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Twins swept by Phillies, with an even harder test up next · Twin Cities Territory

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  Speaker 1: We choose to go to the moon in this decade
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  Speaker 1: and do the other things, like continue to believe in
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  Speaker 1: this Minnesota Twins team, not because they are easy, but
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  Speaker 1: because they are hard. The four point three percenters are tested.
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  Speaker 1: This morning, the Twins just got swept by the Phillies.
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  Speaker 1: It's Monday, August seventeenth. This is Twins City's Territory, Your
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  Speaker 1: Minnesota Twins podcast on the Foul Territory Network. Dan, no
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  Speaker 1: way around it. Bad weekend, And what is especially gut
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  Speaker 1: punching is we had this terrible loss Thursday at the
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  Speaker 1: Field of Dreams game. You got a couple days to
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  Speaker 1: get over it. You say, all right, fine, throw it
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  Speaker 1: out the window. They actually took the field Saturday as
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  Speaker 1: the third American League Wildcard team because everybody else around
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  Speaker 1: them in the meantime since Thursday night has just lost.
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  Speaker 1: And then this happens to just gut punches one in
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  Speaker 1: a very different circumstance than the other. But now they
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  Speaker 1: have slipped back game and a half out in the
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  Speaker 1: Wildcard and the vibes have completely shifted back to negative town.
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  Speaker 2: Dan.
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  Speaker 1: Rough weekend. You were there, what's the mood.
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  Speaker 3: Like, Well, I mean, we had JFK visit us already.
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  Speaker 3: Right that lets you know nice Most.
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  Speaker 1: People don't know that's the full that's the full text
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  Speaker 1: of the speech.
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  Speaker 3: But it's impressive, and I think it's fitting that we
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  Speaker 3: have something as monumental as that right there of a
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  Speaker 3: moment for this show.
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  Speaker 2: This was a bad weekend. I mean it was. This
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  Speaker 2: was that bad of a weekend.
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  Speaker 3: It just the Twins got It's hard to even put
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  Speaker 3: into words, how you know one sided this belt on
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  Speaker 3: Thursday and Saturday sixteen to two combined.
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  Speaker 2: And then you take a five nothing lead and you're looking.
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  Speaker 3: To salvage something in Sunday's finale, great start, Grand Slam
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  Speaker 3: from Brooksley on a two out rally all in the
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  Speaker 3: first inning, you put up runs against their vulnerable rookie,
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  Speaker 3: you take the five nothing lead, and then it just oh,
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  Speaker 3: in such weird fashion, first that Dean Kramer was just
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  Speaker 3: cruising and gave up four uh, and then Andrew Morris
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  Speaker 3: had uh he got babboped. I would say, I I
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  Speaker 3: Duff can can talk about those moments when you uh
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  Speaker 3: a blooper down the line and then a and then
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  Speaker 3: a bounding ball down the line boast opposite field hits.
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  Speaker 2: He also had the the Louisa.
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  Speaker 3: Riot's play come against him. You had all that weirdness,
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  Speaker 3: and Philly just devastated them and Austin Martin got hurt.
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  Speaker 2: You throw that in. This was as bad of a
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  Speaker 2: weekend as the Twins potentially could have had. You know.
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  Speaker 3: I think the Phillies that was their fourth comeback this
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  Speaker 3: year five runs or more, which is the most in MLB,
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  Speaker 3: and the Twins would love if there were only three
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  Speaker 3: of those.
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  Speaker 2: It was, you know, the.
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  Speaker 3: Mood in Derek Shelton's office after the game was tense.
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  Speaker 3: I talked to fire and Bucks and I stuck around
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  Speaker 3: in the clubhouse for a while. It wasn't quite as
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  Speaker 3: tense in there.
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  Speaker 2: It was. They were down, There's no question there's a
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  Speaker 2: lot of frustration. Andrew Morris was frust for sure. But
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  Speaker 2: it wasn't quite as tense in the clubhouse.
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  Speaker 3: But it was not It was not easy either, and
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  Speaker 3: I think they got to see a very good team
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  Speaker 3: in Philly who's not even you know, I mean what
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  Speaker 3: they're they're on the edge of the wild card right
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  Speaker 3: now too. But the NL is just very good and
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  Speaker 3: the Twins have been terrible against the Sanel this year collectively,
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  Speaker 3: and this was this was definitely kind of a gut.
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  Speaker 1: Punch Saturday was a continuation of a trend. It was
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  Speaker 1: the fourteenth time in sixteen in their previous sixteen games
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  Speaker 1: at that point that the Twins had allowed the first
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  Speaker 1: runs of the game. Wasn't in the first inning this time.
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  Speaker 1: Connor Prili actually did a great job in the second
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  Speaker 1: inning to limit the damage. There'd only give up one run.
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  Speaker 1: But then later in that game, I believe it was
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  Speaker 1: the fifth inning, ran into trouble again and three straight walks,
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  Speaker 1: a couple of singles home run. All of a sudden,
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  Speaker 1: the game got out of control, and it felt Tyler
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  Speaker 1: maybe a little strange for a guy who has obviously
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  Speaker 1: had the injury history, has been on a on a
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  Speaker 1: pitch watch or pitch limit this this year, right to
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  Speaker 1: still be in there when he was clearly seemed to
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  Speaker 1: be laboring.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it was as the ending unfolded, like you know,
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  Speaker 4: even after a couple of walks, like it happens, you
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  Speaker 4: know in the outings. Guys I used to have him
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  Speaker 4: where it just you lose it for a guy or two,
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  Speaker 4: you know, then he bounce back, so on and so forth.
