Latest / Foul Territory / FT Postgame: Brewers up Cubs again, Dodgers take both games in Philly

Transcript

FT Postgame: Brewers up Cubs again, Dodgers take both games in Philly · Foul Territory

• 0:03
  Speaker 1: It's Scotty Brown, Eric Kratz, and Kevin Pullar. We're going
• 0:06
  Speaker 1: to first talk about the Cubs and Brewers, and then
• 0:08
  Speaker 1: we will get to the Phillies and the Dodgers and Gratz.
• 0:11
  Speaker 1: You used to play for this Milwaukee team and actually
• 0:13
  Speaker 1: had a nice little run during a time period where
• 0:15
  Speaker 1: they thought maybe they could make the World Series. Very
• 0:19
  Speaker 1: strong start for this team. They take down the Cubs again.
• 0:22
  Speaker 1: They've scored sixteen runs in their first two games, and
• 0:26
  Speaker 1: now they're one went away from another National League Championship
• 0:29
  Speaker 1: Series appearance. Your thoughts on what you're seeing so far.
• 0:34
  Speaker 2: The problem that the Brewers had going into the playoffs
• 0:36
  Speaker 2: was it didn't hit enough homers.
• 0:38
  Speaker 3: Screw that.
• 0:40
  Speaker 2: They took care of that tonight. They're doing it every
• 0:43
  Speaker 2: which way. And then they're like, ah, you know what,
• 0:45
  Speaker 2: we had five days off. We're gonna go ahead and
• 0:49
  Speaker 2: do an open wait in the bullpen gate Wait a minute,
• 0:52
  Speaker 2: no miss is gonna pitch all the things that you
• 0:55
  Speaker 2: would think the teams that get the brakes wouldn't do,
• 0:58
  Speaker 2: and they did it, and let's go brew crew.
• 1:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:04
  Speaker 1: And we were texting KP you know, Kratz and AJ
• 1:08
  Speaker 1: and me about the decision by Milwaukee to go with
• 1:12
  Speaker 1: Ashby as the opener he had pitched in Game one,
• 1:15
  Speaker 1: and to let him try and feast against the top
• 1:18
  Speaker 1: of the order for the Cubs. Cubs countered. Cubs got
• 1:20
  Speaker 1: three runs off the Brewers in the first, just like
• 1:23
  Speaker 1: in Game one. They were able to strike first, but
• 1:26
  Speaker 1: it didn't go far. They didn't score the rest of
• 1:28
  Speaker 1: the damn game.
• 1:30
  Speaker 4: They knew what they were doing. But I mean, it's
• 1:32
  Speaker 4: obviously to kind of just at least appear that I
• 1:36
  Speaker 4: left he's going to go multiple winnings and try to
• 1:39
  Speaker 4: set their lineup in the bench out. I mean, it's
• 1:42
  Speaker 4: kind of the new way of kind of doing it.
• 1:44
  Speaker 4: Especially when teams are kind of built off platoons, you've
• 1:47
  Speaker 4: got to kind of try to counter that in any
• 1:49
  Speaker 4: way possible.
• 1:52
  Speaker 1: Okay, So first off, I want to talk about Jackson Cheerio.
• 1:57
  Speaker 1: He is battling a hamstring issue. He does not look
• 2:00
  Speaker 1: on Kevin. It helps when you can hit dingers at
• 2:04
  Speaker 1: twenty one years old and then you don't have to
• 2:06
  Speaker 1: worry as much about doing crazy things on the base paths.
• 2:08
  Speaker 1: What are you seeing from him in the first couple games.
• 2:11
  Speaker 4: Yeah, just hit dingers and stay healthy obviously, then being
• 2:16
  Speaker 4: able to close out the series as soon as possible
• 2:18
  Speaker 4: for his health is going to be the most beneficial them.
• 2:21
  Speaker 4: Obviously going out and scoring a ton of runs and
• 2:24
  Speaker 4: at some point they're going to have to make a
• 2:27
  Speaker 4: business decision, and you know, hopefully they have a big
• 2:30
  Speaker 4: enough lead and they can sub them out on defense
• 2:32
  Speaker 4: or if he's able to get on base and bringing
• 2:34
  Speaker 4: a pinch runner. But the great thing about being twenty
• 2:38
  Speaker 4: one is some of those things he a little bit quicker,
• 2:41
  Speaker 4: So hopefully it's very mild, and youth is on his side.
• 2:44
  Speaker 4: So off to a good start, you know, off day,
• 2:49
  Speaker 4: you know, hopefully they can, for his sake and for
• 2:51
  Speaker 4: their team's sake, they can close it out as soon
• 2:53
  Speaker 4: as possible and just give them as much rest as
• 2:56
  Speaker 4: humanly possible.
• 2:57
  Speaker 1: So that was the three run homer, and that took
• 2:59
  Speaker 1: this to a seven to three game from the four
• 3:01
  Speaker 1: to three lead that the Brewers had. What'd you think
• 3:04
  Speaker 1: of that sequence there, Kratz? There was one oh one
• 3:07
  Speaker 1: point four, which, according to Sarah Langx is the hardest
• 3:12
  Speaker 1: pitch to hit for a home run in the postseason
• 3:15
  Speaker 1: since they started pitch tracking in what was it two
• 3:18
  Speaker 1: thousand and eight, I think she said, or maybe stack
• 3:20
  Speaker 1: cast I think she meant pitch tracking. But but anyway,
• 3:23
  Speaker 1: I mean plenty of challenged him. I think with three
• 3:26
  Speaker 1: pitches that were over the middle quadrant and third one,
• 3:29
  Speaker 1: it's like, yeah, this is one of the best young
• 3:32
  Speaker 1: hitters in the sport. Stop challenging like that.
• 3:36
  Speaker 2: I mean, you have to challenge him. To me, you
• 3:39
  Speaker 2: have to challenge him. You can't come in plentcy. You
• 3:41
  Speaker 2: can't come in and be like, yeah, I wonder how
• 3:43
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna get him out now. If they're like, hey,
• 3:45
  Speaker 2: you know what, we gotta throw that banger down in
• 3:47
  Speaker 2: his zone or something. But for him to be able
• 3:50
  Speaker 2: to get on top of that ball where it was,
• 3:53
  Speaker 2: I think it was a little out of the zone.
