Mariners win the ALDS!!!

Chuck and Bucky take you through the historic game we all just watched as they get to the ALCS for the first time since 2001!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I went through such an emotional roller coaster, and I
was pretty even keel for the most part. I mean,
obviously the two run homer was one thing. It just
was an emotional roller coaster. And I think for one
thing is for sure that crowd was rocking over there.
And I don't know for sure if I saw that
they sit down maybe between innings every once in a while.
Soft eat I'm gonna tell you right now is probably

(00:20):
being the biggest fan of any Seattle sports fan.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
You would have been proud.

Speaker 1 (00:25):
Of the forty five fifty thousand people that were over
there because they stood up, they cheered, They were kind
of the heartbeat of that entire ball game over there,
and they never wavered, not when we were up, not
when we were down, not when it was tied for
eight hundred innings. I mean, all of the times that
they had failed, opportunity after opportunity, you're like, how long

(00:45):
is this gonna go? And it didn't matter. The fans
were there the entire time. It was unbelievable.

Speaker 2 (00:49):
Yeah, you would have loved it.

Speaker 3 (00:52):
I don't want to rub it in softee, but you
would have just eaten every bit of it up.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
Well, I'd like to be there next week.

Speaker 4 (01:00):
And you know, if we can get four more of
these suckers and get to the World Series for the
first time ever, that's fine by me. Well, this is
the price I gotta pay to get them to the
World Series for the first time. But guys, there was
so much talk here at Husky Stadium about taking out
George Kirby, who just marvelous, I mean, gave you everything
you could have asked for from this kid tonight.

Speaker 2 (01:22):
And there was some controversy.

Speaker 4 (01:24):
Somebody screaming up and down the hallway here at Husky
Stadium yelling what.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
The hell's Dan Wilson doing, blah blah blah.

Speaker 4 (01:30):
Gab Spire instantly gives up the home run in the moment,
Did you guys think it was the right move in
the moment?

Speaker 3 (01:36):
Uh? Yeah, I mean, I mean you had to know
there's gonna be the quick hook. You had to know that.
You know Castile was available. Turns out Gilbert was available
before Castillo. You knew Munjos was gonna be pushed a
little bit further, Brash was pushed a little bit further,
and you knew that Gabe Spire was gonna be used

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against Kerry Carpenter, who we did another terrible job of
getting out again tonight. I mean, that dude just owns
us if Jerry doesn't spend the entire offseason trying to
acquire Kerry Carpenter. I mean, he obviously loves hitting here,
but I mean it's what Spire is here for it.
I mean, this matchup, it's what it was his only

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task this entire night. I know he's coming off the
rough outing from the previous outing, and everybody was a
little concerned about that, but that's that's the point of
him being here tonight was to get out carry Carpenter
in a crucial moment. So when Kirby gave up the
leadoff double to start the sixth and he hadn't gotten

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Carpenter out again tonight, he was er for two. Kirby
was over two getting out carry Carpenter, then it just
felt like this is the time to make that move.
And Carpenter got him again, yeah, or got us again.

Speaker 1 (02:52):
He didn't get Kirby again, but he got Spired. Well,
I'm glad we get to talk about that after a win.
First and fourthly, yeah, because I didn't like it. But
then again it boils down to I trust my starting
pitchers more than I trust my relievers, and I understand
that he has a role in this team. And you
are not going to make it through the playoffs thinking
you're just gonna ride your big horses. You're without going

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to your ball, but you're gonna have to rely on
these guys. He's one of them that's been consistent basically
all season long, and he hasn't his last two times out.
I think he is the guy to go up against Carpenter.
He made another mistake and threw another good pitch to hit,
and Carpenter just apparently when he sees anything that has
Teal in it, he's like, oh, I feast on this.

Speaker 2 (03:33):
I just absolutely can't get out.

Speaker 1 (03:35):
I didn't like it at that point in time because
to me, even after the leadoff double, I'm like, that's fine,
just unintentionally intentionally walk him.

Speaker 3 (03:42):
The whole point of it was if he would have
gotten bias out.

Speaker 2 (03:47):
Kirby, he'd have pitched the Carpenter.

Speaker 3 (03:49):
The whole point of it was, we don't want carry
Carpenter to hit a two run homer off of this
right here.

Speaker 2 (03:54):
So and then he ends up doing it again.

Speaker 1 (03:55):
Yeah, So exactly, So put four fingers up or just
go out there and say, hey, you are the one
that has more pinpoint control than maybe anybody in this game.
You see the bottom outside corner, you throw everything down there.
He ain't going appo taco on a good pitch, and
if you walk him, so be it. Because he was
mowing through the rest of the lineup with the exception
of Kerry Carpenter and that one o their hit. He
hadn't given up anything nobody else. He had diced up

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Labora torres after that. I'm wanting to keep him in
there as long as possible, not because I don't think
you can believe in Gabe's spire regardless of his last
two outies. I think it's because you saved that bullet
for the next time that carry Carpenter comes up to
bat yea, And so ultimately it didn't work out. But
in the moment, I'm just thinking to myself, you've got
to adjust your plan and it can't be the third

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time through. We're not gonna go because the first two
times he could have hurt you and you went with it.
To me, that was a situation where you had a
base open. I know it's putting a lot of traffic
on there and making his job a lot harder. But
I would have stuck with my horse a little bit
longer on that one.

Speaker 2 (04:53):
Well, guys, I'll tell you what, man, You've earned this,
no doubt.

Speaker 4 (04:57):
You guys have been with this team through thick and thin,
no question, for the last decade, uh, the last you know,
four or five years when things began to turn around
and look up and job's not done, Bucky, Job's not done, Chuck.
And what a moment it would be if these guys
could find a way to get to the World Series
for the first time in franchise history. So I will

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let you guys take over the rest of the way.
It sounds like there's a hell of a party going
on down there. I may swing by, well, probably will
swing by.

Speaker 2 (05:26):
Yeah, I pick swing by. We've got a headset for you. Yeah.
I'll see you guys hopefully soon. But this is your show.

Speaker 3 (05:33):
Take it over, boys, go all right, love you man,
all right, David Softy Maller. Uh, they're from a Husky
Stadium boy, torn torn Mariner fan right there, that and
and Husky Hank. But you can't be in two places
at once. He tried, he got into he met some scientists.
They got down in a lab and they tried to

(05:53):
clone him, and not like a little baby, softy version,
but one exactly like him, with all the memories and
responsibilities of a grown up.

Speaker 2 (06:02):
And then if they.

Speaker 1 (06:03):
Realize if they actually released this upon the world, there's
a good chance it's the end of man time.

Speaker 2 (06:07):
Yeah, yeah, that's right. We're gonna have to keep this cage.

Speaker 3 (06:10):
We're just gonna have to pull the plug on this idea,
and you're just gonna have to go to the Huskies game.

Speaker 2 (06:14):
That's a little.

Speaker 1 (06:15):
Unusual punishment for him, to say the least. But if
he didn't embody the emotions of a Seattle fan base, Yeah,
the starving feeling that you felt over there in the clubhouse,
It's that is Softy Maller all wrapped up into one.

Speaker 5 (06:29):
Well, it's a win, three games to two.

Speaker 3 (06:32):
The final score was three runs to two, and it
took fifteen excruciating innings to get to that finish line.
But they've punched their ticket to the American League Championship Series.

Speaker 2 (06:46):
It is Chuck Powell and Bucky Jacobson with you.

Speaker 3 (06:49):
We are live from Jimmy's on first ride across the
street from T Mobile, and we're gonna go.

Speaker 5 (06:55):
I don't even we don't even have a plan, we
don't have a script.

Speaker 3 (06:57):
We're just gonna go until we're until we're till our
voices give out, I suppose. But there's so much to
talk about. I mean, can you believe the amount of
stuff that we have to talk about? And I realized
that Softie started as talking down a negative road, talking
about that one pitching decision that maybe will disagree on forever.

(07:17):
But I think we got to start the conversation by
talking about the positive thing, and that was the game
winning walk off by Jorge Polonco. They had at one
point they had two men on for three out of
four of those extra innings, including leadoff hitters on in
three of those four innings.

Speaker 2 (07:39):
And then they're in.

Speaker 3 (07:40):
The magical fifteenth you know, because that's where most games
are won, where most baseball games are won.

Speaker 2 (07:47):
Everybody knows that, Yeah.

Speaker 5 (07:49):
Fifteenth inning.

Speaker 3 (07:50):
You get to the magical fifteenth inning, Bucky, And the
inning starts with a leadoff single by JP Crawford, who
would fail the thousand times during the course of the
night to come through with runners in scoring position. He
was over eighty six, but he did come through with
a leadoff single. There then the Arose Arena hit by pitch.

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Then a very crucial moment was the fly ball by
cal and JP Crawford's never run that fast in his
life from second to third base to get into scoring positions,
so that we could have one of the most crucial
sack watches in the history of sack watches. And in
that process you get the ball that rolls away and
that allows a Rose Arena to move up to second

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after he'd been hit by the pitch. So now you
got second and third with the one out and an
intentional walk to Julio Rodrigez, so bases loaded, one out.
All we need is a ball in play. I was
about ready to strangle the guy behind me who kept saying,
all we need is a base hit. Shut up. All
we need is the ball in play right now, and
jore Polanco at the plate. It gets all the way

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to the full count against Tommy Cainly. It was a
change up. That's really all he has at this stage
in his career is that change up. Foul off, foul off,
foul off. And then he finally got the pitch that
he was.

Speaker 2 (09:09):
Looking to hear.

Speaker 1 (09:10):
Yeah, I mean at that point, your job is to
hit the ball hard. The infield's in, so you're not
necessarily as worried about hitting the ball on the ground. Obviously,
hit on the ground and it goes to somebody, they're
gonna go home and back to first and get out
of that situation. If you get a sack fly great. Obviously,
if you get rewarded hitting the ball in the gap
er out of the yard, then everybody's even happier. But it

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is you can't pop up, you can't strike out, and
you can't hit it at somebody in the infield. So
your objective is get a pitch that's in the strike zone,
get to the bottom half of it, and hit it hard.

Speaker 2 (09:41):
Well.

Speaker 1 (09:42):
He gets a couple pitches early in that at Bata.
The first one was a change up and he swings
at it. Then he takes a couple of balls, a
couple change ups that are down and the way I
think one was a fastball. Then he gets another change
up and hits that one foul, hits that one pretty
hard foul.

Speaker 2 (09:56):
Again, You're like, okay, he's on him.

Speaker 1 (09:58):
Takes that next ball to get it full and you're like,
oh my gosh, he has to come to him, and
he makes a decent pitch and Jorge Polonco goes down
and digs it out of the bottom of the zone
and hits it about one hundred and ten miles an
hour in the right field.

Speaker 2 (10:10):
So sending us to the American League Championship Series.

Speaker 1 (10:14):
And like Softie said, I mean, the idea gives me
goosebumps thinking about it.

Speaker 2 (10:18):
Four wins away from going to the World Series.

Speaker 1 (10:21):
Yeah, against a team that, even though we just had
to pitch use fifteen innings worth of pitchers and three
starters in that game.

Speaker 2 (10:29):
Not worried about it one bit.

