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Speaker 1: Well put the champagne back on ice as the Yankees
Speaker 1: have forced a Game five in this World Series. Hello
Speaker 1: Southern California and good morning Tim Kates, along with two
Speaker 1: World Series champ Rookie of the Year and our favorite
Speaker 1: number three, the one and only Steven Sacks. Saxy. Good morning,
Speaker 1: what up?
Speaker 4: Tim?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 1: Sky is falling to my house? Saxy? Really, what should
Speaker 1: have been a celebratory night in the Kate's household had
Speaker 1: to put the champagne back on ice and get ready
Speaker 1: for a Game five, which we have now got a
Speaker 1: great pitching matchup with Garrett Cole and Jack Felarity. Not
Speaker 1: the ideal situation for the Dodgers last night, having to
Speaker 1: go to a bullpen game, but it is what it is.
Speaker 1: With their starting rotation. We knew that going into this postseason,
Speaker 1: and for the first time in this postseason, the Dodgers'
Speaker 1: inability to put together back to back to back relievers
Speaker 1: and have that that chain of relievers, as you say,
Speaker 1: for the bullpen game worked for them. Did not pay
Speaker 1: out last night, No, did not well.
Speaker 4: Lots of times, Tim, you can you can tell what
Speaker 4: the real temperature is with the everybody around you by
Speaker 4: asking the animals. So I want to know what Midi
Speaker 4: and Lady had to say about that. You know they
Speaker 4: might have been affected a little bit about the outcome
Speaker 4: of the game. Those are Tim's dogs.
Speaker 1: By by the way, the dogs were not too happy
Speaker 1: about the loss last night, and most importantly they can
Speaker 1: see it in my reaction to how the game is evolving,
Speaker 1: inning too, inning out to out, and you know the
Speaker 1: grand Slaine by Vulpy and then the five spot they
Speaker 1: put up late in the game. They sort of looked
Speaker 1: at me like, this isn't good, is it?
Speaker 3: Man?
Speaker 4: Like, yeah, I game the nod This isn't hey. Look
Speaker 4: it comes down to now you got your best stuff going.
Speaker 4: You know, you got your two best start. Well, I
Speaker 4: don't know you can talk about Bueller, but you got
Speaker 4: everything locked and loaded because everybody's on deck. Yankees yesterday
Speaker 4: what really told the tail as their bullpen was magnificent.
Speaker 4: You know, after heel had come out of the game,
Speaker 4: it was Yankees bullpen that was pretty darn stellar. Allowed
Speaker 4: nothing across for the Dodgers. The bottom, you know, seven
Speaker 4: through ten for the Yankees were five for ten with
Speaker 4: seven RBIs and six runs scored. Okay, this was a
Speaker 4: lot to do with people not named Stanton and Judge.
Speaker 4: This was the guy's at the bottom of that order,
Speaker 4: you know at Volpeve or do Go and and such,
Speaker 4: and they were just on it last night. Okay, so
Speaker 4: you chalk one up to the Yankees. We all knew
Speaker 4: that this wasn't going to be easy. I picked at
Speaker 4: the onset the Dodgers in six. We're only at five
Speaker 4: right now. Okay, So the Dodgers, they're not panicking. They're
Speaker 4: in good shape. But What about that chump down the
Speaker 4: right field line that tried to pry the ball out
Speaker 4: of Mooki's glove. I almost wanted to jump through the
Speaker 4: TV and just you know, put a little karate size
Speaker 4: on that sucker. I mean, I couldn't.
Speaker 1: Believe what he was doing.
Speaker 4: He was actually thinking pulling the glove apart, reaching in,
Speaker 4: and his chump friend was grabbing Mookie's hand. I mean,
Speaker 4: Mooki could have yanked that guy down in the field
Speaker 4: and it would have been all good, right, I mean,
Speaker 4: this was crazy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've never seen fans really assault a player like
Speaker 1: that for a ball played down the line. Sure, you
Speaker 1: see fans go for the ball. All the hands kind
Speaker 1: of go up at the same time with an outfielder
Speaker 1: as they all try to get for the baseball, But
Speaker 1: for rookie Betts to catch the ball, and they didn't
Speaker 1: have Austin cappa Bianco and his friend John Peter one
Speaker 1: grab Mookie's non glove hand and the other grab the
Speaker 1: glove and take the ball out of there. It wasn't
Speaker 1: like they were fighting for the ball, right, he caught it.
Speaker 1: Wookie caught that ball. I don't know who they were
Speaker 1: trying to to show that. Oh what, we knocked the
Speaker 1: ball out, so it's a foul ball. I mean, you
Speaker 1: have twenty five million people watching this game outside of
Speaker 1: the fifty thousand that are there at Yankee Stadium. Were
Speaker 1: you trying to fool not fooling anybody? Right, That was
Speaker 1: the stupidest thing I've seen in a sporting event in
Speaker 1: a long time. And we talked about in the NLDS
Speaker 1: that Jerks and Profar home run in which the fans
Speaker 1: did attempt to go get the ball and Mookie Betts
Speaker 1: hit it to left. Profar goes Rob's Mookie the home
Speaker 1: run down the short porch at Dodger Stadium along the
Speaker 1: left field line. Yeah, well we were talking about is
Speaker 1: if he reaches in there, you have a chance to
Speaker 1: go get the ball as well. Don't back away from
Speaker 1: trying to get the ball. Nobody ever said assault the guy.
Speaker 1: Nobody ever said try to karate, chop his arm off,
Speaker 1: or hold his arm to prevent him. You can make
Speaker 1: attempt for the baseball. If he reaches into the stands,
Speaker 1: you have fair game just like he does. But to
Speaker 1: go after a guy's glove, try to rip the ball
Speaker 1: out and then to hold down and pen his other arm.
Speaker 1: That's a salt.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's crazy. And Mooki handled it with such grace
Speaker 4: after He's like, look, hey man, this is what it is.
Speaker 4: I'm not worried about that. We got to get ready
Speaker 4: for tonight tomorrow night, and Mooki handled it with grace
Speaker 4: because he's a classy guy. You know, I don't know
Speaker 4: what I would have done. I only had one remembrance
Speaker 4: of this in Saint Louis when I struck out in
Speaker 4: the NLCS. Coming back to the dugout, the guy doused
Speaker 4: me with the gi giganic beer, a sixteen ouncer, and
Speaker 4: you know, I was headed for the stands. I wanted
Speaker 4: to get that dude. But you know, Mickey Mooki handled
Speaker 4: it with very much class.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And it's sort of an example of the fight
Speaker 1: the Yankees showed last night. The fans showed the fight
Speaker 1: in the stands, and the Yankee players last night were
Speaker 1: aggressive and they had to be saxey. Down three to zero,
Speaker 1: they had nothing else to do but go out there
Speaker 1: and fight for their World Series lives. And you saw
Speaker 1: the aggressiveness at the plate. You saw some of the
Speaker 1: plate discipline as well, and that's going to go towards aggressiveness,
Speaker 1: getting on base, passing that baton the base stealing, putting
Speaker 1: the pressure on the Dodgers defensively, and the Dodgers a
Speaker 1: couple of miscues that we have not seen in this
Speaker 1: postseas certainly not in the first three games of this
Speaker 1: World Series. Good pitching, and you saw he'll get into
Speaker 1: a rhythm against the Dodgers, who started striking out in
Speaker 1: great quantities last night in that game four. The tide
Speaker 1: flipped at least for one game last night. Defensively on
Speaker 1: the bass, pass, the pitching, and certainly the offense. Everything
Speaker 1: went right for the Yankees.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he Luis Hill, who led the league in walks
Speaker 4: this year, Right, this guy walked more hit ors. So
Speaker 4: you think, you know, as part of the Yankees, but
Speaker 4: the Dodgers plan to get in to him, kind of
Speaker 4: stretch him out a little bit. And this is a
Speaker 4: guy that you don't you do want to work the
Speaker 4: count on because he has a tendency to go deep
Speaker 4: into counts and to walk guys. And that's right up
Speaker 4: the Dodgers alley. So he was able to temper that
Speaker 4: down and keep the Dodgers at bay. But this is
Speaker 4: this is just one game. Now they're going to retool
Speaker 4: and get ready for this one. This is the best
Speaker 4: version of the Dodgers are going to throw at them
Speaker 4: with these two starters, and then Bueller of course as
Speaker 4: well if he's needed. So everybody's gonna be on deck.
