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Rays 12th inning walk-off keeps this MLB season alive | FT Postgame · Foul Territory

• 0:11
  Speaker 1: Let's do a show.
• 0:12
  Speaker 2: Let's keep playing ball. Let the 2026 season continue. The
• 0:18
  Speaker 2: Tampa Bay Rays grab a game.
• 0:20
  Speaker 1: 4-3. Walk off.
• 0:23
  Speaker 2: Give that home crowd or whatever you call that crowd,
• 0:26
  Speaker 2: because I don't know which crowd is the home crowd.
• 0:28
  Speaker 2: I don't know if it was 50-50, whatever it is.
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  Speaker 3: Indoor crowd.
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  Speaker 2: There was a happy crowd. The indoor crowd, right. It's
• 0:33
  Speaker 2: an indoor World Series. And Rays fans are fired up.
• 0:37
  Speaker 2: They grab a game. And then you start to think
• 0:39
  Speaker 2: about history, Todd Fother. As far as I saw, I
• 0:42
  Speaker 2: think it's been 25 times that you've had a 3-0
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  Speaker 2: lead in a World Series. Yes. I'll give you two
• 0:52
  Speaker 2: different trivia questions. One is, guess how many times you've
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  Speaker 2: had a Game 5 out of those 25 opportunities?
• 1:01
  Speaker 1: I'm going to go right down the middle. I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to say 12.
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  Speaker 2: Kratz?
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  Speaker 3: Game 5.
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  Speaker 2: So just grabbing this game like the Rays just did.
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  Speaker 2: And it happened four times before tonight out of 25 chances.
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  Speaker 2: And then guess how many times it's been taken to
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  Speaker 2: a game six.
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  Speaker 1: After being a 3-0.
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  Speaker 2: In the World Series?
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  Speaker 1: Zero. Never. Never.
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  Speaker 2: If the Rays win game five, we'll see a first-ever
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  Speaker 2: game six after a 3-0 lead from a team. And Milwaukee,
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  Speaker 2: I think, would still be feeling good. about bringing that
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  Speaker 2: thing back home.
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  Speaker 1: Zero. Zero.
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  Speaker 2: There's some history for you. That's what I saw on
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  Speaker 2: the social media, and you know everything on social media
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  Speaker 2: is factual. We can double-check it between now and the
• 1:50
  Speaker 2: 1 o'clock Eastern FT show, but this was fun. This
• 1:54
  Speaker 2: was a cool game. There was Jake Bauer's homer that
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  Speaker 2: we thought was going to be remembered forever, and it'll
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  Speaker 2: be kind of remembered, but not as much. Ben Williamson
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  Speaker 2: with the walk-off. Let's break it all down.
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  Speaker 3: Cooper Pratt.
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  Speaker 2: It's a full count.
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  Speaker 1: Who did I say?
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  Speaker 3: Jake Bowers.
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  Speaker 1: I'm punchy. Oh, oops.
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  Speaker 3: I was like, I was thinking to myself, I'm like,
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  Speaker 3: oh crap, did I get that wrong?
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  Speaker 1: No, no, you got it. I was going to let
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  Speaker 1: it go, but crap to you.
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  Speaker 2: Never let it go. It's a full count. It's fueled
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  Speaker 2: by marathon. You need a little gas right now. So
• 2:31
  Speaker 2: the Rays just got it. Todd Father, what did you
• 2:34
  Speaker 2: think of this one? And Is there anything that you
• 2:36
  Speaker 2: would pick at if you're looking at the Milwaukee side first?
• 2:40
  Speaker 2: Do you think they did anything strategically off?
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  Speaker 4: No, I don't think so. I mean, there was one
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  Speaker 4: big mistake at the end. Ortiz at third base, the
• 2:53
  Speaker 4: throwing hour with Bauer's over there. The dude's been picking
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  Speaker 4: everything at first base.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, my God.
