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Speaker 6: Dodgers a must win situation in this NLDS down two
Speaker 6: games to one to the San Diego Padres after dropping
Speaker 6: Game three last.
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Speaker 6: Saxon Kates in the A I'm with you here till
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Speaker 6: Dodger fans aren't happy with what happened last night, in
Speaker 6: particular in the second inning, and I don't blame them.
Speaker 3: A lot of touched on it.
Speaker 6: We've been touching on Saxy about the fact that many
Speaker 6: Machado made a played running the second base. The Dodgers
Speaker 6: didn't challenge it, to even question it. I know you
Speaker 6: can't review it, but didn't even go out and to
Speaker 6: argue the base running from Manny Machado, and then a
Speaker 6: couple of soft contact hits, a play, a miss cue
Speaker 6: from Miguel Rojas at second base trying to turn to
Speaker 6: himself extended the inning, and the Dodgers just could not
Speaker 6: get out from their own cells last night in that
Speaker 6: second inning, a six run inning for the San Diego Padres.
Speaker 6: At that point, Saxy, we were going back and forth
Speaker 6: on text. I thought it was over. I didn't think
Speaker 6: that Dodgers had a shot until that Grand Slam. All
Speaker 6: of a sudden, it's a one run game. But then
Speaker 6: the Dodgers' offense disappeared for the six innings.
Speaker 7: Yeah, Yeah, that's that's the way it goes. Look, I
Speaker 7: mean in postseason, when you're talking about free passes like
Speaker 7: a walk, a soft hit, and air these type of things,
Speaker 7: they all get amplified. They're under the microscope in postseason,
Speaker 7: and it always happens that way. You put you get
Speaker 7: a guy that's injured on the field somewhere, Guess where
Speaker 7: the ball is going to be hit, and it'll be
Speaker 7: challenging for him to catch it. It'll be to his right,
Speaker 7: or it'll be a slow, slow roller like we saw
Speaker 7: with Rohaus when he tried to turn that double play unassisted,
Speaker 7: and you know what it's gonna find you. You could
Speaker 7: tell that he was hurt and later you got to
Speaker 7: take him out of the game. So that's the way
Speaker 7: it goes in postseason. But you got to find a
Speaker 7: way to change the narrative, change it early and turn
Speaker 7: this thing around and look that this is not insurmountable.
Speaker 7: The Dodgers absolutely can do this. Everything has gone the
Speaker 7: Padres way. I mean, that's the way I look at it.
Speaker 7: They get you know, they got the hype going. They're
Speaker 7: in their own house now and they seem to just
Speaker 7: be thriving on every little thing happen is their way.
Speaker 7: That thing is going to change at some point. Hopefully
Speaker 7: it'll start tonight.
Speaker 6: Shoey Otani in the leadoff spot had an MVP season
Speaker 6: part of the fifty to fifty club. We knew what
Speaker 6: he did over the course of one to sixty two
Speaker 6: going in to this postseason. But you look at the
Speaker 6: first three games of this NLDS two for five with
Speaker 6: the three run home run in the series opener on Saturday.
Speaker 6: He goes zero for four with a couple of punchouts
Speaker 6: in game two on Sunday last night, breaks his bat
Speaker 6: a flair hit to center his only hit. He goes
Speaker 6: one for four and struck out twice. He's got one
Speaker 6: extra base hit, He's got zero walks, zero stolen bases,
Speaker 6: and he struck out six times. I know it's not
Speaker 6: the postseason he had hoped to have, and Dodger fans
Speaker 6: are certainly expecting way more than what he's done so
Speaker 6: far in only three games. But the Otani we saw
Speaker 6: during the regular season getting on base, stealing bases, putting
Speaker 6: the ball where he wanted it in the left field,
Speaker 6: right field, hitting for power, we just haven't seen it.
Speaker 6: It is that post in baseball saxy better pitching, or
Speaker 6: is this just them figuring out Otani and the rest
Speaker 6: of the lineup around him not helping him out? Kind
Speaker 6: of leaving him on an island there. Every time he's up, well, everybody's.
Speaker 7: Figured him out. I mean, they know what he's gonna do.
Speaker 7: They just can't stop him. That's how good Otani is.
Speaker 7: They know his pluses and minus is at the plate.
Speaker 7: And when we're talking about is that Otani in postseason? Nope,
Speaker 7: it's just a couple of games. If he goes out
Speaker 7: there tonight and hits a couple of home runs and
Speaker 7: gets three hits and steals two bases, we're gonna say, whoa, whoa,
Speaker 7: this is what we've been waiting for and it's turned around.
Speaker 7: It's just because it's a couple of games and everybody
Speaker 7: in the world's watching. That's why it's all. He's had
Speaker 7: stretches like this during the season. I guarantee it.
Speaker 6: I mean, you look at the Dodgers last night. Outside
Speaker 6: of the Grand Slam from Taskar Hernandez, one hit the
Speaker 6: remainder of the way and that was Freddie Freeman's in
Speaker 6: the eighth inning. They had no opportunities even to have
Speaker 6: guys on base to drive him in. They were two
Speaker 6: for three with runners in scoring position. They left only
Speaker 6: two runners on base the entire game. There just wasn't
Speaker 6: opportunities with guys on base, no traffic on the base pass.
Speaker 6: You didn't put pressure on the San Diego Padres defense.
Speaker 6: And that's because guys are striking out. Guys are going
Speaker 6: oh for four like maximun See Will Smith has been
Speaker 6: over the series so far for the Dodgers, Gavin lucks
Speaker 6: oh for four last night with a punch out. The
Speaker 6: bottom of the lineup has to do a better job
Speaker 6: of getting on base. And it doesn't mean they have
Speaker 6: to be the ones hitting the home run saxy. They're
Speaker 6: the ones that need to draw walks, They're the ones
Speaker 6: that need to get on base. There' are the ones
Speaker 6: that need to get in scoring position. So then when
Speaker 6: the lineup flips to Otawni, Betts and Freeman, you're giving
Speaker 6: your three big boppers an opportunity to put runs on
Speaker 6: the board.
Speaker 7: Yeah, no question about it. And you know, when we
Speaker 7: talk about this in all different circles about you know,
Speaker 7: the construction of a lineup and whatnot and your old
Speaker 7: school you know, you don't you know, you know, will
Speaker 7: you know what that that thing comes up more often
Speaker 7: than not, there's something about not striking out, you know,
Speaker 7: and you are going to sacrifice that for the fact
Speaker 7: that you got guys that can hit the ball out
Speaker 7: of the ballpark consistently, and the Dodgers are are built
Speaker 7: to slug. That's that's how this team is constructed. You
Speaker 7: don't have guys out there that there are interested in
Speaker 7: moving guys over, or guys that can bunt for a
Speaker 7: hit or guys can hit the ball the other way
Speaker 7: and a hit and run. I don't need the Dodgers
Speaker 7: hit and run at all this year. I mean the team,
Speaker 7: the team is not built that way. And that's okay.
