Speaker 1: Now your host for playoff Dodger Talks sound Off Angelinos
Speaker 1: David Vasse.
Speaker 2: Welcome the Dodger Talk David Vassey live at City Field.
Speaker 2: After the Dodgers shut out the Mets for the second
Speaker 2: time in the NLCS tonight, the final score eight to
Speaker 2: nothing in Game three of the NLCS, the Dodgers now
Speaker 2: have a two games to one lead. Welcome the Dodger Talk.
Speaker 2: We're with you until ten o'clock tonight on the West
Speaker 2: coast one am on the East coast. After the Dodgers
Speaker 2: shut out the Mets eight to nothing behind three really
Speaker 2: good performances from three players that are no stranger to
Speaker 2: delivering in the postseason, Walker Buehler, who pitched four scoreless
Speaker 2: innings tonight and was able to really baffle the Mets,
Speaker 2: and the Mets played into Buehler's and the Dodgers pitchers
Speaker 2: hands because they were very passive. I got texts from
Speaker 2: a few different players that were watching this and they
Speaker 2: said the Mets were taking way too many strike ones
Speaker 2: in this game. First pitch fastball strikes and then swinging
Speaker 2: at you know, the curveball and slider of Walker. Buehler
Speaker 2: played into his hands perfectly and I'm surprised, and I
Speaker 2: hope we hear from Buehler and somebody asked him about this, because,
Speaker 2: as Jose Mota and I pointed out, Buehler, after giving
Speaker 2: up a fly ball to the warning track to Francisco
Speaker 2: Lindor in the bottom of the first inning, went exclusively
Speaker 2: from the stretch the rest of the way. I was wondering, what,
Speaker 2: you know got him to do that, and whatever it was,
Speaker 2: it seemed like he had better command of his pitches,
Speaker 2: because if you look at the spray charts of his
Speaker 2: pitches against Lindor in the very first at bat of
Speaker 2: the game, he was all over the place and he
Speaker 2: almost got beat by it as Lindor sent Keike Hernandez
Speaker 2: to the wall in center field, and from there Buehler
Speaker 2: went to the stretch exclusively. And I just remember one
Speaker 2: pitcher in particular that would go to the stretch when
Speaker 2: he felt like his command was off, his mechanics were off,
Speaker 2: and that was Hideo Nomo when he pitched for the Dodgers. Remember,
Speaker 2: he had a very involved wind up delivery. They called
Speaker 2: him the Tornado for a reason because his delivery was
Speaker 2: like a tornado, the way he spun around and when
Speaker 2: he would come out of the delivery, hitters would see
Speaker 2: the back of his jersey, they would see his number
Speaker 2: sixteen when he did go to his turn, and whenever
Speaker 2: he felt like he was off, he would go to
Speaker 2: pitching exclusively from the stretch for two or three starts.
Speaker 2: And that's what Walker Buehler did tonight. So let's hear
Speaker 2: from Walker Buehler because he gave the Dodgers what they needed.
Speaker 2: And with the Dodgers now having a two games to
Speaker 2: one lead and probably going to have a at least
Speaker 2: three wins when they leave New York, if it all
Speaker 2: goes the way it should, they may not need to
Speaker 2: use him again until the World Series. So here was
Speaker 2: Walker Buehler after the game.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I just, uh, I throw what Will puts down.
Speaker 3: You know, I think this series, in this playoffs, I
Speaker 3: think is as in sync with with the pitching staff
Speaker 3: as Will has ever been. And he's calling really good games.
Speaker 3: And you know, I trust what he sees more than anyone.
Speaker 3: I trust what he sees more than I trust.
Speaker 2: What I see.
Speaker 3: And so I think that, you know, that's just a
Speaker 3: typical cap.
Speaker 4: To him when he started his journey back from the
Speaker 4: you know, the Tommy John, you talked about wanting to
Speaker 4: pitch in games like this is kind of simply how
Speaker 4: fun was tonight.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's everything to me. You know, we talked about
Speaker 3: it before the San Diego start, the big games or
Speaker 3: me being in big games. That's that's literally all I
Speaker 3: care about. And you know the way Kiki talks about
Speaker 3: our team having some sort of of confidence when I
Speaker 3: pitch regardless, I think is kind of really the goal
Speaker 3: for any starting pitcher. You know, I just want twenty
Speaker 3: five guys in the locker room that that believe that
Speaker 3: I give us a really good.
Speaker 2: Chance to win.
Speaker 3: And if I've created that in our locker room somehow,
Speaker 3: that's That's probably what I'll be the most proud of
Speaker 3: when I'm done. It'll five you in second round.
Speaker 1: Just to go back to that, Lindora Pat, do you
Speaker 1: feel like that's something maybe pre surgery that you probably
Speaker 1: would want to try to throw a fastball in that spot?
Speaker 3: Oh, in twenty eighteen, nineteen twenty, I would have thrown
Speaker 3: a fastball. I mean, there's no yeah.
Speaker 1: And then I think I noticed that you went to
Speaker 1: the stretch right after that first Lindora Pat, what sort
Speaker 1: of midge you want is show.
Speaker 3: My right foot moves in my wind up and the
Speaker 3: mound being cold. It's always pretty hard here, but especially
Speaker 3: when it's cold, it's extremely hard. And the first three
Speaker 3: throws of the game in my foot I had no
Speaker 3: idea where it was, so in the stretch and maybe
Speaker 3: to kind of set it and not worry about it,
Speaker 3: so we kind of audibled pretty quick.
