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Speaker 1: Sax and Kates and AM on this Monday morning, October fourteen.
Speaker 1: Good morning, so the California and the interviewing with us
Speaker 1: limean local, as we lead you up to Game two
Speaker 1: of the National League Championship Series. Dodgers already a one
Speaker 1: to nothing lead in his best to seven series. A
Speaker 1: quick turnaround after Game five win over the Padres on
Speaker 1: Friday night, they take Game one last night, a nine
Speaker 1: to nothing shutout win over the New York Mets. As
Speaker 1: Jack Flerity wins seven shutout innings for the win. The
Speaker 1: Dodgers and Mets will go back at it today Sean
Speaker 1: and I the left hander, we'll go for New York
Speaker 1: Johnny Holstaff for the Dodgers. It will be a bullpen game.
Speaker 1: Ryan Brazier most likely will be the starter for the
Speaker 1: Dodgers in what is a bullpen game. In Game two,
Speaker 1: Walker Bueler will be pushed back to Game three for
Speaker 1: the series starts in New York on Wednesday, eight six,
Speaker 1: sixth nine eighty seven, two five seventy. We already heard
Speaker 1: from Dave Roberts. We heard from Jack Flerity last hour.
Speaker 1: David Vasse, we'll join us in the eight o'clock hour.
Speaker 1: We're gonna get a nineteen eighty eight n LCS flashback
Speaker 1: coming up in about twenty five minutes with Steve Sacks.
Speaker 1: But Saxy, there are two unsung heroes, I guess you'll
Speaker 1: call him from one on the NLCS and a guy
Speaker 1: who has really performed well here in the postseason defensively
Speaker 1: is Will Smith and the Dodger catcher. A big reason
Speaker 1: why if you hear from the bullpen relievers from the
Speaker 1: starters in Ya Momoto and last night Jack Flaherty. They're
Speaker 1: all given credit to Will Smith and the job he's
Speaker 1: doing calling games, making sure that he's framing the pitches.
Speaker 1: They're not afraid to throw balls in the dirt because
Speaker 1: he knows he's pretty good defensively behind the plate. Offensively,
Speaker 1: he hasn't done a lot, but man, defensively, Will Smith
Speaker 1: has really been a big part like Mike Soshia was
Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty eight. For you guys, Will Smith's been
Speaker 1: a huge for this Dodgers team.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I have, you know, watching the game, I take
Speaker 3: notes and put different things down. One of the things
Speaker 3: I put down is be sure to mention how many
Speaker 3: sliders in the dirt that Will Smith blocked. I mean,
Speaker 3: we take it for granted so much that you give
Speaker 3: the confidence to the pitcher in this case Flaherty, to
Speaker 3: go ahead and bury that slider in the dirt and
Speaker 3: get these guys to chase it. He did it time
Speaker 3: after time, and lots of times it didn't work, but
Speaker 3: he was still burying that slider in the in the dirt,
Speaker 3: and that's a much better and safer place to put
Speaker 3: it then put it like up in the strike zone
Speaker 3: and hanging there like a cement mixer. You got to
Speaker 3: bury that thing, get that guy to go for it,
Speaker 3: and there you have your catcher, Will Smith, you know,
Speaker 3: blocking that thing, putting his keeping his chest square to
Speaker 3: the infield and just having a little tilt over the
Speaker 3: top of the ball, so what just bounces right in
Speaker 3: front of him. And he did it time after time
Speaker 3: after time. And that's a great, great advantage for the
Speaker 3: picture like Flaherty that likes to use that for a
Speaker 3: strikeout pitch.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I give a tip of the cap going back
Speaker 1: to Game five as well, working with Yamamoto, and Yamamoto
Speaker 1: wasn't afraid to throw the knuckle curve that he throws
Speaker 1: out there and his slider to Will Smith in that
Speaker 1: Game five. Will struggling at the plate over three last night,
Speaker 1: got on base v a walk, but he's hitting into
Speaker 1: this one to oh five and hit the home run
Speaker 1: against the Padres down in San Diego for his biggest
Speaker 1: hit so far in this twenty twenty four postseason. But
Speaker 1: again the Dodgers thirty three consecutive scoreless innings going back
Speaker 1: to Walker Bueleer in Game three of the n l
Speaker 1: DS and Will Smith a big reason part of that
Speaker 1: the Dodgers have had that success here in the postseason.
Speaker 1: Let's go back to last night post game in here
Speaker 1: for the Dodger catcher.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that was that was awesome by Flair. Give a
Speaker 4: seven shout out, you know, set the tone. Uh we
Speaker 4: needed that. He really stepped up and uh, you know,
Speaker 4: give us a really good start. One of the things
Speaker 4: Doc mentioned was pitch mix in terms of mixing it up.
Speaker 3: What were you thinking back there into how you were
Speaker 3: approaching each guy and Jack's ability to just keep everybody
Speaker 3: off balance.
Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly that, you know, uh, you know, just sticking
Speaker 4: to strengths for Jack obviously, you know, knowing how to
Speaker 4: attack their hitters. They're a good team. But you know,
Speaker 4: we just executed pitches, just mixed you know, you're trying
Speaker 4: not to be predictable. Uh yeah, he just go one
Speaker 4: pitch at a time and he did a great job executing. So, uh,
Speaker 4: you know, it was fun for me to be back
Speaker 4: there see him work and uh, you know be a
Speaker 4: part of that. When Jack's pitching like that, does it
Speaker 4: kind of just give you the freedom to kind of
Speaker 4: call call a little different game like whatever you're feeling
Speaker 4: at the time, because he's ex get his pitches so well,
Speaker 4: Uh guess and no, you know you're going one pitch
Speaker 4: at a time. You know, you're trying to, you know,
Speaker 4: find that fine line of you know, getting too cute
Speaker 4: or trying to do too much. So just keeping it simple,
Speaker 4: just going out there, nextecuting each pitch. Uh, that's what
Speaker 4: he did.
Speaker 3: Since Claret he's been here. You know, Dave Robers has
Speaker 3: talked a lot about how the moment ever quite gets big,
Speaker 3: too big for him, just kind of wondering before the
Speaker 3: starts it starts, like what kind of air does he
Speaker 3: kind of give off.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's got a he's got an aura about him.
