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- 0:01Speaker 1: Bouncing ball to Naylor, clips and finishes their first play
- 0:08Speaker 1: twin in twenty four years. The Maritors up tied the
- 0:13Speaker 1: series at one since the clincher against Cleveland nearly a
- 0:20Speaker 1: quarter century ago, and Seattle, the team and the city
- 0:26Speaker 1: can breathe a collective sigh of relief as they will
- 0:30Speaker 1: head to the Motor City tied up at a game
- 0:33Speaker 1: a piece with the Detroit Tigers.
- 0:38Speaker 2: FS one Adam Mean on the call there, and that's
- 0:42Speaker 2: pretty appropriate. I think that's really well said. I think
- 0:44Speaker 2: there was I mean, there was somebody at about eleven
- 0:48Speaker 2: ten last night that was just, you know, crab fishing
- 0:53Speaker 2: in the Boston Harbor, and it was just sitting there like, hey,
- 0:56Speaker 2: pull it up, you know, will Filmer. Filmer's like pulling
- 1:01Speaker 2: it up and trying to look see if they got
- 1:03Speaker 2: any crabs, and then all of a sudden they just
- 1:04Speaker 2: felt this like go over the top of them.
- 1:09Speaker 3: They're like, did you.
- 1:09Speaker 2: Feel that, Filmer? I don't know if I did, Craig,
- 1:14Speaker 2: I don't know what that was, but it felt like
- 1:16Speaker 2: a breeze of relief blew over us. I think yeah,
- 1:21Speaker 2: I think they felt it in Japan. I think they
- 1:23Speaker 2: felt it in Greenland. You know, I think that it
- 1:27Speaker 2: was felt everywhere that oh my goodness. I don't know
- 1:31Speaker 2: if that was a must win this time of the year.
- 1:33Speaker 2: Usually must wins mean your season is over. But it
- 1:38Speaker 2: sure felt musty. There's no doubt going into that game.
- 1:41Speaker 2: And I think there was a huge sigh of relief
- 1:44Speaker 2: felt here, not just with the fan base. I think
- 1:48Speaker 2: that clubhouse was like, who I will now go clean
- 1:51Speaker 2: my shorts out after giving up the two run lead
- 1:55Speaker 2: late in the game, and now we can start celebrating
- 1:58Speaker 2: and let's get down the ball.
- 2:00Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 2:00Speaker 4: I mean, I would bet you Josh Naylor had a
- 2:02Speaker 4: big sigh of relief because of that error that ended
- 2:06Speaker 4: up being capitalized on with that because it didn't feel like,
- 2:09Speaker 4: oh no, I mean you feel like it. I didn't
- 2:12Speaker 4: feel like we had it in hand, but it felt good,
- 2:14Speaker 4: especially the second home run begging it to zip.
- 2:17Speaker 3: You kind of like, okay, we were we got this.
- 2:19Speaker 4: Just do what you do, Just take care of business,
- 2:21Speaker 4: pape pick it when it's hit to you, and you know,
- 2:24Speaker 4: maybe scratch another one across over in the last couple innings.
- 2:28Speaker 4: But the fact that all of a sudden tied it up,
- 2:30Speaker 4: You're like no, not no, no, we're not going to
- 2:34Speaker 4: do that. And yet callin Julio said, no, we got
- 2:36Speaker 4: We got this. Because it did. It did most certainly
- 2:40Speaker 4: send you in a totally different mindset than what we'd
- 2:43Speaker 4: be talking about. I mean, it's highly possible. I think
- 2:45Speaker 4: we're a better team than they are, and so it's
- 2:46Speaker 4: highly possible you could have been we could be flying
- 2:49Speaker 4: to Detroit and sitting there thinking about being up to zip.
- 2:53Speaker 4: But you know, once you'd kick that first one, being
- 2:56Speaker 4: one one, I'm good with that. Go win a couple
- 2:58Speaker 4: there and see what's up.
- 2:59Speaker 2: We were all aware of the existence of a person
- 3:01Speaker 2: named Trek Scooble and what he does for a living
- 3:04Speaker 2: and how well he does it. We talked about it
- 3:06Speaker 2: all last week. You know he's going to pitch in
- 3:09Speaker 2: forty percent of these games if it goes the distance,
- 3:12Speaker 2: and so you knew you were going to have to
- 3:14Speaker 2: go up against him at some point. I think when
- 3:17Speaker 2: the series started that you tell yourself at home, all right,
- 3:24Speaker 2: we want to win both, but if we get one
- 3:26Speaker 2: out of two here at home, we can take care
- 3:30Speaker 2: of business on the road. A baseball home field advantage
- 3:34Speaker 2: isn't the factor that it is in some other sports.
- 3:37Speaker 2: So I think that a lot of people would have
- 3:39Speaker 2: been all right going into the series splitting these first
- 3:43Speaker 2: two games knowing that Scooble was out there, but you
- 3:48Speaker 2: just certainly didn't expect it to go. We lose Game
- 3:52Speaker 2: one and then beat Schooble to create that sense of relief.
- 3:58Speaker 2: So I'm okay with where I just didn't expect the
- 4:02Speaker 2: journey we went on to get here.
- 4:04Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 4:04Speaker 4: Well, I mean I said it before Game one. It
- 4:08Speaker 4: would be typical Mariners to not win a bullpen game
- 4:12Speaker 4: and then somehow beat Turk Scruble again, Like I thought,
- 4:16Speaker 4: it would just be it's par for the course, that's
- 4:18Speaker 4: the way in which it happens. And yet driving down
- 4:20Speaker 4: to the yard yesterday, I was thinking, Man, I don't
- 4:23Speaker 4: like I don't like the fact that we're we've painted
- 4:26Speaker 4: ourselves into a little bit of a corner. It wasn't
- 4:29Speaker 4: must win by any stretch, but it would have been
- 4:31Speaker 4: really an uphill battle to think you're going to go
- 4:34Speaker 4: on the road win to their force a game five.
- 4:36Speaker 3: That you go against Scooble again and beat you.
