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Speaker 6 (01:01):
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the results of last night, I maybe softening. Maybe I'll
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and baseball next on the DLLs Rangers Podcast. Yeah, the

(01:36):
surge is on, actually, the Rangers having won three of
their first four in the second half, the ceremonial second
half of the season. As we welcome you into the
DLLs Rangers studio and the DLLs Rangers Podcast. John Radigan here,
Abby Jones there. We've got the Queen the Cat over there,
running things running, taking care of us today.

Speaker 2 (01:57):
So we'll be glad to have you in the chat.

Speaker 6 (02:00):
And yeah, it's fun to chat baseball again, isn't it missed?
We appreciate you and everybody else who will chat along
with us during the next hour where we talk Rangers.
We talk a team that has won seventy five percent
of its games ABS since the All Star break.

Speaker 7 (02:17):
Yeah, the boys are cooking.

Speaker 2 (02:18):
It's a pretty good percentage.

Speaker 7 (02:19):
And there's nothing like home cooking.

Speaker 8 (02:21):
Corey Seeger, you know, said you really want to start
the second half strong.

Speaker 7 (02:26):
It's a long season.

Speaker 8 (02:27):
We talked to Jack Lider last night after his outing
and you know, about the approach, and he said, it's
a sprint. You know that you're going to have to
hopefully gear up to contend and play baseball into October.
That's exactly what the Rangers look like they're getting ready
to do.

Speaker 6 (02:42):
Yeah, it's an amazing statement from Jack, because the narrative
is always the baseball season is a marathon, not a sprint.
But at some point, right, so this may not be
one hundred yard dash abs, but we might be looking
at say a four forty. You know, we're an eight,
which is certainly a fast sprint, you know, fast twitch

(03:04):
fiber kind of guy. And yeah, so and look, when
you have a sprint going, youth can be so important.
Young legs can be so important. And yes, did the
youth come through last night? I tweeted at one point
last night, I'm just so happy that most of the

(03:25):
damage offensively was done by guys not named Corey Seeger
and Marcus Simeon not rooting for them to have a
bad night, but so happy that the other guys are
coming through. We're gonna get into Josh Young's triumphant return
a little bit later on in the program. We also
want to talk some updates, not all of them good

(03:46):
on the pitching front, get into de gram day, and
then of course our cleanup segment. But first let's talk
about this youth, right, these young people on this team
ABS that have come through in many big ways. Cody Freeman,
who you've you know, you've been his pal the last
few days. What a great day, What a great moment

(04:07):
for Cody Freeman yesterday to get that first hit and
the first RBI is all knocked out at the same time.

Speaker 8 (04:13):
Yeah, you know, I didn't realize. We did talk to
him last year during those Minor League awards. He was
the Minor League Defensive Player of the Year. And now
that I'm kind of remembering that moment, I remember there
was one standout guy that was just so polite, so
excited every single time that you talked to him. I mean,
his you could just tell he was happy to be there,

(04:35):
and that was Cody Freeman. So Cody's been you know,
he's what a week he was in Vegas blackjack.

Speaker 7 (04:42):
And his mom was running the slots and then started
as a.

Speaker 8 (04:45):
Minor leaguer, left a major leaguer, came to the big league,
started his debut against Trek Scooble on Sunday Night Baseball.
His first opportunity to get in the game, he was
pinched running and scored the winning run.

Speaker 2 (04:58):
Yep.

Speaker 8 (05:00):
Know it's looked maybe a little bit different than you
draw it up when you're a kid. But nonetheless, he
got a big hit last night, and we have sound
of talking to him last night about, you know, just
what he is able.

Speaker 7 (05:12):
To do for the Rangers.

Speaker 2 (05:14):
Having bets and guys like you know seegers, I mean,
or giving me advice before they believe and stuff like
that really helped me out.

Speaker 7 (05:19):
And just playing around them and playing on the same tildas,
and it's it's it's an honor.

Speaker 8 (05:24):
When you were on second base, how long did it
take you to process the helmet, hit the home run and.

Speaker 7 (05:29):
Round the bash right away?

Speaker 2 (05:31):
Once a maid contact, I threw my arms up and
I knew that, I mean, I knew it was his
first homer, and I knew gave us three runs to
you know, get more more runs for the pitching staff
who dominated a night. Shout out to Jack and the bullpen.
Great great stuff.

Speaker 7 (05:45):
I absolutely love that he had to give all of
the flowers to the guys. Shout out to Jack for
great pitching.

Speaker 8 (05:51):
But also I like that he mentioned that Corey Seger
and Marcus Simeon, you know, pulled him aside to kind
of encourage him, because, contrary to beliefs and comments earlier
this season from previous players, the leadership might have been
a little silent in the locker room or the clubhouse.

Speaker 7 (06:07):
Excuse me, So, yeah, it was.

Speaker 8 (06:09):
It was great to hear that, and you're just happy
for a guy that you know plays the way.

Speaker 6 (06:14):
That he does well, you know. And I tweeted this too.
I was so happy for the young man and said,
I hope his family is still here. Did we confirm
or deny that.

Speaker 7 (06:22):
I didn't get to ask him.

Speaker 6 (06:25):
You know, they had to stay more than a day,
you know, they couldn't. They were with him in Las
Vegas when he got the call up and they couldn't
make that quick flight that he had to get on
to get there in time for the game, which he
wasn't in time for the game on Friday, he came
in the middle of the game, and anyway, that was he.

Speaker 8 (06:44):
Was getting photos with somebody post game that probably near
the family room.

Speaker 2 (06:48):
So I think it was that's great. I hope so.

Speaker 6 (06:50):
And yes, and then speaking of late comers to the game,
Michael Hellman got the call up yesterday. They were still
in Vegas. They gave them that Monday off day that
minor league teams enjoy. The round Rock Express gave those
guys the Monday off day in Vegas. So he and
Josh Young were still in Vegas when they got the

(07:11):
call up. As we mentioned, we're gonna chat lots more
about Josh Young in a minute, but they get to
the ballpark abs at six thirty, no batting practice afterwards,
and they both had great games, right and afterwards, you know,
Bruce Bochi says, yeah, kind of like American Legion ball.
Maybe maybe this batting practice overrated.

Speaker 7 (07:31):
Well, especially when Clay Thompson's you know, hog in the
whole cage.

Speaker 8 (07:34):
I'm joking. Clay actually did surprisingly well though.

Speaker 6 (07:37):
Yeah, we're going to show Clay's thing a little bite.

Speaker 2 (07:40):
He was. He was way better than advertised or expected.