• 3:55
  Speaker 2: If not, it was top of the zone and we'll
• 3:58
  Speaker 2: put it out the center field at twenty one, while
• 4:00
  Speaker 2: KP said, this dude is going to heal up quickly,
• 4:04
  Speaker 2: like he's doing stuff at twenty one that you're not
• 4:07
  Speaker 2: supposed to be able to do. I just pulled up
• 4:08
  Speaker 2: his postseason numbers. He's hitting five seventy one in his
• 4:13
  Speaker 2: two postseasons. He's got fifteen playing appearances, eight hits, two dangers,
• 4:18
  Speaker 2: a double and he's struck out one time. He's twenty one.
• 4:24
  Speaker 2: I mean, what are we looking at? Are we looking
• 4:26
  Speaker 2: at Andrew Jones?
• 4:27
  Speaker 3: Here?
• 4:27
  Speaker 2: Is this what we're looking at? Just reborn? Hopefully his
• 4:30
  Speaker 2: hamstring is fine. They put they brought Lockridge in. I
• 4:34
  Speaker 2: think Murph is very aware that he's dealing with something.
• 4:38
  Speaker 2: But he was able to go to the line and
• 4:40
  Speaker 2: track that ball that can kind of be tough sometimes
• 4:42
  Speaker 2: because it comes back and make that catch in foul territory.
• 4:45
  Speaker 2: Lockridge can come in, pinch, run and come in for defense.
• 4:49
  Speaker 3: For him, he is getting it right now. KP.
• 4:53
  Speaker 1: Did you ever face him Anaga?
• 4:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 4:56
  Speaker 4: I did I face him last year? I faced him
• 5:00
  Speaker 4: last year. Yeah, he's obviously they they're in the same division,
• 5:05
  Speaker 4: you know. Me facing them for the first time, it
• 5:08
  Speaker 4: was the first at bat was obviously the most challenging.
• 5:12
  Speaker 4: It's not elite stuff. It's it's very good command. There
• 5:17
  Speaker 4: is some carry to the fastball, there's some deception to
• 5:19
  Speaker 4: the split finger, but that's a challenge when you get
• 5:23
  Speaker 4: lined up with a team in your division. Like there's
• 5:25
  Speaker 4: no real secrets anymore. Like he doesn't necessarily have the
• 5:28
  Speaker 4: ability to outstuff you. You know, he's so relying on command,
• 5:32
  Speaker 4: there's no secrets anymore. And if he's not going to
• 5:35
  Speaker 4: command his pitches, you know the opposing team is going
• 5:38
  Speaker 4: to take advantage of you know, what he has to offer.
• 5:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that was my thing Kratz is he's given him
• 5:44
  Speaker 1: so many home runs for a few months now. Second
• 5:46
  Speaker 1: half of the season, he gave up by far the
• 5:48
  Speaker 1: most home runs in baseball. I believe twenty two was
• 5:51
  Speaker 1: the number they were showing. The next highest was like
• 5:53
  Speaker 1: maybe sixteen or seventeen. So did you notice anything Kratz
• 5:57
  Speaker 1: that's leading to these issues consistently for him lately? I
• 5:59
  Speaker 1: mean every start he's given up at least a homer.
• 6:01
  Speaker 1: And then when you're taking on what's one of the
• 6:04
  Speaker 1: best offenses in baseball, you turned them into not just
• 6:07
  Speaker 1: a contact hitting team, but now a power hitting team.
• 6:10
  Speaker 2: I saw a thing or perceive velocity at the plate,
• 6:14
  Speaker 2: meaning what it looks like to the hitter. Ever since
• 6:18
  Speaker 2: he came back from the IL, I forget when it
• 6:20
  Speaker 2: was early in the season, the life on his fastball
• 6:24
  Speaker 2: just doesn't seem like it's there.
• 6:26
  Speaker 3: Is it the league getting used to him?
• 6:28
  Speaker 2: Is the league what kp was saying like it's kind
• 6:30
  Speaker 2: of awkward because it comes from a low slot. I
• 6:33
  Speaker 2: remember watching him last year, and I remember when we
• 6:35
  Speaker 2: first came into the league, guys were talking about possibly
• 6:38
  Speaker 2: like a long relief type of guy, and other guys
• 6:40
  Speaker 2: were saying, this guy could be a number two in
• 6:44
  Speaker 2: your rotation. He made the All Star team, came on
• 6:47
  Speaker 2: the show, had a great first year, and I don't
• 6:51
  Speaker 2: think he ever came back from his injury fully one hundred.
• 6:55
  Speaker 2: In the sense that when you don't have and this
• 6:57
  Speaker 2: is I guess why everybody chases velocity. You don't have
• 7:01
  Speaker 2: the elite velocity, and you don't have some kind of
• 7:04
  Speaker 2: like freakish talent where you're stepping closer, you're throwing from higher,
• 7:09
  Speaker 2: it's tougher to get away with mistakes, especially when your
• 7:13
  Speaker 2: ball is flat. And then boys start tee and off
• 7:17
  Speaker 2: they start, they start getting on top of balls and
• 7:19
  Speaker 2: they're not found them straight back, and then you're able
• 7:22
  Speaker 2: to get to something else to strike them out. And
• 7:24
  Speaker 2: that's what it seemed like in the second half we
• 7:27
  Speaker 2: were seeing from him FT fam.
• 7:31
  Speaker 1: Let's talk about Superpower. Eric Kratz is a proud Superpower customer,
• 7:35
  Speaker 1: and he's going to give us more of the personal experience.
• 7:37
  Speaker 1: But I'll just start it with this. You ever go
• 7:39
  Speaker 1: to the doctor and the docs just like, oh, drink
• 7:41
  Speaker 1: more water. Are you looking for more data, more of
• 7:43
  Speaker 1: a game plan? Superpower does that for you. They give
• 7:47
  Speaker 1: you the experience that athletes get with teams.
• 7:52
  Speaker 3: The lab results came back for me. Now it's streamlines everything.
• 7:56
  Speaker 2: That I kind of had an idea of, but now
• 8:00
  Speaker 2: well it really lets me focus on the things that
• 8:02
  Speaker 2: I'm deficient in, the things that I that I have good,
• 8:06
  Speaker 2: good lab test results from.
