Phils Lose 2 of 3 to Yankees, Offense Gets Hot in Finale

Hear from Don Mattingly, Trea Turner, and Jesus Luzardo throughout the Phillies series against the Yankees over the weekend. Could Sunday be the start of another turnaround for the team and especially the offense? #RingTheBell #PhiladelphiaPhillies #MLBonX

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SPEAKER_06 0:24

What's going on, folks? Welcome back into another episode of the Six Ten Podcast. I'm your host, Jay Hollaghan, and here on this Monday afternoon, we're back talking the Philadelphia Phillies. And last time we spoke, it was Friday in the afternoon. And no, we're not coming on here today and rip roaring and screaming into the microphone. Actually, I think it was Thursday last week that we recorded last episode. We're not rip roaring screaming into the mic today. Instead, uh it's a little bit calmer of an episode that, yep, it depicts the series loss for the Phillies against the New York Yankees. They lose two out of three. They now sit nine and eleven for the month of July. They have not finished below 500 in a month since April, where they finished 10 in 16. And of course, that month at the end of it saw, towards the end of it, saw manager Rob Thompson lose his post as the manager in-game Don Mattingley. In May and June, they'd go 36 in 19. They would obviously run their record to 10 games above 511 games then as we hit the All-Star Break. It was an amazing turnaround for the Phillies. But to start the second half of the year, quote unquote, because it's not really the second half. It's not now we have 81 games to play. You know, we have somewhere around 60 to 70 games to play. But the Phillies are now three and six out of the all-star break. Now, I told you in years past, I've seen them stumble out of the all-star break. You know, they'll go four and five. They'll have a homestead where maybe they're two and four. They're three and three. They're screwing around, is what they're doing. That's that's how things have gone in the past. But they didn't come out of the all-star break and play just dumb baseball where they just fumble opportunity after opportunity. They'd go out and they'd just look overmatched for whatever reason. They were just in a complete slump at times. I mean, you think about 22. They got swept out of the all-star break by the Chicago Cubs, and the Chicago Cubs finished with one of the worst records in the National League. And I mean, now, granted, for the Cubs, they were able to quickly turn around, but 74 and 88 was the Cubs record that year. Uh now, granted, I said one of the worst records. They were third in the National League in the NL Central to finish the year, so excuse me. At the time, uh, if I remember correctly, though, they were like around 15 to 20 games under 500 when the Phillies played them. So they got swept by them and then they turned it on. They quickly turned the corner, turned the page on the next day, however way you want to phrase it, that's what they did. Now, for the Phillies coming out of the All-Star Break taken on the Mets, that seemed like out of the three, if you were to say that's one that you gotta have, that Mets series was one you had to have. Because say you're four and five, say you had one more win out of the All-Star Break, sure, the five losses would stink. But you'd still be now ten games above five hundred, you'd probably be about four games to the good for the second place spot, you'd be a half a game back of the Cubs for the top wild card spot. You'd currently sit, most likely, if everything shook out the way it has, you'd be three and a half games back of the Braves, not five and a half games back of the Braves. So it's a huge bummer to be ultimately where you are. At five and a half games back of the top spot in the NL East. At two games up on the Diamondbacks for the fifth spot in the wild card, and not just two. Because I'll be honest with you, with what the Diamondbacks have been doing, the Diamondbacks have been surging. Now you got the Pirates sitting there, they're a game back. Pirates They're intriguing, and it depends upon what they do with the deadline, because they need, I mean, who doesn't need bullpen? Everyone needs bullpen. Then you got the Nats, who are talking about now trading CJ Abrams and James Wood. If I was if this was a nationals podcast, I I would be just totally beside myself with them with that being a topic of conversation. Got the Cardinals at a game and a half, and the Padres two games back, Marlins three back, the Reds five back, and then from that point on, and really the Reds are going to be sellers, but from the Marlins on up, those are the teams that