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October 6, 2025 36 mins
What a weekend! Playoff baseball is stressful and we sure got our fair share of it with a Mariners game 1 loss in extra innings and a much-needed win in Game 2 to head to Detroit with the series even and game 3 on Tuesday. From the lows felt by many on Saturday night to the highest of highs on Sunday night, Seattle celebrated that Game 2 home win like they’ve never been there before and there’s a good reason for that as it was just the 1st home playoff win in 24 years. :30- Mariners Morning After Cal and Julio came through in the bottom of the 8th after the Tigers tied it up at 2, but Jorge Polanco was the hero against Skubal, hitting 2 home runs off Detroit’s Ace. Luis Castillo gave up only 1 hit in the game and Gabe Speier stepped up to finish the 5th and go two more innings for the Mariners who needed that after Saturday’s extra innings loss. :45- Get out the sourdough, it’s time for Cold Turkey Sandwich, a board of scores; our look at what went on in the NFL yesterday.

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Good morning folks, Good.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
Morning everyone, Good morning, it's some time.

Speaker 1 (00:05):
Good morning class.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Ladies and gentlemen.

Speaker 3 (00:08):
Ladies and gentlemen, behold.

Speaker 4 (00:09):
A producing six one guard from Brighton, Illinois and former
high school basketball stand What in the hell does that mean?

Speaker 2 (00:19):
Don't jumped any conclusions?

Speaker 1 (00:21):
No, not a god.

Speaker 5 (00:22):
You've got to lower you lower your expectations.

Speaker 4 (00:25):
Hard to believe he could once send a fastball.

Speaker 1 (00:27):
To Pluto, getting some Bucky Jacobson vibes and former I'll
just openly admit I'm a fat, out of shaped tex athlete.

Speaker 6 (00:35):
Now there's been a noticeable spike in your blood pressure.

Speaker 4 (00:38):
Five seven guard and a former college water polo national champion.

Speaker 3 (00:42):
There's a lot of useless crap up here.

Speaker 4 (00:44):
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Speaker 7 (01:13):
Well, good Monday morning, and welcome into the radio show
that the people call Chuck and Buck in the Morning,
Sports Radio ninety three point three kJ A RFM. Ashley
Ryan is here, Bucky Jacobson us here. My name is
Chuck Pollin.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
We got you.

Speaker 7 (01:27):
Oh, we got you in a compromising position over the
course of the next four hours right here on the
radio program at the radio station, as we're gonna take
it till ten o'clock talking about all sorts of good
stuff here on the show today.

Speaker 2 (01:41):
And what a weekend.

Speaker 7 (01:42):
My goodness, Bucky and I were just on the air
fifteen minutes ago, got a seven minute nap, two minute breakfast,
and here we are back on the air with you
here this morning and ready to gab about sports.

Speaker 1 (01:55):
Yep, yep, it's playoff time. No, we'll sleep next month, right.

Speaker 5 (01:59):
You're right, that's what everyone says. November is for sleeping.

Speaker 1 (02:03):
Oh yes, I'm looking forward to well.

Speaker 5 (02:07):
Yeah, yeah, well because you sleep a lot so you
don't have time to shave.

Speaker 1 (02:10):
That makes sense, It makes a lot of sense. Yeah,
I'm all about it though. That's fine. Just I just
keep the playoff games coming because there that's a different feel.
M hm boy, oh boy, that's a different feel. And
thank you Cal and Jorge and Julio obviously for kind
of making the weekend not end on a suck note.

Speaker 2 (02:29):
Yeah, that's true, that's true. I mean it could have
been better.

Speaker 7 (02:32):
It could have been better that we're showing up here
this morning talking about a two oh start, and you
just got to take care of business at some point
over the next four days. Just got to win one
game out of that. But I will say this, the
way that people felt leaving the ballpark and you could
feel it everywhere on Saturday night, I mean, I think
people were sort of assuming the worst and then to

(02:55):
go out last night, get the win against maybe the
best left handed pitcher on the planet and pull it
out in similar fashion to the way you lost at
the night before, three to two final score in both
of the games. Yeah, it just sort of renewed the
spirit last night, and you could feel it in downtown Seattle,
There's no doubt about it.

Speaker 3 (03:14):
Yeah it was.

Speaker 5 (03:15):
I mean, just watching it on TV, obviously you could
tell the energy, and then I was following along on
social media things after and seeing the people in the
streets just cheering and loving it, and yeah, that was.

Speaker 3 (03:26):
I mean, I We're.

Speaker 7 (03:27):
Gonna probably get made fun of that a little bit,
that's fine, but you're right, that's.

Speaker 3 (03:31):
Fun playoff win in twenty four damn years.

Speaker 7 (03:35):
Celebrate it, and it feels like we're going to celebrate
every single home play.

Speaker 3 (03:41):
Win that we get again. We're starved for it.

