WEBVTT 1 00:00:03.720 --> 00:00:04.400 Right fart. 2 00:00:04.440 --> 00:00:10.320 Dodgers Playoff Baseball is back, and with it an annual 3 00:00:10.439 --> 00:00:13.439 postseason tradition, scam is back. 4 00:00:13.560 --> 00:00:13.960 Baby. 5 00:00:14.320 --> 00:00:16.519 This is Saxon Cakes. 6 00:00:16.239 --> 00:00:19.280 In the a app forward Broway. 7 00:00:19.480 --> 00:00:23.399 Dodger legend Steve Sacks is joined by your favorite Dodger 8 00:00:23.440 --> 00:00:27.519 pregame host Tim Kates. If you want to talk Dodgers, 9 00:00:27.559 --> 00:00:30.000 get in on the show on eighty six six nine 10 00:00:30.000 --> 00:00:33.000 eighty seven two five seven now. While the Dan Patrick 11 00:00:33.039 --> 00:00:35.200 Show streams on the iHeartRadio app. 12 00:00:35.520 --> 00:00:38.640 We've been banished to the Internet until this Dodgers playoff 13 00:00:38.719 --> 00:00:42.759 run concludes. Here they are broadcasting live on AM five 14 00:00:42.920 --> 00:00:48.479 seven e LA Sports. It's Tim Kates and Steve sachs Ah. 15 00:00:48.520 --> 00:00:51.159 I got a feeling it's gonna be a good Tuesday 16 00:00:51.320 --> 00:00:55.679 here in southern California. Sax and Kate's and am lean 17 00:00:55.719 --> 00:01:01.759 you up to Game three of the NLDS Dodgers and Padres. 18 00:01:02.280 --> 00:01:05.959 He is Steve Sacks, two time World Series Champion, Rookie 19 00:01:06.040 --> 00:01:07.799 of the Year, What a hell of a guy, my 20 00:01:07.879 --> 00:01:11.719 favorite number three. My wife loves Chris Chris Taylor, but 21 00:01:11.920 --> 00:01:14.680 I'm a Steve Sas guy when it comes down to it. 22 00:01:15.120 --> 00:01:18.400 Right on, Tim, We're here in for Dan Patrick. 23 00:01:18.439 --> 00:01:20.280 You can listen to DP and the Boys on the 24 00:01:20.319 --> 00:01:23.480 iHeartRadio app. We are Live and local. Lean you up 25 00:01:24.079 --> 00:01:26.239 to Dodgers and Padres. First pitch at six oh wait 26 00:01:26.280 --> 00:01:31.079 Marongo Casino. Dodgers on Deck starts at five o'clock this afternoon, 27 00:01:31.280 --> 00:01:34.560 Walker Bueller and Michael King the pitching matchup and what 28 00:01:34.719 --> 00:01:37.480 is gonna be a must win Game three s Taxi. 29 00:01:37.519 --> 00:01:39.480 In my opinion, you got to get this one tonight. 30 00:01:39.560 --> 00:01:42.280 Yeah. Well, I have been working on some of my 31 00:01:43.239 --> 00:01:46.560 some of my music, trying to get the words to rhyme. 32 00:01:47.400 --> 00:01:49.120 Let me see if you like this. Okay, okay, we 33 00:01:49.439 --> 00:01:52.280 could use this as what do you call it? Anyway? 34 00:01:52.760 --> 00:01:55.519 So I got a feeling after tonight we won't be 35 00:01:55.599 --> 00:01:58.840 squealing because we're gonna be dealing. That's That's like the 36 00:01:58.879 --> 00:02:02.359 first segment of my news Little Poetry, Little Poetry. Yeah, okay, yeah, 37 00:02:02.359 --> 00:02:04.840 we'll right through them. We won't be squealing because we're 38 00:02:04.840 --> 00:02:08.159 going to be dealing. I like that. Yeah, So that's 39 00:02:08.199 --> 00:02:09.919 the start. I'll give you the rest later. 40 00:02:10.000 --> 00:02:10.319 Okay. 41 00:02:10.439 --> 00:02:12.639 Well, speaking of dealing, the Dodgers are going to need 42 00:02:12.719 --> 00:02:16.599 Walker Buehler to be dealing tonight in Game three. He 43 00:02:16.599 --> 00:02:18.680 has had an up and down twenty twenty four coming 44 00:02:18.719 --> 00:02:22.280 back from Tommy John surgery, his second of his career. 45 00:02:22.319 --> 00:02:24.680 And here's Walker Buehler talking to the media last night. 