right now you'd say most likely wouldn't be selling, although the Marlins are on a 12-game losing streak. They have currently the worst streak in the majors. They were fifty-two in forty-two. And are now fifty-two in fifty-four. Two games under 500. And that's the team the Phillies are going to be facing for three games coming up. But first, talking about the Yankees series, on Friday, you're going up against Cam Schlittler, and I said last Thursday, you know, you're waving the white flag at some point against the guy. I mean, there are going to be guys in the lineup who are just going to be waving that white flag. Unfortunately, the guys who needed to battle and needed to grind, they did not do that. And they struggled. They struggled big time against them. He had like 65 pitches, I think it was, through five innings. They got tra they got to him in the eighth. They put traffic on. They had bases loaded with one out. Trey Turner comes up great at bat, professional at bat by Trey, but unfortunately, he can't come through with the big knock that, you know, just a hit that would have gotten one in, maybe a little dunk that gets one in, and then you just keep the line moving for Schwarber. He grounds out to first. Maybe with one out, a run scores. It's 2-1. Who knows what Harper does? And the Phillies could have won that game. Then on Saturday, the Phillies turn in a similar offensive performance. Only they were able to get more runners in scoring position. You know, again, Schlittler, just three base runners off them. They were all hits, no walks. And you give Lazardo credit, by the way, for matching him pitch for pitch and that he allowed one run at tip of the cap to Goldschmann. Alright, whatever. One run, you can't lose the game one-nothing at where we are in the season. You can't lose that game one-nothing. That's the bottom line. But on Saturday, they were 0 for 7 with runners in scoring position. They put Mesa out there to open the game, and then they brought in Brian Keller. And Keller, who you know has been a journeyman throughout his career, finally getting an opportunity in the Biggs at the age of 32. And you know what? Hey, he did a fine job. Did a fine job. Not spectacular. Not even like Kyle Kendrick-esque because we didn't get to see him start the game. He gave up a run. Alright. So be it. He gave up a run. But you go to the sixth. Bacchus is out there, and that's a recipe for disaster. Allows a walk. Two outs, a man on first. And they go to Seth Johnson out of the bullpen. I didn't understand it. Seth Johnson has been horrible all year long. Jonathan Bolan has been money with runners on base. And I put this out there on social media. I said, I don't understand why he went to Seth Johnson and not Bolin. And people are saying, well, you know, what does it matter? They didn't score any runs, anyways. Yeah, but we're at the point on the in the year where you're trying to see if if you're evaluating because of where we are, if you're Dave Dombrowski, or in my opinion, the all-likelihood case is going to be Preston Mattingley, the son of Don Mattingley, is going to have to make that decision, or someone's going to have to make that decision next year as to whether or not they're going to keep Matt Don Mattingley on. Now, maybe Donnie Baseballs knows this. Who knows? I mean, it could could be, could be, could not be. I think it's kind of a weird situation, anyways, to go into next year with his son having to make that evaluation, but that's where the Phillies are. And you know, you're at the point in the year where it's like, okay, you know, w the decisions need to be right. You can't have so many porous decisions that come back to cost you in games. And I thought that was one that just was a negative, in my opinion, in decision making from Don Mattingley. I really thought it was. Gives up the hit and with it the game, as the Phillies couldn't do anything against uh Weathers and then what the Yankees were able to pull out of their bullpen, which is a pretty solid bullpen, although if you went to any Yankees fan, they'd make it sound like it was the Phillies 2020 bullpen, but you know, it's not. I hate to break it to them. But, anyways, let's go ahead and hear from Don Mattingley. Let's hear from Jesus Lazardo. Now he speaks after Friday night's loss, and then Trey Turner, who spoke after Saturday's loss about the struggles out of the break.

SPEAKER_05 10:32

I don't I don't feel like there's anything more troubling to read into it. Uh playing some good clubs. Um ranging is some you know, some guys have talked about that. I again I think we're having a little bit of uh as part of the season. Um read too much into it.