Speaker 7 (03:43):
Yeah, and it's probably gonna grow. I think some other
you know, some other city just for me prepared for it.
Some other cities probably gonna take shots.

Speaker 1 (03:51):
Oh gosh, I don't know how to. You've never been
there before.

Speaker 2 (03:54):
Oh yeah, you've never been there.

Speaker 3 (03:56):
I was gonna say, all those people have never been
there before.

Speaker 2 (03:59):
So we're gonna get a little a little bit of that.

Speaker 7 (04:00):
But I say just block it out, because I mean,
as long as it doesn't get crazy and dangerous and
everything else. But everybody across the street from Jimmy's last
night having a good time out there.

Speaker 1 (04:10):
Yeah, there might have been a sprained ankle because they
were hipping and hopping and jumping and hooting and hollering.
I mean, some guy was out there with a drum
set and I saw it on when I was walking
up when I was going to the game. He just
out there playing some music cover song of something, and
he's just playing drums to it. And then random folks
were walking up grabbing the microphone singing songs. Oh and

(04:33):
they were yeah, while we were doing the post game
show last night, I mean, they were getting after it.
So you know, I think it's just probably a little
bit more headaches maybe going on today. But that's fine.
Cleting right, no, no from libations over celebrating. But I
don't think that. I mean, like you said, is that
the first home win since two thousand and one playoffory? Yeah? Yeah,

(04:55):
I mean so locking. I mean, enjoy the hell out
of it. I don't care if if anybody says you
act like you've done it before. It's been a long time.
Matter of fact, a lot of people in the stadium
probably didn't have never witnessed one. Yeah. Yeah, for sure.

Speaker 7 (05:10):
A lot of people that there's now like a famous shot.
It's gonna be famous, its gonna be played. A lot
of just some guy with his girlfriend and he's.

Speaker 2 (05:17):
Just like crying, crying.

Speaker 7 (05:19):
It was so adorable as they're getting ready to close
it out and then the girlfriend, her wife sees him
and then she just hugs him.

Speaker 2 (05:25):
She didn't go like you lose her Nope, you know,
grab a tissue.

Speaker 5 (05:29):
It was like, oh, baby was sobbing, but it was like, yeah,
it had just it had overcome him a little bit.
And I think in that it was just I thought
it was cute, and I it would have been different
obviously if he was a fan of an of the Astros,
I would have mocked him for sure, But he's not.

Speaker 3 (05:46):
And I thought it was great.

Speaker 7 (05:47):
Yeah, it was great. I mean softy last night. He
was beside himself the night before and both knights, both
nights we did the post game from Jimmy's We're gonna
keep doing that, and he boast he just came by
and let us look at his face. I guess because
he didn't hang out. He didn't like, you know, grab
a cocktail and hang out with us or pop on
the air with us. He just like came by both

(06:08):
nights and just showed us his face and it said everything.
Like the first night, I mean, he was just like
like he'd you know, uh lost his puppy, Yeah, and
he couldn't find it out on the streets of Seattle.
And then last night I was almost like worried for
his health because he looked like he'd seen a ghost.
And he wouldn't celebrating. He wasn't bouncing off the walls

(06:29):
like you kind of expect him to. It was a
long weekend for us, a lot of hours for all
of us at at KJR, and and so he'd put
in a lot of work.

Speaker 2 (06:38):
But you could tell he put.

Speaker 7 (06:39):
On a lot more work during those nine innings last
night with his buddies, because it was he looked pale.
It looked like he'd seen a ghost and survived it.
That's what it looked like last night.

Speaker 1 (06:51):
Well, I mean, I don't know if there's anybody that
besides maybe the guy that was crying that that has
more emotions attached to the LANs and nothing on David.
So I mean, yeah, he was just like one of
those maybe he had just found his puppy after he
thought he had lost it two days in a row again,
you know, like, no, not this, And yet I mean

(07:11):
he's he's kind of the heart heartbeat of Seattle fans.
I mean, there's if there's anything this fan base has
been starved for, it's this. It's postseasons, yeah, and then
success in the postseason and then getting to watch it
at your own home ballpark so you get to be
a part of it.

Speaker 4 (07:27):
Yea.

Speaker 1 (07:28):
And I mean the electricity was obviously in the air
both nights. I mean, the fans brought it. Last night
was one where you know, it kind of felt like
it was gonna be an uphill battle. Based on who
you were going up against, and Trek Scuoble he pitched
well other than a couple pitches that Horrory Polonko made
him pay for. And then you felt good. I mean,
two runs and you basically kind of get what you

(07:50):
need out of the bullpen and you're like, okay, this
is good. And then the walk and an air and
the double. Now you're tied. It's immediately like you turned
around and your dog has gone again. What and yet
callin Julio'll come up and with a couple of big
doubles there that ended up pulling that thing out for you.
So it's just that sorry of relief. And yet I
don't know. I think he's sitting there just thinking, I

(08:11):
don't know if I can handle this. This is what
I want. This is what I wished for.