Speaker 4: You know, he's super competitive, super focused. You know, I
Speaker 4: see all his preparation he does for a couple of
Speaker 4: days before it start. You know, it's it's intense. He's
Speaker 4: got an intense seek about him. So, you know, he's
Speaker 4: had a great year. He's obviously had great years in
Speaker 4: the past. And you know, we're fortunately he's pitching for
Speaker 4: us in the postseason and you know, giving us seven sheddies.
Speaker 5: Will you're out there to win the game. You're not
Speaker 5: thinking about records, but it's thirty three scoreless innings on
Speaker 5: all time record. What what is your reflection on being
Speaker 5: part of that and you know, sort of the bigger
Speaker 5: picture in the history of this game.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's cool. You know, it's been it's been a
Speaker 4: good street, I guess for our guys, you know, they're
Speaker 4: just kind of out there and dominated, and yeah, I'm
Speaker 4: back there calling the pitches. But it's it's all those guys,
Speaker 4: you know, executing, you know what we're deciding. So just
Speaker 4: trying to keep it going tomorrow, all.
Speaker 1: Right, there's wilsonith thirty three consecutive scoreless innings for this
Speaker 1: Dodgers pitching staff Sactually, I don't think people understand how
Speaker 1: big a number that is for a postseason pitching staff.
Speaker 1: It's not just starters. This is twelve different pitchers that
Speaker 1: have combined for thirty three consecutive scoreless innings.
Speaker 3: Yeah. And the great thing about this is you're going
Speaker 3: against the elite of the league. You're going against the
Speaker 3: best of the best, and yet here they are thirty
Speaker 3: three scoreless. And if you look at the breadth of
Speaker 3: these innings and the way they're knocking these things down, Remember,
Speaker 3: these aren't like bases loaded and a bunch of lineouts
Speaker 3: to somebody who spears one and oh then they got
Speaker 3: lucky or Baul Ricochet's off the umpire like it did
Speaker 3: with the Padres and goes right to Manny and throws
Speaker 3: the guy out at home. I mean, it wasn't anything
Speaker 3: like that. These are these are not really hotly contested innings.
Speaker 3: There's been a couple times with runners on, but for
Speaker 3: the most part it's the Dodgers getting that first out
Speaker 3: and then closing it out. I mean, it's it's not
Speaker 3: been big stressful innings for them.
Speaker 1: Will Smith was great last night. He's having a good
Speaker 1: postseason defensively. And another guy we got to mention is
Speaker 1: keyk a hern Nandez. Certainly, the big home run in
Speaker 1: Game five in the NLDS on Friday night set the
Speaker 1: tone for the Dodgers in that two to nothing win
Speaker 1: last night, there was a play in the fifth inning,
Speaker 1: Saxon and I'm dying to get your your take on this.
Speaker 1: Dodgers rubbed six to nothing. Jack Fleriti's pitching in the fifth.
Speaker 1: He allows a single to Jesse Winker. Then second basement
Speaker 1: Jose Gleasias comes up to bat and he hits a
Speaker 1: ball to left center field for a base hit. And
Speaker 1: Jesse Winker is going first to third on the hit.
Speaker 1: Keiki Hernandez races over into love center field, grabs the baseball,
Speaker 1: looks like he's throwing to third with his body the
Speaker 1: way it was, it was leaning and almost like a
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes style play, looking one way, throwing another. He
Speaker 1: throws the second base and Gavin lucks and for some reason,
Speaker 1: Jesse Winker puts on the brakes, stops going to third
Speaker 1: and just stops in the middle between second and third
Speaker 1: base ends up getting tagged out by Max Munsey. And
Speaker 1: it was pivotal because the Mets could have got something going.
Speaker 1: It was a six to nine game, but it was squashed.
Speaker 1: And then Jack Flaherty gets the next two batters out
Speaker 1: and gets out of that fifth inning with another zero
Speaker 1: up on the scoreboard. Is that a great play by
Speaker 1: Keiki Ahernanez. Is that a deep play that you've ever
Speaker 1: seen before?
Speaker 3: Yeah, that is a great play. You could say it
Speaker 3: was classic buffoonery as far as Winker does. Winker goes
Speaker 3: on the base, but no, hey, he was deep big
Speaker 3: time by Kik and the thing that it was astonishing
Speaker 3: to me, Okay, you get caught there. He throws the
Speaker 3: ball in the second, he takes off the third then
Speaker 3: he stops and turns around and waits for Gavin to
Speaker 3: throw the ball. I don't get it. It's like it's like,
Speaker 3: you know, in a football game. You know, it's it's
Speaker 3: fourth and one, and they throw a little out pattern.
Speaker 3: You catch the ball right on the line, and then
Speaker 3: you just you just push forward, right, you just dive
Speaker 3: forward for the first down. It looked like that all
Speaker 3: he had to do was dive forward, dive into third base,
Speaker 3: and he probably had it. Oh yeah, he turned around
Speaker 3: and waited for Gavin to throw the ball. I don't
Speaker 3: get it, but hey, you know what it's it's all
Speaker 3: started by a great play, heads up play by Kik
Speaker 3: and centerfield that set the whole tone.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he would have been safe at third. It would
Speaker 1: have been first and third with nobody out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you don't make the first or third out of
Speaker 3: third base, that's what. Yeah, that was bad. I don't
Speaker 3: know why he stopped. I mean, why he stopped. I
Speaker 3: don't get it. I don't think he knew right where
Speaker 3: he was in the baseline. If he thought, you know
Speaker 3: that Gavin had more time he was down the line further.
Speaker 3: I think than he believed. But you know, Gavin makes
Speaker 3: the good throw to third and he's out. But what's
Speaker 3: really difficult to this whole thing that we don't really
Speaker 3: give a lot of credit to, at least I haven't
Speaker 3: as much, is how difficult of a throw that is
Speaker 3: for Kik. He's bearing down on third base, he's aim
Speaker 3: at third. He picks it up, and all of a
Speaker 3: sudden he does a switcher roof and throws to second
Speaker 3: in mid form as he was going to third. He
Speaker 3: just switches hard. That's really hard to do, and he
Speaker 3: made a great throw to second. So I don't know
Speaker 3: how he does it, but that's why the Dodgers win
Speaker 3: these games.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he was throwing a second so they can keep
Speaker 1: the double playball intact. And if he throws the third,
Speaker 1: who knows, maybe Iglesias takes off for second and then
Speaker 1: there's nobody out second and third, and who knows what happens. Instead,
Speaker 1: you know, he throw it to second, as you're supposed
Speaker 1: to keep the double playing ball, and maybe the runner
Speaker 1: from third scores eventually, but you've got a double play situation. Instead,
Speaker 1: Winker just stops and Gavin Luxe was almost cop off
Speaker 1: caught off guard because he looked and double pumped and said, okay, fine,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna throw you out, throws the Munsi and tags
Speaker 1: him out.
