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Nationals Bats Erupt vs Twins & Miami Marlins Series Preview · District Territory

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to the District Territory Podcast. I'm Eric Shellhouse.
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  Speaker 1: Joining me today Kevin Franzen of the Washington Nationals down
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  Speaker 1: in Miami as the Nets get ready to take on
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  Speaker 1: the Marlins. But in the last two games of the
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  Speaker 1: Twins series twenty two runs. They improved to eighteen and
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  Speaker 1: twenty and second in the National League East. Franny, what'd
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  Speaker 1: you like about yesterday's win?
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  Speaker 2: That they followed up a fantastic showing the fifteen to
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  Speaker 2: two game, you know, two nights or a night prior
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  Speaker 2: to that, just consistent at bets, and they did it
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  Speaker 2: so different, right, Like, you watch the game and you're going,
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  Speaker 2: how is it different when they scored that many runs? Well,
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  Speaker 2: it's it's the production that they've had from the bottom
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  Speaker 2: of the order in a lot of their wins this year.
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  Speaker 3: Like I feel like.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of the direct correlation to wins have been
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  Speaker 2: how have six, seven, eight, nine done?
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  Speaker 3: You know?
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  Speaker 2: And a lot of it is creating traffic for James
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  Speaker 2: Wood at the top of the order when it comes
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  Speaker 2: back around. But for the most part, I mean, you
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  Speaker 2: look at it and you're going, it's the Twins. Well,
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  Speaker 2: you know what you got to take advantage of bad
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  Speaker 2: bullpen and what Derek Shelton has over there right now
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  Speaker 2: to work.
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  Speaker 3: With is it's not good. So I mean he's trying
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  Speaker 3: to mix a match.
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  Speaker 2: You've seen what Blake be Terror's done this year to
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  Speaker 2: mix a match and try to get you know, the
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  Speaker 2: right matchups, and you know it's it's starting to kick
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  Speaker 2: in a little bit better I think for the Nats
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  Speaker 2: bullpen to hold leads or try to hold leads.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, you know, yesterday it was a good day,
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  Speaker 3: especially for capert Ruiz.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, goesy watching online. Give you a look at the
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  Speaker 1: National League's National League East standings as of this morning.
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  Speaker 1: As I said, eighteen and twenty good for eight games
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  Speaker 1: back the Atlanta Braves. I don't know if anyone is
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  Speaker 1: eyeing the division, but hey, it's May eighth and the
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  Speaker 1: Nationals are in second place. Not too shabby. Give you
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  Speaker 1: a look at yesterday's pitching box score. That's really what
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  Speaker 1: stood out to me. Like you mentioned, the bullpen really
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  Speaker 1: stepped up and did their job later in the game.
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  Speaker 1: We'll get to an offensive recap really quickly. But what
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  Speaker 1: can you say about Orlando Ribalta from yesterday?
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  Speaker 2: Another outing with high leverage that he is just absolutely
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  Speaker 2: stepped up, and you love it. I love the fact
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  Speaker 2: that he had the chance to come in with the
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  Speaker 2: basic load of favor face Byron Buckston and he came
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  Speaker 2: right after him and you know it fell behind.
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  Speaker 3: Next thing, you know, you're just like, Okay, what's going
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  Speaker 3: to happen.
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  Speaker 2: He's gonna give in And he touched what ninety seven
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  Speaker 2: ninety eight in the outing.
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  Speaker 3: And I thought it was fantastic.
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  Speaker 2: I thought he should have been able to complete that
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  Speaker 2: next inning that he came out and h and had
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  Speaker 2: even though they pinched hit Josh Bell, I thought he
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  Speaker 2: was rolling. I thought the better matchup was Rabalta versus
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  Speaker 2: you know, Josh Bell and not PJ. Poole and coming
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  Speaker 2: in to face Josh Bell.
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  Speaker 1: Also to turn Bell around to the right side. I
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  Speaker 1: mean we've seen it over the years.
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  Speaker 3: It's not but see like that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, But like to me, it's different if you have
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  Speaker 2: a if you're turning him to the right side against
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  Speaker 2: a guy that throws hard. You know, PJ is not
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  Speaker 2: your your hard thrower, and I don't think it's that
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  Speaker 2: advantageous of a matchup. So that's where I'm at on that,
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  Speaker 2: especially with Josh right like Josh, if it's velocity right
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  Speaker 2: side on his right side, I could I get it
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  Speaker 2: because he struggled against it.
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  Speaker 3: It's the it's well.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like I said, he's a soft tosser right when
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  Speaker 2: we come down to it with PJ pulling. So to
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  Speaker 2: me it was rebalta that that should have been it.
