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Speaker 1: Hello, folks. Welcome to the after party as the Chicago
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Speaker 1: White Sox just won game one of the American League
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Speaker 1: Division Series. I'm Josh Nelson. This is the Sox Machine
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Speaker 1: postgame show presented by Aiken Law. And, of course, part
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Speaker 1: of the Foul Territory Network as we are streaming live
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Speaker 1: from the Removit Theater. After the White Sox just won 3-0,
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Speaker 1: the comments section, you guys are already... going crazy, and
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Speaker 1: it's just great to see, and everybody's so excited after
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Speaker 1: this huge win for the White Sox. It was one
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Speaker 1: heck of a party here at the Remova Theater, and
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Speaker 1: Brian Bruin puts it best, Grant Taylor. We're definitely going
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Speaker 1: to be talking about Grant Taylor. What an amazing performance
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Speaker 1: by Grant Taylor, and yeah, well said. One down, two
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Speaker 1: to go. For the White Sox. As they are now 3-0.
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Speaker 1: To start this postseason. And just to catch up. Again
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Speaker 1: the White Sox winning 3-0. And a fantastic job. On
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Speaker 1: the pitching front. For the Chicago White Sox. To only
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Speaker 1: allow 3 hits. It started with Hagan Smith. In which
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Speaker 1: Hagan Smith retired the first 8 batters. For the Chicago
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Speaker 1: White Sox. He ended up losing his control. And he
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Speaker 1: walked 3 straight batters. And we talked about that in
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Speaker 1: the pregame show. That was a concern for Higgins-Smith entering
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Speaker 1: this game. But then Will Venable, after the bases were loaded,
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Speaker 1: went to Brian Hudson, and Hudson was able to get
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Speaker 1: that key out to get out of that jam, the
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Speaker 1: bases-loaded jam for the Guardians. And then Jordan Hicks came in,
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Speaker 1: and Hicks is just throwing heat. I think StatCast had
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Speaker 1: him at 102 miles an hour for one of his fastballs.
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Speaker 1: He did end up walking a batter, so he only
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Speaker 1: went two-thirds of an inning He did pick up two
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Speaker 1: strikeouts before Will Venable went to Anthony Kaye to get
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Speaker 1: out of another jam. Kaye, the very first pitch that
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Speaker 1: he threw, he gave up a double to Travis Bazzano.
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Speaker 1: So he ended up getting himself out of his own
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Speaker 1: jam that he created. after that double. But then Kay's
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Speaker 1: been very good against the Guardians this year. He went
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Speaker 1: one in the third inning, just allowing the one hit
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Speaker 1: to Bazzano and then walking one batter. But then Grant Taylor,
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Speaker 1: and we'll talk more about him as managing editor of
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Speaker 1: Sox Machine, Jim Margulis joins me in a moment. Just outstanding.
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Speaker 1: One of the best postseason players reliever performances ever in
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Speaker 1: white socks history. I'm not exactly sure. What would even
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Speaker 1: beat this? I mean, four scoreless innings, only two hits allowed.
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Speaker 1: It did not walk a batter and struck out six.
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Speaker 1: And he did this on 42 pitches, 42 pitches for
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Speaker 1: grant Taylor. That is just insane. And as key Fleur
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Speaker 1: puts it in the comment section, The White Sox are
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Speaker 1: basically operating with a 10-man bullpen and only two dedicated starters.
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Speaker 1: Do they have two dedicated starters right now? It very
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Speaker 1: well could just be one dedicated starter for the Chicago
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Speaker 1: White Sox and Sean Burke and then 11 other pitchers.
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Speaker 1: But just a fantastic performance by Grant Taylor and the
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Speaker 1: White Sox pitching staff to only allow three hits to
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Speaker 1: the Cleveland guardians today. And we did talk about the
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Speaker 1: walks and the pregame show for the white socks. As
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Speaker 1: we knew that that was going to be a little
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Speaker 1: bit of an issue in the past. It's been an
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Speaker 1: issue for the white socks pitchers on typically they average
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Speaker 1: about four walks a game today. They ended up walking
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Speaker 1: five batters for Cleveland. So I'm sure that manager will Venable.
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Speaker 1: We'll stress that to the pitching staff that you have
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Speaker 1: to be careful with the guardians of the walks. There's
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Speaker 1: too many free passes and, But the White Sox only
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Speaker 1: allowed three hits today to the Cleveland Guardians. And when
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Speaker 1: we take a look at the win probability graphic, you know,
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Speaker 1: the Guardians started really strong. Parker Messick, give him a
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Speaker 1: cap tip. He was really getting the White Sox batters
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Speaker 1: guessing the first three innings where he picked up six strikeouts.
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Speaker 1: And five of those strikeouts were looking for the White Sox.
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Speaker 1: So there was a lot of guessing the first time.
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Speaker 1: And let's say like the second time through the order.
