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Tarik Skubal Shines In Tigers Return Home · Tiger Territory: A Detroit Tigers Podcast

• 0:05
  Speaker 1: And welcome into a special Friday night episode of Tiger Territory,
• 0:10
  Speaker 1: part of the Foul Territory Network, a Detroit Tiger's podcast.
• 0:13
  Speaker 2: I'm curious secretly with.
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  Speaker 1: Me as always a man who's never confused about which
• 0:16
  Speaker 1: city is actually the d he is Cody Savid Egg
• 0:20
  Speaker 1: and how you doing?
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  Speaker 3: There was any confusion? I think Trek Scooble might have
• 0:24
  Speaker 3: just offered a little verdict.
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  Speaker 4: At least Friday night.
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  Speaker 3: It was Detroit, and there's not much doubt about it,
• 0:31
  Speaker 3: seeing a lot of good Trek Scoopble outings.
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  Speaker 4: Karen, was that the best? Was it the best?
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  Speaker 3: He gave up a run, But I think that was
• 0:39
  Speaker 3: the best Trek school outing I've ever watched.
• 0:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you stole the question right out of my mouth,
• 0:45
  Speaker 1: because I honestly think that was the best that I
• 0:49
  Speaker 1: had seen him. And I was thinking this by the
• 0:52
  Speaker 1: third inning. This is not me being like, oh, he
• 0:55
  Speaker 1: could have a perfect game or you know, no hitter
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  Speaker 1: or whatever like that default the best outing he's ever had.
• 1:03
  Speaker 1: But he finishes in case, in case, you guys, miss
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna bore you with some stats for a second.
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  Speaker 1: He finishes seven innings, give up two hits, one run,
• 1:13
  Speaker 1: twelve strikeouts Cody and thirty two whiffs, which unless something changed,
• 1:21
  Speaker 1: but from the time that we are talking about this,
• 1:23
  Speaker 1: I doubt it, as I believe I saw on x
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  Speaker 1: the most whiffs in one start in Major League Baseball
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  Speaker 1: this season, so.
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  Speaker 3: Most this season is the most in Tiger's history in
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  Speaker 3: the pitch tracking arrow, which I think dates back to
• 1:39
  Speaker 3: like two thousand and eight.
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  Speaker 4: Statcast is twenty fifteen.
• 1:43
  Speaker 3: Anyway, the Rangers swung, and the Rangers missed a lot,
• 1:48
  Speaker 3: and they missed his change up, and they missed his fastball.
• 1:51
  Speaker 3: He mixed in a little bit of slider, mixing a
• 1:53
  Speaker 3: wicked curveball to join. I think Jonah him at one
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  Speaker 3: point that like broke him. It was a and an outing.
• 2:01
  Speaker 3: He's doing just fine without his guy Jake Rogers, Dylan Dingler.
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  Speaker 3: He's got a pretty good handle on on Trek's scouble.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, yeah, he yelled at the umpire a little.
• 2:12
  Speaker 3: Bit, you know, which is is kind of one of
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  Speaker 3: his things.
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  Speaker 4: I've said this before. I don't know, like it was
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  Speaker 4: such an impressive outing.
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  Speaker 3: I want to be here and just break it all down,
• 2:23
  Speaker 3: but it's like there's not much to say.
• 2:26
  Speaker 4: He just showed up and he just beat hit her
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  Speaker 4: after hit her. U did one.
• 2:31
  Speaker 3: One thing don'tinguished said was like, could you tell they
• 2:33
  Speaker 3: were getting frustrated?
• 2:34
  Speaker 4: And he was like, yeah, I could tell at a
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  Speaker 4: couple points. I kind of enjoyed it.
• 2:38
  Speaker 3: So hitter's reactions, both their swings and you know, whatever
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  Speaker 3: they may have been saying in the box or you know,
• 2:45
  Speaker 3: their body language, and maybe that tells the whole story.