Speaker 8 (07:44):
Perhaps, but it was it was funny because every single
person that they called up, you know, produced in the
in the lineup. And I saw a statu today that
I thought was pretty interesting because there has been fourteen
separate transactions that the Rangers have made since last Tuesday's
All Star Game, three players placed on the IL and

(08:05):
six players called up from the minor league. So there
has been a lot of up and down with this club,
and sometimes you just don't know how that's going to click,
or if it's going to take a while to click.
But to see instant progress and support from the Rangers
that they called up, especially in the minor leagues. Josh Young,
I mean, you kind of expected him to do that,
he's been there before, but for these younger guys, I mean,

(08:26):
that's a bit.

Speaker 2 (08:26):
It's huge.

Speaker 6 (08:27):
And Ronda clarifies for us in the interview with Laura,
which I didn't see, Cody said his family's not still there,
so too bad. We appreciate the Ronda though, We appreciate
the update. And and again they were still very proud
no matter where they were watching that. And remember, of
course he's got a brother that plays too, so you know,

(08:48):
not the not the lone Ranger in that family, that's
for sure. But yes, So, Michael Hellman, it was really
fun to again to just hit the first pick that
he sees out and it just that was the play
that was the one that gave that the Rangers those
ad on runs, ads that they've needed so badly. They've

(09:11):
been involved in so many close games and so many
one run games, and you need to add on when
you have that kind of sort of offensive night going Okay, cool,
we're not getting shut out, we're not getting no hit.
We're right, but you have to add on, especially against
a team like the A's, and that's what Helman did.

Speaker 7 (09:31):
Yeah, no doubt. And it's kind of funny.

Speaker 8 (09:32):
We talked to him after the game, and you know,
it's it's just unlikely that Cody would have that at
bat that he did, and then Hellman would follow it
up afterwards because you know, when we were talking to Cody,
like did you get to savor any of your first
hit because you immediately had to round the bases and
reach home plate, And Michael was saying he kind of

(09:52):
felt bad that he hit the home run when he did,
because Cody didn't have the chance to celebrate, and I
was like, I don't think he cares.

Speaker 2 (09:59):
Michael he did. He got to celebrate a little bit.

Speaker 6 (10:02):
You saw his his joy and I don't I don't
know if it was the interview we just played or
or another one I heard that he said, like he
blacked out. He hit the ball, and all of a
sudden he was at second base right again. Instinct and
adrenaline take over and he just started turning.

Speaker 8 (10:17):
Towards second base and Cody like, is so nice, but man,
he was fired up on the base paths and you
could just see I think when he plays, you know,
he kind of he's a dominant player. Yeah, and that
mister nice guy kind of kind of goes away.

Speaker 6 (10:30):
Sure, And the reality is, you know, it's a it's
a tall order. As he's mentioned to face the you know,
one of the best pitchers in the game the night
before in his starting debut as a major league player,
but a little bit different. You know, you get to
show your skill set and you get to you know,
sort of a face of a mortal, a mere mortal
the next night and show what you can do. And

(10:52):
it's great to see that accomplishment, There's no question about that.
Great to see what Michael Hellman did. And finally, look,
let's not act like Jack Lighter is not young anymore,
because he is. Jack Leider is still a very young man.
I loved his pitching performance last night.

Speaker 7 (11:13):
Jack did great. Jack is again just been so poised.

Speaker 8 (11:19):
I want to use the word poison right last season
because I think it really explains what he's done. He
matched a career high of seven strikeouts last night, four swinging,
Sorry for looking three swinging. I asked him about that.
He said he wasn't exactly chasing strikeouts, but he felt
really good about his pitch count. And when you're able

(11:40):
to work that pitch count the way that you want,
pitch a good sequence, then strikeouts are a result of that.
So I actually liked that takeaway because I think early
on these young players can get focused on the stat
line and what's going to look the best. But Jack
just wants to, you know, throw the baseball well, and

(12:00):
because of that, the stat line follows, you know, So
I think the shift is you can tell the shift
is there that he's focused on pitch by pitch, his
overall performance and not just oh I threw ten k's
or you know whatever, because you could do that and
also give up three home runs. So right, you know,
I really liked his approach, and I think you continue

(12:21):
to see growth you do.

Speaker 6 (12:22):
And it's really it's a way easier said than done
as a young pitcher, especially to get out there and
not think about the whole game. Right, it's so boring
and it's so tedious, and it's so monotonous to just
think about the next pitch. And I talked to Mike
Bassett about this yesterday. We were just chatting, and he said,

(12:44):
every pitch has to have a purpose. Mike, of course
a former major league pitcher and coaches kids now and
that type, including his own boys. But anyway, Mike said
that that is what you have to think about. So
even a pitch that's way out of the zone, and
he said, of course, sometimes you're going to lose the

(13:06):
handle on a pitch or something. It's not going to
but even a pitch way out of the zone should
have a purpose. And if the pitching coach comes up
to you after the game and says, what was the
purpose of that pitch that was, you know, two feet
out of the zone, you better be able to should
be able to say, well, that was to set him
up for the next one.

Speaker 2 (13:24):
Right.

Speaker 6 (13:24):
He wants there to be that kind of thought and
forethought given to every pitch out there. Do all pitchers
do this? Probably not, But that's that's a perfect world.
And so that's where and that's what we talk about
when we say slowing the game down, and right now,
I think to your exact point, Abs, the game slowed

(13:46):
down for Jack La Jack, and that's why he's not
getting like when we used to, just even last year,
when we'd see him just get so frustrated out there.
My guess is his brain had gone to the big picture. Right,
damn it, I'm not going to have a good game, Yeah,
just have a good next pitch, right right. And that's hard,
it's not easy to do. It's really hard to sort

(14:08):
of bring that back in and realize that there's still
a chance of having a good game if you throw
a really good next pitch. And I love to see,
as you called it, that growth in Jack Leider. And
I really do think ads that the poise is familial, right.
I think he watched his dad for all those years.

(14:30):
I think he's watched so many great pitchers for all
the years because he's been around baseball in the family
as you were. And I think that you know, you realize,
probably even at a young age, you have to brain
in your emotions and show that poise on the mound

(14:50):
in order to be successful at the big league level.

Speaker 8 (14:53):
That's another part that you learned to playing with emotion.
You've got to use it to your managed sometimes. I
mean Trek's Google is a perfect example that. But you know,
when Jack first started making his appearances out man, do
you remember watching him, he just talked to himself, Yeah,
pitch after pitch, and you know, it's like you're spending
so much of the game in your head instead of
just doing and you know, kind of seeing so yeah,

(15:16):
so much growth. I think another key thing is that
Jack's using all five of us pitches. Yeah, and that's
not an easy thing to do at the major league level.
And what I'm really impressed by is that he's kind
of splitting the workload between the four seam fastball and
the change up. He's using the four seam thirty five
percent of the times, change up thirty one, thinker, slider, curveball,
mixing it in a bit. But he's getting really really

(15:36):
smart at when when to play those, and he's getting
confident and it's put away pitch well.

