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Thanks for joining me on this Cleveland Baseball Morning, the final from Yankees Stadium in New York. It's the Guardians taking two games out of three, taking the series over the New York Yankees. The Yankees do salvage the finale with a two to one win. I'm David Barris, Lifelong Cleveland Baseball fan and I want to talk about the act ual game on the field the thing I enjoy watching baseball being played and based on the emails that I got for this series, you enjoyed baseball being played this week too. You beating the Yankees two out of three, you definitely fired up the emailers. We got some good emails in the inbox , some good questions and conversations to get to after the show. But let's talk about the game on the field because the Guardians played some very good baseball in this one the win the opener nine to four it's a close game for a while before the Guardians finally blow it open late in the game they were going back and forth. They they were responding every time you scored it was kind of fun actually. I got to be honest, you know, you're worried because usually it's the other team that's blowing the game wide open, right ? We just went through that with the Red Sox series where we kept it a close game, we kept it a close game and then the Red Sox blew it open against our bullpen. This time it was the Guard ians doing that. So we score in the top of the third, they respond with two in the bottom of the third. We have an answer right back with two more in the top of the fourth and here they come with two in the bottom of the fourth to retake the lead four to three. Usually, you know, we've seen other guardians teams that would crumble to that , but we answer with two more in the fifth to retake the lead , then we hold the lead they go to the bull pin actually in that fifth inning already. Can't tell only makes it through four innings. It's it's again not his best start but definitely not his worst start for Joey Cantillo and then eventually Adam run in the seventh and then blow it open with Bazana in the eighth inning . So you know, usually it's we've seen that on the on the other side so many times and now it's the guardians that get to do it . The the colon response would continue on Wednesday's game . You score in the second, they score in the bottom of the second. You score two, this would be the the difference in top of the fourth, they score one in the bottom of the fourth. You score in the top of the sixth, they score in the bottom of the sixth . So yeah, as soon as the Yankees pitching staff would give up something, their offense would come back find a way to try to get some of those runs back , but they were never able to put up a crooked number so that you get an insurance run in the eighth inning and that would be huge because Kate Smith would give up a run in the ninth , but still collects the save , still continuing to be one of the best closers in baseball and he gets the job done and then yeah ons on Thursday the day game things go quiet. You got one run on two hits . You did you did load up the bases there in that fourth inning . So you did have Rodan in some trouble . had He three walks in the game . It was a single for Ramirez, a walk from Reese Hoskins . Oh, sorry, you didn't load them up. I'm sorry, but you definitely had a scoring opportunity , strike out by Bazana, fly off a Martinez, and then it's Stuart Fairchild delivering his first hit as a Cleveland Guardian who drives in the lone run on Thursday , but they still answer right back with a run of their own in the bottom of the fourth inning. So yeah, the Yankees offense was just in lockstep with us until we were finally able to pull away earlier in the game. It kind of's craz y to see an entire series like that where it's a call and response by the Guardian's offense and then the Yankees offense firing right back with runs of their own . All right, so let's get into a little bit more detail ed look at this because there are some very good series by some guardians hitters here . This one is definitely on the offense . There we will be pitching moments like the bullpen is very good coming in after Cantilo gives up four runs and four innings . You know, took him ninety one pitches but only hard hit four times. Again, not his worst start . Here's the here's the full line. Fournings pitched, six hits , four runs, three walks still a problem. Four strikeouts, he does give up one home run, ninety one pitches he's hard hit four times but on the other side one of their young stars Cam Schlitler gives up the most runs of his career four in a third, five hits, five runs only four earned , no walks, three strikeouts, does give up a home run himself . On seventy six pitches, he's hard hit eight times and you drive him out of the game in that fifth inning with two runs in that fifth inning . Is that the one where the ball hits off Ahmed Rosario's leg where he boots the ground ball at third base? Yeah, Patrick Bailey hits into a field restor ated at ninety seven point five , but it shanks off of Ahmed Rosario and then he hits Brian Roccio so you know, not a walk but hit by pitch he allows that runner to get on and then it's Bazana with a sac fly Ramirez with a double and that inning could have actually been more Chase the Laerudhead walked but then they go to the bullpen. They finally get him out of there . Schlitler and they go to the bullpen, they go to a right hand or sorry, they go to a left handed pitcher and they strike out Kaman Zardo and then strike out on Ham artinez to end the threat. So that inning could have been even more. I was actually surprised like Manzardo had his first two at bats, I believe, were both good at bats. And then he struck out in the second inning and then comes back in the fourth with the two run home run after Ramirez a double to lead off the fourth, it's Manzardo with a two run home run ninety six point six miles per hour thirty, three deg ree launching of three hundred and sixty seven feet would have been a home running only four out of thirty ballparks, but he takes advantage. They said it on the broadcast. I think Chris Jimenez said it. Like I wonder if Manzardo is going to be able to take advantage of the short porch at Yankee Stadium. He does . He does take advantage of the short porch at Yankee Stadium. It would have been home run only four out of thirty ballparks would not have been a home run at progressive field. So the short port at Yankee Stadium once again rewards someone . Yeah, there I think there was another one. Oh, Patrick Bailey's triple Patrick Bailey we should go in order here, I guess. That might make more sense scoring orders. So they get the scoring going in the third inning, a one out triple by Patrick Bailey at one hundred and three point five miles per hour, twenty seven degree relaunching a little three hundred and ninety nine feet out to just right of center field would have been a home run and actually six out of thirty ballparks. This would have been a home run at Progressive Field . It probably would have been to those seats in front of the bullpen at progressive field . We actually know in that right center field gap there is a spot because it comes across on a straight line. There is a spot where progressive field