MARINERS POSTCAST: Seattle Mariners ONE WIN AWAY FROM ALCS after Game 3 win over Detroit Tigers

MARINERS POSTCAST: Seattle Mariners ONE WIN AWAY FROM ALCS after Game 3 win over Detroit Tigers

This is the Mariners Post Cast, your instant game reaction for the Seattle Mariners, part of the Locked On podcast network, your team every day. Well, it was never gonna be just easy, get through everything, complete dominant win. That’s just not the way Mariners do it. It’s It’s just not. So, I love honestly staying on brand. Uh, Christopher, are you changing your channel to the locked on Mariners post? Uh, I’m changing my channel from not a replay of Wisconsin vers Michigan. I’ll tell you that one. I don’t need I love G with with the best of them, but I’m not watching a replay of that when I can watch Blue Jays Yankees. Yeah, that’s fair. Welcome to the Mariners post. Anderson Hurst, Chris Crawford with you. 8 to4 Mariner win in game three of the ALDS. The Mariners are one win away from the American League Championship Series. Uh, lots of good today. Lots of good, a few bad, but I almost all good today. Um, Aueno Suarez had an awesome game. Uh, both sides of the ball. Uh, you get MVP Cal Dump. Cal Dumper. I I’ve done that like three times. Called Cal Raleigh’s first home run of this postseason. Uh you get a couple really good JP Crawford at bats including a home run of his own as well. Uh Logan Gilbert was nails. Um but uh we’ll talk about all of that. We’ll talk about the implications moving forward looking at the second game of the day with uh the Yankees in Toronto and what time uh the ALDS game four will be uh tomorrow. But I first want to hear Chris Crawford and his thoughts on this game. I hate that I think like this. I really do. It’s not healthy. It’s not the way that you should. I kept thinking when they were up 8 to1, not that they were going to blow it. And guys, it’s so funny the way we panic about stuff. Like you give up three runs and it’s still a grand sl. I get it. Especially in the postseason, too, right? Like everything is just heightened so much. But that’s also what I hate is that I keep thinking this series should be over. This series should absolutely be over. if you play a better game, if you don’t make that massive mistake Dan Wilson makes, you sweep. You sweep. And some people brought up to me that like, hey, you don’t know that. Maybe things go different on Sunday because you win. Maybe the Tigers manage that game differently. Whatever. I can’t help but think it. But that’s unhealthy. Let’s talk about something that is healthy. This team played an excellent baseball game today. Excellent. It was so fun to see so many different contributors in this one because let’s be honest, it was two guys who were well three three guys who were contributing for you. Um not including the starters, but especially offensively. There were so many good at bats tonight. Even the ones that didn’t end up with hits. There were a ton of great at bats tonight. The bullpen sans one guy pitched outstanding today. Logan Gilbert was absolutely fantastic. Now you’re one win away from going somewhere that you haven’t gone in 24 years. And how many times have we said that now this year, Anders? It’s been 24 years since we did this. It’s been 24 years since you did that. You might as well add one more to it. So then you’re one step away from doing something that you have absolutely never done. This was an awesome win. Awesome. Awesome win. Um man, there’s a lot of good shouts for Unsung Hero, which we’ll get to by the end of uh this episode. So, comment in the live chat who you guys think your unsung hero of the day was. Um, overall, let’s start with the start, Logan Gilbert, man. Uh, his split and his slider was working today. Uh, I was a little worried about, you know, I don’t want to say, maybe I was in hindsight wrong to be as worried as I was about him going into today because he actually does better against lefties, uh, than any, uh, right-handed pitcher in the Mariners, uh, you know, staff. So, um, you know, the Carpenter leadoff thing that everyone was talking about did and did not end up mattering whatsoever. Uh Riley Green has still struggled um in this series and part in part because Logan Gilbert was so nasty today. Uh but man, like he was so so good. Good to see him get some efficiency, too, which is something we haven’t really seen a ton this year. He could have gone longer. I’m surprised they with the lead, but you know, I I don’t mind the urgency to be like, “Nope, we got to close this out like we normally do.” And it ended up working out. But talk about Logan Gilbert’s outing today. He was awesome. He was absolutely awesome. And the key for Logan Gilbert all year has been avoiding the big inning. Avoiding that one inning that takes away, you know, if you have if you go six innings and you have one bad inning, it can turn a great start into a mediocre start. If you go five innings and if you have one bad inning, it can turn a solid start into a pretty below average one. So on and so forth. Well, there was one chance for a big inning. One chance. And he was able to get through it. You know, with runners on first and third, he makes a