 The Nationals take Game 1 of the World Series, the Astros lose Game 1 of the 7-game set for the second time. Let's dive in. What's going on everybody? Thank you for joining us, Talking Baseball, in which we will talk about the World Series, the first ever World Series game review in Talking Baseball history. Wow, iconic moment, remember this forever. My name's John Boy, I'm coming to you from New Jersey. I got my calls from Jake, coming to you from Denver. He's wearing a nice red vest and a backwards white dad hat. And he's nodding his head and he's got so much to say about this game. But first, we've got to give it up to Luis Robles, Larry Litchie Jr., and Jonas Huazberg, Jonas Weisberg. Those are our most recent Patreon supporters. They're bringing you this show. We appreciate them. We appreciate you. Jakey Baer, how are you doing? Thanks, Jonas. I'm doing good. Well, this isn't my first World Series episode of Talking Baseball. I did something in 1993. It wasn't the same format. Yeah, you were three years old. I did Talking Baseball. You were four years old. This is me and my dog, Max. Yeah, you were Talk Baseball. Oh, without that World Series. May he rest in peace. Ah, nah. He ate deer. The neighbors hunted deer and brought it home. He ate some of the deer because they left it out, died of Lyme disease. Max did? Yeah. Deers got him. Got it from the deer. So I'm doing pretty good. I mean, great game, great baseball. It was a good game. I'm pretty happy with the game. A lot of the stars came to the forefront, which I like. And I think that Soto dude might be special. I know it's a hot take, but that dude's special. I know it's I know it's the most obvious thing to say. But that was like the one thing I said this morning in the preview. Like, I think Juan Soto is about to become a superstar. Like that's the only thing. If anyone seems like they're made for the big stage, it's that fucker who gets into the batter's box and acts like it's like there's no cameras. Like how he acts in the batter's box is how normal people act in the bathroom mirror when Noah's home and they're like, how silly can I get? He acts like if you were facing your best friend playing baseball and acting silly, yes, like that's something you do. Yeah, like if I was doing with football and I was trying to go like Max cocky against you, that's what I'd look like. And he he's a special dude. And if you're if you're a Nats fan and you work with people who aren't Nats fans, or if you're a baseball person who works with a casual baseball person. I mean, that's the song of the day is Soto special. I mean, just a just a different kind of special. Yeah. Yeah, there's a lot to talk about. Do you how did it? Where did you watch the game? I think maybe we'll get into that. I watched the first two innings at a place called Spot Bar in Denver. It's called Spot Bar in Denver. It's called Spot Bar. Okay, it's called Spot Bar. I was gonna say it's called Spot Bar. It's in Denver. Yeah. I watched it with our good friend Nick. Some people know him as the mailman. I turned 32 weeks ago. Yep. And I still haven't renewed my license. So Spot Bar is kind of a hole in the wall. So I thought they'd be cool about it. Spoiler, they weren't. So I went to have a beer with my buddy. They would not serve me a beer because my license is expired. So then we came back to my apartment and we watched the rest of the game. If you didn't look so young, you could probably pass that test. Yeah, if I didn't look like I was an old 15, like things would be good. I will, dude, I meant to text you this like three times today. Did you wear that sweater vest and backwards hat combo to the bar? I don't want to talk about it. I look like the kid from Big Daddy. Yeah, isn't it? I almost texted you. I almost texted you three times today because, Jimmy, and this is kind of funny and it shows how much we love baseball. My acne during the Yankees playoff run was the worst it's been in so long. Jimmy, I WebMD'd like, what is acne associated with? Because I was like, OK, maybe I'm maybe I'm a little more stressed out because the Yankees are in the playoffs, but it's not this bad. A week later, not even a week, four days, acne is fine. Clear as my face has been. Yeah. Well, I still can't believe that you are dressed like a 10 year old from like 1999 and go to the bar like that. Spin it my own way. We can't serve you. No, I think if you had even if you have a legal ID, we're not serving you. You know who can't get served? Juan Soto. Juan Soto. He's no alcohol for him in America and other countries. He's totally cool. No, I've been watching their celebrations after the DS and the CS and if the Nats come close to winning the series, I'm reporting him for underage drinking. Yeah, that's fair. Yeah. I mean, that I mean, we'll be like the people that watch golf and they report like infractions from home. That's what baseball needs. It is what they more police, more couch police. Yeah. Yeah. Do you have a burn for this game? I