The Mariners split the first two games of the ALDS with the Tigers and a sigh of relief from Seattle fans was felt around the world. What were some of the key moments from last night’s win and the weekend? We discuss. :30- RYON HEALY is here to give us his breakdown of last night’s Mariners win. How did he feel about Dan’s decision-making and the adjustments made from Saturday to Sunday? :”45- We wrap up the show with one last thing and the guys are off to Detroit!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Bouncing ball to Naylor, clips and finishes their first play
twin in twenty four years. The Maritors up tied the
series at one since the clincher against Cleveland nearly a
quarter century ago, and Seattle, the team and the city
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can breathe a collective sigh of relief as they will
head to the Motor City tied up at a game
a piece with the Detroit Tigers.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
FS one Adam Mean on the call there, and that's
pretty appropriate. I think that's really well said. I think
there was I mean, there was somebody at about eleven
ten last night that was just, you know, crab fishing
in the Boston Harbor, and it was just sitting there like, hey,
pull it up, you know, will Filmer. Filmer's like pulling
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it up and trying to look see if they got
any crabs, and then all of a sudden they just
felt this like go over the top of them.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
They're like, did you.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Feel that, Filmer? I don't know if I did, Craig,
I don't know what that was, but it felt like
a breeze of relief blew over us. I think yeah,
I think they felt it in Japan. I think they
felt it in Greenland. You know, I think that it
was felt everywhere that oh my goodness. I don't know
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if that was a must win this time of the year.
Usually must wins mean your season is over. But it
sure felt musty. There's no doubt going into that game.
And I think there was a huge sigh of relief
felt here, not just with the fan base. I think
that clubhouse was like, who I will now go clean
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my shorts out after giving up the two run lead
late in the game, and now we can start celebrating
and let's get down the ball.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
I mean, I would bet you Josh Naylor had a
big sigh of relief because of that error that ended
up being capitalized on with that because it didn't feel like,
oh no, I mean you feel like it. I didn't
feel like we had it in hand, but it felt good,
especially the second home run begging it to zip.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
You kind of like, okay, we were we got this.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
Just do what you do, Just take care of business,
pape pick it when it's hit to you, and you know,
maybe scratch another one across over in the last couple innings.
But the fact that all of a sudden tied it up,
You're like no, not no, no, we're not going to
do that. And yet callin Julio said, no, we got
We got this. Because it did. It did most certainly
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send you in a totally different mindset than what we'd
be talking about. I mean, it's highly possible. I think
we're a better team than they are, and so it's
highly possible you could have been we could be flying
to Detroit and sitting there thinking about being up to zip.
But you know, once you'd kick that first one, being
one one, I'm good with that. Go win a couple
there and see what's up.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
We were all aware of the existence of a person
named Trek Scooble and what he does for a living
and how well he does it. We talked about it
all last week. You know he's going to pitch in
forty percent of these games if it goes the distance,
and so you knew you were going to have to
go up against him at some point. I think when
the series started that you tell yourself at home, all right,
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we want to win both, but if we get one
out of two here at home, we can take care
of business on the road. A baseball home field advantage
isn't the factor that it is in some other sports.
So I think that a lot of people would have
been all right going into the series splitting these first
two games knowing that Scooble was out there, but you
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just certainly didn't expect it to go. We lose Game
one and then beat Schooble to create that sense of relief.
So I'm okay with where I just didn't expect the
journey we went on to get here.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
Well, I mean I said it before Game one. It
would be typical Mariners to not win a bullpen game
and then somehow beat Turk Scruble again, Like I thought,
it would just be it's par for the course, that's
the way in which it happens. And yet driving down
to the yard yesterday, I was thinking, Man, I don't
like I don't like the fact that we're we've painted
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ourselves into a little bit of a corner. It wasn't
must win by any stretch, but it would have been
really an uphill battle to think you're going to go
on the road win to their force a game five.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
That you go against Scooble again and beat you.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
But he's not He's human, he believes just like the
rest of us, and so, I mean, the fact that
we ended up having one guy in Jorge Polonco that
took advantage and capitalize on a couple of mistakes put
you in a situation where you could you could survive
a lead off walk and an error and then a
one good piece of hitting and getting that ball that
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the Torkosen hit down the line to tie it up.
But to me then it's just the typical Mariner way.
Especially you have Cal Rawley right the year of Cal
him coming up to lead off with that double, You're like, Okay,
here we go. I mean, it immediately felt so much
different than right you just felt five minutes earlier when
they tied the ball game. Now Brash does his thing
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and strikes out the two guys to make it keeps
it tied up, and I think Cal just kind of
goes up there, like, let's ride that momentum. Right, we
could feel bad about the fact that it's tied up,
or we can say we still got six outs. They
got three outs, I'm gonna make my out tough. Boom
spanks that one down in the corner and Julio returns.
The whole thing could have got another insurance run there.
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It didn't and Julio gets thrown out at home. Regardless,
Munos comes in there and absolutely dices them up. So,
I mean, I'm pumped about one one and I wouldn't
really expect it to be any other way. I would
not have expected, even with our offense as much as
I like it, for them to come out and score
twenty five runs the first two games, and of the
type of wins that Toronto's having against New York, that
just isn't the way this club plays ball.
Speaker 5 (06:05):
Yeah, well, and.
Speaker 6 (06:06):
Yeah, I mean the nice thing is it doesn't matter
how you win as long as you get the win, right.
And I thought one of the better moments was when
Spire came in for Castillo.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
And then got that out. You could, I mean.
Speaker 6 (06:17):
That there right there was a huge collective sigh of relief.
You could see it from Castillo, you could see it
from everyone. You could see the emotion on Spire's face
when he was just pumped about getting that final out
of the fifth inning, and then for him to come in.
Speaker 5 (06:28):
And do what he did was incredible.
Speaker 6 (06:31):
And I will say, when you were saying earlier for
people who don't know, if they didn't know who Scooble was.
If you didn't know who Scooble was, you definitely knew
after the Fox broadcast or f S one broadcast last night.
Speaker 5 (06:42):
They are obsessed, obsessed.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Yeah, spire moment. We talked about it a little bit
at seven thirty. Didn't get to expand on it too much.
Bucky and I did talk about a last night on
the post game show, doing the postgame show, by the way,
Baseball's best post game shows back. You know, we used
to do it here at kJ R, and we're doing
it throughout the post game, both home and road throughout
these playoffs. But we did discuss the Spire moment, and
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it was the same moment that a lot of people
were kind of thinking we should have gone to on
Saturday night. So I think Dan Wilson immediately learned a
pretty valuable lesson about oh yeah, managing and the postseason
a little bit different. This isn't about let's make sure
since he did some great work, let's get the Rock
a win. No, this is about what are you going
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to do tonight, every single moment of tonight, in order
to give yourself the best percentage chance of getting through
that inning, getting that out and I thought they should
have gone to with Spire against Carpenter on Saturday. They didn't,
and it cost them, and then they rectified that. It
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was almost as if Dan Wilson was admitting, yeah, you know,
we thought of it. We didn't do it. We didn't
pull the trigger. We're pulling the trigger tonight, and Spire
ends up getting out Carrie Effing Carpenter and we win
the day yesterday.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Yeah, I mean it was it was a good move.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
Obviously Castillo was I mean, pitch count was up, but
he obviously could have finished that inning and yeah, and
quite possibly would have gotten out of there now it
would have been was that the third time he's facing him,
and that's right when he capitalized on George. It's you see,
he's a good hitter. I mean it's not one of
those oh you just he gets lucky. No, he The
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pitch he hit out against George was up out of
the zone. It's a good pitch. It's a good pitcher's pitch.
