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Speaker 2: Dodgers Playoff Baseball is back, and with it an annual
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Speaker 2: We've been banished to the Internet until this Dodgers playoff
Speaker 2: run concludes. Here they are broadcasting live on AM five
Speaker 2: to seven e LA Sports. It's Tim Kates and Steve Sacks.
Speaker 1: Sax and Kate's and am back together again and it
Speaker 1: feels so good. Good morning, Southern California. Welcome to Scam
Speaker 1: on this Monday morning, October twenty eighth, twenty twenty four,
Speaker 1: as your Los Angeles Dodgers. I have a two to nothing
Speaker 1: lead over the New York Yankees in the twenty twenty
Speaker 1: four World Series. I am Tim Kates, joined by a
Speaker 1: two time World Series champion, a Rookie of the Year
Speaker 1: and one hell of a guy and I'm sitting three
Speaker 1: feet away from him. He's in studio. He is Steven Sack. Saxy.
Speaker 1: Good morning, morning, Tim, My God, so good to be
Speaker 1: with you, So good to see you face with face.
Speaker 1: It's been way too long, Saxy, it has been.
Speaker 3: But you know what, we're here for a good reason,
Speaker 3: are we. I mean, it's been a long time, but
Speaker 3: this brings us together. I was a bit dismayed though,
Speaker 3: you know, I come into La and uh, you know,
Speaker 3: I expect a you know, kind of a you know,
Speaker 3: kind of upper class type of accommodations, you know, when
Speaker 3: I get here, and you know, I'm saying with the
Speaker 3: I'm saying with the Kates family, and uh.
Speaker 1: My wife wishes.
Speaker 3: But I'm out there and like this, the futon in
Speaker 3: the garage, I'm thinking, Tim, come on, at least that
Speaker 3: is a little guest house or something, you know, a little.
Speaker 1: Just for a while. Yeah. We figured if it's good
Speaker 1: enough for the dog. His name again is Midi, Midi, Yeah, yeah, Midi.
Speaker 1: If it's good enough for the dog, it's good enough
Speaker 1: for Steve Sacks. So I'm just goofing. Great to see you, Saxy.
Speaker 1: S It is awesome to have you in studio.
Speaker 4: To hear.
Speaker 1: Have you here in southern California. You're gonna be here
Speaker 1: for the next couple of days, and who knows, maybe
Speaker 1: even back here in Los Angeles later on this week
Speaker 1: for a possible Game six if it gets to a
Speaker 1: Game six. As a Dodgers have a two to nothing
Speaker 1: series lead in this World series, and it's gone just
Speaker 1: a script, right, a walk off Grand Slam for Freddie Freeman.
Speaker 1: We all expected that to happen, a great moment in
Speaker 1: Dodger history, and then a Dodger for two win on
Speaker 1: Saturday Night in Game two. I mean, the first two
Speaker 1: games of this series have lived up to the hype.
Speaker 3: It's been incredible. I mean, you know, the Dodgers hoping,
Speaker 3: in the best case scenario, of course, to take a
Speaker 3: two game to nothing lead back to New York and
Speaker 3: then just finish it out there. I mean, the sentiment
Speaker 3: right now over all Dodger fans is, we don't we'd
Speaker 3: love to come back to LA, but we want to
Speaker 3: come back for a parade, you know what I mean,
Speaker 3: Let's close the next two out. But you know, these
Speaker 3: two games have been great. You've had contributions across the board.
Speaker 3: It hasn't just been the big stars. We talked earlier
Speaker 3: about how great Munsey has been playing third base. Amazing
Speaker 3: over there. Like you said, we don't talk about it
Speaker 3: too much. We don't mention his name. I means he's
Speaker 3: doing one heck of a job. And it's just been
Speaker 3: great all the way across the board. So Dodgers trying
Speaker 3: to obviously, you know, nail this thing down, but I
Speaker 3: think more than even advertise, you've had contributions from the top,
Speaker 3: from the bottom, and everybody in the middle.
Speaker 1: The emotions of these first two games, the drama of
Speaker 1: these first two games have lived up to what we
Speaker 1: thought was going to be the greatest World Series that
Speaker 1: we've seen, maybe in our lifetime. And the superstars on display,
Speaker 1: the role players on display, it has been absolutely fantastic.
Speaker 1: The Dodgers' bullpen was supposed to be their strengths. Starting
Speaker 1: pitching not so much. Starting pitching has been really good
Speaker 1: for the Dodgers and Flaherty and Yamamoto. The dramatics of
Speaker 1: Game one of the ninth inning with the Freddie Freeman
Speaker 1: Grand Slam comparisons to Gibbey's home run in nineteen eighty eight,
Speaker 1: which of course you were there for Game two and ya,
Speaker 1: I'm a moto start the dramatics of the ninth inning,
Speaker 1: hanging on with the bases loaded in the ninth inning
Speaker 1: and getting out of it thanks to Alex Vesia and
Speaker 1: to have a two zero series lead, and then oh yeah, show, hey,
Speaker 1: Otani's got a messed up shoulder. We expect him to
Speaker 1: play in game three. But man, the dramatics of this
Speaker 1: series have been off the charge. Yes, they have been crazy,
Speaker 1: and Dodgers expecting him to play. Of course they have
Speaker 1: a contingency plan if he can't, and we can maybe
Speaker 1: go through that a little bit later. But nonetheless, they're
Speaker 1: in a great position right now. They're thinking right now
Speaker 1: in the locker room is don't think past game three.
Speaker 1: That's very important not to do. I know it sounds
Speaker 1: like a cliche, but you can't get out there and
Speaker 1: think too far. You got to handle what's in front
Speaker 1: of you now. And that's only game three. We got
Speaker 1: a lot to get to over the next three hours,
Speaker 1: and a lot of it has to do with you.
Speaker 1: In eight sixty six nine eight seven, two five seven,
Speaker 1: he want you to be a part of the show.
Speaker 1: In the seven o'clock hour, Doctor David Chow longtime team
Speaker 1: doctor for the Chargers, is going to join us now
Speaker 1: an expert, an analyst on injuries and sports. He's gonna
Speaker 1: join us to talk about show Hey Tawy's shoulder injury
Speaker 1: and where it kind of ranks as far as severity
Speaker 1: and kiddie play through it, what are the long term
Speaker 1: effects of it? And then David Vassay, who's in New York,
Speaker 1: traveled yesterday with the team to get to NYC. He
Speaker 1: will join us in the eight o'clock hour against Steve's Keys,
Speaker 1: we'll hear from Walker Bueller, the game three starter coming
Speaker 1: up in the eight o'clock hour. What a Friday night.
Speaker 1: It was a Dodger Stadium saxe. After the pregame show,
Speaker 1: I drove quickly, did not have any traffic, got there
Speaker 1: in about fifteen twenty minutes from here at the station
Speaker 1: in Burbank to Dodger Stadium, pulled into the parking lot,
Speaker 1: ran inside the stadium, got there in the first inning,
Speaker 1: and it was a nine inning drama fest from just
Speaker 1: the emotions of every out, every at bat, the Dodger
Speaker 1: stranding runners, the Yankees having a couple of opportunities against
Speaker 1: Jack Flerity and flerity getting out of it. It felt
Speaker 1: like an up and down you're breathing. It was just
Speaker 1: in and out. It was emotionally draining. And then you
Speaker 1: get to the ninth inning and we have this home
Speaker 1: run call Freddie Freeman bases loaded. What a moments The
Speaker 1: scenario you dream about. Freddy is living first pitch, swinging high.
Speaker 5: Fly ball, hit deep, Freddie Freeman channeling is inner. Kirk Dison,
Speaker 5: Oh walk up home run in Game one of the
Speaker 5: World Theerries, Hey, walk up grand flam. They celebrate, have
Speaker 5: to play winners six to three.
