April 9, 2024 • 22 mins
#Phillies/#MLB Insider Luke Arcaini reacts to arguably the worst loss of the season vs. the Cardinals immediately following the game on the Luke & I Postgame Show!
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N there's a breaking ball popped upshallow right Chica going off Castiano's coming on
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Championship. This is Luke and Ion the Phillips brought to you by Fox
Sports The Gambler. Oh man,that was that was really really ugly.
That that was the worst loss ofthe season for me. Just can't happen
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in in a game where you getZach Wheeler, who now the team has
oh and three in the games,your your your ace starts. Yeah.
I need everyone in here. Thisis the Luke and I Post Game Show
Phillies Tugy. Thank you for doingthis. I need us all to rant.
I want I want all of yourthoughts, all of them in the
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comments on Twitter, YouTube. We'reeverywhere right now. This is once again
the Luke and I on the PhilliesPost Game Show, brought to you by
Fox Sports The Gambler and sponsored byThe Clutch. UH your best place to
get all of your Philly sports Tshirts, hoodies, headbands. Make sure
you use code Arcaney Luke at checkout UH for ten percent off. I
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want to hear everything. I wantto hear all you all you guys have
your your your big takeaways from thegame. Because I have a few and
some of these things need to betalked about that we don't really want to
talk about. But real quick,if if, if you're tuned in and
you you luckily didn't get to watchthis game. Uh. The Phillies fell
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to the singles Cardinals three nothing,uh, taking them down to five and
six on the year. Phillies hadeight hits on the night and thirty one
at bats. They struck out thirteentimes. Uh. They left eight runners
on base. They were oh foreight with runners in scoring position. They
grounded into three double plays. JT. Realmuto left with a throat injury.
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We're probably not going to play tomorrow. Zach Wheeler. Zach Wheeler's velocity dropped
towards the end. He was tired. I mean, I don't. I
don't think there was I don't.If you guys have a single positive uh
from tonight, I would love tohear it, I don't. I don't
have a single one. And andwhere where I really want to start is
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just this offense. It's it's it'sdreadful. They're not hitting anything hard,
they're not getting any extra base hits. But what whatever they're hitting is is
singles and and infield singles and andblue pits. And they're not barreling any
baseballs. They're not hitting home runs. They're oh for eight with runners in
scoring position. They're striking out again, They're striking out at an alarming rate
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this season. This is this isugly right now, this this offense.
Excuse me, this offense is uglyright now. They just can't hit.
They they I don't I don't wantto beat around the bush here. They
just I mean, they can't hit. Right now. They can hit,
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but right now they they can't hitat all. Kyle Schwarber two oh five,
Pryce Harper two thirty seven. Thatwould be in the one seventies without
his three home run game. PryceHarper's had a dreadful start to this this
season. If you if you takeaway that that three home run game,
he's been one of the worst hitterson the team. Throughout the first eleven
games. He's died for second inthe league with the most on ball in
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a double plays. JT is havinga good a good start to his year.
Alec Boom started off hot. He'sdown to two thirty seven. Bryson
Stots down to two oh six,Nick castianis a nice two hit night only
at one fifty four, So thattells you how how his season has been
going before tonight. Brandon Marsh.We're gonna come back to Brandon Marsh because
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I have a proposal, and andand it it needs to happen. And
if they if they play a baseballgame tomorrow, seems like they're they're they're
not going to that. There's somesome some pretty heavy rain tomorrow and in
Saint Louis there fine here it isnow, Uh, Brandon Marsh's hit fifth
in this lineup. He's he's yourbest hitter right now. He's your best
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hitter this entire season. There's absolutelyzero reason that he should be hitting eighth
right now. There's no reason BrysonStott should be hitting ahead of him right
now. There's no reason Nick Cassianoshould be hitting ahead of him right now.
And if Boone's so great with runnersin scoring position, there's absolutely no
reason why Marsh shouldn't go ahead ofhim. Brandon Marsh gets on base an
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alarming rate, like it is askyrocketed right that Marsh gets on base.
Brandon Marsh needs to hit fifth tomorrow. They need to come out tomorrow,
Schwarber, Turner, Harper. Iwould assume real Muto probably wouldn't play tomorrow,
so then maybe I don't know.I'm I don't know what they're gonna
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do with this lineup tomorrow. IfJT is not in there, Boom would
probably go to four. But BrandonMars should hit the five all tomorrow.
