◆NEWSPirates make a roster move ahead of the series◆ROSTERSigned free agent RHP Enmanuel Nunez to a minor league contract◆STATPaul Skenes ranks 4th in the NL in strikeouts (200)◆NEWSPirates checking in on bullpen help◆STATNick Gonzales ranks 4th in the NL in batting average (.303)
◆NEWSPirates make a roster move ahead of the series◆ROSTERSigned free agent RHP Enmanuel Nunez to a minor league contract◆STATPaul Skenes ranks 4th in the NL in strikeouts (200)◆NEWSPirates checking in on bullpen help◆STATNick Gonzales ranks 4th in the NL in batting average (.303)
The Pirates took a 3-0 lead and held on for a 5-1 victory to take the series over the Mariners to move back over .500 at 41-40 halfway through the season. Henry Davis and Brandon Lowe both homered to lead the offense and Don Kelly wins his 100th victory as a Pirates manager. Bubba Chandler kept the Mariners at bay with one run allowed in 5.1 innings and the bullpen held it the rest of the way for the win. Cody and Doug break this series win down on the NS9 Postgame Show powered by Primanti’s Bros. You can watch/listen here…
Ben Cherington has sure had some clunker trades in his Pirates tenure, but I gotta give him his flowers again on the Brandon Lowe trade. All three players acquired in that trade contributed to a victory in this one. Brandon Lowe belted a solo home run to give the Pirates a 1-0 lead. It’s his team-leading 19th home run as he’s on pace for 38 bombs this season (please stay healthy) and he should be an All-Star. Jake Mangum had a huge sliding catch with two outs and bases loaded to end the threat in the 4th inning and Mason Montgomery came in to relief Yohan Ramirez and got out of a bases-loaded jam and then pitched a scoreless 8th inning. Huge parts of the game and it all contributed to a win. Our standards were low, but Cherington has outdone himself with that trade. People are calling it the pickup of the offseason with Lowe, but all three players are playing a role here with this team. And Mike Burrows has a 5.48 ERA for the Astros. You couldn’t have pulled off a better trade in MLB The Show.
O HENRY OPPO BOMB
Henry Davis clubbed a two-run home run to give the Pirates a 3-0 lead and the best part was it was an opposite field home run. He later doubled in the 9th inning and scored an insurance run. I’ve done this before though and I’m not doing it again. I’m not saying Davis is going to suddenly turn it around now and be a good hitter, but this is why the Pirates aren’t going to give up on him anytime soon like most of Pirates Twitter want to happen. He was their number one overall pick, he’s going to get a lot of chances. Davis and Endy Rodriguez are both going to play and that’s just the reality of it. Joey Bart is gone in the trade to Atlanta and it’s the Endy/Davis show for now. I really hope Davis can find some more consistency and become something at the plate. He doesn’t need to be a .300 hitter, but .250 with 15-20 home runs would be sweet. He clearly has pop and there’s the potential for more. He was drafted 1.1 for his hitting tool. Let’s hope he can show it some more this season. Plus, Paul Skenes prefers him so Henry has that going for him at least.
Don Kelly’s 100th Victory
Don Kelly has had mixed reviews in a little over a year as the Pirates manager, but Thursday afternoon with the 5-1 victory, he notched his 100th victory. He’s now 100-105 as an MLB manager. I don’t know what to think of Kelly as a manager so far, I think he’s been fine to date and definitely doesn’t have many good options when managing the bullpen but I thought he did a good job with the bullpen in this win. He needed to cover 3.2 innings from a mid pen to hold a 3-1 lead. He called on Evan Sisk first then Yohan Ramirez. Ramirez is the one I thought was the questionable move, but credit to Kelly for pulling him after a forceout and back-to-back walks in the 7th inning. He went to Montgomery who got the strikeout and then pitched a scoreless 8th inning. This bullpen has blown tons of leads this season, but Thursday was not one of them. It’s tough to quantify value and wins for managers, so take this chart for what you want to take it for, but it shows Kelly has been middle of the road when it comes to win probability decisions like pinch-hits and bullpen changes:
Again, I think Kelly has been fine. He hasn’t had much to work with regarding the bullpen, but the team is 41-40 with three injuries to major offensive pieces and a crap bullpen. Let’s see how the next 81 games go.
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Key takeaways
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Brandon Lowe is on pace to pass Neil Walker's franchise home run record for a second baseman. The host hopes the Pirates extend him for three or four years but doubts they will, saying he's pricing himself out of Pittsburgh.
