00:00Evan Carter with the two-run homer in the eighth inning on a full count.
00:05Bobby would love that as the nickname to make it 3-0.
00:08And they take two of three against the Red Hot Cubs.
00:123-0 behind the Grom yesterday on this radio station.
00:16This is Sean and RJ.
00:17And as Bassick said, maybe the best start of the entire year for him.
00:21Maybe it was.
00:22He was fantastic.
00:23And did not need a whole lot.
00:24Did not need a ton of pitches.
00:26Could have kept him out there.
00:29Didn't need to.
00:30Didn't need to push him to that 100 number or even anywhere close to it.
00:34He was fantastic.
00:36And this team is – they are going to be built around pitching.
00:40We can hope all we want that the offense is going to miraculously come around.
00:45But we all know it's not deep down as much as we want to convince ourselves.
00:50Otherwise, this is going to be built around pitching.
00:52And that guy is Jake deGrom.
00:54Holy cow.
00:552-6-2 ERA.
00:57Seven innings yesterday.
00:59Ten strikeouts.
01:01And that is part of the Rangers' combined 20 consecutive scoreless innings thrown against
01:06the Cubs' offense.
01:07Dude.
01:08And this is not a – the Cubs' offense is not a bad offense at all.
01:13And to go out there and just basically shut them down for the – not basically, to shut
01:18them down for the final two games of this series.
01:2120 straight scoreless innings is pretty awesome.
01:24You don't see that very much.
01:27877-881-1053 in order to hit us up on the Frankl & Frankl text line.
01:33Earlier in the game, they get their first run, second and third, one out.
01:38And Josh Young gets under the slide.
01:41Is that just – didn't have enough evidence to overturn it?
01:45Did you – I thought they were going to overturn and he was going to be out.
01:47I thought they were too, but it's the right angles and not enough evidence, which – we've
01:55talked about this a million times.
01:55If you don't have – you can't see it in one play or in one replay, two replays, you
02:00know, do you really want them out there three, four, five times?
02:02But I think it's not enough evidence and that was the right call.
02:05And this was a pair of six-run games to start the series.
02:07They lose on Friday with Kumar Rocker's white undershirt, 7-1, and then they get the 6-0
02:15shutout victory on Saturday with Josh Young and Foscue home runs.
02:21That stops the Cubs' 10-game winning streak.
02:23I still cannot believe that Rocker did not know that rule.
02:28I still – it doesn't – it just – it can't fathom.
02:31What's crazier, him not knowing that rule or Wemby not knowing a flagrant two?
02:38I think it's a flagrant two.
02:39Wemby asking – I think Harrison Barnes on the sideline.
02:44What's that mean?
02:44What's that?
02:45And Harrison's like, you're out of here.
02:46Yeah, I could see – that's insane.
02:49That's insane.
02:50That he didn't know?
02:51Yeah.
02:51He didn't talk after the game.
02:53Everyone's dying to say.
02:54And I think he'll probably be pretty blunt and honest about it.
02:57But Wemby did not talk after the ejection.
02:59And he didn't know what a flagrant two was or what it meant.
03:03Yeah, I think the only thing you can – unless they've – and I don't think they've changed
03:06the flagrant two rule since he's been in.
03:08Like, it's been the same.
03:09It's been consistent.
03:10Well, flagrant two, you're gone.
03:10Yeah, you're gone.
03:11It's been consistent.
03:12I don't think there's been any changes to it.
03:14So, yeah, I would think that's a little bit crazier.
03:16But Rocker, as a pitcher, didn't pitch it – like, he's not coming right from high school
03:22here to the major leagues.
03:23Did they do this even in high school?
03:26Yeah, I think they can – yeah, they do.
03:28Like, people don't wear white arm sleeves.
03:31They know better.
03:32Yeah.
03:32Like, nobody wears a white arm sleeve.
03:34Mike Bassink explaining on RSN what happened with Rocker.
03:37The umpires are having a meeting because, Dave, you mentioned it in the open.
03:41You cannot pitch with white sleeves.
03:43So, they got to the mound, Rocker did, and they said, uh, yeah, no white sleeves.
03:50We saw this –
03:52Because they don't want to mix it with the ball.
03:54Right.
03:55Right.
03:55It makes sense.
03:57Then again, it doesn't make sense because you can have a white jersey without white sleeves.
