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Speaker 1: Dodgers have forced a Game five in this NLDS after
Speaker 1: an eight nothing shutout win over the San Diego Padres
Speaker 1: last night at pet Goo Park. Eight different relievers and
Speaker 1: what was a bullpen game, A brilliant plan from Dave
Speaker 1: Roberts and this coaching staff. Nine shutout innings from eight
Speaker 1: different relievers as the plan worked out. As the Dodgers
Speaker 1: now get ready for Game five, all hands on deck
Speaker 1: with Yoshi Yamamoto, Jack Flaherty and everybody should be good
Speaker 1: to go and ready to contribute for Game five tomorrow night.
Speaker 1: He is Steve Sacks. I'm Tim Kate. Thanks for being
Speaker 1: with us here as we are live in local on
Speaker 1: M five seventy LAS Sports. You can listen to the
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Speaker 1: on this hour, we'll hear from Freddie Freeman. Will he
Speaker 1: be good for Game five tomorrow night. Jose Mota will
Speaker 1: join us in the final hour as well. We talked
Speaker 1: about Tommy Edmund last hour. Saxon. We're gonna get to
Speaker 1: their phone calls in just a second. But Key K Hernandez,
Speaker 1: I want to make sure we give key K the
Speaker 1: love he deserves, Saxy, because last night he goes two
Speaker 1: for or batting in the eighth spot, gets the start
Speaker 1: in center field when the initial lineup was announced, or
Speaker 1: smike it third, Yeah, center field, and then he's at
Speaker 1: third base and Chris Taylor gets moved to center field,
Speaker 1: and Key K a Hernandez not only plays a really
Speaker 1: good third base, he's a tremendous outfielder as well. Has
Speaker 1: developed into that he can play second blaze second base,
Speaker 1: can play shortstop. He is a Swiss Army knife for
Speaker 1: this Dodgers team. And if you look at the box
Speaker 1: score from last night, key Ky Hernandez starts at third
Speaker 1: blaze third base, goes to center field, and then comes
Speaker 1: back to third base. They flip flopped him and Chris
Speaker 1: Taylor at one point during the game defensively for defensive
Speaker 1: purposes and strategy, and then move the guys back to
Speaker 1: their positions, which you can do. You're not switching them
Speaker 1: in the lineup as far as the batting order, but
Speaker 1: they moved him around defensively a couple of times. Because
Speaker 1: how versatile there is. Key k a Hernandez should have
Speaker 1: been in this series a long time ago instead of
Speaker 1: Game four. We can all agree on that what he
Speaker 1: does in October, He's almost a three hundred hitter in
Speaker 1: the month of October over the years. Part of the seventeen, eighteen, nineteen,
Speaker 1: and twenty Dodgers team that run in the Bubble. In
Speaker 1: twenty in which they won a championship, he was huge.
Speaker 1: His three home runs to beat the Cubs in advance
Speaker 1: to the World Series I think it was in twenty
Speaker 1: seventeen was awesome. This is a guy who means so
Speaker 1: much to this Dodgers team. And I'm so glad Saxy
Speaker 1: that he was in the lineup last night, and he
Speaker 1: better be in the lineup for Game five.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, I would guess that he would be.
Speaker 5: And you know, he's a great mix of a guy
Speaker 5: that's a really good athlete and he can play all
Speaker 5: these different positions. And that's what we see now in
Speaker 5: Major League Baseball. People come to spring training with three
Speaker 5: different gloves. You know, they got an outfield glove, they
Speaker 5: got one maybe at first base, and they got it,
Speaker 5: you know, one for the middle infield, and that's you know,
Speaker 5: besides pitcher or catcher. You could be anywhere. And you know,
Speaker 5: my nephew's like that. My nephew's in the in the
Speaker 5: Red Sox organization.
Speaker 4: He's playing.
Speaker 5: He's a lot like Key k plays all different positions,
Speaker 5: and you know, it's it's gonna really help his career.
Speaker 5: And for a guy like Kik that never really nailed
Speaker 5: down one position, it's probably been better for him because
Speaker 5: he's valuable and he's always gonna be a guy that
Speaker 5: can come off the bench. He's he stamped the label
Speaker 5: on that as far as his career goes. And going forward,
Speaker 5: there's always teams that can use guys that are you know,
Speaker 5: you can play different positions.
Speaker 1: It's it's huge, no doubt, and Kei ky Hernandez understands
Speaker 1: the postseason. He can struggle during the regular season maybe,
Speaker 1: but during October you could always count on Kik. Last night,
Speaker 1: he comes up in his first set bat in the
Speaker 1: second ending lines a ball to center field for a
Speaker 1: base hit. Kiky Hernandez delivers with another hit later in
Speaker 1: the game. Kiky Hernandez, as we mentioned, plays third base
Speaker 1: last night, then grabs a different glove and goes out
Speaker 1: to center field, and then Rei grabs his infield glove
Speaker 1: and goes back to third base for the Dodgers last night.
Speaker 1: This is a guy who is truly versatile and means
Speaker 1: so much to this Dodgers team. Let's hear a little
Speaker 1: bit from Key ky Hernandez after the Dodgers ate nothing
Speaker 1: win last night.
Speaker 6: MOOKI, I think we talked about earlier how important it
Speaker 6: was for us to to get a lead early. Uh,
Speaker 6: Moki did that just that Brazier's first inning one, two
Speaker 6: three was huge.
Speaker 7: Uh felt like the moment.
Speaker 1: And was sustained on our side.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 6: Second inning. Uh, you know, being able to rally against
Speaker 6: against season getting him out of the game early was
Speaker 6: incredibly huge. Uh being able to add on two more
Speaker 6: runs in the second inning and get a three run
Speaker 6: lead pretty much what they did both games at our place, Uh,
Speaker 6: was was huge. In the bullpen again another shot down
Speaker 6: inning in the second inning, and then the third inning
Speaker 6: we were able to add two more and then another
Speaker 6: shot down inning and from there on it kind of
Speaker 6: felt like the bullpen took took over, and uh, you know,
Speaker 6: we were able to keep adding adding on some runs,
Speaker 6: especially late in the game, and uh, you know, we
Speaker 6: had a we had a very complete game as an offense, uh,
Speaker 6: anywhere from you know, rallying, going station to station, walking,
Speaker 6: slugging and even you know, even bunting and fighting a
Speaker 6: run in.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 1: That was that was huge.
Speaker 6: But uh, all the credit tonight, all the credits should
Speaker 6: go to our bullpen because they changed the game.
Speaker 8: We would about you guys that are just sort of
Speaker 8: had that sort of spouting elimination game, especially with Freddie
Speaker 8: Spacecraps in the lineup late.
Speaker 7: Just be able to pull this off.
Speaker 4: I mean, I don't know what it says.
Speaker 6: Honestly, did we. I mean, we were very injured all
Speaker 6: year and somehow we had the best recommend the league,
Speaker 6: and you know, we we I feel like tonight was
Speaker 6: just like an example of what this team is capable
Speaker 6: of doing.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 6: The fact that we did it without Freddy and Meg
Speaker 6: was was just a bonus. But I feel like we
Speaker 6: have a very deep team overall, and tonight has showed.