• 8:08
  Speaker 3: And I could go in that direction.
• 8:10
  Speaker 1: I want to go nutritional guidance, supplement suggestions, you name it.
• 8:14
  Speaker 1: There's so much more info to check out at superpower
• 8:17
  Speaker 1: dot com and you can lock in the special one
• 8:19
  Speaker 1: hundred ninety nine dollars price while at lasts after you
• 8:22
  Speaker 1: sign up, they're going to ask you how you heard
• 8:23
  Speaker 1: about him, mention ft to support the show Your biology Decoded,
• 8:27
  Speaker 1: Your Blueprint Activated with Superpower, which actually brings me to
• 8:33
  Speaker 1: a guy who hit a three run home run off
• 8:35
  Speaker 1: in Mianaga, Andrew Vaughn, Because if I recall KP, you
• 8:40
  Speaker 1: did spend some time with Andrew Vaughn and he got
• 8:44
  Speaker 1: the gift of his life by getting picked up by
• 8:47
  Speaker 1: the Milwaukee Brewers after coiling in the minor leagues at
• 8:51
  Speaker 1: one point this season with the White Sox, He's picked
• 8:54
  Speaker 1: up by a team that is really good at finding
• 8:56
  Speaker 1: players and making the best out of them. Right, I
• 9:00
  Speaker 1: think they're the best team to do that in the
• 9:03
  Speaker 1: National League. Maybe I would say these days, right, the
• 9:06
  Speaker 1: Rays have gotten a lot of credit on the Dodgers
• 9:09
  Speaker 1: is a good point, that's true, but it's hard to
• 9:10
  Speaker 1: find playing time with them. With Milwaukee, they actually needed
• 9:14
  Speaker 1: him in July and he came up big, and he's
• 9:16
  Speaker 1: still coming up big. He played great defensively too, But
• 9:18
  Speaker 1: what was that a seven pitch ab and then gets
• 9:21
  Speaker 1: that that cutter I'm looking at it again right now
• 9:22
  Speaker 1: that kind of hung across the middle of the plate
• 9:25
  Speaker 1: and hit the three run jack.
• 9:27
  Speaker 4: I just I just love what Merv kind of said
• 9:29
  Speaker 4: about him, because I think it's just a great thing
• 9:32
  Speaker 4: for people to understand, whether you're minor league player, your
• 9:37
  Speaker 4: fringe major leaguer even younger than that, like this game
• 9:40
  Speaker 4: is going to humble you at some point. I mean,
• 9:42
  Speaker 4: this kid was the what second or third overall pick
• 9:45
  Speaker 4: got off to a pretty good start in his career.
• 9:48
  Speaker 4: You know, was really never super challenged in Chicago in
• 9:53
  Speaker 4: terms of guys coming up to kind of take his position.
• 9:55
  Speaker 4: You know, we had some bad years and finally they
• 9:57
  Speaker 4: said we had enough with him, and he went to
• 10:00
  Speaker 4: the minor leagues. And he could have you know, packed
• 10:03
  Speaker 4: it in, he could have cast it in. He continued
• 10:04
  Speaker 4: to work, he continued to develop, he made some mechanical
• 10:08
  Speaker 4: and some mental changes, and he ultimately got his opportunity
• 10:12
  Speaker 4: through an injury. And sometimes you just need that good fortune,
• 10:16
  Speaker 4: You need that opportunity, you need a break, and he
• 10:19
  Speaker 4: not only got that opportunity but ran with it. And
• 10:23
  Speaker 4: you know, he's been a big part of their success
• 10:24
  Speaker 4: since he's been up. You know, he's been able to
• 10:27
  Speaker 4: not only hit in the middle of the lineup and
• 10:29
  Speaker 4: and bring some power and some stability. He plays great
• 10:32
  Speaker 4: first base too.
• 10:35
  Speaker 2: I played with von soon after he got drafted with
• 10:38
  Speaker 2: Team USA, and the very Quiet Guy came on the
• 10:42
  Speaker 2: show with us earlier. Quiet Guy. So it's not like
• 10:48
  Speaker 2: this guy's like all of a sudden going to Milwaukee
• 10:50
  Speaker 2: and there's a secret sauce that Milwaukee has compared to
• 10:54
  Speaker 2: the White Sox. But from what I've heard because I've
• 10:57
  Speaker 2: only been in the Milwaukee organization, in that clubhouse and
• 11:01
  Speaker 2: talking to those the front office. They let you be you,
• 11:06
  Speaker 2: but they let you be you as a winning player.
• 11:09
  Speaker 2: Some places are like, hey, I just want to let
• 11:10
  Speaker 2: my players be who they are.
• 11:13
  Speaker 3: And you get nothing out of them.
• 11:15
  Speaker 2: But they let you be you as long as you
• 11:17
  Speaker 2: buy into the fact that, you know what, you might
• 11:20
  Speaker 2: only be here for a little while until Reese Hoskins
• 11:22
  Speaker 2: comes back, but we're going to give you every opportunity.
• 11:26
  Speaker 2: Here's what we think you can do. Go out and
• 11:28
  Speaker 2: do it your way. I mean, the dude became King
• 11:33
  Speaker 2: Vaughn in Milwaukee, like this is a this is a
• 11:36
  Speaker 2: very quiet person who has a lot of potential, has
• 11:41
  Speaker 2: a lot of power. But with the White SOPs, it
• 11:44
  Speaker 2: was never like he was never really challenged to dig
• 11:47
  Speaker 2: deep into his power. It was like, hey, you got
• 11:49
  Speaker 2: to elite back to ball skills, Okay, go out and
• 11:53
  Speaker 2: do that baseball thing. And it was just a bad
• 11:56
  Speaker 2: environment because you see so many guys now from those
• 11:59
  Speaker 2: white SOPs teams that are playing for these playoff teams,
• 12:03
  Speaker 2: pitchers Andrew Vaughn like relievers, starters.
• 12:07
  Speaker 3: It's crazy.
