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Diamondbacks Take Series From Orioles in Frustrating Fashion · Birdland Territory

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Speaker 1: Hey, Birdland. A tough ending to the series for the
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Speaker 1: Orioles with the Arizona Diamondbacks. After that great win Monday,
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Speaker 1: they got beat twice in close games, so they lose
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Speaker 1: that series and now they head on the road. No
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Speaker 1: off days here, they're playing a stretch of thirteen games
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Speaker 1: in thirteen days. Cleveland up next on Thursday night. Welcome in.
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Speaker 1: Speaking about playing a lot. Birdland's territory is coming at
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Speaker 1: you a lot. Here we are again, and what do
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Speaker 1: we say, guys the other day? After that win, momentum
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Speaker 1: baseball is fleeting. You can't count on that big win
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Speaker 1: riding you for the next two weeks. It doesn't happen
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Speaker 1: that way, and it didn't happen that way for the Oriels.
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Speaker 1: It's kind of frustrating a couple of days.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so.
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Speaker 3: I think, like we said the other day, it's every
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Speaker 3: game in one sixty two is just its own game,
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Speaker 3: and it's for whatever reason, it's really hard and professional
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Speaker 3: Baseball league to continue to get wins every single day.
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Speaker 3: Even after a big win like that, you think the
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Speaker 3: momentum is going to continue, but you got to go
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Speaker 3: out the next day and you got to execute and
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Speaker 3: Unfortunately these last couple games. I think it's more frustrating
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Speaker 3: than anything else, just so close right there both games,
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Speaker 3: and you come at it with a series loss. I
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Speaker 3: know it's early, and we talked about last week that
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Speaker 3: you don't get down too much, but this is one
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Speaker 3: of those series that just seems to sting a little
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Speaker 3: bit more than even the Pirates series getting swept a
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Speaker 3: couple weeks ago.
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Speaker 4: I'm totally with you, Brad, especially coming off Game one.
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Speaker 4: You get that comeback down six runs through the first
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Speaker 4: five innings, and then you have Trevor Rodgers on the
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Speaker 4: bump Tuesday, Kyle Bradish on the bump today, and with
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Speaker 4: Rogers it's just gotten to the point every single time
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Speaker 4: that he starts, you expect the Orioles to win that ballgame,
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Speaker 4: and unfortunately for him last night, that fifth inning just
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Speaker 4: got really rough for him. A lot of hard contact,
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Speaker 4: he gave up four of his nine hits in that frame.
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Speaker 4: He walked a batter that was his only walk in
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Speaker 4: that game, But a lot of self inflicted mistakes in
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Speaker 4: last night's one run loss, where Jeremiah Jackson, who's been
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Speaker 4: spectacular in this stretch, I don't mean to pick on him,
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Speaker 4: but him getting back picked at third base, James mccannon
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Speaker 4: picking him off there when Gunner Henderson's at bat with
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Speaker 4: one out. That type of thing can't happen. I know.
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Speaker 4: Beaver's he got thrown out trying to steal a base
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Speaker 4: close in that one, and today a defensive blunder West
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Speaker 4: and Wilson in left field. It was initially ruled in
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Speaker 4: error and then it was changed into a two run triple.
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Speaker 4: That was a big time moment in the game.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's it's it just seems to be these
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Speaker 3: little tiny things that, like you said, you don't want
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Speaker 3: to nitpick these guys, but it's just these these plays
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Speaker 3: that are leading to the results that they're getting right now.
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Speaker 3: And it's just like I said, it's just a frustrating
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Speaker 3: a couple of days, and I'm sure they're feeling a
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Speaker 3: little frustrated. But to go to Cleveland and face a
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Speaker 3: tough squad there where you know it's going to be
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Speaker 3: good pitching and you got to execute everything to beat
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Speaker 3: that team. It's it's what they've proven over the last
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Speaker 3: decade or so. And yeah, just you wanted to get
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Speaker 3: that series one bad and especially today when you get
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Speaker 3: into extras and then it just kind of seems unravel
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Speaker 3: there in the tenth. But it's just a frustrating a
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Speaker 3: couple of days, and you just, like we talked about,
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Speaker 3: just the momentum, it's just really hard to keep in
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Speaker 3: the major leagues. And you would hope that those big
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Speaker 3: homers on Monday would have carried over, but unfortunately they didn't,
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Speaker 3: and they find themselves losing these last couple of games
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Speaker 3: to the Diamondbacks.
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Speaker 1: So the Oriols are nine to nine, eighteen games into
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Speaker 1: this thing. They had one six out of seven after Monday,
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Speaker 1: so now they've won six out of nine, two straight
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Speaker 1: losses nine and nine overall, as they had to Cleveland
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Speaker 1: for four, Kansas City for three. Now, any fan out there,
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Speaker 1: guys that had their tax day Oriel outfield of Weston
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Speaker 1: Wilson in left, Lais Alexander and center, and Jonathan Rodriguez
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Speaker 1: in right, go cash a huge ticket at the window.
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Speaker 1: I did not see this one coming. And so Beaver's
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Speaker 1: didn't start, Howser didn't start to didn't start, and Ward
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Speaker 1: started as the dight. So they got seven guys who
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Speaker 1: they couldn't have used out there. These three started, and
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Speaker 1: so it was an interesting outfield. What did you guys
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Speaker 1: think when you saw that?
