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Nats split final 2 against Mets, go to ATL to meet Division Leaders · District Territory

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to the District Territory Podcast. I'm Eric shell
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  Speaker 1: House joining me today Kevin Franzen of the Washington Nationals.
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  Speaker 1: National splitting the final two games and they're set against
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  Speaker 1: the New York Mets before they take on the Atlanta
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  Speaker 1: Braves later today. But Franny, how are you feeling good?
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  Speaker 2: Good? Getting a four game like? A split in a
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  Speaker 2: four game series is?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, what, it's what you want right at least
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  Speaker 1: at the minimum. So you feel like you left a
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  Speaker 1: little out there yesterday. But weird weather day, like almost
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  Speaker 1: like a forty degree difference between the last two days
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  Speaker 1: or thirty degrees whatever you want to call it.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, but it was.
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  Speaker 1: It was definitely a good series, wacky series we talked
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  Speaker 1: about earlier and man, just glad we got a series split.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: That wind graphic that you all popped up on the
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  Speaker 1: broadcast during the game looked like a tornado out in
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  Speaker 1: the right center field gap.
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  Speaker 2: Just something we couldn't figure it out.
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  Speaker 1: We couldn't figure it out, nor could the players, And
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  Speaker 1: obviously you saw it with aj Ewen at the end
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  Speaker 1: on Dalan Lyle, just everything getting knocked down.
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  Speaker 2: It was it was nuts.
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  Speaker 1: Give you a quick look at the National leaguee's standing
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  Speaker 1: for those of you watching online, the Nationals sitting at
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  Speaker 1: twenty five and twenty six. They got back to that
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  Speaker 1: five hundred mark with the win on Wednesday night against
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  Speaker 1: the Mets. The Mets at twenty two and twenty eight
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  Speaker 1: and the Phillies twenty five and twenty five. I realized
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  Speaker 1: I misspoke last time. The Phillies were not coming off
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  Speaker 1: a win. So that makes it two losses for them
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  Speaker 1: in a row.
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  Speaker 2: Man.
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  Speaker 1: That feels good to say two Phillies losses in a row.
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  Speaker 1: NAT's had some transactions over the weekend or I guess
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  Speaker 1: over the last couple of days that we should dive
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  Speaker 1: into really quickly. Clayton Beetter reactivated from the fifteen day
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  Speaker 1: injured list in PJ poland being the one option down
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  Speaker 1: to triple A Franny, can you kind of walk me
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  Speaker 1: through this, because I know a lot of the Nationals
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  Speaker 1: fan base is asking right now why PJ poling? Well,
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  Speaker 1: I think there's a lot of things that are involved
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  Speaker 1: with this. I think Andrew Alvarez has earned his opportunity
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  Speaker 1: right to stay there, not bounce around. I think that's
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  Speaker 1: number one. Number two, you know, for PJ. You look
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  Speaker 1: at what he was seven for fifteen stranding, you know,
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  Speaker 1: inherited runners, and that's been a problem. You got a
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  Speaker 1: guy that's you know, pitched the most games in the
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  Speaker 1: big leagues for the Nats this year.
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  Speaker 2: But at the same time you get a little reset.
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  Speaker 2: But this is the part.
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  Speaker 1: About having a healthy roster, right It is having optable
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  Speaker 1: guys and being able to be able to mix a match.
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  Speaker 1: Does it suck, yeah, sure, But like at the same time,
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  Speaker 1: are you gonna bene your is your organization going to
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  Speaker 1: benefit by having a guy and PJ in there that
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  Speaker 1: you're you know, kind of know what he's gonna do,
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  Speaker 1: but then you don't, or you're gonna get him hot
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  Speaker 1: in triple A, get him right, get him like a
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  Speaker 1: little break real quick, get back up here. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it's gonna be an evolving like a revolving door. This
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  Speaker 1: is a whole entire time. So I understand it. People
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  Speaker 1: might not like it, but you gotta look at the
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  Speaker 1: other outlying factors of it. He wasn't getting the job
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  Speaker 1: done when it came to runners, a scrub dish or
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  Speaker 1: you know, inherited runners. You know, he come on and
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  Speaker 1: eleven of the first batters that he faced, he to
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  Speaker 1: reach base, and so like getting in getting into a groove,
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  Speaker 1: I feel like for him is gonna be huge. And
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  Speaker 1: we saw I would say a little bit of his
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  Speaker 1: his roll dwindle over the last week week and a
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  Speaker 1: half too, So yeah, you know, the Nationals fans had
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  Speaker 1: become quite not adapted, but come used to seeing him
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  Speaker 1: in that opener's role this season and it's literally become
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  Speaker 1: a part of this roster. Position on this roster that
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure Raised fans are very familiar with it for
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  Speaker 1: five or six years, but for Nats fans, this is
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  Speaker 1: kind of new to have a guy dedicated in the
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  Speaker 1: bullpen that's like just going to be the reliever or
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  Speaker 1: just going to be He did a bunch of different
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  Speaker 1: He did a bunch of different things, but like I
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  Speaker 1: think it feel like, you know, the versatility now that
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  Speaker 1: we've seen from Richard Lovelady's helping out with with the
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  Speaker 1: decision and be made like this too. So definitely have
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  Speaker 1: another left hander down there. Let's go out and talk
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  Speaker 1: about Thursday's game first, you know it happened more recently.