• 12:09
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean sometimes some of these some of these
• 12:12
  Speaker 4: players like the Andrew Bonds, the Gavin Chets, like you know, analytically,
• 12:17
  Speaker 4: they they have a lot to offer, like they have
• 12:19
  Speaker 4: a certain skill set, but maybe one of their greatest
• 12:22
  Speaker 4: attributes is they're just winning baseball players. And when you're
• 12:25
  Speaker 4: not in a winning environment, like your best version of
• 12:28
  Speaker 4: yourself cannot come out. I feel very similar to that,
• 12:32
  Speaker 4: Like my greatest qualities that's helping a team win. Like, individually,
• 12:36
  Speaker 4: my skills are just okay. You know, if you put
• 12:39
  Speaker 4: me on a bad team, I'm just an average player.
• 12:42
  Speaker 4: But if you put me on a good team, I'm
• 12:43
  Speaker 4: elevated because my skill set is elevated. When I'm in
• 12:47
  Speaker 4: a winning culture, I do the little things to help
• 12:50
  Speaker 4: you win games that you know, allow you to be
• 12:52
  Speaker 4: your best version yourself. And I think that's what you're
• 12:54
  Speaker 4: seeing with Andrew Vaughn.
• 12:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 12:57
  Speaker 2: How about the fact that you have young guys on
• 12:59
  Speaker 2: the Brewers team too that can be who they are
• 13:04
  Speaker 2: and it's hey, you know what, you have success even
• 13:08
  Speaker 2: when you have failures. Pat Murphyl'd call you out. No
• 13:11
  Speaker 2: better example than the miss this Roski comes in, maybe
• 13:16
  Speaker 2: not even maybe not even a shoe in for the roster.
• 13:20
  Speaker 2: To be on this NLDS roster, you need guys that
• 13:23
  Speaker 2: are going to be able to give you length or
• 13:25
  Speaker 2: shut the game down in one inning. He wasn't throwing strikes.
• 13:29
  Speaker 2: He was kind of he was kind of disconnected from
• 13:32
  Speaker 2: his role. Am I a starter?
• 13:35
  Speaker 4: No?
• 13:35
  Speaker 2: They tried him in the bullpen. It didn't go very
• 13:38
  Speaker 2: well at the end of the year. And you need
• 13:39
  Speaker 2: guys that throw strikes. The Miz comes in in this
• 13:43
  Speaker 2: game and gives the Brewers. If they didn't need another weapon,
• 13:48
  Speaker 2: it gives them another weapon. Maybe this was Miss's game,
• 13:51
  Speaker 2: but it's something that KP You've seen it. If there's
• 13:54
  Speaker 2: a if there's a reliever or even a bolt guy
• 13:58
  Speaker 2: that comes in the game late and is not throwing strikes,
• 14:02
  Speaker 2: big league hitters just feast on it. They just say,
• 14:06
  Speaker 2: you know what, I'm not swinging. And I think for
• 14:08
  Speaker 2: me the bat that swung it for the Miz and
• 14:11
  Speaker 2: he had a walk after this, but it was the
• 14:13
  Speaker 2: Dansby Swanson at bat Dansby Swanson, I think there was
• 14:17
  Speaker 2: one out and Dansby came up and it was kind
• 14:19
  Speaker 2: of like he spraying some balls all over the place
• 14:22
  Speaker 2: and then Dansby came up and he went strike one,
• 14:25
  Speaker 2: strike two, and Dansby was like, come on, bro, like
• 14:28
  Speaker 2: you're supposed to be a four balls before three guy,
• 14:32
  Speaker 2: and there's I saw it.
• 14:34
  Speaker 3: Shift. I saw it shift.
• 14:36
  Speaker 4: Yeah, there's no better way sometimes to just get back
• 14:39
  Speaker 4: into a game, even if it's lopsided, you know, much
• 14:42
  Speaker 4: like the game that I was doing in Toronto the
• 14:46
  Speaker 4: other day, Like it was eleven nothing or thirteen nothing,
• 14:49
  Speaker 4: but they kind of went to that, you know, other
• 14:51
  Speaker 4: part of their bullpen to just kind of get out
• 14:54
  Speaker 4: and eat up innings. And the Yankees ended up scoring
• 14:58
  Speaker 4: seven runs in that game, and some of it came
• 14:59
  Speaker 4: out off a walk. But it was also sometimes as
• 15:01
  Speaker 4: a player, when nothing is going right collectively or individually,
• 15:05
  Speaker 4: you just need one little thing to build your confidence.
• 15:08
  Speaker 4: And sometimes even when a guy like the Miz comes
• 15:11
  Speaker 4: in and doesn't throw strikes and you can just reach
• 15:14
  Speaker 4: first base, there's kind of this sigh of relief. Everything
• 15:16
  Speaker 4: is so magnified in a playoff game. So if he
• 15:21
  Speaker 4: comes in and doesn't do what he's supposed to do
• 15:23
  Speaker 4: and he's just sprang the ball over the place, and
• 15:25
  Speaker 4: even if they go out and win this game, like
• 15:27
  Speaker 4: there is confidence that could be built from all these hitters,
• 15:30
  Speaker 4: you know, to take into Game three.
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: Dude showed us some one oh four and change. I mean,
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: come on, three shutout innings, a hit, four punchies, yes,
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: two walks, twelve pitches that were clocked at one oh
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: two plus. I mean that is fun. And if you're
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: a more casual baseball fan and you tune in for that,
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: you're like, Okay, I see, UMLB, these guys are ridiculous.
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: He's a big dude. He took the league by storm
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: and then went through a lot of adversity, like krat said,
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: and look at it now. He looks like he could
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: be a big weapon for the Brew crew if he
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: can continue to find the strike zone enough the effectively
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: wild fastball. So let's finish with this Kratz. You first,
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: do the Cubs have a chance? Saya Suzuki showed some
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: life for the team first inning? Big What was that
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: four dred and forty foot home run off a change
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: up middle up, and you're like, okay, maybe the Cubs
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: are going to show up with some power here. That's
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: where they should have an advantage. They should be able
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: to keep up with this team. Defensively. I think that
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: there is definitely a clear cut difference in pitching that
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: we've been seeing the first couple games. But the Cubs
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: come back if what.
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: Kyle Tucker carries this team and say it stays hot,
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: say it was, say it is like you you have
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: to get exactly what say it did tonight. I think
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: he had five homers in his last four games going
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: into the postseason. Then he went six homers in the
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: last five games after he hit that first that homer
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: in the Wild Card. Like, he's kind of been hot,
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: he's been hitting dangers, but you need Kyle Tucker. Sorry,
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: it's a lot to put on a it's been out,
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: but you need Kyle Tucker.
