knots behind his ears So they had to shave them, but they left the tall tail bushy. Oh Terrible, so he's completely shaved with a fox tail I'll send you a picture. I mean you're gonna laugh out loud. He looks pathetic That's a tough look for it. No, but it's like I just don't know what's going through the groomers head Like how could you think unless we asked for that? How could you think we want that? That's true. Like you made an odd assumption that I wanted a completely shaved dog with the bushiest of bushy tails Yeah, maybe she doesn't do tails. Maybe the groomers like no tails here I'm sending you the pick. I should be delivered shortly Okay, well anyway the raise game is Charlie Morton versus Zach cranky really good pitching matchup a Lefty pitcher so that means Yandy Diaz comes back into play. Granky's lefty, right? Nope Why do I think that I Don't know cuz he's fucking weird. Yeah, just cuz he's weird. I think he's a lefty Zach Grinke is the best right-handed lefty in the league. I am oh That's true She has press commerce. He said like three words Yeah, dude, that's that's where like and I again like I know dog That's a mental stuff your dog anxiety stuff when you do that. You're doing it to yourself When when you go out of your ways to answer questions that acute and quick and Like non-answers you're now mentally going out of your way to do that and like you're making it more of a thing. I Think it's funny. I mean I I mean I think he's doing it and he's I think he's a little more self-aware than people give him credit for I think it's funny He like crossed the line for me like it's it's Greg Popovich like Popovich It used to be cool and cute and now it's like oh dude just like It's okay to answer just a question normally once. Yeah, Popovich has gotten rude. That's the problem, right? Your dog looks ridiculous my dog looks ridiculous like you almost can't give me that dog How come you didn't say like can you finish I didn't pick him up Just just like it Like it's it's a yes-and-no thing He's embarrassed he should be damn Who do you think you think the rays? I think the rays are gonna sneak out of win I do too elimination games the first elimination game for the rays Coming off an off day allows them to be all hands on deck right snows out and that's probably it So we may see a ton of pitching changes at any time. There's a jam You got to bring in a specialist like the rays Not be a great thing either like that I could see that being problematic if Charlie Morton's having a good start into the fifth inning and then the first sign of trouble they pull him for You know one of these guys in the rays bullpen who's good, but they're not proven and that could be it So I think that's that's a double-edged sword for the rays I'm just saying an all hands-on deck rays team is pretty good. I don't think they can do it Two games you get alone three games in a row, but I think they may be able to sneak one out tomorrow and I the other thing that I would say and I think you're almost talking me down a little bit on the rays We thought they were gonna do that in the wild card game. They kind of let Charlie Morton go They believe in Charlie Morton. Yeah, the A's were doing absolutely nothing though And and it's Charlie Morton's former teams The TROP is gonna be a weird midday Monday playoff environment. I do think You should believe the rays are the favorites in this game If Charlie Morton looks like Charlie Morton the rays are at home And they have a little energy from that slash the rays are at home and the Houston doesn't have energy from that I think the rays are the favorite But in an elimination game and potential sweep to a team as good as Houston I think and maybe we need to find a term for it Jim, but the the Uh-oh factor or the if one thing goes wrong for Tampa. It's done They're on thin ice. If if someone boots a ball in the first inning like that's it Mm-hmm. Yeah, there's no coming back So Tampa if Tampa plays their game and it's clean and Morton looks alright I think they are the favorites in this game because playoff granky doesn't do much for me You have to be perfect. I Don't think they have to be perfect. They just have to be clean Astros can win this easily as well It's a coin flip for me, but the other games haven't been coin flips. So that's the closest odds Rays need some they need early energy and they can't have a slip on the ice moment to start the game and I'm still rooting for a crazy catwalk shot and Chaos from the TROP Stop the TROP hashtag The next one we got is the Braves versus the Cardinals the three o'clock game Dakota Hudson is getting the start for the Cardinals unless they audible and then we think it's gonna be Kykel Maybe they've said it on maybe I can find a report Get the Google up Dakota Hudson Interesting, I mean a young guy 25 3 3 5 e r a I'll say this Jim and this is gonna worry you Led the National League in walks 86 walks in 174 innings That's not good and playoff baseball. That's not good Snit was not ready to announce a game four starter But the fact that they aren't saying it's Tehran provides reason to believe they'll go with Kykel But based on the three game three outcome Tehran or Kykel on short rest are the most likely for game four When asked about the possibility of going with Tom when Snit said there is a chance it could be a bullpen game Do they have a bullpen? What's that even mean? Yeah, you don't have a bullpen How do you bullpen day without a bullpen for me? I mean, maybe you throw