Speaker 1: One more to go.
Speaker 2: That's it.
Speaker 3: One more win to go, and it's back to the
Speaker 3: World Series. For the Los Angeles Dodgers. It's Sax and
Speaker 3: Kates in the AM on your home of show hey
Speaker 3: Otani and the Los Angeles Dodgers AM FI seventy LA Sports.
Speaker 3: As you heard Dan mentioned, you can listen to Dan
Speaker 3: the Dan Nets on the iHeartRadio app. We're with you
Speaker 3: here for another hour on this Friday morning, October eighteenth,
Speaker 3: As the Dodgers win Game four of the NLCS. Last night,
Speaker 3: they tended to win over the New York Mets. Yoshanobi
Speaker 3: you have a modo pitch into the fifth inning. Sho
Speaker 3: hey Otani was absolutely fantastic last night, as was Mookie Betts,
Speaker 3: who went four for six, double a home run, drove
Speaker 3: in four runs. Tommy Edmund, the new cleanup hitter for
Speaker 3: the Dodgers, had two hits and three runs driven in.
Speaker 3: As the Dodgers are now of three games to one
Speaker 3: and this best of seven NLCS and Game five later
Speaker 3: on this afternoon, Marogo Casino Dodgers on Deck starts at
Speaker 3: one pm. First pitch from the Galpamotors broadcast booth is
Speaker 3: at two oh eight, and if you're Jack Flerity Saxy,
Speaker 3: you gotta be ready. You've got to be pumped up
Speaker 3: for a chance to close out the New York Mets
Speaker 3: and get to a World Series as a local kid
Speaker 3: who got to pitch already in this postseason. You saw
Speaker 3: the emotion from him and his mom after the game
Speaker 3: the other night against the Mets.
Speaker 2: I mean he I.
Speaker 3: Imagine he is probably looking at the clock state, sitting
Speaker 3: on top of his bend the hotel room, wishing it
Speaker 3: to be five oh eight Eastern so he can go
Speaker 3: out there already in pitch.
Speaker 1: Hey, he's got he's got a great history with it,
Speaker 1: a very recent history. Game one, seven to eighty shutdown.
Speaker 1: He did a great job with him. He can't wait
Speaker 1: to get at these guys. And you know the Mets
Speaker 1: know they're going to have their hands full with him too.
Speaker 1: The question more to me is how soon can the
Speaker 1: can the Dodgers get to David Peterson. I think that's
Speaker 1: gonna be the real key. I'm not really worried about Flarity.
Speaker 1: I think he's gonna pitches his normal self. He's going
Speaker 1: to be you know what. He was the workhorse for
Speaker 1: the Dodgers during the season, and I think he's gonna
Speaker 1: do that tonight.
Speaker 3: David Peterson a guy who's been in and out of
Speaker 3: the rotation ten to three this year, two ninety e
Speaker 3: r Ray. The Dodgers saw him on Sunday two in
Speaker 3: the third innings, gave up three runs on four hits.
Speaker 3: It's some familiarity there. They've seen him over the years.
Speaker 3: It's not like he's had a ton of success against
Speaker 3: the Dodgers in his career. And again, they've seen him
Speaker 3: a lot over the last couple of seasons. So it's
Speaker 3: a familiar left hander out there on the mound that
Speaker 3: he's been with the Mets for the last four plus seasons,
Speaker 3: coming out of the bullpen, making starts as well. So
Speaker 3: a familiar guy that will be out there. The Dodgers
Speaker 3: are facing Jack Felerry a chance to close it out
Speaker 3: for the Dodgers Game five again, first pitch at two
Speaker 3: to eight our time, five o eight Eastern and joining
Speaker 3: us from New York City after a late night at
Speaker 3: City Field last night. We appreciate Hi getting up this morning. That,
Speaker 3: of course, is the one and only David Vaz a
Speaker 3: DV Good morning.
Speaker 4: Buddy, Hey, good morning, guys.
Speaker 3: Morning this team last night, put it all together, Yoshanoba,
Speaker 3: Yamamodo on the mound, the bullpen, coming up big last night,
Speaker 3: putting up zeros afterwards, in the top of the lineup, delivering,
Speaker 3: Tommy Emmon delivering. They do it all without Freddie Freeman.
Speaker 3: Right now, the Dodgers, all things are clicking for him
Speaker 3: right now. This is some of the best baseball they've
Speaker 3: played collectively this season.
Speaker 4: David, Yeah, it's the best baseball they've played all season.
Speaker 4: And I know, going into the playoffs, everybody was so
Speaker 4: skeptical about how they would be able to navigate the
Speaker 4: postseason with a very thin starting staff. Well, the answer
Speaker 4: was scoring runs. You know, I've said this before. Other
Speaker 4: players told me from other teams that the Dodgers needed
Speaker 4: to score at least five or six runs a game
Speaker 4: to be able to run the table. And they certainly
Speaker 4: have done that in a resounding fashion in their three
Speaker 4: wins in this NLCS. They have dominated the Mets with
Speaker 4: their offense. Sand you know, that makes life a lot
Speaker 4: easier for Dave Roberts to execute the pitching game plan.
Speaker 4: You know, when you have a six run lead in
Speaker 4: the fifth.
Speaker 1: Inning, Hi, Hi, David, good to be with you this morning.
Speaker 1: I wanted to ask you this situation with last night.
Speaker 1: Phillips was out there with an ending in the third,
Speaker 1: trying inning in the third as well. Are these guys
Speaker 1: available for tonight? How's the situation look for the bullpen?
Speaker 1: I think pretty strong, But are they at one hundred
Speaker 1: percent the availability out there given the fact that these
Speaker 1: other guys pitched last night?
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, Michael Kopek has only pitched once in
Speaker 4: this series. Blake Trinan has pitched back to back. Would
Speaker 4: he go three in a row? That remains to be seen.
Speaker 4: But you know, it feels like the Dodgers have been
Speaker 4: able to, like I said, you take the advantage of
Speaker 4: their offense and not have to push these guys too far.