Speaker 3: Now, if Kik does just the normal thing, he just
Speaker 3: gets the ball and throws the second, like you said,
Speaker 3: you keep the double a play in order. But he
Speaker 3: deaked him like he was gonna cut him off at
Speaker 3: third for at first. That's why Winkers, you know, you know,
Speaker 3: stopped because he thought, oh man, maybe I'm gonna be
Speaker 3: out at third. But you know, then he turns around
Speaker 3: and throws behind him at second. That was just a
Speaker 3: great play. It fooled me watching it on TV. Yeah,
Speaker 3: foold watching it. You know, from that perspective, it's.
Speaker 1: It's interesting to see this Mets team last night, and
Speaker 1: I know it's not the way they've been playing this postseason,
Speaker 1: and certainly they they played really well against the Phillies.
Speaker 1: They went toe to toe with the Milwaukee Brewers and
Speaker 1: won that wild card round in Milwaukee. And that's not
Speaker 1: hard to They're not easy to do. The last two
Speaker 1: weeks of the season. They were basically on the road
Speaker 1: fighting for their playoff lives. They've battled to get to
Speaker 1: this NLC. Yeah, and you see last night, the amount
Speaker 1: of chasing they did at the plate. Coodei Singa just
Speaker 1: did not look good at all, and he only made
Speaker 1: two starts all year because of a shoulder injury than
Speaker 1: a calf injury. But for some reason, they want to
Speaker 1: throw them out there in Game one of the NLCS,
Speaker 1: even though they had three days off to line up
Speaker 1: this rotation. The base running theres they had two airs. Defensively,
Speaker 1: it was a circus out there last night for the Mets.
Speaker 1: I honestly looked at my wife, I said, I don't
Speaker 1: know how this Mets team got here. They look awful.
Speaker 3: Well, they part of make them looking awful, is the
Speaker 3: Dodgers look so good. Remember that there's a lot of
Speaker 3: pressure put on to the opposition just because they're playing
Speaker 3: the Dodgers. They know that they have to be spotless.
Speaker 3: They know that they have to come up with big hits,
Speaker 3: they have to make big pitches. Anyone in that lineup
Speaker 3: can change the whole complexity of this game with the Dodgers,
Speaker 3: and they know that, and that's the pressure that's put
Speaker 3: on them when they walk on the field with these guys.
Speaker 3: But look, it's not gonna be that way all the time.
Speaker 3: There's Dodgers aren't going to be brilliant all the time,
Speaker 3: and so you just got to take it, like they say,
Speaker 3: the cliche of one game at a time, one pitch
Speaker 3: at a time. And that's how you stay humble and
Speaker 3: stay within yourself and let the chips fall where they may.
Speaker 3: That way, don't look too far ahead. And part of
Speaker 3: that is enjoying the moment, enjoy the great things where
Speaker 3: the Dodgers are and how they're producing right now. That's
Speaker 3: an important thing. And Dave Man, Dave Roberts brings that
Speaker 3: out well on the team.
Speaker 1: I love the New York media, the New York Post,
Speaker 1: the headline Hollywood horror show out classt in Game one,
Speaker 1: Mets can't afford to be this ordinary.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, you know what, it's it's great thing that
Speaker 3: the Dodgers are a very humble team and you just
Speaker 3: stay right there. You don't you don't you know, you
Speaker 3: don't flaunt, you don't you know, put down the other team.
Speaker 3: You respect them because they deserve respect. And you know,
Speaker 3: you go at it very business like and you put
Speaker 3: put the pressure on these guys from the day from
Speaker 3: pitch one. That's how you get this thing done.
Speaker 1: Speaking of pressure, Francisco Lindor last night, who is right
Speaker 1: there in the running for the MVP. It is so
Speaker 1: good at shortstop zero for three on base once with
Speaker 1: the walk struck out once last night and one of
Speaker 1: the other articles in the New York Post today, Francisco
Speaker 1: Lindor has chance to quickly change everything for Mets. Talk
Speaker 1: about pressure. Look at the Dodgers. They got like six
Speaker 1: guys you can rely upon on any given night, and
Speaker 1: if the combination of two or three are on, lookout,
Speaker 1: you're gonna win a game like they did last night
Speaker 1: night and nothing. I look at that Mets lineup outside
Speaker 1: of the home run threat from the Polar Bear. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is Francisco Lindor or bust with that lineup.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, but they got guys who can put
Speaker 3: the ball in play and put some see their different
Speaker 3: attack is different. They can string it together. Guys like McNeil,
Speaker 3: who you know, a really good hitter. You get to
Speaker 3: the Polar Bear in the four slot, I mean, he
Speaker 3: can change it right there. And like you said, Lindor
Speaker 3: is the biggest, the biggest shiny object on this team.
Speaker 3: But they do have good athlete on the team and
Speaker 3: the pitching has been pretty good. So when you put
Speaker 3: all that together, I mean, they're in a good spot.
Speaker 3: Are they as good as you know, getting through round
Speaker 3: one then beating the Phillies. I don't know if they're
Speaker 3: that great, but remember this team barely got in but
Speaker 3: actually from about May on they were right there in
Speaker 3: lockstep with the Dodgers. So after a you know, kind
Speaker 3: of a poor start, they were a really good ball club.
Speaker 1: He is Steve Sacks. I am Tim Kats. Your phone
Speaker 1: calls coming up. David Masse joins this next hour. We'll
Speaker 1: hear from Freddie Freeman coming up later on this hour
Speaker 1: as well. But up next, we go back to nineteen
Speaker 1: eighty eight Dodgers met National League Championship Series. Nobody gave
Speaker 1: the Dodgers a chance. The big bad New York Mets
Speaker 1: best record in baseball, they beat up on the Dodgers
Speaker 1: in the regular season, and they were expected to do
Speaker 1: so again. Everybody was waiting for a Mets a's World
Speaker 1: Series matchup, and the Dodgers played spoilers. We're gonna get
Speaker 1: a SAX memory from the NLCS from nineteen eighty eight. Next,
Speaker 1: don't go anywhere. He is Steve Sacks. I'm Tim Kates.