He just put a better swing on it and capitalized
on it. This is one where why not bring in
a lefty You just automatically feel like, okay, that is
that's pushing the advantage back into our direction. You're bringing
in game Spier who he's got that fire right. He
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pitches like a bulldog out there. And when you inherit
a couple runners, there's more to it than just you
going out and hat trying to have a clean inning.
You're like, no, I'm I'm here to take you down
like it is you and me one on one, and
I'm doing it to pick up the team. And because
it was a really gutsy outing by Castile, he kind
of he was being careful with a lot of the pitches,
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hence the four walks that he ended up giving, but
then pitched around all of that traffic and really only
allowed that one hit before he was taken out. So
it was one of those you don't want to cough
it up right here. You don't want to cough up
your homies run that you're inheriting. He went out there
and did it masterfully. It was it was one where
it does it gives you. It gives Dan Wilson the
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idea of I can I have to rely on all
these dudes in the bullpen, you know, I mean maybe
not every single guy, obviously they're not. Everybody's going to
be in the same type of situation as far as
the leverage and how high the stakes are. You have
the guys that kind of pitched themselves into that. But
last night you let him go back out there for
another inning. He does great. Bizardo does what he's done
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majority of the season for US. Brash gets a little
bit of a hic up and then you know, some
bad defense behind him. Next thing you know, you're like,
oh man, but then the offense picks them up. That's
the nature of baseball. Good teams find a way to
pick each other up. When somebody stumbles a little bit,
you got to help him up.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
As doesn't carry carboner. Look like every bad guy in
every eighties rom com movie always the jock.
Speaker 5 (10:21):
Yeah, definitely the jock.
Speaker 6 (10:22):
Yeah, like the really good looking guy that the girl
has a crush on, but he turns.
Speaker 5 (10:26):
Out to be a turd, right exactly.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Yeah, Yeah, with the white sweater on you know, the
red letter on it. Yeah, that guy.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Also, he's probably really nice, probably kind, probably gives a charity.
Speaker 5 (10:39):
He's probably great.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Yeah, don't like him, yeah exactly, but he does. He
certainly has had a nice little career against us. You know,
you brought up Castillo's pitch count. I think everybody just
needs to give themselves to this. I mean, there's a
reason why George's pitch count was up and Luis Castillo's
pitch count was up. They are trying to throw their
best stuff. I mean, during the course of a regular season,
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there is an art, there is a value to going
as deeply as you can, and one to save the
bullpen and then you know, and to create longevity for
the season. But when you get to this time of
the year, especially when you've got built in days off,
I mean, you don't get two days off in a
five game stretch usually in Major League Baseball during the
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regular season, you're gonna have two built in days off
in a five game series. Plus we've had, you know,
pretty much five days of full rest and kind of
eight days of rest for our bullpen. So they're good
to go. They are ready to go. Everybody was available
for both nights, that's very clear. On Saturday and Sunday,
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Castillo and Kirby's jobs are to miss bats. We don't
want the ball in play because bad things can happen,
and we can keep it from getting in play. We're
gonna keep it from getting in play. And so even
though the pitch counts were up, and I'm sitting by
anders Hearst and getting nervous at watching the pitch count
because be cause still had fifty one pitches through two innings.
Fifty one for goodness sake, they're not really sweating that
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they want you to to go as throw your best stuff.
Get these dudes out. You know, we're not worried about
you going six to seven innings because we trust our
bullpen on the backside. And if it needs to go
four plus innings tonight, it goes four plus innings tonight.
We're good. So go out there, misbats, Uh, don't throw
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your pitches, don't throw, don't give in, don't throw their pitches.
And if we got to take you out in the fourth,
don't be surprised by it, because we might like a
matchup in the fourth inning or the fifth inning better
than you are, based upon the situation, based upon who's
coming to play. That's the way this thing's going to
operate this year. So you know, charting the pitch count
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not nearly as important as it is during the regular season.
And if a guy's on role, by the way, same thing,
I know you're at ninety six and we usually take
you out here, but they can't touch you. You're going
at least another inning right here.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Yeah. Yeah, I mean it's not as important for sure.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
I mean, because the way in which you manage in
April and May and June is trying to keep people healthy,
trying to keep people fresh, not overusing guys because of
the bullpening guys. It's not just the appearances or the
innings that they pitch, it's the times that they get
warm and then get sat back down. That's not a
thing that you want to overdo and abuse. And so
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it's one of those Hey dude, you're you are only
at eighty five pitches. We're expecting you to get through
this fifth inning.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
We know you can do it.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
And if you don't and you give up a run here,
we expect you to stop the bleeding there and we're
still up. You know, you still would be up or
tied in that ball game. And you're doing it that way.
I mean, I think that there's still is as you,
as you get further and further into it, you want
to be able to not have to use I think
four guys is about where I'm going to feel comfortable
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on most nights. Now, sometimes you have to go earlier
to the bullpen and then you matchups. You just end
up going through six or seven guys. But the more
guys that you bring in, you're offering the opportunity for
want of them to have an off day and just
not be locating or not be feeling great. Doesn't have
that same zip on it. So the way they did
yesterday obviously worked out. I think that it could have
worked out even better had when I had the air
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and the leadoff walk that kind of led to them
tying the ball game back up.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
But again that's Mariner baseball. They like having a little
bit of chaos in our life.
Speaker 5 (14:31):
We don't like to make things too easy.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
No, well, no, why would you. It's Gilbert versus Flaherty
that is tomorrow at one o'clock, and I feel really
good about this. I mean, I also will say in
the same breath, I don't want this to come down
to game five. I don't want to have to beat
school bull again. You know, you know, he was certainly
sharp last night and Hora got to him and we
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got him out after seven innings. I don't want to
face him with everything on the line, So I do think.
I mean, it's not that we can't win that game,
it's just I think our better chance is to win
the next two games, road or not, and I feel
good about that. I think, as Bucky pointed out earlier,
I think the offense may have been caught a little flat,
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not having played in a while. We saw a lot
more players contribute to the victory last night than we
did the loss the night before. I think we're gonna
get some really good offensive production here on the road.
I know we're going to get a good effort out
of Logan. I think we take it in three and four.
I really do. When we come back, it's with a
series win. It's not to settle it on Friday night.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Yeah, we shall see one game at a time. I
like the idea.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
This seems like a really good matchup, right. This is
one it's not like you have to win because you
have Bryce, because I think Bryce is going to rise
to the occasion in game four. But this is one
where it's like you feel like you're throwing your Day
one starter. You're throwing a guy that has pitched like
your ace very well could have been the Game one
starter in the series.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
I feel like it's advantage.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
You're walking, You're walking into the stadium feeling like it's
an advantage for us.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
So take care of business now.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
If you don't end up winning both of them, I'm
I'm okay with it being Scooble again. As nasty as
he is, we seem to find a way to have
that dude's number and scrape together wins every single time
we've faced in this year, So I mean, yeah, I'd
much rather just win bang bang, get win two and
be done with it when.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
We're flying back. But if not, it's going to be
an enjoyable Game five.
Speaker 6 (16:26):
I have tickets to the game on Friday if there
is a Game five, and I would rather not go
just because it will be so stressful. I'm like, I'm
good if we want to win this in four.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Uh. And yeah, by the way, toys, if you're listening,
if we come back with a series win, you will
upgrade it's the first class.