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: Kp any chance the Cubs come back.
• 17:06
  Speaker 4: Not from what I had seen, but they do have
• 17:09
  Speaker 4: Kyle Tucker. It's one of the best players in the world.
• 17:11
  Speaker 4: He's good enough to kind of win games on his own.
• 17:14
  Speaker 4: And obviously kind of going back home, if Wriglely can
• 17:18
  Speaker 4: kind of create this environment that the Cubs need to
• 17:22
  Speaker 4: go out and score. They need to not let the
• 17:26
  Speaker 4: Brewers score. They need to score first, and then they
• 17:28
  Speaker 4: also need to put up another zero and then just
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: kind of allow this energy, which you knows Wrigley is
• 17:34
  Speaker 4: going to be rocking to kind of just potentially carry
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: them to a victory. And then I always say, when
• 17:41
  Speaker 4: you're up to nothing in a series, when you're the
• 17:45
  Speaker 4: team that's up, you got to put the team away.
• 17:47
  Speaker 4: Because all the pressure is obviously on the Cubs to
• 17:49
  Speaker 4: go out and win. If they don't win, their season's over.
• 17:51
  Speaker 4: The Cubs win, I think that pressure kind of gets
• 17:55
  Speaker 4: pushed back on Milwaukee a little bit because the last
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: thing you want to do is go to a Game
• 17:59
  Speaker 4: five because anything, and so you know, if you're the Brewers,
• 18:02
  Speaker 4: you've got to kind of have this step on their
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: neck mentality. And obviously the Cubs are going to be
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: playing with, you know, desperation, but I think they need
• 18:10
  Speaker 4: to score first. They need to put up a zero
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: after that, and then they need to let that home
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: field advantage kind of take over.
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll see if the power shows up for the
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: Cubs that regularly. The problem is right now, I mean,
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: the Brewers are showing us power that does not represent
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: a team that ranked twenty second in the league in
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: that category. And I would imagine Quinn Priesters lined up
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: for Game three for the Brewers, and you.
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: Can over what Locke he gets done.
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: He doesn't ever lose, does he no?
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: Nineteen straight going into the end of the season. Now
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: he doesn't win all of them himself.
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: The boys lose them, he doesn't lose them.
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: He doesn't lose W's.
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: They said, bullpen game today and then we want Priester
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: for Game three and it might work out beautifully for them.
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: If not, then okay, we could have ourselves a series.
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: I mean, they thought that Brent Woodriff would be their
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: Game two starter, and he's not around at least for
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: this round. We'll keep an eye on him, but we
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: will get to the Phillies and the Dodgers series. We're
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: going to find out who the Brewers are going to face.
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: We might have ourselves the twenty eighteen LCS rematch. We'll
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: swing right back and talk about that one ft fam.
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: Another reason why you should love Arena Club is the
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: grading system. So you recently pulled a slap pack and
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: then you said, hey, it's not great. Great it for me?
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: They gave you an eight point five out of ten
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: on your auto whitey Ford card, and then they show
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: you all the details of the grading system. It's very
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: interactive within the app, and then you're done. If you
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: want to sell the card or you want to know
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: what it's worth, you've got it.
• 19:37
  Speaker 5: It's like getting taken a school on cards. And I
• 19:40
  Speaker 5: think that's the coolest part of it. If you're young
• 19:41
  Speaker 5: or old, you understand, Hey, this is how it gets
• 19:44
  Speaker 5: deciphered all the way through. It shows you the numbers
• 19:47
  Speaker 5: and how they went through it. I think that's the
• 19:48
  Speaker 5: coolest part about this whole thing. And then you can
• 19:50
  Speaker 5: keep it traded or sell it or whatever you want.
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: And it's so much more efficient to do this through
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: Arena Club. Whether you're ripping a pack, there's the slab packs,
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: buying card, selling a card, grading a card, it's all
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: there for you. We talk about it all season long.
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: Arenaclub dot com slash foul is where you can go
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: to give it a shot. Twenty percent off your first
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: card purchase. Arenaclub dot com slash foul. Use the code
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: foul at checkout and get twenty percent off. Let's recap
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: what we've seen so far in the first two games
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: of the Dodgers and the Phillies in Philadelphia. That home
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: field advantage best home record in baseball this year, and
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: if you listened to us on Foul Territory on Monday
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: afternoon before the game, you would have thought, well, that
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: actually doesn't mean shit, And it didn't if the Phillies
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: lost both games. Kratz, you live in the area. They're
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: booing the Duran entrance music, not at him. They're just
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: pissed off that they are seeing this from their team
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: and that they've lost five of their last six games
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: at the bank. Bedlam at the Bank is not a
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: thing right now. The offense is not showing up for them.
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: We can come up with all kinds of other excuses,
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: but they're not putting up big numbers at home offensively
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: against a very good pitching team in these first two
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: games for Philadelphia. And let's also give credit to the
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: Dodgers for playing a really good game.
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I was gonna say, before we before we get
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: too hard on the on the Phillies. The Dodgers did
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: throw the absolute snot out of the ball. But I
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: see exactly what I saw part in parts of the season.
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: It's a team that for some reason does not hit
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: starting pitching very well. Yes they can, because they are
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: a very power packed lineup and they have a bunch
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: of veteran hitters, but for some reason together as a unit,
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: don't consistently hit starting pitching very well. And you're running
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: into the best starting pitching in the playoffs right now.
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: Have they been the best all season? Absolutely not, because
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: most of them haven't even been healthy all season. But
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: they I mean Blake Snell back to back outings. Last
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: time he faced him during the regular season, they had
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: twelve punches. Tonight he was he was doing whatever he wanted.
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: Lozardo was also doing whatever he wanted. But we're talking
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: about the offense. The top of the order has to
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: come through. And they found a little kink, they found
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: a little opening, and they left the door open a crack,
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: and the offense did exactly what they do. They beat
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: up the bullpen. They didn't beat up m and Shehan
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: not a bullpen guy as a starter. But as soon
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: as they got to trying, and as soon as they
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: were allowed to face trying, they had him. They had him,
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: and they had him on the ropes. They had Vesia
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: on the ropes, and they weren't able to finish it out.