Speaker 1: Yeah, You're a big reason why, Keith Aaron is this
Speaker 1: team has done what they've done this year. Your your versatility,
Speaker 1: your ability to perform in the postseason should not be downplayed.
Speaker 1: And remember David Vess talked about this yesterday for those
Speaker 1: who forgot Keiky Aernandez was a free agent. They acquired
Speaker 1: him at the deadline last year from Boston, which she
Speaker 1: was struggling. I mean he was straw, yeah, defensively and offensively,
Speaker 1: so much so the Red Sox couldn't wait to get
Speaker 1: rid of him. The Dodgers brought him back. He was
Speaker 1: part of their run in twenty three free agent this
Speaker 1: past offseason, Saxy He waited and waited and waited, had
Speaker 1: multiple offers, but waited because Andrew Freeman and the Dodgers said, hey,
Speaker 1: just give us some time. We're trying to free up
Speaker 1: some spots on the forty man, we're trying to get
Speaker 1: some salaries.
Speaker 4: To move around.
Speaker 1: He waited as spring training's going on in Arizona and Florida.
Speaker 1: He waited because he wanted to be on this Dodgers
Speaker 1: team that much. He didn't take another offer, even though
Speaker 1: he had multiple ones, and he waited till the time
Speaker 1: was right, and the Dodgers said, okay, we're good, we
Speaker 1: got a spot now, and he signed a deal with them.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Smart, and you know, he's comfortable here. And and the
Speaker 5: fact that you know he's been here before before he
Speaker 5: went to Boston, you know, was probably figured into his
Speaker 5: his thought process. Even though he probably, like you said,
Speaker 5: passed up some offers, and once you get into spring training,
Speaker 5: you know, these those things are few and far between.
Speaker 5: But I think he had confidence that you know, is
Speaker 5: worth the risk for him to come back here to
Speaker 5: Los Angeles. And let's remember, you know, keyk put in
Speaker 5: twelve bombs this year, you know, unlimited time that he
Speaker 5: was playing. He did get into one hundred and twenty
Speaker 5: six games, but still those twelve home runs are big
Speaker 5: and be able to play different positions.
Speaker 4: Bingo let's go.
Speaker 1: Back out to the phones. Armando in West Hills has
Speaker 1: been waiting patiently. Armando, you're on Saxon Kate today. How
Speaker 1: you doing?
Speaker 3: Good?
Speaker 7: Morning, good, How are you guys?
Speaker 1: Good?
Speaker 10: Good, good? Just just a quick question.
Speaker 11: So, I mean, I'm going back to Game three when
Speaker 11: you know what, Miggey Road came out, you know, with
Speaker 11: his injury, and then first guy off the bench is
Speaker 11: Andy Poks, Like, why not Key K in that situation.
Speaker 11: I know Doc Roberts received a lot of criticism for that,
Speaker 11: but then you come to Game four, you entered Kek
Speaker 11: into the lineup, and I mean, he just does such
Speaker 11: a great job. He's he's so consistent, especially in October.
Speaker 11: And not to mention the Dodger hitters, they were just
Speaker 11: first swing pitching all night, which is great, and I
Speaker 11: think it just put him in a good spot to
Speaker 11: win last night.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the million dollar question, Armando, and appreciate it
Speaker 1: is why they went to Andy Pajuz in Game three.
Speaker 1: It was a six to five game, no team was scoring.
Speaker 1: Miguel Rojas comes out of the game with that groin
Speaker 1: injury that flared up again, and they go to Andy
Speaker 1: Pajas and PAJZ has had it up and down season,
Speaker 1: they send him back to Triple A. He comes back,
Speaker 1: he's still good in a really good prospect for them,
Speaker 1: and gonna be good in the future. But in that
Speaker 1: situation we've talked about it, Yeah, it still doesn't quite
Speaker 1: compute with me. Is probably you wouldn't go to a
Speaker 1: guy in Kei ky Hernandez who can play center field,
Speaker 1: checks the box there for you. And also it's gonna
Speaker 1: get two hit bats in that game. Moving forward because
Speaker 1: he was due up two more times. Andy pay has
Speaker 1: got those of bats, not Keiky Hernandez. I would rather
Speaker 1: have a guy proven in the postseason, not afraid of
Speaker 1: the moment a one run game, who knows he comes up,
Speaker 1: gets a base hit, goes station to station, does something
Speaker 1: to get on base, cause a little havoc, and next
Speaker 1: thing you know, you tied this game up all because
Speaker 1: ke Ay Hernandez is doing something to make that happen.
Speaker 1: Instead he doesn't even get the opportunity. So that's that
Speaker 1: to me. Yeah, if whatever happens in this series happens
Speaker 1: Friday night, I think that will be one of the
Speaker 1: moments we kind of all remember, is why didn't kick
Speaker 1: a Hernandez get a chance in Game three.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean I understand that. And you're not gonna
Speaker 5: make every call. Every call is not gonna come out,
Speaker 5: you know the way that you think maybe had a
Speaker 5: hunch maybe, uh, you know, just the it's just the
Speaker 5: way goes sometimes. But look, he's there now, and the
Speaker 5: Dodgers are coming back, and they've got Game five in
Speaker 5: front of their home home, a crowd, and this is
Speaker 5: this is good news for them, and it's gonna be
Speaker 5: a great game. I don't think there's gonna be any
Speaker 5: issues because it's getting darker a lot earlier. Now, what
Speaker 5: do you think at five o'clock start bad time for
Speaker 5: the hitters or not?
Speaker 1: Tim, I think the first inning or two you're gonna
Speaker 1: see those shadows there. I'm just trying to think about
Speaker 1: five o'clock. Its son's going down about what's six thirty now.
Speaker 1: So it may play a factor, certainly, Dodgers having a
Speaker 1: hard time seeing you Darvish in the postseason the last
Speaker 1: couple of years. They struggled in Game two on Sunday,
Speaker 1: which was a little later of a start. I hope
Speaker 1: it's not a factor, but it might early on with
Speaker 1: those shadows at Dodgers done.
Speaker 5: Darvish has been he's been nails, especially since he came back.
Speaker 5: He's you know, he won six, six or seven in
Speaker 5: a row and uh, and he's on his game. But look,
Speaker 5: we know how things twist and turn and all of
Speaker 5: a sudden, you know they're in they're not where they
Speaker 5: were the last time they pitched, and and that might
Speaker 5: be where they're facing what they may be facing that
Speaker 5: with you, Darvis, who knows, you can't count on it.
Speaker 5: All you can control is when he releases a ball.
Speaker 5: Now you've got the authority to do what you can
Speaker 5: with it. And so they've got to take it to him.
Speaker 5: They've got to do it early too. Don't don't let
Speaker 5: that guy get on a roll because he gets dangerous
Speaker 5: in it's.
Speaker 1: Gonna Michelle in San Diego, the six ' one nine
Speaker 1: joins us yere on am FI seventy LA Sports.
Speaker 12: Hi, Michelle, Hey, I just wanted to know. I live
Speaker 12: in San Diego Territory, but I have a Dodger car,
Speaker 12: I have everything Dodgers, and I'm a big Dodger fan
Speaker 12: down here, and I have not lost to faith and
Speaker 12: our team. I decorate every season for October in my
Speaker 12: House and a keik Oh my word, I cannot find
Speaker 12: his Dodger jersey anywhere online. And I have Rookie, I
Speaker 12: have Otani, but he's like he is one of the
Speaker 12: good players, best player on the team, and I can
Speaker 12: find Boston. I don't want his Boston one.