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  Speaker 5: But that inning, I mean.
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  Speaker 4: Snowballed and then snowballed again, and you know, the whole time,
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  Speaker 4: you know, you're waiting for somebody to come in from
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  Speaker 4: the pen whatever, you know, And in my mind, what
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  Speaker 4: you just hit on. You know, it's a guy you're
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  Speaker 4: worried about his innings already. You're you're worried about his pitches.
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  Speaker 4: You know, he's got the blistered thing he's had off
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  Speaker 4: and on this season, a lot of variables that are
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  Speaker 4: you know, in our minds. And then you know, he
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  Speaker 4: throws like thirty five pitches, gives up a seventh spot,
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  Speaker 4: you know, really crushing any positive that he may have
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  Speaker 4: gained from that outing against a really good Phillies lineup.
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  Speaker 4: You know, he's facing some future Hall of Fame players,
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  Speaker 4: you know, and handled his business until that inning, and
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  Speaker 4: you know he just lost it and then lost it again,
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  Speaker 4: and then it's like, all right, there's seven runs. When
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  Speaker 4: you bring in anybody else, just a different look.
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  Speaker 5: At that point. To me, it made a lot of
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  Speaker 5: sense to get him out of there.
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  Speaker 4: And you know, for whatever reason, I guess the bullpen
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  Speaker 4: was a little taxed, you know, things like that, but
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  Speaker 4: it was it was a weird one, especially for a
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  Speaker 4: young guy, you know, who's developing and you got to
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  Speaker 4: grow up and sometimes you just have to have that
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  Speaker 4: outing to know what it even feels like and see
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  Speaker 4: if you can get through it. But that one, you know,
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  Speaker 4: Kramer's was a little different, you know what I personally,
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  Speaker 4: I would have been up moving around in the bullpen
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  Speaker 4: like waiting for somebody to get up and that Kramer inning.
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  Speaker 4: But the prelop one was just a strange you know,
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  Speaker 4: all the variables behind the scenes we never know fully,
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  Speaker 4: but you know, that was a weird one to have
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  Speaker 4: him ride out like that, And I mean, ultimately, it's
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  Speaker 4: just a it took any momentum out of that building.
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  Speaker 4: And you know, it stayed around Sunday because I was
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  Speaker 4: we were talking before the show. I it was like
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  Speaker 4: the third or fourth yesterday and I was like, this
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  Speaker 4: same something's gonna happen and Dorom's gonna get a saved today.
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  Speaker 4: I told my wife, and you know, here we are today.
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  Speaker 4: It happened. So it was just one of those you
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  Speaker 4: could just feel that energy. It's just something weird. So
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  Speaker 4: hopefully they can shake that off tonight.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, on the on the bullpen usage, we asked Shelton
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  Speaker 3: both days and on Saturday he said, uh, I believe
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  Speaker 3: some of the lefties were down. He just hit That's
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  Speaker 3: what he acknowledged was that some of the lefties were down.
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  Speaker 3: So in the walks to Harper and Arise he wasn't
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  Speaker 3: gonna go and should make the change there because pre
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  Speaker 3: lips lefty and he said, as he said, we were
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  Speaker 3: one pitch away.
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  Speaker 2: After that, you know he did.
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  Speaker 3: He did indicate that there's been some heavy usage, and look,
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  Speaker 3: I feel like that's there is some accuracy to that.
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  Speaker 2: There have been a lot of guys.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you can look and see that guys have
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  Speaker 3: come in and been asked for beginnings in Uh, there
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  Speaker 3: were there were times that And it's funny because he
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  Speaker 3: used a lot of.
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  Speaker 2: His bullpen his a guys that day.
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  Speaker 3: Right by the point they came in, it was already
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  Speaker 3: the game was over. But you know, that's I think
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  Speaker 3: that was a function of using them. Was a function
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  Speaker 3: of Travis Adams through two plus almost three innings in
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  Speaker 3: the cornfield on Thursday, and he was down, and I
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  Speaker 3: don't think that he wanted to go to Thunderburk and
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  Speaker 3: some other guys, So that one, you know that that
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  Speaker 3: was definitely a very interesting inning the way it blew up,
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  Speaker 3: and especially when Scott hits the home run off the
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  Speaker 3: the foul pole and all of a sudden, it's like
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  Speaker 3: this game is over, like go home, you know, don't enjoy.
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  Speaker 2: The rest of your night.
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  Speaker 3: Yesterday, especially like it picked up speed quick and it
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  Speaker 3: was the same part of the order. I mean that
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  Speaker 3: top of that Philly lineup is is pretty good, and
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  Speaker 3: you would like it was a little surprising not to
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  Speaker 3: see something get up and at least.
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  Speaker 2: Be loose alec Fahme.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think they're gonna have him back at the
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  Speaker 3: park anytime soon. Five hits on Saturday, two hits yesterday,
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  Speaker 3: hit the three on Homer, and Shelton was asked and
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  Speaker 3: he was very terse on that one.
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  Speaker 2: He said, the question came.
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  Speaker 3: Up like, was was some maybe pulling him a batter early?
