Ben & Woods On Demand Podcast

6am Hour - Padres Take 2 Of 3 From The Red Sox At Fenway Park

Ben, Woods, and Paul are here for you on a Monday morning! We start the show with a little foreplay as we talk about our weekends and how we're officially in the 2nd half of the year! Then Ben sets the menu for today's show as we give some initial thoughts on the Padres taking 2 of 3 from the Red Sox this weekend before we dive into our Padres Wrap-Up and go over yesterday's 4-1 loss as Matt Waldron just didn't have his sharpest stuff. Listen here!

Duration:: 59m
Broadcast on:: 01 Jul 2024
Audio Format:: mp3

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The information is from multiple trusted sources and curated by homes.com's dedicated in-house research team. It's also you can make the right decision for your family. Homes.com. We've done your homework. Well, happy Monday everybody. Ben and Woods 97.3, the fan. Welcome to July 1. May was dragging ass June flew by. And now here we are on July 1, aka my birthday month. So hope everybody celebrates accordingly. It's good to be here with you guys. Hope you had a great weekend. I'm Woodsie. That's Paul Reindel, the executive producer. Good morning, Paulie. Good morning, chef. Good morning, chef to you. And then our resident sweet, sweet angel. Guy worked his balls off last night till like midnight. Your friendly neighborhood sports anchor. For now, Ben Higgins. Tired. Yeah, a little bit, but I'm okay. Got to the old school. We are closer to 2025. Yeah, man. In 2023 now. Cheers, flown by. Wow. It's flown by. I mean, he said it on like May 6th. He just happened to drop. He goes, "May is such a long month." I go, "Ah, I've never really felt that way." And then about three weeks later, it was May 7th. And I was like, "Jesus, dude, you were dead on. I'm in hell right now." I remember going, "How many days have May?" And I was like, "Well, look at my calendar." I'm like, "Ah, we still have another week." Yeah, 47 more days. We got through that. June hit. Probably played some decent baseball, man. That helps. You know, that absolutely helps. And now we're into July. And, you know, it's on. It's on. I got so much stuff in July. I've got the busiest July of my entire life. In fact, I actually had to apologize to my wife yesterday because she said, because one of our favorite restaurants burned down, Ember and Rye is one of our favorite restaurants. We've been there on several anniversaries, big birthdays and things like that. So yesterday, I was just feeling a little bit overwhelmed with everything that's going on. And I said, she said, "Oh, I booked this dinner on July 26th at Ember and Rye." And I go, "We got to stop planning stuff. We have to..." I'm just overwhelmed. We have something every single Friday and every Saturday. She's like, "Oh, okay." So she laughed. And I felt bad. So I texted her. I said, "I'm really sorry." I said, "You're trying to do something nice." And I, you know, just kind of crap all over it. I said, "I'm really sorry. I'm going through some stuff." It's interesting that you would consider just like dinner, though, as like the tipping point of what you can and can't handle. Because invariably, you're going to eat dinner that night anyway. And this just makes it nicer and better by going to one of your favorite restaurants. I wouldn't consider that a stressful thing that you had to calendar. I would consider that kind of a break from all the other long things you have in the month. Yeah, for sure. But like we've got, we're going to two Padres games as a family. We're going on a little mini staycation this weekend. Then I'm going to be in LA for a couple days, going to a concert, the next weekend. Then Hannah and I are going to Palm Springs for my birthday. And then the week after that is that first, like it's the first Friday, we'll be at our home. And so I said, "It's too much." I said, "We don't have to book something every Friday." But then I realized, "Man, what a jerk. What a jerk you are." So I texted her, "Nice, sweet apology." I said, "I'm really sorry. That was a nice gesture on your part." And I said, "Excuse the chat. Lock me up, real monster here." I know. I just felt like such a butt when I did it. So I'm sorry, please re-up our reservation. And I'm looking forward to it. It's a delicious restaurant. It's booked up completely. Yeah, but you can't get it until September now. So yeah, it's just one of my many a-hole moments over the weekend. It happens. It happens. So I'm trying to be better. But once I get like, once I start feeling like the calendar is really, really full, that's when the panic sets in for me. And it's weird. I'm weird like that. You know, it's funny. I ran into a beloved dear friend. I was at a birthday party. And I ran into our pal Tim Flannery. And it was for his granddaughter. And I didn't know this about Timmy, but we share the same affliction in that we are good for about an hour. Anywhere we go, we're really good for about an hour. So I saw him and I went and sat down next to him. And I just started wearing them out for stories. And boy, did I get them. I mean, you said, now, Flan, how are you doing? Oh, brother, it's good to see. Oh, it's great to see you too. Anyway, back in '71. And I'm like, yes. And he just, so for the first 50 minutes of this birthday party, he just started firing baseball stories at me. I mean, he told me one that will knock your socks off. And I said, Ben's out of town on a Monday. It's actually next Monday, correct week from today. Ben's going to be out of town. I said, Flan, will you come in? And he said, yeah, so he's going to come in and shoot the breeze for the last half of the show. And when you sit and talk to Tim Flannery, you get that old baseball spirit, the heart, you know, the heart of the game. Guy will tell you straight up to your face was not the most talented baseball player, wanted it, wanted it more than anyone. And the stories that he tells, and he told me this was really sweet. He said, I was your boy. And because he knows both pretty well, he's he's been in several of the T ball games I've coached. And he's always remarked to you because I love his motor. I mean, the dude's constantly hustling. He's he's dialed in for a five, six year old. That's a big compliment from Tim Flannery. 