• 2:49
  Speaker 3: I don't think Rangers hitters had much hope against Trek Scugble,
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  Speaker 3: even in what ended up being a one run game.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so we'll talk about sort of like the element there,
• 3:00
  Speaker 1: but like specific to School Bowl, there was a there
• 3:07
  Speaker 1: was such a measure confidence with him on the mound
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  Speaker 1: today that I that I didn't think he was now
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  Speaker 1: He talked about later about you know, quote unquote thinking
• 3:16
  Speaker 1: about the no hitter and all that stuff, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: credit to him for for being honest about that after
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  Speaker 1: one Yeah, but yeah, yeah, exactly, credit to being honest
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  Speaker 1: about it. But he also didn't There was no time
• 3:30
  Speaker 1: during that outing, when when that was still in play
• 3:34
  Speaker 1: that I thought, Okay, well he's stretching for it. He's
• 3:39
  Speaker 1: like going for it, like he he he still felt
• 3:42
  Speaker 1: like very much in command, as if he had just
• 3:44
  Speaker 1: given up like a leadoff single and then just kind
• 3:47
  Speaker 1: of went You see what I'm saying, Like like like
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  Speaker 1: there was no time where I thought he was over
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  Speaker 1: extending himself because the pitch count, because like I was,
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  Speaker 1: I'll be honest with you, like I was at a
• 3:58
  Speaker 1: I was at a local established been watching this game
• 4:00
  Speaker 1: because I don't get the Rangers channel at home, and
• 4:04
  Speaker 1: I was, you know, kind of looking around. I was like,
• 4:07
  Speaker 1: no one really seems to be paying attention. When hobvier
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  Speaker 1: Hobby goes and gets that ball.
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  Speaker 2: In the gap, I'm kind of like leaning back. I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: you know, like I've kind of like reacted every little thing.
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  Speaker 1: Jayn has a sliding catch, but like no one seemed
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  Speaker 1: to be paying that much attention. I didn't really want
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  Speaker 1: to say anything. People are texting me. I didn't want
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  Speaker 1: to like respond to him. I was like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I was kind of doing like the whole no hit
• 4:30
  Speaker 1: or JINX thing a little bit myself.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 1: I get texts about like, you know, like about his contract.
• 4:36
  Speaker 1: I'm like, who about his contract right now? Like like
• 4:39
  Speaker 1: like they some history might be happening here, and now
• 4:42
  Speaker 1: I'm thinking like, oh, man, might might have to get
• 4:45
  Speaker 1: a couple of red bulls on my way home.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it could be a late night for your boy.
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  Speaker 2: That's okay. It was still like in excellent, excellent, excellent.
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  Speaker 1: Outing that I feel better, Like I just watching felt
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  Speaker 1: like that was the best that I had seen him.
• 5:01
  Speaker 1: There was a stat that I saw as like first
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  Speaker 1: pitcher in MLB history, probably since they contract this with
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  Speaker 1: was it forty plus strikeouts with allowing four or fewer
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  Speaker 1: runs over six starts, that strikeout total ends up getting bigger.
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  Speaker 1: And he's fifty strikeouts and one walk, which honestly sounds
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  Speaker 1: made up. Like you can watch schooble outing, as we do,
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  Speaker 1: and as I'm sure almost everybody that's listening to this
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  Speaker 1: right now does. You can watch every schoolble outing and
• 5:36
  Speaker 1: think that he's the best pitcher in baseball, and still
• 5:39
  Speaker 1: when you see that fifty to one ratio over six starts,
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  Speaker 1: it seems made up. It's like, all right, they had
• 5:44
  Speaker 1: to miss a walk in there.
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  Speaker 3: Like there's some really good pictures who every now and
• 5:48
  Speaker 3: then will issue two walks, and you know, and then
• 5:51
  Speaker 3: you start, let alone six starts. I think that's One
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  Speaker 3: of the most remarkable things about Schooble is just the
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  Speaker 3: strike throwing beast he has become. And this is a
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  Speaker 3: guy who early in his career was not that pitch efficient,
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  Speaker 3: and like, I don't know that he necessarily struggled with walks,
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  Speaker 3: but he you know, he doesn't do what he does now,
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  Speaker 3: which is just a tax and throws strikes as pinpoint command.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe that's the question. Is Terrek Scuoble the best picture
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  Speaker 4: in baseball right now? I think he is. I think
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  Speaker 4: he's better than Paul Skans. I think he's better than
• 6:20
  Speaker 4: Cordan Burns.