I can't watch him hit eighth onthis team. I can't. I can't
watch the team's best hitter hit eighthon this on this, on this team
anymore. It's alarming. It's it'sit's seriously an alarming thing. And I
am I am I will say Iam a very I've said this the last
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few times. I'm a very optimisticviewer when it comes to watching the Phillies.
But I mean, this is thisis brutal man like this, This
is really really bad baseball. Theyare one of the worst offenses in the
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entire sport right now. Throughout thefirst eleven twelve games of the season,
the Phillies had, they had chancestonight like they there was I believe it
was twenty times that there was arunner on base that the guy at the
plate got out tonight. So technicallyat the end of the inning, I
believe it was eight runners left onbase, but eight runners left on base
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throughout the entire game was around twentytwo on one out in the fifth,
ground into a double play, twoon no outs in the sixth, ground
into a double play, bases loadedone out in the seventh, as Zach
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Wheeler is going out there and givingyou all he's got after that early home
run and after some some some softcontact other than that, bases loaded one
out in the seventh. You goback to back strikeouts, Like what are
you doing? What are you doing? Where is this? Where is this
approach that I heard about all season? It's it's oh, this chase,
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Our chase rate's gonna go down,and and and and Kevin Long has been
working on the chase rate. AndKevin Long has been working on this team
battling baseball's more and late and lategame situational hitting. It's out the window
right now, and and and andI get and I get it this.
This team will turn it on.And I'm not saying they're gonna miss the
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playoffs. I'm not saying they're thefifth best team and in their division.
But it's embarrassing right now like theyhave absolutely no juice. They look lost,
They look straight up lost out there. Phillies are thirty for one hundred
and fifty seven with men on basethis season, they're hitting one ninety one.
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They're thirtieth in baseball with men onbasis season, they're thirtieth in average.
The only teams that they trail orthe Twins and the White Sox.
The White Sox are like one ofthe worst teams in baseball and the Phillies
are down there. Do we havethe most infield hits in all of Major
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League Baseball? Says Zach. Idon't have the specific number, but it
damn sure feels like it. Ilike they don't. They don't. They're
not putting any they're not putting anyjuice behind these balls. Kyle Schwerber seems
to have Kyle, Well, whilewe've been getting more you know, bass
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hits out of Swerber, his thishome run swing. Maybe regression is is
a little concerning I and and listenthat that'll come back and and he'll go
on some crazy tear once we getthe June, obviously, but he's he's
not hitting the balls hard right now. He's maybe he sacrificed some exit velocity
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for a few points in the average, but once again the average is back
down to two o five. SoI want to dig into Zach Wheeler a
little bit because I thought, otherthan the home run, I I thought,
I thought Wheeler looked really good.Zach Wheeler seven innings, pitch,
six hits, three and runs,five strikeouts, one one home run.
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Sorry, give me one seck here. I mean, Wheeler's been great this
year. Wheel Wheeler has been forfor about ninety nine percent of the time.
Wheel Wheeler has been the the acethat you need in the be Exactly,
Zach. We we sent Zach Wheelerout there in the seventh inning just
because we needed to save our bullpen, when realistically, the fact that our
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ace is out there eating innings tosave our bullpen, that's an issue,
and that's an issue that relies onthe offense. I'm tired of this offense.
I'm tired of these these basic Tball errors, Like why is Brandon
Marsh throwing that ball to home plateto try and throw the runner out that
that led to another run? Likewhat are we doing? Brandon Marsh is
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not throwing him out from three hundredand twenty feet away, like it's it's
it's it's not happening. And it'snot like to throw was even close.
He was thirty five feet to theright, Like what are we doing?
What are we doing right now?It's it's frustrating. I mean, I'm
I'm frustrated obviously, as as youcan tell. They need to come out
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tomorrow if they play, and theyneed they need a big day and and
there's nothing that's telling me that they'regoing to. Granted you could say it's
lance linn so like whatever, butyou let Sonny Gray, a guy who's
an awesome pitcher, but a guywho's making his debut of the season and
he's on a sixty pitch pitch count, you're making him look like Nolan Ryan
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out there, like what are wedoing? There's no approach there, There's
there's no there's nothing, there's nothingto the offense. Bryce Harper looks lost.
Castianos after even after a good night, still kind of looks lost.
Trey Turner's getting there, Trey looksbetter a lot of infield singles, but
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but he's getting the ball in play. I will I will give him that.