Speaker 2: Wow, that's amazing. That's the reason why Walker Bueler went
Speaker 2: to the stretch exclusively. It was because his push off foot,
Speaker 2: his right foot against the rubber was all over the place,
Speaker 2: as he said, and that's pretty impressive he was able
Speaker 2: to make that adjustment as quickly as he did. I'm
Speaker 2: curious if he went out to the mound yesterday during
Speaker 2: the workout. I was here. I did not see him
Speaker 2: do it, but maybe he sent something warming up in
Speaker 2: the bullpen. He may have to do that. Another part
Speaker 2: of the Key k Hernandez heroics tonight a two run
Speaker 2: home run. He has the fourth highest road ops in
Speaker 2: the postseason with at least seventy five plate appearances. Key
Speaker 2: k Hernandez is in the same company in that category
Speaker 2: as Louke Garrick, Babe Ruth and Carlos Beltran. Pretty impressive
Speaker 2: to have the fourth highest road ops in the playoffs
Speaker 2: with that many plate appearances. Key k Hernandez coming up
Speaker 2: big again tonight with a two run home run in
Speaker 2: the sixth inning that basically silenced this crowd and took
Speaker 2: the hope and magic of this Mets faithful away. I
Speaker 2: remember Mikezosha telling me a few different times whenever I
Speaker 2: would bug him about his home run against Dwight Gooden
Speaker 2: in Game four of the eighty eight NLCS. That was
Speaker 2: the biggest home run at that point in time, and
Speaker 2: that was at the old Chase Stadium. He hit the
Speaker 2: home run into the Mets bullpen. And he told me
Speaker 2: when he was rounding the bases at Chase Stadium that
Speaker 2: night after he hit the home run, he could hear
Speaker 2: his cleats in the dirt when he was rounding the
Speaker 2: bases and crossing home plate. That's how quiet it was
Speaker 2: that night in nineteen eighty eight. And this reminded me
Speaker 2: of what Mikezoshia told me back in eighty eight, because
Speaker 2: when keyk Hernandez hit that home run to left field,
Speaker 2: when he was rounding the bases, all the way up
Speaker 2: here in the press box I could hit, I could
Speaker 2: hear his cleats hitting the dirt, and when he crossed
Speaker 2: home plate, I could hear what he was saying to
Speaker 2: his teammates very clearly. That's how quiet it was here
Speaker 2: at City Field after he hit that two run home
Speaker 2: run to give the Dodgers a four to nothing lead,
Speaker 2: And it was big for the Dodgers because really they
Speaker 2: were so close to breaking the dam earlier in the game.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers tried to extend the two nothing lead in
Speaker 2: the third inning with the bases loaded in one out,
Speaker 2: but got nothing. Then in the top of the fifth inning,
Speaker 2: still two nothing, two on, two out, got nothing, so
Speaker 2: for Keik to come up with two outs after Tommy
Speaker 2: Edman got a two out base hit, and then there
Speaker 2: was the bock by Reed Garrett. I think that rattled
Speaker 2: him a little bit, and him even not even pausing
Speaker 2: for his delivery showed you that maybe the game was
Speaker 2: a little bit too fast for him. And I wouldn't
Speaker 2: discount Tommy Edmund, who already has been described as a
Speaker 2: really smart baseball player, to maybe tip off Key k
Speaker 2: what was coming, because that was the first home run
Speaker 2: off of Reed. Garrett, split fingered fastball so it takes
Speaker 2: a team. And Key k Hernandez, Walker, Bueller, and Max
Speaker 2: Munsey will tell you that Monthsey had a big game
Speaker 2: too on base all five times eight, six, six, nine
Speaker 2: eighty seven two five seventy is the phone number Before
Speaker 2: we go to the phones, Let's hear from Key k Hernandez,
Speaker 2: who was in the interview room.
Speaker 4: Hey, Key k how is the wind affecting flyballs out
Speaker 4: there tonight? And did it put some doubt into your
Speaker 4: mind after you, you know, hit that one in the six.
Speaker 5: Uh so right before like dur mvp uh Clayton McCullough, uh,
Speaker 5: first ba's outfield coach, Uh, he came in talked to
Speaker 5: me about how they they did a study or something
Speaker 5: about the win here and in the first three innings
Speaker 5: I believe were until I think it was till nine
Speaker 5: pm some like that the wind will like go straight
Speaker 5: from the first base dug out to left field and
Speaker 5: and then after that it will become it would just
Speaker 5: shift the other way, kind of like to right center
Speaker 5: stream a little bit. And I mean, I wasn't I
Speaker 5: didn't think it was true. After Lindor hit me a
Speaker 5: fly ball in the first inning and I almost overran
Speaker 5: it because the ball started coming back. It didn't make
Speaker 5: any sense to me that the wind was supposed to
Speaker 5: be blowing to left center if the ball came back
Speaker 5: towards center field. But all the other fly balls played true.
Speaker 5: And then as far as my homer, I knew that
Speaker 5: I hit it, and I thought it was gonna be
Speaker 5: way gone, and I saw Nimo try to jump for it,
Speaker 5: and I kind of panic for half a second. And
Speaker 5: I don't care if it was an inside the parker
Speaker 5: or Homer's at homer.
Speaker 4: As big as that homer was, how was it just
Speaker 4: as big to get on base in front of show? Hey,
Speaker 4: because you might have heard he's a little different hitter
Speaker 4: with runners on base.
Speaker 5: Yeah, definitely, you know, as hitting ninth is a little
Speaker 5: bit different than hitting eighth or seventh or eighth with
Speaker 5: that guy behind me. Uh, we've all seen the difference
Speaker 5: of the bats with runners on base and nobody on.
Speaker 5: So yeah, first two bats, I was pretty you know,
Speaker 5: kind of upset that I didn't I wasn't able to
Speaker 5: get on for him. And third of bat, Uh, the
Speaker 5: whole mentality was trying to get on base, and especially
Speaker 5: after two strikes, I was trying to battle it to to,
Speaker 5: you know, to put myself in a position to either
Speaker 5: get on like walk or get a hit. I swung
Speaker 5: at a pitch that was probably head high, and I
Speaker 5: was able to foul it off. And I told myself
Speaker 5: to slow down because I caught myself in swing mode.
Speaker 5: And very next pitch he hung a split and you
Speaker 5: know I was able to get enough on it.
Speaker 2: All right, there's Key a Hernandez after another big playoff performance.