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: Did you see did you like the bunt call?
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: There?
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: KP for Bryson Stott and then the wheel play that
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: just was executed perfectly for the Dodgers to get the
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: out with the lead runner.
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, you got to do whatever you came
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: in that situation to get the guy to third base.
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: Teams don't teams don't like practice the wheel play all
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: that offense. I mean, it would be I heard Max
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: Munsey talking about kind of the conversation that the three
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: infielders were having about that they the pitching change and
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: kind of okate it, but it was kind of spearheaded
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: for Mookie, who obviously just has an unbelievable baseball IQ,
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: you know, and the willingness to want to run that play.
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: But I would love to know the last time they
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: actually practiced that play. I mean, it had to have
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: been in spring training, you know. I doubt the three
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: of those guys, the combination of those guys have been
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: out on a field at any point in time since
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: spring training running the wheel play, and they did it
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: to perfection. So credit to them, you know, you could.
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: I'm a big believer too, and no offense to a
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: lot of pictures though, But if I'm bunting there, I'm
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: trying to put the ball in the hands of the
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: pitcher as opposed to a fielder. But bunning is not easy.
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: Bunning is one of the hardest things to do in baseball.
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: Like at some point you've got to just kind of
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: pat yourself on the back that you get a bunt down.
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: But just a really well done play by the Dodgers.
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and yet Doc Roberts, the Dodgers manager, said they
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: really do it. Mookie called for it. That's a shortstop
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: captain ish kind of guy on the team, just making
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: the right call at the right time when they had
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: a little time to go over things. And the Dodgers
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: pull off a win just enough. I mean, yes, there
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: was trouble for trying in, but then he goes to
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: Bessie and then Doc, you know, pulls the ultimate wild
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: card in the postseason. So far, pitching wise, I don't
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: think anybody one month ago, not like six or three,
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: four months ago, whatever, I think one month ago, if
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: I told most people that Roki Sazaki is going to
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: be a nails closer for the Dodgers, you'd be like, huh, who,
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: I don't even remember him?
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: What happened to him?
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: How about this saying if he was gonna be on
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: the roster or not that would have already been a
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: little bit of a stretch.
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: Was he just going to you know, stay in triple A?
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: Was he going to be like one of those guys
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: that you know, go in that stay ready camp. But
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: now this guy's got back to back saves in playoff games.
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: It's it's crazy, It really is unbelievable. It's just you know,
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: some organizations just to you know, do things a little
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: bit better. Like, you know, maybe they maybe this was
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: always a contingency plan that they saw on this guy,
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: that we're going to give hi an opportunity to start
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: because you know, or maybe that was the way they
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: felt like they could get him in the doors, like yeah,
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: we'll allow you to start. And ultimately it didn't go
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: so well. He had to go, you know, through some
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: injuries kind of build himself back up. But maybe ultimately
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: they knew all along this guy was going to be
• 25:24
  Speaker 4: in the lead closer.
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: Kratz, question for you about the star power for the Phillies,
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: because of course that's the number one issue right now,
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: and I understand that it's really good pitching coming at them.
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: Two for twenty one, four walks, eleven strikeouts, for Trey Turner,
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: Kyle Schwarber and Bryce Harper, are they seeing any pitches
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: that they can do damage with or even just you
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: know move, you know, move themselves into a good position
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: to let somebody else do damage. Right, Like I'm looking
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: back for the Harper at bat where he had a
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: big strikeout, and I think there was one pitch that
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: was in the strike zone and there were no fastballs,
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: and it was just really nicely executed on the pitching side.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: But like, you know, give me the Harper perspective here
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: does he need to and he's got a great eye
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: spit at those pitches and just passed the baton. What
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: are you see in here?
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: I mean against Blake Snell, I don't I don't feel
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: like he chased out of the zone too bad. I
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: think he chased one pitch out of his own. But
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: strike three was yeah, his swinging Strike three was a
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: slider that even when they slowed it down. If you've
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: never faced Blake Snell, or you've never caught Blake Snell,
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: it is almost impossible to see that pitch. Because Harper
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: does Harper does what Harper does in the playoffs. He
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: does an incredible job of staying on pitches, and I'm like,
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: I don't think he's he's not seeing that slider because
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: he everybody remember what he did to Robert Suarez that
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: opposite field Homer that created bedlam at the bank, Like
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: that's how you hit that slider, and he's trying to
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: do that and he still couldn't do it. Maybe maybe
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: this is my homerism. Maybe I need to go back
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: and watch.
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: More of this.
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: But I really feel like, besides the fastball in that
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: Schwarber missed, I forget, I think I forget who was pitching,
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: but it was a fastball in that he foul tipped,
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: I don't feel like guys were really like they were
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: giving them any chances to hit anything to do damage with.
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: Like it wasn't like ooh, we had that one. They
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: all look late confused and like searching for what is
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: the next pitch.
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: That was eighth inning, by the way, with she and
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: against Schwarber, and that was ninety eight tipped into the
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: glove to get him. That was when we had the
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: long ish delay with the PitchCom I don't know if
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: I believe that it wasn't working, but whatever, and Schwerberg's
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: just waiting, and then eventually they got him.
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: I thought they were going to go I thought they
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: were gonna go to Vessia. I thought it was going
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: to be some kind of conspiracy thing there, Like I thought, oh, hey.
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: You know, we're gonna come out here.
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: We're gonna talk about it PitchCom, because we want Vessia
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: to face to face Harper. You got Schwarber clearly, but
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: we're gonna have Vessia face Harper. And it was like
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: delay delay, and then you saw the bullpen and Vessia,
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: who's always looks like he's beamed up, he's just throwing, throwing, throwing,
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: and then they left him in there, left him in there,
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: didn't didn't take him out. So I think the PitchCom
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: actually didn't work. And we're coming out with a new
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: foul territory, pitch Com, and it's gonna solve all PitchCom problems.
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: I'll take for you right now. I think we can
• 28:43
  Speaker 4: make an argument that the Phillies lineup one to nine
• 28:47
  Speaker 4: is much better than the Blue Jays lineup in Brewer's lineup?
• 28:52
  Speaker 4: Would you agree? Through more talented, more dangerous. I do believe.
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: I do believe it.