Speaker 1: No, he's a fan favorite, no doubt about it. Michelle,
Speaker 1: we appreciate it. If you're looking for a jersey, may
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Speaker 1: keep the party going, Brian and see me. Valley is
Speaker 1: next up here on a FI seventy la Sports. Hi, Brian.
Speaker 13: Hey, good morning. What's happening on Give a shout out
Speaker 13: to Stacks. He I'm an old buddy at Saberhig and
Speaker 13: we played ball together and cool it up around the sport,
Speaker 13: you know, and mentally I wanted to get in to
Speaker 13: get a ask you guys a serious question. We know
Speaker 13: golf is a mental game. We know baseball is a
Speaker 13: mental game. Once the tide starts shifting, I really want
Speaker 13: to give a shot out to Roberts because this coach,
Speaker 13: this skipper, has gotten his you know what, kicked from
Speaker 13: all the fans saying he's done, he's gonna do it again,
Speaker 13: and then to do what he's been doing with the
Speaker 13: pressure that's on him, I wanted to give a shot
Speaker 13: out to the skip man.
Speaker 1: Oh, you're right, Brian, appreciate it. I think he has
Speaker 1: done a great job and keeping this team focused because
Speaker 1: things could have unraveled very quickly, Sexy. Sure, that's what
Speaker 1: we've seen in years past across baseball and other sports.
Speaker 1: Something doesn't work, and expectations aren't met, and the goals
Speaker 1: that you thought you were gonna be and the team
Speaker 1: you thought you're going to be don't live up to that,
Speaker 1: things could start going south. Really quickly. Fingerpoint could happen.
Speaker 1: Guys can start feeling down. You can see slumping shoulders, whatever.
Speaker 1: And Todave Roberts' credit, that's one of the things he's
Speaker 1: really good at. I know Dodger fans love to hate him,
Speaker 1: but keeping a group together, keeping communication going, keeping that
Speaker 1: locker room and clubhouse an open area where guys are
Speaker 1: able to communicate and there's not finger point, and there's
Speaker 1: never a chance to have finger point.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's right. It's common respect. And I don't just
Speaker 5: Dave Roberts is great. I'm a big Dave Roberts fan,
Speaker 5: always have been. And if you think about what a
Speaker 5: manager does, I mean, you know, all these guys are
Speaker 5: pretty good at the x's and o's. It's the other stuff,
Speaker 5: the interpersonal relationships that they have on the team, keeping
Speaker 5: that locker room a place where it conversations can be
Speaker 5: had and like you said, nobody's pointing fingers. And Dave
Speaker 5: Roberts is great at that. I mean, if anybody that
Speaker 5: knows him knows that, if you don't like Dave Roberts's
Speaker 5: probably something wrong with.
Speaker 1: You, no doubt about it. He's a good guy.
Speaker 3: He is.
Speaker 1: It's hard to root against him. That's the thing he's
Speaker 1: He says what he says, and Dodger fans just want
Speaker 1: to criticize him, nitpick everything he does, all the moves
Speaker 1: that are made when they don't work out. Heck, last night,
Speaker 1: if things would have gone south with this bullpen game
Speaker 1: and maybe that link in the third to fourth inning
Speaker 1: doesn't work out and Alex Vessier gets into trouble and
Speaker 1: next thing you know, the plan doesn't work and Evan
Speaker 1: Phillips has giving up and run instead. Evan Phillips aid
Speaker 1: ending in the third shutout, pitching gets the win. But
Speaker 1: let's say it went south and things fell apart and
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, the Dodgers are trailing, the Dodgers
Speaker 1: lose the game. We'd be sitting here this morning talking about, well,
Speaker 1: why do they go with the bullpen game? Why didn't
Speaker 1: they go with a yamamdo? Why didn't they go we
Speaker 1: go ending there? Why are we going with the bullpen
Speaker 1: and get instead? It worked?
Speaker 4: We're great, but.
Speaker 1: Nobody wants to give Dave Roberts the credit. It's all
Speaker 1: those eight different relievers who would have That's.
Speaker 5: The thing about being a manager. I mean, you're you
Speaker 5: know it's uh. I always felt like, you know, a
Speaker 5: manager is good for several games a year, not not
Speaker 5: the whole season. He's I mean, it's all about the players.
Speaker 5: The players are the ones are gonna you know, run, hit, throw,
Speaker 5: do all that stuff. The manager is good for maybe
Speaker 5: five d eight games a year, which could be the
Speaker 5: difference in the pennant. I mean, so it is important,
Speaker 5: it's critical, but but it's and Dave would tell you
Speaker 5: the same thing if he was here. It's it's about
Speaker 5: the players, you know. It's it's kind of like a
Speaker 5: situation where you know you can only mess the thing up.
Speaker 5: I mean, there's really no nothing that's great about being
Speaker 5: a manager as far as uh, as far as the upside,
Speaker 5: it's always the downside they take, and that's tough.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're hit it on the head. There's no upside
Speaker 1: to being a manager. You're supposed to do that. Well,
Speaker 1: I would have called that. There's all these you know,
Speaker 1: Monday morning quarterbacks. But you know, when it when it
Speaker 1: goes great, you know, not a lot a lot of
Speaker 1: times people aren't calling in, like you know, one of
Speaker 1: our last callers was great, but they don't call it
Speaker 1: as eight. It's all because of Dave Robert. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: you know, on the other side of it too, the
Speaker 1: positive part. It's you know, it's about Kik, It's about
Speaker 1: Mookie Betts and Otani and that those guys hitting the
Speaker 1: ball out of the ballpark and playing great defense.
Speaker 4: That's where it is.
Speaker 1: It's amazing. It's seven nineteen in the morning time check
Speaker 1: and we've barely talked about sho hey Otani and what
Speaker 1: he did last night. We focused a lot on Mookie Betts,
Speaker 1: this bullpen, certainly, and what Kiki Hernandez has done. But
Speaker 1: Shoeotani last night one for three on base three times,
Speaker 1: just very quietly getting on base, you know, taking advantage
Speaker 1: of a ball and tagging up from first his second.
Speaker 1: It didn't give doesn't get lost because you can't, you know,
Speaker 1: lose what Shoeotani means to a team. But it is interesting,
Speaker 1: Sex you were an hour and twenty minutes into this
Speaker 1: show this morning and ain't nothing. Dodgers win and we've
Speaker 1: barely touched upon what the MVP of baseball, mister fifty
Speaker 1: to fifty has done.
Speaker 5: And isn't it great? What does that tell you that
Speaker 5: there's other elements of this team that can do it,
Speaker 5: and that are very important as well. So the fact
Speaker 5: that we're not talking about show Hey is is a
Speaker 5: great is a great thing, even though he was productive,
Speaker 5: you know what, I think it's great too. He's so
Speaker 5: unaffected show Hey o Tani. I see him at bat.
Speaker 5: You know, he doesn't bat, and I he's not nervous.
