Ben & Woods On Demand Podcast

7am Hour - All The Calls + Shildt's Bench Usage

Ben & woods kick off the 7am hour continuing to talk about last night's win, and we bring you ALL the calls from Fernando Tatis Jr's FIRST career walk-off! Then we get to "Don't (And DO) Do This" before we talk about some bench decisions that Mike Shildt made late in last night's game! Listen here!

Duration:: 48m
Broadcast on:: 05 Sep 2024
Audio Format:: mp3

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Tati, Tati, six. Who am I missing? Did anyone double up? Jackson had more than one? Jackson had, he's had more than one. Profar, Profar had a walk-off. Oh yeah. Seven, yeah. Do you have one? Jackson has two. Solano? If Jackson had two, then I think we got to eight. Maybe that's seven or eight. Solano, they're saying Solano. Solano. Did he have a walk-off? I mean, what a season. Yeah. All right, we need to get Xander going. Get him one. He needs his moment. He needs a big moment. Yeah. He does. If you're a baseball broadcaster, this is what you live for. A chance to call a walk-off hit at the end of the game. Again, setting the stage. The Padres got through the top of the 10th with Jeremiah Estrada stranding the runner at third base. And then they had a chance with Jackson Merrill out at second base. Solano did have one against LA. Yeah. And a rise too. Jackson Merrill out at second base is the bottom of the order coming up. Elias Diaz got his very, I thought for a second. Is Elias Diaz gonna make his very first played appearance with the San Diego Padres? A walk-off? Would have been amazing. Didn't, he grounded out. Didn't move the runner. And then the second at bat was... Who batted second? They moved the runner, did the runner get to third? Who's, it was on the point? Yes, he struck out. He struck out. And then they walked a rise intentionally. Potentially. To get to Fernando Taitis Jr. How about that for a second? Okay. We talked about it before the show. Yeah. What does that tell you about Louisa rises value that they will walk him and take their chances with Fernando Taitis Jr. He'll be returning from a long absence. One game in. It's still Fernando Taitis Jr. They thought a rise is so good at hitting. It's a calculated risk. It's righty lefty. And you know, you... It's not either the risk. It's probably the right call for a number of reasons. Yes. And first of all, it's the righty lefty. Yeah. Second of all, Louisa rise hits for a higher average. You're not worried about a home run. Right. A home run is no worse than a single in that point. Correct. And here's one other point that I made when I was watching the game with my son. Louisa rise hits a lot of soft singles. At that point, a hard single actually might be less effective. Like if Taitis hits 112 like one hopper to the left fielder, Jackson might not be able to score on that and he might get thrown out. He's definitely going. Arise is actually the more dangerous hitter to lead uggers in that situation with a runner in second base and two outs. Yeah, it's incredible. It was the right call by AJ Hinch to walk him. But it's a credit to the Padres lineup that you don't worry. You've got amazing players coming up after him. But he did set up Fernando Taitis Jr. It almost seemed inevitable at that point. If you're a Padres fan, you're at Petco Park, the crowd was great. Another sellout, into it, all game long, ready for the roof to blow off, there's no roof, but ready for the top to blow in this game. And we've got all the calls for you. So let's start again with Jesse Agler right here on your Padres Radio Network 97.3 to fan. The pitch from Foley swung on. Hit through the left side and a base hit. Narrow rounding third on his way. Green's throws got no shot and Fernando is back. Taitis wins it for the Padres. They mob him on the left side of the infield, a walk off single in the bottom of the 10th inning. And the Padres beat the Tigers six to five. They will take their brooms out here tomorrow night. Is that a prediction or just a, you know, like a fact that you bring your broom. You bring your chance to take them out. Yeah, bring your broom. But sound like Jesse already knows what's going to happen tonight. He's seen the future and they're going to break their brooms. OK, I like the Fernando is back addition to the call. I do too. That was nice. I will hopefully be there. I'll be there, but I hope hopefully this will be sweet. I'll be there. You won't be there. You won't be there to see that. I just got the text from my wife that says, hey, let's have fun tonight. And let's not worry about being home early. We're going with some other families. And we're in the Odyssey Suite. And so we want to milk it a little bit. If you can send me proof of life-- If you send me a selfie from the end of the game, like you and then shaking hands behind you on the field, I will give you $10 tomorrow morning. I'm in for $10 as well. You don't have to give me any. I'm so confident that that won't happen. Yeah, I mean, we won't make any stipulations about score or