I Pitched Paralyzed
Summary
TLDRIn this video, a baseball player eagerly pursues the Triple Crown, a cherished achievement in baseball, requiring him to lead in three major statistical categories. Initially, the goal seems achievable due to a strong lead, but complications arise. The player battles health issues, specifically stomach problems leading to further complications in his legs, impacting his pitching ability. Additionally, rainouts and game delays disrupt his starts, adding pressure as he races against time and other contenders in the league. Despite efforts to recover and adapt his pitching mechanics, his inability to perform at his best culminates in a challenging game where he concedes runs, missing the Triple Crown. Nonetheless, he reflects on the unpredictable nature of sports and the lessons learned from the attempt.
Takeaways
- ⚾ Pursuing the Triple Crown requires exceptional consistency and skill.
- 🤒 Health issues can impact performance significantly in sports.
- 🌧️ Weather conditions like rainouts can disrupt game schedules and athlete plans.
- 🧠 Adapting to obstacles is crucial for athletes to maintain their performance.
- 🕰️ Time management is critical in sports when dealing with competitive scheduling.
- 👥 Team support plays a crucial role in dealing with individual setbacks.
- 🙌 Reflecting on challenges can provide valuable insights for future improvement.
- 🎯 Game strategy needs to adapt swiftly in response to player performance changes.
- 🏟️ Field and environment conditions can influence the dynamics of a game.
- 🔄 Mechanical adjustments are necessary when standard techniques are affected by injuries.
Timeline
- 00:00:00 - 00:05:00
The speaker reflects on the challenges of winning, discussing the MLB rule regarding pitcher eligibility for a win and controversies around scorer discretion in baseball statistics. They also discuss training methods and techniques, specifically finger training for pitchers to enhance performance.
- 00:05:00 - 00:10:00
The discomfort experienced by the speaker due to various pitches is highlighted, alongside discussions with teammates about baseball and life beyond the field, including haircuts, personal training, and relationships. This segment also includes humorous asides about personal appearances and competitive banter between teammates regarding performance and participation in the game.
- 00:10:00 - 00:15:00
Strategies for maintaining a lead in the game are discussed amidst playful exchanges about personal achievements. The speaker comments on the dynamics within the team and personal experiences with playing against various teams.
- 00:15:00 - 00:20:00
Focuses on maintaining personal performance amidst physical challenges, sharing updates on physical ailments while discussing the importance of continuing training and gameplay despite these hurdles. Personal and professional commitments are balanced, reflecting on leadership roles within the team.
- 00:20:00 - 00:25:00
Juggles team dynamics, personal health issues, and game strategy, humorously conveying the challenges of maintaining professional and personal life balance. The speaker's aspiration to achieve professional milestones is complicated by emerging health concerns.
- 00:25:00 - 00:30:00
Expresses dedication to the sport despite physical discomfort, underscoring the persistence needed to maintain performance amidst health struggles. The narrative includes interactions with teammates about navigating physical challenges while maintaining game readiness.
- 00:30:00 - 00:35:00
Continuity of performance despite obstacles is central, with humorous reflections on the struggles of managing personal health issues and athletic performance. The speaker remains committed to training and competing, navigating significant physical challenges.
- 00:35:00 - 00:40:00
Discusses the unexpected health setback encountered, detailing the personal and professional impact of this experience. Despite setbacks, there is a continued focus on achieving career goals and returning to competitive form.
- 00:40:00 - 00:45:00
Shares the internal and external challenges faced while balancing personal health and professional responsibilities. Despite recognizing physical limitations, a strong commitment to the team and personal goals is evident.
- 00:45:00 - 00:50:00
Candid reflections on the physical and mental toll of sustaining high-level performance in sports are shared. A balance is sought between achieving career milestones and managing health, illustrating the complexities athletes face.
- 00:50:00 - 00:55:00
Despite health setbacks, there is a persistence in training and dialogue with team members, reflecting the struggle to maintain momentum and visibility in a professional sports career.
- 00:55:00 - 01:00:00
Health issues increasingly complicate professional responsibilities, with an exploration of ways to manage these effectively. Emphasis is placed on teamwork and support structures critical to maintaining performance.
- 01:00:00 - 01:05:00
The narrative illustrates the challenges faced when unexpected health issues disrupt planned performance milestones, underscoring the unpredictability and resilience needed in sports.
- 01:05:00 - 01:10:00
The personal narrative of dealing with professional and health disappointments is articulated, highlighting the challenges of pursuing career objectives amidst personal setbacks.
- 01:10:00 - 01:15:00
Analyzes how personal health struggles intersect with professional aspirations, detailing the challenges and disappointments arising from uncontrollable circumstances.
- 01:15:00 - 01:20:11
Concludes with the aftermath of a significant health and professional challenge, contemplating future steps and ongoing aspirations despite having faced setbacks.
Mind Map
Video Q&A
What was the issue with the pitch that limited the player?
The player was facing difficulties with his pitch due to leg and ankle issues that impacted his mechanics, making it hard to maintain control and power.
Why did the player feel he could win the Triple Crown even though he had health issues?
Despite health issues, the player felt he could still secure the Triple Crown because he was initially in the lead and hoped to maintain his performance with strong support from his team.
How did the player assess his condition during the game?
During the game, the player struggled to feel and control his body below the knees, impacting his ability to perform but he persisted in hopes of securing a Triple Crown victory.
What was the outcome of the player's pitching attempt in the game?
The player's attempt in the game resulted in giving up multiple runs and hits, detracting from his goal of maintaining his league-leading status for the Triple Crown.
What options were considered for the player's rest and starting schedule?
Two options were to either adjust for a short rest start to continue a pitching schedule aligned with playoffs, or make his next start his last of the season due to exhaustion and illness.
How did the team manage in the player's absence?
During the player's absence, the team continued to perform and even had a 10-game winning streak, showcasing their depth and resilience despite the player's participation in limited games.
What impact did the field conditions have on the game?
Rain and field conditions caused delays and cancellations, affecting scheduled plays, the player's pitching schedule, and overall team strategies.
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- 00:00:00they say winning cures everything but in
- 00:00:02this case winning actually cost me
- 00:00:03everything let me set the stage for you
- 00:00:05I need to record one win and maintain my
- 00:00:07lead in the ra title to win the Triple
- 00:00:09Crown and that should be easy because I
- 00:00:11have five starts left to do it and I'm
- 00:00:13way ahead in the ra title but well let
- 00:00:16me just show you what happened the week
- 00:00:17started normally with some day after
- 00:00:19start conversation let say we go five
- 00:00:23yesterday oh I'm definitely snaking that
- 00:00:25win you get the win for that score is
- 00:00:27discretion I think but apparently the
- 00:00:29rule is Kev was looking this up that if
- 00:00:31a game only goes five the starter has to
- 00:00:33go four to get the win but I don't know
- 00:00:35how that's possible cuz I threw more
- 00:00:37than half of the official game so the
- 00:00:39rule I think is at least in MLB is that
- 00:00:41you have to go if a game only goes five
- 00:00:43innings you have to go four Innings to
- 00:00:44be eligible the start has to go four to
- 00:00:46be eligible for the win either way could
- 00:00:48do whatever they want the score can
- 00:00:51always do whatever they want there's no
- 00:00:52rules well one game this year they gave
- 00:00:54me four earned runs then they changed it
- 00:00:56to two then they changed it to one and
- 00:00:58then a week later they changed it back
- 00:00:59to two they can do that apparently yeah
- 00:01:02scor is discretion it's going to be a
- 00:01:04Hot Topic this week is there a new guy
- 00:01:06we're getting a new guy on the 15th but
- 00:01:07he hasn't pitched since winter Ball but
- 00:01:08he's a starter I think Eric should
- 00:01:10actually train to try to hit homers like
- 00:01:12to be able to consistently hit homers
- 00:01:14not to just like [ __ ] around and every
- 00:01:17once in 30 swings hit a cage Homer and
- 00:01:19then just cut all the the misses out you
- 00:01:22know I want to be fair to Eric he did
- 00:01:24throw a 26lb kettle bell as hard as he
- 00:01:27could and tore his UCL completely so he
- 00:01:31has no UCL well that was when he was
- 00:01:33done playing and he's like started his
- 00:01:35Fu around and just do crazy [ __ ] Twitter
- 00:01:37escapades finger training also helps I
- 00:01:40don't know how much finger training you
- 00:01:41do but we could test that out we can
- 00:01:42test it I'm very curious I've done none
- 00:01:44of it if you look at everybody's release
- 00:01:46this knuckle here is straight and the
- 00:01:48top one is bent so the more elasticity
- 00:01:51and like pressure you can apply there
- 00:01:53the stiffer that can be the more the
- 00:01:55ball's going to like flick off the
- 00:01:57fingers I used to average like 20 High
- 00:01:5922s on my fast ball like early 201s and
- 00:02:03then I started my finger training in
- 00:02:052018 or 19 and then by 20 well now my
- 00:02:09average is like 2450 so I bumped like
- 00:02:12200 RPM naturally that ever gets out
- 00:02:14about the fingertip training like well
- 00:02:16it's also so like this knuckle is for
- 00:02:17Tommy John like you if you train this
- 00:02:19knuckle it helps with Tommy John
- 00:02:20preventing it and if you train this one
- 00:02:22it's for performance so I have like my
- 00:02:24Hang block that I have I don't know if
- 00:02:25you ever seen me like I'm thinking like
- 00:02:27a rock climber it's exactly what it is
- 00:02:29it's different depths it's a wood block
- 00:02:31it has like different depths for your
- 00:02:32fingers like some of them are only like
- 00:02:34this
- 00:02:35deep Kev do you have your phone yeah can
- 00:02:38I borrow it for a second all right throw
- 00:02:40a
- 00:02:44cutter did I get it no I got to do it
- 00:02:48higher that one out behind it yes you
- 00:02:51were see how you can see the whole back
- 00:02:53of your hand right here mhm we need to
- 00:02:55see the thumb side of your hand so
- 00:02:57you're coming through it like this this
- 00:03:00so that's why you're getting the Back
- 00:03:01Spin when you need to see this
- 00:03:04part yeah but don't like break in front
- 00:03:07of it like a slider like this and then I
- 00:03:10have to be able to release into a
- 00:03:12pronation just just release it straight
- 00:03:15like this just straight down the side of
- 00:03:16the
- 00:03:19ball that's the one that you want that's
- 00:03:22what I just threw yeah you want that
- 00:03:24zero depth right yeah well I mean I I
- 00:03:26want it to yeah a little bit more on the
- 00:03:28side and then the last thing that need
- 00:03:30more side a little bit more side this is
- 00:03:32fine see how you can see where the seams
- 00:03:34are rotating around it's on the left
- 00:03:36part of the ball so if this is straight
- 00:03:37it's pointed like this a little bit so
- 00:03:39it's going to have a little bit of
- 00:03:40backspin to it if you want to get zero
- 00:03:42depth you need to get it straight or
- 00:03:44even the front of the ball slightly up
- 00:03:45so you just need a little bit
- 00:03:48more yeah so see how you're attacking it
- 00:03:50on the side and at the end you're
- 00:03:51pulling down yeah that still has a
- 00:03:53little bit of cut to it this attack is
- 00:03:55good and then right at the end instead
- 00:03:57of carrying that attack through you see
- 00:03:58how your hand turns to get behind the
- 00:04:00ball I have to stay here longer yeah I
- 00:04:02don't know if I can you stay there
- 00:04:04longer with your cutter like this the
- 00:04:06whole time and then yeah here let me let
- 00:04:08me throw one real
- 00:04:09quick so my hand's turning over later
- 00:04:12you're further up in front of the ball
- 00:04:14my fingers are back here on the seam
- 00:04:15right so I'm I'm staying here longer and
- 00:04:18then my hand turns later I'm throwing
- 00:04:20mine here you're like here you can
