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Speaker 5: Walker Bueller and Michael King the pitching matchup and what
Speaker 5: is gonna be a must win Game three s Taxi.
Speaker 5: In my opinion, you got to get this one tonight.
Speaker 6: Yeah. Well, I have been working on some of my
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Speaker 6: Let me see if you like this. Okay, okay, we
Speaker 6: could use this as what do you call it? Anyway?
Speaker 6: So I got a feeling after tonight we won't be
Speaker 6: squealing because we're gonna be dealing. That's That's like the
Speaker 6: first segment of my news Little Poetry, Little Poetry. Yeah, okay, yeah,
Speaker 6: we'll right through them. We won't be squealing because we're
Speaker 6: going to be dealing. I like that. Yeah, So that's
Speaker 6: the start. I'll give you the rest later.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 5: Well, speaking of dealing, the Dodgers are going to need
Speaker 5: Walker Buehler to be dealing tonight in Game three. He
Speaker 5: has had an up and down twenty twenty four coming
Speaker 5: back from Tommy John surgery, his second of his career.
Speaker 5: And here's Walker Buehler talking to the media last night.
Speaker 7: You know, the past month and a half or so,
Speaker 7: I felt pretty good and kind of got more into
Speaker 7: a routine, and I think being able to go on
Speaker 7: regular rest helped at least mentally. Knowing that you can
Speaker 7: can do that, I think is a step.
Speaker 6: Forward for me.
Speaker 7: And now all that stuff is kind of behind us,
Speaker 7: and now all that really matters his innings in the
Speaker 7: runs and trying to keep us in the game. So yeah,
Speaker 7: this time of year is just a little bit different
Speaker 7: and kind of, at least for me, time to kind
Speaker 7: of leave what happened in the regular season behind. For me,
Speaker 7: that the first inning has been huge this year. Obviously
Speaker 7: I've struggled in the first inning, but the games that
Speaker 7: I've gotten through the first play have typically been pretty
Speaker 7: pretty successful outings for me. So yeah, getting three outs
Speaker 7: to the bottom in the first will will be huge
Speaker 7: for me. Yeah, I want to try and go make
Speaker 7: a quality start and put our team in a position
Speaker 7: to win the game.
Speaker 6: And how much pride do you take in being labeled
Speaker 6: a big game pitcher kind of the.
Speaker 7: Only thing I care about.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Walker Bueller, he is ready to go for Game three, Saxy.
Speaker 5: This is a Walker Bueller who going back to twenty eighteen,
Speaker 5: he pitched in the game one sixty three, the playoff
Speaker 5: or the division deciding one sixty three against the Rockies
Speaker 5: at Dodger Stadium, and he was huge in winning that game,
Speaker 5: and that was really to me, his burst on the
Speaker 5: scene moment. In twenty eighteen. He was part of the
Speaker 5: twenty twenty World Series team and pitched so well twenty
Speaker 5: twenty when he made thirty three starts, had an ER
Speaker 5: under two fifty, a sixteen game winner. Then he got
Speaker 5: hurt again in twenty twenty two, missed all of twenty
Speaker 5: twenty three. Comes back this year late at a little
Speaker 5: stagger's start to make sure he's able to go out
Speaker 5: of the gate, and has really struggled one in six
Speaker 5: of they five thirty eight era, But he pitched better
Speaker 5: down the stretch and hopefully catches that momentum here into
Speaker 5: the postseason.
Speaker 6: Yeah, better down the stretch, and that's something he can
Speaker 6: take into tonight's game. And also, you know it's imperative
Speaker 6: that he pitches well for his offseason and his rehab
Speaker 6: going into next year. That's why you know he can
Speaker 6: stack that all up and say there's many, many reasons
Speaker 6: why we have to see the Walker Bueler continue what
Speaker 6: he did in his last outing. I mean, this is
Speaker 6: one of the things I had in the keys to
Speaker 6: the success tonight is Walker Bueler to shut these guys
Speaker 6: down early and not let the fans get involved in
Speaker 6: the game. And Walker pointed that out bottom of the
Speaker 6: first we got to have a shutdown inning in that
Speaker 6: particular one, and I think he's absolutely right. Do not
Speaker 6: let the fans get involved in this game because it
Speaker 6: can be a very kind of intimidating type of an
Speaker 6: atmosphere down there in pet Goo. So I think if
Speaker 6: Walker gets off to a good start, shuts him down
Speaker 6: in the standing, and then gets that momentum to carry
Speaker 6: on through, they're gonna be okay.
Speaker 5: The twenty twenty four season for Walker Viewer has been
Speaker 5: like a roller coaster ride, and I don't think it's
Speaker 5: physical saxy. I think it's more mechanics and probably mental,
Speaker 5: And you can tell me I'm completely wrong, but I
Speaker 5: kind of feel like he was searching for his old mechanics,
Speaker 5: and maybe he was trying to compensate and not wanting
Speaker 5: to get hurt again, or maybe mentally worried that his
Speaker 5: mechanics were going to get him hurt again, so maybe
Speaker 5: trying to change things up a little bit and maybe
Speaker 5: not knowing it. And he didn't have the same results
Speaker 5: and had a couple of stints on the IL, and
Speaker 5: they were more stints on the IL saxy not to
Speaker 5: get physically right because he was good. It was more
Speaker 5: of get away from the game. He went and saw
Speaker 5: another pitching person down in Florida to help him through
Speaker 5: his mechanics, and just he was just trying to get right.
Speaker 6: You know, looking for a feel. That's what he's looking for.
Speaker 6: And I've read up in some of his Not to
Speaker 6: cut you off to him, sorry, but but that's that's
Speaker 6: kind of what it is. And I talked to many
Speaker 6: many pitchers. Is the same thing as hitters is they're
Speaker 6: looking for that feel. Once they get that feel and
Speaker 6: then you can put everything on the shelf. It's just
Speaker 6: I'm gonna go by what it feels like and then
Speaker 6: the mechanics fall into place. But he's trying to get
Speaker 6: to that point where it's just you know, natural, and
Speaker 6: he doesn't have to think about it too much. And
Speaker 6: when you get to that point, you're on autopilot. Now
Speaker 6: it just comes naturally. And once he finds that, and
Speaker 6: maybe we found maybe he has found a little bit
Speaker 6: of that start to tick up in his arsenal, because
Speaker 6: in his last outing a couple ODIs, especially the last
Speaker 6: one he was good. Yeah, and once you start to
Speaker 6: get that field, boom, you're there.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I look at you know, two of the last
Speaker 5: three outings that he made in Atlanta on a Sunday,
Speaker 5: when six innings, allowed two runs on three hits, struck
Speaker 5: out five. He also walked five. All right, it was
Speaker 5: a little bit of the command issue there. He had
Speaker 5: through ninety seven pitches, so he's throwing more pitches now,
Speaker 5: which is good. He's cranked up. And then he made
Speaker 5: a start and call against the Colorado Rockies where struck
Speaker 5: out nine. But it's the Rockies late and September.