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  Speaker 4: He's saved so many runs or at least so many
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  Speaker 4: guys from getting on base. there's so much to dive
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  Speaker 4: into here, Scott. I mean, there was so many. This
• 3:10
  Speaker 4: was a game to remember. I mean, listen, the dude Pratt,
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  Speaker 4: I mean, come on, man. This guy is absolutely unbelievable.
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  Speaker 1: Four hits.
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  Speaker 4: He looks so good up there. I think, you know,
• 3:26
  Speaker 4: if I'm Murph, you might want to try and move
• 3:28
  Speaker 4: him up in the lineup, or you keep it as
• 3:30
  Speaker 4: it is just because of how good they've been playing.
• 3:33
  Speaker 4: Pitching has been really good. How about this Ashby guy, man?
• 3:36
  Speaker 1: Holy moly.
• 3:38
  Speaker 4: I mean, Kratzy, we talked about this yesterday after the game. MVP,
• 3:42
  Speaker 4: I mean, this guy's got to be brought into it.
• 3:45
  Speaker 4: If not that dude, if it wasn't for Jackson Churio
• 3:49
  Speaker 4: basically cementing history again with Babe Ruth with multiple hits
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  Speaker 4: in the first four games. So, no, I don't think
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  Speaker 4: there's anything to nitpick about the Brewers here. I just
• 4:00
  Speaker 4: think they lost the game. They just didn't finish a game,
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  Speaker 4: and that's– could that lead to something different tomorrow?
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  Speaker 3: Maybe.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe. That's probably it.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't see– I guess the MO of the Brewers
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  Speaker 3: is they just never give in. They never give in.
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  Speaker 3: I saw a few too many in the, let's see, 10th,
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  Speaker 3: 11th inning, 9th, 10th, 11th inning. More pop-ups than I'm
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  Speaker 3: used to seeing from this team. Did they change their approach?
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  Speaker 3: At the plate, like, hey, we got to try to
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  Speaker 3: win it here. I don't know. Obviously, they end up
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  Speaker 3: hitting the home run that looked like it was going
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  Speaker 3: to win it. But I don't know. You can nitpick
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  Speaker 3: the errors. But what you can't do is glass over
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  Speaker 3: the fact that this team is still in control. The
• 4:55
  Speaker 3: Rays did something that, you know what, you got to
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  Speaker 3: feel proud of as much as you'll be a little
• 4:59
  Speaker 3: bit embarrassed of the World Series loss. performance compared to
• 5:03
  Speaker 3: the brewers they didn't get swept so i mean i
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  Speaker 3: think there's that.
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  Speaker 2: And we've had four games so far in the fall
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  Speaker 2: classic three of them one run games three one run
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  Speaker 2: games one absolute blowout but three one run games close
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  Speaker 2: fun entertaining yeah one of them wasn't i mean for
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  Speaker 2: the brewers fans it was but for a general baseball
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  Speaker 2: watcher after game three I think a lot of people figured, Kratz,
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  Speaker 2: that the Brewers were just going to roll over the
• 5:36
  Speaker 2: Rays in this one and that they would have the
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  Speaker 2: advantage with a rested bullpen to just be like, boom, boom, boom.
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  Speaker 2: Dustin May giving them a few innings, too. Like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: house money here, no problem. But the offense didn't capitalize. Also,
• 5:50
  Speaker 2: the Rays pitched well in this game. Griffin Jack's pretty good.
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  Speaker 2: Nick Martinez in there. Baker still holding it down.
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  Speaker 3: That's what I was going to say. My question was,
• 6:00
  Speaker 3: how do you attack this team? And I think Griffin Jacks'
• 6:04
  Speaker 3: ability to throw multiple pitches showed the direction. Everything's going
• 6:10
  Speaker 3: separate directions. When it didn't feel like Drew Rasmussen was
• 6:15
  Speaker 3: ever able to get into his groove, you're like, oh yeah, sure,
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  Speaker 3: Griffin Jacks will get it done. Nobody thought that was
• 6:21
  Speaker 3: going to happen, but maybe it's a blueprint for this
• 6:23
  Speaker 3: team to come out and do what they did. Nick Martinez, again,
• 6:28
  Speaker 3: comes out and gives this team a needed lift. They
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  Speaker 3: went to him in game one because they trusted him.