someone out there for one inning But it's got to be Kykel because you're not gonna use Kykel in game five So you're gonna go down not using them and I mean this is a classic case. I mean Kykel's a veteran He's a sinker baller. You hear all the old rumors like actually sinker ballers when they're a little tired They pitch better man Actually really good baseball talk. I think I think next time I'm at a random bar watching a game There's a guy with like a a nice moving two seamer I'm just gonna bump him and be like, oh, he's getting better action later in the game because his arms tired They'll just look over and be like stop talking to me, please You have to use Kykel tomorrow, right? Yeah, according to Trey XIV he says start Max Fried I mean you're using them. I'm okay with them opening with Max Fried. I guess he's pitched in every game Him in Melanson Him in Melanson pitch in every game. That's awesome You rooting for the Braves or you rooting for game five? I'm obviously I'm rooting for a game five. I Think I'm rooting for game five. I I will say this I as you saw on this show. I became a supporter of the baby Braves So I think there's a just a little bottom part of my heart that's rooting for them But no, I mean, I'm rooting for baseball. I think that game five. I mean game five Flaherty Would be awesome to see So I am rooting for that Do you think Dakota Hudson's face the Braves this year? He has once back in May six innings pitched 6.1 innings pitched two earned runs. I gotta say Jim I'm in in cardinal fans at talking Jake reach out and correct me But I've got to say if I'm a Cardinals fan, I think I'm worried about Dakota Hudson His leash is gonna be incredibly short But again like out of that st. Louis pin Can they piece together if he does have a short leash? Are they gonna be able to piece together six innings seven innings? Yeah, I don't know maybe That's that's the question they'll try They will try their hardest and do their best And maybe I'm not giving Hudson enough love And since mid-August Dakota Hudson has actually been Pretty good last nine starts 53.1 innings to a one eight six era So I am being a little bit of an asshole The walks are still concerning. I mean even in that time period two games with five walks And in another game with four walks and as we've seen with playoff baseball like that's a rally What dude the walk is a rally quote? I love it All right next game Dodgers Nats You got this series over. Yeah, this gate. Yeah Dodgers are just gonna win this one. You know Max Scherzer's pitching, right? Yeah, so Can't emphasize that enough You know Walker Bueller's pitching he's not Walker Bueller. He's not pitching Rich Hale's pitching so Dick Mountain Yeah, dude Max Scherzer They blew it. This should have been Scherzer should have come out in the pen. You made a plan yet last episode I made a plan that was to you like too much. Yeah, and now they didn't do your plan and I'm mad at them It's fair. I Mean Scherzer was in a was in a Elimination game and he didn't really have a great outing already this week. Yeah So it's redemption time for Scherzer Let's see what his stats are versus the Dodgers if I pull them up and they're bad What are you gonna say? Are you going this season or lifetime or what are you looking for? I'll do this season first Okay, you think he made a start against them? Maybe they played what six games Seven games one start seven innings pitched to earn runs seven strikeouts I don't know. I just think you're you're getting too zoomed out away from like Scherzers their guy. I mean elimination game at home At Max Scherzers who you want on the bump I want a route for Scherzer because he's a psychopath and I love them and I don't really like Rich Hill that much because he's a psychopath and he kind of weirds me out. Right. He's he's a weirdo. He's not a psychopath. Yeah, I agree Scherzer straight psychotic dude that gift that came out the other day And I know there's a lot of them now But that one in the wild card game where he's he's just he's winding up and he's like you're fucking mine You're fucking yeah Whoa, dude fucking mind motherfucker fucking mind Dude, I wouldn't want to pitch against that like if I'm being honest You're like, yo, can we call in not a psychopath? We're just playing baseball here, bud And I think it's pretty funny because we We critique two-way McKay on the raise because he's a hard-o, but like if you're as much as a hard-o as Scherzer No, he's like to where McKay's a sad sack. It's not hard. Oh, he's like he's like from be I mean, there's definitely anger there Yeah, but it's like anger because things aren't going his way Scherzer is intense McKay's not intent. I don't know what there's a difference I don't know how I don't know how to use words to explain the difference, but Scherzer's awesome All right, how many how many Dodgers have hit home runs? Uh-oh Justin Turner is three for six versus Scherzer with two home runs Jack Peterson has a home run off of him Corey Seger has a home run off of him AJ Pollock has a home run off of him Max Muncie has a home run off of him. I Think it was pierzinski Calling one of the playoffs games because they were talking about Bregman and they said that The two guys that stand the closest to the plate are Bregman and Turner and they said that Turner he has the open stance He's baiting you to throw in there because he wants you to try to come in and turn on it They were like Bregman's just a sick pup Bregman can just somehow hit that ball