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Speaker 3: Seventeen times this season the Dodgers and padres and wearing off.
Speaker 3: Only number eighteen matters as whoever wins Game five the
Speaker 3: NLDS tonight moves on to the NLCS. Hi everybody, and
Speaker 3: welcome in to Sax and Kates in the AM here
Speaker 3: on A five to seventy LA Sports. I am Tim Kats,
Speaker 3: joined by two time World Series Champion, Rookie of the
Speaker 3: Year and one hell of a guy, my favorite number
Speaker 3: three of all time, Steve Sacks. Saxy, Good morning, Hey Tommy,
Speaker 3: how you doing. I'm on tilt right now. To be
Speaker 3: honest with you, Saxy, I don't know how I feel.
Speaker 3: I'm emotionally a wreck right now. I feel like this
Speaker 3: is another postseason where this Dodgers can start again a
Speaker 3: great run here and go on to the NLCS, or
Speaker 3: things can go tremendously wrong tonight. I feel like Game
Speaker 3: seven of the World Series all over again in twenty seventeen,
Speaker 3: and wouldn't you know it, you Darvish is on the
Speaker 3: mound pitching per time for the Padres, but not for
Speaker 3: the Dodgers like you was in twenty seventeen. I'm emotionally
Speaker 3: a wreck right now because I don't know what is
Speaker 3: going to happen tonight. I don't have a feel on
Speaker 3: this game, and quite frankly, I'm nervous.
Speaker 2: Well. I think the best barometer that we can get
Speaker 2: is to ask missus Kates how you were getting along
Speaker 2: last night. Did you getty sleep or what? But look,
Speaker 2: I feel great about it. I feel one eighty opposite
Speaker 2: of you. I am completely antithetical to your thought process
Speaker 2: this morning. I think that Dodgers are gonna shove today.
Speaker 2: I want you Darvish on the mound. If that's the
Speaker 2: best they got, bring it. It's time. Listen. Darvish is
Speaker 2: a very streaky pitcher. We all know that he goes
Speaker 2: in spurts. He goes great, he goes bad. He's been
Speaker 2: great lately. It's time for some bad. Okay, this worm
Speaker 2: will turn and I think it's gonna happen tonight. Which
Speaker 2: Dodger team are we going to see? Offensively? The team
Speaker 2: that erupted for eight runs in Game four? Is it
Speaker 2: going to be the team that struggled to score runs
Speaker 2: in the first two games of this series? Which you,
Speaker 2: darbysh are we going to see? Which Yoshi I'moimoto are
Speaker 2: we going to see for the Dodgers tonight in Game five?
Speaker 2: And just a few hours ago, in case you missed it,
Speaker 2: Dave Roberts and the Dodgers posted it online that Yoshinobu
Speaker 2: Yamamoto will in fact be the Game five starter tonight
Speaker 2: against the San Diego Padres. Yesterday at his press conference,
Speaker 2: he was kind of back and forth, didn't really show
Speaker 2: his card sax.
Speaker 3: He said, everything's on the table. It could be flairt
Speaker 3: he could be a bullpen game. It could be Yoshi
Speaker 3: Yamamoto in some capacity, and then hours later we find
Speaker 3: out that yes, it is gonna be Yamamoto going for
Speaker 3: Game five and the Dodgers tonight. What's your just initial
Speaker 3: gut reaction when you hear the twenty six year old,
Speaker 3: first year in the big leagues Japanese right handers getting
Speaker 3: the start.
Speaker 2: You hang on a second, I'm scratching something down on
Speaker 2: my pad right here, Another sex prediction come true? Okay, thanks?
Speaker 2: All right, Look, yeah, I think this is the man.
Speaker 2: The great thing about this whole thing, tim is you
Speaker 2: got to realize that, no matter what, you're not gonna
Speaker 2: see a bad part of Yoshi tonight because the Dodgers
Speaker 2: aren't gonna let him get there. If he starts scratching
Speaker 2: that surface, they're gonna yank them and they're gonna bring
Speaker 2: in the bullpen. That's what they're going to do to you.
Speaker 2: So either way, the good point is you're not gonna
Speaker 2: see a bad Yoshi tonight. The Dodgers won't let it happen.
Speaker 3: I just think of this guy that was much heralded
Speaker 3: coming over from Japan. They signed him to a twelve year,
Speaker 3: three hundred and twenty five million dollar contract. Making him
Speaker 3: the highest paid right hander in the history of baseball.
Speaker 3: Before he even threw a pitch in the United States.
Speaker 3: His first start was in Seoul, South Korea, against the
Speaker 3: same Padres team, and he struggled in one inning of work.
Speaker 3: He's made three starts against the Padres this year and
Speaker 3: has struggled early and often in those three starts, and
Speaker 3: now with a thirteen ERA against the San Diego Padres
Speaker 3: in those starts. He's getting the start here in game five.
Speaker 3: And here's Dave Roberts. Let's hear from Dave Roberts, the
Speaker 3: manager himself, talking about Yamamoto getting the start in game
Speaker 3: five and he's tipping possibly the pitches in game one.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Dave, with Young Moto, I'll comfort you guys that
Speaker 4: you guys have kind of attacked the tipping issue that
Speaker 4: you guys may have located in Game one.
Speaker 5: I think that we're I think we've cleaned some things up,
Speaker 5: and so to their credit, they've done a good job
Speaker 5: of scouting and things like that. But I think that
Speaker 5: as far as overall kind of where Yoshinobu's at, I
Speaker 5: feel really comfortable.
Speaker 4: I know it's just three stars and one of them
Speaker 4: was the Korea one, but they have hit him pretty well.
Speaker 4: What is it the feeling has allowed them to maybe
Speaker 4: had the good results against Almodo?
Speaker 5: I think, you know, the career starts even really hard
Speaker 5: even talk about I guess I think the I think
Speaker 5: over the course, it's just lack of command. When when
Speaker 5: he hasn't commanded the baseball, he hasn't been really that good.
Speaker 5: But when he's convicted and ripping it and attacking hitters
Speaker 5: with his pitch mix, he's as good as anyone. And
Speaker 5: so I think that you know, from Korea to the
Speaker 5: last one, when you start kind of nibbling and getting behind,
Speaker 5: that's when he's not at his best.
Speaker 6: Dave, when you were looking into you know, whether Yamamoto
Speaker 6: was tipping what he was doing, was there something that
Speaker 6: was changing in his delivery, or you know that he
Speaker 6: doesn't usually do. Is it or is it you know
Speaker 6: more about kind of controlling and like hiding the tendencies
Speaker 6: versus making a shift coming back up.
Speaker 5: It's a little both. I think that it's a little
Speaker 5: of just kind of being being aware of it. I
Speaker 5: think that if we're aware of certain tendencies that we
Speaker 5: might have, then you can kind of manage it, and
Speaker 5: so however we decide to go about doing that is
Speaker 5: what we're going to do. If that makes any sense.
