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Wrapping up Sunday's game and the Orioles 3-3 road trip · Birdland Territory

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  Speaker 1: The O's today brutal loss in Rogers Center at Toronto.
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  Speaker 1: Back to back losses which kind of derailed some momentum.
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  Speaker 1: They really had rolling chants for their first back to
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  Speaker 1: back winning roads series this year, chance for their first
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  Speaker 1: winning road trip, and it all evaporated in an emotional
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  Speaker 1: five run bottom of the sixth. Today they lose six
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  Speaker 1: to Ford of the Blue Jays, Steve tim and Brad
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  Speaker 1: Here another addition to Birdland territory. Not as festive as
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  Speaker 1: it was going to be about an hour or two
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  Speaker 1: ago when things suddenly turned guys. Let's start with the
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  Speaker 1: non call on the runner that appeared to all of
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  Speaker 1: Baltimore to be out of the baseline and all of
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  Speaker 1: Toronto to not be out of the baseline. But that's
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  Speaker 1: what I saw. He ran much too far off the path.
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  Speaker 1: Gunner could not reach out to tag him, got the
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  Speaker 1: only out he could at first would have ended the
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  Speaker 1: inning four to one. Four more runs scored after that, well,
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  Speaker 1: four to two when they got the second out, when
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  Speaker 1: that play actually a run scored on that play. Let
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  Speaker 1: me try to keep all the mess straight from today.
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  Speaker 1: Let's start with you, Brad, what did you see on
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  Speaker 1: that play?
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  Speaker 2: With you yeah.
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  Speaker 3: To me, I mean, it looked like he was at
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  Speaker 3: the baseline, just optics of it. And then when they
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  Speaker 3: did the replay, I felt like it showed it even
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  Speaker 3: more clearly.
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  Speaker 2: Because the rural.
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  Speaker 3: States somewhere in there, the runner doesn't have to establish
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  Speaker 3: his path until an attempt of a tag is made.
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  Speaker 3: There's no definition of an attempt of attag. I thought
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  Speaker 3: Gunnar Henderson reached his arm out to me that it
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  Speaker 3: dictates an attempt at the tag and Clement went at
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  Speaker 3: least three, maybe almost six feet out of the way
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  Speaker 3: to get out of the way. And it just to me,
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  Speaker 3: it seemed, like I said, in real time, it seemed
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  Speaker 3: like it was at like he was out of the baseline.
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  Speaker 3: And then as I went and did the replay, it
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  Speaker 3: looked even worse to me. But it's just unfortunate because
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  Speaker 3: it just unraveled so fast after that. It's I felt
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  Speaker 3: like the emotions kind of just ran rampant there and
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  Speaker 3: it can happen in Toronto.
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  Speaker 2: But to me, he definitely looked out of the baseline.
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  Speaker 4: Brad, That's what I wanted to ask you about, because
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  Speaker 4: Shane Boz was rolling heading into that inning and once
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  Speaker 4: that miss call happened. He wasn't the same. You could
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  Speaker 4: tell that maybe he was dwelling on that a lot.
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  Speaker 4: Obviously he was chirping.
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  Speaker 5: The ump was right now, you know, to make the call,
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  Speaker 5: and it was clearly Clement was out of the base path.
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  Speaker 4: But brat, how difficult is that? You know where he
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  Speaker 4: gets screwed on a call. But you got to collect
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  Speaker 4: yourself and still finish the inning.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's tough, and it's funny. I was thinking.
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  Speaker 3: I was thinking that exact thing before we started the show,
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  Speaker 3: because I was going to bring it up even if
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  Speaker 3: you didn't ask me, because it is really tough. When
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  Speaker 3: you're out there, things are speeding up. You finally get
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  Speaker 3: the ground ball, you get the pitch that you're trying
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  Speaker 3: to make, and you get what you think is the
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  Speaker 3: double play, but the umpires don't see it that way,
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  Speaker 3: and there's no way to replay it. There's no way
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  Speaker 3: to you know, get them to kind of converse about it.
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  Speaker 3: It was just they didn't call it. So it's it's
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  Speaker 3: really tough at that point to kind of collect your emotions.
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  Speaker 3: But that's I mean, you just have to do it somehow, somebody.
