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Speaker 3: Dodgers they must win situation in this NLDS down two
Speaker 3: games to one to the San Diego Padres after dropping
Speaker 3: Game three last night.
Speaker 2: Six to five.
Speaker 3: Saxon Kates in the IM with you here till nine
Speaker 3: o'clock this morning, one hour down, two to go Thanks
Speaker 3: to Alana Rizzo from MLB Network High Heat, longtime Dodger
Speaker 3: reporter from Sports in the LA joining us last hour.
Speaker 3: Getting plenty of time for your phone calls is Dodger
Speaker 3: fans aren't happy with what happened last night, in particular
Speaker 3: in the second inning, and I don't blame them. A
Speaker 3: lot of touched on it. We've been touching on a
Speaker 3: Saxy about the fact that Manny Machado made a played
Speaker 3: running the second base. The Dodgers didn't challenge it, to
Speaker 3: even question it. I know you can't review it, but
Speaker 3: didn't even go out to argue the base running from
Speaker 3: Manny Machado. And then a couple of soft contact hits,
Speaker 3: a play, a miss cue from Miguel Rojas at second
Speaker 3: base trying to turn to himself extended the inning, and
Speaker 3: the Dodgers just could not get out from their own
Speaker 3: cells last night in that second inning, a six run
Speaker 3: inning for the San Diego Padres. At that point, Saxy,
Speaker 3: we were going back and forth on text. I thought
Speaker 3: it was over. I didn't think the Dodgers had a
Speaker 3: shot until that Grand Slam. All of a sudden, it's
Speaker 3: a one run game. But then the Dodgers' offense disappear
Speaker 3: for the next six innings.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's the way it goes. Look, I mean
Speaker 2: in postseason, when you're talking about free passes like a walk,
Speaker 2: a soft hit, an air these type of things. They
Speaker 2: all get amplified. They're under the microscope in postseason, and
Speaker 2: it always happens that way. You put you get a
Speaker 2: guy that's injured on the field somewhere, guess where the
Speaker 2: ball is going to be hit, and it'll be challenging
Speaker 2: for him to catch it. It'll be to his right,
Speaker 2: or it'll be a slow, slow roller like we saw
Speaker 2: with Rowhouse when he tried to turn that double play unassisted,
Speaker 2: and you know what it's going to find you. You
Speaker 2: could tell that he was hurt and later you got
Speaker 2: to take him out of the game. So that's the
Speaker 2: way it goes in postseason. But you got to find
Speaker 2: a way to change the narrative, change it early and
Speaker 2: turn this thing around and look that this is not insurmountable.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers absolutely can do this. Everything has gone the
Speaker 2: Padres way. I mean that's the way I look at it.
Speaker 2: They get you know, they got the hype going. They're
Speaker 2: in their own house now and they seem to just
Speaker 2: be thriving on every little thing happens their way. That
Speaker 2: thing is going to change at some point, hopefully it'll
Speaker 2: start tonight.
Speaker 3: Shoey Otani, in the leadofs spot had an MVP season,
Speaker 3: part of the fifty to fifty club. We knew what
Speaker 3: he did over the course of one to sixty two
Speaker 3: going in to this postseason, But you look at the
Speaker 3: first three games of this NLDS two for five with
Speaker 3: the three run home run in the series opener on Saturday.
Speaker 3: He goes zero for four with a couple of punchouts
Speaker 3: in game two on Sunday last night, breaks his bat
Speaker 3: a flair hit to center his only hit. He goes
Speaker 3: one for four and struck out twice. He's got one
Speaker 3: extra base hit, He's got zero walks, zero stolen bases,
Speaker 3: and he struck out six times. I know it's not
Speaker 3: the postseason he had hoped to have, and Dodger fans
Speaker 3: are certainly expecting way more than what he's done so
Speaker 3: far in only three games. But the Otani we saw
Speaker 3: during the regular season getting on base, stealing bases, putting
Speaker 3: the ball where he wanted it in the left field,
Speaker 3: right field, hitting for power, we just haven't seen it.
Speaker 3: It is that post he's in Baseball Saxy better pitching,
Speaker 3: or is this just them figuring out Otani and the
Speaker 3: rest of the lineup around him not helping him out.
Speaker 2: Kind of leaving him on an island there. Every time
Speaker 2: he's up, well, everybody's figured him out. I mean, they
Speaker 2: know what he's gonna do. They just can't stop him.
Speaker 2: That's how good Otani is. They know his pluses and
Speaker 2: minus is at the plate. And when we're talking about
Speaker 2: is that Otani in postseason? Nope, it's just a couple
Speaker 2: of games. If he goes out there tonight and hits
Speaker 2: a couple of home runs and gets three hits and
Speaker 2: steals two bases, we're gonna say, whoa, whoa, this is
Speaker 2: what we've been waiting for and it's turned around. It's
Speaker 2: just because it's a couple of games and everybody in
Speaker 2: the world's watching. That's why it's all. He's had stretches
Speaker 2: like this during the season. I guarantee it.
Speaker 3: I mean, you look at the Dodgers last night. Outside
Speaker 3: of the Grand Slam from Tascar, Hernandez one hit the
Speaker 3: remainder of the way and that was Freddie Freeman's in
Speaker 3: the eighth inning. They had no opportunities even to have
Speaker 3: guys on base to drive him in. They were two
Speaker 3: for three with runners in scoring position. They left only
Speaker 3: two runners on base the entire game. There just wasn't
Speaker 3: opportunities with guys on base, no traffic on the base pass.
Speaker 3: You didn't put pressure on the San Diego Padres defense.
Speaker 3: And that's because guys are striking out. Guys are going
Speaker 3: oh for four like Maximunzee Will Smith has been over
Speaker 3: the series so far for the Dodgers, Gavin lucks oh
Speaker 3: for four last night with a punch out. The bottom
Speaker 3: of the lineup has to do a better job of
Speaker 3: getting on base. And it doesn't mean they have to
Speaker 3: be the ones hitting the home run saxy. They're the
Speaker 3: ones that need to draw walks, They're the ones that
Speaker 3: need to get on base. There' are the ones that
Speaker 3: need to get in scoring position. So then when the
Speaker 3: lineup flips to O, Tawny, Betts and Freeman, you're giving
Speaker 3: your three big boppers an opportunity to put runs on
Speaker 3: the board.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no question about it. And you know, when we
Speaker 2: talk about this in all different circles about you know,
Speaker 2: the construction of a lineup and whatnot, and you're old school,
Speaker 2: you know, you don't you know, will you know what?
Speaker 2: That thing comes up more often than not, there's something
Speaker 2: about not striking out, you know, and you are going
Speaker 2: to sacrifice that for the fact that you got guys
Speaker 2: that can hit the ball out of the ballpark consistently,
Speaker 2: and the Dodgers are are built to slug. That's that's
Speaker 2: how this team is constructed. You don't have guys out
Speaker 2: there that there are interested in moving guys over, or
Speaker 2: guys that can bunt for a hit or guys can
Speaker 2: hit the ball the other way and a hit and run.
