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Well, the Yankees lost their first game.

We're going to talk about it next.

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Hello, I'm Stacy Gottsuleus.

He's Brian McKean.

We host locked on Yankees.

And today, we're going to preview game two between the Yankees and the Mariners.

We'll tell you some news from around the league.

The Yankees had great success with ABS in their first game against the Mariners.

But first, they didn't have great success in winning the first game against the Mariners.

No, they did struggle in this game on both sides.

Yankees offense in the Mariners offense.

Both could not get things going at all.

Two to one final, Cal Rally walks it off in the bottom of the ninth inning.

It is weird because you watch this game and the offense struggles.

I feel like you immediately are going to get reaction from the fan base of,

oh, they're not hitting this that and the other judges and judges and hitting well.

And he did get a base at the end of this game, which I think I did feel good about.

But let's mention this, Stacy.

If they're awesome this year, they're going to lose like 65 to 70 games.

Right. So they're like, they're going to lose games.

They're going to look like this on certain days.

There are a couple things that I took out of this game.

One, though, from a Seattle perspective, Luis Castillo is your five.

That's pretty scary because he's done it.

Yeah, he really shut them down.

That was, yeah, that's a scary.

That's a scary rotation when you think of the guys that they have in it.

You know, they are really good pitchers.

If there are offense turns it around now, it's kind of ironic because Cal Rally

winds up walking it off, but he's been terrible all year so far.

He's been really awful for that.

I think that was only his third hit of the season, something like that.

That's correct. Yeah.

And they even gave him a rest day just just to kind of, I think, settle him down.

Knowing he was going to pinch it later in this game, but he really didn't

it hasn't come through for the most season.

So this is hopefully a jumping off point from his perspective for them.

But but overall, the Yankees are going to have these games.

Like this is the first one that we've watched where they really couldn't get

the offense going and it felt like a drag and that's going to happen.

So I wouldn't take too much concern out of this loss.

The offense look good.

No, but there's other things that came out of this game that I think

are are are noteworthy things to talk about.

Right. Like I'd be more upset if they had a game like this against the pitcher

who wasn't Louise Castillo.

That's a great point because I mean, he clearly dominated them.

He he looked like vintage Louise Castillo, not that he's old at this point,

but he looked very like vintage classic himself.

He was great in this game.

He looked like the picture of the Yankees were desperately trying to acquire

that year that they were fused to give Anthony a vote before.

I literally was about to say that.

Yeah.

So to one final, Ryan Weathers, you know, didn't look terrible.

You know, I mean, considering how bad he was in spring training

until his last spring training start, I will take four and one third innings

of one run ball from him, seeing what he did in spring training.

You know, I mean, was it ideal?

No, but it could have been worse.

It's funny.

You look at his numbers with box score after this game and he actually put

up some pretty good numbers, right?

Four and a third, four hits, one earn two walks and seven strikeouts.

Yeah.

I do see what they like in him, right?

A high velocity fastball when he locates it, that power sinker,

if he keeps it low in the zone, could be affected.

The problem is that thing is a little droopy.

So if that pitch is left up, it's going to get hit far and he's got velocity on it.

That's the that's the danger in the power sinker that these guys are throwing

nowadays.

Remember, it doesn't sink enough.

They're going to hit it out of the park.

Yeah.

Like, let's go back to a guy that dominated with the sinker for a long time in Mike

Messina, right?

He was able to keep his sinker down, but the velocity was down as well, right?

Those those sinkers were more in the 90 to 88 mile an hour range.

And the beauty of that is even if he makes a mistake with it and leaves it over the middle

of the plate or leaves it up in the zone, it's it's still changing the batter's timing.

Where if he's normally preparing for a fastball or or change it, that's getting lower velocity,

this is kind of in the middle where it's it's going to be harder to get on the time

and hit it out of the ballpark.

With these guys now throwing the power sinker, it makes it harder on the hitter if you keep

it low because that ball's going from a strike to completely out of the zone in the matter

of blink of an eye.