anything because I'll tell you this. If somebody's up or down early, I'm going home. I'll tell you that right now. There's no question about it. But if it's a tight game, I've stayed for one full game this year. You did? Yeah. It was a day game, and we stayed the whole time we had a blast. Was there a show the next morning? Nope. It was a weekend. It was a weekend day game. This is a night game, and you've got a show the next morning. Yeah. I'll be stunned if you're there. All right, let's move on to another legendary call on podrays.tv, Don, and Mud. On the ground, it'll last me on my set! But Fernando's back, and he's back big! Podrays, hook it up! Lando gets it done! He's elite. That S.O.B got me so good earlier in the game, though. I think it was the eighth inning, maybe. Oh, the pro far swam. Pro far swam. Shot down the line. Don got me so good. I was making lunches in an ambient haze, and I was like, no. Don has-- I hate that angle, by the way. I hate that angle that they show. You know, the possible-- And I'm like, oh, that's definitely gone. No, that's fell. Don has-- I mean, you said elite, but what Don has that even most broadcasters don't have-- and I am a astute observer of this-- Don has the unique ability to really ramp up the volume without screaming. He's yelling. He's very loud. He's loud. But he doesn't lose his good pipes and his composure when he goes up. It's such a great listen when he calls a walk-off. There's no shrillness to it. Narrow, madness. It's great. It is a gift, and he is blessed with it, and he uses it to full effect on these walk-offs. On the ground, in a life field base head. I'm from Nando's bag, and he's back big. Bad rise, walk it off. Nando gets it done. You know, I texted him a couple weeks ago, I asked him what his regimen was. And he said, McCallen 12, which is a scotch. Well, now, he goes, actually, green tea during games. There you go. It would be-- Honey, lemon, anything? You're just straight green tea. Yeah, it is a romantic thing about Don pouring a nice McCallen 12 into a little tumbler, and sitting up there, just sipping scotch during a game. But no, green tea only for our beloved Don Orsela. Before we get to the other three calls, we need a contestant for Real or Fake. This is the time to dial us up if you want to play, and chance to win a trip to Las Vegas, 833-288-0973, about two or three minutes away, 833-288-0973. All right, let's flip it around. Go to the sad side, and the Detroit Tigers broadcast of the walk-off. The 1-0, swinging the ground ball, pincing it in the lap, that'll do it. Narrow scores, sideways, walk-off the Tigers. The chattel delivered the tying runs in the fifth, and it delivers the win in the tenth, crushing loss for the Tigers after taking a five-nothing lead early. Our final score in San Diego. San Diego Padre's sixth in the Detroit Tigers five. What game you watching? Manny Machado's walk-off single last night. Hey, he's like, all right. It was Fernando. Don't worry, nobody's listening. Yeah, don't worry, nobody's listening anyway. Manny wasn't even up. No, correct me if I'm wrong. Machado had no impact in the bottom of the two last night. No, type of game, yeah, in the fifth, and that was great. And they see the Padres once a year, whatever. That is a bad call. That's a devastating loss for the Tigers. It was. They were back in. Remember, we talked yesterday how they're four and a half out, they're back in it. Now they're five and a half out. Such a sweet picture yesterday. If you're the Tigers, you're waking up. Yeah, you're excited. We got a whole season ahead of us. You go out and get-- It starts tonight. You get to you, Darva Shirley. You get to the early part of the Padres bullpen, and then Jackson Merrill arrives. And just incredible. Rip their heart out. Yeah, it's hard. Absolutely. All right, then on to the foreign language calls, we'll start with Eduardo Ortega, the always somewhat overmodulated-- Turn your radio down. Just a little bit. Spanish language call. I'm going to give you three, two, one. Turn them down. Here we go. [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH] [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH] I don't think anyone's ever gotten more words in in that amount of time than Eddie did. That was a lot of talking. Who is the Dave Marcus for the Spanish broadcasts? We need to get them a little more dialed down there. I don't know. I'd like to get them a little dialed in, because it makes it-- it's hard to play those calls sometimes when he gets so excited. Like this on the mic. That's not even that bad. That is-- Yeah, I had to turn my way down, because it pops. [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH] He's a better mic. Do we have some leftover equipment? We might be able to donate to them. Is that the problem? I don't know. He needs a better mic. Yeah, absolutely. He needs high energy. Someone's in the radio business. Chris has needs a compressor and a limiter. Yes, dad. ASAP, please. All right, finally, our friends from Korea, wherever they are, wherever