is actually the shallowest ballpark in Major League Baseball just right of center field. So I wonder if this is kind of the spot where Bailey hits his triple to Yankee Stadium actually gets pretty deep in center field so it holds it, but it takes a big hop it kind of comes straight down it takes a big hop off the wall, off the warning track and it allows Bailey to chug all the way in a third with a triple , but that one would have been home run six out of thirty and then you get the you get Rocchio driving him in with a sack fly. So that would be the first run of the game gold Goldschmidt would answer with a two run home run after a Ben Rice single. Goldschmidt would hammer a two run home run. That was a no doubt about a home run thirty out of thirty ballparks and and then Manzarda would get his home run, his two run home run in the fourth inning . And Manzardo went down to get this. Let's see if we can go to the matchup here Schlitlzer guess first Ramirez doubles gets a cutter right down the middle a little bit low, but Ramirez on a three to count is able to pull that sharply into right field at one hundred and three miles per hour . Then he would get chased a lotter to fly out to center. Ramirez would advance the third , but it wouldn't matter because Calamanzard would come up first pitch swing gets a cutter down and in this thing this thing's down at the knees maybe below the knees down at the shins and manzardo goes down and gets it man. Those lefties love inside pitches and they're they're not seeing many inside pitches. So when they get one, they're being aggressive on it. And that's what he does here, manzardo gets aggressive on this cutter breaking down at his legs. It's over the plate still. It's not like an it's not like a super inside pitch. It is over the inner half of the plate and manzardo jumps it for the two run home run and I think this was a bit of a shock like Schlitler has been a pretty strong pitcher. So once Goldstrimt hits the two run home run, the Yankees fans are thinking, yeah, here we go. This is the New York we know and manzardo boom with that answer in that fourth inning . And like I said, they would answer back. They would have a rally of their own. They a single and two walks would load the bases with one out and then Gold Schmidt would sing le to drive in to drive in the two runs there. So Goldsmith had himself a very good game. Goldschmidt ends up going three for five with four RBIs driven in, including the home run. He would end the double, he would strike out twice. He was a triple away from the cycle . But yeah, there's plenty of offense on the guardian side as well as we would answer right back for these two runs . So he gets that done. Then we have, like I said, the inning with the fielders choice, a single by Kwan to Start Things, the fielders choice hit to Amed Rosario, Brian Roccio hit by the pitch as he was squaring the butt. Bazana is able to get the job done, does the dirty work with a sack fly, gets it out to the outfield, scores the first run there and then Ramirez wouldn't be done. He would double in run three doubles on the day for Jose Ramirez man, it was fun to watch. It was fun to watch him pulling the ball again in this series and Ramirez is the most dangerous hitter in Yankee Stadium. I think they said did he leave the series batting like something like four hundred in Yankee Stadium , we could actually look this up . But he was pulling the ball again and that is huge for Jose Ramirez . He's pulling it down the left field line as a left handed hitter. He bounces one over Ahmed Rosario's head at third base. Nothing Rosario could do. This huge chop way over his head and let's see here. Yankee Stadium . He now leaves betting four hundred seven with an eleven ninety six OPS at Yankee Stadium he's only played eight games at Petco but he's been very good there , thirteen sixty seven OPS , Steinbrerener field, that doesn't really count. That was the one, you know, while Tampa Bay was not that was only four games when Tampa Bay was displaced from their home stadium eight games at Cores. He's hitting twelve ninety of the American League ballparks. He's played in Yankee stadium a ton thirty seven games there and he's got an eleven ninety six OPS best stadium in all of the American League is Yankee Stadium playing on the road in Yankee Stadium . So Hosey delivers three doubles in this one. So the Guardians would add an insurance run in the seventh inning, Rochio with single and then Ramirez would rock another double. This one in the left field. This is the one that hop s in the left field. He hit it one hundred and three point six, but a minus twenty two degree relaunch angle gets the big bounce in the left field. Rocchio is able to score on that. So there's the big insurance run. Ramirez doing it with the dou bles and then Travis Bazana with a double we load the bases in the eighth inning back to back to back singles from Martinez, Schneimen and Kuan loads the bases up. They strike out Patrick Bailey, they'd strike out Brian Rocchio would our trouble with the bases loaded rear its ugly head again. No bazana's able to save us. He bloops one down the left field line, only a seventy three milepower exit velocity, but sorry, did I say left field line? Right field line, puts it right down the right field line. It had a six, ten expected betting average because you're not going to get to this one and it clears the bases. All three runs come across the score and it is a huge , huge RBI double from Travis Bazana. You know, one thing I wanted to look at is they just started doing the All Star Game voting. And I actually think Travis Bazana has a path to the All Star Game. I think there's a chance we can get Bazana in an all star uniform. The second base competition, we'll look at it at the end of the episode, but the second base competition isn't as strong as you think it is. And same thing with shortstop. I actually think there's a path that Brian Rocchio could make an all star game here. So in a year when maybe Jose Ramirez is going to have to really go on a tear in June to hold on his third base position in the All Star Game be. M itay's the other infield positions that we need to be looking at for all stars here . So yeah, the Guardians offense unloads the Yankees bullpen gives up four runs. Meanwhile your bullpen holderman comes in in the fifth two strikeouts. Tim Harrin is solid in the sixth inning. Hunter Gaddis does get into a little bit of trouble in the seventh. This is the one where the ball is popped up right at home plate and Ramirez and Bailey actually collide, yes, but more of a nudge than a collision. I don't want to oversell it. They bump into each other and Bailey ends up dropping the ball but Gaddis gets him out of it on the next play with a ground out to short stop to get him out of the inning. So Gaddis picks up Bailey there . Bailey kind of made two mistakes there. One, obviously, not getting out of Jose Ramirez's way. You would think the fielder coming in would have a better read on the ball than the catcher kind of circling it . But Bailey was in position to catch it. So he probably could have made the catch. He doesn't drop the mask . He's holding the big heavy he wears like the big helmet, the full thing that looks more like a hockey goalies