Dan Shulman

Now, he hasn't been perfect.

He's rolled over on some and hit ground balls to second recently, but I think he and Valenzuela recently as well, actually.

Both of them have done a really nice job kind of commanding the strike zone and making the pitcher work.

I think Valenzuela's walked...

12 times in his last 23 games.

That's a really high total.

That's like an 85-walk pace over 162 games, and nobody, you know, no catcher plays 162, but you get my point.

Like, that's a high rate, and I think Pignango maybe doesn't work walks as often, but he does a pretty good job of getting the pitcher back into the strike zone and getting a pitch that...

he wants to swing at.

But I thought it was especially impressive last night because I know if it were me, it's the bases loaded.

It's a tie game.

You just want to give your team the lead any way you can, but your heart rate's probably going pretty good.

And you're like, if somebody says, what is your Hendrick Pignango?

You don't say he's a walk guy.

You say he's a line drive guy.

And I'm sure he goes up there thinking I want to hit a line drive because that's what I do.

And I give him a lot of credit.

There were,

I think there were, I think Rutschman challenged twice in that at bat.

I don't remember Pignango challenging, but I might be totally wrong.