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  Speaker 3: He comes out of the pen. Nick Martinez, two innings,
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  Speaker 3: one hit. He's got a 2-8-1 ERA in the postseason here.
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  Speaker 3: And the other part, too, you said the Brewers didn't
• 6:49
  Speaker 3: hit or the bats didn't get going today. Well, The
• 6:54
  Speaker 3: Rays actually got Brian Baker in the game. If you're
• 6:56
  Speaker 3: a thin bullpen, if you're thin on pitching and you
• 7:01
  Speaker 3: never get maybe one of your top three pitchers besides
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  Speaker 3: like Peralta, Rasmussen, and then Baker, if he never gets
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  Speaker 3: in the game, how are you ever able to keep
• 7:13
  Speaker 3: this Brewers lineup at bay? It's good he got in
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  Speaker 3: there tonight, two innings. Has he cooked for tomorrow because
• 7:20
  Speaker 3: he hasn't gone two full innings? once this entire season?
• 7:26
  Speaker 4: Listen, and Scotty, I just want to, you asked me
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  Speaker 4: a question, what I can nitpick about the Brewers.
• 7:32
  Speaker 1: There's one thing I totally forgot about this. Two through
• 7:35
  Speaker 1: five hitters.
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  Speaker 4: 0 for 17 for the Brewers. That's a recipe for
• 7:42
  Speaker 4: a not successful game right there. Since they've, the whole
• 7:46
  Speaker 4: team has been absolutely in fuego. So, I mean, you
• 7:48
  Speaker 4: think of your top dogs right now, Those are the
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  Speaker 4: guys that got to get going a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: And guess what? They won three games. So, you sit back. Okay, fine.
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  Speaker 4: But 2-3, 4-5. Bowers, Yelich, Contreras, Terang, 0-17. So, that–
• 8:07
  Speaker 4: and if they would have won that game, it still–
• 8:08
  Speaker 4: it would have been like, wow, this team is truly
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  Speaker 4: that unbelievable. They deserve it. They still do.
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  Speaker 1: But 0-17, 2-5, can't happen.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to nitpick, if I may. I got some things.
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  Speaker 2: So first off, I know you're up 3-0, but how
• 8:29
  Speaker 2: did we get to Shane Drayan? Just because it's extras,
• 8:33
  Speaker 2: we're out of pitchers? Is there any creativity? We have
• 8:36
  Speaker 2: some fans in the chat that are like, I can't
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  Speaker 2: just throw Miz out there for an inning or two
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  Speaker 2: and just end this thing. It's not the craziest thought.
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  Speaker 2: You have your opportunity, you have a one-run lead.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Do you think, would you have done that, Kratz?
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  Speaker 1: Nope. No?
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  Speaker 3: That was my answer. No, I don't know about you, Todd,
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  Speaker 3: but I don't do it. No.
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: I don't do it.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: You're up closer to series, yes, but you're up 3-0.
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  Speaker 4: Your bullpen should figure out a way to win that,
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  Speaker 4: on both sides. Your bullpen should figure out a way
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  Speaker 4: to win that game. And whoever you bring in, that's
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  Speaker 4: why you're there in the World Series, so. I want
• 9:16
  Speaker 4: him starting a game to win the World Series if
• 9:19
  Speaker 4: he has to do it, yes.
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  Speaker 1: And, I mean, the– yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Don't mess with the Drohan. Hasn't pitched. One inning in
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  Speaker 3: a month. I know you put him in a tough spot,
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  Speaker 3: but I just– it was an unlikely scenario that you
• 9:40
  Speaker 3: were going to– and this is where– Was Chad Patrick
• 9:43
  Speaker 3: the better option than Big Woo? Could he have gone
• 9:46
  Speaker 3: back-to-back nights? Chad Patrick wasn't necessarily, like, just the veteran
• 9:51
  Speaker 3: bullpen presence. Like, this was a guy that started, was
• 9:54
  Speaker 3: coming out of the pen. So people were like, well,
• 9:57
  Speaker 3: if they didn't put Big Wu on there, he could have,
• 9:59
  Speaker 3: whoever that person was, could have thrown back-to-back nights. Maybe, maybe.
