Speaker 1: Now your host for playoff Dodger Toss.
Speaker 2: Sound off, Angelinos Tim kaits Well, the Dodgers had a
Speaker 2: chance to punch their ticket to their fourth World Series
Speaker 2: in the last eight years. Instead they're getting on the
Speaker 2: plane heading back to LA with a three to two
Speaker 2: series lead in the NLCS. Hi, everybody, and welcome to
Speaker 2: postgame Dodger Talk here on your home of the Dodgers
Speaker 2: and five to seventy LA Sports Star phone lines. Well,
Speaker 2: you know the number eight sixty six, nine eighty seven
Speaker 2: two five seventy eight six six nine eight seven two
Speaker 2: five seventy as the Dodgers had a chance to win
Speaker 2: Game five, win three straight at City Field and get
Speaker 2: a berth to the World Series. Instead, they've got a
Speaker 2: fly back home workout tomorrow, and now they must win
Speaker 2: Game six unless they want to play Game seven on
Speaker 2: Monday night. And it's now a bullpen game on Sunday
Speaker 2: night at Dodger Stadium. Aziel fe Sean Manya who will
Speaker 2: go now for the New York Mets, who tonight pounded
Speaker 2: out twelve runs against the Dodgers, eight of which given
Speaker 2: up from by Jack Flarity, who will start right there?
Speaker 2: Jack Flarity tonight did not have it and did not
Speaker 2: have it from the get go, a leadoff single to
Speaker 2: Francisco Lindor of a walk to the next batter, Nemo,
Speaker 2: and the first two batters were on in the first inning,
Speaker 2: and two batters later, Pete Alonso a two to one
Speaker 2: pitch right over the middle of the plate, crushes it
Speaker 2: to right center field, a three to nothing Mets lead.
Speaker 2: He comes back out in the second inning a leadoff double. Somehow,
Speaker 2: some way, gets out of the second inning without giving
Speaker 2: up a run, despite Lindor crushing the ball almost fair
Speaker 2: for another home run for the Mets. Instead, it was
Speaker 2: foul down the right field line, and they get out
Speaker 2: of it with no runs scored in the second From
Speaker 2: the Mets, the third inning was a complete disaster. And
Speaker 2: at that point, if you're Dave Roberts, you have to
Speaker 2: go get Jack Flarity oh two count to Pete Alonzo
Speaker 2: to start off the third. It's a three to one game.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers had scored in the second. You put up
Speaker 2: a zero in the bottom of the second somehow, and
Speaker 2: it's still a three to one game. Bottom of the
Speaker 2: third inning, You're still in it. He walks Pete Alonzo
Speaker 2: after getting ahead o two in the count and a
Speaker 2: couple of pitches just not even competitive, Pete Alonzo not
Speaker 2: chasing him. Just one pitch fouled off and he walks.
Speaker 2: Pete Alonzo after getting ahead Zho and two. The next batter,
Speaker 2: Jesse Winker four straight pitches out of the strike zone
Speaker 2: for a four pitch walk. The first two batters of
Speaker 2: the third walked by Jack Flarity. Mark Pryor came out
Speaker 2: and talked to him. But nobody getting up in the bullpen.
Speaker 2: A three to one lead, shouldn't somebody be getting loose
Speaker 2: to start the third inning. I understand you need Jack
Speaker 2: Fleerry to give you some length you cannot cover with
Speaker 2: the high leverage relievers that you have down there for
Speaker 2: six or seven innings. I understand it. Dave Roberts said
Speaker 2: that I get it. But it's a three to one
Speaker 2: game in the third inning, and after the first inning,
Speaker 2: and then after the second inning, of which you dodged
Speaker 2: a bullet and you put up a zero, but barely
Speaker 2: in the second inning, the lineup turns over. It's the
Speaker 2: heart of the lineup with Lonzo starting off the third inning.
Speaker 2: Somebody needs to be getting loose. Somebody needs to start
Speaker 2: getting ready just in case things really go south in
Speaker 2: the third inning. You've got to keep it close. This
Speaker 2: Dodgers offense can score runs. We know that, we know
Speaker 2: what they can do. But you can't dig a hole
Speaker 2: so deep that you can't get out of it. But
Speaker 2: that's exactly what happened. Back to back walks to lead
Speaker 2: off the third inning, and still Jack Flarity stays in
Speaker 2: the game, facing Starlin Marte who doubles to left on
Speaker 2: a pitch that was eighty eight miles an hour over
Speaker 2: the heart of the plate. Two runs scored. It's a
Speaker 2: five to one game, all right. At this point, somebody
Speaker 2: go get Jack Flarity. It's a five to one game.
Speaker 2: It's still within reach. And I get there's nobody out
Speaker 2: in the second inning, and you still have to have
Speaker 2: a bullpen now cover at least seven innings. I understand that.
Speaker 2: But outside of one reliever, that being Blake Trining, it
Speaker 2: should be all hands on deck trying to pitch them
Speaker 2: back to back games. Game three in Game four, probably
Speaker 2: not up for this game, pitching it for the third
Speaker 2: day in three games. All right, everybody else should be
Speaker 2: good to go high leverage, low leverage, mid leverage. They
Speaker 2: should all be good to go to con tribute at
Speaker 2: some point in some way. A five to one game,
Speaker 2: at that point, you've got to cut the cord on
Speaker 2: Jack Flaherty. You have to. You have to. Then you
Speaker 2: piece it together, you find out some way to keep
Speaker 2: putting up zeros and let your offense chip away. In
Speaker 2: a five to one game, it's a game where you
Speaker 2: can clinch a World Series spot. Yet the Dodgers played
Speaker 2: it as if, well, we got game six, what about
Speaker 2: game six? We have to have pitching for Game six.
Speaker 2: We have to have a bullpen for Game six. You
Speaker 2: may not need a Game six if you can keep
Speaker 2: it close, chip away, keep the game within reach, and
Speaker 2: win Game five. I know it's could have, would have,
Speaker 2: should have, But at that point you have to think
Speaker 2: five to one game, all right, let's keep it there,
Speaker 2: Let's get somebody to get out of this inning, will
Speaker 2: work inning to inning, and we'll hope that our lineup
Speaker 2: would just put up a ten spot twenty hours ago,
Speaker 2: is gonna come and score some more runs than the
Speaker 2: one they'd already had on the board. You have to
Speaker 2: figure this Dodgers offense was one of the best so
Speaker 2: far in the postseason, scoring runs in punches is gonna
Speaker 2: score runs, and they eventually did score six total for you.
Speaker 2: But when you put yourself in a whole light they did,
Speaker 2: it's too big of a hole to get out of.
Speaker 2: But the hole should never have gotten that big three
Speaker 2: to one, I go get him after the Marte double
Speaker 2: five to one, Yeah, you're definitely gonna go get him.
Speaker 2: But after the Marte double three batters later, Alvarez single,
Speaker 2: it's six to one and he's still in the game.
