Speaker 1: Now your host for World Series Dodger Talk sound Off, Angelinos,
Speaker 1: David Vasse, The Yankees.
Speaker 2: Three, the Dodgers two.
Speaker 3: The bases are loaded to out bottom of the tenth inning.
Speaker 3: The scenario you dream about Freddy is living first pitch,
Speaker 3: swinging high fly.
Speaker 2: Ball, dude back and.
Speaker 4: Freddie Freeman channeling is inner Kirgison. Oh walk up home
Speaker 4: run in Game one of the World Series, Hey, walk up,
Speaker 4: gran Flem.
Speaker 5: What a great call by Stephen Nelson On a magical,
Speaker 5: dramatic finish to Game one of the World Series. Freddy
Speaker 5: Freeman ends it with the first ever walk off Grand
Speaker 5: Slam and World Series history. Welcome the Dodger Talk David
Speaker 5: vas Say with you until ten thirty tonight here on
Speaker 5: AM five to seventy LA Sports Live from Dodgers Stadium,
Speaker 5: where Freddie Freeman is on the field right now with
Speaker 5: his grandfather, with his dad, with his step mom, with
Speaker 5: his wife. They're out there soaking it all in because
Speaker 5: Freddie certainly has had a very challenging season going back
Speaker 5: to you know, dealing and helping his son Max Freeman
Speaker 5: get through his illness, help him back on the road
Speaker 5: to recovery. He had a broken right middle finger. He
Speaker 5: has a severely sprained right ankle. He has done everything
Speaker 5: in his power to give the Dodgers everything he has,
Speaker 5: and he comes up with the biggest swing of the
Speaker 5: season so far, a walk off grand slam in Game
Speaker 5: one of the World Series, off Nestor Cortes of the
Speaker 5: New York Yankees to give the Dodgers a six to
Speaker 5: three win in ten innings in Game one of the
Speaker 5: World Series. Just a tremendous night here at Dodgers Stadium.
Speaker 5: And I was sitting right by where the owner suite
Speaker 5: owner seats are behind the on deck circle when Freddy
Speaker 5: came to the plate in the tenth thinning, And as
Speaker 5: soon as he hit that grand slam, I saw Mookie
Speaker 5: Bets and Tommy Edmond jump up and down. The Yankees
Speaker 5: decided to walk Mookie Bets and to face Freddie Freeman,
Speaker 5: to have Nestor Cortes the lefty face Freddie Freeman. And
Speaker 5: I'm not sure if Aaron Boone knows this. I'm sure
Speaker 5: he does, but that was a huge gamble. Freddie Freeman
Speaker 5: could hit lefties, he could hit righties. Freddy has even
Speaker 5: said that facing lefties helps his swing because he stays
Speaker 5: inside the baseball better and Nestor J. Cortes is a
Speaker 5: very ordinary pitcher. He's not Dennis Eckersley. But tonight was
Speaker 5: certainly a Kirk Gibson like moment for this Dodger team.
Speaker 5: And we'll see where it takes them. Freddy Freeman, like
Speaker 5: he told us three more wins, by the way. Freddie
Speaker 5: Freeman's walk off Grand Slam. It's the first walk off
Speaker 5: Grand Slam in World Series history, considering there are six
Speaker 5: hundred and ninety six games played, that is remarkable and
Speaker 5: for the Dodgers, just the third walk off home run
Speaker 5: in their World Series history. Max Munthcies in Game three
Speaker 5: the twenty eighteen World Series, Remember eighteenth thinning off of
Speaker 5: Nathan Valdi.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers would lose that World Series.
Speaker 5: Kirk Gibson's Game one home run of the World Series
Speaker 5: in nineteen eighty eight enough said. And growing up in
Speaker 5: the San Fernando Valley watching Kirk Gibbson hit his home
Speaker 5: run from my mom's two bedroom condo and West Hills,
Speaker 5: Never in my wildest dreams did I believe I would
Speaker 5: be standing on the field interviewing any Dodger player after
Speaker 5: a walk off Grand Slam in the World Series.
Speaker 2: But there we were, Freddie Freeman and myself.
Speaker 5: The game rewarded Freddie Freeman tonight, Freddie Freeman with a
Speaker 5: walkoff Grand Slam in Game one of the World Series. Freddie,
Speaker 5: it feels like the game does reward you.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you know. It's been a grind.
Speaker 6: It's been a grind for three months for me and
Speaker 6: my family, and obviously this last week getting the rest.
Speaker 7: And treating my ankle and doing the best you can.
Speaker 5: So every morn to me tonight when you were up
Speaker 5: there against Nester Cortes, are you just doing the Freddie
Speaker 5: Freeman thing and looking for something in the strike zone.
Speaker 6: Yes, I'm trying to.
Speaker 2: Be on time for the heater.
Speaker 6: He's got a good hit here, the ball rises, I'm
Speaker 6: just wanting to be on time for it. I'm trying
Speaker 6: to look closer to me because I didn't wanted to
Speaker 6: off the cutter in the slider away. I just wanted
Speaker 6: to not miss the pitch that in, and.
Speaker 2: I didn't miss it.
Speaker 5: Freddie, There's been a lot of great moments in World
Speaker 5: Series history, Dodger history.
Speaker 2: You're now part of that. What does that mean?
Speaker 6: That means a lot. But we still got three more
Speaker 6: wins to go, so I'm glad. I think we'll do
Speaker 6: this for Game one and get the win. But let's now,
Speaker 6: I got to focus our tomorrow.
Speaker 2: And grace some more memories.
Speaker 5: The most inspirational player at this postseason Freddie Freeman.
Speaker 2: Thanks, Freddy, thank you Today I appreciate Joe Wow.
Speaker 5: Freddie Freeman just a tremendous guy, tremendous character guy, and
Speaker 5: a tremendous player. Still out there right now with his
Speaker 5: extended family taking photos. Little Max is in his arms.
Speaker 7: Man.
Speaker 2: What a night for Freddie and a Freeman family.
Speaker 5: What a night for the Dodgers as they escaped Game
Speaker 5: one of the World Series in dramatic fashion on a
Speaker 5: walk off Grand Slam that just only happens in Hollywood.
Speaker 5: Let's go out to the phones for the first time tonight.
Speaker 5: Let's hear from you, Sam. Everybody all talks about Okay,
Speaker 5: hold on here, I'm gonna switch you over. You know,
Speaker 5: this is what I want to hear from you tonight.
Speaker 5: Everybody always talks about where were they when Kurt Gibson
Speaker 5: hit his home run? Sam, who is at Dodgers Stadium tonight?
Speaker 5: Tell me you were not in the parking lot like
Speaker 5: so many were in nineteen eighty eight.
Speaker 8: No, DV. I was the very last row of fifty
Speaker 8: seven reserve.
Speaker 2: I love that.
Speaker 5: And did you know from up there it was gone
Speaker 5: as soon as Freddie hit it.
Speaker 8: Not as soon as he hit it, but we saw
Speaker 8: the ball go right over the right field wall.
Speaker 9: Dave.
Speaker 5: That's amazing, Sam, And I'm sure something that you'll always
Speaker 5: remember for the rest of your life.
Speaker 2: Being here for Game one of the World.
Speaker 8: Series, I'll always remember it, DV. And I gotta tell you,
Speaker 8: unlike some of our release pitchers when it comes to
Speaker 8: bunking with you or showering with my father, I'm taking
Speaker 8: a room with you six days a week and twice
Speaker 8: on Sunday, DV.
Speaker 2: Hey, thank you.
Speaker 5: Maybe you and Brent Honeywell will shower with me instead
Speaker 5: of your dad like you said the other night.
Speaker 8: I don't know about that, DV. Well, Hey, let's just
Speaker 8: take a moment to recognize Fernando Tommy then I think
Speaker 8: they were looking down on us tonight. Maybe you feel
Speaker 8: the same, huh.
Speaker 2: No doubt. Here's something that Tim Conway Junior sent me.
Speaker 5: Fernando unfortunately passed away at the age of sixty three.
Speaker 5: Tonight's final score Dodgers six, Yankees three eight sixty six
Speaker 5: nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 5: We'll get back to the phone calls in a moment,
Speaker 5: but we have a huge Dodgervan.
Speaker 2: How about that.
Speaker 5: The phone's ringing, and it's in the studio right here
Speaker 5: in the broadcast booth, none other than the man that
Speaker 5: played the magical national anthem for Freddie Freeman to hit
Speaker 5: the walk off Grand Slam in the tenth inning, the
Speaker 5: one and only Brad Paisley.