Speaker 6: It's okay, still still counts sure.
Speaker 5: Then the last start he made was that Thursday, clinching
Speaker 5: night at Dodger Stadium, the final game of the three
Speaker 5: game series against the Padres, the last home game of
Speaker 5: the regular season. He went the five innings, one run,
Speaker 5: five hits, only one run, earned, only one walk, only
Speaker 5: one strikeout, and he had eleven ground balls.
Speaker 6: That's good.
Speaker 5: In that outing he threw seventy one pitches, didn't need
Speaker 5: to do a lot out, there was a fishing which
Speaker 5: was perfect, didn't get to forty pitches.
Speaker 1: And two innings.
Speaker 6: Not stressful.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and it could be something that he could build
Speaker 5: on because that confidence. I mean, if man, if they
Speaker 5: can just get Walker Buehler from three years ago back
Speaker 5: to that form, this is a shot in the arm
Speaker 5: that they didn't probably expect they'd get.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Tim, Look, okay, one strikeout you mentioned in that outing,
Speaker 6: that's that's fine. Seventy one pitches. Look, not a stressful
Speaker 6: event for him. He would much. I think Walker Buehler
Speaker 6: wants to light up, you know, the scoreboard with all
Speaker 6: the strikeouts like everybody else. But if you could ask him, hey,
Speaker 6: can you can you go through a game strike out
Speaker 6: A couple of guys have a ton of ground balls,
Speaker 6: a great efficiency with the lack of pitches that you're
Speaker 6: throwing out there and still getting the outs. Absolutely, you know,
Speaker 6: two or three pitches per at bat instead of going
Speaker 6: you know, four or five pitches to strike a guy out.
Speaker 6: He'd much rather do that. That's that's that's the art
Speaker 6: of efficiency right there. So I think if tonight we
Speaker 6: can get a Walker Buller, look here's what I really
Speaker 6: thought about it. We're gonna need six or seven in
Speaker 6: thes for Walker Buller. One or two runs will take it.
Speaker 6: Dodgers will win that game, no question.
Speaker 5: I give credit to Dave Roberts and maybe this coaching
Speaker 5: staff in front office for sticking with Walker Buehler because
Speaker 5: a young man, and I say young man he's thirty now,
Speaker 5: I mean he grew up in this organization since he
Speaker 5: was a former number one first round pick, to stick
Speaker 5: with him through to Tommy John surgeries, to believe in
Speaker 5: him still this year, when when Saxy, I'll be honest
Speaker 5: with you, doing postgame Dodger talking and talk radio every day,
Speaker 5: five days a week, Dodger fans were riding off Walker Bueller.
Speaker 5: I mean his starts in May and early June where
Speaker 5: he's given up seven earned runs in Colorado to the
Speaker 5: Rockies and walking guys left and right, and didn't know
Speaker 5: if he'd get back to this form. Fans wrote him off.
Speaker 5: Whether they'll say it or not. I think they did,
Speaker 5: and a lot of the media starting to question whether
Speaker 5: or not he should be given another opportunity, and well, certainly,
Speaker 5: and once we get to October, no way, Walker Bueller
Speaker 5: could be a part of this rotation now they need him, yes,
Speaker 5: and he's regained that form.
Speaker 1: And I give a lot of credit.
Speaker 5: So I don't know if it's Dave Roberts or Mark
Speaker 5: pryor the pitching coach, or Connor McGinnis, the assistant pitching coach,
Speaker 5: or if it's Andrew Freeman at the top and Brandon
Speaker 5: Gomes a GM say no, no, no, no, we're gonna
Speaker 5: ride with him. He'll figure it out. I don't know
Speaker 5: who made that call, but credit to them for sticking with.
Speaker 6: Him, all of them. I think all of them had
Speaker 6: to say in it. And look, if you know Walker
Speaker 6: Bueller and met him, you'd put your money on this
Speaker 6: guy because he's a quality human being. I had a
Speaker 6: chance to talk to him for a little bit earlier
Speaker 6: this year down in the locker room. He looks good.
Speaker 6: I mean, Walker Bueler is thirty, but he didn't look it.
Speaker 6: He looks like he's about twenty six. And he takes
Speaker 6: care of himself. And he's a really good person. He's
Speaker 6: gonna do everything right to get back into that position
Speaker 6: to be successful. And so yeah, you got to bet
Speaker 6: on a guy like that. You got a lot invested
Speaker 6: in Walker too, and as a as a human being,
Speaker 6: that's that's what they're really counting.
Speaker 5: On as an athlete and a professional athlete, Saxual. You know,
Speaker 5: you start getting into your career, maybe your game has
Speaker 5: to change a little.
Speaker 6: Bit and you've got to evolve.
Speaker 5: It evolves absolutely, and I think he got to a
Speaker 5: point in his career. The injury is certainly played a
Speaker 5: part of it, because you've got to change because of
Speaker 5: a second Tommy John and an injury, and the physics
Speaker 5: will just tell you you're not gonna probably throw a hundred
Speaker 5: again because his second Tommy John surgery. You've got to
Speaker 5: become more of a quote unquote pitcher, yeah, rather than
Speaker 5: just a hard throwing guy that can pump ninety eight
Speaker 5: and to break off a curveball and boom, you are nasty. Well,
Speaker 5: he's had to figure out how to pitch.
Speaker 6: And if he can get to a point where he
Speaker 6: can ratchet that back a little bit, you know, save
Speaker 6: some of that petro on his arm, but go out
Speaker 6: and get ninety seven ninety eight if he needs it
Speaker 6: at certain times. Pitchers, when they get to that point,
Speaker 6: now they're really going because they don't have to throw
Speaker 6: as hard as they can all the time. But if
Speaker 6: they really need to hump it up a little bit
Speaker 6: in certain situations, they can go and get that.
Speaker 5: It's funny you say that because John Smoltz said it
Speaker 5: on the broadcast a couple of days ago, and they
Speaker 5: did a whole little graphic about what we know the
Speaker 5: Dodger injuries to the pitching staff and guys from Tony
Speaker 5: Gonsolin to Clayton Kershaw to Tyler Glass now and Gavin Stone,
Speaker 5: all these injuries that have hit the Dodgers this year.