• 28:59
  Speaker 4: I'm not there is just a hot take. I'm not
• 29:01
  Speaker 4: in that. I've never been in that clubhouse with Philly,
• 29:04
  Speaker 4: but I've had the conversations with the Blue Jays, and
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: you were obviously with the Milwaukee Brewers. I think those
• 29:10
  Speaker 4: teams have a much better collective approach where I feel
• 29:15
  Speaker 4: like the Phillies are so much more reliant on individual
• 29:19
  Speaker 4: talent that they feel like at some point just the
• 29:22
  Speaker 4: talent is gonna take over, and they're good enough to
• 29:25
  Speaker 4: not really like have this past the baton mentality, or hey,
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: we're gonna eliminate this pitch, We're gonna wear them out.
• 29:34
  Speaker 4: Because these two teams that you know, don't hit a
• 29:37
  Speaker 4: ton of home runs that aren't filled one through nine
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: with you know, high octane offensive players are going out
• 29:44
  Speaker 4: and scoring a ton of runs. So I think there's
• 29:47
  Speaker 4: also this way that you play in the regular season
• 29:50
  Speaker 4: that definitely changes when you get into the postseason. I
• 29:53
  Speaker 4: think those two teams have an advantage right now because
• 29:56
  Speaker 4: I think they've been playing postseason baseball for the entirety
• 29:59
  Speaker 4: of this.
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, is it that KP coupled with some guys that
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: clearly are getting game planned and it's working right? I mean,
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: we can say oh, they're running into maybe the best
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: team in baseball, and the Dodgers should have been a
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: you know, a buy team, right and not been facing
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: the Phillies in this spot. Whatever you can try and
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: make excuses, you're gonna have to run through a team
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: like this either way. And it's been some disappointing seasons
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: for a Philly team.
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: That you're right.
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: You look at on paper and you're like, this team
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: should be better, but look at the numbers the last
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: couple of postseasons for Trey Turner, Kyle Schwarber. I mean,
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: they're they're bad, and clearly pitchers have a game plan
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: and it's working, right, yeah, I mean work in the
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: regular but it's working in the playoffs.
• 30:43
  Speaker 4: You can't put all the blame on the Phillies hitters,
• 30:46
  Speaker 4: and you know their approach and their hitting coach and
• 30:48
  Speaker 4: whatever it is. You know, sometimes you just got to
• 30:51
  Speaker 4: give credit where credits due, and like Crouds knows, like
• 30:55
  Speaker 4: you're going to go into every individual game with game
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: plans of how to get guys out, but that obviously
• 31:01
  Speaker 4: is magnified so much more in the playoffs. You're always
• 31:05
  Speaker 4: pitching to guys' weaknesses. It's just a matter if your
• 31:07
  Speaker 4: pitchers can execute it. And it just seems like at
• 31:09
  Speaker 4: this point the Dodgers have been able to execute their
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: game plan against the middle of the order, or actually
• 31:16
  Speaker 4: the entirety of the order of the Phillies, and sometimes,
• 31:19
  Speaker 4: like I said, it's not so much about you know
• 31:21
  Speaker 4: what we are doing, and sometimes you just have to
• 31:24
  Speaker 4: keep your cap and just say, like they've just been
• 31:26
  Speaker 4: better than us, and you hope in game three, whoever,
• 31:30
  Speaker 4: I don't know who's due to start in Game three
• 31:32
  Speaker 4: for the Dodgers, but you just hope that there's just
• 31:34
  Speaker 4: a couple more mistakes where these guys could capitalize on.
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: Dude yama Moto Game three coming up against Aaron Nola,
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: who looked better lately, but he's had a really rough
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: season and Ranger Suarez is going to back him up.
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: So things definitely do not look promising when it's Yamamoto
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: game three. This is the gauntlet they have to go
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: through right now, Kratz, And you tell me if there's
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: any freaking sliver of a chance for them, they have
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: to go through yama Moto. Then they have to take
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: down Tyler Glass now, and then they will face show
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: Hey Otani in game five, and I get I mean,
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: if you get to a game five against Otani and
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: you've got your big boy in Sanchez back on the mound,
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: sure you've got a chance. But do you think they
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: can take them down in three in a row.
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: I think they can because those guys haven't been hot.
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: You can't.
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: You can never tell me, and I guess I'll be
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: I guess I'll be wrong if it just continues this
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: way for the rest of history. But there's not a playoff.
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: A player doesn't become worse than the playoff playoffs, you
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: don't turn into a pumpkin. To me, you're gonna have
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: to regress back to what they do. Kyle Schwarber has
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: had some massive home runs in the playoffs. He can
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: carry a team for a three to seven game stretch.
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: Bryce Harper has been I mean, I think he still
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: has over a thousand.
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: Ops in the playoffs. He can get hot. Is is it?
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: Are they up against it right now? Absolutely, they're up
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: against it, But this lineup has the ability.
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: To do it.
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: Look, Nick Costianis was one of their best hitters. He
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: had a massive hit tonight. When you have veterans in
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: there and your back's against the wall, there's not a panic.
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: Maybe now that's the little spark that they need. Maybe
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: that maybe Shover finds something in the off day, swinging
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: off of the breaking ball machine, maybe they get you know,
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: it's they have the guys to do it. Do they
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: have a sliver of hope. I think it's more than
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: a sliver of hope. Do they have to change what
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: they've been doing? Yeah, somebody has to step up and
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: get a big hit.
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's tough to see it for me, KP. With
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: the way that the Dodgers have this pitching rolling right now,
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: the offense is in a pretty good spot against a
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: really good Philadelphia pitching staff. By the way, I mean,
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: Christopher Sanchez is going to finish second in NLSI Young
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: Jesus Lozzardo for most of the game put on a
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: show tonight. But even for the I mean they're not
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: perfect defensively to asker Hernandez's rollercoaster ride, but I want
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: to make sure the finish line here we shout out
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: Freddie Freeman made a sick pick. Otherwise that games still rolling.
