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And I want to talk about the actual game on the field, the thing I enjoy watching baseball being played and wow, I mean you tried to get into a Sunday finale and they were up six nothing after the first three innings and I mean they really unload on Joey Cantilo and the Guardians. Nobody could stop them from scoring. Well Dian couldn't stop them from scoring even Austin Hedges gives up two runs in in the the eighth bottom of the eighth inning . So yeah, Texas is offense came to play and the Guardians weird, weird series for the Guardians because on Friday night , you get the top and the bottom of the order locked in. You get a three hit game for Bazana, you get a two hit game from Quan two hit game from Austin Hedges , but you get ice cold in the middle of the lineup and the Rangers are able to sneak out a three to two win . They jump Parker Messic who was pitching a very good game. They jump him for two home runs in the bottom of the sixth inning, a solo home run then a two run home run and suddenly they flip a two nothing game into a three to game and the Ardians offense has no answer for that. I mean Ramirez over for it a lot are over four, both of them with two strikeouts . The Lauder at least had two hard hit balls on the day . Manzardo Fry Combo Go over four. Res kins over three with a walk of course getting a walk in there Schneimen over three and yeah and oh Stuart Fairchild did pinch hit and draw a walk for him so yeah so you're two through six hitters nothing g,iving you nothing . And Bazana's having the game of his life in the lead off spot. He's a double away from the cycle and there's nobody behind him to do anything with it, to drive him in to do anything . He's even stealing bases , I believe in this one. So he's doing everything he can to get where he needs to be. I mean, a lead off triple to start an inning and you can't get that guy home with with Ramirez de Lauder Emanzardo behind that you can't get that guy in the score. That's unacceptable . That is literally unacceptable . So yeah, the Guardian's offense definitely had their struggles in this one. We will get into all the details a little quiet in the email inbox , so we'll see what we come up with there. We did talk about I'm still not ready to like dive completely into numbers because I feel like there's so much more to go. It's like the first week of voting for the All Star Game . But I did see an articlele Bacher Report did their like, I think it was Bleacher Report. They're like one month ago all Stargame predictions and they did have Bazana in there as the backup second basement. I think they had Ernie Clement and Jazz Chisholm making the All Star Game with Bazanna with Jazz they had in the starting lineup. They thought the New York vote might get them in there . But they definitely respected Bazana's game and had them in there and look, he's got the best OPS on the team. He is leading the way offensively for sure and showing it in the first game this series with the lead off Homer, the triple and a single and a stolen base to boot. So they had him in there and then they had a trio of pitchers in there. They did have Gevin Williams and Parker Messik making the roster and then they had Kate Smith in there in the in the one of the few closers to make the roster. So that was their early predictions. Four Guardians would make the All Star Game, three pitchers and Travis Bazana. And it's it's hard to argue with that. That seems where it should be right now. I like I said, the only other one who could maybe make an argument is Brian Rocchio because frankly the short stop market is not what it used to be, you know, in the American League. So the competition isn't as stiff. I mean, look at a guy like Cory Seager who's, you know, I'm sure Corey Seger's been an all star before, right? He's hitting one hundred and eighty one. Well, what does he leave the series with because he does Homer at some point . He had Sunday off . So after Saturday's game , he leaves the series betting one hundred eighty three with a six hundred and fifty OPS. Corey Sieger, that's one of your stars at Shortstop and not making the All Star Game batting under two hundred sorry, no matter no matter how much fans stuff the ballot box, you should not make an all star game batting under two hundred . So yeah, I mean Brocchio, there is a path for him. There definitely is a path for him to make it this year . So we'll see. We'll see. We'll keep we'll keep an eye on that. We'll see where it goes Okay , so yeah , this finale here ten nothing. We're kind of work our way backwards through the series ten nothing. Let's just get this out of the way. This game sucked this absolutely sucked. The only thing you did good in this game is you won a lot of ABS challenges. Other than that, there is nothing to smile about in this game. Quan does have a two hig game . And actually seven spot in the lineup because Fry came comes in and pinch hits and has a double . So that seven spot in the lineup goes three for four, but not nobody else around it. Nobody else is driving and runs B.azana gets