Speaker 3: All Right, there's Dave Roberts and what he's alluding to,
Speaker 3: Saxy is after Game one, which Yoshinoba Yamamoto didn't have
Speaker 3: his best off. He allowed five runs over three innings
Speaker 3: and really wasn't fulling anybody up there at the plant
Speaker 3: and didn't have any command of his off speed pitches.
Speaker 3: They believe he was tipping pitches, whether he was out
Speaker 3: of the stretch, his glove placement when he was out
Speaker 3: of the stretch, whether it was a runner on second
Speaker 3: base and he was shifting things up. The padres may
Speaker 3: have known something and he could have been tipping his pitches.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it could have been and it, but I think
Speaker 2: that's a bit overrated. Sure. Look, if you told me
Speaker 2: a fastball was coming every single time, would the average
Speaker 2: be better? Sure, but you got to be able to
Speaker 2: trust that, and if you're wrong just one time, it
Speaker 2: could really put a lot much more doubt in your head.
Speaker 2: A lot of guys don't want to know the pitches
Speaker 2: because it kind of has a tendency to script or
Speaker 2: normal way of approaching a pitcher. But look, the overall
Speaker 2: thing is I look at his rookie year. He was
Speaker 2: seven to two with the three e r A in
Speaker 2: eighteen starts. The overall breadth of what he did with
Speaker 2: this year was really good. We're going to see what
Speaker 2: happens when it really is on the line, and this
Speaker 2: is it. It doesn't get much bigger than this for him.
Speaker 2: But I think he can do it, and I think
Speaker 2: it's time. You know that that Darvis, you know, doesn't
Speaker 2: have his best outing, his experience really pulls well for him.
Speaker 2: And that's you, Darvis. He's thirty eight years old, he's
Speaker 2: been there and done that. The heartbeat is going to
Speaker 2: be slow, and so he's not going to be up
Speaker 2: in arms about this thing. As a matter of fact,
Speaker 2: they asked him about, you know, what his plan of
Speaker 2: attack for the Dodgers is, and I thought, actually, you
Speaker 2: Darvish made a very very truthful, great answer when he
Speaker 2: when he when he answered that question, he says, you
Speaker 2: know what, I don't really know yet. I'm going to
Speaker 2: see how the hitters react to my pitches and then
Speaker 2: I'll have a better, you know, flare of what they're doing.
Speaker 2: And that's what catchers do. Catchers can sense every little thing,
Speaker 2: every little intricate thing that the pitch, that the hitters
Speaker 2: are doing different being that close to them in the box,
Speaker 2: and that's kind of what you Darvish does. He goes
Speaker 2: on the reaction of the hitters, which is I think
Speaker 2: a brilliant move.
Speaker 3: I go back to Game one, in which he had
Speaker 3: no complaint, no command of his splitter. He was bouncing
Speaker 3: that pitch and he was struggling to find any austby
Speaker 3: pitches for strikes, and the padres early on recognized that,
Speaker 3: and so they were sitting fastball, realizing that that was
Speaker 3: the only pitch he can get over for a strike
Speaker 3: in the zone. Everything else they were laying off of
Speaker 3: because he was bouncing a foot in front of the place.
Speaker 3: He had a wild pitch and a pass ball. I
Speaker 3: don't know if the moment got to him. I don't
Speaker 3: know if it was pressure. In Game one of the NLDS.
Speaker 3: I look back at his start, Steve, and I look
Speaker 3: at the first start in South Korea. Okay, first start
Speaker 3: in a different country. You know it was different. I
Speaker 3: kind of throw that one out of the five runs
Speaker 3: in three innings. I throw that out of the books.
Speaker 3: But another pressure situation to start was back in June.
Speaker 3: He pitched a Yankee Stadium in the opening game of
Speaker 3: a three game set against the Yankees and went really well.
Speaker 3: Seven innings, no runs, two hits, struck out seven through
Speaker 3: one hundred and six pitches. But a lot of people
Speaker 3: point to that as the game in which he hurt
Speaker 3: his shoulder, because he then went on the the il
Speaker 3: for three months with a shoulder injury. But big game pitching,
Speaker 3: we haven't seen the results, and it's a small sample size,
Speaker 3: I get it, but we just haven't seen the results.
Speaker 2: Y Yeah, don't don't really know yet. And you know, everyone,
Speaker 2: they're not gonna all be the same. We can't glump
Speaker 2: them all together because they're very, very drastically different in
Speaker 2: each start, even though their big time starts, you know
Speaker 2: when you talk about when everything's on the line. So
Speaker 2: we'll see how he reacts tonight. You know. The great
Speaker 2: thing is Dodgers have the momentum, and I'm holding my
Speaker 2: keys to winning game five towards the end, of course,
Speaker 2: but I think I got to nail down today pretty
Speaker 2: good of what the key has got to be, and
Speaker 2: I think it looks good for the Dodgers.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't have been opposed to the Dodgers Saxee if
Speaker 3: they would have just said, all right, Yamamoto, we're gonna
Speaker 3: save for Game one of the NLCS, assuming we get
Speaker 3: there with the Game five win against the Padres, and
Speaker 3: we're going to go Flarity in a bullpen game, and
Speaker 3: that's gonna be our blueprint for Game five. And Yamamoto
Speaker 3: br guy. Because the Mets, all, he saw him once
Speaker 3: during the regular season. They don't have a track record
Speaker 3: against him, unlike the Padres. They have now seen him
Speaker 3: three times and most recently last Saturday, and it hit
Speaker 3: him around pretty good. Let's not put him in a
Speaker 3: bad situation against the Padres and let's save him for
Speaker 3: the Mets. I would have rather gone that route.
Speaker 2: So would you rather have Flarity tonight?
Speaker 3: I would have rather had Jack Flerity get the start
Speaker 3: tonight and have that bullpen ready to go, lock and
Speaker 3: loaded in case he gets in any trouble and take
Speaker 3: it literally batter to batter from the start of the game.
Speaker 3: Any sign of trouble, a walk, runners on base, it's
Speaker 3: to the bullpen to get Flarity out of there. There
Speaker 3: is no leash for anybody tonight, whether it's Yamamoto, but
Speaker 3: I think Flarity should have been the guy. Again, I
Speaker 3: look at the three games against the Padres. They hit
Speaker 3: him around. Okay, I don't want to make it a fourth.
Speaker 3: Let's push him to the game one of the nlds,
Speaker 3: assuming we get there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I understand that the point's well taken and
Speaker 2: there's a do you make a very cogent argument, Tim. However,
Speaker 2: I still think that that you know the percentages, and
Speaker 2: over time, you know somebody is going to do somebody can't.
Speaker 2: You can't keep it up in this game all the
Speaker 2: time unless you're like, you know, you know one of
Speaker 2: the greatest ever. You know, Sandy Kofax could do it,
Speaker 2: but I don't know about you know, there's only one
Speaker 2: of him. So I just think that it's got to
Speaker 2: turn for a bit. I go on the per and
Speaker 2: you know, I know you has been really good. His
Speaker 2: last six or seven starts, he's been nails. But he's
Speaker 2: a perfect guy to point this out on because he's
Speaker 2: very streaky. He's been that way his whole career, and
Speaker 2: I don't know how long he can keep this up.