do. All right. Let's get into that after a word from a quick sponsor. All right, Jakey. Jakey Burns on your mark. Get set. Burn. Game one of the World Series, the Nationals. Natitude and Mad Max Scherzer versus Jason Garrett Cole as the Astros try to cowboy their way to their second World Series in three years. Bottom one. You lay, you lie. Double Altuve and Springer score. Uh, two nothing Astros. She's a man, baby. Yeah. Zimmerman, a solo shot. And then Juan Soto goes Han Solo in theaters soon. Tied at twos. Adam eats in a run. Soto doubles his pleasure. Doubles the runs. Two RBI double. It's five, two Nats. George Jerry Springer announces he is the father with a solo homer and an RBI double in the eighth. But the Stros go Apollo 13 as they crash into game one. Scherzer to Corbin to Rainey to Hudson to Doolittle. Nat Steel, game one, five, four, final. Doolittle. Nice. Jake, I have bad news for you. The chat just brought it to my attention. This is awful. It's fine. Juan Soto turns 21 before game four. October 25th. Yeah. So by the time the World Series is over, he's legal. Oh, but I still have material from him from the CS and the DS. OK, OK, OK. Well, that's actually bad news for game three. Soto's going to be hammered. He's going to be so hungover. Yeah. He's going to show up with like a fifth of Jack just like, hey, you have a flask in his back pocket and like, no, it's cool. I'm 21 now. I know the story so played out and this is like a corny thing. But end of the day when Juan Soto's, you know, 68 and lives in a condo outside of Miami and he's retired and they go around the table and they go, hey, how was your 21st birthday? Oh, dude, went out to club live, blackout, threw up in the bathroom. Best night of my life. Soto, dude, game three of the World Series, two for three with a walk. And they're like, OK, fuck you. Yeah. That was rude. What was your 21st birthday like? What was mine? We went to that shitty bar, right? I forget. Yeah. What was the rugby bar? Oh, where they had penny beers? Yeah. Molly's or Maggie's or some Irish name. Damn, I forget the name. Rose, something Rose, something Rose. That was our 21st birthday spot because it sucks so bad. So we went there just to like blackout and watch someone throw up on themselves. Good times. Yeah. Good times. I have this game, Jake. Yeah. This game, I said this to you before, there's all these little things that are, I kind of want to do like a little breakdown on it, but I'm going to be away from my computer all day tomorrow. That's why we're recording tonight. But like the little things that add up and there's a lot of them. I don't know how you want to go through the game, but Josh Redick gets catchers interference, but they don't call it. It's Clara's day. It's absolutely ridiculous that that's not a review. Why would that be on the list not a reviewable that I that I want to go back in time and put me in the office and the meeting when they decided what's a reviewable play and what's not because how did they not vote catchers interference? Like there's so many cameras locked in to that specific area of gameplay. It's not like you're not going to have angles. You're going to have the most amount of angles. It's so stupid. I don't understand how they said that wasn't reviewable, but that goes from it goes from one out with two on flip it to the top of the order. Instead, it's two outs because Redick flies out afterwards, which is also that sucks. Like he couldn't he. It wasn't like it was a base hit. They fucked up and he was out. He still had a chance to get a hit. Right. He didn't. So that's a little side thing, but it goes from to two out with one on instead of two on with one out, which is a much different inning. And you can't say that for sure this would happen or for sure that would happen. But that's that's kind of a little moment that's playing big when you think about this. Yeah. And it's I feel like we're going to bounce in and out of different things here because it's there's so many moving parts NL and AL and that's that's kind of where I want to start is that, you know, and I'll send a quick apology to all Nats fans a my bad for ignoring how special one Soto is be Adam Ian who I've been on all playoffs. I kind of wrote him off this series. He had a huge huge game and a big at bat. And I think something else that's hard to quantify is that yes, a lot of the National League teams aren't going to have the big DH that bats fourth or fifth and he's a big part of their lineup, but something that's kind of a double effect is a they get a hitter for the pitcher, which is big, but be someone like Victor Robles who he's normally the eighth hitter in all he sees is shit when he's at the plate when he gets a real chance at it. He's like an ideal ninth batter like that dude can set the table and send it back. And I think that's kind of what we saw from this National's lineup today was their their depth surprised me. And I think it was a little bit of a you get the DH you get to put