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  Speaker 3: You have to just go out there and make another
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  Speaker 3: big pitch, and unfortunately they weren't able to in that
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  Speaker 3: inning and it kind of cost them the game there.
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  Speaker 3: It's just things are happening so fast.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's a big gain.
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  Speaker 3: They're both tied in the standings at that point, and
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  Speaker 3: you know where they're kind of right there in the
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  Speaker 3: wildcard together and it might come down to these two
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  Speaker 3: teams for that final wild card spot. So you know
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  Speaker 3: how big that pitch is to get to execute, you
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  Speaker 3: get the result you're expecting, and to not have the
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  Speaker 3: umpire seat that way, it just kind of gets really
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  Speaker 3: frustrating and things kind of just run rampant there real fast,
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  Speaker 3: and that was a perfect example of just not being
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  Speaker 3: able to take that extra breath, and that kind of
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  Speaker 3: comes with experience. Like Shane Bozzi has the service time,
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  Speaker 3: but he doesn't have the amount of starts and innings
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  Speaker 3: that most pitchers do, you know, with the amount of
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  Speaker 3: service time that he has right now, So it just
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  Speaker 3: kind of comes with experience. And the guys who've been
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  Speaker 3: around a long time, they know how to, you know,
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  Speaker 3: calm themselves back down, get level headed, and go out
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  Speaker 3: there and extcute pitches after that and just Unfortunately they
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  Speaker 3: weren't able to do that there in that that any.
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  Speaker 1: So here is the rule I'm reading from. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you can access about a million different versions of the
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  Speaker 1: baseball rolls online, hopefully the one I have his accurate here,
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  Speaker 1: Roll five h nine. It's one of many subsets of
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  Speaker 1: that role. It says a runner is out when he
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  Speaker 1: runs more than three feet away from his base path
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  Speaker 1: to avoid being tagged, unless his action is to avoid
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  Speaker 1: interference with a fielder fielding about a ball. A runner's
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  Speaker 1: base pass path is established when the tag attempt occurs
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  Speaker 1: and is a straight line from the runner to the base.
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  Speaker 1: He is attempting to reach base safely. So that's a
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  Speaker 1: little wordy, but certainly there was. He was not avoiding
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  Speaker 1: a fielder there except to avoid the out in that sense,
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  Speaker 1: and so he veered so far off the base when
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  Speaker 1: they showed that down the line shot that in the
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  Speaker 1: ninth Jackson Holiday was out of the base line. But
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  Speaker 1: this guy was to and that's so frustrating in birdland.
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  Speaker 1: But like you guys touched on. It's oriole and umpire
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  Speaker 1: aided the four to one if they get out of
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  Speaker 1: that inning with that call. But you still had they
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  Speaker 1: had three run scoring hits after two were out, because
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  Speaker 1: that was the second out of the inning be out
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  Speaker 1: at first base. So there's the frustration, I think in
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  Speaker 1: Birdland and in the clubhouse especially, is that we still
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  Speaker 1: could have overcome that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, And once again, it's kind of the theme of
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  Speaker 3: the season at this point, Like we've talked about a
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  Speaker 3: bunch all with two outs, and it just kind of
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  Speaker 3: seems to be when everything happens is all with two outs,
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  Speaker 3: and it's just it's just that third out has been
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  Speaker 3: such a bugaboo the entire season on the defensive side.
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  Speaker 2: And you can even look back to Henderson.
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  Speaker 3: Sorry, Henderson had the chance to end the inning on
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  Speaker 3: the ground ball, so that would have been the third
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  Speaker 3: out of the inning.
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  Speaker 2: He throws the first.
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  Speaker 3: The game's four to one at that point still, and
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  Speaker 3: when you look at Vasa's box scoes it's only one
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  Speaker 3: to run. So it's just it just continues to be
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  Speaker 3: frustrating because it seems to be one play that just
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  Speaker 3: kind of leads to these bigger innings and these these
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  Speaker 3: things that just come back to haunt them, and it's
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  Speaker 3: kind of where they're at in the standings right now.
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  Speaker 3: Four games under five hundred, and it just kind of
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  Speaker 3: seems to be the two outs.
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  Speaker 2: Same thing with.
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  Speaker 3: Yesterday with Bradish four runs were scored on two outs
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  Speaker 3: there against him, and it's just kind of that one thing.