Speaker 5: Somebody once asked, are you are? Are you nervous for
Speaker 5: this point?
Speaker 8: Nope?
Speaker 4: I mean just very very calm and easy.
Speaker 5: And when he's at bat, he steps out of the
Speaker 5: bot batter's box, calls time out, really kind of looks
Speaker 5: at the.
Speaker 4: Barrel of his bat and think, oh, is there a
Speaker 4: little something on there?
Speaker 5: He kind of swishes it off his bat with his
Speaker 5: finger like like like that's gonna make the difference, you
Speaker 5: know what I mean. It's not like a golfer where
Speaker 5: he's gonna putt. There's a giant leaf in front of
Speaker 5: the hole and you want to get that out of
Speaker 5: the way.
Speaker 4: Show Hey.
Speaker 5: Seems like a little i don't know, like a little
Speaker 5: piece of dirt on his bat and he's brushing that
Speaker 5: off with his finger before he has to go in
Speaker 5: there and head. I thought it was great. I think
Speaker 5: it's a great thing. How TV captures those little moments.
Speaker 1: Like that, It is a beautiful thing. We're gonna continue
Speaker 1: here on Saxon Kate's and AM got a line open
Speaker 1: if you want to jump on board as we talk
Speaker 1: about Game four and get ready for Game five. A
Speaker 1: lot of you doubted the Dodgers could get into this
Speaker 1: point to set up for a decisive Game five. A
Speaker 1: lot of you thought there's no way they leave Petco
Speaker 1: Park last night with a victory and a winner go
Speaker 1: home game five tomorrow night. A lot of you didn't
Speaker 1: think they could go down and get a win to
Speaker 1: knot it up at two games apiece. A lot of
Speaker 1: you Dodger fans didn't believe. How are you feeling now?
Speaker 1: Momentum has swung back towards the Dodgers as they come
Speaker 1: back home for Game five tomorrow night. Where you're a
Speaker 1: home of the Dodgers, live and local in the am,
Speaker 1: Steve Sacks, Tim Katon, you coming up. We'll hear from
Speaker 1: Tommy Edmund, Freddie Freeman, who's a moti will join us
Speaker 1: next hour, and your phone calls eight sixty six, nine
Speaker 1: eighty seven, two five seventy it's a five seventy la sports. Uh,
Speaker 1: sax he cannot wait for Friday night. In the first
Speaker 1: inning and we hear this song at Dodger's name that
Speaker 1: means show, hey, Otani is coming to bad Sax and
Speaker 1: Kate's and them am here on a f I seventy
Speaker 1: la sports. I felt a lot better, Saxey, yesterday. I
Speaker 1: really was in a bad spot. Did not sleep.
Speaker 4: You sounded better last night though?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Oh like not like I was a house guest, but
Speaker 5: we were talking on the on the phone.
Speaker 1: Oh no, it was. I was firing up because every
Speaker 1: positive thing that happened early in this game, we're on
Speaker 1: the phone top. Did you see that? You see that?
Speaker 1: I was like, this is great.
Speaker 5: This is my brother and I do all throughout Sunday
Speaker 5: when we're watching the Niner game, we do the same thing.
Speaker 4: Did you see that? Stupid playing god? What are they thinking?
Speaker 4: We do the same thing?
Speaker 1: You lost me at nine or zo?
Speaker 4: I know I did. That's up? Different sport, right, different sports.
Speaker 1: Dodger, Just get the eight that the win over the
Speaker 1: San Diego Padres. A bullpen game that was put together
Speaker 1: masterfully by Dave Roberts, Mark Pryor Connor McGinnis, and this
Speaker 1: Dodger coaching staff. It worked out to a tee with
Speaker 1: Ryan Brazier and inning in a third to start it
Speaker 1: all off. Anthony Bond of Michael Kopek. A lot of
Speaker 1: people wondering why is Michael Kopek coming into the game
Speaker 1: in the third inning. Well, the time call for him
Speaker 1: to be there. It was a matchup situation for all
Speaker 1: twenty seven outs. It was mapped out and it worked
Speaker 1: out perfectly. Alex Vessi, Evan Phillips, Daniel Hudson, Blake trying
Speaker 1: to pitch the eighth inning, give up a couple of hits,
Speaker 1: but got out of it with the strikeout. Landon Neck
Speaker 1: pitched a ninth inning as well. Good to see him
Speaker 1: get an opportunity to pitch in the postseason and get
Speaker 1: that experience in The Dodgers offense banged out twelve hits
Speaker 1: last night, including three home runs. Mookie Betts goes deep,
Speaker 1: Will Smith went deep with the longest home run hit
Speaker 1: so far in this series, and then Gavin Lux with
Speaker 1: a home run as well. Eight sixty six, nine eighty seven,
Speaker 1: two five seventy. Tommy Edmond, what an addition he has
Speaker 1: meant for this Dodgers team. He again, another Swiss Army Knife,
Speaker 1: the San Diego product. His dad is the high school
Speaker 1: baseball coach down there. Tommy Edmond is a stud. He
Speaker 1: can play center field, he can play his natural position
Speaker 1: of shortstop, he can play second and bays. He could
Speaker 1: do it all. And he can bat anywhere in this line.
Speaker 1: And he's been banged up. He had a surgery, he
Speaker 1: had an ankle issue, coming back and rehabbing the Saint
Speaker 1: Louis Miners when he was coming back this summer, and
Speaker 1: the Dodgers still acquired him. Sexy and you hear from
Speaker 1: Andrew Freeman at the time. He was so excited about
Speaker 1: picking up Tommy Edman and he said, this is a
Speaker 1: guy I've been trying to acquire for a few years
Speaker 1: because of his versatility and what he means as like
Speaker 1: a player that can put a button down, he can
Speaker 1: hit to the other side, he can hit for power.
Speaker 1: And we've seen him do that in a Dodger uniform
Speaker 1: in a few months that he's been here. And we
Speaker 1: saw it last night with that safety squeeze that he
Speaker 1: put down and was beautifully put down to help out
Speaker 1: this Dodgers team. And oh yeah, he plays a pretty
Speaker 1: darn good shortstop. He has meant a lot to this time.
Speaker 1: He has.
Speaker 5: I mean there's the importance of these guys that aren't
Speaker 5: going to jump off the pages when you see him.
Speaker 5: Maybe you know it's all the stars that do that,
Speaker 5: but he's a star in his own right. I mean,
Speaker 5: I mean, you look across the league, and the baseball
Speaker 5: has kind of shifted, if you will, from the everyday guy,
Speaker 5: you know, the guy that can do the little things too.
Speaker 5: You know, it's all or nothing, But you get a
Speaker 5: guy like Tommy Edmond and you be able to have
Speaker 5: like the sav on the team, the band aid, if
Speaker 5: you will, and put him out there. He makes everything
Speaker 5: just a little bit better. He's almost like the great
Speaker 5: elixir on the team. I mean, he cures things and
Speaker 5: he can do it in a very good fashion. This
Speaker 5: guy's very versatile. He can run, he can play defense.
Speaker 5: He's got a little bit of pop in his game.
Speaker 5: Ye doesn't look like a troublemaker on the team.
Speaker 4: Everybody loves him. I mean more than Merrier. We need
Speaker 4: guys like this.