Speaker 5 (16:44):
Yeah, that's right, because you guys, so you better be listening.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Yeah, yeah, I hope you're paying attention to this.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
PS.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Everybody get on the same page on this. Yes, when
I'll go not going to hold my breath.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
I'll go all the way to the top if I'm
super pumped about my middle seat.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Yeah, all right, coming up next. Ryan Heally thoughts on
games one and two of this divisional series with the Tigers,
Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM. Well, the Mariners,
they get a split over the weekend. I mean it
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could have been better. Oh, they could have been worse.
Chuck Powell, Bucky Jacobs, and Ashley Ryan with you here
on this Monday. Normally we're Monday Morning quarterbacking all day long,
but certainly we make an exception when the Mariners are
in the American League Divisional Series and are coming off
their first home playoff win in a quarter century and
joining us now to celebrate it, to analyze it, and
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who knows.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
What else to it.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Ryan Healy is with his former Mariner right here on
the programmer. You're going to be hearing a lot from
throughout this Mariner playoff run.
Speaker 5 (17:49):
Good morning, sir, Good morning.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
How are we doing today? Man?
Speaker 2 (17:53):
We're doing all right? So yeah, how you feeling? I mean,
it felt like everybody was counting on that on Saturday
and maybe not counting on it in Sunday, and there's
baseball for you, Ryan Heally, as you know, you still
come out with a one to one wash out of
all of it. Uh, but it was a strange way
to get there.
Speaker 7 (18:14):
Yeah, that wasn't the script that we had written before
that series started, to say the least. I definitely end
a pit in my stomach after the Saturday game they
lost some extras and then coming back, it just felt
kind of like a perfect storm or a perfect challenge
for this team. If if the dream and the goal
truly is to get to the World Series and win
a championship, you have to go through pitchers like Scooble
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so to find a way to beat them. I was
actually really impressed with the way that they navigated that game,
the way that different players within that lineup put pressure
on him, and then obviously jor Plonko just with the
two blast what and unsung hero that decided to show
up really big for a squad.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Yeah, a great couple of AB's there.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
I mean, you're just not gonna get a ton of
mistakes out of schoobl That's why he's gonna probably have
another cy Young sitting on a mantel somewhere. But yeah,
he didn't made a mistake with a slider the first
time came back and gave him a heater over the heart,
and he capitalized on that as well. I mean, how
tough is that when the pressure's on you're going against
a dude that's that good to kind of be that
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locked in and focused to not miss that mistake when
he threw it.
Speaker 7 (19:19):
The pressure can be a fickle thing because you have
to imagine what Scuball was feeling as well. He's pitching
in his hometown where he went to college down the
street in a massive playoff game where the expectation is
him for him to be perfect, and that had to
have crossed the Mariner's mind at some point of yeah,
we can feel all this pressure. We're down though, to
one where things facing the best pitcher in Made League baseball,
but he has a ton of pressure on him to
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be perfect, and baseball is the furthest thing from perfect.
And we saw him make two mistakes last night that
got punished.
Speaker 5 (19:46):
That's what has to happen against the best pitcher in
the game. You have to punish mistakes.
Speaker 7 (19:50):
He threw a two oz slider that caught too much
of the plate to Planco and then Polanco battled a
tremendous at bat. He spent on two change ups down
on the zone and then he got a fastball. It
was in, but it was not up enough. And Scoble
rarely misses that upper end quadrant of the right handed hitters,
and he just got enough of the heart of the
plate where Planco was able to clip its left And
that was probably a more impressive bat to me than
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the first home run to be hit.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
Ryan Heally is with us. We're leaning on him heavily
throughout the postseason. For his analysis here of the Mariners
playoff run. I'll stand the batter's box with you. I'll
put you in Julio Rodriguez's shoes there in the bottom
of the eighth he comes through with the game winner.
What did you see there?
Speaker 7 (20:31):
I saw a hitter that knew what the shape of
the splitter was because he faced the night before. And
if you think about this, there are a series out
the course of the year where you'll do a home
and away against a team that's in essential to the
East that you don't play a lot, and you'll see
their bullpen back to back weeks, okay, but back to
back night seeing the same arm with his best secondary
pitch being the splitter. He knew exactly what window that
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pitch needed to start in to end up in his
zone and the commitment that Julio had on that pitch.
If you saw the finish, it was almost one hand
it to contact and then the length after contact which
allowed that ball to get up and over the third basement.
That is a dream scenario for a right handed hitter
facing a right handed pitcher with the nasty splitter. You're
not going to drive that baseball really hard to back
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spin it. So to be able to stay through that
and dereg drive in the game winning run ultimately was tremendous.
The emotion you saw from him at second base after
that and then also in centerfield when the game was done, Wash,
it got my heart going.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
How'd you like the I mean Dan's decision.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
It obviously paid off yesterday when they brought Gabe in
to face carry Carpenter. The night before they didn't they
left Georgia and there didn't make a bad pitch, just
a better swing by him.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
But he basically changes that.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
Did that seem like a yeah, that maybe costs us
and by not pulling the trigger on this one yesterday.
We're not going to do that because he came in
there and absolutely shut it down right there.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
You know.
Speaker 7 (21:51):
I listened to AJ Hinch talk about this post game
as well, and this was a conversation pre series. Was
that was the matchup, the fact that they had two
lefties and the ball between Spire and ferguson of how
they were going to utilize them and deploy them because
they do platoon Carpenter. But I'll be honest with you guys,
when I watch Kerry Carpenter the batter's box right now,
every single pitch, I feel threatened just with the takes,
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the competitive swings he is. He is spitting on really
nasty pitches right now. So I thought that I'd love
Dan's aggression of let me pull let me pull him
out here and let me challenge him with the lefty
to see how he responds, because maybe we get Carpenter
out of the game for the rest of it.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
And A. J.
Speaker 7 (22:29):
Hinch said postgame, he was I left him in there
because of how much game was left, and if you remember,
Carpenter came up late in the game as well, ended
up punching out in the back door slider but had
a very competitive bat and I was nervous the entire time.
So I love the cat and mouse, and I think
that matchup with the two lefties is going to be
really important the entire series.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
What is it about, you know, a major leaguer just
loving to face a team. Did you have a team
like that? I mean, he loves to face the marriagad
Did you have a team like that when you played?
Like man, I want to play the Padres. I own
the Padres.
Speaker 7 (22:59):
Yeah, you're not gonna like this answer, but I love
facing the Mariners when I played for the Age. It's
part of the reason why they traded for me, just
getting a partner together. Then what they're gonna trade for Carpenter?
Bring him over there if you.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
Can't, if you can't beat him doing them, I guess.
But there is something to it. I don't know if
it's the background. I mean, there aren't many people who
feel like they're at their best against our pitching, and
this guy is one of them.
Speaker 7 (23:26):
Yeah, he looks comfortable in the batter's box, but I
also feel like he's looked comfortable all year long. He
had that bat late in the season down the stretch
in September where he hit a game tying home run
the ninth inning. I believe it's against the Guardians, and
it was dead center in Comerica Park, which is a
big boy park. He just looks, he looks locked in
right now and they need that bat. But to the
contrary point, I hope that he really struggles rest of
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this series, with all due respect.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
So advantage Mariners.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
I mean it feels like this is where you start
getting deeper into a series, and then you get to
keep running guys that could be number ones on a
lot of different you know, starting staffs, and so you
get to run who was our opening day starter out
there game three against somebody that is not their ace. Obviously,
nobody's gonna be the ace when you got Terrek Skoogl
on the team. But does it feel like it's advantage.