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Speaker 1: one dot com. And that moment of the game for
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Speaker 1: the Chicago White Sox is Munataka Murakami's two-run homer. And
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Speaker 1: in the first inning, Miguel Vargas drew, I thought, a
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Speaker 1: pretty tough walk against Parker Messick to really drive up
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Speaker 1: that pitch count. I had him at 23 pitches for
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Speaker 1: Messick in the first inning. And that was a great
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Speaker 1: job by Munataka Murakami to hit a single to center
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Speaker 1: field to continue adding pressure to Messick. So Munataka Murakami
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Speaker 1: was ready to go Against Messick and maybe was one
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Speaker 1: of the few White Sox hitters that was ready to go.
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Speaker 1: To face the Cleveland Guardians starting pitcher. But then that second.
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Speaker 1: At bat. What an absolute bomb for Munataka Murakami. A
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Speaker 1: 440 foot shot. This place behind me absolutely went crazy.
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Speaker 1: I posted the reaction video on social media. We're getting
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Speaker 1: a lot of feedback from Munataka Murakami's fans all the
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Speaker 1: way out in Japan. They're very excited. And what a
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Speaker 1: great moment for Murakami. That is now Murakami's second home
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Speaker 1: run against Parker Messick this season.
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Speaker 2: And.
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Speaker 1: was really the driving factor for a lot of this game.
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Speaker 1: And this is why home runs are so important in
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Speaker 1: the postseason, because they can dramatically change the direction of
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Speaker 1: a game. Because after that inning... Before then, the Guardians
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Speaker 1: had the bases loaded. They had a great opportunity to
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Speaker 1: bust the game open with a big two-out hit, but
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Speaker 1: they couldn't find the big two-out hits today with runners
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Speaker 1: in scoring position. That's going to be the thing for
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Speaker 1: the Guardians. They had good opportunities to score runs against
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Speaker 1: the White Sox, but they just could not capitalize. And
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Speaker 1: then to turn around and have Murakami hit that absolute
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Speaker 1: bomb of a home run, what a gut punch to
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Speaker 1: the Guardians, but what a huge boost for the Chicago
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Speaker 1: White Sox to take that lead. And it did appear
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Speaker 1: at one point later in the game that Tommy Pham
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Speaker 1: was going to have a three-run homer, but that was
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Speaker 1: a great defensive play by Angel Martinez at the wall
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Speaker 1: to rob Pham of extra base hits. So it really
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Speaker 1: looked like that Murakami's home run was going to be
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Speaker 1: the deciding factor. And it really ended up being because
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Speaker 1: the White Sox pitching was just absolutely fantastic. But yeah,
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Speaker 1: congrats to Munataka Murakami, his first MLB postseason home run,
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Speaker 1: I am sure. And based on social media, so many
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Speaker 1: fans in Japan who have jumped on the White Sox
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Speaker 1: bandwagon are just ecstatic right now with that big moment.
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Speaker 1: So congrats to Munataka Murakami for delivering today in game
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Speaker 1: one for the Chicago White Sox. The other big moment
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Speaker 1: is Kyle Teal's mad dash to home. And what a
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Speaker 1: daring sprint. So up two to nothing. And take it
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Speaker 1: a look again at the win probability calculator.
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Speaker 4: And with.
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Speaker 1: Teal at first base after drawing a tough walk. Colson Montgomery,
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Speaker 1: what do you want to call it? Gets one off
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Speaker 1: the end of the bat. And Jose Ramirez is not
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Speaker 1: at his typical position at third base. And Montgomery's double
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Speaker 1: just trickles down the left field line and just keeps rolling,
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Speaker 1: which buys enough time with two outs for Kyle Teal
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Speaker 1: to make a mad dash. And maybe it was too
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Speaker 1: risky for Justin Jersley to send Teal home, but it
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Speaker 1: ended up being the right call. Even though the throw
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Speaker 1: beat Kyle Teal at the plate, Austin Hedges could not
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Speaker 1: hold on to the throw and Teal was able to
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Speaker 1: slide in safely for the third out for the third run.
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Speaker 1: A big run at it, especially late on, because typically
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Speaker 1: to feel more comfortable about how a team is standing.
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Speaker 1: I always feel like if you can get the four
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Speaker 1: runs and then it requires a grand slam, then I
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Speaker 1: start feeling OK. But with the White Sox having a
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Speaker 1: three run lead and getting deeper and deeper into the game,
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Speaker 1: I just didn't know if the Guardians really had enough opportunity.
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Speaker 1: offense today against the White Sox pitchers to make a
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Speaker 1: comeback late but that was the other big moment was
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Speaker 1: Kyle Teal scoring all the way from first base We
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Speaker 1: White Sox winning 3-0, getting six hits today. And take
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Speaker 1: a look at the box score for the Chicago White Sox.
