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On the MLB The Show podcast with Daniel:
1 Pennant race status as of Sunday.
2 Khris Davis pads his MLB home run lead, closing in on 50.
3 David Wright played his farewell game with the Mets.
4 Baltimore’s Chris Davis sets dubious hitting record; Orioles lose No. 115.
Daniel Dullum does the MLB The Show podcast each Sunday at http://www.sportsradioservice.com
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On the Giants podcast with Marko:
#1 What went horribly wrong for ex-Giants general manager Bobby Evans?
#2 There were plenty of injuries throughout the season: Buster Posey, Brandon Belt, Jeff Samardjiza, Johnny Cueto, Joe Panik and Evan Longoria; just to name a few did that lend to the lack of play for the Giants, and thus, Evans getting the blame for the mounting loses.
#3 The Giants fell short of losing 100 games last season and have lost 13 of 16 as of Tuesday night and are 12 games under .500 did. That also factored into Evans’ departure.
#4 Giants manager Bruce Bochy said he was hoping to stay on with the Giants for next season. The front office says they’re going to look for outside help for replacing Evans. Where does Bochy’s future lie with this change?
#5 Finally, how much blame does Giants CEO and team president Larry Baer share in the failure of last year’s team as well as this year’s team?
Marko Uklovic did the Giants podcasts for the 2018 season and will be doing the San Jose Barracuda podcasts starting next week on Wednesday at http://www.sportsradioservice.com
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On the Giants podcast with Morris and Michael:
The San Francisco Giants’ long season is about to be put to rest. The Giants are 13 games under .500 after notching another loss on Monday night at AT&T Park in a resounding 5-0 shutout by San Diego pitcher Bryan Mitchell (6.16 ERA). The Giants straddled the .500 line as if the wheels have kind of fallen off.
The Giants had played a series in San Diego and St. Louis before returning back to San Francisco to host the Padres. The Giants mustered only seven hits in the ball game, but couldn’t get a runner to cross the plate. They’ve seen Mitchell before and his fast ball was good, but the Giants got shutout by a pitcher with a 6.16 ERA.
Our thanks to Morris and Michael for their work on the Giants podcasts. Join them both for Cal Bears podcasts each week at http://www.sportsradioservice.com
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On the MLB The Show podcast with Daniel:
1 Pennant race status as of Sunday. The A’s magic number is 1
2 Mariners extend longest postseason drought in major North American sports to 17 years.
3 Indians’ first time in MLB to have four pitchers with 200 strikeouts in a single season.
4 Giants celebrate National Singles Day by hitting 10 singles.
Daniel does the MLB podcast each Sunday at http://www.sportsradioservice.com
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On the MLB The Show podcast with Matt:
#1 The New York Yankees are sitting on the top of the AL Wild Card standings by 1 1/2 games. They host the struggling Baltimore Orioles and can capitalize if they can win at least two out three.
#2 The A’s open a three-game set Friday versus the Minnesota Twins at the Oakland Coliseum. The A’s are in second in the AL Wild Card race and will have to win almost all their remaining games to catch the Yankees. Even at 1 1/2, the Yankees keep pulling away each time the A’s start to get close.
#3 The Houston Astros are closing in to clinch the American League West title. The Astros have a 3 1/2 game lead. The Astros are projected to win 102 at the pace they’re going.
#4 Teams that have already clinched? The Cleveland Indians and Boston Red Sox. Of these two teams, Matt tells us who will go the deepest in the playoffs.
#5 Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Yasiel Puig’s home in Encino, Calif. was burglarized for the fourth time. This time the thieves made off with $170,000 in jewelry. Puig was on the field when the theft went down.
Matt Harrington does the MLB The Show podcast each Saturday at http://www.sportsradioservice.com
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On the A’s podcast with Joey:
#1 There’s no mercy rule and the Los Angeles Angels badly needed it during this series with the Oakland A’s. On Wednesday, the A’s treated the Angels like it was some kind of sandlot game with a 10-0 win. The next day, Thursday, the A’s wore out the Angels 21-3.
#2 Angels manager Mike Scioscia, who is rumored to be close to announcing his retirement, had to wish that would come sooner after the A’s wasted no time scoring runs, five in the third, seven in the fourth inning, six in the sixth, and three more in the seventh.
#3 The Angels’ only bright spot was a home run in the sixth by Mike Trout off A’s pitcher Edwin Jackson, but that was a blip on the Angels’ scoring radar.
