August 21, 2024 • 8 mins
Craig and Cameron close out Hour 2 with a look the MLB playoff race heading into the final two months of the season.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Let's update the baseball scoreboard for you right now. Both
the Rangers and Astros are playing in the ninth inning
of their respected games right now, and both are flirting
with dropping out of two out of dropping two out
of three at home. Now. For the Rangers, maybe it's
(00:23):
not that shocking after all, they have been struggling. Yeah,
they did take game one against the Pittsburgh Pirates on
Monday night, lost got shut out last night in game two,
and they did get out of the top of the eighth,
so they're going to the bottom of the eighth in
a scoreless time. The Ranger bats have been really having
(00:46):
a difficult time. They were shut out last night and
it's zero zeros. They go to the bottom of the
eighth there at Global Life Field. Meanwhile, the Astros, who
had been just scorching hot going into this week this
week's games and the Astros at home continuing the homestand
(01:07):
after taking two out of three from the dreadful White Sox,
are playing the Red Sox today and they're down to
their final out right now. It's for to one Boston
with two outs of the night. The Astros have a
runner aboard, but Houston in danger of dropping the series
to Boston, and the Red Sox really in need of
(01:27):
wins as they're still chasing in that wild card race
right now.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Houston, however, at.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
The very worst, is going to be even for the
week so far with Seattle, because the Mariners have dropped
the first two games in Los Angeles to the Dodgers.
There's one more game to be played there at Dodgers
Stadium tonight. So even if the Astros fall in this
game and they're trailing again for one in the bottom
(01:55):
of the night to Boston, if they were to lose
the game of the Red Sox, even if Seattle were
to say college one out of the three against the Dodgers,
they would also have dropped two out of three, and
they'd still be four games back in the American League West.
And we'll see that the Mariners of late have really
struggled to swing the bat.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
They have have struggled to.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Come up with hits, and they were shut out by
the Dodgers in Game one, three nothing.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Last night.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
They jumped on Walker Bueller, who still does not look
right since coming back off the injured list, and they
popped him for three runs early inn a three nothing
lead in the game against the Dodgers, but.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Could not hold on.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
And the one thing that was note worthy about the
Dodgers is that Max Munsey is back. You know, the
native of Texas, born in Midland. But when the Keller
High School and of course former Baylor Bear, I saw
Max Munsey hit a ball into the Brass River once
when he was playing for Baylor. And our good friends
(03:01):
On Barfield, who back then was on the Baylor baseball
broadcast and is back on now. Tom said that the
thing that they always wondered about that Steve Smith. The
coaches wonderbolts, where were we going to play the guy because
he doesn't really seem to have a position. They thought
maybe catch or maybe first base, but he largely d eighths. Well,
(03:22):
he's proven to be a really solid third baseman. He
missed almost three months due to an oblique has trained
oblique and it was bad, and also had rib rib
cage issues, but has come back and he's been back
two games and he's homeward in each game, so that's
been a boost. It has gone final. Boston has beaten
Houston four to one this afternoon, so the Red Sox
(03:45):
take two out of three from the Astros, and that
really is important for the Red Sox because they are
in that battle for one of the wild cards, and
you'd say, you'd have to say Seattle would be in
the battle as well since they've been falling off.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
And again they.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Even if they win the night, you know, the Astros
will have been even with them for the week so far.
But the Astros were at home and the Mariners were
on the road. The Mariners listed is the number one
team by MLB dot Com that has the best path
(04:28):
to getting the postseason. But it's important to point out
and Will Leachs wrote this today on MLB dot com,
and it's been on The Athletic and it's been on
ESPN dot com, and virtually everything you read starts off
with the Mariners by reminding everybody that they had a
(04:51):
ten game lead in the American League West on June eighteenth,
a ten game lead, and he starts off, I say,
I'm sorry to keep bringing this up, but this Mariners
team had a ten game American League West lead on
June eighteenth. That lead was gone entirely by July nineteenth.
Seattle still held a division lead as recently as August sixth,
(05:14):
but now suddenly is further behind those blasted Astros. It
says five games, and they have been all year. They
were five, it's four and a half right now. But
if the Dodgers win tonight and sweep out Seattle, we'll
go back to beating five.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Back of Houston.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Said, we've included the Astros as a team in the playoffs,
but the Mariners could still theoretically catch them to win
their first division title since two thousand and one. The
wildcard is also a possibility. But the Mariners were supposed
to be running this division by now, and it looks
to have slipped through their fingers again. How much more
can their fans take? When does the turnaround happen? If
not now, when the other teams they think have a
(05:50):
shot but have a lot riding on it to get
to the Cardinals, the Giants, who have kind of bounced
back and they were hot for a while, cool off
a bit. The Cubs, the Red Sox, the Reds, even
the Mets, and then of course the Braves who have
just been absolutely waylaid by injuries, the Ronald Lucunya Junior
(06:14):
and Spencer Strider injuries.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
It said, change the whole equation.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
This season and now those, of course, were far from
the last injuries the Braves had to deal with. Now
and this just happened two days ago. Austin Riley is
out six to eight weeks. So the years felt cursed
really from the start. That doesn't mean the Bravestill can't
make the playoffs. There in fact favored to do so.
