Speaker 1: All right, let's go Fred Ruggan or Rodney Pete not
Speaker 1: five seventy LA sports Dodger fans. How you like that?
Speaker 1: How are you feeling now? Yesterday it was doom and gloom.
Speaker 1: Today the sun seems to be shining again and off
Speaker 1: the top. I do want to say, Rodney, yeah, talk
Speaker 1: to me. And it's it's unusual to be very frank
Speaker 1: that we're both right at the same time that rarely happens.
Speaker 2: Rarely does, rarely does.
Speaker 1: We're like, uh dan ayk Royd and U Jane Curtin
Speaker 1: were like point counterpoint. We said, we rarely agree on stuff,
Speaker 1: but yesterday we both had it. A couple of things.
Speaker 1: We both said yesterday the pitching's going to be good.
Speaker 1: The pitching's going to be fine. And I can't remember
Speaker 1: if I said I think it'll actually be better than
Speaker 1: they had a starter out there. The pitching was great.
Speaker 1: There was not a concern in my mind, Rodney about
Speaker 1: the pitching yesterday, No me either. And the way the
Speaker 1: way Brazier took the mound and it's his start, just
Speaker 1: to look in his eye and then look at his stuff.
Speaker 1: I felt good from like once they got past that
Speaker 1: first inning and I felt pretty good about it.
Speaker 2: I really did.
Speaker 1: I didn't know we were gonna score all those runs,
Speaker 1: but I felt pretty good about the pitching part of it.
Speaker 2: Fred, and so many people were so against it.
Speaker 1: You know, you listen to all the pre game and
Speaker 1: you know, you listen to a Rod and Jeter and
Speaker 1: those guys and Poppy and those guys that are all saying,
Speaker 1: how you know, I hate the bullpen game? In game four,
Speaker 1: You're an elimination game. How do you do a bullpen game?
Speaker 1: Why do you not have a start for this? And
Speaker 1: for that reason, I'm picking the Padres and they all did.
Speaker 1: And yet if you watch this team, especially the last month,
Speaker 1: the bullpen has been the strength the strength of this team.
Speaker 1: And you know, telling these guys, a group of them, hey,
Speaker 1: all I need is three outs from you go get me,
Speaker 1: get me three outs and sometimes maybe get me five,
Speaker 1: and they collectively manned up, Fred, I don't know any
Speaker 1: other way to say it. They collectively manned up and
Speaker 1: said we got you, we got you, and they shut
Speaker 1: it down. They looked depressive, they looked unhittable. Yeah, they
Speaker 1: looked like they were dominant and in control from the
Speaker 1: minute of the game started. Every single one of them,
Speaker 1: and Dave Roberts wasn't afraid to bring Kopek in early
Speaker 1: when he thought he needed to be in there.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: I was like, why Copeck now? Why he's been so
Speaker 1: good at the end, Why Copeck now? And uh, but
Speaker 1: you know, they know what they're doing. They know what
Speaker 1: they're doing. And by the way, let's give it right now,
Speaker 1: let's give flowers to Dave Roberts because he got I'm
Speaker 1: sure shall act about a bullpen game and what is
Speaker 1: he doing? But he got our message to uh Fred,
Speaker 1: he put key K in the game. Yep, Kyk got
Speaker 1: to put out. It was because key K and Chris
Speaker 1: Taylor kept switching positions. Yes, it was very strange. One
Speaker 1: would be at third and one would be at center,
Speaker 1: and then you turn around and they be flipped, and
Speaker 1: you turn around they be flipped again. Yeah, that was
Speaker 1: very bizarre, Rodney, while they kept switching positions.
Speaker 2: Yeah, don't I don't know. I don't know what the
Speaker 2: reasoning was behind that. But it all worked out.
Speaker 1: It all worked out, and it was good to see
Speaker 1: some guys break out, Max Munsey breaking out, Gavin Lux
Speaker 1: doing his thing. I thought, oh, you know, overall, it
Speaker 1: was just a and I said yesterday that this is
Speaker 1: a different team when their backs against the wall. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm not guaranteeing any victory tomorrow anything like that, but
Speaker 1: when their backs have kind of been against the wall
Speaker 1: and they went through lulls this season, or they needed
Speaker 1: to go to a place or have a series with
Speaker 1: somebody big that they needed to go win it, they responded.
Speaker 1: And last night it was it was impressive to see
Speaker 1: as a team how they responded. The only guy that
Speaker 1: was wrong yesterday was David Vassy. The only guy that
Speaker 1: was wrong with David because he was a little bitter yesterday.
Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe it was his attitude that made
Speaker 1: him wrong, right, I mean, right off the bat, Okay,
Speaker 1: who's going to pitch tonight?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 1: Who do you think? I've said it? It'll be a
Speaker 1: left hander starting? Well, which one? Well one of two? Okay,
Speaker 1: it was Ryan Brazier, who was right handed. And then
Speaker 1: you said, well, you know what about Freddie Freeman? Will
Speaker 1: he be in the lineup? The response was, I assure you,
Speaker 1: Freddy Freeman will be in the lineup, and he didn't play.
Speaker 1: The only guy that was wrong yesterday was Vassa. And
Speaker 1: on the topic of Freddie Freeman watching him last night, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was the happiest this guy's looked in a month, smiling,
Speaker 1: patent gosh on the back. Yeah, he is not looked
Speaker 1: that happy playing.
Speaker 2: Yeah night he did, he really did.