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It's one to one obviously, so there's no real advantage.
But to me, it feels like we're more in line,
do what we do and that'll take care of business.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Yeah, I agree with you.
Speaker 7 (24:22):
I think the Mariners have had the advantage this entire series,
though maybe they haven't played like it. But also when
we talked originally last Friday, we said how even the match,
this team was in all three major facets of the
game that has shown up a ton in the first
two games. So I don't expect this to be in
a lopsided series. I expect this to be highly competitive.
Who's going to make the least amount of mistakes and
who's going to execute their plan to perfection. But if
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we're looking at Gilbert first, Flaherty, I'm excited to watch
Gilbert perform. I do hope that we can get a
little bit of offense early because we've seen the strength
of our bullpen. But I don't think we need to
watch any more X rating games during the postseason.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
I mean, you weren't in the building over the weekend,
but you've been in that building before, and you've been
in it when it gets electric. But could you sense it?
Could you get an idea of just what you were
missing out on by not being at T Mobile lest
a couple of nights.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
I'm glad you asked that.
Speaker 7 (25:12):
I actually work with a about thirty to forty high
school players, and a bunch of them are local in Arizona.
One is up in Seattle was at the game yesterday
and he sent me a video of his seats of
the game just ending, and he told me, he said,
simply best game I've ever been to.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
And you could feel it.
Speaker 7 (25:28):
There was grown men crying in the stands that they
were showing on the camera. The emotion was massive, and
you can tell what this win meant for this city.
And I hope that, I hope that this club just
continues to take monkeys off their backs, that they go
down this because they're carrying twenty four years of history
with them, and the further they go, the more and
more they can separate themselves from that history and they
can make their own this year.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
All right, man, great stuff. We're really getting excited about
Ryan Healey conversations these days, So we'll bug you again
after game three in game number four coming up, and
I can't wait, can't wait.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
Go in.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
All right, therea is Ryan Healy. Former Marin are joining
us here, and we'll be having Ryan on after every
single playoff game this postseason, and hopefully we go the
entire I hope we talked to Ryan Heally a lot.
Speaker 4 (26:15):
Yeah, that's my point. Yeah, I want to be BFFs.
By the end of this month, we'll be BFFs. Do
we talk to you like every day.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
He He's like, Oh, there's that Heey guy again making
our day by showing up talking about a win. Yeah,
all right, we're gonna get ready to go on the road.
By the way, and we've mentioned this a couple of times.
Maybe I thought we were kidding. Bucky and I are
heading to Michigan like now, like right now, we're going
to Detroit. So when we said we're going to do
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post games, every single postgame shows after every single game
we minted, and not only were we going to do them,
we're going to do them from where they're being played.
So we're heading to Detroit, Michigan. We'll be doing our
morning show from Detroit tomorrow, and then we will have
our postgame show for you as well tomorrow night and
Wednesday night from Detroit, So make sure you're tuning in.
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We got a lot of great feedback, a lot of
great compliments on the two shows that we did over
the weekend. Glad you're enjoying it, and we let's hope
we have a bunch of them before this month comes
to a close. All right, thanks for being with us today.
Ashley's gonna take you the rest of the way. I
think she's got something up her sleeve. And then we'll
talk to you tomorrow from Michigan at six am on
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Sports Radio ninety three point three kh A r F M.
Polumko sends this time last's tip.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Hey, I'll pitch to Polunko. Fastball bitch the other way.
It's a fair ball down the right field line. Torres
will score. Here comes Green and the third Joey Korra giving.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
Him the way.
Speaker 5 (28:09):
Here's the throw hits ton Off and this game is tied.
Hard hit ball by Rowley down the right field right
turns the.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
Corner and the big dumper is looking for extra basics
and he's got a double n I drive it Down's
a foot ball and the DS take the reds. Here's
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Carlo Cutches, bouncing ball to Naylor, flips and finishes it
their first twenty of the Thud in twenty four years.
Speaker 5 (28:54):
The Mariners have tied the series.
Speaker 6 (28:55):
At one.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Since the clincher against Cleveland nearly a quarter century ago.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
At Seattle.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
The team and the city can breathe a collective sigh
of relief as they will head to the Motor City
tie up at a game apiece with the Detroit Tigers.
Speaker 6 (29:18):
It is Chuck and Buck in the morning Sports Radio
ninety three to three KJR Ashley Ryan. Here the guys
heading out to Detroit now, so they are actually on
the road to c Tech.
Speaker 5 (29:26):
If you see them, wave to them.
Speaker 6 (29:28):
Meanwhile, the big topic of conversation around town involving the Mariners,
not on the field, of course, is when will Josh
Naylor's wife go into labor.
Speaker 5 (29:36):
I know everybody's wondering baby watch is on.
Speaker 6 (29:39):
Well, we talked about it this morning during the ABC's
Here's what we had to say.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
I is for induce. What do you think, gang do
we induce missus Naylor? Let's just get this baby out
of the way so we don't have to worry about
it Tuesday and Wednesday. Is that what we do with
our sports love? We just we induce labor?
Speaker 3 (29:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (29:57):
I don't know if this was a good idea, but
I did send her an edible arrangement that was laced
with potosin.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
Oh yeah, We'll just go ahead and get this show.
Speaker 4 (30:06):
On the road because Naylor's a guy that we're gonna
need to be Josh Naylor, if you want to you
want this ride, this roller coaster of a postseason to go,
you know, deep into the month, he's gonna have to
be contributing.
Speaker 3 (30:18):
Now.
Speaker 4 (30:18):
I went back and looked at all of his at
bats yesterday and there's one where he was swinging outside
the zone, which we've watched basically for the two months
we've had him, and he doesn't do that very often.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
He's professional hitter. He understands what the strikes.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
One is.
Speaker 4 (30:31):
He came out of the zone once against Google, which
will happen. It's a lefty on lefty matchup. He's nasty
against anybody he throws against. And when you're kind of
in a funk, you're not really seeing the ball all
that well, and you have to go against him, you're
gonna probably have a stinker ab somewhere on there. But
there's a couple others that he put good swings on,
just not quite staying through it. He's getting a little
bit pole happy. It seems like he's a pole hitter.
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He's a guy that can hook that outside pitch and
hit it in the gap or out of the yard.
But I still feel good about what this guy brings
to the table. But I think if you just how
many times do you hear it right? You're listening to
the broadcasting. Oh, so and so his wife had a
baby yesterday and they throw for six touchdowns? Are they
they end up hitting three strength? Yeah, it's all of
a sudden. Yeah, some dads strength. So I think getting
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that off of his mind a little bit and just
being like, Okay, she's okay, versus having it in the
back of his head could be helpful. So that's what
I did for the team, because that's I'm a team guy.
Just help induce the okay. Oh all right, yeah, you
welcome to Seattle.
Speaker 6 (31:29):
Yeah, I mean I gave her permission after the game yesterday,
Like now, it would be a great time flight Arizona
and be back in Detroit by tuesday.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
Yeah, I think this is a nice little window for.
Speaker 5 (31:40):
That would work out perfectly. Finally, all right, there you go.
Baby Watch is on.
