Ken Rosenthal’s TOR-NY report, Phillies heat meter, Judge’s epic HR

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Speaker 1: Oh, this is going to be a good day or elimination games today. We could have four teams bounced, or we could keep moving on with a couple of those series. Scott Braun, Eric Kratz, Trevor May will talk more about a postgame show that we're going to do, but right now we are at pregame show because there's four games starting at three o'clock East Coast time as the first one, but we'll focus on a night matchup as we hit the Inside Scoop. The Inside Scoop is presented by Lidd's primetime FT senior insider Ken Rosenthal with us right now. As the Yankees Blue Jays series continues. Ken, I'm sure they'll ask you about Game two and Judge and all that. I actually want to game three. I actually want to start with Game four pushing forward, How do you think the script is set for the Blue Jays? What has to happen for them to pull off what many would look at as a pretty big upset in this game for the way the pitchings matched.

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Speaker 2: Up, I'm not exactly sure how the pitching is going to unfold. They're starting Lewis Varland, which is a bit of a surprise, I would say, considering he allowed the game tying home run to Judge three run shot and the go ahead home run last night by Jash Chisholm Junior. But I'm sure it's a matter of get right back on the horse and let's go.

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Speaker 3: It's gonna be one inning.

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Speaker 2: It's gonna be the first inning most likely, obviously one inning, most likely, and from there I'm not exactly sure. And we talked about this a little bit on the broadcast last night. Treya Savage will be on two days rest, coming off seventy eight pitches on the road in a hostile environment. Kevin Gossman, we don't know exactly if he's in play. He would be on three days rest, and clearly he is someone who has done this before. He's more experienced than you. Savage is Which of those two, if either of them will come into play or both, we don't know exactly yet. John Schneider said last night, as you might expect that everyone is in play, and I would expect that to be the case. I'm sure they have a plan, and I'm sure it involved their lefties and probably Eric Lauer for a good chunk of this game. But we'll see how this plan unfolds, because of course what happens on the field is going to dictate in part how Schneider runs his pitching staff.

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Speaker 4: You mentioned Louis Arland is starting tonight. Louis Arland's reaction to the pitch that you threw that when you talked to him that he threw to Aaron Judge, who ended up hitting the home run.

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Speaker 2: Well, actually I wasn't the one to talk to him, but he did give this quote out to a number of writers and he said it was a really good pitch that Judge made look really bad. And that's a great assessment of it, because the pitch was well inside, as Sarah Lang's reported last night, it was one point two feet inside from the center of home plate. That's a good distance and it was astonishing to me when I looked at the game day and saw where the pitch was that far in that Judge was able to get his hand in and he was able to keep the ball fair hit it off the foul pole. And when I went into the Yankees clubhouse afterward, my intent was to ask as many players as I could just their impressions of that. And Paul Goldschmidt one of the more understated guys in the game. He says, it's the best swing I've ever seen, definitely in person, maybe of all time. When Paul Goldschmid says that, that to me means something and the other players were equally astonished. I asked Stanton, I said, hey, could other players do that? And he goes, show me video, show me video of someone else doing that. That's how impressed his own teammates were by that particular swing, in that particular moment, and that whole thing that went down right then.

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Speaker 5: You it was one of the more impressive homers I've ever seen. I mean, the guy swings a two tone bat and it hit the handle side and he still hit it out. There's not many guys who could do that big home run, but I think it was even bigger because of the very palpable momentum swing that it represented. With the game being tied at that point, the guy with all the homers doing it finally in the playoffs, and from your perspective, that momentum shift obviously went through for through the rest of the game. What is it going to take offensively for Toronto to pull that back like they had in the first two games. What are you looking for to have that tone set early in this game?

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Speaker 3: For Trevor, it's a good question.

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Speaker 2: And Cam Schlitzler is someone who is coming off one of the best starts we've ever seen in the postseason or any other time, the eight inning performance against the Red Sox. But you go back to September fifth, that was his second start against the Blue Jays of his career. This tonight will be the third time he is facing the Blue Jays, and it's the first time he's ever seen a team three different times.

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Speaker 3: That's where we are.

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Speaker 2: And in that game against the Blue Jays, they fouled off twenty four pitches. He threw sixty six pitches and ending in two thirds. So I don't know that he's going to be the same guy tonight that we saw in September. He's going to have to make some adjustments and he won't be the same guy he was in Boston when he overwhelmed or against Boston when he overwhelmed them with his fastball. So they obviously had some degree of success against Schlitler. They knocked him out of the game after one and two thirds innings, and the cat and mouse game resumes tonight, right, how is he going to adjust to them?