46 00:02:25.360 --> 00:02:27.000 You know, the past month and a half or so, 47 00:02:27.159 --> 00:02:30.000 I felt pretty good and kind of got more into 48 00:02:30.080 --> 00:02:32.319 a routine, and I think being able to go on 49 00:02:32.400 --> 00:02:35.520 regular rest helped at least mentally. Knowing that you can 50 00:02:35.719 --> 00:02:38.199 can do that, I think is a step. 51 00:02:37.960 --> 00:02:38.439 Forward for me. 52 00:02:38.599 --> 00:02:42.719 And now all that stuff is kind of behind us, 53 00:02:42.719 --> 00:02:46.039 and now all that really matters his innings in the 54 00:02:46.120 --> 00:02:50.360 runs and trying to keep us in the game. So yeah, 55 00:02:50.400 --> 00:02:51.960 this time of year is just a little bit different 56 00:02:52.000 --> 00:02:55.319 and kind of, at least for me, time to kind 57 00:02:55.360 --> 00:02:58.120 of leave what happened in the regular season behind. For me, 58 00:02:58.240 --> 00:03:00.479 that the first inning has been huge this year. Obviously 59 00:03:00.520 --> 00:03:02.560 I've struggled in the first inning, but the games that 60 00:03:02.599 --> 00:03:05.120 I've gotten through the first play have typically been pretty 61 00:03:05.520 --> 00:03:08.199 pretty successful outings for me. So yeah, getting three outs 62 00:03:08.240 --> 00:03:10.439 to the bottom in the first will will be huge 63 00:03:10.439 --> 00:03:12.400 for me. Yeah, I want to try and go make 64 00:03:12.400 --> 00:03:15.080 a quality start and put our team in a position 65 00:03:15.120 --> 00:03:15.680 to win the game. 66 00:03:15.960 --> 00:03:19.000 And how much pride do you take in being labeled 67 00:03:19.039 --> 00:03:21.159 a big game pitcher kind of the. 68 00:03:21.080 --> 00:03:22.039 Only thing I care about. 69 00:03:22.520 --> 00:03:27.240 Yeah, Walker Bueller, he is ready to go for Game three, Saxy. 70 00:03:27.319 --> 00:03:30.800 This is a Walker Bueller who going back to twenty eighteen, 71 00:03:31.120 --> 00:03:34.039 he pitched in the game one sixty three, the playoff 72 00:03:34.319 --> 00:03:37.639 or the division deciding one sixty three against the Rockies 73 00:03:37.680 --> 00:03:40.400 at Dodger Stadium, and he was huge in winning that game, 74 00:03:40.439 --> 00:03:43.240 and that was really to me, his burst on the 75 00:03:43.280 --> 00:03:45.719 scene moment. In twenty eighteen. He was part of the 76 00:03:45.800 --> 00:03:48.439 twenty twenty World Series team and pitched so well twenty 77 00:03:48.479 --> 00:03:50.960 twenty when he made thirty three starts, had an ER 78 00:03:51.280 --> 00:03:54.280 under two fifty, a sixteen game winner. Then he got 79 00:03:54.319 --> 00:03:56.520 hurt again in twenty twenty two, missed all of twenty 80 00:03:56.560 --> 00:03:59.479 twenty three. Comes back this year late at a little 81 00:03:59.479 --> 00:04:02.680 stagger's start to make sure he's able to go out 82 00:04:02.719 --> 00:04:05.879 of the gate, and has really struggled one in six 83 00:04:05.919 --> 00:04:08.759 of they five thirty eight era, But he pitched better 84 00:04:08.840 --> 00:04:12.080 down the stretch and hopefully catches that momentum here into 85 00:04:12.080 --> 00:04:12.599 the postseason. 86 00:04:12.680 --> 00:04:15.280 Yeah, better down the stretch, and that's something he can 87 00:04:15.319 --> 00:04:19.519 take into tonight's game. And also, you know it's imperative 88 00:04:19.519 --> 00:04:22.839 that he pitches well for his offseason and his rehab 89 00:04:22.879 --> 00:04:25.480 going into next year. That's why you know he can 90 00:04:25.519 --> 00:04:27.600 stack that all up and say there's many, many reasons 91 00:04:27.639 --> 00:04:30.639 why we have to see the Walker Bueler continue what 92 00:04:30.720 --> 00:04:33.079 he did in his last outing. I mean, this is 93 00:04:33.079 --> 00:04:34.839 one of the things I had in the keys to 94 00:04:36.120 --> 00:04:39.560 the success tonight is Walker Bueler to shut these guys 95 00:04:39.600 --> 00:04:42.399 down early and not let the fans get involved in 96 00:04:42.439 --> 00:04:44.839 the game. And Walker pointed that out bottom of the 97 00:04:44.839 --> 00:04:47.240 first we got to have a shutdown inning in that 98 00:04:47.319 --> 00:04:49.879 particular one, and I think he's absolutely right. Do not 99 00:04:50.000 --> 00:04:52.360 let the fans get involved in this game because it 100 00:04:52.399 --> 00:04:55.399 can be a very kind of intimidating type of an 101 00:04:55.439 --> 00:04:57.759 atmosphere down there in pet Goo. So I think if 102 00:04:57.759 --> 00:04:59.720 Walker gets off to a good start, shuts him down 103 00:04:59.720 --> 00:05:02.040 in