Speaker 1: Now your host walking you up to first pitch. It's
Speaker 1: Tim kays.
Speaker 2: Hi everybody, and welcome into Morongo Casino. Dodgers on Deck.
Speaker 2: I hope you're well On this Wednesday, you're defending champion
Speaker 2: Los Angeles Dodgers in Japan to start this season against
Speaker 2: the Chicago Cubs. It's the twenty twenty five Tokyo Series.
Speaker 2: Dodgers won the opener yesterday at the Tokyo Dome. Today
Speaker 2: they look to do it again before a yet another
Speaker 2: sellout crowd as Japanese right hander Roki Sasaki makes his
Speaker 2: Dodger debut first pitch from Japan, coming up in a
Speaker 2: little low for an hour between then and now, we
Speaker 2: got a lot to get to here on Morongo Casino
Speaker 2: Dodgers on Deck, you're gonna hear from the manager himself.
Speaker 2: Dave Roberts will dive deeper into this pitchy matchup. David
Speaker 2: va Sego's one on one was ce C Sabathia, who
Speaker 2: was an MLB ambassador in Tokyo for this Tokyo Series.
Speaker 2: We've got your Dodgers magical moment. Shortly, we'll visit with
Speaker 2: Kirsten Watson on the field at the Tokyo DOMA just
Speaker 2: a few minutes, we'll send it out to Tim Neffert
Speaker 2: and Rick Monday in the Galloping Motors broadcast booth well
Speaker 2: yesterday in Tokyo, a lot of excitement and anticipation for
Speaker 2: an all Japanese pitching matchup. Yoshi Yamamoto and Shodamanaga lived
Speaker 2: up to the hype. Minaga four shutout innings for the Cubs.
Speaker 2: He did walk four batters along the way, but the
Speaker 2: Dodgers couldn't cash in runs off of those walks. Yoshi
Speaker 2: Yamamoto in five innings, he allowed us one run on
Speaker 2: three hits while striking out four. The lone run that
Speaker 2: he gave up was a two out RBI double to
Speaker 2: the Cubs catcher Miguel Amaya. Once the Monaga was out
Speaker 2: of the game, though, the Dodgers offense was able to
Speaker 2: get after the Cubs bullpen and the fifth Andy Pie
Speaker 2: has a one out walk. Show Hey Otani then ripped
Speaker 2: the ball to right for a single. The next batter,
Speaker 2: Tommy Edmund, tied the game up.
Speaker 3: Now, Tommy Edmund with one out, a chance to tie
Speaker 3: the ball game, switch hit or now batting left swings
Speaker 3: and hits it to left field at diving attempt, it's
Speaker 3: trapped by half throw it a second, Otani slides in safely.
Speaker 3: High has comes into the score and Tommy Edmund with
Speaker 3: a game tying single.
Speaker 4: Harby I single for Tommy tanks. Game tied at one.
Speaker 2: Next batter toa Oscar Hernandez grounding into what should have
Speaker 2: been in an inning double play, but a throwing air
Speaker 2: brought in the go ahead run. Dodgers get a gift
Speaker 2: and they'll take a two to one lead. And they
Speaker 2: weren't done. They took advantage again from the cub's. Their
Speaker 2: next batter, Will Smith.
Speaker 3: We'll count one out ta Oscar. It's second to pitch
Speaker 3: and Will. It's a bounding ball that leaps over Swanson
Speaker 3: into left field ta Oskar Hernandez around third.
Speaker 5: He'll score standing up. It's three to one.
Speaker 4: Harby I single for Will. Dodgers. Three runs in the fifth,
Speaker 4: took a three to one lead.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers bullpen took over for Yamamoto and showed why
Speaker 2: many believe they'll be the best bullpen in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2: Anthony Bonda scoreless sixth, Benkisparius has shut out seventh. Blake
Speaker 2: tried and struck out a pair at a scoreless eighth. At
Speaker 2: the top of the ninth, Sumon Urrants runs for the Dodgers,
Speaker 2: show Hey Otani a lead off double. Two batters later,
Speaker 2: Taoskar Hernandez brought him in.
Speaker 3: And the pitch on the way is swung ona and
Speaker 3: that is rope to left. That's a base hit. Otani
Speaker 3: comes in to score. The Dodgers lead at four to one.
Speaker 3: RBI base hit ty Oscar Hernandez.
Speaker 4: RBI single for Tao. Dodgers up four to one.
Speaker 2: Bottom of the ninth belong to Tenner Scott, who closed
Speaker 2: it out with a zero on the board.
Speaker 4: Dodgers beat the Cubs four to one.
Speaker 2: Yoshi Yamamoto against the Wins show Heo Tani two hit
Speaker 2: score twice. Dodgers bullpened four shutout innings. They take the
Speaker 2: first game of this Tokyo series. Dodgers now one to
Speaker 2: oh to start the twenty twenty five season.
Speaker 4: Now they do it one more time.
Speaker 2: From Japan, Rookie Sazaki makes his much anticipated Dodgers' debut.