Speaker 7: I mean, look what they did throughout the season. They
Speaker 7: were phenomenal. That's the way the team is constructed. And
Speaker 7: so you have to play within the confines of how
Speaker 7: your team is built. And sometimes you're gonna have, uh,
Speaker 7: you know, times where it's going to be some some
Speaker 7: barren uh you know, times where you're just not gonna
Speaker 7: be able to get any hits. You're not gonna see
Speaker 7: any you know, any uh, you know, people on the
Speaker 7: on the basis, and you're gonna have times where you're
Speaker 7: gonna have a drought, and that's that's how it is.
Speaker 7: But you're gonna have other times we're gonna say, wow,
Speaker 7: this is amazing.
Speaker 6: That's that's the problem, and it's been the problem the
Speaker 6: last few years. Come October is is feast or famine.
Speaker 6: It's hit home runs and bunches and slug or we
Speaker 6: don't put up any runs on the scoreboard and you
Speaker 6: get blown out or you lose games because you're just
Speaker 6: not getting more hits and you're striking out more than
Speaker 6: more times than nod ye. And it's great over the
Speaker 6: course of one sixty two because you're gonna win more
Speaker 6: games than you're not, you're gonna win more series than
Speaker 6: you're not. And that's fine. But when you get to
Speaker 6: postseason and all of a sudden, you got twenty seven
Speaker 6: outs to try to figure out how to beat a
Speaker 6: team and get a one oh series lead and then
Speaker 6: a two oh series lead and get a series win.
Speaker 6: You can't rely on a home run. I mean, the
Speaker 6: Dodgers were down six to five last night, Saxy and
Speaker 6: it was the fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth inning, and
Speaker 6: I'm watching these at bats, and I'm watching guys trying
Speaker 6: to tie the game with one swing at the bat,
Speaker 6: and rather than punch the ball the other way or
Speaker 6: or find the gap in right in your left center
Speaker 6: field or or you know, bunt to get on or
Speaker 6: whatever they needed to do to get into scoring positions
Speaker 6: so they can tie the game, or somebody can come
Speaker 6: up and find the gap and extend it inning. There's
Speaker 6: just none of that. Max Munsey's swinging for the defences.
Speaker 6: You know, Will Smith, I mean, I love Will Smith.
Speaker 6: He's one of the best all round catchers in baseball.
Speaker 6: Just signed a brand new ten year deal before this season.
Speaker 6: Will Smith had an awful twenty twenty four regular season,
Speaker 6: and now it's continued to the postseason. We all hoped
Speaker 6: they would flip the switch come October. Yeah, oh for
Speaker 6: four last night, and then you bats every time he
Speaker 6: was up, you kind of just felt like, man, he's
Speaker 6: behind on every swing. He's being overpowered by every pitcher
Speaker 6: he saw.
Speaker 7: Yeah, probably trying to do too much. And here here's
Speaker 7: here's kind of a quick synopsis of the differences right now.
Speaker 7: In yesterday's game, the Dodgers struck out nine times, the
Speaker 7: Padres only struck out four times, and the Dodgers only
Speaker 7: had one walk. And so when you strike out nine
Speaker 7: and walk one, that's not a good ratio the other
Speaker 7: you know, in game the other the other day when
Speaker 7: the Padres hit the six home runs. Yeah, they struck
Speaker 7: out only five times. So you hit more home runs
Speaker 7: than when you struck out. So the key is, you
Speaker 7: gotta put the ball in play again. Nothing productive comes from,
Speaker 7: you know, walking back to the dugout in a strikeout.
Speaker 7: You gotta put it in play.
Speaker 6: Let's go out to the phones. A lot of Dodger
Speaker 6: fans want a way in. We will appreciate you being patient.
Speaker 6: Chuck in Long Beach is next up here on Sax
Speaker 6: and Kates, and they am on this Wednesday morning.
Speaker 3: How you doing, Chuck?
Speaker 1: Oh, I'm doing very well, very well. I'm kind of disappointing.
Speaker 1: How about you guys today?
Speaker 6: Man, very disappointed, Chuck, very very upset that this Dodgers
Speaker 6: team is down two games to one.
Speaker 1: Absolutely. I just got a couple of quick comments. First
Speaker 1: of all, I think that the Dodgers we're playing mcguil
Speaker 1: rohause and we're playing Freddy Freeman, and it hurt.
Speaker 8: Man.
Speaker 1: I mean, Freddy would be a good pension. Right now.
Speaker 1: We need to get Kiki in, we need to get
Speaker 1: Taylor in. We need some new blood, man, because right
Speaker 1: now we're in bad shape. And my other comment is
Speaker 1: the picture that we signed over from Japan. Man, we
Speaker 1: could have got two We could have got two top
Speaker 1: notch pitchers here and a slugger for the price that
Speaker 1: he's making. Man, that's all I.
Speaker 3: Got, all right, Chuck, appreciate it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, they gave Yoshanova Yamamoto the biggest contract for a
Speaker 6: picture in the history of baseball. And the transition coming
Speaker 6: over to the big league hasn't been a smooth one.
Speaker 6: Battle through some shoulder injuries and certainly not the production
Speaker 6: you'd hoped for in his postseason start against the Padres,
Speaker 6: but the injuries, Zaxy. I hope Miguil I love Miguel Rojas.
Speaker 6: I just hope he's not in the lineup tonight because
Speaker 6: of the injury, because how he's banged up. I know
Speaker 6: he wants to play through it. I just can't imagine
Speaker 6: him being out of the shortstop and being a liability defensively,
Speaker 6: and you can get somebody else's bat in that lineup
Speaker 6: and his name gets being brought up. You've talked about Alana,
Speaker 6: brought it up, Key k Hernandez. He's an October player.
Speaker 6: He's been here before. He's delivered for you in the postseason.
Speaker 6: They go to Paez last night for some reason off
Speaker 6: the bench when Rojas got hurt. You're moving Edmond is
Speaker 6: short to play shortstop. He's really good, so why not
Speaker 6: put key K in center? He can play outfield for
Speaker 6: he's done it all year. I just don't understand the move.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, key K is one of those guys.
Speaker 7: He's like a Swiss Army Knight. He can play anywhere,
Speaker 7: and he's more than suitable in the outfield as well.
