 It is talking baseball the Astros take a three-to-two lead Garrett Cole shuts him down Joe Ross He did his best What's going on everybody? Welcome back to talking baseball. Thank you for stopping in we are close to ending our Daily World Series episodes. We are potentially one game away Scary times no more baseball games to be played. Let's not talk about that yet We had one played last night the Astros beat The Nationals they went to the Capitol and they took three games From the home team The nerve of them the guts My name is John boy. I'm coming from New Jersey. I got my coach Jake. He's in Denver He's wearing an I love baseball shirt seen on Colorado Rockies Star pitcher Tim Melville and this episode of talking baseball is brought to you by our most recent patreon subscriber supporter Who's whose handle is J pay Jpk 501, but has chosen to go by Chode Masterson So thank you JPEC Aka Chode Masterson for being our our one patron that signed up yesterday two dollars a month We appreciate the support. Thank you chode Jake. How are you doing? Doing well Jimmy. Yeah, we're uh, we're up. We're up to an elimination game Could be the end of baseball as you're saying I'm wearing my I love baseball shirt leave a review that says I love baseball Just in case we have I love baseball shirts available in every team's color shop dot John one media dot-com Go check them out Yeah, man, you know, what what are we five and oh on the road this world series I know you you've got to be pretty stoked to use that fun fact on Yankee fans all of next year for the hubbub that goes into home field advantage I'll use it on right now. Hey Yankee fans. You're dumb Go win the games and we haven't I guess the first time we've seen the first five games go to the road team since 1996 a fond year for some Yankee fans. What are you fucking reading the almanac or something? Oh Sorry, I prep bro. Gee you're over here throwing on Jorge Posada hats This isn't okay It's actually I'm actually wearing it. It's a guy that played in the 60s Okay, who is it then? Let's hear the lippies fans. It's Willie Willie Sada also were 20. Yes for the Yankees because those are Yankee colors. Well debatable Well, no, no, it's not Another Washington Skylark's also wore this call color Okay, Willie Posada of the Washington Skylark's There's no way the Buick Skylark Yeah, man. I'm I'm I'm excited action deposit traction My cousin Vinnie good flick Sponsoring this episode Okay, make your point Astros Astros they're gonna win the world series. No Double backpedal You don't think the Astros are gonna win the world series No, I think they are and the the whole Astros domination thing I talked about but I'll say this I mean if you we've been getting lost in a lot of the starting pitching matchup and talking about Cole and Verlander the bad guys waiting I Mean just on a pitcher level like if you had to pick one guy for game six, would you pick Verlander or Strasburg? Oh It's Schrasburg I picked I picked Schrasburg over Verlander in game two right, so I don't know I and You know, maybe Mack Scherzer if they could somehow pull out game six Scherzer could be there for seven So there's still a potential fun twist of the series but Houston's offense is now clicking on multiple levels and Washington's offense You don't like that they only had four hits and two of them came from Soto Well, I didn't want to say I love that. I would say I mean they had what three three runs in the homestands. I'm like that I think they got out scored. Ah I'm always forget this stuff. They're like 207 to three or something like that 207 to three. It's looking like 19 to three But yeah, man, they they score 17 runs in the first two and then they score three runs in the next three That are Keedy start. I mean you heard everyone in the stadium saying you're kidding me. You're kidding me That's the one that's hot in them right now But hey you win you win the next game with Strasburg on the mound and then you just say oh well The road team wins every game. So we're about to win the world series Yeah patterns are patterns and the road teams when stops. Yeah, say that again for the people that didn't hear it patterns are patterns Yeah, bury it in there. Remember that one Damn, it's good stuff. I was gonna say it's normally a baseball podcast, but it's kind of just a life podcast Yeah, yeah, I give you out some life advice Thanks, Willie Posada. Yeah, shout out shout out Do you have a burn for this game? Oh? Yeah Do you want to burn it you want to wait a little bit? I? Mean you're called if we want to dive into the patterns thing a little more Be interesting to see what we could get out of that you want to talk about the boobs now or later Yes, oh Wow Yeah creep much Okay All right, we're gonna go into the burns but first a quick word from a sponsor Do you like drinking coffee? Try this coffee? That was the commercial