• 34:12
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean to cross his points. I definitely like
• 34:15
  Speaker 4: the Phillies' chances a lot more than I like the
• 34:17
  Speaker 4: Cubs chances because he said, these guys don't these guys
• 34:22
  Speaker 4: don't turn into pumpkins in the playoffs, like if this
• 34:25
  Speaker 4: was their first time going through the playoffs, because the
• 34:28
  Speaker 4: playoffs can be overwhelming, Like the moment gets bigger, the
• 34:31
  Speaker 4: anxiety goes through the roof. You know you're getting you're
• 34:36
  Speaker 4: not getting a chance to nesta league game plan against
• 34:39
  Speaker 4: a starter who's gonna go. You know you're gonna see
• 34:41
  Speaker 4: him a third time, maybe not even a second time.
• 34:43
  Speaker 4: But these guys have a track record of being very
• 34:46
  Speaker 4: successful hitters in the postseason. Like you mentioned, the Dodgers
• 34:50
  Speaker 4: pitching staff is just rolling right now. I think this
• 34:53
  Speaker 4: is nothing that we didn't expect to happen for the Dodgers.
• 34:56
  Speaker 4: I think we knew inevitably if everyone's healthy once they
• 35:02
  Speaker 4: got into the postseason. This is kind of what you
• 35:04
  Speaker 4: expected to see from the Dodgers. But I wouldn't count
• 35:07
  Speaker 4: them out because of what krat said, Like they just
• 35:09
  Speaker 4: have too much talent and they have too many guys
• 35:12
  Speaker 4: that individually can just put a team on their back.
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I whole hardly agree with that. I think the
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: Phillies do have a better chance. I just I don't
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: see it for either side. Yeah, I could see the
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: Phillies taking a game. Maybe they crack Yamamoto, But what
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: do you got?
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: And Scott, you said the Dodgers' offense is rolling. They've
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: scored him two innings for a Dodgers offense, that is awesome.
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: The Phillies starting rotation and pretty much eight of the
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: nine innings they have I don't feel like the Dodgers
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: offense is like rolling, rolling, But the Dodgers have done
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: the same thing. They kind of struggled sometimes against starters,
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: same thing as the Phillies, and then the bullpen comes
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: in and there's a guy they're like, no, no, yes,
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: we got something than on him, Yes we see him. Well,
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: yes this is our guy. And both both games they
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: scored all their runs in the seventh inning, nine runs
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: in the seventh.
• 36:10
  Speaker 4: You said the quiet thing out loud. I was, That's
• 36:12
  Speaker 4: what I was thinking. I was hearing that, Like, both
• 36:15
  Speaker 4: these teams typically have trouble hitting, starting pitching, but there's
• 36:18
  Speaker 4: guys in the bullpen they get to. Does that make
• 36:21
  Speaker 4: you believe that they may have things on the bullpen
• 36:25
  Speaker 4: guys that they can't get on starters.
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: Maybe maybe or or they're able to eliminate pitches. They're
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: able to eliminate pitches. I mean that to me, that's
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: that's better than any tell Like if you're like this
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: guy is a two pitch guy. He never throws his
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: breaking ball for a strike or anything in. I think
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: the Dodgers do a great job of eliminating zones. Starting
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: pitchers are good at all four quadrants. When a Matt
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: Strom comes in, he's probably only going to run that
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: slider in off. Say guys, hey, when that slider, when
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: anything starts in, we're taking it down. And this is
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: what KP's talking about. Good team at bats. You you
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: strike out looking at a fastball in against Strom, if
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: that's their game plan, and you know what, we tip
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: our cap. We move on and then when he makes
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: a mistake, anything out over, we're smashing it. We're on
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: time for it, whatever it is.
• 37:19
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think that's a fair point. Typically starters have
• 37:22
  Speaker 4: a much you know, bigger arsenal pitches be able to
• 37:25
  Speaker 4: use the entirety of the plate. And when you do
• 37:28
  Speaker 4: get to those bullpen guys, even if they have a
• 37:30
  Speaker 4: third pitch, like you are gonna eliminate one, you're gonna
• 37:32
  Speaker 4: turn them into two pitch guy, but ultimately you're going
• 37:35
  Speaker 4: to turn him to a one side of the plate guy.
• 37:37
  Speaker 4: So I think there's some truth to that, more so
• 37:40
  Speaker 4: than getting into this kind of going down this rabbit
• 37:43
  Speaker 4: hole of always thinking that you know, a pitcher gives
• 37:46
  Speaker 4: up runs or you know, gives up a home run,
• 37:49
  Speaker 4: he's tipping. I think it could come down to this,
• 37:51
  Speaker 4: you know, game planning too.
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: And the buggaboo for the Dodgers still is there. I mean,
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: they're traditional relievers right now, are not in a good spot.
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: This is nothing like what they imagined. They thought, you know,
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: Kirby Yates and Tanner Scott and trying in right and
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: tryning was the problem child in this particular game. I mean,
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: the highlights for them are Glass Night out of the bullpen.
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: Shean in this game, out of the bullpen, former start
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: rookie Sazaki. I mean, they're throwing starters out of the
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: bullpen to try and win games, and that has worked
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: for some teams in the past, so I'll give them credit.
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: And then last shout out for me, of course, Doc Roberts,
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: who's super super battle tested, gets to push the Will
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: Smith button in the seventh inning where he would never
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: be up in that spot, and you have, like, what
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: a top three hitting catcher in baseball who gets to
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: step in with the first pitch, line drive, two run
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: single and that made it three to nothing. So prohaps
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: to this team. They've got a lot of talent. They're
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: in a really good spot. If you've got thoughts on
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: this series, then drop them in the comments let us know.
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: We'll talk about it more on foul Territory throughout the week.
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much for watching, and we have ft
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: still every day one o'clock Eastern time. We have plenty
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: of postgame shows that we'll do. We'll get KP on
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: something Blue Jays related or you can catch them on
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: Blue Jays coverage too. We did a little interview with
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: him earlier on fal Terra Turn Monday, so check that out.
• 39:04
  Speaker 3: KP.
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us for this a little late night.
• 39:07
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I must prefer the earlier slot. This is a
• 39:10
  Speaker 4: little tough on me, but you know what, it was
• 39:13
  Speaker 4: worse standing up to see you know, Crafts of Sleepy
• 39:16
  Speaker 4: Eyes too.
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: You did it, You did it, KP. It's a good
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: rite of passage here. Just for the playoffs and Krafts,
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: your legend will see it in a little bit. Thanks everyone,
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: we'll see it soon.