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Speaker 1: take on the Cardinals and weekend series. I got off
Speaker 1: on the right foot on Friday night and now heading
Speaker 1: into play on Saturday, they have an opportunity to clinch
Speaker 1: the American League's Central Division title. As the beat goes
Speaker 1: on for Cleveland. A big week for the Guardians as
Speaker 1: they clinched a playoff birth on Thursday afternoon with a
Speaker 1: victory over the Twins. We'll have much more on that
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Speaker 1: Big week for Cleveland as we welcome you back into
Speaker 1: Guardians Weekly. Jim Rosen House along with you this weekend
Speaker 1: from Saint Louis. But the big story was what happened
Speaker 1: back home for the Guardians this week as they opened
Speaker 1: up a key four game series against the Twins on
Speaker 1: Monday night, and Minnesota got the scoring started with three
Speaker 1: runs in the third inning, and it stayed three to
Speaker 1: nothing until the fifth. That's when Cleveland got on the board.
Speaker 1: With a couple of men on and Andre cimen As
Speaker 1: batting with two outs, the pitcher Lopez swung out broken
Speaker 1: bat looper toward the third baseman Lewis. He bobbles it,
Speaker 1: can't pick it up. One run scores. Now they throw
Speaker 1: back to third, diving back as Martinez, but he's tagged
Speaker 1: out by the shortstop Carrea. The Guardians do score their
Speaker 1: first run, but that's it, as Martinez has caught off
Speaker 1: the bag at third and retired there to end the inning.
Speaker 1: So we will head to the sixth. It's the Twins three.
Speaker 1: The Guardians won. Guardians got a little closer in the seventh,
Speaker 1: bas is loaded and on Hell Martinez standing in down
Speaker 1: the set and Lopez is ready. Here it comes, swung
Speaker 1: in line drive to left field, basehead, haddo, score man Sardo,
Speaker 1: everybody else moves up a base heads on one run
Speaker 1: game third head of the ninth by on Hell Martinez
Speaker 1: as he lines an RBI single the left and Roco
Speaker 1: ball deli with trepidation. We'll go to his bullpen. Then
Speaker 1: in the eighth, Josh Naylor got things started with a
Speaker 1: leadoff double, bringing Kyle Manzardo to the plate. Now the
Speaker 1: left handed hitting Mansardo ground out, flyout and a walk.
Speaker 1: The pitch swung on.
Speaker 3: Hit hard, hit deep to right hallway back.
Speaker 4: Go holla about that?
Speaker 1: A majestic two run bond a right by Kyle Mansarto
Speaker 1: off Minnesota's best Griffin Jacks. That was a ninety seven
Speaker 1: mile an hour fastball. Mansarto did not miss and Cleveland's
Speaker 1: got the lead for the first time tonight, four to three,
Speaker 1: and the Twins bullpen has imploded again. And as usual,
Speaker 1: the Cleveland bullpen was terrific. It kept the Twins off
Speaker 1: the scoreboard through eight innings and in the ninth a
Speaker 1: Manual class was on to try and nail down another
Speaker 1: milestone save Cleveland trying to reduce its magic number to
Speaker 1: clinching their twelfth division title to eight and their magic
Speaker 1: number to clinch a playoff spot to two. Class as ready,
Speaker 1: here's the one too swam in a miss Bowl game,
Speaker 1: got him with a cutter and Emmanual class A blows
Speaker 1: through the Twins here in the night Kyle man Soto
Speaker 1: with a mammoth two run homer in the bottom of
Speaker 1: the eighth. Another brilliant effort by this Cleveland bullpen and
Speaker 1: Emanual class Manchiz Jose Mesa for the greatest single season
Speaker 1: a closers ever had in Cleveland, forty six saves and
Speaker 1: nearly two weeks to go to add to it. The
Speaker 1: final to night Cleveland four in Minnesota three Tuesday, the
Speaker 1: Twins were the winners four to one the final score
Speaker 1: Tuesday night to even up the series at one. Win apiece.
Speaker 1: But on Wednesday, it was back to tight action all
Speaker 1: the way through to the end, this time a game
Speaker 1: that needed ten innings to decide it. The Twins jumped
Speaker 1: on top with a run in the first, but in
Speaker 1: the second, the Guardians got that run right back. Courtesy
Speaker 1: of Josh Naylor Bailey OBErs, pitch swung on hit a ton.
Speaker 5: Oh way out of here the right.
