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Speaker 2: It never gets told. For the eleven time in twelve years,
Speaker 2: your Los Angeles Dodgers clinch the n L West, and
Speaker 2: they do it in dramatic fashion. They come from behind.
Speaker 2: Win tonight out of Dodger Stadium, a seventy two victory
Speaker 2: over the San Diego Padres. Hi Everybody, and welcome into
Speaker 2: postgame Dodger Talk here on an five seventy LA Sports Live,
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Speaker 2: If you're at Dodger Stadium tonight, making your way home,
Speaker 2: sitting in traffic leading Elesion Park, no matter where you're headed,
Speaker 2: the west side, the eight one eight, back to the
Speaker 2: Canajo Valley, wherever you may be headed, to the Inland Empire,
Speaker 2: Orange County, I want to hear from you at eight
Speaker 2: six six, ninet eighty seven, two five seventies, certainly a
Speaker 2: night to celebrate for the Los Angeles Dodgers, their eleventh
Speaker 2: Divisional title in twelve years. Dave Roberts his eighth divisional
Speaker 2: title as manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers, and they
Speaker 2: do it tonight in a game in which they struggled
Speaker 2: for offense the first six innings and finally in the
Speaker 2: seventh a leadoff walk from Max Munsey from Joe Muskgrove
Speaker 2: and the wheels started to fall off for the San
Speaker 2: Diego Padres. And there to jump on him was the
Speaker 2: Los Angeles Dodgers, as they took advantage of Joe musk
Speaker 2: groves inability to get Max Munsey in the top and
Speaker 2: the bottom half of the seventh, Will Smith comes back
Speaker 2: on a three to one fastball and crushes it to
Speaker 2: center field four hundred and twenty six feet to tie
Speaker 2: the game a two. They could bring in a reliever,
Speaker 2: Tanner Scott, didn't matter. Show Aotani fired a ball to
Speaker 2: right field, they scored a run. Then Mookie Bets followed
Speaker 2: up with the base hit to right that score two,
Speaker 2: and the Dodgers put a five spot up on the
Speaker 2: scoreboard in the seventh inning. Two more in the eighth
Speaker 2: on the Andy pat has two run home run and
Speaker 2: the Dodgers were off and running at that point. The
Speaker 2: bullpen locked it down and the Dodgers get their ninety
Speaker 2: fifth victory of this season. A lot of great postgame
Speaker 2: reaction here on FI seventy LA Sports. Hope you enjoyed
Speaker 2: the Dodgers' Clubhouse show. Great job by our own David
Speaker 2: Vasse inside the Dodgers' clubhouse, the celebration, the champagne, the
Speaker 2: beer that was flowing, he had, Andrew Freeman, Dave Roberts,
Speaker 2: Will Smith. You heard from Gavin Lucks, Jack Flaherty, Clayton Kershaw,
Speaker 2: Freddie Freeman, Walker Bueller, Max Munths even chimed in as
Speaker 2: well while Gavin lux was talking with DV. A great
Speaker 2: job by David inside that clubhouse. It never gets old
Speaker 2: to hear these guys celebrating and especially winning the division. Now,
Speaker 2: certainly this is just the first check mark, right, This
Speaker 2: is just that first box you want to check off
Speaker 2: to get to a World Series championship. That goes without saying,
Speaker 2: but you celebrate the accomplishment of a marathon season. One
Speaker 2: hundred and sixty two games. The Dodgers are three away
Speaker 2: from completing that, and the Dodgers clinched the division for
Speaker 2: the eleven time in twelve years. It's a huge accomplishment.
Speaker 2: It is a feat that is hard to do, to
Speaker 2: go over the course of a six month season and
Speaker 2: when everybody y else is starting to falter away. To
Speaker 2: stand there as the champions of your division, first place
Speaker 2: in the NL West, and to do it and dominate
Speaker 2: for more than a decade is really impressive. It's it's
Speaker 2: certainly the first check that they want to have as
Speaker 2: far as this twenty twenty four season. Next up is
Speaker 2: the playoffs. You want to win a World Series, no
Speaker 2: doubt about it. And we got a lot of time
Speaker 2: to get into that talk and what the Dodgers' postseason
Speaker 2: plans will be, what the rotation could look like. But
Speaker 2: tonight is a night of celebration because what the Dodgers
Speaker 2: did tonight through all the injuries this pitching staff, that
Speaker 2: it didn't just take five starters. It took seventeen different
Speaker 2: starters for the Dodgers this year, forty different pitchers that
Speaker 2: have taken the mound at Dodger Stadium. The amount of
Speaker 2: injuries that they've had to endure in the rotation from
Speaker 2: the start of the season until now getting ready for
Speaker 2: the postseason, the injuries to Max Munsey missing an extended
Speaker 2: amount of time, Mookie Betts with the broken hand out
Speaker 2: for almost two months, Freddie Freeman battling through a broken finger,
Speaker 2: Tascar Hernandez being a guy that you can really count
Speaker 2: on for the most part, night in and night out
Speaker 2: to be in that Dodger lineup. The ups and downs
Speaker 2: of a season, barring not even factoring in the injuries,
Speaker 2: just ups and downs, streaks and the peaks in the
Speaker 2: valleys that you go through as a baseball player, the
Speaker 2: two week stretches in which you were one for thirty
Speaker 2: five or then you turn around and you're ten for
Speaker 2: twenty five the next series. It's so up and down.
Speaker 2: It is a marathon. It is so grueling, and for
Speaker 2: this Dodgers team at the end of it to be
Speaker 2: celebrating an NL West championship, absolutely absolutely everybody in that clubhouse,
Speaker 2: from Ben Kisparius to Tyler Glassnew to Clayton Kershaw and
Speaker 2: everybody in between that's taking the mound for this Dodger staff,
Speaker 2: to everybody that's gotten at bat for this Dodger team,
Speaker 2: whether they're here right now or not. It's a celebration.
Speaker 2: It takes everybody, as Tommy Lisorda said, to pull on
Speaker 2: that rope for the Dodgers to now have the most
Speaker 2: divisional titles since nineteen sixty nine, at twenty two, more
Speaker 2: than the Yankees. By the way, the Braves have had
Speaker 2: twenty three divisional titles since nineteen sixty nine, the Dodgers
Speaker 2: at twenty two, the Yankees at twenty one, and the
Speaker 2: Yankees clenched the Al East earlier today over the Orioles.
Speaker 2: But certainly a night to celebrate for Dodger fans. And
Speaker 2: I want to hear from you at eight sixty six,
Speaker 2: ninet eighty seven, two five seventy, we're gonna hear in
Speaker 2: case you missed it, from Walker Bueller coming up in
Speaker 2: just a little bit, because she was fantastic. And I
Speaker 2: really hope Walker Buehler has come out the other side
Speaker 2: of this Tommy John surgery. And it's not one of
Speaker 2: these things where you come back, you get a couple
Speaker 2: of starts and hey, look he's back to his normal self.