mask than just the just the masky pull over the helmet situation and doesn't drop it. He's holding it his hand and you know they I know not all Major League baseball players catch the ball with two hands , but I kind of feel like if he wasn't holding that big mask he maybe brings his other hand up, maybe maybe sec ures this thing a little bit better . Obviously Catchersmitt is not perfectly designed to be catching pop ups with, but yeah, I just I don't know why he was holding onto the mask the whole time and he knew he screwed up. He knew it , but hey, he had a triple of this game. So let's give Patrick Bailey a little bit of credit there. But yeah, Gannis gets out of it. Armstrong solid in the in the eighth and then they don't even need Cate Smith for the save Festa can come in for an easy one, two, three ninth inning . So your bullpen man throwing up zeros on the board and that would be the difference in this one. Their bullpen crumbles, your billpen holds it together . So yeah , Kamp Schlitler, wow, yeah, we put him down his wor st start of the season , maybe of his career . So Schlitler will definitely remember what the Guardians did to him. We'll see if we face him again the Yankees are coming to town after we play this weekend series in Texas. The Yankees are going to be coming to town. So we're going to see these guys all over again. We'll see if we get Schlitler in the rotation again next week . Yeah, huge offensive game from Ramirez with three hits in this one, Manzardo with two hits, including the home run . Multi hit game for Quan who makes his return from the bereavement list , Quan with two hits and scores twice, so that's nice to see in Quan's return. They made an interesting choice. They kept Stewart Fairchild around, and they sent Petey Halpin back down . There is going to be a situation coming up because Gabriel Arius has started his rehab assignment. They said they're going to take it slow with him, give them a few weeks to get you know multiple bats under his belt play,ing in back to back games, things like that they want to see before they activate them. It really feels like they're stalling to make a decision, you know, because they're going to have to make a roster decision when they reactivate Arius. They could tr ade them. They could they could someone find a trade partner for him if because clearly Rokio and Bazana it's working I know Bazana isn't the strongest defensive second baseman but it's working with Rokio at short stop and Bazana at second . We like this infield and Arius if he does return, he's going to have to fight for playing time and it could be at first base, it could be in a corner outfield spot . It could be some it could be third base on those Sundays when Ramirez gets a DH could be late in the game. Maybe you do a defensive replacement and you bring Arius in a short stop and move Rocchio back to second . If you're needed to lock up a game, maybe in the eighth or ninth inning and Bazana's not coming up to again . So maybe you do a defensive replacement like that late in a tight game, but Arius is going to have to have to find his at bats, find his played appearances and we know that usually doesn't breed success for a guy like Arius . But the actual roster move, I don't think is that complicated. I think it's easily Stuart Fairchild . You send I know Fairchild's acting like the fourth outfielder right now or your right handed outfielder, but you could drop them . You've got Schneimen to be your fourth outfielder. Like if your if you think of your starting outfield is on Hel Martinez, Steven Kuan and Chase Delauder , you know, Martina is being a switch hitter there. So at least you get some flexibility in the lineup Schneimen would be your fourth outfielder and then you still have David Friday could play the corner outfield spots. So you still have five outfielders on the roster. You're not and then maybe Arius could even play a little corner outfield too . So yeah, so I think it's easy. You drop Stuart Fairchild as soon as Arius is ready to come back. I don't think that part of the equation is too difficult . So yeah, but Quan is back. That's the good news. Quan is back . All right So let's move on to let's go to the player breakdown page really quick. What was working for Cantilo here seventeen called strikes mostly on the fourteen fastball really didn't throw the change up that much in this one was going more curveball in this one and had a good decent wiff rate on and a thirty five percent wiff r ate on at six whiffs on seventeen swings . They were being a little aggressive. That was the one pitch that they did get a few hard hit balls on, only four hard hit balls. They averaged seventy nine point eight office fastball, eighty seven point two off the curve and seventy seven point eight exit velocity off the change up. Total exit velocity on the day off him was only eighty three point four . Very good job. It was only thirty eight percent first pitch strike , but must have been battling his way back into counts was starting to bring the change up more late in the game went more almost even fastball, curveball the first time through the lineup and then started to mix the change up in more. It's only twenty seven percent twenty seven percent with for a total. Adding those seventeen called strikes, it's a thirty one percent CSW for cantillo . One thing we were doing is we were handling Kam Sitchllzer's fastball combo. This is one of the best fastball guys in the business and you were hammering his fastball. You were really hammering his cutter . Six balls put in play off that three for hits, four of them were for hard hit balls. You averaged ninety seven point one off of his cutter . You actually average ninety two point three miles per hour off him on the day . So you were hitting him very hard . Yeah , he did not have a huge he had a seventeen percent wiff rate against you. He did have fourteen called strikes a lot on that four seam fastball. So it's a twenty six percent CSW for Kam Schlitler. Oh, he also throws the two seam sinker up there at ninety seven miles per hour as well. So he's got he's basically a three fastball and then drops in a few curveballs kind of guy . So interesting pitch mix from Cam Schlitler, but you were able to do damage off him . Three of those sinkers put in play two of them for hard hit balls . So good job by the Guardians offense of being prepared for the fastball trio from Kam Schlitler and making him pay all right moving into Wednesday's game a little bit of a tighter game here , but the Guardians are still able to come out on top. Like I said, that one crooked number inning was huge because the Yankees weren't able to do that. They got a bunch of solo runs , including the ninth inning . They had some solo home runs from Jazz and from Caballiero . Is this the one Caballiero's home run ? Anja Martinez makes a leap for it in left field. And it actually looks like Anja Martinez hasn't lined up pretty well, but a fan catches the ball above Martinez glove. It looks like Martinez is kind of pointing up like was that fan interference? Did anybody else see that ? But it the fan didn't interfere with Martinez. He never hit Martinez's glove or hit his arm or anything like that. And the fan wasn't reaching over the wall . I didn't even