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Speaker 4: Well, Steve, I think this is where all of the
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Speaker 4: injuries add up in this situation where Tyler O'Neil absolutely
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Speaker 4: would have been out there against edwardo Rodriguez. And it's
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Speaker 4: crazy enough, guys, in Game eighteen, this is the first
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Speaker 4: left handed starting pitcher that the Orioles have faced. That's
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Speaker 4: just it blows your mind thinking about it. But O'Neil
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Speaker 4: absolutely would have been out there in this situation. I
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Speaker 4: know these guys aren't outfielders obviously, but Ryan Mountcastle would
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Speaker 4: have been out there against a lefty. Adley Rutchman would
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Speaker 4: have been out there against the lefty. But this was
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Speaker 4: very much a makeshift lineup and unfortunately the ball ended
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Speaker 4: up finding West and Wilson. And it's a play that
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Speaker 4: I'm sure he would say that he should make a
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Speaker 4: ball that hit off his glove, but that's a tough
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Speaker 4: left field to play now, d with the wall moving back,
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Speaker 4: it came back in and he was right in that
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Speaker 4: Jett part of the wall.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's you know where the warning trek is,
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Speaker 3: you feel it, but like you said, you know it's
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Speaker 3: short in that one part and it goes deep in
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Speaker 3: the next and so he probably thought he had a
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Speaker 3: half step more and just unfortunately missed that one.
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Speaker 2: And even that play early on.
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Speaker 3: In the game with Rodriguez and Blaize Alexander coming together
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Speaker 3: in center field, a little miscommunity communication there, it was.
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Speaker 3: It's just those things you you don't want to see,
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Speaker 3: especially with some of the defensive stuff we've been talking
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Speaker 3: about the last week or so. So it's it's definitely
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Speaker 3: seems the injuries are catching up at this point. But
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Speaker 3: at the same time, you had, uh, sorry leftfielder, he
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Speaker 3: had a good hit today.
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Speaker 2: You know, start a rally, they end up being.
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Speaker 3: The two after and they're they're doing what they need
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Speaker 3: to do offensively and getting enough of hits here and there.
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Speaker 3: But it's it's just not a full roster at this point,
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Speaker 3: and you just wonder what would be today if they
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Speaker 3: had that full roster, especially facing the left for the
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Speaker 3: first time, you'd have way more ridies in that lineup
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Speaker 3: that are stablished major leaguers, and you don't know what
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Speaker 3: would have happened. It could have been the saame result,
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Speaker 3: but you just you always wonder what if. And this
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Speaker 3: is one of those series where when you look back
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Speaker 3: and you miss the playoffs by a game or two,
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Speaker 3: you just wonder if we had our full lineup.
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Speaker 2: Is this one of those games that comes back.
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Speaker 3: I know it's early, but it's still one of those
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Speaker 3: things that you might think about come September.
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Speaker 1: Interesting. And you know, Western Wilson is more infielder than outfielder,
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Speaker 1: so as Blaize Alexander, but they both found themselves out
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Speaker 1: there today. And westn Wilson, you know, you know he
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Speaker 1: would say I should catch that ball, but you called it,
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Speaker 1: tim What a tough spot. If he had twenty more
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Speaker 1: feet of real estate, he would have easily caught that ball.
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Speaker 1: But you get a little timid when you got a
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Speaker 1: wall here, you got a wall behind you. That triangle
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Speaker 1: is really challenging at Camden Yards. And I originally thought
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Speaker 1: I was okay with two run triple, but now having
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Speaker 1: watched it numerous times, I think it was an era
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Speaker 1: because it hit a part of part of his glove,
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Speaker 1: and I think most good outfitters make that play. Did
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Speaker 1: you guys see hit or error on that?
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Speaker 4: I think it was an error as well, Steve, just
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Speaker 4: you said it. Weston Wilson. I'm sure if he was
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Speaker 4: asked about in the clubhouse after the game. If a
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Speaker 4: ball hits your glove as an outfielder, you expect to
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Speaker 4: catch it. But Wilson just his inexperience in that ballpark,
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Speaker 4: Like you know, in that left field, that's a difficult
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Speaker 4: left field to play. And I remember them talking a
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Speaker 4: couple of years ago when the wall was back to
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Speaker 4: you know, the original spot where they moved it back
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Speaker 4: when Austin Hayes played left field, they talked about having
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Speaker 4: basically two center fielders in their outfield just because it's
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Speaker 4: such a big area to play, so a guy that's
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Speaker 4: not familiar with it, and heck, think about this, Brad.
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Speaker 4: I remember Taylor Ward opening day. Remember he had a
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Speaker 4: ball go off of the wall in the eighth inning.
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Speaker 4: Tyler Wells was pitching at that time. Byron Bucks didn't
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Speaker 4: hit it. It turned a double into a triple. He
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Speaker 4: played it off the wall incorrectly. He ended up going
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Speaker 4: back to Camden Yards during the off day the following
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Speaker 4: day just to get work playing it off that left
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Speaker 4: field wall.