Speaker 6 (31:44):
We'll see when Josh Naylor's wife goes into labor. Hopefully
it works out with our window, because that's really the priority,
isn't it. All right, guys will be live from Detroit
tomorrow morning six to ten. We've got MJ and Christopher
Kidd up next to Sports Radio ninety three three KJRFM.
Bouncing ball to Naylor, clips and finishes their first play
twin in twenty four years. The Maritors up tied the
series at one since the clincher against Cleveland nearly a
quarter century ago, and Seattle, the team and the city
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can breathe a collective sigh of relief as they will
head to the Motor City tied up at a game
a piece with the Detroit Tigers.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
FS one Adam Mean on the call there, and that's
pretty appropriate. I think that's really well said. I think
there was I mean, there was somebody at about eleven
ten last night that was just, you know, crab fishing
in the Boston Harbor, and it was just sitting there like, hey,
pull it up, you know, will Filmer. Filmer's like pulling
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it up and trying to look see if they got
any crabs, and then all of a sudden they just
felt this like go over the top of them.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
They're like, did you.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Feel that, Filmer? I don't know if I did, Craig,
I don't know what that was, but it felt like
a breeze of relief blew over us. I think yeah,
I think they felt it in Japan. I think they
felt it in Greenland. You know, I think that it
was felt everywhere that oh my goodness. I don't know
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if that was a must win this time of the year.
Usually must wins mean your season is over. But it
sure felt musty. There's no doubt going into that game.
And I think there was a huge sigh of relief
felt here, not just with the fan base. I think
that clubhouse was like, who I will now go clean
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my shorts out after giving up the two run lead
late in the game, and now we can start celebrating
and let's get down the ball.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
I mean, I would bet you Josh Naylor had a
big sigh of relief because of that error that ended
up being capitalized on with that because it didn't feel like,
oh no, I mean you feel like it. I didn't
feel like we had it in hand, but it felt good,
especially the second home run begging it to zip.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
You kind of like, okay, we were we got this.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
Just do what you do, Just take care of business,
pape pick it when it's hit to you, and you know,
maybe scratch another one across over in the last couple innings.
But the fact that all of a sudden tied it up,
You're like no, not no, no, we're not going to
do that. And yet callin Julio said, no, we got
We got this. Because it did. It did most certainly
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send you in a totally different mindset than what we'd
be talking about. I mean, it's highly possible. I think
we're a better team than they are, and so it's
highly possible you could have been we could be flying
to Detroit and sitting there thinking about being up to zip.
But you know, once you'd kick that first one, being
one one, I'm good with that. Go win a couple
there and see what's up.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
We were all aware of the existence of a person
named Trek Scooble and what he does for a living
and how well he does it. We talked about it
all last week. You know he's going to pitch in
forty percent of these games if it goes the distance,
and so you knew you were going to have to
go up against him at some point. I think when
the series started that you tell yourself at home, all right,
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we want to win both, but if we get one
out of two here at home, we can take care
of business on the road. A baseball home field advantage
isn't the factor that it is in some other sports.
So I think that a lot of people would have
been all right going into the series splitting these first
two games knowing that Scooble was out there, but you
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just certainly didn't expect it to go. We lose Game
one and then beat Schooble to create that sense of relief.
So I'm okay with where I just didn't expect the
journey we went on to get here.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
Well, I mean I said it before Game one. It
would be typical Mariners to not win a bullpen game
and then somehow beat Turk Scruble again, Like I thought,
it would just be it's par for the course, that's
the way in which it happens. And yet driving down
to the yard yesterday, I was thinking, Man, I don't
like I don't like the fact that we're we've painted
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ourselves into a little bit of a corner. It wasn't
must win by any stretch, but it would have been
really an uphill battle to think you're going to go
on the road win to their force a game five.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
That you go against Scooble again and beat you.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
But he's not He's human, he believes just like the
rest of us, and so, I mean, the fact that
we ended up having one guy in Jorge Polonco that
took advantage and capitalize on a couple of mistakes put
you in a situation where you could you could survive
a lead off walk and an error and then a
one good piece of hitting and getting that ball that
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the Torkosen hit down the line to tie it up.
But to me then it's just the typical Mariner way.
Especially you have Cal Rawley right the year of Cal
him coming up to lead off with that double, You're like, Okay,
here we go. I mean, it immediately felt so much
different than right you just felt five minutes earlier when
they tied the ball game. Now Brash does his thing
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and strikes out the two guys to make it keeps
it tied up, and I think Cal just kind of
goes up there, like, let's ride that momentum. Right, we
could feel bad about the fact that it's tied up,
or we can say we still got six outs. They
got three outs, I'm gonna make my out tough. Boom
spanks that one down in the corner and Julio returns.
The whole thing could have got another insurance run there.
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It didn't and Julio gets thrown out at home. Regardless,
Munos comes in there and absolutely dices them up. So,
I mean, I'm pumped about one one and I wouldn't
really expect it to be any other way. I would
not have expected, even with our offense as much as
I like it, for them to come out and score
twenty five runs the first two games, and of the
type of wins that Toronto's having against New York, that
just isn't the way this club plays ball.
Speaker 5 (06:05):
Yeah, well, and.
Speaker 6 (06:06):
Yeah, I mean the nice thing is it doesn't matter
how you win as long as you get the win, right.
And I thought one of the better moments was when
Spire came in for Castillo.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
And then got that out. You could, I mean.
Speaker 6 (06:17):
That there right there was a huge collective sigh of relief.
You could see it from Castillo, you could see it
from everyone. You could see the emotion on Spire's face
when he was just pumped about getting that final out
of the fifth inning, and then for him to come in.
Speaker 5 (06:28):
And do what he did was incredible.
Speaker 6 (06:31):
And I will say, when you were saying earlier for
people who don't know, if they didn't know who Scooble was.
If you didn't know who Scooble was, you definitely knew
after the Fox broadcast or f S one broadcast last night.
Speaker 5 (06:42):
They are obsessed, obsessed.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Yeah, spire moment. We talked about it a little bit
at seven thirty. Didn't get to expand on it too much.
Bucky and I did talk about a last night on
the post game show, doing the postgame show, by the way,
Baseball's best post game shows back. You know, we used
to do it here at kJ R, and we're doing
it throughout the post game, both home and road throughout
these playoffs. But we did discuss the Spire moment, and
(07:10):
it was the same moment that a lot of people
were kind of thinking we should have gone to on
Saturday night. So I think Dan Wilson immediately learned a
pretty valuable lesson about oh yeah, managing and the postseason
a little bit different. This isn't about let's make sure
since he did some great work, let's get the Rock
a win. No, this is about what are you going
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to do tonight, every single moment of tonight, in order
to give yourself the best percentage chance of getting through
that inning, getting that out and I thought they should
have gone to with Spire against Carpenter on Saturday. They didn't,
and it cost them, and then they rectified that. It
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was almost as if Dan Wilson was admitting, yeah, you know,
we thought of it. We didn't do it. We didn't
pull the trigger. We're pulling the trigger tonight, and Spire
ends up getting out Carrie Effing Carpenter and we win
the day yesterday.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Yeah, I mean it was it was a good move.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
Obviously Castillo was I mean, pitch count was up, but
he obviously could have finished that inning and yeah, and
quite possibly would have gotten out of there now it
would have been was that the third time he's facing him,
and that's right when he capitalized on George. It's you see,
he's a good hitter. I mean it's not one of
those oh you just he gets lucky. No, he The
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pitch he hit out against George was up out of
the zone. It's a good pitch. It's a good pitcher's pitch.