Speaker 2: Hi, what a night for you to be here.
Speaker 7: I can't even know. I'm still I've never felt this
Speaker 7: way at the end of a baseball game.
Speaker 5: I would say, so, we've never seen this ever in
Speaker 5: the history of the World Series.
Speaker 7: I know, I mean we were. I was just in
Speaker 7: absolute shock. I ran into Joe Davis in the hall
Speaker 7: that I guess his call was epic, and.
Speaker 2: I'm sure it was. We got to find that call.
Speaker 2: Nelson's call was great too. We played that.
Speaker 7: You know what he said he told me. He said
Speaker 7: something I'm gonna paraphrase anybody listening and watching that saw
Speaker 7: it on TV would know, but something about it. He
Speaker 7: said the same words that Ben said, when Gibson, she
Speaker 7: is gone, uh huh wow. And then he said and
Speaker 7: then he said, Gibby meet Freddy.
Speaker 2: Oh that's great.
Speaker 7: That is what he told me.
Speaker 2: So hey, that's why he's Joe Davis.
Speaker 7: He's unbelievably talented. I told him you're so smart.
Speaker 2: Hey, how about this?
Speaker 5: Your wife, Kim, she doesn't come to many Dodger games,
Speaker 5: but she decided this one.
Speaker 10: Right.
Speaker 7: Yeah, she definitely, she's she's losing her she's like his baseball,
Speaker 7: always like this.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, she's hooked. Now she's hooked.
Speaker 7: Yeah, she's the reason I think she's got to come
Speaker 7: back to.
Speaker 5: So she was there when you got the the executives
Speaker 5: to pull off a trade in Nashville as well?
Speaker 7: As were you? You? You were you act like I
Speaker 7: had anything to do all this. You and I can
Speaker 7: take all the credit we want.
Speaker 5: But hey, Brad, where were you when when Freddie hit
Speaker 5: the Grand Slam?
Speaker 7: I was sitting over there.
Speaker 2: Where's that?
Speaker 5: We can't see that in a suite, in a suite
Speaker 5: and yeah, moved up.
Speaker 2: And standing up. Did you get nervous? Just take us
Speaker 2: through what, Brad.
Speaker 7: Pe I was nervous as heck. I was sitting and
Speaker 7: I watched him as they walked Mookie and then I
Speaker 7: thought to myself, Okay, and this is the thing that
Speaker 7: went through my mind. He's broken two bats today. Yeah,
Speaker 7: and the odds are like something he's really due. You know,
Speaker 7: he had that triple, which was insane that he had
Speaker 7: a triple.
Speaker 2: I completely forgot about the triple.
Speaker 7: Think about that, he like, So there's so much that
Speaker 7: had to happen. Like if you think, and I was
Speaker 7: telling Kim this, when you think about the domino effect
Speaker 7: of baseball, if he doesn't break his bat twice, which
Speaker 7: I've never seen one pitch breaks a bat, they get
Speaker 7: a new bat, same exact type break again.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 7: You know, on the first time he swings it, and
Speaker 7: I don't think we were sitting here. It just wouldn't
Speaker 7: have worked out to the I think he'd have had
Speaker 7: a hit on the second time he broke the bat,
Speaker 7: that would have gone.
Speaker 5: There's just so many parallels to Gibson's home run in
Speaker 5: eighty eight. I mean, Gibson was on two bad knees,
Speaker 5: a bad ham string. Freddie's got still a broken right
Speaker 5: middle finger. Yeah, he's got a severely sprained right ankle
Speaker 5: that has taken everything for him to get ready for tonight.
Speaker 2: Yeah, not to mention the adversity.
Speaker 5: Him and his family has had trying to help little
Speaker 5: Max Freeman get back. I mean I told him this
Speaker 5: and I completely believe it. The game rewards you, Yeah,
Speaker 5: it does.
Speaker 7: It's weird. And you know, I got to see Fred
Speaker 7: Senior at dinner was down there.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, and he's down there right now.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I know. That's such a touching scene. His grandpa's
Speaker 7: down there too. I mean, it's just really it's really
Speaker 7: neat to see. He's He's the Roy Hobbes of this
Speaker 7: yes thing, isn't he? And you and I said that
Speaker 7: I said to you the other day. I was like,
Speaker 7: this is so the natural. The guy goes up and
Speaker 7: he's bleeding from his aftermath, and then he still knocks
Speaker 7: the lights out. This was crazy. I mean, this is
Speaker 7: the type of thing that they will talk about. I
Speaker 7: felt like we watched history and we're gonna be talking
Speaker 7: about this moment.
Speaker 2: Cooperstown might want your guitar from the anthem to they're not.
Speaker 7: Getting this guitar, unfortunately, No, they're not.
Speaker 2: Getting that one. Maybe the pick.
Speaker 7: Maybe they'll get a I'll keep the pick that's in
Speaker 7: my pocket. But no, it's a it's a fascinating thing.
Speaker 7: And and uh, I think it's really neat to see
Speaker 7: somebody like that. Uh. And also the all of the
Speaker 7: things that had to happen, like walking Mookie Bets to
Speaker 7: get to Freddy because Freddy's hurt and then he does that.
Speaker 7: It's just so's it's such a romantic sport.
Speaker 2: It really is.
Speaker 5: And it was a better way to end it because
Speaker 5: it went the Dodgers way. There were so many chances
Speaker 5: in this game, Brad for the Dodgers to score.
Speaker 2: Runs and end this and nine.
Speaker 5: This really would have been a tough loss for the
Speaker 5: Dodgers if they didn't win it.
Speaker 7: Yeah. A couple of errors and a couple of just
Speaker 7: really fluke things, just like the broken bat. I think
Speaker 7: that didn't that end the end? That was yeah, you
Speaker 7: know again.
Speaker 2: Back and the third one out they don't score.
Speaker 7: They had two on no outs.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Times, they had a lot of opportunities. That's why I
Speaker 5: feel like they were giving this game away. And one
Speaker 5: swing of the bat, one dramatic swing of the bat.
Speaker 7: I know, I'm so horse right now. It's so funny
Speaker 7: because I was in perfect It was fine. I made sure.
Speaker 7: I wasn't horse when I sang it tonight, and then
Speaker 7: there'd be no way I could do it tomorrow.
Speaker 2: We need you back, we need you and Kim back tomorrow.
Speaker 7: I'll be back. I'm coming back tomorrow, Okay for sure?
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 10: Uh.
Speaker 5: Obviously the game ended in dramatic fashion. The game star
Speaker 5: arted dramatically as well, as we honored Fernando Vealezuela.
Speaker 2: I was curious.
Speaker 7: I had the Fernando pin on my Uh, that's awesome.
Speaker 7: I had thirty four valin Zuela or Fernando.
Speaker 5: I saw you there on the field getting ready to
Speaker 5: sing the anthem while they're you know, playing the montage
Speaker 5: of Fernando's families out there on the starting lineup line
Speaker 5: on the third base line. Just what was that like
Speaker 5: for you to not only play the anthem for the
Speaker 5: World Series, but right after I.
Speaker 7: Had to I had to look away when I saw,
Speaker 7: you know, when they did that, and they had all
Speaker 7: the the that amazing music playing, and then they unfurled
Speaker 7: the flag and outwalks Oral and uh was it Jeger? Yeah,
Speaker 7: Jaeger and Oral went out there and he walks out there,
Speaker 7: and I see Oral kneel down, and what did he
Speaker 7: do to the thirty four? He put something on the numbers,
Speaker 7: and Oral looked like he was gonna cry, and I
Speaker 7: turned So I just kind of started playing the guitar
Speaker 7: and tuning and not looking at it, because that the
Speaker 7: last thing I wanted to be was that emotional trying
Speaker 7: to sing this song. You know you had to. I
Speaker 7: sort of had to channel more of a I don't
Speaker 7: know thinking about every note. That's because it's certainly not
Speaker 7: for one thing. That song's not an easy song. We
Speaker 7: definitely picked of all, we're not O Canada. We definitely
Speaker 7: picked a hard one. Yeah, you know, as far as
Speaker 7: nation anthems go. But it's like the other thing is
Speaker 7: is this is the World Series, this is the Dodgers Yankees.
Speaker 7: I did not want to mess this up.
Speaker 2: You did not mess it up.
Speaker 7: Well, I haven't watched.
Speaker 2: It back, but the national anthems are are hot.
Speaker 5: Didn't you play the national anthem before game one of
Speaker 5: the seventeen World Series?
Speaker 2: Game two game?