Speaker 4: And if it's a close game going into the seventh, eighth,
Speaker 4: and ninth, Innik Steve it's a chance to go to
Speaker 4: the World Series. I would not see any hesitation by
Speaker 4: Dave Roberts to go to those guys to close out
Speaker 4: this game. Now, the one thing the Dodgers have been
Speaker 4: very fortunate they have played close games. Their relievers have
Speaker 4: not given up the leads. Because if you start using
Speaker 4: your high leverage relievers as we saw last night in
Speaker 4: the Yankees Cleveland game, and it goes to extra innings.
Speaker 4: The way that these managers and teams are being so
Speaker 4: overly aggressive early in the game, you're really left with
Speaker 4: not much in those type of situations. So the Dodgers
Speaker 4: have been very fortunate in that department as well. But
Speaker 4: to your question, yes, I feel like all those guys
Speaker 4: have not been pushed too far. I know Phillips through
Speaker 4: thirty four pitches last night. He wouldn't go for any plus,
Speaker 4: that's for sure. But if there was two or three
Speaker 4: batters that the Dodgers needed him to get, I don't
Speaker 4: believe Dave Roberts would hesitate.
Speaker 3: I thought a sneaky good move that they made last
Speaker 3: night was Tommy Edmund put him in the clean spot
Speaker 3: David and it paid off. He drove in three runs,
Speaker 3: but kind of felt like he was a bridge between
Speaker 3: the big guys at the top of the lineup and
Speaker 3: the bottom of the lineup and getting on base, driving
Speaker 3: in runs, and letting the guys behind them then do
Speaker 3: the damage that they did.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, Tommy Edmund had hit cleanup for the
Speaker 4: Dodgers this season a handful of times. It was the
Speaker 4: first time in his major league career that he had
Speaker 4: ever done that. And look, he's not going to try
Speaker 4: to beat John Carlos Stanton just because he's hitting Ford.
Speaker 4: He's just another piece to what you mentioned earlier, a
Speaker 4: full one through nine lineup that is very connected. And
Speaker 4: there's an argument to be made that Tommy Edmond is
Speaker 4: a leading candidate to be the NLCSMVP. He's hitting four
Speaker 4: to twelve, He's driven in a run in every one
Speaker 4: of the games, and right now, in my mind, the
Speaker 4: two candidates are Jack Flaherty if he pitches well again,
Speaker 4: and Tommy Edmund. But Tommy Edmond under the radar, has
Speaker 4: been really good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, David, I look at it on the other side
Speaker 1: and what would have to be done to kind of
Speaker 1: mitigate what the Mets can put out at you. I
Speaker 1: think they've done a really good job in the middle
Speaker 1: of that order. Vientos has been good for the team
Speaker 1: in Lindor as well, but they've really been able to
Speaker 1: silence what Alonzo's effective effectiveness should have been him and Nimo.
Speaker 1: I think the Dodgers have done a really, really super
Speaker 1: good job on those two guys, and if you keep
Speaker 1: those guys off I mean, you're gonna be able to
Speaker 1: limit the you know, the capacity of what this lineup
Speaker 1: can put out.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it kind of feels like even when Lindor's energy
Speaker 4: went down yesterday, Steve, it just feels like the Dodgers
Speaker 4: broke the spirit of the Mets, who have had such
Speaker 4: a great season coming back from being dead to rights
Speaker 4: in May. But this crowd has been emptied out. The
Speaker 4: Dodgers have emptied out City Field the first two nights here,
Speaker 4: and I feel like they've broken the spirit of Queens
Speaker 4: with the way they've dominated the Mets so far.
Speaker 2: David, do you.
Speaker 3: Expect Freddy Freeman to be back in the lineup for
Speaker 3: Game five this afternoon.
Speaker 4: That's a great question. There's an argument to be made
Speaker 4: that the Dodgers can do it without him and get
Speaker 4: them ready for the World Series. But I expect Freddy
Speaker 4: to be in there a chance to go to the
Speaker 4: World Series. I don't see him saying no. And if
Speaker 4: Dave Roberts even brought the subject to him, I would
Speaker 4: say that he would put up a fight to be
Speaker 4: out there if his ankle's feeling better.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Dave, Dave, last one for me, I wanted to
Speaker 1: ask you you know the matchup that we saw yesterday
Speaker 1: with Quintana. I think this is a terrible matchup for
Speaker 1: the Mets. The Dodgers are a team that doesn't chase.
Speaker 1: Kintana makes his living by having teams chase what he's
Speaker 1: doing just outside of the strike zone. That's where he's
Speaker 1: really effective. And sooner or later, if you drag that
Speaker 1: guy out, he's got to come into the into the
Speaker 1: strike zone, and his stuff is not that great where
Speaker 1: he can get people out all the time living in
Speaker 1: the strike zone. He's got to be outside of it,
Speaker 1: and the Dodgers don't do that.
Speaker 4: You can see the look on his face last night,
Speaker 4: Steve that he was fit to be tied because of
Speaker 4: all those reasons that you just mentioned. Dan, You're right,
Speaker 4: he did look yeah, yeah, I mean like you're right.
Speaker 4: It's a bad matchup for the Mets. It really is there.
Speaker 4: They are overmatched in this series, and it just proves
Speaker 4: to show how good the Padres were because there is
Speaker 4: a certain step down in class level as far as
Speaker 4: talent goes between these two teams.
Speaker 3: All right, final thing for me, David, and I think
Speaker 3: the biggest question everybody's wondering is if the Dodgers are
Speaker 3: to win and celebrate a chance to go to the
Speaker 3: World Series. Are you going to be able to change
Speaker 3: and shower and do that before you get on a
Speaker 3: plane and fly across back the country to LA.
Speaker 4: I don't think anybody's asked that question and accept you,
Speaker 4: but shower, shower is not available. I'm gonna have to
Speaker 4: Uh you just reminded me. I'll bring a towel from
Speaker 4: the hotel right now. Actually, thank you. I will not
Speaker 4: be able to shower. I have a change of clothes,
Speaker 4: but uh no showers in the press box.