Speaker 1: And sometimes fred you you when you're hurt and you
Speaker 1: don't get a chance or you're not contributing to the team,
Speaker 1: especially in big time situations like the playoffs like they're in,
Speaker 1: all you're praying is to get another chance, or you're
Speaker 1: you're praying to to just extend it so I can
Speaker 1: go help my team. And to see that happening, you
Speaker 1: could see it on his face. You're right that he
Speaker 1: was all smiles and all happy. Now. I don't know
Speaker 1: if he's going to play tomorrow, but he gets a
Speaker 1: day off right now. It's it gets two days off
Speaker 1: because he didn't play, but he was happy. I will
Speaker 1: assure you that he possibly gets another opportunity to play
Speaker 1: in these playoffs.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because he's another one like Mookie.
Speaker 1: Remember, he's another one that has struggled and people were
Speaker 1: talking about him and MOOKI broke out of it. And
Speaker 1: and so you know, now it's if Freddie plays. It's
Speaker 1: time for him to break out of it. Yeah, Mookie
Speaker 1: again last night, So that's two games in a row.
Speaker 1: You hope now that whatever was ailing him has been
Speaker 1: cured because now he's playing, he's hitting like Mookie bats.
Speaker 1: That's the guy you need hitting up in the order
Speaker 1: like that, Rodney. Yeah, you know, and again you know
Speaker 1: Tani's Otani, but Mooki is he is that engine. He
Speaker 1: is that guy that a lot of guys still look
Speaker 1: to to to.
Speaker 2: Get him going.
Speaker 1: And you know, uh, and and he and you got
Speaker 1: to see that body language from Muki and we didn't
Speaker 1: see that in game two and uh even in game three,
Speaker 1: you know, after we got robbed of the home wrung,
Speaker 1: you could feel like him being a little bit deflated.
Speaker 2: But he got it back.
Speaker 1: He got it back in that body language, that smile
Speaker 1: that you know, pumping of the fists.
Speaker 2: I think was it does a lot for his teammates.
Speaker 2: So it was it was good to see.
Speaker 1: And I think and I hope that he's, uh, he's
Speaker 1: really back to being Mookie Bets again.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: Also, we mentioned two names yesterday, guys that had to hit.
Speaker 2: Two names.
Speaker 1: You remember them, I'll tell you what they were. Will
Speaker 1: Smith and Max Munson Yep, mentioned both of them yesterday.
Speaker 1: Will Smith I said, ten year deal. You gotta Yep,
Speaker 1: America's catcher's got to America's catchers got to hit. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because otherwise America's catcher we can play Austin Barnes. But
Speaker 1: America's catcher hit last night.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And was that a big bomb at the right time. Yep,
Speaker 1: you know, because you know, you look at that team
Speaker 1: and you go, okay, three is not enough, two is
Speaker 1: not enough. They got so much firepower. We we got
Speaker 1: to get some breathing room. And that three run home
Speaker 1: where he hit. When he hit that one, I was like, oh, yes,
Speaker 1: you could. You could exhale a little bit, right because
Speaker 1: it was like, Okay, now we're putting it on them.
Speaker 1: Now we got some distance, a little bit in between us.
Speaker 1: Now they're gonna start looking at it, going are we
Speaker 1: gonna press to get back? Are we gonna get back? Oh? Well,
Speaker 1: you know, and now they start to, you know, start
Speaker 1: to doubt themselves a little bit whether or not they
Speaker 1: could come back. And you saw it, like you said
Speaker 1: at the top, you saw it in their faces. Their
Speaker 1: body language was what in the hell just happened? From
Speaker 1: the night before, we had this team buried. Crowd was
Speaker 1: in it, and we were killing them everything they threw
Speaker 1: up there, we were hitting. What happened today? They said,
Speaker 1: I don't believe it's the same team. And they looked.
Speaker 1: They looked in their eyes, the look on their faces,
Speaker 1: their body language, the slump down, all the things that
Speaker 1: they were doing the night before they did not do
Speaker 1: last night. Ban looked the Dodger pitchers last night made
Speaker 1: them appear to be a very average lineup. M That
Speaker 1: looked that when we were watching the Dodgers, and we
Speaker 1: brought this up the other day, Okay, uh, when you
Speaker 1: see the Padres at bout, what do you think?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 1: Oh my god, got them out? They could score. When
Speaker 1: you see the Dodgers at bat, what did you think,
Speaker 1: please just get on base?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah last night? Yesterday?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, last night it was reversed. When you saw
Speaker 1: the Podres go up because of what the Dodgers pitchers
Speaker 1: did to them, you thought they'll be lucky to get on.
Speaker 1: But then when the Dodgers went up, given the way
Speaker 1: they were hitting the ball, I thought, well, who's gonna
Speaker 1: score next? Yeah, it completely flipped the Dodger relievers made
Speaker 1: them look like a very average lineup, which they're not,
Speaker 1: but sure made them look like one. Whereas the Dodger
Speaker 1: hitters all of a sudden looked like the Padres the
Speaker 1: way they were hitting. And maybe it's just they'd seen cease,
Speaker 1: uh and they are just starting to get hot.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's the Padres had an off night. But I
Speaker 1: gotta tell you, the roles were completely reversed, and they
Speaker 1: were reversed even more than the score would indicate just
Speaker 1: watching the two teams. Something had shifted last night.
Speaker 4: The pressure changed. I talked about it going into that game.
