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Speaker 3: The Dodgers have forced a Game five in this NLGS.
Speaker 3: Hi everybody, and welcome into a Thursday morning edition Sacks
Speaker 3: and Kate's and am here I you're a home of
Speaker 3: the Dodgers, AM five seventy LA Sports. It was a
Speaker 3: must win Game four last night in San Diego, a
Speaker 3: bullpen game for the Dodgers, and they came through and
Speaker 3: a eight nothing shutout win to come back to Dodger
Speaker 3: Stadium Friday night. Pray winner go home. Game five of
Speaker 3: this NLDS. I am Tim Kates, joined by a two
Speaker 3: time World Series champion, former Rookie of the Year, and
Speaker 3: he's one hell of a guy. He's my favorite. Number three.
Speaker 3: Steve Sacks Saxy, Good morning.
Speaker 4: Good morning, Tim. How are you?
Speaker 3: Oh? I am fantastic. I was so nervous yesterday. I
Speaker 3: told you yesterday morning, I could not sleep the night before.
Speaker 3: I was so nervous on what was gonna happen in
Speaker 3: Game four? How would the Dodgers come out all the
Speaker 3: momentum that the San Diego Padres were riding in this
Speaker 3: series from Game two to three and a chance to
Speaker 3: close out the Dodgers in front of a sellout, racous
Speaker 3: crowd at Petco Park, and the Dodgers shut him up early,
Speaker 3: shut him up often, and shut him out to win
Speaker 3: the game.
Speaker 4: I love it.
Speaker 5: And as Alana said yesterday, just shoved yesterday. That was
Speaker 5: a epic event yesterday watching that game, I thought the
Speaker 5: key to the game, I'll just tell you right out
Speaker 5: of the game was top of the second. I know
Speaker 5: what Mooki did in the first time he hit that
Speaker 5: absolute missile out of there, which was a beautiful thing
Speaker 5: to watch. It was the punch hit the opposite field.
Speaker 5: Situational hitting put on display by Mooki, and he cuts
Speaker 5: down the swing. There's an absolute valley between cronin Worth
Speaker 5: and Bogarts and he just hit in a half swing
Speaker 5: pepper game with the right fielder. That went got through
Speaker 5: there for a hit, and it scored kik A And
Speaker 5: that is what the turning point of the game was
Speaker 5: right there. That's what you call situational hitting. And only
Speaker 5: an uber talented human being that's got a brain in
Speaker 5: his head.
Speaker 4: Can do that, and that's what Mooki did.
Speaker 3: Mooki led off the first sitting with the solo home run.
Speaker 3: The Dodgers loved the home run ball, but as he
Speaker 3: alluded to in that second inning, they manufactured those runs
Speaker 3: and they did so with two outs, which they have
Speaker 3: been doing all season long. Shoeyotani drills a ball to
Speaker 3: right field. Great job by the way by Keiky Hernandez
Speaker 3: to get out of the way of that ball and
Speaker 3: not get hit by that missile that came from Shoeotani.
Speaker 3: That scored Gavin lux and is you alluded to. After
Speaker 3: the pitching change, Mookie Bets wasted no time going with
Speaker 3: the pitch to right field, scoring Kik and tacking on
Speaker 3: another run to make it not a two to nothing
Speaker 3: lead but a three to nothing lead. And they just
Speaker 3: kept tacking on after that sack, see two more in
Speaker 3: the third and the next thing, you know, before you
Speaker 3: can breathe there at Petco Park, it's a five nothing
Speaker 3: Dodgers lead, and then it's just arm after arm after
Speaker 3: arm out of that bullpen. Dave Roberts is gonna have
Speaker 3: to ice his feet after the amount of trips he
Speaker 3: took from the dugout to the mound last night. A
Speaker 3: different Dodger pitcher, Saxy, went to the mound last night.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think we had talked about that right at
Speaker 5: the close of yesterday's broadcast.
Speaker 3: Well, I'm glad you bring that up, Saxy, because really,
Speaker 3: let's let''s go on. Let's have a little flashback to
Speaker 3: yesterday eight fifty five am Pacific Standard time. Let's take
Speaker 3: a listen.
Speaker 5: Okay, very simple. Your backs are against the wall. There's
Speaker 5: no more talking. The backs are again. I don't care
Speaker 5: about I don't care about enthusiasm. Go out there and
Speaker 5: barrow somebody's ass up. And that's what you gotta do.
Speaker 5: Barrel some some balls up and as far as the
Speaker 5: bullpen goes, go out there and attack these hitters. Don't
Speaker 5: go on the fringe. These guys are gonna have to
Speaker 5: figure everybody out as they go along. The bullpen guys
Speaker 5: have the advantage, especially early in the game. Go out
Speaker 5: and attack somebody, and let's see.
Speaker 3: What happens, what what h feels like. Somebody may have
Speaker 3: predicted what was gonna happen last night, Sack.
Speaker 5: Well, yeah, I mean you can kind of feel it
Speaker 5: coming to break up the Uh, you know what's been
Speaker 5: the norm in this short series already, and that was
Speaker 5: how do we change the how do we change the perspective?
Speaker 5: How do we get kind of the padres off their game. Well,
Speaker 5: you throw a bunch of bunch of different dudes at
Speaker 5: him with great stuff, uh, and you you ride what
Speaker 5: seems to be simmering in the background with Mooki, And
Speaker 5: that's exactly what they did. I'm all about the missile.
Speaker 5: Mooki hits the first home up and that ball was crushed.
Speaker 5: That's great, but it was the situational hitting putting all that.
Speaker 4: You know, Muky, who who.
Speaker 5: In the right mind is a human being's not gonna
Speaker 5: go up? Hey man, I am feeling it. I'm gonna
Speaker 5: hit the third home run in uh, you know, in
Speaker 5: the last couple of days. Right now, No, what you do?
Speaker 5: He cuts the swing down, he plays pepper with the
Speaker 5: right fielder, shoots that nice little dart past the second baseman,
Speaker 5: and then that's where the floodgates just opened up. Situational
Speaker 5: hitting is a beautiful thing. It's such an unselfish thing
Speaker 5: to do. And Mooki's all about that. It was just
Speaker 5: a beautiful at bat. I loved it.
Speaker 3: Begin any of that second inning against Dylan Seas, Tommy
Speaker 3: had been grinded out one nothing lead. After the Mookie
Speaker 3: bets on run, Gavin Lux comes up with one out
Speaker 3: and draws a five pitch walk from Dylan Ceas. All right,
Speaker 3: that's something the Dodgers haven't done in the last two
Speaker 3: games before this was actually go up there and have
Speaker 3: it bats and do whatever it takes to get on
Speaker 3: base and drawing a walk. Keik A Hernandez, who we've
Speaker 3: been talking about for three days. Why isn't he playing?
