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The Power House Opening Weekend · JustIN Time

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Welcome back to another edition of the Just in Time podcast.
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I'm your host, Justin, and with me is Will Baseball Today.
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Well, I have no waiting for this only.
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Waiting for opening weekend ain't nothing like it.
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I was I was shocked when I went because so I didn't get off
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until 2:30 on Friday. So I had to watch it from work,
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and when I pulled it up, I was shocked at how many people were
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at the box on Friday afternoon. Yeah, at 2:00.
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Yeah, that's why he does well, we love it, brother.
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Yeah, I know. I was even more shocked when I
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showed up on Saturday and the amount of people were, you know,
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it had a smaller amount of people.
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I was a little shocked. OK, that's what I mean.
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But I guess it is. I guess it is Mardi Gras and it
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was Valentine's Day. Tell you what, I'm starting
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busy. Busy for us, I'll just put it
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that way. And calmed her.
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So look, before we, before we really get into it, I'm going to
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apologize for my voice. I've been fighting a little
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cold, cold up, you know, just cold up until now.
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So I sound terrible. The doctor, I've been fighting
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this since Sunday. The doctors, it's the doctor's
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fault. They didn't give me the right
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stuff to get me right. But any takeaways from this
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weekend? You know, the the simple, you
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know, just typically you don't get a lot, you don't gain a lot
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from the opening, the opening days of the season.
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But I will give a shout out quickly to Milwaukee.
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Just like it's not a typical, you know, the typical cupcake
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opponent. They really gave us a fight, you
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know, relative to like the difference in competition.
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You know, we we trailed it two of the three games and even in
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the even though in the game two we won wire to wire, we would
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lead the whole way through. You know, they still had the tie
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and run on at like on base in the top of the night.
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So there's a quick shout out today.
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You know, we had talked about them briefly before the season,
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you know, obviously just, you know, Amsterdam that had the SA
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pyramid appearance in a while, but you know, they've had some
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really decent teams over the over the years.
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So just give him a quick shout out.
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But the assurance of the the performance for us, you know,
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offense, obviously just explosive.
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You know, I was very pleased to see that large.
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And then even with this, despite the storm starting Game 1, you
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know, pitching, pitching was, you know, productive but could
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be more efficient. I will say this, for a team that
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has only pride has I don't even think they practice outdoors
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until they came to Baton Rouge. Milwaukee put up a great fight
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that was great, 3 great games. You know, they've sat in there
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and they fought. They had a really good offensive
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approach. Yeah, for.
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Sure, Tim State had a really good offensive approach to get
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in there early and hunt fastballs.
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Yeah. But my take away from us is the
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versatility. There wasn't a single guy that
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we put in that didn't have either a competitive at bat,
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throw some competitive pitches. You know, like we've had 3-4
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different left fielders this week in four games because we
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were fighting an injury, early season injury.
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Chris Stanfield slid in the home on Saturday and bruised his hand
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so they've been taking they've been leaving him out as a
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precaution until the swelling goes down.
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I don't know if he'll play today or not but but it was good to
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see Gavin Guidry back picking up where he left off.
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Yes, absolutely. Man, yeah, but let's get into
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the breakdown we've got. For starters, on game one, we
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had Evans lead us off against. I think that's Mueller for them.
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Batting order was Stanfield, Curio, Milam Brown, York, Aaron
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Beatty, Braun, Simpson, Caraway. For us, you know, we got off to
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a little bit of a slow start offensively, Curio got a great
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single in my opinion. I don't know if I like that.
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Head first slide by Curio on the first game of the season, first
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game of the season, first ending of the season.
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I don't know if I like that. Yeah, let's, you know, think
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about just at least the starter games, you know, this, it's a
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great time. It's the best time to
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experiment, you know, Obviously, you know, I was talking to see
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that well, but just like I said, you know, I do trust as a time
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national champion coach, but not long, you know, I'm just here
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you see how they go and continue to play with it.
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Yeah, I mean, the only thing I don't like about it is we've in
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the past with like a Tommy White type of deal.
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Tommy White's first season here in 23 slid back in, you know,
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popped his shoulder. Remember that and then he played
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all summer, all season with a bum shoulder.
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Just Jacob Barry, Jay Johnson's first year he was here, got
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injured right away, shoulder injury.
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I mean, I'm just not a huge fan on that.
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That's very mid late season type of when you get into the nitty
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gritty type of play, you know, but getting into the first
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inning, top of the first, you know, Evans comes in.
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That was the first pitch strike, which I like.
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I think that we had a bunch of first pitch strikes, but you
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know, he gets O'Connell striking out swinging.
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Then Kibler comes up and he walks in on five pitches.
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Then Ross comes up, he's flyed out to centerfield, Marion
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singled and then been struck out to in the inning.
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Overall, I didn't think Evans did a bad job the first inning.
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But yeah, all about good. Yeah, he started off hot.
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Then we have for us in the bottom of the first.
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Stanfield flyed out to right. We made good contact all
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weekend. We made good contact.
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The wind didn't play to our advantage, but we made good
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contact. Here we go, curious.