Speaker 1: We are tied at one. That, folks, is the definition
Speaker 1: of prodigious and number thirty for just Naylor. A career
Speaker 1: year with thirty bombs and now one hundred and four
Speaker 1: runs banned in and the ballgame is tied at one,
Speaker 1: four hundred and forty five feet. The Twins retook the
Speaker 1: lead two to one with a run in the fifth. Well,
Speaker 1: once again Naylor had an answer as he led off
Speaker 1: in the bottom of the seventh. Now the pitch a
Speaker 1: swing of the drive did a bright field away back
Speaker 1: on Just Naylor two Minnesota two, a toring blast on
Speaker 1: the fifth straight change up of the bat, and Naylor
Speaker 1: was sitting change up and didn't miss it. We are
Speaker 1: deadlock dead two here in the seventh inning, the game
Speaker 1: stayed tied at two through nine and on the extra innings,
Speaker 1: we went twin. Shortstop Carlos Correa, who already had driven
Speaker 1: in the first two Minnesota runs, made it a four
Speaker 1: RBI night as he delivered a two run single in
Speaker 1: the top half of the tenth inn and the Twins
Speaker 1: were back on top four to two, so the Guardians
Speaker 1: had their work cut out for them. In the bottom
Speaker 1: of the tenth, Josh Naylor was the runner at second
Speaker 1: base to start the inning, and leading off was pinch
Speaker 1: hitter Kyle Mansardo. Now in the scent the look back
Speaker 1: the pitch, swung on grumble base hit that'll get into
Speaker 1: the right center. Naylor hits third. He's coming home. It's
Speaker 1: a one run game. And this is why we always
Speaker 1: say in extra innings, man, when you're the road team,
Speaker 1: you almost feel like you have to have a multiple
Speaker 1: run inning at the top of the inning. That's what
Speaker 1: the Twins got. And now Kyle Manzardo comes through the
Speaker 1: big pinch at RBI single the right center. Andre Semenez
Speaker 1: followed to the walk and that put two men on
Speaker 1: and another pinch hitter came to the plate in Will
Speaker 1: Brennan swing on looping liner base hit at the right center.
Speaker 1: Snow hits third. He's cunning home by Walder stopping at
Speaker 1: thirties hit on us.
Speaker 5: We are at four.
Speaker 1: A two strike single to right center my Will Brennan
Speaker 1: and then two batters later, runners on the corners with
Speaker 1: one out, Brian Rochio stepped in, ton can comes, sent
Speaker 1: hands chest tie, lets it fly and the pit swung
Speaker 1: at bunst over the head of Santana base hit right field.
Speaker 1: I walked up win for Cleveland. Bowl game from the
Speaker 1: corner and the Guardians deal the Twins another gut punch,
Speaker 1: scoring three in the bottom of the tenth and stun
Speaker 1: Minnesota in walk off fashion five to four as Brian
Speaker 1: Rochio with that high chumper that riccochet over the head
Speaker 1: of first basement Carlos, Santana and Cleveland got three RBI
Speaker 1: singles in the tenth, So another dramatic win for the Guardians.
Speaker 1: But really it just set the stage where what would
Speaker 1: happen on Thursday afternoon? A chance to clinch a playoff
Speaker 1: spot with a win. They didn't need a scoreboard watch
Speaker 1: and they got. The scoring started early with Kyle Manzardo
Speaker 1: batting in the bottom half of the first inning. The
Speaker 1: pitch and manzarda with a drive too deep right.
Speaker 5: Down the line on.
Speaker 1: Kyle Manzerto has been a one man Twins wrecking crew.
Speaker 1: He won the game the other night with a two
Speaker 1: run homer in the eighth. He got a critical pinch
Speaker 1: at RBI single last night in the tenth, and he
Speaker 1: hits a towering home run down the right field line
Speaker 1: here in the first, and Cleveland's got a one nothing
Speaker 1: lead on the Kyle Manzardo solo homer, his fourth. They've
Speaker 1: all come since his recall from Columbus. Stayed won nothing
Speaker 1: until the fifth, when the Twins took the lead on
Speaker 1: a two run double by Manny Margo. But the Guardians
Speaker 1: even things up in the fifth inning thanks to some
Speaker 1: good situational hitting from Brian Rochio. The two pitch swung
Speaker 1: on skyball to center, this is deep enough to tie
Speaker 1: the game. Buckston medium deep makes the catch, tagging his
Speaker 1: Nailer throw, goes to third head first, slide in safely
Speaker 1: him and has in scoring Nailer and Noel stays at
Speaker 1: first and Rochio comes through with a terrific at bat
Speaker 1: down OH two, got a sack fly to medium deep
Speaker 1: Center is thirty sixth Army I and this ballgame is
Speaker 1: all tied up at two, and it's the little things
Speaker 1: this inning that Cleveland has done and Minnesota has not
Speaker 1: done that has resulted in Cleveland tying the game. Then
Speaker 1: the Guardian's bullpen went to work, Andrew Walters put up
Speaker 1: a zero in the seventh. Hunter Gaddis did the same
Speaker 1: in the eighth, and then Emmanuel Class was out there
Speaker 1: for the ninth. Now the set now the one one
Speaker 1: swung on line drive center field, Miles Straw makes the catch,
Speaker 1: chest high. Classe A throws up another zero, and we
Speaker 1: go to the bottom of the ninth, Cleveland trying to
Speaker 1: walk it off. For the second day in a row,
Speaker 1: we are deadlocked dead two. The Minnesota pen was able
Speaker 1: to keep the Guardians off the board as well, and
Speaker 1: for a second straight day, the game went to extra innings.
