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Speaker 4: The Dodgers are one win away from going back to
Speaker 4: the World Series. Hi everybody, and welcome to Scam on
Speaker 4: this Friday and morning, October eighteenth. Thanks for being with us,
Speaker 4: Steve Sacks, Tim Katson, you on this Friday morning, reacting
Speaker 4: to the Dodgers Game four win in the NLCS last
Speaker 4: night in New York and getting ready for a potentially
Speaker 4: clenching Game five of the NLCS later on this afternoon.
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Speaker 4: this morning. He is a two time World Series Champ,
Speaker 4: Rookie of the Year, and one hell of a guy
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Speaker 4: is a great Steve Sacks Saxy, Good morning, Tim.
Speaker 5: Good to be with you, my brother. How are you.
Speaker 4: I'm doing great. I slept like a baby last night.
Speaker 4: The ulcer or stomach issues, acid reflex. It is all
Speaker 4: in my rear view mirror right now as I feel
Speaker 4: good about the Dodgers of three games to one in
Speaker 4: a potential close out game today.
Speaker 2: Yeah, classic beatdown last night. You know the bad thing
Speaker 2: about it for the Mets is there actually you know,
Speaker 2: if you can put this in perspective, they're catching the
Speaker 2: Dodgers at the wrong time. You know, this is a
Speaker 2: you know, every team, he's going to go through little
Speaker 2: you know, times where you're not at your optimal best.
Speaker 2: But boy, this team is really clicking on everything. If
Speaker 2: it's not the bottom of the order, it's what it
Speaker 2: was last night, the top of the order, very lopsided,
Speaker 2: crooked numbers at the top of that order. One thing
Speaker 2: you see at the top of the order in the
Speaker 2: box in the box score today this morning, when I
Speaker 2: was looking and kind of summarizing, you see Otani with
Speaker 2: three at bats but four run scored.
Speaker 5: You very seldom see.
Speaker 2: You know, more run score than the actually at bats
Speaker 2: that are printed on there, of course because of his walks,
Speaker 2: but it's it's just a lopsided SmackDown. When you follow
Speaker 2: that up with Mookie Betts and what he did, he
Speaker 2: was able to print for you know, four hits, four
Speaker 2: RBI scored, three runs. This was a classic Dodgers what
Speaker 2: they did all through twenty twenty four.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the top of the lineup when they go, so
Speaker 4: go the Dodgers. And as you mentioned, Mookie Betts four
Speaker 4: for six with a home run, four ribbies, showe Aotani
Speaker 4: got the party started the first batter of the game
Speaker 4: and leadoff home run. He walked three times, scored four times.
Speaker 4: Maximunsky got on base for his first four times up
Speaker 4: to the plate. Ty Reggie Jackson's record for twelve consecutive
Speaker 4: plate appearances twelve straight times. It's unbelievable. And if you
Speaker 4: look at what they were, it's not like it's a
Speaker 4: bunch of hits in a row. It is home run
Speaker 4: walk walk walk single walk walk, home run walk walk walk,
Speaker 4: single walk walk walk.
Speaker 5: You got you got that guy doing that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he can hit it out, he can go deep,
Speaker 2: he can play different positions. Then you got the best
Speaker 2: two players, maybe the best two players on the planet,
Speaker 2: with Betts and Otani just scaring the hell out of everybody.
Speaker 3: Oh.
Speaker 2: Then you got the bottom of the order, guys like
Speaker 2: Tommy Edmond that's hit and run, bunt, good defense. Oh
Speaker 2: and then you got like one of the best postseason
Speaker 2: players and Key k Hernandez doing his thing. Oh and
Speaker 2: then I mean it just goes on and on.
Speaker 4: It doesn't stop. They're like a bull restrictor. They just
Speaker 4: suffocate you with this lineup. When they're all clicking certainly
Speaker 4: when they're all passing that baton and when they're all
Speaker 4: getting a hit and passing it to Will Smith, who's
Speaker 4: passing it to Chris Taylor, who even found a base
Speaker 4: hit last night and ran into one. Then show hey
Speaker 4: Otani in the top of the lineup, flips over and
Speaker 4: the Dodgers just pounce on you. Ten runs last night
Speaker 4: on twelve hits. The Mets had ten hits in the
Speaker 4: game last night, but they couldn't string together hits, and
Speaker 4: they left a lot of runners on base.
Speaker 5: Last night.
Speaker 4: They were zero for ten with runners in scoring position. Meanwhile,
Speaker 4: the Dodgers were six of fifteen with runners of scoring position.
Speaker 4: And this is the number that really stands out to me,
Speaker 4: how scary this offenses. They scored ten runs last night, Saxy,
Speaker 4: and they stranded twelve base runners, twelve guys left on base,
Speaker 4: yet they already have scored ten.
Speaker 5: Crazy.
Speaker 2: And another good thing, too, is if you want to
Speaker 2: talk about how you're able to mitigate what the Mets
Speaker 2: can do, the Mets went down swinging twelve times. And
Speaker 2: you know what that is a a just a great thing.
Speaker 2: When you cannot even put the ball in play, you
Speaker 2: don't put any pressure on the defense. There's no advantages
Speaker 2: at all, as we know when striking out and it's
Speaker 2: a crusher, the crusher, and that's what.
Speaker 5: It was last night. Twelve strikeouts.
Speaker 2: I know the Dodgers struck out there if I share
Speaker 2: amount too, but you know what, you really limited the
Speaker 2: Mets that are in dire straits to score runs and
Speaker 2: you k twelve times. That's a big, big problem for them.
Speaker 4: It's amazing to see the amount of walks the Dodgers
Speaker 4: took us well last night. Nine more walks for the Dodgers.
Speaker 4: They have walked over thirty times. Listen, in the first
Speaker 4: four games.
Speaker 2: You walk nine times in a game, you're gonna the
Speaker 2: other team's got no shot. Seriously, I mean, I can
Speaker 2: remember having conversations when I was playing. It would say,
Speaker 2: you know, we got to really limit those walks. I mean,
Speaker 2: you walked four, we walked four or three or four players.
Speaker 2: If you walk three or four players, I mean, what
Speaker 2: do you think is gonna happen?
Speaker 5: Those guys are gonna score nine walks? Come on?
Speaker 2: This is this is you walk nine times and able
Speaker 2: to squeeze that plate like they were last night.
Speaker 5: It's it's not gonna be good. News for the opposition.