the standing, and then gets that momentum to carry 104 00:05:02.040 --> 00:05:04.240 on through, they're gonna be okay. 105 00:05:04.560 --> 00:05:07.519 The twenty twenty four season for Walker Viewer has been 106 00:05:07.639 --> 00:05:10.759 like a roller coaster ride, and I don't think it's 107 00:05:10.839 --> 00:05:15.920 physical saxy. I think it's more mechanics and probably mental, 108 00:05:16.360 --> 00:05:18.560 And you can tell me I'm completely wrong, but I 109 00:05:18.639 --> 00:05:20.959 kind of feel like he was searching for his old mechanics, 110 00:05:21.000 --> 00:05:23.399 and maybe he was trying to compensate and not wanting 111 00:05:23.439 --> 00:05:26.920 to get hurt again, or maybe mentally worried that his 112 00:05:27.000 --> 00:05:29.240 mechanics were going to get him hurt again, so maybe 113 00:05:29.279 --> 00:05:31.360 trying to change things up a little bit and maybe 114 00:05:31.399 --> 00:05:33.720 not knowing it. And he didn't have the same results 115 00:05:33.959 --> 00:05:35.920 and had a couple of stints on the IL, and 116 00:05:35.920 --> 00:05:38.600 they were more stints on the IL saxy not to 117 00:05:39.240 --> 00:05:41.839 get physically right because he was good. It was more 118 00:05:41.879 --> 00:05:44.120 of get away from the game. He went and saw 119 00:05:44.160 --> 00:05:47.079 another pitching person down in Florida to help him through 120 00:05:47.120 --> 00:05:49.879 his mechanics, and just he was just trying to get right. 121 00:05:49.839 --> 00:05:51.920 You know, looking for a feel. That's what he's looking for. 122 00:05:52.120 --> 00:05:54.600 And I've read up in some of his Not to 123 00:05:54.639 --> 00:05:57.879 cut you off to him, sorry, but but that's that's 124 00:05:57.959 --> 00:05:59.519 kind of what it is. And I talked to many 125 00:05:59.519 --> 00:06:02.600 many pitchers. Is the same thing as hitters is they're 126 00:06:02.680 --> 00:06:06.199 looking for that feel. Once they get that feel and 127 00:06:06.279 --> 00:06:09.600 then you can put everything on the shelf. It's just 128 00:06:09.680 --> 00:06:11.959 I'm gonna go by what it feels like and then 129 00:06:12.079 --> 00:06:15.439 the mechanics fall into place. But he's trying to get 130 00:06:15.439 --> 00:06:17.879 to that point where it's just you know, natural, and 131 00:06:17.920 --> 00:06:19.759 he doesn't have to think about it too much. And 132 00:06:19.759 --> 00:06:22.079 when you get to that point, you're on autopilot. Now 133 00:06:22.079 --> 00:06:24.600 it just comes naturally. And once he finds that, and 134 00:06:24.680 --> 00:06:26.839 maybe we found maybe he has found a little bit 135 00:06:26.879 --> 00:06:29.560 of that start to tick up in his arsenal, because 136 00:06:29.680 --> 00:06:31.879 in his last outing a couple ODIs, especially the last 137 00:06:31.879 --> 00:06:34.040 one he was good. Yeah, and once you start to 138 00:06:34.040 --> 00:06:35.519 get that field, boom, you're there. 139 00:06:35.639 --> 00:06:37.560 Yeah, I look at you know, two of the last 140 00:06:37.560 --> 00:06:41.079 three outings that he made in Atlanta on a Sunday, 141 00:06:41.519 --> 00:06:45.240 when six innings, allowed two runs on three hits, struck 142 00:06:45.279 --> 00:06:47.079 out five. He also walked five. All right, it was 143 00:06:47.079 --> 00:06:48.920 a little bit of the command issue there. He had 144 00:06:48.959 --> 00:06:52.160 through ninety seven pitches, so he's throwing more pitches now, 145 00:06:52.160 --> 00:06:54.879 which is good. He's cranked up. And then he made 146 00:06:54.879 --> 00:06:57.959 a start and call against the Colorado Rockies where struck 147 00:06:58.000 --> 00:07:00.399 out nine. But it's the Rockies late and September. 148 00:07:00.439 --> 00:07:02.399 It's okay, still still counts sure. 149 00:07:02.560 --> 00:07:05.680 Then the last start he made was that Thursday, clinching 150 00:07:05.800 --> 00:07:08.199 night at Dodger Stadium, the final game of the three 151 00:07:08.199 --> 00:07:10.639 game series against the Padres, the last home game of 152 00:07:10.680 --> 00:07:13.279 the regular season. He went the five innings, one run, 153 00:07:13.360 --> 00:07:16.720 five hits, only one run, earned, only one walk, only 154 00:07:16.759 --> 00:07:19.759 one strikeout, and he had eleven ground balls. 