• 10:06
  Speaker 3: Big Wu couldn't have thrown back-to-back nights? Big Wu, they
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  Speaker 3: were not going to do Big Wu back-to-back nights.
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  Speaker 1: No way.
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  Speaker 2: So, okay, I know this is hindsight, but you're up
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  Speaker 2: nine runs. Like, Big Wu is your garbage time guy
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  Speaker 2: to get the inning. Like, it's him. It's Drohan who
• 10:25
  Speaker 2: hasn't pitched. Obviously, Woodruff hasn't pitched since July 4th. And
• 10:29
  Speaker 2: Kyle Harrison hasn't pitched the entire postseason. That's three guys
• 10:32
  Speaker 2: that are, I don't want to say rusty, but.
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  Speaker 3: It can't be. It can't be Drohan. To me, I
• 10:38
  Speaker 3: think out of those three guys in the ninth inning,
• 10:41
  Speaker 3: there's three guys that are not coming back on one day.
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  Speaker 3: And so I think you waste big woo and you get–
• 10:48
  Speaker 3: I mean, there's a chance you can get four innings
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  Speaker 3: out of Drohan and Harrison. I don't know how good
• 10:54
  Speaker 3: of innings, but.
• 10:56
  Speaker 1: Guys, I brought it up before.
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  Speaker 4: If you throw the ball to first base, it's one out.
• 11:01
  Speaker 4: It changes the whole inning. And it might even change
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  Speaker 4: the whole World Series. Listen, that's nitpicking. And it's a
• 11:09
  Speaker 4: good nitpick.
• 11:10
  Speaker 1: Field the ball. Ortiz went backhand, looked at the ball
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  Speaker 1: a little bit, a little nonchalant. And you know what?
• 11:16
  Speaker 1: I've been there before. I feel pretty good. I made
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  Speaker 1: a nice play.
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  Speaker 3: Boom.
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  Speaker 1: Let the ball go. You're like, oh, shoot. You know
• 11:23
  Speaker 1: what I mean?
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  Speaker 4: And you can't think that Bauer's going to pick every
• 11:27
  Speaker 4: darn ball at first base. You have to be able
• 11:30
  Speaker 4: to make that backhanded throw. Get the ball to him.
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  Speaker 4: Long hop him.
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  Speaker 1: Something.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not blaming Johan here. I'm not blaming the pick.
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  Speaker 4: I'm blaming the error. You make that play, it's one out,
• 11:43
  Speaker 4: you're two outs away, now the pressure is back on
• 11:45
  Speaker 4: Tampa Bay.
• 11:47
  Speaker 2: I have another nitpick, and actually it's perfect timing. Ruben
• 11:50
  Speaker 2: in the chat brought it up. There were no good options.
• 11:52
  Speaker 2: The mistake was McGill for one batter. Remember, we were
• 11:57
  Speaker 2: drawing up what this was going to look like on
• 11:59
  Speaker 2: the earlier FT before the game, Kratz, and we're like, oh,
• 12:03
  Speaker 2: you got Ashby for a few innings. You can get
• 12:05
  Speaker 2: a couple innings out of McGill. They only got one batter.
• 12:08
  Speaker 1: Out of McGill.
• 12:10
  Speaker 3: Do we know that McGill's okay?
• 12:11
  Speaker 1: Interesting.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, is anyone really okay?
• 12:16
  Speaker 1: No one.