100%. And he said to me, he goes, he goes, is he getting over it yet? And I go, no, I said, we went from one camp to a practice. And it still was enough. He wanted grounders. And we got home. He goes, that is just how I was. He goes, and they all used to tell me, you're going to burn out. You're going to burn out. He goes, guess what? I still haven't burned out on the game. He would go back and coach. If they needed him today, he would go back and coach. That's how much he loves it. So when I'm with him, I am filled. Like my spirit is full with like baseball, like just the love and the the heart of the game. And I feel like I feel like the game is missing some of that. There are there are a lot of kids who do burn out early, but there's the occasional few that just never just have an endless supply of, I just want to do this. Tiger Woods is the first example I think of. Yeah, golfing from basically the age of one, you know, the difference and never and still to this day, if his legs would allow it, he'd be out there every single way. Because that's just, he just loves golf and he loves doing it. You know, and the thing is too, is I read a lot about how how champions are made and things like that. Not that, you know, I don't think my son's going to be a big leaguer. I don't. It's minuscule, the odds, but I read a lot about how dads were with their kids. And you read about like Bryce Harper's dad, Tyrant, you know, Tyrant, but I mean, if the end game is Bryce Harper, you did pretty good. I read about, um, or a woods, a Tyrant. I mean, straight up and you do get the sense though, that a lot of those were the dads saying, get your ass up, get your ass outside. We're doing this. I don't have to do that with him. I don't ever have to do it. I've never asked him to take grounders, never wants. I've never asked him to go get some swings. He always comes to me, which is great. Because I don't feel like the, the, you know, the, the Tyrant didn't the whole thing. So, um, yeah, we, I ripped him fungos in the street yesterday. We got done. He was diving around on the concrete, making plays. We get inside, we chill for about 20 minutes. And he looks at me and goes, grounders, he wanted more. And I'm like, holy smokes. So it's cool, man. Being around flan makes me feel good. It just, the stories are just through the roof. So excited about that for next month. Yeah, I think you handle it the right way because you encourage, but never require. No, I think for every Tiger Woods, there's 500 kids like Todd Moranovich, whose dad pushed them too hard, you know, probably wrecked their life to a certain extent because they were trying to live out their dreams through their kids by, you know, I never made a, made it pro, but you're going to make it pro. We're going to my, you know, my disappointment of not getting there, you're going, I'm going to live vicariously through you. And that almost never, never works when you do it that way. The best baseball player that I ever knew growing up, he was a year younger than me. He got drafted, didn't even have a cup of coffee in the bigs. He had, it was like a espresso shot, but he made it. He's one of the, whatever, 21,000. Yeah. And, and which is great, but dude, growing up, like his dad was so hard on him. He's like, I can't, you know, we'd go out for pizza or something as a team. He's like, I can't. My dad's got me on the diet. Oh, we'd have a, we'd all stay the night at somebody's house, have a party. He'd be doing pushups in the corner because my dad says I got to do 200 pushups every night. And we're just like, you, that's tough, dude. But like, he made it. They made it. So I don't know if it was right or wrong. Yeah. From the outside, I was like, man, that sucks. Yeah. Yeah. You can't just be a dude. Can't just be a kid. Yeah. It's, it's really tough. But he's, you know, he's staying really committed to it. But anyway, yeah, Flynn's got that thing where the anxiety kicks in after a while. And he's like, all right, that's it for me. You guys know me. I mean, I'm, I'm an hour, I'm an hour tops. And I made it three hours at this little kid's birthday party. Thank you to Flynn for helping me kill that first hour. But not easy, man. It's not easy. Once I start to feel like it's all getting pulled up, I start to panic, start to defend myself, you know, I gotta go. I gotta go. I wish I wasn't that way. But I know a lot of people can relate to that out there. How was everybody else's weekend around here? What'd you guys do? Mine was quiet, got some stuff done around the house. Went to Costco. They already had all the Halloween merchandise out, which seems, I know every, it always seems earlier, every single year, it was still June. And they're pumpkins, Target, Walmart, and I'm going leave them all out, leave the Christmas decorations. Oh, you have a Christmas section. We have a Halloween section in August, September, and then October, October, before we actually get to Halloween. That's four months. That's a third of the, we're a third of the year away from Halloween, a full third of the year. I'm not going to buy a giant jack-o-lantern at Costco on June 29th. I'm just not going to do it. Put out costumes. So you want to get your costume. If they have costumes, you want to get it and get it now. But if you have little kids, they're going to change their mind 15 times. My kids, Taylor just wants to be David Bowie again. And I'm like, you get to mix it up, bro. You can mix it up anytime you want. And you can be whatever you want. And I'm like, you want to be like a different version of David Bowie. He goes, no, Ziggy Stardust. I go, all right, well, again, we're going to have the same picture of you. But if you love it, you love it. So that's, that's kind of what he wants to do. But yeah, man, it was low-key. I took two naps yesterday, which was incredible. The post breakfast nap is elite. You wake up, took the kids to home state in Oceanside. We had some breakfast tacos. Hannah slept in, took them there. By the time we got home, I go, I'm ready for another nap. Really? Yeah. So I got in, I slept for an hour or so, woke up to the early Padres game. I was like, this is great. The first, wait, was that was the second nap or that was the first nap? That was the first nap. When did the second nap then come? When Taylor went down for his nap at one. Really? And you were tired enough that you could after napping guest before the Padres game, you were tired enough to nap again immediately after the Padres game. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. But you didn't play in the Padres game. No, I was just gassed. Completely, completely gassed from the weekend. You know, I feel rested today. I feel great. Hopefully, everybody's feeling good out there. We got a good show for you today. Benning will set the menu for you next. And we'll get into it, man. I'm very pleased. It was very pleased. Like two games in a hostile environment where you literally didn't even have to, didn't even have to go pour yourself a drink because you were nervous about the win. I mean, just two absolute bangers of a game followed by a little bit of a clunker yesterday, but one that you were you were still in. You're a you're a hitaway. Yeah, you were never totally thrilled about their chances yesterday, but you take the series, win and move on. We'll set the menu, get you ready for a good Monday. Obviously, short week for us like most of you with the 4th of July coming up on Thursday. So we got a lot to pack in over the next three days. Glad you're with us on a Monday morning. It's been its woods. It's Paul. We're going until 10 o'clock. Thank you for joining us on San Diego's number one sports station. Check traffic with Kelly right now on 97 through the fan. We all belong outside. 