Kyle Freeland, the pinch runner; Kris Bryant on IL; Colorado loses series vs. Phillies

Hey guys, welcome to the dnvr Rockies podcast live from the Toyota Lounge. I'm your host Susie Hunter. I'm joined by certified baseball guy Kale Sorbo. We're live right now. The game still continues. It is the peak of ethics. That Jeff Hoffman warming up again I think he warmed up a little last night anyway, anyway, my goodness, what a

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we've been watching in Philly this week and let's break it down. To talk about it, let's have a good time all the time, let's check the Toyota chat because I see some chatty friends here. All City compares your on-time podcast to trying to catch a train to DIA, what does that mean? the game isn't over yet, we never know when the game will end, yeah I only had it set on YouTube for 6:15 so technically we were like 10 minutes later than it was showing, sorry that was a rough estimate.

Listen, we don't know when an eighth inning baseball game will be. We cannot predict that it is not possible. Other non-baseball programs. I can not talk about that. We have many things to do. We are reserved. and busy, I'll say shout out the Nuggets podcast, we're very timely, yeah, they're holding it tight, holding it tight, okay guys, uh, the Philadelphia Rockies. The Rockies aren't necessarily holding it together in this

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, they're trying to avoid the sweep right now. It doesn't look very good although we are now in the eighth inning the bases are loaded there is only one out is that Michael Anthony is the Rockies' home run leader at the plate at this time we are not broadcasting a live recap of In This Game Never we would do such a thing, but my God, my God, let's give it to the boys.

Chris Bryant is back on the injured list, the Rockies made it official today retroactive to Sunday, so in theory he could be back as soon as the end of this coming home thing and he could be back in the City from Mexico, maybe not, we'll see how it goes. I feel like this is also one of those things where, whether it was really bad or not that bad, they needed to make a move and you can't put a guy with a stomach virus on his skin, but you can put Chris Bryant in the iel, giving him a little more rest anyway, hoping he feels better soon, hoping he feels better soon, what else, um, the bigger story that comes out of this? series Kyle freand the

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oh my gosh we just watched it so I've seen a lot of content about Kyle frand

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running what would you have done if you were a manager in this situation where you don't have a bench?

There is literally no bank. I know. The Rockies do a lot of things that make us scratch our heads but if you were paying attention you would know there was no bench. I don't know kale, what do you think of this whole situation? I mean, I don't know, there's, there's, there's, like that. a lot of baseball games like, thank God he didn't really get hurt in the end, you know, but there's so many baseball games it was fun, let's have fun, you know, there's so many baseball games and everyone got hurt. I know what I will honestly say.

My first reaction when I saw Kyle Freeland in pinch running. He was screaming in a big way. He was so excited that he was absolutely thrilled and then he bumped into a person who is genuinely one of his c

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t friends. Jeff Hoffman crashed. They're both trying to get to the plate for the same reason and, I mean, we thought Kyle was super injured because he stayed on the ground looking like he was super injured. Rocky scored another run, by the way, that's 37 Rockies 73. Rockies, if you really know how to talk, that's what we're seeing now. Hey Steve G, on the Toyota chat, we've got this, come on, yeah, we've got some time, we've got some time to move on. the Kyle Freeland stuff, but I want to know what you guys think in the Toyota chat, what you would have done in that situation if you were the manager.

I saw it, oh my gosh, well, I always look at the tweets, for better or worse, that someone had. he tweeted like oh okay so people were sick what was everyone in Albuquerque and wheelchairs? I say that's not how it works, you can't just put a guy with a gastrointestinal virus on the iil, that's crazy, that's crazy huh, but yeah Chris. Bryant is the guy on the back and I think this is the first time we've seen him on the DL in a Rocky uniform since he got here a couple years ago in his first season in 2022.

I think it was the 29 of April. he landed at the iil and it was never the same since i feel like the situation is a little different just because the bank was already so devastated by a stomach virus that is going through the team right now, i think they looked at the transmission. even more so and schaer is sick right now so we got some sick guys hey hey but that means sha buar will be back with the rockies and he's been pretty solid for the isotopes. I think he got off to a bit of a slow start. but last night he hit his first home run for Albuquerque in El Paso, so he had a busy day on the road.

Last night he hit his first home run of the season in the first inning and that was his first extra base hit since much earlier in the season. So right now, before he got promoted in Albuquerque, he was slashing 314,431,611. He's had five doubles, four triples and that home run that adds 13 RBIs or rsbi if you're a smart fan, but yeah, 13 RBIs in 14 games , that's good. that's going to get you the promotion when some of your coworkers are down and sore about the way we're still in this eighth inning uh Jeff Hoffman came in so we made that pitching change.

Rocky scored another one in 74. I would love to see a crazy comeback, I don't want to see a sweep, sweeps aren't fun, let's have some fun. By the way, I ran the numbers on Monday based on winning percentage alone. I think the Rockies right now are on pace to lose at least 124 games. is that a is a number that you're worried about I don't love that number I don't love that I don't love that number um either, especially since I'm the guy that came out and predicted 71 wins I don't love that um so yeah I don't feel very good for that, I hope it's better, it's just that they're not the worst in baseball right now, although they're not the worst, I'll give you that, oh we have some chatty Chatters in the Toyota chat.