Speaker 4: You know this, The pressure was on San Diego to
Speaker 4: close them out at home. They thought cease was the
Speaker 4: move to go for the kill. I don't know why,
Speaker 4: since the Dodgers had already lit them up. To your point, Rodney,
Speaker 4: so now you're gonna put that same guy on three
Speaker 4: days rest. It played out in the way, and credit
Speaker 4: to you guys that you pretty much projected yesterday.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're right, You're right, there's so much. I mean,
Speaker 1: they talk about it all the time. Right, we've done
Speaker 1: it front our home crowd, our home crowd. We want
Speaker 1: to do it in front of our home people. And
Speaker 1: the energy down there, so that pressure to close it
Speaker 1: out thinking they don't have to go back to Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 1: That was real, and I think they felt it, especially
Speaker 1: when they got down. You know, they're so used to
Speaker 1: playing from elite, especially against the Dodgers, that when they
Speaker 1: got down, especially when they got down after the Will
Speaker 1: Smith home run and it was five to nothing, they
Speaker 1: were a different, deflated team. And I think your part
Speaker 1: of it is right at them is that they felt
Speaker 1: that pressure going in and when it got ugly, there
Speaker 1: was no coming back for them. If there was any
Speaker 1: way possible, and I don't think there is any way possible.
Speaker 1: I would tell the Dodgers to have another bullpen game
Speaker 1: tomorrow if there was any I just wish they had
Speaker 1: more relievers. Well on that note though, since there is
Speaker 1: a day's rest, Yeah, and they're relievers. Why everybody's ready, right,
Speaker 1: everybody's available? Who wouldn't be available.
Speaker 4: The only guy that pitched heavy was what Vessia. He
Speaker 4: pitched over twenty pitches.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, I think Bessie was the wind that went
Speaker 2: the longest.
Speaker 4: That's it. I mean, everything is at their disposal.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Brazier went four batters, right, He went four batters,
Speaker 2: four outs.
Speaker 4: That's how perfect yesterday was.
Speaker 1: That's exactly they saved those arms. They didn't have to
Speaker 1: have anybody go real deep. And you you know, you
Speaker 1: worried because a couple of guys were going good. You're like, oh,
Speaker 1: leave them in one more. But but they they played
Speaker 1: it absolutely right and it worked out perfectly because now
Speaker 1: with the day off, I think all of those guys
Speaker 1: are and in the question, maybe VESSI may be the
Speaker 1: only one, but even still with him with the day off,
Speaker 1: he may be able to go. But all those guys
Speaker 1: are available tomorrow night.
Speaker 2: Well if that's the case.
Speaker 1: And you know, the plan was to start Yamamoto right,
Speaker 1: that's why they started him in game one, but I
Speaker 1: think you started him still. You start Yamamoto and you
Speaker 1: and you're quick though, I'm talking about like first inning quick,
Speaker 1: if there's a problem quick. Yeah, there's no waiting to
Speaker 1: find out how he works his way out of it.
Speaker 1: And if he you know what, any inning he goes
Speaker 1: and it's scoreless, it's a bonus. But I like this
Speaker 1: this bullpen game plan because I think those guys can
Speaker 1: shut them down the Padres. I think that our bullpen
Speaker 1: can shut them down and last night was a perfect
Speaker 1: example that was pretty solid. And also when Dave Roberts,
Speaker 1: I could not believe he did this during the endgame
Speaker 1: interview we had with Fox. Yeah, did you hear him
Speaker 1: just outline the entire pitching rotation. He just he told
Speaker 1: Ken Rosenthal exactly what they were gonna do.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I thought, now that's a guy that's pretty honest, pretty confident. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're gonna do this. Then it'll be yeah, Coulpec's coming
Speaker 1: in here. Then I thought, my god, he just told
Speaker 1: everybody exactly what.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, but it was brilliant. It was brilliant. It
Speaker 2: was no.
Speaker 1: Even when they threatened a couple of times, it was
Speaker 1: no panic in the Dodgers. Even when they threatened. Did
Speaker 1: you think it was gonna be a problem last night?
Speaker 1: I know I didn't. I really didn't. I really didn't.
Speaker 1: I just got that feeling after after really, after they
Speaker 1: got out of that first inning. Mookie at the home
Speaker 1: run set the set the stage. But after they got
Speaker 1: out of that first inning, the way Brazier looked like, oh,
Speaker 1: this is gonna be pretty good. And uh so, yeah,
Speaker 1: even when they threatened, I didn't feel like, Okay, this
Speaker 1: is gonna be a big, big crooked inning for the Padres.
Speaker 2: Now here they go. I didn't feel that way, didn't either.
Speaker 2: That was a good one.
Speaker 1: And by the way, later on this hour we'll we'll
Speaker 1: open the phone lines and give you a chance to
Speaker 1: tell us how you're feeling about it. All right, Bill Plunkett,
Speaker 1: OC Register will join us next. We've not talked about
Speaker 1: the return of you Darvish in a game clinching situation
Speaker 1: on the mounted Dodger Stadium, game clinching for the Padres.
Speaker 1: Of course, we know what happened the last time he
Speaker 1: could clinch a game for the Dodgers. Hey, good rogan
Speaker 1: on a Thursday, I throw back Thursday, that is, Oh yes,
Speaker 1: oh yes, they forced a game five. Was there any doubt?
Speaker 1: Not for Freddy, not for me, not for Adam, not
Speaker 1: for Ronnie. We all believe. Let's go, come on Freddy.
Speaker 1: All right, well, let's bring on a man who's joined
Speaker 1: us through up these playoffs and done a great job,
Speaker 1: Bill Plunkett of the O. C. Register. Bill, thank you
Speaker 1: for coming on today.
Speaker 3: Thank you for the Stevie wonder there there you go.
Speaker 2: That's how we roll.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, Bill, you were there, We saw it
Speaker 1: on TV. And the thing that I noticed is early
Speaker 1: on the Padres seemed somewhat deflated. It seemed like the
Speaker 1: energy or the air had been sucked out of them.
Speaker 3: Do you agree, Uh? Yeah, because it was eight to nothing.