Speaker 1: Dodgers a one nothing series lead in the National League
Speaker 1: Championship Series Game two this afternoon one oh eight, First
Speaker 1: pitch right here on your home of Showy O Toanni
Speaker 1: and the Dodgers AFI seventy Eli Sports, Sax and Kate
Speaker 1: to the am on this Monday morning in October fourteenth.
Speaker 1: Thanks for being with us live and local in the morning.
Speaker 1: As the Dodgers playoff run continues a Game five win
Speaker 1: over the Padres on Friday night, they advance to the NLCS,
Speaker 1: and they win Game one last night in convincing fashion,
Speaker 1: a nine to nothing victory over the New York Mets.
Speaker 1: Jack Flaherty seven shutout innings for the Dodgers. Showy O
Speaker 1: Tani goes two for four, Mookie Betts drives in three.
Speaker 1: Freddy Friedman with an RBI sing Max Months. He got
Speaker 1: the party started with a two out, two run single
Speaker 1: in the first as the Dodgers jumped on code Is
Speaker 1: single last night, chased him in the second inning with
Speaker 1: one out as the Dodgers take a one to oh
Speaker 1: series lead in Game two. Quick turnaround this afternoon, coming
Speaker 1: up at one oh eight. The Dodgers going with the
Speaker 1: bullpen game. Sean and Iya, the veteran left hander, will
Speaker 1: be on the mound for the New York Mets. Let's
Speaker 1: take a couple of phone calls before we get to
Speaker 1: your moment, Saxy. I know all of us in the
Speaker 1: studio are anxiously awaiting it. I got a tweet from
Speaker 1: somebody that said, cannot wait to hear Saxy's nineteen eighty
Speaker 1: eight and LCS memory. Wow, We're gonna get to that
Speaker 1: in a minute.
Speaker 3: I better come up with something.
Speaker 1: Oh, noz, Let's go to Diana and Granada Hills, who's
Speaker 1: been waiting very patiently. Diana, good morning, how are you?
Speaker 6: Good morning? Hi, Tim and Steve, how are you guys doing?
Speaker 3: Hello, good morning, good morning.
Speaker 6: So I know, just like you guys are saying, it's
Speaker 6: only been one game, but yesterday for me was the
Speaker 6: most complete, satisfying post season game I cremember in years
Speaker 6: with the small ball, the great starting pitching, where he
Speaker 6: was allowed to pitch seven innings, which is tremendous. It
Speaker 6: just was amazing for me not to have my stomach
Speaker 6: in knots from the first inning on through the game.
Speaker 6: It was just a beautiful thing, and I think we
Speaker 6: can keep it going today.
Speaker 1: Let's go all right, Diana, appreciate the phone call, Thanks
Speaker 1: for checking in, y out. I think the knots has
Speaker 1: certainly left my stomach. From Game five of the NLDS
Speaker 1: on Friday night and going into Sunday night's matchup last
Speaker 1: night against the Mets Saxy, I had a better feeling.
Speaker 1: Not that it was a letdown emotionally for me after
Speaker 1: the Padre series, but I just looked at the competition
Speaker 1: and I kind of looked at the pitching matchups going in.
Speaker 1: I got a little easier feeling against this match team now,
Speaker 1: not that it's going to be a cakewalk by any means.
Speaker 1: And I know some Dodger fans are saying sweep and
Speaker 1: bring on the Yankees. Let's pump the brakes a little.
Speaker 3: Bit, pump them a little bit. And you don't ever
Speaker 3: want to play to the competition. So look, you had
Speaker 3: a nine zero blowout, Okay, nothing wrong with the twelve
Speaker 3: one blowout either, or you know, eleven zero blowout for
Speaker 3: the next game. I don't believe in oh, you got
Speaker 3: to save those runs for the next one. No, no, no, no,
Speaker 3: you you Each game is individual and unique in and
Speaker 3: of itself. So if you haven't an opportunity to blow
Speaker 3: them out again, blow them out again. That's that's the
Speaker 3: way you got to look at it.
Speaker 1: Oscar in Baldwin Park is next up here on Saxon
Speaker 1: Kates in the Am on this Monday morning, leading into
Speaker 1: Game two. Oscar, you doing good, good, Mitch Jax Morney,
Speaker 1: Homie Kates.
Speaker 7: Morning, beautiful morning, beautiful, beautiful overcast in southern California. Man,
Speaker 7: and Dodgers will up get one game and on this series. Man,
Speaker 7: I don't know much to say other than this is
Speaker 7: I think that I talked to as that say last
Speaker 7: man the postcamp. Some of the other teams had better
Speaker 7: talent and stuff and uh many a better players. But
Speaker 7: I think this is the best team they've had. You know.
Speaker 7: They they look good. They they just look good.
Speaker 8: Man.
Speaker 7: I don't much to say other than that, and other
Speaker 7: than hey.
Speaker 1: I'm thinking ahead.
Speaker 7: I want the Yankee thankey one in my life name.
Speaker 7: I want to see a Dodger Yankees world series. That's
Speaker 7: what I want to see. Well, go have a good morning, man,
Speaker 7: Thank you.
Speaker 1: Thank you a lot of Oscar. That the Yankees got
Speaker 1: to get there first. They're gonna have their hands full
Speaker 1: in the ALCS that starts later on today in New
Speaker 1: York with the Guardians.
Speaker 3: Yes, who Cleveland?
Speaker 1: Yeah, that baseball team.
Speaker 3: Hey, you know, Tim, Sometimes you know, I don't always
Speaker 3: agree wholeheartedly with the listener, and in this case, love Oscar,
Speaker 3: but gotta kind of tilt it a little bit the
Speaker 3: other way because I think this is the most talented
Speaker 3: Dodger team I've seen. Number one, uh and number two.
Speaker 3: There's nothing wrong with having that talent and playing as
Speaker 3: a team. It doesn't mean you have to have one
Speaker 3: without the other. You can have an extremely talented team
Speaker 3: and still play that way as a unit. That that's
Speaker 3: called World Series winners. That's what they do.
Speaker 1: Speaking of World Series winners, you are a World Series winner.