04:02Well, it's like with the glove, too.
04:03Yeah, the glove.
04:04I think a white glove as well.
04:06Right.
04:06You can't have a white glove on.
04:07You can't even have white stitching.
04:08Like, over – like, you can't have a lot of white stitching.
04:11We saw that.
04:12They talked about this.
04:12Bassink talked about this with – whoever the – it was Elmer Rodriguez.
04:18What was it?
04:18The kid that made his debut for the Yankees.
04:21He had a glove that had, like, some white stuff on the back of the glove.
04:25And he went out there and he pitched the first inning.
04:28And the second inning he comes out, he's got a completely different glove.
04:30Because you can't have that.
04:31You can't have anything that would be deceptive to the hitter.
04:36They don't – I mean, a hitter can ask you to take off a chain necklace if they want to.
04:41Like, they can ask you to take it off.
04:42You're not supposed to have anything, though, on your pitching arm.
04:45There's no white sleeve on your pitching arm.
04:47So, the Rangers win two in a row.
04:49And they're second place in the American League West.
04:52The Athletics are leading the division by two.
04:54We're a half a game up on the Mariners.
04:57The Astros losing Carlos Correa for the year.
05:00They're nine back.
05:01And so are the Angels.
05:03So, the Astros and the Angels are tied at 16-25.
05:08And there's a lot of divisions in baseball with the majority of the teams having a negative run differential.
05:14Yeah.
05:14There's only one team in our division who is in the green.
05:17That's Seattle by only two runs.
05:20Same thing in the Central.
05:21Detroit's in fourth place.
05:23And they're the only team in the green at plus four.
05:26Three out of the five teams in the American League East, negative run differential.
05:31Four out of five in the National League East.
05:34Three out of five in the NL West.
05:36And then the NL Central, they're balling out.
05:38Four out of five have a positive differential.
05:41The NL Central somehow, which has been...
05:43Every team is at least three games over 500.
05:46It's been the worst division in the sport for my entire life, essentially.
05:51Not quite, but for this to be the best division in the league right now, and it is, it's pretty
05:57remarkable.
05:58Because the American League really stinks.
06:00The American League this year stinks or balanced, however you want to say it.
06:04It's either stinks or balanced.
06:07But you only have three teams that don't have 20 losses in the entire American League.
06:13Whereas in the National League, you've got five, six, seven, eight, nine teams in the NL that are still having...
06:20That have fewer than 20 losses.
06:22And you only have three in the AL.
06:24And two of them are in the AL East.
06:26The AL's not great.
06:27And you were out for this last week, but I proclaimed in our 15 years doing this show, this stretch
06:34of consecutive games coming up for the Rangers.
06:38Because all the insiders kept saying, 40 games, 40 games.
06:41You've got to survive the first 40.
06:43Well, you are through 40, basically.
06:45And RJ, this is the most optimistic, easiest, best stretch that I've seen in consecutive series.
06:53And our time together covering the Rangers on this station.
06:57You've got three against Arizona starting tonight.
07:00Now, a lot of other Tolos said they're looking at you the same way.
07:03I don't care about all that.
07:05I'm just looking at the Rangers' opportunity consecutively here.
07:09Arizona in Arlington for three tonight.
07:12The Astros, we talked about how many games under .500 they are.
07:16Colorado, the Angels, nine games under.
07:20Houston, again, nine games under.
07:23Kansas City, St. Louis, Cleveland, Kansas City.
07:27Boston's already fired their manager.
07:29Minnesota, San Diego, the Marlins, Toronto, Cleveland, Detroit, the Angels, Houston.
07:38In a row!
07:38That's a great stretch.
07:40Isn't that crazy?
07:41I mean, that's a stretch that takes you to middle of June that you've got to take advantage of.
07:48You've got to come away with this after this stretch with like a four-game lead.
07:53Just the reality of it.
07:54We need to combine all those teams and see how many games under .500 they are.
07:58I mean, they're guaranteed under .500.
08:00I mean, shoot, Houston alone is going to make them combined under .500.
08:05Yeah.
08:06So, they are getting all their comeuppance.
08:10All the good they did for really since basically about 2015 because they were good then.
08:182015 and 2016.
08:19And since then, you know, all the cheating, all the crying, all the luck they got, they're finally getting.
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