Speaker 1: Now, what about momentum, Saxe. Can momentum go game to
Speaker 1: game or is it as deep as the starting pitcher
Speaker 1: the next day? And that's where momentum starts and stops,
Speaker 1: because if you start looking at this series first three games,
Speaker 1: Dodgers riding high, they had all the right hits, they
Speaker 1: had all the right things fall in place for them,
Speaker 1: and last night Anthony Voltby's Grand Slam, and all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, you kind of feel like that mo has
Speaker 1: shifted towards the Yankees.
Speaker 4: You know what I feel? Yes, it is. The momentum
Speaker 4: is a big, a bit fickle. It can go either
Speaker 4: way with one big hit. The Yankees did need that
Speaker 4: one big hit, and they got it from Volpe. Okay,
Speaker 4: with that being said, you know, the Dodgers started up
Speaker 4: with another home run by Freddie Freeman, So you know,
Speaker 4: this thing just kind of went back and forth. But
Speaker 4: we'll see tonight who gets that big hit, and look,
Speaker 4: if the Dodgers get out to an early lead, they
Speaker 4: can just bury these guys. This can be just a
Speaker 4: just an absolute trouncing tonight if the Dodgers get off
Speaker 4: to an early lead. So I think that's gonna be
Speaker 4: one important thing going into tonight's game. Get out there
Speaker 4: and score early. Yeah, the Dodgers lost that momentum.
Speaker 1: The Dodgers last night got that early momentum thanks to
Speaker 1: Freddie Freeman hitting a home run in his sixth World
Speaker 1: Series game. Going back to twenty twenty one when he
Speaker 1: was with the Atlanta Braves and he hits that two
Speaker 1: run home run in the first inning off a heel
Speaker 1: and Man Saxually, I immediately thought, this thing is over.
Speaker 1: It's two nothing. Momentum strikes again for the Dodgers. Freddie
Speaker 1: Freeman hits another home run. I don't care if it's
Speaker 1: a bullpen game or not. They've got this one. They've
Speaker 1: got good pitching lined up in case they need to
Speaker 1: go to the high leverage relievers. Dave Roberts talked about
Speaker 1: it before the game yesterday. He said, who we go
Speaker 1: to is all gonna be dictated upon how the game goes.
Speaker 1: So if we fall behind, you're gonna see the low
Speaker 1: leverage relievers. You're gonna see a lot of innings soaked
Speaker 1: up from Land and Neck and Ben Casparius and Brent
Speaker 1: Honeywell Junior, which we ended up seeing last night because
Speaker 1: of the score. But he said, if we jump out
Speaker 1: to the lead, if we get to a certain point
Speaker 1: in the game where I can start deploying my high
Speaker 1: leverage relievers to get to twenty seven outs, then that'll
Speaker 1: be the plan. And as the plan played out, they
Speaker 1: were down five to two in the third inning. He
Speaker 1: waited and waited hope the Dodgers offense would get back
Speaker 1: into it. It was five to four, five and then
Speaker 1: the Wells home run in the sixth inning. Yeah, that
Speaker 1: solo shot that Wells hit in the sixth off of
Speaker 1: Land and Neck. It wasn't a backbreaker, but man, that
Speaker 1: little momentum the Dodgers got back in the middle of
Speaker 1: the game, Wells took it right back for the Yankees,
Speaker 1: and you kind of felt like, all right, it's back
Speaker 1: to a two run deficit. It's gonna be hard to
Speaker 1: get over this hill.
Speaker 4: Yeah. And the thing about this too, is you see
Speaker 4: Verdugo swinging the bat pretty good. Wells. I didn't see
Speaker 4: that with him earlier in you know, in any part
Speaker 4: of the series, that he stunk it up. Yeah, he
Speaker 4: really did. But he swung it good yesterday. So if
Speaker 4: that's the best that he can bring out, it's pretty
Speaker 4: darn good if he can swing the bat that way.
Speaker 4: What I don't like right now, Tim, is you're starting
Speaker 4: to see Aaron Judge kind of inch his way forward.
Speaker 4: He's not out there fishing for the balls, just off
Speaker 4: the fringes of the plate. He lined a good hit yesterday,
Speaker 4: and I just don't want to wake that cat up.
Speaker 4: I know it's getting really deep into the series, but
Speaker 4: you don't want him vibrant and able and doing his
Speaker 4: thing last couple of games because he can change the
Speaker 4: whole thing. You don't want that guy awakened because he's trouble.
Speaker 1: He got a hit late in the game, he got
Speaker 1: hit by a pitch. He walked in his first at
Speaker 1: bad and I think it's right there where maybe it
Speaker 1: turned for him and he kind of woke up out
Speaker 1: of the postseason sleep that he has been in, especially
Speaker 1: in this World Series. With one out, Juan Soto walks
Speaker 1: and that brings up Aaron judge against Ben Caspirius, and
Speaker 1: right away it becomes a two to two count. Fouls
Speaker 1: off a fifth pitch, ball three, not even ball three,
Speaker 1: not even close. Fouls off another pitch, a slider. So
Speaker 1: he's seen slider, fastball, slider, fastball. He's seen what Ben
Speaker 1: Casparius has got. And on the eighth pitch of the
Speaker 1: at bad as you just alluded to, a fastball little
Speaker 1: outside wasn't much, wasn't on the black, but called ball four.
Speaker 1: He didn't chase a fastball, just off the outside part
Speaker 1: of the plate, and he draws a walk. At that point,
Speaker 1: I kind of thought to myself. I even said it
Speaker 1: out a loud and said, there he go. That's his
Speaker 1: first at bat. You kind of feel like he's locked
Speaker 1: in now.
Speaker 4: And usually when somebody kind of gets rolling, it's it
Speaker 4: can be just in a bat where you're seeing the
Speaker 4: ball really good. I know that there was times where
Speaker 4: I was really struggling and something would click where you
Speaker 4: just find a point of relaxation and you say, okay,
Speaker 4: that's how I have to settle down. And then the
Speaker 4: pitch comes through and you see it really really well.