Speaker 5 (08:16):
A Seahawks game that day too, though, So to do
the Mariner's game the night before with the loss, in
all of those emotions, then the Seahawks game where you think,
oh my gosh, we might win never mind, and then
you go into that game.

Speaker 3 (08:30):
He probably was like.

Speaker 2 (08:31):
I'll give you insight. He left the Seahawks game.

Speaker 7 (08:34):
Oh, he was so pumped about Mariners baseball. He couldn't
watch football, and that was maybe. I know we didn't
come out on top, but that was as entertaining a
football game I've seen the Seahawks play in my ten
years here. Yeah, I mean that was some great That
was some great quarterback play.

Speaker 3 (08:54):
Not great defense.

Speaker 2 (08:56):
And yet and yet.

Speaker 7 (08:57):
I look up and like him and his buddies are
come walking through the door, I'm oh, you left that game.

Speaker 5 (09:03):
Oh I care about what happens across that straight And again,
thank you Seahawks for your sacrifice for the Mariners yesterday,
because that was the one we needed.

Speaker 2 (09:12):
You know, there was a lot of.

Speaker 7 (09:13):
That that was going around, like, you know, let's kick
this and then we'll get the juju for the baseball
game tonight. You know, the sports gods will take the
they're not gonna give us both, so let them will
sacrifice this and then we'll win at the baseball yard
here tonight, which is exactly what they got done.

Speaker 2 (09:31):
Three to two is a final score. And believe me, there.

Speaker 7 (09:33):
Is this element for a fan base that has not
had a lot of success, where you know, being the
favorite in this series does weigh on you. Because we
had Friday night, we did a round table show, and
Dick Fane brought up a point about how he's separating

(09:54):
the two, like the season has already been a success,
you know, winning the division, winning ninety games, getting a
bye year of cal you know, the ownership, front office,
stepping up at the trading deadline. And I agree with
him that the season is already a success. But the
postseason is a completely different animal, and it can still

(10:18):
feel like a failure even though the regular season was successful.
And I get that, and I understand that, and I
think it all changes. I mean, if you thought the
atmosphere was great Bucky Saturday and Sunday, once you get over,
if you get over this hurdle of what is expected

(10:39):
of you, and then all of a sudden, you've just
got American League Championship Series and World Series remaining. Now,
all of a sudden, you're just free of all the
burden of expectations. Now it's just now you can really
cut loose and you can feel like both were successes,
the regular season and the postseason. But you got to

(11:00):
get through this, and that's why there was so much ankst.
That's why there was so much you know, frustration on
Saturday night, because that was a game on paper that
we were supposed to win, and now all of a
sudden started creeping into the minds of Mariner fans everywhere.
Oh man, this season cannot end without a series victory.

(11:20):
And I think a lot of people went home Saturday
night feeling like it was done.

Speaker 1 (11:25):
Yeah. Yeah, I mean I was hanging out with Fowler
and you and his son. He was like, we're done.
We're cooked after losing the first one, because you knew
who you were going to be going up against, one
of the toughest pitchers in the world right now. And
yet if it isn't exact Mariner baseball, yeah, I mean, yeah,
the bullpen game. You're going against a team that you
know has rebounded with a series win over the the

(11:48):
Boogeyman that was the Cleveland Guardians and that sniper the division.
But they end up winning that wild card series, so
they're they're fixed to some degree. I would say, they're
definitely on that path, and yet they come in and
you're not gonna have to face their ace. We get
to line up whoever we want for the entire series,
and you end up kind of I don't want to say,
given that one away but you didn't take it. You

(12:08):
didn't go out and just win it, and so yeah,
you felt I mean, I was driving to the yard thinking, man,
this is I don't feel good about where we're at.
And yet I know that just if there is anything
that this team will do, it's they'll just kind of
keep you on the edge of your seat. They're like, yeah,
we're not we're up two zip. Let's let's go ahead
and boot a ball real quick and make this interesting. Whatever.

(12:29):
You don't have to do that if you don't want.
I mean, I'll be okay with a couple of w's
like what we're watching Toronto do to the Yankees.

Speaker 2 (12:35):
Yeah, wouldn't that be nice.

Speaker 1 (12:36):
I'm okay with that score ten to fifteen runs. But
on this, on the flip side of it, it's kind
of makes it. I mean, it's an enjoyable product that
we get to watch. I think that the players have
nothing short of grand expectations. I think fans, you can
have whatever yours are if you feel like a postseason
win and get to the American League Championship Series, and

(12:58):
you won't then be disappointed and way shape for him.
There's others that will be disappointed if they don't make
it to the World Series. There's some I'm sure that
probably thinks if you don't win the World Series, where
you just were cursed Jerry. Yeah, and yet I'm just
kind of every game go out there and I want
you to. I want to feel like you're the better team,
because I think over the course of a series, usually

(13:18):
the better team comes out on top. And I think,
even you're tied one one, so it's about as even
as possible. You've scored the same amount of runs one, one, three,
two and lost one three to two. But I still
feel like we got a better team, and I feel
like we just dodged a bullet and getting past Trek Scouble.
Let's go ahead and just win a couple more in
Detroit and not even have to get to that Game five.
But we shall see how it plans out. Mariners Baseball

(13:39):
probably gonna be a Game five.

