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Speaker 1: Oh, the Yankees have hit back, punch the Dodgers in
Speaker 1: the mouth, and now the Dodgers need to win Game
Speaker 1: five tonight to close out this Best is seven twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four world with a three games to one lead
Speaker 1: going into night's game. From the Bronx, Tim Kates, Steve
Speaker 1: saxon you on this Wednesday morning, October thirtieth, Thanks for
Speaker 1: being with us here on your home with the Dodgers
Speaker 1: and five seventy LA Sports. Dodgers had a chance to
Speaker 1: close out the World Series with the sweep last night.
Speaker 1: But you knew the Yankees weren't gonna go without a fight,
Speaker 1: and that's acts exactly what they did. Anthony vulbe a
Speaker 1: grand slamm of five run eighth inning. They busted it
Speaker 1: open late in the game and the Yankees win Game
Speaker 1: four last night in Yankee Stadium. Eleven to four is
Speaker 1: the final, and the Dodgers now a Game five tonights
Speaker 1: with Jack Felherty on the mound going up against Orange Lutherans.
Speaker 1: Garrett Cole, who got to start in Game one pitch
Speaker 1: well against the Dodgers, and now we'll get to start
Speaker 1: in Game five tonight for the Yankee Saxon Kate's brought
Speaker 1: to you by Chef mourto season the seasoning partner of
Speaker 1: the Dodgers. It's party time and World Series time, so
Speaker 1: bring out the chef in you. Looking more and more
Speaker 1: at these two knucklehead fans in the right field corner
Speaker 1: that interfered with Mookie Betts last night on a catch
Speaker 1: carry the fan in the home Yankees pinstripe jersey holding
Speaker 1: mookie Best right wrist while the other fan is taking
Speaker 1: the ball out of Mooky's glove. On his left hand.
Speaker 1: Both of them got kicked out. The fan in the
Speaker 1: glasses in the home jersey grabbing and holding onto Mooky's
Speaker 1: right wrist. He should be prosecuted. I would have.
Speaker 4: I would have grabbed he was grabbing his right wrist. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I would have shed that and grabbed his shirt and
Speaker 4: yanked him down on the field and exposed him. I mean,
Speaker 4: he grabbed you. Let's let's find out. Let me grab you. Now,
Speaker 4: you know I would have. I would have done that,
Speaker 4: But that's me, and that's probably what I shouldn't have done.
Speaker 4: I would have regretted it later, you know. You know,
Speaker 4: MOOKI handled it much better than I would have he did.
Speaker 4: I would have taken that. For one second, you're grabbing
Speaker 4: the ball out of my hand and then you're grabbing
Speaker 4: my hand right. No, you're not grabbing my hand, dude, No, nope, No,
Speaker 4: you're getting You're You're gonna come down here with me
Speaker 4: if you want to start grabbing people.
Speaker 1: Mookie, come right down here. Handed it beautifully. They were
Speaker 1: kicked out of the game. But the more and more
Speaker 1: I sit here and I tweeted out the picture for
Speaker 1: our show teas here on say, some scam and I
Speaker 1: look at the the one fan grabbing the ball out
Speaker 1: of the glove while the other fan assisted him by
Speaker 1: holding the right wrist. I mean, we have no right
Speaker 1: to do that. No, you can't hold on and grab
Speaker 1: a man like that.
Speaker 5: No.
Speaker 4: You know what they said too. They interviewed did the
Speaker 4: chump and he said, yeah, we got kicked out of
Speaker 4: the game. He said, this is this is my area,
Speaker 4: and I patrol this part of the wall like you're
Speaker 4: some landowner whatever, okay, And he says, you were. We're out.
Speaker 4: We got kicked out. I knew it was gonna happen.
Speaker 4: But they said we can come back tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Are you kidding me?
Speaker 4: No, they said the chumps are going to come back
Speaker 4: to Ma that we got to get somebody with the
Speaker 4: camera on these fools and see if they're really in
Speaker 4: the game.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, I think I think somebody should visit
Speaker 1: them tomorrow or tonight if they're back at game five
Speaker 1: and yeah, you know, hello to them.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, it's a nice little hello.
Speaker 1: It's inexcusable for fan to do that, it really is.
Speaker 1: It's one thing to grab for the ball, and you can.
Speaker 4: Say what you want within reason. You have a great
Speaker 4: time yell at him and do all that. That's great, right,
Speaker 4: that's fine.
Speaker 1: But if a ball is there along the fence and
Speaker 1: you want to grab and try to grab the ball
Speaker 1: get out of there. No, I mean, I'm okay if
Speaker 1: you're going to try to get it if it's into
Speaker 1: the stands and once it's in his glove though, no,
Speaker 1: And once it's in the glove like that, and you're
Speaker 1: trying to grab it out of the glove, like, what
Speaker 1: are you going to think?
Speaker 4: It was? It almost almost like a tag team because
Speaker 4: the one guy, the one guy's grabbing his hand, his
Speaker 4: right hand, and the other guy's got the glove prying open,
Speaker 4: reaching in and grabbing the ball. After MOOKI clearly caught
Speaker 4: the ball, all right, and the guy's doing this. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I'm raving mad. Now I'm tipped off.
Speaker 1: It felt exactly like a WWE style move, like, oh,
Speaker 1: the referees distract it over here. Meanwhile, Bobby the brain
Speaker 1: Heenan's over here trying to get the ball out of Mookie.
Speaker 1: That's his glove while we're penning him down and nobody's
Speaker 1: gonna see it. The fans are all upset, but the
Speaker 1: referee doesn't see what's happening.
Speaker 4: Doesn't see it, and there's no tag. They just double
Speaker 4: team on him, you know what I mean. So I look,
Speaker 4: Mookie's got the you know, the glove, He's got the
Speaker 4: ball in the glove. You got the chump reaching in
Speaker 4: the glove. Then you got the other guy grabbing the hand.
Speaker 4: I would have just I would have just grabbed that
Speaker 4: guy's jersey and yanked him right down onto the field
Speaker 4: and say, well, you know he he wanted to grab,
Speaker 4: so let's grab you know, come on down here. That's
Speaker 4: what he should have done, SAXI.
Speaker 1: I like to believe if that was the case and
Speaker 1: I was there, I'd be over the railing and I'd
Speaker 1: be high need it down to help you out. I
Speaker 1: wouldn't have your back of a thousand not need any
Speaker 1: help with him, I promise, not at all.
Speaker 5: No.
Speaker 1: The more and more I think about this, it's ticking
Speaker 1: me off.
Speaker 4: It ticks me off too to think that they had
Speaker 4: the audacity, but the absolute gall to reach into the glove.
Speaker 4: Who do you think you are? I mean that the
Speaker 4: man's trying to work. Mooki's doing his.
Speaker 1: Job and the other brothers grabbing the.
Speaker 4: Ris are they are? They?
Speaker 5: Bro?
Speaker 4: They're not brothers. One's John Peter, and what's the other
Speaker 4: guy's name, I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's got some Italian last name. Yeah, it's always an
Speaker 1: Italian dude, you know, you Italian sacks.
Speaker 4: He darn it, I know. And they're they're I don't know.
Speaker 4: This is not representative of the Italian nation.
Speaker 1: We love your piens on your pasta, but come on,
Speaker 1: end up with the Shenanigans already.
Speaker 4: Don't grab my man's hand. Okay, that's just not fair. Now, unreal.
Speaker 1: I see this and I'm getting my blood is boiling. Okay.
