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O's looking to regroup after taking two straight from Miami · Birdland Territory

• 0:07
  Speaker 1: The regrouping has begun. After the Orioles got blitzed in
• 0:11
  Speaker 1: New York, they go to Miami and win the first
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  Speaker 1: two of the series, and tonight can sweep the Marlins
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  Speaker 1: at Lone Depot Park. And that's a little better Birdland Territory.
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  Speaker 1: And this is our fifteenth show. We're rolling right along
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  Speaker 1: here cranking them out. Steve Maluski, Brad Brock, Tin Barbelace
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  Speaker 1: also on x at Birdland Territory, so check that out. So, guys,
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  Speaker 1: that's much better for the Orioles. They weren't perfect wins,
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  Speaker 1: but they were wins, and I think right now, Brad,
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  Speaker 1: they need any kind of wins they can get as
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  Speaker 1: many as they can roll off of at a time
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  Speaker 1: when the America League has twelve I can't believe this
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  Speaker 1: is true, twelve losing records. The Orioles are in the
• 0:59
  Speaker 1: playoff by being a couple of games under. They don't
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  Speaker 1: want that to be their final vestination. But for now,
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  Speaker 1: two wins feels a lot better.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure, especially after that weekend. You know, it
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  Speaker 2: was a little dire the last show we did, losing
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  Speaker 2: four in a row to the Yankees heading down to Miami.
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  Speaker 2: You just didn't know what was going to happen in
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  Speaker 2: this series based off what we saw those four games
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  Speaker 2: this past weekend. So you're right, though, any wins are
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  Speaker 2: good wins right now. It doesn't matter how they get
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  Speaker 2: it done or what it looks like. It's just a
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  Speaker 2: win and that's all you can really do at this point,
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  Speaker 2: just kind of keep pace with the American League, where
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  Speaker 2: you know, nobody's really kind of running away with it
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  Speaker 2: right now. So it's wins are great, and the offense
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  Speaker 2: is kind of looking how we kind of expected. It's
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  Speaker 2: looking like it's running on all cylinders. They have the
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  Speaker 2: big hitters starting to hit right now and they're kind
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  Speaker 2: of carrying this team.
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  Speaker 3: And that's what you need from this offense.
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  Speaker 4: When you're at a rut like the Orioles were heading
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  Speaker 4: to Miami, thirst style points out the window. You're just
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  Speaker 4: trying to survive in advance, you're trying to win. And
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  Speaker 4: you can get to that game too today where yeah,
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  Speaker 4: it was great. Adleie Rutschman, Craig Albernass pushing the right button,
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  Speaker 4: pinch hitting for a red hot fanwel Besio Adley ended
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  Speaker 4: up coming through Leodi Taveres with the attack on run.
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  Speaker 4: But the Orioles they blew two three run leads in
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  Speaker 4: that game. But you know what, it doesn't matter. And
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  Speaker 4: yesterday it was more steady. And in both of those games, guys,
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  Speaker 4: they were able to get off to quick starts. They
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  Speaker 4: scored three runs in the first inning of both of
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  Speaker 4: those ball games, and that was huge.
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  Speaker 3: That was huge.
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  Speaker 4: And going from five straight games in which they didn't
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  Speaker 4: lead at all to where these past two games they
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  Speaker 4: haven't trailed at all.
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  Speaker 2: You know what, Also, when you look at the offense,
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  Speaker 2: we've been talking about how they scored early or late,
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  Speaker 2: and now that the add on runs have been.
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  Speaker 3: Huge these games.
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  Speaker 2: And that's really where good offenses turned into great offenses.
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  Speaker 2: When you're able to add those tack on runs extend
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  Speaker 2: the leads, you lose the lead, you take the lead back,
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  Speaker 2: and that's really what you want to see from an offense,
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  Speaker 2: not so much score ton early and then do nothing
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  Speaker 2: the rest of the game or have to come back
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  Speaker 2: at the end and score runs like they have been doing.
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  Speaker 2: They've been able to attack on runs there in the
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  Speaker 2: middle innings, which have been huge, especially in these last
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  Speaker 2: two games.
