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Speaker 1: the American League Championship Series this weekend as Games three, four,
Speaker 1: and five are here in downtown Cleveland, with Game five
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Speaker 1: series three games to one, and we will tell you
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Speaker 1: York and then three and four here in Cleveland. The
Speaker 1: two games here in Cleveland absolute thrillers, especially Game three,
Speaker 1: the extra inning win for Cleveland, So we'll get right
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Speaker 1: From the Bronx Yankee Stadium in New York. It is
Speaker 1: Game one of the American League Championship Series, a best
Speaker 1: of seven whether a birth in the World Series against
Speaker 1: either the Dodgers or the Mets. October Baseball and its
Speaker 1: best Welcome back to Guardians Weekly. Jim Rosenhaus back with
Speaker 1: you from Progressive Field in downtown Cleveland, as the Guardians
Speaker 1: and New York Yankees are doing battle in the American
Speaker 1: League Championship Series. And that has happened quite a bit.
Speaker 1: A meeting in the postseason between these two franchises, the
Speaker 1: seventh time that they're meeting in a postseason series and
Speaker 1: the second time they have met in the American League
Speaker 1: Championship Series, and it began in New York on Monday,
Speaker 1: after the Guardians had disposed of the Tigers in a
Speaker 1: five game American League Division series. The Yankees took care
Speaker 1: of the Royals in four games to get to this point,
Speaker 1: and on Monday, it was Carlos Rodin going for the Yankees,
Speaker 1: Alex Cobb on the mound for the Guardians, and Cob
Speaker 1: wiggled his way out of jams in the first and
Speaker 1: second innings, but in the third, Juan Soto was the
Speaker 1: leadoff man and he delivered the game's first run. In
Speaker 1: his career against Alex Cobb, Juan Soto has gone eight
Speaker 1: for twelve with two home runs. He spreads himself out
Speaker 1: at the plate up on that front toe down the
Speaker 1: two to one delivery, and he hits a ton to
Speaker 1: deep right center field on the runners Thomas.
Speaker 2: On the track near the wall gall.
Speaker 1: And he continues to pummel Alex Cobb a towering solo
Speaker 1: homer to the Yankee penn and right center, and Juan
Speaker 1: Soto makes it one nothing New York. He got a
Speaker 1: ninety four mile an hour fastball, and he didn't miss it.
Speaker 1: Soto's first postseason home run here in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1: Cob got two outs in the third, but the command
Speaker 1: left him at that point as he walked three batters
Speaker 1: to load the bases, and Stephen Vote turned things over
Speaker 1: to his bullpen, starting with Joey Cantillo Rizzo single to center,
Speaker 1: his first time he looks at a pitch in the dirt,
Speaker 1: kicks up the first baseline fliptogal home plate area. Tintillo
Speaker 1: caught up with no chance to get judged. Wild pitch
Speaker 1: makes it two nothing Yankees. The one two offering in
Speaker 1: the dirt to the backstop three nothing New York. Wow,
Speaker 1: So two wild pitches scoring two runs, although the walk
Speaker 1: would have scored a run anyway, but this is getting ugly.
Speaker 1: Two more walks in the fourth inning led to an
Speaker 1: aeron judge sack fly that made it four nothing New York,
Speaker 1: and it stayed that way until the sixth, when Brian
Speaker 1: Rochio put the Guardians on the board with one swing.
Speaker 1: Carlos Rodin, he delivers and it's hit a ton too deep?
Speaker 2: What field?
Speaker 4: For get it?
Speaker 2: Go one to the lower deck.
Speaker 1: Brian rookieo has put Cleveland on the board. Why what
Speaker 1: a postseason The young man has had hit three seventy
Speaker 1: five in the Division Series and he's just hammered one,
Speaker 1: no doubt about it, shot to deep left and Cleveland
Speaker 1: now trails at four to one here in the sixth inning.
Speaker 1: But in the seventh, the Yankees got that run right
Speaker 1: back with Gan Carlos Stanton showing off the power.
Speaker 2: The O one swung in.
Speaker 1: Hit a ton deep left center. Forget about it, so
Speaker 1: Gan Carlos Stanton, boy, has he been a machine down
Speaker 1: through the years when it comes to postseason play, And
Speaker 1: that was a howitzer and the Yankees had their first
Speaker 1: hit since the third, a solo blast to left center
Speaker 1: here in the seventh. But as we've seen all season,
Speaker 1: the Guardians don't give up. In the eighth inning, singles
Speaker 1: from he metez In Rochio brought Stephen Kwan to the play.
