Mad Max Returns as Jays Edge Nationals
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How did the Blue Jays secure a 3-2 win over the Nationals to open the series?
All right, Kevin Barker. Well, as we all thought, Max Scherzer started the game. Jeff Hoffman pitched and leveraged a Jays 1. 3-2. I was waiting for a reaction from you. Beating the team with the best offense in baseball somehow, the Washington Nationals. And there you go. The Blue Jays with a win in the first game of a three-game series. 416-870-0590, star 590, 1-888-666-0590. Come on, if we can't have fun, I mean, what's the point? 590-590 is the text line. Where do you want to start with this? Homers from the Jays.
It's nice to get them. It is. Absolutely. You're seeing your buddies swing at sinkers they shouldn't be swinging at. You go up in Urias and get you one that's a little middle away and a little up. Stay square to the target. Stay through it. Think big part of the field. That's where you're supposed to hit sinkers. Get you a good one, you don't miss it. That's exactly what the doctor ordered. The max thing, look, I mean, I don't know what you say about two and two-thirds of 75 pitches and 15 batters. I mean, it could have gotten a lot worse. I mean, when he needed to throw a changeup, he did. I mean, I guess the velocity helped the changeup. Get a few swing and misses. You know, I think he was working both sides of the plate.
Good enough, I guess. I mean, I shouldn't chuckle. What's wrong with me? I mean, he did a good enough job to turn it over to a plethora of arms, and they figured out a way to beat a decent team on the road.
Yeah, they beat a decent offensive team on the road.
One of the best offense in baseball.
Yeah. It's not decent. Maybe the worst pitching staff in baseball, too. But anyhow, he just, you know, he pumped the brakes a little bit here. You know. Max Scherzer starting on his 42nd birthday. Listen, I don't know. I mean, you know, basically... At some point in the past two weeks, just about everybody in this team has been traded by somebody for the most part. I mean, I don't know if you're a contending team. I don't know if you saw enough from Max Jersey that would interest you in the slightest. But if somebody's going to have to, if the Jays do go into the trade deadline and back up the truck, somebody is going to have to pitch. uh in toronto and um yeah you know i i again you you made the point this is the best offense in baseball that they faced and uh they made max work uh a great deal but you know at the end of the day the jays the jays did enough to uh the jays did enough to win and jeff hoffman came in
in the eighth inning, and I know everybody, if you're being honest with yourself, everybody was kind of had their fingers crossed. But, man, that slider, you made the point to me when we were texting back and forth. It just, you see that slider the way it was tonight, and you can see why somebody might be intrigued by Jeff Hoffman.
Oh, absolutely.
He cracked off some slides. I mean, they were unhittable.
First of all, do you think he's really coming in the game in the eighth inning?
Absolutely. Because I didn't. Well, when Spencer Miles was out of the game, yeah, because I didn't think Tyler Rogers was going to go two innings, even though what he threw eight pitches. I didn't think he was going to get. No, I told you when Miles was out, I said, we're going to see Hoffman. I said something else at the same time, but I mean, I said we were going to see Hoffman at that point in time.
So no, I wasn't, I wasn't surprised at all. Yeah. That strike to ball slider that he's got, man, as hard as he throws it, you know, he's got the little extra gear consistently now in the fastball. So you gotta, you gotta trust that thing. And you also, you know, got to see spin quick enough to, to be able to recognize that and lay off of that. I mean, the lanes are longer with that thing. Like he's throwing it with a lot of confidence and, And then once you get you swinging in on that thing, even to lefties, right? I mean, he's throwing that thing to lefties, you know, and it's looking like a slider. That thing's down and in. That just tells you how good it is when he's sort of starting it where he wants to start it, and then he can eliminate you with that run down and away with the split finger like he did in the last pitch to sort of, you know, come off the mound with a little vinegar, which you kind of like.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
How did the Blue Jays secure a 3-2 win over the Nationals to open the series?
0:06–4:56
2
What did Max Scherzer show in his return outing and should he start against the Cardinals?
4:56–11:22
3
Why was Jeff Hoffman effective in the eighth inning and who noticed his slider?
11:22–21:45
4
How did the bullpen sequence Rogers–Hoffman–Varland perform and is that the long-term plan?
21:45–25:08
5
Which players did callers suggest as trade candidates and why would Jiménez be movable?
25:08–29:46
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