Kendrick at DH ass crabs in the field Zimmerman at first with Robles sliding down to the nine hole and it made that lineup just look differently than I've normally seen it in my head because there's no pitcher. Yeah. Hey, how about that? Yeah, Robles going from eighth hole in front of the pitcher where you see nothing because they're just pitching around you to get to the pitcher. Right is being nine hole and now you're seeing a lot of pitches because they don't want to turn over the lineup. What a different like mindset that is for that guy, right? You you can be the table setter where before you're almost just like do my best not to fuck up and if I take a walk I've almost fucked up and the other thing that I I I don't want to say I was on pregame but I was hoping it was a cool thing. How about Ryan Zimmerman? Your team goes down to nothing in Houston. Here comes old man Zim with the solo bombshot. That was a big part in changing this this whole game. Oh instantly and I mean he's dipped into the fountain of youth and it stayed but I will say this the nationals kind of in this game. They defied everything that was supposed to happen. So when the Astros scoring the first inning they're almost unbeatable. If the Astros jumped to a 2-0 lead I believe they were 27 and 0 or 27 and 2. Some like some like that that I think the second number is an oh I think they were undefeated if they had a 2-0 lead and so they did have a 2-0 lead and they lost. Garrett Cole hadn't lost a game since like May of 2007 and he gets the loss today like there was a lot of stuff where the nationals kind of said hey fuck you mainstream media and talking Jake we're in this thing. So yeah shots fired right at your face. And I like totally get that you know I don't know. And I think so there are two two things I didn't factor in fully before the game. I mentioned the fact that they haven't won a World Series and when I was saying that I mean there's a chance at a magic factor with this team and it is still game one. I think the Astros are still the favorites. But I will say this man the nationals are playing really good baseball. If you go back into the regular season they won their last eight baseball games. They beat the Brewers. They beat the Dodgers 3 out of 5 in a great series and then they sweep the Cardinals. I mean the nationals are on kind of a crazy run right now 9 plus 4 is 13 plus 3 is 16. They're 16 and 2 now they're 17 and 2 in their last 19. I mean we are not a math pod we're more of a mod pod and a cron pod but I think I just crush that math. I think it's 17 and 2. That's what I said. Nice. Yeah cron pod then. Yeah nailed it. So that's crazy they're 17 and 2 in their last 19 games 17 and 2 in their last 19. Soto's a special dude. And yeah the other thing and I mean Houston's licking their chops. I mean yes they got to Cole which is unbelievable. I mean literally hasn't been done since May. But when you get Scherzer out after 5 innings I know they they had Corbin for this game. But I don't know that Astros were still licking their chops. They had a couple opportunities. I mean that line drive by Brantley is a couple more feet towards the line. We're probably telling a different story. But that's you mentioned the little things in in a game can mean so much. I mean that Brantley thing might not even technically be a little thing. But if it goes three feet to the left are we telling a different story. I don't know. Yeah I mean the other little thing is Springer not getting to third on what should have been a triple. And I mean the next at bat Altuve does line out to Adam Eaton and you can't play this game but we're going to play it. But you know what you know what it is you play this game and then you always say you can't but you do it. You know he would have that would have been the tying run and that whole base running by Tucker and then Robles in center field that was a shit show. Yeah and you know what I think you'll be a little surprised that I'm kind of dipping out on that because I think every side of the base running is kind of right except George Springer. Wait why but why would he tag at second because it went off that guy's glove if Eaton catches that ball which it went off his glove. We're saying that's really good base running by Tucker to tag up there. Not a lot of players would have done that. I get it and he still scores but there's still score on on there's going to be two outs if it's caught right. No yes. Let me see. Hold on no no no no fly out. Yes it's going to be the second out if it's caught. Yeah so getting to third means nothing. I mean getting to third means we're talking about George Springer not getting a third right now if Kyle Tucker that's it that's because it landed so there's a passball passball is a good play but you're not taught to tag up on that play you're taught to be three fourths of the way because if that if Adam Eaton makes that catch who cares about you can just stay on second you're in scoring position for the next