Speaker 4: You go, oh, okay, now I'm onto something and bang,
Speaker 4: there it goes. It doesn't even have to be a
Speaker 4: hit that comes about. It can just be you're seeing
Speaker 4: the ball good and then the hits come. Maybe that's
Speaker 4: what Aaron Judge is doing right now.
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Speaker 1: We got a busy show this morning. Your phone calls
Speaker 1: coming up in the first hour, all show long for
Speaker 1: that matter. We're gonna hear from Mookie Bett's coming up
Speaker 1: the bottom of the hour. We're gonna hear from Freddy Freeman,
Speaker 1: who is red hot in this world series. Coming up
Speaker 1: in the seven o'clock hour, get into showey Otani, who
Speaker 1: is now two for fifteen in this world series, and
Speaker 1: I get it, he's playing with the bat shoulder. But
Speaker 1: shoey Otani's offense has taken a dip here in this
Speaker 1: world series and they needed him last night in a
Speaker 1: couple of crucial evats. We'll get into that. Jeff Nelson,
Speaker 1: four time World Series champion with the Yankees, longtime reliever,
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Speaker 1: the manager, Dave Roberts at night in which the Dodgers
Speaker 1: were ready to celebrate. Dodger fans were ready to party,
Speaker 1: but instead the Yankees win Game five, eleven to four
Speaker 1: at Yankee Stadium, and now it's a three to one
Speaker 1: series lead for the Dodgers. Game five coming up tonight.
Speaker 1: Your phone calls Dave robertson more thanks for being with us.
Speaker 1: It's Sax and Kate to the am on a five
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Speaker 1: am a five to seventy LA Sports. On this Wednesday
Speaker 1: morning in October thirtieth, the World Series rolls on as
Speaker 1: the Yankees win Game four last night, eleven to four
Speaker 1: is the final. The Dodgers with a bullpen game last night,
Speaker 1: starting with Ben Casparius. The twenty five year old rookie
Speaker 1: right hander who pitched in three regular season games and
Speaker 1: pitched last night in his fourth postseason game for the Dodgers.
Speaker 1: Did not pitch bad, just gave up the one run.
Speaker 1: The Dodgers took an early two to nothing lead thanks
Speaker 1: to Freddie Freeman's to run home run in the first inning.
Speaker 1: But Saxy last night a bullpen game for the third
Speaker 1: time in this postseason, and we've seen it work twice,
Speaker 1: absolutely beautifully for Dave Roberts in the NLDS Game four
Speaker 1: against the San Diego Padres. It worked out perfectly in
Speaker 1: San Diego helped the Dodgers get back for a Game
Speaker 1: five win against the Andres. We saw it in Game
Speaker 1: six of the NLCS at Dodger Stadium when they closed
Speaker 1: it out against the New York Mets. And last night
Speaker 1: the third time they deployed this bullpen game in hopes
Speaker 1: of getting a close out win in a series. Albeit
Speaker 1: it wasn't their high leverage bullpen relievers, they did throw
Speaker 1: out Ben Kisparius and then Landon Nack. We saw Brent
Speaker 1: Honeywell Junior as well, so he feels pretty good about
Speaker 1: where he stands right now going into Game five day
Speaker 1: Roberts and this bullpen and the high leverage relievers like
Speaker 1: tring And and crew. This here from the manager Dave
Speaker 1: Roberts post game last night after the Game four loss.
Speaker 1: I don't mean this is sound flipped.
Speaker 6: Did this outcome in terms of pitching playout as well
Speaker 6: as Absolutely?
Speaker 7: Absolutely. I don't think anyone expected those guys to lay down,
Speaker 7: and we had some at bats that I thought could
Speaker 7: have been better, but we knew it was a bullpen game.
Speaker 7: And you know, as far as outcomes to have, you know,
Speaker 7: six guys in your pen that are are feeling good, rested.
Speaker 7: I feel good about that and being up three to one.
Speaker 6: Yeah, how do you feel about the bullpen for the
Speaker 6: rest of the series, especially since I think you used
Speaker 6: more guys last night than you did tonight.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I feel great. I feel great. It's about you know,
Speaker 7: the guys that you have available. Some of those guys
Speaker 7: are they're all rested, so we have guys that can
Speaker 7: do up doown. So where we're at with tomorrow, knowing
Speaker 7: there's an off day behind that, where we're in a
Speaker 7: great spout with leverage relievers.
Speaker 6: I'm guessing you must be glad that this is the
Speaker 6: last time in the playoffs you have to do this.
Speaker 6: You have actual starters for the next three games.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, exactly, absolutely, Dave.
Speaker 8: After that fifth inning, you guys are only done a run.
Speaker 8: Like how challenging is It's kind of bad and so
Speaker 8: out whether you want to right anack for a couple
Speaker 8: of ratings as opposed to maybe going some leverage.
Speaker 7: Guys, it's it's challenging. I think that you've got to
Speaker 7: be certain that you can score some runs. There's certainly
Speaker 7: any guy that we use tonight would would would have
Speaker 7: not been able to pitch tomorrow. Landon actually threw the
Speaker 7: ball very well and then when they got you know,
Speaker 7: I thought his work was done for any smosy stone
Speaker 7: in quite some time. And being down to going into
Speaker 7: the uh that last half, it just doesn't make sense
Speaker 7: to use one of your leverage you guys.
Speaker 8: And Otani, what are you seeing from it at bats?
Speaker 8: And is the shoulder kind of messing up something, you know?
Speaker 7: I mean we've asked him many times over and it's
Speaker 7: not impeding. He doesn't feel it. I just think it's
Speaker 7: just the chase you see it. I mean, there's some
Speaker 7: bigot bats that you know could result in a walk
Speaker 7: and not taking the base and chasing is uh, you know,
Speaker 7: hasn't been good.
Speaker 5: I did just stop following up on Otani's well, how
Speaker 5: about on the beast paths? But how can how do
Speaker 5: you evaluate his his beast running with the shoulder.
Speaker 7: I think it's been fine so far. You know, he
Speaker 7: actually slid tonight, So I don't think that it's it's
Speaker 7: been a problem. I mean, he's not going to be
Speaker 7: stealing bases, but I wouldn't think. But I think it
Speaker 7: hasn't been too much of a problem right now.
Speaker 5: Just with your experience with up being down three to zero,
Speaker 5: if you were on the other side, like you mentioned yesterday,
Speaker 5: what's the feeling in the clubhouse on your side now, Like,
Speaker 5: do you guys kind of feel like you, you know,
Speaker 5: maybe lost one, like obviously you did lose them, but
Speaker 5: like let one.
Speaker 7: Go today or no? No, I mean I think that
Speaker 7: they they beat us. Volpi took a good swing, they
Speaker 7: took advantage of a couple free passes. They tacked on later.
Speaker 7: I do think that at bat wise, I think we
Speaker 7: could have done some things to get in their pen
Speaker 7: a little bit earlier. But again, at the end of
Speaker 7: the day, We're still in a pretty good spot and
Speaker 7: we feel good. We'll be ready to go tomorrow.
