Ben & Woods On Demand Podcast

6am Hour - Padres Walk Off The dodgers + Trade Deadline Reaction!

Ben & Paul are here for you on a Tuesday morning! We start the show in a VERY good mood as we talk about last night's walk-off win over the dodgers as the Padres came back from a 5-0 deficit to win 6-5 in extra innings! Plus we give our thoughts on a pretty exciting trade deadline for AJ Preller and his staff as they bolstered their bullpen with a few new pieces! Listen here!

Duration:: 43m
Broadcast on:: 31 Jul 2024
Audio Format:: mp3

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Make smarter decisions in 2024. Follow NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast on your favorite podcast ad. It's the most anticipated WNBA season in history, and you know what that means. Court is back in session. Welcome to Queens of the Court, an Odyssey original podcast. I'm your girl, Cheryl Swoop, and I'm Jordan Robinson. All WNBA season long will be bringing you interviews with star athletes, analysis on your favorite teams, and lots of hot tape. Order, order in the court. Follow and listen to Queens of the Court on the free Odyssey app, or wherever you get your podcast. Yeah! I think Woodsey-Hurdison-Hawai on that one. Welcome in on a Wednesday morning, what a night. Well today, for your San Diego Padres, it is Ben and Woods. I'm Ben Higgins, joined by our executive producer, Imaging Director, and wearing many hats guy. Paul Reindel today, as Stephen Woods continues, is a vacation week, and I've got to think he's... Day one, phone. I don't know if he's regretting his decision to go on vacation, but he's going, "Why does this have to happen? The first day I am gone." Like, I get on a plane, pod raise, make three trades at the deadline, and then come back from five nothing down. To beat the Los Angeles Dodgers in walk-off fashion last night of the 10th inning. Six to five, if you didn't stay up for whatever reason, you went to bed early thinking, "This isn't going to happen at all." Turn it off after the first inning. Oh man, we've got some audio for you today. We've got just a very exciting Wednesday on the program. Good morning, Paulie. Good. Great morning. Great morning. Great morning. Got the rally roach over there. I kissed the roach yesterday. There's our rally roach. The rally roach seems to still be an effect here as... I mean, it was an electric last night at Petco Park. Unbelievable. Absolutely electric. The record crowd over 47,000. The biggest crowd in the history of Petco Park officially. 47,559 people. I mean, we got to be straining what is possible for a baseball game. How many people can you get in Gallagher Square and in a concourses for a game? From the sound of it and the look of it in the stands, 70 to 80 percent pod raise fans. I would say, yeah, there were some Dodgers fans there. They got to cheer a little bit early and then not again after the top of the first inning. It was all pod raise excitement as they slowly made their way back all the way to the ninth inning. Oh, yes, we've got all the calls for you of the incredible home runs in the ninth inning to tie it. And then the walk-off by Donovan Solano, pitch hit. I mean, Mike Schilt pulling all the strings in the bottom of the tenth inning. How fantastic is that? If the pod raise a six to five win on a day that you just thought, uh-oh. All right, they're going to lose the second one here. And now all right, they're going to every other team in the wild card race one yesterday. This is not the way you want to get your post trade deadline last two months of the season started. But instead it goes down as another fantastic victory. And a season that is starting to be chock full of them. I mean, just the memorable wins going all the way back to the eight nothing come back against the Cubs way back in April. I mean, there are a lot of seven walk offs, seven walk offs, a four and one, an extra inning game. I mean, this team could not be more opposite of the 2023 pod raise from last year. Yeah, all the magic they did not have last year seems to have found its way into the pod raise clubhouse this year. I can't really explain it, but it's there. It's absolutely there. I think I think yesterday it had strong vibes of 2022 acquiring one so at the trade deadline. Padres made a lot of splashes yesterday at the trade deadline. Nothing crazy like bringing in a guy like one Soto. But by all accounts, one of the biggest, if not the biggest winner of the trade deadline. And then remember in 2022, the grand slam by Brandon Drury like pet co-park was just on fire. Everyone's like, we're never losing again. Sure. Oh, where are you? I'll follow all the walk offs. L. S. D. I kind of felt like that a little bit last night. I mean, the magic was extremely high in 2022. It led them all the way to the nationally championship series eventually. The magic was completely missing last year. I mean, it was never there there. There may have been no less magical season in baseball than last year's pod raise season. I have every one run