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  Speaker 2: But they made they made the the you know, the change,
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  Speaker 2: and and he delivered on the twin side and the
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  Speaker 2: next thing you know, Uh, the boys fought back and
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  Speaker 2: got some more runs there. And that that's been like
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  Speaker 2: a little bit of a theme, like they've answered they've
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  Speaker 2: answered the ball bell a few times this year when
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  Speaker 2: they've fallen behind late, they keep coming back and you
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  Speaker 2: love to see that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the Nuts fell behind a couple of times yesterday
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  Speaker 1: and fought back each time. We were able to walk away
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  Speaker 1: with the victory. The Twins opened the scoring in the
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  Speaker 1: top of the second inning with the brooks Ley single,
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  Speaker 1: but it could have been a lot worse. For those
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  Speaker 1: of you watching online, give you a replay. This isn't
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  Speaker 1: a great angle, but the Nationals had a double play
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  Speaker 1: eight to two yesterday and Franny, what did you see
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  Speaker 1: from this play? Up in the press box just a
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  Speaker 1: see year.
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  Speaker 3: There was the dumbest player. It's the dumbest player of
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  Speaker 3: the year.
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  Speaker 2: It's the dumbest player of the year, and no reason
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  Speaker 2: he should be sent in that situation, Cody Clemens, because
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  Speaker 2: the guy on deck, that's always what matters, scored the game.
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  Speaker 2: And then where are you at with on deck battery?
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  Speaker 2: On deck batter is byro Buckston, What are you doing
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  Speaker 2: at the end of the day, Like you love to
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  Speaker 2: see it from the NAT side, it's an easy eight
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  Speaker 2: to you know, put out on that one.
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  Speaker 3: But it's just the dumbest, dumbest decision to send him.
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  Speaker 2: And I really feel like that catapulted a lot of things,
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  Speaker 2: you know for the Gnats as far as that, and
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  Speaker 2: then you have the play. We're also Martin overran third
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  Speaker 2: base and you know he was being held for I
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  Speaker 2: think we had it at you know, third base. Coach
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  Speaker 2: on that Brigo on that one had him held up
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  Speaker 2: at halfway and Austin Martin didn't try to stop until
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  Speaker 2: past third base and then he slips and the seem
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  Speaker 2: Unias starts that great rundown in that because he used
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  Speaker 2: his eyes saw it didn't panic made a great throw,
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  Speaker 2: great first throw from what one hundred and eighty plus
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  Speaker 2: feet you.
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  Speaker 3: Know on the money seed. It was an absolute rocket.
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  Speaker 2: So they benefited from some bad, bad decision making bad
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  Speaker 2: base running on it.
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  Speaker 3: And we've seen that on the in the past.
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  Speaker 1: Just a heads up play by the seam to see
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  Speaker 1: that the runner was going around third. If you throw
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  Speaker 1: it a home there, you're going to give the runner
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  Speaker 1: the opportunity to die back into third base. But because
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  Speaker 1: he threw behind him kind of forced the Twins hand
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  Speaker 1: and created that rundown. Yeah, the Nets had an answer
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  Speaker 1: there to keep it one. Nothing retook the lead two
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  Speaker 1: to one or yes too, looking at my recap here, Sorry,
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  Speaker 1: the Twins went up two to one.
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  Speaker 3: It was.
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  Speaker 1: It was back and forth all throughout. A flash forward
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  Speaker 1: here to the fifth inning when the Nats took the
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  Speaker 1: lead again on a caver Ouiz double. It was the
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  Speaker 1: caver Ouiz show all day yesterday. But what did you
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  Speaker 1: see on this double that put them ahead in the
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  Speaker 1: fifth inning?
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  Speaker 2: Well, staying behind the baseball nicely for Cavert. I wish
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  Speaker 2: you would have kept going because that would have been
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  Speaker 2: his first career triple. I think it would have been awesome
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  Speaker 2: to see. Uh, look, Trevor Larnek in right or not.
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  Speaker 2: That wasn't Larneni, that was Waalner in rightfield. Was just
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  Speaker 2: he was on a different planet yesterday because you know,
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  Speaker 2: to me, it was an easy, easy, like cut off
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  Speaker 2: in the gap and that ball, that ball just got
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  Speaker 2: by up so easily, and I was like, wait, what
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  Speaker 2: is happening here? And you love it for the benefit
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  Speaker 2: of the NAT side and you got to take advantage
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  Speaker 2: of that, and you know for Cavert, you know, putting together,
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  Speaker 2: you know, a couple of good solid at bat back
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  Speaker 2: to back in that situation, you know, before he gets
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  Speaker 2: that homer.