Speaker 4: I don't think most of the Yankee fans like what
Speaker 4: he did either.
Speaker 1: I mean, I hope not.
Speaker 4: I don't think they liked it at all.
Speaker 1: I mean I did see a video the guy's being
Speaker 1: escorted out, and some of the fans were like high
Speaker 1: fiving them and excited about.
Speaker 4: It, which I why not counting to this. I think
Speaker 4: most of the people are like, hey, dude, get out
Speaker 4: of the man's way. Okay, really, you're gonna reach in
Speaker 4: and grab the ball out, Yeah, that's funny. Note it's
Speaker 4: not funny. It's not funny, and MOOKI could have been hurt.
Speaker 1: One hundred percent. What if he grabbed he grabbed his wrist.
Speaker 1: What if he squeezes and poles and twist his wrist.
Speaker 4: What wasn't Mookie like off the ground, he was like
Speaker 4: reaching in off the ground making that catch, and the
Speaker 4: guy's grabbing What if he like broke his finger or something.
Speaker 1: Percent?
Speaker 4: You don't grab a player, Come on, really.
Speaker 1: Now here, here's the other side of this is I'm like,
Speaker 1: where the teammates, where are the other Dodger of players
Speaker 1: to go over there? You know, start hard.
Speaker 4: So it happened so fast. I don't even think they
Speaker 4: realized it. I don't even think they realized it was
Speaker 4: happening until MOOKI kind of screamed at him, yeah, which
Speaker 4: which was good. But but uh, you know, if he
Speaker 4: could have just grabbed that guys, I shouldn't say that.
Speaker 4: That's terrible, but that's what I would have done. I mean,
Speaker 4: I mean, you're grabbing my hand. Come on, now, this
Speaker 4: has taken me off. This is a fight. This is
Speaker 4: a street fight now between the Dodgers and the Yankees.
Speaker 4: You want to start pulling on Mookie bets wrists, you
Speaker 4: want to start assaulting him down the right field line.
Speaker 4: We got ourselves a fight now between LA and New York. Yeah,
Speaker 4: you can't be grabbing on anybody. And you know.
Speaker 1: Nobody grabs Mookie's wrists like that.
Speaker 4: Okay, oh no, we don't put up with that. No way,
Speaker 4: no way. You don't grab our team, no chance. Now
Speaker 4: I've done, Dave Roberts. That's the speech I'm giving.
Speaker 1: I'm postering this picture up everywhere, on the bulletin boards
Speaker 1: and the lockers. I'm putting it on the led screens
Speaker 1: that they all have. Now that's what I'm doing. They're
Speaker 1: watching replay after replay of Mookie being assaulted down the
Speaker 1: right field line. We're not gonna put up with that
Speaker 1: here at Yankee Stadium. That's right here. In the media,
Speaker 1: we can, you know, stir all this stuff up. But
Speaker 1: you know, in the clubhouse, they want to forget it. No,
Speaker 1: don't forget it, get it. It's a rallying cry.
Speaker 4: I don't think the Dodgers need that. They don't need
Speaker 4: a rallying I mean, you and me love it, But
Speaker 4: I think in the clubhouse, you know, you know what
Speaker 4: he's probably saying. I would venture to say that Mookie's
Speaker 4: having private conversations with his players and say man, I'd
Speaker 4: like to jack that dude up. I'd like to just
Speaker 4: give him a good short right hand and drop him.
Speaker 4: I mean, I bet you he's probably thinking that, but outwardly, Nope,
Speaker 4: it's okay, no problem. We're gonna move on and uh,
Speaker 4: we're gonna win tonight. That's it.
Speaker 1: No, I want Dave Roberts on a stool like William Wallis,
Speaker 1: William Wallas and Braveheart saying they'll they'll never take of freedom.
Speaker 4: What do you think Lesorda would have done on this case?
Speaker 4: He thought what he would do, well, he probably would
Speaker 4: have been so ticked off in the clubhouse. He would
Speaker 4: have probably been, you know, shouting every expletive you can
Speaker 4: possibly think, maybe even took his shirt off in front
Speaker 4: of everybody, got on the stool and let the jelly
Speaker 4: show begin. I'm serious, yelling, Cale, can you do that
Speaker 4: to our team? Look at Mookie's out there trying to
Speaker 4: make a living, and you go out there and then
Speaker 4: hibit him and grab him and turn him and twist
Speaker 4: his arm. And meanwhile, the depasta's coming out from earlier.
Speaker 4: You know, it's going everywhere. People are guarding their faces,
Speaker 4: the jelly's shaken from the body, That's what Tommy would
Speaker 4: have done, and everybody would have been like, yes, yes, yes, yes,
Speaker 4: they would have loved it.
Speaker 1: We would have dug that they love it. I love it.
Speaker 1: We need to get Tommy's spirit there to inside that
Speaker 1: Dodger's clubhouse to get these guys fired up.
Speaker 4: He used this stuff big time. I mean, you can
Speaker 4: go back. We don't have to get into it, but
Speaker 4: you know the instances where Tommy's used what somebody said
Speaker 4: or somebody did and he turned that into a tornado.
Speaker 1: I love it. You need that. It's called motivation. And
Speaker 1: you're one went away from a World Series. You need
Speaker 1: a little motivation. You got hit in the mouth by
Speaker 1: the Yankees last night. How are you gonna fight back?
Speaker 4: Then you get then you have to go down and
Speaker 4: to the low life and have somebody grabbing your teammate.
Speaker 4: Oh that would tick me off. I mean, don't grab
Speaker 4: my buddy.
Speaker 1: I don't know if Joe Kelly's with the team or not,
Speaker 1: but I know fighting Joe Kelly from the nine oh nine,
Speaker 1: I know, I know Joe Kelly would not have put
Speaker 1: up with that. Maybe he was there, maybe he didn't
Speaker 1: see it, But if Joe Kelly was there, I'd have
Speaker 1: to believe Joe Kelly would be right there saying, come on.
Speaker 4: You can't have the funniest thing when he when he
Speaker 4: did that with his lip or towards absolutely brilliant. Joe Kelly,
Speaker 4: don't care. He's in the nine to nine. They don't
Speaker 4: care out there, Joe Kelly, Wayne about you know a
Speaker 4: buck seventy. He didn't care.
Speaker 1: I loved it, speaking of the nine on nine squat
Speaker 1: to Ontario, John, you don't care. You guys don't care
Speaker 1: out there.
Speaker 5: Right, Yeah, the hell no, we don't care. We just
Speaker 5: want to win.
Speaker 1: Absolutely.
Speaker 3: Hey, hey guys, quick, two quick points. Today's body or
Speaker 3: yesterday's body language didn't feel like the Dodgers. I mean,
Speaker 3: even though we want to win, they wanted to win.
Speaker 3: It felt like they had some good command as far
Speaker 3: as a three zip lead. So I was like, it
Speaker 3: didn't feel like Dave Roberts put all his chips to
Speaker 3: win that game. I mean, that's the honest truth. But today,
Speaker 3: especially after what happened to Mookie, I just want to
Speaker 3: we just want to win and just get it over with. Anyways,
Speaker 3: your thoughts on that.
Speaker 1: All right, John, appreciate it. Yeah, But we talked about
Speaker 1: how it was a wait and see approach from Dave Roberts,
Speaker 1: and he talked about that before the game. Wasn't a
Speaker 1: secret the Dodger players knew that. They jumped out to
Speaker 1: the early league. The game was close late, they had
Speaker 1: the lead late, he would, you know, go to the
Speaker 1: high leverage relievers, the dentical Kopex of the world, the
Speaker 1: Blake Trinon's out there.
