December 27, 2024 • 28 mins
It iiiiiiiis Sportsfeld Storytime. This month, Jake and Zubes take a trip all the way back to August of 2015 to talk about a team that doesn't get enough press, the 2015 Toronto Blue Jays. Before the bat flip, before the AL East title, before the heartbreak, the focus was on one man and his Blue Jays debut. Yes, we are talking about the one, the only David Price. Take yourself back to a Monday afternoon game in early August to a sold out Skydome and David Price's first start as a Blue Jay. In the first episode, the guys take a look at where the 2015 Blue Jays were before the Price trade, talk some run differential, and talk some Troy Tulowitzki.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
David Price takes the mound chriss first start in the
Blue Jays uniform, and he is a super charged atmosphere
and the only question will be whether or not David
Price can control his emotions here today.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
It's been a great start to his afternoon.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
David Price eight innings, is allowed one run and leaves
the Twins five to one with eleven strikeouts that he
waves to the crowd with his calp What a moment.
He packs his heart walks down the steps of the
third base. Dug app and the Blue Jays right now
are certainly enjoying David Price, and he's certainly enjoying this environment.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
Different class of pitchers in the league. You know, anybody's
starting pitchering the big leagues is good, you know, and
then there's a guy's you know, they kind of separate themselves,
and you know David's at the top, he's one of
those guys.
Speaker 5 (00:48):
But that's what they do, you know.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
In a perfect example is I think it was the
fourth n He's going to basically lot of no outs.
You know, he gets out of that unscathed. And then
but beyond that, that's when a lot of guys cave
after that you know, it takes so much at you
to finish in any and then it gets tough for
the rest of the game, and they don't. They don't
last eight Innes anyway. So that's kind of a telltale
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sign right there. And I think he really enjoyed it.
You know, he's very very focused guy. And a great
way to make your debut for your new team. I think,
you know, people are real excited about, you know, the
moves Alex made, and you know, I think it's it's
definitely created a lot more uh optimism, that's for sure,
and we've been we've responded. We played pretty good during
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that stretch, which is you know, the key part of it,
so which you know at full house when they're into it,
it's definitely a different, different feeling.
Speaker 6 (01:41):
Wow, I mean that was That's those hands down the
best atmosphere I've ever pitched in. I mean, I've i'll
pitched in playoff games and then Finnway, that place is unbelievable.
Speaker 5 (01:52):
Him Baltimore, I didn't.
Speaker 6 (01:54):
Think I'd ever hear, you know, a playoff atmosphere like
that there, and then in Detroit as well. No, I
mean it's in that dome with those kettlebells. It gets
really loud. But today that's next to kick Man. That
was that was crazy.
Speaker 7 (02:14):
Sports It is Sportsbelt storytime. We are Charged Up for
episode three, David Price's debut with the Blue Jays, we.
Speaker 5 (02:24):
Got some clarifications.
Speaker 7 (02:26):
The song Charged Up came out July thirty first, so
obviously I.
Speaker 5 (02:30):
Had been drinking for three days and listening to nothing.
Speaker 8 (02:32):
But obviously, I mean, I feel like there was like
I feel like, is that the summer where if you're
reading this came out? So I feel like like Drake
had a big part. Drake had a big part in
soundtrack in the twenty fifteen Jay's like, as you said,
there's the aforementioned back to back and then obviously Big
(02:53):
Rings was like the the anthem for September.
Speaker 7 (02:58):
Yes, if you're reading this, came out February thirteenth, twenty fifteen.
Energy was his single came out July tenth, so yes,
absolutely correct.
Speaker 8 (03:08):
And then obviously Jose Jose had it as his walk
up music, and yes, it kind of went from there.
Speaker 7 (03:15):
What a Time to Be Alive came out in September,
so that's probably I believe Big Rings on at a time,
so that would have that would have been just in
time for the playoff run as well. Obo Fest this
year is when you get Kevin Durant in a fucking
David Price jersey of all things.
Speaker 5 (03:34):
When we were all like, we were all convinced it
was happening.
Speaker 9 (03:37):
I talked to Kevin Durant during the game. He came
just to see you and thought it was amazing to
be a part of this. And also I showed you
that video of him cheering with the rest of the crowd.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
What do you think of that?
Speaker 9 (03:47):
When you see a guy of his stature here like
a fan watching you.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
That blows me away.
Speaker 6 (03:54):
I mean, it's probably the coolest thing I've had happened
to me, you know, fan wise, for for.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
Somebody like that.
Speaker 6 (04:02):
You know he's in town obviously for for uh for
what's going on you know this this week and weekend
in in Toronto.
Speaker 5 (04:08):
But you know this is a day game.
Speaker 6 (04:10):
I'm sure you had a lot of fun last night
and today started at one. And when you showed me
that video, that was thanks Kevin, Katie, Trey dr Angela,
that's awesome.
Speaker 7 (04:24):
I believe Drake ended up getting a fine for that,
more or.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
Less, I think so. Yeah, not for the jersey.
Speaker 7 (04:31):
But he went on stage and said, we want Kevin
durandaway for the raptors. What like to at the risk
of using Drake's album, uh, which we said a lot
at the time.
Speaker 5 (04:49):
What a time to be alive? Quite literally, Yes, that
was definitely a like. That was a thing to say, truly.
Speaker 7 (04:59):
But we get into the baseball game. David Price has
done his warm up and which they showed on television.
As you said, you got a standing ovation for going
to the bullpen, he got a standing oh for leaving
the bullpen. He got a standing over from going to
the dugout to the mound where three standing o's deep.
I teared up during Oh Canada, of this this game.
Speaker 5 (05:21):
I was just I was on it.
Speaker 7 (05:23):
I was I had been, you know, drinking for four
days and had been to a wedding and was certain
that I loved my girlfriend and was very very very
very excited by the way small thing because she's near
me right now. She was sort of mad at me
for inviting Zach to that game instead of her.
Speaker 8 (05:39):
Yes, that's how you that's how you know, Yes, you
all happened for all the trades.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
I was like off Monday, we should go to the game.
Speaker 7 (05:49):
Yes, before, before the trades, she had said that she
was off Monday and we should go to the game.
Speaker 5 (05:53):
But I and you went with Zach. You want to
Zach anyway? Huh?
