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Speaker 1: Guardians Weekly. Jim Rosen House along with you from Progressive
Speaker 1: Field in downtown Cleveland, where the Guardians are taking on
Speaker 1: the Tampa Bay Rays this weekend long homestand for the
Speaker 1: Guardians as we get closer to the final games of
Speaker 1: the season with Cleveland trying to nail down an American
Speaker 1: League's Central Division crown and also the postseason birth that
Speaker 1: would go with it. They have these two games coming
Speaker 1: up with Tampa Bay Saturday night and Sunday afternoon. Then
Speaker 1: the Twins are in town for a four game set
Speaker 1: starting on Monday night. Coming up a little bit later on.
Speaker 1: In our show this week, we'll visit with starting pitcher
Speaker 1: Joey Cantillo, who threw an absolute gem on Monday night
Speaker 1: in Chicago. Also new reliever Andrew Walters, he's just up
Speaker 1: from TRIPAA making his major league debut on Thursday night.
Speaker 1: We'll also check in with third base coach Rugulus o'dore
Speaker 1: and former Cleveland star and All Star Grady Sizemore, who's
Speaker 1: now the manager for the Chicago White Sox. We'll hear
Speaker 1: from outfielder Lane Thomas as well, but first I'll look
Speaker 1: back at the week that was, including the three game
Speaker 1: series sweep in Chicago against the White Sox, and that
Speaker 1: began on Monday night. Guardian's got the scoring started in
Speaker 1: the first inning as Stephen Kuan let off the game
Speaker 1: with a single. He stole second, and Josh Naylor drove
Speaker 1: in the game's first run. Naylor sends a bloop job
Speaker 1: into left field. This is going to get down and
Speaker 1: it'll be an RBI single. Klawon scores from second, and
Speaker 1: there's rb I number one oh one for Josh Naylor,
Speaker 1: a two out RBI bloop single to left and so
Speaker 1: the stolen base comes into play. And guess what Stephen
Speaker 1: Kwan truly is the igniter. The next man up was
Speaker 1: red hot Lane Thomas. Thomas has started to swing the
Speaker 1: bat the way Cleveland envision when they made the trade
Speaker 1: with Washington. Thomas over the last fifteen games hitting three
Speaker 1: point thirty three. Now the pitch and he rips it
Speaker 1: to left base, it down the line, it'll get into
Speaker 1: the corner. Can Naylor score from first. He's on his
Speaker 1: way to third, stumbling and left has been in ten
Speaker 1: relay throat of the plate in scoring is Nailer into
Speaker 1: third and making a big turn in the holding is
Speaker 1: Lane Thomas too nothing, Cleveland. The Guardians extended the lead
Speaker 1: in the third inning thanks to a big blast from
Speaker 1: David Fry. The bitch swung on, pounded deep center field
Speaker 1: Robert Beck track walk, go three nothing Cleveland. David Fry
Speaker 1: a dead center number fourteen and the Guardians have a
Speaker 1: three nothing third inning lead.
Speaker 2: And boy, they haven't had.
Speaker 1: This kind of an advantage early in a game very
Speaker 1: often over the last couple of months. And in the
Speaker 1: fourth it was bow Naylor going deep. The two to
Speaker 1: two swung on and that's blasted high and deep to
Speaker 1: center back on it is Robert This one's gone home
Speaker 1: run Bow Naylor.
Speaker 2: To dead center. Naylor with his twelfth.
Speaker 1: Home run on the season, and the Guardians take up
Speaker 1: four nothing lead. The Guardians added one more in the
Speaker 1: fifth on a basis loaded walk to make it five nothing.
Speaker 1: But the big story in this one was happening on
Speaker 1: the mound as the youngster Joey Cantillo was outstanding from
Speaker 1: the start, two down, eight up, eight down for Cantillo.
Speaker 1: The two pitch to Amaya and it's strike three cold.
Speaker 1: He is perfect through three innings with five strikeouts on
Speaker 1: a count of two and two on Sosa. Here's the
Speaker 1: pitch swing and I missed strike three. Cantillo strikes out
Speaker 1: another another three up, three down inning, and Joey Cantillo
Speaker 1: is perfect through five. We head to the sixth, five
Speaker 1: nothing Cleveland over the White Sox. Now the scent. Now
Speaker 1: the delivery swung and ripped to third, caught by Ramirez.
Speaker 1: It almost went through the webbing of the glob hardest
Speaker 1: hit ball of the night by the White Sox. Bottom line,
Speaker 1: Joey Cantillo perfect through six. You look at Cantillo tonight.
Speaker 1: He has thrown forty one fastballs, twenty six changeups, half
Speaker 1: dozen curveballs, and three sliders.
Speaker 2: The pitch got.
Speaker 1: Them swinging, came right back at him and Vargas's strikeout
Speaker 1: victim number nine. And the perfect game continues with two
Speaker 1: down and the sixth the two to two delivery and
Speaker 1: Corey jolks Swington's and missus high fastball. He chased it.
Speaker 1: That's ten strikeouts for Cantillo. Now the one Oer swung
Speaker 1: on a little bloop job shallow right. Noel coming On
Speaker 1: takes the running catch. Two down. Now the two zero
Speaker 1: pitch swing in a ground ball right side base it.
