How the Mariners and Logan Gilbert Can END the ALCS in Game 6!

How the Mariners and Logan Gilbert Can END the ALCS in Game 6!

The Mariners have announced their starting pitcher for game six. Joe and I are going to talk about the Mariners versus Trey Ya Savage and what they’re going to have to do in game six after we give you our FanDuel favorites because the odds have actually shifted now that the Mariners have announced a starter. We’re then going to give you the three keys to game six and what I think are kind of the most important parts of this game for the Mariners. And then we will talk about game seven if necessary and who we think might start there. I don’t think anything’s been announced for game seven yet, but if you know, heaven forbid we have to play a game seven, we will talk about that. Thank you guys so much for watching episode 241 of the Hit It Here podcast, part of the Believe Network and presented by FanDuel. And this is the Logan Gilbert episode of the podcast. We need Logan, who is your game six starter, to to to come out there and be Walter. We need it. We need a great start out of Logan so that the offense can get get cooking against Treya Savage and Joe. I think we might just get that. It all starts today. You need to to send all your energy to Logan, all your energy to allow him to turn into Walter. I heard from a bird, Colton, not a Blue Jay, though, a different kind of bird, that if you like and you subscribe and you leave a fivestar review, it it sends good vibes and it gives the Mars a better chance to win this in six instead of having it go to a seventh game. That’s just what I heard, though. I’m not, you know, I’m not here to confirm, you know, spreading it. Yeah. Are we willing to risk it? I don’t think so. Over on FanDuel, the odds shifted slightly. It was plus 100 and for the Mariners money line and minus 118 for the Blue Jays when we recorded yesterday’s episode. Now that with Logan Gilbert announced the money lines have shifted a little bit against the Mariners which is interesting. Still the underdogs still what we expected there just with how good the Blue Jays have been at home. And that’s not, you know, I think any any surprise there, but plus 108 for the Mariners and minus 126 for the Blue Jays. Overunder still stays the same at seven and a half. I get that Logan have a great start in game two, but seeing it shift in a negative direction, I guess, if you want to view it that way. It’s a little funky when we’re talking about plus money, talking about a negative direction, but going against the Mariners making them more underdogs with Logan Gilbert, who we all know going into the season was the expected best pitcher overall on the roster as far as starting pitchers are concerned. So, it’s just kind of an interesting dichotomy of where oddsmakers and stuff is at when thinking about Logan Gilbert. And of course, it just I think hinges on how poor and just how ineffective he was in that second game of the LCS where he did not make it very deep into that start. But again, it was also on short rest. So, something to note there. But I keep sleeping on the tall man. That’s all you got to say. Just keep sleeping on him. That’s right. I mean, Logan only went three innings pitched, five hits, three earned. I’m sorry, three runs, two earned. I mean, it wasn’t a great start for Logan. If you guys remember, the Mariners took him out. It was kind of an interesting move. We didn’t really know how we felt about it, but then the Mariners offense came through and kind of made it a moot point there. Interestingly enough, over on FanDuel, if we’re sending Logan all of our good vibes and you guys want to make some money, not betting advice, by the way, you guys want to make some money, just think if he gets all the good vibes from you guys liking this podcast, Logan Gilbert to pitch an immaculate inning at plus 25,000. I’m just saying. I’m just saying. Like, I don’t know if you guys want to take that bet. Hopefully you guys all liked the podcast to make sure that uh he gets he gets that energy going. But Logan go to record three plus strikeouts in the first inning is at plus 900 strikeout which honestly Yeah. Which honestly seems like like it should be much higher than plus 900. Plus 900. You’re looking at probably plus like 1500 with how low of a strikeout just in general total that the like the blue like the Blue Jays have not struck out really at all in this series. It’s like would you rather take Logan Gilbert to strike out the side or just his his just his straight out like player strikeout line at it’s literally set at three and a half over or under. So it’s like you take the the three in the first inning and you’re pretty much setting yourself up for success to hedge your bet with with an over