- 00:04:23almost see the white you can see the
- 00:04:24white like here on your hand the grip
- 00:04:26doesn't matter it's the hand orientation
- 00:04:28so when you're releasing the ball if
- 00:04:29your hand is getting to here before the
- 00:04:32ball's out it's of course going to put
- 00:04:34that axis with Back Spin on it yeah and
- 00:04:36that's why you're getting the five vert
- 00:04:37so you got to carry this longer and just
- 00:04:40carry this all the way through your
- 00:04:41hand's naturally going to turn but you
- 00:04:43got to think about carrying that all the
- 00:04:44way through till the ball's out of your
- 00:04:47hand you're still behind so it still has
- 00:04:50that cut that true cutter spin which is
- 00:04:52going to give you the lift but I feel
- 00:04:53like I moved up there and I feel like I
- 00:04:55was able to pull down
- 00:04:57better that one looked correct live yeah
- 00:05:01that's
- 00:05:02it see that still still break early
- 00:05:05though see the Dot's dead in the center
- 00:05:07though see the ball's already off your
- 00:05:08thumb ball slips off your thumb right
- 00:05:11there and you can see your fingers are
- 00:05:13still contacting the outer like the very
- 00:05:15edge of the ball the next frame the ball
- 00:05:17rolls and your hand turns but the ball's
- 00:05:20already gone and the dot straight out
- 00:05:21and the dots straight out that's the one
- 00:05:23that's going to go zero vert and like
- 00:05:25four horizontal that's what I want right
- 00:05:27so things today seem pretty normal I was
- 00:05:29doing a little bit of complaining Eric
- 00:05:30caught a stray I was helping some
- 00:05:31teammates with some baseball stuff but
- 00:05:33my stomach was feeling a little bit off
- 00:05:36H it's probably nothing the strike three
- 00:05:38on the cutter was a good 8 in off the
- 00:05:43plate inside if the plate was the
- 00:05:44Batters box line it was probably stillo
- 00:05:45a ball and it was inside
- 00:05:48too it was cutter kind of Crossfire from
- 00:05:50a lefty but it's foring but I think it's
- 00:05:53C 93 is not bad from left side guy last
- 00:05:56night that came in the relieve through
- 00:05:5993 also but didn't throw any fast balls
- 00:06:02I'm firmly convinced the harder you
- 00:06:04throw the less fast balls you should
- 00:06:05throw Edwin Diaz like 60% slider now I
- 00:06:08think your hair looks good it's the best
- 00:06:10just hair is ever looking Pon will let
- 00:06:11you know about your hair too don't worry
- 00:06:13Pon was on me like week two that I was
- 00:06:15here hey when you getting your hair cut
- 00:06:16have you gotten it cut no I did actually
- 00:06:19I did get it cut I got it like trimmed a
- 00:06:20little bit I want to look as bad as I
- 00:06:22possibly can on TV so no one tries to
- 00:06:25set me up again and take $100 million
- 00:06:27from
- 00:06:28him yeah
- 00:06:30bang if if there's a guy on second and
- 00:06:33I'm going high leg kick it means I don't
- 00:06:35care if he steals third yesterday I just
- 00:06:37I should have been more careful infield
- 00:06:39hit St on base yeah I actually got off
- 00:06:42cheap you know I didn't pitch yesterday
- 00:06:44so I learned a lesson and didn't give up
- 00:06:47a
- 00:06:48run doors 89 doors is tough firewood I
- 00:06:54love when the barrel goes farther than
- 00:06:55the ball it's
- 00:06:58great take a shower meat all right we
- 00:07:01won this game already let's get on to
- 00:07:02the second one these guys can no
- 00:07:04wristbands why does why does he have
- 00:07:06anything from you he doesn't even wear
- 00:07:07my B outed patch look
- 00:07:10Raa I got it 4K no power outage 4K no is
- 00:07:15it my that's not B outage for Robinson
- 00:07:19Canó e no River B bang if I'm their
- 00:07:24Bullpen right now I'm faking an injury
- 00:07:26like I'm not pitching today Daniel be is
- 00:07:28going to come in settle this thing down
- 00:07:30I can't wait I'm going to yell at him
- 00:07:31non-stop your Day of Reckoning is upon
- 00:07:34you Daniel Daniel trains with me at for
- 00:07:36app in the offseason so we're buddies
- 00:07:37but that doesn't mean I'm not going to
- 00:07:38talk a little crap to him during the
- 00:07:40game let's see what you got for us today
- 00:07:42it's a bad run bad jog I don't think
- 00:07:44sitting 81 and warmups is going to do it
- 00:07:46for
- 00:07:47you
- 00:07:48ball ball how hard you 90 some days
- 00:07:53it'll be like 92 93 some days it'll be
- 00:07:55like 88 I imagine today is going to be
- 00:07:57like an 88 day
- 00:07:58[Music]
- 00:08:0084
- 00:08:02ball there's a 90 play affiliate ball
- 00:08:05anywhere he's with the Yankees up to
- 00:08:07Triple A got TJ and then came back he
- 00:08:09used to throw like mid nines I think try
- 00:08:12the bounce pitch
- 00:08:15[Applause]
- 00:08:16bang change up 89 when your fast ball
- 00:08:19gets red as a change up it's not a good
- 00:08:20feeling
- 00:08:22ball in has two two and a third two and
- 00:08:26a third
- 00:08:27Innings I he's like cutter split two
- 00:08:31seam
- 00:08:33sweeper
- 00:08:3592
- 00:08:36[Music]
- 00:08:39yeah good ining
- 00:08:42boys ball what is this constant Jersey
- 00:08:45tucking is going
- 00:08:47on ball ball ball slider at
- 00:08:5390
- 00:08:55bang oh
- 00:08:57yeah two out walks all the
- 00:09:00time two more runs 20 two out walks
- 00:09:04three plus
- 00:09:05Ernies happens all the time ball
- 00:09:09actually gone
- 00:09:10down no way now right it was an 88 when
- 00:09:14he came into
- 00:09:15today oh he got all three outs last in I
- 00:09:18think it was only he got two in the
- 00:09:20first so one and two3 with three runs I
- 00:09:23mean that's more than a 9 unless they
- 00:09:25marked a couple of those unearned
- 00:09:28[Music]
- 00:09:30thank you all for coming I would uh I
- 00:09:32would like to address the defamatory
- 00:09:34comments made about my outing in Trevor
- 00:09:37Andrew Bow's most recent vlog in regards
- 00:09:39to my jog into the game want the people
- 00:09:42to know that I was curled around my
- 00:09:45toilet less than 48 hours before that
- 00:09:47game my fast ball reading at 89 for a
- 00:09:51change up that was actually a cutter not
- 00:09:53a good one but still a cutter the two
- 00:09:55out walk uh and that not being able to
- 00:09:58happen yeah was absolutely right there
- 00:10:00need to be better the crack of the bat
- 00:10:03that was added in to that outing was
- 00:10:06actually a ground out by Robinson Canó
- 00:10:09and I am super happy to have gotten him
- 00:10:11out cuz I grew up a huge fan of his to
- 00:10:13address the four hits that I allowed
- 00:10:15ground ball a jam shot off the hands a
- 00:10:18blooper off the end of the bat which I'm
- 00:10:20not going to say it should have been
- 00:10:21caught but I'm also not going to say
- 00:10:23that it should have dropped and then you
- 00:10:25got another Jam shot off the hands that
- 00:10:28you know flipped over the infield the
- 00:10:298.8 erra uh no comment and in summary I
- 00:10:34came in gave up one hard hit ground ball
- 00:10:37on a grounder in 10 hitters I need to
- 00:10:40punch more tickets no more questions no
- 00:10:42more questions that's all I came here to
- 00:10:44say and that's my
- 00:10:45piece and that was the most interesting
- 00:10:47thing about this game we won 18 to1 but
- 00:10:50since the rain canceled my game last
- 00:10:52night and kept me from getting my win to
- 00:10:53secure the Triple Crown we had another
- 00:10:55game to play today and our veteran
- 00:10:57catcher Francisco Cordova who had been
- 00:10:59on injured list for a couple months hit
- 00:11:00a homer and had the walk-off hit to win
- 00:11:02the game for us in Extra Innings and if
- 00:11:04you're wondering why it's Extra Innings
- 00:11:05but it's only the eighth inning well
- 00:11:07double headers in Mexico are two seven
- 00:11:08inning games not two n inning
- 00:11:17games mentioned that you going to fly on
- 00:11:20Sunday they talk to you about it yeah Lo
- 00:11:22text me yeah because because uh we're
- 00:11:25going to get in the next day kind of
- 00:11:27late they just really don't want me to
- 00:11:29see you pitch yeah the one time you did
- 00:11:32I did terrible please I well they wanted
- 00:11:34me to travel back to Mexico City before
- 00:11:36that game I was like no I want to see
- 00:11:37Pawn's pitch so I'm going to stay so it
- 00:11:39was your fault I stunk in PUO yeah I'm
- 00:11:43not taking the blame on that one so I
- 00:11:44[ __ ] up I can't blame them cuz I
- 00:11:46didn't I didn't see in Vera Cruz you
- 00:11:48punched 11 I didn't see in keto and you
- 00:11:50did well I'm not going to see you this
- 00:11:51Sunday so we'll see if the uh we'll see
- 00:11:53if it holds I just won't show up for
- 00:11:55your starts it'll be written that I'm a
- 00:11:56terrible teammate for that but really
- 00:11:58it's me trying to help you say's a good
- 00:12:01teammate on on camera you'll get
- 00:12:03canceled for that he's a great teammate
- 00:12:04as long as he's not around last night
- 00:12:07woke up like four times throughout the
- 00:12:08night splitting headache really bad
- 00:12:10stomach issues had to use the restroom
- 00:12:12like six different times sweated through
- 00:12:14my sheets I got to pitch because as it
- 00:12:17stands right now Cesar Valdez is one win
- 00:12:19behind me but he pitches Sunday if he
- 00:12:21wins that game we're tied on wins which
- 00:12:22means I'm no longer winning the trival
- 00:12:24crown so I have to make my next start on
- 00:12:26Monday regardless of how I feel sit in
- 00:12:28the sauna for approximately 10 hours see
- 00:12:30if I can sweat all this [ __ ] out
- 00:12:32literally and uh metaphorically so last
- 00:12:35game wasn't actually a game I went three
- 00:12:37Innings my command kind of let me down
- 00:12:39cuz I think I was starting to get sick
- 00:12:41and I didn't sleep well the night before
- 00:12:42my start but I went three Innings struck
- 00:12:44out four gave up two hits and one run
- 00:12:48then the rain came and canceled the game
- 00:12:50so none of that counted but uh overall
- 00:12:52my stuff was pretty good actually and my
- 00:12:54next start is in Cancun at sea level I
- 00:12:57haven't gotten a pitch at sea level in
- 00:12:58like a month and a half so I'm excited
- 00:13:00to uh have my stuff actually mooved
- 00:13:03pitch what I would consider a normal
- 00:13:04baseball game and low did say that I get
- 00:13:06100 pitches next outing instead of my
- 00:13:07hard cap of 85 so uh hey Paul can you
- 00:13:10cue the ominous music here to foreshadow
- 00:13:13impending doom please I love how Yak is
- 00:13:15like 200 ft away right now signaling
- 00:13:17fast ball and change up to me as if it's
- 00:13:18going to make any difference by the time
- 00:13:20it gets to me what pitch type it was I
- 00:13:22appreciate it though let's try to throw
- 00:13:25a split like to my cat play partner how
- 00:13:27about that
- 00:13:30there we
- 00:13:36go you're a little behind still behind
- 00:13:39it you're not holding the the football
- 00:13:40quite long enough I feel like I'm
- 00:13:42pushing it like that you just got to
- 00:13:43hold that superation the whole way
- 00:13:47through that was right that was right
- 00:13:49the hand was right it's just you were
- 00:13:50kind of pulling across instead of
- 00:13:52directing It Forward little behind it
- 00:13:54but it was better than the early ones
- 00:13:56yeah I feel like I like the way that
- 00:13:58felt this is the last last one you threw
- 00:13:59and you can see your hand sneaking
- 00:14:01behind the ball yeah but this is the one
- 00:14:03before that you threw kind of down the
- 00:14:04one that went straight down
- 00:14:06yeah and you can see your hand on the
- 00:14:09side go can you go back to the right at
- 00:14:10the tip I feel like it's just better if
- 00:14:12I could get my fingers closer to the
- 00:14:14front of the ball yeah cuz then it helps
- 00:14:16me keep on the side longer cuz my hand
- 00:14:18automatically wants to FR yeah you want
- 00:14:20to go that way it wants to go quick so I
- 00:14:22think I need to work my way here cuz
- 00:14:23anytime I'm here then I just get behind
- 00:14:25it then I push if you can get that if
- 00:14:27you can hold that it'll be money
- 00:14:29it's just you automatically want to turn
- 00:14:31and go there CU of the fast ball when I
- 00:14:33want to like drive my arm my arm has to
- 00:14:35like turn this way I don't know why I
- 00:14:36cannot in my head I'm trying to like
- 00:14:38throw it like that through them yeah but
- 00:14:40I can't keep it yeah I think when you
- 00:14:43think like cut the ball you think about
- 00:14:46kind of like doing something on the back
- 00:14:48side of it CU your your hand is on the
- 00:14:50back side of fast ball that's how yeah
- 00:14:52that's how I throw everything as opposed
- 00:14:53to just thinking that like you're just
- 00:14:55going to stay it's like you're slicing
- 00:14:57it with a knife almost just down The
- 00:14:59Edge like you're just staying there I
- 00:15:01get I could I could picture it like I
- 00:15:03need to to like drive this like that
- 00:15:06straight through them like that but I
- 00:15:07cannot me like I cannot physically keep
- 00:15:09that right could you sign my heart toy
- 00:15:14yeah it's good box whatever you want