Speaker 2: Lindor triple, it's a seven to one game and he's
Speaker 2: still in there with two outs. Nemo single to right,
Speaker 2: eight one game, and Jack Flaherty is still in pitching
Speaker 2: in an eight to one game. He gets Viento's to
Speaker 2: ground out to short inning, a five runs on four
Speaker 2: hit inning for the New York Mets and an eight
Speaker 2: to one lead. I get saving guys for a possible
Speaker 2: game six if you're late in the game and you
Speaker 2: want to save a couple of those arms. But in
Speaker 2: a closeout game, whether it's three to one and you
Speaker 2: can keep it right there, or you can keep it
Speaker 2: at five to one, and I'm gonna roll the dice
Speaker 2: with my offense, I'm gonna keep it at five to
Speaker 2: one and say, bullpen, do your stuff for seven innings.
Speaker 2: I need some of you guys to get an extra
Speaker 2: batter or two to piece together seven. So at that
Speaker 2: point I can give my offense to go out there
Speaker 2: and get me four runs. I can get my offense
Speaker 2: to get me back into this game. One swing of
Speaker 2: the bat, we're back in it. One big inning, a
Speaker 2: crooked number, and it's a tie game. We're right back
Speaker 2: in it. Three to one, all right, five to one,
Speaker 2: crooked inning, we're back in it. We chip away at it.
Speaker 2: I got confidence in my offense. They're gonna get more
Speaker 2: than one run. You have to roll the dice. You
Speaker 2: have a day off tomorrow and a game on Sunday night,
Speaker 2: plenty of time to get guys rest. And he's looking
Speaker 2: at the usage going in today's game. Michael Kopek has
Speaker 2: pitched once in this series, twelve pitches in Game three.
Speaker 2: Trina has pitched in the first two games in New
Speaker 2: York Games three and four, again probably off limits. Hasn't
Speaker 2: pitched three straight games all season long. Evan Phillips pitched
Speaker 2: thirty four pitches last night. Maybe he can get me
Speaker 2: an out, all right, All hands on deck, get me
Speaker 2: an out. Evan Phillips, Ryan Brazier. He didn't pitch in
Speaker 2: Game four. Daniel Hudson hasn't pitched since Game one. Anthony
Speaker 2: Bonda hasn't pitched since Game two. Yet you bring him
Speaker 2: in the eighth inning to get one batter. Brent Honeywell,
Speaker 2: you brought him in and pitched, and he soaked up
Speaker 2: innings and we applaud him. We'd tip our cap and
Speaker 2: our turtleneck to him, but he still gave up four runs.
Speaker 2: Ben kiss berryus through thirty one pitches last night. Maybe
Speaker 2: he can come out and give you something. Maybe not.
Speaker 2: That was actually on Wednesday, So he is available to pitch.
Speaker 2: Edgardo Henriquez. He pitched last night seven pitches. All right,
Speaker 2: maybe he's not available, but maybe he is. He's a
Speaker 2: young kid with an arm of a young kid that
Speaker 2: can go out there and help you out, and he
Speaker 2: hasn't pitched a lot this season. In general. Landon Nack,
Speaker 2: if you need somebody late in the game where you
Speaker 2: just don't feel like you're gonna catch the Mets and
Speaker 2: the game's out of reach, then you can bring in
Speaker 2: Landon Nack. He can soak up the rest of the
Speaker 2: innings and we get ready for Game six, but early on,
Speaker 2: in my opinion, to throw up the white flag and
Speaker 2: say we can't go to our high leverage guys quite yet.
Speaker 2: You know, we got a ride with Jack flairt he
Speaker 2: just a little bit longer, you're letting the game get
Speaker 2: out of reach, and it didn't necessarily need to get
Speaker 2: to that point. All right, play Devil's advocate with you,
Speaker 2: because some of the people are tweeting at me saying, well,
Speaker 2: what if the high leverage guys come in and they
Speaker 2: still get hit around? If Dwinker still triples in the
Speaker 2: fourth and McNeil still hits the sack fly and there's
Speaker 2: runners on base in traffic everywhere. All right, If we
Speaker 2: get to the fourth inning and it's ten to two,
Speaker 2: like it was, and let's say one or two of
Speaker 2: the higher le guys didn't have it tonight, that's when
Speaker 2: you pull the ripcord and say we don't have it.
Speaker 2: In Game five, we tried with Flarty, We tried with
Speaker 2: a couple of high leverage relievers to stop the bleeding
Speaker 2: and keep us in a game, and it didn't work.
Speaker 2: You know what we're gonna say, landing nac Britt honeywell,
Speaker 2: eat up the innings. If we can we can come back, great,
Speaker 2: but if not, we're getting ready for Game six and
Speaker 2: we still feel really good about how our bullpen is rested.
Speaker 2: But instead we never got that opportunity. It felt like
Speaker 2: Game two all over again, where landing that comes in
Speaker 2: has a five run inning puts them in a big hole.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers actually were one or two swings away from
Speaker 2: getting back into that Game two and winning it despite
Speaker 2: the early struggles. Tonight, down eight to one, it fell
Speaker 2: out of reach. It really felt out of reach when
Speaker 2: they went up eleven to five, then up eleven to six,
Speaker 2: and they go on and win it by a final
Speaker 2: of twelve to six. To me, it's frustrating. It's not
Speaker 2: second guessing in the moment. I imagine a lot of
Speaker 2: you Dodger fans are with me, because heck, my phone
Speaker 2: started to get hot from all the people calling and
Speaker 2: texting me wanting to know why Jack Flaherty was still
Speaker 2: in the game. I don't know, not my decision. I'm
Speaker 2: aren't there with you. Go to your high leverage guys.
Speaker 2: Stop the bleeding, at least for an inning, put up
Speaker 2: a zero. Stop the momentum of the New York Mets.
Speaker 2: Baseball is a game of momentum. They put up three runs,
Speaker 2: they threw five spot up in the third, it's eight
Speaker 2: to one. It should never got to that point five
Speaker 2: to one. Send somebody in there, get out of that
Speaker 2: inning a five to one deficit, and start piecing it
Speaker 2: together after that, because if you put up a zero
Speaker 2: in the fourth, a zero in the fifth, and next
Speaker 2: thing you know, the Dodgers are attacking on runs. Pa
Speaker 2: has is hitting a home run. It's all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: a five to three game, and who knows, maybe you
Speaker 2: tied it five and we got a whole new ball
Speaker 2: game in the sixth inning. But you can never get
Speaker 2: to that point because you don't go to your high
Speaker 2: end relievers to stop the bleeding early in the game.
Speaker 2: Why to win and you move on. This isn't a
Speaker 2: game in which you're down three to one and you
Speaker 2: need to win this game and you have to worry
Speaker 2: about game six and seven. I'm just as frustrated as
Speaker 2: you Dodger fans. Wholeheartedly don't understand why the Dodgers did
Speaker 2: not make an effort to stop it where it was
Speaker 2: at the third inning and continue to have Jack Flaherty
Speaker 2: out there, the thinking of, well, there's still a lot
Speaker 2: of baseball left in this series. Well, there doesn't need
Speaker 2: to be. If you win Game five and you keep
Speaker 2: it at a five to one game, or you keep
Speaker 2: it at a three to one game, you gotta have arms,
Speaker 2: the high ends, the high end guys ready for Game
Speaker 2: six or seven. The high leverage guys. Can't be responsible
Speaker 2: for that many innings in this game. Of course they can't.