Speaker 3: Tim All right, well, maybe I'll change soon. All right, David,
Speaker 3: We appreciate you being up this morning. Looking forward to a
Speaker 3: great coverage all day long here on AM five to
Speaker 3: seventy Morongo Casino, Dodgers on deck starting at one o'clock,
Speaker 3: first pitch of two o eight and who knows, maybe
Speaker 3: a celeration around five o'clock Pacific.
Speaker 2: We shall see. Thanks David, Thanks David. All right, guys,
Speaker 2: thanks all right, there he goes David Vasse.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's the questions I think about Saxy is
Speaker 3: how is how is vas gonna get on a plane
Speaker 3: drenched in champagne?
Speaker 2: Does he have a change of clothes. They show this
Speaker 2: new thing out.
Speaker 1: It's called I forget the name of it, but it's like, uh,
Speaker 1: you take a bath with the kind of like a
Speaker 1: sponge bath with these with these new tallettes or whatever
Speaker 1: they are.
Speaker 2: All the skunkies, skunkies.
Speaker 1: Yes, do you ever get a skunky?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, I guess.
Speaker 2: I guess we're pretty good. I know you name it that.
Speaker 1: I don't get the name. I don't I don't understand
Speaker 1: that name.
Speaker 2: It's yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: But you know, you know what David said it was
Speaker 1: there was kind of like a dangerous thing. And the
Speaker 1: way I look at this is he said they're a
Speaker 1: step down in class. You know what he's saying is true.
Speaker 1: I mean, the team knows it. The team knows playing
Speaker 1: this team against playing the Padres. We knew it. When
Speaker 1: we played the Oakland A's against the Mets. The Mets
Speaker 1: were way better team, no no question about it. But
Speaker 1: that's dangerous because just when you have those people right
Speaker 1: where you think you did where you want them, bang,
Speaker 1: they just surprise you. Three guys go off and they're
Speaker 1: having you know, the series of their live Two guys
Speaker 1: are playing with their hair on fire. The umpires given
Speaker 1: the the pitching staff for the for the Mets. You
Speaker 1: know a little more than the corner, and pretty soon
Speaker 1: you find yourself in a game seven. You don't want
Speaker 1: to do that, and this team is very, very dangerous.
Speaker 1: Don't go there.
Speaker 2: Wipe them out tonight, squash them like a bug. That's it,
Speaker 2: Olivia and Montabella.
Speaker 3: Olivia, thanks for being patient and joining us here on
Speaker 3: a five seventy l A Sports.
Speaker 6: Hi Olivia, Hi, good morning morning, guys, Go Dodgers. So
Speaker 6: a couple of things. Number one, I think we're going
Speaker 6: to do it tonight. I have confidence in our boys.
Speaker 6: I think we're gonna you know, everybody wants to stay
Speaker 6: at home, so I think we're gonna do it. I
Speaker 6: know we're gonna do it. Number two, I think it's
Speaker 6: gonna be Dodgers and Yankees, just like every buddy he's
Speaker 6: waiting for. But I also feel like I think it
Speaker 6: was sacri Kith earlier said that one of their friends
Speaker 6: is nervous about playing the Dodgers. I'm nervous about playing
Speaker 6: the Yankees.
Speaker 5: I think there's sack.
Speaker 6: I'm a little I don't know, I'm scared and I
Speaker 6: want to see like what your guys's take on it is.
Speaker 4: And if we do face the Yankees, how.
Speaker 6: Do you think it's gonna look? Are you guys nervous
Speaker 6: at all?
Speaker 3: A little nervous, Olivia. That's why my tombs are going
Speaker 3: to come in very handy. Yes, during a world series.
Speaker 1: So you're going to be the the international spokesperson.
Speaker 3: You and Yama Modo, Yes, me and Yoshiyama Mood are
Speaker 3: gonna be the two the global ambassadors. Is gonna work, hopefully, Acid,
Speaker 3: I mean, well, I'm not just limiting myself to Tom's
Speaker 3: you know, if there's others out there that want to
Speaker 3: jump on board.
Speaker 1: Well, but you got to tie in the Yammy, Yummy tummy, Timmy.
Speaker 2: All that stuff works. That's true, you know what I mean,
Speaker 2: that's true. It does tie in there with the name
Speaker 2: and everything. The Yankees.
Speaker 1: I mean that it's no, no, it's no tie in. Okay,
Speaker 1: go ahead, the Yankees.
Speaker 3: I mean, assuming they get past the Guardians and they
Speaker 3: still got a series to play here up to games
Speaker 3: to one, and who knows that Guardians could tie this
Speaker 3: thing up later on today. But if the Yankees were
Speaker 3: to prevail, Baseball certainly wants the Dodgers Yankees World Series.
Speaker 3: I think the fan bases would want them. I think
Speaker 3: even the fringe baseball fans would be intrigued by a
Speaker 3: New York LA World Series. And it certainly you've got
Speaker 3: the stars to have to have a series that a
Speaker 3: lot of people will be tuning into. Matchup wise, just
Speaker 3: kind of quickly. I mean, your first impression is a
Speaker 3: matchup against the Yankees. They match up well.
Speaker 1: Okay. First of all, if if I was working in
Speaker 1: a professional uh you know, capacity with the Dodgers, I
Speaker 1: would say, shame on you, because we're not gonna even
Speaker 1: go there. It's looking too far ahead, okay, and it's
Speaker 1: bad karma to go far that far ahead. But because
Speaker 1: we're not doing that, when we're just two guys talking
Speaker 1: here and everybody else is listening, nobody else, I would
Speaker 1: say that it's the Yankees are really good. They've got
Speaker 1: all of it. They've got the big stars, they've got
Speaker 1: the slug, they've got pitching, they've got a great bullp
Speaker 1: They've got all of it, man, there's no question about it.