goes cold later in the series . He goes over three with a walk. Ramirez is over four with two strikeouts. Ramirez had a pretty rough series. He did have the solo home run and that was it the solo home run was it for Ramirez the whole series. So he had a rough series Deloter goes one for four, Manzardo's over for four, Schneimen's over for four . Anja Martinez is one for four with a single two strikeouts. So yeah, Guardians offense didn't bring much. Jacob de Gromm was very good. Six innings pitch, three hits, no one runs, two walks, six strikeouts, keeps them on the ballpark on eighty seven pitches. He's only hard hit twice . And they mentioned on the broadcast . They mentioned that he's using his change up more than usual. And I think Chris Jimenez said it almost like surprise. Like it wasn't that much more. He's fifteen percent change up on the year. He was twenty one percent change up in this game. He used the slider less. He was thirty five percent slider on the year. He was down at twenty nine percent slider , fastball and curveball stayed the same . And it worked. He had six whiffs on twelve swings, fifty percent wiff rate on that changeup. He got three strikeouts via the changeup. The other three came on sliders . So yeah, why was he going to the change up so much? Like Chris Chris Hemman has sounded almost surprised by this . I'm not because guess what? Jumping over to Fangrafts here. It's it's actually the stack cast data pulled over to Fangrab pulled through Fangrafts here . I could look by team and break it down their weighted run value based on every kind of pitch thrown in baseball today. And then they do this thing where they average it per one hundred pitches. So it kind of evens the playing field. Like if one team is seen, you know , five hundred fastballs and another team has only seen three hundred fastballs, kind of hard to analyze that data. But if you balance it per one hundred pitches, it kind of evens the playing field and guess what? Looking at change ups, guess who is the worst team by a wide margin in all of baseball against changeups? That would be your Cleveland Guardians. So you wonder why DeGram started throwing more change ups suddenly against the Cleveland Guardians? There's no mystery there. That's what the Scouting Report tells you to do. Go after these guys with change it's a negative one point six six run value weighted run value against the change up . Negative one six the next worst team Colorado and the LA Angels and the Chicago Cubs are at negative one point one one . So yeah, I mean you're significantly worse than the rest of the league when it comes to facing change ups . Now it's not all bad. Curve balls you do pretty good. You're top five in all a baseball with a plus one point zero eight against curveballs. Sliders your seventh in the league with a positive just above zero, zero point one five, but still seventh in the league against sliders fastballs you do tend to struggle a little bit against two seam sinkers you're twenty second . You're better against four seam fastballs your thirteenth and all of baseball. A negative number negative zero point zero six, but thirteenth and all of baseball. If we're going to rank these things and cutters you struggle with as well. Cutters your sixteenth, middle of the pack, middle pack you actually have a positive number on cutters, but you're still middle of the pack for cutters. So there's a few other random pitches like a knuckle curve and stuff like that, but we're not going to get into every pitch. But so yeah, so the guardians struggle pretty bad against changeups. But what I mean, let's look at the individual players here. Is it everybody is anybody doing good against changeups? Can anybody handle the change up? I got us change the qualify change the minimum innings. Let's say forty at bats. Make sure we get like Patrick Bailey here and stuff like that So against change ups, yeah, Austin hedges . Austin Hedges is the only one keeping you afloat against changeups. He is rocking changeups with a plus one point three weighted run value per one hundred changeups . The only other positive number . The only other player with a positive number was Bo Naylor . Obviously not here anymore. He's actually down at he's back at AAA now. He's playing at AA . Bow is . I know he went out to Arizona for a little bit . Did we mention Stuart Fairchild got sir? Payton Polette, did we mention Payton Polette got returned back to the White Sox ? The passed through waivers and they had to return him back to the White Sox? I just I wanted to mention that before I forgot it, and I don't know if we mentioned it yet in the last few episodes. So I told you we'd follow up on the Payton Polette thing. Just while we're talking about guys that have been sent down to the miners with Bo Naylor , that's what happened to Payton Polette. So he's back with the White Sox. Ramirez is negative zero point two two on change ups. Bazana is negative zero point seven one. It keeps going. Everybody else is a negative number. Patrick Bailey is terrible negative five point three. We're not going to worry too much about