Speaker 1 (10:30):
Hopefully Brian woz Peck is feeling good and we can
throw our ace to start that off. But regardless, we'll
get into all of that in the next a couple
of days. We'll talk about it amongst ourselves, I'm sure,
and then and get to watch whatever happens coming up
on Sunday. But to me, that's a team you match
up well against, and it just was get over this hurdle,
because if we've been talking about anything, we've been talking

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about this team with this pitching staff could be dangerous
in the postseason, you know, when they're the most dangerous
in a seven game series because it is matchup after matchup,
we're gonna have advantage MS.

Speaker 3 (11:02):
Yeah, yeah, pitching matchup both boys. But just I mean
fifteen innings, I mean, how does that happen? How did
we just watch a fifteen inning game? How do we
squander so many opportunities to finish this thing earlier?

Speaker 2 (11:15):
I mean, it just was.

Speaker 3 (11:16):
I mean, if you're gonna have a deciding game, you're
first in the divisional championship round in twenty five years,
you might as well have it be that memorable, because
that's exactly what these These.

Speaker 5 (11:30):
People are never gonna forget that one. It's like the
movie ten Cup. They're never going to forget your twelve.
You know, they're never gonna forget your fifteen.

Speaker 3 (11:38):
You know they are no Mariner fan that was ever
that was watching anywhere, whether it was inside that loud
ass stadium all night long or in the comfort of
their own house, or watching it on the big screen
at Husky Stadium, the greatest setting for American League divisional
series walk offs in the history of football. No one's

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ever going forget that game. No I mean that's burned
in our memories forever. I mean now highs and lows.
They're right on the edge of your seat for five
straight hours.

Speaker 2 (12:09):
Unreal.

Speaker 1 (12:10):
Yeah, I mean growing up, you know, living three and
a half four hours away from Mary, I didn't get
to come over to the Kingdome and watch a whole
bunch of games, but I heard about it. I heard
about how raucous and how crazy that place was.

Speaker 2 (12:21):
Back in nineteen ninety five when the double happened.

Speaker 1 (12:24):
I had said leading into this, yeah, Game four, we lost,
but how much sweeter is it going to be to
win it on your own turf. I didn't expect us
to have to go through fifteen innings of blown opportunity
after blown opportunity and then starter after starter coming in
in relief to continue putting up zeros against these guys.

Speaker 2 (12:43):
But it does.

Speaker 1 (12:44):
It does feel a little bit sweeter, and ultimately you're right.
The memory that's a core memory for a lot of
people here, you know, core memories are usually for little kids.
That's a core memory for anybody that was in those
stands right there, because that's a that's a situation where
they were all on their feet, they had something to
do with it because they didn't let the team did
have something to do after the team failed to get
it done multiple different times, they didn't give up. And

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that was something where they played that thing loading rally
time thing before that fifteenth inning, and everybody got all
riled up again. And I think, I think that that
team over there does get to get get fired up
when they hear the crowd behind him.

Speaker 2 (13:18):
Like, yeah, I know, it does feel sweet. I know that.

Speaker 3 (13:22):
I know the difference between you know, coming through in
that moment and not coming through tonight and what the
atmosphere around here is. Like I get all of that,
but I'll tell you something, I'm just exhausted. Yeah, I
feel like I just bailed Hay for like seventeen straight
days and a hundred degree weather. I mean, I feel
like I just helped, you know, Martha Stewart move, you know,

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because that's got about a lot of stuff in that house.

Speaker 2 (13:48):
You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (13:49):
I bet I just I just feel just like wiped.
And so yes, there's.

Speaker 2 (13:53):
Some relief in there.

Speaker 3 (13:55):
Certainly there's some joy in there, but man, they they
wiped me out here tonight.

Speaker 2 (14:00):
I don't know if I've ever ridden that.

Speaker 3 (14:04):
Back and forth as much in a game as I
did in this one.

Speaker 1 (14:08):
Well, man, I don't know what the record of game,
you know, game deciding. We know, just a couple of
years ago we had an eighteen inning game that didn't
go our way. But that wasn't in a game five
of a series. That wasn't in a situation when you
really felt I didn't feel quite as good as I
felt going into this.

Speaker 2 (14:24):
I wasn't.

Speaker 1 (14:24):
There wasn't gonna be near as much disappointment at the
end of that as I would have felt at the
end of this. There's all kinds of stuff that goes
into it, the ebbs and flows of a baseball game.
There's I obviously have a little bit of a thing
for baseball over any other sport, but it is how
much when you get into extra innings and really this
game because of who you were going up against and

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how our guy was pitching, basically the way the matchup was.
You said it all all week if we get to
game five, and then when you were talking about Game five,
you're like, this isn't gonna be a high scoring affair,
which means there's something hanging in the balance of every
single pitch yep. And I don't know how many pitches,
but when you go fifteen innings on both sides, we're
talking hundreds and hundreds of pitches that I think everybody

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over there and everybody at home, and even guys like
Softy that were at the UDUB game but not paying
attention to it. I think all of them were kind
of just right in that roller coaster and you would
get up and then they would let you down. And
yet then they would get guys in scoring position, or
they would get guys on base, and you're like, oh,
here's the opportunity, and then we would get out of it.

Speaker 2 (15:23):
It was.

Speaker 1 (15:23):
It was highs and lows on both sides. Offensively, defensively.
I just can't say how happy I am that we've
got to walk out of there. I just we were
walking over and I said, can you imagine how different
this would feel if just a couple of different things
went differently?

Speaker 2 (15:36):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (15:37):
And they got it, didn't There are a thousand different
things could have gone differently.

Speaker 2 (15:40):
How about this? How about this trek scoolbell.

Speaker 3 (15:42):
I mean, I want to get into how great our
pitching was, but trek scoolball was fantastic tonight.

Speaker 5 (15:48):
I mean just absolutely.

Speaker 3 (15:50):
Everything that had enjoyed Tiger fan would have wanted to
see out of him. In this situation, six innings, pitch,
thirteen strikeouts, he was at ninety nine pitch bucky after
six innings of work. He had just set down his
fifteenth batter in a row. And for whatever reason, aj Hinch,
who everybody's been telling me has been out managing Dan

(16:13):
Wilson this entire series, aj Hinch took.

Speaker 5 (16:16):
Him out of the game. I'm like, are you kidding me?

Speaker 3 (16:20):
You just took him out of the game, and guess
what we scored to tie it up the very next inning.
You took him out of the game. At that point,
I'm pretty stretch that's.

Speaker 5 (16:30):
The decision that you made.

Speaker 3 (16:31):
Let me tell you something for anybody that ever coaches
baseball at any single level, when you take out a
pitcher and the other team says, oh, thank god, you've
made a mistake, and they made a mistake in the
Mariners capitalize.

Speaker 2 (16:46):
Well, yeah, I mean they definitely made a mistake.

Speaker 1 (16:48):
But we would have said that even if he let
him pitch one morning, he was right out one hundred pitches,
right ninety eight pitches something.

Speaker 2 (16:52):
So I would have if I'm aj Hinch.

Speaker 1 (16:54):
I'd be like, hey, you got another one in you right,
you can go one, fifteen, one twenty if.

Speaker 2 (16:58):
We need so. If if they sent him out there.

Speaker 1 (17:00):
For one more inning, he probably shoves it because he
was nearly unhittable.

Speaker 2 (17:04):
Now, I mean, thank god we had Mitch Garver in
the lineup. I was saying that all week.

Speaker 1 (17:07):
Yeah, but Mitch Carver, Sackwatch Mitch Garver. We didn't do
anything against the guy. He absolutely was dicing U up
and looked absolutely unhittable. The last time he walked off
the mound, he was fired up. I thought for sure
they would bring him back out. They didn't. That is
a mistake on his part. But let's just say that
they send him back out there. He wasn't going to
finish the game. So at one point in time he

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was going to come out of the game and we
were going to say, thank god that they don't let
people pitch two hundred pitches anymore.

Speaker 3 (17:34):
But to give us nine outs to work with, man,
that felt like a gift.

Speaker 5 (17:38):
And then we took advantage in the very first inning with.

Speaker 3 (17:41):
It, and man, look, I don't know, I mean, we
got to stop short of building the statue of Leo
Reevos now, but we should at least like, I don't know,
maybe an action figure that could sit down at Ken
Grippy Junior's feet.

Speaker 5 (17:53):
I don't know, because we don't win the game.

Speaker 3 (17:56):
If Leo Reebos doesn't come through in that moment off
the bench in a pinch hitting situation in which he
was the second option in the same at bat to
pinch hit for Mitch.

Speaker 5 (18:06):
Garber, and little Leo came through, well.

Speaker 1 (18:09):
I'm not sure if he's gonna get a statue, but
I'm pretty sure based on Twitter stuff, that he's going
to get his name tattooed across Softy's ass. Softie said,
if Leo Rievas comes through right here, I'm getting his name,
his full name tattooed across my ass, and right will
he good man, and I don't want to see it,
but I want to see it.

Speaker 3 (18:30):
That's not that's not an empty promise. Yeah, so it's
not a statue, Leo.

Speaker 1 (18:34):
You're gonna have to do a little bit more to
get a statue, but you're gonna get something permanent here
in Seattle.

Speaker 3 (18:39):
Not even Junior's got his name tattooed on softy's ass.

Speaker 2 (18:43):
Yeah, you moved ahead of everybody.

Speaker 3 (18:44):
Quite an accomplishment, young man, and if you keep at it,
you know, who knows what kind of dreams will come
true for you?

Speaker 2 (18:52):
Lee exactly exactly.

Speaker 1 (18:54):
I mean, that was a moment that a lot of
people want to criticize Dan Wilson, and sure he has
his moments.

Speaker 2 (18:59):
I was one.

Speaker 1 (18:59):
I'm this is one of the few days that I'm saying,
I think you took I think you pulled the plug
a little bit quick on the pullet on the uh
taking George Kirby out that said, that was a managerial
chess game right there, when he all of a sudden says,
all right, Garver, you're out. That's not that hard of
a decision. But he says, Garvery, you're done. I'm bringing
canzone in. He knows that they're going to counter them,

(19:20):
and so a J hinches like I got that. He
didn't know we had Little Revos waiting in the wings.
He certainly didn't fear little Leo.

Speaker 2 (19:27):
Well he should have, and.

Speaker 3 (19:28):
He should have because that guy's come through a lot
in its very limited time in a Mariner uniform. That
guy's got like five clutch hits late in games like
not like I'm keeping an inning going. I'm talking about
knocking in the run that you need in that moment.
I think that it's got to be a three or four,
and I'm wondering if it isn't five times that he's

(19:49):
done it. He did it twice last year, He's done
it twice.

Speaker 2 (19:52):
He did it.

Speaker 5 (19:52):
Earlier this year in the regular season.

Speaker 3 (19:54):
So it's at least four in the last year and
a half in the limited time he's been a Marin.

Speaker 5 (20:00):
He's come through huge.

