Speaker 1: The right quiet.
Speaker 2: Dodgers Playoff Baseball is back, and with it an annual
Speaker 2: postseason tradition.
Speaker 3: Scam is back.
Speaker 1: Baby.
Speaker 2: This is Sax and Cakes in the A app back
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Speaker 2: your favorite Dodger pregame host Tim Kates. If you want
Speaker 2: to talk Dodgers, get in on the show on eighty
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Speaker 4: We've been banished to the Internet until this Dodgers playoff
Speaker 4: run concludes. Here they are broadcasting live on AM five
Speaker 4: to seven e LA Sports. It's Tim Kates and Steve Sachs.
Speaker 3: We're back, Saxon, Kates and the AM. It's back on
Speaker 3: this Monday morning, October fourteenth. Thanks for being with us
Speaker 3: here in Southern California, live in love on your home
Speaker 3: of the Dodgers A five seventy LA Sports here until
Speaker 3: nine o'clock this morning as we lead you up to
Speaker 3: Game two of the National League Championship Series. That's right,
Speaker 3: the Dodgers won on Friday night. They beat the Padres
Speaker 3: in Game five of the NLDS and this series has
Speaker 3: already started, as the Dodgers are up one game to
Speaker 3: nothing on the New York match. I am Tim Cages,
Speaker 3: joined by two time World Series Champion, Rookie of the Year,
Speaker 3: and one hell of a guy. He is Steve Sack. Saxy.
Speaker 1: Good morning, Good morning, Tim. How are you?
Speaker 3: I know you slept better. I'm just saying I did
Speaker 3: sleep better. I feel really good about where the Dodgers
Speaker 3: are right now. Honestly, Saxy, I have felt so good
Speaker 3: since about nine o'clock on Friday night, when I sat
Speaker 3: in traffic at Dodger Stadium for over one hour getting
Speaker 3: out of Dodgers Stadium fifty eight thousand plus at Game
Speaker 3: five of the NLDS on Friday night, it was rocking.
Speaker 3: It was the greatest environment I've seen in years at
Speaker 3: Dodgers Stadium for a playoff game, and they didn't disappoint
Speaker 3: the Dodgers with a two nothing to win over the Padres.
Speaker 3: But ever since since, Saxy, I've been feeling really good
Speaker 3: about this Dodgers team. A quick turnaround forty less than
Speaker 3: forty eight hours later, the Dodgers already have a one
Speaker 3: oh series lead.
Speaker 1: Yeah, little housekeeping real quick, just so you know, I've
Speaker 1: spent I did the dumb thing of trying to get
Speaker 1: an uber out of Dodger Stadium and when the game
Speaker 1: was over, that's a three hour ordeal. I mean, I
Speaker 1: mean it just got my own car, right, I mean,
Speaker 1: it's just too much. Anyway, back to baseball, Yes, I
Speaker 1: know you felt better. Hey, could you feel that well?
Speaker 1: I don't want I don't want to say this too soon,
Speaker 1: but you could feel the difference in caliber of ball club.
Speaker 1: I think from playing the Padres. I said this early on,
Speaker 1: I said, I think the Dodgers are playing the best,
Speaker 1: the most talented team in the playoffs with the San
Speaker 1: Diego Padres. This is going to be probably the best
Speaker 1: caliber club that they're going to play. And you know,
Speaker 1: we went five games. It was a battle. It was
Speaker 1: a knocked out, own, drag out thing. But could you
Speaker 1: kind of feel it a little bit maybe against the Mets,
Speaker 1: it just wasn't the same edge man going against these
Speaker 1: other guys. Now, that could be a very dangerous thing
Speaker 1: because these guys can thump you. I mean I think
Speaker 1: after May, the Dodgers and the Mets basically had the
Speaker 1: same record. Yeah, you know, so this is these guys
Speaker 1: ain't chumps. Man, they can play and they can fool you.
Speaker 1: They can jump on you. When you think you got
Speaker 1: your guard down a little bit and you don't need
Speaker 1: it up, they can thump you. So you gotta watch it.
Speaker 3: I was fully anticipating the l word that happened yesterday,
Speaker 3: let down for the Dodgers, at least early on, because emotionally,
Speaker 3: how could you not be drained. I was at the
Speaker 3: game on Friday night and I looked at somebody at
Speaker 3: the end of the game and I said, Man, I'm exhausted.
Speaker 3: I had goosebumps during the game. I was an emotional wreck.
Speaker 3: I can't imagine these guys, the high, the adrenaline they
Speaker 3: were on Friday night, the deep sigh of my gosh,
Speaker 3: we just got back passed past the Padres were down
Speaker 3: this series. We come back and win in this fashion
Speaker 3: when you did, Oh, we got a game on Sunday night,
Speaker 3: I wouldn't have been surprised if they had a letdown.
Speaker 3: Even the fans would have had a let down after
Speaker 3: the emotional game on Friday night. But everybody brought it.
Speaker 3: The fans brought it last night in game one into
Speaker 3: the player's credit. Man, they brought it and Jack Flaherty
Speaker 3: was phenomenal.
Speaker 1: He was just he just didn't give in. Even when
Speaker 1: he was missing with the slider. He was not going
Speaker 1: to give in to these guys. Look, here's what's going
Speaker 1: on without being there. Let me tell you what's going
Speaker 1: on right now without being there. The Dodgers are too
Speaker 1: professional of a team. That's the undergirding of what this
Speaker 1: club is made of. What you see out there in
Speaker 1: the field, and you see, you know, the hits, the
Speaker 1: runs and the pitching and all that. That's great. What
Speaker 1: you don't see is the is the locker room, locker
Speaker 1: to locker conversations. Not necessarily the big, big meeting with
Speaker 1: Dave Roberts. A matter of fact, they probably don't even
Speaker 1: have those. It's the locker to locker conversations guys are
Speaker 1: having within themselves. They kind of police themselves. You know,
Speaker 1: Dave's at the top, but these guys are working it
Speaker 1: in the locker room too, way too professional of a team,
Speaker 1: too talented of a team to let that happen. What
Speaker 1: you're talking about the letdown, don't I don't think that's
Speaker 1: going to happen because the team's too professional's there's guys
Speaker 1: helping each other. There's guys picking each others up there,
Speaker 1: you know, adding confidence. I just don't see that happening
Speaker 1: as far as the letdown goes. But sometimes you got to.
Speaker 1: You gotta watch it because it can be a little
Speaker 1: drip on you. You know, you can be like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, a little bit here, a little bit there,
Speaker 1: and pretty soon you're looking at each other and saying,
Speaker 1: what the hell just happened?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 1: You can't let that happen, and I don't believe it will.
Speaker 3: After the game on Friday, Nikki her Nandez was very
Speaker 3: vocal with Kenny Rosenthal on the field at Dodger Stadium
Speaker 3: in the celebration, and the players afterwards were very emotional
Speaker 3: in talking about nobody gave it them a shot. Eighty
Speaker 3: percent of the media that predicted this game, and all
Speaker 3: the predictions from ESPN insiders and the Athletic and Fox
Speaker 3: and Yahoo and all these guys picked against the Dodgers
Speaker 3: in the NLDS, and I think Saxy they took that
Speaker 3: to heart, as in, nobody believes in this. We're the underdogs,
Speaker 3: believe it or not, in this five game series against
Speaker 3: the Padres, and I think that's the sort of feeling
Speaker 3: and the mantra. Now I think moving forward for this
Speaker 3: Dodgers team is we're the underdogs. Either everybody hates us
Speaker 3: because we're the Dodgers, or nobody's picking it for us
Speaker 3: because they think we're gonna collapse.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, I understand that's a good thing to take
Speaker 1: with you because it's it's a bit of a motivator,
Speaker 1: if you will. It's maybe more of a way to
Speaker 1: just keep your feet on the ground and realize that
Speaker 1: this is always tenuous. In the playoffs, anything can happen.