Speaker 1: All right, there's Steven Nelson right here at a FI
Speaker 1: seventy LA Sports. What a moment? What it call from Nelly?
Speaker 1: How about Joe Davison Fox last hits about right folds,
Speaker 1: Jimmy game Y game seres. All right, there's Joe Davis.
Speaker 1: Gimme med Freddy. How about the Japanese call of the
Speaker 1: Freddy Freeman grand slam in the ninth inning on Friday?
Speaker 1: Puts it, Jax, Tim.
Speaker 6: Monday, hold on, he.
Speaker 2: Came in, kicks it in.
Speaker 1: Hold On, Cion got Syonara. We all know that I
Speaker 1: know what that is. That's yeah, we know what that is.
Speaker 3: There sounds like there's a bunch of dudes hanging out,
Speaker 3: just having some food or something in the background.
Speaker 1: Didn't It was just fun. Jad. What a moment it
Speaker 1: was Friday night at Dodger Stadium. I was on the
Speaker 1: loads level standing watching the game, sort of behind home played.
Speaker 1: It happened to be right behind the Yankees Families and
Speaker 1: Friends section in the load section, And when he hit
Speaker 1: the home run, I didn't think he got all of
Speaker 1: it the morse. He couldn't hear it. I couldn't see
Speaker 1: the trajection of the ball. But it goes out, plays
Speaker 1: goes crazy. I turn around yelling, I can't believe it.
Speaker 1: Next thing I know, I'm chess bumping dudes, high fiving guys.
Speaker 1: Everybody's hugging each other. Dodger Stadium was shaking with the
Speaker 1: fifty six thousand that were there that moment. Saxy is
Speaker 1: being compared to nineteen eighty eight. Yes, Kurt Gibson's home
Speaker 1: run and you on deck. Did it bring back memories?
Speaker 3: Yes, absolutely, and as big in my estimation. I mean
Speaker 3: that boat from the perspective of, you know, seeing it
Speaker 3: at home on TV. The thing about Freddie Freeman, you
Speaker 3: can see when he sets up in his hands behind
Speaker 3: his head and his elbows up. He's in a launching
Speaker 3: position as you should be before the pitch comes. He
Speaker 3: doesn't set up, you know, once it's on the way,
Speaker 3: he's already there. His path to the bar ball is
Speaker 3: extremely short. That's why coming off the bat, I don't
Speaker 3: know if he got it or not, but if you
Speaker 3: see it in slow motion, he got extended really quick,
Speaker 3: and he keeps his hands inside the ball real well.
Speaker 1: And that ball took off like a rocket. I knew
Speaker 1: as soon as he hit it was gone.
Speaker 3: And you know, Freddy Freeman is the kind of guy
Speaker 3: that he's not going to raise his bat and have
Speaker 3: it scraped the wall, you know, you know what I mean, Yeah,
Speaker 3: that thing's going. And so that was as big a
Speaker 3: home run as the Gibson home run. I think it
Speaker 3: was just incredible.
Speaker 1: If the Dodgers go on to win the World Series,
Speaker 1: this is right up there with ghibbees. Rick Monday's home
Speaker 1: running Game five Blue Monday NLDS against the Montreal Expos,
Speaker 1: but the moment down against the Yankees ninth inning or
Speaker 1: extra what was it extra inning? Extra extra innings, and
Speaker 1: he hits the whole the Grand slam may mean the
Speaker 1: things to get to this point, Otani's up pops out,
Speaker 1: Fordugo catches it, carries it in, and then throws it
Speaker 1: back from foul territory. So the Runners advanced to second
Speaker 1: and third a rule. A lot of people are like,
Speaker 1: what the heck? Why'd they advance? Nobody knew the rule.
Speaker 1: And then to the decision to walk Mookie Betts to
Speaker 1: get to Freddie Freeman and want to pitch to Freddy,
Speaker 1: and Freddy Facesester Cortes and absolutely crushes that ball. All
Speaker 1: these things have to set up in order to get
Speaker 1: to this moment, and it worked out.
Speaker 3: Perfect, and a month ago it has to go there
Speaker 3: there too, because how long has it been since Nestor
Speaker 3: Cortez is thirty seven days, So we're talking about over
Speaker 3: a month. We're talking about this setup happening here. And
Speaker 3: you know what, what'd you think Tim about the decision
Speaker 3: to walk Freddy Freeman? I mean, look, if Mookie Betts
Speaker 3: gets up and hits one in the gap, we're gonna say,
Speaker 3: why did you walk him and pitch to Freddy? I
Speaker 3: mean it's gonna be the same thing. It's uh, you know,
Speaker 3: pick your poison on this one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think one of the lefty lefty matchup. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and they got it. And that's the bit.
Speaker 3: That's the baseball move, right, that's the right baseball move.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, and Nestor Cortes, you know, afterwards, was talking about it.
Speaker 1: Aaron Bona is getting absolutely destroyed. Yeah, for bringing Nestor
Speaker 1: Cortez in at that point and going lefty lefty. But
Speaker 1: Cortez just missed on a pitch and credit to Freddie
Speaker 1: Freeman said, Freddy didn't miss that and crush it for
Speaker 1: a Grand Slam. But I mean it's it's so reminiscent
Speaker 1: of nineteen eighty eight in the home run from Gibbie.
Speaker 1: But then you have to come back the next day
Speaker 1: and play a baseball game. Yeah, just like you guys
Speaker 1: had to come back in nineteen eighty in Game two.
Speaker 1: But you had Oral herscheizer on the mount in Game two,
Speaker 1: and it was important for the Dodgers then to have
Speaker 1: Yamamoto be that star ace pitcher like Oral came out
Speaker 1: and put up zeros for you guys against the Oakland
Speaker 1: as they need a Yamamoto to do that, because if
Speaker 1: you want to lose Game two on Saturday night, what
Speaker 1: happened Friday night with Freddie Freeman. Doesn't mean anything exactly.
Speaker 1: Now they got him in a good spot. Hey, definitely
Speaker 1: not over. In eighty one, we lost the first two
Speaker 1: games and came back in won four in a row.
Speaker 1: Can it happen?
Speaker 3: Oh yes, I've seen it happen. I've been on a
Speaker 3: team that did it, so it can happen. The other
Speaker 3: thing I was gonna mention to you, Tim, is the
Speaker 3: question mark about Nesser Cortez. Listen it when they questioned
Speaker 3: why did you bring him in? If you're gonna ask
Speaker 3: me that question, why don't you say why is he
Speaker 3: on the team? Right, He's on the team because you
Speaker 3: think you can get somebody out. Yeah, I mean let's
Speaker 3: go back to what to putting him on the.
Speaker 1: Team or not.
Speaker 3: Okay, if you don't think he can get anybody out,
Speaker 3: don't have me have an option of bringing him in
Speaker 3: the ball game.
Speaker 1: I mean it's crazy. I mean, just two matters before
Speaker 1: he gets Otani to pop out on the first pitch
Speaker 1: that he throws to him. So he does his job there, Yeah,
Speaker 1: did it all year? Gets out Otani, best hitter in baseball,
Speaker 1: walk Freeman get to another left hander, they brought him
Speaker 1: in as a left hander to face these two hitters
Speaker 1: as specifically. Yeah, for the Yankees, it lined up perfectly.