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  Speaker 1: The Nationals dropped this game two to one against the Mets.
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  Speaker 1: Cave Cavali was fantastic, as Spencer noted nine strikeouts over
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  Speaker 1: seven innings. He was on a roll right from the
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  Speaker 1: get go, three pitch, sit down, see you later to
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  Speaker 1: Carson Benge in the first inning, part of his one
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  Speaker 1: two three first then that's sat down the first two batters,
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  Speaker 1: or David Peterson, I should say, sat down the first
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  Speaker 1: two batters and then walked a bunch of batters. Dylan
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  Speaker 1: Lyle unable to come through with the bases loaded though,
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  Speaker 1: and then Dante Bichett he got the party going for them.
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  Speaker 2: This was in the.
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  Speaker 1: Third inning, or I believe Franny, or the fourth inning.
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  Speaker 2: That was in fourth.
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  Speaker 1: This was in the fourth inning, and then the Nationals
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  Speaker 1: had a response for it.
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  Speaker 2: My notes are.
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  Speaker 1: All over the place, right, I don't even know, I
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  Speaker 1: believe hold on, let me just go ahead and open
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  Speaker 1: the score book. And then jan Jo Shavaro with the
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  Speaker 1: groundout that got to run back on the board for
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  Speaker 1: the Nationals. It was two to one, but then c
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  Speaker 1: J rob robbed. Frankly, is it fair to say this
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  Speaker 1: was a robbery? Franny denied for sure, and unbelievable played
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  Speaker 1: by Vento's unbelievable play by Vento's on that on that one, uh,
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  Speaker 1: diving to his left.
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  Speaker 2: I mean it was a full extension.
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  Speaker 1: It was Ball's hammered over one hundred and one, and
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  Speaker 1: you just felt like that was that moment that they
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  Speaker 1: just really crushed the souls of of the Gnats in
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  Speaker 1: that moment. But uh, it was a third inning. By
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  Speaker 1: the way, with Boba Schet's are two RBI singles, So
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  Speaker 1: some of these games like they kind of overlap for myself.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, I look, they gave himselves a chance early
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  Speaker 1: in that game, and they really let Dave Peterson off
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  Speaker 1: the hook. Where was he Yeah, he was at like
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  Speaker 1: I want to say, forty eight pitches after two innings. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and they made him work early. And you said that
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  Speaker 1: on the broadcast too. It was just one of those
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  Speaker 1: they just it felt like last year all over again,
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  Speaker 1: where you have a guy on the hook and you
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  Speaker 1: can't can't do anything about it. Approach got a little
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  Speaker 1: bit off, But I also think that he started to
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  Speaker 1: find his way. You know, you gave a guy early
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  Speaker 1: that might be your only chance, and he found it.
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  Speaker 1: And he's been rolling on that on that side for them.
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  Speaker 1: So it wasn't like a you know, someone New m.
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  Speaker 2: And that a.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, David Peterson, he is on a roll yesterday. I
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  Speaker 1: gotta give him credit the whole not a hole on
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  Speaker 1: a roll, but he got into a role, settled into
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  Speaker 1: a group after the first couple of innings there, and Uh,
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to bring up their pitching box score really
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  Speaker 1: quickly if I had a correct that's the Nationals. Take
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  Speaker 1: a look at the Mets pitching pitching box score and
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  Speaker 1: how about a round of applause, quick clap for them.