- 00:15:17okay I like this that a little earring
- 00:15:20as well and it's like a limited edition
- 00:15:22only uh a th000 pieces only a th000
- 00:15:25pieces all right well I better not screw
- 00:15:26this signature up then let's go right
- 00:15:28here thank you real yep sure you
- 00:15:31[Music]
- 00:15:34too why you got to do that to
- 00:15:36me why you got to do that to
- 00:15:38me that's [ __ ] up now you pissed me
- 00:15:41off so you're going to get less than 10
- 00:15:44hits hey you going to take that video
- 00:15:46out when you're asking qua how many he
- 00:15:49you want me to cut it out no no no I
- 00:15:52want the video okay I'll put a Twitter
- 00:15:54poll with Diablos who would get more
- 00:15:57hits see what the fans say how many hits
- 00:16:00you think he getss 100 of bats at least
- 00:16:0120 20 at least yeah what do you think
- 00:16:04okay my question is how much hits you
- 00:16:07think you can have out of I know you
- 00:16:09have five I probably I probably have
- 00:16:11like I probably hit like 350 off him I'm
- 00:16:13going to hit a hit and I'm going
- 00:16:15do all right your pregame warmup like Le
- 00:16:19right now do you go through all your
- 00:16:20pitches or do you only go fast in pre-
- 00:16:22inning yeah fre
- 00:16:23inning I go all fast balls every now and
- 00:16:26then I'll throw like one other pitch
- 00:16:27type but I don't want to cross the
- 00:16:29feeling of like 50% throw on a cutter
- 00:16:32and then try to throw it 100% next you
- 00:16:38know I really appreciate that the
- 00:16:40pitcher it is 10 to one in the seventh
- 00:16:43and he's laying out to save me a hit
- 00:16:45look at his strike the ball ratio he's
- 00:16:47thrown 12 balls
- 00:16:49[Music]
- 00:16:51tonight he's begging for one more look
- 00:16:54at
- 00:16:57him thank you 299 yeah I'm bro next
- 00:17:03game is that a 300 catcher we have
- 00:17:06now 300
- 00:17:08catcher oh yeah we literally have a
- 00:17:11lineup of 300 hitters everyone in our
- 00:17:14lineup's hitting 300 tonight another
- 00:17:15dominant Eric Leal start this time
- 00:17:17against Waka seven Innings 11ks one earn
- 00:17:20run and he finished the game with 299
- 00:17:22career strikeouts here in lmbb so next
- 00:17:25start he should get 300
- 00:17:27[Music]
- 00:17:34what the
- 00:17:37[ __ ] es
- 00:17:39bueno there's no one in the stands
- 00:17:42[Music]
- 00:17:44yet know right oh well can you see out
- 00:17:47of that
- 00:17:48um you can wrestle in this you can pitch
- 00:17:51in this you know I'm used to playing
- 00:17:52catch with one eye closed so I have two
- 00:17:54eyes open right now but it's basically
- 00:17:56like having one eye it'll be a nice
- 00:17:57challenging Bullpen for me if you're
- 00:17:59wondering what the hell I'm wearing on
- 00:18:00my head it's a Lucha Libre mask given to
- 00:18:02me by Euphoria to commemorate my 19th
- 00:18:04strikeout game I got to meet him a
- 00:18:06couple days ago and he gifted me this
- 00:18:07mask so today I'm wearing it in his
- 00:18:09honor I'm still in a pretty good mood
- 00:18:10despite my stomach feeling progressively
- 00:18:16worse Beauty over comfort ponts you
- 00:18:19should know that beauty over Comfort
- 00:18:21because it looks like you can't see [ __ ]
- 00:18:24we'll see how much I can see in my
- 00:18:25Bullpen what's your top mhm
- 00:18:29102 you hit 102 it's [ __ ] tight I'm
- 00:18:33jealous I got to figure out how to hit
- 00:18:35hit 100 soon cuz kind of want to retire
- 00:18:37but I can't retire till I hit 100 you
- 00:18:39got a 99 this yeah couple of them start
- 00:18:42with the mask on if I could pitch with
- 00:18:44this on I would do it it would be
- 00:18:46electric hold on let's secure Triple
- 00:18:48Crown first and then ask for permission
- 00:18:51your last part well here's the problem
- 00:18:53I'm going to be tied in winds by the
- 00:18:55time I have my next start and I feel
- 00:18:56like [ __ ] my stomach is crappy getting
- 00:18:59sick normally I would not Pitch cuz I
- 00:19:02haven't eaten in two days and whatever I
- 00:19:04kind of need to get this win but I also
- 00:19:05can't give up more than like three runs
- 00:19:08cuz I got to win the ra too so I'm
- 00:19:10really up against it Zack grz at 235
- 00:19:14Zack Gros groz is it groz yeah is he is
- 00:19:18he good pitch is good he's got a 235 he
- 00:19:21hasn't given up a run like a month Jack
- 00:19:24video yeah I haven't had a chance to
- 00:19:26watch it it though I was on the toilet
- 00:19:28too much much this morning my pants
- 00:19:29turned brown in the middle of my pen
- 00:19:31let's just cut that part
- 00:19:33out got him than
- 00:19:38you my body feels loose probably because
- 00:19:40all the uh Tylenol and ibuprofen I'm on
- 00:19:43thankfully it's not uh too hot where I'm
- 00:19:45sweating like crazy cuz this mask would
- 00:19:46definitely make me sweat shout out to
- 00:19:48Euphoria for the mask thank you I love
- 00:19:50it so one thing I've noticed so far
- 00:19:52throwing the mask is there's this little
- 00:19:54strobe effect cuz there's little holes
- 00:19:55poked in the eyes so my depth perception
- 00:19:57is a little bit off not bad enough where
- 00:19:59I can't see the ball but definitely
- 00:20:00challenging the eyesight this is going
- 00:20:02to be good for my pen because it's going
- 00:20:04to be a new stimulus for my eyes trying
- 00:20:06to track the Target and for a day where
- 00:20:08i'm not feeling great it's probably good
- 00:20:09to challenge myself in that way I was
- 00:20:10talking to one of my buddies the other
- 00:20:12day and he was like Hey does locking
- 00:20:14your eyes on the target helps Sy up your
- 00:20:16mechanics I just threw the best pen of
- 00:20:18my life and my only focus was seeing the
- 00:20:20Target and my mechanics felt great I was
- 00:20:23like yeah if you lock your eyes on the
- 00:20:24Target and try to throw as hard as
- 00:20:26possible your mechanics will all sink up
- 00:20:33oh got
- 00:20:34him get you okay
- 00:20:38yes good
- 00:20:40English let's calibrate our Command here
- 00:20:42fast ball down
- 00:20:44away little down
- 00:20:48cutter there we go eyesight is
- 00:20:50definitely tricky but
- 00:20:53doable nice completely
- 00:20:56locked you can get your lock t-shirt at
- 00:20:59watch- momentum.com
- 00:21:01there we
- 00:21:03goish right there yeah just a little
- 00:21:05paint job away thank you top rope just
- 00:21:10you think it would freak out the hitters
- 00:21:11if they saw me and if they didn't think
- 00:21:13that I could see you would just for
- 00:21:15bigger hat that was one of the better
- 00:21:17bull pins I've thrown so I got a pitch
- 00:21:18in this you know here look look we get
- 00:21:21size eight a size eight hat holy cow it
- 00:21:25looks good right last year
- 00:21:29take us out of it it's separated by 172
- 00:21:32to 22 and a half so separated by five
- 00:21:34games from 2nd to 7th 34 and seven
- 00:21:37against teams that are above 500 there's
- 00:21:39one other team in the league that has a
- 00:21:41that has a winning record against above
- 00:21:43500 teams well you missed quite the
- 00:21:45inning well no I saw in the TVs there
- 00:21:47wild pinch and
- 00:21:49everything we're leaving Miguel is like
- 00:21:52we're winning and I was like
- 00:21:58trying to get me to get to Pella you got
- 00:22:00to clean your forehead
- 00:22:05dude and let me see
- 00:22:08it it's the most regular haircut I've
- 00:22:11ever seen would you do one size here and
- 00:22:13then one size there it's not as drastic
- 00:22:15as yours I didn't keep the top as
- 00:22:17long
- 00:22:19I I can
- 00:22:21tell looks at other guy's hair more than
- 00:22:24he looks at the glove when he's pitching
- 00:22:25how's my how's my hair
- 00:22:27doing looking all right clear the
- 00:22:29Sideburn a little bit sit down yep
- 00:22:32Ronnie and I have been talking about
- 00:22:34mechanics recently and we stumbled Upon
- 00:22:35A queue that he really likes nice dude
- 00:22:37feel so much better bro with that great
- 00:22:40cuz I can I can feel everything even
- 00:22:42when I know when I'm going to throw a
- 00:22:43bad pitch that's why I go ah before he
- 00:22:45was counter rotating his hip and his
- 00:22:46shoulders in the drift and drop phase
- 00:22:48trying to get into his hip because he'
- 00:22:50been taught that that's what makes you
- 00:22:51powerful cuz I can feel yeah before it
- 00:22:54was like I'm fighting fighting I don't
- 00:22:55feel anything now but really what it
- 00:22:57does is delay rotation and guarantee
- 00:22:59that your hips and your shoulders rotate
- 00:23:01at the same time I threw everything to
- 00:23:02the pl if I pull off I know it I can
- 00:23:04correct it everything seemed much more
- 00:23:06direct and like just pure strikes just
- 00:23:08like here and then the sliders were
- 00:23:10middle and breaking off not like yanked
- 00:23:11so what we discovered is if he thought
- 00:23:13about keeping his shoulders a little bit
- 00:23:14more open at the start of his delivery
- 00:23:15two things happened one he could see the
- 00:23:17target the whole time so he felt like
- 00:23:19his command and his direction to the
- 00:23:20plate was a lot better and it was two
- 00:23:23his mechanics felt simpler and easier to
- 00:23:24adjust and his velocity didn't suffer at
- 00:23:26all
- 00:23:28now yeah I'm
- 00:23:30not yeah nice job he ended up completely
- 00:23:33shutting down one of the best offenses
- 00:23:35in the league now there's a lot of
- 00:23:36misinformation about pitching mechanics
- 00:23:38out there some of which is leading to
- 00:23:39the dramatic Spike and pitcher injuries
- 00:23:41in recent years and coaches are just
- 00:23:42trying to help but if they don't have
- 00:23:44both playing experience and Technical
- 00:23:45knowledge then their athletes are left
- 00:23:47with incomplete or incorrect information
- 00:23:49this can lead to more injuries and less
- 00:23:51effective performance on the field
- 00:23:52leaving the athletes struggling to
- 00:23:53accomplish their career goals but what
- 00:23:55if there was a way to gain velocity stay
- 00:23:57healthy and perform better all at the
- 00:23:59same time I'm in the unique position of
- 00:24:01having both the playing experience and
- 00:24:02the technical knowledge to make this a
- 00:24:04possibility so I've created an app that
- 00:24:06allows players to learn directly from me
- 00:24:08it's called for app and when people sign
- 00:24:09up for our Ultimate Pitching program I
- 00:24:11analyze their mechanics detail all the
- 00:24:12areas that they can improve and create a
- 00:24:14throwing program for them that's 100%
- 00:24:16customized to their needs every program
- 00:24:18updates daily based on how the athletes
- 00:24:20body is feeling that day and contains
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- 00:24:39looking to take your game to the next
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- 00:24:46[Applause]
- 00:24:48now does canel have a hit tonight no
- 00:24:52yeah I haven't mentioned anything about
- 00:24:53this until now cuz you know baseball
- 00:24:54gods and superstitions and everything
- 00:24:56like that Robbie was about 10 games away
- 00:24:57from break the franchise record hit stre
- 00:25:00so we need him to get up we need a walk
- 00:25:03right here and then a hit for Canó and
- 00:25:05we were all hoping he get another shot
- 00:25:07at it tonight but Berto hit a walk-off
- 00:25:08single with Robbie on Deck to push our
- 00:25:10win streak to five
- 00:25:15gamesy
- 00:25:17yesy and so ends Robinson Cano's hit
- 00:25:21streak unfortunate and despite the good
- 00:25:23feeling of winning the game my body was
- 00:25:25feeling much worse and with my start
- 00:25:27only two days away
- 00:25:28that was not a good sign see
- 00:25:32doctor no hospital yet but doctor and
- 00:25:37then no no pitch tomorrow oh okay okay
- 00:25:41so
- 00:25:42update my stomach is in terrible shape
- 00:25:45and uh I'm not pitching tomorrow I'm
- 00:25:48flying back to the United States to see
- 00:25:50a doctor and try to figure out what's
- 00:25:51going on try to play catch today and
- 00:25:53then get on a flight later to go get
- 00:25:55checked out so no idea when this is
- 00:25:57going to be better slept for like 3
- 00:26:00hours max last night had to use the
- 00:26:02restroom like 10 different times 5 6
- 00:26:05days in a row of that I haven't slept
- 00:26:06more than 5 hours in like a week yeah I
- 00:26:09haven't really been a able to eat for 3
- 00:26:10days so I'm in bad shape so I have a lot
- 00:26:13of concerns about this one I'm going to
- 00:26:16miss at least one if not two starts most
- 00:26:18likely two starts after today I'll
- 00:26:20probably be tied on wins also I need 12
- 00:26:23more Innings to even qualify I'm at 81
- 00:26:25right now I need 93 so that's on the
- 00:26:27personal side and uh honestly have no
- 00:26:30idea if this is going to get fixed
- 00:26:31before end the season which is two weeks
- 00:26:32away supposed to start first playoff
- 00:26:35game in two and a half weeks so no idea
- 00:26:38if I'll be able to do that dude rotating
- 00:26:40does not feel
- 00:26:41[Music]
- 00:26:46good I definitely don't have anything to
- 00:26:48work on today the only reason I'm
- 00:26:49playing catch is to try to move my arm