that. Quan is terrible at changeups. Negative three point five six weighted run value per one hundred changeups. Fry is bad at it, man. They're all bad. They're all negative numbers. They're all terrible at it. So Austin Hedges is the only one who can handle the change up . So you wonder why the ground went to it so much, that's why. So he dominates us. Canilo gets rocked five innings pitch they make them stay out there and just keep firing for five innings no matter what was happening nine hits, seven strikeouts, two walks or sorry nine hits , seven runs, seven earned runs, two walks, seven strikeouts, three home runs given up on ninety seven pitches. He's hard hit only six times , but three of them went for home runs. So there you go. That's a bit of a problem there. I mean, they jump him in the first inning yeah, two run home run by Justin Fosku at one hundred six point five off the bat then come back around second time through the order and they're hammering again Josh Young with a home run Nimo with a double then we got a couple doubles in the inning from Nimo a walk to F ascu and then Duran with a double. Berger is able to single . So they drive in a bunch of runs in that third inning and cantilo struggles especially in third innings. Like if you look at his splits by inning , first inning, it's a three point two one ERA, second inning, it's a three point two one ERA as well . He has given up three home runs in the first inning, second inning, only one home run given up so far in the season , but things get really bad in the third inning. six point nine two ERA in the third inning , fourth and fifth innings are also five on the ERA He's given a four home runs in that third inning . What is the third inning usually? It's usually the lineup turning over for third and fourth inning you',re probably seeing the top of the lineup again and he's getting rocked, absolutely rocked when that lineup turns over when he's seeing guys the second time through the lineup. And that's exactly what happens in this game . So yeah, Kantelo is oh if we also looked by month it was a really good April record is one in one with a two point seven ear, eh? Uh does give up four home runs in the month, but ten walks to twenty nine strikeouts. That's a winning combination right there. Ten walks to twenty nine strikeouts. The one point two four whip In May he does go three and one , but the ERA jumps to four point two. Three, this is why don't look at record, right? Don't always look at record. It's a lie. It's a mirage. You don't know what the team was doing around that pitcher. You got to look at the pitcher's numbers. So his ERA jumps from two point seven to four point two three in May . One extra start six starts in May to five in April . Suddenly the walks are creeping back up. He's at eighteen walks and eighteen strikeouts. He does keep the home runs down, only three home runs given up . He only gives up one more actual run way more earned runs . So he gave a ton of unearned runs in April. Five runs in sorry, four hundred runs in April . No more unearned runs since the whip jumps from one point two four to one point four eight. Now obviously getting rocked in two starts now in June . After getting rocked for ten runs and his other start in June he'd only given up one run. So after getting rocked by the Rangers yesterday , his ERA is at eleven for the month of June. His whip is two point two . He's already given up four home runs in the month of June. He had given up only three in May and only four in April. So that's a problem. The ball leaving the ballpark. It's actually not the walks. He's got the walks to strikeout ratio back to where it needs to be five walks and eleven strikeouts. Maybe a little high , but if you keep up that pace for the rest of the month, it's going to look a lot better than May did . But But LeBall leaving the ballpark is the problem right now in June . So we'll see how things continue for Joey Cantilo. It's they still got him for a pitching run value. They let's see where he's at right now. Now he's at a min us ten right now. He's six percentile for all pitchers in run value and his fastball is one of the worst in the league at a minus twelve run value. He's second percentile in all of the league. His change up is keeping him alive. It's plus two. It's the seventy ninth percentile there were things he was doing good last year that he's just not excelling at this year . Last year wiff rate was the eightieth percentile, it's fallen to sixty second. His strikeout percentage last year was seventy ninth percentile . It's fallen to forty fifth . Let's see, what else was good in twenty twenty five? The barrel percentage. He was only in the sixty eighth percentile barrel percentage. Now he's falling to the twenty seventh percentile. Now the numbers only move a little bit. Remember percentile ranking means compared to the rest of the league, but you can still see where like he was doing things good last year and they are starting to fall this year. So we thought cantillo was had turned a corner as a starter and he's definitely falling on hard times here the first