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Single to single to first base. That's the play that I'm not
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really big. Wasn't really big one because he
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slid there. You know, I'm not a big fan of
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the sliding that head first on in the first base at any point
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in the season. Especially not not.
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Conference. Yeah, not, not in conference,
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you know, not in conference. First game of the season.
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Like I said to me, if you're going to do that, that's very
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late season. Yeah.
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But then you got Milan, you got 1 fouled out to first base and
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then Brown grounded out to in that inning.
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So that's the end of the first inning.
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We come back. Look, Evans, I don't know where
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we went wrong on Friday, but he gave up a lead off single to for
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the top of the second, then struck Schmidt, Holmes and Ellis
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out back-to-back to back. And here's where I'm kind of
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ticked off that I shut the game down 5 minutes early before we
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walked out of there. Oh look, that zoom came in the.
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Came in perfect time. Zach York hit a straight bomb to
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right field. To make the game.
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One and nothing. Yes, yes.
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Then Aaron BD singled through the left side.
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Aaron BD, that's the name you're going to hear a lot with these
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is Aaron BD these first couple games?
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Absolutely. He advanced the second Bronze
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struck out since he struck out and Caraway popped out.
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So you know, overall 2nd inning wasn't that bad.
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Now we go to the top of the third.
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O'Connell walked, Kibbler Fried flied out to left field, Ross
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struck out swinging and O'Connell stole second base.
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Jay Johnson gave me a break because he challenged it and it
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made me only missed the third inning.
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No, seriously, like I only missed the third inning because
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Jay Johnson decided to challenge on a play that they said was
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clearly safe. The call was upheld and then
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Marion struck out swinging. So we go to the bottom of the
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third and Stanfield walks. Curio struck out a lot this
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weekend, which is very odd for him.
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Yeah, like 3KS33K down. Yeah, I like him.
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I think he'll start to pick it up.
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Yeah, I'm not too focused on what I'm too worried about.
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Yeah, I think it was just a mix of him hitting the 1st live
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pitching against somebody else other than our guys.
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So Stanfield advanced on a balk. Then he advanced to 3rd on a
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wild pitch mile and grounded out to third base, letting Stanfield
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score. Brown walked, York walked, and R
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and BD grounded out to 3rd to end the thing.
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So we were up to at this point. Then here's where it kind of
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went off the rails for Case and Evans.
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Next two innings, yeah. Hence got hit by he hit Spence.
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Horn singled up the middle. Schmidt singled to the pitcher
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advancing Horn and Spence home single to right field to score
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Spence. Ellis doubled down the left
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field to score Schmidt and Horn and then O'Connell grounded out
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to smile him which scored Holmes to make it 4 to nothing.
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I mean four to two. Then Williams comes in to pitch
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for Evans. Ellis advances to 3rd on a pass
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ball, Kibbler struck out swinging and Ross flat out
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Weckler to pitch from Mueller. In the bottom of the fourth,
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Braun grounded out, Simpson struck out Caraway single to the
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shortstop and then Stanfield fouled out top of the fifth
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marrying Homer to right field. And man, that was a just
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straight off the bat. Yes.
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Yes, a bunch of these home runs this weekend that I saw in
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person were just straight off the bat, you know, then Spence
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grounded out, Horn struck out, Schmidt struck out and Holmes
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flied out. Then the bottom of the fifth,
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like I said, you know, it's very odd, but curious.
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Struck out looking. Mylan grounded out.
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Brown doubled, which he's been on fire.
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Oh my God, it's that's we would definitely get into that, guys.
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Yeah. Goodness, grace, and.
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Then York struck out swinging. That ended the bottom of the
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fifth. We come to the 6th and we've got
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Ellis striking out, O'Connell flyed out.
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Kid was struck out swinging. Then we get to the small
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comeback before the big explosion.
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Aaron BD doubled down the left field on Braun, grounded out to
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first base on assistant and Aaron BD advanced to 3rd.
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Dardar pinch hit for Simpson and hit his first home run to right
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center. I think tie in the game at that
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point or putting us down by 1. Yep. 4.
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Reeves came in to pitch it for Caraway and struck out looking.
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Stanfield reached on a throwing arrow, Andrews to pitch for
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Reckler and then Curia struck out looking.
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First game with Curiae just wasn't his best.
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Yeah, like I said, extremely rare for him to struggle.
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But like I said, I mean guys uberly talented.
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Yeah, I mean, he'll struggle. For.
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Yeah, he'll struggle for maybe a game or two and then he'll get
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back into it. So top 7th, we've got Dardar to
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second base, Reeves to third base, Ross gets hit by a pitch.
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And then the biggest moment, in my opinion, of the weekend,
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Gavin Guidry finally feels good to have #8 to look on the field
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and have #8 back on the field. Like, you could see it in the
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crowd. So the the you could see it in
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the crowd. You could see it in the team is
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just so affected. It's all the intangible things
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that really put some guys over the top.
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And like, you could see, you could see.
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I was so happy for first actors in June 24.