Speaker 2: Key k Hernandez is an everyday player. In October, he'll
Speaker 2: be getting every day starts, as we have seen since
Speaker 2: what game four of the NLDS. I guess the only
Speaker 2: question is what took so long to get If Key
Speaker 2: k a Hernandez starts, I mean, come on, he's that guy.
Speaker 2: Eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy is
Speaker 2: the phone number. Let's go out to the phones for
Speaker 2: the first time tonight. A loyal listener, Kevin in Culver City.
Speaker 2: You're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 6: Hi, Kevin, God is good.
Speaker 7: David Bassey, what a game? Let me give you some credits.
Speaker 7: You might not be doing this show anymore. You might
Speaker 7: be the new bench coach of the Dodgers. I remember
Speaker 7: a game against the San Diego, Padres, you said, Key
Speaker 7: k a Hernandez has got to get into this lineup.
Speaker 7: What is going on? Well, since the data's beast say suggestion,
Speaker 7: we're we're run our way to the World Series. And
Speaker 7: KEYK Hernandez is looking like Robert Oriy out there getting
Speaker 7: big time hit after big.
Speaker 8: Time home runs.
Speaker 7: He is the man. And I give you the credit, Bass, say,
Speaker 7: mister vass aka.
Speaker 8: Dodger bench coach.
Speaker 7: Another thing.
Speaker 9: Credit to our bulldog Walker Bueller channeling all her Scheizer
Speaker 9: and Shae now city Field, going four strong innings and
Speaker 9: striking out Francisco Indoor and giving that fist pump.
Speaker 7: This is the Walker Bueler we know. And Bass said
Speaker 7: he'll be ready for it. And let's give some credit
Speaker 7: to show time showy Otani the King of La that's
Speaker 7: his new nicknamed Vesseys, you know, I proclaimed to him.
Speaker 7: Look at that home run still flying to Manhattan over
Speaker 7: there in the Lower.
Speaker 9: East Side, and Dylan Hernandez write that, now write that
Speaker 9: about soy El Tani?
Speaker 7: Where are you at? Dylan or Nana's basse is the
Speaker 7: only one who's never wavered and stuck with our superstar.
Speaker 7: And this guy is so clutched and it was a
Speaker 7: great home run. How about seventeen out of twenty with
Speaker 7: men in scoring position. That's a clutch stat. And that's
Speaker 7: what showtime Otani does. I love the timing hitting, I
Speaker 7: love Tommy Edman, and we're gonna wrap this up and
Speaker 7: let's get it done. We got Yamamoto, we got Flerty going. Look,
Speaker 7: the series against the Poscs is so be because that
Speaker 7: was team And like I told my friend, who's the
Speaker 7: Mets fan, this Mets wulpin is not the Pasres bulpin.
Speaker 7: We've seen this, and I apologize to Miguil. That's because Canner.
Speaker 7: Scott Otani said, the next reliever who throws one over here,
Speaker 7: I'm taking it all the way out the ballpark. And
Speaker 7: it just had to happen to be mill deal of night.
Speaker 7: Go Dodgers, Dodgers for to one, Dodgers in five. Let's
Speaker 7: get it done best like you said, one game, here
Speaker 7: we go.
Speaker 2: I love it, Kevin, Thank you for the phone call. Man.
Speaker 2: That was a lot to digest right there. But the
Speaker 2: one point that I hadn't brought up is what Kevin
Speaker 2: brought up when it was still a two nothing game.
Speaker 2: Walker Buehler in some trouble in the second inning. We
Speaker 2: all know what happened in San Diego when he gave
Speaker 2: up six runs and he had the bases loaded with
Speaker 2: two outs and he strikes out Francisco Lindor, and he
Speaker 2: was very emotional coming off the mound. That was a
Speaker 2: big strikeout. And the reason why he was able to
Speaker 2: strike out Lindors because tonight Walker Buehler was pitching, and
Speaker 2: he was pitching backwards. He wasn't playing off his fastball.
Speaker 2: He was playing off his curveball, his power, sweeper, his cutter,
Speaker 2: and that's what made his ninety three fastball play more
Speaker 2: up in the strike zone to be able to get
Speaker 2: it by a hitter like Francisco Lindor. So really a
Speaker 2: great job all around by Walker Bueller Tonight to pitch
Speaker 2: that way, and like I said, kind of strange, right,
Speaker 2: four scoreless innings, but he's out of the game after
Speaker 2: ninety pitches. That's how good the Dodger bullpen is. Also.
Speaker 2: Another big moment in this game was when Ryan Brasier
Speaker 2: was in a little bit of trouble. After Michael Kopek
Speaker 2: pitched a scoreless fifth inning, Ryan Brasier gave up a
Speaker 2: single and then a walk to JD. Martinez in the
Speaker 2: sixth inning, but then got a huge ending double play
Speaker 2: by Jose Iglesias. This series is set up perfectly now
Speaker 2: for the Dodgers to be able to even win it
Speaker 2: here in New York. Before this series started, I said
Speaker 2: Dodgers in five. I actually thought they would win the
Speaker 2: first two games at Dodgers Stadium. But after the way
Speaker 2: this game went tonight, and then putting up another crooked
Speaker 2: number and not having to use Evan Phillips, not having
Speaker 2: to over extend Blake Trinin, the Dodgers are set up
Speaker 2: to have their high leverage relievers ready for tomorrow and
Speaker 2: even on on Friday here at City Field for a
Speaker 2: Game five. With the way things went tonight. And Ben Caspirius,
Speaker 2: I feel like he's one of those under the radar
Speaker 2: pitchers that you're going to talk a lot about next
Speaker 2: year because he has that edge. He's not scared, and
Speaker 2: what he did was vital tonight, just like what Brent
Speaker 2: Honeywell did in Game two was vital. Pitching two scoreless
Speaker 2: innings for Casparius. Tonight, Honeywell pitched three scoreless for the
Speaker 2: Dodgers at Dodgers Stadium, Dodgers take Game three, the NLCS
Speaker 2: shutting out the Mets eight to nothing. Let's go out
Speaker 2: to the oc Ian. You're on Dodger Talk Live from
Speaker 2: City Field.