Speaker 1 (20:02):
Well, you watch that guy. You gotta watch that guy
walk on a baseball field. Nobody's going to mistake him
for Hulu Rodriguez. His ceiling is nowhere near the height
of a guy like that, but he will get what
I think is probably the best compliment you can give
a guy, which is what I want more out of
a guy like Julia. Ballplayer, a ball player that's it,
just playing and simply he's a ballplayer. Go up there,

(20:22):
switch hit, so you don't have to worry about the
matchups with him. He can play anywhere on the field. Yeah,
he hustles, he will just grind out abs. Is he
gonna hit twenty home runs? No, I mean, he's not
a guy that's going to be any sort of damage.
You just need guys like that in your lineup, and
you need guys that are like that to play like that.
He understands his role, he understands what he's supposed to do,

(20:43):
and in that situation, that's a big moment to come
in there in the middle. You're you're one of the
pieces in the biggest moment in a game five, you're
down by one. You weren't the first guy called upon.
But to some degree he must have known if they
end up coming with a lefty after this, you're the
next guy coming in here because they can't they can't substitute.
He has to stay out there and throw. So next thing,

(21:05):
you know, he comes in and comes through. Lear Reevoss
as a ballplayer, he might be. He might be the
hero of the game for me, because you're not playing
fifteen innings, you're not getting past.

Speaker 3 (21:15):
I mean, Blanco's up with you know, bases loaded, less
than two outs.

Speaker 5 (21:20):
Even if he doesn't come through, there's somebody behind him.

Speaker 3 (21:22):
Rebos is coming up there with two outs, second pinch
hitter in it at bat, and he's got to come
through or you put Tigers put another zero up on
the board. He brand new ballgame at that point, two
to two, crowds going nuts, and certainly the pitching staff
worked off of that, which we have to discuss. I
can't go any further than this, because we had one, two, three, four, five, six,

(21:47):
Seven pitchers pitch tonight over fifteen innings. Two starters that
play pitched in different roles that they've never participated in.

Speaker 5 (21:57):
In their entire careers.

Speaker 3 (22:00):
Zardo coming off a disastrous outing in game number four,
maybe confidence shaken. No, I'll just take the ball for
eight outs in a game where there's no margin for error.

Speaker 5 (22:11):
I mean seven pitchers.

Speaker 3 (22:13):
The only guy that didn't come through was Gabe Spier
one bad pitch to one Mariner killer.

Speaker 2 (22:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (22:22):
And otherwise the entire pitching staff, which has to be
the backbone of this team in its root toward the
World Series and perhaps capturing a World Series. Everybody else,
every pitch they threw fan freaking tastic tonight.

Speaker 2 (22:39):
Everybody.

Speaker 1 (22:40):
I mean, so we're thinking about the game four they lose,
they're flying back. I don't know if they knew they
were gonna go George Kirby or Castillo or I don't
know they win. They figured that out. But everybody, let's
just say position players, they know what is ahead of them.
What test is a trek scoogle. Even if you have
good abs. Orgy Prolong had a couple of good swings

(23:01):
and didn't miss and hit a couple home runs off
the guy, he still went seven innings and you barely
squeaked out of victory against them, Right, yeah, so you're
thinking yourself, this is gonna be a tough road to hoe.

Speaker 2 (23:12):
Every picture that was on.

Speaker 1 (23:13):
That plane flying back had to be thinking, well, I'm
probably gonna get an opportunity. Right, you didn't think necessary,
you're gonna have seven guys that are gonna throw, But
they everybody must have had the opportunity of we can
out duel them.

Speaker 2 (23:25):
Maybe they have.

Speaker 1 (23:26):
Somebody that is an alien that's borderline. You know, he
might be the best picture on the planet at this
point in time. But they don't have the same guys
that we have. They don't have the same depth that
we have, and we showed that basically being able to
run you know, a.

Speaker 2 (23:40):
Spire out there. Obviously he doesn't get the job done.

Speaker 1 (23:42):
What Brash does amazing Munos does his job gets you
all all the way into extra innings, and then to
be able to go with Logan, Gilbert and Bizarto unbelievable
art to bounce back from Bozardo because he didn't have
a good out in either very much.

Speaker 3 (23:57):
So he very easily inherited traffic too. It wasn't just
eight easy outs. It was not only do I have
to get all eight of these guys out, I got
to bail out Logans too that he put on that
I inherited, and he got that job done too. Yeah,
I mean that says, that says going to relief pitching
effort as you're gonna see.

Speaker 1 (24:15):
Right, because their pitching staff didn't wither and will no.

Speaker 2 (24:19):
I mean, so that's where I mean.

Speaker 3 (24:21):
They didn't allowed like two base runners every single inning
and we couldn't come through.

Speaker 1 (24:26):
Yeah we did, but then they they bowed up and
then found a way to get out of it. But
to me, think about if you had a failed opportunity,
or multiple failed opportunities where you felt like, oh, let's
move this guy over and get him in, you didn't
get it done. If you relinquish a run in any
one of the tops of these extra innings. And now
the pressure is on. For sure, we have to score
or our season's over. I don't know for sure if

(24:49):
they come through in that situation. So the fact that
these guys just went out there and put up zero
after zero after zero is I mean, if you've got
to say, who's the MVP, A lot of people say,
pull up, obviously, No, it's the pitching staff. Yeah, and
I'm gonna go go with Bizardo, Bizardo. Have you got
to go just one?

Speaker 2 (25:07):
Yeah? Well, yeah, Bizardo comes in.

Speaker 1 (25:09):
That's the first time that you're because for whatever reason,
they were holding off on Castillo. Yeah, I guess I
think maybe it's they don't want to bring him in. Yeah,
it's one thing to come in and relief as a
starting pitcher, but at least come in with a clean inning.

Speaker 2 (25:22):
And yet, I tell you what, he looked great. He
looked unbelievable. He looked. Oh maybe we should have gone
to him a little earlier.

Speaker 3 (25:29):
You know, I hope you weren't saving him for Game
one of the ALCS, because that is malpractice.

Speaker 2 (25:35):
I mean, you go with the guy that's going to
help you win tonight. You got to win this game tonight.

Speaker 3 (25:39):
And it's it's as if they saved until the fourteenth inning,
maybe the guy that was.

Speaker 2 (25:45):
The best all night long.

Speaker 3 (25:48):
I mean, Bizardo got the job done like an MVP performance.
But I think Castillo looked better than anybody out there tonight.

Speaker 1 (25:57):
Well he looked awesome, but oltimately I think it boiled
down to they just have just as much confidence and
obviously brash moon. You knows to get through the regulation
and you hope that your guys can scrape together one
more run. You're hoping your offense comes up and straight together,
one more run where you don't have to burn a
Logan or a Luis Castillo in that situation. Now they
go Logan, he goes out and does his job, boom,

(26:19):
leaves a little traffic. Then you're bringing a guy that
is came in with traffic on before and then he's
unbelievable getting out of that jam and then pitching beyond that,
like you said, getting eight big outs to where we
had multiple opportunities again and then didn't come through offensively.

Speaker 2 (26:33):
So hey, Castill, can you get it done?

Speaker 3 (26:34):
And he ends up getting it done, and there will
be time spent, you know, calling people out on this
postgame show here today because there were some frustrating moments,
certainly in this game.

Speaker 5 (26:45):
I mean, it's mostly celebratory.

Speaker 3 (26:46):
That's why I wanted to redirect the conversation away from
Gabe Spire to Jare Polonko coming through with the game winner,
and I'm gonna go ahead and add one more thing.

Speaker 5 (26:55):
I mean, we're gonna have to break here in a moment.

Speaker 3 (26:56):
I don't know how we're going. We're gonna go today,
but we'll go as long as we want. But the defense,
which I pointed out a couple of times today, did
get the job done. I mean, other than the very
first batter of the game, which looked to me like
an error line drive to carry from Kerry Carpenter to JP.

(27:18):
They called that a single, but there really wasn't another
miscue defensively the rest of the game, and considering how
tight everything was, boy that.

Speaker 2 (27:28):
Obviously was very instrumental.

Speaker 3 (27:30):
They did not give any extra outs, they did not
dig a hole for themselves.

Speaker 2 (27:35):
They were on point.

Speaker 3 (27:36):
I'm not saying anything was spectacularly done tonight, I don't remember.
I mean Polanco had a nice play in the hole.
JP had a nice play up the middle. Cal threw
a perfect throw out, I mean perfect but Dingler threw
a perfect row too, by the way, I want to
miss that. But cal threw a perfect grow to get
Keith trying to steal second base.

Speaker 2 (27:58):
So that was spectacular.

Speaker 3 (28:00):
I'm not sure how much was spectacular tonight, but everything
was steady as can be, and they did not allow
extra outs to the Tigers, and maybe that was the difference.

Speaker 2 (28:09):
I'll say.

Speaker 1 (28:10):
I say this, so right after the Kerry Carpenter home run,
I mean, the very next pitch, he throws another one
right down the middle to Glabor.

Speaker 2 (28:18):
Trusts.

Speaker 1 (28:19):
Glaber hits that little chopper down the third baseline, and
Gino makes what I think is probably the best defensive
play of the night on either side, backhand and throws it. Yes,
I mean it was. It was absolutely right on the
verge of you don't have a choice. He couldn't get
around it. He had to backhand it and still throw
a seat and barely got him out.

Speaker 2 (28:39):
I mean it was bang bang to me.

Speaker 1 (28:41):
That's where, all of a sudden the wheels could come off,
right If all of a sudden Gabe gives up the
homer and then gives up a dribbler.

Speaker 2 (28:48):
Now, all of a sudden he's out there sweating bullets.

Speaker 1 (28:50):
That was almost like a stop the bleeding, you know,
since the turn it get on a little bit and
allowed him to kind of get out of that and
he gets a ground out I think to Riley Green
after that.

Speaker 2 (29:00):
And then they came and brought Brash in. Yeah, but
that was one good play.

Speaker 1 (29:03):
Other than that, it was just solid outside of JP
clanking the first one.

Speaker 3 (29:07):
Yeah, I mean, didn't make mistakes and didn't allow an
inning to blow up like it did back in what
game two? You ended up winning that game, but you
allowed them back into that game because of some miscuse.
And that was against scoober That was the first game
against Schooble. So they got the job done. And look,

(29:28):
we're gonna get into a lot of other things here
throughout the course of the postgame show. Here live from
Jimmy at Baseball's Best Post Game Show. I didn't name
it that. Somebody to name it that year ago. Yeah,
I think you did. But it's Bucky Jacobson Chuck Powell
with you, celebrating a three two, fifteen inning marathon victory
to win the American League Divisional Series over the Detroit

(29:50):
Tigers and advance to the American League Championship Series, which
by the way, we'll start on Sunday against the Toronto
Blue Jay, so Sunday night will be game number one,
in case you were wondering about that. But that's the
other thing that I just wanted to mention in our
first segment, and that is it was a successful season.

Speaker 5 (30:10):
We talked about this a little bit today.

Speaker 3 (30:11):
We talked about it with the roundtable on Friday from
Snow Qualmie. It was a successful regular season. And I'm
with Dick Fane. You kind of have to separate the two,
especially in the sport of baseball. You could have a
successful regular season and then you could have a disastrous postseason.
And if they did not get past a first round,

(30:32):
I think that's a I think that's just a crushing
blow to this organization. And yet you did get over
that hurdle. It wasn't easy. It was not easy. They
never make it easy. But man, there.

Speaker 5 (30:48):
Is something I think it does get easier from here.

Speaker 3 (30:51):
I'm not making any predictions, I'm not looking ahead to anything,
but to me, like, if we don't get through round
number one, then it's gonna bother us. It's gonna piss
off the fan base forever. If we don't get if
we don't win one series after this year and the
trading deadline that we have.