Speaker 7: But here's the deal. I played it before Game three
Speaker 7: of twenty twenty one, which was eighteen innings the last
Speaker 7: So the last time I played the national anthem in
Speaker 7: is I did? I recorded one for twenty twenty, but
Speaker 7: they played it in Dallas, but I wasn't there.
Speaker 5: You played the anthem before Monthse's walk off home run?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I played that them too.
Speaker 2: He's coming back tomorrow, Kendall.
Speaker 5: Every time he's playing the anthem, a walk off home
Speaker 5: run happens.
Speaker 7: That's the last two. That's got to be insane. I mean,
Speaker 7: that's insane.
Speaker 2: Let's go.
Speaker 7: Last two anthems I've sung were walk off home runs.
Speaker 5: Jeez, hey, does Kim want to say something about the game,
Speaker 5: our first Dodger game experience.
Speaker 2: Come on, Kim, put the headset on.
Speaker 7: You're about to get some baseball wiz.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's hear it.
Speaker 7: What'd you think of the uniforms?
Speaker 11: They were very nice colors. I just want to say,
Speaker 11: I've never seen you that excited. Wait a minute, I mean,
Speaker 11: like I'm thinking back to like our wedding, like the
Speaker 11: birth of our kids.
Speaker 7: The wedding was stressful.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, like those are like intense moments. I guess right, Yeah.
Speaker 12: But this was intense and I've never seen him this excited.
Speaker 12: That was awesome.
Speaker 7: I couldn't I couldn't process it. It took me.
Speaker 11: It sound like a dream like it just happened so fast,
Speaker 11: and then all of a sudden everything changed, and here.
Speaker 7: Comes Randy Newman, and it's like, what.
Speaker 2: Do we want? Did you guys know instantly it was
Speaker 2: a Grand Slam?
Speaker 12: You felt?
Speaker 7: No, I'd lost track of the fact that there were
Speaker 7: four on it. Yeah, because there were two on when
Speaker 7: they walked Mookie, so I wasn't thinking about movielite.
Speaker 5: Because now they just hold up the four fingers instead
Speaker 5: of the four pitches.
Speaker 7: The first thing I said was, it's like Kirk Gibson
Speaker 7: and and just thought of that because I thought, oh
Speaker 7: my goodness, it's exactly limps up to the plate, you know,
Speaker 7: on one leg, I mean. And then and then it
Speaker 7: was well, somebody told me. They said, that's the first
Speaker 7: Grand Slam walk off Grand Slam and World Series history.
Speaker 7: That's insane.
Speaker 5: It is six hundred and ninety six games have been
Speaker 5: played in the World Series, first ever walk off Grand Slam,
Speaker 5: and Kim Williams came to the game with her husband
Speaker 5: her Boo Brad Paisley, and Brad told me you were
Speaker 5: a little hesitant to come to the game. You weren't
Speaker 5: all in right away.
Speaker 11: Well, Brad's educating me. He's given me all the backstory,
Speaker 11: and that's really helpful. You were giving me the play
Speaker 11: by play with Freddy and telling me about his ankle
Speaker 11: and all that. That that, you know, really helped give
Speaker 11: context to the whole thing. I'm so glad I came.
Speaker 11: I had a blast.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so now you're hooked, right.
Speaker 12: Baseball's fun, you guys.
Speaker 2: In the World Series.
Speaker 13: Yeah, the World I.
Speaker 12: Don't know if you guys know this, but it's pretty exciting.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's pretty good. Yeah, it's pretty good.
Speaker 7: The other thing is she grew up in New York.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she's La, she's law.
Speaker 7: You've been in l A a lot longer than you were
Speaker 7: in New York. I sure have.
Speaker 12: But yeah, when I was five, I was a Yankee fan.
Speaker 7: Sure, that was a long time ago.
Speaker 2: They were no threat back then.
Speaker 12: No, No, it's fine threat now either. I'm all Dodgers.
Speaker 7: No, had the when you were little? Had the Dodgers
Speaker 7: moved from Brooklyn? Yet to the person, she doesn't even
Speaker 7: get the burn. She didn't even get the burn. You're
Speaker 7: going to get it that in the fifties.
Speaker 12: But oh okay, it's gonna be a long ride home.
Speaker 7: Wow.
Speaker 5: All right, Well, I'll let you guys go unless you
Speaker 5: want to take phone calls with me. Can't there some
Speaker 5: of the basic If.
Speaker 12: Anyone has any questions, I'm happy to answer.
Speaker 7: Sorry to hijack this everybody.
Speaker 5: Hey, Brad, would you say Freddy tested to see if
Speaker 5: that truck still works?
Speaker 7: I would say that that's the song we should be playing.
Speaker 12: Thank you?
Speaker 7: They replay that, Colin.
Speaker 5: Can we get that song going? I might have to
Speaker 5: sing it a cappella right now?
Speaker 7: Please call him hurry.
Speaker 2: Let's see it there, it is.
Speaker 7: Here, it is, Thanks for talking.
Speaker 2: Awesome.
Speaker 5: Great to see you guys. Kim, You're locked in. You're
Speaker 5: never leaving the mafia again.
Speaker 12: I love you.
Speaker 2: Guys. Are awesome, l Brad, Paisley, Kim Williams.
Speaker 5: The good luck chart for Freddy Freeman tonight and for
Speaker 5: Dodger fans everywhere. Eight sixty six nine eight seven two
Speaker 5: five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 2: We're gonna take a time out when we come back.
Speaker 5: More of your phone calls as we celebrate a big
Speaker 5: Game one World Series win in grand style with Paisley's
Speaker 5: and you on air five to seventy.
Speaker 2: LA Sports can get that thing to crank.
Speaker 7: How about a little test dras down by the LA.
Speaker 2: Let's say that trust works.
Speaker 7: Let's see if that songs says.
Speaker 2: Let's see if.
Speaker 7: The course still got that seed.
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Speaker 3: This is Dodger Talk with David Masson, Cortez, Deliveries, Freeman, XP.
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Speaker 4: Jimmy made Friday.
Speaker 14: Game one of the World Series.
Speaker 2: That's why he's Joe Davis.
Speaker 5: A great call on Fox Sports by not only the
Speaker 5: national voice of Major League Baseball, but our voice, the
Speaker 5: Los Angeles Dodgers Voice, Joe Davis. How perfect is it
Speaker 5: for the Dodgers to be in the World Series and
Speaker 5: Joe Davis being on the call on Fox Sports. Rick
Speaker 5: Monday Steven Nelson a fantastic job tonight as well an
Speaker 5: amazing night as the Dodgers beat the Yankees in Game
Speaker 5: one of the World Series six to three in ten
Speaker 5: innings thanks to a walk off grand slam by Freddie Freeman.
Speaker 5: Thanks to Brad Paisley and his wife Kim Williams for
Speaker 5: coming into the booth before they head out and head
Speaker 5: back home. It's time now to get back to you
Speaker 5: at eight six six nine to eight seven two five
Speaker 5: seventy an emotional night here at Dodgers Stadium, celebrating the
Speaker 5: memory and legacy of Fernando Vealnezuela and Freddie Freeman coming
Speaker 5: up with one of the biggest home runs and World
Speaker 5: Series history to finish it for the Dodgers. And like
Speaker 5: Freddie said, this is very exciting, but the Dodgers still
Speaker 5: had three more wins to go. They did not win
Speaker 5: the World Series tonight. Let's go out to Mark in Chatsworth. Mark,
Speaker 5: where were you when Freddie Freeman hit the first ever
Speaker 5: walked off Grand Slam in World Series history?
Speaker 15: I was outside listen to on the radio.
Speaker 8: I was in the house and I.
Speaker 15: Had to leave because they couldn't take it anymore.
Speaker 8: And then I heard it on the radio and it
Speaker 8: was great.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, Mark, You'll never forget that. I hear your kids.
Speaker 5: Were they watching the game with you, listening to the
Speaker 5: game with you.
Speaker 15: I'm trying so hard to get them to listen to
Speaker 15: the Dodgers.
Speaker 16: But you know, she's five and she has her own
Speaker 16: things to do.
Speaker 9: But still say say what you want to say.
Speaker 8: Say good Dodgers, say say it.
Speaker 9: Come Key, keeth right on that.
Speaker 5: Call me back and work on that. But uh, what
Speaker 5: a great night at Dodger Stadium. Let's go out to
Speaker 5: Frank and Monrovia. You're on Dodger Talks. Frank, where were
Speaker 5: you when Freddy hit his walk off grand Slam?