Speaker 10: Hi end Hey David, thanks taking my call. Question for
Speaker 10: you is, let's imagine the perfect Dodger fan scenario goes
Speaker 10: to plan tomorrow. Yoshi pitches seven innings, maybe Banda or
Speaker 10: Phillips cover the next two. Do you think it's possible
Speaker 10: that David Roberts would go to a bullpen game in
Speaker 10: Game five with the day off as opposed to starting. Sorry,
Speaker 10: Jack Flaherty clarity exactly right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you know what he's saying right now. It's
Speaker 2: flerity in game five. I could see them audibling and
Speaker 2: going to a bullpen game for those reasons, depending on
Speaker 2: how tomorrow goes. But if I'm Dave Roberts and Andrew
Speaker 2: Freeman Ian, I'm trying to end this series in five,
Speaker 2: why even try to extend it to a game six?
Speaker 2: So either way, I'm sticking with flarerity in a game five,
Speaker 2: especially after the way he dominated this Mets lineup in
Speaker 2: Game one. I just want to get this over with,
Speaker 2: and I feel like it is going to be what
Speaker 2: every that he wants. Dodgers Yankee, Stanton Betts, Judge Otani,
Speaker 2: Garrett Cole going up against Jack Flaherty, name him. It's
Speaker 2: going to be Dodgers Yankees, a rematch of a legendary rivalry,
Speaker 2: and it will be the first time the Dodgers and
Speaker 2: Yankees play each other in the World Series since nineteen
Speaker 2: eighty one. So I feel like everybody in baseball is
Speaker 2: just waiting for the Yankees to close out the Guardians
Speaker 2: and the Dodgers to close out the Mets. Feels like
Speaker 2: it's just a matter of a time that it's inevitable
Speaker 2: that's going to happen. Thank you, Dave, all right, Ian,
Speaker 2: thank you for the phone call. Yeah, at this point,
Speaker 2: you know, I'm not a player. I don't have to
Speaker 2: worry about saying these type of things. Everybody in baseball
Speaker 2: is anticipating a Dodgers Yankees World Series. It will be epic,
Speaker 2: especially with all the social media the media attention that
Speaker 2: would come along with it. It would be a lot bigger,
Speaker 2: on a ten times grander stage than the last time
Speaker 2: those two teams met in the nineteen eighty one World Series,
Speaker 2: when Rick Monday and the Dodgers beat the Mets and
Speaker 2: beat the Yankees in six games in that World Series championship.
Speaker 2: Let's go out to Huntington Beach. Mark, you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 2: How you doing, Mark?
Speaker 11: Okay? David? Hey, another great game.
Speaker 12: Remember when I told you before we even started playing
Speaker 12: the podres how big bets can always.
Speaker 7: Beat good pitching.
Speaker 11: It seems to be.
Speaker 8: All these wins were getting.
Speaker 10: It was proving my point a little bit.
Speaker 2: How good is the pitching. Everybody was hyping up Luis
Speaker 2: Severino like he was Cy Young. I had no questions
Speaker 2: about the Dodger offense scoring tonight.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, Well, like I said, big bets, and we're
Speaker 4: showing it right now.
Speaker 8: We're gonna win this week, just like I took the
Speaker 8: last time. We got the heart of a champion.
Speaker 11: Go Dodger, Blue blue hearts.
Speaker 2: All right, Mark, thank you for the phone call. Great
Speaker 2: to hear from you. Take your victory. Lap. Let's go
Speaker 2: out to Lap Oneejan you're on Dodger Talk. I told
Speaker 2: you I told you. Hey, Wan, you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 8: Hey, how you knowing? David? Everything's everything. It reminds me
Speaker 8: of the eighty eight Dodgers that the whole machine was
Speaker 8: working together like this, and it's been a while since
Speaker 8: they've done it. Even before the playoffs, they were kind
Speaker 8: of shaky. But this time they're all working together. Everybody's
Speaker 8: doing the right thing at the right time, getting the hits.
Speaker 8: It's going to be hard to beat the Dodgers up
Speaker 8: down the stretch because these guys are playing together like
Speaker 8: like one team finally, you know. And I'm gonna give
Speaker 8: him with you for each other. Yeah, And I'm giving
Speaker 8: Dave Roberts now the credit that he didn't get before
Speaker 8: because now he's playing everybody where they where they belong,
Speaker 8: and they're all working so hard to get to do
Speaker 8: their best now, all of them, every every single one.
Speaker 2: Roberts isn't a rookie manager anymore.
Speaker 1: Wan.
Speaker 2: This is year number nine of him managing the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: I think he has it down pretty well. And I
Speaker 2: feel like he has managed a great season and he's
Speaker 2: managing a great post season. There's no questions about that.
Speaker 2: Eight six six eight seven two five seventy is the
Speaker 2: phone number. Let's take our first time out here on
Speaker 2: Dodger Talk. When we continue, you'll hear from Max Monthsey.
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Speaker 2: NLCS and it was a no contest. Eight nothing over
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Speaker 4: Keith Gaya said, as is Garrett, another one two pitch
Speaker 4: here on the top of the six, Hernandez hits it
Speaker 4: in the air, left field.
Speaker 2: Nimo back on the warning track.
Speaker 8: He's at the wall. This ball is god.
Speaker 9: Ke K Hernandez owns October.
Speaker 2: Key K Hernandez with his fourteenth career postseason home run.
Speaker 2: That's fifteenth career postseason home run. That goes back to
Speaker 2: when he was playing with the Red Sox for that
Speaker 2: one incredible twenty twenty one season run where they were
Speaker 2: just one game away from the World Series. Comes back
Speaker 2: to the Dodgers and uh Man doing Key K things
Speaker 2: again in October. Key k a Hernandez, Max Muncy and
Speaker 2: show Hey Otani all homeward for the Dodgers tonight to
Speaker 2: help them shut out the Mets eight to nothing in
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Speaker 2: Eight six, six, nine, eighty seven two five seventy is
Speaker 2: the phone number the Dodgers in their two wins in
Speaker 2: this NLCS have outscored the Mets seventeen to nothing, nine
Speaker 2: to nothing winning Game one tonight and eight nothing win
Speaker 2: and four shutout wins in their last five postseason games
Speaker 2: for the Dodgers. For a team that had a lot
Speaker 2: of question marks about their pitching, they've done pretty good.
