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Speaker 1: Well, I guess it's not gonna be a sweep after all,
Speaker 1: as we have ourselves now a series tying in a
Speaker 1: game of piece. Good Morning Southern California, Saxon.
Speaker 3: Kates and Am.
Speaker 1: It's on the air here on A five seventy LA
Speaker 1: Sports on it Tuesday morning, October fifteenth. Thanks for being
Speaker 1: with us, Tim Kats, along with two time World Series champ,
Speaker 1: former Rookie of the Year and my favorite number three
Speaker 1: of all time on the Dodgers Steve Sacks, Saxy, good morning.
Speaker 3: Good morning, Tim. How are you, Bud? Oh? How am I? Yeah?
Speaker 1: How am I?
Speaker 3: You ask? Yeah?
Speaker 1: How's your nervous system? I'm livid, still, Saxy. I am
Speaker 1: still fired up for what happened in Game two yesterday,
Speaker 1: what transpired in the first couple of innings, the Dodgers
Speaker 1: inability offensively to come up with a big hit late
Speaker 1: in the game, despite chipping away and getting back in
Speaker 1: to that ballgame against the New York Mets yesterday. As
Speaker 1: high as we were feeling after Game one and that
Speaker 1: nine to nothing shutout in Jack Felerty's seven shutout innings
Speaker 1: yesterday happened, and the bullpen game backfired on Dave Roberts
Speaker 1: and the Dodgers just could not get out of an
Speaker 1: early six to nothing hole.
Speaker 3: It was a disaster yesterday at Dodgers teae. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: it was. It was a tough one. You know, you
Speaker 3: could see I was starting to WinCE as some of
Speaker 3: the pitches that were thrown up. You know, I got
Speaker 3: the good perspective from seeing it from the center field view.
Speaker 3: There were just too many hanging curveballs in there, and
Speaker 3: it could have been worse. I mean, some of those
Speaker 3: hanging curveballs were either fouled off or just missed. But
Speaker 3: the ones that they didn't miss, they were the hanging
Speaker 3: curveball type. And you can't throw those things at this
Speaker 3: level and get away with it that much depth. Ball's
Speaker 3: got to be breaking from the thigh down to the ground,
Speaker 3: and it was the opposite. It was that the letters
Speaker 3: down to the thigh, and those guys are gonna rush
Speaker 3: that ball, especially if you're hanging it or putting in
Speaker 3: the center of the plate. To a guy like Vento's,
Speaker 3: this guy is hotter than you know what, and he's
Speaker 3: he's gonna be the force to be reckoned with, I
Speaker 3: think throughout this series. So they got to tame this guy.
Speaker 1: There is a lot to dissect from yesterday's game, from
Speaker 1: the fact that the Dodgers did not start Walker Bueller,
Speaker 1: they go with a bullpen game. The bullpen game imploded
Speaker 1: on them early on, with Ryan Brazier giving up a
Speaker 1: lead off home run to the very first batter that
Speaker 1: he faced. So as you were alluded to landon Nack's
Speaker 1: inability to throw strikes in the second inning, the Dodgers
Speaker 1: had opportunities offensively late in the game getting after Sean
Speaker 1: and I and then getting to that Mets bullpen. They
Speaker 1: had not once but twice the opportunity to get a
Speaker 1: base hit, get within a run, or tie the game
Speaker 1: in the sixth, seventh, and eighth innings and just could
Speaker 1: not deliver. Keyky Hernandez came up twice with runners on base,
Speaker 1: once with the bases loaded into one out and grounded
Speaker 1: in to a double play. So they had their opportunities.
Speaker 1: But from the get go, Saxe I wondered about this
Speaker 1: bullpen game. We saw what happened in Game four of
Speaker 1: the NLDS, We saw the blueprint they had, and we'd
Speaker 1: still marvel at how those eight pitchers down in San
Speaker 1: Diego were able to navigate nine shutout innings like they did.
Speaker 1: To ask the bullpen in general, forget the guys who
Speaker 1: they could or couldn't go to yesterday, to ask them
Speaker 1: to do that again was certainly asking a lot, wasn't it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Hey, yeah, First of all, if you want to
Speaker 3: stream me in, go ahead, absolutely, I'll git in there.
Speaker 3: All right. So look, this is the thing about the
Speaker 3: situation as we see at the landscape, the way I
Speaker 3: see it is think, thankfully, this is not a best
Speaker 3: of three. It's turning now to a best of five.
Speaker 3: But in the best of seven series landscape, you can
Speaker 3: take one game and say, look, I didn't think it
Speaker 3: was going to be a sweep anyway. Right when we
Speaker 3: started out, you know, for the series, people were asking
Speaker 3: me what I thought about, you know, the end game
Speaker 3: was going to be, and I picked the Dodgers and six,
Speaker 3: So I didn't think it was going to be one
Speaker 3: of these, you know, sweeps, So that's that's part of it.
Speaker 3: The other thing is they were able to wear down
Speaker 3: and get to Sean Maniyah, which is a good thing. However,
Speaker 3: it wasn't enough. But the way in how funky that
Speaker 3: this guy is, I mean throwing from that, you know,
Speaker 3: big of an angle for a left to try to
Speaker 3: pick that up. Bright handers have a tough time with
Speaker 3: him too. It's not just the lefties, and that ninety
Speaker 3: two to ninety three mile an hour fastball suddenly looks
Speaker 3: ninety seven ninety eight when it's coupled with that really
Speaker 3: good change up that he has. So the fact that
Speaker 3: the Dodgers did get to him, whunable to get into
Speaker 3: the bullpen was good. It might pay dividends down the
Speaker 3: road for this team. That's they able to nick up
Speaker 3: that bullpen a little bit.
Speaker 1: That stadium yesterday from the get go lacked energy like
Speaker 1: it did for Game one on Sunday. It lacked the
Speaker 1: energy like it did in Game five of the NLDS
Speaker 1: on Friday night against the Padres. I know it was
Speaker 1: a one o'clock start in the afternoon, there was a.
Speaker 3: Home run the first at bat.
Speaker 1: Tan, Yeah, and the air just got completely sucked out
Speaker 1: and the energy sucked out of Dodger Stadium with that
Speaker 1: Lindor home run. With that being said, if you're going
Speaker 1: with the bullpen game, and he didn't really lay out
Speaker 1: the plans beforehand, Dave Roberts, but he did hint that
Speaker 1: landon Knack at some point was going to be a
Speaker 1: part of a bullpen game. Needing to get out. Okay, great,
Speaker 1: when Lindor hits a home run on the very first
Speaker 1: at bat of the game, to me, you have to
Speaker 1: then deviate or at least put the antennas up on.
