Ben & Woods On Demand Podcast

6am Hour - Cockroach In The Studio + Padres Win 4th Straight!

Ben, Woods, and Paul are here for you on a Thursday morning, and everyone is a little flustered as there is a giant cockroach roaming around the studio! So the guys try to settle that as they eventually take care of the roach and pay tribute with a Shoutout To His Family, and then we get right into our Padres Wrap-Up and discuss yesterday's beatdown in Washington as the Padres won 12-3 over the Nationals to pick up their 4th straight win! Listen here!

Duration:: 56m
Broadcast on:: 25 Jul 2024
Audio Format:: mp3

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I'm Woodsy, that's Paul Reindel, the executive producer. He's a little on edge right now. Little. And Ben Higgins, your friendly neighborhood sports anchor, also on edge. I mean, look, there's, I love working with you. But when you get distracted by something, it's bad. I have ADD, but when you get distracted by something, it's bad. Did the Masters just start? Exactly. And so, I'm so nervous that you're going to be doing exactly what you're doing right now, looking on the floor. I'm doing the same thing. For the rest of the show, I'm peeking. And I think he's over here. I'm peeking down, but we have a cockroach in this studio that is the size of a kitten. Huge. Massive. Absolutely gigantic. And Ben spotted it. We all shrieked like, well, I mean, I sounded like a six year old. Well, my son is six. He's got a high voice. I sounded like him when a cockroach, we all freaked out. There's some paper plates in here, so I threw a paper plate over it. You threw it to Ben and get him with this. But then it ran under. What are you going to do with a paper plate? Well, you trap him and then you stomp him. But then I thought, man, then there's going to be cockroach guts all over the floor. So I actually trapped him, but then I heard the little, of him trying to get out and that freaked me out. So then I tried to swipe him into a recycling bin. And I was going to just go flood him maybe with hot water or something. I don't know, put him in the microwave. I don't know. I don't know what to do. I have no idea. But this thing is the size of a kitten. I was at an escape, though. And an escape. So now it's loose in here. And it is, do they fly? They fly, don't they? Oh, God, do they? I think so. I think cockroach is flawed. It is disgusting. How did we have been here five years? How's there a cockroach in here? I mean, we're on the sixth floor. The sixth floor? You feel like you've got, you know, you broadcast out of a basement or the ground floor that that's a problem. That's a problem. What? Yeah, he really worked to get all the way up to the sixth floor. I walked. JR said it was because of food. Well, he always says that. He's talking about food in the studio. Someone left food in the studio. It wasn't us. It wasn't us. Bro, we have not had one morsel of food. Remember, they cook food here when we leave. When we walk out the door, there's barbecues, there's hot dog trucks, there's grills going. The minute Ben and Woods walk out the door at 10 a.m. They're like, all right, they're gone. Fire up the walks, everybody. We don't even have a round table, round table. It's not even a round table. Round table. And the pizza's never in here. No, no, it's in the sound studio. It's on the other side of the building. This MFR is going to crawl up my leg. I just know it. I know it. He told me to stomp on it. I was like, I'm wearing crocs right now. I don't think he realizes the size of this thing. It was going to like, oh, he's fast. The gut should go through the crocs. I hate with cockroaches, bro. I moved into a place one time in Dallas. I moved into a place once. And I was like, man, for the location of where I am, I got two floors. I got hardwoods. I go, this is unbelievable. The price was like 1,200 a month or something. Double, you know, the premier location in Dallas. You've learned why. When in the kitchen, I'm like, ah, it's a little outdated. You know, a little old. The sink's a little old and stuff. I opened the cabinets. Oh. Bunderets. And I had almost died. I almost died. I almost had a heart attack. You didn't stay there that night, right? You had to leave. No, I had it fumigated. And then I moved in. So, but I, you couldn't say no to the price. But I never had any issues after that. But well, yeah, there's a cat, catroach walking around in here. And I don't think anyone can really focus. Now that the crazy thing is we have a two hour show today. So that's a little better. But Sammy Levitt's already here. He's already here. He was no help either. He wasn't any help either. Which I don't blame him. I don't blame him. Jocelyn told us to quote, sack up. Polly ring the bell if you would. That's Polly ring the bell on Jocelyn, right? Thank you. Thank you. Misogyny. It does go both ways, doesn't it? Or does it? I'm asking. I don't know. I think even by me asking that question, Polly should probably ring it on me. Yeah, probably. I don't think I'm allowed. Sack up, she says. I have, but I've never really thought I'd do well in the zombie apocalypse. This confirms this. Now you know it. Now you know it. Why? How is there a roach? What are they doing in the other shows? That was the biggest roach I think. It was the, I think it was the biggest roach I've ever seen. All right, man. Well, if you see it, Polly, I'm going to go. I'll, you'll know if I see. Oh, I know. As you shriek. Yeah, like that morning I saw that rat in my house and I just, my heart stopped. I don't like, look, you can call me whatever names you want, whatever names you want. I don't like rodents and I don't like big bugs like that. I just don't like it. Call me soft. I don't care. You're right. When that rat was in my bathroom, weaseling in and out of towels and in my drawer. Yeah, you're right. I wasn't like, you just grab this thing and get it out of here. I lost my mind and I feel like I'm going to lose my mind again today. I mean, they're classified as vermin for a vermin. Vermin. What a disease. Disease carrying vermin. Vermin. Vermin. What a word. What a word. Well, all right, we're in here. We're going to try to get focused because we do only have you guys for a couple of hours today. And Padres with another, just an incredible, incredible win last night. Can't wait to talk about all of that with the fellows. Got an update for you. Many people reached out yesterday asking about the status of my mom. I told you guys she