Speaker 5 (31:11):
Man, I don't know if I can get over that one.

Speaker 3 (31:14):
But the fact that you just got over this hump,
now everything else is gravy, Like, Okay, we certainly want
them to make it to the World Series. We certainly,
you know, certainly this fan base deserves that. We certainly
want to win the World Series. But I think you
play just as a human being, as an athlete, you
just play a lot freer and easier once you get

(31:34):
over that hurdle of if we don't trip up here.
If we trip up here, we feel like failures. If
we trip up in the American League Championship series, it
won't feel that way. And I think they play a
lot looser, a lot easier in this Toronto series. And
I think all the pressure is off. There was some
pressure involved with this series. I think all the pressure

(31:54):
is off right now.

Speaker 1 (31:56):
Yeah, to me, it feels I mean, when we're going
down that path, there's a part of it that feels
like regardless, Okay, let's just look ahead. In a seven
game series, the best of seven series against Toronto, there's
a way in which you can lose that series, and
I'll be just as frustrated as I would have been
if had they not won this series, because this series

(32:18):
where I would have been frustrated, it han't lost. If
they had lost this series would have been multiple things
that I wouldn't be able to forget. Okay, you end
up not being able to win game one after a
good starting pitching performance by Kirby going against their bullpen.
You can't figure that out. But then you come back
in typical Mariner fashion and somehow find a way to

(32:41):
beat Arrek's Google.

Speaker 2 (32:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (32:43):
Now you're like, okay, we've we got to go to
their place, and now they have two out of the
three remaining games.

Speaker 2 (32:50):
If we have to go that far, we go to
their place, you need.

Speaker 1 (32:53):
To win at least one, and you win the first one,
and now you're like, here we go. We're set up.
Let's I'm playing on most of us. I think thought
that is advantage Mariners. Let's go and win game four
and we don't have to worry about game five back home. Yeah, instead,
you drop that one after out playing them, significantly, outplaying
them but only putting up three single digit runs, and

(33:15):
you're up three to zero.

Speaker 2 (33:16):
And you end up collapsing with a Game Spire situation. Again.

Speaker 1 (33:20):
You you pointed out multiple times on our show. It's
like Game Spire has been the center point of this series.
Oh yeah, still kind of is. Yeah, it's whether they
didn't use him against Kerry Carpenter in the first time
and he goes yard, then they do use him and
you win, and then they do use him and he
blows it, and now you use him and he blows it,

(33:41):
and you still find a way because of Leo Reevos,
and you'll get back into it and the rest of
the pictures. It's the way in which this series went.
Had you lost, there's all these things you'd look back
and second guests, if we go to Toronto and I'm
I don't really want to put it out.

Speaker 2 (33:57):
There in the universe.

Speaker 1 (33:58):
If they score thirty seven runs in two games or
twenty three runs in two games, is there a part
of you that's gonna go, wow, we really should have
made pitching change there, or no, you're gonna be Vlad Guerrero.
I guess hits eight hundred and just hits the ball
out of the yard every time they kicked our butts.
That won't feel as bad as if you end up
going there and and you give something away. So to me,

(34:20):
go play the game the way you're capable of. If
you've come out on the losing end, fine, I just
think if they go play the way they're capable of,
they won't lose.

Speaker 3 (34:26):
If they give up thirty seven runs, then what do
you say, two or three games?

Speaker 2 (34:30):
Ye? Say two games.

Speaker 3 (34:31):
I will get Softies ass with the Leo Reevos tattoo
on it, tattooed too my ass. All right, I'll get
a tattoo on my ass of Sartis ass with a
Leo revers or Anders signature record this on that.

Speaker 2 (34:47):
Yeah, actually, don't. We're not giving up thirty seven run yeh,
We're not giving up thirty seven runs in two games.

Speaker 3 (34:52):
All right, We're gonna do We're gonna keep the conversation
going here, We're gonna take a little bit of a
break and a little bit of a breath. Here we
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Chuck Powell with you, and we are celebrating three to two.
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Hore Polonco walking it off with a basis loaded one
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Speaker 3 (36:07):
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Speaker 5 (36:20):
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Speaker 3 (36:23):
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Speaker 2 (36:27):
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if you like it.

Speaker 1 (36:33):
And I don't know, maybe people don't even know we
are we still in the playoffs?

Speaker 2 (36:37):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (36:38):
Yeah, we won tonight at advanced to the American League
Championship Series.

Speaker 2 (36:42):
So we're playing Toronto in the next uh.

Speaker 3 (36:45):
Huh with seasons not over, No, not at all. And
you know the World Series is just one round way
Wait a minute, Yeah, yeah, that's the one that we
can't get to. Maybe it's impossible.

Speaker 2 (36:56):
To this point.

Speaker 1 (36:57):
Yeah, But so you're saying that we somehow were straight
together four WS against the Toronto Blue Jays.

Speaker 2 (37:03):
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one of the Fall Classic, one of the friend around
for a while I have.

Speaker 1 (37:11):
Yeah, Now when you say it like that, I've never
heard of this world series, Cheries.

Speaker 5 (37:15):
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Speaker 1 (37:18):
World Championship, Okay, yeah, I haven't heard of that, But
the Fall Classic I've heard of. But you're saying one
of the games will be on Sunday and then there'll
be another one on Monday. Looks like it and day day,
Monday Day, either one o'clock or two o'clock PM. I
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Speaker 5 (37:44):
Yeah, that's what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (37:45):
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Speaker 1 (37:46):
It's a great idea that was That was richest idea.

Speaker 3 (37:51):
Former Mariti Bucky Jacobs to Chuck Powell with you. We
are broadcasting live this evening from Jimmy's on First Ride
across the street from the ball.

Speaker 5 (38:00):
I don't know how crazy things are over there.

Speaker 3 (38:02):
We got a packed house here and Jimmy's a lot
of happy Marinder fans, and man, they were felt like
a million and five different times in the game where
everybody was just gonna be miserable and I mean for
years to come, and instead I got smiles all over.
I got Mariner jackets, I got Marinder fans. They are

(38:25):
fired up and they are joined us here at Jimmy's
and you can.

Speaker 5 (38:28):
Do the same thing. Come on by.

Speaker 3 (38:29):
We're gonna be here for a little while longer, breaking
down this game for you, discussing the many different elements
that took place, as the Mariners do take it in
fifteen innings, if you can believe it, fifteen innings by
a final score of three to two.

Speaker 5 (38:43):
And look, this would have been a lot more hair
pulling for.

Speaker 3 (38:46):
Us to have lost this than Detroit, because we just
had so many other golden opportunities, especially in extra innings
to finish this thing off with home field, like so
many walk off opportunities that had existed, and man, we
just could not get the big hit, and we weren't
playing small ball, which like we are capable of playing that.

(39:07):
I've seen it earlier this year. But we couldn't get
that big knock uh to drive in a run until
they loaded the bases in the fifteenth and Jor Polonko
just said, Okay, I'm gonna find out field grass and
we're just I'm done with this. We're done with this,
and it's.

Speaker 1 (39:25):
Not gonna go with any of you, and we're just
gonna go ahead and advance, and you guys enjoy your
trip back. Yeah, people in Detroit, you're wonderful people. Yeah,
But We're glad you lost. You're wonderful nice people. We
now know that, Bucky and I. But we are glad
we stomped you. Yes, really stomped you.

Speaker 3 (39:39):
And yes, your kindness feels wonderful under the squash of
our heel.

Speaker 2 (39:43):
Really yeah, yeah, really did? I kind of feel bad?

Speaker 1 (39:46):
No, I don't actually at all. Uh and so take that. Uh,
but yeah, many missed opportunities. They had a couple, uh,
but yeah they did. We squashed those out as well.
We had the Gilbert, the Gilbert third inning. Yeah, we
asked Logan to pitch three innings out of relief. He
kind of looked like he was really enjoying running in

(40:06):
from the bullpen for the first time in his career
forty eight thousand people screaming his name, Lames Spotlight.

Speaker 2 (40:14):
You're damn right, Walter.

Speaker 1 (40:15):
That goofy son of a He was like, cool, I
guarantee he goes up tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (40:21):
The day he chanted, I can get some of the
fire thing.

Speaker 7 (40:24):
I think.

Speaker 2 (40:25):
I want to be a reliever.

Speaker 3 (40:26):
Pete. I know you're not sorry, but yeah. He after
two terrific innings, then he got into trouble. Put the
first two on what inning was at the eleventh in
the top of the eleventh, and Bizardo had to come
in and kind of bail him out, including getting that
fielder's choice ground out to third where they cut down

(40:47):
a runner.

Speaker 5 (40:47):
At home that that took place there.

Speaker 3 (40:50):
I mean, that was like their big grand opportunity to
kind of seize control of the game. We had it
felt like sixteen of them. We had three of them
in extra innings that we just squandered before we actually
came through.

Speaker 1 (41:06):
Yeah, I mean, there was there was a bunch of
times where he ends up you know, not just him,
but just a few times where there they went up
there and got something going right.

Speaker 2 (41:17):
There was you know, a pass ball to move.

Speaker 1 (41:19):
Somebody up, and then there's a strategy of do we
intentionally walk this guy? And you and I were sitting
up in the press box and you know, questioning things
or just talking together about what you would do and
what I would do.

Speaker 2 (41:31):
And there's times where which.

Speaker 1 (41:32):
Is the great thing about being a baseball fan, it
just getting to be the armchair manager set of things. Yeah,
And it was one of those where after you'd say,
was he I don't know that, I'm like, no, I'm
walking in here for sure, And then you're sitting there
with your opinion in your mouth, right.

Speaker 2 (41:49):
You're and you're sitting there. I hope, I hope I'm
not wrong.

Speaker 1 (41:53):
I hope I hope that what I thought it comes true,
or I hope it doesn't backfire, whatever the case may be.
The duty of it is as we were doing it
with fifty thousand other people that were unbelievable as far
as the fans in that stadium and in an entire region.
I mean there's people I'm getting texts from my buddy
Can that's down in Palm Springs, and he's emotional about

(42:15):
this whole thing. I mean, this is bigger than anything
he's been around for Sonics winning it back in seventy nine.
He was there during the parade for that, he ran
on the field in nineteen ninety five, and yet for
some reason, this is bigger to him. And you hear Softy.
Softy is a die hard fan of everything Seattle, and
yet he's in tears. And he's not in tears just

(42:35):
because he couldn't be here. He's in tears because it
means so much to him and to me it felt
like it. I mean, we were just at Detroit now obviously,
Detroit's a different, different thing. They just witnessed their team
go through the scuffle oni like any other scuffle and
barely get into the playoffs after being one of the
better teams. And yet they weren't even selling out. This
place was sold out, was unbelievably alive. The people didn't

(42:58):
sit down except for in between innings that was packed.
All the way through fifteen innings, there was nobody that left.
It was an unbelievable experience and unbelievable environment. And I
think it all stems from the amounts of starvation that
we feel as Mariner fans. Yeah, they just know I'm
not going to be as a marinor fan that's whateverybody.
Just I'm not going to be somebody that's not going

(43:19):
to give my all, right, And I think it does
matter when you are. I know that home field advantage
in is not like the same as it is in football,
But when it's like that and you get out of
an inning to top of the Indian put up another zero,
and everybody comes alive at the end of that last pitch.
If you think that players aren't tired to some extent

(43:41):
and emotionally exhausted, they went on the same damn roller coaster,
except for the ball was hit to them, or they
were the one that were striking out with a guy
on second base or not moving a guy over. They
were going through those same ebbs and flows. And the
way in which the fans kind of reacted and the
way in which I think that they feel the city
feels about them, I think that did propel them to

(44:02):
continue to fight, continue to try to get themselves in
those situations, and finally in the fifteenth they found.