catch this live. I only caught it on the replay . But he the fan wasn't reaching over the wall. The ball just came to the guy. So it's not fan interference. It's just a good catch from a fan out there in Yankee Stadium and left field there and it's unfortunate for Martinez because maybe maybe he steals a home run . He got up there. He got up over the wall. He was right under the guy's glove . So maybe he steals a home run , but definitely wasn't fan interference. Just good a good catch . So yeah , Gavin Williams battling Garick Cole here. Garret Cole, you know, just a few starts into his return from Tommy John Sergy, but had been pitching very well for the Yankees. I believe these are the first runs he's given up this season . But both starters, both aces only last five and a third Gevin Williams gives up four hits, three runs, one walk, six strikeouts, two home runs, but they are solo home runs and ninety six pitches. He's hard hit six times. Garico on the other side gives up six hits , gives up four runs , one walk only two strikeouts and he gives up three home runs in this one on eighty three pitches. He's rocked eight times for hard hit balls. So the Guardians do a little bit more damage and I believe one of these is a two run home run. So let's get into the scoring plays here . Manzardo stays red hot at Yankee Stadium . He gets a scoring started with a solo home run in the second inning to kick off the second inning . This one was a good shot. This one was twenty nine out of thirty ballparks . No doubt, well, I guess a slight doubt about it. Fenway is the only place this wouldn't have been a home run. Interesting . Interesting. I guess pesky pole, right? It gets very deep there in right field if you don't wrap it around the pesky pole. And I guess you probably ends up with a groundworld double, right? But still forty one to relaunching a way up there three hundred seventy feet . I mean, Zardo kicks the scoring off with a leadoff home run. Was this first pitch again? Let's go to the matchup here. Let's see what pitch he got for this home run of Garrick Cole Manzardo no was not first pitch. It was another inside pitch though. He had been pitching him away the hole at bath fastballs away . The first pitch was a curve . Oh boy, he could have challenged that one. That was way below the strike zone. Yeah, that first pitch was a called strike knuckle curve and then goes fast ball away, fastball away and then comes back with a knuckle curve it was in it was off the plate but like I said those lefties love inside pitches and they're not getting many of them when. he So gets one on the inner half , even if it's off the plate on the inner half, he jumps on it. He opens up the hips and he jumps it for his seventh home run of the season . Jazz Chisholm would answer back to lead off against Gavin Williams in the bottom of the second inning, Gavin Williams just doesn't mix up the location here. Everything is up and away. Whether it's a curveball, which he misses with twice, whether it's a sinker, whether it's a cutter , everything is up and away and finally he catches too much of the plate on a three to count. He gives him a sinker up there and Jazz is able to pull it into right field one hundred seven point five miles per hour, four hundred and nine feet. This was a home run in thirty out of thirty ballparks. Apparently there was something going on between Tom Hamilton and Paul O'Neill on the call for the Yankees and Jazz Chisholm apparently made an appearance on the tonight show with Jimmy Fallon and Hamilton made some comment about his batting average, something like a two hundred thirty nine batting average gets you on the tonight show and then when jazz hits this home run, O'Neill's all over it, you know, how about that for the tonight show or something like that? So apparently there's now a little rivalry between Tom Hamilton and Yankees fans about the little comment, the little shot he took at Jazz Chisholm Junior for being on the Tonight Show. So we'll see if there's any more drama with that come the next Yankee series and Hamilton , you know , in his Hamilton's not going to back down from Yankees fans. He'll go right after someone if he's got something to say. He's got a joke to make Hamilton's going to make it . 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Learn more at Trexk. com subject to local code consult your builder or inspector So they answer back with the solo home run . Then in the fourth inning here is the two run home run. Ramirez stays hot with a single after Del eraud would strike out Manzarda would pop out and then Rhys Hoskins going off a right handed pitcher. Oh the three true outcomes for Reece Hoskins. He hammers one at one hundred five point one miles per hour, thirty nine degree launch angle three hundred and eighty two feet would have been a home run in thirty out of thirty ballparks. No doubt about it Yeah, he hammers it out there to left field. So Reese Hoskins coming up huge. I know Hoskins like I know he doesn't have like the greatest batting average . He leaves the series batting two hundred , but a seven hundred sixty and OPS because he's drawn walks, he's hitting home runs. Yes, he's living in the three true outcomes here. Let me go to his individual page here. What are we looking like for those three true outcomes here for Reece Hospins . We're looking at six home runs so far . Remember it's kind of limited plate appearances. I guess you could say he's kind of a regular DH but has been in limited plate appearances in platooning he's got you're not going to show me the strikeouts in the walks there you go he's got thirty three walks right now and forty seven strikeouts . So it's good enough for a three hundred fifty three on base percentage and a four hundred seven sluggy. He's got ten doubles and six home runs. So sixteen extra base hits there. It's actually a difference between him and Kyle Manzardo . Although Manzardo's hitting two hundred thirty eight with a seven thirty two OPS . So how's Manzardo getting to those numbers? He doesn't have his he's got seven home runs a triple and six doubles . So the home runs this series definitely helped boost that slugging percentage gets slugging percentage up to four hundred and eleven right now. Kind of more in his career line. His career average had been well, his rookie year was four hundred twenty one than last year when he went off for those twenty seven home runs. It was a four hundred fifty five slugging. So he's back in that four hundred range now at four hundred eleven . Yeah, we're trying to we're starting to see the true Manzardo still striking out a ton sixty four strikeouts to only eight walks , but starting to see the extra base hits show up from Manzardo. So yeah, that's our platoon. Those are our guys platooning away there with the three true outcomes so let's see here yeah Hoskins was no doubt about it then Cabiero answers back with his home run over on Jo Martinez . This would not have been a home run in progressive field. It would have been off the nineteen foot wall in left in progressive field but it goes out here in Yankee Stadium. Then it's Jose Ramirez with a solo home run. He gets in on the action. He says enough with these doubles. I'm going for a bomb myself ninety nine point seven thirty nine