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  Speaker 3: And he said, hey, he was at sixty seven pitches
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  Speaker 3: and in complete control, and that was That was the
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  Speaker 3: extent of the.
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  Speaker 2: Answer on that one.
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  Speaker 3: So I think both blew up real quick on him,
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  Speaker 3: although the other one was kind of slow and painful
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  Speaker 3: because it was three straight walks, right, I you know,
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  Speaker 3: both innings were crucial I mean, they played critical roles.
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  Speaker 3: Phillies were out of it until that four run rally
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  Speaker 3: on Sunday and then you know, their their eighth inning
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  Speaker 3: rally was was completely different and also devastating in its
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  Speaker 3: own way.
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  Speaker 1: And the Twins didn't hit well enough on Saturday to
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  Speaker 1: win anyway.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, one for fourteen with runners in scoring position Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: Sunday they had and you know, I guess Creamer's bad
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  Speaker 1: inning maybe snuck up a little bit more like he
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  Speaker 1: had the two walks in the sixth, but then a
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  Speaker 1: Rise grounded out to score that first run, and then
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  Speaker 1: all of a sudden a home run.
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  Speaker 3: Right right, He had six, He had six strikeouts, Like
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  Speaker 3: Kramer looked amazing. That's the thing. That's the part that
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  Speaker 3: Kramer looked amazing. And I do see. The one part
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  Speaker 3: that I get with that is was sticking with him
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  Speaker 3: is this is your guy. Uh, you want to test
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  Speaker 3: him and see what he can do, and you're not
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  Speaker 3: at that point putting him.
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  Speaker 2: In a spot where he's going to lose the game.
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  Speaker 3: So I get that, But also, like this team has
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  Speaker 3: lost a bunch of games, they're in a really tough stretch,
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  Speaker 3: and so maybe urgency is needed there too, Like it's
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  Speaker 3: it's a really tough line to balance, and of course
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  Speaker 3: we talk about it the next day when it doesn't
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  Speaker 3: go their way because it was a terrible loss, and
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  Speaker 3: so like it's all you know, it's it.
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  Speaker 2: Definitely is one of those things.
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  Speaker 3: I bet that if he knew what was going to happen,
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  Speaker 3: Derek Sholton probably would have changed how he managed it.
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  Speaker 3: But at the same time, you want to probably see
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  Speaker 3: if Dean Kramer can get through it, because he had
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  Speaker 3: gotten in and out of jams in the first two
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  Speaker 3: games he's been with the Twins. He's had traffic before
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  Speaker 3: and he's done artful job of dodging that traffic, and
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  Speaker 3: this time he didn't.
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  Speaker 1: The team just hasn't gotten to those late innings with
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  Speaker 1: a lead to protect very often lately since they made
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  Speaker 1: all those trades for those relievers, So in those situations,
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  Speaker 1: it's tough to see it happen that way. But you're
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  Speaker 1: rightde In obviously, if he gets out of that with
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  Speaker 1: only the one run, allout or whatever, then that's not
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  Speaker 1: a talking point today, and you could take him out
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  Speaker 1: of a reliever could come in and give up those runs
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  Speaker 1: and you're saying why the hell did you take out
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  Speaker 1: the guy who had been dominating for right five?
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  Speaker 3: It's it's uh, it's why we do this, right, it's
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  Speaker 3: the you're damned if you do, damned if you don't.
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  Speaker 3: But it's harder to see when you're four in ten
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  Speaker 3: in August. That's the part that's true. They're four and
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  Speaker 3: ten since basically the bulk of these trades right now,
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  Speaker 3: and you know you're starting to see them slip a
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  Speaker 3: little bit. Like you said, one and a half out
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  Speaker 3: in the wild card. Uh, the division is the White
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  Speaker 3: Sox had a great weekend in Detroit, swept Detroit, and
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  Speaker 3: so the White Sox put some distance between themselves and
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  Speaker 3: the Twins.
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  Speaker 2: Is that five and a half in.
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  Speaker 1: The division or is it six six games though? Yep, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: yep helps Twins in the wildcard race with the Tigers,
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  Speaker 1: but not so much in the Al Central.
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  Speaker 1: If you'd like to read more about this horrible weekend
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  Speaker 1: in the twin season, and has written about it on
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  Speaker 1: The Athletic. His latest story from yesterday after the blown
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  Speaker 1: five run lead, but twins sixty and sixty five, plenty
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  Speaker 1: of questions to answer some other things from the game
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  Speaker 1: or the games. I should say over the weekend Byron
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  Speaker 1: Buxton has had a bit of a struggle since he's
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  Speaker 1: come back from the IL. I'd say just one hits,
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  Speaker 1: I believe on Thursday, Yes, the dubious double that we
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  Speaker 1: talked about at the last show at the Field of
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  Speaker 1: Dreams game, but five strikeouts over the weekend. He was
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  Speaker 1: actually up as the potential winning run in the ninth
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  Speaker 1: against Joan Duran, which was poetic Tyler that the former
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  Speaker 1: twin facing the current All Star and it went down.
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  Speaker 1: But been a rough weekend for him obviously early yet.
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  Speaker 1: But and he I know he talked in after the
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  Speaker 1: game was there and he seemed not to be as
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  Speaker 1: concerned as I'm sounding right now.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he did say, regardless of how recent he came back,
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  Speaker 3: that he should be hitting better with runners in score position.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't ask the question. I didn't get a chance
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  Speaker 3: to ask that question. He volunteered it before I even
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  Speaker 3: got there, and.
