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Speaker 2: you enjoyed today's show. We have a good one lined
Speaker 2: up for you. We will hear from Stephen Kwan, one
Speaker 2: of the stars from that memorable Game four on Thursday
Speaker 2: night in Detroit in the American League Division Series, with
Speaker 2: Game five, the decider, on tap for it later today
Speaker 2: on Saturday. We'll also visit with Austin Hedges, Guardians catcher,
Speaker 2: and here from former Cleveland pitcher Josh Tomlin, who threw
Speaker 2: out a first pitch earlier in the series and had
Speaker 2: some great memories of postseasons passed with Cleveland and he
Speaker 2: was such a big part of that big run back
Speaker 2: in twenty sixteen. So some good stuff there, but a
Speaker 2: lot to get to on our weekend review. What a
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Speaker 2: Welcome back to Progressive Field and Guardians Weekly. Jim Rosenhouse
Speaker 2: along with you this weekend the Guardians and the Detroit Tigers.
Speaker 2: They will play later to day earlier though than originally planned,
Speaker 2: due to a bad weather forecast for tonight, so the
Speaker 2: teams will meet at one eight with a first pitch
Speaker 2: time for the deciding Game five in the American League
Speaker 2: Division Series. How did we get to this point? Well,
Speaker 2: the series started last Saturday and an impressive win for
Speaker 2: the Guardians to get it going with their ace, Tanner
Speaker 2: Bybee on the mound, he had progressive field rocking in
Speaker 2: the top half of the first.
Speaker 1: Inning Byby's ready all right hander out of cal State Fullerton,
Speaker 1: lets it fly a swing a Suna change up, so
Speaker 1: Biby strikes out Meadows to start October baseball. Here at
Speaker 1: the corner of Carnegiean, Ontario.
Speaker 2: For Detroit their cy young candidate and likely winner, Trek Scubel.
Speaker 2: He had pitched in the Wildcard Series, so he was
Speaker 2: lined up to pitch Game two. That meant that it
Speaker 2: would be a bullpen game for the Tigers, and starting
Speaker 2: this one was Tyler Holton and the Guardian's leadoff man,
Speaker 2: Stephen Kwan got things started in a big way.
Speaker 3: The pitch a.
Speaker 5: Swing in a line drive, deep right field, feeling going back.
Speaker 5: It is off the top of the ninth football Quan
Speaker 5: on his wait a second in sliding with a double.
Speaker 5: What a way to jump start this ballpark left on left,
Speaker 5: and Steven Kwan barely missed a home run, hitting it
Speaker 5: high off the ninth football and right, his second career
Speaker 5: hit off Tyler Holton.
Speaker 2: David Fry followed Kwan with a walk, and then Jose
Speaker 2: Ramirez stepped in.
Speaker 1: String is out on Ramirez, two men aboard, nobody out.
Speaker 1: The payoff pitch swing in a chapter to third, off
Speaker 1: the glove of mckisstory down the left field line. Batt'll
Speaker 1: score Kwan. Fry stops it far in with a double Ramirez,
Speaker 1: how bad hop double off the glove of McKinstry at third,
Speaker 1: down the left field line, and the Guardians take a
Speaker 1: one nothing lead and have runners at second and third
Speaker 1: and nobody out.
Speaker 2: Josh Naylor was next, and he kept the early onslaught going.
Speaker 1: The pitch swung on ground bow pace hitting the right,
Speaker 1: that'll score Fry. Rimira stops at third and with a
Speaker 1: drawn in infield, Naylor poked it through the gap between
Speaker 1: the first and second basement. Two nothing, Guardians runners at
Speaker 1: the corners, nobody out, and aj Hinch is going to
Speaker 1: the bullpen and this place is up for grabs.
Speaker 2: You know, the Tigers didn't waste any time going to
Speaker 2: their bullpen. Reese Olsener, right hander, came on to face
Speaker 2: Lane Thomas.
Speaker 3: Infield back double play depth and.
Speaker 5: The pit swagon pit huh pit deep to left howay back.
Speaker 3: Lay Thomas, in his.
Speaker 1: First at bat as a Cleveland Guardian in postseason, pounds
Speaker 1: one into the bleachers and left.
Speaker 3: A three run home run. A five run first inning
Speaker 3: and still nobody out.
Speaker 2: Wow, I want to start for the Guardians, and then
Speaker 2: Tanner Bibby went back to work. Rogers struck out his
Speaker 2: first time up right handed hitting catcher. Here's the two
Speaker 2: two swag and a miss strike three. The curve gets
Speaker 2: him and Bibby just racked up his sixth strikeout. Kate
Speaker 2: Smith came on to get the final out in the
Speaker 2: fifth inning, and then he was back out there for
Speaker 2: the sixth.
Speaker 1: Now got them swinging on the heat ninety seven miles
Speaker 1: an hour cade Smith into his postseason debut. Four batters
Speaker 1: faced four strikeouts and Cleveland stays up five nothing in
Speaker 1: the middle of ending number six.