Speaker 2: And Max Mounsey, I know there's a lot talk about
Speaker 2: Keithy a Hernandez, but Max Monsey is a playoff player.
Speaker 2: He has not made it out in his last eight
Speaker 2: plate appearances, including reaching all five times. Tonight, he had
Speaker 2: three walks and he capped off his great night with
Speaker 2: a home run in the top of the ninth inning
Speaker 2: and after the game, we caught up with that funky month.
Speaker 2: See Max. It seemed like all of you guys were
Speaker 2: being very selective but aggressive at the same time. Tonight.
Speaker 13: Yeah, it was a good night for us. You know,
Speaker 13: we stayed within ours stayed with in the zone, stayed
Speaker 13: within our game plan. And you know, if you do that,
Speaker 13: you gotta trust you trusting the guys in the lineup
Speaker 13: that good results are gonna happen. And you know that's
Speaker 13: what you saw. It took us a little bit, but
Speaker 13: you know, we were able to break through in the end.
Speaker 2: This feels like a flashback. Walker Buehler, keyk Hernandez and
Speaker 2: Max Munsey, guys that have delivered before in the postseason
Speaker 2: delivered again tonight.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 13: I mean, you know, I said, I was asked, I
Speaker 13: don't know how many times for the game, what was
Speaker 13: I expecting now of Walker Bueller? And uh, you know,
Speaker 13: he he was exactly what I expected tonight. He had
Speaker 13: a couple of rough at bats, but then he'd both
Speaker 13: uh you know, bowed down in the end and I
Speaker 13: was able to get out of it. Showed the emotion,
Speaker 13: showed you know that he's still Walker Bueler despite what
Speaker 13: his numbers are this year. And you know, going back
Speaker 13: to the game in San Diego, I know he gave
Speaker 13: up six runs in the one inning, but you know,
Speaker 13: there's a there's a play where the guy may or
Speaker 13: may not have been out of the baseline. We didn't
Speaker 13: get him out on another play. He very easily could
Speaker 13: have been out on that inning with only one or
Speaker 13: two runs. And you look at the rest of the game,
Speaker 13: hardly anyone even got on base, and it was kind
Speaker 13: of the same story to night.
Speaker 2: Max Mounsey. Still, Max Munsey, I'm gonna blow your mind
Speaker 2: right now, you're a home run Now ties you with
Speaker 2: Corey Seeger and Justin Turner for the most postseason home
Speaker 2: runs and Dodger franchise history. Pretty good company with a
Speaker 2: couple of guys that I know you still love.
Speaker 13: Oh yeah, man, it's definitely good company. Considering one of
Speaker 13: those guys hit almost all thirteen of them in u
Speaker 13: in one in one season. That guy is a World
Speaker 13: Series So, uh, you know, it's it's it's an honor,
Speaker 13: it's a blessing. Uh uh you know, it's just, you know,
Speaker 13: the biggest thing to me as I have that opportunity
Speaker 13: to do that every single year being in the postseason.
Speaker 13: And that's that's the best part about being on the Dodgers,
Speaker 13: as you know you're gona have a chance to get
Speaker 13: there and win a World Series, and uh, you know,
Speaker 13: that's that's the plan. We got to take care of
Speaker 13: business tonight and uh, you know, take care of business
Speaker 13: tomorrow and we'll see what happens.
Speaker 2: Thanks a lot, Muncie for stop and appreciate it. It's
Speaker 2: a pleasure watching you do your thing.
Speaker 13: Thank you, I appreciate it.
Speaker 2: There he is Max Munsey with a big night for
Speaker 2: the Dodgers and their eight nothing win over the Mets
Speaker 2: in Game three of the NLCS. So let's go out
Speaker 2: to Whittier. Nick, you're on Dodger Talk with David vasse Hi. Nick.
Speaker 14: Hey, Dave, I gotta tell you, man, number one, you're
Speaker 14: the best brother. When you're on a Petro for money,
Speaker 14: I got a podcast that thing every day. You're fantastic,
Speaker 14: So thank you for that. And I gotta get credit
Speaker 14: to Dave roberts absolutely, and I got Dave roberts Man.
Speaker 14: He's just on fire Man. He brings up Max Munk
Speaker 14: in the lineup and the guy's killing it, killing it
Speaker 14: and Bueller today was on fire. I know his sleeper
Speaker 14: was kind of outside most of the time, but to
Speaker 14: do the baller man, to do the playoff performer, so
Speaker 14: we got to keep the scene going.
Speaker 2: Let's go, all right, Nick, thanks for the phone call. Yeah,
Speaker 2: Dave Roberts is pushing all the right buttons, and when
Speaker 2: the players performed, they made him look like a genius,
Speaker 2: especially when he's bringing in so many different pitchers, because
Speaker 2: let's face it, the Dodger starters are a little thin
Speaker 2: and throwing a lot of pitches in a short amount
Speaker 2: of time. In the postseason Walker Bueller ninety pitches and
Speaker 2: four scoreless, Dave Roberts has to go to the bullpen.