half of the season . They're probably still going to lean on him to be a starter 's no depth behind them so they're going to lean on him to be a starter him and Sakoni are the two candidates where if you're like , hey, let's go get a starter at the trade deadline. Okay, which one of these guys is moving to the bullpen? It's a conversation between Canillo and Sacone . So we'll see what happens there. All right. That's enough about this ten, nothing drumming . Let's talk about the other loss in the series and then we'll finish on a high note with the with the win, which you know should be the top storyline of this series right here, but we'll save it. It'll be our dessert of this somewhat painful episode, right? We're well suffer suffer through a rough dinner to get to our dessert in this one. So the Guardians look good to start on Friday night Bazana with the lead off home run to get things going. He gets himself into a hitter's count. Let's go to the matchup here against Cumer Rocker and Rocker starts him out with a high sinker for a ball, comes way inside with a slider. So now he's sitting pretty and he gets a two seam sinker right down the middle. And he hammers it ninety nine point one . He jumps this thing, twenty eight degree launch angle three hundred and eighty five feet would have been a home run in thirty out of thirty ballparks seventy six point nine swing speed. So Bazana jumps them for a first inning home run nice. Guardians are on the board one. Nothing. Bazanna is in this game cements himself as like, yeah, this guy, this guy's all star material. Like this guy has found it . He has of all the rookies , Nick Kurts and JJ Weatherholt and Connor Griffin and Pittsburgh, like all the rookies from this, what was it the twenty twenty five class he's Bazana is he's up there with them. He is holding his own and like he might legitimately stake his claim, you know as one as a one one draft pick one of one the top overall pick. He 's cooking right now. So yeah, the solo home run Parker Messik is great. Doesn't give up the first hit until I believe the fourth inning when Josh Young finally singles and then Nimo pops out to end the fourth inning . So the guardians would score again in the fourth , but they would waste an opportunity in the third Bazana would single. He would steal a base, but Ramirez would strike out. A lotter would line out at one hundred ten point eight miles per hour. So put a good swing on it and then Menzardo would pop out to end the threat. So they stranded Bazana out there . They do get things going with two outs in the fourth inning. Steven Kuan with a double and then Austin Hedges is able to drive him in . So nice to see Quan doing okay in the seventh spot in the lineup . He was gone for a few days on that bereavement list, but over his let's see here, over his last thirty games, it's only a two hundred eighteen batting average. It's just under a six hundred OPS. Over his last fifteen games, it's up to a two hundred and eighty six batting average and over a six hundred , a six fifty almost six hundred sixty OPS . No, exactly a six hundred sixty OPS . And then over his last seven games is up to a three hundred and twenty btingat average with a six hundred and eighty OPS . So yeah, the on base percentage has been okay . Well, not in the last seven games, but he has been drawing walks well over the last thirty games. twenty walks over his last thirty games, four walks over his last fifteen games, no walks over his last seven, but he's been hitting. He's got eight hits and twenty five at bats over his last seven games so he's being productive and no RBI is actually he's not driving in runs but he is at least scoring some runs and here he gets a two out rally going right here with Austin Hedges and Hedges is able to single them in so and Hedges I think, jumped the first pitch fastball to single them in . So a nice little combo there for two runs. So with the way Parker Messics pitching, you're thinking like this is great. Like we are we are absolutely cooking here, you know, not cooking. We're not cooking. Parker Messik is cooking. We've given him two runs like is this going to be one of those classic Guardians games where like the pitching we do just enough offensively but the pitching is going to win it for us and then the third inning just sneaks up on him . He 's sorry, what inning did I say the sixth inning sneaks up on him leadoff home run from Kyle and Goshi oka, one hundred six point five off the bat, thirty three degree launching a four hundred and twenty eight feet. He destroyed that thing, thirty out of thirty ballparks. He then gets helmin to pop out. Maybe he can get out of it, no wire at Laneford doubles at one hundred and three point eight and then to Corey Seger making his return to the lineup one hundred and five point one off the bat. twenty eight degree launch angle three hundred ninety nine feet would have been a home run thirty out of thirty ballpark s. So what went wrong for Parker Messik in this one? Let's go to the matchups. Let's see if we could find the sixth inning here . Mesic against Agashioka works account s