 Four games of playoff baseball in the books yesterday four games won four games lost. Let's talk all about him What's up everybody welcome back to another episode of talking baseball it's a show we talk baseball on it We like baseball we post these on YouTube we post them on all the podcast apps We appreciate everyone that's gotten on board is hanging out with us each day to recap the games that were Today's a doozy because there's four games yesterday Jake the most amount of games that can be played in the MLB playoffs were played and Because of the outcome of the NLDS games there will be four games again guaranteed on Monday So we are in the thick of the playoffs right now the most action that can be happening is Happening this weekend in early October. My name is John boy. I'm coming to you from New Jersey I've got my coach Jake. He's in Denver and this episode of talking baseball is proudly sponsored by Adam You have to make You said when they only have one name they're baseball players So I think people are leaving one name to find out what baseball player they are are you going to ball That's most obviously Adam Duvall. Okay. I thought it was to to be honest. Yeah, I'm glad we're starting the show with honesty Alex Emmett Alex Emmett Nick Sanders It's coming close coming close to my fake enemy Nick Sanderson. Yeah, this is just Nick Sanders See oh, you got a baseball player The first name see oh, so that's that's a player's initials I'm gonna have to dive into that during the show and see what I can find Okay, but yeah, that's a that's someone with the initials s. I. Oh Sio Steven Ikels O'Brien So you just took your last name. Yeah one of the most generic s names Yeah, and then you said Ikels in the middle. Yeah, it's been on a my thing. Okay. It's a chance and AJ AJ ooh see That might be an issue for you It's not AJ Pollack. He's already a friend of the program. He's proud. I thought I was gonna Barnett No for you this is bad news it's AJ Cole Why is that bad news for me? Because you were so hard on him at the end of his Yankee career. Oh I forgot his first name was AJ Well, there you go. That's the biggest missus connect that just happened there Cole world Cole world can't get enough Whoo, all right. Well, those are our most recent patreon supporters and subscribers They get to listen live as we record this as well as some other perks along the way Jake, how are you doing in this fine Saturday morning? I'm doing well. I just had a a funny realization That's kind of a classic rude ale to nl take but I'm glad The American League will be taken off tomorrow so I can watch some of the NFL games Did my toe elsewhere because I think my eyes are starting to go baseball blind I messaged you during last night's game There is a while that I had to watch the Yankees game in the reflection of my windows Because my eyes were hurting so much from watching the TV The baseball is bleeding out of my eyes, but then it was just my TV I started watching on my computer for a bit and I was fine. So that's a that's weird if we've got any ITV doctors Don't be don't be shy to reach out But I'm doing great man. I I needed some rest. I got I Think I I got like six hours, but they were a hard six. I was out The hard six year old college nickname, so I'm doing good. I'm ready for ready for Saturday like a six out of ten Yes, I'm like that like I like they saw me like that guy's a hard six out of ten Yeah, if that is that what you meant because that's awesome. No, I was talking about your winky six inches I Couldn't figure out the insult either way is a huge compliment. Yeah, never an insult. Okay, great. This is fantastic Yeah, have a good have a happy Saturday, man. How are you doing? The weather is really nice other? I'm really tired dude for gate. I did a I already say this I did I said it yesterday I did a little behind the scenes. Maybe I'll get it edited today Long day when we were doing talking yanks. I accidentally uploaded talking yanks to the talking baseball feed so if anyone Got that like they woke up and saw it and listen to it and they're like what the fuck is this now? I got to listen to their talking yanks garbage. I'm not into that because we're such homers on that show communist shit much more than than Then here I guess we did these guys create a whole baseball podcast just to reel us in and then make us Yankees fans So I apologize about that I posted on the wrong feed. I caught it. I caught it fairly quick, but changed it. Anyway I'm really tired Four games is a lot dude. You know, like during the regular season on this show We'd be like hey, it's impossible to watch every game. It's not impossible to watch every game But it's like I watched the Astros raise game Jake. Yeah, I had to remind myself about it I had to go look at the box. It's like what happened. I watched the whole thing. So that's kind of where I'm at. Well, hazy Being a spectator for one of these teams, I forgot I was tweeting the wild card games really nilly No care for anyone's emotions Just having a fucking blast as the third party bystander Then the first games of the NLDS doing the same thing covering them on Twitter tweeting out every every gif I liked having a blast and then the Yankees game comes and Every fucking pitch is a marathon and I'm just so in the mousetrap of like playoff baseball I forgot I forgot when you have a team in there like I was alive on Periscope for Like at bats in the third inning as if they were bottom nine That's how playoff baseball is when you're in it though. It's really fun It's taxing. I'm taxed It's uh, it's it's a little daunting and it's Again, we're only gonna have One one more four