they're calling these games, whoever they are, we don't know their names. I keep forgetting to ask them. Jesse. But here is the Korean call of the walk-off. [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH] Amazing. So he said maybe Eddie uses an old Xbox microphone. [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH] [LAUGHTER] [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH] It's just insane. And potato mic. Yeah, it's tough. [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH] God, it's hot. It's hot. It's the hottest. It's the hottest. It's the hottest. It's so hot. And that's not a good thing. Usually being hot is good. It's not in radio. You don't want to be hot. Yeah, 100%. I loved it, man. I loved it. I loved what Nando had to say after the game. If we had Sammy's interview, we'd play that a little bit later. He talks about how he took it personally. I took it personally. So as I saw four fingers up, gave me the push I needed, the energy that I needed. You know who taught him that? I just wanted to come through for the boys. And I tweeted, that's the school of jerks and pro-far right there. Well, playing with a chip on your shoulder is always the right play. I think absolutely. I don't think you would want to hear is, oh, no. It's OK. I mean, I get it. I get why they had to do that. You don't want to hear that. You want to hear, yeah, good call, idiot. Like, absolutely, I took it personally. I would. We all would. Professor Pro-far's class was in session, and they were paying attention. My brother says it. You're not walking Jackson Merrill to face Mason McCorle. Sure, man. Or Luis Campison. You're walking, Luis Rice. Luis, you just talked about the move. It's probably the right choice. It was also the right move when they walked him to face jerks and pro-far. Yeah, it's exactly the right move. They can still take offense at it, though. Just incredible. All right, are we ready for a game? I'm ready. Let's play it. Are you here for the compelling sports talk with Ben and Woods? You can go plow through another donut. It's time for Real or Fake on 97.3, the fan. Tell the people what they'll win today. Oh, what a great prize. Let's go to-- Is this Ollie? Yeah. Ollie, you are contestant today on Real or Fake. This is our Thursday throwback game, one of our earliest games on Ben and Woods. We do this if you don't have a musical trivia knowledge for our take on Woods, a chance to qualify for our grand prize drawing of a two-night stay at the win or Encore Las Vegas and two tickets to their new show Awakening. Tickets are on sale now at Awakening.com. So Ollie, here's how the game works. I will give you the category. You need to get four out of seven right, separating the real from the fake. Woods can help you out. You can absolutely phone a friend in this game. Ollie, are you ready to play? Yeah. All right, today's Real or Fake category. The American Professional Football Association was formed in 1920. Rename the National Football League in 1922. In honor of the start of a new NFL season tonight, I have a list of teams that comprise the NFL in 1922. All you need to do is separate the real from the fake. Ollie, are you ready to play? Let's roll. All right, round number one. The Milwaukee Long Shorman, Real or Fake. I must say, fake. I'm going to agree with you. You're both going to say fake, and you are both right. So we're already better than last week. Yes, over seven in this game of Real or Fake. All right, one for one, you are three away from a win. Round number two. The Columbus Panhandles, Real or Fake. Let's go with you on this one. Oh, I'm trying to-- Ohio, there's not a Panhandle, so I'm going to say fake. Ollie? Fake. I'm going to agree with both of you. But they were in the NFL in 1922. The Panhandle. The Columbus Panhandle. I don't think the Ohio has a Panhandle. Not the Panhandlers, just the Panhandles. Sorry about that. I won't get it. That was a tough one. All right, round number three. Go pans. Yeah, go pans. The Evansville Crimson Giants. Real or fake, Ollie? I'm going to go fake. Yeah, fake. Evansville no longer in the NFL, but they were in 1922. All right, we've hit a little bit of a bump in the road. Still, you can come back. Round number four. The Rochester Jefferson's. Real or fake, the Rochester Jefferson's. No way, fake. Thanks, sir. Real. No, no, I hate that. I hate Eso. He wants the listeners to lose. We're on the brink again. I like you, Ollie. Ben, not so much. I don't-- I don't-- it's just facts. I can't change those. There's a pattern that he uses. I can't figure it out. It's been six years, I know. I try not to have a pattern to make it as fair as possible. All right, Ollie, you need the last three now. Let's try to break out of the streak here with the Racine Bearcats. That's an Illinois. Racine Bearcats, real or fake, Ollie. I think it's real. Let's go with the wood, D. Real. It's real. Pauline? Oh, no. No! Dammit, we've got one right. Two weeks. I'm so sorry. The game is over for you. I appreciate you calling in and playing, not