Speaker 1: These guys are here for a reason. And you know,
Speaker 1: you hear people talking about I heard it this weekend. Well,
Speaker 1: you know the Dodgers, you know they expected to win.
Speaker 1: They spend billions of dollars. I got folks, guess what.
Speaker 1: The Mets have a much higher pay role than the
Speaker 1: Dodgers do. And people don't realize that. They're thinking, well,
Speaker 1: the Dodgers are the big gliath and they spend all
Speaker 1: the money and that's what. No, oh, no, that's not
Speaker 1: the case. Look at the Cleveland Guardians. This team is
Speaker 1: very low payroll and they're in it. I mean they're
Speaker 1: going against the Yankees. I mean usually it does bear
Speaker 1: it out that if you spend more money, you get
Speaker 1: better players, you have better results. Not always, it doesn't
Speaker 1: always happen that way.
Speaker 3: Last night, Jack Flaherty was fantastic. The kid from Burbank
Speaker 3: right here in the eight one eight Harvard Westlake High
Speaker 3: School in twenty thirteen, Saxy for those guys hang out
Speaker 3: to him just to ask you, I mean, he's from
Speaker 3: there's a little younger than me. Little younger than me,
Speaker 3: but probably went to the same spots growing up. But
Speaker 3: he went to Harvard Westlake High School just down the
Speaker 3: road here in Studio City in the valley. And in
Speaker 3: twenty thirteen he was on the mound guiding Harvard Westlake
Speaker 3: to a CIF Southern Section championship, a win over Marina
Speaker 3: High School his senior year at Dodger Stadium, where he
Speaker 3: wins seven innings helping them win a CIF championship. He
Speaker 3: was a first round pick of the Saint Louis Cardinals.
Speaker 3: He was talked about a lot here a decade ago
Speaker 3: for how talented he was in high school. And fast
Speaker 3: forward now to twenty twenty four and to see what
Speaker 3: he did last night, Steve, to see what he did
Speaker 3: when the Dodgers needed a starting pitcher to go out
Speaker 3: there and put up zeros in the first inning, the
Speaker 3: second inning, and onward. He was the right guy. He
Speaker 3: had the off speed pitches with him. He had the
Speaker 3: guy's chasing from the New York match, which was big.
Speaker 3: He got a lot of chases from that lineup. But
Speaker 3: ninety two, ninety three, ninety four, it might as well
Speaker 3: have been looking ninety nine to those medsitters because he
Speaker 3: had him fooled last night.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and are you starting to see a little trend here?
Speaker 3: I am.
Speaker 1: You know, when all the doubters are saying, you know,
Speaker 1: they just don't have the depth and pitching not really
Speaker 1: their fault because of all the injuries they have. Yeah,
Speaker 1: get it. You know you're kind of trying to make
Speaker 1: that conversation. Yet look at the last two starts. You
Speaker 1: get Yoshi Noobu Yamamoto, who goes out there and shoves right.
Speaker 1: Then you have Flarty who comes out, starts and shoves.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm starting to see some shove and going
Speaker 1: on right now in the starting rotation, which is something
Speaker 1: I don't think the Dodgers really predicted. I thought they
Speaker 1: meant maybe looked at this as a limited amount good
Speaker 1: but limited amount of starts of innings. But hey, they're
Speaker 1: taking that pressure and the length possibilities off of that
Speaker 1: rot off of that bullpen, which is huge. Right now,
Speaker 1: this is what you need. You know, not to look
Speaker 1: too far forward, but hey, you get some miles out
Speaker 1: of your starters BUNDVA.
Speaker 3: You look at the narrative going into the postseason for
Speaker 3: the Dodgers, really good, won the division, best record in baseball.
Speaker 3: They can score runs in bunches, but do they have
Speaker 3: enough pitching is a bullpen gas, they have a lot
Speaker 3: of miles on those arms. Here in twenty twenty four
Speaker 3: and now thirty three consecutive scoreless innings, going back in
Speaker 3: Game three of the NLDS from Walker Bueller and what
Speaker 3: he did giving up those six runs in the inning
Speaker 3: and then putting up zeros the of the way to
Speaker 3: the bullpen game in Game four of the NLDS to
Speaker 3: Yamamoto as you mentioned, in the bullpen on Friday night
Speaker 3: putting up zeros, and then last night Jack Flaherty and
Speaker 3: crew putting up more zeros. Thirty three consecutive scoreless sittings,
Speaker 3: and this is a rotation saxe No Clayton Kershaw, no
Speaker 3: Tyler Glass now, no Gavin Stone, no Tony Gonsolin this year,
Speaker 3: no Dustin May this year. Oh yeah, and no Joe
Speaker 3: Kelly and Bruce dr graderole in the bullpen right now
Speaker 3: in this postseason. A pitching staff that everybody said was
Speaker 3: the weakest link on this Dodgers team has proven to
Speaker 3: be the best pitching staff so far in the postseason.
Speaker 1: That that's incredible. That's what champions are made of. Uh,
Speaker 1: And isn't it great that the real question mark of
Speaker 1: this team turns out to be maybe the strongest point, right,
Speaker 1: That's what it is. They turned that narrative right around,
Speaker 1: and it's looking you just you just try to stay
Speaker 1: in this zone, you know, you try to just ride
Speaker 1: this pony as long as you can. And I think
Speaker 1: Dave Roberts has done a phenomenal job. I'm glad, you know.
Speaker 1: I love when our listeners call in and they voice
Speaker 1: our opinions. But hear too much.
Speaker 3: About Dave Roberts, now, have you When you don't hear
Speaker 3: about him, it's like an umpire doing a great job.
Speaker 3: That's when you know he's doing just that. When you
Speaker 3: don't hear about it. And that's what we got with
Speaker 3: Dave right now. It's funny. Last week, Saxy, we were
Speaker 3: talking about this Manny Machado baseball being thrown into the dugout,
Speaker 3: and Dave Roberts took exception to that and said, hey, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: I was a little too close. I didn't think that
Speaker 3: was very cool, and we talked about it. Well, maybe
Speaker 3: this is a little Phil Jackson asked, a little gamesmanship.
Speaker 3: In fact, Dave Roberts came out over the weekend and said, yeah,
Speaker 3: I was trying to take the pressure off of my
Speaker 3: guys being down in this series, going to San Diego,
Speaker 3: with them having all the momentum and all the chatter
Speaker 3: about the Padres and slam Diego. He admitted, Saxy, we
Speaker 3: were right. He was trying to take the pressure off
Speaker 3: his guys.