Speaker 14: You know, Dave, I was at my cousin's engagement party
Speaker 14: and it was just there were it was. There were
Speaker 14: some Yankee fans there. You know, I don't know who
Speaker 14: let them through the door, but you know, I was
Speaker 14: with my brother and you know they I when they
Speaker 14: walked Mookie, I thought, okay, this is where the magic happens.
Speaker 9: And you know, I'll let you know, Dave.
Speaker 14: You know I was there. I was that kid in
Speaker 14: the seat when Gibby hit that home run in eighty eight,
Speaker 14: and I was in the last row of the old
Speaker 14: nosebleeds and we had to make sure that it went
Speaker 14: over the wall because because we couldn't see it from
Speaker 14: that angle, so we had to watch the TVs to
Speaker 14: make sure that it went over. Today, just that energy
Speaker 14: was there. It felt amazing.
Speaker 5: That's so awesome, Frank. This is definitely going to be
Speaker 5: one of those moments as a Dodger fan, as a
Speaker 5: sports fan, even a Yankee fan out there in New
Speaker 5: York who is heart broken, They will always remember where
Speaker 5: they were when Freddy Freeman hit the first ever walk
Speaker 5: off Grand Slam and World Series history. The way it
Speaker 5: was set up was Aaron Boone intentionally walking Mookie Betts
Speaker 5: in the tenth inning to bring in his lefty Nestor
Speaker 5: Cortes to face Freddie Freeman. Here was Mooki Betts moments
Speaker 5: ago talking to the media about what transpired everything.
Speaker 17: I mean, a win is a win, but no one
Speaker 17: with Freddy's gone through super special and I'm glad it
Speaker 17: was him that did it.
Speaker 13: You guys talk about is just setting the tone to
Speaker 13: not only get this win in the fashion that you
Speaker 13: all did, but to see what Jack Clardy did, to
Speaker 13: see what the bullpen and the offense spot back late
Speaker 13: in the game. But does it say just obviously, we
Speaker 13: know the series is going to be it's going to
Speaker 13: be a battle, but to set this tone.
Speaker 7: Early is good. You know, I'm getting getting on the
Speaker 7: board Versus is huge.
Speaker 17: Like you said, you know they're going to come back
Speaker 17: ready to go, but you know we're fighters and.
Speaker 7: When I'm joining got three more wins.
Speaker 18: What was your reaction from first base with put my hands.
Speaker 17: Up and jumped as I was running around, and I
Speaker 17: wanted to stop and wait on him, but I couldn't,
Speaker 17: so I just just kept on running and screaming.
Speaker 2: And Mookie, you always talk about, you know, the best
Speaker 2: of the best.
Speaker 19: Here the final two teams.
Speaker 2: These are two best teams played out like it tonight.
Speaker 2: How important is it to set the tone and get
Speaker 2: this first way and moving forward the rest of the
Speaker 2: long series.
Speaker 17: I mean, it's super important. But at the end of
Speaker 17: the day, as much as I love enjoying this moment,
Speaker 17: you're gonna turn the page and get ready for tomorrow.
Speaker 17: You know they're gonna come out ready to go.
Speaker 12: She was like, we wheel two.
Speaker 7: I know Freddy was kind of really hurting in New
Speaker 7: York in City Field. How much better did he look
Speaker 7: to you?
Speaker 8: Just with that ankle if these last few days we'd
Speaker 8: be up today and today, I mean.
Speaker 17: You kind of got a week off, so you know,
Speaker 17: it was really, uh, it was way better. I mean,
Speaker 17: you gotta hate a triple and you know he's moving
Speaker 17: around pretty good, so hopefully hopefully wakes up all right
Speaker 17: tomorrows this.
Speaker 13: Game one, But you guys do see their highest leverage
Speaker 13: of arms out there tonight. How much information can you
Speaker 13: take from that just moving forward to the series.
Speaker 2: Oh, you can take it to take a lot of info.
Speaker 17: But they saw our guys too, so kind of is
Speaker 17: going both plays there. So it's gonna be a battles.
Speaker 17: It's gonna be a battle for seven games or you know,
Speaker 17: and just got to strap it in and be ready.
Speaker 16: I think you weren't born yet, But the current Gibson
Speaker 16: home one was so many of me talking about that
Speaker 16: Coveny's clubhouse.
Speaker 17: You know, No, that was before our time, and no
Speaker 17: innociading Kirker and Kurt or anything. But I don't know him,
Speaker 17: and so I'm looking at the Freddy, the Freddy Freeman number.
Speaker 5: Yes, indeed, Mookie Bets and the Dodgers will be telling
Speaker 5: their grandkids about Freddie Freeman's walk off Grand Slam in
Speaker 5: Game one of the twenty twenty four World Series to
Speaker 5: give the Dodgers a six to three win in ten innings.
Speaker 2: Tonight.
Speaker 5: Eight six, six, nine, eight, seven seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 5: Jose Mota will join us at ten fifteen, but until then,
Speaker 5: it's you and me. I want to know where you
Speaker 5: were when Freddie Freeman hit his walk off Grand Slam.
Speaker 5: Awesome sight out here at Dodgers Stadium just about half
Speaker 5: hour ago. Freddy was out here with his former teammate
Speaker 5: Max Fried, who was in attendance for tonight's games, supporting
Speaker 5: his Harvard Westlake teammate Jack Flherty who made the start.
Speaker 2: Giolito and Freed.
Speaker 5: We're here with Peter Crow, Armstrong, all Harvard Westlake Aloms,
Speaker 5: Dexter Fowler, Shane Victorino. From what I understand, big support
Speaker 5: system for Jack Flaherty, who pitched outstanding tonight, can't forget
Speaker 5: about him five and a third innings, gave up just
Speaker 5: a two run home run to John Carlos Stanton in
Speaker 5: the sixth inning. That was a hanging, breaking pitch that
Speaker 5: I know he wishes he could have back. But outside
Speaker 5: of that, he went toe to toe with Garrett Cole,
Speaker 5: And yeah, I know how much Freddy fee Freeman and
Speaker 5: Max Freed mean to each other as well. They won
Speaker 5: the World Series together with the Braves in twenty one.
Speaker 5: So it was meant to be for Max Freed to
Speaker 5: be here for his good buddy, his older brother. In
Speaker 5: some ways, Freddie Freeman to have this type of night.
Speaker 5: Let's go out to all hambra Avier.
Speaker 2: Where were you?
Speaker 5: Were you on San Gabriel Boulevard? Where were you when
Speaker 5: Freddy hit his grand slam?
Speaker 18: I was on Schaffel at my best buddy's house, watching
Speaker 18: the game, and it brought me back to that two
Speaker 18: thousand and six No Margarcia parrogrand slam on that comeback Dodgers.
Speaker 18: I was eleven years old, in like fifth grade, and
Speaker 18: it just brought back so many fond memories. Shout out
Speaker 18: to Freddie Freeman, He's been.
Speaker 15: Through so much.
Speaker 18: Dog shout out to the dogs in the bullpen, in
Speaker 18: that dogtown, in the bullpen we have on the outfield.
Speaker 15: And just real quick shou out to my late father,
Speaker 15: who I know I'd be watching the game with tonight,
Speaker 15: no doubt. If you're still here, thank you for taking
Speaker 15: my call. And let's go Dodgers.
Speaker 2: Let's be dogs, all right, Javier love it.
Speaker 5: Dodgers need three more wins to win the World Series
Speaker 5: and to give the Dodgers and their fans their first
Speaker 5: parade since nineteen eighty eight. Let's go out to Lou
Speaker 5: who was at Dodgers Stadium. Man, Lou, I know this
Speaker 5: was a tough ticket. To get into.
Speaker 2: I'm sure you're not regretting any single moment of it.
Speaker 6: Dave.
Speaker 20: Great to talk to you again. You know, I moved
Speaker 20: out to Phoenix.
Speaker 14: I drove in.
Speaker 20: Today for the game and it was a six hour
Speaker 20: drive and man, I was in my normal area field
Speaker 20: level seats.
Speaker 8: I was in the house.
Speaker 20: And you know what I'm really excited about, Dave, is
Speaker 20: I saw a lot of young kids, and I just
Speaker 20: think that the spawn of the next generation that are
Speaker 20: gonna be coming to Dodgers Stadium, just like we have
Speaker 20: all been. You've been going to games a lot for
Speaker 20: a lot long time. That's what I really appreciate about it,
Speaker 20: and was so blessed to be a part of it
Speaker 20: amongst the Dodger family. And you know, you're with these
Speaker 20: guys all the time and saying all year this is
Speaker 20: a very special and unique team. So I'm gonna take
Speaker 20: your word for it. Let's just take care business, and
Speaker 20: you know, let's just not let this day pass because
Speaker 20: we got we gotta close the deal, we gotta win
Speaker 20: the series. And thanks for all you do, Dave, but
Speaker 20: we appreciate it.