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  Speaker 3: I think if anyone actually the guy who's impressed me
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  Speaker 3: the most this year is Hunter Brown, who is not
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  Speaker 3: far off from schoobl territory right now. But you watch
• 6:30
  Speaker 3: that outing, you look at fifty k's one walk, I
• 6:34
  Speaker 3: think Terry School is the best pitcher in baseball. I'm
• 6:36
  Speaker 3: not sure it's that much of a debate. I think nationally,
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  Speaker 3: even though this guy's wont to say young, even though
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  Speaker 3: he does get a lot of love that needs to
• 6:45
  Speaker 3: start coming through a little bit more, he's on a
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  Speaker 3: different level than even the Paul Skins and some of
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  Speaker 3: these other darlings of the world.
• 6:53
  Speaker 1: That's good come through a little bit more. I think
• 6:55
  Speaker 1: that's a really good way to phrase it.
• 6:57
  Speaker 2: I think I saw.
• 7:00
  Speaker 1: Uh I'm not even I don't want to say the
• 7:03
  Speaker 1: wrong media outlet, so I'm gonna leave it blank. But
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  Speaker 1: there was a national media outlet that had like top
• 7:11
  Speaker 1: five starting pitchers in baseball, and I think Schoobl was
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  Speaker 1: like fourth I saw earlier today and and someone called
• 7:17
  Speaker 1: him out on and said, this is like the most
• 7:18
  Speaker 1: blatant form of engagement farming I've ever seen. And uh,
• 7:23
  Speaker 1: and the school goes maybe school maybe that was like
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  Speaker 1: his burner that said it or something like that, because
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  Speaker 1: school went out. Like he saw somebody call him the
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  Speaker 1: fourth best pitcher of baseball and he said, uh, yeah,
• 7:35
  Speaker 1: none of that.
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  Speaker 2: Uh four?
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  Speaker 4: Wait who was above them? Do you know? Do you
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  Speaker 4: remember it?
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  Speaker 2: No?
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  Speaker 1: Because I like, I like, I like what. I went
• 7:44
  Speaker 1: to a rage after I saw the school was four.
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  Speaker 1: It didn't matter, like Jesus could have been number one.
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  Speaker 2: I was. I would have been pissed.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, it's just like like it was, if
• 7:53
  Speaker 1: Schoobl's four on your list, then you just need to
• 7:57
  Speaker 1: make up a new list, you know what I mean?
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  Speaker 1: Like it's just it just doesn't exist, so like like
• 8:01
  Speaker 1: it was kind of like a little bit of a
• 8:02
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• 8:07
  Speaker 1: We'll talk about some of the other kind of unique
• 8:10
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• 8:15
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  Speaker 1: My love, oh for sure, for sure, hundred percent, And
• 9:52
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• 9:58
  Speaker 1: a schooble outing without some sort of like emotional element
• 10:04
  Speaker 1: and that's okay, And that's okay. That's one of the
• 10:06
  Speaker 1: reasons that we love it, that we love school.
• 10:09
  Speaker 2: And I forget.
• 10:12
  Speaker 1: Honestly, I forget who was at the plate, but it
• 10:14
  Speaker 1: was like the check swing that was a foul ball,
• 10:16
  Speaker 1: but it wasn't called the foul ball. And I thought
• 10:19
  Speaker 1: for a second, Cody, I was like, oh my god,
• 10:21
  Speaker 1: we get in our first aj Hinch injection because he
• 10:25
  Speaker 1: kind of came He came out pretty impassion. He came
• 10:28
  Speaker 1: out pretty impassioned to argue there should be appeal blah
• 10:30
  Speaker 1: blah blah, and then you think that's the end of it. No,
• 10:34
  Speaker 1: all of a sudden, home playing umpire mal Chai Moore.
• 10:41
  Speaker 4: It is.
