MARINERS POSTCAST: Seattle Mariners TAKE CONTROL OF ALCS with Game 2 win over Blue Jays

MARINERS POSTCAST: Seattle Mariners TAKE CONTROL OF ALCS with Game 2 win over Blue Jays

[Music] 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. Guys, I’m just going to be completely honest. It’s becoming very, very difficult not to really jump ahead of ourselves right now. Uh, as a Mariners fan and as someone who’s never experienced this before, every scenario is rushing through my head. But guys, the Mariners have a 200 lead in the ALCS, taking both games in Toronto. Two, I think close to absolute perfect games uh from the Seattle Mariners. Everything you could have hoped for. Even when things went poorly, they made adjustments. They responded uh and just as commanding of a twogame series lead as you possibly can take uh against a Toronto team that was firing on all cylinders coming into this point. But welcome to the Mariners postcast and my name is Anderson Hurst. I got Chris Crawford next to me. Uh we go live right after every single Mariner baseball game. Uh Tiden Gonzalez Kobe Patode have your locked on Mariners daily content. We got your postgame content here. Uh we’re happy you’re joining us and uh happy you’re joining us in this situation as the Mariners uh are now two wins away from appearing in their first ever World Series in franchise history. Chris Crawford, explain the 10 to3 win that Seattle comes out with today. Man, it’s hard to because there was there was a moment where it looked like it was going to be a blowout in the first inning and then from the bottom of the first until the I think it was the top of the fifth or sixth it was not looking great. Not looking great. But you know what? Didn’t matter because the Seattle Mariners just have something about them right now, man. And this was this was fun. Yesterday was a lot of fun, but today was like really fun because of what you saw from the offense. Like so many good at bats, so many ding-dongs, so many clutch hits. This was just such terrific baseball. I love how Dan Wilson managed the bullpen today. I love everything about this. And now the Seattle Mariners have never won a third game in an LCS before and they’ve certainly never been up two games to none in an LCS. They’ve won two twice. Now they have a chance to do something that How many times have we said it, Andrew? For the first time. So not just the first time in 24 years. The first time ever. Man, this is really cool. And a ton of credit all around to all 26 and the coaching staff as well. Yeah, it’s uh it’s starting to feel real, at least for me. Um, and not that it wasn’t before, but you can taste it, I guess, is kind of the where I’m starting to get to. And I’m not I’m not saying the series is over or anything like that. It absolutely is not. We have seen situations where uh the road team has won the first two games, comes back, and they lose all three of their home games. Uh so there, this is not in a series over conversation that we’re having today. We are going to talk about how impressed we are with the first two games, especially today from your Seattle Mariners. And we normally start with the start. We’re going to talk about Logan Gilbert’s start. We’re going to talk about the bullpen usage, uh, and what Chris loved about the decisions and the execution, both process and result. Uh, and then of course the offense as well. So, uh, let’s start with that start with Logan Gilbert because boy, it looked a little shaky out of the gate. He was getting hard hits. uh maybe getting squeezed a little bit as well. Uh I side note, I’m sure you’re going to talk about the umpiring Chris, but I cannot wait for this ump scorecard. I’m going to be completely honest. It’s going to be pathetic. So bad. And the thing that it’s going to be bad. And look, the Mariners got some breaks here too, right? Yes, they did. Randy Rosena in the first inning should have been struck out now kind of because the first pitch to him was a ball that got called a strike. So Riz, I was listening to it on the radio said, “Hey, it kind of evens out there.” But of course he did cuz that guy loves the Seattle Mariners more than anything in the entire world. Um Doug Eddings was pathetic. It’s absolutely embarrassing. People keep defending this stuff. If you are anti-ABS, you are just an old Kaggin who doesn’t like change and you fear change. And that sucks. I feel bad for you. I feel really bad for you because that’s how life works. It changes. We evolve. We are better. We have technology. we can rebuild him. Um, as for Gilbert, so I thought the stuff was good. I thought the command was really bad. Having said