Speaker 7 (05:56):
I went with my best friend of ten years instead
of the girl all I had been dating for two
and a half months.
Speaker 5 (06:02):
Excuse me? How did she ever forgive you? Truly?
Speaker 7 (06:07):
I know somehow someway Listen it was it was I
remember you. You said that there were nerves in your end,
and that is totally true. But oh baby, did he
ever immediately smash that to bits? Brian Doser? No chance
strikeout swinging z no chance strikeouts swinging tiffer proof, A
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little limp fly ball to center field, three up, three down, there's.
Speaker 5 (06:39):
Strike out of the afternoon.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
David Price has always pitched well in this ballpark. Between
those two pitches, there's a high fly ball the center
plark battling the sun.
Speaker 5 (06:56):
Using that glove is a shade, David says, Jay.
Speaker 7 (07:03):
The place is like we're going nuts, We're hugging strangers
were screaming. And I will say this, Obviously, there's been
some there's been a lot of great moments that happen
in this run. This run specifically, I don't know that
there was a better top to bottom. The whole day
is just gravy than the David Price start because they
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were still a five hundred team, but it was the
first big sellout other than the Royals game the day before.
But it was this huge event. As you said, you
couldn't get in and we were waiting for this one
thing to happen, and it delivered on every end. The
playoffs obviously were exciting, and the batplip is a great moment,
but it's preceded with such a low low and there's.
Speaker 5 (07:48):
Nerves and there's things in the line.
Speaker 7 (07:50):
David Price Day start to finish is just pure ecstasy
as far as it goes.
Speaker 8 (07:57):
Yeah, oh man, because it was like it is that
perfect blend of a game that wasn't actually high stakes.
So the like if they had lost, it would have
wouldn't it would have been a letdown, but it wouldn't
have been like how we felt after Game two of
the Alds kind of thing, like it was just it was,
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like we said, it was an early August game, but
it had that perfect mix of being low stakes all
things considered, and then also being like a celebration of
the fact that the Blue Jays were finally doing something
and going for it, and then being a celebration of
the fact we got David Price, and then being a
celebration of fact that David Price was awesome.
Speaker 7 (08:38):
Yes, he it wasn't all you know, he didn't totally
mow everybody down. He pretty much did, but there was
some you know, in the second inning, Tory Hunter hit
a home run. It was one nothing twins and it
just like he just didn't even blink immediately struck out
the next two guys.
Speaker 5 (08:56):
It was absolutely nothing.
Speaker 7 (08:57):
It was that was that was There's a couple of
things that I really took from this that I would
just like, man, I've never seen I haven't seen a
Blue Days Piccher do that since Halladay, And it was
he bounced back from a home run. And we'll talk
about this in the fourth inning. But like he just
didn't let things rattle him. It was so incredible and
so impressive. The Jays get it back immediately in the
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bottom half because Ryan Gowins hits a home run. Ryan Owens,
who will later on not help David Price, does help
him in the second by making this a one.
Speaker 5 (09:33):
One game cost us world. Serious, I'll never let it know.
Speaker 7 (09:39):
In the third, Kurtzuzuki hit the ground roll level and
it's like, oh, maybe maybe David Price is gonna get
not perfect, but he gets a bunt pop out. That's stupid.
He strikes out Brian Doser again. Brian Doser has a
terrible day. And then he gets the ground out from
first base, so he's through three.
Speaker 5 (09:57):
I'm sorry, I thought he had once. Price stacks up three.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Strikeouts for David Price.
Speaker 5 (10:09):
David Price to the whole round, snipe saut Sorry is
that clip fast bar?
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Another stock out for pos Ti gets Dozier for a
second time this afternoon.
Speaker 5 (10:25):
Bounces this one to smoke. He will flick to Price.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
See years over.
Speaker 7 (10:30):
He's given up two hits. He's already struck out one
to five. Yeah, I figure out five and three innings.
He's cruising it.
Speaker 5 (10:39):
And then the.
Speaker 7 (10:40):
Fourth This is where it goes from, Like the only
moment of the entire day that isn't pure like joy
is the fourth inning.
Speaker 5 (10:49):
Yeah, I would say sorry.
Speaker 8 (10:53):
I would say that the fact it wasn't joy is
what made the whole thing so joyful, because this happened,
and it happened the way it did. It was like
we were like the confidence level of all of us
at that point was impossible.
Speaker 7 (11:07):
This is this to me, The fourth inning, to me,
is the best part of the entire day. Yeah, because
like it shows that, it shows all he has to offer.
It's not just he strikes everybody out and he's never
in trouble. Trevor Pluff doubles, Miguel Sinou walks, and then
Tory Hunter, who hit the home run, also walks. So
bass is loaded. Nobody out won one game. Heart of
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the order coming out, he gets a pop out and
then he gets a great He gets a really good
call on the airnextright, I'll say it, that's a great
that's a really good call. But the one two pitch
in the outside corner, either you swing it or you don't.
He didn't, and then he gets Kurt Suzuki swinging. The
place erupts again where standing We're screaming. David Price is
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the only guy for us at this That was when
I was like, Okay, I'm one hundred percent sold.
Speaker 5 (11:57):
The top of the fourth is as good as it
gets me.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
David Price makes a perfect pitch on the outside turn
Hicks strikes out for a second time.
Speaker 5 (12:18):
David Price strike.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Suzuki, bassis loaded Nobody, Tunalitski makes a fine.
Speaker 5 (12:27):
Catch on a pop up in center, and then.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
David Price takes over Hey strikes Darren Hicks, then kerk
Sizuki to leave the bases loaded.
Speaker 10 (12:38):
David Price pitching out of a tough jam.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
In the court.
Speaker 9 (12:41):
You were cruising Alion.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
It's all about the fourth inning.
Speaker 5 (12:43):
But you got yourself out of that basis loaded, nobody
out jam. What's going through your head? What are you
telling yourself as you're battling through that inning? Ah, just
get this first guy in and see what happens. You know,
if I can.
Speaker 6 (12:54):
Get that first out with nobody here, nobody's going on
one pitch away and that was that was my mindset.
Tula made a really good play on that shallow flabbaut
of center and turn around and made a good throw
home and then you know, being able to get those
next two guys was uh, was very big.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
You know, Kurtis is a.