Speaker 1: In the top half of the tent, the Twins loaded
Speaker 1: the bases with just one away and Eli Morgan was
Speaker 1: trying to minimize damage. Morgan, from the set check second
Speaker 1: comes to the plate swinging a liner to right, but
Speaker 1: right There's Thomas makes the head high catch. Twins loaded
Speaker 1: them up with one out in Correa and Buckston not
Speaker 1: able to deliver. Bottom of the tenth is next still
Speaker 1: two to two ball game, so the Guardians had a
Speaker 1: chance to win. On the bottom of the tent. Jose
Speaker 1: Ramirez was the runner at second base starting the inning off.
Speaker 1: Josh Naylor was retired for the first out. Then Lane
Speaker 1: Thomas was walked intentionally, and that's at the stage for
Speaker 1: Andre Semenez. Now the payoff pitch to Hemenees swung and
Speaker 1: ripped a right. There's a Bason hitting third coming for
Speaker 1: home Ramirez. He will score in The Guardians are headed
Speaker 1: to October, and yes, Cleveland, for the fourteenth time since
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety five, you will have in October to remember.
Speaker 1: Andre Semenez roops a game winning single to aright, scoring
Speaker 1: Jose Ramirez from second, and for the third time this
Speaker 1: week against Minnesota, Cleveland stunts the Twins in ten innings
Speaker 1: by a final score here today of three to two.
Speaker 1: Oh what a series and what an incredible way to
Speaker 1: clinch a playoff spot here today they had to do
Speaker 1: it in ten innings. But again this club, as they
Speaker 1: have all season long, finding a way to win it,
Speaker 1: and they win it and punch their ticket for October
Speaker 1: with back to back walk off wins in less than
Speaker 1: twenty four hours and after the game. The celebration was
Speaker 1: on in the Guardians clubhouse, and we will hear from
Speaker 1: Chris Antonetti, Steven Vote and many of the players a
Speaker 1: little bit later on in our show today. But first
Speaker 1: a look at Friday's game, the series opener in Saint Louis.
Speaker 1: No signs of a hangover in this one, as the
Speaker 1: Guardians took the lead in the third inning. Jose Ramirez
Speaker 1: batting with two outs and two men on now the
Speaker 1: three to zero swung on line drive base hit right
Speaker 1: field Cleveland tanks the lead into score. Schneman Martinez to third,
Speaker 1: throw to third head first slide, He overslid, the bag
Speaker 1: got back on time when the ball got away from
Speaker 1: Suh Jace, and that allowed Ramirez to go to second
Speaker 1: on the throw to third. One nothing Cleveland and the
Speaker 1: Jose Ramirez with rb I number one O eight. The
Speaker 1: Guardians added one more in the fourth thanks to another
Speaker 1: two out hit, this one from Daniel Schneman. Long set
Speaker 1: now the pitch swung online base hit in the right
Speaker 1: field rounding third heading for home is Naylor. He scores
Speaker 1: and Schneeman comes through with a two out RBI single
Speaker 1: and the Guardians now lead it to nothing. Now Schneeman,
Speaker 1: he've been laboring a little bit last ten games. Was
Speaker 1: just two for twenty three coming in, but a walk
Speaker 1: his first time around to now a two out RBI single.
Speaker 1: He now has twenty two driven in on the season.
Speaker 1: Saint Louis cut the lead in half with a run
Speaker 1: in the fourth, but in the fifth, Ramirez pushed it
Speaker 1: back out to a two run lead. Here comes the
Speaker 1: two to two swung on and that's lifted high and
Speaker 1: deep down the right field line.
Speaker 5: Does it have enough?
Speaker 1: Yes, home run Ramirez right down the line, and it
Speaker 1: had just enough and it stayed just fair. Another home
Speaker 1: run for Jose Ramirez is thirty sixth and the Guardians
Speaker 1: now lead three to one. Laine Thomas stayed high with
Speaker 1: a solo home run of his own in the eighth inning,
Speaker 1: and that's how it ended. As the Guardians continue their
Speaker 1: march toward a Central Division titled they can clinch that
Speaker 1: crown on Saturday with another win over the Cardinals. Stay
Speaker 1: with us when we come back. We'll get the sights
Speaker 1: and sounds, well just the sounds, it's radio. But ins
Speaker 1: clubhouse celebration after clinching a postseason birth on Thursday, Well
Speaker 1: that for you when we come back after this time
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Guardians Weekly. Jim Rosenhouse back with you
Speaker 1: from Bush Stadium in St. Louis, where the Guardians are
Speaker 1: taking on the Cardinals this weekend. And what a day
Speaker 1: was on Thursday at Progressive Field. We heard highlights in
Speaker 1: the last segment from the playoff clinching win and after
Speaker 1: the game, the party was on in the Guardians clubhouse.
