MARINERS POSTCAST: Seattle Mariners LOSE IN EXTRAS vs. Detroit Tigers in GAME 1 of ALDS

MARINERS POSTCAST: Seattle Mariners LOSE IN EXTRAS vs. Detroit Tigers in GAME 1 of ALDS

Mariners lose in extra innings three-2 in game one of the ALDS. My name is Chris Crawford. We go live after every single game whether we want to or not. My buddy Anders will be joining us shortly. He went to the game tonight. He had a firsthand view of one of the most disappointing losses of my entire life. For those of you who are new to the show, this is the Mariners postcast. Um, again, we go live after every single game and we just break down today’s game. We break down what we saw from the starting pitcher. We break down what we saw from the offense or lack thereof. We break down some baffling decisions from the manager of your Seattle Mariners. We really appreciate you joining us. We really understand that a lot of you are going to be upset and I see a lot of comments right now. I’m going to do my very best not to swear. I can’t guarantee anything. I cannot guarantee anything. But uh this is a brutal loss. This is a brutal, brutal loss. And you can’t help but factor in what you have tomorrow. You lose to Troy Melton and a bunch of relievers that I wouldn’t want. I’ll take Wellve Vest, I guess. Kyle Finnegan, eh? The rest hard pass. And you score two runs. Now guess what you get? Now guess what you get? You get to face the best pitcher in the American League. a guy you’ve beaten twice and now have to beat for a third time and there’s a very good chance you’ll have to beat him for a fourth time. Now, if you don’t think that factors into what we’re talking about, you’re high on goofballs. You are high on goofballs. There’s so much to talk about. We’ll start with George Kirby start, but we’ll talk about the managerial decisions. I think a couple of them that make zero sense whatsoever and we’ll talk about the fact that this offense just wasn’t very good minus two players really minus one player minus one player but let’s start with the start I thought George Kirby pitched well today George Kirby made one mistake and you know what a little bit of that mistake I’m going to give on big dumper or whoever called that pitch outside of one fast ball inside to Carrie Carpenter. I thought George Kirby was fantastic. Why are you going there three times in a row? Why are you not trying to bury a pitch with two strikes down? Why aren’t you doing that? Why aren’t you? And the umpiring wasn’t great tonight, guys. The stuff I looked at suggested that pitch before the pitch was a ball. And for those who missed it, Kirby just misses or may have gotten it. It depends on what thing you’re looking at, but the stuff I was looking at suggested it was a ball. Just comes misses by a little bit. And then with a runner on with you leading one- nothing, you leave a pitch down the middle of the plate and Carrie Carpenter owns George Kirby. Owns him. As Josh Noah Harris says, I think the terrible pitch sequence, back foot slider, get the K and the win. 100% agree, Josh. 100% agree. I don’t understand why you’re going fast ball there again. I just don’t understand why you are not attacking him with the breaking ball. Kirby had a good breaking ball today, too. A really good breaking ball. I hated that. I hated that so much. But overall, George Kirby pitched more than well enough to win. Let’s talk about a decision involving George Kirby, though. Okay, Carrie Carpenter has a 600 ops against left-handed pitchers. A 600 ops against pitchers. And I didn’t think anything of leaving Kirby in at the time. Okay, I didn’t think anything of it. I want to make that abundantly clear. This is not me first guessing. Uh, I I thought, oh, you know what? Starters going, maybe you could have gone to a southpaw, but I get why you wanted your lefty to or your righty who has not uh given up a run the entire game. Um, I didn’t mind it. What I did mind was, so he gives up the homer, he gives up a single to Riley Green, and then he gets a popup to, I think it was Dylan Dingler. Is that the six hitter? You guys can let me know if I’m wrong, but um when I saw Caleb Ferguson come out, I lost it. I lost it. I absolutely lost it. Why are you taking him out there? And guys, I apologize for the yelling. I’m I’m really upset. I love this baseball team and I want to see them win a World Series. And today was a day that should have gotten you closer to that, but some terrible offense and some terrible decision-m cost you that chance. So, I’m just apologizing right now for the yelling. Sorry. I’m sorry. Why are you not going to Ferguson if he’s going to not pitch the next inning? That