He just put a better swing on it and capitalized
on it. This is one where why not bring in
a lefty You just automatically feel like, okay, that is
that's pushing the advantage back into our direction. You're bringing
in game Spier who he's got that fire right. He
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pitches like a bulldog out there. And when you inherit
a couple runners, there's more to it than just you
going out and hat trying to have a clean inning.
You're like, no, I'm I'm here to take you down
like it is you and me one on one, and
I'm doing it to pick up the team. And because
it was a really gutsy outing by Castile, he kind
of he was being careful with a lot of the pitches,
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hence the four walks that he ended up giving, but
then pitched around all of that traffic and really only
allowed that one hit before he was taken out. So
it was one of those you don't want to cough
it up right here. You don't want to cough up
your homies run that you're inheriting. He went out there
and did it masterfully. It was it was one where
it does it gives you. It gives Dan Wilson the
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idea of I can I have to rely on all
these dudes in the bullpen, you know, I mean maybe
not every single guy, obviously they're not. Everybody's going to
be in the same type of situation as far as
the leverage and how high the stakes are. You have
the guys that kind of pitched themselves into that. But
last night you let him go back out there for
another inning. He does great. Bizardo does what he's done
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majority of the season for US. Brash gets a little
bit of a hic up and then you know, some
bad defense behind him. Next thing you know, you're like,
oh man, but then the offense picks them up. That's
the nature of baseball. Good teams find a way to
pick each other up. When somebody stumbles a little bit,
you got to help him up.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
As doesn't carry carboner. Look like every bad guy in
every eighties rom com movie always the jock.
Speaker 5 (10:21):
Yeah, definitely the jock.
Speaker 6 (10:22):
Yeah, like the really good looking guy that the girl
has a crush on, but he turns.
Speaker 5 (10:26):
Out to be a turd, right exactly.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Yeah, Yeah, with the white sweater on you know, the
red letter on it. Yeah, that guy.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Also, he's probably really nice, probably kind, probably gives a charity.
Speaker 5 (10:39):
He's probably great.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Yeah, don't like him, yeah exactly, but he does. He
certainly has had a nice little career against us. You know,
you brought up Castillo's pitch count. I think everybody just
needs to give themselves to this. I mean, there's a
reason why George's pitch count was up and Luis Castillo's
pitch count was up. They are trying to throw their
best stuff. I mean, during the course of a regular season,
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there is an art, there is a value to going
as deeply as you can, and one to save the
bullpen and then you know, and to create longevity for
the season. But when you get to this time of
the year, especially when you've got built in days off,
I mean, you don't get two days off in a
five game stretch usually in Major League Baseball during the
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regular season, you're gonna have two built in days off
in a five game series. Plus we've had, you know,
pretty much five days of full rest and kind of
eight days of rest for our bullpen. So they're good
to go. They are ready to go. Everybody was available
for both nights, that's very clear. On Saturday and Sunday,
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Castillo and Kirby's jobs are to miss bats. We don't
want the ball in play because bad things can happen,
and we can keep it from getting in play. We're
gonna keep it from getting in play. And so even
though the pitch counts were up, and I'm sitting by
anders Hearst and getting nervous at watching the pitch count
because be cause still had fifty one pitches through two innings.
Fifty one for goodness sake, they're not really sweating that
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they want you to to go as throw your best stuff.
Get these dudes out. You know, we're not worried about
you going six to seven innings because we trust our
bullpen on the backside. And if it needs to go
four plus innings tonight, it goes four plus innings tonight.
We're good. So go out there, misbats, Uh, don't throw
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your pitches, don't throw, don't give in, don't throw their pitches.
And if we got to take you out in the fourth,
don't be surprised by it, because we might like a
matchup in the fourth inning or the fifth inning better
than you are, based upon the situation, based upon who's
coming to play. That's the way this thing's going to
operate this year. So you know, charting the pitch count
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not nearly as important as it is during the regular season.
And if a guy's on role, by the way, same thing,
I know you're at ninety six and we usually take
you out here, but they can't touch you. You're going
at least another inning right here.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Yeah. Yeah, I mean it's not as important for sure.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
I mean, because the way in which you manage in
April and May and June is trying to keep people healthy,
trying to keep people fresh, not overusing guys because of
the bullpening guys. It's not just the appearances or the
innings that they pitch, it's the times that they get
warm and then get sat back down. That's not a
thing that you want to overdo and abuse. And so
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it's one of those Hey dude, you're you are only
at eighty five pitches. We're expecting you to get through
this fifth inning.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
We know you can do it.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
And if you don't and you give up a run here,
we expect you to stop the bleeding there and we're
still up. You know, you still would be up or
tied in that ball game. And you're doing it that way.
I mean, I think that there's still is as you,
as you get further and further into it, you want
to be able to not have to use I think
four guys is about where I'm going to feel comfortable
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on most nights. Now, sometimes you have to go earlier
to the bullpen and then you matchups. You just end
up going through six or seven guys. But the more
guys that you bring in, you're offering the opportunity for
want of them to have an off day and just
not be locating or not be feeling great. Doesn't have
that same zip on it. So the way they did
yesterday obviously worked out. I think that it could have
worked out even better had when I had the air
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and the leadoff walk that kind of led to them
tying the ball game back up.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
But again that's Mariner baseball. They like having a little
bit of chaos in our life.
Speaker 5 (14:31):
We don't like to make things too easy.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
No, well, no, why would you. It's Gilbert versus Flaherty
that is tomorrow at one o'clock, and I feel really
good about this. I mean, I also will say in
the same breath, I don't want this to come down
to game five. I don't want to have to beat
school bull again. You know, you know, he was certainly
sharp last night and Hora got to him and we
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got him out after seven innings. I don't want to
face him with everything on the line, So I do think.
I mean, it's not that we can't win that game,
it's just I think our better chance is to win
the next two games, road or not, and I feel
good about that. I think, as Bucky pointed out earlier,
I think the offense may have been caught a little flat,
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not having played in a while. We saw a lot
more players contribute to the victory last night than we
did the loss the night before. I think we're gonna
get some really good offensive production here on the road.
I know we're going to get a good effort out
of Logan. I think we take it in three and four.
I really do. When we come back, it's with a
series win. It's not to settle it on Friday night.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Yeah, we shall see one game at a time. I
like the idea.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
This seems like a really good matchup, right. This is
one it's not like you have to win because you
have Bryce, because I think Bryce is going to rise
to the occasion in game four. But this is one
where it's like you feel like you're throwing your Day
one starter. You're throwing a guy that has pitched like
your ace very well could have been the Game one
starter in the series.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
I feel like it's advantage.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
You're walking, You're walking into the stadium feeling like it's
an advantage for us.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
So take care of business now.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
If you don't end up winning both of them, I'm
I'm okay with it being Scooble again. As nasty as
he is, we seem to find a way to have
that dude's number and scrape together wins every single time
we've faced in this year, So I mean, yeah, I'd
much rather just win bang bang, get win two and
be done with it when.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
We're flying back. But if not, it's going to be
an enjoyable Game five.
Speaker 6 (16:26):
I have tickets to the game on Friday if there
is a Game five, and I would rather not go
just because it will be so stressful. I'm like, I'm
good if we want to win this in four.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Uh. And yeah, by the way, toys, if you're listening,
if we come back with a series win, you will
upgrade it's the first class.