that, should have gotten out of this thing with only giving up one run. Should have gotten out of this. And also, let’s keep in mind that this was a guy who was on two days rest, who had thrown 30 pitches. That’s quite a bit, you know, and I didn’t really think about this until Nathan brought it up on Molly Watt Monday. This is a horrible matchup for Logan Gilbert because Logan Gilbert relies on swing and miss as much as anybody and the Blue Jays just don’t swing and miss. They are a team that is built on making contact. Having said that too, if Josh Naylor makes a very easy play on a flip to first base, you get out of that inning with one run. If Doug Eddings isn’t as bad as anyone in baseball at calling balls and strikes, he gets out of that inning with no runs. Okay. So, I’m not saying that Logan Gilbert was great. I’m also saying I saw nothing today that suggests, boy, I sure am worried about starting him going forward either. Like, I still have a ton of confidence in that guy facing the Dodgers, facing the Brewers, and really facing the Blue Jays as well. Like, I think that that guy’s stuff played just fine. I think we maybe underestimated what 31 pitches on Friday did for the guy as well. Yeah. And uh I think a lot of people were questioning why it wasn’t Castillo. If you look at the overwhelming kind of uh bulk of the last week, Castillo’s thrown like 14 pitches in eight days. Gilbert has like over a hundred in the last like eight days. So there is a giant difference. But Castillo also pitched as recently as Logan Gilbert did. So if if that’s the reason why Logan was a little bit like okay it’s not normally a up down situation like we’ve talked about all the time with starting pitchers coming out of the bullpen all that stuff. Um maybe that was a similar situation with Castillo even though the the the overall workload maybe is a little bit lighter as well. But uh so on hindsight, do you think it was the right and we can of course you know be picky with what’s going on now that we know the Mariners have a two0 lead. But in hindsight, was it the right decision still to go to Gilbert in game two? I do think so. And there’s a couple of reasons why. Number one, Logan Gilbert has been so good. Number two, Luis Castillo has been so much better at home. And here’s the other thing, and I brought this up with Anders in our text chain. I want the Rock start in game four. I want him either pitching a pivotable pivotable a pivot hole. Uh I guess it’s pivotable because, you know, if teams win, you know, reverse pivot basketball. Um I want him either pitching the game that sends the Seattle Mariners to the World Series. I want him pitching the or I want him pitching that game that gets you a 3-1 lead. I want the Rock in that situation. I want the high floor guy. So, that’s the other thing here, too. And you just cannot ignore that Luis Castillo has been so much better in Safe Go, T-Mobile, Boost Mobile, whatever park you want to call it. Um, I don’t have any issues with it. I wish Gilbert would have gotten a little bit more help and I think the start would have looked better. I also want to give Dan Wilson credit for saying enough is enough. After a very solid third inning, they said, “Let’s go to this bullpen.” And oh my gosh, this bullpen was phenomenal with the exception of maybe the last two innings. Um the results are spectacular. Yeah. Yeah. Let’s look at that bullpen outing because uh Logan Gilbert just goes to three innings today. Five hits, three runs. Bo uh two earned. Two of the three were earned. One walk, two Ks. Not a very Logan Gilbert outing, but again, not not explosion worthy. It’s kept you in the game. The three-0 lead in the first really really helped. Thank you, Julio Rodriguez. We’ll get to that later. Edward Bazardo comes in and just shuts it down. I think Carlos Vargas looked really good today. And while Emerson Hancock, there were some shaky situations. Uh, still ends up kind of getting being okay. you know, two two innings of no hit, no run, but three walks uh is not what you want, but still ends up no runs from any of the bullpen today. Yeah. And here’s the thing, guys. If if Carlos Vargas gives up two and Emerson Hancock would have given up three, you still win this game by fairly considerable. Not considerable, but it would have been not close. They they he managed the bullpen well today. Dan Wilson managed the ball well. There was one ball off of Carlos Vargas bat that and I can’t even remember who hit it now that I thought that ball was gone for sure. I think it was Dol. Yeah. Um but it wasn’t. And outside of that, I thought he pitched outstanding. And I’ll give credit to Hancock. This