game, every extra inning game. Like even no comebacks, no big, I mean, nothing last year. Nothing worked out for the team last year. Even 2021 with the what did Peter call it a once in a generation collapse, once in a millennium collapse, that first half of the year still had plenty of memorable moments. I remember being there like sweeping the Dodgers in June and you're thinking, oh, we're the favorites to win the World Series this year. Didn't happen in just epic fashion. They collapsed, but last year just really didn't have any magical moments at all. I mean, I think we had a dull Hassan Kim walk off on April, April 3rd or whatever it was. And then it's like, all right, here we go. We're carrying the momentum from 2022 right into 2023. Uh-uh, that was pretty much it until the last couple of weeks of the season when it was too late. So yeah, they keep it going. There's definitely a confidence, something that, you know, maybe it's Jackson Merrill, maybe it's Mike Schilt. What's that different? I mean, a lot of the players are the exact same players that were there in that 2023 season, but just having a seemingly completely different attitude in 2024. And again, you know, one win doesn't change the course of a season, but it certainly is more than just, hey, a one off kind of game because they've done this many times over the course of the year now and just continuing a trend. We will talk about it pretty much for the next five hours. Well, you and I for four. And then we've got the round table, round table coming up this morning at 10 o'clock when we'll be joined by Annie and Elston, Gwen and Chris and Sammy Levitt's going to be in for Woodsy on the round table today when we'll discuss the Detroit deadline moves and the final two months of the season coming up for your San Diego Padres who have won more against the Dodgers today. We're just going through it because I wasn't sure and Polly confirmed it for me. Padres need one more win against the Dodgers to clinch their first season series against that team since 2010. 14 years ago was the last time the Padres took a season series from the Dodgers. They're now six and three against LA this season with four games remaining one today at Petco Park, three more in Los Angeles later in the year. And if they win any of them, seven wins would clinch the season series. Not that that gets you to the playoffs, not that losing a season series to the Dodgers prevents you from getting to the playoffs, but it, it will be nice hopefully to turn the tables on an organization that has owned the Padres, at least in the regular season outside of the 2022 playoffs that, that's just owned you for, you know, 14 years now. And you finally have a chance to, in this year, especially when the Dodgers had all the hype going into the year with Show Hay Otani and Yamamoto and the moves that they made in the off season. Yeah, they spent $69 billion this off season and the Padres cut payroll by close to a hundred million dollars. Yeah. And this is the year that the Padres finally, you know, break the, break the streak against the LA Dodgers. Baseball doesn't really make that much sense. Maybe spend some of that big budget on an updated rule book for your manager. I don't know. That was a weird situation that we can talk about in the 10th inning as well. The, the double mound visits by Dave Roberts that cost his pitcher a pitch clock violation with the bases loaded and Donovan Solano coming to the plate. I will just say it for him. And look, it's, it's 309 right now in Hawaii. But we're hoping that Woodsie will call in maybe in the nine o'clock hour. If you're there, I'll just say it now for him though. I hope Dave Roberts gets a lifetime extension for the, for the Dodgers. He, as long as he is the manager of the Dodgers, we, we got a chance. We have a shot. Well, you know, I'm always a little, little torn on that subject, but I mean, he certainly hasn't gotten the most out of that franchise over the last few years. I mean, in the regular season, yeah, they've had some good ones this year though, beset by injuries. They have not totally been able to overcome them. Now they still, they're still in first place, five and a half games ahead of the Padres. You went today though, and I heard Sam Levitt talking about it on the post game show last night. You went today, cut the, cut the deficit to four and a half. And you've got the tiebreaker in terms of the season series. So you know exactly all you need to do is finish with the same record as them at the end of the season. You've got a bullpen that's now built and we'll talk about the, the moves that were made yesterday that is built to protect any lead that you can get pretty much after the, the sixth inning. You're trying to shorten those games and go, Hey, we get ahead. We're going to be a very difficult team to beat in the last three innings of the game, given the, the arms that we've got in the back end of the bullpen. Is it, is it crazy to think that the Padres could chase the Dodgers down? No, I, I don't think it