Speaker 2: I don't need the Dodgers hit and run at all
Speaker 2: this year. I mean team, the team is not built
Speaker 2: that way. And that's okay. I mean, look what they
Speaker 2: did throughout the season. They were phenomenal. That's the way
Speaker 2: the team is constructed. And so you have to play
Speaker 2: within the confines of how your team is built. And
Speaker 2: sometimes you're gonna have uh, you know, times where it's
Speaker 2: going to be some some barren uh you know, times
Speaker 2: where you're just not gonna be able to get any hits.
Speaker 2: You're not gonna see any you know, any uh, you know,
Speaker 2: people on the on the basis, and you're gonna have
Speaker 2: times where you're gonna have a drought, and that's that's
Speaker 2: how it is. But you're gonna have other times you're
Speaker 2: gonna say, wow, this is amazing.
Speaker 3: That's that's the problem, and it's been the problem the
Speaker 3: last few years. Come October is is feast or famine.
Speaker 3: It's a home runs and bunches and slug or we
Speaker 3: don't put up any runs on the scoreboard and you
Speaker 3: get blown out or you lose games because you're just
Speaker 3: not getting more hits and you're striking out more than
Speaker 3: more times than nod. And it's great over the course
Speaker 3: of one sixty two because you're gonna win more games
Speaker 3: than you're not, you're gonna win more series than you're not.
Speaker 2: And that's fine.
Speaker 3: But when you get to postseason and all of a sudden,
Speaker 3: you got twenty seven outs to try to figure out
Speaker 3: how to beat a team and get a one oh
Speaker 3: series lead and then a two oh series lead and
Speaker 3: get a series win. You can't rely on a home run.
Speaker 3: I mean, the Dodgers were down six to five last night,
Speaker 3: Saxy and it was the fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth inning,
Speaker 3: and I'm watching these at bats, and I'm watching guys
Speaker 3: trying to tie the game with one swing of the bat,
Speaker 3: and rather than punch the ball the other way or
Speaker 3: find the gap in right in the left center field
Speaker 3: or or you know, bunt to get on or whatever
Speaker 3: they needed to do to get into scoring positions so
Speaker 3: they can tie the game, or somebody can come up
Speaker 3: and find the gap and extend it inning. There's just
Speaker 3: none of that. Max Munsey's swinging for the fences.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: Will Smith, I mean, I love Will Smith, one of
Speaker 3: the best all round catchers in baseball, just signed a
Speaker 3: brand new ten year deal before this season. Will Smith
Speaker 3: had an awful twenty twenty four regular season, and now
Speaker 3: it's continued to the postseason. We all hoped they would
Speaker 3: flip the switch come October. Yeah, oh for four last
Speaker 3: night and the bats every time he was up, you
Speaker 3: kind of just felt like, man, he's behind on every swing.
Speaker 3: He's being overpowered by every pitcher he saw.
Speaker 2: Yeah, probably trying to do too much. And here here's
Speaker 2: here's kind of a quick synopsis of the differences right now.
Speaker 2: In yesterday's game, the Dodgers struck out nine times, the
Speaker 2: Padres only struck out four times, and the Dodgers only
Speaker 2: had one walk. And so when you strike out nine
Speaker 2: and walk one, that's not a good ratio. The other
Speaker 2: you know, in game the other the other day, when
Speaker 2: the Padres hit the six home runs. Yeah, they struck
Speaker 2: out only five times, so you hit more home runs
Speaker 2: than when you struck out. So the key is, you
Speaker 2: gotta put the ball in play again. Nothing productive comes from,
Speaker 2: you know, walking back to the dugout in the strikeout.
Speaker 2: You gotta put it in play.
Speaker 3: It's got the phones. A lot of Dodger fans want
Speaker 3: away in well, appreciate you being patient. Chuck in Long
Speaker 3: Beach is next up here on Sax and Kates and
Speaker 3: they am on this Wednesday morning.
Speaker 2: How you doing, Chuck?
Speaker 4: Oh, I'm doing very well, very well. I'm kind of disappointing.
Speaker 4: How about you guys today?
Speaker 3: Man, very disappointed, Chuck, very very upset that this Dodgers
Speaker 3: team is down two games to one.
Speaker 4: Absolutely. I just got a couple of quick comments. First
Speaker 4: of all, I think that the Dodgers we're playing mcgil
Speaker 4: Rojas and we're playing Freddy Freeman and it hurt, man.
Speaker 4: I mean, Freddy will be a good pension. Right now.
Speaker 4: We need to get Kiki in, we need to get
Speaker 4: Taylor in. We need some new blood, man, because right
Speaker 4: now we're in bad shape. And my other comment is
Speaker 4: the picture that we signed over from Japan, Man, we
Speaker 4: could have got two. We could have got two top
Speaker 4: notch pitchers here and a slugger for the price that
Speaker 4: he's making. Man, that's all I got.
Speaker 2: All right, Chuck, appreciate it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they gave Yoshanova Yamamoto the biggest contract for a
Speaker 3: picture in the history of baseball, and the transition coming
Speaker 3: over to the big hasn't been a smooth one battle
Speaker 3: through some shoulder injuries and certainly not the production you'd
Speaker 3: hoped for in his postseason start against the Padres. But
Speaker 3: the injuries, Zaxy. I hope Miguel. I love Miguel Rojas.
Speaker 3: I just hope he's not in the lineup tonight because
Speaker 3: of the injury, because how he's banged up. I know
Speaker 3: he wants to play through it. I just can't imagine
Speaker 3: him being out of shortstop and being a liability defensively
Speaker 3: and you can get somebody else's bat in that lineup
Speaker 3: and his name gets being brought up. You've talked about Alana,
Speaker 3: brought it up, Key Key Hernandez. He's an October player.
Speaker 3: He's been here before. He's delivered for you in the postseason.
Speaker 3: They go to Paez last night for some reason, off
Speaker 3: the bench when Rojas got hurt. You're moving Edmond to
Speaker 3: short to play shortstop. He's really good, so why not
Speaker 3: put key K in center? He can play outfield for
Speaker 3: he's done it all year. I just don't understand the move.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, key K is one of those guys.
Speaker 2: He's like a Swiss Army Knight. He can play anywhere,
Speaker 2: and he's more than suitable in the outfield as well.
Speaker 2: So I think you're gonna probably see that tonight, and
Speaker 2: I think you're gonna see Edmond at shorts. I think
Speaker 2: that's what David had had had pointed out. So they
Speaker 2: should be good to go tonight. Now. I mean, I
Speaker 2: know we're gonna go with a with a bullpen game,
Speaker 2: but you know what, so what they've done it before.
Speaker 3: Let's go to Aaron and Sunland is next up here
Speaker 3: on a FI seventy LA Sports with SAX and Kids
Speaker 3: in the morning.
