Padres Secure a 3-0 Victory Over the Cubs: Game 2 Analysis

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00:00By the way, guessing right for a manager and using that instinctual feel is the difference

00:05between winning and losing, going home and advancing. The reason I bring that up is

00:08yesterday the Padres won three to nothing over the Cubs. I like the Padres in game number one.

00:12They had a lead until they didn't. Maybe they should have pulled their pitcher a little bit

00:15earlier. Yesterday, we talked about it, Joe, in the handicap. Dylan Cease was so boom or bust,

00:20and he was boom yesterday. Five strikeouts over three and two thirds innings pitched,

00:24no earned runs, and a walk giving up three hits. They pull him out. They don't score the rest of

00:29the way, the Chicago Cubs. And by the way, if anybody wants to get up there against Mason

00:32Miller and try to hit him, yeah, good luck with that. 27 pitches, five strikeouts as he worked

00:36an inning and two thirds here. But the reason I bring this up, Joe, one for 11 with runners in

00:40scoring position for the Padres, oh, for three for the Cubs. Now, maybe they deserve to lose that game,

00:45but Kittredge came in the game to open it up, gave up a run. That's not the question.

00:49Show to Imanaga. The question in the ballpark was, hey, look, you probably should get a reliever up

00:53because Manny Ramirez is on deck. They don't do that. Manny came up to the plate, Imanaga pitched to

00:57him, bang, two run, home run, three to nothing league for the Padres yesterday. So credit San

01:02Diego for making the pitching move. And then you take a look at Craig Council, a high paid manager

01:07didn't make the right moves yesterday. Well, and listen, again, we're very similar to the

01:13Guardians in a Tiger series, right? I mean, the Padres have generated more scoring chances through

01:18the first two games, but they're still three for 18 with runners in scoring position. They've left 11

01:24guys on base. And by the way, Chicago, they haven't had as many guys on base. Oh, for six

01:30with runners in scoring position with six guys left on base. So this is not, you know, exactly going to

01:36be an offensive bomb fest here either. The interesting part now is that you just burned two of your high

01:44leverage relievers because you had to yesterday for the Padres, right? They didn't, you know,

01:49Dylan C's got what 11 batters. That's what he faced there. And then they went to their two best

01:55guys to close it down and they advanced. I don't think either of those guys are going to be available

01:59for the Padres, but I can tell you this, Kittredge and Pomerantz, Roger, the guys that have been the

02:07number one bullpen since the all-star break, since the trade deadline, rather the Cubs, all of those guys

02:13are ready to go here. So it wouldn't shock me at all if they're just throwing everything out there

02:19here today. The Padres could be without their two best guys.