Speaker 1: All right, we may have to deviate from what we
Speaker 1: hope to do with land and Knack and getting multiple
Speaker 1: innings because of the way things line up with our
Speaker 1: high leverage guys later in the game. But they just
Speaker 1: didn't feel like there was the change of plan. They
Speaker 1: didn't go off script at all. We just went to
Speaker 1: Land and Knack in the second a leadoff single, a
Speaker 1: walk two batters later, gives up an O two curve
Speaker 1: ball to Tyrone Taylor double. It's a two to nothing game,
Speaker 1: and it just continued to spiral out of control. There
Speaker 1: was no sense of we need to stop this now.
Speaker 1: I need to bring in somebody to close off this
Speaker 1: second inning and keep it right here. At a two
Speaker 1: to nothing game. I need to keep it close because
Speaker 1: I need my offense to eventually get going, and I'll
Speaker 1: figure out the pitching matchup later in the game. If
Speaker 1: we jump out to a six to two lead and
Speaker 1: we explode for six runs next inning, I feel a
Speaker 1: little bit better now with Land and Nak pitching the
Speaker 1: six or seventh inning. But just go to land in
Speaker 1: neck in the second inning and let him just hang
Speaker 1: out there. In the second and third innings with the
Speaker 1: bases loaded, they could have scored more in the third
Speaker 1: inning if not forgetting a fly ball to center field.
Speaker 1: If the bases loaded in the third just just didn't
Speaker 1: seem like there was a sense of urgency, a sense
Speaker 1: of we need to win this game today and go
Speaker 1: up to nothing.
Speaker 3: I got you, And you know here, the way I
Speaker 3: was looking at it was with I gotta go by
Speaker 3: the feel. I gotta go by what my catcher is seeing,
Speaker 3: what my catcher is telling me, and what us on TV.
Speaker 3: You know that weren't at the stadium that can watch
Speaker 3: this thing and see, you know where the pitches are
Speaker 3: coming in. How he didn't have command of his secondary stuff.
Speaker 3: So what the hitter can do is a hitter just
Speaker 3: eliminates that secondary pitch and just sits on the fastball.
Speaker 3: That's what Vento's did when he hit the grand Slam
Speaker 3: to right center field. That ball was a little bit
Speaker 3: in and he still hit it to right center field,
Speaker 3: So that means that he was sitting on fastball the
Speaker 3: whole way and just eliminating the offspeed pitch. It kind
Speaker 3: of reminded me of what we saw in the first
Speaker 3: outing with Yamamoto when he didn't have his stuff, when
Speaker 3: his stuff was breaking up in the strike zone and
Speaker 3: trying to come down which never made it. It never
Speaker 3: made it past the belt. And when you're having curveballs
Speaker 3: that are breaking downward and only reaching the belt. You
Speaker 3: got huge issues with these guys, and so you got
Speaker 3: to do a reset. And you know that's why I
Speaker 3: say I depend on my catcher. He knows exactly how
Speaker 3: that ball is breaking, he sees it coming out of
Speaker 3: his hand, and the pit the catcher's got the best
Speaker 3: perspective than anybody. Plus he knows the pitchers really well.
Speaker 3: So I'm gonna lay I'm gonna rely on my catcher
Speaker 3: to give me the best info.
Speaker 1: Let's go back to yesterday postgame. Dave Roberts at the
Speaker 1: podium at Dodgers Stadium, stood there and got a lot
Speaker 1: of questions SAXY about his decision making the bullpen game,
Speaker 1: why he didn't deviate from what they had planned to do.
Speaker 1: Here's Dave Roberts post game yesterday after Dodgers drop game
Speaker 1: two seven to three.
Speaker 4: What was the plan to always go to him earlier?
Speaker 5: Yeah, gay was the plan to go to him and
Speaker 5: you know, take down the most outs tonight today.
Speaker 4: Well, when that inning starts kind of going off the
Speaker 4: rails a little bit, like, do you consider going to
Speaker 4: one of the higher leverage guys at that point or
Speaker 4: just with how things are set up today, were you
Speaker 4: trying to save them a little bit till later in
Speaker 4: the game.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I really wasn't. I mean, I think in that situation,
Speaker 5: you still got to be able to finish the game.
Speaker 5: And you're talking about the second inning right there, and
Speaker 5: so you have a guy on the mound that has
Speaker 5: to eat up innings and yeah, you go to anyone else,
Speaker 5: we're not going to be able to finish the game.
Speaker 5: So I think as far as kind of where we're at,
Speaker 5: it never feels good losing, but feel that you've got
Speaker 5: your leverage guys ready to go for the next three games.
Speaker 5: I feel really good about that. So it was as
Speaker 5: least costly as it could be because of what Honeywell
Speaker 5: did and Henriquez did, and so that was certainly helpful.
Speaker 5: And you know, offensively, we got a chance to see
Speaker 5: their guys, their leverage guys and force some updowns and
Speaker 5: I think that was beneficial too.
Speaker 6: Go to go, he had one in front.
Speaker 7: They're kind of just curious that game against the Padres,
Speaker 7: you guys kind of went high leverage guy after high
Speaker 7: leverage guy and kind of saved neck there for the end.
Speaker 7: Like what was different about maybe this matchup or this
Speaker 7: particular game the guys just had to go with NAC.
Speaker 5: I think today what was different is we don't have Vessia.
Speaker 5: Hudson was down and that's probably the biggest kind of
Speaker 5: impetus for having to knowing you're going to have to
Speaker 5: take some outs from neck or else you just can't
Speaker 5: finish the game.
Speaker 7: And what you say out of Honeywell, and what role
Speaker 7: can he kind of play as a serious.
Speaker 5: He did exactly what we needed. He allowed us to
Speaker 5: kind of eat up, chew up some innings, keep us
Speaker 5: in the ballgame. You know, he's just kind of a
Speaker 5: guy that we just trust and so to be able
Speaker 5: to get left and right out, you know, those are
Speaker 5: games innings that a guy like that gives us, gives
Speaker 5: the best chance to win the following ensuing game. So
Speaker 5: it's not lost on anyone that clubhouse what honey did
Speaker 5: for us and Henriquez as well.
Speaker 1: All Right, there's a Dave Roberts post game Yesterday's tax
Speaker 1: he Brett Honeywell Junior pitched three shutout innings. He kept
Speaker 1: him in the game in the fifth, sixth, and seventh
Speaker 1: at Guardo Henriquez, who started the year in a ball
Speaker 1: and Rancho Cucamonga pitches two innings of Game two of
Speaker 1: the NLCS and ends up giving up a run in
Speaker 1: the ninth inning and what was a three run deficit
Speaker 1: all of a sudden felt out of reach at a
Speaker 1: four run deficit seven to three, But he mentioned Landon
Speaker 1: Nak needed to eat innings. Daniel Hudson wasn't available. They
Speaker 1: don't have Alex Vessi on this postseason roster in the
Speaker 1: NLCS because of the injury, So why not deviate. If
Speaker 1: it's a one nothing game and it's gonna be a
Speaker 1: close game, put the high leverage guys in to keep
Speaker 1: it close until your offense can get going. Because you
Speaker 1: have to assume I have one of the best offenses
Speaker 1: in baseball. I've gotten MVPs up and down my lineup.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna score some runs at some point, but until
Speaker 1: I do so, I need high level guys that I've
Speaker 1: relied on all season long to come in and pitch
Speaker 1: and keep it a one nothing game, to keep it
Speaker 1: at two nothing game, whatever it was at that point
Speaker 1: in which you decide to go out and get land
Speaker 1: and Neck in the second inning. If you even get
Speaker 1: to land and Neck in the second I get it.