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  Speaker 3: I think was such a huge, huge part of this.
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  Speaker 2: The confidence that Drew Milliscott going on the catching side
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  Speaker 2: just two nights ago with a homer in a double,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and then you see you know Caberte respond yesterday.
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  Speaker 3: Was it was just it was a good play.
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  Speaker 2: It was one where the backside runner on that one
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  Speaker 2: using his eyes, running with his head up.
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  Speaker 3: Always good thing. And you know, two run.
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  Speaker 1: Score, yeah, and we get to the bottom of the
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  Speaker 1: seventh inning. The Twins eventually did rally, as we mentioned
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  Speaker 1: a few moments ago, on that Josh Bell double to
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  Speaker 1: make it a five to five game, but then in
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  Speaker 1: the bottom of the seventh key Barry Bonds in the
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  Speaker 1: words of Spencer does boum with a huge home run
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  Speaker 1: every time he came up. Yesterday was just in quite
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  Speaker 1: a big situation. There was nobody on base there. He
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  Speaker 1: did it all by himself. But what a frankly a
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  Speaker 1: breath of fresh air for him to be able to
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  Speaker 1: do that and provide that moment for the team. Yeah, yesterday,
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  Speaker 1: Just how does that feel as a player, you know,
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  Speaker 1: to step up in that moment?
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  Speaker 2: Well, he did twice, right like and putting him on top,
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  Speaker 2: which I think is even more impressive when you do
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  Speaker 2: it twice in a game. And for Caber, LOOKI it's
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  Speaker 2: been a struggle offensively, real struggle for the last couple
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  Speaker 2: of years.
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  Speaker 3: And I said this.
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  Speaker 2: On the post game was I've been hard on him,
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  Speaker 2: you know, not not trying to like nitpick on on things,
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  Speaker 2: but man, this guy has busted his a defensively, and
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  Speaker 2: he and Bobby Wilson have done such I mean, he's
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  Speaker 2: one of the top defensive catchers in the game right now.
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  Speaker 2: Pitch framing wise, I think he went from the absolute
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  Speaker 2: worst of the worst to one of the best in
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  Speaker 2: the game in the year span.
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  Speaker 3: And when you take that much pride in.
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  Speaker 2: That that spot and doing that right, something's gonna be
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  Speaker 2: taken away, I feel like. And until you get that
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  Speaker 2: routine of both sides where you're worried about the offensive side,
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  Speaker 2: and so I think he's starting to get a little
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  Speaker 2: bit more comfortable defensively and come with this routine that
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  Speaker 2: the concentration on the offensive side could happen. Now you
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  Speaker 2: have two switching in catchers, that's a lot that's going
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  Speaker 2: on with them, you know what I mean, Like, there's
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  Speaker 2: a lot that they have to take care of throughout
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  Speaker 2: a day. So for Caber to be able to get
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  Speaker 2: this opportunity and deliver I mean offensively, just it's telling
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  Speaker 2: him he's in a good spot right. It doesn't mean
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  Speaker 2: that he has turned the corner. It was one game,
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  Speaker 2: but we're going to celebrate that game because it's been it's.
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  Speaker 3: Been a while.
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  Speaker 1: I'm also going to be celebrating with him because in
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  Speaker 1: his postgame interview he said he's excited to get down
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  Speaker 1: to Miami see his family. I gotta imagine that's a
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  Speaker 1: little extra motivation for this series over the weekend. Get
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  Speaker 1: to have the family behind you, so really excited to
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  Speaker 1: see how he can play. And you mentioned Millis. I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna flash it back to Wednesday night really quickly, when
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  Speaker 1: the bats just erupted. This is one that as soon
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  Speaker 1: as you hit it, I think there was no doubt
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  Speaker 1: off of the bat, got every bit of that baseball.
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  Speaker 1: And that was one of four home runs the Nationals
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  Speaker 1: hit over the course of the game. Give you a
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  Speaker 1: look at Brady House's elevate and celebrate to straight way
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  Speaker 1: center field, and then CJ Abrams of course the Grand Slam.
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  Speaker 1: I guess that's why they call him the Alien. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: he enjoyed that one, as he should in a big
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  Speaker 1: moment like that Franny. But the bats all around on
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  Speaker 1: Wednesday night, we're just phenomenal. What stood out to you.
