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Nationals best win of the year! · District Territory

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Speaker 1: Good morning, good afternoon, good evening.
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Speaker 2: Wherever you're joining us from, I'm Eric Shellhouse alongside me
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Speaker 2: Spencer Nusbaum of The Athletic and Kevin Franzen, the color
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Speaker 2: commentary and also field analysts for the Washington Nationals. Coming
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Speaker 2: off of one of their best games of the season
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Speaker 2: last night, I'm trying to think.
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Speaker 1: Of one word for this on the way over.
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Speaker 2: Awesome, epic baller, really just one of their best collective
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Speaker 2: wins of the season. But Franny, what's one word from
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Speaker 2: your experience down there in the camera?
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Speaker 3: Well last night, oh man, one word?
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Speaker 1: Maybe three? I just used three so you can get.
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Speaker 4: No I know, but I'm just saying, like one word
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Speaker 4: to describe it. Telling, patient, I mean, the offense was
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Speaker 4: very telling. Telling was telling was everything because it's like
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Speaker 4: they let everybody know that they could do this, that
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Speaker 4: they can handle a little adversity from the night before, right,
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Speaker 4: because this has happened a few times now where you've
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Speaker 4: had some late inning, you know, comebacks, or.
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Speaker 3: Just a bad game overall.
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Speaker 4: Right, defensively, and then to come back out.
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Speaker 3: It's very telling that there there's a lot of.
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Speaker 4: I don't you know the exact word to use, but
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Speaker 4: just uh, the attention to detail on certain things that
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Speaker 4: were you know, very noticeable, Like you know, I go
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Speaker 4: to a mistake that was not compounded into a bigger mistake,
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Speaker 4: but you know CJ being in the right spot on
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Speaker 4: a on a double play ball. Ah, that was the
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Speaker 4: scene was supposed to be covering, but Louis didn't allow
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Speaker 4: it to happen. And by that it's telling me because
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Speaker 4: it just shows where they're at as far as one
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Speaker 4: day mistake not happening leading into the next day, and
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Speaker 4: then from there they're correcting it, they're being ahead of
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Speaker 4: they're getting ahead of things, and it's very telling.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Top of the eighth inning, that was one of the
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Speaker 2: most bizarre plays I think I've ever seen. But a
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Speaker 2: credit to SKJ to show how mentally locked in he
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Speaker 2: is right now to finish the play and to still
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Speaker 2: get one out there. Spencer, can you even pinpoint one
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Speaker 2: word for yesterday's eleven to four victory?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, Actually, even though you didn't bring this up ahead
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Speaker 5: of time, it's something I had thought about. The word
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Speaker 5: I'd use is comprehensive. I think that might be the
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Speaker 5: most well rounded win you've seen this year, or if
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Speaker 5: that wasn't the one's close to it. Again, as Franny said,
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Speaker 5: the way that they fix their mistakes is obviously a
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Speaker 5: big point that I would make, But even beyond that,
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Speaker 5: that's probably one of the best pitching performances we've seen
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Speaker 5: out of a NAT starter this year, one of the
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Speaker 5: probably better managed games in terms of what you see
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Speaker 5: out there in the sixth and how they're able to
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Speaker 5: handle at offensively. You know, this offensive has been great.
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Speaker 5: So I don't know that letting the Braves throw a
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Speaker 5: ton of pitch like waist pitches throughout the game is
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Speaker 5: something that I necessarily say is an outlier, But I
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Speaker 5: think it's good that they let those pitches go by.
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Speaker 5: You got to give them credit at least for that,
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Speaker 5: you know. And I just think there wasn't really a
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Speaker 5: facet of the game where you looked at it and said, hey,
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Speaker 5: like they need to make big strides here, and just
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Speaker 5: kind of as a larger point here, I think when
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Speaker 5: you looked at the Nats of twenty twenty four and
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Speaker 5: twenty twenty five, so much of it was they would
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Speaker 5: have games like this, but they wouldn't either necessarily be
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Speaker 5: able to build on it, or you'd see the peak,
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Speaker 5: but then a week later you'd see a pretty hard fall.
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Speaker 5: And so something that I'm really focusing in on is
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Speaker 5: You're not going to get this comprehensive effort every night,
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Speaker 5: But can you get a couple more starts like Foster had?
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Speaker 5: Can you keep the offense rolling a little longer? Defensively?
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Speaker 5: Can you go three or four games in a row
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Speaker 5: without you know, two or three big mistakes. But I
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Speaker 5: think this is a fantastic starting point for the team
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Speaker 5: as far as maybe going on a little bit of
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Speaker 5: a run here, I feel like I've.
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Speaker 4: I've done this like open so many times on TV
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Speaker 4: where it's like great, you know, like last night was awesome,
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Speaker 4: but can you do it again?
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Speaker 3: You know?
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Speaker 4: And it's that you don't have to have the same
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Speaker 4: exact repeat performance. But look, if they can make those
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Speaker 4: adjustments that they've they've shown they've made on the offensive
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Speaker 4: side of times, can they go back to back games.
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Speaker 3: Not giving in to a picture because.
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Speaker 4: So many times in the past I would and I
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Speaker 4: stress I don't want to continue to say in the past,
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Speaker 4: but it's true it's the past.
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Speaker 3: They wouldn't make these adjustments.
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Speaker 4: They would they would go in the first thing and
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Speaker 4: they go, you know what, two three runs, let's say,
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Speaker 4: and then let the picture off the hook almost virtually,
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Speaker 4: kind of like how much Day Night was right where
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Speaker 4: they had Bryce elder on on the ropes and they couldn't.
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Speaker 3: Put them away.
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Speaker 4: And I'm I'm with you, Spance, like I think that, man,
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Speaker 4: I just want to see this moving forward as far
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Speaker 4: as a couple more days of it, right and seeing
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Speaker 4: if you can go from there and build, keep on building.
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Speaker 4: You know they always say build the good days, like
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Speaker 4: keep on, keep on, keep on stacking the good days,
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Speaker 4: stack another one of these.