• 10:43
  Speaker 1: Almost like he's not charging the mound, but he's making
• 10:47
  Speaker 1: a walk to the mound, and Dylan Dingler is getting
• 10:51
  Speaker 1: in the way of the umpire facing more as school
• 10:55
  Speaker 1: bowl is.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
• 10:56
  Speaker 1: Obviously he had a couple of more comments there. To
• 10:59
  Speaker 1: his credit, he was like, all right, I'm done, like
• 11:01
  Speaker 1: right at that moment. But I I want to say,
• 11:06
  Speaker 1: I've never seen that, but that was a relatively unique
• 11:09
  Speaker 1: circumstance that I had witnessed where it was a clear miscall.
• 11:13
  Speaker 2: Mis calls happened, and then.
• 11:17
  Speaker 1: Manager gets into it with said umpire and then starting
• 11:21
  Speaker 1: pitcher prolongs it with said umpire and said umpire is
• 11:25
  Speaker 1: like like almost like I said, engagement farming with the
• 11:31
  Speaker 1: list there, kind of kind of engagement argument farming with
• 11:37
  Speaker 1: schoogle there, to the point that Dylan Dingler had.
• 11:40
  Speaker 2: To like play peacemaker. It was relatively unique circumstance.
• 11:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah, honestly, this is one of those things that sometimes
• 11:47
  Speaker 3: comes through I think better on like the TV broadcast
• 11:49
  Speaker 3: because I'm up in the press box just kind of
• 11:51
  Speaker 3: being like, what is what is going on? You know,
• 11:54
  Speaker 3: and the camera ingles aren't like quite as good, and
• 11:56
  Speaker 3: the I was just like somewhat confused most of the time. Oh,
• 12:03
  Speaker 3: I don't really have any great analysis.
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  Speaker 4: Good thing.
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  Speaker 3: No one got ejected, I guess, although I'm always a
• 12:08
  Speaker 3: fan of AJ getting ejected just because.
• 12:10
  Speaker 2: You get to happen.
• 12:11
  Speaker 1: By the way, he promised me he would get it
• 12:13
  Speaker 1: out early in this season, and I don't know games he.
• 12:17
  Speaker 2: Lied to us on this podcast.
• 12:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, got messed up, but yeah, it was it was
• 12:22
  Speaker 1: a like I said, it was a pretty unique thing.
• 12:24
  Speaker 1: You don't see that a lot because again, we all
• 12:26
  Speaker 1: like more was kind of on edge a little bit.
• 12:31
  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna sit here and be like, oh he
• 12:33
  Speaker 1: missed this many balls or whatever. But like the Rangers
• 12:35
  Speaker 1: bench was kind of on him a little bit for
• 12:37
  Speaker 1: some what were bad calls, and then you know, you
• 12:41
  Speaker 1: confound like this situation like he was he had been
• 12:44
  Speaker 1: hearing some barking a decent amount from you know, both sides.
• 12:48
  Speaker 1: I guess like by the time we got to that point,
• 12:51
  Speaker 1: and that's okay, that's part of the game.
• 12:52
  Speaker 2: It happens.
• 12:53
  Speaker 1: But the the other weird thing was the four out
• 12:56
  Speaker 1: situation Cody where it's you know, swinging to Torres for
• 13:00
  Speaker 1: for the third out of the ending called out live.
• 13:05
  Speaker 1: I was like, I don't know about that. And then
• 13:07
  Speaker 1: the couple of replays I saw, I was like, yeah,
• 13:09
  Speaker 1: I don't know about that. But they play it out
• 13:12
  Speaker 1: for a pickle, you know, between third and home and
• 13:15
  Speaker 1: get the out. And then again I'm watching the Rangers
• 13:18
  Speaker 1: feed on TV without audio.
• 13:20
  Speaker 2: I'm listening to Dan Diggerson.
• 13:22
  Speaker 1: And they just show Bruce Bochie like he's gonna like
• 13:26
  Speaker 1: challenge it, and he does do the headset motion and
• 13:29
  Speaker 1: then the umper umpires convene and then it goes to
• 13:33
  Speaker 1: commercial and then it's just like we're playing on. So
• 13:35
  Speaker 1: that was another weird situation where I was like is
• 13:38
  Speaker 1: there a ruling on let's just say they did challenge
• 13:43
  Speaker 1: and overturn, like what would happen to the runner that
• 13:46
  Speaker 1: you know, had been out on third like all these
• 13:48
  Speaker 1: like kind of and again we're talking about a close
• 13:51
  Speaker 1: game here like this, this stuff could have like come
• 13:53
  Speaker 1: into play like quite easily. It's just it was a
• 13:57
  Speaker 1: couple of circumstances that I was like, I don't know.