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You remain calm through homes, over the moment, and people yell. You are a fighter, and Mandela is your overall. Mandela, the mark of a fight. Prick responsibly, beer imported by Crown and Port Chicago, Illinois. For a couple of weeks there, it just felt like every Padres game was a soap opera of, you know, comebacks, walkoffs, disappointment, heartbreak, you know, the Washington National Series with everything that went on there. And not the last few days have been relatively drama-free for your San Diego Padres. Two very drama-free wins and one mostly drama-free loss yesterday to the Boston Red Sox as they take two out of three over the weekend to open their road trip. Another day off today for your San Diego Padres. And then they will finish their road trip last three road games of the first half of the season in Texas against the defending World Series champion rangers tomorrow, Wednesday, and Thursday, 4th of July, Thursday in Texas in Arlington. So I don't know, how do you feel about less drama in a baseball game? I mean, we watch baseball for the, you know, for the entertainment, for the excitement. And somehow when a game doesn't have a lot of excitement, it's almost a relief, at least for me. Well, if you win, yeah, man, those games, you know, the game's Friday night and Saturday night. I looked at the betting lines on both. We were pretty heavy underdogs. I took them both both nights and was like, that was like the easiest money I've won all year. You know, I looked at it and thought, this team's playing red hot right now, and they were going up against some good arms. They just, I had that feeling. I just had that feeling that the guys were going to play really well. And boy, did they? I mean, everybody contributed. We're going to get into the details of all the games. But yeah, and as far as yesterday goes, yeah, pretty drama free as well. Wasn't the worst game they played this season by any stretch. But you really, yeah, man, you wanted to, wanted to get to drive that nail home yesterday and get that sweet. Of course, for us, too many of those games like yesterday, we're like, who's Josh Winkowski? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Too many of those. That's when you start one of like, just pull your hair out. Exactly. But it's also like, man, we beat Tanner Hawk to a real good the other night and took care of Pavetta and and all these guys. Oh, he's not giving up a home run and so and so. I mean, we just laid the wood to those guys, those first two games in Fenway. Huge contingent of Padre fans out there as well. Bro, after a long ass, pretty, pretty heavy week with the fights and everything else and a lot of drama and everything else and shilt on Friday, it was so nice to watch them go into Fenway and handle business, man. And you know, I know we're back to the well, it's fine. We won the series, but it is fine that we won that series because this is what the mighty Red Sox have. This is what they sound like now after get after the Padres get done with it. Boy, it hits different, doesn't it? I don't know if there's a better, I don't know if there's a better song, though, for like, if you're a team, and that's like your team song, I don't know if there's one better than shipping up to Boston. Does any song, if isn't sweet Caroline, really their team song, though, it's their seventh inning song. Love Mr. Phil. I love the rough. It's the rough weekend, rough weekend for all Caroline. I'm feeling him on mushrooms right now. Did I take DMT? Some guy in a meal diamond concert in the 70s gets dosed with something. He's like, this sucks. No, it was great. I mean, hey, look, I like it good. I like a good old-fashioned ass kicking. If they, I mean, who are we to sit here and say, boy, those nine one wins are sure getting old. I mean, you must be out of your mind to that. I really prefer the four, three or the five, four walk off. No, give me the nine one. Exactly. Give me the nine one trouble. Exactly. I can sit back and go. I mean, look, you know, I tweeted it the other day and I was, it was joking when I said it, but behind every joke, there's a little truth. You know, we were up 10 runs and I went, something tells me we're still going to have to get Bob Suarez out of him. Robert Suarez got to go to Boston and he clamped out. He had enough to do a damn thing. Fantastic day for a fantastic weekend for him. Nice little vacation. And you reset and got some guys some rest. It was great. It was a great, great series in Boston. You can't look at it any other way. I don't want to hear any. We should have swept. That's a good ass team that you're playing up there. And and they got you yesterday. Your ace, our ace to this point did not have his best stuff yesterday, made a costly mistake to to Raffi Devers. And it happens. Yeah, we'll talk about Matt Waldron and his his visit to Fenway Park, a lot of Tim Wakefield talk during the game yesterday as well. Ultimately, though, it was a good month of June for the San Diego Padres. They finished by winning nine of their last 11 games in the month. They're four games above 500. Currently occupying one of the playoff spots in the National League. The only thing they didn't do in June, and this is more of a Ben and Woods sort of Monday morning problem. They did not win any Sunday games in the month of June. Not once every Monday morning, we get a losing edition of a Padres wrap up, which we will have. Who are you coming up here? You guys can't sandwich. Give me a sandwich. You know, a win loss. We don't work on the Sabbath anymore. What's going on? Seriously. Right. Why is the Sunday game always the toughest one to win? I'll always find it something to complain about, ain't you? I swear to God, swear to God always complaining about something. He's incredible. That's correct. Yeah. He's going to murder us. But we'll have lots of good, good, good baseball to talk about as well in our seven o'clock hour. Take on woods. We still have opportunities to win that getaway to the Fontainebleau Las Vegas concert tickets. 