is crazy to, to say that that could be a realistic, legitimate goal in the last two months of the season, but it probably has to start with another win tonight in game two of the series with Dylan Sees making his first start since the no hitter going up against Clayton Kershaw at 540 today, 440 Ecowater SoCal pregame show with Sammy Levitt. But again, we got so much else to, to talk about from the game last night and the trade deadline. We will kind of set the menu. Why don't we just take a timeout right now, Paulie? Okay. We'll set the menu when we come back. I think we should talk about some of the trades, get to our Padres rewind, listen to all the other calls from Jesse. And then at 730, I think we'll have all the calls from everywhere else that Paulie's been hard at work compiling this morning from last night's game. I wanted to come in last night at like 11 p.m. I could not sleep. I couldn't go to bed after that game last night. I was so wired. I thought maybe I'll just come on in and pull the all night. I still came in early, but I did get a few hours of sleep. But what a game it was the kind of game that just leaves you the adrenaline flowing leaves you wired hard to sleep, but in a good way, you know, all is good in the world. I figured it out before we go to break. We were talking a few minutes ago about how how this year feels, the magic, it's there. I don't know what this season holds for the Padres, but the magic is there. It wasn't there last year. And I looked at our chat on YouTube and a lot of people were, you know, putting PS and the heart Peter and heart Peter emojis. And I thought maybe the baseball gods are smiling on San Diego this year, because they sure as hell weren't last year. One year soon, the baseball gods will smile on the San Diego Padres and you will have a parade. Maybe someone is giving them a little nudge maybe up there for the San Diego Padres in 2024. I will come back planning to get to Kelly's got traffic. And then we are running on a morning that I am more than glad that I'm not on vacation today and get to be here and talk about it with all the tier ones with you, Paulie. We'll tell you about our guests coming up as well because that that's a busy morning as well. Think think A.J. Preller, think more naturally baseball manager who the Padres pulled off a trade with in his team yesterday all coming up here in the next two hours with Ben and Woods, Ben and Paul on San Diego's number one sports station, 97-3 to fam. You don't just live in your home. You live in your neighborhood as well. So when you're shopping for a home, you want to know as much about the area around it as possible. Luckily, homes.com has got you covered. Each listing features a comprehensive neighborhood guide from local experts. Everything you'd ever want to know about a neighborhood including the number of homes for sale, transportation, local amenities, cultural attractions, unique qualities and even things like median lot size and a noise score. Homes.com. We've done your homework. Nice. Today's episode is sponsored by NerdWallet Smart Money Podcast. Get your head in the financial game with smart investing and budgeting tips straight from the nerds. NerdWallet experts will set future you up for success with dependable fact-based insights. No financial misinformation allowed. Learn how to save on your summer vacation. Find your next credit card or loan for a big purchase and invest in your next index fund. Make smarter decisions in 2024. Follow NerdWallet Smart Money Podcast on your favorite podcast app. It's the most anticipated WNBA season in history. And you know what that means. Court is back in session. Welcome to Queens of the Court, an Odyssey original podcast. I'm your girl, Cheryl Swoop. And I'm Jordan Robinson. All WNBA season long will be bringing you interviews with star athletes, analysis on your favorite team and lots of hot tape. Order, order in the court. Follow and listen to Queens of the Court on the free Odyssey app or wherever you get your podcast. So I had this thought last night. Imagine you are Tanner Scott and Brian Holy. And this is the clubhouse you get to walk into today. After last night's walk-off win over the Dodgers, you arrive and you go, wow, this place is jamming. Welcome to San Diego. Welcome to the San Diego Padres, to the Padres newest trade acquisitions. It's Ben and Paul this morning here on 97.3, the fan. So obviously at the trade deadline, Padres did some things, maybe not exactly what we expected him to do in terms of no real starting pitching acquisition. I mean, they did get Martin Perez. We can talk about that in a second. But the big deal, of course, was with the Miami Marlins, acquiring left handed pitcher, closer Tanner Scott, an all-star. He's got a 1.180 array. He's unscored upon in 17 straight appearances. He's been absolutely lights out. And then a second reliever, right handed pitcher Brian Hoeing, more of a middle inning, eat a couple of innings, guys, has been an opener for the Marlins before in exchange for four