Speaker 2: The problem is when you make a guy like Quintana
Speaker 2: come in the strike zone and the Dodgers are able
Speaker 2: to really kind of drag him out to the deep
Speaker 2: water and counts. This guy's got no opportunity because this
Speaker 2: stuff's not great. I mean, he's got a really good
Speaker 2: change up his fastball. You know, you don't respect it
Speaker 2: enough to say, well, you know what, he's gonna get
Speaker 2: me inside on that fastball. You can kind of lean
Speaker 2: out over there and get a good perspective of what
Speaker 2: he's throwing, take him and deepen in the accounts because
Speaker 2: he's probably not gonna strike you out that much. And
Speaker 2: you know, but that's doomsday for him. Now, this is
Speaker 2: a situation a guy like Kintana where you want to
Speaker 2: kind of drag him out on the count. I'm all
Speaker 2: for dragging a guy like that out because sooner or
Speaker 2: later he's gonna have to get a part of the
Speaker 2: plate or he's gonna walk you. And if he does
Speaker 2: come in there, you're gonna crush him because this stuff's
Speaker 2: not that great. So it's really a catch twenty two
Speaker 2: for him.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that was the game plan for Quintana last night,
Speaker 4: and the Dodger player sort of talked about it afterwards,
Speaker 4: was that it was gonna be a battle who was
Speaker 4: gonna last longer, the hitter or the pitcher in in
Speaker 4: it back because they knew he loves to get guys
Speaker 4: to chase, and this is a Dodgers team that doesn't chase.
Speaker 4: They're a team that will just lead you to death
Speaker 4: by walking and passing that paton and then getting you
Speaker 4: singles and they're just gonna payper cut you to death.
Speaker 4: That's what they do. And they didn't chase, and they
Speaker 4: took some strikes that they probably shouldn't have, but then again,
Speaker 4: they also were making sure they got him deep into
Speaker 4: counts almost every single time. Last night he was working
Speaker 4: on a two to two count, three to two count.
Speaker 4: That pitch count for Tana through three innings was rocketed
Speaker 4: high eighty. It was unbelievable. They chased them early because
Speaker 4: of the way they were disciplined at to play. And
Speaker 4: that's something that Dodgers throughout the times of the year
Speaker 4: saxy they would get away from that. You know, they
Speaker 4: would just be like, all right, well it's July and
Speaker 4: Cincinnati and it's a three game set. We are going
Speaker 4: to be free swingers, and they'd get away from their
Speaker 4: game and they'd lose a game or a series because
Speaker 4: they got away from what they're so good at.
Speaker 2: Well, listen, when you have a pitcher that's got great stuff,
Speaker 2: like I remember battles against guys like Nolan Ryan or
Speaker 2: Clemens or whatever, you never want to go deep in
Speaker 2: counts because they'll wipe you out. I mean, they've got
Speaker 2: pitches and they've got an amazing fastball that can you know,
Speaker 2: they kind of would have you eating out of their hands.
Speaker 2: They would dictate. So you never want to get behind
Speaker 2: on the counts. Lots of times I remember at bats
Speaker 2: against Nolan Ryan, maybe you know, three pitches that was it.
Speaker 2: I mean, you don't want to get two strikes with
Speaker 2: that dude. And so Cantana is the opposite. His stuff
Speaker 2: isn't electric. He's he's you know, kind of finicky with
Speaker 2: his pitches. He's a little here, takes them off, put
Speaker 2: a little bit on, pitch up down, that kind of stuff,
Speaker 2: and he's just gonna kind of messy. So a guy
Speaker 2: like that, you take him out in the deep water
Speaker 2: and drown him. And that's what they did to him.
Speaker 4: Dodgers up three games to one in this best of
Speaker 4: seven NLCS with a ten to win over the New
Speaker 4: York Mets. Last night, Yoshinobu Yamamoto pitch well. They took
Speaker 4: him out in the fifth inning. The Dodgers bullpen did
Speaker 4: it the rest of the way. Otanian Betts led the
Speaker 4: way offensively in the blowout win. Showyotani last night was
Speaker 4: fantastic with the leadoff home run again. He scored the
Speaker 4: four times. He had walked three times last night and
Speaker 4: when he gets on baits some mookie. Betts made the
Speaker 4: Mets pay last night with a couple of doubles and
Speaker 4: home runs and was just absolutely fantastic at the play.
Speaker 4: He took advantage of the fact that they were not
Speaker 4: pitching Otani and pitching to him, and he made them pay. Certainly,
Speaker 4: Showyotani after the game last night. How about this our
Speaker 4: own David vad say one on one was show Hey
Speaker 4: on the field after the win.
Speaker 6: Show Hey, how does that feel? How does that sound?
Speaker 6: One away from the World Series?
Speaker 5: You know, Donald about.
Speaker 7: Played really good games the last two days and the
Speaker 7: hope is to be able to play another good game
Speaker 7: tomorrow and just finish it.
Speaker 6: Show Hey, when you hit your lead off home run.
Speaker 6: Could you feel the momentum immediately on your side tonight?
Speaker 7: I just got a game you yeah, you know it
Speaker 7: brought momentum, yes, on our side. Obviously they scored two,
Speaker 7: but we were able to continue our momentum. And I
Speaker 7: think you should know who pitched great and pitched into
Speaker 7: the fifth.
Speaker 6: How big was that for Yamamoto to pitch the way
Speaker 6: he did tonight.
Speaker 7: It's never easy to be, you know, pitching away in
Speaker 7: a pressure packed environment, but I think he was able
Speaker 7: to really battle through and keep the momentum on our side.
Speaker 7: He had to fight his own battles and just really
Speaker 7: minimize the damage.
Speaker 5: Before I let you go. How much fun are you having?
Speaker 1: Just ship.
Speaker 5: This kit? Funly?
Speaker 4: Don't know, Nikki got it's been.
Speaker 7: It's been very refreshing just being able to enjoy with
Speaker 7: the teammates and also being able to play in front
Speaker 7: of away stadiums. The fans are amazing and it's been
Speaker 7: really fun.
Speaker 4: A thank you, thank you, all right, David Say with
Speaker 4: Will Ireton the translator there and show Hey Otani. Factually
Speaker 4: we've talked about it for the last week and a half.
Speaker 4: The fun that show Hey o Tani seems to be
Speaker 4: you have and he hits the home run last night,
Speaker 4: immediately flips the bat, looks over at the third base
Speaker 4: dugout of the Dodgers, and screams at the dugout, a
Speaker 4: primal scream, before running the bases to give him a
Speaker 4: one nothing lead. This is a guy. For six years
Speaker 4: we saw not a lot of emotion, We saw lots
Speaker 4: of production. We saw zero posts and appearances. He signs
Speaker 4: with the Dodgers, and here's show ay Otani on the
Speaker 4: world's stage, in front of everybody with a chance to
Speaker 4: go to the World Series. We are seeing a superstar
Speaker 4: be a superstar in the biggest stage.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the the LA team's gonna loosen him up a
Speaker 2: little bit, right, and they're finding their way to do that.
