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Speaker 5: on this Wednesday morning, October sixteenth, twenty twenty four. You're
Speaker 5: Los Angeles Dodgers in getting ready for a Game three
Speaker 5: showdown against the New York Mets. Series tied at a
Speaker 5: game of piece. Morongo Casino Dodgers on deck. We'll get
Speaker 5: it all started. At four o'clock this afternoon. First pitch
Speaker 5: from City Field had five eight power by Zenchi, sushi, fast,
Speaker 5: fresh and easy. Walker Bueller on the mound for the
Speaker 5: Dodgers saxy and I swear six weeks ago, if we
Speaker 5: were talking, he would have said Game three, pivotal NLCS matchup,
Speaker 5: and Walker Bueller is the guy Dave Roberts is going
Speaker 5: to entrust with the baseball I would have laughed at you,
Speaker 5: walked away and thought you were absolutely crazy. Walker Bueller
Speaker 5: during the regular season didn't have any implications, indications that
Speaker 5: he would be a guy the Dodgers would rely upon
Speaker 5: come this postseason. In fact, we wondered if he'd make
Speaker 5: the postseason roster. The rotation was starting to get good.
Speaker 5: You had Tyler Glass now and Gavin Stone, and you
Speaker 5: had Jack Flaherty and Yamamoto was coming back. You had
Speaker 5: four starters, and he had Clayton Kershaw pitching.
Speaker 4: Well.
Speaker 5: Then he goes down with the tow injury, but you
Speaker 5: kept thinking he was going to come back. All right,
Speaker 5: we got four five starters. We are good to go
Speaker 5: for October baseball. Walker Bueller's role could be as a
Speaker 5: bulk inning guy, a reliever for the Dodgers out of
Speaker 5: the bullpen. Because of his success in postseason playing fast
Speaker 5: forward now six weeks later, the injuries that hit this
Speaker 5: Dodgers team. Three of those five guys I just mentioned
Speaker 5: aren't even on the postseason roster because of injuries, and
Speaker 5: now they're relying upon two starters of three with Larty
Speaker 5: and a bullpen. And one of those three starters, gulp,
Speaker 5: is Walker Bueller.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's okay. I mean what's gone is gone. I
Speaker 6: mean Walker Bueller did not have the year we all
Speaker 6: thought he could have. I mean, coming back from injury.
Speaker 6: People come back from Tommy John and it's some people
Speaker 6: react differently to it takes longer for some, shorter for others.
Speaker 6: And some guys come out of the gate and they're
Speaker 6: just barns, They're just barn burners. But not the case here.
Speaker 6: He was one and six with a five three eight
Speaker 6: e R during the regular season, but he did pitch
Speaker 6: better In his last start of the regular season. He
Speaker 6: had a tough outing, giving up those six runs, but
Speaker 6: he was able to notch a bunch of zeros after that.
Speaker 6: Let's remember what his his pedigree is though. Look in
Speaker 6: the past, Walker Bueller has got a three four oh
Speaker 6: e r A and about a good sample size almost
Speaker 6: eighty five innings. So he has been one of those
Speaker 6: guys that's known to step up in postseason. And remember
Speaker 6: he's still on the mend, if you will, and coming
Speaker 6: back from from that injury. So let's see how Let's
Speaker 6: see how he does now in game in Game three.
Speaker 6: You have to have your stars step up in time
Speaker 6: of need, and this is one of those times. He
Speaker 6: notches this victory for the Dodgers and they're good shape.
Speaker 5: This is arguably his biggest star probably is yes, And
Speaker 5: for Walker Bueller, he's got a lot riding on it
Speaker 5: as a free agent at the end of the year.
Speaker 5: If he could finish strong here during a playoff World
Speaker 5: Series run with the Dodgers, it would only amplify what
Speaker 5: he'd be worth on the open market come this offseason.