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Speaker 5: And I think if you even look back at the
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Speaker 5: numbers last year, I think the last time I looked
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Speaker 5: was last August. So it's possibly in a great September
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Speaker 5: to change this. But the fourth and fifth inning last
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Speaker 5: year offensively was a disaster because they weren't some of
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Speaker 5: those adjustments, right, yeah, yeah, And so if they're able
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Speaker 5: to make those mid game adjustments like they've at least
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Speaker 5: seemed to so far, I mean, they're the best offensive
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Speaker 5: baseball right now. I mean that's something I'm paying such
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Speaker 5: close attention to total on Thursday than Chris Sale, like
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Speaker 5: that is a guy who is is impossible to adjust
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Speaker 5: to and so if they can do that, that tells me, hey,
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Speaker 5: like that's a different sort of benchmark.
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Speaker 4: Well here's another thing too, to Chris Salle, like they
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Speaker 4: got traject. Now they're gonna have guys able to see them.
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Speaker 4: Does it mean they're gonna hit him, No, but they're
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Speaker 4: gonna have they have the little tech pieces that could
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Speaker 4: help them get out there see him well before get
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Speaker 4: an idea, because we know he ate a machine.
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Speaker 3: He's just as good as a machine, Billy, he ate
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Speaker 3: a machine.
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Speaker 2: There's there's so many things to talk about, and last
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Speaker 2: night's came my opinion. I mean, they really did so
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Speaker 2: many things well and like you said, you look at
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Speaker 2: like this this or beg your pardon for those of
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Speaker 2: us watching online. That was pitching. Now we have the
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Speaker 2: hitting box score top to bottom. Everyone was making contributions
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Speaker 2: last night. And I think he got started, you know,
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Speaker 2: with good pitching, a one, two three top of the
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Speaker 2: first thing from Foster Griffin. And then in the bottom
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Speaker 2: of first the Nats allowed Lopez to kind of make
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Speaker 2: his mistakes. Jacob Young got the offense going with the
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Speaker 2: base hit early on. He would eventually where was he hitting?
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Speaker 2: He was hitting third in the lineup, a great decision
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Speaker 2: by Puteria and then takes third the center field. They
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Speaker 2: were just running with their hairs on fire in the
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Speaker 2: first couple of innings, their four solen bases over the
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Speaker 2: course of the game. But I really think getting Foster
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Speaker 2: and early three nothing lead allowed him to settle in
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Speaker 2: a little bit more.
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Speaker 1: Did you notice that as well, Franny.
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Speaker 4: No, because I I just just just be honest. This
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Speaker 4: is my my perspective on him after his few few
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Speaker 4: starts here. I don't think Scordon dictates anything for him.
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Speaker 4: He's gonna be who he is. He has a seven
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Speaker 4: pitch mix that he uses all seven pitches to all
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Speaker 4: seven or to all batters, righty lefties, And I think
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Speaker 4: it just I think you watch someone that knows himself
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Speaker 4: better than.
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Speaker 3: Most right just because he had inexperienced in the big leagues.
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Speaker 4: He's he went to Japan and understood how to scout
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Speaker 4: for himself, how to prepare for himself and not have,
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Speaker 4: you know, have other people do it for him. And
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Speaker 4: he learned and you could just see it on the mountain,
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Speaker 4: like the confidence that he has and what he wants
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Speaker 4: to do. And I was telling Zim last night on
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Speaker 4: air was like, what I see from this perspective on
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Speaker 4: the side was the confidence of I could read this
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Speaker 4: guy's swing. I got him, you know.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: I asked that question almost like as in a Devil's
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Speaker 2: advocate kind of way, because in the first inning, in
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Speaker 2: the sixth inning, he looks like the exact same guy.
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Speaker 2: And we'll get to the sixth inning later on and
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Speaker 2: whether or not that was a bu taih we're a
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Speaker 2: preordained decision or in the moment to let him face
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Speaker 2: du Bond for a third time. But yeah, he looks
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Speaker 2: like the same guy from the first bat of the
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Speaker 2: game to the final start of the game. And I
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Speaker 2: think that's one of the most telling things about him
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Speaker 2: as a player, is that he approaches every batter like
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Speaker 2: it's an O ball game, like he's there to get
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Speaker 2: him out. He doesn't care what the score, right, and
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Speaker 2: I absolutely love it. The offense kept on clicking well.
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Speaker 2: The Braves responded in the top of the second they
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Speaker 2: got to run back on back to back two out levels,
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Speaker 2: but the Nats responded in the bomb half of the inning.
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Speaker 3: James would.
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Speaker 2: On the broadcast the other night, you were saying right
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Speaker 2: handers hit balls like this to the left field bullpen,
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Speaker 2: not lefties. This kid is just so special. Is eighth
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Speaker 2: home run in the season, Spencer. He is clicking so
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Speaker 2: different right now. But what's working?
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Speaker 5: Everything? Everything is working right now. How often do you
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Speaker 5: see a guy walk four times in one game? And also,
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Speaker 5: homer doesn't happen often. The I guess the biggest thing
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Speaker 5: that I've paid attention to with James right now is
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Speaker 5: the fact that teams are starting to make those small
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Speaker 5: adjustments to him. And again, with James, they're always going
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Speaker 5: to be locked in on that scouting report. But right
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Speaker 5: now it's a lot of breaking balls away and what
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Speaker 5: he's doing is he's either spinning on those or if
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Speaker 5: they're left too far inside, he's able to do damage
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Speaker 5: on them. This is a player who you know. When
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Speaker 5: I ask Blake in spring training a little bit about
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Speaker 5: James and his ability to make adjustments, he said that,
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Speaker 5: you know what, is one of the best he's ever
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Speaker 5: seen in terms of making adjustments from one game to
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Speaker 5: the next. The next step in his game was being
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Speaker 5: able to make it from one at bat to the next.
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Speaker 5: And I think when you see him do that within
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Speaker 5: games like this, when you see teams constantly bring in
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Speaker 5: new pitchers to face him every time he's on deck.
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Speaker 5: This is someone who needs to make those adjustments. And
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Speaker 5: I think that that's all we've seen this season, at
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Speaker 5: least since April started, as his ability to make those
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Speaker 5: specific adjustments hit the ball the other way. This is
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Speaker 5: the This is the James that you know we saw
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Speaker 5: in the first half last year, and I think it's
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Speaker 5: honestly a better version right now.
