Ben & Woods On Demand Podcast

6am Hour - Padres Beat The Rockies, Win 5th Straight Series!

Ben & Paul are here for you on a Monday morning! We start the show with a little foreplay as we talk about our weekends and wish Woodsy well as he begins to wrap up his vacation in Hawaii, returning to the show on Wednesday morning. Then we set the menu for today's show and get into our Padres Wrap-Up and discuss yesterday's 10-2 win over the Colorado Rockies as the Padres secured their 5th straight series win! Listen here!

Duration:: 40m
Broadcast on:: 05 Aug 2024
Audio Format:: mp3

This season Instacart has your back to school. As in, they've got your back to school lunch favorites, like snack packs and fresh fruit. And they've got your back to school supplies, like backpacks, binders and pencils. And they've got your back. When your kid casually tells you they have a huge school project due tomorrow. Let's face it, we were all that kid. So first, call your parents to say "I'm sorry." And then download the Instacart app to get delivery in as fast as 30 minutes all school year long. Get a $0 delivery fee for your first three orders while supplies last. Minimum $10 per order additional term supply. Happy Monday morning everybody and welcome in to Ben & Woods on, yes, a Monday morning. And once again, Woods is still on vacation. Jeff in the Chats is what's back today. I've already forgotten what he looks like. Me too, Jeff. Me too. No, Woods is not back until Wednesday. So you're stuck with me. Ben Higgins and Paul Reindel are executive producer, imaging director and co-host who's been working very, very hard this last week. Not that you don't work hard when Woods is here, but you're wearing a lot of hats, Paulie, and I appreciate it. And it's good to see you. How was your weekend? I was wearing my yellow pottery spring training hats. That's a good one. Yeah, you wear hats and you wear a lot of figurative hats as well. Yes, but I know. Long, long week, last week. Good week, I thought. I thought it was a really great week. Very tired, though. Spent the weekend. Just relaxed. I blinked and the weekend was over. Yeah. I hate when that happens. It's like, OK, Friday's here. Let's go. It's time to relax, kick back. And the next thing I know, I'm showing up at work at Channel 10 on Sunday afternoon, going, "Where? What happened?" Where did that weekend go? I mean, it feels like it was just Friday morning and I was here and now we're back here on a Monday. But I guess that just happens as you start getting older. The passage of time, at least perceptually, goes a lot faster. I was-- I got an email at work this week. They're already asking me to request my days off over the holidays. Oh, boy. In December, I'm going, "Didn't we just get through the holidays? Didn't Christmas wasn't that just a little while ago? I already have to pick my days off for December at the end of the year. But that's how fast these years go. You made the great point, though, as we were texting with Woods last night, that thanks to the Padres' rare Sunday win, second Sunday win in the last three Sundays, yesterday, and thanks to a couple of wins last week. We will actually get through the entire Woods vacation without coming on the day after a loss and having to talk about it without him. Now, who knows what happens tomorrow in Pittsburgh when Woods will be back on Wednesday morning? Guaranteed loss tomorrow. But you and me, we got nothing but the wins to talk about. They did lose on Friday. But that's a distant memory now after taking two of Friday in the Colorado right. We're going to talk about Friday? Yeah, distant memory. Y'all want to talk about Friday? Friday. Barely awake on Friday. So the Padres treated us pretty well while Woods was gone, giving us a lot of positive stories, good things to talk about, and ultimately a series win and a four-in-one home stand, which was pretty good. I did watch some Olympics over the weekend. I got up early yesterday. You kind of wake up when you wake up, and then you realize it's the weekend, so you go back to sleep. But I'm pretty much my body is set that's going to wake me up around 4.30, 4.40 every single morning, whether I want it to or not. I'm pretty good if it's Saturday or Sunday. Don't have to get up, turn it back off, and go back to sleep and give me at least another couple of hours before I get up. But it happened yesterday, and I thought, you know what's going on right now? Bottle round of the Olympic golf tournament. So I'll pop it on because I know Xander Shoffley was tied for the lead with John Rahm going into the final round and popped it on for a little while. And he was still up there, I think, tied for the lead in the front nine early. And I thought, okay, I really need to get some more sleep. So I went back to sleep for another couple hours after watching for like 45 minutes. And then I got up again and he'd look completely falling apart. Like gone was no, I couldn't even find him. Like, what happened, Xander? Where's John Rahm? Where's Xander? John Rahm was like, you got up by four strokes, and then he disappeared and Xander disappeared. And all of a sudden Scotty Shiffler is coming out of nowhere shooting a 