Speaker 7: So I think you're gonna probably see that tonight. And
Speaker 7: I think you're gonna see Edmond at shortstop. I think
Speaker 7: that's what David had had had pointed out. So they
Speaker 7: should be good to go tonight.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 7: I mean, I know we're gonna go with a with
Speaker 7: a bullpen game, but you know what, so what they've
Speaker 7: done it before.
Speaker 6: Let's go to Aaron and Sunland is next up here
Speaker 6: on a FI seventy LA Sports with Sax and Kids
Speaker 6: in the morning.
Speaker 3: How you doing, Aaron?
Speaker 9: Yeah, I'm doing well. Guys, thanks for taking my call. Well,
Speaker 9: here we go again. I just don't understand it. I
Speaker 9: don't understand the regression that seems to happen every year.
Speaker 9: Once the postseason hit. I mean nine guys last night.
Speaker 9: Of the nine, a lot of them, a few of
Speaker 9: them had one hit, No one had more than one hit.
Speaker 9: Five of them had no hits last night. I mean, Sax,
Speaker 9: maybe you can speak to this. I'm noticing that we're
Speaker 9: the team that has been there so many times, yet
Speaker 9: we seem like we're playing tight, like we're nervous and
Speaker 9: haven't been there, and the Padres are playing very loosely.
Speaker 9: I mean, I'm not seeing any patients in the batter's box.
Speaker 9: I'm seeing guys swinging at the very first pitch and
Speaker 9: having a ground out or a pop up. Take a pitch,
Speaker 9: I mean, even if it is a strike, which it
Speaker 9: probably will be, get settled in the box, take your time,
Speaker 9: stop swinging and everything. Shohy has disappeared. I don't understand
Speaker 9: MIGGI last night why he didn't just flip that to
Speaker 9: second base to Lutch and maybe get to double play.
Speaker 9: I mean, guys, we're playing like we have not been
Speaker 9: here before, and it's frustrating. We seem to do this
Speaker 9: every single year. Thanks taking the call, guys.
Speaker 7: All right, thanks Aaron, Yeah, yeah, I understand that frustration,
Speaker 7: and like you pointed out Tim in five through eight,
Speaker 7: you had zero for fifteen. You got to be able
Speaker 7: to set that table for the top of the order.
Speaker 7: And nobody knows it more than they do. They know
Speaker 7: the numbers, they know the frustration. They feel it more
Speaker 7: than any caller can call in. I can promise you
Speaker 7: that they're disappointed. They feel like they're letting people down,
Speaker 7: and that's they're human beings, man. They feel it more
Speaker 7: than anybody. But I think they can turn this thing
Speaker 7: around tonight. I really believe that with your back against
Speaker 7: the wall, going with the bullpen, nobody's gonna give him
Speaker 7: a chance. That's when they'll shine.
Speaker 6: I mean, I think about one play changing a game.
Speaker 6: And we've talked about the Freeman play in which Machado
Speaker 6: came out of the base line and hits off his
Speaker 6: shoulder and his head and goes into left field and
Speaker 6: he goes the third on the play. But to me,
Speaker 6: that play from Miguel Rojas where he doesn't flip it
Speaker 6: to Gavin Lux to least to get the force out,
Speaker 6: it was probably gonna be a double play because it's
Speaker 6: Xander Bogart's up at the plate. That could have been
Speaker 6: a double play. Sure, Manny scores from third and we're
Speaker 6: tied one to one. But there's two outs and nobody
Speaker 6: on base for David Peralta, and you're feeling pretty good
Speaker 6: about all right, we're one one. If Bueller can get
Speaker 6: out of this, David Peralta gets out, flies out, grounds out,
Speaker 6: strikes out. Okay, crisis averted. We don't have to worry
Speaker 6: about it. And now we're tied one one going to
Speaker 6: the top half of the third inning. Instead, you try
Speaker 6: to make a play, it doesn't happen. Runners are on base,
Speaker 6: and then Paralta clears the bases with a double down
Speaker 6: the right field line. A single miss cue, a play
Speaker 6: in which you know you think you can make but
Speaker 6: you don't and runners are safe.
Speaker 3: Can change a game like that.
Speaker 7: No, there's no doubt about it. And you know all
Speaker 7: the talk and everything that's been in the papers for
Speaker 7: you know, a long time. We all knew that coming
Speaker 7: into postseason the Dodgers were going to be strapped on
Speaker 7: their pitches to But look how many guys are hurt
Speaker 7: on this on this staff, there's a list as long
Speaker 7: as your arm. There's a lot of guys that are hurt.
Speaker 7: We know Freddy's hurt. We know Miguel's hurt and it's
Speaker 7: nothing you want to just say, well, you know that's
Speaker 7: that's the reason why all teams are hurt. And you
Speaker 7: don't want to ever make an excuse, but you got
Speaker 7: to call it like it is. For instance, look at
Speaker 7: look at a move that the Padres made this year.
Speaker 7: This was a brilliant move with David Peralta. This is
Speaker 7: a guy that's thirty seven years old. He began this
Speaker 7: season at Triple A with the Cubs. He got released
Speaker 7: on May tenth. He signed with the Padres eight days later.
Speaker 7: He got called up on May twenty second, and the
Speaker 7: rest is history. I'll tell you what that guy you
Speaker 7: know from being over here, that guy can flat out hit.
Speaker 7: And are we surprised that he jammed that ball right
Speaker 7: inside the bag at first rate? No, he's done in
Speaker 7: his whole life. This guy can flat out hit. He's
Speaker 7: not intimidated by the moment. And that was a good
Speaker 7: pickup for these guys.
Speaker 6: Huge pickup and guys are delivering. You know, maybe that
Speaker 6: the biggest names, but when their numbers called, they are
Speaker 6: making the play when needed, whether it's at the play
Speaker 6: defensively or guys coming out of the bullpen for the
Speaker 6: Padres like they did last night. James in North Hollywood,
Speaker 6: Welcome to Saxon Kates and am James.
Speaker 10: How you doing, Hey man? You know what I'm doing.
Speaker 11: Okay, I know this feeling. I'm used to it after
Speaker 11: the last few years. But I gotta tell you, Tim,
Speaker 11: you read my mind. I think the key to turning
Speaker 11: this around is one simple thing. Don't try to make
Speaker 11: the excellent play, make the right play. Everything from Mike
Speaker 11: you said months he's swinging for the fences. Let me
Speaker 11: see a little more. Tommy admitted people's approaches. Throw the
Speaker 11: barrel of the bat to the ball and just make
Speaker 11: contact is Dave Uffarid says, move the ball forward in
Speaker 11: the field. Of course, you've kind of beaten it to
Speaker 11: death with his decision to run to the bag. But
Speaker 11: you know, if there's a chance to make a spectacular
Speaker 11: catch in the outfield, but it's low probability, let it drop.