Speaker 1: Left on left. We feel good about Cortes, even though
Speaker 1: he hadn't pitched in a while. Job done against our tani. Okay,
Speaker 1: we get bets on first. Let's go right after Freeman
Speaker 1: left you on left. Even Freeman just made him pay.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and if that ball's you know, if that ball's
Speaker 3: six inches on the you know, this side of the
Speaker 3: place where it was supposed to be, but it was
Speaker 3: supposed to be, we're not having this conversation. But he
Speaker 3: got it in and Freddy did the one thing that
Speaker 3: Ted Williams told me Tim. He said, the most important
Speaker 3: thing in hitting is very simple. And I'm like, going
Speaker 3: yeah forward, I'm think Ted Williams is gonna tell me
Speaker 3: a little nugget here, you know, And it was great,
Speaker 3: very simple and you've heard it before. The most important thing,
Speaker 3: get a good pitch to hit, don't miss it. Okay,
Speaker 3: that's what Freddy did. He got a good pitch hit
Speaker 3: and he didn't miss it. And now they're up two
Speaker 3: zero eight.
Speaker 1: Sixty six nine eighty seven. Two five seventy is our
Speaker 1: number a moment that Dodger fans will never forget. On
Speaker 1: Friday Night in Game one of this World Series, they
Speaker 1: come back and win Game two on Saturday Night, four
Speaker 1: to two behind Yoshiyamamoto in three home runs that the
Speaker 1: Dodgers hit in Game two, surviving in the ninth inning
Speaker 1: with the bases loaded, Alex Vessi comes in and gets
Speaker 1: the final out and the Dodgers are now in New
Speaker 1: York for the Games three, four, and possibly five of
Speaker 1: this World Series, beginning tonight at Yankee Stadium. We got
Speaker 1: Morongo Casino Dodgers on deck beginning at four o'clock, first
Speaker 1: pitch at five oh eight from the Gallpin Motors broadcast booth.
Speaker 1: It was fun to see the Dodger players afterwards, Saxy
Speaker 1: the home run hit or the Grand Slam hit. Everybody's
Speaker 1: mobbing Freddy Freeman just like you guys at eighty eight,
Speaker 1: mobbing Kirk ge It felt and looked so similar. And
Speaker 1: then in the moments afterwards, the amount of media they
Speaker 1: came on the field, ownership of the Dodgers on the field,
Speaker 1: personnels on the field. For the Dodgers, it was a
Speaker 1: madhouse along the third base line in between the field
Speaker 1: and the dugout, and Freddie Freeman's talking to Kenny Rosenthal.
Speaker 1: Freddie Freeman then talks to David Vasse moments afterwards, and
Speaker 1: MLB Network's doing their live shots and ESPN's doing their
Speaker 1: live shots, and everything's happening in the moment. Five minutes later,
Speaker 1: things didn't calm down. It was still loud, nobody was
Speaker 1: really leaving, and the players on the field standing around
Speaker 1: kind of just marveling at what happened. I specifically looked
Speaker 1: in the Dodger dugout and on the top step was
Speaker 1: show Hey O Tani and Andy Pojez and Gavin Lux,
Speaker 1: the guys I could just picture and see right away,
Speaker 1: and a group of Dodger players They're just sort of
Speaker 1: just looking at each other and standing there in amazement.
Speaker 1: They couldn't believe, Yeah, what it just had happen. Usually
Speaker 1: guys making a fast dash to the clubhouse, want to
Speaker 1: get out of there as fast as possible, beat the traffic,
Speaker 1: talk to the media, do all that. People just stood
Speaker 1: around looking at each other. They couldn't believe it, right,
Speaker 1: And that's savoring the moment. It's a good thing to do.
Speaker 3: On the other side, I don't understand why the other
Speaker 3: team sits in the dugout sulking, and we're looking out there,
Speaker 3: and I guess they wanted everybody to see how deep
Speaker 3: they are, you know, how much they feel the moment.
Speaker 3: You know, I mean, you know what, we lost the
Speaker 3: game like that. I was high tailing it back in
Speaker 3: the clubhouse, and you know, I wanted to throw something
Speaker 3: I didn't want to do out in public here, right. So,
Speaker 3: but they sit there and they look out there like,
Speaker 3: oh my god, you know, just get get in the dugout,
Speaker 3: you know, get get in the clubus. But the fact
Speaker 3: that Dodgers are out there, that's a great thing because
Speaker 3: they're they're they're reving it up.
Speaker 7: Man.
Speaker 3: Then that's a good thing to do. When you win something,
Speaker 3: you got to savor the moment, enjoy it. You think
Speaker 3: about tomorrow later on, but you got to enjoy it
Speaker 3: right now.
Speaker 1: Do you know who caught that home run ball in
Speaker 1: right field pavilion on Freddie hit and Freddie hit no
Speaker 1: a ten year old kid. Nice, Yeah, good for him.
Speaker 1: I saw it on TV last night. They did a
Speaker 1: whole story about the family. The mom, the dad, the
Speaker 1: ten year old were in the right field pavilion. There
Speaker 1: was a scramble for the ball and the kid sort
Speaker 1: of like kicked it to his dad or the direction
Speaker 1: towards his parents because it was a scramble. The dad
Speaker 1: picked it up and immediately handed it to his son
Speaker 1: again because he was right there, and the kid got
Speaker 1: lifted up had the ball in his hand. Wow.
Speaker 3: And now they're talking about the value of this ball.
Speaker 3: Oh no, really, and it's just got a college scholarship
Speaker 3: right there.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean if he keeps that baseball, good for him.
Speaker 1: He said he wants to get an autographed by Freddie Freeman.
Speaker 1: And I can kind of look at the parents as
Speaker 1: the kids talking on TV, and I can see the
Speaker 1: parents kind of I'm reading their mind, like this is
Speaker 1: your education, you know, Yeah, you ain't keeping this ball
Speaker 1: and a car in a house. And the thing go
Speaker 1: Taani's fifty to fifty ball just got four million dollars
Speaker 1: at an auction. I mean, I don't think it gets
Speaker 1: that much, but it could get to seven figures. It's
Speaker 1: certainly going to get six figures.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, absolutely, I mean yeah, I mean you never know,
Speaker 3: in today's market, who knows. I think it could get
Speaker 3: seven figures.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that is I mean to think you're going to
Speaker 1: go to a Dodger game and next thing, you know,
Speaker 1: you leave the game and you got a baseball, you
Speaker 1: got seven figures and you're checking it and you.
Speaker 3: Got to wonder when I mean it's you know, how
Speaker 3: do you prove it was the kid's ball?
Speaker 1: You want to win?
Speaker 8: Oh?
Speaker 1: No, I really caught the ball.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 1: Thank god for video where they can show it. You know, Well,
Speaker 1: the old tawny ball, you had somebody's sueing the guy
Speaker 1: who has it, say no, no, no, I had it,
Speaker 1: but he took it from me. Oh here we go.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the whole thing's stolen from me. Right now, that's
Speaker 3: not gonna work.
Speaker 8: No.
Speaker 1: The good thing is everybody had their phones out. If
Speaker 1: you go on social media, there's like, you know, one
Speaker 1: hundred different video cameras. Look at the ball coming into
Speaker 1: the stands, so you can see who caught it and
Speaker 1: got it in the moment.
Speaker 3: They're gonna have to write they're gonna have to write
Speaker 3: some law for what's available for scrambling after the ball.
Speaker 3: If you touch it first, as it's seventy five percent
Speaker 3: yours right now, sure, and then if you drop it,
Speaker 3: does it make it available for everybody else to get
Speaker 3: and you know, you know, I hate the lawyer part
Speaker 3: of it, but that's probably coming.