Speaker 3 (13:42):
I just yeah, it was.

Speaker 5 (13:43):
I definitely understood the frustration and worry on Saturday after
that lost like the feeling of forty years of oh,
this is what we're destined for or you know, and
especially the last twenty years, But I didn't understand the well,
that's it. Series is over, which so many people were
out there talking about.

Speaker 3 (14:04):
I'm like, series is over. It's a five game series.

Speaker 5 (14:07):
There's a reason they play five games because the first
game doesn't decide.

Speaker 3 (14:12):
The winner of the whole series. That's just not the
way it works.

Speaker 5 (14:15):
So you can be disappointed and be frustrated, but you
gotta have a little bit of faith in your team,
don't you.

Speaker 1 (14:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (14:21):
Well, I think the Scooball factor was already weighing definitely
on people's minds. You're gonna have to face them twice
in the series, and the first game felt like that's
the most winnable game.

Speaker 2 (14:30):
We gotta get that one. I think people went into.

Speaker 7 (14:33):
That night feeling that way, and I understand I understand why.
But you know, it's baseball, and particularly as Bucky's pointed
out a couple times already this morning, it's Mariners baseball.
And so when the series started, you thought, hey, it
was a pretty decent chance we're gonna go one and
one in these first two games, but you sort of

(14:55):
expected it to happen the other way around. I get that,
and so for for us to come away from that,
I think everybody needs to feel okay with what happened
this past weekend, and I really feel good about the
next two days. I don't feel good if we're coming
back and having to face that dude again and have
to beat him for a fourth time this year with
everything on the line, and now you are puckered up

(15:18):
a little bit because it's winner takes all against that monster,
you know, in a game five. And I do wonder
if aj Hinch, if he thought that we were gonna
come back with two runs against Matt Brash in the eighth,
if he would have ever told him go hit the showers, kid,
way to go, you know, we might have had to
face him in the eighth inning if he thought we

(15:38):
were gonna end up tied going into the bottom of
the eighth and you end up winning against Finnigan coming
out of the bullpen. But yeah, it didn't go exactly
the way that it was scripted to go. But I
think everybody should feel pretty good about one and one,
and I feel pretty good about what's gonna happen in.

Speaker 1 (15:54):
Games three and four. M Yeah, I mean, I just
we haven't even started really clicking offensively. Cal and Julio
have been good both games. Jor Hate chipped in yesterday
there was a couple other guys that got you know,
a check in this on the stat sheet. But I mean,
I just feel like our pitching staff so far, your
two games, they've done what you're hoping they would do. Right.

(16:15):
You go out there, keep you in the ball game,
put up a bunch of zeros, limit the damage, and
when you do get in hairy situations, pitch around it,
pitch out of it. And so I think the pitching
staff continues to look the way they've looked, and we
just start getting a couple more guys clicking a little
bit here and there. The nice thing about the guys
you're gonna face was flattery, flirty today and then probably

(16:36):
miz the next day. They're good. They can go out there.
We've seen this team get get shoved on by no
name guys and rookies and whatnot, but essentially they struggle
more with Yeah, but I just feel good about the
fact I think this offense is gonna kick it into
gear a little bit, and then that's what they're They're
gonna have to ride the whole package. You're not gonna
just win games, you know, three to two every time

(16:58):
and hoping for a couple of long balls from the
same guy. You're gonna have to put together some good
abs and scratch some stuff together. Just yesterday was a
guy you're not gonna do that against. He just doesn't.
He doesn't give that up. You don't string together three,
four or five hits against Errek Scubo in an inning
and put up a crooked number. You need to capitalize
when he makes a mistake and hit the ball out
of the yard. And we did that a couple of times,

(17:19):
and then when he came out of the game, then
we took advantage of that guy hanging a couple of splitties.

Speaker 2 (17:23):
Thank you, hoorge Polonco.

Speaker 7 (17:26):
We'll talk more about that coming up in Mariners Morning
After at six thirty today. Of course, we're doing Mariners
Morning After at six thirty today. But let's find out
what else was on tap for this Monday show.

Speaker 2 (17:37):
Chucking, What what's on tep?

Speaker 1 (17:40):
What's on to?

Speaker 5 (17:41):
All?

Speaker 6 (17:41):
Right?

Speaker 7 (17:42):
Mariner's three Tigers two yesterday, and so the series is
even at game one game apiece. It is a five
game series. Games three and four will be played in
Detroit on Tuesday and Wednesday. Tuesday's game will start at
one o'clock our time. It will be Logan Gilbert going
again against Jack Flaherty.

Speaker 2 (18:01):
That is your pitching matchup for game number three.

