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Speaker 3: Hi, everybody, and welcome in to Dodger Talk here on
Speaker 3: M five seventy LA Sports Live Everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 3: Thanks for being with us on this Sunday afternoon. The
Speaker 3: season has come and gone. One hundred and sixty two
Speaker 3: regular season games are now in the books. The Dodgers
Speaker 3: finish with the best record in baseball ninety eight and
Speaker 3: sixty four. They win the NL West for the eleven
Speaker 3: time in twelve years. And now the Dodgers get less
Speaker 3: than a week to get ready for the start of
Speaker 3: playoff baseball, which begins on Saturday out at Dodger Stadium
Speaker 3: for Game one of the NLDS. Eight six six nine
Speaker 3: eight seven two five seventy eight eight six six ninety
Speaker 3: eight seven to two five seventy is our number. We
Speaker 3: can talk about today's game, what you heard, what you saw,
Speaker 3: the Dodgers coming back and beating the Rockies two to one.
Speaker 3: But I really want to get into this Dodgers postseason
Speaker 3: team and what you think about them going into the NLDS.
Speaker 3: We mentioned into the Clubhouse show. Right now, we still
Speaker 3: don't know who the Dodgers will play come the NLDS
Speaker 3: because two of the three wildcard spots have still not
Speaker 3: been solidified. It's going to take tomorrow to find out
Speaker 3: who is going to go to the postseason between the Mets,
Speaker 3: the Diamondbacks and and the Atlanta Braves. Why you asked, well,
Speaker 3: two games last week got canceled and have to be
Speaker 3: made up now today there was some question whether or
Speaker 3: not they were actually going to play them at of necessity,
Speaker 3: but because of the way things shook out today with
Speaker 3: the Braves, the Mets, and the Diamondbacks three teams fighting
Speaker 3: for two wildcard spots. In fact, the Mets have to
Speaker 3: go to Atlanta and play a double hitder tomorrow against
Speaker 3: the Atlanta Braves. Now that helps the San Diego Padres,
Speaker 3: who are waiting to see who the winner of that
Speaker 3: series potentially is, because they would then figure it to
Speaker 3: throw one of their best starters tomorrow. The Atlanta Braves,
Speaker 3: Chris sale It was expected to pitch in one of
Speaker 3: those two games, So that takes him out of pitching
Speaker 3: possibly in the wild Card series. That's a good thing
Speaker 3: if you're gonna play the Atlanta Braves, but you gotta
Speaker 3: fight just to get to the postseason. You can't worry
Speaker 3: about saving Chris Sale tomorrow. If you're the lot of Braves,
Speaker 3: you gotta get them out there and pitch in these
Speaker 3: two games they play tomorrow, and they're gonna play a
Speaker 3: double hitter. And it's a little confusing, but here we'll
Speaker 3: walk you through it real quick. The Diamondbacks won today,
Speaker 3: and now they need the Braves or the Mets tomorrow
Speaker 3: to win both of the games of the double hitter.
Speaker 3: If the Mets and the Braves split the double hitter,
Speaker 3: those two teams are in and the Diamondbacks are done.
Speaker 2: They won't make the playoffs.
Speaker 3: So the Dodgers wat to now wait and see who
Speaker 3: wins tomorrow's doubleheader and then the wild Card round. But
Speaker 3: if you're the Diamondbacks, you're hoping the Mets or the
Speaker 3: Braves tomorrow win both games because then you're in. If not,
Speaker 3: they split, the Atlanta Braves win one and the New
Speaker 3: York Mets win one of the double header tomorrow in Atlanta,
Speaker 3: those two teams are going in now. I'm just kind
Speaker 3: of saying, how it is you got to wonder after
Speaker 3: the first game or they looking at each other saying, hey,
Speaker 3: we want you again.
Speaker 2: No, no, that stuff doesn't happen. That stuff doesn't happen.