• 13:59
  Speaker 2: If I can.
• 14:00
  Speaker 1: I've been watching baseball, you know, not like a long
• 14:02
  Speaker 1: long time, but you know, a decent amount, and I
• 14:06
  Speaker 1: don't know if I've seen like those two things, especially
• 14:08
  Speaker 1: happen in the same game.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think this play, I mean it was actually
• 14:13
  Speaker 3: kind of consequential, right because we don't know what would
• 14:16
  Speaker 3: have happened if they go back and review it and
• 14:18
  Speaker 3: the runner is ruled safe at second. I mean, I'm
• 14:21
  Speaker 3: gonna be I'm doing this live. I don't have a
• 14:23
  Speaker 3: rule book in front of me. I'm still a little
• 14:24
  Speaker 3: confused on it. It's one with the answers. Feel free
• 14:27
  Speaker 3: to hop in our mentions and tell us how dumb
• 14:29
  Speaker 3: we are. Like aj Hinch after the game was talking about,
• 14:31
  Speaker 3: you know what a smart play it was by Labor
• 14:34
  Speaker 3: to like go ahead and finish that play, which is like,
• 14:36
  Speaker 3: I guess there's no real reason not to finish the play,
• 14:39
  Speaker 3: but the third out had been completed, like the runner
• 14:43
  Speaker 3: who was caught in the pickle, like might as well
• 14:45
  Speaker 3: have just started walking off the field, right, Like, even
• 14:50
  Speaker 3: if it was reviewed and he's ruled safe, nothing after
• 14:53
  Speaker 3: that should have mattered, right, And actually, to AJ's credit,
• 14:58
  Speaker 3: he was asked, well, what what would have happened if
• 15:01
  Speaker 3: you know it was reviewed, blah blah blah, and he said, well,
• 15:03
  Speaker 3: then I would have got my first injection of the season.
• 15:07
  Speaker 4: But it still doesn't really answer.
• 15:09
  Speaker 3: Like the day, it was very strange and actually we
• 15:13
  Speaker 3: could be having a different conversation about that game had
• 15:17
  Speaker 3: had that play been ruled differently.
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: Well, I almost feel like, you know, you give Glabor
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: a lot of credit there, and that's that's fair, but
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: I almost want to give Andy and Banyas more credit
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: because again, like you're you're the third basement. Yeah you're
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: going to your spot regardless, but you see the throw
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: go away from you and then like you still and
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: he's still like Johnny on the spot, you see what
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: I'm saying, So like they're like that was as much
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: awareness as anything like Taurusts could catch the ball and
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: throw it all day, someone's got still be in the
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: spot and then still be in the mode of you know,
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: rundown mode, which you know, if you've been watching baseball anytime,
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: you know like that, sometimes weird stuff happens in run.
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  Speaker 4: You know. Okay, Well, here's the rule.
• 16:02
  Speaker 3: If replay review results in a change to a call
• 16:05
  Speaker 3: that had been made on the field, the replay official
• 16:09
  Speaker 3: shall exercise his discretion, I think it should say his
• 16:13
  Speaker 3: or heard discretion, their discretion to place both clubs in
• 16:16
  Speaker 3: the position they would have been in had the call
• 16:19
  Speaker 3: on the field been correct. So probably what would have
• 16:23
  Speaker 3: happened is like he's safe at.
• 16:24
  Speaker 4: Second, the guy's at third.
• 16:25
  Speaker 3: Right point still stands like so nothing after that would
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: have mattered really in any world.