150 dollar food and beverage credit pool side. That's at 7 10. Don't do this at 7 20. Our normal segments, of course, second half of the show on Monday. We will catch up with in season Sammy. Talk about his weekend covering the San Diego Padres as well. Some headlines in our rindle report, but mostly some baseball talk from over the weekend. Lots of Padres news and notes to get too. And just try to, you know, you got what? One and a half more weeks here to the all-star. Two more weeks until the all-star break. You got one road series and then one home stand of eight games. So you got 11 games left until the all-star break. Just finish out the rest of the first half somehow with a winning record over those 11 games. Stay above 500. You're in good shape going into that last stretch run post all-star break. Yeah. And everyone's talking about all the off days. And I think inherently they are a great thing for a team that's beat up. And that's, that's our on paper analysis on paper. This is a great thing. Pitching especially. Pitching especially. Your offense is as hot as it is. Off days aren't necessarily the best thing. But you know, you got a banged up Jerkson profile. You got a banged up Manny Machado. You've got a banged up Luis Rizos are three pretty important pieces for you moving forward. But man, you know, I got excited about it. And I do love the off days and they deserve them. They've earned them. They've played a buttload of baseball the first half of the season. But man, I look at that July schedule and went, whoa, mama, this is, it's, it's, it's going to be pretty nasty. Three with Texas. Yeah. The dinosaurs this week, sure. And then couple with Seattle, then the Braves, then you get a break. Then you go to Cleveland, who's unreal. Then you go to Washington, which there it's going to be James Woods going to be up. He's making his major league debut today. Then you got the Orioles. Then you got the Dodgers to round out the month. So, you know, some more great baseball is going to need to be played. The good news is, though, is because they had this stretch, you don't need to go on a huge winning strike against these teams. You just have to not give it back and not have that stretch where you lose six of seven or five in a row, which has been the problem through the first half of the season. Have they gotten over that? That'll be the next sign to see if the Padres really are kind of taking those strides and turning the corner that Mike Shell always said they were going to. Sure. You know, the whole way along, he all along, he said, we're going to keep getting better. This isn't him. This is not the end product. It's going to keep getting better as the season goes on. So far, he has, he has proved pretty prescient about what his team is going to look like over the course of the season. He's kind of criticism, but we played better against good teams. Yeah, we have to this point. There is no reason to think that we'll continue to do so. We were playing lights out on the road. Then we stopped. We were playing poorly at home. Then they got better at home. So there's no trends for the San Diego Padres that are going to remain true for the entire season. That's one thing that I think, that's one thing that I can say we've learned, we've learned our lesson, right? That if it's going a certain way, the chances are it will not continue going that way. So I think there's a big reason for that. And we're finally kind of understanding it. Let's talk about when we come back in our Padres wrap up because yesterday was kind of the perfect example of both the strengths and the potential flaws of this San Diego Padres team. We'll get to that coming up next Monday morning. Glad to have you with us on San Diego's number one sports station 97 three the fan. So the funny thing is yesterday's game while it was a four one loss compared to two overwhelming wins on Friday and Saturday wasn't that different from the other two games. Yeah, I know you're you're going with that. So it doesn't make any sense, Ben. It doesn't make any sense at all. How many runs have we scored? One. Okay. And they scored 11 and nine. How 20 is speaking of somebody that's taking DMT this morning? No, but this is why this is why the Padres will always have you kind of on the edge of your seat. The way that you know they have constructed their offense, they're going to have to outscore their opponent to win the game. That's right, John. The fact that they generally when they rally, they have to string together many, many hits together for a lot of their rallies. They had a nine run nine one. I mean, they only scored in one inning on I know I know they scored in one inning on Friday. They also scored in one inning on Sunday. It just, you know, when the other team gets a big, you know, comes up with a pitch and gets a double play kills that rally really quickly. Well, all of a sudden, the Padres just don't do much offensively. And yesterday they had eight hits. They had lead runners on all day long. They just weren't able to then string a couple of more hits together like they did in really just two big rallies. They had a six run rally on Saturday, a nine run rally on Friday. And that was the difference in the entire series. Those two really great innings. Otherwise, I mean, you think Boston radio this morning is going, well, if we just erased that nine run inning and we raced that six run inning, we got them right where we want them. You know, I don't think so. I don't know. I mean, you're talking about Patriots OTA. That's exactly right. That's exactly right. Who are the Celtics? I don't even know they still had a team. Yeah. I mean, I see what you're saying, you know, but yeah, you know, I don't want to come in here this morning after the run that they've been on and be like, all right, let's nitpick some stuff. But I think, I think it's, there's a couple things you can look at yesterday that absolutely made me pull my hair out for sure. I think you guys know what I'm about to do. But should we play the, play the wrap up first? Sure. Let's get to our Padres wrap up of yesterday's game. We'll go through a little Mount Waldron talking more coming up right after this check traffic on 97 3 the fam. It's a shame if they lose. Oh, a shame indeed. It's a complete crap. I did not like that. Here are the low lights from yesterday's game. Are you kidding me? It's the Padres wrap up presented by Hummel Casino with thrilling slots and tables in all the best rewards. Hummel Casino has all the fun you're looking for. Hummel Casino fun above all else. We'll give it 16 minutes of salt and then we'll, you know, get back on the pump and figure it out. It's not your fault. And a 2-1 pitch in the air to left field and deep. Pro 4 will turn around to watch up at the monster and it's gone. A home run. Two runs shot for Raphael Devers, his second to the series. Yeah, the Red Sox have a 2-0 lead in the bottom of the first inning. Their first lead since they were up 1-0 to the fourth on Friday. 2-1 pitch is way outside. Gonna go to the backstop. Gonna get a run home. Are you charging in from third sides? You've had first, a wild pitch on an upper ball and a 3-0 Red Sox lead. 1-1 pitch hit in the air. Deep down the right field line towards the ball. Gone, Oliver. Darrin Duran, a lead shot here in the fifth inning. Is gone. Deep back-to-back. Games kind of an urban copy shot. Down that right field line and the Red Sox lead is 4-0. 