Speaker 5: Thank you, Lou. And yes, it's different. This is a
Speaker 5: special team. It's a resilient team. It's a team that's
Speaker 5: not going to go down and lose a game two
Speaker 5: to one. I actually I'm on a group text with
Speaker 5: a few of the Beat writers and they were saying,
Speaker 5: you know, they were they were basically conceding the game,
Speaker 5: saying the Yankees are going to win it. And I
Speaker 5: text them in the eighth inning, I said, I'm getting
Speaker 5: ready for a walk off home run.
Speaker 2: Little did I know it came in the tenth inning.
Speaker 5: I was expecting it in the ninth inning when I
Speaker 5: saw key k A Munsei coming to the plate. But
Speaker 5: for Freddie Freeman to do what he did tonight truly
Speaker 5: special and indicative of what this team is made of.
Speaker 5: They're not going down two to one. They're not just
Speaker 5: going to allow one run to beat them an extra innings.
Speaker 5: They're going down with the fight. And they certainly showed
Speaker 5: that again. And thank you Aaron Boom, thank you Nestor Cortes,
Speaker 5: because Freddy was waiting and ready. First ever walk off
Speaker 5: Grand Slam in World Series history. Let's go out to
Speaker 5: Ivan in Huntington Beach or Yvonne you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 9: How you doing, How I'm going dude, thank everything my call.
Speaker 5: Where were you when Freddy hit the grand Slam? Ivan,
Speaker 5: Let's not make this awkward.
Speaker 15: All as I hear my parents, I'm excited, you know,
Speaker 15: watching the doggy and everything.
Speaker 19: Alad to hear my parents house.
Speaker 15: My wife, and well Freddy came up.
Speaker 17: Oh the old danceing was about to happen.
Speaker 19: Nat you know grand slam?
Speaker 2: Yeah, something was going to happen.
Speaker 5: He was either going to make it out, get a hit,
Speaker 5: or do what he did, hit the first ever walk
Speaker 5: off grand Slam.
Speaker 2: Let's go out to Eric in Hollywood. Are you believing now?
Speaker 10: Eric?
Speaker 2: Do you need more.
Speaker 21: Dodger that shit?
Speaker 20: Wow?
Speaker 9: This is World Series baseball. Freddie was spectacular. I was
Speaker 9: blessed to go to the game. My best friend, brother Parrague,
Speaker 9: got me a ticket.
Speaker 19: We are all the cur right now getting out of
Speaker 19: the stadium.
Speaker 2: Let love it. Eric, thank you for the phone call.
Speaker 5: Eight sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy is
Speaker 5: the phone number. I know they talked about a lot
Speaker 5: of sporting events going on in Los Angeles, but this
Speaker 5: was the sporting event not only in Los Angeles but
Speaker 5: the world. An incredible night here at Dodgers Stadium, An
Speaker 5: incredible game, an incredible finish. This was certainly a great
Speaker 5: opening act for one of the most anticipated World Series
Speaker 5: in recent memory between the Dodgers and Yankees.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers get it in ten innings tonight by a
Speaker 2: final score of six to three.
Speaker 5: And how about this, I mentioned Max Freed being on
Speaker 5: the field, being here sharing that World Series championship with
Speaker 5: Freddie Freeman and the Braves in twenty one. The last
Speaker 5: Grand Slam hit in the World Series was during that
Speaker 5: run for the Braves against the Astros.
Speaker 2: Adam Duvall.
Speaker 5: He had a Grand Slam in Game five against Houston
Speaker 5: in the twenty one World Series to help Freddy and
Speaker 5: Max Freed go on to win their first World Series championship.
Speaker 5: And I'm anticipating Freddy having two rings by the end
Speaker 5: of next week and showing that bling to Max Freed
Speaker 5: and Adam Duvall. Let's go out to Glen Dora, Anthony.
Speaker 5: Where were you when Freddie Freeman hit the slam?
Speaker 19: A man, Hey, Dave, I was running in the street.
Speaker 19: I was out on a run, and you know every
Speaker 19: time I go out on the run, I was just seventy.
Speaker 15: Listens to the Dodgers and Stephen Nelson's.
Speaker 19: The radio and TV, and all of a suddenly I
Speaker 19: hear everybody in their houses. I was rising the residential area,
Speaker 19: but in the house is going crazy. I'm like, oh
Speaker 19: my god, what happened? And then I hear it on
Speaker 19: the radio Grand Slam, and I was like, oh, I
Speaker 19: was jumping and running and jumping in the middle of
Speaker 19: the street, going crazy and yelling on myself.
Speaker 2: Did you hear other neighbors jumping and screaming to Anthony?
Speaker 2: Is that what you were telling us?
Speaker 19: Yeah, everybody was just I mean, I can hear everybody
Speaker 19: in our house is just yelling and saying yelling, let go,
Speaker 19: and crapping and cheering, and it was just everybody in
Speaker 19: the street was just going crazy.
Speaker 2: That's awesome, great story, Anthony, appreciate the phone call.
Speaker 5: Eight sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy is
Speaker 5: the phone number. Want to say a special thank you
Speaker 5: to MLB communications guy or the head John Blundell, who
Speaker 5: helps organize with Chuck Taurus down there all the walk
Speaker 5: off interviews and I may have gotten overly aggressive when
Speaker 5: I was trying to get Freddy Freeman to come on
Speaker 5: the radio with us. He spoke to Fox Sports and
Speaker 5: I may have accidentally got a little too aggressive and
Speaker 5: jumped him before he went on MLB network. But hey,
Speaker 5: Freddie was coming towards me. What am I supposed to do?
Speaker 5: Give him the heisman? But luckily for me, Chelsea Freeman
Speaker 5: came onto the field, ran into Freddy's arms, and from
Speaker 5: there Freddie went on MLB Network and obviously took care
Speaker 5: of the hometown team your Los Angeles Dodgers Radio on
Speaker 5: the iHeartRadio app and the Los Angeles Dodgers Audio network.
Speaker 2: So lo Ciento. John Blendell, you're my guy. I'm sorry.
Speaker 5: I did not want to upset you, but I appreciate
Speaker 5: you delivering Freddie Freeman to the people. Let's go out
Speaker 5: to Mitchell who was at Dodgers Stadium tonight. Hi Mitchell,
Speaker 5: you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 22: Hey, sorry my voice was a little gone. I was
Speaker 22: in a right field like getting the crowd going, and
Speaker 22: it was pretty amazing. Shane a home run, but uh,
Speaker 22: I would there also when Justin Turner hit the walk
Speaker 22: off room, we're on on wow, yeah, and that this feedback,
Speaker 22: this beat back timpletely like this. The energy was amazing.
Speaker 22: Jack Clarity pitched them a pretty good Gem. He made
Speaker 22: one mistake, but the bulltime came through him back to him.
Speaker 1: Up.
Speaker 22: I can't give enough. I can't give enough credits to
Speaker 22: the bullpens, Jack Clarity. We wouldn't have made it that
Speaker 22: far without them, and they all like, uh, Freddy.
Speaker 5: Jack going to the extending that was huge. That was
Speaker 5: huge for tonight. It was huge for the rest of
Speaker 5: the series. But you're right, Vanda, gra Graderol, Vess and
Speaker 5: Kopek and Trina.
Speaker 18: Uh.
Speaker 5: The dogs were out in full force, Mitchell, And that's
Speaker 5: where the Dodgers have the advantage close games.
Speaker 2: At the end. The Dodgers have the advantage.
Speaker 5: The Yankees have the advantage was starting pitching, but you
Speaker 5: saw tonight they make defensive mistakes that open up the door.
Speaker 2: If it wasn't for glayber.
Speaker 5: Taurus not being able to handle a cutoff throw, this
Speaker 5: game's not even tied at two. So those are the
Speaker 5: things that you may forget about on a walkoff Grand
Speaker 5: Slam win that helps you.
Speaker 2: Win a game.
Speaker 22: We made a few as well, but just seeing Graderol
Speaker 22: come out, the energy that Grederol had and bet see
Speaker 22: like you could see adrenaline was going.
Speaker 19: Like the bullpen kill you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I got the energy.
Speaker 5: Those guys are amazing guys and really are the backbone
Speaker 5: of this Dodger team. Eight six six nine, eight seven
Speaker 5: two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 2: I feel horrible. I did not bring up Freddie Freeman's triple.