Speaker 2: How you doing, Aaron?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm doing well. Guys, thanks for taking my call. Well,
Speaker 5: here we go again. I just don't understand it. I
Speaker 5: don't understand the regression that seems to happen every year
Speaker 5: once the postseason hit. I mean, nine guys, last night
Speaker 5: of the nine A lot of them. A few of
Speaker 5: them had one hit, No one had more than one hit.
Speaker 5: Five of them had no hits last night. I mean, Sax,
Speaker 5: maybe you can speak to this. I'm noticing that we're
Speaker 5: the team that has been there so many times, yet
Speaker 5: we seem like we're playing tight, like we're nervous and
Speaker 5: haven't been there, and the Padres are playing very loosely.
Speaker 5: I mean, I'm not seeing any patients in the batter's box.
Speaker 5: I'm seeing guys swinging at the very first pitch and
Speaker 5: having a ground out or a pop up. Take a pitch.
Speaker 5: I mean, even if it is a strike, which it
Speaker 5: probably will be, get settled in the box, take your time,
Speaker 5: stop swinging and everything. Shohy has disappeared. I don't understand
Speaker 5: Miggy last night, why he didn't just flip that to
Speaker 5: second base to Lutch and maybe gets a double play.
Speaker 5: I mean, guys, we're playing like we have not been
Speaker 5: here before, and it's frustrating. We seem to do this
Speaker 5: every single year. Thanks taking the call, guys.
Speaker 2: All right, Thanks Aaron, Yeah, yeah, I understand that frustration.
Speaker 2: And like you pointed out, tim in five through eight,
Speaker 2: you had zero for fifteen. You gotta be able to
Speaker 2: set that table for the top of the order, and
Speaker 2: nobody knows it more than they do. They know the numbers,
Speaker 2: they know the frustration. They feel it more than any
Speaker 2: caller can call in. I can promise you that they're disappointed.
Speaker 2: They feel like they're letting people down, and that's they're
Speaker 2: human beings, man. They feel it more than anybody. But
Speaker 2: I think they can turn this thing around tonight. I
Speaker 2: really believe that with your back against the going with
Speaker 2: the bullpen, nobody's gonna give him a chance. That's when
Speaker 2: they'll shine.
Speaker 3: I mean, I think about one play changing a game.
Speaker 3: And we've talked about the Freeman play in which Machado
Speaker 3: came out of the base line and hits off his
Speaker 3: shoulder and his head and goes into left field and
Speaker 3: he goes the third on the play. But to me,
Speaker 3: that play from Miguel Rojas where he doesn't flip it
Speaker 3: to Gavin Lux to least to get the force out,
Speaker 3: it was probably gonna be a double play because it's
Speaker 3: Xander Bogart's up at the plate. That could have been
Speaker 3: a double play. Sure, many scores from third and we're
Speaker 3: tied one to one, but there's two outs and nobody
Speaker 3: on base for David Peralta, and you're feeling pretty good
Speaker 3: about all right, we're one one. If Bueller can get
Speaker 3: out of this. David Peralta gets out, flies out, grounds out,
Speaker 3: strikes out. Okay, crisis averted. We don't have to worry
Speaker 3: about it. And now we're tied one one going to
Speaker 3: the top half of the third inning. Instead, you try
Speaker 3: to make a play, it doesn't happen. Runners are on base,
Speaker 3: and then Paralta clears the bases with a double down
Speaker 3: the right field. A single missque, a play in which
Speaker 3: you know you think you can make but you don't
Speaker 3: and runners are safe can change a game like that.
Speaker 2: No, there's no doubt about it. And you know all
Speaker 2: the talk and everything that's been in the papers for
Speaker 2: you know, a long time. We all knew that coming
Speaker 2: into postseason the Dodgers were going to be strapped on
Speaker 2: their pitches to haf But look how many guys are
Speaker 2: hurt on this on this staff, there's a list as
Speaker 2: long as your arm. There's a lot of guys that
Speaker 2: are hurt. We know Freddy's hurt, we know Miguel's hurt.
Speaker 2: And it's nothing you want to just say, well, you know,
Speaker 2: that's that's the reason why all teams are hurt. And
Speaker 2: you don't want to ever make an excuse, but you
Speaker 2: got to call it like it is. For instance, look
Speaker 2: at look at a move that the Padres made this year.
Speaker 2: This was a brilliant move with David Peralta. This is
Speaker 2: a guy that's thirty seven years old. He began this
Speaker 2: season at Triple A with the Cubs. He got released
Speaker 2: on May tenth, He signed with the Padres eight days later.
Speaker 2: He got called up on May twenty second, and the
Speaker 2: rest is history. I'll tell you what that guy you
Speaker 2: know from being over here, that guy can flat out hit.
Speaker 2: And are we surprised that he jammed that ball right
Speaker 2: inside the bag at first rate? No, he's done in
Speaker 2: his whole life. This guy can flat out hit. He's
Speaker 2: not intimidated by the moment. And that was a good
Speaker 2: pickup for these guys.
Speaker 3: Huge pickup and guys are delivering, you know, maybe that
Speaker 3: of the biggest names, but when their numbers called, they
Speaker 3: are making the play when needed, whether it's at the
Speaker 3: play defensively or guys come out of the bullpen for
Speaker 3: the Padres like they did last night. James in North Hollywood.
Speaker 3: Welcome to Saxon Kates and am James.
Speaker 6: How you doing, Hey man?
Speaker 4: You know what I'm doing.
Speaker 6: Okay, I know this feeling. I'm used to it after
Speaker 6: the last few years. But I gotta tell you, Tim,
Speaker 6: you red in my mind. I think the key to
Speaker 6: turning this around is one simple thing. Don't try to
Speaker 6: make the excellent play, make the right play everything from
Speaker 6: like you said months, he's swinging for the fences. Let
Speaker 6: me see a little more, Tommy admitted people's approaches. Throw
Speaker 6: the barrel of the bat to the ball and just
Speaker 6: make contact. As Dave Roberts says, move the ball forward
Speaker 6: in the field. Of course, you've kind of beaten it
Speaker 6: to death with his decision to run to the bag.
Speaker 6: But you know, if there's a chance to make a
Speaker 6: spectacular catching the outfield, but it's low probability, let it drop.
Speaker 6: Take the single, don't let it roll by you, and
Speaker 6: let it be a triple because the Padres have proven
Speaker 6: that they will make you pay for those sorts of
Speaker 6: decisions in game, no.
Speaker 2: Doubt about it.
Speaker 3: James appreciate it real quick. Saxy. On that play at
Speaker 3: second which Rojas tried to take it himself, for an
Speaker 3: unassisted double play there and not flip it. De Luxe,
Speaker 3: who was in position ready to go, in a position,
Speaker 3: ready to turn that double play, is lux yelling at him, Hey,
Speaker 3: you know, flip flip flip or me me me? Or
Speaker 3: is he saying something to Rojas to let him know
Speaker 3: and communicate that let's turn this or is that a
Speaker 3: decision just completely made by Rojas And there's no verbal
Speaker 3: communication there.