Speaker 5: The guy coming off that second Tommy John surgery showing
Speaker 5: that he could overcome his struggles in the regular season,
Speaker 5: he can probably ride it off, is still trying to
Speaker 5: get right, come back, get used to pitching again, and
Speaker 5: then by the time they got to October he was
Speaker 5: back to form. That's sort of what he's hoping that
Speaker 5: will be the case going into free agency. And you
Speaker 5: mentioned that start in San Diego. He gave up the
Speaker 5: six earned runs over five innings put up the Zeros
Speaker 5: after that big inning that the Padres had. But that
Speaker 5: big inning they had could have been completely different. If
Speaker 5: he got some help behind them defensively and some balls
Speaker 5: go his way, he could of got out of there
Speaker 5: with a lot less damage. And that outburst that he
Speaker 5: had in the dugout after that big inning that the
Speaker 5: Padres had. David Vasss talked about it with us here
Speaker 5: on Scam about how that fired up the team and
Speaker 5: his rant, if you will, throwing the bubblegum box and
Speaker 5: the water ruler to show his frustration maybe with himself,
Speaker 5: but certainly with the guys behind him not helping him out.
Speaker 5: You know, maybe that's the fire we need out of
Speaker 5: Walker Bealer tonight.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Well, in all the prim and proper nature of professional
Speaker 6: sports that you got to have, sometimes you got to
Speaker 6: have something like this. I like the pure nature that
Speaker 6: you're seeing with Walker Bueler, him coming out there and
Speaker 6: letting that fire come out that there's nothing wrong with that.
Speaker 6: I'll take that in a guy any day of the
Speaker 6: week as to a guy that I got to push
Speaker 6: and try to prod him to get him to show
Speaker 6: some excitement and enthusiasm a guy like that. I'll take
Speaker 6: a guy like that any day.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 6: And you know, part of the whole makeup of the
Speaker 6: pitcher of the player is, you know, the physical restraints
Speaker 6: that he's going to have coming back from the injury,
Speaker 6: if there is any, and getting back on track to
Speaker 6: where he was and was one of the most dominant
Speaker 6: pitchers and the reason why he was on a couple
Speaker 6: of All Star teams. That's what you want to get
Speaker 6: back to. But the other part of it is is
Speaker 6: the personality and the human being part of it. The
Speaker 6: guy in the uniform that matters tremendously and he's got
Speaker 6: that in space. Walker Bueller is a top not human being.
Speaker 6: And I bet on those guys. I bet on those guys,
Speaker 6: and I bet on him.
Speaker 3: I think you said it.
Speaker 5: We've heard it said repeatedly over the last two weeks
Speaker 5: during this playoff run that for Walker Bueller mentally, emotionally,
Speaker 5: he feels like the Walker Buller he always has been.
Speaker 5: It's physically the body's just not quite there yet. And
Speaker 5: that was part of the struggles during the regular season,
Speaker 5: and you could see it on his face. As you
Speaker 5: mentioned a guy who shows a lot of emotion we
Speaker 5: saw in the dugout and when things weren't going right, Saxy,
Speaker 5: when things were unraveling on the mound, and maybe it
Speaker 5: was his fault, the defense behind him in a start
Speaker 5: during the regular year, the lack of control walking guys,
Speaker 5: the frustration, and also the fact that he would just
Speaker 5: get upset because in his mind, hey, where is that fastball,
Speaker 5: where's that gidea up on that? Where's my control? Where's
Speaker 5: my mechanics Because mentally it should all be there because
Speaker 5: it's never left me.
Speaker 3: But my body just won't do it right.
Speaker 6: And his expectations are so high for himself. He raises
Speaker 6: the bar of expectancy all the time. You know, he's
Speaker 6: he's expected to be that guy. You know, every time
Speaker 6: he goes out there. I mean, when you're hitting. It's
Speaker 6: weird hitters the same way they think they're going to
Speaker 6: get a hit every time up. I mean they believe it.
Speaker 6: They Walker believes he's gonna get every guy out. I mean,
Speaker 6: that's just what you expected as a professional athlete, a
Speaker 6: guy that's done the things that he does. And that
Speaker 6: frustration that you're seeing Tim, I don't really think that's
Speaker 6: he even had a microsecond if it come in his
Speaker 6: mind about I don't screw those guys behind me, they're not.
Speaker 6: It's probably, I would bet it's probably most likely. Undeniably,
Speaker 6: I would say that it's all in the frustration with
Speaker 6: himself where he thinks he can get every guy out.
Speaker 6: He can probably strike just about every guy out. And
Speaker 6: that's his approach, and you know what, that's the only
Speaker 6: approach that he's got to have to be successful. You
Speaker 6: can't have a Mealy malleja prode, will you know, I'll
Speaker 6: kind of do this here, kind of no, no, give
Speaker 6: me the ball, get the hell out of my way,
Speaker 6: and let me just mow these suckers down, because I
Speaker 6: know I can't. That's his approach and it's a perfect one.