Speaker 2: The Guardians added to the lead, or at least tried to.
Speaker 2: In the bottom of the sixth inning with two men
Speaker 2: on after a walk to John Kenzie Noel and another
Speaker 2: one to Stephen Kwan. That brought David Fry to the plate.
Speaker 3: Here it comes, swinging a light right pace hit to
Speaker 3: left down the line, headed toward the wall.
Speaker 1: That'll score no Well Quan flying around third.
Speaker 3: Here's the front of the plate.
Speaker 1: Not a time. David Fry hooked a two run double
Speaker 1: down the left field line. There's a backbreaker. Seven nothing
Speaker 1: Cleveland and a big postseason start for David.
Speaker 2: Fry and with the Guardians comfortably in front, next man
Speaker 2: out of the bullpen was Tim Herron in the seventh
Speaker 2: the two.
Speaker 1: Swing ANmS slider wiped them out. Herron strikes out Swingy
Speaker 1: a dozen strikeouts for Cleveland pitching. It's strench time at
Speaker 1: the corner of Carnegie and Ontario. It is Cleveland seventh,
Speaker 1: Detroit nothing.
Speaker 2: Hunter Gatis got the call in the eighth inning, the.
Speaker 1: One to one swing on ground ball to a second.
Speaker 1: He mentos a second. There's one Rocchio relay get him
Speaker 1: and an ending double play. Middle of the eighth, seven
Speaker 1: nothing Guardians.
Speaker 2: And even with the big lead, and Manuel Classe came
Speaker 2: on for some sharpening work to close things out in
Speaker 2: the ninth.
Speaker 3: Now the set by Class A.
Speaker 1: Here it comes swinging a pop up shallow left, Stephen
Speaker 1: Kuan near the line makes the catch ball. Game Game
Speaker 1: one of the American League Division Series belong to the
Speaker 1: Guardians as they shut out the Detroit Tigers seven to nothing.
Speaker 2: Well, what a way to start things for the Guardians
Speaker 2: in the Division Series. Monday Game two, late afternoon, great
Speaker 2: pitching all day long. In this one, Tiger starter Trek
Speaker 2: Scooble showed why he's the front runner to win this
Speaker 2: year Cy Young Award.
Speaker 1: Now the kick in the two two what strength three
Speaker 1: call looked at a fastball rake down the slot that
Speaker 1: was not debatable. So Scooble has struck out four in
Speaker 1: a row. Six overall. He is perfect through three Cleveland
Speaker 1: and Detroit scoreless.
Speaker 2: And for the Guardians, who is Matthew Boyd facing his
Speaker 2: former team and matching zeros with his good friend.
Speaker 1: The one two from Matthew Boyd sweet a strength three fastball,
Speaker 1: high and tight. Rogers had no chance and Boyd works
Speaker 1: out of it.
Speaker 3: We had to the bottom half half of.
Speaker 2: The fourth inning still scoreless in downtown Cleveland. The Tigers
Speaker 2: tried to get the offense going in the fifth, but
Speaker 2: the arm of John Kenzie Noel in right field stopped
Speaker 2: that notion in its tracks. Here's the one two pitch
Speaker 2: swung on and that's driven down the right side. That's
Speaker 2: gonna drop fair cut off near the line by Noel.
Speaker 3: Here's his throw. It's a beauty.
Speaker 1: Beside the tag pis out up John Kenzie. Noell with
Speaker 1: a bullet terrific throw. Rochio applied the.
Speaker 3: Tag and malloy is cut down a second.
Speaker 2: Josh Naylor doubled in the bottom of the fifth. That
Speaker 2: broke up Schooble's perfect game. But the good pitching continued
Speaker 2: on both sides as the game remained scoreless through seven.
Speaker 2: In the eighth, the Tigers threatened to break the tie
Speaker 2: with two men on, but another great defensive play for
Speaker 2: the Guardians, this time Stephen Kwan saving the day.
Speaker 3: Here's the one.
Speaker 1: Tune delivery swung online, drive toward the gap left center,
Speaker 1: diving Kwan.
Speaker 3: He made that catch.
Speaker 1: Unbelievable on diving backhanded catch in the alley and left center.
Speaker 1: Now the Tiger's still running the bases like the ball
Speaker 1: wasn't caught.
Speaker 3: This will be challenged the cofield.
Speaker 1: Stand the runners out.
Speaker 3: This boy has one challenging groupe wow. Middle of the
Speaker 3: eighth scoreless in Cleveland, so.
Speaker 2: Onto the ninth the game went Emmanuel Classe was back
Speaker 2: out there after he had come on to get that
Speaker 2: final out in the eighth inning. He retired the first
Speaker 2: two Tigers batters, but then he gave up a pair
Speaker 2: of singles, and that brought the dangerous Carry Carpenter to
Speaker 2: the plate.
Speaker 1: The two to two runner goes pitch it high, hit
Speaker 1: deep to right. This ball is on its way to
Speaker 1: the seats. A three run home run for Carpenter to right.