- 4:40Speaker 4: But he's not He's human, he believes just like the
- 4:44Speaker 4: rest of us, and so, I mean, the fact that
- 4:46Speaker 4: we ended up having one guy in Jorge Polonco that
- 4:49Speaker 4: took advantage and capitalize on a couple of mistakes put
- 4:52Speaker 4: you in a situation where you could you could survive
- 4:55Speaker 4: a lead off walk and an error and then a
- 4:58Speaker 4: one good piece of hitting and getting that ball that
- 5:01Speaker 4: the Torkosen hit down the line to tie it up.
- 5:04Speaker 4: But to me then it's just the typical Mariner way.
- 5:07Speaker 4: Especially you have Cal Rawley right the year of Cal
- 5:11Speaker 4: him coming up to lead off with that double, You're like, Okay,
- 5:14Speaker 4: here we go. I mean, it immediately felt so much
- 5:17Speaker 4: different than right you just felt five minutes earlier when
- 5:19Speaker 4: they tied the ball game. Now Brash does his thing
- 5:22Speaker 4: and strikes out the two guys to make it keeps
- 5:24Speaker 4: it tied up, and I think Cal just kind of
- 5:27Speaker 4: goes up there, like, let's ride that momentum. Right, we
- 5:29Speaker 4: could feel bad about the fact that it's tied up,
- 5:32Speaker 4: or we can say we still got six outs. They
- 5:34Speaker 4: got three outs, I'm gonna make my out tough. Boom
- 5:37Speaker 4: spanks that one down in the corner and Julio returns.
- 5:40Speaker 4: The whole thing could have got another insurance run there.
- 5:43Speaker 4: It didn't and Julio gets thrown out at home. Regardless,
- 5:46Speaker 4: Munos comes in there and absolutely dices them up. So,
- 5:49Speaker 4: I mean, I'm pumped about one one and I wouldn't
- 5:52Speaker 4: really expect it to be any other way. I would
- 5:53Speaker 4: not have expected, even with our offense as much as
- 5:56Speaker 4: I like it, for them to come out and score
- 5:57Speaker 4: twenty five runs the first two games, and of the
- 6:00Speaker 4: type of wins that Toronto's having against New York, that
- 6:02Speaker 4: just isn't the way this club plays ball.
- 6:05Speaker 5: Yeah, well, and.
- 6:06Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean the nice thing is it doesn't matter
- 6:08Speaker 6: how you win as long as you get the win, right.
- 6:10Speaker 6: And I thought one of the better moments was when
- 6:12Speaker 6: Spire came in for Castillo.
- 6:15Speaker 5: And then got that out. You could, I mean.
- 6:17Speaker 6: That there right there was a huge collective sigh of relief.
- 6:20Speaker 6: You could see it from Castillo, you could see it
- 6:21Speaker 6: from everyone. You could see the emotion on Spire's face
- 6:24Speaker 6: when he was just pumped about getting that final out
- 6:26Speaker 6: of the fifth inning, and then for him to come in.
- 6:28Speaker 5: And do what he did was incredible.
- 6:31Speaker 6: And I will say, when you were saying earlier for
- 6:34Speaker 6: people who don't know, if they didn't know who Scooble was.
- 6:37Speaker 6: If you didn't know who Scooble was, you definitely knew
- 6:39Speaker 6: after the Fox broadcast or f S one broadcast last night.
- 6:42Speaker 5: They are obsessed, obsessed.
- 6:48Speaker 2: Yeah, spire moment. We talked about it a little bit
- 6:50Speaker 2: at seven thirty. Didn't get to expand on it too much.
- 6:53Speaker 2: Bucky and I did talk about a last night on
- 6:55Speaker 2: the post game show, doing the postgame show, by the way,
- 6:57Speaker 2: Baseball's best post game shows back. You know, we used
- 7:00Speaker 2: to do it here at kJ R, and we're doing
- 7:02Speaker 2: it throughout the post game, both home and road throughout
- 7:05Speaker 2: these playoffs. But we did discuss the Spire moment, and
- 7:10Speaker 2: it was the same moment that a lot of people
- 7:12Speaker 2: were kind of thinking we should have gone to on
- 7:15Speaker 2: Saturday night. So I think Dan Wilson immediately learned a
- 7:19Speaker 2: pretty valuable lesson about oh yeah, managing and the postseason
- 7:23Speaker 2: a little bit different. This isn't about let's make sure
- 7:26Speaker 2: since he did some great work, let's get the Rock
- 7:29Speaker 2: a win. No, this is about what are you going
- 7:33Speaker 2: to do tonight, every single moment of tonight, in order
- 7:38Speaker 2: to give yourself the best percentage chance of getting through
- 7:42Speaker 2: that inning, getting that out and I thought they should
- 7:45Speaker 2: have gone to with Spire against Carpenter on Saturday. They didn't,
- 7:50Speaker 2: and it cost them, and then they rectified that. It
- 7:53Speaker 2: was almost as if Dan Wilson was admitting, yeah, you know,
- 7:59Speaker 2: we thought of it. We didn't do it. We didn't
- 8:01Speaker 2: pull the trigger. We're pulling the trigger tonight, and Spire
- 8:04Speaker 2: ends up getting out Carrie Effing Carpenter and we win
- 8:08Speaker 2: the day yesterday.
- 8:09Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it was it was a good move.
- 8:11Speaker 4: Obviously Castillo was I mean, pitch count was up, but
- 8:14Speaker 4: he obviously could have finished that inning and yeah, and
- 8:17Speaker 4: quite possibly would have gotten out of there now it
- 8:19Speaker 4: would have been was that the third time he's facing him,
- 8:23Speaker 4: and that's right when he capitalized on George. It's you see,
- 8:26Speaker 4: he's a good hitter. I mean it's not one of
- 8:28Speaker 4: those oh you just he gets lucky. No, he The
- 8:31Speaker 4: pitch he hit out against George was up out of
- 8:34Speaker 4: the zone. It's a good pitch. It's a good pitcher's pitch.
