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Speaker 1: Dodgers padres Game three of the NLDS from San Diego's
Speaker 1: Coming Up to Night Walker Rueler Michael Caine. The pitching
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Speaker 1: You here on this Tuesday morning with this series tied
Speaker 1: at a game of piece Walker Bueller, he needs to
Speaker 1: be Walker Bueller of twenty twenty one. Tonight on the
Speaker 1: mound for this Dodgers team. Stephen Nelson will join us.
Speaker 1: Coming up at the bottom of the hour. We'll get
Speaker 1: into this Dodger series with a voice of the Dodgers
Speaker 1: here on the a n FI seventy LA Sports. We
Speaker 1: got into it early on this morning, Manny Machado Dave Roberts.
Speaker 1: The back and forth between the two really escalated on
Speaker 1: Sunday night. In the sixth the eight in which Manny
Speaker 1: Machado threw a ball at the Dodgers dugout through it
Speaker 1: hard enough they got the attention to Dodger players. Jack
Speaker 1: Flaherty was chirping at Manny Machado. You saw Teoscar Hernandez
Speaker 1: and the video a gesture towards Manny Machado. Dave Roberts
Speaker 1: last night called it unsettling, in disrespectful Saxy. You saw
Speaker 1: the video, What did you make of it?
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's no question he threw it. I saw it
Speaker 3: this morning. He threw it with intent, like Dave said,
Speaker 3: and there's no doubt about it. Guys, get that that'll
Speaker 3: rile the team up, no doubt.
Speaker 1: No doubt about it. The man who asked a question
Speaker 1: to Dave Roberts last night at his media session is
Speaker 1: our own David Vassa, our Dodger insider, and he joins
Speaker 1: us now from San Diego.
Speaker 4: Dave, good morning, Hey, good morning guys. I had no
Speaker 4: idea it would blow up in this way, but obviously
Speaker 4: h it. It was part of what took place in
Speaker 4: Game two and certainly part of the emotions that spilled out.
Speaker 1: We were talking about this earlier, David. Is this something
Speaker 1: Dave Roberts could use? Is maybe some fuel or bulletin
Speaker 1: board material to fire up these guys to rally the troops,
Speaker 1: so to speak, to go into Petgo Park as a
Speaker 1: team with that crowd and this team and the momentum,
Speaker 1: the Padres may have to have some fuel in their fire.
Speaker 4: I don't think so, Tim, Like the reason why I
Speaker 4: asked the question was because nobody did after Game two,
Speaker 4: and the reason why is we didn't know the full story,
Speaker 4: but Jack Clerty really filled the sin. So I kind
Speaker 4: of feel like it needed to be asked. The reason why,
Speaker 4: and I told Dave this after the press conference, was,
Speaker 4: you know, when we hear a ball being thrown into
Speaker 4: the dugout, Manny Machado's not going to throw it to
Speaker 4: the far.
Speaker 3: End of the dugout.
Speaker 4: He's gonna throw it to the near end. And that's
Speaker 4: where Dave Roberts sits. So that's why I asked that question.
Speaker 3: Yeah, how you doing, David, good to be with you
Speaker 3: this morning. I didn't see the video, Dave, until this
Speaker 3: morning actually when we were on the air, and I.
Speaker 4: Didn't see the video until after I asked the question.
Speaker 3: No, I saw the video, and I'm like, that was intent.
Speaker 3: I mean, and you can you can roll it over there.
Speaker 3: That's what usually what we did. We'd roll it over there.
Speaker 3: You know, lobb it that ball. He threw it pretty hard,
Speaker 3: ricocheted up, and it was hard enough for me to
Speaker 3: see that it would rile up a team and kind
Speaker 3: of get there, you know, get the nerve going. That's
Speaker 3: that's from my viewpoint.
Speaker 4: Steve, you know better than any of us that it's
Speaker 4: one thing to ray you up. But I go back
Speaker 4: to what I said after the game. You didn't like
Speaker 4: it right, You didn't like tattoos or profar doing what
Speaker 4: they were doing, do something about it. Beat this team,
Speaker 4: no doubt, as you do something about it, you don't.
Speaker 4: You don't do something by getting upset about it, complaining
Speaker 4: about it, screaming at them. That's that's not going to
Speaker 4: accomplish anything. And it feels like having a day off
Speaker 4: yesterday really helped the Dodgers to, you know, maybe stem
Speaker 4: the tide of the momentum the Padres had. And look,
Speaker 4: the first inning is going to be huge tonight. Yeah,
Speaker 4: the Dodgers need to score first, They need to put
Speaker 4: up a zero first and I feel like the first
Speaker 4: inning is going to decide a lot tonight.
Speaker 1: For Walker Bueller, that first inning has been his nemesis, David.
Speaker 1: He has given up runs early in games in his starts, and.
Speaker 4: He even, oh, geez, thanks a lot, Tim.
Speaker 1: Well, that's not a secret to anybody. But he even
Speaker 1: talked about it, David, when you guys spoke to him yesterday.
Speaker 1: He even admitted the first inning is going to be
Speaker 1: really important for him to get over that hurdle because
Speaker 1: he feels good the rest of the way.
Speaker 4: After that, without a doubt, and it would be great
Speaker 4: for the Dodgers to score in the top of the
Speaker 4: first inning. Look, they've played from behind each of the
Speaker 4: first two games. Not one to nothing, but three to nothing,
Speaker 4: four to nothing. That's not a way to live. And
Speaker 4: everybody on the Dodgers believe they have to score first
Speaker 4: to give themselves a real chance to win tonight.
Speaker 3: Yeah, David, looking at these two pitchers tonight, Michael King
Speaker 3: to me is kind of like going under the radar
Speaker 3: a little bit. This guy is tough, thirteen to nine
Speaker 3: with a two ninety five. He struck struck out over
Speaker 3: two hundred batters. What I like about him is he
Speaker 3: might fit into the Dodgers though the way their lineup
Speaker 3: is structured, especially if you get sho Heyo Tani on
Speaker 3: first base. This guy throws from a big crossfire like
Speaker 3: a right handed Chris Saale. His pop time is not
Speaker 3: going to be great to home plate. This is a
Speaker 3: great time for the Dodgers to create havoc on the
Speaker 3: base pass led by Shoeo Tani.
