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Yankees Dominate Framber Valdez, How Dangerous Are They Down the Stretch? | MLB on TBS · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: It was one side and welcome inside the studio d
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  Speaker 1: the grand Slam there by Grisham overall man just an
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  Speaker 1: absolute performance from those Yankee bats and.
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  Speaker 2: Freed handling it on the mound.
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  Speaker 1: You had an interesting take pregameers though, you said everyone's
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  Speaker 1: making all this fuss about these twelve games coming up
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  Speaker 1: for the Yankee some big series Houston, Toronto, Detroit, Boston.
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  Speaker 1: I know that you overlooked it and said the bigger
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  Speaker 1: games will be in September and October. But does tonight
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  Speaker 1: show anything the first game of the series beating up
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  Speaker 1: one of the best pitchers in baseball.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, no doubt. To get off to that start
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  Speaker 3: after an off day yesterday, I think they had a
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  Speaker 3: big fantasy draft going into the off day, right, and
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  Speaker 3: the cowboy outfits sort to come in. The vibes were high.
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  Speaker 3: And to do that Offhamber, who just went seven shut
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  Speaker 3: out to start prior. This is a great start for them,
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  Speaker 3: this big stretch, right, And when you're on the inside,
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  Speaker 3: it's one game at a time.
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  Speaker 2: It's not that big deal.
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  Speaker 3: Big of a deal if you lose but to win
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  Speaker 3: the first game and get this momentum to go into
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  Speaker 3: tomorrow or try to win the series is definitely big
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  Speaker 3: for them, and.
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  Speaker 4: It's capturing the momentum the way they've been playing. We
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  Speaker 4: talked about, you know, the cowboy outfits and a draft.
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  Speaker 4: The last thing you want to do is lose, and
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  Speaker 4: that thing kind of comes to a stop. So you're
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  Speaker 4: taking everything that you've done and it's like, now we're
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  Speaker 4: proving that we are this good. Now that we're just hot,
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  Speaker 4: everybody's going to get hot and you're going to cull off,
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  Speaker 4: but we are this good. And you talked about, you know,
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  Speaker 4: the five games, and this is a tough twelve game stretch.
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  Speaker 5: You do want to prove.
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  Speaker 4: To the other team and to yourself that we can play.
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  Speaker 4: You've had ups and downs. Every season has ups and downs,
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  Speaker 4: but these are twelve games that really matter. Not that
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  Speaker 4: it's going to make or break the season, but we're
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  Speaker 4: making a statement that when you see us in a postseason,
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  Speaker 4: you're going to have a bad taste amount of last
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  Speaker 4: time that we played, and you want to make that statement.
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  Speaker 1: It is the fifteenth win this season for Freed. He
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  Speaker 1: is now eleven and one when he's the starting picture
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  Speaker 1: and the Yankees are coming off of a loss. It's
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  Speaker 1: also his first regular season win ever over Houston.
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  Speaker 2: We know he's had big postseason.
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  Speaker 1: Wins over Houston, but there's only three teams he didn't
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  Speaker 1: get the regular season win.
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  Speaker 2: He can check that off.
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  Speaker 1: Second inning here Jazz Chisholm Grandy bringing the.
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  Speaker 5: Power those lefties again. You talk Framberg giving up only
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  Speaker 5: one homer off.
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  Speaker 6: The leftiest yep and then to give up a ding
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  Speaker 6: Dong Johnson like this.
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  Speaker 1: Top of the fifth now two outs, space is loaded
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  Speaker 1: for g and Cardo Stanton strikes out looking high.
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  Speaker 2: Change up next batter, Trent Grisham. You mentioned he has
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  Speaker 2: brought a lot to this Doug yet.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he's just been steady, Eddie, and he has one
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  Speaker 3: heart beat and that is low. His pulse is low
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  Speaker 3: at all times. He plays the outfield with the best
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  Speaker 3: of them. He's so nonchalant, but he's ready to play
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  Speaker 3: and he's a competitor. And what he's brought to this
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  Speaker 3: team the entire year has been amazing for them. And
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  Speaker 3: look the Yankees of weather the storm. They've completely read
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  Speaker 3: the storm and they're ready to show the world who
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  Speaker 3: they are. This September.
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  Speaker 2: You know, their bats were great, free showing the pitching as.
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  Speaker 1: Well, a lot of up and back. You see the
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  Speaker 1: up there staring down Chisholm. And this is when we thought.
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  Speaker 2: We might get an ejection.
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  Speaker 5: Oh wa, for sure.
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  Speaker 4: It was no doubt he was getting kicked out this game.
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  Speaker 4: Anyone that knows Jazz.
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  Speaker 5: You know he wears his emotions want to sleeve.
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  Speaker 4: Also when he hits the ball, he wears emotions want
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  Speaker 4: to leave.
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  Speaker 5: But this is on This is on brand for him.
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  Speaker 4: That is something controversial and he does something special. Either way,
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  Speaker 4: you're going to find out about me. He was on
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  Speaker 4: a privtive side tonight.