guy, first of all, he has the opposite issue with what Gilbert had. He hadn’t pitched in what, two weeks? That seems at least uh that long. Um he’s making his postseason debut. He’s getting a chance to close out a game and I know it’s a blowout, but it’s still a chance to get the final outs in a postseason game, one of the biggest games in Seattle Mariner history. It’s not surprising he was overthrowing. Now, I will say this, I saw nothing from Hancock that suggests, boy, maybe he is a high leverage option right now. No, and some of that’s just uh credit to Bizardo and to Brash and Despire for the most part as well. But he did his job. He got his job and it’s a terrific job for a Dan Wilson of not panicking. I know we saw Munoz warming up late. Let him finish this thing. You’re up by a touchdown. Let the dude finish this thing. Get some of the uh the rust off of the arm. I really like how he finished it. Getting that double play ground ball. But six innings of shut out baseball from your bullpen against this offense is beyond commendable. Yeah. And I I want to we didn’t really totally get to the Vargas, but I want to give him a quick shout out, too, because he kind of his two innings kind of solidified that this was a blowout, you know what I mean? So, he was like still like, “Hey, they can they can mount a comeback at this point when he came in in the sixth inning. Uh, and he does his job excellently.” I texted my friend who was like, “Oh, we’re bringing in Vargas now.” I’m like, theoretically, it’s actually a good matchup, I think, with the Blue Jays because of how right-handed heavy they are and because they put the ball in play. He gets a lot of soft contact. He doesn’t get this the strikeouts very much. But you’re still going to be nervous because of what we’ve seen from him. And he just does his job perfectly. Yeah, absolutely. And the big thing for me is he throws strikes. He absolutely everybody to today outside of Hancock threw strikes. I know they end up walking five and you know, Vargas does issue one walk and Yeah. Please stop walking the ninth hitter. That’s something the Mariners did twice today, which is not my absolute favorite, but if you’re going to do it, do it when you’re up a touchdown. Do it when you are in control of the game. I thought Carlos Vargas was absolutely fantastic tonight. And he’s that type of guy you want to use for multiple innings in games that are on the plus minus side of four runs. Yep. And that’s exactly what happened today. Mariners win this one 10 to three. Let’s talk some Mo because uh I think while letting the keeping the Blue Jays to three runs and still zero from the bullpen is a is a win, an even bigger one was scoring 10 on the other side. So we’ll talk about the offense here on the other side of the break in the Mariners postcast. Anderson Hurst, Chris Crawford with you again. Mariners this one win this one 10 to3 to go up two to nothing in the ALCS. 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That’s 50% off your first year at monarchmoney.com with code locked on MLB. Welcome back to the Mariners postcast. Anderson Hurst, Chris Crawford with you. Let’s talk about some offense. Mariners win this one 10 to3 over the Blue Jays. God, these last two games, it’s weird not having like fullon stress balls of of baseball games. But, uh, it’s it’s just what happen. I guess I want to contri I want to attribute that a little bit to uh I think a downgrade in manager uh in your last two opponents to be completely honest because I think AJ Hinch is one of the best in the game and I don’t really like John Schneider that much. So uh uh that’s kind of my in head cannon what’s going on here but I think the Mariners are just playing really good baseball at a really good time in the season obviously. So let’s talk about that offense a little bit. 10 to three. I mean, what can you say? You get uh right off the bat, you get hit by pitch technically against a Rosarena, a walk to Cal, and then Julio with the three-run jack to set the tone in the first inning. Uh and a bunch more after that, Chris, where do you want to go with this? Yeah, let’s let’s talk about that first inning because like I said, Randy should have struck out. Um, even if you take the acknowledgement of the first pitch being a strike that was or a ball that was called a strike, but he ends up and by the way, this really bugs me. Randy should get a walk. It was a 3-2 pitch, right? It was outside of the strike zone, so you should get credit for the walk there, but instead it counts as an HBP, which I guess he doesn’t mind. He’s got like 30 of them. He is the Cuban Ty France, as everyone has always