Speaker 1: They're out of the Tiger dugout on the first base side.
Speaker 3: Of the park. Carry Carpenter with a towering three run
Speaker 3: home run.
Speaker 1: Emanuel clause Say had given up two home runs all year,
Speaker 1: and the Tigers, after there were two outs nobody on
Speaker 1: have scored.
Speaker 2: Three and the Guardians were unable to respond. In the
Speaker 2: bottom of the ninth inning. Three nothing would be the final,
Speaker 2: as the Tigers even the series by winning Game two Wednesday.
Speaker 2: Game three in Detroit pretty much all Tigers in this one,
Speaker 2: as the Guardians pitching did a solid job. Alex Cobb
Speaker 2: gave up a pair of runs in three innings. In
Speaker 2: the bullpen allowed just one more run, but three runs
Speaker 2: was plenty for the Tigers on this day, as they
Speaker 2: put together a bullpen day and held the Guardians at bay,
Speaker 2: making all the right moves in this one. Here's the
Speaker 2: set delivery swing in a miss, there's your vag game.
Speaker 2: Back to back shutouts has put Detroit in the driver's seat.
Speaker 1: Their one went away from the American League Championship Series.
Speaker 1: This improbable run continues, but Cleveland still's got a chance,
Speaker 1: but they have got to figure out this offense. Back
Speaker 1: to back shutouts, Cleveland's gonna club record twenty consecutive innings
Speaker 1: without scoring, and the Tigers win it three to nothing,
Speaker 1: So that brought the.
Speaker 2: Series to a Game four and an elimination game for
Speaker 2: the Guardians. A loss there season ends a win and
Speaker 2: the series would shift right back here to Progressive Field
Speaker 2: in downtown Cleveland for the Game five. And obviously you
Speaker 2: know how this one turned out, But the fun is
Speaker 2: how did it get there? It was a winner go home,
Speaker 2: and the Guardians came out ready to roll as once again,
Speaker 2: Stephen got it started in his first at bat of
Speaker 2: the night. Olson, third base side of the rubber angled
Speaker 2: toward home plate, delivers and the pitch swung on line
Speaker 2: drive base hit in the gamp and left center cut
Speaker 2: off by Riley Green and now it's a nine game
Speaker 2: hitting streak in postseason play for Stephen Kuan. Kyle Manzaro
Speaker 2: followed the base hit of his own. Then after Kuan
Speaker 2: stole third, Cleveland had runners on the corners with two
Speaker 2: outs for Lane Thomas.
Speaker 1: The pitch a swing and a Croupball base hitting the
Speaker 1: right Kuan will score. Man Zardo stops at second and
Speaker 1: Lane Thomas gives Cleveland its first run since the sixth
Speaker 1: inning on Saturday.
Speaker 2: The Tigers answered in the second inning. A sack fly
Speaker 2: from Trey Sweeney tied the game at one, and it
Speaker 2: stayed that way until the fifth when Jose Ramirez stepped
Speaker 2: in the one to zero and he swings it drives
Speaker 2: one high and deep left field, hold Road, Jose Ramirez
Speaker 2: there It is a star being a star, and the
Speaker 2: Guardians grabbed the lead two to one Cleveland. But again
Speaker 2: the Tigers responded with a solo home run of their own,
Speaker 2: Zach McKinstry going opo in the bottom of the fifth inning,
Speaker 2: and that tied the game of two. Then in the sixth,
Speaker 2: Detroit got a two out RBI single from Winceel Perez,
Speaker 2: and for the first time in the game, it was
Speaker 2: the Tigers who were in front, this time by a
Speaker 2: score of three to two. In the seventh, the Guardians
Speaker 2: tried to respond, and they did two quick outs, but
Speaker 2: then Stephen Kwan delivered another clutch base hit to keep
Speaker 2: the inning going. That brought pinch hitter David Fry to
Speaker 2: the plate the.
Speaker 3: Two to two, delivering swung on pitch, a ton deep
Speaker 3: what green back track?
Speaker 6: Whof gone?
Speaker 3: David Fry.
Speaker 1: Off the bench, a two strike, two out, two home run,
Speaker 1: and Cleveland's back on top for the third time tonight.
Speaker 3: Four to three.
Speaker 2: And how about that first time in Cleveland's postseason history
Speaker 2: that a pinch hitter had hit a home run. From
Speaker 2: the seventh inning on, it was still four to three.
Speaker 2: Top of the ninth, the Guardians had runners on the
Speaker 2: corners with one out, looking for a big insurance run,
Speaker 2: and that's exactly what they got again thanks to David Fry.
Speaker 1: He squares to bunch safety bunt coming home with a
Speaker 1: backhanded flip. The tag on Rokie a not a time
Speaker 1: he's in with a head first slide. They pulled off
Speaker 1: a safety squeeze and a beauty of a bunk by
Speaker 1: David fry Man.
Speaker 2: What a huge insurance run it turned out to be.