Speaker 1: It's a football scrumb What happens at the bottom of
Speaker 1: the pile stays at the bottom of the pile. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And if you come out of the pile at the
Speaker 1: football or the baseball in this instance, yours, then you
Speaker 1: get to keep it. Gosh, eight sixty six nine eighty
Speaker 1: seven two five seventy is our number. Eight sixty six,
Speaker 1: nine eighty seven, two five seventy. We want you to
Speaker 1: beat a part of the show. What did you make
Speaker 1: of Friday nights walk off home run from Freddie Freeman
Speaker 1: was the Grand Slam? As grand as Kurt Gibson's home
Speaker 1: run in nineteen eighty eight eight sixty six nine eighty
Speaker 1: seven two five seventy. Where were you on Friday night
Speaker 1: for that Grand Slam? I can tell you right now,
Speaker 1: with a Dodger stadium with fifty six thousand other Dodger fans,
Speaker 1: and that place was shaking. It was so loud, and
Speaker 1: so many people were jumping at Chevez Ravin eight six
Speaker 1: six nine eighty seven, two five seventy. Next hour, we'll
Speaker 1: get a doctor's perspective on show Eyotani's shoulder. David Veasse
Speaker 1: joins us at the eight o'clock hour. It's a Monday morning,
Speaker 1: saxon Kates in the am live and studio together on
Speaker 1: a FI seventy LA Sports. It's Sax and Kate's and
Speaker 1: am here on your home with the Dodgers an five
Speaker 1: seventy LA Sports Live and local Game three of the
Speaker 1: World Series tonight from the Bronx Dodgers a two to
Speaker 1: oher series laid Walker Buehler on the mound first pitch
Speaker 1: from the Galvin Motors broadcast booth. He is coming up
Speaker 1: at five oh eight next hour, Doctor David Chow will
Speaker 1: join us get his insights in perspective on this shoulder
Speaker 1: injury to show Hey Otani. We'll hear from the manager
Speaker 1: Dave Roberts, coming up in just a couple of minutes.
Speaker 1: He spoke to the media before the Dodgers hit the
Speaker 1: field for a night workout last night at the New
Speaker 1: Yankee Stadium. David Vasse will join us from New York,
Speaker 1: coming up at the eight o'clock hour. We'll hear from
Speaker 1: Walker Buehler as well. We want to hear from you
Speaker 1: at eight six six nine eighty seven two five seventy
Speaker 1: eight six six nine eighty seven two five seventy. The
Speaker 1: Dodgers will win on a walk off Grand Slam from
Speaker 1: Freddie Freeman on Friday night. They come back on Saturday night.
Speaker 1: Yoshi Yamamoto pitches really well for the Dodgers in Game
Speaker 1: two on Saturday Night, and it feels like every start
Speaker 1: he goes out there sacks, So you don't know which
Speaker 1: one you're gonna get. You hope you get the player
Speaker 1: that pitched so well in Japan and looked so well
Speaker 1: early in the season before the shoulder injury that he's suffered.
Speaker 1: We saw a good start against the Padres, we saw
Speaker 1: a bad start this postseason, and on Saturday night we
Speaker 1: saw Yoshi Yamamoto. To me, watching him in his demeanor,
Speaker 1: he looked different. He looked locked in. He didn't look
Speaker 1: nervous in his first start against the Padres and the
Speaker 1: the d lds. To me, he looked like a deer
Speaker 1: at headlights. Yeah, like the moment he looked just kind
Speaker 1: of felt like the moment was too big for him.
Speaker 1: I didn't get that sense just watching his demeanor on
Speaker 1: Saturday night, And boy did he go out there six
Speaker 1: and the third innings one run, one hit, that home
Speaker 1: run to gen Carlos Stanton struck out four, got a
Speaker 1: lot of swinging misses and just had guys on roller
Speaker 1: skates there inside the box. I'm all just guessing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: two things.
Speaker 3: The good thing about it overall is that when we
Speaker 3: saw him and he wasn't really on his game, it
Speaker 3: was something that was fixable, okay, And what he did
Speaker 3: the two things that he did is number one, it
Speaker 3: was just all about location. When he when he's using
Speaker 3: this secondary stuff, his curveball, ist splitter, and he's working
Speaker 3: from the numbers to the thigh, that's problematic for him.
Speaker 3: He can't be in that area. Okay, he can be
Speaker 3: up there if he goes on a four seam fastball
Speaker 3: and raises the eye level the hitter, which is a
Speaker 3: good thing to do. But his secondary stuff, his curveball
Speaker 3: and his splitter, that's got to be from the belt
Speaker 3: down to the ground or the thigh.
Speaker 1: To the ground. I guess he'll hit it if it's
Speaker 1: in the mid part.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, Because when that ball gets up in the
Speaker 3: secondary stuff like the splitter, the or the curveball, that
Speaker 3: thing's going downtown.
Speaker 1: There's no action on the ball.
Speaker 3: His fastball, he could throw high, but the secondary stuff's
Speaker 3: got to be you know, around the knee to the
Speaker 3: to the ground and that's it. And this stuff's got
Speaker 3: good action on the ball when it's tumbling on the
Speaker 3: splitter and when it's got the good spin on the curveball,
Speaker 3: but it's got to be low in the strike zone
Speaker 3: where it's got a downward tilt to it.
Speaker 1: I think even the ball that he threw a Stanton,
Speaker 1: Stanton got a good swing on it. It was low
Speaker 1: in the zone, was but he high, but it kind
Speaker 1: of hung there like a cement mixer. It was low.
Speaker 1: The height was good.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but instead of kind of a spinning sideways, that
Speaker 3: ball's got to have a downward tumble on it and
Speaker 3: going downward.
Speaker 1: When that happens, they can't hit it. Yeah. He had
Speaker 1: everybody's so far in this series, in the first two
Speaker 1: games has had Aaron Judge's number as far as the
Speaker 1: Dodger pitches, whether it's Flaherty of the bullpen or ya.
Speaker 1: Let him sleep, Aaron Judge. Just let's let him just
Speaker 1: Aaron just go to sleep, now, Okay, just go to sleep. Yeah,
Speaker 1: let him let him do what he's doing. We won't
Speaker 1: even talk about him anymore. Well, you know, let's pretend
Speaker 1: he's not there. Well, we can kind of sence you
Speaker 1: and mere only on listeners. All he went to talking
Speaker 1: just you and me.
Speaker 3: You know, Hey, the thing about him is, he's just
Speaker 3: a little bit just going out of the zone. Aaron, judge,
Speaker 3: if he tightens that sucker up a little bit and
Speaker 3: makes him bring the ball up, makes him go in
Speaker 3: the strike zone, then that monster's gonna awaken, and we
Speaker 3: don't want that. No, so we're gonna just let him
Speaker 3: sleep and chasing pitches. Let him chase, Chase Arella, go ahead,
Speaker 3: chase all you want. Aaron knows that, I'm obviously, I mean,
Speaker 3: he knows he's just going out of the zone a
Speaker 3: little bit. But my gosh, you wake that monster up
Speaker 3: and forget it. No, I'm hoping he I'm sure he's
Speaker 3: a big fan of this show. I'm sure sure so's
Speaker 3: I'm sure he's listening on iHeart all the way over
Speaker 3: to New York, absolutely, and he's probably getting the idea. Now, geez,
Speaker 3: sax in case just said, just bring the ball up,
Speaker 3: make him throw the ball in the strike zone, and
Speaker 3: I'm dangerous again, sough, I hope not.
Speaker 1: We can't. We can't get him going because he's come
Speaker 1: up in big situations in the first two games, and
Speaker 1: the Dodgers have gotten him out and and de threatening him,
Speaker 1: you know, at the plate with runners in scoring position.
Speaker 1: But yeah, if there, if he gets going, you know,
Speaker 1: he'll start making those Dodger pitchers pay. Stanton made him
Speaker 1: pay with the home run against Yamamoto or against Flairty
Speaker 1: in Game one. Yamamoto in the bullpen looked fantastic except
Speaker 1: for Trying in the ninth inning where he got into trouble.