Speaker 1: All right, there's Dave Robbers last night, sexely a couple
Speaker 1: of things. I'm tired of people on social media, least
Speaker 1: calling out Dave Roberts or punting the game last night,
Speaker 1: and not a punt. No, it wasn't at all. He
Speaker 1: was reading the moment of the game and how the
Speaker 1: game was playing out, and he decided to keep going
Speaker 1: with Land and Neck as he did in a one
Speaker 1: run game. Alac gives up Neck, gives up a home
Speaker 1: run to Wells in the six It still makes it
Speaker 1: only a two run game. I know it's kind of
Speaker 1: felt more than that in the moment, but it was
Speaker 1: only six to four. And the eighth innings, certainly they
Speaker 1: busted a wide open off of Honeywell and they score
Speaker 1: five runs on four hits, and the end result it
Speaker 1: is an eleven to four win. But for the first six,
Speaker 1: six and a half innings, it's a one run it's
Speaker 1: a two run game. You're right there, Dave Roberts. You
Speaker 1: can hear the frustration, even with Otawani, the frustration about
Speaker 1: chasing pitchers last night. He wanted his offense to get going.
Speaker 1: He felt like there were a couple hits away from
Speaker 1: getting back in this game, and then he can go
Speaker 1: to his high leverage guys.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, he read the moment. It's what it is. They
Speaker 4: lost the game. I mean, does how do you explain
Speaker 4: away any loss? I mean, you're not gonna win every
Speaker 4: freaking game. It's not gonna happen. And you know, he
Speaker 4: talked about the chase he saw the first pitch of
Speaker 4: the game. The ball was way high out of the
Speaker 4: strike zone. O Tani chase it. He was trying to
Speaker 4: ambush the guy as they say, Hey, I got no
Speaker 4: problem with being aggressive if you want to tighten up
Speaker 4: the zone. But you know what, let's just let this
Speaker 4: thing breathe a little bit. It's fine. I want to
Speaker 4: say another thing too, is we hear a lot you
Speaker 4: know about Landon Nak and whatever. If you took any
Speaker 4: of the Dodgers pitchers and say, hey, their line is
Speaker 4: going to be four runs and they're gonna give up
Speaker 4: one run, would you take that with would you take
Speaker 4: that with Euler? Would you take it with with anybody?
Speaker 1: In a heartbeat?
Speaker 4: That was Landon knackc yesterday. Landon Knack pitched four innings,
Speaker 4: he gives up one and run. He was really good
Speaker 4: and like you said, he threw the ball very very well.
Speaker 4: I think the real crux of the whole thing for
Speaker 4: the Dodgers says, Yeah, they they kind of missed the
Speaker 4: zone a little bit with their pitchers. They give up
Speaker 4: six walks. If you give up six walks in a game,
Speaker 4: you're probably gonna lose because these guys are gonna score.
Speaker 4: You try to limit those walks and free passes as
Speaker 4: much as you can, especially with this Yankee team that
Speaker 4: can really score runs or run differential throughout the course
Speaker 4: of the year was enormous. I think it was second
Speaker 4: to the Dodgers. It was one fifty seven. I think
Speaker 4: the Yankees were right behind them. But this is team
Speaker 4: that can score runs in bunches. They got big dudes
Speaker 4: on that team that can do it.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Let's let's not let the offense last night get
Speaker 1: a break here, because the Dodgers last night with runners
Speaker 1: in scoring position just weren't very good. One for seven
Speaker 1: with runners on base. It's not like they had a
Speaker 1: ton of them. They only had four runners left on
Speaker 1: base the entire game. Meanwhile, it felt like there was
Speaker 1: traffic on the base pass almost every inning. I know
Speaker 1: it wasn't every inning. There was some clean innings for
Speaker 1: Landonnack there in the middle, but it just felt like
Speaker 1: the pressure from the Yankees every time they were up.
Speaker 1: They were four for fifteen with runners in scoring position.
Speaker 1: They had fifteen at bats with runners either at second
Speaker 1: or third or in scoring position, and they had six
Speaker 1: guys left on base. That's a lot of traffic on
Speaker 1: the bass pass to maneuver and to walk that tightrope
Speaker 1: for nine innings if you're a Dodger bullpen game. And
Speaker 1: they did okay getting around that except for the Honeywell inning,
Speaker 1: but that's a lot of AB's fifteen with runners in
Speaker 1: scoring position for the Yankees, you think.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna score it. Look, they only have to be
Speaker 4: right once or twice, and you saw that with the
Speaker 4: with the grand Slam from Vulpe. That's the time where
Speaker 4: they were right and that's four runs right there. So
Speaker 4: you know, Daniel Hudson didn't pitch his best game. I'll
Speaker 4: tell you what, I'd run him out there again. I
Speaker 4: have a lot of belief in Daniel Hudson, but he
Speaker 4: was missing the zone and that that's kind of you know,
Speaker 4: he was getting behind hitters, and when you do that
Speaker 4: with the with the Yankees, it's it's gonna be problematic.
Speaker 4: But what I think was really good about the Yankees
Speaker 4: yesterday was their bullpen. I mean, they really got to
Speaker 4: heal four in needs pitch, they give up four and runs,
Speaker 4: they hit a couple of dingers off and you're gonna, okay, yeah,
Speaker 4: you know, we got this thing figured out. But from
Speaker 4: there on in it was Hill and Holmes and lighter
Speaker 4: Weaver and Masa. These guys just gave nothing up. They
Speaker 4: just shut the whole thing down. So you got to
Speaker 4: tip your cap, you know, to the Yankee bullpen. Okay,
Speaker 4: you got this one. But the Dodgers in a great
Speaker 4: position right now. Sands maybe some momentum, but that can switch.
Speaker 4: That can switch in the top of the first Dodgers
Speaker 4: go out and score two or three, and they can
Speaker 4: just with everybody on board today.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I brought the offense. You know, I don't want
Speaker 1: to give them a free pass. They've been brilliant, there's
Speaker 1: no doubt about about it. Yes, but there's one guy
Speaker 1: in particular that is struggling, and that's Max Muncie. Last night,
Speaker 1: punched out three times, he drew a walk. Okay, that's
Speaker 1: Munsey in a nutshell home run, walk or strikeout. That's
Speaker 1: kind of what his mo is. But how was he
Speaker 1: before that? How many he got on base? Twelve times
Speaker 1: in a row? I guess it was, Yeah, that's true
Speaker 1: the postseason, right, twelve and bats in a row he
Speaker 1: got on base.
Speaker 4: It was incredible. It was Munsey that we were talking about.
Speaker 4: That was leading the charge. He was passing the torch,
Speaker 4: he was hitting, ding, he was doing all of it. Okay,
Speaker 4: So now he's kind of cooled a little bit, But
Speaker 4: that's okay. I mean, you'd want it different, But we
Speaker 4: have a team here. You got a whole team of
Speaker 4: guys that can do this. We don't talk anymore about
Speaker 4: the slumping Mookie bets. Mookie's feeling feeling it big time
Speaker 4: out there and he and he's doing great. Of course,
Speaker 4: Freddy Freeman if they win tonight, Freddy Freeman is going
Speaker 4: to be the MVP, no question about it. So you've
Speaker 4: got the whole team doing in the bottom part. The seven,
Speaker 4: eight to nine for the Dodgers at times, not every time,
Speaker 4: but at times has been really good. So this is
Speaker 4: still a good momentum thing. The Dodgers got moving here.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I look at their limited opportunities last night with
Speaker 1: runners in scoring position. We talked about four fifteen with
Speaker 1: the Yankees. The Dodgers were one for seven with runners
Speaker 1: in scoring position in a tight game. That was one run,
Speaker 1: two runs all the way till the eighth inning. So
Speaker 1: you're right there, the big hit it can change things.