prospects. And pretty much the top two pitching prospects that were remaining after they had traded Dylan Lesco a couple of days prior in the other deal to get Jason Adam, another relief pitcher from the Rays, where they trade Robbie Snelling, Adam Major, Graham Pauli, and infielder J. Beshears to get more bullpen help, but not addressing the starting pitching rotation. We will find out a little bit more about the Padres newest acquisitions in less than an hour, because at seven o'clock, our friend and manager, the Miami Marlins, Skip Schumacher, nice enough is going to give us a quick call to give us a little scouting report and talk about the trade and the guys that we're getting for the the San Diego Padres in that deal, which is, which is nice to skip. Obviously, the Marlins made a bunch of deals yesterday. I think they picked up nine prospects and sent out, you know, a half dozen major league baseball players at the trade deadline. Mostly viewed as smart moves for a team that obviously is not, not in contention, most of them other than the, I think Brian Daley Cruz deal and obviously the jazz Chisholm deal from a couple of days ago. Most are guys expiring contracts, get what you can, help rebuild a farm system that's not ranked very highly in major league baseball, but Skip always really good to this show, has agreed to call us up at seven o'clock this morning and talk about some of the new guys who are coming to the Padres. Yeah, I will be honest, I felt a little like dirty, like reaching out to him even like, man, this sucks. This sucks for this guy. This guy was the manager of the year for this team. And now, like, probably done at the end of the year, they have just completely gutted anybody with even a little bit of baseball talent. You're gone. And like, that sucks. But I know he's a friend of the show. I knew he would probably do it. He texted me about 20 minutes before first pitch in their game yesterday. So tells you where, you know, obviously his head's at, I would have mentioned that, you know, Adam Mays, your grandpolly probably chance to get an opportunity right away with that team with all the openings on the big league roster, maybe even Robbie Snelling at some point in the last couple of months, if if he's thrown well in the minor leagues could get a promotion. So it's a, it's a path to the big leagues for those guys in an organization where it was going to be a lot harder to find playing time for the San Diego Padres. So while, you know, you probably, if you're major, you're going, I'm leaving a really fun, fun group and the chance that, you know, go to the playoffs and make a deep run, you're also going to an organization that can be a little more patient. You know, they, they're not going to care as much if you give up five runs in three innings. And they'll let you go and start again because, well, quite frankly, they don't have anything else and they, they don't have any reason to, to worry about the, the L's and what you're going to be doing on the field. They want to give you some major league experience that was so confused with Garrett crochet, like allegedly torpedoing any chance he had of getting off maybe the worst baseball team in the history of major league baseball. That is, that is confusing in terms. I mean, the only thing with crochet is that he is, he's really at a pivot point in his career. He needs to get that big contract. I mean, he'll get traded in the off season. I'm sure I, I've got to imagine that that is the plan. But for Garrett, I wouldn't want to be in that clubhouse around that team and that ballpark for one more day. Garrett crochets is angling for that, that first big deal. And until you get it, you're not really set as a baseball player. And you know, he's had some injury issues. I'm sure it's in his mind. Like the worst thing that could possibly happen right now is that I blow out my arm before I sign the big deal. And now I've got the possibility of going to a team that if they're in a playoff hunt, they may blow so far past like my, you know, safe innings level. I mean, you get to, you know, Stephen Strasbury level, what if a team traded for Garrett crochet and they needed him to start three times in a world series like, all right, you got game one, four and seven, dude, because we don't have anyone else right now. Yeah, my arm's about to fall off. Hey, it's the world series go out there and pitch. And then in the off season ago, yeah, your arm shot, you know, no, we're not going to sign you to a long term contract extension. I understand from a business perspective, where Garrett crochet and his agent are coming from in terms of protecting his most valuable commodity. Sure. His arm. But yeah, I mean, to be condemned to another two months on a Chicago White Sox team that is now already the worst team, maybe in baseball history. And now you've taken a bunch of guys off of it. Maybe that's a good thing. I don't know. I mean, a bunch of minor leaguers can't do much worse. They've lost 16 games in a row. Can't do worse than that, right? So try something else in Chicago. 