Challenges Thrown to the Waste Side

0:00a few other things that would trouble some of the challenges. Like the Mets have it challenged a lot this season. In fact, only one batter. How about that? One batter through six games has challenged. And it was the aforementioned Marcus Simeon. We saw a few more from Francisco Alvarez in this game. And I thought that his choice to challenge in the third inning in the at bat with JJ Weatherhold was just odd. It was odd. Like you have to be very careful. And the fact that Francisco Alvarez lost two challenges in this game as early as he did. That can't happen. Because there were plenty of situations later on in this game where Boba Schett could have used the challenge. Where the Mets could have used one. So this is the first time that we walked into that. Like where wow, they lost these challenges early. And I think Francisco Alvarez has to be better. He has to be better. Because I think he picked some weird opportunities. Like the sixth inning.

1:00Let's go to the sixth inning. This is Freddie Peralta's final inning. And Vaughn Herrera is up. And he challenged the two one pitch. This was his last one. And I get it's a big moment. Like I understand that. But it is the sixth inning. And if you don't get it right, and he didn't. And it became three and one. And then Peralta walked them on the next pitch. You're done. You don't have any. And then you have, what was the other one that was? Well, could I just later in that eighth inning, when Brasuban came in, there was a one two pitch, too. I forget who it was, who then tied the game up the next day. Nolan Gorman, Nolan Gorman. I thought it hit the inside corner, the low inside corner. That's the one I would have challenged. They didn't have it anymore. I mean, let me see if it would have. Because I am curious if it would have made a difference by looking at. So it was the one two pitch to Nolan Gorman right before he tied the game. Yeah. It was the sixth inning. I'm going to tell you right now. Are you ready? He excited.

2:00Are you pumped up? Is it a CB Buckner type of call? It was. It would have been a ball. Yeah, it was it was a little bit inside. It would have been a ball. So the point is, though, not that you needed to be right. It's that you can't lose it. And Francisco Alvarez lost the challenge his way too quick. He just did. And the other thing is, this is not a nitpick. SNY, you got to be better, bro. I mean, I love Steve Gelbs. I think he's very entertaining. The hot dog stuff. Ha, ha, let's be frank, whatever. When there's a challenge, especially early on, because I think we're all kind of into it. We're intrigued by it. When there's a challenge, and I see that the catcher just tapped his head, or the batter just tapped his head, you can't bring the camera right back to Steve Gelbs and the dugout thoughts about hot dogs. I mean, you can't do that. Adjust. And I think in the early going, because maybe this will be different in July, like the challenges will be so something we're used to that. Okay, so much challenge. Let us know. But I literally saw the tap of the head.

3:00No mention of it. It goes back to Gelbs talking about hot dogs. And I'm sitting there saying, was there a challenge? And then yeah, eventually they come back. But SNY's got to be better with that. I don't want to miss challenges, because Steve Gelbs is doing something funny with the hot dogs. That, that's just me. All right, let's get to Freddie Peralta. Freddie Peralta was very good in this game. I know that when they first acquired him, one of the things we went through is how deep in a game is just Freddie go. And he doesn't really go deep in a game. But what I loved about Freddie in this game. So he gets through the Lindor mistake in the first inning, which was good. He pitches one, two, three, second, one, two, three, third, one, two, three, fourth, gets in a trouble in the fifth, fights out of it. He gets in a trouble in the sixth inning. His command is a little bit off. There's two on and nobody out. He falls behind Alec Burleson and he strikes him out. And his pitch count at that point is 92. And it's his second start. So I'm not even complaining that Carlos Mendoza said,

4:03okay, here's the moment where I take you out. What I loved was how pissed off Peralta was. You know what that shows us in the early going of Freddie's Met career? He can go deep in a game. And he wants to go deep in a game. So the way the brewers handled him and the way that the Met's handled him in this game, that's not about him. That's about the organization. And I think Mendi made the right choice. It is early in the season. It's his second start. I didn't know how much he had left also because remember he had gotten into so much trouble in the last two innings that his pitch count one from 51 to 92. That's 41 pitches over in ining and a third. Think about that for a second. I jotted it down. He was at 51 after four. He was at 76 after five. So he threw 25 pitches to escape that fifth inning. And he went from 76 to 92 with his 16 pitches for the three batters he faced

5:05capped off by the burlis and strikeout. So he was, he was done. I agree with Carlos Mendoza taking him out. I think he was right. But I love that Peralta was pissed about it. I love that. I'm just a sign that he wants to go deep in the games. And then obviously, Waskar Brosnobon who's been so good makes the one mistake. I thought he was going to get out of it when he got Mason win to pop up. He gives up the base hit the Nolan Gorman. So just to get into the weeds a little bit and wind out around the Rico. When Peralta walked Herrera to put two on a nobody out, I wanted to pull Peralta right then and there. I always like to tell you my first guess is what I was thinking in the moment. And I thought he was done. I thought, you know what? Frey got nothing left. His pitch count at that point was 86. He ended up at 92. Just pitch counts at 86 is the second start of the year. And essentially, he's put four of the last seven hitters on base and he's walked two of them. So I was ready to make the move. The problem is, and this is what ended up

6:07killing Waskar Brosnobon. He doesn't do well against lefties. Like Brosnobon is tough on righties. If you look at his splits from last year, the lefties hit him. And so I think that Mendoza made the decision to keep Peralta in the game because the matchup was better. Like he preferred Freddie Peralta against Burleson, the bulking lefty, then going to Brosnobon. And so my first inclination was, get Freddie out, I think he's done, but then kind of going through the matchup, I'm like, all right, I kind of get it. I think the matchup is better. Like we talked about earlier with what matchup do you prefer? It's Iron Tailor versus Stannic, a Carson Benz versus Romero. So I think Mendoe was right on the matchup, but here's the issue you run into. So Brosnobon comes in, he gets mason went out, but then you're dealing with Nolan Gorman. See, it's Burnt Metal lefty. And we live in a world now, unfortunately. And I do say unfortunately, because it would have been managed completely differently, where you got the three-batter minimum. Because otherwise, Brosnobon comes in, gets a batter, here comes Brooks Riley.

7:08It's exactly what I would have done. But look, Brosnobon has been mostly good. He was able to get out of the inning as well after he gave up the hit to Gorman, so he didn't let the game slip away, like mostly good. And you cannot have your team in this area where there's no margin for error. There's no margin for error. So he gives up the base hit, the cardinal score run, I mean, the bad offense wasn't doing anything.