Speaker 11: Take the single, don't let it roll by you in
Speaker 11: and let it be a triple. Because the Padres have
Speaker 11: proven that they will make you pay for those sorts
Speaker 11: of decisions in game, no.
Speaker 3: Doubt about it. James appreciate it.
Speaker 6: Real quick saxy on that play at second which Rojas
Speaker 6: tried to take it himself for an unassisted double play
Speaker 6: there and not flip it. De Luxe, who was in
Speaker 6: position ready to go, in a position ready to turn
Speaker 6: that double play, is lux yelling at him, hey, you know,
Speaker 6: flip flip flip or me, me me? Or is he
Speaker 6: saying something to Rojas to let him know and communicate
Speaker 6: that let's turn this or is that a decision just
Speaker 6: completely made by Rojas and there's no verbal communication there.
Speaker 7: No, there's verbal communication. You can be yelling at each other,
Speaker 7: but in the moment with the how loud the crowd as,
Speaker 7: you're really relying on the you know, the shortstops the
Speaker 7: decision to take that or not. It's mostly the shortstops decision.
Speaker 7: But the thing is, and those times you gotta get won.
Speaker 7: I mean, the most important throw on a double play
Speaker 7: is the first throw because that will set the second
Speaker 7: one in motion. So you got to give that guy
Speaker 7: a good throw. And you know you got the base
Speaker 7: runner barreling down there. I believe that was Meryl. Yeah,
Speaker 7: and you know he's going to change. You know, the
Speaker 7: speed of the ball and speed of the runner dictates
Speaker 7: you know what the infielders are going to do. You
Speaker 7: got to get that ball quickly, you know, to Lux
Speaker 7: and then he's going to have an easy throw with
Speaker 7: with Bogarts, I believe was a hitter on the double play,
Speaker 7: But that's a decision mostly right at the moment that
Speaker 7: split second with with Rojas. But you got Merril, that's fast,
Speaker 7: you got Rojas, that's hurt, and that equals what we saw.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and it was in and they got away from
Speaker 6: the Dodgers defensively. Walker Bueler did help himself out with
Speaker 6: a couple of pitches he certainly wants back, and the
Speaker 6: next thing you know, it's a six run second inning
Speaker 6: for the San Diego Padres and they go on and
Speaker 6: win it by final of six to five. Your reaction
Speaker 6: on this Wednesday morning continues. Your phone calls eight sixty
Speaker 6: six nine, eight seven two five seventy. David Veasse will
Speaker 6: join us next hour. We'll hear from shoey Otani his
Speaker 6: postgame reaction from last night Last Night showey Otani came
Speaker 6: up in situations and ye know, just didn't have opportunities
Speaker 6: to drive in runs because the Dodgers didn't have guys
Speaker 6: on base the bottom of the lineup got to do
Speaker 6: a better job in helping out this Dodgers team if
Speaker 6: they have any hopes of winning Game four tonight and
Speaker 6: even up this best of five series at two games
Speaker 6: a piece. He is Steve Sacks, I'm Tim Kates. Your
Speaker 6: phone calls next are here on am FI seventy LA Sports.
Speaker 6: Hopefully we're hearing this Friday night Dodgers Stadium. That means
Speaker 6: Game five of the NLDS Freddie Freeman's walk up song.
Speaker 6: But they need to take care of business tonight in
Speaker 6: a must win Game four, Dodgers down two games to
Speaker 6: one of this best of five series. Steve Sacks, Tim Kates,
Speaker 6: and you here on this Wednesday morning in October ninth.
Speaker 6: Thanks for being with us. The Dan Patrick Show can
Speaker 6: be found on the I Heart Radio app as we
Speaker 6: recap what happened last night and came three. A disappointing
Speaker 6: second inning from the Dodgers, six runs on five hits,
Speaker 6: Fernando tatist Junior a two run home run gave him
Speaker 6: a six to one lead. After Mookie Bets's solo home run,
Speaker 6: the first Dodgers came back with a grand slam from
Speaker 6: Taoskar Hernandez and the third by the way, Saxy Tascar
Speaker 6: Hernandez a guy who bet on himself in this last offseason.
Speaker 6: And what I mean by that is signed a one
Speaker 6: year deal basically for the qualifying offer of about twenty
Speaker 6: million dollars, which is really good money. But he signs
Speaker 6: a one year deal with the Dodgers wanting to go
Speaker 6: to a contender and wanted to be a part of
Speaker 6: the team that has a chance to win a World
Speaker 6: Series and be a contributor on that team, and knowing
Speaker 6: that he'll be a free agent again next offseason. If
Speaker 6: he could produce and put up numbers and maybe win
Speaker 6: that he'll help himself for a bigger contract this next offseason.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 6: All Star season, career high in home runs has He's
Speaker 6: been consistently helping out this Dodgers team. A really good
Speaker 6: defender in left field, but his production has been off
Speaker 6: the charge. The Dodgers got more than I think they
Speaker 6: expected out of a one year deal from Taoscar Hernandez.
Speaker 7: Oh Yeah, they did. This guy can really hit. It's
Speaker 7: got a lot of sock in the bat. I love
Speaker 7: watching him hit. He's got a good approach at the plate.
Speaker 7: He's built for damage and he's not up there to
Speaker 7: you know, try to hit the ball the other way,
Speaker 7: and that's not what you want in this particular hitter.
Speaker 7: He's extremely talented and like I said, the power really shows.
Speaker 7: He right out one hundred. RBIs at ninety nine this year,
Speaker 7: thirty three and ninety nine with the two seventy two average,
Speaker 7: not bad at all.
Speaker 3: I like it.
Speaker 7: I mean he's up there. That's the kind of numbers
Speaker 7: you see with guys that can you know, put the
Speaker 7: average up and the damage numbers two guys like Goldschmid,
Speaker 7: et cetera. That's kind of the zone that this guy's
Speaker 7: living in right now. He's gonna get a lot of Denarro.
Speaker 6: In the first inning and Mookie Betts goes deep, similar
Speaker 6: to what happened in Game two, Jerkson Profar goes into
Speaker 6: the crowd. We thought maybe he had grabbed it again
Speaker 6: and robbed Mookie bats. Mookie kind of made a bee
Speaker 6: line towards the dugout and then had to recircle second
Speaker 6: base and third and come home for the home run.