Speaker 2 (44:07):
One to push it and get it done. I'll give you.

Speaker 5 (44:09):
I give you a great story along those lines.

Speaker 3 (44:14):
Met a sports writer when we were in Detroit, had
conversations with her there. Knew that she didn't really want
to come back to Seattle. Yes, as a matter of fact,
she said that she doesn't care. You can go ahead
and have the series. I don't know if she's a

(44:36):
Tiger's rider, but she is some sort of baseball rider.

Speaker 2 (44:39):
I don't know. They didn't get to know her that well.

Speaker 3 (44:41):
But I ran into her here today as why Marlin's
guys here. I ran into her today as well, and
and she goes, I just just win, just finish it,
just finish us finish this off, and she goes, it's
not going to be as loud tonight as it was
the first two nights?

Speaker 2 (44:59):
Was it?

Speaker 3 (44:59):
And I say, it's going to be louder and she is,
Oh my gosh, it's crazy. And I said, these people
want it more. It's going to be the loudest place
you're going to be at this postseason. They just want
it more than any other fan base out there. It's
going to be loud, and this city loves being loud,
from the Seahawks to the Huskies and what we've experienced,

(45:22):
what the Tigers experienced here for three nights, I mean,
you know it's going to be loud and it's going
to get louder next round, make no mistake about it.

Speaker 1 (45:30):
John Morosi, I ended up seeing a tweet that he said.
He ended up saying, this place is absolutely nuts. This
is the loudest environment I've been in across.

Speaker 2 (45:40):
All sporting events. Is that right? Yes, he's been around
a little bit.

Speaker 3 (45:44):
Had the roof on tonight, had so trapped a little
bit of it, Yeah, but I'm telling you, it was
just non stop energy throughout the course of the evening.
It was amazing. Nice job, and I think maybe you
made a difference. I know twelves with the Seahawks feel
like they make a difference creating all those penalties on
the other side of the football.

Speaker 5 (46:04):
Well, I think he made a difference.

Speaker 3 (46:06):
I think you may have been the difference in this
game here tonight.

Speaker 2 (46:10):
So yeah, way go, way to go Mariners.

Speaker 3 (46:13):
All right, cal Raleigh, certainly it's been the year of
cal Man.

Speaker 5 (46:17):
He had several opportunities.

Speaker 3 (46:20):
I had predicted a walk off home run from him
and he had, like I felt like, twelve chances to
do that, and he did not come through. But he
wasn't without He had a base hit in the game.
He had an intentional walk, He had a walk. He
maybe had his best throw of the entire year to
gun down a base dealer earlier in the contest. He

(46:41):
caught the ball at home plate on the geno throw
home that and with the tag that got us out
of that inning and kept it at two to two.
And it's cal Raleigh, for goodness sake, what in a
phenomenal year? And I want to hear from him first.
Mike Benton's been across the street gathering up all sorts
of audio inside the Champagne celebration that's taken place, that's

(47:03):
already taking place at Team Mobile.

Speaker 5 (47:06):
So here is Cal after the game.

Speaker 2 (47:09):
I have nothing to say.

Speaker 8 (47:10):
I'm so happy, speechless, so thankful for everybody.

Speaker 5 (47:13):
Have you ever been in a game anything like this?

Speaker 8 (47:17):
Yeah, the Houston game a couple of years ago was
pretty similar, so that's cool, but we came out and
talked this time.

Speaker 2 (47:25):
It's just good. Cal.

Speaker 9 (47:28):
You've had a lot of teammates who have been through
this cut up battle before. How stronger did you guys
get going through all this three years ago and now
on a the ALCS this year?

Speaker 2 (47:37):
Yeah, you know, you.

Speaker 5 (47:38):
Don't forget those things.

Speaker 8 (47:40):
You know, we have a lot of the same guys
that we had there earlier in twenty two, and you
know that that pain really hurts the last couple of years,
so makes this much that much sweeter.

Speaker 9 (47:49):
You've had a lot of big hits in your career,
You've had more postseason experience. What's to me for this
team and this organization, for the legacy in Seattle. You know,
the fans have been waiting for so long here and
we worked so hard for this, and I'm just so
happy from everybody in this organization and everybody who roots
for us.

Speaker 2 (48:07):
As a fan. Just unbelievable.

Speaker 9 (48:10):
Finally, here's Tartner George Kirby, how do you pitch it on?

Speaker 2 (48:13):
Awesome?

Speaker 8 (48:13):
He did amazing. Everyone in our pictures did awesome. I
can't say enough how well they did.

Speaker 9 (48:18):
You go to the ALCS, congratulations.

Speaker 2 (48:20):
Thank you so much.

Speaker 5 (48:22):
There's Cal Raley with Mike Benton after the game.

Speaker 3 (48:24):
Nice job, Mike, way to get in there, the really
loud guy that was Mike Benton, and the cool customer
that was the MVP of the American League.

Speaker 2 (48:33):
Yep.

Speaker 3 (48:34):
So I mean Cal's gave all the credit to the pitchers, right,
I mean you realized that Tarrek Schooble had thirteen strikeouts
in six innings and the game went fifteen innings long,
and so fifteen innings and a total of seventeen strikeouts
for the Tigers, all right, so they already had the

(48:54):
foundation of Tarrek's Schooble having thirteen and six innings. Our
pitchers struck out twenty Oh geez, we struck out twenty
batters tonight. It shows you just how our guys and
they were good. They were certainly very good on their
side as well. But it just shows you how all
of our guys are except Gabe firing on all pistons
here tonight. So they even had the thirteen strikeout cushion

(49:17):
and six innings from one guy, and yet our pitchers
struck out more tigers tonight than they struck out Marinith.

Speaker 1 (49:23):
That's saying something. Well, I mean it's nice. I'm glad
that they won this because yeah, I mean the oh man,
I might.

Speaker 3 (49:30):
Have gotten that wrong. I apologize as it, but still
we didn't narrow the gap. I'm sorry. We had seventeen strikeouts,
they had twenty, but we didn't narrow the gap.

Speaker 1 (49:39):
Yeah, I mean, regardless we had, I mean obviously we had.
We had the same amount of opportunities as they did. Yeah,
we won it in the bottom of the fifteenth inning.
They had fifteen chances to push across that third run
and they didn't end up getting it done.

Speaker 2 (49:53):
Our pitcher stepped up.

Speaker 1 (49:54):
And the beautiful thing is we've known for years now
since these young starting pitchers started arriving on the scene,
and even Andre's Munos, who they signed to an extension
back when he was hurt, he wasn't even he wasn't
even really a big league guy, yet and they signed
him to an extension. We've known that this team was
built around the pitching staff, and tonight that that blueprint.

(50:18):
I mean, people can criticize Jerry, all criticized Jerry. There's
things that I don't like that he does, and yet
he right now today the pitching staff ended up winning
that ballgame for him, without a doubt. They went out
there and put up zero after zero. When they did
run into problems, they didn't wither and wilt. They went
toe to toe against one of the best pitchers on
the plane at this point in time and ended up

(50:39):
leaving down one and then capitalized with the nine outs
that they had remaining to tie it up, and then
obviously still went blow for blow with him, putting up
zeros and ended up pulling it out. So, I mean,
it's a it's this team is built for the postseason,
and this was a prime example of you will get
up against a team that there was no quit in
that in that Tiger line they were going up there. Now, Yeah,

(51:02):
I mean, I guess outside of Kerry Carpenter, they didn't.

Speaker 2 (51:04):
Do a whole heck of a lot. Well, he got
on every time but one.

Speaker 1 (51:08):
Yeah, I mean, and so ultimately, I think that the
fact that you had the intestinal fortitude to just go
out there and wither that whole thing. They're not weather
that whole thing and not whither, I think is impressive
to say the least.

Speaker 3 (51:23):
George Kirby was not my choice to be the number
one starter in this series.

Speaker 5 (51:28):
It would have been a Logan for me.

Speaker 3 (51:31):
That said George clearly was not a bad choice. George
threw four shutout innings in game number one and had
a carry carpenter problem. Then he threw five shutout innings
tonight and Gabe Spire had a carry carpenter problem and
that was the only run that was charged.

Speaker 2 (51:50):
To George Kirby.

Speaker 3 (51:51):
He was fantastic and he came out and he was
I thought he looked a lot better in this game
than he did in Game number one. Uh, and he
was you know, well, again, we'll never know if Logan
might have been the slightly better choice, but clearly not
a bad choice.

Speaker 2 (52:10):
George is so.

Speaker 3 (52:11):
Talented and man, he went out there with a mission.
I know, I'm going against the best left handed pitcher
in the world, and I'm gonna match.

Speaker 2 (52:18):
Him zero for zero.

Speaker 1 (52:19):
Yeah, I mean, ultimately, the thing I was saying while
we were talking about that that was the beauty of
having the first round by was we were going to
get to set it up however we wanted. And I remember,
you know me, I'm the type that I don't have
a real super strong opinion about anything unless I have
all of the information. That's just the way that I am.
The one thing that I can say that I felt

(52:40):
strongly about the information that I had was this is
a pretty good problem to have, pretty good problem to have.

Speaker 2 (52:47):
Do we start George.

Speaker 1 (52:49):
Kirby or yeah, do we start Logan Gilbert or do
we start Luis Castillo. I mean, you know, Brian Wu
obviously would have been thrown in the mix and probably
would have gotten the start if he was healthy. What
a nice problem to have, because ultimately it didn't end
up costing you. Whether the decision is one that we
agreed with or disagreed with, you heavily disagreed with it

(53:11):
or agreed with it, it doesn't matter.

Speaker 2 (53:13):
It still was.

Speaker 1 (53:15):
You went out there and George Curby gave you a
chance to win in game one, and then you had
to ask Luis Castillo, hey can you beat turch School.
Nobody's ever beaten him three times, by the way in
a season, can you do it a third time?

Speaker 2 (53:28):
Yep.

Speaker 1 (53:28):
I'll do my part, and the offense will pick me
up and do their part, and we'll squeak.

Speaker 2 (53:32):
That one out.

Speaker 1 (53:33):
Then all of a sudden, it's well, now we got
George Kirby on the road. Not the best road splits compared.
You know, he would have been one that would have
liked to have pitched at home as well. He goes
out and does his job. You win that Bowl game.
It felt like, even though there's questions to be had,
none of them ended up costing you as far as
when it comes down to the series.

Speaker 2 (53:51):
You won three, they won two. You your advance and
they're going.

Speaker 3 (53:53):
On, yeah, I mean you had five games, and every
single starting pitcher gave you four shutout in at least
minimum to start those five games, And so you want
to talk about a starting pitcher giving you the chance
to win a ball game. Every single one of them
went out there and did their job, and there were
a couple quick hooks out there. But that's playoff baseball.