game slate. So I'm gonna appreciate it. Um, it was I mean in in mountain time zone I went I Mean noon to midnight with baseball Pretty pretty insane, but I'll uh I'll take that more often than not we uh, we are not the guys that's gonna complain about the length of the game I know uh, there was a little bit of that on a couple of the broadcast last night But don't care good baseball is good baseball. I think all the games yesterday were good games We'll get into them. You have burns the rays and and Houston is the only one that I think wasn't like Actually, okay, the Yankees and the twins at the end for for non Yankees fans Yeah, both both those games the wheels came off at the end Where I think The other ones kind of wrote it out But I mean the Tampa Houston was a great game through five and should have been a better game But you want to burn it, but let's go. Yeah Here we go Jackie burns game two game one ALDS on your mark get set Game one Tampa Houston the final level boss Justin Verlander and his Houston Astros posted the Tampa rays hoping they wouldn't be made of glass now as Tyler takes the mound for them a Couple power right ease insert your own Republican joke I don't care like your ugly friend in college were scoreless through for until Jose Altuve Jose Altuve To run shot into the Crawford boxes glass now would work out of it Oh No, Brandon Lowe two runs would score on a miss pop-up yikes And you can't do that against Houston and you especially can't do that Against Justin Verlander seven innings pitch one hit eight K's Why you mad Tampa as the who what where went and why is of yard and in newly both hit RBI Doubles the rays push a couple across laid off of Ryan Elvis Presley But Houston says thank you very much as they take game one six two final Elvis Elvis in the morning Didn't you date a girl that also dated Elvis I Dated Elvis is X X Elvis Okay, okay Elvis Andrews Andrews This game we were talking about this game together when we were doing whatever we were doing yesterday One Verlander guaranteed seven innings. That's pretty much what I said. We can like guarantee it seven innings one hit zero and runs Guys a fucking insane beast My favorite pitcher to watch still he's insane McKay or Glass now was looking pretty good. Did you see the top of the first the azure's came out swinging like they put two Hard hit balls that were caught deep in the outfield Which is what I said that their strategy should be like if you want to do something you got it You got a jump on McKay early. They almost got him glass Glass no, I'm gonna keep mistaking them because I want to talk about McKay later Glad I got a jump on glass no early, but he was looking good, man Then that out to ve homerun. You have to be perfect. He gets pulled. It only goes four innings and a third Which I you know with the raised bullpen it's not kind of crazy Maybe that's all they needed or you know what I mean like they're they're fine They're a team that's fine with a short leash kind of like the Yankees but That drop ball. It's a stark reminder. Oh, no, we're the raise. They're the Astros and we just gave them a favor and I I think I I think Yeah, Jim before this game I think I said something verbatim like the what to watch for is what's gonna make the Rays crack and when that pop-up dropped it was over I Mean the the game ended right there and yeah glass now he looked really good out to ve got him It was a high fastball It's why out out to ve's a special dude 98 and at his shoulders out to ve cranks it to left field for the homer he's uh, if if you're a young kid who's listening, hey Take all your family's phones and leave us five star review and Send us picture their credit card too. No, I don't do that last part. Just the just the reviews thing But when your coaches are telling you like hey go up there wanting to swing Jose I'll to ve is why yeah because you you could learn how to take pitches you can't learn how to do that and Yeah, I mean that that was the first crack and then when that pop-up dropped. I mean there there was no coming back That's a real cuz they scored two later on And I do think that's important for them if the Rays walked away from this game with no runs on the board I think you're kind of doing a little aww shucks And then if you don't score in the first couple innings against Garrett Cole, which you're probably not You're gonna be like, okay, are we just gonna go scoreless this whole playoffs But they got to Presley in the bullpen and this is what I was kind of saying the other day And I got a little kickback, but Presley hasn't been the guy who started off the year with 30 scoreless appearances or whatever So they they get to the bullpen a little bit they get it they see a couple runs get put on the board I do think there is a slight piece of importance on that Garrett Cole and 14 strikeouts later. It might not matter, but that's that's for later Well, I didn't the Rays use Why'd they use McKay out of the pen like white? Isn't that dude like was the name Nick Anderson? Yeah, I mean they're all about matchups So I mean what whatever they saw and I think he came in Did Brantley get him or no, that's that's the whole pop-up thing I don't know. I was just like that was kind of why don't you use that guy who's fucking amazing? Yeah, and that's that you we as you said to start this and I texted you during the game I said if the rays got through that fifth inning, which they clearly did not That I thought it was it it was basically a coin flip the rest of the way because you were gonna get two more Verlanders and then the Houston pen verse that raise bullpen that'll that'll match you up to death