Speaker 1: Hundred and ninety five pounds soaking wet in his uniform.
Speaker 1: Maybe Tommy Edmond is a guy that has done a
Speaker 1: lot last night.
Speaker 5: I'm guessing I'm guessing not one ninety five, No way,
Speaker 5: I'm guessing one eight.
Speaker 1: Maybe, yeah, maybe if he may drenching wet in that
Speaker 1: that uniform. They listen to his five to ten one
Speaker 1: ninety five, But yeah, I don't think he gets to
Speaker 1: one hundred and ninety five in that category to fight
Speaker 1: if he was out there fighting. But let's hear from
Speaker 1: Tommy Edmond post game last night after his safety squeeze
Speaker 1: for the Dodgers and his great defense.
Speaker 14: Yeah, I mean kind of worked out exactly how I'm
Speaker 14: sure the coaching staff had planned. You know, Bullpen did
Speaker 14: an unbelievable job. It's done a great job this whole series.
Speaker 14: And you know, like credit to them. You know, they
Speaker 14: came in in roles where they might not necessarily do otherwise,
Speaker 14: but they stayed ready and just did a great job.
Speaker 7: Today.
Speaker 15: You take us into just the sweet playing going hitting
Speaker 15: the bunch and then seeing the run come in.
Speaker 14: Yeah, no, I mean that was pretty much executed exactly
Speaker 14: the way I.
Speaker 7: Was trying to.
Speaker 14: You know, Max on third base got a good jump
Speaker 14: off the base and was able to get away from
Speaker 14: the picture, and I thought I was saving it first,
Speaker 14: but you know, close call, but it was nice that
Speaker 14: Lexi hit that at home or together the other runs
Speaker 14: in Africana.
Speaker 2: Is that a play that was called into you or
Speaker 2: just something that from your safe Yeah?
Speaker 14: No, I was kind of thinking about it going up
Speaker 14: to the play. I was like, Okay, here's here's a
Speaker 14: good shot to get another run in. So I was
Speaker 14: looking down for it for sure, and then sure enough
Speaker 14: set design.
Speaker 8: So that's interesting about you guys that you're able to
Speaker 8: put together that offensive performance in an elimination game with
Speaker 8: Freddie Games Scratch No Madeo, Rojas slitted to be able
Speaker 8: to slip it together that.
Speaker 7: Kind off and throut it.
Speaker 9: Yeah, just the resilience of our team. You know, we
Speaker 9: got a really deep lineup.
Speaker 14: A lot of guys came through in big situations today
Speaker 14: and obviously Mookie with the huge homer, Will had a
Speaker 14: big homer Lucks with a huge homer to give us
Speaker 14: some insurance. And you know, we obviously we missed Freddie
Speaker 14: and Niggi, but obviously today we showed how good our.
Speaker 9: Lineup can be even without them, and it will just
Speaker 9: be that much better when they get back. I would
Speaker 9: just describe the mindset now going into another you know,
Speaker 9: must win game, but this time to get a chance
Speaker 9: to call.
Speaker 14: Yeah, we're fighting, you know, you know, not everything's gone
Speaker 14: our way this season especially, but you know, showed some
Speaker 14: grits today and we're excited to go back home and
Speaker 14: obviously it's gonna be another dog fight for game five
Speaker 14: and looking forward to getting back to Tell.
Speaker 9: Me what about talk about the resilience.
Speaker 15: What about the flexibility of this line up both defensively,
Speaker 15: you being able to go from center to short and
Speaker 15: key KMCT swishing depending on which pitcher's coming out left
Speaker 15: righting matchups, different looks, Guys who can throw one hundred,
Speaker 15: guys who can throw sliders, sweepers, just everything they guys
Speaker 15: can do.
Speaker 14: Yeah, I mean that's huge, especially during playoffs. So many
Speaker 14: different situations that come up over the course of the game.
Speaker 14: And I actually had no idea that uh CT and
Speaker 14: Keith Harret gonna be switching back and forth and I like,
Speaker 14: to my right and I'll send cts over there. I
Speaker 14: was like, oh, I know you're coming into third, but
Speaker 14: but yeah, you know, it's it's important, especially in these games.
Speaker 14: You know that there's a little plays, you know, it
Speaker 14: can make a huge difference. And can make the difference
Speaker 14: in a win.
Speaker 9: So you know, I think it's a very valuable thing
Speaker 9: to have on our team.
Speaker 1: All right, there's Tommy Imman. Last night played short staff
Speaker 1: for the Dodgers a safety squeeze late in the game.
Speaker 1: He talked about how he was going up to the
Speaker 1: plate saxy looking at Muntsy, thinking this is a perfect
Speaker 1: opportunity to tack on another run. I love the MinC s.
Speaker 1: He's not worried about Hey, this is my time to shine.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get a home run. I'm gonna drive the
Speaker 1: ball to the wall and I'm gonna do that weird
Speaker 1: celebration when we all tourk towards the bullpen and we
Speaker 1: want to tug out. I'm gonna do that, and that's
Speaker 1: my time to be on TV. Safety squeeze. Nothing sexy
Speaker 1: about that. But you're driving a run and then you
Speaker 1: just get scored up on with the hol on right
Speaker 1: after that. I love it.
Speaker 5: Look, here's the thing. People that know baseball know that
Speaker 5: that is a star that you know doing what he does.
Speaker 5: He doesn't have to hit the ball to the wall.
Speaker 5: He does these other things that you're sorely missing in
Speaker 5: the game today.
Speaker 4: It's a smart guy. Man. You know, he graduated from Stanford.
Speaker 4: He gets it.
Speaker 5: He went to Country Day here right in San Diego.
Speaker 5: I mean, this guy, this guy's been around baseball. He's
Speaker 5: an educated man. He knows what's going on.
Speaker 6: Hey.
Speaker 5: And by the way, here's something that kind of gets
Speaker 5: lost in the shuffle. If you will, Tommy Edmund, you
Speaker 5: talk about the different positions he plays. Still, he was
Speaker 5: that good at all the different positions that he was
Speaker 5: playing throughout his career. In twenty twenty one with the Cardinals,
Speaker 5: he wins the Gold Glove.
Speaker 1: Not bad, that's right. And would a surprise you if
Speaker 1: I told you he was the son of a baseball coach.
Speaker 4: Not at all. No, Well, you can tell he's fundamentally sound.
Speaker 4: He gets it. He stays in his lane.
Speaker 5: He's not trying it home runs, although he does have
Speaker 5: some pop in the bat. Yeah, he's hit thirteen home
Speaker 5: runs a few times, so he's been in double digits
Speaker 5: and home runs. He's not a chump up there. He
Speaker 5: can't just kind of lay it in there. But he
Speaker 5: can also move the runner over and play great defense,
Speaker 5: and you need that.
Speaker 1: He Let's go to Rudy in la Is next. Up
Speaker 1: with Saxon, Kate's and AM on this Thursday morning as
Speaker 1: the Dodgers force a decisive game five tomorrow. Hi, Rudy,
Speaker 1: Rudy you there, Rudy going once, Ruddy going twice. We
Speaker 1: go to Justin in West Covina. You're next up with
Speaker 1: Saxon Kate's and Am. Hi, Justin, how you guys doing today, fantastics.
