Speaker 1: Now your host for playoff Dodger Talks sound off Angelino's
Speaker 1: Tim Kaits.
Speaker 2: We got ourselves a series now tied at a game
Speaker 2: of peace as the New York Mets steal home field
Speaker 2: from the Dodgers a seven to three win today out
Speaker 2: of Dodger Stadium in Game two of this NLCS. Hi, everybody,
Speaker 2: and welcome to postgame Dodger Talk here on AM five
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Speaker 2: We are hailing serio six thirty pm before we hand
Speaker 2: things over to Clippers pregame with Adam Austlin. The Clippers
Speaker 2: a preseason game, their first ever at the Intuit Dome
Speaker 2: in Inglewood, So looking forward to that coming up at
Speaker 2: six thirty seven to thirty tip off. But until till now,
Speaker 2: Between then and now, we got a lot.
Speaker 1: To get to.
Speaker 2: As far as postgame reaction from the clubhouse, We're gonna
Speaker 2: hear from Max Monsey, Keiki Hernandez, Brent Honeywell, the Dodgers
Speaker 2: dropped the second game of this LCS eight sixty six
Speaker 2: nine eighty seven two five seventy eight sixty six nine
Speaker 2: eighty seven two five seventy is your phone number if
Speaker 2: you're at the game today, You're still sitting in traffic
Speaker 2: leaving Dodgers Stadium. You gotta line open for you. Eight
Speaker 2: sixty six, nine eighty seven, two five seventy. Certainly a
Speaker 2: lot to digest in the last twenty four hours. What
Speaker 2: has happened? The Dodgers win Game one last night convincingly
Speaker 2: over the New York Mets, get a stellar performance from
Speaker 2: Jack Felherty. It's a nine to nothing shutout. Everything that
Speaker 2: could go right went right for the Dodgers in Game one.
Speaker 2: Things completely turned around today against the Dodgers and in
Speaker 2: favor of the New York Mets. Sean Mania on the mound,
Speaker 2: The new look Sean Mania, who has adjusted his mechanics
Speaker 2: and now throws three quarters as a left hander, had
Speaker 2: showey Otani on roller skates at the plate today, had
Speaker 2: the Dodgers' top five hitters hitless in this Game two
Speaker 2: of the NLCS. The Dodgers pitching today was a bullpen game.
Speaker 2: We knew that going into to be a bullpen game.
Speaker 2: They elected to put Walker Buehler in Game three at
Speaker 2: City Field on Wednesday as the starter, pushing him back
Speaker 2: and now going with a bullpen game in Game two,
Speaker 2: and it absolutely backfired on the Dodgers. They did not
Speaker 2: have the same blueprint or game plan like they did
Speaker 2: in Game four of the NLDS against the Padres. You
Speaker 2: heard from David from Dave Roberts in the Clubout show
Speaker 2: where he said no Daniel Hudson, no Alex Veski who
Speaker 2: was not even on the roster here in the NLCS.
Speaker 2: So it did not look the same, nor could it
Speaker 2: be the same plan that they had against the Padres.
Speaker 2: I get it, I understand that, but I'm not quite sure.
Speaker 2: I liked the combination of this bullpen game that they
Speaker 2: had laned out one. You've got Landon Knack as your
Speaker 2: long reliever, your long inning, bulkeetning guy. Brent Honeywell also
Speaker 2: available to be your long bulkeeting guy if needed. Everybody
Speaker 2: else in the bullpen was available, depending I think on
Speaker 2: this situation. They stayed away from the high leverage relievers
Speaker 2: and they had four of them to use. Dave Roberts
Speaker 2: even said they needed one of the bulgeting guys, and
Speaker 2: they elected Landonnak to be that guy, to give him
Speaker 2: three or four innings so they can then piece together
Speaker 2: the sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, innings in a game which
Speaker 2: they can use their high leverage relievers. Unfortunately, the Dodgers
Speaker 2: were in a whole six to nothing after two innings,
Speaker 2: so the plan that they had hoped for completely backfired,
Speaker 2: and that leads to a lot of second guessing as
Speaker 2: to why they elected to go with this bullpenned Bulke
Speaker 2: inning plan that.
Speaker 1: They decided to go with.
Speaker 2: It's easy to second guess right now, it's easy to say, well,
Speaker 2: things didn't go right to the first batter of the game.
Speaker 2: Francisco Lindor Homward, Well, things certainly fell apart from Land
Speaker 2: and Neck, who struggled in the second inning. And he
Speaker 2: didn't just struggle with this command. He struggled with the
Speaker 2: confidence on the mound. He looked like a young man
Speaker 2: that was out there like a deer in headlights against
Speaker 2: the New York Mets. Off single, a walk, two batters later,
Speaker 2: a double on an O two curveball. You cannot leave
Speaker 2: over the plate to Tyrone Taylor, and it's a two
Speaker 2: to nothing game. Two batters later, you intentionally walk. Francisco Lindor.
Speaker 2: I understand that with one out or with two outs,
Speaker 2: you want to get the bases loaded. You rather face
Speaker 2: Mark Viento's well in the ninth pitch of the at bat,
Speaker 2: after he has seen sliders and fouled them off, he
Speaker 2: has seen fastballs and fouled them off. You throw a
Speaker 2: ninety five mile an hour fastball right over the heart
Speaker 2: of the plate and he crushes it, and the spirits
Speaker 2: of lend and neck crushed as well. In that second inning,
Speaker 2: he'd go back out for the third dance around after
Speaker 2: a couple of hits and a walk to load the bases,
Speaker 2: gets out of it with the fly ball to center field.
Speaker 2: That could have been worse, but the Dodgers found themselves
Speaker 2: in a hole, down six to nothing at that point.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers go to Anthony Bonda, then Brent Honeywell for
Speaker 2: three innings and the game stays at six to nothing
Speaker 2: before the Dodgers chip away with the home run from
Speaker 2: Muncie and the two run single from Tommy Emmon. It's
Speaker 2: a six to three game. It's within reach. They could
Speaker 2: have busted it open, tied the game. It had a
Speaker 2: one run game in the sixth and didn't get the
Speaker 2: hit from kiy k In the seventh, Otani on first
Speaker 2: with one out again an opportunity to start chipping away more.