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  Speaker 1: So the Oils went from a five game losing streak
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  Speaker 1: during which they were outscored fifty to fifteen to a
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  Speaker 1: two game winning streak during which they've outscored Miami sixteen
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  Speaker 1: to eleven. So some runs are coming and finally some
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  Speaker 1: run prevention was coming. Last night, the Ools had a
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  Speaker 1: little stretch of I think six straight games they gave
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  Speaker 1: up seven or more. Runs. That won't work, but four
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  Speaker 1: is more like it. And Brad Brandon Young, he gave
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  Speaker 1: it up in the first and no doubt every Oil
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  Speaker 1: fan said, here we go again. Three nothing, lead is gone.
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  Speaker 1: And who knew he was going to turn it around
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  Speaker 1: to the dramatic nature he did, and he said I
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  Speaker 1: had no choice, and so I guess he didn't. But man,
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  Speaker 1: the execution for second inning on pretty special.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was fun to watch. I mean that first thing,
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  Speaker 2: I gotta take some guys. Last night it was like,
• 4:00
  Speaker 2: oh no, here's the astro game all over again. But
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  Speaker 2: he was he was outstanding. I mean, he got the
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  Speaker 2: first I think they said the first two batters out
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  Speaker 2: in every inning that he pitched last night, and unfortunately
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  Speaker 2: the first inning he had a couple walks there that
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  Speaker 2: kind of led to the three runs, but after that
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  Speaker 2: he really just attacked with his fastball. I think it's
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  Speaker 2: it's you go into a game with the game plan,
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  Speaker 2: and I think sometimes when you have a really good
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  Speaker 2: fastball like he had last night, you really have to
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  Speaker 2: lean in on that, regardless of what the scating report says.
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  Speaker 2: And I think they made some adjustments after that first inning,
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  Speaker 2: and he just attacked the guys. They couldn't square up
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  Speaker 2: his fastball, even though he didn't have the best location
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  Speaker 2: with it. He had such ride on his fastball last night.
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  Speaker 2: Every single Marlins hitter was just popping the balls up.
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  Speaker 2: I mean he was having one pitches kind of middle in,
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  Speaker 2: middle up, and guys were just popping them up.
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  Speaker 3: They weren't able to do anything with it.
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  Speaker 2: And I think he really just leaned into that and
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  Speaker 2: just kind of rode his fastball for the entire start.
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  Speaker 2: It was it was fun to watch, and it's it's
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  Speaker 2: great to see a guy who had a rough start
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  Speaker 2: his last one come out, have a really bad first
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  Speaker 2: inning but then put up six our five scoreless innings
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  Speaker 2: after that and get through the sixth inning, which is
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  Speaker 2: this staff really needed.
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  Speaker 3: With the stretch they have coming.
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  Speaker 4: Up, it really really needed that from Brandon Young. And
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  Speaker 4: you're right, Brad, it has to be human nature for
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  Speaker 4: him to think for the club to think, oh my gosh,
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  Speaker 4: here we go again. With how disastrous the Astros game was,
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  Speaker 4: where the Orioles were down five to nothing before they
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  Speaker 4: even took an at bad and that game got away
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  Speaker 4: from him. And I remember Brandon Young really upseted himself
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  Speaker 4: talking to the media after that game, saying, man like,
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  Speaker 4: I thought these blow up starts were behind me after
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  Speaker 4: last year. So for him to bear down. And by
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  Speaker 4: the way, that first inning he got those first two
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  Speaker 4: outs on four pitches and then ran into trouble where
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  Speaker 4: five consecutive guys ended up reaching for him to retire
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  Speaker 4: sixteen of the final eighteen batters seven straight. Really really
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  Speaker 4: impressive stuff. And you said it, Brad. The fastball with him.
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  Speaker 4: He got seven swings and misses on that fastball, but
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  Speaker 4: he also got strike one on that fastball. First pitch
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  Speaker 4: strikes that were fastballs. Last night, he got first pitch
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  Speaker 4: strikes in thirteen of those seventeen chances. That's really really good.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. For me. The biggest thing was he kind of
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  Speaker 3: seemed a little tentative. Early in that first inning.
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  Speaker 2: He was going to a lot of all speeding, almost
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  Speaker 2: like trying to make things happen as opposed to just
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  Speaker 2: attacking them and saying, here it is, here's my fastball,
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  Speaker 2: see how far you can hit it. And he was
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  Speaker 2: just really aggressive in his zone, which was really impressive
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  Speaker 2: and fun to watch.