- 8:37Speaker 4: He just put a better swing on it and capitalized
- 8:39Speaker 4: on it. This is one where why not bring in
- 8:41Speaker 4: a lefty You just automatically feel like, okay, that is
- 8:45Speaker 4: that's pushing the advantage back into our direction. You're bringing
- 8:49Speaker 4: in game Spier who he's got that fire right. He
- 8:52Speaker 4: pitches like a bulldog out there. And when you inherit
- 8:55Speaker 4: a couple runners, there's more to it than just you
- 8:58Speaker 4: going out and hat trying to have a clean inning.
- 8:59Speaker 4: You're like, no, I'm I'm here to take you down
- 9:03Speaker 4: like it is you and me one on one, and
- 9:05Speaker 4: I'm doing it to pick up the team. And because
- 9:08Speaker 4: it was a really gutsy outing by Castile, he kind
- 9:11Speaker 4: of he was being careful with a lot of the pitches,
- 9:14Speaker 4: hence the four walks that he ended up giving, but
- 9:16Speaker 4: then pitched around all of that traffic and really only
- 9:19Speaker 4: allowed that one hit before he was taken out. So
- 9:22Speaker 4: it was one of those you don't want to cough
- 9:24Speaker 4: it up right here. You don't want to cough up
- 9:25Speaker 4: your homies run that you're inheriting. He went out there
- 9:29Speaker 4: and did it masterfully. It was it was one where
- 9:31Speaker 4: it does it gives you. It gives Dan Wilson the
- 9:35Speaker 4: idea of I can I have to rely on all
- 9:39Speaker 4: these dudes in the bullpen, you know, I mean maybe
- 9:41Speaker 4: not every single guy, obviously they're not. Everybody's going to
- 9:43Speaker 4: be in the same type of situation as far as
- 9:45Speaker 4: the leverage and how high the stakes are. You have
- 9:49Speaker 4: the guys that kind of pitched themselves into that. But
- 9:51Speaker 4: last night you let him go back out there for
- 9:53Speaker 4: another inning. He does great. Bizardo does what he's done
- 9:57Speaker 4: majority of the season for US. Brash gets a little
- 9:59Speaker 4: bit of a hic up and then you know, some
- 10:01Speaker 4: bad defense behind him. Next thing you know, you're like,
- 10:03Speaker 4: oh man, but then the offense picks them up. That's
- 10:05Speaker 4: the nature of baseball. Good teams find a way to
- 10:07Speaker 4: pick each other up. When somebody stumbles a little bit,
- 10:11Speaker 4: you got to help him up.
- 10:12Speaker 2: As doesn't carry carboner. Look like every bad guy in
- 10:17Speaker 2: every eighties rom com movie always the jock.
- 10:21Speaker 5: Yeah, definitely the jock.
- 10:22Speaker 6: Yeah, like the really good looking guy that the girl
- 10:25Speaker 6: has a crush on, but he turns.
- 10:26Speaker 5: Out to be a turd, right exactly.
- 10:29Speaker 3: Yeah, Yeah, with the white sweater on you know, the
- 10:32Speaker 3: red letter on it. Yeah, that guy.
- 10:35Speaker 2: Also, he's probably really nice, probably kind, probably gives a charity.
- 10:39Speaker 5: He's probably great.
- 10:40Speaker 2: Yeah, don't like him, yeah exactly, but he does. He
- 10:44Speaker 2: certainly has had a nice little career against us. You know,
- 10:48Speaker 2: you brought up Castillo's pitch count. I think everybody just
- 10:51Speaker 2: needs to give themselves to this. I mean, there's a
- 10:54Speaker 2: reason why George's pitch count was up and Luis Castillo's
- 10:57Speaker 2: pitch count was up. They are trying to throw their
- 11:00Speaker 2: best stuff. I mean, during the course of a regular season,
- 11:04Speaker 2: there is an art, there is a value to going
- 11:07Speaker 2: as deeply as you can, and one to save the
- 11:10Speaker 2: bullpen and then you know, and to create longevity for
- 11:15Speaker 2: the season. But when you get to this time of
- 11:18Speaker 2: the year, especially when you've got built in days off,
- 11:20Speaker 2: I mean, you don't get two days off in a
- 11:22Speaker 2: five game stretch usually in Major League Baseball during the
- 11:25Speaker 2: regular season, you're gonna have two built in days off
- 11:29Speaker 2: in a five game series. Plus we've had, you know,
- 11:31Speaker 2: pretty much five days of full rest and kind of
- 11:34Speaker 2: eight days of rest for our bullpen. So they're good
- 11:38Speaker 2: to go. They are ready to go. Everybody was available
- 11:41Speaker 2: for both nights, that's very clear. On Saturday and Sunday,
- 11:46Speaker 2: Castillo and Kirby's jobs are to miss bats. We don't
- 11:50Speaker 2: want the ball in play because bad things can happen,
- 11:52Speaker 2: and we can keep it from getting in play. We're
- 11:54Speaker 2: gonna keep it from getting in play. And so even
- 11:57Speaker 2: though the pitch counts were up, and I'm sitting by
- 11:59Speaker 2: anders Hearst and getting nervous at watching the pitch count
- 12:01Speaker 2: because be cause still had fifty one pitches through two innings.
- 12:04Speaker 2: Fifty one for goodness sake, they're not really sweating that
- 12:08Speaker 2: they want you to to go as throw your best stuff.
- 12:14Speaker 2: Get these dudes out. You know, we're not worried about
- 12:18Speaker 2: you going six to seven innings because we trust our
- 12:20Speaker 2: bullpen on the backside. And if it needs to go
- 12:23Speaker 2: four plus innings tonight, it goes four plus innings tonight.
- 12:26Speaker 2: We're good. So go out there, misbats, Uh, don't throw
- 12:33Speaker 2: your pitches, don't throw, don't give in, don't throw their pitches.
- 12:37Speaker 2: And if we got to take you out in the fourth,
- 12:40Speaker 2: don't be surprised by it, because we might like a
- 12:42Speaker 2: matchup in the fourth inning or the fifth inning better
- 12:45Speaker 2: than you are, based upon the situation, based upon who's
- 12:48Speaker 2: coming to play. That's the way this thing's going to
- 12:51Speaker 2: operate this year. So you know, charting the pitch count
- 12:55Speaker 2: not nearly as important as it is during the regular season.