Speaker 2: I get that. But somebody needs to come in and
Speaker 2: stop the bleeding in the third inning, needs to come
Speaker 2: in and stop that big inning from continuing to happen.
Speaker 2: When it's three to one and all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: Marte hits a two run double to make it five
Speaker 2: to one, it has to stop right there. It has to.
Speaker 2: You've got to stop it so you can keep your
Speaker 2: offense still within striking distance and not put your team
Speaker 2: in a hole yet again, not worry about Game six.
Speaker 2: In game seven, you still have a shot to win
Speaker 2: Game five, eight, six, six, nine, eighty seven two, five seventy.
Speaker 2: Let's head back out to Citey Field. Jack Flaherty got
Speaker 2: hit around tonight, eight runs, eight hits, a home run,
Speaker 2: two doubles a triple in three innings of work. Let's
Speaker 2: go back out and hear from tonight's starter.
Speaker 3: I feel like they made they made some adjustments, stead
Speaker 3: a good job, and I feel like the first time
Speaker 3: in a while I kind of let the game speed
Speaker 3: up on me a little bit and it didn't make
Speaker 3: the adjustments in game that maybe the only get made,
Speaker 3: especially after that first inning where they put a couple
Speaker 3: of good apouts together. Uh you tip your hat Topete
Speaker 3: there on. You put a good swing on a pitch,
Speaker 3: but it kind of showed and uh, yeah, I didn't
Speaker 3: make any I didn't make it. They didn't make adjustments
Speaker 3: after that, and uh I kept going uh back to
Speaker 3: the well and uh, you know, they did a good
Speaker 3: job making adjustments and I didn't.
Speaker 4: Is this one of those examples of when you do
Speaker 4: face a team twice in the seven game series and
Speaker 4: obviously you can kind of learn from them as you
Speaker 4: hopefully can prepare for the World Series and what a
Speaker 4: performance look like for in that series for.
Speaker 5: You' that's part of the the challenge of it.
Speaker 3: And you know what makes uh the postseason so interesting
Speaker 3: is facing a team two times in a span of
Speaker 3: of five days.
Speaker 5: And getting a chance to go right back at 'em.
Speaker 3: You know, they want to get get back for you know,
Speaker 3: what went on in game one, and I.
Speaker 5: Want to continue, you know, rolling through that. And that's
Speaker 5: how the way it went.
Speaker 3: They they were able to do a good job, and uh,
Speaker 3: the tip recap to them and h what they were
Speaker 3: able to do and the the swings that they took
Speaker 3: and the pitches they hit. So you know, we'll go
Speaker 3: back and figure some things out and uh, you know,
Speaker 3: make adjustments and you know, if I could take them
Speaker 3: all in the next game, I would, I would, but
Speaker 3: that's not the way the baseball works. So you know,
Speaker 3: Honey did a good job picking picking us up to
Speaker 3: giving us some innings, Like guys kept showing some fight,
Speaker 3: putting up six runs there. You know, just makes staining
Speaker 3: a little bit more because I do is be average
Speaker 3: and you know we're in this game, but you know,
Speaker 3: you gotta regroup, go back to LA and uh, you know,
Speaker 3: the next man up, and you don't exact.
Speaker 6: The game kind of speeding up, especially like that third
Speaker 6: ending is kind of what what wrong?
Speaker 7: Meditting to where you couldn't.
Speaker 3: That's coming into It's not it's not that you know,
Speaker 3: things keep going where its game speeds up and you
Speaker 3: gotta make adjustments and sometimes there that happens, and especially
Speaker 3: in the playoffs, things get getting magnified a little bit more. So,
Speaker 3: Uh yeah, I didn't didn't didn't make adjustments in terms
Speaker 3: of a bunch of different things that I'm not gonna
Speaker 3: get into what I think that those are. And but yeah,
Speaker 3: it just is, Uh did to think something hasn't happened
Speaker 3: in a while of letting the games speed up and
Speaker 3: letting it you know, things cycle that quickly. So that's
Speaker 3: it's baseball sometimes and you get a chance to learn
Speaker 3: from it.
Speaker 8: What was the biggest difference between Game one and tonight?
Speaker 5: Was it just that lack of adjustments? I think so.
Speaker 3: I think it's part of baseball's you gonna make adjustments
Speaker 3: game to game and and pitch to pitch ending the inning.
Speaker 5: And I did not, you know, I just didn't do that.
Speaker 5: They they did a really good job.
Speaker 3: You could see the swings they took and uh, you
Speaker 3: see their game plan.
Speaker 5: So you know, move on the next one.
Speaker 7: Jack.
Speaker 5: We all know your story, hometown guy. It's the team
Speaker 5: you cheered for.
Speaker 9: How frustrating is it for you that you weren't able
Speaker 9: to get it done for your team today.
Speaker 3: I don't think me being growing up here has any
Speaker 3: addition to being a frustrated I understand that this has
Speaker 3: been a whole story and everything, but like it, there's
Speaker 3: no added frustration because I grew up and I'd be
Speaker 3: pissed off no matter where I was playing.
Speaker 5: So kind of tired of that.
Speaker 3: But I I be frustrated no matter what, and I'd
Speaker 3: be static with that game one, no matter where I
Speaker 3: was pitching.
Speaker 5: So no matter what, it's frustrating.
Speaker 3: So it sucks, but you know, we got another one.
Speaker 3: We get to go back to La and uh, you
Speaker 3: don't get created by our fans.
Speaker 5: I was surprised for you to. Pete was able to
Speaker 5: go down and get that ball and kind of equity
Speaker 5: type man. He's a good player.
Speaker 3: I watched him take take a change up below earlier
Speaker 3: this year when I was with Detroit and do the
Speaker 3: same thing with it, So you know, there's there's there's
Speaker 3: a reason why he's he's He's good at what he
Speaker 3: does and sometimes you tip your cap and make a
Speaker 3: better pitch.
Speaker 7: The Bilo was a little down.
Speaker 5: It's kind of like the command was off.
Speaker 10: Is that situation, like you talked about, where it just
Speaker 10: your body made it wasn't moving in the right.
Speaker 5: Way or I felt good good going in.
Speaker 3: I didn't really look up too much to see how
Speaker 3: it was coming out.
Speaker 5: The hitters would tell you that. But the command was
Speaker 5: I mean, walked forward.
Speaker 3: I didn't been really good about not doing that all
Speaker 3: year and those just get it, you know, amplified in
Speaker 3: the playoffs. So again he's just just regroup, hope to
Speaker 3: get another one and hopefully that this guy's picked me up.