Speaker 6 (13:10):
Guy that's always hit me really well and he's always
putting together really good at that and being able to
get home for that third that was huge.
Speaker 8 (13:17):
Oh yeah, that was like when the Raptors got Kawhi.
We spent a lot of time talking about the idea
that the Raptors have always been the team that got
rattled and the team that was too emotional and that
couldn't keep their heads, and then Kawhi was gonna come
in and fix all that. And we said that all
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year and it happened and we were right, which is
wonderful because I love being right. And then this was
kind of that moment for me with Price where it
was like he's literally in a sold out building with
bases loaded, nobody out, everyone there is just there to
watch him be great, and like it didn't even phase him,
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and it was just like, all right, I got it.
Speaker 7 (14:00):
It's fine, yes to your Kawhi point. This is the
moment that Drew Hutcheson gives up the runs. This is
the moment that Dicky gets absolutely lit up and they
lose seven to two. This is the moment where the
new guy they bring in, the star they bring in
that they paid all their prospects for, completely shits the
bed and is terrible and the trade looks idiotic. This
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is the moment that the Yankee fans are like laughing at,
but no two strikeouts and a PopOut, no runs score.
And I'll tell you what, nobody else does anything against.
Speaker 5 (14:34):
David Price for the rest of this game. That is it.
Speaker 7 (14:36):
That was even the crazier part is like they get
basically nobody else and then nobody gets on base the
rest of the fucking game, like ridiculous.
Speaker 5 (14:46):
He gave them the opening and that was it, and
that was so refreshing.
Speaker 7 (14:51):
And the third takeaway that there was three big things
was obviously the efficiency, the way he didn't get rattled
and when he was facing somebody like Kurt Suzuki or
you know, Edward o'neuonnez, somebody that somebody that he was
straight up better, then he just didn't waste his time.
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If he was better than the guy, he just got
them out like it was. He didn't worry, he didn't
pitch around guys, he didn't nibble. It was very Halliday
esque in that way that if he knew he had
the advantage, he dared lesser hitters to do something about it,
and they basically never ever did.
Speaker 8 (15:29):
Yeah, And it was really fun watching like from a
the style of that Blue Jays rotation didn't have the
guy who was just like here's a ninety seven mile
in hour fastball.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
Fuck you.
Speaker 8 (15:41):
Like Stroman's the groundball guy, Burley was Mark Burley, Dicky
obviously had the knuckleball, Estrada was the change up guy.
All very fun to watch in their own ways, but
Price was the only one who was like, you're just
not hitting this.
Speaker 5 (15:56):
Yeah, there's there's nothing you can do.
Speaker 8 (15:57):
I'm placing this on the corner and it's going ninety
seven and it's not You're not touching it.
Speaker 7 (16:11):
Your Baseball Reference Official. What happens in the fifth is
ground out third base week, ground out shortstop week, ground
out shortstop, and then bottom five was one of those
beautiful statements Tulitsky singles.
Speaker 5 (16:26):
And then Josh.
Speaker 7 (16:27):
Donaldson, I mean, what do you think happens Josh Donaldson
running on?
Speaker 5 (16:31):
Forget about it. I think we're charged out, We're going,
we're going to.
Speaker 8 (16:38):
Like, I don't think that Josh Donaldson's twenty fifteen is
fully appreciated as much as an MVP season can be.
Speaker 7 (16:46):
That's a take because he got he got like he
gets thrown into like best Blue Jay conversations. He doesn't
ever win them, but he gets he gets done in
there with basically on the strength of this year and
next year.
Speaker 8 (17:00):
I just feel like he was It wasn't even that,
not even stats wise, but he had that air about
him where it was just like, oh, okay, he's hitting
this out now. Yeah, Like he was the guy who
every game where it mattered, you were like, all right.
Speaker 7 (17:15):
As if he ended that season with a walk off
home run in the final.
Speaker 8 (17:20):
I will never that game. I remember Lund had to
go to work and he was he came down like
about to leave the house for work. Donaldson was up
and he just kind of looked at the TV and
was like, well, he's hitting this out next pitch, and
he walked out the door.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Josh Donaldson with three walk off hits this season.
Speaker 8 (17:47):
That was emblematic of how Donaldson worked that year. It's like, oh,
a big moment, Yeah, he's probably gonna hit it.
Speaker 10 (18:00):
That's how you win an MVP Award.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Hit slide that his tenth career walkkof hit, his third
walkof hole.
Speaker 5 (18:12):
Run of the season. I think you just won the
MVPA this afternoon, like.
Speaker 7 (18:19):
The seventh Price goes strikeout, flyout, ground out, and then
listen when the top half of the Blue Jays order
was up, you really. We talk about the bu Jet
twenty fifteen Boo Days a lot, obviously because we love
that team a lot, but like it's hard to even
explain now five years later that, like if the top
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four guys came up in an inning, you only had
two or three chances per game to make sure that
didn't ruin the game for you, Like legitimately, legitimately getting
through that was the whole game of the team. Two
Whiskey walks, Donaldson grounds out, Batisa strikes out, hits a single,
Smoky hits a single. Now it's four to one, and
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I want to say, Price is well over one hundred
pitches already and is not coming out of this game.
Speaker 10 (19:10):
Change out, Tulowitzki. It's short and plenty of time. So
now Chase is that change up another strike out for Price.
Eight n strikes out, strung out number nine four day
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the Price much to the align.
Speaker 5 (19:33):
Of this full mouse in game that never hurts to
be able to throw ninety five away from a left tender.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
Hernandez has twelve hundred and seventy two.
Speaker 5 (19:46):
This would be a ground ball this short to l Whisky. Yeah,
and then you're to your point about the top of
the lineup. It really was.
Speaker 8 (19:56):
I've never experienced this with any other team in my
life in any sport really, even the Raptors last year.
Like it really was like the Jay's And this happened
multiple times. They'd be down like five nothing after one
and you just wouldn't care. Yeah, he's like, well they
have nine, they have nine innings to score six, then
that's probably fine.
Speaker 5 (20:17):
It was, and they'd score like eleven.
Speaker 7 (20:19):
The lineup this day was Kulwitsky, Donaldson, Batista, An Charnascio
and Smoke Martin Gowens Polar Revere. You know exactly. This
was we were still hitting too low leadoff. He eventually
would move out of that spot just because he didn't
like hitting first. But boyl boy, that's just there's no
there's no room. There's no room anyway for that.