if he does get there. But the way that the Blue Jays have been striking out, he mentioned it in the press or that happened today that we’re recording this team just does not strike out a lot. So that overunder being set at three and a half, it’s very bizarre to see for Logan Gilbert seeing him at plus money for five plus strikeouts. Again, I’ve talked about it in the in the podcast before during a different FanDuel segment, but the the way the reason why pitcher strikeouts can be a little bit finicky in the postseason is because they’re not always going to pitch the normal six, seven innings that we’re used to seeing them go. It’s a short leash and maybe that’s why we’re looking at Logan Gilbert five plus strikeouts for an alt strikeout line at plus money at plus 122. It’s It’s a very different brand of baseball. Postseason is. Yeah. And overall, again, we already tal we already talked about how the game odds shifted. So did the ALCS odds, I’m pretty sure. I don’t think they were this when we were recorded the other day, but minus 290 now for the Mariners and at plus 245 for the Blue Jays. I want to say one of those was up over 300. I don’t remember exactly what it was off the top of my head, but yeah, I mean, it’s gotten a little bit closer in that regard, too. And like you mentioned, it’s just people sleeping on the tall man. And I think that it’s an interesting situation to be in because at the same time, the Mariners kind of handled Trey Savage in that game. And these two faced off earlier. It was on what would you say? It was a Monday and the Mariners took that game 10 to three. And I already mentioned Logan’s line, but for Treya Savage, four innings pitched, four hits, five earned runs, uh, three walks in that one, and four strikeouts. But the Mariners, I mean, again, Logan didn’t have a great start either, but neither did Trey Savage. And so, why are we looking at it like, oh, well, Y Savage had maybe I would consider it a worse start than Logan. And yet, we’re we’re saying the Mariners are the underdogs simply because you’re facing the Blue Jays at home. And the Blue Jays have been so good at home. The Mariners have also been so good at home. I want to go back and think really quick about the series versus the Blue Jays earlier in the year and in Toronto and then the series versus the Blue Jays at home and things are kind of similar to what we’re seeing right now in the postseason. The Mariners took care of business in Toronto this year when they went there. That was when Rowdy Tles was hitting a grand slam, you know, in the 12th inning. Rowdy just had a fantastic um couple of games. So did Cal when they were in Toronto. And then on the flip side of that, Toronto came in to Seattle in I want what was that like May or something like that. It was when when the nine series winning streak ended. Toronto came in and swept the Mariners at home. And that is more or less what we have seen from this series so far. It’s been like the the exact same thing. Now you’re heading back to Toronto with Trey Savage on the mound. somebody that you were able to get to and you have your supposed to be ace and this time he’s on full rest. Listen, the Blue Jays offense is incredible. They’re incredible at home as well. Like I said, both teams have been incredible at home this year. Both teams struggled at home against each other during the regular season. Now they’ve both struggled against each other at home in the postseason. Can you say that all of a sudden homefield advantage doesn’t matter? It doesn’t matter. It feels that way. Like, yeah, it it’s weird to think about because again, both teams were so good at home. Yeah. Both teams sucked at home so far in this series. I don’t know. I don’t know what to make of it. It’s one of the I I don’t think that there’s a direct connection for anything that would provide any sort of like logic behind it where I’m sure both teams felt and the fans in general felt a a reasonable amount of confidence and with the offense for the Mariners showing up more so on the road. I guess it’s just you look at game two because the offense in game game one wasn’t necessarily this big outpouring. It was just the pitching was all that much better but they only allowed two hits. The offense scored three runs in that game which was enough to get it done. But you look at the 10 runs scored in the second game, which is the one that we’re trying to kind of take at the look look at the blueprint here and see how you can just replicate that because it’s the same exact pitching matchup between Logan versus Trey Savage. and you’re trying to see what worked in that start versus or what worked in that game compared to other games that you played in Toronto or other games that you started in the like in the postseason where