SPEAKER_02 10:53

I think you know 25 is just how we want to start, you know, the second half. I think we all know this. I don't think anything specific. Um I think it's more so just keeping it back in the half year and playing the present baseball that we were playing, you know, before the break. And it's uh I mean I think any loss is a little frustrating uh for anyone in this clubhouse, especially you know, knowing how we climbed back from where we were early in the year. But um I mean I think there's a little sense of you know we're right there. Yeah, we're not getting fun. I think, you know, like you said, we're gonna play away, we're maybe a swim away or an out of way, whatever it might be, um, from winning that game. And you know, as long as we're keeping the games close, I think uh, you know, as long as we have a chance, uh we'll come out on some more times than that.

SPEAKER_04 11:35

It hasn't been our best. Um I think we know that and we want to play better. Um I think it's just kind of going back to what you know Donnie said early on when when he uh got the job as just three hours of competing and um don't let your foot off the gas. And um I don't think it's a lack of effort, but I think we need to get that back a little bit.

SPEAKER_06 11:52

Now Trey brings up something that Don Mattingley obviously mentioned earlier in the year. You know, about going out there every game and essentially giving it your all, which I think needing the manager to do that and not the players already have that instilled in them is a little bit of a red flag. But anyways, um hopefully, though, because clearly that message stuck with Trey, um they will start to turn it around, or at least, you know, in terms of yesterday, they actually did, which we'll get to in a moment. But we got to talk about the fact that you take away the ten run outburst Monday against the Dodgers, take that away. The first five games, no, seven games out of the All-Star break. Take because you take that Monday ten seven win away from uh against the Dodgers in all the other seven games, the Phillies had scored just fifteen runs. Fifteen runs. That's it, averaging two and a half runs per game. We are talking about sixty-three innings. Sixty-three, fifteen runs. Can't happen. Cannot happen. And I'm addingly spoke about the offensive struggles.

SPEAKER_05 13:19

I mean, it obviously it hasn't been great. We haven't really scored, but you know, the one thing you can kind of rest assured, nobody's going up there not trying to get hits. We're not going into the game not trying to score. We are in a spot we haven't we haven't scored and we haven't swung the bats great, but we gotta, you know, continue to work and and keep fighting through it. You know, hopefully uh a day or two or three or four that it's like, you know, we forget about this and we just get back going where we're where we should be going.

SPEAKER_06 13:48

Now, I was in attendance last night for the win, and I gotta tell you, I've been for the last six years I've gone to, and being that 2020, couldn't go to any game, so since 2018, I've gone to at least one game a year. And I gotta say, the atmosphere last night wasn't as strong as I've seen it in the past. I wouldn't put it up there with twenty-three or not at all twenty-two. Um it felt much like I went to a game in the in uh in early September, Labor Day weekend, in twenty-four against the Braves. And it felt a little bit like that, like some nervous bellies in the building. You know, you're worried about where this season's headed, even though at that point in 24 it looked like you know, they had a pretty sizable lead in the NL East, uh, but they were playing the Braves at the time, who were it's obviously the Atlanta Braves that won the division, you know, like seven years in a row. So you're obviously worried that things could change. Uh but last night, you know, you're playing the Yankees, you're heading into that game two and six out of the break, you're losing traction on the Braves, the wildcard lead slipping. You're watching the number on the right-hand side of the win-loss column increasing and not the one on the left, and that's always a bummer. Four-game losing streak, longest since the early early portions of the year. As I mentioned, you're not scoring, but the offense went out and had itself a night. And it was Bryson Stott and Alec Bohm, because Bohm, let's face it, had the biggest hit of the night. Now Bryson Stott had the big knock late that obviously secured it. But you intentionally walk a guy, I don't care who you are, you could be Alec Bohm, you could be Gabriel Rinconis Jr., whoever it could be, Garrett Stubbs, you're ticked. And I said, I'm with my I'm with my cousin, my uncle, my other cousin. And I turn on them and I say, I'm gonna guarantee you right now, I'm gonna guarantee this, he's gonna swing first pitch. My cousin goes, Really? You think so? I said, Yeah. See, Alec Bohm has been bred on the idea that if you intentionally walk someone to get to you, and this was Gene Segura, who I don't know if he came up with the notion, probably didn't, but he this was what he told the young guys. They intentionally walk someone to get to you, that first pitch, you swing at. The very first pitch he's gonna give you something to swing at, you swing at it. Now, to Bohm's credit, the pitch that Weathers gave him was up and away, and he fouled it off. But he had a tremendous nine-pitch at bat. Taking pitches, some close, some not so close, and he gets a sweeper low and away, and he sends it to left center field. Ball nicks off the glove of their left fielder, uh Schumann. With Cody Bellinger on the aisle, that was important because Bellinger's defense, hey, who knows? He might actually make the catch in the gap. But a big knock, basis clearing double, five-nothing, and Alec Bowman, Dom Mattingley talked about the intentional walk.