Speaker 4: Man, I didn't realize that, Steve, but something to look
Speaker 4: for tonight, for sure. You know, everybody talks about Michael King,
Speaker 4: and yes, he's had a great year, but Dack like
Speaker 4: he's John Smoltz. He's Michael King, you know. I mean,
Speaker 4: I know everybody loves him down here in San Diego,
Speaker 4: and he's had a great year, but he's not invincible.
Speaker 4: He's not unhittable. Last week at Dodgers Stadium, he pitched
Speaker 4: five scoreless but they got him out of the game. So,
Speaker 4: you know, talking to players that have played in this division,
Speaker 4: they said the Dodgers have to a at least score
Speaker 4: five or six runs b be able to turn this
Speaker 4: into a dogfight and really make it like a bullpen game.
Speaker 4: And if the Dodgers can get King out of there
Speaker 4: by the fourth or fifth inning, I feel like that's
Speaker 4: in their favor.
Speaker 1: David, you were at pet Pill Park yesterday for the
Speaker 1: workouts and media availability. Mookie Bett spent a lot of
Speaker 1: time reportedly around that cage yesterday talking to hitting coaches
Speaker 1: and getting a lot of swings in yesterday.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, My understanding was he was in the batting cage
Speaker 4: inside for at least three or four hours, just taking
Speaker 4: swing after swing try to, you know, figure things out.
Speaker 4: And honestly, Steve, you know this, that's I don't believe
Speaker 4: that's going to accomplish what MOOKI wants to accomplish. He's
Speaker 4: going to find a way to block everybody out. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: I don't even think you should have spoke to the
Speaker 4: media yesterday. Quite honestly, he should just block everything out
Speaker 4: and not be aware of what people are saying. And
Speaker 4: three or four hours in the batting cage. I hope
Speaker 4: he found something, but he's got to be less aware
Speaker 4: of what people are saying about him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, no question, David. Uh And going more about
Speaker 3: this matchup against against Mike against King, Uh, you know,
Speaker 3: I look at the situation with Freddy Freeman being the
Speaker 3: left handed hitter. They're they're really guy that I think
Speaker 3: that stirs the drink in that lineup. You can talk
Speaker 3: about everybody else, including show Ay, but my guy, I
Speaker 3: gotta have Freddy Freeman in there. He's going against a
Speaker 3: guy that's uh, that's not as tough on left handers,
Speaker 3: and I think Freddie Freeman is the guy that's going
Speaker 3: to got to be in that lineup to kind of
Speaker 3: thwart what Michael King brings to the table.
Speaker 4: That would be great. I'm not sure if that's going
Speaker 4: to happen or not. It sounds like Freddy's trying to
Speaker 4: do everything he can to be in there tonight. I
Speaker 4: never saw him yesterday. He was gaining treatment the entire time.
Speaker 4: But even if he's nodded there, I still feel like
Speaker 4: the Dodgers are comfortable with Key k Hernandez getting for
Speaker 4: our bats, and you know, that's the reason why they
Speaker 4: signed Key k Hernandez, That's the reason why they kept
Speaker 4: Chris Taylor for October, and hopefully they get there at bats.
Speaker 3: Dave.
Speaker 1: Final thing for me, I want to go back to
Speaker 1: Walker Bueller and the way he's pitched down the stretch.
Speaker 1: Two of his three starts against the Padres was one
Speaker 1: of them in his final outing. Pitched well before that
Speaker 1: as well going into that start. Is this maybe the
Speaker 1: momentum he needed coming into the postseason. I know he
Speaker 1: talked about how this is.
Speaker 3: What he wants. He wants the moment.
Speaker 1: He wants to pitch on the big stage, certainly, but
Speaker 1: the up and down season he had. Can he take
Speaker 1: away some positives maybe from the way he finished.
Speaker 4: Definitely, his last start was really good and he's been
Speaker 4: building towards getting on track for this moment. And the
Speaker 4: one thing that we can all say is that Walker
Speaker 4: Bueller is not to be scared tonight. He's not going
Speaker 4: to be intimidated, and that's the reason why the Dodgers
Speaker 4: line up their rotation to have him on the mount tonight,
Speaker 4: knowing that he would be pitching in this type of
Speaker 4: environment and he's proven it in the past that he
Speaker 4: could do this.
Speaker 3: Well. David, I guess I got another one for you
Speaker 3: as well. I want to talk real quickly about the
Speaker 3: top of the lineup for this San Diego team. You know,
Speaker 3: Luisa rise as great as he's been throughout the course
Speaker 3: of the year. I mean, it's almost like you knock
Speaker 3: that guy down and you get him off his game,
Speaker 3: whatever whatever it takes to make sure that you get
Speaker 3: that first out. He's a tough guy to do that
Speaker 3: because you know, last three years he's won batting titles
Speaker 3: with three different teams. How is it that Walker Bueller
Speaker 3: can approach.
Speaker 4: This guy well. Number one, I've heard Luisa Rias has
Speaker 4: had a huge impact not only as the batting champion,
Speaker 4: but also in the Padres clubhouse. He's really challenged guys
Speaker 4: like Ben Machado not to give away at bats. And
Speaker 4: number two, he is the epitome of what the Padres
Speaker 4: are the Padres do not swing and miss, and the
Speaker 4: Dodgers defense has got to be ready for you know, anything, really,
Speaker 4: and Walker Bueler is not a strikeout pitcher anymore. So
Speaker 4: it's going to be an interesting matchup starting with the
Speaker 4: rise and seeing how Buehler can get these outs.
Speaker 1: Dave, we appreciate you being on with us this morning.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be a busy day for you, long day
Speaker 1: out at the park, and I'm sure we'll hear from
Speaker 1: you a couple more times before for pitch. Thanks Dave.
Speaker 4: All right, guys, thank you.
Speaker 3: David.
Speaker 1: All right, there is our Dodger insider, David Vese in
Speaker 1: San Diego with the latest on this Dodger Padres Game
Speaker 1: three matchup. Stephen Nelson will join us coming up at
Speaker 1: the bottom of the holes. Get us some phone calls here, Saxon,
Speaker 1: Let's go to Terry and Ventura on sax and Kates
Speaker 1: and the Am on this Tuesday morning as we lead
Speaker 1: you into Game three. Terry, how you feeling this morning?
Speaker 5: Nervous because I think this is the game of all games.