Speaker 2: At a three run deficit, you're within reach and they
Speaker 2: can't get the hit in the eighth, second and third
Speaker 2: two outs, a base hit makes it a one run game,
Speaker 2: maybe an extended inning if Key k can deliver. He
Speaker 2: popped out inning and over, and then the ninth inning,
Speaker 2: way at Gardo Henriquez goes back out there and walks
Speaker 2: Pete Alonzo and then just completely forgets he's there, and
Speaker 2: Pee Alonzo steals second base and then scores, of course
Speaker 2: on Starley Marte's single to make what it was a
Speaker 2: three run game and a deficit. You can you can,
Speaker 2: you can chase, and you know, you can feel pretty
Speaker 2: good about getting those three runs. All of a sudden,
Speaker 2: it's a four run deficit the Dodgers today, it just
Speaker 2: felt that the whole game. I don't know if it's
Speaker 2: the early start. I don't know if it's because they
Speaker 2: fell behind early. The crowd certainly was not what it
Speaker 2: was in Game one last night, and was certainly not
Speaker 2: what it was in Game five of the NLDS on
Speaker 2: Friday night. It was close to a sellout crowd, maybe
Speaker 2: announced as a sellout, who knows, but certainly not loud,
Speaker 2: not into it like they were the last two games
Speaker 2: Friday and Sunday, and the Dodgers at the plate swinging at.
Speaker 1: Pitches out of the zone.
Speaker 2: I mean Steven Nelson hit it on the head when
Speaker 2: he said, this feels like a game mid season. This
Speaker 2: feels like a day game on a getaway day in
Speaker 2: July where you're just playing it out hoping to get
Speaker 2: on a plane and start a road trip after that.
Speaker 2: They wouldn't didn't feel like there was a sense of urgency.
Speaker 1: I feel like, hey, we're down one nothing.
Speaker 2: We got to put up a zero in this second
Speaker 2: uh oh, wheels foul off for land and neck and
Speaker 2: just left them out there and send them back out
Speaker 2: to the third, in which he had another basis loaded situation.
Speaker 2: The game can't get out of hand. You have to
Speaker 2: win this game. You fall behind, you have to keep
Speaker 2: it as close as possible in order to prevent a blowout.
Speaker 2: Because how many times can a team come back from
Speaker 2: a five, six run deficit.
Speaker 1: You can't ask that all the time.
Speaker 2: It's tough in us asking a team to constantly be
Speaker 2: coming back after trailing one nothing after the first half inning,
Speaker 2: which the Dodgers have had to do a lot of
Speaker 2: I don't know if sense of urgency is the right
Speaker 2: way to put it. It just didn't feel like today
Speaker 2: there was the sense of we need to get this win.
Speaker 1: We dominated Game one nine to nothing.
Speaker 2: Flairty put up zeros, and we beat up on the
Speaker 2: Mets and did everything right. They played bad defense. We
Speaker 2: put the pressure on them. We got game one. It's
Speaker 2: just gonna happen again in Game two. They're just gonna
Speaker 2: roll over.
Speaker 1: In Game two. We're just gonna have set a major.
Speaker 2: League record for scoreless consecutive innings thirty three straight going in.
Speaker 1: We'll set it in the first inning. Ryan Braze will
Speaker 1: do that.
Speaker 2: We're gonna win again, big, We're gonna put up numbers
Speaker 2: on the scoreboard. We're gonna take it to nothing. Lead
Speaker 2: into City Field, the chance to sweep this series. I
Speaker 2: heard Dodger talk last night. Oh, we're gonna sweep this series, David. Oh,
Speaker 2: this series is over. Oh the Mets aren't even gonna
Speaker 2: show up.
Speaker 1: They're done. Their run is over.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry. Lead off home run five runs in the second.
Speaker 2: They put the pressure on the Dodgers, whose top five
Speaker 2: hitters were zero for nineteen with nine strikeouts. Win all
Speaker 2: five hits coming from hitters six, seven, eight to nine.
Speaker 1: That's a problem.
Speaker 2: When you hit a home run, but it's a solo
Speaker 2: home run, that's not a lot to chip away with.
Speaker 2: When Tommy Edmonds got three of your five hits in
Speaker 2: this baseball game, that's a problem the bottom of the
Speaker 2: lineup coming through.
Speaker 1: But where's the top of the lineup?
Speaker 2: A big game in which the Dodgers needed to score
Speaker 2: runs and had chances. Yeah, as bad as the start
Speaker 2: was today, as flat as that stadium was today, down
Speaker 2: six to nothing, all of a sudden, it's a six
Speaker 2: to three game in the sixth inning and the basers
Speaker 2: are loaded with one out.
Speaker 1: They're a hit away from.
Speaker 2: Either tying, taking a lead, making it a one run game,
Speaker 2: making a two run game, and passing the baton. They
Speaker 2: didn't get the hit they needed. They had a chance
Speaker 2: in the seventh, they had a chance in the eighth.
Speaker 2: They had their opportunities one for nine with runners in
Speaker 2: scoring position, ten runners left on base.
Speaker 1: It was a day in which just felt like the.
Speaker 2: Atmosphere, the starting pitching, landing knacks performance, the dabilly of
Speaker 2: the Dodgers to get a hit when they needed it,
Speaker 2: string together hits, the top of the line of Showyotani.
Speaker 1: Swinging to pitches two feet out of the zone.
Speaker 2: Yeah, drew his walks, but don't look now, Showeyotoni is
Speaker 2: still oh for the postseason.
Speaker 1: With nobody on base.
Speaker 2: He's driving in runs when guys are on base, but
Speaker 2: when they're not setting the table in front of him,
Speaker 2: teams are pitching around him, either drawing walks like he
Speaker 2: did two of them, or they're telling show.
Speaker 1: Hey, we're not gonna throw you a pitch. Here.
Speaker 2: Here's a sweeper two feet out of the zone. Swing
Speaker 2: at it if you want, you're gonna get yourself out.
Speaker 2: Here's a fastball up in the zone, questionable whether it's
Speaker 2: a strike, swings through it strike three, then takes a
Speaker 2: fastball down the middle because he doesn't see what's coming.
Speaker 2: It was a bad day at the ballpark today for
Speaker 2: the Dodgers. It was a disastrous game too of this NLCS.
Speaker 2: And the topper to me was Pete Alonzo stealing second
Speaker 2: base off in Gardo Henriguez and then Starling Marte a
Speaker 2: single up the middle, and Pete Alonso, who if me
Speaker 2: and him get in a race, I don't know, man,
Speaker 2: I think I'm head to have with Pete Alonzo in
Speaker 2: a race. He scores from second and makes it a
Speaker 2: four run deficit. Man, this is one that the Dodgers
Speaker 2: just let get away, and I felt like there was
Speaker 2: no sense of urgency to try to get it back.
Speaker 2: It felt like we're just gonna run a lineup out there.
Speaker 2: We're gonna run pitchers out there in a bullpen game
Speaker 2: and just see what happens.
Speaker 1: Hey, roll the dice. We win this one. Great, we
Speaker 1: don't win it. Hey, we're going to the city field.