Speaker 2: Is In the bottom of the night, the Tigers got
Speaker 2: a lead off double from Justin Henry molloy, who later
Speaker 2: scored to make it a one run game, five to
Speaker 2: four Cleveland, And once again the pressure was on closer
Speaker 2: Emmanuel Classe as he faced Matt Vere with two outs.
Speaker 2: Claus brings the hands up jin high, he lets it fly,
Speaker 2: veiling a swing and anss ball game and this incredible
Speaker 2: division series has one more game remaining, a deciding Game five,
Speaker 2: winner take all Saturday in Northeast Ohio, as Cleveland comes
Speaker 2: off the map to beat Detroit five to four. After
Speaker 2: the game, Guardians manager Stephen Vote talked about the back
Speaker 2: and forth instant classic that was Game four in Detroit
Speaker 2: on Thursday night.
Speaker 7: Just such a great baseball game. I feel like every
Speaker 7: game this series has been a good baseball game. And
Speaker 7: for our guys to score first, they come back, take
Speaker 7: the lead, we come back, you know, back and forth,
Speaker 7: back and forth, and just a tremendous job by you know,
Speaker 7: our bullpen guys off the bench defense. It was just
Speaker 7: a well played baseball game on both sides and a
Speaker 7: lot of fun.
Speaker 2: Boy, what a game it was, And when we come back,
Speaker 2: we'll hear about it from a couple of the contributors
Speaker 2: to that ballgame, Catcher Austin Hedges and Stephen Kuan, who
Speaker 2: finished with a three head night. That's next down the
Speaker 2: Cleveland Clinic Guardians Radio Network.
Speaker 1: Plante's ready, here it comes and he bunts it safety
Speaker 1: squeeze in a beauty that'll score strong Goldsmith the first
Speaker 1: baseman thirty feet from the plate fielded it threw back
Speaker 1: to first to the second basement covering boy. Hedges has
Speaker 1: done that three times this year. He lays down a
Speaker 1: perfect safety squeeze bunt and manufacturers are run. And that's
Speaker 1: something they'll have to be able to do come November
Speaker 1: or October. Wait, oh, November, if the World Series goes headlong.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to Guardians Weekly. Austin had just joining us
Speaker 1: as the Guardians. Later today will take on the Tigers
Speaker 1: in a winner take all game. Here, Austin, and you
Speaker 1: had a great run in the postseason a year ago,
Speaker 1: and there were a couple of elimination games for your club,
Speaker 1: the Texas Rangers. We saw one the other night in Detroit,
Speaker 1: and is is why you play the game games like this,
Speaker 1: even though I'm sure a sweep would be nice, but
Speaker 1: when you get in these games, how enjoyable is it?
Speaker 8: Yeah, those the sweeps are nice, you know they it
Speaker 8: feels like, you know, you don't have to go through
Speaker 8: all the crazy roller coasters of emotions. But the games
Speaker 8: that come down to a Game five or Game seven,
Speaker 8: those are I mean, that's what it's all about. Those
Speaker 8: are the ones that that's ultimate glory. When you win
Speaker 8: those ones, there's no better feeling in the world.
Speaker 2: And it seems like it's just such a roller coaster
Speaker 2: in certain series, and this is one of those. It
Speaker 2: just felt different the other night, Game four as opposed
Speaker 2: to Game three. Is that just because of the way
Speaker 2: the game turned out, or was there a significant difference
Speaker 2: either in the dugout, how the team was approaching things
Speaker 2: things like that.
Speaker 8: I mean, you know, we got a score, you know,
Speaker 8: we scored early. Scoring in the first was a big deal.
Speaker 8: I think when we score first, you know, it really
Speaker 8: it really gets the boys going. And then we're really
Speaker 8: good at keeping leads. That being said, we're also really
Speaker 8: good at coming from behind. But I think that was
Speaker 8: a little bit of the difference that you know, obviously
Speaker 8: we knews winner go home, and we got the same
Speaker 8: thing going on now, so we just know we go
Speaker 8: out there and score a handful of runs, we know
Speaker 8: we're in a good position to win.
Speaker 2: With this team. If you don't start a game, it
Speaker 2: seems at some point you're going to make an impact
Speaker 2: on a game, regardless of the position that you're playing.
Speaker 2: And in game four, you were there at the end
Speaker 2: catching a manual class a. What can you bring when
Speaker 2: you come into a game like that, especially for him
Speaker 2: trying to get through more than one inning, that that
Speaker 2: can be helpful for him because it seemed like he
Speaker 2: was on his game.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean, it's just about you know, having having
Speaker 8: the right type of energy in the you know, without
Speaker 8: you know, being able to talk right. You know, we're
Speaker 8: just he's he's out there just looking at me, and
Speaker 8: I'm looking at him, and I got to be able to,
Speaker 8: you know, look confident in what I'm calling pitches and
Speaker 8: my targets and my setups and and if there's ever
Speaker 8: a time for a mound business, just remind me that
Speaker 8: he's the best in the world. But you know, I'm
Speaker 8: just trying to stay prepared. As the as the game
Speaker 8: goes on, and watch what what Bo has been doing,
Speaker 8: because I know he's going to be out there making
Speaker 8: all the right decisions and trying just to pick up
Speaker 8: where he left off.