They couldn't get through and I mean that was kind of it You want to share our thoughts on McKay because I think it's funny Jake was so excited about Brandon McKay Because he's a two-way player is a high prospect. You probably learned about him in your nerdy baseball game outside the park baseball So it's called Yeah, and he was like a top pick in the draft. I'm usually pretty good with those guys, too But yeah, I got excited Louisville. I think he won the Golden Spikes. He could pitch he could hit and Like with the Ohtani noise. It was like, all right, are we gonna give this dude a chance? And so yeah, and I'll I'll preface this and I'll I'll tee you up, Jim, but I love baseball Obviously, we have a lot of t-shirts saying that Baseballs fun And and don't get that as like oh you don't have to be competitive because winnings fun I think that's why people like to go play for the Patriots and and wherever you go to win Brandon McKay is having a bad time when he's on a baseball field. It just looks like a Pouty boy You look so angry. It's like dude have fun out there, man. I think he's the most brooding man in baseball He's like the John Snow of starting pitchers It's like like John Snow was kind of just like sad and sometimes it was funny You're like you do look sad John Snow McKay's so like pent up It's like dude throw a curveball strike someone out and smile That's funny because I was like dad this guy socks presents on the mound alone and Yeah, I think if if you're if you don't fully understand what are what we're saying Maybe listen to when we talk about Edwin and Carnassio and later We just watch a game with McKay on the mountain see how he's the most brooding man in baseball. Yeah, or that Well that all right next game was Was next game Cardinals Braves? St. Louis, Atlanta. All right, here we go on your mark Get set burn Game two in the ATL as the Braves would turn to Mikey Nevic Hoping faulty wouldn't be faulty verse. Oh, that's a bad man mommy Jack flash Flaherty one of the more special second halves of a season you'll see from a pitcher as St. Louis tries to make it a 2-0 series lead Let the rain fall down and wake my dreams Josh Donaldson brings the rain with an RBI single in the first they needed that and then guess what Jim Faulty and flashballs shoved that JD RBI in the first was the only run until bottom 7th And what manager Brian Snicker called the old no? Yeah moment Adam Duvall does it all to run pinch hit homer hitting for faulty Wow It's three nothing Melanson would shut it down by only giving up two hits no runs Atlanta bravely bounces back to win game two and tie up the series Whoo, I think we said like you got to get if you want to get to I say it's about every rookie pitcher if you want to get to Flaherty you got to get to him the first inning It's your best chance glass now as well. They got one across and that was good enough for a while They rode Flaherty into the 7th because I Don't know It was a classic case of it was good enough for a while But everyone in the building knew what happened yesterday and knew that one run was not going to be enough I mean once they push it to three it turns out they did shut them out But if you saw Melanson in the last inning One run wasn't gonna do it. So yeah, I guess that would be the conversation in st. Louis a little bit is Wonder I mean, yeah, I had to flip over to Yankee stop at this point, but I wonder who was warmed up because once they pinch hit for the pitcher obviously Like faulty was shoving so maybe They leave faulty in with the one nothing lead because they want him to keep going and the Braves bullpen is bad So maybe if you're the Cardinals you think okay, well, you know McCann got a single. He's not that fast He's not gonna score On a double even maybe There's two outs and the pitchers up So clearly you leave them in if the pitcher comes up then they pinch hit Duvall For the pitcher. I think you can still I think it's still fair to have confidence in Flaherty against Duvall Duvall just came through Yeah, I mean Matt if it was Joyce, maybe you say okay lefty and his splits Jim this is where baseball Takes over and if you want to get mad at the managers you can but think about what I was just saying about the Braves bullpen They looked like the least One of the least reliable things in this playoff. So they're pulling faulty With a one-nothing lead and faulty just looked dominant. He was awesome And if Duvall goes out there and then the bullpen blows it Everyone's gonna be all over Snickers saying oh, you should have just left faulty in there, huh? It's it's kind of one of those do or dies He didn't know that was gonna hit a 423-foot Homer off Jack Flaherty, but he did it's three nothing and he looks like a genius. Yeah, and The cards get shut out. So this series is now one and one so much for the fear Flaherty We didn't know that faulty was gonna go off Yeah, faulty been saving it and again I don't want to butcher the full story because I'm sure our Braves fans listen and know it better than me But I think he had some hell stuff. He got sent down And he just kind of wasn't right and he started showing signs towards the end of the season And this is this was huge for him because I he's a guy that was supposed to be part of this Braves future going forward He had a pretty atrocious year and now he's kind of cemented. That's the guy. They know and love in Atlanta. So good for him And how about freed coming out of the bullpen? Yeah, I mean back-to-back games, right? Two strikeouts again one inning pitch two strikeouts again We're seeing a lot of this in the National League Yeah, and it's gonna be he's he's still lined