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Speaker 4: A yeah, guys, I don't know if you went back
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Speaker 4: and watched the highlights at all, but he hit that
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Speaker 4: ball and I started laughing.
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Speaker 3: Is again yeah, like my.
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Speaker 4: My one of my main reasons of wanting to do that,
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Speaker 4: like be on the side in the camera roll by
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Speaker 4: first base, was I just wanted to watch James from
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Speaker 4: the level. Seriously. I told that to Ryan Spielboorgs, who
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Speaker 4: does the Colorado Rocky games. Just get an idea about
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Speaker 4: like you know what what to look for as far
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Speaker 4: as you know, it's different being on the side. He's
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Speaker 4: always there. And I told him, he goes, what are
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Speaker 4: you looking forward to him? Like James saying James from
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Speaker 4: that level, and it's just it's comical, Like the ball
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Speaker 4: got off that pad. I was like, oh, my god,
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Speaker 4: and you start laughing. And by the time you start laughing,
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Speaker 4: they're like mid chuckle. It just it hammers off that
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Speaker 4: back wall and you're going like, oh my god. But yeah,
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Speaker 4: like the adjustments are real with him. And I don't
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Speaker 4: know how you guys feel about this, but like that's
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Speaker 4: second inning, right, so you get the couple runs. I
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Speaker 4: still feel like they let Renald the Lopez off the
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Speaker 4: hook in that first inning, you know, and uh, you
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Speaker 4: bat through, you know, bat all nine and that and that,
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Speaker 4: and you get to the top of us or the
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Speaker 4: bottom of the second and you're going, is there a
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Speaker 4: better guy than Dames to have up there?
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Speaker 3: And in my mind, because of the.
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Speaker 4: This is where we've gone as far as the pass is,
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Speaker 4: Like that first thing happens, that's second inning. Whoa, I
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Speaker 4: don't know how that happened. But the one thing that
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Speaker 4: happens is I don't know, patience.
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Speaker 5: There we go.
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Speaker 2: Patience, I think is the key, like you said, the
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Speaker 2: Braves pitching had And I should give a credit to
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Speaker 2: the Nats hitting twelve walks over the course of this game,
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Speaker 2: which I believe is a tide or sorry second in
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Speaker 2: franchise history since the team moved here in two thousand
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Speaker 2: and five, they made Braves pitching throw two hundred and
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Speaker 2: one pitches over eight innings. I mean they were just
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Speaker 2: extremely patient and waited for their pitches to attack in
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Speaker 2: this game real quickly. Before we take a break, I
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Speaker 2: just need to take a look at James Wood's catch
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Speaker 2: here that he made in the top of the third
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Speaker 2: inning after that home run. This thing belongs on a
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Speaker 2: baseball card. For those of you watching online, you're going
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Speaker 2: to get one more look at it here when he
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Speaker 2: is full extension here, Franny. These are simply plays that
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Speaker 2: most players cannot make.
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Speaker 4: No look, I think his play best play wasn't even
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Speaker 4: that one. It was Monday Night too, with the sinking
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Speaker 4: line drive off Ozzie Albi's and his I don't know.
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Speaker 3: His reactions to.
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Speaker 4: The right field have been have been so good and
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Speaker 4: so confident. I should say, does it make him an
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Speaker 4: elite outfielder. Yet, No, it doesn't, because it's part of
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Speaker 4: experience and getting there, and he's on his way.
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Speaker 3: To being a really, really good right fielder.
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Speaker 4: Though on one of them going straight back that you're going,
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Speaker 4: I mean he was. He had the right depth the
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Speaker 4: entire time. It's just a ball was hammered right like
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Speaker 4: he wasn't gonna get to it, but seeing his alignment
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Speaker 4: and he wasn't zig zagging on his turns.
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Speaker 3: He was think about like a six six sixty seven guy.
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Speaker 4: You know, it's easy to get off flying and sway
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Speaker 4: away from your your alignment on it on a ball
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Speaker 4: over head, and he didn't, and it was it was
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Speaker 4: sweet to see, absolutely.
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Speaker 5: And I've even had people ask me in the past,
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Speaker 5: you know, do you think James as the first baseman?
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Speaker 5: Do you think he's better suited there? I simply think
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Speaker 5: we're way too early in his career to be moving
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Speaker 5: him around. And even I talked to Corey Ray a
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Speaker 5: little bit about this the other day, not about the
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Speaker 5: first base aspect, but about Wood kind of learning how
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Speaker 5: to play out there and getting comfortable in right field,
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Speaker 5: and he said, hey, like you look at Jacob's reads,
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Speaker 5: they're fantastic. You look at Dalen's reads, they've they've gotten
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Speaker 5: a lot better this season. With James, there's been there's
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Speaker 5: been absolute improvement. But he's the one where he feels like, hey,
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Speaker 5: we're still figuring out the pre pitch more than what
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Speaker 5: those other two guys and we're still figuring out the reactions,
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Speaker 5: and so the fact that you've seen him basically have
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Speaker 5: these kind of league average reads, which again is kind
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Speaker 5: of what you want out of a fantastic hitter. The
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Speaker 5: fact that they feel there's still more room to grow
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Speaker 5: there tells me there's no reason to be putting him
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Speaker 5: in at first base anytime soon.
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Speaker 1: Agree.
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Speaker 2: I remember people ask me the same thing. Oh, he's
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Speaker 2: so tall, just stick him at first base. He'll be
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Speaker 2: able to grab over those high throws.
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Speaker 3: No, we're not. It ain't that easy. No easy, guys.
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Speaker 1: And we are back.
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Speaker 2: That was incredible play by James as we were just discussing.
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Speaker 2: But the braves, We're not just going to roll over
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Speaker 2: that easily great offense home runs from Drake Baldwin. I
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Speaker 2: don't know how he scooped that ball up and hit
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Speaker 2: out four into thirty eight feet Eli White his Speedway
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Speaker 2: classic legend. All of a sudden, it's a four to
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Speaker 2: three game. But Luis Garcia had an answer for that.