Speaker 1: And they've got some they've got kind of a team
Speaker 1: a little bit like the Dodgers. They got you know
Speaker 1: Volpe over there shortstop. It kind of does everything. And
Speaker 1: they've got guys that do their parts. If you will,
Speaker 1: and you know they're gonna be it'll be a good matchup.
Speaker 1: It'll be fantastic matchup.
Speaker 3: Baseball's got their fingers crossed and it is a matchup
Speaker 3: we all can get here in the upcoming World Series.
Speaker 3: The Dodgers still one went away from punching their ticket
Speaker 3: to the Fall Classic. With thanks to David Vasse for
Speaker 3: going on. We'll get to you for more of your
Speaker 3: phone calls. Stephen Nelson will join us as well as
Speaker 3: we head to nine o'clock this morning. Colin Coward then
Speaker 3: takes over Rogan and Rodney for one hour and sprint
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Speaker 3: Motors broadcast booth coming up at two to zero waight
Speaker 3: Game five and the NLCS Dodgers win and they're in
Speaker 3: to the World Series for the fourth time in the
Speaker 3: past eight years. It's Sax and Kate's and am right
Speaker 3: here on a FI seventy light Sports. I'm not surprised
Speaker 3: that the Dodgers have beat them down. The Dodgers are
Speaker 3: a superior team in my in my estimation, they're they
Speaker 3: are better ball club, but they are still dangerous. So
Speaker 3: that's that's kind of like the back and forth about it.
Speaker 3: But I'm not surprised that the Dodgers are beating them down.
Speaker 3: They man, this is a good team. This is this
Speaker 3: might be the best Dodger team I've ever seen.
Speaker 7: Wow.
Speaker 1: Wow, Yeah, that is saying a lot. I mean it,
Speaker 1: I mean, this is think about it. Look at all aspects, pitching, defense, power,
Speaker 1: I mean, panash, They've got all of it on this
Speaker 1: team and the team. The best thing that the team
Speaker 1: has tim The best thing that the team has is
Speaker 1: its unity. And the team is really really in its
Speaker 1: raw sense, the team is hungry. The team wants to
Speaker 1: win really bad. And you can talk about, you know,
Speaker 1: players being pampered with money and all that, that didn't
Speaker 1: mean a damn thing to the Dodgers. They want to win.
Speaker 1: And that's where you have this club right now. It
Speaker 1: doesn't guarantee it. You still got to beat these guys
Speaker 1: and then you got to beat probably the Yankees. So
Speaker 1: it doesn't guarantee anything, because anything can happen at a
Speaker 1: certain at a certain time. You could get the Tampa
Speaker 1: Bay Rays. You could get you could get the Pittsburgh Pirates,
Speaker 1: you could get any team that you look at and
Speaker 1: you say, well, really not a scary powerhouse. But in
Speaker 1: seven games, any team can win. That's the way baseball is.
Speaker 3: You get hot for three or four days, that's it,
Speaker 3: and you're you're gonna upset a team.
Speaker 2: Father Gary is back, Father Gary in Good.
Speaker 5: Morning for Gary, Good morning je. I'm thrilled with what's
Speaker 5: going on. But let's remember a week ago today we
Speaker 5: were praying to win Game five against the Padres. So
Speaker 5: let's not get ahead of ourselves and talk about those
Speaker 5: yanks out there on the East Coast. Let's worry about
Speaker 5: the Mets. Let's have the attitude that Max months he
Speaker 5: had when postgame interview last night, when they told him
Speaker 5: about the twelfth consecutive on basis appearances, he said he
Speaker 5: had no clue and he just wanted to do whatever
Speaker 5: he could do to help the team win. That's the
Speaker 5: attitude we need man, not only on the field, but
Speaker 5: on these streets as well. Of La Man, Let's take
Speaker 5: a lesson from the Dodgers. Let's move forward. Let's go
Speaker 5: I love this team and mister Sachs, I agree, probably
Speaker 5: the best Dodger team ever. Just so much fun to watch,
Speaker 5: and it's just great even watching Clayton Kershaw in the
Speaker 5: dugout sharing on his team and Freddie Freeman. You guys,
Speaker 5: just tell me this is not a dream. Tell me
Speaker 5: this is really happening.
Speaker 3: Thank you, It's really happening, Father Gary, And we appreciate
Speaker 3: the phone call. We appreciate your faith and certainly the
Speaker 3: prayers were answer for game five, Yes of the NLDS
Speaker 3: last Friday. Yeah, it's a fun ride and it is happening.
Speaker 3: It is for real. Diana and Gernada Hills has been
Speaker 3: waiting patiently. We appreciate that. Diana, good morning, how are you?
Speaker 8: Good morning? I'm well, how are you guys doing today?
Speaker 4: Fantastic, awesome, awesome.
Speaker 8: Just a couple of quick things. Number One, when Fat
Speaker 8: said about, you know, the Mets being a step down
Speaker 8: in class, we cannot forget the last two years with
Speaker 8: the Arizona Cardinals and the Nationals and even San Diego
Speaker 8: Padres a couple of years ago. I mean, they were
Speaker 8: a step down in class to us.
Speaker 4: What happened?
Speaker 8: We were blown out by them, so we cannot let
Speaker 8: our foot off the pedal for sure. Secondly, I just
Speaker 8: want to say that this team, for me is just
Speaker 8: the most cohesive team I've seen since probably the twenty
Speaker 8: seventeen year. And the only difference for me between twenty
Speaker 8: seventeen and now is our bullpen pitching is lights out.
Speaker 8: Before when we would take out our starting pitchers, which
Speaker 8: inevitably seemed too early for me, you know, I would
Speaker 8: cringe every time someone would, you know, the next picture
Speaker 8: would come up. What's going to happen now? I'm like,
Speaker 8: come on, bring it on, boys, let's see just mow
Speaker 8: them all down.
Speaker 3: It's awesome, it is, It's something special, and you're right,
Speaker 3: this does feel like the twenty seventeen team as far
Speaker 3: as how close.