Speaker 1: Yes, and that's what great managers do. I mean, isn't
Speaker 1: it something to think about this job. Look, you're gonna
Speaker 1: take a job on right now. You're gonna have to
Speaker 1: take all the slings and arrows for your team. When
Speaker 1: you do great, you can't take credit for that. You
Speaker 1: just take care credit for the bad stuff. That's what
Speaker 1: you do here. But that's what baseball managers. Do you
Speaker 1: are hired to fired unless you are Tommy the Sorder
Speaker 1: or Dave Roberts. It doesn't have all these guys.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, he is Steve Sacks, Im Tim kats here On
Speaker 3: Saxon Kates in the AM on AM FI seventy LA
Speaker 3: Sports eight saxty six nine eighty seven to two five
Speaker 3: seventy is our number. Jump on board. We're talking a
Speaker 3: lot about what happened over the weekend. A lot to
Speaker 3: get to a Game five of the NLDS on Friday,
Speaker 3: and certainly last night Game one of the NLCS, and
Speaker 3: don't look now. Game two is a day game at
Speaker 3: Dodgers Stadium today for the Dodgers, will go up against
Speaker 3: Sean and Ia the left hander. It'll be Johnny Holstaff
Speaker 3: a bullpen game for the Dodgers. First pitch is coming
Speaker 3: up at one oh eight eight sixty six ninety seven,
Speaker 3: two five seventy coming up. We're gonna hear from the manager,
Speaker 3: Dave Roberts. We're gonna check in with David Vass. We're
Speaker 3: gonna hear from Will Smith, who has been one of
Speaker 3: the guys that has helped this Dodger pitching staff over
Speaker 3: the thirty three consecutive scoreless adiens. We'll hear from Freddy Freeman.
Speaker 3: We'll absolute story time with Steve. He promised last week
Speaker 3: if the Dodgers and Mets face off in the NLCS,
Speaker 3: he will give his stories from the nineteen eighty eight
Speaker 3: and LCS. That is coming up real quickly, Sacks, you
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Speaker 3: After seeing a couple of the guys over the weekend.
Speaker 1: Asofellas, Yeah, we need those guys big time and they
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Speaker 3: I've heard that absolutely. They keep the lights on for us.
Speaker 3: Eight sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy. Jack Flaherty,
Speaker 3: what a night last night. He just absolutely was dealing
Speaker 3: for the Dodgers and probably could have gone even deeper
Speaker 3: in to the game seven shutout. It needs two hits,
Speaker 3: six strikeouts, ninety eight pitches. Let's go back to post
Speaker 3: game last night, Saxony. Here is Jack Flaherty after his
Speaker 3: Game one win.
Speaker 6: It's a lot of fun. You can't really you can't
Speaker 6: really put it all in the words, but you know,
Speaker 6: the most important part was coming out and setting a tone.
Speaker 6: You know, like I said, Will, Will did a really
Speaker 6: good job. He called a really good game, We had
Speaker 6: a really good game plan, and defense came out and
Speaker 6: made plays too. And then you know, when we get
Speaker 6: the lead there, I haven't done a really good job
Speaker 6: of putting together a couple of shutdown endings. So once
Speaker 6: we get the lead there in the first to get
Speaker 6: them right back in the dugout, and then we had
Speaker 6: another one and then for another shutdown ether thing right there.
Speaker 6: It's kind of huge, just just overall. And then you know,
Speaker 6: look at the play that Kyk made there in the
Speaker 6: fourth inning, kind of changes I don't know what the
Speaker 6: name it was, but kind of changes the outlook of
Speaker 6: when maybe the play that ending goes. Getting that out there,
Speaker 6: so it's huge. But you know, being able to be
Speaker 6: here and have some some family in the stands and
Speaker 6: see some of them beforehand, it kind of just lets
Speaker 6: you relax a little bit and understand that we're we're
Speaker 6: we're playing a game, and.
Speaker 5: So having some fun with your fastball usage and just
Speaker 5: the command you had today. How did that just set
Speaker 5: the tone for you personally when it came to executing
Speaker 5: your pitches and using just everything else.
Speaker 6: Kind of, Yeah, it was huge. Being able to be
Speaker 6: able to use my fastball tonight was was huge. Some
Speaker 6: of the other things my side was a little off early,
Speaker 6: wasn't able to put over the plate, and then as
Speaker 6: a game went on, we're able to mix with everything. Yeah,
Speaker 6: you know, I guess like Bill did a really good
Speaker 6: job back there, and you got some pitches for me
Speaker 6: as well.
Speaker 4: So uh.
Speaker 6: Yeah, all in all good, just just really just one
Speaker 6: guy after the other, just feeding off each other. So
Speaker 6: it's been a lot of fun.
Speaker 7: How good did you feel out there in terms of
Speaker 7: actual execution.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I felt good.
Speaker 6: I felt like I had kind of figured some some
Speaker 6: things out. The last couple of days, just just working
Speaker 6: through things. I felt like my stuff and again San
Speaker 6: Diego was okay. But even in that game, was able
Speaker 6: to get some out and put put a couple of
Speaker 6: zeros together, and then was just able to clean some
Speaker 6: things up in my delivery, work on a couple of things,
Speaker 6: work on my stuff, and yeah, you know, warm up
Speaker 6: for the game felt good, felt good yesterday, and just
Speaker 6: then it just comes out to executing. You know, if
Speaker 6: you just work on the stuff on days in between,
Speaker 6: you know, today just comes down and going out and competing.
Speaker 5: Jack to piggyback off of what Dylan was saying, to
Speaker 5: the dreams that you had about pitching here. Obviously you
Speaker 5: pitched in high school, but to do it and then
Speaker 5: a game coming after seven shoutout innings, walking off the mound,
Speaker 5: everyone giving you a standing ovation, fifty five thousand people,
Speaker 5: getting that hug from Dave Roberts, your mom right there
Speaker 5: behind home plate. You know, what is that feeling like?
Speaker 5: Putting your team, you know, in a position three wins
Speaker 5: away from the World Series. And then I saw later
Speaker 5: you did come out and embrace your mom, gave a hug.
Speaker 5: What was that conversation?
Speaker 6: Would you guys say, you know, it's hard not to
Speaker 6: smile about those things. This this game is fun. This
Speaker 6: game is a lot of fun. And I've been lucky
Speaker 6: to do it since I was a little kid, and
Speaker 6: I'm still lucky to be able to do it today
Speaker 6: and be put in these positions, which is why I
Speaker 6: kind of try to describe all these games as fun.
Speaker 6: You know, as high pressure as they get, I just
Speaker 6: tell the guys it's going to be fun. And we
Speaker 6: got to remember that sometimes. And so, you know, walking
Speaker 6: off the mountain, they usually be able to keep it
Speaker 6: together no matter what, even if it's the end of
Speaker 6: an outing. But I kind of had a feeling goes
Speaker 6: towards the end of line, and yeah, it just was
Speaker 6: hard on smile there. And then you know, at least
Speaker 6: here like they had asked me to come back out,
Speaker 6: So I just I told my mom I was gonna
Speaker 6: come out, and you just give her a hug kind
Speaker 6: of the way we have been able to look him
Speaker 6: back on high school or a couple other starts, when
Speaker 6: when I get the opportunity just instead of you know,
Speaker 6: waiting to meet her underneath or whatnot, if I can
Speaker 6: just go out give her a hug and you know,
Speaker 6: tell her thanks for being there and supporting me. It's
Speaker 6: always always important, all right.