3-1 to camp. The pitch is swung on and hit. Fair up the left field line. That's gonna roll and roll to the corner. Meryl racing around 30 scores easily. Came into second base. It's an RBI double. And the boundaries are on the board here in the seventh inning. It's 4-1. James Swain sits it in the air to left center field. Long run. Raffaiella into the gap. He's there and he makes the catch down the game. 1-2-3. Top of the night for Tenley Chanson. His 16th save of the year. Audrey's cannot complete the sweep here at Fenway. But they come to Boston and take two out of three as they have still 1-9 out of their last 11 games. Oh yeah, I mean, I think, you know, I think you got the lead, you know, put some swings on Waldi. I would add on a little bit. Had some guys on just couldn't cash in, you know, it was a good series. Bullpen was really good, you know, comes in Waldi gets his guys and co-op with the clean six. And Maury on in Strata got out there and got some work. So it was good and clean and it was zero. So yeah, just couldn't, couldn't push enough across there. There you go. There you go. 1-4-8 with runners in scoring position after dominating in those situations on Friday and Saturday and the Padres lose the series finale. 4-1 and not going to pin it all on Matt Waldron who's been so good. But clearly there was something extra for him going into that game yesterday. And, you know, sometimes that can be a good thing. Yeah. You've got that extra motivation, the extra emotion that really fuels you. But sometimes it can also be too much. Take you out of your game a little. Exactly. And I think there may have been a little bit of that. I don't know if he'd agree or not. Clearly, a guy was very emotional about pitching at Fenway Park, Tim Wakefield where they, you know, honored him and Tim Wakefield had helped Matt Waldron with the Knuckleball. And obviously that had been an important and special relationship for Matt Waldron to go back to the mound where Tim Wakefield pitched. They've got Wakefield's number up there atop the green monster after he passed away. Very sad story from the off season. And it meant a lot for him to go out there yesterday. And when that happens, especially for a Knuckleballer, what I've always heard is that the last thing you want as a Knuckleballer is anything that really throws you off that normal, very precise rhythm that you need to take the spin off of a baseball. I think humidity probably didn't help as well. Apparently it was like the stickiest game of the year for the San Diego Padres. You could feel it, man, through the TV. I mean, before the rain started dumping, all their jerseys were just soaked. And he was wearing the long sleeves to try to keep the ball, you know, changing the ball drive, no dripping onto his hands because of the, the grip that he needs for the, for the, and I'm not trying to make excuses for Matt Waldron. Not going to help by it. It clearly seemed to affect him. And I thought in the first inning in particular, and part of it was the broadcast, which Don and Mud were doing a good job, but he walked, what, he walked the third batter. So he put someone on for Raphael Dever's, and he gets deep into the count. And you, they're talking about the fact that Dever's is such a good, was a fast ball hitter. Oh, yeah. I mean, he's nasty. So better not miss with a fast ball to Raphael Dever. And to be honest with you, he didn't, he threw it out or out or third, but he covers, he covers every pitch. But I think the, the situation there is if you hadn't just walked the guy before, and it's now it's three balls and two strikes, right? You don't want to walk another guy. So you throw it. You don't know if that knuckleball is on yet. So you try to get a fast ball past him. And he, of course, doesn't hit him hit it a mile. I think the XBA was 200. But it's the wall. It's the green monster. It's a fly ball, probably an out in a lot of parks, but there it's a home run. And now you're behind to nothing. And you're playing, you're playing, you're playing catch up the rest of the game. Yeah, Dever's should litter. If you're a knuckleball pitcher, he should never see a fastball. I mean, he'll swing, he'll swing at stuff out of the zone and the knuckleball. I mean, I get it. If it's not working, walk him. You know, walk him. You take your chances with the next guy. You cannot. And I know that the reason that Waldron's been so effective is that he's not just up there flipping knuckle balls. His 91 looks 98 after you've seen a couple of those bad boys. He's got a really good sweeper as well. So he likes to use all of his arsenal and getting ahead with that stuff, which makes him the knuckleball just that much more effective because you can't take it with two strikes because it might flutter right into the zone. There's no question. So you have to start swinging. And it just, it gives him such an advantage that he never really took advantage of yesterday. Yeah. And and never saw that that heater 91, I think on the outer third and just went whoop and flipped it over the monster like he's done before and like he'll do, you know, probably 400 more times in his career. He is an elite, elite baseball player. So yeah, man, that's that's kind of the one guy you look at in their lineup. They have some really good players. You know, Jared Durant's a really good player. They have that rookie that they have is really good as well. They have some good players, but you can't let that you can't throw that guy, you know, knee high fastballs on the outer third, he's going to destroy you. And he did. Kind of love watching him play. I love watching him hit. I love everything about him. I just wish he didn't do it against us yesterday. So that, that one kind of bugged me there. You almost kind of felt it was going to, it was going to happen. But the thing I think that made me the most insane, and you guys probably know what it is. It's the fifth. Jackson Merrill gets on another knock for Jackson Merrill. Three more hits yesterday. This is Jackson Merrill Jackson. You are a stud. We're going to get into your return to your favorite ballpark. But holy smokes, man, when Jackson gets on and there's nobody out and us on Kim comes up and just lays down a sack bun. I was like, you're down three at that point. It's in the fifth inning. And Kim, he's been swinging a little bit better, you know, but that you can't give up and out there. The sacrifice, and that's what it was. It was a sack bun. They went down as a sack bun. I don't think he was trying to bun for a hit. He was giving himself up in that situation. Playing for one run when you're down three made me nuts. I mean, me, me and my son had a great point. He goes, Kyle and gosh, yoke is, is the next batter. Right. He's all or nothing. He's correct. Yeah. And then he knows after him. It's like no single. You know, who's after him? Bryce Johnson. So that is named Bryce Johnson. He's that what are you trying to put a runner on second base for a guy who had said like five singles all year. Guys hitting home runs. He can be on first base. Yeah, could get three run. Oh, my gosh, yoke can drive him home just as easily. Just not getting singles out of that guy. So one of those, you're absolutely right. Woods, a sacrifice, but makes almost zero sense in that situation. And Hassan Kim has been hitting better lately, sitting, you know, over 300 this month has started heat up and to give up and out in an at bat there, it turned out to