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: But you still have runners on first and second and
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: in a close ball game, so or not, I'm sorry,
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: second and third and with two outs there in a
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: decisive ballgame. But one of the reasons why this game
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: was decided, in addition to how excellent Schoopl was, was
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: col Keith like exercising every element of the game today,
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: Like he scores the first run of the ballgame, like
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: hustling from first on a they call it Dingler double,
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: and I don't think that's a bad ruling. Tough play
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: for Langford there and left field battling the sun. But
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: cold Keith doesn't score unless he's like zero two, one
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: hundred as soon at the crack of the bat, So
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: I want to give him credit there. And then he
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: also drives in a run after being down oh too,
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: battling back and getting himself a base knock there to score,
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: to drive in I should say the game winning run
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: col Keith. And we'll probably talk about this more on
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: Sunday when we have like a full picture of how
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: he did for the week. But on the road trip itself,
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: Cody just on the road trip two ninety six bayan average,
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: four home runs and that's that's a ten game that
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: he played in ten games, I should say. And then
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: of course today he's he's two for three. I believe
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: like he played first base for probably like the seventh
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: time this year. And you know, wasn't a shallow first
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: base either. He had to make some he had he
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: had to be there in some key spots, especially, you know,
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: being that was a close game. This is about as
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: complete a game as we've seen from Cold Keith.
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: I feel like this year, oh you're right.
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: The base running isn't you know, something we view as
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: like a strength of his game. But it was there
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: in a huge way, and he had your point, even
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: a smaller sample. But Cold Keith has eight for his
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: past fifteen. He's talking about moving his contact point up
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: a little bit. Clearly his timing. He's figured something out
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: because he's hitting the ball. He had a four hundred
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: and fifty foot bomb. You know, look at his spray
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: chart that was all these little singles to the opposite field.
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: Now there's a ball on there that barely fits on
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: the page to the pull side. So all you guys
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: who wanted to send down Cold Keith cole Keith's doing
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: just fine. Still a little weird like working him in
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: the lineup with Twork playing so well, and it kind
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: of impacts what you can do at DH like probably
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: means less h for Kerry Carpenter. It's I guess a
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: good problem to have is TOWERK and Cold Keith and
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: Glabor are all three playing well, which they pretty much are.
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: But uh yeah, the demise of Cold Keith was greatly exaggerated.
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: He's he's rolling right now.
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's rolling, and and and.
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: That's sort of like those are kind of like the
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: small things I was kind of looking for in today's game,
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: specifically because you play your third game in two days,
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: you know, obviously with a doubleheader on Thursday, with the travel,
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: you know, none of this stuff is inconsequential, like it's
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: a real thing, and you have two blowouts and then
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: you you had to lead the entire time. So it's
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: not like you eked out a win in the sense
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: that like you got it later or whatever, but it
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: it was like a win that you had to work
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: for against a team that has some great starting pitching,
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: like we might get we might average like two hours
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: and fifteen minutes this whole weekend per game Cody between
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: these two teams, but like they have great starting pitching,
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: can't hit that well. But what that means is you
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: gotta have You're gonna have to win in a completely
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: different fashion.
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: Now, I thought this coming.
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: In, You're gonna have to win a completely different fashion
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: than what you were doing in Colorado, right, and even Anaheim,
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: you know what I mean, or Los Angeles or whatever
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: the hell you wanna call it, but like, but like
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: this was honestly like a really good sign that they
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: won in my opinion, that they won the game this week.
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: And because of what you were able to do on Thursday.
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: You can bring in Canley, you can bring invest and
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: it and and it's and it's all you know, everything's
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: looking up there.
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: So like.
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: We're recording this right after the game, so we're gonna
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: like over exaggerate rate it naturally, and that's okay, We're
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: having fun with it.
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: But this was the rest.
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: This was the recipe that I thought like needed to
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: happen in order to kind of set up the weekend
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: because as great as Schoogl was and as awesome as
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: as Keith was there, it would have been really disappointing
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: to lose on like a couple of bloop singles in
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: the eighth and then all of a sudden after leading
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: the whole game. You gotta you gotta go up in
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: the ninth, you know, or in the eighth or ninth whatever,
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: like down for the first time all game.
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: You see what I'm saying. So, like, this was a
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: good professional win from the Tigers tonight. That's how I
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: look at it.