today, Satan. Not today. Oh, Jesus. I'm Satan in this case. Yeah, so mean. I know. Minneapolis Marines. Fake. [BUZZER] The Dayton Triangles. Fake. [BUZZER] We're on a very bad run. This would be like if I went over take-on woods for two weeks to be a nightmare. We got to bang this game. It's a 50/50 chance. I mean, the odds of getting one out of 14 right in a 50/50 chance is really low. Unbelievable. Sorry, that's amazing. I am sorry. Everybody. I will try to make this game easier. Let me do it. You'll be out next Thursday. I'll do it next week. Pauline and I have a plan. I got a plan. We got a plan already for next Thursday season. Look at you guys. Devious. What now? Dave Roberts can come in and do it? No, you'll find out. OK. You won't like it. You won't like it, but we have a-- Pauline has a great plan for next Thursday season. OK. All right. All right. We will come back. Don't do this is coming up next. If you work for the Los Angeles Dodgers in a broadcasting capacity, it prerequisite that you are insufferable. And I have some audio for you guys. That's going to infuriate. Woodsy's hot take. Does not like the Dodgers broadcasters. Oh, god. All platforms. Coming up next after traffic here are 97.3 of the fam. My dad works in B2B marketing. He came by my school for career day and said he was a big row as man. Then he told everyone how much he loved calculating his return on ad spend. My friends still laughing at me to this day. Not everyone gets B2B. But with LinkedIn, you'll be able to reach people who do. Get $100 credit on your next ad campaign. Go to linkedin.com/results to claim your credit. That's linkedin.com/results. Terms and conditions apply. LinkedIn, the place to be to be. 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So I'll start with the story out of the NFL. Washington commanders always seem to have something going on. And the commanders? Yeah, the commanders. The commanders don't do this. Really one of the Hall of Fame organizations when it comes to Don't Do This. Hall of shame. They have suspended their vice president of content after remarks surfaced on a like a hidden recording undercover video at a dinner. So he criticized a lot of people, including the team's own players, Jerry Jones, the owner of the Dallas Cowboys and NFL commissioner Roger Goodell and during this interview, I'll make comments. And basically he disagrees with a lot of their, what he believes to be their social stances. He says to the players are anti-gay. He says Jerry Jones is racist and anti-gay. And he called Roger Goodell a $50 million puppet during all of these now interviews. Now, he's allowed to have opinions like that. If that's what he truly thinks, there's nothing necessarily Don't Do This about thinking that. But he is also an employee of the organization. And for those comments to surface publicly of him criticizing his own team's players, another owner in the NFL and the commissioner of the NFL, obviously the NFL is not going to be too happy about any of this. Listen, you forgot the biggest one. He goes after the fans of the Washington commanders and he said quote, "Most of the fans are high school educated "alcoholics and called them mouth breathers." And he is the VP of content. You can't keep him. The guy that, like imagine catching someone on Hot Mike or hidden camera talking about the pottery. Is it possible what he said about the players and Jerry Jones is true? Sure. And Roger Goodell is true. Is he a $50 million puppet? Kind of, he is. Yeah, I mean, he can have those. He can have those opinions. But he didn't know that this was something that was being recorded, it's going to get out. He met this reporter on Hinge and then met with twice at local restaurants, it says. And yeah, so they suspended him doing an investigation. But yeah, man, you know, it was probably him showing off on a date. But I think honestly, like if you're the commanders, you've had so much scandal in your-- This was like a sting. Yeah, it was like a sting. Yeah, it's exactly right. So mind your P's and Q's people. The Dodgers rarely, Dodgers, their broadcasters, rarely mind their P's and Q's. So big night, the other night, couple nights ago for Ben Joyce through a pitch that was 105.5 miles an hour. The fastest recorded pitch in the Statcast era, I do believe. And listen to how the Dodgers broadcasters, well, really took that moment in and made it really special for Ben Joyce. And they're making an announcement of the press box about the 105.5 mile an hour pitch that Ben Joyce threw. I don't know, I might have a bridge in Brooklyn for you. They're saying it's the fastest pitch in the Statcast era, fastest one for a strikeout, fastest pitch in major league baseball this year. Mickey Montiak, I know disrespect to Ben Joyce. He's a hard thrower. But here's disrespect. But no human being can throw it that fast. I'm sorry, but-- And he just said, I mean, he did. One little pitch, now you're going to miss by Montiak. We know, and when I had the conversations with the performer, general manager. And he said, yes. One