you’re on the road and how the offense looked because throughout the season the Mariners offense yes it played well at home but it did enough on the road sometimes to where it would mitigate any issues that your pitching staff had which is as we all know the home road splits for the Mariners in the regular season at least on the pitching side were a big problem as far as when you’re trying to think about how this team is going to look in the postseason. And it really hasn’t felt as big of an issue where the starters that you’re like you you made direct you made intentional pitcher decisions with Logan Gilbert starting games on the road versus Luis Castio and George Kirby. That was an intentional decision. It didn’t matter in games three and four in the championship series specifically. They both got lit up at home largely because of the way that the Blue Jays offense operates, which is a high contact, low strikeout team. Logan Gilbert, your best pitcher in terms of strikeout percentage and strikeouts per nine, the one that generates the most whiffs and has the arsenal that generates the most whiffs on your pitching staff. It bodess well in terms of especially thinking about him being on full rest what an actual postseason Logan Gilbert start would look like where he’s not giving up a ton of hard contact. Like he’s able to whiff batters. He’s got more control. A lot of the issues for Logan Gilbert in that second start or in that second game was he was in the middle of the zone consistently. He was not able to stay out of the middle of the zone. And I’m sure that’s probably one of your keys going into the next into the next into the next topic. So I won’t touch on it too much, but looking at the exit velocities from that game off of Logan Gilbert and off of Trey Savage, I mean, yes, Logan Gilbert did give up a 109. Like he gave up the top exit velocity the entire game. It was a ground out from Vlatty. You dodged the bullet that you didn’t hit that in the air. But Julio Rodriguez’s home run 106.9 off the bat. A home run. A an awful splitter that he took deep off of Treya Savage. A force out from Jorge Palano in the third inning. 104 off the bat. Yeah. Auanio Suarez in the third inning. A line out at 101 miles an hour. Like they weren’t missing the barrel a ton. They they were able to still generate a lot of hard contact on a guy like Y Savage who in the postseason didn’t seem like a lot of teams are going to be able to do that and they were able to do so and get him rattled and you can argue whether the walk to Randy or that that miss strike call whatever and then it hits doesn’t matter. I don’t think that that one iteration, that one instance changes the complexion of the game that much. So whether or not you’re going to argue, oh, it should have been 9 to3, I don’t think anyone that’s watching this is going to argue that because duh, we’re Mariners fans. It’s 10 to three all the way, baby. But it it it’s going to it’s going to come down to will the offense give you more? I think I think you’re looking at the offense to give you five runs. I think as every single game that you won in this series, aside from a pitcher master class on either side, your team scored more than five runs. Six runs in game five, 10 runs in game two. I’m I’m willing to erase game one as far as what we should expect from both sides of the offensive because I think both both offensive sides are awake at this point. It’s just a matter of whether or not they show up to the park. So, and and there’s a lot of X factors that go into it where Blue Jays offense can show up, but if Logan Gilbert is on his best is on his agame, it might they might cancel each other out. it might not matter. The the the thing that’s creeping in the back of our minds though is what happens if he does have another eh start? What is the scenario? What is the outcome? How does the offense react in that situation? Do we have to scramble in the bullpen? I don’t know. the way he was talking in the presser felt like he’s not it I don’t I don’t think that that is in the back of his mind at all because you’re not thinking about that. You’re just thinking about the next pitch. You’re thinking about the next time you’re coming into the game. 