Speaker 1: Let's listen in. Well, they've popped the corks and everything's
Speaker 1: flying now, and we're joined by a president of Baseball Operations,
Speaker 1: Chris an Todeddi. They're just in a toast to manager
Speaker 1: Steven Voden that Chris, I know in the offseason you
Speaker 1: were trying to figure out who's going to manage this
Speaker 1: team going forward, and it seems like you have found
Speaker 1: the right guy.
Speaker 4: Steven really has been incredible from day one.
Speaker 3: Hit. The leadership the boys that he's continued to throw
Speaker 3: to show throughout the season has been extraordinary and we
Speaker 3: certainly wouldn't be anywhere near here without him.
Speaker 1: You go to spring training every year hoping that this
Speaker 1: is the result that you can celebrate a postseason run
Speaker 1: this year, though it was some question marks going into
Speaker 1: most notably in that chair. But how did you see
Speaker 1: this thing coming together as spring training moved along and
Speaker 1: then the early stages of the season.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think, Rosie, we try to do our best
Speaker 3: every year to build the best teams we possibly can
Speaker 3: and not worry about kind of what any narrative might be,
Speaker 3: and our focus from day one and really going back
Speaker 3: to the offseasons, let's try to help support the players.
Speaker 5: As best we can to be the best they can be.
Speaker 3: And if you do that consistently enough, days like this happened.
Speaker 1: And a walk off win. You can't control that when
Speaker 1: you put the team together. But what does it say
Speaker 1: about the resiliency of this team, especially the last week
Speaker 1: or so.
Speaker 3: It's funny we were joking in the sweet as the
Speaker 3: game was unfolding. We're like, there's no other way for
Speaker 3: this game to happen other than having to come down
Speaker 3: to the ninth inning or X ratings, because that's seemingly
Speaker 3: been the story of our season.
Speaker 1: You've been fortunate to be a part of a lot
Speaker 1: of these now and Chris just went to just hammer
Speaker 1: his manager with a full bottle of the cold bubbly
Speaker 1: and you're back nicely done? Is that part of the
Speaker 1: strategy down here during this type of thing.
Speaker 5: Absolutely, you kinda have to bounce back and forth.
Speaker 4: You need to have eyes all.
Speaker 3: Around your head, otherwise you're about to get some cold
Speaker 3: champagne or beer dumped on you. But this is what
Speaker 3: makes it so fun, and to do it with this group,
Speaker 3: it's so special, and.
Speaker 1: There's consistency with this ball club despite some of the
Speaker 1: challenges that you have. This seems like almost a yearly
Speaker 1: thing now. And how proud are you of your staff
Speaker 1: that it can be that way here?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 5: I think again.
Speaker 3: I would give a ton of credit to our ownership
Speaker 3: group in the Dolean family and the continuity and stability
Speaker 3: they've provided. I think we've built an identity and a
Speaker 3: culture as an organization that's allowed us to have some
Speaker 3: consistency and we're really grateful for that.
Speaker 1: Chris, thanks so much, appreciate it. My pleasure is a
Speaker 1: good SEENI congratulations to Chris Antonetti, the president of Baseball Operations.
Speaker 1: He put this thing together and it has led to
Speaker 1: a postseason berth for the Guardians. We're now joined by
Speaker 1: manager Steven voten voter. You come to spring training, you said, Hey,
Speaker 1: the goal is to win the World Series, but I
Speaker 1: think a lot of people wanted to see what would
Speaker 1: happen early on in the season. And how proud are
Speaker 1: you of this team, especially the way it fought off
Speaker 1: some other teams.
Speaker 6: Down the stretch here. I couldn't be more proud of us.
Speaker 6: You know, getting in that was the goal. And now
Speaker 6: we just sent our sites forward and keep pushing. And
Speaker 6: this group of guys, this group of people has worked
Speaker 6: extremely hard all year, starting back in the Winner, getting
Speaker 6: to know a new manager, new bench coach, a lot
Speaker 6: of changes, come together a good year, get on the
Speaker 6: same page.
Speaker 5: And these guys have not stopped since.
Speaker 6: Our players work extremely hard, our staff works really hard
Speaker 6: to help them get better. And I just couldn't be
Speaker 6: more proud of what we've accomplished. And we're and like
Speaker 6: I said, there's a lot more work to do.
Speaker 5: Hey, everybody is excited in spring training.
Speaker 1: But was it that first road trip that told you, hey,
Speaker 1: maybe there's something good happening here?
Speaker 5: I thought part of it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean you come home from that first three
Speaker 6: city road trip and you're seven and two.