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Speaker 1: Murataka Murakami went 2-4. Miguel Vargas went 1-2, but Miguel
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Speaker 1: Vargas also drew two walks. A great day at the
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Speaker 1: plate for Miguel Vargas, especially after he went 0-9 against
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Speaker 1: the Houston Astros. Colson Montgomery had a great day at
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Speaker 1: the plate. He went 2-3. with that RBI driving in
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Speaker 1: Kyle Teal all the way from first base. Kyle Teal
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Speaker 1: drew a walk, and he scored on that run. Tristan
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Speaker 1: Peters had a pinch hit base hit. He went one
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Speaker 1: for two, pinch hitting for Randall Gritchick. We did not
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Speaker 1: see Andrew Benatendi in today's game. Sam Antonacci came in
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Speaker 1: late for Tommy Pham, in which Tommy Pham had some
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Speaker 1: bad luck as he flew out to left field, and
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Speaker 1: that ended up being a two-plan for Miguel Vargas as
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Speaker 1: he got thrown out of first base. Again, a terrific
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Speaker 1: defensive play by Angel Martinez for the Guardians. The White
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Speaker 1: Sox went 0-4 with runners in scoring position. So kind
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Speaker 1: of a weird game with the Guardians going 0-3. Neither
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Speaker 1: team was able to get a base hit with runners
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Speaker 1: in scoring position. But that's why the home runs are important.
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Speaker 1: Murakami's two-run homer being a big difference. And then Kyle
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Speaker 1: Teal scored all the way from first base off Colson
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Speaker 1: Montgomery's And his double. Great to see Montgomery really picking
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Speaker 1: up in this postseason and getting those sits and try
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Speaker 1: to gain more confidence at the plate. The White Sox
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Speaker 1: could definitely use that. But on the pitching front, what
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Speaker 1: a fantastic pitching performance by the Chicago White Sox. And
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Speaker 1: I am curious to know, moving forward, on how the
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Speaker 1: White Sox are going to be using Hagan Smith. Because
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Speaker 1: I feel comfortable that he's good for 35 pitches in
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Speaker 1: his outings. He retired the first eight batters. But it
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Speaker 1: just seemed like when he got past pitch 35, he
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Speaker 1: ended up losing his release point. He was having a
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Speaker 1: difficult time as far as locating... His fastballs especially just
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Speaker 1: was losing on both sides of the plate. And his
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Speaker 1: slider can sometimes be a pitch that he steals strikes early,
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Speaker 1: but he really wants to use that diving below the
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Speaker 1: strike zone to induce whiffs and get those strikeouts. So
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Speaker 1: when he ended up walking, the bases loaded. That was
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Speaker 1: kind of a bummer, and I was really worried of like, wow,
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Speaker 1: what a great performance by Hagan. I hope this doesn't
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Speaker 1: go sideways for him. But the White Sox were able
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Speaker 1: to get out of that jam. Same thing with Anthony Kaye.
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Speaker 1: I was a bit concerned about how Anthony Kaye was
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Speaker 1: throwing when he was first coming into the game. Again,
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Speaker 1: he has made it known throughout the season he really
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Speaker 1: doesn't like the opener. He really wants that fresh start
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Speaker 1: to come out of the bullpen and start the game.
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Speaker 1: So I think we're still learning what kind of reliever
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Speaker 1: that Anthony Kaye could possibly be during this postseason. But
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Speaker 1: he's had such great success against the Guardians this season,
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Speaker 1: so I'm sure we'll see him multiple times again. I
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Speaker 1: don't know if he will get a start. Again, we
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Speaker 1: joked about it. If you just joined us, as again,
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Speaker 1: I'm Josh Nelson of Sox Machine. We are streaming live
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Speaker 1: from the Remova Theater for this postgame show as the
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Speaker 1: White Sox won game one, three to nothing over the
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Speaker 1: Cleveland Guardians. And with Anthony Kaye, it'd be interesting to
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Speaker 1: see what his usage is. Because again, he's had a
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Speaker 1: lot of success. And does Will Venable have confidence for
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Speaker 1: him to go multiple innings? He didn't have a lot
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Speaker 1: of confidence in Anthony Kaye at the end of the season.
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Speaker 1: to face a lineup a third time. So we'll, we'll
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Speaker 1: see on his usage and with Grant Taylor, I don't know, man,
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Speaker 1: moving forward. Like what do you do? Like 42 pitches
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Speaker 1: in four innings. That's awesome. Six strikeouts on 42 pitches,
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Speaker 1: 34 of them were strikes. And I just loved the
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Speaker 1: way that Taylor started each at bat with that awesome
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Speaker 1: curve ball that he was throwing. And just stealing strikes
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Speaker 1: against the Cleveland Guardians. Now to join me to provide
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Speaker 1: his reaction to the game is Sox Machines Managing Editor.
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Speaker 1: It is Jim Margulis. And Jim, welcome to the post-game show.