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  Speaker 2: That took that on himself. We were talking about just
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  Speaker 2: the feeling in the clubhouse.
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  Speaker 1: He just he knew you were going to ask it.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't want to waste his time, so he just
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  Speaker 1: got his talk.
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  Speaker 3: But right now he looks like a guy who has
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  Speaker 3: had forty one played appearances since July fifth, Like you
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  Speaker 3: know that he's struggling, and he came back without a rehab.
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  Speaker 3: And I get why they do that because the twins
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  Speaker 3: have talked about it. When you're facing track man inside
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  Speaker 3: the clubhouse, you get a pretty good chance to ramp
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  Speaker 3: up against better pitching than you're gonna see in the
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  Speaker 3: minor leagues because that machine is so accurate as far
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  Speaker 3: as who you're facing and what it's going to look
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  Speaker 3: like in that stuff. And that's Derek Shelton talked about
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  Speaker 3: that maybe with Jose Ramirez when he came back without
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  Speaker 3: his rehab after five weeks off. Buckston certainly is struggling.
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  Speaker 3: They need that spark from him. But we mostly talked about,
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  Speaker 3: you know, the mood in the in the clubhouse, and
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  Speaker 3: we can get that to a second. But I mean, Duff,
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  Speaker 3: what what are you seeing with the buck at the plate?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it is, it's tough with the game, you know,
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  Speaker 4: the quality of bat's you know, just seeing the competition.
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  Speaker 4: You know, you can do so much in a cage,
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  Speaker 4: but it is tough, and you know, especially with him,
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  Speaker 4: it's a hip you know, and hitting involves i mean.
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  Speaker 5: Everybody's seeing his stance.
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  Speaker 4: You know, he torks those hips and really fires those
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  Speaker 4: things through and you know, whether it's a little you know,
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  Speaker 4: just a tick below what he's expecting to be and
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  Speaker 4: that turns a squared up ball into a foul ball
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  Speaker 4: or a swinging miss, or you're a little late. You know,
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  Speaker 4: it's little things can affect your swings. And to me,
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  Speaker 4: that's what it just looks like. He's you know, we'll
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  Speaker 4: call it eighty percent when ninety percent is all he
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  Speaker 4: needs to be a great, an elite player, you know,
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  Speaker 4: and it's just quality reps. It's you know, who stay tonight.
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  Speaker 4: It doesn't click for him all of a sudden. You know,
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  Speaker 4: it's just one he's he's a guy. He's so explosive
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  Speaker 4: and it can happen at any time, you know, and
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  Speaker 4: we've I said it before. It's running into some good
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  Speaker 4: pitching too. I mean he's facing Doron in the ninth. Like,
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  Speaker 4: put anybody in that situation, they're gonna have a tough
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  Speaker 4: at bat. You know, it's it's like, yes, it's that
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  Speaker 4: it's also unfortunate to us. There's fans and you know,
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  Speaker 4: loving the Twins, like we want Byron in that spot
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  Speaker 4: to do what Byron can do and where we you know,
• 15:57
  Speaker 4: we've come to expect it at times.
• 15:58
  Speaker 5: You know, I can still We'll see in my head.
• 16:00
  Speaker 4: I think I think about it often when he's up
• 16:02
  Speaker 4: to the plate, when he faced his Moon or it
• 16:05
  Speaker 4: was Hendrix, I think opening Day when you're you know,
• 16:08
  Speaker 4: one hundred and two above the zone and he just
• 16:10
  Speaker 4: smacked it, and it's like we all know that is
• 16:13
  Speaker 4: in that body at any given time, and so you know,
• 16:16
  Speaker 4: kind of like Roy's hitting the Grand Slams. You know,
• 16:18
  Speaker 4: it was just like it becomes something we expected versus
• 16:21
  Speaker 4: hope for, you know, and it's you know, Buck's gonna
• 16:25
  Speaker 4: be fine. As long as he's actually healthy and feeling good,
• 16:28
  Speaker 4: it's gonna work itself out. You know, the averages are there.
• 16:31
  Speaker 4: You know, he's he's he's gonna hit his two fifties.
• 16:33
  Speaker 4: You know, he could get on a tear and five
• 16:35
  Speaker 4: home runs this week. You know, it's just getting his
• 16:37
  Speaker 4: feet under him right, you know, hopefully this weekend I mean,
• 16:40
  Speaker 4: I guess what, this is only his third third game
• 16:42
  Speaker 4: off that the injured.
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 16:47
  Speaker 4: So and it's against Phillies, like faced Lozardo, which he was,
• 16:51
  Speaker 4: you know, always incredible, you know, that was like that
• 16:54
  Speaker 4: pull out and I was like, I forget that they
• 16:57
  Speaker 4: just casually have him in that rotation, you.
• 16:59
  Speaker 5: Know, as they're like three or four.
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but it was just.
• 17:02
  Speaker 4: It's a good team. The Phillies are really good, you know,
• 17:05
  Speaker 4: And that's kind of part of it.
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: Too, Lozardo.
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: Let me just give you as a stat because I
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: kept track of it in game. They got those two
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: doubles the first thing and the second inning, and both
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: times afterwards Lozardo and I think lazarda went two balls
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: on Byron right there was a double, and then went.