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Yeah, Joe Logan’s going to want to delete that game. I’m going to need him to delete all those sliding whatever. I don’t I’m not going to call them sliders. They were they were whatever those were. Cement mixers in the middle of the plate. Then it ended up for hits for the Blue Jays right down the middle. Logan has to get rid of that. And that’s my first key to the game. If Logan can stay out of the middle of the plate, I think that he’ll be in a much better spot. You have immovable force in Logan Gilbert, I’m sorry, in unstoppable force and immovable object in the Blue Jays. Logan strikes a lot of people out. Blue Jays don’t strike out a lot. Something has to give there. And for Logan specifically this year, you look at his percentile rankings and his ground ball percentage was at 30 in the 39th percentile, which is not great. He gives up a lot of fly balls, but he strikes a lot of people out. He’s got five different pitches. If you can get three of those five pitches working, I think that you can get a good start out of Logan Gilbert. I think that it’s important to make sure in the bullpen what’s working and what’s not. This is going to be Cal’s biggest test. Cal has to know what is working for Logan. So, when he is calling the game, he is calling the right pitches because Logan clearly in his last outing did not have a feel for the slider. And yet, we kept calling for it. pitches were leaking out over the middle of the plate. It’s like great. Like he needs to find it or scrap it for the rest of the game. Plain it simple because one swing could change the outcome of this game pretty easily on both sides of the ball because the Blue Jays are a very good offensive team. And vice versa, the Mariners, if you saw what Gino did, if Gino’s all of a sudden hot, that’s going to change things. But how do you feel about how do you feel about key number one? like like keeping the ball in the middle of the plate. I mean, duh, right? Location, location, location. Absolutely. It it goes for both sides. It’s not just Logan. I mean, if you want to look at the inverse of this, everything’s going to be true, I think, for both sides of of the coin here, where if the Blue Jays are missing locations, the Mirror’s offense better tattoo it. If Logan and and the rest of the pitching staff are missing locations, you better hope you got a defender there to glove it. In the first game, Logan only had five whiffs on a total of 34 swings. Not great. Of his sw like of the pitches, only one whiff on his slider and he threw that pitch. Let me see what am I looking at here. 33% of the time, 19 of his 58 pitches were sliders and only one swing and miss. Got 10 swings on it. just it was a lot in the zone. Of course, the splitter is the one that has the most whiff. Like it it had two whiffs among the swings that that were taken against Logan Gilbert. He threw the pitch 11 times. There’s just not a lot of data for pitch count in this one specifically because he did get into a lot of trouble. But when you see Logan Gilbert locating well and he’s able to play pitches off of one another, I think that’s where you see a lot of the swing and miss and the whiffs come into come into play. That was not the case in the second game. The location let him down more times than not specifically. And if he’s not locating, you need to be able to recognize that and either, like you said, scrap the pitch or you have to switch up the game plan completely or you have to turn to your bullpen early. I I don’t know if I would call this a key, but you is literally it feel to me this game feels like you need to use your weapons early like you need to use them maybe the earliest that we’ve seen. I’m not calling for Andres Munoz in the fourth inning, but that might be a situation where you go to brash or you go to Spire in the like we saw Spire go in the third inning when Castillo didn’t have it. And I think that Dan Wilson needs to be prepared to pull that trigger as soon as humanly possible as needed because this you don’t want this to go to a game seven. You have the off day now. Everyone’s going to be as rested as they’re ever going to be. the remainder of this series. It’s two games. Put all hands on deck to try and stop any chance of a game seven happening. I think a second key is to I don’t like what’s what’s the word? It it’s just utilize all your resources. I think for Dan Wilson like I’ve talked about how when he is dealt a great hand, he knows how to play it. assume from from pitch one Dan Wilson you’ve got pocket aces and just play your play the entire game like that because it’s going to come down to a situation where John Schneider goes to Brendan Little in game five. Do not go to a Brendan Little. Don’t go to Carlos Vargas in a big situation. Don’t go to I mean don’t go to anybody that’s not the the big four out of the 10 and then maybe Brian will like if we have to see Carlos Vargas in this game I I hope it’s because we’re up 12. No other reason. Yeah. I mean if Logan’s really bad and you’re all of a sudden down by like six, maybe you throw Vargas for a couple innings so that you could just be ready for a game seven because you’re right. I think that and it’s a situation where Dan has played it really well recently even after Bryce Miller was done. He went to