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Yeah, he was. He was fired at best, rightfully
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so. Yeah.
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You know, my thing is with the Guidry is in the number 8.
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Just in general I think Guidry deserves the number 8.
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Right. Yeah.
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But last season it was so weird because we've always #8 has
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always been a position player number.
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Yeah. Not APO.
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It hasn't been APO number so last year was weird looking on
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the field and not seeing him on the field.
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That's a good, good take, really.
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So I think it should be like they do when they gave it to the
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number 18, the Will Campbell that year, it was an honorary
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number. What a patch.
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If you're going to give the pitcher the number 8, we'll go
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start wearing patches. I mean, I saw the Woodside
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energy right underneath the Woodside energy.
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You should say honorary #8 but Gavin Guidry embodies the number
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8, you know? And all he did was come on and
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strike out Marion, Spence and Horn in order, and then turn
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around to the dugout and talk a little smack, man.
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Listen, good catch. To which at my point, I'm
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thinking, you know, he's not talking and he's not saying
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anything. You know, he's just excited to
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be back. Yeah.
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And I think that umpire should have left him alone and minded
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his own business. So here's where we get to the
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big inning, the 10 run rule inning bottom of the seventh.
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Milan double S the left field. Brown swaps places with him and
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Mile and scores. York is hit by a pitch rile in
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the pitch for Andrews. Aaron BT I told you all you have
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his name was going to pop up a lot.
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Homer to left field to bring in York and Brown.
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Bronze lied out to left field. Door door double down the right
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field line. Talk about that kid had a day
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coming off the bench. Yes, absolutely.
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Oh my goodness. Reeves walk, then he stole
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second. Stanfield struck out sink
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swinging. Curiel reached on a throwing
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error by the 2nd baseman in advance to 2nd.
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Reeves scored on earned. Dardo scored on earned.
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Curiel advanced to 3rd by throwing error by the pitcher.
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Marlin was hit by a pitch. Watching the pitch virile Marlin
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stole second and Brown flied out to center field.
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We scored six runs that in him. That's where he started starting
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to put going on, you know, just, and I was at work, you know, in
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the game, you know, just keeping up with it, you know, just
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really started to crawl back through.
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So it was cool to them to really make that fight back.
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So we have the top of the eighth, we've got Dart or the
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third rocket to second base for Reeves.
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Then when you've got Schmidt striking out, home struck out,
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Ellis doubled in O'Connell fouled out giving Gassett and
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Gadget Gavin Guidry up for the win.
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Then in the eighth walked Aaron BD walking.
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York advanced to 2nd. Cerna junior pinch hit for Braun
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Kawaki. I guess that's how you say that
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name to pitch for Watson. Cerna doubled to right field,
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Aaron BD advanced to 3rd and York scored.
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Dard are grounded out to 2nd. CERN advanced to 3rd and BD
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scored. Cerner scored on a wild pitch
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Rockets single to third base, piercing John Pearson to pinch
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it for Stanfield. Pearson singled through the left
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side, advanced Rocket Harden to pitch for to pinch it for Curio
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was hit by a pitch, advanced the runners.
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Harden advanced to 2nd on a wild pitch.
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Pearson and advanced the third record scored.
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Milan singled through Harden scored.
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Pearson scored to end the game. You know, and that's how that
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game went. Now I will say I have a few
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notes. I was about to start bookkeeping
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to keep notes for these games. Milwaukee had three errors.
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Milwaukee here's this four line. Gavin Gertrude got the win.
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Andrews got the loss. Milwaukee scored five, eight
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hits with three errors in the left, eight on base.
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Sorry. LSU was scored 15 at 15 hits, 0
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errors left, 11 on base. Here's some big numbers for me.
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This thing keeps zooming in and out with runners in scoring
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position. LSU was 5 for 16 and Milwaukee
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was 3 for 9:00. Yeah, I'm going to save this
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because I'm going to come back to this in a few minutes.
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You want to take Game 2? Yeah, that's right.
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Let's block that out. Yes, Sir, let's pull it up.
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So yeah, this is so obviously sounding Valentine's Day.
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So I'm trying to the Valentine's people.
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So finally pretty winning. So there's a while.
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So he was standing like I'm staying this I'm watching me
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because the thing they have was the deal for the USA game, but
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just in Milwaukee out his not his state.
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Like yeah, we have the league the whole game and they have a
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time long base and the night. I think two of the three runs of
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the night. You know, he was able to hold
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on. You know, just, you know, like I
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said, I think just, you know, I always they coming into the the
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the theories, you know, this, this like lashing gets pretty
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Fort Wayne. Just you're going to have one
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game that's going to be relatively closer than
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everything else. You know, you got the two
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blowouts in the one close game. I I knew we were going to get
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like one close game out of them. Even even the blowout was just
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kind of misleading. But I just you know, we scored.
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It was the bottom of the eighth was dead for us.
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We scored three in the bottom of the eighth, you know, and just
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pull up the play by play in the 8th and just, you know, our
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standfield double in the field. The standfield really have
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really have some great contact on the ball this series.