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  Speaker 1: You see everyone in between getting a hold and Devin
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  Speaker 1: Williams to save there in the ninth inning. I want
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  Speaker 1: to give credits in the Seine Nunias for this play
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  Speaker 1: that he made in the contest yesterday and the ninth inning,
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  Speaker 1: when the bases were loaded and it seemed that all
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  Speaker 1: was going wrong for the Nationals, Hey, there was out
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  Speaker 1: number two and then Jacob Young was able to track
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  Speaker 1: down this ball. He had himself a pretty good couple
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  Speaker 1: of days there to wrap up the series. But when
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  Speaker 1: Jacob Young made this playing right center, the Nats were
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  Speaker 1: able to hoodini their way out of the top of
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  Speaker 1: the ninth inning. Uh, Franny, what you see during during
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  Speaker 1: the top of the ninth inning yesterday that or later,
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  Speaker 1: Revalta was nasty as hell and he had a you
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  Speaker 1: know what, two infield hits.
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  Speaker 2: In that in that span.
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  Speaker 1: He just he has found something as far as uh
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  Speaker 1: that late inning relief. Now, the sacrifice bunt that he
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  Speaker 1: throws over to first was a great throw and nas
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  Speaker 1: just went it clamped off his glove and so that
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  Speaker 1: was an error on him. But then he buckled down.
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  Speaker 1: He had a long a bat against m J. Melendez
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  Speaker 1: and and struck him out. That that line drive by
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  Speaker 1: Louis Trends to the scene was a fantastic play. But
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  Speaker 1: then that that ball that was hitting the right center
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  Speaker 1: field gap by Carson Benge was like we thought was
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  Speaker 1: in the stands right.
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  Speaker 2: And the wind the wind was the wind was crazy.
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  Speaker 1: So you know that that's the that's the part that
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  Speaker 1: we you know, you take that deep breath and you're like,
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  Speaker 1: this might be it might have a chance.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: I love the Mets booth. They're really they're really terrific.
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  Speaker 1: They're not as good as our guys on the Mats
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  Speaker 1: that I enjoy listening to. But if you listen to
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  Speaker 1: the Mets replay of the bench fly out from yesterday,
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  Speaker 1: oh goodness. A lot of us got gotted watching it
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  Speaker 1: in person and watching it on TV thinking, oh boy,
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  Speaker 1: Grand Slam and then the wind just knocking it down.
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  Speaker 1: The wind was funny yesterday. I certainly would have been
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  Speaker 1: an interesting one had I the wind. It seems like Wrigley,
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  Speaker 1: which again I can't say it seemed like Wrigley because
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  Speaker 1: I haven't been to Wrigley yet.
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  Speaker 2: But it was more like San Francisco.
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  Speaker 1: That's what's Zim and I were talking about, because there's
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  Speaker 1: balls that your net that you.
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  Speaker 2: Just like, nothing's gonna happen.
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  Speaker 1: You're like, you're gonna watch guys turn around, and we
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  Speaker 1: watch guys running in on balls.
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  Speaker 2: So run me too much of playing in San Francisco
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  Speaker 2: for a long time. So no, it is like SF.
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  Speaker 1: I gotta get out there and see what the wind
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  Speaker 1: is like in that ballpark. But in the bottom of
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  Speaker 1: the ninth inning, I wasn't able to pull too much
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  Speaker 1: b roll on footage. Dale and Lyle led off with
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  Speaker 1: the double. Luis Garcia pinch hit at that point and
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  Speaker 1: I ground it out, and the tying run was at
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  Speaker 1: third base with one out in Jose Louis Garcia.
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  Speaker 2: Junior, Yes, go to.
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  Speaker 1: Got to give him credit there for dancing the runner
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  Speaker 1: runner at third with one out for Tenna and he
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  Speaker 1: was not able to bring that run in, which brought
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  Speaker 1: up Cabert Ruiz for the final out, unfortunately rolling over
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  Speaker 1: to second base to end the game. But really quickly,
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  Speaker 1: I just gave props to the Mets box score. On
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  Speaker 1: the pitching side of things, I want to give some
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  Speaker 1: credit to Cavali and to beat her and Ribalta, like
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  Speaker 1: you said, because look at that Era is still sitting
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  Speaker 1: at one point eighty despite three runners to start the
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  Speaker 1: inning yesterday for Orlando and then Kabali. I mean, he
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  Speaker 1: was just I want to say, one of his best
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  Speaker 1: outings of the year yesterday. It's going to show up
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  Speaker 1: as a loss in the scorebook. But he was gross, gross, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he was gross. He was gross, and uh, he was consistent.