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Speaker 3: And Wards a veteran, Yeah, it's I think it might
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Speaker 3: have been one of West's first times in Cannon Yards
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Speaker 3: with the new dimension so whether he had one or
8:15
Speaker 3: two days to kind of see what it was like
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Speaker 3: out there, it's totally different obviously when you're out there
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Speaker 3: full speed, and even speaking of board that one home
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Speaker 3: run that he robbed a couple of years ago, you're
8:23
Speaker 3: camped under that, but he's robbing on that little part
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Speaker 3: going back, and it's it's a funky little left field
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Speaker 3: now where it used to be pretty basic and short
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Speaker 3: out there, then it went super big and high wall
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Speaker 3: and everything out there. Now it's plays a little funky,
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Speaker 3: So it's gonna be it's gonna take a little bit
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Speaker 3: of adjustment, but you know, credit to you know, they're
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Speaker 3: probably out there working every day, and like you said,
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Speaker 3: he probably he knows he should have caught it, and
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Speaker 3: it's just it's unfortunate went off his glove. I think
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Speaker 3: Ben McDonald made a good point today in the broadcast,
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Speaker 3: just said his last few steps kind of indicated that
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Speaker 3: it probably should have been in there, just because he
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Speaker 3: was kind of coasting towards it as opposed to being
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Speaker 3: on the full run to go get it. So I
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Speaker 3: don't know, it's a tough, tough call, and they could
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Speaker 3: go back and end.
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Speaker 2: Up changing it.
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Speaker 3: But you never know MLB what they're gonna do if
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Speaker 3: they get a decision they.
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Speaker 2: Have to make in overturn.
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Speaker 3: But just a tough play you wish you would have
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Speaker 3: had and then you just don't know where the game
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Speaker 3: goes from there. And you have a lead and get
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Speaker 3: it to your bullpen, and guys have been laid out
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Speaker 3: lights out lately, so it's unfortunately he didn't come down
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Speaker 3: with that, But I think that's just part of the
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Speaker 3: hiccups you're going to have when you have to put
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Speaker 3: guys out there that are not used to playing these positions.
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Speaker 1: Bradish today. Guys. Six innings, eight hits, four runs, eras
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Speaker 1: five four nine coming out of this maybe if that
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Speaker 1: scored an air the play we talked about, it's two
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Speaker 1: earned runs not four and he has his first quality
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Speaker 1: start after the game. But Valburnaz and Bradish himself would
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Speaker 1: say this was his best so far. We saw a
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Speaker 1: lot of velocity early. I want to touch on that
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Speaker 1: in a minute, but overall, was this more like the
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Speaker 1: Kyle bradsh we expect to see and in my opinion,
11:23
Speaker 1: not yet where we're going to see.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think today was by far his best. I
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Speaker 3: think just his stuff all around. And the one thing
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Speaker 3: I really noticed was when he throws his force, I
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Speaker 3: mean he really gets behind it, he gets a little
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Speaker 3: bit of cut and yeah, I saw that earlier in
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Speaker 3: the game, especially, he had a little bit of cut
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Speaker 3: to it, where early on it kind of seems like
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Speaker 3: he was having more ride to it and it was
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Speaker 3: a little bit straighter. Maybe I missed something in the
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Speaker 3: first couple of starts, but I thought that was his
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Speaker 3: best stuff by far. It almost seemed like it was
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Speaker 3: almost too good today, like if that makes any sense.
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Speaker 3: I feel like he wasn't used to having that stuff today,
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Speaker 3: and I felt like he was throwing, oh, breaking balls
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Speaker 3: He's expecting to break in the zone, and they were
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Speaker 3: breaking out of the zone almost as if a two
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Speaker 3: strike pitch. So to me, that was by far his
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Speaker 3: best stuff and it was good to see him get
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Speaker 3: through that sixth inning today. I felt like he should
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Speaker 3: have had a much better stat line than what he
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Speaker 3: had based on the stuff that I was seeing today.
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Speaker 2: But everything seemed really sharp.
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Speaker 3: Like I said, it was almost one of those games
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Speaker 3: where I know it is a reliever of my first
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Speaker 3: outing out of spring training. It was like, Okay, where
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Speaker 3: is my change I'm going to do? What is my
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Speaker 3: slader going to do? And it had way more veloss
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Speaker 3: a on my fastball. My change up was breaking more,
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Speaker 3: my slaughder was breaking more. It's like almost reciting yourself.
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Speaker 3: So I'm hoping he can take the data that he
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Speaker 3: has today and just kind of just get better. That
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Speaker 3: was cy Young type stuff. That was what we used
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Speaker 3: to seeing from Kyle Bradish, and I expect to see
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Speaker 3: better things moving forward, And like I said, I just
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Speaker 3: I thought it should have been better results, and I
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Speaker 3: think he will moving forward after that start.
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Speaker 4: This was definitely a step in the right direction for
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Speaker 4: Kyle Bradish. A couple of big positives for him. Things
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Speaker 4: that were very un Kyle Bradish, like his first three
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Speaker 4: starts hit three walks, in each of them. Of his
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Speaker 4: first three starts, he only had one walk today. Now
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Speaker 4: it ended up burning him. It was Corbyn Carroll, a
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Speaker 4: two out walk, and then a couple batters later that
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Speaker 4: was where West and Wilson ended up missplaying that ball
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Speaker 4: that was ruled for a triple. But Bradish was able
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Speaker 4: to get strike one. He got strike one on what
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Speaker 4: eighteen of twenty seven batters. Pitching ahead is just so
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Speaker 4: so big And then Steve you mentioned it. The velocity
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Speaker 4: was way up for him. He hit ninety eight point
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Speaker 4: nine miles per hour on a sinker in the first
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Speaker 4: any of the game. That's the hardest pitch that Bradish
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Speaker 4: has thrown in his career and it was over two
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Speaker 4: miles per hour on average faster this season then compared
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Speaker 4: to his three starts as a total as an overall
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Speaker 4: for his sinkers. So, Kyle Bradish, He'll say it, he's
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Speaker 4: still not fully himself yet, but this was much more
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Speaker 4: encouraging that we saw today.