17 last night? No, they could. They could say that's true. You can keep you can keep losing. That's for sure. So that was the the big move made yesterday by AJ Preller. We'll talk about it with Skip Schumacher. We will also talk about it with AJ Preller, the general manager and president of baseball operations for the San Diego Padres will join us at eight o'clock this morning. You know, he talked to the media yesterday and answered most of the questions. I'm one of the thing that I am curious about is the the Martine Perez acquisition kind of the last minute grab a starting pitcher, felt like the pirates had picked up. I think a pitcher and maybe they just didn't have any room and AJ kind of swooped in and said, all right, looks like they're going to probably have to release him anyway and got him for a, you know, a Dominican summer league young prospect in, you know, basically almost nothing to get Martine Perez. But why him and not some of the other like fifth starter type options that were out there? Yeah, I know there were a lot of people that loved the trades yesterday. I mean, Padres have arguably the best bullpen in baseball now. I mean, you, you essentially shortened the game to like a six inning game. If your starter comes out after five or six and you have the lead, you have to feel really good about your chances now. But will you have those leads over the next two months when your fourth starter is still Randy Vasquez and your fifth starter may now be Martine Perez, who's literally had like two good starts this year. Otherwise, it's been a pretty bad year for the left-hander. I loved the trades. I think the bullpen is in great shape right now. But of course, I was confused that they didn't really go out and get that starting pitcher that we assumed he would go out and get. And you think, well, maybe the market was just too much. You know, you saw what like kakuchi went for a couple of days ago. Maybe the market was just asking too much. Then I saw what the Dodgers gave up for Jack Flaherty and I go, huh, that feel like we could have probably matched that was a head scratcher for everyone. The Jack Flaherty deal now. It was reported by the athletic last night that Flaherty was going to the Yankees and then the Yankees didn't like his medicals and they actually torpedoed the deal late at the last minute. So it's possible that the Dodgers got a bit of a discount knowing we're taking on some risk here that maybe he might not be healthy completely for the rest of the season and he's only a rental. So you're kind of rolling the dice on Jack Flaherty. They may have given up two prospects for damaged goods over the last couple of months of the season. And that may be why the Padres ended up staying away. They can't really afford to give up prospects for damaged goods. They need someone who can actually pitch over the last two months of the season. Maybe he will and it'll end up being a lay Dodgers, but they're clearly taking some sort of risk on that the Yankees were not willing to take on with Jack Flaherty, who was the best starting pitcher dealt yesterday and the price tag was shockingly low like two prospects not anywhere near what you say Kakuchi got, you know, in the deal with the Houston Astros. So why it's got kind of got to be the medicals. Maybe the Tigers got desperate. The Yankees torpedoed it so late. It's like, all right, we got 45 minutes left and we need to trade this guy for something, you know, and they start, you know, calling everybody up on the phone. Now, apparently, and we can get into this, but apparently the Dodgers were very interested in Tanner Scott. And it's possible that when Flaherty all of a sudden became available at the end, they pulled out of the Tanner Scott deal, which left the Padres to go and grab Tanner Scott as they worked on a Flaherty deal in the last couple of hours before the trade deadline. That's why the trade deadline is so wild. You know, it's going one direction that all of a sudden one move is made and everybody's going in a different direction. And it all has to happen over a period of a few hours, you know, in the middle of the baseball season. Yeah, I think it's also important note that Brian Hoeing, I think can start can be can be a starter, maybe more of an opener, but like he's got that ability in him. He can be a closer middle relief, long relief, like what a high leverage like he's a pretty versatile guy, kind of like a Matt Strom was. He started some games. He was this year he has been before this year, he was. Oh, it was nothing. Hoeing. Yes. Before this year, he was off the rate. Everybody's Raider. He's had a good season this year. He started two games for Miami. I wouldn't be surprised, and maybe I'll ask AJ also if they had they've seen something in Hoeing where they feel like, you know, maybe they can stretch him out into more of a starter. They liked it. I think he's got a four pitch mix, which, you know, could and maybe AJ knows that Joe's on his way back. And we only got to go