Speaker 5: Seventeen different starting pitchers, forty different pitchers pitched on all
Speaker 5: for the Dodgers. We know the numbers. But John Smoltz said,
Speaker 5: you know what, We're gonna have to get to a
Speaker 5: point in baseball, and it starts at the top, and
Speaker 5: it's gonna trickle down to the kids. Stop trying to
Speaker 5: throw as hard as you can.
Speaker 1: All the time.
Speaker 5: Pitch a little bit, yeah, throw it, take a little
Speaker 5: bit off the fastball. You don't have to pump ninety
Speaker 5: one hundred every single pitch in April, May, June, July, August, September,
Speaker 5: and then get to October and still try to do
Speaker 5: the same thing. It's okayanna throw ninety two ninety three
Speaker 5: and pitch over in a course of one hundred and
Speaker 5: sixty two game season, and then crank it up in
Speaker 5: the posts.
Speaker 6: Sure, tim Pitching is the art of deception, and if
Speaker 6: you can just make that, make that timing off just
Speaker 6: a fraction doesn't take much, then you're gonna be able
Speaker 6: to get guys out. And so if you're just pumping
Speaker 6: Cheddar the whole time and you're really relying on ninety
Speaker 6: eight all the time, hitters will turn up that dial
Speaker 6: and if it's not, if it's not in a certain spot,
Speaker 6: they'll turn that around. That's I always thought that velocity
Speaker 6: was probably the least important of the three components of pitching.
Speaker 6: You know, of velocity, movement and location. And you know,
Speaker 6: if you can just you know, spot the ball, you
Speaker 6: know where you want a little bit of movement here
Speaker 6: and there, take a little on, put a little off,
Speaker 6: that type of thing, you'll get guys out and then
Speaker 6: go ahead and use that you know that burner when
Speaker 6: you need to get it. So that's John's listen. If
Speaker 6: he's saying it, I'm believing it, and he's right.
Speaker 5: Absolutely, Walker Buehler gets the start tonight. Dodger fans, if
Speaker 5: Walker Buehler can give you what he's giving you down
Speaker 5: the stretch, you have to have confidence in the right
Speaker 5: hand or The Dodgers saw him over the course of
Speaker 5: the season go up and down, struggle with his mechanics.
Speaker 5: But you gotta feel good about where he's at right
Speaker 5: now at this point.
Speaker 1: Of the season.
Speaker 5: Eight sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy. The
Speaker 5: Dodgers need to wake up the bats. Mookie Betts needs
Speaker 5: to figure it out. Dodgers need to get right tonight
Speaker 5: and the must win Game three of this NLDS.
Speaker 1: How about a blowout.
Speaker 6: I'm about a blowout in Petco.
Speaker 5: Shut up that crowd in San Diego. Put them on
Speaker 5: their butts early. They want to be involved, they want
Speaker 5: to stand, they want to be loud. Nothing better, nothing
Speaker 5: better than to put up some runs early and force
Speaker 5: them to sit down and take those handkerchiefs out of
Speaker 5: their hands. Eight sixty six ninety seven two five seventy.
Speaker 1: We'll get into.
Speaker 5: Mookie Betts his struggles, Kenny turn it around? How hard
Speaker 5: is he trying to get out of this slump. We'll
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Speaker 5: lineup comes out a few hours before first pitch Dodgers Padres.
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Speaker 5: in the other three nlds and alds series. Next hour,
Speaker 5: David Vets say, our Dodger insider will join us from
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Speaker 5: the Dodgers calling the games here in the NLDS on
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Speaker 5: into Mookie Betts in a second, talking a lot about
Speaker 5: Walker Bueller this hour, Saxon and the need to have
Speaker 5: Bueller be buletaining as he calls himself, and have a
Speaker 5: great outing tonight. Individually. I guess he also wants to
Speaker 5: make sure he has a good outing because this is
Speaker 5: a guy going into free agency. He's a thirty year
Speaker 5: old looking to strike in free agency with a big deal.
Speaker 5: Certainly his arm is a question to Tommy John Surgery's
Speaker 5: the up and down twenty twenty four season. The results
Speaker 5: aren't there, but for him, he would love to go
Speaker 5: out of this season on a high note. Certainly with
Speaker 5: the championship maybe, but certainly individually pitching well going into
Speaker 5: a free agency.
Speaker 6: Yes, and he could call himself Bueller, the high octane
Speaker 6: fueler that love that. That might be a good one.
Speaker 6: So yeah, I mean he's got can you imagine he's
Speaker 6: got so much on his plate. Yeah, he's got the
Speaker 6: the you know as we are now with the with
Speaker 6: the playoffs and trying to get through these Padres, and
Speaker 6: he's got a lot to prove in his own mind.
Speaker 6: I'm sure he's thinking, I'm going to show that my
Speaker 6: arm is sound. I'm coming back, I can feel it
Speaker 6: again and I'm there. And you know, on top of
Speaker 6: that beating the Padres. And after all this is done,
Speaker 6: then he's going to have to think about, you know,
Speaker 6: what's going to be going on in the free agent market.
Speaker 6: I mean, there's there's so much going on in his
Speaker 6: world right now. He's got to really be the professional,
Speaker 6: separate all this stuff and just really hone in on
Speaker 6: what's going on tonight and beating the San Diego Padres.
Speaker 6: That's it and it's not easy to do. And he
Speaker 6: goes to a human being. He's got his family life,
Speaker 6: he's got you know, it's it's a lot in his
Speaker 6: world right now. But he's going to be a professional.
Speaker 6: He's going to put all that side and he's going
Speaker 6: to be central on beating this Padre team in a
Speaker 6: very hostile environment. But he can do it.
Speaker 5: With that all being said, I'm going to add this
Speaker 5: to something else. He has to deal with the report
Speaker 5: that came out late last night in more coming out
Speaker 5: this morning, that recently he and his wife were at
Speaker 5: Santa Anita Park and were robbed by a mob of
Speaker 5: people who surrounded Walker Bueller and his wife McKenzie, and
Speaker 5: someone unbuttoned his shirt sleeve and took his one hundred
Speaker 5: thousand dollars watch from him before they ran off.
Speaker 6: Oh my god, I didn't. I didn't.