Speaker 2: We got Walker, Bueller and Yamamoto to pitch yet another
Speaker 2: bullpen game to come on Friday. The lack of starting
Speaker 2: pitching has reared its ugly head and it is a
Speaker 2: glaring issue right now, a glaring issue. And Landon Nak
Speaker 2: I feel bad for great young man has pitched his
Speaker 2: butt off when needed this season and called upon. Has
Speaker 2: pitched once in the last fifteen days, and that was
Speaker 2: in relief in the NLDS in a blowout win in
Speaker 2: San Diego, in that bullpen game in the ninth inning,
Speaker 2: and you ask him to come in and do the
Speaker 2: bulk innings, and again he looked like a deer in
Speaker 2: headlights out there from the get go, a leadoff single,
Speaker 2: a walk, first two batters reach base, and then there's
Speaker 2: just all downhill after that. Eight sixty six, nine eighty seven,
Speaker 2: two five seventy. Let's go out to the phones, Tony
Speaker 2: in La. Start things off here on postgame Dodger Talk.
Speaker 2: This series has tied at a game apiece after the
Speaker 2: Mets winning seven to three.
Speaker 1: How you doing, Tony.
Speaker 3: Doing great? I think he crushed it. I was just
Speaker 3: wondering where.
Speaker 4: Dave Assay was.
Speaker 3: I thought he did a good job last night responding
Speaker 3: to the calls. And also the other thing, was it
Speaker 3: just me or was there like a serious East Coast
Speaker 3: bias from those Fox announcers, like lots of joy when
Speaker 3: the Mets went up, stuff like that.
Speaker 2: Well, I appreciate the phone call, Tony. David Vessay is
Speaker 2: popping on the plane right now. He is our embedded
Speaker 2: Dodger reporter and is traveling with the team, and the
Speaker 2: team is leaving right now. The team is getting on
Speaker 2: the bus headed to Lax and they are flying back
Speaker 2: to New York right now and ahead of Game three,
Speaker 2: four and five at City Field on Wednesday night, they'll
Speaker 2: fly there, get there in the middle of the night.
Speaker 2: East Coast time. Have a workout tomorrow night at City Field,
Speaker 2: late again because it's at eight o'clock first pitch on Wednesday,
Speaker 2: So I'll have all day tomorrow to rest and sleep
Speaker 2: and enjoy the Queens New York or wherever they're staying
Speaker 2: in anticipation for Game three, four and five. Your other
Speaker 2: question about the bias of the TV announcers, no clue,
Speaker 2: I'm not listening to him. I love Joe Davis and
Speaker 2: John Smolds, they do a great job, but I'm not
Speaker 2: listening to him. I got Steven Nelson and Rick Monday
Speaker 2: right here on five seven d LA Sports. I will say,
Speaker 2: no matter if it's Joe Davis or Joe Buck, they
Speaker 2: have every time people criticizing them.
Speaker 1: You don't like my.
Speaker 2: Team, you like the other team too much, and then
Speaker 2: one team scores. Oh I thought you liked my team,
Speaker 2: Now you like this team. They can't win. They cannot win.
Speaker 2: I know Joe Davis calls the games on sports in
Speaker 2: at LA, and so when every time the Dodgers score,
Speaker 2: people actually have looked in. I looked on social media
Speaker 2: and people have actually analyzed his voice. Does he get
Speaker 2: too excited on a call or not excited on a
Speaker 2: call and it's dissected ridiculously so. But again, I don't know,
Speaker 2: I wasn't listening. Of course, I'm listening of course, Steven
Speaker 2: Nelson and Rick Monday here on FI seventy, LA Sports
Speaker 2: Ken and Newport Beach Ken. This was one the Dodgers
Speaker 2: just kind of felt like went through the motions.
Speaker 5: Well, coming off of yesterday where it was very happy,
Speaker 5: I'm pretty angry today. Let's just go to the interview
Speaker 5: that Dave Roberts could when Nack was getting crushed. Ge, Dave,
Speaker 5: there's not one hundred and sixty two games left, there's
Speaker 5: only a few If he's getting crushed after the third
Speaker 5: bat or why didn't you pull in You've still got
Speaker 5: people in the bullpen, no reason? Six runs later. There
Speaker 5: you go. Now, let's talk about some of the hitting.
Speaker 5: O' tian has struck out eleven times in this series.
Speaker 5: You mentioned the first five guys are over nineteen. Okay,
Speaker 5: Let's talk about the guy batting fifth who's hitting under
Speaker 5: one hundred and the second after the season hitting under
Speaker 5: two hundred. Why is Smith still batting in the fifth position.
Speaker 5: Clearly he's not all there. Clearly he's the worst hitter
Speaker 5: in the entire playoffs. Put him down to eighth or
Speaker 5: ninth when that makes sense. And then the final thing
Speaker 5: is it didn't make a difference. But they're down by
Speaker 5: three and they bring in a guy who is a
Speaker 5: single A pitcher. He wasn't in the double A, he
Speaker 5: wasn't in triple A. He didn't even look at the
Speaker 5: guy at first base who basically walked to second for
Speaker 5: the steal to give up a run. These things don't
Speaker 5: make sense. And this is the reason eight of the
Speaker 5: nine years the Dodgers get beat because of bad pitching choices.
Speaker 5: And it's really really angry. They can win at least
Speaker 5: one of those games in New York, and that's the
Speaker 5: hottest team in the major leagues. That's they're going up against.
Speaker 5: Very unhappy today.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm with you, Ken, I'm scratching my head on
Speaker 2: a lot of decisions that were made this afternoon. It's
Speaker 2: easy to second guess, but I just don't. I don't
Speaker 2: understand the decision in this Bullpenn game to rely on
Speaker 2: land and neck as much as you were. But as
Speaker 2: soon as it does go south and he doesn't have it,
Speaker 2: you've got to limit the damage you have to cut
Speaker 2: the cord on Land and Neck and get somebody else
Speaker 2: in there, whether it's Brent Honeywell to continue as a
Speaker 2: bulkening guy. He did a really good job in the
Speaker 2: three innings that he pitched, no runs, one hit, two strikeouts.
Speaker 2: Certainly was a different situation when he came in the
Speaker 2: fifth inning it was a six to nothing game. But
Speaker 2: if it's a two nothing or three nothing game, whatever
Speaker 2: it is, when you pull Land and Neck and you
Speaker 2: go to Brett Honeywillet, maybe he gets out of it,
Speaker 2: pitches the second, the third, and gets you to the
Speaker 2: fourth inning, and then you can start bringing in relievers
Speaker 2: out of that and maybe you start chipping away. It's
Speaker 2: a different game, the result is different. The storyline starts
Speaker 2: to play out differently than it did leaving land and
Speaker 2: Neck out there to give up the six runs, and
Speaker 2: to me, it just felt like he was out there
Speaker 2: on an island all by himself, and I can't that's
Speaker 2: the plan to go to land and Neck for bulkinting.