one more time through the rotation or something like that. And still nobody knows about you, you are now kind of on the razor's edge when it comes to starting pitching for the next two months, even if Joe comes back, you're still one injury away from not having a fifth starter for two months, you know, and you Darvish remains in the equation as well. AJ even admitted yesterday that, you know, he's kind of looking at the playoffs when he's saying, this is a bullpen that can win in the playoffs. You do have to get there first. You have to get there before you may have the team that is best suited for playoff baseball in the entire league. You don't get there. You can't win the World Series. So, you know, that that's got to be job one is getting to the postseason. Do the Padres have enough starting pitching? We can talk about that. We'll take some phone calls certainly at some point this morning. Tier ones want to get your opinion on what the Padres did yesterday. The other move was simply kind of bookkeeping, trading annual delo Santos to the New York Yankees. He probably would have been released otherwise because they didn't, you know, they have to clear some roster space for Jason Adam and for Tanner Scott and for Brian Hoeing. They're going to have to make a couple more moves today, just to add those guys. So you get what you can for annual delo Santos shed a little salary, make it all work. And that was kind of the trade deadline day for your San Diego Padres. Let's take a timeout. When we come up, Paulie's been working feverishly on our Padres wrap up. I have not heard all the calls yet from Jesse. I listened to some of Sammy's post game show last night. It was at work. And then I got to hear some of them on my drive home. Twas a good one. But I didn't hear all of Jesse's calls, which I am very excited to hear how Jesse called all the action. Last night, coming up next in our Padres wrap up, then it was continuing on San Diego's number one sports station, 97 three, the fan. And AJ privileges does it again, right, doesn't he? I mean, he, if he doesn't win the executive year or something wrong with the process, I mean, let's take us through to this trade, right? On the eve of opening day, he trades for Dylan Seis and gets an ace who's a side young candidate. Then he waits a couple of months and he calls up the Marlins and he goes and gets a guy that's won a batting title in both leagues and Lewis arrives, right? And then he sits there a couple of days ago and he trades for Jason Adam, one of the best set up relievers in the game. And now he gets another impact closer and Tanner Scott to put with Robert Suarez in the back end. And now all of a sudden out of nowhere, they have one of the best bullpen in the game. And they're a team that's not only a playoff team, but they're now positioned where they can do serious damage in October with that bullpen that they'll be throwing out there. This is an unbelievable move for them. That is former MLB executive Jim Bowden on MLB network radio advocating for AJ Preller to win executive of the year based on the moves that he's made. And certainly offers a compelling case there, Paulie. Well, again, like you said, it wasn't just the the relievers that were added yesterday. You have to factor in don't cease. Louisa rise. I mean, he's had a hell of an off or a hell of a season as far as moving some guys around and bringing in some really quality players. Obviously the results for AJ Preller over the last decade as Padres GM have been very, very mixed. And as Padres fans, we know about the bad decisions and the, you know, the moves that we'd love to have back. And no GM is, is perfect. The one thing that AJ truly has, I think in, in spades, more than any other general manager, maybe even, maybe even sports executive I have ever seen. He is unafraid. He is unafraid to make a move that could come back and bite him. And so many execs. And I understand it are afraid to pull the trigger on a deal that they know could come back and haunt them. You know, if Robbie Snelling goes on and becomes a, you know, an all star pitcher or Dylan Lesko does and the Padres get nothing but some bullpen help, nothing but a rental in the case of Tanner Scott. You know, a couple of those guys come up and become all stars, like with the the Mariners trade a few years ago, getting Austin Nolan, giving up Munoz and all star and, you know, everything that they, they lost in that hall. AJ sets himself up where he can look really, really bad later, but he's unafraid and he's unafraid to keep trying and keep doing it. And he has this almost unfounded confidence in himself. And he's just going to go back and refill the farm system and do it again. And he, we've seen him do that. We have seen him do that many times already in his tenure here. So if you are out there listening and, and you're very upset with the fact that we traded away more prospects and, you know, weakened the, the farm system, like, who better than AJ Preller to just stock it up? Like if I told you they're going