62 to win the gold medal. And what a narrative change that was because tell me about it. As of Saturday, everyone's going, I don't know, I don't think Scotty Shiffler's the player of the year anymore. I mean, if Xander gets, he gets two majors and he gets a gold medal, isn't that better than all the things that Scotty Shiffler has done? Just throw that, throw that in the garbage because with Scotty Shiffler's major year, six wins, Masters title, Players Championship, Elevated Events, and now the Olympic gold medal with a record 62 on Sunday. Yeah, it's, it was Scotty's year. It was probably Scotty's year all along. It was great year for Xander, but he's the number two player. And Scotty remains the number one player. So I watched that and watched some of the other Olympics. We'll talk about the 100 meter race a little bit later. The drama there probably could make an appearance in a couple of different segments. Don't do this on the call by NBC of getting the, getting the winner of the premiere race of the Olympics. They said it was such a conviction, they were so confident. I mean, just, I mean, not even like, I mean, leave some room for doubt that maybe someone else won. Did he win? Did he win? I mean, no. It was decided by five, one thousandths of a second. Even like you go to the horse races and there's a photo finish, they're always like, hold I'll take it. It's way, you know, there's, there's a dramatic reveal after a couple of minutes. I don't know how the Lee Diffy, who's the announcer felt so sure about who won at the line when there were four runners who were all within hundreds of a second of each other. And that's the difference between, and there's a, I saw someone posted, there's an old Seinfeld stand up that that's the difference between gold medal, silver medal, bronze, no one ever heard of you. You don't win a medal. We're talking, I've seen that Seinfeld, he's like, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, train your whole life. And it comes down to between now to now, nothing, absolutely nothing, perceptually, for at least a human being, the difference between the fastest man in the world and the fourth fastest man in the world who gets absolutely nothing after training all those years to get to the Olympics. And we're like that. I was that close. I was right there. I mean, even the guy who's in last finishes less than a quarter of a second behind everybody else. And it's, it's, it's kind of one of the more ridiculous events, but clearly it's, it's the kind of the premiere, wouldn't you say it's the, it's the most Olympic of the Olympic events. Yeah, you asked 100 meter dash. You asked last week your seventh inning stretch question for the round table was if you could wingle, dominate, be the best in any one Olympic events, what would it be? And my answer, I didn't think I even hesitated, it was a hundred meter sprint, like just to be able to say, yeah, I'm the fastest man on the planet. I, I think it's the best event. It's my favorite to watch. It's thrilling for as short of a race as it is. It lived up to all the hype. It was great. It was a feeling of being able to like go that fast without being in a car or a motorcycle or something. And you're actually propelling yourself as fast as those guys go in such a, a short period of time. It was, it's compelling theater and it's compelling drama. And I think the reason that we, we do enjoy watching the Olympics, because let's be honest, we watch most of us probably watch zero of these Olympic sports between the Olympics. I don't watch the world track and field championships every summer. I don't watch the world gymnastics championships. They do them. They do have them every year, world, world events, and we don't need the swimming, you know, they, they do these every year, but we only pay attention to them one every four years, which makes them, of course, probably more than they should be of outsized importance for the athletes because they know they have, they can win two world championships in between the Olympics. But if they don't metal, if they're not on the podium at the Olympics, then they really haven't made any impact, at least beyond their sport. That's the only way they can have an impact. Culturally beyond their sport is to win at the Olympics. So with that kind of pressure creates the kind of theater and drama that we enjoy watching on television and it's, it's kind of a, it's kind of a sick thing that part of the reason we like watching it is how big a failure is costly to the athletes. Like, you know, they have everything on the line, which of course makes it great theater. It makes, maybe it shouldn't be that way, you know, a guy who wins two world championships, but doesn't win the Olympics is probably just as good of a sprinter as the guy who wins the Olympics, but doesn't win the world championships the year before. Sure. Running it. It's the same people every year in the Olympics, but only, only one set of every four years is everybody watching. Does everybody care about it? So that race has just such outsized importance compared to the, the rest of the four year cycle being pretty good theater and, you know, I'm, I think the