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  Speaker 1: Now the Yankees fifteen and five since their last series
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  Speaker 1: against the Astros. They leave the league at home runs
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  Speaker 1: RBIs slugging and they're winning on the road. Other side,
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  Speaker 1: here Houston is on pace to be bottom ten and
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  Speaker 1: runs scored for the first time since twenty fourteen, and
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  Speaker 1: one of their pitchers gets lit up.
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  Speaker 2: What is your level of concern.
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  Speaker 5: I think it's still so early in September.
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  Speaker 6: And again, like we talked about it there, in first
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  Speaker 6: they find a way to stay in.
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  Speaker 5: First, they find a way to get.
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  Speaker 6: Themselves to the end, you're gonna run through little bumps
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  Speaker 6: in the road, So better to do it now and
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  Speaker 6: still have an entire month left to get yourself ready
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  Speaker 6: to roll come postseason. You almost got to lock them
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  Speaker 6: in to get into the postseason. It's just a matter
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  Speaker 6: of how their momentum is going to be. You don't
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  Speaker 6: want to be playing like this come October. But if
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  Speaker 6: you can get this out of the way and be
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  Speaker 6: ready come October fourth, fifth, you'd be ready to roll.
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  Speaker 1: Six starts Now for Framburgh against the Yankees, his era
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  Speaker 1: is now over seven.
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  Speaker 2: He's allowed six home runs.
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  Speaker 5: That's not a good match.
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  Speaker 1: No, he allowed four earned runs to them back on
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  Speaker 1: August ninth, and again we talked about the home runs
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  Speaker 1: to lefty.
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  Speaker 2: It seems as though the Yankees crack the code.
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  Speaker 4: It is and he knows best, and you know, before
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  Speaker 4: the game, we do our time of game and he
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  Speaker 4: told us. You know, Frambergh does not like facing the Yankees.
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  Speaker 4: And when you see his stuff, and you know, his
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  Speaker 4: sister is like, why not.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, they have found something against him.
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  Speaker 3: I don't.
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  Speaker 4: And sometimes it's tipping pitches. Sometimes it's just knowing a sequence,
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  Speaker 4: none who's being.
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  Speaker 5: On a plate.
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  Speaker 4: What this guy likes to do, but on these pitches
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  Speaker 4: that he got hurt on pitches middle, middle, their mid
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  Speaker 4: and as a lefty, I want you to talk about
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  Speaker 4: what it's like when you learned how to hit lefties
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  Speaker 4: and what that adjustments like for you went them.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, with Framberg, his sinker is elite, especially left on left,
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  Speaker 3: So you know, you got to set your lane as
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  Speaker 3: a leftie. And you know, I think with the Yankees
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  Speaker 3: and the way their lineup's constructed, you have to run
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  Speaker 3: your lefties out there. And he's not used to facing
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  Speaker 3: this many lefties. Most of these teams now just throw
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  Speaker 3: all right handers in there, and he's seeing three four
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  Speaker 3: lefties in this lineup and he's not used to this.
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  Speaker 3: He's not used to the left and right. So get
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  Speaker 3: pitches out over. That's probably the scout are put on him.
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  Speaker 3: Take the things in and don't try to do too
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  Speaker 3: much because with his sinker, if you try to elevate,
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  Speaker 3: easy ground ball, easy ground ball, and that's what he's
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  Speaker 3: trying to do.
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  Speaker 6: So I've always liked that you'd always have a situation
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  Speaker 6: you get a dominant left handed pitcher and you only
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  Speaker 6: put one lefty in the lineup. Now, every other person
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  Speaker 6: on the opposition is on that side of the plate.
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  Speaker 5: Right, he's doing well with.
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  Speaker 6: That fastball and that change up and that bastball and
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  Speaker 6: that change up.
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  Speaker 5: He doesn't have to change anything. You only got to
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  Speaker 5: worry about one lefty.
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  Speaker 6: You had Bellinger, you had Jazz, you had Grissom, you
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  Speaker 6: had well.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, he's got to switch it four times. Now.
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  Speaker 6: The numbers may say, don't put the lefties in, but
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  Speaker 6: to Rizzo's point, put them out there. These are your
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  Speaker 6: best hitters. You got to ride with your best guns
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  Speaker 6: to the end of the season.
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  Speaker 1: It's always great when the batters the bottom half of
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  Speaker 1: the lineup can carry the low Jazz Trent seven RBIs
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  Speaker 1: to combine five for nine. We have somebody uniquely qualified
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  Speaker 1: to talk about Jazz, Chisholm. Let's relook at his game today.
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  Speaker 1: He now moves to twenty eight home runs, twenty six
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  Speaker 1: stolen bases.
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  Speaker 2: What level are you seeing from this guy?
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  Speaker 6: Right?
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  Speaker 5: This is athlete and just as a whole.
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  Speaker 6: You talk about the Bronx Bombers, they hit the ball
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  Speaker 6: out of the ballpark, but the fact that they also
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  Speaker 6: can run and they run in smart situations. As a team,
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  Speaker 6: they're about an eighty plus percent stolen based success rate.