Speaker 5: I've been a Dodger fan, I guess since seventy six,
Speaker 5: seventy seven, seventy eight when I moved to La As
Speaker 5: I'm a retired physician.
Speaker 3: Now, I was at the.
Speaker 5: Game Sunday night, and you know, I think the key
Speaker 5: and even on one leg, Freddy was hitting line drives,
Speaker 5: and I think it's absolutely crucial that he play because Mookie.
Speaker 5: I love Moki as a person, I love his interviews
Speaker 5: and everything, but he's just in a prolonged slump and
Speaker 5: I can't count on him. I think, I think, you know, oh,
Speaker 5: Tiny's going to be good, but and you know, Smith's
Speaker 5: been so so I think Freddy's the key to our offense.
Speaker 5: And I think Deeler is going to pitch a really
Speaker 5: good game. I think we can get the King. I'm
Speaker 5: just really concerned so that that's number one. And my
Speaker 5: brother lives in San Diego. He's so nervous he could
Speaker 5: have been watched the game. I have to text him
Speaker 5: to tell what's going on now. Number two and this
Speaker 5: will be the most unpopular take you'll ever hear. I
Speaker 5: wish they hear me out. I wish they would invent
Speaker 5: nothing medically. I'm retire physician, where you could put some
Speaker 5: kind of a patch as they sell alcohol after the
Speaker 5: fourth inning on a fan, and if the blood alcohol's
Speaker 5: point oh eight, they don't get anymore. Because the reason
Speaker 5: that whole thing happened is because of people come to
Speaker 5: a game, they have a beer, than another, than another,
Speaker 5: then another. I've been sitting at these games and that's
Speaker 5: the way the fans are, and these fans have left
Speaker 5: the overall guests up on alcohol. And I realized the
Speaker 5: concessions are more than Dodger dogs. It's really alcohol. They
Speaker 5: used to sell my tickets run the loads. They used
Speaker 5: to sell Wessel's prestels. Now it's all alcohol, big cans
Speaker 5: of alcohol. And it's just the way it is. And
Speaker 5: I understand I'm not a teetotaler. I'm just saying every
Speaker 5: baseball state and people go there have the beer, and
Speaker 5: when it's playoffs and this and that, these fans get
Speaker 5: riled up on alcohol. And I wish there was a
Speaker 5: way somehow the decrease alcohol input. I know that's an
Speaker 5: unpopular thought. I just thought i'd share it.
Speaker 3: I appreciate it, Terry.
Speaker 1: If you can invent it, I'd invest in it because
Speaker 1: I think that'd be kind of cool to have something
Speaker 1: like that. But yeah, certainly, just to touch on what
Speaker 1: he said too, on Sunday night. You have to believe
Speaker 1: by the seventh inning alcohol did factor into the escalation
Speaker 1: of that, without a doubt it. It didn't happen in
Speaker 1: the first two inning exactly exactly happened at the seventh
Speaker 1: inning for a reason. Everything kind of snowballed. It was
Speaker 1: the perfect storm, including alcohol, and it was just unfortunate
Speaker 1: that it did happen. Eight six six nine seven two
Speaker 1: five seven. Let'sueeze another call before we take a break.
Speaker 1: Eric in Hollywood joins us here on Saxon Kate's and ams. Eric,
Speaker 1: how you feeling before game three.
Speaker 6: To night God jerky sho Yo got the coffee. I'm
Speaker 6: fired up about this game. For me, it's zero zero,
Speaker 6: so we went to it. We go on, Yo, Steve.
Speaker 6: I gotta ask you, man, I think it's hard to
Speaker 6: drop Mooki out of the two hole. Bro. Just tear
Speaker 6: me out a little bit, drop him out of the
Speaker 6: two hole, let him get his berries direct and we
Speaker 6: can move somebody in. I'm thinking lucks and the two hole.
Speaker 6: By help out and just get up going man. Just look, man,
Speaker 6: he's getting a lot of money and and he's he's
Speaker 6: probably trying to work through and he's s ginddy. All
Speaker 6: the coaches are talking to him, but he's trying to
Speaker 6: feel it out, but it's not happening. You gotta maybe
Speaker 6: you gotta give up a little.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 6: You know, Hey, you're gonna be in the five hole
Speaker 6: today and he'll be like what, I'm a two hole hitter,
Speaker 6: you know, then he might work his way in. That's
Speaker 6: my thoughts on that. And you know what that bueler thing, man?
Speaker 6: I heard it was a bunch of padre pass that
Speaker 6: robbed him at Sannadina. What do you guys know about that?
Speaker 1: Ben don't know anything about that, Eric, But I'm gonna
Speaker 1: completely disagree with you about moving Mookie Best out of
Speaker 1: the life. The last thing you want to do is
Speaker 1: have Mooky you show up at the stadium today and say, hey, Mooke,
Speaker 1: you're hitting fifth, you're hitting six. I know you've hit
Speaker 1: one or two the entire season, and that's been our
Speaker 1: game plan since spring training. But we're gonna panic here
Speaker 1: and because of that, we're gonna put you lower in
Speaker 1: the line. Sactually, that's not gonna happen.
Speaker 3: That's not good.
Speaker 1: Imagine if Tam tell me the stort that came into
Speaker 1: you and said, you're not batting lead off anymore. Hey,
Speaker 1: we're gonna switch the order up here in the postseason
Speaker 1: after everything we've gone through in the course of the
Speaker 1: regular season.
Speaker 3: Then I'd say, well then I'm not playing.
Speaker 5: No.
Speaker 3: Look, uh, all with all due respect to uh to Eric,
Speaker 3: not gonna happen. No, you're gonna win, win or die
Speaker 3: with it. Uh And uh No, I'm not moving Mookie.
Speaker 3: I'm keeping him right up there. That's my man. And uh,
Speaker 3: if we're gonna win it, he's gonna be hitting second.
Speaker 1: So we keep going back to Freddie Freeman and his
Speaker 1: availability tonight, and it sounds to me like David Vassi
Speaker 1: doesn't sound too confident that Freddie Freeman's gonna play now. Certainly,
Speaker 1: I hope that is not the case and the treatment
Speaker 1: works and he's able to play. It's an ankle sprain.
Speaker 1: I know, it's those are tough, you know, it's in
Speaker 1: an athlete. It's it's hard to come back from that.
Speaker 3: They linger.