Speaker 1: That nineteen eighty eight Dodge World Series Championship team was
Speaker 1: a team that was good, but by no stretch probably
Speaker 1: as talented as this year's Dodgers team. The expectations certainly
Speaker 1: weren't as high as this year's Dodgers team. But you
Speaker 1: guys did that by overcoming during the regular season. In
Speaker 1: the postseason, you guys delivered as well. And then in
Speaker 1: the NLCS a matchup against the Big bad New York
Speaker 1: Mets with Ron Darling. Davy Johnson's team was the one
Speaker 1: of the best in baseball that year. They basically beat
Speaker 1: you guys to the pulp in the regular season. I
Speaker 1: think it was ten out of eleven and they beat
Speaker 1: you guys something like that. And going into this series,
Speaker 1: it was all Mets. Everybody said, Wow, the Mets are
Speaker 1: gonna win this easily. Dodgers run is coming to an end.
Speaker 1: You guys are going to win those World Series. But
Speaker 1: this NLCS matchup just like nineteen eighty eight, la versus
Speaker 1: New York. Take his back sack seat to nineteen eighty eight.
Speaker 3: Okay, back in nineteen eighty eight, you know, our team
Speaker 3: was scheduled to, you know, finished fourth in our division.
Speaker 3: That's where our team was, and as we all know,
Speaker 3: so many different things happened starting in spring training. Now
Speaker 3: I'm going to go each spring training game first and
Speaker 3: then we'll finish this thing about nine o'clock tonight. Okay, No,
Speaker 3: so in general, pick to be fourth in our division.
Speaker 3: We had the dust up with Kirk Gibson in spring
Speaker 3: training which kind of set the tone. Now, faust forward
Speaker 3: to the playoffs. Here we are. I mean, you can't
Speaker 3: believe it. Matt's talented team, super super talented team, great pitching,
Speaker 3: they got everything. But we had the team, and that's
Speaker 3: what the difference was. We had unit T. We had
Speaker 3: a mantra that went throughout the season of what a
Speaker 3: blanket team. Can't say it, but we screamed it every
Speaker 3: time we won. And we turned Kirk Gibson into a
Speaker 3: guy that was gruff and wanted to fight everybody into
Speaker 3: a little cuddly chubby bear that was laughing and drooping
Speaker 3: around with us towards the end of the year. And
Speaker 3: it was done in the right manner, of course. Now
Speaker 3: I want to put something in perspective. Remember the Dodgers
Speaker 3: right now, thirty three scoreless scene. Isn't it amazing to
Speaker 3: watch what this team does collectively To go out there
Speaker 3: and have all these guys pitch in and do thirty
Speaker 3: three scoreless senings. It is amazing, isn't it, Tim? It is.
Speaker 3: Now I want you to think about Oral Herscheizer, what
Speaker 3: he did that year fifty nine and two thirds by
Speaker 3: himself fifty nine and two thirds. It was something that
Speaker 3: will maybe never see again. But again, our team was
Speaker 3: very entrepreneurial. We were not afraid to fail. That's what
Speaker 3: was good about our club. Remember there was times when
Speaker 3: we would do things on our own without even asking.
Speaker 3: Tommy Lesorda. I remember if I was on first base
Speaker 3: and Kenny Landro was up, we would make eye contact
Speaker 3: from ninety feet away. I was on first looking at him,
Speaker 3: and he would I would look and kind of turn
Speaker 3: my head a little bit. That meant hit and run.
Speaker 3: So Kenny and I would do that on our own,
Speaker 3: and we were entrepreneurial about it. We weren't afraid to fail,
Speaker 3: and lots of times it did work out. It did
Speaker 3: work out. Were there were times when we were in
Speaker 3: a situation there was a guy in first base and
Speaker 3: nobody out, ball won. You know, the hitter would step out,
Speaker 3: look down at third base at Joey Mofatano, and you
Speaker 3: know Mikes Soshia. I remember about five people down from Tommy.
Speaker 3: He said, Tommy, you're gonna hit run right, hit run
Speaker 3: on this pitch. Tommy leans over and gives Joey the
Speaker 3: hit and run and it works. I mean, it was
Speaker 3: crazy how that stuff went. Now that leads into my
Speaker 3: to the point of my story. In that game we're
Speaker 3: playing the Mets, I'm talking about Game four, very pivotal game.
Speaker 3: It went twelve innings. It was a knockdown, drag out event. Uhu.
Speaker 3: Dwight Gooden had gone nine innings, and tell what happened
Speaker 3: in the ninth inning. Mike Soosha hit a monstrous home
Speaker 3: run off of Dwight Gooden that turned things around, that
Speaker 3: sent us into extra innings. And then what happens. Kirk
Speaker 3: Gibson not only launches that big home run against the
Speaker 3: A's in Game one, he hit a huge home run
Speaker 3: in the twelfth inning off of Jack off of McDowell
Speaker 3: that that were enabled us to go into the bottom
Speaker 3: of the twelfth. And then here's my point. What happens
Speaker 3: in the bottom of the twelfth, Well, I mean two
Speaker 3: outs and I'm sitting there on second base and I
Speaker 3: look down there in the bullpen and who is it?
Speaker 3: Here comes Oral running in from the bullpen to notch
Speaker 3: the save. And you gotta be kidding me. As soon
Speaker 3: as that gate opened up and he was running out,
Speaker 3: I heard this, the heavens open up, and I was like, no,
Speaker 3: you know, here he comes, and he's gonna lock this
Speaker 3: thing down. The funny thing about it, here's my point.
Speaker 3: The funny thing about it was, Remember I told you
Speaker 3: how entrepreneurial the team was. He tried to do things
Speaker 3: and whatnot. Orl Herscheizer went down to the bullpen on
Speaker 3: his own. Tommy didn't even know he was going down there. Wow.
Speaker 3: Orl goes down there and tells Mark Kressey, Hey, I'm
Speaker 3: here with two outs in the twelfth, i can knock
Speaker 3: this thing down for us. He didn't even tell Tommy.
Speaker 3: He just went down there and did it. And Kressy
Speaker 3: didn't even know it, but there he was in the game.
Speaker 3: I mean, just an unbelievable teamwork, not afraid to quit,
Speaker 3: not afraid to fail. That's how we won that game.
Speaker 3: It was a lot of duct tape and a lot
Speaker 3: of heart, and that's why we won that game, which
Speaker 3: set us off to win in the finale in Los Angeles.