Speaker 1: To me, Trying probably shouldn't even been out there on
Speaker 1: Saturday night because he pitched it Inny to the third
Speaker 1: did on Friday night, and you're bringing him back on
Speaker 1: Saturday night in a close out situation. You have other
Speaker 1: arms down there to get the final three outs in
Speaker 1: the ninth inning, and I probably would have rather gone
Speaker 1: to even if you go to one or two, I mean,
Speaker 1: you have to get three batters. I guess, so just
Speaker 1: anybody else, but Trying, because he didn't have it. I mean,
Speaker 1: his auspeed stuff wasn't there. His fastball he's missing. Probably
Speaker 1: not the best time to go back to him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, and you know, if you you know it's
Speaker 3: you want to push a little bit more, probably from
Speaker 3: in postseason, try to you know, eke a little bit
Speaker 3: more out of him.
Speaker 1: The thing with trying is his stuff. That's the problem.
Speaker 3: His stuff is so wicked that, oh I can you know,
Speaker 3: even if he's eighty percent, he's gonna get people out right.
Speaker 3: His stuff is nasty. I can tell you coming from
Speaker 3: a hit or tim that bowling ball sinker that he
Speaker 3: throws into a right hander, good luck with that and
Speaker 3: the same with him. But if he gets the ball
Speaker 3: those that those pitches up that aren't his fastball, he
Speaker 3: gets in trouble. Like he hangs the slider, of course
Speaker 3: he's gonna get hammered with it. And you know, if
Speaker 3: he's working the fastball, you know, from the thigh down
Speaker 3: and then things got that boring in type of a
Speaker 3: bowling ball to a right hander.
Speaker 1: These guys aren't going to touch it. They got no
Speaker 1: chance with that. Juan Soto singled on a three to
Speaker 1: two singer that he left over the middle of the
Speaker 1: PLATEE want Aaron Judges struck out swinging on a sweeper
Speaker 1: that if you look at the stat cast was like
Speaker 1: a foot and a half outside the zone and he's
Speaker 1: swagging struck out on Then Stanton comes up in single
Speaker 1: off the third base bag. Chisholms singled, you know, Rizzo
Speaker 1: gets hit by a pitch and the yeah, and Volpi
Speaker 1: comes up and strikes out. Volpi's been absolutely nothing in
Speaker 1: this series for the Yankees. And then they go to
Speaker 1: Vesi to close it out and he gets Travino, the
Speaker 1: pitch hitter, to fly out to left center field. Ball
Speaker 1: game over. The Dodgers have a two zero series lead.
Speaker 1: But again it's the bullpen saves the day for the Dodgers,
Speaker 1: and certainly they put themselves in this situation with Blake
Speaker 1: trying it in the ninth inning, bud Man, you just
Speaker 1: feel like Doc Roberts has pushed all the right buttons
Speaker 1: in the first two games of this series, from the
Speaker 1: bullpen to the starting pitching and everything in between. I mean,
Speaker 1: guys are doing it what they need to do.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm hearing from my sources a lot of them
Speaker 3: back in New York too. They're just shaking their head.
Speaker 3: They're saying, well, they're not as good as the Dodgers.
Speaker 3: I mean, all over and I don't want to speak
Speaker 3: too soon. Yeah, you know, but they you know, they
Speaker 3: they just know that this team that they're facing in
Speaker 3: front of them is good on every aspect. The one
Speaker 3: question mark of course being what about the starting pitching?
Speaker 3: What about that starting pitching? Well, you know, I'll tell
Speaker 3: you what. It's been outstanding as far as I'm concerned.
Speaker 3: And this is when it counts right now, in the
Speaker 3: in the World Series. So we'll see what happens from here.
Speaker 1: Yeah, go ahead. If you're on the Yankee side, though,
Speaker 1: you're looking at missed opportunities. In Game one, you had
Speaker 1: a chance to win the game if not for a
Speaker 1: walk off Grand Slam. Game two, you're one for six
Speaker 1: with runners in scoring position, and yeah, you only had
Speaker 1: the one hit offf of Yama model, but you had
Speaker 1: guys on base, and in the ninth inning you had
Speaker 1: traffic on the bass pass and couldn't get that hit
Speaker 1: when you needed it. So maybe if the Yankees you're
Speaker 1: feeling like, hey, we're a base hit away from from
Speaker 1: being back in this series. We're a base hit away
Speaker 1: from being one to one coming home. Heck, we're a
Speaker 1: Grand Slam away from having maybe a two zero series lead.
Speaker 1: So you have to be feeling okay about yourself with
Speaker 1: the Yankees. Yeah, I mean, I mean you try to
Speaker 1: put it in your head that way.
Speaker 3: But you know what's getting old is watching watching Soto
Speaker 3: shake his head and when he takes a ball inside
Speaker 3: he does that kind of a shuffle at the play.
Speaker 1: Dude nods an approval. That's what he does.
Speaker 3: What's yeah, come on, is that what I saw your pitch? Okay,
Speaker 3: it's kind of like it's kind of like, okay, well,
Speaker 3: you know, I got something for you. And then he
Speaker 3: did hit one out. I mean, hey, the guy's an
Speaker 3: offensive threat. But how about the ball down the line
Speaker 3: when he just kind of looked at Rizzo and said, hey,
Speaker 3: why don't you go get it? He's jogging at the
Speaker 3: pop up down the first base line. Look, that's not
Speaker 3: the first baseman's ball. That's your ball, bro, You know
Speaker 3: what I mean, you got it right in front of you.
Speaker 1: He's jogging in. Come on, it's the good and bad
Speaker 1: of Juan Soto. The kid just turns twenty six years old.
Speaker 1: I'm just not getting me. Where's the effort on that?
Speaker 1: That's the problem. I mean, let the horse out of
Speaker 1: the barn, dude, I don't see it running. If he
Speaker 1: played one hundred percent all the time, If he play
Speaker 1: one hundred percent seventy five percent of the time, he
Speaker 1: would be arguably the best player in baseball.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: And to me, Tim I got I got a flat
Speaker 3: out inherent problem with that with somebody that's twenty six
Speaker 3: that's not hustling. You should never have a hustle slump?
Speaker 1: Are you kidding me? Is there something else on your
Speaker 1: mind out there? I mean, really, it's absurd. It's his defense,
Speaker 1: though it's always been his defense. He's got very arm,
Speaker 1: but the way he doesn't hustle out of balls. That's
Speaker 1: why Judge is playing center field and Soto's in right field.
Speaker 1: He can't.
Speaker 3: He's not a great runner, though he's you know, he's okay,
Speaker 3: you know, but he's not. He's not a barn burner, No,
Speaker 3: he's not. He doesn't have closing speed. You need that
Speaker 3: in center field.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 1: And I feel like Jan Soda at twenty six, where
Speaker 1: is he in ten years if you're going to sign
Speaker 1: him to a long term deal. Is he still in
Speaker 1: a right fielder for you? Or is he turned into
Speaker 1: a dah Yeah? Probably he's thirty, so so when you're
Speaker 1: looking at this whole thing too. As we were talking about,
Speaker 1: you know, they're going home now. The Yankees are going
Speaker 1: home kind of feeling better about things, even though they're
Speaker 1: down two.
Speaker 3: Oh you know, Clark Schmidt, their starter, has been pretty
Speaker 3: darn good on the road. Guy got a buck thirty
Speaker 3: nine era on the road. At home, not so much.