Speaker 3: But if you're the Diamondbacks, have you kind of made
Speaker 3: this whole mess by the way you play? You played
Speaker 3: in the month of September. Now, seriously, they stayed alive
Speaker 3: today with an eleven to two win over the Padres pud.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 3: Met, can you imagine being the Diamondbacks right now having
Speaker 3: to wait for a double header tomorrow and sit around
Speaker 3: and wonder if you're gonna get in after the first game,
Speaker 3: and then the second game you're rooting for that team
Speaker 3: to win again so you can get in. Man, that's
Speaker 3: that's uncomfortable to have your fate determined by not only
Speaker 3: one team, but two teams playing tomorrow in a double header.
Speaker 3: Eight sixty six nine eighty seven two five seventy is
Speaker 3: our number. Eight sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy.
Speaker 3: Jump on board. Let's talk some Dodgers baseball, and let's
Speaker 3: get ready for the postseason. Let's get ready for the
Speaker 3: NLDS because there's still a lot of questions going in
Speaker 3: to this divisional series. We got to get through the
Speaker 3: wildcard round to see who the Dodgers are gonna face,
Speaker 3: but certainly a lot of questions on the Dodgers end.
Speaker 3: And I think the biggest question right is the health
Speaker 3: of Freddy Freeman and that right ankle.
Speaker 2: He didn't make the trip to Denver.
Speaker 3: That is good. He's been getting treatment around the clock,
Speaker 3: that is good. He injured it on Thursday night. You
Speaker 3: don't play until this Saturday, so you've got a long
Speaker 3: period to get that ankle right and get ready for
Speaker 3: Game one of the NLDS. They don't have to play
Speaker 3: in the wildcard round, so he's got Allday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday,
Speaker 3: and hopefully all day Saturday. So really nine days to
Speaker 3: rest that ankle, get it healed, get the swelling down,
Speaker 3: and hopefully be ready for the NLDS. I would imagine
Speaker 3: a seventy percent or seventy five percent Freddie Freeman is
Speaker 3: going to play. But if he doesn't play in the
Speaker 3: first game or second game of the NLDS, Dave Roberts
Speaker 3: has already hinted that he's going to have Max Munsey
Speaker 3: move from third to first.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 3: This weekend in the Mile High City of Denver, we
Speaker 3: saw Keiky Hernandez playing first base, and I thought, like
Speaker 3: a lot of people did, well, that's what they're going
Speaker 3: to do in the postseason, because he's getting ready, he's
Speaker 3: getting reps, he's getting three games under eighth this belt
Speaker 3: playing against the Rockies at first base. Now, Dave Roberts
Speaker 3: said it's gonna be Max Munsey. They're gonna flip over
Speaker 3: to first. Well, here's Max Munsey talking to David Vas
Speaker 3: saying an exclusive little one on one talking about possibly
Speaker 3: moving from third to first for the playoffs.
Speaker 2: Here it is.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, obviously we're hoping Freddy's gonna be fine.
Speaker 4: And if anyone knows Freddy, he's going to play through
Speaker 4: a lot of pain if he has to. We're hoping
Speaker 4: that there's that's not the case, that he doesn't have
Speaker 4: to play through a ton of pain.
Speaker 2: But yeah, we've had a couple of.
Speaker 4: Small discussions about it, and you know, the team knows
Speaker 4: that I'll play anywhere need me to play. You know,
Speaker 4: if I have to go back to first space, that's
Speaker 4: kind of second nature to me. You know, we'll get
Speaker 4: we'll get some work in there this week and then
Speaker 4: you know, it shouldn't be that big of a deal.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Dave said that you may work out it first space.
Speaker 4: Is that still the plan, just to be ready in case. Yeah,
Speaker 4: we haven't finalized anything, but yeah, I mean I would
Speaker 4: imagine I'll I'll get some work over there just to
Speaker 4: you know, just to make sure that I'm fresh over
Speaker 4: there and remember how to do things, remember how to
Speaker 4: catch a ball.
Speaker 6: People think first base is like the easiest position, but
Speaker 6: there's a lot more that goes to it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there is. There's a lot of footwork that's involved
Speaker 2: with it.
Speaker 4: There's just a lot of understanding certain things.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 4: Sometimes one of the things you see when guys from
Speaker 4: other positions go over to first space for the first
Speaker 4: time is they go after a lot of balls that
Speaker 4: they don't need to go after. And so that's just understanding,
Speaker 4: you know, just kind of understanding your positioning and that
Speaker 4: your job at first space isn't necessarily to feel the ball,
Speaker 4: it's more so to catch the ball.