terrific pitch on what should have been a double play to get you out there the inning, but you’re up four nothing. There’s runners on first and third, one out. The one guy that really scares you on this offense right now is Carrie Bonds, Carrie Carpenter. The one guy that you feel like, oh, this guy can do some damage right now. I’m not afraid of anybody else on that Tigers team. I’m sorry. It’s It’s just not a great lineup. And Logan Gilbert took advantage of it. He gets out of that inning with just the one run. And what I really loved was that was the fifth, right, that they get one run. I’m looking bottom five right now. And then the sixth inning, he just absolutely shoved. Absolutely shoved. He did not take that inning with him whatsoever. Just an awesome ace-like performance from the guy who has the best aceability on your staff. And that’s an there’s a lot of guys who are capable of doing really good things on this staff, but when Logan Gilbert’s on and particularly when he has that splitty working, he’s just so difficult to hit. And he was absolutely outstanding tonight. And you know what I love too, because he was so good and efficient today. If you need him for game five, Logan Gilbert’s going to be there. Logan Gilbert is going to be available for if you need him for game five. Here’s hoping that we don’t. Here’s hoping we can save him for game one of the ALCS against either the Blue Jays or Yankees. Um, still kind of looking like the Blue Jays, but yeah, Logan Gilbert was phenomenal. Yeah. And you mentioned the the fifth inning going into the sixth inning. I I just want to point out how and so much in baseball you can look at individual performances, right? And it’s understandably so. It’s probably the most individual team sport um of all the major American sports that you have. Um, so it’s it’s easy to fall into that category, but there still are moments where you can pick your team up, have a team at bat, uh, like a team situation, right? And I look at in the bottom of the fifth inning where JP Crawford was at fault for the missed, uh, double play that could have ended the inning and prevented the run, goes out and be like, you know what? Nah, I’m going to get it back for you. I’m going to hit that home run. Yeah. And I think that’s honestly what gave a lot of uh confidence back to Logan Gilbert is like the run I just gave up in that quote unquote big inning last time to get it right back. It’s it’s gone. So I’m basically right where I was at square one. So uh yeah, I moments like that for me are what kind of separate this Mariners team from the last couple years. Um when you and then JP Crawford again hits the sack fly later in the game. There’s just lots of team at bats, team moments in this uh run so far for the Mariners that I that I really love. So yeah, comment on that. How do you how do you feel about that evaluation? Yeah, that the um it was the most complete game that they’ve played in this series, which is pretty obvious. I know the score ends up being 84, guys. No, it wasn’t. They dominated this baseball game for the overwhelming majority of it. They score three absolute garbage time runs. The Blake Bortles runs that I like to call them from the Jacksonville Jaguars when they’d be down by 60 and somehow score 24 points. No, it it it was a dominating effort because it was a dominating team effort. You got contributions from really everyone. And the funny thing is the two guys that carry you on Saturday are or excuse me on Sunday have their worst games of the series by a long shot. Julio 0 for five. Palano 0 for four does draw a walk. But you you felt good in those at bats even too. You felt good. You didn’t say, “Oh, this is moment’s too big for anybody or anything like that.” Everybody has a big moment, I think, in this game outside of maybe Julio, which is it’s just really cool. And I think that the point you made about that double play, um, you know, that’s a throw JP Crawford has to make, and that’s still the most concerning thing for me for this team right now. It’s just the infield defense scares the crap out of me. It scares the ever loving crap out of me, but you make up for it, and you just clobber that home run. Uh, before we get into uh, second half, can we just quickly go through the other bullpen arms today? Yeah, like Matt Brash was phenomenal and super efficient. Edward Bazardo for Logan Reinhardt is one of the best trades the Seattle Mariners have ever made. And I had to look up who it was they got from Baltimore. Logan Reinhardt, excuse me, who they gave to Baltimore to get him because oh my gosh, was that stuff filthy. And then Munoz, a nice clean job. A very nice play from Josh Naylor to make sure that that game is put away. I don’t want to go too crazy with the Caleb Ferguson hate. I mean, I know it wasn’t good. He w he was overthrowing. He didn’t have his best command. He was fine in game one. He was totally fine in game one. Am I trusting him in a high leverage situation? Absolutely not. Neither are the Mariners. It was eight to one. It was an 8-1 game. That is the time to use that guy. Caleb Ferguson can still be a helper for this bullpen. But it’s got to be just lefties. Just lefties from