Speaker 1: Now your host for World Series Dodger.
Speaker 2: Talk sound off Angelinos David Vasse.
Speaker 3: We are live at Dodgers Stadium after Game two of
Speaker 3: the World Series goes the Dodgers way as they take
Speaker 3: a two games to none lead in the World Series.
Speaker 3: After a walkoff grand slam by Freddie Freeman last night
Speaker 3: in the tenth inning. Tonight, they do it in nine
Speaker 3: as the Dodgers defeat the Yankees four to two. Welcome
Speaker 3: the Dodger Talk David Vase with you until ten o'clock
Speaker 3: tonight right here on AM five to seventy LA Sports.
Speaker 3: We'll check in with Jose Moda a little bit later
Speaker 3: in the show, as we always do. You'll hear from
Speaker 3: Andre eighth Year, who was reunited with his former teammate
Speaker 3: Matt Kemp.
Speaker 4: They threw out the first pitch.
Speaker 3: He was as big of a fan last night as
Speaker 3: we all were when Freddie Freeman hit that walkoff grand
Speaker 3: slam to give the Dodgers the game one win. We'll
Speaker 3: give you an update on Jack Flaherty and why he
Speaker 3: was taken out of the game last night when he
Speaker 3: was going pretty well despite giving up a two run
Speaker 3: home run to John Carlos. Stanton we finally found out
Speaker 3: why Evan Phillips is not on the World Series rosters,
Speaker 3: so we'll give you an update on that. So between
Speaker 3: now at ten o'clock a lot to get to and look.
Speaker 3: I was a little concerned with the Dodgers tonight. I
Speaker 3: know they held on for a four to h two win,
Speaker 3: but I felt like there were some opportunities for the
Speaker 3: Dodgers to be able to tack on runs in this game.
Speaker 3: Even though they were able to hit three home runs tonight,
Speaker 3: they were only zero for three with runners in scoring position.
Speaker 4: I felt like they could have been able to at least.
Speaker 3: Tack on one more run in this game, especially in
Speaker 3: the fourth inning after Will Smith hit a one out
Speaker 3: double off the wall in center field. He had will
Speaker 3: Smith at second base with one out, Miguel Rojas, who
Speaker 3: got his first star in a long time, grounded out
Speaker 3: to the second baseman, and then show Hey Otani grounded
Speaker 3: out to the shortstop. I felt like one more run
Speaker 3: would have made this a little bit more comfortable for
Speaker 3: the Dodgers, but they were able to wiggle out of
Speaker 3: it in the ninth inning. Blake Trinen, who has been
Speaker 3: outstanding for the Dodgers all season, long was a human
Speaker 3: tonight he was a little erratic and really couldn't get
Speaker 3: that slider sweeper to appear as a strike.
Speaker 4: It was wide left.
Speaker 3: It hit Anthony Rizzo and Dave Roberts smartly and aggressively,
Speaker 3: had Alex Vesia warming up behind Trinan and was able
Speaker 3: to go to Vessia to get the final out of
Speaker 3: the game. And Vessia secures his first save in the
Speaker 3: World Series, and the Dodgers are in a great spot
Speaker 3: right now, headed to New York for three games if necessary,
Speaker 3: with a two games to none lead.
Speaker 4: Six seven, two, five seventy is.
Speaker 3: The phone number you know, Freddie Freeman if the Dodgers
Speaker 3: go on to win this World Series, he already has
Speaker 3: made a strong statement for World Series MVP. After the
Speaker 3: first two games of this series, Taoscar Hernandez and Freddie
Speaker 3: Freeman became just the eleventh player or Freddy became just
Speaker 3: the eleventh player to homer in games one and two
Speaker 3: of a World Series. He followed Taoskar's go ahead to
Speaker 3: run home run off of Rodin with a solo home
Speaker 3: run and no doubter to right field in the same
Speaker 3: area where he hit his walk off grand Slam last night,
Speaker 3: and here was Freddy on MLB Network moments ago, a
Speaker 3: little Harry in.
Speaker 1: The ninth inning.
Speaker 4: What was your thought process watching it all on fold?
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the World Series. You're not gonna be easy.
Speaker 1: You know, they're not just gonna go down easy. They
Speaker 1: got the blake right there, and luckily we got Bettie.
Speaker 5: To come in and close out.
Speaker 6: You know, Dro this morning said when Freddy goes d
Speaker 6: he left on left, he's about to get locked in.
Speaker 4: Do you feel like you're getting locked in?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I feel good. I feel good.
Speaker 6: My baying practice has been good, and I've been feeling
Speaker 6: good at the plate.
Speaker 1: So hopefully Dro keeps saying those good things.
Speaker 8: We saw show Hey, O Tani leave the game leaving
Speaker 8: some pain.
Speaker 4: Your level of concern about show Hey right now?
Speaker 1: I mean, I hopefully he's okay.
Speaker 6: I haven't heard anything, but when you leave in pain
Speaker 6: and holding your arm, it's.
Speaker 1: Probably not a good thing.
Speaker 6: But you know, we got a group of guys in
Speaker 6: here that if he is down, we'll pick him up
Speaker 6: and we'll get that.
Speaker 1: We'll get going.
Speaker 4: Lastly, mindset going to New York.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you know we're up to nothing. I gotta go
Speaker 6: out there and get a day's rest and go get
Speaker 6: after it again on the next one.
Speaker 3: Congratulations Ready here ever, all right, there's Robert Flores with
Speaker 3: Freddie Freeman on MLB Network, and yes, you heard him.
Speaker 4: Ask Freddy about show.
Speaker 3: Heyo Tani who had to leave the game in the
Speaker 3: seventh inning when he was caught stealing to end the
Speaker 3: inning at second base. And it turns out, as Dave
Speaker 3: Roberts told us, it is a left shoulder sublixation that
Speaker 3: Otani suffered, and he will have an MRI and the
Speaker 3: Dodgers will determine whether or not he'll be available for
Speaker 3: Game three of the World Series and whether or not
Speaker 3: he'll be available for the rest of the World Series.
Speaker 3: You know, I mentioned this during the Clubhouse Show as
Speaker 3: soon as they started talking about left shoulder. As Ken
Speaker 3: Rosenthal first reported during the national broadcast, I instantly thought
Speaker 3: about Cody Bellinger when his left shoulder popped out when
Speaker 3: he was celebrating with kek Hernandez during the twenty twenty
Speaker 3: NLCS Game seven, And I actually sent Cody a text
Speaker 3: that wondering if he was watching it and letting him
Speaker 3: know that I instantly thought about his left shoulder popping
Speaker 3: out for a quick second, and he said, yes, he
Speaker 3: was watching it, and yes, it looked like Otani's left
Speaker 3: shoulder popped out for a quick second. And that's basically
Speaker 3: what a sublexation is. It pops out quickly and then
Speaker 3: pops back in. Now, Cody was compromised during the World Series,
Speaker 3: but he was able still to perform and I am
Speaker 3: getting well. Unfortunately, I had to go through my own
Speaker 3: PT and wrist surgery a couple of years ago. You
Speaker 3: may have heard. So I have a few people that
Speaker 3: have my phone number in that field of a medicine
Speaker 3: and they've been texting me what their guests is. They
Speaker 3: believe that Otani has to keep that left shoulder loose overnight.