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Speaker 3: How will they adjust to him?

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Speaker 2: They have been an offensive juggernaut in this series until the latter innings last night, when the Yankees bullpen shut them down pretty well. So that, to me is the interesting part, how the Jays kind of rebound. All teams experienced tough losses during the season, the Jays, the Yankees, every team. They're accustomed to doing this. It's not like they're devastated psychologically. But at the same time, they had a six to one lead and a potential sweep in their hands and it didn't happen.

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Speaker 1: Ken more questions for you about Toronto's pitching Number one. Do you think there was any consideration for going with Gossman here on short rest or there's just too much history with this not working, because you do have your Savage for Game five on full rest if you wanted to go that way. And part two. And I was on Toronto Radio this morning and they asked, and I was trying to ask them back, like what is the status of Chris Bassett and Schurzer? I think was healthy. Do you think that they could have used one of those guys even if they didn't feel like the stuff looked as crisp as it normally does for Shurzer at the end of the year. And I don't know what Bassett situation was, but now you're looking like a bullpen game here.

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Speaker 2: As for Gossman, yes, they could use him, but they're not going to use him as a starter.

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Speaker 3: And Scott, you're absolutely right.

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Speaker 2: The history of starters on three days rest is abysmal in the postseason, and I was surprised the Cubs did it with Boyd. I know they had limited options obviously, so I don't expect Gossman to pitch in that kind of role if he pitches at all. And he is a guy also who has said he prefers extra rest, and he would be on extra rest in Game five if necessary, so maybe he's Savage is the choice tonight, but again Gossman is the more experienced pitcher now. As for the decision on Scherzer and Bassett, Scherzier hasn't pitched all that well, so they felt that they preferred four lefties in the bullpen in this scenario with the Yankees left handed hitters to give John Schneider more weapons to play with.

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Speaker 3: As these games proceeded.

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Speaker 2: Chris Bassett was coming off an injury, not fully built up yet, so he wasn't as much of a consideration. I would expect both will be considerations if the.

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Speaker 3: Blue Jays advanced.

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Speaker 2: But the key thing was they wanted the four lefties in the pen, and tonight, as they play this matchup game with the Yankees, which is what this is going to be, it could work to their advantage.

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Speaker 4: Can the bullpen stop this lineup? They have scored nine I think it's fourteen runs against the bullpen and they have a bullpen game if they do stop this lineup. Is this bullpen built to continue to push the Blue Jays on the rest of the way, because you can't continue in a seven game series the way they've been going, because they're just gonna get depleted.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely right, Eric, And we didn't see Sir Anthony Domingez last night. We didn't see Jeff Hoffman, we didn't see some of their other relievers who we will see tonight. It's going to be interesting because the bullpen was a question coming into it, not so much because of the.

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Speaker 3: Setup types like Varlin and Domingas. They're pretty happy with those guys.

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Speaker 2: Hoffman has been a guy who allowed I believe, the most home runs by an American League reliever fifteen home runs this season, So he is a concern. But as for holding the Yankees down tonight, I don't know. It's not going to be easy.

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Speaker 3: Obviously.

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Speaker 2: Yankee Stadium is a much different environment clearly than Rogers Center, and it's going to be a challenge for the Blue Jays. They're not in an ideal situation here against Cam Schlitzler, for sure, But at the same time, trying to predict these games, trying to predict what might happen is a fool's errand and I'm not even going to attempt it.

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Speaker 1: It is full of decision making. Ken, We'll be watching have a great broadcast tonight, Thanks for swinging by.

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Speaker 3: Thanks Scott.

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Speaker 5: Love it? Love it? Anytime I can look at Tom I'm I'm happy.

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Speaker 1: Yes, Tom looks back. Jaw wow, chiseled. Chiseled Tom on Sundays pier Zink on many weekdays on games and Saturdays throughout the regular season. Hey, Trevor, we talked a lot yesterday about Quinn Priester and jameson ty On and the next matchup for the Cubs and Brewers Game three. Thoughts on this series so far? And do the Cubs have a chance.