Speaker 8 (20:42):
No, like you can't like maybe you get away with
like Goin's of Revere, but if Revere gets on his
speed's gonna burn you. With those guys after him, I
guess Goings is sort of the aberration. But he was
only there because Travis was hurt again anyway, So yes,
and truly a ridiculous lineup.
Speaker 5 (20:59):
Revere hits three twenty. That's a blue Jay, Like he
was unbelievable. That's a blue Jay. He was really really
good with the blue Jays.
Speaker 7 (21:07):
David Price comes out for the eighth inning and it's like, oh,
that was another another Like this dude is just built differently.
He is at well over one hundred pitches. He comes
out for the eighth it's another strikeout. He's eleventh of
the game. It's a flyout to center and then a
four to three ground out on an O two pitch.
He only threw four pitches in the at bat.
Speaker 10 (21:30):
Change up stock too, brown ball, go on good second
quick players perched.
Speaker 8 (21:40):
David Price will look off the bah.
Speaker 10 (21:44):
He's retired fifteen straight after the twins.
Speaker 5 (21:47):
After basis loaded in a court.
Speaker 7 (21:50):
David Price and finishes with one hundred and nineteen pitches
eighty for strikes. He faces twenty nine batters. He gives
up one home run, one run, three hits, two walks,
and strikes out eleven. About as good a debut as
you will ever see. Eighteen swinging strikes, fifteen looking strikes,
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eight ground balls, eight fly balls, two line drives. Holy cow,
that is among the best games I've ever seen.
Speaker 8 (22:22):
I don't think I realized and like it may I'm
sure I write, I'm sure I knew it at the time,
but like just looking at sort of the game score
now that he went that he was perfect after.
Speaker 5 (22:31):
The fourth Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, damn.
Speaker 7 (22:37):
Damn perfect perfect, perfect without and we look at it
like it's perfect and it's ground out, ground out, ground out,
fly out, strikeout, strikeout, strikeout, flyout, ground out, strikeout, flyout,
ground out, it's it's he's perfect and there's not even
hard contact, like it's perfect and balls that you know
are not going to do anything. It was an absolute
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masterpiece as far is pitching performances.
Speaker 5 (23:01):
Go God, yep, and we got to see la Troy
Hawkins close it out.
Speaker 7 (23:07):
So like all the acquisitions were, yes, we're helping everybody,
but you're like in terms of like win expectancy. The
top five plays of the game the first two. Number
one is Donaldson's home run, obviously to make it three
to one. Obviously that tilts the score. The two home runs,
one from Goins and one from Hunter, are two and
three to take a lead and to cut the lead.
Speaker 4 (23:28):
But the.
Speaker 7 (23:30):
Fourth and fifth by game score, most important plays of
this game are the strikeout on Aaron Hicks and the
strikeout on Curtsuzuki.
Speaker 8 (23:38):
He is so directly responsible nine added win expectancy from
a strikeout.
Speaker 5 (23:45):
That rules back to me in a tie game. In
a tie game, also on back.
Speaker 7 (23:50):
To like those two pitches are eighteen percent of the
win is in those two strikeouts. Now, obviously that's not
you know that that isn't a bl end all stat
but you and as you said, you know it is
in the score sheet, in the stat book. It is
two big strikeouts in the fourth any of a game,
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but also with your first game as a new team,
in front of the first sellout in forever, on a
team that hasn't made the playoffs in two decades, on
a team that desperately needs an ace, in front of
a crowd that is very rowdy and very ready for.
Speaker 5 (24:28):
This moment and is there just to see you.
Speaker 7 (24:30):
I mean, that is that's as big as two at
bats get in regular season for the Blue Jays.
Speaker 5 (24:38):
Yeah, it's like, maybe I'm over selling it. No, I
don't think you are.
Speaker 8 (24:42):
I think it's hard to explain this game to people
who weren't there in a lot of ways, just because
you know you talk about I mean, I think it's
actually very similar to how we sort of make fun
of the fact that we still look back on the
twenty fifteen J's even though they didn't win the World Series,
Like it's very much, from an abstract sense, kind of
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ridiculous that this early August game against the Twins was
so impactful. But it's also very silly that we watch
flashback videos of this team all the time. But that's
just kind of what this season and this team was
all about.
Speaker 5 (25:22):
No, absolutely, absolutely right. And John Gibbons was a manager.
That's what really matters. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (25:29):
Of course another small thing, Irvin Santana of all pictures
was the guy on the other end. Hard to believe, huh, right.
Speaker 5 (25:42):
What adventures we would go on with Urban Santana, No kidding.
Speaker 7 (25:46):
At the end of the game three thirty PM, I write,
so that's what this feels like. Wow, absolutely right. I
look at some of the some of the sample questions
from we put questions out on for Sports of that day,
and some of the some of the sample questions, what
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will galvinize Toronto Moore Jay's in the playoffs or Raptors
in the playoffs last year? What's your take on the
Drake meek millbeef. That's where we were. Am I an
idiot for stressing on over? Noah Cindergard? If the Jay's
beat the Royals in the playoffs, serias, and that's as
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far as they go, Is the season a success?
Speaker 5 (26:31):
Obviously not? Look at this one.
Speaker 7 (26:34):
Here's a prescient one from August twenty fifteen. If Donald
Trump bought the Jays and renamed them the Trumps, would
you still support them and the Trump Empire? That's crazy,
that's a crazy question.
Speaker 5 (26:51):
I guess he was.
Speaker 8 (26:52):
He was still sort of like the joke at that point. Yeah, like, oh,
you're the worst fucking person alive?
Speaker 7 (26:58):
And from Burrows, what's the worst thing you'd do to
guarantee the jay as a playoff spot?
Speaker 5 (27:03):
Don't even need them? They got it anyway that way.
Speaker 8 (27:07):
That's the crazy part, the fact we're like, what would
we do to make sure they make the playoffs? And
then they is won like ninety games?
Speaker 7 (27:16):
Oh baby, what a game that fourth inning? Man, I
remember that, I remember that forever.
Speaker 5 (27:21):
I think.