Speaker 2: But no, he's such an inspiration. I mean, he comes
Speaker 2: at it from such a pure standpoint. He loves the game,
Speaker 2: you can tell, and he doesn't let things bother him.
Speaker 2: It's amazing how much he's able to compartmentalize every single pitch.
Speaker 2: I mean, he's very stoic at the plate. You don't
Speaker 2: see any reactions either way, so you don't know what
Speaker 2: he's thinking. You don't know if he's if he's in,
Speaker 2: you know, he's really on his game until you know,
Speaker 2: the lightning happens when the ball gets on the zone.
Speaker 2: Then you figure it out. But the guy's amazing. He
Speaker 2: just does everything. This is what he wanted.
Speaker 4: When he entered free agency last fall, he made it
Speaker 4: known that he wanted to be on a contender. He
Speaker 4: wanted to be able to play for championships. He spent
Speaker 4: six years doing nothing in baseball purgatory that is known
Speaker 4: as the Anaheim Angels, and he had options. The Toronto
Speaker 4: Blue Jays were knocking on his door trying to get
Speaker 4: him to sign there. There was speculation back in December
Speaker 4: that he was going to sign with the Blue Jays.
Speaker 4: Maybe it was in the San Francisco Giants, maybe he
Speaker 4: would sign with the Yankees, the Mets, the Dodgers were
Speaker 4: the spot he wanted to go, and by deferring all
Speaker 4: the money that he did, he made it known to
Speaker 4: the Dodgers, I want to win now, so go out
Speaker 4: and get other players like Yamamoto. Go out and make
Speaker 4: trades and get a Tyler glass. Now, go out and
Speaker 4: re sign players that are currently here, and let's go
Speaker 4: win a championship. And by doing all of that. He
Speaker 4: was very very open about how he wants to win
Speaker 4: now and here he is one win away from going
Speaker 4: to a World Series championship. Everything he mapped out this
Speaker 4: past offseason, it's about to live up to what he wanted.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's perfect, very unselfish, Uh the way the way
Speaker 2: they did that, and uh, just the whole city is
Speaker 2: just thrilled. Uh what they're coming upon right now. They've
Speaker 2: got one more win to go. Uh, and you can't
Speaker 2: get you know, above yourself right now. You got to say, Okay,
Speaker 2: that's very good, keep it business like. We got one
Speaker 2: more And the Dodgers do not want to bring this
Speaker 2: back to La as much as they want to come
Speaker 2: back to La they want they kill they want to
Speaker 2: come back, but they want to come back finished. They
Speaker 2: want to They don't want to come back and have
Speaker 2: to play again. Come back a couple of days, rest,
Speaker 2: get things ready, and then go into the World Series.
Speaker 2: But you got a lot of business to take care
Speaker 2: of before that happens.
Speaker 4: One final thing on show Hey. It's funny to see
Speaker 4: the national analysts now talking about Show Hey on this
Speaker 4: stage and the NLCS and what he's doing, the crazy
Speaker 4: numbers he's put up and about to go to the
Speaker 4: World Series and be on the biggest of stage across
Speaker 4: the world, and to hear a Rod and Jeter and
Speaker 4: Big Poppy and these guys talk about, well, yeah, he
Speaker 4: put up numbers. And one of the guys said, yeah,
Speaker 4: but he did it on a team that never went
Speaker 4: to the postseason, so nobody saw him really do it.
Speaker 4: And now that he's with the do it, huh, everybody's
Speaker 4: seeing what he's able to do.
Speaker 2: The whole world saw it. He plays in the biggest
Speaker 2: market on the planet. Of course they saw it. Yeah, well,
Speaker 2: you know what, just that's fine. I mean, you know what,
Speaker 2: let his his talking will be done with that big
Speaker 2: bat that he carries up there, and then we'll we'll
Speaker 2: see what happens then. But you know what, I really
Speaker 2: like to in yesterday's game, they were able to kind
Speaker 2: of show a show hey on his own when he
Speaker 2: was running the bases, when he scored from first man,
Speaker 2: it's amazing how effortlessly this guy runs. And let me
Speaker 2: tell you he is. He is so much faster than
Speaker 2: you think. He's one of the fastest guys in the league,
Speaker 2: especially after you know he gets one base. You know,
Speaker 2: beneath him. Forget it. This guy is just lightning quick.
Speaker 2: Well you know, you saw all the bases he stole,
Speaker 2: but he really gets going. You know, after one base,
Speaker 2: guy he just puts it in overdrive and those long strides.
Speaker 2: You know, the guy six five, so he's not he's
Speaker 2: not a small guy, but man, he can really fly.
Speaker 2: I'm glad they isolated on him and everybody got a
Speaker 2: chance to see that pure athleticism.
Speaker 4: It looked like he was jogging. It looked like he
Speaker 4: was in second gear running around the bases, and especially
Speaker 4: when he hit third, it looked like he was in
Speaker 4: a home run trot the way he was running. But
Speaker 4: then he just turned it back on again halfway between
Speaker 4: third and home. He wasn't jogging, clearly, but it just
Speaker 4: looked like it. Yeah, because of this, Yeah, the gear
Speaker 4: that he can get to and as how fast he can.
Speaker 2: Get I I just marvel of watching how you know
Speaker 2: easy he runs, and I remember how hard the game
Speaker 2: was and if I had to run from third first
Speaker 2: to third, people in the third rose kind of grunting
Speaker 2: it out. This guy's just not It looks like he
Speaker 2: was way gonna wave at somebody in the stands. As
Speaker 2: he went past third, Oh, I haven't appointment with you
Speaker 2: next week, you know, And she just kind of blew
Speaker 2: out there to home plate. But yeah, fascinating to watch him.
Speaker 4: Eight sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy. How
Speaker 4: you feeling, Dodger fans? One win away from going back
Speaker 4: to the World Series for the fourth time in the
Speaker 4: past eight years. Dodgers take care of business last night
Speaker 4: with they tended to win over the New York Mets.
Speaker 4: They silenced that City Field crowd, They sent them packing early.