Speaker 5: Sure.
Speaker 4: Look, Look, here's the thing about baseball and sports in general,
Speaker 4: is you can make the right call. Dave Roberts made
Speaker 4: the right call. I guarantee you he didn't punt that game.
Speaker 4: There's no question that he expected to win that game
Speaker 4: with those guys, and you know, you parse it out
Speaker 4: Land and Knack people want to, you know when they're
Speaker 4: nick him a bit nick Knack Snack whatever they were
Speaker 4: talking about last night too. Hey, look, he hitched great
Speaker 4: four innings in one run, pretty darn good. Okay, so
Speaker 4: he did not punt the game. Uh, but you can
Speaker 4: do everything, make the right calls, and you can still
Speaker 4: lose because what's the bottom line, The players have to execute.
Speaker 4: And if they don't execute, even though you make the
Speaker 4: right calls, that was the right call. You can still lose,
Speaker 4: and that's that's where we were.
Speaker 1: Danny and Almonte is next up here on Saxon Kates
Speaker 1: in the Am on a FI seventy LA Sports. Hi, Danny, Hi,
Speaker 1: good morning, morning.
Speaker 4: Good.
Speaker 5: So.
Speaker 6: I know we were starting to feeling a little down
Speaker 6: to a little, you know, out of it after that loss.
Speaker 6: But honestly, what do we all expect from a Yankees
Speaker 6: Dodgers World series? I didn't expect to sleep and that's
Speaker 6: definitely not what I want her to see. I want
Speaker 6: her to see a Muhammad Ali versus George Foreman. I
Speaker 6: wanted to feel slug it out. If we would have
Speaker 6: taken this series on a four to oh, I don't
Speaker 6: think anybody would have looked back at it like that, Wow,
Speaker 6: what a classic, you know, and this is exactly what
Speaker 6: I expected. But now we need to rally when you
Speaker 6: come back. How do the boys in Blue respond?
Speaker 1: Absolutely? Yeah, you know how they respond?
Speaker 4: They Danny, good, good, call Danny.
Speaker 6: Hey.
Speaker 4: You know another thing is they may have they may
Speaker 4: have said, you know, there wasn't that good of a series,
Speaker 4: wasn't that good of a matchup? That Dodgers were just
Speaker 4: so much better than the Yankees. If we had a sweep.
Speaker 4: You know, might have heard that. Now, now we gotta fight, right,
Speaker 4: So it is what it is. But I think the
Speaker 4: Yankees are they're a really good team. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 4: really good team. So it's it's not gonna be you know,
Speaker 4: he they weren't that good anyway. No, they're that good.
Speaker 1: They're a very good team. And they got the bottom
Speaker 1: of the lineup going last night with Anthony Vulpi and
Speaker 1: Austin Wells and Alex Rdugo. And the scary thing is
Speaker 1: they got a couple of hits from Soto, Judge and
Speaker 1: Stanton who went over four, but on base once. Uh,
Speaker 1: you got to keep them down. You got a silence
Speaker 1: in as long as possible as this series, hopefully, and
Speaker 1: tonight in the Bronx, let's go out to Michael and
Speaker 1: Buena Park has been waiting very patiently. Michael, good morning,
Speaker 1: how are you?
Speaker 5: Thank you?
Speaker 7: Hey, guys. I don't think last night is any reason
Speaker 7: for concern. The Yankees top six and the order were
Speaker 7: four for twenty four. Dave Roberts seemed to kind of
Speaker 7: mail in the game, and no manager or coach could
Speaker 7: ever say that. But he didn't throw all of his
Speaker 7: horses out there as far as the pitchers go. Understandably, Steve,
Speaker 7: what do you think about Tommy Edmund being moved up
Speaker 7: in the order. We understand that you want numbers eight
Speaker 7: and nine, the number eight and nine hitters to get
Speaker 7: on base for the upper part of the order, but
Speaker 7: given the postseason he's had, shouldn't he be batting fifth
Speaker 7: or no lower than six?
Speaker 4: All right, appreciate it, Michael, Thanks Michael good call. I
Speaker 4: understand your sentiments, but I got to go with you
Speaker 4: know what got us there? And you know the guys
Speaker 4: that have been smoking in the postseas and certainly he's
Speaker 4: one of them. Then LCS MVP and I love it.
Speaker 4: So I'm gonna kind of keep it where Dave Roberts
Speaker 4: has him right now, and uh, and just go with that.
Speaker 1: I like him in the nine Spy. I know he
Speaker 1: bat clean up in the in the NLCS and was.
Speaker 4: He's almost like another leadoff hitter. Absolutely, when you're hitt ninth,
Speaker 4: you got two leadoff hitters now. Absolutely, it looked what
Speaker 4: he did last night. He was all for one at
Speaker 4: the plate, but he got on base twice with walks.
Speaker 4: So he's getting on in front of show. Hey, Otani,
Speaker 4: who what do we talk about when he's got runners
Speaker 4: in a scoring position, when guys are on base, he
Speaker 4: during this postseason has delivered more times than he has it.
Speaker 4: It's when he doesn't have anybody on base, when he's
Speaker 4: starting to chase pitches and getting out of the strike zone.
Speaker 4: And we didn't we mentioned it earlier. He was a
Speaker 4: guy who won for seven runners in scoring position, the
Speaker 4: Dodgers of the team showy Otani, oh for one last night.
Speaker 4: So Tommy Evan got on base. You know, if you
Speaker 4: move them up and you drop kiy k and nine,
Speaker 4: you flip flop him in the sixth to ninth spot. Okay, great,
Speaker 4: But I like Edmond of that nine spot you hit
Speaker 4: on the head. It's that's another leadoff hitter to turned
Speaker 4: that lineup over. And I like the fact that he
Speaker 4: gets on base no matter what. Yeah, and look, show hey,
Speaker 4: o Tani's the lead off hitter one time, you know,
Speaker 4: starting the game after that, you know it's mixing. You know,
Speaker 4: it's he's not gonna lead off every every inning. And
Speaker 4: having Tommy I'd been at the bottom of the order
Speaker 4: to set the stage for show Hey and Mookie and Freddy.
Speaker 4: I like that you know, that's that's a good spot
Speaker 4: to be, so I like him in that number nine
Speaker 4: position too.
Speaker 1: Let's squeeze in one more call before the break. Coming
Speaker 1: up at the back end of this hour, Jeff and
Speaker 1: Nelson from Yes Network is gonna join us. Manny all
Speaker 1: the way out in Katie, Texas joins us from the
Speaker 1: Long Long Star State. How you doing, Manny, Good morning, guys.
Speaker 8: Honored to speak to you, guys, listening to you guys
Speaker 8: on iHeartRadio.
Speaker 4: Thanks Manny, Thanks, Manny's going Saxy.
Speaker 8: I just want to say, it's an honor to talk
Speaker 8: to you, man, And I want to remind everybody, I mean,
Speaker 8: with somebody. A lot of people don't remember this that
Speaker 8: how magical eighty eight was. Besides Gibb's home run and
Speaker 8: Oral's accomplishment, you hit that home run on that first
Speaker 8: pitch on opening day.
Speaker 4: Man, you remember that?
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, buddy, I remember that. Running to the TV
Speaker 8: to watch the news because that's what it was. That's
Speaker 8: the only way we were to watch clips of it.