Matt Brash in that situation as well with you know Gabe Spire etc. I I think that there’s a possibility that if Logan can give you let’s say five, let’s say Logan gives you five with less than three runs, three earned runs or three runs in general. Sure. I think that there is a possibility that the Mariners could turn it over then to a Bazardo for an inning or two and then if it follows that blueprint. The hard part is is when when the blueprint is not followed, Dan Wilson struggles. When when when the plan that is laid out is not followed, Dan Wilson struggles. You’re going to need the offense to pick you up in this one. I think that Brian Woo could have a chance to start game seven if need be, but we could talk about that in just a second. I think with with the way that this game is going to look to turn out, you’re going to need the offense to get to Treya Savage. And that is key number three is don’t be swinging out your ass versus Treya Savage. Listen, Trey Savage is good. He’s a good pitcher. He also I mean very short stint in the big leagues obviously, but he was in like the bottom 20% in walk rate in all of baseball. He walks a lot of guys. He walked three for the against the Mariners in his last start. If you’re willing to take your walks versus Trey Savage, you can get him into some unfavorable matchups. And we have seen time and time again, John Schneider go to the bullpen incorrectly. Just straight up wrong. He should have gone to Jeff Hoffman instead of Sir Anthony Dominguez. I don’t know why he didn’t. He should have gone to his closer with the bases loaded in the eighth inning, but he didn’t. You go to your You go to your best pitchers in that spot. We have seen Dan Wilson do that recently where, you know, Matt Brash came in like I think it was bases loaded or something like that or maybe it was Spire base, I don’t remember, but didn’t work out necessarily, but it happened. You need to you need to get Treya Savage out of this game as early as possible. If you can get his pitch count up, he only throws three pitches and 45% of the time it is his forseam fastball. Otherwise, he’s going to rely on a slider and a splitter. That slider is going to play up a lot more to right-handed hitters. That splitter is going to be a lot bigger factor versus the lefties. you can kind of just if it whatever side of the plate you’re on on you can maybe just eliminate either or and and then you’re you’re facing a two- pitch pitcher if you’re a lefty know the ball’s going to go straight or it’s going to drop you don’t need to be extended thinking it’s going to slide away from you if you’re a lefty because this ball will be coming into you so I think that for the Mariners if they can get Treya Savage out of the game early then get to that bullpen the Mariners have done some damage versus the bullpen in this series. And also keep in mind, Trey Savage, I mean, these are this is the most innings he’s ever thrown in a season, college or not. Yeah, he is up over a hundred now. And oh, he’s only like five or so innings above where he was last year, per se. But nonetheless, he is still I don’t know. I’m I’m not going to say that he is reaching the end of his rope or anything because it’s the playoffs. You find an extra gear. That’s just the way it works. Yeah. But if you’re able to work that pitch count against him, I think that you might be able to get him rattled a little bit and get him tired and get him out of the g that game early and get to that bullpen. Looking at the box scores for the first two games in game one, Mars obviously three runs, seven hits. They did have three walks. So they were on base 10 times, we’ll call it in in game one where they scratched across three runs. 10 hits in game two with five or six walks in total. So like 16 runners on base. The games that the the Blue Jays won, games three and four, lots of traffic, lots of hits, double digit hits. I think the an outlier game is game five where Blue Jays had traffic all night. Bryce Miller was able to dance around it most of the evening and just the pitching staff in general limited a lot of the damage. I think that’s also the case in games one and two more so game one where you think back to the the damage caused it’s George Springer first pitch home run Anthony Santandere hit and that was it the entire rest of the game you held the somehow someway seven eight nine hitters of the Blue Jays hitless in game one and now it seems like you can’t even buy an out against those guys in the order in game do. They had six hits in total as a team. It’s not bad. Three of those came from Nathan Lucas. He went three for four. George Springer checked in with a hit. Kirk checked in with a hit. Ernie Clement checked in with a hit. None of the usual suspects or at least what it’s felt like is the usual suspects in games three and four with Vlatty obviously breaking his O for streak. 