Speaker 4: First pitch from the Tokyo.
Speaker 2: Domas coming up a little over an hour and with
Speaker 2: more we head out to the gallpit. Motors broadcast booth
Speaker 2: as we say hello to Tim Beverett and Rick Monday, Guys,
Speaker 2: thank you very much.
Speaker 3: We get you ready for Game two of the twenty
Speaker 3: twenty five season, a Game two of the Tokyo Series.
Speaker 3: Dodgers winning four to one in Game one last night,
Speaker 3: coming from behind to do it. Tonight, rookie Sasaki makes
Speaker 3: his major league debut. The right hander out of Japan.
Speaker 3: It's a highly anticipated debut. He'll go against lefty Justin Steele,
Speaker 3: who is one of the better lefty starters in Major
Speaker 3: League Baseball, and Moe.
Speaker 5: Pretty much the.
Speaker 3: Same lineups tonight with the exception and the Cubs they're
Speaker 3: just going to go with Carson Kelly behind the plate.
Speaker 3: Miguel Omaiya will not start for the Dodgers, the same lineup.
Speaker 3: Freddie Freeman was lobbying to try to play tonight. He
Speaker 3: felt well enough to go, but Dave Roberts and the
Speaker 3: Dodgers brass thought better of it and said, look, in
Speaker 3: a precautionary manner, we're going to keep you out of
Speaker 3: this game tonight, And they say that he could be
Speaker 3: ready as soon as the Freeway Series.
Speaker 6: Tim, I think the biggest deal is right now, and
Speaker 6: we understand the discomfort that Freeman experienced last night, the
Speaker 6: last swing that he took in banning practice on the field.
Speaker 6: Its identical spot is he had the rib issue last year.
Speaker 6: Only last year it was much more painful than what
Speaker 6: it is right now. But the Dodgers do not want
Speaker 6: to take a chance when they come back. They've been
Speaker 6: a fourteen hour flight coming back after the ball game tonight,
Speaker 6: but then they've got a few days to get some
Speaker 6: medical attention. They're looking at the big picture, but the
Speaker 6: big picture too. I like what you said when I
Speaker 6: picked you up this morning downtown as we came to
Speaker 6: the TV studios here in El Segundo to do the
Speaker 6: game is being played in Japan. You got the end
Speaker 6: of the car and he said, Hey, the Dodgers have
Speaker 6: the best record in Major League Baseball. It's true, only
Speaker 6: one game, but nobody else is played besides the Coats.
Speaker 3: The Cubs have the worst record.
Speaker 6: Right exactly, show.
Speaker 3: Hey, Otani has the best record of any player right now.
Speaker 3: He had two hits last night, including a double. He
Speaker 3: scored two runs. We've seen him throw again today. He
Speaker 3: threw yesterday in the outfield. He's throwing again today. Seeing
Speaker 3: oh Tani and hearing from people over in Japan about
Speaker 3: how it is around him. He is like the most
Speaker 3: popular person in the world, at least in Japan, and
Speaker 3: you know, his popularity in the US apparently pales in
Speaker 3: comparison to what he experiences in his home country.
Speaker 6: Every place that you look, is what our man David
Speaker 6: Massey is telling us. A lot of the rest of
Speaker 6: the Dodges, too, is that they knew he was a
Speaker 6: big deal in his home country. They had no idea
Speaker 6: he is a huge deal not only in his own country,
Speaker 6: he's also leaving his footprint here in the United States.
Speaker 3: Interesting thing too is when he comes to the play,
Speaker 3: the place goes quiet, yeah, which is unusual in some
Speaker 3: respects for Japanese baseball fans. If it's an actual game
Speaker 3: involving one of their teams, the home team usually gets
Speaker 3: you know, musical instruments or drums and chants and songs
Speaker 3: and everything else. But because they don't have a home
Speaker 3: team playing in this series, they're relatively quiet. But they're
Speaker 3: all taking videos and pictures and they want to remember
Speaker 3: the time they were in the same as Otani.
Speaker 6: Well, I'm certain that everyone that has participated in this
Speaker 6: series from a player's standpoint. Personnel also at both the organizations,
Speaker 6: both Chicago and with Los Angeles. This has been a
Speaker 6: trip of a lifetime. But if you look at baseball,
Speaker 6: I mean I mentioned last night in the broadcast, baseball
Speaker 6: was introduced in Japan one hundred and fifty years ago.
Speaker 6: Oddly enough, it was eighteen seventy two an American professor
Speaker 6: teaching at a local academy in Tokyo presented the game
Speaker 6: of baseball. It has grown at what a series it
Speaker 6: has been over there.
Speaker 3: It snowed in Tokyo today for several hours, a few
Speaker 3: hours before the game had stopped. It is dry and
Speaker 3: seventy two degrees inside Tokyo Dome as the Dodgers, at
Speaker 3: one to zero gets set to take on the Chicago Cubs.
Speaker 3: Justin Steel pitching for the Cubs, Roki Sasaki will make
Speaker 3: his major league debut tonight.