guy if he gets a single. If he doesn't then you're taught to be three fourths of the way because it's going to be the second out and then you score and you clear room for Springer to get third. Yeah I don't know I think I'm again I'm in a different area there I think you're probably supposed to go halfway and if Eaton catches that ball it would have been a really special catch which it was close to that you'd still have a chance of tagging up. I mean either way it's moot and this is why I said I don't care about it because I think both sides of the argument are right either way he scored and B if it was caught he would have been in his best position to advance so I think it's a moot argument. Well Springer could have got the third if he didn't go back he slowed like Springer slowed himself down. Well Springer also did a Sosa hop and didn't spring out of the box. I know but he also slowed. It's more of a Springer situation than a tug or something. Well if you watch the wide angle he also slowed him down a little bit where he waited for him because they were I mean think about it when you like pictured he was still at second when it hit Springer was in between second first and second. Yeah I mean Tucker, Tucker scored and then Tucker tagging on the Robles catch was even weirder he would have been dead to rights at second if Robles just threw it to second. Right but again that's almost I mean Robles is 22 and he you talk about happy feet when an outfielder catches a ball holy smokes Robles turn that into a circus really quick and then he makes the throw to the wrong base Tucker ends up looking great. Well no but did you see the replay like Tucker didn't mean to tag up. Right but it worked out. But to two weird played with a little house money tonight but it worked. I know but it's too like bad base running plays that worked out that tag up from first to second and him not running full speed and then kind of looking around like wait what just happened is bizarre. Yeah hey man it worked out and that's kind of what matters this time of year. I mean I'm just still bizarre baseball if it comes back at a later game in the series and he makes a good fall you'd be like oh yeah look how lucky he was there for now he looks like a genius on the Robles throw and the other play ended up working out. It doesn't look like a genius if you watch the replay and he like doesn't really know what happened. He gets second base man. It worked out. I did still like it worked out. That's why that's why I said I didn't want to do this because at the end of the day there is there's no argument against Tucker right now. Both of his plays worked. Yeah but you can still talk about it like if he sprints and tags up and sprints right away and then it works out he looks like a genius but the replay when he was looking around like wait what it's like he thought Robles dropped the ball or something. Yeah it was weird it's weird did he pinch run or was he he pinched he got a single pinch it you know how about Alvarez getting on base three times. And that's the other funny part about this gym and you and I were we were more locked into the Yankee series obviously and not to be rude to the other people I mean we we watched the NLCS but it clearly became a sweep and there's a couple ugly innings there but that's what I said that was funny I mean Yuli Gurriel he hits the two RBI double in the first inning and now in his last two playoff games he has the three run homer a two run RBI double when he was dead in the water the whole Yankee series Jordan Alvarez he ends up doing the same thing where it's like OK is this guy a threat again and the guy that was one of the more special rookies we've ever seen and yeah that's how quickly a series can turn he got he walked and then he got a hit then he got a hit then Alvarez had one of the bigger at bats at the game bases loaded with two outs versus Hudson and Hudson gets him on three pitches elevates the fast ball to that was pretty I thought that was going to be a cool at bat that I could do a breakdown for something like that but Alvarez went down pretty easily yeah Hudson roasted him after not looking his best out there and yeah I think in Jim this is funny and I know the people that have been listening hardcore to talking baseball you and I with Tanner Rainey we saw that first appearance from him this playoffs and we're like oh this guy's not playoff ready and then we kind of lost our sights on him a little bit and it's like okay he's had a couple good appearances this guy has good stuff maybe he's locked in and now Tanner Rainey is a huge question mark again he comes in point one he gives up a hit and he gives up two walks in the home run I mean Tanner Rainey went from and you heard it on the broadcast they were like oh this guy's been an X factor out of their bullpen now he it one game ago Jordan Alvarez couldn't be trusted and Tanner Rainey was an X factor now it's vice versa yeah but Rainey he looked like he was pitching to the Astros