Speaker 3: They cannot allow to tighten up. And it's basically a
Speaker 3: pain tolerance thing. So the Dodgers will know the extent
Speaker 3: of the injury when they take a look at it
Speaker 3: with the MRI. But Otani is in great hands with
Speaker 3: the team. Doctor Doctor Neil elatrosh eight sixty six nine
Speaker 3: eight seven two five seventy is the phone number with
Speaker 3: or without Otani. The reality is the are two wins
Speaker 3: away from being World champions. Let's go out to the phones. Bruce,
Speaker 3: who is at Dodgers Stadium tonight? You're on Dodger Talk, Hi, Bruce.
Speaker 9: Hey what a b d V.
Speaker 8: I guess Otani joined in on the Uh I got
Speaker 8: hurt on a slide club, So you just go make
Speaker 8: sure that he knows you didn't miss a step afterwards,
Speaker 8: well at least.
Speaker 3: I mean, he's such a freight train. I'm not sure
Speaker 3: people realize how big and strong O'tani is. I mean,
Speaker 3: he is a he is quite a specimen. And the
Speaker 3: force of him hitting the ground obviously was great enough
Speaker 3: for his left shoulder to pop out.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I wish him the best, and I just think
Speaker 8: we have this next man of mentality and he if
Speaker 8: he can't a post for Game three, he's going to
Speaker 8: be our biggest cheerleader. And you know, seeing Tae go
Speaker 8: to right field three times, it looks like you figgure
Speaker 8: something out, like to see him pick up the offense,
Speaker 8: and I feel good. I feel confident, but not comfortable rightfully.
Speaker 4: So this World Series is not over.
Speaker 3: As Freddie said yesterday, it's one game and the Dodgers
Speaker 3: came in and you heard Tommy Edmund tell us thank
Speaker 3: you for the phone call Bruce say that we had
Speaker 3: to bottle up that emotion and take care of business tonight,
Speaker 3: and taking the lead early and getting this crowd involved
Speaker 3: early certainly helped. Not to mention, I referenced this last night.
Speaker 3: I know everybody's bringing parallels to Kirk Gibson's home run
Speaker 3: in nineteen eighty eight, to Freddie Freeman's and rightfully so,
Speaker 3: there are a lot of similarities.
Speaker 4: But what helped propel the Dodgers to.
Speaker 3: Beat the Big, bad, Mighty A's in eighty eight wasn't
Speaker 3: just Kirk Gibson's walk off home run in Game one. Yes,
Speaker 3: that stunned the A's who thought they were going to
Speaker 3: sweep the Dodgers. In fact, I spoke to the old
Speaker 3: Dodgers clubhouse manager last night, Jerry Turner, who told me
Speaker 3: when Dave Parker was taken out of that Game one
Speaker 3: in the eighth inning, he was chirping in the clubhouse
Speaker 3: they were going to sweep the Dodgers. So that's how
Speaker 3: overconfident the A's were, and they were punched in the
Speaker 3: mouth and never recovered. But part of the reason why
Speaker 3: is because in Game two, the A's had to face
Speaker 3: the most dominant pitcher in nineteen eighty eight, and that
Speaker 3: was Oral Hersheizer, who shut them down in Game two
Speaker 3: as well. What Yoshi Yamamoto gave the Dodgers tonight was
Speaker 3: not Herscheizer esque, but it had the same effect. He
Speaker 3: shut down the Yankees, allowed just one hit in six
Speaker 3: and the third innings, and I actually believe he could
Speaker 3: have finished that inning. In fact, he probably should have
Speaker 3: finished that inning. He only had allowed one hit. And
Speaker 3: what world do you take a picture out that has
Speaker 3: only given up one hit in six and a third innings.
Speaker 3: So the point of the man is without Yamamoto pitching
Speaker 3: the way he did tonight, the momentum from last night means,
Speaker 3: I shouldn't say, means nothing, but it certainly is stifled.
Speaker 3: And that's what reminded me of what Oral Herscheizer did
Speaker 3: in Game two of the eighty eight World Series after
Speaker 3: Gibson's heroics in Game one. So this is definitely going
Speaker 3: the way the Dodgers needed it to go. And quite frankly,
Speaker 3: the Yankees are not as good of a team as
Speaker 3: the San Diego Padres. I would make that argument, but
Speaker 3: the Dodgers still have to execute, They still have to
Speaker 3: get timely hitting and the Dodgers have done a great
Speaker 3: job containing Aaron Judge, who was zero for four again tonight.
Speaker 3: John Carlos Stanton was one for four. He drove in
Speaker 3: a run in that ninth inning off of Blake Trin
Speaker 3: And but Juan Soto has been the big problem for
Speaker 3: the Dodgers. Outside of Soto, the other two guys I
Speaker 3: guess Stanton last night, but specifically I guess I should
Speaker 3: say Aaron Judge has not been a factor in this series.
Speaker 3: And here was Aaron Judge moments ago in the Yankees clubhouse.
Speaker 10: You know, we've been through a lot of adversity through
Speaker 10: one sixty two and even in this postseason. So guys,
Speaker 10: you're gonna step up. Guys are gonna do what anything
Speaker 10: to do. And I got to step up as well.
Speaker 10: You know I've been you know, especially with what labor
Speaker 10: and what want to do on the top of the lineup. Man,
Speaker 10: I got to back them up. So you know they're
Speaker 10: gonna keep getting getting on base. I gotta drive a man.
Speaker 4: Or move over.
Speaker 11: And when you're having an explanation for why you're expanding,
Speaker 11: and when you do, you haven't use your who's remedy?
Speaker 1: That really walking on your zone. You know at times
Speaker 1: you want to.
Speaker 10: I think it's trying to make things happen and so
Speaker 10: letting the game come to you. I think that's what
Speaker 10: it really comes down to.
Speaker 12: You know.
Speaker 10: You see labor out there on base one is getting
Speaker 10: on base doing things. You want to try to make
Speaker 10: something happen. But uh, you know, if you're not going
Speaker 10: to get a pitch on the zone, you gotta just
Speaker 10: take your walks instead. Up for Big G's so playing
Speaker 10: a sample, I gotta start stringing strike the strikes.
Speaker 4: All right.
Speaker 3: There's Aaron Judge speaking to reporters moments to go in
Speaker 3: the Yankees clubhouse, and Olden Gonzalez from ESPN had a
Speaker 3: very very interesting note. Aaron Judge has taken one hundred
Speaker 3: and nine swings in this playoffs and has whiffed on
Speaker 3: forty seven of them. That's a swing and misrate of
Speaker 3: forty three percent. That's the highest whiff rate during a
Speaker 3: regular seat. Well, I guess the highest whiff rate during
Speaker 3: the regular season was by Zach Gehloff, who swung and
Speaker 3: missed at a thirty six percent clip. Judge is swinging
Speaker 3: and missing at a forty three percent clip. And the
Speaker 3: Dodgers are spinning him to death. Flirty did it with
Speaker 3: the curveball last night. Yamamoto was doing it again tonight
Speaker 3: with his split fingered fastball. And the other spin that
Speaker 3: he had at his disposal tonight is slider.
Speaker 4: He was able to use that as a weapon at times.
Speaker 3: And certainly the Dodgers have a great scating report on
Speaker 3: Aaron Judge because they are exploiting him. Yamamoto with his
Speaker 3: curveball tonight, with his split fingered fastball tonight, was able
Speaker 3: to limit the end Thanke's to just one hit and
Speaker 3: Aaron Judge, oh for for tonight. Let's go out to Felix,
Speaker 3: who is at Dodgers Stadium tonight.
