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Speaker 2: Dodger legend Steve Sacks is joined by your favorite Dodger
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Speaker 2: It's Tim Kates and Steve Sacks.
Speaker 4: Here we go.
Speaker 1: It's Sax and Kates on a Wednesday morning, October sixteenth.
Speaker 1: Good morning, Southern California. Get ready for Game three of
Speaker 1: the National League MPION Chip Series as the Dodgers have
Speaker 1: met are in New York. Later on tonight. First pitch
Speaker 1: right here on A five to seventy LA Sports is
Speaker 1: coming up at five eight Moronggo Casino.
Speaker 5: Dodgers on deck.
Speaker 1: We'll get it all started at four pm. I am
Speaker 1: Tim kath joined by a two time World series champion,
Speaker 1: former Rookie of the Year, and one hell of a guy.
Speaker 1: He is Steve sack Saxy. Good morning, Good morning, Tim.
Speaker 1: How you doing. I'm doing good. You sound like you're
Speaker 1: a little nervous for Game three. A little apprehension in
Speaker 1: your voice right now, usually your mister positive going into
Speaker 1: a big game here in the postseason. How are you
Speaker 1: feeling going into Game three tonight?
Speaker 5: Absolutely frightened? Are you really no? I'm kidding?
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, writing you gotta be worried. Because you're worried,
Speaker 1: I'm even more.
Speaker 6: Listen, listen, bring it okay, listen, No problems, no problems.
Speaker 6: This is a big game, no question about it. The
Speaker 6: winner of the Game three has gone on to win
Speaker 6: sixty nine percent of the series. But no worries, man,
Speaker 6: You're You're right where you want to be.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 6: You gotta start it going today. No bullpen game and
Speaker 6: the Dodgers are locked and I look for.
Speaker 5: Them to do some big things today.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we got a lot to get to over the
Speaker 1: next three hours. We're gonna hear from Dave Roberts coming
Speaker 1: up in just a couple of minutes. We're gonna hear
Speaker 1: from Walker Bueller, the Game three starter coming up next hour.
Speaker 1: Rick Dempsey was gonna check in at seven point thirty
Speaker 1: this morning. David Vese is in New York, it has
Speaker 1: been since well two days ago, and so he'll check
Speaker 1: in from New York City. Get the pulse of what's
Speaker 1: happening there in New York. Certainly it's a NFL season.
Speaker 1: The Jets and Giants are a big topic. The Yankees
Speaker 1: are up two zero in the ALCS. So where does
Speaker 1: this Mets Dodgers series fit in in New York right now?
Speaker 1: With all the fan base, And we got your phone
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Speaker 1: up in about fifteen minutes, We're gonna dive deeper into
Speaker 1: this show. Hey Otani is struggling at the plate and
Speaker 1: what the Dodgers should or should not do with him
Speaker 1: at the top of the lineup here in the postseason.
Speaker 1: That's coming up. But this Dodgers team in New York
Speaker 1: since the early mornings really of yesterday's Saxi flying in
Speaker 1: after Game two. They had to workout last night at
Speaker 1: City Field, and I didn't realize it, but because we're
Speaker 1: here in southern California. It is fall, and the temperatures
Speaker 1: are starting to drop around places on the East Coast.
Speaker 1: And so to see the Dodgers work out last night
Speaker 1: and they had beanies on and sweatshirts on, and you know,
Speaker 1: they're not running around and cut off T shirts and
Speaker 1: eighty five degrees. It's it's in the fifties in New
Speaker 1: York Saxy.
Speaker 6: Yeah, fifties and sixties, which is great weather for them
Speaker 6: back there. For the Dodgers, not so much. But remember
Speaker 6: when when guys come into professional sports, you see it,
Speaker 6: you know in football all the time. Well, they're playing
Speaker 6: in Green Bay, it's gonna be freezing. How much is
Speaker 6: this an advantage for Green Bay? You know, as opposed
Speaker 6: to a team like Tampa. Well, you know what, there's
Speaker 6: a lot of guys that play for Green Bay that
Speaker 6: got drafted out of Florida State and got drafted out
Speaker 6: of USC and whatnot. So this isn't like their whole lives. Ay,
Speaker 6: they all of a sudden have adapted to some weather
Speaker 6: in Green Bet. You know, It's the same thing with baseball.
Speaker 6: I mean, there's there's plenty of guys that have played
Speaker 6: in cold weather when they grew up guys in the
Speaker 6: in the Northeast, and there's guys that haven't, So I
Speaker 6: don't think that makes that big of a difference. Yeah,
Speaker 6: you play in it more in the year than the
Speaker 6: other guys do, but overall it's not going to make
Speaker 6: a huge difference. Especially the guys from the Latin American countries.
Speaker 6: They're not used to it at all.
Speaker 1: I think mentally, more than anything, for me, it really
Speaker 1: triggers the fact that this is postseason baseball. When you
Speaker 1: start watching the Yankees and Guardians last night, and to
Speaker 1: see guys in long sleeves and see the fans bundled up,
Speaker 1: and to see the Dodgers again working out Crosstown in
Speaker 1: Queens last night at City Field, it just it's postseason baseball.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's not eighty five degrees anymore and sunny
Speaker 1: and putting the sun block on and worrying about sweating
Speaker 1: on the field of Dodgers Stadium. It just it feels
Speaker 1: like postseason baseball. There's something to it that the colors
Speaker 1: are changing back East and it's getting a little cool.
Speaker 1: I just like it.
Speaker 6: I like that change, yeah, I do, because it just
Speaker 6: sets a reminder of when things growing up when you
Speaker 6: used to rush home from school and the games are
Speaker 6: on TV during the day during the week, and it
Speaker 6: was cold back East, and you know, it's great. It
Speaker 6: really brings to light really what's at stake now. And
Speaker 6: I can guarantee you the weather was not gonna be
Speaker 6: bad back in New York. I mean, I'm here in
Speaker 6: fifties and sixties, which is kind of pleasant for a
Speaker 6: lot of guys like that. I liked it very hot,
Speaker 6: the hotter the better, but a lot of guys like
Speaker 6: it kind of more of a temperate, even keeled type
Speaker 6: of a weather. But I think what we're gonna what
Speaker 6: you're gonna see is the weather's not going to be
Speaker 6: an issue. Even if it was cold, it really wouldn't
Speaker 6: be an issue. There's so much at stake that you
Speaker 6: don't even really notice it. It's not like during the
Speaker 6: season or too hot in spring training. You know, this
Speaker 6: isn't gonna make a difference.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 1: I'm watching Game one and two of the Alcs the
Speaker 1: last two nights, and really last night, something stuck out
Speaker 1: to me in the Guardians Yankees game, in a high
Speaker 1: fly ball hit by Aaron Judge in the infield, I mean,
Speaker 1: this thing was a towering shot. If he hits it
Speaker 1: straight on the line, it's out of the stadium. But
Speaker 1: he hits it a towering fly ball right around the
Speaker 1: grass and dirt at second base, and the shortstop for
Speaker 1: the Guardians drops it. And the night before the Yankees
Speaker 1: scored two of their runs on wild pitches. And I'm
Speaker 1: watching this Guardian's team thinking maybe the moment's too big
Speaker 1: for this Cleveland team on the stage in New York,
Speaker 1: facing the big bed Yankees, the Bronx Bombers with Judge
Speaker 1: and Stanton and man, the Guardians just can't match up.