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  Speaker 2: A lot, actually, because let's take CJ for instance, like
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  Speaker 2: he is such you know we've seen him in the
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  Speaker 2: past and just swing the swing almost and because he
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  Speaker 2: could do so much damage at the plate, you understand
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  Speaker 2: why he tries to just seek after it. And I
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  Speaker 2: and I was talking about it in the middle right
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  Speaker 2: about the time he was about the swing on that
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  Speaker 2: Grand Slam. He's just letting things come to him, and
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  Speaker 2: it's really really enjoyable to watch because it's not trying.
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  Speaker 2: There's no effort right now to go, I'm not hunting
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  Speaker 2: for hits, right, and with that is coming to production
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  Speaker 2: because it's good pitches.
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  Speaker 3: He's swinging it.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, does he chase, yes, But it's where he chases,
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  Speaker 2: it's when he chases, right. I mean, it's the rarity
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  Speaker 2: that we've seen this year of the back to back
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  Speaker 2: chase right, same spot, like rare. It's like boom compute,
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  Speaker 2: all right, I won't do that again, and he doesn't.
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  Speaker 2: And so when you start honing in and you start,
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  Speaker 2: you know, not missing the pitches right down in the
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  Speaker 2: middle of the part of the plate, because that's what
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  Speaker 2: you need to do, is not miss those pitches. That's
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  Speaker 2: the part that you're like, it is so crazy to watch,
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  Speaker 2: Like his feet are slow, his hands, his load, everything
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  Speaker 2: is just like come to me, come to me, enjoy
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  Speaker 2: because it's about to be thunder right off the bat.
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  Speaker 3: And he's proven that over time and time.
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  Speaker 2: Again, Now what second in RBI in all of baseball
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  Speaker 2: and it's a guy that was leading off and understandably,
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  Speaker 2: but I mean again, he's a good hitter, right and
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  Speaker 2: He's a guy that I want that RBI spot too,
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  Speaker 2: because I do think this. I think when you you
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  Speaker 2: look at the Wan Sodos of the world, you look
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  Speaker 2: at the James Woods of the world that don't chase,
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  Speaker 2: they're not always the greatest RBI seekers, right, because they're
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  Speaker 2: gonna get their pitch. And sometimes the best RBI guys
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  Speaker 2: are the guys that are willing to go enough out
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  Speaker 2: of the zone, you know, and and and hunt and
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  Speaker 2: get that RBI. And he's a hunter when it comes
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  Speaker 2: to RBI I and I love to watch him.
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  Speaker 3: Like it doesn't Does it mean he comes through every time?
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  Speaker 2: No, but the abats in those situations, they feel like,
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  Speaker 2: uh oh here it goes.
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  Speaker 1: For those of you that got to hear his post
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  Speaker 1: game press conference the other day, he said to Brady
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  Speaker 1: in the on deck circle, oh yeah, I was looking
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  Speaker 1: to do damage there up by that many runs. Having
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  Speaker 1: seen that picture before, I was always trying to light
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  Speaker 1: the ball up and that you did that. He absolutely did.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to take a quick break, but when we
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  Speaker 1: come back, I want to talk about the catching in
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  Speaker 1: this series that was absolutely phenomenal and preview the Marlins.
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  Speaker 1: As we look ahead.
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  Speaker 1: Alrighty, we are back, Frany. I just realized I also
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  Speaker 1: had some more Nats trivia for you before we rest
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  Speaker 1: the show. Today because I read this headline the other day.
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  Speaker 1: Two or false. The Washington Nationals have walked off three
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  Speaker 1: games in a row before.
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  Speaker 3: That's true.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, I thought you would be three for three after
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  Speaker 1: today you were on that squad.
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  Speaker 3: No, right, yeah, Diamondbacks.
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  Speaker 2: I think we're right, all three or two two of them,
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  Speaker 2: two of them pirates.
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  Speaker 3: It's like it was Diamondbacks pirates.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, and throw into the dirt. I believe against the Pirates.
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  Speaker 3: That's right.
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  Speaker 1: And the reason it came to my attention was the
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  Speaker 1: Cubs just had three walkoffs over the weekend. But when
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  Speaker 1: I went to look it up online, I was like,
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  Speaker 1: I know the Nationals have done that before. Yeah, Google
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  Speaker 1: overview Google A. I was saying, that's never happened before.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, I know a guy tomorrow, they can
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  Speaker 1: tell me. No, it was l Roach had one. I
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  Speaker 1: think Rendon was up to play it on one. That
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  Speaker 1: was the Pirates game.
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  Speaker 3: I don't remember one.
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  Speaker 2: I just know I know L Roach had to walk
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  Speaker 2: off home and like it was it was so Roachy
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  Speaker 2: on that one because he hit and it was like, we're.
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  Speaker 3: Going nuts, He's wing cool. I hate Homer.