Speaker 7: All right.
Speaker 3: There's Max Munsey a little exclusive with David Vass talking
Speaker 3: about possibly possibly playing first base.
Speaker 2: Come the NLDS now again. Today is Sunday.
Speaker 3: They don't play game one of the NLDS until next Saturday,
Speaker 3: so he's already had a few days to get healthy.
Speaker 3: Freddie Freeman, I guarantee he's getting round the clock treatment
Speaker 3: on that swelling stem treatment as well. I'm assuming, and
Speaker 3: they will get him right. And it's close to one
Speaker 3: hundred percent, if not, wherever they can get him to
Speaker 3: at percentage wise for this NLDS eight sixty six, ninet
Speaker 3: eighty seven, two five seventy is a number. Le's go
Speaker 3: out to the phones, all right, Dodger fans. One hundred
Speaker 3: and sixty two games are over. Dodgers win the West,
Speaker 3: they have the best record in baseball. Here comes the postseason.
Speaker 3: How we feeling? What do you think about this roster?
Speaker 3: If there's a couple of moves you need to make
Speaker 3: and you'd like to see on this roster going forward.
Speaker 3: Now we got time to start nitpicking and kind of
Speaker 3: placing who will be on this twenty six man postseason roster,
Speaker 3: at least for the NLDS because it can switch from
Speaker 3: series to series.
Speaker 2: But you got to carry.
Speaker 3: Thirteen position players and thirteen pitchers. So we'll see what
Speaker 3: the Dodgers do.
Speaker 2: Let's go to George and Baldwin Park.
Speaker 3: Start us off here on postgame Dodger talk on this beautilest.
Speaker 8: I just thinking that this game was close. It's just
Speaker 8: the two runs. I mean, I mean a Tani's stealing
Speaker 8: bases and helping helping the other guy steal bases or something,
Speaker 8: and I expected to be an easy win.
Speaker 3: Honestly, Well, George, I appreciate it. And you know, this
Speaker 3: is game one sixty two. There's nothing to play for.
Speaker 3: Certainly showing how Tani individually, he was having some fun there,
Speaker 3: telling Austin Barnes and the eighth anding, hey, let's steal
Speaker 3: double steal, and kind of motion into that with his
Speaker 3: hands and his face gestures, and they pulled off a
Speaker 3: double steal. And he wanted to get another stolen base,
Speaker 3: and he did. He got to fifty nine. But this
Speaker 3: is a game. Put yourself in this situation. They're in Denver,
Speaker 3: they got nothing to play for. They want to get
Speaker 3: home as quick as possible. It's the final day of
Speaker 3: the seasons. It's not like they're going to go, you know,
Speaker 3: on vacation. They're coming back home. They want to rest
Speaker 3: and they got a couple of days off that Dave
Speaker 3: Roberts has already made known they're going to have away
Speaker 3: from workouts. These guys want to get out of there.
Speaker 3: It's not like they were all first pitch swinging. The
Speaker 3: Dodgers were still competing out there. Ryan felt their pitch well,
Speaker 3: you know, Blendon Neck only made one mistake. It was
Speaker 3: a one nothing game. It's not like the Rockies blew
Speaker 3: them out ten to two. It was a close game. Hey,
Speaker 3: the Rockies are out there fighting. It was an emotional
Speaker 3: day for Charlie Blackman, playing in his last game. Got
Speaker 3: the base hit and then came off the field tip
Speaker 3: of the cap, very movie esque like. So it was
Speaker 3: a very cool GI gesture to see that as well.
Speaker 3: But yeah, the Dodgers were out there, not just going
Speaker 3: through the motions. They were out there competing guys like
Speaker 3: Chris Taylor. They got a lot to fight for. And
Speaker 3: that's why I bring up the postseason roster. You know
Speaker 3: who's going to be on that twenty six man roster.
Speaker 3: There's no guarantees for an Andy Pajas or is there.
Speaker 3: There's no guarantees for a Chris Taylor or is there?