Speaker 6: I know you were pretty fired up about Jerks and
Speaker 6: Profar and just antics there and left field again.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, I don't dig it at all. I mean, no,
Speaker 7: you know, I'm kind of old school. I mean, catch
Speaker 7: the ball, make a great play. A lot of guys
Speaker 7: that do that, you know, it's you can see that
Speaker 7: they've got a humbly nature about them. This guy's gonna
Speaker 7: step there and jump up and down and smile at
Speaker 7: you if I you know what you know, I don't
Speaker 7: want to say it, but I'm with you. You know,
Speaker 7: if I had a Coca cola, I might have flung
Speaker 7: that thing. You know what if I'm in the front row,
Speaker 7: you know what I mean, I might have just made
Speaker 7: it a little bit loose. But no, you don't want
Speaker 7: to be throwing things. You don't want to. We don't
Speaker 7: want to see them in the field. But but uh,
Speaker 7: you know, it's it's that's the way some guys are,
Speaker 7: you know. But he's uh, he does his job and
Speaker 7: and he's there. He he's got a nice shtick that
Speaker 7: he's uh that he's doing. If you look at Jerks
Speaker 7: and Profar. I don't know how many great years he's had,
Speaker 7: you know, uh, and throughout his career a lot of them. No,
Speaker 7: but he's he's had some injuries and whatnot. He's a
Speaker 7: talented guy. There's there's no question about it. But but
Speaker 7: not not to the level of some of these other
Speaker 7: guys on the team. They've got a lot of stars
Speaker 7: on this on this San Diego team, he's kind of
Speaker 7: like a role player, but he has has had kind
Speaker 7: of a breakout year. This is his first year that
Speaker 7: he's been on the All Star team, and that puts
Speaker 7: him in a you know, in a different zone. If
Speaker 7: you make an All Star team even once, you know
Speaker 7: like he has, that puts you in a different zone.
Speaker 7: So you got a hand to him.
Speaker 6: I mean, he signed a one year, one million dollar
Speaker 6: deal this past offseason after being in Colorado last year
Speaker 6: and then being DFAD and then signed by the Padres
Speaker 6: late in September and sent to the minor leagues to
Speaker 6: try to figure things out, and here he is having
Speaker 6: a resurgence in twenty twenty four. We got a lot
Speaker 6: of Dodger fans on one away and we want to Tim.
Speaker 7: I want to say one more thing about Jerkson. He's
Speaker 7: only thirty one years old. He's been around forever. He's
Speaker 7: been in the big league since he was nineteen years old,
Speaker 7: so he's still got a lot of baseball in him.
Speaker 6: One point, he was the top overall prospect in all
Speaker 6: of baseball with the Texas Rangers. That's how far back
Speaker 6: he goes. We go to Diana and Granada Hills. Thanks
Speaker 6: for being patient Diana on this Wednesday morning.
Speaker 3: How are you good?
Speaker 4: How are you Tim and Steve?
Speaker 12: Hey?
Speaker 3: Dan, I'm good.
Speaker 9: Hi.
Speaker 4: So first off, thanks for taking my call. And I
Speaker 4: want to say that Alana Rizzo, man, she is a
Speaker 4: gem and her insight and passion for the game are
Speaker 4: just really missed. Hearing her this morning, she got me
Speaker 4: fired up. I feel like she.
Speaker 13: Should got up in the dugout and oh my god,
Speaker 13: she needs to go in the dugout and get these
Speaker 13: boys fired up. I'm telling you, you know, I look
Speaker 13: at that play. You've mentioned it so many times where Machada.
Speaker 4: Gets hit with the ball. I can't believe it wasn't
Speaker 4: questioned by Roberts. That would have been a perfect time
Speaker 4: for him to run out, you know, get his team going.
Speaker 4: I know it was early, and you know we weren't
Speaker 4: behind at that point. It all fell apart after that,
Speaker 4: but you know, going out there, I mean Tommy Lesorda,
Speaker 4: he would have waddled out there in a heartbeat and
Speaker 4: been out there and screaming and wondering what's going on there?
Speaker 4: You know, if we missed that passion. And my concern is,
Speaker 4: and I've really thought this last couple of years. Roberts
Speaker 4: is a great manager for the regular season and he's
Speaker 4: a wonderful man. I just don't I just don't see
Speaker 4: the fire in the moxie as the leader of the
Speaker 4: team in the postseason.
Speaker 3: Your thoughts, thanks, Diana.
Speaker 6: Is there something to that saxy that come postseason more
Speaker 6: of a raw, raw manager and during the course of
Speaker 6: a regular season more of a laid back Let's, you know,
Speaker 6: roll through one hundred and sixty two game regular season,
Speaker 6: but October you got to flip a switch as a manager.
Speaker 7: Well, I understand what what Diana is bringing. The way
Speaker 7: I look at is I look at the totality of
Speaker 7: not only the man in the season as well. The
Speaker 7: season was great, Dodgers were the best, and that's where
Speaker 7: that is in post I know it is, it's a
Speaker 7: season in and of itself, but I got to see
Speaker 7: I got to see the leadership and the passion come
Speaker 7: through by example, and that's what the players do. You're
Speaker 7: grown man, You've played in this game for a long
Speaker 7: time you're you're at the at the epic part of
Speaker 7: your career, being able to play in these games. If
Speaker 7: I need another man to to tell me to get enthusiastic,
Speaker 7: to tell me to play differently than I normally do
Speaker 7: and get really excited about it, and that's going to
Speaker 7: make somebody else excited, Ah, there's something wrong here. No,
Speaker 7: I don't need anybody else to get me going. I
Speaker 7: if it's if it's not going naturally, uh the way
Speaker 7: these guys you know that they can do, then then
Speaker 7: there's something wrong right there. But I don't think it's
Speaker 7: a manager's job to try to really motivate these guys.
Speaker 7: Why would you need a manager to motivate you. You need
Speaker 7: a manager to you know, kind of keep things rolling
Speaker 7: to you know, make the calls and whatnot. I stand
Speaker 7: the motivation part. I understand that, but think about it logically,
Speaker 7: this is the biggest moment in your life and most
Speaker 7: of these guys, do you really need motivation? Maybe you
Speaker 7: need to be pulled back a little bit, you know,
Speaker 7: But but the real leadership comes through example and the
Speaker 7: players show that absolutely.
Speaker 6: Man Well and Anaheim is next up here with Saxon,
Speaker 6: Kates and am welcome, man, Well, how are you good?
Speaker 14: How much stuff are you guys doing?
Speaker 3: Doing good? Thanks?
Speaker 14: No, the reason why I called, I've been trying to
Speaker 14: call a week. I've been watching the games and everything.