Speaker 2: It takes a while, and it's taking Walker Buehler about
Speaker 2: two thirds of this season to come back. He didn't
Speaker 2: start the team on the active roster. They slow played
Speaker 2: him into this season. He has been up and down.
Speaker 2: He's been trying to figure it out on the mound.
Speaker 2: He's gotten better over the course of his last three starts,
Speaker 2: even though they earned runs are certainly there, but he
Speaker 2: looked better. And his last start he got a loss
Speaker 2: against the Rockies, but he had nine punchouts, didn't got
Speaker 2: a lot of great defensive help behind him, and tonight
Speaker 2: he was really good for five innings, allowed the one
Speaker 2: run on five hits. I only walked one batter, struck out,
Speaker 2: one was getting contact, getting ground ball out. And I
Speaker 2: hope we'll hear from Walker coming up a little bit.
Speaker 2: I hope he's turning the corner. I hope now the
Speaker 2: Walker Bueler is somebody they can rely on. Come this NLD. Yes,
Speaker 2: that starts a week from Saturday. But if you're leaving
Speaker 2: the game, I want to hear from you. Let's go
Speaker 2: to Sean. Sean was at the game tonight. Sean, welcome
Speaker 2: to Dodger Talk.
Speaker 3: Hey, thanks for having us on. Why tonight? What a
Speaker 3: great night, man.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was great. First five or six innings. You're
Speaker 2: kind of waiting for this offense to wake up, Sean,
Speaker 2: but they put up that five spot in the seventh inning,
Speaker 2: and as soon as mix months he drew that leadoff
Speaker 2: walk from Joe Musgrove his first walk by the way
Speaker 2: in like three starts. You kind of felt like he
Speaker 2: was gonna start imploding on the mountain. Certainly he did.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was great to see the MVP chance every
Speaker 3: time show hey's the Freddie chance, the mookie chance. I mean,
Speaker 3: we're down in fifty three where all the og fans
Speaker 3: are myself the boat man, and we were having a
Speaker 3: good time down there. It felt really nice.
Speaker 2: Awesome, awesome. Thanks for checking in, Sewan. Drive home safe, Flyn.
Speaker 2: Glad you had a great time out there at the
Speaker 2: game tonight. Yeah, there was a almost a capacity crowd
Speaker 2: fifty two thousand, four to thirty three for the final
Speaker 2: game of the regular season. And by the way, a
Speaker 2: round of applause for you Dodger fans. Congratulations on being
Speaker 2: the best fans in baseball yet again. Three million, nine
Speaker 2: hundred and forty one thousand, two hundred and fifty one
Speaker 2: of you major way through the turnstiles at Dodger games
Speaker 2: for the eighty one home games in this twenty twenty
Speaker 2: four regular season, second highest attendance in the history at
Speaker 2: Dodger Stadium, only behind twenty nineteen. So congratulations to you
Speaker 2: the nearly four million Dodger fans who went out to
Speaker 2: Dodger games this year. And to think this Dodger team
Speaker 2: has just getting going with October right around the corner, Miteo,
Speaker 2: was that the game tonight, Miteoe Night of celebration? How
Speaker 2: cool was that being out there?
Speaker 4: Oh, it was so cool being out there. It was
Speaker 4: so cool making an attendance record, second in history behind
Speaker 4: twenty nineteen. We chased him Achado Jersey fan like sitting
Speaker 4: NEARBYO talking all sorts of mess. It was just the
Speaker 4: funniest experience, so great to hear all the Mookie chants,
Speaker 4: all the MVP chants. We did it for Fernando. We
Speaker 4: hope that he has a great retirement, amazing broadcasting career.
Speaker 4: It was just a very good atmosphere overall.
Speaker 5: Show Man.
Speaker 4: We got to keep this rolling into the postseason. And
Speaker 4: it's great to see Mookie bets getting hits when it
Speaker 4: matters now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no doubt everybody can contribute to night, Mateo and
Speaker 2: I appreciate it. It's great to see Will Smith getting
Speaker 2: it started. And again it doesn't happen without Max Munsey
Speaker 2: the leadoff walk and he fell behind an account. This
Speaker 2: is important. He fell behind the count one and two
Speaker 2: and a sweeper outside doesn't chase ball two, a sweeper
Speaker 2: down in the zone. It could have been called strike three,
Speaker 2: but it wasn't full count, and then lays off a
Speaker 2: curveball inside for ball four. Right there, Folks started it
Speaker 2: great at bat for Max Munci. Then he hands it
Speaker 2: off to Will Smith, who falls behind the count a one.
Speaker 2: Then gets three straight pitches out of the zone, two
Speaker 2: of which weren't even close to set up a three
Speaker 2: to one fastball who he then absolutely crushes off Joe
Speaker 2: Muskrove to center field to tie the game. It's an
Speaker 2: important sequence there, and that's when the Dodgers just kept
Speaker 2: on going. Key Ky a Hernandez a single, Andy pa
Speaker 2: has reaches on base because of a catcher's interference, and
Speaker 2: then shoey Otani muscles one to right, scoring Key k
Speaker 2: a Hernandez Mookie Betts. The two run single. Five runs
Speaker 2: come across, all starting with the months Ye walk, the
Speaker 2: home run from Will Smith and then keep passing the
Speaker 2: baton down the line. Now, unfortunately Freddie Freeman in that
Speaker 2: seventh inning, it would lead the game because of the
Speaker 2: sprained right ankle, and in case you've missed it. X
Speaker 2: rays were negative. He's walking in a walking boot right now,
Speaker 2: just to alleviate the weight off that right ankle. And
Speaker 2: Freddie Freeman telling our own David Vas saying the rest
Speaker 2: of the media just a little while ago on the
Speaker 2: field that he is not making the trip to Colorado,
Speaker 2: and he doesn't need to make the trip. The Dodgers
Speaker 2: have sealed the division. They got three games in Denver.
Speaker 2: He doesn't need to go. Stay home, stay off a flight,
Speaker 2: get that ankle treatment around the clock, rejoin this Dodgers
Speaker 2: team for the workouts at Dodger Stadium next week. And
Speaker 2: you really don't have to do much between now and
Speaker 2: next Saturday. But get that ankle ready if you're Freddie Freeman,
Speaker 2: and he said he hopes to be ready for Game
Speaker 2: one of the NLDS, whoever the Dodgers are playing next
Speaker 2: Saturday night at Dodger Stadium. Eight sixty six, nine eighty seven,
Speaker 2: two five seventy. Joey and COEO. Beach, thanks for being patient,
Speaker 2: Welcome to Dodger Talk. Joey, How you doing tonight?
Speaker 5: How you doing?
Speaker 6: Tim?
Speaker 2: I'm doing all right, that's great.
Speaker 6: I'm just calling.
Speaker 7: Because I'm not gonna lie. After Friday's lost, I didn't
Speaker 7: feel so good about our chances. I just didn't know
Speaker 7: how this team was gonna respond, And uh how did
Speaker 7: we respond? We responded amazingly when these last two games.