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Speaker 2: He had a career night, four hits for him, a
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Speaker 2: career high, making it a five to three game. Then
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Speaker 2: we get to the top of the sixth inning, we're
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Speaker 2: going to bring up the final pitching line because this
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Speaker 2: was definitely a discussion in a part of me that
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Speaker 2: should be Tuesday Night's box scoring, no Wednesday's box score.
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Speaker 1: But either way, there.
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Speaker 2: The people watching at home, this is I mean, this
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Speaker 2: is a thing of beauty. Looking at the names that
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Speaker 2: they used, Fosster griffinto three and zero on the season
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Speaker 2: with the three thirty eight era, and at the top
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Speaker 2: of the sixth inning there was a moment where he
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Speaker 2: came to face Marusio Dubon. We flip over my box
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Speaker 2: score really quickly. With two outs and a man on second,
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Speaker 2: Blake Dutara went out to the mound. He didn't motion
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Speaker 2: to the bullpen and he let him face them. He
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Speaker 2: got the ground out to second and got a six innings,
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Speaker 2: which is really big in the stretch that the Nets
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Speaker 2: are going through right now with no off days to
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Speaker 2: give the bullpen even just one or two more extra
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Speaker 2: batters for any What can you say about his effort
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Speaker 2: last night and what that does for the pitching staff
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Speaker 2: Over the next how many games it is.
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Speaker 3: Well, it sucks that we're celebrating six innings.
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Speaker 4: Number one. I think that needs to be first and foremost.
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Speaker 4: Number two. Riso Dubon had hammered two balls already on him, right,
17:52
Speaker 4: So I think that there was truth behind that, you know,
17:56
Speaker 4: leaving him in. And I say truth because that wasn't planned,
18:05
Speaker 4: you know, Like I was talking about trying to think about,
18:06
Speaker 4: like was there if there's.
18:07
Speaker 3: A guy on, does he face you know, Mauricio?
18:10
Speaker 4: Guy gets on and you're like, no chance, and then
18:13
Speaker 4: he comes out and it's like just watching Blake and
18:16
Speaker 4: trying to get used to the kiss cadence of what
18:18
Speaker 4: he's gonna do.
18:19
Speaker 3: It started to like set in.
18:22
Speaker 4: He's not gonna take him out right now, and you
18:25
Speaker 4: get just sense in a dugout too, Like that was
18:27
Speaker 4: the part of the boys were like here we go,
18:30
Speaker 4: you know, and you started to get fired up, and
18:32
Speaker 4: I'm like, all right, that's a good builder. But uh,
18:35
Speaker 4: I think more importantly it was the guy that got
18:37
Speaker 4: on twice, you know, that hammer two balls against some
18:39
Speaker 4: like two good pitches too. It wasn't like it was
18:42
Speaker 4: like middle middle like Dubon and Eli White hit some
18:45
Speaker 4: pitchers pitches, uh, you know for extra base hits that
18:49
Speaker 4: I look at him like, all right, this is good
18:52
Speaker 4: and and for Blake it's a big moment. I don't
18:55
Speaker 4: he's not seeking I don't see Blake trying to win
18:59
Speaker 4: over people like the fan. He's trying to win over
19:02
Speaker 4: his team. And he sensed the guy that he had
19:04
Speaker 4: the right guy on the mound. It wasn't from like
19:08
Speaker 4: the previous night, like people that were hammering, you know,
19:11
Speaker 4: Jake not being left in. I'm like, he just walked
19:14
Speaker 4: and hit a guy like and you're getting into two, three,
19:18
Speaker 4: four against Baldwin, Olsen and Riley that you're like, no,
19:22
Speaker 4: no thanks, you know, like in that situation.
19:24
Speaker 1: Third time around ten.
19:26
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I look at it with you know, Mauricio
19:29
Speaker 4: Dubond where they were in that lineup, I was like,
19:30
Speaker 4: perfect time, nice job.
19:33
Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, I agree, execute a beautifully. I think a
19:36
Speaker 2: lot of people wanted to see Jake go a little
19:38
Speaker 2: further out. I think a lot of people's issue with that.
19:40
Speaker 2: And I'll let you touch on this year at a
19:41
Speaker 2: Spencer in a minute, Spencer, but I think people's issue
19:44
Speaker 2: with Jake was he was a what eighty or eighty
19:46
Speaker 2: one pitches and just the stretch the team is in,
19:48
Speaker 2: the stretch that the team is in right now. They
19:50
Speaker 2: would have liked to have seen a few more pitches
19:52
Speaker 2: either starting pitcher to preserve the bullpen for this stretch.
19:55
Speaker 2: But I think you Taror made the right decision, as
19:58
Speaker 2: they said in the postgame press conference, was the decision
20:00
Speaker 2: they had made before the inning even started. Hey, he's
20:03
Speaker 2: going to face these guys and then that's it. Third
20:06
Speaker 2: time through the lineup we get to these big batters,
20:08
Speaker 2: we're going to turn it over. Last night, like Franny
20:10
Speaker 2: just said, I think was the perfect situation to do it,
20:13
Speaker 2: because Dubon is a great hitter, had two hits in
20:15
Speaker 2: the game, but he then had a sense of a
20:17
Speaker 2: game plan of maybe how can we attack this guy
20:20
Speaker 2: and face them at differently. Okay, this is not work
20:22
Speaker 2: twice tonight, what might work the third time here? Unfortunately
20:25
Speaker 2: it did? Sorry, Spencer, No, I.
20:28
Speaker 3: Mean that's perfectly put.
20:29
Speaker 5: When we actually talked to Foster after the game, and
20:32
Speaker 5: I mean the three of us as a group have
20:34
Speaker 5: talked about Foster's ability to not let the hitter necessarily
20:38
Speaker 5: dictate what he wants to do up there. That isn't
20:40
Speaker 5: to belie anything though, about the fact that he can
20:43
Speaker 5: read a hitter when he needs to. And he told
20:46
Speaker 5: us after the game, he said, yeah, you know, I
20:48
Speaker 5: knew Dubon was two for two against me, but that
20:51
Speaker 5: also meant I knew how he wanted to get me.
20:54
Speaker 5: He said, I knew that he wanted something on the
20:56
Speaker 5: outside part of the plate, and he wanted something either
20:59
Speaker 5: soft to pull or kind of hard the other way.