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Speaker 1: Brad, Does that philosophy mean anything to you? I mean,
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Speaker 1: maybe today it was a warm day and ball more.
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Speaker 1: Maybe that factored. He was really pumped early, as Tim said,
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Speaker 1: touching ninety eight in the first, his average two seemer
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Speaker 1: for the game for his outing today was ninety six
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Speaker 1: point seven, a couple mile an hour more than we're
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Speaker 1: used to. He's got plenty enough velocity with his arsenal
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Speaker 1: to win on just about any night. What do we
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Speaker 1: read into, if anything, or maybe nothing, that he threw
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Speaker 1: so hard today.
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Speaker 3: I think it's more of what you're going to see
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Speaker 3: to come. I think as the weather worms up in Baltimore,
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Speaker 3: you're going to see higher velocity. And I think for
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Speaker 3: him with it, he's just got such good stuff that,
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Speaker 3: like Tim was saying, just starting in the zone that
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Speaker 3: was such a key today, And I think just having
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Speaker 3: that extra little velocity gives you a little bit more
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Speaker 3: confidence when you're on the mound to be able to
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Speaker 3: attack the guys with your fastball earthly account. I know
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Speaker 3: a lot of times he seems to like to start
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Speaker 3: with his breaking ball, and his last start then made
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Speaker 3: a point about him really going four seam early, So
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Speaker 3: maybe we'll see that more as the season moves along.
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Speaker 3: If he has a little bit more velocity on the fastball,
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Speaker 3: I just think he gives him just that little extra
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Speaker 3: confidence to start with the fastball and then you can
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Speaker 3: go to all the other breaking stuff that he has.
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Speaker 3: So for me, that's all I would see with the
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Speaker 3: velocity being up a little bit is it will give
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Speaker 3: him just a little bit more to Hey, here it is,
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Speaker 3: let it rip. No one, guys aren't going to be
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Speaker 3: able to time it up early in the count and
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Speaker 3: then you can get to your nasty breaking stuff and
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Speaker 3: off speed stuff from there. So I wouldn't look into
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Speaker 3: it too much, but I think it's definitely something to
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Speaker 3: see as you go along in the summertime that maybe
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Speaker 3: he has a chance to sit in ninety six ninety
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Speaker 3: eight or somewhere in that range. And that's that obviously
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Speaker 3: anybody would take that, and it just gives you a
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Speaker 3: little bit more knowing that there's a little bit extra
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Speaker 3: in the tank when you need.
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Speaker 4: It, Brad. Someone that had a tough afternoon today was
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Speaker 4: Tyler Wells, and he got off to a rough start
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Speaker 4: to the season and then it seemed like he was
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Speaker 4: able to steady the ship. But now back to back
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Speaker 4: appearances in which he's given up runs. He's given up
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Speaker 4: runs in five of his eight outings this season. What
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Speaker 4: are you seeing at a Wells?
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Speaker 3: It just doesn't It just doesn't seem like he's moving
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Speaker 3: at full motion.
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Speaker 2: I don't know.
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Speaker 3: I don't haven't seen him enoughing know, but to me,
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Speaker 3: it just seems like it's it's not fully one percent confident,
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Speaker 3: and it's just tough to see when a guy, you know,
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Speaker 3: you want to play a big role in the team
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Speaker 3: and you're just having a tough time finding where to
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Speaker 3: fit him in this in this bullpen, and the bullpen's
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Speaker 3: is getting better by the day, and that's where it's
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Speaker 3: kind of like where the spot's going to be where
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Speaker 3: we can put Tyler in to get his confidence back,
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Speaker 3: especially when you have a lead or something like that.
16:24
Speaker 3: So for me, it's just I want to see him
16:27
Speaker 3: do well because the organization obviously has so much confidence
16:30
Speaker 3: in with him, and it's just you want to see
16:32
Speaker 3: him get on a roll of three or four score
16:34
Speaker 3: resoundings in a role and it just seems like he
16:35
Speaker 3: can't seem to back up outing to outing. So for me,
16:39
Speaker 3: it's just that the today was kind of perfect example
16:42
Speaker 3: that that basketball through for the home run, I feel
16:44
Speaker 3: like he's either a pop up or swinging this, and
16:46
Speaker 3: the guy was all over it today when you hit
16:48
Speaker 3: the home run Del Castillo, So it just kind of
16:50
Speaker 3: tells me that it's not fully getting the ride that
16:52
Speaker 3: he gets. He's not a guy that's gonna sit ninety
16:54
Speaker 3: seven ninety eight, so ninety four usually is enough to
16:56
Speaker 3: get it done. And even though it's not, it wasn't
16:59
Speaker 3: in a perfect spot. That's usually a mishit or a
17:01
Speaker 3: foul ball, but it's he squared the guy duc THEO
17:05
Speaker 3: squared it up today, and it just doesn't seem like
17:07
Speaker 3: it's fully there, and his confidence just kind of seems
17:10
Speaker 3: just a little bit off right now.