Speaker 2: They were and how they were.
Speaker 3: You know, that was also the first time they got
Speaker 3: to the postseason. The World Series run that they went
Speaker 3: on twenty sixteen, they fell short and didn't get to
Speaker 3: the World Series, and in twenty seventeen they finally punched
Speaker 3: through beating the Chicago Cubs. That's when Sax and Kate's
Speaker 3: and the AM was born. In twenty seventeen postseason, and
Speaker 3: that's when this magical run deeps into postseasons began, and yeah,
Speaker 3: it feels a lot like this twenty seventeen team because
Speaker 3: it was the first for a lot of these players
Speaker 3: on this Dodgers team. And I as we said earlier,
Speaker 3: it's a first for guys on this year's team, and
Speaker 3: it's also maybe a last chance for other players, Yeah,
Speaker 3: to get back to a World Series, including Clayton Kershaw.
Speaker 1: How about the in roads the team is making with
Speaker 1: some of these younger players being able to experience this,
Speaker 1: This that you can't buy this. This is invaluable for
Speaker 1: these guys to be this deep in the postseason on
Speaker 1: the big stage. Guys like you know we talked about yesterday,
Speaker 1: guys like Enriquez and in Casparius to be here and
Speaker 1: be able to witness this. Man, I'll tell you, you
Speaker 1: couldn't You couldn't pay, so you can. You can find
Speaker 1: a way to pay to make this thing happen. It's
Speaker 1: so valuable for these guys, and it's it's great for
Speaker 1: the organization.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and last night I saw Clayton Kershaw do a
Speaker 3: postgame interview. And he's with the team, He's a part
Speaker 3: of the team. He's certainly a mainstay on this this
Speaker 3: Dodger team, the Hall of Famer in that locker room,
Speaker 3: his presence, even though he's not on the postseason roster
Speaker 3: and playing it's been a possible World Series run here,
Speaker 3: he's still around the team. He's still a presence, he's
Speaker 3: still leading by example, and he's still the leader in
Speaker 3: that clubhouse. And you know that's something that we can't
Speaker 3: lose sight of the fact that he's got that presence
Speaker 3: in that clubhouse as well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's you know, he's one in fifty million. You know,
Speaker 1: he's he's a first ballot Hall of Famer. Everybody looks
Speaker 1: up to him, and the Dodgers are, i mean the
Speaker 1: smart to have him around these young guys. It's great
Speaker 1: for the team.
Speaker 2: This this man had a late night last night.
Speaker 3: It was a fun nights calling the game for the
Speaker 3: Dodgers ten to win over the New York Mets. It
Speaker 3: started with a show Hey Otani lead off home run.
Speaker 3: The Dodgers saw Mookie Betts have a big night. Tommy
Speaker 3: Edmond in the cleanup spot, drove in three runs as
Speaker 3: the Dodgers get a ten to two win over the
Speaker 3: New York Mets. Steven Nelson on the call last night
Speaker 3: and all postseason long. Right here on a five to
Speaker 3: seven y LA Sports joins us now from New York
Speaker 3: City as the Dodgers get ready for a possible close
Speaker 3: out Game five of this NLCS.
Speaker 7: Nelly, Good morning, Zaxy, TC, Good morning.
Speaker 2: How are you doing fantastic?
Speaker 3: Doing better now that the Dodgers put that boat race
Speaker 3: on the Mets last night with the two attended to
Speaker 3: woo and win Yoshinoba Yamamoto last night, Let's start right
Speaker 3: there and what he did in the four plus innings
Speaker 3: A little surprise day Roberts took him out when he did.
Speaker 3: But what we've seen out of him in his last
Speaker 3: two starts after that shaky outing against the Padres in
Speaker 3: the NLDS man, he has really looked like a different
Speaker 3: locked in pitcher.
Speaker 5: Yeah, look, I.
Speaker 7: Think we do do have to keep reminding ourselves like
Speaker 7: it was a rotator cup strain and that is a
Speaker 7: serious thing that he is still coming back from. And
Speaker 7: I can understand the Dodgers and Yamamoto, I'm managing his
Speaker 7: work the way they have been, though it is I'm
Speaker 7: sure for all of us a little bit confusing and
Speaker 7: maybe mildly frustrating because long lived the starting pitch. Sure,
Speaker 7: or we would like to see that happen in a
Speaker 7: Major League baseball again. But it's just a new era.
Speaker 7: But you know, you look at Walker bw the night before,
Speaker 7: four innings right in Yoshino Yelmota, four and a third.
Speaker 7: This is just the way the game is now. And
Speaker 7: for him to hunker down after that was that was
Speaker 7: a massive mistake to Mark Ventos, a middle middle fastball
Speaker 7: and he's been the best hitter for New York and
Speaker 7: he made him pay. But after that, to settle in
Speaker 7: and end up finishing with with with eight punchouts and
Speaker 7: kind of getting the game to a spot where it's like, okay,
Speaker 7: this is this is a decent place for the bullpen
Speaker 7: to go to work. You have to be pleased with that,
Speaker 7: especially knowing that this was his only turn in this
Speaker 7: nationalagu Championship Series. He had to have at least a
Speaker 7: solid one. It wasn't a quality start, but it was
Speaker 7: a solid start. And and the Dodger bats, I mean,
Speaker 7: the way this offense is clicking in this series, guys,
Speaker 7: I mean with thirty runs on thirty six hits now
Speaker 7: in thirty one walks, I mean you have to appreciate
Speaker 7: the approach and the patients. Months he hit the nail
Speaker 7: on the head post game. It was just going to
Speaker 7: be who gave in first. Kintana, who wants guys to
Speaker 7: chase with the Dodgers, who wants pitchers to pitch in
Speaker 7: his own And it was the Dodgers who didn't blink.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Steven, good to be with you this morning. I
Speaker 1: wanted to kind of tap into that a little bit.
