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Speaker 4: It's a must win win day on a five seventy
Speaker 4: LA Sports. No other way to put it down two
Speaker 4: games to one in this best of five NLGS. The
Speaker 4: Dodgers must win tonight in San Diego to force a
Speaker 4: Game five back at Dodgers Stadium. Good morning, Tim Kate,
Speaker 4: Steve Saxson. You here on a five to seventy LA
Speaker 4: Sports reacting to Game three last night. The debacle that
Speaker 4: was that second inning in which the Padres scored six runs.
Speaker 4: The Dodgers defense has a lot to be desired in
Speaker 4: that second inning, and the Dodgers made a comeback thanks
Speaker 4: to a grand slam from Taoscar Hernandez the next inning,
Speaker 4: but just one base hit after the third inning for
Speaker 4: the Dodgers as a twos cannot get anything going offensively
Speaker 4: last night after that grand slam from Tao, as the
Speaker 4: Dodgers lose six to five and now down two games
Speaker 4: to one in this best of five series, with Game
Speaker 4: four tonight a bullpen game for the Dodgers Saxy. What meanwhile,
Speaker 4: Dylan sees on three days rest will be going for
Speaker 4: the San Diego Padres Mike Shilt if he were at
Speaker 4: a poker table right now, you kind of feel like
Speaker 4: he's pushing his chips all in as he wants this
Speaker 4: thing to be over with with his best starter on
Speaker 4: the mound, even though he's going on really short rest.
Speaker 5: Yeah, go well, go ahead and push those chips in,
Speaker 5: because I think this advantage goes to the Dodgers. A
Speaker 5: fresh guy out there on the mound with Dylan Cees
Speaker 5: certainly is going to be the case, because three days
Speaker 5: rest much different than when you get the five days,
Speaker 5: especially if you tack on the course of the season.
Speaker 5: This could wear on him pretty quick. The Dodgers could
Speaker 5: get to him early. And remember the bullpen game is
Speaker 5: it can be a monster for the opposing team because
Speaker 5: you know, you see a guy for an inning or
Speaker 5: two and then he's gone. You got to re set
Speaker 5: for the next guy. You gotta get you know, dialed
Speaker 5: into him, and then he's gone. The only the only
Speaker 5: question is is there going to be one link in
Speaker 5: that chain that happens to break. If that's if that happens,
Speaker 5: then everything can come tumbling down. And that's the risk
Speaker 5: you take with the Penn game.
Speaker 4: Dylan Cees pitched Game one on Saturday night at Dodgers Stadium.
Speaker 4: The Dodgers came back and won that game seven to five,
Speaker 4: but Dylan Cees win three in a third innings, gave
Speaker 4: up five runs on six hits, struck out five walk
Speaker 4: to but he threw eighty two pitches. And this was
Speaker 4: on Saturday night, so he's had Sunday, Monday, Tuesday to
Speaker 4: get rested and come back tonight. It's short rest, it's
Speaker 4: late in the season. It's not like he threw fifty
Speaker 4: pitches and came out in a situation in which they
Speaker 4: were trying to rest him for a possible Game four
Speaker 4: or five. He threw eighty two pitches, and now he's
Speaker 4: coming back on three days rest to come out against
Speaker 4: a Dodgers team that faced him pretty well on Saturday night.
Speaker 4: It's not like he's stimy them and had their number,
Speaker 4: and he's gonna come back and do more of the
Speaker 4: same like you Darvish did in Game two. The Dodgers
Speaker 4: have seen him a lot in the last two weeks.
Speaker 4: They saw him weeks ago Dodger Stadium in the final
Speaker 4: season of the final regular season meeting between these two teams.
Speaker 4: They're gonna see Dylan Ceaes now for the third time
Speaker 4: in three weeks.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he's not a secret anymore in the amount of
Speaker 5: times that he's gone out there to answer the call.
Speaker 5: He takes the ball all the time, thirty three starts
Speaker 5: the last two years. He's a guy that's near two
Speaker 5: hundred innings the last couple of years, one hundred and eight,
Speaker 5: little over one hundred and eighty nine this year. And
Speaker 5: you know he can get in fits and bouts with
Speaker 5: trouble as far as throwing strikes. There's a couple of
Speaker 5: years not too long ago, where he's led the league
Speaker 5: in walks. So he's the kind of a guy that
Speaker 5: you could wear on him a little bit.
Speaker 3: A little bit.
Speaker 5: You mentioned how many pitches he had in his last game.
Speaker 5: He can get into it two times like this where
Speaker 5: the Dodgers can stretch him out a bit, and if
Speaker 5: that's the case, that'll be good for them.
Speaker 4: David Veasse, our Dodger insider, who was up late last
Speaker 4: night taking your calls on Dodger Talk and doing Dodger postgame,
Speaker 4: will join us in about twenty five minutes from San Diego.
Speaker 4: We'll have Dodgers on deck starting at five pm. First pitch.
Speaker 4: Game four tonight is at six to eight. Dylan c
Speaker 4: who we're talking about, on the mound for the Padres.
Speaker 4: The Dodgers are going to go with an opener and
Speaker 4: what will be a bullpen game for Dave Roberts in
Speaker 4: this game. For let's go back out to the phones.
Speaker 4: A lot of Dodger fans passionate about their Dodger team.
Speaker 4: We love that and certainly want to weigh in and
Speaker 4: react to what happened last night and what has happened
Speaker 4: so far in this NLD. Yes, Oscar and north Ridge
Speaker 4: thanks for being patient on this Wednesday morning. How you doing, Oscar?
Speaker 6: Hey doing good fellas. One thing you guys mentioned enthusiasm
Speaker 6: a lot. And when you guys talked about Mookie walking
Speaker 6: back to the dugout after his home run, I don't
Speaker 6: know if anyone caught it, but you guys mentioned but
Speaker 6: he started walking back, and I'm like, what are you doing?
Speaker 6: Like why aren't you staying on base? Running the bases
Speaker 6: kind of like standing your ground in a sense when
Speaker 6: they're reviewing a bang bang play at the base.
Speaker 7: I don't know.
Speaker 6: I'll let you guys talk on that. But aside from that, sex,
Speaker 6: I love you man. When I imitate my dad. You're
Speaker 6: one of the guys on the list of the old
Speaker 6: school Dodgers, and as a fan, you you make me
Speaker 6: feel better about today and hopefully Friday, so the Dodgers
Speaker 6: can do it. Last season, last regular season series with
Speaker 6: the Padres, we lost game one. People were freaking out.
Speaker 6: I was part of the Panic Brothers myself, and they
Speaker 6: came back and won both games. But but yeah, go Dodgers.
Speaker 6: I love you guys, all right.