Speaker 3: This this idea of one team having energy in the
Speaker 3: other knot, or one team having good vibes and the
Speaker 3: other not, is largely a product of what happens. You know,
Speaker 3: it's really easy to get excited when you hit a
Speaker 3: three run homer in the first inning. So if the
Speaker 3: Padres had hit a three run homer, I think they
Speaker 3: probably would have got energized and so with the crowd.
Speaker 3: But you put up you put up a run in
Speaker 3: the first inning, like Mookie did, and this is something
Speaker 3: the Dodgers haven't been able to do. You go out
Speaker 3: there and you give a shutdown inning and put up
Speaker 3: a zero or two. On the other side of the scoreboard,
Speaker 3: the energy is kind of hard, uh, to get going
Speaker 3: over on the San Diego side. So I think all
Speaker 3: of that's just a function of the score. Really well,
Speaker 3: I don't.
Speaker 1: Know, Bill, because it feels like even when they even
Speaker 1: in the first game, even when they lost, they have
Speaker 1: had this little edge about them. This cockiness, if you will,
Speaker 1: about them when they play the Dodgers, and whether they're
Speaker 1: behind or not, it feels like they think that they
Speaker 1: can come back and they can beat them. They're not
Speaker 1: afraid of the Dodgers. They don't worry about them at all,
Speaker 1: no matter what who's who's in their lineup, and and
Speaker 1: last night, early on, it felt like they even before
Speaker 1: it got to ate nothing, it felt like they were
Speaker 1: a little bit deflated. Is could it be a sense
Speaker 1: that maybe they were a little overconfident.
Speaker 3: I don't know about that. I just I really think
Speaker 3: it's just a matter of how the game goes. And
Speaker 3: if they had gotten you know, an inning going, you
Speaker 3: would have seen the energy the crowd. The crowd was
Speaker 3: definitely deflated when when the Padres fell behind, there was
Speaker 3: none of the energy that you saw all the way
Speaker 3: through Game three. That disappeared real quick last night. So
Speaker 3: I do think you're right that the Padres are not
Speaker 3: afraid of the Dodgers. I don't think they. I think
Speaker 3: they are very confident that they can beat them. So
Speaker 3: all of that plays into it, I guess. But yeah,
Speaker 3: it was. It was a different atmosphere last night, that's
Speaker 3: for sure.
Speaker 1: Uh, yeah, and I think a lot of it had
Speaker 1: to do. And I was just saying to Rodney Bill
Speaker 1: in the last segment, I just wish that Dodgers could
Speaker 1: go in the bullpen game to my night too, I think, right,
Speaker 1: I completely confident with those guys out there.
Speaker 3: Uh huh. I just I posted on Twitter a little
Speaker 3: while ago that before last night, every time the Dodgers
Speaker 3: went with a bullpen game, my Twitter timeline would be
Speaker 3: filled with, Oh, they're not gonna win. Oh they don't
Speaker 3: have a chance. Oh they're giving up, they don't care,
Speaker 3: they're trying, not trying to win. Now, last night goes
Speaker 3: as well as it did, and suddenly everybody is a
Speaker 3: fan of the bullpen game and we should do that
Speaker 3: all the time. And I knew, I knew that this
Speaker 3: was gonna work.
Speaker 2: Well, Bill, let me tell you this.
Speaker 1: We've got documentation from our show yesterday that both Fred
Speaker 1: and I were very confident about the bullpen game. So
Speaker 1: before it happened, we said it, we believed in it,
Speaker 1: only because I think the bullpen has been a strength
Speaker 1: of this team all season, well at least since the
Speaker 1: All Star break, has been a strength. And the guys
Speaker 1: that they were going to run out there. I felt
Speaker 1: pretty good about him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think you're right about that. I think it
Speaker 3: has shifted largely not because of the performance of the bullpen,
Speaker 3: but because of the performance of the starters. You know,
Speaker 3: we saw what they ran out there during the series
Speaker 3: against the Diamondbacks last year and it sank them all
Speaker 3: three games. And I don't think Yamamoto or Flaherty or
Speaker 3: even Buehler had gotten fans on their side with what
Speaker 3: they did earlier in this series. So I think the
Speaker 3: switch is largely a fear of what the starters can
Speaker 3: do and how they can put them in a hole early,
Speaker 3: as much as it is confidence in the bullpen.
Speaker 1: So that being said, tomorrow it's Yamamoto, right, he gets
Speaker 1: the start.
Speaker 3: I don't know, We don't know that. I suspect it
Speaker 3: will be Yamamoto with a very short leash, but they
Speaker 3: have not confirmed that. And I don't know if you've
Speaker 3: noticed this about the Dodgers, but they have a tendency
Speaker 3: to overthink things and maybe do something else. Yeah, it's
Speaker 3: it's happened.
Speaker 2: Oh no, they never overthink anything.
Speaker 3: Right, sure, So I don't know. I think it's Yamamoto,
Speaker 3: but it could be Flairty. It could be some you know,
Speaker 3: piggybacking option where both of them pitched. I think that's
Speaker 3: a bad idea if you, you know, hope to advance.
Speaker 3: I don't think it'll be a straight bullpen game one
Speaker 3: through nine again, but who knows.
Speaker 1: And you think everybody's available, right, I mean, they were
Speaker 1: as efficient with their bullpen game as I could remember,
Speaker 1: with guys going on and they'd getting three outs and
Speaker 1: you know, only throwing twenty pitches or fifteen pitches or whatever.
Speaker 1: They threw less than that. Sometimes they were very efficient,
Speaker 1: which makes it very good for the Dodgers going in
Speaker 1: tomorrow night, isn't it.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: They did not overextend anybody. I mean, you know, they
Speaker 3: sent Blake Trnon out there for forty pitches the other night.