Speaker 6 (15:40):
And that's the thing you're trying. Your your goal is
your attempt is to keep the hitter off balance, right,
and not know what to expect, because that's what they're
doing up there. They're guessing on what's coming. And so
if you can keep them off balance and let not
let them know what's coming, and it helps in that
case to have five pitches to choose from. So he's

(16:01):
commanding the Molly. Did a great job last night. Great
performance by him and by the Rangers. Coming up next,
we get ready for another great pitching performance. At least
we anticipate another one.

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Speaker 6 (18:21):
So, uh, it just occurred to me when I saw
missus a chat there de Gram Day, and so often
this season when it was de Gram Day, we were
kind of like, lead.

Speaker 2 (18:33):
The show, It's de Gram Day. It stuck.

Speaker 6 (18:36):
And the reason for that was we didn't want to
look at yesterday right right, it sucked. We don't even
we talked about it yesterday. We don't want to talk
about it.

Speaker 2 (18:45):
Right.

Speaker 8 (18:46):
Kind of fun that we get to talk about last
night's show today, right, that.

Speaker 6 (18:50):
We get to, you know, we get to revel a
little bit in the glory of of not only last night,
but really three of the last four. And de Gram
uh certainly is worthy of a lead any given day.
We don't know what he's gonna do tonight, abs, But
I think that, you know, through his first fifteen starts
of the season, we pretty much do know what he's
gonna do today.

Speaker 8 (19:10):
I mean, if it's Jacob deGrom you know I'm gonna
guess he's gonna degrominate.

Speaker 7 (19:15):
Yes, you see what I did that?

Speaker 2 (19:16):
I like that. I like that. Yeah.

Speaker 8 (19:18):
Do you wanna do you want to hear his numbers
against Oakland specifically?

Speaker 2 (19:22):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (19:22):
All right, So he is two and zero with a
one to five ERA, three earned runs across seventeen innings
and three starts. He struck out twenty four twenty four strikeouts,
zero walks, sixty four batters.

Speaker 2 (19:38):
Wait wait, wait, how many games is that? Three?

Speaker 6 (19:40):
Yeah, three starts, so eight strikeouts a game, twenty four
strike this.

Speaker 7 (19:46):
Is zero walks.

Speaker 6 (19:47):
Oh yeah, that's him. I mean, it's so rare that
he gives up walks. Does it break it down two
home runs?

Speaker 7 (19:54):
It does not. But you know I can pull those
numbers for you.

Speaker 6 (19:56):
Yeah, because I wonder that's the one thing but this
it hasn't hurt him. But Jacob eyeball test tells me
he's been giving up a few more home runs than
normal lately, and again he's still generally. I mean, I
think there was one game where he allowed three runs,
but he's still basically right there. He had that long stretch.
I think it was fourteen or fifteen in a row.

Speaker 7 (20:18):
He's allowed one home run against the A's.

Speaker 6 (20:20):
Yeah, that's good, but they had fourteen or fifteen in
a row. We only allowed two runs. Whether they won,
lost or tide, well, there's no ties. But anyway, so
it's really exciting to have Jacob de Gram on the
mound anytime. I think that one of the things we
have to anticipate with the Gram if you want to

(20:42):
keep him under an innings threshold, with the hope and
plan right tentative plan to have him pitching into October,
I really think you have to start limiting the innings
and so five. I mean, if he did five innings
on every anticipated start the rest of the way, he

(21:04):
would remain under that one hundred eighty one hundred eighty
five inning threshold that they'd like to maintain.

Speaker 2 (21:11):
I don't know that.

Speaker 6 (21:13):
I mean, it's going to depend on the game, right,
It's going to depend on the opponent, it's going to
depend on the situation. But I think that would be
their goal, is to try and get him out after
five or certainly after six.

Speaker 2 (21:26):
Well.

Speaker 8 (21:27):
I actually asked Graham about this, probably a little too
early on in the season.

Speaker 7 (21:32):
I think it maybe was like his.

Speaker 8 (21:37):
Twelfth start or something, you know, and he was kind
of starting because I mean, he's over one hundred innings.

Speaker 2 (21:41):
Bitch, Oh, I know, it's twelve six.

Speaker 8 (21:46):
Yeah, so I maybe it was a little bit too early,
but I did kind of tea up that question, you know,
with hoping to contend, at what point do you start
looking at your workload? And of course, to Graham's answer
is we I'm you know, if it's up to me,
I'm going as long as I can, and he wants.

Speaker 7 (22:06):
To go longer. And that's what every good picture says.

Speaker 8 (22:09):
I'd really I think that's an interesting point we should
talk to Bouch about today, because it's getting to the
point that you got to start looking at you know,
this point of the season. I think you kind of
do have to start moving those those chess pieces to
strategically play. Maybe you maybe you you know, I don't
want to say you lose a game here, but you
can sacrifice maybe de Grom not going that far in

(22:32):
a game against the A's.

Speaker 6 (22:33):
Yeah, and it certainly depends on how you know, desperately
you needed the bullpen in the previous game, and they
didn't need it desperately last night thanks to Jack Lighter. Right,
So if so, the bullpen's relatively fresh right now, and
so I think you you take the opportunity again. It

(22:55):
won't happen if it's a really close game or you know,
some sort of pictures duel has has broken out.

Speaker 2 (23:01):
I don't think it.

Speaker 6 (23:01):
I mean, I don't think he'll go past six either way,
uh unless he's got a no hitter going, and then
uh he'll go as long as they don't get a hit.

Speaker 2 (23:11):
So uh but anyway, I.

Speaker 7 (23:13):
Think that I don't think they're gonna slow that rookie down.
But we can talk about that, like oh.

Speaker 2 (23:17):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't I wouldn't be surprised.

Speaker 7 (23:19):
I have a few rookies, but yeah.

Speaker 6 (23:20):
I wouldn't be surprised at all that the Rangers have
another really good offensive night and that way you can
get Jacob de Gram out of there soon.

Speaker 7 (23:28):
I was talking about the.

Speaker 6 (23:32):
Oh, I see, I see what you're saying. Yeah, yeah,
yeah no, but yeah they uh for for the uh
for the Rangers tonight it's a matter of uh, you know,
hopefully having a lead to where they can get Jacob
du Gram out of the game and uh and not
you know, not have to push him too far, whether
Jacob wants to come out or not. And I think

(23:52):
he's acknowledged since you talked to him. Yeah, we have
to be smart, right, It's it's just it's just playing smart,
you know, work smart, not hard, play smart not hard
sometimes and I think that's where where the Rangers need
to be right now.

Speaker 8 (24:09):
Yeah, it's a yeah, well, I mean we'll ask I'd
like to hear Boach and a Graham's answer.

Speaker 2 (24:13):
About that story, because it's getting to the.

Speaker 7 (24:15):
Point that it's it's the numbers you can look at.

Speaker 2 (24:17):
Yep, yeah, and have a discussion about Yeah. Absolutely.

