Mark Grant

The best hustle by a catcher.

Padres Mark Grant with a wild pitch.

Benito Santiago hustled over, grabbed it.

Perfect throw to get Tim Tuffel.

You know what I'm saying? I actually think that this is a really interesting time for the Padres because They added death pieces.

They hit on guys like Walker Buehler and Ty France years before with Donovan Solano, Jerickson Profar and getting some death pieces for this team.

So I think that that is an approach that maybe you might want to remember heading into free agency.

If you're AJ Preller and company that, yes, you need to spend, but it's not like you're not spending anything right now.

I think it's underrated that a lot of the players that Preller has traded haven't amounted to necessarily being these awesome studs, with the exception, of course, of the Juan Soto trade.

But that was also for Juan Soto, so it made sense.

Although, man, do we miss CJ Abrams and James Wood? A lot of the guys that he's given up from, whether it be a a Wilcox to a Robert Hassel to a Luis Patino, a Xavier Edwards.

Like there's, there's definitely prospects he's given up before that have it like come back to fully bite them.

Willie Upshaw tagging, trying to score.

Mercado devastated at the plate The best hustle by a catcher, Padres' Mark Grant with a wild pitch.

Benito Santiago hustled over, grabbed it, perfect throw to get Tim Teufel.

[upbeat music] Best concentration goes to Von Hayes of the Phillies, chasing the foul ball, sliding into the camera well, and still holding on.

I don't know.

Then Cubs and Padres, we had Dave Fleming, Jim DeShales, and Mark Grant on the call for that one.

Oh, no, that's Jim DeShays.

You don't remember Jim

All right, coming up next.

We talked to Mark Grant, Padres broadcaster, also NBC sports broadcaster.

Padres, a feel-good story, great fans.

Can they go on a run? We'll find out next.

Yeah, last night the Padres beat the Cubs 4-1 to finish off that series.

And, of course, now we're into the Padres.

So we had to talk to Padres broadcaster Mark Grant is going to join us off the Padres two-game sweep of the Cubs.

Mark, how you doing? How exciting was last night? Oh,

And I loved, by the way, what they did last night.

They had Mark Grant, the former Giant, now long time with the Padres and Padres broadcaster, and they had Jim Duquette, who's a Cubs broadcaster, and they had great insight in the, uh, Dave calling the game.

That's the way to do it.

I know that peop- you know, you want your Smoltz or whomever you want on the national level, uh, next to Joe Davis, but I, I think that was the way to do it because then they both know the teams intricately.