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Speaker 1: As you just wrote the game recap for us over
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Speaker 1: on SoxMachine.com. I already talked about the big plays already.
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Speaker 1: Murakami's big home run. I want to ask you about
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Speaker 1: Grant Taylor. All these years of us covering the White Sox,
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Speaker 1: and again, 13 seasons. This is really our first postseason
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Speaker 1: wins that we are enjoying here. The Wild Card Series win,
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Speaker 1: and now the White Sox winning game one of this ALDS.
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Speaker 1: I don't recall ever a dominant reliever performance like Grant
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Speaker 1: Taylor in the postseason for the White Sox. There's been
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Speaker 1: moments where You know, Bobby Jinx has provided moments. We
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Speaker 1: all remember El Duque getting out of that bases loaded,
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Speaker 1: nobody out jam in Boston. But Jim, to go four
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Speaker 1: innings today for Grant Taylor on 42 pitches, scoreless, and
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Speaker 1: six strikeouts, that is just pure dominance.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, the White Sox haven't had many postseason
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Speaker 4: wins to really measure it against. Just in general, it's
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Speaker 4: a pretty narrow field. And yeah, just the way the
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Speaker 4: White Sox use pitchers, especially now, leaving so many innings
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Speaker 4: to cover and leaving a closer like Taylor to be
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Speaker 4: able to cover four innings, that's kind of unprecedented with
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Speaker 4: the way the White Sox go about it. But yeah,
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Speaker 4: Taylor really simplified the decision-making at the end of the game.
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Speaker 4: We talked before about How, you know, would Taylor be
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Speaker 4: able to go more than two? And I was kind
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Speaker 4: of like, no, you're not probably not going to burn
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Speaker 4: him or really extend him that long for a longer series.
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Speaker 4: But then you watched it unfold and he made it
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Speaker 4: look so simple that it seemed like Venable would have
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Speaker 4: been stupid to go to anybody else. You know, career
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Speaker 4: high four innings, but only 42 pitches. He needed 54
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Speaker 4: to throw two and a third his last time out.
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Speaker 4: So like 10 pitches, 10 pitches, 11 pitches, 11 pitches.
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Speaker 4: He got whiffs on 12 of 23 swings, 7 of
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Speaker 4: 9 on his curveball. Like he was locating his curveball.
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Speaker 4: The fastball is more or less a show me pitch
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Speaker 4: towards the end. And yeah, when it's that simple, I
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Speaker 4: don't think you.
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Speaker 4: Take it for granted. I think you're, you ride it
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Speaker 4: out and Venable had the right idea with having Sean
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Speaker 4: Newcomb warming, just standing in case Taylor hit a wall
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Speaker 4: or they started making it difficult on him, but he
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Speaker 4: didn't really throw one stressful pitch.
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Speaker 1: I'm now that you mentioned, like I'm trying to like
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Speaker 1: cycle through.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: He just, he was really in command and I don't
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Speaker 1: know what Cleveland does. Like now you have the off day.
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Speaker 1: This has got to be in the back of your mind, right?
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Speaker 1: If you're the Cleveland hitting coach, uh, development staff, just
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Speaker 1: trying to help these guys get prepared. Cause it's like,
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Speaker 1: do you really want to go after grant Taylor's curve
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Speaker 1: ball gym on the first pitch? Cause it was very clear.
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Speaker 1: That's what he wanted to use was the steel strike
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Speaker 1: one against the guardians batters is here's his 12, six
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Speaker 1: curve ball, but nobody really wants to go after that
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Speaker 1: first pitch. So I'm curious on how the guardians will
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Speaker 1: counter grant Taylor. if we see grant taylor in game two.
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Speaker 4: Yeah the uh the plate appearance i'm looking it up
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Speaker 4: right now to brian rocchio in the seventh inning that
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Speaker 4: one made me laugh because uh it was after patrick
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Speaker 4: bailey yeah it was it was after patrick bailey lit
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Speaker 4: off with a single and i think this is kind
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Speaker 4: of where you know taylor was just feeling it or
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Speaker 4: it you know from that point it tilted in favor
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Speaker 4: of like oh i know what i'm doing here because
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Speaker 4: you know Rokio for those who don't remember who have
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Speaker 4: blacked it out, he walked Taylor off twice on fastballs,
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Speaker 4: two strike fast or one was a one Oh fastball.