Speaker 5: Yesterday, Walker Bueller was at City Field during the Dodger
Speaker 5: workouts talk to the media. Here's a little that conversation
Speaker 5: from the Dodger right hander.
Speaker 8: Do you feel like you have just personally kind of
Speaker 8: reached another level as to where you like to be,
Speaker 8: especially in October?
Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean hard hard to say yes to that question,
Speaker 9: you know, coming off six eor and runs, But yeah.
Speaker 7: I feel good.
Speaker 9: I feel confident, So you know, I think that's probably
Speaker 9: was one of my biggest strengths for a long time,
Speaker 9: was my confidence, I guess, and you know, at times
Speaker 9: this year that's kind of wavered somewhat, and you know,
Speaker 9: the past six or eight I've kind of felt like
Speaker 9: had been building blocks of some kind and uh, you know,
Speaker 9: hoping to keep that going.
Speaker 10: Wealker when you talk about like the you know, your
Speaker 10: confidence wavering and stuff, and you know, right during the
Speaker 10: regular season there were periods where the results is.
Speaker 7: Kind of didn't come.
Speaker 10: Like where would you go to, I guess, like mentally
Speaker 10: to kind of convince yourself, you know what, this is
Speaker 10: still in there, I can do this.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 9: I mean, there's there's not a whole lot of easy
Speaker 9: ways to kind of sum that up or answer that question.
Speaker 7: I guess.
Speaker 9: I think the biggest thing is just, you know, at
Speaker 9: some point the health was kind of part of it.
Speaker 9: My hip didn help, and I think for me kind
Speaker 9: of honestly going away for a few weeks and coming back,
Speaker 9: I think things have started kind of started trending a
Speaker 9: little bit different then, and then through a bullpen in
Speaker 9: Saint Louis that kind of started getting everything really rolling.
Speaker 9: And you know, not that I've been setting the world
Speaker 9: on fire since then. But at least my body feels
Speaker 9: like it's in the right position a lot of the
Speaker 9: time and kind of have an idea of where the
Speaker 9: balls headed. So yeah, kind of credit Mark and Connor
Speaker 9: and Jack was a was a part of that bullpen
Speaker 9: as well, So yeah, that was a big day for
Speaker 9: me and kind of you know, if I had to
Speaker 9: pick one thing that day was probably it.
Speaker 8: A lot of guys talked about the three innings you
Speaker 8: had after the second inning last week, how important that
Speaker 8: was just in the overall kind of arc of the
Speaker 8: series to you, like especially to the confidence point, Like
Speaker 8: how much did those three innings mean, and just kind
Speaker 8: of how you felt in the last week since then
Speaker 8: leading up to this one.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean, if you look at my year, I've
Speaker 9: I've had a lot of struggles just having kind of
Speaker 9: clean innings, and obviously that second inning was was a
Speaker 9: little squirrely, but I had four pretty clean ones outside
Speaker 9: of that, So.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it definitely helps Bentley.
Speaker 9: But at the end of the day, I got to
Speaker 9: go pitch good tomorrow, no matter no matter what.
Speaker 7: Three innings I limped at the end of the game.
Speaker 7: The other day, it was Sierra all the way on
Speaker 7: the lefts in the back.
Speaker 8: You talked about how you thrive in these rowdy type
Speaker 8: of atmospheres.
Speaker 4: Is that something that you've grown to love or have
Speaker 4: you always been like that.
Speaker 7: I don't know if thrive is the right word.
Speaker 9: Obviously I've given up some big homers over the years,
Speaker 9: but I certainly enjoy it, and I know our team
Speaker 9: likes playing in environments like that, and it just makes
Speaker 9: the game a little bit different, a little bit more fun.
Speaker 7: So I'm looking forward to it, all right.