had a lumpectomy yesterday morning and just got the text from my dad that they are headed home and all went pretty well. And they got the lymph nodes out. Now, obviously you wait for the results and everything. But yeah, man, certainly good news. I talked to my mom last night for a minute. She sounded great, but you always sound great after surgery. You're like, I'll just do surgeries every week. I feel amazing. Me after my colonoscopy, which was not even close to the same as this. I was on cloud nine. I was like, it's the best day of my life. It's just phenomenal. I was in the hospital for three days for the gallbladder. Yeah, surgery. And I often think about what do I got to do to be sick enough to go sit in the hospital for another three days? But not like not like in danger of anything. Like almost near death. It was October. I was just my happy ass. You're just sitting there watching the World Series. Yeah. Post it up. Just high. Sucking down jello. Sucking down morphine. Have a button. I need more morphine. Yeah, man, it's not bad. It's not bad, but she sounded great. And is so strong. And I think they're listening right now. So shout out to my mom. Love you. And I have no doubt that you are going to crush this. Yeah, just the more normal. Stop. Normal, straight out. Glad to hear the marshes doing. She's doing well. She's doing really well. So they're heading home. And that makes me very happy. And pod raiser rolling. That makes me very happy. We got a short show today. That also makes me very happy. Don't get it twisted. I had somebody yesterday. It was like, like, for a guy that always telling everybody, how much he loves his job, he sure likes to get out of there early. And I thought about it for a second. Yeah, those things are not mutually exclusive. I love my job. I'm the luckiest guy on the planet. You're damn right. If somebody came to you and said, hey, man, you get to split two hours early or in most eight hour days, you get to leave it to lunch. Who's not taking that? Right. When it all happens three times a year. Three times a year. Right. Like, I promise you, you can have the best job in the world. What was the best job in the world? Major League Baseball player? Oh, they love a day. Right up there. They love a day. They love. Hey, I thought you loved your job. I do. But I really enjoy a day off sometimes. And they hate double headers. Right. Right. And my shield comes in and goes, hey, guys, we're going to need you to stay for a second game today. They don't like that. No, they're going to, he says, we're going to play nine innings and then we're going to play an extra inning today. It's brought to you by round table pizza. Yeah, you're not excited about it, right? You're just not. And you do get excited when you do get a couple hours off. It doesn't mean I don't love this. Speaking of the boss, man, how about him trying to get us yesterday? Oh, yeah. This guy, he thinks he's so slick. Read that you got the thread. I do. God, he's such a prankster, isn't he? You just played into his hands, though, Paulie, because you know what he wanted. He wanted this on the air. He's a... No, I think he wanted... I'll tell you what he wanted. Adam texted the three of us, "Hey, guys, just spoke with Dave with the Padres. We could be in for a lengthy rain delay tomorrow morning. Gonna need you to stick around through Sammy's pregame in case I need you to do the final hour of your show if there's a rain delay to begin the game." The nine to ten o'clock, guys. Because no matter what, almost in every circumstance, Sammy will always do his pregame. Even if he knows there is zero chance this game is starting on time. Correct. He still does his one hour pregame show, and then Adam wanted us to come in and do nine to ten. And then just immediately response a good one, Adam. Now, I hadn't seen it. I was at the gym, and I had not seen it yet. So Ben went first, and then I just wrote new phone, who it is. I would have written back, "Are you effing kidding me?" Because he would have gotten me with that. Yeah, and how did you know it was a bit? Well, the best pranks do have a basis in some reality. Right. It was raining at the game last night. The forecast has been iffy, you know, it's the East Coast, and we've heard about the possibility of rain. But at the same time, you know, part of Sammy's gig, probably the hardest part of Sammy's gig, but he does it very well, is the rain delay theater. And I've heard other shows when, you know, there's Ben Rain. Sammy does his pregame show, and then he sticks around, and he covers until it's time to toss to Jesse and Tony when the game starts. So I just didn't imagine that Adam would be changing the protocol on us, just all of a sudden out of the blue. And I figured out quickly what he was up to. Yeah, Adam's response was, "Damn, would have made for a great screenshot to post if you guys follow him." Oh, he loves, he wants. Now, he always wants to be content. But he doesn't like when I just roast him on the air as content. So it's a fine line. Is it extra sweet because it's against the Dodgers? Yeah, that one is good. We'll play that for the rest of our lives. That's a good content. Do you guys have any idea how much it freaks me out? And it happens, I'd say three days a week when my wife, beautiful, just gorgeous, gets out of the shower and then goes to her closet, topless, and then puts on the Adam Clue t-shirt and walks out into the living room or into the bedroom with it on. And I just, with his big, you know, hair that he has, is that picture of one scene and she walks into the bedroom and it's just like, that's what's called an oxymoron, I think. What? Two things that are opposite together. Like one thing you like, one thing you don't like. Oh, yeah. The opposite, yeah. Yeah, and it's like, even if I unwrap this package here, if I unwrap the package, it's on the floor. I still know that she was wearing it. And I think she's now gotten wise to it. And so she'll say, yeah, I'm not in the mood for him and him. No, God. Oh, God. All right, we're taking a break. Is he over there? We will be back. Get him. We will be back in just a couple of minutes. Just to let you know, we're expecting the trash can. Jake Croninworth could be with us at any time in the next hour from Washington. And we're going to, we're going to, we're going to, we're going to check traffic. I'm going to curse. Go to break. We're going to check traffic and then we'll be back. Hopefully cockroach free on San Diego's number one sports station, 97 through the fan. Go to traffic, Paul. Guys. What kind of programs does this school have? How are the test scores? How many kids do a classroom? Homes.com, those, these are all things you ask when you're home shopping as a parent. 