00:00We do have baseball tonight, in fact, and elimination game and trying to figure out
00:06whether a Tampa Bay Rays will shut the door for any Peralta on the mound.
00:11He was great in game two.
00:13He'll have an opportunity to send his new team or latest team here for an opportunity
00:19to go face his former team in the Milwaukee Brewers for a shot at a world championship.
00:27You got to love the irony right there for good old Freddy Peralta, who is now going to
00:32have a chance here to get it done.
00:35And the Guardians, call me crazy, Craig, but the Guardians looked last night like a team
00:43that's running out of steam here a little bit.
00:47And I mean, here they are having to go with a bullpen game and an elimination day.
00:51Uh, Gavin Williams is nowhere near ready, uh, on short rest to do anything.
00:58And he's their best pitcher.
01:00We're going to see the likes of Tanner Bybee tonight, which I don't think we have seen,
01:05but once in the postseason here, uh, this is a team that had to grind out a lot of wins
01:10over the last two months.
01:12And feels like even what we saw at Parker Mezik last night, it feels like maybe we're running
01:17out of gas here a little bit with the Guardians tonight.
01:21Yeah, I don't, I don't know.
01:22I, I, I look, Cleveland's done a great job hanging in this series.
01:26They had a lead in the series, but you know, back and forth they go.
01:31Nobody has really gotten hot, Joe.
01:32I mean, three to one.
01:33I mean, that's, that's not anybody getting hot.
01:35It was just the raised pitching.
01:37Uh, wouldn't shock me at all to see Cleveland win tonight.
01:40Not at all.
01:41Even with the lack of pitching or do I think Cleveland's going to win the series?
01:44No, but, but look, you know, Joe, what's the score going to be tonight in the end?
01:48Two to one, four to two, three to two.
01:52Like, I mean, every single game is the same in the series.
01:56Cleveland's good.
01:57That's postseason baseball though.
01:58Cause the Dodgers didn't have a nine and a half for a total.
02:01The totals have all been six and a half and seven.
02:04No, I, I, I know.
02:05But Cleveland doesn't score runs, man.
02:07Even when they win, they have to win one, nothing or two to nothing.
02:10Like that's the only way that they win.
02:12So, so the game is going to be close today.
02:15It's going to be three to two or four to two.
02:17And, uh, you know, actually Milwaukee hit the crap out of the ball in the last series.
02:21I thought, I thought they did a really good job hitting, uh, LA's pitching.
02:24So, but, but you haven't seen that at all in the American league championship series.
02:27So, uh, well, they did great against the white socks.
02:30I thought they were great, but it's been a different story here now.
02:35I mean, totally different ball game.
02:38I mean, they came back, the minute, the minute that you think every single time you think
02:43Cleveland is done, they come back and win and they make it a series.
02:46They were down 1-0 in the series.
02:47They came back a 1-2.
02:48They were down to Cleveland, down to Chicago, 2-0.
02:51They came back a 1-3.
02:52So I'm not going to be that guy that goes against them tonight.
02:54I'm not going to do that.
02:55And they, I suspect they have a chance to win game seven too.
02:58But in the end, the margins are just so thin.
03:00Yes, they're up against it.
03:01Yes, they don't have the starting pitching, but this team fights and I expect they
03:07really, uh, low scoring close game again tonight, uh, advantage Tampa, of course, because they
03:12don't have to use an opener, but if Cleveland can somehow get to game seven, they have Gavin
03:18Williams probably again for a few innings.
03:20And so at that point, I think anything goes again.
03:22I, I thought this was going seven, uh, at least six, as we talked about and it did.
03:28And so now I'll, I'll say Cleveland again tonight and I'll say that this goes seven and
03:33we have a game seven tomorrow night.
03:37Well, they're going to have to figure out Peralta because they didn't do a very good job of
03:41it in game number two now.
03:43So I'm not quite sure they're going to figure it out now in game number six either.
03:48Uh, but it just feels like the, who's making up the rest of the innings here, right?
03:53That's my problem with the guardians.
03:55I mean, they are game at a game six.
03:59It's a, it's a disaster of a situation.
04:03Uh, yeah, but they take, look, I mean, they're, yes, it is a disaster of a situation, but they
04:08would take this any day of the week that they got to six in Tampa with a chance to go
04:12to
04:12seven.
04:12So, uh, I agree.
04:15What, what, what, what, can you guys, can you guys show me the odds again tonight?
04:18What, what the, what the odds are is, is, is Tampa minus one 40 or more minus one 55.
04:22Yeah.
04:23Yeah.
04:23It feels about right now.
04:25Yeah.
04:25It feels about right, but I would take Cleveland tonight.
04:30I can't wait to see who they roll out there.
04:33Where is Tanner by me, by the way?
04:35I mean, what, how little confidence do they have?
04:38And they're not, it's, he's not cheap.
04:41So they've paid a whole lot of money.
04:43I think he's faced three total batters this post season.
04:47And he had two walks in the strikeout against the white socks, but he hasn't pitched in 11
04:51days, but that's what we're taught.
04:53The difference between Tampa and the guardians is that's what the guardians have to start
04:58thinking about.
04:59And Tampa is just, they're in such a better position pitching wise.
05:04Plus they get to come home in this game.
05:06Unless I don't know, is there a home field advantage here?
05:09Will there be 30,000 empty seats again here in an elimination game?
05:14I think that's also going to be very interesting to see.
05:18Is it going to be standing room only tonight, rooting the Tampa Bay Rays to go to the World
05:23Series, or are we likely getting a game seven?
05:27I don't know, Greg.
05:28I don't know that anything changed from game number two, which was the last time Tampa had
05:34a home game in this series.
05:35I think it'll be interesting to see.
05:37That's for sure.
05:37We'll see you next to the first quarter.
05:38We'll see you next time.