Speaker 1: They seem to be hurting themselves and unraveling in the
Speaker 1: first couple of games of this series. And I watched
Speaker 1: this Mets Dodgers series, and yeah, the first two games,
Speaker 1: the teams that have made the mistakes here in these
Speaker 1: games are the teams that end up losing. Pitching mistakes,
Speaker 1: defensive mistakes. Game one, the Dodgers get great pitching from
Speaker 1: sloppy play from the Mets, and the Dodgers win Game two,
Speaker 1: vice versa. It gets magnified in October Sex and I
Speaker 1: think that's people need to really understand, is how important
Speaker 1: every play is a dropped ball here, a wild pitch
Speaker 1: here can really get magnified here in the post.
Speaker 6: Oh, there's no question about it. I mean that's why
Speaker 6: defense is at such a premium. Everything is magnified. And
Speaker 6: this is, uh, this is huge. I mean, you can't
Speaker 6: make mistakes like that. Especially. Okay, this is where it
Speaker 6: really kind of chaps my you know what, okay, castile
Speaker 6: is is see who was catching that fly ball?
Speaker 1: It was Castile right the short stoud Oh rochio okay.
Speaker 5: And the balls popped in the air. Why are you
Speaker 5: catching the.
Speaker 6: Ball with one hand? I don't get it. Okay, it
Speaker 6: really ticks me off when I see that. And I
Speaker 6: guarantee you one thing. Here's what have happened when I
Speaker 6: and I don't want to get into the well when
Speaker 6: I played thing, you know, because I know it sucks
Speaker 6: when people say that, but but when I play, Look
Speaker 6: at if I did that, or Mariano Duncan did that,
Speaker 6: or you know Alfredo grit And did that. A middle
Speaker 6: infielder dropping the ball and then you walk into the dugout.
Speaker 6: I guarantee you the pitcher would slug you. You'd have
Speaker 6: a fight. No, you would have a fight in the dugout,
Speaker 6: no question about it, and your teammates would just there
Speaker 6: would be there would be no holds barred. They would
Speaker 6: be up your you know what, and you might be
Speaker 6: excommunicated for a while. That's that you want to you
Speaker 6: want to trade in your guy card. You want you
Speaker 6: want to trade in your athletic card. Pull one of
Speaker 6: those jokers on on your team and embarrass everybody. That
Speaker 6: is a joke telling you what dropping a fly ball
Speaker 6: with one hand that flat out sucks, that's all. That
Speaker 6: is so unprofessional.
Speaker 1: And that happened early, and you want to be cool. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it happened early in the game last night in New York,
Speaker 1: and it didn't seem like Cleveland can rebound because a
Speaker 1: Mets tacked on two more. They tacked on one of
Speaker 1: the sixth a couple more in the seventh on a
Speaker 1: Judge home run, who, by the way, absolutely crushed the
Speaker 1: ball to center field. And the Yankees look like the
Speaker 1: team that are going to probably advance. And I know
Speaker 1: it's only a two nothing lead, but the Guardians just
Speaker 1: don't look the same like they have all postseason. The
Speaker 1: moment is too big for this Guardian's team, at least
Speaker 1: it seems that way in New York. Maybe we'll see
Speaker 1: if the things change when it goes back to Cleveland
Speaker 1: and the Yankees need to get one of those wins
Speaker 1: there in order to really, you know, knock off this
Speaker 1: Cleveland team and finish off this series. But you know, again,
Speaker 1: it's just for Dodger fans who are wonder well Game
Speaker 1: two to Game one, how can things be so different?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 1: Man, it's a pitch here, it's a mistake there by
Speaker 1: one guy can change the momentum of a game and
Speaker 1: a series.
Speaker 6: Question about it. I mean, it isn't a question about it.
Speaker 6: And the Dodgers is going to be looking to, you
Speaker 6: know who to kind of change things up at the
Speaker 6: top of the order. Besides, you'll set that table, you know,
Speaker 6: hit that ball in the gap, maybe a home run.
Speaker 6: You know, is it asking too much?
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 6: He did it all year long, and so they're gonna
Speaker 6: be looking for a big spark, and I think everybody
Speaker 6: else is too, And you know, I think we're gonna
Speaker 6: see something like that. By the way, the reference I
Speaker 6: made to Luis Castillo, that's when he dropped Alex Rodriguez's
Speaker 6: pop fly. Remember that with the Mets up by one
Speaker 6: and and you know he popped up that's back in
Speaker 6: two thousand and nine. But this was Rochio that did this.
Speaker 6: And I'm sorry. It's hard to get off of this thing.
Speaker 6: When you see somebody do this, it's it's just really unprofessional.
Speaker 6: And I don't like to I don't like to say
Speaker 6: things about players because I know how hard the game is.
Speaker 6: But when you make the game triple hard by being
Speaker 6: super cool and dropping a fly ball, you got to
Speaker 6: God gave you two hands, why are you using one?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 6: And and that really just burns my backside when I
Speaker 6: see guys do that.
Speaker 5: When I see them not slide and.
Speaker 6: Get tagged out because they didn't slide for some reason,
Speaker 6: or you drop a fly ball using one hand, forget it, man,
Speaker 6: that that is gotta go.
Speaker 1: Not to go on a tangent here, but just to
Speaker 1: kind of sidebar all this. Does it bother you when
Speaker 1: you see guys slide into second base nowadays, and it's
Speaker 1: a smart play by the middle dfielders, keep on them,
Speaker 1: hold the slide, hold the tag. I don't remember there's
Speaker 1: ever being an issue in baseball and other level until recently.
Speaker 1: Guys over sliding second base never an issue.
Speaker 5: It's a simple thing.
Speaker 1: What just happened?