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  Speaker 1: He just has to figure out that that little second
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  Speaker 1: time through thing is is kind of getting to him
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  Speaker 1: a little bit at times. And so I don't know
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  Speaker 1: what it is on that that front, but yeah, he's uh,
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  Speaker 1: he's a stud man. It was a three twenty four
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  Speaker 1: average second time through and they kind of got to
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  Speaker 1: him a little bit in that in that spot. But
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  Speaker 1: he's able to buckle down and find his way.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you read a lot of stuff online and
• 10:41
  Speaker 1: you see it and you know, because it's never really
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  Speaker 1: all true. And and I love how people have these
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  Speaker 1: analysis of the games and you're like, I just wish
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  Speaker 1: people were watching because I'll say this, like, who'se a
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  Speaker 1: ten of strikes out in that?
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  Speaker 2: Uh? With one out runner at third it was a
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  Speaker 2: three to two count.
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  Speaker 1: He was what three oh three one three two something
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  Speaker 1: like that, Uh, to get get there, and Devin Williams
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  Speaker 1: started a ship one of his airbenders on the inside
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  Speaker 1: part of the plate and it ran twenty two inches
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  Speaker 1: and people are like, how are you swinging at that?
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  Speaker 2: It's like, how are you not? It ran twenty two inches.
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  Speaker 1: It dove to if it went, it went more than
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  Speaker 1: the plate, so almost a plate in the half in
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  Speaker 1: that movement. And it was absolutely filthy. And so you know,
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  Speaker 1: for what ten has then done so far this year,
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  Speaker 1: he's been so good. Uh, and especially in that in
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  Speaker 1: the pinch hitting role, Like that's a hat tip, that's
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  Speaker 1: one of those were you hat tip Devin Williams And
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  Speaker 1: and you know coming up with his best bowlt of
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  Speaker 1: the day.
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  Speaker 3: So.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I didn't put up the sequence or anything of
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  Speaker 1: the ten at bat, but I know a lot of
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  Speaker 1: people are frustrated it swinging it X and.
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  Speaker 2: Swinging and Y and z.
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  Speaker 1: If the time run is it third base with one
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  Speaker 1: out in your pinch hitting, that's your job and when
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  Speaker 1: the ball moves.
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  Speaker 2: That much, it's not your fault. That's the pitch. You're
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  Speaker 2: doing his job well.
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  Speaker 1: So, as Franny just said, sometimes you got to tip
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  Speaker 1: your cap.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, I don't know, shout out the Mets.
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  Speaker 2: I guess I'm not gonna say shout out the Mets.
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  Speaker 1: I would never say, and that's why you've never heard
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  Speaker 1: me say anything about their booth or players.
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  Speaker 2: So a tip of the cap to.
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  Speaker 1: The Mets for their win yesterday, I guess, give you
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  Speaker 1: a look at the standards one more time. Improve their
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  Speaker 1: record to twenty two and twenty eight did get them
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  Speaker 1: ahead of the Marlins yesterday, so they taste fourth place
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  Speaker 1: for the first.
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  Speaker 2: On a while. But Franny final thoughts on yesterday's.
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  Speaker 1: Game, I mean, just a just a weird game just
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  Speaker 1: in general. Nothing, no big deal.
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  Speaker 2: It's one of those where David Peterson found his way.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think.
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  Speaker 1: You know Nats are going to be satisfied with with
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  Speaker 1: you know, splitting the series, which is great, but you
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  Speaker 1: also have to.
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  Speaker 2: Be you know, it's another getting series. Wins are ideal.
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  Speaker 1: Splits are like beyond anything but or sweeps or beyond anything.
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  Speaker 1: But when you get to the four games, split like
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  Speaker 1: move along, move along. Get ready to look ahead to
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  Speaker 1: the Mighty Braves the division leaders. Yeah, really quickly. Before
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  Speaker 1: Alrighty, we are back Franny Wednesday. That was a good one.