degree launch angle three hundred and sixty three feet in the right field would have been a home run in twenty seven out of thirty ballparks his ninth home run on the season gives the guardians a little bit of breathing room, makes it a four to two game. Let's see what pitch let's see if we can find all the home runs here so So Rhys Hoskins' home run on a slider that just slid right into the middle of the plate. It was a little bit low below the belt, but right down the middle of the plate for Rhys Hoskins, Caba Yarr offows Gevin Williams was an elevated sinker so that sinkers given up two home runs on the day also middle of the plate but right at the top of the strike zone but he threw two of them he missed high with one . ch Heallenges them with another one and he pays for it. So the next one would be Jose Ramirez still off of Garrett Colder in the top of the sixth inning . He is let's see this at bat. He's trying to work them away from most of the at bat with sinkers, four seamers does miss with a slider in the dirt, but then finally makes a mistake inside. It's a four seam fastball middle in and Ramirez turns on it there . So good job by Hosey. Again, Lefties love those inside pitches . Bellinger in the bottom of the six Bellinger is able to hit a sack fly and drive in Ben Rice to score, cut the lead from to four to three who would give up that run with that run get credited to run would get credited to Gevin Williams Tim Herring comes in and finishes off that sixth inning and then the bullpen once again is able to hold things down while their bullpen is not Tim Hill gives up a single to Reese Hoskins, drives in Jose Ramirez a score Manzardo stops at third, but that insurance run is huge , absolutely huge from Reese Hospins there because Cody Bellinger would hit a sac fly second sac fly of the game in the ninth inning this time to drive in Golden Schmidt to score cut cut the lead to five to four , but it did , you know, it did kind of a race cut the rally short there for the Yankee. So Goldschmidt had doubled to lead off the inning, but the Sac Fly by Bellinger Goldschmidt scores. I think he advanced advanced on a wild pitch or something like that. How did Goldschmid? I forget how he got up to third base , but But or did he just steal? Did he surprise him and steal? Let me double check the box score here for the Yankees No, no stolen bases. So I forget how he exactly advanced , but Bellinger brings him in a Sackfly but it clears the basis, right? So one out bass is cleared now. He can go back to Cade Smith can go back to doing what he does. He strikes out jazz and then gets Caballier to pop out to end the game and collect his I believe his twenty first save, yeah, it's twenty first save on the season for Kade Smith. So we're one series in June and he's already got another save under his belt . We'll see if he could put away another ten or nine more to go to stay on his sixty save pace for Rockade Smith . Definitely when we're looking at the All Star game, Cade Smith, you know he's going to be in there in the American League Bullpen. Yeah, he has been fantastic. So does give up a run here but doesn't kill the Guardians . So yeah, five to four win a little bit more of a nail bitter here, but still providing plenty of offense providing a power surge with three home runs. Ramirez with three more hits in this one and three more runs score d. So Ramirez is just lighting up the box score here . It was the RBIs on Tuesday. It's the run scored here. Although obviously drives in himself with a solo home run . It's the run scored here on Wednesday . Manzardo with a three hit game as well, including two doubles in a home run , big slugging percentage day for Manzardo . Reese Hkosins is the big RBI man with three RBIs driven in. He also had two hits and a walk. So yeah, big game from him and this one was really the middle of the lineup doing it and without Chase the Lotter too. kind They of kept skipping over Chase a lotter goes over for with two strikeouts, but you got nothing from Bazana . Martinez did have a double but it didn't turn into anything, but Quan goes over four, Bailey goes over for, Rocchi goeso over for and then Bazan at the top of the order goes over for. So it was really up to the middle of the order to do all the damage was kind of the same for the Yankees. They got nothing from their seven through nine and then their leadoff hitter Trent Grisham also gave him nothing. So very similar box score for the Yankees where it was the middle of their lineup doing all the heavy lifting Yeah, so we'll go to the player breakdown pages for Gavin Williams and Garrett Cole see which one was more effective. Gavin Williams was staying away from the four seam fastball in this one only through eight four seam fastballs, eight percent of his pitches were four seam fastballs on the day. Really did not want to get into it for a guy that averages a twenty five percent four seam fastball usually mixes it up there in his top pitches he only threw it eight times. So clearly something in the scouting reports that don't give the Yankees four seam fastballs went heavy on the curve and the sweeper. Those were his two most used pitches, twenty nine percent curveball, twenty eight percent sweeper, then the missing mixing in the two seamer a lot . twenty percent of his pitches were the two seamer. And he actually worked for six called strikes. He got a strikeout on every pitch, really mix it up . A strikeout on every pitch, including two on the curveball , got called strikes on every pitch got whiffs on every pitch but the heaviest was on the sweeper. Seven whiffs on sixteen swings. It's a forty four percent whiff rate on that pitch, a thirty three percent wiff rate total. Add in sixteen called strikes. It's a thirty three percent CSW on the day . He was much better on first pitch strikes than Cantillo was he goes sixty seven percent first pitch stri ke , the first time through the order, heavy on that curve , sweepers sinker combo and then starts to mix in the cutter and the forcing fastball the second time through the order . Average exit philosophy on the day was only eighty seven point one. They only put one of those sweepers in play . Phew. Yeah, good job by Gevin Williams in this one. Obviously it wasn't perfect. It does give up some solo home runs, but a pretty good start from Gavin Williams. Again, talking about all star games, Gavin Williams of Parker Messi definitely in the conversation for that American League starting rotation Garrett Cole did not get many whiffs on the day. He got three whiffs on his four seam fastball and that's it on the entire day. It's an eight percent whiff rate for Garrett Cole. Yeah, the average ex velocity often was eighty nine miles per hour So yeah , Garrico just could not get the swing and miss off the Cleveland Guardians like we've seen him do in the past . So big win there to take down Schlitler and Cole that's that's big right there wouldn't be able to do the same thing against Rodan Carlos Rodan was very good six innings pitch two hits, one earned run to Stuart Fairchild gets a sing e broken bat maybe single through the left side to drive in the only run . Three walks to seven strikeouts keeps the ball in the ballpark on ninety six pitches. He's only hard hit five times Slade Zakoni