now on. And that was the curious part about it for me was he he came up against I have to look what part of the lineup it was for. I think it was 912. Well, and Carpenter and then Torres, which was his his spot in the lineup, which again, you got to expect some maybe. Actually, no, it started with Torres. No, it was No, it was it started with Colt Keith technically and then they pinch hit Jake Rogers for him. He gets the single up the middle. Better middle infielder maybe makes the play and then he walks. That’s the big thing. You can’t walk anyone when you’re up by seven. You can’t you cannot walk anyone. Then Torlson, then McKinstry, and McKinstry gets pinch hit for for bias. I I’m having a tough time getting too upset about that usage. I I really am. I get it. It’s such a big Every moment in the post scene is big. There’s no such thing as um consolation stuff, right? Everything matters here. But I have no issue with going to Caleb Ferguson there, especially because like Jake Rogers beats you. Okay. And for those who are really worried about burning Munoz, quote unquote, guys, you have off days, okay? You if you use your high leverage guy every game, that’s okay at this point in the year. Uh I like I’m not super worried about that. This is why they long played it throughout the entire year. Didn’t use him in three straight days. So, and he still looked great today. So, and it’s not like he threw a bunch of pitches. I’m still looking at what he threw nine pitches. He’s going to be totally fine for tomorrow. In fact, he’ll not only be fine for tomorrow, he’ll be fine for two innings for you tomorrow if you really need it. So, all of those guys are going to be just fine. That’s the nice thing about having the off day between game two and game three. Everything’s okay. Yeah. And like we’re not saying Ferguson was good by any stret the eight-run lead at that point, right? Or the seven run lead, I guess you could say. Exactly. So, like, okay, that’s if that’s when you have your bad decision, I’m okay with that, guys. Let’s let’s let’s kind of uh let’s chill on that stuff. But locks it down. Mariners get the win 8 to4 against the Detroit Tigers in game three via ALDS. One win away from the ALCS. I am smelling blood in the water and I hope the Mariners are too uh tomorrow. Let’s hope they can go get this done. Come on. I would love to not have to come home for a game five. Honestly, as weird as that sounds, I would love to not have to come home for a game. No doubt. So, uh, all right. We’ll give some quick love to our sponsors. When we come back, we’ll talk about our unsung heroes, some more offensive performances that we can chat about if anything, uh, sticks out to Chris Crawford, our expert on the show, and, uh, and then we’ll kind of break it all down looking ahead to the rest of the series here on the Mariners Podcast. Most people can’t name all their financial accounts or even what they’re worth, whether it’s 401ks, properties, or investments. And when you don’t have the full picture, you can end up leaving money on the table. That’s why there’s Monarch Money. 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And I know he shortarms the throw there, but I gotta go with JP Crawford. Just a terrific offensive game from him. And I think, you know, I felt great. I never actually lost any confidence in this game whatsoever. Even when they uh didn’t score in the first couple of innings, I felt pretty darn good about this being a W for them. But when JB Crawford hit that home run to make it 5-1, I was like, “All right, this is over. This is over. This is just over.” And I love redemption. And the Seattle Mariners have been a story of redemption in games all year long because there was no reason for him to rush that throw on that double play. And it was almost a terrific play by Josh Naylor. Real quick, Josh Naylor, I know he goes hitless today. Oh, did he look so much better today. So much better. So much better. And you know, I understand there’s a lot going on in his mind, and I’m not going to blame him one bit for having other things to think about, but he clearly was more comfortable at the plate today. Just misses a homer today. Had some really good at bats. Made some really nice defensive plays, including the one to end the game today. But my sung hero is JP Crawford. JP Crawford had an absolutely terrific baseball game today. Yeah, I’m gonna take the easy one and go Gino just because I think it’s so important for him to get going. If he is anywhere close to the hitter that he can be and guys like this is what he does. He goes through stretches where he looks lost at the plate or I say looks lost, he just strikes out a lot. Uh and and then he goes through stretches where he, you know, bombs everything that he hits and then even taking the walk today as well. Yeah, he’s when he’s on, he can carry an offense. And right now he’s your what, one, two, three, four, five, debatably sixth best hitter, right? Uh on your team, which is that’s a great spot for him to be. He’s not in pressure to carry, but he can if you need him to if you need him to come through. And I still I honestly want to point out his defense as well. How about on the