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Some of the gentleman's unlucky Bowser didn't get in play.
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You know Curiel singled to second base.
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You know Brown reached on the field of shorts and difficult to
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get back to Brown. Yeah.
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Curiel's Del third. They all been different this
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year. Mile double to love center,
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bringing in brown. Curiel, you're blind out, but
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Aaron beat it. Double to center field.
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Miles forward. You know this, you know, you
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know, we used to be off to quickly to quickly in the in the
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bottom of the third, Milwaukee on the top of the fourth.
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We pulled like scored our laughter in the bottom of the
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eighth. And then they they pull within
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pull within the two within the top of the ninth.
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They was able to hold on. Yeah.
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Just thought there's a team for scoring, you know, brought into
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the party. But you know, just the winner's
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the win, and that's the bottom line.
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And it was good to have Cooper Moore come out and account for
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11 of the 17 KS on the day. Dealing I'm in the performance
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man. We're going to touch on this
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later, but in the first two games we had 17 strikeouts in
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game one, in 17 strikeouts in Game 2.
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Yep, that's right. Which is all going to accumulate
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in game 3. After game three, we broke the
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records previously set by program record previously set by
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the 25 team with 42 strikeouts. I think with 49 strikeouts on
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the weekend in a three-game series, we're just going to go
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ahead and I'm going to say the for game three, save us all a
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bunch of reading and time and just say Schmidt got the win.
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I was really impressed by him. Yes, yeah.
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I mean, I think it was the yeah, the first inning, Milwaukee
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comes out in the top of the first and she gets a strikeout,
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then Tibler Homer to right field, then we go.
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He struck out Ross and then walked Marion on three straight
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pitches, then struck out Horn. You know, we didn't do anything
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special in the first inning. We had a strikeout, a walk,
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strike out and fly out, which you know, then I think that was
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the last time. This is the last time for a
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little while. You're going to hear me say Jake
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Brown struck out. So let's, you know, he didn't do
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anything big in the SEC top of the second.
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He got a walk, gave up a walk, then struck out.
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They stole a base, strikeout, strikeout come to the bottom of
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the second. York is hit by a pitch.
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Pearson flied out by the way Pearson started in the left
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field this game. Stanfield was hurt on Saturday,
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slit sliding the home bruised his hand.
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Serna caught I think or was there and be the catcher and it
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doesn't matter at this point. No Serna was DH, so Serna is hit
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by a pitch. York advances to second.
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They move them up on a wild pitch.
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Simpsons singled to center field to score York.
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Caraway grounded out to the pitcher but advanced.
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We're runner and we scored run curio singler through the right
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side. Simpson scored, then Milam
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reached on a fielder's choice and Curiel was out at second.
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Then here's where Schmidt gets in a little bit of trouble.
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O'Connell grounded out. He watched Kibler, he hit Ross
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by with a pitch. Marin singled to advance the
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runners horn, struck out swinging.
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Lim single to right to score Ron and then Spence popped out.
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And then here we go. You're going to hear this a lot
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in the next couple of innings. The bottom of the third downtown
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Jake Brown Homer to right field. Aaron BD singled through the
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left side. York walked.
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Aaron BD advanced Dardar to pinch hit for Pearson.
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Dardar walked, he sheeted a pitch for Arnold.
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Serna singled through the left side and advanced runners and
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scored Aaron BD Braun pitch hit for Simpson, struck out
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swinging. Caraway triple to right center.
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One thing we missed in game to Game 2 breakdown was Caraway hit
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one and it was a for sure triple.
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Only problem is York. York was on first base in front
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of him and when they bobbled that ball, Josh Jordan was
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waving him around. But I think York blew a tire out
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somewhere between 2nd and 3rd and couldn't go no more.
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He was he was out of breath at that point.
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So Caraway need to get his little triple in and he sure got
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1. So then Curio singled to second
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base and Vance the runner on the throwing area and Caraway scored
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mile and walked Brown. Here we go.
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Brown walked getting on base again.
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Aaron BD struck out looking in New York, fouled out all of that
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for six run third inning. Six runs on five hits.
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Yeah, nothing 2 bit major in the 4th inning, just a bunch of
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pitching changes. But Glusting struck out, Ellis
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grounded out, O'Connell struck out, then Pulaski to left field
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for Horn, Glusting to second base, Fishnick to pitch, Dartar
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grounded out, Cerner Region on the throwing error.
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That poor shortstop made so many errors.
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If you look at it, I think every error they had was on him.
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Bronze singled. Caraway reached on a fielding
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air in. Serna scored.
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Curio singled up the middle. Bronze scored.
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Mylan singled up, singled down the right side.
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Caraway scored. Brown singled to the right
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center. Mylan advanced to 2nd.
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Curio scored, Aaron Beatty singled.
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York flied out to score. Mylan Dard or homeward to right
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field, three run Homer. Then Sir on the flight out to in
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that inning, that was an 8 run inning.
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OK, then we have the top of the fifth.
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I'm not going to read it out. I'm just going to hit the big
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play by plays now. Pawoski home Homer, hit a three
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run Homer and that'll do it for them.