Speaker 10: I just want to say once again, I know earlier
Speaker 10: we gave a big shot out to key K, but
Speaker 10: I want to give a big shot.
Speaker 3: At to key K Monkey and Will.
Speaker 7: Will and Monkey were in a bit of a slump.
Speaker 10: But to see them to get out of it and
Speaker 10: actually see the pitchers, see the balls and be able
Speaker 10: to put some runs up, it was amazing.
Speaker 1: No doubt about it. Will Smith had a huge home
Speaker 1: run last night, Saxony, But I'm still.
Speaker 5: A freaking Howitzer. Gee many Christmas. That ball was just
Speaker 5: and that's that's dead center, Bro, That's not like a
Speaker 5: pooled baseball. That's right down the middle and that was
Speaker 5: just launched. I mean, look, we could have a guy
Speaker 5: like this breakout. It may not be Mookie Bets again,
Speaker 5: all the way through. You might have Will Smith carry
Speaker 5: you for three get You don't know. That's the kind
Speaker 5: of firepower they got and it's completely possible.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, His one and only hit is that home
Speaker 1: run last night so far in the NLDS and the
Speaker 1: third inning, a monster four hundred and thirty two foot
Speaker 1: shot to center field off the batter's eye wall there
Speaker 1: in center field to give the Dodgers a five to
Speaker 1: nothing lead. Need a little bit more out of them.
Speaker 1: One hit is great, one hit is great. I've gotta
Speaker 1: start with one. Absolutely need more out of Max Munsey
Speaker 1: as well. It's a good start. It's a good collective effort.
Speaker 1: The Dodgers. Eight of the nine starters had base hits
Speaker 1: last night. They had twelve allo overall, they had three
Speaker 1: home runs. I like it, but I need a little
Speaker 1: bit more out of Munsey and too. I'm not begging,
Speaker 1: but I need a little bit I got.
Speaker 5: I gotta say something though. One thing you don't hear,
Speaker 5: one thing you don't see is this team lagging and
Speaker 5: not hustling. You can never be in a hustling slump.
Speaker 5: It should never ever happen. And you don't see that
Speaker 5: with the Dodgers. I see Munsey just tearing it up
Speaker 5: on the bass pass getting over to the third base,
Speaker 5: and you know, he's not a prolific runner, but he's
Speaker 5: certainly getting the most out of himself, right, he's hustling. Listen,
Speaker 5: you don't have to be fast to be a really
Speaker 5: good base runner. When I was with the when I
Speaker 5: was coaching with the d Backs, we actually profiled a
Speaker 5: guy running the bases on great routes and how to run.
Speaker 5: You know who that person was, who, believe it or
Speaker 5: not early in his career now, not later, it was.
Speaker 5: It was it was poolholes. Yeah, yeah, guy's a really
Speaker 5: good base runner. He's not fast, he's not gonna, you know,
Speaker 5: steal off fifty bases a year, but a great route
Speaker 5: runner and we used him as an example.
Speaker 1: I'm watching something that popped up on my Twitter feed
Speaker 1: just now from the MLB Network because talk about mental
Speaker 1: health and pro sports and certainly a serious topic out there,
Speaker 1: and the MLB Networks has former players talk about mental
Speaker 1: health and times in their career, and it just popped up.
Speaker 1: There's a video U Saxy base hit off Ron Darling
Speaker 1: in Game seven of the nineteen eighty eight NLCS.
Speaker 4: I fastball up.
Speaker 1: I remember that I'm looking at the close caption. As
Speaker 1: I watched the video, and Darling's talking about a month
Speaker 1: after being eliminated by you guys in eighty eight and
Speaker 1: the mental recharge that he had to put his body
Speaker 1: and mind through. That's what it's focusing on. But then
Speaker 1: the highlight they showed Zaxy the highlight. I bring it
Speaker 1: up because it's you, and it's a great shot at
Speaker 1: you just banging a base hit up the middle, off
Speaker 1: Ron Darling. Listen, Toby fired up watching, I was, and
Speaker 1: I thought, you know what a broken clock is, even
Speaker 1: right twice a day. So I thought, I can give
Speaker 1: me a little carrot right there.
Speaker 4: I'll take it.
Speaker 1: Let's go to Melody in Valley, Glenn here in the
Speaker 1: eight one eight melody, How you doing? Good morning?
Speaker 10: I am doing great.
Speaker 16: Good morning guys.
Speaker 12: Hey, I just wanted to say, I.
Speaker 10: Know, can you hear me?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: We got you go ahead?
Speaker 13: Oh good good.
Speaker 12: I just wanted to say, I know.
Speaker 16: You guys were talking about loyal fans. I have been
Speaker 16: a loyal fan since I was seven years old and
Speaker 16: went to my first game, and I am turning sixty
Speaker 16: in March, so it's like I'm.
Speaker 12: Win or lose.
Speaker 10: I am a die hard Dodger fan.
Speaker 16: But I do know that when they are in a clutch,
Speaker 16: they are at their best.
Speaker 10: And I have no doubt. I have all the faith
Speaker 10: that they're going to take the win.
Speaker 1: Love it your lips of God's ears, Melany, I hope, so,
Speaker 1: I hope you're right, and that's right. Yeah. I got
Speaker 1: a good feeling about tomorrow, as long as they can
Speaker 1: just keep riding this momentum saying it is and.
Speaker 4: See how fast that can change.
Speaker 5: I mean, they were doing the dances and all this
Speaker 5: stuff in San Diego.
Speaker 4: Whoa, whoa, whoa hit a home run.
Speaker 5: And they're like, I'm I'm surprised at the self astonishment
Speaker 5: that I see a little bit with some of the
Speaker 5: patre players. I mean, it fits with the vibe of
Speaker 5: the team, but man, can you can you kiss yourself enough?
Speaker 12: You know?
Speaker 4: Did you hit a home run? And they just oh,
Speaker 4: they're just so marveling the wall.
Speaker 1: I mean, come on, really, they're their biggest fans that
Speaker 1: they just ask.
Speaker 5: Them and now and now you see how this has
Speaker 5: turned around. That's that's why talking trash and doing all that.
Speaker 5: BS man, there's a day of reckoning coming where it's
Speaker 5: not going to be that way, you.
Speaker 1: Know, hopefully it's the baseball gods making sure they're good
Speaker 1: people win and come out of this on the right side.
Speaker 1: By the way, did you see the story that after
Speaker 1: Game three that the Padre players did not want to
Speaker 1: speak with Ken Rosenthal from Fox Sports in any postgame interviews,
Speaker 1: and they didn't want to talk to him in the
Speaker 1: clubhouse as well, because he wrote a column he also
Speaker 1: writes for The Athletic as well as working on TV
Speaker 1: for Fox Sports. He wrote a column that wasn't very
Speaker 1: nice about the Padres and talking about their swag and
Speaker 1: references about Profar and Machado and Setise, and they didn't
Speaker 1: like that. They they can dish it out, certainly, and
Speaker 1: they can strut their stuff and be very cocky, but
Speaker 1: as soon as somebody kind of writes about it and
Speaker 1: kind of calls him out on it, they get all
Speaker 1: upset and they won't talk to him. And there was
Speaker 1: this whole team thing of we're not talking to Ken
Speaker 1: roseenhal no in dugout conversations with a player because they
Speaker 1: didn't want to talk to Ken Rosenthal. So I think
Speaker 1: the powers that be above in baseball and then the
Speaker 1: TV networks probably put a squash to that. But for
Speaker 1: at least Game three, the Padre players were I didn't
Speaker 1: rote we're sort of protesting Ken Rosenthal because of what
Speaker 1: he wrote about them. Wow, which bothers me. Because you
Speaker 1: can dish it out, you can talk about your swag
Speaker 1: and about how you guys like to be the ones
Speaker 1: who are at cockey players.