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  Speaker 1: Pitch efficient. Ninety three pitches got him six innings, so
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  Speaker 1: it was averaging about fifteen an inning, one hit aloud
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  Speaker 1: from the second inning on, and tim all the talk
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  Speaker 1: of two out runs while he gave some up in
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  Speaker 1: the first inning and they didn't give up anything after
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  Speaker 1: where it doesn't matter how many outs he was. He
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  Speaker 1: was rolling. And you guys are right. You leaned on
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  Speaker 1: the fastball fifty five percent four seams last night. We
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  Speaker 1: don't we'll see a lot of games in the major
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  Speaker 1: leagues anymore where the starter throws over fifty percent fastball.
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  Speaker 1: He had it going and his other pitches were way
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  Speaker 1: down percentage wise. He realized I could lean on that
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  Speaker 1: and that ride. You talk about this induced vertible break
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  Speaker 1: they talk about, which essentially means you can pitch up
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  Speaker 1: better than other pitchers, and I guess he had that
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  Speaker 1: going to last night, Brad, so I got I give
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  Speaker 1: this guy a lot of credit. I mean, his career
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  Speaker 1: ore is pretty high, and he didn't have great stats
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  Speaker 1: last year, but outside of the one blip, and it
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  Speaker 1: was it was a tough blip, he's doing some really
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  Speaker 1: good things for this team when they got a couple
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  Speaker 1: guys on the injured list from the starters.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and also too, I think for him, I love
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  Speaker 2: seeing a great start after kind of knowing Trevor Rodgers
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  Speaker 2: is coming, that looming decision being made here, and he
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  Speaker 2: really it just seemed like his demeanor change after that
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  Speaker 2: first inning. It was he went into attack mode, and
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  Speaker 2: it was he was a very much different and more
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  Speaker 2: confident pitcher after that first inning, and it was it
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  Speaker 2: was fun to see.
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  Speaker 3: And that's when he's at his best.
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  Speaker 2: I've seen a few of his really good starts and
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  Speaker 2: he's just attacking guys. He's going right at him, he's
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  Speaker 2: getting strike one and he's making that he's forcing them
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  Speaker 2: put the ball in play.
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  Speaker 3: He's not a huge strikeout guy.
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  Speaker 2: They'll get his swings of missus here and there, but
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  Speaker 2: when he's really attacking the zone, he's getting early contact.
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  Speaker 3: That's when he's at his best and.
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  Speaker 4: Go ahead, Ken No, I was gonna say, and Brad,
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  Speaker 4: it's a good point in bringing up the Trevor Rodgers
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  Speaker 4: of it all, where I'm sure that's in the back
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  Speaker 4: of his head. But at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 4: if you're Brandon Young, you just have to control what
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  Speaker 4: you can control, and that's going out giving your team
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  Speaker 4: a chance to win that game. Start to stack back
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  Speaker 4: to back wins, and that's exactly what he did.
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  Speaker 1: He sure did a great outing for Brandon Young after
• 8:43
  Speaker 1: a shaky start and the oil skint a victory. Taylor
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  Speaker 1: Ward is drawing a ton of walks. Gunner Henderson unfortunately
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  Speaker 1: right now, is piling up a ton of strikeouts. We're
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  Speaker 1: gonna check in on both those players in a moment
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• 10:00
  Speaker 1: Guys with Gunner Henderson. Right now, the stats are not there.
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  Speaker 1: He's hitting two h one ops six ninety one, well
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  Speaker 1: under what we would expect and he would expect, and
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  Speaker 1: the cap percentage is way up thirty one point five,
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  Speaker 1: career worse for him, well over. You know, in twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty four great year cap percentage was twenty two point one,
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  Speaker 1: very reasonable, last year twenty one point zero, now thirty one.
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  Speaker 1: What do you guys see that's creating the swing and
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  Speaker 1: miss for Gunner right now.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I kind of went and just kind
• 10:32
  Speaker 2: of watched his bats the last couple of games and
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  Speaker 2: just kind of seeing how maybe it was more of
• 10:37
  Speaker 2: how the pitches were attacking him or the swings he
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  Speaker 2: was taking. But right now he's just he's not getting
• 10:42
  Speaker 2: to the inside fastball. Last night he was getting challenged
• 10:45
  Speaker 2: inside with the inside fastball, and I feel like for Gunner,
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  Speaker 2: if he's not able to get to that pitch, it
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  Speaker 2: gets really hard to cover the rest of the play.