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  Speaker 3: It's just getting that final out to get you back
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  Speaker 3: in the dugout just really seems to plague this team
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  Speaker 3: here still in June.
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  Speaker 5: It's one of these situations, guys, where two things can
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  Speaker 5: be true.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 4: The umpire totally messed up the call and that changed
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  Speaker 4: the trajectory of this game.
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  Speaker 5: But the Orioles didn't do their part. You know, you gotta.
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  Speaker 4: Flush it and you got to move on, and that
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  Speaker 4: can't continue to weigh on you like I feel like
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  Speaker 4: it did with Shane Bose And you know you mentioned
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  Speaker 4: the Gunner Henderson error and even you know, following that inning, guys,
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  Speaker 4: they didn't score any more runs.
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  Speaker 5: They had the four run inning, which was great.
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  Speaker 4: Gosman was dealing until he wasn't, but the offense didn't
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  Speaker 4: do enough.
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  Speaker 5: So you know, the umpire missed the.
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  Speaker 4: Call, but the Orioles you got to just bounce back
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  Speaker 4: and find a way to win, and they didn't today.
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  Speaker 1: Nope, they didn't, and so very frustrating loss sends the
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  Speaker 1: Oils home at thirty one and thirty five and a
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  Speaker 1: three and three road trip is still a lot of
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  Speaker 1: winning ways. But they had won five of six through
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  Speaker 1: Friday nights, and now that's five of eight, and they
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  Speaker 1: had won fourteen of twenty four. Now that's fourteen of
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  Speaker 1: twenty six, so a little you know, it took a
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  Speaker 1: So late in the game, Samuel Bissio has pinch hit
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  Speaker 1: for He has really had some ups and downs here
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  Speaker 1: recently within a physical nature. He had an abdominal situation
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  Speaker 1: that took him out of the game Friday night, he
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  Speaker 1: pinched hit Saturday. That was great to see, and he
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  Speaker 1: started to catch her today. That was great to see.
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  Speaker 1: Then he had that tag play where it looked like
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  Speaker 1: his left hand or wrist was very sore. That came
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  Speaker 1: out and checked on him. He stayed in the game.
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  Speaker 1: Later they pinch hit for him. It seemed like maybe
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  Speaker 1: there was something physical going on. When we heard and
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  Speaker 1: watched on Massive the postgame interview with Craig Albernas, it
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  Speaker 1: didn't sound like that. I'm trying to interpret his quote.
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  Speaker 1: It's hard to do here. We're just a few minutes
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  Speaker 1: after we actually heard it. You guys or saw it,
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  Speaker 1: talked about, you know, have to play through some physical issues.
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  Speaker 1: Sam has to learn to play through some adversity. Right now,
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  Speaker 1: it seemed to me rad that that was not a
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  Speaker 1: pinch hit because of something physical. Again, we don't have
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  Speaker 1: all the information right now. We're speculating a little bit here,
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  Speaker 1: but it didn't seem like it was about his wrist.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's it's an odd quote. It's a weird
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  Speaker 3: I guess we need more context. I'm sure there will
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  Speaker 3: be more questions asked about it tomorrow or the next day,
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  Speaker 3: but it's.
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  Speaker 2: He to me would look like he was hurt.
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  Speaker 3: Every sing he took today seemed to have a grimace,
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  Speaker 3: and it just seemed kind of off. He seemed to
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  Speaker 3: be attacking super early at pitches that were way out
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  Speaker 3: of the zone, and it just kind of seemed like
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  Speaker 3: he just wasn't feeling one hundred percent today. And that's
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  Speaker 3: that's kind of life in the big leagues. You have
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  Speaker 3: to learn how to play not being one hundred percent.
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  Speaker 3: But I don't know, to me, it just kind of
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  Speaker 3: seemed like there was something more there then. Maybe was
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  Speaker 3: they were leading onto or I just don't know. It
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  Speaker 3: just didn't seem like he was physically one hundred percent today,
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  Speaker 3: And like I said, that's part of the big league life.
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  Speaker 3: You're not going to be one hundred percent every day.