Speaker 1: You needed him at some point awesome, great, But why then.
Speaker 3: Well, it's just it's just his decision, you know what
Speaker 3: I mean. If nat Landon Knach goes out there and shoves,
Speaker 3: then you know we're gonna be saying, Wow, what a
Speaker 3: great decision it was for him to bring him in
Speaker 3: at this time. But I understand, you know, it's of
Speaker 3: the moment. You got to you gotta have the high
Speaker 3: leverage guys like they did before, to come out and
Speaker 3: shut those things down. And then you know, roll the
Speaker 3: dice with Land and Neck after your offense gets rolling
Speaker 3: and assuming it will, and you got to think that
Speaker 3: it will at some time in the game. But the real,
Speaker 3: the real punisher for this whole situation in the game
Speaker 3: was the fact that you don't have Vesia and you
Speaker 3: don't have Daniel Hudson, two guys that can bring it,
Speaker 3: two guys that are you know, high leverage guys too,
Speaker 3: that you don't have the affordability to bring out at
Speaker 3: those times because they're injured. So that's that was a
Speaker 3: big shot for the Dodgers, I think, and they were
Speaker 3: forced to use it. Sometimes you're gonna have to use
Speaker 3: Land and Neck and I hate to put him in
Speaker 3: that perspective, saying, well, you know, we got to use
Speaker 3: this terrible guy, and it's not the point. We're only
Speaker 3: speaking that because of what happened in the game. But
Speaker 3: you know, if he goes out there and does a
Speaker 3: great job, you know we're gonna be hailing it as
Speaker 3: you know, a brilliant decision. But when you don't have
Speaker 3: Hudson and you don't have Vesia, it really takes a
Speaker 3: lot of the team out of your arms.
Speaker 1: Yeah, guse instead of six high leverage relievers down in
Speaker 1: the bullpen, you only have four, four that you can
Speaker 1: go to, and you got a piece together. What then
Speaker 1: at that point eight innings? So yeah, you do have
Speaker 1: to use Honeywell, and you're gonna have to use land
Speaker 1: and Neck at some point. But I'd push him, I'd
Speaker 1: kick the can down the road, so to speak, with
Speaker 1: a land and Neck and a Brent Honeywell until you
Speaker 1: need them, maybe the game gets out of control and
Speaker 1: then you go to them, and you saved the rest
Speaker 1: of your high leverage guys. Daniel Hudson pitched the night before.
Speaker 1: He pitched the eighth inning after Jake Jack Flaherty. It
Speaker 1: was a nine to nothing game the Dodgers win. Why
Speaker 1: are we using Daniel hung in a blowout game one win?
Speaker 1: They went to Ben Casparius in the ninth inning. Why
Speaker 1: not put Brent Honeywell in the eighth inning of the
Speaker 1: night before and save all your high leverage guys for
Speaker 1: the next day. Quick turnaround at Dodger statu I mean,
Speaker 1: here's my other point that just continues to infuriate me
Speaker 1: and more and more I think about it. You're saving
Speaker 1: your high leverage relievers now for three days in a
Speaker 1: row in New York. I just looked up Evan Phillips
Speaker 1: game log this year. Not once did he pitch in
Speaker 1: three straight games over the course of the year. Two
Speaker 1: days in a row, sure, two out of three days maybe,
Speaker 1: But he never pitched three days in a row. And
Speaker 1: they've gotta play Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday in New York.
Speaker 1: You're gonna ask all four of your high leverage relievers
Speaker 1: now to pitch three games in a row in n LCS.
Speaker 1: That's asking a lot, whereas you could have pitched them
Speaker 1: all yesterday. It's a day game. You have all night,
Speaker 1: you have all day today, you have all day tomorrow
Speaker 1: to get ready because the first pitch is until eight
Speaker 1: o'clock Eastern, So you have two days used to get
Speaker 1: these guys ready and then still have them for two
Speaker 1: of the three games there, which they're only going to
Speaker 1: pitch in. They're not pitching in all three.
Speaker 3: No, Well, I think the Dodgers are hoping, uh certainly
Speaker 3: counting on too, and I would that you're gonna get
Speaker 3: a really good, productive game out of Walker Bueller and
Speaker 3: then you can, you know, just push that back a
Speaker 3: little bit and be able to save these guys and
Speaker 3: continue on the path of getting as much rest as possible,
Speaker 3: like you were pointing out. So I think that's hopefully
Speaker 3: going to be the case. What could be a big disaster.
Speaker 3: And I don't I don't like to, you know, say
Speaker 3: the things that are going to be bad, because I like
Speaker 3: to look at the bright side of things. But if
Speaker 3: you if you get like an inning or two out
Speaker 3: of Walker Buller, I ain't gonna be good. Then you're
Speaker 3: gonna be in a tough situation. You have to have
Speaker 3: Walker Buller go out there and do some shoving and
Speaker 3: get six hopefully out of him, like we did with
Speaker 3: with we at a Yoshi when that was a big surprise.
Speaker 3: I mean, we were hoping to get three or four
Speaker 3: out of them, will we get seven, no, six, six. Yeah,
Speaker 3: So that's that's hopefully what we're gonna get at Walker Buller.
Speaker 1: The Dodgers, to me, made the bad decision yesterday in
Speaker 1: this bullpenning game. And if you're gonna go with it,
Speaker 1: I think you didn't go with it, and you gotta
Speaker 1: go inning to inning and you gotta keep it close
Speaker 1: eight sixty six nine eighty seven two five seventy. Again,
Speaker 1: it's easy to say, as you said, Saxy, that land
Speaker 1: and neck. If he goes out there and he puts
Speaker 1: up zeros and he gets out of that second inning
Speaker 1: with a run or no runs, and all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: it's it's still a one nothing game going to third,
Speaker 1: and he starts giving you more and more and starts
Speaker 1: building the momentum. We're talking a different story today. Now,
Speaker 1: it's choose your own adventure. The game develops in front
Speaker 1: of you. You have to be able to adapt. And
Speaker 1: I just felt like in the moment, Saxy, I just
Speaker 1: felt like in that second inning, things really got out
Speaker 1: of control and it could have been prevented. If it
Speaker 1: felt like you could have put a stop to it
Speaker 1: and say, you know what, Nac doesn't have it today.
Speaker 1: Clearly he is struggling. I mean his slider is not
Speaker 1: even close right, He can't get his curveball over his fastball.