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: Two balls on Byron on Saturday. And then in those.
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: Five at bats he went eighteen straight strikes and he
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: struck out five guys like he went he was down
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: to ot to Byron with a runner on second and
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: struck out three in a row.
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: It was Austin Martin let off the.
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: Game with a double, and then the next thing, whoever
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: it was, was a one out double, and it was
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: just strike strikes, strike, strike strike like he was. There
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: was so much moving on the sweeper and his bat like,
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: my goodness, that was like unfair, that was cheap code
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: good And.
• 17:57
  Speaker 5: Some of those swings were like guys were fight, yeah
• 18:00
  Speaker 5: of their lives.
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: Hey.
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: And what's crazy is on Saturday you had the brooks
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: Lee single, you had Keisholl single, and then you had
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: the brooks Lee single and Keishall got a great read.
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: The balls hit two, you know, a little bit to
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: the right of the center fielder, like as he's playing
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: so left of the center fielder like it was. It
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: was sort of in shallow left center and the center
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: fielder was shaded towards right. He had a long way
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: to go. He came in, got it. Keishall had such
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: a good read that Brego Mombrego third base centem aggressively.
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: I love the player down one nothing and Keishol was
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: so close. I don't know how they've had enough there
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: to overturn, like I you know, on on the screens,
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: we it was on the screens we saw you could
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: see maybe that he did tag him from behind. But
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: also I know that there are sixteen angles used versus
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: the four that we see so clearly the Phillies felt
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: compelled to do that. But that was how close this
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: game was to being tied on Saturday. And and then
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: you're that close a replay, right and it explodes five
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: minutes later.
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: That just kind of encapsule until that weekend went for them.
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: Uh, that was a softball play. Sending the runner from first.
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: They were trying to catch him. They were trying to
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: catch him off. Make them make it.
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: Absolutely, they were trying to, Yes, exactly it was. It
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: was make them make a play and they did.
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: It was just man, I mean, like I liked that send,
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: the way Lizardo was pitching or.
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: Two outs, yeah too, And yeah, I mean not like
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: they had a lot of other opportunities to score, so
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: why not. Another note from the weekend. Uh, pretty good
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: showing from Kayln Culpepper. Two hits on so he actually
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: had a double off of off of Lizardo and a
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: hit off of Juan Duran not. He also didn't strike
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: out on Sunday, ending a streak of six five straight
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: games with strikeouts. Still high in that department, but he's
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: hit safely and fourced eight games now averages up to
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: two fifty.
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: I love that.
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: Durana bat, like you're talking about facing the Premierre closer
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: in baseball or one of them.
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: And he gets behind one, two and.
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: Then fouled off three straight pitches and like was not
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: getting great cuts, but was like just doing enough to
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: stay in there. And then he takes a ball, he
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: fouls off another pitch, and then he kind of sawed
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: off his bat, a funny reaction from him with the
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: he had the just the knob left in his hand.
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: Basically the bat died a good soldier, basically like it
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: was a good it was a good depth for the
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: bat to broken bat single, like to get there and
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: just face Duran and extend the rally and and make
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: himself the tie and run. That was a big moment
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: for him, I thought, And you're right, the strike huns
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: are high. It's like nine and nine and twenty four bats,
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: so I think it's nine and twenty six played appearances,
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: maybe a twenty seventh plate appearance or twenty eight with
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: the hit by pitches, so still striking out about thirty
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: to thirty three percent time.
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: You need to get that number down.
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: But I think you know, between the defensive side of
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: things and between the at bats, we're seeing the quality
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: of at bats. He's coming along and he's not a
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: guy that they're looking at at the ninth spot and going, man,
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: this is not going well.
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: It's it's actually going very well. You know, the numbers
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: will fluctuate.
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: He'll go out tonight and have an over three and
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: then be like, oh man, that averages down to one
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: ninety or something like that because it's so few at bats.
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: But I mean, like it was a hit a two
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: hit game.
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: On Saturday, and he got on base twice, got on
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: in the ninth or had it had a hit at
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: the Field of Dreams too, So like it was a
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: decent showing against a good opponent for him, thought, and like, yeah,
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: not everything was bad about this weekend.
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: That was that was good.
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: We're gonna have to have a segment called silver linings
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: for the last two months of this season.
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: I think.
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: But no, but like obviously he had the homer in
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: his first game, vibes are good, and then struggled the
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: next two. He was ohover four with four k's in
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: his third game against the Orioles, did have a sacrifice
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: fly to. But a nice stretch of four games and Tyler,
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: we were talking before the show, like after that Baltimore game,
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: when you come up to that the next night, you're
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: looking up the scoreboard and it says next to your
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: name that you're hitting one eve as a rookie.
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: Like it doesn't matter if it's your first game or
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: your one hundredth, but when your average is that low,
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: you can be as positive as.
• 22:43
  Speaker 5: You want mentally.