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  Speaker 1: I had to find my tongue a couple of times
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  Speaker 1: in the group chapter really quickly you all were joined
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  Speaker 1: by a zen well Ryan Zerman, yes right, and in
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  Speaker 1: the booth yesterday, what a pleasure it was, and so
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  Speaker 1: many good quotes. But you talked about what a patient
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  Speaker 1: hitter he was, and then Zim talked about that kind
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  Speaker 1: of translating in the philosophy being embraced here. Can you
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: just talk about that conversation a little bit more. Yeah, No,
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  Speaker 1: I think you learn a lot from Zim when he
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  Speaker 1: comes up there, because he's got nugs on everything and
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: not a know it all, but he is he knows
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  Speaker 1: everything in my mind at least, and so if you listen,
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: you know, he just talks about having a plan, having
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: an opportunity to be relax the play because you have
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  Speaker 1: that plan and you stick to the plan. So therefore
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: you're gonna be patient with the plan, you know, like
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  Speaker 1: not every It took a little bit to realize, like,
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: hey man, like that every first pitch is not the
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  Speaker 1: one I have to hit. If it's not in my spot,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to go after it. And sometimes like
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: a trigger guy, any thinking that I absolutely see everything,
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  Speaker 1: you know. So part of his deal in talking about
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: it was just being patient enough to get your pitch
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: and be stubborn enough to get your pitch until two strikes,
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: when when it becomes a team at bat, right, like
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: it's all for the for the boys then, but those
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: first two are for you and it is an absolute fact.
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: And and kids that that you know, listen to it
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: and you hope you you embrace it and you understand it.
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: And it's like, it's not about just taking the take either,
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: right to have a plan take make it look like
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: you're you know, you're all over something, you know, set
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: yourself up for someone else. But being patient is key.
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: And I feel like when Zim talks about it, it's
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: a lot different than when I would talk about it
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: because I was a very aggressivator. You know, when you
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: have thousands of at bats in the big leagues you
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: have and an opportunity to play every day, you have
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: that that opportunity to get into things and set things
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: up and do it how you may. And sometimes, like
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: guys like myself, we were panicking a little bit at
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: times because we want to get you know, the five
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: hits and in a week in that first game.
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: It's so my approach is a little bit different.
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: But like I understand because I love and talk, you know,
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: smart about talking hitting. I've been told I don't know
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: anything I'm talking about. A fan told me dumbest thing
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: I've ever heard. Friends and ever say it's okay to
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: chase outside the zone. Like what I'm like, No, it's
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: not okay to chase outside his zone. But if you
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: are going to chase, where you do damage? Right, we
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: talk about it. Luis Garcia Jr. Right, A big thing
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: about him is like be patient. You know, if it's
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: down on the zone, let it be be patient with that,
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: let it let it get.
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: Up up about the zone.
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: And you know what, if Luis allows that that pitch
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: to get up in the zone more times than not,
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: he's gonna do damage and it's gonna be it's okay
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: for him and chase. No, you're miss We say that
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: on the pitching side, right know where your misses faces
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: against the hitter. Well, the same thing goes for a
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: for a position player when you're up hitting, No you're
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: miss where is if you will? So I think it's
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: a big, a big thing that uh you know, we've
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: talked about a lot with with Zim and he's you know,
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: kind enough to come up and take the time just
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: to just.
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: Do that for us and have those conversations.
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: And if you're ants fan, you know, uh, Zim really
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: did not like to swing at the first pitch over
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: the years, and if he did was usually doing damage
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: on it because he really liked that pitch. To see
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: a Franny's explaining and as they explained the booth the
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: other night, you get three to work with, being sort
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: of Zim's approaching mindset, and all the pressures is really
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: on the pitcher to come to him when you're that
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: good of a player as Ryan Zerman.
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: Uh.
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, So let's go out to dive into Wednesday's recap.
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: The Nationals one eight to four fantastic pictures. CJ and
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: the dugout spends the writing a piece over in the
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: Athletic MLB's most surprising team has reached the five hundred mark.
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: Now they're asking why not us? It was also pups
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: in the Bark. Shout out to the national Ship social
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: media for sharing these pictures of some good looking girls
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: and boys from the Pedigree Foundation over there.
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: CJ Abrams doing what CJ Abrams does. Four of nine
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: Major League pictures making their debut. I think I got
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: the stat right. Been greeted by a CJ home run
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: and then Cabert Ruiz uh just an inning later was
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: able to add another run insurance make it for nothing.