Speaker 7: I mean, if it wasn't for show Hail Tani, the bullpen,
Speaker 7: the way we showed up, I just don't know.
Speaker 6: I'm just ready.
Speaker 7: I'm ready for the playoffs. I'm ready to bring another
Speaker 7: World Series.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no doubt about it. Joey appreciate it. It's gonna be
Speaker 2: an exciting postseason run here and we'll have it all
Speaker 2: for you on the Home of the Dodgers, A five
Speaker 2: seventy LA Sports. Yeah, that seventh Inny again, you can't
Speaker 2: talk about it enough what the Dodgers were able to
Speaker 2: do with Joe Musgrove struggling and the leadoff walk, the
Speaker 2: Will Smith home run, Tommy Edmans struck out for the
Speaker 2: first out of the game. But then key k A
Speaker 2: Hernandez comes up pitchhitting for Gavin Lux because they go
Speaker 2: to the bullpen in Tanner Scott, so Kei Ky Hernandez
Speaker 2: comes in, and Keiky Hernandez has not had a lot
Speaker 2: of success against Tanner Scott and Keith ky a Hernandez
Speaker 2: fell behind two to two in the count before getting
Speaker 2: another foul ball to two Slider connects for a single
Speaker 2: up the center Pahz reaches on the catcher's interference, continue
Speaker 2: to pass the baton as they did. Otani Betts, you
Speaker 2: know what happened. Five runs come across the plate. A
Speaker 2: great job by everybody in that sequence of the seventh inning.
Speaker 2: Don't need to be the hero. Will Smith put a
Speaker 2: great swing on that three to run fastball and drove
Speaker 2: it and got it out of the park. Great, but
Speaker 2: the guys behind him, look at all those hits. Line drive,
Speaker 2: base hit from Key k a Hernandez, the fielder, the
Speaker 2: catcher's interference, Otani's base hit, an absolute muscle job to
Speaker 2: write in between first and second, and then Mookie Betts
Speaker 2: with the laser over second into right center field to
Speaker 2: score two. Not guys trying to jacket out of the park.
Speaker 2: Nobody trying to hit it out of their shoes and
Speaker 2: get a three run home run and be the hero.
Speaker 2: Just put the ball, find a hole, guys moving around
Speaker 2: the bases and score, and the Dodgers take the lead
Speaker 2: and put a five sput up on the board. That right,
Speaker 2: there is playoff baseball. That is fantastic to see the
Speaker 2: Dodgers doing that, and we got to see more of
Speaker 2: it in the NLD as Richard in downtown Disney celebrating
Speaker 2: the Dodgers win an Angel Country. How you doing, Richard?
Speaker 5: Hey, how's the going brother?
Speaker 6: Hey?
Speaker 8: No, So, just giving you guys a call, just showing
Speaker 8: some love for Otani. You know, we'd love to see
Speaker 8: him celebrate, actually get a win, and you know, so
Speaker 8: being in Angel Country where we're seeing them regret getting
Speaker 8: rid of.
Speaker 9: Him or not even getting the chance to keep him.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so we love it.
Speaker 6: We love it. We love to see how Tony happy.
Speaker 8: We love to see him celebrate and.
Speaker 6: Go Dodgers.
Speaker 8: That's all we could say is, let's do this all.
Speaker 2: Right on, rich I appreciate the phone call if you
Speaker 2: missed showing Otani. We had him on in the Clubhouse
Speaker 2: show and speaking to the media. It was really cool
Speaker 2: to hear him talk about what it means to go
Speaker 2: to the postseason and he was asked about being hot
Speaker 2: here down the stretch and certainly the fifty to fifty accomplishment,
Speaker 2: it is what that is, that's unbelievable, right, But what
Speaker 2: he's done with the game winning hits last night, the
Speaker 2: go ahead run hits the tonight, the RBI single to
Speaker 2: give the Dodgers a three to two lead. He wants
Speaker 2: to win. That's why he came to the Dodgers. That's
Speaker 2: why he deferred the amount of money he did after
Speaker 2: his contract is done, because he wants to have a
Speaker 2: product around him and a team around him and be
Speaker 2: a part of a team collectively that wins. And here
Speaker 2: they are going into the postseason as divisional champs. And
Speaker 2: for Shoeotani, he's never been here before. Yeah, guys like
Speaker 2: Chris Taylor, Max Mounzee, Keiki Heernandi's Mookie Betts, Clayton Kershaw.
Speaker 2: These guys have been there, They've done it. They've been
Speaker 2: a part of a World Series team. They've been to
Speaker 2: the World Series, they've been deep into postseasons, they've won
Speaker 2: divisional titles multiple ones. And here's Shoeyotani, the greatest player
Speaker 2: on the planet, and this is his first time ever
Speaker 2: the chance to pop champagne, to celebrate with the team
Speaker 2: an accomplishment like this. Don't lose sight of that how
Speaker 2: much this means to show, Hey, Otani, Well, maybe you
Speaker 2: know the fifth one for some guys, the seventh one
Speaker 2: for some players on this team, the tenth one for
Speaker 2: the veterans like Clayton Kershaw. Huh. For Shoeotani, this is
Speaker 2: his first and he couldn't be more excited and more
Speaker 2: pumped up to go into October now and make a
Speaker 2: run for eleven wins in a World Series championship. Let's
Speaker 2: check out with Jose.
Speaker 1: It's tough to go around the horn with Jose Mos.
Speaker 2: I think that's important, Jose. For a lot of these guys,
Speaker 2: been there, done that. It's always special. You celebrate the
Speaker 2: accomplishment of one hundred and sixty two game season. Different group,
Speaker 2: every year, every roster is different, every year is different.
Speaker 2: But for show, Hey, this is the first time ever.
Speaker 5: I am telling you. I'll go back and repeat what
Speaker 5: he told me. After you got fifty to fifty and
Speaker 5: we got off the plane for Miami. The first thing
Speaker 5: he said is playoffs. I mean, that's all that was
Speaker 5: in his mind, Tim. I mean that just tells you
Speaker 5: more about the mentality, the makeup, the character of a
Speaker 5: player that every eye is on him globally around the world.
Speaker 5: I mean everywhere, even non baseball fans are watching Shoe
Speaker 5: Hill Toney and he's talking about winning with his teammates,
Speaker 5: and I'm so glad that he finally had the opportunity.
Speaker 5: He's finally going to get it done. But also on
Speaker 5: top of this, let's think about this him who had
Speaker 5: the bulls eye on him throughout September show, Hail Tony,
Speaker 5: who beat more teams than anybody else this September Clutch
Speaker 5: hits show, Hail Tony. So you know what, that's what
Speaker 5: he is?