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Speaker 4: The other one or own fastball. The other one was
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Speaker 4: a two strike fastball and both times, you know, Teal
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Speaker 4: called for one high trying to be a put away
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Speaker 4: pitch and Rokio just got on top of it. He
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Speaker 4: was looking for fastball both times. So what happens here
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Speaker 4: is Patrick Bailey leads off with a single. First leadoff
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Speaker 4: runner the Guardians have all day. Up comes Rocchio, who
20:19
Speaker 4: has beat Taylor twice. Taylor throws him five breaking balls. Like,
20:23
Speaker 4: just does not give in once. Like, Ron Darling at
20:25
Speaker 4: one point said, like, oh, now's the time you set
20:27
Speaker 4: him up for the fastball. And I know I was thinking,
20:30
Speaker 4: and I saw in our first pitch thread that others
20:33
Speaker 4: were saying, like, nope, no fastballs. Like, there's, you know,
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Speaker 4: Taylor was, or Darling was a little bit... out-of-town foolish
20:39
Speaker 4: of just like, you know, you don't know what's happened
20:42
Speaker 4: here with fastball usage against Rokio. Don't throw unless you
20:45
Speaker 4: absolutely have to. If he beats you on a breaking ball,
20:47
Speaker 4: then tip your cap. But nope, just kept feeding him
20:50
Speaker 4: sliders or curveballs until he swung over one in the dirt.
20:52
Speaker 4: And that was like, at that point, you know, Stephen
20:55
Speaker 4: Kwan grounds into a double play. And then it's just
20:58
Speaker 4: super simple for Taylor after that.
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Speaker 2: So.
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Speaker 1: I shared my reaction, and again, for those that have joined,
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Speaker 1: I'm Josh Nelson alongside Jim Margulis of Sox Machine. This
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Speaker 1: is our live post-game show from the Rimbova Theaters. The
21:12
Speaker 1: White Sox won 3-1, the first game of the ALDS. Jim,
21:17
Speaker 1: this is obviously a huge win. When we made our predictions,
21:20
Speaker 1: I picked White Sox in four, but I thought they
21:23
Speaker 1: would lose today because Parker Messick has been really good
21:26
Speaker 1: for the Guardians, and the Guardians have been 2-2 against
21:29
Speaker 1: the White Sox. And now this is five games... that
21:33
Speaker 1: Parker Messick has started against the White Sox. The White
21:35
Speaker 1: Sox have not scored more than three runs in any
21:39
Speaker 1: of these games that Parker Messick has started against them.
21:43
Speaker 1: But now the White Sox are three and two because
21:46
Speaker 1: the Guardians just have a terrible time providing run support
21:50
Speaker 1: to Parker Messick. So I view this as an absolute
21:55
Speaker 1: huge win. If you're a White Sox fan that's believing
21:59
Speaker 1: that there's divine intervention right now, that with the Pope
22:03
Speaker 1: being on the White Sox side, I might be with
22:06
Speaker 1: you because what an incredible way to start this postseason.
22:12
Speaker 1: They get a little bit of offense, but today the pitching,
22:15
Speaker 1: this is three games into the postseason, Jim, and the
22:18
Speaker 1: White Sox pitching have only allowed six runs so far.
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Speaker 1: I was not expecting this from this team in the postseason.
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Speaker 4: Especially since they've had moments where they've looked flawed or
22:31
Speaker 4: mortal or like their usual selves. Like Hagen Smith, you're
22:34
Speaker 4: hitting the wall in the third inning with that kind
22:36
Speaker 4: of command lapse we've seen of just him losing the
22:39
Speaker 4: ability to throw strikes. Anthony Kaye taking a batter to
22:43
Speaker 4: get going and having to leave the bases loaded. Jordan
22:46
Speaker 4: Hicks not being able to finish an inning when he
22:48
Speaker 4: looks like he's cruising. Like they had opportunities and the
22:51
Speaker 4: Guardians couldn't capitalize. And same thing with Houston, too. They
22:56
Speaker 4: had moments where they wobbled, but just because of these
23:00
Speaker 4: early leads and the White Sox haven't trailed yet three
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Speaker 4: games in, which is pretty neat.
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Speaker 1: Isn't that crazy? They have yet to trail in any
23:07
Speaker 1: playoff game.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, while kind of stitching together pitching plans as they
23:14
Speaker 4: go along. Another thing that's fascinating to me here is
23:19
Speaker 4: the pitching's been effective, but also like the Guardian started
23:22
Speaker 4: Parker Messick and still they use more pitchers than the
23:24
Speaker 4: White Sox did in game one. They use six pitchers.
23:26
Speaker 4: The White Sox use five. So, you know, that's one
23:30
Speaker 4: way to cut the legs out from under the idea
23:33
Speaker 4: that because of this starting pitching superiority that Cleveland has,
23:37
Speaker 4: and I do think they have it. I don't think
23:38
Speaker 4: this game proves that they don't have it. Like Messick
23:40
Speaker 4: was tough. Murakami just got them good. But if you're
23:45
Speaker 4: able to get into the bullpen like that and then
23:47
Speaker 4: make Stephen Vogt, probably use more relievers than he wants to,
23:52
Speaker 4: or have to, you know, dance longer than he wants
23:55
Speaker 4: to trying to figure out left, right, left, right. So,
23:57
Speaker 4: you know, over the course of innings and ups and downs, um,
24:00
Speaker 4: you can, you know, make weird stuff happen. And, you know,
24:03
Speaker 4: the white Sox probably thought they scored, you know, four
24:06
Speaker 4: insurance runs rather than the one they did with Tommy
24:08
Speaker 4: fam swing. Uh, but the fact that, you know, they
24:11
Speaker 4: had that, uh, misfortune, uh, with that double play and
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Speaker 4: six inning, and then they come back and, you know,
24:16
Speaker 4: still get a run in the seventh. Like they've been
24:18
Speaker 4: able to, uh, reclaim that momentum that you think they've lost.