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  Speaker 1: We talked talking about a guy that had a home
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  Speaker 1: run yesterday. Kay Barry bonds, we're missing Spencer today, but
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  Speaker 1: two doubles yesterday. I go ahead homer in the seventh.
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  Speaker 1: I believe four eyes on the day, three RB eyes,
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  Speaker 1: four RB eyes, a homer, two doubles, eight total bases.
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  Speaker 1: He was just fantastic and the catching group is a core,
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  Speaker 1: raising their ops by one hundred points in just twenty
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  Speaker 1: four hours. I want to give some flowers to both
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  Speaker 1: Drew and Caber right now because they were fantastic the
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  Speaker 1: last forty eight hours.
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  Speaker 2: Because I mean there's a lot honestly, like offensively they've
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  Speaker 2: been terrible, and that there needs to be that truth, right,
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  Speaker 2: Like they haven't been good and they've needed to step up.
• 15:47
  Speaker 2: And it doesn't mean that you got to hit homers,
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: and it's just being productive, like productive outs productive. You know,
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: AB's as far as quality, AB's hard contact, and we
• 15:58
  Speaker 2: haven't seen that consistently from both of them.
• 16:01
  Speaker 3: And so to get you know, two games in a.
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: Row because of where they're hitting in that lineup and
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: how much how important is that for the natscoing for
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: is huge, right if you can get production from the
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: eight nine spots in the order, knowing that James is looming,
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: like that's a huge piece of this and so yeah,
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: it was. It was satisfying to watch, but I mean
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: I couldn't imagine how how much how excited they were
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: just internally, because I think that's a huge part of
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: that is, you.
• 16:33
  Speaker 3: Know, they want to do it. It hasn't been like they
• 16:37
  Speaker 3: haven't wanted to do it.
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: They've been trying to do it and they just haven't
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: gotten it done until the last two days and it's
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: been phenomenal. Yeah, I think for fans what was very
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: satisfying about it as well was to see them do
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: it two days in a row. Give you some vibes
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: of twenty nineteen when Yan Gomes and Kurts Suzuki were
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: back there and said, hey, we got two guys that
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: can hit the ball pretty well, they can catch the
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: ball pretty well, Like this is a a one eight
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: be sort of situation where they can split the time equally,
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: and that's something we haven't seen quite as much in
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: the last few years in DC.
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: No, I mean, look, the twenty nineteen thing is is real,
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: but in two different totally two different groups.
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, you know.
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: The the nineteen team was a veteran laden team and veteran,
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: very veteran catching group. This is still young, right, Like
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: they're still young in the world of catching, and.
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: They got a ways to go.
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: So hey, however, Nats fans want to, you know, experience it,
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: that's fine, but just keep it in perspective of what
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: they're trying to do and how much better they've gotten
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: already this year, but there's still room to grow.
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: Well, what's been exciting to me is just seeing all
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: the different names in the lineup. I think in previous
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: years we were so used to just seeing the same
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: lineup trotted out day in and day out, not much
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: movement in terms of where guys were hitting. That's been
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: changing every single day, not just who's in the lineup,
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: but where these guys are hitting, and that has been
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: really exciting to watch.
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know what, and and and to me, it's uh.
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: I think it goes to the point of as a player,
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: you want to know that like you're doing.
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: You're doing it, like you're you're there.
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: There's something that that's kicking in with the manager in
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: front office that you're doing it like you're doing it.
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: However it may be it's Jacob Young going from the
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: nine hole to the you know, three spot, back to
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: the nine hole one another day. But like it's hey,
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: this is the matchup. They feel confident in me to
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: do this. Like it's very uplifting when you think about it.
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: When you have those moments, those are those are huge
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: as a player to be able to feel right, I'm
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: doing my job, I've done the right things. I'm getting
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: this spot. And it's like it again, they're putting themselves
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: and in these spots that the coaches are putting them
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: in these spots. Blake is putting them in these spots
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: to succeed. And that's a huge part of this as well.
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: I think that's the more important part. Right, you have
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: to have those those moments where I'm doing the right thing,
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: I'm getting I'm benefiting from it, right, Like I get to.
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: Hit higher in the order, I get more opportunities. Today.
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: Now there's only like a couple that are gonna be standards.
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: Which is gonna be James and CJ. Where there are
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: one and four, I think is gonna be the spot
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: maybe one and three at some point, you know, if
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: you get the right right handed bat behind James, I
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: think that's gonna be a key but.
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: I just it's so much more refreshing to watch. Do
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: you want a standard line up?
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah? Sure.
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: That means that you have guys that have done it
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: and like proven themselves time and time again. That's what
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: you're getting to. None of the guys in the last
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: couple of years have proven anything, and they're going in.