Speaker 4: Hi Felix, you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 13: What's going on?
Speaker 14: My man?
Speaker 13: Hey?
Speaker 14: Before I start, I'd like to say thank you to
Speaker 14: you and everyone at the station for everything you guys do,
Speaker 14: especially throughout the whole season. You guys have been great.
Speaker 14: I love listening to you guys after the show, So
Speaker 14: just thank.
Speaker 4: You, Hey, thank you for listening and being such a
Speaker 4: great fan.
Speaker 14: So yeah, man, I'm on my way back south to
Speaker 14: Modre Country, but I wanted to say a couple of
Speaker 14: things and I'll make it quick. First, If anyone's still
Speaker 14: on the fence about going to these games and they're
Speaker 14: kind of weirded out about you know the cost, trust me, folks,
Speaker 14: it's worth it.
Speaker 13: I splurged. I treated myself.
Speaker 14: I figured, you know what, I only lived once and
Speaker 14: I'm not taking it with me when when God calls
Speaker 14: out on me.
Speaker 13: So third base A roads from the field. I loved every.
Speaker 4: Minute of Wow, those are great seats.
Speaker 3: So you had a front row you to not only
Speaker 3: Dodgers Yankees, but a front row view to ice Cube
Speaker 3: just freestyling out there by himself.
Speaker 4: That was epic.
Speaker 14: I didn't even know that was happening, man. So it started,
Speaker 14: and I'm like, hey, I also get a concert out
Speaker 14: of it. Tommy Edmund that guy is playing his you
Speaker 14: know what offs and I'm enjoying every second of it.
Speaker 13: I know, Freddie Freeman, you know, possibly MVP of the
Speaker 13: World series, Tommy Edmund Man maybe.
Speaker 14: And the last thing I'll say is, and it's just
Speaker 14: an observation. Every person, including myself, if I'm being honest,
Speaker 14: every person has given Dave Roberts crap about name it.
Speaker 13: Filling the flanks I looked at.
Speaker 14: I would want to give Dodger fans the opportunity to
Speaker 14: give the man some props for what he is doing.
Speaker 13: I mean, we can all Monday quarterback.
Speaker 14: The man, but right now, everything he has been doing
Speaker 14: this entire postseason, including tonight. Yes, I second guests and
Speaker 14: pulling on my motto, but I saw the pitch count.
Speaker 13: And I know, I mean, he has taken half the.
Speaker 14: Season off, so maybe that's why he did it. You
Speaker 14: know what, I'm not gonna second guess him. God bless him.
Speaker 13: He did it. We won. We're two wins away, man,
Speaker 13: So I'll take you your comments.
Speaker 4: Off the radio, all right, Felix, thanks for the phone call. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Dave Roberts has been a topic of conversation ever since
Speaker 3: the Dodgers beat the Padres, which I feel is hilarious.
Speaker 3: Dave Roberts didn't just become a good manager. Dave Roberts
Speaker 3: did not just become mister positive. That's who Dave Roberts
Speaker 3: has been for the last nine years as the Dodger manager,
Speaker 3: who he is right now obviously more experienced, He's now
Speaker 3: in his fourth World Series managing the Dodgers. That obviously
Speaker 3: helps to slow down the game and understand what's coming.
Speaker 3: At you, and I feel like that is an advantage
Speaker 3: for the Dodgers. But Dave Roberts didn't just become a
Speaker 3: great manager overnight. In your mind, he did, but he
Speaker 3: has managed two really good seasons back to back, and
Speaker 3: he led the Dodgers to the twenty World Series as well.
Speaker 3: So I mean, I'm all for it, but I think
Speaker 3: it's a little comic goal that now, all of a sudden,
Speaker 3: everybody thinks Dave Roberts is a Hall of Famer when
Speaker 3: what changed? He beat the Padres, if he lost to
Speaker 3: the Padres, if the Dodgers lost to the Padres, Is
Speaker 3: Dave Roberts a horrible manager?
Speaker 4: Absolutely not. But one thing about Dave.
Speaker 3: Roberts is from day I shouldn't say since day one,
Speaker 3: I would say since day one, before the postseason began.
Speaker 4: I was out here at Dodgers Stadium.
Speaker 3: Talking to Dave before one of the workouts, and he
Speaker 3: told me, very candidly, I really believe in this team.
Speaker 3: And you know, you hear guy managers say that I
Speaker 3: really believe in this team. But he was really authentic
Speaker 3: and genuine, and everything that he has done with his
Speaker 3: actions has really backed up those words that he has
Speaker 3: believed in this team. And look, if Otani's out for
Speaker 3: the rest of the World Series, next man up. You
Speaker 3: know what I would do if Otani was out for
Speaker 3: the rest of the World Series, I'd make Will Smith
Speaker 3: the DH and have Austin Barnes catch eight six six
Speaker 3: nine eighty seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 3: Let's go out to Ray. Who is at Dodgers Stadium tonight? Hi, Ray,
Speaker 3: you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 9: Holy crab, Holy crab, David, I.
Speaker 3: Say, oh, yeah, so you're in the parking lot. I
Speaker 3: hurd some horns honking.
Speaker 13: Yep, I'm heading out stuck in traffic.
Speaker 15: Uhated to our first World Series game.
Speaker 9: More wins, two more wins, two more wins.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we mean that off the bucket list.
Speaker 12: You know, we're just so excited.
Speaker 14: Andre Ethier Matt Camp throwing out the first pitch, handing
Speaker 14: it over to Ice Cuet.
Speaker 3: It was amazing. And I know you're in the Dodgers
Speaker 3: Stadium parking lot. I'm sure the cell towers got you
Speaker 3: right there. But happy you guys had a great time
Speaker 3: at the game. And look, from start to finish, like
Speaker 3: last night, it was, it was not just a game.
Speaker 3: It was an event to be at tonight Dodgers Yankees. Yes,
Speaker 3: but then the Dodgers pull out all the stops and
Speaker 3: bring out Matt Camp andre Ethier to throw out the
Speaker 3: first pitch and then ice Cube comes out from center field.
Speaker 4: Come on.
Speaker 3: That was pretty spectacular. And speaking of Andre Ethier and
Speaker 3: Matt Camp, andre joined us on the pregame show, and
Speaker 3: he spent his entire twelve year career with the Dodgers
Speaker 3: and certainly has a lot of passion for this franchise,
Speaker 3: even though he retired after the twenty seventeen World Series.
Speaker 3: And he's a big fan of this team and a
Speaker 3: big fan of what they're doing. And he's a big
Speaker 3: fan like all of us when Freddie Freeman does something
Speaker 3: that he did last night. Here was what Andre Ethier
Speaker 3: had to say about the twenty twenty four Dodgers and
Speaker 3: Freddy Freeman's walk off Grand Slam.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, one hundred percent invested. Uh you know, I'm
Speaker 7: you know, all in. I love this team, I love
Speaker 7: this organization. I wanted to have, you know, the most
Speaker 7: amount of success that could have. But yeah, when we
Speaker 7: were getting series in games like this, I'm I'm all
Speaker 7: for it. I'm sitting there yelling and screaming, probably doing
Speaker 7: the same reactions that everyone's doing at home, at the
Speaker 7: same reactions everone's doing.