Speaker 2: I think it's about to turn.
Speaker 3: You Darvish thirty eight years old, been in the big
Speaker 3: leagues forever, pitch for the Dodgers in twenty seventeen. As
Speaker 3: we all unfortunately know, he has pitched in playoff elimination
Speaker 3: games four times in his career, including two winner take
Speaker 3: all games. How those teams done when he's got the
Speaker 3: start in all four of those must win elimination games,
Speaker 3: they are zero to four. Wow, are the teams that
Speaker 3: he's pitched for, including the Padres in Game five of
Speaker 3: the twenty twenty two NLCS series against the Phillies, and
Speaker 3: that start he allowed two runs over six innings left
Speaker 3: with the league before the Phillies came back in one,
Speaker 3: so not necessarily his fault. But of course we all
Speaker 3: know one of the other games he pitched was Game
Speaker 3: seven of the twenty seventeen World Series, in which he
Speaker 3: gave up five runs over an inning in two thirds.
Speaker 3: There you go, in the Dodgers loss to the Houston
Speaker 3: Astros in the twenty seventeen World Series. So the track
Speaker 3: record for him in close out elimination games is not
Speaker 3: very good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so we've we've got to jump ball tonight. I
Speaker 2: think as far as that goes, I think that's kind
Speaker 2: of a wash. I know we're gonna get into more
Speaker 2: of the other stuff tonight, but I think the Dodgers
Speaker 2: have kind of unveiled a couple of things that have
Speaker 2: been really really good for them because they've surprised people
Speaker 2: with you know, this team is just built to slug,
Speaker 2: and they certainly are, but with the with the you know,
Speaker 2: with Tommy Edmond in there, he and Kik and being
Speaker 2: forced to put these guys in there, they add a
Speaker 2: different flare to the team. They maybe not as much
Speaker 2: danger as far as being able to slug, but they
Speaker 2: add a lot of other elements to the game that
Speaker 2: can push them forward, being able to bunt, be add
Speaker 2: a little bit more speed. They are flexible and their
Speaker 2: positions where they can go in and out of and
Speaker 2: I think that really helps the Dodgers, especially when you
Speaker 2: need it, because this team is strapped as far as
Speaker 2: injuries go.
Speaker 3: When you think of pressure and who it's on here
Speaker 3: in Game five of this NLDS is the pressure on
Speaker 3: the Dodgers at home and the expectations and everybody thought
Speaker 3: this team is going to make a clear run of
Speaker 3: the World Series, and here they are, and they must
Speaker 3: win elimination game or is the pressure on the San
Speaker 3: Diego Padres because they didn't get it done in Game four,
Speaker 3: but now they have to come to Dodgers Stadium and
Speaker 3: win Game five.
Speaker 2: Look, there's always pressure on the Dodgers because they're expected
Speaker 2: to win, you know, with the amount of money they spend,
Speaker 2: with the amount of talent they have, they always they're
Speaker 2: always expected to win. So they're not ever going to
Speaker 2: be without the pressure. It's always going to be there
Speaker 2: to some extent. But I think the Padres are looking
Speaker 2: this whole thing right now in the landscape and they're thinking,
Speaker 2: they're thinking, what the heck just happened. I mean, we
Speaker 2: were on such a role. We got you know, we
Speaker 2: got past the first you know, the the uh you know,
Speaker 2: wild card. We're in here now and we are rolling
Speaker 2: now and we're on the Dodger and and man this
Speaker 2: we have them on their heels. And now all of
Speaker 2: a sudden, boom, the Dodgers just came back with a
Speaker 2: nice solid, short left hook, and boom they just stagger
Speaker 2: at them. So these guys are thinking, what the heck
Speaker 2: just happened? Now we got to go up to LA
Speaker 2: and play these guys. I think that I think the
Speaker 2: Padres are on their heels, and they're they're kind of
Speaker 2: sitting back there and in the corners of their heart,
Speaker 2: they're thinking, you know what, the cream comes to the
Speaker 2: top and and and we haven't even seen all of
Speaker 2: it yet.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm interested to see how Manny Machado, how a
Speaker 3: Jerks and pro farre have, Fernando Tatis Junior and the
Speaker 3: rest of this lineup, even Jackson Merrill, how do they
Speaker 3: perform in a must win game, a decisive game five
Speaker 3: like it is tonight. Have they been in this situation before?
Speaker 3: How is the heart gonna be gonna be in this game?
Speaker 3: Are they gonna be too nervous? Are they gonna be
Speaker 3: anxious at the plate? Are they gonna be three out
Speaker 3: of pitches outside of the zone trying to do too
Speaker 3: much because they don't have the experience, which quite frankly,
Speaker 3: a lot of these Dodger players see had been through
Speaker 3: this the bubble in twenty twenty in Arlington and being
Speaker 3: down three to one to the Atlanta Braves, you know,
Speaker 3: coming back and winning games in the CSS and the
Speaker 3: ds IS. Over the years since twenty seventeen on, a
Speaker 3: lot of these guys have been.
Speaker 2: Through this they're in the playoffs. I mean all the time, right,
Speaker 2: was it twelve years in a row?
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 2: Ye, they're they're not going to be stunned by the moment.
Speaker 2: They this is something they're expecting, that they understand this,
Speaker 2: and that's that's a positive for them, no question about it.
Speaker 2: The experience matters.
Speaker 3: Eight six six nine eighty seven two five seventy. How
Speaker 3: you feeling Dodger fans going in to Game five tonight?
Speaker 3: And now we know Yoshinobu Yamamoto is your Game five
Speaker 3: starter against the Padres. Eight six six nine eighty seven
Speaker 3: two five seventy. Coming up this hour, Ryan Dempster from
Speaker 3: MLB Network Intentional Talk, longtime big league pitcher, will join
Speaker 3: us get his thoughts on this Game five pitching matchup
Speaker 3: Dodgers Padres. Get a national perspective from him. Coming up
Speaker 3: at the seven o'clock hour, David Vasse will join us
Speaker 3: get his thoughts on this Dodgers Padres Game five matchup.