Speaker 1: I understand that sexy, But if there's one position that
Speaker 1: you can probably get away with with a bum ankle,
Speaker 1: it's first base. Yeah, because the lack of running and
Speaker 1: coverage over at that position. I mean I know it's
Speaker 1: easy to say it from the outside looking in, but
Speaker 1: it's like sprained ankle.
Speaker 3: And he stole second. Remember he stole second during the game.
Speaker 3: So look, I I think that if Freddy can walk,
Speaker 3: if Freddy can crawl, he's gonna play. There's this is
Speaker 3: there's no bigger tomorrow, there's no bigger than today. There's
Speaker 3: He's He's gonna be in there and he'll play. I
Speaker 3: have no doubt about it. So but I know what
Speaker 3: you mean. It's it's an ankle, right, I mean, hey, look,
Speaker 3: not to minimize it, but it's like it's not a
Speaker 3: lot happens, though you got to realize that a lot
Speaker 3: happens with that lower half. You're footing, your your stability
Speaker 3: when you're hitting is everything. And if you can't push
Speaker 3: off that front side, you know you can be able
Speaker 3: to drive the ball, and you know you have a
Speaker 3: chance to roll that thing over when you're hitting, because
Speaker 3: you put a lot of pressure on your feet when
Speaker 3: you're when you're making contact with the ball. So you
Speaker 3: know what, But Dodger's got a good training staff. They're
Speaker 3: they're excellent, and I think they're gonna have him ready.
Speaker 3: I would splint that sucker if I had to, Hey,
Speaker 3: shoot it up, splint it whatever you have to do.
Speaker 3: But you know, if I can crawl, I'm gonna be
Speaker 3: able to walk. If I can walk, I'm playing.
Speaker 1: That's I'm on Amazon right now. I think I can
Speaker 1: Amazon prime him an ankle brace?
Speaker 3: Would you do that?
Speaker 1: Four three pm?
Speaker 3: Today?
Speaker 1: I think you do it as a pet cap. If
Speaker 1: it meant he played tonight, I would drive it down
Speaker 1: at the nine o'clock this morning. Yeah, I'd get it
Speaker 1: down there. I'd send one to Vassie or i'd have it,
Speaker 1: you know for pick up at Dick Sporting Goods or
Speaker 1: something for him, for vass A to go take it
Speaker 1: to him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean.
Speaker 1: Yes, splint it up, put a brace on it, little
Speaker 1: numbing cream, little numbing cream around that thing. Ever.
Speaker 3: That stuff they used to do they spray on there. Yes,
Speaker 3: that did. That didn't even work. It looked good. It
Speaker 3: kind of looked good as a topical.
Speaker 1: He doesn't there. You watch soccer games. Look at soccer games.
Speaker 1: The guy falls on the ground.
Speaker 3: Screaming like like he broke his leg, and then two
Speaker 3: minutes later he's.
Speaker 1: O game Right, they spray that stuff on him all
Speaker 1: of a sudden. He's fine, Well, spray that thing up
Speaker 1: and spray it up between the ease exactly.
Speaker 3: Whatever it takes.
Speaker 1: He is Steve Sachs, I have Tim Kaines. He is
Speaker 1: absolutely right. Whatever it takes, you gotta win Tonight it's
Speaker 1: a must win. Game three in this best of five
Speaker 1: series is all tied up at a game and piece
Speaker 1: coming up. Stephen Nelson will join his voice of the Dodgers.
Speaker 1: Get his thoughts on this rivalry, this series. Mookie Betts
Speaker 1: was Manny Machado throwing at Dave Roberts. Well, a lot
Speaker 1: of fire utter This Dodgers team, well, they'd be like Rocky,
Speaker 1: get knocked down, but get back up. Game three Tonight,
Speaker 1: it's Sax and kateson AM. If you lead you up,
Speaker 1: walla Wall coverage, Dodgers Padres on your Homer Show, Hey
Speaker 1: and the Dodgers an Fhi seventy ice Sports. Mookie Betts
Speaker 1: walk up song. Dodgers need Mookie to be Mookie tonight.
Speaker 1: Dodgers need Mookie Betts to be Mookie Betts of the
Speaker 1: regular season. Dodgers need Mookie best to get out of
Speaker 1: his own head.
Speaker 3: Is that the words to the song.
Speaker 1: I'm not even literally listening to be honest with you.
Speaker 3: I like your words. Tim put it on the floor, and.
Speaker 1: Again, I think that's what the name of the song is.
Speaker 1: You know, I'll be honest with you, Saxy. This is
Speaker 1: not in my rotation of songs. No, no, this is
Speaker 1: not in between Morgan Wallen and uh mm hmm my
Speaker 1: other songs I'm listening to. Unfortunately, Okay, but hey, it
Speaker 1: gets Mookie Hypes. Just walk up a song out of
Speaker 1: Dodger Stadium, Dodgers on the road in San Diego tonight,
Speaker 1: which is gonna be rocking, Saxy. Petco Park is gonna
Speaker 1: be on fire and early on as if I say
Speaker 1: alluded to it, You've talked about it. It's no secret
Speaker 1: the Dodgers need to get off to a good start
Speaker 1: in that first inning. If they go one, two, three,
Speaker 1: and Michael King throws seven pitches in that first inning
Speaker 1: and the Dodgers are chasing, they're making bad swings or
Speaker 1: getting themselves out, that place is not gonna get quiet
Speaker 1: all of a sudden. No, that place is gonna stay
Speaker 1: rocking for the rest of the inning.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Aggressive in the zone, aggressive for good pitches to hit.
Speaker 3: That's the key. Yeah, try it. Not to chase. Of course,
Speaker 3: nobody wants to chase. But I don't agree with, you know,
Speaker 3: extending a sequence of pitches just to get a lot
Speaker 3: of pitches, that's to me. I know that's a popular
Speaker 3: thing today, and frankly, I think it sucks. I think
Speaker 3: it's a terrible way to approach hitting. I've talked to
Speaker 3: many a good hitter, and all of them don't agree
Speaker 3: that that's a prolific way to go to it. In
Speaker 3: other words, you take two pitches down the center of
Speaker 3: the plate that you could smack and hit out of
Speaker 3: the ballpark just because you want to go deep in
Speaker 3: the count, and then you wind up hitting a three
Speaker 3: two slider on the black of the plate at the knees. Oh,
Speaker 3: that's a good sequence that I want to go through.