hit in the air to left field, right. And his tracks is to ask Hernandez, makes the catch to off. And we were not asking about Ben Joyce or any other player with the Angels, or with the Dodgers for that matter. But the conversation came to us and said, hey, are there times if you have a picture that, you know, pitches and tries to chase velocity? Did you ever kind of toy with the electronics? And the answer was, yes. So they go on and on. And they talked exclusively in that game as well about that game against the Angels against the Dodgers, being the, quote, Angels World Series. And look how Ron Washington is managing this game, like it's their World Series. They are such an unlikable group. You know, cancel the parades. That's why you play the game. You act like you win something important every year. And you don't. You don't. They act as if they are the patriots of, you know, on the run. They act as if they were the Yankees of the 50s and 60s. They're not. I don't understand why they don't believe the radar. Because it didn't happen to Michael Copac, or Shohei Otani. That's why they didn't believe it. That's why. There's no evidence that these radar gun readings are, they are off at all. The technology has actually gotten pretty good from what I understand. So I guess last night's in last night's game, Mark Goob is the Angels broadcaster. They got through a hard pitch and he goes, yep, Major League Baseball approved radar guns. Like he was giving it back to them. They act like trust fund kids is what they do. They really, they're like trust fund babies. I did see your friend, our friend, Tim Flannery, complaining about the, he said radar guns back in the day. They tracked the pitch when it crossed the cross. Not when it left the hand. The hand and it slows down a little bit from the hand to the plate. So you're not getting, he said Nolan Ryan must turn at least a hundred and eight. Yeah, I wouldn't spray. Which is, which is possible. They did not have the great tracking technology back then for sure. I don't know if he threw, but wouldn't it make sense that pitchers are, have been continuing to throw faster and faster, better training techniques, more knowledge, more scientific analysis of spin rates and how they affect velocity? This is not some stunner. This is the logical conclusion of what everybody's doing. That someone's going to keep throwing harder and harder. Including 105.5. And somebody made the point in the chat. Yeah, flip it. And if that's Ben Joyce doing that against the potteries. Imagine the, the level of respect mud and dawn would give him like holy smokes. We just saw history here. That's pretty cool. I found out something I did not realize when I was listening to Gwen and Chris yesterday. So that was the fastest ever strikeout pitch. 105.5. But it's not the fastest ever pitch. The fastest ever pitch was in a rolled as Chapman, 105.8 mile an hour fastball. Do you know who he threw it to? Tony Gwen Jr. Was it a strike? I've heard that before. Yeah. Oh, yes. Sounds right. No one in history has ever stood in the plate at the box and gotten a faster pitch from a human being than our own Tony Gwen Jr. Wow. Geez. How do you do? It was a ball. It was a ball. Take two. Took it. Good take. Good take. Power take. I didn't see it. Yeah. What is that even? What is that? I mean, you don't see it. No. I'm hearing it. You heard it. She sounded fast. Do do this. Do do this. Dee Dee. Mega do do do. Nice moment last night before the game. If you happen to be at Pekko Park, we're in your seats for the ceremonial first pitch. The Padres honored one of their own Mark Merola, who is now a scout, but used to be the bullpen catcher for the San Diego Padres, returned and throughout the first pitch and there was a little bit of a, what do they call it? Surprise. A surprise, an Easter egg, unexpected. The person who caught his pitch and they didn't even say who it was, it's John Morris, who was the owner when Mark Merola first entered the organization. He was actually a great college player at the University of Minnesota, but has battled brain cancer a couple of times in his career, nearly, nearly fatal. I mean, he had surgery, he had to recover twice, long-time recovery. Padres, though, have kept him in the organization, made of a scout. He's an instrumental part of AJ Preller's staff, has been since 2012 and they honored Mark Merola last night with a little surprise cameo from John Morris on the first pitch. I thought it was very cool. Start do do this moment. Let's don't and do do this for a Thursday. That was don't do this. And Ben and Woods, a 97-3 the fan. All right, we still have not gotten to the kind of innings that led up to the walk-off last night. Had us a little everybody on their edge of their seat a little bit. Yeah, and I was even questioning Mike Shilt. I know that that's the dangerous thing to do. How dare you. We can talk about what happened in the game last night. Coming up next on San Diego's number one sports station, 97-3 the fan. A alternate universe that could have been a