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Man, it was, uh, it was, uh, old school, you
know, pitchers' duel and, um, you can see both

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pitchers feeling like they didn't have any
margin. And after that first inning, and we're

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fortunate to, uh, you know, squeak one out and
uh the leadoff homer, uh, from Lindo, but after

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that, I mean, there was just nothing happening
, uh, just two great pitchers and we haven't

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seen McLClain. Uh, up close, I don't recall,
but, uh, man, he's special. And, um, so our guy,

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uh, matched him and we had a good one tonight
too. So for us to, you know, get him out of the

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game and maybe having a good or bad and
playing a little, uh, small ball and, Getting

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getting a big hit. So yeah, a good win. It's,
it's hard to imagine any more growth. I, I

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think right now he's kind of, this is who he
is here as, uh, you know, one of the elite

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pitchers in baseball, um, you know, even after
that 7th inning, the, the big, uh, the big

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strikeout against, I don't know if it was
Vientos or whatever, um, just the no emotion,

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getting ready to go back out for the 8th
inning. Um, seeing a guy that was really

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throwing the baseball really well and there's
just kind of the ability to make pitches when

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he needs to, so. For me, um, last, last year,
uh, there was some lot of growth and then he

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just kind of carried it over. He's going
through it right now, but for him to kind of

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stick his nose in there against Raley and find
a way to, I don't know if he was down two

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strikes or not, but just to flare ball to, to
get a game-winning hit, he helped us win a

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baseball game. And so, you know, you, you face
McClain who was throwing wiffle balls up there

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and then you got a tough lefty, you know, the
game on the line, they walk Shohay to get to

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you and Still hang in there and, and you know,
get a knock was was big for us. It should be

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big for his confidence, you know, we have
other guys that we feel like that can close out

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a game and Edwin, you know, talking to the, uh
, training staff and the pitching staff, they

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want to see him throw a bullpen, um, just to
kind of. You know you're down for 4 days or

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whatever it is, and they wanted to see a pen
before he got into a game, so we did that

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before and so that's why we weren't we didn't
go to him in the 9th tonight, but tomorrow if

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he comes in after this pen, then he'll be
he'll be ready to go. But I do think that

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missing out on the postseason for the rightful
reasons and. You know, didn't participate in

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the WBC, which is something I think he was
excited about looking forward to, um, you know,

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has that kind of stoked that fire to kind of
even more so than he normally is, but, uh, he's,

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he's throwing the baseball well and no one
prepares as well as he does. This guy is

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prepared, yeah.