Speaker 14: As a matter of fact, I'm at work right now.
Speaker 14: Other than that, I just see that everybody's trying to
Speaker 14: be a hero and trying to hit a home run
Speaker 14: ball instead of being patient.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's it's back to the old slogger or bust.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 14: So the thing is, from what I've been noticing, even
Speaker 14: every single at bat, everyone's trying to hit a home
Speaker 14: run or hitting really hard instead of just claim taking
Speaker 14: the outs. I know we have MaTx Munsey is one
Speaker 14: of the best, one of the best hitters out there.
Speaker 14: I've seen that he's very patient, and I know that
Speaker 14: he can hit the ball, and I know he can
Speaker 14: take walks. That's what we need to do. Thanks for
Speaker 14: taking my call, all right, man?
Speaker 6: Well, yeah, during the season, this Dodgers team sactually would
Speaker 6: take a lot of walks and would grind down a
Speaker 6: starting pitcher. That's something that they've become very good at.
Speaker 6: And this year this group was really good at and
Speaker 6: elongating at bats. You know, seven eight, nine pitches passing
Speaker 6: to the next guy, whether you got a hit or not,
Speaker 6: and then all of a sudden, the next batter six seven,
Speaker 6: eight pitches, so that pitch count goes up on a starter,
Speaker 6: and they'd wear out the starter to get to the bullpens,
Speaker 6: because most of these bullpens in baseball aren't very good. Yeah,
Speaker 6: and that's something that Dodgers they don't they don't do
Speaker 6: in the postseason.
Speaker 3: It seems like they get away from that.
Speaker 7: Yeah, two things I wanted to mention in that number. One.
Speaker 7: If a pitcher isn't going to give you a good
Speaker 7: pitch to hit, if he's if he's on the fringes
Speaker 7: of the plate, and you have to go deep into counts, fantastic,
Speaker 7: I say. I say, have twenty pitch, twenty pitch at
Speaker 7: bats for all the guys, wear those guys down, get
Speaker 7: into the bullpen. I get it, But I'm not going
Speaker 7: to sacrifice that philosophy to allow two pitches right down
Speaker 7: the center of the plate to go by. You can
Speaker 7: get into the bullpen just a lot quicker by hitting
Speaker 7: the ball in the gaps, hitting getting base hits, and
Speaker 7: hitting the ball over the fence, you know, and Dodgers
Speaker 7: are built for that. But again it's got to be
Speaker 7: because you know, DeLong at bats because you're not getting
Speaker 7: your real good pitch to hit. That's That's what I
Speaker 7: really believe it. And secondly, the game has changed so much, Tim.
Speaker 7: I call the games here for the Rivercats on in Sacramento.
Speaker 7: It's a Giants Triple A team, you know, on on
Speaker 7: just a Saturday Saturday home TV games. And what I
Speaker 7: see is astonishing to me because I see it not
Speaker 7: only in Triple A the way the way you know
Speaker 7: the teams are structured, but also in the big leagues.
Speaker 7: You got a guy on second base and nobody out,
Speaker 7: and you have the second basement playing in back of
Speaker 7: second base. He's not even thinking. The guy's got it
Speaker 7: in his mind to hit a roller or a hard
Speaker 7: hit ball to the right side to get that runner over.
Speaker 7: They don't even try to do it. Nowadays, it's they
Speaker 7: don't even try it. I'm I'm sitting there with Zach,
Speaker 7: the guy that calls the games, to play by play guy,
Speaker 7: and I'm saying, Zach, what what's going on here? We
Speaker 7: got a guy on second, nobody out, and the second
Speaker 7: basemin's and back of second base and the first there's
Speaker 7: a there's one hundred foot chasm between the two fielders
Speaker 7: on the right side. They're not even thinking about driving
Speaker 7: the ball the other way. It's it's amazing how much
Speaker 7: the game has changed.
Speaker 6: Yeah, philosophy has changed. And instead of hitting the ball
Speaker 6: the other way, as you're talking about, and you can get.
Speaker 3: A hit over there, what's the difference.
Speaker 7: You get a hit over there, you hit it down
Speaker 7: all the field line, you're gonna I don't get it.
Speaker 6: It's it's mind boggling how the game has changed. And
Speaker 6: if you just do the simple things, you know, maybe
Speaker 6: you'll win more games, especially in the postseason. Eric and
Speaker 6: east La been waiting patiently to talk to Saxon Kates
Speaker 6: today and how you doing?
Speaker 13: Eric?
Speaker 1: Hey, how you doing.
Speaker 10: I'm gonna tell you he's AACS to baby.
Speaker 15: You're my favorite player.
Speaker 10: I have your jersey on right now to give us
Speaker 10: some good luck there.
Speaker 15: We played.
Speaker 10: You played with grit and you played with tenacity. I
Speaker 10: think we've showed some signs of that, but we need
Speaker 10: to continue that. What do you think is the X
Speaker 10: factor as far as for us to win today? And
Speaker 10: we went today, we're winning. We're winning on uh a
Speaker 10: Friday or whatever it is.
Speaker 7: Yeah, good question, Thank you, Eric, good question. You want
Speaker 7: to take that to him?
Speaker 3: Absolutely?
Speaker 7: Okay, Here, here's here's what I believe.
Speaker 3: You're in your jersey right now. Sex.
Speaker 7: I love it in the recesses of my soul. I
Speaker 7: think the fact that the Dodgers are going to go
Speaker 7: to a bull have to go to a bullpen game today,
Speaker 7: we knew this was going to happen. I mean, the
Speaker 7: Dodgers were depleted in their pitching staff because of injuries.
Speaker 7: But I think what we're going to see tonight is
Speaker 7: I think we're going to see good performances out of
Speaker 7: the bullpen. And you know, the tough thing about it,
Speaker 7: and what makes it difficult is you got one guy
Speaker 7: in the chain that cannot be at his epic best
Speaker 7: and pretty soon, you know, the things crumble. So it's
Speaker 7: even more of an emphasis on that bullpen to come
Speaker 7: out and shove. As Elana says, and she's right, we
Speaker 7: need these guys to shove on the on the San
Speaker 7: Diego Padres tonight. But I think they can do it.
Speaker 7: And once that starts happening, you're gonna see the enthusiasm
Speaker 7: just roll out of the Dodgers.
Speaker 3: You want to talk.