Speaker 5: I don't know. I mean, why does everybody slide head first?
Speaker 5: Why are there's so many thumb injuries and hand injuries?
Speaker 6: And then I mean they think it's faster, they just
Speaker 6: tag you on the foot, I mean, because your foot's
Speaker 6: up in the air.
Speaker 5: What's I mean?
Speaker 1: Really?
Speaker 6: I thought sliding feet first was obviously the better way.
Speaker 6: You're not gonna get hurt, you're not gonna mash up
Speaker 6: your hands. You can pop up way faster. It's called
Speaker 6: a pop up slide. You can see everything because the
Speaker 6: dirt's not going in your face when you slide head first.
Speaker 5: That happens too.
Speaker 6: You can slide and you can see the ball goes
Speaker 6: in the outphat just pop up and run a third.
Speaker 6: I mean they've been doing it for over one hundred
Speaker 6: years and then all of a sudden, one hundreds of years,
Speaker 6: and now all of a sudden banged everybody slide to
Speaker 6: head for You're not Ricky Henderson. Okay, there's there's one
Speaker 6: guy like that. Everybody else is not like that. But
Speaker 6: why are you sliding head first?
Speaker 5: I don't get it.
Speaker 1: And they don't even pop up slide anymore? Into the bag.
Speaker 1: They slide through the bag or on top of it,
Speaker 1: which is a mind bog Otani got thrown out already
Speaker 1: in this series for sliding past second base when he
Speaker 1: clearly had stolen the base and got there before the throw,
Speaker 1: but because he slid past the bag and it for
Speaker 1: a millisecond, didn't have anything touching the bag, and the
Speaker 1: hold was on him the entire time, replay shows.
Speaker 5: He's out and the bags are bigger.
Speaker 6: Yes, grab that thing, I mean it's huge, looks like
Speaker 6: a pizza box. You know, It's just I mean, we
Speaker 6: see it all the time. But the art of sliding,
Speaker 6: when you ever see a hook slide, why are guys
Speaker 6: sliding headfirst into home plate? You want to get your
Speaker 6: shoulder ripped off. I mean, if the ball and the
Speaker 6: player arrive at the same time, the rule is even
Speaker 6: in this you know day and age. You can sit
Speaker 6: down on that player and I see guys diving head
Speaker 6: first in the whole plate.
Speaker 5: Are you nuts?
Speaker 8: Well?
Speaker 1: The bust or posey play has changed everything. Now guys
Speaker 1: are scared to go through a catcher near a catcher.
Speaker 1: Everybody wants to go round yeah, or try to avoid
Speaker 1: the tag at all. Costs because they don't want to
Speaker 1: be called for the uh buster or posy rule on
Speaker 1: both sides, either the runner or the catcher.
Speaker 5: Another wim factor.
Speaker 1: Clearly, you have to get a clear lane.
Speaker 6: Don't we like to see? Don't we like to see
Speaker 6: the runner? Just evisceerate that catcher? Cancers got that sucker,
Speaker 6: you know what I mean? We you know what the
Speaker 6: weird thing about it is you you talked to catchers.
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 6: I talked to my brother about, you know, catching all
Speaker 6: the time. He was a big league catcher. You know
Speaker 6: what he told me. He likes the action. He likes
Speaker 6: the fact that guys can run into you. And catchers
Speaker 6: are like that. They they're like hockey goalies, man, they
Speaker 6: like the action. They like the you know that that
Speaker 6: uh that competition like that. But today it's just, you know, I.
Speaker 5: Need a lane to go into.
Speaker 1: And let's review it. Did he give him a clear
Speaker 1: lane to get you the at second base?
Speaker 5: Oh my god?
Speaker 6: Turning the double play today, I can't imagine how great
Speaker 6: and easy, much easier it would be back in when
Speaker 6: we were playing. They were trying to cut you in half, guaranteed,
Speaker 6: trying to take your legs apart today.
Speaker 1: You don't want to engage the Chase utin twenty fifteen
Speaker 1: when he's out Ruben Tahana during the NLDS.
Speaker 6: Dodgers and guess what, Chase did it exactly how you're
Speaker 6: supposed to do it.
Speaker 1: But they changed the rule because of them.
Speaker 5: Yeah, because he did it right.
Speaker 6: So instead of having the the middle infielder get his
Speaker 6: rse out of the way like he's supposed to do
Speaker 6: and and you know, evade the runner coming down there,
Speaker 6: the guy's got you know, he's got a lot of
Speaker 6: spirit in his legs coming down, you know, trying to
Speaker 6: take you out. They've been doing it for one hundred
Speaker 6: and thirty some years and now all of a sudden
Speaker 6: he does it right. Instead of teaching the middle infielder
Speaker 6: how to do it his job right, which is to
Speaker 6: get the heck out of the way, now it'll just
Speaker 6: changed the rule and make it so you can't hit
Speaker 6: that guy.
Speaker 5: That's I don't know.
Speaker 6: I don't like that not trying to say, well, the
Speaker 6: money's at stake, and you know what, so what how
Speaker 6: about the games at stake?
Speaker 1: Absolutely, I'm one hundred percent with you. He is Steve Sacks.
Speaker 1: I am Tim Gates and Sacks and Kates in the
Speaker 1: am here on this Wednesday morning leading up to get
Speaker 1: three of the NLCS Dodgers in New York to take
Speaker 1: on the Mets. Walker Bueller, Lewis Severino, the pitching matchup,
Speaker 1: a lot of the talk yesterday at the workouts around
Speaker 1: show he Otani and where he is struggling at the
Speaker 1: leadoff spot for the Dodgers. Also Walker Buehler being a
Speaker 1: big game pitcher in October over his career. Let's go
Speaker 1: back to yesterday and here from the manager of the Dodgers,
Speaker 1: Dave Roberts his thoughts to the media.
Speaker 8: I think in totality with Walker, I would want the
Speaker 8: same effort, execution, focus, and certainly a different result. And
Speaker 8: I say that a lot of it was Walker's you know,
Speaker 8: not doing so Yeah, I think a lot of the same.
Speaker 8: And obviously in this situation series at one to one,
Speaker 8: you know, here on the road again, which we feel
Speaker 8: really confident in Walker, I expect he's going to come
Speaker 8: out with the same kind of conviction and focus.
Speaker 9: Will Smith only has two hits this postseason. Is there
Speaker 9: an any thoughts about shuffling the lineup for the rest
Speaker 9: of the series.