Speaker 2: It's a guy you've used once in the last two weeks.
Speaker 2: This not fell to land and Neck by any means.
Speaker 2: I mean, he was out there like a lamb to slaughter.
Speaker 2: It's just the Mets just took it to him and
Speaker 2: they were all over his fastball. They were fouling off pitches,
Speaker 2: waiting for another fastball or a slider just to be
Speaker 2: hanging there, and they took advantage of it, and Mark
Speaker 2: Biento's crushed it for a grand slam part of that
Speaker 2: five run second inning. So I get it, VESSI has hurt.
Speaker 2: Apparently Dale Hudson was down today. You can't use the
Speaker 2: same script that you used in Game four. Nobody's asking
Speaker 2: you to use the same script like you did in
Speaker 2: Game four, because every game is different. Every lineup is
Speaker 2: certainly different. This Mets team is different than the Padres
Speaker 2: team you faced. With that being said, you couldn't put
Speaker 2: together a game plan where the high leverage guys did
Speaker 2: get in there. Maybe once you're down one nothing, Okay,
Speaker 2: you're down one nothing after the home run that Brazier
Speaker 2: gives up and the Dodgers go quietly against Seaman and
Speaker 2: I in the first right away, I'm thinking Mania's got
Speaker 2: his stuff. This is gonna be a low scoring effort
Speaker 2: from our offense today, maybe until we get to the bullpen.
Speaker 2: We've got to keep it a low scoring game. We
Speaker 2: got to keep it one nothing. We can't afford to
Speaker 2: give up zeros. So maybe I go to a higher
Speaker 2: leverage guy for the second and third inning. Maybe maybe
Speaker 2: things changed differently then and you keep it a one
Speaker 2: nothing game. Maybe it stays that way, and then you
Speaker 2: go to a land and neck in the third or
Speaker 2: fourth inning. Went once the game is evaulved a little bit,
Speaker 2: but the land and neck right away in the second inning,
Speaker 2: bulk innings, hoping he can give you.
Speaker 1: Three or four.
Speaker 2: It was either going to work really well or it wasn't,
Speaker 2: and it didn't pay out for the Dodgers. He gaus
Speaker 2: of five runs in the NIA, and the Dodgers were
Speaker 2: in a massive six nothing hole. Let's go to Leon
Speaker 2: in Beverly Hills. This next up here on postgame Dodger Talk,
Speaker 2: Mets even up this series at a game and piece,
Speaker 2: how you doing?
Speaker 1: Leon?
Speaker 6: Hey, thanks a lot for taking the call, And I
Speaker 6: wish that's say it was here to you know, reference
Speaker 6: his his arrogant feelings last night, even though I loved Dave.
Speaker 6: So the thing is that.
Speaker 3: I'd like to take your argument a step further.
Speaker 6: When you say they have to win this game, they
Speaker 6: didn't have that mentality into this game. Look Buller would have.
Speaker 6: If Bueller would have, they should have never pitched a
Speaker 6: bullpen game.
Speaker 3: Period.
Speaker 6: Bueller goes today, he's on five days rest, Yama Moto
Speaker 6: goes the next game five days rest, Flairty the next
Speaker 6: game four days rest. Or if they don't want to
Speaker 6: do that at that point, if they're ahead in the
Speaker 6: series or whatever and they want to go bullpen, fine,
Speaker 6: but it was arrogant for them to go with a
Speaker 6: bull pan game today. And the other thing that I
Speaker 6: want to that I will that I think is really
Speaker 6: important to other things. One, what is the signal that
Speaker 6: you're sending to your team in the clubhouse to say, yeah,
Speaker 6: we're just gonna throw a bullpen bullpen game out there.
Speaker 6: Yeah we're fine, We'll wait where we got these guys.
Speaker 6: We're just gonna go bullpen game instead of going behind
Speaker 6: your bulldog Bueller, who had so much fire, he was
Speaker 6: ready to go. You could tell he pitched really well.
Speaker 6: The team would have responded differently with Bueller pitching in
Speaker 6: this game, both defensively and offensively. There's there's just no way.
Speaker 6: And then the last thing I want to point out
Speaker 6: is for fans and I didn't. I was thinking about
Speaker 6: going to this game today, Tim, but I'm like, I'm
Speaker 6: not going to a bullpen game. I'm not going to
Speaker 6: buy tickets to a bullpen game, you know, because they're
Speaker 6: not They're not going to really, First of all, it's
Speaker 6: miserable to sit through a bullpen game to like watch,
Speaker 6: you know, pitchers shuttle the in and out of the
Speaker 6: games like three and a half four hour game. But
Speaker 6: besides that, they're not in it to win it. You know,
Speaker 6: what are they doing with managing this game like it's
Speaker 6: a like you mentioned, like some sort of a regular season,
Speaker 6: mid season game. We have to win the game, Like
Speaker 6: you're you're in a seven game series in the NLCS.
Speaker 6: You gotta win this game.
Speaker 7: This is your home.
Speaker 6: You lose home homefield advantage. Where's the intensity? What are
Speaker 6: they doing?
Speaker 2: No argument from you, Leon appreciate it, Thanks for checking in.
Speaker 2: Eight sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy is
Speaker 2: the number. The Mets beat the Dodgers seven to three.
Speaker 2: Sham and Ya gets to win. Ryan Brasier gets tagged
Speaker 2: with the loss. The Dodgers fell behind one nothing one
Speaker 2: batter into the game on a Francisco Lindor solo home
Speaker 2: run and then the second inning a five run Mets
Speaker 2: second inning. They Dodgers were down six to nothing until
Speaker 2: the fifth, when they finally got on the board on
Speaker 2: a Max Monzy solo home run Tommy Edmond a two
Speaker 2: run single in the sixth inning, Dodgers were within three,
Speaker 2: within striking distance, but then they could not get the
Speaker 2: big hits in the sixth, the seventh, the eighth, and
Speaker 2: then things fell apart in the ninth inning, Starling Marte
Speaker 2: and RBI single to make it a seven to three
Speaker 2: Mets lead. And that was all she wrote. As the
Speaker 2: Mets defeat the Dodgers seven to three. All the momentum
Speaker 2: and the nine to nothing win. What Jack Flaherty did
Speaker 2: last night has really gone out the window now that
Speaker 2: the Mets come back and win Game two in the
Speaker 2: fashion they did. I mean, a bright spot of the
Speaker 2: Dodgers I guess is that you battled and you had
Speaker 2: the opportunities, you just couldn't get the base hit you needed.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's something I guess positive you can take
Speaker 2: away that you had the bases loaded one out. It
Speaker 2: had a chance to make it a tie game, a
Speaker 2: one run game, a two run game. If it's an
Speaker 2: RBI single from Kik Instead he grounds into a double play.
