Sam McDowell

It's not hit 100 miles an hour.

It's not like it's scorched.

And I think there's symbolism with where the Royals are, though.

The Yankees have beaten, like, two teams over .500 all year.

They beat the Royals.

Well, they do have the second worst winning percentage of win, the situation of win leading after the eighth inning.

They've got the second worst winning percentage of baseball this year.

Now, that equates to four losses.

I mean, it's not like they would... Well, in the American League, they were in the wild card spot.

They were undefeated in that situation.

There's only one team that's undefeated in that situation.

I think the Dodgers are undefeated in that spot.

Well, you know, it caused me today, the last couple days, I looked more in-depth at Lucas Erceg's season.

I just think it's, like, really symbolic of the Royals' season.

So last year he had a 2.64 ERA.

This year he's got a 5.06 ERA.

So on the face of it, he's having a really different season than he did a year ago.

This year, because, like, the night or the afternoon that he had yesterday is not atypical of what he's gone through this season.

His expected ERA, which expected ERA is, you know, a metric that's based on, like, exit.

It's all contact, the quality of contact.