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  Speaker 2: It was a pretty apparent attack last night they had
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  Speaker 2: on him. It was fastball's in and then it was
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  Speaker 2: all speed away, and I think he's just kind of
• 11:00
  Speaker 2: caught in between bull swings. And I feel like for
• 11:02
  Speaker 2: a hitter, if you're not able to get to the
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  Speaker 2: inside fastball, it makes everything else a lot more tough.
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  Speaker 2: And I think that's kind of where he is right now.
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  Speaker 2: He's kind of stuck trying to get to the inside fastball,
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  Speaker 2: and then you're just not able to cover away when
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  Speaker 2: you start seeing the off speed pitches. So last night
• 11:17
  Speaker 2: it was just I mean, that picture Perez is that's
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  Speaker 2: some of the nastiest stuff you'll see a starter have
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  Speaker 2: in the league, and he just kind of got he
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  Speaker 2: was getting beat inside and it happens. But I think
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  Speaker 2: it's kind of becoming a trend, and it'll be interesting
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  Speaker 2: to see if pitchers continue to attack him the same
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  Speaker 2: way they have the last couple nights.
• 11:35
  Speaker 1: Brad.
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  Speaker 4: We had Ben McDonald on my show on one of
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  Speaker 4: five Seventh Fan yesterday or two days ago, and we
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  Speaker 4: were asking him about Gunner and he made an interesting
• 11:44
  Speaker 4: point in saying, maybe one of the worst things that
• 11:48
  Speaker 4: could have happened to him was him having that stretch
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  Speaker 4: of a bunch of homers in a row. I think
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  Speaker 4: he hit four home runs in five games, where Ben
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  Speaker 4: thinks that maybe he's getting a little too homer hapy
• 12:00
  Speaker 4: be maybe a little too much swinging for the fences.
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  Speaker 3: Could that be an issue? Do you see something like that?
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  Speaker 3: It could be. I definitely know what Ben's saying.
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  Speaker 2: I think a lot of times when especially when it
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  Speaker 2: happens early in the season, you kind of sit there
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  Speaker 2: and you start doing what you're doing.
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  Speaker 3: But that's not what gives you success.
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  Speaker 2: And I think for gunn or what gives him success
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  Speaker 2: is hitting to all fields. And I think when you
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  Speaker 2: start getting pull happy, you start pulling off everything, So
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  Speaker 2: when he starts missing the inside fastball, he's not able
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  Speaker 2: to drive the off speed the other way, which I
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  Speaker 2: think makes him one of the most elite hitters in
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  Speaker 2: the game, is when he starts hitting that ball to
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  Speaker 2: left center field. And we talked about Pete kind of
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  Speaker 2: it's I think it's very similar what's happening to Gunner
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  Speaker 2: right now. What was happening to Pete early in the season.
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  Speaker 2: He was seeing so many off speed pitches that he
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  Speaker 2: wasn't able to get to the fastball. So when they
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  Speaker 2: were missing with fastballs, fastballs were getting by him. And
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  Speaker 2: he was so used to seeing so many off speed
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  Speaker 2: that when he was missing the off speed, he couldn't
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  Speaker 2: catch up to the fastball. And I think it's a
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  Speaker 2: similar situation what we're seeing with Gunner right now. I
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  Speaker 2: think Ben's right. I think he was getting a little
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  Speaker 2: bit too, a little bit two pool happy, and I
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  Speaker 2: think that's it can kind of throw your game off,
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  Speaker 2: and when you don't know, when you can't get to
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  Speaker 2: the enti basketball like I think Gunner can on a
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  Speaker 2: regular basis, it just throws everything off and you're trying
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  Speaker 2: to play catch up. And when you're playing catch up
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  Speaker 2: at the big leagues, especially with the stuff they've seen
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  Speaker 2: the last two or three series, it makes it really
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  Speaker 2: hard to be a hitter at that level.
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  Speaker 4: And with those numbers, because Mason's been flashing those graphics recently,
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  Speaker 4: the Orioles have seen the second fewest fastballs in the
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  Speaker 4: majors this year. And I know a lot of people
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  Speaker 4: like to poke fun at Colden Cowser just with the
• 13:33
  Speaker 4: lack of fastballs that he's seeing this year and the
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  Speaker 4: off speed being way up. But this is a team
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  Speaker 4: wide thing. This isn't just Colden Kowser and Gunner Henderson
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  Speaker 4: is one part of that.