Speaker 3: You can kind of figure out and slot out who's
Speaker 3: going to be in there? But come the bullpen, who's
Speaker 3: going to be in there? Is Clayton Kershaw going to
Speaker 3: be ready? We're still six days away from Game one
Speaker 3: of the NLDS. Is Clayton Kershaw going to be healthy
Speaker 3: for the NLDS? What about Tony Gonsolin? Does his arm
Speaker 3: but maybe the unknown of what he can do with
Speaker 3: that arm because he hasn't pitched this year except for
Speaker 3: minor league rehab games. Give him a spot on this
Speaker 3: roster in the NLDS because he's Tony Gonsolin.
Speaker 2: He could be better.
Speaker 3: Than what you have in any other young middle reliever
Speaker 3: or a guy like not a land in Neck, but
Speaker 3: somebody else who would pitch out the bullpen on extended innings.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I think there's a lot to be decided for in
Speaker 3: the few roster spots that they have that the Dodger
Speaker 3: front office and coaching staff during these workouts see how
Speaker 3: guys feel. Certainly the health to Clayton Kershaw. We're gonna
Speaker 3: learn a lot in these next couple of days and
Speaker 3: by the time I believe we get to Friday and
Speaker 3: the workout at Dodger Stadium officially with both teams whoever
Speaker 3: the Dodgers are playing in the NLDS. I think we'll
Speaker 3: have a pretty good idea of what the roster is
Speaker 3: gonna look like, but certainly there's a lot of time
Speaker 3: for adjustments to be made between now and then. It's
Speaker 3: certainly Freddie Freeman's health is at the top of that list.
Speaker 3: Eight six six nine eighty seven two five seventy eight
Speaker 3: six six, nine eighty seven two five seventy. We'll hear
Speaker 3: from Chris Taylor coming up in just a little bit.
Speaker 3: Rayfel Lapointe is next up here on Dodger Talk on
Speaker 3: a five seventy l A Sports.
Speaker 2: Hi, Ray, how are you. I'm good? Are you doing
Speaker 2: doing good? Doing good?
Speaker 7: Okay. I want to tell me about about the guys
Speaker 7: on the roster. I think the teaking at the right time.
Speaker 7: I mean, look at naming the ball good. You know
Speaker 7: all three ship as you getting hit, King is hitting
Speaker 7: the ball now. I mean, those are three guys you
Speaker 7: mentioned and it all hits the ball now coming through.
Speaker 7: So I mean to me, that's the ticket at the
Speaker 7: right time. We can need those guys that he's not around,
Speaker 7: and we got this a swift year round, but I
Speaker 7: just taking at the right time can goad to other years.
Speaker 7: I's ready to go, well.
Speaker 2: I appreciate it. I don't kept goal, but I appreciate it.
Speaker 3: I don't think that whether or not he's healthy to
Speaker 3: go for game one, Freddy Freeman's kept off this NLDS
Speaker 3: roster because it could go five games. Certainly it's the
Speaker 3: best three out of five, and you would think that
Speaker 3: every day that goes by he would get healthy, right it,
Speaker 3: he'd be good to go. As further and further away
Speaker 3: he gets from the initial injury to the sprained ankle,
Speaker 3: we could see him out there.
Speaker 2: Will we see him game one?
Speaker 3: I don't know, but I don't think they're gonna leave
Speaker 3: him off the roster because you can't make a move
Speaker 3: after that until the next round. So that being said,
Speaker 3: you know there's one or two spots position players, especially
Speaker 3: the bullpen, as far as arms and who the Dodgers
Speaker 3: are gonna use. Anthony Bonda, you can tell rush back
Speaker 3: to get back to help out this Dodgers team. But
Speaker 3: will we see the addition of a Tony Gonsolin to
Speaker 3: maybe take the spot of a Daniel Hudson.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I don't know what they're gonna do as far as
Speaker 3: the back end of this bullpen come the postseason, because remember,
Speaker 3: they're gonna need arms, okay, because they don't have the
Speaker 3: horses like you thought they would go into the postseason.