is is horrific management. That is mismanagement. It makes no mistake or makes no sense. Makes no mistake, guys. I’m I’m barely in this. I’m barely in this. My god. Oh my god. Why? Why? I’m serious, guys. If you have a good reason for that in the comments, I am more than willing to listen. And I sure appreciate everyone showing up. Explain that to me. Explain that to me. Oh, Rob doesn’t have to cry more. He’s just going to get blocked from ever being able to use this channel anymore. Um, it’s um it makes no sense. It makes no sense. You put yourself in the position. Uh Mighty Pat and a few of others thoughts on the up today. It was bad. It was a bad I’m just used to it now. I’m just used to it. Yeah. And as my good buddy spinning wheels points out, I for those listening on the podcast, the mustache is gone. Oh, but I’m serious. If anyone has any idea why you think that’s the right decision, uh Tyler Manning asks where Anders, he will be joining us in about two or three minutes, I think, give or take. He’s he was at the game. He’s got to get to his car. There’s a ton of traffic, all of that stuff. So, uh, yeah, that is the situation there. Um, let’s just finish off with the pitching before we thank our terrific sponsors for tonight. Um, I thought Ferguson was fine. I think Bazardo for a third of an inning is a little weird and it ends up hurting you. It ends up hurting you. I thought Gabe Spire was fantastic. I thought Matt Brash, the command wasn’t great, but the stuff looked good. Um, Andre Munoz did not look great, but gets two scoreless innings for you. Carlos Vargas, I have been a Carlos Vargas. I have not been as supportive as Carlos Vargas as a lot of people have. And I understand why you’re going to him there. You know, you’re hoping for the weak contact. You’re hoping for, you know, just a quick inning and hopefully he can go score a run. This is where I think the Brian Will injury hurts you the most because if Vargas, excuse me, if Will is starting for you game three or even game two or heck tonight, you’ve got someone like a Bryce Miller or a Logan Gilbert to pitch in that situation. Nope. Nope. You have to go there. And you know, you could argue maybe Hancock instead, but I understand that you’re going with the reliever who has has more experience in that situation and has had some good moments. Has had some good moments. The leadoff walks. My good buddy Dennis Fletcher. I’ve known Dennis for gosh, how long have I known you, Dennis? 20 years now. Lead off walks. Lead off walks. sucks. It really sucks. But Carl Vargas just flat out wasn’t good enough tonight. And I will point this though. If you have a middle infield with more range, you make those plays. You make those you you at least stop that uh ball from getting into the outfield. Anders, this was a terrible time to join because I’m just about to go. like couldn’t have been a worse time. But I’m so excited to see your face that I’m not going to be mad because I have to go to commercial now. Oh, okay. That’s fine. Well, that’s fine. No, no, give me give me your 45se secondond spiel on your thoughts from this game. Uh, a couple bad decisions um from the manager. Uh, couple bad uh I mean, you got two players got hits in a bullpen game. Two players got hits today. In a bullpen game. Okay, two players. Two that’s four. It’s two two players got hits in the bullpen game and those two players were awesome today. Uh Calulio were fantastic. Julio looks up for this. Uh Cal looks up for this. I love the at bats he was taken. Uh but the rest of the lineup, man. Like you weren’t facing that much today, too. Like and you’re going to face something tomorrow. Let’s be com let’s let’s let’s be real here and now you’re staring 0 and2 in the K. So um I’m I was listening earlier you’ve already talked about the decision. I completely agree with you regarding Carlos Vargas. I do have proof that uh I said I would have gone to Spire before Carrie Carpenter came up. Carrie Carpenter is five for 11 with five home runs against George Kirby. Yeah. Uh not only does he hit George Kirby well, he only hits home runs against George Kirby. And uh it just it it makes no sense. And I love your point of if you’re not if you’re going to take George Kirby out in the next inning, why not do it earlier? And then Burning Bazardo, Burning Bizard is an underrated part to this. Yeah, because Yeah, that’s a great point, too. I stick with Ferguson. Stick with Ferguson in that situation. I have no issues with it whatsoever. We’ll talk about the offense in a sec. Um or lack thereof. We’ll talk about um maybe an unsung villain or unsung hero from this game. But very quickly, but very passionately, we’re going to thank our sponsors. 