(54:16):
That's the way it works, and that's the way that
all teams are approaching it. I mean, Tyler Glasnow was
not allowed to go beyond six innings, and he had
a shutout the other day against the Philadelphia Phillies. Christopher
Sanchez looked unhittable the other day for the Phillies and
he was taken out in the middle of the seventh.

Speaker 5 (54:32):
That's just playoff baseball.

Speaker 3 (54:34):
They're playing the percentages of Yes, I know you're a
better starting pitcher. I know you're a better pitcher George
Kirby than Gabe spier Is. That's why you're our starter.
But the truth of the matter is for getting one
guy out and a great matchup, he has like a
one to seventy five batting average against right where you

(54:55):
have a two forty batting average against. So for this
one matchup and is one moment, he is the better
option right now than what you are, even though you
are the better pitcher. So that's the way that teams
play it right now. There is an analytical element to it,
but it's really just a matchup element to it that
has always existed in Major League baseball anyway.

Speaker 5 (55:16):
George Kirby, fantastic tonight.

Speaker 3 (55:18):
Here's George after the game, hopefully receiving some flowers.

Speaker 10 (55:23):
Yeah, I mean, everybody's super excited. Yeah, well, we'll be
prepared for that. But I mean everybody tonight, they just
everyone dugged eat and found a way to win. And
it just goes to show how tough we are. And man,
it's just so cool to see everybody, you know getting

(55:45):
the job done tonight.

Speaker 2 (55:45):
So who were the damn on the right, George?

Speaker 10 (55:49):
How well equipped were you guys to go through the
emotions of this game, given that you played the eighteen
inning game in the playoffs just a couple of years ago. Yeah,
I mean that eighteen in game and then man, just
countless amount of just you know, one run games at
the end. Man, we've been we've been in it all.
So if anything, we're probably the most prepared team for it.

(56:12):
And yeah, it's just awesome Polla came through. Yeah, I'm
just I'm just so freaking happy right now, go on
the back.

Speaker 7 (56:23):
Right With your experience coming out of the bullpen in
the twenty twenty two playoffs, were you talking at all
the Logan and Luis what you know about how to
approach maybe coming out of the pen when they're not
used to that.

Speaker 10 (56:35):
Yeah, I didn't, Uh, I didn't give them any advice
those I think those guys are good enough to you know,
you know, go find something deep inside of them and
just go out there and you know, compete. And that's
what they did, something they're not used to. And you
know they give us about five or six innings out
of the pen there.

Speaker 9 (56:54):
That was that was huge.

Speaker 10 (56:54):
So yeah, it's awesome.

Speaker 2 (56:57):
Hey, George, given it.

Speaker 11 (56:59):
You didten innings and you used a lot of pitchers,
including three starters. How does that affect your plans going
into the Toronto Series a day after tomorrow? Has it
changed the starting rotation or anything like that.

Speaker 2 (57:13):
I have no idea.

Speaker 10 (57:14):
I mean, it's a good question for Dan, but uh,
I know everyone's gonna be ready to go. And you know,
whoever gets the ball pass them, they're they're gonna, you know,
come out and compete.

Speaker 3 (57:23):
So George Kirby after the game, I love George, uh
and he just he just got the job done. Continues
to struggle with this carry carpenter. I don't know where
this thim bot was, you know, crafted what secret lab
they came up with pretty boy Floyd here, But my goodness,

(57:46):
we can't get that dude out now.

Speaker 2 (57:48):
Oh my gosh.

Speaker 3 (57:49):
It was unbelievable again tonight, Well, I mean it's George's kryptonite.

Speaker 5 (57:53):
George was Superman other than the fact that.

Speaker 3 (57:56):
Carrie Krypton kryptonier Uh decided to step into the batter's
box against him a few times, four for five with
two walks in the game, including the only run producing
hit for the Tigers the entire night.

Speaker 1 (58:07):
Well, I think out since that home run back in
Game one, I don't think he had gotten a hit
since that.

Speaker 2 (58:15):
Now he was taking good swings.

Speaker 1 (58:16):
I'm not one hundred percent sure on that, but I'm
pretty sure he hadn't done anything. Now he still was
going up there and giving you fearful at bats. He
was making you take you know, making you make moves
and take precaution most certainly, which does affect how a
pitcher goes about his business. But tonight he was just unstoppable.

Speaker 2 (58:35):
I mean it was. It was one of those like,
oh this guy again. I was sitting there thinking to myself,
can we just skip him?

Speaker 1 (58:39):
Is there like a car, like a skip card, like
an Uno, Like I will to skip that guy, you
know what I mean, he just played it once a game,
it'd be cool. But no, he can't do that unfortunately. Yeah,
I mean he got on base. I'm sure that getting
on base six times is a record. I know that
fifteen innings, I think is the longest winner take all
game in the history of a Major League Baseball playoffs.

Speaker 2 (59:00):
So what a what a game to be a part of.
I'm just so pumped that we're on the winning side
of this bad.

Speaker 3 (59:05):
No Jesus was a carpenter, Hey pulled off any miracles?

Speaker 2 (59:08):
Maybe that's yeah, maybe that's what it is. It might
have been.

Speaker 3 (59:11):
There might be something there that was his last Maybe
he's a descendant. Yeah, yeah, possible, Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 5 (59:17):
Uh, it's Buddy Jacobs at Chuck Powell.

Speaker 3 (59:19):
Whether we are live from Jimmy's on First across the
street from t Mobile, where the Mariners did win the
American League Divisional Series against the Detroit Tigers by a
final score of three to two, and it took fifteen
innings to do it.

Speaker 5 (59:30):
We got a lot of other things to discuss.

Speaker 3 (59:32):
I'm really not sure how long we're going to go,
but we're certainly going to come back on the other
side of this.

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Speaker 2 (01:00:13):
Now here's chucking, buddy.

Speaker 5 (01:00:16):
Oh my goodness. Yeah, finally starting to calm down a
little bit.

Speaker 3 (01:00:21):
But man, I think it's people are going to have
a hard time sleeping tonight, and for all the good reasons.

Speaker 2 (01:00:27):
Just hyped. What an evening out at the old Ballyard.

Speaker 3 (01:00:30):
Fifteen long, excruciating innings. I feel like I've a thrung
out dish rag from all the times I've been twisted
and turned by the hands of gods. And so here
we sit at Jimmy's on First across the street from
T Mobiles, celebrating a three to two win. There was
a champagne celebration. Two more of those to go, by

(01:00:53):
the way, M's, so hopefully you're not bored with them
at this point. But the Mariners. In the midst of
all the ca they were bothered by Mike Benton, our
own dogged reporter, who was after all sorts of valuable
audio from our star players, and he caught up to
one of Bucky's favorites, Josh Naylor.

Speaker 2 (01:01:14):
Here he is after the game.

Speaker 12 (01:01:15):
Just credit to everyone, honest, everyone did their job.

Speaker 5 (01:01:18):
Oh my god, it's cold.

Speaker 12 (01:01:19):
Everyone did their job. And you know we're just replay
as a team. This s that's no matter in the playoffs.

Speaker 2 (01:01:24):
We gotta get a win anyway.

Speaker 1 (01:01:25):
Anyhow, did you feel like the longer it kept going,
eventually you were gonna break the damn Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:01:30):
I know.

Speaker 12 (01:01:30):
I prayed a lot during the game and just ask
God to help. Let's give everyone's strength, and you know
he came.

Speaker 2 (01:01:35):
Through for us.

Speaker 6 (01:01:37):
Hey Budd.

Speaker 2 (01:01:41):
For a second year. I love the Jersey.

Speaker 5 (01:01:46):
I broadcast with a Kraken.

Speaker 9 (01:01:47):
Actually, yeah, signed the ole Man last week. Let's get
to go in here, Choss Naylor three to two and one.
Choss going out to the America League Championship Series. What
does this moment mean to you?

Speaker 5 (01:01:58):
It's awesome.

Speaker 12 (01:01:58):
I mean, we got a lot more to do, know,
thank God for everything, though, man, he gave us so
much strength, and you know, we just we went out
there and did our thing.

Speaker 5 (01:02:05):
And there's a long game and a long night.

Speaker 12 (01:02:08):
We're all tired, but we're gonna celebrate big.

Speaker 5 (01:02:09):
How did you meet the moment?

Speaker 9 (01:02:11):
How did you see that your teammates met this moment
here for a marathon game.

Speaker 12 (01:02:14):
Everyone was prepared everyone, everyone was prepared, came in prepared,
you know, I know, we just we played a complete
game of.

Speaker 5 (01:02:20):
Baseball offense, defense, and it was awesome.

Speaker 9 (01:02:22):
When you go through fifteen innings like that, how do
you stay up? How do you stay ruady? How do
you stay fresh? And how did it lead all to this?

Speaker 12 (01:02:28):
I mean, you gotta have energy through the whole game
and it's not over till it's over.

Speaker 9 (01:02:31):
I noticed that you're wearing a crack in Jersey. How
special is that to have this right now in the club.

Speaker 12 (01:02:36):
Yeah, it's awesome, and we shout up to them for
coming to the game to supporting us.

Speaker 5 (01:02:40):
It was it was so great to see them.

Speaker 2 (01:02:41):
In the crowd.

Speaker 12 (01:02:42):
And uh, you know it's cool when teams, you know,
represent other teams in their own city.

Speaker 9 (01:02:47):
You're going to the Alcs, John say, get congratulation.

Speaker 5 (01:02:49):
Thank you, appreciateing Mike Betton.

Speaker 3 (01:02:51):
Oh man, you just had to get the cracking in
twice for goodness sake, didn't you.

Speaker 2 (01:02:56):
Uh yeah, yeah, yeah, we yeah.

Speaker 13 (01:02:58):
And then uh, they're in first place right now, they are,
they are, then they should talk about it.

Speaker 3 (01:03:05):
Yeah, they're undefeated on the season. Look at Betton and
talking about one of their kind. But nice job, Michael, Mike, Nice,
nice job, Josh Naylor, I do.

Speaker 2 (01:03:17):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:03:18):
Maybe he was distracted by impending parenthood, but he has
three it's in each of the last two games.

Speaker 5 (01:03:25):
He's back on track.

Speaker 3 (01:03:26):
And uh, at this stage, I trust him about as
much as any Mariner coming to the plate right now,
and I think I'm going.

Speaker 2 (01:03:33):
To for the rest of this postseason.

Speaker 1 (01:03:35):
Well yeah, I mean that's just the way that baseball is.
I mean, it's it's it's hard, it's hard to do.
And maybe there was something with the distraction. I would
be willing to bet that he wouldn't he wouldn't give
that any credit. Yeah, I mean, I look back every pitch.
I don't think so. I look back at everything. It's
all about good swing decisions, right and then mechanics. The

(01:03:58):
one thing we see about him is he's pretty sound.
When it comes to mechanics. He gets big, he'll swing
and almost fall down and helmet fall off. Fine, you're
a guy that can do that every once in a while.
You know why, because then you know how to shorten
it up. Where I get frustrated is when other guys
swing out of their ass and then they're like, Yep,
I'm just gonna keep doing that.

Speaker 2 (01:04:16):
No you're not.