in the same manner that the twins pitch to the Yankees where he was just scared to throw Braggman anything in the zone and he was just hoping they'd chase his off speed that was like just dipping underneath the strike zone and they just didn't care I don't know dude we're not going to swing at that and he just kept dibbling but did you see how red his face was I said they should go put some ice cubes in his hat he looked like yeah he was making me hot he was pitching like a guy that gave up a lead up home into George Springer that's that's how he pitched the rest of the time Springer thinking he got a second one yeah it's not a great look one Soto with the oppo shot off of Cole oppo shot the track shot yeah it's I mean technically that kid and he's a kid like hasn't developed his full muscles yet no no it's fucking bizarre and Jim there's so many little baseball things I know I'm getting into gym mode a little bit but that's when I'm at my most passionate he got mowed down his first step back your first World Series at bat you're a kid I think Cole went three fastballs to mow him down to end that inning that looked like it had a rally going yeah it was three straight fastballs after you know I mean Turner reach and then he stole and then the bump bump pop out which we can talk about that in a second but three fastballs from Garrett Cole one two three you're out he comes up the next step bat and he goes oppo job an absolute moonshot a lot of guys don't have pole power that deep second pitch he gets another fastball and yeah it's where baseball gets romantic and it's where you get curious to because you hear guys talk stories about Manny Ramirez and some of the special hitters and there are stories out there that Manny Ramirez used to have like bad swings at pitches to set up pitchers for later makey cab and like I'm not necessarily given Soto credit for that yet but when you caught one of the best four seam fastballs opposite field for 420 he's a special dude and then that's that home run sets up the next step bat in the fifth inning when he comes up with two on because Cole didn't want to give him a fastball he went slider curve curve slider change up slider he didn't give him a fastball in the hole at bat it goes to 3 2 and he hasn't seen a fastball and so don't knows that and so don't knows why crush this fastball last that bat so he's probably not throwing one and he sat on that that that slider and just drove it up oh again and gets two more RBI's so that I mean he went all fastballs and he struck out then he sits the fastball and he fucking moon shots one then he comes back and Cole's giving them all off speed and he adapts it was pretty impressive I like how much he changes his approach with two strikes and it's just fun it's it's funny slash awesome to watch him and Rendon back to back you get the young emotional 20 year old who I mean just around every turn this postseason he'll prove you wrong and then Rendon comes up and there's guys that pretend to be cool Rendon is like the king of cool does that dude have a pulse is incredibly calm so his springer though dude did you see that picture I tweeted a springer I'm not sure can you pull it up he looks like a video game character he looks like he doesn't have a pulse and he's 2D and it's fucking weird I don't even have it loaded yet but I kind of know what you're talking about yeah I tweeted it out it's I like was just scrubbing through the footage trying to find like something interesting I guess and then I was like whoa when I called employee bill over and I was like he looks like a video game doesn't I'm looking at it now he's a yeah man him I mean you can you kind of nailed it with springer there is like a video game vibe that it's like what's what's even going on here Rendon like there's athletes that in pressure situations they tell themselves like hey just got to breathe be calm be myself and you see them looking like that I mean Rendon he looks like he followed off a 2-0 Wiffleball pitch for every pitch yeah 2-0 Wiffleball pitch for every pitch throwing Wiffleballs 2-0 huh well in a Wiffleball game yeah you throw it every pitch every pitch you throw Wiffleball yeah yeah you want to talk about the starters with all four move on like Scherzer Scherzer Scherzer looked like he was empty in the tank on every pitch to me which I think is kind of how he always looks anyway yeah it's kind of just how he goes about life we didn't get any filming from the mouth crazy Scherzer the pitch count got up there quick they bring in Corbin I don't know what you were your what was your impression of Scherzer today I mean Scherzer yes he empties the tank on every pitch I think it's again one of those weird things like you and I watch Scherzer highlights that we'll see him here and there if this is normal Scherzer then yeah I guess he bounces back in five days and we'll see him again I think one of the interesting themes that I'm I want to look over at the end of this postseason is how many times