Speaker 3: He was out at Dodger Stadium for the workouts yesterday
Speaker 3: for both teams at Dodger Stadium, so we'll get his
Speaker 3: perspective and yours. Eight six six nine eighty seven two
Speaker 3: five seventy It's Saxon Kate's and am lead you up
Speaker 3: to a winner take all Game five of the NLDS
Speaker 3: right here on your home of the Dodgers a FFI
Speaker 3: seventy LA Sports. It's Saxon Kates at am on n
Speaker 3: five to seventy LA Sports. You're a home of Game
Speaker 3: five of the NLDS. First pitch coming up tonight at
Speaker 3: five oh eighty s an earlier. Star Dodger fans, make
Speaker 3: sure you give yourself plenty of time to get out
Speaker 3: to Dodgers Stadium, find parking, get into your seats with
Speaker 3: a nice cold beverage and a Dodger dog. And then
Speaker 3: once you're done, eaton, get off your seat and get
Speaker 3: up and stan and cheer on this Dodger team in
Speaker 3: Game five of the NLDS. He is Steve Sacks, I'm
Speaker 3: Tim Kaates. Ryan Dempster from the MLB Network will join
Speaker 3: us coming up in just a couple of minutes. David
Speaker 3: Vasse will join us next hour. As we get you
Speaker 3: ready for this must win Game five of the NLDS,
Speaker 3: you Darvish and Yoshinobu Yamamoto. The pitching matchup in this
Speaker 3: Game five quite Frankly, as much as I'm worried about
Speaker 3: Yamamoto starting Game five tonight Saxy, when the season started
Speaker 3: and he got the opening start again sold against the Padres,
Speaker 3: I kind of always felt all along, if he's gonna
Speaker 3: stay healthy this year, this is gonna be the guy
Speaker 3: who's they're gonna go to in a big game. Not
Speaker 3: only did they pay him the money to be a
Speaker 3: big game pitcher, but he kind of felt like he
Speaker 3: was the new guy to take over. They signed him
Speaker 3: to the big deal. Clayton Kershaw's older. They got a
Speaker 3: lot of veteran pitchers in this rotation and some unknown rookies.
Speaker 3: He was that guy that they kind of made this
Speaker 3: center and the centerpiece of this rotation. So it's sort
Speaker 3: of fitting here that he's getting the start in this
Speaker 3: must win game. Yeah, I think so too.
Speaker 2: And we don't know yet if if Yoshi can put
Speaker 2: it in another mode, if he can put it in
Speaker 2: another you know, another gear, and we're gonna find out.
Speaker 2: I mean, some guys can do that. Some guys play
Speaker 2: to the level of competition and and and you know
Speaker 2: they can they can screw it up when they play
Speaker 2: a lousy team, and they can dominate for a good team.
Speaker 2: So it's it's something you don't want. You want to
Speaker 2: try to be that way all the time, of course.
Speaker 2: But we'll see what he does. And I think that,
Speaker 2: like I said, short leash tonight, but it's going to
Speaker 2: be interesting.
Speaker 3: If he doesn't have his command early on. And I'm
Speaker 3: just completely hypothetical, but you're talking about a short leash, leadoff,
Speaker 3: batter makes contact, gets.
Speaker 2: On, They're not going to bring him out then though,
Speaker 2: But I'm talking about go ahead.
Speaker 3: Tim, Just does he get at least an inning or
Speaker 3: is there traffic on the basis early and you could
Speaker 3: see it, maybe you can feel that momentum early for
Speaker 3: the padres is. Is that a short leash?
Speaker 2: Uh? Yeah, I mean you'll be able to feel it.
Speaker 2: Dave will be able to feel it too, And I
Speaker 2: think that's that's more important than anything else. I'm of
Speaker 2: I'm of the opinion that even if he you know,
Speaker 2: Arise gets up and hits a line drive to third
Speaker 2: base and uh, you know we catch it, okay, people thinking,
Speaker 2: oh my gosh, he barreled one up and then the
Speaker 2: next guy gets on. You know, are you gonna yank
Speaker 2: him out? Then? No, No, you're gonna you're gonna feel
Speaker 2: a little.
Speaker 3: Bit, well, your your leash is a little bit different
Speaker 3: sides than my leash.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I gotta see now. Now if he
Speaker 2: if he walks the first guy, the next guy hits
Speaker 2: a double, then the next guy, you know, goes deep. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: maybe we got to get out here. So Lee, she's done.
Speaker 2: That leash has done. Let's check.
Speaker 3: This's go on to the phones. Kevin in Long Beach
Speaker 3: on this Friday morning, bright and early, Kevin, how are
Speaker 3: you feeling going into Game five tonight? This is a
Speaker 3: must win game like we've never seen since twenty seventeen.
Speaker 7: You know, honestly, like it's been one hell of a
Speaker 7: roller coaster.
Speaker 8: You know, seeing how the team's have been producing.
Speaker 7: Throughout the whole year. I've been to a few games myself.
Speaker 7: I've seen how the team has been like struggling through
Speaker 7: the injuries, and you know, we've been fighting through this
Speaker 7: whole time and we're just looking forward to this win tonight.
Speaker 7: You know, we need to get this. I mean, we're
Speaker 7: we've always been criticized about this mickey mouse of a
Speaker 7: World Series win. We need to give it to them
Speaker 7: and we need to win this one for sure. I
Speaker 7: mean rest in peace to my godmother. She's the one
Speaker 7: who made me the Dodger fan I am today and
Speaker 7: I'm definitely looking forward to this win tonight.
Speaker 3: Let's go Dodgers, all right, Kevin, appreciate the phone call.
Speaker 3: Eight sixty six eight six six five seven. Let's keep
Speaker 3: it going. Jeremy, Temple City on this Friday morning as
Speaker 3: we lead you up to Game five of the NLDS. Jeremy,
Speaker 3: how you feeling.
Speaker 9: I'm telling great, going, doing good, thank you, Just excited
Speaker 9: for today. Definitely need to get this dub. Actually, my
Speaker 9: wife told me on the season gets older, she said,
Speaker 9: if we don't win and we don't get out of
Speaker 9: the NLBS, we can't renew for next year. So oh no,
Speaker 9: we need this, We need this, We need this.
Speaker 3: Dumb guys, where are your season seats at? Jeremy, where
Speaker 3: do you said?
Speaker 9: I'm in Low's one to sixty three?
Speaker 2: Okay, I see you.
Speaker 8: Yeah, not too bad, not too bad, but uh, you know, excited, glad.
Speaker 8: It's against the Padres.
Speaker 9: I have a buddy who works for them in their
Speaker 9: front office. I went to Clarges, met and things like that,
Speaker 9: so he's been giving me stuff back in ports for
Speaker 9: a few years now, so it'd be nice to get.
Speaker 3: It back, all right, Jeremy, appreciate it for your sake.
Speaker 3: I hope the Dodgers win so you can keep those
Speaker 3: season tickets for twenty twenty five. Yeah, for twenty twenty five,
Speaker 3: eight sixty six, ninety seven, two five, seventy eight, six
Speaker 3: six nine eighty seven, two five seven. We keep it going,
Speaker 3: Dodger fans, how you feeling this morning leading up to
Speaker 3: Game five of this NLDS. Yoshinobu Yamamoto is the starter
Speaker 3: for the Dodgers. You Darvish on the mound for the Padres.
Speaker 3: Diana Gernada Hills, Good morning, Diana, how are you feeling?
Speaker 10: I'm feeling great. I'm so excited for tonight. You guys,
Speaker 10: we're gonna do this.
Speaker 9: I know we are.