Speaker 3: In game seven, that is awesome.
Speaker 1: Oral comes in. It's Kevin McReynolds for the final bat
Speaker 1: there in the bottom half of the twelfth and he
Speaker 1: replacing Jesse A Rosco I believe at the time, was
Speaker 1: on the mound and it had walked a runner on
Speaker 1: the bases loaded and then that's when Tommy Losorda went
Speaker 1: out to the mount and got him and brought in
Speaker 1: Oral herscheizer. Things could have gone drastically different. And Jesse
Speaker 1: Roscoe stays in that game and gives up a base
Speaker 1: hit and a couple of runs score, and you guys
Speaker 1: lose that game. Going into Game five with that quick turnaround.
Speaker 3: It was Leary and then a Rosco who I believe
Speaker 3: walked walks somebody, and then Oral comes in and shuts
Speaker 3: that thing down. I'm telling you, our team was on
Speaker 3: fire in that locker room, absolutely on fire when that happened.
Speaker 3: It just it just brought you know, it brought jet
Speaker 3: packs into our cleats. It was It was just unbelievable.
Speaker 3: That thing was just for Oral to come out and
Speaker 3: do that. It gave the team such an emotional lift.
Speaker 3: And then we come back and shut that thing down
Speaker 3: in Los Angeles. And I'll tell you what, you know,
Speaker 3: give due to the Mets. I mean to the Oakland
Speaker 3: A's in the World Series. They weren't nothing like the Mets.
Speaker 3: Mets were just like the toughest team that we faced
Speaker 3: all year. Ten out of eleven times we faced them. Yeah,
Speaker 3: they whooped us ten. Yep, that's how good they were.
Speaker 1: Oral Hersheiser had pitched seven day Scuse me seven innings
Speaker 1: the previous day in Game three, comes back out in
Speaker 1: Game four to close it out for the final batter there.
Speaker 1: Truly unbelievable because there was nobody left down there for
Speaker 1: you guys in the bullpen. But when when he comes
Speaker 1: out of the gate and he comes running in, are
Speaker 1: you standing there by yourself?
Speaker 3: I can't believe what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Do you do you gather with the other interfielder's like,
Speaker 1: what are we doing?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Well do you have confidence that Oral, just a day before,
Speaker 1: who through seven innings, could come in and get the
Speaker 1: out with the bases loaded?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I thought he could. Remember Pania had pitched three
Speaker 3: innings of just just knockdown Penia was great. He actually
Speaker 3: got to win that day. And then it was Leary
Speaker 3: for an out, a Rosco for an out. Guys were
Speaker 3: on base, and Oral comes in and shuts it down
Speaker 3: for the third out. I mean the big home run
Speaker 3: that Mike Soshia hit to put us in extras. Gibby
Speaker 3: hits the big home run in the twelfth inning, and
Speaker 3: it was just magic man. It It was just a
Speaker 3: magic thing for us. But world comes through that gate
Speaker 3: was like Superman. It was unbelievable.
Speaker 1: What was it like going back to the hotel room
Speaker 1: that night, knowing that you had to get up. You
Speaker 1: had a game that started, not warm up, started in
Speaker 1: like ten and a half hours.
Speaker 3: You know it. It was almost like we felt a
Speaker 3: different thing happening with us, or a team evolved throughout
Speaker 3: the course of the year. We got really hot towards
Speaker 3: the middle of year and it never stopped, and we
Speaker 3: felt that we were on this trek to do something
Speaker 3: amazing and Oral, you know the underpinnings of this whole
Speaker 3: thing where Oral was fifty nine and two thirds. He
Speaker 3: was showing us all the time when he went out
Speaker 3: there to pitch, this is something different for us, and
Speaker 3: it was, and it rubbed off on everybody else. I mean,
Speaker 3: players can make other players great. You can make a
Speaker 3: good player great, and that's what guys like Orl did
Speaker 3: for us. He made us so much better, Gibbie did,
Speaker 3: and we just kept getting better as the season went on.
Speaker 3: But when he came through those gates in the twelfth inning, whoa,
Speaker 3: It's like Moses coming through there.
Speaker 1: Tim Belcher was back at the team hotel because he
Speaker 1: was your Game five starter, I believe. The next day
Speaker 1: at Shae Stadium, anybody were asking me if he felt
Speaker 1: like he was gonna hop in a cab and maybe
Speaker 1: head back out to Shaye Stadium because you had nobody
Speaker 1: else in the pullpit. And if that game for some
Speaker 1: reason went, you know, at more extra innings, what was
Speaker 1: Tommy's playing?
Speaker 3: What was gonna happen? You know what? I don't really know,
Speaker 3: I mean, but all I know is the dude goes
Speaker 3: down into into the bullpen on his own, tells Paranowsky,
Speaker 3: I'm ready, didn't even tell Tommy, just right down there
Speaker 3: and then there it happened.
Speaker 1: The closest thing I can think of to something like that,
Speaker 1: and this is not even really close. But Clayton Kershaw
Speaker 1: in it was a couple of nlds is a go
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen, I believe, or not even before that, when
Speaker 1: he pitched against the Washington Nationals Game five in the
Speaker 1: NLDS in Washington, d C. And comes out and closes
Speaker 1: out the game in the ninth inning after just two
Speaker 1: days ago pitching for the Dodgers is the closest thing
Speaker 1: I can think too. Yeah, in Dodger postseason history of
Speaker 1: a great starting pitcher coming out and closing out a
Speaker 1: game for a team and it must win decisive game
Speaker 1: or a postseason game like Oral did in Game four
Speaker 1: of the NLCS. Well, hopefully this series isn't as exciting
Speaker 1: as the nineteen eighty eight NLCS because the Dodgers are
Speaker 1: in control of this series. You guys certainly battled with
Speaker 1: the New York Mets in that NLCS series. Go into it,
Speaker 1: though you guys had was there ever a doubt that
Speaker 1: you guys could win this series? I mean, because they
Speaker 1: dominates you guys a ten out of eleven.
Speaker 3: Sure, there's regular Sure there's doubts. And you know, same
Speaker 3: thing when people ask players do you do? You guys
Speaker 3: get nervous and you go up to bet absolutely every time.