Speaker 1: Now the set the pitch, Kwan hits a shot to
Speaker 1: third by the diving Chisholm in the scores he meant
Speaker 1: as Rokio stops at third and Kwan now with a
Speaker 1: new club record eleven game hitting streak in postseason play,
Speaker 1: and the Guardians trail at five to two and have
Speaker 1: runners at the corners, and the Yankees go to the closer,
Speaker 1: Luke Weaver. So this club that has been resilient from
Speaker 1: day one back in March when the campaign began in Oakland,
Speaker 1: they're not going away quietly tonight. But Yankees closer Luke
Speaker 1: Weaver came on to get the final two outs in
Speaker 1: the eighth, and he was back out there trying to
Speaker 1: close out Game one in the ninth. Two down. Thomas
Speaker 1: started the ending with the walk. He's still planted at
Speaker 1: first five to two New York ninth innings. Again, the
Speaker 1: two strength pitch to hedges swinging a miss got him
Speaker 1: with a changeup and Game one goes to New York
Speaker 1: five to two. So that was it, the Yankees taking
Speaker 1: Game one, setting the stage for Tuesday nights. Game two,
Speaker 1: also at Yankee Stadium, and the Guardians had tanner byby
Speaker 1: on the mount. The first two Yankee hitters reached, and
Speaker 1: then some untimely sloppy defense led to the game's first
Speaker 1: run down the set and delivery a swing and a
Speaker 1: towering pop up on the infield near second base. The
Speaker 1: shortstop Brian Rochio goes.
Speaker 4: And tops the ball. It rolls in the right. Everybody
Speaker 4: is safe for wrong scores.
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, disaster in the Bronx. That'll be an
Speaker 1: air no RDI one nothing New York first and second
Speaker 1: with nobody out, and you wonder. There are a few
Speaker 1: light sprinkles falling. But Brian Rokio gold glove capliver shortstop
Speaker 1: booted a pretty routine pop up. Later in that first inning,
Speaker 1: some great defense kept the Guardians down by just a run.
Speaker 1: Now the two to one delivery and Stanton swings in
Speaker 1: skies one to deep right field, down the line, long
Speaker 1: run for Brennan on the track, slides in the corner.
Speaker 2: It's a foul ball.
Speaker 4: He caught it.
Speaker 1: He disappeared from our field, but he made the sliding
Speaker 1: catch in foul ground near the right field corner, completely
Speaker 1: out of our sight line.
Speaker 2: What a play by Will Brennan.
Speaker 1: And Yankees stay it first and second and now there
Speaker 1: are two men out. That's as big a play as
Speaker 1: you'll see an outfielder make in what is such a
Speaker 1: critical first inning, because Cleveland just cannot let New York
Speaker 1: smell blood and blow this thing open. In the second,
Speaker 1: the Yankees' bats were back at it, back to back
Speaker 1: singles started the inning, and that brought Alex Erdugo to
Speaker 1: the plate.
Speaker 2: The pitch swung.
Speaker 1: On trail the left basic down the line into the corner,
Speaker 1: hoping scores Grizzles on his way to third RBI double
Speaker 1: four Verdugo, two nothing Yankees and the bottom third with
Speaker 1: three screen hits to start the inning. And now you
Speaker 1: go back to the top of the order and Biby's
Speaker 1: in a heap of trouble. Aaron Judge had it a
Speaker 1: sackfly in that second inning to make it three to
Speaker 1: nothing New York and it stayed that way until the fifth.
Speaker 1: That's when the Guardians got something going against Yankees starter
Speaker 1: Garrett Cole Kuan and Manzardo singled and then a walk
Speaker 1: to Jose Ramirez loaded the bases for Josh Naylor. The
Speaker 1: two oh delivery swung on and here's a high fly
Speaker 1: ball to aright, but this will stay in, should be
Speaker 1: deep enough to score the run. Soto makes the catch,
Speaker 1: tagging heading for home, scoring easily as kwan As the
Speaker 1: throw comes in to the middle of the diamond and
Speaker 1: Naylor knocks the run in. The Guardians are on the board.
Speaker 1: It's now New York three, Cleveland one later, on in
Speaker 1: the fifth bas is full of guardians once again, and
Speaker 1: Will Brennan was the batter. Brennan, left handed batter against
Speaker 1: the right hander. Here's the pitch and it's swung on,
Speaker 1: bounced right side, grabbed by Rizzo, goes to second for
Speaker 1: one and that's it. They get the force Manzardo scores
Speaker 1: from third and it's now a one run ball game.
Speaker 1: On the force out at second that brings in a
Speaker 1: run three to two.
Speaker 2: The Yankees lead.
Speaker 1: Now in the sixth, the Yankees responded with a man
Speaker 1: on and the always dangerous Anthony Rizzo at the plate.