Speaker 2: We is, uh Walker Bueller. Tonight he was with David
Speaker 2: in the clubhouse afterwards and it was it was so
Speaker 2: cool to hear him, Jose. It felt like there was
Speaker 2: a thousand pounds weight off of his shoulders. And he
Speaker 2: didn't get to win tonight, okay, but it was probably
Speaker 2: his best outing of this season, coming back from the
Speaker 2: Tommy John surgery, and I hope whatever, you know, he's
Speaker 2: been fighting mentally. I think maybe he's gotten over that
Speaker 2: and this could be a huge shot in the arm
Speaker 2: for this Dodger team going to October. Having a Walker
Speaker 2: Bueller that's pitching like this.
Speaker 5: As you said time and time again throughout this show,
Speaker 5: guys that have been there before, it doesn't matter what
Speaker 5: has happened this season and the telling that they faced him.
Speaker 5: Don't ever underestimate these guys because this taste of what's
Speaker 5: about to come, and so they thrive in what they
Speaker 5: look forward to to be challenged. And I even you
Speaker 5: know last night after the game, you're going tomorrow's Walkabila day.
Speaker 5: He is going to be solamped up. He wants to
Speaker 5: be the guy, not the guy looking from the outside
Speaker 5: as he was a couple of months ago when he
Speaker 5: was saying, well I'm hoping to be one of the
Speaker 5: key pieces here. He earned it today. Of course, we
Speaker 5: love to see the fight, we know what he was
Speaker 5: taken out, but overall he gave the Dodgers a chance
Speaker 5: to win by neutralizing a very good ball club. And
Speaker 5: he came today with the idea to be aggressive and
Speaker 5: coming to pitch, to not just throwing, but pitching. And
Speaker 5: you got to tip your hat to say, guy's gone
Speaker 5: through so much adjustments that he doesn't like to he's
Speaker 5: adjusted to and also not getting a lot of russ
Speaker 5: support at times or poor defense. He never ever broke
Speaker 5: when he could have broken. He just bent a little
Speaker 5: bit more and said this is gonna make you stronger.
Speaker 5: And I want to go down from the booth and
Speaker 5: go out there and get my hut myself. It's like, man,
Speaker 5: this is people have no idea. Played at the highest level,
Speaker 5: fifty thousand expectations, the padres and everything that's gone over
Speaker 5: your career. To tell me, John, I mean, this has
Speaker 5: to be one of the best moments for him in
Speaker 5: his career too, no.
Speaker 2: Doubt about it. Jose. Final thing, the ankle injury to
Speaker 2: Freddy Freeman. He said X rays were negative. He's going
Speaker 2: to stay back and just get to work rehabbing this
Speaker 2: thing in order to get ready for the NLDS which
Speaker 2: begins next Saturday, October fifth. An ankle injuries one of
Speaker 2: those things that can linger. And what's the gist you
Speaker 2: get to kind of feeling about this ankle injury and
Speaker 2: how it can affect Freddy moving forward.
Speaker 5: Well, I want to see how it feels tomorrow.
Speaker 6: Number one.
Speaker 5: Obviously it's going to be nice. He's not going to
Speaker 5: be in a plane. But he's a big man. There's
Speaker 5: a lot of moving pieces, long limbs and things like that.
Speaker 5: But Freddie want to stay in the game. Let me
Speaker 5: think about that. And he's the moment he will stand
Speaker 5: the game. But dizzy guy also plays through the fracture
Speaker 5: in his finger, and you think about everything he's gone through,
Speaker 5: all the many challenges with his body, his swing, not
Speaker 5: being there all season, and he will tell you, but
Speaker 5: the fact that he wanted to stay there today tells
Speaker 5: you a whole lot more about in his mind. So
Speaker 5: thankfully he's going to have the rest for the rest
Speaker 5: of the season, and then on top of that that
Speaker 5: hopefully would get him back to a place at least
Speaker 5: where he's comfortable and he's not risking himself because you
Speaker 5: don't also risk losing more Freddie as Tora progresses by
Speaker 5: making a decision premature, so that's the only responds but
Speaker 5: obviously on a very good spot to go out there
Speaker 5: and wait and make sure that he's properly taken care of.
Speaker 2: No doubt about it. Jose, appreciate it. Save flight to Colorado.
Speaker 2: We'll figure out who's pitching tomorrow, what the lineup looks like.
Speaker 2: But tonight a night of celebration. I imagined even on
Speaker 2: that plane heading to Colorado.
Speaker 5: Mochi would say, you know what, let the game be
Speaker 5: the game tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Whatever, all right, Jose appreciate it. We'll check in with
Speaker 2: Jose once the team gets to Colorado. I don't even
Speaker 2: know who's scheduled to pitch tomorrow for the Dodgers. I mean,
Speaker 2: whoever's scheduled to start. We'll still see if they keep
Speaker 2: that rotation as far as the three game series in
Speaker 2: Denver intact or adjust it accordingly now knowing they're going
Speaker 2: to not play a game then until next Saturday. We
Speaker 2: do know Saturday Yamamoto is scheduled to start, to keep
Speaker 2: him on schedule then to maybe start game one of
Speaker 2: the NLDS. That'll put him seven days away if he
Speaker 2: starts on Saturday, so we'll find out. The Dodgers haven't
Speaker 2: announced who they're going to start on Friday. In the opener,
Speaker 2: we do know that Cal Quantrill will start the venture
Speaker 2: right hander will go for Colorado. And to think, the
Speaker 2: Dodgers got three more games to play, and yeah, they
Speaker 2: clinched the division, but they still only have a one
Speaker 2: game lead over the Philadelphiaffillies for the number one overall
Speaker 2: spot in the National League. And that's something to keep
Speaker 2: in mind. You get a home field advantage in the
Speaker 2: NLCS as the number one seed and best record overall
Speaker 2: in baseball, So that's important to keep in the back
Speaker 2: of your mind. Yeah, they're going to Colorado for three games.
Speaker 2: You may think, Ah, we're just gonna throw a lineup
Speaker 2: out there, let's see how fast we can get these
Speaker 2: games over with and how fast we can get back
Speaker 2: to La on Sunday. Well, yeah, you got a little
Speaker 2: bit something to play for if you want that number
Speaker 2: one overall seed in the National League and have home
Speaker 2: field advantage in the NLCS. And also dictates who you're
Speaker 2: gonna play in the NLDA. Yes, would you rather play
Speaker 2: Arizona or Milwaukee or would you rather play New York
Speaker 2: or San Diego? If that's how it does play out
Speaker 2: over the next three days. Currently those what the standings
Speaker 2: look like? A second quick break, we'll come back. We'll
Speaker 2: get to more of your phone calls. What a night
Speaker 2: for the Dodgers. A night to celebrate a huge accomplishment,
Speaker 2: winning the NL West for the eleven time in the
Speaker 2: last twelve years. A lot of guys on this team
Speaker 2: have done it before, have popped champagne bottles, have popped
Speaker 2: open beer cans, and celebrated in the clubhouse. For some
Speaker 2: guys like show Hey o Tani, first time ever in
Speaker 2: their career they get to celebrate. It's an accomplishment worthy
Speaker 2: of a celebration, and the Dodgers doing exactly that is
Speaker 2: they clenched the NL West tonight a seventy two win
Speaker 2: over the San Diego Padres. Dodger Talk continues right here
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Speaker 1: Three balls in a strike once you're on first, no
Speaker 1: ops of the seven.