155 00:07:19.879 --> 00:07:20.360 That's good. 156 00:07:20.480 --> 00:07:23.160 In that outing he threw seventy one pitches, didn't need 157 00:07:23.160 --> 00:07:25.279 to do a lot out, there was a fishing which 158 00:07:25.360 --> 00:07:27.560 was perfect, didn't get to forty pitches. 159 00:07:27.160 --> 00:07:27.920 And two innings. 160 00:07:27.959 --> 00:07:28.680 Not stressful. 161 00:07:28.759 --> 00:07:31.720 Yeah, and it could be something that he could build 162 00:07:31.759 --> 00:07:34.800 on because that confidence. I mean, if man, if they 163 00:07:34.800 --> 00:07:39.120 can just get Walker Buehler from three years ago back 164 00:07:39.160 --> 00:07:41.959 to that form, this is a shot in the arm 165 00:07:42.000 --> 00:07:44.079 that they didn't probably expect they'd get. 166 00:07:44.399 --> 00:07:47.519 Yeah, Tim, Look, okay, one strikeout you mentioned in that outing, 167 00:07:47.639 --> 00:07:51.040 that's that's fine. Seventy one pitches. Look, not a stressful 168 00:07:51.120 --> 00:07:54.160 event for him. He would much. I think Walker Buehler 169 00:07:54.199 --> 00:07:56.360 wants to light up, you know, the scoreboard with all 170 00:07:56.360 --> 00:07:59.279 the strikeouts like everybody else. But if you could ask him, hey, 171 00:07:59.319 --> 00:08:01.720 can you can you go through a game strike out 172 00:08:01.720 --> 00:08:03.920 A couple of guys have a ton of ground balls, 173 00:08:04.879 --> 00:08:07.319 a great efficiency with the lack of pitches that you're 174 00:08:07.360 --> 00:08:10.199 throwing out there and still getting the outs. Absolutely, you know, 175 00:08:10.240 --> 00:08:12.720 two or three pitches per at bat instead of going 176 00:08:12.759 --> 00:08:14.879 you know, four or five pitches to strike a guy out. 177 00:08:15.040 --> 00:08:17.800 He'd much rather do that. That's that's that's the art 178 00:08:17.800 --> 00:08:21.240 of efficiency right there. So I think if tonight we 179 00:08:21.240 --> 00:08:23.600 can get a Walker Buller, look here's what I really 180 00:08:23.600 --> 00:08:25.759 thought about it. We're gonna need six or seven in 181 00:08:25.800 --> 00:08:28.600 thes for Walker Buller. One or two runs will take it. 182 00:08:28.720 --> 00:08:30.480 Dodgers will win that game, no question. 183 00:08:31.000 --> 00:08:34.120 I give credit to Dave Roberts and maybe this coaching 184 00:08:34.159 --> 00:08:38.440 staff in front office for sticking with Walker Buehler because 185 00:08:38.559 --> 00:08:40.720 a young man, and I say young man he's thirty now, 186 00:08:40.759 --> 00:08:42.799 I mean he grew up in this organization since he 187 00:08:42.879 --> 00:08:46.039 was a former number one first round pick, to stick 188 00:08:46.080 --> 00:08:49.039 with him through to Tommy John surgeries, to believe in 189 00:08:49.120 --> 00:08:51.360 him still this year, when when Saxy, I'll be honest 190 00:08:51.360 --> 00:08:55.440 with you, doing postgame Dodger talking and talk radio every day, 191 00:08:55.639 --> 00:08:59.720 five days a week, Dodger fans were riding off Walker Bueller. 192 00:08:59.799 --> 00:09:02.799 I mean his starts in May and early June where 193 00:09:02.799 --> 00:09:05.720 he's given up seven earned runs in Colorado to the 194 00:09:05.799 --> 00:09:09.559 Rockies and walking guys left and right, and didn't know 195 00:09:09.600 --> 00:09:12.399 if he'd get back to this form. Fans wrote him off. 196 00:09:12.440 --> 00:09:14.240 Whether they'll say it or not. I think they did, 197 00:09:14.720 --> 00:09:17.200 and a lot of the media starting to question whether 198 00:09:17.279 --> 00:09:19.879 or not he should be given another opportunity, and well, certainly, 199 00:09:19.919 --> 00:09:23.159 and once we get to October, no way, Walker Bueller 200 00:09:23.240 --> 00:09:27.679 could be a part of this rotation now they need him, yes, 201 00:09:27.799 --> 00:09:29.120 and he's regained that form. 202 00:09:29.159 --> 00:09:30.600 And I give a lot of credit. 