Speaker 5: You know that gives you all the belief you need
Speaker 5: and then you just keep it rolling the whole way.
Speaker 1: How about the games this last week, the series against Minnesota,
Speaker 1: the way your team won games, What does that tell you?
Speaker 5: We're resilient.
Speaker 6: These guys don't quit even when we you know, get
Speaker 6: the bases loaded, don't score.
Speaker 5: We're gonna come right back. We're not gonna go away.
Speaker 6: And I think you know, this team has been so good,
Speaker 6: so consistent all year.
Speaker 1: You've had some of these as a player, what's it
Speaker 1: like now as a manager?
Speaker 6: This is a This is absolutely crazy, absolutely crazy.
Speaker 5: It's it's a surreal feeling.
Speaker 6: I don't really know how to process it yet, but
Speaker 6: I'm just gonna enjoy it with the guys.
Speaker 5: All right, get back in there.
Speaker 1: That's Steven Vote manager for the Guardians, and it's done
Speaker 1: just a wonderful job in his first season as manager
Speaker 1: of this ball club. And Tom, I know, look, we've
Speaker 1: talked about it a lot. The shoes he had to
Speaker 1: fill after more than a decade of Terry Francona just phenomenal.
Speaker 5: What he's done.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, it's always tough to follow the legend. It's
Speaker 1: a job a lot of people want, no part of
Speaker 1: but he embraced and I think the thing too that
Speaker 1: bears being pointed out Stephen Vote has time and again
Speaker 1: pointed out that look, what he took over and inherited
Speaker 1: from Tito was a mansion. He didn't get a starter home,
Speaker 1: he got a mansion. Now he's very humble about saying
Speaker 1: he only changed the paint color in a few of
Speaker 1: the rooms, but he obviously was a big factor in
Speaker 1: this club getting to where it did. But he was
Speaker 1: also very much in awe of the job that Tito
Speaker 1: had done through the years, and that you walk into
Speaker 1: a situation where there's a winning culture that started with
Speaker 1: Tito in twenty thirteen, and of course this front office
Speaker 1: is second to none. And I think too, as Chris
Speaker 1: pointed out, Paul Dolan and his family deserve a heap
Speaker 1: of praise and congratulations because what they do is hire
Speaker 1: good baseball people and then they don't interfere. They let
Speaker 1: the good people do their job. And that's not the
Speaker 1: way it is in a lot of sports and with
Speaker 1: a lot of ownership groups. And again, the city of
Speaker 1: Cleveland is very fortunate that the Dolan family are the
Speaker 1: stewards of this organization and they're very fortunate to have
Speaker 1: a second basement. Like Andre Simenez who joins US now
Speaker 1: got the game winning base hit andres, I'm for you
Speaker 1: to get the game winning base hit on a day
Speaker 1: like today, that means so much. What does that mean
Speaker 1: to you? It means a lot.
Speaker 5: You know, he was a huge residence.
Speaker 7: Ability for me to comment that about and put a
Speaker 7: good abat on him. Oh, I feel like they've open
Speaker 7: guys the beach and stuff they serve aween today and yeah,
Speaker 7: I'm glad that I did.
Speaker 5: I did that before today.
Speaker 1: You made play after play defensively, and I know you
Speaker 1: do that all the time, but in a big series
Speaker 1: like this, Uh, who was going on defensively? And how
Speaker 1: much joy do you take out of that?
Speaker 7: I mean, I take a huge responsibility. Like I said before,
Speaker 7: I hit and I play defense, So I take a
Speaker 7: lot of pride on my defense. I feel like I
Speaker 7: can't have the pitchers anyway that I can, so just
Speaker 7: has to be in there in the infield for the voice, you.
Speaker 1: Know, and try to have them.
Speaker 5: Now you were here two years ago for a playoff run.
Speaker 1: You're back. What does it mean to be back after
Speaker 1: missing a year last year?
Speaker 7: It means a lot. You know, after I miss, after
Speaker 7: you get one one playoff, you want to get another one.
Speaker 7: So I feel like that's that's really hard to do it.
Speaker 7: We miss a playoff last last year, but uh, you
Speaker 7: know we are we are going to be there, uh
Speaker 7: this year, and I'm looking forward to go to go
Speaker 7: there and and enjoy it.
Speaker 5: And you do it today?
Speaker 1: How important was it to do it today and not
Speaker 1: wait till tomorrow where it's on the road. Huge? Huge?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 7: We we always want to celebrate at home, you know,
Speaker 7: with our with our crowd, they show they love every
Speaker 7: single game this season. And for us, he was he
Speaker 7: was today. He has to do today, Uh, to celebrate
Speaker 7: with our people here in the clubhouse and with defense.
Speaker 1: Andrea's congratulations. Thank you, Yeah, thank you. That's Andre Cemenez,
Speaker 1: the Platinum Glove second basement showed it and he's been
Speaker 1: showing it all season long. We're now joined by Josh Naylor.