are these pitchers being okay with giving a walk instead of you know giving a hitter a chance to hit because Scherzer ends up with three walks today and you know that adds to his pitch count a little bit but he never gave up the big blow and his team scored five runs off Garrett Cole the dude who hasn't lost since May I believe so hey he did his job he emptied the tank if you told the Nationals coming into this game Scherzer was only going to give you a five I think national fans get real worried but he did what he did to limit their scoring yeah and then when Rainey could only go 0.1 and he put two on and he has to go to Hudson in the seventh inning he did not look thrilled about that in the dugout also Hudson in a jam in the seventh inning and you know Rainey gets credited with the run Hudson gets credited with the run he does get out of the bases loaded jam but that's a taxing day one for their bullpen that's a taxing day one for the Nats bullpen which isn't a strength anyway I do little looked good he goes 1.1 so they did were able to split it between Hudson and do little but you need you need Strasburg to kind of give everyone a break like you don't you don't want to use Hudson and do little every game but you might have to but like you really don't want to give Rainey innings and that's like bringing Corbin out kind of they want to use the three starters Hudson and do a four starters Hudson and do little that's what they want to do yeah and I think it's a little bit of something that could be really deflating to Washington in the series if they use Hudson and do little and they don't get a win like yes if they have to use them tomorrow and they walk away with a win I mean he's that Washington is celebrating to the moon because they would have gone to and oh in Houston and I mean if they use their guys who cares but yeah if they were to go and it's a similar story tomorrow but Hudson or do little can't hold that would be a tough break for the Nats and I I want to give kudos to the Nats man because Hudson playoff baseball speaks to you differently and you watch a guy get the final outs to a game and you're like all right well that's that's the guy I'm going to war with Hudson earn that in kind of the Dodgers series and for them to go Hudson first because they get him in that lane and then to close it out with do little kudos to them yeah and then on the astro side Cole went seven five earned runs which is crazy six strikeouts only six I don't really know what was going on with Cole like a couple curveballs he just couldn't really get going but I I couldn't pick up like exactly like what was happening I mean Soto rocked a fastball I don't know did you some scrappy at bats I just think and I I touched on this a little bit this morning but I was in way too negative of Natsville again I owe them apology and Jim I'm going to resort back to it because you've heard me say at multiple times I think Adam Eaton is a huge piece to how this team operates I I really I think trade Turner's a solid ball player Rendon is going to be a top three MVP guy Soto is special you've heard me say that five times this podcast when Adam Eaton gives you two for four from that two whole and Rendon and Soto are just full blown threats to you I think that changes the whole dynamic of this nationals team because again when you go through the box score I mean Zimmerman has the solo shot but the rest of that lineup doesn't do too too much I mean you get a couple you get a hit from Ascrabs a hit from Robles and you know I did my Robles is more of a table setter for the top again but I don't know I mean if Adam Eaton has a good game just think about how that changes how you have to navigate this lineup with guys on base for Rendon and Soto every time I mean that's that's a mess. Yeah yeah he's a little fucker anyway. If you made that catch that would have been amazing. Yeah moving pretty wild. All right let's move forward to the game to a little preview session. All right game to tomorrow Strasburg versus Verlander Jake Astros are still a favorite in the series correct. I believe so I'd have to double check with Vegas but I believe in your brain. Yeah I just think you know Astros still they don't technically have home field but if it goes six or seven it's in Houston and I mean I'll give Washington credit for getting five off Garrett Cole but I don't think like oh they got him once they're going to get him again that's not exactly how this works. I think I think it's going to be this needed to happen for it to be a good series. I said yesterday that I think Strasburg and Verlander is a toss up. I thought I thought Cole had the upper hand on Scherzer. He didn't. I mean would I would I be shocked if we're talking after after tomorrow's game and it's like wow Strasburg was incredible Washington got enough off Verlander like no and that's what makes baseball awesome. Yeah I'm kind of a toss up. I think the Nats still are the favorite because you can't react too much to just