Speaker 1: They are just waiting, as you mentioned, you were brillantly mentioned,
Speaker 1: they're just fouling off pitches to get the fastball. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and cut my losses. All right, Hey, he doesn't have it.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna ask some of these guys to get a
Speaker 1: couple more outs than they're used to instead of two
Speaker 1: outs in an inning or one out in an inning.
Speaker 1: As a reliever, you may need to go one full inning,
Speaker 1: you know, Michael Kopek or whoever's coming out of the bullpen,
Speaker 1: Anthony Bonda, we may need you to get five.
Speaker 3: Outs instead of three.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's nothing wrong with asking a guy to do
Speaker 1: an extra out or two, especially in an NLCS game
Speaker 1: like this. I just felt like in the moment, there
Speaker 1: was a missed opportunity to keep the game close, to
Speaker 1: keep it within a reach for your offense to go
Speaker 1: out there and help you, because it just kind of
Speaker 1: felt like, hey, we're gonna score runs. It's just a
Speaker 1: matter of time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And sometimes what happens with pitchers like we saw
Speaker 3: there with with him is that you know he doesn't
Speaker 3: have it. Right off the bat, you can tell that
Speaker 3: that he just didn't have it, and you know, after,
Speaker 3: you know, he throws one of those other pitches, secondary
Speaker 3: pitch for a strike and he starts to feel a
Speaker 3: little bit. He says, oh, okay, now he's coming back
Speaker 3: a little bit. Lots of times what pitchers will do
Speaker 3: if they can't get their fastball over, they'll throw a
Speaker 3: curveball for a strike, and that seems to reset things.
Speaker 3: So sometimes it can just be one pitch that he
Speaker 3: can throw. You can use another pitch that you can
Speaker 3: throw for a strike that can kind of reset you
Speaker 3: and then you're on your way. And he just never
Speaker 3: found that thing quick enough or he never found it
Speaker 3: at all, really, And when you start eliminating pitches and
Speaker 3: be able to sit on that fastball like you know,
Speaker 3: like we saw with Vento's to hit the grand Slam
Speaker 3: to right center field, it's just there's no hope there.
Speaker 3: These guys aren't gonna miss those pitches that are in
Speaker 3: the middle of the play.
Speaker 1: I love Will Smith what he's done defensively, and we
Speaker 1: praised him yesterday, and I know you only get so
Speaker 1: many trips out to the mound. Now in the way
Speaker 1: baseball is set up, at some point they need to
Speaker 1: go out and calm him down. And I know they
Speaker 1: made a trip out there with Mark Pryor eventually, but
Speaker 1: early on base hit a walk two batters into the game.
Speaker 1: There needs to be more of an emphasis on Freddie
Speaker 1: Freeman or maximun Sea or one of the middle endfield
Speaker 1: there's to go over there and slow the game down,
Speaker 1: stop the game, go over and talk to them, go
Speaker 1: over there and you know, and rub your your your
Speaker 1: your cleats into the brush there on the mound to
Speaker 1: clear them out, just to kill some time, just to
Speaker 1: stop the momentum. And then okay, Tyrone Taylor hits the
Speaker 1: double on the O two pitch, settle them down even more. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, go out there and talk to him. Go
Speaker 1: out there and change this the mood, change the momentum
Speaker 1: of that inning.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And that's that's what happens. Because you know, as
Speaker 3: a as a middle infielder, when you go to the
Speaker 3: mounta and talk to the pitcher, you're not going to
Speaker 3: go about there and talk to him about pitching technicalities.
Speaker 3: I mean, what do you know about it? Right? He'll
Speaker 3: tell you that, hey, man, get back your own position.
Speaker 3: Play do what you do best, right And so it's
Speaker 3: just to break up the mood, like you said, it's
Speaker 3: just to give a little different perspective, give him a
Speaker 3: breather and let him come on, do a restart. But
Speaker 3: when when he hung that curve ball and that ball
Speaker 3: was mashed on the left field line for the double,
Speaker 3: I could tell that this is going to be problematic.
Speaker 3: And then shortly after that we see the bomb to
Speaker 3: right center and it was over then. But there was
Speaker 3: no change, There was no break, There was no different
Speaker 3: perspective on anything that he was throwing up there. It
Speaker 3: was the same thing. Now he certainly wasn't trying to
Speaker 3: do that, of course, but it's just the way it
Speaker 3: went that day. You know, hey, it's one game. We
Speaker 3: got to win game three. That's that's the key. I
Speaker 3: think the biggest key in this is this game coming
Speaker 3: up right now. Sixty nine percent of the time the
Speaker 3: people that the person the team that wins Game three
Speaker 3: after it's one and one, sixty nine percent of the
Speaker 3: time that's the team that goes on to win the series.
Speaker 3: So this is mister important coming up right now in
Speaker 3: this game three.
Speaker 1: He is Steve sacks On Tim M.
Speaker 3: Kames.
Speaker 1: We want you to be a part of the show
Speaker 1: this morning as we react to what happened in Game
Speaker 1: two of the NLCS yesterday eight sixty six nine eighty
Speaker 1: seven two five seventy eight sixty six, nine eighty seven
Speaker 1: two five seventy. The Dodgers' bullpen game got away from
Speaker 1: him early yesterday, a run in the first five more
Speaker 1: of the second we'll get into the Dodgers offense as well.
Speaker 1: They had their opportunities after Sean and Iya absolutely had
Speaker 1: him confuse at the plate. They eventually get some offense going,
Speaker 1: had chances later in the game to get back into it,
Speaker 1: tie it, possibly take the lead, but failed to get
Speaker 1: that big hit. It's Saxon Kate's in the AM Dodgers
Speaker 1: Mets tied at a game apiece in this best of
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Speaker 1: Dodgers and Mets are now tied at a game and
Speaker 1: piece in this NLCS and Dodger fans, you should have
Speaker 1: seen them leading up to Game two, Saxy, there was
Speaker 1: a buzz in this city, off in this city, maybe
Speaker 1: an arrogance from Dodger fans that this thing was going
Speaker 1: to be a sweep. The Mets don't belong here. Nine
Speaker 1: to nothing, game one win. Are you kidding me? This
Speaker 1: is too easy?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: What watch out what Jack Flaherty did for seven shutout
Speaker 1: innings and you know we got thirty three consecutive scoreless innings.
Speaker 1: We're not going to give up another run the rest
Speaker 1: of the postseason.
Speaker 3: Let's go.
Speaker 1: And that first home run from Lindor the air just
Speaker 1: came out of Dodger Stadium and it never got back
Speaker 1: to the level it was in Game one and Game
Speaker 1: five of the NLDS. And I don't think the players,
Speaker 1: you would know this s actually feed off the fans
Speaker 1: as much as yeah, we think they do.
Speaker 3: They feed off each other, The fans feed off the
Speaker 3: game obviously, Yeah, and then it's back to feeds. You know,
Speaker 3: the players feed off the fans. But you say that
Speaker 3: there was a buzz in the air. Yeah, really, yeah,
Speaker 3: well there was a in the dugout. Dude, did you
Speaker 3: see that feed snake?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 3: Come on, that was a bad omen How.