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: The same spots. It is really refreshing.
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: It is refreshing.
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: Refreshing is a good word for it. Like you said,
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: just a change of pace after something that had become
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: such a normalcy here in DC for many years. So
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: I wanted to talk about ABS little bit. I was
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: yapping my roommate's ear off about it. The other day.
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: I saw this graphic roughly a week ago from Britain
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: the Bullpen on Instagram. For those of you watching online
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: ABS accuracy, who's getting it right? These numbers are from
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: just a few days ago, but overall, fifty three percent
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: of challenge attempts have been overturned. Catchers were much more
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: successful in those numbers, and you look at the right side,
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: some of the best in overturn percentage and some of
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: the worst in overturn percentage. This graphic for those of
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: you watching online coming from Baseball Savon. I believe, yes,
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: Baseball Savon's where I grabbed it from last night, and
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: I'm not not totally sure what's going on in the
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: category on the right here runs versus expected. I believe
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: that number there for the Twins two point five is
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: telling you that is the number of runs that is expected.
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: They've created all of their challenges, and you take a
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: look at the bottom half of the league, the Nationals
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: twenty seventh ranked, and that's just their overall scoring, but
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: point seven minus point seven on the actual run value
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: on their challenges. So I'm just framing what does this
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: say to you about the National's pitch framing abilities and
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: how can they use their challenges more effectively in the future,
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: Because to me, it's just the situations that they're being
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: used in. I see us coming up in the eighth
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: or the ninth inning and saying, ah, we're out of
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: challenges or we're down to one challenge. I feel a
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: lot more comfortable if we were playing with two right now.
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: I don't know the breakdown about innings wise, like what
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: they're at, but yeah, it feels like that often the
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: misses have been huge from the catching side. Now you
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: have sixty one overall challenges throughout the year for the
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: Nats and they're thirty nine percent, which is three percent
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: lower than anybody else.
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: Right, thirty nine percent is not good catching wise.
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: You went from watching the number one team in the game,
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: you know, in the Minnesota Twins. I mean, I think
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: they they're fifty challenges now and they're at sixty eight percent.
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: Right, I mean they have flipped. They have gained.
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: This is the part that I really like, is this
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: part of how many strikeouts have be gained?
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: How many walks have you taken away?
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: Taken away two? But it's fifteen strikeouts they've added now.
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: I think they added two against the Gnats in the series.
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: The Gnats are dead last when it comes to you know,
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: they haven't taken away a walk, okay, and then they've
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: added three. I think that's dead last. They've added three strikeouts,
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: that's it. And what does it say about pitch framing.
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: I think they've been so good at honing in on
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: those skills of actually framing. I mean they are top
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: three in the game at strikes looking above average, which
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: is an incredible, incredible stat because they've been dead last
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: the last five years combined four years actually, and it
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: hasn't been good. But now being where they are, okay,
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: now let's take the next step. Like I think we're
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: seeing some hesitation, you know from from you know, Millicon
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: and Cabard and some of the hesitation. I'm like, thank
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: god they didn't do it, because again it's these big misses.
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: I just think they you know, you go from watching
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: Ryan Jeffers, who I.
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: Think is nineteen for man, what was he he has
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: an incredible his was incredible. Ryan Jeffers is nineteen for
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: thirty with eleven strikeouts at it right, just himself and
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: the confidence that he has when he wants it right,
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: like it's right away, boom go, and.
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: It's a huge it's a huge asset for a team. Right,
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: it's game changing, it's game changing. Now. On the flip side,
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: James is one for seven.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: But his misses have been brutal. Like you've talked about.
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: Five of the six misses, five of the six misses
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: have been just barely something touching the strike zone, right.
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: He said, he's had one that's been all over the plate.
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: That's it.
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: So you know, you just don't want him shine away
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: still because I mean he's technically he's right.
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: If you want to be technical about it, he's right.
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah. So I mean yeah, and and so is the
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: umpire right.
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: This is the stuff that you know, a lot of
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: his are the proving of how good the Empires are
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: too getting the calls right in this situation. So I
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: look at this and I'm like, they just it's not
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: a weapon form right now, and they cannot they cannot.
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: Continue to be a poor thing.
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: They have to be able to use it to their
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: advantage at some point, and they got to continue to
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: work on him.
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: I mean, we could talk about it all day because
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: the ABS has been fascinating to me to follow this year.
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: But for those of you listening or watching, the only
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: scenario it could be used in right, It assumes that
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: the batter is taking the pitch now. To use it efficiently,
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: it also has to assume that the umpire missed the call.