Okay, here's another one Ready set burn Locked up at two games a piece of big game five in DC as Garrett Cole Calhoun Tries to scrap his way to a W verse Mad Max. Oh shit Shers are scratched it comes to Joe Ross the boss Welcome to the biggest game of your life kid top two Michael Jordan Alvarez jump man's one to left center gives Houston the two oh lead top four Correa takes a close O2 pitch Then crushes a hanging to two slider slides it in the left field seats and now it's for nothing Stroze bottom seven. This is America. Whoop Childish Bambino Juan Soto goes solo hoping to light a spark for the Nats for one But a you only guerrilla RBI single followed by a George Springer He goes all buzz Aldrin with a moon ball of his own Cole was nasty The Nats highlights were a fan taking a ball off the chest and a pair of ladies showing theirs Houston a Nats one as Houston brings it back with a chance to win the world series Will child is Gambino, huh? Yeah, well Glover for the boys Donald Glover because Juan Soto's nickname is Childish Bambino Yeah, yeah, yeah Okay, how old do you think Donald Glover is? 34 36 oh, wow, he looks he looks good. He's in good shape. Yeah good for you. Yo, he's got a movie before he got famous and it's Opens up and you're like, this is sucky, huh? Like what the hell is this and then me and Brad watching and as it goes on It's really funny. I think you'd enjoy it If I find out the name of it, I'll let you know Yeah, let uh, if you find out the name of it, then let me know That's what I just Yeah, but it's a pattern Okay, okay, it might be called party dudes. No Sounds like my type of movie I Don't know what it was called It's funny though. Okay. They were like solving your crime. I Believe it so big time. It sounds like you don't believe me at all Hey, how about that dude who took the ball off the chest holding the Bud lights. He's gonna get a Bud light add Yeah, they uh Bud light would tweet it at him and stuff like that on Twitter and well He kind of deserves it man. Yeah Double tall boys takes a home run off the chest and still snacks it still made the play. That's pretty impressive Some people like well, he definitely spilled beer later on like no He gently placed the beers on the ground, but there was some up shoot. I get come on the guy's a hero Yeah, taking the ball off the chest is awesome. Yeah, I Mean literally full Billy not Billy Madison The hockey one Or yeah, Billy Matt. No, no happy Gilmore. Happy Gilmore. She's yeah, I'm done. Sorry Willie Posada. You think Zach Campbell should change his style Don't know glove only cast or more this chest on multiple levels. Yeah, this guy just changed the game I'll let you and Zach figure it out on your own. Okay. Cool We will Update can't find the name of the movie that Donald Glover was in at all How about the baseball the baseball game? Yeah, I thought we were gonna talk about the girls that flashed their boobs can That's kind of wild. She's banned for life now. Do you see her Instagram? She's just a bitch a little boob flasher Yeah Genius they pinned her as like the the ringleader like on the MLB. It was like you're in trouble for Exposing yourself seeing others and cursing others like Shots fired at the second girl that flashed basically told her she was a mindless drone Like you only did this because she coerced you you have no thoughts of your own Yeah, I mean maybe girl number two is actually a baseball fan like I think Julia Rose wanted to be banned Oh, yeah, that was her endgame. Oh mystery team. That's the name of the movie mystery team got it I can now walk away. You know happily. All right. Do you think that? They sat in those seats all the way up till the seventh inning like they were like the seventh innings when we do it No Okay, no, I think they went up there to flash the camera knowing they get kicked out of the game cool And we've finalized that conversation discussed Shers are having to get scratch socks. We're so excited for Cole versus Sherser We did a whole our whole episode yesterday was How excited we were they were both gonna empty the tank go 120 if they needed to it was gonna be awesome and then I Don't know. I feel bad for Sherser because no one knows what pain Players are in so there's gonna be assholes that think you could have pitched through it You have to trust it. I don't think so. I think Sherser his reputation Proceeds him in the best way possible I didn't see anyone questioning him because he's the biggest psycho known in baseball I saw some people but I think they were just flippantly throwing out like pose But I mean you have to trust him that he can't throw if he doesn't throw Yeah Anyone was an actual human a human opinion or their actual face in their profile. Nobody actually questions Yeah, and if he if he's like good for game seven like I don't even understand how that works But the old switcheroo, man