Ian Seymour

You have him up.

The odds of Sal Freelick hitting a tying homer in the sixth inning off Ian Seymour is just about as long as it gets for any major league player, and he does it.

Yeah, true.

But also, I mean, Ian Seymour, it's funny how Cash has had to use Ian Seymour.

Don't you agree, Kratz? He keeps bringing him into face lefties.

He's a reverse splits guy.

They added Clevenger onto the roster, but, like, I just...

I said it before the series started.

today.

I think if you're – If you're Kevin Cash, you've almost got to look at trying to figure out a way of not using Ian Seymour.

And if that means using a starting pitcher in some sort of role, he's going to have to do something.

You can't run Ian Seymour.

I think

it's anybody but him.

And so the Rays cannot afford to make mistakes when it comes to that.

How does Kevin

But other than that, not so good.

You got Ian Seymour.

He'd allowed two home runs in seven games so far this postseason.

Kevin Kelly, he had pitched in five games, but only two and a third innings.

Then Sal Freelick comes up in the sixth.

They take Cam Boozer out of the game.

They put in Ian Seymour.

And Sal Freelick, who has just four home runs all season, hits a massive b-b-b-b-bomb.

Crazy.

And it took all of it to get out of the park A 4-4 game Against Ian Seymour Who's really been struggling of late this postseason Ian Seymour was great against the Yankees And I'd almost, you know If I was being salty Yankee fan Jake I'd be like, you gotta throw that out the window because his last couple outings against the guards weren't sharp, and now in this game, he gives up the homer to Freelick, left on left.

He's a reverse splits guy, but he's been used in a lot of lefty lanes.

Yankees definitely let him face a lot of lefties.

But think about what we're comparing here.

Like, none of these guys throw 99.

Ian Seymour, reverse split lefty, he's been getting knocked around.

Like, I guess as I'm starting to get towards...

Anyway, Miller Park...

Their loudest fan noises were saved for the sixth inning when Sal Freelick led off against fellow lefty Ian Seymour, the same Freelick who hit one solitary swat off left-handed pitchers in 98 plate appearances in the regular season.

This guy had 98 plate appearances against lefties, and he only hit one in a hard-fought at-bat that stretched the count full.

Ian Seymour's ninth offering was a four-seamer that caught too much of the middle and Freelick pounced with a titanic shot to center field.

It was a game changer and a stadium shaker, nodding the score at four as the Brewers fans jumped and roared and slapped their hands with the strangers.

It was a fantastic to watch those fans.

But Rasmussen's command betrayed him in the briefest and least effective start of an otherwise stellar postseason.

The Rays' second best hope heading into game two hinged on the fact that while most of their best relievers had yet to pitch, They had taken first look at Milwaukee's top arms.

By the way, could you imagine the Yankees putting the ABs on Rasmussen that the Brewers did there? He admittedly did not look as sharp in game two of the World Series, and he was going on extra rest, which makes you wonder, in the same way that the Yankees were entertaining moving Schlittler back out of game one of the wildcard series, why would they do that if he was feeling 100%? Maybe he wasn't feeling 100%, which could explain it a little bit, but...

Rasmussen, Ian Seymour getting manhandled.

Seymour came in and got a blown save after two bad outings at the end of the Guardian Series.

And remember, Seymour was the guy that Kevin Cash threw at the Yankees in game two and basically said, you're not subbing out your lefties.

He's a stud, an absolute stud, Woodruff said, who's just excelling at the right time.

And center fielder Sal Frelick, who had not hit a home run off a left-handed pitcher since opening day, hits a 403-foot homer over the center field fence off lefty Ian Seymour to tie the game in the sixth inning, with 43,245 fans screaming so loudly that you could hear it in Green Bay.

I had this weird feeling he was going to do it right there, Woodruff said.

That dude right there personifies our team and the way we play baseball.

At that point, Cash had choices to make.

burn right-hander Griffin Jacks, their likely Game 4 starter, to take them into the later innings and square the series? Go to higher-leveraged right-hand Tyler Wells early.

Instead, he opted for lefty Ian Seymour, who walked two and failed to get an out in his last inning, Game 6 of the AL Championship Series against Cleveland.

This time, the damage was instantaneous.

So it makes pitchers really work, and the Rays pitching staff, unfortunately, didn't do a great job with them.

Ian Seymour has had his struggles recently in the postseason.

He's a reliever, and he came in, gave up the home run to Sal Freelick, a guy who hasn't hit a home run since July.

So there's kind of some luck to that.

I have to be honest, I have not watched more than two innings of the World Series.

Not even with the locals, Sal Frelick coming into a play, and who did he hit it off the lefty? Ian, what's his name, Ian Seymour? Just

don't

care.