Olympics gets it right and that I wouldn't want to watch the Olympics every, certainly not every year and I don't think every two years. I think four years kind of gets it, it gets it right, yeah, 100%. It's pretty cool. So yeah, watch some Olympics this weekend and went down to the game on Saturday with the Padres and we'll talk about the, the weekend against the Colorado Rockies, but ultimately they as disappointing as, as Friday was, it's hard to complain about anything when you go four and one on a homestand. That's an eight, that's an 800 winning percentage on fire team remains on fire 11 and three since the all-star break is the best record in baseball since the break, yet the one team that they can't really put any separation between the Padres and the team that is chasing them, the Arizona Diamondbacks, they have the second record, best record since the all-star break at 11 and four and they're hot streak actually stretches of course before the all-star break when they, you know, they played the Padres, played them well, took that series from the Padres before the all-star break. The Arizona Diamondbacks, you could argue depending on what date you want to choose, might actually be the hottest team in baseball over the last three to four weeks since before the all-star break. So the race in the National League for the wildcard spot for the National League West title remains very, very hot. The Dodgers did do the same thing as the Padres over the weekend, taking two of three from the Oakland A's, you know, last place club, you lose the first game and you come back and win the next two to take the series. Exactly what the Padres did against the Colorado Rockies, the Dodgers did against the Oakland Athletics. So, no ground lost, no ground made up against the LA Dodgers, Padres remain four and a half games back, which is, which is all right, but at some point, you know, you're gonna have to, if you want to catch him and you want to win the division, you're gonna start chipping away at that four and a half games. The Dodgers are fine matching the Padres, you know, then the Diamondbacks the rest of the way. Anything to quote unquote complain about, we don't complain about wins, this team is playing so great, but God, doesn't it feel like every time they go on a streak, whether it's five in a row, six out of seven, whatever, they can't make up a ton of ground. The teams that they would seemingly be trying to be chasing all start winning as well right around the same time. Yeah. And that has been kind of the case here. There is one team they've made up a lot of ground on since the all-star break. That's the Atlanta Braves who have gone seven and nine since the all-star break, meaning the Padres have made up five games. I think that is on the Atlanta Braves going from that far back to now for the first time I believe all year long, Padres find themselves in a virtual tie with the Atlanta Braves at the top of the wild card standings. Now, technically the Braves have played two fewer games, so they have one less loss, which means percentage wise, the Braves are ahead, but of course the Padres do own the tiebreaker. And if they finish tied at the end of the season when, of course, every team will have played the same amount of games, the Padres would have the edge there. So they've essentially erased that deficit, Padres are tied with the Braves, half a game ahead of the Arizona Diamondbacks, and they did, they did pick up some ground on the New York Mets this weekend as well, who stubbed their toe in Anaheim, dropping two of three to the Angels, and they're nine and seven since the all-star breaks. So the Padres have gained a couple of games on the Mets who have fallen a game and a half out of that third wild card spot. Cardinals lost three of four to the Cubs, including Sunday night baseball last week. So there's kind of the top three and then a little bit of separation, and you go down to the other teams, which is, which is where you want to start creating some of that separation going forward for the San Diego Padres, and then he can really focus in on chasing down the Dodgers and not worrying about what the Mets and the Cardinals and the Pirates and even the Giants are doing behind you. You can kind of look at the teams ahead of you and keep trying to chase those teams down. Yeah, Tyler says in the chat, Arizona has back-to-back series vs. Cleveland and Philly this week need to keep winning and hope for some separation. Yeah, Diamondbacks at Guardians this week, and then they got the Phillies this weekend. Yeah, and the Dodgers are hosting with Phillies tonight, so in a series. So I mean, a chance for the Padres maybe to make up some ground. Well, the Padres are playing the Pirates in the Marlins. Right. And the Pirates aren't bad. They're not bad, but you're better. But you should be better. You're not facing Paul Skeens, who the Diamondbacks, I mean, beat, they didn't hand Paul Skeens a loss yesterday, but they did win that game to remain pretty darn hot. So this could be an opportunity week for the San Diego Padres. We'll obviously get into all of that. Take our first break. We'll come back and set the menu for what we have on this