matched him though. Slade Zuconi was very good six innings pitched four hits, one and run, one walk, four strikeouts, keeps the ball in the ballpark on eighty two pitches. He's only hard hit four times. So Slade Zaconi was dealing in this one went heavy with the cutter curve combo in this one through the cutter the most on the day. We're used to seeing that four seam fastball the most, but again, the Scottish report probably said just don't throw them fastballs at all. And the cutter worked eight called strikes on it, had five whiffs on it , had four whiffs on the curve ball, forty four percent whiff rate on that pitch. Even mixed in a few sliders and got two whiffs on that. It's a twenty eight percent whiff rate total add in thirteen called strikes. It's a twenty nine percent CSW . He was eighty one percent first pitch strike. So he was attacking. He was being aggressive. Average excess velocity off and was only eighty three point three that's very good for Slate Zaconi. Man, let's if we could bottle this Slade Zaconi and and have it every five days, wouldn't you love to see that ? So great job out of Slade to get the job done there . So So like we said, Rodan was also very good while we're looking at the page . He had twelve calls strikes. He had a huge whiff rate on his four seam fastball got nine whiffs on the four seam fastball . Also had a bunch on the change up. It was a thir ty eight percent whiff rate for Rodan adding twelve called strikes that actually drops his CSW number down to thirty one percent . He was pretty aggressive, seventy percent first pitch strike. You hit him decently hard. You did hit four of those four seam fastballs for you know, ninety five plus mile per hour exit velocity. You just didn't have the hits to show for it. The perfect perfect example would be the Ramirez lineout to third base to McMahon at third base where McMahon doesn't even yeah, I think he wasn't he whisper I didn't see it or something like that. He hits it at a Ramirez hits it at one hundred ten point five miles per hour . It was hardest hit ball of the entire day, one hundred and ten miles per hour. It had a seven hundred and twenty expected batting average. He swung at seventy seven point three miles per hour , but it's just a lineup. It's just a lineout. I believe the next inning Trent Grisham would have line out to Ramirez at ninety nine point one miles per hour. His ball also had a seven hundred and eighty expected batting average, but it was right where Ramirez could reach it , stick his glove up and snag it. So yeah, some back to back lineouts at third base show you the exit velocity you know, there were some hard hit balls on the day but maybe some bad luck for the hitters in this finale. So yeah, the only rally I think I mean the only rally we really get there's a two out walk Fairildsh draws a two out walk in the second that be the only base runner for the first three innings Ramirez would get the hitting going in the fourth. He would single Reece Hoskins would walk after a bazana strikeout and Anjamartinez fly out. There comes Stewart Fairchild with his seeing eye single through the left side, driving in Ramirez a score . Quan would strike out in that at bat. Another challenge that doesn't go the guardian's way . They would answer back was single by Gold Schmidt . Bellinger would single , Jazz would hit a I think this is the one where they steal. I think this I know there was one where they stole where Goldschmidt like steals third base . I believe it's this game. Let's see here . Yeah, Goldschmidt and Bellinger pull off the double steel off of Saconian hedges . So they surprise them there . Then Jazz is able to hit a sack fly, but this is the one where Bellinger gets thrown out at third base. He overslides the bag . Quan makes a strong throw in, I believe it was Quan makes a strong throw in two third base. Ramirez gets it and stays with Bellinger doesn't you know is right on him as soon as he overslides the bag Ramirez is there to deliver the t ag and I guess Bellinger kind of did it to himself there. He just went in way too hot and overslides the bag. So they turn it into a sack fly double play . So it prevents it from getting any worse . But then where would they answer with their next run? Their next run would come in the seventh inning . But with the Guardians really even threaten after that I don't remember. They go one to three in the fifth , one out walk for Reese Hoskins in the sixth doesn't turn into anything , two out walk in the seventh for Austin Hedges doesn't turn into anything. Man, they go one two three,, in the eight h and one, two, three in the ninth. The Guardians are really , I don't know if they ran out of steam. I don't know if they were just cruising because they had already won the series and it was a getaway day or maybe the Yankees pitching just got that filthy , but yeah one rally chance really the entire day and both those hits come in that fourth inning . So yeah they your offense goes cold in the finale unfortunately . They do pull ahead in the seventh. It's a walk that would do it . It's a walk to Jazz Chisholm then McMahon would sing. I think he stole a base and then McMahon would single and drive him in the score ball to right field and Jazz comes in a score. So he pulls one through the right side and that would be it. That would be the difference in this one. So unfortunately your guardians bullpen finally is that the first run Cody Hewer out there in relief of Slay Zakoni in the seventh inning of a one game and he's going to Cody Hewer . Okay, interesting choice . But yeah, I believe okay Smith had given up the run in the ninth inning. Okay, so the Guardian's Bullpen does give up two runs in the entire series still pretty pretty good good. Still, still pretty good and that would be the finale here on Wednesday or on Thursday sorry in the finale on Thursday. So yeah, MVP on the series ? Oh, we got to go with Jose Ramirez right. Come on. It's between him and Kyle Manzardo and maybe a little Reece Hoskins mixed in there as well . But yeah, Ramirez three hits the three doubles on Tuesday . You got the three hits with the Solo home run on Wednesday and then look he does have the hit and scores the only run on Thursday as well. So for putting together a pretty solid week right there, Jose Ramirez taking home MVP on the series there was one managerial decision . I want to make sure I call out . I think it was it off was it the first game? Yeah, it was the first game I think it was off once they went to the bullpen yeah Heedrick I think Brent Heedrick is the lefty, right? Yeah, they had brought in a lefty to face man Zardo and he didn't pinch hit Reese Hoskins, he didn't pinch hit David Fry and I know Manzardo had already homeered in the game, but it was the, you know, you know, it was the right field in Yankee stadium home run. The one that barely made it over So I know Manzardo has two hits in the game and drives in two runs, but it was a situation where the Guardians had a chance to really blow this thing wide open in the fifth inning. They do blow it open later in the game, but they had a chance to blow it open in the fifth inning and he doesn't go to the pinch hitter. He doesn't bring in a right hand er to face the lefty out of the bullpen . Maybe it was a