- 12:59Speaker 2: And if a guy's on role, by the way, same thing,
- 13:02Speaker 2: I know you're at ninety six and we usually take
- 13:05Speaker 2: you out here, but they can't touch you. You're going
- 13:08Speaker 2: at least another inning right here.
- 13:09Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, I mean it's not as important for sure.
- 13:12Speaker 4: I mean, because the way in which you manage in
- 13:15Speaker 4: April and May and June is trying to keep people healthy,
- 13:19Speaker 4: trying to keep people fresh, not overusing guys because of
- 13:21Speaker 4: the bullpening guys. It's not just the appearances or the
- 13:24Speaker 4: innings that they pitch, it's the times that they get
- 13:26Speaker 4: warm and then get sat back down. That's not a
- 13:30Speaker 4: thing that you want to overdo and abuse. And so
- 13:33Speaker 4: it's one of those Hey dude, you're you are only
- 13:35Speaker 4: at eighty five pitches. We're expecting you to get through
- 13:37Speaker 4: this fifth inning.
- 13:38Speaker 3: We know you can do it.
- 13:40Speaker 4: And if you don't and you give up a run here,
- 13:42Speaker 4: we expect you to stop the bleeding there and we're
- 13:44Speaker 4: still up. You know, you still would be up or
- 13:47Speaker 4: tied in that ball game. And you're doing it that way.
- 13:50Speaker 4: I mean, I think that there's still is as you,
- 13:53Speaker 4: as you get further and further into it, you want
- 13:55Speaker 4: to be able to not have to use I think
- 13:59Speaker 4: four guys is about where I'm going to feel comfortable
- 14:01Speaker 4: on most nights. Now, sometimes you have to go earlier
- 14:04Speaker 4: to the bullpen and then you matchups. You just end
- 14:06Speaker 4: up going through six or seven guys. But the more
- 14:08Speaker 4: guys that you bring in, you're offering the opportunity for
- 14:11Speaker 4: want of them to have an off day and just
- 14:13Speaker 4: not be locating or not be feeling great. Doesn't have
- 14:16Speaker 4: that same zip on it. So the way they did
- 14:18Speaker 4: yesterday obviously worked out. I think that it could have
- 14:21Speaker 4: worked out even better had when I had the air
- 14:23Speaker 4: and the leadoff walk that kind of led to them
- 14:26Speaker 4: tying the ball game back up.
- 14:27Speaker 3: But again that's Mariner baseball. They like having a little
- 14:30Speaker 3: bit of chaos in our life.
- 14:31Speaker 5: We don't like to make things too easy.
- 14:32Speaker 2: No, well, no, why would you. It's Gilbert versus Flaherty
- 14:37Speaker 2: that is tomorrow at one o'clock, and I feel really
- 14:39Speaker 2: good about this. I mean, I also will say in
- 14:42Speaker 2: the same breath, I don't want this to come down
- 14:44Speaker 2: to game five. I don't want to have to beat
- 14:46Speaker 2: school bull again. You know, you know, he was certainly
- 14:50Speaker 2: sharp last night and Hora got to him and we
- 14:53Speaker 2: got him out after seven innings. I don't want to
- 14:55Speaker 2: face him with everything on the line, So I do think.
- 14:59Speaker 2: I mean, it's not that we can't win that game,
- 15:02Speaker 2: it's just I think our better chance is to win
- 15:05Speaker 2: the next two games, road or not, and I feel
- 15:09Speaker 2: good about that. I think, as Bucky pointed out earlier,
- 15:12Speaker 2: I think the offense may have been caught a little flat,
- 15:15Speaker 2: not having played in a while. We saw a lot
- 15:17Speaker 2: more players contribute to the victory last night than we
- 15:20Speaker 2: did the loss the night before. I think we're gonna
- 15:23Speaker 2: get some really good offensive production here on the road.
- 15:27Speaker 2: I know we're going to get a good effort out
- 15:29Speaker 2: of Logan. I think we take it in three and four.
- 15:32Speaker 2: I really do. When we come back, it's with a
- 15:34Speaker 2: series win. It's not to settle it on Friday night.
- 15:38Speaker 3: Yeah, we shall see one game at a time. I
- 15:40Speaker 3: like the idea.
- 15:41Speaker 4: This seems like a really good matchup, right. This is
- 15:44Speaker 4: one it's not like you have to win because you
- 15:46Speaker 4: have Bryce, because I think Bryce is going to rise
- 15:48Speaker 4: to the occasion in game four. But this is one
- 15:51Speaker 4: where it's like you feel like you're throwing your Day
- 15:53Speaker 4: one starter. You're throwing a guy that has pitched like
- 15:56Speaker 4: your ace very well could have been the Game one
- 15:59Speaker 4: starter in the series.
- 16:00Speaker 3: I feel like it's advantage.
- 16:01Speaker 4: You're walking, You're walking into the stadium feeling like it's
- 16:03Speaker 4: an advantage for us.
- 16:05Speaker 3: So take care of business now.
- 16:06Speaker 4: If you don't end up winning both of them, I'm
- 16:09Speaker 4: I'm okay with it being Scooble again. As nasty as
- 16:12Speaker 4: he is, we seem to find a way to have
- 16:14Speaker 4: that dude's number and scrape together wins every single time
- 16:17Speaker 4: we've faced in this year, So I mean, yeah, I'd
- 16:20Speaker 4: much rather just win bang bang, get win two and
- 16:22Speaker 4: be done with it when.
- 16:22Speaker 3: We're flying back. But if not, it's going to be
- 16:25Speaker 3: an enjoyable Game five.
- 16:26Speaker 6: I have tickets to the game on Friday if there
- 16:28Speaker 6: is a Game five, and I would rather not go
- 16:31Speaker 6: just because it will be so stressful. I'm like, I'm
- 16:33Speaker 6: good if we want to win this in four.