very frustrating loss for the Padres last night as well. Yep, and it was a little dicey in those last few innings. Talk about some of the decisions, the rallies that ended up not scoring any runs for the Padres in that game. As we wrap up, what was really a fantastic six to five win last night of the Detroit Tigers will do that right after this check of traffic on 97-3 the fan. And baseball coverage, a 97-3 the fan presented by T-Mobile. Switch to T-Mobile. You can get tons of benefits. Still save on every plan versus AT&T and Verizon. Use their savings calculator to find out how at tmobile.com/switch. So Padres rally and tie the game. Manny Machado's two runs single in the fifth inning. Great DB, man. It was. And then they were unable to push across another run even after Xander walked and moved Manny to second. Jackson Merrill grounded out. So it's 5-5 going to the sixth. Hitter and more at home gets through the sixth inning, works around a walk. So no real threat there by the Tigers. And then in the bottom of the sixth, Padres rally again. David Peralta, aggressive pinch hitting for Luis Campusano, who has kind of been struggling lately. What? Luis Campusano? Kind of been struggling. Yeah. You're a nice guy. It's a nice way to put it. That's a-- yeah. Yeah, I hit a two hit game last week, I think. OK. So Peralta draws the walk. Mason McCoy then sacrifices him over to second base. Thought of you, Stephen Cornado. I thought of you immediately. Runner in scoring position. Padres are in good shape with the top of their lineup coming up, especially Luis Arise. And Luis Arise does his job. Runner at second, singles to the left side. Does the runner score? No, he does not. Did the runner advance? Does the runner advance from second to third? No, he does not. David Peralta, who held? Because it was a laugh drive. He had to. Then stumbled and-- Sniper got him. Have you come back to second base? So you had the very rare situation on a single to the outfield that the runner on base didn't advance. Well, you know, it might not mean anything. No, it did, because the very next hitter, Fernando Tett, he's junior, roped like 110 mile an hour line out that would have scored any runner from third base, but not from second. And thus, he was stranded out at second base. Well, third, actually, he advanced from second to third, but could not score after a pro-far walk and another Manny Machado. Absolute line out. Very frustrating inning. Usually, you get a runner out second with one out, and you go single deep fly, you're going to score 100% of the time. I guess 99.99% of the time. When you have a runner at second and you go single deep fly ball, either they score on the single the first time, or they advanced on the single and they score on the fly ball. Neither happened, and the pot raise were left without a run in that inning. So that was frustrating. It was a frustrating move. Now, the part to me-- and I know you have another thing that you wanted to talk about, but I thought right there in that spot might have been a decent spot to see Tyler Wade pinch run. Because if you're going to sacrifice David Peralta over right in a tie game, that means this runs important to us. I'm going to give up and out here to get David Peralta to second base, which is in scoring position. So I'm going to give up and out with Mason McCoy. No problem. I had no problem with that. I thought, if you're going to be aggressive there with the aggressive pinch hit, the bond, why not be aggressive with Tyler Wade and put him on second base to try to score that run? Again, it was the right decision for Peralta to hold there, because it was a line drive. You have to freeze on a line drive. You learn that in Little League. Freeze on a line drive. But the second you see it through, you got to at least get to third. I didn't think he was going to score on that anyway. Tyler Wade, I don't know. Baby, you never know. But it didn't happen. So I went OK. Well, that's why you're there. But then I-- No, if you do that, I reasoned with myself that it's the sixth inning. You are spending three players on that equation, because you've pinch hit Peralta for campusano, then you would pinch run him, and then you'd have to replace him, because you need a catcher in there. So with your-- That's an expensive inning, and still the sixth inning to burn three players right there. I can see why Mike Schilt was hesitant to do that in that spot. Yeah, I thought, again, you're being aggressive. Fine, so scratch that. And then Peralta could still come up later in the game. But you know, actually, he couldn't, because you had to replace him, because he's so-- You burned him for the catcher. You burned him. All right, so then you go to the seventh inning, and Tanner Scott gets through that inning. It works around a single, but the Tigers don't really threaten again, and you go to the bottom of the seventh. And once again, the Padres threaten with one out, Zander Bogart's walks. And then Jackson Merrill hits the ground rule double that probably would have scored Zander Bogart's head had not bounced over the fence. 