Speaker 2: Tim All right, thank you guys, as we count you
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Speaker 2: David Vaz at the Tokyo Dome. We'll dive deeper to
Speaker 2: this pitching matchup. But I'm next, you know Tani, you
Speaker 2: wee Ryan and we'll go down to the field in.
Speaker 4: Tokyo and vizit.
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Speaker 2: Game two of the Tokyo Series Dodgers Cubs first pitch
Speaker 2: coming up at ten after thanks for being with us.
Speaker 4: I'm Tim Kas's the world Champion Dodgers Audio Network.
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Speaker 3: Next pitch swung on up to right field. That's a
Speaker 3: base hit. Hi his rounding second he's on his way
Speaker 3: to third and show Hey. O'tani gets the first Dodger
Speaker 3: hit tonight and moves the tying run all the way
Speaker 3: to third base. Frasiers two two, and O'tani rips this
Speaker 3: one to right field. That's down the line to the corner.
Speaker 3: Show here around first. He will rumble in the second
Speaker 3: with a ninth inning leadoff.
Speaker 2: Double, Show hey Otani two for five helps start a
Speaker 2: three run fifth inning for the Dodgers in the series opener,
Speaker 2: then a leadoff double in the ninth where he would
Speaker 2: eventually score again. Dodgers beat the Cubs in Tokyo in
Speaker 2: the series opener four to one.
Speaker 1: This is Kirston's corner with Kirston Wasson.
Speaker 2: Hey Karson joins us now from the Tokyo Dome before
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Speaker 4: Kirsten, there's a buzz yet again in Tokyo.
Speaker 7: There really is, And for Roki, this is just such
Speaker 7: a special opportunity. I mean, you know this him. For
Speaker 7: any young player to make their major league debut, that
Speaker 7: is something that is remarkable in itself. For Roki, he
Speaker 7: gets to do something even on such a larger scale
Speaker 7: because he gets to do it in his home country.
Speaker 7: He gets to do it in front of so many
Speaker 7: fanss and supporting him for so long, and he's playing
Speaker 7: here in the NTV, playing for the Japanese national team.
Speaker 7: So for him to have this opportunity, obviously there's going
Speaker 7: to see a lot of nerves and a lot of excitement.
Speaker 7: That's where he's got the support of his teammates behind him.
Speaker 7: Dave Roberts today was saying that there's not much an expectation,
Speaker 7: and it's similar for Yashun over last year. There's not
Speaker 7: really an expectation to go out there and enjoy this moment.
Speaker 7: Of course, it's going to be some nerves if you
Speaker 7: can have that fastball command and you're going to build
Speaker 7: from that. But enjoy this moment and let's look to
Speaker 7: get better with each audi. So everyone's very excited to
Speaker 7: kind of for this first step for him in age
Speaker 7: league baseball.
Speaker 2: Is there as much sitement for Game two of this
Speaker 2: series as there was last night for the opener.
Speaker 7: You know, I would say that there is. I'm looking
Speaker 7: at just all of the media on the field, the
Speaker 7: gates for the stadium here, it opens at three o'clock,
Speaker 7: and I mean fans are filing in. So last night
Speaker 7: obviously we saw the Pokemon opening ahead of the game,
Speaker 7: and tonight's going to be a little bit different. It's
Speaker 7: going to be just the history of Major League Baseball
Speaker 7: in Japan and the relationship, so you'll see a lot
Speaker 7: of more historical photos. But I think it's still going
Speaker 7: to be a very beautiful presentation. But everyone has been
Speaker 7: so in to it, so the energy has been electric.
Speaker 7: But I do think it's just kind of that excitement
Speaker 7: for a young pitcher in Rosasaki, but also trying not
Speaker 7: to like Nike him nervous, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 7: Like trying to keep the excited but level it because
Speaker 7: obviously it is a big kame for young player.
Speaker 2: Well, it's a bummery won't see Pikachu from Pokemon again
Speaker 2: after last night, which was a big yo. Keiky Hernandez
Speaker 2: is gonna be bum when he's introduced on the field.
Speaker 2: But that's all right, Keer said, we appreciate it. We'll
Speaker 2: check you with you after the game. Still the come here.
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Speaker 4: But I'm next.
Speaker 2: We'll get you an injury report and we'll hear from
Speaker 2: Dodger manager Dave Roberts. The Dodgers in Cubs Game two
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Speaker 2: Clayton Kershaw moved to the sixty day IL, recovering from
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Speaker 4: Kyle Hurt recovering from elbow surgery.
Speaker 2: Michael Kopek on the fifteen day IL, as is Evan Phillips.
Speaker 2: Both of them working their way back. Hope to join
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Speaker 4: Let's head back out.
Speaker 2: To Tokyo and check out the Dodgers skipper anything.
Speaker 5: Dave questions for Dave.
Speaker 7: Dave, can you just describe Dave?
Speaker 4: Can you talk about the pressure in.