Speaker 5: And that's okay, Yeah, it's okay. Certainly it works for
Speaker 5: a team. They've got a great team. I mean it's
Speaker 5: it works for him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you could dish it out, but you can't take
Speaker 1: it when a national guy writes about it. All of
Speaker 1: a sudden, you're gonna say, oh, yeah.
Speaker 4: You know, I thought that there's probably more important things
Speaker 4: to put your energy into, right than to worry about
Speaker 4: Ken Rosenthal. You know what I mean. Love Kenny, he's
Speaker 4: you know, he's a great journalist. But why you're worried
Speaker 4: about him?
Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe that's the distraction that Dodgers needed. These guys
Speaker 1: worried about Ken Low Rosenthal, and all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: the Dodgers come in and put an eight spot on
Speaker 1: the scoreboard last night. We'll take a break, we'll come back.
Speaker 1: We're gonna hear from Freddy Eamon coming up, Who's emotive
Speaker 1: is gonna join us? Busy final hour and twenty minutes
Speaker 1: left of this show. It's been a fun morning show
Speaker 1: so far. Here on seventy LA Sports. Could have been
Speaker 1: a day to bury the Dodgers and talk about what
Speaker 1: went wrong, but instead they fight to play another game.
Speaker 1: Game five winner, go home tomorrow night, and we'll have
Speaker 1: it for you right here on an FI seventy la Sports.
Speaker 1: It's Sax and Kate to the am uh get well.
Speaker 1: Freddie Freeman made that ankle heal quickly? Where's father Gary
Speaker 1: from Burbank to put his hands on the ankle of
Speaker 1: Freddie Freeman and let it heal for Game five of
Speaker 1: the NLDS that is tomorrow night. Yeah, the Dodgers force
Speaker 1: a decisive winner, go home Game five in the National
Speaker 1: League Divisional Series with an eight to nothing to shut
Speaker 1: out win or with the Padres last night, No Miguel Rojas,
Speaker 1: no Freddie Freeman. Freeman was scheduled in the lineup when
Speaker 1: it was first announced four hours before first pitch. He
Speaker 1: was scratched about an hour and a half before first pitch,
Speaker 1: and that caused a change in the Dodgers lineup. Chris
Speaker 1: Taylor was inserted. Tommy fred had been played shortstop. Kek
Speaker 1: Hernandez was already in the lineup, moved from third base
Speaker 1: out into the center field. It was old Switcheroo for
Speaker 1: the Dodgers because of Freddie Freeman's ankle and hopefully sacks.
Speaker 1: He's good to go for Game five because man, they
Speaker 1: need all hands on deck, and that includes one of
Speaker 1: the best hitters in baseball.
Speaker 5: Yeah, when do you think they're gonna make this this decision?
Speaker 5: Because I'm looking on the internet right now. He looks
Speaker 5: like he's in the lineup. I hope, So, I mean
Speaker 5: he's a difference maker, and I hope he's uh, he's better.
Speaker 5: But you know, I know you can't look too far ahead.
Speaker 5: But this game is critical, obviously.
Speaker 1: It is huge. In fact, let's hear from Freddy Freeman,
Speaker 1: who talked to the media post game last night about
Speaker 1: his ankle in a Game.
Speaker 14: Five there about Friday or you got a complete Yeah,
Speaker 14: every day, like I said, is day to day. So
Speaker 14: just happy we got a game five and get a chance.
Speaker 14: I had a full day's rest today, didn't even try
Speaker 14: to run on it. So tomorrow, will you know, get
Speaker 14: to the fieldy treatment and see how we go.
Speaker 8: Let's see you guys, the abilities we stave up, eliminations
Speaker 8: were beating the sore spot again, going to get.
Speaker 7: The guys came out, you know, Mookie, me and Mookie bets.
Speaker 14: It was huge, and then just up and down the lineup,
Speaker 14: great at bats, attacking on runs. You know, it's bullpen
Speaker 14: was absolutely incredible.
Speaker 8: So looking forward to it to Friday, we see a
Speaker 8: different version of Mooki. Ever, especially after you actually getting
Speaker 8: the home runs. We're getting that bringing that right hitless stretch.
Speaker 7: I think we all knew Muki was gonna be Mooki.
Speaker 14: I mean, I know everyone wants to harp on certain things,
Speaker 14: but it's it's Mookie best for a reason.
Speaker 9: It's pretty coming down the bag on the double play.
Speaker 14: Yesterday's aggravated, your ankle aggravated before the game.
Speaker 7: Every day is the same. That's we'll try again on Friday.
Speaker 1: All right, there's Freddy Freeman, the sprain riding, going to
Speaker 1: give it a go hopefully tomorrow for Game five. You
Speaker 1: said it yesterday, there's no way he's not in that lineup.
Speaker 1: And he wasn't in the lineup, man, I'd have to
Speaker 1: imagine though, for Game five. He's got to be in
Speaker 1: the lineup, right.
Speaker 13: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Well, I mean there's nobody wants to be there more
Speaker 5: than him, I guarantee you that. And uh but what, Yeah,
Speaker 5: I don't know what kind of sprain is this? Is
Speaker 5: this like a I mean, I thought his foot's gonna
Speaker 5: fall off. I mean, because I know what Freddy Freeman's like.
Speaker 5: If he can crawl, he's gonna play. So this must be,
Speaker 5: like you said yesterday, We're gonna find out, Oh there's
Speaker 5: you know, ligament damage or whatever. He's gonna have to
Speaker 5: take the two months off or have a little surgery
Speaker 5: or something. I don't know, but this is like the
Speaker 5: worst sprain I've ever seen in my life. This is
Speaker 5: a bad one, I think. I think it's a lot
Speaker 5: worse than Freddy's. And Freddy's masking it because he wants
Speaker 5: to be out there so bad. But I gotta think
Speaker 5: if you're if you're gonna keep him off the diamond,
Speaker 5: it's got to be really bad. You know, maybe a
Speaker 5: break would be better.
Speaker 1: He suffered it two weeks ago to that ankle sprain
Speaker 1: in the final game against the Padres on that Thursday,
Speaker 1: in which they clenched the series against them in their
Speaker 1: final home game, and they clenched the division that night
Speaker 1: and celebrated. He was in a walking boot, did not
Speaker 1: make the trip to Colorado. They had a week off
Speaker 1: before the start of the NLDS. He gave it a
Speaker 1: go for the first couple of games, came out in
Speaker 1: game three. He didn't play in game four, And here
Speaker 1: we are now two weeks after the sprained ankle. You
Speaker 1: would hope it's gotten better, and you would hope that
Speaker 1: he's not going backwards, which is kind of appears that
Speaker 1: he is in his recovery. But now that he didn't
Speaker 1: play yesterday and he just heard him say he was
Speaker 1: not on his foot for a lot of the day today,
Speaker 1: gets some treatment. You got all day tomorrow until first
Speaker 1: pitch at five. Oh wait, so that's two and a
Speaker 1: half really two almost three full days that he can
Speaker 1: get right and get ready and I don't know, put
Speaker 1: a little icy hot or something on that ankle.