he's up two in the count after a fastball on the outside edge that Gascioka probably wish he could have challenged a change up at the bottom of the strike zone, foul tips. He just wasn't close on the next three p itches. He throws them another changeup that he misses high and away with so maybe he loses the grip on that one. Throws him another chain curveball after that . Oh, sorry, another changeup s orry the third pitch in the abat was a change up in the dirt doesn't chase. Then he pitches one high in a way that he doesn't go after that one maybe he loses the grip on probably doesn't want to throw I don't know.' Dton throw any change ups high above the st rike zone. Then he tries to go curveball, change it up a little bit, but still change up the look a little bit, but still keeping it below the strike zone. Again, buries it in the dirt. So really three non competitive pitches. Now he's got himself in a full count. Now he's got to come back in the strike zone and he puts it right down the middle puts a sinker right down the middle. So we did it to himself. He had him he had the count in his favor, he had him in a situation and he did it to himself . The double to Langford is a chain curveball sorry curveball that catches too much of the plate . Doesn't probably want to drop this one below the strike zone but catches too much of the plate down the middle and he doubles it on a line drive in a left field and then Corey Seagers home run first pitch slider lefty onf Ltye matchup first, pitch slider is on the outer half of the plate. It's not a bad pitch for the first pitch they had bat but Seger rides it the other way to left center field at one hundred five point one. So you know, they talked a lot about how the ballpark in the globe life fields just the ball doesn't carry out there. Maybe right field is the best place to hit a home run , but yeah, they the Rangers had no problem hitting home runs the left field in this one. So I don't know. Maybe maybe as the summer's heating up so is Global Life Ballpark? I don't know . Or maybe the Rangers just haven't had a lot of luck hitting balls of left field . That be it. That'd be enough to hold up and the Guardians again would waste an opportunity with a lead off triple in the fifth inning . So after they had made it two nothing in the fourth, they could have made it three, nothing in the fifth. All somebody had to do was hit a sack fly, hit a grounder to the right side . Bazana triple. They had pulled it down the right field line. It got caught up on the wall there where the wall juts out and never ricocheted back into the field. It just kind of stuck there. So he rocketed one at ninety seven point seven and earned a leadoff triple out of it. Ramirez would pop up behind third base in foul territory, Chase a lotter would strike out below the strike zone and manzardo would fly out to end the threats. So a triple and that was really was that the last good threat from the Cleveland Guardians it might have been the last base runner from the Cleveland Guardians. Yeah, until they get something going in the ninth inning , one out walk to a Fairchild, Martinez would fly out, Austin hedges with a single bring up Rochio with a chance and runners on, but he would strike out to end the game. So the Guardians had a chance in this one. It just could not get it done. Messi ah man, it's tough it's a tough loss for Parker Messi who moves a six and two now on the season. Five and two thirds, five hits, three earned runs, one walk to four strikeouts, but the two home runs on eighty five pitches. They do hard hit them seven times. Rocker on the other side , five in six pitched, six hits, two earned runs , one walk to five strikeouts, only gives up the solo home run on ninety four pitches, he's hard hit six times. So Parker Messikh they kind of he kind of wins the duel Rocker, Cumber Rocker wins the duel against Park er Messik . What was working for Mesic on this one was change up? His change up was very good. Seven whiffs on thirteen swings , two of the strikeouts came change up, two of the strikeouts came fastball. twenty nine percent wiff rate total in the day add in thirteen called Strikes, it's a twenty nine percent CSW . And yeah, they were hitting well they were kind of spreading the hard hit balls out amongst all his pitches fifty two percent first pitch strike . All right. What was Kuma Raker doing while we're looking at it, going heavy on the slider ? Doesn't throw throws a change up but only threw it five times. So probably not a pitch he feels very comfortable with. The slider got him five whiffs. It wasn't a high riff rate, only twenty percent riff rate, eleven called strikes , twenty one percent CSW , but three strikeouts come via the slider . So that one was working for him. When he needed it, when he needed to strike out, the slider was there. And yeah, average excevelosity often was only eighty four point eight . All right , so there we go. That was Friday's game, a tough loss , a real tough loss because the Guardians had opportunities early in the game and they could not get it done. Like we said, the middle of the lineup just a bunch of Ofers from the second spot down to the sixth. Sylvia's Snerygyect Eff brought to you by Synergy Home Care. Getting back in the kitchen got mom back into life. After her stroke, she felt uncomfortable doing what she used to do. But with her synergy caregiver Emma, things changed. She got help at home and regained the confidence to get back to her old recipes. Now the hardest thing is getting mom to stop making her biscuits . So good. 