But if Atlanta ended up going belly up down the stretch,
(06:38):
no one would blame them for considering this whole rotten
year a bit of a mulligan. Other possible teams are
the Royals and even of late of late, the Rays
Tampa Bay with the possibility of getting into the postseason.
The Rangers were not listed as one of those teams
(06:59):
that they still Andy.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
I would to play games in a row the first
time since last year. Yeah, yeah, they did. They did.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Then they lost to the Pirates last night, and right
now Texas is batting with nobody on and two outs
in the bottom of the eighth in a scoreless game
with Pittsburgh. So that's what's happening now with him. Also,
the World Baseball Classic, the next time that comes up
is twenty twenty six. Remember the Olympics in Los Angeles
(07:30):
in twenty twenty eight is bringing back baseball Now that
field will likely be minor league guys and collegiate guys
and things like that. And we can ask Gene Watson
a little bit more about that when he joins US
later week, because Jean is part of that selection committee.
But the World Baseball Classic we know involves major leaguers.
(07:51):
So the twenty twenty six pools and dates were announced.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
So here are the pools.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Pool A Perto Rico, Cuba, Canada, Panama, and then a
qualifier yet to be named. Pool B United States, Mexico, Italy,
and Great Britain in a qualifier to be named Pool
see is Japan, Australia, Korea, Chechia and a qualifier. And
Pool D is Venezuela, Dominican Republic, Netherlands, Israel and a qualifier.
(08:20):
I gotta believe that's kind of favorable for the United
States Mexico.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Yes, good players in Mexico. With that.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
The others are Italy, Great Britain and a qualifier. We'll
see who the qualifier is on that. That pool does
match up with the pool of Puerto Rico, Cuba, Canada,
Panama and a qualifier which could be tough. I think
the bottom of the brackets the tougher one, with Japan
and Korea both in pool SEE and Venezuela and the
Dominican Republic both in Pool D. And we'll see also
(08:47):
as it relates to the qualifiers that get in as well.
All right, coming up, we'll wrap up our number two
here on sports Radio AM thirteen hunder the zone of
the I Heart Radio AM
Let's update the baseball scoreboard for you right now. Both
the Rangers and Astros are playing in the ninth inning
of their respected games right now, and both are flirting
with dropping out of two out of dropping two out
of three at home. Now. For the Rangers, maybe it's
(00:23):
not that shocking after all, they have been struggling. Yeah,
they did take game one against the Pittsburgh Pirates on
Monday night, lost got shut out last night in game two,
and they did get out of the top of the eighth,
so they're going to the bottom of the eighth in
a scoreless time. The Ranger bats have been really having
(00:46):
a difficult time. They were shut out last night and
it's zero zeros. They go to the bottom of the
eighth there at Global Life Field. Meanwhile, the Astros, who
had been just scorching hot going into this week this
week's games and the Astros at home continuing the homestand
(01:07):
after taking two out of three from the dreadful White Sox,
are playing the Red Sox today and they're down to
their final out right now. It's for to one Boston
with two outs of the night. The Astros have a
runner aboard, but Houston in danger of dropping the series
to Boston, and the Red Sox really in need of
(01:27):
wins as they're still chasing in that wild card race
right now.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Houston, however, at.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
The very worst, is going to be even for the
week so far with Seattle, because the Mariners have dropped
the first two games in Los Angeles to the Dodgers.
There's one more game to be played there at Dodgers
Stadium tonight. So even if the Astros fall in this
game and they're trailing again for one in the bottom
(01:55):
of the night to Boston, if they were to lose
the game of the Red Sox, even if Seattle were
to say college one out of the three against the Dodgers,
they would also have dropped two out of three, and
they'd still be four games back in the American League West.