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  Speaker 1: Brad.
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  Speaker 4: When I was looking at his Baseball Savant page this morning,
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  Speaker 4: Gunner's three for twenty nine with nine strikeouts on off
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  Speaker 4: speed pitches. He's fourteen for seventy six. That's a one
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  Speaker 4: eighty four average with twenty nine strikeouts on breaking an
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  Speaker 4: off speed pitches. And if you look at the fastball
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  Speaker 4: percentages that Gunner is seeing year over year, it's down
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  Speaker 4: eight point two percent. That is a substantial difference year
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  Speaker 4: over years. So clearly pitchers are seeing something and Gunner
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  Speaker 4: now has to make that adjustment.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think with all the data and analytics
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  Speaker 2: you have. Now, if you have a hole, it's gonna
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  Speaker 2: be exposed until you fix it. And these teams are
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  Speaker 2: just gonna constantly go back to the well on what
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  Speaker 2: you're struggling with when they don't have to make any adjustment.
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  Speaker 2: So it's with the I think with the analytics stuff,
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  Speaker 2: it's it's the game planning has become so much better
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  Speaker 2: because it's there's no there's no like hiding anything, there's
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  Speaker 2: no being able to stay away from anything. It's if
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  Speaker 2: you're struggling with something, you're gonna see tons of it
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  Speaker 2: in today. With the Marlins pitcher Meyer I think it's Meyer.
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  Speaker 2: He he throws a ton of off speed pitches I
• 14:54
  Speaker 2: saw my last year in Triple A. I mean I
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  Speaker 2: think he was throwing seventy five percent sliders. It makes
• 14:59
  Speaker 2: Kyle Bradis on some of these starts look like he's
• 15:02
  Speaker 2: throwing off fastball. So it'll be interesting to see today because,
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  Speaker 2: like you said, the data is shown they're struggling on
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  Speaker 2: off speed and this guy really goes to the well
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  Speaker 2: on all speed pitchers. So it's gonna be interesting to
• 15:12
  Speaker 2: see if he sticks to that game plan. And to me,
• 15:14
  Speaker 2: that's what I love watching. When I watch these games,
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  Speaker 2: it's what is going to be done. Are they going
• 15:18
  Speaker 2: to stick to what has been working and what he
• 15:20
  Speaker 2: does best, or they change something up because they've lost
• 15:23
  Speaker 2: the last two games. I think he's gonna lean very
• 15:25
  Speaker 2: heavy on a slider today, but it'll be interesting to
• 15:27
  Speaker 2: see how he goes about his game.
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: Plantat Cast gives us so much data, but sometimes you
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: can look at a number and it feels, oh, this
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: is big and for me. In twenty twenty four, when
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: Gunner was an MVP candidate, he was in the top
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: sixteen percent in what they call chase percentage. He wasn't chasing.
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: He was one of the best. Now he's in the
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: bottom twenty eight percent, top sixteen two years later, bottom
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: twenty eight. It's hard enough to hit the strikes. Gunners
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: now missing some of them. As you said, Brad pound
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: him in. He's not getting to that ball. But now
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: he's expanding too. When you lose confidence as a hitter,
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: you start to expand. And when hitter, when pitchers see
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: that Brad, you know on a scouting report, it's like
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: a shark seeing get you. It's go time to get
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: ahead and expand and get outs.
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that's that's it right there, that's in a nutshell,
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: it's it's throws strike one. And right now, I mean
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: they're being super aggressive in the zone and Gunner and
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: he he had a single the other night through the
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: through the right side. But I think they're just confident.
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: If they can get strike one, then from there it's
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: you don't even have to throw a strike.
• 16:37
  Speaker 3: You can be out of the zone.
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: You can make him expand and when you're when you
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: see hitter scuffling, you know, And that's just basically where
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: Gunners are right now. He's trying to make things happen
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: as opposed to when he's at his best, he kind
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: of lets the game come to him.
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: And I think just right now he's just he's a
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: little bit.
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: Outside his own, probably losing his zone just a little
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: bit because he's trying to go out and get these
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: pitches that he knows he should be hitting. And when
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: you missed the one you know you should hit, it
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: makes you frustrated and then you start to expand even more.