Speaker 2: No, there's verbal communication. You can be yelling each other,
Speaker 2: but in the moment, with the how loud the crowd as,
Speaker 2: you're really relying on the you know, the shortstops the
Speaker 2: decision to take that or not. It's mostly the shortstops decision.
Speaker 2: But the thing is, and those times you got to
Speaker 2: get won. I mean, the most important throw on a
Speaker 2: double play is the first throw because that will set
Speaker 2: the second one in motion. So you got to give
Speaker 2: that guy a good throw. And you know you got
Speaker 2: the base runner barreling down there. I believe that was Meryl. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and you know he's going to change. You know, the
Speaker 2: speed of the ball and speed of the runner dictates
Speaker 2: you know what the infielders are going to do. You
Speaker 2: got to get that ball quickly. You know to Lux
Speaker 2: and then he's gonna have an easy throw with with Bogarts,
Speaker 2: I believe was a hitter on the double play, But
Speaker 2: that's a decision mostly right at the moment that split
Speaker 2: second with with Rojas. But you got Meryl, that's fast,
Speaker 2: you got Rojas, that's hurt, and that equals what we saw.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it was in and that got away from
Speaker 3: the Dodgers defensively, Walker Bueler did help himself out with
Speaker 3: a couple of pitches he certainly wants back, and the
Speaker 3: next thing you know, it's a six run second inning
Speaker 3: for the San Diego Padres and they go on and
Speaker 3: win it by final of six to five. Your reaction
Speaker 3: on this Wednesday morning continues. Your phone calls eight six,
Speaker 3: six nine, eight seven two five seventy. David Vesse will
Speaker 3: join us next hour. We'll hear from shoey Otani his
Speaker 3: postgame reaction from last night. Last night, shoey Otani came
Speaker 3: up in situations and you know, just didn't have opportunities
Speaker 3: to drive in runs because the Dodgers didn't.
Speaker 2: Have guys on base.
Speaker 3: The bottom of the lineup got to do a better
Speaker 3: job in helping out this Dodgers team if they have
Speaker 3: any hopes of winning Game four tonight and even up
Speaker 3: this best of five series at two games a piece.
Speaker 3: He is Steve Sacks. I'm Tim Kates. Your phone calls
Speaker 3: next here on m FI seventy LA Sports. It's Sax
Speaker 3: and Kates in the am here on this Wednesday morning.
Speaker 2: Thanks for being with us.
Speaker 3: October ninth, Dodgers down but not out, down two games
Speaker 3: to one in this best of five NLDS. Game four
Speaker 3: is coming up tonight from Petco Park. Obvious must win
Speaker 3: game for the Dodgers. It'll be a bullpen game for
Speaker 3: Dave Roberts and this Dodgers team hope been to force
Speaker 3: a Game five on Friday back at Dodger Stadium. David
Speaker 3: vass or Dodger Insider, will join this in the eight
Speaker 3: o'clock hour or here from Shoeotani coming up at about
Speaker 3: seven o'clock. His postgame thoughts last night, Shoeyotani Zaxy. Outside
Speaker 3: of the home run that got Dodger Stadium going on
Speaker 3: Saturday night, the three run home run that retied the
Speaker 3: game at Dodger Stadium, he hasn't done much in this series.
Speaker 3: I know he had a broken bat, base hit last night,
Speaker 3: but a couple more punch outs. He's got more strikeouts
Speaker 3: than hits in this postseason so far.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think he's what won for the last eight
Speaker 2: or yeah. So, uh, you know, that's that's what you
Speaker 2: sometimes what you get with the you know, all or
Speaker 2: nothing type of uh you know. I mean it's not
Speaker 2: really all or nothing with him, because you know, he
Speaker 2: hit well over three hundred this year and was the
Speaker 2: best player on the planet. But sometimes you have pockets
Speaker 2: of time in postseason where it's become you know, it
Speaker 2: just gets everybody knows it. It becomes almost exacerbated when
Speaker 2: you see, you know, him not being able to go
Speaker 2: out there and dominate every time up. It doesn't happen
Speaker 2: that way throughout the course of the year. He's had slumps,
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, and yeah, sometimes it happens on
Speaker 2: on the you know, in postseason. A lot of it
Speaker 2: depends on what cycle you're in. You know, baseball's a
Speaker 2: you know, a can just a big heap of cycles
Speaker 2: that people go through. Teams go through it, and on
Speaker 2: a micro level, certainly the players go through it, and
Speaker 2: you know, it sometimes shows up and maybe you see
Speaker 2: somebody breaking that cycle. A guy like Mookie Betts, who
Speaker 2: you know, we see over twenty two and then all
Speaker 2: of a sudden he bangs out a couple of hits
Speaker 2: last night. Is this the start of another cycle where
Speaker 2: Mookie just puts the team on his back? Now? Maybe so?
Speaker 3: I mean, Dodger fans thinking, oh, oh, Tawny's the red
Speaker 3: hot player going down the stretch. She's going to be
Speaker 3: the MVP of the National League. And Homer's in the
Speaker 3: first at bad it's every time up, it's they expect
Speaker 3: him to hit a home run. They expect him to
Speaker 3: do something that we've never seen before, and unfortunately in baseball,
Speaker 3: that just doesn't happen.
Speaker 2: Never a bad no. And it's great that we've been spoiled, yeah,
Speaker 2: by by the great things that this man can and
Speaker 2: only he can do it like that. So, but it's
Speaker 2: not reality. It's not what happens in baseball. I mean,
Speaker 2: we talked about it before. You can look back in
Speaker 2: time and go and find out easily now with the
Speaker 2: transfer of information today, and see what some of those
Speaker 2: old time players did, the horrible slumps that Mickey Mantle had,
Speaker 2: I mean bad ones. You know, William May started out
Speaker 2: his his career with I think an for twelve and
Speaker 2: then he was one for whatever. I mean, he he
Speaker 2: had some bad slumps in his career too, but these
Speaker 2: guys are some of the best players ever. And you know,
Speaker 2: everybody's been through it, and Otani's ended a little bit.
Speaker 2: But look he hits one big home run. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 2: in the in the middle of maybe a comeback tonight
Speaker 2: to win the game, and all of a sudden, it's
Speaker 2: it's all back, you know, so he can do it
Speaker 2: with one swing of the bat.
Speaker 3: Very excited to talk to our guest right now. Saxy
Speaker 3: almost a decade covering this Dodgers team for sports and
Speaker 3: at LA and here on a FI seventy LA Sports.
Speaker 3: Now you see here with the mad Dog on High
Speaker 3: Heat as the co host of High Heat on the
Speaker 3: MLB Network. She is Alana Rizzo and she joins us
Speaker 3: here on SAX and Kate's and am on a FI
Speaker 3: seventy A Sports. A lot of Good morning, How are
Speaker 3: you doing?
Speaker 7: Good morning, guys, Great to be with you on this
Speaker 7: early morning in Los Angeles. How are you doing?