100%. Always one of the most frustrating things whenever happens to your team, you're saying. So just because the warning track is bouncier, he doesn't get to score. It never totally makes a lot of sense, but there's really not. I don't know. But so then you've got runners at second and third with one out. And Mike Schilt, again, goes to his bench. And this one surprised me, because he had just, of course, put in Kyle Higashiyoka as a defensive replacement after the pinch hitting from the last inning. And he doesn't even let Higgie back there. And he brings in Donovan Solano to pinch it for Kyle Higashiyoka. Now he can do that because he's got a third catcher on the roster, expanded rosters. Elias Diaz is there. He has yet to make his Padres debut. But, well, apparently it's happening now, because he's your last catcher. And you have aggressively pinch hit Donovan Solano. Now I love Solano up in that situation. Guy gets the bat on the ball, got runners at second and third, hits it hard, infield's drawn in. And this field's in. There's a lot of reasons to bring up Donovan Solano. But there's also an open base at first. And Mason McCoy is on deck, a guy who they have handled, all right, you know, and so far in this game. And it's probably the least scary guy in the Padres lineup right now. He is the least scary guy in the Padres lineup at this moment. So what happens? Well, Donovan Solano works a walk, a good at bat, but he ends up working the walk. So- - Now see, he had pitches to hit. - He did. - So they weren't pitching around him. I mean, actually he had middle, middle pitches to hit. - I'm surprised that they didn't give him opportunities. - I am too. But I was surprised, he's come through a bunch this year. And I thought, if you're gonna use a pinch hitter, maybe from McCoy, but I started thinking about it and I thought, all right, what does this do to the team defensively, right? If you make this move, bringing the infield in, he's a Solano's a 300 hitter, yeah? 300 hitter. - He's now- - And it's been a fantastic pinch hitter. - He's been better than that. - Like the best. - Yeah. - He's now a 400 hitter with the infield drawn in. Yeah, I can see the allure of like, let's just get it now. Yes, he can hit a lazy fly ball to score a run, but I wanna go, I wanna get these, I wanna get both of these runs in with Donovan Solano. Well, him drawing a walk, you're like, oh crap, that means Mason McCoy has to hit now. - Unfortunately, it doesn't work out because after the walk, yeah, Mason McCoy grounded into the fielder's choice to home plate and Luis Horizon grounded out to shortstop. And once again, for the second straight inning, you left your bases loaded. Mike Schilt did discuss the decision to go with Donovan Solano in that pinch hitting role. And he said, wasn't an easy one. - Just kind of an example of the way you can use the three catchers and the roster to kind of get at bats for guys in optimal situations. And we'll win into the Solano at bat one there. - Yeah, that was a tough one. You know, I couldn't, I was inter talking to Victor and of course Jackson is a, you know, ground rule double. And, you know, now we got a decision to make with one out. Got the open base, not sure what they're gonna do. Maxman having good at bats. Trust Hickey too, it's not a matter of that, but we got, you know, a real bullet over there in Solano. - Yeah. - You know, with one out's heartache. And again, we might have fired it with, you know, two if it had remained the same situation for Mac, but just took advantage of what we saw in front of us, took a tough at bat, worked a walk. So really that was, that was a tough one 'cause we could have let Hickey hit. And then, you know, like I said, hit for Mac. So, wasn't a clear cut decision. But to your point about the catch reflex ability and I part them all 'cause, you know, we're sitting there in the sixth and we got campy leading off. We got Peralta sitting there. We're really not gonna do a whole lot with our first, first seven, unless there's extreme situation, which we will do if we've got the personnel still. But if you're looking at a roster, you'll get David Peralta has been huge for us and he's sitting there to lead off the sixth inning and you know, you got a good bullpen and trying to figure out a way to get that one more run that me and Victor talk about. And then they get, and Peralta works a walk and, you know, was able to have a good bat when go to Hickey. And, you know, again, we're sitting there with Solano trying to figure out the right spot to use him, but you know, you got Diaz that you can trust over there. Again, could have gone either way, but like Solano's a bat there with one out. - All right, so while I disagreed strategically with Mike Schulz's decision there, I think the answer there was very telling about some of the Padres philosophies he revealed. I'm gonna basically the eighth and ninth spot in my lineups right now, which is usually the catcher and the shortstop. I am going to use