Speaker 5: There's Walker Buelder. He mentioned it earlier there in his
Speaker 5: press conference. There was a stretch from middle juneish till
Speaker 5: after the All Star break that he was on the
Speaker 5: injured list. He was away from this team, and at
Speaker 5: one point, as he said, he got away from kind
Speaker 5: of baseball and went down to Florida and got his
Speaker 5: hip right and worked us on his mechanics, and I
Speaker 5: think it was more of a mental reset and mechanical
Speaker 5: reset for him. And then came back and as he said,
Speaker 5: it just took one bullpen session and it clicked and
Speaker 5: everything was in sync again. And you know as a
Speaker 5: picture how important that is. And all of a sudden,
Speaker 5: he's right, and he said after that he felt good
Speaker 5: and the results may have not been there. Game to game,
Speaker 5: he had games where you give up five runs on
Speaker 5: nine hits, and then he give up two runs on
Speaker 5: three hits over six innings, and then one run on
Speaker 5: five hits against the Padres at the end of September.
Speaker 5: It was kind of up and down, but at least
Speaker 5: mechanically and mentally, he's in a good spot.
Speaker 6: Yeah, And you know, it isn't common for a team
Speaker 6: to be confident in their starter with an ERA that's
Speaker 6: over five during the regular season and then coming off,
Speaker 6: you know, a postseason game where he gives up six earnies.
Speaker 6: But listen, this, this young man has earned the respect
Speaker 6: over his career, delivering in big performances in the biggest
Speaker 6: games in postseason before. So he's earned that. And you know,
Speaker 6: you notice there's never anybody an he talks about in
Speaker 6: these press conferences and whatnot when they're talking about Walker Bueler,
Speaker 6: about commitment and dedication and the will to go out
Speaker 6: there and be the best that he can be. There's
Speaker 6: never ever a question about the character part of this man.
Speaker 6: And that's something that you can really you know invest
Speaker 6: a lot in because you know, we know the abilities there,
Speaker 6: we've seen it, and he usually is a man of
Speaker 6: the moment, So I would say that this is a
Speaker 6: good bet that he's gonna give us a great performance tonight.
Speaker 5: The other thing that sticks out in hearing all the
Speaker 5: Dodgers over the last two weeks is the confidence in
Speaker 5: the postseason. Granted they've been here and done this the
Speaker 5: last six seven years, depending on if they've been around
Speaker 5: this team or not, or even guy like Tay Oscar
Speaker 5: who's had postseason performances before but now has the extra
Speaker 5: confidence with this Dodgers team this year. The moment isn't
Speaker 5: too big for this Dodgers, whether from its a Max
Speaker 5: Monsey to a Walker Bueller. To hear how calm Walker
Speaker 5: Bueller is before Game three start the day before talking
Speaker 5: to the media. You know, a couple of years ago,
Speaker 5: maybe he's a different pitcher, Maybe he's wind up a
Speaker 5: little bit more, wound up a little bit more emotionally,
Speaker 5: and you know, is more careful what he says. But
Speaker 5: this is a guy and a lot of these Dodger
Speaker 5: players because they've been here, I think Saxony and been
Speaker 5: in this situation and been in front of a podium
Speaker 5: and all the media, yeah and done this. This has
Speaker 5: sort of becomes second nature, so the moment isn't.
Speaker 6: Too big now as fans. If you were to follow
Speaker 6: around a Walker Buller or a Dave Roberts or somebody
Speaker 6: that's really in the spotlight for all this thing, you
Speaker 6: would be amazed at the amount of pressure, the cameras
Speaker 6: that are on them, the focus, the billboards when you're
Speaker 6: in around the city, and just the screaming fifty thousand people.
Speaker 6: You would be beside yourself. To follow these guys around
Speaker 6: and go through the game and see what they're going through,
Speaker 6: you wouldn't believe it.
Speaker 3: You'd say, how do.
Speaker 6: They possibly able to manage their emotions with all these expectations?
Speaker 6: And yet for these guys, they do it every day
Speaker 6: they play in front of Dodgers players play in front
Speaker 6: of fifty thousand people all the time. They're used to this.
Speaker 6: This is like painting the fence. To them, it's like
Speaker 6: a little bit of yard work. As far as the pressure,
Speaker 6: the moment will not get them and they won't get
Speaker 6: the mets. They won't get either one of them. This
Speaker 6: is second nature to these guys, you know, it's a
Speaker 6: it would be a huge you know, enveloping the wow
Speaker 6: all this stuff together. Yeah, if you follow him around,
Speaker 6: but this is nothing to them.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I bring this up again because we talked about a
Speaker 5: last hour watching the Guardians implode on themselves, you know,
Speaker 5: watching the two wild pitches in Game one. Try catching
Speaker 5: the ball with two hands and dropping an infield pop
Speaker 5: up yesterday leading to the first run of the game
Speaker 5: for the Yankees and really opened the door.