Speaker 3: Fantastic? I wish the Dodgers were doing a little bit better.
Speaker 3: You covered the Dodgers for a long time, Alana, you
Speaker 3: saw the Dodgers Padres rivalry really from its infancy develop
Speaker 3: over the years. Big brother, little brother and finally feels
Speaker 3: like little brother has grown up now and has hit
Speaker 3: big brother in the mouth.
Speaker 7: Yeah, big brother is getting hit a couple of times
Speaker 7: by little brother. And you know, I didn't used to
Speaker 7: think that this was a rivalry because, of course, if
Speaker 7: you follow the Dodgers, you know that the Dodgers and
Speaker 7: the Giants, that's the rivalry, right It's the Red Flax
Speaker 7: and the Yankees. It's Michigan, Ohio State Duke, North Carolina
Speaker 7: Giants Dodgers. But I tell you what the Padres have
Speaker 7: shown me a lot over the course of the last
Speaker 7: few years. I mean, this is a team that I
Speaker 7: think got tired of being the little brother and they
Speaker 7: are just you know, pound for pound, punch for punch,
Speaker 7: you know, getting getting after it. And there's just something
Speaker 7: different about this team, the Padre There's just a it's
Speaker 7: a bit more of a complete team. There's more fire.
Speaker 7: I mean, I just feel like they have something or
Speaker 7: they feel like they have something to prove. And the
Speaker 7: thing is, it's one thing to talk about it, it's
Speaker 7: another thing to do it and they're doing both.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Alana, how are you good to be with you
Speaker 2: this morning.
Speaker 7: Great to be with you too, Saxony. Great to have
Speaker 7: you on my ear again. It's nice to be with
Speaker 7: you guys.
Speaker 2: Thank you. Hey, Alana, you forgot to say Notre Dame
Speaker 2: and whoever they play right, mostly usc that's a rivalry exactly.
Speaker 7: That's the rest of the country and Notre Dame.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right, Alana. I got to ask you that
Speaker 2: play where Freddie spears the ball, you can't get up.
Speaker 2: He's obviously hurt. Machado. I'm looking at the play over
Speaker 2: and over again. Now he's he's almost three feet onto
Speaker 2: the grass at his at his furthest point with his
Speaker 2: left foot, and then he darts back into the running
Speaker 2: lane after the ball hits him. I've never seen anything
Speaker 2: that egregious without without some contention from the club or
Speaker 2: an umpire stepping up and saying, look that I don't
Speaker 2: know where it were it is in the rule books,
Speaker 2: but this can't be a legal play. I mean, what's
Speaker 2: the difference of just throwing your hand up and grabbing it.
Speaker 2: You know, it's it's he's way out of the running lane,
Speaker 2: and I can't believe nobody said anything.
Speaker 7: That was my biggest takeaway to actually of last night's game.
Speaker 7: Where is the absolute uproar in the Dodgers dugout? And
Speaker 7: Bob Garren is the one guy that I know that
Speaker 7: knows the rule book better than anybody else in the game.
Speaker 7: Bob Garren's in that dugout. He knows it frontwards and
Speaker 7: backwards and upside down. And nobody said anything whether it
Speaker 7: was illegal play or not, which I don't think it was.
Speaker 7: But find out at least show that you're pissed off,
Speaker 7: at least at least question it, at least stop the game,
Speaker 7: ask for ask for clarification, ask for something to be
Speaker 7: said about what happened there. I mean, obviously he's running
Speaker 7: all over the place, He's running in the throwing lane.
Speaker 7: You know, I just don't understand where the fire was.
Speaker 7: It was like, oh ho hum, Okay, no big deal.
Speaker 7: And I just don't I don't understand. Why wouldn't you
Speaker 7: at least question whether that was allowed or not? And
Speaker 7: they didn't, And that to me would just kind of
Speaker 7: set the tone for the remainder of the game. It's
Speaker 7: almost like, and again, I love the Dodgers, very much.
Speaker 7: But it's almost like, if you notice, when Ken Rosenthal
Speaker 7: was interviewing Dave, it was almost like he was talking
Speaker 7: about today, this game already. It was almost as if
Speaker 7: they had, you know, said okay, this one, we've lost
Speaker 7: this one, we're looking forward to tomorrow. It's almost like
Speaker 7: they had surrendered game three before we even got into
Speaker 7: game four. And I just it really bothered me that
Speaker 7: nobody even questioned if what Manny did was allowed or not.
Speaker 2: I mean, this was a left turn. It was running,
Speaker 2: he looks over his shoulders, Freddy spears it, and then
Speaker 2: it's it's just about a left turn onto the grass.
Speaker 2: As soon as that spears his left ear, he jol.
Speaker 2: He you know, hurries up and gets back on the
Speaker 2: running lane. But that's a left turn to the grass.
Speaker 7: I mean, it was so obvious, obvious, and Manny knows
Speaker 7: what he's doing. Manny, Manny is really really good about
Speaker 7: getting under people. And the thing is, it's like it's
Speaker 7: not just him on that team. Sometimes you need a
Speaker 7: couple of you know, a couple of guys that do
Speaker 7: those types of things and have those types of antics.
Speaker 7: And I just think that that's what the Dodgers this
Speaker 7: year are lacking. I'm not saying you have to, you know,
Speaker 7: be a jerk, but what you're lacking is that fire.
Speaker 7: I mean, obviously you have Miguel Rohause out there that
Speaker 7: can't even move because of the growing issue. Freddy is
Speaker 7: dealing with the ankle issue. You know, you can't have
Speaker 7: show Hey put the team on his back every single day.
Speaker 7: I mean, his bat's gone a little bit cold, but
Speaker 7: he did hit a three run home runn in Game
Speaker 7: one to allow them to come back. Tay Oscar's been phenomenal,
Speaker 7: Taoskar's and my X factor for the Theories. He's been
Speaker 7: the MVP of the season in my opinion for the Dodgers.
Speaker 7: I know that show Hey's going to get it deservedly
Speaker 7: so in the National League, but if far as the
Speaker 7: team is concerned, say, Oscar has been the MVP. But
Speaker 7: there's just I don't know, there's just something missing. And
Speaker 7: to not even to not even argue or question or
Speaker 7: ask for clarification on what was such an egregious and
Speaker 7: obvious play that that should not have been allowed, I
Speaker 7: just don't understand it.
Speaker 2: A lot of you are there.
Speaker 3: Will Walker Bueller made his debut, came up as a rookie.
Speaker 3: Really came onto the scene in twenty eighteen. In that game,
Speaker 3: won sixty three against the Colorado Rockies. He's battled the injuries.
Speaker 3: He's come back this year and one in six season
Speaker 3: in sixteen starts. But last night you kind of felt
Speaker 3: like Walker Bueller was back. And he gutted through that
Speaker 3: second inning where he didn't get a lot of help,
Speaker 3: and yes, he missed on a couple of pitches. The
Speaker 3: one that Tatisa is an O two fastball you cannot
Speaker 3: leave down the middle of the play. But he came
Speaker 3: back and put up zeros after that second inning to
Speaker 3: give him five really good innings out there last night.