said. Um then big dumper lays off a nice pitch. You get first and second, nobody out. And then Julio Rodriguez, you know, it falls down 02. And I’m like, “Oh, are they going to miss this opportunity here?” Nope. Because Julio Rodriguez just absolutely shellacks a splitter. And that was my biggest concern coming into today was how are they going to handle that splitty from Trey Esovich. But I also mentioned on Molly Monday, if you’re patient with this guy, you can have success. And the patience really pays off there. A solo ding-dong’s great there, but a three-run homer there to kind of set that tone. And the big thing there for me is, yeah, Logan Gilbert ends up coughing up the lead, but it’s 33 instead of three nothing. That’s a huge difference there. I loved so many Julio Rodriguez at bats. We’ll get into Palanco and Naylor and all that stuff. Yep. The unsung moment for me, and this is going to come across as me being the biggest Julio apologist in the world, course is Julio Rodriguez striking out because he’s looking slider there on that pitch, right? And it goes right down the middle. Everyone’s like, “Why are you taking that middle?” Yeah. Because he’s looking slider there. The best thing that happens if he makes contact is 463 or 643. He hits into a double play. The inning’s still going, but sometimes taking a strikeout when you’re beat is so much better than swinging and making weak contact and making worse things happen. I can’t prove that’s what Julio’s thinking in that situation, but I wish people taught that more. Like, hey, if you’re beaten in that situation, don’t foul try to foul it off. Don’t take a defensive swing because only bad things can happen in that situation. It ended up being a huge moment there, but I thought even with a couple of strikeouts to end the game, I thought Julio Rodriguez had a terrific offensive game and is apparently sees the ball well in Toronto. Sees the ball well in Toronto for sure. Hopefully, he can keep that going. But there were some other guys who had great offensive days, too. Yeah, I just want to mention something really quick. We’ve kind of sung the praises all year about strikeouts are just outs, guys. And I think when Julio was struggling a little bit early on, he was very focused on not very cognizant of it. Y and it’s almost like he’s like, “All right, fine. If you beat me, you beat me.” Uh, and again, this is one of those situations where a strikeout’s actually better than putting the ball in play because of you have guys on first and second. Of course, Palano right after that hits the home run. you score one less run if that happens and you have one more out so one less opportunity to do something do some damage guys I I can’t express this enough like sometimes it’s a process versus result situation we talked about this with baseball so often and to me I was almost I don’t want to say more impressed with the strikeout than the home run but we know Julio can get to that pitch when it’s there I am more impressed in terms of his development with him being okay being like, “Yeah, okay. You beat me. I’m still going to look for my pitch and when I see it, I’m going to hit it.” And I think he did that today because he took a walk as well. So, uh, did he take two walks? I think he just got the one. No, he just got the one. Just the one. But he’s drawn plenty of walks lately. It’s been great. I’d rather him be more selective and then shellac the ones that he sees. And maybe he gets a couple extra KS, but that’s okay with me. I am totally fine with that. Absolutely. And it’s just a matter of being assertive and not swinging at pitches outside of the strike zone. That’s the biggest thing for me is less like, you know, there are guys who hit the ball well outside of the strike zone. And Julio is one of those guys. We’ve certainly seen him do damage on pitches outside of the plate. We saw a guy who go three for four today who’s really good at hitting pitches outside of the strike zone today in Josh Naylor. There are those guys. But the process matters. the process of seeing the baseball better, the process of not giving up outs and swinging at pitches that you can’t drive for the sake of swinging. That matters. That 100% matters. I loved what I saw from him today. I loved what I saw from Cal Raleigh today with a couple of walks. I thought Randy, you know, he strikes out three times, but I think there were some really good at bats in there as well. I mean, do we just do a 45minute Jorge Palano video? I mean, yeah, that’s such a huge moment. And it’s so funny because you end up winning by a touchdown, like I’ve said like six times, and part of it’s cuz I have to