Speaker 1: Sabrowski's won one pitch and Rizzo swings lines.
Speaker 4: It to right, Fibble down the line.
Speaker 1: Kicks up the sidewalk into third bases. Holpy, he'll be
Speaker 1: stopped now the ball bottle here comes Hope, come to
Speaker 1: the plate, not in time, and bren.
Speaker 2: And we'll be charged with an air.
Speaker 1: He was stopped at third and then voting with a
Speaker 1: misplayout there scores a man at the Yankee run on
Speaker 1: a double by Anthony Rizzo, and it's now four to
Speaker 1: two New York.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: And it was almost just a matter of time before
Speaker 1: Aaron Judge made his presence known, and he did so
Speaker 1: in the seventh with a man on now the one
Speaker 1: to one delivery swung on hit high in the air
Speaker 1: to center back as Thomas Thomas on the track near
Speaker 1: the wall. It's gone, yeap, look out now Aaron Judge
Speaker 1: finally gets that two run, the home run. It just
Speaker 1: kept carrying the center and at six to two.
Speaker 2: New York here in the Big Apple.
Speaker 1: Aaron Judge was two for seventeen in this October and
Speaker 1: once again he got a pitch away. And that's where
Speaker 1: he keeps killing Cleveland. Until you start to crowd him.
Speaker 1: You're in trouble. One last shot for the Guardians in
Speaker 1: the ninth inning, they got a little closer thanks to
Speaker 1: Jose Ramirez. The pitch in, Ramirez drills one to deep
Speaker 1: bright field and this is gone Jose Ramirez with a
Speaker 1: line drive homer to right. It's his second this postseason,
Speaker 1: his first hit in the ALCS and Cleveland trailing it
Speaker 1: six to three here in the ninth and Luke Weaver
Speaker 1: has given up his first run in the Yankees October postseason.
Speaker 1: But that would be it is once again New York
Speaker 1: closer Luke Weaver finished the job. Laine Thomas awaits the
Speaker 1: one two pitch. Here comes swinging a chopper to third,
Speaker 1: ches and gloves it fires. Game over, the Yankees take
Speaker 1: to first two in New York. Cleveland now is down
Speaker 1: oh two, heading to Cleveland for Game three on Thursday night.
Speaker 2: So the final here tonight in New York.
Speaker 1: Yankees beat the Guardians six to three. After the ball game,
Speaker 1: Guardians manager Steven Vote met with the media in New
Speaker 1: York and said, will to nothing. Deficit in the series
Speaker 1: is not ideal. There was still a lot of baseball
Speaker 1: left to play for the Guardians.
Speaker 5: Steven, what do you need to do to turn the
Speaker 5: series around?
Speaker 6: Be us keep doing what we're doing. We had traffic
Speaker 6: all night tonight. We do what we do. We get
Speaker 6: on base we make things happen. We just didn't get
Speaker 6: a big hit with the run and scoring position tonight.
Speaker 2: You know, we're one.
Speaker 6: Swinging the bat away from taking the lead in that game.
Speaker 6: Where one swinging the bat for being right back in
Speaker 6: and that's who we are.
Speaker 2: We don't quit.
Speaker 6: We just need to keep being us.
Speaker 1: Stephen, you guys are down zero to two, go home
Speaker 1: three games.
Speaker 3: What do you change mentally and physicley to here for
Speaker 3: the next three games.
Speaker 6: Absolutely nothing. We just need to keep being us. This
Speaker 6: is who we are, you know. We we've lost two games,
Speaker 6: That's that's what's true. We have an opportunity to go
Speaker 6: at home, play in front of our fans, and this
Speaker 6: is who this baseball team is. We don't quit, We
Speaker 6: keep fighting. We did it again tonight and I'm excited
Speaker 6: to get home to Cleveland and play in front of
Speaker 6: our fans.
Speaker 2: Hi, Stephen, just understanding your bullpen has a strength of
Speaker 2: the team. Just what are some of the challenges having
Speaker 2: to go to it so early two days in a row.
Speaker 6: Present, I mean, just that is that these guys have
Speaker 6: pitched a lot all year. Again, we didn't overextend anyone today.
Speaker 6: We didn't over extend anyone yesterday. So with the off day,
Speaker 6: our bullpen should be right back to full strength and
Speaker 6: you know, we'll regroup and we'll get after it.
Speaker 1: So the team's had an off day on Wednesday before
Speaker 1: Game three Thursday night at Progressive Field. Matt Boyd would
Speaker 1: get the start for the Guardians in Game three, and
Speaker 1: we caught up with him during the workout on Wednesday
Speaker 1: and he talked about how having two postseason starts under
Speaker 1: his Belt already would help, but is he prepared to
Speaker 1: face the Yankees one more time.