Speaker 4: That place was a ghost town the final three innings
Speaker 4: as the Dodgers closed it out with a Game four
Speaker 4: win and now a chance to get a bid of
Speaker 4: the World Series with a win today against the New
Speaker 4: York Mets. Game five of the NLCS coming up later
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Speaker 4: went away from going back to the World Series a
Speaker 4: three to one series lead in the NLCS thanks to
Speaker 4: a ten to two win over the New York match
Speaker 4: last night. Saxon, Kate's and Am on this Friday morning,
Speaker 4: here with you until nine o'clock alive in local as
Speaker 4: the Dodgers a game five went away from going back
Speaker 4: to the World Series for the fourth time in the
Speaker 4: last eight years, and the odds are on their side.
Speaker 4: Eighty nine percent of the teams in the Championship Series
Speaker 4: reason with a three to one lead have gone on
Speaker 4: to win this series and go on to the World Series. Ironically,
Speaker 4: you know, the last team to be down three games
Speaker 4: to one, come back and win the series and go
Speaker 4: to the World Series, Saxy. You know that last team
Speaker 4: wants to do it. The twenty twenty Los Angeles Dodgers. Yeah,
Speaker 4: down three games to one, the Atlanta Braves down the
Speaker 4: bubble in Arlington in the NLCS. They come back and
Speaker 4: win in seven games, and they go on and win
Speaker 4: it over the Tampa Bay Rays down there in twenty twenty,
Speaker 4: the last team to come back from a three to
Speaker 4: one deficit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not it's not completely insurmountable, you know that.
Speaker 2: But it's tough. I mean, odds really really are against you.
Speaker 2: And you know, I don't envy the Mets situation right
Speaker 2: now because they're up against the juggernaut. This team just
Speaker 2: doesn't relent. So you know, Dodger are going to try
Speaker 2: to close this thing out. You don't want to get
Speaker 2: complacent and say, hey, well you know what, Well we
Speaker 2: can always go back to LA We're going back anyway.
Speaker 2: We can throw a game out there and wrap this
Speaker 2: thing up. No, No, you want to get this thing
Speaker 2: done tonight and not even think about it for the weekend.
Speaker 4: Yoshinobu Yamamoto last night, pitching into the fifth inning, Dave
Speaker 4: Roberts came and got him with a runner on one
Speaker 4: out and decided to go to Evan Phillips to face
Speaker 4: Marciento's and then get Alonzo to ground into a fielder's choice.
Speaker 2: But I was at the time.
Speaker 4: I actually sent a text to David Vasse and I
Speaker 4: got about three text from buddies who were asking me,
Speaker 4: why are they taking Yamamoto out of the game. There
Speaker 4: it's the fifth inning, and I said, well, let me
Speaker 4: look at his pitch count. Seventy three pitches, fifty two
Speaker 4: for strikes. He had eight punchouts at the time it
Speaker 4: was one out in the fifth inning. He has allowed
Speaker 4: two runs on four hits. He seemed to be pitching
Speaker 4: Willie really well in that fifth inning. A little bit
Speaker 4: of stress in the third inning. Yeah, but you know,
Speaker 4: averted it by getting up just the one run. I
Speaker 4: thought it was interesting because you've saved him to pitch
Speaker 4: in this game. There was no shot even if the
Speaker 4: Mets came back in one last night, and this said
Speaker 4: the series went to a game on Monday. He wasn't
Speaker 4: going to pitch the rest of this NLCS. Anyways, it
Speaker 4: was a one and done for Yamamoto in this NLCS.
Speaker 4: Why not let him just empty the tank, so to speak,
Speaker 4: and see how far he could go. Assuming if you
Speaker 4: get to the World Series, he's gonna be on plenty
Speaker 4: of rest anyways, because it may not start for another week.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's gonna be way rested out. I you know,
Speaker 2: I was a little surprised about that, but Dave Roberts
Speaker 2: knows what he's doing. Uh, and you know the pitchers
Speaker 2: are going to go through times where you're gonna have
Speaker 2: some stress. Oh my stress, you know, let him pitch
Speaker 2: through it.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean the thing is, you don't want to come
Speaker 2: and rescue him when you really don't need to, right,
Speaker 2: you don't need to rescue the guy right there.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean he's been through enough.
Speaker 2: I mean when he was back in you know, in
Speaker 2: Japan he won the what's the equivalent to the the
Speaker 2: cy Young three years in a row.
Speaker 5: I don't know how much stress.
Speaker 2: You know, he's been having to go through and fix
Speaker 2: certain situations because he just dominates everybody over there. It's
Speaker 2: not gonna be the same way over here as he is.
Speaker 2: He's already found out. But let him fix some things,
Speaker 2: of course, That's how he's gonna get a little bit better,
Speaker 2: you know, bone them up a little bit.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, you paid them the most money for a right
Speaker 4: handed pitcher in the history of baseball. You know, take
Speaker 4: the gloves off a little bit, especially in the NLCS.
Speaker 5: On rest.
Speaker 4: It's not like he's nursing an injury. It's not like
Speaker 4: he was, you know, walking the tightrope there and the
Speaker 4: bases were loaded, and okay, next time do the lineup.
Speaker 4: I get it, bringing the reliever of fresh arm. I mean,
Speaker 4: it was a five to two game, Dodgers were winning,
Speaker 4: there was an out, there was runner on base, and
Speaker 4: you're facing Viento's. Okay, let's say Vento's hits two run
Speaker 4: home run. It's still a five to four Dodgers lead.
Speaker 4: At that point, you can say, hey, y, I'm a modo,
Speaker 4: great stuff. We maybe one bat or two many. We're
Speaker 4: gonna go to the bullpen and face Peede Alonzo to
Speaker 4: try to get out of this fifth inning. They still
Speaker 4: have a one run lead. That's the worst case scenario
Speaker 4: if you get into trouble against Vent's. Let's say you
Speaker 4: walk Vento's, Okay, runner on first and second, and now
Speaker 4: the time run the plate with Pete Alonso. Now I'm
Speaker 4: going to the bullpen. Yeah, but maybe you go back
Speaker 4: to batter, let him pitch the fantels. Maybe he gets
Speaker 4: a ground ball and you're out of the innea, a
Speaker 4: double play and he gets through five innings.
Speaker 5: Yeah, let him out.
Speaker 2: You know what I liked about what I see about
Speaker 2: Yamamoto now pitching as opposed to the first start against
Speaker 2: San Diego, where everything was breaking, uh, you know, from
Speaker 2: the letter to the belt. Now we see everything breaking
Speaker 2: from the thigh to the ground. And that's where he's effective.