Speaker 2: The pitch this swings I plypole centerfield. Hit dude. Will
Speaker 2: Smith spokes them all the center field. He left no
Speaker 2: doubt time the game with his twenty home run of
Speaker 2: the ear. Will Smith with one swing of the bat
Speaker 2: in the seventh inning tie things up. Dodgers Stadium was
Speaker 2: rocking as the Dodgers would tack on more five run
Speaker 2: seventh inning as they come back and beat the San
Speaker 2: Diego Padres. Tonight by final of seven to two. Tim
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Speaker 2: Daniels Jewelers Own the Dream. Joe Muskgrove was dealing tonight
Speaker 2: for the first six innings. Walker Bueller went toe to
Speaker 2: toe with him for the first five. The Dodgers turned
Speaker 2: it over to the bullpen and they gave up a
Speaker 2: run Evan Phillips a run in the sixth inning as
Speaker 2: the Padres were up two to nothing, and you kind
Speaker 2: of felt like, oh no, Joe Muskrove a low pitch count.
Speaker 2: He's been dealing for the first six innings. This bullpen's
Speaker 2: ready to go for the Padres. It wasn't looking too good.
Speaker 2: And the leadoff walk from Max Munsey and then the
Speaker 2: two run home run from Will Smith, and all of
Speaker 2: a sudden, the wheels fell off Joe Muskrove and the
Speaker 2: Padres tonight and momentum. It's a scary thing. It can
Speaker 2: change so quickly, and it did tonight with that home
Speaker 2: run from Will Smith. The Dodgers then would pass the baton,
Speaker 2: they'd score a run on a show. He Otani rbi single,
Speaker 2: his one hundred and twenty sixth RBI this season to
Speaker 2: give him a three two leading, the Mookie Betts a
Speaker 2: two run single RBI seventy four and seventy five, a
Speaker 2: five to two lead for the Dodgers. And then Andy
Speaker 2: Pa has hit a home run which I'm not sure
Speaker 2: has landed yet four hundred and twenty eight feet. I mean, honestly,
Speaker 2: he was maybe five. I mean, just from the camera
Speaker 2: angle being here in studio, it looked like he was
Speaker 2: maybe five to ten feet away from hitting it onto
Speaker 2: the concourse in the circle bar behind the bullpen in
Speaker 2: left field. He absolutely crushed it. They showed Kevin Kiermyer
Speaker 2: on the Dodger bench, hanging over the railing and celebrating
Speaker 2: with Andy Pozz as he ran around the bases doing
Speaker 2: that kind of dance, and Kevin Kiermeyer just mouthed, oh my,
Speaker 2: he couldn't believe how hard and how far that Andy
Speaker 2: Pa has home run went into the back of the
Speaker 2: bullpen there at Dodgers Stadium. So the Dodgers cletched the
Speaker 2: NL West with a seven to two win tonight. Now
Speaker 2: it's off to Denver for the start of a three
Speaker 2: game in series. We'll find out who the Dodger starting
Speaker 2: pitcher will be probably tomorrow, as the Dodgers have not
Speaker 2: officially announced who that will be. Jeff and Sierra Madre
Speaker 2: joins us now on Dodger Talk. Welcome, Jeff, how you doing.
Speaker 6: Oh thanks stim Thanks for taking my call. You know
Speaker 6: you are a stud. I love Dodger Talk. I listened
Speaker 6: on iHeartRadio. I stream it because the mountains are right
Speaker 6: here and you can't get you know, the blowtorch.
Speaker 2: I feel like a big butt is coming.
Speaker 6: What do you think about the rivalry between the Dodgers
Speaker 6: and the Pods. I mean, I went to stay in
Speaker 6: the state, but I'm I was born in LA. But
Speaker 6: you know, you know, I kind of let they're they're
Speaker 6: the dads. How do you feel about the Podrais as
Speaker 6: a rivalry.
Speaker 2: I appreciate Jeff the Giants. Yeah, well, certainly over the
Speaker 2: history of baseball and going back to New York and
Speaker 2: the fact that these two teams, the Dodgers and Giants,
Speaker 2: came out out in the same time, the same year,
Speaker 2: the same offseason. There's that, and there's a long history
Speaker 2: with the Giants, certainly, and that's one rivalry, But who's
Speaker 2: to say you can't have another rivalry. And I'd like
Speaker 2: to think the Arizona Diamondbacks are starting to build themselves
Speaker 2: a little bit of a rivalry with the Dodgers as
Speaker 2: they get better. And certainly what they did last year
Speaker 2: knocking out the Dodgers and the NLDS played him tough
Speaker 2: all season long this year. In the last ten years, yeah,
Speaker 2: there has emerged a rivalry between the Dodgers and Padres. Certainly.
Speaker 2: Does it have the history. Does it have the Wikipedia
Speaker 2: page that you can go look and say, wow, look
Speaker 2: at all the great names that play, and look at
Speaker 2: how many times this team knocked off that team and
Speaker 2: ruined this team season and beat this team in the
Speaker 2: postseason and went on a winning World Series. It doesn't
Speaker 2: have that Wikipedia history. It just doesn't. But over the
Speaker 2: last ten years it is certainly escalated and it has
Speaker 2: certainly got it heated the Dodgers and Padres, and I
Speaker 2: think it's turned in in the moment right now, as
Speaker 2: we speak here in twenty twenty four, the rivalry between
Speaker 2: the Dodgers and the Padres right now as we speak,
Speaker 2: is better than the Dodgers and Giants. Now, the history
Speaker 2: isn't there, certainly, but in the moment, yeah, they've had
Speaker 2: better contests, more competitive. Both teams are fighting for something.
Speaker 2: I mean, really, the Dodgers and Giants. Outside of a
Speaker 2: couple of years ago when they were, you know, looking
Speaker 2: for the best record in baseball in the most wins
Speaker 2: that year, you know, either the Giants have been really
Speaker 2: good or the Dodgers have been really good. It hasn't
Speaker 2: been really competitive back and forth. Hasn't been much of
Speaker 2: a rivalry to talk about. But yeah, you can make
Speaker 2: a case to certainly the Padres and Dodgers over the
Speaker 2: last ten years, maybe the last eight years, it is
Speaker 2: certainly escalated. Franken Monrovia is next up here on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 2: Hi Frank, how you doing?
Speaker 6: Hey Sam?
Speaker 9: Great Tarri your voice?
Speaker 2: You know what?
Speaker 9: First one to give two shout outs. One to Walker
Speaker 9: Bueller for stepping onto that mound today and showing some
Speaker 9: true leadership when you know the bats were going silent.