Speaker 8: And man, you were pumped running down the bases. But hey, guys,
Speaker 8: last night, Hey, I expected it. You know when they
Speaker 8: said Kaspirius and and Nack was going to pitch. It's
Speaker 8: exactly what I expected. Yankees just feed off of triple
Speaker 8: A pitching. Tonight we got Jack Flarity, you know. And
Speaker 8: I believe tayl is gonna wake up tonight. He's gonna
Speaker 8: be clutched tonight. So I said, Yank, I had called
Speaker 8: Dodgers in six, but hey, we could do it in five.
Speaker 8: Let's do it, baby, and let's celebrate safely.
Speaker 1: All right, go Dodgers, guys, appreciate thanks for checking in. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I got the big dog going tonight, Flarity.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and see that's kind of like the sentiment. You
Speaker 4: get the kind of the narrative. Oh not not the
Speaker 4: top quality landa NAC four innings, one one run, Okay,
Speaker 4: he was one of the guy bright stars of the
Speaker 4: pitching staff, if you can make it that way, A
Speaker 4: little kernel of good things that were happening yesterday for
Speaker 4: the Dodgers. So anyway, not a punt, not triple A. Uh,
Speaker 4: it's just what it is. But tonight you turn the page.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think you can tell that Dodgers lineup
Speaker 1: last night. We're punting this game. Just go out there,
Speaker 1: go through the motions, guys, and you're thirty two combined
Speaker 1: bats go ahead and strike out eight times. We're good.
Speaker 1: We're gonna We're gonna try to win this in five. No,
Speaker 1: that's that's not the mentality. Eight sixty six, nine eighty
Speaker 1: seven to two, five seventy is a phone number. Your
Speaker 1: phone calls coming up. David Vets joins us. Next hour,
Speaker 1: we'll hear from Mookie Betts. We'll hear from Jeff Nelson,
Speaker 1: former Yankee, now part of the Yes Network in New York.
Speaker 1: That's coming up later on this hour. Your phone calls
Speaker 1: when we come back. Dodgers fight themselves now in to fight.
Speaker 1: Yankees have hit back. We got ourselves a series. Dodgers
Speaker 1: still up three to one right here on n FI
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Speaker 1: you up to Game five of the World Series. Yeah,
Speaker 1: a Game five coming up from the Bronx after the
Speaker 1: Yankees avoided elimination in his sweep with an eleven to
Speaker 1: four win last night over the Dodgers. Dodgers on Deck
Speaker 1: will get started at four pm, first pitch at five
Speaker 1: oh eight from the Gallping Motors broadcast booth. I was
Speaker 1: just watching our buddies at the MLB Network during the
Speaker 1: commercial break here Staxy, Matt Vskersion and Sean Casey and
Speaker 1: talking about this series. And Sean Casey brought a great point.
Speaker 1: It's hard in baseball to sweep a team in a
Speaker 1: three game series in the regular season. Now Here we
Speaker 1: are in the postseason, it's a best of seven series.
Speaker 1: And now you're asking a team to go and win
Speaker 1: four straight games over a team that is arguably just
Speaker 1: as hot as you, arguably just as good as you,
Speaker 1: and here in the position to also try to win
Speaker 1: a World Series championship. And you think you're just going
Speaker 1: to go in there and roll through them in four games?
Speaker 1: Did it not expect the Yankees to put up a fight?
Speaker 1: I mean, this is a Yankees Team's got a lot
Speaker 1: of pride. Certainly they don't want to get swept. When
Speaker 1: he pointed out it's hard to win four games during
Speaker 1: the regular season against the team in a row.
Speaker 4: Almost almost never happens to get swept in four during
Speaker 4: the regular season. Nonetheless, thinking about what happens in postseason
Speaker 4: a World Series, it just almost never happens. Yeah, I
Speaker 4: can tell you during eighty three when we were playing
Speaker 4: the Phillies, we beat the Phillies. I think every game
Speaker 4: that year, maybe we lost one, I don't think so.
Speaker 4: I think we were twelve and oher against the Phillies.
Speaker 4: We come when we play them in the NLCS, they
Speaker 4: swept us in four. That shows you how how you
Speaker 4: know tentative this thing is. It's not just it's not
Speaker 4: just you know, reason that comes to the forefront. It
Speaker 4: can be some other thing. You know, certainly where you
Speaker 4: are in the cycle, if you're hot, if you're not,
Speaker 4: if somebody's injured, all these things matter and things can
Speaker 4: change on a dime. But I just, you know, never
Speaker 4: would expect any team to come up and just slam
Speaker 4: him down in the World Series four straight. Remember, these
Speaker 4: are the two best teams in baseball, arguably in the
Speaker 4: National American League. So there you have it.
Speaker 1: We got a game five tonight. It's Garrett Cole and
Speaker 1: Jack Faleri the pitching matchup. Jeff Nelson will join us
Speaker 1: coming up in about fifteen minutes from the Yes Network
Speaker 1: in New York and a perspective from him. He was
Speaker 1: at the game last night, so h'im hanging out with
Speaker 1: Flavor Flave on the Fox broadcast. So we'll talk to
Speaker 1: him about Flavor Flavor and end this series as well
Speaker 1: as the Yankees have forced a game five. Let's go
Speaker 1: back down to the phones, Richard and Elson gund waiting
Speaker 1: patissly on this Wednesday morning. Richard, how are you? Richard?
Speaker 1: Go ahead?
Speaker 5: Hey guys, sorry about that.
Speaker 3: Doing pretty well.
Speaker 5: Good morning.
Speaker 9: A little bit of a hangover from last night's game,
Speaker 9: but you know, honestly, I'm not.
Speaker 5: All that worried.
Speaker 9: You know, the eighth inning was kind of a sluke.
Speaker 9: You know, Volpi sold that foul tip, he struck out,
Speaker 9: and then nine times out of ten Will Smith is
Speaker 9: catching that ball behind behind home plate. That's two outs
Speaker 9: right there. So it's kind of just, you know, things
Speaker 9: happen in baseball at sports. And then to test on
Speaker 9: the thing you guys were talking about regarding how they
Speaker 9: were talking about not being a home run in Dodger Stadium,
Speaker 9: I think that was more a knock on the Yankees
Speaker 9: and their literal league. You know short porch, because you
Speaker 9: know all those home runs that those guys have. Look
Speaker 9: at where they're hitting it. I mean, it would not
Speaker 9: be a home run in like numerous stadiums around around
Speaker 9: the league. So not too worried. Hopefully they're going to
Speaker 9: bring it home tonight and we can meet them at
Speaker 9: the airport when they.
Speaker 5: Fly home tonight. Sounds good, Richard, have a good one
Speaker 5: go Dodgers, all right.
Speaker 1: Appreciate itrid The game of baseball could be so beautiful
Speaker 1: yet so frustrating, and Richard just brought a great point.
Speaker 1: It's a six ' four game. Honeywell's on in the
Speaker 1: bottom half of the eighth inning. Anthony Rizzo grounds out
Speaker 1: to Freddie Freeman. Honeywell goes over, covers the base one down.
Speaker 1: Here comes Anthony Volpi hits the grand Slam earlier. Again,
Speaker 1: it's a six to four game. Bottom of the eighth inning.
Speaker 1: Dodgers still have one more at bats coming up. It's
Speaker 1: only a two run deficit. Dodger's still in it right.
Speaker 1: Wpy comes up to two pitch, fouls it off, and
Speaker 1: it looked like he didn't foul it off. It was
Speaker 1: a strike that just whiffed and got past Will Smith.