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Get your head in the financial game with smart investing and budgeting tips straight from the nerds. Nerd Wallet's 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 Nerd Wallet's smart money podcast on your favorite podcast app. I got it. I got it. I got it. We did it. We did it. We did it. Fix your camera. We think. I think. Well, I mean, it's a good news for cockroaches is there's always just one. Yeah, right. Yeah, just one. It is gone. It has been removed from the studio. And at least for a couple of minutes, I can breathe easy. I don't understand. Everyone is acting like we are being premature, non-manly about this. I don't care. The show that got a pedicure last week is non-manly. What are we talking about here? I don't care. I really don't. It almost got me. It was, it tried to get me. It attacked me and we used a newspaper. Yeah, I don't know why we had a newspaper. The headline was Dodgers get their rings, then go on to a win. So I just used that to kill it. How was that in here? I don't even know what that was doing in here on the floor, but I got the newspaper. Then we got the paper plates. Then Woods took it out in the paper plates. I stepped on it. It is gone. And I slid it all the way out with my foot. And then I had to pick it up and throw it in the garbage can. And it was very, very scary. Very scary. Oh, all right. I think we're good. I think, think, think we're okay. Unless, unless we're infested. And if we're infested, boy, I'm glad I'm going on vacation on Tuesday. Because that was really uncomfortable. You're infested. You're going to not hear the Ben & Woods program first. So what we do when people or things pass away. Oh, yeah. You know how we have to do it here on Ben & Woods. And I really hope we can see more unity and more peace when already things are so difficult. So, shout out to his family. Yeah, rest in not peace. I'm still not sure that he's actually deceased. Nor am I. I mean, I just jumped on it. I jumped on it. I tried to push all my weight down on it. Yeah. And then you stepped on it. But we weren't going to check like vital signs or anything. We gave that thing the stomp to us. We did. We stomped to it on that thing. Real good. We all stomped to it. We all stomped to somebody said Maggie says they're gross, but it's not going to hurt you. Yeah, it is. It's going to crawl up my leg. It's going to lay eggs somewhere on me or in me. And then I'm going to hatch cockroach. Undoubtedly. Undoubtedly. Undoubtedly. There's some carrying some disease. I mean, if they weren't gross, the why don't people have them for pets? They're gross. There's something there. They don't bite or anything, do they? I don't think they bite. They're just like big ants. Just really big gross ants. Ants are cool. They do cool stuff. They build. They work like teammates. They work teaming. They're cool. Ants are awesome. You could have been a farm. When I see an ant, I try to actively avoid stomping on it. If I see a cockroach, obviously I avoided stomping on that one, but it took me by surprise. Maggie says they're unsanitary. Correct. People have them for pets. Andro says. The huge hissing ones. Yeah, they hiss. We're not Madagascar. I don't think these ones hiss. We have quiet cockroaches here, except for the little skittering noises. If I, Jocelyn says Google it. People seriously do have roaches. If I dated, if I was single, my wife leaves me, and I'm single. And Sydney Sweeney is like, hey, how are you? Come over. I love sports radio. I love the Padres. Nobody does it better than you. Come to my house. And I walked in and there were vermin or cockroaches or snakes. I would leave. That's a true statement. I would not, could not be with someone that, that it's just not my jam. I'd never be comfortable ever in sleeping at her. We'll sleep at my house. No, no, no, stay here at my condo. No, I want to stay at your condo. Because you have rats and snakes. I would absolutely leave too. I would in like 15 minutes. After three minutes, I would absolutely split. After that, I'm gone. And I'm ghosting her. It's terrifying. I mean, we started this week, as JJ pointed out. You had us eating bugs. Yeah, they're right here. Crickets. That's why he's here. Maybe, yeah. Told you not to. Dave says they have some flying cockroaches in Hawaii. Great. Great. All right. Well, that is, that is, that's done, I hope. And we are going to get down to business here. We are expecting. Yeah, Jake Crowworth is supposed to join us. Is they just going to break? Kind of get ready for the game. Why don't we do that? Why don't we, we'll take a quick time out again when we come back. We were till seven o'clock. Then it was six, six thirty. So Jake may call in right at the bottom of the hour here. So we'll prepare for that. If he calls in a little bit later, then we'll just get to our Padres. Wrap up of yesterday's just big 12-3 win over the Washington Nationals. Got some other news and notes for you as well. We got just two hours. We will do don't do this and take on woods, which actually real or fake today, because it's a Thursday. And then get ready for Sammy's pregame show. So very busy morning, very quick. We'll be back hopefully with Jake Crowworth from Washington, D.C. Next with Ben Woods on San Diego's number one sports station, 97-3 the fan. Got a little, I feel a little. That's kind of traumatized a little bit. I'm trying to try to get it all back together here. Well, get it together for Jake Crowworth. The last thing you want to do is embarrass yourself in front of Jake Crowworth. I've done that for five years. That's a good point. We were just talking during the break. And both of us are very curious to ask him about his last at bat last night. He calls in against position player, second baseman Ildamaro Vargas, who came in because the Nationals were down by so many, and they wanted to save relievers. And he was just throwing up Efis Lobs, as you see now, when they put them position players. And Jake nearly killed him. I mean, absolute scorcher of the middle. He actually caught it. It was probably the highlight of the game for the Washington Nationals. But it was a funny moment. It was a kind of scary moment. And we'll get Jake's perspective of that when he calls us up. He hasn't called yet, though. It's kind of playing it by ear. So the only bummer about that, him making that play was that Merrill was on deck with a chance to hit a home run for the cycle, right? Kim was on deck, then Merrill. Oh, okay. Could have gotten them up. Yeah, I mean, he had two chances at it at the cycle. He did. And did get another single four hit game. Nice day. Let's get traffic in. We'll play our Padres wrap up. And then if Jake calls, we'll just kind of pull the rip cord and go straight to him and wash him to DC. But Padres wrap up coming up right after traffic here on what? In where? Washington, DC. Oh, come on. 97 through the fan. I love winning, man. I love, I love, I love, I love, I love winning. 