Speaker 4: At the stadium.
Speaker 1: So yeah, it's fun to be here.
Speaker 7: That's why I'm here today and here enjoying World Series
Speaker 7: baseball back in LA where right rightfully belongs to rightfully
Speaker 7: should be.
Speaker 3: Andre it seemed like everybody was happy for Freddie Freeman
Speaker 3: because I know, if you've talked about this, the game
Speaker 3: rewards you, and it seems like he's put in a
Speaker 3: lot to this game, and it felt like the game
Speaker 3: rewarded him last night.
Speaker 7: For sure, one hundred percent. H You know, he's been
Speaker 7: a guy who's been so stable over the course of
Speaker 7: his whole, you know, career. I think I saw that
Speaker 7: stat they pulled up last night all his what he's
Speaker 7: first and second in and the last like I don't know,
Speaker 7: it was a five six, seven years or something like
Speaker 7: pits RBIs, you.
Speaker 4: Know, all that stuff.
Speaker 7: I mean, it's it's unbelievable to see the resume he's
Speaker 7: put together, and he's quite and let's really be real,
Speaker 7: he's quietly done it. Everyone knows who Freddy Freeman is
Speaker 7: everyone and can give his accolades. But you don't realize
Speaker 7: the level of success he's had, not only the level
Speaker 7: of success, the elite level of success he's had, because
Speaker 7: you look at those numbers right there, he's first, not
Speaker 7: not tenth, not eleventh, not even thirtieth, He's first and
Speaker 7: second a lot of those categories. And you know it's
Speaker 7: that that's what makes this line up tough, right Like
Speaker 7: you you had a batani uh, let's walk, bets uh
Speaker 7: deep breath. After we got those, you know, we got
Speaker 7: Otani out, we get we put bets on, and then
Speaker 7: we have Freddy coming up, who's we know's hobbled, who's
Speaker 7: always been struggling, and I guess a wounded a wounded animal,
Speaker 7: wounded creatures. There's some of the you know, some of
Speaker 7: the most dangerous and Freddie definitely showed.
Speaker 4: It last night. Yeah, there's Andre Ethier.
Speaker 3: He's just says, is as excited as all of us
Speaker 3: from what he saw last night from Freddie Freeman. And
Speaker 3: I'm sure he was excited from a game to win
Speaker 3: over the Yankees. The Dodgers beat the Yanks tonight four
Speaker 3: to two to take a two games to none lead
Speaker 3: in the World Series. By the way, Freddie Freeman, and
Speaker 3: I mentioned this last night. I was remissed in not
Speaker 3: celebrating his triple. Freddie Freeman now is only the second
Speaker 3: player in baseball history to have multiple home runs and
Speaker 3: a triple over the first two games of a World Series.
Speaker 3: The other Babe Ruth in the nineteen twenty three World Series.
Speaker 3: So Freddie Freeman and Babe Ruth have something in common.
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Speaker 4: More of your phone calls.
Speaker 3: We have two lines open, and we'll also hear from
Speaker 3: Jose Mota. After the Dodgers defeat the Yankees in Game
Speaker 3: two of the World Series four to two on a
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Speaker 11: Seven game hitting street batting average four to nineteen for
Speaker 11: Edmond during the stretch on Rodn's two oh and Ben swings,
Speaker 11: HiT's a high fly ball left field, carrying toward the
Speaker 11: corner of Verdugo on the run.
Speaker 1: He's at the wall.
Speaker 16: Hit down, Tommy.
Speaker 4: Thanks, Welcome to the World Series tm ME.
Speaker 3: Edmund gave the Dodgers an early lead leading off the
Speaker 3: second inning off.
Speaker 4: Of Carlos Rodon.
Speaker 3: They would add three more on back to back home
Speaker 3: runs by Freddie Freeman and Taoscar Hernandez with two outs
Speaker 3: in the third inning and go on to beat the
Speaker 3: Yankees in Game two of the World Series four to two.
Speaker 3: David Vasse live at Dodgers Stadium. We are taking your
Speaker 3: phone calls until the top of the hour tonight at
Speaker 3: eight six six nine, eight seven two five seventy. We'll
Speaker 3: give you the latest on Jack Flaherty in a moment.
Speaker 3: We'll hear from Jose Mona in about ten minutes. But
Speaker 3: I want to go back out to the phone calls tonight.
Speaker 3: Let's go out to Mark who is at Dodgers Stadium. Hi, Mark,
Speaker 3: you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 5: Hi day. Yes, so I really enjoyed the game. I
Speaker 5: thought Yamamongo, as I had expect him to be, was brilliant.
Speaker 5: So it was a smooth game. And then you alluded
Speaker 5: to this the ninth inning was an absolute restless thriller
Speaker 5: as far as I was concerned. You answered part of
Speaker 5: to ask you that because I did not know that
Speaker 5: Evan Phillips was not available.
Speaker 17: Who's our usual closer?
Speaker 5: What was the thinking do you think of having Blake
Speaker 5: Trinan come in the ninth inning when we all know
Speaker 5: that last night he was used for I believe two innings.
Speaker 5: I think he gave up a run, not bad, but
Speaker 5: he wasn't fresh And I don't know if there's going
Speaker 5: to be a bullpen game that's at least three days away,
Speaker 5: there's a lot of fresh arms. What was the thought
Speaker 5: to use in again after having used him already two
Speaker 5: innings last night?
Speaker 3: Well, Blake Trinan has been the most dominant reliever they had.
Speaker 4: They already used Michael Kopek.
Speaker 3: They're not going to use Bruce star Graderol back to
Speaker 3: back night since he's been dealing with the shoulder injury
Speaker 3: all season long and had him pitched in a month,
Speaker 3: so he was the guy. And Mark the reason is
Speaker 3: it's the World Series. It's now or never, you know,
Speaker 3: back to bags. For a strong guy like Blake Trinan,
Speaker 3: that doesn't matter. He just didn't have it tonight. And
Speaker 3: you have to give Dave Roberts credit for having al
Speaker 3: Zvessia up and ready to go. Now, as far as
Speaker 3: Evan Phillips goes, yes, he is not on the World
Speaker 3: Series roster because he has nerve irritation in his right
Speaker 3: shoulder that really started to irritate itself after or during
Speaker 3: Game six of the NLCS. That's why he couldn't come
Speaker 3: back out to pitch a second inning when Dave Roberts motioned,
Speaker 3: that's when the shoulder just wasn't bouncing back. So they're
Speaker 3: down having Phillips in the World Series and Trina was the.
Speaker 4: Best option I see.
Speaker 5: Okay, thank you my.
Speaker 3: Pleasure eight sixty six, nine eighty seven two five seventy. Now,
Speaker 3: speaking of injuries, it was a little puzzling last night
Speaker 3: after Jack Flerty made one mistake pitch. In fact, it
Speaker 3: wasn't even that big of a mistake. John Carlos Stanton
Speaker 3: just made a great swing on a breaking ball down
Speaker 3: and ind for a go ahead two run home run,
Speaker 3: and the following batter, Jack Flherty was allowed to stay
Speaker 3: in to face during the sixth inning was Jazz Chisholm
Speaker 3: and Flerity threw one pitch to Chisholm, and that's when
Speaker 3: Dave Roberts went out to get Flarity and bring in
Speaker 3: Anthony Banda, and we were all a little confused, like,
Speaker 3: what's going on? Why are you taking them out after
Speaker 3: only throwing one pitch? Well today, Dave Roberts explained the reason.