- 16:36Speaker 2: Uh. And yeah, by the way, toys, if you're listening,
- 16:39Speaker 2: if we come back with a series win, you will
- 16:42Speaker 2: upgrade it's the first class.
- 16:44Speaker 5: Yeah, that's right, because you guys, so you better be listening.
- 16:46Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I hope you're paying attention to this.
- 16:48Speaker 3: PS.
- 16:49Speaker 2: Everybody get on the same page on this. Yes, when
- 16:52Speaker 2: I'll go not going to hold my breath.
- 16:53Speaker 4: I'll go all the way to the top if I'm
- 16:55Speaker 4: super pumped about my middle seat.
- 16:56Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, coming up next. Ryan Heally thoughts on
- 17:01Speaker 2: games one and two of this divisional series with the Tigers,
- 17:04Speaker 2: Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM. Well, the Mariners,
- 17:15Speaker 2: they get a split over the weekend. I mean it
- 17:17Speaker 2: could have been better. Oh, they could have been worse.
- 17:20Speaker 2: Chuck Powell, Bucky Jacobs, and Ashley Ryan with you here
- 17:23Speaker 2: on this Monday. Normally we're Monday Morning quarterbacking all day long,
- 17:27Speaker 2: but certainly we make an exception when the Mariners are
- 17:30Speaker 2: in the American League Divisional Series and are coming off
- 17:33Speaker 2: their first home playoff win in a quarter century and
- 17:37Speaker 2: joining us now to celebrate it, to analyze it, and
- 17:40Speaker 2: who knows.
- 17:40Speaker 3: What else to it.
- 17:42Speaker 2: Ryan Healy is with his former Mariner right here on
- 17:45Speaker 2: the programmer. You're going to be hearing a lot from
- 17:47Speaker 2: throughout this Mariner playoff run.
- 17:49Speaker 5: Good morning, sir, Good morning.
- 17:52Speaker 3: How are we doing today? Man?
- 17:53Speaker 2: We're doing all right? So yeah, how you feeling? I mean,
- 17:57Speaker 2: it felt like everybody was counting on that on Saturday
- 18:00Speaker 2: and maybe not counting on it in Sunday, and there's
- 18:04Speaker 2: baseball for you, Ryan Heally, as you know, you still
- 18:06Speaker 2: come out with a one to one wash out of
- 18:09Speaker 2: all of it. Uh, but it was a strange way
- 18:11Speaker 2: to get there.
- 18:14Speaker 7: Yeah, that wasn't the script that we had written before
- 18:17Speaker 7: that series started, to say the least. I definitely end
- 18:21Speaker 7: a pit in my stomach after the Saturday game they
- 18:23Speaker 7: lost some extras and then coming back, it just felt
- 18:26Speaker 7: kind of like a perfect storm or a perfect challenge
- 18:28Speaker 7: for this team. If if the dream and the goal
- 18:31Speaker 7: truly is to get to the World Series and win
- 18:33Speaker 7: a championship, you have to go through pitchers like Scooble
- 18:36Speaker 7: so to find a way to beat them. I was
- 18:37Speaker 7: actually really impressed with the way that they navigated that game,
- 18:40Speaker 7: the way that different players within that lineup put pressure
- 18:43Speaker 7: on him, and then obviously jor Plonko just with the
- 18:45Speaker 7: two blast what and unsung hero that decided to show
- 18:48Speaker 7: up really big for a squad.
- 18:50Speaker 3: Yeah, a great couple of AB's there.
- 18:52Speaker 4: I mean, you're just not gonna get a ton of
- 18:53Speaker 4: mistakes out of schoobl That's why he's gonna probably have
- 18:56Speaker 4: another cy Young sitting on a mantel somewhere. But yeah,
- 18:59Speaker 4: he didn't made a mistake with a slider the first
- 19:01Speaker 4: time came back and gave him a heater over the heart,
- 19:04Speaker 4: and he capitalized on that as well. I mean, how
- 19:07Speaker 4: tough is that when the pressure's on you're going against
- 19:10Speaker 4: a dude that's that good to kind of be that
- 19:14Speaker 4: locked in and focused to not miss that mistake when
- 19:17Speaker 4: he threw it.
- 19:19Speaker 7: The pressure can be a fickle thing because you have
- 19:21Speaker 7: to imagine what Scuball was feeling as well. He's pitching
- 19:24Speaker 7: in his hometown where he went to college down the
- 19:26Speaker 7: street in a massive playoff game where the expectation is
- 19:29Speaker 7: him for him to be perfect, and that had to
- 19:32Speaker 7: have crossed the Mariner's mind at some point of yeah,
- 19:34Speaker 7: we can feel all this pressure. We're down though, to
- 19:35Speaker 7: one where things facing the best pitcher in Made League baseball,
- 19:38Speaker 7: but he has a ton of pressure on him to
- 19:40Speaker 7: be perfect, and baseball is the furthest thing from perfect.
- 19:43Speaker 7: And we saw him make two mistakes last night that
- 19:46Speaker 7: got punished.
- 19:46Speaker 5: That's what has to happen against the best pitcher in
- 19:48Speaker 5: the game. You have to punish mistakes.
- 19:50Speaker 7: He threw a two oz slider that caught too much
- 19:52Speaker 7: of the plate to Planco and then Polanco battled a
- 19:55Speaker 7: tremendous at bat. He spent on two change ups down
- 19:57Speaker 7: on the zone and then he got a fastball. It
- 19:59Speaker 7: was in, but it was not up enough. And Scoble
- 20:02Speaker 7: rarely misses that upper end quadrant of the right handed hitters,
- 20:05Speaker 7: and he just got enough of the heart of the
- 20:06Speaker 7: plate where Planco was able to clip its left And
- 20:09Speaker 7: that was probably a more impressive bat to me than
- 20:12Speaker 7: the first home run to be hit.
- 20:14Speaker 2: Ryan Heally is with us. We're leaning on him heavily
- 20:16Speaker 2: throughout the postseason. For his analysis here of the Mariners
- 20:21Speaker 2: playoff run. I'll stand the batter's box with you. I'll
- 20:24Speaker 2: put you in Julio Rodriguez's shoes there in the bottom
- 20:27Speaker 2: of the eighth he comes through with the game winner.