They knew Strasburg is gonna win game six because he's the best world series pitcher ever So they just saved Sherser for game seven. Oh, wow But they knew Sherser wouldn't go along with it on his own He wouldn't pull himself from game five for game seven on his own So they sent someone in the middle of the night to beat the shit out of them Okay, it's a let's put that in the theory bucket. Yeah, it's all only buckets. I ever use That's what the oh, that's the only buckets you ever use. I'm full of them. I walk around stepping in them. I think Yeah, and we'll put this in another theory bucket that they were like, hey Cole's really good and might fucking beat Sherser. So let's punt this we'll do the road team patterns game They'll burn coal in game five. We have Sherser rested for game seven. Yeah, we're trying to get off pattern talk is all oh I didn't know I thought the pattern was pattern talk Sherser's press conference did you watch it when he was talking? I tried to watch it But he was talking so slow that I was like, oh my god, I can't listen to you I've never heard Sherser like talk before. I think he was sad though about nothing in the world series. So It'll be interesting if you can go game seven if there is a game seven I do like I thought it was gonna be over game six for sure but now you've got this whole Strasburg can beat Verlander and then and then it's cranky versus Maybe Sherser game seven and I mean I'm in love with that idea Yeah, it's it's a really fun idea. It's it's tough to Wrap the head around just because I mean all of Washington's bats are kind of dead and like Houston Their lineup had thinned out, but now the depth of their lineup is going Jordan Alvarez with the big game Their catchers are doing things guerrilla looks good So that's the thing. I mean Strasburg would have to put up, you know, we we started this postseason with the asterisk He had a couple good playoff starts now. He's proved that he's bonafide awesome this this would be Some serious punctuation If in game six he could literally shut them down and bring it to seven because right now and I saw it was Well, it wasn't the anniversary of this the other day But I saw it going around Twitter and it is really good baseball, but if Houston loses game six I mean their ass is in the jackpot Right now the Nats ass is in the jackpot big time. Yeah But yeah, the Nats can still flip this script with one game with their One of the best postseason pitchers in history. So it's exciting for that I still think we need to talk about this game a little bit before we do Yeah, you keep getting ahead of yourself. I wanted to yeah, I wanted a clap for AJ Hinch and the Astros Okay Hold on. Let me put my coffee cup down Alvarez gets the start and It proved fruitful So good job by Alvarez for coming through when they put the trust in them and good job for them for putting the trust in them giving the start because He didn't start the game before right and I don't think he started game three No, this is so he this was his first start in the National League games where he has to play the outfield and Boy, oh boy, did it work? Yeah, he gets and there's like a line drive that was hit right at him at one point I I wonder if Joe Ross maybe has some well Maybe they were planning on doing it anyways because I mean Scherzer is as tough as it gets But I wonder if Joe Ross has some Some tough splits. How about a Joe Ross deserves a couple claps too That was a pretty brutal ass con Yeah, I and and The coolest moment of the game for me was Nationals fans cheering for Joe Ross as he took the mound Did you see that like as he was walking from bullpen to warm up and everything they gave him a standing ovation Which is just kind of the cool human element of being a fan where like you you can put aside How disappointed you are With Scherzer not being able to pitch and you might be crushed because now you're like what the fuck like deep down inside Nationals fans They didn't have faith that Joe Ross could out pitch Garrett Cole But they knew that hey if he's going to he's gonna need the fans behind him And then they all get on their feet and clap for my I mean that's the the wholesome part of sports that we all love So I thought that was really cool. And then yeah, man two home run balls really two pitches Yeah, the the beauty of sports. Yeah, and I'm just back to Alvarez. It looks like Joe Ross has pretty big splits I don't I don't know if it was factored in before after Scherzer, but yeah lefties hit 303 with an 856 OPS Against Ross where where righties were 239 667 OPS So that that definitely seems like it was a factor in Alvarez playing and did pay off. And yeah, man, it's It's tough because the Jordan Alvarez home run was a pretty good pitch Dude just drove it to left center And it it was it's good for baseball in general because you are now Varez was having an awful