Marsh Marsh is the only one,Bryson Saloks lost Alec Alec Bohm looks
pretty lost right now. I believehe had the one hit earlier, but
just concerning I'm concerned, so Iwant to hear if you guys have any
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other thoughts. Once again, thisis the Luke and I on the Phillies
post game show, brought to youby Fox Sports. A gambler. The
Phillies dropped their game the night tothe Cardinals by final score three nothing,
a really really frustrating one. Thewing goes to Sonny Gray five innings pitch
five, hits, zero and runs, five strikeouts. The loss goes to
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Zach Wheeler seven innings, pitch,six hits, three earned runs, five
strikeouts, and the save goes tosorry not to say there was no just
bad sorry, No, that goesto Ryan Helsley. The save, his
fourth jeez, his fourth save ofthe year. Already, I'm just I
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there's nothing telling me right now thatwithin the next week, week and a
half, there's nothing telling me thatthis offense will turn it around. And
I I get it. We're gonnaget on here and we're gonna ramble,
and we all know that in amonth, month and a half, they're
gonna they're gonna come out fired.But but don't, but don't lie to
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us in the offseason and and tellus that that your your biggest focus going
into this year is getting off toa hot start, because that's certainly not
the case. If if your if, if, if your goal going into
this season was to to play betterbaseball out of the rip, you have
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absolutely failed at your number one goal. Bad. They're five and six right
now that they haven't played. TheReds have surprised some people so far this
year. The Cardinals are the Cardinals, Like they're not, They're not that
good. Like that lineup's not thatgood. Paul Paul Paul Goldschmith is still
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good, but like he's he's notPaul Goldsman from four years ago. No
one are not have still plays greatdefense, No one are not. It
looks hurt by the way at theplay. I don't I don't know if
anyone saw that last night. Something'sup with with with Arnatto up there.
But like, this isn't a toughschedule. And granted they welcome the Pirates
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to Citizens Bank for the next fourgames after the series. Who Pirates I
believe lost today? But they're nineand three, like they're gonna come in
here and they're gonna give us sometrouble. Matt Levicky, clap your hands,
everybody, Hey baby, come onnow. I mean it's bad,
It's just really bad. So Imean, after after this four against the
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Pirates, a nine and three team, it's not really playing for anything,
right I think they know that.Give them three months, they're probably gonna
fall off. So they're just they'rejust kind of rolling right now. Pirates
for four, Rockies for three shouldbe an easy three games. I don't
know if if it's gonna be aneasy three games right now. Three more
against the White Sox, one ofthe worst teams, if not the worst
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team in baseball right now, shouldbe three easy win. I don't know
if it's gonna be threees he winsright All these games are at home,
and I don't I don't see Idon't see any signs right now of why
why I should believe this team isgonna go on some crazy run in April.
Is it gonna take them all theway till June again? I sure
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hope not. Because you have asituation now at the Braves Spencer Striders on
the fifteen day. Il most likelygonna need Tommy John surgery. He's gonna
be out for the year. MaxFreed looks horrible. Chris sale Will,
while he's looked pretty good so far, there's no guarantee in him giving you
a full season anymore. Bryce Elderstinks like this Braves offense will will continue
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to mash like like they always do. I don't know what that with that
score ended up being to that.I didn't get the check, Braves,
Braves, Braves beat the Mets sixto five. Listen, I mean,
I think we all know where thisthis, this Brave's offense stands, but
I mean, their bullpend kind ofstinks. The starters are going down,
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like the Phillies have such an opportunityright now to go and run away with
this thing. And you're thirtieth inthe league with men's on with men on
base, You're thirtieth in the leaguewith men on base, and you're and
you're supposed to be the third bestteam in the National League, Like,
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what are we doing? What arewe doing? Once again, I want
to hear thoughts. If you're inhere, if you want to talk sixers,
let's le let's let's talk Sixers.Whatever, clap your hands, how
them b do you and anyone seethat shot from embiid He like threw it
backwards behind his head, falling tothe ground. Uh what did that Sixers
box score look like? Let's checkthat real quick. Sorry, I need
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a minute away from this baseball team. Sixers took down the Pistons one hundred
and twenty to one oh two andb thirty seven, thirty seven, eleven
and eight from embad On twenty twoshots in thirty six minutes. Kelly Ubray,
Kelly e Bray's a dog. TobiasHarris fifteen points. Never doubted to
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bias, but Tom two points intwenty nine minutes. That's solid. Buddy
Hialed eighteen points off the bench.Sorry, the Phillies are so bad or
now that you have me talking aboutthe Sixers, so bottom line right now,
it's it's the offense and they haveto figure it out. And it
starts with it starts with Bryce Harper. Listen. I don't think there's many
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I don't think there's many people onthis earth that enjoy watching Bryce Harper play
baseball more than I do. Ione of my favorite things in the world
is watching Bryce Harper hit a baseball, but without without his three home run
game, He's six for thirty fourthis year with nine strikeouts. Just not
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good enough. It's simply not goodenough. Kyle Swarper tanked off Castianas while
he had the two hit night,looks lost. Mike Trout had his sixth
bomb the night. Yeah, let'sgo Trout fishing baby, come on,
bring him home. I mean,right, like realistically, like if you're
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if you're Dave don Browski and Iknow, I know where, I know,
we're eleven games into the eleven gamesinto the season. Whatever, blah
blah blah. I mean, you'regoing all in for Mike Trout at the
deadline. You simply have to youyou have to go get another bat.