Speaker 3: You got Jack Flaherty, Yoshinoba Yamamoto who just went five
Speaker 3: innings yesterday for the first time since June. Walker Bueller, Hey,
Speaker 3: which Walker Bully are you gonna get? You gonna, you know,
Speaker 3: get the Walker Bueller who pitched really good in his
Speaker 3: last start, or you're gonna get the Walker Bueller who
Speaker 3: had struggled to find his command early in the season.
Speaker 3: Landon neck Landon next pushed pretty well for the Dodgers.
Speaker 3: But he's going into his first time in October. A
Speaker 3: young man, you're asking to do a lot. So what
Speaker 3: are his nerves gonna be?
Speaker 8: Like?
Speaker 2: What's he going to be out there on the mound
Speaker 2: for the Dodgers in the NLDS.
Speaker 3: So with that being said, I think you got a
Speaker 3: lot of question marks that again, we have time now
Speaker 3: to figure out what they're gonna do come to postseason
Speaker 3: in the NLDS roster. Certainly it has to be in
Speaker 3: by Saturday morning. But between then and now, we've got
Speaker 3: a lot of workouts to happen, and certainly treatment on
Speaker 3: Freddie Freeman and Miguel Rojas and his adductor muscle. Barry
Speaker 3: and Bakersfield is next up on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 2: Hi, Barry, Yeah, So I just.
Speaker 9: Wanted to show some lists to the Dodgers man. I
Speaker 9: wanted to say what a great season we had. I'm
Speaker 9: glad that the team played some adversity at the end
Speaker 9: that you know, it gets as ready for the postseason.
Speaker 9: I am a little worried about our starting motation, but
Speaker 9: I do believe that our bat should be enough to
Speaker 9: carry us through. And I just want to give some
Speaker 9: looks to you team today, to the whole Dodger Talk
Speaker 9: team for just always keeping us on point and talking
Speaker 9: us off to Nay sometimes.
Speaker 10: Man.
Speaker 2: All right, Barry, I appreciate it.
Speaker 10: Man.
Speaker 2: Thanks for the nice words.
Speaker 3: Colin E. We're gonna throw in there as well, the
Speaker 3: Dwayne McDonald. It's a whole crew to put this show together,
Speaker 3: and we appreciate you listening. We appreciate it by downloads
Speaker 3: and podcasts the show as well. It is going to
Speaker 3: be an exciting postseason. No doubt for this Dodgers team
Speaker 3: as they move forward, and again, this is a much
Speaker 3: needed break. The last few years, the Dodgers going into
Speaker 3: the postseason won the division midway through September. And now
Speaker 3: you've got a Dodgers team that had to fight until
Speaker 3: the last week of the season and need to get
Speaker 3: healthy now more so than they ever have been.
Speaker 2: They need to get arms rested. That's another thing to
Speaker 2: think about.
Speaker 3: Phillips trying and Hudson Copek, Brasier Vesia, Joe Kelly, Anthony Bonda.
Speaker 3: These guys have been up and down as far as
Speaker 3: the injured list all year long. They need a little
Speaker 3: break here. They need some time to get right and
Speaker 3: to not be out there every day or every two
Speaker 3: out of three days like they have been the last
Speaker 3: five months.
Speaker 2: This this Dodger bullpen is gassed.
Speaker 3: They've pitched a lot of Indians more so than starters
Speaker 3: here in the month of September.
Speaker 2: They need a break.
Speaker 3: Eight sixty six nine eighty seven two five seventy eight
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Speaker 3: telephone number. Let's take break, we'll come back, We'll get
Speaker 3: to your phone calls, and we'll hear from CT three
Speaker 3: before we wrap things up. Dodgers get the win in Colorado.
Speaker 3: They beat the Rockies two to one on the final
Speaker 3: day of the regular season. They come back with two
Speaker 3: runs in the eighth inning, Chris Taylor a home run,
Speaker 3: Austin Barnes scored on a bock to give the Dodgers
Speaker 3: a two to one victory. They're ninety eighth of the win,
Speaker 3: best record in baseball. And here we come postseason. It
Speaker 3: begins on Saturday. When we come back again, your phone calls,
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Speaker 1: to seventy. Lads, and Toby was just like running forever,
Speaker 1: Das wins hits a ball teap to right.