Speaker 5: I'm just finding out about this in the last ten
Speaker 5: minutes and reading a report on ABC seven here in
Speaker 5: Los Angeles and being picked up. Both he and his
Speaker 5: wife were fine. It's unclear when the incident occurred. It
Speaker 5: was initially thought that occurred over the weekend. Now, he
Speaker 5: grew up in Loxington. Of course he owns horse racing
Speaker 5: or horses that races in Kentucky, and then he's got
Speaker 5: a horse out here. I believe it's Santa Anita. Got
Speaker 5: ties to Bob Bafford and training horses. He had part
Speaker 5: ownership in a race horse that was part of the
Speaker 5: Kentucky Derby in twenty twenty. So he's into horse racing.
Speaker 5: He's from Lexington and so at some point recently he
Speaker 5: was out at San Diniito Park and as ABC seven
Speaker 5: is reporting, Walker Buehler was approached by a mob of people,
Speaker 5: surrounded him and his wife and was robbed of his
Speaker 5: watch or they took off.
Speaker 6: Unreal tim Now, look, we saw what happened recently too
Speaker 6: to Ricky Pearsall, the first round pick of the forty
Speaker 6: nine ers shot in the chest. Lucky he's alive, and
Speaker 6: they stole his watch after he was leaving a signing event. Yeah,
Speaker 6: and that was in that was right in Ghara Delly
Speaker 6: Square near garaed Delly Square in San Francisco. And it's
Speaker 6: just awful. But I mean, unfortunately, you know, there's a
Speaker 6: lot of that going on right now in this state.
Speaker 6: It's too bad.
Speaker 5: It is, and you know, you don't want to happen
Speaker 5: to anybody.
Speaker 6: But you know, not no, and imagine the ones we
Speaker 6: don't know about exactly. You know, premiere people in the
Speaker 6: in the in the you know, in the news all
Speaker 6: the time. They're professional athletes and their targets. But even
Speaker 6: the person that's just going to work doing the nine
Speaker 6: to five is having to struggle with this. It's too bad,
Speaker 6: and we're.
Speaker 5: Hearing about you know, you know it happens to It's
Speaker 5: happened to a lot of people. But you're also hearing
Speaker 5: about home and breakings and robberies happened to you know,
Speaker 5: former players, current players, celebrities, athletes here in southern California.
Speaker 5: It's unfortunate what's happening. And again the ABC seven report
Speaker 5: that he's fine. Walker Bueller recently was robbed of his
Speaker 5: watch at sending it to park in Arcadia, which is
Speaker 5: unfortunate if it could happened to Walker Bueller, who is
Speaker 5: pretty recognizable. If you're here in southern California, even if
Speaker 5: you're not a huge Dodger fan, you know who the
Speaker 5: heck Walker freaking Bueller is. Yes, and people still have
Speaker 5: the guts to go up to him and the balls
Speaker 5: to go up to him and his wife and rob
Speaker 5: him of his watch. It's it's just unbelievable. Yes, So
Speaker 5: he's got that deal with as well, and has been
Speaker 5: dealing with. And he gets the Game three start tonight.
Speaker 5: I feel like he'll be able to compartimentalize everything and
Speaker 5: be ready for this start tonight with so much riding
Speaker 5: on it, and he's gonna need some help, and some
Speaker 5: of that help's gonna have to come from Mookie Vets
Speaker 5: and it's well documented Saxy how much he has struggled
Speaker 5: in the postseason, and he was on his way to
Speaker 5: having maybe an MVP type season if not for breaking
Speaker 5: his hand when he did and missing six and a
Speaker 5: half weeks. Still had a really good twenty twenty four.
Speaker 5: But all people want to talk about is is lack
Speaker 5: of production in the postseason the last few years in
Speaker 5: the NLDS, and it's continued in the first two games
Speaker 5: of this series. He's now oh for this series. He's
Speaker 5: been walked a couple of times, almost went deep in
Speaker 5: Game two. But the struggles are real for Mookie and
Speaker 5: he's trying everything to get out of it. And Dave
Speaker 5: Roberts has all the confidence in him. But as a
Speaker 5: hitter yourself, when you see what's happening to him, do
Speaker 5: you feel for a guy like this and how does
Speaker 5: he get out of it?
Speaker 6: Yeah? Well you just got to you got to rely
Speaker 6: on the fact that you know that you can do this,
Speaker 6: and your heart of hearts and the recesses of your soul,
Speaker 6: you know that you can come back and you can
Speaker 6: get over this and be very successful. I know, Mookie
Speaker 6: Cam this guy's a two ninety four career hitter. He's
Speaker 6: prolific in everything he does. He's a super good athlete,
Speaker 6: you know, and I think that he has just got
Speaker 6: to take a step back, take a deep breath, and
Speaker 6: just you know what, he doesn't have to do anything special,
Speaker 6: just take what they give you and make some solid
Speaker 6: contact and things will happen for him. You know, he
Speaker 6: can run his way out of a slump too, because
Speaker 6: he's such a fast runner, so he doesn't have to
Speaker 6: hit the ball out of the ballpark. You know, take
Speaker 6: what they give you, hit the ball the other way
Speaker 6: if need be, you know, beat out an infield hit.
Speaker 6: And then all of a sudden, once the hits start coming,
Speaker 6: all of the naysayers will kind of, you know, slough
Speaker 6: off and disappear. But we all know what Mookie Bets
Speaker 6: can do. I will bet on him every single time.
Speaker 6: I'm not worried whether he's gonna come through eventually, because
Speaker 6: he will. You can't stop a man like that. He's
Speaker 6: too good. And I just think you got to take
Speaker 6: what they give you, Okay, don't try to, you know,
Speaker 6: produce so much. Just take what they give you. Start
Speaker 6: stacking up a couple of hits, and pretty soon the
Speaker 6: home runs are gonna come.
Speaker 5: Dave Roberts yesterday said it's really Mookie having to have
Speaker 5: a different mindset. And as you mentioned the physical part
Speaker 5: of it, he's got it and it's not gone anywhere.
Speaker 5: It's more maybe of a mental makeup right now. And
Speaker 5: Dave Roberts says show So for me, it's more of
Speaker 5: just go out there and compete your tail off. It's
Speaker 5: up to all of us to make sure that he's
Speaker 5: in a good headspace to go out there and compete
Speaker 5: and not get too worried about each particular at bad.
Speaker 5: And he says, the fact is you can't change the
Speaker 5: last x amount of postseason games. I understand the burden
Speaker 5: a player has, but all anyone is concerned about right
Speaker 5: now is how to best prepare yourself mentally for Tuesday
Speaker 5: night and the first at bat. So it's going to
Speaker 5: be basically my message to MOOKI is embrace the moment, yes,
Speaker 5: and have a different mindset.