Speaker 2: When he's got tilt to his pitches. When he pitches
Speaker 2: the fastball up in the zone with with some with
Speaker 2: some hop to it, that's fine, but his breaking stuff
Speaker 2: has got to be from around the thigh level to
Speaker 2: the ground. Let that work in that area. It has
Speaker 2: much better action when the ball's down and tilting towards
Speaker 2: the ground. And I found him pitching extremely well with
Speaker 2: his secondary pitches in this in this fashion. And you
Speaker 2: know who they've really handcuffed so far in this series,
Speaker 2: done a great job on him is Pete Alonzo. They've
Speaker 2: kind of taken him out, you know, two more strikeouts
Speaker 2: again yesterday. You see him stretching and kind of you know,
Speaker 2: expanding his zone a little bit. He's trying to, you know,
Speaker 2: hit two home runs and one at back because he's
Speaker 2: kind of feeling the pressure a little bit. And Yamamoto,
Speaker 2: I thought, really changed over his game and changed the
Speaker 2: trajectory of those secondary pitches down lower in the zone,
Speaker 2: which has been extremely beneficial for him. Yeah, and Alonso's
Speaker 2: come up with runners on. He's come up in some
Speaker 2: key situations to do some damage against the Dodgers. And
Speaker 2: he did it before they played the Dodgers, Yeah, before that,
Speaker 2: you know, so, yeah, he did it.
Speaker 5: You know what he can do.
Speaker 4: He did against the Brewers, He certainly did it against
Speaker 4: the Phillies. The Dodgers, as you mentioned, absolutely have done
Speaker 4: a great job. And last night Yamamoto mixed in the slider.
Speaker 4: And the slider is a pitch that when he got
Speaker 4: his shoulder soreness was a lot of the people were pointing.
Speaker 5: To the slider was the reason. Why.
Speaker 4: Was a pitch he would have developed And really the
Speaker 4: Dodgers wanted him to use more. And because he threw it,
Speaker 4: it puts some different pressure on his shoulder. He wasn't
Speaker 4: used to throwing it. They they think that's what led
Speaker 4: to the shoulder injury, and so when he comes back,
Speaker 4: he had stayed away from throwing the slider. He was
Speaker 4: sticking with the fastball, the cutter and the split finger,
Speaker 4: which is absolutely nasty that he throws. And last night
Speaker 4: he threw the most sliders that he had all seas.
Speaker 4: I think it was fourteen sliders, yep, that he threw.
Speaker 4: So the Mets, you know, a new wrinkle thrown at them,
Speaker 4: literally is a slider they weren't expecting.
Speaker 2: And you know, he's got tremendous action on that splitter.
Speaker 2: He buries it as well. It's splitter he almost uses
Speaker 2: as a change up at times because it runs away
Speaker 2: from the left hander and down and barrels into the
Speaker 2: right hander's back foot, and that's a great pitch for him.
Speaker 2: It's it kind of more from a splitter kind of.
Speaker 2: I think he changes speeds on it and it works
Speaker 2: more like a like a change up that has action
Speaker 2: on it. So he's he's finding that there's different ways
Speaker 2: to move this and kind of like a mini version,
Speaker 2: if you will, of what you Darvish does with the
Speaker 2: expansion of his pitches. I mean, he's got like eight
Speaker 2: different ones, and you know, you kind of see Yamamoto
Speaker 2: used in a little bit of that if you will,
Speaker 2: to expand his arsenal, and it's working real well for him.
Speaker 4: I liked the composure of Yamamoto on the mound last night.
Speaker 4: I felt like after that first Padre game in which
Speaker 4: he was spiking the offspeed pitches, and maybe the moment
Speaker 4: was too big for him at the time and he
Speaker 4: had to settle in. You mentioned the second start against
Speaker 4: the Padres, he was fantastic, and last night, I'll be
Speaker 4: honest with you, I had to take some tums. I
Speaker 4: was a little nervous about which Yamamoto was gonna show up.
Speaker 4: Was it gonna be the first start against the Padre
Speaker 4: Yamamoto or the second start against the Padres Yamamoto. And
Speaker 4: he came out last night, even with traffic on the
Speaker 4: bass pass, and pitch really well. I mean he got swing,
Speaker 4: he got some whims, he got a lot of swinging misses.
Speaker 4: I mean he was forty percent. He was throwing his
Speaker 4: forcing fastball last night and then mixing in the rest
Speaker 4: of his pitches. He was calm when they had traffic
Speaker 4: on the bass pass. He didn't get flustered. He weren't
Speaker 4: seeing up there sweating or taking time on the mound
Speaker 4: and you know, trying to look for help at the dugout.
Speaker 4: I like the composure out of that twenty six year
Speaker 4: old last night.
Speaker 2: Hey you put you try to put yourself in his position,
Speaker 2: if you could for a minute and think about the
Speaker 2: luxury you have where the pressure is not all on him.
Speaker 2: He got this enormous, enormous amount of money, which he
Speaker 2: completely deserves, I believe, and he yet at the same time,
Speaker 2: the pressure isn't on him nearly as much. You've got
Speaker 2: guys in that bullpen that can come and throw you
Speaker 2: a lifeline at any second. You've got an offense that
Speaker 2: can explode for runs and have you spit out the
Speaker 2: hook at any time. This is a great luxury to
Speaker 2: have to be on a team that you have so
Speaker 2: many outlets that can come and help you, you know,
Speaker 2: And that's just a wonderful thing. Imagine if you're a
Speaker 2: team that's struggling like Pittsburgh. If you were on that club, man,
Speaker 2: you got like limited resources to for the people around you.
Speaker 2: You got an offense that's struggling, I mean, it's got
Speaker 2: to be you or die, right. Not so with a
Speaker 2: team like the Dodgers, and sort of been the.
Speaker 4: Case all season long, with the pressure not being on
Speaker 4: him because of Otani being there. I mean, you know,
Speaker 4: let's face it, the two of them both signed as
Speaker 4: free agents this past offseason. Otani got all the media attention.
Speaker 4: I mean, there was a press conference for Yamamoto, but
Speaker 4: there was like a thirty media there because it's not
Speaker 4: Otani going into spring training, certainly Otani. Everybody's focusing on Otani. Oh,
Speaker 4: the big three, Otani, Betts, Freeman, Wow, look how good
Speaker 4: this Dodger team. Clayton Kershaw is returning. It's almost like
Speaker 4: Yamamoto was under the radar all season long in a
Speaker 4: good way because his first season in the big leagues
Speaker 4: getting used to American baseball and the culture over here.
Speaker 4: I mean outside the start in Soul, South Korea, which
Speaker 4: you know, he looked like a deer in headlights. He
Speaker 4: pitched really well, and he feel like he just kind
Speaker 4: of went and got This was a year of adjustment
Speaker 4: for him coming to the big leagues.