Speaker 7: There's a little his hamstring tightened up a little bit,
Speaker 7: so I don't think it's going to be a big deal,
Speaker 7: but that's why he was shaking his leg.
Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, So that was I believe his push
Speaker 3: off leg his right leg his right hamstring. And I
Speaker 3: saw Jack before the game today. He seemed to be
Speaker 3: in good spirits and doesn't seem overly concerned over his
Speaker 3: right hamstring bothering him last night. So, in case you
Speaker 3: were wondering, like we all were, why Flarity was taken
Speaker 3: out after throwing one pitch to jazzh Chisholm in the
Speaker 3: sixth inning last night and taken out of the game.
Speaker 3: That's the reason. Eight six six two five seventy is
Speaker 3: the phone number. Let's go out to Santa Clarita, Tony,
Speaker 3: you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 18: Hi, Tony, Hey, David Tao and Bets are back and
Speaker 18: we're They got famous at Yankee Stadium. That's where we're going.
Speaker 18: They have a lot of experience there. That's where they
Speaker 18: got famous. And then we got before and we Freeman,
Speaker 18: Munsey and Lucks. Yankee Stadium is a left handed hitters park,
Speaker 18: and we get Otani back. We got four left handers,
Speaker 18: they only got two. And we got the consistent lighting,
Speaker 18: no sunshine all night time, and we got the Brooklyn fans.
Speaker 18: We got to close it out over there. We've had
Speaker 18: enough celebration over here. We gotta we gotta, we gotta
Speaker 18: end it at their place.
Speaker 3: All right, Tony, thanks for the phone call. It's a
Speaker 3: real possibility.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 3: It just feels like the Dodgers are maybe a step
Speaker 3: or two better than the Yankees, And talking to some
Speaker 3: of the New York media, they said the Dodgers are
Speaker 3: the best team the Yankees have faced in over a month,
Speaker 3: and they're giving them fits.
Speaker 4: I'm not going to say it's going to be a sweep.
Speaker 4: I'm not going to go that far.
Speaker 3: But the Dodgers are in a great spot to have
Speaker 3: a three games to none lead with Walker Buehler on
Speaker 3: the mount in Game three on Monday night at Yankee Stadium.
Speaker 3: Game four is going to be a bullpen game for
Speaker 3: the Dodgers, and we'll see where it goes from there.
Speaker 3: Eight six six, nine eighty seven, two five seventy is
Speaker 3: the phone number. Let's go out to Glendale. Aaron, you're
Speaker 3: on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 4: Hi erin, Hey.
Speaker 17: David, how you doing man, Thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 17: I'm kind of in la la land with the Dodgers
Speaker 17: being up two to zero in the World Series. This
Speaker 17: has been a magical ride. One thing about this team
Speaker 17: is the invisible and tangible that they have. They have
Speaker 17: a level one hundred fight and they have zero back
Speaker 17: down in them, grit, determination and unity, and through such
Speaker 17: a troubling season, I think that's kind of they just
Speaker 17: glue together more tightly with all of the trials and tribulations.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm not sure you make it sound like doom
Speaker 3: and gloom. Trials and tribulations they've had their share of injuries,
Speaker 3: but what team hasn't. The one thing that I really
Speaker 3: love seeing from this team and the reason why I've
Speaker 3: had belief in this team is Number One, they're really talented.
Speaker 3: Even with some of the injuries they had, they've been
Speaker 3: able to have one of the greatest collection of talents
Speaker 3: in Major League history, starting with Otani, Bets and Freeman.
Speaker 4: And also the fact that they.
Speaker 3: Actually started to lock it in in the month of
Speaker 3: September and not dim the switch. I remember in spring
Speaker 3: training Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, and Dwayne Wade's trainer Tim
Speaker 3: Grover came in to speak to the team, and it
Speaker 3: wasn't about flipping the switch. It was about not allowing
Speaker 3: the switch to be dimmed. And the Dodgers never allowed
Speaker 3: that switch to be dimmed. And when it started to
Speaker 3: dim Dave Roberts called a team meeting to pick everybody
Speaker 3: up after Tyler glass Now was shut down for the season. So, yeah,
Speaker 3: they're a special group of players, Aaron, There's no doubt
Speaker 3: about it.
Speaker 17: Oh, definitely, I agree on the talent. I do have
Speaker 17: one question.
Speaker 13: It didn't seem like.
Speaker 17: Blake Trina was throwing his sinker at all, really maybe once,
Speaker 17: and I wanted to see if knew Whire had an
Speaker 17: idea and things. For taking my call, go Dodgers.
Speaker 3: All right, thanks for the phone call. You're right, he
Speaker 3: didn't throw it that often. He threw of his thirty
Speaker 3: three pitches, twenty of them were his slider slash sweeper.
Speaker 3: So I don't have the answer for that, except for
Speaker 3: the fact that it's one of the best pitches in
Speaker 3: Major League Baseball. He just was yanking it too much
Speaker 3: tonight eight sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy.
Speaker 3: Let's take one more phone call before we check in
Speaker 3: with jose Mota. Nicole, You're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 9: Hey, Dave, what's going on. We're finally out of Dodgers State.
Speaker 9: I am, but I was there tonight with my two kids,
Speaker 9: my six year old my nine year old, and I
Speaker 9: just want to say we were very lucky enough. We
Speaker 9: were there last night, my husband and I, which is amazing,
Speaker 9: and then today we were there. We were lucky enough
Speaker 9: to get dugout tickets and four roads behind the Freeman family.
Speaker 9: And when Fred Freeman walked past us, I stopped and
Speaker 9: I said, mister Freeman, I just want to say I
Speaker 9: want to introduce you to my son, my six year old,
Speaker 9: who plays baseball, and thank you. I tell him every
Speaker 9: day about how Freddy used to go out take pitches
Speaker 9: from you for an hour, and I just want to
Speaker 9: thank you for giving us that work ethic to copy
Speaker 9: and we're so honored to meet you. So it was
Speaker 9: just an amazing, amazing time, like something obviously core memories
Speaker 9: for our kids, something we'll never forget. Last night pandemonium amazing.
Speaker 9: Just really I grew up in La Sampedro, remember eighty eight,
Speaker 9: you know, being at home, and so this year it's
Speaker 9: just it's magical. I feel like this is just a
Speaker 9: next level, you know, Dodger experience for everybody, and we're
Speaker 9: feeling it all across La.
Speaker 5: It's just so amazing.
Speaker 4: Love a great phone call, Nicole.
Speaker 3: Fred Freeman a great man, and he raised a great son,
Speaker 3: the Freeman family from his grandfather to his dad. Obviously
Speaker 3: I never met his mom, but obviously a great family.
Speaker 3: And Freddie is really if you had any kids out
Speaker 3: there and you wanted them to look up to a player,
Speaker 3: it would be Freddie Freeman. He stands for everything that's right.
Speaker 3: And here was his home run in the third inning.
Speaker 3: After ta Oscar Hernandez gave the Dodgers the lead, Freddie poured.
Speaker 1: It on the three two pitch.
Speaker 16: Freddie swings him belts a ball right field, no doubt gone,
Speaker 16: here's your team.