Speaker 1: The dugouts with Dave Roberts.
Speaker 8: What sort of restrictions, if any it will rookie be
Speaker 8: on tonight.
Speaker 9: There's no hard and fast. I think the stressful innings.
Speaker 9: I would say something in between four and four and
Speaker 9: five innings is ideal for the start, as my would
Speaker 9: be my thought.
Speaker 8: Dave, going back to Freddie, how much did he lobby
Speaker 8: you to try to play tonight? And will you not
Speaker 8: really know the extent of the injury until you get
Speaker 8: back to La He.
Speaker 9: Lobbied hard, like he always does. He wants to play
Speaker 9: every day, kind of prepared to play, but ultimately conceded
Speaker 9: to myself and the training staff it's just too early
Speaker 9: in the season to potentially put him in harm's way.
Speaker 9: Feels much better than he did yesterday. My expectation is
Speaker 9: that he'll be good to go for the series.
Speaker 4: Could have built the second row on your left.
Speaker 10: Then we'll go to Kirston after that.
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 12: As exciting as these games have been, this whole trip
Speaker 12: to travel is part of you or part of the players,
Speaker 12: feeling like it'd be nice to get it over with tonight,
Speaker 12: get home, take a breath, and get back into more
Speaker 12: of a routine.
Speaker 9: I think you said it perfectly. This has been a
Speaker 9: great trip, But I do think I speak for the players.
Speaker 9: We're ready to win a ball game tonight and get
Speaker 9: back home and get back to our regular lives and routine.
Speaker 9: But it's been a tremendous experience.
Speaker 4: It has been a great experience.
Speaker 2: Played one game, won, and now Dodgers looking to go
Speaker 2: to two and oh in this Tokyo series. Will we
Speaker 2: continue here on Dodgers on debt. We will check in
Speaker 2: with David vas say so we lead you up to
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Speaker 1: Joining Tim Kats on Dodgers on Deck. I accept everybody
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Speaker 4: All right, DVS.
Speaker 2: He joins his now live from the Tokyo Dome. David,
Speaker 2: what's the sentiment you're getting with Freddy Freeman in this
Speaker 2: rib injury?
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 8: I saw Freddy earlier today in the team hotel, and
Speaker 8: he was determined at that point in time to try
Speaker 8: to play tonight. As you heard Dave Roberts say, he
Speaker 8: tried to do everything in his power to convince the
Speaker 8: Dodgers that he was ready to go. But the Dodgers,
Speaker 8: obviously playing gets smart, not trying to lose Freddy for
Speaker 8: what you know, that that rib injury could cost him
Speaker 8: six to eight weeks if he did more damage to it.
Speaker 8: So it was the play but my understanding, and Freddy
Speaker 8: mentioned this to me in the hotel yesterday. As I
Speaker 8: told you, he hurt himself during batting practice, and he
Speaker 8: told me this afternoon that it was on the third
Speaker 8: to last swing of his batting practice that he injured
Speaker 8: his left side.
Speaker 5: But you heard Dave Roberts.
Speaker 8: I mean that is really optimistic for him to believe
Speaker 8: Freddie Freeman is going to be ready for the Freeway Series.
Speaker 5: But if he is, hey, we'll take it absolutely.
Speaker 4: David is driven by Ford. There's one thing we like,
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Speaker 2: hybrid all electric tough, this mark can only be called
Speaker 2: F one fifty. The Dodgers' bullpen added some big names
Speaker 2: in the AUFSE even DV. But benk Spirius, one of
Speaker 2: those young arms we saw in October and yesterday was
Speaker 2: on full display.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I feel like Benk Caspirius doesn't get enough credit
Speaker 8: for what he was asked to do. In Game four
Speaker 8: of the World Series. He was supposed to be an opener,
Speaker 8: but he gave the Dodgers more than that in Game
Speaker 8: four to help their pitching staff and help them win
Speaker 8: four games in the World Series. And he was out
Speaker 8: here last night pitching a scoreless seventh inning, hitting ninety
Speaker 8: nine miles an hour on the radar gun. And I
Speaker 8: asked him earlier today whether or not he went through
Speaker 8: one of those Velocity lab programs that Dodgers are infamous for.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 10: I think just you know, the plan going into the offseason,
Speaker 10: just kind of tinkering with some mechanical things, cleaning up
Speaker 10: some movement based stuff in the weight room, and I've
Speaker 10: seen some really positive things so far.
Speaker 8: Who's helped you the most out of all the veterans
Speaker 8: that you had last year when you made that pseudo
Speaker 8: start in Game four and just in spring training, which
Speaker 8: veterans have really helped you and get your mind right?
Speaker 10: Yeah, I think it's a collection of guys. I mean,
Speaker 10: we're lucky enough where the culture down in the bullpen
Speaker 10: specifically is so awesome. But I want to say guys
Speaker 10: like Blake Trinan, Michael Kopek, Evan Phillips, Alex Bessia, and
Speaker 10: the list goes on, obviously, but just in terms of,
Speaker 10: like my mental side, of things and just preparing myself
Speaker 10: for to be available every single game is obviously different
Speaker 10: from starting. So I think that was the biggest shift,
Speaker 10: and I think those guys have really helped me and
Speaker 10: kind of honed it on, you know, my my prep
Speaker 10: routine and you know, different ways of going about getting
Speaker 10: ready to compete.