SPEAKER_03 17:38

Yeah, I mean, it's happened a lot to me in my career, but yeah, that time it kind of pissed me off. Definitely feels good. I mean, it's not like I'm mad at like them for doing it or mad at anybody in particular. It's just like I'm like tired of like thinking that people think that I'm an easy out. So, I mean, yeah, I know what the numbers say, but you know, I don't feel like I'm an out going up there. And I think uh obviously in those situations, like you want to make them feel like they've made a mistake.

SPEAKER_05 18:11

I think you always do when walk the guy in front of you. It's always a little tricky because you know you're getting the best of that guy. So it was it was really good to see him come through there. Obviously, we we needed to score tonight. Uh but to battle in that at bad, foul some balls off uh and get that knock, that was huge.

SPEAKER_06 18:36

We saw it happen at times with Pat Burl. We I mean it's and it's why someone like Ryan Howard had so many good pitches to hit. Because if you put Jason Worth behind him, they're not gonna intentionally walk Howard to get to Worth. They're gonna have to pitch to Howard. They're not gonna want to put him on base. And that's what Boehm has to do for Harper and Marsh in those moments. He's got to protect them in the lineup. And then Bryson Stott comes through, RBI single, it's 6-0. Now when we got to the fifth, Christopher Sanchez just didn't have his command all night long, wasn't dominant, wasn't as dominant as you would think. You know, he he would be. Four innings didn't give up a run. But then in the fifth, with traffic on, throwing error, trying to go to first, Sanchez scores, Dominguez RBI Gradot 6-2, Anthony Volpe, RBI double 6-3. Now he goes six. Now we got to the sixth, and I said, My cousin and I were going to w you can't bring him back out. You just can't. With where his pitch count was, but he went out and he did his job. And he's facing, you know, maybe not the most scary of hitters in the Yankees lineup, and he was able to record outs, go six innings, and here was Don Mattingley on Christopher Sanchez. Now listen closely to this.

SPEAKER_05 20:09

Yeah, I thought he shoved enough balls inside tonight. And I think that's, you know, with Saint, he's gotta be able to be with teams that are good hitting clubs, he's got the changeover, everybody knows about it. It's not a secret. It's still a great pitch, the sinker out there, but you still have to keep guys aware inside.