Speaker 7 (18:04):
Ryan Healy, who we've added to our staff here for
the postseason, is going to join us today. We'll get
his reaction to the weekend. He'll be joining as former
Mariner at nine thirty here this morning. Meanwhile, Yankees are
down two in their series. They were just thumped by
the Toronto Blue Jay. So much for them experiencing any

(18:25):
rust with the time off. They scored twenty three runs
in two days.

Speaker 1 (18:29):
Yeah, they don't look rusty. They're out there getting it.
I mean, I think there's some folks that were Look
how unfortunate it is for Toronto, right, they end up
having the best league and win their division, have best
record in the American League, and you've got to go
against the Yankees. The players didn't think that. I mean,
the players took that crown, took that title this season,
and then yeah, Yankees, good job, you got past a

(18:51):
wild card round. It's time for us to kind of
put you where you belong. And they've done that in
the first couple of games. Still ain't over, but they're
they're definitely putting a hurt on that pitching staff. It's
really fun to watch.

Speaker 7 (19:03):
Tuesday, five o'clock is Game three of that series, and
it will be at Yankee Stadium. The NL will take
the center stage here tonight starting at three o'clock. You're
gonna have Dodgers at Phillies and you will have Cubs
at Milwaukee's the later game. So that's going to be
an eight o'clock start Central time for them. As the
Brewers and the Cubs do battle. We'll talk some football today,

(19:24):
plenty of football as a matter of fact. I mean,
we'll focus as much as we can on Mariner playoff baseball.
But it is a Monday, and it was a pretty
good game on Sunday, even though we came up on
the short end of the stick. Thirty eight to thirty
five was a final score at Looming yesterday against the
Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Costly interception by Sam Darnold late in
the contest when he had a chance to win it

(19:45):
gave them the necessary field position to get kick the
game winning field goal. Greg Bell will join us at
seven oh five, so we'll get some information from Gregy
also covered the Mariners this weekend as well, so we
can talk a little ms with him on the program
today and then Hugh Mellen will be with us, not
from eight to ten. We're only going to go eight
to nine today with Hugh with Monday Morning Quarterback, but

(20:08):
we'll get a full hour of our qb ones analysis
of the loss to the Buccaneers. No coach Holmgron today,
So that's our kind of dividing up our time as
there's just too much going.

Speaker 2 (20:20):
On here in Seattle, just way too much.

Speaker 7 (20:23):
No undefeated teams remain in the National Football League. The
Denver Broncos defeated the Philadelphia Eagles yesterday and then last
night the Patriots took out the Buffalo Bills. So nineteen
seventy two Miami Dolphins, they are drinking their champagne rather early.
Just five weeks into the NFL season and we don't
have an undefeated team left.

Speaker 1 (20:41):
Yeah, that's crazy. Yeah, a lot of parody obviously. I
mean it's odd, there's some there's some teams that lost.
I mean that one last night would be one. I
think the Patriots are a whole heck of a lot
better than I was giving them credit for, even though
I thought they were going to take a step forward.
I still feel like they weren't going to beat Buffalo
at Buffalo, and but and so, yeah, you just kind
of have a couple teams. It's an odd one, right,

(21:01):
What is Baltimore doing? Who the heck? How is that looking?
As bad as that's looking? And then like the Colts,
I mean the Colts, if they didn't have a bonehead
play last week, could be five and zero. That's interesting.

Speaker 2 (21:11):
One winless team remains the New York Jets.

Speaker 7 (21:13):
They are zero and five because the Saints and the
Titans both won yesterday. We will catch you up to
date on the scoreboard. Cold Turkey Sandwich comes your way
at six forty five this morning. You dub somehow came
back and won that game Saturday against Maryland. They outscored
the Terrapins twenty one to nothing in the fourth quarter
to win at twenty four to twenty, their first Big
ten road victory in the Jedfish era. Meanwhile, there was

(21:36):
bigger news nationally as Penn State and Texas both lost
over the weekend. So the number one and number two
team preseason ranked are already out of the top twenty
five this year. Can't wait to talk to coach new
Isile tomorrow about his son Jerry, who was the bell
of the ball this weekend. In college football, Sounders won
Saturday night over the Timbers one to nothing. The WNBA

(21:59):
Finals have the Aces up two to oh. They won't
play game three until Wednesday. It is a best of seven,
so the Mercury have a chance to get back into
this thing.

Speaker 2 (22:07):
And they are going home for game number three.

Speaker 7 (22:10):
And we are on the eve of the National Hockey
League season. It starts tomorrow, even though the Kraken will
not open until Thursday at home against the Ducks. So
obviously there is a lot going on. We'll do our
best to cover it all. Mariner's Morning After comes your
way next Chuggingbuck Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM
Saturday and Sunday. And after a crushing loss that really

(22:34):
did demolish the Spirits a mini a Mariner fan on
Saturday night, the team comes back the next night to
face Trek Scoobel, Who's gonna win back to back cy
Young Awards in the American League for goodness sake, So
felt cautiously optimistic. Perhaps was the feeling going into the
game last night. Jorge Polanco eased some of that tension.