Speaker 2: Maybe not to get too far off track. But I
Speaker 2: talked to Bow before the game and he credited you
Speaker 2: with with helping him develop this season. He's a young
Speaker 2: catcher who has come a long way, and he talked
Speaker 2: about that reading hitters during the course of the game
Speaker 2: and that you've been so helpful to him. How how
Speaker 2: can you help a young catcher was seemingly a really
Speaker 2: hard part of a game.
Speaker 8: It is, It is really hard, But I just I
Speaker 8: just challenged him from the beginning of the season too
Speaker 8: to know how many pitches he's called in his life,
Speaker 8: and uh, with that he has, he has all the reps.
Speaker 8: You know, it doesn't matter what level you're calling pitches.
Speaker 8: It's still an important situation in your life in that moment,
Speaker 8: and you know what the reactions of hitters and the
Speaker 8: strength of your pitchers are. And the more you can
Speaker 8: watch the game, the more information you can soak in
Speaker 8: in the actual moment versus all data and information is
Speaker 8: all previous information, all past games and past games just
Speaker 8: you know, they give you a good idea, but they
Speaker 8: just really don't matter in the in the moment, and
Speaker 8: in the moment, the hitter is going to tell you something.
Speaker 8: And you know, from the beginning of the season he
Speaker 8: started really really paying attention to that stuff. And I
Speaker 8: mean his uh, he's grown up in that, in that
Speaker 8: in that area of the game so quickly, Like I
Speaker 8: feel like it took me four or five years in
Speaker 8: the big leagues to even really know how to do that,
Speaker 8: and he's doing that an elite level already. So I'm
Speaker 8: very proud of him for that.
Speaker 2: When you look back at the other night after the
Speaker 2: game one of those quote instant classics from a fan standpoint,
Speaker 2: do the players feel that too? Can you appreciate the
Speaker 2: ebbs and flows? Or are you so locked in and
Speaker 2: worried about what's next that it's hard to.
Speaker 8: Do In the moment, you just know that it's it's
Speaker 8: a grind because it's there's so many of you're going
Speaker 8: up and down with all your emotions. But after the
Speaker 8: game you kind of feel like, man, that was a
Speaker 8: that was definitely a playoff game that we're gonna remember
Speaker 8: for a long time.
Speaker 2: So heading into a game five, what's the biggest key
Speaker 2: pregame to making sure this team is ready to go
Speaker 2: to play a good one today?
Speaker 8: Honestly, it's just nothing changes. We got to go out
Speaker 8: and just do the exact same thing we've done all season.
Speaker 8: When we do that, we're really good. When we try
Speaker 8: and do too much, and you know, everyone, when every
Speaker 8: guy tries to be the hero, that's not our identity.
Speaker 8: But when everyone's just passing the baton to the next
Speaker 8: guy and playing our game, I think that's our our
Speaker 8: best recipe for success.
Speaker 2: Have fun out there today. Thank you, thank you. Well
Speaker 2: you heard us reference in that interview with Austin Hedges
Speaker 2: some of the comments from Stephen Kwan after the game.
Speaker 2: He had a chance to visit with both myself and
Speaker 2: Tom Hamilton just after the ballgame was complete and talk
Speaker 2: about what a great game Game four was, especially for Cleveland.
Speaker 1: Congratulations a three hit game. You got some big hits
Speaker 1: all night long to get things going. Have you ever
Speaker 1: been in a game that was much more entertaining or
Speaker 1: excruciating than this one?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 9: I was gonna say that that's pretty stressful. I don't
Speaker 9: know if that's how I draw it up, but we'll
Speaker 9: take a win anyway.
Speaker 3: That was awesome, Stephen.
Speaker 2: You know, in the clubhouse before the game, it didn't
Speaker 2: seem like a regular season game in July certainly, but look,
Speaker 2: you guys have very little margin for error at this point,
Speaker 2: but it seemed like a regular day. And how important
Speaker 2: is that for your team and your teammates to have
Speaker 2: that type of attitude in pregame.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I think it's important. You don't want to change
Speaker 9: everything that's been working so far, you know, Like, I know,
Speaker 9: we definitely know what's at stake, but we have our routines,
Speaker 9: we have what we have to to get through the day,
Speaker 9: and so I mean, I think that's that's huge for
Speaker 9: the boys. You know. I think if you start getting
Speaker 9: a little panicky, things can go wrong.
Speaker 1: Stephen, take us through the emotions of that dugout when
Speaker 1: you had two different leads and couldn't hold them, and
Speaker 1: then Detroit takes the lead, and then David Fry with
Speaker 1: a pinch at home run.
Speaker 3: Can you take us through what goes on in a
Speaker 3: dugout in a game like this? Yeah? I mean I
Speaker 3: just thought of faith.
