00:00You picked a hell of a night to go to the Braves game.
00:02Hey, my buddy hit me up and said, hey, you want to go to the Braves game Thursday night?
00:06I said, Chris, sell the Dodgers?
00:07Yeah, and I swear to goodness, my thought process was, that'll be a quick game.
00:14I didn't realize it's going to be 2-20.
00:16Like it was a girls' softball game, how quick that thing was.
00:19I mean, you talk about a short amount of time to put up a game that everybody around the country
00:27that follows the sport is talking about.
00:29I mean, that was an epic night.
00:31Not many nights like that that we've ever seen at Truist Park.
00:35I mean, that was two guys dealing at the absolute highest level
00:40because I got to tell you, Yamamoto was nasty.
00:43Hey, think about this.
00:46That guy walks in and does that to the Braves.
00:49He only gives up four hits.
00:50What do you have, nine Ks, I think?
00:52I'm looking at his box score here.
00:55He throws a sinker on the first pitch of the game.
00:59And Drake Baldwin hits a dude in the chest 402 feet later.
01:04Paramedics check on this guy.
01:07He absolutely mauls it.
01:09Yes.
01:09And the view I have, I'm on the third base side, so he's lefty.
01:13Smokes it.
01:14And I was like, we're about to be into this dude.
01:15Right.
01:15We didn't touch him squared up three more times the rest of the night.
01:19Eight strikeouts.
01:20Gives up only four hits.
01:22Yamamoto's stuff was electric.
01:24Made me think about the reason why Dodgers are favored.
01:28If this guy, I mean, he's your ace, I guess.
01:30But then there's everybody else in that rotation, including Atani.
01:34But then Chris Sale says, I got one better for you.
01:36I mean, I said this, I think opening day.
01:39I said, I got to see Chris Sale.
01:41And I said, watching this guy live, he's Randy Johnson.
01:44He is every bit as a great comparison.
01:47Has anybody have ever seen his arm angle?
01:49The arm angle, yeah, no question.
01:51I mean, dude, and the velocity right now.
01:57Let me give you Chris Sale's last seven games.
02:00Chris Sale, last seven games.
02:0461 Ks, three walks.
02:06That's crazy.
02:08Smoking folks.
02:10Smoking folks.
02:10And by the way, you know he lost three in a row before last night.
02:13They wouldn't give him no runs.
02:13No.
02:14Didn't give him any last night either.
02:16One pitch.
02:17I mean, like, literally, he was in a position where you're just thinking,
02:22like, every time the Dodgers got somebody on base, I was like, bro,
02:25either this thing's going to get tied if someone goes to the gap
02:27or somebody just yanks one out of here.
02:29This guy's stuff.
02:30And God bless that Walt Weiss let him make the call and say, I got you.
02:36I got you.
02:37I'm coming back out.
02:38Because I'm sitting with some guys in front of me, some older guys.
02:40If you're listening this morning, we had a great time last night.
02:44I sit there and they go, you think he's coming back out?
02:46There's no way he's coming back out.
02:48This is the eighth.
02:49Yeah.
02:49I said, he got there.
02:50He's good.
02:51He gets through the eighth.
02:53And I said, well, Freddie's leading off the ninth.
02:55I said, I don't.
02:58I said, he's had Freddie.
02:59Freddie squared him up the last at bat.
03:01And I said, I don't see anybody warming up in the bullpen, guys.
03:06And here he comes walking out.
03:08Place goes bonkers when he comes out.
03:11And by the way, the video of Chris Sale's son when he's coming out of the dugout is gone viral.
03:18I mean, the whole night went viral.
03:20If you're on social media last night.
03:21But Chris Sale's son in particular, ESPN did a whole thing about that this morning on their social.
03:26Chris Sale's son all pumped up.
03:29You know, his pitch count was only, I think he ended at 108.
03:31So, he was under 100, obviously.
03:34He was 109 for the night.
03:3680 strikes in 109 pitches.
03:4011 Ks.
03:41And the pitch count was enough that I don't think Walt Weiss had any issue with it.
03:45He was at 97.
03:47And Walt let him go back out.
03:48Good for y'all.
03:49I love he stretched him out.
03:51I love he stretched him out.
03:52It's time.
03:52We're late August, dude.
03:54We're late August, dude.
03:56Walt Weiss said, unless he gave up a run.
03:58It wasn't even about pitch count.
04:00Unless he gave up a run.