Speaker 3: I mean even in spring training, you get you know,
Speaker 3: you you you have to fight through the jitters and
Speaker 3: you have to calm yourself down. That's part of being
Speaker 3: a professional. But yeah, there's doubts. I mean, that's that's
Speaker 3: part of playing the game. And you've got to silence
Speaker 3: those things and you got to change it into something
Speaker 3: positive immediately. Uh. If you don't have a little bit
Speaker 3: of those jitters or doubts whatever, you must not care
Speaker 3: very much. And if you say, man, I was just
Speaker 3: going out there. I had no doubts, no jitters at all.
Speaker 3: Something's bad is really about to happen. I'm telling you,
Speaker 3: because it's not normal to do that. You got to
Speaker 3: just go through those times. You got to calm it down,
Speaker 3: and you got to get really into the soul and say, look,
Speaker 3: I know what my beliefs are, and I know what
Speaker 3: the bottom line is here and and and that's how
Speaker 3: you have to go at it. That's got to supersede
Speaker 3: anything else.
Speaker 1: You guys did it in nineteen eighty eight, Oral hersiz
Speaker 1: Are coming in in game four of that extra inning
Speaker 1: game twelve innings, Dodgers out last of the New York
Speaker 1: Mets five to four, and he comes out and gets
Speaker 1: the final out in that bottom half of the twelfth INNY.
Speaker 1: And that's going down memory lane with Steve Sacks.
Speaker 3: Four hours and twenty nine minutes, that Gay Moss a
Speaker 3: long way into the night, and.
Speaker 1: You turned around and played a game the next day
Speaker 1: in that dump of a stadium there, Shay Stadium in
Speaker 1: New York and Queens awful awfull. I mean the rats
Speaker 1: never slept there, you know, they were up all the time.
Speaker 1: Imagine being there for four and a half hour game.
Speaker 1: It's the middle of the night. You guys have to
Speaker 1: get out of there, and that place is disgusting.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, I just looked too. And guess who the
Speaker 3: leftfield umpire was, Uh, the West?
Speaker 1: Oh, Joe West, the cowboy, Joe West.
Speaker 3: Cowboy Joe West. That's right.
Speaker 1: Did you have a good relationship with the cowboy?
Speaker 3: I did? I did. I had a fine relationship. I did.
Speaker 3: I listen. I made it a point to get along
Speaker 3: with the umpires. Not that I wanted to kiss anybody's
Speaker 3: you know what, but I just would play middle of
Speaker 3: the road. And those are guys you don't want to
Speaker 3: get a bad name with because they can kind of
Speaker 3: turn things bad on you. You know, Will to kind
Speaker 3: of keep that even.
Speaker 1: Will Clark, the former Great Giant and Texas ranger, tells
Speaker 1: a great story about one night he got wrung up
Speaker 1: on a strike three from the homeplate umpire and he
Speaker 1: didn't think it was a strike. He looked back at
Speaker 1: him and was like, you know, shook his head, but
Speaker 1: he still got wrung up on a strike three. And
Speaker 1: later on a couple hours later, back at the team hotel,
Speaker 1: the umpire was there down in the hotel bar and
Speaker 1: Will Clark sent a beer over to him or an
Speaker 1: adult beverage, and the guy turned around and we'll just
Speaker 1: kind of like, you know, tipped his hand like hey,
Speaker 1: you know, cheers everything to him and did it just
Speaker 1: to be mean. He just did it. It was like, hey,
Speaker 1: you know, we're not playing baseball anymore. Can you have
Speaker 1: a great night?
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Ever since then he said that Home played umpire, He
Speaker 1: always got the call from that Home played umpire because
Speaker 1: he didn't rub it in his face. No, he didn't
Speaker 1: try to show him up. He didn't try to be
Speaker 1: the guy and call him out in the media after
Speaker 1: the game or anything, or go after the hotel bar.
Speaker 1: He just said, hey, what happened. Happened?
Speaker 3: Yeah, classic move. And you know what, the umpire knows
Speaker 3: he missed it. The umpire knows he missed it. He does.
Speaker 3: And for will to do something like that, it's classy move.
Speaker 3: It was Angel Hernandez, That's who it was. He did
Speaker 3: it too, He did, yes, Angel exactly. It was Angel Hernandez,
Speaker 3: who uh oh wow, Okay, not.
Speaker 1: One of the most lights umpires in the history of baseball.
Speaker 1: He is Steve Zachs, some Tim Kates and sax and
Speaker 1: Kates and the AM on this Monday morning. Dodgers a
Speaker 1: one nothing series lead in the NLCS. Game two this
Speaker 1: afternoon Brono Casino. Dodgers on Deck begins at noon first
Speaker 1: pitch at one oh eight. David I say, our Dodger
Speaker 1: insider joins us. Next hour still to come. Well, you're
Speaker 1: gonna hear from Freddie Freeman, and we're gonna go back
Speaker 1: and Dodger history because the Dodgers are closing in on
Speaker 1: a historic mark, scoreless innings pitched by this Dodger rotation.
Speaker 1: We'll get into that when we come back and saxon
Speaker 1: Kate's and the AM right here on AM FI seventy
Speaker 1: l A Sports Sax and Kate to the AM on
Speaker 1: this Monday morning, Thanks for being with us live at
Speaker 1: local as we lead chop to Game two of the
Speaker 1: National Ague Championship Series. Dodgers up one game to nothing
Speaker 1: after a nine nothing shutout win over the New York
Speaker 1: Mets last night and the series opener. The Dodgers banged
Speaker 1: down nine runs on nine hits, no home runs, just
Speaker 1: one extra base hit that was a double for Mookie
Speaker 1: Beds and that was it. They just single them to death,
Speaker 1: got on base small ball to the bottom of the lineup.
Speaker 1: Jack Felerti seven shutout innings, Daniel Hudson to scoreless eighth.
Speaker 1: Ben Caspirius pitched a scoreless ninth inning. So the Dodgers
Speaker 1: bullpen intact, high leverage guys ready to go for Game
Speaker 1: two and what is going to be a Johnny Holstaff game.
Speaker 1: We expect Ryan Brasier most likely to be the opener
Speaker 1: for the Dodgers in this game too. Later on this afternoon,
Speaker 1: he is Steve Sacks. I'm Tim Kate's hearing with you
Speaker 1: until nine o'clock this morning. David vesa our Dodger insider,
Speaker 1: joins us next hour. Steve's keys to a Game two
Speaker 1: NLCS win coming up at the end the next hour
Speaker 1: as well. The Dodgers right now thirty three consecutive scoreless innings,
Speaker 1: and it's been pretty impressive of the way they've done it.