Speaker 5: Yeah, dealing with injury too.
Speaker 2: I don't know how much he had to deal with
Speaker 2: back in Japan, but you know that throws another a
Speaker 2: big wrinkle into it, of course, But yeah, Culturally, it's
Speaker 2: a big I mean I remember going down to you know,
Speaker 2: South America and playing in Venezuela. The baseball part was
Speaker 2: when you felt most comfortable. The tough part is culturally
Speaker 2: and living to you know, learning to live a new
Speaker 2: life in a different world. That's really the hard part.
Speaker 2: I bet he feels most comfortable when he's on the diamond.
Speaker 4: Well, Mookie Bets felt pretty comfortable last night in the plate,
Speaker 4: four for six with the home run, he had a double,
Speaker 4: He scored three times. Mookie Bets continues to deliver, and
Speaker 4: the one two punch of Otanian Bets is something pretty special.
Speaker 4: Mookie Bets last night in Sho Hey o Tani combined
Speaker 4: five for nine with five ribbies, a couple of home runs,
Speaker 4: three walks. After the game last night, here's Mookie Bets
Speaker 4: talking about his game and this Dodgers team being one
Speaker 4: went away from going back to the World Series.
Speaker 5: Felt pretty good.
Speaker 9: You know, it's good to feel good. It's good to
Speaker 9: help the teaming. Pitching did amazing keeping them off the board, really, so,
Speaker 9: you know, it was fun and.
Speaker 4: Mookie, the lineup has changed so much behind show hey
Speaker 4: and you what was it like to see a guy
Speaker 4: like Tommy have such a big night in the cleanup
Speaker 4: spot tonight.
Speaker 9: You know, I think that's the beauty of our our team.
Speaker 9: It can change, but whoever's in the lineup is good,
Speaker 9: and they're gonna follow the plan and they're gonna they
Speaker 9: want to win, and so that's why we're that's why
Speaker 9: we are up three to one right now.
Speaker 8: LOOKI after a tiny hit that home run to start
Speaker 8: the game, did you kind of figure you know it'd
Speaker 8: be the type of game where okay, now they're gonna
Speaker 8: start avoiding him and that you know you're gonna get
Speaker 8: chances to have good swings.
Speaker 9: No, no, no, no, no, By no means, I just know there
Speaker 9: was a stretch there for like two or three at bats.
Speaker 9: I don't even think he saw a pitch remotely close,
Speaker 9: which I understand. But it's gonna be tough to just
Speaker 9: walk them all the time, especially with the lineup and
Speaker 9: the and the guys. Freddie been in play as well, so.
Speaker 5: We'll see.
Speaker 4: Hey, Mookie, can you just talk about the way the
Speaker 4: offense has been able to work the Mets pitching staff
Speaker 4: drawing walks, keeping the line moving.
Speaker 9: I think just following the plan our coaches do a
Speaker 9: really good job in preparing us and the guys. We
Speaker 9: all believe in them, We believe in each other, and
Speaker 9: we know, like I said, whether the plan is right
Speaker 9: or wrong doesn't really matter. It's just at least we
Speaker 9: follow the plan no matter what, and it's been right
Speaker 9: so far.
Speaker 4: All right, there's Mookie Bets postgame last night. Doesn't doesn't
Speaker 4: sound like Mookie Bets realizes they're one went away from
Speaker 4: it a rule series of period.
Speaker 5: I think he's aware.
Speaker 4: I mean he's either just really calm or locked in
Speaker 4: right now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, get locked in. You know, you put this one
Speaker 2: in the bank, Okay, then now you go onto the
Speaker 2: next one. Very this is where you got to be
Speaker 2: business like.
Speaker 5: You got to be very business professional like.
Speaker 2: And don't you can't get you can't get you know,
Speaker 2: enveloped in all that hype because it'll take you off course.
Speaker 2: You gotta stay central and just look at what's in
Speaker 2: front of you right now. And so that's what they're doing.
Speaker 2: They're doing it very well. This is very professional team
Speaker 2: love it.
Speaker 4: I mean, imagine being Mookie Bets. I mean kind of
Speaker 4: leading to movie that would be wonderful, but the kind
Speaker 4: of leading on your experience. To have a show, Hey
Speaker 4: Otani in front of you, and to know that he
Speaker 4: if there's nobody on base, Mokie mentioned like there's he
Speaker 4: saw very few pitches in the strike zone, show Heyo
Speaker 4: Tani did when when there wasn't anybody on base, and
Speaker 4: after he hit that lead off home run, Mookie knows
Speaker 4: like they're pitching around Otani to get to him. And
Speaker 4: I hope he takes that as a slap. I hope
Speaker 4: he takes that because he's done a good job already
Speaker 4: this year, a couple of home runs when they've pitched
Speaker 4: or intentionally walked o Tawi to get to Mookie. Bet
Speaker 4: So he certainly made teams pay. But yes, I felt
Speaker 4: like last night was also one of those games in
Speaker 4: which he made them pay with the double, the home
Speaker 4: run and really kind of took it personal. And maybe
Speaker 4: that's a little bit of the anger and the little
Speaker 4: the little bit of the the the the attitude there
Speaker 4: for Muki is you know, Hey, it's a slap at me.
Speaker 4: You know you're gonna pitch around the greatest hitter of
Speaker 4: all time to and try to get to me. Well,
Speaker 4: I'm gonna make you pay.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and why not?
Speaker 2: I mean That's what it's all about. And you know
Speaker 2: another thing that we hadn't talked about much. With all
Speaker 2: those numbers that they threw up yesterday, the five hits,
Speaker 2: the five RBI, all that whatever, seven runs scored, seven
Speaker 2: runs between two guys, Otani and Betts, that is just elected.
Speaker 2: That just cripples the other team right there. Forget about
Speaker 2: all the other guys, but the top of that lineup
Speaker 2: just we knew this was gonna happen sometime. Remember we
Speaker 2: were talking about, well, somebody's gonna pay. Well, the Mets
Speaker 2: are paying right now. Well here's another number for you. Twelve.
Speaker 4: The two of them combined for twelve at bats last night.
Speaker 4: Not so many times they turn the lineup over. And
Speaker 4: that tells you right there, those nine walks, extending innings,
Speaker 4: turning the lineup over and getting Otani. This is the
Speaker 4: reason why Dave Roberts wants them in the top spot.
Speaker 4: Because Showy Otani gets six at bats in the game.
Speaker 4: Mookie Betts gets six at bats in the game. You'll
Speaker 4: take that all day.
Speaker 2: Heck yeah. And like I said, there's so many different ways.