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Speaker 5: Well, I was high on the Cubs. I thought this would go down to the wire. They're still hopeful that happening. And I think the Cubs have come out swinging right. They set the tone early in the game. It's just you got to get those shutdown innings. The pitcher has to go out and throw a zero so that you can hold that momentum. And got to give credit to the Brewers. They're doing exactly what they've been doing all year. Like this is they are as advertised. First game they won, they gave up three home runs and they hit only two extra base hits and they won nine to three. So that's like the way they play the game, and they've they've been playing it this series so far. So it's gonna be interesting to see how if they were able to whittle down tie On. He threw their last elimination game, got the job done against the Padres. So looking for that magic again. But you know, the Cubs can they can swing it, and they can put up crooked numbers, but they need to put up more than the just the one inning. They're able to do that a couple of times. They maybe scrape the game across here. I mean, you gotta go to one before you can go three two, you know what I mean?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe some wind on their side, some dangers, use them dangers to try and win.

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Speaker 4: Take when is it coming in? Blowing in, blowing in sixteen miles per hour.

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Speaker 1: Thanks mostly hitting postseason stuff, but breaks give us an opportunity to mix in news, Dana Brown and Joe Spota GM and manager are returning for twenty twenty six. A source confirming to Chandler Romy said there had been growing uncertainty within the organization for the last week about their futures. We Taggert was first on it. Hmmm, Kratz, that's weird. Joe Spota and Dana Brown. What the Asters missed the playoffs one time?

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Speaker 4: I mean they just barely missed the playoffs. They were in it if the Mariner and cal Raley didn't get absolutely scorching hot and they didn't have Hater, they essentially didn't have your Don Alvarez, and the ownership made them get rid of Kyle Tucker Alex Bregman, and then they lost ISA parades like there was a lot of big boy injuries and they came really close. I was really confused that that mctiger said that though it was like, oh yeah, you know, there was growing concerns something would change. What like was somebody to come and poach those dudes? Somebody wants to win.

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Speaker 5: It's weird, Trevor, I mean it's weird. But also at the same time, like like five different teams fire sailed all all teams that didn't perform as well as they would have this last year, a lot of managers and jams were going. So you know, when you see a bunch of other organizations, like I don't know, like a sixth of the organizations in the league doing it, a lot of which that were supposed to be contenders and fell out of the contention right at the end, similar to the Astros. I mean, it's it's understandable that the people maybe in question, we're starting to question that. I mean, that makes sense to me, but they're good. Keep what you got, hey.

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Speaker 4: None of them. They're all terrible. They're all terrible for tailgating.

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Speaker 5: Maybe La, That's what I was gonna say.

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Speaker 3: La.

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Speaker 5: La is the best one.

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Speaker 4: I mean right, But you're can be sitting traffic to go tailgate, So I guess it has to be La. Everybody else is like a parking garage.

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Speaker 5: Detroit parking garage. There's yeah parking in the Bronx. Are you kidding?

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Speaker 1: No tailgate at a bar in the Bronx.

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Speaker 4: Charge?

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Speaker 1: Okay, let's charge first off, Trevor, I need your take on Louis Varland against Aaron Judge. It changes the series. It's judges big pop moment.

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Speaker 5: Right.

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Speaker 1: He had been smacking singles left and right. What happened here?

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Speaker 5: He just got them like he just got got I mean one hundred miles an hour foot in off the plate. Judge. The slow mo on the umpires cam, right, we have that in the playoffs a lot, and which is awesome to see. They have a point of contact. Judge uses the two tone bat with the dark barrel and the lighter wood on the handle, and he hit this thing on the light side of the bat like he hit off the handle. There's nobody in the league. I think that it is. Besides, maybe there's maybe a handful of guys that are strong enough hit the ball there and keep it fair and get it over the fence. Like he just does stuff like that and it's really frustrating and you don't want to do it in that situation. And yeah it was of course it was a misspot, but that's the spot that you're supposed to be safe and so you know, and then it to be one hundred. I mean, we know JD just can hit fastballs, but he also swings and miss his plenty at him as well. So it's just one of those things where he did it right at the right moment and you just got you just got beat on a pitch that you're not going to get beat on very often. You may not get beat on that pitch again in your career.