Speaker 9: He stayed cool up there, went toe to toe with
Speaker 9: Musk Grove and said, you know what, I'm gonna hold
Speaker 9: on to this game. You know what, Anthony Bonda got
Speaker 9: the win, but Walker Bueller won everyone over today with
Speaker 9: that performance. Second thing is, you know what, props to you.
Speaker 2: Guys in the booths.
Speaker 9: Okay, you guys in the booth, you Dave, everybody in
Speaker 9: the booth has worked just as hard as the guys
Speaker 9: in the field. You don't suffer the same injuries, but
Speaker 9: you guys have the same issues going on, and you
Speaker 9: know what, props to you. I know it's been rough.
Speaker 5: I know.
Speaker 9: You know I missed Charlie early on in the year,
Speaker 9: and you know I still to this day wish him
Speaker 9: the best in recovery. And then the last thing is
Speaker 9: rip Oakland A's.
Speaker 2: Thanks all right, Frank, appreciate it. Yeah, today is last
Speaker 2: day of the Oakland A's and their coliseum in Oakland,
Speaker 2: after that long history of being there, Rick Monday having
Speaker 2: helped move the team from Kansas City to Oakland, and
Speaker 2: the history day having that ballpark, the World Series, the
Speaker 2: World Series losses, the players that have come through there. Yeah,
Speaker 2: sad day in the Bay Area with the Oakland A's
Speaker 2: in their final game at the Oakland Alameda County Coliseum.
Speaker 2: But you know what, there's a lot more up to
Speaker 2: that in that city that's happening. And the politics with
Speaker 2: the new stadiums is it is what it is. It's
Speaker 2: way above any my pay grade, anybody else is. But
Speaker 2: to watch it from kind of a distance here, to
Speaker 2: see the Raiders leave, to see the Oakland A's just
Speaker 2: not able to come to an agreement and get a
Speaker 2: stadium up there even though they wanted to. And say
Speaker 2: what you want about ownership up there in Oakland, say
Speaker 2: what you want about the politics up there in Oakland
Speaker 2: and the city council and the inability to the counties
Speaker 2: to come together and figure out funding all that stuff.
Speaker 2: That's that's all. It is, what it is, that's outside
Speaker 2: of between the lines of baseball, but between the lines.
Speaker 2: Certainly sad day for Oakland A's fans and the fans
Speaker 2: up there in the Bay Area to see a team leave,
Speaker 2: go to Sacramento for the next couple of years and
Speaker 2: then off to Vegas eventually with that new stadium gets built.
Speaker 2: You mentioned Walker Bueller and what he did tonight, and yeah,
Speaker 2: he didn't get to win it wasn't a tax performance,
Speaker 2: so this peak from Walker Buehler, but dang it, it
Speaker 2: was a really good performance from Walker Buehler, his best
Speaker 2: of the year. Five solid innings. He begged to go
Speaker 2: back out there to Dave Roberts in the dugout for
Speaker 2: the six. Dave Roberts elected to go to Evan Phillips
Speaker 2: in the bullpen. But Walker Buehler one run, five hits,
Speaker 2: one walk, and that walk turned up to be the
Speaker 2: run that scored. One strikeout, got a lot of contact
Speaker 2: ground balls, was getting the head in the count. Walker
Speaker 2: Buehler today raised his hand, stood up and said, yep,
Speaker 2: I'm back and I want to be a part of
Speaker 2: this postseason roster. And afterwards in the clubhouse, listen to
Speaker 2: Walker Bueler talk with David Vas say a Walker Buehler
Speaker 2: in his voice, sounds like a guy who's got one
Speaker 2: thousand pounds weight off his shoulders.
Speaker 7: All right, we're.
Speaker 11: Here with the big game pitcher himself. You taine Walker Buehler.
Speaker 11: Walker for you to come out tonight and pitch five
Speaker 11: strong innings. After how much you've tried to get this together.
Speaker 2: What does it mean to you?
Speaker 12: It's nice to contribute fine, Yeah, this is I've been
Speaker 12: very fortunate to pitching some very big games and do okay,
Speaker 12: And no, this is what I play this game for.
Speaker 11: What was your mentality coming into this game, not just today,
Speaker 11: but leading up to it, knowing what was at stake?
Speaker 12: This is a playoff game for us, right, Like the
Speaker 12: number two team in the division. US kind of came
Speaker 12: into our destiny and we win the game, win the division.
Speaker 12: Like that's kind of what what gets me going, and
Speaker 12: so not much mentally, just go And so now I'm excitic.
Speaker 12: Obviously our team, you know, has carried me and let
Speaker 12: me kind of tread water for a long time. And
Speaker 12: it's a nice, nice failure to have a good one
Speaker 12: in a big spot.
Speaker 11: I'm not sure if you're aware of this. The last
Speaker 11: time you clinched a division championship with fans at Dodger
Speaker 11: Stadium was Game one sixty three back in twenty eighteen.
Speaker 11: For you to do it in front of this crowd,
Speaker 11: is it even sweeter?
Speaker 12: Yeah?
Speaker 11: You remember Game one sixty three, don't you?
Speaker 7: I don't.
Speaker 13: I don't remember.
Speaker 12: No, No, I mean, listen, man, this this is what
Speaker 12: I play this game for. And I'm really proud of
Speaker 12: our team to do it, come from behind, and it's uh,
Speaker 12: there's a good feeling around.
Speaker 8: This team right now.
Speaker 11: You wanted more, didn't you.
Speaker 2: Of course you're gonna get more. Buehler.
Speaker 11: There's another three rounds to go and Walker, but Tane
Speaker 11: Buhler will be there. Never a doubt that ever watched
Speaker 11: Walker Buehler pitch. They know what you're about, and nobody
Speaker 11: should be surprised wins. You see guys later, there he
Speaker 11: goes Walker Buehller, the number one horse for the Dodgers tonight.
Speaker 2: All right, David Vez, there will Walker Bueller. You could
Speaker 2: just feel the confidence that he has now and certainly
Speaker 2: the weight that has been taken off his shoulders for
Speaker 2: a guy who has been trying to come back from
Speaker 2: his second Tommy John surgery. Wanted to come back last September,
Speaker 2: and they decided just you know, wait, let's get to
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four. No need to rush it back. He
Speaker 2: didn't start the season in the rotation, and when he
Speaker 2: came back, just did not see the results that he
Speaker 2: had hoped for. And this certainly the Dodgers had hoped for.