playoffs that he shows Baseball why he's one of the future big names in the game. I mean he he broke records and stuff this year And then yeah, I mean the Korea ones brutal And I don't know if we want to do the whole umpire stuff But you know he throws an absolute pitchers pitch that had a 50-50 chance of being called depending on the catcher's reaction And he doesn't get it and then he hangs a pitch two pitches later or whatever it was and it's It's gone. We're still hung the pitch. So but I right Yeah, I want to be like delicate because Astros fans are so sensitive already the nationals did not lose this game because of the umpire No, and right Ryan Zimmerman did the veteran thing after the game. He goes. We you know, we didn't lose to the umpires We lost scare cold. Yeah, I mean, it's not no one anyone trying to say that Is wrong that being said the Lance Park style put on a fucking display of immaturity and Terribleness behind the plate last night Yeah, it's a clinic of I mean the personality you For all my umpires listening the the personality you need to be an umpire is kind of a weird one You're you're someone that wants to be so entrenched in the game you love but also like hated by pretty much everyone around it Unless you do a perfect perfect job, which is impossible And you kind of have to be power hungry because you have to be in in control of these like celebrities and Yeah, I mean Barksdale He was letting the reactions of the players dictate the calls and that's like worst-case scenario That's that's about as bad as it gets like if an ump just misses a call because they miss it You say okay, you're human if an ump starts missing or changing calls because of players reactions It's like dude. This isn't even baseball anymore If anyone doesn't know that I posted it and like you can Hear the ump say something like you're taking off on me And go I'm like, oh, it's my fault It's my fault. Yeah, and it's like that's just not how it should work someone replied said Imagine who was I don't know who is pitching that I don't think it was Ross anymore Is it rainy? I think it was rainy. It was rainy Imagine like, you know, your whole career is built off being able to get that pitch in that spot and You fucking nail it at a big moment and the ump just goes nah Like come on come on. Anyway, you know who else was really stupid me Jake. I didn't watermark that video. I edited Mmm, I edited it really well. I was very happy with it. I didn't watermark it It's got 645,000 views and I already saw it ripped and shared on other accounts Without our watermark It's in such a rush to get it out But yeah, Lance Parkdale, there will be no Recourse for that the Robles one was even worse. No, they're both bad. I don't know. They're both like a little right down the middle in the Robles one. Yeah, it's People say like it's getting worse. I don't think it's getting worse. I think it's just getting highlighted how Emotionally it's been like can you imagine in the 60s 70s like umps probably were fucking 10 times worse Yeah, I if you showed up and I'm I mean when we were in literally little league The thing was like hey, don't show up the ump because they'll call the next pitch anywhere a strike Like you hear ex-players talk about that on broadcast like oh man If you ever showed up and up like that it didn't matter where the next pitch was like imagine if if Twitter was around then And that's that's what it is everything's just amplified more because baseball started figuring out social media You're a good example of it that uh, I mean yeah, it's just it's people are seeing it now and Yeah, it's that they need a better solution And I don't know if it's gonna be eventually challenging pitches, you know the big robo-umps talk there They don't have robo-umps perfected yet. So I don't know what the solution is gonna be they will have them perfected at one point and I don't and People love saying you think it's easy. You go do it. I don't think it's easy. No, I think it's that's the problem I think it's impossible for a human umpire to consistently call balls and strikes. I think it's too hard That's the opposite. I don't think any human can do it But yeah humans can call the calls last night. That was just a Lance Barker out being a dickhead right he he started making it his own game and yeah the Yeah, I don't know. I think the Robles one is a little more pathetic when Zimmerman walks on That pitch but better before it and then Cole goes Four inches outside of that and then he calls it just because Robles starts going down the line It's like dude this nobody wants to see this And it's yeah, it's a problem And that's I had a tweet for mid-year that that went fairly viral. It was just like hey There's gonna be a call. I mean look what we're talking about right now So far the talking points of this baseball game are boobs The ball going off the Bud