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  Speaker 3: The only reason I ask, the only reason I ask
• 12:19
  Speaker 3: is there's a repetitive narrative that while Ashby is the
• 12:24
  Speaker 3: great choice and I'm watching the video of all the
• 12:28
  Speaker 3: booze getting rolled out of the clubhouse for the Brewers. Sorry,
• 12:32
  Speaker 3: I was distracted, but there's a, I mean, if it,
• 12:39
  Speaker 3: if it, If it looks like a pig and stinks
• 12:42
  Speaker 3: like a pig, it must be a pig. They didn't
• 12:45
  Speaker 3: go to him in a safe situation after Ashby was
• 12:50
  Speaker 3: too scoreless against the Dodgers. They kept Ashby out there again,
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  Speaker 3: extending him. They go to him for one inning. I
• 13:00
  Speaker 3: wonder if they're trying to not overextend him. Because I'm
• 13:06
  Speaker 3: trying to remember who the at-bat was against for Ashby. Like,
• 13:11
  Speaker 3: what was that matchup that they were like, no more McGill.
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  Speaker 3: We got the one out. And then going to that
• 13:21
  Speaker 3: where you wouldn't have McGill back out there again.
• 13:24
  Speaker 2: I don't know. I feel like McGill's okay. And, yeah,
• 13:28
  Speaker 2: are you anticipating 12 innings? No. But just saying, on
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  Speaker 2: a bullpen day when you've got the boys rested– You
• 13:34
  Speaker 2: just don't want to be in a spot where you're
• 13:36
  Speaker 2: in the 12th and you're using a guy who's biffed
• 13:38
  Speaker 2: once in the past month. I think he was dealing
• 13:40
  Speaker 2: with a little thing, a little elbow thing at one point.
• 13:44
  Speaker 2: So it just feels like you're watching that and you're like, oh,
• 13:47
  Speaker 2: they're screwed.
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  Speaker 3: Is Ashby done for tonight? I mean, now that we're
• 13:52
  Speaker 3: talking about tonight. Tomorrow night? Game five? Two and a third?
• 13:58
  Speaker 1: With an off day? I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: No off day. Oh, you mean the next day is
• 14:03
  Speaker 3: an off day?
• 14:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Right.
• 14:06
  Speaker 2: 31 pitches, not 51 pitches.
• 14:07
  Speaker 1: 31 pitches.
• 14:08
  Speaker 2: Nah, he can pitch tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: If it's a necessity, I think they will.
• 14:14
  Speaker 2: I don't even think it's that. I think, is he
• 14:16
  Speaker 2: going to give you three innings? Not necessarily, but I
• 14:19
  Speaker 2: think you've got another 20, 25 pitches out of him,
• 14:24
  Speaker 2: an inning, maybe two if it's economical. He certainly didn't
• 14:28
  Speaker 2: look stressed. Sometimes you're watching the body language and all that.
• 14:34
  Speaker 2: It's free and easy right now. He feels autopilot. I
• 14:38
  Speaker 2: think you're definitely good for at least an inning, maybe two.
• 14:41
  Speaker 2: We'll see how they draw it up. Now you've got
• 14:43
  Speaker 2: a fully locked and loaded Miz for the next one.
• 14:46
  Speaker 2: Martinez pitched. We'll see how the Rays keep drawing up. Obviously,
• 14:52
  Speaker 2: you've got to get through this one. This is what
• 14:57
  Speaker 2: we talked about. If they can win Game 5... And
• 15:00
  Speaker 2: I know they certainly handled Drew and Freddie, but if
• 15:04
  Speaker 2: they can get through game five, you do have Rasmussen
• 15:06
  Speaker 2: and Freddie Peralta. They're not too shabby.
• 15:10
  Speaker 4: I mean, I want to give credit to Chandler Simpson too, man.
• 15:13
  Speaker 4: This guy looks comfortable to play. He had a chance
• 15:16
  Speaker 4: to get a bunt down. He said, all right, I
• 15:18
  Speaker 4: didn't do it. Nice swings, man. I was going to,
• 15:22
  Speaker 4: if they didn't win the game, I was going to
• 15:24
  Speaker 4: bring up a couple of things with him. I thought
• 15:26
  Speaker 4: he made a couple of mistakes, but Can't do it
• 15:29
  Speaker 4: because guess what? They won the game. So give this
• 15:33
  Speaker 4: guy credit. His swing looks pretty darn good right now,
• 15:36
  Speaker 4: and he's standing a little taller, and he's not afraid
• 15:39
  Speaker 4: to hit with two strikes.