be an inning in which the Padres did not score again. Yep, didn't make a lot of sense. No, you're not, you're not tied. You're not, you know, trying to scratch across a run against a really great pitcher. I mean, you're putting the ball and play against that guy. I, it just didn't make any sense. Of course, Kimmy comes up, riffs one down the line his next day being. I'm like, oh man, just, it's just one of those kind of brain farts. Maybe he wasn't comfortable, wasn't seeing it very well, thought what can I do to help the team? I understand all that I do. And I don't, I very much don't think it was called from the bench. I think that was a player decision. I'm going to lay one down here, get the guy over and see if we can get something going. But you know, again, like I've said, I told you guys before, I am not averse to bunting for a hit or anything like that squeezes stuff like that. No problem, man. But down three in the fifth inning with no one who's up behind you, you know, you got to have a little more situational awareness there. If you're hustling, Kim, and I hated, hated, hated that bun. Other than that, you know, hey, listen, great, great series. And, and when Kowski was good, just because you hadn't heard of him before, he's good, thought he pitched better than the first two guys for the Red Sox in that series for sure. Five innings, four hits, no runs, Padres didn't strike out much. He only had one strike down. I think they struck out four times the whole game. They put the ball and play just like they did the other games. It just, you know, wasn't finding the holes, ground balls, you know, right to guys with runners on for double plays. And that was the difference in the game yesterday as Mike Shelte did point out. bullpen looked good. I think they ended the serum straight scoreless innings. That's great. Which was nice to see from the bullpen that's had its ups and downs over the course of the year. So, you know, a positive you can take out there in addition to, of course, a series victory for the San Diego Padres. Now, do we have that NESN, Matt Waldron, audio poly? So, I wasn't sure whether this was a media kind of generated story. I knew that Matt Waldron had, had spoken with Tim Wakefield. They're friendly with. Yeah. Yeah. And I mean, like a zoom call. And, but I didn't know, okay, is this, is this just a cool storyline, because he's coming back? Or is this something that really means, send over the post? And my initial reaction was get over yourself, Boston. Was this something that really meant a lot to Matt Waldron to go back to Boston where Tim Wakefield and honestly, apparently it did. It meant quite a bit to him because. So, the funny thing is yesterday's game, while it was a four one loss compared to two overwhelming wins on Friday and Saturday, wasn't that different from the other two games? And I know you're, you're going with that. So, it doesn't make any sense, Ben. It doesn't make any sense at all. How many runs have we scored? One. Okay. And they scored eleven and nine. How 20 runs? Speaking of somebody that's taken DMT this morning. No, but this is why, this is why the Padres will always have you kind of on the edge of your seat. The way that, you know, they have constructed their offense, they're going to have to outscore their opponent to win the game. That's right, John. The fact that they generally, when they rally, they have to string together many, many hits together for a lot of their rallies. They had a nine run nine one. I mean, they only scored in one inning on Friday. I know. They only scored in one inning on Friday. They also scored in one inning on Sunday. It just, you know, when the other team gets a big, you know, comes up with a pitch and gets a double play, kills that rally really quickly. Well, all of a sudden, the Padres just don't do much offensively. And yesterday, they had eight hits. They had lead runners on all day long. They just weren't able to then string a couple of more hits together like they did in really just two big rallies. They had a six run rally on Saturday, a nine run rally on Friday. And that was the difference in the entire series, those two really great innings. Otherwise, I mean, do you think Boston radio this morning is going, well, if we just erased that nine run inning and we raced that six run inning, we got them right where we want them. You know, I don't think so. I don't know. I mean, you're talking about Patriots. OTA. That's exactly right. That's exactly right. Who are the Celtics? I don't even know they still had a team. Yeah. I mean, I see what you're saying, you know, but yeah, you know, I don't want to come in here this morning after the run that they've been on and be like, all right, let's nitpick some stuff. But I think, I think it's, there's a couple things you can look at yesterday that absolutely made me pull my hair out for sure. I think you guys know what I'm about to do. But should we play the, play the wrap up first? Sure. Let's get to our Padres wrap up of yesterday's game. We'll go through a little Mount Waldron talk and more coming up right after this check traffic on 97. Three the fam. It's a shame if they lose. Oh, a shame indeed. It's a complete crap. I did not like that. Here are the lowlights from yesterday's game. Are you kidding me? It's the Padres wrap up presented by Hummel Casino with thrilling slots and tables in all the best rewards. Hummel Casino has all the fun you're looking for. Hummel Casino fun above all else. We'll give it 16 minutes of salt and then we'll, you know, get back on the bump and figure it out. It's not your fault. And two on pitch into the air to left field and deep. Go for it. We'll turn around to watch up at the monster and it's gone a whole run. Two runs shot for Raphael Devers, his second to the series. Yeah, the Red Sox have a two-nothing lead in the bottom of the first inning. Their first lead since they were up one to nothing in the fourth on Friday. Two on pitch is way outside. Going to go to the backstop. Going to get a run home. Are you charging in from third sides? You've had first, a wild pitch on an upper ball and a three-nothing Red Sox lead. One one pitch hit in the air, deep down the right field line towards the ball. Gone a little bit. Darren Duran, a lead shot here in the fifth inning is gone. Deep back-to-back games, kind of a carbon-compie shot down that right field line and the Red Sox lead is four to nothing. Three and one to camp. The pitch is swung on and hit fair up the left field line. That's going to roll and roll to the corner. Merrill racing around 30 scores easily. Came into second base. It's an RBI double. And the boundaries are on the board here in the seventh inning. It's four to one. Damn swing, sits it in the air to left center field. Long run, Rafaiella into the gap. He's there and he makes the catch down the game. One, two, three. Top of the night for Tenley Chanson. His 16th save of the year. Audrey's cannot complete the sweep here at Fenway, but they come to Boston