Speaker 4: Appreciate the phone call, Oscar. So I'm doing in gloom
Speaker 4: in Saxy you're mister positive.
Speaker 5: Okay, yeah, Timmy, that's why we we kind of sharpen
Speaker 5: each other.
Speaker 3: Okay, right, all right, Darkness, I get you going yesterday
Speaker 3: with that text, Bro. I hope that I know you did.
Speaker 4: You got me fired up. You got me fired up.
Speaker 4: And then all of a sudden they come back in there.
Speaker 4: It's a six y five game. I'm like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 4: here we go, here we go, and then the Dodgers'
Speaker 4: offense disappeared like a magician.
Speaker 5: Tim Don't you think doesn't doesn't our fans think as
Speaker 5: well that man, it's time for a shift, isn't it.
Speaker 5: Don't you think some things are gonna start coming the
Speaker 5: Dodgers way?
Speaker 8: Now?
Speaker 5: I mean these things go in cycles, so obviously, I
Speaker 5: mean it's so apparent that throughout the course of the year,
Speaker 5: it's it's it happens so many times, it happens every time.
Speaker 5: So you just wonder when the clock is going to
Speaker 5: tick the other way, you know, tick for the Dodgers,
Speaker 5: it might start to I got a good feeling about it.
Speaker 5: I just I just do. I think this Penn game
Speaker 5: is what they need.
Speaker 4: Let's hope it happens tonight. Richard and the OC joins
Speaker 4: us here on Saxon Kates in the morning.
Speaker 3: Hi, Richard, hey to.
Speaker 7: Go and listen Sellas. I just want to let you know,
Speaker 7: I just I'm not a Dodger fan. I just started
Speaker 7: listening to your radio station and I seem to turn
Speaker 7: it back to you guys all the time. So one
Speaker 7: of your guys prompts on that. Anyway, I just what
Speaker 7: I think your Dodgers should do is stop always worrying
Speaker 7: about every time you talk about Altani. You guys mentioned
Speaker 7: the Angels, and you guys are like, you know, you
Speaker 7: and Angels have won the same amount of real series
Speaker 7: in the last twenty five years. You guys, you guys
Speaker 7: needed to settle down and do your own business, stop
Speaker 7: talking to other teams, and go win something, all.
Speaker 4: Right, Richard appreciate the phone call. UH, an Angel fan,
Speaker 4: maybe a little disheartened to see, oh showy Otani wearing
Speaker 4: Dodger blue now and having the season then.
Speaker 5: I don't know about you, but I haven't had the
Speaker 5: Angels come out of my mouth one time to help you.
Speaker 9: No.
Speaker 4: I think I mentioned the fact that he spent six
Speaker 4: years in Anaheim and didn't make the postseason once I
Speaker 4: said that, But that's just a fact, not harping on
Speaker 4: the fact that he wasted six years of his career
Speaker 4: in Anaheim not making any posts seasons. But here he
Speaker 4: is in his first postseason. That's a fact. He hasn't
Speaker 4: played in a October game in his entire major league career,
Speaker 4: which is now year number seven. This isn't a player
Speaker 4: freshover from Japan like a Yoshinobu Yamamoto who's now faced
Speaker 4: in his first October postseason and we saw the results
Speaker 4: in game one. Now this is a guy who's been here,
Speaker 4: played in a lot of games one MVPs, and is
Speaker 4: now tasting his first postseason or we're seeing what he's
Speaker 4: doing in his first post.
Speaker 3: We dig the passion though he can say that, he
Speaker 3: can say that that's okay.
Speaker 4: Appreciate the phone called Jesse and Witty or his next
Speaker 4: up here on a five seventy Hi Jesse, Hey.
Speaker 10: Good morning guys five to nine of Athletic one sixty
Speaker 10: Patch show. If you guys sing.
Speaker 1: Thank you guys first and foremost, I just want.
Speaker 10: To go ahead and say what a great job Dave
Speaker 10: Roberts has been doing.
Speaker 1: Visit now, Walker Bule.
Speaker 10: I don't think he's done that throughout the whole season
Speaker 10: and if Brims leave him then in a big situation.
Speaker 10: Was was big on my fun the way that I
Speaker 10: saw it, especially with all the postseason blunders that he
Speaker 10: had in the past, but but also even game one,
Speaker 10: all the right moves that he made, everything seemed to
Speaker 10: work out. But man, the defense that we had in
Speaker 10: game two on a game six. But but it all
Speaker 10: started off with honestly, with that Manny Machado that that
Speaker 10: they say Walker Bueler had him for the k and
Speaker 10: he just reached out and got one. And it just
Speaker 10: baseball God hates us right now.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 10: But hopefully we can turn around in this game and
Speaker 10: uh they show some emotion, some real fire, some emotion,
Speaker 10: especially coming from rookie Beds, show Hey, they need to
Speaker 10: get it and get in front of the lead. Uh,
Speaker 10: they need to get out there and uh just just
Speaker 10: show out man, shut up the crowd early, and let's
Speaker 10: get this game and bring this back to LA and
Speaker 10: then finish it out. Man a little brother, man, we
Speaker 10: need to We need to smack him in the butt.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 10: Someone's boss baby.
Speaker 3: No doubt about it.
Speaker 4: Jesse appreciate he brought up something interesting. I'm glad he did.
Speaker 4: In the fifth inning, Walker Buehler was back out there
Speaker 4: for the Dodgers. It's still a six to five game,
Speaker 4: and Dave Robbers came out of the dugout. And when
Speaker 4: Dave comes out of the dugout, it's to pull a pitcher.
Speaker 4: I mean, Mark Pryor, the pitching coach is the one
Speaker 4: that comes out and talks strategy. If it's a pin
Speaker 4: hitter or if it's a situation we want to just
Speaker 4: got to get a break in the game and stop
Speaker 4: some momentum. That's Mark Pryor. But when Dave Roberts comes out,
Speaker 4: he's making a change. And Dave Roberts came out of
Speaker 4: the dugout and you can see it in Walker Bueller's face.
Speaker 4: He put the glove over his face and probably mumbled something.
Speaker 4: And when Dave Roberts came out, he kept talking through
Speaker 4: his glove to Dave and communicating with his manager, and
Speaker 4: Dave Roberts shook his head. There was a conversation back
Speaker 4: and forth. Will Smith got invall briefly, and Dave Roberts
Speaker 4: turned around and went back to the Dodgers dugout. He
Speaker 4: left Walker Buehller out there and I don't mean that
Speaker 4: in a bad way.
Speaker 3: No, I loved it. I love it. I love it.