Speaker 1: And Josh when we talk to you, I know you
Speaker 1: don't want to talk about your own home runs in
Speaker 1: a thirty hundred season. This is what it's all about,
Speaker 1: isn't it.
Speaker 4: It's great.
Speaker 8: It's great to watch the young guys celebrate who haven't
Speaker 8: been here before, grateful enough to have been here with
Speaker 8: with some of the players in this group. But the
Speaker 8: watch young guys celebrate pop bottles and smile and have
Speaker 8: a great time.
Speaker 4: It's unbelievable.
Speaker 1: And you mentioned that, how different is it this time around,
Speaker 1: especially where you are in your career and where these
Speaker 1: young guys are.
Speaker 8: I mean, it's a again, it's awesome to watch them celebrate.
Speaker 4: Some of the guys that came up a halfer through
Speaker 4: the year, beginning of the year or towards.
Speaker 5: The end of the year.
Speaker 8: It's it's awesome to watch the success and awesome to
Speaker 8: watch them just pop bottles now and celebrate a huge
Speaker 8: victory and a postseason clinch.
Speaker 4: And I think Roger is grateful to be here in
Speaker 4: the moment.
Speaker 1: And you're here with with your teammate Jose Ramirez, two
Speaker 1: guys who go thirty one hundred. What has that experience
Speaker 1: been like for you this season, the both of you
Speaker 1: kind of pushing each other.
Speaker 8: Yeah, No, he's an incredible player To say that, say
Speaker 8: the least he uh, he's someone you want to kind
Speaker 8: of play off to his par and somewhat be like
Speaker 8: and he kind of motivates this whole team with his game,
Speaker 8: and you know, we all just try to We all
Speaker 8: just try to play hard every single every single out,
Speaker 8: every single moment, every single pitch, every single playing defense,
Speaker 8: every single anything.
Speaker 4: We just trying to play.
Speaker 8: Hard and be the best we can be because we
Speaker 8: know that this is what happens at the end of
Speaker 8: the day.
Speaker 4: We got to celebrate.
Speaker 1: It's never easy getting to this point. This team had
Speaker 1: some strong Cools said not that long ago, but it
Speaker 1: seems like they've started to turn it again. You always
Speaker 1: seem know to have the good perspective when the team
Speaker 1: is struggling, whether it's personally or team wise. Where does
Speaker 1: that come from and why is that so important in
Speaker 1: this game?
Speaker 4: I think it comes from experience, just uh, experiencing failure.
Speaker 4: Failure is a big part of this game.
Speaker 8: And if you can learn to accept it, I think
Speaker 8: you become a better person and a better player on
Speaker 8: and off the field. So just the ups and downs,
Speaker 8: it's it's it's beautiful in my opinion, It's a when
Speaker 8: you're when you're going bad, it's you know, what can
Speaker 8: I do better today?
Speaker 4: Take a little positive about it today and fix it tomorrow.
Speaker 8: That's that's my biggest thing. Just how can I get
Speaker 8: a little bit better daily? And what positive kind of
Speaker 8: takeaway of that day?
Speaker 1: A walk off win. Kind of typical for this team,
Speaker 1: isn't it.
Speaker 4: This team's relentless man.
Speaker 8: This team is phenomenal, beautiful, incredible, passionate, all those good things.
Speaker 4: So it's uh, it's awesome to be part of all.
Speaker 5: Right, Take the fans, what's the key now? Down here?
Speaker 1: It looks like you're prepared. You got your bottle in
Speaker 1: the pouch and cigar going. Is that the whole key?
Speaker 1: And then enjoying it with your teammates.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I just want to enjoy everyone with them. I
Speaker 8: want to I'm trying to wash them all from afar.
Speaker 8: Just see the happiness and then that the pure passion
Speaker 8: that they have.
Speaker 4: It's awesome. It's kind of you can't describe it.
Speaker 1: Josh, congratulations, Thank you, thank you, thank you. That's Josh
Speaker 1: naylor tremendous effort throughout the season, and even some stretches
Speaker 1: where he struggled for a little bit, he stayed with
Speaker 1: it and encouraged his teammates, especially his younger brother Bol
Speaker 1: who has had some struggles offensively, but Josh has always
Speaker 1: been there to to be there for him and time.
Speaker 1: It is a total team effort. We got Joey Cantillo
Speaker 1: coming over. Not your run of the mill Thursday afternoon,
Speaker 1: is it?
Speaker 9: No, this is the best Thursday Afternoon I've ever had.
Speaker 5: Hey, you get to pitch in this game.
Speaker 1: Did it feel different taking the mound knowing that it
Speaker 1: could be a clinching game for the postseason.
