White Sox’s Munetaka Murakami, Tristan Peters earn All-Star reserve spots

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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?

Steve Stone 0:01

Rahimi, Harrison, Grody. It's a team sport. If you're mad about it, you know, take your ass and go play, you know, tennis.

Rahimi Harrison-Grody 0:08

We like sports and we don't care. Who knows? Middays 10 to 2 on 104.3 The Score.

Unknown 0:18

That one's down the line. Tristan Peters, a triple shy of the cycle. Will he go for it? He's rounding, Shefky. Here comes the throw. Tristan Peters, the man of the hour. He's keeping that mic all season long.

Steve Stone 0:39

Pretty amazing. As soon as he started to come to second base, you knew he was going to try it. You don't get a shot at many cycles in this game, and when you do have a shot, you make them throw you out, which is something they couldn't do.

Vinny Rotino 0:54

Congratulations to the all-star Tristan Peters. That was John Triffin and Steve Stone on the call on CHSN.

How did Tristan Peters complete the cycle and earn an All-Star nod?

Vinny Rotino 1:01

And after hitting for the cycle, he found out he was going to be an all-star. Tristan Peters made himself some money in the last, I'd say, 72 hours, Marshall Harris. This is Rahimi Harrison-Grody on 104.3 The Score.

Marshall Harris 1:16

Look, Tristan Peters is a marvel. He is. It's crazy that, first of all, he's only the second Canadian ever to hit for the cycle. Did you know that?

Vinny Rotino 1:26

The cycle is an act of randomness, so nothing surprises me about the randomness of who hits for the cycle.

Marshall Harris 1:33

He's only the third player to complete the cycle by getting the last two hits in the same inning.

Vinny Rotino 1:38

That's the hard part. Because what do we always say? Oh, he's only a triple away for the cycle. It's always a triple. It's always a triple.

Marshall Harris 1:45

They dropped an eight-run inning, and he let off the scoring with a two-run homer. For the career?

1:51

Yeah.

Marshall Harris 1:51

He capped off the scoring in that inning with an RBI triple. That's crazy.

Vinny Rotino 1:56

That's the thing. To get the actual, we say it all the time, oh, you're only a triple away from the cycle. To actually go and get the triple, which is how that felt.

Marshall Harris 2:06

I don't know if you were watching it live or if you just saw what happened on the highlight. So on the highlight, I thought he was going to fall down. He was running so hard. As soon as that ball was called fair down the first baseline, everyone in the ballpark knew what was about to happen. It was just a matter of can he make it?

Vinny Rotino 2:22

Well, and I like the idea of, number one, acknowledging that you knew what was happening. acknowledging that you were a triple away and then also trying to go for it because you had the freedom run differential wise to work with it.

Marshall Harris 2:39

He got the stop sign. He's like, ain't no way.

Vinny Rotino 2:42

And then to have the boldness of going ahead and doing the thing. Sometimes better to be asking for forgiveness than permission. And for him. I don't know if it factored into him getting the all-star nod the next day, but it didn't hurt.

Marshall Harris 3:00

It definitely didn't hurt for him to do it. The cycle I'm talking about still out of the nine hole is crazy and ridiculous because you don't know if you're going to get that. You're not going to get the at-bats, right? So he gets it done in his first four bets. But for some context here, five years ago, This man was taking at bats in the summer with the Savannah Bananas. And in between at bats, he was doing choreographed dances in a kilt. To Britney Spears, baby one more time. That's what this man was doing five years ago. Now, this is before the Savannah Bananas were what they are today as far as the big time traveling team.

Vinny Rotino 3:40

Oh, no, they have some excellent dancers on their team who can do some pretty advanced moves, actually.

Marshall Harris 3:45

But just to let you know where he was, this is his fourth major league team. He got picked up for cash considerations in the offseason.

Vinny Rotino 3:52

Made his debut last year.

Marshall Harris 3:54

Yeah, he made his debut with the Tampa Bay Rays, a team that's known for being very good at deciphering who is and who isn't.

Vinny Rotino 4:01

Yeah, their scouting is very good.

Marshall Harris 4:02

Exactly. But you know what? I don't think they're complaining because they're in first place doing their thing in the American League. They're still good without Tristan Peters. But the fact that he's been given this opportunity where he didn't know if he was going to make the opening day roster and now has turned that into a rookie season in which he is an all-star is bananas.