Speaker 2: And I love that Dave Roberts went to the high
Speaker 2: leverage relievers right away, because what he's thinking is, I'm
Speaker 2: going to bring in my high leverage relievers early in
Speaker 2: the game after Walker Buehler and count on my offense
Speaker 2: to score against this Mets pitching staff. And from there,
Speaker 2: I'm counting on the fact that I may not have
Speaker 2: to use all my high leverage relievers. That's what he
Speaker 2: was thinking. You know, it's it's I don't know why
Speaker 2: it's so difficult for the national broadcasters to wrap their
Speaker 2: head around it. The Dodgers are banking on their lineups
Speaker 2: scoring more runs so they can keep the Mets at
Speaker 2: a zero early in the game and extend their lead
Speaker 2: and use lower leverage guys at the end. Most teams
Speaker 2: at that point in time, after Walker Buehler comes out,
Speaker 2: they'll go to their long guy. And basically, what a
Speaker 2: long guy is in a bullpen is a guy that's
Speaker 2: not very good and is not good enough to be
Speaker 2: a starting pitcher, is not good enough to be high
Speaker 2: leverage reliever. And that's when the game turns on its
Speaker 2: head and you might not even get to use you're
Speaker 2: a high leverage guy. So I heard that John Smoltz
Speaker 2: couldn't really wrap his head around that. It's pretty simple
Speaker 2: what Dave Roberts was thinking, and it paid off tonight
Speaker 2: because the Dodgers were able to tack on Keith Gave's
Speaker 2: big two run home run, followed by Otani's three run
Speaker 2: home run as well. So I'm all in with bringing
Speaker 2: in Michael Kopek and Blake Trining the way Dave Roberts
Speaker 2: deployed them tonight. Eight six six nine, eight seven two
Speaker 2: five seventy is the phone number now tomorrow, Yamamoto's on
Speaker 2: the mound. Will Smith has struggled coming into the game tonight.
Speaker 2: Will Smith pitched really or played really well tonight, not
Speaker 2: only getting a couple of hits, but also you heard
Speaker 2: Walker Bueller praise him for the way he was calling
Speaker 2: the game tonight. But this is the end of the season,
Speaker 2: right Will Smith has basically caught every single game for
Speaker 2: the Dodgers. He's caught more games this year than he
Speaker 2: ever has in any one of his seasons before twenty
Speaker 2: twenty four. And here's something interesting that stood out to me,
Speaker 2: because before the game, I was thinking that it would
Speaker 2: be a good idea to give Will Smith the day
Speaker 2: off tomorrow and have Austin Barnes catch Yama Moto. The
Speaker 2: reason why is because Austin Barnes is really good at
Speaker 2: getting the low strikes and what is Yama Moto really
Speaker 2: good at throwing his split fingered fastball. And then if
Speaker 2: you take a deeper look at it, Will Smith, in
Speaker 2: twelve starts for Yamamoto has a catcher's era of three
Speaker 2: seventy seven. When Yamamoto pitches to Smith, Yamamoto's era is
Speaker 2: three seventy seven. In six starts with Austin Barnes catching Yamamoto.
Speaker 2: In twenty eight innings, Yama Moto has only given up
Speaker 2: four earned runs. If you're going to give Austin Barnes
Speaker 2: a start in this series, tomorrow would be the perfect day.
Speaker 2: Eight six, six, two, five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 2: Let's go out to riverside, Josh, you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 11: Hi, Josh, What's what's going on?
Speaker 15: I just want to give a huge shutout to Bueller.
Speaker 12: I don't think he got the win today, but he
Speaker 12: set a big tone for the Bulltens. Also want to
Speaker 12: give a big shot out to Cheek and Hernandez. That
Speaker 12: was a huge pickup by the Dodgers. As you can see,
Speaker 12: he is showing up for the postseason home run after
Speaker 12: home run. You know that'll nice shot.
Speaker 15: Almost hit the light. That was a pretty huge shot
Speaker 15: by Tani and I was kind of shook for how
Speaker 15: high that ball went. It almost felt like a foul ball.
Speaker 15: But you know, as he could tell, you could tell
Speaker 15: Tony as soon as he hit that ball it was
Speaker 15: it was a home run. And then I shoot that
Speaker 15: huge plus next month he hitting that single home runs
Speaker 15: a you know, little cherry on the top. Also give
Speaker 15: a huge shoutout to Roberts. Shoutout, yeah, shoot season for
Speaker 15: him and obviously's showing up in the postseason managing this
Speaker 15: team very very well.
Speaker 2: All right, Josh, I'm sure they all appreciate your shout out.
Speaker 2: Eight six six, nine, seven, two five seventy is the
Speaker 2: phone number. You know? That home run that Otani hit, Yeah,
Speaker 2: he has the best angle at it right, so does
Speaker 2: the home played umpire. And the way he was reacting,
Speaker 2: he knew as it got closer to that second deck
Speaker 2: out there in right field it was going to stay fair.
Speaker 2: I remember a home run he hit at Dodgers Stadium
Speaker 2: towards the last home stand. I believe it was where
Speaker 2: he hit the nineteen eighty one sign right beneath the
Speaker 2: Dodgers Stadium club down the right field line. I've never
Speaker 2: seen anybody hit it there. I've seen guys hit it
Speaker 2: to the Loach level, no doubt, but I've never seen
Speaker 2: a player, especially a left canted hitter, hook it that
Speaker 2: way and keep it fair and hit it at the
Speaker 2: base of the stadium club. So tonight reminded me of
Speaker 2: that as well. Eight six six nine eight seven two
Speaker 2: five seventy is the phone number. Dodgers shut out the
Speaker 2: Mets eight to nothing in Game three of the NLCS.
Speaker 2: Let's go out to Monrovia. Frank, you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 8: Hi, Frank, Barry Dave.
Speaker 6: You know, just a couple of things today. First of all,
Speaker 6: you know, like everyone else has said, big props to Bueller.
Speaker 6: You know it's it's, you know, just a proven fact
Speaker 6: now that that's starting. You know, those starters in our
Speaker 6: rotation set the tone for everyone else. You know, Walker Bueller,
Speaker 6: he's had his ups and down to the playoffs, but
Speaker 6: today he got into a couple of jams he was
Speaker 6: able to get out of him out of them. Really
Speaker 6: showed some leadership there. The other thing is, you know,
Speaker 6: just a question for you is what type of rotation
Speaker 6: should we expect from the Mets tomorrow because you know,
Speaker 6: if they tried today just did you know it just
Speaker 6: the bottom fell out. And then the last thing, it's
Speaker 6: really just a shout out to all the blue who
Speaker 6: are there at New Shea Stadium or whatever the hell
Speaker 6: you want to call it, you.