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: Fun to watch. Fun ball player to watch. Made a
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: nice play in the outfield.
• 15:46
  Speaker 3: Do you think there's alleviated pressure, the fact that he
• 15:50
  Speaker 3: got moved down in the order?
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: Maybe. Maybe.
• 15:54
  Speaker 4: I still thought he was hitting well, but it's like,
• 15:57
  Speaker 4: I'm waiting for a Ronda, man. I know he's got
• 15:59
  Speaker 4: a couple hits, but no RBIs. I thought he was
• 16:03
  Speaker 4: going to come up and win it there in the
• 16:06
  Speaker 4: 11th once Mateo stole second base.
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: I'm like, all right.
• 16:11
  Speaker 4: He hit a hard ball, the one before that. I'm
• 16:14
  Speaker 4: just not seeing... For me, from an outside looking in,
• 16:19
  Speaker 4: body language for me is a big part, and I'm
• 16:21
  Speaker 4: just not seeing the energy from him I've seen before.
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  Speaker 1: That's all. So hopefully... This gets him kick-started. And we'll
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: see where Caminero is tomorrow. Today. Whatever. Right. Whatever.
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  Speaker 2: Chandler Simpson plays a nice left field, too. I mean,
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: they talked about it a couple times on the broadcast
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  Speaker 2: over the last couple days. But he really struggled. I mean,
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: he was an infielder originally. A natural infielder. And then
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: he was trying to learn outfield and was struggling with it.
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: And it was a big reason why they optioned him.
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: And then he's... a gold glove candidate nowadays, right? Last
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: year was a struggle for him. He looks good out there.
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: I mean, crats, you would expect him to.
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: He's fast.
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: He's got good baseball IQ on the bases, all that. Like,
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: he's learning the position. No, you wouldn't expect someone like
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: that to figure it out out there.
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah, but... Just because you're fast doesn't mean that
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: you're going to be a good outfielder. It just means
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: that you have the ability to learn and you have
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: to be able to get those reads. Especially nowadays, before
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: scouts could be like, oh man, I love how many
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: balls this guy gets to. And other people would be like,
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: you know, his jumps aren't very good. The fact that
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: now we have all the metrics, all the Hawkeye cam
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: to be able to tell you how fast your jump was,
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: all that stuff, he can't. made a concerted effort to
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: learn the position and to go from one of the
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: worst left fielders, if not the worst left fielder or
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: one of the worst outfielders, I'm not sure what the
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: stat was, to a Gold Glove finalist. It shows that
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: he put in that work to do the things that
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: make his speed shine. If you're just fast, you can
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: run after balls and make up for mistakes. He's taken
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: it to the next level where he's able to get
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: good jumps and then his speed makes him elite.
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: Well, let's keep talking about the Rays, but first off,
• 18:12
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  Speaker 2: And then the big seller actually has been the local
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  Speaker 2: It's a cute one.
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  Speaker 1: It's done well.
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  Speaker 2: All right, let's keep going here. Player of the game
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  Speaker 2: powered by MLB nine innings, 26. Do you give a
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: player of the game to the walk-off dude automatically or
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: do Is there more depth for you here, Kratz? Is it, hey,
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: Ben Williamson, hop off the bench and give us a
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: little walk-off, see you for the next one, or do
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: you give it to someone else?