Speaker 6: I say, bite it right back in the face, challenge
Speaker 6: it and say I want this opportunity every single time.
Speaker 6: You know what, you can't hold me down, and I'm
Speaker 6: gonna take with this team, with the other team gives
Speaker 6: me and it's gonna be huge. And that's that's the
Speaker 6: only way you can look at this thing.
Speaker 5: And Mookie, you know, he attacks this as well, I'm
Speaker 5: gonna go take more swings. I'm gonna go hit in
Speaker 5: the cage more. And that's apparently what he was doing
Speaker 5: yesterday during batting practice. He was the guy in the
Speaker 5: cage around the cage, down inside, in the batting cage
Speaker 5: underneath as well, and taking hundreds of swings in the
Speaker 5: batting cage. And he did this in the last homestand
Speaker 5: at Dodger Stadium when they faced the Padres. He did
Speaker 5: a podcast with Fernando Tatist Junior, the podcast that he
Speaker 5: hosts and does every couple of weeks and he's done
Speaker 5: it since last year, and he posted it during that
Speaker 5: Padre series and there was some backlash from some media
Speaker 5: and some Dodger fans, like, hey, aren't you worried about
Speaker 5: this series? Why are you doing a podcast with Fernando
Speaker 5: Tetist Junior and not worried about beating him and winning
Speaker 5: the division. And he took a little bit of that
Speaker 5: like wow, he was surprised and yeah, and went out
Speaker 5: and took three to four hundred swings in the cage
Speaker 5: just to kind of prove to people that he does care.
Speaker 6: Yeah, he doesn't have to prove that. I would say,
Speaker 6: you know, Mooki has his own way of doing things,
Speaker 6: and I'm sure that you know, he's going to take
Speaker 6: the normal track that he that he usually does to
Speaker 6: get prepared. But sometimes it's good to just take a
Speaker 6: mental break from it and say, just you know, when
Speaker 6: you come to the ballpark, sometimes from a long trip
Speaker 6: that you've had, you know, back east, and you're coming
Speaker 6: back home and you have maybe a little bit of
Speaker 6: an earlier game. Sometimes what the manager will do, he'll say, everybody,
Speaker 6: just get to the ballpark at you know, at this time,
Speaker 6: there's going to be no infield practice. We're not going
Speaker 6: to take any batting practice on the field. You can
Speaker 6: do some soft tosses you want, but get here, get dressed,
Speaker 6: and just play the game. Sometimes when you take that
Speaker 6: step back like that, you have your best games. Could
Speaker 6: you just take all that stuff, all the worry and
Speaker 6: all the preparation of every day, kind of shake that
Speaker 6: up a little bit, make it a little bit different.
Speaker 6: Just go there and play and not have anything else
Speaker 6: on your mind. Sometimes you have your best games.
Speaker 5: That way, it feels like it has gotten a Mooki
Speaker 5: mentally to hear this quote.
Speaker 1: The world knows. It's not like it's a secret.
Speaker 6: I know.
Speaker 5: Nobody is telling me anything I don't already know. Nobody
Speaker 5: can be harder on me than myself. The only thing
Speaker 5: I can really do is look forward. I know it's there.
Speaker 5: I'm trying, man, That's all I can say.
Speaker 6: Yeah, nobody cares more than Mooki. I promise you. Nobody
Speaker 6: feels worse about this than he does. I promise you.
Speaker 6: So it's not like, hey, come on, dude, let's get going.
Speaker 6: We're ten years behind the curve on that he is going.
Speaker 6: He's doing it. It's on his mind. He goes to
Speaker 6: bed with it, he wakes up with it. It's at the
Speaker 6: breakfast table with him, it's at the dinner table with him.
Speaker 6: It's in every thought that in his mind. And believe me,
Speaker 6: nobody cares more than Mooki.
Speaker 5: Dave Robern said yesterday that he has not given any
Speaker 5: thought and this is something we talked about yesterday. He
Speaker 5: has given no thought to moving Mooki beds in the
Speaker 5: lineup out of his number two spot. Good No thoughts
Speaker 5: of moving him down, and certainly no thoughts of moving
Speaker 5: him to the leadoff spot and putting O Tawni behind him,
Speaker 5: even though even though saxy he might get more pitches
Speaker 5: to look at as a leadoff hitter because you got
Speaker 5: Otawni behind you. Dave Roberts says, at this point, I
Speaker 5: don't think hitting first or second is gonna change much.
Speaker 6: I agree. See, I'm in the same camp. And if
Speaker 6: you moved him to first or you know, and put
Speaker 6: Otani said, I big, I don't, I wouldn't really care
Speaker 6: about that. That's fine, I mean it would make a difference.
Speaker 6: I don't think. That's what I said yesterday as well.
Speaker 6: I think that you're gonna live or die with Muki
Speaker 6: at the top of the order. That's that's the only
Speaker 6: way to look at this. And he's our man, and
Speaker 6: we're gonna go with what it is. The Dodgers had
Speaker 6: the best record in baseball this year because of a
Speaker 6: lot of because of what Muki had done and the
Speaker 6: way the lineup is structured. They've been through this thing
Speaker 6: five million times. They know what they're doing. Sometimes the
Speaker 6: players just has to go out and execut and they'll
Speaker 6: take that on and they'll own it.
Speaker 5: And so that's where we are right now. I am
Speaker 5: starting to worry a little bit. If Freddie Freeman is
Speaker 5: not in the line of batting third, who is there
Speaker 5: to protect Muki? And if you if you did entertain
Speaker 5: the thought, and I'm just thinking this in the in
Speaker 5: the moment here, if you did entertain moving Muki to
Speaker 5: the lead off spot tonight and putting show Hey Otani's second,
Speaker 5: with the hopes of show Hey not being pitched around.
Speaker 5: Because right now, if you're the Padres and Otani's leading off,
Speaker 5: why not pitch around him to get to Muki, even
Speaker 5: if Otani's on base, I mean, let him steal because
Speaker 5: Muki's struggling so bad right now. I'd rather pitch to
Speaker 5: Mooki bed second. Or if you flip them, you have
Speaker 5: to pitch to Muki because Otani's lingering right behind them.
Speaker 6: Yeah, well, either way, you know what, it's one pitch
Speaker 6: away from the Muki coming back. And that's that's the
Speaker 6: problem that the Padres are gonna have because here, here's
Speaker 6: what you always think. If somebody's been in a slumper
Speaker 6: or whatever, and you know he's a really good hitter,
Speaker 6: here's what the phrase is on the field, somebody is
Speaker 6: gonna pay. And you know that, you know that somebody
Speaker 6: is gonna pay when Lukey Betts gets out of this thing,
Speaker 6: and boy, they're gonna pay big because he's due. And
Speaker 6: you know it's gonna be the Padres.