and take two out of three as they have still one-nine out of their last 11 games. Oh yeah, I mean, I think, you know, they could have a lead, you know, put some swings on Wally. Right. I would have had on a little bit. Had some guys on just couldn't cash in, you know. It was a good series. Bull pin was really good. You know, it comes in while he gets his guys and co-op with the clean six. And we're on a strut of what got out there and got some work, so it was good and clean and with zero. So yeah, just couldn't, couldn't push enough across there. There you go. There you go. One for eight with runners in scoring position after dominating in those situations on Friday and Saturday and the Padres lose the series finale. Four to one and not going to pin it all on Matt Waldron, who's been so good, but clearly there was something extra for him going into that game yesterday. And, you know, sometimes that can be a good thing. Yeah. You've got that extra motivation, the extra emotion that really fuels you, but sometimes it can also be too much. Take you out of your game a little. Exactly. And I think there may have been a little bit of that. I don't know if he'd agree or not, but clearly a guy was very emotional about pitching at Fenway Park, Tim Wakefield, where they, you know, honored him and Tim Wakefield had helped Matt Waldron with the knuckle ball. And obviously, that had been an important and special relationship for Matt Waldron to go back to the mound where Tim Wakefield pitched. They've got Wakefield's number up there atop the green monster after he passed away. Very sad story from the off season. And it meant a lot for him to go out there yesterday. And when that happens, especially for a knuckle baller, you know, what I've always heard is that the last thing you want as a knuckle baller is anything that really throws you off that normal, very precise rhythm that you need to take the spin off of a baseball. I think humidity probably didn't help as well. Apparently it was like the stickiest game of the year for the San Diego Padres. You could feel it, man, through the TV. I mean, before the rain started dumping, all their jerseys were just soaked. And he was wearing the long sleeves to try to keep the ball, you know, changing the ball drive, no dripping onto his hands because of the grip that he needs for the, for the, and I'm not trying to make excuses for Matt Waldron. It clearly seemed to affect him. And I thought in the first inning in particular, and part of it was the broadcast, which Don and mud were doing a good job, but he walked, what he walked the third batter. So he put someone on for Raphael Dever's, and he gets deep into the count. And you, they're talking about the fact that Dever's is such a good, was a fastball hitter. Oh, yeah. I mean, he's nasty. So better not miss with a fastball to Raphael Dever's. And to be honest with you, he didn't, he threw it out or out or third, but he covers, he covers every pitch. But I think the, the situation there is if you hadn't just walked the guy before, and it's now it's three balls and two strikes, right? You don't want to walk another guy. Right. So you throw, you don't know that knuckleball is on yet. So you try to get a fastball past him. And he of course doesn't hit, hit it a mile. I think the XBA was 200, but it's the wall. It's the green monster. It's a fly ball, probably an out in a lot of parks, but there it's a home run. And now you're behind to nothing, and you're playing, you're playing catch up the rest of the game. Yeah, Dever's should litter. If you're a knuckleball pitcher, he should never see a fastball. I mean, he'll swing, he'll swing at stuff out of the zone and the knuckleball, I mean, I get it. If it's not working, walk him, you know, walk him, you take your chances with the next guy. You cannot. And I know the, the, the reason that Waldron has been so effective is that he's not just up there flipping knuckleballs. His 91 looks 98 after you've seen a couple of those bad boys. He's got a really good sweeper as well. So he likes to use all of his arsenal and getting ahead with that, getting ahead with it, which makes him the knuckleball just that much more effective, because you can't take it with two strikes. Yeah, because it might flutter right into the zone. There's no question. So you have to start swinging. And it just, it gives him such an advantage that he never really took advantage of yesterday. Yeah. And, and never saw that, that heater, 91, I think on the outer third and just went boop and flipped it over the monster like he's done before. And like he'll do, you know, probably 400 more times in his career, he is an elite, elite baseball player. So yeah, man, that's, that's kind of the one guy you look at in their line. They have some really good players. You know, Jared Durant's a really good player. They have that rookie that they have is really good as well. They have some good players, but you can't let that, you can't throw that guy, you know, knee-high fastballs on the outer third. He's going to destroy you. And he did kind of love watching him play. I love watching him hit. I love everything about him. I just wish he didn't do it against us yesterday. So that, that one kind of bugged me there. You almost kind of felt it was going to, it was going to happen. But the thing I think that made me the most insane, and you guys probably know what it is, it's the fifth. Jackson Merrill gets on another knock for Jackson Mary. Three more hits yesterday. This is Jackson Merrill. Not Jackson. You are a stud. We're going to get into your return to your favorite ballpark, but holy smokes, man, when Jackson gets on, and there's nobody out, and Austin Kim comes up and just lays down a sack of bunt. I was like, you're down three at that point. It's in the fifth inning. And Kim, he's been swinging a little bit better, you know, but that you can't give up and out there. The sacrifice, and that's what it was. It was a sack bun. They went down as a sack bun. I don't think he was trying to bun for a hit. He was giving himself up in that situation. Playing for one run when you're down three made me nuts. I mean, made me nuts. And my son had a great point. He goes, Kyle and Goshie Oke is the next batter. He's all or nothing. He's correct. Yeah. And then he knows after him. You guys, it's like no singles. You know who's after him? Bryce Johnson. So that is named Bryce Johnson. He's that what are you trying to play runner on second base for a guy who had said like five singles all year. Guys hitting home runs. He can be on first base. Yeah, could you get three run over? Gosh, you could can drive him home just as easily. Just not getting singles out of that guy. So one of those you're absolutely right. Well, it's a sacrifice, but makes almost zero sense in that situation. And Hassan Kim has been hitting better lately, sitting, you know, over 300 this month, has started to heat up and to give up and out in an at bat there, makes it out to be an inning in which the Padres