0 for seven. He started this series. Now he’s unstoppable. It seems like Andre Jimenez two huge two-run home runs. IKF did not start either of the two first games. Makes his way into Seattle and checks in with some production. Kirk obviously had a hit in this one. We we saw Barger hit a home run in like the the Blue Jays have gotten production at every stop of their lineup when they’ve been playing in Seattle. In Toronto for whatever reason that was not the case. How can you get back to that? What can you do to keep them off balance? And I think it’s not necessarily, we’re not really continuing any keys. I’m not adding a fourth key. It’s just more so echoing a lot of you want the Mariners to make Trey Savage uncomfortable. You need the Mariners pitching staff to make the Blue Jays batters uncomfortable. And Logan Gilbert, I think, has the Arsenal to do that with his splitter that just falls off the table if his fast ball and slider are playing up. And I think the full rest does help him in that scenario. But Colton, you talked about Brian Woo. I’m in the camp that I want him to pitch in game six in a winning scenario. Right. Okay. Do you want him to be available for game seven and not pitch him if you are in a winning scenario? It depends on the situation. If Logan Gilbert gives you three and you need innings, then sure, go to Brian Woo. But if Logan gives you five, six innings and you can turn it over, you can bridge it for to Bizardo, Spire, Brash Munoz. Awesome. Then do that and save Brian Woo in case and that way it’s all hand because the relievers will be good to go the next day. More than likely Brian Woo if he goes on in game six, he probably can’t pitch again in game in in game. They’re not going to have him go backtoback days, I don’t think. Yeah. So then you would have him good to go for a potential game seven. Look, people there there are two there are two frames of thought here. On one side, it is that the Blue Jays offense woke up in Seattle and maybe the off days that they had in between playing the Yankees and playing the Mariners kind of slowed them down a little bit. they woke up or there’s the thought of, hey, we went into Toronto and dukkedied on their table a little bit and can you go back and do that again? Or can you expect to do that again? Because frankly, the Mariners have played well in Toronto all year. Blue Jays have played well in Seattle all year. if Brian Woo can be saved for a possible game seven. Now, if if it’s close and you feel that Brian Woo is your best op as your best person in that situation, then go to Brian Woo. Absolutely. Because in game seven at that point, should it get there, you would really have most everybody else available, basically George and Luis. Yeah. You wouldn’t have Logan, you wouldn’t have Brian Woo, and I doubt you’d have Bryce. And so I think that George and Luis are kind of the two guys there that could go for you in game seven. And depending on what happened with your bullpen the day before it it becomes a little bit messier of a situation in my opinion than if you could just use Brian Woo in game seven. I’m not saying stay away from Brian Woo in game seven. I’m just saying I’m sorry in game six. I’m just saying it might depending on the situation it might make more sense to save him for game seven. Yeah. The break glass in case of emergency situation. I don’t I don’t disagree. I just think if you are holding it to me it feels like the situation that you’ve kind of pounded the table a lot all year about Dan’s use of Andre Smuno not in this the position to give the Mars the best chance to win. I think using Brian Woo in game six, of course, this is this is all a bunch of whatifs. Using him in game six gives the Mars the best chance to close the series out in six. Saving him for a potential game seven, I don’t think, is you operating at your fullest strength at Dan’s pocket aces and the flop has the other two. Everyone thinks they’ve got a pair of aces, too, but you’ve got four already, right? I I don’t think using Brian Woo in game seven gives the Mariners the best chance to win the series in general. I think using him in game six gives them a a likelier like a higher chance of that outcome coming to fruition. And again, it’s a bunch of whatifs. It might not matter. You might not situational. It’s all situational. you might not need to use him. If you exhaust the bullpen fairly in game six, I agree with you that it is George and Luis that should be available in game seven. George probably starts the game. Luis available out of the pen more than likely. And so, yes, in that vein, it doesn’t feel great when you eliminate Brian Woo from that equation. Brian