cover this uh Washington Commander Chicago Bear game for MDC and got to be in the football mode. Um it’s easy to forget that without that homer, the Mariners are in a world of hurt. A world of hurt. He’s just spectacular. And I was talking to my buddy R.J. Anderson at CBS Sports about this and I said, “R.J., is there anybody who’s made more money this year than Jorge Palano, especially over the last two months?” And he said, “Maybe Trent Gisham and that’s it.” Like, those are the two guys that have made themselves some bucks this year. And I just keep going back to how great the story is. And I again, I don’t blame anyone who didn’t want Jorge Palano back. I wasn’t exactly thrilled when I saw that he was trying to play third base and, you know, they did nothing else in the offseason. Nothing. I’m so glad he’s a Seattle Mariner. I don’t know where they’d be without him. I really don’t know where they’d be without him. I actually I think I do. We’re We’re watching these games at home and talking about uh uh the ALCS between the Houston Astros probably and the uh and the Toronto Blue Jays. Yeah. I just think uh I’ve come up like I don’t know if I’m the one who came up with this. My friend texted it to me and I loved it so much that I’ve tweeted it a couple times. It’s runners and scoring Palanco. He’s been probably he’s probably been I don’t think probably he has been your clutchest hitter in the postseason at the very least. Uh just because of every single time he comes up to the plate, you trust him to have a good at bat and he’s done it in the big moments and you know the walk-off in the ALDS game five is a great example of that today as well. Uh so the Mariners go up six to three. I want a quick shout out and my unsung hero is going to be Aheno Suarez today. Uh because I want to say I know he only gets the one hit. Um and let’s Yeah, he gets the one hit, strikes out two times, but he gets a walk and he hits two other balls really hard as well. He hits one to like uh straight at the left fielder. I forget who was playing left for uh Toronto today, but I just think it’s starting to slowly come around with him. I realize that it’s not the results that everyone was expecting uh when we traded for him, but I I still think he’s going to have something to stay. He has a big moment in him uh whether it’s during this series and hopefully at some point later in the postseason, but I think it’s starting to click a little bit for him. Uh I just wanted to give him a quick shout out because I think he played a good baseball game today. Yeah, I think he was fine. I’m still there are pitches that he’s just missing and there are p like that play by VO and I’ll talk about VO in a second here. Um that ball the when Gino’s right that’s a homer. That’s a homer that he’s hitting over the fence. It’s concerning to me although he just misses a homer yesterday so I don’t want to go too crazy but yeah he played a solid game. My unsung hero the unsung moment to me was the Julio strikeout. The unsung hero for me, the Mitch Garver triple. I’m going with Mitch Garver. And man oh man, um, Dalton Vo misplayed that baseball, but the hard contact you saw there. And I love how aggressive the Mariners were in making sure that run got home because the difference between being up three and four. If you take a look at the statistics, man, it is crazy how much more likely you are to win. But man, oh man, that was a huge moment. Um, it’s been great to see him make hard contact against lefties. Like you saw the sacrifice fly against Tariq Scubal. You see that triple that was horribly misplayed by uh Varo, but still, you know, it wasn’t going to get caught, but it probably is a double if he plays it a little bit better. Um, real quick, John Schneider, who I don’t think is a bad manager. I don’t think he’s as good as AJ Hench. Not even sure if he’s as good as Dan Wilson. Challenging that play is one of the silliest things I’ve ever seen in my entire life. For those who missed it, uh Randy Rosena hits a single. Uh Andreas Jimenez almost makes a great play, but makes a bad throw. It hits Gino, who is sitting in the dugout. And I got to admit, I have the game on mute, but apparently Schneider challenges that it was interference or something along those lines. What? What are you doing? What are you doing, dude? That was like that. I was god and I just happened to I’m not going to promote anybody else’s podcast, but I turned on talking baseball just for a sec because I knew they were doing a live reaction and I was like, am I crazy or is this a horrible challenge? Oh, they were very very much on it that this is a horrible decision. I I I honestly