Speaker 2: It's again the seventh inning, an opportunity with shoey o'tani
Speaker 2: on can't score run, the seventh opportunity, the eighth inning
Speaker 2: with runners on second and third and two outs, a
Speaker 2: base hit, and all of a sudden, it's a six
Speaker 2: to five game. And it could be a different ending
Speaker 2: for this Dodgers team. Maybe they put together a couple
Speaker 2: more hits and they tie it up in the eighth inning,
Speaker 2: take the lead, go to the ninth and win it.
Speaker 2: You know, things could have shook it out differently for
Speaker 2: this Dodgers team. As it is, they go one for
Speaker 2: nine with runners in scoring position, ten runners left on base.
Speaker 2: So maybe that's a positive. Maybe it's a positive that
Speaker 2: the top five hitters were a combined zero for nineteen
Speaker 2: with nine strikeouts, and it won't get any worse than that.
Speaker 2: Maybe that's rock bottom in this nsc NLCS is the
Speaker 2: Dodgers hitters at the top of the lineup don't get
Speaker 2: a hit. Otani, Betts, Ta Oscar, Freddie Freeman, Will Smith,
Speaker 2: zero hits from the top five Dodger hitters. Zero RBIs
Speaker 2: from the top five Dodger hitters. They combined to strikeout
Speaker 2: nine times in this game, and the Dodgers lose seven
Speaker 2: to three. Kyle in orders, Actually, Manny, Manny leaving the
Speaker 2: game has been waiting longer. Manny appreciate it. Thanks for
Speaker 2: joining us here on Dodger Talking.
Speaker 8: Hey Tim, what's going on? Bought a ticket for a
Speaker 8: game the day or the night before the Padres game five,
Speaker 8: so I was confident going in. And after seeing Jack
Speaker 8: Flerty throw a gem or I'm sorry, Yoshi Nobu throw
Speaker 8: a gem in Flerty Game one, I was certain. I
Speaker 8: was sold that walker Billy was coming out because it
Speaker 8: made the perfect sentence, and we got a bulleting game,
Speaker 8: which I wasn't too mad about. But the three things
Speaker 8: that you kept mentioning today, I gotta just chime into
Speaker 8: zero sense of urgency. Just we didn't score until the
Speaker 8: sixth inning. How could you get the crowd going? Talk
Speaker 8: about crowd and being into it. There's no run until
Speaker 8: the six inning, and this is off a grand slam
Speaker 8: coming back into the second inning. I feel like if
Speaker 8: they don't have that second inning, we're in this game.
Speaker 8: And it's hard in the playoffs to mix things up.
Speaker 8: Right away. But the whole thing now, we're going to
Speaker 8: New York for three tough games, and we're gonna have
Speaker 8: to show up. We're gonna take at least two out
Speaker 8: of three to be back in So I'm not giving
Speaker 8: up yet though, Tim die hard.
Speaker 2: No, the series is tied up one game at piece Manny,
Speaker 2: and you know it's now an opportunity for the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: They need to go to New York and steal one
Speaker 2: of these three games at City Field to bring it
Speaker 2: home for a chance to win it at home in
Speaker 2: Game six or Game seven. But or just take care
Speaker 2: of business, go out and win a couple of games,
Speaker 2: win all three in New York, and come back after
Speaker 2: five games.
Speaker 1: But it's gonna be tough. The Mets put up.
Speaker 2: A fight in game two. You know, reading the New
Speaker 2: York papers this morning, it was all doom and gloom.
Speaker 2: They were really getting after the Mets for losing nine
Speaker 2: to nothing in the series opener last night to the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: And you know, sixteen hours later they come back out
Speaker 2: and they score six runs in their first two winnings.
Speaker 2: First batter of the game hits a home run. Things
Speaker 2: can change quickly. A tide can turn very quickly on
Speaker 2: a team. Momentum can swing very easily in the game
Speaker 2: of baseball. We've seen that from last night to today,
Speaker 2: and certainly could change in Games three, four, and five,
Speaker 2: which will be back to back to back games three
Speaker 2: days in a row in New York beginning on Wednesday
Speaker 2: eight six, six, nine, seven, two five seventy. More of
Speaker 2: your phone calls coming up. Mets win Game two of
Speaker 2: the NLDS today NLCS excuse me, seven to three to
Speaker 2: the final. Seaman and I gets to win. Ryan Brasier
Speaker 2: gets the loss. Dodgers won for nine with runners in
Speaker 2: scoring position. They were in a hole, had a chance
Speaker 2: to get out of it, just couldn't get the hit
Speaker 2: they needed late in the game. Mets win at seven
Speaker 2: to three. Right here on the Los Angeles Dodgers Audio
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Speaker 1: You need to make him work. He's got sixty one pitches.
Speaker 2: The Mets bullpin isn't very deep and it is tax
Speaker 2: so you want to get going. Max Mounsey charges up
Speaker 2: right field, Max Monseys max power halfway up the pavilion,
Speaker 2: a solo.
Speaker 1: Home run, and finally the Dodgers breakthrough Max Munsey with
Speaker 1: a solo home run in the fifth.
Speaker 2: They got the Dodgers on the board, but unfortunately they
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Speaker 2: somebody who said Tim Knack was the starter. Dave Roberts
Speaker 2: just didn't want to put pressure on Nack with the title,
Speaker 2: so Nack was supposed to eat innings while Roberts can
Speaker 2: keep his high leverage guys still unexposed going into New York.
Speaker 2: It was a gamble that I thought was a good one,
Speaker 2: considering this is a seven game series. All right, I
Speaker 2: respect your take, I respect what you have to say,
Speaker 2: and I appreciate the follow and the tweet.
Speaker 1: I disagree.
Speaker 2: What are you saving the high leverage relievers for Games three, four,
Speaker 2: and five? How many of those high leverage relievers you've
Speaker 2: got four? From Doc said, we've got four high leverage relievers.
Speaker 2: Are all four of those guys gonna be able to
Speaker 2: pitch Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. There's not many of those
Speaker 2: guys that pitch three days in a row during the
Speaker 2: regular season, let alone you're gonna ask to pitch three
Speaker 2: days a row in October, where they've got all these
Speaker 2: innings already on them. Last night, Jack Flaherty, Coline and
Speaker 2: I was just were talking about this. He brought up
Speaker 2: a great point. Jack Flerity, pitched seven innings.
Speaker 1: Last night for you.