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: I mean, I think that's cool, but I think it's
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: either Griffin Jacks or Nick Martinez for what they did
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: out of the pen. I mean, I got to– I
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: think Chandler Simpson would probably be up there just because
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: he had three hits, but I think– I think for me,
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: it's Griffin Jacks because he did something that no Ray
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: pitcher has done and looked like he was in control
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: of this lineup. He wasn't perfect. And you'll go back
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: and you'll go, ah, two runs, four innings. But the
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: fact that he was able to get six punch outs,
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: the fact that he was able to go four innings
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: and he gets clipped by David Hamilton, I think he
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: set a tone for the rest of the pitchers I
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: know hitting is confidence and hitting is watching the other
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: guys have success. I think for him tonight, he was
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: able to do something that it made it look like
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: for the other pitchers, you know what? We can get
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: after this lineup too. Jax did it.
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: We can do it.
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I would agree with everything you said, but it
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: was one of those games where it was kind of
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: low scoring as we saw. I would give it a
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: big Big Ben Williamson. That's what I would do just
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: because it's a walk-off. Nobody really took advantage of certain
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: innings until the last inning. I would give it to him. Hopefully,
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: more sign to come for them Tampa Bay Rays.
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: You never know.
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: DeLuca maybe gets a top three slot here for the
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: defense and then the tying RBI single up the middle
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: to make this 3-3. giving him some love too.
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a plethora of guys that you could pick.
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: And that's a really good sign for the Tampa Bay Rays.
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: That is great. That means they're starting to play a
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: little bit more team ball. When we can't decide who
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: it is, that is fantastic. So good for them.
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: So are they backed on further?
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: Go ahead. Two questions.
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: Oh, no, no. I was just going to say, do
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: you send him there? Mine's long-term.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah. What's that?
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: I'm trying to think who got the hit. Who got
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: the hit that tied it? DeLuca got the hit that
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: tied it.
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: Okay. No, no, no.
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: Okay, so Simpson's hit. Do you send Hicks knowing who
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: you have coming up? You have 7, 8, 9 in
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: your lineup. Do you try to– I know it's a catcher.
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: No, I think it was a heck of a play
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: by Cherio in center. That backhanded play, that was really good.
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: No, you get– no, no, no.
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 1: No, don't even try. Don't do that.
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: Don't do that.
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: Don't do that.
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: Do you guys think there's any semblance of a chance that–
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: I don't even want to say that the Rays come
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: back because that's only happened once ever in a best-of-seven
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: and baseball's been around for a long time. But do
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: you think there's a chance that this goes back to Milwaukee?
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: Like can they grab one more?
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: Pressure's still on Tampa Bay right now. I'm reading somebody
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: writing me on there. Oh, the pressure's back on the Brewers.
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: I said, no, no, no.
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: If Tampa wins tomorrow, which riding high, they're facing Miz,
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: it's going to be very hard. Don't get me wrong.
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: If they can get to him, the pressure does turn
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: back to the Brewers going at home, knowing that if
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: they do lose that game, it is a game seven.
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: So I think the Miz is going to have a
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: fantastic game tomorrow. I think it might be over tomorrow
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: with him on the mound. You've got to feel really,
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: really good if you're a Brewers fan.
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: Management, and fans.
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: It could be Rasmussen too. How many pitches did Rasmussen go?
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: I mean, he didn't go deep into that last start.
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: Some people in the chat are like, do they see
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: if Drew's got.
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: He went three innings.
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: Right, he got knocked out in the third. Yeah, he
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: pulled it up while we're chatting here. I mean, some
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: people are like, they're not.
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: Going to do that. He throws well at home too,
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: but yes.
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: They're going to have to piece it together. Somebody's got
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: to be a big dog for them.
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: How many pitches?
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: It's not, it's not happening for me. I thought it
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: was like, I thought he was still up at like
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: 80 something.
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: I thought they were 89.
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: Oh, 89.
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: That's still up.
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: I thought they worked the count pretty hard.
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: But that's, yeah.
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: I have three pitches tonight.
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's all.
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: No, no. nothing you you can't even get a two
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: three innings out of him and no.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah.
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: You get two or three out of them yeah you're
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: gonna know that you go 30 35 to 50 for sure.
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah i mean you know nick well todd father he's
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: bounced around like he can kind of do it.
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: All yeah but that might be then he might need
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: to be off on game six.