203 00:09:30.639 --> 00:09:32.320 So I don't know if it's Dave Roberts or Mark 204 00:09:32.360 --> 00:09:35.480 pryor the pitching coach, or Connor McGinnis, the assistant pitching coach, 205 00:09:35.600 --> 00:09:37.440 or if it's Andrew Freeman at the top and Brandon 206 00:09:37.440 --> 00:09:39.600 Gomes a GM say no, no, no, no, we're gonna 207 00:09:39.679 --> 00:09:41.600 ride with him. He'll figure it out. I don't know 208 00:09:41.639 --> 00:09:44.919 who made that call, but credit to them for sticking with. 209 00:09:44.879 --> 00:09:46.639 Him, all of them. I think all of them had 210 00:09:46.679 --> 00:09:49.279 to say in it. And look, if you know Walker 211 00:09:49.279 --> 00:09:51.759 Bueller and met him, you'd put your money on this 212 00:09:51.840 --> 00:09:54.399 guy because he's a quality human being. I had a 213 00:09:54.480 --> 00:09:57.000 chance to talk to him for a little bit earlier 214 00:09:57.000 --> 00:10:01.200 this year down in the locker room. He looks good. 215 00:10:01.279 --> 00:10:03.399 I mean, Walker Bueler is thirty, but he didn't look it. 216 00:10:03.519 --> 00:10:06.399 He looks like he's about twenty six. And he takes 217 00:10:06.440 --> 00:10:09.559 care of himself. And he's a really good person. He's 218 00:10:09.600 --> 00:10:12.919 gonna do everything right to get back into that position 219 00:10:13.639 --> 00:10:16.279 to be successful. And so yeah, you got to bet 220 00:10:16.279 --> 00:10:18.360 on a guy like that. You got a lot invested 221 00:10:18.399 --> 00:10:20.399 in Walker too, and as a as a human being, 222 00:10:20.600 --> 00:10:22.080 that's that's what they're really counting. 223 00:10:21.799 --> 00:10:24.840 On as an athlete and a professional athlete, Saxual. You know, 224 00:10:25.559 --> 00:10:28.360 you start getting into your career, maybe your game has 225 00:10:28.440 --> 00:10:29.440 to change a little. 226 00:10:29.200 --> 00:10:30.679 Bit and you've got to evolve. 227 00:10:30.840 --> 00:10:33.559 It evolves absolutely, and I think he got to a 228 00:10:33.600 --> 00:10:35.840 point in his career. The injury is certainly played a 229 00:10:35.840 --> 00:10:37.799 part of it, because you've got to change because of 230 00:10:37.840 --> 00:10:40.240 a second Tommy John and an injury, and the physics 231 00:10:40.279 --> 00:10:42.279 will just tell you you're not gonna probably throw a hundred 232 00:10:42.320 --> 00:10:45.240 again because his second Tommy John surgery. You've got to 233 00:10:45.240 --> 00:10:47.919 become more of a quote unquote pitcher, yeah, rather than 234 00:10:47.960 --> 00:10:50.399 just a hard throwing guy that can pump ninety eight 235 00:10:50.679 --> 00:10:54.440 and to break off a curveball and boom, you are nasty. Well, 236 00:10:54.480 --> 00:10:56.000 he's had to figure out how to pitch. 237 00:10:55.879 --> 00:10:58.960 And if he can get to a point where he 238 00:10:58.960 --> 00:11:01.360 can ratchet that back a little bit, you know, save 239 00:11:01.440 --> 00:11:04.320 some of that petro on his arm, but go out 240 00:11:04.360 --> 00:11:06.519 and get ninety seven ninety eight if he needs it 241 00:11:06.559 --> 00:11:09.200 at certain times. Pitchers, when they get to that point, 242 00:11:09.519 --> 00:11:11.639 now they're really going because they don't have to throw 243 00:11:11.679 --> 00:11:14.039 as hard as they can all the time. But if 244 00:11:14.039 --> 00:11:15.559 they really need to hump it up a little bit 245 00:11:15.559 --> 00:11:17.360 in certain situations, they can go and get that. 246 00:11:18.039 --> 00:11:20.519 It's funny you say that because John Smoltz said it 247 00:11:20.759 --> 00:11:24.720 on the broadcast a couple of days ago, and they 248 00:11:24.759 --> 00:11:26.879 did a whole little graphic about what we know the 249 00:11:26.879 --> 00:11:29.679 Dodger injuries to the pitching staff and guys from Tony 250 00:11:29.720 --> 00:11:33.879 Gonsolin to Clayton Kershaw to Tyler Glass now and Gavin Stone, 251 00:11:34.039 --> 00:11:36.080 all these injuries that have hit the Dodgers this year. 