Speaker 1: And I look at the one for seven with runners
Speaker 1: in scoring position, and who are those hitters that came
Speaker 1: at the up in those situations. Well, Freddy was one
Speaker 1: for two, he hit the home run. That's that's the
Speaker 1: one of seven right there, the two run home run
Speaker 1: the first inning. Outside of that, Freddie Freeman came up
Speaker 1: with another opportunity the runners in scoring position and did
Speaker 1: not come through. Mookie Bets was zero for two with
Speaker 1: runners in scoring position. And showey Otani, oh for one,
Speaker 1: you're big. Three. We're a combined one for five with
Speaker 1: runners in scoring position. Yep, that's you know, those are
Speaker 1: your guys you're counting on. You need them to get
Speaker 1: the big hits. Not a home run every time, but
Speaker 1: they need to come up with a big hit. One
Speaker 1: for five, you're big three in Game four of the
Speaker 1: World Series. Gotta be better than that. Yeah, and that's baseball.
Speaker 4: And if they and if they get two hits, you
Speaker 4: know the first two times up now there, Now they're
Speaker 4: three for seven and and you kind of, you know,
Speaker 4: look at all look at the whole thing in one bucket,
Speaker 4: and you think, wow, these guys are doing pretty good now.
Speaker 4: So it can shift from one for five to to
Speaker 4: now they're three for seven. I mean, they're really they're
Speaker 4: really cranking it. So we'll see what happens tonight. I
Speaker 4: think that I really think the Dodgers are in a
Speaker 4: great spot. They got that monkey off their back by saying, Okay,
Speaker 4: it's gonna be a sweep and they don't have to
Speaker 4: worry about that. Okay, so no big deal. I mean,
Speaker 4: you still Yankees got to come out win three straight,
Speaker 4: including two back in LA and I just don't see
Speaker 4: that happening. But you got to put the pedal to
Speaker 4: the medal tonight and bury these guys. The only thing
Speaker 4: that Dodgers should be looking forward to when they're going
Speaker 4: back to LA on that plane is a parade, not
Speaker 4: Game six. They're gonna to think about a parade, and
Speaker 4: that's how they're gonna do it tonight.
Speaker 1: Let's go out to the faults. Eight sixty six, ninety seven,
Speaker 1: two five seventy. I can already feel the from Dodger
Speaker 1: fans on this Wednesday morning. Let's start off with Sylvester
Speaker 1: and Ingle would good morning. You're on in Saxon, Kates
Speaker 1: and the am. How you doing?
Speaker 9: Hey, good morning guys. Great to finally get on, get
Speaker 9: on with you, longtime listener, first time.
Speaker 1: Caller, right on, next for calling that, go on, go ahead, Sylvester,
Speaker 1: what's your thoughts?
Speaker 10: Oh man?
Speaker 9: So honestly, it's it's great to see these guys really,
Speaker 9: you know, play fall baseball. It's different, you know, fundamentally.
Speaker 9: I mean we had a lot of close a lot
Speaker 9: of close plays at first base, at home plate. Man,
Speaker 9: those things were and and the staff, the Dodger staff
Speaker 9: there their work, they're doing their their their work.
Speaker 1: It's great, all right, Sylvester. I appreciate it, Dodger fans.
Speaker 1: I didn't get any better than that. Eight sixty six,
Speaker 1: nine eighty seven, two five seventy. We got ourselves in series.
Speaker 1: Now it's three one. The Dodgers weren't just gonna coach
Speaker 1: through this beast is seven World Series. Maybe we thought
Speaker 1: they were gonna sweep last night. Maybe we were hoping
Speaker 1: they were gonna sweep with the win last night over
Speaker 1: the Yankees. But the Yankees came back with a jab
Speaker 1: and it hit to the face, and they've stunned this
Speaker 1: Dodgers team a little bit. Now, how do they react
Speaker 1: to getting a hit back? They were the aggressor in
Speaker 1: this fight the first three games. They were the ones
Speaker 1: landing to punches against the New York Yankees in these
Speaker 1: first three games. But the Yankees weren't gonna go quietly.
Speaker 1: They got an eight count, but they got back up.
Speaker 1: And now they've hit the Dodgers back in the face.
Speaker 1: And that's how how the Dodger's gonna react.
Speaker 4: Yeah, this is this is a you know what I
Speaker 4: like about this. You're not gonna see any panic in
Speaker 4: the dugout. This is a professional team and this is
Speaker 4: part of the journey. It's it's not gonna be perfect.
Speaker 4: You know, it's not gonna go straight up, So you're
Speaker 4: gonna have to to deal with this. And they will that.
Speaker 4: This isn't gonna make them flinch whatsoever. In that locker room,
Speaker 4: they're thinking tonight, is it and I think they're gonna
Speaker 4: bring it tonight. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I want to see a little fire though, in the
Speaker 1: belly of this Dodgers.
Speaker 4: You know what, I'd like to see tim between unit
Speaker 4: because I know you and I are the only ones
Speaker 4: the scene.
Speaker 1: Right We're the only ones right here between you and me.
Speaker 4: I want to see the Dodgers put the speed element
Speaker 4: back in the game, like like Edmund did yesterday. I
Speaker 4: mean to steal those bases, maybe still third base sometimes.
Speaker 4: I know they got the big boppers and they can
Speaker 4: knock that in, so why take the chance, but live
Speaker 4: out there in the edge a little bit and put
Speaker 4: the pressure on the defense run a little bit. I'd
Speaker 4: like to see the team do.
Speaker 1: That like the Yankees did last night, maybe like Jazz
Speaker 1: Chisholm did in Dodgers Stadium in Game two and Anthony
Speaker 1: Volpi did with a couple of stolen bases last night.
Speaker 4: I watched Chishen would keep his helmet on at least
Speaker 4: half the time that he's on the but he's got
Speaker 4: the beautiful hair go. Really kind of rubs me the
Speaker 4: wrong way. I mean, you know, more so than so
Speaker 4: though more so than in the box. No, at least
Speaker 4: chishm runs. Hey, I like Chisholm. No, I'm just telling you.
Speaker 4: He's a little bit quirky, but what the hell, you know,
Speaker 4: I like him as a player. I think he's got
Speaker 4: talent out the kazoo. He really is a talented player.
Speaker 4: And uh, you know, anybody liked to have him on
Speaker 4: the team because he he's dangerous, you know, he really is.
Speaker 4: He can do all the all the things you wanted
Speaker 4: to do. But you don't want to talk about the
Speaker 4: personality parts now, right Tim? You talk about kind of
Speaker 4: rubs me too, you know what I mean. I want
Speaker 4: to see a guy, Hey, you're in the World Series.