Monday, the penultimate show before Woods returns from vacation on Wednesday morning. Obviously, we'll talk a lot about what happened over the weekend at Peco Park and the homestand. All coming up. It's Ben. It's Paulie. Glad to have you with us on a Monday morning. Let's make this a good week. Kelly's got traffic and we are off and running on San Diego's number one sports station 97-3 the fan. Worried about letting someone else pick out the perfect avocado for your perfect and press them on the third date guacamole? Well, good thing Instacart shoppers are as picky as you are. They find ripe avocados like it's their guac on the line. They are milk expiration date detectives. They bag eggs like the 12 precious pieces of cargo they are. So let Instacart shoppers overthink your groceries so that you can overthink what you'll wear on that third date. And load the Instacart app to get free delivery on your first three orders while supplies last. Minimum $10 per order additional term supply. Paulie mentioned he's wearing his yellow Padre spring training hat, but also getting some comments about the shirt you are wearing today, Paulie. If you're on our YouTube stream, Dylan see snow hitter just the July the stat line. Yeah. It's all kind of bundled up and do a profile of his head with like a little space just for the mustache. Yeah. It's very clever. Dead Friar Society. Very clever. Not the most recent no hitter in Major League Baseball though. Congratulations to our friend Blake Snell on his no hitter on Friday for the San Francisco Giants. Not only a no hitter and his first no hitter, but the first time that not only Blake Snell has ever pitched a complete game, and this one was the part that's done me the first time he's ever even thrown a pitch in the ninth inning in a game in his entire career. This is a guy who's won two Cy Young Awards. I like that. And he had never even thrown a pitch in the ninth inning in his career and he seemed to really enjoy being able to change that narrative a little bit like I told you I could do it. Everyone said I couldn't do it. I mean, they had some evidence that you couldn't for many, many, many years. You would give them six strong and then, you know, you'd throw 103 hitches because you're not efficient. So yeah, you weren't going to go deep and go into the ninth inning, but walked three still. I thought it was great. I watched the I watched the ninth inning on MLB networks switched over in the middle of the Padres game, watched the final three outs and yeah, man, I was happy for I switched over just a hair too late. They were embracing on the mound when I switched over. That was fast. I thought they were just going to the ninth inning. Maybe his most efficient inning just I was going to wait, wait, I thought we were just about to start the ninth, but I did I miss something there? Yeah, I guess I did miss something. They were already hugging on the mound when I turned it on real quick out. And then the final hurdle is Ellie Dayla Cruz, who just like, all right, if you're going to get it, you got to earn this one and he got a line drive out to the right center field. Little hop on the catch made of everyone. A little nervous. I think out there. But like, like with Dylan Cease's no hitter, the last swing looked the most hitterish at the end line drive that looked like it might fall, Bryce Johnson made the catch. So a similar method of ending the no hitter for Blake Snelson. Congratulations to Blake Snell came in the, the Giants kind of on the fringe of the wild card race. They're four and a half games out after taking their series over the weekend, but still behind the pirates, Cardinals, Mets, and then the three teams that are in the wild card standings. Coming up on the program today, let's give you the second half of the program because looking forward to having joining us in studio to kind of guest host in our eight o'clock hour and beyond, usually comes in on Mondays just on the phone. But Sammy Lovett is going to sit in with us and help recap the weekend that was with the San Diego Padres and get a lot of good Padres chat with the very knowledgeable, very hardworking, Sam Lovett, very handsome. I saw him on in person on Saturday, I was down in the dugout, uh, got to see Sammy, got to see mud, talked with mud for a few minutes, saw a scan, talked to AJ Preller, uh, best wishes by the way to the Padres general manager who is on the injured list right now. Oh, no, he has the same injury as Justin Herbert, the quarterback of the Los Angeles Chargers, Torres planter, fascia, and so he's going to be out for a little bit from, it's going to make it hard to run and cut and dribble on the basketball court. Exactly. That's what he's out from. He can still do all the GMing, uh, which maybe Padres fans are happy now. Now he has nothing to occupy anytime whatsoever other than caring about his baseball team, which is kind of dumb at this point because after the trade deadline and after the draft, it's probably, I mean, I'm sure they're already looking at next year's prospects and they're always scouting the entire league, but it really is the, the quieter part of the year for a GM. You've really done