bunt? He goes down the third baseline, bare hands it, and puts a perfect throw uh to Josh Naylor. I’ve been really impressed with his defense, him and Palano, to be completely honest. Both of those guys have defended their position really, really well. I love what Ahanos Suarez is doing. How about your unsung hero, Chris Coft? Uh, I’m gonna go with Victor Robles because I think that double was so big, so big to uh set everything up. And I know, boy, if he gets thrown out at the plate on that play, we might be having a different story. Oh yeah. Uh but he doesn’t and he gets a great jump and he gets there. By the way, Yankees just took a 76 lead on a Yazeraldo Chisum Jr. run. Um I’m going to go with Victor Robles. I could also go with like Logan Gilbert, right? Like that sunk, too. But like he was so freaking good today and put you in such a good position for tomorrow because tomorrow is going to be a really interesting game. I I don’t know if they’ve announced if it’s Bryce Miller starting or not yet, but it’s going to be Bryce Miller on the map. He’s going to have the shortest leash of shortest leashes. He is going to be Jack Flity like today, but even shorter probably. Well, you know what’s funny is I think that it’s f This is the first game I think Dan Wilson outmanaged AJ Hinch. I agree. I don’t understand why Jack Flity was still in that game. Don’t understand it at all. And it, you know, it’s not the exact reason they lost because they ended up getting Mollywap tonight. But um he outmanaged him and but Bryce Miller has to be on such a short leash. Everybody’s going to be Craig says here Miller three innings. I’m not even 100% sure you get that. You’re going to get one time through the lineup. If it looks great, he might get a second time. He might. If not, as soon as it starts to be shaky, you got it. As soon as it’s shaky, you have to knowing what you have coming on Sunday or excuse me on Friday. I keep thinking it’s a weekend series, but knowing what you have coming and knowing that you hopefully have something coming Sunday. Oh, you’ve got to be really short with it. But because Logan Gilbert gave you six innings because he was so good, you have a chance now to have all hands on deck for at least two more games. Yep. Uh I’m I’m going to agree with you with the unsung hero Victor Robus. more of an unsung moment is actually that base running play because that’s the first run of the game. Yeah. Uh it’s super heads up base running by him. If he if you watch the video, he reacts. Yeah. Instantly as soon as it goes through Dingler’s legs, he is off because if he’s a half a second late to that, he is out. And that is a terrible missed opportunity, but he instantly reacts to it. That’s amazing instincts. Great base running. We won’t talk about him getting thrown out at third base to end. Yeah, that was a little that was a little that was a little silly. That was I think him wanting us to get to bed at an early hour. I I appreciate that. I’m fine with that. Hey, unsung hero for that. Yeah, and you know what’s funny? 2124 2125. We haven’t brought up Cal Raleigh hit a home run, his 61st home run. Seeing that guy catch that ball and I know it’s on a bounce that has a dump here shirt with the 6-1 on it. Oh my god, that is I thought Adam Wayright, who by the way, Adam Wayright is so fantastic and the other two are so freaking bad. Um, I’m sorry. Locked on. I’m sorry if if you have a sponsorship. I’m sorry. You don’t so much better than even John Smoltz. It’s not even close. It’s not even close. Adam Wright is going to be the best announcer until he milkshake ducks and we find out that he actually hates baseball. Um, Cal Raleigh, man, he’s so freaking good. He played such a terrific baseball game today. He called an awesome game. Called the splits. I’m going to be honest with you, these first two games were not my favorite called games from Cal Raleigh. There were some pitch selections that really bugged me. This was so good. So good from Big Dumper. And that’s why even as I watch Aaron Judge carry his offense right now, Cal Raleigh is the MVP of the American League. Gosh damn it. MVP. Comment MVP in the chat to agree with Chris Crawford because I completely agree with him. Also like the video if you haven’t already and subscribe if you haven’t already. This is the Mariners post. We go live after every single Mariner game. Uh you can catch Tai and Kobe unlocked on Mariners. I believe they’ll have an episode coming up late tonight. Uh but we’re your instant reaction right after the game. Come hang out. Every single Mariner game will be here with you guys. Really appreciate it. Mariners win 84 to take game three of the ALDS. One win away from the ALCS. Just one more. And then you keep going from there. These guys are not done yet. Chris Crawford, I’ll give you the last word before we get out of here. Just one more. Just one. One more.

Anders and Chris break down the pivotal Game 3 of the American League Division Series between the Seattle Mariners and Detroit Tigers. Logan Gilbert was outstanding. The offense got contributions up and down the lineup. They’re now a win away from the ALCS. Neat!

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