Speaker 5: I mean, it's it's always welcome to have. You know,
Speaker 5: my game is still my game, whether it's the postseason,
Speaker 5: the regular season, or anywhere in between. So yeah, it's
Speaker 5: fun to have. It's fun to you know, it's always
Speaker 5: exciting to pitch in the postseason. But when it comes down
Speaker 5: to it, you know, the game is still a game.
Speaker 5: You go put the ball in your hand, you go compete.
Speaker 1: Getting that first opportunity to really get into postseason play.
Speaker 1: Anything surprise you at all or anything different than what
Speaker 1: maybe you expected.
Speaker 5: I think it's how invigorating it is. It's just so
Speaker 5: cool to play in front of our fans and feel
Speaker 5: the excitement from them. That's something really special.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 5: This park has been rocking when we get to play
Speaker 5: at home here, so we're excited to be back here
Speaker 5: and play in front of our fans.
Speaker 1: You've had a chance to watch the first two games.
Speaker 1: What do you do as a starting pitcher knowing that
Speaker 1: you're most likely going to be starting game three to
Speaker 1: kind of go to go to school on any other team?
Speaker 1: What are you looking for?
Speaker 5: You just watch the way they approached the tendencies. It's
Speaker 5: just kind of the overall strategy of the game. What
Speaker 5: guys are trying to do. Do your best to understand it,
Speaker 5: do your best to take what you can, not overanalyze it,
Speaker 5: because when it comes down to it, you know, approaches
Speaker 5: may change when you're in the you're on the mound
Speaker 5: as compared to somebody else. So you just watch the
Speaker 5: game and and use the best as you can to
Speaker 5: prepare yourself with you know what the days to come and.
Speaker 1: The teams down oh two, but you were trailing the
Speaker 1: Tigers in the American League Division Series. Uh, what did
Speaker 1: you learn from that? You think or your teammates learned
Speaker 1: from that that could be helpful here in this series
Speaker 1: against the Yankees.
Speaker 5: I think that it doesn't matter any deficit that we're at,
Speaker 5: that we go forward regardless.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 5: It's a I think what speaks to the character of
Speaker 5: this team is that regardless of where we are, it's like,
Speaker 5: let's just go play our game. We know it's our game.
Speaker 5: We've won many in a row. We've been with our
Speaker 5: backs against the wall before. Our game is our game.
Speaker 5: But we're going to continue to stick to it and
Speaker 5: go play it and knowing that, Hey, that's like, that's
Speaker 5: that's just what we do. It doesn't matter, you know,
Speaker 5: the situation that surrounds us.
Speaker 1: Matt have fun out there today.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 5: Thanks Rosie.
Speaker 1: So Boyd was getting ready to start Game three, and
Speaker 1: it would turn out to be one of the great
Speaker 1: games of this or any season, and we'll review that
Speaker 1: one for you when we come back after this. As
Speaker 1: we continue on the Cleveland Clinic Guardians Radio Network, welcome
Speaker 1: back to Guardians Weekly. Chimrosen House back with you from
Speaker 1: Progressive Field in downtown Cleveland, where the Guardians and Yankees
Speaker 1: are meeting in the American League Championship Series. Game five
Speaker 1: coming your way tonight. If you're listening to this on
Speaker 1: the radio podcast form, well you'd probably know what happened already.
Speaker 1: But on Saturday night, it's an eight h eight first
Speaker 1: pitch airtime for Guardians warm up seven thirty five as
Speaker 1: the Guardians try and keep their season alive. And one
Speaker 1: of the reasons we have a Game five, one of
Speaker 1: the great games of any season, be it regular season
Speaker 1: or postseason, came Thursday night. In Game three. The Yankees
Speaker 1: got the scoring started in the second inning a walk
Speaker 1: in a double put two men on for catcher Jose Travigno,
Speaker 1: making his first start of the series. Now the one
Speaker 1: to one swung on drill, the right up base hit,
Speaker 1: that'll score Volpi. Verdugo stops at third, and how about
Speaker 1: that Travigno delivers an RBI single the other way. New
Speaker 1: York was looking to add some more in that second inning,
Speaker 1: but Matthew Boyd was on the mound for the Guardians,
Speaker 1: and he found a way to limit the damage.
Speaker 2: The set and the.