don’t know what John Schneider’s doing other than you know what, you get three two of them, you might as well use one, I guess. But like oh my gosh, they’re lucky that didn’t bite them in the to because there was no way in Hades they were going to change that call. Nope, not at all. But the Mariners end up winning this one 10 to three. You get home runs from Josh Naylor. We still haven’t talked about that. Uh don’t have a ton of time. I’ll just mention he’s starting to look a lot better at the plate. So much better as well. It makes up for his error in the first inning with a great play as well uh later in the game. I forget which inning it was, but kind of a diving stop there uh to kind of limit the damage when it was still tied. Uh yeah. Uh and then Jorge Palano, three multi-run home runs. Uh we’ll get the job done. We’ll take that every single day of the week. Crazy. And of course the sacrifice fly from JP Crawford as well. So, uh, or not sackfly, it was a hit. My bad. He gets a sackfly and a a hit today. So, that was nice to see as well. Um, he’s had some good at bats. It’s so funny looking at Crawford with a 231 241 average on base percentage. You’re so used to seeing those walks for him that he just hasn’t drawn those free passes so far, but the entire offense was good today. I would say the one guy that I’m concerned about right now is Domone the most because it’s just not happening. Do you start Leo Rivas over him at this point? I might consider it. I might consider it. And just, you know, that’s a nice weapon to have off the bench. The threat of the ding-dong is um is something to uh keep in mind. But Oh, this is so fun, guys. And now I mean, if you’re if you’re Toronto Yeah. Go ahead. Go ahead. No, I was just going to say the Toronto Blue Jays have to win four out of five now. You have to win four out of five games and you have to play the next three. And I know Toronto won three in Seattle. That was such a different baseball team back then. Such a different baseball team back then. You are now winning one series away from doing something you’ve never done in your history. And that’s really cool. Yeah. Really, really cool. Uh if you can, I know tickets are expensive, guys, but if you can get a chance, please go. Um you will not regret it. Number one. Number two, just know that you’re doing your part and that it’s a Mariners fan going to the game and not Blue Jays fans because that will play a part in this uh these next couple games. Hopefully not as much as a lot of people think, but uh uh let let’s make it happen. I don’t want to see the the infestation of Blue Jays. I’m just going to tell you right now, if you’re watching this, I’m not going to make financial decisions for you. I will judge you if you sell your tickets in this game. I will judge you. If if that means anything to you, probably shouldn’t. I will judge you if you sell those tickets to somebody with a Nova Scotia address. I’m just telling you right freaking now. Or at least if you’re going to do it, make sure it’s a Mariners fan that’s going right. Yeah, man. Like someone you know. Homefield advantage. I I again this especially in today’s time and age, I don’t like telling people how to spend their money, but I will judge you if you sell your tickets to Blue Jays fans a thousand thousand%. Mariners take the two zero uh ALCS lead and head back home for three games. We get George Kirby on Wednesday. We get uh Luis Castillo on Thursday and uh some combination of Brian Woo and Bryce Miller. I would expect game five on Friday. Milu Werber. Yeah, I like that. Um enjoy this guys. Uh this has been a fun ride. Uh we never know when it’s going to stop, but it’s looking good right now. Hopefully the Mariners can get the job done. Don’t let it go back to Toronto. That’s all I’m going to say. Uh let’s uh let’s have some fun here in these next three games. We’ll talk to you later. Look out for an episode of Locked on Mariners. Tie Den Gonzalez. Kobe Patel will have something later this evening. Uh but for Christopher Crawford, I’m Anderson Hurst. You’ve been listening to the Mariners Post. We’ll talk to you guys after the game on. This is the Mariners Post Cast, your instant game reaction for the Seattle

Anders and Chris break down the second game of the ALCS between the Seattle Mariners and Toronto Blue Jays. The Mariners offense came to play and was able to hit three multi-run homers. Logan Gilbert had to battle, and the bullpen was nails over the final six. The Mariners now head to Seattle and can clinch a trip to the World Series with two wins over Toronto over the next three. Amazing.

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