everything you can do. There may be a, you know, I'm sure AJ, I don't even know if he like goes on vacations. I'm talking ever like during the off season. I don't, I don't think he does, but if there was ever a time to at least just like take a step back and breathe for a couple of days, it'd be right now. But then it's, this is the most stressful part of the year as well because all you can do is you put together the team and now are they going to sink or swim? Did I do a good job or did I do a bad job? And sure, you can call up guys from AAA and make some moves down the stretch to, you know, on the margins to try to help your team, but the big stuff is done for now and now it's up to the hands of the players and the manager and the coaches of whether or not they can pull it off. Did get C.A.J. I talked to him, got to see Buddy Black, manager of the Colorado Rockies who mentioned that enjoys listening to this program, Paulie, when he, when he gets the opportunity and he says we make him laugh, which I thought that's very nice if you buddy because I hadn't seen bud in a couple of years. I, I missed him totally last year on the Rockies, a couple of visits to San Diego. So I wanted to make a point, went over, sent a load of buddy and yeah, so he's a, he's at least a partial tier one when he gets the opportunity to listen to the Ben & Woods program, which is nice. The more managers in the national league that we can get listening to this program, I think the better. We know we got Mike Schilt every week. We know we got Skip Schumacher as a die hard tier one. We know we've got now Buddy Black. I suspect that Dave Roberts, even though he takes his shots will tune in on occasion, especially since he lives here in San Diego. I don't know about Bob Melvin, whether he, you know, we've had him obviously on the ton, but whether he's stuck with us after he's gone to San Francisco. My guest would be maybe not, didn't go that well for him last year. Doesn't want the reminder of 20, 23 anymore, you know, staring him in his face. Probably hurts to hear us talking about the Padres winning under Mike Schilt and doing so well this year. So maybe we've lost him, Tori LaVoua, honestly, he's, he's proud. He seems like a pretty cool guy and he kind of gets it. I think so too. He liked the show. We need to get someone to make sure Tori's watching in the morning. We can get the whole NLS for sure part, part of the NLEs, the central, I don't know, we're going to get, I don't know if Craig Council is ever going to be a tier one, but we just start working on that. Maybe Adam will send us to Diamondback's training, spring training for a day. Maybe scout the competition and we can get a sit down with Tori and maybe Schilt can get Ollie Marmal to start listening and just, hey, these guys are great, you know, former bench coach there, he can probably help it out. So you know, the more NLE managers we have listening to this program, the better. So yeah, we will go through the, through the whole weekend, including our Padres wrap up coming up next for yesterday's 10 to 2 win over the Rockies, which is a, this is a nice thing. A Sunday win, actually two out of three Sunday wins. It got so bad. Remember last week that Paulie had to create an AI generated song about the Padres inability to win on Sundays in the theme of bro country. Yeah. Sunday slump. Sunday slump. There's a team down in Caled by the sun, kids, babe, with a nickname from the Padres, but they can't seem to play. Come Sunday afternoons, they just fold and fade away. So yeah, it kind of goes on about the Padres inability to win on Sundays. Well, now that they're trying to flip that narrative, we thought it's only fair if we, if we go into the AI machine again. And what was the prompt that you put in this time, Paulie? This prompt was a song about the San Diego Padres finally winning a baseball game on a Sunday by beating the mighty Colorado Rockies in the style of bro country. Let's hear it. It's called Padres Sunday Miracle. Oh, hey, this is pepier to get it. Yeah. Some sign hitting them down the fresh, San Diego Padres chasing that quest in the last place off and forth from Sunday says Rocky's left and then played the best. Padres on a looking shark today picture throw a heat list and make them pair. Crowd going wild. Cheers and sway. Rockies feel the pressure start to fray. Some Padres Sunday Miracle. Yeah. They're Sunday Miracle. Hell yeah. [LAUGHTER] Fans out of their seats, hands and air. Rocky stopped by the local fair. Hi. Very well done. Hot dogs must have be heard. Son birthdays, ball fans never play. Dones calls divine. Everything so grand Padres stands tall. Rockies understand. Now I'm feeling tension. I heart pounding fast. Maybe instead of the Padres wrap it, we just come over the new song for every single game. I could probably do it. We could. All right. Padres 10 to 2 winners. Just plug in all the stats, you know, who did well, who had a home run, get some names in there and good to go every single day. I'm going to get John from KSO and just walked past the hall here. We're going to have to play that for him. I got to send that over. Dude, this has KSO unwritten all over. Sounds like