- 00:26:51probably won't play catch for the next
- 00:26:53couple days while I'm getting evaluated
- 00:26:55trying to feel better so gra biker the
- 00:26:58next next day I flew back to the United
- 00:26:59States to get evaluated and I filmed
- 00:27:01some stuff but my dumbass deleted it
- 00:27:03before giving it to my editors so here's
- 00:27:05the basics after a terrible travel day I
- 00:27:07finally made it home on the evening of
- 00:27:08Monday July 15th on Tuesday the 16th I
- 00:27:11had a colonoscopy and by Thursday the
- 00:27:1318th I was diagnosed with ulcerative
- 00:27:15colitis so I was given some medication
- 00:27:16to clean that up after the procedure on
- 00:27:18Tuesday I ended up having little muscle
- 00:27:20twitches all over my body but I didn't
- 00:27:22think much of it at the time I just
- 00:27:23figured it was leftover effects from the
- 00:27:24anesthesia I ended up missing two starts
- 00:27:26and by the time I got back to Mexico
- 00:27:28City on Sunday the 21st Cesar Valdez had
- 00:27:30won another game which means he was only
- 00:27:32one behind me for the league lead in
- 00:27:33wins and that meant I really needed to
- 00:27:35get a win in my next start on the 25th
- 00:27:37to secure the Triple Crown so it's time
- 00:27:39to get ready for that why do my ankles
- 00:27:40feel weak my both of my ankles feel
- 00:27:43like I have no stability in them I got a
- 00:27:46bullpen tomorrow today we're in Mexico
- 00:27:48City tomorrow morning I fly to Lon throw
- 00:27:51a bullpen and then pitch on Thursday so
- 00:27:54to play a nice little game of catch
- 00:27:55today get my body moving my ankles and
- 00:27:57my legs feel completely like
- 00:28:00destabilized I have no idea why I've
- 00:28:02never felt like that before Paul it's uh
- 00:28:03it's me again please cue the ominous for
- 00:28:06boing something terrible is about to
- 00:28:08happen music right here as a way of
- 00:28:09letting our viewers know that something
- 00:28:11terrible is about to happen one thing
- 00:28:12that was going on before I got sick was
- 00:28:17I was drifting across my body too much
- 00:28:19so I was trying to throw and I was kind
- 00:28:21of cutting the ball my fast ball is Dead
- 00:28:23trying to make sure that my direction is
- 00:28:25going straight to my target honestly it
- 00:28:27feels weird throwing even though the
- 00:28:29difference is probably like not that
- 00:28:30much but I want to make sure that when I
- 00:28:34go to pitch next game my command has as
- 00:28:36good a chance as possible of being good
- 00:28:38cuz I won't have pitched in a game for
- 00:28:40like 15 days so two weeks got to make
- 00:28:43sure I'm starting my delivery correctly
- 00:28:45so I have weight on the ball of my foot
- 00:28:47and big toe and then I'm not allowing
- 00:28:50myself to do this as a first movement
- 00:28:52and drift across that I'm going straight
- 00:28:54down and that's directing me straight
- 00:28:56towards my Target also another thing I'm
- 00:28:58feeling is when I step across my body I
- 00:29:01can kind of block here with my glove
- 00:29:02side and then everything kind of rotates
- 00:29:04together to get around but when I'm
- 00:29:06stepping to my target my glove side
- 00:29:08blocks and I rotate like this I'm
- 00:29:10pulling the ball so I got to make sure
- 00:29:12that my glove side is being active and
- 00:29:13loading by the time my front foot hits
- 00:29:16so that I can like direct my hands
- 00:29:17straight to the Target definitely
- 00:29:18feeling a little bit off mechanically
- 00:29:20today I do notice though that when I get
- 00:29:22it right the ball has way more carry to
- 00:29:24it even here at altitude so that's nice
- 00:29:26if you want insights like this into your
- 00:29:27delivery reminder to check out for app I
- 00:29:29had fully rejoined the team yet but we
- 00:29:31lost our game on Sunday to end our 10
- 00:29:32game winning streak our third 10 game
- 00:29:34winning streak of the Season by the way
- 00:29:36but after playing catch on Monday I
- 00:29:37rejoined the team in Leon on Tuesday the
- 00:29:3923rd what time is it now 5:45 is go back
- 00:29:43to Arizona California California
- 00:29:46hospital no doct doctor no hospital okay
- 00:29:50anesthesia
- 00:29:52yeah okay okay and they shoved the tube
- 00:29:55up my butt colonoscopy they like took uh
- 00:29:59s like tissue samples of my yeah like
- 00:30:02you know like flesh like biopsy tissue
- 00:30:04from my colon and like analyzed it no
- 00:30:08bueno no
- 00:30:12buen why do my legs feel so weird right
- 00:30:15now it feels like I've never done
- 00:30:18athletic activity in my life before I'm
- 00:30:20not kidding I feel like I'm on ice right
- 00:30:22[Music]
- 00:30:25now I almost just rolled my ank like
- 00:30:28walking I have like no sensation in my
- 00:30:31feet either like they're not numb but I
- 00:30:33just can't like none of the muscles in
- 00:30:35my lower body are activated right now
- 00:30:36that's what it feels like my buddies and
- 00:30:38and Cancun that play for Cancun were
- 00:30:40like hey did he do it on purpose because
- 00:30:41our owner started talking [ __ ] about the
- 00:30:43Diablo I was like no bro he's really
- 00:30:45sick he's not even in the country
- 00:30:47anymore he's laying on his side in a
- 00:30:49hospital with a tube shoved up his ass
- 00:30:51right now they're like oh we thought
- 00:30:52since the article came out that the
- 00:30:54owner was talking [ __ ] on on Diablo that
- 00:30:57they decided to say you know what there
- 00:30:58goes your sell
- 00:30:59out no I wanted to pitch against them
- 00:31:02yeah you wanted that sea level start I
- 00:31:03wanted that sea level start guess this
- 00:31:05is what happens when you don't do
- 00:31:06anything for seven days and you are
- 00:31:10under anesthesia
- 00:31:12and are sick I don't
- 00:31:16know so much for that advertisement huh
- 00:31:19I think what it is is like my calf
- 00:31:21muscles aren't
- 00:31:23activating like I have
- 00:31:25no I have like no strength in moving
- 00:31:27moving my it's like my lower legs are
- 00:31:29just completely shut down activation
- 00:31:31wise but I lifted two days ago I didn't
- 00:31:34go heavy but it's like when I go to like
- 00:31:36lift my foot my foot like dangles and I
- 00:31:39have no
- 00:31:41like I have no ability to like hold my
- 00:31:43foot like IND dorsy flexion which makes
- 00:31:46it really hard to run cuz I go to run
- 00:31:48and it's like I'm dragging my toes also
- 00:31:50I've been having a ton of twitching you
- 00:31:52know like when you're laying there and
- 00:31:52the muscle just like won't stop like
- 00:31:54twitching I've been having that all over
- 00:31:56my body though like throughout the
- 00:31:59day all right I got to make sure my
- 00:32:01direction is good
- 00:32:03today so that's going to be the focus
- 00:32:05and catch play I have like no stability
- 00:32:07in my ankles at all right now it's like
- 00:32:10I land and I go to like stick it my
- 00:32:12ankle just goes nope and it rolls so
- 00:32:17weird yep there it goes the grass is not
- 00:32:21even it has nothing to do with the grass
- 00:32:23I promise you what is
- 00:32:25this that's that's just that's just in
- 00:32:27the middle of the Outfield there's two
- 00:32:29of them there's three of them yeah it's
- 00:32:30a whole line I guess that's how the
- 00:32:32field drains I guess so but like what if
- 00:32:35a ball goes in that what if someone's
- 00:32:37foot goes in that also can we get some
- 00:32:39lights on in the stadium it is so dim
- 00:32:41right
- 00:32:42now dude if I overthrow my catcher right
- 00:32:45now I'm smoking someone in the stands
- 00:32:48okay so I can't rotate off my backside
- 00:32:50cuz my ankle's dead and I can't block on
- 00:32:52my front side cuz my ankle's dead what
- 00:32:54is going on don't step in that hole Kev
- 00:32:57looks like dead
- 00:33:03death I'm dead send me to the
- 00:33:06morg don't call a trainer I'm
- 00:33:09fine no no no I'm fine
- 00:33:16ambulance I got hit like right here
- 00:33:19Ronnie got me Ronnie got me as I was
- 00:33:21walking behind P yank slider
- 00:33:29okay maybe my ankles are starting to
- 00:33:31wake
- 00:33:33up good split there there the back door
- 00:33:39slider good
- 00:33:41effort I missed a little bit but I like
- 00:33:44the
- 00:33:45effort oh that was not a good effort
- 00:33:48yeah no backside activation on
- 00:33:51that
- 00:33:53okay whoopsies pretty sure this is not
- 00:33:56going to move but we're going to try
- 00:33:58come back to
- 00:34:00see well that definitely moved I wish I
- 00:34:03could throw that pitch in the game ASB
- 00:34:04if you could throw that in the game no
- 00:34:06one would ever hit it you can throw it
- 00:34:07in catch and you can throw it here but
- 00:34:09when you get in the game it just
- 00:34:11goes sometimes with with a SPL you got
- 00:34:15good movement on it going down but son
- 00:34:19of them got movement going this way you
- 00:34:22you using this you want you do it on
- 00:34:25your own because you want to or some
- 00:34:27sometimes when I the good ones that go
- 00:34:30this way I'm here and I accelerate my
- 00:34:32hand all the way through it and finish
- 00:34:34the pitch the bad ones I like want to
- 00:34:36see it move M and so I rotate and I go I
- 00:34:40stop here and my hand just kind of like
- 00:34:42cuts it instead of like getting all the
- 00:34:44way through the pitch like a fast ball
- 00:34:46when I get through it like a fast ball
- 00:34:48those are the ones that have the the
- 00:34:49good movement it's like it's new and so
- 00:34:52or it's the newest pitch and so I want
- 00:34:54to see it do something and so instead of
- 00:34:57just tring it and throwing it like every
- 00:34:59other pitch the good point that I see is
- 00:35:02the acceleration that you have with them
- 00:35:04you know no one recognize it yeah you
- 00:35:06know what I mean yeah it's another thing
- 00:35:09which is different talking about you
- 00:35:11know the the way you create the movement
- 00:35:13on your wrist yeah you know because I
- 00:35:15used to throw a splitter yeah but
- 00:35:17sometimes I I play with this you know
- 00:35:19against the lefties when you say your
- 00:35:21thumb so you put more pressure with the
- 00:35:23thumb or how and this one okay you and
- 00:35:25that's the one you want to go like to a
- 00:35:26left you put more pressure cuz you want
- 00:35:28to
- 00:35:29go way gotcha interesting okay I'll have
- 00:35:32to play around with that see if it see
- 00:35:35if the thumb thanks espie [ __ ] dude
- 00:35:38jiggly already made his
- 00:35:40debut yeah but he's ready we're going to
- 00:35:42roll with jiggly next outing we'll see I
- 00:35:44think it's jiggly with the red uniforms
- 00:35:46and gold one with the or the teal one
- 00:35:48with the the teal uniforms that's what I
- 00:35:50think I started feeling in the pen I was
- 00:35:52like feeling my right knee a little bit
- 00:35:53because my back foot was so dead that
- 00:35:55when I went to rotate it was all going
- 00:35:57to my knee instead of being like on my
- 00:35:58toe and like rolling that way cuz I
- 00:36:01don't have any like activation in my
- 00:36:03foot oh there we go now we got some
- 00:36:04lights look at my ankle when I try to
- 00:36:06walk on the
- 00:36:07outside see it just like it just like
- 00:36:11caves in doesn't do that on my left I
- 00:36:14can hold it stable this entire part of
- 00:36:16my foot is just like so turned off and
- 00:36:20dead pretty
- 00:36:21[Laughter]
- 00:36:26good no
- 00:36:28splitter you see on
- 00:36:31camera it needs to activate it's dead
- 00:36:35like it's there's no activation in the
- 00:36:37in this part of my foot despite having
- 00:36:39no ability to activate the muscles in my
- 00:36:40feet or my calves or anything really
- 00:36:42below my knee my Bullpen actually went
- 00:36:44okay now I was a little concerned at
- 00:36:46this point but I figured after doing
- 00:36:47some more strenuous activity today my
- 00:36:50body would wake up and be better
- 00:36:52tomorrow so I tried to do some light
- 00:36:54Barefoot jogs and Ankle activations to
- 00:36:56help with this hey C coming
- 00:36:59what when's it going to debut F yeah I
- 00:37:02was so close to thr one in ver Cruz I
- 00:37:05punched the guy out and Thea press
- 00:37:07cutter before the guy got to the plate
- 00:37:09freaked me out I was
- 00:37:12like that's the time you got to be like
- 00:37:14oh he's feeling it I got to rip
- 00:37:18it thank you Yep this guy got a great
- 00:37:21Pace does
- 00:37:24he that's about his dead zone
- 00:37:27bastketball as you can get you're going
- 00:37:28you're going quick I can feel out of the
- 00:37:31out of the stretch just like I can feel
- 00:37:34am going down yeah it's like forward
- 00:37:38before down I
- 00:37:40cut last game here what is that like the
- 00:37:43third or fourth this will be my fourth
- 00:37:45but the third one got rained out after
- 00:37:47three Innings so it doesn't count I'm
- 00:37:49referring to this incident from earlier
- 00:37:50in the season and if you haven't seen it
- 00:37:52you can check out the full video right
- 00:37:53here you do the glove thing again no
- 00:37:57they're manager's gone they fired him
- 00:37:59yeah different manager now I can't even
- 00:38:01get him back you know what I want to