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: And then, as you just mentioned about walks and strikeouts,
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: the most efficient situation in which a team could be
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: using it would be on a three and two count,
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: not an OO pitch, because an O pitch is not
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: going to dictate the rest of the bat, especially first
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: pitch lead off guy in the game. Okay, like you know,
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: miss a call, you miss a call. But in the
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: ninth inning, when it's three to two and the bases
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: are loaded, that makes a big difference if it's a
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: walk or a strikeout because again has to assume that
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: the batter did not swing, and it also has to
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: assume that the umpire got the call and correct which
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: again there's a lot of technical speak about what's a ball,
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: what's a strike. Oh, if it's touching, that makes it
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: a strike. I don't know. It's a really interesting conversation
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: for me. Yeah, and I don't have answers. I don't
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: have answers.
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: No one does. No one going in.
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: Circles in the kitchen yesterday when I was talking about
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: with my roommates, I'm like, there is no right or
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: wrong here. They're feeling it out in the first year
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: of it. But it's just been fascinating for me to follow.
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: No, it's there is no right or wrong, and it's
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: one that I think we're going to find more wrong
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: about it. As far as the player side of it,
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: you know, as we go forward.
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: Pictures aren't good at it.
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: Certain teams are better than others. And it's okay, So
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: why you know, Like why, Like we're in Miami and
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: they just sent down Augustine Ramirez and he was twenty
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: two for thirty one, you know, and that's a huge
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: asset for your team, that for your pictures. Thinking about that,
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: like being able to add because I don't know what
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: the psychology on it is, like when they add one,
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: what does it do for you? Right when it adds
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: a strike, when it takes when it keeps something a ball,
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: is it.
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: Reaffirmed like oh, that was a terrible pitch.
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, because like, yeah, when Dan's making the calls on TV,
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: he's very quick with it. Okay, one one, and I
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: see the battery immediately go We're going to assume the
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: count is one and one until it gets overturned and
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: then all of a sudden it's like, oh, crap, it's
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: two oh or it's o two.
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah, And when you can't flip it like that, it
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: changes everything, man.
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: And what was most fascinating to me about this graphic
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: for those of you watching online, you look at the
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: best overturn percentages in the league. On the left side there,
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: that's your batters from an offensive perspective. You don't see
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: any catchers. It's it's fascinating to me that catchers obviously
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: are going to have a better look maybe in a
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: better understanding of the strike zone, but that when the
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: catcher's up to that, they're not. Also the guys that
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: were seeing at the top of that list. From like
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: an offensive perspective, it just seems to me like catchers
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: would have the most understanding of a strike zone spending
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: half their innings behind there.
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: Well, like I would go back and think about like
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: Buster Posey Bean, if he was hitting, he'd be leading
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: the league in both right like catching and and when
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: he was hidden his understanding of the strike zone.
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: I mean, I think one Soto is overst still yeah, yeah,
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: you know, so, I mean.
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: This crazy understanding of the strike zone I think would
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: be you know, one would be number one, but he's
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: he's not proven.
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: That he could do it yet.
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: So it's interesting to see Kyle Schwarber's seven for eleven.
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: You know, that's a pretty good clip hoose al two
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: VA seven for ten, which to me is fascinating based
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: on the fact that, like you're he's a free swinger.
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's all very interesting. We're only like what six
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: seven weeks into this whole experiment here, and we're only
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: like a month into this podcast. This podcast is still
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: very young, only episode twelve. But let's look ahead. You
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: know you're down in Miami right now. We got the
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: Marlins for three. We'll be recapping that for all of
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: our listeners on Monday, and then after that at Cincinnati.
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: But tonight we got Fosterfest. He's just been terrific this season.
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: What's he got to do to neutralize these Marlins bats?
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: Not tay for granted who they are.
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: I mean, the Marlins are a good team that especially
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: the top three guys in the order with Xavier Edwards
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: and Liam Hicks Auto Lopez, they're fantastic and they've done
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: a lot of damage. Liam Hicks leading the league in RBI, right,
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: So you can't give in, And then you can't just
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: assume that Kyle Stowers is gonna say Kyle Stowers of
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: now and not revert back to yesteryear.
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: Right, Like he was unbelievable last.
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: Year, he gets hurt this year early on, He's still
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: trying to find his way, and it's one of those
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: where if you think that you can't circle him, he's
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: still got you circle you know, because at any point
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: in time, he's gonna jump ship and it's gonna change things.
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: And yeah, this team is intriguing. It's athletic.