Speaker 6 (24:20):
Now uh Now, we got an update yesterday from from
Boach about Chris Martin, and you know, obviously there was
a roster move. So one of the first questions we
asked of Boat was was the level of concern on
Chris Martin. He goes on the fifteen day injured list
and it's a left half strain, and I just said,
you know, I mean, is there a level of concern

(24:42):
and Boats like oh, yeah, this is going to be
a four to six week deal.

Speaker 2 (24:46):
And I was shocked by it.

Speaker 6 (24:48):
When you think about it, in baseball, we don't hear
that many calf strains, right, that's not an injury that
that we are, you know, sort of condition to know
that even a strain is going to be a four
to six week thing. So I asked Basset that one too.
I said, have you ever had a calf injury? He

(25:08):
said no, He goes, I'm not sure I know anybody
that's ever had a calf injury, right, But Boach said,
these things are tricky. Calfs are hard to heal. And
so four to six weeks, man, that gets him back
sometime around September first. Yeah, And of course they called
up cole Win, who's done a great job and his

(25:29):
other you know stints up here. I think his era
is sitting at like one seven eight, So cole Win
is no slouch. But that was your setup guy, that
was your eighth inning guy, Chris Martin, and that was
a guy who is and was so unflappable in those situations.
And so you know, it's a definite loss there, and

(25:51):
I think definitely affects the whole conversation we had yesterday
about what the Rangers do at the trade deadline. Look,
we already thought they were only going to go for
bullpen help, not a hitter. The reality is they may
need more bullpen help.

Speaker 8 (26:09):
You need arms, Yeah, I need all the arms that
you can get, especially if you're going to contend.

Speaker 2 (26:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (26:13):
And Chris Jung said it, he said it again yesterday.
He said, you can never have enough pitching, you know,
never have enough.

Speaker 7 (26:21):
Well, you need those those high leverage arms.

Speaker 8 (26:23):
And I think this makes the veterans that we discussed
yesterday that much more valuable because when you you know
what you're getting out of Chris Martin, man, that man
has been in the big leagues a long time. He's
been at the highest stage possible. Uh So that you know,
I think that is a really big loss just because
of the postseason experience that he has and you know,

(26:44):
those high leverage situations.

Speaker 7 (26:45):
I mean, you can count on Chris Martin.

Speaker 2 (26:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (26:47):
And to your point, you know what all that means
When he's been in a big leagues that long, that
means he's old. And that's what I and nobody's old
compared to me. But but that's what basic said to me,
he goes, dude, it's thirty nine, right, takes a long time,
for longer time, much longer for thirty nine year olds
to heal.

Speaker 2 (27:06):
Did for twenty two year old.

Speaker 7 (27:07):
Did you see that there was a forty five year
old caught up?

Speaker 2 (27:10):
Huh there was a forty five Oh yeah, yeah yeah, Richard,
yeah yeah, Chill, yeah, yeah, yeah, Oh I saw that.

Speaker 7 (27:16):
It's a child's game.

Speaker 6 (27:18):
Yeah it is, but not for Richard. I mean, Nolan
pitched forty six, so it's not impossible. Nathan Evaldi, Chris
Young said yesterday could pitch as soon as tomorrow. Boach
is saying we're not naming a day yet. Chris Young
came out a little later and said Nathan could pitch
as soon as tomorrow. It kind of depended on how

(27:40):
the treatment and the reaction of his back was yesterday.
But this was just back tightness, back stiffness. They're once
again going with an abundance of caution. But if Nathan
says he's okay, and that wouldn't that be great? You know,
to the point and to the question you asked, the chat,
will well the sweep happen? De Gram then evolved Eva

(28:03):
you'd feel a hell of a lot better about a
sweep possibility given that, wouldn't you.

Speaker 8 (28:07):
Yeah, you would no with you know, just with what
Boach said about Evo yesterday. He said, it's not there's
not a reason to push this. You know, it's not
that point of the season. So you'd rather take your
time and hope that nothing else happens, because you know,
if if.

Speaker 7 (28:23):
He were a younger guy, maybe he would push it.

Speaker 8 (28:26):
And you know it's I kind of had a conversation
with Boach yesterday about how do you manage you know,
these guys are fighting for not Nathan Valdi, but young
guys fighting for their chance and mainly like Cody Freeman,
you know, hey, I can play anywhere.

Speaker 7 (28:42):
You need me.

Speaker 8 (28:43):
And you know, as a manager, how do you realistically
approach health and availability and where you're going to place
them because you know these guys are going to say whatever.
It's it's the vets that will really tell you what
you need to know as a manager, and you know
that comes with time. I mean looking at your manager
and saying, hey, I don't really feel right. I don't

(29:04):
want to you know, I don't want to push this.
I don't think I can go today. That's something that
comes with age in this game.

Speaker 6 (29:10):
Well, and so does Yeah, the opposite of that, right,
the manager has to know he can believe, you know,
a Nathan Evaldi when he says I can go right right,
and he does, and he can because Nathan knows if
he can't, he's you don't risk it, right at this
at this stage, at this age, you don't risk it.

(29:32):
But yeah, that trust has to work both ways, that
the guy is going to be honest with whether he
says he can't go or maybe more importantly, if he
says he can go. So we'll see, We'll see how
Nathan Evaldi does. We'll give an update on John Gray
here in a minute. Rangers have signed their number one
draft pick that's coming up, and it's been a resurrection

(29:54):
for a few players thanks to the minor leagues. We
talk about that and more next on the d LAS
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These as we got John Gray. We want to update
John Gray. He got ten years of service time yesterday
that was his official ten year day, and we had

(32:15):
a chance to talk to him and he was beaming,
and it's like, what.

Speaker 2 (32:18):
Does Major League Baseball give you for that? Nothing?

Speaker 7 (32:22):
A pension?

Speaker 2 (32:23):
Yeah, yeah, well that's pretty good.

Speaker 7 (32:25):
You get a heck of a lot.

Speaker 2 (32:26):
You get a pension. But wouldn't you think you get
a pin you get.

Speaker 7 (32:30):
It, get the card at eight?

Speaker 2 (32:32):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (32:32):
I thought they got the card at ten. You get
the card is magic. I mean it gets you into
any Major League Baseball game, anytime, anywhere, for the rest.

Speaker 7 (32:40):
Of your life, minus All Star and World Series?

Speaker 2 (32:43):
Is that right? Yeah? Okay?

Speaker 6 (32:44):
And so your dad has one, obviously, does he get
to take the whole family or is it just.

Speaker 2 (32:50):
H two but two that's good? Yeah too.

Speaker 7 (32:54):
So he never uses it though.

Speaker 6 (32:56):
He doesn't know. Well, he's working in the game. I
think if you weren't working in the game, you might,
you know, avail yourself.

Speaker 2 (33:02):
To it a little bit.

Speaker 7 (33:03):
But she doesn't have one.