- 00:38:03know is why Sala traded this guy in that
- 00:38:05Piller whatever that one guy was yeah
- 00:38:07the three- hole hitter ryell something
- 00:38:10was a lead up he was he was lead up on
- 00:38:13saltio he's hitting three here tonight
- 00:38:14anyway feel like Sal just cleaned house
- 00:38:17they got rid of everybody right there
- 00:38:18already so that's a baseball odity
- 00:38:20there's this rumor out there that every
- 00:38:22single game a hitter will foul ball off
- 00:38:24and it will go between his legs and
- 00:38:26despite being looked into and disproven
- 00:38:28infinite number of times pun still
- 00:38:31believes it literally has happened by
- 00:38:32the way it literally has happened every
- 00:38:33game as Ronnie as Ronnie literally since
- 00:38:36you've left every single game I've I
- 00:38:38pointed one out I wasn't even out here
- 00:38:40for a lot of the Innings I just come out
- 00:38:41here it happened and it just happened
- 00:38:43right there right now you're one for one
- 00:38:45are you positive that that went between
- 00:38:47his legs 100% it hit his front leg and
- 00:38:49shot backwards all I care about is if
- 00:38:51you throw your slider in the green area
- 00:38:52of this fight it doesn't matter if they
- 00:38:53score 14 runs off it as long as you
- 00:38:55throw your slider right there they're
- 00:38:56happy one thing puns doesn't believe in
- 00:38:58is pitcher heat Maps they look like this
- 00:39:00and basically if you throw the pitch in
- 00:39:02the green area it's better for the
- 00:39:03pitcher and if you throw it in the red
- 00:39:05it's better for the hitter and I'm a big
- 00:39:07believer in pitcher heat Maps but Pon is
- 00:39:09not but if you throw your slider in that
- 00:39:11little green area over the course of a
- 00:39:13season you'll be way better than if you
- 00:39:15don't that way true when I was with
- 00:39:17Tacoma in uh the Mariner system I went
- 00:39:20six Innings one run and out of 100 I got
- 00:39:23a score of seven because I threw 80%
- 00:39:25heaters and Sh I still Shug out seven
- 00:39:27the guy the next day went like four
- 00:39:29Innings five runs and got like a 77 on a
- 00:39:32score because he threw like 60% sliders
- 00:39:34and he hit every area that he was
- 00:39:36supposed to like oh slider on the green
- 00:39:38like they all care and the next game six
- 00:39:40Innings two runs got like a 10 my
- 00:39:43pitching score cuz I threw 70% heaters
- 00:39:45and like mother off speed I didn't throw
- 00:39:47any First Strike but I just blew
- 00:39:49everyone away with heaters and then when
- 00:39:50I started throwing my slider started
- 00:39:52getting like 50 scores by I start giving
- 00:39:53up three four runs in a game like in
- 00:39:552020 I threw like 65% fast balls every
- 00:39:58year I throw 60% plus fast balls and
- 00:40:01against the Miami Marlins I threw 94
- 00:40:03pitches 91 fast balls wa five innings
- 00:40:05one R it was the Miami marins in Miami
- 00:40:08yes but that's still the big Le played
- 00:40:10with San
- 00:40:11Francisco you got
- 00:40:13come whatever you got to do got we we
- 00:40:16already talked about it I'm being
- 00:40:17selfish tomorrow I
- 00:40:19think I would be nervous too if I ditch
- 00:40:22my catch play partner you know we're not
- 00:40:24bringing this up we're heavy been I went
- 00:40:26I went away to war and he cheated on me
- 00:40:28with the neighbor literally been gone 2
- 00:40:30weeks and now he wants to be my catch
- 00:40:31partner you weren't even you weren for
- 00:40:33those two weeks you weren't even my cash
- 00:40:34playay partner yeah you we broke up
- 00:40:36before that he was gone for like 5 days
- 00:40:38before that you cheated on me while I
- 00:40:40was at War you what you died and then
- 00:40:42you came back alive you didn't even send
- 00:40:43me a letter you died and then I don't
- 00:40:45know how they resurrected you and then
- 00:40:47you came out of nowhere hey you know
- 00:40:48what I'm going to throw with you until
- 00:40:49Trevor gets back that's all you could
- 00:40:51have done yor looked at me with the
- 00:40:52wanting eyes and he said I'm your man
- 00:40:55and I knew it from that point on every
- 00:40:56time right here
- 00:40:57yeah you got seduced you broke our vales
- 00:41:00there every single day every single day
- 00:41:01he's been there he doesn't have no
- 00:41:03stomach problems he doesn't have no
- 00:41:04All-Star games he doesn't have any
- 00:41:06extracurricular business activities he's
- 00:41:08there every day whether he hurts my hand
- 00:41:10or not you could have just ended it you
- 00:41:12know instead of cheating have some
- 00:41:14respect I mean send me a [ __ ] DM on
- 00:41:16Instagram you know what I mean have
- 00:41:17Instagram email me something well if
- 00:41:20he's going to be a real good teammate he
- 00:41:21wouldn't come here tomorrow go behind
- 00:41:22his back you throw at the hotel and then
- 00:41:25sleep the rest of day need to get ready
- 00:41:26for tomorrow anyway if I was a good
- 00:41:28teammate I would tell you you're being
- 00:41:29superstitious and you need to stop being
- 00:41:31[ __ ] it's not being superstitious when
- 00:41:32it's facts it's good when you're gone
- 00:41:34not good when you're there I've seen
- 00:41:35some pretty shitty outings from you and
- 00:41:37I've seen some pretty good outings from
- 00:41:38you it's makes bag but when you're gone
- 00:41:40it's 100% good that's a tiny sample size
- 00:41:44see how much you're gone right here and
- 00:41:45I did see I did and I did see pbl yeah
- 00:41:48that was the worst one of all of my
- 00:41:50entire career you even get it out I've
- 00:41:52never done that I've never done that and
- 00:41:53I've had a lot of bad I've not made it
- 00:41:55out of the first twice I've not made out
- 00:41:57the first I think twice won in college
- 00:41:59won in Pro bom I had two outings where I
- 00:42:01went two3 of an inning and gave up five
- 00:42:03in the big leagues you just feel
- 00:42:04terrible for the entire team you know
- 00:42:06one of them I did in the first game of
- 00:42:08of a 29 double
- 00:42:10header I did I did the first game of a
- 00:42:1227 L they called me up from the miners
- 00:42:15to pitch the first game and I went 2/3
- 00:42:17and give up five
- 00:42:19oh we swept that double
- 00:42:22header who was this it was in uh 2013
- 00:42:27with Cleveland you're with Cleveland I
- 00:42:29was with Cleveland and 13 and we were
- 00:42:32playing uh White Sox I was going to say
- 00:42:35the it's the only team that sound like
- 00:42:37they would do something like that they
- 00:42:39sent me back to the hotel and sent me
- 00:42:41down and then before the second game
- 00:42:44yeah no and then didn't uh didn't call
- 00:42:46me out the rest of the year after when
- 00:42:48you got pulled after the two3 where did
- 00:42:51you go s in the club house the rest
- 00:42:53again I got my whatever little like post
- 00:42:56throwing stuff done
- 00:42:57and then sat the dug out the rest of the
- 00:42:59game what do you got there what you got
- 00:43:01I keep telling him you should unbutton
- 00:43:02this one you know wants three do you one
- 00:43:06no yeah I I keep saying you should pitch
- 00:43:09like that you know there's no fixing
- 00:43:10this fixing this someone's got to look
- 00:43:12at
- 00:43:13the look at those SI look at that nose
- 00:43:16man I used to have a straight nose then
- 00:43:18I got surgery and then now it's crooked
- 00:43:21the surgery made your nose crooked a lot
- 00:43:23crooked oh my God it actually is crooked
- 00:43:26I just I just bent it
- 00:43:27that it can move like that yeah I
- 00:43:30mov over under 12 pitches the in 12 and
- 00:43:34a half over you can't just keep having
- 00:43:36like four or five pitch Innings you know
- 00:43:38I mean if they're smart no well we know
- 00:43:40they're not smart he's going to throw
- 00:43:42right down the middle you're going less
- 00:43:44take the under again oh
- 00:43:47hesitation you don't you don't got that
- 00:43:50I definit don't have to you don't you
- 00:43:51don't got that in your game that's 11
- 00:43:55right oh oh yes
- 00:43:58winner sick dude that guy despite Brooks
- 00:44:02pitching well we gave up four runs in
- 00:44:03the seventh to lose the game five four
- 00:44:05now we're only a couple weeks from the
- 00:44:07end of the season we still haven't lost
- 00:44:08three in a row so tomorrow's game is
- 00:44:10extra important to keep that streak
- 00:44:11going the key to the pitching delivery
- 00:44:13is literally like this it's a sequence
- 00:44:15of like hip shoulder arm like if you can
- 00:44:17get really good at just doing that like
- 00:44:19what we talking about yeah just like
- 00:44:23that
- 00:44:29it literally feels like from here down
- 00:44:32is paralyzed like I have no ability to
- 00:44:34move it it's like obviously not quite
- 00:44:36that bad but that's what it feels
- 00:44:47like every time I block I go to rotate
- 00:44:50my whole entire leg just opens up like
- 00:44:51this I have no lateral stability in my
- 00:44:53ankle at all so I had hoped that doing
- 00:44:55some activity yesterday would help my
- 00:44:56situation ation but it didn't it just
- 00:44:58made it worse yesterday my right ankle
- 00:45:00was worse than my left today my left
- 00:45:03ankle was worse than my right but my
- 00:45:05right hadn't gotten any better so I was
- 00:45:07definitely going the wrong direction I
- 00:45:08had no clue what was going on I'd never
- 00:45:10felt like this before and I was
- 00:45:12definitely very worried about my start
- 00:45:13tomorrow good news is the rest of my
- 00:45:15body feels loose and good just I have no
- 00:45:19control of the lower
- 00:45:24extremities yeah I have no like
- 00:45:28there's no
- 00:45:32stability we'll be rooting for you
- 00:45:34tomorrow thank you I appreciate it God
- 00:45:36bless you thank you you too did you ever
- 00:45:37do any of that like tip anything it's
- 00:45:40always Rock Solid and I can't like see
- 00:45:43see my leg like I've tore this Achilles
- 00:45:45so I I know a little bit about the leg
- 00:45:47it still don't feel the same how' you
- 00:45:49tear it uh pitching really going to
- 00:45:53cover first oh the first step was out of
- 00:45:56baseball for 3 years working at
- 00:45:58investment firm damn and then I started
- 00:46:00throwing again and started throwing
- 00:46:02harder the Brewers resigned me to draft
- 00:46:04me out of high school and then my second
- 00:46:05start I tore my kills and that was like
- 00:46:08when I came back from baseball I figured
- 00:46:10out how to throw harder I was like I was
- 00:46:11sitting 97 that day yeah I was like this
- 00:46:14is going to be fun I think I'm I was
- 00:46:16like on the rubber like on the Mal disc
- 00:46:17I'm pushed it felt like I got I felt
- 00:46:20like I Ste in a hole and I was I
- 00:46:21realized now in this machine my problems
- 00:46:24are my [ __ ] you just have to jump more
- 00:46:26you have to get get you I'll do plate
- 00:46:28stuff where I put a a plate right here
- 00:46:30and I live and I do like all sorts of
- 00:46:33you know you're here and you hold I'm
- 00:46:36always locked in and now I'm like I
- 00:46:39can't I can't do it it's so it's just in
- 00:46:42the last like three 3 or 4 days I think
- 00:46:45it's probably has something to do with
- 00:46:46the medication or the anesthesia I was
- 00:46:48on it's like partial paralysis below my
- 00:46:50knee it's so weird like gets the hip all
- 00:46:53the way cleared I don't really hit that
- 00:46:55anymore I need to go inside am I being
- 00:46:57am I being am I being kicked out or to
- 00:46:59the hotel because well my plan was to
- 00:47:02watch and then as soon as the inning
- 00:47:03ends like Duck and go in so he didn't
- 00:47:05know I was here but maybe it's just my
- 00:47:06presence I think he just your presence
- 00:47:08just makes him nervous yeah I don't know
- 00:47:10what the [ __ ] is going on right now what
- 00:47:11is he
- 00:47:12doing is this my fault should we go now
- 00:47:15the last time I saw pun's pitch he
- 00:47:18didn't get an out gave Thors you feel
- 00:47:22powerful doing that what do you
- 00:47:28catch it catch
- 00:47:31it that was very high that could have
- 00:47:34been bad
- 00:47:35but wait limit it my
- 00:47:39boy you
- 00:47:42here we're going that route it's one run
- 00:47:46you're fine you see the carry on my
- 00:47:48heater to look 18 cutter was I think
- 00:47:51five6 I saw better than normal but it's
- 00:47:53slow like 86 85 right now that's fine
- 00:47:56it's all right we can hit so yeah you're
- 00:47:58going to be fine you're going to throw
- 00:48:00six pitches next inning
- 00:48:02so two
- 00:48:05[Music]
- 00:48:08popups that was Crush ifam didn't so
- 00:48:11many [ __ ] guys for who for me for you
- 00:48:15yeah for me no [ __ ] no way for me for
- 00:48:18who for me for who one guy right there
- 00:48:22say it for his s so you lied to me no no
- 00:48:25no no I you said for for me for me it's
- 00:48:28not for you it's for me I I never asking
- 00:48:30you for for signning come on do he want
- 00:48:32me to sign it too yeah why not sure
- 00:48:35Trevor you remember the other day I said
- 00:48:37I was Trevor Bower airport yeah a boy
- 00:48:41and they said no you're not I kept