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  Speaker 3: As soon as spring training ends. There's always something that
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  Speaker 3: creeps up here or there. But after that abdominal thing,
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  Speaker 3: those are always just a little bit weird. I know
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  Speaker 3: they did test and everything like that, but those kind
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  Speaker 3: of things just seem to linger, and I don't know,
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  Speaker 3: maybe it popped up today or something, but to me,
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  Speaker 3: just watching that game, it just didn't seem like he
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  Speaker 3: was he was fully capable out there.
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  Speaker 5: I'm with you, man, like you could tell that he
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  Speaker 5: was hurt. I mean, anytime they would do those close ups.
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  Speaker 4: He there was one instance where I know Ryan Ripken
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  Speaker 4: brought it up on the broadcast where he was running
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  Speaker 4: down first.
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  Speaker 5: Base and he just he didn't seem right.
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  Speaker 4: And when that tag situation happened at home plate, it
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  Speaker 4: looked like he was seriously hurt. I mean, just you
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  Speaker 4: could tell how much pain he was in, and thankfully
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  Speaker 4: he stayed in the game at that point.
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  Speaker 5: But definitely an interesting quote. I haven't seen the video yet.
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  Speaker 4: We were talking about it prior to taping, but Sam's
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  Speaker 4: just been such an impactful place for the Orioles this
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  Speaker 4: season and it seems like a little bizarre to I
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  Speaker 4: don't know if calling him out is what Craig Albernas did.
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  Speaker 4: But and you're right, Brad, like, I get what you're saying.
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  Speaker 4: When you play a one hundred and sixty two game season,
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  Speaker 4: none of these guys are one hundred percent healthy, We
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  Speaker 4: get it. But the abdominal oblique here like that is
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  Speaker 4: always a tricky injury for a batter. Ask Gadley Ruchman Man,
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  Speaker 4: he hurt both of his obliques last year. It totally
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  Speaker 4: wrecked his twenty twenty five season. So you just hope
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  Speaker 4: that Sam's okay.
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  Speaker 1: Strange situation. Hard to know how to read into this.
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  Speaker 1: It's not going to go away. It'll be brought up
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  Speaker 1: in the pregame tomorrow, you know, when Albernas meets a
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  Speaker 1: big throng of media back in Baltimore and all the
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  Speaker 1: locals will be there that weren't there, couldn't be in Toronto,
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  Speaker 1: and so we could not see the on deck circle,
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  Speaker 1: but the reporters there could and they were tweeting that
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  Speaker 1: Pisio had gone on deck to hit, and then Taveras
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  Speaker 1: Pinch hit for him. So to me, when I've seen
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  Speaker 1: players come out of a game because something flared up,
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  Speaker 1: they don't even make it to the on deck circle.
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  Speaker 1: That decision has been made. He's not physically well enough
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  Speaker 1: to hit. Here comes someone else for him. This guy
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  Speaker 1: went on deck and then something happened after he went
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  Speaker 1: on deck that the Orioles decided and Albert has to
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  Speaker 1: make that move. So we're gonna need more information. I
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  Speaker 1: think we discussed as much as we can without you know,
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  Speaker 1: we don't want to be wrong. We don't want to
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  Speaker 1: throw something out there. That is just off base. We
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  Speaker 1: want to be fair at all parties here, but it
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  Speaker 1: was a little strange viewing today, and I'm not quite
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  Speaker 1: sure exactly what is going on with manager player there,
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  Speaker 1: but we'll no more soon enough. Let's get to Shane Byes.
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  Speaker 1: Let's get to the good parts. First, four straight quality
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  Speaker 1: starts at game time two thirty three er in those games,
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  Speaker 1: this guy's roll on strowing ninety seven, throwing a great
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  Speaker 1: knuckle curve, and then he did it again until it
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  Speaker 1: dramatically changed. Uh, does he just take the good parts
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  Speaker 1: of this and say I got derailed by circumstances today
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  Speaker 1: and I'm still rolling.
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  Speaker 2: I think so.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I thought he looked he looked electric in
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  Speaker 3: those first four or five innings, he looked great. But
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  Speaker 3: then it was the only time he ran into any
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  Speaker 3: kind of trouble really and got out of that gym,
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  Speaker 3: and then got into the sixth inning, and then obviously
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  Speaker 3: everything kind of just unraveled there with two outs.
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  Speaker 2: It was really not.