24:23
Speaker 4: Same thing with like that. My draw Homer of just
24:24
Speaker 4: like turning around, like they found ways of the pitching
24:27
Speaker 4: being just good enough, just tough enough when they have
24:29
Speaker 4: to be. And then the offense coming back and, and
24:32
Speaker 4: stiff arming, whether it's Houston or Cleveland, just to take
24:36
Speaker 4: away that second wind.
24:38
Speaker 1: So the big three for the white socks, Miguel Vargas,
24:40
Speaker 1: we're going to talk about Kami and Colson Montgomery all
24:43
Speaker 1: had really good games at the plate. I shared what
24:46
Speaker 1: the moment of the game was. earlier in the post
24:48
Speaker 1: game show. And of course that was Muta Takamura commies
24:51
Speaker 1: to run Homer. I'm just loving the reactions and still
24:54
Speaker 1: continues to grow is I think people in Japan are
24:57
Speaker 1: either waking up or they're noticing what happened today with
25:00
Speaker 1: Murakami is big to run Homer to power the white
25:03
Speaker 1: socks offense today. What a moment for Murakami and a
25:07
Speaker 1: fantastic way to start this ALDS for him because in
25:10
Speaker 1: his first two plate appearances, he picks up two base hits.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, that was, I mean, he had the two hardest
25:16
Speaker 4: hit balls of the game. The single was solid against
25:19
Speaker 4: the lefty, especially like that's, you know, when trying to
25:22
Speaker 4: formulate a lineup against Parker Messick, and this could be
25:24
Speaker 4: instructive for when the White Sox face him again, assuming
25:27
Speaker 4: they do, is that, you know, Venable talked about how
25:30
Speaker 4: the platoon splits aren't normal for Messick, that he actually
25:33
Speaker 4: is tougher against righties. And he's still bad at his
25:37
Speaker 4: share of righties, like Pham and Doyle and such. But
25:40
Speaker 4: he was like, it took some, it was more than
25:43
Speaker 4: simple platooning. It took some Figuring in terms of like
25:45
Speaker 4: how the swings work against pitch shapes and things like that.
25:49
Speaker 4: And the returns of what the White Sox lefties did
25:55
Speaker 4: and some of the ugly at bats like Chase Mydroth
25:57
Speaker 4: had and Tommy Pham had his first time up against Messick.
26:01
Speaker 4: might change the thinking a little bit in terms of
26:03
Speaker 4: how many lefties can go against Messick the next time
26:05
Speaker 4: he starts because Murakami got two good swings on him,
26:08
Speaker 4: one for a single to center and then one for
26:09
Speaker 4: that just exceptionally violent homer to right field, which is
26:15
Speaker 4: always enjoyable in a postseason setting.
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Speaker 1: He's just an absolute bomb. At first when he made contact, Jim,
26:21
Speaker 1: I thought it was going foul until then the camera
26:24
Speaker 1: panned and it was just like, oh my gosh, I
26:27
Speaker 1: almost had a chance to go upper deck in Cleveland.
26:29
Speaker 2: Yeah.
26:29
Speaker 4: Like I thought it was followed too. And I realized
26:31
Speaker 4: just because normally when you see like the ball, leave
26:34
Speaker 4: the camera that quick, it's usually because like, it just
26:37
Speaker 4: took the short route, like just, yeah, just immediately the right.
26:40
Speaker 4: And like, this is a case of nope. It was
26:41
Speaker 4: just hit that hard. Yeah.
26:43
Speaker 1: Again, awesome reaction here. A gutsy send by a third
26:48
Speaker 1: base coach, Justin Gershley, Jim to send Kyle Teal.
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Speaker 4: Good one.
26:53
Speaker 1: I don't know. People are saying it's an excuse me swing,
26:55
Speaker 1: which maybe it was, but Ramirez is not there. And
26:58
Speaker 1: a great job of hitting by Colson Montgomery to get
27:00
Speaker 1: enough on it where it kept rolling down the left
27:03
Speaker 1: field line. And it really paid off. I mean, if
27:06
Speaker 1: Hedges holds onto the ball, I wonder if people would
27:09
Speaker 1: disagree with you, Jim, about sending Teal at that moment.