- 00:48:44walking why'd you ask me in the first
- 00:48:46place then
- 00:48:49[Music]
- 00:48:50[Applause]
- 00:48:53yeah inside what inside right yeah oh my
- 00:48:58name he's like a Kyle Martin that kind
- 00:49:01of
- 00:49:03Sling is be still here is be still with
- 00:49:06them or do he get
- 00:49:09released what are we
- 00:49:12doing he hasn't hit a fast ball all
- 00:49:15night all
- 00:49:16year what are we doing P's Homer was
- 00:49:20right there too oh was I've never seen
- 00:49:22him hit that's why I'm watching yeah
- 00:49:24he's hit too that was a heater right
- 00:49:26yeah yeah he's had two heaters and
- 00:49:29they've both been like kind of this in
- 00:49:30inner inner third most a lot of Lefty
- 00:49:33barrels are just kind of like they love
- 00:49:34the down and in Pitch at least on
- 00:49:35heaters I feel like we got to go either
- 00:49:38like above or away if you're going to go
- 00:49:42heater right I feel like it's got to be
- 00:49:43a lot of off speed stuff to him asie
- 00:49:45said you want you'd like to talk to me
- 00:49:47what we got going on uh my below my
- 00:49:50knees shut down like I didn't really
- 00:49:52have any control of my feet the last
- 00:49:54couple days threw a bullpen yesterday it
- 00:49:56was worse yesterday better today better
- 00:49:59after treatment should be fine you're
- 00:50:02sure I I don't need no
- 00:50:05[ __ ] I threw a pen yesterday it was
- 00:50:07worse I had I had checked my phone the
- 00:50:09whole game and then I got to check some
- 00:50:12Rachel she's trying to sell me out huh
- 00:50:16uhhuh last time I tell her
- 00:50:19anything she's a warrior low all right
- 00:50:22all right I'm trusting you
- 00:50:23now I'll be fine Paul uh omous music
- 00:50:27please thank you earlier in the game I
- 00:50:29tried to get some treatment to help the
- 00:50:30calf and the ankle situation we hooked
- 00:50:32me up to an electrical stim machine and
- 00:50:34use that to get full muscle contraction
- 00:50:36and it worked it was the first time in
- 00:50:38days that I've been able to feel a full
- 00:50:39muscular contraction and it actually
- 00:50:41felt really good so at this point I
- 00:50:42figured that I had solved the problem
- 00:50:44and tomorrow I would be all fixed let's
- 00:50:46get this show on the road let's get on
- 00:50:48out of here get out of here yeah you're
- 00:50:49right we got a six-run lead it's the
- 00:50:52ninth inning and it's raining you got to
- 00:50:55be so stupid
- 00:50:57I'm telling you man I'm I'm I'm afraid
- 00:51:00play off fear
- 00:51:02not we'll be fine who do you think we
- 00:51:04play first round verac Cruz you think
- 00:51:08Tasco qua I bet you we play verac
- 00:51:12Cruz we just break your record what we
- 00:51:16just break your
- 00:51:18record 19 basball 19th based on ball
- 00:51:22today yeah no 19 oh my God it's it's
- 00:51:2711:30 11:30 yeah is it supposed to rain
- 00:51:30tomorrow is it supposed to rain tomorrow
- 00:51:33I think it's going to be the same thing
- 00:51:34as this I better not Pitch like three
- 00:51:36Innings and then get rained out I'm
- 00:51:38going to be furious if that happens we
- 00:51:40won the game 15 to9 to avoid losing
- 00:51:42three in a row for the first time all
- 00:51:44season and now after two long weeks it
- 00:51:46was finally my turn to pitch if I get
- 00:51:48this win I win the Triple Crown
- 00:51:50tonight's game is going to get rained
- 00:51:52out this is what the field looks like
- 00:51:53right now warning track is Turf here but
- 00:51:56in the The Outfield it is uh dirt so
- 00:51:58yeah no game tonight which means I'm not
- 00:52:00going to pitch which creates a lot of
- 00:52:01problems I was supposed to pitch today
- 00:52:03the 25th then again on the 30th and then
- 00:52:05on the fourth to start the first game of
- 00:52:07playoffs I've not pitched in like 15
- 00:52:09days because I was sick so now I'm going
- 00:52:12to pitch tomorrow but that means that
- 00:52:14I'll have to have a short rest start in
- 00:52:16the regular season to get on track for
- 00:52:18playoffs or tomorrow will be my last
- 00:52:20start of the Season neither of those are
- 00:52:23great option also there are three people
- 00:52:25piled up behind me at 9 wins for the
- 00:52:27Triple Crown I have 10 tonight Cesar
- 00:52:29Valdez is pitching so if he gets a win
- 00:52:32then I'll need to get at least one more
- 00:52:34win to win the Triple Crown if he
- 00:52:35doesn't get a win and I get a win
- 00:52:37tomorrow or whenever I pitch next then
- 00:52:39I'll pretty much lock up the Triple
- 00:52:41Crown so that's on the line there's two
- 00:52:43other people inoah and Robert stock
- 00:52:45they're both at nine but Robert pitched
- 00:52:47yesterday and didn't get the win and in
- 00:52:49knowah pitched today and took a loss
- 00:52:51also uh we have a 6-hour drive at least
- 00:52:54back from here in myON to Mexico City
- 00:52:57we'll probably get on the road here
- 00:52:59about 9:20 which means I won't be
- 00:53:00getting in till at least 3:20 in the
- 00:53:02morning which is not ideal for a sleep
- 00:53:04schedule for a start so who knows how
- 00:53:05that's going to go tomorrow and I have
- 00:53:07no idea what the weather is going to be
- 00:53:08like tomorrow in Mexico City I basically
- 00:53:11have no idea when I'm going to pitch
- 00:53:12again I've thrown a total of one start
- 00:53:15in July I've thrown a total of 136
- 00:53:18pitches in July I threw 129 in one game
- 00:53:21against Waka when I struck out 19 by
- 00:53:23comparison now we're worried about my
- 00:53:25workload in reverse because I haven't
- 00:53:28pitched at all in July so I'm basically
- 00:53:29going to go into playoffs when I'm
- 00:53:31expected to throw 110 pitches or so
- 00:53:34every fourth day after not having
- 00:53:36pitched at all in July this whole thing
- 00:53:38is just a giant [ __ ] mess okay not my
- 00:53:41day to pitch uh let's try this again you
- 00:53:44got to be [ __ ] kidding me so I guess
- 00:53:46we're delayed now this ising insane the
- 00:53:49baseball Gods really do not want me to
- 00:53:50pitch oh they do they just want to
- 00:53:52testing you they want to know what you
- 00:53:53made of I've had plenty of test they
- 00:53:55don't know I had a dead I had a deadly
- 00:53:58disease little did I know I was about to
- 00:54:00be tested even
- 00:54:03more my left calf is completely dead
- 00:54:06can't really feel it or use it so this
- 00:54:08thought' be interesting going into the
- 00:54:09game I knew it was going to be a
- 00:54:10disaster and admittedly I was being
- 00:54:14selfish this is not good Kev winning
- 00:54:17this game didn't mean anything for the
- 00:54:18team because we'd already clenched the
- 00:54:19first overall seed in playoffs but it
- 00:54:22meant a lot to me because this win could
- 00:54:24secure me the triple crown and I
- 00:54:25wouldn't be able to live with myself if
- 00:54:27I didn't at least try to get it oh man I
- 00:54:30have no control over my legs from the
- 00:54:32knee down I'm either leg can you do me a
- 00:54:35favor can you grab some of the bullpen
- 00:54:36guys and just let them know to be ready
- 00:54:38cuz I might not make it very long
- 00:54:39tonight all right yeah all right let's
- 00:54:41do it do it okay well the goal is just
- 00:54:43to be able to throw strikes cuz my feet
- 00:54:45feel terrible I have no Landing
- 00:54:52leg first pitch homry huh yep that's
- 00:54:56Alan Hansen now he played in Japan last
- 00:54:58year and I've pitched against him a
- 00:54:59little bit here and there I didn't
- 00:55:00expect him to hit a fast ball away for a
- 00:55:02home run the first pitch I was just
- 00:55:03trying to throw up for a strike not how
- 00:55:05I wanted to start we got to get through
- 00:55:07this I just got to make it five innings
- 00:55:08and I can't give up more than five
- 00:55:09earned runs I did throw a strike though
- 00:55:11so that's good let's see if I can do it
- 00:55:13again maybe this one will go to
- 00:55:19someone okay so missing high arm side is
- 00:55:22cuz of the block leg now mechanically I
- 00:55:24had some serious issues this game I was
- 00:55:26wasn't able to drive off of my backside
- 00:55:28which means my hips weren't able to
- 00:55:30rotate that means when my foot landed in
- 00:55:32the front my block leg had extra work to
- 00:55:34do but I didn't have any stability in my
- 00:55:36block leg ankle so it couldn't do that
- 00:55:38work so my hips basically were inactive
- 00:55:40which means that my torso was not
- 00:55:42rotating to the point where I'm used to
- 00:55:44it rotating and I was leaving a lot of
- 00:55:45balls High into the arm side because of
- 00:55:48these mechanical problems all due to the
- 00:55:49partial paralysis that I had going on
- 00:55:51below my knees
- 00:55:56this is a struggle so now that I'm
- 00:55:58behind 20 I just need to throw a strike
- 00:55:59but I don't have any confidence with my
- 00:56:01off speed stuff cuz I haven't been able
- 00:56:02to calibrate for my new mechanics yet so
- 00:56:04that leaves me in a pretty tough
- 00:56:06position 20 he knows he's going to be
- 00:56:08getting a fast ball I have to throw a
- 00:56:09fast ball and try to throw it in the
- 00:56:11zone and I'm not throwing very hard
- 00:56:12because I can't use my lower half not a
- 00:56:14good
- 00:56:18situation okay late on fast ball cut her
- 00:56:22in
- 00:56:23[Music]
- 00:56:26so after the 20 fast ball away he was a
- 00:56:28little bit late on it so I thought okay
- 00:56:29that one started in the middle and kind
- 00:56:31of ran to the right let me start one in
- 00:56:32the middle and run it to the left maybe
- 00:56:34I can get a cutter in on his hands and
- 00:56:35get a cheap little popup right here and
- 00:56:37you can see the same problem manifesting
- 00:56:38itself on the cutter that I was having
- 00:56:39on the fast ball earlier in the atat
- 00:56:41it's high into the arm side of where I
- 00:56:43would like it to be because I'm not able
- 00:56:44to get my hand out to the normal release
- 00:56:46Point all right we got to get this in
- 00:56:48the
- 00:56:51zone okay please go to someone
- 00:56:56thank
- 00:56:57God that's what tonight's going to be
- 00:56:59about is hoping the ball gets hit to
- 00:57:02someone okay leonus Martine my friend
- 00:57:06but not tonight you're my
- 00:57:07[Music]
- 00:57:08[Applause]
- 00:57:10enemy dude this such a struggle to throw
- 00:57:12strikes right
- 00:57:13[Music]
- 00:57:16now good swing Leo so for the second hit
- 00:57:18in a row I tried to throw a first pitch
- 00:57:20fastball first strike and fell behind 1
- 00:57:22this time though I decided to go with
- 00:57:23the 1 cutter and I threw it right in the
- 00:57:25middle of the zone Le's got a lot of
- 00:57:26homers this year and he usually hits
- 00:57:28those mid-speed pitches in the middle of
- 00:57:30the zone so I got away with one right
- 00:57:31there that was a homer pitch yeah Cur BL
- 00:57:34I like that get the hand
- 00:57:36out so there I'm reminding myself of my
- 00:57:39normal cue which is to get the hand out
- 00:57:41on the curveball meaning try to drive
- 00:57:42the hand as far towards the plate as
- 00:57:45possible only here I wasn't able to
- 00:57:46drive it anywhere close to as far to the
- 00:57:48plate as I normally do because of the
- 00:57:50leg issues and I missed terribly now
- 00:57:52we're behind 21 and I probably have to
- 00:57:54throw a fast ball right here
- 00:57:57[Music]
- 00:58:01yeah unfortunately for me after I'd
- 00:58:03thrown two offs speed pitches that 92
- 00:58:05probably played a little bit faster than
- 00:58:0792 and I just jammed him a little bit
- 00:58:09thank God that went to Canó cuz I cannot
- 00:58:12cover first base tonight either now even
- 00:58:14though this ball is hit to Second it was
- 00:58:15hit towards the right side of the
- 00:58:16infield so my natural instinct was to
- 00:58:18start covering first base and you can
- 00:58:20see on the replay that I just can't run
- 00:58:22I can't feel my feet it feels like I'm
- 00:58:24running with walking boots on and it's
- 00:58:26just not a good situation let's
- 00:58:29swing okay Graal a bunch of homers this
- 00:58:33year nope let's see if we get a fast
- 00:58:36ball away
- 00:58:38here oh go in
- 00:58:42okay I want that call but it's a ball
- 00:58:45and for the third hitter in a row we are
- 00:58:47way behind in the count I'm really just
- 00:58:49struggling to throw the ball anywhere
- 00:58:50close to the zone I'm having my catcher
- 00:58:52set up in the middle I'm not trying to
- 00:58:53be perfect here I'm just trying to throw
- 00:58:55a strike and it is a
- 00:58:59struggle that right there right there
- 00:59:00right there back up stay in
- 00:59:06maybe nice try nice try so when that
- 00:59:08ball was popped up I was really hoping
- 00:59:10that it would stay in play and Pat can
- 00:59:11make a play and get me out of this first
- 00:59:13inning with only one run unfortunately I
- 00:59:15didn't so after throwing the two- out
- 00:59:17cutter that he was a little bit early on
- 00:59:18I decided to slow the speed down a
- 00:59:20little bit see if we can land a slider
- 00:59:26way out in front of that after he was
- 00:59:28way out in front of that I figured I
- 00:59:29could just throw another one and
- 00:59:30hopefully he would just roll it in play