Speaker 1: What you were talking about is, you know, besides all
Speaker 1: the great things that the Dodgers bring, the you know,
Speaker 1: the star power, the fact that they've just got unbelievable
Speaker 1: talent on this team. The scary thing for this club
Speaker 1: to finish up with the New York Mets and then
Speaker 1: hopefully not looking too far ahead, of course, but if
Speaker 1: it may be the Yankees, these guys are facing the
Speaker 1: Dodgers at the wrong time. You have all different parts
Speaker 1: of this batting order. Yesterday was the top two guys
Speaker 1: with five hits and seven runs scored. How often do
Speaker 1: you see something like this Before that it was the
Speaker 1: bottom of the order with Edmund and Hernandez and them
Speaker 1: doing their thing, and then you got guys in the
Speaker 1: middle that are doing their so you got everybody doing
Speaker 1: a job, and if it's not one part, it's the
Speaker 1: other part. I mean, all of a sudden, now the
Speaker 1: starters are a big plus for the Dodgers. That was
Speaker 1: supposed to be the question mark. And these guys are
Speaker 1: facing the Dodgers at a really bad time.
Speaker 7: I think you're spot on the spot on their seats,
Speaker 7: And look, like, how many times have we had to
Speaker 7: hear that from the other side for the Dodgers, Right,
Speaker 7: it's just about playing good baseball at the right time. Well,
Speaker 7: that happened the last two postseasons, right, especially last year
Speaker 7: with the Diamondbacks. Like, the Dodgers are clearly on paper
Speaker 7: better than this team, and yet those three games weren't close,
Speaker 7: and they were their season was done in a blink.
Speaker 7: And so now the Dodgers on the other side of
Speaker 7: the coin, and it's just such a welcome site of
Speaker 7: relief for sure. So I have to imagine for the
Speaker 7: guys in the clubhouse, because it really did feel like
Speaker 7: that Division Series was a World Series for them, and
Speaker 7: just like and just the magnitude of what it meant
Speaker 7: to get by I'm not trying to build up the padre.
Speaker 7: It could have been anybody in that division series. But
Speaker 7: it adds to it obviously that it was a division rival.
Speaker 7: But to see the ball go in the hole again, right, Like,
Speaker 7: I just think that was a massive weight off this
Speaker 7: team's shoulders. And now they're playing just clean, solid Dodger
Speaker 7: baseball and it's a beautiful sight. I mean, we saw
Speaker 7: the small ball in Game one, it was like hell yeah,
Speaker 7: And then now we've seen the last two games. It
Speaker 7: just a all around clinic. I mean they're taking their walks,
Speaker 7: they're getting the timely base hits or or getting the
Speaker 7: two out hits to keep an ending alive and setting
Speaker 7: up the big blast like we saw in Game three,
Speaker 7: you know, with with Key k Hernandez hitting the home
Speaker 7: run after Tommy single in the sixth inning. Just you
Speaker 7: know again, you can really can't ask for anything else.
Speaker 7: Is there anything more from the Dodgers than what we've
Speaker 7: seen up to this point. But like you said, can't
Speaker 7: get too far ahead of yourselves. I mean, you got
Speaker 7: Sham and I are looming in Game six for New York.
Speaker 7: So that's why it's imperative just step on throats tonight.
Speaker 4: Guys.
Speaker 7: Don't give him any hope. Don't give him any life.
Speaker 3: Steven Nelson joins us now here on a five seventy
Speaker 3: LA Sports. Tommy Edmund, batting clean up last night, drives
Speaker 3: in three rows playing shortstop. Started the postseason playing center field.
Speaker 3: Miguel Rohas gets injured, he goes back to his natural spot,
Speaker 3: a shortstop. We're all seeing right now, Stephen why Andrew
Speaker 3: Freeman has been trying for the last three years to
Speaker 3: acquire Tommy Edmund finally did so at the trade deadline,
Speaker 3: even though he was heard we're seeing how valuable this
Speaker 3: guy is.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 7: I remember having a conversation this is probably in early
Speaker 7: May at Dodger Stadium before the game, talking with a
Speaker 7: couple of members of the front office, and I was like, look,
Speaker 7: obviously a long way to go, and like, but just
Speaker 7: as a trade deadline with next week, Cleo you going
Speaker 7: after And I kid you not, the first name out
Speaker 7: of their mouth is Tommy Edmund. So it was just
Speaker 7: and I was like, I mean, I've known Tommy the
Speaker 7: last couple of years. I also knew he was very
Speaker 7: hurt like that the wrist injury that he went through
Speaker 7: last year was very serious and was really a problem
Speaker 7: trying to get him to recover properly and then he
Speaker 7: comes back and then the ankle blows up on him.
Speaker 7: So I was a little surprised by that to hear
Speaker 7: that was the first name. You just think back to me, like,
Speaker 7: what is this team going to need? You know, what
Speaker 7: does it want? So Tommy Edmond haunt. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 7: he's just a perfect fit because he's elit. Second, he's
Speaker 7: elite in center, he's elite at short. He's a switch
Speaker 7: hitter and he makes contact and he's tough to strike out.
Speaker 7: And I'm like, I mean, yeah, yeah, sign me up.
Speaker 7: And so that they make that move. And it really
Speaker 7: was a footnote, right because Jack Flaerty was the biggest
Speaker 7: name move and the Dodgers brought him home, and then
Speaker 7: Michael Kopek. Everybody knows him, you know, whether it was
Speaker 7: as a top prospect coming up the Red Sox and
Speaker 7: then a big part of the Chris Sale trade and
Speaker 7: you know, one hundred miles prior, so on and so forth.
Speaker 7: Tom Edmond was the footnote of the deadline and ultimately
Speaker 7: he has joined Jack and Copec on the headlines of
Speaker 7: the Dodgers tradeline acquisition trade deadline acquisitions. Excuse me, he's
Speaker 7: the Dodgers team leader in hits and again we've seen
Speaker 7: him a clutch up in a number of key situations,
Speaker 7: you know, whether it's two strikes and runners on or
Speaker 7: two ounce and nobody on. He just finds a way.