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Bubba Chandler should have stayed in the game. He had thrown only 70-some pitches, and letting him face the bottom of the order would help him mature and keep Evan Sisk, who struggles with men on base, out of the game.
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Pulling Chandler with a 3-1 lead in the 6th was the right call. It let him end on a high note instead of risking a blowup that could tie the game.
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It's almost time to stick with Jared Triolo. He's terrible this time every year but gets hot in August and September, and his defense and versatility fit once Konnor Griffin returns.
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The bullpen still needs someone to become the lockdown reliever, and Carmen Mlodzinski is the best bet even though he's stuck in a scheduled, multi-inning role.
I don't think – yeah, I think if Konnor Griffin comes up tomorrow, Jack Brennigan – but whatever.
Good for Jack Brennigan, a day of MLB pay.
Yeah, he got his MLB patch.
he was all happy about that.
Good for him.
Yeah, good for him.
Exactly.
But, yeah, look, they needed to take this series, right?
They need to take every series the rest of the season, quite frankly, right?
they need to win series.
I'd love a 10-15-game win streak, and that'd be wonderful.
But that seems less likely than just go win two out of three.
Go win two out of three.
Don't throw games away.
Don't give games away.
Win the games you're supposed to win.
Win the games where you have big leads, that thing.
And just, like all the cliché – the answer that Bryan Reynolds, yeah, we played pretty good today.
We need to play pretty good tomorrow, and, we'll be fine.
And it's – yeah, I'm hopeful.
We got the Reds.
This is a chance to put some distance between us and the Reds.
Yeah.
I don't like the Reds.
I don't think anybody does, though.
And we got Polskies going against the Reds.
Right.
Yeah, who likes the Reds?
I don't think people in Cincinnati like the Reds.
Well, let's get into today's game.
And starting out with Bubba Chandler on the mound, he goes five and a third, gave up five hits, only one run, one earned.
Three walks, four strikeouts, but, Doug, this turnaround for Bubba, ever since Toronto, he's been coming out and being like, yo, I belong.
And this may not have been one of those outings that, screams off the page.
But what screams off the page to me is the one earned run.
That's it.
He did that through five and a third.
Nothing else.
Quite frankly, I think he could have gone longer, and I wish that he would have, but I'm not going to fault Donnie for the thing that turned out right.
but, yeah, he'd only thrown 70-some pitches.
He could have gone.
he'd had that inning prior where he had to get, I think he loaded the bases, and then he got the strikeout on the double play.
And to me, that was a sign because, he's immature.
He's very emotional, and he tends to lose focus around the fifth or sixth inning.
And, boy, he got it back.
Like, he got back under control, handled it, comes in, gets the first out off one pitch in the sixth inning, and then gives up a, swinging bunt.
I'm like, I'll give him two more batters, you know.
Give him one more at least, for sure.
But, again, it all worked.
But, yeah, Bubba is starting to show that promise.
He's starting to show, that, like, he's going to be a really good major league pitcher, and that this rotation, if he can keep doing this and making these little strides throughout this season,
that this rotation is going to be something to deal with.
And, people are not going to want to see the Pirates come to town just because it's like, oh, my God, it's Skenes, it's Ashcraft, it's Bubba, it's Jared, that thing.
So, yeah, I thought he was outstanding today.
And, again, mostly just for, like, harnessing himself, his emotions and that thing.
And, again, would have loved to see him finish the sixth and maybe come out for the seventh because I am, scared to death of our bullpen.
But they came through.
I can't blame you for that.
Yeah.
So, yeah, you're right.
So, Donnie gets his 100th victory, tip of the cap, Kim.
The bullpen is again, while scaring us to death, is rounded into shape.
Yeah.
That was the sixth consecutive scoreless inning for Yohan Ramirez.
Evan Siss didn't look good but got out of it.
And so I want to bring it back to Bubba real quick before we get too carried away.
But he did have eight called strikes, seven whiffs today.
Just a great outing by him.
Velocities were up on almost all of his pitchers except the sweeper.
Just awesome stuff there.
Like I said, the four strikeouts.
But going back to how you described him, I think a good way to wrap it up is that he just looks like a solid rookie.
He looks like a solid rookie pitcher now where before that Toronto start, he was losing it, like we were saying.
Like he just didn't look like he maybe belonged or maybe that's the wrong way to put it.
But he just didn't look like he had it quite yet.
There was an argument he could go to AAA to work on things, right?
And he's debunked that argument.
Exactly.