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Speaker 4: I mean, not at one hundred. I Actually, we can pull his hands in. That's incredible. It's incredible. So many things are incredible. A lot of guys can get to this ball and it might go over the over The visiting team dugout into the upper deck and everyone's like, whoah, that's amazing for him to be able to keep this fair and hit the fair pole is amazing. And I'm looking at his true media plot chart that dots every one of his home runs, and obviously it's a freaking cavalcade of home runs. But in that exact same area, he has seven other home runs this year in that exact same area. Eighty six mile an hour slider, a ninety seven min hour fastball from Kevin Graveman. That was actually no, I'm sorry, that was two thousand and that was twenty two.

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Speaker 5: That he hit that.

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Speaker 1: That's Kendall.

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Speaker 4: But yes, what I say, Kevin, Kevin Kendall Graveman, Kevin's in the miles. Oh yeah, bo brisky bo briskey eighty nine miles per hour, seventy seven from Dean Kramer back in twenty one. So you get the idea, nobody's throwing that joint ninety nine, let alone keeping it fair. And like there's I will go against what Trevor said. There is nobody you like, you kind of hesitated, You're like trying to think throughout the game.

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Speaker 5: I mean I show nobody, I mean show hey, yeah, show but show hey. You're right, he has more of a he has to pull the barrel through, more like he more of a you know Judge stays inside the ball's better, so like he would have probably pulled a foul I just the way he swings and where that pitch was and where he hit it on the bat only Aaron Judge swing and him being six to seven and the strongest human being in the league, those two things combined pretty sound. Run and nobody and he chased.

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Speaker 4: He chased the pitch all the time. Everyone's like, oh, it's the postseason, Like he wants to do more for his team. Duh, he wants to ring. He wants to do more for his team. He knows, like we get like, you can't have it both ways. You can't be like Juan Soto never swings out of the zone. So that's why he doesn't come up huge for his team. Aaron Judge is swinging out of the zone. That's why he doesn't come up huge for his team. No, he knows what is at stake. Aaron Judges known what is at stake all last offseason or all postseason, last year, the year before. He knows that he's struggled, but he also knows he's got to get the job done. If they're throwing to him, he's got to get the job done, so hey, he chased, but you know what else. I think he's in five seventy one this series, so layoff Aaron Judge and his legacy is still dictated on him winning a World Series or not winning a World Series.

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Speaker 3: You know.

00:22:33
Speaker 1: It also stood out. The Blue Jays won the team Gold Glove the last two years and their defense was still rated very high.

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Speaker 5: This year.

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Speaker 1: They debt with some injuries like Barshow missed a good chunk of time. But he's here now, right, Barshow's here, Kirk's here. Jimenez might be the best or one of the best at his position or one of the best middle infielders, right, Like, there's plenty of good defenders there, but their defense was atrocious last night, Trevor. I mean they looked like what some people make fun of the Yankees about more last year, right, but a little bit this year. You've had some sloppiness. The Yankees had that in a series against the Blue Jays. How uncharacteristic was that? And did one of them stand out to you? You know, the IKF error right away gets you a run. Of course, the Barger miss or you could blame the left fielder at that point, I think it was Schneider out there and left your thoughts on what you saw defensively.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean I think the IKF was the most surprising one. And it's again, you want to set the tone early. You're going to make the player you're supposed to make. And you the Yankees are a team. You know, I played against them a lot and Kratz can back me up on this, like they are, they have always been and they will continue to be. Give them an inch and they'll take a mile. Like, just don't give them an opening, and that's how you beat them. You have to you have to make the player you're supposed to make. If you make errors in the Bronx, like, it just feels like it's ten times worse than it is. And so I would say that one kind of was like, uh, I don't I don't like the tone that that set. And then obviously we have the judge Homer that then flips some momentum even more their way even after they've been swinging it right. The Barger one was interesting, but I would say that it's probably Schnyder didn't look the most comfortable I've ever seen anyone in left field. Right, he caught a couple of balls that were iffy coming in the wind. Maybe was a little bit weird, but Barger was calling off a ball that he probably shouldn't have been catching with how wonky everything was being. And then you know they had centend aeron right. We saw the weird dive lay there, belly flop thing that happened there as well that looked awkward. So like, it's not like they had their best options in the corners and they just happened to have the plays that they needed to make hit in those directions. So they still had bar shown center and I would say I would still put my money on them being very defensively sound starting tonight as well. Just there was just a couple very There were momentum shifts as well as miscues, and you can get away with a couple of miscues sometimes, but if it's a if it shifts a momentum or doesn't set the tone in the right way, that's just going to be played up, you know, times ten in the Bronx. It's just it's really hard to get it out of your head if you were the one that does it.