and we don't really get it But uh, yeah, I don't know I'm I'm not gonna bet against Scherzer if they somehow If Scherzer can only go like six innings it's over, but I think max is gonna be out there until the eighth right I Had something I was gonna say, but I forgot now. That's all right Rich Hill doesn't give me much faith Didn't he wasn't he injured? He came back and he pitched one inning and then he got injured again Like how much has he pitched this season of late? More like rich chill What he's been doing rich made he made 2005 Dude so he made rich hill made a start he got pulled in the first cuz he was injured then he pitched two innings They were good Then three innings. So I mean he's not stretched out at all He's throwing 50 pitches in his last outing and I that's what I'm saying I mean what the Dodgers are gonna try to do a bullpen day their bullpen day sucks You're going rich hill and bullpen day over Scherzer back against the wall at home. This is going five It's gonna be Walker Bueller verse drawsburg in LA and it's gonna be awesome when the dodge if the Dodgers win tomorrow can everyone clip that audio of Jake and then tweet it at At your dumb dumb it's this new Twitter account. I'm making to rival freezing cold takes it's at your dumb dumb freezing cold jakes freezing cold jakes. Yeah, that works. Yeah freezing cold jakes. I like that Thank you. No day you Ryan Zimmerman two homers off of rich hill So oh and you got to start him anyways because how about fucking how he Kendrick. What are you doing? The base running thing this time So bad Made a lot of errors one of the worst Like I'm and again, I guess I don't have my worst base running documented in front of me But I mean bring up Horia Posada's life right now Horia Posada's highlight reel But this is playoff like Jorge Posada knew he was a bad base runner that in a playoff game He's gonna just say like nope. I can't tag up. I don't know how to run how he Kendrick Gets on the base and is like all right gonna have to tag up. I'm bluffing. Oh, no go. He was the most dead meat I've seen in a while Most yeah, I missed it. So I don't even know what happened. Can you tell me? So it was it was the bases loaded No outs in the sixth Nats bring in Arias out of the bullpen Fly ball to right. It's gonna sack fly score run. They throw home with it Kendrick was on second and he starts running to third if he goes to third straight up He was just gonna get in easy But he stops he starts going back to second and then he runs to third again and he was just in In the middle of the base pass and they were looking at him like what are you doing? So it went bases loaded no outs to runner on first. They got a run two outs That sounds bad. Yeah, so you with those stats against Rich Hill. You have to go simmer Have to and then the last game of the day Yankees twins. It's a Jake Oda Rizzi versus Luis Severino Luis Severino is kind of the best arm talent on the angst. He's looked good since it's coming back, but Still still hesitant like Tanaka. I was like, hey, Tanaka's gonna be good Severino. Very interested First inning if he's throwing gas and filth, I'll be pumped up Oh to Rizzi. Did you hear these quotes Jake? So, oh, give me some quotes Rocco Baldele's weird quotes Rocco Baldele said your the Yankees are gonna see Different Jake Oda Rizzi. Yeah, I thought I thought you meant Jake Oda Rizzi talking But yeah, that was one of the weirdest quotes. I've I've heard I Think he's gonna throw a lot of off-speed pitches not a lot of fastballs or a lot of like what what? What does he mean just throwing lefty? I don't know I think we're gonna see the same Oda Rizzi and you're just trying to bluff us because if If Oda Rizzi was gonna come out with a new style or or something Then why would you let it let the Yankees know or does he just mean like mentally? Oh, they're gonna see a new guy than they saw last time. I don't know what that quote means I guess I had to hear how he said it It was an odd quote. You're gonna see a different guy. Well, hey, we haven't seen him in the playoffs yet Yeah, and I don't know. I think if you're Rocco Baldele The twins are clearly outmatched at this point you're We we joked about this a little bit, but we were saying what do you say on the flight? I Don't know. I think he's just looking for Anything man anything and I get it. I get it He he's got a he's got to attack the zone with fastballs. I mean it's kind of has to You just have to throw strikes if it's a curve ball change up slide or fastball You just have to throw strikes because you can't you can't walk eight guys and expect to beat the Yankees No, I think the Yankees will win this game Do you think Severino's a question mark at all? Yeah Yeah, okay because he's still on his fourth outing. Yeah, I'm not I'm not full confidence If I see like a couple pitches Then I'll be full confidence. Do you think this game is gonna be tight or a shit show? shit show Okay Both ways no Okay, I think the Yankees win big. I'm so biased though. So right, but I said that I've Everything I've said about this series. I've said with the same bias and it's all come true so Yeah, if you're the twins It's I guess it's kind of what I said about the race. You're just you're you're playing your game Waiting you're living in fear of that. Oh, no moment that if you give the Yankees an extra out or Or you boot a ball and the Yankees get an extra at bat You're just living in fear of that because that could be the end of your season Here are the