Speaker 5: I was only talking about the walk off Grand Slam
Speaker 5: when I interviewed Freddy, But I forgot about his two
Speaker 5: out triple in the first innings, So I apologize. Freddy,
Speaker 5: you were a double and a single away from the cycle.
Speaker 5: But how about a walkoff grand Slam? First time in
Speaker 5: World Series history, Freddie hit a triple. Keik Hernandez tripled
Speaker 5: in the fifth inning. That was the first time the
Speaker 5: Dodgers have had two triples in a World Series game
Speaker 5: since Tommy Davis hit two triples by himself in Game
Speaker 5: two of the nineteen sixty three World Series against these
Speaker 5: New York Yankees.
Speaker 2: Let's go back out to the phones, Deanna.
Speaker 5: You were at the second happiest place on Earth tonight,
Speaker 5: Deanna watching the game.
Speaker 23: Yes, absolutely, we were at Disneyland by Haunt and Mansion,
Speaker 23: having the game on, and Freddie Freeman hit that walkoff
Speaker 23: slam and celebration rang out and Disneyland was extra happy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, tell us about that.
Speaker 5: I'm sure you were in line waiting to get into
Speaker 5: the Haunted matchin which is I'm sure the Nightmare before Christmas.
Speaker 5: Right now, what was everybody watching your cell phone or
Speaker 5: did they have their own cell phones?
Speaker 23: Yeah, everybody had their phones out. We were watching. All
Speaker 23: the workers were coming up to us kind of peeking
Speaker 23: over watching our screens, and Freddy hit that and we
Speaker 23: all knew it was out right away and a celebration
Speaker 23: rang out and it was a pretty cool moment.
Speaker 5: That's awesome, Deanna. That's a unique place to be watching
Speaker 5: a World Series game ending that way.
Speaker 2: That that is special. Thank you for calling in.
Speaker 23: Thanks David, and my mom and I are huge fans
Speaker 23: of you and everything you do and go Dodgers.
Speaker 2: Ah, thank you. I'm big fans of yours now after
Speaker 2: that story, Thanks Dade. Next, right, you're going on another
Speaker 2: ride right now to celebrate.
Speaker 23: Well, I think we're we're going to California Adventure to
Speaker 23: get a drink after the game, and then maybe we'll
Speaker 23: go do some space mount and there's something to.
Speaker 10: Add to the thrill of the night.
Speaker 2: Yeah, keep the Freddie party going out there. Thanks Deanna.
Speaker 5: Eight sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy is
Speaker 5: the phone number.
Speaker 2: That's what I love to hear.
Speaker 5: I got one guy in al Hambra running through the streets,
Speaker 5: or Glendora running through the streets when Freddy hits the
Speaker 5: walk off Grand Slam. We got Deanna in line at
Speaker 5: the Haunted Mansion in Disneyland. These are the stories we
Speaker 5: will hear whenever this home run is brought up, and
Speaker 5: great calls by Steven Nelson and Joe Davis. We will
Speaker 5: hear Jose Motas call in Espanol when he joins us
Speaker 5: coming up in the next segment. Eight six six nine
Speaker 5: eight seven two five seventy is the phone number. Let's
Speaker 5: go out to the Big Apple, Nick in New York City.
Speaker 5: Where were you and are you a Yankee fan or
Speaker 5: are you a Dodger fan? In the Big Apple?
Speaker 9: This is Nick, some Long Beach born and raised.
Speaker 10: I'm out here for two nights for work, and I
Speaker 10: happen to have to be here to watch it in
Speaker 10: a bar that everybody's working rooting for the Yankees. Things
Speaker 10: got tight. Went back to the hotel and as soon
Speaker 10: as Freddy hit it, I just I've been walking around
Speaker 10: the last hour and a half in Manhattan, just high
Speaker 10: fiving people in Dodgers hats, just screaming.
Speaker 8: I just I can't.
Speaker 10: Just my body's still kind of dealing with the shock.
Speaker 9: Of what we just all saw.
Speaker 14: It is unbelievable.
Speaker 2: David, how sad are the Yankee fans back there?
Speaker 10: It's a different kind of vibe on the other side
Speaker 10: of the of the dougout, if you will. But I
Speaker 10: think I think everybody is in awe of what just happened.
Speaker 10: And consider it's Shakespeare and David, I just I think
Speaker 10: they're they're in shock, just from little bit different kind
Speaker 10: of shock, you know.
Speaker 5: Nick, They admitted this after the eighty eight World Series
Speaker 5: was over with, but to a man, every one of
Speaker 5: those Oakland a's said, you don't really lose a World
Speaker 5: Series in game one.
Speaker 2: But they felt like they lost the World Series in
Speaker 2: Game one.
Speaker 5: And I'm just wondering, if you know, looking at that
Speaker 5: Yankee dugout after Freddie Freeman hit that grand slam, that
Speaker 5: the most dejected opposing dugout I have seen since Game
Speaker 5: one of the nineteen eighty eight World.
Speaker 10: Series, you can only imagine what they're feeling, because every
Speaker 10: time they seem to get the momentum. We took it
Speaker 10: back and the boys showed up. And for Freddy to
Speaker 10: do that, given what he's gone through with a family,
Speaker 10: given what he's gone through with his health, I mean,
Speaker 10: somebody's got to be writing this right.
Speaker 24: This can't be reality.
Speaker 8: This is a simulation, David, I hope, So.
Speaker 5: Nick, three more wins to go for the Dodgers and
Speaker 5: then we could talk about all the story book endings.
Speaker 5: Eight six, six nine, eight seven, two five seventy is
Speaker 5: the phone number David Vassey Live at Dodgers Stadium, where
Speaker 5: history was made, Freddie Freeman hitting the first ever walk
Speaker 5: off Grand Slam and World Series history to give the
Speaker 5: Dodgers a six to three win in ten innings over
Speaker 5: the New York Yankees. We're gonna take a time out,
Speaker 5: our final time out on Dodger Talk. When we come back,
Speaker 5: we'll check in with Jose Mota, get his thoughts on
Speaker 5: everything we witnessed tonight, and also hear his call. He
Speaker 5: was on the call on the Dodgers Spanish radio broadcast,
Speaker 5: an emotional night in that booth, remembering Fernando Vealezuela as well.
Speaker 5: So we'll check in with Jose when we continue after
Speaker 5: the Dodgers take Game one of the World Series in
Speaker 5: grand fashion, six to three in ten innings on A
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Speaker 2: But Aby Frema, that was the call on the.
Speaker 5: Dodgers Spanish radio broadcast as Freddie Freeman HiT's the walk
Speaker 5: off rand Slam, the first ever walk off rand Slam
Speaker 5: and World.
Speaker 2: Series history, to give the Dodgers a six to.
Speaker 5: Three win in ten innings in Game one of the
Speaker 5: World Series over the Yankees. And Jose Mota joins us
Speaker 5: right now on Dodger Talk Live from Dodgers Stadium. Jose
Speaker 5: parts unknown. What a finish to such an emotional night
Speaker 5: at Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 15: Jose, It's pretty wild.
Speaker 16: I mean, maybe I just saw the guy right around
Speaker 16: glendor right now as I was getting home. But what
Speaker 16: a night, man, considering that, you know, we're all in
Speaker 16: tears in our booths before the game, and I just
Speaker 16: miss away from being on the air and they're playing
Speaker 16: Fernando songs and oh my god, that was so just
Speaker 16: just disheartening. But at the same time, we're like, you
Speaker 16: know what, there's a different energy here tonight. Let's go
Speaker 16: out there and use it and to honor him and
Speaker 16: for the Dodgers to come through in so many key
Speaker 16: moments today. There's so many special things that happened today,
Speaker 16: including many friend Brad Paisley about that, Yeah.
Speaker 5: Brad Paisley did a great job at the national Anthem.
Speaker 5: He's kind of the good luck charm for the Dodgers.
Speaker 5: And really, Jose Uh, it just feels like this is
Speaker 5: the Dodgers year in so many different ways. And Freddie Freeman,
Speaker 5: the parallels between him and Kurt Gibson are kind of
Speaker 5: eerie in a lot of ways, especially with him hitting
Speaker 5: a walk off grand slamming Game one. Gibson hit his
Speaker 5: home run in Game one. I mentioned this earlier. It
Speaker 5: felt like I haven't seen an opposing dugout that dejected
Speaker 5: since Game one of the eighty eight World Series.