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  Speaker 3: Hard contact until the call by the umpire, and then
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  Speaker 3: he had some balls hit pretty hard. But it's, uh, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I don't know, it's it's I think you just take
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  Speaker 3: the positives from that he's been on such a good
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  Speaker 3: stretch here, I think we're now seeing the picture they
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  Speaker 3: expect to go out there every single time, which is
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  Speaker 3: a great thing for the Orioles and for Orioles fans
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  Speaker 3: because this is the picture they were hoping they were
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  Speaker 3: going to get.
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  Speaker 2: It just kind of things just kind of just didn't
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  Speaker 2: go his way there in the sixth inning.
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  Speaker 3: So I think you just really have to focus on
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  Speaker 3: the positives and move on to next game and just
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  Speaker 3: really keep yourself in that good mental headspace because you've
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  Speaker 3: had five four or five really really good starts here lately,
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  Speaker 3: and just keep that, keep that momentum going, and just
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  Speaker 3: kind of keep it rolling into the end of June
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  Speaker 3: here into July, because he looks really good and he
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  Speaker 3: looks like a top in rotation guy.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I haven't just chucked this up to a oddity
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  Speaker 4: more than anything. Guys, where was rolling like the first
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  Speaker 4: five innings shut out, And something that he's talked about
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  Speaker 4: a lot recently is is being more pitch efficient where
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  Speaker 4: he's trying to get you know, get through at bats
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  Speaker 4: as quick as possible, and you saw that in the
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  Speaker 4: third and fourth innings where he got through those two
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  Speaker 4: on just twelve pitches. Guys, like there was a point
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  Speaker 4: where he retired nine straight. We know the knuckle curve
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  Speaker 4: has been a hammer for him, especially in this strong stretch.
• 15:45
  Speaker 4: That's been as big put away pitch. But Boz is
• 15:48
  Speaker 4: rolling like I just I think that miss call got
• 15:54
  Speaker 4: the best of him, and I think he was probably
• 15:56
  Speaker 4: a little too emotional at that time, and that's where
• 16:00
  Speaker 4: it's just kind of spiraled out of control for him.
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's interesting, Brad.
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: Major League baseball players can practice a lot of things
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: they can't practice how you overcome a bad umpire's call
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: in the heat of the game, a lot of emotion,
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: forty thousand in the stands, everybody going crazy and your
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: emotions now went from zero to sixty and about a
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: second and a half. And how you handle that. I
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: think players who do have my admiration because again, it's
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: it doesn't happen like once a year, And how do
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: you prepare for that?
• 16:33
  Speaker 5: You can't.
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, you definitely can't. And one of the best
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: I ever saw doing was there in Oday.
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: The guy.
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: Anytime he had adversity come his way, whether it was
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: an umpire, whether it was a fielding air, he just
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: had a way of slowing things down, and I know
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: now with the pitch clock, it's much more difficult to
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: do that, but he was so good at just being
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: able to take his time and almost turned into a
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: human ring away and we always joke to him about it,
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: but he was just so good at not getting caught
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: up in the moment and making his next pitch. And
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: that's all you can do as a pitcher. After the
• 17:01
  Speaker 3: ball leaves your hand, there's nothing you can control. And
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: I remember Alan Mills telling that all the time in
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: the ball telling us that all the time in the bullpen.
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: He's like, the.
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: Only thing you can control is what's between your ears,
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: and after you release the ball there's not a single
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: thing you can control in that field. So it's all
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: about just being able to slow the game down the
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: best you can. And honestly, Shane Vais turns into a
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: reliever in that situation, and that was I feel like
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: always the hardest situations for starters is because you get
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: later later in the game, the game gets a little
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: bit tight, you get some runners on base, and now
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: it turns into a relief situation where everything's heightened. Every
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: pitch means so much and those are really the make
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: or break kind of situations for starters throughout the season,
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: And when you haven't experienced that.
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: It's hard to tell yourself to slow down.
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: It's hard to take the thoughts, the good thoughts, and
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: to be able to focus everything on the next pitch.
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: So hopefully next time, if something like this occurs, we
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: see a different shame Bos out there and he's able
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: to control himself. I don't think you'd be able to
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: see what was going on in his mind there, but
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: I think the results kind of dictated what was kind
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: of happening in his head. He is so cool and
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: calm on the mound. I almost want to see a
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: little bit more fire and a little bit more of
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: you know, ump out there. But he is so good
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: at just being so even keel while he's out there.