Speaker 10: And I don't know if you mentioned this yet, but
Speaker 10: David Vasse said yesterday we got to get into you
Speaker 10: Doris's head, and just you know, chant Darvish, Darvish, get
Speaker 10: in his head.
Speaker 9: Let's do this.
Speaker 1: Boys.
Speaker 3: Appreciate it, Diana.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: David Vasse, who's going to join us in about thirty
Speaker 3: five minutes. Yesterday was on a five seventy saxy and
Speaker 3: said he wants to see like the old the hockey
Speaker 3: chant when a goalie is out there and gets scored upon,
Speaker 3: all of a sudden, they'll start chanting at the goalie
Speaker 3: in Unison. And he wants all the Dodger fans, all
Speaker 3: fifty thousand plus out there to be chanting in Unison
Speaker 3: doarbishh Doarviish, which I think would be fantastic. And I
Speaker 3: wholeheartedly support that idea. Imagine fifty thousand fans instead of
Speaker 3: saying beat la like all the idiots do around the country,
Speaker 3: copying the Boston Celtics fans from the eighties who started
Speaker 3: that very original. By the way, fans, if you start darvish, yeah,
Speaker 3: get in his head.
Speaker 2: By a way, you know, some of some of the
Speaker 2: guys that that maybe aren't the brightest in the world
Speaker 2: could be out there and they can hear darv and
Speaker 2: he could they could say, Wow, look how much they
Speaker 2: like me. They I'll chant my name. They loved me.
Speaker 3: How did you take criticism from fans or.
Speaker 2: I didn't care. I just I just laughed at him. Hey,
Speaker 2: I had this one guy and he wanted to one
Speaker 2: to a quick story, right, Yeah, Okay, here's a quick one.
Speaker 2: Is in San Diego, I had this guy that that
Speaker 2: would come early and he would do that. He would
Speaker 2: just go suck losers, you know, just god on all.
Speaker 2: And this during batting practice. Okay, so I'm out there
Speaker 2: taking ground balls getting ready for the game, and he
Speaker 2: would do this. He would do it. Over the course
Speaker 2: of a couple of years, he would be there. Oh
Speaker 2: my god, I gotta go and listen to this guy again.
Speaker 2: And then so one day I just uh, I took
Speaker 2: the ground ball and I just stopped and I just
Speaker 2: started running over to him, and he's looking at me like,
Speaker 2: oh shoots, he gonna jump over the brailing here. And
Speaker 2: I had the ball in my glove and I gave
Speaker 2: him a ball. I gave him the ball and I said, look,
Speaker 2: I hear you, and I hear you all the time,
Speaker 2: but I just wanted to give you this ball and
Speaker 2: hope you have a great time tonight at the game.
Speaker 2: Ever since then, the dude was my best friend. He
Speaker 2: killed him with kindness, killed him with this and he
Speaker 2: was like my best friend. So it was great. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so that's how you kind of silence them.
Speaker 3: It's going to be rocking tonight at Dodgers Stadium, Game
Speaker 3: five of this NLDS you Darvish and Yoshinobu Yamamoto the
Speaker 3: pitching matchup and joining this now sixteen years as a
Speaker 3: big league pitcher, a World Series winner, He's pitched in
Speaker 3: the postseason both of the Cubs and the Boston Red Sox,
Speaker 3: and now you see him on Intentional Talk with Kevin
Speaker 3: Malar and the great Sierra Sontos, co host of MLB
Speaker 3: Network's Intentional Talk throughout the postseason, including morning this morning
Speaker 3: at eleven am Pacific. It is Ryan Dempster and he
Speaker 3: joins us. Now, by the way, it a great show. Ryan,
Speaker 3: we watch it daily here in the studio, and it's
Speaker 3: no surprise you guys have had a twenty three percent
Speaker 3: rise in viewership this season because you Kevin, Sierra, you
Speaker 3: guys do a fantastic job. Thanks for coming on this morning.
Speaker 8: I really appreciate that. We we love it. We enjoy
Speaker 8: you know what we do. We love talking baseball. We
Speaker 8: have a tough time turning it off when the show's over.
Speaker 8: You know, we're constantly texting each other last night watching
Speaker 8: the games, and and you know it's it's ingrained in
Speaker 8: who we are and we love doing the show, so
Speaker 8: I appreciate all the good words about it, and I
Speaker 8: appreciate you guys having me.
Speaker 3: On absolutely Tim Kates along with former Dodger Great World
Speaker 3: Series champ Rookie of the Year Steve Sacks here on
Speaker 3: a five to seventy LA Sports and we're getting fans
Speaker 3: ready for Game five of this NLDS ryan, a pitching
Speaker 3: matchup of you darbish against Yoshinova Yamamoto. Yamamoto has struggled
Speaker 3: in three starts against the Padres this year, from Seul,
Speaker 3: South Korea to a regular season start to Game one
Speaker 3: last Saturday, So Dodger fans feeling a little apprehensive this
Speaker 3: morning since he's been named the starter. How do you
Speaker 3: feel that? How do you view this pitching matchup tonight?
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean, I think it's just gonna be one
Speaker 8: of those ones that might be a little premeditated going
Speaker 8: in like and you have multiple options as far as
Speaker 8: when as a guy you know, going to be coming
Speaker 8: in from the bullpen and for Ama Modo, I'm sure,
Speaker 8: especially after what Dave did in Game four managing a
Speaker 8: bullpen game like that, that the leash will be short.
Speaker 8: There won't be there's not there's not time. There's no
Speaker 8: time for your starting pitcher too to get locked in,
Speaker 8: and so it's up to him to go out there
Speaker 8: and execute. And it's going to be the same on
Speaker 8: the other side. You know, I know you you had
Speaker 8: a great game against the Dodgers in Game two, but
Speaker 8: you know it's the same way. You don't. You don't
Speaker 8: have time for anybody to figure it out. It's about
Speaker 8: who can get out right now and how do we
Speaker 8: get through each inning clean as possible without any numbers
Speaker 8: on the board.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Ryan, good to be with you this morning.
Speaker 8: Thanks. Thanks, Yeah, good to be with you as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I love you guys on it and I I
Speaker 2: just you got to warn me though, the next time
Speaker 2: Kevin Mallar wants to take his shirt off, I'm gonna well,
Speaker 2: I want to I want to shield myself.
Speaker 8: Here are more thing meetings, guys. It's scary sometimes might
Speaker 8: not be wearing. I'm just glad he's gone on his
Speaker 8: seat back in.
Speaker 2: You know, that's right, that's great. So Ryan, Hey, you know,
Speaker 2: just so our fans know just what a great career
Speaker 2: you had sixteen years in the big League's two thousand strikeouts.
Speaker 2: You were just amazing. Yeah, you and I your career
Speaker 2: in my career just kind of I was just going
Speaker 2: out when you were coming in, so we never got to,
Speaker 2: uh to go against each other. But you just had
Speaker 2: a great career and I loved watching you pitch. So
Speaker 2: anyway back back to uh the task at hand for
Speaker 2: the Dodgers. Look, uh, Tim and I were talking about this,
Speaker 2: and I think this thing really does go in cycles.