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: Perhaps that was two innings later, but Franny CJ. I
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: don't know our friend Thornton and Thornton's data they they
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: maybe they should have checked.
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: The CJ stat line. That's that's just what he does.
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's uh, it's phenomenal because it is so rude,
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: but it's so great at the same time.
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: Right, But I I joke with him on it, so
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: at him was like guys Maker's debut. Oh, it's a
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: bad day to be the guy.
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: That guy and uh he starts laughing because we had
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: the Lion Lion richardson game a couple of years ago
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: in Cincinnati where he went first pitch homer and then uh,
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: Lane Thomas went second pitch of the kid's career homer
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: back to back, and it was like, oh god, I
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: feel bad for that one. But look, it's it's a
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: rude awakening for a lot of these guys. And you
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: know the cool thing is when when it comes down
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: to it, Uh, they got to face James, they gotta
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: face CJ. And usually they come out on top, uh
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: in those debuts, and I feel like they're gonna be
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: memorable for their entire lives. Yeah, overble indeed, and uh
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: uh I think my honestly, my highlight from the game.
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: All on Tuesday was the Brown Lord interview in the
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: second inning. He was fantastic, he was amazing, He's incredible,
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: saying thank you afterwards everything. But what was that not
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: the longest three batters of his life? Because I gotta
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: imagine right there telling you, okay, you're on for three batters.
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: They were wet. Yeah.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: No, we got him out of there a little bit
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: so we didn't have to you know, push you envelope
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: with them, uh, just because you know, at the end
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: of the day, no one wants that.
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: Like the whole time. Like for me, I laughed, I'm like, okay,
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: Bred's done, and he was.
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: He was so good. It was so good he was.
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: It was fantastic yesterday for those of you that got
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: to hear it during the game. In the top of
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: the third inning, after the Dats had that for nothing lead,
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: Juan Soto doing what Juan Soto has done in this
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: ballpark many times before, something he actually did many times
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: in this series, launching a home run, and then in
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: the fifth inning, Luis Garcia Junior base hits a right
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: field Cabert Reeves coming around third base. Franny, I'm eager
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: to hear your thoughts on this play because I agree
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: with Blake Yetia's mom who reached out after that game,
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: in that play, I thought that was gonna be his
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: first ejection. I can't believe Blake should go there. I
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: was more surprised he didn't go because of the way
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: Ta Tishan or the yes the second Base Empire came
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: in saying no.
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: You can't, Yeah, you didn't have your hand up.
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: My Blake was out right right as it happened, he
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: like jumped out of the out of the dugout. I mean,
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: Hayden Singer was all over the plate and it by
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: nature of the law in this case. Do I like
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: the oral No, I don't. I just don't care for it.
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: I get it whatever, But that let's move on on
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: that one. But the fact that he was basically sitting
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: on the plate. There was nothing, no plate given to him,
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: home plate. Umpire did not even.
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: Like Budge.
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: I just said to Ah, he's out, like he couldn't
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: even tell it. You know, this is the second time
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: in the last couple of weeks that a base has
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: been completely blocked. Uh see dj on on on a
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: cot stealing. He was all over the base and then
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: this one, and so yeah, I was. I was surprised
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: that that blade didn't get run, but at the same time, like,
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: I'm glad he didn't. I guess, I guess I'm glad
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: then he didn't have to deal with Mum's raft. You know, yeah,
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: I guess I'm glad he didn't either, because the boys
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: were happy about that. They didn't want that to happen. No,
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: it's it's it's funny though, I laugh, because you know what,
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: we've all been there. We've all had these moments where
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: you want to snap, you probably should snap.
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: But you hold your own stay strong, you stay strong,
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: hold true.
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: And then the next inning, Na Seen Nunez made an
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: incredible play up in the middle that I thought really
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: saved the momentum of that game at that point in time.
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: Uh and and then sacrifice sacrificing himself in the next
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: inning to contribute and give the Nationals a six to
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: two lead. Jan Soto wasn't done after that either. He
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: of course had a response. He added two more runs
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: with a solo or not a solo shot, a two
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: run shot in the eighth inning that made it six
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: to four, and uh, Jacob Young Jacob Young and got
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: them right back off of Craig Kimberl.
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: This was an awesome bullpen or an awesome home run to.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: Watch as it barely got out into the left center
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: field bullpen. But Franny an incredible power surge for Jacob
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: Young of late Why don't we finish up the show
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: on a few notes with him today?