Speaker 3: There's Jack Flaherty after the game last night. Seven shutout
Speaker 3: innings for the right hander. Born here in southern California
Speaker 3: and Bourbank grew up a Dodgers fan. Was at the
Speaker 3: twenty fifteen NLDS, by the way Zaxu, the last time
Speaker 3: the Dodgers and Mets faced each other in the playoffs,
Speaker 3: with the old Chase Utley sliding into Dahata and breaking
Speaker 3: his leg. That was twenty fifteen. He was in the
Speaker 3: minor leagues with the Saint Louis Cardinals. His season was over,
Speaker 3: and him and his brother went and bought tickets and
Speaker 3: was at Dodger Stadium for that NLDS. And here he
Speaker 3: is in twenty twenty four. He was absolutely dealing, but
Speaker 3: I mean ninety three for the fastball, he had a
Speaker 3: seventy seven mile an hour knuckle curve kind of averaging
Speaker 3: right around there, and then you mix in the slider
Speaker 3: he was thrown last night was about eighty five eighty six.
Speaker 3: Those three pitches at those three different speeds. He had
Speaker 3: guy's guests and he was pitching backwards as they say
Speaker 3: to hit hers to Lindor, they didn't know what was coming.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's great. First of all, what a grounded
Speaker 1: young man, you know, to talk about his high school days,
Speaker 1: having his mom there, she's obviously very central in his life.
Speaker 1: That's great. Sounds like, you know, how fortunate I was
Speaker 1: with my family. My parents were at every game and
Speaker 1: it was just great. But what I like about the difference,
Speaker 1: the difference in speed that really throws a hitter off.
Speaker 1: You only need to be thrown off like this much,
Speaker 1: just a little tiny bit, and that's all it takes
Speaker 1: for you to you know, roll over or pop one up.
Speaker 1: And he was changing the eye angle of the hitter too.
Speaker 1: And I know sometimes our listeners say, what does that mean. Well,
Speaker 1: sometimes when you throw, you know, a big curveball, like
Speaker 1: on strike one, they're looking fastball. You throw that big
Speaker 1: curve ball at the at the hitter kind of like
Speaker 1: at his head, and then it breaks off into the
Speaker 1: strike zone. That's great because they're not looking for that pitch.
Speaker 1: You can usually steal first strike or strike win, which
Speaker 1: is very important. And then you're coming off, you know,
Speaker 1: with ninety four ninety five on a fastball on the
Speaker 1: black and then change it with a slider that it's
Speaker 1: like about eighty six miles an hour, So you got
Speaker 1: ninety four, ninety five, eighty six and then seventy seven
Speaker 1: with that curveball. That's amazing. That will keep anybody off.
Speaker 1: And if you can throw it for strikes, you're dangerous.
Speaker 1: And that's and hitters know this.
Speaker 3: He was dangerous last night, seven shutout innings. The Dodgers
Speaker 3: came in with two relief pitchers, Daniel Hudson, and then
Speaker 3: of course Ben Cosparius pitched the ninth Indians. The Dodgers
Speaker 3: win Game one of the NLCS, convincing nine to nothing
Speaker 3: win over the New York Can match last night at
Speaker 3: Dodgers standing and quick turn around. Today. Game two is
Speaker 3: at one o'clock. It'll be Sean Manaya the left hand
Speaker 3: are going for the men's. Johnny Holstaff the bullpen game
Speaker 3: for the Dodgers in Game two. Then they head off
Speaker 3: to New York for Games three, four, impossibly game five.
Speaker 3: We're taking your phone calls. Coming up next, we'll hear
Speaker 3: from Dave Roberts as well, Will Smith, David Vat say,
Speaker 3: we'll check in with us. We'll go down memory lane
Speaker 3: with Steve in nineteen eighty eight, the NLCS, Dodgers and
Speaker 3: Mets so much to get to. We appreciate you being
Speaker 3: with us this morning. It's Sax and Kate to the Am.
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Speaker 3: Colin Cowherd leading you up to Dodger pregame. Dodgers on
Speaker 3: deck at noon, first pitch at oneh eight. A quick turnaround, Sax.
Speaker 3: See Dodgers play a lot of baseball in the span
Speaker 3: of like ninety six hours. There Game five on Friday night.
Speaker 3: You know the NLDS game won last night. We got
Speaker 3: Game two today at one o'clock.
Speaker 1: They won't feel it. They won't feel it at all.
Speaker 1: Guaranteed those guys are gonna pop out of bed like
Speaker 1: they didn't. They didn't recognize that that the game was
Speaker 1: so quick and it was just you know, like a
Speaker 1: few more hours and boom, we were out there ready
Speaker 1: to play again. They won't even know it. I mean,
Speaker 1: these guys are just so hyped up right now. The
Speaker 1: deal is they got to ratchet it back a little
Speaker 1: bit and trying to not have to get over the skis
Speaker 1: because they're excited right now. There's there's not no worries
Speaker 1: about the sleep.
Speaker 3: Don't think that the Dodgers aren't taking tickets or collecting tickets,
Speaker 3: as the kids say. As far as people who have
Speaker 3: picked against them, it was funny last night on the
Speaker 3: Fox postgame show, Max Munsey was on with Big Poppy
Speaker 3: and a Rod and the crew Derek Jeter and Big
Speaker 3: Poppy was like, hey man, Max, we know we're so
Speaker 3: happy for you guys. And Max took looked them and said,
Speaker 3: you picked against us. You didn't think we'd get past
Speaker 3: the Padres And he goes, no, no, no, I picked
Speaker 3: you And they're like, no, no, no, no, you picked
Speaker 3: against us. Max Munts. He's going around making sure people
Speaker 3: know that if you didn't pick the Dodgers to even
Speaker 3: get out of the NLDS, don't start coming now and saying, oh,
Speaker 3: we think you guys are so good. These guys are
Speaker 3: they've remembered Saxy. Yes, and maybe that's the motivation they
Speaker 3: needed as a team that nearly won one hundred games,
Speaker 3: had the best record over on baseball, the high payroll.
Speaker 3: Everybody wants to talk about, Oh, you should be here,
Speaker 3: You're expected to be here, and maybe this is the
Speaker 3: motivation that they're using. You know, they're collecting receipts as
Speaker 3: they say.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're using the motivation from getting bounced too early,
Speaker 1: especially last year with just three games and they're out.
Speaker 1: I mean, the expectations are so much higher and they
Speaker 1: are so much better than that. Everybody knows that. If
Speaker 1: you just look at the numbers across the board, it
Speaker 1: bears it out. For instance, their offensive output this year
Speaker 1: was one hundred and fifty seven plus right run differential,
Speaker 1: and that is amazing, more than anybody else in baseball.
Speaker 1: So the good thing about the Dodgers is they know
Speaker 1: even if they get down in a game, they can
Speaker 1: turn around with one swing of the bat. You know,
Speaker 1: you get a couple of guys on and you got
Speaker 1: so many bombers on this team. It's built to slug
Speaker 1: and that's dangerous.
Speaker 3: Eight sixty six, nine seventy We shut it out the
Speaker 3: guys who are rann through over the weekend from Glendale
Speaker 3: water in power. How about the guys down at the
Speaker 3: Port of La the guys there on the docks. David
Speaker 3: at the Port of La joins us here on a
Speaker 3: five to seven LA Sports. Good morning, David.
Speaker 8: Hey, good morning guys, David Monday morning, after that Dodger win.
Speaker 8: But I know I called last week after I think
Speaker 8: it was Game two, and I was a little bit
Speaker 8: hard on Max muntsey Man for that infield play. But uh,
Speaker 8: I think, uh what, you guys hit it right on
Speaker 8: the head.
Speaker 9: Uh they get.
Speaker 10: A fire right underneath all these guys and they're mad.
Speaker 10: That whole panel, I call them the haters. All picked
Speaker 10: the padres man, all pick the padres, all of them.
Speaker 11: And I didn't want to give a.