did not score again. Yep, didn't make a lot of sense. No, you're not, you're not tied. You're not, you know, trying to scratch across a run against a really great pitcher. I mean, you're putting the ball and play against that guy. It just didn't make any sense. Of course, Kimmy comes up, rips one down the line and his next day be it. I'm like, Oh man, just, it's just one of those kind of brain farts. Maybe he wasn't comfortable, wasn't seeing it very well. Thought, what can I do to help the team? I understand all that I do. And I don't, I very much don't think it was called from the bench. I think that was a player decision. I'm going to lay one down here, get the guy over and see if we can get something going. But, you know, again, like I've said, I've told you guys before, I am not averse to bunting for a hit or anything like that squeezes stuff like that. No problem, man. But down three in the fifth inning with no one who's up behind you, you know, you got to have a little more situational awareness there. Uh, if you're hostile and Kimmy, I hated, hated, hated that bun. Other than that, you know, hey, listen, great, great series. And, and when Kowski was good, it's just because you hadn't heard of him before. He's good. Thought he pitched better than the first two guys for the Red Sox in that series for sure. Five innings, uh, four hits, no runs. Padres didn't strike out much. He only had one strike down. I think they struck out four times the whole game. They put the ball and play just like they did the other games. It just, you know, wasn't finding the holes, ground balls, you know, right to guys with runners on for, for double plays. And that was the difference in the game yesterday is Mike Shelton did point out, uh, bullpen looked good. I think they ended the serum and straight scoreless innings. That's great, uh, which was nice to see from a bullpen that's had its ups and downs over the course of the year. So, you know, a positive you can take out there in addition to, of course, uh, a series victory for the San Diego Padres. Now, do we have that, uh, NESN, Matt Waldron, audio poly? So I wasn't sure whether this was a media kind of generated story. I knew that Matt Waldron had had spoken with Tim Wakefield. They're friendly with. Yeah. Yeah. And I mean, like a zoom call and, but I didn't know, okay, is this, is this just a cool storyline? Because he's coming back or is this something that really means over the post and my initial reaction was, get over yourself, Boston. Was this something that really meant a lot to Matt Waldron to go back to Boston where Tim Wakefield and honestly, apparently it did. It meant quite a bit to him because after the game, he was pretty upset. This is, uh, from NESN TV, Red Sox post game in the Padres Clubhouse with Matt Waldron talking about being at Fenway Park where Tim Wakefield, the Knuckleballer, had pitched. I know that, uh, Wakefield's told that rubber and it was, it was, you could feel it, but yeah. It was tough. Did you take a moment to, to appreciate that while you're out there? Yeah. And, but at the end of the day, I got to get a job done. So, and that just didn't happen. Probably anybody pregame who yelled something out or said something that, that clongered Tim Wakefield in some fashion. No, I think just the pitch in general was admired and it got the respect it deserved. So, sweet angel. I mean, I got some, uh, glossy, glassy eyes out there. Um, clearly emotional, but it was the post that you sent over from NESN, Padres starter Matt Waldron threw a Knuckleball to start the game in honor of Tim Wakefield. He's a Knuckleball thrower. He throws a Knuckleball all the time. I'm going to choose to believe it. I like stories like that. I'm going to choose to believe the Boston media isn't what the hell they're talking about. I also like if Robert Suarez opens the ninth with a Knuckleball in honor of Tim Wakefield, his favorite picture growing up. If it was Michael King, that would be weird. That would be weird, but also cool. Yes. Yes. Special. But I, I thought, you know, listen, I thought it was a nice moment. I thought it was, he was very, very emotional about it. Yeah. It was obviously, it was real and it was genuine and that relationship meant something to Matt Waldron and it meant something for him to be there at Fenway Park. But like I said, that's not necessarily the best thing for a pitcher, especially a Knuckleballer who sometimes has to control their emotions a little bit more than, yeah, if you're trying to throw a hundred, yeah, a little extra emotional juice. You can't necessarily hurt you when you're trying to throw a Knuckleball, a little extra adrenaline or emotion can actually be a bad thing for a pitcher. Yeah. But he was fine. I mean, he was fine. We didn't get the big hit. He was, he was fine. Shortest outing in a while for Matt Waldron. Yeah. He scored nine or 11 runs like he did the first two days and four runs and, you know, four plus innings ago. Not his best, but certainly plenty fine for what we needed. Yeah. Just didn't get the offense that they were looking for in yesterday's game. So Matt Waldron guessing will be just fine moving forward. The question is what the Padres are going to do with their pitching rotation now going forward. Mike Schilt was specifically asked after the game. They did not release a starting pitcher for tomorrow's game and Mike Schilt was asked about. And he said, yeah, well, we'll tell you later. They have not, they're for, they're being very careful. It would be Adam Masier's turn in the rotation. And the fact that they're unwilling to say that he's pitching tomorrow would lead me to believe that they are probably going to reorganize their rotation a little bit, either move someone up a day or which would be someone else. I think Dylan Sees would have his turn then moved up a day with two off days between. We made the point last week. You can start Sees, not only on regular rest, still on an extra day of rest. If he goes in the series opener tomorrow and just skip over Adam Masier. Now with Randy Vasquez taking a line drive off the elbow, I thought he was done. They said he's okay, crying, walking off. Was that, was that his? Was this throwing on? Yeah. Yeah. Oh my God. I thought it was broken. But he kind of, I was very worried with his reaction and imaging was negative, not broken, just a contusion. There's talk that he might be able to just take his normal turn. But at the same time, now you're worried about another guy who may not be 100% lots of starting pitching injuries for the San Diego Padres. And if you move guys up, then all of a sudden you could have to pay for it on the back end. If you have multiple guys who aren't available, certainly not a reverse to giving him a little bit more rest, you know, to make sure that there's nothing deeper in there. I mean, so if you could go, we'll talk about what it potentially could look like. But yeah, they're, they're up against it. 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