Speaker 3: Why didn't he come in af the bench in the
Speaker 3: previous game when Miguel Rojas left with the injury and
Speaker 3: they went to Andy pay Has instead. Well, Kei k
Speaker 3: A her Nana's got the start last night. His first
Speaker 3: at bat in the second inning, after fouling off a
Speaker 3: couple of pitches on a two to two knuckle curve,
Speaker 3: drives the ball to center field for a single bullet
Speaker 3: and that get that kept the inning going. If these
Speaker 3: guys strike out like they did in numbers in the
Speaker 3: first three games and not put the ball in play,
Speaker 3: we're not getting to Otani and Bet, so they're not
Speaker 3: chasing Dylan Ceze like they did in the second inning.
Speaker 3: It's just repeat and rints more of the same. Instead,
Speaker 3: get guys on base, move them around with singles and
Speaker 3: let the top of the lineup turn back over like
Speaker 3: it did in the second inning. And know Tani singles,
Speaker 3: Bet singles three nothing game.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you said it exactly right. And that's you know,
Speaker 5: this new flare that you have with this bench. It's
Speaker 5: very very deep with the Dodgers. It's not just about
Speaker 5: all the guys with the huge contracts that are making
Speaker 5: it happen. You've got to have some flare in there,
Speaker 5: some guys that come up from the benches that have
Speaker 5: been there and done that before. And Ki k A
Speaker 5: certainly has been He's a great example of it. And
Speaker 5: this is a whole new part of the team that's
Speaker 5: been exposed at the right time. And you know, the manager,
Speaker 5: Dave Roberts, he feels it, he knows it.
Speaker 4: He made the right call.
Speaker 3: The bullpen game could go either really good or it
Speaker 3: could go really bad, because all it takes is one
Speaker 3: of those links that you're going to over the course
Speaker 3: of twenty seven outs, not to work, not to have
Speaker 3: a good outing, to get hit up a little bit,
Speaker 3: and that can ruin your plan because they map out
Speaker 3: all twenty seven outs essentially and matchups and Okay, you're
Speaker 3: gonna get this group of guys, you're gonna get this inning.
Speaker 3: It doesn't matter what inning it is. It's matchups, it's
Speaker 3: groupings to get twenty seven outs. And Dave Roberts alluded
Speaker 3: to that in his in dugout hit with Ken Rosenthal
Speaker 3: on Fox. I believe in the second or third inning
Speaker 3: and said, we're gonna go to Copek next, then it's
Speaker 3: gonna be this guy, and then it's gonna be this guy.
Speaker 3: And he laid out in essence what they're gonna do,
Speaker 3: and all it took me was a bat outing, maybe
Speaker 3: a couple of basins or a couple of walks, and
Speaker 3: you're off script and all of a sudden what you
Speaker 3: had planned out is not going to plan anymore, and
Speaker 3: you've got to adjust and maybe that's something that goes wrong,
Speaker 3: and all of a sudden there's a wrench thrown into
Speaker 3: your plan and things spiral out of control. Last night
Speaker 3: it worked out perfectly.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and you gotta have a guy ready to have
Speaker 5: some bulk innings as well in case that happens. And
Speaker 5: you know the Dodgers have that. But look, I don't
Speaker 5: know how Dave does. Our managers do it, and Dave
Speaker 5: certainly did it brilliantly when he was doing the interview.
Speaker 5: You know, to watch the game at the same time
Speaker 5: and you know, somebody gets hit. I'm like, oh, oh, shoot,
Speaker 5: hang on a second, I got I gotta go back
Speaker 5: over here. I would have been back and forth, back
Speaker 5: and forth with Ken Rosenthal, but uh, but he does
Speaker 5: it very very well. And this this is a big change.
Speaker 5: You know, there comes a time in a series where
Speaker 5: you know you just got to say enough talk and
Speaker 5: the stars have to shine, and you know there's always
Speaker 5: you know, those guys have to have their big years
Speaker 5: they got to show up when the time matter really
Speaker 5: doesn't matter. But you have to have a surprise or
Speaker 5: two in the bucket. You have to have one or
Speaker 5: two guys on the team that also comes out of
Speaker 5: nowhere and and really does something something really special. And
Speaker 5: you got to be able to to to circumvent some
Speaker 5: of these injury problems that that the Dodgers are obviously
Speaker 5: haven't all throughout the pitching staff, certainly with Freddie Freeman.
Speaker 4: But they're able to do it.
Speaker 5: And they're just navigating, you know, this course onto getting
Speaker 5: into the World Series, and it's it's pretty great on
Speaker 5: how they're doing it. They're doing it the time, the
Speaker 5: timely fashion in which they're performing these things are amazing.
Speaker 5: Who's gonna step up today or tomorrow? In this final game,
Speaker 5: we saw the bench really do it yesterday with the
Speaker 5: new guys. I don't know who it is tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Dodgers had twelve hits, scored eight runs, hit three home
Speaker 3: runs in the game. Eight of the nine Dodgers starters
Speaker 3: had hits to contribute in this game, and Tommy Edmond
Speaker 3: laying down a drag bunch a safety squeeze to bring
Speaker 3: in a run just to tack on more in this
Speaker 3: Dodgers lead. Last night, Gavin Lux goes two for four
Speaker 3: with a home run and a couple of ribis gall
Speaker 3: on base three times after drawing a walk. The Dodgers
Speaker 3: struck out ten times, but four of those ten came
Speaker 3: from Chris Taylor, whose twenty twenty four season we thought
Speaker 3: was behind him in the regular season, and he become
Speaker 3: a postseason Chris Taylor, like in a year's past. But
Speaker 3: if there's one guy left on this roster that is
Speaker 3: still searching saxy, one guy who's still looking for that
Speaker 3: moment to maybe help spark this team drive in a run,
Speaker 3: do something to contribute, it's Chris Taylor. And I feel
Speaker 3: bad for the guy. He's had a lot of big
Speaker 3: moments over the years in the postseason for the Dodgers, defensive, offensively,
Speaker 3: he just cannot figure it out at the plate. Struck
Speaker 3: out four times.
Speaker 5: Last yeah, and you can tell he's frustrated. And this
Speaker 5: is a this is a man that's loaded with character.
Speaker 5: You know, when he's going through some bad times, he
Speaker 5: doesn't show it as much. He's he's a really a
Speaker 5: good person. And you know the thing about him, he's
Speaker 5: just absolutely lost up there, he's trying to find it.
Speaker 5: He's he's trying to go up the middle. You can
Speaker 5: tell he's really not overswinging. He's he takes a good,
Speaker 5: healthy cut all the time, but he's trying to to
Speaker 5: hit the baltimol. I can tell on his approach. He
Speaker 5: just can't find it right now. And I hope he
Speaker 5: does find it because he's a very talented young man.