Speaker 3: He's had troubles at home. Pitching in his own park
Speaker 3: at Yankee Stadium a four point fifty era, and in
Speaker 3: eight starts, you know, not a huge sample size, but
Speaker 3: big enough. There's a trend here. He pitches much better
Speaker 3: on the road, way better on the road. So the
Speaker 3: Yankees got to go in there. They certainly know this.
Speaker 3: They're gonna go in there thinking, hey, you know, we
Speaker 3: can mow this thing down in Game three and then
Speaker 3: we're looking at one more to stomp it out. So yeah,
Speaker 3: this is good for them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's a good right hander. He's been just as
Speaker 1: good as Garrett Cole in the second half of the
Speaker 1: season for the Yankees. Some say he was their best
Speaker 1: pitcher down the stretch in September going into the postseason.
Speaker 1: So they saved him for Game three and they're gonna
Speaker 1: need him tonight. The Dodgers need to get after him.
Speaker 1: He's a good right hander, a lot like Michael King
Speaker 1: is for the San Diego Padres. As far as his
Speaker 1: aw speed pitches is concerned, his curveball is considered a
Speaker 1: plus plus curveball, so he can get after it. And
Speaker 1: the Dodgers certainly have gotten the pitching already in this series,
Speaker 1: either the bullpen or starting pitching. Garrett Pole. He bet
Speaker 1: Garrett Cole pitch really well in Game one ye for
Speaker 1: the Yankees, and it was a great pitching matchup back
Speaker 1: and forth with him and Flaherty. Aaron Boone decides to
Speaker 1: go to the bullpen, even though he was only had
Speaker 1: like eighty one pitches at that time in Game one
Speaker 1: was Garrett Cole, and Cole you could second guess whether
Speaker 1: or not you should have left him out there if
Speaker 1: you're a Yankees fan. They pull him, they go the bullpen.
Speaker 1: The Dodgers take advantage of it. Here we are two
Speaker 1: to zero series leave for the Dodgers, go out to
Speaker 1: the phones. Eight sixty six ninety seven two five seventy.
Speaker 1: Jose In Rancho Cucamonga start things off here on this
Speaker 1: Monday morning with Sax and Kate's in the am. How
Speaker 1: are you doing, Jose? Good morning, guys, Good morning, Hi Jose.
Speaker 4: Hey yeah, so, uh well, first off, we went to
Speaker 4: this year. My I took my kids to the opening game,
Speaker 4: and my nine year old daughter fell in love with baseball.
Speaker 4: I mean she's on there every day watching the games,
Speaker 4: and she's sitting down with me and enjoying it. So
Speaker 4: when the World Series came, my wife's like, we gotta go,
Speaker 4: we gotta go, we gotta go.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, I figure it was amazing.
Speaker 4: It was awesome.
Speaker 1: Did you stay for the entire game? Were you there
Speaker 1: in the ninth inning for the the ex movie?
Speaker 9: I don't think.
Speaker 4: I don't think any fan left that game.
Speaker 2: It was great.
Speaker 4: We actually got to sit in the we're going to
Speaker 4: find tickets at We were at loads one sixty one,
Speaker 4: so that when you come in in that low gentries,
Speaker 4: we were right there. So we got to see everything
Speaker 4: and wasn't gonna say oh so like after when the
Speaker 4: game was finished and roman Thal went to go give
Speaker 4: Freddie the interview, it was so loud and crazy. You
Speaker 4: couldn't hear anything Freddy was saying. All you were hearing
Speaker 4: was the fans screaming pretty pretty.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it was nuts.
Speaker 4: I've never been to a game that's been We've been
Speaker 4: to postseason games, but never anything like this.
Speaker 7: That place was electric.
Speaker 4: And my wife is a Yankee fan. So the whole
Speaker 4: game you were going back and forth, and you know,
Speaker 4: I was like, man, you're gonna get me in a
Speaker 4: fight over here.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, at least you didn't get into one. Jose.
Speaker 1: I appreciate it. Glad you had a great time. It
Speaker 1: is certainly a game that you'll never forget, being that
Speaker 1: it was emotional and people were crying at Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 1: People were hugging each other, people were in disbelief, were
Speaker 1: in shock, The players were in shock. It's one of
Speaker 1: those moments like eighty eight in the home run from Gibson,
Speaker 1: that you'll never forget. Where you're at, you'll be talking
Speaker 1: about this in years to come. We still watch the
Speaker 1: videos of the home run from Gibbey and you see
Speaker 1: the taillights of the Dodger fans leaving early because they
Speaker 1: thought the game was over. The historic Hall of Vin
Speaker 1: Scully he is gone. Steven Nelson was great here on
Speaker 1: the radio Joe Davis's call on Fox, Gibby meet Freddie.
Speaker 1: I mean, in the moment, that's absolutely brilliant. And I
Speaker 1: know Kirk Gibson at his home in Michigan got somebody
Speaker 1: tracked him down and talked to him and he said
Speaker 1: it was a great moment, and he said, yeah, it
Speaker 1: felt fell a lot like eighty eight and the magic
Speaker 1: that was that season, in that postseason.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I mean, there's there's nothing more you
Speaker 3: know that you're gonna see. There's no there's nothing bigger
Speaker 3: than that to hit, especially a Grand Slam, you know
Speaker 3: where it's all in the line and it's it was
Speaker 3: great to see how Freddy made his approach. You know,
Speaker 3: he didn't go up there and like work the count
Speaker 3: and oh my gosh, I gotta you know, it was
Speaker 3: just all about getting that one chance to hit that
Speaker 3: ball out and he got it on the first pitch.
Speaker 3: That's what I liked about Freddie Freeman. You know, this
Speaker 3: guy is a professional hitter. When he stands in the box, man,
Speaker 3: he's ready to hit from from pitch one. And that's
Speaker 3: the way it's got to be. That's why that's why
Speaker 3: they're up two.
Speaker 1: Oh. I heard him in an interview, might have been
Speaker 1: at the podium afterwards. So it was somewhere after the
Speaker 1: game and they asked him about the bat and kind
Speaker 1: of take us through your your thinking, and he said,
Speaker 1: all right, Uh, when they when they brought in Nesta Cortez,
Speaker 1: he said he went to the iPad and he looked
Speaker 1: at at bats of Otani against Cortes and how did
Speaker 1: they pitch Otani? And the follow up what question was, well,
Speaker 1: why didn't you look at a video of yourself against Cortes?
Speaker 1: And he goes, I figured, if they pitched the best
Speaker 1: player in the world this way, then how are they
Speaker 1: going to pitch to me? And he looked at the
Speaker 1: at bats and when he was gonna throw a sinker,
Speaker 1: are they gonna throw him away? And he figured, all right,
Speaker 1: I got a beat on his pitches. I know it's
Speaker 1: his tendencies. I'm looking middle in and he goes, sure enough,
Speaker 1: there it was right in my zone and he goes,
Speaker 1: I just attacked it, hit it out, and that, you know,
Speaker 1: the rest is history. But his approach against Cortes, he
Speaker 1: knew going in the tendencies and where he expected that
Speaker 1: ball to be in the zone.
Speaker 3: And I'm sure he took it into account the ball
Speaker 3: that he rifled down the left field line, a pitch
Speaker 3: that was away earlier when he hit the triple.
Speaker 1: When was that was that game? That was game one?
Speaker 1: That was game one?
Speaker 3: Yeah, when he hits the triple down the leftol line.
Speaker 3: So they does pictures log all this stuff in so Freddie.
Speaker 3: Freddie's probably already already knowing that he knows this, of course,
Speaker 3: that he can really rifle that ball the other way.
Speaker 1: So what do they do? They come in on him,
Speaker 1: and he's ready for that too. Le's go to Marcus
Speaker 1: I min Roviz next up here on a five seventy
Speaker 1: LA Sports. Marcus, good morning.