So you just got to give a huge shout out to Bubba Chandler there.
And something with this Chandler start, I looked into it before the game because, yesterday or even today, we're putting out posts saying Endy Rodríguez is the starting catcher, right?
And we're all probably thinking, what the hell are you doing, Donnie?
But I went back and I looked at Bubba's last start.
I looked back at Bubba's last start.
And Davis was the catcher in Colorado with him.
Bubba went six innings, gave up two hits, two earned runs, two walks, and a strikeout.
So, again, one of those outings that doesn't really jump off the page.
But you can see that's where there's a turn coming.
And now they put him with Davis again today in that turn.
He's made that turn.
Right.
And it does jump off the page for me because it was a rookie pitcher in Colorado.
If a place is going to get into your head, right?
Like, if you've been playing Major League Baseball for a while, you understand that Colorado is a different place.
And it's the place that can get into any pitcher's head, let alone a rookie.
And I thought that was a really good start for him.
And Henry obviously did a decent job there.
I know.
When I saw Henry, I'm like, oh, I know, Andy.
I know it's day game after a night game.
And then I'm just going to confess now, when Henry came up to bat, I'm like, bunt him.
Bunt him.
If someone's on base, you should bunt him.
And, I guess Donnie got it right.
And I was wrong.
And, hey, looking further into the numbers here, right?
So, I thought the same thing.
Like, Davis is just going to be an easy out all game.
Like, what the heck?
And then you look at the alternative, Endy Rodríguez, against right-handers this year.
He's slashing 299, 427, and 507.
That gives him a 934 OPS versus right-handed pitchers, Doug.
And they're going up against a right-hander today.
Yeah.
I think you'd want that guy in the lineup.
But, as we saw today, and what's it say at the bottom of the screen here, Doug?
Hank Davis is still alive.
He ain't giving up easy.
He's the player of the game.
Right.
he's the player of the game today.
Good for him.
what, he had two hits, a double, a home run.
Knocked, helped add some insurance run.
Stole a base.
it was a base nobody was manning.
But he was observant enough on top of it and in the game enough to do the right thing.
We don't have enough heads-up plays.
We've got to be happy when they end.
Yeah, that's exactly what I do.
Oh, wait.
Somebody did something on the base fast.
That was smart.
I'm very excited.
But even before Hank got started with his offense, in the first inning, Brandon Lowe hits a home run.
He's 19th of the year.
Just another guy that, like, he's been so consistent, Doug.
And like I said before, this team feels like they're in a good spot right now.
They're getting runs when they need runs.
They're doing what needs to get done.
And it's in a great spot in this part of the season where you've got guys on the IL.
Some are coming back.
And Brandon Lowe, just the consistent in the lineup.
The guy that's always going to give you a competitive at bat and a chance to win.
And he puts the Pirates up 1-0 early in this game.
And I can't recall the record now with Pirates scoring first in games.
But it's usually a good outcome for Pittsburgh when that happens.
Jim Leyland preached that for years.
Way back before analytics, he was, if you score first.
Yeah, Brandon Lowe's got 51 RBI.
Second baseman, 19 home runs.
barring some freak setback, he's going to set the Pittsburgh Pirates franchise record for most home runs by a second baseman in a season passing, the beloved Neil Walker.
Like you said, he's consistent.
and it just, doubles, home runs, doubles, home runs, that thing.
I, it was a great trade.
It was just a great trade.
You got, you just got to love it.
I hope that they extend him.
I doubt they will.
He's pricing himself out of Pittsburgh.
such a good season.
But I would love to see him here for the next four years, three, four, whatever.
And yeah, it just, and he's been better defensively than we were told, he's not, vying for a gold glove or anything, but he's not hurting us out there.
And, I'm guessing he's good in the clubhouse too, just watching him.
Like, if he never says a word, if you just watch the way he goes about his business, yeah, it's great.
Yeah, the consistency there is just awesome.
And like, yeah, you'll have games like today where like a Ryan O'Hearn doesn't do much, right?
He, what did he do today?
He went one for four.
He did have an RBI, but like we've been saying recently, and yesterday obviously had a great game.
You can't take that away from him.
But recently he has been struggling a bit and it doesn't matter.
Like you have guys like Brandon, you have guys like Bryan Reynolds, who is just on fire.
It's ridiculous how on fire Bryan Reynolds is right now.
He gets on base again today, which I think puts his streak to 30 games.
30 on base, 15 hits, 15 game hitting streak, 30 on base streak, so.