Speaker 1: He snuck it between four Hurston second. Not hard hit,
Speaker 1: but Andrew ben and Tendi breaks up the perfect game
Speaker 1: after Joey Cantillo had retired twenty in a row, and
Speaker 1: there are fans standing and cheering Joey Cantillo. That's a
Speaker 1: pretty classy move by these White Sox fans. Can Tillo's
Speaker 1: payoff pitch to Corey Lee swings and pulls it on
Speaker 1: the ground to third, backhanded by Ramirez, throws across the diamond.
Speaker 1: What a job by the kid. Joey Cantillo gave up
Speaker 1: a basit with two down in the seventh White Sox score,
Speaker 1: but lots of high fives in that first base dugout
Speaker 1: for Joey Cantillo. Brilliant tonight, Cleveland up five to one
Speaker 1: going to the eighth. What a performance for Cantillo, and
Speaker 1: again we'll hear from him coming up later on in
Speaker 1: our show today. He got through the seventh giving up
Speaker 1: just one run, and then Chicago stored two in the
Speaker 1: eighth inning. To make it a five three game, and
Speaker 1: that meant it was up to Emmanuel Classe in the
Speaker 1: ninth to close things out. Emmanuel Clause as ready. Here
Speaker 1: it comes swaying an MS Bowl game and the Guardians
Speaker 1: win Game one in the Windy City, knocking off the
Speaker 1: Socks five to three. So a nice way to start
Speaker 1: the series for the Guardians. They kept it going Tuesday
Speaker 1: night as they jumped in front early second inning with
Speaker 1: a runner in scoring position. Kyle Manzardo stepped in, don't
Speaker 1: score second inning, Manzardo with a line shot to the
Speaker 1: gamp and right center. It'll get down for a base
Speaker 1: hit and score lane. Thomas won nothing Cleveland and Kyle Mansardo,
Speaker 1: a different hitter this second time in Cleveland, has an
Speaker 1: RBI single and it's one nothing Cleveland. Manzarto ten RBIs
Speaker 1: and another guy that is just so much more comfortable.
Speaker 1: Once you've gone through everything that you have to learn
Speaker 1: as a rookie and get comfortable knowing you can play
Speaker 1: at this level, man Zardo now is starting to thrive.
Speaker 1: Guardian started Ben Lively looked sharp early on, but he
Speaker 1: had to leave the game in the second inning after
Speaker 1: being hitting the leg by a comebacker, so it would
Speaker 1: be a long day for the bullpen. First man up
Speaker 1: out of the pen was Pedro aviy La as he
Speaker 1: had some nice work to get through the fourth, picking
Speaker 1: up Ben Lively. Here's the old one to Lee. He
Speaker 1: swings and chops it to the shortstop corral by Rochio.
Speaker 1: It throws to first in time for the out, and
Speaker 1: avi La breezes through the fourth, setting the side out.
Speaker 1: In order we played for in Chicago, it's the Guardians
Speaker 1: one and the White Sox nothing. Still a one nothing game.
Speaker 1: In the sixth inning, the Guardians would put two more
Speaker 1: men on base and the hot heading Lane Thomas stepped in.
Speaker 1: Now the set and the pitch to Thomas, who's won
Speaker 1: for two of the double ender run scored the game's
Speaker 1: only run.
Speaker 2: Thomas wither draw into deep lutfield.
Speaker 3: This ball dom a line drive, three run homer to
Speaker 3: the left by Lane Thomas and the Guardians now have
Speaker 3: that big blow and now lead it four to nothing.
Speaker 1: Lane Thomas with a laser and that home run is
Speaker 1: his eleventh and his third with Cleveland. Eli Morgan followed
Speaker 1: Abby Lah out of the pen, and he pitched an
Speaker 1: inning in two thirds of scoreless baseball before turning it
Speaker 1: over to Kate Smith. The pitch swung on, grounded sharply
Speaker 1: to the sun a basement sliding to his left. The
Speaker 1: sure handed one, Andre Simenez fields throws out sheets and
Speaker 1: the beat goes on. This Cleveland bullpen absolutely spectacular. Tim
Speaker 1: Herron got the job done in the seventh, and then
Speaker 1: Hunter Gaddis was on for the eighth. Now the wind,
Speaker 1: now the one two swung on line the s lane.
Speaker 1: Thomas coming in snags a shoulder high and another good
Speaker 1: inning four Hunter Gandis eight. In the book's Cleveland four
Speaker 1: Chicago nothing. Andre Semenez droven a run in the top
Speaker 1: half of the ninth inning to make it five to
Speaker 1: nothing Cleveland, and that was plenty to give Emmanuel class
Speaker 1: a day off to rest, so Eric Sabrowski got the
Speaker 1: call to finish things up in the bottom of the ninth.
Speaker 2: Now the two to two, swinging.
Speaker 1: A shot to third caught by Ramirez, drops and lays
Speaker 1: flat on his back ballgame. The Guardians get the shutout,
Speaker 1: their eleventh. The White Sox have been shut out a
Speaker 1: major league high seventeen times, and Cleveland with a five
Speaker 1: nothing win over Chicago, we'll keep a three and a
Speaker 1: half game lead on the Kansas City Royals, so a
Speaker 1: shutout win set the stage for a potential series sweep
Speaker 1: for the Guardians. On Wednesday afternoon, and they out on
Speaker 1: the board in the first inning, trying to anyway with
Speaker 1: runners at second and third, but two men were out.