Speaker 5: That shows you, That shows you that Dave Roberts is
Speaker 5: not so set in his ways. He's going to be
Speaker 5: a little malleable with this whole thing and say, Okay,
Speaker 5: he might be thought about taking a out when he's
Speaker 5: going out there, but guess what with the body language
Speaker 5: with what would you know Walker was maybe saying to him,
Speaker 5: he bought it and it was the right move.
Speaker 3: It was the right move. So I love it.
Speaker 5: I love the fact that you know he's not that
Speaker 5: set that the things can change, and he listened.
Speaker 3: To his player.
Speaker 5: He believes in what his players are putting out there,
Speaker 5: and so I love it.
Speaker 3: I thought it was a great move.
Speaker 4: And it wasn't against the bottom of the lineup of
Speaker 4: the Padres, it wasn't the lineup turning over. It was
Speaker 4: to tease Profar Machado, Merrill and Boguard's who he faced
Speaker 4: in that fifth inning, and he got to stay in
Speaker 4: third time around face. Absolutely love it. It's one of
Speaker 4: those gut decisions because we talk about it all the time. Zaxy,
Speaker 4: the analytics, the computers will tell.
Speaker 3: You take him out.
Speaker 5: By the way, you know what, that is so overrated,
Speaker 5: that that is so overrated, that thing about well.
Speaker 3: Third time around, you can't pick that is kiss my, you.
Speaker 5: Know what that is so overrated, so so in that theory,
Speaker 5: no picture would ever go seven innings, no pitcher would
Speaker 5: ever have a complete game.
Speaker 3: You know what, that's crazy. You know another thing is crazy.
Speaker 5: Sometimes these guys are right on the verge of pitching
Speaker 5: a no hitter, and they bring him out of the game,
Speaker 5: just sitting the dugout. Let him finish the game.
Speaker 4: Come on, Saxy, pitch coowns, Come on, were crazy?
Speaker 3: Another thing?
Speaker 5: Four and two thirds? The guy's rolling and his they
Speaker 5: go and they bring him out of the game. Are
Speaker 5: you that deep? Are you that smart? Let me he
Speaker 5: can't get one more.
Speaker 4: Out, Let him get the let him get the decision,
Speaker 4: get them all out. Yes, let's go to Paul and
Speaker 4: Huntington Beach has been waiting patiently. Thanks for joining us
Speaker 4: here on Saxon Kate's and A and my Paul.
Speaker 11: Hey man, they say my call. Guys, appreciate it. You know,
Speaker 11: I can't say enough about Walker Bueler last night. It's
Speaker 11: not like the padres put on a laser show that
Speaker 11: was ground ball after freaking ground ball after ground ball.
Speaker 11: And the thing about it is is that so much
Speaker 11: of like you know, fandom, you know, get on the
Speaker 11: Dodgers about their emotion and their fiery. There is no
Speaker 11: one on the whole damn roster more fiery than Walker Buehler.
Speaker 11: And that dude kept his crap together when the world
Speaker 11: was falling apart, and all he did was just keep
Speaker 11: on grinding and keep on dealing. I can't say enough
Speaker 11: about walk Wood he did last night, and I mean
Speaker 11: to not be able to spit the hook as a killer,
Speaker 11: but dang dude, that guy was freaking awesome and I'm
Speaker 11: so proud of him, and I hope he continues to
Speaker 11: be a Dodger. But you know what, man, this Dodger
Speaker 11: team all darn year. Look, when you take it to Dodgers,
Speaker 11: you got to speak out of both sides of your mouth.
Speaker 11: They won ninety eight games, number one seed, best record,
Speaker 11: all the things, and they were so freaking frustrating all
Speaker 11: season long. You would think this team would win one
Speaker 11: hundred and twenty games as good as they are, and
Speaker 11: last night his case in point. They are right there
Speaker 11: on the verge of taking a game and then go
Speaker 11: to sleep. That being said, as frustrated as I am,
Speaker 11: and I want to throw these guys overboard. That tells
Speaker 11: me they're likely going to win tonight. So there you go,
Speaker 11: have a good one.
Speaker 3: Appreciate it, Paul.
Speaker 4: He just brought up something interesting, and I'm glad he
Speaker 4: did because so much happened last night. And these callers
Speaker 4: have been great so far this morning, and love it,
Speaker 4: and they keep jarring these things that I'm kinda keep
Speaker 4: bringing up to you, Saxy. Is is the momentum the
Speaker 4: Dodgers down six to one, ta Oscar hits the Grand Slam,
Speaker 4: It's six to five. Changes it, but absolutely, but the
Speaker 4: momentum was lost after that. Walker Buehler kept it going
Speaker 4: by putting up a zero in the third, by putting
Speaker 4: up a zero in the fourth, by putting up a
Speaker 4: zero in the fifth inning. He did his job the
Speaker 4: rest of the way after getting no help in the
Speaker 4: second inning. Yeah, and the Dodgers didn't build on it.
Speaker 4: They did not keep tacking on runs, keep getting hits
Speaker 4: and getting after the padres true, And you.
Speaker 5: Know, I love what Walker did yesterday. You know, you
Speaker 5: look at the numbers, you say, huh, yeah, but you
Speaker 5: know what, it's not all about that. There was a
Speaker 5: lot of soft hit balls that could have.
Speaker 3: Been turned around. You know, injuries were the reason too.
Speaker 5: I don't want to make excuses, but I'm saying I
Speaker 5: like the body language of walk Walker wanting to stay
Speaker 5: in there. He's a fighter, and I'll tell you what,
Speaker 5: he looked very healthy to me as far as he
Speaker 5: was attacking the own. His curveball had a lot of
Speaker 5: bite and depth on it, and his slider was great. Look,
Speaker 5: you can you can be very very successful with three
Speaker 5: good pitches in the big leagues. And I think if
Speaker 5: he's he's he's kind of rounding those things out. I
Speaker 5: think his fastball at times is great, and especially when
Speaker 5: he pitches that ball up and in to left tanders,
Speaker 5: he kind of stifles what they can do. And and
Speaker 5: I just think, I hope the Dodgers sign him and
Speaker 5: take him on for you know, they're gonna get a
Speaker 5: good deal on him. Walker knows it because of the
Speaker 5: injuries and whatnot, But but get him there, keep more.
Speaker 5: He's comfortable, and you're gonna see this guy really turn
Speaker 5: into something great the next five years.
Speaker 3: I really believe that.
Speaker 4: It must have been adrenaline that was pumping last night
Speaker 4: because his fastball had a little bit more life on it.
Speaker 3: He was phenomenal to me.