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: But those scoreboards are really big, and those numbers are
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: even bigger, and so it is nice, like to get
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: that monkey off your back, you know, and and like
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: get some maybe some quality at bats at that point,
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: like you know, play, you know, like I keep saying
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: that that that team in particular, you know that we
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: played the Dodgers recently, but the Phillies is another one
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: of those, like they're kind of one of those faces
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: of baseball, you know, And for him, I wouldn't be
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: shocked if he, you know, you said, of welcome to
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: the big League's kind of moment like going to first
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: base and seeing you know, Harper and a rise, like
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: seeing all these superstars you know, in person, and and
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: hopefully he takes this weekend as a you know, I
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: belong kind of moment. You know, he's getting his hits,
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: he's earning his stripes. You know, he's he's getting these
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: games under his belt, and that's you know what, that's
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: why you call guys up when they're ready, not when
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: you when you need them in a bind. You know,
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: they had a spot to make it make sense for
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: him to come up, and he's taking the opportunity and
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: it seems like he's getting settled in.
• 23:43
  Speaker 5: You know, he's getting more and more reps.
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: I'm sure they're working him in between games, you know,
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: on the field, doing early work things like that. You know,
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: even just taking VP, you know in that stadium is
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: going to help you get better because the visuals are
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: you know, you just get used to seeing the ball
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: fly through the air. You know, it's just a different
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: environment sometimes. And you know he's going to be he's
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: an elite talent.
• 24:04
  Speaker 5: He's a great player.
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: And so now it's once he gets his feet under
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: him really well and solidified, like you know, it's he's
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: going to get comfortable and then he's going to really
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: get to be his best self. And you know, hopefully
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: this is a good trend and Nick he keeps going
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: this way.
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: We'll take a break, come back, talk about Austin Martin's
• 24:22
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  Speaker 5: L uh what else?
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: Well, actually, before we continue programming, No, we're gonna have
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: a mailbag show this week. So if you have any
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: questions for us on the Twins, feels like a great
• 25:37
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• 25:40
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• 25:43
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• 25:45
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• 25:47
  Speaker 1: I'll try to remember it for you. Anyway, final final
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: thoughts from the Phillies series. We'll get to Austin Martin
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: in a second, but also look out Walker Jenkins Kyle
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: Schwarbers now saving young Twins fans too out there. You
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: see that before the game on Sunday.
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: I saw the highlight of that. I saw the highlight
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: of it, and that was cool.
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: Well, when the kids were running out, they do that
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: Sunday thing where the kids run onto the field. Yeah,
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: I get to have a cool moment. I went into
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: the Philly side obviously, talked to Duran on Saturday and
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: shore Burn I stopped by to talk to him about
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: the Indiana football run because that's my adopted team. Last year,
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: my my significant other went to Indiana and so I
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: got to nerd out with him because I saw him
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: in Atlanta.
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: I wasn't going to approach him in Atlanta.
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: After the game after they beat the crap out of Oregon,
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: and it was a it was cool just talking to
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: him about that.
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: And then he goes out and saves that kid.
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: Like they're throwing, like the pitchers warming up at that point,
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: or maybe it was I don't know what was going on,
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: but he.
• 26:53
  Speaker 5: Clearly was right for the game started like it was
• 26:57
  Speaker 5: like yeah, starter, the kids.
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: Run, yeah, yeah.
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: The kids are running to their positions and hanging out
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: with the major leaguers, and then they're running off the field.
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: There's a lot of traffic there and you're counting on
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: like anywhere from four to ten and eleven year old
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: kids to navigate a baseball field with baseball players on it,
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: there could be some serious traffic, and that was cool
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: for Schwarber.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: Perhaps the biggest play that game on Saturday came in
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: the top of the eighth. Luisa Rise hit a ball
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: left field that Austin Martin got there. He had his
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: glove on it and just couldn't squeeze the catch and
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: the ball bounce into the stands for a ground rule
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: double that scored the tying run, and obviously the Phillies
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: went on to score twice more in the eighth after that.
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: That would have been the just the second out of
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: the inning, I believe, yes, second out of the inning.
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: But the bigger news for the Twins after the player
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: at the end of the play, it seemed like Austin
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: Martin injured himself and maybe headed to the IL. Dan,
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: We're so not sure.
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: Possibly, Yeah, I know he's getting in ire. He's going
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: for imaging this morning. And so it was a left
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: ham string strain.
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: I believe left. It was a hamstring strain. I know
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: that much. Okay, sorry if you're not known the leg.
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: But he h, he definitely got injured on the play.
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: And what it could mean, I don't know. Like we were.
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: I just did the math yesterday and to see they're
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: gonna need an outfielder because Martin has been playing platuning
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: with Trevor Larnik, so it would be an outfielder that
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: they're looking for. The only right handed hitting outfielder on
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: the forty man right now is Gaby Gonzalez, who came
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: up earlier this year and went one for two over
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: the weekend that he was up in Chicago in May.
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: But he's not performing all that well. Like I think
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: it's got seven to twenty ohps at triple A, which is,
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: you know, that's well below the league average, like forty
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: six points below the league average. He's playing like every
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: other day right now. Obviously people are gonna clamor for
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: Walker Jenkins.
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: I don't see that's gonna be the move. He's not
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: even on the four.
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: If they're gonna make that move. If they're gonna do it,
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: it's gonna be a manual ord he goes. That would
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: if they're gonna go uh, he's on the forty. Man,
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: he'll be out of options after this year, I believe.
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: I gotta check on.
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: That, But that would be the move, the big one,
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: if they're gonna do it. I just don't know what
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: they're gonna do. And obviously who knows. I mean, Austin
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: Martin could be fine today, wake up fine, but hamstrings
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: are not something.
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: It's He's had this.