Speaker 7 (27:23):
We returned one last episode. We were going to look
at the fallout from this, where Price goes from. Here
are sort of reactions to the rest of the season
and you know, he ended up getting a reputation on
the David Price playoff. Struggles that and him coming out
of the bullpen. All that and more on the next episode,
A Sports Felt Storytime.
Speaker 5 (28:25):
What's the
David Price takes the mound chriss first start in the
Blue Jays uniform, and he is a super charged atmosphere
and the only question will be whether or not David
Price can control his emotions here today.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
It's been a great start to his afternoon.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
David Price eight innings, is allowed one run and leaves
the Twins five to one with eleven strikeouts that he
waves to the crowd with his calp What a moment.
He packs his heart walks down the steps of the
third base. Dug app and the Blue Jays right now
are certainly enjoying David Price, and he's certainly enjoying this environment.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
Different class of pitchers in the league. You know, anybody's
starting pitchering the big leagues is good, you know, and
then there's a guy's you know, they kind of separate themselves,
and you know David's at the top, he's one of
those guys.
Speaker 5 (00:48):
But that's what they do, you know.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
In a perfect example is I think it was the
fourth n He's going to basically lot of no outs.
You know, he gets out of that unscathed. And then
but beyond that, that's when a lot of guys cave
after that you know, it takes so much at you
to finish in any and then it gets tough for
the rest of the game, and they don't. They don't
last eight Innes anyway. So that's kind of a telltale
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sign right there. And I think he really enjoyed it.
You know, he's very very focused guy. And a great
way to make your debut for your new team. I think,
you know, people are real excited about, you know, the
moves Alex made, and you know, I think it's it's
definitely created a lot more uh optimism, that's for sure,
and we've been we've responded. We played pretty good during
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that stretch, which is you know, the key part of it,
so which you know at full house when they're into it,
it's definitely a different, different feeling.
Speaker 6 (01:41):
Wow, I mean that was That's those hands down the
best atmosphere I've ever pitched in. I mean, I've i'll
pitched in playoff games and then Finnway, that place is unbelievable.
Speaker 5 (01:52):
Him Baltimore, I didn't.
Speaker 6 (01:54):
Think I'd ever hear, you know, a playoff atmosphere like
that there, and then in Detroit as well. No, I
mean it's in that dome with those kettlebells. It gets
really loud. But today that's next to kick Man. That
was that was crazy.
Speaker 7 (02:14):
Sports It is Sportsbelt storytime. We are Charged Up for
episode three, David Price's debut with the Blue Jays, we.
Speaker 5 (02:24):
Got some clarifications.
Speaker 7 (02:26):
The song Charged Up came out July thirty first, so
obviously I.
Speaker 5 (02:30):
Had been drinking for three days and listening to nothing.
Speaker 8 (02:32):
But obviously, I mean, I feel like there was like
I feel like, is that the summer where if you're
reading this came out? So I feel like like Drake
had a big part. Drake had a big part in
soundtrack in the twenty fifteen Jay's like, as you said,
there's the aforementioned back to back and then obviously Big
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Rings was like the the anthem for September.
Speaker 7 (02:58):
Yes, if you're reading this, came out February thirteenth, twenty fifteen.
Energy was his single came out July tenth, so yes,
absolutely correct.
Speaker 8 (03:08):
And then obviously Jose Jose had it as his walk
up music, and yes, it kind of went from there.
Speaker 7 (03:15):
What a Time to Be Alive came out in September,
so that's probably I believe Big Rings on at a time,
so that would have that would have been just in
time for the playoff run as well. Obo Fest this
year is when you get Kevin Durant in a fucking
David Price jersey of all things.
Speaker 5 (03:34):
When we were all like, we were all convinced it
was happening.
Speaker 9 (03:37):
I talked to Kevin Durant during the game. He came
just to see you and thought it was amazing to
be a part of this. And also I showed you
that video of him cheering with the rest of the crowd.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
What do you think of that?
Speaker 9 (03:47):
When you see a guy of his stature here like
a fan watching you.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
That blows me away.
Speaker 6 (03:54):
I mean, it's probably the coolest thing I've had happened
to me, you know, fan wise, for for.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
Somebody like that.
Speaker 6 (04:02):
You know he's in town obviously for for uh for
what's going on you know this this week and weekend
in in Toronto.
Speaker 5 (04:08):
But you know this is a day game.
Speaker 6 (04:10):
I'm sure you had a lot of fun last night
and today started at one. And when you showed me
that video, that was thanks Kevin, Katie, Trey dr Angela,
that's awesome.
Speaker 7 (04:24):
I believe Drake ended up getting a fine for that,
more or.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
Less, I think so. Yeah, not for the jersey.
Speaker 7 (04:31):
But he went on stage and said, we want Kevin
durandaway for the raptors. What like to at the risk
of using Drake's album, uh, which we said a lot
at the time.
Speaker 5 (04:49):
What a time to be alive? Quite literally, Yes, that
was definitely a like. That was a thing to say, truly.
Speaker 7 (04:59):
But we get into the baseball game. David Price has
done his warm up and which they showed on television.
As you said, you got a standing ovation for going
to the bullpen, he got a standing oh for leaving
the bullpen. He got a standing over from going to
the dugout to the mound where three standing o's deep.
I teared up during Oh Canada, of this this game.
Speaker 5 (05:21):
I was just I was on it.
Speaker 7 (05:23):
I was I had been, you know, drinking for four
days and had been to a wedding and was certain
that I loved my girlfriend and was very very very
very excited by the way small thing because she's near
me right now. She was sort of mad at me
for inviting Zach to that game instead of her.
Speaker 8 (05:39):
Yes, that's how you that's how you know, Yes, you
all happened for all the trades.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
I was like off Monday, we should go to the game.
Speaker 7 (05:49):
Yes, before, before the trades, she had said that she
was off Monday and we should go to the game.
Speaker 5 (05:53):
But I and you went with Zach. You want to
Zach anyway? Huh?
Speaker 7 (05:56):
I went with my best friend of ten years instead
of the girl all I had been dating for two
and a half months.
Speaker 5 (06:02):
Excuse me? How did she ever forgive you? Truly?