Speaker 1: Throat the first he got him picked off, Naylor's got
Speaker 1: him in a rundown between first and second. Jimenos runs
Speaker 1: him back to first, tag made by Boyd. Folding at
Speaker 1: third is Verdugo and Jose Travigno gets picked off. The
Speaker 1: Yankees in the last two games have ahead three base
Speaker 1: runners picked off. In the third inning, Brian Rokio got
Speaker 1: things started with a base hit and with one out,
Speaker 1: Kyle Manzardo came to the plate.
Speaker 2: Now the three to one.
Speaker 1: Manzarta with a drive today bright away back and go.
Speaker 4: Kyle Manzarto.
Speaker 1: What a joyous joint around the bases, Oh, no doubt
Speaker 1: about it.
Speaker 2: Two run home run and for the first.
Speaker 1: Time in the American League Championship Series. Cleveland's got a
Speaker 1: lead add two to one. So now pitching with a lead,
Speaker 1: Boyd was back at it and getting better as the
Speaker 1: game moved on. Here's the two to one pitch swung on,
Speaker 1: ground ball to short. Rocchio gobbles it up, throws to
Speaker 1: first in time for the out. Another three up, three
Speaker 1: down inning.
Speaker 2: For Matthew Boyd.
Speaker 1: Ten in a row, retired by the vetter and lefty,
Speaker 1: and he gets a standing oh heading back to the dugout.
Speaker 1: We will head to the bottom of the fifth. It's
Speaker 1: the Guardians two, the Yankees one. And in the bottom
Speaker 1: of the sixth, the Guardians tried to add on to
Speaker 1: that lead. Lane Thomas with a walk, moved a second
Speaker 1: on a ground out, and then made it to third
Speaker 1: and at the plate it was Andre Simenez.
Speaker 2: Now the payoff pitch.
Speaker 1: Swung on, grounded up the middle, pace hit Hardy I
Speaker 1: single center, Pevedos coast through with a thrown in infield.
Speaker 1: He shut it right back up the middle and Cleveland's
Speaker 1: got itself a lead of.
Speaker 2: Three to one.
Speaker 1: Great work by Tim Herron shut down the Yankees in
Speaker 1: the seventh, and Hunter Gaddis came on to get the
Speaker 1: first two outs in the eighth, but then a walk
Speaker 1: to Juan Soto and manager Stephen Vote turned it over
Speaker 1: to his closer, Emmanuel Class to face the dangerous Aaron Judge.
Speaker 1: Now the one two pitch swung on drill, deep break field.
Speaker 1: This is trouble. This ball is going to be gone
Speaker 1: and we are tied. He just cleared the nine foot
Speaker 1: wall and Aaron Judge has tied this game at three.
Speaker 1: Aaron Judge hit a laser that just got over the
Speaker 1: ninth foot wall and right.
Speaker 2: It's a three to three game in the eighth.
Speaker 1: And Aaron Judge has come through in the most incredible
Speaker 1: way here in the eighth inning. Oh, a shocker to
Speaker 1: be sure. And the very next batter was John Carlos Stanton.
Speaker 1: Now the one two Stanton swings and hits it high,
Speaker 1: deep to right.
Speaker 2: This ball is.
Speaker 1: Done and the Yankees fly out of the first base dugout,
Speaker 1: jumping up and down as Stanton's mammoth postseason continues. His
Speaker 1: second home run in the ALCS and the Yankees leaded
Speaker 1: four to three here in the eighth inning, and from
Speaker 1: being almost a Marty Gras atmosphere now stunned silence in
Speaker 1: downtown Cleveland. It didn't look good for the Guardians as
Speaker 1: they failed to score in the bottom of the eighth inning,
Speaker 1: and then the Yankees tacked on an insurance run in
Speaker 1: the top half of the ninth on a sack fly
Speaker 1: from Glabor Torres that made it five to three Yankees.
Speaker 1: So we went to the bottom half of the ninth inning.
Speaker 1: Jose Ramirez reached thanks to an Anthony Rizzo error, but
Speaker 1: New York closer Luke Weaver got Josh Naylor to hit
Speaker 1: into a double play, and now the Guardians were down
Speaker 1: to their final out with Lane Thomas at the plate.
Speaker 1: Here it comes a swing by Lane Thomas in a
Speaker 1: fly to deep center back, goes judge on the track,
Speaker 1: flicking up place, the ricochet off the nineteen foot wall
Speaker 1: and a two out doubled as center by Lane Thomas
Speaker 1: keeps Cleveland in the line by that ball had some
Speaker 1: carry to it, and then upstep Big Christmas John Kenzie Noel.
Speaker 1: John Kenzie Noel's last home run came against Pittsburgh August thirtieth.
Speaker 1: No time like the present five to three Yankees runner
Speaker 1: at second, two down ninth inning and the one zero
Speaker 1: pitch swing out in.