Speaker 5 (16:44):
Yeah, that's right, because you guys, so you better be listening.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Yeah, yeah, I hope you're paying attention to this.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
PS.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Everybody get on the same page on this. Yes, when
I'll go not going to hold my breath.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
I'll go all the way to the top if I'm
super pumped about my middle seat.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Yeah, all right, coming up next. Ryan Heally thoughts on
games one and two of this divisional series with the Tigers,
Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM. Well, the Mariners,
they get a split over the weekend. I mean it
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could have been better. Oh, they could have been worse.
Chuck Powell, Bucky Jacobs, and Ashley Ryan with you here
on this Monday. Normally we're Monday Morning quarterbacking all day long,
but certainly we make an exception when the Mariners are
in the American League Divisional Series and are coming off
their first home playoff win in a quarter century and
joining us now to celebrate it, to analyze it, and
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who knows.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
What else to it.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Ryan Healy is with his former Mariner right here on
the programmer. You're going to be hearing a lot from
throughout this Mariner playoff run.
Speaker 5 (17:49):
Good morning, sir, Good morning.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
How are we doing today? Man?
Speaker 2 (17:53):
We're doing all right? So yeah, how you feeling? I mean,
it felt like everybody was counting on that on Saturday
and maybe not counting on it in Sunday, and there's
baseball for you, Ryan Heally, as you know, you still
come out with a one to one wash out of
all of it. Uh, but it was a strange way
to get there.
Speaker 7 (18:14):
Yeah, that wasn't the script that we had written before
that series started, to say the least. I definitely end
a pit in my stomach after the Saturday game they
lost some extras and then coming back, it just felt
kind of like a perfect storm or a perfect challenge
for this team. If if the dream and the goal
truly is to get to the World Series and win
a championship, you have to go through pitchers like Scooble
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so to find a way to beat them. I was
actually really impressed with the way that they navigated that game,
the way that different players within that lineup put pressure
on him, and then obviously jor Plonko just with the
two blast what and unsung hero that decided to show
up really big for a squad.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Yeah, a great couple of AB's there.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
I mean, you're just not gonna get a ton of
mistakes out of schoobl That's why he's gonna probably have
another cy Young sitting on a mantel somewhere. But yeah,
he didn't made a mistake with a slider the first
time came back and gave him a heater over the heart,
and he capitalized on that as well. I mean, how
tough is that when the pressure's on you're going against
a dude that's that good to kind of be that
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locked in and focused to not miss that mistake when
he threw it.
Speaker 7 (19:19):
The pressure can be a fickle thing because you have
to imagine what Scuball was feeling as well. He's pitching
in his hometown where he went to college down the
street in a massive playoff game where the expectation is
him for him to be perfect, and that had to
have crossed the Mariner's mind at some point of yeah,
we can feel all this pressure. We're down though, to
one where things facing the best pitcher in Made League baseball,
but he has a ton of pressure on him to
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be perfect, and baseball is the furthest thing from perfect.
And we saw him make two mistakes last night that
got punished.
Speaker 5 (19:46):
That's what has to happen against the best pitcher in
the game. You have to punish mistakes.
Speaker 7 (19:50):
He threw a two oz slider that caught too much
of the plate to Planco and then Polanco battled a
tremendous at bat. He spent on two change ups down
on the zone and then he got a fastball. It
was in, but it was not up enough. And Scoble
rarely misses that upper end quadrant of the right handed hitters,
and he just got enough of the heart of the
plate where Planco was able to clip its left And
that was probably a more impressive bat to me than
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the first home run to be hit.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
Ryan Heally is with us. We're leaning on him heavily
throughout the postseason. For his analysis here of the Mariners
playoff run. I'll stand the batter's box with you. I'll
put you in Julio Rodriguez's shoes there in the bottom
of the eighth he comes through with the game winner.
What did you see there?
Speaker 7 (20:31):
I saw a hitter that knew what the shape of
the splitter was because he faced the night before. And
if you think about this, there are a series out
the course of the year where you'll do a home
and away against a team that's in essential to the
East that you don't play a lot, and you'll see
their bullpen back to back weeks, okay, but back to
back night seeing the same arm with his best secondary
pitch being the splitter. He knew exactly what window that
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pitch needed to start in to end up in his
zone and the commitment that Julio had on that pitch.
If you saw the finish, it was almost one hand
it to contact and then the length after contact which
allowed that ball to get up and over the third basement.
That is a dream scenario for a right handed hitter
facing a right handed pitcher with the nasty splitter. You're
not going to drive that baseball really hard to back
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spin it. So to be able to stay through that
and dereg drive in the game winning run ultimately was tremendous.
The emotion you saw from him at second base after
that and then also in centerfield when the game was done, Wash,
it got my heart going.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
How'd you like the I mean Dan's decision.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
It obviously paid off yesterday when they brought Gabe in
to face carry Carpenter. The night before they didn't they
left Georgia and there didn't make a bad pitch, just
a better swing by him.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
But he basically changes that.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
Did that seem like a yeah, that maybe costs us
and by not pulling the trigger on this one yesterday.
We're not going to do that because he came in
there and absolutely shut it down right there.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
You know.
Speaker 7 (21:51):
I listened to AJ Hinch talk about this post game
as well, and this was a conversation pre series. Was
that was the matchup, the fact that they had two
lefties and the ball between Spire and ferguson of how
they were going to utilize them and deploy them because
they do platoon Carpenter. But I'll be honest with you guys,
when I watch Kerry Carpenter the batter's box right now,
every single pitch, I feel threatened just with the takes,
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the competitive swings he is. He is spitting on really
nasty pitches right now. So I thought that I'd love
Dan's aggression of let me pull let me pull him
out here and let me challenge him with the lefty
to see how he responds, because maybe we get Carpenter
out of the game for the rest of it.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
And A. J.
Speaker 7 (22:29):
Hinch said postgame, he was I left him in there
because of how much game was left, and if you remember,
Carpenter came up late in the game as well, ended
up punching out in the back door slider but had
a very competitive bat and I was nervous the entire time.
So I love the cat and mouse, and I think
that matchup with the two lefties is going to be
really important the entire series.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
What is it about, you know, a major leaguer just
loving to face a team. Did you have a team
like that? I mean, he loves to face the marriagad
Did you have a team like that when you played?
Like man, I want to play the Padres. I own
the Padres.
Speaker 7 (22:59):
Yeah, you're not gonna like this answer, but I love
facing the Mariners when I played for the Age. It's
part of the reason why they traded for me, just
getting a partner together. Then what they're gonna trade for Carpenter?
Bring him over there if you.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
Can't, if you can't beat him doing them, I guess.
But there is something to it. I don't know if
it's the background. I mean, there aren't many people who
feel like they're at their best against our pitching, and
this guy is one of them.
Speaker 7 (23:26):
Yeah, he looks comfortable in the batter's box, but I
also feel like he's looked comfortable all year long. He
had that bat late in the season down the stretch
in September where he hit a game tying home run
the ninth inning. I believe it's against the Guardians, and
it was dead center in Comerica Park, which is a
big boy park. He just looks, he looks locked in
right now and they need that bat. But to the
contrary point, I hope that he really struggles rest of
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this series, with all due respect.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
So advantage Mariners.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
I mean it feels like this is where you start
getting deeper into a series, and then you get to
keep running guys that could be number ones on a
lot of different you know, starting staffs, and so you
get to run who was our opening day starter out
there game three against somebody that is not their ace. Obviously,
nobody's gonna be the ace when you got Terrek Skoogl
on the team. But does it feel like it's advantage.