Speaker 3: That's a pitch I want to hit. No. No, if look,
Speaker 3: if it goes deep in the count because you don't
Speaker 3: get a pitch to hit and you have to foul
Speaker 3: off a couple until you live for another pitch and
Speaker 3: get a good pitch to hit, then that's okay. I'd
Speaker 3: go three to two deepen the count every single time.
Speaker 3: But I'm not going to give up two cookies because
Speaker 3: I want to hit on three and two. That's crazy.
Speaker 3: Nobody would tell you to do that.
Speaker 1: And there's there's a difference, you know, ambushing a guy
Speaker 1: swinging early first pitch because he's got a tendency to
Speaker 1: throw a certain type of pitch early in the count, right,
Speaker 1: and as supposed to just swinging just to go out
Speaker 1: there and swing.
Speaker 3: No, And that's that's another word ambush. What is ambush
Speaker 3: means that the pitcher screwed up. He threw you a
Speaker 3: pitch right down the middle. And that's not an ambush.
Speaker 3: That's that's a smart thing to do. I mean, look
Speaker 3: at these major league pitchers are so good that you
Speaker 3: might get one pitch to hit. If you get two
Speaker 3: pitches to hit internet bat, consider yourself lucky that you
Speaker 3: missed the first one. You better not miss the second one.
Speaker 3: Ted Williams, I mean, it doesn't get any better than him.
Speaker 3: One time in spring training he told me, I'm gonna
Speaker 3: give you some advice that will take you through your career.
Speaker 3: And I'm like, yes, my years got real big, Yes,
Speaker 3: Ted Williams, Yes, Ted Williams, do whatever you say. And
Speaker 3: he said the most important thing in hitting is to
Speaker 3: get a good pitch to hit, and you know what,
Speaker 3: we've heard that our whole lives.
Speaker 1: But that's pretty simple.
Speaker 3: When Ted Williams says it, I'm perking up a little bit.
Speaker 3: So the idea is that if you get a good
Speaker 3: pitch to hit, go get it and don't miss it
Speaker 3: because you might not get another one. I mean, why
Speaker 3: should you sacrifice two good pitches to hit and say
Speaker 3: just to go to a three to two count because
Speaker 3: I'm gonna work the pitcher. You know what, He'll work
Speaker 3: himself enough if he's not throwing strikes.
Speaker 4: Well.
Speaker 1: The philosophy nowadays is let's get these starting pitchers out
Speaker 1: of there as fast as possible by getting their pitch
Speaker 1: count as high as possible quickly.
Speaker 3: Okay, then be selective and get a pitch in your
Speaker 3: area that you can drive. And if you get it,
Speaker 3: drive it, and you know what, you can get him
Speaker 3: out of the game quicker that way, by depositing a
Speaker 3: couple of balls over the fence. That'll get him out
Speaker 3: of the game quick, no doubt about it.
Speaker 1: Joining us now, Voice of the Dodgers. You see him
Speaker 1: on sports in at LA. You hear him right here
Speaker 1: on a five seventy LA Sports on the call for
Speaker 1: this NLDS. You heard his call in game one, in
Speaker 1: Game two, they'll be back on it in Game three
Speaker 1: tonight from PA go Park. He is Stephen Nelson and
Speaker 1: he joins us here on Saxon Kates in the am
Speaker 1: on a FI seventy LA Sports Nelly, Good.
Speaker 7: Morning, Good morning guys.
Speaker 3: How we living doing pretty good?
Speaker 1: Getting fired up for Game three tonight, must win game
Speaker 1: for the Dodgers and this is now best of three
Speaker 1: series for the Blue This series, though, the rivalry you
Speaker 1: keep hearing about, how this thing is escalated into a
Speaker 1: feverish rivalry between the Dodgers and Padres, a heated rivalry,
Speaker 1: certainly after what happened in Game two. Do you think
Speaker 1: this is living up to what has now become a
Speaker 1: rivalry between these two franchises.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think this is what I think from a
Speaker 7: sport in a league perspective, this is what you want,
Speaker 7: This is exactly what you want. You want the drama,
Speaker 7: you want, the spice. Personally, me personally, I can't wait
Speaker 7: for six a week because I'm tired of hearing about
Speaker 7: all the stuff we've been listening to the last day.
Speaker 7: To be honest, like I just want to play baseball
Speaker 7: and watch a baseball game. That's just me. But at like,
Speaker 7: like you, if I are to step back and take
Speaker 7: a big picture view, I think this is exactly what
Speaker 7: you want and exactly what you if you're Major League Baseball. Like,
Speaker 7: the series have already done their job, like the base
Speaker 7: between the line stuff. First time ever that all four
Speaker 7: division series are tied one to one. But so now
Speaker 7: it's like which one do you want to watch? Well,
Speaker 7: you're gonna tend to drift toward the one with more
Speaker 7: drama and more magnetism and more star power. And that's
Speaker 7: of course Los Angeles and San Diego. So yeah, I
Speaker 7: think I think Major League Baseball is ecstatic that they're
Speaker 7: seeing what they're seeing and hearing since Sunday.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Steven to Steven, good, good to be with you, Steven.
Speaker 7: Hey, it's with you, Steve.
Speaker 3: And I like the way you spell your name. I
Speaker 3: was looking at that same year.
Speaker 7: Hey, lease spell it right.
Speaker 3: Yes, I'm looking at this. I'm looking at this matchup tonight,
Speaker 3: Michael King me give him his due. The guys had
Speaker 3: a really great year this year, but I think we
Speaker 3: need to be uber aggressive on this guy. I'm not
Speaker 3: saying to go out and try to wave it, pitches
Speaker 3: out of the zone and whatnot. But this guy brings
Speaker 3: a little bit of a different flare. He's got that
Speaker 3: big crossfire delivery. I think there's chances to exploit them,
Speaker 3: especially from the left side. I think on the base
Speaker 3: path you can need to be uber aggressive because his
Speaker 3: pop time to home play cannot be good. With as
Speaker 3: big as he is long delivery and the fact that
Speaker 3: he's at crossfire, I think you need to go out
Speaker 3: and take the game to this guy.