Speaker 4: The header deep two.
Speaker 1: In Cleveland, John Kenzie Noel un tape measure job to
Speaker 1: the bleachers and left.
Speaker 2: We are tied at five. Now what a.
Speaker 1: Game, What a moment it was, and on to extra innings.
Speaker 1: The game went the Yankees. They got a man on
Speaker 1: with one out in the top half of the tenth
Speaker 1: inning and the speedy Jazz Chisholm at the play. The
Speaker 1: one ozer swung out a high chopper toward right Graby.
Speaker 1: He met his spence throws to first.
Speaker 4: Naylor dug it up.
Speaker 1: He was in foul ground with his foot on the bag.
Speaker 1: He met us on that high chopper, flagged it down
Speaker 1: in right field, spun short hoped the throat of first.
Speaker 1: Naylor with a great stretch and foul ground made the play.
Speaker 1: Reliever Pedro abby Law then struck out Anthony Volpi and
Speaker 1: it was on to the tenth bottom half with the
Speaker 1: game still tied at five. Leading things off for the Guardians,
Speaker 1: it was bow Naylor the pitch, Naylor with a rip
Speaker 1: job in the right betch of Ashet and the winning
Speaker 1: runs at first. Bow Naylor and Austin Hedges both were
Speaker 1: headless in this October run and both get their first
Speaker 1: hits tonight, Brian Rochio laid down a great sack bunt
Speaker 1: to move Naylor up to second. Stephen Kwan grounded out
Speaker 1: that put Naylor at third. But now there were two outs,
Speaker 1: and the last hope for the Guardians in the tenth
Speaker 1: was David Frye Holmes is ready.
Speaker 2: Here it comes, swinging, hit.
Speaker 4: High, hit deep to left their she goes oh, look
Speaker 4: off to.
Speaker 1: Run home run to the bleachers and left by David
Speaker 1: fry and the magical twenty twenty fourth season is not
Speaker 1: done by any means. What a scene. It was a
Speaker 1: progressive field and moments later Matthew Boyd stopped by to
Speaker 1: join us from down on the field before we talk
Speaker 1: about your incredible job that set the tone here tight.
Speaker 2: Have you ever seen anything like this?
Speaker 5: This is just who we are. This is so awesome
Speaker 5: that the never down, never out. It doesn't matter what
Speaker 5: it is, who this team is. It's so special, man,
Speaker 5: This is ah. This is cool.
Speaker 1: Well, Matthew, if there's any way you can explain it
Speaker 1: to us peons that we're never good enough to play
Speaker 1: at this level?
Speaker 2: How can you have this game in hand? Have it
Speaker 2: ripped out of you?
Speaker 1: In the eighth inning by judging Stanton, be down to
Speaker 1: your last out, get a double, a pinch at Homer,
Speaker 1: then win it a t I mean, how does this happen?
Speaker 2: I mean, it's I mean, it's it's who we are.
Speaker 5: It's it's it's it's in our DNA, it's in our
Speaker 5: it's our identity. It's like we're never down, we're never out.
Speaker 2: It's it's you know.
Speaker 5: I mean, that's that's just that, that's what it comes
Speaker 5: down to is and that's what you got to be
Speaker 5: in postseason baseball. Adversity is gonna hit some way or another, and.
Speaker 2: It's just next man up.
Speaker 5: And uh, I mean, this is what we do, you know,
Speaker 5: And it's it's man, it's it's it's awesome. It's who
Speaker 5: we are.
Speaker 1: And then prior to Game four on Friday night, we
Speaker 1: had a chance to catch up with the extra inning
Speaker 1: hero David Frye, who says that it's a game that
Speaker 1: will be tough to top in his career.
Speaker 7: Oh one hundred percent. I mean, still not really a
Speaker 7: whole lot of time to let it sink in, because
Speaker 7: obviously we got to move on and play today and
Speaker 7: get a win today. But I mean just the different
Speaker 7: terms of the game of where we think we have
Speaker 7: it won and then we're behind and then John Kinsey
Speaker 7: ties it up. I mean, like you said, I mean
Speaker 7: there was him and as defensive plays Thomas had big
Speaker 7: a bat's boat, comes in and gets a big hit
Speaker 7: to lead off the tenth I mean there was five
Speaker 7: hundred guys who I mean Walters gets us out of
Speaker 7: a jam in the in the top of the ninth
Speaker 7: to keep it close. I mean, there were so many
Speaker 7: guys who had a huge part in that game.
Speaker 1: You mentioned John Kenzie tying it up. They always say,
Speaker 1: you know, don't go up there thinking about home run.