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: You know what I mean?
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: If you get to a game six, bro, and you've
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: got Rasmussen and Freddie P, like, I mean, I'm going
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: to Nick. That's one of my first guys. Like, hey,
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: what do you have for me in game five? Because
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: this is the piece of together game that's going to
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: get a little wobbly for us.
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: And Nick's going to put his hat in the pot
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: and say, I'll do whatever you need. And that's the
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: type of guy he is.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: Is this the game? Because this is do or die again.
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: I know Drew Rasmussen, if he doesn't pitch in this
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: next one, would obviously be starting in game six.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: You could get an inning out of Freddie in this
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: next one.
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Because that would be– yeah. This would be his
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: start day or his bullpen day. But here's what we're
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: leaning on. This goes back to the original question. Do
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: you start Nick Martinez? Because guess who's coming back right
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: now for game five if you started Drew Rasmussen? Drew Rasmussen.
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: So I get it. It didn't work out. The Brewers
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: have been the better team so far.
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: But I.
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: Don't know. I don't know.
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: It's 3-1. I mean.
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: History says this is still a done deal, but it's
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: fun to speculate and just try to piece together what
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: this is going to look like for the Rays to
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: hold down their Brewers. Are the Brewers finally a little
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: bit cold with their lineup or did they have one
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: off night out of many, many where they've thrived? So
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: I think Brewers fans are still feeling pretty good. Let's
• 26:09
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• 26:31
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• 26:33
  Speaker 2: There's a one to three Eastern FT on Wednesday.
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: What day is that? Wednesday. I got it. Yes. Yes. Wednesday.
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: You started out tough with the home run call, but
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: you're back.
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: You're totally back. Oh, yeah.
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: I did botch that. And props on the way out.
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: I mean, we would have been talking about him for
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: most of the show. But Cooper Pratt, I mean, have
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: a game, dude. One-man machine. He's racking hits.
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: Love his swing right now.
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: I mean, did he bring himself into the MVP conversation?
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: No. William Contreras has an OPS above a thousand. And
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: aside from that one millimeter off, I mean, he is
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: just ridiculous. You know what though? My favorite one he
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: did was which one Ashby was at the breaker that
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: dropped into the top of the zone on the ABS.
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: You saw that one where he like, I did like the,
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: I think he stopped for a sec and then put
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: it down. Cause he's like, all right, that's a little different,
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: but I think those curves can land like that at
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: the top of his own. And he clipped it.
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: I want to know– I can't wait to find out
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: tomorrow how many challenges, regardless of the extra innings, how
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: many challenges the players got right tonight from both teams combined.
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: So it was not James Hoy who did the– who
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: was the umpire with the check swing call. Just saying.
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: It was definitely– you texted us in the chat. Man,
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: where were we before ABS challenges?
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I texted a few friends. I said, man, we
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: used to have a sport where you couldn't challenge some
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: of those misses. It's a good time. It's a good time.
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: And Contreras is the poster boy for it because he
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: just loves it.
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: I mean, every pitch, he's like, he's going to hold it. Okay,
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: you called it. That's fine. That's fine.
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: He's thinking about it. Hey, so for FT, we'll let
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: you know the third guest, but two of them already
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: locked in. Brewers and TBS play-by-play, Brian Anderson, who knows
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: this Milwaukee team front and back. Also, for our continuation
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: of talking to Yankees, or not Yankees, but Arizona Fall
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: League prospects, we have a Yankees prospect named Cor Jackson.
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: Cor Jackson. And Cor is like his middle name, but
• 28:57
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• 28:59
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• 29:05
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• 29:13
  Speaker 1: Nope.
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: Make that 12 hours. We'll be live again.
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: Did I get that? One o'clock to one o'clock. That's it.
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: Thanks everyone for watching. Thanks to Todd, father Kratz and
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: everybody else for watching the game. And we'll see you
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: for another one. Game five before the lockout.
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: Sleep fast.
• 29:32
  Speaker 4: We want more.
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: Thank you.