Speaker 1: Does this snake?
Speaker 3: How does a snake get in there? And I mean,
Speaker 3: I know the people have passes that they can have
Speaker 3: printed out in the front office, and they they go
Speaker 3: through whatever to try to get in there and make
Speaker 3: the pass work. And you have to show your ID
Speaker 3: and you have to get there early. And then some
Speaker 3: frigging snake comes in and just walks right in. He
Speaker 3: slithers in and there he is, no pass, no free nothing,
Speaker 3: just walks in and there he is in the dugout. Well,
Speaker 3: I guess he doesn't walk, but he slithers, but there
Speaker 3: he is. How does a snake get in? And I
Speaker 3: mean if I came up from down from Sacramento and
Speaker 3: tried to get in, I couldn't get past the I
Speaker 3: don't know, lot p that's right, Maybe that's right, that's it,
Speaker 3: But the snake, no problem.
Speaker 1: I have so many questions about the snake and they
Speaker 1: didn't get answered yesterday in the postgame. Brent Honeywell Junior
Speaker 1: Will Smith coming off the field after the top half
Speaker 1: of the fifth inning, get to the steps and they
Speaker 1: look down and there is a snake slithering across the steps,
Speaker 1: and they point down to the snake, and everybody in
Speaker 1: the coaching staff, including Dave Roberts, is like, oh wow,
Speaker 1: there's a snake there. And then one of the guys
Speaker 1: on the ground screw comes over with the towel and
Speaker 1: picks it up and takes it away. How about a
Speaker 1: bat exactly. I am scared to.
Speaker 3: Death of snakes.
Speaker 1: You couldn't pay me if I was on the ground
Speaker 1: screen and they said, hey, Kate, you go get that
Speaker 1: snake with the towel. I said, fire me. I'm not
Speaker 1: touching that thing. Hey throw a spider, you know, a
Speaker 1: rat shirt or whatever. No problem, don't slither me up
Speaker 1: with a snake. Nah uh, I don't do snake. And
Speaker 1: to give a little play by a play of the snake,
Speaker 1: it was traveling from left to right if you were
Speaker 1: sitting in the dugout, so it had to pass a
Speaker 1: lot of players and coaches. You're on that top step
Speaker 1: including I don't know, two feet maybe three feet before
Speaker 1: that is where Dave Roberts sits in his little perch,
Speaker 1: and his feet are dangling right there at the exit,
Speaker 1: exact same level and step that the snake was slivering
Speaker 1: slithering by. How does he not notice a two foot
Speaker 1: garter snake?
Speaker 3: Was it? I don't know if it was. Was it poisonous?
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: No, I don't think so. I don't think it was
Speaker 1: a rattlesnake. It was one of those garter snakes that
Speaker 1: are still It's a snake man, absolutely yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: how do you not see it slither by?
Speaker 3: I don't know. The player saw as soon as they
Speaker 3: came in. I mean they saw it big as anything.
Speaker 3: I mean, it wasn't a huge snake. But you know,
Speaker 3: the most dangerous snakes are the smallest ones, like a rattlesnake.
Speaker 3: The most dangerous rattlesnake is the baby ones they got,
Speaker 3: the more venom in them. And so I'm coming off
Speaker 3: the field. If these guys see a snake, I'm headed
Speaker 3: back to center field or back to second base, whatever
Speaker 3: it takes. I don't want anything to do with the snake.
Speaker 3: And I'm surprised nobody grabbed a bat man. Snakes don't
Speaker 3: belong in the dugout. No, that's just it. I'm okay
Speaker 3: with the animals. I love animals more than anything, but
Speaker 3: I don't do no snakes in the dugout, forget that.
Speaker 1: I mean there was a cat at Dodger Stadium. That's
Speaker 1: different catskay, I mean, I don't understand how a cat
Speaker 1: gets onto the field or near the field possums. How
Speaker 1: does that how there was a possum in the outfield
Speaker 1: wall I've.
Speaker 3: Seen this year in the ballpark before. I mean, you kidding?
Speaker 3: How about the times when they have bees that just
Speaker 3: encompass the whole TV? Uh? You know the TV monitors.
Speaker 3: I don't know how they They don't figure this out
Speaker 3: before the game, you know what I mean? But how
Speaker 3: do heysh where the possums come through? You know you?
Speaker 3: I want to block that off.
Speaker 1: Where does the snake come from? Where is the snake living?
Speaker 1: Where is the snake hiding out?
Speaker 3: For five rain? Maybe a drain? I don't know. I
Speaker 3: don't know, but that's a bad omen man, When you
Speaker 3: have a snake in your dugout, that's like voodoo. That's
Speaker 3: not good, is it? Or is it?
Speaker 1: That's why a rally snake maybe you can kind of
Speaker 1: get behind a rally monkey rally raccoon.
Speaker 3: I don't know. I don't know about it.
Speaker 1: The Dodgers did get a home run for Maximunty that
Speaker 1: bottom half of the fifth inning, right yeah, right after
Speaker 1: the snake ins and and then the next inning Tommy
Speaker 1: Edmond a two run single. That sixth inning, the Dodgers
Speaker 1: could have busted it open. So maybe the snake was
Speaker 1: a rally snake because the offense all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: If that's not.
Speaker 3: Going, we don't need a gardener, we need a cobra.
Speaker 3: But you know, it wasn't good. What wasn't good was
Speaker 3: just looking over the box and everything and top five
Speaker 3: and the Dodger and the Dodger or order, oh for
Speaker 3: nineteen with nine k's brutal. Okay, that's that's not good.
Speaker 3: That's uh. I mean, we're talking about what's been good
Speaker 3: about the Dodgers a lot, and we've seen the resurgence
Speaker 3: of Mookie Wilson. We've seen guys really kind of put
Speaker 3: it out there and get some big hits. But the
Speaker 3: bottom of the order has been exceptionally well and was
Speaker 3: pretty good again yesterday. It's the top of the order
Speaker 3: that that's been lacking a little bit. That was lacking
Speaker 3: a little bit in this game. Now over nineteen with
Speaker 3: nine k's, that's not going to do it.
Speaker 1: They had five hits as a team in the game yesterday.
Speaker 1: Three of them came from Tommy Edmund, including the two
Speaker 1: run single in the sixth inning. Another hit came on
Speaker 1: a Maximunsey home run in the fifth inning. The fifth
Speaker 1: hit came later in the game from Andy Potjez. Didn't
Speaker 1: develop into anything. They had five hits amongst the entire team,
Speaker 1: but they did have runners on base. The top of
Speaker 1: the lineup did draw some walks. They were one for
Speaker 1: nine with runners in scoring position and stranded ten base runners.
Speaker 1: They fell behind six to nothing. Okay, that's a big
Speaker 1: hole to get out of. They didn't score their first
Speaker 1: run until after the Snake again rally Snake Max Mounsey
Speaker 1: stole a home run six to one game the sixth inning, Saxy.
