 It's a really fun battle between Julio Urias and Juan Soto. Licks his tongue, gets ready. Soto gets ready. This one is brought to you by Manscaped. Our friends at Manscaped are giving you 20% off, plus free shipping with Code Johnboy. Now here's the first pitch. It's a one-run game, but there's two runners on. Urias wants to hold him at that first pitch. He's going to drop in a little get me over curve and gets the call from Blue. Soto doesn't know. You sure about that, Blue? You sure? They say it is a strike, according to all the charts, but yeah, it looks a little high. It comes over the plate. I don't know. So first pitch call, curve ball, gets him the strike. Now in the second pitch, he's going to go fast ball. He drops down to do it, and Soto looks at him like, oh, tricks. That's what we're doing? Okay. I see you. I got you. Tricks, huh? And why he's doing that is because Urias dropped down. You see that arm angle? So the top one appears the curve ball. Down here is that fast ball. He dropped down to get even to a funkier angle and then pumped 95 mile per hour fast ball in the zone. And Soto was a little surprised, fouls it off, but a little surprised. So now he's thinking, okay, I saw the curve ball, got called a strike. Saw the drop down fast ball. What's he going to throw me now? And once he throw him a change up, did he swing? Did he swing? No. Soto says, yeah, I didn't swing. Uh-uh, not me. Not me. I wasn't swinging. He goes, eh, eh, kind of seem like you swung. Maybe, I don't know. That probably gets called half the time. Half the time it doesn't get called, but there's always going to be a little Soto shuffle in the mix, whether you like it or not. So that was the first pitch curve ball. In the second pitch, he drops down. He goes fast ball. Third pitch, he showed him the change up. So he's seen all three pitches now. And what do you have to know? He took the curve ball. He was a little surprised on the fast ball. And the change up almost got him. You almost got a swing there. He didn't get a great read on it. So if you're Urius, and here you can see here, see that the arm angle on the top two is the same for the two off speed pitches and then drop down for the fast ball. So if you're Julio, what are you gonna go with here? You're gonna go back to the well on one of these pitches. And let's see what he does. Tries to go curve ball again and that's grounded foul. Tongue out, little sniff of the bat, fresh burnt wood smell. Soto likes it, reminds him he's alive and that's why he likes hitting. But he went back to the curve ball and now back to the fast ball and he wanted that one pretty bad. You can hear him say. Puta madre. Thank you to Joe's McFly for filling in. Now Soto's walking around thinking, all right, okay, that was the fast ball again. What's he gonna throw? Soto also knows that the two fast balls he's dropped down for. See those two arm slots lower down there? Those are the two fast balls. Both came in at 95 miles per hour. Now if you go back and we look at the other two arm slots that were higher, those were the two off speed, the curve ball and the change up. So Soto knows that info and I think he also knows that he hasn't seen back to back fast balls yet. So he is sitting off speed, especially if he sees the arm come over the top and he gets a fast ball, wasn't ready for it, but has skill enough to spoil it and now Urius just gotta laugh. Just like he kidding me, dude. Cause he set him up pretty good for that. Look what he did. He threw that fast ball from the most over the top arm slot yet. These were the two fast balls, these were the two off speed and that fast ball came from up here. So he tried to trick him a little bit by going over the top with the fast ball and he did trick him. Soto wasn't ready to hit that but he just fouled it off to stay alive and now does he throw three fast balls in a row or does he go back to an off speed? He's got a lot of pitches to work with. It's a one and two count and he goes with a change up that Soto doesn't swing at at all. That's impressive. Cause this was the fast ball that he just eat and spoiled, right? And then the change up comes right after that and he spits on it. And if you look, I mean they talk about tunneling now. Those two pitches come from the same arm slot and they're going the same way for a while and then one of them comes inside the other comes the other stays straight. So good job by Soto, spoiling that. So now what's he gonna do? I think Soto, he's thinking he's gonna come fast ball now. He went two fast balls. I just spit on that change up. He's gonna come back at me with the fast ball and Urias is saying, I can throw anything I want here. He's kind of been in control of this entire at bat and he drops a curve ball right over the middle. All Soto can do is smile. All Urias can do is smile. This is a fun battle. Soto's like, all right, noted, noted. Your tricks, I have taken note. All I can do is remember them for next time. I love stuff like that. Really cool. I don't think Soto was comfortable that entire at bat. I think Urias had him right where he wanted him. He was just able to foul him off because he's that good of a hitter. So when it was brought to you by Bandscape, if you go to manscape.com, you can use code JOMBOY for 20% off. They got the ultra smooth package. It's summertime. You're gonna get hot. You're gonna feel gross. Trim up, feel better, look better, have some fun.