up for game four It'll be Soroka game three freed game four unless something changes But yeah, that's that's what the Braves have to figure out the rest of the way is because Anibal Sanchez they they have him and How and where are they gonna use him? Is he just their emergency guy? And if he's not your emergency guy, then is Julio Teheran another name. We slot her all the time Tehran Is what how are you gonna use one of those guys? You have to use Hannibal or you have to use Julio Who's I don't think Tehran's on the roster? He got he replaced Coldplay guy. Oh Martin, that's what I'm saying. Yeah So now that you have both of them you need to figure out how and where you're gonna use at least one of them Interesting Well, we'll preview game three tomorrow of that series But that's fun. There's not gonna be a sweep in the National League and then the other thing that the other big note about this game Jimmy, I don't know if you saw this but a coon Ronnie hustled the whole game as a normal baseball player would and His quotes after were the quotes that they were looking for yesterday He like apologized to little kids and he's like it's that's never acceptable And he said I've done that twice this year and it's never acceptable. So just like that I mean, look how the storyline of this series and everything that happened in game one. It's fully changed. Yeah, well, I'm sure that He got a hard talk at you from someone in PR department or or Hopefully he saw that his teammates were taking it serious. I'm like, no, it's not cool But I mean it's I don't want to do it again. It's not that big of an issue Yeah, and the other thing that was missing that you you did say yesterday I mean the stuff that kind of gets lost in translation even the good quotes that came out after the game yesterday They were still like just a little offbeat because there is a barrier Yeah, I yeah, it's funny I'm laughing cuz his translator You'll love the way the Braves translator looks So looks wacky He looks like a music conductor for some Spanish I think I have seen that guy. Yeah. Yeah He like translated him with like a stammer, which I don't know. Maybe the Yankees translator just cleans it up But he like yeah, yeah Come on Fix it. Oh, dude Let's go to the next game Jake and this was ours Yankees versus the Twinkies Yankees Same burn that you did on talking to extra. Did you do a new one? Same burn. Let me let me make sure I've got it here. Yeah, I wasn't gonna rewrite another one So if this one has too much Yankee bias, I'm sorry, but Noses your poses On your mark Get set Game one of the ALDS is the Minnesota Twinkies were hosted by the 27-time world champion New York Yankees How about some syrup on your pancakes on a nice autumnal day James Paxton the big maple verse? Jose twigs and barrios as Minnesota tries to gather a win in the boogie down like pre-gaming when your buddies aren't home How about a couple solo shots Jorge Placido, Polanco and Nelson cruises one out a pair of runs for the twins Bottom three show me your bird Edwin's back RBI double baby, baby, Glabie Oh To run score with a little help from the air from CJ Crone three two Yanks, Minnesota would tie it up in the fifth, but they pulled a leak or so not so fast my friend Happy college football Saturday. You got to see the baby the Venezuelan Victor Gracia stay Caracas to RBI double for the kid Glaber Torres five three Yanks But you so know the twins aren't just gonna roll over as Miguel goes yard But at five four the bombers would open up the floodgates ago DJ DJ La May you bomb red solo cup. Hey, I'll fill you up It's a guard party. He goes solo job a palm from Brett Gardner 7-4 then like punching your address into your Tesla. Let the machine bring you home La Machina DJ La May you bass is clearing double another hit The pitching goes packs into Vino to Kainley to the goose Chad green to Britain to happer Hello to Chappy pinstripes take game one ten four final So long one I still like that one a lot as the longer as a Yankee fan I got a lot of good stuff in there second time hearing it a lot of good stuff There's a lot of tidbits. Yeah, I don't normally do the pitchers at the end for the other burns But yeah, no, and I had to clarify the goose being Chad green Yeah, well, he's the goose. He is the goose so so now you know so what a what a what a National baseball fans or third-party fans need to know Home run to home run hitting teams. I think there was a lot of home runs hit. There's four Yeah, Polanco Cruz Suno La May you and guardie. So there's five five home runs hit all solo shots The Yankees had guys on base every inning. I think every inning one They had guys on base a lot of traffic. They scored ten runs. They left seven on base Which is good. I mean good for the Yankees the and the twins pitching is Suspect Yeah, and I know everyone likes to think that about the Yankees pitching the Yankees bullpen is good Paxton Wasn't amazing in any in any regard. It wasn't anything you'd write home or show highlights of but he gutted out four and two-thirds all solo shots Whatever barrios Barrios no one was fooled by his off speed the entire game like they were just spitting on it the entire game and small So it's like he started it too low. It's obvious. It's an off-speed pitch. So he struggled the story is The Yankees had eight walks Yeah Yeah, and it's a the whole savages in the box rant that my friend on the other end of the mic brought to the world They they control the zone. It's been their motto all seasons and spring training Eight walks and there was only only one of the walks was a guy that came out of the twins bullpen That was clearly over matched