Lightman's chest and the umpires and you're an alberas and you're an alberas We have talked about that but I don't think that's that's not the national conversation when when the national Conversation talks about this baseball game the baseball is gonna come last and Garrett Cole's performance shouldn't be last and you're an Alvarez shouldn't be last to be Carlos Correa Having the tide for the shortstop record for home runs in world series George Springer having the third most home runs by a non Yankees player in the world series I got stats in shit. Yeah, okay buff reading your almanac Biff buff. Thanks. Wow Freudian slip Yeah, how about it? No Cole doesn't deserve to be talked about dude only had nine strikeouts is bum Yeah, that's true. Yeah Strikeout 10 people call that's kind of your thing double digit strikeouts if you don't get that everyone thinks you're a loser It's a bad outing cheese. I mean Cole's good. Did you see like the curve he was throwing? Yeah defied gravity Yeah, yeah, okay like shouldn't it shouldn't be you shouldn't be able to do that He's filthy man, and he like he doesn't even use those pitches a lot because his fastball so good They were like, yeah, he's really he decided to go with the off speed this game. It's like, oh my god That sucks His post games are pretty interesting because he's like kind of really honest He has like a memory of every pitch, but he said, uh, yeah We kind of realized, you know, that's kind of the better game plan there is just go curve ball more Yeah Easy enough. I think he's gonna get paid pretty well Yeah, someone said something on the broadcast like he's gonna set records and it's like obviously Right, you know every one sets a record every offseason pretty much that's like How it works Yeah, I mean there is a lull there for a little bit like after because there was a while where like the a-rod and Zito contracts were like these terrible albatrosses that teams kind of reeled it in a little bit I still think now we're I still think the top free agent always sets the market like Cole's gonna get more than Corbin and Corbin got more than the big guy before him. I guess it's just like how kind of money works kind of But yeah, he's gonna get a lot of money. It's really good. He's probably it's unafair the fan base that he goes to Will not be kind because What Cole did this season is not repeatable It's a near perfect season from start to finish the the regular season and then to do it in the postseason I mean, it might be you we'd have to look back through the anals of history What's your favorite hobby, but I'm sure there's others that compare But it's a near perfect season from a starting pitcher like if you do if he duplicates this That's amazing Yeah, and it's I mean it becomes less about the regular season because an impressive regular season an impressive regular season If wherever Garrett Cole goes and he's this Garrett Cole in the postseason or the team goes on to win a world series I think the fan base cares about that And you know obviously personality and stuff ties in but you know C.C. Sabathia, he signed a giant contract with the Yankees He wins that world series in his first year And I don't know he's beloved by the fan base forever. So Yeah, Garrett Cole is gonna get paid paid and he I don't know he's he's gonna be I'm expecting him not to be necessarily regular season stats this good But you should expect the arm talent. Yeah, and everything to be that special for a few more years How about our boy Joe Smith coming in Married or dating Allie LaForest. Did you hear that? Really? Yeah, how do you do that? I don't know. I think they probably went on a date And I don't know from there they kind of just hit it off I guess good for him Yeah She was she covering baseball. Is that how they met? I don't know She was she got her she got her big thing with the March madness. I remember that's when she like came on to the scene. Everyone was like who is this Talented woman Well, you forget that she won Miss Teen USA in 2005. So I did forget that I forgot You know what? I forgot how big a fan of you are of Miss Teen USA. Oh, yeah, I Doesn't get out of my sights Yeah, Joe Smith, man. He's having an incredible playoffs again another one of the old guys that we've been talking about and There is something So I hate and love Sidewinder's Okay Because a it sucks they suck to hit against They're kind of a nightmare and you're just like, okay, the ball's going every which way a lot of Sidewinder's don't have good control Joe Smith's kind of been putting on a Sidewinder clinic this postseason. So that's been cool the part I love about Sidewinder's is that's like The dudes that love baseball the most man. That's digging deep into the barrel of tricks. It's them knuckle ballers It's like you are on your last baseball lifeline looking for a way to stay in the game And Joe