(24:12):
It's one to one obviously, so there's no real advantage.
But to me, it feels like we're more in line,
do what we do and that'll take care of business.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Yeah, I agree with you.
Speaker 7 (24:22):
I think the Mariners have had the advantage this entire series,
though maybe they haven't played like it. But also when
we talked originally last Friday, we said how even the match,
this team was in all three major facets of the
game that has shown up a ton in the first
two games. So I don't expect this to be in
a lopsided series. I expect this to be highly competitive.
Who's going to make the least amount of mistakes and
who's going to execute their plan to perfection. But if
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we're looking at Gilbert first, Flaherty, I'm excited to watch
Gilbert perform. I do hope that we can get a
little bit of offense early because we've seen the strength
of our bullpen. But I don't think we need to
watch any more X rating games during the postseason.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
I mean, you weren't in the building over the weekend,
but you've been in that building before, and you've been
in it when it gets electric. But could you sense it?
Could you get an idea of just what you were
missing out on by not being at T Mobile lest
a couple of nights.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
I'm glad you asked that.
Speaker 7 (25:12):
I actually work with a about thirty to forty high
school players, and a bunch of them are local in Arizona.
One is up in Seattle was at the game yesterday
and he sent me a video of his seats of
the game just ending, and he told me, he said,
simply best game I've ever been to.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
And you could feel it.
Speaker 7 (25:28):
There was grown men crying in the stands that they
were showing on the camera. The emotion was massive, and
you can tell what this win meant for this city.
And I hope that, I hope that this club just
continues to take monkeys off their backs, that they go
down this because they're carrying twenty four years of history
with them, and the further they go, the more and
more they can separate themselves from that history and they
can make their own this year.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
All right, man, great stuff. We're really getting excited about
Ryan Healey conversations these days, So we'll bug you again
after game three in game number four coming up, and
I can't wait, can't wait.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
Go in.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
All right, therea is Ryan Healy. Former Marin are joining
us here, and we'll be having Ryan on after every
single playoff game this postseason, and hopefully we go the
entire I hope we talked to Ryan Heally a lot.
Speaker 4 (26:15):
Yeah, that's my point. Yeah, I want to be BFFs.
By the end of this month, we'll be BFFs. Do
we talk to you like every day.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
He He's like, Oh, there's that Heey guy again making
our day by showing up talking about a win. Yeah,
all right, we're gonna get ready to go on the road.
By the way, and we've mentioned this a couple of times.
Maybe I thought we were kidding. Bucky and I are
heading to Michigan like now, like right now, we're going
to Detroit. So when we said we're going to do
(26:44):
post games, every single postgame shows after every single game
we minted, and not only were we going to do them,
we're going to do them from where they're being played.
So we're heading to Detroit, Michigan. We'll be doing our
morning show from Detroit tomorrow, and then we will have
our postgame show for you as well tomorrow night and
Wednesday night from Detroit, So make sure you're tuning in.
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We got a lot of great feedback, a lot of
great compliments on the two shows that we did over
the weekend. Glad you're enjoying it, and we let's hope
we have a bunch of them before this month comes
to a close. All right, thanks for being with us today.
Ashley's gonna take you the rest of the way. I
think she's got something up her sleeve. And then we'll
talk to you tomorrow from Michigan at six am on
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Sports Radio ninety three point three kh A r F M.
Polumko sends this time last's tip.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Hey, I'll pitch to Polunko. Fastball bitch the other way.
It's a fair ball down the right field line. Torres
will score. Here comes Green and the third Joey Korra giving.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
Him the way.
Speaker 5 (28:09):
Here's the throw hits ton Off and this game is tied.
Hard hit ball by Rowley down the right field right
turns the.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
Corner and the big dumper is looking for extra basics
and he's got a double n I drive it Down's
a foot ball and the DS take the reds. Here's
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Carlo Cutches, bouncing ball to Naylor, flips and finishes it
their first twenty of the Thud in twenty four years.
Speaker 5 (28:54):
The Mariners have tied the series.
Speaker 6 (28:55):
At one.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Since the clincher against Cleveland nearly a quarter century ago.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
At Seattle.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
The team and the city can breathe a collective sigh
of relief as they will head to the Motor City
tie up at a game apiece with the Detroit Tigers.
Speaker 6 (29:18):
It is Chuck and Buck in the morning Sports Radio
ninety three to three KJR Ashley Ryan. Here the guys
heading out to Detroit now, so they are actually on
the road to c Tech.
Speaker 5 (29:26):
If you see them, wave to them.
Speaker 6 (29:28):
Meanwhile, the big topic of conversation around town involving the Mariners,
not on the field, of course, is when will Josh
Naylor's wife go into labor.
Speaker 5 (29:36):
I know everybody's wondering baby watch is on.
Speaker 6 (29:39):
Well, we talked about it this morning during the ABC's
Here's what we had to say.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
I is for induce. What do you think, gang do
we induce missus Naylor? Let's just get this baby out
of the way so we don't have to worry about
it Tuesday and Wednesday. Is that what we do with
our sports love? We just we induce labor?
Speaker 3 (29:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (29:57):
I don't know if this was a good idea, but
I did send her an edible arrangement that was laced
with potosin.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
Oh yeah, We'll just go ahead and get this show.
Speaker 4 (30:06):
On the road because Naylor's a guy that we're gonna
need to be Josh Naylor, if you want to you
want this ride, this roller coaster of a postseason to go,
you know, deep into the month, he's gonna have to
be contributing.
Speaker 3 (30:18):
Now.
Speaker 4 (30:18):
I went back and looked at all of his at
bats yesterday and there's one where he was swinging outside
the zone, which we've watched basically for the two months
we've had him, and he doesn't do that very often.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
He's professional hitter. He understands what the strikes.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
One is.
Speaker 4 (30:31):
He came out of the zone once against Google, which
will happen. It's a lefty on lefty matchup. He's nasty
against anybody he throws against. And when you're kind of
in a funk, you're not really seeing the ball all
that well, and you have to go against him, you're
gonna probably have a stinker ab somewhere on there. But
there's a couple others that he put good swings on,
just not quite staying through it. He's getting a little
bit pole happy. It seems like he's a pole hitter.
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He's a guy that can hook that outside pitch and
hit it in the gap or out of the yard.
But I still feel good about what this guy brings
to the table. But I think if you just how
many times do you hear it right? You're listening to
the broadcasting. Oh, so and so his wife had a
baby yesterday and they throw for six touchdowns? Are they
they end up hitting three strength? Yeah, it's all of
a sudden. Yeah, some dads strength. So I think getting
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that off of his mind a little bit and just
being like, Okay, she's okay, versus having it in the
back of his head could be helpful. So that's what
I did for the team, because that's I'm a team guy.
Just help induce the okay. Oh all right, yeah, you
welcome to Seattle.
Speaker 6 (31:29):
Yeah, I mean I gave her permission after the game yesterday,
Like now, it would be a great time flight Arizona
and be back in Detroit by tuesday.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
Yeah, I think this is a nice little window for.
Speaker 5 (31:40):
That would work out perfectly. Finally, all right, there you go.
Baby Watch is on.
Speaker 6 (31:44):
We'll see when Josh Naylor's wife goes into labor. Hopefully
it works out with our window, because that's really the priority,
isn't it. All right, guys will be live from Detroit
tomorrow morning six to ten. We've got MJ and Christopher
Kidd up next to Sports Radio ninety three three KJRFM.
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