Speaker 2: Know, City Field, that's what they want to call it.
Speaker 2: You Hey, thank you, I appreciate it. Frank, thank you
Speaker 2: for the phone call. Yeah, that's what they want to
Speaker 2: call it. City Field. I like coming here. I actually
Speaker 2: like it here more than New Yankee Stadium because it
Speaker 2: has that old time ballpark field. Maybe because when you
Speaker 2: drive up that front rotunda was built to give a
Speaker 2: tip of the cap to EBITs Field, because the former
Speaker 2: Mets owner grew up a big Dodger Brooklyn Dodgers fan
Speaker 2: and grew up going to games at EBITs Field. So
Speaker 2: if you ever have a chance to get out here
Speaker 2: to see the Dodgers play the Mets, whether it's before
Speaker 2: the next two games here at the NLCS or next
Speaker 2: year in the regular season, it is one of those
Speaker 2: cool ballparks that you want to check out. It has
Speaker 2: a great sight lines, and I love coming through that
Speaker 2: Jackie Robinson Rotunda. They have a lot of homage murals
Speaker 2: to Jackie Robinson when you walk in the front entrance
Speaker 2: here at City Field. So that's why I like it here.
Speaker 2: Reminds me of Ebittsfield. Has an old time ballpark feel.
Speaker 2: And speaking of the old time Dodgers, we saw a
Speaker 2: few of them out here today. Mariano Duncan was here.
Speaker 2: He waved to me and John Suhu, the Dodgers photographer
Speaker 2: from behind the Mets dugout. Andre Ethier was in the
Speaker 2: house tonight. He flew in from the desert to cheer
Speaker 2: on the Dodgers. So that was great to see andre
Speaker 2: Ethier here. Raoula Baniez, who was part of the Dodgers
Speaker 2: front office, was in the house. And how about this
Speaker 2: little known fact that John Franco, one of the great
Speaker 2: closers of his generation with the Reds and the Mets,
Speaker 2: was actually drafted and developed by the Dodgers, but was
Speaker 2: traded before he ever made his major league debut to
Speaker 2: the Cincinnati Reds. One of Al campanas his worst trades
Speaker 2: when he traded John Franco, a little known reliever for
Speaker 2: a utility player by the name of Raphael Landstoy. Yep,
Speaker 2: that happened. That was another one that got away. And
Speaker 2: I saw Franco today and I said, hey, one of
Speaker 2: our Campanis's worst trades trading you. He said, hey, when
Speaker 2: Raphael Landistoy sees me, he tells me I owe him
Speaker 2: a lot of money, so he knows. If you know
Speaker 2: Dodger history, you know John Franco was in their minor
Speaker 2: league organization. So great to see them. And speaking of shoutouts,
Speaker 2: I know we had a caller just go through a
Speaker 2: whole lineup of shoutouts, but I want to give a
Speaker 2: shout out to Melissa Luna of Yogurtland, who's a huge
Speaker 2: Dodger fan and listens to Dodger Talk. She's helping me
Speaker 2: out to make the family happy. She had some Yogurtland
Speaker 2: delivered to the kids and wife last night while I'm
Speaker 2: out on the East Coast, so they were very happy.
Speaker 2: And I need all the help I can get these
Speaker 2: days since I'm on the road with the Dodgers hoping
Speaker 2: to get to the World Series with them and the family,
Speaker 2: and my wife's doing a great job holding things down
Speaker 2: back at home with school and everything else. So thank
Speaker 2: you Melissa Luna for helping me build score some points
Speaker 2: back at home because I basically live in the doghouse.
Speaker 2: Let's go out to Huntington Beach. Chris, you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 2: How you doing, Chris?
Speaker 11: Hey, I'm doing great. Let's go Dodgers.
Speaker 6: Yeah, now you're feeling good, right.
Speaker 2: You were probably very nervous after Game two, but now
Speaker 2: you're back on board.
Speaker 11: I was nervous in the Padres series. After that first two,
Speaker 11: I was really nervous, That's what I was, super nervous.
Speaker 11: Now I'm feeling good now, you know, because the boys
Speaker 11: are feeling good. They're dancing and they're doing their thing.
Speaker 11: That's the way the Dodgers need to be playing. They
Speaker 11: need to be dancing and having fun. And if they're
Speaker 11: having fun, they're doing good. And now the show, Hey
Speaker 11: is gout and he's having fun now, and now everybody's
Speaker 11: vibe and I think they're doing I think we got this.
Speaker 11: It's gonna be good.
Speaker 2: All right, Chris, thank you for the phone call. Appreciate it.
Speaker 2: I was on the team bus that left the hotel
Speaker 2: around two thirty and Walker Buehlers sat two rows ahead
Speaker 2: of me. He was locked in. He had the headphones on,
Speaker 2: he had his head down. He was locked in more
Speaker 2: than I usually see him on start days. Usually he'll
Speaker 2: get on the bus and he'll talk some trash, and
Speaker 2: he's a talker on start day. He's not like Kershaw
Speaker 2: where you don't even want to make eye contact. But
Speaker 2: today was different. He was locked in. He knew how
Speaker 2: big of a start this was for the Dodgers and
Speaker 2: for him, and he was locked in from the moment
Speaker 2: he got on the bus, and I was very confident
Speaker 2: that he was going to deliver, and he certainly did.
Speaker 2: He emptied the tank through four innings and gave the
Speaker 2: Dodger offense a chance to score runs and more runs,
Speaker 2: and they were able to do that. They go on
Speaker 2: to beat the Mets eight to nothing. Let's go out
Speaker 2: to Hollywood, Jesse. You're on Dodger Talk Live from City Field.
Speaker 16: Hi, Jesse, Hey, Daves, how you doing, man, I'm doing great,
Speaker 16: good well. Yeah, shout out to you for all you do.