Speaker 4: I want to see you play with your hair on fire,
Speaker 4: go crazy out there.
Speaker 1: Let it out. Man.
Speaker 4: He's gonna lollygagging after the ball. And you know, I'll
Speaker 4: tell you what the cool element is. I think that
Speaker 4: sucks if you ask me. I just want to tell
Speaker 4: you if you know what you know what's cool? Trying hard,
Speaker 4: you know what's cool. Hustling hard, you know what's cool.
Speaker 4: Pulling for your teammates, that's cool, you know, not not
Speaker 4: you know how you kind of go after the ball
Speaker 4: and kind of nod at the guy at the play
Speaker 4: that that stuff is so old now it's like way old.
Speaker 1: It's it's sorry, but that's how I feel. It's magnified.
Speaker 1: I think a Yankee stave in the last two nights,
Speaker 1: Saxy when you watch balls hit to right field.
Speaker 4: Tired of the cool fact.
Speaker 1: I am really tired of it. I kind oft know,
Speaker 1: I kind of like it depends if it's the Dodgers doing,
Speaker 1: I like it. But if it's the Yankees doing, I
Speaker 1: don't like it.
Speaker 4: Well, well, you know what if if it's internally you're
Speaker 4: talking about the internal stuff, like it about me? Look
Speaker 4: at this and I'm so cool. I don't like that.
Speaker 4: I don't like that at all. The Dodgers are cool
Speaker 4: when they when they do it out of sheer joy.
Speaker 4: You know, you see him do that little hip thing
Speaker 4: when they hit a double. You know, I'm not into that,
Speaker 4: but it's okay with me. But I don't see I
Speaker 4: see the Dodgers doing it in a team concept. They're
Speaker 4: all for the team, and I love it as far
Speaker 4: as that goes. I love the team concept. The personal part,
Speaker 4: I'm so cool. I'm not digging that.
Speaker 1: Eight saxty six, nine eighty seven two five seventy Dodgers
Speaker 1: find themselves in a fight. Dodger fans, how you feeling now?
Speaker 4: Down?
Speaker 1: Are up three to one in as best of seven series,
Speaker 1: but the Yankees have got the momentum going into Game five.
Speaker 1: Fred in La, you're next up on sax and Kates
Speaker 1: in the am My, Fred.
Speaker 10: What's up? Tim? What's up? Saxony?
Speaker 4: What a friend?
Speaker 10: What's up? Man? I loved your name? The Dodgers man thinks. Anyhow,
Speaker 10: I just think that obviously the Yankees came back beat
Speaker 10: the bullpen, but no distrest. That was more like the
Speaker 10: JV squad going out there the varsity bullpen. They'll be
Speaker 10: out there tomorrow or tonight, I should say. But my
Speaker 10: question was on the double thing from Volpi to left
Speaker 10: field and then the tag came into lux. It looked
Speaker 10: like Let's had the ball his glove when he slid.
Speaker 10: He should have been technically out, but I guess the
Speaker 10: ball popped out. Didn't have the possession of the ball.
Speaker 10: What do you guys think?
Speaker 1: Yeah, appreciate it for that was in the eighth inning,
Speaker 1: Brenton Honeywell on to relieve with one out, Volpe hits
Speaker 1: the ball to left and it's a hustle double and
Speaker 1: it's a great throw from tay Oscar Hernandez. Gavin Lux
Speaker 1: puts the quick tag down on him and right in
Speaker 1: front of the back, the head of Volpi hits Lux's
Speaker 1: glove and the force pops the ball out and so
Speaker 1: Volpe's safe. At second, when you watch it in slow
Speaker 1: most saxy, it looks like he's got the tag and
Speaker 1: maybe a little bit of a finish, and then a
Speaker 1: second or beat later the ball comes out. So I
Speaker 1: understand where Friend's like, yeah, maybe he's he's out, and
Speaker 1: then a second lay the ball out so you can
Speaker 1: challenge it. But yeah, I mean it's a bang bang play.
Speaker 1: In the moment, I kind of thought the same thing.
Speaker 1: But that's happened. I bet it happened a lot to
Speaker 1: you the ballgame knocked out by a player.
Speaker 4: First of all, I like Fred's question. It's a good
Speaker 4: technical question. The answer is he's safe, he's not out.
Speaker 4: You have to It's like a football guy that catches
Speaker 4: the ball and you have to control the ball through
Speaker 4: the ground. You know. That's the kind of the same
Speaker 4: thing here. You got to complete the tag and it
Speaker 4: wasn't done. Now, there was a tag done by the Yankees,
Speaker 4: it was either Volpe or Torres in the game previous
Speaker 4: where you made a oh you know what, it was
Speaker 4: a tag on Maybe it was, No, it wasn't on
Speaker 4: show Johnny. I can't remember who it was, but it
Speaker 4: was a phenomenal tag. The least amount of the point
Speaker 4: being the least amount of time that the ball is
Speaker 4: down there with the runner, the better, And it was
Speaker 4: one of those tags. Was just whooped real fast, like
Speaker 4: a swooping motion, and he made the tag. Now, what
Speaker 4: I'd like to do on that? I never wanted to
Speaker 4: expose the ball to the runner, even though you have
Speaker 4: to tag with the glove correct. So what I would
Speaker 4: do is I would tag with the with the with
Speaker 4: the glove kind of bent up towards my body, and
Speaker 4: I would tag them with my wrist. Now I have
Speaker 4: the ball on my glove technically it's part of my hand,
Speaker 4: and I would pound it hard on the guys on
Speaker 4: my wrist, not on the glove. Because you're going to
Speaker 4: expose the ball like happened last night, the ball pops
Speaker 4: out and you're vulnerable there. But if you protect it
Speaker 4: by pulling the ball kind of curling it into your
Speaker 4: body and tagging hard with your wrist, protect the ball
Speaker 4: and the guy's going to be out.
Speaker 1: That's awesome. Wish you could have told Luxe that before
Speaker 1: the game. You know, it's okay, the new way of tagging,
Speaker 1: and I know, maybe maybe this isn't new, maybe you'll
Speaker 1: completely correct me. But because of replay and now we've
Speaker 1: got eyes on every single play when a guy steals
Speaker 1: or there's a close play at any base or at home,
Speaker 1: the holding of the tag as long as possible is
Speaker 1: now the new trend. And the quick tag is great,
Speaker 1: but you'll see a second basement or shortstop on a steal.
Speaker 1: A second put the tag on the runner and then
Speaker 1: literally hold them on the runner for a couple of seconds.
Speaker 1: And they do that just in case there's a split
Speaker 1: second in which the legs come off the bag, the
Speaker 1: hands come off the bag, and maybe the hip is
Speaker 1: off the bag and he's not touching the bag for
Speaker 1: like a millisecond. They can replay that and say, yep,
Speaker 1: he's out. But even in the moment when you watch
Speaker 1: it in real time, oh yeah, he's clearly safe. He
Speaker 1: got there in a second before the throw. But they
Speaker 1: hold the tag now just in hopes that replay will
Speaker 1: show a millisecond in which no body part was touching them.
