Dan Shulman

But in his mind, probably he's saying, if I don't get out where I was and he drops it, I can't score.

But, you know, the lesser of two evils is you only get to third and there's still one out, right?

Because if he doesn't catch the ball, there's one out.

So the lesser of two evils is second and third and one out.

The worst possible scenario is exactly what happened.

You were right about the, you know, the Clement Urias play that they don't turn the double play.

And I think in hindsight, if we asked Ernie, he'd probably say, maybe my only shot was just taking myself to the bag and see if I can throw him out at first because Urias was way over in the hole against Alvarez.

There was no chance to turn to there.

it they're just not playing clean baseball and as caleb and i talked about on the air and joe and i've talked about it too when you're hitting a ton you can you can band-aid these things up and it's okay but it's not okay this year you know it's incredible they're still in the third wild card spot they are incredibly fortunate to be in the third wild card spot but at some point

Whether it's the White Sox or the Orioles or the Rangers or the Mariners, like somebody's going to get going or multiple somebodies are going to get going.

And they've got to start playing better and they've got to do better on this homestand over the next seven days.

yeah and i thought to be honest watching him i thought he was a little more than kitchen sinky last night i mean he was 95 touch 96 i know the numbers weren't good but he there are other guys who the blue jays have faced and struggled uh against this year who i thought looked uh like they had lesser stuff than he did i don't know if his stuff played up we haven't seen him you know before this year um but i i thought he did okay but i i think the the

the through line, as you said, is they're still chasing too much.

It's getting a little bit better.

If you look at the numbers, it's slowly coming down, but they're still chasing too much, and they're swinging at pitchers' pitches.

And it's really hard to make really good contact on pitchers' pitches.

Not to single it out, but one that I remember right away is Vladimir Guerrero Jr.

's first at bat.

He got a slider three, four inches off the outside part of the plate, swung and missed, and then he got a four-seamer three, four inches in off the inside part of the plate, got jammed and grounded out.

The ones you want to hit are the ones in the middle of the zone.