You need a dominant right handed batin this lineup. And you have Trey
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who will who will turn it onlike he did last year. But Castianis
isn't isn't some full season dominant Uhbrighty bat. Casians is good when he's
hot and he's and he's horrible whenhe's not. JT. I think I
still think JT is gonna have thebest season of his career as a Philly
any any and he got off toa pretty awesome start, but come playoff
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time, I I can't. Idon't think I can trust JT as my
as my best in quote, bestright handed bet give me all of Mike
Trout at the deadline. I needit right. J T. Muto is
a bruce neck real quick. Anupdate from from Matt gelb uh uh eral
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Muto has a bruce neck. Philly'schecked him for a concussion and they think
he'll be good. They will seehow he feels tomorrow. So I mean
day game tomorrow, I would beI would be shocked if if JT is
in the lineup tomorrow. Uh,you'll probably get Garrett Stubbs out there with
with Aaron Nola. Aaron Nola onthe bump tomorrow against Lance Lynn. I
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believe that game is a one onethirty start. Yeah, one fifteen tomorrow.
So yeah, Phillies, look toget back to five hundred last minute
real quick. If you guys haveany final thoughts, get them in here.
What are we thinking? Who who'sthe most disappointing right now? Because
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it's ugly. I mean, Ican't believe eleven games in I'm sitting here
asking where would this offense be withoutBrandon Marsh? What would our record be?
Only your thoughts, what what wouldour record be without Brandon Marsh this
year? Would we have over threewins? We might be three and eight
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without Brandon Marsh two and nine somethinglike that. That's a problem. The
energy just isn't there with these guys. Yeah, it's just not They look
they look like they're going through themotions. And granted that they do this
every April, and and I'm andI I can't, I can't reiterate this
enough. I'm gonna sit here anight and I'm gonn and I'm gonna be
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all frustrated. And then they're gonnago out and whatever a month and a
half, two months, whatever,and they're gonna they're gonna they're gonna play
great. But but for now,it's it's it's it's extremely frustrating. It's
it's not fun to watch. Andfor a team that wants to keep the
fans and knows how into this team, the fans are just like slowly kind
of letting them slip, not necessarilyto not watch, just they's just day
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by day, you just lose alittle bit of trust in them, And
I mean hopefully once we get tothe summer and and and it's these these
these hot nights at the bank andthe ball starts flying out, then they'll
get hot. Because I I meanI I I'd be still willing to bet
you that I I'd be I'd bewilling to take the Phillies odds on the
Division still right now. I wouldstill take their odds to win ninety plus
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games. But it's it's just badright now because this this team is built
to be able to win close toone hundred game games. But this this
team that is built like this isjust not playing like that right now,
and it's frustrating. Yeah. Twoand seven, Yeah, I mean I
I I'd probably want to say thePhillies have have have three wins if they
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don't have Brandon Marsh, which iswhich is very very concerning. So with
that, uh, as another editionof the Luke and I postgame Show,
Thanks for hanging out, the Philsfall again to the Cardinals. UH three,
nothing, five and six On theaar back out of tomorrow one fifteen.