21:02
Speaker 5: And so he opens him up with with a pitch
21:04
Speaker 5: outside that gets filed off to test him, and then
21:07
Speaker 5: he goes right inside knowing that, hey, he thinks, I'm
21:09
Speaker 5: going to go right back there, and he you know,
21:11
Speaker 5: that's the sort of thing where you know, has Foster
21:14
Speaker 5: faced a big league line up in years, No, but
21:17
Speaker 5: he's been one of the smartest pictures on the roster.
21:20
Speaker 5: You ask Blake about him, and it feels like there's
21:23
Speaker 5: a different adjective every time, whether it painter yesterday, assassin.
21:27
Speaker 3: A couple starts to.
21:28
Speaker 5: Go like there's just kind of a level of respect
21:31
Speaker 5: I think between Blake and Foster, knowing what he's able
21:35
Speaker 5: to do out there on the mound, the fact that
21:38
Speaker 5: they let him call his own pitches you really kind
21:41
Speaker 5: of get the sense that, like, hey, the Nationals are
21:44
Speaker 5: managing games in more modern ways, but if you have
21:47
Speaker 5: more of a throwback picture out there, who knows how
21:49
Speaker 5: to get through proven it? And who even beyond that?
21:54
Speaker 5: Just the emotional for six innings. I know, again for
21:58
Speaker 5: any year, frustrated with maybe being the bar, but if
22:02
Speaker 5: we're realistic about what this team has allowed people.
22:04
Speaker 8: To do, I I'm frustra I'm frustrated with it that there,
22:11
Speaker 8: I'm frustrated with it, but I'm also not It's not
22:14
Speaker 8: an indictment.
22:15
Speaker 4: It's just the game. Because I feel like you come
22:17
Speaker 4: up in the game and you you have this understanding
22:19
Speaker 4: like six is not it?
22:20
Speaker 3: Right? Seven?
22:22
Speaker 4: I'm in there's something about that, Like there's something about
22:26
Speaker 4: the seven am mark, especially in these stretches right that
22:29
Speaker 4: you want your guys to have.
22:33
Speaker 3: So like it.
22:35
Speaker 4: I love the modern game, Like don't get don't we
22:37
Speaker 4: can't say it Inspescer's knows this from talking to me.
22:40
Speaker 4: Like I love it, I love change, I love all that.
22:42
Speaker 4: That's the little part that I do want to see,
22:45
Speaker 4: like that it comes back every once in a while.
22:47
Speaker 3: It doesn't have to be every time, but like that.
22:48
Speaker 4: There's that want of getting through that seven having the
22:52
Speaker 4: ability to have to think through it. And that's why
22:54
Speaker 4: I think watching Foster makes you think it throwback, but
22:57
Speaker 4: makes you think like I can get through three times
22:59
Speaker 4: through or right. If you looked at his pitch mix
23:02
Speaker 4: from last night, it's one of the most fascinating ones
23:05
Speaker 4: because it's like it's twenty one cutters, nineteen sinkers, fifteen
23:09
Speaker 4: change ups, thirteen splitters, twelve sweepers, ten four seamers, six
23:13
Speaker 4: curve balls.
23:14
Speaker 3: I mean, Zim and I were talking about it on.
23:17
Speaker 2: Aer like, there's no one percent pitches, is what you
23:21
Speaker 2: guys said? Oh, he uses all of them fairly. Yeah,
23:24
Speaker 2: you're not eliminating stuff, right, right, How do you handle
23:27
Speaker 2: a guy like this, whether you're a righty or a lefty,
23:30
Speaker 2: Because every pitch is in play in every count, he
23:33
Speaker 2: has the confidence to throw every pitch. I'm not gonna
23:35
Speaker 2: say that for him, but it seems like he is
23:38
Speaker 2: willing to throw any pitch in any count I think
23:41
Speaker 2: that was evident when he walked Riley.
23:44
Speaker 1: You know he didn't you know, didn't give him. Yeah,
23:47
Speaker 1: he didn't give in there.
23:49
Speaker 4: Yeah, and is Zim was always there's always like I
23:53
Speaker 4: always like to associate it like golf right were you?
23:56
Speaker 3: Like, the best thing that's happened in the last.
23:58
Speaker 4: Couple of years has been where they get close enough
24:01
Speaker 4: that you can hear the caddy and the player talk, right,
24:04
Speaker 4: and they talk about where's my miss where's the miss
24:08
Speaker 4: where's the safety zone on that right, Like if I
24:12
Speaker 4: go there, there's trouble. Right, You can almost associate the
24:16
Speaker 4: catcher and picture convo as being like the caddy and
24:20
Speaker 4: the golfer talking, because it's like, know where your miss is.
24:22
Speaker 3: And I feel like, even with Drew Millis.
24:24
Speaker 4: Behind there, last night, I felt like Foster was in
24:27
Speaker 4: such a great spot that he knew exactly.
24:29
Speaker 3: Where his missus were, you know, like where is where's safety?
24:32
Speaker 3: Where's my safety?
24:34
Speaker 4: And he went to it and then you get right
24:36
Speaker 4: back into where he wanted and it's just it's really
24:38
Speaker 4: fun to watch him go through everything right, and just
24:42
Speaker 4: how quickly he goes to his Pitchcolm, He's confident in
24:44
Speaker 4: what he wants to do. He goes right there, boom,
24:46
Speaker 4: here we go. Yeah, And I think.
24:49
Speaker 5: I don't want to put here, I don't want to
24:51
Speaker 5: put words in Foster's mouth, but I have asked him
24:55
Speaker 5: about some of even the cultural differences of pitching over
24:58
Speaker 5: in Japan versus pitching year, and one of the things
25:02
Speaker 5: that he's talked about is kind of the communication barrier,
25:05
Speaker 5: where like maybe in his third year over there, he
25:09
Speaker 5: was able to have pretty consistent conversations with the catchers
25:12
Speaker 5: and the pitching coaches. But I do think there's a
25:15
Speaker 5: level of confidence you need to find in yourself when
25:18
Speaker 5: you're over there, because you are again going through an interpreter.