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: Issue before for sure, and that was by the way,
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: that was such a tough play, but he did get
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: his glove on it.
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: I'm sure he thought he you know, should have made
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: the play.
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: It's slicing off the lefty's bat. It's a difficult long run,
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: there's some spin there and he got the glove on
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: it kicks off. Andrew Morris had to feel a little
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: snake bit with the way that inning went. That play
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: happens for him and the pop up off of was
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: it Boem's bat, it was he dealt like he singles
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: down the line, it gets over Royce Lewis's head and
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: lands in there in no man's land, and then the
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: two run, go ahead single. The one thing that Morris
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: is dealing with right now, he's not striking out guys
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: the way he was earlier, Like I duff, is there
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: something to that where like the first time that you
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: became a reliever, did you later in the year run
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: out of gas a little bit?
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: Just because you you know frequency? Like what what what
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: do you guys go through with that?
• 30:41
  Speaker 4: I think it's definitely like and even back to pre
• 30:44
  Speaker 4: lip like any guys, it's it's a long season and
• 30:49
  Speaker 4: when you get tired, you know, the saying I've heard
• 30:51
  Speaker 4: before is either lose your vela or your location, you know,
• 30:55
  Speaker 4: and it's sometimes you're just not as sharp the stuff
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: the villa might still be there, the movement might be there,
• 31:00
  Speaker 4: but it's just the there's something to the way, you know,
• 31:04
  Speaker 4: even how you look as a picture on the mount
• 31:06
  Speaker 4: to the hitter that changes, you know, just how they
• 31:08
  Speaker 4: see it. And it's it's minimal things, but it you know,
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: for example, with him, like he's got the hundred, you know,
• 31:16
  Speaker 4: he's missing a little bit. You know, maybe he's spraying
• 31:18
  Speaker 4: it a little bit, so he's when he's in the zone,
• 31:20
  Speaker 4: he's over the heart of the plate a little bit
• 31:22
  Speaker 4: more than the edges, you know. And then sometimes, like
• 31:25
  Speaker 4: you said, the babbit gods are just against you. You know,
• 31:27
  Speaker 4: it's like they touch it and it goes fair somehow,
• 31:31
  Speaker 4: you know, and or or you get a lot of
• 31:33
  Speaker 4: foul balls instead of the swing and miss. And it's
• 31:36
  Speaker 4: just there's certain things where stuff actually can In my head,
• 31:40
  Speaker 4: it's hard to say this like and be serious. But
• 31:42
  Speaker 4: at the same time, sometimes you're just have really good
• 31:45
  Speaker 4: stuff and guys can't just hit the ball how they
• 31:48
  Speaker 4: would like to, and so you get those squirrely plays
• 31:50
  Speaker 4: and things like that.
• 31:51
  Speaker 5: You know, they miss hit.
• 31:52
  Speaker 4: Balls versus hitting it where your defenders are supposed to be.
• 31:55
  Speaker 4: Things like that, you know, it's just baseball is a funny.
• 31:59
  Speaker 5: Game, and it's it goes in waves.
• 32:02
  Speaker 4: And you know the swing and miss, Like maybe it's
• 32:04
  Speaker 4: something is just a usage thing. You know, maybe maybe
• 32:07
  Speaker 4: switch it up. Maybe you know his tunneling, Like I'd
• 32:10
  Speaker 4: have to go and like really look at his outings
• 32:12
  Speaker 4: to tell you like maybe he's not sequencing right or
• 32:15
  Speaker 4: tunneling well, or you know, leaning too heavy on stuff
• 32:18
  Speaker 4: because his I mean, his stuff is electric, you know,
• 32:20
  Speaker 4: his slider or cutter. But you know it's a low nineties,
• 32:23
  Speaker 4: like he's up to one hundred and one. Like it's
• 32:25
  Speaker 4: it's not a stuff thing. It's it's if I had
• 32:28
  Speaker 4: to guess, it's probably an execution thing. And with that
• 32:31
  Speaker 4: just comes it's a full season. He's thrown a lot
• 32:33
  Speaker 4: of innings, a lot of leverage. Like it's just it's
• 32:36
  Speaker 4: taxing sometimes and you know, like I said about Byron,
• 32:40
  Speaker 4: you know some of these sometimes it's just a day
• 32:42
  Speaker 4: and switch flips and then you're back to normal and
• 32:44
  Speaker 4: you know, nothing changed.
• 32:46
  Speaker 5: Uh, you know in his case barring again, nothing's bothering.
• 32:50
  Speaker 5: It's just a it's just bad luck.
• 32:51
  Speaker 4: And he had it if he had a great run
• 32:53
  Speaker 4: when he went like fourteen games without a run or whatever.
• 32:56
  Speaker 4: It was earlier like he had a really nice stretch.
• 32:59
  Speaker 4: Law of our just a couple of bad ones are
• 33:01
  Speaker 4: going to be in there, so you know, I think
• 33:03
  Speaker 4: he'll be fine. You know, it's just kind of the
• 33:05
  Speaker 4: dog days of August.
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: Speaking of the babbit felt like he was.
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah, sorry, it felt like it was due just because
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: that the semi balls had been in play with him
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: more so, uh four point thirty two year in the
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: last nine He's only struck out a batter in three
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: of those last nine games, four strikeouts overall. So yesterday
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: I did change it. It was like a one to
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: twenty three era in his last eight. He was managing it,
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: but his fielding independent pitching suggested this might come and
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: and it did.