to be the number nine farm system in all of baseball next year, would you doubt me? And let's be clear. Paul, I wouldn't doubt you. I know that he does it every year. He does it every year. He's done it every time. The Padres are still a couple of injuries, bad breaks away from falling flat on their face. And AJ Preller could be fired at the end of this season. Absolutely could be fired at the end of the season. But let me ask the question to the tier ones, to the Padres fans. What kind of GM would you rather have? A guy who's just scared to make a move, you know, like, as always, well, we got these, these prospects and let's, let's hold on to them and just see, see what they turn into in a few years. And we're just going to be patient. And that's all we're going to do. Or would you rather have a swashbuckler who's willing to put his chips out in the middle of the table. And sometimes he loses, and he loses bag on some of those pots. And then when he does, he's not gun shy to try it again. And he goes out and tries it again. I do feel confident that the best way eventually to win a World Series is with the swashbuckler and not the guy who's going to wait, you know, by this time for four years and hope that it all comes together, that he made all the right decisions over five years to get your one chance at it. No, he's just going to keep throwing it, chance after chance after chance. And yeah, there's a, there's a price to pay, sometimes on the back end that cannot be, that's not pretty. But fortunately, like you said, he keeps restocking and giving the Padres more chances, more bites at the apple to go out there and try it again if it doesn't work the last time. All right, let's get to the highlights. Our Padres wrap up what a win. I mean, you're down five nothing in the first inning to the Dodgers. Even the optimistic Padres fans have got to think. All right, this is this one's probably not going to happen for us tonight. I was feeling pretty good after the trade deadline. I'm like, all right, let's go get this dub tonight. And then that first inning happening, you're like, oh, suck the air out of the room. I mean, so many big moments that that not only got the Padres back into the game, but kept it at five at five for the Dodgers for nine straight innings. You got to keep them at five to really have a chance in that game. And they did all the highlights in a Padres wrap up right after a check of traffic from Kelly here on 97 three the fan. I love winning, man. I love women. You know what I'm saying? It's like better than losing. Oh my God. I'm so stiff. Miss any of the Padres win yesterday. Ben and Woods didn't what I proved. We've got you covered with all of the highlights. I like it with the Padres win. It's the Padres wrap up presented by Hamou Casino with rilling slots and tables in all the best rewards. Hamou Casino has all the fun you're looking for. Hamou Casino, fun above all else. Give me a due damage. Is it extra sweet because there's against the Dodgers. First and third, nobody out just underway. Two one pitch it off the end of the bat at the left center field. Merrill Long run back into the gap and he gets there to make the catch. Plenty deep for Otani to tag and score. A sacrifice fly for Gavin Lux and a 1-0 Dodger lead in the first 1-1. Pajas hits it hard on the ground up the middle of the center field they sit. Smith has scored Hayward's on his way. He's going to score at the two run single for Andy Cajas and a 3-0 Dodger lead in the first two and two. Vigio swings hits it in the air deep down the right field line. Aralto back to the corner looking up off the pole a home run and a 5-0 Dodger lead here in the first. It was a nice little return. Over the weekend stinks this one in the air deep to center field. Pajas is back looking up and a go. Line drive. Home run to the right of the palm tree out in center field. Manny Machado with his 15th of the year and the Padres are on the board here in the second inning. Alfar leans back in the left handed batters box. This is one hard on the ground through the right side base hit. A rise rounding third. Hayward unleashes a throw. No chance. RBI single jerks in Profar. And now a 5-2 game here in the third. Here's the 1-0. Chrono worth hits it hard. Open the head of the first base and Vigio down the right field line into the corner. Profar is racing towards third base. He is going to be set. The throw comes into Lux. Relay to the plate. Not in time. RBI double Jake Croninworth and a two run game here in the third. Two is popped up. Foul ground third base. Manny over towards the Dodger dugout. Running out of room. Leaning into the dugout and he made the catch. Manny Machado in the enemy territory. And we'll hang a star here at Petco. Out number two in the top of the fourth. One and one to her. And the SKK swings hit it off the end of the bat in the shallow center. Long run Jackson. Merrill dives forward and makes the catch to end the inning. Audrey is put on a defensive clinic here in the eight. First it was Machado and now it's