25:23
Speaker 5: You he felt like he had great teammates, but there's
25:26
Speaker 5: also a sense when you're in another culture that you're
25:28
Speaker 5: going through it alone a little bit, right, And I
25:30
Speaker 5: think you kind of do need to find that sense
25:32
Speaker 5: of self when you're over there. And again, I think
25:34
Speaker 5: that's why when he comes back here and has the
25:37
Speaker 5: assistance of a big league pitching coach and a staff
25:42
Speaker 5: that can help him out, on top of that sense
25:44
Speaker 5: of self he has within, I think that's why you've
25:47
Speaker 5: seen such a dominant pitcher so far.
25:50
Speaker 2: Yes, nice, Sure, and we get we got to keep
25:53
Speaker 2: boom with the game recap or we're not going to
25:54
Speaker 2: get dual thing. But I think as a biased Nats fan,
25:57
Speaker 2: we got spoiled for so many years by so such
26:00
Speaker 2: great pitching, that kind of being the forefront of this
26:03
Speaker 2: team and seeing seven, eight, nine innings from those guys.
26:06
Speaker 2: But six innings is a quality start in the box score.
26:09
Speaker 2: And if you got three guys down there in the bullpen,
26:12
Speaker 2: they can give you ten or fifteen pitches each night.
26:15
Speaker 1: We don't have to worry about them.
26:16
Speaker 3: But that's that's the thing.
26:18
Speaker 4: Though, you talked about that bulls, that that thing, the
26:21
Speaker 4: pitch efficiency has got to be better. Like getting through
26:27
Speaker 4: the inning is one thing, right, we could talk about
26:29
Speaker 4: that all day, love, but the bullpen's got to be
26:31
Speaker 4: a little bit more efficient, right, give me too many stretches? Yeah, yeah,
26:37
Speaker 4: but yeah, the that's held the braves quiet in the
26:40
Speaker 4: sixth inning.
26:40
Speaker 2: The nets went quiet in the sixth thing. And then
26:42
Speaker 2: the seventh inning naturally started to tacking on as sorry,
26:44
Speaker 2: with the leadoff walk from Curtis Meade who came in
26:47
Speaker 2: off the bench, and Drew Millis the base knock and
26:49
Speaker 2: James Wood the unintentional intentional or was that the true
26:52
Speaker 2: to that was the unintentional intentional?
26:54
Speaker 1: And the seventh inning and then.
26:56
Speaker 2: They went they wanted nothing, nothing to do with him
27:00
Speaker 2: there is smart. It's opened up the door for Luis
27:04
Speaker 2: Garcia to have a huge double. Two runs would score
27:08
Speaker 2: on this play. Wood was held at third base and
27:11
Speaker 2: then would come in to score on this ground out
27:14
Speaker 2: by Jacob Young, which ended up making it an eight
27:16
Speaker 2: to three game going into the eighth inning. Definitely gave
27:19
Speaker 2: the Nationals a little more confidence in breathing room going
27:21
Speaker 2: into the eighth cl You know, battled got through that inning.
27:27
Speaker 2: I think also, you know, you gotta get him some credit.
27:29
Speaker 2: Let me see the batters he faced. This is the
27:30
Speaker 2: meat of the lineup right here, right, two three, four.
27:33
Speaker 1: Yeah. So you know, people, people like the bloggers the
27:36
Speaker 1: other day saying oh he struggled, he struggled. I don't
27:38
Speaker 1: think he struggled. He faced some of the best hitters
27:41
Speaker 1: in MLB and he gave up one.
27:42
Speaker 3: Bloggers, they're bloggers, they're bloggers. Yeah. So it really really quick,
27:47
Speaker 3: really quick.
27:48
Speaker 4: Did you guys, were you guys on the same page
27:49
Speaker 4: as Ash Blake on that with he was going for
27:54
Speaker 4: be bus Antenna on that he went, uh, Brady and
27:57
Speaker 4: then and then Curtis right, yeah, And it shocked me
28:02
Speaker 4: a little bit because we're used to seeing the Louis
28:04
Speaker 4: part and Curtis, you know, be the platoon in that.
28:09
Speaker 4: And that was fascinating too because he there's a confidence
28:11
Speaker 4: level in Louis facing that lefty and I don't know
28:14
Speaker 4: if it was more than now. I didn't talk to
28:16
Speaker 4: Blake after the game about it, and maybe you guys did, Spence,
28:19
Speaker 4: but like they I found that like whoa, okay, Like
28:24
Speaker 4: there's Dylan Dodd was the LEFTI or or yeah, that
28:28
Speaker 4: was Dylan Dodd.
28:29
Speaker 3: And that one I think, right, yep, yep? And why him,
28:33
Speaker 3: you know?
28:34
Speaker 4: And and were they going to save Curtis or was
28:36
Speaker 4: that always the plan?
28:37
Speaker 3: You know? There's certain things.
28:38
Speaker 4: That that was that's been fascinating trying to learn what
28:40
Speaker 4: Blake's doing with this whole thing. But being down there
28:43
Speaker 4: in that spot, like watching how early they got those
28:46
Speaker 4: guys ready still fun to watch.
28:49
Speaker 3: Yeah.
28:50
Speaker 5: Well, I'd say the big thing there, and it's kind
28:53
Speaker 5: of a constant push and pull that we'll talk about
28:55
Speaker 5: all season, is the difference between playing matchups and playing
28:58
Speaker 5: feel I think you've seen the news play matchups again
29:01
Speaker 5: and again and again. I also don't think that there's
29:04
Speaker 5: always necessarily a righty lefty, Like it's not an automatic
29:09
Speaker 5: per se, although it sometimes feels like it. But I
29:12
Speaker 5: think when you looked at what Louis had done in
29:15
Speaker 5: the game up to that point, keeping him in and
29:19
Speaker 5: then getting Curtis in there as well was a way
29:21
Speaker 5: to say, hey, we still trust that matchup. We understand
29:24
Speaker 5: what the Braves want to do, not only for the
29:26
Speaker 5: rest of this game, but for the rest of this series.