in his first like playoff outing The rest of them were like good walks. Giancarlo Stanton was spitting on pitches. He had three walks Judge had some great at bats For Yankee land the big takeaway is that there was a couple guys. Well for me. There was a couple guys that were injured and Carnation Gary Sanchez and Giancarlo hasn't barely played this year. They all looked Good slash healthy enough And for Giancarlo and Gary, I think it's a weird mix Gary doesn't look right right now necessarily But he still looks solid Giancarlo looks locked in at the dish, but he's he's running at it like 75 percent But yeah, I don't know and I think this game this game played out almost exactly how you and I thought it would like Yeah, there are some homers And they kind of went shot-for-shot a little bit But that Minnesota bullpen and I'm sorry to all my twins fans, but you're gonna have to point out to me The one guy that you should that Yankees hitters should be worried about Yeah, that sounds harsh Brewstar grader all he looked fucking good. He's the guy He was throwing they need to up him up. I mean, do you think? Well, we'll see how many games they have they play but do you think like If the twins were to make the ALCS, I think grader all is gonna have to become a main cock But they're gonna have to ride him Yeah, just because no one else puts fear into hitters at all He's the only guy that's coming out of the pen with with special arm talent We we only saw one of the killer teas yesterday as I labeled them. I think he was He was the only twins picture that didn't give up a run Yeah, and grader all But yeah, so we didn't necessarily see the twins best guys and it did open up a little more Kyle Gibson's had a horrible year Stash it got knocked around So yeah, I mean maybe Taylor Rogers and Brewstar figures it out and and that changes the storyline But yeah, I mean the Yankees kind of Yankees the twins last night Hopefully it'll happen again tonight We'll preview that in a little bit, but we got one more game to burn and this one was a little bit of a doozy National League has been giving us good games. Jake. Are you ready? I? Am ready take us to LA Eddie Bach isn't Steven a Strasburg and the Nats trying to break serve versus the Dodgers and Clay and Bigsby Kershaw as they try not to Crack in Hollywood, but top one Howie Mandel Kendrick deals out an RBI single one Nothing natitudes top two the Nats are eaten as Adam hits an RBI single followed by Carmelo Anthony Rendon Shooting a deep contested to his double scores Ian and it's three nothing expose Just in the wild link Turner turns things north for the Dodgers with a sack fly in the six only run They get off Strausberg six innings pitch ten K's dominant, but oh boy here come the Nats pen Do little does just that as Max Muncie Pimp jobs one one run game as Drooble Cabrera with the big Geico insurance run the natitudes show Fortitude as the score is four to two But as the Joker said you always need an ace in the hole and out of the bullpen comes their defender of the night Max Scherzer strikes out the side in the eighth calling him Michael or for how he blindsided the Dodgers Daniel Hudson does some yoga on the mound as he bends, but doesn't break huge strikeout a seager to end it Nats head back to the capital happy four to two win series tied They had the Dodgers had the bases loaded in the ninth ready to break it open But Hudson came through and struck out seager Yeah, Corey seager puts a ball in the gap that burns a lot different. Oh, yeah This was a good game and Scherzer out of the pens a fun storyline feel bad for Kershaw because Did you like see we were watching the Yankees game when this game started but I went back and likes it's pretty brutal Man, like yeah, I hit by pitching the first a hit by pitching the second and then kind of like the first inning is pretty sad because it's Double by Trey Turner, then the first out you get they gave you an out because they wanted to move him over Then you hit then you hit Soto Kendrick gets a hit Ryan Zimmerman pops out and Then Suzuki's out. There's like nine press abouts there Yeah, it's I mean It's it's playoff Kershaw and it's a debate because he ends up having a quality start But in the playoffs is it especially when you when you give up the runs early like that and then that's were three Nothing and in control Obviously the story would have changed if If if the Dodgers put up a seven spot, but they didn't because Strasburg's dirty But yeah, I mean this is this has kind of been like the story of playoff Kershaw like it's not bad But it wasn't good enough and that hit by pitch on Soto. You could see like his You could almost see the demons come back into his body. He's like, are you fucking kidding me? I just hit him with that So that was that was tough for them Strasburg man, I everyone's I don't know if you've seen these stats circling yet But technically in four games started he has the lowest playoff you ever Yeah, don't I can't believe you brought that up I'm in on Strasburg, man. I like Strasburg. Don't give me in Minimum four games who the fuck cares about that stat. Hey, I care for those four games, baby That's jakey's butter knives right there They're stats that I saw I saw I let him hurt them That's stupid Minimum four games. Okay. Thanks for share the stats They're relevant You think Dodger's fans are getting a little worried or bummed out about Bellinger doesn't have a hit yet Interesting are they bummed out about Bellinger? I'd say no I mean you saw it was Corbin game one Corbin's got a wipeout slider When he when he figured it out he figured it out And Strasburg, I mean like you just