Speaker 1: The Dodgers had a chance for one of those big innings.
Speaker 1: Bases loaded one out, Tommy Edmond already has a two
Speaker 1: run single. It's a six to three game. Bases loaded
Speaker 1: one out, you got a reliever on the mound for
Speaker 1: the Mets and Mayton key k comes up in a
Speaker 1: huge situation. A base hit, two runs score, it's a six.
Speaker 3: To five game. Awesome.
Speaker 1: Pass it to the next guy in the lineup and
Speaker 1: see what Andy Potask can do. A ball to the gap.
Speaker 1: Maybe all three runs scored and we're tied at six.
Speaker 1: A grand slam, even better, Dodgers take the lead. But
Speaker 1: just a base knock, get two runs in, pass it
Speaker 1: to the next guy behind you. Try to get to
Speaker 1: the top of the lineup still with runners on base
Speaker 1: for show Ao Tawni. Instead, he grounds into a five
Speaker 1: to four to three double play and the inning is over.
Speaker 1: That to me, was a huge blow to the Dodgers,
Speaker 1: huge blow because they had a chance to get right
Speaker 1: back in it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And here's how I take this perspective on walks.
Speaker 3: And I love walks. I mean, if they're gonna walk you,
Speaker 3: you take them all day long. I'm a big advocate
Speaker 3: for that. I'm a big advocate. Hey, you know, if
Speaker 3: you want to go deep in the count because they're
Speaker 3: they're on the fringes and they're not getting you anything
Speaker 3: to hit, go deep in the count. That's a wonderful thing.
Speaker 3: But sooner or later, sooner or later, you gotta face
Speaker 3: the music and just what you pointed out, somebody has
Speaker 3: to get a hit. I mean, you can walk all
Speaker 3: day long, but somebody's gotta get a hit. Somebody's gotta
Speaker 3: be a big banger. Sooner or later. You gotta barrel
Speaker 3: something up. And that's where it comes down to when
Speaker 3: you want to say, pass the baton to the next guy. Okay,
Speaker 3: but somebody's got to say the baton's stopping right here
Speaker 3: because I'm gonna barrel this thing up and clear the bases.
Speaker 3: I would much rather have a hit than a walk,
Speaker 3: right No, But but you know what I'm not. I'm
Speaker 3: not gonna say that walks aren't good because works the
Speaker 3: pitcher gets into the bullpen. Totally get it. But you
Speaker 3: got to have somebody eventually get a big hit. And
Speaker 3: that's what didn't happen. In the seventh, they had another opportunity. Again,
Speaker 3: it's still a six to three game. Otani on first,
Speaker 3: one out in the seventh, they failed to get a
Speaker 3: big hit, failed to get a run in Okay, the
Speaker 3: eighth inning, they still had another opportunity. Still down six
Speaker 3: to three, the game is within reach. They had runners
Speaker 3: on second and third in the eighth inning with two outs.
Speaker 3: A base hit again scores two runs. It's a six
Speaker 3: to five game.
Speaker 1: A home run it ties it up, but just a
Speaker 1: base hit somewhere makes it a one run game, and
Speaker 1: k Keith Aron nan Is again is up and this
Speaker 1: time he pops out to end the inning and the
Speaker 1: ninth inning, the Dodgers really didn't do anything to muster
Speaker 1: anything to get going, and at that point it was
Speaker 1: a four run game after the Mets scored in the
Speaker 1: top of the ninth, so they had the sixth, the seventh,
Speaker 1: and the eighth inning to get something going down just
Speaker 1: three runs so they could have got back into this game.
Speaker 1: As awful as the first two innings were. Keyk Hernandez,
Speaker 1: who hit the big home run on Friday night in
Speaker 1: the NLDS against the Padres to get to the Dodgers
Speaker 1: on the board not once, but twice, came up with
Speaker 1: an opportunity to do something. Maybe he was overdoing it,
Speaker 1: maybe he was trying too much to swing it out
Speaker 1: of his shoes, grounds into a double play and pops out,
Speaker 1: and here's Saxy After the game, his keyk Hernandez talking
Speaker 1: about his performance yes day.
Speaker 3: Destruction of the world that could be used for you
Speaker 3: and your team each year.
Speaker 8: Maybe, but uh, I mean, yeah, I wouldn't say I'm frustrated.
Speaker 3: You know, I just I didn't come through. That's what
Speaker 3: It is.
Speaker 8: A long series, and I know I'm gonna have a
Speaker 8: I'm gonna have a lot more chances to come through
Speaker 8: for the team, and uh, you know, I just understand that.
Speaker 8: You know in baseball, You know that in baseball, you're
Speaker 8: either going to succeed or you're going to fail. And
Speaker 8: today I didn't succeed, and you know, we the good
Speaker 8: thing is that we get to come back on Wednesday
Speaker 8: and do it all over again.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 9: There's something too, just as much as you guys do
Speaker 9: start a little bit slower, being able to bounce back
Speaker 9: towards the end, but then also being to see, like
Speaker 9: seeing high leverage arms from them and being able to
Speaker 9: take in some information I should prepaired to.
Speaker 3: Go to New York.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I think, uh, you know, we I think we did.
Speaker 3: We did a good job throughout the game.
Speaker 8: Of you know, creating creating chaos, creating traffic. We were
Speaker 8: one swing away in a lot of innings and we
Speaker 8: weren't able to get that one last big hit to
Speaker 8: uh to you know, either tie the game or take
Speaker 8: the lead, and you know they hail the hell doesn't check.
Speaker 8: They I had two really big A baths and I
Speaker 8: didn't come through. I had some really good pitches to hit,
Speaker 8: and you know, I just it just didn't go my
Speaker 8: way today. And you know, try to stay positive, try
Speaker 8: to get some rest tomorrow and come ready to play
Speaker 8: on Wednesday.
Speaker 3: All right, there's Kik. He said it.
Speaker 1: He had a pitch over the middle of the plate
Speaker 1: against Edwin Diaz there in the eighth India with runners
Speaker 1: on second and third, and it was a one to
Speaker 1: two slider that Diaz left over the middle of the
Speaker 1: plate and man, I know he wants it back because
Speaker 1: he could have barreled that up and drove it somewhere
Speaker 1: into the gap or over the fence.
Speaker 3: Instead he pops it up. Yeah, but look, keyk has
Speaker 3: the exact right mindset. Because nobody in this game is
Speaker 3: gonna come through every single time and make it happen.