Speaker 9: I think, honestly, no, it didn't feel any different. No,
Speaker 9: it felt it felt like every game that I've pitched
Speaker 9: up here. I think beforehand, sometimes you can play with you,
Speaker 9: you can play and say what it means and all that,
Speaker 9: But I think when when you step on the field,
Speaker 9: it doesn't matter. And I think I tried to do
Speaker 9: the best job. Just like the rest of this clubhouse.
Speaker 9: There's another Thursday afternoon, and we just you stick to
Speaker 9: your plan, you stick to executing bitches, and and you
Speaker 9: know you're gonna battle and fight and and and for
Speaker 9: the most part, you're gonna, you know, hope to have
Speaker 9: a result like this.
Speaker 1: I know when we talked after your game against the
Speaker 1: White Sox where you took the perfect game into the seven,
Speaker 1: you just said you relish every day up here. And
Speaker 1: because of that, you're late to this thing. You didn't
Speaker 1: really join this club until later in the season. What
Speaker 1: does it meant to you after some of the struggles
Speaker 1: you had early on just to get healthy and pitch.
Speaker 9: Yeah, like I said, I told you in in Chicago,
Speaker 9: every day a special up here. And I think this is, obviously,
Speaker 9: you know, one of those days that I'll remember. And
Speaker 9: you know, I know this team's gonna have a lot more.
Speaker 9: We're gonna continue to build on this. But yeah, like
Speaker 9: it's just a game of making adjustments and then executing
Speaker 9: on those adjustments. I think, uh man, I just think
Speaker 9: it's one of those things. Yeah, we're gonna we're gonna
Speaker 9: keep battling and keep fighting and and like you saw
Speaker 9: today's game, like this team, this team won't give up
Speaker 9: one one pitch at a time, one day at a time.
Speaker 9: This team's gonna keep keep fighting and and you know,
Speaker 9: we got a long way to go.
Speaker 1: Joey, thanks so much for coming back. Congratulations, appreciation. That's
Speaker 1: Joey Cantillo, today's starting pitcher, got the game into the
Speaker 1: uh the fifth ending today and we have Kate Smith
Speaker 1: joining us, and uh, Kate, you were such a big
Speaker 1: part of this thing, uh, key spots all throughout the season.
Speaker 1: What is this moment like for you now that they've
Speaker 1: flinched a postseason birth.
Speaker 10: It's so special to be part of this group and
Speaker 10: you know, seeing it come to fruition and knowing that
Speaker 10: also it's just getting started right.
Speaker 1: And for you, you're one of three rookies who have dominated
Speaker 1: this year. There's other rookies here now too, But what
Speaker 1: is that camaraderie like among you guys?
Speaker 5: Do you realize what you're doing?
Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean the bullpen's truly a special places to
Speaker 10: be part of those you know down there with those
Speaker 10: guys every day is a blast and trying to learn
Speaker 10: from them and you know, push each other to be
Speaker 10: better and do what we can to make available and
Speaker 10: try and help the team win every day.
Speaker 1: And look, you were trying to make the club out
Speaker 1: of spring training, but you did not know until just.
Speaker 5: About the last minute they possibly could tell you.
Speaker 1: Could you have ever imagine the season turning out the
Speaker 1: way it has based on where you were at the
Speaker 1: end of the spring.
Speaker 10: Absolutely, No, It's been such a blessing to be here,
Speaker 10: like not taking that for granted and joining each day
Speaker 10: looking around me and seeing what, you know, what we've
Speaker 10: accomplished and being a part of that has been really
Speaker 10: just a blessing.
Speaker 1: And when you look at this group in here now.
Speaker 1: We talked to Josh Naylor a little bit earlier and
Speaker 1: he talked about how special it was to see the
Speaker 1: young guys go through this for the first time. How
Speaker 1: special has that been for you, especially with so many
Speaker 1: maybe former teammates for the minor league.
Speaker 10: I mean, truly unique, truly special to be a part
Speaker 10: of this clubhouse. The culture that's in it is, you know,
Speaker 10: unlike anything else, and it's really such a bless and
Speaker 10: being a part of this, it's just an awesome, awesome experience.
Speaker 1: We were going to wrap up our coverage down here
Speaker 1: with you, but they're telling us Austin Hedges is available.
Speaker 5: Do we take them?
Speaker 1: All right?
Speaker 5: Okay, thank you.
Speaker 1: Veg you is all right. We're maybe against our better judgment,
Speaker 1: We're gonna we're gonna interview Austin Hedges and see how
Speaker 1: that goes, and he'll be our closer today. Austin, you're
Speaker 1: obviously a huge part of this thing. You were here
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty two. You went all away with Texas
Speaker 1: a year ago, This never gets old, doesn't.
Speaker 11: It never gets old. It's the coolest thing ever. Is
Speaker 11: the reason we play this game is to be able
Speaker 11: to work real hard, grind together, and then celebrate together.