Speaker 3: What did you see in walker Bueller.
Speaker 7: That's the Walker Bueler that we've been clamoring for all
Speaker 7: season long, right, that's the Walker Bueler that we knew
Speaker 7: was still in there, and you didn't know what you
Speaker 7: were going to get after to Tommy John Surgery's and
Speaker 7: he's the only one that showed any emotion when he
Speaker 7: went back into the dug guy and he's throwing crap
Speaker 7: all over the place. That's like, that's what I need
Speaker 7: to see from the rest of the team. You know,
Speaker 7: He's obviously upset about the mistakes that he made, but
Speaker 7: the defense behind him was horrific. And you have to
Speaker 7: think about the fact that this guy has been through
Speaker 7: an emotional roller coaster trying to you know, you know,
Speaker 7: it's still in him, right. It's like when your body,
Speaker 7: you know, your mind is still sharp, but your body
Speaker 7: is failing you. And I kind of feel like that's
Speaker 7: what Walker's been dealing with all season long, you know.
Speaker 7: So I needed to see that from him, and he
Speaker 7: gave this club a chance to win. This is the
Speaker 7: pre guys. It's not just Walker Bueller. It's not When
Speaker 7: Jack Flaherty in Game two went into the fourth inning,
Speaker 7: that was the first time a Dodger starter went into
Speaker 7: the fourth in the postseason since Kyler Anderson did it
Speaker 7: in twenty twenty two. It's not just one thing that
Speaker 7: this team is lacking. It's a systematic problem in terms
Speaker 7: of injuries. Of course, they've been decimated by injuries, but
Speaker 7: perhaps roster construction. They just don't have starters that can
Speaker 7: go deep into the ball game. Look at the gems
Speaker 7: that have been put together so far by some of
Speaker 7: the other starting staffs in the playoffs. I mean Sean
Speaker 7: Maniah shoved yesterday. You have you know, like you Darvish
Speaker 7: of course against us Shovved. You know, you have some
Speaker 7: guys that are going deep into the games, you know.
Speaker 7: So for game four, it's Dylan Cease against a bullpen
Speaker 7: game and an elimination game. I mean, that's a problem.
Speaker 7: So I love the fire that Walker Bueller had yesterday.
Speaker 7: That's what you need to see. I just hope that
Speaker 7: it's not, you know, too little, too late.
Speaker 2: Yeah, unless you you're you're absolutely right about that, Alana. I
Speaker 2: wanted to ask you about the other side of it,
Speaker 2: where people are talking about, you know, this offense for
Speaker 2: the San Diego Padres, but what about this defense, the
Speaker 2: speeding the outfield, especially Jackson Merrill, who is who is
Speaker 2: not a guy that's been out there a lot, but
Speaker 2: he looks like he has twenty one years old and
Speaker 2: able to run down balls the way he does. And
Speaker 2: how about Luis Arrives. I mean, this guy's naturally a
Speaker 2: second baseman. He couldn't cut it there. So what do
Speaker 2: they do? They put him on first base and you're
Speaker 2: getting Lou Garrig over there. This guy is catch.
Speaker 7: All of a sudden first baseman right. I mean that
Speaker 7: means ridiculous. It's like catching everything things they're going your way.
Speaker 7: They're going your way, right. Think about think about the
Speaker 7: game in which Profar robbed Matad, Profar robbed MOOKI bets
Speaker 7: on the on the home run, right, if he doesn't
Speaker 7: make that unbelievable conting, notwithstanding all of the craft that
Speaker 7: happened afterwards, the Shenanigans, all the things from both sides,
Speaker 7: Let's take that out of the equation for a minute.
Speaker 7: If Profar doesn't make that catch and rob Moki of
Speaker 7: the home run, I think the complexion of the game
Speaker 7: completely changes. If tatif doesn't make that unbelievable catch robbing
Speaker 7: Freddy Freeman of probably a double, even though Freddy's hobbling
Speaker 7: all over the place, that completely changed the complexion. If
Speaker 7: Jackson Merrill doesn't make that unbelievable catch, I mean, all
Speaker 7: three of their outfielders in Game two, I think it
Speaker 7: was had unbelievably great defensive plays. And then, like you said,
Speaker 7: you have Luisa Rise. He's obviously like a you know,
Speaker 7: a single hitter, not a power guy, but has had
Speaker 7: the batting title in three straight years. All of a sudden,
Speaker 7: playing you know, gold glove defense at first base. These
Speaker 7: things seem to be going their way. And you know
Speaker 7: they again last night when Profar I thought robbed Muki again,
Speaker 7: I'm like, you've got to be kidding me. I mean,
Speaker 7: you couldn't have played the ball in the same area
Speaker 7: if you had tried. But then when Mookie actually got
Speaker 7: the home run, I'm like, Okay, now it's kind of
Speaker 7: changing in our favor. Let's get things going here. And
Speaker 7: then you know, obviously with ta Oscar putting up that
Speaker 7: Grand Slam and bringing the team within one, I'm like, okay,
Speaker 7: this is this is it? So yeah, I mean, unbelievable defense.
Speaker 7: They have guys that can hit the ball a long way,
Speaker 7: obviously to tease you know, with all of the home
Speaker 7: runs that he's had, and they have really good starting pitching.
Speaker 7: So they're a very complete team.
Speaker 3: A lot of final thing for me, and I appreciate
Speaker 3: you coming on this morning. The Padres top to bottom
Speaker 3: are getting production from everybody in the lineup in all
Speaker 3: three of the first games. So you look at the Dodgers,
Speaker 3: Otawani bets a home run, Freddie Freeman, a couple of
Speaker 3: base Knox, ty Oscar, Hernandez has done it, but Max
Speaker 3: Munsey Oh for four last night, three punch outs. Will
Speaker 3: Smith still doesn't have a hit in three games in
Speaker 3: this series. Outside of a couple of walks, he hasn't
Speaker 3: been on base Gavin lux Oh for four last night.
Speaker 3: The Dodgers need to get some kind of production from
Speaker 3: these veterans who have been in postseason baseball the last three,
Speaker 3: four or five years.
Speaker 2: They've got to get something out of them.
Speaker 7: But Tim, this has been an issue all season long
Speaker 7: for the bottom part of the order for the Los
Speaker 7: Angeles Oders. I mean, they've just they've been trying to
Speaker 7: figure it out in terms of you know, mixing and
Speaker 7: matching and and changing pieces and trying to figure out
Speaker 7: this puzzle. But there's been a lot of times even
Speaker 7: in the regular season where the bottom, you know, middle's,
Speaker 7: the bottom part of the order was just lacking production.