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Speaker 4: No, I think with my draft coming up and, you know,
27:16
Speaker 4: he's facing a righty. the odds of something wonky happening
27:20
Speaker 4: on that relay, especially like coming off the sidewall, a
27:22
Speaker 4: weird angle, or like not even a relay, but just
27:24
Speaker 4: like the throw home from that behind the tarp on the,
27:27
Speaker 4: you know, left field wall. Like it was a bang,
27:30
Speaker 4: bang play. So if he's out of the bang, bang play, uh, the,
27:34
Speaker 4: you know, Teal, like, I guess he was running well
27:35
Speaker 4: enough to leave no margin for error and the guardians
27:38
Speaker 4: didn't have any error. Uh, I would take those odds
27:41
Speaker 4: or that probability better than my draft coming up with
27:44
Speaker 4: a hit, uh, off a righty who's just coming into
27:47
Speaker 4: the game to face him.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, as we look at the win probability for those
27:51
Speaker 1: that are listening to the podcast, win probability added Grant Taylor,
27:55
Speaker 1: Mutataka Murakami, Anthony Kaye. As Kaye got out of a jam,
27:59
Speaker 1: but the big moments again, Murakami and his two-run homer,
28:04
Speaker 1: Rokio striking out in the fourth inning, and Colson Montgomery,
28:08
Speaker 1: his RBI double were the three big moments of today's game.
28:13
Speaker 1: And what a day, what a way for the white
28:16
Speaker 1: socks to start this man, Jim, it has been a
28:19
Speaker 1: while since we have felt vibes this good. The Chicago
28:23
Speaker 1: white socks are three and O in the post season.
28:26
Speaker 1: And now they have a one Oh lead. They stole
28:28
Speaker 1: at least one game in Cleveland. And for those that
28:32
Speaker 1: are watching the live stream, if you want to be
28:33
Speaker 1: part of the party on Monday, removal is going to
28:36
Speaker 1: be hosting another watch party. At this moment, I'm just superstitious, Jim.
28:40
Speaker 1: I have to be here. I don't know if I
28:43
Speaker 1: can go to any of the home games. If the
28:45
Speaker 1: White Sox continue to win because I'm just watching the
28:47
Speaker 1: games at Raymova, I'm just going to have to watch
28:49
Speaker 1: every game here until the White Sox lose, I guess.
28:53
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm looking it up right now just to confirm
28:56
Speaker 4: my memory and just determine how the game's unfolded. But
29:00
Speaker 4: the White Sox, yeah, they were lucky.
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Speaker 1: They swept Boston in 05, yeah.
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Speaker 4: Well, no, in terms of like since then, like the
29:06
Speaker 4: White Sox haven't led a series. They haven't really come
29:08
Speaker 4: close to leading a series since 2005. Like you have
29:11
Speaker 4: both the Rays series in 08 and the Astros series
29:15
Speaker 4: in 21. I guess they led in 2020. They did
29:18
Speaker 4: lead that series, but nobody is there to enjoy it.
29:19
Speaker 4: There was no crowd. So that's why it's a case
29:21
Speaker 4: of like there was no excitement. It was Oakland. Nobody's
29:23
Speaker 4: in the stands for that year. So it's hard to
29:26
Speaker 4: count that year. But in terms of like ones where
29:29
Speaker 4: fans can actually gather and make noise and respond to
29:32
Speaker 4: a lead like The White Sox lost convincingly against the
29:35
Speaker 4: Rays the first two games before taking game three. Same
29:37
Speaker 4: thing the Astros with the Larry Garcia Homer won 12
29:41
Speaker 4: to 6 but like they were still down to nothing
29:43
Speaker 4: at the time still had a huge margin of close
29:45
Speaker 4: and couldn't do it so the fact that they you
29:48
Speaker 4: know won a series and are also leading a series
29:51
Speaker 4: here is you know not unprecedented territory but for like
29:55
Speaker 4: the youngest generation of White Sox fans who can go
29:58
Speaker 4: to bars and watch it uh They haven't seen the
30:00
Speaker 4: White Sox lead a series in this kind of setting.
30:04
Speaker 4: So yeah, it feels, you know, you can say a
30:07
Speaker 4: long series left a lot of games to play, but
30:08
Speaker 4: also enjoy it. Like enjoy having a lead because it's
30:11
Speaker 4: not like, that's the one thing about like the White
30:14
Speaker 4: Sox being house money is it's one thing for nobody
30:17
Speaker 4: expect this particular team to do it, but also like
30:21
Speaker 4: their post-season success is so scant that you can't take any,
30:26
Speaker 4: postseason win for granted. You can't take a postseason series
30:29
Speaker 4: win for granted, even if it's the wildcard series and
30:31
Speaker 4: you can't take a game one victory for granted because
30:33
Speaker 4: then it's only happened one year, basically.