Speaker 1: It should have been strike three. Yeah, Instead they call
Speaker 1: it a foul tip. It clearly wasn't. I don't think
Speaker 1: you can challenge that in baseball. But the next pitch
Speaker 1: he doubles, yeah, and then Wells walks, and then both
Speaker 1: of them steals second and third, and then Alex Rdugo
Speaker 1: comes up and hits a fielder's choice because Volpe's quick
Speaker 1: off the secondary and scores even with the enfield up
Speaker 1: to make it a seven to four game. And then
Speaker 1: Taurus comes up and clears the bases with the three
Speaker 1: run home run. It's a ten to four lead. It
Speaker 1: ends up being a five run inning for the Yankees
Speaker 1: in the eighth. Baseball can change so quick, and a
Speaker 1: foul tip that wasn't and it should have been strike three.
Speaker 1: Next thing, you know, the door opens and it's a
Speaker 1: five run inning for the Yanks.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And how you can redeem yourself And just even
Speaker 4: in the same game where Volpe had the base running
Speaker 4: blunder on the ball that should have been a triple
Speaker 4: to right center field, and then he comes in, has
Speaker 4: another chance to score side on a fielder's choice, and
Speaker 4: he does and turned out to be you know, he
Speaker 4: hits the Big Grand Slam. So you can really turn
Speaker 4: things around in baseball very very quickly. And that's in
Speaker 4: a big sense in the macro view of the whole thing.
Speaker 4: That's what the Dodgers are going to try to do.
Speaker 4: Put this one behind him last night, and I'm sure
Speaker 4: they have. Listen, you gotta have anesia sometime when you're
Speaker 4: a baseball player, and the Dodgers certainly know how to
Speaker 4: do that. They're gonna come in tonight, fresh ready and
Speaker 4: a great outlook on what's to be starting in Yankee
Speaker 4: Stadium tonight. Win that one and then they can just
Speaker 4: go home for a parade.
Speaker 1: Gus and Roland Hines is next up here on a
Speaker 1: five to seventy. It was Saxon Kates in the Ams.
Speaker 1: The Dodgers now find themselves with a three to one
Speaker 1: series lead after the Yankees win in Game four last night.
Speaker 1: How you doing, Gus?
Speaker 5: Hey?
Speaker 2: Really good?
Speaker 10: Boss?
Speaker 4: Hey?
Speaker 10: You got to be fired up, man, keep that seats
Speaker 10: coming ready to go.
Speaker 1: I am fired up, but I think this Dodgers team
Speaker 1: needs to be fired up. Mookie Betch was assaulted last
Speaker 1: night in right field down the right field line, and
Speaker 1: the just got hit in the mouth by the Yankees
Speaker 1: in Game four, they scored eleven runs on them. Certainly
Speaker 1: needed to come back tonight and they need to hit back.
Speaker 10: Gus, Yes, they're yes there Ay, quick question about that play. Obviously,
Speaker 10: grabbing his glove is a little over over the top,
Speaker 10: no doubt about that. But you know, some people might
Speaker 10: take a good home field advantage, you know, trying to
Speaker 10: knock the ball out or trying to stop him from
Speaker 10: catching it.
Speaker 4: What's your take, hey, Gus, he didn't try to knock
Speaker 4: the ball out. He tried to dig it out. He
Speaker 4: opened his glove up and was digging in his glove.
Speaker 4: Get your hand out of my glove, would you? And
Speaker 4: then your chump friend has got Mookie by the hand.
Speaker 4: I mean he's trying to, you know, do whatever the
Speaker 4: Mookie's hand. That is not acceptable, not at all. So
Speaker 4: there you go.
Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely over the thought man. All right, Gus, appreciate it.
Speaker 10: Yeah, man, you got got great takes.
Speaker 3: I appreciate you guys, thanks.
Speaker 1: For just watching the replay for the nine hundreds time
Speaker 1: of Mookie bets.
Speaker 4: Does he kick you off?
Speaker 1: He leaped atousity, Yeah, he was in the air, he
Speaker 1: leaped and as he's coming down the guy is still
Speaker 1: holding on to his and then as Mookie kind of
Speaker 1: bounces back up a second time because he's being held onto,
Speaker 1: that's when the idiot grabs his right wrist and his
Speaker 1: other buddy goes to work on trying to dig the
Speaker 1: ball out. I mean, he could have pulled the shoulder,
Speaker 1: he could have pulled the wrist, he could have built,
Speaker 1: you know, broken a finger. I mean, this is unacceptable
Speaker 1: for this to happen. A Yankee stave and just to
Speaker 1: kick these guys out and we just move on, we
Speaker 1: continue to play the game. This was the bottom of
Speaker 1: the first inning in Game four of the World Series.
Speaker 4: I mean, what if the hey man, what if the
Speaker 4: guy had to blade on him? You know what I mean?
Speaker 1: What happens to this? This is a Dodger stadium.
Speaker 4: Could you know what I mean? You don't know?
Speaker 1: I mean the first thought is, oh, Dodger fans they're
Speaker 1: always roud. You look what they did against the Padres,
Speaker 1: all the pavilions out of control of Dodgers. Look at
Speaker 1: all the fights that happened up there and throwing trash
Speaker 1: on the field. Yeah, we got Yankee fans in the
Speaker 1: front row, grabbing and holding onto players. And not letting go.
Speaker 4: That's that's crossing the freaking line. Okay, I can see
Speaker 4: if the ball is going in, like you said, everybody
Speaker 4: jumps up and you try to get it and jump
Speaker 4: all it falls on the ground. Okay, exact Mookie catches
Speaker 4: the guy, grabs his glove, opens the glove, digs in, hunts.
Speaker 1: For the ball.
Speaker 4: Meanwhile, chump Arella next to him is grabbing Mooki's three
Speaker 4: hundred and sixty five million dollar hand. Okay, I'm ticked off. Now,
Speaker 4: I'm some way shedding that grab grabbing onto the jersey
Speaker 4: as I fall down, bring that chump with me. He's
Speaker 4: coming down. Yeah, and then I'll explain later. Yeah, you
Speaker 4: know what the video tells everything. Mooki had every right
Speaker 4: to protect himself, right, guys grabbing on protect yourself Mooki.
Speaker 1: Yeah, lucky it wasn't more of a mess out there
Speaker 1: and right field along the line after those Yankee fans,
Speaker 1: those Jabbroni's did to Mookie Bets down that right field line.
Speaker 1: Unacceptable and major League Baseball, the Yankees, they need to
Speaker 1: come down on these two knuckleheads. They need to be
Speaker 1: out in front of this. I haven't seen anything yet
Speaker 1: except for these two guys got escorted by security and they.
Speaker 4: And they, and they smugly said, as they're going out, well,
Speaker 4: they just told us that we can come back tomorrow.
Speaker 4: Not acceptable. No, they should not be able to be there.
Speaker 4: They should have a camera right there patrolling that area.
Speaker 4: Make sure they're not there. Hey, I got some my
Speaker 4: buddies back back east, and you know what they say,
Speaker 4: just what we're saying right now. We're from out here.
Speaker 4: We don't like that stuff. These guys are jerks. I mean,
Speaker 4: my friends in New York are telling me this.
Speaker 1: I mean, Bartman barely interfered with the ball in Chicago, barely,
Speaker 1: and he is persona non grata in the Windy City
Speaker 1: for life. Meanwhile, you got these two Jabbroni's out there
Speaker 1: grab it on and hold it on to Mookie Bets's
Speaker 1: wrists and assaulting him while they dig into his glove
Speaker 1: for thirty dollars baseball.