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: Get my story. So it's yeah.
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: I was gonna say, speaking of babbit gods again, it's
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: like a tongue twister, just those two words being against you.
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: The very next hit after arises ground reel double was
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: Alec Bohm hitting a mile high pop up that just
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: somehow found the grass inside fery territory and right field,
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: and then an error scored that that was actually hit.
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: That tide the game. I think I said earlier it
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: was a rising yeah double to tide it. But and
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: like certainly not putting the entirety of that loss on
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: Austin Martin by any means, but like the difference between
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: the like we hear about the Twins defensive issues and
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: a lot of times it shows itself as like a
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: booted ball on a ground ball that ends up leading
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: to nothing. But like, man if if Martin catches that ball,
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: it's probably the Twins probably win that game. And you know,
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: again not his fault, but that is that's a tough
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: one to swallow. And it was just a very.
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: Vision Royce had no shot on the bone pop up either,
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: Like when you see the replay, Royce is doing the
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: full sprint back and not in the spot where you
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: can look up. And I don't know if that's a like,
• 34:46
  Speaker 3: I don't know. I'm sure there's some first basemen that
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: are experienced enough to catch that. That was right in
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: the sun, like a tough I'm just guessing like the
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: former pitcher here would would have been like at the
• 35:01
  Speaker 3: end of the game, going damn tough one.
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: Definitely, that's just that's just a positioning hit, Like you know,
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: you just can't.
• 35:09
  Speaker 4: Yeah, but like a long way to go.
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: But after it bounced, Lewis and Keishield booted it and
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: the scorer anyway gave them the run on like like
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: the According to the scorer, it would have been bases
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: loaded with no run scoring if they had fielded that
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: cleanly because they gave the run on the air or
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: not on the hit. So yeah, I mean, I'm obviously
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: Harper had to hold up and make sure it dropped
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: before you could.
• 35:33
  Speaker 5: Run from the second to the scorer on that one.
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you.
• 35:36
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: So anyway, that's enough of the Phillies. Let's let's flush
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: that one.
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: Move on.
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, get ready for get ready for some nostalgia, maybe
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: some more losses to because then even better teams come
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: into town. But the fun note is it's the thirty
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: fifth anniversary of the ninety one World Series. I'm sure
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: that'll come up once or one hundred times on the
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: broadcasts and throughout the stadium over the weekend.
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: I can't her back throw out the first pitch.
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: I was going to say, are there any are there
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: any festivities planned at all?
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: Dan?
• 36:08
  Speaker 3: We know I don't think there's any touchdown. I'm going
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: to I don't think maybe they'll tour the trophy. Maybe
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: like her back will come out.
• 36:16
  Speaker 5: They'll bring it out around, just have it out somewhere.
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: Like just do a dance, like dance around the infield. No,
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: I don't think they're going to need that.
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: At the very at the very least, have Dan Gladden
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: stand up and get around of applause winning run in
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: Game seven.
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: He'll be there. We know that highlight or too.
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: But I don't, you know, I don't know if the
• 36:34
  Speaker 3: mood is in the right place to do that and
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: troll and then and then lose.
• 36:39
  Speaker 5: What could go wrong?
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: As good as the Phillies were, the Braves are significantly better.
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: They are in first place in the Ale East seventy
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: my page is loading seventy four and fifty plus one
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: hundred and seventeen. In the run differential department. The Phillies
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: by the Larry plus nine, all thanks to the Twins.
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: They entered that series with a negative run differential until
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: sweeping the Twins. So it's gonna be tough. The pitchers
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: on the mound for the Braves also gonna be tough.
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: It's Martin Perez, Tyler Mallley and Chris Sale that may
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: have gotten the order right there.
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: So two former Twins there, Martin Perez and left Yeah,
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: two lefties and yeah, the Twins. The Twins have an
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: inter league problem. They are twenty six, thirteen and twenty
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: six against the National League this year with a minus
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: forty eight run differential. So they will be glad when
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: they get through this stretch of six more games against
• 37:38
  Speaker 3: very difficult NL teams because they go to San Diego
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: after this. And we've been talking about this stretch now
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: it's like, can you get can you get two or
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: three wins out of these six?
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: It's could be can you It's gonna be really challenging.
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: They need to figure it out right now.
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: It's Bailey Ober and Martin Perez Tonight, six forty start,
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: Zebbie Matthews, Tyler Mallley on Tuesday, excuse me, six forty
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: start Wednesday afternoon game, Taj Bradley in the All Star
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: Chris Sale.
• 38:11
  Speaker 5: We'll see.
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: I don't know. Three wins in these six would be tough.
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: Four would be amazing. I'll take two just to keep
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: things afloat. But we've been talking about trying to stay
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: within striking distance when they get to that stretch. Of
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: the schedule that has Chicago, Detroit, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, and
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: they've now slipped six games back of Chicago. So the
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: Central Division looking less attainable by the day at this rate,
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: but they're still very much in it. It's a crowded
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: wildcard race. Baltimore somehow has now emerged from the pits
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: to be the third wildcard team. The lay won three
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: games this weekend, twins, a game and a half back.
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: They'll try to ship away at it starting tonight. If
• 38:57
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• 39:09
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• 39:12
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• 39:15
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• 39:19
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