00:00So, you have to give them credit.
00:02They beat a very good pitcher two days ago.
00:05They, you know, Sonny Gray was great yesterday.
00:08And for whatever reason, this fan base, some of them were like poo-pooing the Sonny Gray trade
00:17as if like he was some bum, which I never understood.
00:21He was an opening day starter last year.
00:23He had a good year last year.
00:25He doesn't have like electric stuff, but he's a professional pitcher that's not probably
00:30not going to get hurt and that's going to be reliable throughout the whole season.
00:34This has to be, you thought the same way, I'm sure.
00:38So, this is good for the people to see.
00:41Yeah, that's right.
00:42No, it's a great point because I think people kind of took the deal for granted.
00:46He's a veteran guy.
00:47And here's why I think because they've had this run of one-year veteran pitcher swings
00:54and misses, right?
00:56As Walker Bueller last year, as Corey Kluber before that, they kept getting these kind
01:00of guys and it was never working out.
01:03So, like, I get the reaction people saying, oh, Sonny Gray, yeah, he's the latest, you
01:07know, one and done.
01:08But the guy, I mean, he's one of five pitchers in Major League Baseball who struck out 200
01:12or more batters each of the last two years.
01:15Like, we're not talking about 12 years ago.
01:16We're talking about the last two years.
01:18He's been a really good pitcher.
01:19And, yeah, he struggled opening day, but they really liked the way he pitched the last
01:24couple innings, whatever.
01:26Opening day at Fenway Park, the Fenway opener a week ago, like, they needed that win and
01:31he was really good.
01:32And then yesterday, you know, you talked about the Tuesday night win off Mizrowski who was
01:37throwing gas.
01:38I mean, 11 pitches over 100 miles an hour in the first inning of that game.
01:42They wait him out.
01:43They get the win.
01:44Finally get, you know, the third win of the year at that point.
01:47You're coming back a few hours later and it's all about, can Sonny Gray set the tone?
01:52You went back to back.
01:53Now you start to feel like the world's, you know, coming back in order.
01:56And he was really good.
01:57You got him a lead and he didn't try to strike everybody out.
02:00He threw the contact.
02:01And I'm sure you guys heard the quote.
02:02I love that he goes in and they say, great, six innings, you're done.
02:05He goes, I got another zero in me if you need one more.
02:0890 pitches in six and a third.
02:10I mean, yeah, you're pitching the contact.
02:13You should have gone out there, yeah.
02:14A lot of balls on the ground.
02:15No, I understand why they took him out.
02:17But, yeah, if you're Sonny Gray, you want to stay out there because just to double down
02:22on the point of him being efficient, you know, 90 pitches in six and a third is incredibly
02:28efficient.
02:30Yeah, and it's exactly what they needed because the bullpen was toast.
02:33And it still got a little tight there, right?
02:35A couple, you know, there were a couple guys on.
02:38Weissert got the ABS challenge and they got out of it.
02:40But I'm with you.
02:41You know, everybody's like, he's not really a number two.
02:43Who, he's a pretty good number two.
02:45Why not?
02:45He was the number one for a team last year.
02:47Why is he not a number two?
02:49That's right.
02:50You know, and Ranger Suarez hasn't been that.
02:52We know that.
02:53So, they've got it.
02:54That's what it's about.
02:55Yeah, we had the graphic after the game.
02:56Like, what they've done with the other three guys.
02:58You're ready to go to the next level in lleva.
02:58It's 고양pting, right?
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