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: They don't make a lot of mistakes, do they. They
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: rely on the home or no, but they can't hit
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: the homer. The starting pitching side, I think they're gonna
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: end up going Robbie Snelling, he's gonna make his debut tonight,
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: Lefty could he's got some good ass.
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: It's like we like to call it, like good ass.
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: It's firm ninety five ninety seven standard from them. But
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: like their pen is the pen has been a problem
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: for teams. You know, it's one of the best pens
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: in the league as far as limiting heard contact, hit,
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: limited any damage it all, or even then he hits,
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: they walk some guys. That's about it. That's about like
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: what they do is they walk guys. But that's like
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: you kind of stop there. It's one of the top
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: pens in the league, so you can't got to get
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: ahead of him early on and you just gotta hold on,
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: hold on tight.
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I just want to see the bullpen keep doing
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: their thing. I mean, if they play the way they
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: played the last couple of days. It's going to be
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: a fun series to watch. But the bullpen has been
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: really sharp. I feel like the last week week and
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: have some numbers before we go. PJ Pullins now three
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: and zero with the three four four on the season
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: and Barlin, oh my goodness, three h seven. I mean,
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: he is just assuming the responsibility in the role of
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: closer here. Can't stand enough good things about him and
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: the intensity that he has out there on the mound.
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: I love it like he wants the ball, he wants
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: to be in that pressure build situation.
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: I wouldn't say he's the closer though, because they when
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: they've shown that they uh the the opportunities that are
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: coming to him, they're they're playing it. It's it's kind
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: of fun to watch and see how they plan it
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: out because we saw Richard Lovelady close one out the
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: other day.
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: It's it's fun to watch.
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: Guys coming to their own at the big league level
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: because you know that this this intensity, this this pressure,
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: and especially against the guy like for for Gus Varley
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: going to against his hometown team to be able to
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: compartmentalize everything and just move on, just like he continued
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: to move on and that's exactly how you want to
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: see it from him. Uh, just an incredible, incredible story.
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: Love the guy.
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: He is funny, Yeah, he's like his postgame was really
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: good talking about him and Louie getting on the sticks,
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: talking a little trash about going for the most staves
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: and stuff. But like he said, he takes the knowledge
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: from him. His brother has had a lot of experience
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: in those roles before, and they just bounce ideas off
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: each other about how to keep getting forward through it.
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: And what he said the same thing that CJ said
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  Speaker 1: in his postgam on Wednesday, the quote just did their thing.
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  Speaker 1: And I think that this team can just keep doing
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  Speaker 1: their thing. Hey, we might walk out of Miami game
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  Speaker 1: under two games on her who knows, you know, let's play.
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  Speaker 1: Let's play.
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  Speaker 3: The bad thing is what.
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  Speaker 2: We haven't done at home. We've talked about this the
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  Speaker 2: other day. Was the first game of the series is awful.
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  Speaker 2: Right on the road, it's kind of been otherwise. They
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  Speaker 2: they've done a really good job of the first game
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  Speaker 2: of the series. They got to continue that trend, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and they continue to set the tone tonight and and
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  Speaker 2: it's it's just give themselves some breathing room on stuff,
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  Speaker 2: not to feel like you got to, you know, play
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  Speaker 2: for the Sunday.
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  Speaker 3: You know, ah, salvage, I mean, really is what it is.
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  Speaker 2: And and and so you go day one, see what
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: you do, and then move along and and it really
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  Speaker 2: is the one game at a time.
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  Speaker 3: But if people get annoyed by that, but it's true,
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  Speaker 3: like there's no other way to do it.
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  Speaker 1: Hopefully they can get some innings out of Foster tonight.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, for those of you watching online, why
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: not go ahead and bring up the box score from
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  Speaker 1: yes today one more time. Those guys like did their thing,
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  Speaker 1: like they balled. Oh excuse me, that's the pitting box score,
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  Speaker 1: but the pitching box score. Those guys did their thing yesterday,
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  Speaker 1: and it was exciting to watch. And you know, collective group,
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  Speaker 1: you know, putting in one inning apiece at Max Richard
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  Speaker 1: Lovelady with two thirds of an inning there, guys are rested.
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  Speaker 1: So it's nice to.
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  Speaker 3: See guys are Guys are definitely rested. But you want
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: to keep it the rested too.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, always always can have too many rested arms
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: down in the bullpen. As I mentioned, Foster gripping getting
• 33:28
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• 33:31
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• 33:44
  Speaker 1: else you want to add?
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: No, let's just get another another dub tonight. Let you do.
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: I'm in.
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: Just keep it rolling. Hopefully we'll have Spencer back on Monday.
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: Should have them there, but we will see in the
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: next episode. Until then, see you later, See you later.