Speaker 3: They didn't have to do that yesterday. Everybody was within
Speaker 3: their lanes as they like to call them. They didn't
Speaker 3: ask any extra of anybody. And now you have today
Speaker 3: as a day off, and in October a day off
Speaker 3: is complete reset. Everybody's available tomorrow, all right.
Speaker 1: And that being said, do you think Freddie'll play tomorrow?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I do.
Speaker 3: I think he'll try as he has in the first
Speaker 3: couple of games and we'll see what it looks like.
Speaker 3: He admitted that they planned for yesterday as an off
Speaker 3: day from the start. They sent out a lineup with
Speaker 3: his name in it, but that was just a kind
Speaker 3: of mess with the padres a little bit. He was
Speaker 3: never going to play last night, and the back to
Speaker 3: back days appear to be what is the worst on
Speaker 3: his ankle because he played Game one and the game
Speaker 3: two he had to leave after I think it was
Speaker 3: five innings, so they didn't want to push that again.
Speaker 3: So I think after off yesterday, off today, treatment, treatment, treatment,
Speaker 3: I think he'll be in there tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Hey Bill, how do you think Walker Buehler did? We
Speaker 1: were talking about that yesterday and he was the victim
Speaker 1: of some unfortunate defensive plays. But I thought it was
Speaker 1: interesting the way Dave Roberts stuck with him. You know,
Speaker 1: I know they hit the grand Slam and got back
Speaker 1: in it, but the way he stuck with him and
Speaker 1: didn't have a quick hook on him, you know, to
Speaker 1: play with Freddie, to play with Rojas, I really wasn't
Speaker 1: necessarily all on Walker.
Speaker 2: Butler, how do you think he did?
Speaker 3: I think he did okay, And you're right the beginning
Speaker 3: turned on those two defensive plays. You know, bad throw
Speaker 3: by Freddie, a smart played by Mahado, and then a
Speaker 3: bad decision by Miggi Rojas very uncrick characteristic of him.
Speaker 3: But I will say this about Buehler, he is not
Speaker 3: the strikeout pitcher he was before the surgery. He admits
Speaker 3: that he can't put guys away five of the hits
Speaker 3: during that inning. If I recall, we're all with two
Speaker 3: strikes and the potters are very good at putting the
Speaker 3: ball and play. And what happens when you can't put
Speaker 3: a guy away with two strikes and he puts the
Speaker 3: ball in play?
Speaker 2: Things happen.
Speaker 3: You know, broken bat singles fall in, ground balls go
Speaker 3: through the middle. You know, ground balls get misplayed. So
Speaker 3: the fact that he can't put guys away and strike
Speaker 3: him out is is a little bit of a problem.
Speaker 1: Then they have Darvish going tomorrow night. I know he's
Speaker 1: pitched well against the Dodgers. He's due to get lit
Speaker 1: Merry Christmas. He'll be a tree and just got lit up. Wow,
Speaker 1: that's what I'm doing.
Speaker 5: I don't recall.
Speaker 3: I do recall Darvish pitching in an elimination game at
Speaker 3: Dodgers Stadium in the past, thank you. It didn't go
Speaker 3: very well for him.
Speaker 1: If I recall, yes, see Rodney, you see there's somebody
Speaker 1: else that won't let it go.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that worked.
Speaker 1: That one worked against the Dodgers, and he's a I
Speaker 1: hope this doesn't work against the Dodgers either.
Speaker 2: Oh my god.
Speaker 3: He's he's got so many different pitches. He's a difficult
Speaker 3: pitcher for the Dodgers to game plan against it. And
Speaker 3: they are all about game planning as hitting group. He's
Speaker 3: got I think he threw seven different pitches during the
Speaker 3: game to start. He's got something to go to for
Speaker 3: every hitter. You know, if you've got a hole here,
Speaker 3: he has a pitch to attack it. He has pitches
Speaker 3: to go to if something's not working. He's got six others.
Speaker 3: That's a very difficult pitcher to game plan for. And
Speaker 3: I think that's the big challenge for the Dodgers going
Speaker 3: in tomorrow night. And when they've won, I mean, the
Speaker 3: pitching the bullpen has been fantastic, but when they've won,
Speaker 3: it's because of the bats.
Speaker 1: Got a hit, yeah, no doubt. How do you feel
Speaker 1: what's your assessment of outni go far in the series
Speaker 1: through four games.
Speaker 3: I think he's very good when the people in front
Speaker 3: of him are good. The Dodgers have made it too
Speaker 3: easy for the Padres in a couple of the games
Speaker 3: when the bottom of the lineup didn't get on If
Speaker 3: there's nobody on base, and when Tony comes up, the
Speaker 3: Padres have a lot of ways to go. They could,
Speaker 3: you know, work around him, hope he chases something, They
Speaker 3: could attack him, and you know, take the attitude that
Speaker 3: the worst he can do is a solo home run.
Speaker 3: All of those options get narrowed down if the bottom
Speaker 3: of the lineup can get on base in front of him.
Speaker 3: And that's what you saw in game one and again
Speaker 3: last night.
Speaker 1: All right, Bell is always, thanks for coming on, and
Speaker 1: we appreciate the insight.
Speaker 3: You've got it guys anytime.
Speaker 1: All right, there goes our body, Bill plunk it oc register.
Speaker 1: By the way, people remember what happened? Would you Darvish
Speaker 1: on the mound?
Speaker 2: Oh? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Game?
Speaker 2: You think, God, you don't get it? Do you think
Speaker 2: he's gonna get it at Dodgers Datium?