Speaker 1: There are a lot of people who say it's not
Speaker 1: a coincidence as teams back in the postseason because you
Speaker 1: are back here. What is it that you do for
Speaker 1: this team that maybe is not readily apparent to a
Speaker 1: lot of people.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's the guys, It's the grew. The group
Speaker 4: makes it.
Speaker 5: Easy on me.
Speaker 11: The things that I say in the clubhouse are things
Speaker 11: that these guys have already bought into.
Speaker 5: I'm just a reminder.
Speaker 11: I'm just there to remind them of how good they
Speaker 11: are and that we're here for one reason.
Speaker 5: That's when the World Series.
Speaker 1: And we talked about that a while back, and you said, look,
Speaker 1: the division titles not the thing. It's to get in
Speaker 1: to win the World Series. Is this what you're talking about?
Speaker 11: Yeah, I mean we didn't. We now accomplish our first
Speaker 11: goal of the year. We just get to the playoffs.
Speaker 11: Now we got to go win this division and then
Speaker 11: go win the World Series.
Speaker 1: When you look at at comparisons to twenty twenty two,
Speaker 1: you were here back then. The biggest difference is you
Speaker 1: look around this room right now.
Speaker 11: I mean, all these guys have been here now, they've
Speaker 11: all been there before. They know what it feels like
Speaker 11: to win, and they know what it feels like to lose.
Speaker 11: They know what it feels like to win a playoff round,
Speaker 11: lose a playoff round, and that loss hurts, It really hurts.
Speaker 11: It makes you hungry, and it makes you, you know,
Speaker 11: show up every day knowing like not us, not today.
Speaker 5: And these guys keep pushing.
Speaker 11: One day at a time, and you know, we got
Speaker 11: one goal in mind still, so we got a lot.
Speaker 5: Of work left.
Speaker 1: What about the rookies, They didn't seem to play like rookies,
Speaker 1: especially the relievers.
Speaker 5: Well, I mean they're a byproduct of all the of
Speaker 5: all the guys that have been there now.
Speaker 11: And we have such great leadership on this team that
Speaker 11: I feel like the rookies, it makes their job, doesn't
Speaker 11: make it easy, but it makes it simple. They know
Speaker 11: exactly what they're expected to do and what type of
Speaker 11: ball we play, and these have come.
Speaker 5: Out every day and ready to do exactly that.
Speaker 1: Edgie, thanks for coming back. Congratulations, Thank you Rosie at
Speaker 1: Is Austin Hedges. Who gosh, he's a difference maker. And
Speaker 1: we're going to wrap it up down here on NOVI.
Speaker 1: We'll obviously, hopefully in a couple of days, have another
Speaker 1: one of these when they clinched the division. But Tomm
Speaker 1: you mentioned it during the broadcast today what he means
Speaker 1: to this team, And I don't think it is a
Speaker 1: coincidence that he's back in this team's back in the postseason. No,
Speaker 1: I would agree. And you know the fun part is
Speaker 1: now we have no idea how this thing turns out.
Speaker 1: What we have seen a year ago to wild card
Speaker 1: teams get to the World Series, and I'm guessing Major
Speaker 1: League Baseball's rooting for the Yankees and Dodgers, and the
Speaker 1: best thing that could ever happen is ruin those plans
Speaker 1: and have a Milwaukee Cleveland World Series. Always fun to
Speaker 1: be down in that clubhouse when the Guardians are celebrating
Speaker 1: a clinching, whether it's a division, a playoff series, or
Speaker 1: in this case, reaching the postseason once again and at
Speaker 1: some thing they've done six times now in the last
Speaker 1: nine seasons. And we'll see how far they can go
Speaker 1: this October in pursuit of that first World Series Championship
Speaker 1: since nineteen forty eight. Stay with us. We'll as some
Speaker 1: final thoughts after this time out on the Cleveland Clinic.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Guardians Weekly. Jim Rosenhouse back with you
Speaker 1: for our final segment. As we join you from Bush
Speaker 1: Stadium in Saint Louis. The Guardians looking to wrap up
Speaker 1: the American League's Central Division crown. If they can do so,
Speaker 1: it would be the second time in two seasons that
Speaker 1: they win the AL Central. They did it back in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two and they're trying to do it again
Speaker 1: possible clincher on Saturday night in Saint Louis. They don't
Speaker 1: have to scoreboard watch a win gets it done for Cleveland,
Speaker 1: and they have been on quite a role this week,
Speaker 1: so we'll see if they can get that done on
Speaker 1: Saturday evening and then be able to settle in try
Speaker 1: and maintain a playoff spot where they don't have to
Speaker 1: play in the wildcard round and take care of some
Speaker 1: other things as well the final week of the season
Speaker 1: at home. That's going to do it for our show
Speaker 1: this week. We'll join you next weekend from downtown Cleveland
Speaker 1: and Progressive Field as the Guardians will be taking on
Speaker 1: the Houston Astros. Until then for Brian Motse, thanks to
Speaker 1: him as always for all of the great help and
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