Smith's done it for I don't know 13 years now, whatever it is. So Yeah, and you saw him and Hinch have the weird Baseball embrace slash stare each other in the eyes. Did you see that? I did not see that Sounds nice. It was intense, man Like it looked like it was gonna be the big like I don't know manager player hug Like dude, can can you believe it? This is awesome. But Hinch just kept his arms like this on Joe Smith's shoulders and They like talked for a while almost like nose-to-nose. I was feeling it you were into it You're you hinted was like, you know, this is my second last game part of this organization And I want you to come to the Mets with me Did you hear the new bombshell Mets rumor? No, I block them out. What is it? a rod Who started that March and That I'm not sure they a rod in the will ponds. We're we're seeing out to dinner the other night, dude I a rod big fan ears. I think you're great baseball mind. I Do not think you'd be good manager Well, no, it just blows my mind. Can we talk for a second? Hey, I'd loved open forum I'm still hunting around the internet trying to find how ally LaForest and Joe Smith Matt You're Alex Rodriguez You're J. Lo's fiance You you're life and you're like a lifestyle person now you show up at different events You're doing stuff with J. Lo. You're doing a rod stuff. You're basically wherever you want to be when you want to be if you're a MLB manager You're like trapped For 80% of the year Like no way a rod would take a managerial job The only way would be if he's crazy enough to think he has to prove himself which a rod has always thought his whole life So there is a chance because of the a rod factor, but I don't know man. Like why It doesn't add up I mean I mean my initial reaction was a belly laugh and if it's real I will make a bigger belly laugh Oh my god, I mean I Don't want to say mean things about a rod because I feel like there's a possibility we can work with him in the future Follows us on Instagram and stuff, but yeah come on Not gonna he's the biggest preparation guy in the world ever Yeah, but he preps like how to talk Right. It's like when Wayne Gretzky tried to manage It's like hey, man you don't really understand like How it feels to not be The one person of talent Yeah, some of us Can't just go do that Right little difference or whatever Smith and LaForest met in 2011 when LaForest was working with Fox 8 in Cleveland And he was pitching on the Indians Wow, so there you go and He had a 50% chance of getting hot Huntington's disease and they do a lot of charity work together. They're active in that community. Yes, so now we can put that to rest finally finally how about a Turner Eaton Rendon going oh for 11 It's not good and Cole said You know the bottom of the order his eyes light up he was like God I had that battle with Zimmerman I know I didn't really have to attack him because I wasn't gonna Give in to Robleson Gomes And it's like yeah shots fired Robleson Gomes I mean and even look at look at what he did to Zimmerman with a couple of those pitches like that was brutal Yeah, and I think it's it's it's the new kind of what to watch for in this series a Whoever Houston's rolling out a catcher is doing their job I think that might be one of the funny things, you know You and I have had some good conversations about Catching platoons and how it kind of sucks for a baseball team if you have a catching platoon Houston showing an example of an awesome one right now Because I think the numbers with Mal Denado paired with Cole are incredible and when both of them hit it looks really well, so Yeah, I mean if you're if you're the Nats man This day off is more than welcome. Yeah, it's it's almost exactly what we said After game two of the World Series like Houston All right, you take your day off you collect your breath and then you go in and do your thing The Nats are telling themselves the same thing right now collect your breath move on Go beat Verlander Have to easy is the only option Easy as that Jake breaking news Lyra Rothschild no longer the Yankees pitching coach Yeah, do you think he's gonna go to the Phillies? Yeah Yeah Hang out with Girardi and topper again Who's who's there? Arietta? Jake Arietta is in Philadelphia No, that's that's crazy Yankee fans are gonna rejoice Dave Robertson All right, anything else about this game? I mean the late runs. I don't really care about again I've said that multiple times like what but it was Hudson. So actually, you know what that's actually bad Yeah, maybe that is something to pen in there like oh, yeah, that's a They they will need him if they have the lead in the next game again unless Strasburg does something special which he's capable of Yeah, they they got to Hudson and again, he hadn't pitched in a couple of days Do little gave up a hit in a walk, but he doesn't give up any runs Rainy somewhat settled down for