However, you leave that pitch up in the zone over the middle of the plate with the velocity.

These guys are now going to hit the ball out of the park.

So I do that.

Something that Ryan Wathers is going to be be concerned about and keep in mind throughout

the season.

But you look at the box score.

It's not bad.

I did feel like he felt a little unsettled throughout most of this game.

The first thing he was a little rattled, at least shaky is the word that I would use.

Yeah, I don't feel like he ever got his comfort level back throughout the start.

I don't know if you felt the same way watching him.

Yeah, I felt that way.

Like I said, I mean, it could have been worse with the way he looked.

But the results were different than how he looked if that makes sense, you know, with

the seven strikeouts, you like with the way he was pitching, you wouldn't expect someone

who was looking shaky like that to have seven strikeouts.

But as we said, the Mariners offense is also kind of sputtering, heading into the like beginning

to season.

I just want to break down.

He threw 77 pitches, 49 strikes.

So he had 32 four simmers, but he had 18 of those sinkers, 17 sweepers, 10 changeups,

that is according to baseball sabont.

Yeah.

So watching this though, like I don't love that ball to strike ratio, right?

Only 49 strike 77 pitches.

So he was basically a three to count most of the game.

Which you don't like to see out of your starters, you, if you, especially if you want guys

going deep into games, and I don't think they're necessarily asking, asking that of Ryan

Mothers, not asking him to go deep into games that give you seven, eight days, certainly

throughout the entire season, they're not going to be asking that at him.

But you do need a little more length and we saw what happened last year when the Yankees

were, that their starters were not able to go deep and annihilate your bullpen really

quickly.

And they did have bullpen rest and tried to get through and so far the bullpen's been

really good.

There were times where the bullpen had to, had to tightrope out of, out of tough spots

in this game.

And the Mariners had more, more traffic on the bases and stuff.

So yeah, I'd agree with that notion though.

We both kind of agree that you look at the box score and it's different from how Ryan

Mothers actually pitched in this game if you watched the game and that's what we're here

for.

It just, he, he felt like, it felt like coming into the game in the first inning.

He was a little unsettled and he got through the first and he thought, all right, maybe

he cools down.

He got through that.

The adrenaline's over, but it never felt like he really took control of what was going on

out there.

He never had was dominant on the mound.

The command wasn't really there.

So good.

You take it and it, but it does feel like they kind of escaped with a little bit of a

lucky outcome.

It felt like in the first inning, I would have settled for five innings and two or three

runs.

Here's a dumb question.

Sure.

Do you think the weather had something to do with it?

Because it was cold.

Can I?

Maybe this is like just me not understanding if we have fans and Seattle that are listening

to the show.

Please explain to us.

They have a retractable roof there and everybody's in, I know baseball players tend to go over

the top, what a cold weather, but like everybody even, even, even, even, even, even,

even, even, even, even, even had the cover on.

Yeah.

So if they have a retractable, isn't that the point of the roof?

Yeah.

I, the only reason I knew it was going to be cold because I wasn't really paying attention

was I saw Meredith Morakowitz and Susan Waldman were budding up because they usually do

on road trips.

They did like a whole Seattle carousel in Instagram and I'm like, why are they so bundled

up?

Like they look like they were going to do like a dog sled race in Alaska with these puffy

coats.

I'm like, is it really that cold in Seattle right now?

And yeah, the low temperature for tonight was supposed to be 37.

So it's pretty cold.

I'd never been to Seattle.

So I was unaware of how cold it does get out there because it was way nicer in New

York, you know, on Monday than it was in Seattle, apparently.

But I just, when you have a retractable roof, yeah, I don't, why not close it?

I don't understand why it's open.

If it's going to be that cold, close it and heat the stadium.

I don't understand that.

That would be like a stadium in the south that has a retractable roof, keeping it open

when it's 100 degrees out.