Speaker 2: All right, there's Jack Flerity handled it well there talking
Speaker 2: to the media, and yeah, I liked his answer about
Speaker 2: the fact that it's because he's a homegrown kid from
Speaker 2: LA doesn't mean more or less. You know that it
Speaker 2: hurts the start tonight against the Mets. Yeah, impressive from
Speaker 2: Jack flarerity to go and meet the media and talk
Speaker 2: about his outing. I'm a little surprised nobody asked him
Speaker 2: about his velocity and if he feels okay and maybe
Speaker 2: an explanation as far as why the v LO is
Speaker 2: down and the command wasn't there. He talked about adjustments
Speaker 2: and the game's speeding up on him. Mark Pryor went
Speaker 2: out there once to talk to him, and then Starling
Speaker 2: Marte hit the double after that, so there was a
Speaker 2: break in the action. But I understand what he means.
Speaker 2: The game's speeding up on you, and nexty you know,
Speaker 2: it's the next batter and the next batter, and you
Speaker 2: just can't get it out and you're struggling. You're looking
Speaker 2: around for somebody to help you or something to get
Speaker 2: you out of this inning. I get that. I understand
Speaker 2: what he's talking about there. But at the same time,
Speaker 2: nobody wanted to ask him why he's throwing eighty eight
Speaker 2: ninety ninety one miles an hour on his fastball and
Speaker 2: his sinker and not having any control of his offstbed pitches.
Speaker 2: His slider really had no bite on it at all.
Speaker 2: Tonight interesting more interested in asking about the storyline of
Speaker 2: being a kid from Burbank. Apparently, so eight sixty six
Speaker 2: nine eight seven two five seventy a disappointing nine for
Speaker 2: the Dodgers, a game in which they clinch a berth
Speaker 2: in the World Series. If they can beat the New
Speaker 2: York Mets. Riding the momentum of a ten to two
Speaker 2: win last night, they come out today had an opportunity
Speaker 2: by the way, in the first inning, you can't can't
Speaker 2: do this without saying that the first inning, second and third,
Speaker 2: nobody out. The Dodgers a golden opportunity to take the
Speaker 2: lead in this game six Taoscar Hernandez grounds out to short.
Speaker 2: Otani doesn't go home and score. The infield was deep
Speaker 2: up the middle and the corners were pinching in a
Speaker 2: ball hit to the middle of the infield, you're going
Speaker 2: on contact, you're scoring because they're going to throw it
Speaker 2: to first to get the out and give up the run,
Speaker 2: which they did. He didn't run, and the Dodgers left
Speaker 2: Otawanni at third and stranded Mookie Bets at second because
Speaker 2: Freddy Freeman lined out to Pee Alonzo and then Tommy
Speaker 2: Edmond struck out to end the inning. So instead of
Speaker 2: taking a one to nothing lead, grabbing the momentum and
Speaker 2: really putting your foot on the Mets to have to
Speaker 2: answer in the first inning, it's a zero zero game
Speaker 2: and Jack Flairity maybe goes out there with confidence instead
Speaker 2: single walk. Two batters later, Pete Alonzo good night, four
Speaker 2: hundred and thirty two foot home run and the Mets
Speaker 2: take a three to nothing lead. Again it's three to one.
Speaker 2: After the Dodgers scored in the second, it's three to
Speaker 2: one in the third until the Marte double, it's five
Speaker 2: to one. I'm gonna say it again. Nobody warming up,
Speaker 2: Nobody ready to go in a three to one game.
Speaker 2: You're Dave Roberts. In my mind, this is just me speaking.
Speaker 2: I can't let the game get away any more than that.
Speaker 2: It's already three to one. If he continues to get
Speaker 2: outs like he did and get out of a jam
Speaker 2: like he did in the second inning, great, okay, he's
Speaker 2: gonna go back out there, a lead off walk after
Speaker 2: having an two count on pin Alonso to go, then
Speaker 2: for to throw four straight balls, and then four straight
Speaker 2: balls not even close to Winker first and second. Nobody
Speaker 2: out a three to one game? And Marteu, where's the bullpen?
Speaker 2: Where's where's the reliever to come in and stop the bleeding?
Speaker 2: You leave Jack Flerty out there, gives up a two
Speaker 2: run double. It's five to one that point, it's lights out.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry. I go get him. I say, Jack, you
Speaker 2: didn't have it tonight. We're gonna have the bullpen covered
Speaker 2: tonight and try to keep this game within reach. At
Speaker 2: five to one, instead, they leave him out there. He
Speaker 2: scores three more, gives him a three more runs, and
Speaker 2: it said eight to one. Mets lead. Eight to one.
Speaker 2: Mets lead at that point, and the Dodgers could not
Speaker 2: come back. They made it close. Mookie Bets hit a
Speaker 2: home run in the sixth inning that made it a
Speaker 2: ten to six game. Dodgers were still right there, nobody
Speaker 2: out sixth inning, ten to six game, but they couldn't
Speaker 2: get any closer, and they couldn't score any more runs.
Speaker 2: In fact, they give up two more and the Mets
Speaker 2: win it at twelve to six. All right, I've said
Speaker 2: what I had to say. Let's go out to the phones.
Speaker 2: Thanks for being patient, Javier and all Hammer start things
Speaker 2: off here on postgame Dodger Talk. Go ahead, and Avier,
Speaker 2: thank you.
Speaker 8: For taking my call.
Speaker 11: What a disappointing, embarrassing game to watch. I guess Dave
Speaker 11: Roberts and the management staff didn't listen to what his
Speaker 11: players were saying last night, how they wanted to close
Speaker 11: out the series today. Right, you have a day off
Speaker 11: tomorrow if you throw your big guns and your big
Speaker 11: guns don't work, but you got to give the team
Speaker 11: a chance. I just lost for words this You got
Speaker 11: to give the gun a chance. We've all I gotta say.
Speaker 11: I just I can't say anymore. I think everything you
Speaker 11: said is like fought on and it's just so frustrating
Speaker 11: because what if you've just woken up a giant. You
Speaker 11: can't get complacent. That's complacent managing. And that's all I
Speaker 11: have to say. You can taking my call, all right?
Speaker 2: Have you here? I'm right there with you. I can't
Speaker 2: be at a lost words because this Dodger talk, and
Speaker 2: I got to say something. But I'm frustrated because we
Speaker 2: saw this in Game two, the Dodgers not going to
Speaker 2: their high leverage relievers. We knew it was gonna bullpen game.
Speaker 2: The plan didn't work out. Initially, you fall behind, but
Speaker 2: the hole kept getting dug deeper and deeper and deeper.
Speaker 2: And you've got an offense that's the best in baseball,
Speaker 2: and in a playoff game, you're down one, two, three,
Speaker 2: four nothing. I still feel like this Dodgers offense can
Speaker 2: come back, but you put yourself down eight to one
Speaker 2: like they did tonight in the third inning, that feels
Speaker 2: like a hole that's really hard to come out of,
Speaker 2: and it's gonna take a lot of work from the
Speaker 2: bullpen the rest of the way, and certainly a lot
Speaker 2: of work from your offense to get back into this game.
Speaker 2: While all that being said, the Mets have momentum and
Speaker 2: they got the crowd back into the game, so you're
Speaker 2: working against that as well. Eddie and North Hollywood is
Speaker 2: next up here on Dodger Talk, Mets take Game five
Speaker 2: twelve to six. Hi, EDDI, how you doing?