Speaker 2: But a credit to this front office, this coaching staff,
Speaker 2: Mark Prior Dave Roberts, Connor mcguinnis, everybody involved in the
Speaker 2: decision making. They didn't give up on him, and very
Speaker 2: easily could have said, you know what, this isn't Walker
Speaker 2: Buehler's year, final year of his contracts. We're just going
Speaker 2: to go in a different direction. And I think maybe
Speaker 2: part of it was because of injuries. You know, quite frankly,
Speaker 2: they needed him to go out there in pitch because
Speaker 2: other guys were hurt. And while Walker Buller necessarily wasn't hurt,
Speaker 2: he was trying to figure out his mechanics, maybe the
Speaker 2: mental side of it, whatever, and constantly going out there
Speaker 2: and battling, giving up four runs, giving up three runs,
Speaker 2: giving up four runs in three and a third of
Speaker 2: the Brewers, like he did coming back and get up
Speaker 2: seven runs to the Rockies in Denver, not able to
Speaker 2: get out of the fourth inning, just struggling and not
Speaker 2: getting the results that he wanted. But his last few
Speaker 2: outings things changed. You know, he went out there and
Speaker 2: I think it was Jack Flaherty who said it the
Speaker 2: outing he had in Atlanta, Yeah, it was Jack Win
Speaker 2: the postgame show with David Vasse and talking about Walker
Speaker 2: Buller and Jack Flerity you remember, went out and didn't
Speaker 2: have a good outing, and Walker Buehler came back and
Speaker 2: had a really good six innings. Struck out five, allowed
Speaker 2: two runs, only one earn, gave up three hits, got
Speaker 2: a no decision out of it, and the Dodgers won
Speaker 2: the game because they scored a bunch of runs late
Speaker 2: after Bueler was out of the game. But that was
Speaker 2: that moment where you're like, Okay, maybe he's turned the corner.
Speaker 2: Comes back, pitches into the sixth inning last weekend, gives
Speaker 2: up four runs, but strikes out nine, only walks one.
Speaker 2: You know, has command there, had a good feel for
Speaker 2: all three of his pitches, all right back to back starts,
Speaker 2: feeling good, he's progressing, he's kind of making that next step.
Speaker 2: And tonight Walker Buehler comes out and was really good
Speaker 2: for five innings, one run, five hits, The walk came
Speaker 2: back to bite him. One strikeout, seventy one pitches, seven
Speaker 2: ground ball outs, got a head in the count, good command,
Speaker 2: a really good outing from Walker Buehler, and fingers crossed.
Speaker 2: Now three straight starts in which he has gotten better
Speaker 2: and progressed and got deeper and kept the Dodgers in
Speaker 2: games and kept the other team off the scoreboard for
Speaker 2: the most part without those big innings. You know, we
Speaker 2: could see Walker Buehler in this NLDS for this Dodger team.
Speaker 2: Cody garden Grove is next up here on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 2: Hi Cody, Hi Tim?
Speaker 13: All right, Frank, touchdown it. I'd like to say thank
Speaker 13: you to all the announcers and the guys in the booth.
Speaker 13: I'm a person gentleman who's blind, went blind about three
Speaker 13: and a half years ago, and they do a great job. Rick, Tim, Charlie, Steven, you,
Speaker 13: DV all, you guys do a great job. I lost
Speaker 13: it about three and a half years ago. As I said,
Speaker 13: I was able to watch the game my thirty three
Speaker 13: and a half years of my life. Now I'm thirty seven,
Speaker 13: I don't have any sight anymore, so I have to
Speaker 13: listen to you guys. You guys do an awesome job
Speaker 13: of announcing and describing everything that goes on. All you
Speaker 13: guys do is you tell it as it goes, you know,
Speaker 13: I mean, yeah, and it's it's really encouraging to turn
Speaker 13: the radio on and have you guys announcing the game.
Speaker 2: That's awesome, very nice to you to say that, Cody.
Speaker 2: We really appreciate it.
Speaker 13: How you guys do is announce it and tell it
Speaker 13: it lies.
Speaker 6: I love.
Speaker 13: I loved listening to you guys. I love turning the
Speaker 13: radio on it and hearing it. I wanted to call
Speaker 13: in the day show and congratulations with the Dodgers too,
Speaker 13: Holing eleven of twelve years.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no doubt and show, Oh Tony, what a season
Speaker 2: he's had.
Speaker 13: Oh what a season?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 6: Show, Hey.
Speaker 13: I wanted to call in the day he went fifty
Speaker 13: to fifty. I remember exactly where I was when he
Speaker 13: hit his fiftieth home run. I went fifty stolen bases
Speaker 13: and I wanted to call in that day, but I
Speaker 13: didn't get through that day.
Speaker 2: What do you think, Cody, you think this team's got
Speaker 2: enough pitching?
Speaker 6: I think they do.
Speaker 13: They just need to harness the energy.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, And I love how the offense is. I
Speaker 2: love how the offense Cody is different, guys, obviously.
Speaker 13: Show everybody contributes in their own way.
Speaker 2: Yeah, welcome you tonight Will Smith at the home run.
Speaker 2: Will Smith's been struggling at the plate and comes through
Speaker 2: with a huge home run to night.
Speaker 13: Yes, they did. Everybody harness. Everybody contributes to their own
Speaker 13: way and they harness their energy. They just need to
Speaker 13: harness it and they'll get in their own they'll get
Speaker 13: no vibe in a role.
Speaker 2: Well, bless you, Cody. We appreciate the nice words. Thank
Speaker 2: you so much for listening to all the Dodger games
Speaker 2: here on a five seventy. And thank you, Hope if
Speaker 2: you're listening all October long, and it's a deep run, right, yes, sir,
Speaker 2: we go all the way. That's right, all right, Cody,
Speaker 2: I appreciate. Don't be a stranger. Check back in here
Speaker 2: on Dodger Talk. Awesome. Love to thank you for the
Speaker 2: nice compliments. But yeah, we're we're here enjoying Dodger baseball
Speaker 2: right along with you. Colin the East here every single game,
Speaker 2: Dwayne McDonald, every single game in the booth. It's a grind.
Speaker 2: It's a grind for the broadcast cruise, it's it's a
Speaker 2: grind for everybody, but it's fun when the t win.
Speaker 2: Imagine being a part of a broadcast crew for a
Speaker 2: team that wins sixty games, for a team that doesn't
Speaker 2: make the playoffs, year in and year out, like the Angels,
Speaker 2: being a part of a team that just struggles to
Speaker 2: get to October ever or occasionally, and to now go
Speaker 2: eleven out of the last twelve years. As long as
Speaker 2: I've been along with this Dodger broadcast, doing all the
Speaker 2: Dodgers on decks and joining you here on getaway days
Speaker 2: and offseason Dodger talks, that's all I know is Dodger playoffs.
Speaker 2: It's all I know. Yeah, the one year they didn't
Speaker 2: win the division, they still went to the playoffs. Twelve
Speaker 2: straight playoff appearances, pretty remarkable. Isaac is next up here
Speaker 2: on postgame Dodger Talk. Isaac, how you doing.
Speaker 14: How's it going, Tim, I'm doing great.
Speaker 2: I'm excited. I feel great. Now the Walker Bueller hopefully
Speaker 2: is turning the corner and maybe you can have an
Speaker 2: extra pitcher that can rely upon now come October. I'm excited.
Speaker 10: Nice.
Speaker 14: Nice, I'd like to say thank you for taking my call,
Speaker 14: But what I'd like to say is what an amazing
Speaker 14: and crucial performance by Walker Buehler Considering what these podjets
Speaker 14: have been doing lately. I think it's just a testament
Speaker 14: to this guy's grit, his determination, and that dog in him.