Speaker 4: I didn't see the phield, even the Philly fans. You
Speaker 4: do remember the how tough the Philly fans are. The
Speaker 4: guys there and in Boston, they're really tough. Remember this,
Speaker 4: Back in the late seventies, the Philly fans on not
Speaker 4: the Philly fans. I'm sorry the Philadelphia Eagles fans on
Speaker 4: Christmas Day. You know what I'm gonna say, right, throwing
Speaker 4: hard packed snowballs at Sandy Claus. Who would throw hard
Speaker 4: packed snowballs at Sandy Clause? Well, they did, they did.
Speaker 4: That's horrible. I mean, but but you know what, you
Speaker 4: don't see this kind of aggression. Nope, I mean grabbing
Speaker 4: a player and yanking the ball out first, and then
Speaker 4: who knows what he was trying to do? Why are
Speaker 4: you grabbing Mookie's wrists?
Speaker 1: Exactly?
Speaker 5: What?
Speaker 10: What?
Speaker 11: What are you?
Speaker 4: What are you trying to do? I mean, you know,
Speaker 4: do you have no right to touch Mookie?
Speaker 5: None?
Speaker 4: I don't get it, man, none. This ticks me off,
Speaker 4: really does, fires to bring back memories.
Speaker 1: Fires me up. Let's go to Gerardo in downtown l A.
Speaker 1: He's next up here on a FI seventy l A
Speaker 1: Sports Gerardo.
Speaker 5: How you doing, I'm doing good? Little pissed off as well. Yeah,
Speaker 5: because of the game.
Speaker 11: I felt like Hudson sold sold man.
Speaker 5: He fits horrible.
Speaker 11: The rookies did, okay for for the fact, you know
Speaker 11: Ben then Alanda Knack surprised me yesterday only on line
Speaker 11: one run the spirits did well for his twinnings, but
Speaker 11: uh yeah, that Mookie player. Man, it's like those guys
Speaker 11: need to get ban from every baseball every baseball stadium
Speaker 11: because that's not you can't do that. Man, You're gonna
Speaker 11: get You're gonna hurt somebody, and.
Speaker 5: That's not right.
Speaker 11: And yeah, and hopefully Dodgers win the wills.
Speaker 5: Iss today, man, let's bring today.
Speaker 1: Let's get it done, Girardo, let's get it done. Today
Speaker 1: is today. Dodgers need to show a little fight after
Speaker 1: Mookie Betts got assaulted by two guys last night down
Speaker 1: the right field line going for the baseball, grabbing onto
Speaker 1: his wrists, digging into his glove. I mean, I I'm
Speaker 1: getting I'm with you. I'm getting more and more upset
Speaker 1: by watching this video.
Speaker 4: How do officials just let this go? They just basically
Speaker 4: let it go. Yeah, that's not acceptable.
Speaker 1: No, no, And there the two idiots started arguing that
Speaker 1: they were making a case of the ball. They're gesturing like, hey,
Speaker 1: he came over here, we're trying to get the ball
Speaker 1: on the glove.
Speaker 4: Come on, No, the guy's digging in his glove.
Speaker 1: Come on eight six six nine eighty seven two five
Speaker 1: seventy the Yankees fans fighting back last night. The Yankee
Speaker 1: players on the field fighting back last night, avoiding a
Speaker 1: limit Nation in the sweep. Anthony Volpe Grand slam at
Speaker 1: five run eighth inning, Yankees beat the Dodgers eleven to four,
Speaker 1: forcing the game five tonight. Garrett Cole, Jack Flaherty Dodgers
Speaker 1: Yankees Dodgers still one win away from a World Series championship.
Speaker 1: Won't be easy, though, Yankees are putting up a fight.
Speaker 1: We'll get into your phone calls. David Vesse joins us
Speaker 1: Jeff Nelson from Yes Network as well, say FI seventy
Speaker 1: l A Sports saxon Kates in the am here on
Speaker 1: a five seventy LA Sports Live and Local are your
Speaker 1: home of the Dodgers as we lead you up to
Speaker 1: Game five of this World Series. Dodgers a three to
Speaker 1: one series lead, had a chance to sweep last night,
Speaker 1: but you knew the Yankees working to go without a fight,
Speaker 1: and they put up one last night in the stands
Speaker 1: and on the field, an eleven to four way over
Speaker 1: the Dodgers. As the Dodgers went with a bullpen game
Speaker 1: last night, Ben Kiss Sperry's got the start. Daniel Hudson
Speaker 1: gets the loss, coming in in the third getting and
Speaker 1: giving up a grand slam to Anthony Volpe as the
Speaker 1: Yankees were up five to two. The Dodgers, to their credit,
Speaker 1: made it a five to three, five to four game
Speaker 1: going to the sixth inning when Anthony uh well Well
Speaker 1: Austin Wells comes in and hits a solo home run,
Speaker 1: making it a two run game. And then they tack
Speaker 1: on five more in the eighth inning to really blow
Speaker 1: out the Dodgers with an eleven to four victory, and
Speaker 1: we got Game five tonight. Great pitching matchup put the
Speaker 1: bullpens aside. I expect to see both these guys go deep.
Speaker 1: I think a great pitching matchup. Hits are going to
Speaker 1: be their premium tonight. I think Saxy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think so too. And you know, you compare
Speaker 4: these two guys, and you know, Garrett Cole, lots of
Speaker 4: you know, great stuff said about Garrett Cole. Rightfully, so
Speaker 4: guy's a horse, he's a great pitcher. But if you
Speaker 4: really kind of parse out these two guys, what does
Speaker 4: he do great? Is what does Flarity do great? Flerity actually,
Speaker 4: numbers wise had a little better year than Garrett Cole. Did.
Speaker 4: Flarity was thirteen and seven, Cole was eight and five.
Speaker 4: Era was a little better with Flarity than with Cole.
Speaker 4: So you're getting quite the sample size. You're not just
Speaker 4: getting a couple of games. And so when people think
Speaker 4: that the Yankees have this gigantic advantage in the pitching
Speaker 4: department tonight, not so fast. Not so fast. Flarity's right
Speaker 4: there with them. You saw how Flarity's been pitching lately.
Speaker 4: Besides the one game that he gave up, all the
Speaker 4: everything else has been pretty darn good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and he's pitched well for the Dodgers since coming
Speaker 1: over from Detroit. Garrett Cole was banged up for a
Speaker 1: good stretch of the season this year, back healthy, and
Speaker 1: certainly we saw what he can do in Game one
Speaker 1: of this World Series last Friday night out of Dodger Stadium,
Speaker 1: joining it, joining us now Saxy. Longtime major League you're
Speaker 1: actually drafted by the Dodgers back in nineteen eighty four.
Speaker 4: Went on to have a great fifteen year.
Speaker 1: Career in the major leagues, dominating with the Mariners and Yankees,
Speaker 1: a four time World Series champion. Now you seeing hear
Speaker 1: him on the YES Network in New York. He is
Speaker 1: Jeff Nelson and he joins us now here on a
Speaker 1: FI seven DLA Sports Steve Saxon, Tim Kates, Jeff, good morning.
Speaker 1: How you doing.
Speaker 5: I'm doing great? And Tim, your partner was the first
Speaker 5: guy I've ever faced in the Major league Saxey when
Speaker 5: I was my rookie season. He was with d White Socks.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and tell him, did you strike me out?
Speaker 5: I don't know because it took me a little bit
Speaker 5: to get my first strikeout, so no, I didn't.