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I will say very last at bat of the game, he got a cookie cutter. He got a cookie cutter in the middle of the plate and unfortunately he fouls it off. Um, you know, those situations are amplified. It’s really hard to get mad at a guy who has three hits, right? It’s really hard to say that he’s like the reason why the Seattle Mariners only score two runs in this game. Julio Rodriguez was fantastic and seeing that home run. What’s funny is his first at bat I got a little irked because he swings at the first pitch and hits that little chopper, right? Well, he has such a terrific at bat that ends with him keeping his hands hands in perfectly to line that ball over the fence and that clutch single. Man, you’re down 2-1 to dump that ball into right field. That was so big, Anders. Now, I will also point out there was a base running mistake from Julio today and it’s a tough one. It’s one that you really got to be aware of, but I think as he gets older, this will be something he’s better at. Josh Naylor hits into the double play. Yeah. If Julio falls down there or just like, you know, makes a uh a dead duck, an Oregon duck, if you will, for that play, that’s not a double play. And you keep you make the situation first and third with one out. That was a mistake from Julio Rodriguez. It’s still hard tough to say nothing but positive things about those two though, Andrew. Yeah, I mean like I said earlier that you got two hit two guys got hits in a bullpin game. Those were the two guys. So it it is really hard to kind of blame them, but there are some smaller moments in this game. Um I didn’t like the pinch hit for uh Luke. Yeah, it doesn’t burn you um because he doesn’t end up, you know, making a mistake in the field or anything. But I still would have probably rather seen Robus offensively too just based off of how the last of this part of the season went. Um yeah, I just go Gino. And like it wasn’t one of those days where number one, you’re getting sliced and diced by some amazing pitching on the other side. No. And but it also wasn’t one of those days where you just are having feeble at bat after feeble at bat. There were a lot of lined outs and a lot of warning track outs as well. Randy had one. Auheno had one. So, I’m not saying this is all just terrible. What are these guys doing? They weren’t ready to play or anything like that. It’s just a couple moments in this game that that you weren’t able to come up with. And that’s that’s what playoff baseball is, man. And uh unfortunately, like the biggest thing I keep pointing to the difference in the game is the wild pitch from Carlos Vargas. That’s what allows the run to score. And I know we’re talking offense here and and it it sucks to kind of, you know, get only two guys getting hit, three guys getting on base because Josh was the only one that had a walk, I believe. Uh, so had one, too. I just I was just because I was thinking the same thing as you is that there were just the three guys who got on base, but Randy did have one walk. No, please, please continue. I’m sorry. No, no, it’s just I don’t know. There’s just a lot of little moments in this game where um you know George Kirby leaving one up to Carpenter leaving George Kirby in the game uh only allowing Pizardo to to pitch for one out. Uh I would you have rather gone to uh um Emerson Hancock instead of Carlos Vargas because that I think was the only other option. A lot of people asked for Bryce Miller but now that I think about it, you’re not because Brian Woo is out. You you have to hit Bryce Miller and have him ready for game four. you can’t go George Kirby on three days rest. So it was either Carlos Vargas, Luke Jackson, or Emerson Hancock. So I don’t know like if that’s necessarily even a wrong decision at that. I don’t I don’t question the decision to go to Vargas. I question the decisions that lead you to having to go to Vargas. I question, you know, I probably honestly if you weren’t going to pull Kirby in that situation against Carpenter, I probably would have let him go another inning. I probably would have let him He was at like 90 pitches. He had eight strikeouts. The control was good. The biggest question mark, my only real complaint from Big Dumper, I know I just complained a little bit about him missing a middle pitch, but whatever. Why call that fast ball again? Why call that fast again? You had tried it three times, and it’s a guy who has just really had success against you. And I think if you bury that slider down and in, you’re probably getting the K. You probably get the