Speaker 9: Credit or it's due our pitching staff man.
Speaker 10: Thirty three scoreless innings.
Speaker 11: It's perfect.
Speaker 9: They're playing perfect ball right now.
Speaker 10: They're on a high note, and I think they're.
Speaker 8: Just gonna just smoke these whole playoffs.
Speaker 9: I think they're gonna sweep everybody.
Speaker 12: I really do.
Speaker 3: Let's not get I far ahead of ourselves here. It's
Speaker 3: one game, and this is a Mets team. That got
Speaker 3: here by knocking off the Phillies and the Brewers, David.
Speaker 3: So they're they're a good team. They were riding high.
Speaker 3: They were probably one of the hottest teams in baseball
Speaker 3: going into the October postseason. So it's one game. Well,
Speaker 3: we'll see today in game two.
Speaker 10: Oh, we'll see and everything's better when the Dodgers win.
Speaker 3: Man, I'm out all right, appreciated David eight six six, nine,
Speaker 3: seven two five seventy him.
Speaker 1: Is that the guy that that you know, just be
Speaker 1: tween you and me listening right now, Is that the
Speaker 1: guy that they said Munsey was kind chubby? Was that
Speaker 1: the same guy?
Speaker 3: You can be pointing the finger in a lot of people,
Speaker 3: but just saying that. But yeah, match Munsey has taken
Speaker 3: his lumps this season, Steve. This is a guy who's
Speaker 3: been hurt, had the a dominal issue or the oblique injury.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's tough to overcome to you.
Speaker 3: And just couldn't get right and struggled at the plate.
Speaker 3: Fans like to get after him because he's a slug player,
Speaker 3: and that's kind of where he burst onto the scene
Speaker 3: a few years ago when the game was at that
Speaker 3: direction where it was home run deep fly balls or strikeouts,
Speaker 3: and he's still sort of in that mold of a
Speaker 3: slug player. And that's okay, but it's swing or missed
Speaker 3: with Max Munsey and then strikeout or home run for Mat.
Speaker 1: To walk in there too. Sure, But you know what,
Speaker 1: I really like him. He grows on you because you
Speaker 1: know something. He's a guy that's meant for the moment.
Speaker 1: He can hit that big home run. Hey, look at
Speaker 1: I think he's underrated defensively too. He can play third,
Speaker 1: he can play first. He's a versatile guy. He's a
Speaker 1: very much a team guy. And you know what you're
Speaker 1: getting with him. You're gonna get a walk, a strikeout,
Speaker 1: or a home run. I mean, he's not going to
Speaker 1: string together seven singles. It's not gonna happen with Max.
Speaker 1: But you need a guy like that on the team,
Speaker 1: and he's he fits perfect. Remember they got Max Muncie
Speaker 1: from the scrap heap of the Oakland A's many years ago.
Speaker 1: When they got him over he he he had a
Speaker 1: total of like five home runs in his career. Now
Speaker 1: that look could happen when he comes over the Dodgers.
Speaker 1: I mean, how do you really pick somebody like that
Speaker 1: out that's I mean, there's a lot of guys that
Speaker 1: are on the scrap heat from teams. What do you do?
Speaker 1: You go in there and uh, I'll take the guy
Speaker 1: in the red shirt, right, just bring him over here
Speaker 1: and we'll we'll turn this around and we'll put his
Speaker 1: foot over here and we'll make him swing a little higher,
Speaker 1: and that'll do it.
Speaker 4: Well.
Speaker 1: They obviously knew it because it turned out to be
Speaker 1: a boon for the Dodgers.
Speaker 3: That's development though, right, That's that's the guys in player personnel,
Speaker 3: in the front office recognizing there's something there in Anthony Bonda,
Speaker 3: who was on the scrap peaks Ryan Brazier a year ago.
Speaker 3: The Boston Red Sox couldn't get rid of him fast enough.
Speaker 3: Even Key Key Hernandez last year was underachieving so much
Speaker 3: in Boston they couldn't wait to get rid of him.
Speaker 3: The Dodgers would gladly take him back, fix his swing.
Speaker 3: And what they do with the pitchers, which is so great, Steve,
Speaker 3: is they'll recognize what you're good at. If you're a
Speaker 3: four pitch pitcher, you know what, get rid of this one,
Speaker 3: get rid of that one. Yeah, these two pitches, you're
Speaker 3: really good at you know what, put your index finger
Speaker 3: up a little high on the knuckle curve, and we
Speaker 3: think you can get a little bit more spin rate
Speaker 3: on that and get some chases. And the difference is
Speaker 3: speed between your ninety three mile on hour fastball and
Speaker 3: now a knuckle curve or a slider or a sweeper
Speaker 3: is going to be even greater to a hitter. And
Speaker 3: they just tweak you a little bit because they see
Speaker 3: something and they can find that. That's what they're so
Speaker 3: good at. They find something in everybody and they magnify
Speaker 3: that to the greatest degree.
Speaker 1: You know what else is really good? In and Out Burger?
Speaker 1: Aren't they? Aren't they good? You know why? You know
Speaker 1: why In and Out Burger is good because they have
Speaker 1: a very simple menu. They cut it way down. They
Speaker 1: get rid of all the slough. This is really good.
Speaker 1: This is really good, and you know what you're getting
Speaker 1: every single time you go in there. That's kind of
Speaker 1: what they do with these guys. They take that out,
Speaker 1: take that out of your repertoire. You don't need this,
Speaker 1: Like you said, go to the knuckle curve. A little
Speaker 1: bit more pressure on your fastball on the side will
Speaker 1: make it move to the left. That's what you gotta do,
Speaker 1: and that and that they keep it simple and that's
Speaker 1: what's made it look when they got Max Munsey too.
Speaker 1: Max Munsey kind of reminds me, not because he's a big,
Speaker 1: tough guy. You know, he likes to to you know,
Speaker 1: to scrap it up with the other team and whatnot.
Speaker 1: But I'm using the analogy of like a Rocky Marciano
Speaker 1: in Rocky Marciano the Fighter, he's my favorite fighter. When
Speaker 1: he was a fighter, he was very crude. He was
Speaker 1: not a good boxer. He was off on his feet,
Speaker 1: wasn't good and he had to really work on a
Speaker 1: lot of his footwork. But the reason that they took
Speaker 1: Rocky Marciano on and took a chance on him because
Speaker 1: the guy could really punch. He had a great right hand.
Speaker 1: He had an unbeliev he called it the Susiq and
Speaker 1: it was an unbelievable right hand. So what they did
Speaker 1: is they took that unbelievable ability to punch and then
Speaker 1: they worked it as much as they could into a
Speaker 1: guy that was forty nine to zero for his career.
Speaker 1: Kind Of what you see was some of the players
Speaker 1: in all the scouting department with the Dodgers. They take
Speaker 1: this guy a Max Munsey who was not gonna make
Speaker 1: it anywhere with Oakland. He was trying a bunch of
Speaker 1: different things. Hey, let's take this guy over. Why because
Speaker 1: he can Because he can hit the ball out of
Speaker 1: the ballpark. He's got power and you can't manufacture that
Speaker 1: any other way. Let's take him, refine him a little bit,
Speaker 1: work him, and get him a little bit more. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know in tune with the powerstroke and bang, look
Speaker 1: what happened. So that that's what happened. You take that
Speaker 1: one ability and you kind of hone it in and
Speaker 1: then you got Max Munzi.