Speaker 4: Get Thank you, Nelly. How you doing, Buddy, I'm good? Thanks, good, good.
Speaker 4: Tim's gonna go first. Go ahead, Tim, and then I
Speaker 4: want to talk to Nelly of it.
Speaker 1: No, we saw you last night at the game, Jeff,
Speaker 1: And yeah, we saw you with Flavor Flay first off,
Speaker 1: hanging out with big Flavor Flame.
Speaker 5: How was that? I went to Game one? And then
Speaker 5: yesterday last night we did a watch party down by
Speaker 5: the Trade centers out on the Plaza, and yeah, he was.
Speaker 5: He's a really big Yankee fan. He lived a block
Speaker 5: away from Old Yankee Stadium where he lived in the Bronx,
Speaker 5: and he's a really he was a really nice guy.
Speaker 5: He can definitely get the crowd going and when I'm
Speaker 5: doing that picture. It was a stand up for cancer,
Speaker 5: and he's I'm six six, he's probably what five five
Speaker 5: five six, So I had to squat down or I
Speaker 5: would have blocked everybody out. And they caught me on
Speaker 5: camera and I said, I said, my quads are burning.
Speaker 5: I said, let's say and then all of a sudden
Speaker 5: we went live.
Speaker 4: Nelly, how you doing, Bud?
Speaker 5: I'm good, Saxon, how are you good?
Speaker 4: Nelly and I worked together? Was that an MLB network
Speaker 4: or where were we working together?
Speaker 5: Yeah, we're doing like that youth baseball stuff.
Speaker 4: That's right. Nelly and I did some work together, and
Speaker 4: he's so good at the mic. I'm so glad to
Speaker 4: see you just killing it, Nelly, and you certainly deserve it.
Speaker 4: But I wanted to ask you a little bit about
Speaker 4: this game five. You have the two matchups between Flaherty
Speaker 4: and and Garrett Cole. I mean, it's almost a flip
Speaker 4: of the coin when you look at the numbers between
Speaker 4: these two. But can you know some of our listeners
Speaker 4: been calling in saying, can this momentum that the Dodgers
Speaker 4: had flip and go over to the Yankees. I you know,
Speaker 4: this is stuff that's very tenuous, and I don't know,
Speaker 4: what do you think? What do you think now? Do
Speaker 4: you think this momentum can flip over to the other side?
Speaker 5: Well, you look, you look at what the what the
Speaker 5: Dodgers did in the NLCS against the Mets and the
Speaker 5: couple games that they lost. You know, I think they
Speaker 5: punted in a way that okay, you know, we're going
Speaker 5: to save our main relievers and we're just going to
Speaker 5: throw some of our low leverage guys and see how
Speaker 5: that works out. And it looked like they did that,
Speaker 5: especially after Volt they hit the Grand Slam. They did
Speaker 5: get it back to one run, and then the Yankees
Speaker 5: just started, you know, going a little bit further and
Speaker 5: extending it. And then all of a sudden, I Roberts
Speaker 5: started using his low leverage guys. I don't know, I
Speaker 5: think you know what they say, momentum is as good
Speaker 5: as your next day start. I think the Yankees have
Speaker 5: set up the way they wanted as far as Garrett
Speaker 5: Cole going in Game five. I went in Game one
Speaker 5: and he pitched great, but then you know, everybody was
Speaker 5: all over Boone for taking him out after eighty eight pitches.
Speaker 5: But then all of a sudden, you understand you hear
Speaker 5: that he was exhausted, and he said he was he
Speaker 5: was tapped out, so that might be a little bit alarming.
Speaker 5: I know he's been banged up during the year. He
Speaker 5: missed pretty much the whole first half cold did I
Speaker 5: think you're right, Saxsy. I think it's a toss up.
Speaker 5: But I was listening to you before I came on,
Speaker 5: and you know, Celerity's pitched great, and all you have
Speaker 5: to do is try to give him. Give the Dodgers
Speaker 5: five innings and they're going right to their high leverage guys.
Speaker 5: And that's what Roberts plan is.
Speaker 1: Aaron Judge has been quiet the first three games of
Speaker 1: this series. Last night he hits by a pitch, he
Speaker 1: draws a walk, and then his last a bad hits
Speaker 1: a base hit for the Yankees. You kind of hope,
Speaker 1: if you're a Dodger fan, the bear hasn't been brodded
Speaker 1: awake here because once he gets going, lookout is this
Speaker 1: a thing where he can get going? And you've seen
Speaker 1: him a lot this year. He's been up, he's been down,
Speaker 1: and when he's hot, he's one of the best.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you kind of hope. So you know they'd been
Speaker 5: waiting for that. And that's about the only thing that
Speaker 5: I think maybe carry over to Game five is a
Speaker 5: bet that finally woke up at the bottom of the lineup.
Speaker 5: That's you've been wanting to see wake up. And did
Speaker 5: I mean you had the seven, eight nine guys. I
Speaker 5: think we got a couple of home runs came out
Speaker 5: of that with Volpi and also Wells, and Wells had
Speaker 5: a double himself, as you know, along with that home run.
Speaker 5: You kind of hope, so, I mean, he did have
Speaker 5: that RBI's first RBI World Series, so you kind of
Speaker 5: hope it does carry over. Obviously, that's that's first at bat,
Speaker 5: and again, you would love to see the Yankees get
Speaker 5: ahead last night. They fell behind again in that first
Speaker 5: inning with Freeman, and if the Dodgers get out to
Speaker 5: a big start or get get ahead early, it may
Speaker 5: only go five. I think essay the bullpen game and
Speaker 5: maybe the advantage is a little bit towards the Yankees, uh,
Speaker 5: and then they just got got away from the Dodgers late.
Speaker 5: But you kind of hope so because it's kind of
Speaker 5: tough to see a guy as his stature. You have
Speaker 5: two of the best players in the game, and you
Speaker 5: kind of wish Otani was a little bit healthier too,
Speaker 5: because he's just playing through that shoulder injury and you
Speaker 5: can really, you can really hell two of the greatest
Speaker 5: players in the game and they're struggling the way they are.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, Nelly, with your great experience that you've
Speaker 4: had in the regular season and certainly in World Series play,
Speaker 4: you look at the situations where with the Dodgers and
Speaker 4: they got that spread out bottom of the orders usually
Speaker 4: doing pretty good for them, with you know, Tommy Edmond
Speaker 4: down there at the bottom almost acting as an additional
Speaker 4: leadoff hitter for this team. If you had to say,
Speaker 4: and you had to kind of go at the Dodgers
Speaker 4: and say, what part of this team do I have
Speaker 4: to the gate, what would it be? Would it be
Speaker 4: those kind of supporting role players, or you know, do
Speaker 4: you just kind of let Otani sit there at the
Speaker 4: top of the order and just let him do what
Speaker 4: he's doing, don't let him get off, kind of like
Speaker 4: the situation we see with Aaron Judge.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, the Dodgers lineup is so deep that
Speaker 5: he just mentioned with Edmund at the bottom, he is
Speaker 5: like another leadoff guy. You kind of want to stay
Speaker 5: away from Otani, and if you're a Yankee, you're kind
Speaker 5: of fortunate enough that he is banged up a little
Speaker 5: bit and probably not swinging at one hundred percent and
Speaker 5: you're getting away with it. And you know, Mookie Best
Speaker 5: has been Mookie Best, but still he doesn't have a
Speaker 5: homer in the in the series, you want to pitch
Speaker 5: around Freeman. I've been watching this guy ever since he
Speaker 5: was with the with the Braves, and when he gets
Speaker 5: hot and then he gets healthy, forget about it. I mean,
Speaker 5: he is one of the best players that I've seen,
Speaker 5: and being in Atlanta, I always thought he was always
Speaker 5: underrated and hidden being there. But everybody out in LA's
Speaker 5: and see what kind of player he is. I think
Speaker 5: that maybe the middle of the order, you know, but
Speaker 5: it's really tough if you're trying to navigate through that
Speaker 5: Dodger lineup. They're just so deep and you're just hoping
Speaker 5: that you can eliminate the walks. I mean, the walks
Speaker 5: have really haunted the Dodgers. Guy got to stay away
Speaker 5: from that. But there's the same way with the Yankees.