Speaker 1: Oh my god? Oh look, I hope that you know
Speaker 1: what this is justice? That's what this is. This is
Speaker 1: justice Tomorrow. I can't come out on the guy. He's
Speaker 1: a he's a good guy. He's a great guy.
Speaker 2: Great guy.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm sure if we had dinner, we'd have
Speaker 1: a great time. But that doesn't excuse what happened. So
Speaker 1: tomorrow he's gonna get his and every Dodger Fanish Rodney,
Speaker 1: whether you like it or not, they are rooting for
Speaker 1: him to just get lit up tomorrow night, for the
Speaker 1: justice right to get lit up and be the game
Speaker 1: be over at the first inning like he like it
Speaker 1: was against the Astros. Yeah, because in the first inning
Speaker 1: against the Astros, given that sparkling outing of his, it
Speaker 1: was like the entire stadium had been napalmmed. It was
Speaker 1: just like silence. Nobody said a word the rest of
Speaker 1: the night. That's got to come tomorrow. I'm just saying,
Speaker 1: tomorrow he gets his Who's with me, who's with me?
Speaker 1: Let's let's go, let's get him tomorrow. All right, Hey,
Speaker 1: Dodger fans, thank you. How are you feeling now? How
Speaker 1: you feeling right now? What do you have to say
Speaker 1: now here? We come back home in your afternoon delight.
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Speaker 1: so we thought a song would be fitting today on
Speaker 1: a throwback Thursday from ice Cube and your afternoon Delight.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know how we do it?
Speaker 1: All right, we'll see how Dodger fans do it. Uh?
Speaker 2: What do you have to say?
Speaker 1: Now? How are you feeling after last night? The board
Speaker 1: is fall will start in West Covina and we appreciate
Speaker 1: your holding.
Speaker 2: How you feeling? Hey?
Speaker 3: Good afternoon?
Speaker 6: Well good? Obviously I wanted to call.
Speaker 3: It yesterday, but you know they ain't got a chance.
Speaker 6: I mean, in my lifetime all as, the only playoff
Speaker 6: success I've ever seen was La coming back, having to
Speaker 6: come back against the Braves to win a World Series.
Speaker 6: How many don't some some don't count. But thiol As
Speaker 6: their team would have counted. But it did count my book.
Speaker 6: But and then what better position than to be down
Speaker 6: and then come back once again? University tov And that's
Speaker 6: kind of like cal is looking at.
Speaker 1: It all right, appreciate it out, thanks so much, love it.
Speaker 1: It's got to calabasas Stu is on the line. You
Speaker 1: know it doesn't surprise me Stu would be from Calabasas.
Speaker 1: I don't know why, why, I just it doesn't surprise me.
Speaker 1: Stu is from Calabasas.
Speaker 2: I don't know. There's got to be something more behind
Speaker 2: that fad. Why Stu? Are you there?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm here like I like the bullpen by committee.
Speaker 1: Care go ahead, st hear me? Oh, let me ask
Speaker 1: you stop? Wait still? Are you from Calabasas? No, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: I lived in Calabasas for years.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 5: I live in the oaks, right, I live in the
Speaker 5: oaks right there it used to live.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, well right, so Stue new Stull. You're not
Speaker 1: the only stew in Calabasas that you know, yes or no?
Speaker 5: Uh? Actually I'm the only Stu I know Cala where
Speaker 5: Fred Well, only one?
Speaker 1: See, it's not surprising. It's not surprising.
Speaker 5: I was actually in your house when you're trying to
Speaker 5: sell it. I saw your nice basketball court with your
Speaker 5: retaining walls.
Speaker 1: All right, Stea, yeah, fine, wait, keep the eat every
Speaker 1: going now got interesting?
Speaker 2: What else you have in the house?
Speaker 4: Where's the trap door?
Speaker 1: What was? Still? Didn't you buy the house?
Speaker 5: A lot of you had a lot of sports memorabilia, remember.
Speaker 1: That that's true. Still, why didn't you buy the house
Speaker 1: if you were in the house.
Speaker 5: No, I live in the area, but I got a view.
Speaker 5: You didn't have a view, so you're a lucky you
Speaker 5: just wanted to look. I was looking for a house,
Speaker 5: you know, nothing else to do that day, But you
Speaker 5: didn't have the view. I have a view, so I
Speaker 5: don't want to give it up.
Speaker 2: No, I was behind the park. That's what you say
Speaker 2: of you.
Speaker 5: Why not if you don't have a view. If you
Speaker 5: don't have a view, then you shouldn't be in the oaks.
Speaker 2: All right, Well, every house has a view.
Speaker 5: Damn either got of you or you want of you?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 1: Well, still, not only didn't I have of you? Apparently
Speaker 1: I didn't even want one because I was done.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: Still, go ahead with the Dodgers.
Speaker 5: Now, okay, real quickly. I don't want to take up
Speaker 5: your whole day, but I don't mind. I like the
Speaker 5: bo I like the bull. Tend by committee or start
Speaker 5: with clarity. I don't want ya. I'm a moto on
Speaker 5: the mound until we play in the next round. He's
Speaker 5: just not He's not. I don't trust him. The other
Speaker 5: point is, why is Chris Taylor taking the spot of
Speaker 5: maybe Pahz because Chris Taylor is the most inept in
Speaker 5: hitter on the whole roster, why keep playing?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 1: All right, all right, Stu, all right, goodbye Stu. Uh.
Speaker 1: I think it's safe to say a couple of things. First,
Speaker 1: Chris Taylor did warm up near the end of the year.
Speaker 1: Is that fair, Rodney, Yeah, a little bit. Yeah he did.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I don't have a problem with him playing. No, not
Speaker 1: last night when they had they had to, they had
Speaker 1: to bring two guys in and play.
