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Chapter 1: What is discussed at the start of this section?
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Nobody cares. The Dirty Martini is back in the studio, baby. Let's get it! JT Ginn. Will Middlebrooks.
Double off the wall, baby. He was special. He was special.
Hello and welcome to Talking Baseball presented by Fanatics Markets, where fans trade on sports. Fanatics Markets available now on the app stores. I said it already. We don't know where Jake is. He's somewhere in California because he texted me. He's from text me from the gym. That's like what he does. Look pretty good. Pop. Not going to lie. Don't care because we got the dirty martini here.
Jolly, how you doing, big guy? I'm good, man.
I hope Jake's getting his tan on. I'm honored to fill in when Jake goes on vacation. I really am because, you know, that guy, he always deserves a day. And he's been taking them. I'll say that. He's been taking those days. All right? But I'm good. I'm happy to be here with you, Trev.
This one is for a special cause. Shout out Jack Davis. Actually, one of the reasons I am here at John Boy Media is Jack Davis, early investor in the company. I believe a board member. It's his wedding weekend. So snaps for Jack. He's an absolute stud. Love that. We got a lot of ball to talk jolly. We're going to take some liberties today because, look, it's the kids. The kids running it.
Rob Sirocco, Alton Feely, Jolly Olive, Coach Trev, we're doing it. Maybe we won't even talk about the Yankees series. That would be fun.
I don't think we need to.
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Chapter 2: What are the insights on the Tigers' performance?
Game one, Yankees trail 5-3, heading into the seventh. Bellinger with the Yahtzee, and then Jazz strips one off the pole. And the only fans mad were in Drake City. Or maybe I was supposed to say stripes. I don't know. You like that one.
Still got it, folks. He's got his fastball.
Blue Jays rallying the night to make a 7-6 with runners on and one out. But Springer Kays and Vlad grounds out to end it. Game two, more homers for the Yanks as McMahon and Ben Rice make cease pay for some free bases. And then Toronto takes over the series. They flip it in game three. Trey, you savage.
dominates i think you're going to talk about him later so i won't even give what i wrote here uh game four spencer miles i see you blue jays win 2-0 springer with the dinger first time since 1991 toronto won back-to-back road games scoring two or fewer runs i don't know 91 was a great year for me i was five times we're good i don't know about you jolly uh a's take three of four uh from the angels
We got to talk a little bit about it. JT Ginn carries a no hitter in the 10th in game one, 10 strikeouts, 26 to 28 batters retired. But then it's the Adam Frazier and Zach Netto show. Angels get that one on a just devastating game for the A's and then they take the rest of them. Nick Kurtz is going off. It's incredible. We're going to get into it a little bit.
Last series here, Chicago at Seattle Mariners take two or three, but the story is kind of Dan Wilson and the bullpen. I don't know. There's a lot of stuff going on here. Game one, uh, Brian Wu goes six shutout innings and Cole Emerson hits a three run bomb. That's nice. Um, Game two is kind of where it gets interesting. This is the Bryce Miller and Luis Castillo piggyback.
They carry a no-hitter into the six. Castillo takes over. And then Wilson leaves Castillo in a little bit too long. They try to take him out. They can't take him out. What happened? They don't know the rules. White Sox win 2-1. Game three, Parada. That was my timer. That was my timer. Game three, Peretta hits his first career homer to break a tie in the seventh.
Rosarena falls with a two-run shot, and Seattle holds on J.P. Crawford being a good teammate. That's what happened in the AL. Trev. Timer was a little loud right there.
A little loud, but you know what? I think that was one of your better burns ever. We had an all-time line. You nearly nailed the time. Barely any stutters. I'm going to give that a nice little A- right there. That was beautiful. Really good.
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Chapter 3: How are the Guardians performing this season?
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I don't know how much time we got to spend on this one. Ray's really, really good. Orioles not so good. Yeah, I mean, analysis right there. Again, first game, you score 16, and you got Shane McClanahan on the bump. Holy. I mean, you're Baltimore. You go down to Tampa, and that's the first game of a three-game set. That's not good, Pop.
Yeah, I mean, it's really cool to see Shane McClanahan healthy and dealing again. I think let's definitely enjoy that and give that the proper props there. I don't love, I shouldn't say that, but the craziness of the Trevor Rodgers-Cal Stowers trade when they both go at the same time and when they both struggle at the same time. Trevor Rodgers, I don't...
really know what's going on there he looked like he was emerging as a top class starting pitcher in the league but gets tagged again in this outing he's already 6.87 on the year but the Rays are just kind of they're unstoppable right now I just mentioned kind of like how the White Sox feel like they play for each other that's a clubhouse that feeds off each other this Rays team feels like the textbook definition of that right now the amount of hype they get after every run they score and
The top of this lineup just churning out performance after performance. They're an insanely fun team to watch. I think I slept on them way too much in the preseason for the amount of talent in that room. And you know what, man? Them making Griffin Jacks a starter and it working is just unfair. That's video game stuff. That shouldn't work, and it totally is right now.