It's kind of so.

Yeah.

Like, what are we doing that just didn't make a lot of sense to me?

Yeah.

Yeah.

And maybe it had done something to do it that especially going from San Francisco where

it was sunny and 80 throughout the entire weekend for the Yankees, going to Seattle

works in the 30s.

That could be a little bit of a change.

And I mean, specifically, whether it's just because he'd been pitching it in a, well,

yeah, ballpark that had a roof and, you know, you're thinking you're going into a ballpark

with a roof that maybe the roof would be closed.

So I, yeah, I don't understand why it was open.

How about this note that Meredith gave in the middle of the broadcast?

I don't know if you heard of the story, but Ryan Weathers likes to throw a lot of pitches

in between starts and particularly likes to play catch the day before a game.

That's like a rhythm routine thing that he's on.

Now, the Yankees have, because of his injury problems, apparently he likes to throw like

a hundred to 110 pitches, a couple of days before his start, which I find crazy.

But the Yankees have lowered that to 60 pitches, a couple of days before.

Yeah.

But yesterday, they were unable to find a field to play on.

The Mariners, it wasn't open for him to go have a catch on and he likes to do that

at the routine.

They had a catch in a hotel parking lot closer to their hotel, him and Austin Wells to get

ready for this start.

I mean, I guess that's, but Meredith said she was welcome to mess the parking lot and

notice these two playing catch and she was like, what, like, what is, what are you doing?

Yeah, exactly.

So I did find that story, you know, resourceful, I guess, if you could say anything.

That's funny.

I know I missed that.

What was I doing at that point in the game?

I don't know.

I had the game on.

I did mute it a couple of times just because I was doing something else while the game

was on.

But let's talk about the bullpen, because you know, give up the first run of the season

with the walkoff by Cal Raleigh.

But, you know, more good things from Jake Bird.

Doval has that big out, you know, coming into the game, like, you know, you're trusting

these guys in games that are really close and they're coming through for you.

So this is really positive.

And they're going to need out of that out of Doval specifically.

He's going to be pitching in a lot of high leverage spots for them and he's going to

pretty much be the eighth in a guy and bringing him in when they did and getting that shut

down out that he needed right there, getting the ground ball to jazz.

Absolutely huge needed in that spot.

So just builds more confidence in Doval going forward.

And this is going to be a running narrative that we're going to be going with probably

for a lot of the seasons, Daisy.

They clearly saw something in Jake Bird and they saw it in him last year and it was clearly

some analytical move that they made last year at the deadline.

And it does feel like that was a move to be better in the future, not necessarily better

in 2025.

And you can see those dividends paying off now.

They clearly worked on stuff with him in the off season.

They had him just finished the year in Triple L last year and he is a different pitcher

so far.

He looks great out there and he's been dominant so far and you can clearly see that there

was something Matt Blake saw because he's been unbelievable to start the year so far.

Yep.

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So stay see everybody has been good with ABS so far.

It's been a clear advantage to the players over the umpires, but it's particularly good

with the way the Yankees have utilized it.

They really flexed their muscle, particularly in game one of the Seattle series.

They were awesome with it.

They went five for five in this entire game and you can see the reins being loosened

a lot more with the players, right?

There clearly was a hesitancy to use it in game one and San Francisco that they weren't

willing to and they eased into it a little more as that series went on.

Really they must have used the off day on Sunday to study a little bit and kind of realize

once you use it, when not to use it, because they took clear advantage of it.

And the guy that's the clear cut favorite of it is Jose Caballero.

He loves using it.

Yeah, because he did have that call where he challenged it in San Francisco didn't get

the call.

Yeah.

And then Logan Webb threw a ball, the very next pitch and Caballero didn't do anything

about it.

And I think he kind of learned from that because that one pitch was really close, the one

that he challenged.

Yeah.

So I love this.