Speaker 9: Good morning, Good morning, Tim Kates, Deeve Seck, Hey Marcus,
Speaker 9: making my day man, how's it going good? I just
Speaker 9: wanted to say, you know, as long as the Dodgers
Speaker 9: stay in, you know, President forget m By yesterday, it's
Speaker 9: kind like running a marathon. You don't worry about the
Speaker 9: first mile. You're just you know, going forward. So I
Speaker 9: think we're in good shape. And we got a dog
Speaker 9: pitching for us today, sim Buehler. So I think I
Speaker 9: like our chances. And I can't get tired of watching
Speaker 9: that Freeman player. I've been watching it over and over
Speaker 9: and brings tears to my eyes of joy. So trying
Speaker 9: to see that happen again.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so doubt all right, Marcus appreciate it. Yeah, we
Speaker 1: mentioned it. It's important that this Dodgers team get over
Speaker 1: that emotional hurdle in Game two, and they did. I'm
Speaker 1: comes out, gives them a great performance. The Dodgers hang
Speaker 1: on and get the win. They got to take that
Speaker 1: momentum and that emotion back to New York. But whatever
Speaker 1: they did in games one and two, especially the Grand
Speaker 1: Slam from Freddy, You're gonna get to the Bronx tonight.
Speaker 1: That place is gonna be rocking. Fans are gonna be
Speaker 1: yelling at you as good as you felt Friday night,
Speaker 1: and as good as you felt with fifty six thousand
Speaker 1: fans cheering your name and feeling good and celebrating the Dodgers,
Speaker 1: and I Love La from Randy Newman playing. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be complete oposite the atmosphere at Yankee Stadium. They're gonna
Speaker 1: have to kind of rally together and realize all that
Speaker 1: emotion on Friday and Saturday. They gotta dig it up
Speaker 1: somewhere else because they're not gonna get it from the
Speaker 1: fans tonight.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're gonna go from Randy Newman to the end
Speaker 3: of the game in LA to Frank Sinatra. They hope
Speaker 3: at the end of the game in New York and
Speaker 3: that's what they play when they win. So look, there's
Speaker 3: nothing better than that, I think, than the setup as
Speaker 3: it is right now. When you got Walker Bueller going
Speaker 3: he's already been good in postseason. That's been what his
Speaker 3: DNA has been good in postseason. Now Walker Bueller's going
Speaker 3: back there. There is nobody that you'd rather have that
Speaker 3: When he called him a dog, that's a big compliment.
Speaker 3: Walker Buehler is gonna say, take the enthusiasm, take the
Speaker 3: tough guy mentality, take all the New Yorkers and whatever,
Speaker 3: and he's gonna shove on that team. That's what he's thinking.
Speaker 3: I mean, he's this is an advantage to Walker Buehler.
Speaker 3: This is gonna this is gonna propel him to just
Speaker 3: be the best that he can possibly be. And I
Speaker 3: think you're gonna see it tonight. He's gonna say, bring
Speaker 3: the New York sentiment my way, and I'll challenge that
Speaker 3: on We'll see who wins this fight. That's what Walker
Speaker 3: Bueller's mentality is he thrives off of it, loves it.
Speaker 3: He wants the moments better for him. Oh, absolutely is
Speaker 3: better on the road for it. He embraces it, he
Speaker 3: accepts the challenge. And he's been there before, pitching in
Speaker 3: game threes of the World Series. He did it in
Speaker 3: twenty eighteen against the Red Sox. Didn't get the decision.
Speaker 3: That was that Friday night game that wins seven hours
Speaker 3: and twenty minutes. Max Muntzi hit the home run against
Speaker 3: the Red Sox and they win in what seventeen eighteen innings,
Speaker 3: So he pitched that game. And he also pitched Game
Speaker 3: three in the Bubble in Arlen of the World Series
Speaker 3: against the Tampa Bay Rays. So he's pitched in games three.
Speaker 3: We'll hear from him later on talking about it. But
Speaker 3: he's used to the moment. He's used to pitching in
Speaker 3: big games. That's not gonnaffect him.
Speaker 1: He pitched in New York against the Mets in the
Speaker 1: NLD or NLCS already, so it's not it doesn't matter. Tim.
Speaker 1: I went from here to New York, no problem, no problem.
Speaker 1: Eight sixty six, nine eighty seven, two, five seventy coming up,
Speaker 1: we're gonna hear from the manager Dave Roberts. He's gonna
Speaker 1: tell us what's up with show Hey Otani. Yes, still
Speaker 1: gonna need to think about show Hey in the shoulder.
Speaker 1: He left the game of the seventh inning on seventh
Speaker 1: on Saturday night. We'll get into that with doctor Chow
Speaker 1: in the seven o'clock hour. What's lingering with that shoulder?
Speaker 1: Can he play through it? What about the long term effects?
Speaker 1: Because you got a thing long term as well. But
Speaker 1: tonight it's Game three of the World Series. Dodgers Yankees
Speaker 1: Dodgers a three to zero series lead Walker Buler on
Speaker 1: the mound first pitching. Five oh wait, thanks for being
Speaker 1: with us on this Monday morning at Sax and Kates
Speaker 1: and Am on an FI seventy light Sports. Sax and
Speaker 1: Kates in the Am on n five seventy LA Sports
Speaker 1: on this Monday morning. Thanks for being with us. Game
Speaker 1: three of the World Series coming up at five oh
Speaker 1: eight right here on n FI seventy LA Sports. We
Speaker 1: got Marongo Casino Dodgers on deck in and started at
Speaker 1: four o'clock. Next hour, Doctor Chow will join us get
Speaker 1: his thoughts and expertise on the show. Hey Osani Shoulder injury,
Speaker 1: Will he be able to play? How much will it
Speaker 1: affect him?
Speaker 2: Maybe?
Speaker 1: What are the long term ramifications of him going out
Speaker 1: there and playing or not playing with that shoulder injury?
Speaker 7: Uh?
Speaker 1: Moving forward, because yeah, we care about show hate now
Speaker 1: and certainly what he's gonna be able to help this
Speaker 1: Dodgers team doing next year and the years beyond with
Speaker 1: that big contract that he signed. But hopefully the Dodgers
Speaker 1: have him in the lineup. In fact, here's Dave robers,
Speaker 1: Dodger manager, yesterday after the team landed in New York City.
Speaker 1: He spoke to the media. They had a workout afterwards.
Speaker 1: But here is Dave Roberts yesterday before the Dodger workouts.
Speaker 8: I think that, you know, taking dry swings, which he's done,
Speaker 8: but then I'll obviously taking balls off the tee batting
Speaker 8: practice in the cage. That's going to be telling. And
Speaker 8: I think that he's obviously very well aware of himself
Speaker 8: and his body. So if he feels good enough to go,
Speaker 8: then I see no reason why he wouldn't.
Speaker 7: Be in there.
Speaker 1: And is this the thing where he could possibly injure
Speaker 1: it worse by playing through it?
Speaker 8: You know, once we make the decision that he can play,
Speaker 8: I would assume that there isn't a possibility of that.
Speaker 1: Is this more of a pain tolerance and comfort thing
Speaker 1: for him at this day?
Speaker 8: It will be. Yes, that's exactly what it is. I
Speaker 8: don't see him being compromised. It's it's the left shoulder,
Speaker 8: which is the back shoulder. So I don't see how
Speaker 8: that affects affects his hitting. If he's able to go,
Speaker 8: I really don't. Today feels better than yesterday, and our
Speaker 8: assumption is tomorrow is going to feel better than today.
Speaker 8: And so with that, you know, that's what I'm banking on.