Speaker 1: With Lane Thomas stepping in the pitch, swung On a
Speaker 1: slow roller to third, charged by Vargas. Clubs throws to first,
Speaker 1: not in time, and two runs will score. Kwan scored,
Speaker 1: Ramirez never stopped, and Vaughan just held on to the
Speaker 1: ball at first after stretching to take the throw from
Speaker 1: Vargas at third. It'll go as an infield single and
Speaker 1: two runs scored. The Guardians added on in the third
Speaker 1: inning as Austin Hedges let off the inning with a boom.
Speaker 2: The pitch.
Speaker 1: Swung On hit high, hit deep to left, away back,
Speaker 1: gone for Hedges his second home run, and it's three
Speaker 1: nothing Cleveland here in the third in Chicago. Later on
Speaker 1: in the third again they had runners at second and third,
Speaker 1: and once again it was Lane Thomas batting with two outs.
Speaker 1: The next offering, swung On bounced on the right side,
Speaker 1: diving into right Sosa Hanson seat of the Pants.
Speaker 2: Throw the first down in time, two more run score.
Speaker 1: Kwan scored, he met us, followed the lead from second
Speaker 1: and beat the throw home by first baseman Andrew Vaughn.
Speaker 2: Five nothing, Cleveland.
Speaker 1: What a wild day for Thomas and we'll talk to
Speaker 1: him about that coming up shortly. The White Sox bounced
Speaker 1: back in the bottom of the third. They scored four
Speaker 1: times off of Matthew Boyd to make it a one
Speaker 1: run game, five to four Cleveland, and it would be
Speaker 1: up again the baseball's best bullpen to hold that lead.
Speaker 1: And then in the ninth, Emanuel Classe was on looking
Speaker 1: for save number forty four. Socks down to their last strike.
Speaker 1: Classe as ready, here's the two pitch a swang in
Speaker 1: a miss ball game. He got him on a wicked slider.
Speaker 1: Any manual Classe with his forty fourth say Cleveland pitching
Speaker 1: strikes out eighty White Socks today and they get the sweep,
Speaker 1: six to four. So the Guardians completed the three game
Speaker 1: series sweep of the White Sox their road trip. They
Speaker 1: went six and three on the nine game ten day trip,
Speaker 1: and it was on home to take on Tampa Bay.
Speaker 1: But it's been a tough start to the series against
Speaker 1: the Rays. Thursday a five to two Tampa Bay win.
Speaker 1: Friday a three to one victory for Tampa Bay over
Speaker 1: the Guardians, setting up Saturday's Game three with a six
Speaker 1: to ten first pitch and Sunday a one forty start time.
Speaker 1: Stay with us when we come back. We'll hear from
Speaker 1: outfielder Lane Thomas. That's next on the Cleveland Clinic Guardians
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Speaker 1: Jim Rosenow's back with you. It's Guardians Weekly. We're in
Speaker 1: downtown Cleveland at Progressive Field where the Guardians are taking
Speaker 1: on the Tampa Bay Rays this weekend Earlier in the week,
Speaker 1: Lane Thomas continued a tremendous stretch of the plate for Cleveland,
Speaker 1: and he had quite the day on Wednesday afternoon in Chicago,
Speaker 1: an unusual four RBI game. They came on a pair
Speaker 1: of two run infield singles and that was record breaking.
Speaker 1: That's never been done before. In the same game, a
Speaker 1: pair of two run singles that never left the infield,
Speaker 1: And we talked to him about it the following day
Speaker 1: and asked him, have you ever saw anything quite like
Speaker 1: it before?
Speaker 5: No, I mean, it's a it's a cool play. I
Speaker 5: didn't realize that was something we did that often as
Speaker 5: an organization. It's I mean, I think a lot more teams.
Speaker 1: Should do that.
Speaker 5: It's a tough play for the first baseman to kind of,
Speaker 5: you know, try and stick that out, make sure you
Speaker 5: get it, and then also worry about that second runner scoring.
Speaker 1: So I thought, I thought it was pretty cool. You've
Speaker 1: been with a couple of teams, and what does it
Speaker 1: say about this one that that happens on a regular basis,
Speaker 1: almost where it's in play when there's an infield groundball
Speaker 1: that someone could score from second.
Speaker 6: Yeah, one hundred percent.
Speaker 5: I think you know, the first part is you just
Speaker 5: want to beat that ground ball out and try to
Speaker 5: get one run in. And you know, I think it
Speaker 5: shows a lot about the team that you know, you
Speaker 5: have guys that hustle and run hard and can make
Speaker 5: that play a you know, a reality.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you're starting to get it rolling at
Speaker 1: the plate, a real nice stretch here, and obviously that's
Speaker 1: your game. I think more of what you're accustomed to,
Speaker 1: How did you get back to that?
Speaker 5: You know, it's I've gone through stretches before that were
Speaker 5: you know, exactly like that or maybe worse. So it's
Speaker 5: just you know, being accustomed to to work. You know,
Speaker 5: I think you have to work your way out of
Speaker 5: those situations and kind of build that confidence back in
Speaker 5: the work and then it, you know, it ends up
Speaker 5: showing up.
Speaker 6: In the game.
Speaker 1: You mentioned to work, and I remember when we were
Speaker 1: in Kansas City, I think the first day and you
Speaker 1: went outside and took BP just you and the hitting guys.
Speaker 1: What does that do for you?
Speaker 5: It just gives you a chance to see the ball
Speaker 5: fly outside. You know, you can take an extended amount
Speaker 5: of swings and you know, kind of get in detail
Speaker 5: and just just go out and hit it. Was a
Speaker 5: nice day and you know, kind of a chilly morning.