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: And I think that's kind of where it's at right now.
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: And it happens to the best hitters in the game,
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: and it's when hitter and when pitcher see that, that's
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: what they do, exactly what you said. You just you
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: get strike one, then you can expand and go anywhere
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: you want from there.
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: Exactly. So Gunner's too good for this to not pass.
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: It will at some point, but right now really struggling
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: on this road trip and trying to get it galling.
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: Thanks for watching today, Berdland Territory. Hope you'll subscribe to
• 17:30
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• 17:41
  Speaker 1: tonight you talk about an orio who might hit one out.
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: He's hit out a lot in Lone Depot Park. I'm
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: talking about Pete Alonzo. Freddy Freeman is the all time
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: leader in that park with eighteen homers. Next is Pete
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: Alonzo at sixteen and he got one last night. What
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: a swing. That was ninety eight on the corner. It
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: was zero to two and he hit it four hundred
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: to center. This is how locked in he is right now.
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: And remember when we were talking about, oh, is he
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: having trouble with his bat speed, He's not having any
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: trouble with his bat speed. His exit velocity, by the way,
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: is better than some guys who have ridiculous exit velocities
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: over the years. So a lot's going right for this
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: guy right now.
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he looks great, he looks locked in, and he
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: kind of talked about it after the game last night,
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: just how he's comfortable there. When you play in division
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: at a ballpark for so long, there's just certain parks
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: there you see the ball better. Unfortunately, Kenny Yards is
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: usually one of those places for opposing hitters. And when everybody,
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: anybody came in town, I was like, I don't even
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: want to talk if I knew them, I was like,
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: I don't even want to talk to you. I know
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: you see the ball well here, don't want to hear it.
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: And I think that's how it is for Pete right now.
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: I don't think anybody's trying to come say hi to
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: him because they know that he's just seen it. Well.
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: It's a very friendly ballpark. There's not a big crowd.
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: Usually they have a huge blue hitters high in center field.
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: I was like, pitch on the mound there. But apparently
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: hitters like hitting in the box, and Pete said that
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: last night. He likes a batter box, he likes a
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: hitter's eye, and he's seen it really well right now,
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: and he's swinging the bat really well. Like you said
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: that pitch last night. When Pete's on, there's not a
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: pitch he can't hit over the fence. I saw it
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: as a rookie at Cincinnati. He took a pitch like
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: ninety six, I mean on the black away and he
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: hit it out through the smokestacks and right center field
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: there for the steam Boat Place, and it was one
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: of the most impressive swings I've seen. And when he's
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: locked in, he can do that to any pitcher, any count,
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: any pitch you throw.
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: He is looking like Pete Alonzo right now. And now
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: you can look at the season long numbers and they're
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: really climbing. Seven eighty one ohps. Still not to Pete tight,
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: but when you look back, we brought it up so
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: many times on this podcast him after that Giants game
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: and how emotional he was and how upset he was. Well,
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: you can go to the final game of that Giant series,
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: and that now spans twenty three games, so a decent
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: sample size. Pete's got a ninety nine five ops in
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: that stretch, seventeen RBIs, six homers, eight doubles, twenty strikeouts
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: to fourteen walks. That's Pete Alonzo in this stretch.
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: He had a ball in the ninth inning last night,
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: one ten point eight that was caught. That was now
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: the homer was one oh nine point five. I mean,
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: these are just ridiculous exit velocity. So Pete Alonzo's our
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• 21:05
  Speaker 1: And now on to Taylor Ward. This is crazy. He's
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: on one hundred and forty four walk pace. The Oriel
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: team record is one eighteen by Ken Singleton in the
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: nineteen seventies. That would shatter that. His walk percentage is
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: way up, his strikeout percentage is way down. That's a
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: great result for any hitter. Talk about locked in and
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: talk about chase percentages, which we just were, he's in
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: the one hundred percentile. He chases less than anybody in
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: baseball right now, stat Cast is telling us, and we're
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: seeing that play out every night in the batter's box.