Speaker 4: Ninety seven win. He hasn't been getting up in the
Speaker 4: mid all he hit nineties. I think he hit ninety
Speaker 4: seven a couple of times. And and what I like
Speaker 4: best about is, you know, he was mostly working the
Speaker 4: fastball in the cutter or the slider, if you will,
Speaker 4: and then he started throwing that twelve to six curveball
Speaker 4: is short and snappy with depth to it. That's a
Speaker 4: great pitch for him, especially when he hits the bottom
Speaker 4: of the zone against right handed hitters.
Speaker 3: I love that. I think that's a great pitch for him.
Speaker 5: And if he can start, you know, rounding these into
Speaker 5: form and use them regularly off of each other, I
Speaker 5: mean no telling where he's gonna go.
Speaker 4: Eight sixty six, nine eighty seven, two five seventy is
Speaker 4: our number. We got a lot of Dodger fans on
Speaker 4: hold that want a way in and we love it.
Speaker 4: We will love the passion, we love the excitement, We
Speaker 4: love your fandom for Dodger baseball, and we're gonna get
Speaker 4: to you. David Vesin is gonna check in as well,
Speaker 4: it's Sax and Case and the Am.
Speaker 3: We react to Game three last night.
Speaker 4: What happened in the second inning, the Dodgers inability to
Speaker 4: get a hit after that tay Oscar Hernandez grand slam
Speaker 4: in the third. They had the opportunities to get back
Speaker 4: in the game. It was a one run game from
Speaker 4: the third in and on and they just could not
Speaker 4: tack on more. We'll get to your phone calls David
Speaker 4: Vase and Steve's keys for Game four. It's all coming
Speaker 4: up right here in m FI seventy LA Sports, Sax
Speaker 4: and kateson AM here on five seventy LA sports. Must
Speaker 4: win game tonight for the Dodgers Game four, the NLDS
Speaker 4: first pitch is six eight right here on your home
Speaker 4: a show, Hey Otani and the Dodgers a FFI seventy
Speaker 4: LA Sports coming up at the top of the hour.
Speaker 4: It's calling Cowherd at now and Rogan and Rodney takeover
Speaker 4: Petrol some money, a flex alert starting at two leading
Speaker 4: up to Morongo Casino. Dodgers on deck and five o'clock
Speaker 4: and again first pitch, must win Game four is at
Speaker 4: six oh eight. I was just thinking during the break here,
Speaker 4: Saxy Dylan Cees short rest through eighty five pitches on Saturday.
Speaker 4: Ye I know you, I know you hate taking pitches
Speaker 4: because you only get really one good one per it bad.
Speaker 4: And we've talked about this, but man, it is is
Speaker 4: maybe a strategy with Dylan Cees not to swing early
Speaker 4: in the account. Maybe get that pitch count up and
Speaker 4: maybe tonight's the night you'll work him to get him
Speaker 4: out of there. He's on short rest, and maybe he
Speaker 4: doesn't have a lot to offer.
Speaker 3: I understand.
Speaker 5: Look lots of times first time up, take a strike,
Speaker 5: you know, just to kind of get your bearings and
Speaker 5: make sure. But after that, no more cookie giveaways. I'm
Speaker 5: not giving cookies away. After that they throw me a cookie,
Speaker 5: I'm gonna chomp, you know what I mean. You may
Speaker 5: not get another cookie, you may get sauerkraut. And you
Speaker 5: don't want to be hitting pitches that are on the
Speaker 5: fringes of the plate, you know, just because I can
Speaker 5: go three too, you know, I guarantee the pitchers are phenomenal,
Speaker 5: but they can't throw a strike where they want it
Speaker 5: every single time, So they're gonna go through times where
Speaker 5: they're gonna lose it a little bit. They're gonna just
Speaker 5: miss on the outside part of the plate, and that's
Speaker 5: when you put the pressure on him. Drive that count deep,
Speaker 5: love it, absolutely, I'm all for getting deep in counts.
Speaker 5: The more you see I get the strategy, man, you know,
Speaker 5: put the pressure on the guy, get him out, get
Speaker 5: into the bullpen, do the same thing.
Speaker 3: Then I get it. But boy, you don't.
Speaker 5: You can get him out of the game by hitting
Speaker 5: one in the gap and then hitting one over the
Speaker 5: fence because he laid it right in there just as fast,
Speaker 5: a lot quicker than you can by you know, driving
Speaker 5: up the count.
Speaker 3: So it just depends. It's a it's a mixture of both.
Speaker 4: Speaking of pressure as a hitter at the plate, and
Speaker 4: you're in this situation and it's a must win game
Speaker 4: and you're trying to do something to spark this offense,
Speaker 4: whether it's drive the ball, get on base, whatever, as
Speaker 4: a hitter, and there's now maybe more pressure on you
Speaker 4: to do that because every bat, every out means so
Speaker 4: much now in a must win game. Four for the
Speaker 4: Dodgers is that I just hope this doesn't change their
Speaker 4: approach at the plate, meaning we start seeing Dodger hitters
Speaker 4: chasing pitches because when Choeo'tani starts swinging at pitches out
Speaker 4: of the zone and trying to do quote unquote too much,
Speaker 4: that's where he gets into trouble and expanding the zone.
Speaker 4: He starts swinging at pitches he shouldn't be and he
Speaker 4: strikes out. And I hope that Dodger hitters and it
Speaker 4: maybe it's just something you can't think about her or
Speaker 4: worry about. But as a hitter, Saxy, are you thinking
Speaker 4: about that at the plate? Like, my gosh, I need
Speaker 4: to get on base to do something, and you start
Speaker 4: chasing pitches.
Speaker 5: Okay, for first of all, about the pressure part that
Speaker 5: you mentioned, Oh, you're a professional baseball player and you
Speaker 5: applied for the job. That comes with the job, so
Speaker 5: you so she'll just live it and do it, deal
Speaker 5: with it. The other thing is, do you put this
Speaker 5: additional amount of pressure on you trying not to swing
Speaker 5: the balls out of the zone. Yeah, that's that's the
Speaker 5: optimal thing to do. Is you want to be aggressive
Speaker 5: in your zone? Only if wouldn't it be great? Wouldn't
Speaker 5: it be heaven on Earth? If you could say, hey,
Speaker 5: I won't I won't go after one pitch out of
Speaker 5: the zone. Well, look, there's times when you got two strikes,
Speaker 5: you got to protect a plate. There's so many times
Speaker 5: I remember in my career that you know, I had
Speaker 5: to get a hit on a ball that wasn't a strike.
Speaker 5: Sometimes you that happens. You have to be able to
Speaker 5: do that, but you don't want to. Your goal is
Speaker 5: to be effective in the zone. Let the other pitches
Speaker 5: go hit strikes. You hear it all the time, but
Speaker 5: it's easier said than done. Man, Hitting a ball is
Speaker 5: really hard to do.
