5 On It: Which infield is better overall: The Cubs' or the White Sox's? (Hour 3)

episode

Rahimi & Grote Show 41 min 6 speakers 7 chapters transcribed 1 month ago

▲ 0

Transcript

jump: chapters · speakers · find in transcript

Transcript

Transcript generated automatically by AI and may contain errors.

What is the main topic discussed in this episode?

Vinny Rotino 0:01

This hour is brought to you by Vasectomy Clinics of Chicago.

Rahimi Harrison 0:07

What was the biggest aspect of the Cubs' 10-2 win over the Cardinals last night?

Vinny Rotino 0:21

Other than making poor McGreevy look bewildered, I think it had to be the bats.

Mark Grody 0:26

Screw you, McGreevy.

Vinny Rotino 0:27

I mean, I just felt bad for him. It was a credit to Colin Ray for the quality start. Absolutely.

What happened in the Cubs’ 10-2 win and who stood out offensively?

Vinny Rotino 0:33

One earned run, six innings. Heck yeah. That's what you want to see. But more than anything, you want to see the offense just producing hits. Say Suzuki with a three hit day. Alex Bregman with a three hit day. And then we talked about it earlier, you know, not to be outdone, Pedro Ramirez with a three-hit day. Get it done. So when you consider all of that, when you have multiple players with multiple hits, you know, Happ with two hits, Conforto with two hits, that's how you win a ballgame, friends. That's how you win a ballgame, and that's how you show the crowd that actually bothered to show up in St. Louis that it was a bad idea.

Marshall Harris 1:09

I love a good hit parade. And that's what we witnessed in the first two innings of that game. The Cubs are just banging them out, sending them home. What? Home runs? We don't need any home runs. We'll just keep getting hits with runners and scoring. Don't you love that?

Vinny Rotino 1:23

Death by a thousand cuts.

Marshall Harris 1:25

I mean, eight for 17 with the people on second or third base. That is how you win a ball game and do it decisively. Knocking McGreevy out the game. Look, McLovin could have been on the mound and it was going to be bad times for what... I told her what time it is. Exactly. Colin Ray, though, my goodness, that's the best part of this. Colin Ray is not being celebrated enough. And I know people are saying, why are you celebrating a guy with an ERA that's so high at 4.67 this season? Well, because when I go and look and see what he's done this season and see what he's provided, 111 and two-thirds innings pitched... That's a lot. And if you look at his last seven starts, he's gone at least five innings in all seven of those starts.

Marshall Harris 2:13

Only once has he given up more than three runs. And in that start, he gave up four runs. And if you're telling me he's putting together starts where he's given up Three runs or less, six out of seven times, the Cubs are in business. They have a losing record with Colin Ray as the starter. They are 10-12. It doesn't freaking matter.

Vinny Rotino 2:31

Yeah.

Marshall Harris 2:32

Because if Colin Ray's not pitching, you might be 5-17. Just the fact that he's been able to give you innings to the degree which he has, average innings, he's a negative .2 on the war. I don't care. He shows up every fifth game, and that is what is important for this Cubs team. Again, the Cubs have had all kinds of injuries this season when it comes to their starting rotation. But Colin Ray, not only is he giving you the second most innings, second only to Shota Imanaga. You look up and down that list, his 111 and two-thirds in the innings, the next starter is a guy who's not even on the team anymore, Jameson Tylan with 76 innings. The next starter after that, 72 and a third innings out of Edward Cabrera.

Marshall Harris 3:18

And I don't know when he's pitching again, although technically three more rehab starts, he should be out there.

Vinny Rotino 3:23

Whenever those rehab starts take place, that's the hard part.

Marshall Harris 3:27

Colin Ray, give that man his flowers.

Mark Grody 3:30

Number two. Which Chicago baseball team has the better overall infield, the Cubs or the White Sox?

Vinny Rotino 3:39

Okay, so I automatically said the Cubs because I was thinking of playing defense in the infield. And if there's one aspect of the White Sox that is a little... I think it's the defense. So that's why I was going with that. I think offensively, the White Sox have a higher producing infield. But I took it as infield when it comes to quality of defense and the play. So I did choose the Cubs for that reason. Now we have seen more offensive production recently out of Dansby Swanson, out of Alex Bregman. So that makes it easier. You know, Ian Happ, Nico Horner, wrong guest, right station. Nico Horner hit his first home run two days ago that he had had since April. So that was nice to see.