Speaker 8: No, there isn't. I just think that, you know, you know,
Speaker 8: early on, it's just funny how things change. Where there
Speaker 8: was a lot of concern about show Hay not being
Speaker 8: able to get hits with the runners in scoring position,
Speaker 8: and now we're all trying to find ways that he's
Speaker 8: have to get guys on base so we can hit, right.
Speaker 8: So I kind of find that comical a little bit.
Speaker 8: So I think that I don't think anyone can predict
Speaker 8: who's going to get on base in Game three or
Speaker 8: Game four. So I feel that, you know, kind of
Speaker 8: there's some tweaks that I do make as far as
Speaker 8: you know, Tail Freddie the five, six, maybe the seven,
Speaker 8: eight nine. But to think that you know, I'm gonna
Speaker 8: move show Hey to the four or the three, that's
Speaker 8: just not gonna happen, Dave.
Speaker 10: When you've looked at show haysfficulties that he's had in
Speaker 10: the postseason, they've been against Manaiah and you Darvisho are
Speaker 10: both difficult pitchers.
Speaker 8: Deliveries are unnasual Tanner Scott, Right.
Speaker 10: Do you see that as kind of like the all
Speaker 10: the other at bats have been fine?
Speaker 8: I do, I do, And I think that you know, I,
Speaker 8: you know, certainly. I think I appreciate the guys that
Speaker 8: he's faced and understanding that that's probably some of the
Speaker 8: reason why whatever his production or average or whatever anyone
Speaker 8: wants to look at, he's faced some tough pictures and
Speaker 8: they're pitching them very tough. So for me, I'm looking
Speaker 8: at tomorrow. I feel really good about tomorrow. Probably not
Speaker 8: going to see Minio till game six, if there is
Speaker 8: a game six, and so yeah, I mean, I feel
Speaker 8: good with it. But I do feel that he's got
Speaker 8: to continue to, you know, manage his hitting zone regardless
Speaker 8: of who's pitching. And I do think that he can
Speaker 8: hit anyone, as we all know, but he's still got
Speaker 8: to be kind of stubborn in his own and I
Speaker 8: do feel that he's got to get back to the
Speaker 8: big part of the field, and if he can do that,
Speaker 8: it should bode very well for all of us.
Speaker 1: All Right, there's Dave Roberts talking about the lineup show
Speaker 1: Hey Otani, and of course Walker Buehler getting the start
Speaker 1: in Game three, and I like what he said that
Speaker 1: if Walker just does what he did in that Game
Speaker 1: four against the San Diego Padres or game three, excuse me,
Speaker 1: against the Padres down San Diego, where he didn't get
Speaker 1: a lot of help. They had the big inning with
Speaker 1: the Dodgers battle back and chipped away at that game.
Speaker 1: If he could just do what he did there, maybe
Speaker 1: get some help on the defense this time. They liked
Speaker 1: their situation with Walker, which absolutely he pitched well. I
Speaker 1: loved the toughness that he's had in that game.
Speaker 5: Three now, yea.
Speaker 6: I liked his I like the body language with Walker.
Speaker 6: You know, look, Dave said the exactly the right things.
Speaker 6: Whatever he was saying. I was thinking, I wonder if
Speaker 6: you know this is going to come out of his mouth,
Speaker 6: and it's right. He's for me, He's he's spot on.
Speaker 6: I can tinker with this over here, maybe seven, eight
Speaker 6: to nine a little bit. I'm not I'm not messing
Speaker 6: with the the the glut of our lineup. That's really
Speaker 6: the most important parts. Leave it there, and and look,
Speaker 6: if you can point out Tanner Scott, if you can
Speaker 6: point out, well, he's gone, he's not in the he's
Speaker 6: not in the in the mix anymore. But if you
Speaker 6: can point out.
Speaker 5: A couple of guys that he has trouble.
Speaker 6: Hitting, like you know, manayah, there's no question Okay, man,
Speaker 6: you can pick out two or three guys. I can
Speaker 6: pick out many many more that that are that I
Speaker 6: can remember that I just didn't have any success with
Speaker 6: that are really really tough to hit. If you can
Speaker 6: pick out two or three guys, that's pretty darn good,
Speaker 6: you know. So there's always gonna be guys like that,
Speaker 6: and that's what makes a professional. As you battle through it,
Speaker 6: you figure out a way. You work this dude like
Speaker 6: a rib and then you find a way to get
Speaker 6: a hit. You find a way to get on and
Speaker 6: let maybe somebody else take take the you know, baton
Speaker 6: uh and you know that has more success against this
Speaker 6: particular pitcher. And though that's what the Dodgers line ups about.
Speaker 6: That's it's an eclectic lineup. It does it different ways
Speaker 6: and they'll figure it out.
Speaker 1: Game three tonight at City Field in New York. He
Speaker 1: is Steve Sacks. I'm Tim Kats. Want you to be
Speaker 1: a part of the show at eight six six ninety
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Speaker 1: two five seventy Coming up next hour, Rick Dempsey will
Speaker 1: join us. Coming up at eight o'clock hour. David Vetse
Speaker 1: will join us from New York. At the end of
Speaker 1: the show, Steve's Keys to a Game three win. Your
Speaker 1: phone calls. In between all of that, we'll hear from
Speaker 1: Walker Bealer next hour up next though your calls, and
Speaker 1: we'll hear from Sho Hey O Taani. Everybody wants to
Speaker 1: point the finger how he can't get on base without
Speaker 1: anybody on base. He's only driving in guys, when they're
Speaker 1: out there. We'll dive deeper into that in your phone calls.
Speaker 1: Thanks for being with us. It's a Wednesday morning here
Speaker 1: in southern California as we anxiously await Game three of
Speaker 1: the National League Championship Series right here on your home
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Speaker 1: Here a home is show, Hey Otani and the Dodgers.
Speaker 1: Game three of the NLCS coming up from City Field
Speaker 1: to New York later on this afternoon. Dodgers on Deck
Speaker 1: will get it all started at four pm. First pitch
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Speaker 1: Walker Bueller, Luis Severino. The pitching matchup. We'll hear from
Speaker 1: Walker Bueller coming up in about forty five minutes. Rick Dempsey,
Speaker 1: former Dodger catcher part of the eighty eight World Series
Speaker 1: championship team, will join us at seven thirty this morning.