Speaker 3: He has been fantastic over the years with the Dodgers,
Speaker 3: and when healthy has been hitting the ball fall for
Speaker 3: them as well with the power. Let's go to Josh
Speaker 3: in la Is next up here on Saxon Kates and
Speaker 3: the Am on this Monday morning, the Dodgers up one
Speaker 3: game to nothing in the NLCS. How you doing, Josh,
Speaker 3: good morning?
Speaker 9: Was at the game last night.
Speaker 13: I mean there's nothing more spiritual than the national anthem
Speaker 13: and the flag rolling out on the field and got
Speaker 13: the Dodgers lined up ready for a win. And and
Speaker 13: I just thank you you know that this game is
Speaker 13: so beautiful, but there's a there's an aspect of spirituality.
Speaker 11: To this game, and and the baseball guys definitely smiling
Speaker 11: down on us when we play the game right. And
Speaker 11: I just want to say that I was at the
Speaker 11: game when it gets to Padres, when we had the
Speaker 11: triple plate turned on us, and I swear that the
Speaker 11: guys are telling me that there was no chance we
Speaker 11: had a shot this year. And then I was at
Speaker 11: the game last night and I see us getting bunched down.
Speaker 13: Then the next time, I bet DMan gets ahead, and
Speaker 13: the gods are smiling down upon us. Let's keep playing
Speaker 13: the game right, and let's take it home, all right.
Speaker 3: Appreciate that, John. I wonder if that is the baseball
Speaker 3: gods looking down on the Dodgers and the way they're
Speaker 3: playing here in October Saxy because the bottom of the lineup,
Speaker 3: it's no it's no secret. When there's guys on. For
Speaker 3: shoe Otani, his numbers are through the roof with runners
Speaker 3: of scoring position. When there's nobody on, he's like, oh
Speaker 3: for the postseason.
Speaker 1: Right now.
Speaker 3: With that being said, there is a clear there is
Speaker 3: a clear message that the Dodgers are sending that they
Speaker 3: are trying to get guys on for him at the
Speaker 3: bottom of the lineup, whether they bunting guys on, whether
Speaker 3: you know great hitting the opposite way that we saw price,
Speaker 3: yes from Kiki Hernettis and Tommy edmund and Rock bunting
Speaker 3: a guy into scoring positions so.
Speaker 1: They can great change up and hit that ball the
Speaker 1: other way.
Speaker 3: It is unbelievable to see this bottom of the lineup
Speaker 3: manufacturing things, getting guys on and setting the table for
Speaker 3: the feast and show hail TONI.
Speaker 1: You know, you know what's so fantastic about this whole
Speaker 1: thing is the only thing you hear about is, oh,
Speaker 1: the Dodgers are really lacking in that starting rotation, you know,
Speaker 1: because of all the injuries. And that's the reason, just
Speaker 1: the injuries. But they're really lacking. I don't know what
Speaker 1: they're gonna do. What happens, they come out and they
Speaker 1: just stick it to them with the starting rotation. That's
Speaker 1: point number one. Point number two. Boy, they can really slug.
Speaker 1: That's the way they're built. They're gonna hit all these
Speaker 1: home runs. Let me see Tommy Edmonds and Keith k
Speaker 1: hernan Is lining in a soft change up the other way,
Speaker 1: exactly the textbook way that you're supposed to hit that
Speaker 1: ball the other way. They're bunting, they're stealing bases, they're
Speaker 1: throwing behind the runners like a caught winker with this
Speaker 1: hand in the cookie jar or his thumb up somewhere else.
Speaker 1: I don't know where, but anyway, they're doing all the
Speaker 1: little things that a big mashing team kind of overlooks
Speaker 1: and doesn't have to do.
Speaker 13: Well.
Speaker 1: Guess what they're doing it And that's the reason why
Speaker 1: they're in the position tore in now because it's the
Speaker 1: little things that they're doing.
Speaker 3: They were doing in fantastic last night. It's it's beautiful
Speaker 3: to see it when it works, and guys are moving around,
Speaker 3: stays in the station, and then you get a Shoeotani
Speaker 3: who just powers a ball between first and second or
Speaker 3: muscles one up off the base of the wall in
Speaker 3: right center field, and guys are just being waved home
Speaker 3: by Dino Ebel and they put a ninth spot up
Speaker 3: on the board last night in a nine to nothing
Speaker 3: shutout win over the New York match. Alfred in La
Speaker 3: is next up with Saxon, Kates and Am on this
Speaker 3: Monday morning. In between Game one and Game two of
Speaker 3: the NLCS h I Alfred.
Speaker 9: Hey, good morning, guys.
Speaker 14: How you doing.
Speaker 9: I've been trying to get on the show for a
Speaker 9: long time. I've been trying to defend the Dodgers. Man.
Speaker 9: They're the best team in baseball. They deal with adversity
Speaker 9: for a very long time and they still got the best,
Speaker 9: best record in baseball. This is a championship build team, man,
Speaker 9: and a lot of people will on Dave Roberts doesn't
Speaker 9: realize that he changed his whole strategy. Now he's playing
Speaker 9: a bunch of small ball and teams just don't know
Speaker 9: how to play small ball anymore. He's bringing old school
Speaker 9: baseball back and it's being very effective. And I mean,
Speaker 9: this is a built championship team, you know, with a
Speaker 9: game of failure and everything like that, this team is destined.
Speaker 9: But you know, we'll see they got a flush last
Speaker 9: night and come out tonight and play a good game
Speaker 9: and we'll see what goes on from there.
Speaker 3: All right, appreciated, Alfred. I mean, Dodger fan see it, saxy.
Speaker 3: They understand that in a postseason, whether it's a nine
Speaker 3: to nothing to win or it's a two to nothing
Speaker 3: win like it was on Friday Night and a pitchers
Speaker 3: duel that shocked everybody, and we thought we're gonna get
Speaker 3: a high scoring game five of the NLDS doesn't matter
Speaker 3: the score, high scoring or low scoring. Small ball matters.
Speaker 3: And Keiky Hernandez going two for four getting on base,
Speaker 3: Gavin luck Is getting on base with the walk at
Speaker 3: the bottom of the order. And then Tommy Edmund being
Speaker 3: unselfish one for three a bunch but also drives in
Speaker 3: a run, scores a run. I mean Tommy Edmond to
Speaker 3: me again, I can't say it enough. I understand now
Speaker 3: why Andrew Freeman wanted him on this roster for the
Speaker 3: last three years. The kind of player that he is, unselfish,
Speaker 3: plays multiple positions, can hit for power, can hit for average,
Speaker 3: and it's just a gamer. Is that what you call him?
Speaker 3: Just a baseball gamer?
Speaker 1: Yes, you know love players like this, And I give
Speaker 1: a shout out to to my nephew. He plays just
Speaker 1: like this same exact way. I mean, Pop, you know,
Speaker 1: we're hiting both sides of the play. Great defense, he
Speaker 1: can run bunts great you know. So this type of
Speaker 1: player that he is, that Tommy Edmond, you can't replace.
Speaker 1: Guys like this are too valuable here we are talking
Speaker 1: about it. Listen, what happens at the power is you
Speaker 1: have a little power outage for a couple of games.
Speaker 1: You have to have guys in there to keep the
Speaker 1: wheels moving, to keep the game in action, to bring
Speaker 1: back some of that old flair, speed kills, defense kills,
Speaker 1: And that's what these guys bring. You gotta have guys like.
Speaker 3: This, absolutely do. And the Dodgers have it right now.