SPEAKER_06 20:31

I can tell you this right now. It wouldn't surprise me if these pitchers, because you saw it with Wheeler, wasn't thrilled when Mattingley pulled him out. Sanchez's first start wasn't thrilled that Mattingley pulled him out early. And you listen to that right there. He kind of basically said Sanchez got to stop being afraid to pitch in on guys. And basically, like, dude, you're not. He's kind of challenging him. Like, dude, you're you're not taking anyone by surprise anymore. There's no secret about your stuff. You gotta go out there and make those pitches that you were doing earlier in the season. And it kind of raises your antenna up a little bit, like he's kind of sort of calling him out here in this one. I I mean that's the way I talk it. Like, whoa. You know, if it's Rob Thompson, he's saying, Well, he pitched, you know, I know he got nicked up there in the and then a Rob Thompson fashion takes five seconds of pausing and goes, gave up three in the fifth, but he pitched and he battled. Don Mattingly, it's man, you gotta go out there, you gotta command the baseball, you gotta you gotta, you know, really come in on guys. Something that I thought at times he was doing throughout the game, but at other times it also just didn't look like he had the best command. It really didn't. And you know, he didn't have the the bet now he struck out six. I was kind of sad. I didn't realize he struck out six on the night, but he He gave up three walks, six hits, three base or uh nine base runners. His pitch count was around ninety through five, and he threw 101. That sixth inning, he was really dialed in. He looked good. But the guy who was really dialed in on the night was Bryson Stott. Now, Trey Turner, pair of hits too, in the sixth, runners at the corners. Now, here's something that's going to get lost on this game. And it's something that if we were in the postseason, this was brilliant. Brian DeLacruz leads it off with singles. Gets to second. And Crawford with, in my opinion, a very underrated at bat. And the beauty of it is you had Trey Turner lead off the game with a triple. You had Bohm's big double. You had the Homer by stock. But when Justin Crawford comes up and bunts three feet down the line on a perfect bunt that he beats out, De La Cruz moves over to third. He was at second because of the throwing error by Volpe on the single. Runners at the corners and a 1-0 pitch, and Trey Turner lines it to left, 7-3. Schwerber follows it up with a single, and then the bases are juiced. And on you know, for Harper, hey, uh the pitch that he, you know, strikes out looking. Too close to take. He put that ball in play. I mean, hell. He pulls it, he gets it in the air, he pulls it, pulls one of you know, one of his Harper, I need to hit 500 foot Homer. Hell, if it's a fly out and a right, deep right, sacks up a run, it's eight three. Marsh then strikes out, and then it takes Alec Bohm wearing one for it to be eight three, and then Bryce's stock, Bryce and Stott, bases clearing, double, eleven three. Phillies go on to win eleven four. Mesa and Sugart were deployed out of the bullpen, so you didn't have to use any of your big guys. So you got a rest there as you take on the Marlins, which we'll get into in a moment. But first, Don Mattingley talks about recapping the win.

SPEAKER_05 24:28

I mean, it was really what we needed tonight. Kind of good at bats up and down, kind of what I think we're capable of, where you go up and down lineup and guys are, you know, just forcing guys to make pitches as much as anything and to get you out. So uh yeah, it was it was good to see. It's what we're capable of.

SPEAKER_06 24:50

Well, I think I will speak for everyone when I say the best part was seeing the offense break out. But first, it's a three and six homestand, it's not good. Now you avoid being swept, good for you, but you have to ride this momentum onto your next onto the road trip. Going down to Miami, Marlins needing to get their season steered back in the right direction, and you have an opportunity to really put them ten feet under and no pun intended, but swimming with the fishes. When we talk about, though, the offense that's really been the problem in this homestead. I mean, you can point at the bullpen, which wasn't great, Alan Ron Hill last Sunday against the Mets. But the starters have really gone out there and given you everything you could ask of them. And the offense has not delivered, but it did deliver last night, and here was Don Mattingley and Bryson Stott.

SPEAKER_05 25:51

You know, we talked about Bomber. We didn't talk about Stott. Uh obviously the early home run uh gives pushes us to two, I think, and then the double, a single, and then the double. You know, those are those runs are all big, but you don't do that without middle base. So you get you gotta get guys out there, and I think just us up and down the lineup is what we're capable of doing. You know, it's we just need to do it consistently.