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 a proof. We've got you covered with all of the highlights. I like it when the Padres win. Yeah! Yeah! It's the Padres wrap up presented by Hamul Casino. With rilling slots and tables in all the best rewards, Hamul Casino has all the fun you're looking for. Hamul Casino, fun of all else. Yeah! Give me a due damage. Due damage. Brother goes, bitch. Swung on and lying through the left side, evasive into left center field. Thomas is on his way to third base. He's going to be waved. Here's the throw to Kim. Relay to the plate. Not in time. RBI's single. Jesse Winkler goes to second on the throw. And the Nationals with a 1-0 lead in the first. Here's Swung on, hit in the air. Deep to left center field. Really long run. Pro-car going back to watch. And it's going to go. Into the bullpen and left center. Yep as his hit again. 15 straight games since coming up from AAA. And this two run homer will give the Nationals a 3-0 lead in the first. Right, sits it hard up the middle. In the left center and evasive. Kim won't score. Jackson barrels right behind him. A two out, two run single for a rise. And now a one run game here in the second inning. Far swing, sits it in the air to deep center field. Young is racing straight back. He is at the wall. Looks up, going to go. Two run homerun jerks in pro-far. And the Padres have hopped in front. It's four to three. First pitch to a goshyoka lying down the left field side. That's a fair ball. Wood going to cut it off in front of the fence. That will prevent Merrill from coming into score. But Higashyoka slides feet first into second. With an RBI double as Kim crosses the plate. And the Padres lead is five to three. It's here, hit hard on a line. It is center field and a base hit. Roll far is scored. Bogart's on his way. Young comes up firing the tag, not in time. Zander ended up going in standing up. A two run single for Croninworth. And the Padres lead is eight to three. Merrill swings, sits it in the air to right center field. But he has found the gap. He's going to do some more damage. Kim is on his way towards third. He's going to be way. Merrill's rounding second, heading for third. Abrams thrown, not in time. A triple for Merrill. He's three for three. And already a homer shy the cycle in only the fourth inning. One out of Higashyoka in the air to deep left field. Wood is back to watch. This one going to go. Two run homer. Kyle Higashyoka is 12th of the year. And the Padres are all over the Nationals. 11 to three in the top of the fourth. Barnes kicks and deals. Manny swings, hits it in the air to right center. Long run young. Not going to get there. Going to bounce up. Roll all the way to the wall. Bogart's is rounding 30s on his way. Related the plate, not in time. And RBI double for Manny Machado. It's a dozen. Padres lead at 12 to 3. Here's the pitch. Garcia swings, pops it up. Shallow left in. He will call off Kim. And reaching forward, he makes the catch. The ball game is over. A one, two, three, bottom of the ninth. And the Padres disassemble the Nationals here tonight by a final of 12 to three. We don't always get the results every night. But generally speaking, more than not, we take a relentless advance. And I was again one through nine team comp contribution. Complete, we don't want to pass. Somebody gave it any way. Good situational hitting. Guys aware what they were doing had a good plan. It would execute. It just created a pass throughout. Bogart continues to take great bats just until he hits. Manny, good at bats again. Um, Jackson of course, great at bats. And you know, hit you with the big swing as well. 20 hits will usually get the job done. Yeah. If it doesn't, you're in some deep, deep water. True. You know, uh, yeah. The, even with Matt Waldron falling behind three nothing in the first inning, uh, it was key. And Mike Schilt talked about it after the game. Uh, the Padres in the first inning, working 31 pitches, I think, off of, uh, off of their starter, uh, Parker. Yeah. Even though they didn't score, it did set the tone for knowing, okay, we're going to get to this guy. We're going to get to their bullpen. No question. There's good chance. And I thought it right away. And especially after, I think, Hassan Kim reached to the start, the second inning. All right. They've already got this guy kind of wobbling a little bit. I'm expecting a lot of runs now. Didn't know if Matt Waldron was going to lock in the way he did. Six shut, uh, shut out innings. Well, five shutout innings after the first. Very impressive way to bounce back after the shaky bottom of the first inning. You know, yeah, it's such a good point that you make. Uh, we were watching the game at home and pro far came up in the first inning and just was grinding. Man, just Fallon pitches off. He ended up striking out, but it's one of those things that makes baseball so beautiful that that he stands up there. He gives his teammates a chance to see this guy's entire arsenal and, and wears a K and swings at a pitch that was a good pitch. Like kind of down and in just good, gets over the top of it. But man, you know, you saw guys after that say, all right. Yeah, we got this dude. He's, he's wobbly. We hit him on the chin. And, uh, I once I kind of saw how their approach was last night. And yeah, man, the three runs in the first people were tweeting like, Oh man, the humidity and the knuckle ball just doesn't work. Well, it stayed humid. He figured out a way to make it work after that. And it's just one of those. It's one of those weird things for a knuckle ball pitcher like, Hey, five minutes ago, it was not knuckling or five minutes ago. It was awful. Now it's a really effective. It looked, it looked like he