Speaker 3: They rebuilt his swing during the season, and at what
Speaker 3: point he's started to describe it to the reporters, like
Speaker 3: a week ago during the workouts, about where his hand
Speaker 3: movement was, the way his bat lays on his shoulder,
Speaker 3: his kick, his hips, everything. They rebuilt his entire swing
Speaker 3: because there was a gaping hole in it. It's interesting
Speaker 3: because early in the season Chris Taylor was struggling and
Speaker 3: No More Garcia Parl, I'll never forget this. No More
Speaker 3: did a one of these in front of the screen
Speaker 3: things at sports in n LA, kind of dissecting the
Speaker 3: swing of Chris Taylor. And he would frame by frame
Speaker 3: different angles showing the step, showing the load, showing the hands,
Speaker 3: where everything's at. And he dissected it right there and
Speaker 3: he said, here's the problem right here, he's wrapping here,
Speaker 3: arms here, did the whole thing, broke it down perfectly,
Speaker 3: and then he demonstrated how he should be doing it,
Speaker 3: and he almost felt like, gosh, well, they just asked
Speaker 3: no more how to fix this. But it took all season.
Speaker 3: The hitting coaches, he was on stint on the il
Speaker 3: in the minor league rehabitstat they're trying desperately, and they
Speaker 3: completely reinvented his swing. It just hasn't work.
Speaker 4: Still.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, if anybody knows, it's no mar I mean,
Speaker 5: that guy was a great hitter and he can break
Speaker 5: things down. He's a smart dude, and he gets it
Speaker 5: no more. I have had talks about hitting, an approach
Speaker 5: and whatnot for me, and my opinion is I'm no
Speaker 5: hitting coach, but I try to make that thing as
Speaker 5: simple as part possible. I think the most important thing
Speaker 5: is right from that launching position and go right to
Speaker 5: contact that little arc right there. That's the most important
Speaker 5: part of hitting. You could talk about a load, you
Speaker 5: can talk about a rap, you can talk about getting
Speaker 5: your foot down, you know, keeping your head still, getting
Speaker 5: off a stiff front side. All that's that's great, but
Speaker 5: the most important thing is that ball coming out of
Speaker 5: the hand, you're in that loaded position, and then it's
Speaker 5: just right to the baseball from there to there, short,
Speaker 5: quick to the ball, and that's where the bulk of
Speaker 5: this whole thing lies for me.
Speaker 3: They made need Chris Taylor for Game five, depending on
Speaker 3: the status of Freddie Freeman certainly would love to see
Speaker 3: key Key Hernandez back out there in Game five. What
Speaker 3: he brings offensively and defensively last night the Dodgers eight runs,
Speaker 3: three home runs, twelve hits in the game last night,
Speaker 3: Max Munsey had a double for the Dodgers, as the
Speaker 3: offense was on full display and the pitching was fantastic.
Speaker 3: Ryan Brazier and inning and a third as the opener,
Speaker 3: and then it was just passing the baton to the
Speaker 3: next guy, Bond to Copek Vessi of Phillips Hudson trying
Speaker 3: it and Landon Nack pitched the ninth inning and what
Speaker 3: then was a blowout eight nothing lead in the Dodgers
Speaker 3: get the victory in Game four, series tied at two
Speaker 3: games a piece. Game five winner go home is tomorrow
Speaker 3: night at Dodgers Stadium. What's here though, from the manager
Speaker 3: Dave Roberts post game last night after his Dodgers stepped
Speaker 3: it up and got a big win.
Speaker 6: You know, I know before a tiny got you, I
Speaker 6: used to like to say a lot. You know, his
Speaker 6: Mookie goes to Dodger goods go how big has he been?
Speaker 7: You know? The last two days here is that Mookie,
Speaker 7: Mookie has been big.
Speaker 8: Obviously, we got a lot of good players, but it's
Speaker 8: not on one player, clearly, And today Mookie shine.
Speaker 7: Last night Mookie shined, and today Will had a big hit.
Speaker 8: So that's a great thing about having good players, and
Speaker 8: you know, they don't need to do anything more than
Speaker 8: they're capable of and just kind of do what their potential,
Speaker 8: their their abilities to allow for.
Speaker 7: And that's what they did tonight.
Speaker 9: Well, they've used talked a lot about fight for Shi
Speaker 9: over the last week or so. The piece for you
Speaker 9: where it's just kind of what these guys did.
Speaker 7: I'm proud to proud I think that.
Speaker 8: You know, when you go through the regular season, a
Speaker 8: lot of things are sort of calculated, and you know
Speaker 8: there's a lot of variables because you're playing for the
Speaker 8: longer view. But when you get into the postseason, it's
Speaker 8: a street fight and it's about people players and your
Speaker 8: desire has got to be more than your opponent. And
Speaker 8: for me to see our guys go through what they've
Speaker 8: been through and respond the way they have really makes
Speaker 8: me excited about Game five.
Speaker 9: As you guys mapped out your pitching plane heading into
Speaker 9: this one, was Flairity an option.
Speaker 7: That he was the last.
Speaker 8: He was a late option if something you know, funky happened.
Speaker 8: Guys weren't as efficient as possible. But now he's a
Speaker 8: live for Game five as.
Speaker 10: Well, with the importance of getting an early lead in
Speaker 10: a game like this. How much of a tone setter
Speaker 10: was Mookie's home run? And you know there's a lot
Speaker 10: going on with him on Monday. Just can you just
Speaker 10: talk a little bit about how he responded to all this,
Speaker 10: all the noise.
Speaker 7: I guess really, I think you know responded really well.
Speaker 7: I've always tell the guys.
Speaker 8: The game honors you, and the work that he's put
Speaker 8: in grinding in the cage and extra hitting certainly has
Speaker 8: paid off. And your question about striking first when you
Speaker 8: come on the road, it is important.
Speaker 7: Hitting is still hard.
Speaker 8: You can't just book up book a homer or a
Speaker 8: crooked number in the first inning. But I do believe
Speaker 8: that the intent even show Hayes first swing up tonight,
Speaker 8: you know, was aggressive on the fastball, and for us
Speaker 8: to get to cease early, get to their pen, obviously
Speaker 8: it gave us momentum.
Speaker 7: But yeah, started with Mookie right there.
Speaker 3: That's Dave Roberts post game last night, and he just
Speaker 3: said something that's pretty important, Saxy. They got on Dylan
Speaker 3: cease early, and he went through eighty two pitches on
Speaker 3: Saturday night, three days of rest. He had never done
Speaker 3: this before in his career. But he still came out
Speaker 3: throwing one hundred miles an hour last night. So, yeah,
Speaker 3: he was juiced up. The adrenaline was there. He very
Speaker 3: easily kind of come out and just absolutely dealt in
Speaker 3: the first inning. Got the confidence, got the momentum, got
Speaker 3: the crowd behind them, put up a zero in the
Speaker 3: first inning, and he's off and running, feeling good about himself. Instead,
Speaker 3: the Dodgers put together some good evats. Mookie, that's HiT's
Speaker 3: a home run, and you can just see the deflation
Speaker 3: in Dylan sees not only the crowd, but Dylan sees
Speaker 3: on the mount You can see he was done after that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he was, and you know he was the thing
Speaker 5: about starting pitchers. They're very much more than anybody else
Speaker 5: in baseball. They are creatures of habit. They have to
Speaker 5: have the same routine, and I totally get that they're
Speaker 5: zeroed in on what they do. They work out, they run,
Speaker 5: they throw their pens at the same time they do
Speaker 5: all that. Everything's the same for them. They are on
Speaker 5: like a rotation in everything they do, and you put
Speaker 5: them out there in a different kind of an atmosphere. Now,
Speaker 5: the expectations are high. I think I think being in
Speaker 5: a home crowd can sometimes work against you because the
Speaker 5: expectations are so high and he wasn't in his element,
Speaker 5: Tim was. He was pitching on two days early. So
Speaker 5: this was an advantage for the Dodgers. And you know,
Speaker 5: like we talked about yesterday, Tim, this team has so
Speaker 5: much talent, and hey give it to the Padres, they
Speaker 5: are too extremely talent.