Speaker 6: This ball heading back, This ball is god.
Speaker 1: It's a hot run for.
Speaker 2: Taylor and he ties the game.
Speaker 6: In the eighth inning, a lead off, opposite field solo
Speaker 6: shot for Chris Taylor. Hey, the Dodgers in business and
Speaker 6: on the board. It is one to one.
Speaker 3: Chris Taylor is starting to heat up for the Dodgers,
Speaker 3: just in.
Speaker 2: Time for the postseason.
Speaker 3: He hits a home run today, his fourth of this season,
Speaker 3: RBI number twenty three, as the Dodgers come back and
Speaker 3: beat the Rockies two to one. Daniels Jewelers, the official
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Speaker 3: the dream. Chris Taylor Today homers yesterday in the second game.
Speaker 2: Of this series. He goes three for three with an RBI.
Speaker 3: Friday Night in the series opener, two more hits, including
Speaker 3: a double in an RBI. Maybe he's starting to turn
Speaker 3: things around. He got a couple of starts and not
Speaker 3: a start, but he got it. Came off the bench
Speaker 3: twice in the series against San Diego. Before that in Miami,
Speaker 3: had to hit the final game against the Marlins.
Speaker 2: This is a young man, Chris Taylor, and I say
Speaker 2: young man who.
Speaker 3: Was nine for ninety to start the season and had
Speaker 3: trouble certainly took his lumps here on Dodger Talk from
Speaker 3: Dodger Fans, was placed on the injury list, but now
Speaker 3: he's having himself in good September. Just in time, right,
Speaker 3: just in time. It doesn't matter what you do in
Speaker 3: April and May. It's what you're doing in September as
Speaker 3: you going to the postseason. Right now, the Dodgers have
Speaker 3: to feel good about the way he's swinging the bat
Speaker 3: and will be an added bonus for the Dodgers bench
Speaker 3: in the NLDS eight six, six, nine, eighty seven, two
Speaker 3: five seventy. Let's keep things moving. Surge and Azusa is
Speaker 3: next up here on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 2: High Surge. IM, I'm doing great.
Speaker 5: Hey man. You knocked it out of the park this year. Bro,
Speaker 5: you did amazing. I consider you the Ross Porter and
Speaker 5: Jerry Doggett combo with you and Bess, So first off,
Speaker 5: good job, awesome, and I just want to tell you
Speaker 5: that the Dodgers have to play little ball. You know,
Speaker 5: those three hitters on the front, they're gonna do what.
Speaker 11: They're gonna do. They're gonna try to pitch around them.
Speaker 11: They're gonna throw them crappy pitches. But if those guys
Speaker 11: at the bottom of the lineup do the right things,
Speaker 11: the little ball, the little things, hit those runners over, avoid.
Speaker 5: Double plays, don't strike out, don't pop up, they are
Speaker 5: going to succeed.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no doubt about it.
Speaker 3: We saw that over the course of the season, Serge,
Speaker 3: and thank you so much for the nice comments.
Speaker 2: It's very nice to you.
Speaker 3: Much appreciated, and I hope you check it again here
Speaker 3: during the postseason.
Speaker 2: Thanks for your call. Yeah, we saw it during the season.
Speaker 3: When the Dodgers get just production from the big three
Speaker 3: or the big four, it's good, but you do need
Speaker 3: a roster and a lineup every day to help out.
Speaker 3: You got to have the guys hitting six, seven, eight,
Speaker 3: nine to produce as well, and to flip that line
Speaker 3: up over and get it back to Atani Betts and
Speaker 3: Freddie Freeman, Max Munsey, Tommy Edmond. You need these guys
Speaker 3: at the bottom of the lineup to produce and not
Speaker 3: necessarily always getting hits and home runs right.
Speaker 2: It could be walks, it could be moving a guy over.
Speaker 3: If a key k Hernandez starts off the inning and
Speaker 3: Chris Taylor comes up as a seven hitter in the postseason,
Speaker 3: you're not asking Chris Taylor to hit a home run.