Speaker 4: Rick and Sam Pedro has been patient and we appreciate that.
Speaker 3: Rick, thanks for it.
Speaker 4: Is here on a FI seventy l A Sports on
Speaker 4: this Wednesday morning.
Speaker 12: Hi Rick, Good morning gentlemen. Yeah, Hey, tonight tonight die
Speaker 12: hired Dodger guys.
Speaker 11: Uh, I think we're gonna do it tonight.
Speaker 12: I agree with you, guys, and I think whoever wins
Speaker 12: this series has a great chance of going all the way.
Speaker 12: But I gotta say, you got to tip your hat
Speaker 12: to the Padres management man. They have made some incredible moves,
Speaker 12: getting off of Soto, getting an elite guy like King,
Speaker 12: guys like Maryland Tatise up through the ranks and made
Speaker 12: a couple of mid season moves excellent and they're healthy,
Speaker 12: and uh, I think you gotta you gotta say that
Speaker 12: the management has been uh has been fantastic for them.
Speaker 12: So I think I think the winner of this series
Speaker 12: has got a great chance to go all the way.
Speaker 12: But I'm gonna stick with the Blue for now.
Speaker 3: All Rick appreciate the phone call.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the buttons that they pushed down there in San
Speaker 4: Diego with Aj Preller their general manager moving on from Sodo,
Speaker 4: what they've gotten in return from Sodo has panned out.
Speaker 3: The l was great. Oh yeah, absolutely, he's.
Speaker 4: Pushed all the right buttons, Yes, in putting together this
Speaker 4: roster and including and bringing in Mike Schuldt as the
Speaker 4: manager down there, and they just decided to part ways
Speaker 4: and go to a different direction.
Speaker 13: Uh.
Speaker 4: And it's it's paid out. They've all the moves they've
Speaker 4: made over the last decade and the regimes they've had
Speaker 4: down there, things haven't worked out. And they tried and tried,
Speaker 4: and they spent and they spent. But it feels like
Speaker 4: they've put together something a little bit different this year.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 5: You can't be afraid. And they failed that front office
Speaker 5: has failed miserably by in the past on the on
Speaker 5: the money they've spent that did not work out, but
Speaker 5: they keep slinging, man.
Speaker 3: And and look what happens. Now. They've got chemistry on
Speaker 3: that team.
Speaker 5: They all they're all kind of the same, you know,
Speaker 5: in some respects, but in other respects. They they all
Speaker 5: have their their own niche. But one thing is they're
Speaker 5: a little leggie on that team. And and that's the
Speaker 5: way it fits. It fits with San Diego, you know,
Speaker 5: the type of organization they are where they're they're.
Speaker 3: You know, they come after you.
Speaker 5: They've they've got talent and and they're a little leggie
Speaker 5: and that that fits with them.
Speaker 4: Let's go to Junior in Norwalk next up here on
Speaker 4: a five seventy with Saxon Kates and am you have
Speaker 4: to game four tonight?
Speaker 9: Junior?
Speaker 3: How you doing all right?
Speaker 9: Hi?
Speaker 14: Guys, gonna appreciate the call. One thing that Reggie, the
Speaker 14: Manny Machado play where he kind of interfered, reminded me
Speaker 14: of when Reggie Jackson interfered with the throw. What I
Speaker 14: would have done. I would have put the ball in
Speaker 14: the middle of Manny Mchatto's back and at least make
Speaker 14: him think about doing that again and question it. Why
Speaker 14: is an interference? And then another thing I want to
Speaker 14: question is why isn't playing I would have rather preferred
Speaker 14: Geek in that last at that to end the game
Speaker 14: than having the battle Gavin Lucks's hands. I think Gavin
Speaker 14: Lux and Max Munsey have run their course. They're too
Speaker 14: much of a hit or miss all or nothing, not
Speaker 14: much of a bass hit. And then Keika also provides
Speaker 14: us spark plugs on the field, like his his attitude,
Speaker 14: his his you know, his his demeanor, his body language.
Speaker 14: That makes a big difference when it comes to also
Speaker 14: winning games. That's all I got said.
Speaker 4: All right, Junior, appreciate it. Yeah, it's interesting. He brought
Speaker 4: up the throw it in the back of Machado and
Speaker 4: I'm not sure who it was. I might have been
Speaker 4: Derek Jeter, I think who said her A Rod on
Speaker 4: TV last night on postgame said in that situation, if
Speaker 4: the runners in your way, just like as a catcher,
Speaker 4: I think was a Rod. He said it as a catcher,
Speaker 4: you're taught when you feel the bunt, if the runners
Speaker 4: in the lane and out of the lane, you throw
Speaker 4: it in his back for interference in that situation, maybe
Speaker 4: with a drill. Machado in the back the way he's running,
Speaker 4: maybe there is more of a discussion of where is
Speaker 4: he running. He's way out of the lane, and there's
Speaker 4: more of a discussion impossibility of calling him out.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and that view you got from behind the first baseman,
Speaker 5: behind Freddie Freeman on the side, almost in the coach's
Speaker 5: box that ball. That view was shot right obviously from
Speaker 5: the dugout, but you can see him looking over his
Speaker 5: left shoulder, seeing Freddy's going down. When where he is
Speaker 5: to field the ball, he takes a left turn. I mean,
Speaker 5: just look at the video. He's two or three feet
Speaker 5: on the grass. This is upset.
Speaker 8: Third.
Speaker 5: I would have come out of my skin if I
Speaker 5: was you know, if I was a player on the field,
Speaker 5: I would have just been crazy beside myself. That is
Speaker 5: an obvious, what you know thing that he did to
Speaker 5: interrupt that play, to make interference and it hit him.
Speaker 3: In the head.
Speaker 5: I mean, you know what, how much more obvious you
Speaker 5: have to be? You know, hit him in the head
Speaker 5: and he gets away with it. Nobody even said anything.
Speaker 4: I don't know, no argument from the Dodgers dugout at all.
Speaker 4: Joining us now our Dodger insider, he's the best of
Speaker 4: the best. He is David Vease, Good morning, Dave. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I've spent a lot of time talking about that Machado
Speaker 4: play and the unraveling of the Dodgers in that second inning.
Speaker 4: You're just kind of reaction the morning after what happened
Speaker 4: and then the snowball of that second inning against the Dodgers.
Speaker 13: Yeah, you know, it's funny. I was just looking at
Speaker 13: replays of that play before you guys called me, and look,
Speaker 13: it just doesn't look right. Manny Machado said after the game.