said he's the best playoff starting pitcher ever So I I don't think you can necessarily hold Cody at bay. He needs to do something in Washington though He needs to get hit Someone in the chat said I'm salty Strasburg is amazing. I don't care about fucking Strasburg It's just dumb to say four minimum four starts Nothing against the playoff Can you give me minimum one start and let's celebrate that guy Okay, yeah best playoff start ever I'd love to celebrate that guy. He deserves it Don Larson. I Think he's had more than that though No, we're just doing minimum one game Right, but it's it's like career stats. What's that? You're yeah, I mean they're technically two different things, but I see what you're doing Bellinger needs to get hit a big hit with how bad he was in the postseason last year and He's hitless eight played appearances zero hits. Yeah, I'm telling you walks yesterday I don't he's the MVP Jake currently has hitless and he had the worst playoffs ever last year I'm telling you I think Dodgers fans are a bit on edge like they need a bit. I think you're a little too far I mean, yeah, they you obviously want that out of that guy, but he got on base twice in the first game He got walked and then he like like you and the salty chat is telling you he faced the best playoff starter ever so he's he needs he needs to do something in In DC for sure his career postseason on base percentage is now 227 It's not good 33 games Yeah, the other the other thing from this game a the catch Rendon made in the ninth. Did you see that? Yeah, it was pretty nuts. I have data that could have also changed the burn Significantly if he doesn't catch that ball And then this is just kind of a fun fact. Well a and I I don't know if you want to dive into this a little bit But Scherzer comes out of the pen He strikes out the side in the eighth inning and it was the first time a Nationals pitcher had struck out the side in the eighth inning since June when Max Scherzer did it in a game. He started That's fucking crazy So that's that's pretty cool That's that's a jakey didn't actually research that that was on either after the game on TBS or one of them But still pretty crazy and then Dave Roberts and again if this Dodgers ship starts going downhill fast disco Dave's out of town He's straight upset. He's like, oh, yeah, we didn't think they'd use Strasburg and it's like whoa, man I mean think about it for more than a second Yeah, what what changes though like they would prep for Schrasburg I mean you you may be managed the game differently thinking You you may be managed the game a little more differently thinking that instead of hey We're gonna have three innings at this terrible bullpen instead of we're gonna have two innings at this terrible bullpen and one by arguably the best pitcher in baseball we were a little surprised they didn't just go Scherzer for two they brought Hudson out and We were a little close to being correct Hudson loaded them up and Again, the burn would be different this whole podcast would be different if Corey seager gets one which he almost did There's the seven straight high high in a way fast balls that he had a chance to put the barrel on Hudson does get him night with a nice inside backfoot slider, but yeah, and I if you're going to use Scherzer there Which it clearly they made a conscious decision before the game. It's not like hey max. What do you you want to run out there, bud? No, like they came into this knowing they were gonna use Scherzer and man if Hudson blew that game a To run game and you did burn 14 bullets out of Scherzer. I mean that would have been an awful look Yeah, that's true. I would have used Scherzer for true and again, that's the whole playoff managing I mean we would be killing killing The Nationals manager if Hudson got rocked in which he basically did but he didn't yeah. Yeah Come on see your change of storyline. No, I'm happy that it's a one-to-one series both nationally series are good I was watching MLB TV and who's the guy in MLB TV? I can't do Rosa. No, no, no, no How we oh the like main broadcaster guy, no and he's on the studio like it's such a popular name that I just Reynolds Harold Reynolds Harold Reynolds. I don't know why I was blanking on that Harold Reynolds was Talking about how you know These nationally pitchers are just attacking and they're just going right at batters and they're doing really good And like he wants to see that in the American League and I'm like like dude look at the Astros Yankees and twins lineups in comparison to the Braves Nationals and The Dodgers have a good lineup, but the Braves Nationals and Cardinals like there's clear holes plus a pitcher hitting That allows you to just attack. It's such a different animal with the Astros Astros Yankees and twins who have Legit like mashers up and down Yeah, and I mean and It's sample size too again Strasburg You could watch Jimmy and I dance around dance around it all day. He's really good. That's that's the consensus He has 10 strikeouts the Dodgers as a team have 17 strikeouts, but 13 of those came from Strasburg and Scherzer to a two of the best starting pitchers and then the other ones came from who are supposed to be the Back end of their bullpen So that's a little different and then we touched upon it with the twins The twins clearly came in yesterday like let's get ahead which they did a lot But they weren't gonna give the Yankees anything They wanted the Yankees to get themselves out and they refused eight walks It was not necessarily the prettiest baseball, but if you like a good at bat The Yankees were just saying no if you're gonna be off the plater in the dirt