Just an insane streak for him.
And it's, this is what you've been wanting for Bryan Reynolds since he's come to Pittsburgh, right?
Right.
this is, I didn't think we'd see this again, right?
this is, he's out, way outperforming what I'd hope we'd get back from.
I just thought it, I was hoping he could come in and be solid, be a, 750, 775 OPS guy type thing.
And, his OPS is like 890 now, 889.
889, yeah.
Yeah.
He's just been outstanding and he's just on fire.
he is the Bryan Reynolds of June of a couple years ago, right?
Where, he's basically somewhat replicating his best season, that 21 season.
So, you usually don't see that four years later, five years down the road.
the guys don't bounce back like that.
And, yeah, he's been great.
But, yeah, the Pirates offense today, just a lot of timely hitting, a lot of guys getting on base.
You've then got Triolo in the right position, right?
He can come in and play defensive replacement for Gonzalez at third and late innings.
He can spell people.
He can, he can play any of the positions in the outfield.
He goes the outfield once in a while.
I love him, too.
I understand that he's terrible.
And if they parted ways or, I'm not going to lose too much sleep over, oh, no, how will we recover?
But I love having good defense, on the team.
I love having that option.
And I love his versatility.
And like I said, he tends to get hot.
he's done this for a couple years in a row where he gets hot, come August, September.
So we're not that far away.
Right.
We're not that far away.
And like we've been saying, with a lineup this deep, you can carry a guy like Triolo in his special case to the end of the season.
And then, boom, maybe he catches fire again.
And then, hopefully, you go into October and he continues to be on fire.
I'm getting ahead of myself.
Yeah.
My whole life of watching baseball, most shortstops in second basemen couldn't hit.
They just couldn't.
We run out guys like Tim Foley and Mark Bellinger and those guys that, look, they fielded the position.
The number one rule for those, for, the up-the-middle defense, your centerfielders, where you wanted, it was defense first.
The bat didn't play.
The glove played.
And that's changed now, right?
We've had a bunch of guys come on and, that can just crush it and play those positions and that thing.
But you're right.
When you're getting up and down production from the lineup, we're not running out five through nine of 180 hitters anymore, right?
We've got guys that can actually produce.
And then we've got guys like Mangum and Callihan that are chipping in here and there.
And Ozuna has actually had a decent June.
I know nobody wants to acknowledge that, but it's true.
I think he's hitting almost 300 in June.
Well, small sample size, though.
Small sample size, but he's hitting what he's called upon.
So, yeah, it's just, things look good, but they need to go on a run.
They need to, this is two games.
And they need to play like this for the next 30 games.
Absolutely.
Yeah, you bring up the point of the batting average looking at the lineup.
Excuse me.
And it's like, you look at the lineup on the screen when you're watching on S&P and like in the past few years, you see like two guys with an OPS maybe above 725.
And now you got so many guys that are over 700.
today's lineup, not so great.
It was a Sunday lineup.
It's one of those day games and give people day off or whatever.
But like you got Brandon Lowe with an 841.
You got Reynolds with 889, like we said.
Gonzalez with 719.
O'Hearn 804.
Callihan even.
that's a small sample size, but he's still at 868 OPS.
But it's just, it's such a relief to see a team with competitive bats in Pittsburgh because we haven't seen it in a while.
But anyway.
This team was easy to pitch to.
Yeah.
If you basically avoided Reynolds, Cruz, and Cutch, right?
And two out of the three of them were slumping at any given time over the past because they weren't getting pitched to.
They'd get frustrated.
And they'd start, swinging for stuff that they probably normally wouldn't swing.
And yeah, now it's like, all right, don't pitch to Brandon Lowe.
Reynolds is going to make you pay.
Don't pitch to Reynolds.
O'Hearn is going to make you pay.
Horwitz, Griffin, on and on.
there's a bunch of guys on this team that can hit.
Right.
Well, Doug, let's get to some business before we get over.
Ryan hates the red hat.
Okay.
Before we get to business, I just need to say the red is a great touch to the Pirates uniform and you need to get over it.
It's great.
But anyway, let's get to some business here.
And when we come back, we'll talk more about the Pirates pitching in the bullpen and how scary that was, even though they did seal the deal.
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Can't believe my guy Sean is not with me with the red on the Pirates hat.
I'm with Sean.
Sorry, I'm too good for you guys.
Yeah, they introduced the red because kids respond to red, and that was a way to sell a bunch of stuff when nobody.
So, Doug, it worked.