Speaker 6: What Carlos Rodan in Game two, third home run of
Speaker 6: the night in LA four.
Speaker 1: What lead?
Speaker 3: Freddie Freeman became just the eleventh player in baseball history
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Speaker 2: It's tough to go around the horn with Jose Mota.
Speaker 4: All right, Jose Mota.
Speaker 3: Everybody's freaking out over Sho Heo Tani dislocating his left
Speaker 3: shoulder or should I say sublization of his left shoulder
Speaker 3: the way even Cody Bellinger described it, pops in, pops
Speaker 3: back out, pops out, pops back in. Do you believe
Speaker 3: that Otani will be able to play again in this
Speaker 3: World Series?
Speaker 15: I've seen these injuries happen, Dave, and before you know it,
Speaker 15: you know, somebody says, oh, it's minor, But until you
Speaker 15: find out how much those ligaments are stressed out, you
Speaker 15: just don't know. So the best thing that's happening right
Speaker 15: now is you have a very good ball club. You
Speaker 15: have a team that's in a very good position. Showey,
Speaker 15: obviously we want him to do well and finish off
Speaker 15: the World Series in a successful way, but I think
Speaker 15: the conversation should lead more into Showhy doing well and
Speaker 15: knowing that you have a great team behind him, knowing
Speaker 15: that they've played this year without so many injured star players.
Speaker 15: Paternity for Showy because of who he is, what he represents.
Speaker 15: We pray for the very best. But there's no need
Speaker 15: whatsoever to risk him, and for sure, he's got to
Speaker 15: be in a good position. I mean, it becomes more
Speaker 15: of an issue, you know, obviously there's some markelist coming
Speaker 15: from the Yankees, and then win show going to be
Speaker 15: back because in I hate it, so hopefully it will
Speaker 15: not be the case at all.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's weird. I'm not that concerned about Otani. If
Speaker 3: he's not able to play the rest of the World Series.
Speaker 3: It would be just disappointing for him not to be
Speaker 3: able to play the rest of the World Series. But
Speaker 3: I feel like the Dodgers, it just feels like they
Speaker 3: got something where they wouldn't skip too much of a beat.
Speaker 3: And let's be honest here, the first two games of
Speaker 3: the World Series, Otani has not had a huge impact
Speaker 3: and the Dodgers have a two games to none lead, And.
Speaker 15: Even when he hit stretches during the season when he
Speaker 15: wasn't doing well, the Dodgers, sorry, the Dodgers. Man, It's
Speaker 15: a deep ball club. Guys have believe in each other
Speaker 15: and for Showy what he brings, and you know how
Speaker 15: I feel about him, I know for a very long time.
Speaker 15: I just I think the moment belongs more to this
Speaker 15: ball club and the fact that they're so deep. They're
Speaker 15: playing inspired baseball. Obviously, with his talents, he continue a
Speaker 15: game in a herd before you in so many different ways.
Speaker 15: But this team is so deep and running such a
Speaker 15: wave right now that I'm sure Shoe is a piece,
Speaker 15: even more a piece, knowing that is not an urgent
Speaker 15: situation as of right now, But let's wait and see
Speaker 15: as to how far out that shoulder came out and
Speaker 15: see how to think, you know, go from.
Speaker 4: There, Jose styles make fights.
Speaker 3: It just feels like Yamamoto style brings out the best
Speaker 3: of him against the Yankees. This was again the second
Speaker 3: time this year where he has dominated that lineup. Is
Speaker 3: it because he had the curveball and the splitter working?
Speaker 3: What is it about Yama Moto against this lineup?
Speaker 15: Mechanics on time. When I saw ninety eight against Glaber
Speaker 15: towards in the first thing, I said, Okay, he's on
Speaker 15: the loosest of the arm. He's a big believer and
Speaker 15: having a whip with his arm. When his arms is
Speaker 15: flowing freely as he finishes a pitch, that he gets
Speaker 15: a lot of life. In fact, a four steaver today
Speaker 15: was cutting a lot more than he wanted to, so
Speaker 15: I told it. I actually told Pepa, I say, if
Speaker 15: he tows it down just a little bit more because
Speaker 15: his arm is such a good spot, it's going to
Speaker 15: be better off. So he doesn't get that quick little
Speaker 15: late break that having the ball pop out from the
Speaker 15: outer corner strike to be in a ball when the
Speaker 15: Yankees were taking it. But man, Dave, he's on time
Speaker 15: with everything. I always have believe that with Austin Barnes
Speaker 15: catching throughout the regular season is when we saw him
Speaker 15: implement the curve all more and more. Now with Will
Speaker 15: Smith catching the last few games with yellow mode, especially
Speaker 15: when he came back from the injury, we saw that
Speaker 15: pitch being.
Speaker 13: Incorporated a little bit more.
Speaker 15: It's a big pitch. He's a ground ball pitcher. When
Speaker 15: he needs to, he can get out against by using
Speaker 15: the defense. But he is a complete guy who does
Speaker 15: not make anything look too big. At times it has
Speaker 15: not been very good. I know for sure that he
Speaker 15: has been tipping pitches. That issue has been taken care
Speaker 15: but at the same time and he competes that he
Speaker 15: just cannot go out there and measure in any computer
Speaker 15: analytics Ceverra metrics his heart because he's been through big moments,
Speaker 15: not in the US but in Japad. But the formality
Speaker 15: of the whole thing is where your mind is and
Speaker 15: where you go to, which is for young kids to understand.
Speaker 15: If you've been there before, you perform well, remember those moments.
Speaker 15: Visualize that you know that it doesn't matter circumstances, you
Speaker 15: believe in yourself, you execute, you play casualty catcher, and
Speaker 15: the ball's going to find some good zones.
Speaker 3: A big reason why the Dodgers have a two games
Speaker 3: to none lead in this series is because they've been
Speaker 3: able to contain Aaron Judge. Jowan Soto has taken his
Speaker 3: walks to night. He homerd last night. I was stanton
Speaker 3: with the go I had to run home run. But
Speaker 3: it hasn't been all three of them. What are the
Speaker 3: Dodgers doing so well against Aaron Judge?
Speaker 15: I said before the series, go out there and get
Speaker 15: strike one on him, because when you're under defensive right
Speaker 15: now as he is, he's guessing what.
Speaker 13: They're going to be starting with.
Speaker 15: Well, first of all, eagle out there and get a strike.
Speaker 15: I'm not going to say steal the strike because he's
Speaker 15: so dangerous. This guy had fifty at home runs, drove
Speaker 15: in one hundred and forty four runs. But when you have
Speaker 15: him under defensive as he is, he's talking about feeling
Speaker 15: for the ball. He's talking about lunging. I mean he's
Speaker 15: opening up. He actually straightened up his stands a little
Speaker 15: bit more as I was talking to Alex Rodriguez about
Speaker 15: this in New York.
Speaker 1: But he also.
Speaker 15: Knows that the Dodgers are challenging him. He's seeing strikes
Speaker 15: and he's actually seen a couple of hanging brick and
Speaker 15: balls that you know when he's on they're not going
Speaker 15: to be around the ballpark at all. But you know what,
Speaker 15: he's riding this wave and the Dodgers are attacking him,
Speaker 15: not shine away from the zone and being able to
Speaker 15: repeat good pitches time after time when it maps the most.