Speaker 7 (06:07):
I know somehow someway Listen it was it was I
remember you. You said that there were nerves in your end,
and that is totally true. But oh baby, did he
ever immediately smash that to bits? Brian Doser? No chance
strikeout swinging z no chance strikeouts swinging tiffer proof, A
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little limp fly ball to center field, three up, three down, there's.
Speaker 5 (06:39):
Strike out of the afternoon.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
David Price has always pitched well in this ballpark. Between
those two pitches, there's a high fly ball the center
plark battling the sun.
Speaker 5 (06:56):
Using that glove is a shade, David says, Jay.
Speaker 7 (07:03):
The place is like we're going nuts, We're hugging strangers
were screaming. And I will say this, Obviously, there's been
some there's been a lot of great moments that happen
in this run. This run specifically, I don't know that
there was a better top to bottom. The whole day
is just gravy than the David Price start because they
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were still a five hundred team, but it was the
first big sellout other than the Royals game the day before.
But it was this huge event. As you said, you
couldn't get in and we were waiting for this one
thing to happen, and it delivered on every end. The
playoffs obviously were exciting, and the batplip is a great moment,
but it's preceded with such a low low and there's.
Speaker 5 (07:48):
Nerves and there's things in the line.
Speaker 7 (07:50):
David Price Day start to finish is just pure ecstasy
as far as it goes.
Speaker 8 (07:57):
Yeah, oh man, because it was like it is that
perfect blend of a game that wasn't actually high stakes.
So the like if they had lost, it would have
wouldn't it would have been a letdown, but it wouldn't
have been like how we felt after Game two of
the Alds kind of thing, like it was just it was,
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like we said, it was an early August game, but
it had that perfect mix of being low stakes all
things considered, and then also being like a celebration of
the fact that the Blue Jays were finally doing something
and going for it, and then being a celebration of
the fact we got David Price, and then being a
celebration of fact that David Price was awesome.
Speaker 7 (08:38):
Yes, he it wasn't all you know, he didn't totally
mow everybody down. He pretty much did, but there was
some you know, in the second inning, Tory Hunter hit
a home run. It was one nothing twins and it
just like he just didn't even blink immediately struck out
the next two guys.
Speaker 5 (08:56):
It was absolutely nothing.
Speaker 7 (08:57):
It was that was that was There's a couple of
things that I really took from this that I would
just like, man, I've never seen I haven't seen a
Blue Days Piccher do that since Halladay, And it was
he bounced back from a home run. And we'll talk
about this in the fourth inning. But like he just
didn't let things rattle him. It was so incredible and
so impressive. The Jays get it back immediately in the
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bottom half because Ryan Gowins hits a home run. Ryan Owens,
who will later on not help David Price, does help
him in the second by making this a one.
Speaker 5 (09:33):
One game cost us world. Serious, I'll never let it know.
Speaker 7 (09:39):
In the third, Kurtzuzuki hit the ground roll level and
it's like, oh, maybe maybe David Price is gonna get
not perfect, but he gets a bunt pop out. That's stupid.
He strikes out Brian Doser again. Brian Doser has a
terrible day. And then he gets the ground out from
first base, so he's through three.
Speaker 5 (09:57):
I'm sorry, I thought he had once. Price stacks up three.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Strikeouts for David Price.
Speaker 5 (10:09):
David Price to the whole round, snipe saut Sorry is
that clip fast bar?
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Another stock out for pos Ti gets Dozier for a
second time this afternoon.
Speaker 5 (10:25):
Bounces this one to smoke. He will flick to Price.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
See years over.
Speaker 7 (10:30):
He's given up two hits. He's already struck out one
to five. Yeah, I figure out five and three innings.
He's cruising it.
Speaker 5 (10:39):
And then the.
Speaker 7 (10:40):
Fourth This is where it goes from, Like the only
moment of the entire day that isn't pure like joy
is the fourth inning.
Speaker 5 (10:49):
Yeah, I would say sorry.
Speaker 8 (10:53):
I would say that the fact it wasn't joy is
what made the whole thing so joyful, because this happened,
and it happened the way it did. It was like
we were like the confidence level of all of us
at that point was impossible.
Speaker 7 (11:07):
This is this to me, The fourth inning, to me,
is the best part of the entire day. Yeah, because
like it shows that, it shows all he has to offer.
It's not just he strikes everybody out and he's never
in trouble. Trevor Pluff doubles, Miguel Sinou walks, and then
Tory Hunter, who hit the home run, also walks. So
bass is loaded. Nobody out won one game. Heart of
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the order coming out, he gets a pop out and
then he gets a great He gets a really good
call on the airnextright, I'll say it, that's a great
that's a really good call. But the one two pitch
in the outside corner, either you swing it or you don't.
He didn't, and then he gets Kurt Suzuki swinging. The
place erupts again where standing We're screaming. David Price is
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the only guy for us at this That was when
I was like, Okay, I'm one hundred percent sold.
Speaker 5 (11:57):
The top of the fourth is as good as it
gets me.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
David Price makes a perfect pitch on the outside turn
Hicks strikes out for a second time.
Speaker 5 (12:18):
David Price strike.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Suzuki, bassis loaded Nobody, Tunalitski makes a fine.
Speaker 5 (12:27):
Catch on a pop up in center, and then.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
David Price takes over Hey strikes Darren Hicks, then kerk
Sizuki to leave the bases loaded.
Speaker 10 (12:38):
David Price pitching out of a tough jam.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
In the court.
Speaker 9 (12:41):
You were cruising Alion.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
It's all about the fourth inning.
Speaker 5 (12:43):
But you got yourself out of that basis loaded, nobody
out jam. What's going through your head? What are you
telling yourself as you're battling through that inning? Ah, just
get this first guy in and see what happens. You know,
if I can.
Speaker 6 (12:54):
Get that first out with nobody here, nobody's going on
one pitch away and that was that was my mindset.
Tula made a really good play on that shallow flabbaut
of center and turn around and made a good throw
home and then you know, being able to get those
next two guys was uh, was very big.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
You know, Kurtis is a.
Speaker 6 (13:10):
Guy that's always hit me really well and he's always
putting together really good at that and being able to
get home for that third that was huge.
Speaker 8 (13:17):
Oh yeah, that was like when the Raptors got Kawhi.