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Speaker 4: I thought the play by Vlad was a good play. You got the out, didn't let the run score. But if that's an automatic double play and you're up by I think at that time they were up by two no three. To me, you get the two outs because the ball was hit really hard to him and he decided to cut the run down and try to get greedy and not let not let judge score. But you could have had bases empty, one run in and two outs. That is a huge to me. That was a momentum shift too.

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Speaker 1: I want to hit the bullpen situation, Trevor. The Yankees bullpen went six and two thirds scoreless three, it's nine punch outs. You're like, damn, this bullpen looks like it's back on for this one, and it's actually the Blue Jays bullpen. They get smashed and then has to roll out a bullpen game against the Yankees. I think a lot of people are looking at this matchup as lopsided. Yes, Schlitzler got hit pretty good by Toronto about a month ago. He's learned a little bit since then. But thoughts on where we stand with pitching.

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Speaker 5: It's definitely interesting because I think that the one of the weaknesses going into the playoffs where the Toronto specifically was their bullpen. We knew about, you know, the Yankees and there their struggles. But Devin Williams has been good so far and Bednar has rose to the occasion, which was a question mark, you know, career career has been in Pittsburgh. They haven't even sniffed a playoff series, so what was going to be like in this situation. And he's been great. He's been as advertised, He's done a great job in that role. So I think they're feeling more and more confident those guys. Honestly, the X factor for me, the guy who didn't pitch as much in the first couple of games in the first series. Kimill He's he's a he is a tough guy to face in the playoffs because he's just there's no one like him. He doesn't throw hard like everyone else is hard. He throw a submarine like and he's he's funky. And there's lefties, some bopper lefties that they need to get out, you know, get rid of Barger out of there, get Ernie clement in like he's gonna he's kind of been that a little bit. He's thrown well, so like they're getting quality outings devolves a little bit better. Uh, it's just going to come down to can Louis Varlin set the tone again? Is this going to be another two run inning to start the game and then a three nothing? Then you got to figure it out because if they're working from behind, you're putting more pressure on the offense against a guy who is dialed in, Like that's for me what it's going to come down to. And then how are they going to finish the game with Jeff Hopmin going to be the guy they go to or they just waiting to give it to him? When do they deploy their leverage guys in Sir Anthony deming guys like they have these options. But it's going to be it's gonna be really interesting to see if this is a tie game, if that changes, or if they're just running, you know, every single inning from the third inning on its leverage. If they have a lead, my guess is they will do that. They will, they will fully lean in on that. But if they're behind, how much does that change things? And then how does that set them up for Game five? I you know the Yankees can push the momentum here, it's dangerous for the for the Blue Jays.

00:28:07
Speaker 1: Thirty seconds krats, last word, Cam Schlitzler, Rerack what you told us recently? And do you think that it will play out that way? How much more difficult would the Blue Jays be than the Red Sox.

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Speaker 4: They showed it last time. Twenty foul balls they faced some last time of twenty foul balls. He kept trying to run the ball high up in the zone. He's going to have to get out at the bottom of the zone. Strikeouts and sing and swings and missus.

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Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, last time was not good for him. It was September fifth against Toronto regular season, though for Schlitler overall, the numbers are good and the wild card was one of the better performances in the playoffs that we've seen. Eight innings nowhere and runs and twelve strikeouts for him in that matchup against Boston. We'll see part two for him on our way out here. Promo for Pinstripe Territory one more time, please yes, Derek Lewandowski after this one again either talking about what will be a Game five if the Yankees win, or he will be nailing the coffin on the Yankees twenty twenty five season. Yankees are pretty heavily favored in this one. Yeah, the pressure cooker is at a red alert right now for the Philadelphia Phillies as we talk about the Dodgers and Phillies matching up. That's the late game tonight and it's a chance for the Dodgers to sweep Philly. So, Trevor, first off, the stars haven't been stars for Philadelphia. Do you think that has more to do with the Dodgers pitching or with Kyle Schwarber, Bryce Harper and Trey Turner not showing up in big spots right now? Two for twenty one to eleven strikeouts in the NLDS.