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, he knows the strike zone inside out,
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: upside down. However you want to say he knows the
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: strike zone right now, and it's I think he's just
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: making pitchers throw strikes. And I think he's starting to
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: realize that most major league pitchers you throw over fifty
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: percent out of his zone, and it's he's waiting for
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: his pitch when it's in the zone, and if it's not,
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: he's just taking his free pass and kind of passing
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: the baton down the line. And I think he's really
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: setting up this offense to have success and allow the
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: hitters behind him to knock him in. And it's been
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: impressive to see and to me, I think it just
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: leads to him. His power numbers might not be where
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: what oil fans had expected, but I think they're gonna
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: go up because pitchers are gonna start realizing you have
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: to throw the ball on his zone and I think
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: he's just kind of waiting them out, kind of playing
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: the cat and mouse game right now. And when he
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: starts to get those pitches, I think when he gets hot,
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: he's gonna get really, really hot and start him balls
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: over the fence.
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: I almost feel like we're not talking enough about this guy,
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: and in part we were kind of We've made some jokes,
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: you know, throughout the off season where Ward was the
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: first acquisition and then of course Pete gets the massive
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: contract and he's overshadowed by Pete, which you get. And
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: he's thinking the star power that this team has with
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: Gunner Henderson and Atlee Rutchman's having a resurgent ear, and
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: Samuel Bissio is swinging a red hot bat. Taylor Ward
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: is flying under the radar for me Gus, and he's
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: having a fantastic start to the season. And Brad, you're right,
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: the power numbers aren't there. He's only got the one
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: home run, But if he keeps getting on base with
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: the clip that he's getting on I'm fine with that.
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: Like Taylor Ward, you look at his numbers and this
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: is just kind of a nutshell. Yesterday, guys, five at bats,
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: he saw twenty nine pitches, so almost six pitches per
• 23:23
  Speaker 4: played appearance. Uh, you look at where he ranks in
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: the majors. He's fourth in the majors in pitches scene
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: per played appearance at four point four to five pitches
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: per played appearance. Then you look at the battery numbers,
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: second in doubles with ty Per, second in doubles at thirteen.
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: He's third in walks with thirty four, he's third, and
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: on base percentage four to thirty four on base that's unbelievable,
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: unbelievable for Taylor Ward the start to the season. And
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: you know that that was seen when the trade was
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: made Steve and covered Grayson his old minor league career.
• 24:06
  Speaker 4: You know the potential that he had and unfortunately injuries
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: just piled up for Greyson. Then he understand why Michael
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: Ayas made that trade, but you know it was a trade,
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: it was when it happened. Grayson has four years of control,
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: Taylor Ward only has one for right now, Grayson, you
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: know he started the year on the il and Taylor Ward.
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: It's been a home run of a trade for Michael Oyas.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: Do you well so far he is, He's been a
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: joy to cover and he told me he really got
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: locked in on play discipline at college at Fresno State.
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: His coach told him how important it was and really
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: emphasized it. And where he played with Aaron Judge by
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: the way, in college, and then he played with Mike
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: Trout in the pros. Pretty good one two bunch, But
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: Taylor Ward is seeing it right now, guys. Twenty point
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: five walk percentage, that is exceptional. We're going to talk
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: about Addlee Rutchman. He's got a rolling now too.
• 24:57
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• 25:18
  Speaker 1: If he had enough at bets to qualify for league leaders,
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: he doesn't quite yet, he would be in the top
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: twenty and ops. We're talking about Adleie Ritchman. Three point
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: thirteen average, three sixty eight on base, five sixty three
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: slug and nine thirty one ops. And oh, by the way,
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: it's one of the best framers in baseball catching. What
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: a year man, What a turnaround for this guy?
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's looked great, and it's it's not even from
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: just like one side of the plate, it's both sides
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: of the play. Right now, he's just seen it really well.
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: I just I love the way he lets the ball travel.
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: As a hitter, he's willing to take his hits the
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: other way. And even last night he caught up to
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: ninety eight up and in and pulled it down the
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: line for double and scored a run there. It's just
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: he's really impressive to watch when he's when he's at
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: his best. And I think last year those injuries really
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: play factored into his season. I think it really affected
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: way more than he wanted to admit. And this is
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: the kind of hitter and player Oriols fans expected. When
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: you're drafting number one overall, you have a lofty expectations,
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: and I think right now he's living up to those
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: and more.
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: He's looked great at the plate.
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: Behind the plate, the way he's helping these young pitchers
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: kind of settle into it's been really impressive and fun
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: to watch.