literally every song on KSO and R. He should be here in about 40 minutes for take on John. We got a brand new prize this month, by the way, a great, great Las Vegas getaway. We'll tell you all about that coming up. Don't do this and more. But up next, our Padres wrap up. We'll hear Jesse's calls of the 10 to 2 win over the Colorado Rockies from yesterday. Coming up next, Ben Pauli on San Diego's number one sports station, 97-3 the fan. The more Olympic news for you this morning, it looks like Simone Biles just had her last routine or exercise individual event. Tom Brady was there to watch it. Looked like it was pretty spectacular, though, just so she got the silver and Jordan Chiles got the bronze. So someone beat her, which is impressive, but what an amazing Olympics it's been for Simone Biles. She's sharing the wealth a little bit. Yeah, well, you want some different colored jewelry, they can't all be gold, right? So mix and match in the jewelry closet for Simone Biles, and yeah, they've transitioned now. Swimming ended yesterday, gymnastics wraps up today, and now you're fully featured kind of on track, and now you're going to get into the metal rounds for things like basketball men's and women's basketball. You start, I think the US men have their quarter final coming up tomorrow against Brazil and US women who have been dominating. They play next on Thursday in the quarterfinals. So second question about the Olympic show. Yeah, before we get to our Padres wrap up, you're much older than I am. You've seen more Olympics than I have. I'm 33 years old in my life. I have seen the likes of Michael Phelps, his whole career, just dominate. You say in Bolt, Simone Biles, Katie Ledecky. I've seen so many athletes that are deemed one of, if not the greatest of all time. I mean, are athletes just evolving, are we two in the moment, or are these really the best Olympic athletes of all time? Yeah, no, they're the best now. In fact, I saw a video, which was pretty telling. They showed, I don't know what it was, the 100 meter, 200 meter swimming final, and they had the video from the 1932 Olympics in black and white, and they did it side by side. Just to show you how far ahead, like the last place finisher now would be seconds ahead of the first place finisher in 1932. Yeah, absolutely. So we're not just getting caught up in any hype, Simone Biles is the ghost. She is the ghost. Yeah. I mean, it's all comparative. The story of like Mary Lou Rhetton in 1984, becoming the first woman to win the all around gold with the vault on the, you know, the injured ankle and she sticks it and lands it. It's an Olympic legend. It's a fantastic story for sure. She couldn't get as high, do as many flips, you know, the difficulty of the tricks. We've seen that in all Olympic sports. We see it in figure skating in the winter sports where they're doing like quad jumps now. You know, women used to just do double jumps and, you know, triple was extremely rare. Now the guys, you know, someone's going to do like a quintuple jump at some point. They're just the athletes keep getting better and better and better. That's, uh, that's just evolution and better training techniques and more knowledge just being put into play. You're seeing the best. Now, I mean, you know, the world records will tell you that their world records fall. I mean, sometimes a world record will hold up and you know, that'll, that'll kind of give you a comparison like, okay, this person was pretty good if their world record is held up for 12 years because despite all the advances in training techniques, some of those do hold up. So you keep an eye on those, but I think for the most part, you know, athletes just keep getting better and better. All right. Let's, um, let's check traffic. Come back, Paulie's got all the Jesse's calls from yesterday's tend to win over the Rockies. Our Padres wrap up next here on 97 three, the fan, I love winning, man. I love, I love women. You hear 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 want to prove we've got you covered with all of the highlights. I like it with a Padres win. It's the Padres wrap up presented by Hamou Casino with rilling slots and tables in all of the best rewards. Hamou Casino has all the fun you're looking for Hamou Casino fun above all else. Give me a do damage. So three and two Bogart's runs, Merrill swings, hits it towards the right center gap, cave is on the move. He's not going to get there. It's up against the base of the wall. Bogart's rounding 30 is going to score, Merrill halts it second as the throw comes in, not in time. An RBI double and a 1-0 Padres lead, pitch on the way, right hand hitter swings, hits it in the air to deep left field, row far is back of the wall, jerks in, trying to measure it up. He will leap and he could not make the catch. Into the first row, I think a guy caught it in his hat and a home run for Doyle. This is a tie game 1-1 in the fourth inning. Though he hits it well in the air to deep right, Peralta is back. He feels for the wall, leaps up and he made the catch up at the top of the fence in right field. David Peralta went to get it and won away here in the fifth. First pitch to Agassioka into the