Speaker 2: There's there's everybody has a different role. It seems all
Speaker 2: wrapped into one common goal, you know, and that's just
Speaker 2: to thwart this other team. But they've got all these
Speaker 2: different ways of doing it, the power, the speed, and
Speaker 2: I just think you can't. You know, we all see
Speaker 2: the big glitzy things that the big stars do, but
Speaker 2: I tell you, you gotta, you gotta keep your eye on
Speaker 2: what's happening internally with this team, kind of like the
Speaker 2: the underpinning of what makes it great as well. And
Speaker 2: that's when when you got guys like Kik and Tommy Edmund.
Speaker 2: How about this series, this guy's having crazy good.
Speaker 4: Imagine being Tommy Edmond. You get into the park yesterday
Speaker 4: and Dave Roberts maybe comes over to your locker there
Speaker 4: and maybe kicks you in the leg, and Hey, Tommy,
Speaker 4: how you feeling.
Speaker 5: I'm doing good? Good?
Speaker 4: Hey, I'm batting you clean up today? You're batting forth
Speaker 4: in Game four the NLCS. How do you feel about that?
Speaker 5: Tommy?
Speaker 4: I mean, like, that's gotta be gotta be a shock
Speaker 4: to him. I don't know how many times he's bad
Speaker 4: clean up in his life, let alone clean up in
Speaker 4: a postseason game. But that shows you how much confidence
Speaker 4: they have in him. And it's probably more or the
Speaker 4: case that he can get on base, right, Saxone. They're
Speaker 4: not looking for him to drive the ball and hit
Speaker 4: a three run home running that cleanup spot, but more
Speaker 4: of a guy that, all right, the top of the
Speaker 4: line's gonna do their thing. We need a bridge between
Speaker 4: those guys and everybody else. And you're the guy that
Speaker 4: can get on base.
Speaker 2: And you know what, he was back in Clint and
Speaker 2: he drove in three runs, right, nothing wrong with that.
Speaker 2: You know, you don't have to do it in a
Speaker 2: prolific fashion. It just you know, the deal is to
Speaker 2: make contact and put the ball in play and let
Speaker 2: those guys run. And that hit that he had the
Speaker 2: left center field was just at the right time. So
Speaker 2: you know, there's there's something just great about not striking out.
Speaker 2: I mean, I just love that part of the game
Speaker 2: and I want to see it come back where Hey,
Speaker 2: it's important to put the ball in play. Tommy Edmund
Speaker 2: does that as a good as anybody.
Speaker 4: He does him and Downey. Welcome to Saxon, Katese and
Speaker 4: the am Dodgers, twenty seven ounce away from going to
Speaker 4: a World Series yet again. Let me do the math
Speaker 4: for you. That's one game. They're one game away.
Speaker 10: Himie, good morning, gentlemen. Yes, that's that's exciting. But I
Speaker 10: was just hearing Mookie right now. I was thinking about
Speaker 10: I think they've put this quote in the locker room
Speaker 10: and just thinking about the Mamba, the great Kobe Bryant,
Speaker 10: Kobe Bryant quote where he's like, job's not done, Job's
Speaker 10: not finished. So I think it's that mentality, and I
Speaker 10: think they're excited, and hopefully after today's game they'll show
Speaker 10: some emotion. But I think it is that we're one
Speaker 10: game away, but there's still one more game, and I
Speaker 10: think you guys mentioned earlier they want to get it done.
Speaker 10: Let's get it done in New York, come back home
Speaker 10: and get ready for the World Series. So I think
Speaker 10: it is that that mentality, and I think they'll show
Speaker 10: the emotion when necessary, but right now, it's business. They
Speaker 10: got to take care of it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no doubt about it.
Speaker 4: And they've been leaning hard on the Kobe Bryant quote,
Speaker 4: Job's not finished, and it's been up inside the Dodger
Speaker 4: Clubhouse since the NLDS and the good series against the Padres,
Speaker 4: even though were down two games to one, and even
Speaker 4: when that Game five happened on Friday even into this
Speaker 4: NLCS that has really been the mantras, jobs not finish,
Speaker 4: and you're seeing all these guys buy into that. And
Speaker 4: again that takes something special for these guys with the
Speaker 4: star power that they have, all the way down to
Speaker 4: the twenty six man on the roster. All these guys
Speaker 4: have bought into that mentality.
Speaker 2: And tim what what We're obviously not in the locker room,
Speaker 2: but I promise you there is conversations going on in
Speaker 2: that locker room at the at the lockers, private one
Speaker 2: on ones about about guys making it go in the
Speaker 2: right way, about guys setting their mindset properly, about guys
Speaker 2: not getting too ahead of themselves, and you will you
Speaker 2: won't see a lot of these things in the headlines
Speaker 2: or whatever, but those conversations you're getting with the professional team.
Speaker 2: Dave Roberts knows the value of having guys on that
Speaker 2: team that not police each other, but just want to
Speaker 2: make sure that everything's nice and squared up, and everybody's
Speaker 2: got the right mindset right now, coming in after they
Speaker 2: put these guys away, expecting to put these guys away tonight.
Speaker 2: The proper mindset and the conversations at the lockers right
Speaker 2: now are huge for this team, and you know they're happening,
Speaker 2: and Dave knows they're happening, and that's such a plus
Speaker 2: for this club.
Speaker 4: That is a great point. He is Steve Sachs. I'm
Speaker 4: Tim Kates at Sax and Kates in the AM. Dodgers
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Speaker 4: Hey o, Tani, Mookie Betts and the Dodgers. Game five
Speaker 4: in the NLCS is coming up later on Friday afternoon.
Speaker 4: Dodgers win Game four last night in convincing fashion. They
Speaker 4: boat race the Mets where they tended to win. Evan
Speaker 4: Phillips gets the winning relief of Yoshiyamamoto, who pitched into
Speaker 4: the fifth and he struck out eight along the way.
Speaker 4: What's beautiful bout last night, Saxon, in this blowout win
Speaker 4: again for the Dodgers, is that Evan Phillips, Yes, pitched
Speaker 4: at inning in a third, but he was well rested.
Speaker 4: Blake trying and pitched it inning in the third and
Speaker 4: back to back day, So we'll see his availability today.