K. Rodney, I completely disagree that he was done. I I don’t think he was done at all. He He gave up one There was one pitch that was really lined very hard in that game and it just happened to go over the fence. Anyway, um I And even the pitch to Carpenter, it was out of the zone. It It wasn’t a bad pitch. It was bad sequencing. It was bad sequencing. That’s a great way to put it. And that’s on Cal. Like that is on Cal. He calls the game. So, I mean, it’s it’s just these little moments. So, uh, and I want to know your thoughts because I kind of noticed this, too. It seemed like he was hanging a lot of his breaking balls. They had good movement on them, but he wasn’t burying them very much. I saw it once to Riley Green, I believe. Uh, but other than that, he was hanging a lot of his sliders and knuckle curves today, and I think that was an issue. There were some issues there for sure. Um, you know, there were I wouldn’t call any of them like cement mixers or anything like that, but I would say that there was some issues with location at times. I just overall I just have a hard time blaming Kirby for this one and and you’re not you’re not I know you’re not. Um I’m just saying that like sure I think that George Kirby pitched well enough to win today. I would have liked to have seen more secondary stuff there and you know some people have brought up that the velocity was down but the movement on the fast ball was still good. It was still good. He he made one mistake and your offense today wasn’t even close to good enough um to make up for that. Uh just real quick, there were so many inept offensive performances today. Josh Naylor draws the walk, but he was awful outside of that. Jorge Palano could not have played a worse baseball game. Dom Canzone could not have played a worse baseball game. Gino made some nice defensive plays. Yes, but the at bats were awful. Awful at bats trying to do way too much. Way way way way too much. Um, Luke is a useless baseball player right now and JP Crawford didn’t play a very good baseball game as well. Honestly, do you think he should have gotten there on the hit against Vargas? Someone should have knocked that baseball down. Someone should have at least knocked it down and kept the runner at third base. But that and here’s the thing, Dan. If you’re going to play Palano at second base and you’re going to have pair them with JP Crawford, you probably got to go to Cole Young in the late innings as a defensive replacement. Cole Young isn’t on the roster. Sorry. Excuse me. You’re going to have to go with uh the other guy. You’re going to have to go with Yeah, you’re going to have to do that defensive replacement. Maybe Cole Young should be on this roster over Luke as well. Uh Anders, your unsung hero or unsung villain. Um let me think. Unsung hero. That’s an easy one. I’ll do Gabe Spire. He was awesome. He was fantastic. Should have been used what two innings earlier. Yeah. For me, it I don’t know. It was just such an obvious situation for him. You’re going up against a lefty mass. You’re coming up against the end of George Kiry’s start. I just I It just hurts. It hurts. Um and I’m not like it doesn’t look good right now, but um it’s not over. It’s not over. No. Um like the Mariners have hit Scuba well uh this whole season and I’ve only I know they’ve only faced him what twice uh but still um that that means something. I’m not saying that they’re going to do that tomorrow, but that means something. Uh, and they they know it’s go time because you can’t you just can’t go 0 and2 going into Detroit. You just can’t. I’m sorry. No, no, you’re 100% right. And it’s just really tough. I the the thing that makes it the most scary for me is just because of the fact that they have beaten Scubble twice, the fact that they have gotten to him. It’s really hard to beat a pitcher three times. It’s really hard to beat the guaranteed Sai Young award winner three times especially. But this is just frustrating. This is frustrating because you lost to a worse team. Yeah, we’ll end the show now. Well, we should end it anyway. Honest. Um, this sucks. I Yeah, it does. Um, just go get him tomorrow and this is all forgotten. All right. I don’t know if you guys uh can hear Chris, but uh we’ll talk to you guys tomorrow. Good stuff.

Chris and Anders go live to break down the first game of the American League Division Series between the Seattle Mariners and Detroit Tigers. The offense was awful outside of two players. The bullpen was fine outside of one player. It all leads to a 1-0 deficit, and now they face Tarik Skubal. How much trouble are they in?

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