air to deep left field, Hilliard is back in the wall, leaps up to the goal, line drive, home run, Kyle Agassioka, first pitch in the bottom of the fifth inning and the Padres hop in front, it's 2-1, 2-0 Profar hits it into the air. Into right field, Dave is back, he will watch, it will go, home run, jerks in Profar, 19th of the season and a second of the inning for the Padres, they now lead it 3-1. Runners at first and second, here's the 1-1, Peralta swings, hits it into the air, deep to right field, Dave is racing back and a turner had to watch and it's going to go. A 3-run homer for David Peralta. Great train on the tracks in San Diego and he continues to torment the Rockies, this is now a sixth to one game. Bryce Johnson in the playwright field for Peralta, for one pitch into the air, deep down the left field line, Profar over to watch, this one, going to go. Once again, Jacob Stolings leaves the yard, second to second today, he has homered, another solo shot for the Rockies and now a sixth to two game here in the seventh. Here's the 0-2, Manny swings, tosses it into the air to deep right center, Doyle on the run, not going to get there, little one hop over the wall, a rule book double to bring home Profar, but John has got a 7-game hitting streak and the Padres have a 7-2 lead. One add to the carnivore, pitch on the way, Jake swings into the air, down the right field line and is hooking and adds a fair ball up against the wall in the corner. Higashoyoka has scored, a rise is coming in, he will score a 2-run double for Jake Croninworth and a Padre lead is 9-2. Botsui ready, a little lefty delivers and a swing and a mess, back to back case to end it and the ball game is over, the series is over and the Padres have slayed the dragon, they defeat the Rockies 10-2. Man was nice, good ball game, well done, Matty did a nice job, got better as it went, as he kind of does, but it was good early too, which was beneficial and got us into the sixth and we were able to add on from there. Paulie, did you have a little uh, just got a little excited, didn't it just get a little over excited, perhaps, I mean I get it, the Rockies, he took 2 out of 3 from the mighty Colorado Rockies, it warrants the dragon upside the Rocky Mountains, this gives the Padres so much trouble. Botsui ready, a little lefty delivers and a swing and a mess, back to back case to end it and the ball game is over, the series is over and the Padres have slayed the dragon, they defeat the Rockies 10-2. Yeah, it feels that way, that's for sure. I mean look, I know we're going to get into all 3 of the games, but just to jump back to Friday real quick, who among us wasn't going, oh Jesus God not again, again? The Rockies again? That's how I was feeling. I was uh, I was almost physically ill thinking about having after Friday, thinking about having to come in here on Monday, after a series loss or heaven forbid, Padres get swept at home again by the Colorado Rockies, you're just, the doomer is going, all right, they're going to lose on Sunday because hashtag Sunday and then you're like, will they scratch one out on Saturday or are we going to be getting swept and we have to come in and talk about that on Monday? Yeah, I mean, we're, we're a doomer fan base, there's no doubt, I mean, I don't think that's an insult, we're waiting for the next bad thing to happen as a fan base and I think we will until a lot of good things happen for your San Diego Padres. Good things are happening right now though, uh, it was good to see the Padres not only break out offensively, but start with Matt Walter and who avoided the first inning struggles that plagued him the last couple of starts at a very efficient first inning when five and two thirds gave up just two hits, one earned run, two walks, seven strikeouts in the, uh, the knuckle ball was as lively as we've seen, maybe all season, maybe two lively actually, it, it caused problems not only for the, the hitters on the Rockies, but certainly for Kyle and gosh, Yoka, who had more balls clanging off his MIT, I think than ever before, even Waldron. He had one where it was heading to the outside corner and then hit the guy because it, it swerved so much in the lane all the way into the batter and he had no, it was moving so much. He had no idea where it was going. Ultimately, though it pretty effective, a solid win, his seventh win of the season and of course, after a slow start against Cal Quantrell offensively, Jackson Merrill helped get things going, had the, uh, the RPA double in the second inning, but it's still one one until the fifth. And then, uh, you heard the two home runs, big swings by Kyle Lagash, Yoka and Jurex and pro far two guys coming into this season that there was probably been in the fifth inning. It was two, those two swings in the fifth by those two guys who we knew they were going to be, we knew they were on the pod race. We saw them in spring training. We talked to them both and we were hoping that they could both be good kind of backup type contributors for the pod race role players, role players for the pond race. You had told me that August 5th here we're sitting and they have combined for 32 home runs, those two