them. Yeah, I don't know. I mean Houston Yeah, I don't know like Springer Correa a lot of these guys I'll too vase got a chance to set the playoff hit record for for one playoff like this Houston team is on the cusp of being viewed as a crazy special team And I don't know Washington still has a little chance to play spoiler Yeah, I mean, but what you said earlier in the show is like when Houston's got their depth role and like Maldon auto reach base twice Correa Had two RBI's and obviously a big hit Alvarez had three hits Griegel two hits Bregman didn't do anything, but whatever it grants on yesterday. You can rest a little bit Bradley didn't have a hit, but you didn't get a walk But like yeah, look at that. It's the middle of the six seven eight kind of we're on base a lot and Springer, so I mean they got a lot going right right now Yeah, and I mean right now. I mean Kendrick has the one hit yesterday But he he hasn't really been a threat Trey Turner starting to have what looks like a brutal series He needs to do something and quick Robles hasn't really done anything. So Yeah, there's right now. There's a lot of holes in the Nationals lineup and pretty much none in Houston's Yep, all right. Let's take a quick break and then we'll talk about a little we've already done it a lot, but this game six Game six Jake back in Houston Off-day lets the bullpen arms rest a little bit when they did have you know Hudson just went 1.2 Game before allows him the rest and it's Strasburg, you know, I was just kept telling myself It's Verlander and an elimination game I think he's lost every elimination game that he's pitched He's lost the last five starts in the World Series Anyway, but like he had a chance to eliminate the Yankees They beat him and I believe when that happened someone said Verlander hasn't won a potential elimination game yet Which is kind of bizarre and kind of just cherry picking a weird stat because he's still Verlander But Strasburg has been better than him and right that's like facts Yeah, I mean, it's it's it's big facts. I mean Verlander Okay, so let's do Verlander career in the World Series six starts He's oh and five with a 573 era. That's 33 innings pitched and Yeah, it's a small sample size if you want to do the analytical stuff on that blah blah blah And I mean this postseason He his first start against Tampa Bay. He dominated. He was seven innings pitched one hit three walks eight strikeouts Since then he hasn't been full Verlander his last four starts all in the playoffs He's one in three or the team is one in three. Excuse me He's own three twenty three point one innings of five four era. So he really hasn't been The Justin Verlander that we that we all know and hey, maybe I if you wanted to put a Houston spin zone on this You know me let's say Justin Verlander has had a hey Maybe you know, maybe I'm not the Justin Verlander that I have been the past couple years You know, maybe this is his swan song and he just fully empties the tank and what could be you know One of his best memories ever on the other side of it Strasburg dude, he's 47 career playoff innings a 134 era 64 strikeouts and 47 innings He's been nothing short of dominant in the playoffs to the I mean, it's it's historic at this point. So Yeah, I mean if you're Washington like you're hurting right now because you just lost three games at home And you got dominated but it it's not like you're reaching for stuff to believe in like it It would be a shocking to no one if Steven Strasburg goes out and pitches seven innings shutout. No, it'd be cool Would you be shocked if the Astros put up like a seven spot in the first inning? It's been a seven spot. Yes patterns patterns patterns Jake patterns elimination games big innings in the first Yeah, you said that you were eyeing that for the Yankees too, and that didn't happen. Yeah, but this is National League That pattern got well one of the teams is for sure. That's what I'm saying the Nationals Have to allow one of them is not Jake. It's a pattern the Cardinals did it to the Braves, right? Can you let me tell you the pattern the Cardinals did it broken the Cardinals did it to the Braves Then it got done to the Cardinals the Nationals did it to the Cardinals now Does it get done to the Nationals as a fucking pattern? No, it won't and It's fucking big bug I'm fine with that. Okay, more than fine with that. That's normally the plan anyways And yeah, so this is a flashback to game to psychedelic flashback flashback Both teams scored two runs in the first last time That would be the only run Houston got until the ninth when they hit that electric home run down 12 to 2 And they did the lights and the train and everything But yeah, I don't know I mean not gonna do my first inning spiel if you don't know I mean read a book about it. Eat your own bugs They need something out of Turner man turn Turner seemed like