Speaker 1: But with him, is that what everyone's thinking when he
Speaker 1: goes to the plate. Hey, you know this is the
Speaker 1: guy who can tie it with one swing.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 7: I think that's why he was in the game. It
Speaker 7: was like, alright, we're down two runner on Like, if
Speaker 7: there's anybody who can try to hit a homer and
Speaker 7: hit a homer, it's him. And I mean I still
Speaker 7: don't know how he did it, but he did.
Speaker 1: And how about you as you come to the plate
Speaker 1: in the tenth inning with a chance to win it.
Speaker 1: You have that runner in scoring position, but as your
Speaker 1: approach any different than it would be from normal.
Speaker 7: I mean, with the runner on in two outs, it's
Speaker 7: kind of just your normal approach and just trying to
Speaker 7: get a good pitch to hit and hit it through
Speaker 7: the middle. And I mean, that guy's got nasty stuff,
Speaker 7: and I was just trying to see something up and
Speaker 7: was able to get a barrel on the ball man.
Speaker 1: All we went to Game four, Guardians trying to tie
Speaker 1: up the series at two wins apiece, but it didn't
Speaker 1: take long. Four of them went them to swing back
Speaker 1: to the Yankees. As in the first inning, they got
Speaker 1: the leadoff man on and one Soto stepped in. Now
Speaker 1: the three to one pitch to Soto and it's had
Speaker 1: a ton to deep right center field. Back is steaming
Speaker 1: on the track at the wall. It's gone the end
Speaker 1: of the bullpen, and the Yankees get a two run
Speaker 1: home run to right center and one Sodo as quickly,
Speaker 1: putting the Yankees on top two to nothing. The Guardians
Speaker 1: tried to answer in the bottom half of the first
Speaker 1: Steven Kwan got it started with a walk. Then Kyle
Speaker 1: Manzardo came to the plate. Now the set in the
Speaker 1: one swung and ripped to first over the head of
Speaker 1: the leaf bing grizzle down the right field line, kicks
Speaker 1: into the corner, put on his way to third Manxardo
Speaker 1: in standing with a two bagger and just like that,
Speaker 1: the tying runs in scoring position. This crowd back in it.
Speaker 1: And then it was Jose Ramirez getting the job done outfield,
Speaker 1: deep toward rank. The pitch a swing and a fly
Speaker 1: ball medium deep left. This should score a run for
Speaker 1: du Goo catches Kwon tags he'll score.
Speaker 2: Throw to third.
Speaker 1: Guardians on the board. Jose Ramirez a sac fly to left,
Speaker 1: his second RBI in the series, and Cleveland has an
Speaker 1: answer for New York. But the Yankee Bats were back
Speaker 1: at it in the second. This time their catcher was
Speaker 1: Austin Wells, and he came up with a big blow.
Speaker 1: Now the wind inn delivery and he drives. When the
Speaker 1: air in a deep center bank goes Thomas licking up,
Speaker 1: it is gone and the Yankees laid at three to one.
Speaker 1: In the third Stephen Kwan got it going with a
Speaker 1: single stole second, and then Josh Naylor was at the
Speaker 1: plate looking for a big two out hit. Change up,
Speaker 1: swung out a float to the left, coming hard for Dugo.
Speaker 4: It drops a book.
Speaker 1: Single Kawn coming home front of the plate, not in time.
Speaker 1: Kawn slides in safely, and a bloop single to left
Speaker 1: by Nailer makes it a one run game. It stayed
Speaker 1: a one run game until the sixth inning. That's when
Speaker 1: the Yankees put two men aboard, and then a very
Speaker 1: rare hiccup from Kate Smith. Facing the always dangerous Jean
Speaker 1: Carlos Stanton, the pitch to him and he hits a
Speaker 1: high drive into a deep left field on its way
Speaker 1: to the bleachers. Jean Carlos Stanton has the Yankees flying
Speaker 1: out of the first base dugout, fist pumps dancing outside
Speaker 1: the dugout on a two strike pitch. Finally, the Yankees
Speaker 1: have gotten to Caid Smith. He got a fastball, he
Speaker 1: didn't miss it, a three run home run to the
Speaker 1: bleachers and left, and the Yankees have taken a six
Speaker 1: to two lead and cade Smith has arguably his first
Speaker 1: bat outing of the year. So a big hole for
Speaker 1: the Guardians to climb out of this time. But anyone
Speaker 1: who thought that this game was over, well they hadn't
Speaker 1: watched this team all season long. We headed to the
Speaker 1: bottom half of the seventh, Brian Rochio led off drew
Speaker 1: a walk. Stephen Kwan followed with a single and that
Speaker 1: set the table for Jose Ramirez play. Holmes is ready again.