Speaker 13: They were practicing that in spring training to make the
Speaker 13: throw harder, and that's the first time it's come into
Speaker 13: play this season. It just doesn't look great when the
Speaker 13: base runners on the grass. That doesn't seem to be
Speaker 13: a baseline a bas path. And that was a great point.
Speaker 13: You guys just brought up. Why didn't anybody on the
Speaker 13: field or in the dugout go bananas if they really
Speaker 13: felt like he was out of the base path or
Speaker 13: base line. But Freddie Freeman explained it. He thought that,
Speaker 13: you know, the first couple of steps you create your
Speaker 13: own base path.
Speaker 11: But that seemed to.
Speaker 13: Be a little out of the ordinary. But I will
Speaker 13: say this, even with that play. That's not the reason
Speaker 13: or the entire reason why the Padres scored six runs
Speaker 13: in that inning. Miguel Rojas tried to be a hero
Speaker 13: with a limited mobility to try to turn an unassisted
Speaker 13: double play instead of just getting to sure out at
Speaker 13: second base. Gavin Lux was anchored at the base on
Speaker 13: the ground ball by Bogart and all he had to
Speaker 13: do was flip it to Lux and get the out,
Speaker 13: something that Walker Buehler desperately needed. And speaking of Walker Buehler,
Speaker 13: he although he was part of the paper cuts in
Speaker 13: the second inning, he's not absolved of the fact that
Speaker 13: he did give up six runs. He did have two
Speaker 13: strikes on Tattoos, on Peralta, on Magado, and he couldn't
Speaker 13: put anybody away. That was a big issue in that inning.
Speaker 13: And he finished with zero strikeouts in five innings. So
Speaker 13: you know, you could say all these different things, but
Speaker 13: the facts are he had two strikes on all these
Speaker 13: hitters in the second inning and couldn't put them away.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you're right again, David. Good to be with you
Speaker 5: this morning. Look, I've got a different outlook on tonight.
Speaker 5: You've got the pen game going, which can be a
Speaker 5: real detriment to the opposition when they're coming up and
Speaker 5: seeing a different guy each time they get in the
Speaker 5: batter's box. I think the key for this game for
Speaker 5: the Dodgers, for those guys, are going to be the
Speaker 5: bullpenners coming out attack these hitters. That is what you
Speaker 5: do when you come out of the bullpen. You you
Speaker 5: can't pitch on the fringes, go at these guys. It's
Speaker 5: going to be a new look every time they get
Speaker 5: in the batter's box. I think this could be a
Speaker 5: plus for the Dodgers tonight. It's a way to kind
Speaker 5: of reset this whole thing and just throw something different
Speaker 5: at them.
Speaker 13: Well, it's somewhat ironic that the Dodgers the last one
Speaker 13: a road playoffs game in Game five of the twenty
Speaker 13: one n LDS in San Francisco. If you remember that game,
Speaker 13: it was somewhat of a bullpen game because they instead
Speaker 13: of just having Julio Orias start the game, they had
Speaker 13: an opener for him, and then Julio came in and
Speaker 13: pitched the bulk innings of that game up in San Francisco. So,
Speaker 13: you know, hopefully history can repeat itself. But let's be
Speaker 13: honest with ourselves. A bullpen game in an in an
Speaker 13: eliminate game, that's not really ideal. But that's the situation
Speaker 13: the Dodgers are in going into this series. They're running
Speaker 13: out of pitching like they did a year ago, which
Speaker 13: is a topic of conversation for another time. But let's
Speaker 13: be honest with ourselves. A bullpen game in an elimination
Speaker 13: game is not ideal.
Speaker 4: It's not David Vests joining us here on a five
Speaker 4: seventy LA Sports Live in San Diego, Game four the
Speaker 4: NLDS is Tonight's real quick about last night, Dave, Just
Speaker 4: to kind of wrap things up and looking ahead Otani Betts.
Speaker 3: They can't do it alone.
Speaker 4: As much as Dodger fans want them to just carry
Speaker 4: this team on and through the playoffs, you got to
Speaker 4: get something from the bottom half of this lineup, and
Speaker 4: last night Muncie, will Smith, Gavin Lux, Tommy Edmund just
Speaker 4: didn't give him anything.
Speaker 13: Yeah, combined for fifteen with five strikeouts. I said it
Speaker 13: last night, I said it this morning. I'll say it again.
Speaker 13: The Dodgers need key A Hernandez to get some at that.
Speaker 7: It's the only.
Speaker 13: Reason why they signed them. This is his time. I
Speaker 13: would love to see Keith ky Hernandez in center field,
Speaker 13: Tommy Edmunds starting at shortstop. They've got to do something
Speaker 13: to change that part of the lineup, which really hasn't
Speaker 13: given them much since Game one of this series. So
Speaker 13: they have to change something up. You know, they're changing
Speaker 13: it up with the pitching. They've got to change something
Speaker 13: up with the lineup because they had so many swings
Speaker 13: and misses last night. Next months he had nine swings
Speaker 13: seven misses. Will Smith, who I, you know, thought was
Speaker 13: the X factor, he is, but it hasn't gone the
Speaker 13: right direction. He's zero for eight in this series. So
Speaker 13: that part of the lineup definitely needs to step up.
Speaker 5: David, what do you what do you think about? Have
Speaker 5: they named who's going to be the start of tonight?
Speaker 5: Is it going to be Lendon now? Is it going
Speaker 5: to be somebody else? Is I would say I would
Speaker 5: think that he's going to be the bulk pitcher tonight,
Speaker 5: but what has been said about that?
Speaker 9: Yeah?
Speaker 6: I thought so too.
Speaker 13: I mean, I feel like he's going to have a
Speaker 13: part in this game in that type of role. But
Speaker 13: when you look at the Padres lineup, they got one
Speaker 13: lefty in the first three hitters, or two lefties. I
Speaker 13: guess with their eyes and profar so they may go
Speaker 13: with Anthony Banda or alex Vestia to open up and
Speaker 13: then from there, you know, go to their right handers.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Dave, final thing for me, got feeling what are
Speaker 4: you feeling about Game four tonight in this Dodgers team
Speaker 4: being around them, their may their makeup, their their emotional makeup,
Speaker 4: their mental makeup in this team, Uh, with their backs
Speaker 4: against the wall, do they have enough fight in them
Speaker 4: to force a Game five?
Speaker 13: Well, I'll say this, it feels like this year this
Speaker 13: team has shown more fight than what we have seen
Speaker 13: in each of the last two years. I'll be really
Speaker 13: candid with you. If the Dodgers were down six to
Speaker 13: one last year, actually they were down six to nothing
Speaker 13: in the first game, they would have packed it in.