was maybe in the first inning, only throwing in like the mid 70s. And then he kind of threw it a little bit harder toward 80. And it started working. He, he threw one that was so nasty on pitching ninja wasn't a strike. It was just above the zone. But whoever the batter was was like bailing out. And the thing was right down the middle because it was fluttering. First it fluttered right toward him. Then it fluttered, but the back left over the middle. He figured that knuckle ball out and just gutty performance by wall. That's his 10th quality start in his last 11 outings. Of course, that means at least six innings, three runs are fewer. And while that was the minimum required yesterday for a quality start, that is so valuable that he has been able to do that now consistently. That's almost what two months, 10 starts to do that. Every single timeout, you know, rest your bullpen, helps you reset everything. Winter lose. I mean, he hasn't gotten the run support. He hasn't won all those games, obviously. But that is a valuable, valuable contribution that Mount Waldron has made. And it was nice to see him get so much offense. And maybe the biggest that bad of the game might have been the Louisa rise two out, two runs single just in the top of the second. See my tweet. I like to do with St. Louis. I mean, he just the, the sainted Louisa rise coming up, getting us right back in it with one swing was just elite. He's clearly still not healthy. Still takes a bunch of swings where you see him shaking that thumb. It's not, it's not great, but you feel pretty confident when he's up there and there's guys on second and third and you need someone to put a line drive into play. He's the guy you kind of want up more than any other at this point. Jerkson, maybe he's, you know, because he's got the power potential as well. But the Lisa rise coming through and then Jerkson, of course, absolutely continuing to torment the Washington Nationals. I mean, they're going to be so glad when that guy is gone after today's game and they don't have to see him again. Yeah, he is just murdered them this season and he, you know, did another home run. I mean, it's got to get started getting the Barry Bonds treatment if you're the Nationals and just walk Jerkson profile and put them on base. I mean, it's, it's nuts. It's nuts. He's so locked in right now. It's so good to see him get continuing then after, you know, a really torrid start to the season to have the all-star break come into to go to the all-star game to perform well in the all-star game and just continue to do what he's been doing, his been phenomenal. We got a lineup out to for you guys. The man we were just talking about, Jerkson profile, will be leading off playing left field. Donovan Solano getting a start at third base today. Xander Bogart will be at second, Manny will be DH hitting fourth. crony who I kind of thought would would get a day off today is not he's going to be at first again. He's on Kim at short, Merrill in center campy behind the dish and switch hitting, which Bryce Johnson in right field. Now again, I, I saw a lot of people with a lot of consternation about the lineup yesterday. There's just, there's, there were things that you could do. I think Mike Schilt, when it comes to like crony and Solano, I think he values the defense. He's a, he's where did he come from? You guys remember where he came from? St. Louis. St. Louis defense. He's going to value the defense. And crony's defense is, we talked about yesterday crony has better numbers against Patrick Corbin than a rise does. Right. So if you were going to give a rise a day off and clearly he's going to need some rest days. He's going to, I don't know if he's ever going to get that thumb right until the off season, but going to need to get him some rest days makes sense to, to make this one of them with Dylan sees on the mound. I told, I said yesterday, don't be greedy. You're not going to get a season sweep. Just two out of three is fine. I'm now greedy. I wanted, I mean, you really kind of have to do it. Now you've set yourself up, might as well just finish the job and go six and oh against the Washington nationals and five in a row, five and one on your road trip, heading to to Baltimore for the final three games. I'm greedy. Now I'm going to be disappointed if they don't actually get the game today. So I kind of lied when I said two out of three is fine. Now I want, of course, all three of them. I talked about Jackson Merrill's performance, a home run away from the cycle had two chances at it late in the game. He was thinking about it. He can when you're up nine runs and you're coming up. He said it actually surprised me. Do we have, I don't know if we have the post game interview they did with him, but it was really, really good. No, he said. He said, oh yeah. Oh yeah. He said to Victor Rodriguez, he even said at the end, yeah, I'm going for it, but I'm going to get a single. And he did. And his last step back, he got a single for the fourth of the game. Yeah, he goes, he got a little bit out in front of that. He goes, but they go, are you trying for that home run? He goes, fourth of bat? Oh yeah. Oh yeah. He goes, but for hit night, pot raise win, that's all I care about. I mean, he's just, he did, he's so, he, he's so composed. Hi, this is Jackson Merrill. Hi, Jackson. He's so composed beyond his years with his interviews and everything else. And again, just kind of unaffected. They asked him again, the question, Hey, who'd you love meeting at the Ulster game? He's like, uh, nobody. I mean, just kind of play against him. It's cool. It's great. Kyle and gosh, yoga. Another big game. You wonder if he's going to cool off a little bit, three for five, a two run homer. And another RBI. I looked it up, got a little, I feel a little kind of traumatized, trying to, trying to get it all back together here. Well, get it together for J. Croninworth. The last thing you want to do is embarrass yourself in front of J. Croninworth. I've done that for five years. That's a good point. Yeah. Uh, we were just talking during the break and both of us are very curious to ask him about his last at bat last night. Yeah. Yeah. Against position player, second baseman, Ildammarovargus, who came in, uh, because the, the nationals were down by so many and they wanted to save relievers and he was just throwing up effus lobs, as you see now, uh, when they put them position players and Jake nearly killed him. I mean, absolute torture of the middle. He actually caught it. It was probably the highlight of the game, uh, for the Washington Nationals, but it was a funny moment. It was a kind of scary moment. And we'll get Jake's perspective of that when he calls us up. Uh, he hasn't called yet though. It's kind of playing it by ear. So the only bummer about that, him making that play was that Merrill was on deck with a chance to hit a home run for the cycle. Right? Uh, Kim was on deck, then Merrill, but okay, could have gotten them, could have gotten them up. Yeah. I mean, he had two chances at it. Yeah. At the cycle. He did. And, uh, did get another single four hit game. Nice day. Let's, uh, let's get traffic in. 