We're not offering and I think that's well Maybe this is the segue but in in today's Yankees twins game. That's the number one what to watch for For anyone watching behind the scenes We have an ad agency that sometimes put ads in for us anyway, all right Let's preview these games coming up what you segue at us into we have the two American League series The first game of the night is the Yankees at the twins Yankees have Tanaka going who we have blind faith in in the postseason. He's been nothing. Yeah Do we have to preface this whole thing? No, I'll tone it down. We have blind faith in Tanaka. He's Does he have rough games like sometimes he's a bit of a coin flip. Sure He's always brought it in the postseason. So hopefully he does again for me as a Yankees fan the twins apparently had Odorizi warming up and then scratched him put him on game three and have Dobnack pitching game to Randy Dobnack as a cool story started the season in single a Was an uber driver in the offseason But that's kind of getting blown out of proportion because a lot of minor leaguers have other jobs in the offseason Like a lot our good best friend Tim Melville works at a barbecue place in the offseason So I'm kind of sick of people acting like that's so crazy Like yeah, he's got a part-time job because minor league baseball players get paid dirt pretty normal But he's only started five games this season he's appeared in maybe ten He hasn't really faced any good line-ups his starts were against No playoff teams, right? Yeah, he only had one appearance against the playoff team It was one inning against the Nats and they did score a run I mean, I'm not gonna deep dive into that. It's um, they're taking a chance Randy Dobnack has pitched really well for them I think his eras at 1 5 9 or something like that good Listen, I said I'd tone it down a little bit, but I've been saying this I've been saying this all season All of the twins good stats are bullshit. Yeah, Randy Dobnack looked really good against the Royals and the Tigers in late September Yeah, what's the judge there? What's what are we judging? Don't tell me Randy Dobnack looked really good in September He literally faced teams that were already bad that have zero interest in playing baseball So we will see but it's kind of like how all the twins numbers you kind of have to like really peel in and like wait hold on This isn't as impressive as it seems Played a lot of bad teams and yeah, the odor is he thing is interesting and Jim I personally like the move because and and again tweeted me talking Jake If you think this is too Yankee land, but think about the names I'm about to say Jake Oda Rizzy who's been around the league and done it for a while in the AL East for a little while nonetheless Randy Dobnack. We already covered that rookie who's gonna be on the mound at Yankee Stadium today against one of the better lineups you'll ever see on a baseball field I Like it because I think if you're the twins you're trying to think of how to win baseball games hot take Jake here I am again What are we working on today folks? So all Rocco today the meeting is how are we gonna win the next how are we gonna win? And I think if you if you laid out the remaining options for Minnesota It's okay. Are we gonna try to put something together at home the stadium? It'll be rocking in Minnesota target field, baby and we're going Randy Dobnack to the pen and we'll figure it out or Is your best chance? Hey, we'll throw Dobnack and a bunch of different guys at you And maybe the hitting goes off and maybe the pitching figures something out and if it doesn't we lose which? bias bias podcast right now But Oda Rizzy at home and game three gives them their best chance to win a game. So I like that for them Okay, cool The lineup should be about the same for both teams I believe right? There's not a lot of splits going on a lot of some Yankee fans think DD might be out and Voight might be in I think they roll back the same lineup Yeah, I think the Yankees after the win are gonna roll back the same lineup and Masahiro Tanaka We said blind confidence before He does have 30 playoff innings to the tune of a 1-5 ERA That's the reason why we have blind confidence in him for the twins Jim. You might see a little bit of platoon stuff The one that's gonna be interesting and I'm sure as a conversation is Mitch Garver who's had such a great year And was batting leadoff yesterday They also have Jason Castro who came back down to earth a little bit, but he is a lefty bat So do they throw him in? versus Tanaka I think that's really the only conversation because the The lineup didn't fully do their job that it was all solo homers But I mean the the twins bats are there if if if there's runners on base you need to be worried about these twins Yeah, I was trying to find something Randy Dobnack Jake Yes The other thing so like I'm too confident and it's gonna it might come crashing down on me or it may not That's the gamble of life He pitches to contact Right Against the Yankees Yeah in the postseason Pitching the contact to the Royals in September might work out you can see how scared of contact The twins were yesterday eight walks. So we'll see Maybe we'll be punching ourselves in the faces and it'll be frustrating as all hell And you know how impactful a double-play ball is in the playoffs And I I think the only other thing for the twins is maybe they try to get Jonathan Scope in the lineup somewhere because he's he's a righty Um, or excuse me. No, they won't try to get scope in there. I was thinking about yesterday's game Yeah, I don't know Randy Dobnack prove it. You're gonna have to prove us wrong, dude