I love that even jazz, chism, jazz chism, he got into it because remember how he joked

about jazz not being able to, like, you know, even Boone said it last year, like, yeah,

we're going to we're going to rain him in, but even he got a call overturned.

But Caballero, two, two of them in the same at bat.

And there was a good point made in the broadcast because even though both of those at bat

the jazz at bat, I believe jazz flew out in Caballero on a Caballero flew out and

jazz grounded out.

Even though what happened is what happened and it caused an out, it can provide a lot

more.

A, it's making the starting picture throw more pitches and in an hour and now when guys

are taking out based on how many pitches they have, that those one or two pitches could

be the difference in the starter facing iron judge or not.

So that is that is an absolute huge thing later on in the game, but also it extends innings,

it extends appearances, it gets guys more looks at a starting picture.

There's a million reasons why this can be beneficial to any kind of any kind of player.

And when you go five or five and you have the skillet like the Yankees have had so far,

it can become a serious, serious advantage for them as a team.

So I love what I've seen so far.

I love it.

The reins have been loosened a little bit.

I love that they're letting these because clearly these guys have confidence and conviction

in taking the balls they take and knowing that they weren't strikes.

It does feel like they see it a little bit differently sometimes than the umpires are seeing

it.

Am I wrong there?

Yeah.

It's kind of strange and I think umpire, it's a credit.

I think umpires get fooled on movement more than more than pliers do.

I think so too.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That makes sense.

I want to say this too.

This is funny because the umpires are clearly still but hurt by these but by not getting

the calls they want to get called.

You can clearly see it affects their ego, 100% when a call goes the other way.

It's very obvious because after the fourth one that was overturned and I normally will

get on Aaron Boone because I do think that the arguing umpires has become a lot a show

manship kind of thing.

Yeah.

After the fourth one, the Yankees dug out was chirping and basically saying, come on,

get the calls right.

Right.

Because the umpire, after they challenge, after Kabayero challenged the second one kind

of rolled his eyes and frustratingly, you can hear it in the way that he announced it

over the PA system.

Oh, it's like a call right then.

Yeah.

Call being challenged.

Like he knew and you could tell he was aggravated.

Right.

And then the call will get going to get reversed.

And the Yankees dug out clearly made it known, you know, out loud, hey, get the call

right.

We won't challenge it.

It was Mike, that's a brook.

Yeah.

And you know what?

Like it clearly affected him and you saw within within a couple of batters.

It happened again where they challenged another call.

Yeah.

And he was clear.

Then he, you know, kind of tossed the face mask off.

He rolled his eyes, he huffed and puffed and then made the call and they kept repeating

the same sentiment.

If you get the call right, we won't challenge it.

Right.

And but they're right on that.

That's the point of ADS.

This is the point of why it was put in and as an umpire, you got to put the ego aside.

You're not always right.

Clearly, you're not.

That's been acknowledged from years past because they wouldn't have this system if

you were right more often.

The players have gotten good at it and you're wrong.

Like the system is right.

Whether you like it or not, the system is right.

They have gone to such extreme lengths of laser measuring these guys heights and how

their batter's box looks for every specific player.

They have gotten it that down to a science.

It is correct letter by the law.

If you're getting it wrong, get it right.

Don't be mad.

Don't hate the player.

Hate the game.

By the way, there were, I think, four guys whose height went down by three inches, three

inches.

They went from six feet.

Yeah.

Otani went up.

Um, did AlToube stay the same?

I think he stayed the same.

Breggman went down.

Breggman went down.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And he's a short player to begin with.

But there's someone else who went down from six feet to five, 10 or five, nine, something

like that.

Yeah.

It's alarming.

I wouldn't want them to measure maybe.

I'm going to keep telling people that I'm five, seven.

Well, you know, in my heyday, I was five, nine and a half, but, uh, you know, 15 years of

hunching over laptops, I've lost some height, you know, so it's, it's, it's fascinating.