Speaker 1: The payoff pitch I was swinging.
Speaker 2: A shot by the diving rizzont first down the right
Speaker 2: field line, end of the corner.
Speaker 1: Rokyo scores pawned a third Ramirez to second.
Speaker 2: Josey comes through.
Speaker 1: It's a six to three game on an RBI double
Speaker 1: by the diving Rizzo at first and Jose Ramirez with
Speaker 1: his third postseason double, his sixth postseason RBI and the
Speaker 1: Cleveland Guardians are not dead yet. And then Josh Naylor
Speaker 1: came through with a big hit. Now the one ozer pitch,
Speaker 1: swing a line.
Speaker 4: Drive, turn to get bright center base hit.
Speaker 2: It'll go to the wall.
Speaker 1: Pawn will score, Ramrez, will score.
Speaker 2: Naylor with a two run double.
Speaker 1: It's now six five the Yankees in the seventh and
Speaker 1: Pandemonium off.
Speaker 2: The light front.
Speaker 1: Hunter Gannis came on to shut down the Yankees in
Speaker 1: the top half of the eighth inning, and in the
Speaker 1: bottom of the eighth bo Naylor got it started just
Speaker 1: like he did in the tenth inning on Thursday night.
Speaker 1: Naylor rips Wonder right down the line, fair ball, It'll
Speaker 1: kick into the corner. Naylor's on as lan a second.
Speaker 1: It gets hung up in that corner. He'll stop there.
Speaker 2: With a lad off double.
Speaker 1: Brian Rochio's ground out moved Naylor up to third. With
Speaker 1: one out, Yankees pitcher Mark Lighter Junior induced Quan to
Speaker 1: pop out to the second baseman for the second out
Speaker 1: in the inning, and it was up to David Fry again,
Speaker 1: batting with two outs and Naylor's still at third. He
Speaker 1: hits it off the end of the band, knocked down,
Speaker 1: kicked around by the pitcher, flips the first toky Rizzle
Speaker 1: from going to second.
Speaker 4: Eve time, Naylor.
Speaker 1: Scars and Anthony Rizzo's nightmare at first continues. Another unbelievable
Speaker 1: comeback for the Guardians. But the Yankees didn't give in either,
Speaker 1: and once again they found a way to get to
Speaker 1: closer Emmanuel Clause. This time in the ninth with two on,
Speaker 1: it was Alex Verdugo at the plate again. The infield
Speaker 1: part way in Verdugo jam jabbarole by the mound. This
Speaker 1: will get a run home booted by Rochio. Everybody's safe.
Speaker 1: Yankees up seven to six. Labor Torre has added an
Speaker 1: RBI single later in the inning to make it eight
Speaker 1: to six, and in the bottom of the ninth the
Speaker 1: Guardians threatened. I walked to John Kenzie Noel, followed by
Speaker 1: Andre Semenez single. It put two men out with two outs,
Speaker 1: and Brian Rochio at the plate swung on ground ball
Speaker 1: to second backhanded booted by the second basement. Cabrera recovers
Speaker 1: and throws to first to get the ball.
Speaker 2: Game over.
Speaker 1: Oh, the Yankees almost booted it and so here in
Speaker 1: the ninth inning, Cleveland got two on with one out,
Speaker 1: but Tommy Cainley finished it off and the Yankees, now
Speaker 1: with a commanding three games to one lead, out last
Speaker 1: Cleveland tonight in another thriller by a final score of
Speaker 1: eight to six. So a frustrating ending for the Guardians
Speaker 1: on Friday night, and again the Yankees take a three
Speaker 1: to one lead in the series. They can wrap it
Speaker 1: up on Saturday night at Progressive Field. Guardians desperately trying
Speaker 1: to get the series back to New York for a
Speaker 1: potential game six on Monday evening. Stay with us, We'll
Speaker 1: have some final thoughts after this timeout.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Guardians Weekly. Jim Rosenhouse back with you
Speaker 1: from Progressive Field, downtown Cleveland, where tonight the Guardians try
Speaker 1: and keep what has been just a tremendous season going.
Speaker 1: If they can win tonight, they extend the series and
Speaker 1: head to New York for a Game six on Monday night.
Speaker 1: But again they have to win or the season is over.
Speaker 1: As after last night's Yankees win with two in the ninth,
Speaker 1: they have taken a commanding three to one lead in
Speaker 1: the series. It'll be Tanner Byby on the Hill for
Speaker 1: the Guardians, Carlos Rodin for the Yankees, and we'll get
Speaker 1: it started with the Guardian's warm up show at seven
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