Speaker 7: About, you know, some enthusiasm. You want to talk about
Speaker 7: some excitement and emotion shown Watch what happens when we're
Speaker 7: in the fifth or sixth inning. You got a new
Speaker 7: guy coming in and the Dodger bats are rolling, and
Speaker 7: this bullpen's able to hold these guys down. Remember when
Speaker 7: a hitter is unfamiliar with the picture, When you're changing
Speaker 7: guys out all the time, that's not good for hitters.
Speaker 7: Hitters like familiarity. They get it, they get in a role,
Speaker 7: they get in a momentum with a picture. With a picture,
Speaker 7: you change guys out all the time, that's very difficult
Speaker 7: to do.
Speaker 6: If this were something the Dodgers were experimenting with tonight,
Speaker 6: a bullpen game, had maybe never done it during the
Speaker 6: course of one hundred and sixty two game season, and
Speaker 6: this was forced on them because of injuries, I'd be.
Speaker 3: Like, oh, wow, this is this is not ideal.
Speaker 7: They've done this before half many time, and this is
Speaker 7: not new.
Speaker 6: They did it on the final road trip in Colorado.
Speaker 6: Do experiment with an opener against the Rockies followed by
Speaker 6: landing knack as a bulkanning guy goes two or three
Speaker 6: innings and you keep passing the baton. So they've been
Speaker 6: setting up for this. They knew this isn't a secret,
Speaker 6: Sack say. They looked at their rotation and the injuries, saying,
Speaker 6: all right, Kershaw's probably not going to be part of
Speaker 6: this glass now he's done, Gavin Stone, he's done. All right,
Speaker 6: Let's look at a five game series. How does this project? Okay,
Speaker 6: probably we're getting into a bullpen game. Let's start preparing
Speaker 6: for that. They've been getting ready for this all season.
Speaker 7: Listen, this, this is, this is nothing new. I guarantee you.
Speaker 7: I guarantee you, and it's and it's not eyewash as
Speaker 7: they call it's not oh, you know, fake whatever. I
Speaker 7: promise you right now, everybody listening to this in the
Speaker 7: confines of those walls in that locker room right now,
Speaker 7: the Dodgers, wholeheartedly, in the recesses of their soul, believe
Speaker 7: that they're not gonna only win tonight, but they inspect,
Speaker 7: expect to come back to Dodgers Stadium and lay a
Speaker 7: whooping on him and go on to the next series.
Speaker 7: They believe this wholeheartedly, as much as they're breathing. They
Speaker 7: believe it. So don't think that the Dodgers are gonna
Speaker 7: be intimidated going there in there tonight. They're gonna say
Speaker 7: bring it, and they wholeheartedly believe they're gonna take the
Speaker 7: next two games.
Speaker 6: He is Steve Saxion, Tim Kates and Saxon Kates in
Speaker 6: the am here on A five seventy LA Sports. Appreciate
Speaker 6: you being with us on this Wednesday morning. A lot
Speaker 6: of reaction to Game three last night, the debacle that
Speaker 6: was the second inning, six runs scored, four infield hits,
Speaker 6: a two run home run from Fernando Tatis Junior.
Speaker 3: The wheels were falling off.
Speaker 6: Tay Oscar Hernandez got him back into the game with
Speaker 6: the grand slam in the third and then the Dodgers'
Speaker 6: inabilities to get hits just one after the third inning,
Speaker 6: and that came out of Freddie Freeman single in the
Speaker 6: eighth inning. Dodgers come up short six to five, and
Speaker 6: now they must win Game four tonight. We'll get to
Speaker 6: your phone calls. David Vassa will join us next hour
Speaker 6: well from Shoeotani as well. Dodgers need to win a
Speaker 6: must win game four to night right here at ANFI
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Speaker 6: HALFI seventy l A Sports, Thanks for being with us
Speaker 6: on this Wednesday morning, as the Dodgers now find themselves
Speaker 6: yet again and they must win Game four of the
Speaker 6: n l DS tonight at pet Goo Park in San Diego.
Speaker 6: First pitch coming up at six oh eight. So we'll
Speaker 6: get to your phone calls in a second. Let's gets
Speaker 6: here from last night after the Words Saxy show, Hey
Speaker 6: Otani and his interpreter Will talking to the media, and
Speaker 6: after Game three loss to the Padres.
Speaker 7: Show, Hey, you came here to make a postseason run.
Speaker 7: How devastating was this loss? To now face elimination?
Speaker 12: Come on, what's done is done now? So at this
Speaker 12: point it's really very simple is to win two games?
Speaker 13: Sure, let's just talk.
Speaker 11: About the environment tonight at Petco Park and how you
Speaker 11: taking this.
Speaker 3: Crowd got to this day.
Speaker 7: I also season.
Speaker 12: Show, Hey, what is the It's a really good crowd
Speaker 12: and it's very similar to the atmosphere that I felt
Speaker 12: at Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 9: What gives you the confidence that you guys would be
Speaker 9: able to come back from the two to one depth.
Speaker 4: Sites service.
Speaker 6: Sometimes indential.
Speaker 3: As a team.
Speaker 12: I think we did a really good job fighting back
Speaker 12: and climbing back into the game. And I think it's
Speaker 12: really important to have the momentum on our side going
Speaker 12: into the next.
Speaker 16: Games made of the intensity of this Padre team and
Speaker 16: of course the atmosphere at pickle part. Do you feel
Speaker 16: like the Dodgers the players are matching that intensity and
Speaker 16: if not, is that a problem?
Speaker 12: She even put, you know, tell me this overall, I
Speaker 12: really do feel that the team, this team really wants
Speaker 12: to win. And just that's the kind of, you know,
Speaker 12: the feeling that I get is is a really good,
Speaker 12: you know, atmosphere.
Speaker 3: So I do feel like we're matching it. Have you
Speaker 3: ever been in a position?
Speaker 6: All right, there's Show talking to the media last night
Speaker 6: after the game of Saxie. It was one of the
Speaker 6: questions I had coming in to postseason play was how
Speaker 6: would show Tani play and certainly All Star MVP season
Speaker 6: during the regular season, but he had never played in
Speaker 6: a Major League Baseball postseason of six seasons in Anaheim.
Speaker 6: What have you thought so far in this small sample
Speaker 6: size of three games. Has he risen to the occasion?
Speaker 6: Has he been what you expected him to be here
Speaker 6: in October?
Speaker 7: I think that his performance, good or bad, are going
Speaker 7: to come in bunches. That's the way that he plays.