Speaker 7: Wow?
Speaker 8: Thanks for having me on. I have a lot to say.
Speaker 7: Tim.
Speaker 8: First of all, I gotta say I love your passion.
Speaker 8: I will expecting me to here, Dave, but I guess
Speaker 8: he's gotta go fly back with our loser team.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 8: But to say the truth this game, you know, it
Speaker 8: really falls on the shows that Dave Roberts. You know,
Speaker 8: going back on game two. I listened to the w
Speaker 8: talk after game two and you know you really went
Speaker 8: in on you know, he went to Mac. He didn't
Speaker 8: pull him early and today clearly didn't have it. Unfortunately,
Speaker 8: you know, Jack was a stud on game one. For
Speaker 8: game two, he didn't have it. And after he walked
Speaker 8: the first two guys, I was got. I was at Chili.
Speaker 8: He's over here. I'm way over here in North cal
Speaker 8: I made a delivery and it's like pull this guy,
Speaker 8: pull him, and know he didn't pull them join us.
Speaker 8: He struggled, he didn't have it. He sent him back
Speaker 8: out there third aning a lunch of walks, winker walks.
Speaker 8: When he walked Winker, I was like, oh, come on,
Speaker 8: I was on I was on Twitter like X like
Speaker 8: somebody's in a bullpen, but nope, nobody was in the bullpen.
Speaker 8: And then he hits out double down the line, and
Speaker 8: you know t K is our best third baseman. But
Speaker 8: we had Monthy at that base and for some reason
Speaker 8: he was playing up on the grass so he couldn't
Speaker 8: backhand it. It went by him, and after that it
Speaker 8: was all downhill.
Speaker 1: Ye.
Speaker 8: Unfortunately, you know Freddy, I love Freddy, but right now, Freddy,
Speaker 8: he's hurting the team. If we got mixed up for yeah,
Speaker 8: he got mexed up for his base. If we got
Speaker 8: mixed up for his base and we got a third,
Speaker 8: who knows, maybe he can mix that play. But you
Speaker 8: know what, We're gonna go back to LA and I'm
Speaker 8: very confident I'm gonna be there.
Speaker 7: I'm all right.
Speaker 2: I appreciate your phone call. I'll let you I'll let
Speaker 2: you go a lot of Dodger fans want away, and
Speaker 2: I guess I get your frustration, and uh yeah, it's
Speaker 2: it's a game at which the Dodgers win, and they
Speaker 2: move on a lot riding on it, and to treat
Speaker 2: it like, well, we got game six to fall back on,
Speaker 2: and uh yeah, we're down on early, so we're gonna
Speaker 2: stay away from our high, high leverage relievers. I just
Speaker 2: don't get it. I don't get it. I'm I'm a
Speaker 2: chips all in kind of guy, and that's just me personally.
Speaker 2: And I would have I would have kept fighting. I
Speaker 2: would have kept saying three to one, I'm gonna keep fighting,
Speaker 2: five to one, I'm gonna keep fighting again. I said
Speaker 2: it earlier. At that point, if it's the high leverage
Speaker 2: relievers come in a trying in a COPEC and they
Speaker 2: give up a couple runs and it's all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: a seven to one game or an eight to one
Speaker 2: game because those guys gave up the runs in the
Speaker 2: third and fourth inning or however it turned out, then fine,
Speaker 2: then I'm punting and then I'm going to land in
Speaker 2: neck and Brett honey Well and thinking, Okay, I'm not
Speaker 2: wasting ay more. High leverage, guys. I've used one or
Speaker 2: two of them here. We just don't have it. But
Speaker 2: to not even give them a chance to keep it
Speaker 2: at three to one, to keep it at five to one,
Speaker 2: to me, that's right. I'm different. Adam in the four
Speaker 2: h five, hopefully driving safe, two half the wheel, listen
Speaker 2: to Dodger talk. Hi doing, Adam?
Speaker 12: How about you?
Speaker 2: I'm okay, I'm okay. I'm a little frustrat right now.
Speaker 2: I think a lot of Dodger fans are.
Speaker 12: Yeah. Well, first off, thanks for taking my call. I
Speaker 12: just wanted to start off by saying, you know, I
Speaker 12: grew up in Northridge, din our Dodger fans for as
Speaker 12: long as I can remember, twenty twenty was the first
Speaker 12: championship I've ever seen or listened to at Dodger stadiums.
Speaker 12: But I'll be honest, I get as frustrated with a
Speaker 12: lot of Dave Roberts's decisions throughout the playoffs in most
Speaker 12: recent years. First time I want to shout out to
Speaker 12: go Bruins. You know, Eric Carrow, Dave Roberts Chase at
Speaker 12: league got to support my UCLA Ruins. But I honestly
Speaker 12: am not super upset with that decision. Being down five
Speaker 12: to one obviously is not an ideal place to play.
Speaker 12: We've been down that before and being able to come back.
Speaker 12: But you're in the driver's seat up three to one.
Speaker 12: I understand where you're coming from. But if you don't
Speaker 12: win this game, you have a day off brest those
Speaker 12: Bulkan's arms are gonna be okay regardless.
Speaker 2: Yep, you're right, Adam. I appreciate it. You're absolutely right.
Speaker 2: You have a day to get those arms rested. And
Speaker 2: I told you earlier what the status was of those relievers.
Speaker 2: Ben Kisparius pitched two innings or make that at Garl.
Speaker 2: Henriquez pitched two innings last night, thirty four pitches and
Speaker 2: an Indian and a third from Evan Phillips. Blake tried
Speaker 2: and pitched as well.
Speaker 8: Try it.
Speaker 2: I'm sure would take the ball asked. Evan Phillips would
Speaker 2: take the ball tonight in whatever capacity if asked. In
Speaker 2: a tight game, Henriquez is probably the only guy not available.
Speaker 2: Everybody else is available, and like I said, again, the
Speaker 2: high leverage relievers come in and they can't put a
Speaker 2: zero up and they'll have you in trouble, and all
Speaker 2: of a sudden they're tacking on more runs and it's
Speaker 2: turning into a blowout. Then you pull the ripcord and
Speaker 2: say we're gonna live to fight another day. We're not
Speaker 2: gonna use any more high leverage relievers, and we're gonna
Speaker 2: get ready for Sunday. But he didn't get to that point.
Speaker 2: You kept Jack Flaherty out there, runs kept coming in,
Speaker 2: and then you put the game out of reach at
Speaker 2: that point and didn't want to use the high leverage relievers.
Speaker 2: Eight six, six, nine, eighty seven, two five, seven, will
Speaker 2: take a break, We'll come back. More of your phone calls. Yeah,
Speaker 2: a lot of frustration from Dodger fans. I understand. I
Speaker 2: understand your frustration. The Dodgers had a chance to close
Speaker 2: it out, finish this series and get ready for the
Speaker 2: Fall Classic, but instead they fly home now and have
Speaker 2: to get ready for Game six. We're gonna get into
Speaker 2: the Dodgers offense as well. Two guys in particular struggling
Speaker 2: Freddie Freeman. We may not see him in game six.