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  Speaker 6: That's where you want to be if you have the ability.
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  Speaker 6: If they're going to give you a base to advance
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  Speaker 6: the second or advance.
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  Speaker 5: The third, do it. And oh yeah, being on the
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  Speaker 5: left handed side, take advantage. Hit that thing out of
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  Speaker 5: the ballpark.
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  Speaker 2: Ooh grandy, mad hitch.
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  Speaker 4: I just have a question, what happened to the last
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  Speaker 4: five selling bass? I mean, what were you thinking? Man?
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  Speaker 5: They gave me the red light over there. I was
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  Speaker 5: trying to go thirty.
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  Speaker 2: Gave me the red light.
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  Speaker 5: Gave me the red light. Slowan down, look at me?
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  Speaker 5: What is that? No share? And that's what the small base?
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  Speaker 5: Give me that big base over there.
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  Speaker 1: What advice would you give to Jazz as he's nearing
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  Speaker 1: like the thirty thirties, what would you tell him?
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  Speaker 5: I think pick the right situation. They're going to give
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  Speaker 5: you a pitch to go on. You've been successful at
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  Speaker 5: this point.
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  Speaker 6: You've had forty in your career, so just continue to
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  Speaker 6: find the right times to run.
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  Speaker 5: Don't force it.
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  Speaker 6: You get a whole month left, thirties possible even thirty
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  Speaker 6: five as possible. Pitchers fall into patterns kind of like
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  Speaker 6: we might have seen today. What the Yankees might have
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  Speaker 6: been able to pick up on the Framberg. Same thing.
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  Speaker 6: Going to the plate, you can find the right times
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  Speaker 6: to run. Just continue to keep doing it and stay healthy.
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  Speaker 5: That's the big thing.
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  Speaker 1: Stay healthy, Rizzi, you know this roster really really well.
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  Speaker 1: Can you tell what's clicking for them right now? How
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  Speaker 1: dangerous is this Yankees team?
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  Speaker 3: I mean pitching and defense, right that's that's baseball one one.
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  Speaker 3: But they hit the ball out of the ballpark more
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  Speaker 3: than anyone. They're stealing bags, they're stealing bags at a
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  Speaker 3: high clip, and they're playing good defense. So Aaron Boone
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  Speaker 3: expects every day when you walk in that clubhouse to
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  Speaker 3: make the other team bring it and feel it. And
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  Speaker 3: that's what they're doing right now. And when you walk
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  Speaker 3: in that clubhouse and you have that swagger and you
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  Speaker 3: have that feeling, it's a great feeling there. The only
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  Speaker 3: downside to that is it can turn real quick in
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  Speaker 3: New York one loss, don't let it shift. Just keep
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  Speaker 3: playing your brand of baseball. You'll be right where you
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  Speaker 3: need to be.
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  Speaker 1: Let's take a look at the standings. You did say
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  Speaker 1: something earlier, you think a wild card might actually be
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  Speaker 1: better for them to get that momentum though, so right
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  Speaker 1: now they keep pace with the Blue Jays.
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  Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure the Blue Jays right now they won.
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  Speaker 1: They beat the Reds twelve to nine, so it's still
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  Speaker 1: gonna be two and a half games.
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  Speaker 5: So the wildcard.
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  Speaker 2: Do you still believe that you think the WILDCARDI be better?
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  Speaker 3: You know, I just think as Yankee fans, it's been
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  Speaker 3: such an up and down season for them. Rally around
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  Speaker 3: this team. This is your team. You have Aaron Judge
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  Speaker 3: in his prime MVPs all over the place, you have
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  Speaker 3: great pitching, you have great bullpen. Rally around this team.
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  Speaker 3: If they don't get off to a good start when
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  Speaker 3: they're home next time, who cares. They're going to be
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  Speaker 3: playing in October. They're gonna probably go deep in October
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  Speaker 3: because they're built for it. Get behind them more now
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  Speaker 3: than ever. That would be my message, because this team's
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  Speaker 3: fun to watch and they're really good when.
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  Speaker 6: They're on and to the point of having the wild card,
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  Speaker 6: if you hit the ball out of the ballpark, and
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  Speaker 6: we all know as hitters, the worst thing you can
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  Speaker 6: do for us is give.
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  Speaker 5: Us time off.
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  Speaker 6: So if they have the wild card, they finish the
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  Speaker 6: regular season on a Sunday. They're playing in a game
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  Speaker 6: on Tuesday. If they don't get the wildcard, of course
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  Speaker 6: you want to advance and be the higher seed.
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  Speaker 5: They may not play until Friday or Saturday.
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  Speaker 6: That's a long time off for a team that relies
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  Speaker 6: on hitting the ball out of the ballpark.
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  Speaker 1: One batter not in the lineup for the Astros tonight,
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  Speaker 1: youorre Don Alvarez, you could feel that whole likely be
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  Speaker 1: back in tomorrow's game. They also have a bunch of
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  Speaker 1: guys they could be getting healthier. I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: this is the Astro squad we'll see in October. It's
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  Speaker 1: going to be a different when everybody is healthy.