#4 The A’s lost four of the last five games before the series with the Angels. The A’s showed us in the last two games that they can break out the bats giving the A’s that confidence again.
#5 The A’s host the Twins for three. The Twins are second in the AL Central, but not in the Wild Card hunt.
Joey does the A’s podcasts each Friday at http://www.sportsradioservice.com
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On the Oakland A’s podcast with Jerry:
#1 Stranger things have happened in baseball, but a fan interfered with the bags juiced in the sixth inning on Tuesday night. The A’s right fielder Stephen Piscotty chased the Angels’ Andrelton Simmons fly ball in the corner at the high wall near the warning track a fan reached over with her glove and deflected the ball the ruling was no fan interference, which at that point going forward, the A’s could not score a run with the Angels leading 7-4.
#2 Talk about that top half of the sixth where the Angels rallied from being down 4-1 adding six runs to catch the A’s and score three runs and two hits off reliever Lou Trivino for a blown save for Trivino.
#3 Despite the Angels not being in the postseason and needing possible surgery for the throwing arm, the Angels’ Shohei Ohtani in DH hit one for two with a run scored and a .291 average and will be on the DH for the rest of the season.
#4 The A’s, who have been depending on the bullpenning, had some great outings from the staff before the six Angel runs in the sixth from Liam Hendriks, Daniel Mengden, Sean Kelly, and Ryan Butcher.
#5 The A’s have lost four of their last five games setting them back behind the AL Wild Card first place team the New York Yankees. The A’s coming into Wednesday night’s game is at a three-game losing steak.
Jerry Feitelberg does the A’s podcasts each Thursday at http://www.sportsrasdioservice.com
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On the Giants podcast with Michael and Morris:
The Giants, at the rate that they’re playing, would settle for 81-81 right now and that’s who they are right now, but what people forget is they lost 98 games last year. Even if they wind up losing 84 this year, that’s a 14-game improvement, and if you project that forward, if they can do that again next year, they can get 92 wins.
It’s interesting the Giants were looking for a lot of improvement that was the whole impetus of keeping the whole ball club together and of course they come up 14, 15 games better, which is what most teams will do, but it’s not going to get them in the playoffs.
The Giants kept the folder of contracts together. The team was never together. They had their projected starting eight-plus their Opening Day starter for one game all year this year. It just never pulled together, as health was an issue.
The Giants announced that the first baseman Brandon Belt is done for the season and is headed back to San Francisco from San Diego and that’s from the knee that’s going to require surgery in the offseason. The Giants hope to play spoiler in St. Louis starting with a Friday night game to open a three-game series with the Cardinals at Busch Stadium.
Michael and Morris perform their broadcast duties on the Giants podcasts last one of the season coming next week at http://www.sportsradioservice.com
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On the San Francisco Giants podcast with Marko:
#1 How much playing time do you expect Giants manager Bruce Bochy to give his call ups and reserves seeing the Giants’ postseason hopes fading?
#2 Bochy in the series has played it competitive winning on Monday night in San Diego 4-2 and using a lot of his regulars and second string bench and bullpen core.
#3 On Tuesday night at Petco the Giants just got by the Padres 5-4 to take a 2-0 lead in the series down 4-3 the Giants made hay in the Petco Park evening coming back to score two runs off Padres reliever Craig Stammen in the eighth.
#4 The Giants conclude this three-game series with the Padres on Wednesday night. The Giants will be looking to get a sweep and after suffering an 11-game losing steak that ended Friday. The Giants now have won four of their last five games.
#5 The Giants next opponent will be at Busch Stadium in St. Louis to open a three-game series with the Cardinals. The Giants will try and play spoilers in this one as the Cardinals are just 2 1/2 games behind Milwaukee in the NL Wild Card race.
Marko does the Giants podcasts each week at http://www.sportsradioservice.com
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On the Oakland A’s podcast with Charlie O:
1) The A’s continue to try the bullpenning concept to supplement their lack of starting pitching? Do you think they should stay with it or go another direction?
2) On the injury front: the news isn’t good Andrew Triggs – what’s happening with him?
3) Pitcher Trevor Cahill is rehabbing. What’s his status?
4) The A’s made a big announcement about their Triple-A team this week. Tell us about it and give us your opinion on the move.
Charlie O does the A’s podcasts each Tuesday at http://www.sportsradioservice.com
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