Speaker 1: David Vassa live from New York, will join us in
Speaker 1: the eight o'clock hour. Heard from Dave Roberts just a
Speaker 1: little bit ago, Showe Aotani. The big story right now
Speaker 1: Saxy and his uh well, inability to get on base
Speaker 1: when there's nobody on base, certainly when there's ducks on
Speaker 1: the pond, so to speak, when there's guys on base
Speaker 1: for him to drive in Shoe Aotani has livered with
Speaker 1: a base hit or a home run or driving the
Speaker 1: ball for the outfield. He is six for eight with
Speaker 1: a home run and three walks with runners on base
Speaker 1: this postseason. That's really good. Those are tremendous numbers. But
Speaker 1: he's zero for nineteen with ten punch outs when there's
Speaker 1: nobody on base. It's it's a glaring difference when there's
Speaker 1: runners on base and his approach, it would seem at
Speaker 1: the plate and the equality of bats he has compared
Speaker 1: to when there's nobody on base, it seems like his
Speaker 1: at bats changed. Is that an accurate way to describe it.
Speaker 6: Well, the pitchers, their approach to him changes. They have
Speaker 6: to come to him. You know, he expands a little bit.
Speaker 6: He I was surprised that he expanded as much as
Speaker 6: he did off of you, Darvish, because he likes to
Speaker 6: tinker with people just a bit, and that's kind of
Speaker 6: a calm way of putting it. But that's what he does.
Speaker 6: And you know, with people on base, he's got to
Speaker 6: come to you. Otherwise you're going to walk and then
Speaker 6: you leave it to the you know, you leave it
Speaker 6: to Mookie Betts to take care of you. So that's
Speaker 6: a great predicament that Dodgers put people in when you
Speaker 6: can get people on base. However, when there's not, they
Speaker 6: don't have to pitch to him. And he's been expanding
Speaker 6: a little bit. I mean, I like what Dave Roberts said,
Speaker 6: He's got to use more of the big part of
Speaker 6: the field, meaning that you might want to eliminate everything
Speaker 6: from right center field to the foul pole and just
Speaker 6: work on everything to the left of that and gear
Speaker 6: yourself maybe left of center and try to stay on
Speaker 6: and track the ball a little bit longer. And listen,
Speaker 6: this guy's got majestic power. He can hit the ball
Speaker 6: out to left field just as easy as he can
Speaker 6: hit it out to right field. He doesn't have to
Speaker 6: pull the ball. He's got unbelievable power, and so he
Speaker 6: can go out that way, make a mistake, and still
Speaker 6: hit it out. So that's kind of the approach that
Speaker 6: I think is more going to be more productive for him.
Speaker 1: This may sound stupid, but as a hitter, if you're
Speaker 1: Otani and you're struggling with nobody on base, but yet
Speaker 1: you're productive with runners on base, can't you make it
Speaker 1: a mind game? Can't you go up there with the
Speaker 1: approach mentally that all right, there are guys on right now,
Speaker 1: and go up there thinking differently, if it's as simple
Speaker 1: as that, or is it as simple as that?
Speaker 5: No, it's not.
Speaker 6: Well, it's not quite as simple as that. Hitting is
Speaker 6: a very very hard thing to do. But you have
Speaker 6: to try to tighten it up a little bit, don't
Speaker 6: expand as much, and try to really keyhole pitches. And
Speaker 6: what I mean by key hole is you got to
Speaker 6: It's it's a metaphor for you know, making sure the
Speaker 6: ball is within you know the size of a key
Speaker 6: hole down the middle of the plate looking for you
Speaker 6: to be aggressive in your zone until you got two strikes.
Speaker 6: Then you got to expand a little bit. But for
Speaker 6: those first two strikes, I would not give them anything.
Speaker 6: I would look center to left center and be very aggressive.
Speaker 5: In my zone.
Speaker 6: But but don't try to yank off everything and pull
Speaker 6: it to the right. Stay on there and track that
Speaker 6: ball a little bit and try to line that thing
Speaker 6: up the middle or to left center. If he gets
Speaker 6: undered a little bit, he's it's gone. That's the kind
Speaker 6: of power he has.
Speaker 1: Let's go back to New York yes Day show. He
Speaker 1: Tani met with the media and then before Game three
Speaker 1: and talked a lot about what the media his struggles
Speaker 1: at the play.
Speaker 11: I know you've said before, you know men on base
Speaker 11: base is empty, that your approach hasn't changed. But do
Speaker 11: you feel that you're getting pitched to any differently in
Speaker 11: those two situations, And if so, do you think maybe
Speaker 11: moving down the order might help that problem at all?
Speaker 4: Hmm? Not so many cons still, can you see?
Speaker 7: Regardless of however, there are pitching to me. My plan
Speaker 7: is to stay with the same approach as much as
Speaker 7: possible and not really be too focused on how they
Speaker 7: attack me in terms of the lineup. That is not
Speaker 7: my job to consider. I'm gonna be as flexible as
Speaker 7: possible with the with regardless of any situation or anywhere
Speaker 7: in the lineup that I am placed in.
Speaker 9: Heki has been open about how sometimes he doubts himself
Speaker 9: when he's not performing at the level that he expects
Speaker 9: from himself. Do you ever have that self doubt?
Speaker 4: Main interested Joho?
Speaker 7: I say, what I really focus on is how I
Speaker 7: feel at the plate, and if I'm feeling good and
Speaker 7: the results aren't there, then I'm not too concerned because
Speaker 7: there's luck involved. Now, if there's a situation where I
Speaker 7: don't feel good at the plate and I'm not doing
Speaker 7: well or it's not leading to good results, then it's
Speaker 7: something that I look into to make sure, you know, physically, mechanically,
Speaker 7: making sure that that's all fine tuned.
Speaker 5: All right.
Speaker 1: There is Shootani with the media yesterday, Saxy. You kind
Speaker 1: of get a feeling that he's a robot at times
Speaker 1: at the plate. He's just so mechanical and doesn't get
Speaker 1: too high, doesn't get too low. But you do have
Speaker 1: to realize he is a human and this is a
Speaker 1: guy who's going to go through slumps. He's going to
Speaker 1: go through struggles and it's a game of tinkering. And
Speaker 1: he even admitted he's got to figure out sometimes the mechanics, uh,
Speaker 1: if they're not going right, if he's chasing pitches, whatever
Speaker 1: the case may be. But the one thing you're not
Speaker 1: going to do to showy Otani is mess with him
Speaker 1: mentally here in the postseason. By doing that, that would
Speaker 1: be changing his spot in the line of you are
Speaker 1: never going to do that.
Speaker 6: No, he is a he is a mental giant. He's
Speaker 6: so strong mentally, and that's what so much of hitting is.
Speaker 6: He understands. You notice he used the word feeling up there,
Speaker 6: that's what hitting is. He's exactly right. His answers were
Speaker 6: spot on. They're exactly what you know professional hitter does.