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I'm gonna rant to you guys forthe last twenty minutes and I'm gonna
be so tuned in tomorrow, likeI think we all will be, so
with that, Thanks for hanging outand we'll see you, probably back on
Monday, so I'll see you guysthen
N there's a breaking ball popped upshallow right Chica going off Castiano's coming on
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Championship. This is Luke and Ion the Phillips brought to you by Fox
Sports The Gambler. Oh man,that was that was really really ugly.
That that was the worst loss ofthe season for me. Just can't happen
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in in a game where you getZach Wheeler, who now the team has
oh and three in the games,your your your ace starts. Yeah.
I need everyone in here. Thisis the Luke and I Post Game Show
Phillies Tugy. Thank you for doingthis. I need us all to rant.
I want I want all of yourthoughts, all of them in the
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comments on Twitter, YouTube. We'reeverywhere right now. This is once again
the Luke and I on the PhilliesPost Game Show, brought to you by
Fox Sports The Gambler and sponsored byThe Clutch. UH your best place to
get all of your Philly sports Tshirts, hoodies, headbands. Make sure
you use code Arcaney Luke at checkout UH for ten percent off. I
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want to hear everything. I wantto hear all you all you guys have
your your your big takeaways from thegame. Because I have a few and
some of these things need to betalked about that we don't really want to
talk about. But real quick,if if, if you're tuned in and
you you luckily didn't get to watchthis game. Uh. The Phillies fell
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to the singles Cardinals three nothing,uh, taking them down to five and
six on the year. Phillies hadeight hits on the night and thirty one
at bats. They struck out thirteentimes. Uh. They left eight runners
on base. They were oh foreight with runners in scoring position. They
grounded into three double plays. JT. Realmuto left with a throat injury.
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We're probably not going to play tomorrow. Zach Wheeler. Zach Wheeler's velocity dropped
towards the end. He was tired. I mean, I don't. I
don't think there was I don't.If you guys have a single positive uh
from tonight, I would love tohear it, I don't. I don't
have a single one. And andwhere where I really want to start is
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just this offense. It's it's it'sdreadful. They're not hitting anything hard,
they're not getting any extra base hits. But what whatever they're hitting is is
singles and and infield singles and andblue pits. And they're not barreling any
baseballs. They're not hitting home runs. They're oh for eight with runners in
scoring position. They're striking out again, They're striking out at an alarming rate
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this season. This is this isugly right now, this this offense.
Excuse me, this offense is uglyright now. They just can't hit.
They they I don't I don't wantto beat around the bush here. They
just I mean, they can't hit. Right now. They can hit,
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but right now they they can't hitat all. Kyle Schwarber two oh five,
Pryce Harper two thirty seven. Thatwould be in the one seventies without
his three home run game. PryceHarper's had a dreadful start to this this
season. If you if you takeaway that that three home run game,
he's been one of the worst hitterson the team. Throughout the first eleven
games. He's died for second inthe league with the most on ball in
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a double plays. JT is havinga good a good start to his year.
Alec Boom started off hot. He'sdown to two thirty seven. Bryson
Stots down to two oh six,Nick castianis a nice two hit night only
at one fifty four, So thattells you how how his season has been
going before tonight. Brandon Marsh.We're gonna come back to Brandon Marsh because
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I have a proposal, and andand it it needs to happen. And
if they if they play a baseballgame tomorrow, seems like they're they're they're
not going to that. There's somesome some pretty heavy rain tomorrow and in
Saint Louis there fine here it isnow, Uh, Brandon Marsh's hit fifth
in this lineup. He's he's yourbest hitter right now. He's your best
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hitter this entire season. There's absolutelyzero reason that he should be hitting eighth
right now. There's no reason BrysonStott should be hitting ahead of him right
now. There's no reason Nick Cassianoshould be hitting ahead of him right now.
And if Boone's so great with runnersin scoring position, there's absolutely no
reason why Marsh shouldn't go ahead ofhim. Brandon Marsh gets on base an
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alarming rate, like it is askyrocketed right that Marsh gets on base.
Brandon Marsh needs to hit fifth tomorrow. They need to come out tomorrow,
Schwarber, Turner, Harper. Iwould assume real Muto probably wouldn't play tomorrow,
so then maybe I don't know.I'm I don't know what they're gonna
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do with this lineup tomorrow. IfJT is not in there, Boom would
probably go to four. But BrandonMars should hit the five all tomorrow.