Speaker 2: Ta Oscar Hernandez, Where did you go? Where is ta
Speaker 2: Oscar Hernandez? Has anybody seen him here? In the NLCS?
Speaker 2: Oh for four tonite two strikeouts he is now hitless
Speaker 2: in the NLCS and struck out nine times. Your phone
Speaker 2: calls when we come back. It's postgame Dodger Talk. Mets
Speaker 2: win Game five of the NLCS tonight in New York,
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Speaker 6: First base, out of the mound, Rookie Betts. It's a
Speaker 6: hard left field pushing Nemo back, and he turns around
Speaker 6: in Mookie Betts with a bomb all lead up home
Speaker 6: run for Bookie in the six and the Dodgers are
Speaker 6: within four.
Speaker 2: Mookie Betts goes deep. Andy Pajez goes deep twice. Not
Speaker 2: enough though, for the Dodgers, who fall to the Mets
Speaker 2: in Game five of the NLCS twelve to six to
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Speaker 2: Shaman Naya, the left tender, will go for the Mets.
Speaker 2: Dodgers will go with a bullpen game. Alex and Montabello
Speaker 2: is next up here on postgame Dodger Talk. Hi, Alex,
Speaker 2: I've been better? How about you?
Speaker 9: Yeah, we could have been better.
Speaker 8: I don't know.
Speaker 13: How is it this team, you know, could lose the
Speaker 13: opportunity of being the visiting team and could have scored first,
Speaker 13: left those two men on bay and could have finished
Speaker 13: it in New York.
Speaker 11: But no, they decide, you know, yeah, we could finish
Speaker 11: it at all.
Speaker 7: Why not?
Speaker 11: You know, it's it just brings back more PTSD.
Speaker 13: So the past season that you know they're all three
Speaker 13: to one, and you know the Mets is usually tie
Speaker 13: it up.
Speaker 11: Here at home.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no doubt.
Speaker 8: It's no doubt, man.
Speaker 2: I mean, you leave the door open. You leave the
Speaker 2: door open, Alex. I appreciate the phone call. That's the
Speaker 2: last thing you want to do is give this team
Speaker 2: any more life. And now they've got that. Coming back
Speaker 2: for a game six to Dodgers Stadium, they got a
Speaker 2: little bit of momentum. They're feeling good. They just put
Speaker 2: twelve runs up on your team, and now they've got
Speaker 2: their best picture of the postseason. Shaman and Nya, who
Speaker 2: just shut you down in Game two going in games,
Speaker 2: he's got all the confidence. The Mets got all the
Speaker 2: confidence coming back to Dodger Stadium. So yeah, you have
Speaker 2: to close the door when you have the opportunity. You
Speaker 2: have to step on their neck, so to speak, when
Speaker 2: you have the opportunity to take care of business and
Speaker 2: finish them off. And I know this team was ready,
Speaker 2: This team was focused. It's not an issue. This team
Speaker 2: was not ready for this game. That's not the case
Speaker 2: at all. But you have to take advantage of things.
Speaker 2: And I think at this game tonight, at the point
Speaker 2: where it got three to one then five to one,
Speaker 2: you had to get to the bullpen and you had
Speaker 2: to get to high end leverage guys for the Dodgers
Speaker 2: to keep it that way, you couldn't treat it as well.
Speaker 2: We just got to get innings. So we need somebody
Speaker 2: to get two or three for us. And who's that
Speaker 2: going to be? And we needed him, you know, to
Speaker 2: go out there and need some more innings because we
Speaker 2: didn't have the coverage. You worry about that as you go.
Speaker 2: You keep it as close as possible. I mean, hypothetically,
Speaker 2: if the Dodgers are down three to one or five
Speaker 2: to one, they come back, make it five to three,
Speaker 2: make it five to five, they take the lead, somehow
Speaker 2: they keep it a five to five game. It's a
Speaker 2: whole new ballgame. And maybe you go to a landed
Speaker 2: neck or Brent Honeywell to get two winnings and then
Speaker 2: you go back to highland leverage guys. Maybe you take
Speaker 2: the lead and you can afford then to go to
Speaker 2: a land in neck or Brent Honeywell with the lead
Speaker 2: and you win the game. You don't you have to
Speaker 2: worry about pitching game six in a bullpen Game eight six,
Speaker 2: six ninety seven two seventy. Adam and Phoenix is next
Speaker 2: up here on Dodger Talk. I, Adam.
Speaker 8: So I think we need some no panic here, We
Speaker 8: need optimism. You know we did Roberts said.
Speaker 12: What he did today.
Speaker 11: But you know what we need to go into game
Speaker 11: six and seven.
Speaker 7: Yeah, no panic, let's do this.
Speaker 11: Casey, I don't.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't say it's panic, and I appreciate it, Adam.
Speaker 2: It's not panic. It is frustration because I think the
Speaker 2: Dodgers are still in control of this series. They still
Speaker 2: have the offense. I believe that's going to score runs
Speaker 2: and hopefully get to sham and Aya on Sunday. I
Speaker 2: have all the confidence in the bullpen, especially the high Land,
Speaker 2: the high leverage guys to get it done for the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: And you got Walker Bueller in case you need him
Speaker 2: in a Game seven. I'm confident the Dodgers need to
Speaker 2: win one of ten two games to go to the
Speaker 2: World Series. You've just now made it a little bit
Speaker 2: harder for yourself and now you're gonna have to actually
Speaker 2: get to Sean and I I'm not worried, I'm not panicking.
Speaker 2: I'm frustrated because this was a game you could have won,
Speaker 2: and I still feel you could have kept it close
Speaker 2: and given your offense a better chance to get back
Speaker 2: into the game eight six, six, nine, eighty seven, two
Speaker 2: five seventy. Daniel's next up here on Dodger Talk. Howre
Speaker 2: you doing, Daniel?
Speaker 13: Hello, Yeah, everybody else, I'm I'm frustrated because of the
Speaker 13: schematics within the game and you're only down two runs
Speaker 13: and then maybe four runs, you're within one swing of
Speaker 13: coming back. Maybe you bring in a high reliever for
Speaker 13: one or two and give your offense a fighting chance.
Speaker 13: But like you said, the risk is if if the
Speaker 13: game still is the Mets blowout, not only do you
Speaker 13: have to go back to Kelly for Game six, but
Speaker 13: you have two less high leverage guys doing it. That
Speaker 13: being said, though you don't give the Mets. These Mets,
Speaker 13: the way they've battled back all year long, they know
Speaker 13: what it takes to come back. I kind of feel
Speaker 13: like the position that it reminds me. They remind me
Speaker 13: where the Cubs were in twenty sixteen in the World Series.
Speaker 13: They were down three to one Game five at home,
Speaker 13: their final home game of the year. They won that one,
Speaker 13: and then all of a sudden Game six and seven happened.