Speaker 2: You know, as a pitcher, you get stints where you
Speaker 2: just can't be hitting. The other times you're like, man,
Speaker 2: how did he hit that slider on the black and
Speaker 2: kind of serve it out there and right field? This
Speaker 2: is happening too much now, so we all know how
Speaker 2: that happens. It comes and goes. You Darvish has been
Speaker 2: are stud in his last six or seven outings, He's
Speaker 2: been like unhittable. But we know this guy is really streaky.
Speaker 2: So is this the time where this thing can turn?
Speaker 2: Is y'am a modal gonna be of the moment and
Speaker 2: we're going to really find out about him because this
Speaker 2: is the biggest game he's ever going to pitch in
Speaker 2: the major leagues. What's your assessment on kind of where
Speaker 2: they in this where they are in the cycle right now,
Speaker 2: And how do you think this game is going to
Speaker 2: come out?
Speaker 8: Yeah, you know it just as a starting pitcher, no
Speaker 8: matter how you dial it up. And I know they're
Speaker 8: trying to change the way we handle the pitching. And
Speaker 8: you know, come playoff time, I get it a little
Speaker 8: bit more during the regular season, but ultimately it comes
Speaker 8: down to can you command your fastball? And you know
Speaker 8: the days I had, whether that's when I was in
Speaker 8: the midst of All Star four years or I'm pitching
Speaker 8: great or I was a rookie with the Marlins in
Speaker 8: nineteen ninety eight and went into Atlanta and beat the
Speaker 8: cy young candidate Tom Glavin, It's because I had fastball
Speaker 8: command that day. If you can command your fastball, you
Speaker 8: will get out in the big leagues because now you
Speaker 8: put pressure, like if I'm trying to throw a pitch
Speaker 8: down in a way and I missed, now one oh,
Speaker 8: and I'm one owned Fernando Techies Junior, is way worse
Speaker 8: than if I'm one and so and then and then
Speaker 8: where am I missing?
Speaker 10: Right?
Speaker 8: If I if I'm running two seamers and I'm trying
Speaker 8: to go and I'm running them back over the middle
Speaker 8: of the plate. Well, that's right into a bat path
Speaker 8: of a hitter. So there's all these variables. If you
Speaker 8: can command your fastball, if Yamamota comes out, it can
Speaker 8: command his fastball. Or he decides he wants to pitch
Speaker 8: backwards and he's going breaking ball first and then pitching
Speaker 8: with his fastball. You know, for show, if he can
Speaker 8: locate the pitches, he's going to do well because his
Speaker 8: stuff is good. So when you combine stuff in location,
Speaker 8: you're really good. And if now you've got stuff location movement,
Speaker 8: now you do what Darbish did in Game two. It
Speaker 8: all comes down to location. It never will change, it won't.
Speaker 8: It's just these hitters are too good. They know the
Speaker 8: strike zone too well. They're they work in the cage tirelessly.
Speaker 8: So if he can do that, then yeah, then and
Speaker 8: now you're talking about a guy who can navigate through
Speaker 8: a line up a couple of times, and Dave will
Speaker 8: read that with his eyes and if it's off, if
Speaker 8: that location off, it's gonna get squared up, you know.
Speaker 8: And you mentioned the success the Padres have had against them.
Speaker 8: Is that something that they see Do they see the
Speaker 8: ball particularly really well? Is he tipping and if he is,
Speaker 8: they're not going to tell anybody, and nor should they.
Speaker 8: That's that's a tool that they have. I always I
Speaker 8: always get interested by the tipping pitch thing where people
Speaker 8: are like, oh, well he's tipping cool. Did anybody else
Speaker 8: find it? No? And if so, you still got to
Speaker 8: hit it. And also that's part of the that's part
Speaker 8: of the chess match you're playing, is finding that stuff. So, yeah,
Speaker 8: fastball command, if he can command his fastball today, I
Speaker 8: think he does well and we're going to have a
Speaker 8: tight game. This is there's no advantage either way, right,
Speaker 8: the two teams are evenly matchress.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Ryan Dempster from Intentional Talk on MLB Network joins, just
Speaker 3: check him and Kevin and Sierra out, including today at
Speaker 3: eleven am Pacific, as they're on throughout the postseason. It
Speaker 3: is a great watch daily on the MLB Network. Going
Speaker 3: back quickly to Game four in San Diego, it was
Speaker 3: a bullpen game, and all it takes is one pitch,
Speaker 3: one bad and bad on the other team, and that
Speaker 3: could break that link of just going reliever to reliever
Speaker 3: to reliever over the course of a bullpen game. But
Speaker 3: the Dodgers pulled it off. Masterfully. Eight different guys got
Speaker 3: the ball and all of them put up zeros. When
Speaker 3: you're watching a bullpaying game like that, is that something
Speaker 3: that they can sustain and do again or is that
Speaker 3: just an anomaly? Is that one of those great outings
Speaker 3: we may never see in a bullpen game again.
Speaker 8: No, it's definitely something you can you can do again.
Speaker 8: I think that teams do it. I think just like
Speaker 8: we were just talking about starting pitchers and people seeing
Speaker 8: starting pitchers over and over in a game the third
Speaker 8: time through, the more a team sees a reliever in
Speaker 8: a series, those numbers go up as well. And and
Speaker 8: you know those guys all came in tip your cap.
Speaker 8: They all pitched really well. Ye Like, it's the same
Speaker 8: way if you're off a little bit. We saw it
Speaker 8: yesterday in Detroit with the with the k pitching chaos
Speaker 8: and aj Hinch has been running out there. Well, guess
Speaker 8: what those guys were off just a little bit too
Speaker 8: line up that they've already faced multiple times in this series.
Speaker 8: So then those guys get a good look and they
Speaker 8: have an opportunity to go out there and to be
Speaker 8: able to see that, and so then they they take
Speaker 8: advantage of that. So I think, you know, that's one
Speaker 8: of those things where it's the same way tonight and
Speaker 8: they pushed the same buttons. Sure, now you match the
Speaker 8: same guy up with the same hitter and location is
Speaker 8: off just a little bit, and this guy just saw
Speaker 8: him two days ago and maybe saw him again in
Speaker 8: game one. Well, guess what. Now you're talking for a
Speaker 8: little bit of a recipe for success leaning towards the hitter,
Speaker 8: But it's always leaning towards the picture. That's what people.
Speaker 8: I used to get an argument to Loop Pnell and
Speaker 8: he's say, well, Son, you know, third time two the lineup,
Speaker 8: this guy's whack, and I go, Lou.
Speaker 11: It's still a seventy percent chance of me winning at
Speaker 11: best for the hitter. I go, you walk into a
Speaker 11: casino in Vegas and there is a table game that
Speaker 11: says seventy percent chance of winning.