Speaker 5: I think we had a four o'clock or three o'clock
Speaker 5: game that day. It was nice just get outside, drink
Speaker 5: a coffee, and you know, watch the ball fly a
Speaker 5: little bit.
Speaker 1: Is that kind of you know, we talked so much
Speaker 1: about well you got to be in a cage and
Speaker 1: do this, and then is it nice just to get
Speaker 1: outside sometimes and bring it back to maybe a different
Speaker 1: time when you were playing baseball younger?
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I mean, if you can't enjoy a morning, a sunny morning,
Speaker 5: you know, hitting a big league ballpark by yourself, you know,
Speaker 5: on a morning, Like I said, it's you know, it's
Speaker 5: probably not the right game for you. So I love
Speaker 5: hitting outside and just just especially in all these cool
Speaker 5: parks we get to play in.
Speaker 1: You've had an opportunity to work with this hitting group
Speaker 1: now for a little while and they they've helped you
Speaker 1: get to a good place. What did they do that
Speaker 1: that was helpful to get you back to a good place.
Speaker 5: Just just kind of you know, give you information on
Speaker 5: stuff where you've been successful in the past. I think
Speaker 5: is a big thing is getting you in the right
Speaker 5: mindset to you know, you can you can get back
Speaker 5: to this. It's just you know, going through the work
Speaker 5: and you know, I don't think there's a resource here
Speaker 5: that they don't have, which is nice. So I could
Speaker 5: kind of take bits and pieces that I liked and
Speaker 5: you know, do it how I want to do it.
Speaker 6: So it's been awesome. They have a really good.
Speaker 1: Group teams playing well enough where some special days could
Speaker 1: be coming. Is it hard not to look ahead to
Speaker 1: to some fun things happening around the corner team wise?
Speaker 1: Or do you really have to focus on that day
Speaker 1: to day and just let it happen.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, I think it's just day to day.
Speaker 5: It's this is it's too long of a season to
Speaker 5: kind of look down through the road, you know.
Speaker 6: You know, hopefully we have a long, long season left.
Speaker 5: You know at this point, so you know, it's just
Speaker 5: you know, worry about where your feet are at. I
Speaker 5: think good things will happen.
Speaker 1: Thanks a lot for a time. I appreciate it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, absolutely, thank you.
Speaker 1: That's Lane Thomas who has fought through a tough stretch
Speaker 1: when he was first acquired by Cleveland to become one
Speaker 1: of their hottest hitters. As they head down the stretch,
Speaker 1: stay with us We'll be back with more of Guardians
Speaker 1: Weekly after this short break on the Cleveland Clinic Guardians
Speaker 1: Radio Network. Welcome back to Guardians Weekly. Cheerros in house
Speaker 1: along with you from Progressive fal downtown Cleveland where the
Speaker 1: Guardians are taking on the Rays this weekend, and then
Speaker 1: Minnesota comes in for a big four game series starting
Speaker 1: on Monday Night. So a lot of good baseball here
Speaker 1: in downtown Cleveland and a lot of good baseball Monday
Speaker 1: night in Chicago. Joey can Killow was terrific. As we
Speaker 1: heard in last segment's highlights. He had a perfect game
Speaker 1: into the seventh inning against the White Sox on Monday Night,
Speaker 1: ended up getting the win in the series opener in Chicago.
Speaker 1: On We had a chance to visit with him the
Speaker 1: next day and he talked about how he was able
Speaker 1: to keep his emotions in check as he got deeper
Speaker 1: into what turned out to be a memorable game.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think there's a lot of lots of a
Speaker 7: lot of positive thoughts. I think, just like I said yesterday,
Speaker 7: getting getting a chance to to to do your job,
Speaker 7: you know as my job as a starting pitchers to
Speaker 7: go deep into the game and give, give, give the
Speaker 7: team length and give the team. When you're in the
Speaker 7: seventh or eighth inning, the team's in a position to
Speaker 7: win because of what you were, you know, able to
Speaker 7: contribute early on in the game. So for me, obviously
Speaker 7: that the first few starts I've had up here haven't
Speaker 7: gone my way necessarily. I haven't necessarily, you know, done
Speaker 7: some of the things I want to do as consistently
Speaker 7: as I know that I can. So yesterday was a
Speaker 7: good day to kind of do some of those things
Speaker 7: and take another step forward, and like we said, learn
Speaker 7: from from some of the bad and learn from some
Speaker 7: of the good and continue to move forward with that.
Speaker 1: Did you feel it right away that it could be
Speaker 1: a special night or did you have to kind of
Speaker 1: ease in a lit a little bit.
Speaker 6: No, I didn't.
Speaker 7: I think just from the beginning it was like, hey,
Speaker 7: let's just let's just execute every single pitch. Let's just
Speaker 7: stay pitched by pitch, let's execute, and you know, let's
Speaker 7: get through inning by inning. And you know, I got
Speaker 7: through that first inning, good, Okay, get through that second inning.