Speaker 2: You use Daniel Hudson, and you use Ben Casparius. Your
Speaker 2: entire rest of your bullpen was available today. Why are
Speaker 2: we saving high leverage relievers? Why are we not treating
Speaker 2: this as a must win Game two? Take a two
Speaker 2: zero series lead to New York and put all the
Speaker 2: pressure on them. They came out swinging, They came out
Speaker 2: as the team fighting and scratching to win this game
Speaker 2: two and get that sour taste out of their mouth
Speaker 2: from Game one. The Dodgers treated this game, in my opinion,
Speaker 2: like we got one of the bag. We got Walker,
Speaker 2: Bueler and Yamamoto for three and four. Let's throw out
Speaker 2: the bullpen and we'll probably score nine again. Right, our
Speaker 2: offense is that good?
Speaker 10: Well?
Speaker 2: Your offense top five went zero for nineteen and nine
Speaker 2: punch outs. They didn't perform for you. You had only
Speaker 2: five hits in the game, didn't score until the fifth
Speaker 2: inning on a solo home run. The offense wasn't there,
Speaker 2: and now you're relying upon a bullpen game in which
Speaker 2: things got away from you quickly and you stayed away
Speaker 2: from your high leverage guys. Again again, this was a
Speaker 2: one o'clock first pitch. You don't play again until eight
Speaker 2: o'clock Eastern on Wednesday night. You got forty eight plus hours, right,
Speaker 2: it's forty eight hours, two days, forty.
Speaker 1: Eight hours until you play a game three.
Speaker 2: That's more rest than they're gonna see the rest of
Speaker 2: this series. Why not use these guys today, Go for it,
Speaker 2: push the chips in for a game to win with
Speaker 2: your high leverage guys put up zeros, keep it close,
Speaker 2: and hopefully the offense was gonna get to Manaiah they
Speaker 2: got to the bullpen, they still had a shot to
Speaker 2: win it, even though they were losing six to three,
Speaker 2: and then have a day off tomorrow, pretty much all
Speaker 2: day Wednesday, you're off until eight o'clock Eastern an early
Speaker 2: game today. That's the long window between now and Wednesday night.
Speaker 2: That's a good chunk of rest for you and your bullpen.
Speaker 2: And let's say maybe a couple of the high leverage
Speaker 2: guys aren't a albow on Wednesday, Well, then in their
Speaker 2: rail they're ready to go on Thursday and Friday.
Speaker 1: For you, I just don't get it.
Speaker 2: Your high leverage guys didn't get used last night and today, great,
Speaker 2: so now they're gonna be so well rested on Wednesday
Speaker 2: that you feel comfortable using them Wednesday, Thursday and Friday
Speaker 2: in three straight games.
Speaker 1: No, hasn't happened during the regular season. Just doesn't.
Speaker 2: And this is a bullpen that's been taxed and used
Speaker 2: a lot. This was an opportunity that was set up
Speaker 2: last night by Flairty. Seven shutout innings and the window
Speaker 2: of a day game and not playing until late Wednesday
Speaker 2: night that you could have.
Speaker 1: Used those high leverage guys.
Speaker 2: And even if things get away from Nack, you know,
Speaker 2: to me, to me a one nothing game already right away.
Speaker 2: I'm scrapping the plans of land and Nack one nothing
Speaker 2: game after one inning, and MANI the way he looked
Speaker 2: in the first inning, I'm going with my hell, I'm
Speaker 2: going with my high leverage. I'm going with somebody that
Speaker 2: can go up there and get Bonda for two innings.
Speaker 2: If Bonda was gonna give you two today anyways, make
Speaker 2: him go out there and pitch two and three. Have
Speaker 2: one of my high end relievers go out there and
Speaker 2: make sure they don't put more runs on after they
Speaker 2: did in the first thing like they did. Make sure
Speaker 2: you have a stopper there in some capacity to put
Speaker 2: up a zero in the second.
Speaker 1: Stop the momentum, try to get.
Speaker 2: A zero put up in the third, and hopefully your
Speaker 2: offense will get jump started and get something going for you. Instead,
Speaker 2: Landon that comes in and gives up five runs and
Speaker 2: just did not have any feel for it out there,
Speaker 2: And I feel bad for them, but it happened, and
Speaker 2: the Dodgers were in a massive hole.
Speaker 1: And now you really.
Speaker 2: Aren't going to go to your high leverage relievers because
Speaker 2: of the situation that you're in. So now you're just
Speaker 2: resting your high leverage relievers for a three game series
Speaker 2: now at City Field Wednesday, Thursday Friday. It just kind
Speaker 2: of backfired to me in my opinion, and it couldn't
Speaker 2: have in the moment, a one nothing game already with
Speaker 2: the leadoff home run from the door, I'm deviating. If
Speaker 2: this is a choose your own adventure book, I'm deviating
Speaker 2: and going to a different page with a different reliever,
Speaker 2: just to make sure I put up a zero in
Speaker 2: the second inning, eight sixty six, nine seventy Kaylin leaving
Speaker 2: the game, probably already home by now, Caitlin, How.
Speaker 1: You doing.
Speaker 6: Good?
Speaker 11: Still driving? Thanks?
Speaker 1: Cool? So what'd you think.
Speaker 11: I told? I mean, I think you're nailing it. I
Speaker 11: would say that you're What you're hitting on is that Dave.
Speaker 11: There was no audible it was I know he's he's,
Speaker 11: you know, gathering information at the front office, and they
Speaker 11: come up with a plan, and the plan is X,
Speaker 11: Y and Z with the believers. But when you have
Speaker 11: the situation you had, how do you how do you
Speaker 11: not At least there was we were talking about in
Speaker 11: the second inning before anything happened or was you.
Speaker 3: Know, it was just the homer.
Speaker 11: It's like, we're looking over the bullpen. There's not a
Speaker 11: single person warming up. How do you have no one
Speaker 11: warming up in that situation when you know he doesn't
Speaker 11: have it, just going no, this is the plan, You
Speaker 11: got to stick with it. That's crazy to me. I've
Speaker 11: heard also one of the things when people talking about
Speaker 11: Will Smith and I know he struggled, but like he
Speaker 11: hit one hundred and ten mile an hour pitch in
Speaker 11: the seventh, thirty eighth whatever that was.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I.
Speaker 11: Mean he nailed. That's a hit in that's a ninety
Speaker 11: percent of pitch of ex velocity like that our hits.
Speaker 7: So I'm not you know, he's.
Speaker 11: Been he hasn't produced, but you're still hitting the ball
Speaker 11: hard and he hit it hard there and that's usually
Speaker 11: a hit. We'd be talking a different story if he
Speaker 11: got on bass there.