Speaker 1 (01:04:17):
You need to stop doing that right. Matter of fact,
I don't need you to do it hardly ever, JP
So regardless, I mean, there's certain guys that can get
away with doing it. He is a professional hitter. Sign
this guy. Sign this man. Yeah, I mean it's a leader.
You mentioned something when Gamespier came in. Now it didn't
work out. Gave Spire's warming up and the rest of

(01:04:39):
the infield is out talking where they kind of talk
out in the shallow infield area right behind second right
in front of second base, and he goes up to
Spire and says something, Yeah, I'm sure it's hey, you
got this, let's go.

Speaker 2 (01:04:51):
Now.

Speaker 1 (01:04:52):
He didn't get this, and he didn't let's go. But
that's the type of leader that he is. I guarantee
it that he's the type of guy that when you
get into games like that where there's pressure, what you're
saying you felt wrung out, Well, this is what you
play for, this is what you get to be a
fan for, and then hopefully it works out in your favor.
If it does, it's as sweet as what we're feeling

(01:05:12):
right now. If it doesn't, it's as painful as what
the well, Tiger fans they had already given up, so
but it would have been crazy painful. And instead you're
on the e. You're on the that pendulum, just swinging
back and forth at one after another, and a guy
like that keeping everybody on their toes and then the fans,
I think, keeping everybody energized as well.

Speaker 2 (01:05:30):
And we only have a couple of minutes left and
then we but I I.

Speaker 3 (01:05:33):
Do, We're gonna take this over the next there there's
too much else to talk about. We haven't even talked
about the Blue Jays yet, So I'm gonna see to
lose the last here's the last two minutes that we
have here in this hour to just talk about Naylor
and that second inning he gets the double. I told
a Tiger Beat rider who I'm not sure was aware

(01:05:53):
of this back in game number four. I said, you
better watch that dude, because he might be built like
a teletubby. He will steal third on your ass if
you're not careful. And he did it today and slides in,
got the uniform dirty in his first at batis first
time on the base pads. And look, this game went
to fifteen innings, right, this game went into extra innings,

(01:06:14):
so every single run was valuable.

Speaker 2 (01:06:16):
Mitch Garver got the sack fly, and so good for Mitch.

Speaker 3 (01:06:20):
But Josh Naylor getting a check swing double down the
left field line off of Schooble, who only allowed one
other hit the entire night, and then he steals third
and puts himself in a position to score on the sackfly.
I mean, he's just he just does the little things
so extremely well. And yeah, sign him. We need him,

(01:06:42):
We need him going forward because he has made quite
the impact, not just on this team, but on the
fan base and everybody else. And that was a brilliant
piece of baseball right there for Josh Naylor in the
second inning. All right, we do have to take a
break and then we're gonna come up next. Yeah, top
of the hour, only on ninety three to three, so

(01:07:04):
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simulcasting there.

Speaker 5 (01:07:08):
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Speaker 3 (01:07:10):
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Speaker 5 (01:07:53):
Former Mariner Bucky Jacobson's here.

Speaker 3 (01:07:54):
My name is Chuck Powell, and we continue with the
we into the night. Things starting to clear out finally
here downtown. But what a wild day on the Seattle
sports scene. Wild night on the Seattle sports scene. Congratulations
to the Huskies. They ended up kind of pulling away
from Rutgers in the second half. Slow start again for

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the offense, but Demon Williams ended up passing for over
four hundred yards rushing for over one hundred yards, and
you dub had.

Speaker 5 (01:08:23):
Very little trouble in the second half with Rutgers.

Speaker 3 (01:08:26):
Here at Te Mobile, it's the Mariners who had lots
of trouble with the Detroit Tigers, but end up surviving
this one and advancing in the tournament. The final score
in fifteen grueling innings was three to two in favor
of the Mariners. And I mentioned earlier a lot more
grueling for us than the Detroit Tigers. The many opportunities

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that they had to end this game in the tenth,
in the twelfth, and the thirteen.

Speaker 2 (01:08:53):
They just had opportunities everywhere.

Speaker 3 (01:08:55):
I mean, Bucky, I go back to the Victor Roblace
leadoff double that they decided not to play small ball
and bunt him over and you end up not even
moving him off second base. He didn't even get beyond
second base after a leadoff double.

Speaker 2 (01:09:10):
You get your kind of a.

Speaker 3 (01:09:12):
Struggling hitter, but he's just your fastest guy arguably on
the team. You get him on second base and you
don't even budge him in that inning. Deciding not to
go the bunt route in that situation.

Speaker 1 (01:09:24):
Well, they thought about it, right, they thought, because at
first JP squared around the first pitch and then pulled
back in his ball and then just well, but now
he's ahead in the count, We'll just let him go
ahead and hack what? No, move his ass over? What
did we want? I don't understand how that isn't just automatic.

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That's that's one of the beauties of being the home team.
When we talk about that, there's not that big of an advantage.
That's one advantage. You know, one run and the game
is over, and yet you don't end up doing it.
That was That was where I told you I'm a
very opt missing person. When we didn't move him over
and then you ended up getting nothing out of it,
I was like, it sucks some of my optimism out.

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Now I didn't gain it again until Naylor came up again.
I was like, Okay, it's back. I'm back now. And
he didn't get a hit that time. But regardless, it's
just one of those things. Tenth and now he let
teams off the hook like.

Speaker 3 (01:10:18):
That, and that was the tenth and then it got
Then there were worse examples, because then you jump ahead
to the twelfth and you got the first two guys on.
Leo Revos gets the walk to start that inning and
then gets the second because of an error by the
pitcher trying to pick him off. Roblaze is going to
try to bunt in that situation and ends up getting

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hit on the knuckles. I guess that's not a bad
thing because he stayed in the game the rest of
the game.

Speaker 2 (01:10:46):
And now you got two speedy guys on.

Speaker 3 (01:10:48):
And you got the nine hole hitter, and the most
obvious thing in the world now is to bun him over.
And JP gets screwed by a call on three to zero.
Then he can't get a bunt down on three and one,
and then he pops out to shallow left field and
you don't move the runners and the top it all off.

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A Rosarna comes up next and taps one back. He
had a rough night too. Randy won six' three double,
play and again you failed to score on an even juicier.

Speaker 1 (01:11:21):
Situation, yeah the, ballplayer the guy In Louis Louis. Rievas
that ends Up Leo rivas that ends up coming In
and that was his FIRST, Ab that first one that
we talked about was his FIRST ab in twelve days by.

Speaker 2 (01:11:32):
The, way. Single.

Speaker 1 (01:11:34):
Yes but then so he comes, in he's off the,
bench battles and has a gets a, walk gets. On
like you, said there's a pickoff, throw, boom he's in
second now all of a, sudden trying to bun him,
over gets hit by a.

Speaker 2 (01:11:45):
Pitch you're, like, okay here we, Go like you just
you have to move the runner.

Speaker 1 (01:11:49):
Over and so to, me that was a situation WHERE
i don't understand how they're they're not getting the job,
done AND i, mean it's not that.

Speaker 2 (01:11:56):
EASY i.

Speaker 1 (01:11:56):
Agree i'll GIVE jp, This like you just, said he
got it was three to. Zero he ends up taking
what should be ball. Four but we've seen. Him he
knows the strike. Zone he knows it about as well
as anybody. Does he gets really pissed off when they
miss a. Call, well that's part of the. GAME i
hate it. Too you doesn't mean you don't get the

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butt down the next time because you're, mad because you
shouldn't be bunting and it should be bases. Loaded, yes
it should be bases, loaded it's. Not, yeah just do your.
Job and it was a feeble. ATTEMPT i, mean you
got to get your face down in. THERE i know
nobody wants to do. That nobody wants to hit by
a pitcher or. Anything but you gotta get down there
and put a better.

Speaker 2 (01:12:34):
One and then he. Doesn't and then then the next.

Speaker 1 (01:12:36):
Pitch he hits a weak little fly ball to left
field that that's not gonna move the run over.

Speaker 2 (01:12:40):
Either so, anyway that was another letting him off the hook. Moment.

Speaker 3 (01:12:43):
Yeah and then they very next inning they get the
first two on a cow. Walk, uh and then you
get another walk To. Julio seem to have him on the.
Road you were wondering If flaherty was just gonna who
came in in relief a starting. Pitcher he Started game number,
Three you were wondering if he was just gonna a
walk in the, run which at that, Point i'm, LIKE
i don't need a, hero you, KNOW i just have

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if you want to walk us walking.

Speaker 2 (01:13:07):
Home, yeah our, Guy, yeah didn't need to be. HERE
i don't need a.

Speaker 3 (01:13:09):
HERO i can just have four guys go up there
and watch four balls each and we can go home
if you'd.

Speaker 2 (01:13:15):
Like, yeah but what.

Speaker 3 (01:13:17):
Happens we get a strikeout From polanco and a six
four to three double, play and they just The it just.
Continued to use a different version Of Dave niehouse's famous.
Calls it just, continues but in a negative light. Tonight
and then finally in the, FIFTEENTH jp makes up for

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earlier failures with guys in scoring position by at least
leading off of a single hit by pitch of a rose.
Arena the flyout to center, field which was huge from
CAL jp had enough distance there and he ran like
he is not running A mariner uniform to get into third.
Base the throw comes, in it's a little. Errant suddenly
you've got second and. Third an intentional walk To Julio

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rodriguez bought up the better contact hitter In, polanco and
he comes through with the game, winner AN rbi single
to right, field and the celebration was.

Speaker 2 (01:14:11):
On, Finally, yeah off the.

Speaker 1 (01:14:14):
SCHNEIDE i, mean ultimately going back to when you KNOW
jp or NOT, jp When jorge ends up striking out
in a situation where you got him on the, ropes
that was. ONE i was really surprised because he was
taking some decent having some decent at bats, against Even.
Scooball there were some guys that weren't having very good
at bats against some. Understanding so he was on a
lot of. Pitches he was taking a bunch of pitches

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that were on the fringe of the zone and he
was he just wasn't locking up on anything like he
had the last time he had faced. Him that was
one where he ended up getting four pitches in a.
Row maybe it was three pitches in a row right
in the middle of the, plate and he ends up
swinging through. Him now it was slider and then like
a knuckle curve and another knuckle. Curve but their pitches
you gotta be able to put in. Play we can't

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have a punch out right, there and inevitably he, does
And geno compounds the mistake by hitting into the double.
Play you're, like, yeah when are we going to have
somebody just come? Through and yet it didn't happen that
Any but luckily it did the next.

Speaker 3 (01:15:07):
Boy we had some guys with some tough nights tonight
at the. Plate randy A Rose arena didn't get a
ball out of the. INFIELD i, mean that's that's seven plate,
appearances and he didn't get the ball out of the.
INFIELD i got hit by a couple of, pitches so
sometimes it was taken away from, him but does not
get the ball out of the. Infield we talked about jp.
Struggles his first five at bats were terrible and then

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he finally comes through with the clutch single to get
things going in the game winning. Fifteenth gino had a
really rough day at the, plate zero for six in this. Contest,
julio since being the hitting star in the first two, games.

Speaker 2 (01:15:44):
Has seriously cooled.