Speaker 3: You got to keep the same mindset. You got to
Speaker 3: look over the breadth of the games and what's how
Speaker 3: it's transpiring. And you know he's got the right mindset
Speaker 3: coming into game three. That's all you can do. You
Speaker 3: can't go back and get it. How many times has
Speaker 3: he come through for this team. He has been a
Speaker 3: super super player in postseason and that's why he's in
Speaker 3: there now. So I'll I'll put my bet on him
Speaker 3: coming up through Game three. This is a huge game
Speaker 3: coming up. Like I said, sixty nine percent of the time,
Speaker 3: the team that wins this game goes on to the
Speaker 3: next series. So that's what the Dodgers are are looking
Speaker 3: at now. From what happened obviously as much as you can,
Speaker 3: uh in game two, but you know what, you got
Speaker 3: to put that one on the shelf and come back
Speaker 3: and get these guys in Game three. It's going to
Speaker 3: be a raucous crowd. They're going to be against the Dodgers.
Speaker 3: There's gonna be a lot of venom in there because
Speaker 3: of the past, his the history with the with the Mets, uh,
Speaker 3: and you can take that one way or another, but
Speaker 3: I take it as a great environment to propel the
Speaker 3: players to go to another level, and I think they will.
Speaker 3: I like you we did there with the whole venom.
Speaker 3: You know the snake Well, I kind of tried to
Speaker 3: tie that in. Yeah, I love it.
Speaker 1: I love it, I hope, and I don't know what
Speaker 1: they did with the snake, But I'm hoping they kept
Speaker 1: a snake and maybe use it as something in the dugout.
Speaker 3: Maybe put it in like a one of those.
Speaker 1: Glass cases and they put the snakes in and and
Speaker 1: and you know, the home run rally, whatever they do
Speaker 1: in the dugouts. Now for the snake, when you hit
Speaker 1: a home run, maybe you go grab the snake. I'll
Speaker 1: be in a garter snake and you just kind of
Speaker 1: put it around your neck or your hand or something.
Speaker 3: Or No, what you could do is, if it becomes friendly,
Speaker 3: you can like grab the tail and like whirl it around. Yes, yes,
Speaker 3: I I don't know. That's a little cruel. I don't
Speaker 3: know if I'd do that.
Speaker 1: You could use it to their advantage. Make it the
Speaker 1: official pet. Now the official rally snake of the postseason.
Speaker 1: Let's sweeze on a call before here the end of
Speaker 1: the segment, Eddie and San Pedro, Welcome to Saxon Kates
Speaker 1: in the Am. We are tied at a game of
Speaker 1: piece in this NLCS. What's going on, Eddie?
Speaker 3: Eddie?
Speaker 1: All right, Joe and Ontario, you're on Saxon Kates in
Speaker 1: the Am. What's up, Joe?
Speaker 3: How you doing.
Speaker 10: Good morning guys, Kim Kates. You got me all fired
Speaker 10: up here. Man, Hey, this was I mean just two
Speaker 10: quick points. First point, why on if Bewers got five
Speaker 10: days rest, why not start him follow him with Yama
Speaker 10: on Wednesday? Again five days rest? Why are we trying
Speaker 10: to do some trickety stuff. I mean, if you want
Speaker 10: to go with.
Speaker 6: The bullpen on Friday, fine, but to throw a bullpen
Speaker 6: in a game like that is like you're giving a
Speaker 6: game away, to be honest. And then my second point
Speaker 6: would be, has anybody seen Mookie. He's on a one
Speaker 6: for twelve slump right now, He's not hitting anything.
Speaker 3: Well, appreciate it.
Speaker 1: I'm not calling the old APB. Where Mookie is? I mean,
Speaker 1: there's other guys on this Dodgers team that you can
Speaker 1: clearly ask where in the world are they now in October?
Speaker 1: And I'll start with one guy, Will Smith. Anybody's seen
Speaker 1: Will Smith this October? Anybody's seen Will Smith at the plate?
Speaker 1: Feels like he goes up there every single time with
Speaker 1: the situation to help out this Dodgers team, and he's
Speaker 1: constantly getting out and he's constantly He hit a ball
Speaker 1: hard yesterday late right at the left fielder, but he's
Speaker 1: got one home run to show for it so far
Speaker 1: in the NLDS and the NLCS. I mean, we should
Speaker 1: start looking at what Will Smith's not doing about Andy
Speaker 1: Potter has inability to contribute offensively in his limited time
Speaker 1: out there. I mean Tommy Edmund at the bottom the lineup,
Speaker 1: had three of the Dodgers five hits. We can point
Speaker 1: our fingers at all we want the top of the
Speaker 1: line for not producing, but there are guys around them,
Speaker 1: at the bottom of the lineup that are not doing anything.
Speaker 3: And Will Smith is one of those guys. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 3: you know. I the reason that I let you point
Speaker 3: that out is because I know how hard it is
Speaker 3: to play. I know how the competition is so much
Speaker 3: stiffer in postseason. Some some guys are in a good
Speaker 3: in a good mode, or in a good cycle at
Speaker 3: that time, and they just shine. Some guys just have
Speaker 3: a knack, no pun intended, but some guys just have
Speaker 3: a knack for doing just that. I mean, they thrive
Speaker 3: in postseason. Look what Richie Jackson was able to do
Speaker 3: and how many home runs he was able to hit
Speaker 3: in postseason. He did it all the time, but he
Speaker 3: was especially good in in postseason. But uh, you know
Speaker 3: what again about the Walker Bueller thing, you got to
Speaker 3: look at what he's done over the over his times
Speaker 3: that he's been in postseason. Even after allowing those six
Speaker 3: runs in the five innings in Game three against the Padres,
Speaker 3: Walker Bueller's got a three forty e RA in almost
Speaker 3: eighty five postseason an innings. So he's he's been a
Speaker 3: guy that's been able to show that he is of
Speaker 3: the moment in postseason. And that's why I think they
Speaker 3: wanted to slate him for Game three. Remember, it was
Speaker 3: it was a great thing that the bullpen had done previously.
Speaker 3: This was the reason that the Dodgers were off and
Speaker 3: running because their bullpen was so good. So, you know what,
Speaker 3: let's just give it a day and see what Walker
Speaker 3: does today or tomorrow, and we'll go from there. But
Speaker 3: we can't get ahead of ourselves. It's not going to
Speaker 3: be a sweep. We all knew it probably wouldn't be
Speaker 3: as hot.
Speaker 1: I don't know Dodger fans for a few hours thought
Speaker 1: they were gonna be sweet.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, that's kind of tough. Listen, that team over
Speaker 3: there matched what the Dodgers had done the whole season,
Speaker 3: I think from May on, so you know they're they're
Speaker 3: pretty good club.
Speaker 1: He is Steve Sachs. I am Tim Kats. Dodgers and
Speaker 1: Mets day off today. They are in New York after
Speaker 1: late night travels last night. Both teams will work out
Speaker 1: at City Field later on this afternoon and evening. Game
Speaker 1: three of the NLCS is tomorrow night, and we'll have
Speaker 1: that action beginning at five zero eight pm. Walker Bueller
Speaker 1: on the mound for the Dodgers. Luis Severino scheduled to
Speaker 1: go for the Mets, but the Dodgers had an opportunity
Speaker 1: yesterday to take a two to zero series lead, they
Speaker 1: go with the bullpen game instead of Walker Bueller, and
Speaker 1: the bullpen game backfired on the Dodgers early. They couldn't
Speaker 1: recover and the offense was nowhere to be found. Eight
Speaker 1: sixty six nine eighty seven to two five seventy. It's
Speaker 1: a second guessing Tuesday here on ANFI seventy LA Sports.