Speaker 8 (33:05):
No, no, no, no, he has the card. He doesn't
have the pension because he played for nine years.

Speaker 2 (33:10):
Oh jeez, you know, well that's why he's still working.

Speaker 7 (33:14):
He kind of made that joke.

Speaker 8 (33:16):
But his wife Jacqueline, so for one thousand strikeouts. He
was gifted at Bentley and a Sweet Wife. That thing
rolled up for the World Series parade and I spotted
it for a mile a mile away. I was like,
this is John Gray. But his gift this year was
an engraved watch. He didn't say what kind of watch.

(33:37):
I mean, I can use my imagination.

Speaker 2 (33:38):
That's siffy imagine. It's not a Time X, but yeah,
he gotta watch.

Speaker 6 (33:43):
Do they make still? iMX used to be a big deal.
It was a big deal back in the day. But yeah,
good for John Gray. And here's the more sort of
relevant update on John Gray. He'll be he'll be coming
off the injured list tomorrow. Right he is, He is
ready and he is ready for anything.

Speaker 2 (34:06):
Right.

Speaker 6 (34:06):
I did ask him, I said, any chance you could
start Wednesday because if Evo doesn't, there's nobody available. But
he pitched Saturday, and he goes, no, No, I can't.
I can't turn it around that fast. So you know,
he probably wouldn't be ready to start until Thursday or Friday.
And I'm not sure that they'll be needing him there,
depending on what they do, but that he's ready to

(34:27):
be a starter and he's ready to go into the
bullpen either one. I think right now it's more likely
that they will use him out of the bullpen as
long as Nathan Valdi, you know, is coming back and
there's not a vacancy in that starting rotation because the
reality is right now, there's no need for him light Rocker, Corbin.

Speaker 2 (34:50):
And Evaldi.

Speaker 7 (34:52):
Is he your new setup guy?

Speaker 6 (34:54):
It's a possibility. It's a possibility. He's going to be
more unflappable. He's said before, he's got a rubber arm.
None of his injuries have ever been the arm, and
he would he would be able to pitch again, not
every day, but if you need him too, or maybe
three days in a row. He feels like he could
answer the belt.

Speaker 7 (35:11):
I don't mind. John Gray is the setup guy.

Speaker 2 (35:13):
I don't either.

Speaker 7 (35:14):
It's actually not a bad idea.

Speaker 6 (35:16):
John Gray, who hasn't cut his hair. I asked him
about this. He hasn't cut his hair since before the
World Series. It's getting long. It's almost as long as
yours aps.

Speaker 7 (35:24):
I could tell.

Speaker 2 (35:25):
Yeah, John Gray's hair is getting long. Watch for that.

Speaker 6 (35:27):
When he comes back out. He's so excited to get
back on that mound. Remember he got you know, a
comebacker right off the wrist during spring training. He was
pitching well. He'd been through all of his share of
injuries over the course of the years in his career,
and this one was just such a you know, so
random and so annoying and and sometimes so unavoidable. So

(35:52):
he is chomping at the bit to get back there.
Said his velocity is about normal. But he also so
told me, he said, I think I got more in there,
which is great because his normal VLO and his normal
stuff is crazy. When he's at his best, he's almost unhittable, right,
And so if you're talking about more VLO added to

(36:15):
that stuff, you know, John Gray could have a could
have a really good couple of months and could be
really significant in this stretch run for the Rangers.

Speaker 8 (36:25):
Oh yeah, the Rangers, you know, ran this thing during
pregame one day and it's like asking everybody, Oh, who's
you know, who's got the nastiest pitch, Who's got the
nastiest pitch? Every single one of them said John Gray
on a breaking ball. So yeah, I mean, when he's on, he's.

Speaker 2 (36:42):
On, he's on.

Speaker 6 (36:43):
Rangers have signed or come to terms with their first
round draft pick, Gavin Fiend and a couple of the
other ones, including the kid a belt from from TCU.
But Gavin for sure is going to be at Globelife Field.
In fact, right now, there's a press conference opening at
Globelike Field to introduce him as the number one pick.

(37:04):
He signed for four and a half million slot is
just over five point six million for that player. So
the Rangers save, you know, a one point one million
that they will reallocate somewhere else to get somebody signed.
But they've signed three of the draft picks already. They
had just under ten million. I think it was to

(37:27):
use for their first ten draft picks. So you have
to be judicious, but I think in part because he's
coming from the high school ranks, a four and a
half million dollars signing bonus sounded and looked pretty good
to Gavin Fiend, so he signed. He'll get to work,
he'll report to Arizona and get things going right away.
You'll also have a chance, I'm certain to meet him

(37:50):
on the broad via the broadcast tonight. Mike Bassett told
me yesterday they were pretty sure that they'd have him
in the booth, and actually Jared told me he thought
Gavin might be joining him on the on the pregame
show as well. So there's there's you know, this is
this is really good news. I mean, you just you know,
especially with an eighteen year old kid, you want to
get him, you know, into the organization and get him

(38:13):
going as soon as you possibly can. You don't need holdouts,
you don't need rancor.

Speaker 2 (38:18):
This is great.

Speaker 8 (38:19):
Yeah, And they're kind of talking about his position already.
He's a right handed hitter. They have him ranked twenty
second MLB pipeline does in thirty one for Baseball America.

Speaker 7 (38:29):
But you know, he's.

Speaker 8 (38:30):
Probably not going to stick at the short stop. They're
probably projecting him to be the long term third baseman
and chance to be pushed in the corner outfield.

Speaker 7 (38:38):
But oh my gosh, we didn't get to talk about
white Langford's catch.

Speaker 8 (38:42):
Oh say that out that corner outfield left and right
ain't going anywhere?

Speaker 7 (38:46):
Because whyite Langford? Gosh?

Speaker 6 (38:48):
I love him, Yeah, no doubt and you know, yeah,
don't be so sure about right. I mean, even Adoley's
finishes the year really strong. They're going to have a
decision to make on him at the end of the year.
But why at Langford, to your point, is not going anywhere.
Don't throw his name out there in trade. He's not
hitting much right now, but man, he's playing defense.

Speaker 7 (39:09):
Well we've talked.

Speaker 8 (39:10):
I mean I brought up the stat. I don't know
what it is today, but prior to yesterday's game, he
was zero for fifteen in his last fifteen at bats.
And you know, I asked Boach, like, year two, do
you have a better understanding of the pace? Because you're one,
you're deer in the headlights. You're just trying to keep
your head above water and survive year two. You can
kind of, you know, So, I think I think there's

(39:32):
going to be these little stretches, but I mean it
was September when Wyatt took off last year. We know
that he's got a lot of juice in the tank.
I think it's just a little rust coming off of
the All Star break, you know. So I'm I mean,
I'm not worried about no.

Speaker 2 (39:48):
No, no, not at all. This is the hard working kid.

Speaker 6 (39:51):
The only thing that they worry about with that young
man is working working too hard.