17:11
Speaker 2: It's a little shaken.
17:12
Speaker 3: And that's a tough spot to be in there in
17:14
Speaker 3: the tenth in and there's just no room for error,
17:16
Speaker 3: and you really want to see him put up a
17:18
Speaker 3: zero there, and then of course it turns into three
17:20
Speaker 3: runs instead of just one or two, so that's always
17:23
Speaker 3: a tough one to throw in there also, So you
17:27
Speaker 3: just it's you want to see him do well so bad.
17:30
Speaker 4: Bred you obviously dealt with this towards the end of
17:33
Speaker 4: your career, because I think it was the COVID season
17:35
Speaker 4: when they put the ghost runner in during extra innings.
17:39
Speaker 4: How difficult is dealing with that ghost runner as a reliever.
17:43
Speaker 3: It's it's something you're not used to, because hardly ever
17:46
Speaker 3: do you come in a game, especially with nobody out
17:49
Speaker 3: in a man on second base.
17:49
Speaker 2: It's usually multiple runners on.
17:52
Speaker 3: But it's I only got to do it one time
17:54
Speaker 3: and I gave up a three and walk off homer,
17:55
Speaker 3: so I don't have the greatest experience with it. It's
17:57
Speaker 3: actually the last pitch I ever threw in the Major League,
17:59
Speaker 3: so not that I remember it too well.
18:01
Speaker 2: But it's a it's uh, it's just it's it's different
18:04
Speaker 2: than than anything before.
18:05
Speaker 3: These guys are obviously a little bit more used to
18:07
Speaker 3: it because it's been around for enough years. But when
18:10
Speaker 3: I came in that first time, it's like, man, you
18:12
Speaker 3: I mean, a single, the game's over, And how many
18:14
Speaker 3: situations are you ever in that kind of spot when
18:16
Speaker 3: you come on basically like a brand new inning, but
18:18
Speaker 3: a single in the game is over. So it's it's
18:20
Speaker 3: definitely something that I think, even for Tyler, is really
18:24
Speaker 3: tough because being a starter, you have time to like
18:26
Speaker 3: kind of build into these these spots.
18:28
Speaker 2: A multi inew reliever, you give up on run.
18:30
Speaker 3: It's not a terrible job, but it's I mean, in
18:33
Speaker 3: this spot, you really needed that zero with the way
18:35
Speaker 3: the game is kind of trending there, and it's you
18:37
Speaker 3: put extra pressure on yourself and then he throws one
18:39
Speaker 3: pitch and the guy's on third base with one out,
18:41
Speaker 3: so now you're just even in a tougher spot. So
18:43
Speaker 3: it's it's definitely. I think it's a multitude of things
18:46
Speaker 3: that kind of just went on top of each other
18:48
Speaker 3: today and then three pitches in or four pitches in,
18:50
Speaker 3: it's too not there you're down two runs, and it's
18:54
Speaker 3: you're even in a tougher spot.
18:55
Speaker 7: There.
18:56
Speaker 1: Here's what I like about Tyler Wells the post game
19:00
Speaker 1: today sort of I'm not going to say it was
19:02
Speaker 1: like Pete Alonzo Friday night, but there were some similarities.
19:06
Speaker 1: And Tyler Wells is very accountable for his pitching if
19:09
Speaker 1: he gives it up. He is a fatus locker, and
19:12
Speaker 1: he will talk to you as much as questions as
19:14
Speaker 1: you have. And I'm summarizing his interview today. He said,
19:17
Speaker 1: no excuses, extremely frustrated. I want to be the guy
19:20
Speaker 1: they can rely on. I asked to pitch in leverage situations.
19:25
Speaker 1: This is one hundred percent my fault. I don't believe
19:29
Speaker 1: that's true. A lot of things happen over a tenant
19:32
Speaker 1: in game that could have changed the result. He was
19:34
Speaker 1: only in there for one of them. But I like
19:36
Speaker 1: the fact that he called himself out.
19:39
Speaker 4: He's a fierce competitor. And I've always been huge on
19:43
Speaker 4: Tyler Wells, and I was really talking him up coming
19:45
Speaker 4: into the season. How I truly think he can be
19:49
Speaker 4: a weapon out of this bullpen, a guy that can
19:51
Speaker 4: go multiple innings. And if you looked at his career
19:54
Speaker 4: splits heading into this year, he was always really good
19:58
Speaker 4: as a starter. He was even better as a reliever.
20:00
Speaker 4: And you can even go back to twenty twenty one
20:03
Speaker 4: Brad where he was closing out games for the Orioles.
20:06
Speaker 4: So he's pitched in high leverage situations in the past.
20:10
Speaker 4: He's another guy he didn't have a true Tommy John surgery,
20:13
Speaker 4: but he had elbow surgery much like Bradish did, and
20:17
Speaker 4: he was able to get his feet wet at the
20:19
Speaker 4: end of last year. So kind of trying to find
20:22
Speaker 4: himself and work his way back from that.
20:24
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that's I think that's what it is too.