Speaker 4: Yes, Now that's like a secondary type of a tag,
Speaker 4: where it's close or he's safe. Yeah, you hold the
Speaker 4: tag on there because you might pop off. You know,
Speaker 4: he might just get off for a second. But when
Speaker 4: you have the guy clearly out, you kind of tag him,
Speaker 4: you know, the way I was saying that, the way
Speaker 4: I would suggest, that's way I like to do it.
Speaker 4: And you know, the guys out, get the hell out
Speaker 4: of there, Tag the guy and get out. But if
Speaker 4: it's close or he's safe, yeah, you put the tag
Speaker 4: on you hold it, hold it, hold it. If he
Speaker 4: comes off the bag, he's out. If he's not, oh
Speaker 4: well you tried.
Speaker 1: It's go to Jesse and Marino. Valley's next up on
Speaker 1: Saxon Kates in the am is. The Dodgers find themselves
Speaker 1: now in a best of seven series, up three games,
Speaker 1: still one.
Speaker 11: Hi Jesse, by good morning guys, Thanks thanks for having
Speaker 11: me on.
Speaker 10: A quick question.
Speaker 11: Hey, so at love point, at what point? I know
Speaker 11: Will Smith went yard last night, but at what point
Speaker 11: do you think about putting Austin Barnes in Just you know,
Speaker 11: historically he's been great in big games. Himself too, and
Speaker 11: he's also a better pitch caller than than the Will
Speaker 11: Smith is. So I mean I said he did. He
Speaker 11: did hit a home run last night. But man, he's
Speaker 11: struggling just like mun He's struggling bad.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he has not had a great offensive postseason. But
Speaker 1: how many times have we heard in the nld S,
Speaker 1: the NLCS, the rave reviews from the Dodger pitchers about
Speaker 1: Will Smith. Well what a game Will called?
Speaker 11: We love that.
Speaker 1: We were, we were on the same page. We were
Speaker 1: in sync tonight. Calling pitches. Will was right on it.
Speaker 1: Even in bullpen games, every one of them. Will was great.
Speaker 1: Will was great. I think you don't want to lose
Speaker 1: that aspect of the game.
Speaker 4: No, No, that's that's the call, the underpinnings of your
Speaker 4: defense and the whole you know, the whole thing that
Speaker 4: works beyond and behind the scenes is he runs the
Speaker 4: kind of runs a pitching staff. He's got everything in
Speaker 4: front of him. As a catcher, he sees everything. He's
Speaker 4: like another general on the field. He's valuable in that respect.
Speaker 4: The hitting is gonna come. He did sign a ten
Speaker 4: year contract, so right, you're you're gonna live and die
Speaker 4: with that. But no, love Will Smith. The hitting is
Speaker 4: gonna come, there's no doubt about it. But what he
Speaker 4: does with the pitching staff is invaluable. Love Austin Barnes,
Speaker 4: no disrespect there, but no not changing that out. With
Speaker 4: all respect to Jesse.
Speaker 1: Just on a side note, Will Smith hit the home
Speaker 1: run to right field, and that's a good point.
Speaker 4: It went. It went to the short part of right field. Okay,
Speaker 4: not a home run in Dodger statemay.
Speaker 1: You know what, I don't need to know that Fox.
Speaker 1: I don't need to see a graphic about You're gonna
Speaker 1: take this this bam home run in two parks, right right,
Speaker 1: I mean, and then John Smolt's like, well, you know
Speaker 1: that home run and the other one maybe from Freddy
Speaker 1: that's not out in Dodgers teon. Okay, neither was the
Speaker 1: Wells home run that it was hit or or one
Speaker 1: of those home runs of the Yank that's not a home run.
Speaker 1: It was the tors so I don't remember which one
Speaker 1: of them. But you don't want to call that one out.
Speaker 1: That one barely got out. But we're gonna just celebrate
Speaker 1: the fact that that one went out. But the Dodgers
Speaker 1: opposite field home run that just went three rows deep
Speaker 1: into the short porch. Now we're gonna say, well, you
Speaker 1: know it's out here, but it's not out of Dodgerston. Well,
Speaker 1: we're not playing Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 4: John Smoltz, whoa little smolts rub. Okay, let's put in
Speaker 4: perspective the ball that John Carlos Stanton hit in Los Angeles, Well,
Speaker 4: that's not out in the Grand Canyon. No, he's not
Speaker 4: not a Grand Canyon home run?
Speaker 1: Yeah right, what the heck? Yeah? So if it wasn't
Speaker 1: out there, it wouldn't have been out I mean.
Speaker 4: I get so frustrated. I know, I get frustrated. Listen,
Speaker 4: you know what this is. It's it's analysis. It's paralysis
Speaker 4: by analysis. They just get too much of it. I mean, okay,
Speaker 4: hang on a second here. Okay, So you said it
Speaker 4: on the fourth night on the win wind at five
Speaker 4: knots going out of Yankee Stadum, on a night where
Speaker 4: the barometric pressure is about forty degrees in dropping. No, no, okay, yeah,
Speaker 4: that wouldn't have been a home run in sixteen point
Speaker 4: seven parks.
Speaker 1: Do you get tired of this?
Speaker 4: It's a home run or it's not.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was. It was the Torres' home run in
Speaker 1: the eighth inning, the three run home run. It just
Speaker 1: barely made it over the wall and right field three
Speaker 1: hundred and sixty six feet. But yet we don't hear
Speaker 1: John Smold's gushing about how that wouldn't have been out
Speaker 1: of Dodgers stadium.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they want to, you know that. I think what
Speaker 4: it happens is you everybody knows that. You know, they
Speaker 4: feel the Dodgers are gonna win, So let's knock it
Speaker 4: down a little bit and make it more fair and
Speaker 4: kind of, you know, kind of even this thing out,
Speaker 4: and the possibilities are greater than you think. No, I
Speaker 4: don't think so, you know, it is what it is.
Speaker 1: So they're just trying to keep the audience. Yeah, keep
Speaker 1: the audience there in a three to one series lead.
Speaker 1: Now as the Dodgers say they had themselves a fight,
Speaker 1: Dodger fans eight six six, nine eighty seven, two five
Speaker 1: seventy eight six six, nine eighty seven, two five seventy
Speaker 1: coming up next hour. Jeff Nelson, four time World Series champ,
Speaker 1: now works for the Yes Network of the Yankees. We'll
Speaker 1: join us. David vast So he joins this in the
Speaker 1: eight o'clock hour. We'll hear from Rookie Betts coming up,
Speaker 1: Freddie Freeman coming up. Dodgers struck early last night in
Speaker 1: the first and then things fell apart. They were right there,
Speaker 1: down six to five, down six to four in the six,
Speaker 1: and then a five run eighth inning put it away
Speaker 1: for the Yankees. Is a win Game four last night,
Speaker 1: eleven to four is the final Dodgers, though still one
Speaker 1: went away from a World Series championship. Bud, the fight
Speaker 1: just got a little tougher. The Dodgers now have Garrett
Speaker 1: Cole going against them Yankee Stadium Game five tonight. Hopefully
Speaker 1: it ends tonight in the Bronx. Steve Sacks, Tim Kates
Speaker 1: and you on this Wednesday morning, Let's go Dodger fans.