SPEAKER_01 26:21

Obviously, we kind of know and and feel that big hit has been missing, and to be able to get a few tonight was good to see, and we know what we're capable of and and things like that. So never getting too down or or too up, and we're kind of just trying to stay as as even as we can. Just being out there and and going every day and finding a rhythm and just having fun with it. And obviously you're gonna get frustrated and things like that, but I feel like I've always done a pretty good job of leaving offense in the bug out and flipping the game over to defense. And sometimes you're you're gonna have those overnights and you can change the game of the field or or whatever it is. So just trying to split the game in into thirds with base running as well, and you can go for it's it's big, and I think uh it obviously shows that we can do it and we're not just talking about it, and we have it in us and and we know that, and just trying to swing at our pitches and and get guys on and move them in and things like that. And uh so that was a good step. Trying to stay in the rhythm and and do the same thing in the cage every day, and and we play a long season, and once you find a routine that that works for you, might not work for the next guy, or or even work the year before, and just trying to stay stay in that rhythm and go from there.

SPEAKER_06 27:29

The consistency has to get back into this ball club. The at bats have been putrid at times, just not good striking out too much, not manufacturing runs the you know any way you can. I know in this day and age that's a lost art, although Crawford's bunt was just beautiful. And the other thing that I liked that I heard there, you listen to Bryson Stott, he sounds more like a veteran. And you hear the final portion, he had some, and I cleaned it up, but he had some kind of breaks in what he was talking about about routines being different for every guy. You know, one thing may work one year, it doesn't work the next. Now he could be talking about himself, but he also could be talking about the team and even Kevin Long, because let's face it, now I know people are gonna say, well, it's not gonna make that much of a difference. Well, guess what? If you're the hitting coach, the responsibility of the offense, specifically the hitting, falls on your shoulders. How you prepare these guys, it falls on your shoulders. So you can sit there and say, Oh, well, what difference does it make? It makes a difference. It makes a difference for that guy. That's his job. He's in charge of it. And so far, you know, this season, they've left a lot to be desired. Now, hopefully on this road trip, they can have a big road trip, and uh, we can, you know, really steer this season back in the right direction. And when I'm listening to Sports Talk Radio, going wherever I'm going, it's not just about LeBron coming to Philly, it's about, hey, what can the Phillies do at the trade deadline? Because obviously, that's now looming. But alright, let's get into our starting pitching previews. The Phillies take on the Miami Marlins for three games. Again, the Marlins at 52 and 54, three games back of the wild card, Phillies 57 and 49, two games up on the Diamondbacks for that fifth spot in the wild card, and a game and a half back on the Cubs for the top spot. Now, the Cubs, they will be taking on the St. Louis Cardinals in St. Louis. So the Cardinals who are also fighting for a wild card spot, uh certainly, you know, for the Cubs who are playing St. Louis for four games, be interesting to see what comes out of that, which team is going to see their season improve. Now, the Cubs start losing, you start winning, you take you could take over that top spot. Then you got the Diamondbacks at 55 and 51. They are just one game ahead of the Pirates for that final spot. And guess who the Diamondbacks are playing? That's right, the Pittsburgh Pirates. So they'll take each other on for a three-game set. Uh for the Diamondbacks, you know, and for the Pirates, of course, and for the sake of the Phillies, you'd want to see mostly the Pirates beat up on the Diamondbacks two out of three. And then you got the Nats who are sitting there as well. They're 54 and 52. They're taking on the Blue Jays at home. Now the Nationals, as I mentioned, they're in a very strange state as to what they do at the trade downline, because you're hearing about Abrams, James Wood. It makes absolutely no sense. Nationals 22 and 32 at home. So could that have an impact? And then you got the Padres who are sitting right at 500. They're two games out of the wildcard spot, and they welcome in the Rockies. The worst team in the National League, the Padres taking on the Rockies for just two games. Rare two-game series. You don't see that much nowadays