Speaker 2 (39:56):
Yeah, working too hard.

Speaker 6 (39:57):
They've got to rain that in some and and hopefully
they would never need to do what they have done
twice very successfully this year, and that is send a
player to the minor leagues and then watch him come
back resurrected. And so let's get to the latest resurrection
story first, and that's Josh Young. And oh my gosh,

(40:18):
so happy for Josh Young. That last night was almost
a microcosm of the last time he got called up
from Triple A. Right he got called up from Triple
A and hit a home run in his very first
at bat as a major league player. He got called
up from Triple A yesterday and hit a home run
and what is very first at bad I mean, just

(40:41):
fantastic for Josh Young, who after the game was talking
with Abs and some of the others. Lower was I
think in on this too, But after the game it
was downright emotional.

Speaker 2 (40:54):
It's a crazy day.

Speaker 9 (40:57):
To just get some results like that.

Speaker 2 (40:59):
It is great built.

Speaker 7 (41:00):
Confident Charlie Chris Young said.

Speaker 9 (41:02):
It seemed like in TRIPA that was a big part
of it, just rebuilding confidence, finding who you were at
the plate.

Speaker 7 (41:07):
How did you do that?

Speaker 9 (41:10):
Just growing every day, honestly hitting push down there Kody
Atkinson in last and just every day breaking it down,
trying to figure out a way. I mean, it's just
that simple. It's just every day just growing and everything
you do and every kage session everything we were breaking
it down backwards and forwards trying to figure it out.

Speaker 2 (41:32):
Got some results to night we got to build on it.

Speaker 4 (41:34):
What were the main things that you were focusing on
that you think made the biggest difference.

Speaker 9 (41:38):
Oh gosh, I can't give away my secrets. Everything. It
truly is everything literally walking the cage and all we
talked about every day was like how are we going
to grow to it?

Speaker 2 (41:52):
And that was it was that simple.

Speaker 7 (41:55):
What is it so good?

Speaker 5 (41:56):
Did you feel though when you knew that the face.

Speaker 2 (41:58):
Well, I didn't know it was okay when you saw
it when.

Speaker 9 (42:02):
The film, I mean it felt great because I wasn't
trying to do that honesome and just to get that
result in the first guy, it was like, oh, you
can sell down. Let's just play ball.

Speaker 8 (42:17):
I bet we spent fifteen minutes around his locker. He
was really emotional, but he you know, I mean, this
is a part of the big leagues too, And he
said June was the worst month of his life, hitting
one fifty eight fifteen hits, one home run, twelve RBI,
seven runs scored in twenty four games. I mean, Josh

(42:38):
Young has faced adversity and injury, but he hasn't struggled
at the big league level at all. So this is
new territory for him. I kind of asked him, Hey,
you've been the big brother to your brother Jace, and
you've helped him in his you know, exciting moments, But
how much has he been here for you and these
Because Jace doesn't have a you know, clear spot with

(42:59):
the tie as of right now, up and down with
the minor league club a bit, So I said, did
you have to kind of lean on your little brother
to help you get through this? And Yeah, he was
so emotional, and he just said he's stepping into the
box now with so much conviction, and you're I mean,
we all know what Josh Young's capable of. Butchie also

(43:20):
alluded to, you know, maybe he won't realize this is
a good thing, but hopefully hindsight he realizes like this
was necessary. And I asked him, I know it's just
one game, but can you already see this paying off?
And he was like, oh my gosh, yes, it was
the biggest mindset shift, and I mean you could. That
was a very vulnerable and real interview. So I loved

(43:44):
that for Josh, and I was really hot. Sprinted around
the bases.

Speaker 2 (43:48):
He was.

Speaker 7 (43:48):
He was so happy.

Speaker 2 (43:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (43:50):
I talked to Ray Davis, about the owner of the team,
about the you know, the bringing Josh back and and
what the thoughts were, and he was just the same way.
Ray was very, very appreciative of the attitude and the
work that Josh showed down there. And Josh also said, basically,

(44:11):
I wasn't paying attention to the big league team while
I was down there because every day, and I think
he said it as in a portion of the interview,
just there every day. I just woke up every day
and approached it like how we're going to grow today,
How we're going to grow today. And that's what he
was down there to do was sort of grow himself back,
excuse me, back into a major league hitter, a major

(44:35):
league all star, a major league potential superstars.

Speaker 2 (44:39):
Right, that's what he is.

Speaker 6 (44:41):
That's where Josh Young's career will go, as long as
he doesn't get too far into his head. And he's
very cerebral, so it's easy to do that.

Speaker 7 (44:51):
I know, we got to go.

Speaker 8 (44:52):
But he did say the biggest thing was, you know,
playing at the big league level every single day, you're
expected to perform. He said, there you can just grow
and sometimes people see it. Sometimes people don't, but I think,
you know, these guys are people too.

Speaker 2 (45:06):
Yeah, no doubt.

Speaker 6 (45:07):
Well he'll continue to grow and we'll see if the
Rangers can continue to roll, because they're on a bit
of a roll right now. Coming up next, let us
get to our batting cleanup segment and that is where
you will find one NBA superstar looking pretty good at baseball.
That's next on the DLLs Rangers podcast.

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Speaker 6 (47:24):
Clarence who's covered this team forever, Jeff who's covered the
Rangers as a writer forever. And then we've got you know,
Sam Nessler working and Tim Cato working the Stars and
MAVs speech respectively. You can't get better content than those
guys seventy nine ninety nine.

Speaker 2 (47:40):
It's ridiculous what a good deal that is.

Speaker 6 (47:43):
And Abby, you get a free shirt if you become
a diehard, you do, and.

Speaker 8 (47:47):
Go ahead and take advantage of this Dallas collection that
is that kind of like a play on Vegas looks
fun Like.

Speaker 2 (47:55):
I like that one. I've ordered that one.

Speaker 7 (47:57):
Do you have the Nolan Ryan one?

Speaker 2 (47:58):
I do?

Speaker 7 (48:00):
I feel like I feel like I think.

Speaker 2 (48:02):
I think I saw Allan wearing one one day too.

Speaker 7 (48:05):
Owen has a lot of shirts.

Speaker 8 (48:07):
Owen and Jeff we could have a race on who
has the most shirts.

Speaker 6 (48:10):
Yeah, yeah, but I like and I've ordered the U
I've ordered the Vegas looking one, which I actually think
is more of.

Speaker 7 (48:17):
A Texas say maybe that's Texas Barbary.

Speaker 2 (48:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (48:20):
And then I've ordered the Dallas versus y'all y'all, which
when I moved here, man, I thought All y'all was
like the craziest range I've ever heard in my life.
I'm like, you say, we like all y'all's houses. I'm like,
I don't even know what we're saying here, but don't
get we say you guys.

Speaker 2 (48:42):
You know, we say you guys and use guys up there.