Speaker 3 (01:15:46):
Off Even polonko until the game winning, hit has cooled
off a little bit since you, know Tattooing. Tarrek we
called Him tarrek poisoning earlier in the morning. Show but,
SO i, mean it was a. Battle it was about
on both ends to try to get any offense going
for both. Teams but eventually The mariners do capitalize on

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a tremendous scoring situation and they do win the. Game
and our pitchers have to be given the credit because
they were, extraordinary.

Speaker 1 (01:16:15):
Unbelievable What it's something that we kind of had forecasted
AND i kind of, thought, hey it boils down to.
Win are you going to just come up with a big,
knock and eventually we. Did but that wouldn't have been
the case if the pitchers didn't come in there and
do as much as remarkable of a job as they.
Did AND i mean it was with the exception Of Gabe's,
spire who struggled again obviously and just ended up leaving

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one over the heart of the. Plate you can't live.
There you, know you ain't throwing ninety. Five that's not
getting by, anybody most certainly not getting By Kerry carpenter
when you're wearing a merror. Uniform and yet after, THAT
i think The brash couple, INNINGS i think we're crazy
huge because they just had seized the. Lead you were
up one Zero Kerry. Carpenter one swing of the. Bat
when you bring a guy in to face, him now

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they have the. Lead and Then brash ends up, saying,
Well i'm not gonna let that go any further than,
that so he ends up doing his. Job munno's right after,
him Then gilbert And bizardo And Luis castillo coming. IN i,
mean it was impeccable when it comes down to what
your pitching staff. Did they did a remarkable. Job and
yet you needed every ounce of.

Speaker 3 (01:17:18):
It fifteen innings, pitched only eight, hits, allowed four, walks
struck out seventeen. Batters the only damage was really done
By Kerry carpenter once. Again he had four of those
eight hits in the, game plus two of the four.
Walks but the pitching staff had really no trouble with anything.
Else seven anyone. Else seven different pitchers used in the,

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game Including Logan, Gilbert Luis castillo pitching in roles that
they have never filled before in their entire. Careers and Then,
bizardo coming off one of his worst outings of the,
year maybe being THE mvp of the, game going two
and two thirds innings out of the penn striking out
for Getting Logan gilbert out of his. Jam he was

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fantastic Tonight and maybe YOU'RE.

Speaker 2 (01:18:06):
Mvp they don't name.

Speaker 3 (01:18:07):
AN, mvp by the, way for the divisional. Round they
will name AN mvp of The American League Championship. Series
they will name AN mvp of The World. Series do
you have a choice, though FOR mvp if we were given, One.

Speaker 2 (01:18:18):
Oh, BOY i mean cal is hard to not. Continue
he didn't do a ton.

Speaker 5 (01:18:25):
Hit like four. Hundred he just didn't hit Any he
just didn't hit home.

Speaker 13 (01:18:28):
Run he hit one home, Run but ultimately that that
sack fly which doesn't go as a sack fly when
he flew out to center, field but he MOVED jp
up and then whoever the, meadows the centerfielder just throws
it kind of into no man's land and allows the
double play to stay out of, order which then they
Walk julio to Face, jorge who ends up winning the.

Speaker 1 (01:18:48):
Ballgame to, ME i, mean If i'm, HONEST i would
have If i'm, them If i'm A tigers, FAN i
would have rather Faced julio in that situation then Face
Jorge polonko in a, no there's no room to be.
Had and so ultimately that was a big play and
that comes from you, know him going up there and
while nothing it doesn't look like anything good in the stat,
sheet it moved the guy into scoring. Position it moved

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it MOVED jp to third. Base SO i mean that
was again we could have faltered there and not got it,
done But jorge, said, no, okay enough, guys let's let's
get some champagne.

Speaker 2 (01:19:20):
Popping. YEAH i think it is.

Speaker 3 (01:19:22):
CAL i, MEAN i don't know if there's an obvious.
One but Cal rawley hit three eighty one for the,
series four to eighty on BASE i mean it was pretty.

Speaker 2 (01:19:33):
Good numbers were one thousand. Ops, yeah that's. Good, yeah
and made in the perfect. Throw all.

Speaker 5 (01:19:38):
Right, yeah So i'll probably Go cal on that.

Speaker 2 (01:19:41):
One all.

Speaker 3 (01:19:41):
Right last couple of minutes Here Toronto Blue jays we
start On. SUNDAY i think we match up. TERRIFIC i
think we match up better against The Blue jays than
we do The. YANKEES i think that they're starting pitching
can be. HAD i think that their bullpen can be.
Had Vladimir Guerrero juniors the hottest hitter on the plant right.
Now he practically beat The yankees by himself in the,

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series even though they were many other. Contributors BUT i
like our matchup with this, team even though we did
not win the season series Against, yeah, no.

Speaker 1 (01:20:12):
We ended up winning two out of three the first
series and then got swept by him at home when
we weren't playing very good baseball and they scored some
runs on us. THERE i, MEAN i do typically believe
in our starting. Rotation you were, talking we were talking
to somebody up in the press, box and you said
that it doesn't matter who we end up going against
as far as starter versus their, starter it's going to

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be a pitching Advantage, Mariner so we're gonna have to.

Speaker 2 (01:20:35):
Ride this pitching. Staff.

Speaker 1 (01:20:36):
NOW i would like to, MAYBE i don't, know score
more runs every once in a. While definitely move guys
over and get him out if we can do, that
and not expect our guys to throw fifteen, innings majority
of them scoreless outside of one one.

Speaker 2 (01:20:49):
Swing and SO i DO i like it as.

Speaker 1 (01:20:52):
WELL i, mean The yankees seem like they might be
able to longball with us it had they. ADVANCED i
don't think that that's necessarily the. Case you're gonna have
to be real careful with Lad guerrero because he's if
he's ch channel in his Inner, papa that's a, dangerous dangerous.
HITTER i, mean he did some serious damage against, them
and hopefully.

Speaker 2 (01:21:11):
He cools down a little.

Speaker 1 (01:21:12):
Bit that's just the guy you gotta be careful, of
and a couple other guys in. There but for the most,
Part i'll put our lineup against.

Speaker 5 (01:21:17):
Theirs, yeah, yeah for.

Speaker 3 (01:21:18):
Sure and they've got a young rookie by the name
of Y savage who has been called up really late
in the, process and yet nobody seems to be able
to hit. Him he struck out eleven and five and
a third innings against The yankees in his one. Start
they've Got Shane, bieber who they added at the trading.
Deadline they've Got Kevin, gosman who is their, ace and

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then the fourth game that they, played they did a
bullpen gup by. COMMITTEE i, mean this was a team
that had to buy in the first. Round so their
three starting pitchers. Deep one of them is wet behind
the year, rookie AND i mean it's damn back there
because he's only got about three starts in his entire
major league career plus a, postseasons but nobody has figured

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out how to touch him to this. Point he might
be due for getting lit, up who. Knows but we
definitely have a healthier starting. Rotation and then.

Speaker 5 (01:22:10):
There's the wild.

Speaker 3 (01:22:11):
Card Is brian wu going to be healthy enough to
join this starting. ROTATION i, mean we just Used gilbert
for a couple of, Innings we just Used castillo for
an inning and two Thirds, kirby so we used three
of our starting pitchers.

Speaker 2 (01:22:25):
Tonight that just Leaves.

Speaker 3 (01:22:26):
Bryce and we only have one day Off saturday before
you have to play On. SUNDAY i, mean it would
be a coup if we could Get Brian.

Speaker 5 (01:22:34):
Woo if sitting back there in the, Weeds Justin olander
And Jerry depoto.

Speaker 3 (01:22:39):
Have a secret that they haven't been able to share with,
us that they feel great That brian wu is ready to.
RETURN i, mean that would be a coup if he
is ready to go in game number one after what
we had to spend today to win this.

Speaker 1 (01:22:51):
Series, YEAH i MEAN i did see SOMETHING i think
today where he was doing some flat work out there With,
woody like. Throwing, NOW i don't know how much they
have to run guy. Up one THING i would say
is that this team has done a great job over
the course of you, know the last five ten years
of keeping their guys as healthy as anybody has any other.
Organization typically that's they're pretty careful with guys that they

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don't rush them. Back So i'm not going to get
my hopes up on, that but it would be, Unbelievable
if not, unbelievable that's not the right, word but it
would be really.

Speaker 2 (01:23:21):
Good it would be really.

Speaker 1 (01:23:22):
Great if all of a sudden you're, like, hey by
the way we had to use three pitchers in that
fifteen inning, game but we got a well rested woo. Woo,
yeah it'd be. NICE i, Mean i'm not going to
get my hopes up for that just. YET i will say.
THIS i would be willing to bet that he's going
to be ready to rock and roll at some point
during this. Series and that'll be nice to. SEE i,
mean you just think about, this the way that this

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whole series went, Down Bryce miller stepped up and pitched
and gave, it gave us a chance to win In game,
Four and YET i don't know for sure if that
was the plan before we had a little bit of
a peck.

Speaker 2 (01:23:55):
Injury, now WELL i.

Speaker 3 (01:23:56):
WONDER i, Mean miller pitched would be on just three days,
rest but he only pitched a little over four innings
and his Start castile had full rest coming into this game.
Tonight does an inning and two thirds take him out
of contention to start On sunday after just one day

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rest after a relief, APPEARANCE i don't. Know AND i
would Think gilbert's not. AVAILABLE i would Think kirby's certainly not.
Available we have not really had to go to a
bullpen game because we always have, healthy strong starting. Pitching
the last couple of times we've made the. Playoffs maybe
they do have to start the postseason with a bullpen,

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game which would be highly.

Speaker 2 (01:24:38):
Disappointed, well you got An Emerson.

Speaker 1 (01:24:40):
Hancock, yeah guys like that where you could be, like,
hey you're a one time to the lineup, guy go
out and do your, thing try to you, know maybe
it's only two, innings, fine because, YEAH i do think
they would be throwing a bullpen around this. Time Not
logan Or logan, possibly but Or Louis castile for, sure
but maybe Even. Logan so Maybe Luis castiles could still

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be available if you were gonna do some sort of
piggyback you, start maybe go the first two three innings
and then we're gonna get you back on normal. Rest
and maybe it's depending on that right. There maybe you go,
bullpen or maybe you can go to one of your long,
relievers because you do have you do have a guy
Like Emerson hancock waiting in the.

Speaker 3 (01:25:17):
Wings, yeah and you and we did go fifteen innings
and we will just be a couple of days remove
from having done.

Speaker 5 (01:25:23):
That sweaven the bulp, it but who.

Speaker 3 (01:25:25):
Cares the idea is to cash the ticket to advance to,
win an advance to, survive and that's exactly what we did.
Today the first things, first we got seven games to
figure out The Toronto Blue. Jays we had to put
away The Detroit tigers tonight and we barely got that.
Done so all, right that's gonna do it for. Us
thank you very much for joining. Us we do greatly appreciate.

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IT i want to Thank Mike benton for doing all
the hustling over there in the champagne. Celebration also want
to Thank Travis moger who's back there at the studio andling.
THINGS i want to Thank Anders, hurst who had to
pull like triple duty here tonight to make things. HAPPEN
i want to Thank. Softy we hope you're, home safe
in bed right, now crying happy tears as you go to.

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Speaker 5 (01:26:33):
Jacobson my name Is Chuck.

Speaker 3 (01:26:34):
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