Speaker 1: After the big inning that the Padres had in Game
Speaker 1: three against Walker Bueller, he comes back up and puts
Speaker 1: up Zeros, and the Dodgers bullpen puts up Zeros the
Speaker 1: rest of the way in Game three, even though it
Speaker 1: was a loss. Game four, the bullpen game in San Diego,
Speaker 1: Dodgers win, and it was a scoreless performance from the
Speaker 1: bullpen Friday Night Game five and the NLDS against the Padres.
Speaker 1: Yoshiyamamoto and the Dodgers bullpen combined for a two to
Speaker 1: nothing shutout win over the Padres last night Game one
Speaker 1: of the NLCS. The consecutive scoreless inning streak continues with
Speaker 1: zero after zero put up by Jack Flaherty, then the
Speaker 1: zero in the eighth from Daniel Hudson, zero from Benkspirius
Speaker 1: in the ninth. We are now in thirty three consecutive
Speaker 1: scoreless Indians for this Dodgers team, relievers, starters. It is
Speaker 1: certainly a feat that we have not seen happen in
Speaker 1: a very long time. In fact, we have not seen
Speaker 1: this happen Saxy since nineteen sixty six. The Baltimore Orioles
Speaker 1: did it, albeit against the Dodgers in the nineteen sixty
Speaker 1: six World Series. Here's the finale, the final call of
Speaker 1: Game four, Vince Scully on the call, Baltimore Orioles defeating
Speaker 1: the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Speaker 8: McNally is set and ruddy and the spike two pitch
Speaker 8: swan on a flyve on a right center It's playable.
Speaker 8: Paul Bair is waiting and waiting.
Speaker 3: Here's got it.
Speaker 8: They are going wild in Baltimore, understandably so as the
Speaker 8: birds of mob Dave McNally I hang and thousands of
Speaker 8: fans four out onto the field, and hell to the camps,
Speaker 8: says the ball. Oriols knock the clown off the Dodgers head,
Speaker 8: and they got the champions of the world for nineteen sexty.
Speaker 1: Say the great Vin Scully on the call. Nineteen sixty
Speaker 1: six World Series. They win it in Game four. A
Speaker 1: suite for the Orioles. Dodgers scored a run in Game
Speaker 1: one in the second inning, and a run in the
Speaker 1: third inning, and after that thirty three consecutive scoreless innings
Speaker 1: pitched by four pitchers Dave McNally, Mo Drabowski, Jim Palmer,
Speaker 1: and Wally Buckner. The sixty six Orioles Saxy used four
Speaker 1: pitchers in four games, thirty three consecutive scoreless innings. The
Speaker 1: Dodgers so far thirty three consecutive scoreless innings and counting
Speaker 1: going into today, they've used twelve pitchers.
Speaker 3: Yeah, a different different world today, though, you know, with
Speaker 3: the the bullpens back then, the starters were expected to
Speaker 3: go the whole way and bullpen go. We're just guys
Speaker 3: that could make the team and mop up a little bit.
Speaker 3: It's different strategies today. These guys are These guys are
Speaker 3: parsed out to get this guy out, this guy out,
Speaker 3: and this guy out, and then the next pitcher you're
Speaker 3: gonna go for these three or four guys. And especially
Speaker 3: with the fact that you have to pitch the three guys,
Speaker 3: you know you're you're gonna pick out certain guys that
Speaker 3: they think that you can get out. And that's the
Speaker 3: way it is. It's a different strategy today. But it's cool,
Speaker 3: it's great. And uh, you know the Dodgers are winning
Speaker 3: games without putting their best foot forward. Yet, how is
Speaker 3: that they're not even slugging yet? That's we know they're
Speaker 3: gonna slug. Sometimes you get victories about great pitching in
Speaker 3: your starters and you have seven, eight to nine dominating
Speaker 3: the game. This is great stuff for the Dodgers right now.
Speaker 3: Ride this pony. Hey, I guarantee you if the Dodgers
Speaker 3: don't hit any home runs the rest of the way
Speaker 3: and they can win games in this fashion, everybody on
Speaker 3: that team would join in and say, yeah, we'll take
Speaker 3: that victory. Even though there's no show Hey or Mookie
Speaker 3: or Freddie home runs. They can do it in this
Speaker 3: fashion and win the They would step up and take
Speaker 3: it to heartbeat.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and this Dodgers team today gonna go with a
Speaker 1: bullpen game. And I hope Dodger fans realize, Saxy, the
Speaker 1: performance they put up in Game four, the way it
Speaker 1: played out to the script to a t, it may
Speaker 1: not go that way today. That was about as perfect
Speaker 1: as you can get. In Game four, eight different relievers
Speaker 1: coming out of the bullpen to put up zeros over
Speaker 1: nine innings. That was something special. It may not happen again.
Speaker 1: They may actually give up a run at some point
Speaker 1: in this game.
Speaker 3: Today.
Speaker 1: They may go off script and a walk here and
Speaker 1: a base hit here or maybe a home run there.
Speaker 1: And that could happen, but it won't be the end
Speaker 1: of the world, because I still got to believe that
Speaker 1: this Dodger bullpen is gonna be pretty dominant today.
Speaker 3: Look what happened when they were playing the Padres when
Speaker 3: it was crunch time. When you looked in the dugout,
Speaker 3: no panic. There's no panic here. And so if that happens,
Speaker 3: you give up a run or two no panic. You
Speaker 3: stay within the course of the plan and you just execute.
Speaker 3: That's it.
Speaker 1: By the way, looking inside that Mets dugout last night,
Speaker 1: a lot of eyes wide open.
Speaker 3: Like my god, look at each other.
Speaker 1: What in the world just hit us in the face.
Speaker 1: Nine runs from this Dodgers team and they didn't even
Speaker 1: hit a home run. Yikes? He is Steve Sacks II
Speaker 1: and Tim Kats two hours down, one to go. Your
Speaker 1: phone calls coming up next hour. David Vat say we'll
Speaker 1: join us Steve's keys to game two. So much more
Speaker 1: to get to as we lead you up to Game
Speaker 1: two of the NLCS right here on your home and
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