(22:56):
He homered twice over the great schoobl And in three
at bats, and the Mariners had a two nothing lead
at that point. And that's where we'll pick up Mariners
morning after our Mariners postgame show.

Speaker 2 (23:10):
We do it the morning after every single Mariner game.

Speaker 1 (23:13):
We've been doing it all year long.

Speaker 3 (23:14):
I don't know, ya, this isn't new.

Speaker 1 (23:16):
Yeah, it's not new if.

Speaker 2 (23:17):
You're think it's new. Oh, where did they come up
with this concept?

Speaker 3 (23:20):
Anything special for the playoffs?

Speaker 2 (23:22):
No, pretty much been doing it for years.

Speaker 7 (23:25):
So so two to nothing at that point, and believe me,
there was a feeling like, all right, we evened up
the series. I know that Brash has not been as
effective here as of late. And then two appearances in
a row over the weekend and he walks the first
guy that he faces in both appearances.

Speaker 2 (23:44):
It was a bad walk.

Speaker 7 (23:45):
It was a worse error by Josh Naylor that put
two men on in that inning.

Speaker 2 (23:51):
And then Spencer Torkelsen. I didn't even see how fluky
of a swing he took.

Speaker 7 (23:57):
I mean it, he got beat on that, and yet
he somehow muscled it down. From our vantage point, it
looked like he laced Wich. He did a shot down
the first base line past Naylor, but he kind of
got jammed and somehow just kind of found a hole
out there in the outfield, right inside the chalk.

Speaker 2 (24:18):
It rolls into the corner. Two runs.

Speaker 7 (24:20):
Score for goodness sake, and it took the air out
of the stadium two to two. But our top of
the order was coming up. The Tigers had already declared,
they'd already sent Scuball to the showers, and so Mariners
come up in the bottom of the eighth, one out,
cal Raley gets a double down the right field line,
slid head first, just to get dirty.

Speaker 3 (24:39):
Yeah, he did seem like he did just want to
get dirty.

Speaker 7 (24:42):
They didn't really need to do it, but he was
gonna hug that base and get it rally started, and
Julio Rodriguez picked everybody up. Julio with the RBI double

(25:11):
down the left field line gave them all the cushion
they would need for Andres Munnos, who had a one
two three bottom of the ninth, and the Mariners do
win it by a final score of three to two.
Let's start our analysis with Julio and the game winning hit.
He's off to a heck of a start. I mean,
he did not have a great night last night against Schooble.
He couldn't even get the ball out of the infield

(25:32):
after getting three hits the night before, including a home run.
But man, you're seeing the growth of this young man
right before our eyes. He's always wanted to be pressure player,
primetime player, and we're starting to see him develop into that.

Speaker 1 (25:46):
Yeah. I mean, he's had a great second half again
and you basically put him together and he's had another
really really solid season. And yet all of that kind
of is behind you. It's not like you don't think
about it, right You want Cowl up there feeling as
good as he should, considering what he did this season,
all the records he broke, and yet it doesn't matter
right now. What matters is the next day B in

(26:07):
the next day B and and he's feeling good and
he's I think most people would just admit that he's
probably the most talented player on the field just about
every single night, and it's just a matter of him
kind of being in the zone that he needs to
be in. At times, he'll get into overswinging, he wants
to do too much. He wants to be the hero
where he wants to do this for Seattle so badly

(26:29):
that at times he tries to come he tries too
hard and he comes out of his comfort zone. He
right now is in his comfort zone. He's feeling good.
I mean, yeah, you go over and have a hard
time against Trek. Scougle joined the crowd. There's not many
people that don't except for yeah, yeah, hey, and so,
I mean, it was a great swing by him. It's

(26:50):
great for Cal obviously. The scorts that ball and kind
of gets you going. The answer after that eighth inning
was was awesome. I mean, it's even brash. He walks
the guy and then basically gives up that the air,
or he doesn't give it up, but he gets a
ground ball. It could have been a double play ground
ball doesn't boom, then the double. Now you're tied. The
way he came back and punched out the next two

(27:12):
guys to keep it tied, versus giving up another knock
right you're behind, that makes it far less pressure. Cal
comes up and it's like, all right, tide ballgame, new
ball game. We got the advantage. We had six outs,
so they only have three to play with. So he
gets it started. And then Julio to rake that one
down in the corner. I mean, just the vibes in
that place went from you're up and then you're tied

(27:34):
all of a sudden, like, oh no, just suck the
air out of it. Those two kind of brought life
back into the ballpark for sure.

Speaker 5 (27:39):
Yeah, it was again watching it on TV, like you
could feel the energy in the stadium.

Speaker 3 (27:43):
I kept yelling at the TV like, okay, you guys.