Speaker 7: He is just I hate that. I kind of hate
Speaker 7: this cliche, but it's so perfect for him. He's just
Speaker 7: a ballplayer, Saxey. It's just like whatever you need, whatever
Speaker 7: you need from Tommy Edmuck, he will give you a
Speaker 7: sacrifice bunt, a squeeze butt, He'll drop it down for you.
Speaker 7: You want him to swing away, he'll swing away and
Speaker 7: at whatever position. He is just a perfect piece for
Speaker 7: this team, and you're seeing it on the biggest stage.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree. And he can pop a home run
Speaker 1: now again too. I mean he's got a little bit
Speaker 1: of sock in the bat. So you know, Steven, I'm
Speaker 1: looking at this game ahead of course with David Peterson,
Speaker 1: of course, another left hand or trying to get in
Speaker 1: the head of the Dodgers. I don't think they're blinking
Speaker 1: with this lefty thing they're throwing at him. You know,
Speaker 1: Quintana was a different animal compared to Pete Peterson. He's
Speaker 1: the quintessential nibbler as he was, and the Dodgers just
Speaker 1: drug him out in the deep water and made him
Speaker 1: come into the strike zone and then it was all over.
Speaker 1: But David Peterson's more of the traditional type. I mean
Speaker 1: he last regular season eleven regular season starts, he had
Speaker 1: just over a two forty e er, pretty darn good.
Speaker 1: His regular season e r a two ninety really good
Speaker 1: as well. But remember in October he's topped out at
Speaker 1: fifty pitches in Game one and that's kind of where
Speaker 1: he's been. Is not not the traditional starter. So what's
Speaker 1: the way the Dodgers are going to approach him? Are
Speaker 1: they going to be a little more aggressive, expand a
Speaker 1: little bit more because they can, of course, when Kinana
Speaker 1: you can't do they do this with Peterson? Or how
Speaker 1: do you think they approach him?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 7: I think a good thing for the Dodgers is that
Speaker 7: is that they're they seen him twice this year. Obviously
Speaker 7: in Game one he came out of the bullpen. He
Speaker 7: was a third pitcher after single really struggled to start
Speaker 7: to the tune of third innings three runs, I think
Speaker 7: only two of them are earned. But because that quick
Speaker 7: sidebar ridiculous official scoring era Otani hits that ball one
Speaker 7: hundred and seventeen miles an hour and they're like, that's
Speaker 7: a single in an air by Marte. It was like,
Speaker 7: that was very clearly a rocket double. It was so
Speaker 7: it was so dumb. But anyway, but that.
Speaker 1: Deeper hit, see Stephen, they're deep and they just get
Speaker 1: it more than you.
Speaker 4: Right, Yes, that's right.
Speaker 7: Yeah, the game more clearly than than than than you
Speaker 7: and I do. But you are only forty pitches in
Speaker 7: that game. But that was when we saw the small ball.
Speaker 7: You know, Key gave with the single luck sacrifice bunt,
Speaker 7: and then edmund O'tani and Freddy all had RBI singles.
Speaker 7: So and then they saw his season debut back in
Speaker 7: May here at City Field. You know one you know
Speaker 7: positive that the Dodgers can pull from. That one was
Speaker 7: that was a day. You know, Will Smith had two
Speaker 7: home runs, including one off of David Peterson. And I
Speaker 7: know we've all been kind of banging the drum for
Speaker 7: Will to get going here in this championship series. So
Speaker 7: he was a he had a really terrific year. I mean,
Speaker 7: I think he had the sixth best ra among pitchers
Speaker 7: who to release one hundred innings. So they've kind of
Speaker 7: put him in that this swing role in the postseason,
Speaker 7: but you have to imagine Carlos Mendoza is going to
Speaker 7: try and stretch him as far as they can. I mean,
Speaker 7: they've they're seasons on the line, and so you know,
Speaker 7: David Peterson and you've only been throwing forty to fifty pitches.
Speaker 7: We may need you to go seven, like we saw
Speaker 7: earlier in the year. So but the Dodgers do have
Speaker 7: some familiarity with him, and they've all been positive memories
Speaker 7: this year for the most part, so I think that's
Speaker 7: something that we'll give him more momentum. But listening to
Speaker 7: them postgame s, actually you really had to like and
Speaker 7: I get postgame interories or post game injories, and they
Speaker 7: got to do a bunch more of them in the postseason,
Speaker 7: and so a lot of them become cookie cutter answers.
Speaker 7: But across the board, the Dodgers were all saying the
Speaker 7: right things, and they all appeared and sounded to have
Speaker 7: the right amount of focus and respect. They know that
Speaker 7: the Mets have been cockroaches this year, and you know,
Speaker 7: don't want to go quietly. They want to write another
Speaker 7: chapter in this insane storybook season. And you know, but
Speaker 7: so the Dodgers are like, you know, we're not going
Speaker 7: to see we can't straight from our game plan all
Speaker 7: those little things one pitch at the time, and and
Speaker 7: and those are the cliches that you that you want
Speaker 7: to hear with the focus that you wanted to see.
Speaker 3: Steven, we appreciate you jumping on this morning, late night,
Speaker 3: last night, back at it this afternoon, hopefully a clinching
Speaker 3: game with the Dodgers. You'll be on the call with
Speaker 3: Rick Monday, first pitch at two eight Pacific, right here
Speaker 3: on n FI seventy LA Sports.
Speaker 2: Appreciate it.
Speaker 7: Thank you, guys, fellows good. Don't give him anything, Do not.
Speaker 2: Let him, do not give him an inch. We appreciate it.
Speaker 1: There he goes.
Speaker 3: Steven Nelson will be on the call later on this afternoon,
Speaker 3: all postseason long, Stephen Nelson calling games right here on
Speaker 3: n FI seventy LA Sports. We appreciate him jumping on,
Speaker 3: they said of advast, Say coming up final sleep at
Speaker 3: the calls, and we'll get Steve's keys to a game
Speaker 3: five clinching win tonight in New York.