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Then the bottom of the fifth, Bron doubled, Caraway grounded
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out, Curiel walked mile and hit by a pitch.
25:37
Jake Brown, Ryan Slam. Over the right field. 4 BI 4
25:42
ribbies above. See you later.
25:44
Yep. Then Reeves singled, Yaman
25:50
struck out and Daughter grounded out.
25:52
Six inning. Nothing much for any team does.
25:57
Jake Brown didn't come up to bat.
25:59
Then the game ended in the seventh due to 14 run rule and
26:06
that's all I have for that struck out looking to give us 49
26:11
strikeouts on the weekend. Then King State came in and
26:19
look, I was really impressed by them.
26:24
I know they're, you know, their weekend wasn't much, but
26:29
personally, I don't know how good Southeastern is, but they
26:32
had a three-game sweep at Southeastern.
26:34
They sure did, yes, but. Just to run through this, you
26:40
can go through the 1st inning. We got Plug with the win.
26:44
Jaden Newt got the start for US. Plug got the win, Gavin Jones
26:48
gets the loss for Kent State and Gavin Guidry gets to save.
26:52
I've got two big takeaways from this one or three and I start
26:57
off, you know, we did, we did all right in the first, top of
27:03
the first. We got to walk and then a
27:09
ground, but double play by Milan.
27:12
Then we they singled and struck out.
27:14
Nothing really big going mercurial struck out Miles flyed
27:18
out. Jake Brown, of course, homers.
27:21
Yes, 2 little nicest. Jake Brown got up in 24 hours,
27:27
24 hours. Fan hit two home runs, four home
27:30
runs, one of them being a Grand Slam.
27:34
But for him, three of his home runs came in and was he ended
27:41
the game on Sunday with a home run, started the game on Monday
27:45
with a home run and then came back in this I think the second
27:49
inning and hit another home run. Yeah, listen, they were just so
27:52
dominant through this, this game.
27:56
Yeah, I'm mistake. We scored in every inning.
28:00
Yeah, into the 1st in but. The my main thing is resilience.
28:06
Yes. We almost gave that game away.
28:08
Yeah, sure did. Yeah, yeah.
28:10
So that. Game was almost given away and
28:12
yeah, what you were going to say.
28:16
I was going to say real quick that I, you know, knew that
28:19
plenty of office started. He was missing a little late
28:22
exercise to walk through tune this single in the first but did
28:26
have a key and because it's the pitch, the nice three plus
28:30
pitches to the two innings, you know, but he was pulling out
28:33
three. You know, they were both pulled
28:36
out to 15 because of peace. But you know, gathered but in
28:39
the Canadian today for the gate tree and was clicking both the
28:42
8th and 19 and he gets to save on 33 pitches.
28:45
It was a very efficient, he was very close.
28:48
You know, I'll just put it on autopilot, you know, the last
28:51
last third of the game, which I don't blame him because, you
28:54
know, double just scoring. There's there's been plenty of
28:57
runs to get you to win in baseball more times than not.
29:00
And they scored in the first six innings.
29:02
So I mean, they felt like they did enough of their job.
29:06
Oh, exactly. OK, so we have 49 on the
29:11
weekend. LSU was up to 64 strikeouts, so
29:15
out of 72 + 27, let's do this math real quick.
29:20
Only 35 outs in four games came from actually them putting ball
29:25
in play. All right, I think it's time for
29:29
us to transition into our powerhouse pole Week 1.
29:36
And bear with me here because we're going to try something
29:40
different this time. You can see that.
29:44
Yeah, I can see all. Right.
29:46
I'm putting the screen sharing and putting the polls up.
29:50
So how are we going to do this with the spreadsheet?
29:52
We're just going to put it, put it by name or put the top three
29:57
by date or just go through and put who we've got a one or two
30:02
by their name. Yeah, so like you can like in in
30:05
the Google doc, you could type in or top three for each for
30:08
batting, top three for fielding, top three for pitching.
30:11
And I'll add them up. I'll add them up myself and I'll
30:13
record it. You know, I'll record like with
30:16
the points you pushed by our initial view and our initial my
30:19
numbers. My God, if I you'll see like
30:22
whenever I do edit it, you'll see what I'm referring to
30:24
specifically. So basically for for the for the
30:27
viewers, you know, me and Justin going to be doing each, you
30:31
know, have our own polls like top B for batting will offense,
30:36
top three for different top B for pitching, each player player
30:40
gets in our top three. And you know, any one of those
30:42
categories, they get one, one point per appearance.
30:45
They both so if a player gets appearance on both the poles,
30:49
they get 2 points for that, for that structural games, then they
30:53
get more points and you finish in it.
30:55
So and we do in top three. So Venice first point in one of
30:58
our holes be 3 points, 2nd place gets 2 points and 3rd place gets
31:01
one points. So the most you can score like
31:04
on a single, you know, power powerhouse pole is five at most
31:10
because if you get without being one point for each, you know,
31:14
pole appearance plus a first place spinach first place state
31:18
like be just out and above and then and then we'll get a you
31:24
know, people to get a better idea of how it looked as the
31:26
season goes on. Yeah, so like.