Speaker 3: Move the guy over, get it to the eighth hitter.
Speaker 3: Let's see what he can do. Put the ball and play,
Speaker 3: maybe finds a gap, Give it to the nine hitter,
Speaker 3: and then you turn the roster or the line of
Speaker 3: pack over to Sho Heyo Tani. That's how you can contribute.
Speaker 3: So again, it's not necessarily oh wow, he went two
Speaker 3: for four, he went three for four. Wow, he hit
Speaker 3: a home run, he drove in three. That's great. Those
Speaker 3: are numbers and obviously showing production, but you know, productive
Speaker 3: outs are are also really good for the Dodgers bottom
Speaker 3: half of the lineup. So the game changes in the postseason.
Speaker 3: That's what I'm excited to see, and quit to be
Speaker 3: quite honest, I'm a little nervous to see. And I
Speaker 3: know a lot of Dodger fans, certainly people I talk
Speaker 3: to and friends that you know, well, the Dodgers continue
Speaker 3: to play the.
Speaker 2: Way they do in the regular season.
Speaker 3: We've seen in the postseason when games shrink, you know,
Speaker 3: pitching becomes better, games tighten up, and you know it's
Speaker 3: one run game or a two to one game, and
Speaker 3: you know autre at a premium and you got to
Speaker 3: make sure you take the most care of those outs
Speaker 3: and don't waste them. How are the Dodgers going to
Speaker 3: come through here in October? The last couple of offseasons,
Speaker 3: all we've talked about was wow, swinging for the offenses.
Speaker 3: Continue to play slug, can't move guys over, We don't
Speaker 3: steal bases. That's changed during the regular season. Here you
Speaker 3: got to show Heyo Tani who darnear had sixty stolen bases.
Speaker 2: This is a team that puts the runners in motion. Now.
Speaker 3: This is a Dodgers team now that is not just
Speaker 3: all about slug and hitting home runs. Look at the
Speaker 3: bats that Mookie Becks has had the last couple of days.
Speaker 3: Look what Chris Taylor did today. Sure he hit a
Speaker 3: home run, but hitting the ball around the field. It's
Speaker 3: not just a slug team anymore. And I hope once
Speaker 3: we get to October, beginning next Saturday, with the NLDS
Speaker 3: that continues that way, and I hope I believe it will.
Speaker 2: I think they've learned from the last two october.
Speaker 3: At least I hope they have as far as the
Speaker 3: style of play that you need to be successful to
Speaker 3: win games in series and to move on to the
Speaker 3: Championship Series and then ultimately the World Series.
Speaker 2: Big news for you, programming wise.
Speaker 3: It's back, Yes, sax and Kate to the Morning Scam.
Speaker 3: He'll be back on Friday this Friday, October fourth, from
Speaker 3: six to nine AM. Will be taking the place of
Speaker 3: Dan Patrick beginning this Friday, and as long as the
Speaker 3: Dodger run through the postseason goes, and quite frankly, I
Speaker 3: hope that's until the end of the month through Halloween,
Speaker 3: because that means the Dodgers will get into the World Series.
Speaker 3: That would be fantastic and hopefully that is the case
Speaker 3: the last two Octobers, it's been too short of runs
Speaker 3: for scam with Steve Saxon myself will begin on Friday
Speaker 3: at six am. Will be live and local beginning every
Speaker 3: morning at six until nine, leading to Colin Cowhard, Regan
Speaker 3: and Ronnie Petro some money.
Speaker 2: Beginning Friday at six am.
Speaker 3: Myself and Steve Sachs talking Dodgers baseball, most importantly, talking
Speaker 3: Dodgers baseball with you Dodger fans leading into Game one
Speaker 3: of the NLDS.
Speaker 2: It'll be a lot of fun.