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: But I'm sure things were racing really fast in his
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: mind and he wishes he could probably have those two
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: pitches back. After that that instance happened.
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: He was hot, man, I mean, pull him from that
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: game and he's staring down the umpire.
• 18:28
  Speaker 5: I've never seen him that.
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: Hot like he was, But Brad like more along the
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: lines of what you're saying, and you could really say
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: this for any sport. You gotta have a quick, you know,
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: short memory, right, Like you're just next batter, next batter.
• 18:45
  Speaker 5: You give up a home run, you give up a
• 18:46
  Speaker 5: couple of runs early on in the game.
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: You got to find a way to settle in and
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: not let that continue to hover over you.
• 18:53
  Speaker 5: You know, you're just next batter, next batter.
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: I feel like, yeah, and it's I've heard it said
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: before that like a life of a pitcher is every
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: twenty five seconds you make adjustments on the fly. Twenty
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: five seconds you have to readjust what you're thinking, what
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: pitch you're gonna throw. So everything is quick adjustments. But
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: you get to a certain point in your career where
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: you learn to.
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: Be able to slow down all that.
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: Somehow, some way, you find a way, whether it's you
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: look in the dugout, you look at your glove, you
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: look at your hat, you have some kind of like
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: focal point that you put all these fast thoughts and
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: fast thinkings in your thoughts you have in your head,
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: and you're able to just kind of slow down in
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: that twenty five seconds somehow turns into more like fifty
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: seconds in your thinking, and it's just it's really really hard.
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: It's one of those things when you're in the minor leagues,
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: you don't experience it, but when you're in a stadium
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: like Toronto, it is packed all weekend.
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: You have fans getting loud after that play. I'm sure
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: that fans are.
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: Egging you on even more because they probably know the
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: umpire missed the call too, so they're kind of feeding
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: to the fire.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: And it's just all those things happen really fast, and.
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: It just takes time to learn how to experience that
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: and kind of flush it and just move on. It's
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: a lot easier said than done. And even when you
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: get to the point we were able to, you still
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: find yourself in those situations where the game speeds up
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: on you and you go back after the game, you
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: sit there and just kick yourself because you know you
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: were one pitch.
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: Away from getting out of that.
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: And I think that's going to be the most frustrating
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: part to get over for not just him but the team.
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: After today, Birdland Territory with you.
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: After the O's lose the series finale in Toronto, coming
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: home Monday night for a week long homestand we'll see
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: if Chris Bassett gets to make that start or Trey
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: Gibson gets recalled. Potentially, those are two options for Monday Night,
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: which the Oriols have listed officially as TBA guys. I
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: put that stat up a moment ago. The Orils, who
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: went eight and five in these last four series, which
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: we're all against the AL East. This crazy schedule now
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: they won't see the AL East until after the All
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: Star break after playing this series in Toronto, kind of crazy.
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: So the math says the Oorls are eleven and fifteen
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: in the division this year, and fans are going to
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: say that's not good enough, and they'll won't be wrong
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: about that, But it also says they were one and
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: six in the first two series. To me, they played
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: dramatically better in the East. They had to sweep in Tampa,
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: they came back and swept them. Had they won this
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: game today, they would have been able to say in
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: their last series against every Al East opponent they won it.
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: Because they won their last against the Yankees, the Rays
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: and the Red Sox and so close to making out
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: a four pet to me, that's a good sign. It's
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: telling me they've turned a corner in the division. These
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: teams are not outclassing them where once it looked like
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: they were and I think it's a good sign moving forward.
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think, like we've mentioned on the show, this
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: is a completely different, better brand of baseball they've been
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: playing the last two three weeks. At this point, it's
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: a night and day difference of the team of I mean,
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: just look at the fielding aspect of everything, the way
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: they're fielding the ball, the way they're you know, the
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: starting pitching has turned, the way the offense has kind
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: of gone on to a second year, the lineup has
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: gotten extended. I feel like one through nine now where
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: we were really focused on the top half of the lineup.