Speaker 5: Probably it better be the Padres, and it better be
Speaker 5: tonight because tonight is a must win Game three for
Speaker 5: the Dodgers. And I think again, the momentum the Padres
Speaker 5: have going back home, getting their crowd all up in
Speaker 5: arms and ready to go and loud, and they've been loud.
Speaker 5: That's been a really good home environment at Petco Park
Speaker 5: the last couple of postseasons for San Diego, even though
Speaker 5: they've locked out Dodger fans, but they've done a really
Speaker 5: good job of making it a tough environment to go
Speaker 5: into it. And the Dodgers now knowing that, I think again,
Speaker 5: this goes back to our earlier conversation of Dave Roberts
Speaker 5: and trying to make it the focus of him, and
Speaker 5: Manny Machado would take the pressure off his guys with
Speaker 5: this whole throwing the ball at Dave Roberts in the
Speaker 5: sixth inning of Game two. Hey, take the pressure off
Speaker 5: my guys all take the media hits, all, take all
Speaker 5: the incoming right now and be the center of attention
Speaker 5: just so my guys can focus.
Speaker 6: And that's what a good leader does. And that's what
Speaker 6: Dave Roberts is about. He'll take some of that attention
Speaker 6: and so the guys can just go about and do
Speaker 6: their thing. But we all know, we all know that
Speaker 6: this is gonna come down to. This game today was
Speaker 6: probably the most important game, I think, because it's gonna
Speaker 6: set the tone. This is only two of three now,
Speaker 6: this is the this is the game tonight.
Speaker 1: Are you looking at it?
Speaker 5: If you're the Dodgers, if let's just get back to
Speaker 5: LA for a game five? We got to get one
Speaker 5: of these games, sure, just to get back to Ala.
Speaker 5: You want to win every game, certainly, But is that
Speaker 5: maybe your mindset. Let's steal one to get home.
Speaker 6: It's the most logical. But naturally you'd like to take
Speaker 6: the next two and get the heck out of there,
Speaker 6: come back to LA and not have to play, you
Speaker 6: know so. But but the thing is, I'm much more
Speaker 6: worried about what you brought up. Is is you know
Speaker 6: Freddie Freeman gonna play? I would be much more worried
Speaker 6: about that than if Mookie's gonna break out of his
Speaker 6: slump or whatever, because I know that's gonna happen. Sometimes
Speaker 6: you can't get a game back if Freddie Freeman isn't
Speaker 6: in there. And with Michael going tonight, he way do
Speaker 6: you dodge a fan? See how this guy pitches, He's
Speaker 6: he's he's a crossfire guy. He's a big dude, and
Speaker 6: he throws way across his body. He is the right
Speaker 6: handed version, only about sixty pounds more of Chris Sale. Okay,
Speaker 6: you know Chris Sale throws across his body right and
Speaker 6: people think, oh, he's gonna kill his arm and whatever,
Speaker 6: and he's not strong enough. Well, you saw what kind
Speaker 6: of year he had this year. Michael King is the
Speaker 6: same way, only he's a lot bigger and a lot huskier,
Speaker 6: and he throws that thing crossways. If you're a right
Speaker 6: handed batter, it is like a nightmare to see. And
Speaker 6: I'm sure right at six o'clock it may not be
Speaker 6: the best time to be facing him, and and and
Speaker 6: so you know, the left handed hitters are are kind
Speaker 6: of the same in the same boat. They're looking around
Speaker 6: the corner to see where's that ball? Coming from I
Speaker 6: can't quite see it, and so he's a lot of
Speaker 6: deception in his delivery and he had a monster year
Speaker 6: this year.
Speaker 5: Let's go out to the phone to eighty six six nine,
Speaker 5: eighty seven two five seventy. Let's check in with Peter
Speaker 5: and Westwood is on m five seventy a iceport, some
Speaker 5: Sacks and Kates and the am how you doing?
Speaker 2: Peter?
Speaker 8: Very good? Guys, how you doing here? I had two
Speaker 8: questions I'll throw out to you and I hang up.
Speaker 8: I really appreciate it, Sax, you love you, Kates and
Speaker 8: the rest of the gang. I wanted to get your
Speaker 8: take on as bad as the loss was the other night,
Speaker 8: is it not instructive? And I think this team, which
Speaker 8: is a different team than the teams in the past
Speaker 8: that have been up ten games, fifteen games, twenty games,
Speaker 8: rolling in and that's where their struggles had come from.
Speaker 8: This team knows how to take a punch in the
Speaker 8: nose and come back. It was a bummer of a loss,
Speaker 8: but I wanted to get your perspective on their ability
Speaker 8: to just be able to settle themselves and go in
Speaker 8: and be professionals in a hostile environment and get a win.
Speaker 8: It feels like they've been able to do that this year.
Speaker 8: And then number two, your take on just even if
Speaker 8: they're able to get through this Padre season, how the
Speaker 8: pitching plays out in order to get through some length
Speaker 8: of your seasons and do we really have the arms
Speaker 8: to get to the promise last.
Speaker 5: Thanks a lot, Peter, the resiliency of this team saxtually.
Speaker 5: They've shown a lot during the regular season to battle back. Certainly,
Speaker 5: the series against the Padres a week and a half
Speaker 5: ago at Dodger Stadium was a big series and the
Speaker 5: Dodgers took two or three. I look at this is
Speaker 5: the postseason is a different beast, and I don't know
Speaker 5: if this team's got the resiliency to bounce back or
Speaker 5: the fight in them. I hope they do. I think
Speaker 5: they do based on their makeup. I feel like this
Speaker 5: team is gonna go out there and hit the Padres
Speaker 5: in the mouth tonight. But then again, we've seen the
Speaker 5: last two Octobers. Is all I have to go off,
Speaker 5: and a lot of these guys are are on those
Speaker 5: teams from the last two years.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I don't think it's because of the wherewithal As
Speaker 6: far as the makeup of the team. The professionalism of
Speaker 6: the team, no doubt, to top of the heap as
Speaker 6: far as that's goes, I mean, and that's an important
Speaker 6: component in them getting this victory. I don't think that
Speaker 6: that's going to be an issue or a worry at all.