Speaker 6: He talked about the feeling, he talked about you know,
Speaker 6: micro changes, not not big drastic things. And he talked
Speaker 6: about results, his results, meaning you know, if he's barreling
Speaker 6: up the ball and hitting it hard and not getting
Speaker 6: to hit his his results are still good as far
Speaker 6: as what he's able to put out, Like he said,
Speaker 6: a lot of it's luck, some of it is and
Speaker 6: I think I thought his answers were spot on, absolutely perfect.
Speaker 1: I'm watching MLB Network right now and they they're going
Speaker 1: through his stance at the play against Manaya, against you Darvish,
Speaker 1: against other pictures earlier in the season.
Speaker 5: Nothing wrong with his stance.
Speaker 1: And going back to even when he was with the
Speaker 1: Angels last year, and they're looking at hand movement, where
Speaker 1: his hand starts, where his hands, where his head is facing.
Speaker 1: They're dissecting everything right now, trying to figure out why
Speaker 1: he hasn't got a hit with or with with nobody
Speaker 1: on base. It's funny, that's funny.
Speaker 5: See, this means absolutely nothing. Zero.
Speaker 6: That's all eyewash. It means nothing. He you know what,
Speaker 6: it's just a funk that he's in.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 6: He has hit a couple of balls hard that didn't
Speaker 6: go through. It's it's you're talking about such a micro,
Speaker 6: small part of the bat that he has to connect
Speaker 6: on instead of you know where he is now, and
Speaker 6: you know you don't go change in the whole thing.
Speaker 6: I mean, come on, really, this guy's this guy's gonna
Speaker 6: be the MVP. He's the best player on the planet.
Speaker 6: You don't you don't do big changes with that. I
Speaker 6: mean you just kind of ride this thing out, and
Speaker 6: you know what, he's making subtle changes, sure, and you
Speaker 6: know that, and most of it's probably his approach. And
Speaker 6: I don't think anything physically, he's calm at the plate,
Speaker 6: he's relaxed technically, just an absolute powerhouse. Technically, maybe approach
Speaker 6: a little bit, maybe I would say, you know, gear
Speaker 6: more towards the center of the field, just like Dave
Speaker 6: Roberts said, that's it. I mean, nothing major. There's nothing
Speaker 6: major wrong with this guy at all.
Speaker 5: Nothing.
Speaker 3: I know.
Speaker 1: You can't control where the ball goes per se when
Speaker 1: you're up to bad and like, well, okay, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: try to hit a home run here. You know, you
Speaker 1: can't really can dictate that. The game dictates it. But
Speaker 1: Shoey O'tani is probably the closest person I've ever seen
Speaker 1: to somebody doing that. And I say that because in
Speaker 1: the last month of the season, he was chasing the
Speaker 1: fifty to fifty mark, fifty home runs, fifty stolen bases,
Speaker 1: and there were times where you can tell ye he
Speaker 1: was looking for the long ball. Here's a couple of
Speaker 1: pitches he was trying to hit the ball out of
Speaker 1: Miami Stadium, like five hundred feet and there's other times
Speaker 1: you can tell his his swing and his approach at
Speaker 1: the plate was different. All right, I'm just gonna spray
Speaker 1: the ball the other way. Why because he wanted to
Speaker 1: get on base and wanted to steal second. He, to me,
Speaker 1: is the closest person I can think of in recent memory,
Speaker 1: to somebody that can try to do what he wants
Speaker 1: to manipulate the ball to get it to where he
Speaker 1: wants to, so he can either steal a base by
Speaker 1: getting on via a single or hit a home run.
Speaker 5: I'll give you another person, and I'll give you an example.
Speaker 6: There are somebody else that's like that, looks very much
Speaker 6: like that. That's that talented, and that's the guy that
Speaker 6: hits right after him. Mookie Betts is that. And he
Speaker 6: put it on display when he lined that little punch
Speaker 6: single to right field. You remember that against the Padres.
Speaker 6: He tried to do that. There was a gap over there,
Speaker 6: and there was a runner on second, and he played
Speaker 6: pepper with tattoos in right field, and it was a
Speaker 6: It was a blatant example of how somebody can kind
Speaker 6: of guide it that way. And you know, almost with precision,
Speaker 6: as far as you know, all things considered, But I
Speaker 6: think Otani has the ability to do that as well,
Speaker 6: and there's nothing wrong with the hitting situationally a matter
Speaker 6: of fact, I think it's a huge advantage for that team.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I look at what his struggles are zero for
Speaker 1: nineteen with nobody on base, compared to what he's you know,
Speaker 1: success with runners out there and the ability to drive
Speaker 1: in runners. I wonder if he is trying to do
Speaker 1: too much when there's nobody on when he's trying to,
Speaker 1: you know, get a home run to get the Dodgers
Speaker 1: on the board, and you know, they're down one nothing
Speaker 1: after the first inning, and he's trying to be that
Speaker 1: guy to hit a home run, just like he did
Speaker 1: against the Padres where they were down three to nothing,
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, who's the guy hits the
Speaker 1: three run home run to tie it, and everybody's feeling
Speaker 1: good about themselves again because show Hey saved the day.
Speaker 1: He doesn't need to wear a cape all the time
Speaker 1: every at bat and go up there and be the hero.
Speaker 6: I'm sure there's Hey with that kind of jack that
Speaker 6: he has in his bat. I'm sure there's plenty of
Speaker 6: times where he's hit home runs where he's tried to
Speaker 6: hit home runs. There's been audio, there's been well actually
Speaker 6: video of Mickey Mantle talking and saying he tried to
Speaker 6: hit every ball he could as far as he could.
Speaker 6: He tried to hit a home run every time up.
Speaker 6: And this is a guy that hit three fifty four sometimes,
Speaker 6: you know. So he said that. I mean, he's on
Speaker 6: tape saying it. So, yeah, is there anything wrong. No,
Speaker 6: that's what these guys do. They're home run hitters, you know,
Speaker 6: and they that's not that's not uncommon for these guys
Speaker 6: to do that. So I'm sure he does. But you're
Speaker 6: looking at something that's not a huge, huge change. Yeah,
Speaker 6: probably just a little bit of an approach change, and
Speaker 6: that's it mechanically.
Speaker 5: No, leave him alone. He's perfect.