Speaker 16: Yes, and I remember where I was there. I was
Speaker 16: pumping gays in my car in Glendell. We have left
Speaker 16: the game because my wife is pregnant. I'm like, we
Speaker 16: got to get you home, you got to go to work,
Speaker 16: and so those circumstances let us to be and Glenville
Speaker 16: pumping gas and he hit the home runs like, okay,
Speaker 16: they won.
Speaker 15: What a great moment.
Speaker 16: Now, you know, on top of that with Freddy and Gibby,
Speaker 16: how about two guys hobbling two guys on one bat leg.
Speaker 16: I mean, there's so many parallels to this whole thing
Speaker 16: and Freddie hitting them all the other way. I cannot
Speaker 16: believe Dave, I say you forgot about a triple of
Speaker 16: his favorite play for you offensively in baseball.
Speaker 15: But it was great to see Freddy go the other way.
Speaker 16: And I was watching his landings today because he have
Speaker 16: been talking about how much he rolls over that ankle
Speaker 16: when he's going well, and I'm watching his swings. If
Speaker 16: Freddie's locked up in that front floort is not good,
Speaker 16: his swingers kind of locked in it and just gets
Speaker 16: a little too emotional and irrotational. But man, today was
Speaker 16: back to the old Freddy that we saw driving the
Speaker 16: ball the other way, staying within himself and seeing better
Speaker 16: pitches and then make an adjustice. You know you and
Speaker 16: Brod mentioned the two broken bass Never seen that before.
Speaker 16: Two consecutive his breaking bass shattering beast like that. But
Speaker 16: too many things happened to including one thing today that
Speaker 16: you know. In the first couple of innings, dot positioning
Speaker 16: prevented at least a run against the Yankee because once
Speaker 16: again the Diary's position, he goes out there and shines
Speaker 16: and prevents runs from happening.
Speaker 5: Obviously, Jose, we're gonna talk about Freddie Freeman's walk off
Speaker 5: grand Slam, and rightfully so. But isn't that the difference
Speaker 5: between these two teams? The Dodgers defense, I mean labor
Speaker 5: Turus not being able to come up clean with that
Speaker 5: cutoff throw allowed Otani to be at third base to
Speaker 5: score on another game time sacrifice fly.
Speaker 2: Isn't that the difference between these two teams.
Speaker 15: I could give you a list of reasons.
Speaker 16: That is a big reason, yes, Dave, considering that tours
Speaker 16: makes that play things stop right the base is not open.
Speaker 16: And then the other one is the ruling that properly
Speaker 16: was called by the umpires when Berdugal goes out of play, Well,
Speaker 16: guess what got.
Speaker 15: To open up another base?
Speaker 16: So the Dodgers again tonight do what they've been doing
Speaker 16: throughout the postseason. Which is every little inch they get
Speaker 16: from the opponent, they go out there and take about it.
Speaker 16: Of course, there's early opportunities that they just couldn't capitalize on,
Speaker 16: But overall, I go back to thinking, to be good pitching,
Speaker 16: as they saw tonight from Garret Cole, you have to
Speaker 16: pitch well. So I'm gonna tip my hat to a
Speaker 16: god that was doubted by so many people absolute the
Speaker 16: New York Series, and that is one kid from Burbank,
Speaker 16: Jack Flerty, and what he did on the mound, neutralizing
Speaker 16: a very strong lineup, the team that led baseball on
Speaker 16: home runs, and he executed pitches, missed one and that's
Speaker 16: what happened. To put Prey in that position is a
Speaker 16: byproduct of pitching well and allowing your offense to know
Speaker 16: that there's still a lot because we kept in the game.
Speaker 5: Yeah, tonight was a great pitching pitcher's duel between Garrett
Speaker 5: Cole and Jack Flaherty. That's not what a lot of
Speaker 5: people were expecting in the hallways here. A lot of
Speaker 5: people thought it was going to be a higher scoring
Speaker 5: game and the starting pitchers would be out of this
Speaker 5: game pretty quickly.
Speaker 2: But that was not the case.
Speaker 5: Why was Jack Flaherty so good. Obviously they have the
Speaker 5: book on the big boy. They just kept spinning those
Speaker 5: big boys, and he handled Juan Soto pretty well.
Speaker 15: He did.
Speaker 16: I think overall to me is you know, we talk
Speaker 16: about timing with hitters, and I've talked to Jack about
Speaker 16: this in There's days, said Lewis. He goes, I have
Speaker 16: to be a time, which means front foot armslaught, front
Speaker 16: foot armslaught in New York. He mentioned it actually in
Speaker 16: this press conference yesterday. He mentioned I was not on time,
Speaker 16: So it seems and it feels like when he's pushing the.
Speaker 15: Ball he tries to get velocity. It doesn't happen. But
Speaker 15: today I saw in early ninety six, but well, nin
Speaker 15: thing I.
Speaker 16: Sold live in the fastball life at ninety three and
Speaker 16: ninety four is good enough for him to separate his
Speaker 16: breaking balls. Look at his breaking ball tonight too, where
Speaker 16: he hit a couple, especially the one where he staruck
Speaker 16: out leg Judge the first inning.
Speaker 15: But it's the.
Speaker 16: Separation of pitches and velocity that really allows him to
Speaker 16: go out and just opposite hitters timing.
Speaker 15: So overall, he was on time. His arm was a
Speaker 15: very good slot.
Speaker 16: He was behind the baseball and had a nice little
Speaker 16: whip to finish off the breaking pitches. So bouncing back
Speaker 16: against another New York team is against a better New
Speaker 16: York team. I can only say this guy knows what
Speaker 16: he's doing with a baseball out there when he spends it.
Speaker 5: All right, the Dodgers have a dramatic walk off win
Speaker 5: tonight thanks to Freddie Freeman's grand slam in the ten thinning.
Speaker 2: But Jose, when you.
Speaker 5: Look at the way the Dodgers pitched Soto, Judge, and Stanton,
Speaker 5: it was Sodo who walked twice tonight.
Speaker 2: They kept Judge in check. He was one for five.
Speaker 5: Stanton hit the two run home run off the hanging
Speaker 5: breaking ball from Flaherty. What did what did tonight tell
Speaker 5: you about the Dodgers game plan against those three guys.
Speaker 5: It feels like they're not going to allow Sodo to
Speaker 5: beat them, and they'll take their chances to spin Judge
Speaker 5: and Stanton to death.
Speaker 16: Correct And now SODA's gonna get his wats. I mean
Speaker 16: one hundred and twenty wats in the regular season. You
Speaker 16: saw Aaron Jude one hundred and thirty three. Watchs They're
Speaker 16: gonna what now Aaron Judge is not walking.
Speaker 15: You got to take advantage of that.
Speaker 16: We can talk about accumulation of the stats and we
Speaker 16: can get it to trends. So I'm going and I
Speaker 16: was like, based on the latest strands, what are they
Speaker 16: will If a guy is not hitting well and he's expanding,
Speaker 16: why would you give to pitch it around when he's
Speaker 16: being challenged as he has been throughout the postseason, especially
Speaker 16: in breaking balls. And on top of that, Soto, we
Speaker 16: know he is probably the most complete hitter there is
Speaker 16: in the game. Were put everything in play on what
Speaker 16: he does. But at the same time, he also have
Speaker 16: to go out there and throw strike one day. Without
Speaker 16: strike one, it doesn't happen. So whatever you do, make
Speaker 16: sure that you get ahead.
Speaker 8: You're able to expand.
Speaker 16: If you need to remember the Yankees are a team
Speaker 16: like the Dodgers, they don't expand a whole lot. In
Speaker 16: the same time, if you are going to get past
Speaker 16: those guys, never forget about seven, eight and nine, because
Speaker 16: that was those are the guys that eventually, after you
Speaker 16: get away with these guys you put your guard down
Speaker 16: a little bit more, they can come out to you
Speaker 16: on her So a very good job utilizing the big
Speaker 16: guys but also a very good job executing strike number
Speaker 16: one to be able to get quality pitches in the
Speaker 16: zone and out of the zone for them to get
Speaker 16: some chases.
Speaker 5: All right, Jose Mota, thanks a lot for jumping on
Speaker 5: with us, great call on the Spanish radio booth. And obviously,
Speaker 5: Fernando Valezuela, his memory is sitting right next to you
Speaker 5: every single one of these games, and obviously Fernando was
Speaker 5: looking down on the Dodgers tonight.
Speaker 10: He was.
Speaker 16: We can only think about his spirit harbing all around
Speaker 16: and we know that the game was not over. I
Speaker 16: got some nine, I think, so thanks day much appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Jose Mota.