- 20:28Speaker 2: What did you see there?
- 20:31Speaker 7: I saw a hitter that knew what the shape of
- 20:34Speaker 7: the splitter was because he faced the night before. And
- 20:37Speaker 7: if you think about this, there are a series out
- 20:39Speaker 7: the course of the year where you'll do a home
- 20:40Speaker 7: and away against a team that's in essential to the
- 20:42Speaker 7: East that you don't play a lot, and you'll see
- 20:44Speaker 7: their bullpen back to back weeks, okay, but back to
- 20:46Speaker 7: back night seeing the same arm with his best secondary
- 20:49Speaker 7: pitch being the splitter. He knew exactly what window that
- 20:52Speaker 7: pitch needed to start in to end up in his
- 20:54Speaker 7: zone and the commitment that Julio had on that pitch.
- 20:57Speaker 7: If you saw the finish, it was almost one hand
- 21:00Speaker 7: it to contact and then the length after contact which
- 21:03Speaker 7: allowed that ball to get up and over the third basement.
- 21:05Speaker 7: That is a dream scenario for a right handed hitter
- 21:08Speaker 7: facing a right handed pitcher with the nasty splitter. You're
- 21:11Speaker 7: not going to drive that baseball really hard to back
- 21:13Speaker 7: spin it. So to be able to stay through that
- 21:16Speaker 7: and dereg drive in the game winning run ultimately was tremendous.
- 21:19Speaker 7: The emotion you saw from him at second base after
- 21:22Speaker 7: that and then also in centerfield when the game was done, Wash,
- 21:25Speaker 7: it got my heart going.
- 21:27Speaker 3: How'd you like the I mean Dan's decision.
- 21:29Speaker 4: It obviously paid off yesterday when they brought Gabe in
- 21:32Speaker 4: to face carry Carpenter. The night before they didn't they
- 21:35Speaker 4: left Georgia and there didn't make a bad pitch, just
- 21:38Speaker 4: a better swing by him.
- 21:39Speaker 3: But he basically changes that.
- 21:41Speaker 4: Did that seem like a yeah, that maybe costs us
- 21:44Speaker 4: and by not pulling the trigger on this one yesterday.
- 21:46Speaker 4: We're not going to do that because he came in
- 21:48Speaker 4: there and absolutely shut it down right there.
- 21:51Speaker 1: You know.
- 21:51Speaker 7: I listened to AJ Hinch talk about this post game
- 21:53Speaker 7: as well, and this was a conversation pre series. Was
- 21:57Speaker 7: that was the matchup, the fact that they had two
- 21:59Speaker 7: lefties and the ball between Spire and ferguson of how
- 22:02Speaker 7: they were going to utilize them and deploy them because
- 22:04Speaker 7: they do platoon Carpenter. But I'll be honest with you guys,
- 22:07Speaker 7: when I watch Kerry Carpenter the batter's box right now,
- 22:09Speaker 7: every single pitch, I feel threatened just with the takes,
- 22:13Speaker 7: the competitive swings he is. He is spitting on really
- 22:17Speaker 7: nasty pitches right now. So I thought that I'd love
- 22:20Speaker 7: Dan's aggression of let me pull let me pull him
- 22:24Speaker 7: out here and let me challenge him with the lefty
- 22:26Speaker 7: to see how he responds, because maybe we get Carpenter
- 22:28Speaker 7: out of the game for the rest of it.
- 22:29Speaker 3: And A. J.
- 22:29Speaker 7: Hinch said postgame, he was I left him in there
- 22:31Speaker 7: because of how much game was left, and if you remember,
- 22:34Speaker 7: Carpenter came up late in the game as well, ended
- 22:36Speaker 7: up punching out in the back door slider but had
- 22:38Speaker 7: a very competitive bat and I was nervous the entire time.
- 22:41Speaker 7: So I love the cat and mouse, and I think
- 22:43Speaker 7: that matchup with the two lefties is going to be
- 22:45Speaker 7: really important the entire series.
- 22:46Speaker 2: What is it about, you know, a major leaguer just
- 22:49Speaker 2: loving to face a team. Did you have a team
- 22:51Speaker 2: like that? I mean, he loves to face the marriagad
- 22:53Speaker 2: Did you have a team like that when you played?
- 22:55Speaker 2: Like man, I want to play the Padres. I own
- 22:57Speaker 2: the Padres.
- 22:59Speaker 7: Yeah, you're not gonna like this answer, but I love
- 23:01Speaker 7: facing the Mariners when I played for the Age. It's
- 23:04Speaker 7: part of the reason why they traded for me, just
- 23:07Speaker 7: getting a partner together. Then what they're gonna trade for Carpenter?
- 23:11Speaker 7: Bring him over there if you.
- 23:12Speaker 2: Can't, if you can't beat him doing them, I guess.
- 23:16Speaker 2: But there is something to it. I don't know if
- 23:18Speaker 2: it's the background. I mean, there aren't many people who
- 23:21Speaker 2: feel like they're at their best against our pitching, and
- 23:24Speaker 2: this guy is one of them.
- 23:26Speaker 7: Yeah, he looks comfortable in the batter's box, but I
- 23:29Speaker 7: also feel like he's looked comfortable all year long. He
- 23:31Speaker 7: had that bat late in the season down the stretch
- 23:33Speaker 7: in September where he hit a game tying home run
- 23:35Speaker 7: the ninth inning. I believe it's against the Guardians, and
- 23:38Speaker 7: it was dead center in Comerica Park, which is a
- 23:40Speaker 7: big boy park. He just looks, he looks locked in
- 23:43Speaker 7: right now and they need that bat. But to the
- 23:45Speaker 7: contrary point, I hope that he really struggles rest of
- 23:47Speaker 7: this series, with all due respect.
- 23:49Speaker 3: So advantage Mariners.