he was he was having a really good playoffs until this series And Rendon's been a little quiet So yeah, I mean the first inning is gonna be more and Rendon got him last time And then if you remember Bregman hit that change-up that Strasburg left for a home run into the Crawford boxes that kind of sparked him So that's kind of the must-watch stuff in the first inning. You think Strasburg opens them up first pitch change-up? Have to yeah Have to Show him you ain't scared Buck Johnson says he's happy because it sounds like you're back on the bandwagon Never been on the bandwagon Never might be attacking the bandwagon. I might be the opposite of the band now You're rooting for the nationals in game six big time room for the nationals. Yeah, so are you yeah? I'm on the bandwagon for game six. Oh, you can't just jump on and off a bandwagon. That's exhausting We talked about how you'd never be able to get on a bandwagon with your little legs No, the velcros the velcros My biggest thing this is the biggest thing I need Jim. Yeah better life the nationals dugout Mm-hmm needs to be Electric they need to bring their own speakers and play baby shark in the dugout You need the glasses on the guys you need everyone being silly like Dave Martinez He I saw his press conference after the game and he kind of gave like the a little bit of the tough guy coach Like yeah, we know we know what we have to do and we're gonna win and we're we're gonna do it Which you know you have to because you're the manager, but I don't know my my pregame Dave Martinez speech would be like yo guys We got here being having fun and being silly and being the weird old guys like that that dugout needs to be electric And you know they the part of the reason they haven't been is because they've scored three runs over the past three games So they need something to spark them Ideally earlier or maybe it's not maybe they throw Kurt Suzuki back there And he can get a big hit and make it the Suzuki World Series, but they they need anything I do like the road team just constantly winning game seven. Sure. Give me game seven. That's all I've asked for All I've asked for people say who you want to win the World Series. I say I'm rooting for extra innings in game seven Wow Yeah Is a bold ask It's a big ask big ask And I'm rooting who so yesterday we did like who do we want the heroes to be in game game five Right, we didn't have Alvarez even as an option like we wanted out to be to be a hero Alvarez and Cole, but we knew Cole would do that. Yeah Soto did have two hits did have a homerun Who needs to come up big versus Verlander who came up big last game versus Verlander? That's what I was telling you Turner Turner had a walk eaten singled and then Rendon had the double that scored scored two So that's how they got to him in the first and then Such a first inning game with him Yeah, it's it's that's what it's been and then Suzuki got him. That was so yeah, you have to play Suzuki He's got the numbers verse Verlander. So yeah, big team Suzuki Big team Suzuki big team Suzuki and eaten was just slapping Verlander around. He got two hits two RBIs two runs Yeah, that was that was the beginning You know, that was the Bregman inning ass crabs. He had the nice hit All right, so now one of these pitchers better not get scratched. That's my least want Yeah, I think we're okay on that. Well, you don't know I Think that's why I said that no one can ever predict death or injuries You kind of predict injuries, but that feels like a wormhole for another time. Sometimes you can predict death, too Yeah, you get to a certain point. So we'll take away that whole quote done. Okay, erase it strike it Strike that reverse it. I just hope we get a pitcher's tool That's what we're rooting for in this one. Yeah Yeah, tough break To get the DH back that's cool. So who does that help the DH coming back into play helps Kendrick he can play there, right? And it helps Now that fucking you're Don's hot you put Radick back in right field for his defense and you're on that. Yeah, H Yep, yeah Helps both teams it just adds a hitter. So that's good. Yeah I mean we're talking about the part of the national success It felt like they had the lineup depth it felt like Robles had become a second leadoff hitter You had Astruble Cabrera who's been playing really well for them towards the bottom of their lineup So if you're the nationals, that's what you're telling yourself if you're the Astros You're saying it big-time favors us because Alvarez is back. He's gonna rake And you know, you can have some elite defense and in the outfield and yeah, yeah All right rooting for a game seven or the Astros to score seven plus in the first because I like patterns patterns patterns, baby patterns We'll be back Wednesday morning To recap game six Thanks for hanging out with us. We'll see you then Goodbye Jake last word too late