Trenton, it's a pleasure to see you. I feel like these days we can't have a show without Trenton in the Toyota chat, but Trenton always says some crazy things when the Rocks play in Philly. I tell you that they are never normal series as I always say every Rockies. The game has the potential to be the strangest game you have ever seen. But Philadelphia is also very strange when the two come together. Oh, you know you're going to see things you don't normally see in games. Oh, Luigi. Homer Isotopes good reference to The Simpsons. No. I'm going to have to be very honest with you.

I don't understand. I know there's a connection between Isotopes and The Simpsons, but I've never seen that episode or those. episodes so I don't really know why there's a connection if you're a Simpsons historian Al this is a show that's been on since before I was born like I can't keep up how am I supposed to keep up rhythm? I know, okay, but we have two outs right now and two men in scoring position. Jacob Stalling is at the plate. He's pretty solid. He's fine. I have no qualms with him. Unabashedly. Unabashedly. Okay, let's work to figure this out. series as a whole also let me know what you are thinking, but also what your conclusions are from this series.

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It's very because it's so hot in here that this computer is like ah, I have to take a break, yeah, I don't know, I'm sorry, I don't know what just happened, kale, oh, no, no, don't be sorry, I feel like that. the Rockies are doing it right now in Philadelphia they made the computer do that the computer is like what am I looking at? because when before this show started, we filmed a promo, it was a 71 ball game, the Phillies were up by six runs, the Rockies made it an onrun game it's 76 Philly right now and that's something exciting, it's something exciting because listen, a few minutes ago we thought everything was falling apart to quote Thomas, could you hear him say that? when we were on the road yes I did yes you did yes you did are you okay yes I'm sorry I'm trying to figure out what happened to the computer are you okay I'm so sorry I have no idea what just happened? um you know what I was so busy talking about, I was so busy reading an ad that while we were doing all that, this is what happened, these aren't live updates, they're just after the fact updates, so this is what happened in this eighth inning. let me do some math, I'm so sorry, these five runs in the eighth inning brenon Doyle leads off the single Ryan McMahon single elas Diaz single to load the bases Montero catch fly Breton Doyle scores making it 72 shamb buard walks the bases are loaded again Michael Toia walks in the race I'm so proud of him he got to 73 good, then they made a pitching change Jeff Hoffman comes in Charlie Blackman comes in as a pinch hitter to replace Alan Tryo, ground out but Diaz scores making it 74 Stallings up , he walks again to load the bases and then Tovar singles now, suddenly, it's 76 CU Bard and Toia scored and then the inning ended with Brenon Doyle flying to left, but ooh, that means the Rockies hit against the Phillies.

Diaz is going to stay in the game Brendon Rogers is going to stay in the game, by the way, he almost missed this entire Philly series because he was one of the guys that's been sick, he wasn't in the starting lineup yesterday, he wasn't in the starting lineup. Yesterday if he wasn't in the starting lineup today anyway we have Justin Lawrence on the mound the Panama line let's hope he stays in a one run game everyone knock on wood kale for one me clearly when we go live good things happen great things happen things Really good things happen.

By the way, I'm going to check the Toyota chat just to see, oh, this is blowing up, yeah, the bases were full. Suddenly it's a one run game, kale, are we back, are we back? I'm back, I checked, we're definitely back, yeah hey Justin Burgers, hello, good to see you on the Toyota chat, uh, Luigi says Chris Bryan is injured again. He called him two weeks ago, he doesn't want to be here, he doesn't want to. get injured nobody wants to get injured someone had to leave because a lot of guys have been sick too many guys but also Chris Bryant seems like he's pretty injured I don't know, I don't knowokay, a few other things to note about this series, so the Rockies, of course, this is their first sweep.

The first time they were swept this season the Rockies also hadn't won a series yet and last year we were in the same boat where the Rockies didn't win their first series until the 8th series and that was April 24-26 in Cleveland of all spots and that was the longest stretch to start a season without a series win in franchise history. Will the Rockies be in the same boat again because we're getting pretty close? Alright, we mentioned earlier that the Rockies are at Pace to lose about 124 games right now, the white socks are at Pace to lose about 142, so the Marlins are also at Pace to lose about 133, so that right now the Rockies are not in Pace. bottom of the barrel, hey, they're not even at the bottom of the National League, one of the other teams that shared the bottom of the barrel with the Rockies last year, the Royals, one of two teams worse than the Rockies last year .

I hate to say it, they're starting this season off with a tear. I would have loved to see that from these guys but you get what you get don't be mad at the Royals these stats aren't from today but they are probably still pretty accurate they have a plus 39 run differential which is the best in baseball. They have one of the best records in baseball and yes, the Royals are having a great time after having over 100 losses last year. The A's are also doing better than Colorado, so we're seeing that some of the other teams that were there with us last year did better than us this year, which I don't see.