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: But to me, it's funny because before these this road
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: trip happened, we set a three and three would be
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: a success, but when you get off to a four
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: to one start, you feel like you left something on
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: the table. And that was always the frustrating part as
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: a player for me, because it's like you leave for
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: a road trip and you're like, okay, we take three
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: for three and three, But when you get off to
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: a four to one start and you leave those two
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: games on the table, it just has a different taste
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: in your mouth, especially as you're leaving Toronto, you're going
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: back home, and you feel like you really kind of
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: gave the game away today. Four and two is a
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: way better sounding.
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: Than three and three.
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: It's just, it's all it's part of the mental kind
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: of game that's played throughout a one six to two
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: game season. But yeah, it's just it's frustrating when you
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: start off four and one and playing so well and
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: you kind of let these last two games slip through
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: your hands.
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: This has been a much better stretch for this club,
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: and obviously that eleven fifteen record, Steve I just kind
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: of chalk that up to a big reason that they
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: were zero and seven in the series in the Bronx
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: and the Trop and those were really really ugly and
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: they were big low points for this team.
• 23:02
  Speaker 5: But ever since they came back from the trop you know,
• 23:05
  Speaker 5: May twenty second, it's just a lot of their bugaboos.
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: And issues that we've been talking about a lot on
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: the show. You know, I was bringing up these stats
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: on Friday on the Fan, just looking run scored in
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: the first three innings of ballgames heading into Friday.
• 23:22
  Speaker 5: It was second most in this spam.
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: Remember that they were always playing from behind and the
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: starting pitching being much better, so you're allowing a lot
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: less runs in the first three innings, you're playing with
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: more of a lead. And I think something that's also
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: been really cool to see, especially in this stretch, guys
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: small ball, and it didn't end up working out today,
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: Blaze Alexander not really getting enough on that bunt the
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: sacrifice to get O'Neill over. But we've seen Leoti, Taveres,
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: Blaze Alexander, guys that can lay one down and also
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: just sackflies. I mean, the Orioles sees the long like.
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: They rank so much better in both of those areas
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: year over year. The Orioles all last year had four
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: sacrifice bumps in one hundred and sixty two game to
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: Realty Taveres week for rede six I think already this season,
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: so that has been an added dynamic that this offense
• 24:21
  Speaker 4: was lacking last year.
• 24:24
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• 24:26
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• 25:05
  Speaker 1: The fan, You know, we're just talking about Sack Bunch
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: and small ball, and that is a favorite of Oriol fans.
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: They love to see small ball move runners ninety feet,
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: hit behind the runner, do things that win ball games.
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: And it's not as maybe as cool as that, but
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: maybe it is. I don't know. Homers are pretty cool too.
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: The Oils have been hitting a lot more guys. They've
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: homered in seventeen of the last twenty one games, thirty
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: three home runs twelve times in those twenty one games
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: if it two or more, including today, Taylor Ward ended
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: a sixteen game homerless run and during which he was
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: slugging just two fifty four. And Colton Kowser had one
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: homer his first forty one games and now has five
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: in his last fifteen. Hopefully both will keep swinging it.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: We've talked extensively about Ward here. I'm not sure what
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: to make of the power, whether it's going to be
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: there or not, but it was for one swing today.
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he got his pitch and didn't miss it. So
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: that was a good sign to see that. He hung
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: a godsman, hung a splitter and he hit it out,
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: which is what he's kind of done the last couple
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: of years. He hit some homers and it's very homer
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: friendly stadiums that he's playing here in the al so
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: hopefully see more power from there. And to me, Colon
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: Kwiser has just been really encouraging. I want to see
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: this guy in the lineup every day. I've said it
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: multiple times. I just want to see him face lefties.
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: I know he struggled mightily, but the only way to
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: get him better against lefties is to face them. And
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: to me, he's a power different He's a difference maker
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: when he's making contact, and right now I starts seeing
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: him recognize change ups way better, which is a pitch
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: he really has struggled on and even breaking balls, not
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: necessarily hitting home runs off of them. Today he get
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: one off off speed pitch. But to me, it's the
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: recognition of maybe laying off those pitches as opposed to
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: getting after them and trying to do something with them.
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: So to me, his plate recognition has been way better.
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: And Taylor word, hopefully, you know, find something with this swing.