Speaker 13: Everything about the misuperior Sean Manea, he has a chance
Speaker 13: to be you darbish again, and it's been proven he
Speaker 13: can do darvish things. Then all of a sudden, what
Speaker 13: happens if the bullpen game blows up again? Then you
Speaker 13: get a Game seven where it's fifty fifty and you're
Speaker 13: not guaranteed Walker Wheeler can get you a performance like
Speaker 13: right now, it's I jumped the frustration into more of
Speaker 13: pre determined anxiety because of what the Mets are still
Speaker 13: capable of, especially the arms race at this point.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Daniel, appreciate it. It is an arms race,
Speaker 2: So I like the way you phrased that. But I
Speaker 2: still believe the Dodgers have the offense to get it done. Again.
Speaker 2: I'm not panicking. This is just frustration after a Game
Speaker 2: five in which the Dodgers I think, you know, could
Speaker 2: have fought, could have fought with more of an effort
Speaker 2: from the bullpen. And again it's it could have what
Speaker 2: it should have. It's a lot of what IFFs I
Speaker 2: mentioned it at the scenario if you do go to
Speaker 2: a highlight leverage reliever, a copek A trying in a
Speaker 2: Daniel Hudson in the situation in the second or third
Speaker 2: inning and they give up some runs, all right, then
Speaker 2: we deviate some more, and we go to a Landon
Speaker 2: Nack or a Brent Honeywell and ride them for as
Speaker 2: many innings as possible and hope the offense chips away.
Speaker 2: But to not even try to go to the high
Speaker 2: leverage relievers to stop the bleeding in that second and
Speaker 2: third inning, that's the problem I have with it. That's
Speaker 2: the problem I have with it. Willie in Alabama checking
Speaker 2: in on Dodger talking on this Friday night. How you doing, Willie?
Speaker 7: Great? Great? How you doing today?
Speaker 13: Missus team?
Speaker 2: I'm okay, I'm all right, I'm alright. I'm a little
Speaker 2: frustrated as you can hear about you, Willie.
Speaker 7: See one thing I don't like about Robert just that
Speaker 7: Robert give them up too quick and he had glag.
Speaker 7: Tomorrow is promos. Tomorrow is not proms. He should have
Speaker 7: stuffed that thing today ding to town, we find out
Speaker 7: flatterer did hand. But let's I get so aggravated with
Speaker 7: him like I did last year. Last year, I was
Speaker 7: I was saying that that that we need a coach
Speaker 7: that fight hard and never give up. That I don't
Speaker 7: like the thing Robert do I just do it because
Speaker 7: he would start starting pulling players in the late end
Speaker 7: when theyre behnd, you know, like they're like it's impossible,
Speaker 7: you know, for them to come back. I don't like it. Now.
Speaker 7: I've been a Darger fan every since nineteen part eight. O. Yes, uh,
Speaker 7: like my daddy was. Uh, my dad was a Darder fan.
Speaker 7: Uh uh, way before I was born and everything, and
Speaker 7: so I followed in his footsteps. But but I I
Speaker 7: I believe we need a coach that will fight and
Speaker 7: fight again.
Speaker 2: You've seen a lot of baseball, Willie.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 2: This Dodger team, they've got enough in the tank right
Speaker 2: game six, they can come back out. And this offense,
Speaker 2: who knows they can put up another big number. And
Speaker 2: we're talking about a Dodger blowout win this series, Willie,
Speaker 2: You've seen it. This Dodger team has scored runs. This
Speaker 2: this Mets team scored a lot of runs. It's been
Speaker 2: five games of blowouts on on either side. It's been crazy.
Speaker 7: Yeah. Yeah, But but I feel like we could have
Speaker 7: won today, no doubt. I feel like we could have
Speaker 7: won today. You know, if he had to pulled him
Speaker 7: when it was three to one and he walked, that's
Speaker 7: quite better. I believe we should have pulled the right game.
Speaker 2: I'm with you, Willie, Willy. Great to hear from you.
Speaker 2: Don't be a stranger. Love hearing from you on Dodger talking.
Speaker 2: Do this more often? Please, thank you though absolutely Willy
Speaker 2: and Alabama been a Dodger fan since the forties. Yes,
Speaker 2: love hearing from Willy from Alabama. Eight six six nine
Speaker 2: eight seven two five seventy. Dodgers lose Game five of
Speaker 2: the NLCS tonight, twelve to six. Jack Flerry gives up
Speaker 2: eight runs in three innings. He got tagged for a
Speaker 2: three run home run from Pete Alonzo in the first,
Speaker 2: Dora scuored a run on a wild pitch in the second.
Speaker 2: It was a three to one game going to the
Speaker 2: third inning. That's when Sterling Marte hit a two run
Speaker 2: double with nobody out and runners on after back to
Speaker 2: back walks to lead off that third inning for the
Speaker 2: New York Mets. As will he agrees after that walk
Speaker 2: to Pete Alonzo, I mean he was ahead oh to
Speaker 2: two and then throws four straight balls to walk Pee Alonzo.
Speaker 2: At that point, somebody's got to be getting loose. Somebody's
Speaker 2: got to get up because it's a three to one game.
Speaker 2: We got to keep it right there. I know he
Speaker 2: just put up a zero in the second and Dave
Speaker 2: Roberts talked about that. He got out of trouble in
Speaker 2: the second inning. He gave up a leadoff double and
Speaker 2: then was able to get three straight fly ball outs,
Speaker 2: but not before Lindor almost hit one out by the
Speaker 2: way down the right field line. Gets out of the
Speaker 2: second inning, no runs, all right, got out of that one.
Speaker 2: Wasn't easy, though, And the third inning gets ahead, oh
Speaker 2: and two. Okay, maybe the first inning was a blip
Speaker 2: on the radar. Maybe the second inning got out of
Speaker 2: a jam. The thirty eight eating, he'll be lights out.
Speaker 2: Be back to Jack Flaherty. All right, he got that
Speaker 2: out of his system. Oh two to Pete Alonzo, four
Speaker 2: straight balls and then four straight balls to Winker. At
Speaker 2: that point, runners on first and second, nobody out. The
Speaker 2: leash is even shorter now if you're not gonna go
Speaker 2: get him, then all right, Starling Marte gets a two
Speaker 2: run double down the left field line, and it's a
Speaker 2: five to one game at that point. I can't afford
Speaker 2: to have it go any further me. I would have
Speaker 2: pulled him, high leverage reliever, get out of the inning
Speaker 2: if you can without any more runs coming across, and
Speaker 2: try to keep it a five to one game for
Speaker 2: as long as you can, knowing your offense at some
Speaker 2: point is gonna get going and at some point they're
Speaker 2: gonna score more than the one run that they did
Speaker 2: off a wild pitch. At some point, one of these
Speaker 2: guys is gonna hit it out. You're gonna string together hits.
Speaker 2: You're gonna have maybe one of those innings you put
Speaker 2: up a crooked number and you're right back into that game. Instead,
Speaker 2: runs get tacked on and you're out of the game.
Speaker 2: And the holest that's too big to get out of
Speaker 2: Tim and long Beach is next up here on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 2: How are you doing?
