00:00uh i'm starting to see a lot of chatter here uh craig about this decision by uh donnie baseball
00:07there to bring in johan early in the game uh and i guess uh he's having to answer questions now
00:13about bringing him in and what the seventh inning and in that kind of spot there i had to do
00:19it
00:20i mean you can't worry about the ninth and the ninth you can't worry about the ninth exactly
00:26exactly and the phillies statistically were the worst bullpen in baseball in september they sent
00:32kirkering down to the minor leagues they have not been doing well at all duran has been the only one
00:36to count on so uh i don't doubt that that's happening because we micromanage this more than
00:41anything else and this is not defending donnie because he's my friend it's just the reality
00:46of of what are you supposed to do are you supposed to have alvarado joe the lefty face him like
00:51who
00:52were you gonna bring in yes uh riley now with that home run i think i just saw that he
00:56has the
00:57most go-ahead home runs in postseason braves history he beat javi lopez and chipper jones have
01:02two he now has three so the the only the only downside to something like that joe is if disaster
01:09strikes and disaster struck right and so and so now i just don't know how philadelphia gets up off
01:16the turf with this i understand that the braves pitching is is going to be more challenged tomorrow
01:22with molly pitching than it would be uh with chris sale i i do understand that but i i would
01:28be
01:28concerned in any kind of close game that the phillies would have it in the back of their heads that
01:32they're not going to be able to close it out and then if that was the case i mean i
01:37hate to say it
01:37but donnie is probably managing right now uh for his potential job for next season there are some
01:43people who think that alex cora already has the job and is just going to take the job next season
01:47which is which is crazy to me because i think donnie did such a good job uh it's also complicated
01:53because his uh his father is the gm and dombrowski is the president there but but i the way i
01:59went into
02:00this series joe is the same thing with pretty much every postseason is yes it is dominated by pitching
02:04and yes christopher sanchez probably the better pitcher tomorrow but i go with the hot teams and i
02:11fade the teams that are cold going into the end i just i i don't i don't think you could
02:16just be
02:16ice cold going into september and october and win anything and that's why san diego has to be really
02:22concerning for some of these other teams because they have just been so hot could san diego beat
02:27the dodgers maybe you know maybe do they would they play each other i'm i didn't look at the bracket
02:34maybe you should show me the bracket again just so i don't speak out uh incorrectly here but i i
02:39think
02:39isn't it if i'm not mistaken uh let me see here yeah it's it uh so is it san diego
02:47la right it's is it is that what that says here joe okay so yeah so if san diego beats
02:52the clubs i
02:53wouldn't be shocked i would not be shocked to see san diego beat la the uh the only shocking thing
02:59for
02:59me joe would be in this entire thing would be if the white socks or astros even got to the
03:06american
03:07league championship series that that would be shocking i think either team that wins gets
03:10knocked out yeah i i think it's going to play pretty close to the the vest here across the board
03:18uh but listen duran threw 11 pitches in the seventh inning and then he got two outs in the bottom
03:26of the
03:26eighth before the cheesy michael harris infield single uh and then he hit ozzy albies and then austin
03:35riley comes up hits the three run home run it wasn't like they were going right through the
03:40order not to mention it would have been the bottom of the order coming up in the ninth inning they
03:44would
03:44have had an opportunity uh there to do it so i don't think he he did that off the cuff
03:51uh i would
03:52imagine it was probably discussed before uh the game there uh in that usually how that works correct
03:58always always right almost nothing is in the moment anymore no i mean look i i don't i can't speak
04:04for
04:05every team i i know i know i could speak honestly that miami that they have it all mapped out
04:09they
04:09have the whole game mapped out before it even happens i've had i had i had one conversation when
04:14i was on the sideline this season joe uh with uh with clayton mccullough the manager of the
04:19barlins and we didn't i didn't know exactly how it was going to play out but he did like he
04:23was like
04:23and hopefully we have this and we'll do this in the fifth and this in the sixth and this in
04:26the seventh
04:26and then we'll win the game i was like wow how do we even know this the game hasn't even
04:30started yet
04:31and it played out exactly the way that he thought it would so uh yeah they have these meetings with
04:37the pitching coach and the bullpen coach and the managers and they go over okay what if in the fifth
04:42inning we have a guy on and this guy comes up who are we using him okay so make sure
04:47you get him up
04:47in the fourth if the lineup turns around 100 joe they 99 of this stuff is predetermined it's that
04:56one percent that always is interesting and that's the debatable stuff at the end of the games where
05:00it's like you never know what if it goes sideways okay now all of a sudden you have to
05:05you have to react but look the question that donnie will get asked the most about here is that
05:11duran coming back out again right in this for to get more outs because he's generally a one-inning
05:18pitcher but i got news for you joe duran's gonna pitch tomorrow if they need him tomorrow and if
05:22they win duran's gonna pitch again on uh thursday if they need him again like every everybody it's
05:30all hands on deck here i think now to the end
05:31you
05:31you