Woo makes that a lot happier of a situation I think for a lot of Mariners fans. Again, my argument, I’m not saying that you disagree with this sentiment, is that I think a lot of Mariners fans would be happier if it was just one and six regardless. And that’s like the angle that I’m trying to to take and argue because I absolutely agree that having Brian Woo at your disposal in game seven is a much better and likelier winning scenario for the Mariners in game seven if it gets there. I’m hoping that it just flat out doesn’t. You don’t have to have that conversation. You don’t need to. And in the presser, Dan was talking about how Woo’s feeling after, you know, pitching out of the pen and talked about normal soreness. Not anything that you would not not it’s not something you wouldn’t expect coming back from injury, your first time in game action, whatever. He looked good. Vo was solid. Like I think he is available to pitch in game six. There’s an off day. I I think there might be some hesitation from people thinking about where or I guess his avail like regarding his availability. I think Daniel would have made it pretty clear in the presser that if he’s unavailable I I think it would have been maybe not because that then you’d reveal your hand to Toronto in that way. So like exactly it more so maybe there’d be a different kind of language used surrounding Brian’s bounce back from how he’s feeling. I think there might have been different language used there. I expect Brian Wood to be available for game six if the situation calls for it. Yeah. Game six and the six. You know what I’m saying? It’s an interesting scenario. Yeah. I’m spitting because a are you going to see George Springer in this game? I I don’t I mean again he’s had the off day. Hopefully his knee is all right, but if that thing like swells up on him, that’s a much different situation. you know, that that lineup is much I I don’t want to say easier to pitch to cuz it’s not, but it is it it doesn’t have a key cog in the machine if if George Springer is is not in this game. And again, he’s been dhing a lot, so that’s something that you could be looking at as well. But for game seven specifically, we’re probably going to see Shane Bieber on the mound if it gets there for the Blue Jays in this in this scenario with Max Scherzer behind him. Similar to the Mariners, it’s George Kirby and Luis Castillo. For the Blue Jays, it’ll be Shane Bieber and Max Shers are both guys that kind of shut down the Mariners in Seattle. That’s why I think that this game, game six, is so incredibly important because the Mariners were able to get to Treya Savage and win the Logan Gilbert start in Toronto. You shouldn’t, for whatever reason, the Mariners are like guys that have really good breaking balls. The Mariners are like, “Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.” Like I can’t I can’t see Randy Arosena swinging another slider in the other batters box. I will lose my mind. I will. We’ve been waiting for playoff Randy to show up and I don’t think he shows up versus Bieber or Scherzer. I think he might be able to show up versus Y Savage. So yeah, it’s it’s an I think that the way that this team is built, the Mariners, they are better suited to take a game versus Trey Yavage than they are the other two starters. and we’ve se which is crazy to say and I could be putting my foot in my mouth and Trey Sow could go sick shutty tomorrow and or today and it wouldn’t matter. So it’s a situation where you just have to play with the cards that you’re dealt in front of you and if the Mariners offense is laying a goose egg and Logan gave up five, you’re not punting the game, but you have to make sure you have like Carlos Vargas, you’re throwing six innings, buddy. Sorry, we need everybody available for tomorrow. if the if the mayor’s offense just if there’s a power outage again, which I don’t necessarily see happening, returning back to the scene of the crime. But if that’s the scenario, then I think that Carlos Vargas is just going to eat some innings for you. And for better or for worse, you know what I mean? With that being said, let us know who you would want to be able to pitch in game seven, but let’s just hope we do not get there. Thank you guys so much for listening to episode 241 of the Hit It Here podcast presented by FanDuel. And go Mariners.

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Logan Gilbert is officially starting game 6 for the Seattle Mariners in Toronto on Sunday. Will he be able to replicate his division series start against the Tigers in this game or will it be more of what we already saw in the ALCS from Logan Gilbert? The Mariners need him to be on his A-game to best end this series in 6 games.

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