31:28
So I don't need to. Yeah, you just.
31:30
Keep going. This is what I'm saying right?
31:33
Yeah. Well, I'll keep it shared and
31:36
let them see who we've got, you know?
31:40
Yeah, yeah. I'll be I'll I'll definitely,
31:43
I'll definitely ended up just whatever you do, it says it's
31:46
typing in the Google Doc. And then then I'll just add them
31:49
up and we'll just compare our compare.
31:51
We'll compare it and then I'll just I'll just record it in the
31:54
in the spreadsheet, OK. So I will stop sharing the
32:00
spreadsheet right now. I'll just go through real quick
32:02
and show you all we've got, you know, the polls, the points each
32:09
player gets, the players names and positions, you know, and
32:15
I'll pull up next week after we add it all up and everything
32:18
else. But I will just go ahead and say
32:20
offense. I'll start with offense.
32:22
I've got Jake Brown for obvious reasons.
32:25
Four home runs in a granny and he batted 579 on the weekend.
32:29
It's hard to take it away from him.
32:31
Right, of course I'll blame you doing that.
32:34
Yeah, I've got Aaron Beatty. That's the name we heard a lot
32:39
of going through 4:44. You know, can't complain with
32:43
him. Bunch of double S.
32:45
He did exactly what they said he was going to do.
32:48
And then I'm teetering on this third one.
32:54
I could put Dardar because he had huge moments coming off the
32:58
bench, yeah, and just stepping up.
33:01
Or I could go Caraway because Caraway start off rough but
33:05
picked it up at the towards the end.
33:07
But I think I will give the edge to Dardar.
33:11
Yeah, I don't blame you there. It's it's like I say, I was
33:15
teetered on that the real man, this site, you know, I mean go
33:18
miles real quick. Jake brown #1 declared.
33:21
He just pulled away in the last couple games with a big home
33:23
runs. The guys have been really
33:25
dominant, man. Just 424 games, you know, one
33:29
per game on average. Like it's just hard.
33:31
You know, the defensive score is just hard to really argue that
33:34
Kate Aaron, BD really just very productive in the first few
33:38
games. I think like that's a safe
33:39
number too. I'm with you just as far as like
33:43
the TDM, the third one I'm going to give the oh man, it's tough.
33:47
I'm going to give this the narrow ace to Zach York and not
33:51
just because of Jen's like, you know, he's very popular right
33:54
now, like the old big popular, you know, the Curt Creole manga,
33:57
A lot of people it was very popular.
33:59
People talk about the power. I just one thing I'm so
34:02
impressed with him so far this season is the fact that this I'm
34:06
disciplined. It's so tired.
34:08
Nice man it's incredible. I was I was coming out and came
34:14
out between New York and what you did off the bench very
34:17
impressive. But I give the narrow answer to
34:20
Zach, you're just for this. The I discipline the steel steel
34:25
instant past 30 days. This is really yeah, it's tough
34:29
for that first spot, but I'm again, this fight is accurate
34:31
because people don't talk about the power.
34:33
I heard, I don't know if you know, Blake Ruffino or like Ays,
34:37
he he compared them to Prince Fielder, you know, just like
34:41
that power swing with the that build of his.
34:44
I think he's a great cop. You know, I think we're going to
34:46
be focused on the power, but I'm just like, I'm really impressed
34:48
by his, his, his plenty of discipline, just getting well,
34:52
I'm. Really impressed that last night
34:55
he's just straight up stole the base.
34:56
No, it wasn't last night, it was Monday night.
34:58
He just straight up stole the base on Monday night after
35:03
they're looking like he blew a tire out on Thursday, on Sunday
35:08
or Saturday. On Saturday he's straight up
35:11
stole the base. I'll let you give your pictures
35:15
before. OK, yeah, so picture she was
35:20
pretty like I got #1 at Cooper board, you know, this time
35:23
through board Leonard Cage, the dealing on just pretty dealing
35:26
on game on family man, real dominant help.
35:30
I want the wire to wire victory, you know, even though that's
35:33
like, you know, 53, just when you have a move forward output,
35:38
just him being that trustworthy guy on the mound.
35:41
Just he. I'm just showing now #2 I got
35:44
Gabby Getty just coming off and it's really just recovery the
35:47
way he did missing all the last season.
35:49
Just really such an intangible boost for this, for this program
35:53
this year just really bailed us out on the other day.
35:59
Keith no, get him out of reach for, you know, K State.
36:01
You know, I was watching that whole game and we had a good
36:04
lead offense put in an all pilot, like I said earlier, but
36:07
I don't blame him. But just, you know, just open
36:10
that strong and stressful. You know, he can't bail very few
36:13
pitches and you know, didn't give away anything.
36:16
So he was probably the clutch the performance of the yeah, IRB
36:21
you know, I gave it to later student back to the there.