Well, he was a starter with the Twins. They convert him to a reliever. Here's the thing. Griffin Jacks is just a good fucking pitcher.
Yeah, dude. Yes, dude. It's crazy. He's just going five now.
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Chapter 4: What recent developments are highlighted in the AL standings?
Dodgers take two out of three. Game three, a little something else. San Diego wins game one behind Michael King because he is absolutely disgusting. Game two, Freddie Freeman homers twice to erase a 4-2 deficit. And then we have the Andy Pahas and that. I think we're talking about that later. And game three, it's all Otani pitching and hitting again. First pitch of the game, homer.
Jackson Merrill got hurt on that play. Watch out. Otani, .73 ERA. Tatis, big double play in that one. to squash a rally uh pittsburgh at st louis pirates take two out of three cardinal steel game one with an ivan herrera walk-off three-run bomb in the 10th electric you were there i was in the city not that game but i was okay St. Louis improves a 7-1 in extra innings. Then Pittsburgh takes over.
Game two, Majinski throws five scoreless. Griffin, our guy, goes four for five. Ryan Reynolds rakes with runners on, as always. Then game three, Brandon Ashcraft ties his career high with nine strikeouts. And it ended. Bob ended. Don't keep playing the music. Pirates win two out of three. Don't yell at Bob. A lot of people talking to me.
Pirates shouldn't be above the Cardinals in the power rankings. They're my power rankings.
You're getting feisty. You're yelling at Bob. You're yelling at the fans. I didn't like that from you. I'm going to give that burn a C+.
I wanted to get snaps for being on time.
I'll give you snaps, but to lash out at Bob that way makes me look differently at you. We need to go golfing again soon. Jelly, give me the standings. I can give you the standings. I'm going to start in the East because the Braves run the world. They run the world, and we just happen to live in that same world. They're 35-16, and why did we expect anything different?
They already have a 9.5 game lead in the division. That's fucked up. That shouldn't be a thing. That's super effed up, man. The Phillies, though, back at 500. New manager, Don Mattingly. They did lose the series, but they're 25-25. The Nats right behind them. Best offense in baseball. Some people are saying not many. 25-26.
And then the Mets bringing up the rear here, 22-28, just ahead of your Miami Marlins at 22-29. We've got a seller battle that's coming up on the weekend. Mets-Marlins there. Central, the Brewers. They're inevitable. They went to Wrigley. They got the sweep. They're 29-18. Why would you ever doubt them? They beat the Cubs, who weren't losing at home ever. They're now 29-21.
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Chapter 5: What are the latest updates on pitching performances in the NL Cy Young race?
And then he had big-time command issues. And he needed to settle in and find himself as a pitcher. He's doing that now. And I think you can mention his name amongst... This NL Cy Young race, Chris Rose kind of pointed this out to me. It's going to be a really fun one. You got Otani doing – he wants to win it. He's doing great things. Mizorowski's great. Chase Burns is kind of a wild card there.
Skeens is going to be in it. Then you got – I mean, is Kyle Harrison going to enter the chat? Christopher Sanchez is there. It's going to be a dogfight for this. But Mizorowski will be right there. When they're pitching like the way they can, which is pretty much all the time, and then they've got their offense churning – What are you going to do?
What are you going to do?
You can make all the postseason jokes that you want, but this is a very, very good baseball team.
Jacob Mizorowski in the month of May, 24 and a third innings, no earned runs, 37 strikeouts to five walks. That feels pretty good. That feels Cy Young caliber. We were in the building for game one. I got to see that Jake Bowers home run clank off the scoreboard. Sight to behold.
Oh, I thought that one went over. And when I was watching, they said it went over on the broadcast.
No, I had a, we had a perfect view. We were right field line. So they both went off like the tippy top of the scoreboard, but either way, they were both absolute bombs by the brewers.
And that's, that's really, I think a telling sign for me is like, you know, they can pitch, obviously, you know, they have the depth there and you know that they can produce runs, but when they also slug like this, that's when they become, you know, arguably the best team in baseball.
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Chapter 6: How did the Brewers manage to sweep the Cubs?