If you look, if you have free time, look it up, um, the, the, the measure, the extremes

they've gone to with measurements to the gotta get right to the point where, you know,

scientifically, it is proven that you actually do shrink about a half an inch every day at

the end of a day.

I did not know that I was unaware of that.

Thanks to that.

Okay.

Oh, yeah.

Joining us soon on the show.

Exactly.

Yeah.

So thanks to my K for informing us on that.

Um, but the teams were trying to delay when that, when Major League Baseball officials would

shop to the facility to measure these guys because they wanted them to be shorter.

So the, so the, so the high strike can't get called as much.

So like, it's gone that level of, of teams doing stuff, and, but Major League Baseball has

gotten that serious and, and, and that in tune with the whole thing where it's kind of hard

for the, um, I'm biased to argue it, the, the calls are correct.

So to me, the Yankees have every right to be chirping there and the umpire should not

be getting annoyed because the Yankees are right.

Get the call right.

We want to challenge it.

But if you're going to keep getting it wrong, we're going to keep challenging it and they

went five for five.

So clearly they were right on the whole.

Yeah.

So he didn't do anything today.

But Austin Wells also behind the dish got calls right in San Francisco.

So you're getting it from, yeah, you're getting it from the guys who are at the plate,

batting, and then you're also getting it from the guy behind the plate.

Well, and it works, it works the other way too because we, we've discussed this before

and particularly last year, there are multiple instances where a pitch would have been

strike three wasn't called.

And then a Yankee pitcher is forced to continue and it ain't face another batter.

And that next batter goes eight, eight pitches.

Everyone to start.

Yeah.

So I mean, there is a lot of ways to this.

This can extend guys, you know, outings and stuff like that too.

So it benefits the Yankees on multiple sides to be really good at this and so far they're

one of the top teams with it.

Yep.

So two by Cabillero, one by Rice, one by Stanton, one by Chisholm, non by extension, by the

way, Stanton, by the way, great at that.

So far this year.

They're really too much in this game, but he's been seeing the ball really well.

He's not chasing the outside pitch, like he's seeing the ball really well.

He's running the bases well still trying to take second base.

There was interesting.

The move that he did in this game, I was kind of, I don't, like, when, as soon as I heard

it, that he's going for two, I was like, why, why don't you do that?

Yeah.

I'm afraid him getting hurt so badly, like, but maybe he would rather be a second so he

can score easily because if he starts at first, it's going to take him a while to get

there potentially.

Potentially.

I mean, it was like, don't, don't push it, dude.

You don't need like a quad injury or something like that, just to stay in your space.

We're good.

Okay, because they, I mean, spring training.

This is unheard of.

So let's.

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Stacy Tuesday night later on tonight, I guess at 940, we'll be the next game and also

be a yes game.

It'll be max free against Logan Gilbert as both teams turn over their rotations.

Excited to see max free against a struggling mariners offense.

This could be a great start to his season before they head back to the Bronx and you

get to start in that Miami series.

Yeah, especially since he.

It wasn't the same as others, but it wasn't like he wasn't dominant on opening day, but

he had a good start.

So yeah, maybe.

Yeah, the difference is max free being the veteran that he is.

You have a lot more confidence that he's going to battle through and give you a professional

outing as opposed to others.

Yeah, he did.

Absolutely.

That was 940.

We get a respite on Wednesday.

That would a 410 start.

Thank God.

Thank God.

One quick thing.

David Cone on the broadcast was talking about how players were lying about their size and

his quote was, who doesn't lie about their size?

I know I did.

That's so funny.

That's great.

Yeah.

He also said on the weather story today, he didn't like to throw in between starts.

He wanted to preserve his arm, which I feel like would be a theme for most pitchers on.

I think.

Yeah.

Maybe it's just a Ryan Weathers thing, but you know what?

He's also been injured throughout his entire career.

So it feels like maybe there is a good reason to change things up, but apparently he was

insisted on keeping the throwing a lot in between starts.

The Yankees compromises that can we get 60 pitches out of you instead of one thing?