252 00:11:36.159 --> 00:11:39.600 Seventeen different starting pitchers, forty different pitchers pitched on all 253 00:11:39.759 --> 00:11:42.960 for the Dodgers. We know the numbers. But John Smoltz said, 254 00:11:42.960 --> 00:11:44.840 you know what, We're gonna have to get to a 255 00:11:44.879 --> 00:11:47.559 point in baseball, and it starts at the top, and 256 00:11:47.600 --> 00:11:51.120 it's gonna trickle down to the kids. Stop trying to 257 00:11:51.159 --> 00:11:52.559 throw as hard as you can. 258 00:11:52.799 --> 00:11:53.919 All the time. 259 00:11:55.120 --> 00:11:57.480 Pitch a little bit, yeah, throw it, take a little 260 00:11:57.519 --> 00:11:59.840 bit off the fastball. You don't have to pump ninety 261 00:12:00.480 --> 00:12:05.759 one hundred every single pitch in April, May, June, July, August, September, 262 00:12:05.759 --> 00:12:07.759 and then get to October and still try to do 263 00:12:07.799 --> 00:12:10.360 the same thing. It's okayanna throw ninety two ninety three 264 00:12:10.399 --> 00:12:12.720 and pitch over in a course of one hundred and 265 00:12:12.759 --> 00:12:15.320 sixty two game season, and then crank it up in 266 00:12:15.360 --> 00:12:15.919 the posts. 267 00:12:15.960 --> 00:12:20.080 Sure, tim Pitching is the art of deception, and if 268 00:12:20.080 --> 00:12:23.159 you can just make that, make that timing off just 269 00:12:23.200 --> 00:12:26.480 a fraction doesn't take much, then you're gonna be able 270 00:12:26.480 --> 00:12:29.080 to get guys out. And so if you're just pumping 271 00:12:29.159 --> 00:12:32.519 Cheddar the whole time and you're really relying on ninety 272 00:12:32.559 --> 00:12:34.559 eight all the time, hitters will turn up that dial 273 00:12:35.039 --> 00:12:37.279 and if it's not, if it's not in a certain spot, 274 00:12:37.399 --> 00:12:40.519 they'll turn that around. That's I always thought that velocity 275 00:12:40.600 --> 00:12:43.159 was probably the least important of the three components of pitching. 276 00:12:43.480 --> 00:12:47.240 You know, of velocity, movement and location. And you know, 277 00:12:47.559 --> 00:12:50.039 if you can just you know, spot the ball, you 278 00:12:50.080 --> 00:12:51.919 know where you want a little bit of movement here 279 00:12:51.960 --> 00:12:53.720 and there, take a little on, put a little off, 280 00:12:53.960 --> 00:12:55.840 that type of thing, you'll get guys out and then 281 00:12:55.919 --> 00:12:58.000 go ahead and use that you know that burner when 282 00:12:58.039 --> 00:13:01.039 you need to get it. So that's John's listen. If 283 00:13:01.039 --> 00:13:03.120 he's saying it, I'm believing it, and he's right. 284 00:13:03.360 --> 00:13:07.360 Absolutely, Walker Buehler gets the start tonight. Dodger fans, if 285 00:13:07.399 --> 00:13:09.799 Walker Buehler can give you what he's giving you down 286 00:13:09.879 --> 00:13:12.639 the stretch, you have to have confidence in the right 287 00:13:12.679 --> 00:13:15.559 hand or The Dodgers saw him over the course of 288 00:13:15.600 --> 00:13:19.039 the season go up and down, struggle with his mechanics. 289 00:13:19.240 --> 00:13:21.480 But you gotta feel good about where he's at right 290 00:13:21.559 --> 00:13:23.320 now at this point. 291 00:13:23.039 --> 00:13:23.720 Of the season. 292 00:13:24.720 --> 00:13:28.120 Eight sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy. The 293 00:13:28.159 --> 00:13:31.519 Dodgers need to wake up the bats. Mookie Betts needs 294 00:13:31.519 --> 00:13:35.840 to figure it out. Dodgers need to get right tonight 295 00:13:35.919 --> 00:13:40.360 and the must win Game three of this NLDS. 296 00:13:41.120 --> 00:13:42.320 How about a blowout. 297 00:13:42.759 --> 00:13:44.159 I'm about a blowout in Petco. 298 00:13:44.919 --> 00:13:47.840 Shut up that crowd in San Diego. Put them on 299 00:13:47.879 --> 00:13:51.320 their butts early. They want to be involved, they want 300 00:13:51.320 --> 00:13:58.159 to stand, they want to be loud. Nothing better, nothing 301 00:13:58.279 --> 00:14:02.000 better than to put up some runs early and force 302 00:14:02.039 --> 00:14:03.960 them to sit down and take those handkerchiefs out of 303 00:14:03.960 --> 00:14:06.879 their hands. Eight sixty six ninety seven two five seventy. 