Speaker 7: And like, you take Miguil Rojas out of the game,
Speaker 7: and that goes such a great that takes a huge
Speaker 7: glove out of the game. But then you bring in
Speaker 7: Andy Posse, which is an interesting thing to me. I
Speaker 7: was wondering why Andy pat has over perhaps you know,
Speaker 7: Kik or whatever, but whether that's neither here nor there
Speaker 7: at this point. But you know, I they just you know,
Speaker 7: they they say that hitting is contagious, and I'm telling you, guys,
Speaker 7: it's just it just seems like it's a bit lackluster.
Speaker 7: It doesn't seem like things are, you know, kind of
Speaker 7: bouncing the Dodgers way. But I mean, let's see. I
Speaker 7: hope that there's some fire today. I mean, you have
Speaker 7: no choice, right like, this is it? So I really
Speaker 7: think that, you know, they've got to come out and
Speaker 7: show me something. You have to be able to jump
Speaker 7: on Dylan Ce's early. You have to try as much
Speaker 7: as you can to get the crowd out of it early.
Speaker 7: But yes, there needs to be more production up and
Speaker 7: down that lineup. You can't you know, you can't hit
Speaker 7: a five run home run every time you're at the plate.
Speaker 7: You can't be counting down the batters until Shoheo Tani
Speaker 7: gets back up there. You've got to be able to
Speaker 7: distribute the wealth and everybody, everybody has to be able
Speaker 7: to produce and compete and try to do something for
Speaker 7: this team.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and last one for me, Alana. And you know,
Speaker 2: you look at the factor of facing Dylan ceas I
Speaker 2: think he's on short rest, isn't he a So he's
Speaker 2: on short rest. They've seen him once and the Dodgers
Speaker 2: obviously got their backs against the wall. Sometimes when you're
Speaker 2: we talked about this a couple of days ago, when
Speaker 2: you're on a long road trip, you come back and
Speaker 2: the manager says, look, no betting practice today. You come
Speaker 2: to the park, strap it on and go and play
Speaker 2: these guys and part of op yeah, And I think
Speaker 2: that's kind of where the Dodgers are right now. You know,
Speaker 2: this is their second shot at Dylan Ceas on short
Speaker 2: and he's going to be on short rest, and they've
Speaker 2: got their backs against the wall, bullpen game. Just go
Speaker 2: out there and just do the best you can. Sometimes
Speaker 2: you got your most productive, gut productive games that way.
Speaker 7: No question. And you know better than anybody you played
Speaker 7: in this big You know, you play in the Big
Speaker 7: League for a long time. You know what it's like
Speaker 7: to compete, you know what it's like to be in
Speaker 7: these situations, you know, elimination games, back against the wall.
Speaker 7: But there's got to be some sort of you know,
Speaker 7: who's the leader right now, right who's the one that's
Speaker 7: like getting people together and saying, all right, Let's let's
Speaker 7: do exactly what you just said exactly. Let's just go
Speaker 7: have fun. Let's remember you know why we loved playing
Speaker 7: this game, Like, who is that guy right now in
Speaker 7: this Dodgers clubhouse, in the Dodgers dugout that's doing that?
Speaker 7: You know, I don't I don't know. I don't know
Speaker 7: who that is.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 7: I just think that hopefully they realize how talented they are.
Speaker 7: Hopefully they realize that this is a team that was
Speaker 7: not built for the regular season. What difference does it
Speaker 7: make if you go one hundred and sixty two and
Speaker 7: oh if you get bounced in the first round three
Speaker 7: straight years by a division opponent. We're not built for
Speaker 7: the regular season. We're built for October. Our season starts
Speaker 7: on October first, you know, and it's almost over. So
Speaker 7: I hope, I hope to your point that they do
Speaker 7: have that mentality today. Just go and shove, Just go
Speaker 7: and realize who you guys are.
Speaker 2: She is a lot of Rizzo.
Speaker 3: We miss her on the Dodger broadcast, but we love
Speaker 3: seeing her every single day with the Mad Dog as
Speaker 3: a co host of High Heat on the MLB Network.
Speaker 2: Alana, great to hear your voice.
Speaker 3: Great watching you on TV as always, and let's hope
Speaker 3: this Dodgers team could force a Game five tonight.
Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks a lot, I hope.
Speaker 7: So miss you guys, talk to you soon, Go bye.
Speaker 2: Thanks a lot.
Speaker 3: There she goes a lot of rizzo from high heat
Speaker 3: and at work absolutely absolutely cover this Dodgers team for
Speaker 3: nearly a decade along that run of seventeen eighteen the
Speaker 3: World Series running twenty twenty one, so she's seen her
Speaker 3: fair share of Dodgers baseball and she's right. This Dodgers
Speaker 3: team's got to figure it out and figure it out
Speaker 3: fast tonight with Game four. We'll get your phone calls
Speaker 3: coming up. He is Steve Sacks. I'm Tim Kates. Thanks
Speaker 3: for being with us on this Wednesday morning as the
Speaker 3: Dodgers need to regroup and get ready for a must
Speaker 3: win Game four on the road in San Diego tonight.
Speaker 3: Your phone call's next, got a line open at eighty
Speaker 3: six to six, nine eighty seven, two five to seventy.
Speaker 3: You right now driving you take it eight sixty six
Speaker 3: nine eighty seven two five to seventy. It's Saxon Kate's
Speaker 3: and am here on n FI seventy LA Sports. Saxon Kates
Speaker 3: in am MFI seventy LA Sports. Dodgers down two games
Speaker 3: to one of this best of five NLDS, a must
Speaker 3: win Game four coming up later on tonight. First pitch
Speaker 3: at six to eight, But a lot of reaction to
Speaker 3: what happened last night in Game three, the six run
Speaker 3: second inning that snowballed out of control for Walker Vieler
Speaker 3: and the Dodgers, who came back with the grand slam
Speaker 3: of the third from tae Oscar Hernandez. He showed some
Speaker 3: fight last night. Not a lot of fight from the
Speaker 3: Dodgers bottom of the lineup. As the Dodgers lose Game
Speaker 3: three six to five sacks. We got a lot of
Speaker 3: Dodger fans that want to weigh in. Let's go out
Speaker 3: to the phones get some reaction. David in the Port
Speaker 3: of La joins us now here on saxon Kates and
Speaker 3: the m Good morning.
Speaker 5: David, Hey, good morning guys. How you doing bit better?
Speaker 2: David?
Speaker 3: Down two to one, must win game tonight after what
Speaker 3: happened last night.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers got to regroup quickly.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but check this out my tear where we lost
Speaker 5: four ground balls in the infield, didn't get.
Speaker 4: One out out of it. Yeah, and this one ain't
Speaker 4: on Bueller.
Speaker 5: This one is not on Bueller. He's been getting shelled
Speaker 5: all year and he did great. Four ground balls in
Speaker 5: the inns. We're trash months. He spat and slow.
Speaker 3: Well, appreciate it, David, Uh. Four ground balls, You're right,
Speaker 3: no outs out of it. You gotta be better defensively
Speaker 3: in that situation to help out your pitcher.
Speaker 2: Walker.