one game. I mean Yankees one Yankees took game one. So you can't do that much and like Houston's really good. They'll find a way they almost came back in this one like they had bases loaded. They had a couple really close breaks that would have that would have tied this or went you know their way but the Nats were able to hang on but Strasburg Verlander man Verlander needs a good outing Verlander at you know what actually I think more pressures on Strasburg and that's a little different than I than I think I think more pressures on Strasburg because of the bullpen situation and because because shares only went five like Strasburg has to go seven man. Yeah and there's I mean there's not much of a reason to believe he won't know it'd be a blessing. What's that if if it wouldn't be all that bad if the nationals got blown up nationals are better off getting beat by five than getting beat by two. Yeah because like you said if they use do little and Hudson in a losing effort that fucks them. Yeah and yeah I mean Houston they don't use Osuna today and again we'll see how much of this reliever rest thing becomes a thing in and of itself. I think George Springer come to life is a big story. I'll to they still look solid same with Brantley Bregman man. Bregman's in an interesting spot like you already know this Jim but in the Yankee series he got walked a ton. He had a 423 O.B.P. but he had a 645 O.P.S. He only had three hits and six games in the Yankee series and yes he got pitched around a lot tonight. He goes 0 for 4. He has a walk but three strikeouts too. I mean Bregman you're a dude that your fans are yelling at the table trout doesn't deserve the MVP. He he's got to find his way and pretty quickly. Yeah it might actually help him that you is getting hot behind him. He'll might see some pitches now. Mike you know the Yankee straight up just pitched around him and he was credit to him for being very patient. He's got a 435 on base percentage in this postseason so far. So I mean that's that's good and it's hard to hit when they're not giving you pitches in the zone. So I kind of I kind of get it but if you really starts hitting and you really has been jumping these fastballs man. They're weird ass swings. He's getting inside the ball but like players don't get inside the balls that he's getting it's crazy. And then to put him over the fence or to the fence it's nuts. So you really getting hot may actually help Bregman and then that helps the Astros incredibly. And then if Alvarez got some fucking confidence under himself now because you got two hits and a walk and a little anger because he struck out with the bases loaded. I don't know Astros might be in a good spot offensively. Yeah you got to see a hit from Bregman like even if they're pitching around you the team and the fans need a little bit of wood on the ball. Yeah man I mean it's just tomorrow's exciting. You can Strasburg Verlander it's kind of a it almost flips the script a little bit. Garrett Cole the guy who had the special season against Max Scherzer the three time Cy Young Award Award winner now it's flipped its old man Verlander versus Strasburg who was the young prodigy and now is kind of rebuilding that with his playoff statistics so far. It's kind of a fun flip. The game is at eight tomorrow right. I made a lot of plans. Hoping scheduling around an eight o'clock start. I hope eight oh seven. Hey because I'm going to New York City spending the day looking at apartments and I was like I just knew you back by eight but I never checked to make sure it was eight o'clock. I were checked. So that's good. Excited. Yeah. Yeah. All right. I think that about covers it right. We're good. I'm gonna go to sleep. It's 1 a.m. I got to leave for New York City tomorrow morning. Got anything else. Are you hot. I don't. I don't think so. No I'm not too hot. I'm a little warm. I'm warm. Again kudos to the Nats for for taking this game. Yanks did the same thing. I'm not going to draw a full comparison there but a game one in Houston's no joke especially after the layoff and you could have talks about that good for Houston for owning it and again if you run into any baseball fans so do special. This is so much different than what the Yankees did. The Yankees beat Grankey and the pen. They beat Cole and came back from being down to nothing. I mean this is a much bigger. They beat Cole. And yeah they beat Cole. Cole didn't beat himself. So this is a much much more emphasis goes into this than what the Yankees did in game one. Yeah yeah we'll see if it carries I mean Verlander deals tomorrow and it's a wash but it's still good. You want to win one on the road. They they lost home field advantage already again. We'll see what they bring in in Washington D.C. D.C. D.C. All right. Thank you guys for hanging out with us. Thank you for listening. Thank you for commenting and subscribing and rating and reviewing and being part of it. Thank you for telling Jake that he sucks all the time and we'll see you later.