Speaker 3: I mean, I hope he comes through.
Speaker 11: But really, I think you're nailing it. I think you're
Speaker 11: nailing it. I can't believe there was nobody warming up
Speaker 11: in that situation. He didn't have his explanation was crazy
Speaker 11: to be like well, we're you know, he's got to
Speaker 11: pitch at some point. Is basically what Dave said about Nat.
Speaker 11: He's got to pitch at some point because of the
Speaker 11: Vetty injury and because of Hudson being unavailable. And it's like, well, okay,
Speaker 11: why doesn't he pitch it later? Why do you? And
Speaker 11: if you're going to pitch him, you should have somebody ready.
Speaker 11: I just I think that's crazy to me.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, I can't argue with you, Cale, And I appreciate
Speaker 2: the phone call. Well, Dake leaving Dodger Stadium, Dike, how
Speaker 2: you doing.
Speaker 4: We got DAGs dad to start off here. I'm coming
Speaker 4: up first. We got positive vibes and negative vibes. It
Speaker 4: was a great night out of the stadium, really temperate weather.
Speaker 4: Dake's dad starting off here. Key k had a couple
Speaker 4: big boy opportunities to get it going as he's, you know,
Speaker 4: getting the low key mister October vibe going. And yeah,
Speaker 4: it was a really fun game. And I got negative
Speaker 4: stuff to say, but I guess just to keep the
Speaker 4: positive vibes.
Speaker 11: Going, I get.
Speaker 4: The last negative thing I'll say is like the Dodgers
Speaker 4: found fire in the end of the Padre series. In
Speaker 4: the beginning of the Mets series, and you were like, oh,
Speaker 4: now we got this fire going and we're a fire team.
Speaker 4: And then today was like a real deflation. So, Dake,
Speaker 4: do you want to do you want to give some
Speaker 4: positive vibes to counteract that after one of the games today,
Speaker 4: come on positivity.
Speaker 12: And shout out for Tommy and then for the beautiful hits.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and.
Speaker 4: Well, and what do you think of the pitching?
Speaker 12: The pitching was good, but one guy, he thinks and
Speaker 12: he who was grand plans landing.
Speaker 4: Up a grand stand. But other than that, I guess
Speaker 4: you could say that we only let up.
Speaker 1: One run, right, Yeah, yeah, you're right, Dave, You're right, Dake.
Speaker 2: Bonda came out pish well, honeywell gave him three solid innings.
Speaker 2: Great to hear from you, Dake. Pretty soon you're gonna
Speaker 2: be sitting in this chair doing Dodger talk. I can't
Speaker 2: wait till that day comes, man, I would be calling
Speaker 2: it to you, Dake. I appreciate the phone call and
Speaker 2: talking Dodgers baseball with you. So yeah, I'm on the lookout.
Speaker 2: I got Dake running down my neck here, you know,
Speaker 2: gonna take my job. Eight sixty six nine eight seven two,
Speaker 2: five seventy, Let's go to Ryder in Santa Clarita's next
Speaker 2: up here on postgame Dodger Talk. Dodgers all even with
Speaker 2: the Mets after losing seventy three.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean it was a tough loss, but.
Speaker 12: Yeah, good viewers, A big game pitcher Dodges in five.
Speaker 1: Let's go Baby, All right, let's go baby.
Speaker 2: Love the enthusiasm. Rider appreciate the phone call. Eight six seventy.
Speaker 2: Oscar and Baldwin Park is next up on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 2: How you doing, Oscar?
Speaker 7: Okay, I'm gonna try to keep it positive. I'll say,
Speaker 7: let's this was a piece of crack game. They got
Speaker 7: out of their system for this series. Man, all day
Speaker 7: I heard it on the radio.
Speaker 4: Man and fire haven't heard it all day.
Speaker 7: My workman took my little radio with me on jobs.
Speaker 4: They heard it all day.
Speaker 7: I thought the frustration of the crowd. I was here.
Speaker 7: I was feeling it. I just see I wasn't seeing.
Speaker 7: I was feeling it and hearing it. Man, the top
Speaker 7: of the line lineup was a lifeless.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 7: I don't know what what what's going? Maybe you gotta
Speaker 7: shake it up a little.
Speaker 4: I mean, I'm not gonna panic either.
Speaker 7: It's this one game. I think they go in to
Speaker 7: get the billy go came uh three tomorrow they backs
Speaker 7: up to one then go from there. But I don't know, man,
Speaker 7: maybe the start time the mess bully needed this game.
Speaker 7: You know, maybe I is there to an NBA playoff game.
Speaker 7: You know sometimes all the Lake, the Lakers get game
Speaker 7: one and they can get blown out in game two
Speaker 7: and lose it. It just goes, you know, just hopefully just
Speaker 7: humbles it. You know, it seems like the Dodgers need
Speaker 7: to be humbled to kind of respond. You know that
Speaker 7: they always respond good. You gotta give them that. They
Speaker 7: were always response to to the challenge. Though it's just
Speaker 7: one game. Yeah, this is let's just get it out.
Speaker 7: Everybody has the right to be pissed off. But it's
Speaker 7: just one game, man, and Bill's going to game three, So.
Speaker 1: Go right on, Oscar. I appreciate it.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I think that's gonna be key. Is how do they
Speaker 2: respond to this, you know, Wednesday night? How do they
Speaker 2: come out? Do they have that fire in their bellies still?
Speaker 2: They're gonna go into a Hornets nest? Uh that is
Speaker 2: city feel that place is gonna be rocking. They guy
Speaker 2: finally got a home game in the National League Championship Series.
Speaker 2: They steal a game at Dodgers Stadium. You know, they're
Speaker 2: gonna be fired up whoever whoever they have on the
Speaker 2: mound pitching, you know, whether it's Kintana, whoever. They're gonna
Speaker 2: be ready to go, and the fans are gonna be
Speaker 2: ready to go. And it's gonna be an atmosphere in
Speaker 2: which the Dodgers need to come out and match that
Speaker 2: intensity in Game three on Wednesday night. Kyle and Orange
Speaker 2: is next up here on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 1: How you doing, Kyle, I'm.
Speaker 3: Doing good, tim Thank for having me.
Speaker 10: I wanted to talk a little bit, you know, I
Speaker 10: know where you're talking a lot, and I think you're nailing.
Speaker 4: It about the pitching.
Speaker 10: You know, I think this was while the bullpen has
Speaker 10: been fantastic, you know, they they tied that record for
Speaker 10: a reason.
Speaker 3: I think tonight, you know.