Speaker 4: I don't think he'll go three straight days. But you
Speaker 4: saw Edguardo Henriquez, the young hard throwing right hander who
Speaker 4: back in April was in Rancho Kuckamonga in a ball
Speaker 4: for the Quakes and skyrocketed through the system. He had
Speaker 4: an arm injury about a year ago. He can throw
Speaker 4: one hundred and four miles an hour a flamethrower, and
Speaker 4: they brought him up in September because they needed arms
Speaker 4: out of the bullpen because Bruce dark Ratterol got hurt
Speaker 4: and lo and behold him and Ben Caspirius, who were
Speaker 4: in the minor leagues for the first five months of
Speaker 4: the season. Now here they are in the postseason. Caspira's
Speaker 4: got to pitch in Game three, Henriquez got to pitch
Speaker 4: two innings last night in Game four of the NLCS,
Speaker 4: And you're saving your arms for a possible Game five today.
Speaker 4: You got Brazier and Hudson and Bonda, and you got
Speaker 4: Michael Kopek who didn't pitch last night, and even in
Speaker 4: Evan Phillips, who probably can pitch on back to back knights.
Speaker 4: All those high leverage arms are available today to back up.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, a guy who went already seven shutout innings
Speaker 4: at his last start, Jake Flaherty.
Speaker 2: Yes, a great move by Dave. Dave roberts Enriquez and
Speaker 2: Riquez has got really good stuff, man. This guy was
Speaker 2: an a ball earlier. Just amazing great stuff too. In
Speaker 2: needs that he gobbled up yesterday that you don't have
Speaker 2: to put on somebody else. They're going to be available today.
Speaker 2: But I got to tell you something.
Speaker 5: You know, it's really you.
Speaker 2: Know, it's really filthy trying, Blake trying, and oh his
Speaker 2: stuff is wicked. You're talking ninety seven with wicked sink
Speaker 2: into a right handed hit her man. No, thank you.
Speaker 2: I don't want to deal with that stuff. Here's this
Speaker 2: stuff is nasty. He's thirty six years old. He's thirty
Speaker 2: seven and isn't he he's uh, he might be. Yes,
Speaker 2: he's been around. I mean he's been in the big
Speaker 2: leagues for a decad. When he was with Opes for
Speaker 2: a long time, remember that. Yeah, he was banished over there.
Speaker 4: He was one of the best relievers in baseball. He
Speaker 4: had thirty eight saves back in twenty eighteen. He was
Speaker 4: really good and then got hurt and missed all of
Speaker 4: twenty twenty three. I mean, he missed most of twenty
Speaker 4: twenty two, all of twenty twenty three and finally got
Speaker 4: right and the Dodgers brought him back and one of
Speaker 4: those older veterans in the bullpen and fifty appearances during
Speaker 4: the regular season. He can be a high leverage guy
Speaker 4: in the middle of a game. Late in the game,
Speaker 4: he can close out a game for you. Another reliever
Speaker 4: who just doesn't care about his role. No, you know,
Speaker 4: and he'll fly out and say, I don't care if
Speaker 4: you want to put me in whatever situation you want
Speaker 4: to put me in.
Speaker 5: I'll go out there and.
Speaker 2: Hey about him. He can get whatever part of the
Speaker 2: plate he wants. There's so much action on the ball
Speaker 2: that he throws. I don't even know if he knows
Speaker 2: exactly what part of the plate it's going to. But
Speaker 2: he can throw a sinker, believe it or not. He
Speaker 2: can throw a sinker up at the letters, and that
Speaker 2: sucker's diving down to about your thigh.
Speaker 5: I mean, just whoop.
Speaker 2: It's like, where is this coming from? This is nasty
Speaker 2: sink man. You don't see that much. Who is the
Speaker 2: left hand of the pitch for the the Orioles And
Speaker 2: he went over to the Yankees. The lefty that had
Speaker 2: the tremendous sink on his fastball, he got hurt. His
Speaker 2: name escapes me, but that's what his fastball looks like
Speaker 2: to me, only on the other side, on the right side.
Speaker 2: This is a doomsday for guys wanting a big hit
Speaker 2: from the right side that have to face him. He
Speaker 2: could tell him it's hey, here comes a two seamer,
Speaker 2: bro and he throw it and you got no chance.
Speaker 5: That stuff's so wicked.
Speaker 4: Let's go to Jared in Boise, Idaho. Joins us from
Speaker 4: God's country up there, and boys, you Jared.
Speaker 11: Good morning, guys. Oh my gosh, I'm gonna turn out
Speaker 11: the fanboy too much. But Steve Sachs, I'm forty nine
Speaker 11: years old and you're my idol growing up.
Speaker 5: Thank you, love your.
Speaker 11: Grit, your hustle, lead off second base man. You are
Speaker 11: the reason I'm still a Dodger fan.
Speaker 5: So thank you.
Speaker 10: Thanks for all you did and all.
Speaker 11: You're doing now. Love listen to you, guys.
Speaker 10: But I have a.
Speaker 11: Comment this team and how they have bought in from
Speaker 11: the top from.
Speaker 10: Freeman Domes, how.
Speaker 11: Dave Roberts has got this team to buy in and
Speaker 11: completely play as a full team, the way he's innovated
Speaker 11: this bullpen, and how he's throwing them because they don't
Speaker 11: have enough starters. And and then the batters, how they
Speaker 11: they're they're walking, they're walking for each other. They are
Speaker 11: they are not giving in and passing that baton. It
Speaker 11: is truly remarkable to see them play really as a team.
Speaker 11: It is the epitome of the team in my opinion.
Speaker 11: What do you guys think?
Speaker 4: Yeah, Jerry, thanks for the nice words towards me. I
Speaker 4: really appreciate that. No, he's gone, he's gone.
Speaker 2: Hey, nice guy, thank you you want to take that
Speaker 2: to him?
Speaker 4: No, just a buy in, Saxie. I mean you're huge,
Speaker 4: You're a guy in that clubhouse, you were, you were there.
Speaker 4: I mean it takes a lot to get everybody to
Speaker 4: buy in.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well let's remember too, it all starts with pitching and
Speaker 2: that boom, there's my there's my boom. No, it all
Speaker 2: starts with pitching, and suddenly suddenly the guys that are
Speaker 2: out there starting or are getting to be now a
Speaker 2: big plus for the team. Now it's a plus who
Speaker 2: they've got starting, and it should be because all these
Speaker 2: guys are in the infirmary list right, all these as
Speaker 2: I've hurt. But Tim, when we come back, can I can?
Speaker 2: I I've got a marketing thing for you. I think
Speaker 2: it's really good. I think your marketing specialist should get
Speaker 2: on it. But I think I got a new venture
Speaker 2: for you.
Speaker 4: Love it that's coming up. He is Steve Sacks. I'm
Speaker 4: Tim Kates and sax and Kates and am on your
Speaker 4: home and the Dodgers, who are one win away from
Speaker 4: going back to the World Series right here at an
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