my bullets, my David Peralta and my Donovan Solano valuable pinch hitting guys. I'm gonna probably use them in those spots. I'm not gonna let in a close game why not use those guys? And he has Peralta in the sixth. He used Solano in the seventh. It is also very character reinforcing who Mike Schulz is. He aggressively goes after wins. When he sees them in front of them, when he has the opportunity to reach out and try to take one, he will do it. Whether it's with bullpen usage or with pinch hitters. And he saw Donovan Solano sitting on his bench. He saw runners in second and third into him. That is the way to go. Now, I'm a more conservative guy. I think when it comes to the baseball strategy and I was like, would have liked to save that Donovan Solano for the ninth or at bat for Mason McCoy? Or what if Hage comes through? And then you still have Solano on the bench. You've got all kinds of options. Good things can happen. And you trust, I know you trust Hage. He's come through with for you many times. I would have given him that opportunity to just go up and deliver a hit. Hits a lot of fly balls. Frankly, I was actually surprised that he didn't give Hage that opportunity. I really was as much as, I mean, hey, as much as Hage, he's done for this team and how clutch he has been this season. But I also understand that. I understand in that situation right there, I got a chance if they throw Donovan Solano, who's a good hitter, if they throw him a pitch to hit, this guy can rip an RBI single, a two RBI single with the best of them. So I kind of understand that. I like what he said. And also, wasn't it nice to hear, Mike, she'll be like, yeah, I mean, tough call. Like, I gotta make that call in real time. And that was a difficult one for me. And it's gonna happen. It probably happens way more than we realize what a difficult call it is. But again, they came back, they won that game. But yeah, man, you leave six guys on the late innings, you get a little bit nervous. - That would have been, as I said, a really painful game to lose though, even though you had been down five nothing. To have to come back, use all of your bullpen bullets. Yeah, every single one of your high leverage relievers. To have so many chances, with the bases loaded, the bases loaded, the Tigers really didn't have-- - Yeah, you're sick. - Any chances, their best chance came in the 10th when they put a runner at second base automatically, they never really had those chances. And if you had lost that game, then go. And now we've used all our bullpen guys, and then we're going into the final game of the series a little bit weakened, and we've lost. That would have been rough, but you win the game. You made the Tigers use some of their bullpen guys. That Will Vest was nasty. - Nasty, dude. - Hopefully, he's down for today. - He's throwing two innings yesterday, 'cause I don't wanna see him. - What the hell is Will Vest? - I don't know, I don't know how his ERA was over three either, because I look at Eric, gotta go, oh, that guy is tough. - Filthy. - Filthy, we don't see him again. That was impressive in the eighth and the ninth, but obviously they had to bring in a different picture in the 10th Foley, and the Padres were able to get the job done and get that walk-off win. Kept a couple of their magic streaks going. People were mad that I even mentioned it during the game. - Yeah, he's smart enough. - It's gonna end at some point. It doesn't mean I can never mention it. - Just smart enough about it. - Should I not say it now? - Can I say it now? - Yes. - Podrays are undefeated when Manny Machado gets at least two runs batted in. They're also undefeated when Tanner Scott enters a ballgame at all to pitch. - It's a good point here. - Both of those were on the line last night in the tie game. - Yeah, and they came through again, I need money, since the best part was Higgie was in the dugout going over the pitchers with Diaz instead of crying about not getting an AB. This is a very unselfish baseball team. That's one thing that we absolutely know. - I was watching that scenario, and Higgie's crouched right in front of Elias Diaz kind of showing him, all right, you hold your mid up and you show target, when they throw it, you want to catch it. - I was thinking, he's not an emergency catcher. He's an all-star, actually, but an all-star last year. He knows how to catch. - He's just showing him where Bobby likes the mid, Benny. Come on. - He knows how to catch. - He's showing him where Bobby wants it. - He's done it before, okay. - This isn't Tyler Wade, he's strapping on the gear going into catch at the end of the game. - Now that would be fun. He is our backup catch. - He is. - I was great wishes he was, but it's Tyler Wade, actually. All right, we'll come back. We got lots to get to including. Edo Sarah is going to join us at our eight o'clock hour. Coming up here on 97.3, the thing. - My dad works in B2B marketing. He came by my school for career day and said he was a big row as man. 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