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: No, well, I think That's again one of the things
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: that makes me so encouraged about this team right now.
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: They're playing a dominating brand of baseball, and that they're
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: dominating the teams they should dominate. They're finding other ways
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: to win. On days maybe the bats aren't clicking, they
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: can go to that grinded out style. Sure, record wise,
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: it's actually not as dominant as when they went third
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: Do you want an eleven down the stretch last year?
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: But didn't that feel like just two months of just
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: like being on the edge of your seat every single
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: night and also being like, how in the world are
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: they doing this?
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: And now it feels like, Okay.
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: They're gonna come out, they're gonna pitch the lights out,
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: they can hit, they're gonna run the base as well,
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: especially against teams that aren't pitching well, they're gonna be
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: able to unlock some power, like they have multiple ways
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: to get these wins, which I don't.
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: It's not that.
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: Last year's team didn't, but last year kind of felt
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: like watching the same close game, you know, thirty one times,
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: and that's not the case with this team. This team
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: can out pitch you, this team can out hit you,
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: this team can out execute you. It's why they have
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: the best record in Major League Baseball. I'm sure can
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: there's gonna be like some drop off, probably, but man,
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: they are just padding wins. When you go into Colorado
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: and you sweep, when you take three or four from
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: the Angels, those are the things you are suppose to do,
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: and those are the things they're going to put the
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: Tigers in a very good position, regardless of what might
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: be had.
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and none of this seems fluky, which is which is?
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: I think we're I think we're past calling to the FLUCA.
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: Look at their past one hundred and sixty two games.
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: I think they're a ninety one team.
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. And we'll talk more about the fact that
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: they're not a full strength We'll talk about that more
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: next week. There's a little bit of an update on
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: that today, but nothing that we can't talk about here
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: in a couple of days. But something I did want
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: to say Cody here is that pretty unique circumstance.
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: You got a couple brothers on the field. One of
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: them didn't play today.
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: It's obviously Josh for the Rangers and Jase for the Tigers.
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: Pretty unique circumstance, Pretty fun. They end up playing the
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: same position, which I don't think was necessarily what they
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: thought would happen as they were growing up.
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: But one of the we had Brewer.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: Hicklin with his first career major league hit, which again
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: we didn't talk about.
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: That was really cool.
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: And this is another really cool element here between Josh.
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure, But wrote a story on the young
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: family that's on the Athletic Hope you guys will check
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: it out. Talk to both of them, talk to his
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: parents in the stands Friday night. You know, their dad,
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: Jeff was like, you know, they're only thirty third basement
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: in Major League Baseball. Let's call it thirty and some change.
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: But you know, two of them from the same household.
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: That's pretty remarkable, even, you know, for clearly an athletic family.
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: You know, it's one thing to raise two athletes and
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: everything that produced two first round picks who both make
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: the major leagues who didn't become basically two of thirty
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: third baseman. I think the cool thing stressful for the
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: young family is like they didn't know for sure if
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: this reunion in May on Mother's Day weekend was going
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: to work out. You know, Josh has been injured, he
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: had a neck thing. At the end of camp, Jays
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: didn't make the team. They didn't know if he was
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: going to come up. You know, their mom, Mary would
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: like look up flights and then delete the internet history
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: because she didn't want to jinx it. As late as Tuesday,
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: they were like, oh, what if Jase gets sent down.
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: It's worked out really well. It's gonna be an awesome
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: Mother's Day weekend for Mary Young and really that whole family.
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: The brothers are really close.
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: They work out in the off season, basically live together
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: in the off season.
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: Different guys.
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: You know, Josh is a lot more like you know,
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: they call him kind of the thinker, and Jace, I think,
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: is more. You guys see Jays play. He's just all instincts, right.
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: But yeah, you know, I'm a fan of the Young family,
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: I think even more after reporting that story and kind
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: of watching what's already unfolded just Friday night.
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, go read that.
• 25:46
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• 25:56
  Speaker 1: We appreciate all of you for hanging out with us
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: throughout very fun start to the season, and in this
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: specific case, a very fun Friday night into Saturday morning.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: So for Cody Stapenhagen, I'm Kieren Steckley. Everybody, have great day.