We spent a lot of time talking about the idea
that the Raptors have always been the team that got
rattled and the team that was too emotional and that
couldn't keep their heads, and then Kawhi was gonna come
in and fix all that. And we said that all
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year and it happened and we were right, which is
wonderful because I love being right. And then this was
kind of that moment for me with Price where it
was like he's literally in a sold out building with
bases loaded, nobody out, everyone there is just there to
watch him be great, and like it didn't even phase him,
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and it was just like, all right, I got it.
Speaker 7 (14:00):
It's fine, yes to your Kawhi point. This is the
moment that Drew Hutcheson gives up the runs. This is
the moment that Dicky gets absolutely lit up and they
lose seven to two. This is the moment where the
new guy they bring in, the star they bring in
that they paid all their prospects for, completely shits the
bed and is terrible and the trade looks idiotic. This
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is the moment that the Yankee fans are like laughing at,
but no two strikeouts and a PopOut, no runs score.
And I'll tell you what, nobody else does anything against.
Speaker 5 (14:34):
David Price for the rest of this game. That is it.
Speaker 7 (14:36):
That was even the crazier part is like they get
basically nobody else and then nobody gets on base the
rest of the fucking game, like ridiculous.
Speaker 5 (14:46):
He gave them the opening and that was it, and
that was so refreshing.
Speaker 7 (14:51):
And the third takeaway that there was three big things
was obviously the efficiency, the way he didn't get rattled
and when he was facing somebody like Kurt Suzuki or
you know, Edward o'neuonnez, somebody that somebody that he was
straight up better, then he just didn't waste his time.
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If he was better than the guy, he just got
them out like it was. He didn't worry, he didn't
pitch around guys, he didn't nibble. It was very Halliday
esque in that way that if he knew he had
the advantage, he dared lesser hitters to do something about it,
and they basically never ever did.
Speaker 8 (15:29):
Yeah, And it was really fun watching like from a
the style of that Blue Jays rotation didn't have the
guy who was just like here's a ninety seven mile
in hour fastball.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
Fuck you.
Speaker 8 (15:41):
Like Stroman's the groundball guy, Burley was Mark Burley, Dicky
obviously had the knuckleball, Estrada was the change up guy.
All very fun to watch in their own ways, but
Price was the only one who was like, you're just
not hitting this.
Speaker 5 (15:56):
Yeah, there's there's nothing you can do.
Speaker 8 (15:57):
I'm placing this on the corner and it's going ninety
seven and it's not You're not touching it.
Speaker 7 (16:11):
Your Baseball Reference Official. What happens in the fifth is
ground out third base week, ground out shortstop week, ground
out shortstop, and then bottom five was one of those
beautiful statements Tulitsky singles.
Speaker 5 (16:26):
And then Josh.
Speaker 7 (16:27):
Donaldson, I mean, what do you think happens Josh Donaldson
running on?
Speaker 5 (16:31):
Forget about it. I think we're charged out, We're going,
we're going to.
Speaker 8 (16:38):
Like, I don't think that Josh Donaldson's twenty fifteen is
fully appreciated as much as an MVP season can be.
Speaker 7 (16:46):
That's a take because he got he got like he
gets thrown into like best Blue Jay conversations. He doesn't
ever win them, but he gets he gets done in
there with basically on the strength of this year and
next year.
Speaker 8 (17:00):
I just feel like he was It wasn't even that,
not even stats wise, but he had that air about
him where it was just like, oh, okay, he's hitting
this out now. Yeah, Like he was the guy who
every game where it mattered, you were like, all right.
Speaker 7 (17:15):
As if he ended that season with a walk off
home run in the final.
Speaker 8 (17:20):
I will never that game. I remember Lund had to
go to work and he was he came down like
about to leave the house for work. Donaldson was up
and he just kind of looked at the TV and
was like, well, he's hitting this out next pitch, and
he walked out the door.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Josh Donaldson with three walk off hits this season.
Speaker 8 (17:47):
That was emblematic of how Donaldson worked that year. It's like, oh,
a big moment, Yeah, he's probably gonna hit it.
Speaker 10 (18:00):
That's how you win an MVP Award.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Hit slide that his tenth career walkkof hit, his third
walkof hole.
Speaker 5 (18:12):
Run of the season. I think you just won the
MVPA this afternoon, like.
Speaker 7 (18:19):
The seventh Price goes strikeout, flyout, ground out, and then
listen when the top half of the Blue Jays order
was up, you really. We talk about the bu Jet
twenty fifteen Boo Days a lot, obviously because we love
that team a lot, but like it's hard to even
explain now five years later that, like if the top
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four guys came up in an inning, you only had
two or three chances per game to make sure that
didn't ruin the game for you, Like legitimately, legitimately getting
through that was the whole game of the team. Two
Whiskey walks, Donaldson grounds out, Batisa strikes out, hits a single,
Smoky hits a single. Now it's four to one, and
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I want to say, Price is well over one hundred
pitches already and is not coming out of this game.
Speaker 10 (19:10):
Change out, Tulowitzki. It's short and plenty of time. So
now Chase is that change up another strike out for Price.
Eight n strikes out, strung out number nine four day
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the Price much to the align.
Speaker 5 (19:33):
Of this full mouse in game that never hurts to
be able to throw ninety five away from a left tender.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
Hernandez has twelve hundred and seventy two.
Speaker 5 (19:46):
This would be a ground ball this short to l Whisky. Yeah,
and then you're to your point about the top of
the lineup. It really was.
Speaker 8 (19:56):
I've never experienced this with any other team in my
life in any sport really, even the Raptors last year.
Like it really was like the Jay's And this happened
multiple times. They'd be down like five nothing after one
and you just wouldn't care. Yeah, he's like, well they
have nine, they have nine innings to score six, then
that's probably fine.
Speaker 5 (20:17):
It was, and they'd score like eleven.
Speaker 7 (20:19):
The lineup this day was Kulwitsky, Donaldson, Batista, An Charnascio
and Smoke Martin Gowens Polar Revere. You know exactly. This
was we were still hitting too low leadoff. He eventually
would move out of that spot just because he didn't
like hitting first. But boyl boy, that's just there's no
there's no room. There's no room anyway for that.
Speaker 8 (20:42):
No, like you can't like maybe you get away with
like Goin's of Revere, but if Revere gets on his
speed's gonna burn you. With those guys after him, I
guess Goings is sort of the aberration. But he was
only there because Travis was hurt again anyway, So yes,
and truly a ridiculous lineup.