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Here's the throw to Kim, relay to the plate. Not in time. RBI's single, Jesse Winkler goes to second on the throw and the Nationals with a 1-0 lead in the first. Here's swung on, hitting the air deep to left center field, really long run pro far, going back to watch, and it's going to go into the bullpen and left center. Yep, as his hit again, 15 straight games since coming up from triple A, and this two run homer will give the Nationals a 3-0 lead in the first. Rise hits it hard up the middle, and the left center in a base hit. Kim will score Jackson barrels right behind him, a two out, two run single for a rise, and now a one run game here in the second inning. Far swing, sits it in the air to deep center field, young is racing straight back. He is at the wall, looks up, going to go. Two run homerun jerks in pro far, and the Padres have hopped in front, it's 4-3. First pitch to Ygashiyoka, line down the left field side, that's a fair ball, wood going to cut it off in front of the fence. That will prevent Merrill from coming into score, but Ygashiyoka slides feet first into second, with an RBI double as Kim crosses the plate, and the Padre lead is 5-3. It's here, hit hard on a line, and his center field in a base hit, row far is scored. Bogart's on his way, young comes up, firing the tag, not in time, Zander ended up going in, standing up, a two run single for Croninworth, and a Padre lead is 8-3. Merrill swings, sits it in the air to right center field, he has found the gap, he's going to do some more damage. Kim is on his way towards 30, he's going to be way, Merrill's rounding second, heading for third, Abrams throw, not in time, a triple for Merrill, he's 3-3 and already a Homer shy of the cycle in only the fourth inning. One out of Ygashiyoka, in the air to deep left field, wood is back to watch, this one going to go, two run Homer, Kyle Ygashiyoka is 12th of the year, and the Padre's are all over the Nationals, 11-3 in the top of the fourth. Brad's kicks and deals, Manny swings, hits it in the air to right center, long run young, not going to get there, going to bounce up, roll all the way to the wall. Bogart's is rounding 30s on his way, relay to the plate, not in time, an RBI double for Manny Machado, it's a dozen, Padre's lead in 12-3. Here's the pitch, Garcia swings, pops it up, shallow left in, he will call off Kim, and reaching forward he makes the catch, the ball game is over, a 1-2-3 bottom of the ninth, and a Padre's disassemble the Nationals here tonight by a final of 12-3. We don't always get the results every night, but generally speaking, more than not we take a relentless advance and I was again, 1-3-9 team come, you know, contribution, complete, we don't want to pass, give anything away, good situational hitting, guys will wear what they were doing, had a good plan, they would execute it just great to pass throughout, Bogart continues to take great as bats, just to where he is, Manny good at bats, again, Jack's in the court, great at bats, you know, hit you with the big swing as well. - 20 hits will usually get the job done. - Yeah, if it doesn't, you're in some deep, deep water, you know, even with Matt Waldron falling behind 3-0 in the first inning, it was key, and Mike Schilt talked about it after the game, the Padre's in the first inning, working 31 pitches, I think, off of their starter, Parker, even though they didn't score, it did set the tone for knowing, okay, we're going to get to this guy, we're going to get to their bullpen, there's good chance, and I thought it right away, and especially after I think Austin and Kim reached the start, the second inning, all right, they've already got this guy kind of wobbling a little bit, I'm expecting a lot of runs, now, didn't know if Matt Waldron was going to lock in the way he did, six shut, shut out innings, well, five shutout innings after the first, very impressive way to bounce back after the shaky bottom of the first inning. - You know, it's such a good point that you make, we were watching the game at home, and ProFAR came up in the first inning, and just was grinding, man, just foul and pitches off, he ended up striking out, but it's one of those things that makes baseball so beautiful, that he stands up there, he gives his teammates a chance to see this guy's entire arsenal, and wears a K and swings at a pitch that was a good pitch, that kind of down and in, just gets over the top of it, but man, you know, you saw guys after that, say, all right, yeah, we got this dude, he's wobbly, we hit him on the chin, and I, once I kind of saw how their approach was last night, yeah, man, the three runs in the first, people were tweeting like, oh man, the humidity in the knuckle ball just doesn't work, well, it stayed humid, he figured out a way to make it work after that, and it's just one of those, it's one of those weird things for a knuckle ball pitcher like, hey, five minutes ago, it was not knuckling, or five minutes ago, it was awful, now it's a really effective pitch. - It looked like he was maybe in the first inning, only throwing in like the mid 70s, and then he kind of threw it a little bit harder toward 80, and it started working, he, he threw one that was so nasty on pitching ninja, wasn't a strike, it was just above the zone, but whoever the batter was, was like bailing out, and the thing was right down the middle because it was fluttering, first it fluttered right toward him, then it fluttered back left over the middle, he figured that knuckle ball out, and just gutty performance by Waldron, that's his 10th quality start in his last 11 outings, of course, that means at least six innings, three runs are fewer, and while that was the minimum required yesterday for a quality start, that is so valuable that he has been able to do