Speaker 5 (27:46):
Better be loud now, like they could hear me, and
they were loud, but I was like, come.

Speaker 3 (27:50):
On, we need you to be louder. Like I felt
like I was there. It was cool.

Speaker 7 (27:55):
Three to two is the final score the Mariners, so
win it. Here is Dan Wilson after the game.

Speaker 6 (28:00):
That's kind of the nature of playoff baseball is back
and forth. There's momentum shifts.

Speaker 2 (28:04):
I give our guys a ton of credit.

Speaker 1 (28:06):
Number one. This was a bounce back game for us.

Speaker 2 (28:08):
And and uh they did just that.

Speaker 6 (28:10):
And then you know, to lose a lead late like
that and then to come right back and score a
run was huge. I thought those are bats by Cal
and Julio were tremendous.

Speaker 1 (28:20):
And uh, you know, just to.

Speaker 6 (28:23):
You know, a huge momentum shift back to our our
dugout and then Mooney coming in there in the ninth
to slam the door.

Speaker 2 (28:30):
You know, this is this is what it's like.

Speaker 6 (28:32):
I mean, this is playoff baseball, so you're going to
see this and uh, it's it's good to come up
on the on the top side of this one.

Speaker 1 (28:38):
And you mentioned Callum Julio. Obviously it's a team that've
heard a lot to get a good shipbuted.

Speaker 5 (28:42):
In this one.

Speaker 8 (28:42):
But you know, everything's on the line and your two guys,
you guys do it all years to have those.

Speaker 1 (28:48):
Stars step up, and I'm.

Speaker 8 (28:51):
Yeah, you know those obviously those two guys with the
big bats, they're late, but you know, you can't overlook
everything else that that happened today. Pull over two homers off,
you know, off of one of the league's best, if
not the best, and you know, just too great at
bats there to give us a little bit of a lead.
You know, outstanding ballgame for him, and another hit later

(29:13):
in the infield hit and then what the Rock did
for us on the mound, a tremendous job of getting
us to where we needed to get to. And you know,
kind of give it back to the bullpen that did
a tremendous job.

Speaker 2 (29:26):
Again tonight, Dan Wilson after a three to two victory.

Speaker 7 (29:30):
And yes, Hore Polanco, I mean I already figured out
my hockey three Stars of the Game sort of scenario
for the postgame show and then if we didn't cough
up the lead, and Julio and Andre Smunos kind of
changed the script a little bit, but Hore Polanco seemed
like the three star player last night, both offensively and defensively.

Speaker 2 (29:50):
Castillo only gave up one hit.

Speaker 7 (29:51):
He didn't make it through the fifth inning, which we'll
talk about more coming up at seven thirty this morning,
but he leaves with the shutout. Going head to head
against Trek Schooble. He absolutely did what he needed to
do last night. And then Gabe Spier was fantastic last night,
not only closing out that fifth inning, but then working
another clean sixth inning as well. He's been terrific in

(30:14):
both of his appearances so far in this playoff, but
the M's even up the series at game apiece. Three
to two is the final score in both games, and
in tomorrow will be in Detroit. And I literally mean
Bucky and I will be in Detroit, but the Mariners
will be there as well, it turns out, and so
it will be Logan Gilbert going for us. It's a

(30:36):
one o'clock start our time, that's four o'clock in Detroit.
Jack Flaherty will go for the Tigers. So a pair
of tall right handers in tomorrow's matchup to try to
seize control of this five game series.

Speaker 2 (30:50):
And so nothing tonight.

Speaker 7 (30:52):
The National League has the stage tonight, but tomorrow it
will be pure American League. We will have the first
of two games in the Alds tomorrow starting at one o'clock.
All Right, more on the Mariners coming up on the
show today, including Ryan Healey at nine thirty. We still
have to get to the ABC's of the MS and
we do have to talk about the decisions by Dan

(31:12):
Wilson Tale of Two Decisions on Saturday and Sunday, which
we'll do at seven thirty. But we're also going to
talk a little football today as well. Cold Turkey Sandwich
comes your way next. A board of scores on Sports
Radio ninety three point three KHARFM.

Speaker 2 (31:27):
Yeah, the lines lived context time.

Speaker 3 (31:32):
Working on field or check some Smith Insipar sucond touchdown
reception of the season.

Speaker 7 (31:40):
And our six hard leisure thrown by quarterback Sam Donald.

Speaker 2 (31:48):
Hi Seahawks fall to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

Speaker 7 (31:51):
What a show put on by Sam Darnold and Baker
Mayfield yesterday at Loominfield, thirty eight to thirty five. We
haven't really spoken about it much at all, but we
will with Greg Bell coming up at seven oh five,
and of course Hugh Millen will be with us today
at eight o'clock, but only till nine today, not until
ten o'clock. We'll talk to Mariners Baseball from nine to ten.
Here on Chuck and Buck. In the mornings, we will

(32:12):
deliver for you though cold turkey sandwich a board of scores.
Let's go through the week in the National Football League.
We will start with the early game over in Europe.
Minnesota twenty one seventeen winners over Cleveland. The Vikings improved
a three and two Dylan Gabriel's first career start. The
Browns actually had a three point lead with three minutes

(32:34):
to go, but Carson Wentz picked it up when he
needed to, and the Vikings end up winning that by
four points. The Indianapolis Colts making life more miserable for
Pete Carroll and Gino Smith.