Speaker 7: And then as as the innings went on, it was
Speaker 7: really like, okay, each and every hitter and I tried
Speaker 7: to kind of tell myself, like, you know, just let
Speaker 7: like just get this hitter. You're not worried about it,
Speaker 7: Like it doesn't really matter, you know, how many pitches
Speaker 7: you're out or any of that. Just get this batter,
Speaker 7: because you know, you know how like this game is
Speaker 7: so humbling and so tough, so it's like, you know,
Speaker 7: anything can happen at any moment, so you know, and
Speaker 7: then obviously at the end there fell behind a little
Speaker 7: bit to those last couple of guys, and you know,
Speaker 7: they made me pay, you know, with the hit and
Speaker 7: then the other hit in the run. So just one
Speaker 7: of those things where you got to kind of narrow
Speaker 7: it in a little bit more towards the end. But
Speaker 7: you know, it was still good, good overall to have
Speaker 7: an outing like that where you can come away with,
Speaker 7: you know, some positive thoughts.
Speaker 1: And anytime someone carries one deep perfect game or no
Speaker 1: hit or they're asked, when did you know you had
Speaker 1: a good one going? And Alex Cobb was saying the
Speaker 1: other day he said he thinks about it from pitch one.
Speaker 1: He's trying to throw a perfect game every time out. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but how about you last night?
Speaker 2: That's interesting.
Speaker 7: I mean, I think he probably holds himself to a
Speaker 7: really high standard. You know, I hope myself through a
Speaker 7: high standard too. I think I think, you know the
Speaker 7: nature of this game is like you're it's really hard
Speaker 7: to be perfect, right, You're never like, you know, you
Speaker 7: don't want to chase perfection all the time, even though
Speaker 7: we do, we all do. I think I think some
Speaker 7: of the elite athletes that you talk to and come
Speaker 7: across like they're all chasing perfection to an extent. But
Speaker 7: I think for me, someone like me, it's kind of
Speaker 7: understanding that balance, like, hey, you're not going to be perfect,
Speaker 7: but you know you want to. You want to come
Speaker 7: as close to that perfection.
Speaker 2: As you can.
Speaker 7: You want to, you want to, you know, strive for
Speaker 7: excellence out of yourself and what you're doing, your craft
Speaker 7: and everything on.
Speaker 2: A day to day basis.
Speaker 7: And then as far as in the start goes, it's like, hey,
Speaker 7: do your job, which my job is to execute pitches,
Speaker 7: pitch by pitch, one pitch at a time. And you
Speaker 7: know when you do that, when you do pitch by pitch,
Speaker 7: you know good things are gonna happen. And sometimes you're
Speaker 7: gonna make a good pitch and they're gonna hit it,
Speaker 7: and then there goes that per there goes that perfect
Speaker 7: game or that no hitter in the first inning, there
Speaker 7: goes whatever you were trying to go for, and then
Speaker 7: you got to move on to the next goal, which
Speaker 7: is the pitch deep into the game. So everyone has
Speaker 7: goals I think going into every single start, and like
Speaker 7: I said, for me is to just do my job
Speaker 7: and execute one pitch at a time, because all I
Speaker 7: really have is one pitch.
Speaker 2: And you're back up here.
Speaker 1: You've been up and back a couple of different times,
Speaker 1: and it seems like each time you make a little
Speaker 1: more progress, you look a little more comfortable. And what
Speaker 1: are the differences from say that first time in Philadelphia
Speaker 1: to last night when you're coming back here again.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think a lot of things, like it was
Speaker 7: probably what only what has it been a month and
Speaker 7: a half, I guess, and it seems like so much
Speaker 7: has happened, and just I've been all over the place,
Speaker 7: and yeah, I think comfortability is big. I think you
Speaker 7: know already, kind of knowing a lot of these guys
Speaker 7: and playing with them a lot of my minor league
Speaker 7: career and over the last couple of years helped with
Speaker 7: all that stuff.
Speaker 6: A bunch.
Speaker 7: But I think just taking outside of just moving outside
Speaker 7: of the clubhouse and the team kind of stuff is
Speaker 7: just when you're in these stadiums and you're facing these teams,
Speaker 7: like every every every day is an opportunity. Every day
Speaker 7: it's special. I think I told somebody in Columbus I
Speaker 7: was to me, like, every day is really special, especially
Speaker 7: when you haven't had many days. But I don't, I don't,
Speaker 7: I can't speak. I'm I don't know how it feels
Speaker 7: ten years into it or fifteen years into it. But
Speaker 7: to me, every day is special and it's something that
Speaker 7: I've worked for my whole life and and and it's
Speaker 7: it's a blessing to be able to be here. So yeah,
Speaker 7: every day it's it's it's a blessing, and every day
Speaker 7: it's it's special, and every day it's a it's an
Speaker 7: opportunity to learn. Like you said, and I mean Philly
Speaker 7: was an experience New York was at Baltimore facing those
Speaker 7: kind of lineups, it's like, Okay, you learn some things.
Speaker 7: You learn things that you can do really well that
Speaker 7: are like okay, let's go. And then there's some things
Speaker 7: like okay, I need to be better at this, I
Speaker 7: need to work on this, and that's the nature of
Speaker 7: the game. I think Jos's probably working on Hoosi's working
Speaker 7: on things every day. I'm sure Class is working on
Speaker 7: things every single day. And it's about working on those
Speaker 7: things and then finding consistency.
Speaker 1: And you get to do it with a team that's
Speaker 1: having a tremendous season with big aspirations coming up here.
Speaker 1: How fun is that part of it?
Speaker 7: That's the coolest thing, right, Like, I mean, this is
Speaker 7: you know all this is all these are first for me.