Speaker 3: They've got it going right now. He won nothing's lead
Speaker 3: in this NLCS. We'll come back. We'll get to your
Speaker 3: phone calls. We will hear from Dave Roberts. Next hour,
Speaker 3: we'll hear from Freddie Freeman. We'll get back to a
Speaker 3: flashback from nineteen eighty eight the Dodgers and Mets. Yes,
Speaker 3: they met in the NLCS during that magical run and
Speaker 3: World Series postseason run for Steve Saxon the eighty eight Dodgers.
Speaker 3: We'll go down memory lane. The Dodgers are closing in
Speaker 3: on an MLB record after tying it last night on
Speaker 3: the mound in the ninth inning. David Vasse will join
Speaker 3: us in the final hour your phone calls on this
Speaker 3: Monday morning, Dodgers A one nothing series lead in the
Speaker 3: National League Championship Series, Game two today out at Dodgers
Speaker 3: Datum right here on your home of the Dodgers, A
Speaker 3: five seventy LA Sports, Saxon, Kate's and AM on this
Speaker 3: Monday morning, October fourteenth, live and local, as the Dodgers
Speaker 3: are up one game to nothing in the Best seven
Speaker 3: NLCS over the New York Mets. After a nine to
Speaker 3: nothing victory last night behind Jack Felherty's seven shutout innians,
Speaker 3: the Dodgers now thirty three consecutive scoreless innings. Pitch going
Speaker 3: back to Game three of the nl DS against the
Speaker 3: San Diego Padres. He is Steve Sax, I'm Tim Kates
Speaker 3: coming up, David Basse. In our eight o'clock hour, we'll
Speaker 3: hear from Freddie Freeman and Will Smith. Next hour, we'll
Speaker 3: get a great nineteen eighty eight flashback from the Dodgers
Speaker 3: Mets n LCS, the last time these two teams met
Speaker 3: in the Championships Series. We'll get back out to your
Speaker 3: phone calls. In his second but last night, the Dodgers
Speaker 3: with a nine to nothing win, and afterwards, here's the manager,
Speaker 3: Dave Roberts talking about his team's.
Speaker 14: Win Lernie, what's your kind of key of that parting,
Speaker 14: but how that came together and how that looked.
Speaker 15: Like it was just a pitching clinic. I thought he
Speaker 15: did a great job of filling up the strike zone
Speaker 15: with his complete mix, used as fastball when he needed
Speaker 15: to just minimize damage. And you know, once we caught
Speaker 15: a lead, he did a great job of just going
Speaker 15: after those guys in attacking. And you know, for us
Speaker 15: to get seven innings in a long series was huge.
Speaker 16: There's a lot on a guy when a team brings
Speaker 16: up a high profile player in at the deadline and
Speaker 16: then he gets game one and there's more on him.
Speaker 16: How has he handled all that part of it, sort
Speaker 16: of being the guy to come in and help with
Speaker 16: everything else going on in your.
Speaker 15: Starting paper, I think that for us, we're getting Jack
Speaker 15: at the perfect time. As far as he's a veteran player,
Speaker 15: he's been through a lot highs lows and found his
Speaker 15: way back. This is certainly a childhood dream for him
Speaker 15: and his family, and we just knew that. You know,
Speaker 15: youvet a guy and you just feel that he can
Speaker 15: handle this market, handle being a pitching in a playoff game,
Speaker 15: starting a playoff game, and so that wasn't really a
Speaker 15: surprise for us. And I felt, like I said to
Speaker 15: I think he's gonna spit out a really good one tonight,
Speaker 15: and you know, the moment just isn't going to get
Speaker 15: too big for Jack.
Speaker 7: Execution wise at the plate, took the bat out of
Speaker 7: the hands a couple of times. Everything went right in
Speaker 7: that regard. Can you talk a little bit about the
Speaker 7: execution that you guys had up and down the lineup
Speaker 7: to get so many runs.
Speaker 15: Well, I thought, you know, you could see clearly that
Speaker 15: Sanga just didn't have his a stuff tonight. The split
Speaker 15: was non competitive, he didn't use the sweeper, and then
Speaker 15: he was just kind of relying on the cutter of
Speaker 15: working behind hitters, walking guys, so for us to take
Speaker 15: our walks create stress. The Maximunsey base hit was huge,
Speaker 15: and I just thought tonight we kind of checked down
Speaker 15: and got some big bass hits, whether you know, moving
Speaker 15: a guy over, moving him up and then getting a knock.
Speaker 15: I just thought, all night long we were really stubborn.
Speaker 15: I thought the hitting coaches did a great job of
Speaker 15: putting together a game plan, and then the players executed.
Speaker 1: Mike and the third row.
Speaker 14: Dave had sacrifice bunts all season. You had two in
Speaker 14: the first four innings. Ton I what prompted the small
Speaker 14: ball approach.
Speaker 15: It's just playoff baseball. I just think that, you know,
Speaker 15: it's just it's the fact. The truth of the matter
Speaker 15: is that the postseason is different than the regular season,
Speaker 15: and you know, it's about kind of ninety feet and
Speaker 15: giving yourself and some of the some of that was
Speaker 15: making sure show he had a chance to get up.
Speaker 15: But to Tommy's credit, to Key Case's credit, driving in
Speaker 15: those runs were huge, and then Gavin getting the butt down,
Speaker 15: Tommy getting the butt down. It's just team baseball. And
Speaker 15: I think that, you know, if you can get a
Speaker 15: guy in scoring position, it just creates a little bit
Speaker 15: more stress.
Speaker 14: I was asked you about show Hey his numbers a
Speaker 14: good guys on base and bass is empty or very
Speaker 14: extreme as postseason. Why you think that is and does
Speaker 14: it just emphasize the importance having guys on for him?
Speaker 15: It's certainly were better when we get guys on with
Speaker 15: show Hey up to bat. Obviously, when guys are in
Speaker 15: scormp there might be a little bit more focus. But
Speaker 15: I think right now he's just he's in a good spot.
Speaker 15: And like I said that last series, I thought he
Speaker 15: chased a little bit. But I think tonight he got
Speaker 15: back into his hitting zone and some good things happening.
Speaker 15: Even one of his outs, you know, was close to
Speaker 15: being a homer.
Speaker 3: All right, there's Dave Roberts last night after the game
Speaker 3: talking about Jack Flaherty and this new small ball that
Speaker 3: the Dodgers have incorporated here in this twenty twenty four postseason.
Speaker 3: He mentioned the Maxi Munsey two run single in the
Speaker 3: first inning, Saxey. They had Kodai Singa on the ropes
Speaker 3: after the groundout from Otani to lead off the bottom
Speaker 3: of the first back to back to back walks, the Betts,
Speaker 3: Freeman and tay Oscar Hernandez will Smith flies out to
Speaker 3: shallow center field, two down, bases still loaded. Singa could
Speaker 3: have got out of that inning after all that with
Speaker 3: a zero on the scoreboard, but the Dodgers again with
Speaker 3: two outs, get a big bass hit. Max Munsey delivers
Speaker 3: with the two runs single.
Speaker 1: Lot.