36:23
So this obviously, you know, we we were very productive on the
36:27
Nile, but just you know, I want to seem just more efficiently on
36:30
the mound. You know, just so I gave up a
36:32
lot of waft just all together. You know, Musso was talking
36:36
about just you know, we did give up the big swing quite a bit.
36:39
A lot of a lot of opposing pitchers, a lot of seasons, a
36:42
lot of posing battles. I'm sick on the ball.
36:46
But this, Yeah. And.
36:51
For me, I've got Cooper Moore and everyone who's huge.
36:59
Gavin Guidry coming back was huge.
37:01
Man, yes. At one point I thought he was
37:05
going to be my number one guy, but he's just the number 2.
37:08
But. Then Cooper Williams coming in,
37:11
I really think his upside is going to be maybe they swap him
37:15
and Evans. Cooper Williams works his way
37:19
into the weekend rotation. All right then defensively, this
37:24
was hard, like I said before, but 64 strikeouts wasn't much
37:31
defensive wise to, you know, go off of.
37:36
But I'll let you give your 3 real quick.
37:40
You know, like you said, mate, it was this was by far the
37:42
hardest one, even though like, you know, you and I, yeah,
37:46
struggle with the guy on the other team.
37:48
I think the top 2 for offensive pitcher was pretty, pretty
37:51
clear. But fielding listen, I mean,
37:54
just, you know, I'm open to I'm open to backlash for this one.
37:57
But just like I put Steven Mylan first because he was very active
38:01
in the infield, you know, with the double play the other day,
38:04
just and like he had a really good early play of the year
38:08
candidate with that double play. Just all that off balance throw
38:11
the first. I thought it was really
38:12
impressive. So he's really been active.
38:15
Like you said, you know, there's only so much you can get from
38:17
the from the pitcher's battle from fielding, but taken I got
38:21
Derrick Curriel because outside of the the the catchers and and
38:25
the first basement because they they put out automatically.
38:30
So he got 7 or put outs to anybody.
38:35
I counted that catcher for the basement.
38:38
So it's basically he put shrink Caraway, he got players
38:45
responsible for during the first several games.
38:49
Just like I said, there's only so much you can.
38:51
You can't really think too much away from the field.
38:53
And just with all the strikeouts that I'm I'm comfortable with
38:57
Steve Milan. He was very active in the in the
39:00
field is for the double players, assists and stuff.
39:04
See, I went, I put Milan first. I went with York at 2nd and
39:10
Aaron BD at third. Milan for see.
39:15
Milan and Aaron BD for me were more also a leadership decision
39:18
too. Yeah, you know you had.
39:22
You have your pitcher struggling to get in a rhythm and the first
39:26
two people that are always coming to have Mile meeting or
39:31
Milam and Aaron BD. Like Aaron BD my one of my
39:34
biggest things for catchers is knowing when you need to go give
39:37
your pitcher a break and a little talking.
39:39
To you? Yeah, that's good.
39:41
And I think Aaron BD has that aspect to him where he's a
39:45
great, he's got an arm, he's got a cannon, you know, he's got
39:49
that. But he has the intangibles of
39:51
the leadership quality too, that he'll come out and go talk to a
39:56
pitcher when they're struggling. But at 2, I got Zach York
40:00
because they've made some throws this weekend.
40:02
That big guy shouldn't be able to reach down there and make.
40:07
That's true. Yeah.
40:09
And you know, he, they hit him. He played the hot corner too
40:13
down there at first. They hit one.
40:16
Hit a couple on that line and he made a couple great plays.
40:19
I got to give him the edge it too.
40:21
And Aaron BD's at 3rd because he's, like you said, the catcher
40:24
is going to be on out most of those put outs.
40:27
But he was a backstop. He showed leadership and that's
40:31
why I got it. That's where I stand.
40:33
That's fair. Like I said, there's something
40:35
because I thought about, you know, kid Aaron BI thought about
40:38
him too. But just like I love what you
40:40
said about the like the intangible stuff for the
40:41
leadership that makes, you know, obviously credit to Zach, you
40:45
know, really getting down there. Yeah, like that feeling was
40:47
feeling was the most talented one for me, you know, because
40:50
like, you know, it was a big time.
40:54
Big pitching duel. It was kind of hard to get
40:56
aspect of this one. Took a slight edge over this
41:00
one. Yeah, You know, I could narrow
41:02
it down to Milan and York just because Milan made those big
41:06
double plays. But but going from there to the
41:11
tone setting Tiger of the Week. Brother, why don't you start out
41:15
that one off, brother? I am going with a pair, OK?
41:19
Jake Brown, obviously he needs to just keep up with what he's
41:22
been doing, keep his approach. Cooper Moore is another one.
41:27
Yeah, OK. For me, Cooper Moore just needs
41:29
to come in and play his game like he's played.
41:32
He's been. He lit it up on Saturday.
41:34
He was responsible for 11 strikeouts.
41:39
He gave up four hits and one run, you know, in that huge win
41:45
he had. But those are my guys.
41:50
Yeah, I'm, I'm, I'm going to cheat a little bit too.