Speaker 1: Now that we're like forty eight hours after Game two
Speaker 1: and sham and Iya's performance, even Dave Roberts alluded to
Speaker 1: show Hey struggles against him. You know, we kept hearing
Speaker 1: it afterwards about yeah, look he's Chris say, I'll look
Speaker 1: at that wind up and how difficult it is because
Speaker 1: he's you know, it's basically a pitch coming from closer
Speaker 1: to the first base side than anywhere on the mound
Speaker 1: and it's so difficult to see, especially as a left
Speaker 1: handed hitter. I just kind of hope they never see
Speaker 1: Sham and Aye the rest of this series, because apparently
Speaker 1: Sham and I has become the second coming now in
Speaker 1: baseball and as we come, unhittable.
Speaker 6: Yeah, well, that's a beautiful, wonderful tag to put on somebody,
Speaker 6: because now he's got to face this Dodger lineup again,
Speaker 6: which was the most prolific offense in all of baseball.
Speaker 6: And I'm thinking, I'm sure if you ask Sean and
Speaker 6: Iyah that he's gonna say something like I haven't talked
Speaker 6: to him, but he's gonna say something like, well he did,
Speaker 6: he got the best of them this time, but it's
Speaker 6: it may not be that that way next time. And
Speaker 6: he knows how prolific this lineup can be. One mistake
Speaker 6: that he could make could change the whole thing. And
Speaker 6: I won't I don't want to look down the barrel
Speaker 6: of that Dodger gun. That offense is a monster, and
Speaker 6: let's not, you know, forget how prolific this offense can be.
Speaker 6: And they all know that.
Speaker 5: And I think you're gonna start seeing some more of that.
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Speaker 1: winner goes up two games to one of this best
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Speaker 1: this Game three? Start Walker Buehler on the mound? Which
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Speaker 5: Get something worthy. Come on, you know it's going to be.
Speaker 1: It's an autographed uh Dodger home white jersey with the
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Speaker 1: It's beautiful and uh, you already signed it. I don't
Speaker 1: know when you did, Saxy sometime in the last year
Speaker 1: or so, when you were down here and ye yeah,
Speaker 1: Dave weis our marketing director. He's got the autograph jersey.
Speaker 1: You signed it on the number three in the back
Speaker 1: of the beautiful looks like a gray sharpie or white sharpie.
Speaker 1: It's it's beautiful.
Speaker 6: Well just I yeah, Look the thing about that is
Speaker 6: that jersey I remember, just remember I remember now from
Speaker 6: Dave Weis that jersey right now? Is you know it's
Speaker 6: not worth Uh? I guess it's not worth a ton.
Speaker 6: Oh stop, but five years from now, tim, it's gonna
Speaker 6: be worth a lot less. Oh come on, So I'm serious,
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Speaker 1: Okay, something they could frame maybe and put up in
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Speaker 1: and you know, just enjoy looking at every time the
Speaker 1: family gets together.
Speaker 5: And make a dartboard out of it. No, come on,
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Speaker 1: coming up later on this afternoon. Game three is later
Speaker 1: on this afternoon, Walker Bueller and Luis Severino the pitching matchup.
Speaker 1: It's interesting in hearing from people in New York, and
Speaker 1: David Vass will talk about it a little bit later
Speaker 1: on in the eight o'clock hour, since he's there and
Speaker 1: has boots on the ground, so to speak. The buzz
Speaker 1: about the Dodgers. Mets is come completely taking a backseat
Speaker 1: to the Jets and Aaron Rodgers and defact Da Adams
Speaker 1: being traded from the Raiders to the Jets, behind the
Speaker 1: Giants as well, because football is king, and even behind
Speaker 1: the Yankees and Guardians. So you've got three professional teams,
Speaker 1: two NFL and the Yankees ahead of the Mets and
Speaker 1: Dodgers series. They're in New York. They're getting like the
Speaker 1: small headlines in the newspapers and are getting like the
Speaker 1: final thirty seconds on the local sports there in New York.
Speaker 1: So it's interesting to see where the Mets fall in
Speaker 1: line in New York. And you played in New York,
Speaker 1: you are a Yankees. It's a Yankees town.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Well, the fact that Yankees are in it now I
Speaker 6: can see it. It might take a back seat. It's
Speaker 6: kind of like, you know, Padres and Dodgers, you know,
Speaker 6: I mean, Mets are Padres and Yankees are Dodgers. It's
Speaker 6: kind of like that in how they in their stature whatnot.
Speaker 6: But there's hey, there's some reth bit new York Mets fans. Brother,
Speaker 6: I'm telling you what. That place is going to be
Speaker 6: loud tonight.
Speaker 5: And that's a.
Speaker 6: Beautiful ballpark, that new park. It's better than the landing
Speaker 6: strip that they had at Shay. You know when the
Speaker 6: planes would fly over and you could hear them saying,
Speaker 6: if there's anything we can do to make your flight
Speaker 6: more enjoyable, please let us know. I mean that's how
Speaker 6: close the planes were. They'd be flying over and you'd
Speaker 6: come up to bat and you're, O, god, can I
Speaker 6: step out a minute?
Speaker 1: Really?
Speaker 6: But now it's it's it's just better. It's just a
Speaker 6: much better part. It's beautiful. Yeah, so this is gonna
Speaker 6: be uh, it's it's now a fun place actually to
Speaker 6: go and play. I would assume as opposed to plane.
Speaker 5: In the dungeon.
Speaker 1: When you guys went to New York and played the Mets,
Speaker 1: did you don't stay in Queens? No, you stay in
Speaker 1: in Stane Manhattan. You stay in Manhattan. And we've heard
Speaker 1: of players that'll maybe take the train out there. Is
Speaker 1: that something you partook in?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Was it always a cab? Was it always a team
Speaker 1: bus for you? Did you ever get on that that
Speaker 1: that train and take it out to Queens and Yellow
Speaker 1: Shay Stadium?
Speaker 6: I used to take the so I wouldn't take the
Speaker 6: subway now, but back then, now you get a car
Speaker 6: or whatever, you don't you don't want to take you
Speaker 6: don't want to get on the subway. Now, I guess
Speaker 6: it's not not too good. But yeah, that's what we
Speaker 6: would do, and you'd get there litle bit early. You
Speaker 6: don't want to get there, you know, leave later in
Speaker 6: the afternoon, gets to clogged up. But it's a it's
Speaker 6: actually a very fun place to play. Fans are very
Speaker 6: very knowledgeable about the game. They get it and they're
Speaker 6: on it big time. But I want to get back
Speaker 6: a little bit when you said they, you know, the
Speaker 6: Raiders traded DeVante Adams. I'm not I'm not digging that
Speaker 6: because you know up here in nocal Man, you know,
Speaker 6: like it's it's it's forty nine Ers then Raiders. So
Speaker 6: you know, I'm kind of into the Raiders, but they're
Speaker 6: just man, they're gonna be lousy, now, really lousy. Then
Speaker 6: they don't have a quarterback, so you can't win if
Speaker 6: you don't have a receiver and you don't have a quarterback.