that now consistently, that's almost what, two months, 10 starts, to do that every single time out, you know, rest your bullpen, helps you reset everything, win or lose, I mean, he hasn't gotten the run support, he hasn't won all those games obviously, but that is a valuable, valuable contribution that Mount Waldron has made, and it was nice to see him get so much offense, and maybe the biggest at bat of the game, might have been the Louisa rise two out two runs single, just in the top of the second, my tweet, I'll let you do a Saint Louis, I mean, he just the, the sainted Louisa rise coming up, getting us right back in it with one swing was just elite, he's clearly still not healthy, still takes a bunch of swings where you see him shaking that thumb, it's not, it's not great, but you feel pretty confident when he's up there, and there's guys on second and third, and you need someone to put a line drive into play, he's the guy you kind of want up more than any other at this point, jerks in, maybe he's, you know, because he's got the power potential as well, but the Lisa rise coming through, and then jerks in, of course, absolutely continuing to torment the Washington Nationals, I mean, they're gonna be so glad when that guy is gone after today's game, and they don't have to see him again, he is just murdered them this season, and he, you know, did another home run, I mean, it's got to get started getting the Barry Bonds treatment, if you're the Nationals, and just walk jerks and profile and put them on base. I mean, it's, it's nuts, it's nuts. He's so locked in right now, it's so good to see him get continuing, Ben, after, you know, a really torrid start to the season, to have the all-star break come into, to go to the all-star game to perform well in the all-star game and just continue to do what he's been doing, has been phenomenal, we got a lineup out to for you guys, the man we were just talking about jerks and profile, we'll be leading off playing left field, Donovan Solano getting a start at third base today, Xander Bogart will be at second, Manny will be DH hitting fourth, crony who I kind of thought would, would get a day off today is not, he's gonna be at first again, hustle Kim at short, Merrill in center, campy behind the dish, and switch hitting, which Bryce Johnson in right field. Now again, I saw a lot of people with a lot of consternation about the lineup yesterday. There's just, there's, there were things that you could do. I think Mike Shilt, when it comes to like crony and Solano, I think he values the defense. He's a, he's, where did he come from? You guys remember where he came from? St. Louis. St. Louis, defense. He's gonna value the defense. And crony's defense is, we talked about yesterday, crony has better numbers against Patrick Corbin than Arise does. So if you were gonna give a rise a day off and clearly he's gonna need some rest days. He's, I don't know if he's ever gonna get that thumb right until the off season, but gonna need to get him some rest days makes sense to, to make this one of them with Dylan sees on the mound. I told, I said yesterday, don't be greedy, you're not going to get a season sweep. Just two out of three is fine. I'm now greedy. I want it. I mean, you really kind of have to do it now. You've set yourself up, might as well just finish the job and go six and oh against the Washington Nationals and five in a row, five and one on your road trip, heading to Baltimore for the final three games. I'm greedy now. I'm going to be disappointed if they don't actually get the game today. So I kind of lied when I said two out of three is fine. Now I want, of course, all three of them. I talked about Jackson Merrill's performance, a home run away from the cycle had two chances at it late in the game. He was thinking about it. You can when you're up, you know, nine runs and you're coming up, he said it actually surprised me. They have the post game interview they did with him, but it was really, really good. He said, oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. And he said to Victor Rodriguez, he even said at the end, yeah, I'm going for it, but I'm going to get a single and he did in his last step back, he got a single for the fourth end of the game. Yeah. He goes and got a little bit out in front of that. He goes, but they go, are you trying for that home run? He goes, fourth of bat? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. And then he goes, but for hit night, Padres win. That's all I care about. I mean, he's just, he did, he's so, he's so composed. Oh, yeah. This is Jackson Merrill. Hi, Jackson. He's so composed beyond his years with his interviews and everything else. And again, just kind of unaffected. They asked him again, the question, hey, who'd you love meeting at the also game? He's like, eh, nobody, I mean, just kind of play against them. It's cool. It's great. Kyle and Gashiyoka, another big game. You wonder if he's going to cool off a little bit, three for five, a two run homer at another RBI. I looked it up because his slugging percentage is up to 540, not, not just during his hot streak. That's for the whole season now, including, you know, doing nothing in the first, you know, whatever month and a half, two months of the year. If he had enough played appearances, 540 would put him fourth in the National League and slugging percentage behind Shohei Marcello, Zuna and Bryce Harper. I mean, those are leading sluggers in the National League. Shohei, Ozuna Harper, Higashiyoka with his 12th home run of the season. Shohei, Ozuna Harper, Harper, Higashiyoka. The big four is they're referred to in baseball. He's now in the Higgy Hall of Fame. He is in the Higgy Hall. You're in it. Thank you. The guy from Magnum PI. Yeah. And Kyle and Gashiyoka. Yeah. Hall of Fame. Who else? Am I missing anyone? Let's see. T Higgins, maybe. Yeah. Okay. He's got a little work to do. Yeah. He signed his contract tender, I think, the franchise tag. Oh, yeah. Okay. He's in camp. Put him in there with the Bengals. There you go. Mount Rushmore of Higgins. Um, Zander Bogart's also went four for four. He is now 14 for 29, I think, since he came off the, uh, the injured list. The one thing you're not getting in as Zander is slug. He's Louisa Rice. It's single, single, single, single. Yeah. Which is still, I'll take it. I mean, you know, 500 on base percentage, you're not hurting the team. No. Even a little bit. Not even a little. By doing that. But that's a tough pace to sustain. We're