Merrill will hang a star and head to the bottom of the eight. A lot of history between these two first pitch on the way. Machado swings hit it in the air deep to left field. Teoska Hernandez will watch and it's going to go a long home run from Machado. He's to the night and a one run game in the bottom of the ninth inning. A first pitch home run for Manny Machado. Merrill swings hit it in the air deep to right field by his his back. He is at the wall. It's going to go. You better believe it. We were talking about it before the game. This young man enjoys this moment and he steps into it and owns it. Solo shot has tied this ball game at five and it's a new ball game. Ball in two strikes. Here's the pitch on the way. Solano swings. It's a ground ball past the dive of Hernandez down the left field line to win it. Kim scores. Solano walks it off and the Padres come back from a five nothing deficit to beat the Dodgers in 10. This team has no quit in them at all down five nothing in the first chip away tied in the ninth winning in the tip. Don't take it for granted. You know we enjoy it. Celebrate it. I'm grateful for it. You know all the good things about hard dedication to competition. Regardless the circumstances you know belief in themselves the greater good. Yeah this is what fun teams and how we competitive teams and teams with a lot of hunger do you know regardless they just compete. Now Jesse Agler did not disappoint with those calls. He actually did not disappoint with the incorporating as well. We'll get to that at some point a little bit later. You know who didn't disappoint as well? Tony Gwen Jr. bringing his A game on some of those calls as well. Great interjections from the color analyst in the radio booth as well. Good job by both of those guys painting the picture of an incredible night at Petco Park is the Padres rally from five nothing down to beat the Dodgers six to five in 10 innings and you heard obviously all the home runs and the comeback and the offense. But you did hear some of the defense as well in that game Jackson Merrill's diving catch there in the eighth inning just electrifying the crowd further and setting up what happened in the ninth inning. But what a game Pauli for Manny Machado all around not just the two home runs which were obviously huge. But I made two really spectacular catches in foul territory. You heard the one worry. I mean went into the dugout. He's blowing a bubble. He's checking twice to see where the railing is for the Dodgers dugout. He leans as far as possible into the dugout makes the snow cone type catch ends up kind of like leaning. I'm thinking like you know guy wearing a leather jacket in a fifties movie just kind of you know casually leaning on the railing of the Dodgers dugout as task Hernandez comes over is like trying to playfully knock it out of his glove like dude you just did that in our dugout. Come on man. You can't be that cool just to walk over there and make that catch. What a game. You heard of Manny Machado. You heard Jesse and Tony on that call of Manny's catch on the dugout rail. Did you hear Don and mud though mud was spectacular yesterday. 2-2 sky to the infield foul ground for Manny Machado going as far as you can and Manny will make the catch leaning into the Dodgers dugout. Link's the catch. There's a lot of some people. Nice play by Manny Machado. Hey if Manny says wild yes it's wild worthy. There's the bubble there's the flash look and the Dodgers you just got the shadowed. What an incredible game for Manny who's still he's still got it in him that's for sure you know I'll say it we had heard that Manny finally feels healthy. We heard this about a week ago and he was starting to get locked into the plate you'd seen him improve as the season has progressed and I was watching the game last night and I go yeah he looks healthy he looks he looks happy he doesn't look like he's in pain he's playing at a elite level that we expect out of him both offensively and defensively and he's back. Yeah I had a little bit of a slump at the plate coming out of the all-star break on the road trip while the other Padres were winning so you didn't really notice and then I think it was a Saturday had that three run home run took a really good swing on it similar to the home run that he hit last night in the second inning that line drive kind of going the other way center right center field and then the ninth inning home run when he when he pulls one and hits the he doesn't often hit the towering shots but when he does the lead back lean and just kind of admire because you know I mean that's going toward the second deck like it did. We got much more to talk about with this game but when we come back we're going to chat about the Padres new acquisitions with someone who knows them fairly well that would be the uh the their former manager the skipper named Skip of the Miami Marlins will join us next here in 97-3 the fan do not go away. What kind of programs does this school have? 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