30:35
Speaker 1: So I was going to ask, I believe Sean Burke
30:37
Speaker 1: is going to be starting game two. Has that been
30:41
Speaker 1: announced yet?
30:42
Speaker 4: Let me see if he started. I know he's the
30:43
Speaker 4: bulk guy or like he expected to carry most innings
30:46
Speaker 4: or pitch the most innings, but. Let's see if they've
30:48
Speaker 4: announced that.
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Speaker 1: I mean, this is an, it's an absolute must win
30:52
Speaker 1: for Cleveland. I don't know. Like if you go down
30:55
Speaker 1: Oh two at home, I just don't know how Cleveland
31:01
Speaker 1: wins both games in Chicago. I could be wrong. Like
31:05
Speaker 1: that is such a critical game. And I wonder in
31:07
Speaker 1: how will Venable manages that game and just the mentality
31:11
Speaker 1: that Sean Burke will have going into that game because
31:16
Speaker 1: We joked about it earlier. The white Sox have one
31:19
Speaker 1: starting pitcher right now at 11 relievers. Um, but if
31:23
Speaker 1: the white Sox have had success against Gavin Williams and
31:26
Speaker 1: if Sean Burke can be nails. into the White Sox offense,
31:29
Speaker 1: continues to find a way to beat Gavin Williams, especially
31:32
Speaker 1: the second and third time through the order. Oh, man,
31:36
Speaker 1: this is exciting times. I can't wait for Monday. Everybody,
31:40
Speaker 1: enjoy your Sunday off. We all deserve it. Enjoy the football,
31:45
Speaker 1: I guess. But come Monday afternoon, White Sox-Guardians game two.
31:50
Speaker 1: That's going to be a great one, Jim. Yeah, the vibes.
31:54
Speaker 1: The vibes are amazing right now surrounding this team. They're
31:57
Speaker 1: playing fantastic baseball.
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Speaker 4: Well, and also, thinking about Sean Burke, the way he
32:02
Speaker 4: pitched in Houston, and especially watching the ball try to
32:05
Speaker 4: carry to left, couldn't carry to left, the homers he
32:09
Speaker 4: gave up in Houston to the hitters he gave them
32:10
Speaker 4: up to, do the Guardians have those guys? Yeah, the
32:16
Speaker 4: homer gave it to Smith. That was a blast. Maybe
32:18
Speaker 4: Joe Adele hit something like that. But I would say
32:22
Speaker 4: that He shouldn't deviate too far from what he did
32:25
Speaker 4: in Houston in terms of be on the attack, make
32:28
Speaker 4: the Guardians hit the ball out. If they do, then
32:31
Speaker 4: you tip your cap, unless they're just absolute mistakes or hangers.
32:36
Speaker 4: But just make them hurt you, especially if the White
32:40
Speaker 4: Sox get a lead early. Just keep that same tack.
32:43
Speaker 4: Don't worry about three homers and four innings to Houston
32:45
Speaker 4: because it's two different teams. Houston, that's the one thing
32:47
Speaker 4: they could do. and it served the purpose well enough
32:51
Speaker 4: with the White Sox, you know, answering that with the
32:53
Speaker 4: my draft Homer, but against guardians, if they hit the
32:56
Speaker 4: ball out, great. But with the one game, you know,
33:00
Speaker 4: one old lead in the series and with a facing
33:03
Speaker 4: lineup that has to stitch together plate appearances, more or less,
33:07
Speaker 4: you know, we saw what the White Sox did. They
33:08
Speaker 4: got in trouble because they walk guys. So throw strikes. Yeah.
33:13
Speaker 4: If you give up three homers again, then you can say, wow,
33:15
Speaker 4: the guardians hit three homers in a game and just
33:17
Speaker 4: leave it at that. But yeah, Make them prove they
33:19
Speaker 4: can do it first.
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Speaker 1: We'll be previewing that game on Monday afternoon leading up
33:24
Speaker 1: to the first pitch. Again, that will be on TBS.
33:26
Speaker 1: And if you have HBO Max on that app, you
33:29
Speaker 1: can watch the game. But Jim and I will be
33:30
Speaker 1: back on Monday to preview game two of the American
33:34
Speaker 1: League Division Series. Thank you guys so much for watching
33:37
Speaker 1: both our pregame and postgame shows as we streamed live
33:41
Speaker 1: at the Remova Theater during their White Sox watch party. Again,
33:44
Speaker 1: the vibes are great. The energy was awesome here today,
33:48
Speaker 1: especially after the fourth inning when Murakami hit that home run.
33:52
Speaker 1: And everyone is very excited right now on the south side.
33:56
Speaker 1: And how can you not be? What a great day
33:59
Speaker 1: for the Chicago White Sox and the White Sox fan
34:01
Speaker 1: base as they lead the American League Division Series one
34:04
Speaker 1: game to nothing. But that will do it for this
34:06
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