Speaker 3: Bueller isn't uh without a little bit of fault here
Speaker 3: and O two pitch to Tatis, he can't give up
Speaker 3: a two run home run and extend the inning. Did
Speaker 3: David parulta pitch he leaves over the play for Peralta
Speaker 3: to hit a double down the right field line. Certainly
Speaker 3: you can't do anything about the ground ball he induced
Speaker 3: to get a double play that Miguel Rojas cannot make,
Speaker 3: the play on a soft hit to the left side
Speaker 3: of the endfield for an infield hit from Profar, can't
Speaker 3: do anything about. And the ground ball to Freeman you
Speaker 3: certainly can't do anything about. Because there's a weird play
Speaker 3: that we won't see for a long time in baseball
Speaker 3: with Machado hitting the ball off his shoulder. But it's
Speaker 3: it's one of those inding saxy. You're looking for somebody
Speaker 3: in the second inning to make a play, somebody in
Speaker 3: the second inning to do something to stop this momentum
Speaker 3: from the char from the from the padres, and they
Speaker 3: just couldn't find a play, a player, something to stop that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you needed something to It's almost like you got
Speaker 2: to put your foot in the ground and make a
Speaker 2: left hard you know what I mean, completely make a
Speaker 2: transition here. But it didn't happen. And a lot of
Speaker 2: it is with you know, the way the ball is bouncing.
Speaker 2: You know, you got guys that are hurt out there.
Speaker 2: You got guys, some guys playing out of position. It's
Speaker 2: it's not easy, h you know, to turn it around
Speaker 2: like that. That's just the way baseball is. And the
Speaker 2: thing is, you got a fresh start today, and you
Speaker 2: know the cat's out of the bag man. I mean,
Speaker 2: you know, you got your backs against the wall. You're
Speaker 2: you don't have a starter out there tonight. But you
Speaker 2: got to go out and you got to make their
Speaker 2: make Dylan cease pay. And I think jumping on this
Speaker 2: guy early and get into that bullpen as soon as
Speaker 2: you possibly can will pay dividends. After they give him
Speaker 2: a whooping today because they can get into that tomorrow
Speaker 2: when they've got these guys taxed a little bit.
Speaker 3: It's going to Father Gary in Burbank. Father Gary, good
Speaker 3: morning to you, sir.
Speaker 8: Hey, Hey, what an honor to speak to both of you.
Speaker 8: Mister Sachs growing up watching you thrilled. I want to
Speaker 8: know something. If you guys don't mind, I'm not superstitious,
Speaker 8: but man, when we got the Padres, when we drew
Speaker 8: the Padres and we won game one, and everybody's going bananas,
Speaker 8: I was the one thing slow down. We've been here before,
Speaker 8: Gaja glu from twenty twenty two. So let me ask you,
Speaker 8: who's the leader on this team. Who's going to pick
Speaker 8: them up and tell them, guys, we can't let show
Speaker 8: hey have this kind of a season and then let
Speaker 8: it in three games right here in early October. Who's
Speaker 8: the guy that's going to pick him up and say, hey,
Speaker 8: Muki was out for six weeks, came back and carried
Speaker 8: the team. Who's gonna say that mister Freeman's son was
Speaker 8: sick and he pulled through that in this season and
Speaker 8: was still able to win all those games. How are
Speaker 8: we going to get these guys motivated to see that
Speaker 8: they've gone through not only adversity on the field, but
Speaker 8: adversity off the field as well, and that we've got
Speaker 8: to be able to pull through this man.
Speaker 4: We can't just let the season end tonight.
Speaker 3: Father Gary appreciate the phone call. Yeah, maybe the Dodgers
Speaker 3: need a little divine intervention tonight against the Padres. But
Speaker 3: he brings up a great point, because there isn't that
Speaker 3: Justin Turner in that Dodgers clubouse, Saxy. There's a quiet
Speaker 3: leader in Mookie Betts, Freddie Freeman's the same way. Sho
Speaker 3: Hey Otani certainly first year there language Barrier, not a
Speaker 3: guy who's very vocal in general, very quiet person as well.
Speaker 3: You got a lot of subdued characters in that Dodgers clubhouse.
Speaker 3: I Will Smith is about as quiet as possible, and
Speaker 3: he's over the series. Max Munsey, is he your leader?
Speaker 3: He hasn't done much. Maybe tay Oscar Hernandez the guy,
Speaker 3: you know that would be my guy in the clubhouse
Speaker 3: to fire everybody up, because after that Grand Slam, he
Speaker 3: was yelling from home plate all the way back to
Speaker 3: the dugout, trying to fire up the rest of the team.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, first of all, there's nobody that can give
Speaker 2: us a better prayer than Father Gary. So hopefully you
Speaker 2: can do that, you know. And actually when I when
Speaker 2: I meant to taxing this bullpen on the padres, we'll
Speaker 2: get into that for Friday, you know, if we're we're
Speaker 2: gonna get there. But look, this is a team that
Speaker 2: won ninety eight games. He had the best record in baseball,
Speaker 2: and they were doing a lot of things right. And
Speaker 2: you know, postseason is a different season, and they're gonna
Speaker 2: have to They're gonna have to rely on what's going
Speaker 2: on in the field, not so much in the clubhouse.
Speaker 2: I'm a I'm a big advocate of leading by example,
Speaker 2: and I think we started to see it yesterday with Mookie.
Speaker 2: I still think Mookie's a guy. I think Mookie's gonna
Speaker 2: explode in the next two games. And we're gonna be
Speaker 2: sitting here talking on Monday next Monday about Friday's game,
Speaker 2: how the Dodgers and Mookie just went out a terror
Speaker 2: and exploded on these guys. They certainly can do it.
Speaker 2: I think it's gonna have to be done, you know,
Speaker 2: with the bats, and not so much in the clubhouse,
Speaker 2: because after all, they did win, you know, ninety eight games,
Speaker 2: and you know there's a reason that they have home
Speaker 2: field advantage throughout the World Series. They had the best
Speaker 2: record in baseball.
Speaker 3: Dodgers need to figure it out and figure it out
Speaker 3: fast tonight with Game four coming up, a must win game.
Speaker 3: He is Steve Sacks, I'm Tim Kags. Thanks to Alana
Speaker 3: Rizzo for joining us earlier this hour. Your phone calls
Speaker 3: coming up after the top of the hour. We'll hear
Speaker 3: from Shoeotani postgame last night as well. Dodgers lose last
Speaker 3: night six to five. They make a comeback with a
Speaker 3: grand slam from ta Oscar Hernandez in the third, but
Speaker 3: the second inning did him in six runs, five hits,
Speaker 3: four of which didn't get out of the infield. But
Speaker 3: the Dodgers defense some down walk revealer, a couple of
Speaker 3: bad pitches, and next thing you know is six spot
Speaker 3: is on the scoreboard and the Dodgers just can't overcome that.
Speaker 3: Down two games to one in this best of five series.
Speaker 3: We're back with your phone calls, Steve Sacks, Tim Kats
Speaker 3: and you
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