Yeah, it did.
Look at you.
Yeah.
That's my arrow.
You know what?
What I like better, Neil wears the hat.
It's got the, this logo, but in all yellow.
And I love that.
I love that.
I love this logo.
I did.
Although that logo never experienced a winning season, so.
Right.
But let's get to the pitching here, Doug.
And let's look at the end of Chandler's outing here.
I know you said you wanted him to go longer.
He goes five and a third in that top of the sixth.
He gets Naylor to fly out, which getting Naylor to not be a problem in a game is like, the fact that he hasn't been a problem this whole series, because leading up to this, he'd been a problem in every series leading up.
He was just a non-factor.
But he gets Naylor to fly out.
And then a Rosarena, singles, and that's when they pull Bubba.
Personally, though, I know you said you wanted him to go longer.
I think this was a great spot to pull Bubba.
It gets iffy with the bullpen.
I get that.
But just the feel of the game, what's going on.
You only have a 3-1 lead at this point.
It's like if you were to let this game get out of hand with Bubba out there, if it did become a tie game, I would have even less faith in this bullpen to hold the runs where they are.
everything.
Listen, you want to get Bubba out on a good note.
there's a lot of reasons.
Donnie's got a very good argument, and he was proven correct.
So, like I said, I'm not going to go crazy.
Just my preference is, I want to see him, maintain his focus.
And, look, like I said, the fifth inning was a little scary, right?
It was, it was a bases-loaded situation.
So, like I said, I'm not going to quibble or complain about it.
My preference would have been to leave him in, like I said, on a one-hitter basis.
Like, if you get this guy, fine.
And, but – and, again, that's helping the growth and maturation for Bubba and also to avoid this bullpen because you were bringing in Evan Sisk with a man on base, and he's not very good with men on base.
Yep, and then what happens, Doug?
He gives up a single to Rayleigh.
Then he gets a four – a fielder's choice.
The runners are at first and third with Kool Young.
And then he hits Garver, but then he gets out of it with an Emerson ground out.
Definitely a scary situation.
I know – I think DiNardo has been the one pounding the drum for Sisk.
Maybe not in the high-leverage spots, but he's been saying, Sisk has been good.
Sisk has been good.
Sisk was a little shaky today.
All right.
All right.
So, he's facing – he's a left-handed pitcher facing a lefty Rayleigh who hits 125 against Rayleigh.
Let's see him on base, right?
Then it's – he said he gets young.
Garver is a 186 hitter, and he hits him.
And Emerson, too.
It's like – and this is part of the reason – part of the reason I would have let Bubba go is because you're at the bottom at this lineup, and it's like, but whatever.
So, yeah.
Evans is – does eventually get out of it.
the results.
In the end, I say this all the time.
You can give me all your peripherals and all your advanced analytics.
Did they win the game?
Did they score the run?
Did they get the person out type thing?
Like I said, you can have a swing and a miss, swing and a miss, and then a home run, and you have an excellent whiff rate on that at bat, right?
that's – but the results, again, the results were that it worked.
Donnie, he made the right call.
in the end, it turned out.
Well, Doug, luckily, you're doing a post-game show with me today, and you've been saved from the advanced analytics because that stuff is a little rich for my blood.
Yeah.
But, yeah, you have a good point there with it being the bottom of the order.
it could have been a good opportunity for Bubba to stay in.
But me – for me, feel the game.
Like, that's what we say sometimes with the advanced analytics is these managers need to feel the game more than following the analytics.
And feeling the game, at least from my seat here in my office, it felt like, okay, get Bubba out so it ends on a high note, and he doesn't blow up.
And that way, you can continue to ride this corner turning for him, and he continues to be solid.
But, yeah.
Yeah.
I can't argue that at all.
Right.
I just – it's – this was a great game.
You got good starting pitching.
You got good relief.
You got – you got an early lead, and then they added on in the late innings.
Like, sign me up for 162 of these.
Right.
And then Sisk goes into the top of the seventh.
He gets Crawford to ground out, but then he walks Rayleigh, which, sure, Rayleigh hasn't been good this year.
Or great, I should say.
But, don't want to put a guy on there.
You don't want to walk him.
It doesn't matter who he is.
So then Sisk has to be pulled.
Ramirez comes in, and then Yohan.
Yohan, I've been – I've had your back all season, man.
And he comes in, and it's just not good.
He goes a third of an inning.
He has two walks.
He only sees three batters.
And it was rough.
It was rough to watch.
That was the point of the game where you're like, oh, no.