Speaker 4: I think there are.
Speaker 5: The two best teams in the in the playoffs right now.
Speaker 5: But sooner or later, you got to you gotta think
Speaker 5: this this worm is gonna turn. It's it's gonna turn,
Speaker 5: and we're gonna see better than expected at some time.
Speaker 5: Not sure when it is, but maybe we're seeing the
Speaker 5: start of it now, and like we talked about, Mooki
Speaker 5: Betts makes the difference and you know he can carry
Speaker 5: the team. But man, you got show, Hey, you got Freddy,
Speaker 5: you got everybody on this team, you got a great bench,
Speaker 5: you got a stacked bullpen. So the leash should be
Speaker 5: very short on Friday Night.
Speaker 3: Game five is Friday Night. The Dodgers forced a decisive
Speaker 3: Game five with an eight to nothing to win last
Speaker 3: night over the San Diego Padres. He is Steve Sacksiam
Speaker 3: Tim Kates. We want you to be a part of
Speaker 3: the show. Eight six six nine eighty seven two five
Speaker 3: seventy eight sixty six nine eighty seven two five seventy.
Speaker 3: Jose Moto will join us in the final hour of
Speaker 3: the show. We'll hear from Freddy Freeman later on. Up next,
Speaker 3: we'll hear from Mookie Betts. What is the series he
Speaker 3: has had turning things around after an over twenty two
Speaker 3: drought going back to last year's postseason, Mookie Betts has
Speaker 3: flipped the switch and he looks like a man on
Speaker 3: a mission. Now homeward again last night to lead it
Speaker 3: off for the Dodgers in the first inning with the
Speaker 3: run and they go off and running after that, two
Speaker 3: more in the second, two more in the third, three
Speaker 3: and the seventh. As they shut out the Padres last
Speaker 3: night eight to nothing. It's Game five tomorrow nights, LA,
Speaker 3: you better be ready. The Dodgers that brought it back
Speaker 3: home for a Game five in the NLDS will continue
Speaker 3: to talk about it. Thanks for being with us on
Speaker 3: this Thursday morning here in southern California on your home
Speaker 3: of the Dodgers, AFI seventy LA Sports. It's Sax and
Speaker 3: Kate's in the am on M five seventy LA Sports.
Speaker 3: You're home of Showyo Taani, Mookie Betz and your Los
Speaker 3: Angeles Dodgers who have forced a Game five in this
Speaker 3: NLDS against the San Diego Padres. Dodgers winners last night
Speaker 3: at Petco Park eight to nothing over Manny Machado and
Speaker 3: the Padres, as the Dodgers eight different relievers combined to
Speaker 3: go out there and pitch nine shutout innings in a
Speaker 3: bullpen game for Dave Roberts, who after the game last
Speaker 3: night said he doesn't know quite yet what the plan
Speaker 3: is for Game five. Sacks as far as pitching is concerned.
Speaker 3: You've got a arrested Yoshi Yamamoto. You've got a arrested
Speaker 3: Jack Flaherty, and you've got a bullpen that was absolutely
Speaker 3: dominant last night with all hands on deck, So he's
Speaker 3: got multiple options that he can go to tomorrow night.
Speaker 3: Certainly time to sit on this for the next twenty
Speaker 3: four plus hours and kind of really decide game plan,
Speaker 3: hunker down, put the numbers into the computer, everything they
Speaker 3: do to brainstorm what they're gonna do for a pitching
Speaker 3: us outing on Friday night.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I would just take this like, you know, this
Speaker 5: is all hands on deck, everybody available, don't even think
Speaker 5: about the next series. I mean, this is so important.
Speaker 5: You're playing against a very very talented team. I would
Speaker 5: have a very very short leash. But I'm not the manager.
Speaker 5: I'm just somebody that talks about baseball, that's all. But
Speaker 5: I would have a very short leash in my mind.
Speaker 5: And and you got to you got a bullpen waiting there. Man,
Speaker 5: these guys are stacked. They prove they could do it,
Speaker 5: and you're gonna be in front of the home crowd,
Speaker 5: so there's no time to kind of try to figure
Speaker 5: things out and oh, maybe he'll get better next to
Speaker 5: next to any when we're down for to nothing. Nope,
Speaker 5: I'd have a leash about this long, and that's about
Speaker 5: two inches.
Speaker 4: It's a short one, very short.
Speaker 3: I imagine if you went to alex Vesia tomorrow after
Speaker 3: throwing thirty pitches in Game four, if you went to
Speaker 3: Blake trying and who threw nineteen pitches in the eighth inning,
Speaker 3: Ryan Brasier, even who went and any into thirty pitch
Speaker 3: nineteen pitches last night. If you go to all these
Speaker 3: guys like, hey, you know what, I know, you threw
Speaker 3: almost twenty or thirty pitches on Wednesday. How are you
Speaker 3: feeling on though?
Speaker 5: For Friday? They're all overre gonna say I'm ready give
Speaker 5: me worse right, they can't wait to get out there.
Speaker 5: I mean, they're gonna be itching to get in the game.
Speaker 4: Of course. Hey, let's say, you know, let's say they.
Speaker 5: Start Yoshi right and and he and he's shoving you
Speaker 5: just you just ride that pony. I mean, if he goes,
Speaker 5: if he goes seven innings plus and he's shoving the
Speaker 5: whole time, you just keep writing it. I see no
Speaker 5: reason to change that thing up just because it's innings.
Speaker 5: Forget the innings. Let him just go as long as
Speaker 5: he can.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean, assuming the offense does what they do tomorrow,
Speaker 3: you just start piecing together out and looking at groupings
Speaker 3: like they did last night with the eight different relievers
Speaker 3: getting those twenty seven outs. You just figure out how
Speaker 3: you're gonna do it, and there's no hurt feelings. If
Speaker 3: a guy gets into trouble and walks the lead off battery,
Speaker 3: you know what to the next guy.
Speaker 4: We go.
Speaker 3: We don't have time to sit here and wait and
Speaker 3: hope that you know, pitcher X whoever it is out
Speaker 3: of the bullpen can figure it out and maybe get
Speaker 3: a ground ball to get a double play out of this. No,
Speaker 3: it is best matchup, best reliever, next nex man up tomorrow.