Well, it'd be a big time hero. It'd be a big story So I don't I don't think I don't think we're that out of line with this because if Randy Dobnack Deals against the Yankees for even five innings of like one hit ball. That's a huge story Like that's gonna be like Randy Dobnack came out of nowhere and beat the Yankee like you know what I mean Well, no, I think that would be the counter I think if our twins fans are listening they'd say hey, Dobnack was good man. He's got really good numbers We're expecting him to be good today Yeah, but they yeah, and then if he was they'd say hey you guys you guys Yankee fan jerks Randy Dobnack's a stud I've been on I've been hard on the twins Way before I knew we were gonna play the postseason day one Beat good teams and I won't be hard at you They had for anyone that's listening for the first time twins had the most amount of games against teams under 500 They had the least amount of games against teams over 500 And they had a losing record to the teams that were over 500 And their only team in the playoffs to have a losing record against teams over 500 Because they play in the worst division in all of baseball Yeah Three teams actively trying to not win games So that's my day one stance has been This twins team is going to need to prove me wrong and I didn't know they were going to be playing the Yankees So yeah, it's not a Yankee thing No, and uh today's a big game for them because that another thing that they They did have there was a good stat for the Minnesota twins was they had the best road record in baseball Which is impressive. However, you want to dice it up Even if a lot of those if a lot of those games are white socks royals Tigers it does make it easier But an impressive road record is an impressive road record But game two at the Bronx Zoo today Dobnack Um, I don't know So surprise me twins, but like totally don't at all because I'll kill you In the other game Astros versus rays, we got Blake Snell versus Garrett Cole. Hey, here's verlander seven innings one hit now enjoy Cole Honestly and not to be shots fired at Garrett Cole, but It's it's still better than verlander Yeah, all right, you gotta take Yes, I agree You know Garrett Cole his postseason He's got pretty good postseason stats a three seven two e r a 29 innings. So he's been there, um, boston got to him last year Yeah, last year boston got to him Cleveland put up one run, uh, which would hey be better than verlander. So, um, I don't know if you're Tampa I think kevin cash actually handled it. Well, he said hey, we got verlandered. Um, It is what it is Yeah, you just you got to put together some at bats and again You have that belief from yesterday that if you get a chance again if you're in the game versus houston's bullpen that's a basically as much as you can ask for for tampa and Go do it, right? Yeah, Snell hasn't looked that good since coming back from injury and He's never made it out of the third inning in two games where he threw 50 pitches and then 62 pitches so that could have got him if he was pitching well, but I mean In his last game jakey gave in 2.1 innings. So that's seven outs Before he got seven outs. He allowed three hits and two walks So before he got seven outs, he put five people on base in the game before that He only went one and two thirds. So that's five outs before he got five outs He put five people on base two hits and three walks So It's been a tough last two. He's gonna have to like step up and bring it Snell at his best is really really good, but I wouldn't be surprised if houston jumps him Yeah, they've got so many good tough, righty bats. Um And they might only ask Snell to get through the lineup once depending what that pitch count looks like They they're hoping that he would get through clean twice Um, but I wouldn't be surprised if they kick it. Um, like it is Torino's on the playoff roster because he's a righty and he's a guy that can frustrate you. Um, but I I don't know I don't want to this this sounds like such bad sports radio. I don't want to say I'm calling out Blake Snell But I'm calling out Blake Snell Um, you know, you were the side young winner. You had a bad year You could cover up a lot of that and there was injuries. You could cover up a lot of that with one good start today And he's he's got all the talent in the world. I'm and maybe it's just yankee's bias because The astros are a fucking force, but I'd love to see Snell show something today Yeah, they got churrinos Castillo and nick anderson are there like big righties. Well, then Emilio Pagan at the end Chasrow they used yesterday. I think drake they used yesterday So maybe they were saving churrinos and anderson for today. I have no idea And yeah Churrinos man, he's a guy that just frustrates you because it's good stuff. It's not necessarily strikeout stuff But it's good stuff That would be interesting if Snell could go clean and they kick it to churrinos Or I mean if Snell can get four, I mean you're into the actual dudes in that raised bullpen So I mean that's that's what that whole series breaks down to That's what that whole series breaks down to Boing I think we're good. I think we've covered our basis, right? We're good four games Maybe a longer episode than we wanted because it's four damn games But we have four again on monday, but first two on saturday both al's two on sunday We will be back each day to recap what happened in preview. What's coming up We thank you guys for listening. We appreciate it if you'd like to leave a review Or if you'd like to subscribe if you'd like to do all that shit That would be kind of you. It'd be very nice Thanks. Enjoy your weekend