since uh 2023 for whatever reason. I feel like we never see the uh two-game set, but that's what the Padres have going on. I'm not sure if there's a makeup game in there, they're making up two games or whatever that reason may be. But the one thing on the Marlins, 31 and 23 at home, Phillies 29 and 22 on the road. Phillies 28 and 27 at home. That's a little strange. Now, in this starting pitching preview, we start off tonight for the Marlins. The pride of Lumberton, New Jersey, Tyler Phillips takes them out. 2-5 of the 3-5-2 ERA. The man the Phillies gave up for cash considerations. Yes, cash considerations before we opened the season last year, and he's only been, you know, a very valued piece to the Marlins system. I mean, Dave, what were you thinking there? Could have uh gotten maybe something back for him, maybe a lefty out of the bullpen that would have had some value for this team, not cash that I don't, you know. Whatever. Now, earlier this year, Phillips faced the Phillies, gave up six runs, or eight runs, I beg your pardon, on six hits and four innings in June. Now he's two and one with a one-four-one ERA that is in 14 appearances. It's five starts and nine appearances out of the bullpen. So that's why it looks so low. Now for the Phillies, they'll send Zach Wheeler on the mound. 10-2 with the 2-1-6 ERA. He's allowed just one run on five hits and 12 innings this year against the Marlins, 17 strikeouts and five walks. He is 6-1 with a 173 ERA on the road. Now he's not looking to stop a losing streak, but he's looking to get the Phillies going on a bit of a groove here on this road trip. Now the offense is going to need to obviously help him out, and we'll see if they do that tonight. Game two on Tuesday is Sandy Alcantara. 10-6 with a 401 ERA, gave up two runs and four crossed overall while he pitched against the Philz in June. Now, that was on eight hits. He had six strikeouts and a walk for the former Cy Young winner. He's 4-3 with a 3-2-6 ERA at home. Aaron Nola on the mound. Now, when these two guys first started to have these matchups where, you know, you're facing off, it was going to be an electric outing. You know, they were going to go six innings, seven innings, match each other pitch for pitch. Tuesday night, it who knows what the hell you're going to get. Nol is three and eight with a five-eight two ERA. Now, he did pitch six shutout innings, giving up five hits, five strikeouts versus the Marlins in Miami back in May. He's three and four with a five-oh, six ERA and 11 starts on the road. That is so much better than the numbers he has at home. Now, as I've been saying, three runs cross-through five with Nola, that's it. He's done. That's gotta be the recipe for success. He shows any signs of anything more, give him the sixth. But what happened against the Dodgers earlier in the week just cannot happen. Game three for the Marlins is TBD. Five days ago, they went with Ryan Gusto, who was an opener. He's 0-2 with a 4-5-0 ERA this season. He has started seven games and has appeared out of the bullpen in five. Earlier this year against the Philz, in one game that he started, I believe it was the first this season that he actually started, gave up five runs on eight hits and four and two thirds innings with just one strikeout and three walks. He is 0-1 with the 2-7-0 ERA at home in four starts and two appearances. Now, Jesus Lazardo is going to take them out for the Phillies. 9-5 with a 3-3-1 ERA. Now for him, he's gone 13 and a third innings, given up four runs on 13 hits against his former team, the Marlins, with 19 strikeouts and three walks. His numbers on the road. 6-0 with a 1-3-8 ERA. He has been dialed in on the road, and you don't think he's not going to be dialed in fake facing his former team that traded him to the Phillies. In division trade. You trade a guy in a division that you know you're going to face a couple of times a year, uh, you're obviously going to sit there and go, man, I'm you know, th this and this isn't happening. Now, it would have even made sense if they traded Phillips for him, but it didn't. They traded away two other prospects. The Phillies did. But in this series, i it sits right there. It's right there. I mean, you minimum two out of three. They don't take two out of three. We're tearing the paint off the walls again. I'm repainting where I record because that cannot happen. They're on a 12-game losing streak. They might break it, okay. Take two of three. Hell sweep. Keep them losing. Do not let the Marlins take two out of three. Do not let the Marlins take two out of three. And we'll be back on, of course, if they do, at the end of the series, and we, of course, will be back on if anything happens in these individual games. Thanks everyone for tuning in, and we'll talk to you then.