20:26
Speaker 3: And then I love guys that are accountable. I love
20:30
Speaker 3: guys that were they'll sit there and say this is
20:33
Speaker 3: not his fault. Everybody in that clubhouse would never sit
20:35
Speaker 3: there and say this is ty Well's fault. But the
20:37
Speaker 3: fact that he understands he was putting that spot to
20:40
Speaker 3: put this game as a tie game into the bottom
20:42
Speaker 3: of the tenth, I just think that's awesome.
20:44
Speaker 2: I think he's going to come out of this.
20:46
Speaker 3: You just want to see him come out of it
20:47
Speaker 3: a little bit quicker because you just don't want to
20:48
Speaker 3: see that confidence just keep getting shot down anytime he's
20:51
Speaker 3: put in one of these big spots. And like you said,
20:53
Speaker 3: he's done this before.
20:55
Speaker 2: It's just right now.
20:56
Speaker 3: It's sometimes guys get off to a tough, tough start
20:59
Speaker 3: of the season and it's just hard to like the
21:02
Speaker 3: get the ball roll in the other direction. And I
21:04
Speaker 3: really think this bullpen needs a guy that's gonna be
21:06
Speaker 3: able to go multiple innings, and I think Tyler Wells
21:09
Speaker 3: is going to provide that. Like you said, Tim, I
21:10
Speaker 3: think he's a guy you put out there in the
21:12
Speaker 3: six and seventh like we've seen him do earlier this year,
21:14
Speaker 3: a couple of weeks ago, and I think he's a
21:16
Speaker 3: guy that can get really big outs and kind of
21:18
Speaker 3: give that seventh inning guy day's rest when he needs it,
21:20
Speaker 3: and he throws two innings and gets it to the
21:22
Speaker 3: bridge to Hellesley there at the end. So I think
21:25
Speaker 3: he's gonna play a big role and he's gonna come
21:26
Speaker 3: out of this. It's just obviously tough to see that
21:30
Speaker 3: outing today.
21:32
Speaker 1: Offensively, Tyler Ward had a sixteen game on base straight
21:35
Speaker 1: end in the series finalezer for five, hitting three oh one. Still,
21:39
Speaker 1: Pete Alonzo keeps drawing walks. He's drawing eight in the
21:42
Speaker 1: last six games. That's more than he drew in the
21:44
Speaker 1: first twelve. That's a great sign. He's obviously seeing the
21:47
Speaker 1: ball much better, and Jeremiah Jackson might be seeing a
21:50
Speaker 1: beach ball when he bats. He's homern in three straight games.
21:53
Speaker 1: He was batting four to eighty on the home stand
21:56
Speaker 1: ops fifteen to twenty on the home stand nine nine.
22:00
Speaker 1: He asked for the year, what's making this guy so
22:02
Speaker 1: good right now? And how much fun is he to watch?
22:05
Speaker 4: He's been unbelievable Steve in this stretch, And much like
22:08
Speaker 4: we talked about yesterday morning, everyone's focusing on the offense
22:12
Speaker 4: rightfully so, but defensively, he's playing a really strong second
22:16
Speaker 4: base and that shouldn't go unnoticed and what's been so
22:21
Speaker 4: interesting with Jeremiah Jackson is he was scuffling heading into
22:25
Speaker 4: that Giant series where he was hitting two fourteen. He
22:28
Speaker 4: didn't have a single extra base hit at that point.
22:32
Speaker 4: But he's just been on an unbelievable tear since Friday
22:36
Speaker 4: night against the Giants, and it is absolutely carried through
22:39
Speaker 4: against the Diamondbacks.
22:41
Speaker 3: Yeah, his swings this series were so impressive. I mean
22:44
Speaker 3: that line drive today, he knew he got it from
22:47
Speaker 3: the moment he hit it. He just had to make
22:48
Speaker 3: sure he get over the fence if it was high
22:50
Speaker 3: enough because he hit it so hard and so low.
22:53
Speaker 3: But I mean that was an absolute bull. He's just
22:54
Speaker 3: seen it really well right now. I think his swings
22:57
Speaker 3: are really aggressive, even on balls. I notice he fouled
22:59
Speaker 3: back like I don't want to throw that pitch again,
23:01
Speaker 3: and Rodriguez today threw it again and he smoked it
23:05
Speaker 3: in the that home run there and the fourth thing
23:07
Speaker 3: I think it was, and he, like you said, Tim,
23:10
Speaker 3: he's playing an unbelievable second base. I've been really impressed
23:13
Speaker 3: with that part of the ball. And I didn't know
23:15
Speaker 3: he was as good offensively as he was until this series.
23:17
Speaker 3: Even last series and he's putting some great swings on.
23:20
Speaker 3: He's got power for not a big guy, and it's
23:24
Speaker 3: been really impressive to watch. To me, like I thought
23:25
Speaker 3: he was out there as a defensive first guy, not
23:27
Speaker 3: knowing the team, like I said as well, and this
23:30
Speaker 3: series i'm watching him here and he's an offensive first
23:33
Speaker 3: seeing that obviously up front. But some of the places
23:35
Speaker 3: making the field is what are you gonna do with
23:37
Speaker 3: this guy in a couple of weeks if they if
23:38
Speaker 3: they have to make a move, it's you can't get
23:40
Speaker 3: rid of him. You gotta get him out there every day.
23:42
Speaker 3: You got to run them while he's hot, that's for sure.