Speaker 8: Yeah, Ben's kaspirace. You're gonna see him when the Dodgers
Speaker 8: get back to North America. Tim, this is not just
Speaker 8: a Tokyo Series thing. He's going to be a big
Speaker 8: part of the bullpen, especially with Evan Phillips and Michael
Speaker 8: Grove down and here at the Tokyo Dome. It is
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Speaker 2: Yeah, looking forward to hearing from CC Dave. Time now
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Speaker 8: Rick, we are getting ready for the Tokyo Series, and
Speaker 8: there's a lot of former Major League Baseball players here,
Speaker 8: including a man that you used to call his starts
Speaker 8: when you pitch for the Dodgers, Hiroki Corona.
Speaker 6: Very good pitcher. On top of it, it's really kind
Speaker 6: of nice to see. We get the feed, Tim Neverert
Speaker 6: and I are looking at the feed from Tokyo, and
Speaker 6: during panic practice could see a lot of former players
Speaker 6: that were very familiar with around the band gagent on
Speaker 6: the field. On top of it, is it just perception
Speaker 6: or is it a little bit louder than last night?
Speaker 6: I don't know how that's possible, but at least down
Speaker 6: the line, it seems much louder right now than what
Speaker 6: we heard last night.
Speaker 8: Yeah, last night when we were doing this, they were
Speaker 8: having a Pokemon pregame entertainment and now we're getting into
Speaker 8: some cultural Japanese drums on the field right now.
Speaker 5: So that's what we got. Let's get a flavor.
Speaker 6: Let's get a flavor of it, because you send me
Speaker 6: a photo earlier today of a photo you took looking
Speaker 6: out the window of your hotel. It was snowing in
Speaker 6: Tokyo this morning.
Speaker 8: Yeah, it was around nine o'clock local time, Rerick. And
Speaker 8: you just think that it's really cloudy or its rain,
Speaker 8: but no, it was snowing for about two hours this
Speaker 8: morning in Tokyo. But as we got on the one
Speaker 8: o'clock bus to the Tokyo Dome this afternoon, it had subsided.
Speaker 8: It was still chilly in the forty degree range here
Speaker 8: in Tokyo, thank you. But luckily they have the dome
Speaker 8: here so all as well. But certainly something you don't
Speaker 8: see before a Dodger game in the summer, snowing, and
Speaker 8: we got a taste of that. And Freddie Freeman Rick,
Speaker 8: as I let you know as well, he was determined
Speaker 8: to try to play tonight. But the Dodger medical staff
Speaker 8: told him, I think you'd better sit this one out.
Speaker 6: I think that's a very good idea from what we
Speaker 6: understand too, David. It's exactly the same location as the
Speaker 6: difficulty he had last year towards the end of the
Speaker 6: season then in the postseason two. But at least the
Speaker 6: pain level is much much lower then. You know, Freddie
Speaker 6: was saying, is it last night? If you go back
Speaker 6: to last year when he had that rib injury, he
Speaker 6: actually had to be helped to the car.
Speaker 5: He was in so much discomfort, no doubt, Rick, And
Speaker 5: you know this.
Speaker 8: I mean, obviously there's a lot of excitement over these
Speaker 8: two games in the Tokyo Series, but we've heard the
Speaker 8: Dodgers say so many times over the course of the
Speaker 8: last ten years that they've manage one hundred and sixty
Speaker 8: two game. So there's no reason to push him just
Speaker 8: because they're in a different country.
Speaker 6: Okay, you've been there, you've seen it, you've had a
Speaker 6: taste of it. The Dodgers and Cubs for that matter,
Speaker 6: and Major League Baseball went in with such high expectations.
Speaker 6: There's a great history of baseball in Japan, in Tokyo
Speaker 6: in particular, as this even exceeded those high expectations and
Speaker 6: what you've observed.
Speaker 5: Without a doubt, rig can you hear about it.
Speaker 8: You've heard stories about it, You've heard about the stories
Speaker 8: that you've described in the history that you've described between
Speaker 8: the United States and Major League Baseball in Japan.
Speaker 5: But just to be here and really feel their.
Speaker 8: Passion for the game, and honestly, ricked, you know the
Speaker 8: Cubs are here, like I mentioned, but I'm staring out
Speaker 8: to this capacity crowd and everybody has a Dodger had on,
Speaker 8: and not just a Dodger's shirt or jersey number seventeen.
Speaker 8: They are Otani Kraasy here in Japan. This is for him,
Speaker 8: make no mistake about it.
Speaker 6: Well, it was a good acceptance also Yamamoto last night.