about to complain. No. I'm not going to complain. I'm not going to complain. No, no. I mean, you're paying like this. He's doing great. He's good. Right. No, no, this is this is Zander. This is a Zander Bogart's love segment. I, uh, with the acknowledgement that I'm hoping at some point, a little more slug comes back into his game. I refuse to talk about it. Because I don't want to be, I want to continue to be right about Zander Bogart's coming back. So I'm not going to say anything. It's coming back. Right. Keep up. You are right. He's been, uh, he's been a big addition back to the pot. He's returned, made some pretty decent plays defensively as well. Um, yeah, it's great to see him back. We need, we need him. We need everybody and, and, and nice to see him, uh, get it going and have a little rest, maybe a little mental reset as well. So yeah, I, um, I think, I think it's a matter of time, Benny, till those balls, he's seeing it so well. It's a matter of time till those balls start to find in some, some gap out there and, and maybe even go over the, over the wall, Zander Bogart's isn't a guy you're going to rely on for the long ball. Yeah, you do rely on him for popping a couple of doubles. Uh, and, and it just hasn't come yet, but man, no problem, no problem with the way he's playing baseball right now. And the nice thing with the big lead, uh, you didn't have to use any of your back end of the bullpen. You've got three shutout innings from Yuki Matsui, Logan Gillespie and annual Delo Santos, which means you got to rest Adrian Morihone, Jeremiah Strada and Robert Suarez, kind of rendering moot. The whole, why did you use Suarez in a four nothing game in the first game of the series? Well, that's why that you always know the next game could go in a number of different ways, including a big win that still allows you to get the rest and you were able to lock up that first game. And Mike Schilt talked about a pregame extensively. And one of the things he mentioned and he was, it was pretty unmiced, like in acknowledging he said, so it's for not, it's we're up for nothing. It's not a safe situation. I realized that he says, but there's a three batter minimum. So I could bring in someone else, not that we don't have confidence in those guys, but they're not all stars like Robert Suarez. What happens if two of those three get on or all three of them get on now I'm bringing in Suarez anyway, in a much tougher situation, I can't pull the rip cord, you know, after a batter or two. If the guy, oh, this guy doesn't have it, I got, I got to wear him for three batters. Isn't it just better for me to just put Robert out and clean it in, you know, not worry about it. Let him do his thing. He's got a little bit of wiggle room. If something does happen, he says, I always want to give my reliever coming in. If possible, kind of one free spot on the bingo board, like, you know what, you don't have it. The first batter you got, you can walk a guy, you can come back, but if you put him in and the base is already loaded, the tying runs coming up, that's a different situation. And it does not want to put his closer in that position because he's done it before. And Robert is the kind of guy too. You've heard it for many, many years in baseball, everyone says, oh, closers just can't pitch in non-safe situations. We've seen this blow. He does not care. He does not care when he pitches. He'll pitch in the eighth with two outs and the base is loaded and then work the ninth. He just wants to pitch and, you know, they, yeah, they do need to be careful with his usage, but you didn't have to use him yesterday and much to my surprise with a 12-3 lead. I was kind of waiting for it at some point, but it never did materialize. The other guys got the job done and, you know, I mean, look, it's a 12-3 win. And I still had people in my timeline, why are we using Yuki here? Well, and I'm like, bro, the guy hasn't pitched since Saturday. All right. He needs work. You got these guys have to pitch to stay sharp and, you know, Yuki's not a guy that's a super high leverage guy and he's pitched well since, since the break. So keep that going, man. Get him some work. Keep him sharp. But when you need him, he'll be sharp and ready. So yeah, they'll go for the sweep today, as we mentioned, Woods had the lineup, Dylan Cease against Patrick Corbin, kind of a game you feel like, yeah, he just really, really want to win this one and finish off the sweep. You can get back to five games above 500, which is what, one below the season high of six. It is the sea saw, you know, or roller coaster if you're not, if you want to go that direction of this season, where every other week, it's a different team. And we always love these weeks when the Padres are playing well, how long can they sustain it? And when does the, the worm turn and go, you know, that magnet sucking them back toward 500? Well, it'd be this weekend in Baltimore, can they keep it going? Got the Dodgers coming into Petco Park next week for two games. Can you avoid the magnet? I'm not saying you have to keep winning 10 in a row, but how about you win five in a row today and then play, you know, 500 ball for the next six games just to stay where you are. And then maybe start another winning streak, 100%. That would be the way to make progress in the standings as opposed to continually making the progress and then giving it back. You kind of make the progress and then you churn your legs for, you know, a week or so. You don't have to win every single game, even the Phillies, you know, have stretches where they just churn for a little bit. Well, I mean, the Orioles are in one right now, I've lost twice to the Marlins. So yeah, they're, they're, they're a little bad, you know, you don't think it's going to last because those teams have shown the ability to nip it in the butt, you know, one or two games and then, you know, right back to it. Padres need to do that as well. We are all set. Jake Croninworth, Croninworth will be joining us as soon as we come back from this commercial break. We're going to talk to Jake one hour down, one hour to go with Ben and Waffley home on Sandy Thursday, number one sports station, which is 97 three to fan. We're not telling him about that. Yes, we are. What kind of programs does this school have? How are the test scores? How many kids do a classroom? Homes.com, those, these are all things you ask when you're home shopping as a parent. 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