Speaker 5 (20:59):
Revere hits three twenty. That's a blue Jay, Like he
was unbelievable. That's a blue Jay. He was really really
good with the blue Jays.
Speaker 7 (21:07):
David Price comes out for the eighth inning and it's like, oh,
that was another another Like this dude is just built differently.
He is at well over one hundred pitches. He comes
out for the eighth it's another strikeout. He's eleventh of
the game. It's a flyout to center and then a
four to three ground out on an O two pitch.
He only threw four pitches in the at bat.
Speaker 10 (21:30):
Change up stock too, brown ball, go on good second
quick players perched.
Speaker 8 (21:40):
David Price will look off the bah.
Speaker 10 (21:44):
He's retired fifteen straight after the twins.
Speaker 5 (21:47):
After basis loaded in a court.
Speaker 7 (21:50):
David Price and finishes with one hundred and nineteen pitches
eighty for strikes. He faces twenty nine batters. He gives
up one home run, one run, three hits, two walks,
and strikes out eleven. About as good a debut as
you will ever see. Eighteen swinging strikes, fifteen looking strikes,
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eight ground balls, eight fly balls, two line drives. Holy cow,
that is among the best games I've ever seen.
Speaker 8 (22:22):
I don't think I realized and like it may I'm
sure I write, I'm sure I knew it at the time,
but like just looking at sort of the game score
now that he went that he was perfect after.
Speaker 5 (22:31):
The fourth Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, damn.
Speaker 7 (22:37):
Damn perfect perfect, perfect without and we look at it
like it's perfect and it's ground out, ground out, ground out,
fly out, strikeout, strikeout, strikeout, flyout, ground out, strikeout, flyout,
ground out, it's it's he's perfect and there's not even
hard contact, like it's perfect and balls that you know
are not going to do anything. It was an absolute
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masterpiece as far is pitching performances.
Speaker 5 (23:01):
Go God, yep, and we got to see la Troy
Hawkins close it out.
Speaker 7 (23:07):
So like all the acquisitions were, yes, we're helping everybody,
but you're like in terms of like win expectancy. The
top five plays of the game the first two. Number
one is Donaldson's home run, obviously to make it three
to one. Obviously that tilts the score. The two home runs,
one from Goins and one from Hunter, are two and
three to take a lead and to cut the lead.
Speaker 4 (23:28):
But the.
Speaker 7 (23:30):
Fourth and fifth by game score, most important plays of
this game are the strikeout on Aaron Hicks and the
strikeout on Curtsuzuki.
Speaker 8 (23:38):
He is so directly responsible nine added win expectancy from
a strikeout.
Speaker 5 (23:45):
That rules back to me in a tie game. In
a tie game, also on back.
Speaker 7 (23:50):
To like those two pitches are eighteen percent of the
win is in those two strikeouts. Now, obviously that's not
you know that that isn't a bl end all stat
but you and as you said, you know it is
in the score sheet, in the stat book. It is
two big strikeouts in the fourth any of a game,
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but also with your first game as a new team,
in front of the first sellout in forever, on a
team that hasn't made the playoffs in two decades, on
a team that desperately needs an ace, in front of
a crowd that is very rowdy and very ready for.
Speaker 5 (24:28):
This moment and is there just to see you.
Speaker 7 (24:30):
I mean, that is that's as big as two at
bats get in regular season for the Blue Jays.
Speaker 5 (24:38):
Yeah, it's like, maybe I'm over selling it. No, I
don't think you are.
Speaker 8 (24:42):
I think it's hard to explain this game to people
who weren't there in a lot of ways, just because
you know you talk about I mean, I think it's
actually very similar to how we sort of make fun
of the fact that we still look back on the
twenty fifteen J's even though they didn't win the World Series,
Like it's very much, from an abstract sense, kind of
(25:03):
ridiculous that this early August game against the Twins was
so impactful. But it's also very silly that we watch
flashback videos of this team all the time. But that's
just kind of what this season and this team was
all about.
Speaker 5 (25:22):
No, absolutely, absolutely right. And John Gibbons was a manager.
That's what really matters. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (25:29):
Of course another small thing, Irvin Santana of all pictures
was the guy on the other end. Hard to believe, huh, right.
Speaker 5 (25:42):
What adventures we would go on with Urban Santana, No kidding.
Speaker 7 (25:46):
At the end of the game three thirty PM, I write,
so that's what this feels like. Wow, absolutely right. I
look at some of the some of the sample questions
from we put questions out on for Sports of that day,
and some of the some of the sample questions, what
(26:06):
will galvinize Toronto Moore Jay's in the playoffs or Raptors
in the playoffs last year? What's your take on the
Drake meek millbeef. That's where we were. Am I an
idiot for stressing on over? Noah Cindergard? If the Jay's
beat the Royals in the playoffs, serias, and that's as
(26:27):
far as they go, Is the season a success?
Speaker 5 (26:31):
Obviously not? Look at this one.
Speaker 7 (26:34):
Here's a prescient one from August twenty fifteen. If Donald
Trump bought the Jays and renamed them the Trumps, would
you still support them and the Trump Empire? That's crazy,
that's a crazy question.
Speaker 5 (26:51):
I guess he was.
Speaker 8 (26:52):
He was still sort of like the joke at that point. Yeah, like, oh,
you're the worst fucking person alive?
Speaker 7 (26:58):
And from Burrows, what's the worst thing you'd do to
guarantee the jay as a playoff spot?
Speaker 5 (27:03):
Don't even need them? They got it anyway that way.
Speaker 8 (27:07):
That's the crazy part, the fact we're like, what would
we do to make sure they make the playoffs? And
then they is won like ninety games?
Speaker 7 (27:16):
Oh baby, what a game that fourth inning? Man, I
remember that, I remember that forever.
Speaker 5 (27:21):
I think.
Speaker 7 (27:23):
We returned one last episode. We were going to look
at the fallout from this, where Price goes from. Here
are sort of reactions to the rest of the season
and you know, he ended up getting a reputation on
the David Price playoff. Struggles that and him coming out
of the bullpen. All that and more on the next episode,
A Sports Felt Storytime.
Speaker 5 (28:25):
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