Speaker 1: Full disclosure, I work on the Raider radio broadcast. I
Speaker 1: do the pre half in postgame show O cool and
Speaker 1: as a studio so you know what I'm saying, then
Speaker 1: absolutely right now, it's gonna be a tough they don't
Speaker 1: have a running back. Yeah, it's tough. Lit so that
Speaker 1: they can't run the ball right now, they can't throw
Speaker 1: the ball. Aiden O'Connell is uh looked not great in
Speaker 1: his last start taking over for a gardener.
Speaker 5: What have you minshew? I mean, I thought he was
Speaker 5: off to a pretty good start.
Speaker 1: He he can make plays sometimes and other times he
Speaker 1: looks like a quarterback that just doesn't have enough touch
Speaker 1: on the ball. He misses a guy wide open, over
Speaker 1: phasing for an interception against the Broncos, and what should
Speaker 1: have been a thirteen to nothing lead fourteen nothing for
Speaker 1: the Raiders. All of a sudden it was like twenty
Speaker 1: eight unanswered points by the Broncos and the Raiders. Who
Speaker 1: was that game two weeks ago? And it's just, uh,
Speaker 1: it just kind of got magnified. He makes one or
Speaker 1: two bad plays and the wheels fall off the Raiders
Speaker 1: and so they gave they gave the reins to Aidan
Speaker 1: O'Connell and it didn't work out last week.
Speaker 6: But I mean, if you're gonna get in the if
Speaker 6: you're gonna get in the mix, and I know we
Speaker 6: don't belabor the point, but you gotta get a real quarterback.
Speaker 5: You gotta, okay, you gotta, I mean draft some high
Speaker 5: guide them. I mean that's they wanted to.
Speaker 1: They desperately wanted one of the four quarterbacks in the
Speaker 1: draft this last year, but they just couldn't get up
Speaker 1: in the draft. They couldn't trade up and get into
Speaker 1: one of those slots to get it. So by that
Speaker 1: time they picked, uh, those four quarterbacks were all gone.
Speaker 1: So they went with Brock Bauers, who was a stud,
Speaker 1: super tight I mean, that guy is unbelievable and it
Speaker 1: will be a star and already's having a great rookie
Speaker 1: year and could be the front runner for the Rookie
Speaker 1: of the Year.
Speaker 5: Isn't Michael Meyer on that team too.
Speaker 1: Mayer's on the team's deal lible personal issues right now,
Speaker 1: so he hasn't played the last few weeks. You talk
Speaker 1: about a great tight end, I don't know. To dame,
Speaker 1: that guy was phenomenal stud. Yeah, well, they're healthy and
Speaker 1: they're right. If they can get a quarterback, they can
Speaker 1: give him the ball. I think they'll be okay even
Speaker 1: without Davonte Adams. But yeah, it's like taking It's like
Speaker 1: taking one of the big three out of the Dodgers
Speaker 1: lineup when you lose Davante Adams, Yes, stand up and
Speaker 1: you gotta find somebody forge to get those catches, to
Speaker 1: get those yards, to get those touchdowns, and then baseball
Speaker 1: to get those hits. Kenny and Tarzana is here on
Speaker 1: scam Saxon. Kate's in the am on this Wednesday morning
Speaker 1: before Game three. How you doing, Kenny.
Speaker 3: I'm doing terrific, Fellos.
Speaker 2: How are you today?
Speaker 1: Hey, Kenny doing a little nervous. I don't know what
Speaker 1: to feel going into Game three? Walker Buehler's got me
Speaker 1: leading both ways.
Speaker 5: Wow.
Speaker 3: Well. On the other hand, I guess show Hayes has
Speaker 3: some pretty good success against Severino. I mean he hasn't
Speaker 3: sayed them too many times. I think you got eight times.
Speaker 3: I think got a couple of ops with it with
Speaker 3: a dinner and going three for six. So hopefully, uh
Speaker 3: he will turn that around. But you know, fall probably
Speaker 3: more nailor sport is a game of streaks, and you know,
Speaker 3: through most of the season, Show Hate didn't do well
Speaker 3: with runners from scoring position and that was a big concern.
Speaker 3: And then of course in play August he just went
Speaker 3: on an absolute care and hit really well with runners
Speaker 3: from scoring position. I've actually happy that between Andrew Friedman
Speaker 3: and Dave Roberts, they decided to go back to traditional baseball,
Speaker 3: and they're bunting now more often and virtually there are
Speaker 3: no buns during the regular season, which is given Show
Speaker 3: Hate the opportunity to hit with men in scoring positions.
Speaker 3: So I think things will ultimately be okay. And just
Speaker 3: going back to what you said in terms of hitters,
Speaker 3: you know they used to say Tony Glynn obviously Steege
Speaker 3: based him many times, as well as Echiro. They could
Speaker 3: have hit particularly each hero could have hit a lot
Speaker 3: more home but they were just such magicians with the bat.
Speaker 3: They went the wing, went for the five and a
Speaker 3: half hole. But I think they'll kind of team break
Speaker 3: out of it. But you never know, because other guys
Speaker 3: have struggled in the postseason. We're tremendous hitters too that
Speaker 3: hopefully we'll get it done today and for the rest
Speaker 3: of the series.
Speaker 1: Thank you guys, Thanks Kenny, appreciate it.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Dave Roberts, when we heard from him earlier, said it
Speaker 1: the pendulum swings and for show. Hey, He's right. Earlier
Speaker 1: this season, up to the All Star break, he couldn't
Speaker 1: drive in runs. He was terrible runners in scoring position.
Speaker 1: And now it's slipped the other way.
Speaker 6: Yep, Tim boom, Yes, sir, that's my.
Speaker 5: Boom. Oh you're grooving now, yeah, I'm grooving.
Speaker 6: Okay, No, you're exactly right about that, Tim, And I
Speaker 6: know we'll get more about it after the break, but
Speaker 6: exactly right. And that thing, that little tidbit about not
Speaker 6: wanting to hit the ball out of the ballpark because
Speaker 6: you're a magician with the bat. Absolutely, players were like that.
Speaker 6: There was a couple of guys, none better than Wade Boggs.
Speaker 6: He was unbelievable, like that, prolific power, but didn't want
Speaker 6: to hit thirty or forty homers. He wanted to hit
Speaker 6: three forty every year.
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