Speaker 3: It's gonna be fun to see what they do to
Speaker 3: piece together twenty seven outs. And most importantly, this Dodger's
Speaker 3: offense needs to put up some numbers on the board
Speaker 3: to help out this pitching staff. And one of those
Speaker 3: guys is Mookie Betts. Last night two for five, another
Speaker 3: home run. To think he could have three home runs
Speaker 3: in this series if not robbed by jurors and profar
Speaker 3: and these fans not doing their jobs over the weekend
Speaker 3: and grabbing that ball out of his glove, but he
Speaker 3: goes two for five last night. You mentioned the hit
Speaker 3: that he had in that second and which was unbelievable.
Speaker 3: He had the home run, so to love center field there,
Speaker 3: Mookie Bets has been fantastic. Let's hear from Mookie Bets
Speaker 3: postgame last night on this series now that he is
Speaker 3: having after turn things around, I.
Speaker 11: Think we just take a one game at a time,
Speaker 11: one inning at a time. We have a bunch of
Speaker 11: grinders or a bunch of fighters, and we know this
Speaker 11: wasn't going to be easy, and you.
Speaker 7: Know, nothing's nothing's.
Speaker 11: Easy, and so you just got to take whatever whatever
Speaker 11: cards you're dealt and play them.
Speaker 7: And that's what we've been doing.
Speaker 4: Rookie, we talked the.
Speaker 6: Other day, you know, he talked about how you guess
Speaker 6: you would take another three four hundred swings before Game three?
Speaker 6: What what did you actually do between Games two and three?
Speaker 11: Hit kept hitting.
Speaker 7: I mean, that's that's all. That's all I've been doing.
Speaker 7: I mean, that's uh, that's what I know.
Speaker 11: I'm our work again. I just want to do my part.
Speaker 11: I'm not trying to win the game for us, and
Speaker 11: we got plenty of guys that can win games.
Speaker 7: For us.
Speaker 11: I just want to do my part in the team,
Speaker 11: and that's that's all I've been focused on.
Speaker 6: When when you said you hit, like how much did
Speaker 6: you hit? I'm guessing you don't want to like overdo
Speaker 6: it to the point where you're like.
Speaker 11: I don't care about overdoing it. I'd rather overdo it
Speaker 11: than than not give effort. So pretty much, as soon
Speaker 11: as I get to the park every day, I'm in
Speaker 11: the cage and I don't leave until I got on
Speaker 11: the field, and then I'll come back inside and I
Speaker 11: hit some more.
Speaker 7: So that's that's what I've been doing.
Speaker 11: I don't even remember Doc's message on Monday, to be honest, Yeah,
Speaker 11: it seems seemed like it was so long ago. But
Speaker 11: I mean, you know, I think I just needed to
Speaker 11: see one fall, man. I think, you know, I just
Speaker 11: needed to see one fall and get a little confidence.
Speaker 11: I know, my team did an amazing job, my teammates
Speaker 11: an amazing job trying to put confidence, instill confidence in me.
Speaker 11: I had to turn off all social media because that
Speaker 11: was all all negative and I had to just get
Speaker 11: some positive vibes in me. And my team did it,
Speaker 11: and you know, I worked and finally got finally saw
Speaker 11: one fall, and I think we're all right now, I
Speaker 11: would say so, but you know again, that doesn't that
Speaker 11: doesn't mean I'm gonna go out and get hits in this,
Speaker 11: that and the other. But I do have some confidence
Speaker 11: in myself and the boys, and uh, we'll be all right.
Speaker 3: That tone is a different tone for Mookie Betts than
Speaker 3: all that a week ago, Saxon, and he said it twice.
Speaker 3: I just needed to see one fall.
Speaker 7: Yep.
Speaker 3: He needed a positive result as a hitter. How important
Speaker 3: is that?
Speaker 5: It's it's you know, it really shows the human element
Speaker 5: of somebody.
Speaker 4: Oh he's making all these money, these Mookie Bets. He's
Speaker 4: so famous.
Speaker 5: Look he you know what, he can dicker with your
Speaker 5: confidence a little bit too. I mean that it does.
Speaker 5: It does play a toll. And he's just a human
Speaker 5: being man like everybody else. And you know what I
Speaker 5: like about what MOOKI does. He's always given it to
Speaker 5: his teammates. It's not about him, it's his teammates help him.
Speaker 5: He needs his teammates. And that's such a great quality.
Speaker 5: That's that's such a great leader that does that. When
Speaker 5: you hear things like that. He doesn't have to be
Speaker 5: the locker room lawyer. You hear it in his voice
Speaker 5: right now, how he always points to his teammates and
Speaker 5: he's happy about somebody else being successful. That's a great leader.
Speaker 5: And that's why I love the love this guy. And
Speaker 5: look what he does. I mean, people may think, well,
Speaker 5: you know, he's signed this big contract, he's probably laying back. No,
Speaker 5: all this guy does is work his butt off every
Speaker 5: single minute he's at the ballpark. Do you think Mookie
Speaker 5: Betts really cares about all that stuff right now? No,
Speaker 5: he's thinking about I'm gonna compete. I'm gonna go out
Speaker 5: there and get the best out of myself. He's got
Speaker 5: a lot of pride in his work. And like I said,
Speaker 5: he doesn't take himself too seriously. I don't think Mookie does.
Speaker 5: But he takes what he does very seriously. And I
Speaker 5: love a guy like that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and he said he had to get off his
Speaker 3: social media because all the negativity.
Speaker 4: Exactly.
Speaker 3: Certainly that's smarter thing social media is good for. But
Speaker 3: he had been hearing it, Zacks. I mean, not only
Speaker 3: the struggles are one thing, but people then start asking,
Speaker 3: you know, people, I say, fans start wondering why why
Speaker 3: is he struggle why is he for his last twenty
Speaker 3: two And they look for reasons and it can just
Speaker 3: be as simple as he's in a funk. He needs
Speaker 3: to tweak his mechanics, he's just not right to play
Speaker 3: good pitching whatever. But then they look at well, oh,
Speaker 3: he likes to bowl, so this must be a distractions.
Speaker 3: He's on late night TV shows, that that much. Oh
Speaker 3: he's got a podcast, oh that, but he's dead. That's
Speaker 3: a huge distrest. He must be trying to hook up
Speaker 3: the wires to his podcast and the cameras and he's
Speaker 3: not worried about hitting. That's the problem.
Speaker 4: Sex, Yeah, come on, give me a break.
Speaker 5: This guy's a professional, right, he's a professional hitter, and
Speaker 5: he's different than most guys, so the expectations are higher.
Speaker 5: But I guarantee you it's not because he's fiddling with
Speaker 5: some wires on a podcast or he went bowlling. It
Speaker 5: has nothing to do with it. Okay, Uh, he's a
Speaker 5: I'll put my money on Mookie anytime, you know. That's
Speaker 5: why I said what I said yesterday. This guy's This
Speaker 5: guy's a great player, a phenomenal player, and he would
Speaker 5: have been great in any generation, future generations or the
Speaker 5: ones way behind us. He would have been a great
Speaker 5: player then too.