- 23:50Speaker 4: I mean it feels like this is where you start
- 23:52Speaker 4: getting deeper into a series, and then you get to
- 23:55Speaker 4: keep running guys that could be number ones on a
- 23:58Speaker 4: lot of different you know, starting staffs, and so you
- 24:01Speaker 4: get to run who was our opening day starter out
- 24:03Speaker 4: there game three against somebody that is not their ace. Obviously,
- 24:07Speaker 4: nobody's gonna be the ace when you got Terrek Skoogl
- 24:09Speaker 4: on the team. But does it feel like it's advantage.
- 24:12Speaker 4: It's one to one obviously, so there's no real advantage.
- 24:14Speaker 4: But to me, it feels like we're more in line,
- 24:18Speaker 4: do what we do and that'll take care of business.
- 24:21Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree with you.
- 24:22Speaker 7: I think the Mariners have had the advantage this entire series,
- 24:25Speaker 7: though maybe they haven't played like it. But also when
- 24:27Speaker 7: we talked originally last Friday, we said how even the match,
- 24:30Speaker 7: this team was in all three major facets of the
- 24:32Speaker 7: game that has shown up a ton in the first
- 24:35Speaker 7: two games. So I don't expect this to be in
- 24:36Speaker 7: a lopsided series. I expect this to be highly competitive.
- 24:39Speaker 7: Who's going to make the least amount of mistakes and
- 24:41Speaker 7: who's going to execute their plan to perfection. But if
- 24:43Speaker 7: we're looking at Gilbert first, Flaherty, I'm excited to watch
- 24:46Speaker 7: Gilbert perform. I do hope that we can get a
- 24:48Speaker 7: little bit of offense early because we've seen the strength
- 24:51Speaker 7: of our bullpen. But I don't think we need to
- 24:53Speaker 7: watch any more X rating games during the postseason.
- 24:55Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 24:55Speaker 2: I mean, you weren't in the building over the weekend,
- 24:59Speaker 2: but you've been in that building before, and you've been
- 25:02Speaker 2: in it when it gets electric. But could you sense it?
- 25:05Speaker 2: Could you get an idea of just what you were
- 25:07Speaker 2: missing out on by not being at T Mobile lest
- 25:10Speaker 2: a couple of nights.
- 25:11Speaker 3: I'm glad you asked that.
- 25:12Speaker 7: I actually work with a about thirty to forty high
- 25:14Speaker 7: school players, and a bunch of them are local in Arizona.
- 25:17Speaker 7: One is up in Seattle was at the game yesterday
- 25:19Speaker 7: and he sent me a video of his seats of
- 25:22Speaker 7: the game just ending, and he told me, he said,
- 25:24Speaker 7: simply best game I've ever been to.
- 25:27Speaker 2: And you could feel it.
- 25:28Speaker 7: There was grown men crying in the stands that they
- 25:30Speaker 7: were showing on the camera. The emotion was massive, and
- 25:33Speaker 7: you can tell what this win meant for this city.
- 25:36Speaker 7: And I hope that, I hope that this club just
- 25:38Speaker 7: continues to take monkeys off their backs, that they go
- 25:40Speaker 7: down this because they're carrying twenty four years of history
- 25:43Speaker 7: with them, and the further they go, the more and
- 25:45Speaker 7: more they can separate themselves from that history and they
- 25:48Speaker 7: can make their own this year.
- 25:49Speaker 2: All right, man, great stuff. We're really getting excited about
- 25:53Speaker 2: Ryan Healey conversations these days, So we'll bug you again
- 25:56Speaker 2: after game three in game number four coming up, and
- 26:00Speaker 2: I can't wait, can't wait.
- 26:01Speaker 3: Go in.
- 26:02Speaker 2: All right, therea is Ryan Healy. Former Marin are joining
- 26:05Speaker 2: us here, and we'll be having Ryan on after every
- 26:08Speaker 2: single playoff game this postseason, and hopefully we go the
- 26:12Speaker 2: entire I hope we talked to Ryan Heally a lot.
- 26:15Speaker 4: Yeah, that's my point. Yeah, I want to be BFFs.
- 26:18Speaker 4: By the end of this month, we'll be BFFs. Do
- 26:20Speaker 4: we talk to you like every day.
- 26:23Speaker 2: He He's like, Oh, there's that Heey guy again making
- 26:27Speaker 2: our day by showing up talking about a win. Yeah,
- 26:31Speaker 2: all right, we're gonna get ready to go on the road.
- 26:33Speaker 2: By the way, and we've mentioned this a couple of times.
- 26:36Speaker 2: Maybe I thought we were kidding. Bucky and I are
- 26:38Speaker 2: heading to Michigan like now, like right now, we're going
- 26:41Speaker 2: to Detroit. So when we said we're going to do
- 26:44Speaker 2: post games, every single postgame shows after every single game
- 26:48Speaker 2: we minted, and not only were we going to do them,
- 26:50Speaker 2: we're going to do them from where they're being played.
- 26:52Speaker 2: So we're heading to Detroit, Michigan. We'll be doing our
- 26:55Speaker 2: morning show from Detroit tomorrow, and then we will have
- 26:59Speaker 2: our postgame show for you as well tomorrow night and
- 27:02Speaker 2: Wednesday night from Detroit, So make sure you're tuning in.
- 27:06Speaker 2: We got a lot of great feedback, a lot of
- 27:08Speaker 2: great compliments on the two shows that we did over
- 27:10Speaker 2: the weekend. Glad you're enjoying it, and we let's hope
- 27:13Speaker 2: we have a bunch of them before this month comes
- 27:16Speaker 2: to a close. All right, thanks for being with us today.
- 27:20Speaker 2: Ashley's gonna take you the rest of the way. I
- 27:21Speaker 2: think she's got something up her sleeve. And then we'll
- 27:24Speaker 2: talk to you tomorrow from Michigan at six am on
- 27:26Speaker 2: Sports Radio ninety three point three kh A r F M.
- 27:36Speaker 2: Polumko sends this time last's tip.
- 27:45Speaker 1: Hey, I'll pitch to Polunko. Fastball bitch the other way.