Speaker 8: They'll be a line down the strip for people to
Speaker 8: play that game. I still have the advantage. So like
Speaker 8: that's always going to be the pictures advantage. But yeah,
Speaker 8: definitely something Dave Roberts is going to be trying to
Speaker 8: do again tonight.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know, Ryan, even in battie practice, they
Speaker 2: don't barrel every one of them up. I mean it's
Speaker 2: they hit at the top of the screen eight ground balls, right. Yeah.
Speaker 8: That brad Ornsburg a pitching coach. I had he one time.
Speaker 8: Whenever I have a struggling he goes, dude, go stand
Speaker 8: behind the cage. Yeah, go look at these guys and
Speaker 8: know it's coming in at sixty five miles an hour
Speaker 8: and they're rolling over to short.
Speaker 2: Yep, you know you're right, Yeah, exactly right. Hey, Ryan,
Speaker 2: I wanted to ask you about this too, because you know,
Speaker 2: the Dodgers are built to slug. Everybody knows it. They
Speaker 2: kind of set their their way to go at the
Speaker 2: Dodgers as you know, there's going to be a slug
Speaker 2: fest against me in some weird way, you know, with
Speaker 2: the fact that Freddy had to go down and now
Speaker 2: we get a little different flare. Miguel Rojas goes down.
Speaker 2: You got Tommy Edman in there, who can hit the
Speaker 2: ball the other way, you can bunt, he can play
Speaker 2: different positions. All of a sudden, Key K's in the
Speaker 2: mix and he's doing his thing. I think this was
Speaker 2: kind of a fly in the ointment in some strange
Speaker 2: way that not so much to slug. Now, not all
Speaker 2: the way this this team can beat you in different
Speaker 2: ways and speed and a little bit of dexterity with
Speaker 2: the bat and button the ball down the line and
Speaker 2: this type of thing. I think that throws a kind
Speaker 2: of wrench into the mindset of a pitcher like Darvish
Speaker 2: that knows this team can slug, but oh god, they
Speaker 2: can do these other things.
Speaker 8: Now, yeah, I'm with you. I you know, I know,
Speaker 8: I'm not naive to know that home runs in the postseason.
Speaker 8: If you look at the numbers, they win, sure, but
Speaker 8: not a lot of games do you win on solo homers.
Speaker 8: It's the base hit, it's the tough two strike approach
Speaker 8: that somebody has, you know, before he gets on, you know,
Speaker 8: those kind of things that you mentioned. The bottom of
Speaker 8: the lineup, those guys get on before the big guys
Speaker 8: at the top. Well, now, those solo homers are three
Speaker 8: run homers, and those are hard to come back from
Speaker 8: in the playoffs.
Speaker 2: Oh yes, you.
Speaker 8: Know we want in twenty thirteen with the Red Sox
Speaker 8: with that formula exactly. I mean, we did not look
Speaker 8: at the success of the Houston Astros over the year
Speaker 8: that pass run they've been on. It's hitting with two strikes.
Speaker 8: They don't strike out, they put it in play. Now
Speaker 8: a sudden it's playoff time. Pressure is a little tighter
Speaker 8: guy kicks the ball and doesn't quite make the play
Speaker 8: or whatever. You bloop a base hit, and now a
Speaker 8: two run homer two runs in the playoffs feels like
Speaker 8: a five in the regular season. It's just and that
Speaker 8: scrappy type formula is annoying as a pitcher, it's frustrating
Speaker 8: as a defense, and ultimately it's gonna get you in
Speaker 8: a situation where now your best hitters are coming up
Speaker 8: with runners on base, and those crooked numbers do damage.
Speaker 8: So yeah, you know, there's always and that's depth, right,
Speaker 8: That's where the Los Angeles Dodgers have an advantage when
Speaker 8: you have depth like that where you can plug in
Speaker 8: Kei Ky Hernandez who has experienced it in the postseason,
Speaker 8: Tommy Emman, who's played you know, like those kind of
Speaker 8: guys that get on base before your big dogs. It's
Speaker 8: a dangerous format and the same thing from the other
Speaker 8: side of the ball for the padres as well, if
Speaker 8: those guys get on base before they're big guys.
Speaker 3: Ryan, final thing, what do you think happens tonight in
Speaker 3: this game?
Speaker 2: Five?
Speaker 3: Darvis Yamamoto, Dodgers Stadium, sold out crowd. Winner moves on
Speaker 3: to face the Mets in the NLCS. How do you
Speaker 3: envision this thing playing out?
Speaker 8: Yeah, it's gonna be I think it's gonna be extremely
Speaker 8: loud and crazy in there, you know. And I will
Speaker 8: say this, whoever gets the lead early better add on,
Speaker 8: because if you think, you know, the two runs you
Speaker 8: score earlier are going to be enough, I don't. I
Speaker 8: don't think that they will be. I think that, you know,
Speaker 8: the desperation of a game five, You're gonna see unconventional things.
Speaker 8: You might see a squeeze, you might see something, you know,
Speaker 8: whatever it is. But get the lead. You know, if
Speaker 8: we're going to play the numbers, the person who scores
Speaker 8: first tends to win more than the other guys. And
Speaker 8: if you can add on, you add on. But I'll
Speaker 8: tell you one thing. I'm not leaving my couch. Sorry,
Speaker 8: started my wife, she's gonna have to take care of
Speaker 8: all the kids stuff tonight because I am not missing
Speaker 8: the pitch. This is going to be a fun game
Speaker 8: to watch. And these two teams do not like each other.
Speaker 8: And I mean, this is what you drop for a
Speaker 8: game seven of a World Series, letting alone a DS game.
Speaker 2: This is gonna be a last Yeah, hey Ryan, last
Speaker 2: one for me. I got to ask you. You know,
Speaker 2: we know it's going to be uh Yoshi going tonight.
Speaker 2: But you know you had a chance for Flarity. You
Speaker 2: had a chance for another bullpen game that worked very
Speaker 2: well for the Dodgers. What what do you think about
Speaker 2: the choice? Uh? I picked a young Momoto to pitch.
Speaker 2: That was my choice. Uh. And that's what they're going with.
Speaker 2: Is that what you would have picked? Or would you
Speaker 2: have done something different?
Speaker 8: No, I've done the same and and and one reason
Speaker 8: is you know that Flarity is going to be in
Speaker 8: that bullpen ready to go from the first hitter of
Speaker 8: the game. So Flarity Jack has pitched out of the
Speaker 8: bullpen before. He's he's done that where he can help
Speaker 8: out there. Whereas when you take a guy that hasn't
Speaker 8: done that, you know it's a difference maker, it really is.
Speaker 8: And and and he'll be ready to go. It's all
Speaker 8: hands on deck, you know, No, nobody's nobody's safe, and
Speaker 8: nobody wants to be safe. Everybody wants to try and
Speaker 8: play their part to send their team. And for La
Speaker 8: those guys want to be able to send their team
Speaker 8: to the next round, to the CS. So yeah, I
Speaker 8: like the choice it makes. It makes a lot of sense.