Speaker 2: I didn't. I didn't really have a problem with it,
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 1: Because you you you know, sometimes your mind wants to
Speaker 1: go back in history where he's had some some big
Speaker 1: time playoff games, and the moment sometimes gets to a
Speaker 1: guy and they they start to feel it again. So
Speaker 1: maybe that was a thought process. And you know, Pie
Speaker 1: has got a shot the other day and and then
Speaker 1: and really didn't really didn't deliver too much. And plus
Speaker 1: he's still a young guy. So I didn't mind that.
Speaker 1: I didn't mind the decision at all.
Speaker 2: I was sorry. The other thing I want to say.
Speaker 1: The other thing I want to say about Stu is uh,
Speaker 1: you know, so when we had the open houses and calabasas,
Speaker 1: And I'm not kidding. One of my watchers disappeared. Do
Speaker 1: you think Stu stole it?
Speaker 4: Or do you walk or bueler?
Speaker 2: Do you think yes or no?
Speaker 1: Well Stu certainly wasn't there to buy your house, so
Speaker 1: he was walking around seeing what he could see. Sure
Speaker 1: had an eye for everything you had in that house.
Speaker 1: He talked about your court, a lot of sports memorabilia.
Speaker 1: Maybe he had his eye on something. Frett, are you
Speaker 1: a lucky lou Do you like to go to open
Speaker 1: houses just to go No?
Speaker 2: No, not really. I have a well I have many.
Speaker 1: But one of my problems is when I used to
Speaker 1: walk around into local lake, you know, walk in the morning,
Speaker 1: get steps in, and you know, any house that was
Speaker 1: being built, and a lot of houses were being rebuilt
Speaker 1: there on the ground up. I just walk in them.
Speaker 1: Well it's a different store. I do that, Oh, Dan,
Speaker 1: Like there's houses that are being remodeled, their houses being built.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll go into that.
Speaker 1: But if there's a Sunday afternoon or Saturday afternoon open house,
Speaker 1: I don't drive around neighborhood looking for open houses and
Speaker 1: go into just to spend two hours in the afternoon
Speaker 1: looking at open houses. But if there's one being remodeled, yeah,
Speaker 1: because I always think maybe I can do this.
Speaker 2: Maybe I'll yeah this up and do this. See what
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it's out there, and what new is out there?
Speaker 1: Basically, if people only knew how many basements I've been in. Oh,
Speaker 1: this house has a basement, I'm going right in. I
Speaker 1: want to see what it looks like what they did
Speaker 1: down there? Always walk around and look at houses, all right,
Speaker 1: JJ and Beaumont, JJ, Now how do you feel to.
Speaker 5: Hey, Chris tin needs to spend time in the battle
Speaker 5: case like Mookie did.
Speaker 1: And okay, Chris Taylor needs to spend the time in
Speaker 1: the batting case like Mookie.
Speaker 2: Is that what he said?
Speaker 1: I think that's what he said. Well, here's the thing,
Speaker 1: and I think that's a fascinating point. I'm sure as
Speaker 1: a major league baseball player, Chris Taylor spends absolutely zero
Speaker 1: time in the cage. I'm sure as a professional baseball player,
Speaker 1: the one thing he does not practice, Rodney is hitting. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm sure that doesn't happen. So maybe he needs to
Speaker 1: spend some time practicing. I think that's what JJ was saying.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it might be, it might be that. Yeah, maybe
Speaker 2: that's something. Maybe he's onto something.
Speaker 1: Right, Oh, JJ is still there? Yes, all right, So
Speaker 1: is that what you meant? You just thought he needs
Speaker 1: to practice hitting a little bit?
Speaker 5: Yeah, all right, Bunny, all right, okay.
Speaker 1: All right, JJ, all right, thanks JJ. Thanks JJ.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: Uh here's Josh and West Covina. Josh, how are you
Speaker 1: feeling today?
Speaker 6: I'm feeling really really good.
Speaker 7: Actually, I just wanted to say that I was at
Speaker 7: game one, game two, I'll be at game five, and
Speaker 7: I really think that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, before you said, how were you feeling before before last.
Speaker 5: Night's game, I was feeling good.
Speaker 7: I mean game two obviously think of the way we
Speaker 7: wanted to, but game one was really really well. I
Speaker 7: just I knew that. I think all the Doctor fans
Speaker 7: knew that they needed a win like this yesterday to
Speaker 7: push the momentum forward going into your stadium, and I
Speaker 7: think they did exactly what they needed to do, so
Speaker 7: they gave their fans a reassurance, you know, coming into
Speaker 7: game five, especially at home.
Speaker 1: All Right, Yeah, appreciate it, Josh, thanks so much. All Right,
Speaker 1: we got a couple more buying everybody saying they feel
Speaker 1: good going into game four. Absolutely not not even close. Really,
Speaker 1: what are we doing, Rodney, I don't even doing it?
Speaker 1: Was this is a stupid idea with the bullpen game.
Speaker 1: You know, how did Dodger spend that kind of payroll
Speaker 1: not have a starter for game four? Well, I gotta
Speaker 1: be honest with you, I agree, how did that happen?
Speaker 1: But it just so happened that what they did was
Speaker 1: really a good plan.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean.
Speaker 1: Right, if you really look at the totality of the
Speaker 1: roster and the money they spent and the guys they had,
Speaker 1: you're going, how the hell don't you have another picture?
Speaker 1: How did you get into this situation? I mean, honestly,
Speaker 1: you would say that, yes, that's true, but look at
Speaker 1: what happened. Hell, I swear to God, I'd let them
Speaker 1: go again tomorrow. I'll give Yamamoto them another day arrest
Speaker 1: for the next series. If they win that that plan
Speaker 1: works and those guys are good. What do you think
Speaker 1: about what the caller said, go with Flaherty instead of Yamamoto?