Speaker 1: You need to show a little fight. You got hit
Speaker 1: in the mouth by the Yankees. Now it's time to
Speaker 1: hit back. Eight six, six, ninety seven two five Day
Speaker 1: five seventy LA Sports. Sax and Kates in the am
Speaker 1: here on AM five to seventy LA Sports. Thanks for
Speaker 1: being with us as we get ready for a Game
Speaker 1: five of the twenty twenty four World Series. Yankees survived
Speaker 1: last night with a eleven to four win over the Dodgers.
Speaker 1: A bullpen game backfires for the Blue They had their opportunities,
Speaker 1: just couldn't get back into the game. Get over the
Speaker 1: hump and Dave Roberts six with landon neck Brent Honeywell
Speaker 1: Junior to close it out five runs giving up in
Speaker 1: the eighth INNY by Honeywells. The Yankees busted it open
Speaker 1: and go on and get the win. Is now a
Speaker 1: three to one series lead for the Dodgers and another
Speaker 1: chance to close it out in the Bronx tonight in
Speaker 1: the final game in New York. Either way, if the
Speaker 1: series has to come back for Game six, they will
Speaker 1: not go back to New York for the remainder of
Speaker 1: the series after tonight. Great pitching matchup or rematch between
Speaker 1: Garrett Cole and Jack Flaherty in Game number one eight six,
Speaker 1: six ninety seven to two five seventies our number. An
Speaker 1: hour from now, we'll hear from Jeff Nelson from the
Speaker 1: yet Yes Network, But real quickly, the ratings came out
Speaker 1: from last night. Yeah and uh well actually game one
Speaker 1: or Game three on Monday and today's Wednesday. I don't
Speaker 1: even know what daily week it is Wednesday, So the
Speaker 1: ratings came out from Monday night Game number three of
Speaker 1: the World Series going up against the Giants and Steelers
Speaker 1: on Monday Night football, and the Dodgers and Yankees averaged
Speaker 1: about thirteen point six million viewers on Monday night on Fox.
Speaker 1: Of course, right here on I seventy LA Sports, the
Speaker 1: number is bigger than that. Giants Steelers, which was on ABC,
Speaker 1: ESPN and ESPN two three different outlets combined, didn't get
Speaker 1: even that number. They got thirteen point four million viewers.
Speaker 1: So Major League Baseball's Game three Dodgers Yankees beat Monday
Speaker 1: Night Football Steelers Giants, which was on three different stations
Speaker 1: for people to watch on Monday night.
Speaker 4: So yeah, Baseball a really good game too. Steelers Giants.
Speaker 1: Yeah, two powerhouse fan bases. Steeler Nation is huge. Certainly
Speaker 1: they're probably not interested in a World Series matchup, maybe
Speaker 1: the middle of the part of the country not invested
Speaker 1: in Rodgers Yankees as we are on the East Coast
Speaker 1: and West Coast. But uh, certainly nice to see that baseball.
Speaker 4: Beat series, right, It's been great.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I know the uh, the execs and
Speaker 1: the suits want to go as long as possible because
Speaker 1: everybody wants to make as much money as possible. But
Speaker 1: the baseball on the field, the actual play saxy, you
Speaker 1: could argue, but it's it's kind of lived up to
Speaker 1: the hype. Game one could have gone either way. The
Speaker 1: Grand Slam for Freddie Freeman. Game two was a great
Speaker 1: battle on the Male Yamamoto. Game three, Dodgers prevailed Game
Speaker 1: four last night and a chance to sweep it out. Here
Speaker 1: come the Yankees with all that offense.
Speaker 4: It's been great, it's been phenomenal, and it's been what
Speaker 4: it's uh what the billing has put out there. And look,
Speaker 4: if I'm the if I'm the Dodgers, you know, you
Speaker 4: know what kind of my mentality is today. This is
Speaker 4: this is what i'd do. I'd just bring my lunch
Speaker 4: pail to work. You're you're bringing the lunch pail to work.
Speaker 4: It's business. Forget the emotion part. I'm gonna I'm gonna
Speaker 4: get in here and dissect my video like I usually
Speaker 4: do when I go to the ballpark or what. I'm
Speaker 4: gonna do everything I have to do to get ready,
Speaker 4: and I'm gonna go put a whooping on somebody. But
Speaker 4: I am thinking about I'm bringing a lunch pail to
Speaker 4: work and this is business today. It's just a work day.
Speaker 4: That's what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna do. I'm gonna
Speaker 4: do something that I've done every single day since February. Okay,
Speaker 4: go to Spring, Trent. I'm gonna do the same thing
Speaker 4: that I've done the whole time. I'm gonna do that today,
Speaker 4: and I'm gonna do it right now. That's that's my
Speaker 4: mentality going into today. When I wake up in New York,
Speaker 4: I'm gonna bring my lunch pale and I'm gonna go
Speaker 4: to work, maybe.
Speaker 1: A slice of pizza first and then to work, then
Speaker 1: to work.
Speaker 4: Hey, I had a pizza out there. I had a
Speaker 4: piece of pizza out there at Yamava the other night.
Speaker 4: They said, hey, what do you want for dinner? And
Speaker 4: I said what do we got? And they said, well,
Speaker 4: you know, it's kind of like a food court. And
Speaker 4: I said, well, you know what, I think I'll just
Speaker 4: have maybe I'll have just one slice of pizza, you know,
Speaker 4: because I'm not overly hungry. So the one slice of
Speaker 4: pizza comes over and it's in a box. I'm thinking,
Speaker 4: why is one slice of pizza in a bas until
Speaker 4: I opened it and it was a it was like
Speaker 4: a whole pizza and I'm like, wait, I just wanted
Speaker 4: one slice and they said that is one slice.
Speaker 1: That's awesome. This is crazy, that's awesome.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so it was good.
Speaker 1: It was after six thirty at night, right, no or before,
Speaker 1: because you don't eat after six thirty.
Speaker 4: I don't eat after six.
Speaker 1: Making sure you made it very known that you don't.
Speaker 4: I don't want to cut into my shreditity.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well you believe it. People lost a lot of
Speaker 1: great posts on social media from Saxon Kate's and the
Speaker 1: Am with You and Studio the last couple of days,
Speaker 1: and yeah, the comments are always very nice towards you,
Speaker 1: not very flattering towards me.
Speaker 4: But oh that's not true.
Speaker 1: Men and women both like, wow, Steve Sacks, you're an adonis. No, no,
Speaker 1: not even you are shredded. You look great, And who's
Speaker 1: that other guy next to you? That's that's appreciated comments.
Speaker 4: Just ask anybody, it's boom.
Speaker 1: Eight six, seven seventy. Your phone calls when we come back,
Speaker 1: full board of calls. You're fired up. I'm fired up.
Speaker 1: Dodgers hopefully fired up for Game five tonight. They got
Speaker 1: hit in the mouth last night, thinking they're gonna sweep
Speaker 1: win a World Series championship. Yankee said, uh huh, not tonight,
Speaker 1: not in the Bronx. So the Dodgers waited another night
Speaker 1: to clinch a World Series championship, but they better come.
Speaker 1: They'd better bring that lunch. Paal Saxy said for Game
Speaker 1: five tonight, he is Steve Sax. I'm Tim Kats one
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