I can't watch him hit eighth onthis team. I can't. I can't
watch the team's best hitter hit eighthon this on this, on this team
anymore. It's alarming. It's it'sit's seriously an alarming thing. And I
am I am I will say Iam a very I've said this the last
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few times. I'm a very optimisticviewer when it comes to watching the Phillies.
But I mean, this is thisis brutal man like this, This
is really really bad baseball. Theyare one of the worst offenses in the
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entire sport right now. Throughout thefirst eleven twelve games of the season,
the Phillies had, they had chancestonight like they there was I believe it
was twenty times that there was arunner on base that the guy at the
plate got out tonight. So technicallyat the end of the inning, I
believe it was eight runners left onbase, but eight runners left on base
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throughout the entire game was around twentytwo on one out in the fifth,
ground into a double play, twoon no outs in the sixth, ground
into a double play, bases loadedone out in the seventh, as Zach
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Wheeler is going out there and givingyou all he's got after that early home
run and after some some some softcontact other than that, bases loaded one
out in the seventh. You goback to back strikeouts, Like what are
you doing? What are you doing? Where is this? Where is this
approach that I heard about all season? It's it's oh, this chase,
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Our chase rate's gonna go down,and and and and Kevin Long has been
working on the chase rate. AndKevin Long has been working on this team
battling baseball's more and late and lategame situational hitting. It's out the window
right now, and and and andI get and I get it this.
This team will turn it on.And I'm not saying they're gonna miss the
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playoffs. I'm not saying they're thefifth best team and in their division.
But it's embarrassing right now like theyhave absolutely no juice. They look lost,
They look straight up lost out there. Phillies are thirty for one hundred
and fifty seven with men on basethis season, they're hitting one ninety one.
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They're thirtieth in baseball with men onbasis season, they're thirtieth in average.
The only teams that they trail orthe Twins and the White Sox.
The White Sox are like one ofthe worst teams in baseball and the Phillies
are down there. Do we havethe most infield hits in all of Major
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League Baseball? Says Zach. Idon't have the specific number, but it
damn sure feels like it. Ilike they don't. They don't. They're
not putting any they're not putting anyjuice behind these balls. Kyle Schwerber seems
to have Kyle, Well, whilewe've been getting more you know, bass
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hits out of Swerber, his thishome run swing. Maybe regression is is
a little concerning I and and listenthat that'll come back and and he'll go
on some crazy tear once we getthe June, obviously, but he's he's
not hitting the balls hard right now. He's maybe he sacrificed some exit velocity
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for a few points in the average, but once again the average is back
down to two o five. SoI want to dig into Zach Wheeler a
little bit because I thought, otherthan the home run, I I thought,
I thought Wheeler looked really good.Zach Wheeler seven innings, pitch,
six hits, three and runs,five strikeouts, one one home run.
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Sorry, give me one seck here. I mean, Wheeler's been great this
year. Wheel Wheeler has been forfor about ninety nine percent of the time.
Wheel Wheeler has been the the acethat you need in the be Exactly,
Zach. We we sent Zach Wheelerout there in the seventh inning just
because we needed to save our bullpen, when realistically, the fact that our
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ace is out there eating innings tosave our bullpen, that's an issue,
and that's an issue that relies onthe offense. I'm tired of this offense.
I'm tired of these these basic Tball errors, Like why is Brandon
Marsh throwing that ball to home plateto try and throw the runner out that
that led to another run? Likewhat are we doing? Brandon Marsh is
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not throwing him out from three hundredand twenty feet away, like it's it's
it's it's not happening. And it'snot like to throw was even close.
He was thirty five feet to theright, Like what are we doing?
What are we doing right now?It's it's frustrating. I mean, I'm
I'm frustrated obviously, as as youcan tell. They need to come out
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tomorrow if they play, and theyneed they need a big day and and
there's nothing that's telling me that they'regoing to. Granted you could say it's
lance linn so like whatever, butyou let Sonny Gray, a guy who's
an awesome pitcher, but a guywho's making his debut of the season and
he's on a sixty pitch pitch count, you're making him look like Nolan Ryan
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out there, like what are wedoing? There's no approach there, There's
there's no there's nothing, there's nothingto the offense. Bryce Harper looks lost.
Castianos after even after a good night, still kind of looks lost.
Trey Turner's getting there, Trey looksbetter a lot of infield singles, but
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but he's getting the ball in play. I will I will give him that.