Speaker 6: Can they handle the moment? Absolutely they can. This is
Speaker 6: a There is no chum on this team. This is
Speaker 6: a This is a bunch of professionals that have been
Speaker 6: there and done that before their experience. They're extremely talented,
Speaker 6: and they're a bunch of the best baseball players in
Speaker 6: the world on that team. I would not worry about that.
Speaker 6: The Dodgers aren't worried about that. In the confines of
Speaker 6: that locker room, they're thinking they're gonna go over there
Speaker 6: and take the next two and smoke these guys out.
Speaker 6: I really believe it. Now. Do they have the arms?
Speaker 6: I think that was the second part of his question.
Speaker 6: Do they have the arms to go ahead and do it?
Speaker 6: That's the biggest question mark, and that's why I think
Speaker 6: it's imperative that we see a beat down performance from
Speaker 6: Walker Bueller tonight. Sometimes, I mean, most of the time,
Speaker 6: you're gonna need your stars, the expected people to come
Speaker 6: out there and do the job to really step forward
Speaker 6: in times like this. And there's nobody that's got more
Speaker 6: incentive surrounding his world right now than Walker Buehler. And
Speaker 6: it's not going to be because of lack of will.
Speaker 6: It's gonna be if he's feeling it good, if he's
Speaker 6: in a rhythm, if he's in that zone, Walker can
Speaker 6: shut these guys down. I would expect that we need
Speaker 6: one or two runs with the seven innings behind him
Speaker 6: and give that bullprint a break, because I don't think
Speaker 6: that the Dodgers are extremely deep, and they're starting pitching
Speaker 6: right now. That's the big question mark. And if they're
Speaker 6: gonna go deeper in postseason, they're gonna have to not
Speaker 6: tax that bullpen nearly as much. You're gonna have to
Speaker 6: have these starters step up and do a you know,
Speaker 6: five plus.
Speaker 5: He is Steve Sacks. I am Tim Kates at Saxon
Speaker 5: Kates in the AM. Postseason continues for the Dodgers tonight
Speaker 5: with Game three of this NLDS. First pitch at six
Speaker 5: oh eight, Walker Bueller and Michael King the pitching matchup
Speaker 5: coming up next hour. Steven Nelson calling the games here
Speaker 5: on m FI seventy LA Sports will join us. David
Speaker 5: Vasseo will join us at the top of the hour.
Speaker 5: Lost to get into with the two of those guys.
Speaker 5: Your phone calls as well. Eight sixty six, nine eighty seven,
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Speaker 5: If you're looking for the Dan Patrick Show, you can
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Speaker 5: We're leading up to Game three of the NLDS, a
Speaker 5: must win game for the Dodgers in my opinion, as
Speaker 5: the Dodgers have to win two of the next three
Speaker 5: to advance to the NLCS. Walker Revealer on the Mound,
Speaker 5: Michael King will go for San Diego. David Bats will
Speaker 5: join us at the top of the next hour. Steven Nelson,
Speaker 5: voice of the Dodgers, will join us as well. This
Speaker 5: is one of four series going on right now, Saxy.
Speaker 5: You got the other NLDS series, which is continuing today
Speaker 5: in New York at City Field, Game three between the
Speaker 5: Mets and the Phillies. That series tied up at a
Speaker 5: game of Peace, and the Phillies riding momentum into the postseason.
Speaker 5: No more though than the Mets, who really finished with
Speaker 5: the flurry in the last two weeks of the season.
Speaker 5: It's funny they were talking about how they were the
Speaker 5: road dogs. They had to finish the last week of
Speaker 5: the season on the road, then they had to play
Speaker 5: the wild Card Round on the road in Milwaukee, and
Speaker 5: then they had to go right to Philadelphia for the
Speaker 5: first two games of the an LDS series against the Mets.
Speaker 5: This has been a team that going into today's games,
Speaker 5: but the last two plus weeks playing all road.
Speaker 6: Games, Yeah, tell me they They've had a tough way
Speaker 6: to get where they are right now. But I'll tell
Speaker 6: you what this team is. They keep beating him down.
Speaker 6: It's kind of like that that that what's that money
Speaker 6: or something the movie where you keep cutting his arm
Speaker 6: off and he just keeps coming back. It's just a
Speaker 6: flesh womb whatever. But that seems to be what the
Speaker 6: Mets are right now. And they got the top of
Speaker 6: the order pumping right now. Pete Alonzo's hit a couple
Speaker 6: of home runs, you know, Mark Vientos is hitting over
Speaker 6: four hundred postseason, and that top of the order is
Speaker 6: cranking right now for the Mets. Lindor's you know, as
Speaker 6: we say, he's feeling it too. So these guys are
Speaker 6: these guys are, you know, defying the odds. And those
Speaker 6: are scary people, they are.
Speaker 5: They a lot of people rode off the Mets because
Speaker 5: they were struggling around the All Star break. But they
Speaker 5: started to get it together, they started to figure it out,
Speaker 5: they started to get healthy here in September and now
Speaker 5: in October playing well. That series tied at a game
Speaker 5: and piece. In the American League, the two divisional series
Speaker 5: happening there, they both played yesterday. It was the Tigers
Speaker 5: and Guardians in Cleveland and that series now tied up
Speaker 5: in a game in piece as the Tigers get a
Speaker 5: three to nothing win with a late home run off
Speaker 5: of the closer there in Cleveland Closse. And it was
Speaker 5: a great pitching matchup to start with. But Trek scouble
Speaker 5: seven shutout innings, eight strikeouts, three hits. He's gonna win
Speaker 5: the cy young.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 5: In the American League, a lot of teams were trying
Speaker 5: to acquire him at the trade deadline, and the Tigers said, nope, nope, nope, nope,
Speaker 5: we're going to trade Flairity, but we're not going to
Speaker 5: trade school ball. We have control of him for a
Speaker 5: couple of years. He's the best pitcher in the American League.
Speaker 5: We're hanging on to him. And they made a run
Speaker 5: like nobody's business to make the postseason, to win a
Speaker 5: wild card round, and here they are now tied one
Speaker 5: to one going back home in a best of five series.
Speaker 5: This Tiger, his team is for real.
Speaker 6: Oh they are. They're They're a scary team too. People
Speaker 6: look at them and say, nah, you know what, the
Speaker 6: Guardians are going to beat those guys down. But no,
Speaker 6: not the case. These guys are hanging right there and
Speaker 6: they're gonna be dangerous. Scooble, what a year he's had
Speaker 6: this year. It's just amazing.
Speaker 5: He's been fantastic. The other Alds series. Last night in
Speaker 5: the Bronx it was the Yankees and the Royals. The
Speaker 5: Royals hung on a one the game four to two.