Speaker 6 (48:45):
So anyway, very cool, very cool shirts that we've got
out there in that Dallas selection stuff. So all right,
speaking of cool shirts, we were there standing there yesterday
when somebody from the Rangers front office went and grabbed
a jersey number thirty one and put it on one

(49:05):
Klay Thompson and number seven right, and put it on
Dwight Powell. Correct, And those two guys were having so
much fun at the ballyard. You know, I don't even
want to say meeting the players because they know many
of them.

Speaker 8 (49:21):
Well, Clay and Marcus are friends. Yeah, that was very apparent.

Speaker 6 (49:24):
Yeah, yeah, clearly, and and they know I saw. I
don't know how they they knew him and or know him,
but Rowdy Teles clearly knew and is some you know,
somehow connected to Clay, right, I mean you just you
run in circles that are such that you see each
other at different places. But oh yeah bach and yeah yeah.

(49:46):
So so anyway, they put their jerseys on them and
they look great in them. And then slowly we're watching
as Klay Thompson is getting everything he needs to take
a few swings in the batting cage, and I'm wondering
if he's really going to do it because he seems reluctant.
And then I hear Dwight Powell. We're standing near him,

(50:07):
and Dwight's like, I don't think I'm gonna do this.

Speaker 2 (50:09):
I don't think I'm gonna do this.

Speaker 6 (50:11):
And anyway, then Clay gets a batting helmet, he gets
batting gloves slowly, but he gets a little advice from
Marcus Simeon who comes in and slowly but surely it
seems like they talked him into it. So I'm not
expecting much from Clay when he gets into this cage.
I don't know, you know, how much he's played or
and I do know we've seen many an NBA player

(50:34):
throw out a first pitch who can't even get it
to the dirt, you know, much less to home plate.
So I'm not sure what to expect. And the first pitch,
and Boach is right behind because he Boach is friends
with him too. Boach is right behind the cage right,
and Marcus is right there. Kyle Higashioka, I noticed, is
right there. He's having fun with all this.

Speaker 2 (50:54):
Anyway.

Speaker 6 (50:55):
First pitch again from Tony Beasley from about fifty feet
and it's just, you know, it's a batting practice pitch.
It's not super hard and uh, and Clay fouls it
off like barely gets his bat on it.

Speaker 2 (51:08):
It goes behind him.

Speaker 6 (51:09):
Second pitch, he whiffs so hard you could have felt
the breeze. And Boach has given him crap. I couldn't
hear what he said, but you know, shouting at him
and laughing and everything. And I'll be damned if Klay
Thompson didn't stroke that next one to the warning track.

Speaker 2 (51:24):
Camps.

Speaker 6 (51:24):
I thought it was going to get out, and then
he starts just one after the other, line, drive after line, Bravin.
I'm like, oh, Clay Thompson's an athlete. Well, I didn't
realize you. You told me today I'd not caught up
with his brother played Major.

Speaker 8 (51:39):
League base His brother did for seven years, seven years,
seven years, four with the Dodgers, three with the White Sox,
one with the Cubs, one with Padres, one with Oakland.
But no, Clay looked at me and he's like, I
will for sure go yard.

Speaker 7 (51:55):
And he almost did.

Speaker 2 (51:56):
Yeah, he never did.

Speaker 7 (51:57):
He really didn't want to get out of the case.

Speaker 6 (51:59):
No, Well, he kept thinking I'm going to do it
because he kept hitting him to the warning track.

Speaker 2 (52:02):
You have warning track power.

Speaker 6 (52:04):
That said, it's a big ballpark, right, it's a big ballpark.
It ain't easy to get one.

Speaker 2 (52:09):
Out of there.

Speaker 7 (52:10):
Not so much he did end up getting in the cage.

Speaker 6 (52:12):
But it wasn't he didn't look as good. Take a
look at the pictures of Clay. Is that both of them?

Speaker 7 (52:19):
So this is pitch.

Speaker 6 (52:20):
This is Clay's first pitch. It's and MAVs night at
the ballpark is, but this is I'm going to say this,
that's the best first pitch I've ever seen. It was
a fastball with a little movement, a little it was
almost it was almost like a slider, but but it
was more of a fastball, fastball grip and uh, I'll

(52:41):
be darned if it didn't have a little movement.

Speaker 2 (52:43):
It was a strike.

Speaker 7 (52:43):
The batting helmet is sending me that's.

Speaker 6 (52:47):
Something you know, not a lot of pitchers wear batting helmets,
but he was quick to put it on.

Speaker 2 (52:52):
What's funny.

Speaker 7 (52:53):
The guard, he was clearly in an alter ego. He
was having the time of his life.

Speaker 6 (52:59):
And the guard, who you see the guard when you
you know that's over there by the umpire's tunnel, that's
right by the third base dugout, and he wears that
blue batting helmet, the one Clay was wearing was his.
So he says to me, do you think it's in
bad form. If I asked Clay to sign it, I go, no,
you should ask him. So I'll see him today and
I'll ask him if if he was brave enough to

(53:21):
ask Clay to sign it.

Speaker 2 (53:22):
But anyway, that was pretty fun. That was a fun Yeah,
that was fun. That was a fun way to.

Speaker 8 (53:27):
Get what's funnier is that the athletics were all out
watching Clay.

Speaker 6 (53:32):
Remember Clay played there in that market place for all
those years, so he knows, he knows so many of them,
and that's how he knows Marcus so well. Marcus still
goes back there to Northern California in the off season,
so you know, they see each other hanging out at
various points.

Speaker 8 (53:47):
You know, I was catching up with one of the
a's like coaching staff, and I was like, what's the
biggest you adjustment about the part? He's like, man, it's
just a long walk from the dugout back to the clubhouse,
and did you ever see the manager got ejected And
it was just the funniest thing because it was just
the slow zoom in on him walking, you know, the
whole warning track to get back.

Speaker 6 (54:10):
So that's just yeah, the Rangers are going back there
in August. I heard people talking about it yesterday, and
of course the last time they were there, Corey hurt.
It might have been when he first hurt the hammy
and he had to walk all the way out there
just to get back. You know, it's not a good setup.
They didn't put a lot of money into it.

Speaker 2 (54:30):
Bad setup out there.

Speaker 6 (54:32):
Elsewhere in our batting cleanup segment. The Brewers have reached
eleven wins in a row and now have the best
record in base Yeah, they have surpassed the Tigers and
surpassed the Cubs. They're at sixty and forty for the season.
Pretty amazing. It's an amazing accomplishment. They won their first

(54:55):
game of this eleven game streak on July the sixth.

Speaker 2 (55:00):
Do you think about that?

Speaker 6 (55:01):
I mean, you know, we're down near to the end
of July here, and they continued. Now, granted, the All
Star break was in there, so you had essentially a
week off, but that's a long time to have a
winning streak stretch from July sixth till and you know
the twenty second.