situation where he knew they just didn't have that many Lefties available. So Manzarda would get a chance to hit off a righty later in the game , but it just felt like an opportunity to go to one of your right handed hitters off the bench right there and Manzardo ends up striking out against Heedric Heedric and inning it two thirds struck out for Guardians hitter. So he he was in the zone , but yeah, I was surprised he didn't pitch hit for Manzardo there. So yeah, so that's your MVP sorry. Anyways, MVP on the series is easily Hoser Ameras like we said, he destroys in Yankee Stadium. All right, let's go to the email inbox and then we'll take a look maybe at those all star game numbers or maybe we'll save that for later in June . Bobby T. is checking it different than Bob and Highland Heights. This is Bobby T. He says, Hi Davy. All of the press and speculations around Aaron Judge's injury causing him to miss the Guardians series overlooks another Yankee who is noticeably missing. I've always felt that Giancarlo Stanton did more damage offensively against the Guardians than Aaron Judge. What's your feeling and what do the stats for the last few seasons say I feel you on this one Bob because yeah, Judge has been a problem for the Guardians throughout his career , but honestly he's been a problem for other teams more. Now one thing I don't know is if these career splits include playoff numbers or if these are just regular season numbers . So yeah, we're going to have to kind of put an asterisk there unless I can confirm that . But judge against the Guardians, look, he's been very good. He hits two hundred and eighty nine. He's at ten home runs on base percentage of four hundred eighteen slugs five hundred ninety seven it's a ten fifteen OPS , which sounds like oh he kills the guardian it's ten fifteen oh career OPS against the Guardians but then you, look at his career OP and it actually is like bottom half of the teams that Aaron Judge has faced in his career. He's got a fifteen seventy seven OPS against the Dodgers. He's got a fourteen fifty two OPS against the Chicago White Sox. So there's other teams that he's definitely punished. He's got fifty three home runs against the Baltimore Orioles alone . In all of Interlague play, he's got eighty six home runs. He's got fifty three alone against the Baltimore Orioles . So yeah, so over a thousand OPS sounds bad until you realize no judge just does this to everybody Jan Carlos Stanton, you're going to be shocked on this one and the Guardian's pitching. I know he has some big playoff home runs against us Stanton does but Guardian's pitching has actually f ared okay against Giancarlo Stanton. He's only batting two hundred seven against us. He does slug four five but it's only a six hundred seventy five OPS of all the teams of majorag Luee baseball were actually he does the third, I don't know, we were third best against them or he does third worst against us however you kind of want to phrase it, but he struggles against the Tigers six hundred eighteen o PS str,uggles against the Milwaukee Brewer, six hundred and fifty nine OPS, and then a six hundred and seventy five OPS against the Guardians . This one's kind of fun Stanton because he spent half his career in the National League. So you do you don't get these things where it's like, well, he's only played four games against them kind of thing or eight games against them. He's got true numbers against pretty much everybody in the league. Plenty of bats against everybody in the league. And so yeah, the Guardians actually are very against Giancarlos Stanton . Home runs, he's got seven home runs off us, but again, that's the bottom half of the league for his career . So yeah, so Judge being out of lineup definitely could have affected this series though. You're right, Bobby T. So thank you for the email . I think they definitely missed Judge More to answer your question . Yeah, they definitely def theyin'iterely miss ing their captain who's gonna be out for six weeks. It's not they thought it was a arm thing, a shoulder thing. It's actually a rib thing, a broken rib or something like that . So Judge is going to be out for a while. So we're not going to see him next week either . Skip got in Skip from Columbus says hi Davy. I was at Yankee Stadium for games two and three. I was surprised by the many good food options in the stadium and by the down friendliness of the Yankees fans sitting around us. Oh , what is happening Yankee Stadium? Are you losing your reputation here? That's actually really nice to hear Skip. It's really nice to hear. Most people are decent people, right? There's always a few wild ones out there that kind of ruined the reputation for fans. But let's be honest, most fans at most ballparks are this there to enjoy a baseball game. He says W Saschlitler's pitching not as good as usual or were the guardian somehow able to hit and score off him despite his great performance? I would ask the same question about Cole, but the announcer said we took advantage of his mistakes. Did we just luck out and catch Schlitler andz Cole on bad nights. Yeah , yeah, we did. I think we did luck out and catch them on bad nights. We'll see if we face them again this series this upcoming series , but yeah Schlitler did find a few pitches in the middle of the play, Cove found a few pitches that fell in the middle of the plate. They made a few mistakes inside to left handed hitters and they paid for it. Like look, both of Manzardo's home runs were pitches out of the strike zone , but they were both inside pitches . So yeah, they weren't able to stay away from Manzardo and he makes them pay there in Yankee Stadium. Boy, if this series is what unlocks Cal Manzardo , that would be great. That would be fantastic . So yeah, so I think I think it's a combination. I think they made some mistakes and the guardians were there to take advantage of them. So thank you for the email skip and gl Iad'm you got to go to the game. I knew we were going to hear from Dan in the Bronx so I was waiting for his email our resident New Yorker here on the podcast he said hey Davy went to all three games and enjoyed a relatively quiet stadium with a smattering of Cleveland fans as the Guardians took the series . Even in game three, despite only one run on two hits, they were in it until the final out, the definition of you can't win them all. Of all the positives you'll talk about it, the bullpen effort gets my vote for a series MVP . Two runs in ten and two thirds innings pitched, hard to beat that. Yeah, Dan, if Jose Ramirez hadn't been so good across all three games, the bullpen definitely put up a good showing, so I understand them getting your vote for a series MVP, even though the official stance of the podcast is Joser Merez is MVP on the series , but I like that Dan gets in there with a vote for the bullpen. I'm glad you're glad you had a good time going to your home stadium, your local stadium there and cheering on your favorite team, the Cleveland Guardians. So you're doing a great job out there for us in New York, Dan. Thank you . And Andrew gets in Andrew from North Canton. He says, Hi, Davy. I mean, I have to write in after this one, right? After a rough series with Boston, we go into New York against some of the best pitchers in baseball. I'm