And we'll see that the Mariners of late have really
struggled to swing the bat.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
They have have struggled to.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Come up with hits, and they were shut out by
the Dodgers in Game one, three nothing.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Last night.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
They jumped on Walker Bueller, who still does not look
right since coming back off the injured list, and they
popped him for three runs early inn a three nothing
lead in the game against the Dodgers, but.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Could not hold on.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
And the one thing that was note worthy about the
Dodgers is that Max Munsey is back. You know, the
native of Texas, born in Midland. But when the Keller
High School and of course former Baylor Bear, I saw
Max Munsey hit a ball into the Brass River once
when he was playing for Baylor. And our good friends
(03:01):
On Barfield, who back then was on the Baylor baseball
broadcast and is back on now. Tom said that the
thing that they always wondered about that Steve Smith. The
coaches wonderbolts, where were we going to play the guy because
he doesn't really seem to have a position. They thought
maybe catch or maybe first base, but he largely d eighths. Well,
(03:22):
he's proven to be a really solid third baseman. He
missed almost three months due to an oblique has trained
oblique and it was bad, and also had rib rib
cage issues, but has come back and he's been back
two games and he's homeward in each game, so that's
been a boost. It has gone final. Boston has beaten
Houston four to one this afternoon, so the Red Sox
(03:45):
take two out of three from the Astros, and that
really is important for the Red Sox because they are
in that battle for one of the wild cards, and
you'd say, you'd have to say Seattle would be in
the battle as well since they've been falling off.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
And again they.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Even if they win the night, you know, the Astros
will have been even with them for the week so far.
But the Astros were at home and the Mariners were
on the road. The Mariners listed is the number one
team by MLB dot Com that has the best path
(04:28):
to getting the postseason. But it's important to point out
and Will Leachs wrote this today on MLB dot com,
and it's been on The Athletic and it's been on
ESPN dot com, and virtually everything you read starts off
with the Mariners by reminding everybody that they had a
(04:51):
ten game lead in the American League West on June eighteenth,
a ten game lead, and he starts off, I say,
I'm sorry to keep bringing this up, but this Mariners
team had a ten game American League West lead on
June eighteenth. That lead was gone entirely by July nineteenth.
Seattle still held a division lead as recently as August sixth,
(05:14):
but now suddenly is further behind those blasted Astros. It
says five games, and they have been all year. They
were five, it's four and a half right now. But
if the Dodgers win tonight and sweep out Seattle, we'll
go back to beating five.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Back of Houston.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Said, we've included the Astros as a team in the playoffs,
but the Mariners could still theoretically catch them to win
their first division title since two thousand and one. The
wildcard is also a possibility. But the Mariners were supposed
to be running this division by now, and it looks
to have slipped through their fingers again. How much more
can their fans take? When does the turnaround happen? If
not now, when the other teams they think have a
(05:50):
shot but have a lot riding on it to get
to the Cardinals, the Giants, who have kind of bounced
back and they were hot for a while, cool off
a bit. The Cubs, the Red Sox, the Reds, even
the Mets, and then of course the Braves who have
just been absolutely waylaid by injuries, the Ronald Lucunya Junior
(06:14):
and Spencer Strider injuries.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
It said, change the whole equation.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
This season and now those, of course, were far from
the last injuries the Braves had to deal with. Now
and this just happened two days ago. Austin Riley is
out six to eight weeks. So the years felt cursed
really from the start. That doesn't mean the Bravestill can't
make the playoffs. There in fact favored to do so.
But if Atlanta ended up going belly up down the stretch,
(06:38):
no one would blame them for considering this whole rotten
year a bit of a mulligan. Other possible teams are
the Royals and even of late of late, the Rays
Tampa Bay with the possibility of getting into the postseason.
The Rangers were not listed as one of those teams
(06:59):
that they still Andy.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
I would to play games in a row the first
time since last year. Yeah, yeah, they did. They did.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Then they lost to the Pirates last night, and right
now Texas is batting with nobody on and two outs
in the bottom of the eighth in a scoreless game
with Pittsburgh. So that's what's happening now with him. Also,
the World Baseball Classic, the next time that comes up
is twenty twenty six. Remember the Olympics in Los Angeles
(07:30):
in twenty twenty eight is bringing back baseball Now that
field will likely be minor league guys and collegiate guys
and things like that. And we can ask Gene Watson
a little bit more about that when he joins US
later week, because Jean is part of that selection committee.
But the World Baseball Classic we know involves major leaguers.
(07:51):
So the twenty twenty six pools and dates were announced.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
So here are the pools.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Pool A Perto Rico, Cuba, Canada, Panama, and then a
qualifier yet to be named. Pool B United States, Mexico, Italy,
and Great Britain in a qualifier to be named Pool
see is Japan, Australia, Korea, Chechia and a qualifier. And
Pool D is Venezuela, Dominican Republic, Netherlands, Israel and a qualifier.
(08:20):
I gotta believe that's kind of favorable for the United
States Mexico.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Yes, good players in Mexico. With that.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
The others are Italy, Great Britain and a qualifier. We'll
see who the qualifier is on that. That pool does
match up with the pool of Puerto Rico, Cuba, Canada,
Panama and a qualifier which could be tough. I think
the bottom of the brackets the tougher one, with Japan
and Korea both in pool SEE and Venezuela and the
Dominican Republic both in Pool D. And we'll see also
(08:47):
as it relates to the qualifiers that get in as well.
All right, coming up, we'll wrap up our number two
here on sports Radio AM thirteen hunder the zone of
the I Heart Radio AM
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