Speaker 7: But just yeah, being around this team and and this
Speaker 7: this group of guys is special. And you know we
Speaker 7: we've said it before, like playing with with these kind
Speaker 7: of players and this kind of team culture and where
Speaker 7: everyone's kind of pulling for each other. But it makes
Speaker 7: a difference. Like it's even even you know, even in
Speaker 7: the minor leagues, like you're seeing teams playing well, like
Speaker 7: the team and in Triple A is playing really well.
Speaker 7: Everyone has a good time and everyone's involved in the game,
Speaker 7: you know, talking, you know, getting into the game. And
Speaker 7: here it's it's the type of energy you see, isn't
Speaker 7: it is real. It's it's it's organic, It's it's organic
Speaker 7: it's it's guys caring about one another. It's guys buying
Speaker 7: into the the to the system and what needs to
Speaker 7: be done. And it makes a real different and because
Speaker 7: I mean, for me, it's like playing in high school.
Speaker 7: Like when you're playing high school base I didn't go
Speaker 7: to college, but high school baseball. You know, you're having
Speaker 7: a blast, You're playing with your boys. So I mean,
Speaker 7: this really is the dream, it's the show. So it's
Speaker 7: pretty cool to be winning games and and everyone knows this.
Speaker 7: Winning is better. You get to you know, you get
Speaker 7: to have a good time, and winning is what you
Speaker 7: play for. Ultimately, we all got our own individual careers
Speaker 7: and all that stuff going on. But like when you
Speaker 7: can settle down and and you know, hone in on, Hey,
Speaker 7: it's not about you. Is that you're you really are
Speaker 7: playing for something bigger than you. You know, it's easier
Speaker 7: to take the pressure off of yourself and take and
Speaker 7: and focus on the reality of what's going on, which
Speaker 7: is playing the game.
Speaker 6: And the game is a team game.
Speaker 7: So that's that's awesome.
Speaker 1: That was fun last night. Thanks a lot for the visit,
Speaker 1: appreciate it. That's Joey Cantillo has really made some nice progress,
Speaker 1: as that was his fifth different time he's been called
Speaker 1: up to the major leagues and each time has performed
Speaker 1: better and better and was terrific on Monday night against Chicago.
Speaker 1: Another youngster being called up from Triple Columbus Andrew Walters.
Speaker 1: He made his major league debut Thursday night for the
Speaker 1: Guardians against the Rays, and we had a chance to
Speaker 1: visit with him before that and asked him, now he
Speaker 1: got the news that he'd be joining the big club.
Speaker 8: I was just hanging out with the guys, you a pregame,
Speaker 8: dressed out for the game as we do every day,
Speaker 8: and Andy Tracy called me into his office and he's like,
Speaker 8: let's go up a little chat.
Speaker 6: And I was like, all right, fine. You know.
Speaker 8: He set me down, asked me how I was feeling,
Speaker 8: you know, like a normal check up because I'm doing
Speaker 8: this for off of the first time, so it's you know,
Speaker 8: he was checking up on me and he asked me
Speaker 8: how I was feeling. I told him I was feeling gray.
Speaker 8: He's like, you're ready to throw tonight and I was like, yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 8: I'm fresh ready to go. And he's like, when you're
Speaker 8: not throwing the night you might have to be ready
Speaker 8: to throw and Cleveland tomorrow, and I was like, right
Speaker 8: there it hit me. I was like, I'm actually gonna
Speaker 8: do it. So then after that we hugged it out
Speaker 8: and pucked all my stuff up and got out of there.
Speaker 1: I think everybody at Triple A is prepared because it
Speaker 1: could happen at any time. But I feel like relief
Speaker 1: pictures based on how games go in the big leagues.
Speaker 1: You're always on Paull and do you feel that down
Speaker 1: there and prepare accordingly?
Speaker 6: Absolutely? Absolutely Triple as.
Speaker 8: I would say, you know, the closest you're going to
Speaker 8: get to the big league game, and uh, we prepare
Speaker 8: as if we were playing here, same same sort of deal,
Speaker 8: just in different spots.
Speaker 6: So yeah, ready on call every game.
Speaker 1: First year in pro ball and you've moved quickly. What's
Speaker 1: been the key for you? You think that it's allowed
Speaker 1: you to have success to get in this spot.
Speaker 8: I just used what I already had, and I you know,
Speaker 8: submersed myself into the whole coaching stuff and learned throughout
Speaker 8: my six months of time I would say maybe seven,
Speaker 8: and just you know, soaked up all the information I
Speaker 8: could from them and learned how pro season works. And
Speaker 8: all that, and you know it took strides from there.
Speaker 1: Andrew Walters is joining us. You're in college not that
Speaker 1: long ago, pitching at the University of Miami. What have
Speaker 1: you noticed the difference is pro ball to major college
Speaker 1: ball at a high level.
Speaker 8: It's definitely a lot longer season, a lot more to
Speaker 8: pay attention to when it comes to, you know, longevity
Speaker 8: and stuff like that. In the college game was it
Speaker 8: was great, but instead of fifty six games, it's one
Speaker 8: hundred and fifty six games. So it's it's a little
Speaker 8: different there in that aspect. But I would say, you know,
Speaker 8: the guys we haveing this organization, it's much like the
Speaker 8: same as college ball out there to go win every
Speaker 8: ball game. So I could say that for sure that aspect.
Speaker 1: Did you have an idea of when you'd like to
Speaker 1: reach the major leagues when you were drafted and has
Speaker 1: this exceeded that expectation for you?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 8: I mean as a little kid you just grow up.