Marsh Marsh is the only one,Bryson Saloks lost Alec Alec Bohm looks
pretty lost right now. I believehe had the one hit earlier, but
just concerning I'm concerned, so Iwant to hear if you guys have any
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other thoughts. Once again, thisis the Luke and I on the Phillies
post game show, brought to youby Fox Sports. A gambler. The
Phillies dropped their game the night tothe Cardinals by final score three nothing,
a really really frustrating one. Thewing goes to Sonny Gray five innings pitch
five, hits, zero and runs, five strikeouts. The loss goes to
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Zach Wheeler seven innings, pitch,six hits, three earned runs, five
strikeouts, and the save goes tosorry not to say there was no just
bad sorry, No, that goesto Ryan Helsley. The save, his
fourth jeez, his fourth save ofthe year. Already, I'm just I
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there's nothing telling me right now thatwithin the next week, week and a
half, there's nothing telling me thatthis offense will turn it around. And
I I get it. We're gonnaget on here and we're gonna ramble,
and we all know that in amonth, month and a half, they're
gonna they're gonna come out fired.But but don't, but don't lie to
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us in the offseason and and tellus that that your your biggest focus going
into this year is getting off toa hot start, because that's certainly not
the case. If if your if, if, if your goal going into
this season was to to play betterbaseball out of the rip, you have
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absolutely failed at your number one goal. Bad. They're five and six right
now that they haven't played. TheReds have surprised some people so far this
year. The Cardinals are the Cardinals, Like they're not, They're not that
good. Like that lineup's not thatgood. Paul Paul Paul Goldschmith is still
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good, but like he's he's notPaul Goldsman from four years ago. No
one are not have still plays greatdefense, No one are not. It
looks hurt by the way at theplay. I don't I don't know if
anyone saw that last night. Something'sup with with with Arnatto up there.
But like, this isn't a toughschedule. And granted they welcome the Pirates
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to Citizens Bank for the next fourgames after the series. Who Pirates I
believe lost today? But they're nineand three, like they're gonna come in
here and they're gonna give us sometrouble. Matt Levicky, clap your hands,
everybody, Hey baby, come onnow. I mean it's bad,
It's just really bad. So Imean, after after this four against the
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Pirates, a nine and three team, it's not really playing for anything,
right I think they know that.Give them three months, they're probably gonna
fall off. So they're just they'rejust kind of rolling right now. Pirates
for four, Rockies for three shouldbe an easy three games. I don't
know if if it's gonna be aneasy three games right now. Three more
against the White Sox, one ofthe worst teams, if not the worst
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team in baseball right now, shouldbe three easy win. I don't know
if it's gonna be threees he winsright All these games are at home,
and I don't I don't see Idon't see any signs right now of why
why I should believe this team isgonna go on some crazy run in April.
Is it gonna take them all theway till June again? I sure
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hope not. Because you have asituation now at the Braves Spencer Striders on
the fifteen day. Il most likelygonna need Tommy John surgery. He's gonna
be out for the year. MaxFreed looks horrible. Chris sale Will,
while he's looked pretty good so far, there's no guarantee in him giving you
a full season anymore. Bryce Elderstinks like this Braves offense will will continue
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to mash like like they always do. I don't know what that with that
score ended up being to that.I didn't get the check, Braves,
Braves, Braves beat the Mets sixto five. Listen, I mean,
I think we all know where thisthis, this Brave's offense stands, but
I mean, their bullpend kind ofstinks. The starters are going down,
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like the Phillies have such an opportunityright now to go and run away with
this thing. And you're thirtieth inthe league with men's on with men on
base, You're thirtieth in the leaguewith men on base, and you're and
you're supposed to be the third bestteam in the National League, Like,
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what are we doing? What arewe doing? Once again, I want
to hear thoughts. If you're inhere, if you want to talk sixers,
let's le let's let's talk Sixers.Whatever, clap your hands, how
them b do you and anyone seethat shot from embiid He like threw it
backwards behind his head, falling tothe ground. Uh what did that Sixers
box score look like? Let's checkthat real quick. Sorry, I need
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a minute away from this baseball team. Sixers took down the Pistons one hundred
and twenty to one oh two andb thirty seven, thirty seven, eleven
and eight from embad On twenty twoshots in thirty six minutes. Kelly Ubray,
Kelly e Bray's a dog. TobiasHarris fifteen points. Never doubted to
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bias, but Tom two points intwenty nine minutes. That's solid. Buddy
Hialed eighteen points off the bench.Sorry, the Phillies are so bad or
now that you have me talking aboutthe Sixers, so bottom line right now,
it's it's the offense and they haveto figure it out. And it
starts with it starts with Bryce Harper. Listen. I don't think there's many
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I don't think there's many people onthis earth that enjoy watching Bryce Harper play
baseball more than I do. Ione of my favorite things in the world
is watching Bryce Harper hit a baseball, but without without his three home run
game, He's six for thirty fourthis year with nine strikeouts. Just not
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good enough. It's simply not goodenough. Kyle Swarper tanked off Castianas while
he had the two hit night,looks lost. Mike Trout had his sixth
bomb the night. Yeah, let'sgo Trout fishing baby, come on,
bring him home. I mean,right, like realistically, like if you're
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if you're Dave don Browski and Iknow, I know where, I know,
we're eleven games into the eleven gamesinto the season. Whatever, blah
blah blah. I mean, you'regoing all in for Mike Trout at the
deadline. You simply have to youyou have to go get another bat.