Speaker 3: Not only is he a really uber talented player and
Speaker 3: a generational player as he talked about in MVP, but
Speaker 3: I think saxy the fact that he is in this
Speaker 3: star lineup with Otani in front of him. Last night,
Speaker 3: Taioscar Hernandez was behind him, and let's not knock Tioscar.
Speaker 3: He's two for five last night. He had great season.
Speaker 3: But usually it's Freddie Freeman behind him, and then Taioscar
Speaker 3: behind Freddy. It's a stacked one through four. In the
Speaker 3: middle of it is Mookie Betts. So a lot of
Speaker 3: times he's getting really good pitches because the guy in
Speaker 3: front of him and the guy behind him. If he's
Speaker 3: on a team where he's the only guy, he's the
Speaker 3: cleanup hitter, he's the three hitter, and he doesn't have
Speaker 3: that protection or the guys around him, certainly more pressure
Speaker 3: on him, you know, more pressure on him to be
Speaker 3: the man, but he doesn't have that.
Speaker 4: Pressure looked him.
Speaker 5: Most teams, well, if you have a guy like Mookie Betts,
Speaker 5: nobody has. He's only one of him, but that star
Speaker 5: quality player. Most teams, I mean, if they have a
Speaker 5: guy like that, they try to surround him with some
Speaker 5: other good players. The Dodgers not only have Mookie Betts,
Speaker 5: They've got a whole team full of guys like this.
Speaker 5: I mean, if I'm the starting pitcher against the Dodgers,
Speaker 5: I'm thinking, Dude, I do not envy looking down the
Speaker 5: barrel of that gun. I mean, they've got some guys
Speaker 5: that can just rip you up in a hurry. And
Speaker 5: you know the thing about it too, with the way
Speaker 5: they've turned this thing around, we haven't seen anything yet,
Speaker 5: I mean, and I think that's what the fans are
Speaker 5: are kind of like, you know, holding the breath for
Speaker 5: wait till the sing explodes. It hasn't really exploded yet.
Speaker 5: This team was a one fifty seven plus in.
Speaker 4: Run differential this year.
Speaker 5: They absolutely dominated teams throughout the course of the season.
Speaker 5: This offense is really explosive, and we really haven't seen
Speaker 5: anything yet.
Speaker 3: I say this sarcastically. I'm old enough to remember when
Speaker 3: Mookie Betts played sixty plus games at shortstop, because at
Speaker 3: one point this year, remember he was the opening day
Speaker 3: shortstop and played shortstop up until his injury to his wrist,
Speaker 3: and when he came back, they moved him back to
Speaker 3: right field. But this guy is a talent. He can
Speaker 3: play different spots defensively, and I just keep thinking, here,
Speaker 3: if he's still playing shortstop, saxy and he's still at
Speaker 3: that elite position, and he even mentioned it, he was
Speaker 3: mentally trying to figure out shortstop and master that and
Speaker 3: be the best at it, and it kind of took
Speaker 3: away from his hitting because he was so locked in
Speaker 3: on trying to play shortstop and not mess up and
Speaker 3: figure out the hops and the throws and be perfect
Speaker 3: at that because that's who he is, that it kind
Speaker 3: of got away from him at the plate. But now
Speaker 3: that he's in right field, and I think about these
Speaker 3: struggles in the postseason, Thank god he's not playing shortstop
Speaker 3: because maybe he doesn't figure it out because he's so
Speaker 3: distracted and worried about playing shortstop in a postseason game
Speaker 3: and all the balls that we've seen hit to Miguel
Speaker 3: Rojas and Tommy Edmonds, certainly he'd be playing shortstop instead.
Speaker 3: He's a right field and he's got a chance to
Speaker 3: think about it a little bit more than hitting.
Speaker 5: And still look at the type of year he has exactly,
Speaker 5: I mean, still doing that. I was just amazed at
Speaker 5: how he could just pop in there for playing. You know,
Speaker 5: your arm angled from the outfield, and playing the infield
Speaker 5: is completely different. It's not even the same in the
Speaker 5: In the outfield, you're way over the top, you're extended
Speaker 5: your arm, and when you're playing in the infield, it's
Speaker 5: a lot shorter, throwing right behind your ear, kind of
Speaker 5: like a catcher. And he comes in there and just
Speaker 5: you know, Sachet's in there and no problem. It's like
Speaker 5: it just doesn't happen that way. It's just most people
Speaker 5: on this planet can't do that. It's it's too difficult.
Speaker 5: Especially it's not like he was going in and playing
Speaker 5: first base. Yeah, I mean, playing shortstop is the most
Speaker 5: demanding position maybe outside a catcher on the field, and
Speaker 5: yet he had no problem.
Speaker 4: I mean, I think he did a great job this.
Speaker 5: This is a different player and it's great to see
Speaker 5: it on display now because listen, if he gets unleashed
Speaker 5: and and he does, he goes in one of these runs,
Speaker 5: he could run this right through the World Series, no doubt.
Speaker 3: He started sixty one games at shortstop for the Dodgers series.
Speaker 3: And remember, for those who don't who don't remember he
Speaker 3: in spring training, Cavin Lucks was given this starting shortstop
Speaker 3: position and struggled defensively, and struggled on glove side, backhand throwing,
Speaker 3: really struggled so much so Mookie Betts, who was playing
Speaker 3: second base, said, all right, enoughs enough Doc, I'm gonna
Speaker 3: play shortstop. Let me do it. I'm an athlete, I'll
Speaker 3: figure it out. Just give me shortstop. Move lux back
Speaker 3: to second and two weeks before the season, in the
Speaker 3: trip to Korea, Mookie Betts was named the starting shortstop
Speaker 3: and played sixty one games there before he got hurt.
Speaker 3: Comes back, plays a little bit of second base. He's
Speaker 3: made some starts there and now back forty plus games
Speaker 3: in right field. The guy's a team player. And hey,
Speaker 3: for anybody who sits there and it bothers me. Oh,
Speaker 3: he's into bowling, he's into podcasting. He's so distracted. This
Speaker 3: is the same Mookie Betts who said, I'm the captain,
Speaker 3: Let me freaking play shortstop because it's better for me
Speaker 3: to do it than somebody else.
Speaker 5: Look, I'll take nine guys like Mookie Betts and get
Speaker 5: a chance with that. You know, his makeup, his approach
Speaker 5: to the game is phenomenal. But look when he went
Speaker 5: over to shortstop, and said, hey, let me do this
Speaker 5: and I'll figure it out.
Speaker 4: Great, wasn't it. I mean, you know what else it did?
Speaker 4: It made Gavin Lux a much better second basement. He
Speaker 4: goes over there and Gavin's playing the hell out of
Speaker 4: second base, you know what I mean. So that is
Speaker 4: a great thing.
Speaker 5: Not only do they shore up that position, but you
Speaker 5: really elevated Gavin Lux at second base a lot higher.
Speaker 4: So it's a win win for everybody.