304 00:14:07.039 --> 00:14:07.679 We'll get into. 305 00:14:07.559 --> 00:14:11.240 Mookie Betts his struggles, Kenny turn it around? How hard 306 00:14:11.320 --> 00:14:14.080 is he trying to get out of this slump. We'll 307 00:14:14.120 --> 00:14:16.440 go around Major League Baseball as well, lost to get 308 00:14:16.480 --> 00:14:19.480 into your phone calls next eight sixty six, nine eighty 309 00:14:19.480 --> 00:14:23.639 seven two five seventy. It's a rivalry where you think 310 00:14:23.679 --> 00:14:26.000 it is or not it is, And now they're throwing 311 00:14:26.039 --> 00:14:30.480 baseballs at Dave Roberts in between innings eight six six, 312 00:14:30.559 --> 00:14:33.000 nine eighty seven two five seventy saxon Kate's in the 313 00:14:33.000 --> 00:14:40.840 am an FI seventy ELI Sports. You hear his walk 314 00:14:40.919 --> 00:14:44.960 up music, Freddy Freeman, will he play it tonight? We'll 315 00:14:45.000 --> 00:14:47.639 find out. Sprain ride Ankle give it a go. In 316 00:14:47.679 --> 00:14:50.080 Game one, stole the bass. Game two came out in 317 00:14:50.120 --> 00:14:53.480 the fifth inning. It's getting treatment around the clock. We'll 318 00:14:53.480 --> 00:14:55.080 find out if he's good to go when the starting 319 00:14:55.120 --> 00:14:59.039 lineup comes out a few hours before first pitch Dodgers Padres. 320 00:14:59.120 --> 00:15:02.080 It's sax and Kate's am here on AI seventy LA 321 00:15:02.200 --> 00:15:04.320 Sports coming up later on this hour, We're gonna go 322 00:15:04.360 --> 00:15:07.519 around a little Major League Baseball whip around what's happening 323 00:15:07.559 --> 00:15:10.960 in the other three nlds and alds series. Next hour, 324 00:15:11.039 --> 00:15:13.159 David Vets say, our Dodger insider will join us from 325 00:15:13.200 --> 00:15:15.720 San Diego. Steven Nelson, played by a play voice of 326 00:15:15.759 --> 00:15:18.480 the Dodgers calling the games here in the NLDS on 327 00:15:18.480 --> 00:15:21.360 ANFI seventy LA Sports will join us. We're gonna get 328 00:15:21.360 --> 00:15:23.360 into Mookie Betts in a second, talking a lot about 329 00:15:23.399 --> 00:15:26.399 Walker Bueller this hour, Saxon and the need to have 330 00:15:26.480 --> 00:15:30.559 Bueller be buletaining as he calls himself, and have a 331 00:15:30.600 --> 00:15:34.080 great outing tonight. Individually. I guess he also wants to 332 00:15:34.080 --> 00:15:35.519 make sure he has a good outing because this is 333 00:15:35.559 --> 00:15:38.679 a guy going into free agency. He's a thirty year 334 00:15:38.679 --> 00:15:41.919 old looking to strike in free agency with a big deal. 335 00:15:42.039 --> 00:15:46.000 Certainly his arm is a question to Tommy John Surgery's 336 00:15:46.039 --> 00:15:48.559 the up and down twenty twenty four season. The results 337 00:15:48.600 --> 00:15:51.879 aren't there, but for him, he would love to go 338 00:15:52.000 --> 00:15:54.360 out of this season on a high note. Certainly with 339 00:15:54.399 --> 00:15:58.480 the championship maybe, but certainly individually pitching well going into 340 00:15:58.519 --> 00:15:59.320 a free agency. 341 00:15:59.600 --> 00:16:03.279 Yes, and he could call himself Bueller, the high octane 342 00:16:03.399 --> 00:16:06.200 fueler that love that. That might be a good one. 343 00:16:06.399 --> 00:16:09.360 So yeah, I mean he's got can you imagine he's 344 00:16:09.399 --> 00:16:11.960 got so much on his plate. Yeah, he's got the 345 00:16:11.960 --> 00:16:14.600 the you know as we are now with the with 346 00:16:14.679 --> 00:16:16.840 the playoffs and trying to get through these Padres, and 347 00:16:17.240 --> 00:16:19.960 he's got a lot to prove in his own mind. 348 00:16:19.960 --> 00:16:22.120 I'm sure he's thinking, I'm going to show that my 349 00:16:22.240 --> 00:16:24.759 arm is sound. I'm coming back, I can feel it 350 00:16:24.799 --> 00:16:27.639 again and I'm there. And you know, on top of 351 00:16:27.639 --> 00:16:30.519 that beating the Padres. And after all this is done, 352 00:16:30.600 --> 00:16:32.240 then he's going to have to think about, you know, 353 00:16:32.960 --> 00:16:34.720 what's going to be going on in the free agent market. 