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Manzardo goes one for three , but he's also got a bunch of walks. He has a double. He's driving in a run. He's scoring a run. Schneimen goes to for five. He's driving in a run. So suddenly yeah, when the when the two the heart of your lineup is delivering, suddenly it's pretty easy to win . And it helps when your I'm not gonna say ace, but your opening day starter Tanner Baby goes out there and gives you eight shutout innox, eight inches, three hits, no one runs, two walks, three strikeouts, keeps the ball in the ballpark on only eighty seven pitches. Could he have finished the game? Maybe everyone kind of felt like he was going to, and then he doesn't. He has hard hit nine times . So I guess the top storyline in this one is Tanner by finally gets a win and Hamilton had a good point this got used on the on the condensed game. So you know, every now and then I get to hear some of the Hamilton comments on when they put the Can's game together on the MOB app . Look we may not need to look at wins and losses anymore as fans as baseball journalists and podcasters and fans , we might not need the win loss stat anymore for pitchers. Quality starts might be more important, right than wins , but for pitch a er, for a player to look up on the scoreboard and see zero and seven next to your name in as your record, like that sucks, that sucks. You want to see some wins next to your name. Like I know it's a stat that's not that important anymore, but it's probably important to Tanner Bye. Okay, so let's not discount that. So that was a very good thought from Hamilton there because I know we could be really dismissive of wins in the modern age of baseball . Bye did get back to a little bit more of the Tanner Bobby slash that we've talked about before where it's high and tight to the left side of the plate and then down and away to the right side of the plate . He did hit all four quadrants , but just not still kind of sticking to that slash that Tannerabi slash, but it worked for him. Let's go to his player breakdown page. He was going heavy with the sinker in the cutter, barely used the four seam fastball , barely used it. Really heavy on sinker cutter and then mixing in some change up some, curves, some sw eepers . He got decent whiffs on basically the cutter and not much else. It was only a seventeen percent whiff rate. eighteen called strikes mostly on the Sinker Cutter combo . It's a twenty eight percent CSW . Let's see here average exec loss and often was a ninety point six. So when they were putting in play they were hitting him kind of hard . three Hit hard b hallits off the sinker, three hard hit balls off the cutter . He was fifty six percent first pitch strike . The first time through the lineup, he was going heavy with the cutter forty one percent at a time. Then he'd kind of moved in more of the sinker change up combo and then kind of kept that through the third time through the order . Yeah. There's nothing too spectacular here. He was just keeping them off b alance. He was just doing a good job of getting them to hit it to his guys . As far as groundball outs versus flyball outs, let's see, was he keeping it more on the ground or were they getting it up in the air he was eight ground outs to six flyouts. So maybe a little bit more on the ground. There were some double plays turned in there . But yeah, he just the numbers aren't any there's no one number that's spectacular in the start. He just went out there and pitched and got the win so yeah count breakdown he not necessarily great with the first pitch strike , but if he missed one and zero, he was coming back and staying pretty much in command in pitchers counts for the most part. Only two guys made it to two and so a decent amount make it to one and nobody only two guys make it two and nobody makes it to three and only two guys make it to a three one count. So he was really you know one counts one two counts getting short innings too, like innings where he used very few pitches . That was helping too. So being efficient, maybe they were just being too aggressive . The first inning, it's a it's a six pitch inning in the first second inning is only eleven pitches , third inning is ten pitches, fourth inning. He does have to work in the fourth, eighteen pitches in the fourth , sixteen pitches in the fifth, but then he starts to get more efficient six inning seven pitches, seventh inning thirteen pitches, eighth inning only six pitches to get through that inning . So he had some very efficient innings there. Yeah, three at bad. Three balls put in play on six pitch es gets three outs. Boom, done out of the inning . So that's why people thought he might go back out there for the ninth because he only used six pitches in the eighth . But I don't know, whatever was a feeling vote had just , you know, you don't want too much of a good thing and just, you know, take, take the win. Take the win, you know, have a have a stat line that you can smile about and be proud of and let's let's just let one of the bullpen guys go in there and clean up a six nothing game . It was six nothing because the Guardians offense really unloads in the fifth inning They do get the scoring going with solo home run in the fourth from Jose Ramirez . He gets his at ninety eight mile per hour Xobaci, twenty seven degree launch angle three hundred and eighty nine feet would have been a home run in eighteen out of thirty ballparks progressive field. Yes . Yeah, kind of there was a weird cutout point where the home run offense kind of comes back out onto the field a little bit and that's exactly where Ramirez put the ball out. Although I think it still would have been a home run even if it was to the right a little bit where the wall is a little deeper. It looked like it would have carried there too sixty six point one milepower swing speed. I mean really easy swing for Ramirez and just barreled it up, hit the sweet spot of the bat I guess and it goes So yeah, nothing else in that fourth inning, although they do threaten in that fourth inning with two more runners on but they can't get him home but then in the fifth inning it's a solo home run for Brian Rocchio. He rocks it at one hundred and five point six twenty nine degreelaunch angle three hundred and eighty seven feet, seventy six point two swing speed would have been home running only one out of thirty ballpark because it kisses off the outside of the f oul pole . I don't understand you know, I know the distance is different, you know, in the right field corners and left field corners for every ballpark, but I don't think the angle from home plate is any different and this thing hit high off the foul pole. So it makes me wonder how this would have not been a home run in every ballpark. This should have been thirty out of thirty ballparks. I don't understand how they're calculating that one out of thirty ballparks. So would have gone foul is what you're saying in every other ballpark . Does Texas Global Ifield have thicker home run poles than everybody else? Like I don't I don't get that because the baseline is universal. The ankle from home plate down the lines should be universal in every ballpark and the distance to those foul poles could be different, but this hit high off the pole . And yeah, I bet the people sitting up in those seats and with that right field mezzanine area, the second deck. I bet they never thought they were going to get a ball where they were sitting. So a home run ball at least where they were sitting. So that's a unique one . So Rokio, yeah, kisses it off the foul pool Bazano would pop out two outs in the inning Ramirez draws a walk steals second base, chase the lotter then singles them in. He rockets one at one hundred eight point two very nice to see him pulling the ball into right field . I feel like man, we have not seen Delauder pull the ball a ton in these last few months like he was earlier in the season. So every time he pulls the ball, I'm excited one hundred eight point two seventy seven point one swing speed. That manzardo with a double into the right field corner. Deloter with two outs. He's on his horse, no hesitation. He's going and he's able to score from first. They do bobble the throw coming back in . So that makes it easy for De Lauder to score probably would have pretty been a pretty close play if he gets the relay throw and transfers that cleanly probably would have been a pretty close play. I don't know if Delauder would have made it, but hey with two outs, let's go for it. And then you know, you put the pressure on them. It's the old adage, right? They have to catch it, throw it, catch it again . All you have to do is run . And well , they failed in one of the three tasks that they had to do. I guess I guess it's catch it, throw it, catch it, throw it, catch it again. I guess there's five steps in a relay throw like that, but still the adage holds, right? You know, there's a lot of things that could go wrong for the defense. All you have to do is run . And then Schneimen, hey, let's keep the party going Schneimen with a single at one hundred point one. Nothing special, just a burner right up the middle and manzardo is able to come in and score. So the inning actually will continue Martinez would get hit by the pitch but then Cuom would line out to finally end the rally but that is a good rally and then in the in the eighth inning they, are able to add another one. I think that's the one where Bazana hits into a force out. It would have been a double play. It actually looked like it was going to be a double play , but his speed , Travis Bana's speed getting down the line saves them, you know, scores a run , saves them from inning double play. So Bazana with the fielders choice and they're able to get Quan