Speaker 3: It felt like the Dodgers needed to tack on maybe
Speaker 3: one more run tonight. Jose I brought up that one
Speaker 3: out double by Will Smith in the fourth inning. The
Speaker 3: Dodgers were not able to cash him in. Did you
Speaker 3: feel like it was a little too close for comfort
Speaker 3: as we were getting down to the final three innings tonight.
Speaker 15: You always feel that way when do you see the
Speaker 15: other team, you know, get a little closer. I mean,
Speaker 15: the Yankees hit more home runs than anybody in base
Speaker 15: be for a reason. One mistake and they're back in
Speaker 15: the game. But you always want to tack on runs.
Speaker 15: But you got to remember too, is the other teams
Speaker 15: run prevent runs, and the Yankees are a very good
Speaker 15: job and executing pitches as they did last night up
Speaker 15: until the tenth inning. So overall, just glad to have
Speaker 15: the lead they had, and with the power again, the
Speaker 15: Dodgers are getting it done. The wat's not a factory
Speaker 15: again today the Yankees are not walking Dodgers. Think about
Speaker 15: that too, is how they took advantage of that during
Speaker 15: the LCS. Yeah, they've capitalized on everything from the top
Speaker 15: of the order, bottom of the order. And for sure
Speaker 15: you know that there's a lot of firepower because guys
Speaker 15: are taking good swings and having very good at bats.
Speaker 3: All right, Jose Motor, Before I'll let you go, if
Speaker 3: Otani is not able to be in the lineup for
Speaker 3: Game three, who would be the Dodgers DH? I suggested
Speaker 3: Will Smith d H get him off his feet behind
Speaker 3: the plate and have Austin Barnes Catchwalker Bueller.
Speaker 15: That's a very good option. We know what the Austin
Speaker 15: bars can bring, and we know what the legs could be.
Speaker 15: If they're a little rusty, not a little rusty, but
Speaker 15: little tired. For Will Smith, it could be beneficial. The
Speaker 15: other option is, I mean, hopefully not going to be
Speaker 15: a case where you have to replace Showhan on the roster.
Speaker 19: But there's some.
Speaker 15: Options with that too. But Amy Pies becomes for you
Speaker 15: an option too with that. But and then the risk
Speaker 15: obviously that we know very well with having the two
Speaker 15: catchers of the game is that if you lose one
Speaker 15: of them, the other one, as a DH, has to
Speaker 15: go in the game and you have to go out
Speaker 15: there and incorporate the pitch. So there's a lot of
Speaker 15: things to weigh on and chances that you take more
Speaker 15: during the regular season that I think you're probably not
Speaker 15: going to take in the World Series when you go
Speaker 15: close to winning everything.
Speaker 3: All right, Jose, we'll see on the plane tomorrow on
Speaker 3: the way to the Bronx.
Speaker 15: Zoo Asta Manyana.
Speaker 3: All right, there he goes Jose Mota, part of the
Speaker 3: Dodgers Spanish radio broadcast. And look, it's not that much
Speaker 3: of a risk to have Austin Barnes and Will Smith
Speaker 3: in the same starting lineup. For those of us that
Speaker 3: were in Texas, like I was isolated for three and
Speaker 3: a half weeks, we saw Austin Barnes catch four of
Speaker 3: the six World Series games while Will Smith was the DH.
Speaker 3: That's a combination that has worked for the Dodgers in
Speaker 3: the past. And if for some reason that Otani is
Speaker 3: not able to be in the starting lineup for the Dodgers,
Speaker 3: Buehler is very comfortable throwing to Austin Barnes, the entire
Speaker 3: pitching staff is, and he has not had one start
Speaker 3: in this entire postseason. Will Smith at times looks like
Speaker 3: he's underwater at the plate, especially on fastballs. It might
Speaker 3: be something to help Will at the plate, and you
Speaker 3: don't lose anything defensively with Austin Barnes catching. Eight six
Speaker 3: six nine eighty seven two five seventy is the phone
Speaker 3: number if I had to bet on it. I don't
Speaker 3: see Otani being in the starting lineup for Game three.
Speaker 3: Whether or not he plays again in the World Series,
Speaker 3: nobody can predict that because the MRI has not been
Speaker 3: taken yet. So I just feel like there's an outside
Speaker 3: chance that Otani starts in Game three, and still a
Speaker 3: very good chance that he may play again in the
Speaker 3: World Series. Eight six six nine eight seven two five
Speaker 3: seventy is the phone number. Dodgers win Game two tonight
Speaker 3: four to two over the Yankees behind a great pitching
Speaker 3: performance from Yamamoto, who went six and the third innings
Speaker 3: allowed just one hit. As the Dodgers go to New
Speaker 3: York now two wins away from winning the World Series.
Speaker 4: Let's go out to George in La. You're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 19: Hi George, Hey Dave, thanks taking my call. Hey, just
Speaker 19: a couple of things real quick. You know about Freddie
Speaker 19: Freeman's home run last night. You know, I love that
Speaker 19: he's now a part of Dodger lore because I think
Speaker 19: a lot of us were waiting for that big hit
Speaker 19: the past couple of seasons. And you know, I just.
Speaker 4: Yet him here.
Speaker 3: Mookie had his signature moment defensively during the twenty twenty
Speaker 3: World Series, but uh, he really hasn't had a signature
Speaker 3: offensive moment in the postseason, and Freddy now has his
Speaker 3: signature moment.
Speaker 19: Yeah, and I feel like he got rid of some
Speaker 19: of that brave stanch if you will. But you know
Speaker 19: what about today, you know, you you brought up the
Speaker 19: fact about needing one another run or two, and it
Speaker 19: kind of concerned me, you know, And and I just
Speaker 19: feel not to be mean or anything, but I feel
Speaker 19: like when Rojas is in the lineup, he doesn't really
Speaker 19: contribute offensively. What would you how would you feel about
Speaker 19: putting like Taylor at short? I mean, I know he's
Speaker 19: had it struggle, but.
Speaker 4: He Taylor a short. No, Tommy Edmon would be at short.
Speaker 3: If Rojas is not Taylor plays second in the outfield,
Speaker 3: he's not playing short.
Speaker 19: Well, what I'm saying is not Rojas, you know, because
Speaker 19: I just thought we need we got.
Speaker 3: The spots start today because Rodin was on the mound.
Speaker 3: And look, I'll be candid with you, a lot of
Speaker 3: people were surprised that Rojas did get the start tonight
Speaker 3: because what the Dodgers have been doing with Pajz and Center,
Speaker 3: Edmund and Keik and Taylor, a lot of people thought
Speaker 3: that's the way it would be. But look, Rojas is
Speaker 3: not going to get many more starts in the World Series,
Speaker 3: but he's been a big part of this team.
Speaker 19: George, I agree with what you say about this team
Speaker 19: having momentum, whether or not. And for those of us
Speaker 19: who lived through eighty eight, you know when they were
Speaker 19: we were doing it with Scotch Tape and Denny Heat
Speaker 19: and those guys. Once you get going, man, we just
Speaker 19: got to keep believing going man.
Speaker 4: The next man up, next man up.
Speaker 3: Thanks you for the phone call, George, And look, the
Speaker 3: Dodgers have a very talented ross. Can you replace Shoe Heotani?
Speaker 3: Absolutely not.