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I'm talking lemon pepper jalapeno ranch parmesan pepper Hatch Chili Smokehouse Barbecue dill pickle cinnamon toast and I'm pretty sure Tiff really likes to live off these seeds uh kale I'm kinda worried that she eats a lot of sunflower seeds um no we're not worried that she's just loving her life you can love your life get a sample pack try all Aid flavors visit shinuk seed.com use code Rockies to get 20% off your order the best seeds It's always good, we have some good things happening in the miners, um, in double A. Zack Bean leads the team in hits.

He has 11 hits right now. He also went two-for-four with a triple Tuesday night. He has a 379 average. In eight games, he went 11-for-29 in that stretch. Zack Mean also leads the garden goats in home runs, oh in runs, not home runs, he's leading our Rockies team in runs, you know who leads in home runs. Benny Montgomery, the daa. Eastern League player of the week, he was 8 for 24 with three doubles and two home runs in six games for Hartford, he is hitting 333, he also has 10 RBIs, leading the Garden Goats with 10 RBIs, remember Carson Palmquist, who started the first spring training game since being down in double A, already has two wins for the Yard Goats, which is pretty exciting, we'll see how he does in Triaa, of course, we know Shan Bard has gone well.

Aaron Shunk has also done quite well, he extended his hitting streak. to five games with an RBI single on Tuesday night he's cutting 300 he's cutting 300 391 400 with two two doubles five runs batted in and two walks hey Jimmy Heron breaking it up a little he also has one hit in the seven games he's played this season Jimmy Harod also a Philly guy, by the way, had a season-high 3 RBI on Sunday night. Pretty funny stuff, Kale, did you find anything in your research? It doesn't look like Shor ever played baseball. That's so crazy. It seems like he's been a football guy.

His whole life is interesting, yes, I want him to change that, yes, why not? Why not? I wonder how I could play. I wonder what position he would play. It would probably be a short stop, you know? very precise athletic he's yeah it's probably a short stop yeah okay okay shador for the shortstop let's go guys hey let's check the Toyota chat real quick uh yeah. Will add the call means that saves a second, yes, I'm pretty. It's sad to read the comments now because it's not a comeback now, it was just too short and yes, it swept well.

Luigi says we should, we should, we should get Chris Bryant out of town. H, man, I think he's hurting. enough, I don't know, I wasn't trying to be Chris Bryant's defender, but here I am, it's Trenton on chat, sad we couldn't make it, but I'm glad we kept it close, it was close, closing doesn't win. but closing is not demoralizing, okay, like opening day in Arizona, which was borderline demoralizing. I can live with a one-run, come-from-behind game. I could, I can live with that. I want better, of course, but I'll do it. I'll be able to sleep tonight, okay, okay, any of your final thoughts, throw them in the Toyota chat because we need to talk about this weekend, the Rockies are coming back to town on Friday, we're having a pregame show. to 6 o'clock, so we'll have the latest shots of all the guys, we'll talk to them before we come here, we'll do a whole show about it, and then there'll be a Rockies game. about the Mariners are in town too, they're not in town often so far yes, on Friday we get to Hudson starting on Saturday, we have Kyle Freeland back in action on Sunday Cal quantro starts on Friday, it's a game of 640 on Saturday, it's Sunday 610 is 110 and we will see that we will not see any of these starters at this time that we will see this weekend in the next Series have the victory for Hudson has a 4.15 ra Kyle Freeland has a 13.2 Oneal Quantal 5.57 Okay, so we've seen at least a handful of quality outings from this group, our starting group, but gosh, we've got to get some wins in the books.

We have to, yeah, okay, yeah, the bottom line in Philadelphia. 67 Rockies are swept. they're 4 and 15 before they come home the Phillies had a record of 8 and 8 when we got there damn it's so annoying okay kale any final thoughts huh have you seen a couple games of the Rockies in this SE this season, these series, uh no. real thoughts I'm getting criticized on Twitter right now for saying the streets say stones the street oh no because the streets didn't say stones I mean the streets just didn't say it loud enough yeah yeah anyway yeah, that's all I have, yeah, that's what made me a little sad, I was a little happy with a comeback, but it's okay, we're going to be okay, we're going to be okay, because guess what we have, a lot more baseball games this was just uh it was these 19 yeah 19 out of 62 guys that we have we got a bunch more together ahead of us let's do it together before the game here Friday on YouTube kale before we go where can we follow you? on social media um on Twitter Kaleo kale with Els kale with two L's JJ kale like um Bud Black likes to call you right he has a nickname Trenton in the chat please watch The Simpsons Isotopes episodes on the day off tomorrow Me No, I don't even know how to find them, I don't, I couldn't even tell you where to watch The Simpsons or how to find some episode of Isotopes, well, someone gave us the episode, oh, oh, it's season 3, episode 17, oh, oh, okay, okay, season. three yeah that's old school I wasn't even here ma'am I didn't even exist that's crazy okay yeah the rocks are home you can follow me on Susie Hunter on all platforms stay tuned day with the latest Rockies news on dmvr Rockies and kale, you know what I'd love to say about closing a show, what do you say?

I say that's baseball, that's the program. We'll chat here on the dmvr sports YouTube channel at 6 o'clock mountain time. The Friday before the game we talk to you and after you have a great week, we all snack like May.