Speaker 16: Thanks so much. I listened for years. Is the first
Speaker 16: time I've called since twenty seventeen, actually, but hey, that
Speaker 16: was a good year and I had what wonderful year,
Speaker 16: A wonderful year that we still look at sort of
Speaker 16: with disappointment. But it was a great team.
Speaker 2: He Jesse, Since you brought up twenty seventeen, I just
Speaker 2: I just want to bring up something from twenty seventeen
Speaker 2: because those players were so tight and even some of
Speaker 2: those guys that still are not on the team are
Speaker 2: still connected to guys like Buehler and Barnes and Munsey
Speaker 2: and key K And I don't know how active you
Speaker 2: are on Twitter. But Alex wood who was so good
Speaker 2: for the Dodgers in twenty seventeen, Yeah, in my opinion,
Speaker 2: should have started Game seven, was tweeting throughout the game tonight,
Speaker 2: cheering on Keyk, cheering on Bueler. So you bringing up
Speaker 2: twenty seventeen reminded me of one of my favorite Dodgers,
Speaker 2: one of the great competitors. Alex would sorry.
Speaker 16: Go ahead, awesome I missed. I miss Alex. Would be
Speaker 16: good to have Woody Beck, but I know that's not
Speaker 16: going to happen. I'm also a diehard JT fan, so
Speaker 16: miss think of JT often while watching these playoff games.
Speaker 2: Hey, he was texting me during the game. Justin Turner
Speaker 2: was watching the game tonight.
Speaker 8: Amazing.
Speaker 16: Oh that makes me happy. Yeah, we got to go
Speaker 16: to that game that he came in with the Mariners
Speaker 16: and we kind of celebrated him with that with that
Speaker 16: video and everything.
Speaker 14: Got to see his baby. So okay.
Speaker 16: The question, my question is that my girlfriend and I
Speaker 16: were talking about this watching the game tonight, but Freddie
Speaker 16: continuing to play on this ankle. I don't know if
Speaker 16: you have any information on this or not, but is
Speaker 16: there any chance that of potential long term damage continuing
Speaker 16: to play the way he has been on the ankle,
Speaker 16: because it's amazing. It's like, you know, such a testament
Speaker 16: to the man and the professional he is that he's
Speaker 16: going out there the way he has been. But it
Speaker 16: also makes me concerned as a Freddie fan and someone
Speaker 16: you know, looking forward to watching him play for the
Speaker 16: team for years. What does this mean for further down
Speaker 16: the line. Do you have any idea?
Speaker 2: Well, Freddie Freeman said himself that the trainers assured him
Speaker 2: he can't do any more damage to the ankle, so
Speaker 2: that's the reason why he's playing, So that that's the answer.
Speaker 2: It's not going to have a long term effect on him.
Speaker 16: Amazing. So he's just amazing, Jesse.
Speaker 2: I mean, at this point in time, right, it just
Speaker 2: shows how much Freddie believes in the chances of the
Speaker 2: Dodgers winning the World Series. For him playing on an
Speaker 2: ankle like.
Speaker 16: This, Yeah, absolutely, Yeah, hopefully hopefully it'll be this year.
Speaker 16: Let's just keep it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I have a great feeling it'll be sweet to
Speaker 2: beat the Yankees too.
Speaker 16: Yeah, totally, I would love that, all.
Speaker 2: Right, Jesse, thanks for the phone call, appreciated. That'll do
Speaker 2: it for us on Dodger Talk tonight Tomorrow, the Dodgers
Speaker 2: will be facing Jose Kantana. Here's something to know about
Speaker 2: Jose Kintana. He was the starting pitcher for the Cubs
Speaker 2: back in Game five of the twenty seventeen NLCS when
Speaker 2: keyk Hernandez hit three home runs and sent the Dodgers
Speaker 2: to the World Series that night at Wrigley Field. So
Speaker 2: Jose Kantana will be facing the Dodgers again in a
Speaker 2: playoff game. Kik did not hit all three of his
Speaker 2: home runs off of Cantana. He hit the first of
Speaker 2: his three against Jose Kntana, the left handed starter for
Speaker 2: then the Cubs and now the Mets, and in two
Speaker 2: starts this postseason for the Mets, Kinana has not given
Speaker 2: up a run in eleven innings. For the Dodgers, it
Speaker 2: will be Yoshi Yamamoto on the mound, looking to do
Speaker 2: what he did in Game five of the NLDS when
Speaker 2: he pitched five scoreless innings. Morongo Casino Dodgers on Deck
Speaker 2: begins at four o'clock tomorrow with first pitch with Rick
Speaker 2: Monday and Steven Nelson at five oh eight. Thanks to
Speaker 2: Colin ye back at our Burbank Studios. Thanks to Dwayne
Speaker 2: McDonald out here at City Field, and thanks to you
Speaker 2: for listening. In case you missed any of the show,
Speaker 2: you can find it on the iHeartRadio app. That's also
Speaker 2: where you can find our pregame conversation with Clayton Kershaw
Speaker 2: and special guest Brent Honeywell. Kershaw likes that guy. I
Speaker 2: like that guy. It was a fun interview. Kershaw talked
Speaker 2: about the fact that he is going to come back
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty five. He has a player option that
Speaker 2: he plans on picking up. He's not going to go
Speaker 2: through all the shoulder surgery and rehab and call it
Speaker 2: the career even if the Dodgers win the World Series.
Speaker 2: So he'll be back next year. So if you want
Speaker 2: to hear that conversation, you can find it right there.
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Speaker 2: at eight oh five scam in the morning, and also
Speaker 2: you can see me on MLB Network at eleven thirty
Speaker 2: with our old friend Alana Rizzo. So a lot of
Speaker 2: baseball a lot of me and a lot of you,
Speaker 2: as long as the Dodgers keep this ride going. And
Speaker 2: I don't see it stopping the Dodgers. Tonight, take Game three,
Speaker 2: the NLCS, shutting out the Mets eight to nothing. Have
Speaker 2: a great rest of your night. We'll talk to you tomorrow.
Speaker 2: See them