23:43
Speaker 3: I think he's got to be in the line for
23:44
Speaker 3: every single day and be out there. He's taking good swings,
23:47
Speaker 3: taking good at bats, he can do stuff on the
23:49
Speaker 3: basis stuff in the field, and he's just been real
23:51
Speaker 3: impressive to watch.
23:53
Speaker 1: Real impressive. And even in a stat defensive run saved,
23:56
Speaker 1: which a defensive metric that needs to use a large
24:00
Speaker 1: to really make some sense, but in a small sample
24:03
Speaker 1: he's among the leaders at second base in the America League.
24:06
Speaker 1: So Jeremiah Jackson is playing better defense. There are stats
24:10
Speaker 1: to tell you that, and what a joy he's been
24:13
Speaker 1: to watch early season. In our final minutes, I'm gonna
24:16
Speaker 1: touch on my visit to Frederick last night that was
24:18
Speaker 1: so cool, and the Oriel schedule it's about to get
24:22
Speaker 1: a little tougher. We'll touch on that coming up.
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24:45
Speaker 4: People. On Sunday, we were talking about your visit to
24:48
Speaker 4: Booie to see the Chesapeake Bay Socks. But last night
24:51
Speaker 4: had to be really special for you and Frederick in
24:55
Speaker 4: general because this is that was their first home game
24:59
Speaker 4: back at and Orioles Affiliates since prior to COVID. What
25:03
Speaker 4: was it like being out there last night?
25:05
Speaker 1: It was so great to tend the game got right
25:07
Speaker 1: down at the third inning, But it wasn't about the
25:09
Speaker 1: night on the field, really, it was about the night
25:11
Speaker 1: in the stands in the community of Frederick, one of
25:14
Speaker 1: the best drawing minor league towns. When they had their affiliation,
25:18
Speaker 1: they lost. They lost the affiliation because the stadium was
25:22
Speaker 1: just dilapidated. The player amenities were terrible and they had
25:25
Speaker 1: to really do a massive amount of work. Maryland Stadium
25:28
Speaker 1: Authority and the State of Maryland and the Orioles and
25:31
Speaker 1: at teen Sports dumped about fifty million into that ballpark
25:35
Speaker 1: and they got more to come and so big crowd
25:38
Speaker 1: last night. Community that loves baseball has their affiliation back.
25:41
Speaker 1: I'm so excited for Frederick. That's a good roster too.
25:45
Speaker 1: That Keys team. I want to see how they do. Jerrowah,
25:47
Speaker 1: who started opening night, is going to be a good pitcher.
25:50
Speaker 1: J T. Quinn was throwing ninety nine the other night
25:52
Speaker 1: when he struck out ten, so they got some kids
25:55
Speaker 1: to watch. But Frederick's a wonderful community. And Kick Qualls
25:59
Speaker 1: of the Oriels Minor League Department and the Orioles thank
26:02
Speaker 1: you for this. By the way, they gave me my
26:03
Speaker 1: own little private tour of this performance center last night.
26:07
Speaker 1: It's two stories, state of the art. Batting cage is
26:10
Speaker 1: all the data and tech you could want. The clubhouse
26:14
Speaker 1: in Frederick, you couldn't walk through it. It was so cramped.
26:16
Speaker 1: Now it's spacious. It almost looks big League. Michael Oas
26:20
Speaker 1: was there last night. This was so important to the
26:22
Speaker 1: Orioles that Elias was there. Calls were theirs. Their brass
26:25
Speaker 1: showed up because they love what's going to happen in
26:28
Speaker 1: Frederick and the move they've made. And Elias told me Tim.
26:32
Speaker 1: I went up to Ike Irish and Vance Honeycutt and
26:35
Speaker 1: I told him, I hope you guys realize this isn't normal.
26:38
Speaker 1: Those high A teams don't have what you have, and frankly,
26:42
Speaker 1: the Orioles feel this could be a separator, the facilities
26:45
Speaker 1: they're creating for their minor league prospects over the next
26:48
Speaker 1: few years.
26:49
Speaker 4: Yeah, brit that's what I was going to ask you about.
26:51
Speaker 4: We were talking about this on Sunday, how there's been
26:54
Speaker 4: significant investments in Chesapeake, in del Marva, and of course
27:00
Speaker 4: in Frederick and the Orioles. They built the state of
27:03
Speaker 4: the art facility in Sarasota right by that stadium. You
27:07
Speaker 4: hear all of these kind of horror stories from from
27:11
Speaker 4: you professional ball players, like what did you experience in
27:15
Speaker 4: the miners, Brad.
27:16
Speaker 3: Yeah, that I would love to have those facilities you're
27:18
Speaker 3: talking about now. It's I I was fortunate enough I
27:21
Speaker 3: went to a small school in college, so every facility
27:24
Speaker 3: I went to was an upgrade from what I went
27:25
Speaker 3: to in college. But yeah, you run in some of
27:27
Speaker 3: these towns and I've heard stories from other guys who
27:31
Speaker 3: played at Frederick and it was a little tough back
27:33
Speaker 3: in the day. So it's it's good to see these
27:35
Speaker 3: guys that. I mean, a lot of teams have started doing.