in to score . So nice to see them manufacturer run there and nice to see Bazana speed you know a factor in this even though he doesn't come up with a hit, he's able to use his speed to get them a run where do they have sprint speed they have in the seventy eighth percent ile in all of baseball. So not you know, not a total burner, but still darn good , pretty darn good when it comes to sprint speed. We'll take it. So yeah, so that is a fun game right there. And yeah, even though we lost, you know, it was a tough tough luck loss on Friday, but then you play this really good game on Saturday . I had good vibes going into Sunday and boy was I wrong . Jacob DeGromm really stepped up and shut us down . So yeah , MVP on the series. We got to go with Tanner Bobby, right? The best start of his season , eight will actually might not be the best start of his season. There was some losses in there that also were pretty strong starts , which is why the wind loss column shouldn't mean that much to us but still can mean something to the player. But yeah, MVP Bazana maybe but he ends up going over for the rest of the series after that good start on Friday . So yeah, and nobody offensively did anything on Sunday. So we got to go with Tanner Bye as our MVP on the series . He needed that win. We needed a great start from him and he delivered. So we'll see if there's anything moving forward from this game that Tanner by can carry forward . Maybe it's being aggressive, maybe it's the efficiency that with which he pitched, but again, it's not a heavy strikeout game, nothing like that. It's not like he was just getting a ton of ground balls. It was just a pitcher out there pitching his pitching his heart out. So he gets MVP on the series. Okay, I didn't mention there were a few emails here. Bob has been sending me articles all week. There was an article in the athletic from Zach Meisel about the Guardians at the MLB trade deadline and could they make a big splash like they did in twenty sixteen and give this team an emotional jolt yeah. I mean, they've already been aggressive in the trade market. They went and got Patrick Bailey. So there are plenty of areas of need. You could definite ly argue they need a starter. You could definitely argue that a shutdown bullpen arm like Andrew Miller in twenty sixteen would give this team a real jolt . And you could argue that an outfielder and yslo is a good point in the article that there's a ton of guys at AAA waiting for their shot in the outfield and we're wasting spots with Stuart Fairchild here. I'm sorry. It's a wasted spot with Stuart Fairchild here. But I mean, Pete Hingel top get a little bit of a chance, but George Valer is winning for another chance. CJ Cafus is waiting for another chance. Cleo Watson is waiting for his first chance. You now got guys like Cooper Ingel and what's the Laz onear'?s Wh theo first Brafie Velasquez who are actually getting some innings in left field just to make them a little bit more versatile and give them more pathways to playing time? So you have a ton of outfielders chomping at the bit to get up here and show what they can do. We thought George Valera was going to be, you know, we thought it was going to be Valera and left Quantum Center and Delauder and right, but Valera obviously gets sent back down . So we'll see. We'll see if the reinforcements in the outfield might come from AA as opposed to the trade market or could some of those guys be packaged in a trade to a struggling team that's got an outfielder to spare . So yeah, with trade deadline talk, not quite heating up yet, but something to definitely keep our eye on. Bob also sent me an article from Away Back Gone, which is a Guardian's blog and Patrick Bailey leaving the giants. The headline is Guardians Maya Fleece San Fran and Patrick Bailey Deal . And yeah, their pitching staff has struggled . Like their ERA has struggled since Patrick Bailey left for Cleveland. And Cleveland's ERA has gotten better despite what Joey Cantilo did Sunday . Their starters are their pitching staff is pitching to a better ERA since Patrick Bailey got here. So is it making a difference? Maybe maybe leaning into the defensive catcher is making a difference for the pitching staff and maybe trading him away has affected San Francisco's pitching staff to an extent where it's really noticeable in the team alright . So thank you for that Bob and then yeah he was, worried about Cantillo . He was listening to Hammy and Rosie and with the game, with the game well out of hand and late in the game they were discussing trade trade speculations. And their conclusion is the guardian's biggest need is starting pitching . They commented that Cantilos Fastball was only hitting ninety miles per hour in this game. Yeah, well let's see. I got the numbers in front of me. I can tell you exactly what Cantilos. Yeah, he averaged ninety point five. His yearly average is ninety one point eight so right around ninety two miles per hour. So he was down a mile one point three miles per hour with his fastball in this one. That's not good. 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