Speaker 3: I'm judging Stanton and the rest of the guys.
Speaker 6: Wasn't it windy? Wasn't it kind of windy you know
Speaker 6: in New York a little bit, but yeah, it was Wendy.
Speaker 3: Try using two hands. Yeah, the moment has gotten too
Speaker 3: big for that.
Speaker 7: I'm telling you.
Speaker 6: That just burns my backside big time.
Speaker 5: He is Steve Sacks, I'm Tim Kates and Saxon Kates
Speaker 5: and the am here on a five seventy LA Sports.
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Speaker 5: former Dodger Rick Dempsey, part of the eighty eight World
Speaker 5: Series championship team. Twenty four years as a catcher in
Speaker 5: Major League Baseball, ten with the Orioles, three with the Dodgers,
Speaker 5: doing lots of great things outside of baseball as well.
Speaker 5: Now we'll catch up with Rick Dempsey. Next, it's Saxon
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Speaker 5: First pitch from City Field at five eight Walker Buehler
Speaker 5: and Luis Severino. The pitching matchup. We heard from Walker
Speaker 5: Buehler last segment showy Otani, we talked about in the
Speaker 5: first hour of the show, and heard from the Dodger
Speaker 5: designated hitter coming up next hour, David vas Say, our
Speaker 5: Dodger insider from New York will join us as the
Speaker 5: Dodgers get ready for a pivotal Game three of this
Speaker 5: NLCS as the winner will face either Guardians or the
Speaker 5: New York Yankees in the World Series. And talking to
Speaker 5: people around baseball and just kind of hearing the chatter,
Speaker 5: what's the take on things, Saxy, everybody's assuming it's gonna
Speaker 5: be an La New York World Series, and certainly Major
Speaker 5: League Baseball Rob Manford and the guys in the suits
Speaker 5: in New York would love to have the two biggest
Speaker 5: markets in the country East Coast, West Coast square off
Speaker 5: in this postseason. Have these superstars on the biggest stage.
Speaker 5: Because as good as the young players are, like the
Speaker 5: Bobby Wood juniors in Kansas City and the young talented
Speaker 5: Cleveland Guardians are, you know, the biggest stage, you need
Speaker 5: to have your biggest players. And to have Otani and
Speaker 5: Judge squaring off in a World Series, I mean, you
Speaker 5: couldn't draw this up. This would be magical.
Speaker 6: It would be unbelievable to have those two guys in
Speaker 6: the World Series. We've been talking for how long now
Speaker 6: to couldn't wait to have Otani on the big stage.
Speaker 6: When he was with the Angels and now here we are.
Speaker 6: But you know, we can still have some good World
Speaker 6: Series even if it isn't the most prolific teams. You remember,
Speaker 6: we talked about this before when we had the Cubs
Speaker 6: in Cleveland in the World Series a few years ago,
Speaker 6: I mean several years ago. It was a magnificent World Series.
Speaker 6: And you know, it always seems to bring out the
Speaker 6: best and no matter what teams are there. But I'd
Speaker 6: love to see it. I mean, you kidd me Otani
Speaker 6: and Judge. I wonder what the viewer ratings would be
Speaker 6: on that thing. It'd be through the roof.
Speaker 5: It'd be monstrous. I already saw the numbers for the
Speaker 5: NLCS are the biggest numbers they've seen for NLCS series,
Speaker 5: like in ten years. With this Mets Dodgers first two
Speaker 5: games and one of those games with the day game
Speaker 5: at Dodgers Stadium on a Monday. It just tells you
Speaker 5: what people are clinging for. And that's the superstars in
Speaker 5: the postseason joining us. Now Zaxy, one of your former
Speaker 5: teammates twenty four seasons in the Big Leagues, ten with
Speaker 5: the Baltimore Orioles where he was a World Series champion,
Speaker 5: a World Series MVP. He's a member of the Orioles
Speaker 5: Hall of Fame. Three seasons with the Dodgers in his
Speaker 5: career that was nearly three decades. You can see him
Speaker 5: at Rick Dempsey twenty four on Twitter also Rickdempsey twenty
Speaker 5: four dot com partner with the Baseball Warehouse. He is
Speaker 5: one of the good guys. He is Rick Dempsey and
Speaker 5: he joins us now here on Saxon Kates and am
Speaker 5: on a FI seventy la sports.