Speaker 6: And then we look at Sasaki in this evening's ballgame
Speaker 6: as he will make his major late debut. I mentioned
Speaker 6: with Tim Neverett also in our opening shot on the
Speaker 6: radio side, a quote from Sasaki is says, I've been
Speaker 6: looking forward to this moment since I was in high school.
Speaker 6: This is a big, big deal.
Speaker 8: Big deal, Rick, and I guess we're all intrigued to
Speaker 8: see how he handles this a major league debut, nonetheless
Speaker 8: in his home country. So it's going to be interesting
Speaker 8: to see whether or not he's able to handle all this.
Speaker 8: And I'm sure you heard what Dave Roberts had to say,
Speaker 8: because right now, Sazaki essentially is a two pitch pitcher, fastball,
Speaker 8: split fingered fastball. And Dave Roberts said Rick that the
Speaker 8: key to Sasaki's success tonight is to make that splitter
Speaker 8: appear to be a strike out of his hand.
Speaker 6: Absolutely, And they were looking at the monitor. They just
Speaker 6: turned the lights out of the stadium. So I don't
Speaker 6: know if you hit the wrong button or not, but
Speaker 6: I hope that's part of the pregame show, David.
Speaker 5: It is.
Speaker 8: And they have these automatic light up bracelets they give
Speaker 8: out to the crowd. So very high tech here in Japan.
Speaker 8: Just like you, Rick, you know how to handle your
Speaker 8: Apple devices.
Speaker 6: Well, get some rest on that fourteen hour flight. If
Speaker 6: you want. I'll meet you for breakfast somewhere tomorrow. Now
Speaker 6: I have the feeling you're going to sleep in I'll
Speaker 6: see at Dodger Stadium as the Freeway Series we'll get
Speaker 6: underway in a few days.
Speaker 5: Look forward to it.
Speaker 8: Rick, Thanks a lot, and we'll check back in with
Speaker 8: you and Tim Neverett a little bit later as Rick
Speaker 8: and Tim will be on the call, Tim Kates, we'll
Speaker 8: send it back to you and Burbank.
Speaker 4: All right, thanks a lot.
Speaker 5: DV.
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Speaker 2: with ce Ce Sabathia Dodgers Cubs, Game two of the
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Speaker 2: Dodgers and Cubs in Tokyo start the twenty twenty five season.
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Speaker 1: This is high and tight.
Speaker 8: We're here in Tokyo, Japan, and we're joined right now
Speaker 8: by a man that was one of the greatest left
Speaker 8: handers of his generation. We actually have two of them
Speaker 8: in one dome, Clayton Kershaw and our guest, ce Ce Sabbathia, Cec,
Speaker 8: thanks a lot for the time.
Speaker 5: Appreciate it.
Speaker 11: Oh, no problem. Thank you.
Speaker 5: Great to have you here.
Speaker 8: And I know you've been such a big part of
Speaker 8: the ambassadorship of Major League Baseball with Commissioner Manfred Yeah.
Speaker 11: I mean, you know, it started the program about three
Speaker 11: years ago now, commission Ambassadors program. And you know myself,
Speaker 11: Andrew Jones, Adam Jones, Jimmy Rollins, Ryan Howard, you know,
Speaker 11: just some guys that you know loved the game of baseball,
Speaker 11: you know, gave their life. You know, most of their
Speaker 11: young life to baseball and just want to be around
Speaker 11: the game. So it's fun to be here in Japan,
Speaker 11: you know, witnessing opening day, you know, taking this in baseball.
Speaker 8: Well, you mentioned those names, and those of us that
Speaker 8: have been around the Dodgers for a while, we were
Speaker 8: all traumatizing those nine Phillies back together here.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I mean you got Victorino, you got Brian, you
Speaker 11: got Jimmy. I mean, that's that's the core of that team. Right.
Speaker 5: Goodness, at least not here, right Cee Cee.
Speaker 8: What's it like for you now that you are a
Speaker 8: Hall of Famer. I know you haven't had the induction
Speaker 8: ceremony yet, but do you feel different when you walk
Speaker 8: around these baseball circles?
Speaker 11: No, I mean I still feel the same. You know,
Speaker 11: it hasn't I guess it hasn't probably really sunk it
Speaker 11: in yet because the ceremony hasn't hit you know, in
Speaker 11: the moment, you know, it was incredible weak, you know,
Speaker 11: having a chance to get inducted and then go up
Speaker 11: to Cooperstown and you know, go to Cooperstown as a
Speaker 11: Hall of Famer, that was a special thing. But you know,
Speaker 11: I'm sure after July. You know, I'll feel more, you know,
Speaker 11: like a Hall of Famer.
Speaker 8: I saw you yesterday around the batting cage talking to
Speaker 8: Clayton Kershaw. He will join you one day in Cooperstown.
Speaker 8: What's the relationship that you had with Clayton when you
Speaker 8: were pitching and is there a mutual respect?
Speaker 9: Oh?