Speaker 3: Yeah, gave Jason Hayward an opportunity to play right field
Speaker 3: until he got banged up with his back and was
Speaker 3: just never right after that. And then when Mooki came
Speaker 3: back from the hand injury, you had Miguel Rojas who
Speaker 3: was ramped up and ready to go. You acquired Tarmy
Speaker 3: Edmund and oh yeah, let's not forget you still had
Speaker 3: a geek a Hernandez and a Chris Taylor, two Swiss
Speaker 3: army knives who can play shortstop and make starts and
Speaker 3: come in late as defensive placements if you needed him
Speaker 3: at short stop. So there was never really an issue
Speaker 3: of we don't have anybody to go to. It was
Speaker 3: Mookie just said enough's enough. I'm the guy. I'm gonna
Speaker 3: do it. I'm not gonna sit here and watch a
Speaker 3: guy make mistakes and shortstop. I can figure it out
Speaker 3: on the go. And it's amazing that he did because
Speaker 3: quir Frank I can't think of anybody else in baseball
Speaker 3: saxee who could do that, no, no positions, two weeks
Speaker 3: before the season. It's he's never plays, not like he
Speaker 3: was a shortstop growing up.
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, I mean guys go down to Venezuela for
Speaker 5: in the offseason for a couple three years to learn it.
Speaker 5: They're an instructional league and doing their extended springs and
Speaker 5: whatnot to learn how to do it.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 5: I'll take two weeks and I'll figure it out. The
Speaker 5: most demanding position in the game. It just doesn't happen.
Speaker 5: But as an decide, I want to kind of completely
Speaker 5: change the subject just for like ten seconds here. How
Speaker 5: about that bunt by Tommy Edmond?
Speaker 4: Beautiful? I mean, see, you see why.
Speaker 5: This is such an element of the game that's got
Speaker 5: to come back. I mean, you change the game by
Speaker 5: having this in your back pocket. This guy can come
Speaker 5: in and lay the ball down like that. It was
Speaker 5: absolutely like a surgeon with a knight. He just was
Speaker 5: so man, he was so perfect with that. But the
Speaker 5: decks in his hand with that bat was a great
Speaker 5: thing to watch. And then yet he can go out
Speaker 5: there and play shortstop and you know, lock it down
Speaker 5: and play good defense. This is these guys are really
Speaker 5: really important to have on.
Speaker 3: A club, no doubt about it. We're gonna hear from
Speaker 3: Tommy Edmund coming up in just a little bit that
Speaker 3: safety squeeze that he put down in the seventh innings,
Speaker 3: scoring Max Monthy just gave the Dodgers more of a lead,
Speaker 3: from five to nothing to six to nothing. And then
Speaker 3: Gavin Lux comes up and clears the bases with a
Speaker 3: two run home run and really put it out of
Speaker 3: reach with an eight to nothing lead after seven innings.
Speaker 3: He is Steve Sacks. I am Tim Case. Dodger fans,
Speaker 3: they did it. They forced a game five. Gotta be
Speaker 3: feeling better now. All those that were worried, all those
Speaker 3: that were anxious, all those of you are freaking out.
Speaker 3: The Dodgers were gonna be bounced by the Padres and
Speaker 3: they'd be singing Blink win any two songs in your
Speaker 3: head forever after a Padres win and advancing to the
Speaker 3: NLCS HA haa haa, not gonna.
Speaker 4: Give it to some of the callers him not so fast.
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Speaker 1: Dave, good morning, Hey, it certainly is a good morning
Speaker 1: in Dodger Land. That definitely was nice to see them
Speaker 1: take care of business. A couple of observations. First observation
Speaker 1: for the Padre fans, the Steelers called they want their
Speaker 1: terrible towels back. Jesus get original. Secondly, what I really
Speaker 1: liked about the ball club was they really played intelligent baseball.
Speaker 1: For example, I was watching the game with somebody and
Speaker 1: an establishment, and when Taylor came up to Bud in
Speaker 1: that situation, and of course with Otani on deck, and
Speaker 1: he took a couple of bad attempts at a bun
Speaker 1: and he swept out and he struck out, and he
Speaker 1: said that's okay because there's a very small percentage he
Speaker 1: would hit it into a double play. You want Otani
Speaker 1: coming up there with runners and scoring position. It was
Speaker 1: almost better he did that or put the bat on
Speaker 1: his back if he wasn't going to hit it into
Speaker 1: a double play. So that was intelligent. And I really
Speaker 1: liked the fact that with I finally saw the ball
Speaker 1: club with two strikes, you know, the pitchers really not
Speaker 1: giving these guys anything good to hit. And I also noticed,
Speaker 1: and I forget who the left he was pitching against
Speaker 1: the righty, that he didn't give him anything there, let's
Speaker 1: go ahead and put him on the base. We got
Speaker 1: a left he coming up, So I thought it was
Speaker 1: just really calculated and what I call intelligent baseball. What
Speaker 1: are your thoughts on that, guys, I think he hit it.
Speaker 3: On the hand, you saw a lot of two strike
Speaker 3: pitches that weren't in the zone, saxy and forcing the
Speaker 3: Padres hitters to either lay off them or in essence,
Speaker 3: last night, they were chasing them and getting those swinging
Speaker 3: misses for strikeouts. And the Dodger pitchers did a great job,
Speaker 3: I thought, really sticking to the game plan. And he
Speaker 3: mentioned Chris Taylor. Yeah, there was an instance when Chris
Speaker 3: Taylor came up, I think it was first and third,
Speaker 3: and he could have grounded into a double play, which
Speaker 3: he's prone to do. Instead, he struck out, and that
Speaker 3: brought up Otani in a situation to turn the lineup over.
Speaker 3: So in that case it worked out to get to
Speaker 3: Otani with runners on base in a chance to drive
Speaker 3: in some runs. But I mean, you can't say it
Speaker 3: enough about the job the pitchers did. It's one thing
Speaker 3: to have a planned right saxy, to have it all
Speaker 3: mapped out twenty seven outs, Mark Pryor, Connor McGinnis, assistant
Speaker 3: pitching coach Dave Roberts. All right, guys, here's the script,
Speaker 3: here's the map. We're going to go to get the
Speaker 3: twenty seven outs. But if one guy messes up, it
Speaker 3: ruins that map and you have to deviate. It's like
Speaker 3: those books Choose your Own adventure and les. Last night
Speaker 3: you saw Dodger pitchers one after another go out and execute.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they did.
Speaker 5: And you have to have that one guy that can
Speaker 5: have bulk innings where maybe you can tack three innings
Speaker 5: and you know, put those together in case one of
Speaker 5: the people in that link doesn't work out. But you know,
Speaker 5: look all the guys on the team, all the things
Speaker 5: we talk about, they they've talked about this that nauseum
Speaker 5: throughout the course of this season. They're not trying to
Speaker 5: lay the ball in there when there's a when there's
Speaker 5: an zero to two count and put a cookie right
Speaker 5: there in the middle of the plate form to kill it.
Speaker 5: They're not trying to do that. Sometimes they just make mistakes,
Speaker 5: you know, But for the most part they know that
Speaker 5: the most important thing is, especially coming out of the bullpen,
Speaker 5: is strike one. Getting that first strike sets the tone.