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: He's played in twenty two games so far, and you
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: can go back to each year of his career. This season,
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: the first twenty two games. Compared to that sample size,
• 26:36
  Speaker 4: he's got the most doubles, RBIs, total bases and fewish strikeouts.
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: And we know how good Adley was when he first
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: came up, and he was a two time All Star
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: in twenty three, in twenty four, and Adley has better
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: numbers through the first twenty two games than those seasons.
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: He has been really, really impressive. And Brad wanted to
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: get your thoughts on the other day. Steve and I
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: talked about it yesterday on pregame. Just Craig Alberna is
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: pushing the right button pinch hitting Samuel Bisio and Tuesday
• 27:08
  Speaker 4: night's game, and look, that would have been a decision
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: that was second guest if Adley didn't come through, but
• 27:13
  Speaker 4: he did. Samuel Basil, he was only one homeer away
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: from the cycle that night, but Adley came through in
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: a big time spot.
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it goes to show the confidence he
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: has in both guys. I think it's you know, they're
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: interchangeable at any point, whether it's a pinch hit, whether
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: it's putting them both in the lineup together. One is
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: the DH, one is the catcher, And I think it
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: just shows, like you're saying, I mean that that is
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: like an unheard of both the guy has a triple
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: double single to that point, and you pinch hit somebody
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: who hasn't been in the game all all game, and
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: it just it allows the versatility because of the switch
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: hitting of Ali Rushman, and it's it's just been it's
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: been really cool to watch, and it's been great to
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: see how they're handling all of it, whether you know,
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: I think when we talked we kind of the other day,
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: I mentioned how you just got to get both these
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: guys in the lineup.
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: But we'll see how plays out as A and goes along.
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: Maybe OUTA would be more fresh, and maybe the fact
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: that they're both not in the line of every single
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: day will make them better come August in September. So
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: it's it's been fun to watch and what a luxury
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: to have both these guys. And I think with Visaio's
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: coming around behind the plate and the way he's he's
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: done a great job catching really just freeze up Alberne
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: is when it comes to being able to play both
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: these guys or one of them and give them the
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: rest that they need. But it's been it's been fun
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: to watch and it's it's cool to see how he's
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: been using them. It's an interesting dynamic. And I don't
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: think any team in the league has what the Orioles
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: have in both these catchers.
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: All Star candidates, two catchers. And we're a long way
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: away from really getting deeper into that conversation, but right now,
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: and guys, the offense right now, you've got Adlie going,
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: You've got Ward going, You've got Alonso going, you got
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: Besaio going. You don't have Gunner going. It's hard to
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: maybe get all five at one time. But they're only
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: one short right now to really seeing what this thing
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: can look like. And I think the offense that a
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: lot of people expected is starting to come yeah.
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: And I think if the offense gets going like we
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: think it can, it can kind of iron over some
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: of these pitching, you know, problems that may be seen
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: right now, and I think it just frees them up
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: to not feel they have to be perfect the whole
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: time and just go out there and do what they do.
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: And I think last night with Brandon Young getting those
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: three runs early, Yes, he gave up the three right away,
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: but he was able to go back out there and
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: they kept tacking on runs, and I think if Pitchers
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: starts seeing that, it's kind of like, Okay, it's time
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: for us to kind of get things in gear here
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: and not have to stress so much about putting up
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: zeros every single inning when you have an offense that
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: can score at the rate that I think we expect
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: them to put up runs.
• 29:41
  Speaker 4: The reality is if the Orioles get back to playing
• 29:44
  Speaker 4: games in October, it's got to be on the back
• 29:47
  Speaker 4: of the offense. That's just how the team was built.
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: Pete was the huge acquisition.
• 29:52
  Speaker 4: Taylor War was a big time trade, and we know
• 29:55
  Speaker 4: all of these guys in this young corps they're going
• 29:58
  Speaker 4: to have to hit in order to make the playoffs.
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: So it's gotten a little better in Birdland, slowly but surely,
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: and the Oriols are digging out of a hole here
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: a couple wins in Miami. There now seventeen and twenty
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: and at one two in a row after the five
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: game losing streak homestand begins Friday against the Athletics in Boltimore.
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: They'll try for the sweep tonight at Lone Depot Park
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: for Brad Rock and Tim Barblay. So I'm Steve Maleski,
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: thanks for joining us. We'll see in a couple of
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: days with another edition of A Birdland Territory