Speaker 9: I think you have to have a lot of faith,
Speaker 9: you know, voter talk before you know, nobody's gonna be
Speaker 9: the one here. You gotta pass a baton and keep
Speaker 9: it rolling. And I think we really embrace that today.
Speaker 9: We work some really good at bats we had for
Speaker 9: the big hit, and then you know, we're just riding
Speaker 9: the roller coaster as we.
Speaker 2: Go, and three of those hits belong to you. It
Speaker 2: looks like you are dialed back in. And what's been
Speaker 2: the biggest key here in the postseason for you?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 9: I mean hard to say, you know, I don't. I
Speaker 9: think it's hard to assign meeting to that. It's just
Speaker 9: seeing some good pitches and the tough ones. We kind
Speaker 9: of have an idea of what their plan is, but
Speaker 9: you know, at the end of the day, once you
Speaker 9: make contact, you don't have any control over the ball.
Speaker 9: So I mean some good swings and some good fortune
Speaker 9: I think go a long way.
Speaker 1: Steven, you have been a big game player in the
Speaker 1: postseason in just three years of your major league career.
Speaker 1: Does any of this date back to Corvallis and winning
Speaker 1: a national championship in college?
Speaker 3: Do you take anything from them? Yeah? I think so.
Speaker 9: Obviously those were some really high pressure games as well,
Speaker 9: But in that same stride. I try to take that
Speaker 9: attitude to the first game in twenty twenty two and
Speaker 9: didn't have the results I would like. So I think, yeah,
Speaker 9: I've leaned on that a little bit. But at the
Speaker 9: same time, I have to recognize that these are these
Speaker 9: are different games as the big leagues and the big
Speaker 9: Leagues for a reason.
Speaker 2: So yes, but no, you got a big game coming
Speaker 2: up Saturday. But I feel like you and the rest
Speaker 2: of the team have the right mindset going in.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean, it's just another day to play with
Speaker 9: the boys.
Speaker 3: I was talking about about it before.
Speaker 9: We obviously want advance and get to the next one,
Speaker 9: but I think also we just want to play play
Speaker 9: with the boys. We don't want all season a star.
Speaker 9: I mean, we're living the dream every day with each other.
Speaker 9: So it's kind of just gonna keep rolling.
Speaker 3: Hey, great job, Steven, thanks so much, thanks to anything,
Speaker 3: Rosie Stephen Kwan. What a series.
Speaker 1: He has had eight hits in the four games, and
Speaker 1: we have said it all season long. As he goes,
Speaker 1: so goes this line up.
Speaker 3: So what a night.
Speaker 2: It was Game four, and I look for the same
Speaker 2: this afternoon in downtown Cleveland. Again, It's not an eight
Speaker 2: oh eight first pitch. It was supposed to be, but
Speaker 2: due to a bad weather forecast. The game will begin
Speaker 2: at oneh eight this afternoon, and you can tune in
Speaker 2: beginning at twelve thirty five for the BET three six
Speaker 2: to five Guardians warm Up Show. Stay with us when
Speaker 2: we came back, we'll hear from one of the former
Speaker 2: Cleveland pitchers who is such a big part of the
Speaker 2: twenty sixteen World Series run. Josh Tomlin will join us.
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Speaker 1: The two swing in another little looping fly into right.
Speaker 1: Going back to Gravity's Lennie Chisenhol and Josh Tomlin.
Speaker 3: What else is new?
Speaker 1: Seven innings, he's given up three runs. He's on his
Speaker 1: way to a nine and one record.
Speaker 2: Welcome back to Guardians Weekly House. Back with you from
Speaker 2: downtown Cleveland and Progressive Field for our final segment of
Speaker 2: this week's show, and we check in with former Cleveland
Speaker 2: pitcher Josh Tomlin, who threw out the first pitch prior
Speaker 2: to Game two of this American League Division Series earlier
Speaker 2: this week against the Tigers. Josh spent twelve years in
Speaker 2: the Major leagues, nine with Cleveland. His best season was
Speaker 2: twenty sixteen, when he won a career high thirteen games,
Speaker 2: and then the postseason, he made four starts, had a
Speaker 2: couple of wins. Most memorable his start in World Series
Speaker 2: Game three at Wrigley Field, all one, nothing, shut out
Speaker 2: win for the Guardians. He didn't go long enough to
Speaker 2: get a decision, but pitched four and two thirds innings,
Speaker 2: allowing just two hits that night against the Mighty Cubs,
Speaker 2: and it was an emotional night for him as his dad,
Speaker 2: who had some major health issues, was able to make
Speaker 2: that game in person and that meant everything to Josh
Speaker 2: and his teammates as well. Him about that in just
Speaker 2: a little bit. But when we caught up with him
Speaker 2: prior to throwing out his first pitch prior to Game
Speaker 2: two earlier this week, he talked about what it was
Speaker 2: like to come back and see some old friends.