354 00:16:34.759 --> 00:16:37.840 I mean, there's there's so much going on in his 355 00:16:37.960 --> 00:16:41.480 world right now. He's got to really be the professional, 356 00:16:41.840 --> 00:16:45.799 separate all this stuff and just really hone in on 357 00:16:45.879 --> 00:16:49.000 what's going on tonight and beating the San Diego Padres. 358 00:16:49.080 --> 00:16:51.240 That's it and it's not easy to do. And he 359 00:16:51.279 --> 00:16:53.639 goes to a human being. He's got his family life, 360 00:16:53.639 --> 00:16:56.039 he's got you know, it's it's a lot in his 361 00:16:56.240 --> 00:16:58.559 world right now. But he's going to be a professional. 362 00:16:58.840 --> 00:17:01.519 He's going to put all that side and he's going 363 00:17:01.559 --> 00:17:05.039 to be central on beating this Padre team in a 364 00:17:05.119 --> 00:17:07.000 very hostile environment. But he can do it. 365 00:17:07.200 --> 00:17:09.400 With that all being said, I'm going to add this 366 00:17:09.440 --> 00:17:12.519 to something else. He has to deal with the report 367 00:17:12.559 --> 00:17:14.920 that came out late last night in more coming out 368 00:17:14.960 --> 00:17:18.559 this morning, that recently he and his wife were at 369 00:17:18.680 --> 00:17:23.039 Santa Anita Park and were robbed by a mob of 370 00:17:23.119 --> 00:17:26.960 people who surrounded Walker Bueller and his wife McKenzie, and 371 00:17:27.039 --> 00:17:29.759 someone unbuttoned his shirt sleeve and took his one hundred 372 00:17:29.799 --> 00:17:32.880 thousand dollars watch from him before they ran off. 373 00:17:33.279 --> 00:17:35.119 Oh my god, I didn't. I didn't. 374 00:17:35.160 --> 00:17:37.079 I'm just finding out about this in the last ten 375 00:17:37.079 --> 00:17:39.720 minutes and reading a report on ABC seven here in 376 00:17:39.759 --> 00:17:42.680 Los Angeles and being picked up. Both he and his 377 00:17:42.720 --> 00:17:46.160 wife were fine. It's unclear when the incident occurred. It 378 00:17:46.160 --> 00:17:48.920 was initially thought that occurred over the weekend. Now, he 379 00:17:48.960 --> 00:17:52.400 grew up in Loxington. Of course he owns horse racing 380 00:17:53.079 --> 00:17:57.160 or horses that races in Kentucky, and then he's got 381 00:17:57.200 --> 00:18:00.319 a horse out here. I believe it's Santa Anita. Got 382 00:18:00.319 --> 00:18:03.160 ties to Bob Bafford and training horses. He had part 383 00:18:03.160 --> 00:18:06.000 ownership in a race horse that was part of the 384 00:18:06.079 --> 00:18:09.519 Kentucky Derby in twenty twenty. So he's into horse racing. 385 00:18:09.559 --> 00:18:13.279 He's from Lexington and so at some point recently he 386 00:18:13.400 --> 00:18:15.880 was out at San Diniito Park and as ABC seven 387 00:18:16.519 --> 00:18:19.640 is reporting, Walker Buehler was approached by a mob of people, 388 00:18:19.799 --> 00:18:22.839 surrounded him and his wife and was robbed of his 389 00:18:23.119 --> 00:18:25.279 watch or they took off. 390 00:18:25.319 --> 00:18:28.480 Unreal tim Now, look, we saw what happened recently too 391 00:18:29.400 --> 00:18:31.640 to Ricky Pearsall, the first round pick of the forty 392 00:18:31.720 --> 00:18:35.599 nine ers shot in the chest. Lucky he's alive, and 393 00:18:35.640 --> 00:18:40.519 they stole his watch after he was leaving a signing event. Yeah, 394 00:18:40.680 --> 00:18:42.880 and that was in that was right in Ghara Delly 395 00:18:42.880 --> 00:18:46.319 Square near garaed Delly Square in San Francisco. And it's 396 00:18:46.559 --> 00:18:50.000 just awful. But I mean, unfortunately, you know, there's a 397 00:18:50.000 --> 00:18:52.440 lot of that going on right now in this state. 398 00:18:52.480 --> 00:18:53.119 It's too bad. 399 00:18:53.400 --> 00:18:56.000 It is, and you know, you don't want to happen 400 00:18:56.039 --> 00:18:57.319 to anybody. 401 00:18:56.839 --> 00:18:59.400