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: With power hitters, you never know, they can get a hot,
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: hot week, hot, two weeks, and next thing you know,
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: he'll have six homers, just like Colton's done the last
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: couple of weeks. So for him, that was a great
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: swing and a good sign. And hopefully you can kind
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: of extend this after they go home. Here the weather
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: is getting warmer. As fans know, a canme yards it
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: becomes a launching pad, So that's a good sign that
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: these homers are starting to go out and hopefully we
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: see some more on this Homestand.
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it really has been such a bizarre season for
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: Taylor Ward. Right, It's not as if he's having a
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: bad season at all.
• 27:30
  Speaker 5: That's not the case.
• 27:31
  Speaker 4: It's just looked so much different than we thought it
• 27:34
  Speaker 4: would be, you know, coming off the hitting over thirty
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: home runs, driving in over one hundred runs, so you're
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: hoping that he can start to get hot in the
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: month of June, because a lot of this offense is
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: really getting hot. You know, Pete with another opposite field
• 27:50
  Speaker 4: home run over the weekend, Kobe Mayo had the big
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: blast on Friday, Coldon Cowser has really been hot. Like
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: a lot of this lineup is really trend in the
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: right direction, and you just hope that more people join.
• 28:03
  Speaker 4: And Gunner Henderson he had the three hit game over
• 28:06
  Speaker 4: the weekend as well. June is traditionally his best month
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: of his season, so hopefully he can have a red
• 28:13
  Speaker 4: hot June this year.
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: You never know what players are dealing with, and we
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: often don't find out till the season's over. Gunnar Henderson
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: hit thirty. It's seventeen home runs, twenty less last year
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: than the year before. Shoulder related we found out in
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: The Winner. I mean, Taylor Ward had that hand issue
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: and maybe that zapped him from power, but not from playing,
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: and he continued to get on base, draw walks, hit
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: doubles and do things to help them win if homers
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: didn't come with it. So maybe we'll find out at
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: some point that for a month or two this guy's
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: power was apt, but he could still be on the field.
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: He plays almost every day, so I give him credit
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: for that part he is contributing to wins. Let's talk
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: quickly about the homestand Seattle for four, San Diego for
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: three than a long West coast road trip, so the
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: Ale East is done for a while. The Orioles guys
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: have to step on the gas six thirty Monday night.
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: What flush this two days? Make sure that this doesn't
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: derail what has been a nice run of winning baseball.
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and they're gonna have their hands full. The Mariners team.
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: They have amazing starting pitching.
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: They have five guys that they run out there that
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: are Any team would give anything to have one of
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: those guys, but they have five of them.
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: So it's gonna be a true test.
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: And speaking of Taylor Ward, he's gonna get to face
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: the team He faced a bunch and it's been tough.
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: I think it's tough when you switch divisions, guys you
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: don't see a lot. But now he's gonna get seven
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: games in the next ten here against pitchers he used
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: to see all the time, So hopefully he can kind
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: of continue against he pitchers he's more familiar against. But
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: it's gonna be no small task. The potters and the
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: Manitors both can pitch, and it's gonna be a tough
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: home stand, but they're playing better baseball, which is what
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: you want to see. And hopefully they can just scratch
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: some runs together. Starting pitching keeps doing what it does,
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: and you know, just keep keep the winning momentum. Going
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: three and three on the let's have a winning homestand
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: and kind of go from there and see where they're
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: at after this Homestand.
• 30:05
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's gonna be tough opponents.
• 30:07
  Speaker 4: But look, when we were talking heading into this road trip,
• 30:10
  Speaker 4: you'll take three and three, and we said that in
• 30:12
  Speaker 4: large part because this has been a much different team
• 30:16
  Speaker 4: at home compared to on the road.
• 30:18
  Speaker 5: And now you're coming back home.
• 30:20
  Speaker 4: Last time they were home, they had the seven and
• 30:22
  Speaker 4: three homestand, and if this team ends up going on
• 30:25
  Speaker 4: a run, we're gonna look back, look back to that
• 30:28
  Speaker 4: home stand. So let the good times roll a Camden Yards,
• 30:32
  Speaker 4: you know.
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, oh yeah, seven and three last time they were there.
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: So hopefully they have a good home stand starting Monday night,
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: the Mariners in town, then the Padres. The Oils are
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: playing every day this week Monday through Sunday, before they're
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: off before one day before they head to the West
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: coast see Seattle again. All right, guys, enjoyed it and
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: we'll see you in a day or two with our
• 30:55
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