Speaker 1: Say I got a key.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, you've been spot on for those who listen
Speaker 3: in don't go anywhere. Saxy's been spot on all postseason long,
Speaker 3: and he's got Game five keys next, Sax and Kates
Speaker 3: at the AM as we wrap things up on a
Speaker 3: Friday morning, Dodgers a three to one series lead, Game
Speaker 3: five a win, and the Dodgers move on to the
Speaker 3: World Series. First pitch coming up at two to eight
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Speaker 3: to your keys here in just a minute. Let's wrap
Speaker 3: things up, though, with a couple of calls. Patrick and
Speaker 3: Rachel Cuckamonga has been waiting patiently. Patrick, how you doing okay?
Speaker 9: Good? How are you guys doing?
Speaker 2: Patrick on?
Speaker 4: All right?
Speaker 9: Quick question in assuming we do go to the World Series,
Speaker 9: what are the chances that the rehabbing guys like Graderol,
Speaker 9: Gonsolin Rojas will be added to the roster, especially if
Speaker 9: we don't start until next weekend the scheduled.
Speaker 1: Good question.
Speaker 3: I don't think Graderol will be a part of it.
Speaker 3: Miguel Rojas is probably the most likely. Don't forget about
Speaker 3: Joe Kelly, who is not on this NLCS roster. He
Speaker 3: is a possibility as well. Certainly Clayton kershaw Tony Gonsolin,
Speaker 3: Jack Flayer, uh, the big Man, Tyler Glass now not
Speaker 3: going to be a part of the postseason. They're shut
Speaker 3: down for the year. Gavin Stone at surgery. But we'll
Speaker 3: see maybe Joe Kelly, Miguel Rojas, We'll certainly see. I'd
Speaker 3: hate to take Tommy Edmond out of the lineup in
Speaker 3: a short stop spot and then.
Speaker 1: Not probably won't. Yeah, I don't see how they would.
Speaker 3: Nope, No, I mean if you take Edmond out of
Speaker 3: short and put Rojas back, Edmon goes to center. That
Speaker 3: wors Keikiggan Afloy.
Speaker 1: You can't take ke. They're not going to do that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a trickle down effects. Rudy in La is
Speaker 3: next up here on an fin seventy.
Speaker 2: Hi, Rudy, good morning.
Speaker 5: I think you were taking would call.
Speaker 10: I usedid a couple of days. I hear people telling me, oh,
Speaker 10: it's better if they if they come and win it
Speaker 10: over here or not. This is the time for you
Speaker 10: to kip the foot on the gaspell keep push and
Speaker 10: push and pushing. We need to win them the nembos
Speaker 10: to stay humble, dogar plants.
Speaker 3: We got this all right, Rudy wrapping things up? Eric
Speaker 3: and HOLLYO, what do you got about thirty seconds?
Speaker 4: Derek, go ahead, Dodger Day shard one more game, y'all.
Speaker 11: My pities took us off. Tobby has got to be
Speaker 11: the nlcs VP. Mercy is a heart out, Jimmy Saxy?
Speaker 11: What needs to be done to close this out? Humid rally,
Speaker 11: Towell says, let.
Speaker 3: Go love it, Eric in Hollywood, love the passion. Great
Speaker 3: to hear from you on this possible close out Friday.
Speaker 3: All right, Saxy, how do they do it? What's the
Speaker 3: keys to a game five?
Speaker 2: Win today?
Speaker 1: Easy? This is an easy key. I'm just expecting a
Speaker 1: lot of what happened yesterday to be, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: spilled over to today. You know the stars are gonna
Speaker 1: and all that. But you know what we're gonna see tonight, Tim,
Speaker 1: you know what you're gonna see. I guarantee you I
Speaker 1: can feel it. I got no inside information on this
Speaker 1: at all. Just say it. Okay, you're gonna see a
Speaker 1: ticked off I've had enough of this. I want to say.
Speaker 1: I don't want to say. The work is the Family show. Sure,
Speaker 1: but you're gonna see a flaming red mad uh Taoscar Hernandez.
Speaker 1: I look to him to get into the box, dig
Speaker 1: in and let everybody know he's there until he crushes.
Speaker 1: And I see Taoscar Hernandez lighting this thing up. You
Speaker 1: got a left hander against him, a right hander, and
Speaker 1: he feasts on these guys. He's not gonna be tinkered
Speaker 1: with like he was with Kintana. He's gonna go up
Speaker 1: there and mash watch Taoscar Hernandez have a just blowout
Speaker 1: game tonight.
Speaker 3: I hope you're right, and Dodger fans, I know he'll
Speaker 3: be right because Saxy's been spot on.
Speaker 1: I want him to be mad coming to the game today.
Speaker 3: And getting a sun flower bath when he comes back
Speaker 3: to the dugout like they do for their home run celebration.
Speaker 3: Cannot wait Game five coming up at two eight this afternoon.
Speaker 3: Saxy can't wait to talk next week, buddy, Yes, sir,
Speaker 3: All right, there you goes Steve Sacks. Thanks to Michelle,
Speaker 3: Thanks to Zach for all their health this morning. Thanks
Speaker 3: to you Dodger fans for being a part of the show.
Speaker 3: Dodgers up three games to one and is best of
Speaker 3: seven nlcs A close out Game five is coming up
Speaker 3: right here later on this afternoon, Morongo Casino Dodgers on
Speaker 3: Deck starts at one pm. First pitch at two to
Speaker 3: oh eight. Can they do it? Will they do it? Yes,
Speaker 3: Today's the day they get it done. They clinch in
Speaker 3: New York and they're gonna punch their ticket to the
Speaker 3: World Series. All the play by play coming up later
Speaker 3: on this afternoon. Coming up next, it's a Herd with
Speaker 3: Colin Cowhard solo.
Speaker 2: Everybody