Yankees that have a home run off Oder is he Edwin Brett Gardner Gary Sanchez Aaron Judge Giancarlo Stanton Glaber Torres Didi has a double and a triple six guys out of the nine Used to be in the division for a while to be fair I don't think that comes in the only person with a lot of at bats against him is Gardner and Cronos, you know all the rest are Not a lot saying there's a lot of history of the Yankees beating Oder is he so maybe that's why Baldelli is trying to let Everyone know he's gonna be a new guy He's not gonna be the the Oder is he that gave up ten hits and six earned runs earlier this year All right, it's nine earned runs. It's bad Yaps and the Yankees are running out the same lineup again. So that's the only insight we know Boone was like Yeah, we'll run it back because of course Why would we change it? We've scored 18 runs scored 18 runs so That's the night cap. I Think that the middle games will be the best games and the National League games will be the best games You think you think the Houston Tampa games gonna be good. Oh Yeah, it's just gonna be not fun to watch Gotcha that game could be a game to go extras and it'd be a drag So if it's a great baseball game in the Trap doesn't get involved at all You're still not gonna be able to shake the Trap. Oh, you got to look at the Trap. It's ugly. Okay That's fair. That's fair. That's what I was asking. It's like aesthetically displeasing. Yeah, there's no dirt in the infield They make fake crowd noise It's turf and it's just Unfun I've never enjoyed watching a game there no matter what happens. Yeah, I feel like there's gonna be a funny moment 20 years from now where Some kids like they're looking at highlights from the old Astrodome And they'll be like, whoa, they played baseball on that and then it'll be like You know 1985 and then they'll look at highlights from the rays from 2019 and they'll be like wait, wait, wait, wait Everyone else has retractable roofs and gorgeous fields and you guys are playing on a rubber ball Someone got so mad at me they were like if they didn't have a roof no one would go so just shut the fuck up Like oh because they're the only stadium with the roof Yeah, no, I'm with the roof stands Yeah, I got a mean DM today You know me. I'm not a burn bridges guy But you know what if you're a Tampa fan that defends not going to the games because Tampa has a roof I'ma come at you I'ma knock you out Wait, if they say I don't go to the games because they have a roof. Yes They don't go because of traffic because it's in a terrible location and it's a Who the hell would go out of their way to go there? Dude, I got a real Mean tweet Mean tweet to wrap it up. I like this. Yeah, I said is starting Randy Dobnack the worst managerial decision Now it's a fair question. I think it's the worst manager decision this postseason and This kid DM'd me and he said please attempt to hit him you fat Jewish fuck Wow And I said, I'm not Jewish Nor could I hit Randy Dobnack because I suck at baseball. So what's your point? I mean you could If you got a bunt and get the guy over I could bunt off Dobnack. Yeah, I was gonna say I I could bunt I could bunt if you got to do your job. I am so excited When we do Bunting off of pro players because I think you're gonna have a rude awakening All I want to do I don't want to bunt off pro players. I want to catch. I want to strap on the gear and catch some pitchers So are you coming off that you can bunt a professional pitcher? Was this a conversation we had? Oh, yes many times You've said you you with confidence think you could bunt a professional pitcher. I Think if I'm remembering the conversation it was I had to be fastballs I mean, I don't but I'll I'll even allow that because I still think you're in crazy trouble Because they're 94 and they move dude last yeah last fastball you tried to bunt was 70 and straight as an arrow And it was the easiest thing I ever did. Yes agree Okay Set it up. Let's go. We'll set it up. We're gonna go We're gonna go to somewhere in November where we can do that. I Might meet up with Melville again soon. Maybe he'll throw some apples at me Can you let him know that I think I'm gonna chant his barbecue name at him? I Didn't but I can okay cool. All right that ends the show. Thank you guys very much for tuning in For games tomorrow. We will be back to recap them all in preview. Whatever huge up next how many It's possible that all four series can end tomorrow Houston wins Braves win Dodgers win Yankees win DS is over Possible all four series could not end tomorrow another possibility Two possibilities probably gonna be somewhere in the middle some can end. How many do you think end out of the four? I say oh, this is fun. I say I Say three I'm going to and I think it's both AL games But I'm gonna assume I get one wrong So what's your guess so it's two but I'm gonna guess one of the NL games goes but right now I'm saying both AL I Have Dodgers and Yankees ending the other two Not but also you just said five series so The Braves and Cardinals is not gonna end the other three will okay But I want the raise to win That Dodgers rich Hill bullpen day you're gonna die on that mountain That I hope you're right now. I'm rooting for you that games over That's my god people may not watch Sherser an elimination game Mines will have my grandmother Have her do what? Bunt wrap it up Grandma Bunts five-star review. She couldn't bond She could no Maybe she like a make a nice bond. It'd be a first baseline but see you guys