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Speaker 5: You know, I'll say it's fifty to fifty. I mean, you know to say Kyle for like, what come on, man, show up. It's only Otawni and Lake. Snell was the hardest lefties for lefties to hit. The exists right, who was absolutely sharp as I've seen him in a while. Think the ball was jumping out of his hands, so it didn't surprise me. Lazaro is the same way frankly. So we're seeing a trend here in the playoffs, right, We're like the Mariners have won won some games. Juli Driguez and Ralely need to be leading that charge. They have been. The Aaron Judge leading the charge he has been. Vladimir Gara Junior needs to leave the charge. He has been like, you need your guys that you that you pay to do that job to lead your lead the charge. And they just haven't gotten it yet. But there is always still time. There's a right in the Mount of Yamamoto, a better matchup for both Harper and Schwarber with the lefties. Right. So you know we were a four hit, four or five hits from them. Those two away from taking a game at their place against a tough a tough starting pitcher. If you can shift that momentum, you can get you can get a get going. But like it's it's we're now back against wall. This is the final chance. The first two times didn't work. You had a lead, it didn't happen. We got Ti Oscar and Ez is just he's turning the miss October as well at this point. So like they're there are need and the Dodgers are also getting the production that they expect from the top of their own lineup right. It's not like everyone needs that. They only need the top three guys to do all the work. Hek is doing what he always does, which I can't wait till the studies for that come out when he's retired and we get to see that thirty to thirty. But like, you know, it's got you need it. You Ney, Bryce Harper is the MVP, and you need Kyle Sharber to to, you know, be the guy who's probably going to be second place in the MVP body, and they just they can't win without it.

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Speaker 4: It doesn't take much, just takes one swing. Takes one swing, but you got to hit a dinger off of a dude in. Yamamoto really has so many different weapons. To me, if I look at the matchup, I say Phillies can't hit spin. They really struggle with spin. It's not fair to say Blake Snell's spin because he was throwing it in ninety one mile hour slider that was breaking more than a pitch that's looking like that should break. And he's nasty all the time because that curveball is always in there and he'll go left or left change ups. But Yamamoto, if he just sticks fastball split, I think the Phillies have a better chance because they stay out through the ball a little bit. If he's spinning it, if he's running that cutter up and in to those guys, they can't get up there. And I have a tough time seeing Yamamoto and Rovett if he's back there, or Will Smith if he's back there, saying oh yeah, we're not going to really spin him to death. We're just gonna throw a lot of splitters and see if we can get the heater by them. Phillies got to come out early and get the lead like they have, but then they have to put them away. They've not done a good job of stringing at bats together. It's going to be so tough tonight.

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Speaker 1: Pitching wise, do you guys feel like this is the right move with Nola and then Ranger Suarez And how quickly that could shift from Nola to Ranger Suarez. I mean some people are thinking Nola might be an opener like three to six or nine outs, you know, first one to three innings maybe right, Does that sound on track, because I mean Suarez can get on a roll.

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Speaker 5: They both can. I mean, Nola was good at the end of the year. He had had a great start against the Mets. His last three starts were strong. It was not a great year for him. But one thing you're gonna not see is him. He's not gonna melt down. He's not gonna show any emotion. He's gonna have zero motion on his face. Maybe a little disappointment from timetime, but he's not going to be overwhelmed by the by the atmosphere or the situation. And neither is Ranger Suarez. So those two guys are going to, at least from the mental side of the game, be as dialtant as they can be at this point, and they're just such different looks that that those are two webs you can have now you're you would love to not have to go to Rangersuarros and have him for game potential game four that I think that's ideal. But Nola has, you know, every every opportunity in the world to get going, get cruise and get guys to hit it at people, get the get your just he he can absolutely paint that zone and that I feel like that is that is better than stuff at this point in the year because everyone's throwing a hundred, they're seeing everyone seeing every other pitches one hundred miles an hour. Maybe a little bit of the other other way might be more effective in this situation, you might be economical and really take some wind out of the sales. So that's what they need to do. They need that out of Nola. If he only goes nine hitters, things probably aren't going good for the Phillies.

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Speaker 4: I would disagree. I think as soon as anything happens, Nola's out. And I think that's why Nola's starting, because if Nola's starting, or if Rangers starting, then Nola would come in afterwards and you just never Nole has had so many one inning blow ups that here in the postseason. As soon as he gets anything, as soon as he gets anything out there, bang, you're going right to Ranger. And to me, if you get six innings out of the two of them, that is a win and the Phillies move on to Game four.