Speaker 5: You gotta you can't walk these guys.
Speaker 1: Jeff is a guy who dominated out of the bullpen
Speaker 1: winning four World Series championships. When you see the evolution
Speaker 1: of the bullpen now, and especially a team like the
Speaker 1: Dodgers day way they use it because of injuries, certainly
Speaker 1: that is played the factor. But these bullpen games, they've
Speaker 1: done it twice going into last night. Who worked in
Speaker 1: the NLDS against the Padres, It worked in the close
Speaker 1: out game against the New York Mets in the NLCS.
Speaker 1: It didn't necessarily play out to script last night how
Speaker 1: they wanted it. But as as one of the best
Speaker 1: relievers out there, Jeff, when you watch these bullpen games,
Speaker 1: do you just shake your head at the evolution of
Speaker 1: bullpens and the way things are now?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I know, I don't understand how you can't you
Speaker 5: can't develop starting pitching. I know the Dodgers have been
Speaker 5: banged up and some of their main starters Glass Now
Speaker 5: and Stone there, they're injured and they're not going to
Speaker 5: be They weren't in the series. They weren't you know,
Speaker 5: eligible to play, so that that really hurt them and
Speaker 5: they had no choice but to go with the bullpen days.
Speaker 5: You know, it's really tough to see. You would think
Speaker 5: that that team organizations could develop more pitching. You know,
Speaker 5: you always hear about, oh, you know, one more time
Speaker 5: you use relievers, the easier that it becomes because they're
Speaker 5: throwing the same thing. And it's true nowadates with analytics
Speaker 5: because these guys are taught only one way to get
Speaker 5: guys down. And when you're facing the same hitter three
Speaker 5: or four times in a row, and there's no feel
Speaker 5: for the game with these guys because they're so set
Speaker 5: on analytics and so set. Okay, this is why I
Speaker 5: have to get them out with a slider. Well, more
Speaker 5: times you throw, you might not have that great slider.
Speaker 5: You know, we didn't have analytics, so we had to
Speaker 5: go by feel. We had to Hey, the hitter made
Speaker 5: us adjust or am I going to throw my slider
Speaker 5: if he's on it, then I got to do something different.
Speaker 5: These guys don't do that. That's why you hear so
Speaker 5: many times that, oh, you know, the more times you
Speaker 5: see a reliever, the easier it is for them or
Speaker 5: the hitter. Maybe it has their advantage only because analytics
Speaker 5: has just made these guys into a robot. But it's
Speaker 5: a little disturbing to see to see bullpen dates, but
Speaker 5: it's worked for the Dodgers for a couple of times.
Speaker 5: It's not last night.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Jeff, I agree with you first of all on
Speaker 4: the analytics analogy, totally right on with that. But you
Speaker 4: know there's some talk, Jeff, out there now of the
Speaker 4: Yankees trying to maybe create this narrative that maybe it's
Speaker 4: somebody like you know, Anthony Volpe who's going to step
Speaker 4: up now to create a narrative that Hey, the guy
Speaker 4: from the Bronx that grew up loving the Yankees and
Speaker 4: his family's there. He seehim on National TV when he
Speaker 4: was nine years old and how he loved the Yankees
Speaker 4: comes up with a big Grand Slam after having a
Speaker 4: base running blunder, and he's really redeeming himself. And can
Speaker 4: this be something where the Yankees can hang their hat
Speaker 4: on a little bit like kind of like the Dodgers
Speaker 4: had done with Tommy Edmond and the NLCS.
Speaker 5: Well, I think they're trying to do anything right, I mean,
Speaker 5: and trying to get any kind of positive after being
Speaker 5: down three to zero, and everybody knows that you're fighting
Speaker 5: against the odds because this is the first, what the
Speaker 5: fourth time it's actually gone to a fourth game after
Speaker 5: its team has been down three to zero, and no
Speaker 5: team has gone to a sixth game. So the Yankees
Speaker 5: know exactly what kind of odds they're they're going up against,
Speaker 5: and they're just trying to put together anything positive that
Speaker 5: they can carry into the next game. And if it's
Speaker 5: Anthony Volpi, he had a hanging slider and he crushed it.
Speaker 5: He would put it on a tee and he had
Speaker 5: a grand slam. I mean it looked like that. The
Speaker 5: Dodgers want to get out of that with no runs
Speaker 5: with only one out, and Rigell popped up in the
Speaker 5: innfield and then Bolti came through. So you're looking for
Speaker 5: anything if Aaron Judge is not doing it, you know,
Speaker 5: you look at Chisholm. He's gotten a couple of hits
Speaker 5: and stolen some bases, you know, even standing all of
Speaker 5: a sudden, it's now cooled off over the last couple
Speaker 5: of games ever since he's gotten back into the Bronx.
Speaker 5: So you're just looking for something to hang your hat
Speaker 5: on it and you get some kind of positive feeling
Speaker 5: going into game five.
Speaker 1: We'll see what happens in game five tonight. Garrett Cole
Speaker 1: and Jack Flaherty first pitch right here at an five
Speaker 1: seventy at five oh eight from the Galpamotors broadcast. But Jeff,
Speaker 1: we really appreciate you coming on this morning. Great to
Speaker 1: see you last night with Flavor Flave on Fox, and
Speaker 1: great to catch up this morning.
Speaker 5: Thanks that pleasure. Great talking to you guys. To Saxony,
Speaker 5: good seeing see here you go.
Speaker 4: Is the great Jeff Nelson? What are the dominant closers?
Speaker 4: Great to work with. By the way, I loved working
Speaker 4: with him with MLB. He was great, great dude as well.
Speaker 5: I said.
Speaker 1: I fired him off at text last night at like
Speaker 1: nine o'clock our time, midnight his time, because I saw
Speaker 1: him on TV and I'm like, hey, Nell, he's at
Speaker 1: the game. Let's get him on. He works for YES Network.
Speaker 1: Let's go and text me right back. So I appreciate
Speaker 1: what Jeff.
Speaker 4: You know what I mean? Jeff?
Speaker 1: You know what? Tim?
Speaker 6: Yes?
Speaker 5: What?
Speaker 4: Tim?
Speaker 5: What's that?
Speaker 4: Boom? Boom?
Speaker 2: He is?
Speaker 1: Steve Sacks and Tim Katz and saxs and Kate to
Speaker 1: the am. Two hours down, one to go. Dodgers have
Speaker 1: found themselves now in a series with the New York Yankees,
Speaker 1: who won Game four last night eleven to four. Now
Speaker 1: Game five tonight still a chance to win it and
Speaker 1: get it World Series Championship, but the Yankees aren't gonna
Speaker 1: go easy. We'll get to your phone calls, David Vasse.
Speaker 1: We'll join us next hour. Thanks for being with us
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