Speaker 3: If you haven't listened before we go local, we talk Dodgers,
Speaker 3: We react to the games that are happening that night,
Speaker 3: and the next morning you get to wake up, win
Speaker 3: or lose, and react to what you saw and heard
Speaker 3: in the game the night before. It's a lot of
Speaker 3: fun when the postseason starts. It started back in twenty
Speaker 3: seventeen when the Dodgers beat the Chicago Cubs in the
Speaker 3: NLCS and advanced to the World Series. We started Saxon
Speaker 3: Kates to the AM and it's been going on every
Speaker 3: October since and again, the last two Octobers, quite frankly,
Speaker 3: have been too short for it, and we got to
Speaker 3: make sure it is long in October and has a long,
Speaker 3: healthy run for Saxon Kates in the AAM because that
Speaker 3: means the Dodgers are winning and moving on in the postseason.
Speaker 3: Remember it's eleven wins NLDS, NLCS and the World Series
Speaker 3: for the Dodgers. That's what you need. Three wins in
Speaker 3: the nlds four wins in the National League Championship Series
Speaker 3: and then four wins in the World Series. It's the
Speaker 3: race to eleven beginning on Saturday night for the Dodgers
Speaker 3: out at Dodgers' Name. It's gonna be a lot of
Speaker 3: fun once starts, and again I'm looking forward to it.
Speaker 2: Sax and Kate's in the AA.
Speaker 3: I'm beginning on Friday, six am to nine am.
Speaker 2: Chris Taylor.
Speaker 3: We mentioned what he did today at the plate with
Speaker 3: the home run drove in the run to tie the game.
Speaker 3: He's gotten his average over two hundred, and I know
Speaker 3: it doesn't look great. It's not what Chris Taylor's been
Speaker 3: known to do the last couple of years.
Speaker 2: But the second half.
Speaker 3: Of the season and now in the month of September,
Speaker 3: you cannot argue that Chris Taylor is now playing his
Speaker 3: best baseball here in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2: Let's hear from Chris Taylor just a little bit ago
Speaker 2: with the media.
Speaker 10: Chris, just considering what the start of this year looked like.
Speaker 10: How just important was it for you to end on
Speaker 10: a high out?
Speaker 12: Very important? You know, I think you know my year
Speaker 12: is what it is. You know, I've accepted that a
Speaker 12: while ago, and for me and my goal has kind
Speaker 12: of just been, you know, helping this team anyway I can,
Speaker 12: and you know, trying to get ready for the postseason
Speaker 12: and try to get right for when you know, I'm
Speaker 12: kind of hanging my hat on, you know, being ready
Speaker 12: and helping this team in a World Series.
Speaker 10: Yeah, obviously putting a lot of hard work to get
Speaker 10: to this point. Do you leave that just kind of
Speaker 10: based off the results? You think your swing is kind
Speaker 10: of where you want it to be.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I do.
Speaker 11: Really.
Speaker 12: Ever since I got off the IL, it's felt more consistent.
Speaker 12: And obviously there's still like days where it's not great,
Speaker 12: but that's like that's baseball, right, And you know, overall,
Speaker 12: I feel like I'm in a much better place and
Speaker 12: have a consistent routine every day, and my approach has
Speaker 12: been much better.
Speaker 2: All Right, there's Chris Taylor.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's had a better approach and better results here
Speaker 3: in September. All right, that's gonna do it for postgame
Speaker 3: Dodger Talk Mini thanks to Colin y all season long.
Speaker 3: We got the postseason coming up on Saturday. Many thanks
Speaker 3: to you Dodger fans for being a part of the show.
Speaker 3: Podcasting the show as well. We could not do it
Speaker 3: without you. It has been a fun one hundred and
Speaker 3: sixty two game season, Dodger's best record in baseball ninety
Speaker 3: eight wins. They win today in Denver two to one
Speaker 3: over the Rockies. Finish off this week in Denver, and
Speaker 3: now we get ready for the NLDS. Keep it right
Speaker 3: here on a five to seventy LA Sports Game one
Speaker 3: on Saturday. We got Scam, Sax and Kats and the
Speaker 3: Am beginning on Friday. Again, thank you so much for
Speaker 3: being a part of the show. It is Dodger Talk
Speaker 3: with us and you, and we love it after every
Speaker 3: single game. We'll be back during the week with off
Speaker 3: night Dodger Talking as well. Until then, have a great
Speaker 3: save rest of your Sunday afternoon. Let the playoffs begin, baby,
Speaker 3: second
Speaker 2: Sta