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Speaker 1: The Philly Show has been talking about this team, and they're also therapeutic for those Philly fans that need it with the way that the home environment has been not just in the postseason, but really all regular season long, and fans are feeling pissed off. I mean, it doesn't take much to piss off a Philly fan and make them boo. And you're certainly getting it right now. So make sure you check out The Philly Show part of the FT Network YouTube wherever you get your pods. Okay, a little news off the field. Paul Toboni takes over for the Washington Nationals. He's leading the front office and apparently there are a lot of changes going on. This is the perfect time to do it. I mean, I know it's not fun, but when there's postseason baseball going on, most other baseball news gets pushed under the rug. Andrew Golden said the Nats are making sweeping changes to their front office today, Among them, assistant GM Mark ski Laba and farm director Eddie Alangos have been formed they aren't returning next season, and Parry ver Luga a lot of tough names here, guys. I mean, come on, Barry's been around covering the team for a while. He said, one scout told him it's a bloodbath. I mean, he's going to get his own people in there. Trevor. Plus, we're going through changes, as it is with the sport, so it's not good. And the Nats are making this change because they weren't happy with how many players were being produced through the system. Whether it's fair or not for the team to be quietly up for sale and them just trying to do things to tread water until the next CBA when they can actually sell the team.

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Speaker 5: All right, there's a lot of moving pieces going. You have to do something. We're seeing this a lot like remember with the Twins. Before the season, they're like, are we selling or we're not selling? Can we sign any players? Can we do anything? And then we have the season go of the way and they're like, ah, we're gonna get rid of everybody and we're going to kind of sell the team like that kind of uncertainty makes running a major league organization and trying to win almost impossible, especially if you are the one making personnel decisions. So the least you can do is bring in a group of people that are all on the same page and that are comfortable communicating their process moving forward, and that everyone is going to be able to put that process in play so they can develop players. You're going to need that no matter who owns the team and no matter who's making the decisions, you need that. So a lot of these decisions come down to that. Really the big interesting ones are there's a lot of teams that also got rid of their or front offices all the way down to the manager. Also when they had that kind of change of the command kind of lined up and and it was a lot of execution. And sometimes it's optics. Sometimes it's actual like process that they don't like, or the communications batter if there's someone in there that's not being stubborn or whatever. Like it's hard to tell, but you know, it's it's a wait and see situation and and you just kind of try to guess what your ownership is trying to do or what kind of they're kind of play they're trying to make as best you can. But you know, at least this is something happened, right, something something new is there. So it's wait and see what kind of process they have.

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Speaker 1: Okay, let's slap shall we. First off, we'll get to a little bit of news here. So the Rays have a new ownership group. Patrick Zelevsky spoke and he said item number one new ballpark. Shocker. We can show the tweet from Mark Topkin, but I mean that is what the city is waiting for. You had a lot to say in the intro press conference, but most interesting, aggressive and perhaps audacious.

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Speaker 5: That's his quote.

00:39:18
Speaker 1: Plans to build a fixed roof stadium in a one hundred plus acre world class live work play experience that will open for the twenty twenty nine season. So you would think that the Rays have that on their mind. What what are you confused about? Well, you're muted, come back, come back.

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Speaker 4: What he was going to say was what he was going to say was no way ownership should worry about winning first. Like the first and foremost thing was don't you bought a sports team. You didn't buy a freaking real estate investment, save it meet, Like, tell me what you're gonna do and put money into the team, and then I'll look at your fixed roof stadium. That's that's irritating to me.

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Speaker 1: Sorry, I'm gonna go against you guys a little bit, just because I would imagine and hope that he brought that up as well during the press conference. We have not seen the whole press conference. We were just told about some standouts from Mark Hopkins, so maybe that was included. But you also might have a point that he did make his money in real estate and MLB's number one goal is to be a real estate Bahamath behemoth Bahamath maybe in the Bahamash final thoughts here crats yeah with a minute ago final thoughts for these four games. I mean, are you going to be on the postgame show by the way, or it's a TVD. I know we have Trevor TVD schedule pending. Okay, everybody will be looking at YouTube for the beginning of the postgame show like is he there?

00:40:51
Speaker 4: Yeah?

00:40:54
Speaker 1: We got like thirty seconds.

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Speaker 4: Maren has finished show you okay, m that's what I think. Amazon Mariners and if they show this team finishes it tonight wow ooh baby, I think the blue for everybody who's listening.

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