Speaker 8: Do you think you know you want to You just
Speaker 8: want a shot in general, And you know, I feel
Speaker 8: like I had a pretty good shot and I didn't
Speaker 8: know it was going to end up this way for sure,
Speaker 8: you know, I was just gonna learn my learn my
Speaker 8: way around it, you know, figure it out with with
Speaker 8: the great staff we have. And you know, it came
Speaker 8: came quick. You know, I was moving for ass. I
Speaker 8: just kind of cut my head down and learned from
Speaker 8: everybody else and stuff like that. And now it's here,
Speaker 8: and it's kind of it's kind of crazy, to be
Speaker 8: honest with you, I didn't think of it happen like that.
Speaker 1: It's interesting you started at Double A and dominated and
Speaker 1: then move up to Triple A and I know they
Speaker 1: talk about the baseball and obviously there's other things as well.
Speaker 1: What were some of the big challenges moving from Double
Speaker 1: A to Triple A as that next step.
Speaker 8: Yeah, it was a whole new ball. I never picked
Speaker 8: that ball up before, so it felt a little different.
Speaker 8: I had to, you know, work my way around it
Speaker 8: as a pitcher, and uh, yeah, the Triple A game
Speaker 8: is a little bit, a little bit different. The guys
Speaker 8: have been there for a while better, and guys a
Speaker 8: lot of big league players too and there, and you know,
Speaker 8: I would say the zone trunk a lot.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 8: I had to learn to pitch more in zone, be
Speaker 8: guys in zone. And I would say that was probably
Speaker 8: the biggest.
Speaker 1: Thing for me in terms of what you know about
Speaker 1: this ball club. I'm sure you guys follow it closely.
Speaker 1: How involved are you in that day to day and
Speaker 1: knowing what you're walking into.
Speaker 8: Now, Yeah, we watched We watched Guardian teams every day.
Speaker 8: We can, you know, in our in our clubhouse in
Speaker 8: in Columbus. Yeah, we're very familiar with with all the
Speaker 8: guys here what's going on. So you know, it's good
Speaker 8: to be here and meet them. I heard this great
Speaker 8: group of guys and you know, can't wach shakes men's
Speaker 8: and have some laughs for sure.
Speaker 1: Andrew, congratulations, good.
Speaker 6: Luck, Thank you appreciate it.
Speaker 1: It's Andrew Walter's big time prospect out of the bullpen
Speaker 1: before the Guardians got you're in a hurry. This the
Speaker 1: first season that he has pitched competitively in pro ball
Speaker 1: after being drafted a season ago last June's Draft, but
Speaker 1: did not pitch professionally after being drafted and really shot
Speaker 1: through the system and has performed well at every level
Speaker 1: he's been at. And the Guardian's looking forward to that
Speaker 1: big arm out of the bullpen to add to what
Speaker 1: already is the best bullpen in baseball. Stay with us.
Speaker 1: We'll have more to come after this.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Guardians Weekly. Jim Rosenhaw's back with you
Speaker 1: from Progressive Field in downtown Cleveland. Guardians will take on
Speaker 1: the Rays on Saturday night a six to ten first pitch,
Speaker 1: close out that series on Sunday afternoon at one, and
Speaker 1: then the Twins come in for four games to close
Speaker 1: out the homestand as the season is winding down and
Speaker 1: the Guardians are closing in on a postseason Bird, one
Speaker 1: of the coaches on this year's staff is rugless Odor.
Speaker 1: He's the third base coach for the Guardians. New to
Speaker 1: the big league staff, but this is his thirty sixth
Speaker 1: season in the Guardians organization. It's been remarkable. He began
Speaker 1: his tenure as a minor league player back in nineteen
Speaker 1: eighty eight and since then between playing coaching coordinating at
Speaker 1: the minor league level. He finally got his chance in
Speaker 1: the major leagues this year and he's been doing some
Speaker 1: great work. And we talked to him recently about what
Speaker 1: this experience at the major league level has been like
Speaker 1: for him after so many years on the player development
Speaker 1: side of things.
Speaker 9: It's been great. It's been great. I'm having a great
Speaker 9: time here, especially with the group of players we have
Speaker 9: had the opportunity to have some of them or most
Speaker 9: of them in the minor league. So he's always a
Speaker 9: pleasure to hear and see if Amilia faces.
Speaker 1: And what impresses you most about, say a young player
Speaker 1: that you've had in the minor leagues who is able
Speaker 1: to get it done at this level.
Speaker 9: The ability to make a judgments is extremely hard to
Speaker 9: have success at the big league level. Everybody gets to
Speaker 9: know you, and but you also get to know everybody,
Speaker 9: so it is the mindset, is the ability to make
Speaker 9: adjustments on a daily basis, and it's impressive to see
Speaker 9: these young kids making adjustments.
Speaker 1: All those years in the minor leagues and you're up
Speaker 1: here with a team that again has been in first
Speaker 1: place for so much of this season. How exciting and
Speaker 1: enjoyable has that been for you to live this side
Speaker 1: of it now?
Speaker 9: It's very exciting, and like I said, it makes it
Speaker 9: a real fun when you have this group of players.
Speaker 9: They're so young, and I saw most of them in
Speaker 9: the minor leagues and now they're having success here are
Speaker 9: the big league level, So it's fun.
Speaker 1: And big games coming up. From your perspective, anything you
Speaker 1: can share with them that can help them get through
Speaker 1: the pressure games down the stretch.