29:28
Speaker 5: You're balancing a whole thing, a lot of things at
29:29
Speaker 5: once when you make that decision. And then again, yeah,
29:32
Speaker 5: like we talk about the preparation. I mean, I'm sure
29:36
Speaker 5: again Franny you saw it up close. But our perspective
29:40
Speaker 5: on it too was like we asked before the game
29:41
Speaker 5: about the catchers and how they, you know, get ready
29:45
Speaker 5: if they're getting called in late to games, and it's
29:47
Speaker 5: not just hey, we're gonna have you hit off the
29:49
Speaker 5: trajector a couple of times, it's hey, we're gonna have
29:51
Speaker 5: you catch off the trajects and we're gonna have you
29:52
Speaker 5: get ready in that aspect of things, so they're they're
29:54
Speaker 5: paying really close attention to how those guys get ready
29:57
Speaker 5: before the game. Big credit to Bobby Wilson too, who
29:59
Speaker 5: is done that before and knows how to implement that
30:03
Speaker 5: in a big league dugout. So, yeah, can't give enough
30:06
Speaker 5: credit to the preparation. The decisions aren't always going to work,
30:09
Speaker 5: but it seems like more often than not they've been
30:11
Speaker 5: the right one so far.
30:12
Speaker 2: They're putting them in there to succeed man. Yeah, Yeah,
30:15
Speaker 2: we talked about that in the last episode. They're putting
30:17
Speaker 2: the players in the you know, positions that will be
30:19
Speaker 2: most beneficial for them. I think the players are reading
30:23
Speaker 2: that and believing in that and thriving in a lot
30:25
Speaker 2: of those communications.
30:27
Speaker 4: Drew Millis is what forty eight bats? Now, that's your like,
30:31
Speaker 4: your your number two catcher has forty at bats and
30:33
Speaker 4: then Cavorite hit forty forty plus a bats. You're like,
30:38
Speaker 4: this is nothing on Riley, right, but like Riley by
30:42
Speaker 4: I think May got his fifteenth at bat last year
30:44
Speaker 4: something like that. Yeah, yep, it's look, would they love
30:50
Speaker 4: to have one catcher that they believed in?
30:52
Speaker 3: Trust?
30:53
Speaker 4: Absolutely? I think one hundred percent we could all agree
30:55
Speaker 4: on that, right probably, But when you look at this
30:59
Speaker 4: raw and how it's constructed, and you have guys that
31:02
Speaker 4: are twenty five and plus at bats all up and
31:05
Speaker 4: down the roster, and then you could look at the
31:07
Speaker 4: Braves and and this is like, this is where you
31:10
Speaker 4: want to get to. I feel like, if I'm not mistaken,
31:12
Speaker 4: I think you want to have a pretty set lineup
31:15
Speaker 4: or pretty you know, like a five five guys that you're.
31:18
Speaker 3: Relying on all the time.
31:20
Speaker 4: What they do is so different because they have that
31:23
Speaker 4: upper echelon talent everywhere, right, and so their bench doesn't
31:28
Speaker 4: have that many at bats. It's like, think about if
31:31
Speaker 4: they had that, if they had that ability there You're going,
31:34
Speaker 4: is that a scary lineup or not? And I'm going
31:36
Speaker 4: I don't think so, because you're taking away those five
31:38
Speaker 4: guys that are always going to be in that in
31:40
Speaker 4: that you know the lineup every day. And uh, it's
31:43
Speaker 4: fun to see just based on I think Caber like
31:48
Speaker 4: in how locked in he is.
31:49
Speaker 3: He's in that dugout.
31:52
Speaker 4: I don't remember really seeing him a whole lot when
31:54
Speaker 4: he wasn't playing last year, just saying so.
31:58
Speaker 5: Well, yeah, because he needed off after catching right.
32:01
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean you know, so you said, I'm sure
32:04
Speaker 2: Riley would have loved to have more than fifteen at
32:06
Speaker 2: bats come one hundred this time last year. But I
32:08
Speaker 2: think in previous season's Ruiz has been given such a
32:11
Speaker 2: hefty load in April and may that you come to
32:14
Speaker 2: August in September, maybe his production is starting to dip
32:17
Speaker 2: a little bit, and you scratch your head and you
32:18
Speaker 2: wonder why. Well, maybe it's because this guy played forty
32:21
Speaker 2: games in fifty games in the first two months of
32:23
Speaker 2: the season. It's hard to believe we're almost a month
32:25
Speaker 2: through the season already. Curtis Meade answered for that, Braves
32:29
Speaker 2: one run in the top of the eighth inning, putting
32:31
Speaker 2: them out of slam range. Franny, as you said on
32:33
Speaker 2: the broadcast, we got the light show. I love when
32:35
Speaker 2: we get a good light show. I love the light show.
32:39
Speaker 2: Honestly the best edition fair. How did he keep it fair?
32:43
Speaker 2: Is really the ultimate question here, But that would go
32:46
Speaker 2: to make it an eleven to four game. And Clayton
32:48
Speaker 2: Beater slammed the door his first appearance since Pittsburgh or
32:52
Speaker 2: Milwaukee sixteenth. Yeah, it's been a while from pitches in
32:56
Speaker 2: two and stint, so that was that was needed. Yeah,
33:00
Speaker 2: how much do you breathe it for him?
33:01
Speaker 3: And then and then.
33:04
Speaker 1: The breaking stuff looked good for him.
33:07
Speaker 3: Last night finally, Yeah, that was that was the best
33:09
Speaker 3: it looked.
33:12
Speaker 2: The wind brings the Nats record to eleven and thirteen.
33:14
Speaker 2: I don't have the division standings, but I imagine that
33:17
Speaker 2: kept us in a tie for second, tie for second, yep,
33:20
Speaker 2: tied for second with the Marlins. They get two more
33:22
Speaker 2: against the Braves, one tonight and then one on Thursday
33:26
Speaker 2: before they continue this grueling stretch of baseball without off days.
33:30
Speaker 1: But who's complaining?
33:31
Speaker 3: It's baseball. We love it.
33:32
Speaker 1: This is what we live for.
33:34
Speaker 2: Looking ahead to later tonight, I'm obviously in Arizona, you
33:36
Speaker 2: guys are going to be at the ballpark. But I
33:38
Speaker 2: asked you this on Monday, Franny, we'd split the first
33:41
Speaker 2: two games. What can the Nats do right the next
33:44
Speaker 2: two days to keep playing good ball? Maybe split the
33:47
Speaker 2: next two, maybe get two.