Speaker 1: If is this similar to what Cody did, I think
Speaker 1: inn LCS Game seven and twenty twenty with that celebration
Speaker 1: with Kik and then obviously he played through it in
Speaker 1: the World's.
Speaker 8: Very similar, just a different shoulder where you know, I
Speaker 8: would argue that the right shoulder, it is more compromising
Speaker 8: to the swing for a left hand hitter than the
Speaker 8: left shoulder. If he is able to play, willing to play,
Speaker 8: He's going to play, and Schmidt will know that show
Speaker 8: he's in the box, so that that means everything.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that means everything, whether he's one hundred percent or not.
Speaker 1: He's going to be close to it or whatever percentage
Speaker 1: he's at playing, who knows, but the presence alone sacks
Speaker 1: he To have him in that leadoff spot is a threat.
Speaker 1: And to me sometimes the threat is not more than
Speaker 1: you know, what a guy can produce, but certainly to
Speaker 1: have a shoe he Otania fifty percent shoe Otania seventy
Speaker 1: five percent, but to also have him as that presence
Speaker 1: in the lineup when it turns over, that's huge.
Speaker 3: Yes, especially against the right handed pitching Schmidt. I think
Speaker 3: that's a big advantage for the Dodgers. And you said
Speaker 3: it right, Tim, An eighty seventy five percent of show
Speaker 3: hey is is better than none at all. So he
Speaker 3: he changes the way the whole lineup is structured. He
Speaker 3: changes the way guys are pitched after him, and so
Speaker 3: that's a huge difference maker. He's got to be, you know,
Speaker 3: there with his presence, So that'll make a difference.
Speaker 1: Eight six six, nine eighty seven two five seventy is
Speaker 1: our number leading up to Game three of the World Series.
Speaker 1: But what a weekend it was here in Southern California
Speaker 1: Friday night, the walk off Grand Slam in the tenth
Speaker 1: inning from Freddie Freeman. One of the greatest moments in
Speaker 1: Dodger's history, and if the Dodgers go on to win
Speaker 1: the World Series here against the Yankees could go down
Speaker 1: as the greatest moment in Dodger history. They win Game
Speaker 1: two on Saturday night thanks to Yoshi Yamamoto. He was
Speaker 1: fantastic and the Dodgers hitting three home runs. Let's go
Speaker 1: to Rico in Fontana, Rico. Good morning, Welcome to Saxon
Speaker 1: Kate's and the am Rico.
Speaker 4: Hey sex the Kate.
Speaker 7: This is Rico for Fine Talk.
Speaker 6: Yeah, we were at Game.
Speaker 7: Two, my WiFi and daughter, and it was it was
Speaker 7: so loud, the only time I've seen the lottery in
Speaker 7: the places, like to the twenty ten NBA Finals. But
Speaker 7: Yoshi did so outstanding that I remember we gave him
Speaker 7: a standing Oh he just looked so humble coming back.
Speaker 7: But then when when Otani went down in that inning,
Speaker 7: we thought everyone was mumbling, he got so freaking quiet.
Speaker 7: We didn't even hear the guy coming out of the bullten.
Speaker 7: I know they were playing some funky music for him
Speaker 7: to come out, but everyone was just so quiet, concerned
Speaker 7: about him. I just hope that they get a mister
Speaker 7: Miyagi to do that Posho eyes, that slap his hands
Speaker 7: and rubb that shoulder like you did on Daniel Sant
Speaker 7: so he'll be ready for uh for game three and
Speaker 7: then hopefully you know he'll do that, give him a
Speaker 7: body bag and take out Johnny.
Speaker 1: Thanks for the call, all right, rego the Karate Kid reference. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: I've seen the meme many times in the last twenty
Speaker 1: four hours with mister Miyagi slapping his hands, rubbing him
Speaker 1: together and putting his hands on Daniel Sun and we're
Speaker 1: making the knee work so he can go back out
Speaker 1: there and fight against the against the Cobra Kai. Yes,
Speaker 1: and that Championship East Valley Karate Tournament.
Speaker 3: I remember that that Who was the actor the like
Speaker 3: the villain actor, the the the guy was going against
Speaker 3: against mister Miyagi. We've seen a lot in different different
Speaker 3: I'm just not sure who can.
Speaker 1: Why am I drawing a Blake? I know the guy
Speaker 1: because kid goes to my he goes to my kid's school. Blake.
Speaker 3: Yeah, anyway, he's he's in all those karate movies and
Speaker 3: you know that was just a perfect perfect person to
Speaker 3: cast for that part.
Speaker 1: Are you watching the Rebroot. By the way, they have
Speaker 1: the Cobra Kai series on Netflix where Johnny Lawrence's character
Speaker 1: is you know, he's the villain in Karate Kid and
Speaker 1: then circle back with his thirty thirty years and Johnny
Speaker 1: got the kid. Yeah, Johnny is still kind of you know,
Speaker 1: aloof and he's got his own kid. And Ralph Mancio's
Speaker 1: character Daniel LaRusso he's got his daughter, and then of
Speaker 1: course they meet up together and you know it's the
Speaker 1: Cobra kaives right, mister Miyagi's group, and it's like it's
Speaker 1: a whole you know, it's a whole thing brought back.
Speaker 1: So right, it's it's a fun series. Yeah, I enjoyed
Speaker 1: that series. Let's go out to Ruben and Brea. Thanks
Speaker 1: for being patient. Rubert, good morning, how you doing.
Speaker 6: Good morning, guys, I got you. It's Martin cob You
Speaker 6: mean John.
Speaker 1: Creepy all right, you go, yeah, yeah, you're talking about
Speaker 1: the Yeah.
Speaker 6: Right, yeah, I looked up for you guys. I just
Speaker 6: mind to say, first of all, I just had a
Speaker 6: feeling we got this and it's funny. The score for
Speaker 6: Friday's game was sixty three, which a fortun youth that
Speaker 6: was the age of Fernando Passing Away sixty three. But
Speaker 6: I wanted to say, who do we how do we pick?
Speaker 6: But once we get the rings, how do we pick
Speaker 6: which game they're going to get the rings? Because I
Speaker 6: would like it to be against the Padres.
Speaker 1: You know, Ruben, I love your enthusiasm. I love the
Speaker 1: fact that you're already thinking about it, rings, already got
Speaker 1: it picked out. Let's let's pump the brakes a little
Speaker 1: bit here. Let's let's let's let's wait a little bit.
Speaker 1: You know, maybe a three to oh series lead, three
Speaker 1: to one series lead, we start talking about a parade
Speaker 1: maybe and then the rings. But a two oh series lead.
Speaker 3: Let's Ruben probably wants to know the route of the
Speaker 3: parade right now, right, the size of the ring? I mean, hey,
Speaker 3: this is my grooving song as it is, so tim.
Speaker 1: This I'm doing. I listened to Boom. See get that
Speaker 1: kind of like the boom. Billy'sz Afka, by the way,
Speaker 1: is the gentleman who plays Johnny Lawrence or the Karate Kid.
Speaker 1: Can't believe I couldn't think of Billy's Afka's name eight
Speaker 1: sixty sixth ninety seven two five seventy. He is Steve
Speaker 1: Sachs in Studio Sax and Kate's in the Am reunited
Speaker 1: doing the happy Dance at second base on this Monday morning?
Speaker 1: Is the Dodgers feeling happy? I have two games to
Speaker 1: nothing in this best of seven World series. Doctor David
Speaker 1: Show will join us next hour, David Veastay in the
Speaker 1: eight o'clock hour. We'll hear from Walker Bueller coming up
Speaker 1: at eight o'clock as well. But your phone calls. What
Speaker 1: a weekend at Dodgers Stadium Friday night, the Grand Slam
Speaker 1: Saturday night, the three home runs and the game to
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