Speaker 7: I'm with you, Steve, I really am like and the
Speaker 7: and the Dodgers, look, they've seen him a few times now,
Speaker 7: I mean three starts and other appearance obviously the appearance
Speaker 7: out of the pend in Korea. That's those are the
Speaker 7: memories that the Dodgers would prefer the channel because the
Speaker 7: other three starts that he made, the Padres won all
Speaker 7: those three games. So, but but I'm with you, like
Speaker 7: and and Mookie Batt's like, that's that's a big, big
Speaker 7: focus right for the Dodgers. Off offensively, he only's got
Speaker 7: a couple of hits against King and ten a B's
Speaker 7: that both hits their home runs, and so I mean,
Speaker 7: so there's there. There's there's something there to what you're
Speaker 7: saying there to see. Absolutely when it comes to Michael King.
Speaker 7: And granted he he's coming off a really excellent start,
Speaker 7: I mean, seventh scroll, twelve twelve punchies like you know,
Speaker 7: so he's it's easier said than done, let's say, against
Speaker 7: Michael King, but it's there in front of the Dodgers
Speaker 7: to take it to him, and I really do think
Speaker 7: that they have to take it to him. Well. Going
Speaker 7: into Game one, uh Mo and I talked about this
Speaker 7: is the only thing that I care about is a
Speaker 7: scoreless first inning. It didn't happen, and either in either
Speaker 7: of those games dominate the first inning. That's all I
Speaker 7: cared about, and it didn't happen. So you know what
Speaker 7: kind of atmosphere you're walking into tonight in Petco Park
Speaker 7: and you have show hey, O, Tommy and Mookie bets
Speaker 7: bang bang against Michael King in the top of the
Speaker 7: first the Dodgers have the same opportunity that the Padres
Speaker 7: did in Games one and Games two to set the
Speaker 7: tone and suck the life out of the building.
Speaker 1: To follow that up, Walker Buehler, as you mentioned, another
Speaker 1: guy that needs to put up a zero because the
Speaker 1: Dodger starters just haven't been able to do that in
Speaker 1: this first inning. And Walker talked about it last night
Speaker 1: at his media availability. He knows, he knows what this
Speaker 1: means for him. He knows he needs to go out
Speaker 1: there and put up a zero to keep his team
Speaker 1: in this game early and not put him in a deficit.
Speaker 1: I just hope we see the Walker Buehler Stephen that
Speaker 1: we saw in the last two or three starts at
Speaker 1: the end of the regular season. Maybe can build on
Speaker 1: that momentum here in October.
Speaker 7: One hundred percent. I think, like you said, must win, Kate,
Speaker 7: and I agree wholeheartedly. I mean because the numbers bear
Speaker 7: that out. When the best of five series, when it's
Speaker 7: tied one to one, the winner of Game three goes
Speaker 7: on to win the series seventy three percent of the time.
Speaker 7: Take back home field and win tonight. You have to
Speaker 7: win tonight because Walker Buehler has that postseason big game,
Speaker 7: gotta have it pedigree. With respect to land and Neck,
Speaker 7: he does not yet. I'm not saying he won't deliver
Speaker 7: or can't deliver and won't turn into that guy or
Speaker 7: can't turn into that guy. But if you're picking on paper,
Speaker 7: you'd rather have Walker Buhler, and they do tonight now,
Speaker 7: Walker Buehler said yesterday's media availability. This is in the
Speaker 7: same padres that the Dodgers beat up on over the years.
Speaker 7: It's not and this is not the same Walker Buhler
Speaker 7: that we've seen on big stages over the years. So
Speaker 7: it's I mean, that's something's got to give there, right, Well,
Speaker 7: you know who which Walker Buler are.
Speaker 4: Going to get?
Speaker 7: And is he going to dominate the padres again like
Speaker 7: like he used to Dodgers certainly, hope so the last
Speaker 7: time out, Like it wasn't perfect when he helped when
Speaker 7: he started the NLS clincher against San Diego Dodgers Stadium,
Speaker 7: but it was gutty. I mean, he didn't have didn't
Speaker 7: get a lot of swing and miss put the ball
Speaker 7: on the ground, but he put out the ground on
Speaker 7: the ground at defenders. So you know, I think I
Speaker 7: factual would probably agree to you. I don't care so
Speaker 7: much about the punch outs. I care about the outs. Yeah,
Speaker 7: So uh so let's let's let's see that same Walker
Speaker 7: Bueler again. He doesn't need to blow it by for
Speaker 7: Anando tatist junior who's got numbers against them. He doesn't
Speaker 7: need to blow it by Many Machado. The Dodgers fans
Speaker 7: would love to see Many Machadda go down swinging. Uh,
Speaker 7: just just get him out and if that means getting
Speaker 7: the ball on the ground, I'm okay with that too.
Speaker 7: But the fact that Walker has been here before and
Speaker 7: done this before, it does at least give you some
Speaker 7: sort of confidence or comfort knowing that he's the one
Speaker 7: start in Game three.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I couldn't agree with you more, Steven and and
Speaker 3: you know what. You know what else you give the
Speaker 3: Dodger fans some comfort is it's not look all the
Speaker 3: all the focuses on of course show Hey o Tani
Speaker 3: and Mookie Betts and and all that. But look, there's
Speaker 3: been some good things about this Dodger, the Dodger lineup.
Speaker 3: I mean, heck, they won ninety eight games this year.
Speaker 3: I see Tommy Edmund laying bunch down. Munsey's still hitting
Speaker 3: the ball with some authority. Ta Oscar Hernandez is one
Speaker 3: of the most dangerous hitters in the league. He's still
Speaker 3: swinging the bad good. Gavin Luck seems to be coming
Speaker 3: a lot. Look, there's reasons for the Dodgers to look
Speaker 3: at this series and say, it's not just about show
Speaker 3: Hey and Mookie, but they've got a great supporting cast.
Speaker 3: I did. I didn't even I didn't even mention, you know,
Speaker 3: the rest of the team that's been doing pretty well
Speaker 3: throughout this season. This team has the ability to explode
Speaker 3: on you. This was a best offense in the National League.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's actually in. It has to be more than
Speaker 7: show Hey and Mookie. I know that that's kind of
Speaker 7: the narrative that's building up as Mookie's postseason slump has continued.