- 00:59:32somewhere and generally that means that
- 00:59:33you're going to get a ground ball if the
- 00:59:35hitter's out in front of it but not
- 00:59:36super out in front of it to miss it
- 00:59:38generally that's a ground ball slider
- 00:59:40again I think throw a competitive
- 00:59:44one Chaser thank you oh my god and I got
- 00:59:48the chase to get the strike out there
- 00:59:50but I was not really happy about it
- 00:59:52normally I'd be like oh Chaser and I'd
- 00:59:54be in a much better mood about getting
- 00:59:56strike out um just so you know I can't
- 00:59:58run so if there's a bunt or something be
- 01:00:01extra aggressive on it cuz I probably
- 01:00:03this yeah I just talked him I can't do a
- 01:00:05calf raise yeah they said that in uh it
- 01:00:08was just your left leg in uh is it
- 01:00:11getting worse it's not getting better if
- 01:00:14this was any other night I would not
- 01:00:16Pitch but Cesar B do won so he's tied at
- 01:00:1810 wins with me and if I can manage to
- 01:00:21get a win tonight at cement a triple
- 01:00:23crown and honestly I might take myself
- 01:00:24out of this game if it gets any worse
- 01:00:27cuz it's almost impossible to throw
- 01:00:29strikes right now and all of this
- 01:00:30against the second best offense in the
- 01:00:32league good think this guy has a 70 ra
- 01:00:35so we should score against him in the
- 01:00:37bottom of the first my team put up two
- 01:00:38runs to give me a 2 to1 lead so now I
- 01:00:40have a chance of getting this win I just
- 01:00:42need to not give up a run here got make
- 01:00:44get four more Innings and not give up a
- 01:00:49run please give me that call I could use
- 01:00:52that yet another hitter where I'm behind
- 01:00:541 out now usually with this swing I
- 01:00:56would see all that movement and all the
- 01:00:58big bat flare and leg kick and
- 01:00:59everything like that now I'd throw some
- 01:01:00timing disruptions in there ID throw
- 01:01:02some Cutters in on the hands some fast
- 01:01:04balls up you probably wouldn't be able
- 01:01:05to get to it but I'm not thinking about
- 01:01:07sequencing at this point of the game I'm
- 01:01:08just thinking about please throw a
- 01:01:09strike and hit it to
- 01:01:13someone okay Chase it up there at 90
- 01:01:16that's about all I got tonight though
- 01:01:20unfortunately so after I got the swing
- 01:01:22on 90 up and in I decided to try a
- 01:01:23timing disruption and that didn't feel
- 01:01:26good my right ankle started to hurt I
- 01:01:27was out of syn mechanically even more
- 01:01:29than I have been all night and I missed
- 01:01:31my spot way above the zone now I'm right
- 01:01:33back behind in the
- 01:01:36count that's his Nitro Zone and I'm
- 01:01:39lucky there and yeah so we've thrown him
- 01:01:42three straight fast balls and now I
- 01:01:44threw him a fourth straight fast ball at
- 01:01:4591 down and in and I'm so lucky that he
- 01:01:49missed that because that should have
- 01:01:50been a homer I don't think I could
- 01:01:52design a better sequence to give up a
- 01:01:54homer than the sequence that I just room
- 01:01:56right there 2 two and maybe I can still
- 01:01:57get an out here that's what's going
- 01:01:59through my head do I go change up here
- 01:02:01or backflip cutter cve Ball's a nice
- 01:02:04choice get the hand
- 01:02:09out I really like dead zone cutter here
- 01:02:11throw it
- 01:02:12[Applause]
- 01:02:20hard thank you now for a routine ground
- 01:02:23ball the first base there's a lot going
- 01:02:25on here so let me explain first I tried
- 01:02:27to throw a backf foot cutter and it was
- 01:02:29nowhere close it was again High to the
- 01:02:31arm side and it missed Up and Away he
- 01:02:33put this ball in play now before this
- 01:02:34inning I had talked to my first baseman
- 01:02:36I'm like hey I can't run and I can't
- 01:02:38cover first base so when this ball was
- 01:02:40grounded to first base my first baseman
- 01:02:41was playing pretty deep in the infield
- 01:02:43so I was trying to get over to cover the
- 01:02:45base anyway now fortunately for me he
- 01:02:47was able to get there before the runner
- 01:02:48cuz I was not able to beat the runner to
- 01:02:50first base when I took my first couple
- 01:02:52steps off the mountain to try to cover
- 01:02:53my left foot was completely dead so I
- 01:02:56stepped on it and stumbled because I
- 01:02:58couldn't feel it then the next step I
- 01:02:59took with my right foot I kicked myself
- 01:03:01in the back of the right calf with my
- 01:03:03left foot cuz it was just completely
- 01:03:04paralyzed and I had no ability to use it
- 01:03:06and then I was trying to run over to
- 01:03:07first base as if I had a walking cast
- 01:03:09boot on each of my legs it was not a
- 01:03:11pretty sight and the people in The
- 01:03:12Dugout noticed it
- 01:03:14immediately all
- 01:03:16good again all good all good see
- 01:03:22see I'm I'm going five innings it's all
- 01:03:25good Let Me Pitch cor Let Me Pitch Let
- 01:03:29Me Pitch I'm finding the
- 01:03:32pitch let me get through five let me
- 01:03:39try now look at that point in the
- 01:03:41mountain visit I knew that I had no
- 01:03:42business pitching this game I was trying
- 01:03:44to get through five and after a couple
- 01:03:46ground balls here and there and couple
- 01:03:47balls going two people I thought maybe I
- 01:03:49could sneak this out let's lead with a
- 01:03:52slider
- 01:03:55so for the first time all game I have
- 01:03:57thrown a first pitch strike and it has
- 01:03:59not ended up in Homer now I'm actually
- 01:04:00ahead in the count which is great I can
- 01:04:02try to sequence a little bit here that
- 01:04:03was a first pitch cutter even though I
- 01:04:05was 81 my cutter velocity was way down
- 01:04:07so it's really hard to differentiate
- 01:04:08between what was the cutter and what was
- 01:04:10the slider my sweeper is usually 81 my
- 01:04:12cutter is usually 88 this game my cutter
- 01:04:14was 81 83 and my sweeper was like 77 to
- 01:04:1780 so it was just all mixing together
- 01:04:20and I just didn't really have the same
- 01:04:21type of sharpness on any of the pitches
- 01:04:23that I'm used to heater here yeah yeah
- 01:04:25slider
- 01:04:27Works yes so there's a slid step sweeper
- 01:04:30off the plate and I get a little check
- 01:04:32swing to go O2 now I have a chance of
- 01:04:34getting this out we got to go there
- 01:04:35again okay
- 01:04:38[Applause]
- 01:04:39down okay now we go heat her
- 01:04:44away so after the O2 slider that missed
- 01:04:47his own by a lot I figured I could use
- 01:04:48that tunnel and try to get a freeze on a
- 01:04:50fast ball down and away unfortunately I
- 01:04:51missed with that fast ball right in the
- 01:04:53middle and he almost put this ball in
- 01:04:54play now reading this swing he hit this
- 01:04:56ball pretty hard and it was barely foul
- 01:04:58so I'm saying okay he's still on about
- 01:05:00fast ball timing I can probably go back
- 01:05:01to a slow pitch here and get a good
- 01:05:05result so one two I tried the slider
- 01:05:07again I went with the slide step but I
- 01:05:09just didn't throw it anywhere close to
- 01:05:10the Zone not close enough to get a swing
- 01:05:12anyway so we're 2 two 22 now originally
- 01:05:15in this count after I'd missed badley
- 01:05:17with some sliders I thought about going
- 01:05:18heater up and in try to get a little pop
- 01:05:20up on the infield in but my catcher
- 01:05:23called a slider and I decided to go with
- 01:05:24it again just trying to throw it for a
- 01:05:26strike hoping to get a ground
- 01:05:28ball get it close to
- 01:05:29[Music]
- 01:05:32Z now I missed my spot again by about 2
- 01:05:34ft but I got the chase so one less out
- 01:05:37that I have to get I'll take it okay my
- 01:05:39right ankle really hurts cuz I can't
- 01:05:41rotate off of it so what was going on
- 01:05:43with my right ankle at this point Well
- 01:05:44normally my foot is planted on the
- 01:05:46ground and then it starts to roll to the
- 01:05:47inside and I go up on my toe and the
- 01:05:49foot turns over tonight I wasn't able to
- 01:05:51do any of that so my foot was just
- 01:05:53dragging off sideways off the mound and
- 01:05:55I was putting a lot of pressure on the
- 01:05:57inside part of my ankle that's going to
- 01:05:59be a pain in the ass tomorrow next up is
- 01:06:01Ruiz and I decided to go with an off
- 01:06:02speed pitch here to try to get a quick
- 01:06:04little first pitch swing rollover I went
- 01:06:06with the
- 01:06:10split yes check that was a good
- 01:06:13pitch wish it was a swing though now
- 01:06:16normally at altitud my split does not
- 01:06:18move that much so I was a little bit
- 01:06:20miscalibrated on where I needed to start
- 01:06:21that pitch not that I had any command of
- 01:06:23where I could start it I was just trying
- 01:06:24to throw it for the middle but that
- 01:06:26actually had some pretty good movement
- 01:06:27it surprised me even in the
- 01:06:32game
- 01:06:34ah okay got to get in the zone here fast
- 01:06:37ball
- 01:06:41away wait on that so after falling
- 01:06:44behind 20 and then throwing a fast ball
- 01:06:46up and away and getting a swing through
- 01:06:47I decided to go back to the fast ball
- 01:06:49cuz he was late on that one I just
- 01:06:50decided to move this one to the inner
- 01:06:51part of the plate hopefully get to the
- 01:06:53hands and get a little broken bat maybe
- 01:06:54a popup
- 01:06:57take that now in a normal game after
- 01:06:58seeing two swing throughs on a fast ball
- 01:07:00and being in a two- two count I would
- 01:07:01just throw another fast ball at the top
- 01:07:03of the zone and hope to get the swing
- 01:07:04through but I didn't have my fast ball
- 01:07:06tonight and I definitely didn't have my
- 01:07:08location back to the change
- 01:07:10[Applause]
- 01:07:14up needed that closer to the plate not
- 01:07:17only did I need that closer to the plate
- 01:07:18I also needed a tunnel down there that
- 01:07:20would actually entice a swing the first
- 01:07:21pitch of this atat started low and ended
- 01:07:23up a ball the second Pitch started low
- 01:07:25and ended up as a ball the next two
- 01:07:26pitches started high and were strikes
- 01:07:28and now I went back to a pitch down that
- 01:07:30started low and ended up as a ball so of
- 01:07:32course I wouldn't expect to get a swing
- 01:07:34out of that now in the game I'm not
- 01:07:36thinking about sequencing at all I'm
- 01:07:37just trying to survive and so my normal
- 01:07:39computer that's going on like okay what
- 01:07:41tunnel do I have what speed do I have
- 01:07:42stuff like that it's malfunctioning 3
- 01:07:45two heater
- 01:07:49[Applause]
- 01:07:51away that should be an
- 01:07:54help thank
- 01:07:56you so 32 I actually make the right
- 01:07:59decision and go back to the fast ball
- 01:08:01and I get exactly what I would have
- 01:08:02gotten had I done it 22 which is a ball
- 01:08:05off the handle a little bit little weak
- 01:08:06Fly ball and we get out of the inning
- 01:08:08now I did start thinking at this point
- 01:08:10like hey my command is coming back a
- 01:08:11little bit like I'm able to throw some
- 01:08:13strikes more consistently I'm making a
- 01:08:15little bit of an adjustment mechanically
- 01:08:17like maybe I'm going to be okay maybe
- 01:08:18I'm going to get through this I still
- 01:08:20need a little bit of cushion for my
- 01:08:21offense though only one thing with the
- 01:08:23left hitters you know I know he's
- 01:08:26playing way his side so you don't have
- 01:08:30to be worried about that much because
- 01:08:32you got first base on second base right
- 01:08:34there can be present but only couple
- 01:08:36steps
- 01:08:39right get out of here ball hell yeah
- 01:08:42[ __ ] yeah there we go on a night like
- 01:08:46tonight where I have nothing this could
- 01:08:48be you know you're a little bit injured
- 01:08:50you have to pitch or you're sick or
- 01:08:52anything like that you know I can't rely
- 01:08:53on my fast ball being 9798 to get me out
- 01:08:55of a jam so what I have to do is I have
- 01:08:57to be really good at reading swings
- 01:09:00understanding the timing of the hitter
- 01:09:01and bouncing all around being
- 01:09:03unpredictable and hope that my defense
- 01:09:06catches the ball for me or I hope that
- 01:09:08the ball gets hit to my defense instead
- 01:09:09of finding gaps we just got to get
- 01:09:10through three more Innings scoreless and
- 01:09:13hope my offense puts up another couple
- 01:09:14this inions to give me a cushion sick
- 01:09:18boy
- 01:09:19Robie going marmo offense is doing their
- 01:09:22part I need to figure out a way to weave
- 01:09:24my way through three innings I feel like
- 01:09:26the cutter is the pitch that's in the
- 01:09:27zone the most give up some hits if you
- 01:09:30just like rip it but at least like you
- 01:09:31can keep yourself in counts with it yeah
- 01:09:33my my worry on that is it's mid-speed
- 01:09:36pitch yeah I mean it's not like great
- 01:09:38for like successful pitching but for
- 01:09:41navigating your way through five it
- 01:09:43might be or like keeping yourself in
- 01:09:45counts we can use it here and there but
- 01:09:46I think on nights like tonight it's
- 01:09:48mostly top and bottom end hopefully that