guys, Higash, Yoka and pro far and say you're out of your, out of your mind, jerksons never had more than 20 in a season and Kyle Gash, Yoka has never had more than 10 in a season. If they'd both had career match their career years, which is incredibly unlikely, then maybe they could get up to like 30 combined for the whole season. They're already at 32 and they're still over 50 games left in the season. That's, that's nuts with the pond race are getting from those two guys, absolutely crazy. And then huge game for David Peralta just when you're thinking and maybe, maybe age is catching up with them. He hasn't, he hasn't been hitting great lately. It's not only the, the huge catch though, maybe home run robbing, maybe top of the wall, double robbing one or the other, but then the, the three run home run that really put it out of reach there in the sixth inning and let the pond race pull away and not have to use any of their, you know, highest leverage relievers at the end. It's been an extra day off going into a Monday, Manny's been hot, two for four, double to RBI. He's got a seven game hitting streak quietly after he was hot and then he kind of cooled off actually on the road trip out of the all star break, but he is, he's heated up again and had a couple of absolutely insane throws from the third base coaches box over the week. He did the, the one in the, well, both on Saturday, the eighth inning one and then the one that Jake made a terrific play on in the ninth inning, getting the tag for that first out and helping Robert Suarez to what was ultimately an easy save. And we'll talk, we'll talk more about that coming up on, on Saturdays and Fridays games before, but yesterday they did what they had to do. In fact, they have a kept alive at least the possibility the pond race have of still winning the season series against the Colorado Rockies. I mean, they need to win every single game. They have three more in Colorado. I think that's coming up pretty fast here in like less than two weeks. They'll go to Denver. Right. On there, not this road trip, but whatever the following road trip is, they go to Denver. Not this. So this weekend, they're in Miami. It's the next weekend. They come back home for just a quick one tonight, three games against the Pirates and then they go back out on the road Friday, Saturday, Sunday against the Rockies. So yeah, not this weekend, but next weekend, then they, that's it. They don't have to face the Colorado Rockies again. And quite frankly, I'm okay with that, you know, they were supposed to be a team. You were going to beat up on this season and the Dodgers were the team that you were just hoping not to beat up on you too badly. And it's been the exact opposite. Pontries have already won the season series against the Dodgers. They are hanging on her dear life to try not to lose the season series to the Colorado Rockies, but they got two down three to go. If they, if they still want to just buy the slimmest of margins when that season series against the Colorado Rockies, I was hoping they'd go what 10 and three. Now they are at best could be seven and six and they have to win the last three to do that. They're four and six right now against the Colorado Rockies, but better than a better than two and eight, which, you know, they could have been had they not got the jobs done on Saturday and Sunday. So yeah, Padres now tied with the Braves for the top wildcard spot in the National League as they get ready to head out on the road this week. Sam Levitt's going to be in studio. He actually tweeted out the pitching match ups for this upcoming series late late last night. I'm not sure when he got the information. I hadn't seen it until Sammy's tweet about three or four hours ago, but Dylan sees and Michael King will both pitch in the first two games of the series in Pittsburgh. And then they got a TVA for the Thursday morning game that wraps up the series. Bailey falter is going to go in the opener now for the pirates left handed to pitcher tomorrow and then Marco Gonzalez on on Wednesday and I forget who's pitching on Thursday, but that's that's what the Padres at least announced for the series against the Pittsburgh Pirates coming up a team that is, you know, fallen back. They're only a game above 500. This is pretty much their season. If the Padres come in and sweep them or take two out of three, they're kind of out of the wildcard race for the most part. So this is going to be a big one for them coming up this week in Pittsburgh looking forward to the next three days starting tomorrow. All right, Joe Musgrove had his minor league rehab start yesterday, get you an update on that. If you didn't see how it went last night, get to that. Take on John coming up next year on 97 three, the fan. Trying to figure out what to eat for dinner yet again with nor sides and bullion as you're not so secret ingredient, you can skip the drive through and do dinner at home. Nor taste combos provide a menu of delicious, affordable and well balanced meals that you can prepare in 30 minutes or less. Visit nor.com to get quick and easy recipe ideas for your home cooked week night dinners. It's not fast food, but it's so good.