41:51
I know. Just I'm going to save the mound
41:55
just like, you know, I want, you know, like I said, we've I'm not
41:58
going to say we're we're trash. I know people tend to overreact
42:01
about every little thing. Just listen, we are, we got the
42:04
we got the guys we got, we got the arms, we've got the talent.
42:07
You know, we've got production so far.
42:09
You know, like I said, you know, set up a program record on the
42:11
three-game series. I mean, I'm not worried about
42:13
the talent. I'm just like, can we can we be
42:15
more efficient already? We're about to see some
42:19
heightened competition, you know, in this round Robin.
42:22
So is this if we like you said, like you said, Cuban ball, like
42:25
you said, keep it up. You know, that was a dominant
42:27
performance, you know, because just get more consistency from
42:30
the bullpen. You know, just to see what Jake
42:32
is going to do, how he's going to mix it up, how he's going to
42:35
like dwindle down the rotation from the starters and from the
42:39
bullpen moving forward. And this is a great opportunity
42:42
for the the obvious other guys in the bullpen to really shine.
42:45
So this I want offensive doing doing for terrific so far.
42:50
So I mean, obviously relative you got a king of cops with the
42:52
the teams you played. I just want I just want to stick
42:56
with the bullpens. Can they be consistent,
42:58
especially in the bullpen? Exactly.
43:01
OK, we're going to. I agree with what you said, you
43:04
know, but I think a lot of it's going to be too with their
43:08
consistency. You are coming back and
43:11
everybody is hyping you up all season long.
43:14
You're the defending national champs and you've had the top
43:17
pitching staff under Nate Yeski for the last two years.
43:21
Absolutely, yeah. You throw a lot of early
43:24
strikes, you know, people are going to come out and their
43:26
approach is going to be to jump on the early strikes.
43:28
So you have to be disciplined, keep the ball where, you know,
43:33
in a nice range and trust your defense.
43:36
You got to trust your defense. But, you know, just real quick,
43:42
we're not going to touch much on the Nichols game because that's
43:45
today at 1:00. But we've got Indiana, Notre
43:50
Dame and Central Florida, right? And I think the only thing that
43:54
is going to make these tough is how do we handle playing away?
44:00
Yes, big holes stand to like a new granted, it's a neutral
44:03
site, but I mean, it's still about the box, you know?
44:07
It's yeah, it's a neutral site. We're going to be out the first
44:10
time away from the box. It's weird because I'm used to
44:13
them playing like going to like when we play in Texas, those
44:17
little Round Rock. Yeah, that that, that's a good
44:20
point. Yeah, because we've been to.
44:21
I mean, yeah, we play, we go to Texas and we end up playing a
44:27
week in Texas, Yeah, a couple of way games, but we don't have
44:30
that this week before the so to be, you know, interesting to
44:35
see. Yeah, for sure.
44:37
But any closing thoughts? I don't know just like I said, I
44:43
I was so thrilled to get back in it.
44:44
You know this season, this will be a lot of good stuff, a lot of
44:47
encouraging things over the the last four days.
44:50
You know the four or five days offers have been dominant.
44:53
Like we said, you know, this goes without saying, pitching
44:55
like pitching got a lot of potential, yes, if we can get
44:59
like I'm always about to mile when it comes to baseball
45:01
because it's a defensive support by structure, Obviously need
45:04
points to win, no doubt, but this is a lot of that feeds off
45:08
the pitching and just can we stay consistent.
45:13
Yeah, it's like we said last week, you know pitching is key
45:16
to success. You can score 10 runs, but if
45:20
you pitching comes in and let's in eleven runs.
45:23
Yeah. Pitching in defense comes in
45:26
let's in eleven runs. Those ten runs don't do you much
45:29
good, but you know I've been and I'll continue to tweet out at
45:34
for every game, every half inning.
45:36
Check out the Facebook, because I've been doing the same thing.
45:38
I started doing the same thing there posting consistently.
45:44
I think I've posted every day on insta, TikTok, Facebook and
45:51
YouTube for the last since we dropped the last episode.
45:54
I'll continue to do that. Appreciate all the love we
45:57
getting there. You know, start posting more on
45:59
school account once we start growing that, but this is kind
46:03
of going to be the structure of the next few months.
46:08
That's right, if we go. Over those games, we might not
46:11
have four games to go over. Don't believe me?
46:14
But we not get you. We got we not get you there.
46:17
But we go get you good. We might not be every day, we
46:21
might be once a week, but we go get you good.
46:23
Absolutely. And hopefully we hear a lot more
46:26
of Jake Brown, Eric K, Darren Beatty, a lot more out of Derek
46:33
Curiel. We get Stanfield healthy because
46:35
he's one of my favorites. Oh yeah, I can't.
46:38
I can't stand though how happy it was when he came back because
46:42
he would verify the last. That's a huge boost to the team.
46:46
I just hope. I like that.
46:50
I like that speed. We have an outfield.
46:52
I also like how we're so versatile where we have our
46:55
infielders that can play and fill a position, you know.
47:01
But I'll let you go man. Thank you for me coming on
47:05
again. I'll see you next week.
47:07
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47:10
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