Speaker 7: Rick.
Speaker 3: Good morning, how you doing.
Speaker 4: I'm doing well man. You guys are late getting to me.
Speaker 4: It's I'm always up around four thirty five o'clock. What's up, Dipper,
Speaker 4: I have plenty of time to warm up.
Speaker 5: You appreciate you coming on with this this morning. It's
Speaker 5: the Dodgers and Mets in this NLCS the first time
Speaker 5: since nineteen eighty eight, and your guys magical run to
Speaker 5: a World Series championship, and now that these two teams
Speaker 5: are squaring off a lot of great memories for Dodger
Speaker 5: fans in the nineteen eighty eighth and what you guys
Speaker 5: beat the New York Mets. When you see these two
Speaker 5: teams playing, now, what kind of memories do you get?
Speaker 5: Back from that nineteen eighty eight run.
Speaker 4: Well, I remember, how you know, we were very concerned
Speaker 4: because the Mets just actually kicked the hell out of
Speaker 4: us all season long. I think we only won one
Speaker 4: game against them during the season. But you know, going
Speaker 4: back to those days, I remember we did a lot
Speaker 4: of little things right that really worked out for us.
Speaker 4: When when we weren't going so good, we weren't hitting
Speaker 4: the ball well, we'd have a lot of team meetings
Speaker 4: and everybody threw their two cents worked in And I
Speaker 4: remember the team meeting we had going to New York
Speaker 4: to play the Mets, and everybody was talking about, of course,
Speaker 4: we needed to make better pitches to all the big
Speaker 4: boys in their lineups, and we obviously knew that part.
Speaker 4: But I remember one thing that Tim Belcher, who lived
Speaker 4: in my neighborhood, were talking about on the way to
Speaker 4: that meeting. I said, you know, Kimmy, I said, that
Speaker 4: crowd that the Mets have is incredible. They had so
Speaker 4: many avid fans, and these people were just out of
Speaker 4: their heads when we went to play. They were screaming
Speaker 4: and hollering. They got so much momentum from their crowd
Speaker 4: that it was really hard to even think out there
Speaker 4: and keep your pictures focused on throwing strikes. And I
Speaker 4: remember the last thing I said before, I said, you know, guys,
Speaker 4: you know we've thrown the ball over the plate. We've
Speaker 4: had some pretty good runs, I think, but we cannot
Speaker 4: be intimidated by the crowd. That's one thing. When that
Speaker 4: crowd starts to get loud in New York and starts
Speaker 4: screaming for their team, that's when we need to stop
Speaker 4: the game, walk to the mound and just sit there
Speaker 4: and talk to the picture until that crowd burns out.
Speaker 4: And you know what, Zaxy, I know you remember it.
Speaker 4: It worked. We took the crowd out of it. At
Speaker 4: least we had a little time to think. We made
Speaker 4: better plays on defense, We made some great plays in
Speaker 4: the outfield. You know, everybody was just able to focus
Speaker 4: a lot better. And I think that really gave us
Speaker 4: a little bit of an edge because we really had
Speaker 4: guys that were having great seasons and.
Speaker 3: A great great first of all, good to be with you.
Speaker 6: And another great way to take that crowd out was
Speaker 6: the places John Shelby was making in centerfield. The home
Speaker 6: run that Mike Sosha hit in the ninth inning off
Speaker 6: of good and and then Gibby hits the one in
Speaker 6: the twelfth. There was ways that they took the crowd out,
Speaker 6: and I think that's what we're seeing right now with
Speaker 6: these Dodgers. They have to do those things. They have
Speaker 6: to have that big home run in the ninth inning
Speaker 6: like Soshia gave us. We got to have, you know,
Speaker 6: events like Gibbey had given us as well. And that's
Speaker 6: where the Dodgers are right now. Dipper is a catcher
Speaker 6: twenty four years. I mean, look at his resume. Go
Speaker 6: on Baseball Reference and look at his resume. It's so long,
Speaker 6: it's incredible. The amount of things that Rick Dempsey had
Speaker 6: done in his career amazing. Rick break down a little
Speaker 6: bit if you can where Walker Bueller is and what
Speaker 6: you see in him and how that translates into something
Speaker 6: great for the Dodgers in Game three.