Speaker 6: Oh it's the best, that's all I was telling the
Speaker 6: guys from the radio earlier. Was this this place made
Speaker 6: me into the man I am today. I came in
Speaker 6: here as a nineteen twenty year old in the lower
Speaker 6: levels and being around Cleveland and being around the city
Speaker 6: for as long as I was, it turned into a man.
Speaker 6: It made me understand, you know, how to do things
Speaker 6: on my own, and what a great time to kind
Speaker 6: of become a manner.
Speaker 2: And you come here this time of year, and I
Speaker 2: imagine that a flood of great memories of what postseason
Speaker 2: means here must be coming back.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, there's the first thing you think about is
Speaker 6: twenty sixteen, seventeen, the years that we were, you know,
Speaker 6: so close to doing the things we want to do,
Speaker 6: what we set out for that year and the accomplishments.
Speaker 6: But yeah, so many friends of ours still to this day,
Speaker 6: close friends of mine. We're on that twenty sixteen team,
Speaker 6: and you know, seeing some of the pictures on the
Speaker 6: walls here of us celebrating a lot of those moments
Speaker 6: is really cool to see. But it does bring back
Speaker 6: a lot of memories, a lot of fond memories and
Speaker 6: a lot of sad memories of the same sense.
Speaker 2: And for you personally, you had one of the great
Speaker 2: moments at Wrigley Field starting a game there, and your
Speaker 2: dad was able to make it at a time where
Speaker 2: there were some questions as to whether he would be
Speaker 2: able to. And when you think back about that day,
Speaker 2: I don't know how much you share with him about
Speaker 2: that on a not a daily basis, but occasionally, what
Speaker 2: are some of the things that come to mind about
Speaker 2: that stretch of time. Oh, it was just.
Speaker 6: Kind of surreal, like to be able to experience that
Speaker 6: with my folks, and then to have the doctors telling
Speaker 6: him the type of things they were telling him about, No,
Speaker 6: you can't do this, now, you can't do that, and
Speaker 6: then just a will for him to be able to
Speaker 6: just to do it in my aunt and uncle getting
Speaker 6: on the fly with him and sending to Chicago, and
Speaker 6: you know, I don't even know if you would have
Speaker 6: been able to make it if he was healthier. Then
Speaker 6: the ABM happens to him and thinks that he will
Speaker 6: never been to happen, and then you know, just by
Speaker 6: the unluckiness of the draw of him getting hurt in
Speaker 6: the year that we get to the World Series, and
Speaker 6: you know, he even told him, like, you know, I'm
Speaker 6: going to be there, And we talked about the all
Speaker 6: the time of like how was Will was just you know,
Speaker 6: I'm going to watch my son pitching World Series. I'm like,
Speaker 6: what are the odds if I get to the World
Speaker 6: Series the year that that actually happens to you? But
Speaker 6: we laugh about that sometimes, but yeah, it was as
Speaker 6: a moment we both will never forget and I'm so
Speaker 6: glad we got to experience that together a part of
Speaker 6: that team that we were on.
Speaker 2: And oh, by the way, you you were a big
Speaker 2: part of that rotation in the World Series. Is so
Speaker 2: many things happened toward the tail end of that season
Speaker 2: and it turns out that that you had a really
Speaker 2: good postseason, And what do you remember about that in
Speaker 2: terms of being able to get on a roll and
Speaker 2: have the opportunity to pitch in some big games.
Speaker 6: I think it was probably a little bit starting started
Speaker 6: to happen. The role kind of started to happen before
Speaker 6: the postseason started, but you know, once it did start,
Speaker 6: it was one of those situations were like, you don't
Speaker 6: look at what you're trying to do for yourself. It's
Speaker 6: the guys behind you that you're trying to accomplish this
Speaker 6: feat for That's always been my mentality anyway, but like
Speaker 6: understanding what was actually at stake at this point, or
Speaker 6: Cleveland the city for our team, ourselves, you really had
Speaker 6: this extra sense of like locked being locked in and
Speaker 6: you understand that you know you're not gonna be able
Speaker 6: to do it by yourself. So the the you know,
Speaker 6: being having the guys behind us in that year, the
Speaker 6: napolace of Jay Rams Lindo wors the Brandley's it says,
Speaker 6: and you can I can name all them Yon Perez
Speaker 6: or b Perez, like the guys that step up when
Speaker 6: when situation let that happen where you know you're kind
Speaker 6: of called into a role or thrown in some situations
Speaker 6: that you might not have been thrown into prior to
Speaker 6: some of the injuries or prior to some of the
Speaker 6: flu incidents that happened that year. You get a sense
Speaker 6: of gratitude and and the accomplishment of being able to
Speaker 6: go out there and say, you know, I don't want
Speaker 6: to let my team down. I want to try to
Speaker 6: do everything I can. It's a really good feeling to have,
Speaker 6: and it just gives you the extra sense of, you know,
Speaker 6: being locked in to the point where it's like nothing
Speaker 6: else even matters, where you can't hear anything else or
Speaker 6: see anything else. It's just that tunnel vision of what
Speaker 6: they say, and it's truly a thing of beauty.