I was pretty shocked by this series. I'm not going to lie. The Cubs have been playing really good ball as of late. They, They had maybe the best home field advantage in baseball considering their win streak there. They had won 15 games in a row at Wrigley before the Brewers came in and it completely rained on their parade. Just really, I mean, the PCA stuff is a, that was a tough scene there.
It was the first time that, you know, I had been field access for a Cubs thing and I didn't see PCA out there. So I think he was dealing with it in his own way, which was,
tough I wanted to say hi but I you know to each their own obviously there but the Brewers man they look like they have cultivated their identity you saw every leg of the Kyle Harrison trade shine in the series between Joe Hahn and then David Hamilton had a big offensive game so that's a tough scene for the Red Sox there but I'm sure they're not thinking about that
uh the brewers though it's kind of what we said about the guardians and the tigers like the cubs are a great team but it feels like the foil to all their flaws resides in their own division and the brewers and it's just you saw it again here um it's a long season these two teams are going to match up again but you know the brewers kind of made this series a laugher what is this ed walsh stat i'm looking at
You don't know about Ed Walsh, bro?
There's just kind of like no context right here.
30 plus strikeouts with no extra base hits and no runs allowed in a four-outing span since 1900.
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Chapter 7: What are the implications of the Cubs' defensive struggles?
It's Miz and Ed Walsh.
There was a page break. I didn't zoom out.
You got it. I got your back, bro. Don't worry about it.
Ed Walsh in 1910. Gotta love that. He had Mizorowski just blowing cheese. He had three more strikeouts on pitches at 101 or above. He's got 28 in his career during the regular season and postseason. It's one shy of Hunter Green for the most in the pitch tracking era. So he's just throwing absolute cheese by guys and the walk rate.
down over this um this this stretch he's on you mentioned five walks in those innings that's big time especially when you're caning guys the way that he has cubs got a hit with runners in scoring position they haven't been able to do that and brewers just brewers looking great man and also like the brewers have been protecting ms with his pitch counts too he's throwing he threw 84 in his first outing 90 plus in the middle two of may but then 74
through six innings, and they still pulled the plug on him. So I think they're conscious of, you know, this is a young guy. I don't know if innings limits are still really a thing in baseball. I always think of Steven Strasburg when that pops into the brain. But, yeah, they get a great performance from him. Kyle Harrison we're going to talk about a little bit later, so we'll save that.
Cubs, biggest thing here, they beat themselves in the final game. Three errors. That is not the Cubs' identity. They're one of the best defensive teams in baseball, and when that happens, you can tell they're shooting themselves in the foot a little bit. Cubs will be fine, but, you know, you got to find a way to beat the best in your division.
Cabrera, as I mentioned, comes out with a blister. He's not worried about it. I mean, he might miss a day. He might get pushed back a day or two.
It was definitely scary in the moment because the Cubs rotation has been hampered by injury more than any other team in baseball. So if it's just one start, I think you take that as a Cubs fan.
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Chapter 8: What are the standout performances from the recent series?
I mean, Freddie Freeman said it was one of the best at-bats he's ever seen, and I'm hard-pressed to argue with him. Nine pitches, Andy Pa has, you know, goes down 0-2 immediately, and when you go down against Mason Miller, I can find the stats.
That's the most shocking part is that right there.
Yeah, I'm going to try and find the split because I'm sure that was probably the first, like, ball put in play from a guy down 0-2 against Mason Miller. Let me see if I can pull this up.
I tried to get this up. Don't know how to find it. It's got to be the most pitches Mason Miller has thrown in at-bats.
When you're in an 0-2 count against Mason Miller, hitters are one for 23 with 18 strikeouts this year. So you're done. You're done. If you fall behind against Mason Miller to that extent, you are done. And the fact that Paz was able to still muscle a ball to the outfield. Obviously, there were some tough waist pitches here. He yanked a slider later in the about as well to even the count.
But still, for Andy Paz to stick in there and battle the way he did, it's probably the best at-bat we've seen this year because all eyes have been on Mason Miller all year long.
Um, just a phenomenal job by the Dodgers to get back. Great at bat by Andy Pines here. Will Klein retires the Padres in order in the ninth, like this showing bullpen depth there, um, which, you know, I guess, you know, last year, if you look back at like what was expected out of Dodgers bullpen and what actually happened, it wasn't a strong suit for them.
Will Klein ended up being a postseason kind of hero. I was at that game in the world series, but yeah, They found a way to get it done this year. Tanner Scott's been great. Now Will Klein. Edwin Diaz has obviously not been great for them. It doesn't matter. They just have it. I continuously say this, and people are like, well, great hot take, Trev. I'm like, this is the best roster in baseball.
It's not supposed to be a fucking hot take. Real spicy.
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