Speaker 5: Hey, you wouldn't believe what they have in the locker.
Speaker 5: They have this one can I if I can tell
Speaker 5: you this one second, I've seen it.
Speaker 12: They have this.
Speaker 5: It's like a giant boot and it's plastic and it
Speaker 5: has frozen. The water's almost frozen runs through this boot
Speaker 5: and it swells up, so it puts a lot of
Speaker 5: compression on the area, and it's like it's like from
Speaker 5: you know, you wear it like a shoe, but it's
Speaker 5: all the way up to your knee and it swells
Speaker 5: up and then the air comes out of it, and
Speaker 5: then it swells up again and the air comes out
Speaker 5: of it, so it's squeezed out some of that swollen
Speaker 5: part and at the same time it freezes it. So
Speaker 5: this is like, where do they get these contraptions? I mean,
Speaker 5: they hadn't even even close to this when I was playing,
Speaker 5: but nowadays they've got so many gadgets to get it ready.
Speaker 5: So that's why I gotta think it's probably a little
Speaker 5: bit more severe than what we're thinking, because those dudes
Speaker 5: have everything down there to get him ready.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no doubt. Let's just call fingers crossed again, Father
Speaker 1: Gary from Burbank who called earlier. Maybe some time, divine intervention,
Speaker 1: we can get Freddie Freeman ready to go for Game five.
Speaker 1: Mark and the OC is next up here on Saxon
Speaker 1: Kates and Am on this Thursday morning.
Speaker 7: Hi Mark, Hey, good morning, gentlemen.
Speaker 1: How are you guys Hey, Mark great.
Speaker 15: See.
Speaker 10: I want to say, especially hide Ee, if you're a
Speaker 10: Dodger fan, you know you are one of the greatest
Speaker 10: Dodgers ever to wear a Dodger uniforms.
Speaker 7: I just want to let you know that.
Speaker 4: Oh, thank you very much, appreciate.
Speaker 10: My question is and it's not a question basically, it's
Speaker 10: a statement. You know, after Game three with a Dodgers loss,
Speaker 10: it was it was tough on all of us to
Speaker 10: think what's going to happen the next day. But when
Speaker 10: I saw the lineup online yesterday, when you had Kiki
Speaker 10: playing and you had Chris Taylor playing, I knew we
Speaker 10: were gonna win. Those two guys are gamers. To see
Speaker 10: him sitting on the bench, I know their role, they
Speaker 10: know their roles, but those guys want to play, and
Speaker 10: when they're in the lineup, things are gonna happen. What
Speaker 10: do you guys think about that?
Speaker 1: Well, certainly, Keiky Hernandez is known for his all round production.
Speaker 1: We've seen what Chris Taylor's done in the past offensively
Speaker 1: and defensively, and has been a mister October for this
Speaker 1: Dodgers team in the postseason. Oh for four last night
Speaker 1: with four punch outs for Chris Taylor. Didn't quite get
Speaker 1: it done at the plate, but certainly his defensive availability
Speaker 1: and what he can provide as far as the versatility
Speaker 1: playing center last night, going back to third, going back
Speaker 1: to center, that brings a lot to this Dodgers team.
Speaker 1: So appreciate the funk. CALLI seven squeeze another one in
Speaker 1: herey for the top of the hour. Jonas in La.
Speaker 1: He's been waiting patiently. Thank you, Jonas.
Speaker 7: How you doing this morning, Good morning, gentlemen, doing fine?
Speaker 10: Thank you, Steve.
Speaker 13: This is the question for you.
Speaker 3: I know that you know the Padres have Darvish lined
Speaker 3: up to pitch Game five. Now, the Dodgers has faced
Speaker 3: him in Game two and he was definitely dealing. To
Speaker 3: what extent do the Dodgers now have an advantage they've
Speaker 3: seen him at least in the playoffs, Tim, I don't
Speaker 3: know if they saw him during the regular season, but
Speaker 3: I think the Dodgers actually have an advantage because they
Speaker 3: just saw him in Game two. That you know, they
Speaker 3: know a lot of his tricks and they're going to
Speaker 3: be looking for it. Your thoughts.
Speaker 1: Appreciate it. I mean, they've seen you, Darvish over the years.
Speaker 1: Not just this season, already this postseason. But they've seen you, Darvish.
Speaker 1: They certainly know what he's about. They've had trouble either
Speaker 1: at Petco Park or at Dodgers Stadium facing this guy.
Speaker 1: For whatever reason. The thirty eight year old can struggle
Speaker 1: against other team saxy, but you Darvish just seems to
Speaker 1: have the Dodgers' number.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I get it, But remember you Darvish has got,
Speaker 5: you know, a myriad of pitches that he can throw
Speaker 5: at you. He can alter them, he can you know,
Speaker 5: make him morph into something else. A fastball is kind
Speaker 5: of a fastball, but it's not really And then he's
Speaker 5: got all the ability to do all that. He's like
Speaker 5: a magician with the ball. But remember, he can go
Speaker 5: on streaks. He's a very streaky pitcher. He's been on
Speaker 5: a really high note as of late. But we also
Speaker 5: know that he can go in streaks on the downside too.
Speaker 5: Maybe it's time that we see a little bit of
Speaker 5: shift there because we know what's going to He's not
Speaker 5: going to continue on this unbelievable run forever. You know,
Speaker 5: we've seen it in the past where he can also
Speaker 5: you know, blank the bed, right, Yeah, and so maybe
Speaker 5: it's time for that.
Speaker 4: And I would say that at some point we're gonna
Speaker 4: see a little bit of a regression in some of
Speaker 4: his some of his pitching.
Speaker 1: He's face the Dodgers total of fifteen different starts in
Speaker 1: his career. He's five and five with a two twenty
Speaker 1: seven ero in ninety one and a third innings against
Speaker 1: him in his career. It's good long career. Yeah, absolutely
Speaker 1: this season. The Dodgers not only seen him already in
Speaker 1: this NLDS the seven innings, one run, three hits, but
Speaker 1: the Dodgers have seen him three other times in the
Speaker 1: regular season back in May, seven shutout innings, seven punchouts,
Speaker 1: back in April five innings, three runs, four hits in
Speaker 1: a no decision. And then they saw him in Soeul,
Speaker 1: South Korea, in the first game of the year against
Speaker 1: the Dodgers, where he went three and two third innings.
Speaker 1: So this will be the fifth time this year, and
Speaker 1: you know we'll see him.
Speaker 4: You know what they're saying in the in the clubhouse
Speaker 4: right now, Tim.
Speaker 12: Bring it.
Speaker 1: We're gonna bring you one more hour right here.
Speaker 4: Bring it on.
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Speaker 1: seven two five seventy. Feeling a lot better today. I
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