Speaker 9: Here now, I think we just need to go out
Speaker 9: and play our game. We don't need to change anything.
Speaker 9: We need to continue to play the game the way
Speaker 9: we've always done it throughout the whole season, and we'll
Speaker 9: be fine.
Speaker 1: Rugles is great to see you, Thanks for coming by.
Speaker 1: Thank you, great story. Rugless Sodor again his thirty sixth
Speaker 1: season in the organization, first the major league level. Well,
Speaker 1: someone who did some great work in the major Leagues
Speaker 1: for Cleveland as a player the multi time All Star,
Speaker 1: Gold Glove winner and also Silver Slugger Award winner Grady Sizemore.
Speaker 1: He is now the manager for the Chicago White Sox,
Speaker 1: and the Guardians were in Chicago earlier this week and
Speaker 1: we had a chance to catch up with Grady and
Speaker 1: we asked him how surprising it is for him that
Speaker 1: he's managing a major league team this early in his
Speaker 1: coaching career.
Speaker 10: Yeah, don't get used to it. Yeah, it's definitely surprising. Again,
Speaker 10: I just kind of approach it the same way I've
Speaker 10: been approaching it all year. We're just trying to get
Speaker 10: these guys to play their best ball, to be the
Speaker 10: best version of themselves, and doing anything we can to
Speaker 10: put him in position to win.
Speaker 1: Grady, obviously, your best playing days were with Cleveland. When
Speaker 1: you think back to that period of time, what stood
Speaker 1: out to you the most about maybe individually or the
Speaker 1: teams that you were on. Some pretty good ones there
Speaker 1: in Cleveland.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 10: Yeah, again, I loved my time there was uh, like
Speaker 10: you said, I had, and that's where I kind of,
Speaker 10: you know, broke into the major leagues and and spent
Speaker 10: most of my career. I met a lot of great
Speaker 10: teammates and and have a lot of you know, long
Speaker 10: lasting friendships, you know, from my time there. I think, uh,
Speaker 10: it was it was an important part of my life.
Speaker 10: It was a journey that I always look back on
Speaker 10: with positive memories. And and like I said, I think
Speaker 10: I'm just grateful for the time I had there in
Speaker 10: that organization, Grateful for what I learned, and and and
Speaker 10: all that time spent with all those people, and and
Speaker 10: and to be able to build those those friendships and
Speaker 10: and to to learn and grow as a person. Again,
Speaker 10: just nothing but uh but positive memories from that time.
Speaker 1: You were out of the game for a little bit.
Speaker 1: What brought you back in and obviously eventually leading to this,
Speaker 1: but initially what got you back in?
Speaker 10: I just think that you never you know, for me, uh,
Speaker 10: you know, I did take some time away and it
Speaker 10: was nice to be with the family and and just
Speaker 10: kind of get away from things and just be settled
Speaker 10: in one place. But uh, you never really lose the
Speaker 10: the the the.
Speaker 2: Urge to compete.
Speaker 10: I guess as how I would describe it, uh, so
Speaker 10: that that competitive nature doesn't doesn't really go away. And
Speaker 10: I just got to a point where you know, I
Speaker 10: was still talking to a few players here and there,
Speaker 10: and still talking to guys I knew in the game,
Speaker 10: and and the more I had those conversations and the
Speaker 10: more I you know, kind of just was you know,
Speaker 10: kind of you know, getting the itch to kind of
Speaker 10: find a way to get my foot in the door
Speaker 10: and see if I if I wanted to to get
Speaker 10: back into it on some level, whether it was you know,
Speaker 10: part time or full time. I didn't really know what
Speaker 10: I wanted, but I knew I was looking for something,
Speaker 10: and I just, you know, I was fortunate to get
Speaker 10: some opportunities, and you know, since then, I just kind
Speaker 10: of try to take advantage of all those opportunities when
Speaker 10: they when they're presented to me. So again, this wasn't
Speaker 10: like a planned part of my my my journey or
Speaker 10: anything like that. I didn't think i'd be coaching here
Speaker 10: this year. I didn't think i'd be managing. But you know,
Speaker 10: I said, I just I wanted to get back in
Speaker 10: the game somehow, and in somewhere or another, it just
Speaker 10: I just kept you know, being presented with certain things
Speaker 10: and just kept taking advantage of what was in front
Speaker 10: of me. So, you know, it's been a fun ride,
Speaker 10: and I wouldn't you know, I wouldn't change it. You know,
Speaker 10: I think it's I'm happy doing what I'm doing. I'm
Speaker 10: happy being a part of this this team and competing
Speaker 10: every night, and I just you know, I look forward
Speaker 10: to every game.
Speaker 1: The game is better with you in it. And it's
Speaker 1: great to see you again, Grady. Thank you, thank you,
Speaker 1: appreciate it. I had his former Cleveland All Star Grady
Speaker 1: size More now really doing a nice job managing the
Speaker 1: Chicago White Sox and a very difficult situation. Well that's
Speaker 1: going to do it for this week's edition of Guardians Weekly.
Speaker 1: Thanks so much for stopping by and joining us, and
Speaker 1: as always, thanks to Brian Matsee for putting together our
Speaker 1: show each and every week. Next week we join you
Speaker 1: from Saint Louis, where the Guardians, in their final road
Speaker 1: trip of the season, will be playing the Cardinals. So
Speaker 1: until then, this is Jim rosen House reminding you that
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