Speaker 2: You know what I think?
Speaker 1: Honestly? Yeah, I think whoever goes is gonna have the
Speaker 1: quickest hook. Anyway, I think if you go with Flarity,
Speaker 1: you go with Yamamoto. This is not inning by inning anymore.
Speaker 1: This is hit or by hitter tomorrow. That's what it becomes.
Speaker 1: You're not going to get a chance to work yourself
Speaker 1: out of a jam. If you get into trouble, you're
Speaker 1: getting a hook. So you know, if Yamamoto goes it
Speaker 1: gets to the first inning, that's a bonus. Let's get
Speaker 1: to the second. Let's see if the Dodgers hit. If
Speaker 1: he gets in trouble in the second, he's done. Same
Speaker 1: with Flerity, you start Flarity. You know he's susceptible to
Speaker 1: giving up the home run. So you put him out there.
Speaker 1: All good, boom, they get a run. That's it for him.
Speaker 1: This bullpen works. Yeah, so I would not mess with it.
Speaker 2: No, I wouldn't. It's definitely gonna be a quick hook.
Speaker 1: I just think maybe this this could be a Yama
Speaker 1: Moto coming out party for the Dodgers and being over here, Well,
Speaker 1: it'd be the perfect time, wouldn't He squeezed?
Speaker 2: He squeezed that.
Speaker 1: You know, Game one, got in some trouble, but you
Speaker 1: know they want it. But him coming back in a
Speaker 1: close out situation at Dodger Stadium, you know the guy
Speaker 1: they went out and got and spent all that money
Speaker 1: on this is this is why they got him. This
Speaker 1: is why they got him. I mean, we're sitting here
Speaker 1: talking about they don't have a starter for game four,
Speaker 1: but game five close out. This is why they got him.
Speaker 1: And it's almost like we said about you, Darvish when
Speaker 1: they went and got him at the trade deadline. Game
Speaker 1: seven of the World Series is why they went out
Speaker 1: and got him. And we know, we don't know how
Speaker 1: that went, but I just think that, you know, this
Speaker 1: could be.
Speaker 2: One of those moments for Yamamoto where I've arrived or.
Speaker 1: This is my moment, all right, Ruben and san Diego.
Speaker 1: Rubin checks and whether it's Ruben, how you feeling today.
Speaker 8: I'm feeling confident going into tomorrow, but I do have
Speaker 8: well quick quick thing first. I'd go Flairty quick cook
Speaker 8: batter by batter, no question. My two concerns about tomorrow
Speaker 8: is that as good as the bullpen was yesterday, they've
Speaker 8: the padres. Now I've seen these guys. They got some
Speaker 8: looks yesterday, and I'd be just a little worried about
Speaker 8: them going at it a second time. So I just
Speaker 8: want to put that out there because I don't think
Speaker 8: that's been brought up, and I know a guy.
Speaker 1: I didn't see some of those guys, didn't see some
Speaker 1: of the guys in the bullpen. Yeah, you altered the
Speaker 1: order of the guy. They altered them. And guys only
Speaker 1: went three batters a lot of times. And so guys
Speaker 1: on that team didn't get a chance to see everybody.
Speaker 1: And you, I'm sure they're looking at the analytics and
Speaker 1: changing it up and going, okay, he saw Tattine, Machado
Speaker 1: and cronin Worth. Oh okay, so we're going to change
Speaker 1: it up and he's going to get eight nine and one.
Speaker 2: Now, all right? All right?
Speaker 5: That that my nerves just kind of came down. U.
Speaker 2: That's what we do, baby, That's what we do here,
Speaker 2: all right, all right?
Speaker 8: But I'm I'm left with one concern.
Speaker 6: And I know Max a Monksy.
Speaker 8: Got the big I think there was a double yesterday,
Speaker 8: but he did punch out I think two times. And
Speaker 8: I'm still seeing not the highly selective Max Mounsey.
Speaker 5: We all know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would like to.
Speaker 8: See just a little bit more selective I from monthsy.
Speaker 8: Uh you know that that term pass the baton saying
Speaker 8: I he's just a little antsy and quick.
Speaker 5: The big swing. That's still a little concern for me.
Speaker 2: Was that walking.
Speaker 1: You know, months he was you know, he was just
Speaker 1: strike out the guy, home run guy. But he also
Speaker 1: walked a lot. He sure did. It's very selective and
Speaker 1: you're right, he's right. We haven't seen that from him.
Speaker 1: He's been very anxious. Well, he's trying to hit it
Speaker 1: to Tijuaa last night exactly exactly. He's the guy that
Speaker 1: could cork screw himself under the ground. Yeah, swinging so hard. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Schmoltz even said that on the broadcast. Is that, you know,
Speaker 1: Max is a normally a guy that has got a
Speaker 1: great eye and knows the strike zone. But you're right,
Speaker 1: he's trying to hit it to Tijuana and then down
Speaker 1: the cobble.
Speaker 5: All right.
Speaker 1: Wrapping up with Mike and Apple Valley, go ahead, Mike, Okay,
Speaker 1: Mike's gone.
Speaker 2: All right, that's it.
Speaker 1: Uh, Bobby and ar Daya the Athletic is going to
Speaker 1: join us in our next segment. As we continue, we
Speaker 1: can't get too many perspectives, now, Rodney, we don't get
Speaker 1: too many perspectives on what has happened and what we
Speaker 1: expect to happen. So we'll continue with this when we
Speaker 1: come back