Speaker 14: I think it was refreshing to see contributions by Will
Speaker 14: Smith and Andy Pajes. And you know, Tim, I know
Speaker 14: it's been some time since that unbelievable show, Hey fifty
Speaker 14: to fifty game, but I think it's just unreal that
Speaker 14: it just feels like that magic hasn't faded and I
Speaker 14: just feel like there's so much more in store. And
Speaker 14: if anything, I think it just shows that this Dodger
Speaker 14: team just you know, loves getting over those hurdles. It's
Speaker 14: what we've been doing all year and just you know,
Speaker 14: can't wait to see what we have coming up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, me too. I'm excited, Isaac. I think about this
Speaker 2: Dodgers team and the ruts and the ups and downs
Speaker 2: they've gone through, and you know, well, we're not hitting
Speaker 2: a stride at the right time, is what Dodger fans
Speaker 2: were saying. We're in a rut right now. We lost,
Speaker 2: you know, two of four in Atlanta. How do we
Speaker 2: split the braves? We're down right now? How do we
Speaker 2: lose the series opener in Miami? I'm that the rest
Speaker 2: of that road trip, I mean, what's going on? No,
Speaker 2: you want to hit your pace right before the All
Speaker 2: Star you know, right before the postseason starts and for
Speaker 2: the Dodgers. You know, you gotta start feeling good about
Speaker 2: the way they're playing right now, the way they're coming
Speaker 2: back and winning games, the way different guys are contributing,
Speaker 2: whether it's Taoscar, whether it's Tommy Edmond, whether it's Will
Speaker 2: Smith tonight or a Max Monsey getting it started, or
Speaker 2: of course Freddie Freeman MOOKI and show Hey, o Tani,
Speaker 2: it's pretty fun. Mark's gonna be our final call here
Speaker 2: tonight in the Huntingson Beach area. Mark, how you doing?
Speaker 6: Hey?
Speaker 10: Pretty good yourself? I'm doing great, okay, especially after the
Speaker 10: night right. Hey, one thing that someone haven't touched on
Speaker 10: unless I missed it, this game could have gone a
Speaker 10: lot differently if that interference call hadn't been called, and
Speaker 10: if the UMP had just decided to see it but
Speaker 10: ignore it, the game could have been a real nail binder,
Speaker 10: even worse, if you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean a lot of things went the Dodgers way.
Speaker 2: But again, credit to the Dodgers for creating that chaos
Speaker 2: so speak, and I appreciate it. Mark. And it started
Speaker 2: with the leadoff walk to Max Munsey. It did. Joe
Speaker 2: Muskrove was at what seventy two pitches. Colin right around there,
Speaker 2: just to chat over seventy pitches going in to that
Speaker 2: seventh inning. It's not like he was running at a
Speaker 2: gas as far as pitch count wise, but he got
Speaker 2: into the seventh inning, got a head in the count
Speaker 2: to Max Munsey, and then Max Munsey was able to
Speaker 2: draw the walk to lead it off the inning, and
Speaker 2: then a three to one pitch that he would probably
Speaker 2: want back in Max with Will Smith and who crushes
Speaker 2: it to center field for a home run. Yeah, you
Speaker 2: can see the momentum change absolutely quickly in favor of
Speaker 2: the Dodgers tonight. And sure the infield or the single
Speaker 2: from Keky Hernandez off the bench was big because he
Speaker 2: had struggled to going into that matchup against Tanner Scott
Speaker 2: in their head to have matchups over his career. But
Speaker 2: he gets the better of Tanner Scott for a single.
Speaker 2: Andy Pajez. As you mentioned, the catcher's interference was big.
Speaker 2: It was big because the game was still tied. So
Speaker 2: now you've got runners on fest first and second, one out,
Speaker 2: and the lineup flips over to show hey Otani and
Speaker 2: what happens He singles to right gives the Dodgers a lead,
Speaker 2: Mookie Betts tax on two more and all of a
Speaker 2: sudden it's a five to two Dodgers lead.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, one little thing happening, yes, is big, But you
Speaker 2: have to look at the entire inning and how it
Speaker 2: unfolded for the Dodgers, and how it unraveled for the
Speaker 2: San Diego Padres. Just an epic night for the Dodgers,
Speaker 2: and really again, something to celebrate. I know some of
Speaker 2: you Dodger fans want to say I always care about
Speaker 2: World Series. I always care about what happens in October.
Speaker 2: To wake me up when they get there, and we
Speaker 2: could talk about a divisional series and getting past the
Speaker 2: Padres or the diamondbacksers. We haven't done that other last
Speaker 2: few years. You know what, for five minutes, celebrate another
Speaker 2: divisional championship. Get that negativity out of your mind at
Speaker 2: least for a few minutes, please, Dodger fans, and celebrate
Speaker 2: over the one hundred and fifty nine games so far,
Speaker 2: the Dodgers win a divisional title, all the ups and downs,
Speaker 2: all the injuries, all the pitchers, all the bullpen arms
Speaker 2: they've used, guys they brought in, and bats they've used,
Speaker 2: and injuries. They've had to win the division and to
Speaker 2: do it like they did tonight, celebrate it, get ready
Speaker 2: for the Rockies for three hang on to that top
Speaker 2: spot in the National League, and let's get ready for October.
Speaker 2: That's gonna do it. For Dodger Talk tonight, many thanks
Speaker 2: to Colin He again, Colin E's here every day during
Speaker 2: the Dodger season, all right, every game spring training, one
Speaker 2: hundred and sixty two. He doesn't get a game off.
Speaker 2: He's tried, but he can't. And now we all together
Speaker 2: get ready for Colorado in three games against the Rockies.
Speaker 2: Who's gonna start? Who knows. I'm sure they'll announce it
Speaker 2: tomorrow morning. But for right now, TBA who will get
Speaker 2: to start in the series opener? Yoshinoba Yama Mooda will
Speaker 2: start on Saturday, and then I'm sure Sunday will be
Speaker 2: the fastest game in the history of baseball as the
Speaker 2: Dodgers look to get back to LA and get a
Speaker 2: couple of days off and get some rest to watch
Speaker 2: the Wildcard Round, get some workouts in, and get ready
Speaker 2: for the start of a postseason run. Remember, eleven wins
Speaker 2: and you win a championship. That's what happens when the
Speaker 2: tournament starts next Saturday for the Dodgers. Thanks to the
Speaker 2: Dodgers tonight for coming back and winning and making it
Speaker 2: as celebration here on Dodger Talk. They do it five
Speaker 2: runs into seven, two more in the eighth. Then they
Speaker 2: beat the Padres seven to two, thanks to Colin Ye.
Speaker 2: Thanks to you for listening being a part of the show. Sorry,
Speaker 2: Brad Paisley didn't have time for you tonight, Maybe tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Thanks for being with us. Ben Maller show coming up
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