Speaker 8: Tim?
Speaker 10: Great name By the way, they had my namesake. I
Speaker 10: was going to skip formalities because I know you both
Speaker 10: had better evenings and everybody's touching on is you know
Speaker 10: I was one hundred percent with you on the high
Speaker 10: rade and not in a negative connotation with the not
Speaker 10: pulling clarity. I mean, this is a do or die game.
Speaker 10: Put them home and then get the rest. For the
Speaker 10: Yankees that have to fly more than likely the Yankees
Speaker 10: that have to fly cross country but I want to
Speaker 10: couple that with Dave Roberts, and I've been his biggest
Speaker 10: critic over the ten to twelve years, one of his
Speaker 10: biggest critics. And what bothers me or they start with
Speaker 10: a compliment. He came out of the gates for once,
Speaker 10: for five or six games straight, managing close to perfect
Speaker 10: as possible, right, making the right decisions with the pitchers,
Speaker 10: the batting order. I always say that these kids grow
Speaker 10: up hitting both sides of the plate all the you know,
Speaker 10: and then we have all these analytics that come into play.
Speaker 10: I know that's not only Roberts, but they come up
Speaker 10: hitting both sides of the plate, paying every position, and
Speaker 10: we got all his tinkering going on and it hasn't
Speaker 10: worked thus far. So not only with not pulling Clarity
Speaker 10: when you should pull Clarity. Everybody, every Dodger fannew.
Speaker 9: To pull him. But why is he shuffling the lineup
Speaker 9: now every night? I mean he was going with the
Speaker 9: same lineup in the Padre series in the first two
Speaker 9: games in this series without any tinkering, and now it's
Speaker 9: Freddy in the fort hole with an injury. It's pushing
Speaker 9: Will Smith to the I know he's struggling, but so
Speaker 9: with Showhy and Mookie. At one point you pay these guys.
Speaker 9: I mean maybe you have a different opinion, but you know,
Speaker 9: six runs should have been enough to win, that's the
Speaker 9: bottom line. But still coming back and getting eight, nine
Speaker 9: and ten runs. Why every night all of a sudden
Speaker 9: is he changing the batting order? This guy here, this
Speaker 9: guy there, this guy out, his lux injured? Why is
Speaker 9: he out for two games in a row. You know
Speaker 9: he got away with putting yea.
Speaker 2: Lux wasn't in there because you had a left hand,
Speaker 2: And I appreciate the phone call. We got to keep moving, Tim,
Speaker 2: but thank you for the call. Lux Was it in
Speaker 2: there to start because you had the left hander David
Speaker 2: Peterson out there, and most likely we're going to see
Speaker 2: Gavin Luck start on Sunday because you have Sean and
Speaker 2: I out there. And I'm guessing Freddie Freeman's not playing
Speaker 2: at least starting the game on Sunday one because of
Speaker 2: his ankle.
Speaker 1: In two.
Speaker 2: The left tender mania and the ankle is bothering Freddie
Speaker 2: Freeman so much right now. He was zero for five
Speaker 2: with two strikeouts, and he's got no extra base hits
Speaker 2: right now. For the Dodgers so far in this NLCS.
Speaker 2: So that is a struggle. Taoscar Hernandez to me and
Speaker 2: Will Smith are the two biggest mysteries. Where have they gone?
Speaker 2: Will Smith has struggled all year. You've dropped them in
Speaker 2: the lineup now to seventh and eighth respectively the last
Speaker 2: two games. And he's still late on fastballs. He's still
Speaker 2: not able to connect and square up the ball. Taoscar Hernandez,
Speaker 2: as great of a regular season as he had in
Speaker 2: the NLDS he had, he has absolutely disappeared. He is
Speaker 2: m Ia in this NLCS. Two punch outs tonight, oh
Speaker 2: for five. He's now hitless in this NLCS against the
Speaker 2: New York Mets. Let's get one final call in before
Speaker 2: we say goodbye. Let's go to If I don't get
Speaker 2: to you, I apologize.
Speaker 7: You know what is he?
Speaker 2: You've been waiting patiently and I appreciate.
Speaker 11: That is he?
Speaker 7: How are you?
Speaker 14: I am so first lady thing this day? How it
Speaker 14: happened today, it's unacceptable.
Speaker 7: I don't know.
Speaker 14: I agree with you with Dave Rob I'm really disappointed
Speaker 14: in him today. It was just totally ridiculous. It was
Speaker 14: I was really looking forward to reach every day, thank
Speaker 14: you to really my weekend and guy. Oh and one
Speaker 14: thing you can give day Rob with my phone in
Speaker 14: the bait Oh there, If you give him my phone
Speaker 14: in this, he can call me and I can live
Speaker 14: him because I'm just about ready to look it all right.
Speaker 2: I know you want to talk to him. I just
Speaker 2: don't feel comfortable giving his number to you. Is he
Speaker 2: But maybe if he hears this and he's listening podcasting
Speaker 2: on the long flight back from New York, maybe he'll
Speaker 2: reach out to you. If he does, that's great. Is
Speaker 2: I appreciate it? I hope it didn't ruin your weekend
Speaker 2: for good? I mean, it's only Friday night. The Dodgers
Speaker 2: are going to work out tomorrow, and there's still a
Speaker 2: Game six to be played, and heck, there's still a
Speaker 2: Game seven to be played. If necessary, they gotta win
Speaker 2: one game out of the next two. I like the
Speaker 2: Dodgers chances against the New York Mets team with Sham
Speaker 2: and Ya and who knows what's gonna be behind Manaya
Speaker 2: if they have to go to a game seven. But
Speaker 2: I think the Dodgers can get to Mania. Maybe his
Speaker 2: luck's gonna run out in Game six. He's had a
Speaker 2: good run. He's all of a sudden reinvented himself as
Speaker 2: the next Chris Sale. Maybe the wheels fall off for
Speaker 2: Shaman and Noya, as they did as the game went along.
Speaker 2: In Game two on Monday, they were able to get
Speaker 2: to him. Not before though they were in a hole
Speaker 2: big like they were tonight. Dodgers lose Game five of
Speaker 2: the NLCS. Thanks to Colin Ee. Thanks for all you
Speaker 2: Dodger fans for being a part of the show. Dodgers
Speaker 2: had a chance to clinch it and go onto the
Speaker 2: World Series, but the Mets lived to fight another day,
Speaker 2: and that will come on Sunday, Game six of the
Speaker 2: NLCS out of Dodgers Stadium. Well I'm wrong, Goo CAUSEEO
Speaker 2: Dodgers on deck beginning at four, first pitch in five
Speaker 2: Oh await bullpen game for the Dodgers. Leftender Shamanayah will
Speaker 2: go for the Mets. Until then, have a great, safe
Speaker 2: rest of your Friday night. Go out, decompress, enjoy yourself,
Speaker 2: be safe, and let's get ready to rock at Dodger
Speaker 2: Stadium on Sunday night. Let's get that place loud early
Speaker 2: and often, and let's celebrate on Sunday night. Sound like
Speaker 2: a plan until then, So long everybody