Speaker 11: Yeah, it's definitely a mutual respect. I mean, you know,
Speaker 11: obviously watching from a distance for a long time and
Speaker 11: never really got a chance to interact though obviously playing
Speaker 11: on a different coasts, but being able to appreciate, you know,
Speaker 11: what he's done for so long, you know, in the
Speaker 11: big leagues. I'm excited, you know, I'm excited for him
Speaker 11: to get three thousand strikeouts, get healthy and you know, enjoy,
Speaker 11: you know, just right off into the sunset.
Speaker 8: Since you're both lefties and both great pitchers, the greatest
Speaker 8: of your generation. When you would watch him pitch, was
Speaker 8: there anything that reminded him reminding you of yourself?
Speaker 11: Well, I just think the competitiveness, you know, just wanting
Speaker 11: to go out and take the ball and give your
Speaker 11: team a chance to win every time out. That was
Speaker 11: something that I prided myself on, and I feel like
Speaker 11: he did the same thing CEC.
Speaker 8: With all these numbers and you know dissection of you know, pitches,
Speaker 8: doesn't it come down to that? Isn't that what separates
Speaker 8: the great ones that can be consistent and sustain a career,
Speaker 8: the competitiveness just compete every pitch, every at bat.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I think so. I mean, I think that's what
Speaker 11: That's what defined my career. You know, it wasn't one pitch.
Speaker 11: It wasn't you know, you know, these special pitch that
Speaker 11: I had or anything like that. It was just me
Speaker 11: wanting to go out and get my team a chance
Speaker 11: to win every single time out. And you know that
Speaker 11: that ended up being, you know, a career worthy enough
Speaker 11: in coopers to be in Cooperstown. So I think just
Speaker 11: going out and competing is something that's lost, definitely in
Speaker 11: a lot of starting pitchers.
Speaker 8: That great baritone voice you're listening to is Hall of
Speaker 8: famer C. C.
Speaker 5: Sabbathia.
Speaker 8: I feel like when you were treated to the Brewers,
Speaker 8: that was one of the greatest competitive moments I have
Speaker 8: ever witnessed. You were on the verge of free agency,
Speaker 8: yet you were trying to get the Brewers into the
Speaker 8: playoffs and try to advance in the postseason. What drove
Speaker 8: you to put aside the business of baseball to be
Speaker 8: able to take the ball within a three day period.
Speaker 11: I think, just want to win. You know, I've always
Speaker 11: you know, wanted to be a winner, and you know,
Speaker 11: having a chance to go to Milwaukee and realizing that
Speaker 11: team hadn't been the playoffs, I think in twenty six years,
Speaker 11: you know, it was special. We had a good group,
Speaker 11: you know, Ricky Ricky Weeks was on that team, Billy Hall,
Speaker 11: Craig Council was on that team, Mike Cameron, so, Tony
Speaker 11: Gwyn junior Prince fielder. So it was it was a
Speaker 11: fun group to be around. I just didn't want the
Speaker 11: season the end. You know, Ben Sheets had went down
Speaker 11: with he had a shoulder injury. So you know, I
Speaker 11: felt like the best opportunity for us to win was
Speaker 11: me taking the ball as many times I had to,
Speaker 11: and I felt healthy and felt good and was just
Speaker 11: wanting to go out and win ball games for the team.
Speaker 8: Man, that was so special. I'll never forget it. I
Speaker 8: really won't. C. C. Sabathia, Hall of Famer is our guest.
Speaker 8: Before I let you go. The Dodgers are trying to
Speaker 8: do something that the Yankees did twenty five years ago
Speaker 8: to win back to back championships. When you look at
Speaker 8: this team and everybody's talking about already the World Series,
Speaker 8: you've had those expectations on you.
Speaker 5: What's the biggest key for these group of stars.
Speaker 11: I think just staying healthy. It seems like the culture
Speaker 11: here is really good. It seems like the guys get along,
Speaker 11: they root for each other, they're pulling the rope in
Speaker 11: the right direction, the same direction. But I think it's
Speaker 11: just about saying healthy. They have so much pitching here
Speaker 11: that these guys can stay healthy. It's gonna be really
Speaker 11: tough to be them low key.
Speaker 8: The offense kind of helped them win the World Series
Speaker 8: last year.
Speaker 11: Yeah, oh yeah, absolutely, But defense winning championships.
Speaker 5: Last night we saw that, right.
Speaker 8: They won that game with a really good defense, good
Speaker 8: base running, good approaches.
Speaker 11: Yeah absolutely. I mean, you know, with the arms and
Speaker 11: the pitching that they have, you know, top to bottom,
Speaker 11: from starters to the bullpen, they're gonna be really hard
Speaker 11: to beat.
Speaker 8: Awesome meeting you for the first time. I've admired you
Speaker 8: from AFAR. Like I said, what you did in Milwaukee
Speaker 8: one of the greatest stretches of time. A pitcher in
Speaker 8: the last thirty years has ever performed and you deserve
Speaker 8: the Hall of Fame no matter where you pitch, no
Speaker 8: matter what city you pitched in. Just that type of
Speaker 8: competitiveness and love for the game really stands out CC,
Speaker 8: and it's been a pleasure speaking with you.