Speaker 8: It makes sense on pay for mixed sense from a
Speaker 8: heartbeat and emotional standpoint. So but the leash will be short.
Speaker 8: I know that.
Speaker 2: Ryan.
Speaker 3: We appreciate you jumping on this morning. Can't wait to
Speaker 3: see you guys at eleven a m. Pacific today. You
Speaker 3: guys are going to continue throughout the postseason. It's Intentional
Speaker 3: Talk MLB Network, Ryan Dempster, Kevin Malar, and Sierra Sonto's
Speaker 3: no offense to Steven Nelson, but much better with Sierra
Speaker 3: Santo's much more enjoyable to watch intentional Talk with her
Speaker 3: rather than our boy Nelly.
Speaker 8: I'll tell you what. Nelly's absolutely crushing it and so
Speaker 8: I couldn't be happier for him either.
Speaker 3: It worked out well, all absolutely one of the great
Speaker 3: guys in killing it, as you mentioned, calling games right
Speaker 3: here on a five seventy LA Sports for the NLDS. Ryan,
Speaker 3: thanks ver much for coming on. We appreciate it. Thanks, Brian,
Speaker 3: you got it, guys.
Speaker 8: Absolutely all right.
Speaker 3: There he goes Ryan Dempster from Intentional Talk on MLB Network,
Speaker 3: coming up your phone calls as we get ready for
Speaker 3: Game five of this NLDS Top of the hour, David
Speaker 3: Massa will join us eight sixty six, nine eighty seven,
Speaker 3: eight sixty six ninety seven two five seventy Yamamoto, Darvish,
Speaker 3: Dodgers Padres. How you feeling going into this must win
Speaker 3: game five? Your calls?
Speaker 2: Next?
Speaker 3: You're an NFI seventy LA sports, Saxon kates in the am.
Speaker 3: You're an M five seventy LA Sports. You're a home
Speaker 3: a Game five of the nl DS. First pitch coming
Speaker 3: up at five oh eight tonight, Yoshinobu Yamamoto named the
Speaker 3: game five starter for the Dodgers. You, Darvish, will go
Speaker 3: for the San Diego Padres. Winner moves on to the
Speaker 3: NLCS that starts on Sunday afternoon, either at Dodger Stadium
Speaker 3: or Petgo Park, depending on who wins this game five tonight, Sexy.
Speaker 3: How many? How many must win games? Elimination games? Do
Speaker 3: you remember you played in in the postseason? Forgive me
Speaker 3: for not knowing off and I should have looked this up,
Speaker 3: but do you remember do you remember playing in elimination games?
Speaker 2: Well, in eighty two we had the last game of
Speaker 2: the season. If we won, we were in and that's
Speaker 2: when you know, Joe Morgan hit that home run off
Speaker 2: Terry Force or that put us out. So I guess
Speaker 2: you could say that was one. And then we were
Speaker 2: in the playoffs in eighty three and we got eliminated
Speaker 2: in four straight and so that was an elimination game.
Speaker 2: And then in eighty five we were in there, and
Speaker 2: then of course I don't know that. Yeah, we had
Speaker 2: a elimination game in eighty five in the playoffs against
Speaker 2: the Mets. So yeah, quite a few been in quite
Speaker 2: a few, and you know, it's those games are are
Speaker 2: just there's there's no talk. You know, there's no rationale. Really,
Speaker 2: you just go out and either you do or you don't.
Speaker 2: That's that's the way when it comes down to it,
Speaker 2: what it's about. When you're in the middle of the game,
Speaker 2: there's no rationale. You just take the game as it
Speaker 2: comes and either you're gonna do it or you're not,
Speaker 2: and that's it.
Speaker 3: Can imagine should come in and say something to change
Speaker 3: it either way or at that point nothing needs to
Speaker 3: be said.
Speaker 2: I don't really think so. I mean, you know, managers
Speaker 2: are are are great, and you know you got to
Speaker 2: have them. They certainly matter. But when it comes down
Speaker 2: to it, either you know you're gonna barrel it up
Speaker 2: or the guy's gonna get you out. And that's that's
Speaker 2: what it comes down to. It's either yes or no.
Speaker 3: Let's go to Brian on the four h five here
Speaker 3: on a five seventy LA Sports Brian, how you feel
Speaker 3: and going into Game five tonight at Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 8: I'm feeling pretty awesome.
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 3: Why is that?
Speaker 12: Oh, I'm just excited about the game. I just wanted
Speaker 12: to play with all the first, second, and third row
Speaker 12: fans at the stadium tonight to know their duties when
Speaker 12: it comes to the fly balls. I don't want to
Speaker 12: and have a want to make sure we learn from
Speaker 12: our mistake.
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, bring your glove. You have every right to
Speaker 3: that ball. As soon as it crosses that barrier into
Speaker 3: the stands. You have as much right for that ball
Speaker 3: as does the outfielder who may be trying to reach
Speaker 3: into the stands next year's seat, knock over the drink
Speaker 3: in front of you and try to grab the ball
Speaker 3: and bring it back. You have every right for them.
Speaker 12: Absolutely.
Speaker 8: Five. You know, fly balls outfield also, you know, foul balls.
Speaker 8: Just to everybody be ready tonight.
Speaker 3: All right, Brian appreciated. I never thought we'd have a
Speaker 3: call Saxy for encouraging fans to know their role in
Speaker 3: the outfield. As far as home runs, we're concerned and
Speaker 3: going and getting the ball.
Speaker 2: I think you could. First of all, we got to
Speaker 2: get Brian some coffee. I think he's just he's just
Speaker 2: getting wrong.
Speaker 3: Oh he said he's excited. He hearing in his voice.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I heard it. But I think he could
Speaker 2: just summed it up and said, hey, ball comes past
Speaker 2: the barrier. Attack. I mean that would have been kind
Speaker 2: of more succinct. I think, just attack.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I think Dodger fans will be ready tonight,
Speaker 3: at least I hope Dodger fans will be ready.
Speaker 2: Even believe that ball almost profar almost caught another one
Speaker 2: exactly the same from the same guy at the exact
Speaker 2: same spot, but you know, different stadium. But I mean,
Speaker 2: can you believe that it What are the chances of
Speaker 2: that Muki hit it in exactly the same spot inches away?
Speaker 3: And I just think if he catches that ball, what
Speaker 3: does that do to the psyche of a Mookie Bets?
Speaker 3: Maybe for the series.
Speaker 2: Just yeah, that that set the tone. I mean, that's
Speaker 2: set him on fire right there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, eight six ninet eighty seven, two five seventy. It's
Speaker 3: Game five of the NLDS. We'll come back. We'll get
Speaker 3: David Veasse's take on this game five tonight, his thoughts
Speaker 3: on Yoshinobu Yamamoto getting the start for the Dodgers. You,
Speaker 3: Darvish going for the padres. It's a winner take all.
Speaker 3: N LDS. Winner moves on to the NLCS to face
Speaker 3: the New York Mets, and we got it for it
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