he's emphasizing those words. That's not me. That's that's Andrew's inflection on it Take the series. I knew we would have loved to get that sweep. I really did. I wanted that sweep. I'm not going to lie, Andrew. He said, But let's not get greedy. That was a huge bounce back series win after how we played against Boston. Hosey has my vote for MVP on the series going seven for thirteen with three doubles in home run, Manzardo also had a great series, but we know that when hosey heats up, the rest of the team seems to follow and I'm impressed with how our bats showed up against this incredible pitching staff on the road after a rough series. And speaking of the road, I'm going to jump into the middle of Andrew's email here because we do have this little gem to throw in there. The Guardians have been a pretty good road team. They got a winning record at home . Don't me wrong, seventeen and fourteen at home . They're nineteen and fourteen on the road . That is hard to do. Like look at the white socks who are chasing us. They're twenty and eleven at home. They're playing great in Chicago, but they're only thirteen and eighteen on the road. We're also doing good against teams over five hundred. We're fifteen and thirteen against teams over five hundred , which there aren't that many in the American League to choose from. So yeah, so the Guardians maintain a two game lead on the American League Central after this series . The second best record in the sorry, the third best record because technically the Yankees, even though they'd be a wild card team, have the second best record so the third best record in the American League but obviously a long way to go on that but just it's nice to see how well we've been playing on the road . He says a quick note on the lockout discussion from last episode, one of the radio guys here in the Canton area, Kenny Roda, another road man, had a very interesting thought recently . He believes the Dolans know the salary floor is coming and that they plan to sell the team once that happens since they don't like to spend money . So the theory is even though we can build an amazing team around Jose in this era, they haven't spent much because they know they're going to sell after the lockout and salary floor anyways . I don't love or hate the Dolans, but this theory makes a lot of sense to me. If they are forced to spend one hundred and seventy million all of a sudden, they will sell. In my mind, this would be great for Cleveland Baseball. Let's get some one in here who will spend money and invest in this team. And while we have Hosey and some great young players here to build around, can you imagine our club with one hundred seventy million payroll? I say let that floor come in and let the dolins sell. What are your thoughts? Thanks for the pod Andrew North Canton. I'm all for the salary floor thing. Honestly, the offer that the owners made, I don't I don't see why we have to have a lockout next year. Like I think you could work with the offer that the owners made. I think we definitely need the salary floor . We got to get these you know, that will help the Reese Hoskins of the world, right? The middle of the road free agents, the veteran free agents , and it'll help the young players like the Bazanas and Chase the Lauders getting paid early in their careers they're playing great baseball and deserve to get paid early in their careers. Like look at Rhys Hoskins probably didn't get paid that much when he was red hot in Philly and now late in his career when he's cooled off a little bit he still can't get paid, right? So he's kind of in a lose lose situation there, even though I know he's a major league baseball player getting paid millions of dollars. He's not losing anything . But yeah, the floor like how would how could they have got to one hundred seventy million dollars floor this year? Yes, you could think okay, they could have done a contract extension for a Quan a few years ago . Not right now you don't want to give one to Quan but a few years ago, but Bazana they, easily could have given him the kind of contract that Emerson got the short stop got in Seattle or some of these other young guys have gone before they even made their major league debut. Didn't pirates do that with somebody . So that gets you closer to one hundred and seventy million. I chase a lot or two , but then like, you know, maybe Slade Zakoni is pitching out of the bullpen and you actually go out and get like a high price starting pitcher , you know, you instead of the pitching depth concerns we have right now, what if, you know, Suconi and Cantillo were pitching out of the bullpen and you had two high priced starters that you added to the rotation with Gavin Williams by Bean Parker Messic, like how would this team look with that kind of combination so yeah , so it'd be interesting to see how they would get to one hundred seventy million we.' Butll see. I agree . Yeah, I don't think the Dullens really want to do any part of that because they've never , never spent really that much . I mean, maybe when they first inherited the team in the nineties , but they've really never spent that much on their own . So we'll see, we'll see if this sale is coming. The official sale to Blitzer happens. And don't forget Travis Kelsey too . And then Bob from High land Heights finish the things up. He says, remember the meatloaf song two out of three ain't bad. Well, Philly and New York , but then that's what Boston and Washington could say. Bottom line, we split with four very good teams. I guess he's adding the last four series all together . And yeah, we split with all those teams. Yes, we need offense. If you could realistically add one player, what position would it be? I suggest left field . Yeah , Martinez is cooling off , Schneimen is cooling off, Qualon is stayed kind of cold . Even though dropping to seventh in the order has helped him out a little bit. So yes, I think the outfield is the spot . You still think man zardo and Rhys Hoskins and David Fry you can you can get enough out of first base . I would I would attack the outfield whether it's a center fielder or a left fielder that's where I would be adding and I would also maybe even consider adding a starting pitcher if we're really looking at like if we're saying like trade deadline, what are we going after? Maybe even a starting pitcher too . My and you can never have enough relief pitching .'s That a given, right? You don't even have to talk about that. That is a given any trade deadline, any offseason, any trade deadline . So yeah, he said my position has been that the twenty twenty six payroll question will not be answered until the trade deadline. By then the team prospects developed status for twenty twenty six will be answered. If a player is still needed, what is done will answer the question. Sakone pitched well today. He must. There is zero starting pitching death. Summer should be fun , Bob from Highland Heights . And he says we need Sabrowski to get healthy and we need Alamon or some other quality arm in the pen. Yeah, I'm I'm surprised Alaman is not back up here. I don't know what they're waiting for. All right, that is everything from the email inbox. And you know what? I think we're going to wrap this episode up right here. We'll save