JTP: Jon Morosi, Erik Kratz, and Sound the Alarm?
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Why did the Blue Jays' offense stall in Game 1 of the ALCS?
Three for 27. That is not how the Blue Jays hit yesterday. That'd probably be a step up from innings three onward over the last two games. Three for 27 is the success rate of teams that go down 2-0 in a 2-3-2 format. having squandered the two home games. Not a lot of great precedent here. That's what the Blue Jays did in losing 10-3 to the Mariners yesterday. This is JSTOP+. Blake Murphy and Julia Kreutz with you. Julia, aside from our monitor being out, how you doing?
Doing all right. Oh, my goodness. Now you know how I felt for the first month or so of this show. Now, listen, doing well. I know yesterday was ugly. It looked like things would go differently, perhaps, when the Blue Jays found their offense enough to tie that game after Trey Savage allowed that three-run homer early in that ballgame. And listen, it just didn't work out that way. Right, Blake? Again, you see the bats go cold late in that game. It was clear that they had a good game plan against Logan Gilbert. And that was kind of it, which not at all where you want it to be here at this point. And really not, I think, where we expected the Blue Jays to be, Blake. I did not see, even in my wildest nightmares, the Blue Jays falling 2-0 at home to the Seattle Mariners because they've been so good.
So good in that building. Really, all season long, it just escaped them when they really needed it most.
Yeah. My nightmares tend to not be about baseball. They're about more existential things or just really weird things. So I didn't have this happening in my nightmares either. We talked about after the Jays went up two games to nothing against the New York Yankees scoring a record 23 runs that not in your wildest spreadsheets or dreams would you have expected that. You probably aren't expecting this either. The Jays lose 3-1. They lose 10-3. We'll talk about some of the specifics, obviously. Trey Savage wasn't particularly good. He gets pulled. The bullpen's pretty bad. The Blue Jays cannot hit outside of the first two innings, apparently. Just one hit and zero runs from the third inning onward in these last two games.
And yeah, the Mariners are a good pitching team, but... They also just started two guys on short rest. You got six innings from their bullpen yesterday and not the strong parts of their bullpen, the parts of the bullpen that are supposed to be a little softer. And the Blue Jays kind of hit like a team that was down seven runs and was just looking to get on that flight to Seattle. We talked to a lot of the Blue Jays after the game about the mentality they have right now and where they're at. And, you know, they didn't explicitly say this, that, but the thing that they kind of kept coming back to is they led the league in comeback victories yesterday. This year. Now, this is not a comeback victory in a game.
But when you win 49 comeback games over the course of the season, maybe you feel okay about your chances of coming back 2-0 in a series. I would question why it felt incredibly unlikely that they would come back in either of those games. in games one and two I'm not really sure but yeah I don't even know where to start because the way this game played out even though the score was dramatically different a 3-1 game versus a 10-3 game it felt very very similar to game one in terms of okay semi-controversial hook of a starter but not really why they lost bats couldn't get going and you understand some game plan and execution stuff but not really enough to explain just how cold the bats were you want to just talk about Doug Eddings and and insisting on throwing the ball back to the pitcher every time
And, you know, if he's even available for game three, given the pitching workload he threw yesterday.
Yeah, I mean, you know that I'm not one to talk about umpiring and to sort of make it about
that. I'm mostly making a joke about him throwing the ball back. He was bad
as an
umpire, too. But I'm just chirping
the throws. Doing the wrong job there, for sure. Like you said, I mean, maybe that at bat, you know, If Trey Savage gets the called strike three there against Randy Rosarino, we're talking about a different ball game.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Why did the Blue Jays' offense stall in Game 1 of the ALCS?
0:16–12:40
2
How did the early series analysis set the stage for the rest of the show?
12:40–25:32
3
What memories does Rob Ducey share about playing for the Blue Jays and Mariners?
25:32–37:52
4
How did baseball evolve in Canada according to Rob Ducey?
37:52–51:56
5
What insights does Erik Kratz provide about calming the fanbase in Seattle?
51:56–1:04:26
6
What legendary John Schneider story did Erik Kratz recount?
1:04:26–1:15:24
7
How does Jon Morosi preview the upcoming pitching matchups for the series?
1:15:24–1:28:41
8
What are the hosts’ final thoughts on the Blue Jays’ chances to come back?
1:28:41–1:39:55
Speakers
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