Like, this is about to blow up.
And then you have Montgomery come in after him.
And even Montgomery hasn't been the most solid reliever.
And he was supposed to be one of those guys that was supposed to come into the season turning a quarter.
Nobody on this team has been a most solid reliever.
Nobody.
I know.
again, they'll have moments of brilliance where you're like, oh, yeah, and that's why, you know.
And then lots of shaky moments as well.
But then Montgomery comes in.
He comes in, and he puts our nerves to rest, Doug.
He gets Ref Snyder, who pinch hit for Rayleigh, to fly out.
And then in the eighth, he strikes out Young, gets Garver to ground out, and then Emerson strikes out.
So Montgomery, he's trying to put us at ease, Doug.
He's trying to be like, hey, I'm not that bad.
I don't think any of them, honestly, I don't think any of them are as bad as they have pitched.
I agree.
it's just, it's something that happens with Pittsburgh Pirates.
last year, the whole offense took a step back.
Every single player regrets.
And this, again, it's like, how did all these guys go into a slump at one time?
The whole bullpen, it just went bad at one time.
So, but, it worked today.
And it's, listen, for the last, we, the bullpen has been pretty decent lately.
We haven't had any of these heartbreaking, oh, my gosh, it's the worst loss of the year.
I'm now saying that for the eighth time, right?
Right.
Yeah, it was just, you still just need one of these guys to step up and be like, yo, I'm the lockdown guy.
And honestly, from what we've seen, I'd have to put my money on Mlodzinski, even though they still have him in a weird role where he's scheduled, not going less innings.
But it's a weird situation with him.
I think I did see somewhere that he, everybody thinks that he wants to be scheduled out this way.
But he, in an interview, was like, no, like, this isn't working.
We need to fix it.
And that's what it seems like they're doing, putting him in this slightly different role that we saw yesterday.
Yeah.
Jim on the post-game show, he was complaining about it.
And the chat was real, they didn't like him going three innings yesterday, especially in 11-1.
And it didn't bother me that much.
But then as we're watching today's game, I'm like, oh, it really would have been nice if Mlodzinski only pitched an inning and we could bring him in for an inning today.
Yeah.
Right.
Yeah.
And, like, it's a good point.
Like, you had, what, at that point, what was the Pirates' lead yesterday at that point?
What, 9-1 or something like that?
Something like that.
Yeah, it was commanding.
You really didn't need him.
You didn't need him to stay in and get the save, which I didn't even realize that was a save situation.
You're up by 8-1.
If you pitch, three innings, you get a save.
You could be up 25-0, and it's a save.
There's so many roles about baseball.
It's weird.
It's silly.
Jerome Holtzman.
Jerome Holtzman created the save stat.
He was an old columnist for the Chicago Tribune.
Great writer.
So, it was a good stat, but it has, like, all baseball stats, there are some flaws to it.
Right.
It was just very weird, because, like, what was he, whatever.
That was yesterday's game.
We're not going to talk about it.
But it had impact on today's game, right?
It did have impact on today's game.
He could have come in today.
He wasn't needed.
All works out.
Donnie is manager of the past two days.
I don't know if he's manager of the week quite yet, but he's at least manager of the past two days.
And he got his hundreds.
he worked his way to 100.
Yeah.
Gregory Soto comes in to finish it off.
How many losses does he have?
Soto?
No.
How many losses does Donnie Kelly have?
Oh, I have no clue, Doug.
But to finish it out, Soto comes in.
He has 17 pitches, 12 of those for strikes.
So, he's pretty dope.
He did have one strikeout.
He got Crawford to ground out.
Raleigh, or Raleigh, sorry, strikes out.
And then Rodriguez flies out to end the game.
And, Doug, what do you take away from this Mariner series?
I think there's a lot of positives.
what Earl Weaver used to say, momentum is your next day starting pitcher.
Bob didn't even know there was an app until a few days ago because there wasn't an app until a few days ago.
It's fresh.
It's fresh.
It's new.
Go get it.
There's a link in the description here on YouTube.
Go check it out.
It's on the Apple Store and Google Play.
Go get it.
It's a good time.
But, anyway, Doug, let's get out of here.
We're almost at 40 minutes.
We'll be back tomorrow.
We'll be back tomorrow.
All my shows go long.
Yeah.
Tonight, we've got an NS9 Live with the guys.
The big three.
We've got a lot to discuss.
So, anyway, we'll see you later.
Bye-bye.
Let's go.
All right.
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