33:50
Speaker 4: I think that the consistency of a bats from the
33:52
Speaker 4: beginning is got to be it. You could talk about
33:57
Speaker 4: like the scoring and the runs. It's look, you just
34:00
Speaker 4: continuously put pressure on them. I think the running game
34:03
Speaker 4: has been an issue for the Braves to stop from
34:07
Speaker 4: both I think it's now.
34:10
Speaker 3: They've only caught two guys.
34:11
Speaker 4: I think it's like two for twenty five running against
34:15
Speaker 4: them right now. The twenty three for twenty five sorry,
34:20
Speaker 4: I go on the catcher'scot stealing, so uh so, I
34:23
Speaker 4: think that that has got to be a thing they
34:25
Speaker 4: got to continue to pressure. You know, Brady had a
34:28
Speaker 4: stolen base yesterday, Louis, and then you had a couple.
34:30
Speaker 3: From Nas and it's like those are awesome.
34:33
Speaker 4: That needs to be a constant against the Braves because
34:36
Speaker 4: they're a team that has such a good bullpen and
34:39
Speaker 4: all that stuff that you got to you gotta find
34:40
Speaker 4: a way, right.
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Speaker 3: I think those are two constants.
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Speaker 4: And and you know, obviously the clean baseball and defensively
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Speaker 4: I think is gonna be huge.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Censor, I'm curious what your thoughts are too. I mean,
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Speaker 2: I think the overwhelming theme right now for this team
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Speaker 2: just a month into the season is kind of the defense.
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Speaker 2: I think the pitching is what the pitching is. Knew
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Speaker 2: what it was going to be, and the bats have
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Speaker 2: been incredible, better than I think a lot of people
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Speaker 2: might have expected. I mean, we knew watching the spring
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Speaker 2: that these guys were great. But yeah, I mean, from
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Speaker 2: from a fielding standpoint, is there anything your highlighting specifically
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Speaker 2: you'd like to see them do well next two games?
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Speaker 5: I don't know specifically as much as you saw poor
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Speaker 5: performance on Saturday, defensively, you saw a better one. Sunday,
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Speaker 5: you saw poor one Monday, you saw a better one
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Speaker 5: Tuesday Wednesday. Is it going to be the same sort
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Speaker 5: of pattern or can you fix that? The other big
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Speaker 5: thing I think I'm paying attention to the next couple
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Speaker 5: of days is after and you know, I don't want
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Speaker 5: to make too much out of Foster getting one more out,
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Speaker 5: but with a bullpen that's not entirely text. Can you
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Speaker 5: attack those pockets in the right way, because this Braves
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Speaker 5: lineup is as deep as almost any you'll find, and
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Speaker 5: so I think, you know, I don't necessarily know that
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Speaker 5: the guys who pitched the next two days, Lttel and
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Speaker 5: Kavali are gonna get six innings. And if they don't,
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Speaker 5: can you attack those pockets in the right way? Can
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Speaker 5: the bullpen come through? Because for as good as they've
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Speaker 5: been at moments this week, I'm still skeptical that they're
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Speaker 5: over the hump, And so, like Franny said earlier, quicker outings,
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Speaker 5: better pockets and kind of figure it out from there.
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Speaker 5: I think this NASA offense, if you are within three
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Speaker 5: through the sixth, you're in striking distance.
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Speaker 3: But it's about not blowing that away. We totally saw
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Speaker 3: this coming, guys, We totally saw that coming. Yes, that's well.
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Speaker 2: I gotta say I want to eat my shoe really
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Speaker 2: quickly because I was on the phone with my friend
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Speaker 2: last night and he was watching on a delay and
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Speaker 2: I hung up on him before the sixth inning start.
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Speaker 2: I said, he's gonna face two batters here and then
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Speaker 2: they'll pull them before Riley and.
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Speaker 3: I was shocked, Huh, isn't that fun?
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Speaker 5: Though?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, because we're growing. We're growing with like how Blake and.
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Speaker 4: Simon Matthews are doing this whole thing, and I like
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Speaker 4: that part. I felt like we And so when you
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Speaker 4: have that idea, you're like, all right, I think it's
37:06
Speaker 4: a it's for thinking.
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Speaker 3: Man.
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Speaker 4: You know this this sport. Everyone always, you know, the
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Speaker 4: fans are always like, hey, what is he doing?
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Speaker 3: It's like, all right, here we go. But you want
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Speaker 3: to get on the same page. It's fun not being
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Speaker 3: on the same page at the same time.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yesterday, it's funny. Mark actually set up in
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Speaker 5: the press box. That's the most fun he's had with
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Speaker 5: a moment this year, because like he had predicted, oh
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Speaker 5: he's that eighty eight pitches. I know, like, he's face
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Speaker 5: this pocket, he's not going to do this, And all
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Speaker 5: of a sudden we see him walk out there and
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Speaker 5: doesn't point out there, and it's like whoa, So, yeah,
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Speaker 5: that was awesome.
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Speaker 2: I too, stow yep, I loved Mark's take on it
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Speaker 2: on That's Chatter earlier today. And yeah, I said to
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Speaker 2: my friend, with all the confidence in the world, I said,
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Speaker 2: he's not even going to face Riley here.
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Speaker 1: He'll just get.
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Speaker 2: Pulled after the first two batters. Doesn't matter if he
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Speaker 2: gets him out, done matter if they get all. It's
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Speaker 2: just something that they have decided as a team. That's
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Speaker 2: how they're going to attack it this year, especially after
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Speaker 2: the night before with Irvan and seeing how that played out.
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Speaker 2: And then yeah, I mean I think that moment, this
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Speaker 2: might be one that you're circling a month from now
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Speaker 2: and being like, hey, wait, we're still two games under
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Speaker 2: five hundred. But right now is it stands and as
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Speaker 2: a eleven thirteen game number twenty five later tonight, two
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Speaker 2: more against the Braids. We'll have another episode for you
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Speaker 2: all on Friday, and we'll see you then.
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Speaker 3: Please bye.