Speaker 8 (55:16):
Normally, when you get time off, I mean momentum, right,
it kills your momentum.

Speaker 7 (55:22):
So that's impressive.

Speaker 8 (55:23):
Actually, and this is the first this is the latest
in the season that they've held this since they won
the Al Pennant in nineteen eighty two.

Speaker 7 (55:33):
Yeah, history repeats it.

Speaker 6 (55:35):
Arby's Wallbangers back in nineteen eighty two. That was a
heck of a team. That was a good team. Jose
Ramirez got to twenty twenty yesterday The Guardian's great, how many.

Speaker 2 (55:48):
Do you have?

Speaker 5 (55:49):
That?

Speaker 8 (55:49):
Hum recorded a seventh career twenty twenty season. On Monday,
he got his twentieth home run and he's now one
of six players in MLB history with his many twenty
twenty seasons. I'm excited to see what he does by
the end of the year because when my brother and
I were watching postseason last year and we were like,
he's just so.

Speaker 7 (56:08):
Like sleepy good.

Speaker 2 (56:09):
Yeah, Like, you.

Speaker 8 (56:10):
Don't realize what Jose Ramirez does every single year consistently.
I mean it's almost like Mars Marcus Simeon, you don't
realize how much he plays, you.

Speaker 7 (56:22):
Know, until you look it up kind of thing. But
he's I mean, was he forty forty last year?

Speaker 2 (56:27):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (56:27):
Yeah, yeah, I mean yeah.

Speaker 6 (56:29):
And by the way, Marcus Simeon, you tweeted this last
night It was a great tweet. Marcus Simeon. The Rangers
have played one hundred and one games, Marcus played one
hundred on a on a We're gonna rest, yeah, this
is we gotta. We gotta give Marcus his breaks this year. No,
they haven't and they won't. Now I'm not gonna put
Mark Marcus. Take Marcus out of the line of now.
I mean, he might get a day or two of

(56:50):
rest yet, I don't know, but he's not. He's gonna again.
He's gonna be in the one hundred and sixty to
one hundred and sixty two game rain. I mean one
hundred I should say one hundred and fifty five to
one hundred and sixty game range.

Speaker 8 (57:03):
Did you know that like Dwight Powell used to be
that equivalent for the Maps, he would play the whole season.
He would not miss a game. Wow, for like multiple
seasons in a row.

Speaker 6 (57:13):
I remember Oac Green when he was that guy in
the NBA too. Dayton myself there. That was very cool.
Yesterday something happened in baseball that has not happened since
they started keeping the stat of earned run, which was
nineteen thirteen. I think it's so cool when something happens

(57:35):
for the first time in one hundred and what would
that be, one hundred and twelve years of baseball being played,
and that is a pitcher, a Baltimore Orioles pitcher by
the name of Corbyn Martin, had a pitching line that went,
do we have a cat.

Speaker 2 (57:51):
One one one, one, one one one, the.

Speaker 6 (57:56):
Hit by pitch and the bach where the two we're
pretty amazing?

Speaker 7 (58:01):
One inning?

Speaker 2 (58:02):
Yeah, all in.

Speaker 6 (58:03):
One inning, one earned run, one walk, one strikeout, one
home run, one hit by pitch and one bocks. Never
happened before since they started keeping the success.

Speaker 2 (58:14):
Or earned run?

Speaker 7 (58:14):
Why not do it all?

Speaker 6 (58:16):
Just got it all done. He's all ones, right, which
is good in a lot of realms, not necessarily good
in baseball, but in that case, it's just cool. It's amazing.
And without the back, without the bok, that has happened.
All those ones minus the BAK have happened somewhat recently,

(58:37):
as recently as twenty twenty four actually, but for the
you add the balk in and you've got all those ones.
It's never happened since they started keeping that stat in
back in twenty thirteen, I mean nineteen thirteen, so well
over one hundred years now, so pretty cool. That's one
of the things about baseball. You go to the ballpark

(58:58):
every night and you never know what to expect. You're
never sure what you're going to see. And that's what
people saw in that Baltimore Cleveland game yesterday. Tonight, they'll
see you know what you're going to see in a way,
you're going to see degramination abs I like that.

Speaker 8 (59:15):
Word degromat, Yeah or degomination. I got another batting cleanup
for you. Yeah, it's one hundred years in the making
player since nineteen oh one to have three hundred strikeouts
and a sub to era through forty four career MLB games.

Speaker 2 (59:31):
Okay, Paul Skins, Skins is it?

Speaker 7 (59:34):
Skins? Is it?

Speaker 2 (59:35):
Yeah? That's not surprising.

Speaker 8 (59:36):
Oh ann shohe o Tawni delivered his own insurance last night.

Speaker 6 (59:41):
Yeah, hit a home run. He gave up a home
runner maybe two. Uh, but he hit a home run.

Speaker 8 (59:46):
You in the math, he hit one for himself, so
he kind of balances it out.

Speaker 7 (59:50):
But that is just that's bananas.

Speaker 6 (59:53):
Yeah, he's amazing his own insurance in so many different ways.
We showed you yesterday how he compares to Babe Ruth
he's exceeded what he did to Ken Griffy Junior, to
Nolan Ryan and who will oh and who.

Speaker 2 (01:00:07):
Is the other pitcher? Huh?

Speaker 6 (01:00:09):
I can't really Oh h yeah, that's right Kershaw. Yeah,
so his own teammate.

Speaker 2 (01:00:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:00:14):
So, anyway, he continues to amaze us. There's no question
about that. You continue to amaze us by hanging out
with us and having fun with us. As we talk
baseball tomorrow, remember that we will be here as for
a postgame show after the finale. Call it yeah, is
it going to be a sweep?

Speaker 7 (01:00:35):
I think so.

Speaker 6 (01:00:37):
I think so too, especially if you've aldi pitches. I'll
say it, They're going to sweep this team. They'll take
two of three on the weekend. They'll have a seven
and two home stand. And that's awfully good. That's almost
seventy percent of a winning percentage right at seventy to
start this second half of the season. We said they

(01:00:58):
need to win sixty percent their games in the second
half of the season in order to have a legitimate
shot at the playoffs. That would get him to eighty
seven or eighty eight wins if they continue at this pace.

Speaker 7 (01:01:11):
I hate to say it, rats, but you know I'm
back on the show, so.

Speaker 2 (01:01:14):
I think that might be it.

Speaker 6 (01:01:15):
I think that's exactly the difference, and so we'll be
We'll be glad to have Abs here again tomorrow. She'll
be with us Thursday too, post game tomorrow, and then
remember that we will have another one o'clock show that
comes your way on Thursday. So thanks for hanging out
with us, and well, yeah, don't jinx sorry about that.

(01:01:36):
We will see you again, and we will and we'll
prove we didn't jinx it. That will come tomorrow night
after the game. Thanks for hanging out with us today.

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