Speaker 13: They would not have fought. They would have just said,
Speaker 13: you know what, we'll try to get them tomorrow. That's
Speaker 13: not what happened yesterday. Even though they didn't have a
Speaker 13: base runner the last six innings until Freddy Freeman's single
Speaker 13: in the eighth inning, Teoscar Hernandez grand slam was set
Speaker 13: up by a guy getting on base ahead of him.
Speaker 13: So I do believe they'll fight, and they don't want
Speaker 13: to go home, they don't want to be embarrassed by
Speaker 13: that team, And yeah, I think they'll fight. But like
Speaker 13: I said, it's a well tonight is a real wild
Speaker 13: card game because not only are the Dodgers going with
Speaker 13: a bullpen game, but the Padres have a pitcher that
Speaker 13: really wasn't that effective going on three days rest after
Speaker 13: game one and Dylan Cease.
Speaker 5: Yeah, David, my last one is my question about Freddy Freeman. Obviously,
Speaker 5: the pain is there. He comes out of the game
Speaker 5: the other day. He also can't even get up and
Speaker 5: make that throw, you know, on the play that's most
Speaker 5: talked about now in the country. I guess you would say, yeah,
Speaker 5: what is his situation now and how much are we
Speaker 5: going to see of him?
Speaker 13: Well, there was a play last night where he had
Speaker 13: to leap to complete a double play. The throw by
Speaker 13: Tommy edmund Ye was a little high and he leaped
Speaker 13: and he stepped on the bag and he almost went
Speaker 13: down to his knees. So I don't know if that's
Speaker 13: going to affect him. He's still Freddy Freeman. He's still
Speaker 13: the presence in the lineup, and he had some good
Speaker 13: at bats last night, so if he's able to walk,
Speaker 13: he's going to be in there.
Speaker 4: David, we appreciate being up with us this morning. It's
Speaker 4: gonna be a long day again, but hopefully a day
Speaker 4: that ends with the Dodger victory in a game five
Speaker 4: on Friday night.
Speaker 3: We appreciate it, Thanks David.
Speaker 13: All right, guys, thanks, all.
Speaker 4: Right, there he goes our Dodger insider David Vesse. We'll
Speaker 4: take a quick time out. We'll come back. We'll get
Speaker 4: to the final sweep of your phone calls, and we'll
Speaker 4: get Steve's keys. A game four win, a must win
Speaker 4: game for the Dodgers tonight at Petco Park. Dylan Cees
Speaker 4: short rest Dodgers a bullpen game. We'll get Steve's keys
Speaker 4: and your calls when we come back. You're on a
Speaker 4: FI seventy l A sports so need some bass hits,
Speaker 4: need some bullpen help over nine innings. Since it's a
Speaker 4: bullpen game, Dodgers need to win, they need to come
Speaker 4: home with a victory.
Speaker 5: So they get to Dylan Cees and guess what now
Speaker 5: the Padres have a bullpen game.
Speaker 4: Exactly. I was just talking about this in the hallway.
Speaker 4: How long is Dylan c is gonna be out there.
Speaker 4: Maybe he's a one time through the rotation.
Speaker 3: That's it. This could be a Penn game for the
Speaker 3: Padres too.
Speaker 4: Wow, that it's gonna come down to who's got a
Speaker 4: better bullpen Padres.
Speaker 3: V and Dodgers really good, yeah, both of them.
Speaker 4: It's been a fun series. It's been a fun series.
Speaker 4: The Mets Philly series has been back and forth as well.
Speaker 4: That's been entertaining.
Speaker 5: Hey, look, it's gonna be great all the way through.
Speaker 5: Even the American leagues are great, so it's gonna be fun.
Speaker 5: I just have a feeling tonight. Look, the Dodgers if
Speaker 5: they if they walk away tonight with with a loss.
Speaker 5: You gotta win on the road, man, you have you
Speaker 5: got to win one game on the road and that's
Speaker 5: all they gotta do, and then they take that back
Speaker 5: to LA.
Speaker 4: Let's get through with these calls quickly. Gabriel Venice, Gabriel,
Speaker 4: good morning.
Speaker 3: What's going on? What's on your mind?
Speaker 13: Hey man?
Speaker 8: What's going on? I'm Gabriel, number one Dodger fan. What
Speaker 8: I'm dripping on is why why is nobody making a
Speaker 8: big deal about how I was? I heard last night
Speaker 8: somebody rumbling about how the County of Los Angle of
Speaker 8: San Diego isn't allowing people outside of San Diego to
Speaker 8: buy tickets to the games.
Speaker 10: I mean, I mean that that itself is kind of.
Speaker 8: Like, uh, you know some some some you know stuff
Speaker 8: I'm not comfortable with. I don't think the Dodger I
Speaker 8: don't think the Dodgers are doing that well or.
Speaker 4: Gabe really appreciate it. Yeah, we've gotten into it, and
Speaker 4: it's been a couple of years now. They've been doing
Speaker 4: a limiting tickets to only people that are in the
Speaker 4: Billiings zip code of the Padres and Riverside in San
Speaker 4: Diego County. So yeah, definitely been talked about, Definitely been
Speaker 4: preaching and you know what they've been doing down there.
Speaker 4: Chris is next up here in Rancho Kookamonga. I believe Chris.
Speaker 3: How you doing?
Speaker 9: Hey, how's it going? So I want to make it
Speaker 9: quick here. I'm a Dodger fans. Game was terrible. My
Speaker 9: question is why on a O two count is Walker
Speaker 9: Buehler throwing something right in his wheelhouse?
Speaker 6: Taptist.
Speaker 9: You know, back in the day in the playoffs, you
Speaker 9: had Chilling, you had Johnson, you had Clements, that weren't
Speaker 9: intimidated by these batters. They would throw inside a little
Speaker 9: bit and shake up the lineup a little bit. I
Speaker 9: don't know why, old Town, he's always batting leadoffs. You know,
Speaker 9: have him maybe back third or fourth. You know, you
Speaker 9: want to give him maybe one at that more for
Speaker 9: the whole game.
Speaker 14: I understand that, but you have to, like, you.
Speaker 9: Know, maybe get him on base with other letters and
Speaker 9: next month. See, he's got to get his average up
Speaker 9: two thirty two. I mean, that's not cutting it.
Speaker 10: He's got he has a good eye, but he's got to.
Speaker 9: Take some more pitches. That's the whole point.
Speaker 14: He's got lower the lionup so he can get on
Speaker 14: baseball Toney.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and he's not doing his job. Will Smith hasn't
Speaker 4: done his job. Gavin Lux has struggled in this series
Speaker 4: as well. The Dodgers need more production top to bottom.
Speaker 4: It can't be a top heavy lineup and be successful
Speaker 4: here in the postseason against a really good Padres team.