Speaker 10: Dave Roberts, I think he managed the bullpen fantastically, but
Speaker 10: I think tonight was a rough night. But I want
Speaker 10: to talk about specifically the bench. Something I was I'm
Speaker 10: just actually driving home from the game. I was thinking
Speaker 10: about the bench feels so thin. I mean, you know,
Speaker 10: we had Taylor in starting for one game and we
Speaker 10: had four strikeouts. Paw Haz comes in and fortunately he
Speaker 10: had a hit in the ninth but didn't turn into anything.
Speaker 3: And for the rest of the game tonight.
Speaker 4: Paw Haz was kind of blanked.
Speaker 10: And that leaves you know, a couple of guys on
Speaker 10: the bench, and I'm thinking about Barnes, I'm thinking about Lux.
Speaker 10: I know Luck didn't start tonight because of the lefty matchup,
Speaker 10: but I just am you know, I think that the
Speaker 10: Detroit Tigers, you know, they got eliminated, but I think
Speaker 10: they showed a really good point that when you have
Speaker 10: a deep bench, you can really do a lot with
Speaker 10: your lineup. And I think the Dodgers need to think
Speaker 10: a little bit about how are we going to utilize
Speaker 10: this bench. You know, when your first five batters struggle
Speaker 10: so much and go oh for nineteen with nine strikeouts,
Speaker 10: I think it is fair to pull a guy like Monty,
Speaker 10: to pull a guy like Freddie who is battling an injury,
Speaker 10: to pull a guy like Smith and put in Barns,
Speaker 10: put in Lucks, put in someone because you know, there
Speaker 10: comes a time where I get it. These guys are
Speaker 10: paid the money for a reason, and these are our guys.
Speaker 10: But there are guys on the bench who can put
Speaker 10: up a bit of a battle for this pitching staff,
Speaker 10: who has seen the same nine guys this whole game
Speaker 10: for nine innings. I think that the Dodgers need to
Speaker 10: take advantage of the fact that we have a lot
Speaker 10: of players who are able to come in and give
Speaker 10: a different look. And I just, you know, I think
Speaker 10: it needs to be stated that even though our top
Speaker 10: five guys are our guys, someone else has got to
Speaker 10: come in and put up a little bit of a
Speaker 10: fight when they're not coming in and you know, putting
Speaker 10: up the bat.
Speaker 6: That we really need.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I get what you're saying. I appreciate the phone call, Kyle.
Speaker 2: I don't know if the Dodgers bench is at this point.
Speaker 2: I'm bringing Chris Taylor off the bench to bat for anybody,
Speaker 2: whether Will Smith is won for the postseason or not.
Speaker 2: And guys were struggling at the play like they were
Speaker 2: today against Sean andya, I think I still stuck with
Speaker 2: those guys rather than go to Chris Taylor off the
Speaker 2: bench in this NLCS. Did you happen to see what
Speaker 2: was in the Dodger dugout after the top half of
Speaker 2: the fifth inning.
Speaker 1: It was a snake.
Speaker 2: It was a garter snake that was crawling on this
Speaker 2: top step of the Dodgers dugout. And when Brent Honeywell
Speaker 2: and Will Smith came off the field after the top
Speaker 2: half of the fifth inning, they came down and were
Speaker 2: about to take a step, and Brent Honeywell Junior looked
Speaker 2: down and pointed and said, snake.
Speaker 1: Yes, there was a garter snake in.
Speaker 2: The Dodger dugout, Dodgers' training staff facilities, game management. I
Speaker 2: don't know who it was, the ground screw. Somebody came over,
Speaker 2: got a towel, grabbed it and took it away. But man,
Speaker 2: there was a snake in the dugout. Here's Brent Honeywell
Speaker 2: Junior afterwards talking about it.
Speaker 7: Have you ever seen a snake in the dug out
Speaker 7: or story like that.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 8: I was hoping it was a rally snake, and it
Speaker 8: kind of We turned a rally around right after that.
Speaker 8: But I don't know, just something to get the boys
Speaker 8: moving a little bit different than everything else.
Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe it was a rally snake, not a rattlesnake,
Speaker 2: A rally snake for the Dodgers because they did get
Speaker 2: a maximun see a home run to make it a
Speaker 2: six to one game, and then the next thing you
Speaker 2: need Tommy mend two run single to make it a
Speaker 2: six to three game. Maybe they can keep the snake
Speaker 2: and kind of put it in a cage or like,
Speaker 2: you know, a glass, you know, a little house, and
Speaker 2: keep it and maybe just keep it in the dugout
Speaker 2: with them. You know, guys have different things they put
Speaker 2: on after a home run, a cape or whatever. That
Speaker 2: could be the rally snake, and they can take it
Speaker 2: with them. And when you hit a home run, you
Speaker 2: got to grab the snake and put it around your
Speaker 2: neck or something. It's not like a big bowl or nothing,
Speaker 2: or a rattle snake. It's just a little, tiny, little
Speaker 2: garter snake. There's only a by I don't know, maybe
Speaker 2: eighteen inches long.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I hate snakes, so keep those things away from me.
Speaker 2: And there was no way I'm picking that snake up.
Speaker 2: If I work for the grounds crew at Dodger Stadium
Speaker 2: and they're like, hey, Kate's go get that snake in
Speaker 2: the dugout, I'm like, no, fire me. I'm not grabbing
Speaker 2: that snake. I am not touching it, but somebody did
Speaker 2: and they took it out of the dugout. The biggest
Speaker 2: question is how did nobody see it slithering across the
Speaker 2: top step of the dodger dugout?
Speaker 1: Where did it come from? Where did it peek its
Speaker 1: head out of?
Speaker 2: How did it garter snake end up in the dodger
Speaker 2: dugout today? How did nobody see this thing slithering over?
Speaker 2: And where was it just chilling all day?
Speaker 6: All of a.
Speaker 2: Sudden it comes out and it's there by the top step.
Speaker 1: Did Dave Robers not see it crawl by its.
Speaker 2: Feet as he sits there towards the steps there on
Speaker 2: the near side of the dugout. Did the hitting coaches
Speaker 2: who all stand there by the well by the camera
Speaker 2: well not see it? Brent Honeywell Junior had a spot
Speaker 2: the snake walking off the field. And that's a scary situation.
Speaker 2: Snakes in the dugout. You gotta be kidding me. I
Speaker 2: apologize if we didn't get to you. We'll have another
Speaker 2: show tomorrow morning. Sax and Kate's in the am, starting
Speaker 2: bright in early at six am.
Speaker 1: We will dissect this game. Two.
Speaker 2: We will dissect it piece by piece, anybody inning pitcher
Speaker 2: by pitcher, and take your phone calls as well at
Speaker 2: eight six, six, nine, seven, two five seventy.
Speaker 1: But that's it for postgame Dodger Talk. Thanks to Colin Ye.
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