Speaker 5: I'll be honest with you, I can't name more than
Speaker 5: two Kansas City Royals players, probably one Bobby Witt Junior
Speaker 5: and the catcher, yes, Salvi Prez Those are the two
Speaker 5: guys I couldn't even think of his name. Those are
Speaker 5: the two players I know on the Kansas City US.
Speaker 5: Mark Kubazat's not putting on the Kansas City Royals or
Speaker 5: Brett Sayrigan's not pitching for them anytime soon. But Royals
Speaker 5: get the win last night. They even up this series
Speaker 5: at a game at peace going back to Kansas City.
Speaker 5: It was a game that was on TBS last night
Speaker 5: and it was Ron Darling and Bob Costas and on
Speaker 5: social media after the eighth inning in this call, a
Speaker 5: lot of baseball fans are like, wait a second, who's
Speaker 5: Bob Costas rooting for.
Speaker 8: Hit?
Speaker 1: The short wit gets the force?
Speaker 5: Can they turn to Yes, they count And it's just
Speaker 5: the point we were making.
Speaker 1: It's not John Carlow's fault.
Speaker 4: A near base hit, couldn't beat it out of the
Speaker 4: other end turns it into a double play.
Speaker 5: Bob really a national call here? Are you rooting for
Speaker 5: the Yankees? Are you really for the Royals?
Speaker 6: Yeah? That's uh, that's kind of a that's kind of
Speaker 6: a weird call right there. Bob Costa, certainly he has
Speaker 6: got a long career. He knows that he probably shouldn't
Speaker 6: do that. But yeah, it came through who's who's pulling for?
Speaker 6: But I thought that the crazy thing was in the
Speaker 6: interview with Chazz Jazz Chisholm and saying that the you know,
Speaker 6: the Royals just got lucky. You don't tell the national
Speaker 6: audience that somebody else is lucky because they beat you.
Speaker 6: I mean, let me tell you what. The Royals guys
Speaker 6: that have a very athletic team led by Bobby Witt junr.
Speaker 6: And you don't just tell people that you know, they
Speaker 6: were you know, the balls are catching, the diving plays
Speaker 6: they make, turning double play on John Carlo there at
Speaker 6: a critical time in in you know, a ball that's
Speaker 6: hit to your right in the hole and be able
Speaker 6: to turn that thing over. You don't tell everybody that
Speaker 6: they're they're lucky. You just say they played well.
Speaker 5: No, But I think that's the general consistence of this
Speaker 5: Royals team is Wow. This is a team that just
Speaker 5: won eighty six games. They finished second in the Central.
Speaker 5: Nobody thought they'd be here. It's luck that they've gotten
Speaker 5: this far into the postseason. It's luck that's got them
Speaker 5: tied one to one in this best of five series.
Speaker 5: And there's no way they can step to the big
Speaker 5: bad New York Yankees with what Bobby Witt Junior in
Speaker 5: a cast of characters around him. That's that's the treatment
Speaker 5: they're getting right now. In fact, that's the treatment I
Speaker 5: think the American League of General is getting.
Speaker 1: Saxy.
Speaker 6: Well, if that's what it is, Tim, I'd much rather
Speaker 6: be lucky than good. That's the truth, you know. Tell
Speaker 6: you what, They've got some guys that can play on
Speaker 6: this club, and I would be not going into there
Speaker 6: thinking you're gonna mop these guys up. It's not gonna
Speaker 6: happen that way.
Speaker 5: I think Bob Costas is tone last night on that
Speaker 5: double play ball that gim Carlos is standing to hit
Speaker 5: to end the eighth inning, and any kind of threat
Speaker 5: that inning for the Yankees was maybe the same sentiment
Speaker 5: the executives around baseball and the TV networks were kind
Speaker 5: of feeling too in that game last night, like, oh.
Speaker 6: No, they just want Kansas City.
Speaker 5: There's no way that our beloved Yankees can be bounced
Speaker 5: in the postseason. We need a New York West Coast,
Speaker 5: whether it's the Dodgers, we hope, or Padres World Series championship.
Speaker 5: We knot of have a Kansas City versus San Diego
Speaker 5: World Series.
Speaker 1: There's no way nobody will watch this.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but remember when we had the the was it
Speaker 6: the Cubs and then the Cleveland Yeah, that was a
Speaker 6: great series. We have these guys and the Midwest clubs, No,
Speaker 6: and they turned out to be a phenomenal series. I
Speaker 6: don't know. I just think, you know, well, we'll see
Speaker 6: what happens on when it comes down to that, get
Speaker 6: to that time. We're a long ways away, you know,
Speaker 6: from the World Series right now.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we got game three to night of this an LDS.
Speaker 5: It's the Dodgers and the San Diego Padres. Let's go
Speaker 5: out to Serritos and is this.
Speaker 3: Charles Charles in West Covina.
Speaker 1: Yes, go ahead, Charles row there.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I just want to say that I've seen times
Speaker 3: where they have pitched around Otani and Mookie has made
Speaker 3: them make them pay, and the two professional As far
Speaker 3: as the seventh inning mountdown in Dodger Stadium, Messaday, I
Speaker 3: thought there was a little agitation by the Padre players
Speaker 3: to the sands, and I think that's real dangerous. And
Speaker 3: HOWKO fines aren't being laid out on that on Walker Buehler,
Speaker 3: I think you're gonna get a walker Bueler tonight that's
Speaker 3: gonna come to pitch. You don't know what you're gonna get.
Speaker 3: He could throw a great ball game, he could get bombs,
Speaker 3: But I think we're coming back to Dodger Stadium, whether
Speaker 3: it's a Game five or the National Championships.
Speaker 1: All right, Charles, appreciate the phone call. He is right.
Speaker 5: We've seen showy Otani get intentionally walk this year and
Speaker 5: Mookie Betts then turn around and hit a home run
Speaker 5: like he did a month ago. He had a three
Speaker 5: run home run after show. Hey, O'tani was intentionally walked.
Speaker 5: I mean he's been intentionally walked almost seventy times wow,
Speaker 5: in his career with the Angels and the Dodgers. So yeah,
Speaker 5: if you want to pitch around Otani, you mentioned it, Saxy,
Speaker 5: go ahead. You've got a hungry Mookie Bets waiting to torture.
Speaker 6: And Otani might steal second. And this guy tonight that pitching,
Speaker 6: he can definitely steal off. This guy pitching tonight.
Speaker 1: I'm liking that.
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