Speaker 1: Steve Zachs, Tim Katson, You on an FI seventy LA sports,
Speaker 1: Saxon Kates in the amm FI seventy LA Sports. Dodgers
Speaker 1: lose Game two of the NLCS yesterday seven to three.
Speaker 1: They fall to the Mets, who jumped on Ryan Brasier,
Speaker 1: the opener early Francisco Lindor a leadoff home run in
Speaker 1: the first inning. Landon Neck roughed up for five runs
Speaker 1: and two innings of work, increating a grand slam for
Speaker 1: Mark Viento's on a fastball on the ninth pitch of
Speaker 1: the at bat to give the Mets a six to
Speaker 1: nothing lead early in this game. The Dodgers unable to
Speaker 1: answer back later in the game when they had their
Speaker 1: opportunities one for nine with runners some scoring position. Ten
Speaker 1: runners left on base yesterday for the Dodgers. So as
Speaker 1: much as we want to point the fingers that the
Speaker 1: Dodgers pitching and lack thereof from Landonnack, the Dodgers offense,
Speaker 1: as good as has been, had their opportunities to get
Speaker 1: back in this game and real quickly sax see Ken
Speaker 1: Rosenthal from The Athletic wrote a long piece this morning
Speaker 1: that just posted about bullpen games and how Dave Roberts
Speaker 1: fair or unfair, was put into a situation because of
Speaker 1: injuries because they need innings from the bullpen to have
Speaker 1: these bullpen games here in the postseason. But he brings
Speaker 1: up the same questions that we've talked about and the
Speaker 1: same questions that have been talked about for the last
Speaker 1: twelve hours after the game two losses? Why not use
Speaker 1: the high leverage early vers early that avoid them entirely? Well,
Speaker 1: why did why did he put Edgardo Henriquez back out
Speaker 1: in the ninth inning and after a one out walk
Speaker 1: to Pete Alonso let him steal second a base. It
Speaker 1: makes it a seven to three game. He Ken Rosensal
Speaker 1: brings up the great point that we've all been saying,
Speaker 1: where is the sense of urgency with the managing yesterday
Speaker 1: to keep it close early and to make sure your
Speaker 1: dodge's team has a legitimate chance to come in and
Speaker 1: try to tie the game or win the game and
Speaker 1: not have to bail out of a six nothing deficit.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well he's figuring that at some point. And I
Speaker 3: get your point, high leverage right now, we need the
Speaker 3: guys out now. Yeah, we can't have a guy come
Speaker 3: in and hopefully that you know, he'll give us two
Speaker 3: or three innings and then we'll as the game goes on,
Speaker 3: we'll get to the high leverage. Guys. We got the
Speaker 3: high leverage situation as we're looking at it. We need
Speaker 3: it now. I get it. I totally get it. But
Speaker 3: they're they're they're feeling that at this time they have
Speaker 3: the confidence and knack that he can get through this
Speaker 3: part of the game and we can have those guys later.
Speaker 3: I'm sure that's what they thought. But you know, you
Speaker 3: look at the laundry list of guys, why why are
Speaker 3: we doing this bullpen games? Because our starters are all out,
Speaker 3: They're all hurt. I mean, this is uh, this is
Speaker 3: you can fill up a hospital with these guys and
Speaker 3: great pitchers. I mean you look at the guys that
Speaker 3: are out. I mean, you gotta do something, and you
Speaker 3: got to get out. Hey, can I can I say
Speaker 3: one thing real quick too. I just got a I
Speaker 3: just got a voicemail from a voice from the past
Speaker 3: about the snake. Okay, so this is important. I gotta
Speaker 3: tell you. Okay, Mitch Pool, who's a former clubhouse guy
Speaker 3: with the Dodgers. He was been there, you know, Mitch, oh,
Speaker 3: been there like forty years. I just got this. This
Speaker 3: this this voice. Hey, Saxy, it's Mitch. Just to let
Speaker 3: you know that snakes are native to Dodgers Stadium. They've
Speaker 3: been there for a long time. I've seen so many
Speaker 3: of them in the stadium. What they're packed in that area.
Speaker 3: It's a snake haven, Mitchell. Yes, so that's right from
Speaker 3: the horse's mouth. He's been there for forty years, he said.
Speaker 3: There's snakes all over the place. Of course. The great
Speaker 3: thing is the Dodger Stadium crew keeps it at bay
Speaker 3: and you know, I've never seen one there. I mean,
Speaker 3: that's the first time I've seen one. Luckily, they're only
Speaker 3: gardener snakes. They're not going to bother anybody. Yeah, but
Speaker 3: you know, you think of where Chavez Ravine is and
Speaker 3: the hills and all that, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of snakes in places like that, but
Speaker 3: thankfully we don't see much of them at Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 3: But if you're Mitch Pool, he's seen plenty of them.
Speaker 1: Oh, he has seen it all over his years there
Speaker 1: in the home clubhouse and the visiting clubhouse. One of
Speaker 1: the best of the best, Mitchpool. And yeah, that's interesting
Speaker 1: to hear that there are snakes at Dodger Stadium, not
Speaker 1: just the one that was slithering across Dave Roberts' feet
Speaker 1: through the Dodgers dugout again. How does it go unnoticed?
Speaker 3: How does it get in without a pass? I don't
Speaker 3: get that. Shoot, I'm telling you.
Speaker 1: How does Clayton Kershaw and Tyler Glass now who are
Speaker 1: talking on the railing now look down and see a
Speaker 1: snake go by their feet?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I think you get out of your You get
Speaker 3: out of your car and lot p and they're like,
Speaker 3: turn around and put your hands up. Makes no problem.
Speaker 1: Just slither's ride in. Get the front row seat there
Speaker 1: in the dugout. Speaking of Clayton Kershaw, coming up later on,
Speaker 1: We're gonna hear from Clayton Kershaw, who made a big
Speaker 1: announcement yesterday before the game.
Speaker 3: We'll let you hear it.
Speaker 1: Mike Marshall, one of your former teammates, love it the Moose.
Speaker 1: Coming up next hour in the eight o'clock hour, Mike
Speaker 1: Stanton from MLB Network Radio, former reliever, is gonna get
Speaker 1: into this bullpen situation yesterday and way in as a
Speaker 1: guy who's done it for a long time, won three
Speaker 1: World Series championships with the New York Yankees. He is
Speaker 1: Steve Sackson, Tim Kates, and Sacks and Kate today am
Speaker 1: here on this Tuesday morning as we react to the
Speaker 1: Dodgers losing Game two of the NLCS right here on
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