Speaker 11: Oh, thank you. I appreciate that. And that's all I
Speaker 11: wanted my career to convey. It was just going out
Speaker 11: being a good teammate and trying to, you know, compete
Speaker 11: every time out.
Speaker 8: CC Sabbathia the Hall of Fame or Tim in Tokyo.
Speaker 8: We'll send it back to you in the studio.
Speaker 4: All right, Thank you, DV, thank you. CC.
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Speaker 2: Justin Steele on the mound for the Caygo Cubs, twenty
Speaker 2: nine year old left hander. Fifth round pick of the
Speaker 2: Cubs in twenty fourteen out of high school in Mississippi,
Speaker 2: made his major League debut in twenty twenty one, primarily
Speaker 2: out of the bullpen. He was a sixteen game winner
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty three, an All Star that year as well.
Speaker 2: Last year, twenty four starts for Justin Steele five and
Speaker 2: five with a three zero six ERA and one hundred
Speaker 2: and thirty five strikeouts. Primarily a fastball, slider, sinker pitcher
Speaker 2: going for the Dodgers, making his debut. Roki Sasaki, twenty
Speaker 2: three year old right hander out of Japan, making his
Speaker 2: pro debut with Japan in twenty twenty one pitch four
Speaker 2: seasons there, twenty nine wins to two to ten. Era
Speaker 2: signed a deal with the Dodgers this past offseason. His
Speaker 2: fastball sits in the high nineties, often touches one hundred.
Speaker 2: His slider is good, but his best pitch is his
Speaker 2: split finger, which was one of the best in the world.
Speaker 2: He can throw it to both left handed and right
Speaker 2: handed hitters. Rookie Sasaki will be the thirteenth Japanese player
Speaker 2: to wear a Dodger. Dodgers and Cubs. We're fifteen minutes
Speaker 2: away from first pitch. Keys to the game are next.
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Speaker 2: Dodgers and Cubs in Tokyo, Game two of this series.
Speaker 2: Rokie Sasaki on the mound before first pitch, we head
Speaker 2: back out to the booth.
Speaker 4: Two guys on the call.
Speaker 2: Rick Monday and the birthday boy himself, Tim neverck guys.
Speaker 3: Tim, thanks again the Keys obviously pitching tonight, and how
Speaker 3: long is Rokie Susaki going to go? Dave Roberts saying
Speaker 3: earlier today that he feels four or five innings would
Speaker 3: be ideal. The last time we saw Sasaki pitch was
Speaker 3: in a Cactus League game against the Cleveland Guardians. He
Speaker 3: went four innings through forty one pitches. He was basically unhittable.
Speaker 3: Five innings, I think would be would be better for
Speaker 3: most people who like to watch Sasaki pitch, and I
Speaker 3: think you and I have grown really quickly to like
Speaker 3: watching him pitch.
Speaker 6: I think we're going to find out a lot about
Speaker 6: him tonight. First of all, there's no question on the
Speaker 6: ability that he has. How much of his emotion can
Speaker 6: he keep channeled in in tonight's ball game. I say
Speaker 6: that because I read an interesting quote that he made,
Speaker 6: and here was the quote. I've been looking forward to
Speaker 6: this moment since I was in high school. There's a
Speaker 6: lot of emotion that's going to be on that field
Speaker 6: tonight with Suzaki, and if I look on the other
Speaker 6: side of the field, Great Council has said, look, we've
Speaker 6: got to put pressure on Sasaki early in the ballgame.
Speaker 6: Do not let him get comfortable on the mound.
Speaker 3: We will see Roki Sasaki make his major league debut.
Speaker 3: He'll do it in his home country in front of
Speaker 3: a pack Tokyo Dome, and certainly the expectations are high
Speaker 3: for Susaki. He's got high expectations for himself. What we've
Speaker 3: seen so far in spring training has been remarkable. Again,
Speaker 3: he's just twenty three years of age, but he has
Speaker 3: incredible talent. He'll go against left hander Justin Steele. Steel
Speaker 3: two years ago finished fifth on the Cy Young voting
Speaker 3: in the National League. Last year, a couple of injuries
Speaker 3: set him back, but still a very very good pitcher
Speaker 3: for the Chicago Cubs, Cubs and Dodgers. First pitch coming
Speaker 3: up shortly, Tim.
Speaker 2: All right, thank you, Tim Never, Happy birthday to you.
Speaker 2: Also Clayton Kershaw's birthday today March nineteenth, during thirty seven
Speaker 2: years young, the future Hall of Fame left hander. So
Speaker 2: Dodgers and Cubs. Final game of this Tokyo series and
Speaker 2: its back for the Freeway series before the home opener
Speaker 2: next Thursday.
Speaker 4: First pitch from Tokyo is next.
Speaker 2: After the game, I'll be back with all the postgame
Speaker 2: festivities enjoyed everybody