Speaker 4: Well it would have been. This kid has all the pitches,
Speaker 4: he's got a great fastball, and when he first came
Speaker 4: to the Dodgers, I remember how well he was locating
Speaker 4: the ball. We weren't quite in this era saxone where
Speaker 4: you know, everybody goes to one knee, the catchers back
Speaker 4: there and they give the target tie and the strike zone.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, Saxy, you would have hit six hundred
Speaker 4: with that high fastball if he keeps it up there.
Speaker 4: I mean it's something. But now, I mean Buehler got
Speaker 4: hurt a little bit, and then now he's coming back
Speaker 4: from that, he has to stay focused on keeping the
Speaker 4: ball down in the strike zone. Yes, and I think
Speaker 4: when he first came in, that's the way catchers were
Speaker 4: orchestrating their games. Now, I don't know, he can't pitch
Speaker 4: up in the strike zone. He's got, you know, three
Speaker 4: pretty good pitches. The breaking ball is outstanding, the change
Speaker 4: up is pretty good, and the fastball he's got a
Speaker 4: little bit of movement on it, you know, not quite
Speaker 4: like Oral Herscheizer. But you know he's in and around
Speaker 4: the strike zone all the time. So if he can,
Speaker 4: if they can just score him a few runs and
Speaker 4: let him get confident out there on the mound, you
Speaker 4: know he's going to be like he used to be.
Speaker 4: He can shut a team down.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Rick, we hear about catching nowadays, and you open
Speaker 5: the door there for me to ask you about this
Speaker 5: and the way catching is here. In twenty twenty four,
Speaker 5: we hear about framing pitches and stealing pitches that aren't
Speaker 5: strikes on the block to help out your pitcher. It's
Speaker 5: not like you guys weren't doing this in the days
Speaker 5: of the nineties, the eighties and seventies, of the sixties.
Speaker 5: They act like it's something new for catchers to start
Speaker 5: framing pitches is a drive you nuts seeing the way
Speaker 5: catching has evolved to what it is now. You mentioned
Speaker 5: the one knee on the ground. Nobody he blocks the
Speaker 5: ball anymore like you're supposed to, And now we act
Speaker 5: like the framing pitches is the newest thing in baseball.
Speaker 4: Well, a month ago, I was looking at some stats
Speaker 4: where it said that there's more than a thousand more
Speaker 4: stolen bases at this point in Major League Baseball than
Speaker 4: there was before the analytical era came in. And you know,
Speaker 4: you're taking a lot of the strength of a lot
Speaker 4: of really good catchers away from them when you want
Speaker 4: them to go to one that if you can imagine
Speaker 4: in your mind now a catcher going to one knee
Speaker 4: and sitting in the middle of the plate with the
Speaker 4: target up. But as the pitcher gets ready to throw
Speaker 4: the ball, you move your target outside the strike zone
Speaker 4: with your left hand and then as it's coming towards
Speaker 4: the outside corner, you just catch it on the way
Speaker 4: to moving it into the strike zone. Oh my god,
Speaker 4: I did that accidentally one time when I first came
Speaker 4: into baseball with an old umpire named Nestor Shylock. I
Speaker 4: don't know if you guys ever remember that name, but
Speaker 4: Nestor tap me on the show, he says, young man,
Speaker 4: if you want to stay in your first game in
Speaker 4: the major leagues very long, you will never do that again.
Speaker 4: Now framing a pitch, I said, yes, sir, mister Shylock,
Speaker 4: and framing a pitch is entirely different. I was taught
Speaker 4: by a lot of the greats before I talked to
Speaker 4: Yogi Bear when I was a Yankee, you know Phil
Speaker 4: Roof when I was Minnesota twin. And it's all done
Speaker 4: with your hands. You just set your target down on
Speaker 4: the outside corner, right at the knees, like Palmer always
Speaker 4: want me. You know where the pocket of your glove
Speaker 4: is now sitting on there. You see a ball coming,
Speaker 4: It's going to miss the outside corner by a couple inches.
Speaker 4: So what do you do? Pull your hands straight back,
Speaker 4: And as you pull your hands straight back, let your hand,
Speaker 4: meet the ball wherever you catch it, and just bend
Speaker 4: your wrist to the strike zone. It gives you six
Speaker 4: to eight inches. If you need more than that, you
Speaker 4: can't pitch. Gotcha, got so, you know, I learned to
Speaker 4: frame pitches like working on the inside. You use your elbow.