04:01He was staying out there until that happened.
04:04And here is the moment everybody's, well, they're talking about a lot.
04:08Obviously, they're talking about the double play.
04:09There wasn't a double play because they say Olsen was off the bag.
04:12Which, if they had called it out, they went to reverse it.
04:14I'm pretty sure about that.
04:15But then you have this classic moment.
04:20He win!
04:21A complete game shutout for Chris Sale!
04:24A sweep for Atlanta!
04:26And a taste of October in late August!
04:31Three one-run games against the Dodgers.
04:34It started on Tuesday night.
04:36The 4-3 win with Elder going.
04:38Charver goes Wednesday.
04:39They win 6-5 with the walkout.
04:41And last night, the 1-0 game that everybody is buzzing about.
04:47They're 5-1 against the Dodgers for the season.
04:51Listen, the Dodgers are going to be an absolute beast.
04:54I mean, even last night, you know, every time the order comes back around and you're like, you know, there's
05:01a crooked number waiting at some point.
05:03Didn't happen.
05:04But to beat him 5 out of 6, if Chris Sale gets the ball in Game 1 against anybody, I'm
05:11just praying, Rusty, that he can go another month and just stay at the trajectory he's at.
05:14He's never looked better than he has, really, as you said, over the last seven starts.
05:18My buddy just sent me this text, and I'll say this.
05:21Chris Sale last night.
05:23Shutout 10Ks, no walks.
05:25Shutout 1-0 win.
05:26Shutout versus back-to-back defending champs.
05:28Shutout versus three former MVPs in opposing lineup.
05:33Shutout versus the reigning World Series MVP as an opposing starting pitcher.
05:38Nobody else in the history of Major League Baseball have done those feats in an entire career.
05:45Chris Sale did it in one game last night.
05:47Wow.
05:47It's never been done in Major League history.
05:49He did it in one game.
05:50I got to listen to those numbers again.
05:53Shutout versus 10-plus Ks.
05:55No, 11Ks, yep.
05:57Shutout 1-0 win.
05:58Shutout versus back-to-back defending champs.
06:01Shutout with three former MVPs in the opposing lineup.
06:05And then shutout versus the reigning World Series MVP as an opposing pitcher.
06:10As the opposing pitcher, right.
06:11Nobody else in Major League history has achieved those feats in a career.
06:15He did it in one game.
06:17Here he is on the field after with Wiley Ballard.
06:19And that was, I mean, listen, we got so much post-game from Sale, but the stuff on the
06:24field was just, it's different than when he gets behind the podium.
06:29No.
06:29It's too crazy of a game to be calling shots like that.
06:32You know, anytime I take the ball, I pride myself in going deep into games.
06:35Those guys have been working their butts off all year, man.
06:37You know, anytime you can give them a day off, it's awesome.
06:39So, just thankful.
06:42By the way, Kirby Smart coming up in 10 minutes.
06:45Big Braves.
06:46Yeah.
06:46Big Braves fan now.
06:47I wonder if he got home in time.
06:48The game was too quick to get home to see any of that, right?
06:51He probably was home.
06:52He probably caught some of it.
06:53Him and Snit, I know, had a great relationship.
06:55Does he know Walsh at all yet?
06:56I don't know.
06:57I don't know.
06:57But him and Snit are very tight.
06:59All right.
07:00Here's Chris Sale again.
07:01Now, this was pretty raw as well.
07:04He said there was a lot on his mind last night in terms of who he was pitching for.
07:10Not special.
07:11You know, today was a tough day for us.
07:13You know, we lost a really close family friend, Ashley Foss.
07:15My heart goes out to the Foss family.
07:17She watched all these games.
07:18She was a huge Braves fan.
07:19She's 42 years old, man.
07:21Just like family.
07:22So, you know, that's why at the end of the game, I looked up.
07:25I knew I had someone looking over me tonight.
07:27So, you know, just thankful.
07:28Just thankful.
07:29Honestly.
07:31He's such a dude.
07:32He's so easy to root for.
07:34He is such a positive force in that clubhouse.
07:39He is absolutely the leader that everybody looks at.
07:42To be that good, to be that seasoned World Series champion, Hall of Famer,
07:48and to treat people the way that he does.
07:50Man, oh, man.
07:52Just keep pitching like this.
07:54And make sure.
07:54Give him the six days if he wants it every so often.
07:57And have him ready for game one in October, whoever we're going to be playing.
08:01Let's do it.