You need a dominant right handed batin this lineup. And you have Trey
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who will who will turn it onlike he did last year. But Castianis
isn't isn't some full season dominant Uhbrighty bat. Casians is good when he's
hot and he's and he's horrible whenhe's not. JT. I think I
still think JT is gonna have thebest season of his career as a Philly
any any and he got off toa pretty awesome start, but come playoff
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time, I I can't. Idon't think I can trust JT as my
as my best in quote, bestright handed bet give me all of Mike
Trout at the deadline. I needit right. J T. Muto is
a bruce neck real quick. Anupdate from from Matt gelb uh uh eral
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Muto has a bruce neck. Philly'schecked him for a concussion and they think
he'll be good. They will seehow he feels tomorrow. So I mean
day game tomorrow, I would beI would be shocked if if JT is
in the lineup tomorrow. Uh,you'll probably get Garrett Stubbs out there with
with Aaron Nola. Aaron Nola onthe bump tomorrow against Lance Lynn. I
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believe that game is a one onethirty start. Yeah, one fifteen tomorrow.
So yeah, Phillies, look toget back to five hundred last minute
real quick. If you guys haveany final thoughts, get them in here.
What are we thinking? Who who'sthe most disappointing right now? Because
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it's ugly. I mean, Ican't believe eleven games in I'm sitting here
asking where would this offense be withoutBrandon Marsh? What would our record be?
Only your thoughts, what what wouldour record be without Brandon Marsh this
year? Would we have over threewins? We might be three and eight
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without Brandon Marsh two and nine somethinglike that. That's a problem. The
energy just isn't there with these guys. Yeah, it's just not They look
they look like they're going through themotions. And granted that they do this
every April, and and I'm andI I can't, I can't reiterate this
enough. I'm gonna sit here anight and I'm gonn and I'm gonna be
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all frustrated. And then they're gonnago out and whatever a month and a
half, two months, whatever,and they're gonna they're gonna they're gonna play
great. But but for now,it's it's it's it's extremely frustrating. It's
it's not fun to watch. Andfor a team that wants to keep the
fans and knows how into this team, the fans are just like slowly kind
of letting them slip, not necessarilyto not watch, just they's just day
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by day, you just lose alittle bit of trust in them, And
I mean hopefully once we get tothe summer and and and it's these these
these hot nights at the bank andthe ball starts flying out, then they'll
get hot. Because I I meanI I I'd be still willing to bet
you that I I'd be I'd bewilling to take the Phillies odds on the
Division still right now. I wouldstill take their odds to win ninety plus
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games. But it's it's just badright now because this this team is built
to be able to win close toone hundred game games. But this this
team that is built like this isjust not playing like that right now,
and it's frustrating. Yeah. Twoand seven, Yeah, I mean I
I I'd probably want to say thePhillies have have have three wins if they
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don't have Brandon Marsh, which iswhich is very very concerning. So with
that, uh, as another editionof the Luke and I postgame Show,
Thanks for hanging out, the Philsfall again to the Cardinals. UH three,
nothing, five and six On theaar back out of tomorrow one fifteen.
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I'm gonna rant to you guys forthe last twenty minutes and I'm gonna
be so tuned in tomorrow, likeI think we all will be, so
with that, Thanks for hanging outand we'll see you, probably back on
Monday, so I'll see you guysthen
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