I still can't believe he did that in the parking lot.

That's funny.

Yeah, in a hotel parking lot.

Imagine just walking by and seeing like Austin Wells catching.

Yeah, I'd be like.

Yeah, you have to do a double triple quadruple check to make sure it's actually what is happening

here.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So that Wednesday 4th, I'm looking forward to that with us being, I mean, we're doing

this show live currently.

If you're listening in the morning, we thank you on your morning commute.

It's 109 AM on the East Coast.

So, you know, I'm glad we're going to end of the way early in the season, but these West

Coast outings are a rough one for us.

Yeah.

It's kind of, it's, it's kind of tiring a little bit, but hey, it's not like it was years

ago where every West Coast start was 1010.

So at least they're a half hour earlier.

So, yeah, I think they did that for the East Coast audiences because when the Yankees

were going out to the, they were losing people.

I mean, I, I would stay up, even when I was working full time, I'd stay up, like working

my job at NBC, not writing about baseball, not podcasting about baseball, just watching

baseball.

And I'd still stay up and watch the West Coast game to then have to wake up and go to work

in the morning.

And I was a little, you know,

the West Coast game last night, everyone's like, you stayed up.

I'm like, yeah, why wouldn't I stay up and watch the Yankees?

I would get those two, like in college and I would get to class next morning.

People are like, why are you so tired?

And I'm like, cause I stay up and watch the Yankees and see it a lot too in the morning,

watching the Yankees.

When I wasn't hovering the team.

So, yeah, you can see that the loose screw that me and Stacey both have when it comes

to just watching the team now that we work for it.

It's kind of, yeah, that's why we host the show.

Yes, exactly.

Let's forget to pay for it now.

Some news from around the league, I found that's a little ridiculous.

Met's got a victory in their game on Monday.

But the Met's fans are already booing boba shit.

He has got off to a struggling start.

I have a lot of players.

Let's talk about this because I saw some chatter on, was it threads?

I think it was threads.

It wasn't blue skies threads.

And it was talking about this.

It was talking about boba shit.

You know, he only had like one hit and 14 at bats, whatever the stat was.

And you had blue jays fans chiming in and saying, I'm glad they didn't sign him.

You guys are going to find out just how bad he is.

I'm like, boba shit is not bad.

What are you talking about?

It's going to take him a little bit to, you know, he's, he signs this big deal.

He goes from the team that he grew up with to a new team in New York.

Like, there's still pressure in New York, even if you're a Met because it's New York.

And the fans, you know, everyone always talks about Yankee fans.

But my fans are just as bad when guys don't get off to, well, good.

I think it, I think it comes from Yankee fans.

Like I think that's fans try to mimic Yankee fans a lot of the time.

And they, they, they, they, they, they, they want to have this world obnoxious

because we're from New York.

That could be a possibility too.

I think the Yankees have done serious damage to all sports in the city of people

expecting their, like, it's like a birthright to win championships.

And people just expect the best of the best 24 seven.

But listen, I don't hate booing a baseball player when things are going really

poorly in June.

I think it's absurd to boo a player the third game into this season.

Who's new to the city?

Right.

Like give it, give it time.

Like let's see how it works out.

Give it a few weeks, give it three to four weeks.

If he's still not doing well after three to four weeks, then okay, you can

want to get on him.

Yeah, and that's, that's, that could be to motivate him.

That could be more to just express like, Hey, let's go get it going.

Like just to push him a little bit.

I don't have a problem with that.

Like I, I kind of prefer with the Phillies fans that a few years ago,

a trade turner, a little more where they cheered him.

And it turned his season around.

But there, there is the booing does do something.

It shows this pleasure.

I get that.

But booing him, it feels like they're doing it just just to be that guy.

Right.

Like just like just to just to, so it gets noticed in social media, it's just,

this is a new player that they just signed to a massive contract.

And he's three games into his season.

Like give it a break.