Speaker 3: I thought that was important because instead of just a
Speaker 3: zero and keeping him, you know, in the game, singer
Speaker 3: and lingering around and maybe he can start figuring out
Speaker 3: his fastball and it's getting it over his his offsby
Speaker 3: pitches for strikes. They jumped on him and really put
Speaker 3: the pressure on him. He was never able to rebound. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it changed everything. And remember that came on the heels
Speaker 3: of Mookie holding up at third base, yes, right, and
Speaker 3: not going on the on the fly ball. So yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean, that's that's what you get when championship, championship
Speaker 3: teams come into the fold. You see, the expectations are
Speaker 3: there that this team is going to beat you up
Speaker 3: with the home run. But there's, man, there's all these
Speaker 3: other things are doing. Like you talk about small ball,
Speaker 3: we know that eventually that somebody's gonna slug and a
Speaker 3: game or two is just going to be dominated by
Speaker 3: the home run. It's it's bound to happen. Okay, not
Speaker 3: that you can absolutely say it is and guarantee it,
Speaker 3: but it's bound to happen. But you you steal a
Speaker 3: couple of games by a bunt, a line drive to
Speaker 3: right field, by you know, your seven eight nine hitters
Speaker 3: hitting the change up the other way, a great base
Speaker 3: running move, a phenomenal play in the outfield where you
Speaker 3: deep Jesse Winker and having really in no man's land,
Speaker 3: and it changes the whole landscape of the game. These
Speaker 3: things that can't even be predicted are the things that
Speaker 3: the Dodgers are doing right now. And this is it's
Speaker 3: really not even subtle. It's out there and it's big,
Speaker 3: and people are loving this how they're winning these games.
Speaker 3: They put nine runs up on the board last night
Speaker 3: in his zero home run.
Speaker 1: How about that.
Speaker 3: That's unbelievable.
Speaker 1: It's a beautiful thing. Like I said, the home runs
Speaker 1: are going to be there, you know, without question. You
Speaker 1: put nine runs up on that team with you know,
Speaker 1: without hitting a home run. That's phenomenal. And the Dodgers
Speaker 1: are going to keep this going. As long as they
Speaker 1: can keep this thing churning, they will.
Speaker 3: You heard Dave Roberts when asked about showey Otani with
Speaker 3: runners in scoring position, he's like six for eight with
Speaker 3: a home run and like five RBIs with bases empty.
Speaker 3: He's over the postseason.
Speaker 1: I think he's like twelve for sixteen, I mean going
Speaker 1: with bases with and scoring positions, some ridiculous number like that.
Speaker 1: What does that tell you? Well, when it's uh, when
Speaker 1: it's on the line and they have to pitch to
Speaker 1: them because they're the bases are clogged that's when he
Speaker 1: just he just hammers. You know, they had to come
Speaker 1: in there. And you remember, show, Hey, with all the
Speaker 1: great phenomenal home runs, the one hundred and thirty RBIs,
Speaker 1: et cetera, he's still a really good hitter. He's a
Speaker 1: really phenomenal hitter. Him and there and Judge are two
Speaker 1: of the best hitters in the game because of the
Speaker 1: amount of damage they produce, but because they're good, purposeful
Speaker 1: hitters and they can hit the up ball the other
Speaker 1: way with authority. That's why they're so great.
Speaker 3: I'm glad you brought that up. When they have to
Speaker 3: pitch the show a Otani because runners are on base
Speaker 3: and they can't walk them and afford to load the
Speaker 3: bases up or put another guy on base. That's important, right, Saxony,
Speaker 3: Because when you've got nobody on and you've got Otani up,
Speaker 3: and you say, you know, pitch around him, they're they're nibbling, right,
Speaker 3: They're throwing pitches are maybe on the black or certainly
Speaker 3: not in the strike zone and hoping that he'll chase right.
Speaker 1: Right right. And people say, well, sometimes it chases, and
Speaker 1: you know that's that's his aggressiveness. I say, you take
Speaker 1: the warts. Yeah, you know what if there's anything that
Speaker 1: you can put a nick on him and say, well,
Speaker 1: you know, you chase that ball, chase a ball that
Speaker 1: he had, don't we all? I mean, you take the warts.
Speaker 1: That's part of his aggression. You don't want to take
Speaker 1: that away from him because that's what produces the home runs.
Speaker 1: So you live with it. And when the game's on
Speaker 1: the line, that dude produces.
Speaker 3: Father Gary in Burbank, real quick, father Gary, before we
Speaker 3: hit the top of the hour break, Good morning, Father Gary.
Speaker 3: We needed some doctoring Guide intervention on Friday, and we
Speaker 3: got it. And now the Dodgers real quickly, you're back
Speaker 3: up one game to nothing in the NLCS.
Speaker 12: Guys, I'm thrilled. My attitude is much different than it
Speaker 12: was a week ago at this time. If you would
Speaker 12: allow me just a quick liberty to explain something so
Speaker 12: that I don't confuse any listeners or confuse you guys.
Speaker 12: But in our Greek Orthodox tradition, the clergy can be
Speaker 12: married as long as we get married before war ordained
Speaker 12: and Sactually, I got a confession out of my wife
Speaker 12: last night. She was a huge fan of yours when
Speaker 12: she was thirteen, and she wanted me to give you
Speaker 12: a shout out and tell her that she had a
Speaker 12: huge crush on you growing up, but thank god I
Speaker 12: ended up with her. But listen, guys, I just want
Speaker 12: to say real quick. I know work press for time,
Speaker 12: but just let me just say real quick, press for time.
Speaker 12: There's a humility in our clubhouse that you don't find
Speaker 12: since nineteen eighty eight. There's a humility in there. We
Speaker 12: got characters like nineteen eighty eighteen. We got like Mickey Hatcher's,
Speaker 12: we got Freeman, been around the bases like Kurt Gibson
Speaker 12: got we got players, guys, we got players. It's re
Speaker 12: enacting itself. So I'm excited to hear about what you
Speaker 12: guys are gonna do with the nineteen eighty eight replay.
Speaker 12: Rewind flashback right now. But let me just tell you
Speaker 12: that we have humility in that clubhouse, and it's showing
Speaker 12: people not afraid to bond. Oh Tawny hustling around the basis. Man,
Speaker 12: you see him running, Mookie pitching Freeman. He comes across
Speaker 12: the plate.
Speaker 9: That's kind to hurt the man.
Speaker 12: That's gotta hurt Freddy as he comes across. I love it, guys.
Speaker 12: We're playing like a team. We're playing baseball. It's fun
Speaker 12: to watch because humility. This is what we need.
Speaker 10: I love it.
Speaker 3: Thank you, father, Gary, appreciate you checking in, and yeah,
Speaker 3: join the club.
Speaker 1: There's what a great point, Tim, father Gary, great point
Speaker 1: that was. He's right.
Speaker 3: Humility has a great way to describe this team, as
Speaker 3: they now take a one to zero series lead in
Speaker 3: this best at seven and LCS quick turnaround Game two
Speaker 3: this afternoon out of Dodger Stadium, and then the teams
Speaker 3: will fly east for games three, four, and if necessary,
Speaker 3: Game five. Dodgers win it last night nine to nothing
Speaker 3: over the New York Mets behind Jack Flairty seven shutout Inians.
Speaker 3: We'll come back. David Vesse joins us in the eight
Speaker 3: o'clock hour. Next hour, we'll get story time, a flashback
Speaker 3: with Steve Sacks, so we go back to nineteen eighty eight,
Speaker 3: same matchup, Dodgers Mets. We'll go back with Steve. Then
Speaker 3: we'll also get to your phone calls eight sixty six,
Speaker 3: nine eighty seven, two five seventy. He is Steve Sacks.
Speaker 3: I'm Tim Kates. It's m five seventy l A Sports