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: So jay Wi has done so much work in the
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: offseason cleaning up his swing path and shortening it up
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: to a point where it's flatter. He was so steep,
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: and so when steep comes, like you think of the
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: shape of v it's in and out, in and out,
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: in and out, and a lot of times you're gonna
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: hit ground balls, right man, That's really what they wanted
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: from him, you know, top.
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: Of the baseball, put the ball on the ground.
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: But do all this. We don't want a ball in
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: the air. And it's like it's the wrong way to think.
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: It's the big leagues. Like for kids, it's a great
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: idea because like not everybody fields a ball clearly, but
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: in the big leagues for right handed batter or ground
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: ball is an out. And that's the biggest thing. I
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: laugh because I'm like people that don't believe it. They
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: they don't watch enough watch a ground ball by a
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: right hander more times than not, I would say ninety
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: eight percent of the time.
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: It's now and he's starting to lift the ball a
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: little bit more.
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: We're starting to see the pole side power. He's not
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: cutting himself off where his front foot you know, goes
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: towards home plate. It lifts up, but it's like it'll
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: land straight. If the balls away, he'll he'll kind of go.
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: Towards the plate.
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: But if it's on the pole side, like on that one,
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: his body stayed open and he was able to you know,
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: clear the path and get a great swing off there.
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: And it was amazing that it was. And then very
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: fiddling am very fittingly.
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: As I try to work that out, Jacob got the
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: final catch to end the ball game on Wednesday night,
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: a game the Nationals won eight to six and put
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: them at twenty five and twenty five back at that
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: five hundred mark. Overall, just really a solid game top
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: to bottom. Pitching, uh hitting, shielding was pretty good in
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: that one.
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: So around them, applause for that right there. I can
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: I can.
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: I can feel that my computer is starting to overheat,
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: and I also don't have an incredible graphic prepared to
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: have the Sorry, have the Braves announced the probable pitcher
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: for later today yet, because they didn't have one last
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: night when I was doing my res, I thought it
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: was Bryce Elder, Bryce Elder, Okay, but we have We're
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: we're still waiting on it, Okay. I know the Nationals
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: tentably we're looking at Miles Michaeliss versus Bryce Elder.
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: And there might be there might be an opener for
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: Michael Lists again. Yeah, I don't know. We'll find out.
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: We'll find out that, but I mean.
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: It's put it last time, last time out put him
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: in a good spot, I would say, even.
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: Though it ended in the loss for the Nats.
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: Uh, he pitched great after that first like any or
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: two definitely.
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: Uh Yeah. As we wrap it up, I'm gonna go
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: ahead and.
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: Just do the giveaway details because my computer is overheating.
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: I'm not sure how much longer I'm gonna have here.
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: So if you're watching on YouTube, we have the Nationals
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: Nesting Dog, go ahead and reach out to me on
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: Instagram at bat boy Shelley at bat Boy Shelley, and
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: I will pick one of you to win this Nationals
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: Nesting doll. There's also a little Frank Robinson and the
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: Chief Chad Cordero inside of this Ryan zerum in one
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: Price over.
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: The side here.
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: But Price is wearing those old old red, white and
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: blue patriotic It's.
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: Gonna be a hard thing about it. That was my
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: favorite UNI. I love those ones. They were good.
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: I mean, they need to bring the piping back. But
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: that's a conversation for Monday's episode. But yeah, we'll be
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: back on Monday. We'll be recapping you what uniform talk.
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: Let's let's go. Let's let's do some uniform talk in
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: the next one, because I did see some some debacle
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: that going online. It's it's a thing between me and
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: some friends sometimes. Do they bring the piping back to
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: those red jerseys? Yes, obviously they got to get those.
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: Bobby. I like the Red Ones too, the new Red Ones.
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Franny, you know, go to Atlanta this weekend, not
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: not what is the expectation, but you know, like you said,
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: you you want to take two out of three.
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: The goal is to sweep, but no one you're going
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: to the opposing goal is to win. The goal is
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: to win.
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: If you go in, if you go in with the
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: idea that you're going to sweep a series that's.
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: That's never good.
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: You're probably not going to get one out of three.
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: In that case, you're probably gonna get shut right down.
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: Maybe in the nlcyes perhaps, but until the next episode,
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: everyone take care of yourselves. Thank you so much for listening,
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: and we'll see you.
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: Peace. Peace,