27:38
Speaker 3: I remember hearing about the Dodgers being the first ones
27:40
Speaker 3: that started catering meals for their players and getting all
27:43
Speaker 3: these great facilities for them. So a lot of teams
27:46
Speaker 3: have followed suit, and there's there's only there seems to
27:49
Speaker 3: be a couple of ways to get good players, and
27:50
Speaker 3: that's giving good facilities, giving them good stuff to eat,
27:53
Speaker 3: and that I mean, you're you're putting this investment in them,
27:56
Speaker 3: so not just a monetary investment. You got to put
27:58
Speaker 3: all these facility things in there. It's awesome to hear,
28:01
Speaker 3: and that's really good for Berland to hear this happening
28:04
Speaker 3: at low A High A because you know that it's
28:06
Speaker 3: just going to get better to the further up they go,
28:08
Speaker 3: so that's great to hear. It's great to hear what
28:11
Speaker 3: they're doing with the minor leagues, giving these guys a
28:12
Speaker 3: little bit more pay and obviously the facilities are just
28:15
Speaker 3: being upgraded everywhere around every single level.
28:18
Speaker 1: Really cool and it's going to pay off for the
28:20
Speaker 1: Orioles over the next few years. Some of these facilities
28:24
Speaker 1: and what these kids have, as they told me, we
28:26
Speaker 1: want to go to work. We're so excited to go
28:28
Speaker 1: to the ballpark to work in conditions and facilities like this. So, guys,
28:33
Speaker 1: a couple of minutes we have left, here's what the
28:34
Speaker 1: Oils are facing now, starting with this road trip. Four
28:37
Speaker 1: at Cleveland, three at KC, three against Boston, three against Houston,
28:42
Speaker 1: four at the Yankees. The next seventeen on paper, are
28:46
Speaker 1: much tougher than the first eighteen. We're on paper, We'll
28:49
Speaker 1: see from year to year teams change. But what are
28:52
Speaker 1: your thoughts about the O's facing this stretch.
28:55
Speaker 4: Well, just looking at this upcoming series, Steve, it feels
29:00
Speaker 4: they've really struggled against the Guardians, and in particular in Cleveland.
29:04
Speaker 4: You can go back to twenty twenty three when they
29:06
Speaker 4: won over one hundred games. They're five and seven in
29:09
Speaker 4: their twelve games that they played in Cleveland. That's just
29:13
Speaker 4: always a scrappy ball club man. As Steven vote back
29:16
Speaker 4: to back manager of the year. People thought maybe they
29:20
Speaker 4: would fall off this year. They're off to a really
29:22
Speaker 4: strong start, but they have lost three of four heading
29:26
Speaker 4: into their series against the O's. But yeah, the schedule
29:29
Speaker 4: definitely turns up moving forward. Brett.
29:33
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I think it's one of those things you
29:34
Speaker 3: want to it's a good test. I think they'd have
29:36
Speaker 3: enough games under their belt, they see what they need
29:39
Speaker 3: to improve, and they really need to dive into their strengths.
29:42
Speaker 2: And I think Cleveland's a perfect example.
29:45
Speaker 3: You gotta go there, you gotta pitch, you gotta play defense,
29:47
Speaker 3: and you got to have timely hitting. It's what Cleveland
29:51
Speaker 3: and the Guardians have done for I swear ten fifteen
29:53
Speaker 3: years at this point. Every time they are they're written off,
29:57
Speaker 3: and every time they're at the top of their division.
29:59
Speaker 3: So it's going into Cleveland is always a tough place
30:01
Speaker 3: to play, and you know they're going to pitch. That's
30:03
Speaker 3: the one thing you know they're gonna do above and foremost.
30:06
Speaker 2: When you go into Cleveland.
30:07
Speaker 4: And you have to think that there's this series means
30:11
Speaker 4: a little bit more for Craig albern As going back home, right.
30:15
Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely.
30:16
Speaker 3: I think when you get your first job you're going
30:18
Speaker 3: back to the team you were just with, you got
30:20
Speaker 3: you got a bunch of friends over there. But you
30:22
Speaker 3: want to show up when you go somewhere you've just been,
30:24
Speaker 3: Especially he was just there last season, so he wants
30:26
Speaker 3: to show up when they get there.
30:29
Speaker 1: That'll be a big storyline all series, but especially opening night.
30:33
Speaker 1: You know, Albert has a bit besieged by Cleveland media,
30:35
Speaker 1: and he and Steven Voter are so close. They really
30:38
Speaker 1: have a special relationship. And I think it was so
30:40
Speaker 1: cool to see Steven Vote a major league manager at
30:43
Speaker 1: his press conference in Baltimore. He came all the way
30:46
Speaker 1: for that, sat in the front row, and did interviews
30:49
Speaker 1: with all of us afterwards. It could have been nicer.
30:51
Speaker 1: So it's clear that albert As has had some good
30:54
Speaker 1: tutelage along the way, and Steven votes probably at the
30:57
Speaker 1: top of that list. It's going to be fun, guys.
30:59
Speaker 1: It'll be a challenging stretch for the Oriels. It starts
31:02
Speaker 1: in Cleveland with four on Thursday night. So guys, we'll
31:05
Speaker 1: talk again in a couple of days. Rest up and
31:09
Speaker 1: make your notes and be ready for more Birdland territory
31:12
Speaker 1: coming up in a couple of days.
31:14
Speaker 2: Looking forward to it for.
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Speaker 1: Tim, Barbara Lace and Brad Brock. I'm Steve Maleski, will
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Speaker 1: catch you next time on Birdland Territory