- 28:01Speaker 1: It's a fair ball down the right field line. Torres
- 28:05Speaker 1: will score. Here comes Green and the third Joey Korra giving.
- 28:08Speaker 2: Him the way.
- 28:09Speaker 5: Here's the throw hits ton Off and this game is tied.
- 28:15Speaker 5: Hard hit ball by Rowley down the right field right
- 28:18Speaker 5: turns the.
- 28:18Speaker 1: Corner and the big dumper is looking for extra basics
- 28:23Speaker 1: and he's got a double n I drive it Down's
- 28:33Speaker 1: a foot ball and the DS take the reds. Here's
- 28:38Speaker 1: Carlo Cutches, bouncing ball to Naylor, flips and finishes it
- 28:50Speaker 1: their first twenty of the Thud in twenty four years.
- 28:54Speaker 5: The Mariners have tied the series.
- 28:55Speaker 6: At one.
- 28:58Speaker 1: Since the clincher against Cleveland nearly a quarter century ago.
- 29:06Speaker 2: At Seattle.
- 29:07Speaker 1: The team and the city can breathe a collective sigh
- 29:11Speaker 1: of relief as they will head to the Motor City
- 29:14Speaker 1: tie up at a game apiece with the Detroit Tigers.
- 29:18Speaker 6: It is Chuck and Buck in the morning Sports Radio
- 29:20Speaker 6: ninety three to three KJR Ashley Ryan. Here the guys
- 29:23Speaker 6: heading out to Detroit now, so they are actually on
- 29:25Speaker 6: the road to c Tech.
- 29:26Speaker 5: If you see them, wave to them.
- 29:28Speaker 6: Meanwhile, the big topic of conversation around town involving the Mariners,
- 29:32Speaker 6: not on the field, of course, is when will Josh
- 29:35Speaker 6: Naylor's wife go into labor.
- 29:36Speaker 5: I know everybody's wondering baby watch is on.
- 29:39Speaker 6: Well, we talked about it this morning during the ABC's
- 29:42Speaker 6: Here's what we had to say.
- 29:43Speaker 2: I is for induce. What do you think, gang do
- 29:46Speaker 2: we induce missus Naylor? Let's just get this baby out
- 29:49Speaker 2: of the way so we don't have to worry about
- 29:51Speaker 2: it Tuesday and Wednesday. Is that what we do with
- 29:53Speaker 2: our sports love? We just we induce labor?
- 29:56Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 29:57Speaker 4: I don't know if this was a good idea, but
- 29:59Speaker 4: I did send her an edible arrangement that was laced
- 30:02Speaker 4: with potosin.
- 30:03Speaker 3: Oh yeah, We'll just go ahead and get this show.
- 30:06Speaker 4: On the road because Naylor's a guy that we're gonna
- 30:09Speaker 4: need to be Josh Naylor, if you want to you
- 30:11Speaker 4: want this ride, this roller coaster of a postseason to go,
- 30:15Speaker 4: you know, deep into the month, he's gonna have to
- 30:17Speaker 4: be contributing.
- 30:18Speaker 3: Now.
- 30:18Speaker 4: I went back and looked at all of his at
- 30:20Speaker 4: bats yesterday and there's one where he was swinging outside
- 30:24Speaker 4: the zone, which we've watched basically for the two months
- 30:26Speaker 4: we've had him, and he doesn't do that very often.
- 30:28Speaker 3: He's professional hitter. He understands what the strikes.
- 30:30Speaker 1: One is.
- 30:31Speaker 4: He came out of the zone once against Google, which
- 30:33Speaker 4: will happen. It's a lefty on lefty matchup. He's nasty
- 30:37Speaker 4: against anybody he throws against. And when you're kind of
- 30:39Speaker 4: in a funk, you're not really seeing the ball all
- 30:41Speaker 4: that well, and you have to go against him, you're
- 30:43Speaker 4: gonna probably have a stinker ab somewhere on there. But
- 30:45Speaker 4: there's a couple others that he put good swings on,
- 30:48Speaker 4: just not quite staying through it. He's getting a little
- 30:50Speaker 4: bit pole happy. It seems like he's a pole hitter.
- 30:52Speaker 4: He's a guy that can hook that outside pitch and
- 30:54Speaker 4: hit it in the gap or out of the yard.
- 30:56Speaker 4: But I still feel good about what this guy brings
- 30:59Speaker 4: to the table. But I think if you just how
- 31:01Speaker 4: many times do you hear it right? You're listening to
- 31:03Speaker 4: the broadcasting. Oh, so and so his wife had a
- 31:05Speaker 4: baby yesterday and they throw for six touchdowns? Are they
- 31:09Speaker 4: they end up hitting three strength? Yeah, it's all of
- 31:11Speaker 4: a sudden. Yeah, some dads strength. So I think getting
- 31:13Speaker 4: that off of his mind a little bit and just
- 31:16Speaker 4: being like, Okay, she's okay, versus having it in the
- 31:19Speaker 4: back of his head could be helpful. So that's what
- 31:21Speaker 4: I did for the team, because that's I'm a team guy.
- 31:24Speaker 4: Just help induce the okay. Oh all right, yeah, you
- 31:28Speaker 4: welcome to Seattle.
- 31:29Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean I gave her permission after the game yesterday,
- 31:32Speaker 6: Like now, it would be a great time flight Arizona
- 31:35Speaker 6: and be back in Detroit by tuesday.
- 31:37Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 31:38Speaker 2: Yeah, I think this is a nice little window for.
- 31:40Speaker 5: That would work out perfectly. Finally, all right, there you go.
- 31:43Speaker 5: Baby Watch is on.
- 31:44Speaker 6: We'll see when Josh Naylor's wife goes into labor. Hopefully
- 31:47Speaker 6: it works out with our window, because that's really the priority,
- 31:50Speaker 6: isn't it. All right, guys will be live from Detroit
- 31:52Speaker 6: tomorrow morning six to ten. We've got MJ and Christopher
- 31:55Speaker 6: Kidd up next to Sports Radio ninety three three KJRFM.