Speaker 7: I take a better example over what he did throughout
Speaker 7: the course of the year, and he was the best
Speaker 7: player on the planet. There's no question about that. And
Speaker 7: oh yeah, wait till you see him pitch that's coming
Speaker 7: next year. So you know what, it's hard to make
Speaker 7: a determination. Now, Look if Shohey had had four home
Speaker 7: runs by now, and you know the Dodgers were just
Speaker 7: riding his coat tails. I mean, it's it's more of
Speaker 7: an example of what he did throughout the course of
Speaker 7: the season. But it's such a short sample size that
Speaker 7: it's hard to say, well, I expected shoheo Tani to
Speaker 7: hit the home run in Game one, tie it up,
Speaker 7: and then after echo one for eight. I mean, you
Speaker 7: know what if he comes back today and gets three
Speaker 7: hits and hits two home runs, now, he's going to
Speaker 7: be oh like he did through the regular season. So
Speaker 7: it's too short of sample size to to say what
Speaker 7: I expected him to do. We've we've seen him do
Speaker 7: a great thing. You tied the game up with one
Speaker 7: swing in the bat in Game one, So I mean
Speaker 7: it's it's hard to say, but we'll see after it's done.
Speaker 6: Surely in South La joins us here on a f
Speaker 6: I seventy l A Sports on this Wednesday morning.
Speaker 17: Hi, Shirley, good morning, says good morning to him.
Speaker 14: My phone was going can.
Speaker 1: You hear me?
Speaker 12: Yeah?
Speaker 3: We got you? Go ahead, Shirley, he got you.
Speaker 17: Oh okay, yes, you know. My family chat, my friends chat.
Speaker 17: My phones were going crazy that second any everyone was
Speaker 17: giving up. And right before the grand Slam, I texted
Speaker 17: my family. I was like, I'm crazy, but I still
Speaker 17: have hopes. And then like three batters later, here comes
Speaker 17: still and hits the gram slow and even afterwards they're like,
Speaker 17: come on, Dodgers, we're gonna lose. I'm like, no, let's
Speaker 17: have hope. I couldn't sleep last night. I was dreaming
Speaker 17: I would wake up and I'll be like, oh, but
Speaker 17: you know what, I still have hope. These are our boys.
Speaker 17: I'm gonna back them up no matter what. I'm gonna
Speaker 17: cheer for them, no matter what. You know, it's our
Speaker 17: toxic relationship.
Speaker 5: Every year.
Speaker 17: You know, it's hard to see them lose.
Speaker 13: I can't even.
Speaker 17: Imagine what our boys feel. But like you said, sex,
Speaker 17: I know they want to win, you know, I think
Speaker 17: they wanted more than anybody, and they want to They
Speaker 17: want to bring us up. They want to bring a
Speaker 17: championship to La. So I'm gonna stay.
Speaker 4: With that hope.
Speaker 17: And it's not over till it's over. We still got
Speaker 17: twenty seven outs and anything can happen during that time.
Speaker 6: All right, Sureley appreciate the phone call. Surely feel like
Speaker 6: we're waiting for one of those innings like the Padres
Speaker 6: head last night, where you put up a crooked number,
Speaker 6: the Dodgers do saxy and that things bounce their way
Speaker 6: and the snowball turns around and goes right at the
Speaker 6: San Diego Padres. If it feels like the Dodgers are
Speaker 6: due for one of those, I don't know if the
Speaker 6: Padres pitching and good defense will allow that. It's gonna
Speaker 6: take some good breaks and bounces the Dodgers way to
Speaker 6: do it, and certainly some better at batch from the
Speaker 6: Dodgers to have that.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's it's uh. You know, like they say, you
Speaker 7: create your own you know, your own luck and whatever,
Speaker 7: and I think you do that through effort, and you
Speaker 7: do that through hustling. And you know, the Dodgers got
Speaker 7: all of that nobody's ever gonna question the the effort
Speaker 7: on this team. Uh, that's a major problem. If that
Speaker 7: was the issue, that is not the issue at all. Look,
Speaker 7: if the Padres do go on and and go to
Speaker 7: the next level, I will I will profess it out
Speaker 7: there to anybody that I would expect them to win
Speaker 7: the World Series. I think this is I think they're
Speaker 7: them and the Dodgers are the two best teams in
Speaker 7: the playoffs right now, and it's.
Speaker 3: Been this great series so far.
Speaker 6: The Dodgers just looking for some more balls to bounce
Speaker 6: their way here in Game four tonight and force at
Speaker 6: Game five back out at Dodgers Stadium. David Hollywood is
Speaker 6: next up and has been wait impatiently. You're an AI
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Speaker 15: Good morning Dave, gentlemen, Good morning Sachey. It's an honor
Speaker 15: to talk to you boys. I want my Rick Monday moment,
Speaker 15: and I want for all Dodger Nation the Rick Monday moment. Now,
Speaker 15: let me explain Championship series in in Montreal, Kidd's Graveyard,
Speaker 15: Dodgers not looking good. Same as we are now back
Speaker 15: here in Los Angeles. It's raining cats and dogs. I'm
Speaker 15: the Junior High I'm the mister Carlyle's class, big baseball fan,
Speaker 15: big angel fan. Where's angel had all the time hated
Speaker 15: the Dodgers. Took the entire class.
Speaker 8: Into the home room, put on the TV in black
Speaker 8: and white, those TVs that had on the cart, and
Speaker 8: put the game on. Rick Monday comes up up to
Speaker 8: the plate and Carlisle looks to the class and says,
Speaker 8: Monday's gonna strike out or hit a home run. And me,
Speaker 8: being the big melt that I am, I jump.
Speaker 15: Up and say he's gonna hit a home run. Next pitch, boom,
Speaker 15: home run. And you knew at that time that we
Speaker 15: were gonna win the whole thing. Dodgers. Let's get our
Speaker 15: Rick Monday moments. It's there, the moment where you know
Speaker 15: we're gonna win this. Thank you, guys, thank you for
Speaker 15: taking my call.
Speaker 3: All right, Dave appreciate that.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's one of those moments that can happen tonight
Speaker 6: and could spark certainly a win and spark a big
Speaker 6: inning for this Dodgers team. It's just a matter of
Speaker 6: which Dodger players are going to be. Somebody at the
Speaker 6: bottom of the lineup. Is it going to be a
Speaker 6: Max Muncy a Will Smith finally getting his first hit
Speaker 6: here in the twenty twenty four postseason, or one of
Speaker 6: the big three. We'll find out he is. Steve Sackson,
Speaker 6: Tim Kates. Two hours down, one to go here on
Speaker 6: Saxon Kates and the Am. David Vassa, our Dodger insider,
Speaker 6: will join us in about thirty minutes. Your phone calls
Speaker 6: when we come back as we react to Game three
Speaker 6: last and look ahead to Game four to night. It's
Speaker 6: Saxon Kate's and am right here on your Home of
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