- 01:09:50you know just the speed difference going
- 01:09:5277 to 90 like keeps them off balance all
- 01:09:55right thank you offense for coming out
- 01:09:58and scoring early and often just hold up
- 01:10:01for my legs so going out for the third
- 01:10:03all the stars were aligning I mean I had
- 01:10:06a 10 to one lead I just had to get
- 01:10:07through three more Innings it's good
- 01:10:09chance their offense was just going to
- 01:10:10quit and shut it down like I already we
- 01:10:12already lost this game so if I wanted to
- 01:10:14get a win to win the Triple Crown I
- 01:10:16could not have a better situation to do
- 01:10:18it let's see how the third
- 01:10:19[Applause]
- 01:10:21goes okay get in the zone Trevor fast
- 01:10:25ball at 89 to start the inning nowhere
- 01:10:27close to the Zone not a good
- 01:10:30start okay now probably going to be
- 01:10:33swinging so cutter okay cutter get the
- 01:10:35ball
- 01:10:36[Applause]
- 01:10:39down 82 cutter after getting the swing
- 01:10:42through on the cutter I was like okay
- 01:10:43this is perfect just throw the slider
- 01:10:45and we'll get an
- 01:10:48out oh please be an
- 01:10:53out that is not what I need I really
- 01:10:56need all those outs saving gra his that
- 01:10:59run will be unearned and I thought that
- 01:11:01run would be unearned but remember
- 01:11:02earlier in the Vlog I mentioned scores
- 01:11:04discretion they counted that as a hit
- 01:11:07somehow I have no idea but if you look
- 01:11:10at the replay the ball clearly would
- 01:11:12have made it to first base well ahead of
- 01:11:14the runner I mean the runner was like
- 01:11:15three or four steps away from first base
- 01:11:17by the time the ball passed my first
- 01:11:18baseman that should be a throwing error
- 01:11:20that should have been one out nobody on
- 01:11:22we'll go slid step here
- 01:11:26get the hand out and that's an 88 mph
- 01:11:30fast ball nowhere close to my target so
- 01:11:32we're going the wrong direction V's
- 01:11:33falling and command is not
- 01:11:36there okay one out cutter at 81 I think
- 01:11:40that was 81 that's good it's just
- 01:11:42terrible to watch but at least we got a
- 01:11:44strike now maybe slider cutter is good I
- 01:11:47like
- 01:11:51that slider actually that was a pretty
- 01:11:54good pitch one one and I have a really
- 01:11:55good tunnel here if I can just get a
- 01:11:57slider a little bit down off the plate I
- 01:11:58probably have a strike
- 01:12:00[Music]
- 01:12:02out unfortunately I missed up with it of
- 01:12:04course cuz I don't have any good command
- 01:12:06and now I'm just trying to get a little
- 01:12:07ground ball on the infield two two and
- 01:12:09to get the ground ball on the infield I
- 01:12:10was just trying to throw a strike in a 2
- 01:12:12two count I didn't want to go 3-2 cuz I
- 01:12:14can't throw a strike on command so I'm
- 01:12:15just trying to land this slider in the
- 01:12:16zone and get a little weak rollover okay
- 01:12:19on the play but
- 01:12:21down thank you can I help you nope
- 01:12:25just looking Window Shopper fortunately
- 01:12:28he took it right down the middle I'm not
- 01:12:29sure exactly why cuz that's like a nuke
- 01:12:31pitch just hanging there right in the
- 01:12:32middle of the Zone but tonight I'm
- 01:12:33taking every out that I can possibly get
- 01:12:36okay so that should be two outs so in my
- 01:12:37head during the game this inning is two
- 01:12:39outs nobody on so if I can get one more
- 01:12:41out that makes all the runs this inning
- 01:12:43unearned that's what I'm thinking in the
- 01:12:44game unfortunately that was not actually
- 01:12:46what was going on because the score
- 01:12:47didn't call the first play an airor he
- 01:12:49called it a hit with a throwing airor to
- 01:12:51move him to Second which changes this
- 01:12:52inning drastically I don't have electric
- 01:12:55shight to give him so we are going to
- 01:12:57start we're going to start off curveball
- 01:12:59nice call I like
- 01:13:01that okay I got to get my hand out more
- 01:13:04on that 74 mph curveball High under the
- 01:13:07arm side my curveball normally sits 78
- 01:13:10plus so definitely down like 4 or 5 mph
- 01:13:12on this curveball tonight my stuff is
- 01:13:14just pathetic so behind 10 I decided to
- 01:13:16go cutter down and in and I actually
- 01:13:18threw a pretty good one even though it
- 01:13:19was 80 mph got the foul ball now I'm 111
- 01:13:21I need to throw a strike here and get to
- 01:13:231 two to have some leverag in in this
- 01:13:25count now do we go change up change up
- 01:13:29yeah nope the reason I thought to go
- 01:13:32change up is I just throw the cutter
- 01:13:33that went this way I figured I'd throw a
- 01:13:34change up that went away from him and
- 01:13:36maybe get a little weed ground ball I
- 01:13:37missed by like 2 ft yet again and now
- 01:13:39we're behind yet again now we got to go
- 01:13:42heater down
- 01:13:46away got to be careful
- 01:13:51here okay I don't mind that and get a
- 01:13:53double play here we'll start a change up
- 01:13:56yeah got to get in the
- 01:13:58zone yep it's a terrible change up but I
- 01:14:02will take the strike okay threw a
- 01:14:04terrible split to get ahead but that's
- 01:14:05fine we're ahead 10 oh if I could just
- 01:14:07land this curveball I'd be in a pretty
- 01:14:08powerful position in this count but I've
- 01:14:10not been able to make the adjustment on
- 01:14:11my curveball every single one that I've
- 01:14:13thrown so far has been in the exact same
- 01:14:15spot High into the arm side the one one
- 01:14:17I just need a strike I got to throw a
- 01:14:19strike here curve ball yeah get the hand
- 01:14:21out try to bounce it
- 01:14:25we first
- 01:14:28okay please catch
- 01:14:31that [ __ ] maybe that walks going to
- 01:14:33score get the ball
- 01:14:38in uh so I executed what I was trying to
- 01:14:41do which is throwing a strike but
- 01:14:42unfortunately this one didn't go to
- 01:14:43someone now that's okay it's going to
- 01:14:45happen I'm going to give up some hits
- 01:14:46I'm going to give up some runs I need an
- 01:14:49out here to make this run unearned so
- 01:14:51the calculus is going on in my head
- 01:14:52right now is that the first guy is an
- 01:14:54error so that won't count as an earned
- 01:14:55run and I should technically have two
- 01:14:57outs in the inning right now so I just
- 01:14:58need to get one more out to make all
- 01:15:00these runs unearned and that protects
- 01:15:01the ra lead anything I have in the tank
- 01:15:03I need right now okay aggressive
- 01:15:06curveball the hand out front throw it
- 01:15:10heart ah [ __ ]
- 01:15:13me ah this is not what I needed that air
- 01:15:15really killed me so I finally executed a
- 01:15:17curveball in the zone which is what I've
- 01:15:19been trying to do all game and of course
- 01:15:21it goes for a little blue pit now this
- 01:15:22is leonis Martin and he should not have
- 01:15:24been swinging a curveball first pitch I
- 01:15:26don't know what he's doing that's not
- 01:15:27what friends do to each other okay four
- 01:15:29runs now in this game one of them is
- 01:15:30earned cuz it was the first pitch Homer
- 01:15:32and I'm thinking to myself all right
- 01:15:34well the guy that was on that scored the
- 01:15:35second run this inning is unearned
- 01:15:37because that was an error which it
- 01:15:38wasn't but that's what I was thinking in
- 01:15:40the game then I should have two outs so
- 01:15:42the next two that have scored have been
- 01:15:43earned so I'm right now thinking I've
- 01:15:45given up three earned runs which is
- 01:15:47getting kind of close to that five
- 01:15:49earned run Milestone that I have to stay
- 01:15:51under so we need to get an out here to
- 01:15:53keep this at three earned runs
- 01:15:57so I chose to start off first pitch
- 01:15:58slider because I'd gotten this guy on
- 01:16:00sliders out of the Zone before so I was
- 01:16:02hoping he'd be aggressive and swing and
- 01:16:03get me ahead in the count but he did
- 01:16:07not right now I finally execute like a
- 01:16:10perfect fast ball and this one was 93
- 01:16:12mph cuz at this point I'm like all right
- 01:16:14if I have anything left in the tank I
- 01:16:16got to dump it right here because a hit
- 01:16:17or a homer here and I've now lost the ra
- 01:16:20lead I'm just trying to throw as hard as
- 01:16:21I can and it's only 93 normally this
- 01:16:23would be like 97 98 but yeah my V's down
- 01:16:26like 5 six miles hour slider
- 01:16:29again yep one two so when a one two
- 01:16:32count I tried to throw slider for Chase
- 01:16:34and get the strikeout the strikeout
- 01:16:35would have been huge for me because in
- 01:16:36my head it would have gotten me what
- 01:16:38should have been three outs in the
- 01:16:39inning and then that would have made all
- 01:16:40the rest of the runs
- 01:16:42unearned two Ball please give me
- 01:16:47two I'm [ __ ] believable man H yeah it
- 01:16:51is all starting to unravel I was hoping
- 01:16:53that would be a double play ball and get
- 01:16:55me out of the inning right there um it
- 01:16:57wasn't and a run
- 01:17:00scored and yeah this is just depressing
- 01:17:04you know that ball should be cut but the
- 01:17:06only the only reason that I came over is
- 01:17:09because the amount of pictures and this
- 01:17:11okay that's the only thing okay regroup
- 01:17:13yourself and get out of the okay you
- 01:17:15okay let's yeah okay so now we're in
- 01:17:18real [ __ ] danger of the ER being an
- 01:17:21issue as we came for a mountain visit
- 01:17:22well time Mountain visit cuz I was
- 01:17:23definitely super annoyed so now here's
- 01:17:25the situation it's 10 to 5 in my head
- 01:17:27I've given up four earned runs and I had
- 01:17:29five to spare but on the board it's
- 01:17:31showing that I'm no longer lead an eray
- 01:17:33because unbeknownst to me they' not
- 01:17:34called the first play of this inning an
- 01:17:35error so now I'm thinking okay maybe I
- 01:17:38can get the score to change some of
- 01:17:39these around cuz changing either one of
- 01:17:41those plays to an error gets me out of
- 01:17:43this inning and maintains my ra lead but
- 01:17:45in the game I still got to find a way to
- 01:17:46get out of this inning because I still
- 01:17:48need to make it five innings to record
- 01:17:50the win so this is just like stuck
- 01:17:52between a rock and a hard place here so
- 01:17:55here I'm just trying to throw the ball
- 01:17:56as hard as I can because I'm trying to
- 01:17:58empty anything that I have in the tank I
- 01:17:59get the first pitch fast ball up and in
- 01:18:01for a foul ball I'm ahead 01 I tried to
- 01:18:03go right back there and maybe get a
- 01:18:05popup but for the next two pitches I
- 01:18:06missed poorly and I fell right back
- 01:18:08behind in the count so now I'm in a
- 01:18:10pickle two one I don't really have
- 01:18:11confidence in my off speed stuff I got
- 01:18:13to throw a fast ball for a strike to a
- 01:18:15fast ball hitter after he's seen three
- 01:18:17fast balls this is not
- 01:18:21good and I threw the fast ball in about
- 01:18:23the worst possible location you could
- 01:18:25more over the plate more hitable after
- 01:18:27being up and in three pitches in a row
- 01:18:29this fast ball is going to appear slower
- 01:18:31to The Hitter it's going to be more
- 01:18:32hitable plus it's down in the zone where
- 01:18:34you can get his Bat to it and of course
- 01:18:35I don't get lucky and it doesn't go to
- 01:18:37someone and yeah I'm now no longer
- 01:18:40leading the ra so at this point on the
- 01:18:42mountain I'm feeling quite depressed
- 01:18:44because I'm pretty sure I've lost the
- 01:18:45Triple Crown now I know I'm not going to
- 01:18:47be getting my win cuz at this point
- 01:18:49there's no way I'm going to make it
- 01:18:50through five innings I'm just trying to
- 01:18:51get out of this one and hope that the
- 01:18:52ball goes to someone
- 01:18:58so I chose to throw a first pitch slider
- 01:19:00to the next hitter and honestly for a
- 01:19:02first pitch slider that's not a bad
- 01:19:03pitch it's away it is a little bit
- 01:19:04elevated I get the ground ball but of
- 01:19:06course not my night and it doesn't go to
- 01:19:08someone and that spelled the end for my
- 01:19:12outing all
- 01:19:15right see my right
- 01:19:18ankles your
- 01:19:19[Music]
- 01:19:22ankle so here's how the night ended out
- 01:19:24we ended up winning the game which is
- 01:19:26good I was charged with two in third
- 01:19:28Innings seven earned runs if one of
- 01:19:30those plays at third was changed to an
- 01:19:32error I still would lead in erra and I
- 01:19:35would be tied for the league lead in
- 01:19:36wins so I would still be in line to win
- 01:19:38the Triple Crown Cesar Valdez had one
- 01:19:40more start but it happened to be against
- 01:19:42us and when he made that start we ended
- 01:19:44up winning that game seven to nothing so
- 01:19:46had I not pitched in this game I still
- 01:19:48would have won the Triple Crown I'm
- 01:19:50still proud of myself for going out
- 01:19:51there and trying but kind of a cruel
- 01:19:52twist of fate to know that I would have
- 01:19:54won it had I not pitched if you want to
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