Speaker 4: Chris in La is next up with Saxon Kate today
Speaker 4: and how you doing, Chris.
Speaker 1: I'm doing great, guys. Just a couple of things. First
Speaker 1: of all, you know, it's unfortunate that US Dodger fans
Speaker 1: have to go to this, but it is baseball, you know,
Speaker 1: playoff baseball. Good pitching beats good hitting, and if you
Speaker 1: don't get timely hits, then you know it's not going
Speaker 1: to work in our favor. And unfortunately that's been the
Speaker 1: way it's been all these years. He saw those fortunate
Speaker 1: bloopers that the Padres God is about timely hitting and
Speaker 1: and good pitching, and we've had a depleted pitching staff
Speaker 1: this year. So I think Dave Roberts, you know, for
Speaker 1: all his faults, he's done a pretty good job dealing
Speaker 1: with the pitching staff we've had to get us to
Speaker 1: this point. And one other thing, one of the colleges
Speaker 1: was talking about the base running thing. A lot of
Speaker 1: people don't understand that there's only one established base path,
Speaker 1: and that's going to first base. All the other base paths,
Speaker 1: the runner establishes the base path if they are trying
Speaker 1: to be tagged, which usually comes up in like a
Speaker 1: pickle rundown situation. Other than that, that's a brilliant play
Speaker 1: by Maschado. You can create your own base path and
Speaker 1: usually it doesn't come up because if someone does what
Speaker 1: he did and ran out of the way. The first
Speaker 1: baseman just throws the ball the second and it's easy throw.
Speaker 1: So in this situation, because Freeman was on the ground
Speaker 1: and he threw it wide, that just happened to be
Speaker 1: where Manny knew, this is where I should run in
Speaker 1: case that happened. So that's why it wasn't reviewed. And
Speaker 1: it's interesting that the Fox guys didn't know that, and
Speaker 1: especially Big Poppy was a Hall of Fame first base.
Speaker 1: But it just shows you that people don't know that rule.
Speaker 1: There is no base path on the other basis unless
Speaker 1: you're avoiding a tag, like in a rundown situation. So
Speaker 1: the Dodgers kind of try to bounce back and stay
Speaker 1: focused and keep hitting and help the balls fall where
Speaker 1: they have to, and we get some pitching from this
Speaker 1: bulk in game. You know it's gonna be tough, but
Speaker 1: you know, crazier things have happened, all right, Chris.
Speaker 4: Appreciate the phone call. Yeah, it's a subjective call. It's
Speaker 4: a judgment call from the umpires. And I think the
Speaker 4: biggest argument we've been talking about Saxy is why wasn't
Speaker 4: there pressure or an argument from the Dodgers dugout to Hey,
Speaker 4: let's at least talk about this for a second. Can
Speaker 4: we huddle, Can we get a different perspective. Maybe one
Speaker 4: of the umpires down the line saw it differently, Maybe
Speaker 4: one of the umpires in the left center field saw
Speaker 4: the different angle. We can go to him and maybe
Speaker 4: get a call and we can rule Machado out. I mean,
Speaker 4: there was just never an argument or a fight from
Speaker 4: the Dodger side of it.
Speaker 5: I appreciate his take on that and talking about establishing
Speaker 5: the running your own running zone. I get that. But
Speaker 5: let me offer some of my subjectivity here on this,
Speaker 5: and that is he did establish it. He started running
Speaker 5: to second base in the normal base path. He was
Speaker 5: on his way. It was then that long after that,
Speaker 5: probably only about three steps, that he took a left
Speaker 5: turn onto the grass that is not his normal running
Speaker 5: lane that he had already established, and then the ball
Speaker 5: hits him, and then he it almost does a v
Speaker 5: ye out out to the grass. He gets hit and
Speaker 5: then right back in the lane. His lane was established.
Speaker 5: Right when Freddy fielded the ball, he was looking over
Speaker 5: his shoulder, and it was thereafter that he took on
Speaker 5: a different lane. And that's why I think that place
Speaker 5: should have been called as interference.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, and maybe he needed a little prodding from Dave
Speaker 4: Roberts and the Dodgers dugout to ask for, you know,
Speaker 4: some help from another umpire and to discuss this.
Speaker 5: I'd have been backflipping out there so ticked off. I'd
Speaker 5: have been out of my out of my skin.
Speaker 4: Absolutely in our last ninety seconds here, Saxy, what some
Speaker 4: of you?
Speaker 5: Your key to the simple one, very simple. Your backs
Speaker 5: are against the wall. There's no more talking. The backs
Speaker 5: are again. I don't care about I don't care about enthusiasm.
Speaker 5: Go out there and barrel somebody's ass up, and that's
Speaker 5: what you got to do. Barrel some balls up. And
Speaker 5: as far as the bullpen goes, go out there and
Speaker 5: attack these hitters. Don't go on the fringe. These guys
Speaker 5: are gonna have to figure everybody out as they go along.
Speaker 5: The bullpen guys have the advantage, especially early in the game.
Speaker 5: Go out and attack somebody and let's see what happens.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm with you. I think the bullpen is the
Speaker 4: key tonight. It's a bullpen game, and you need to
Speaker 4: pass up unton You need that that that link to
Speaker 4: continue from the first inning to the ninth inning, and
Speaker 4: it's so tough to do in bullpen games, and I
Speaker 4: think that's the key. They've got to put up zeros.
Speaker 4: They got to have limited runs out there from one
Speaker 4: reliever to the next. And I think the Dodgers offense
Speaker 4: they'll be just fine tonight and helping produce some runs.
Speaker 4: Thanks to Katie, Thanks to Michelle. Thanks to you for
Speaker 4: being a part of the show. Saxy.
Speaker 3: I hope tomorrow we're talking about a Dodgers win. We'll
Speaker 3: see you tomorrow.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, Okay, absolutely, we'll get ready for Game five game
Speaker 4: for Thanks Saxy. We'll talk to you tomorrow morning. We'll
Speaker 4: talk to you tomorrow morning as well. Hopefully after a
Speaker 4: Dodgers win. They must win game for the Dodgers as
Speaker 4: they're in San Diego today, we got you covered wall
Speaker 4: to wall. Colin Coward coming up next. Then it's Rogan
Speaker 4: and Rodney at noon, Petro some money. A flex alert
Speaker 4: begins at two o'clock Morongo Casino. Dodgers on deck at
Speaker 4: five pm. First pitch is six o eight. Dylan Seiz
Speaker 4: goes for the Padres. It's a bullpen game for the
Speaker 4: Dodgers again. Thanks to Kenny, thanks to Michelle, and thanks
Speaker 4: to you for being a part of the show until tomorrow.
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