Speaker 7: The Dodgers can't win unless Mookie hits. Well if they
Speaker 7: showed down the stretch. Actually, they can win when Mooki
Speaker 7: doesn't hit because he wasn't hitting down the stretch. And
Speaker 7: so it has to be one through nine, just not
Speaker 7: one and two or one two three or one two
Speaker 7: and four. So I agree like Will Will Smith had
Speaker 7: a big hit in the clincher. Need more hits. He's
Speaker 7: got four walks in the series, but no hits. I
Speaker 7: think that, you know, there weren't a lot of positives,
Speaker 7: or hardly any positives out a Game two, but I
Speaker 7: think Max Munsey seeing the ball leave the yard and
Speaker 7: having that feel of a good swing at the end
Speaker 7: of the game. That's something that could generate some momentum
Speaker 7: for him personally heading into tonight in Game number three.
Speaker 7: Are going loving the passes from Gavin Lux the last
Speaker 7: two weeks now PEO's tail and so.
Speaker 3: Yeah it.
Speaker 7: I'm with you. I'm with you completely that it has
Speaker 7: to be more than one and two for the Dodgers,
Speaker 7: and their resume and their talent says that it can be.
Speaker 7: So hopefully that comes to fruition tonight.
Speaker 1: Steven, I'm sure you've seen it heard about this ball
Speaker 1: that was thrown by Machado in between the six hands
Speaker 1: on Sunday night, and Dave Roberts last night called it
Speaker 1: unsettling and disrespectful for him to throw it towards him
Speaker 1: in the dugout there on the third base side. We
Speaker 1: were talking about this earlier. You know, this is a
Speaker 1: Padres team that loves to fuel the fire. They love
Speaker 1: to ride the momentum of something that happens, and that's
Speaker 1: why they kind of antagonize on the flip side. We're
Speaker 1: talking about this. Maybe Dave Roberts can use this to
Speaker 1: kind of feel the belly of the Dodgers. Hey, guys,
Speaker 1: they were throwing a ball at me. Let's rally around together.
Speaker 1: Wrong the road, We're in somebody else's hostel, Hiles house,
Speaker 1: there a Techo park. Let's come together and you know,
Speaker 1: let's let's go out and get this thing and put
Speaker 1: a little fire their belly.
Speaker 7: I mean, look, whatever it takes, whatever it takes, like exactly,
Speaker 7: I don't know. And and King TC. I don't know
Speaker 7: how you guys felt about the all this this the
Speaker 7: ball throwing drama. Uh uh. This is just me personally.
Speaker 7: I'm not inside the Dodger clubhouse. Obviously, I'm not a
Speaker 7: huge fan of how it's playing out. I just I
Speaker 7: do think that it's playing into the padres hands and
Speaker 7: feeding and fueling their fire more than it is generated. Again,
Speaker 7: just from the outside, that's how I would perceive it.
Speaker 7: I would much rather them act as if this the
Speaker 7: Padres or those actions aren't relevant, because look the way
Speaker 7: this Dodger Padre relationship has been over the years, right,
Speaker 7: it is what big brother little brothers and I thought
Speaker 7: like the like. For example, if PA Ponder fans are
Speaker 7: going to complain about Joe Davis on the broadcast, Jeff
Speaker 7: Passing clap back, right said, if you want to stop
Speaker 7: being a little brother, stop acting like a little brother.
Speaker 7: Well now I think, I think, I think what we're seeing.
Speaker 7: What we're seeing now is that little brother is now
Speaker 7: a teenage little brother, and so the teenage little brother
Speaker 7: is starting to do some things that really irks and
Speaker 7: annoys the big brother, right like and okay, like this
Speaker 7: is so stupid and silly and immature, but it's eating
Speaker 7: at me as the big brother. The little brother thinks
Speaker 7: it's great because now he's getting a rise at a
Speaker 7: little brother. That's how I perceive all this to happen.
Speaker 7: All this that's happening in front of us. So that's
Speaker 7: why I don't necessarily love it. But but if inside
Speaker 7: those four walls TC, if that is starting to add
Speaker 7: an extra log on the fire to taoscar and Ands
Speaker 7: who was their top step next to Doc and he
Speaker 7: was upset when the ball got there, If that ex
Speaker 7: add an extra log to the fire, to the rest
Speaker 7: of the boys, then then be bad as it may,
Speaker 7: or let that be what it is. That that's fine,
Speaker 7: I will take it. But that's that's my fear a
Speaker 7: little bit with all this, is that it's playing into
Speaker 7: that hand. I would much rather you say nothing and
Speaker 7: do something between the lines. Yeah, that's that. That that's
Speaker 7: how you shut them up.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's you got that, Steven. Hey, Stephen, this will
Speaker 3: be my last one. Is I want to just point
Speaker 3: this out too. I want to face Machado. I want
Speaker 3: to face uh, you know, I want to I want
Speaker 3: to face guys like that. When there's two outs, that's
Speaker 3: the best, that's the best time to go out and
Speaker 3: really challenge these guys. If they have the solo home run,
Speaker 3: let it be that. I can't have a rise in
Speaker 3: boguards getting on that base and really compounding the situation.
Speaker 3: I want to face guys that they're the big hitters
Speaker 3: for this team when there's two outs, I don't want
Speaker 3: to face them with guys on the base.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 7: Yeah, And that's that's why I strike one out one
Speaker 7: that's so important. But unfortunately, like that's been a of
Speaker 7: all season Saxty, right, like we've seen it, the first
Speaker 7: to strike percentage, or getting the lead off first inning,
Speaker 7: first innings, like gosh, we're talking about that every single
Speaker 7: for every single starter. We just need him to get
Speaker 7: off to a good start because e r A in
Speaker 7: the first inning is nine, and then d r A
Speaker 7: after the first inning is two. It's like, but but
Speaker 7: then the first innings always seem seemed to buy them.
Speaker 7: So yeah, have both fingers both to all the toes
Speaker 7: crossed that you just that when Walker knows this right,
Speaker 7: It's just you can't work from behind. It's hard to
Speaker 7: work from behind, especially well, it's hard to work from
Speaker 7: ahead against the Rise. He's the best two strike hitter
Speaker 7: in the game. But but but but he'll he'll put it,
Speaker 7: put the ball in play and make contact. So h,
Speaker 7: I'm with you.
Speaker 4: It's just.
Speaker 7: You can't walk guys, especially at the bottom of the order. Uh,
Speaker 7: And you can't get into hitters counts in front of
Speaker 7: these dangerous dogs. Especially the way Tatis is playing right now.