Speaker 2 (32:46):
Gino again trouble in the red zone.

Speaker 7 (32:48):
Pete Carroll said afterwards, I'm processing it poorly, to tell
you the truth, because I expected to win right away.
Not only are the Raiders one and four, they seem
to be going away from winning football.

Speaker 2 (33:00):
Further and further.

Speaker 7 (33:01):
They got trounced by the Colts yesterday. Forty to six
was the final score.

Speaker 1 (33:06):
It's almost as fun as watching the Yankees get spanked
watching the Raiders. Yeah, gets hampd. It's fun. Yeah, And
I mean the Colts are I think they're a whole
heck of a lot better than a lot of people
will give them credit for. I mean, forty to six
against the Raiders is I don't care who you're playing.
To beat them by that much is saying something.

Speaker 7 (33:24):
The New Orleans Saints get their first win of the year,
twenty six to fourteen over the New York Giants, and
it was the under. Somehow we got the under on
that for Factor fiction. So the Saints are one and four,
the Giants are one and four. The Tennessee Titans also
won yesterday, so they move away from the ranks of
the winless as they came from behind. They trailed twenty

(33:46):
one to six in the fourth quarter to the Arizona Cardinals,
and somehow the Cardinals lost that game. Had another one
of those drops right before the end zone from Demarcado.

Speaker 2 (33:56):
Of the Cardinals.

Speaker 7 (33:57):
They also had what looked like a game sealing interception
and then the defender immediately fumbled the ball away and
Tyler Lockett fell on it in.

Speaker 2 (34:04):
The end zone.

Speaker 7 (34:06):
It was quite the way to blow a game. The
Cardinals have now lost three straight. The Titans win their
first game of the season, so cam Ward gets his
first The New York Jets are now the only winless
team in the National Football League and they got beat
up pretty badly by the Cowboys yesterday. Thirty seven to
twenty two is the final score there, so the Jets

(34:27):
arezero and five. We have no undefeated teams remaining in
the NFL. Denver Broncos win twenty one seventeen over the
Philadelphia Eagles, and the New England Patriots take out the
Buffalo Bills last night twenty three to twenty. So early
champagne toast for the nineteen seventy two Miami Dolphins. Those
that are still with us as the winless teams are gone.

(34:51):
Excuse me, the undefeated teams are gone in the National
Football League. Nice job, Broncos. Yeah, it was a good game.

Speaker 1 (34:57):
I mean they were behind and didn't do anything really
off offensively until the fourth quarter, and turning on a
little bit, defense stepped up, got after Jalen Hurts a bunch,
and he had a couple of misthrows as well. So
I'll take it. I like seeing that there's nobody that's undefeated.
I don't don't. Sometimes it's that is this team really
good enough to be undefeated? And at this point obviously
nobody is.

Speaker 7 (35:17):
Carolina Panthers got two hundred and six rushing yards from
Rico Dowdell yesterday and came from behind to defeat the
Miami Dolphins twenty seven to twenty four. Dolphins one in four,
Carolina two and three on the year. The same thing
happened in Houston and Baltimore, even though we didn't expect
these two teams to be a combined three and seven,
but Houston scored forty four points. No Ravens team has

(35:40):
given up more points at home than what yesterday's Ravens
team did against a struggling offensive team in Houston forty
four to ten. This is rock bottom for a proud franchise.
No Lamar, I get that. But the bad defense, that's
a real thing there for the Ravens. The Detroit Lions
moved to four and one on the season. They look

(36:01):
like their steam rolling folks again. They had no trouble
with the Cincinnati Bengals thirty seven to twenty four the final.
The Bengals have lost three straight games there, and Washington
got Jayden Daniels back. He passes for two hundred and
thirty one yards and a touchdown. But the real story
was that the Los Angeles Chargers could not get any

(36:21):
offense going. After Justin Herbert looked like an MVP candidate
through three games, they suddenly have dropped two in a
row and yesterday were absolutely stemied by the Washington Commanders,
twenty seven to ten the final score.

Speaker 1 (36:35):
There.

Speaker 7 (36:35):
One more game in the National Football League this week
tonight and Jacksonville. The Jaguars trying again to prove that
they are real this year. They will host the Kansas
City Chiefs. Kickoff is at five point fifteen. All right,
More on the Seahawks Buccaneers finally with Greg Bell at
seven oh five, and we have a lot more Mariner
talk coming your way this morning on Chuckin'buck Sports Radio

(36:56):
ninety three point three KJRFM
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