Speaker 5: There he goes Jose Mota with Pete and Ningez, and
Speaker 5: I thought efrem Meza, the Dodgers Spanish radio producer, did
Speaker 5: a nice job of putting up some flowers Fernando's jersey
Speaker 5: there to really shine a spotlight that Fernando was with
Speaker 5: us in spirit and definitely with those guys.
Speaker 2: And it was great to see Jimi Hareen out here
Speaker 2: as well. He had a strong.
Speaker 5: Connection to Fernando Vealezuela as well. Eight six six nine,
Speaker 5: eight seven two five seventy is the phone number. Let's
Speaker 5: go out to Rancho Cucamonga. Gus, you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 5: Where were you when Freddy hit his grand slam?
Speaker 9: Hey, quick, shout out. It's a big Fernando and Tho
Speaker 9: rest in peace, brother. Hey, I was at I was
Speaker 9: actually at the Laker game. The Lakers did one of
Speaker 9: the sweets. Yeah, I was in one of the sweets,
Speaker 9: and we didn't leave the suite. It was like a
Speaker 9: lounge and I didn't leave the lounge until the game
Speaker 9: was over. And on top of that, it is my birthday.
Speaker 9: So we got a Lakers win, we got a Dodger's
Speaker 9: grand slam by Freddy Freeman. It's the one of the
Speaker 9: best days of my life. I'll tell you that right now.
Speaker 2: Hey, happy birthday, Gus. I know you'll never forget this one.
Speaker 9: Epic, epic Thanks Joe shout out.
Speaker 5: All right, Gus, thanks for the phone call. Appreciate it.
Speaker 5: I guess I've been in those situations before, where you know,
Speaker 5: in the nineties or the eighties, you're at a King's
Speaker 5: game with Gretzki and the Lakers and Magic are playing,
Speaker 5: or you're at Dodger game and the Lakers are playing
Speaker 5: a playoff game.
Speaker 2: And those things happened. So that's awesome.
Speaker 5: That's the community of great LA sports in Los Angeles,
Speaker 5: especially with the Dodgers and Lakers. Before we say good night,
Speaker 5: I want you to hear from Yankees manager Aaron Boone,
Speaker 5: who made the decision to intentionally walk Mookie Betts to
Speaker 5: have Nestor Cortes face Freddie Freeman in the tenth inning tonight.
Speaker 25: Paron you op to to intentionally walk Mookie to get
Speaker 25: to Freddy there the bases loaded in that situation. Ultimately,
Speaker 25: did you deliberate a lot over that decision?
Speaker 24: And why did you go with that?
Speaker 26: Just taking the left on left matchup there? Yeah, No,
Speaker 26: I didn't deliberate long.
Speaker 25: And Nessor had not pitched some September eighteenth. Why did
Speaker 25: you like him in that tenth inner?
Speaker 26: Just like the matchup? The reality is he's been throwing
Speaker 26: the ball really well the last few weeks as he's
Speaker 26: gotten ready for this. You know, I knew with one
Speaker 26: out there would be tough to double up show. Hey,
Speaker 26: if Tim Hill gets on the ground and then Mooky
Speaker 26: behind him, is tough matchup there. So felt convicted with
Speaker 26: with Nester in that spot.
Speaker 7: The first Roady right, Aaron, Andy, Nest's history against Sotani's
Speaker 7: why you like the matchup?
Speaker 26: I mean a little bit. I don't know if you
Speaker 26: ever love a matchup against Otani, but you know, you know,
Speaker 26: I felt like, you know, I felt like Nestor could
Speaker 26: give us a shot at it.
Speaker 7: And what could gliber have done differently in receiving that ball? Yeah?
Speaker 26: Once, once there's no play, you can really retreat and
Speaker 26: give ground and get a long hop. But he still
Speaker 26: got to a short hop. You just got to secure
Speaker 26: it there.
Speaker 5: All right, there's manager Aaron Boone answering questions from the
Speaker 5: New York media. I did not realize Nestor Cortes had
Speaker 5: not pitched in a game since September eighteenth. Tough spot
Speaker 5: for him to come in with the bases loaded in
Speaker 5: Game one of the World Series, facing one of, if
Speaker 5: not the best hitter of this generation, Freddie Freeman.
Speaker 2: So fight on, Aaron Boone.
Speaker 5: Eight sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy is
Speaker 5: the phone number. Let's take one more phone call before
Speaker 5: we say goodnight. David who was at Dodger Stadium tonight? David,
Speaker 5: where were you sitting and did you see Kelly Kapowski
Speaker 5: I heard Tiffany Amberthiesen was at Dodger Stadium tonight.
Speaker 9: No, I didn't say Tiffany whoever that is that I
Speaker 9: was on the loads level.
Speaker 15: I met you last year in Louis.
Speaker 8: I'm running a couple of times before.
Speaker 24: H Yeah, that was an amazing game in Australia. Yeah,
Speaker 24: I'm actually from Melbourne but coming here quite a bit.
Speaker 15: And uh yeah, go to a lot of games.
Speaker 7: So so where were you sitting?
Speaker 2: Tell us that nobody cares about that stuff.
Speaker 5: Where were you sitting when Freddy hit the slam loach
Speaker 5: level loads level?
Speaker 2: And did you know it was gone right away?
Speaker 7: What was going on?
Speaker 2: Was there a lot of high five pre splashing? What
Speaker 2: was going on?
Speaker 18: Paint the pictures as soon as it left it that
Speaker 18: my man on knew it was gone, and uh yeah,
Speaker 18: it was really specially moment.
Speaker 24: Yeah, just a privilege debate, Aaron. You know from what
Speaker 24: Freddie's in, Joe the Sea would signed the break and
Speaker 24: finger as you mentioned before, and also the the sprighted
Speaker 24: ankle and all he's gone through. So I specially tonight,
Speaker 24: and I'll lave at that even out of calls.
Speaker 5: All right, David, thanks a lot for calling in and man,
Speaker 5: you really made the trip to be at one of
Speaker 5: the most memorable World Series games in history, not even
Speaker 5: recent history, in history. The Dodgers win it in ten innings,
Speaker 5: six to three over the Yankees thanks to a walk
Speaker 5: off grand slam by Freddie Freeman. Game two is tomorrow
Speaker 5: night here at Dodgers Stadium, Yama Moto against left hander
Speaker 5: Carlos Rodin. Dave Roberts said before the game today, Miguel
Speaker 5: Rojas will get the started shortstop tomorrow. Rojas, who was
Speaker 5: not on the NLCS roster because of injury, made the
Speaker 5: World Series roster, is healthy enough to be out there
Speaker 5: tomorrow and he will get the started shortstop. We'll see
Speaker 5: where that moves Tommy Edmond and Keikey Hernandez when the
Speaker 5: Dodgers line up their rightings against the lefty Rodin Morongo Casino.
Speaker 5: Dodgers on Deck begins at four o'clock first pitch from
Speaker 5: Dodgers Stadium with Rick Monday and Steven Nelson.
Speaker 2: At five oh eight.
Speaker 5: We'll see what the Dodgers and Yankees have for an
Speaker 5: encore tomorrow night. What an opening act as the Dodgers
Speaker 5: win Game one of the World Series on a walk
Speaker 5: off grand slam by Freddie Freeman.
Speaker 2: In the tenth thinning.
Speaker 5: Thanks to Colin Ye back at our Burbank studios, Thanks
Speaker 5: to Dwayne McDonald out here at Dodgers Stadium, and thanks
Speaker 5: to you for listening. We will talk to you tomorrow
Speaker 5: night after Game two of the World Series. The Dodgers
Speaker 5: take Game one six to three in ten innings. And oh,
Speaker 5: by the way, thank you to Brad Paisley and his
Speaker 5: wife Kim Williams for stopping by before they hit the
Speaker 5: road as well, so appreciate that.
Speaker 2: And a great job by Brad.
Speaker 5: Performing the Nashville anthem, and certainly for Nando Valezuela was
Speaker 5: on all our minds, not just tonight, but probably for
Speaker 5: the last month. And Fernando certainly was looking down on
Speaker 5: the Dodgers tonight. Tommy Lasorda, Vin Scully, all the Dodgers
Speaker 5: in Blue Heaven certainly were smiling tonight as Freddie Freeman
Speaker 5: gives us another memorable Dodger moment with a walk off
Speaker 5: grand slam in the tenth inning off of Nesta Cortes
Speaker 5: to give the Dodgers a six to three win in
Speaker 5: ten On M five seventy LA Sports, We'll talk to
Speaker 5: you tomorrow, see ya,