Speaker 7: My god, he's just yeah, he just he's on a
Speaker 7: different he's on a different level right now. The ball
Speaker 7: looks like a beach ball to him, especially for him,
Speaker 7: you know in postseason play, like his numbers in the
Speaker 7: first innings or are stupid. Just the way he's getting
Speaker 7: on base. So us, that's a huge part of this game,
Speaker 7: no question. And you just spat on bringing that up.
Speaker 7: It's got to be an area focus for the Dodgers staff.
Speaker 1: He is Steven Nelson to be on the call tonight
Speaker 1: right here on AM five seventy l A Sports him
Speaker 1: and Rick Monday. We'll have Dodgers on deck starting at
Speaker 1: five pm first pitch, with Nelly coming up at six
Speaker 1: six o eight. Steven, appreciate you joining us this morning.
Speaker 1: Hopefully the Dodgers will get this game three win tonight.
Speaker 7: Thanks Steven, Zaxy Zaxy TC. Have a good night. Hopefully
Speaker 7: we're celebrating the game three when we talked to them.
Speaker 1: Absolutely appreciate it.
Speaker 3: There he goes.
Speaker 1: Steven Nelson joins us here on Saxon Kates and A.
Speaker 1: When we come back, we'll get Steve's keys to a
Speaker 1: game three win. It's Saxon Kate's in the AM Game
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Speaker 1: Tuesday morning to lead you out to first pitch tonight
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Speaker 1: just the last seven. David Vasse, our Dodger Insider, joined
Speaker 1: us earlier this hour. All Right, Saxy game three tonight.
Speaker 1: This thing is tied up at a game of piece.
Speaker 1: What are Steve's keys to a Game three win tonight?
Speaker 3: Okay, well, you know what I'm gonna say. It'll almost
Speaker 3: sound cliche, but I'm gonna go with it anyway. Hey,
Speaker 3: the first inning is huge for Walker Buehler. It's going
Speaker 3: to gain confidence for him. It's gonna set him on
Speaker 3: a path with momentum and he can maybe go through.
Speaker 3: And I need seven innings. I need six or seven
Speaker 3: from Walker. One or two runs will be fine, but
Speaker 3: I need almost like a blowout pitching performance from Walker
Speaker 3: Buehler tonight. And listen, these times call for that. You
Speaker 3: got to have it. And you know what'd be nice,
Speaker 3: It'd be nice to kind of turn the tables immediately
Speaker 3: and have like a ten to two Dodger victory for
Speaker 3: a chance. So I need a blowout on both sides.
Speaker 3: I need Walker to come out, give me six, keep
Speaker 3: it under two or two innings or one or two runs.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry. And then I need the offense to kill
Speaker 3: it too. In a blowout session. Double digit and runs
Speaker 3: for the Dodgers tonight, I think that's called for and
Speaker 3: they can do it.
Speaker 1: You think Freddy Freeman plays tonight with I.
Speaker 3: Think I think he plays. I think if Freddie Freeman
Speaker 3: had to pull a Ronnie Lot and cut it off
Speaker 3: and peg leg it with a wooden leg and put
Speaker 3: a shoe on the end of it and go out
Speaker 3: there and just bury that front side so he can
Speaker 3: at least hit and then crawl the first base after
Speaker 3: he hits it, I think he plays. Yes, I think
Speaker 3: south of that he's gonna play.
Speaker 1: I think tonight we're gonna see Mooky Becks breakout. I
Speaker 1: don't know if it's his first of bat. I don't
Speaker 1: know winning the game it is, but I expect at
Speaker 1: some point tonight Mookie Bets will deliver with a big
Speaker 1: hit for this Dodgers team. Whether it sparks a rally,
Speaker 1: continues a rally, whether it's a home run, I don't
Speaker 1: know what it is, but I got this feeling tonight
Speaker 1: is the night this over is last twenty two in
Speaker 1: the postseason comes to an end tonight for bets.
Speaker 3: See. That's why I said blowout, and of course Mooki
Speaker 3: is included in that, but I didn't want to put
Speaker 3: the spotlight on him. I want to kind of take
Speaker 3: the little pressure off him and just say a team blowout,
Speaker 3: offensive attack tonight. Mooki will be part of that. But man,
Speaker 3: I gotta see Walker in that first inning. I want
Speaker 3: to see him go out a rise and don't let him,
Speaker 3: don't walk in, go at him and make him earn it.
Speaker 3: I think if he gets those three outs, he's gonna
Speaker 3: be on his way.
Speaker 1: The emotions of this game, the fans are gonna be crazy.
Speaker 1: We know that their first The more the better to
Speaker 1: be in it. Yeah, how important is it to take
Speaker 1: this crowd out of the game.
Speaker 3: It's huge. I mean bring it. I mean the more
Speaker 3: the better. You want to face the Padres at their best.
Speaker 3: You want everybody on their team at their best. You
Speaker 3: want the fans to be as loud as they can
Speaker 3: possibly possibly be and then start doing some shoving. That's
Speaker 3: what I gotta say.
Speaker 1: I think Walker Bueler is absolutely the key. It is imperative.
Speaker 1: He comes out there in the first inning and puts
Speaker 1: up a zero. Whether the Dodgers put up a four spot,
Speaker 1: they don't score a run, they score one run in
Speaker 1: the top half of the first thing, and they go
Speaker 1: down in seven pitches, doesn't matter. Whatever the Dodgers do
Speaker 1: or don't do in the top half of the first inning.
Speaker 1: The bottom of the first inning is the key to
Speaker 1: this game. You mentioned it.
Speaker 3: It is.
Speaker 1: The most important thing is to put up a zero.
Speaker 1: So the Dodgers, I think, offensively, don't have to start
Speaker 1: chasing and they'll have to look at the scorebarning and say, gosh,
Speaker 1: darn it again.
Speaker 3: You gotta stop them in the first inning. But listen,
Speaker 3: I need a Dodger offensive absolute blowout tonight. This is
Speaker 3: this is a time to do it, and boy they
Speaker 3: can bring it. Saxy will do it again tomorrow six am.
Speaker 3: Let's do it, gotcha see tomorrow, buddy. All right, there
Speaker 3: he is Steve Sax. Thanks to Michelle. Thanks for all
Speaker 3: you Dodger fans for being a part of the show today.
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