Speaking of booing, I was getting a kick out of Seattle fans booing Aaron

Judge because he was better than Cal Raleigh last year and rightly won the MVP.

Keep booing him.

Yeah, I get it from a giants perspective.

Right.

Because he didn't sign there exactly.

He chose the anchors over them.

But like Seattle really.

Like what, why I don't understand my sports fans can't just be logical, right?

Like both things can exist.

How Raleigh could have had an excellent season last year and an MVP type season.

But Aaron Judge was better.

Yes.

Why can't you just like acknowledge that?

I don't.

It wasn't like, it wasn't like Aaron Judge.

When you look at all the other numbers aside from home runs and you think about the fact

that he was injured and then wasn't really hitting for a while, he would have found

as many home runs as Cal Raleigh if he was just as healthy as him.

And then this wouldn't even be a discussion at all.

And you can, you can, that there's an argument for Cal Raleigh.

Obviously, you can make both sides a switch and catch her like, itting 60 home runs

is unbelievably impressive.

Like, sure, there's an argument for him for sure.

But there's no way you can look at what Judge did throughout the year.

Hey, if you're a Seattle fan, I not understand why he at least won the MVP.

A lot of them don't.

Yeah, but that's what's crazy to me is like, I understand having your argument for Raleigh

and you could sit there and have your own opinion and I respect it.

Saying that you, you think Cal Raleigh should have won the MVP.

Now, I personally think it was Judge, but if you have the opinion that Cal Raleigh

should have got it, I get where you're coming from.

I can see how an argument can be formulated.

But for me, it's just, you can't comprehend how Judge also won.

You don't, you don't get it.

You don't see like a crazy on base percentage and batting at like, that to me is what's a

little crazy about the whole thing is like.

And why would you boo judge because of it?

Like what did he have?

He just had a great year.

Yeah, like, boo, do you hit over 300 boo?

I don't get that at all.

It's silly.

Yeah, um, Tatsuya and my, uh, debuted for the Astros and was not good.

He went two and two thirds, give up three hits and four runs had four walks and three strikeouts.

He actually admitted after the game that he was very nervous in the mound, which is crazy

because he's pitched in massive games in Japan.

Um, he's one of the best pictures in the league coming over.

So wild to me that the nerves were that, like, I've heard of guys having nerves

last and ending, but it lasted into the third inning for him after sitting and getting his

feet wet.

Uh, that's a little wild to me.

Uh, so if he can't handle, uh, Houston nerves, I almost think it might be equipped.

Yeah, he said he'd get him a little bit.

Well, here's another, uh, pitching line from Monday night.

I have to remember what night this was.

Justin Verlanders first start back with the Tigers three, three and two third innings,

five earned runs, one strikeout, six hits, two walks and only a 15% with rate.

Yeah, that's, uh, very, very on par with what he did last year for the Giants.

So my last year wasn't the indication of maybe he should hang them up.

Uh, this kind of feels like it might be too, but hey, the Tigers, the one they handed him,

an absurd amount of money they didn't deserve.

So good luck with that.

Yeah, yeah.

And just to mention, uh, Fort Ranky pitcher Ken Clay passed away.

He won the World Series in the late 70s with the Yankees.

He was 71 years old.

Um, so rest in peace to Ken Clay.

Uh, this, again, tough loss for the Yankees to lose in the walkoff.

Their first loss of the year, I wouldn't go too crazy about it because if they're awesome,

they're going to lose 65 more games like this.

Yeah, it's not just the walkoff.

It's Louise Castillo was just really good.

And they couldn't get anything done against him.

It's going to happen again.

Like I said earlier in the show, if it was some dude that you never heard of shutting down

the Yankees, I would be a little more upset by this.

But you, you run up against Louise Castillo.

You're going to have a game like this.

The only problem is against Seattle.

You're never going to face some dude you never heard of their, their rotation is.

Oh, yeah.

No, yeah.

That's true.

All right.

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