Speaker 2: There's no stopping time. And there's not many of the
Speaker 2: players on that team who are left still playing except
Speaker 2: for a guy in the clubhouse right now and Jose Ramirez.
Speaker 2: And when you think of where he was then what
Speaker 2: he's doing now still and still not all that old
Speaker 2: in the game, how impressed are you with what he's done.
Speaker 6: Listen, we've talked about this, me and Branley, even the
Speaker 6: old special assistant here, Jason Bray. I mentioned something to
Speaker 6: these guys in twenty twelve. I was rehabbing in Akronam
Speaker 6: watched I watched Jose play, and I said, that is
Speaker 6: one of the most special players I've seen in the
Speaker 6: minor leagues in a long time. Then fast forward to
Speaker 6: I think it was fourteen or fifteen whenever he got
Speaker 6: called up and then got sent back down, and then
Speaker 6: Lindor came on the scene, and Lindor was Lindor who
Speaker 6: still is an unbelievable player. But there was always something
Speaker 6: special about jay Ram, not just about his talent. Let's
Speaker 6: people honest, he's one of the generational talents in this
Speaker 6: game that people don't ever talk about. Unfortunately, he's probably
Speaker 6: the most underrated player I've ever seen. But that the
Speaker 6: leadership that you can see this team have right now
Speaker 6: is not telling me why this is a little bit
Speaker 6: a little bit together, But this is a Jay Ram
Speaker 6: team that's led by him. The culture that's created around
Speaker 6: here about winning, playing, showing up, playing your best, it's
Speaker 6: probably all because of him, just because of what we
Speaker 6: what we saw a guy coming in from in twenty sixteen,
Speaker 6: playing center field, left field, center field's, third base, shortstop,
Speaker 6: second base. Wherever he was asked to be to play,
Speaker 6: he played, and he was an absolute superstar and he
Speaker 6: did it with you know, grace and gratitude and never
Speaker 6: complained or anything about it. And now it's one of
Speaker 6: the staple third basements in this game, and it's good
Speaker 6: to see. But those every mirrors is the generational talent
Speaker 6: that people need to start talking about more often.
Speaker 2: In my opinion, Does he have the best walk in
Speaker 2: the game? Just general walk, No doubt.
Speaker 6: There is not a better There's not a more confident
Speaker 6: walk in the.
Speaker 3: Game, that's for sure.
Speaker 2: Josh Tomlin's joining us just a big part of the
Speaker 2: twenty sixteen team, and he threw out a first pitch
Speaker 2: on a Monday before Game two. Josh, bring the fans
Speaker 2: up to day. What are you doing now? I know
Speaker 2: you're still in the game with the Atlanta breaks.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I do a specialis system work for them on
Speaker 6: the pitching side, do advanced scouting work for them as well.
Speaker 6: But I do also I do have a baseball academy
Speaker 6: in my hometown called Catch forty three. While I'm helping
Speaker 6: the youth kind of do what I got to accomplish
Speaker 6: and try to do everything I can to help them
Speaker 6: and try to achieve their dreams and be the best
Speaker 6: baseball player that can possibly be and see what leaves them.
Speaker 2: And we record this before you throw the first pitch.
Speaker 2: A lot of pitchers they get done with their career,
Speaker 2: and the last thing they're doing is throwing. Can you
Speaker 2: uncork a cutter here in a couple of minutes, no.
Speaker 6: Doubt, no doubt about it. I'll play catch every single day,
Speaker 6: so I'm gonna try. Not saying it's gonna be a
Speaker 6: perfect strike, but i'm gonna try. I'm gonna try to
Speaker 6: let one.
Speaker 2: Josh, great to see it. Thanks, good, Thanks fathers, you
Speaker 2: appreciate you having me. That's Josh Tomlin, one of the
Speaker 2: good guys in the game, and now with the Atlanta
Speaker 2: Braves in their front office and always great to see him.
Speaker 2: One of the more popular players from that group back
Speaker 2: in the twenty sixteen season that took it all the
Speaker 2: way to a Game seven in the World Series against
Speaker 2: the Chicago Cubs. This group trying to do the same,
Speaker 2: but they'll need to get past the Tigers. It's a
Speaker 2: deciding game five later today A one toh eight first
Speaker 2: pitch twelve thirty five airtime for Guardians warm up, a
Speaker 2: winner take all game to see who plays the Yankees
Speaker 2: in the American League Championship Series. Had a li it
Speaker 2: for this week's edition of Guardians Weekly, thanks as always
Speaker 2: to Brian Motsey. We will talk to you once again
Speaker 2: from right here in downtown Cleveland next week, regardless of
Speaker 2: how today goes as it's another edition of Guardians Weekly
Speaker 2: and you've been listening to it on the Cleveland Clinic
Speaker 2: Guardians Radio Network.
Speaker 1: Boy, this series, outside of the seven nothing blowout win
Speaker 1: for Cleveland in Game one, has been a tense affair,
Speaker 1: to say the least. Runs hard to come by, dominant
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