Speaker 5: And if you look at the splits between a strike
Speaker 5: one start or a one to oh start, it is
Speaker 5: it is just a completely different perspective for the hitters,
Speaker 5: and the numbers reflect that they're not even close. They're
Speaker 5: not even the same realm. When you start zero to
Speaker 5: one advantage pitcher, big time one and ozer advantage to
Speaker 5: the hitter. So that first pitch is extremely important.
Speaker 3: Maybe there was some divine intervention last night. Father Gary
Speaker 3: in Burbank checks back in here on a FI seventy
Speaker 3: LA sports. Father Gary, last night everything went right. The
Speaker 3: good guys won.
Speaker 12: Hey, guys, let me just tell you, ohee, if little faith,
Speaker 12: I'm preaching to myself right now. Let me just tell
Speaker 12: you that was baseball last night. That was That was baseball.
Speaker 12: That was hustling. That was Lux running to third. That
Speaker 12: was Taylor trying to bunt. Doc had a plan. It's
Speaker 12: all coming together. I loved that Otawi tag bet from
Speaker 12: first base to get the second.
Speaker 1: I loved it.
Speaker 12: Man, it was baseball. It was just fun to watch.
Speaker 12: It was good to see. I loved Mookie saying what
Speaker 12: he said. He just needed to see one fall. Guys,
Speaker 12: I'm sorry that I lost a little bit of faith.
Speaker 12: That I was scared that I doubted. But I think
Speaker 12: that our boys are back on track. What do you think, Kates,
Speaker 12: never doubt, give us some give us some faith.
Speaker 4: Never doubt. Yeah, well, never doubt. I always appreciate the bass.
Speaker 5: I always think it's great talking to a priest about
Speaker 5: this because some bit.
Speaker 3: Of he had doubt. Father Gary had doubt.
Speaker 4: Yes, he makes he makes a good point.
Speaker 5: You know, the little things in the game that you
Speaker 5: can't that you can't see that it are on the script.
Speaker 5: Like when Otani takes second base, I mean he ran
Speaker 5: back there, didn't hesitate at all. And really saw the
Speaker 5: way that Merril was catching that ball. He was a
Speaker 5: little bit about on his little bit on his back foot.
Speaker 5: He's got to get way behind that ball, get some
Speaker 5: momentum as he catches it, and then throw with momentum
Speaker 5: into second base, especially with the one of the fastest
Speaker 5: guys in the league on first. But he just kind
Speaker 5: of went back, caught the ball in his back foot
Speaker 5: and Otani saw that and he bolted the second. That
Speaker 5: is very instinctive, great base running, and so you know
Speaker 5: Meryl learned something about that. He won't do that again.
Speaker 3: No, then he had guys going first to third on
Speaker 3: balls hit into left center and right center field for singles.
Speaker 3: The play last night was absolutely perfect. If we can
Speaker 3: bottle that up, what they did on the mound, what
Speaker 3: they did at the plate, what they did on the
Speaker 3: base pass the defense, bottle that up and carry it
Speaker 3: over tomorrow night, I would feel really good about this game.
Speaker 4: Five.
Speaker 3: Matt in Ontario is next up here with Saxon Kates
Speaker 3: and the am on am FI seventy LA sports him.
Speaker 13: Matt, Hey, good morning, gents. I just wanted to call
Speaker 13: and say, yeah, you know, what a great complete team win.
Speaker 13: I know Saxon just touched on it. They did all
Speaker 13: the little things. I think Above any of that, though,
Speaker 13: it was just great to see the fire and the
Speaker 13: hunger back in them. And you know, I'm hoping that
Speaker 13: for Chris Taylor doesn't catch any heat today for the
Speaker 13: Golden Sombrero because I think it's probably been two or
Speaker 13: three weeks and see that a live ab So that's
Speaker 13: a tough spot to be asked to come into and
Speaker 13: be clutched. But yeah, I just as long as we
Speaker 13: could keep playing.
Speaker 4: With that fire.
Speaker 13: That feels great about.
Speaker 3: Things, no doubt about it. Matt appreciate the phone call.
Speaker 3: Let's use another one in every for the top of
Speaker 3: the hour at eight six six Paul and Eagle Rock
Speaker 3: is next up on five seventy. How you doing, Paul, Hey.
Speaker 1: How's it going? Guys?
Speaker 14: I just wanted to say, you know, yesterday it was
Speaker 14: a was a good win. I mean, you seem the
Speaker 14: difference in this team, Uh, yesterday there was like a
Speaker 14: calmness about them. There was no oh, we need to win.
Speaker 14: It didn't seem like a like an elimination game. It
Speaker 14: just seemed like they just went in there with the calmness.
Speaker 14: I'm assuming it had to do with, you know, whatever
Speaker 14: Doc had to tell them, just kind of you know,
Speaker 14: play baseball and do what you guys have been doing
Speaker 14: all year. So it was good to see, uh, you
Speaker 14: know that that team, you know, just come together and
Speaker 14: just depend on the next guy. So I'm hoping, you know,
Speaker 14: tomorrow they that calmness is still there, because now I
Speaker 14: feel like the Padres are saying, you know, now we
Speaker 14: need to win. Now it's you know, now the pressure
Speaker 14: is a little bit more on them being that. I
Speaker 14: mean you've seen them with the bats. They were trying
Speaker 14: to hit those home runs, trying to hurry up and
Speaker 14: catch up. So it's good that the Dodgers score early
Speaker 14: and keep that pressure on them. And the only thing
Speaker 14: I ask is, whoever goes tomorrow to that game, like
Speaker 14: from inning one to inning nine, be the loudest you
Speaker 14: can be because we're gonna need that energy and the
Speaker 14: Padres need to fill it. So thanks a lot, guys, All.
Speaker 3: Right, Paul, appreciate the phone call. Yeah, Dodger Stadium needs
Speaker 3: to be rocking tomorrow night from start to finish. Get
Speaker 3: there early, get there, stand up the entire nine innings.
Speaker 3: What else you got to do at five oh eight
Speaker 3: on a Friday, enjoy a little sunshine, a little Dodgers baseball,
Speaker 3: and stand on your feet for two and a half
Speaker 3: hours and support this team in a do or die,
Speaker 3: win or go home, decisive Game five of the NLDS.
Speaker 3: One hour down, two to go, Saxy, I'm fired up
Speaker 3: looking at the phones. Dodger fans are fired up as well.
Speaker 3: I think they got a new life here after a
Speaker 3: Game four win. They're excited and they can't wait for
Speaker 3: Game five against the Padres. Eight sixty six nine eighty
Speaker 3: seven two five seven. He is Steve Sacks, I'm Tim Kats.
Speaker 3: We'll hear from Tommy Edmund Key k Hernandez. We're gonna
Speaker 3: hear from Freddy Freeman as well. How's that ankle? Will
Speaker 3: he be ready for Game five? All of that's coming
Speaker 3: up over the next two hours as we're live in
Speaker 3: local reacting to Game four, looking ahead to Game five
Speaker 3: with you right here on your home with the Dodgers
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