Speaker 4: His presence alone as the first hitter in the game
Speaker 4: in New York with the Dodgers being the visiting team,
Speaker 4: is a presence you can't replace, you can't duplicate.
Speaker 3: He's a guy that takes a lot of attention and
Speaker 3: energy from the opposing pitcher. I'm not trying to diminish that.
Speaker 3: But the Dodgers have really good players, and you know
Speaker 3: right now they are playing really good baseball one through nine.
Speaker 4: It's not just one guy. So the reality is the Dodgers.
Speaker 3: Are not going to concede the World Series if shoe
Speaker 3: Aotani cannot play in Game three, or if he can't
Speaker 3: play the rest of the World Series. What stinks is
Speaker 3: if he's not able to play, is that he's hurt.
Speaker 3: He's been such a big part of the season. You
Speaker 3: would love for him to be out there on the
Speaker 3: field participating when I'm gonna say, when the Dodgers clinched
Speaker 3: the World Series, that's that's the ideal thing for Otani
Speaker 3: and the Dodgers, considering the impact he's had in his
Speaker 3: first year. But if it's not meant to be, it's
Speaker 3: not meant to be. But that's something that even if
Speaker 3: he's not able to play the rest of the World
Speaker 3: Series that's not gonna take anything away from his huge,
Speaker 3: ginormous contributions. Let's go out to Ben, who is at
Speaker 3: Dodgers Stadium tonight. Hi, Ben, you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 1: Hey Dave.
Speaker 12: Thanks for taking the call, man, And before my question,
Speaker 12: I just want to say thanks for keeping us Dodgers
Speaker 12: fans honest, optimistic, and you know, excited for the team.
Speaker 12: Keeping our momentum up as a fan base means a
Speaker 12: lot to me as a as a fan. And I'm
Speaker 12: sure that that reflects back into the team when they
Speaker 12: hear us in the stadium and on the media every
Speaker 12: every day.
Speaker 1: But I don't know about that.
Speaker 3: I don't think they care what I have to say, Ben.
Speaker 3: But whatever I tell you, I tell them to their face.
Speaker 12: I'll tell you that, Yeah, well we haveppreciate it, man.
Speaker 12: And I was going to ask you, you know, what
Speaker 12: do you think one, what do you think game two
Speaker 12: means after the big moment yesterday, Like, what does this
Speaker 12: mean in the context of the series for us to
Speaker 12: take four two.
Speaker 3: To measure off the Dodgers to not have to win
Speaker 3: two games in New York.
Speaker 4: They they have no pressure going into New York.
Speaker 3: They just have to win one game now in New York,
Speaker 3: and worst case scenario, I guess, if you want to
Speaker 3: look at it that way, they bring it home for
Speaker 3: two games at Dodgers Stadium. So winning the first two
Speaker 3: games is ginormous for the Dodgers. Ben, it's it just
Speaker 3: takes it puts all the pressure on.
Speaker 12: The Yankees, Yes, sir, okay. And then I was going
Speaker 12: to ask you, how does yesterday stock up in terms
Speaker 12: of big World Series moments for the Dodgers in your
Speaker 12: lifetime with twenty eighteen as an example.
Speaker 3: Well, twenty eighteen was not one of the greatest World
Speaker 3: Series moments of my life. They lost to the Red Sox,
Speaker 3: and the Red Sox were a really good team that year.
Speaker 3: But in my lifetime, Ben, I would say it's right
Speaker 3: up there with Kurt Gibson's home run. I obviously was
Speaker 3: only twelve years old when that took place and I
Speaker 3: was watching that from my home. But if you're going
Speaker 3: to rank Freddie Freeman's walk off Grand Slam in Game
Speaker 3: one of the World Series, it's right there with Kurt
Speaker 3: Gibson's home run. And after that, I think about Rick
Speaker 3: Monday's Game five home run in the ninth inning of
Speaker 3: the eighty one NLCS. I think about Justin Turner's walk
Speaker 3: off home run on against the Cubs in Game two
Speaker 3: of the twenty seventeen NLCS. Those are the home runs
Speaker 3: in Dodger postseason history that I think of. And also
Speaker 3: I think about Mikesosha's home run in Game four the
Speaker 3: eighty eight NLCS.
Speaker 4: So those are the top five in my book.
Speaker 12: That's awesome, No love for Monthly twenty eighteen game three.
Speaker 4: They lost the World Series.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was game three for I would have said
Speaker 3: pweeks home run Peaks Grand Slam in Game four would
Speaker 3: have been up there, but unfortunately they lost that game too.
Speaker 4: They took rich Hill out.
Speaker 3: Yeah all right, Ben, let's not talk about that, Ben, anyway,
Speaker 3: those are my top five.
Speaker 12: All right, Well, thanks so much. Appreciate you taking the call,
Speaker 12: all right, Ben.
Speaker 4: Thank you for the phone call. Yeah, that those would
Speaker 4: be off.
Speaker 3: Those in my lifetime are the top five Dodger home runs.
Speaker 3: Gibson's home run in eighty eight, Freddy's walk off Grand Slam.
Speaker 3: I'm thinking Rick Monday's home run Blue Monday against the
Speaker 3: Expos Game five of the NLCS to send them to
Speaker 3: the eighty one World Series. I'm thinking Justin Turner's walk
Speaker 3: off home run against John Lackey and the Cubs in
Speaker 3: Game two of the twenty seventeen NLCS, which happened to
Speaker 3: be on the anniversary of Kirk Gibson's eighty eight home
Speaker 3: run as well. And then fifth would be Mike Sosiz
Speaker 3: Game four home run off of Dwight Goodin to tie
Speaker 3: the game in the ninth inning at Shay Stadium. So
Speaker 3: those are the top five postseason home runs in Dodger
Speaker 3: history that I've been alive for. So there you go,
Speaker 3: in case you wanted my top five. All right, that'll
Speaker 3: do it for us from Dodger Talk tonight. We will
Speaker 3: be with you from the Bronx on Monday after Game three.
Speaker 3: Walker Buehler going up against Clark Schmidt. Clark Schmidt in
Speaker 3: two postseason starts for the Yankees has not gone five
Speaker 3: innings against the Royals and Guardians. He each pitched or
Speaker 3: pitched four and two thirds innings in both of those starts,
Speaker 3: and talking to some Dodger players, I mentioned this during
Speaker 3: the clubhouse, but I'll mention it again. They said that
Speaker 3: his style of pitching is similar to Michael King of
Speaker 3: the Pots, who was formerly of the Yankees.
Speaker 4: He was part of the want Soto trade.
Speaker 3: Our coverage begins on Monday at four o'clock with Morongo
Speaker 3: Casino Dodgers on deck. First pitch from Yankee Stadium with
Speaker 3: Rick Monday and Steven Nelson at five to oh eight.
Speaker 3: Thanks to calling ye back at our burd Bank Studios,
Speaker 3: Thanks to Dwayne McDonald out here at Dodgers.
Speaker 4: Stadium, and thanks to you for listening.
Speaker 3: In case you missed any of the show, you can
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Speaker 3: score from Dodgers Stadium, Game two of the World Series
Speaker 3: goes the Dodgers way of four to two victory over
Speaker 3: the Yankees. We will talk to you Monday night from
Speaker 3: New York. Have a great rest of your weekend. Dodgers
Speaker 3: up two to oho in the World Series, two wins away.
Speaker 4: From being champions. We'll talk to you Monday. See ya.