Speaker 4: You see that fastball outside, I mean yeah, outside the
Speaker 4: left side of the plate. He might be inside to
Speaker 4: a right hander or a way to a left hander.
Speaker 4: You let your elbow stay outside the ball, and when
Speaker 4: it hits your pocket, just let it bend your hand
Speaker 4: back into the strike zone. Oh, powers appreciated it back
Speaker 4: in those days, you know, and being able to block
Speaker 4: the ball. Nobody blocks the ball very well anymore. But
Speaker 4: it isn't right, Adam. They can't block it two or
Speaker 4: three feet outside. And let me tell you what I mean.
Speaker 4: I know Major League Baseball loves to see guys in
Speaker 4: scoring position, but going to one knee and giving them
Speaker 4: that opportunity to steal that easy and then and giving
Speaker 4: up a base hit. Your pitchers don't like ras that
Speaker 4: are five and six, But some of them don't care
Speaker 4: anymore so as long as they make it through a
Speaker 4: game and they're a little bit successful. At winning that game.
Speaker 4: You know, they think they've done something really good. Well,
Speaker 4: I got news for you. You know, the era's the good
Speaker 4: era's ought to definitely be in the three point oh
Speaker 4: to three point nine right in there is pretty darn
Speaker 4: good in today's game. But they don't have that anymore.
Speaker 4: Everybody's all excited about four point five and four point now,
Speaker 4: are you kidding?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 4: They're changing the game too much. I mean I love
Speaker 4: the players. The guys up there there stronger than we
Speaker 4: used to be. I mean, they weight lift and they
Speaker 4: do all things that are really darn good. But the
Speaker 4: durability I don't see. And especially with the pitchers having
Speaker 4: to use five or six games, I mean, how often
Speaker 4: does that happen where you see five or six guys
Speaker 4: go into games and they all pitch. Well, it's just
Speaker 4: somebody's going to put a little stress on the on
Speaker 4: the bullpen or the starting pitcher at some point another
Speaker 4: and it's just it's not that that good. Yeah. I
Speaker 4: like to see the home runs too, but there's nothing
Speaker 4: wrong with twelve to fifteen hits in the game, which
Speaker 4: the Dodgers used to do. When they have this little
Speaker 4: guy named Steve Sam would get on base all damn times.
Speaker 6: You know, I wish, Hey, Rick, I got to ask
Speaker 6: you about the totality of the way defenses are today,
Speaker 6: and part of that is, Yeah, they can't block the
Speaker 6: ball because they're on one knee. And you know, I
Speaker 6: talk to you about this at nauseum when we get together.
Speaker 6: I can't believe that they're trading off blocking the ball
Speaker 6: because they think they're going to get a lower strike
Speaker 6: in the strikes on. It is what it is, and
Speaker 6: especially with the automatic balls and strikes coming.
Speaker 3: It's not going to even make a difference.
Speaker 6: So get off the one knee and get back to
Speaker 6: blocking the ball. How often do we see it?
Speaker 4: Now?
Speaker 6: Listen, I don't want to be like, well, we never
Speaker 6: did that, and we played, sure we did. I mean
Speaker 6: we miss cut off man, we swung get bad pitches
Speaker 6: like everybody else did. But have you seen the inordinate,
Speaker 6: inordinate amount of times where a batter gets a base
Speaker 6: hit doesn't even bother to look or break it down
Speaker 6: at first base. He just keeps going because he knows
Speaker 6: that outfielder is not going to hit the cutoff man,
Speaker 6: and he's you know, you can throw people out at
Speaker 6: home plate through the cutoff man. But we don't see
Speaker 6: a lot of that anymore. And then we saw it
Speaker 6: on grand display just last night. There's a high pop
Speaker 6: up to the infield that judge hit and I'll be
Speaker 6: that Brian Rochio tries to catch the ball with one
Speaker 6: hand and it's windy. What is this deal about the
Speaker 6: non professionalism that's openly, you know, put on display by
Speaker 6: trying to catch a ball with one hand?
Speaker 3: Are you that cool?
Speaker 6: Why one hand?
Speaker 4: Well? Brooks she there is no focus on defense anymore
Speaker 4: at the major league level. And people don't come to
Speaker 4: see defense, great defensive games. They come to see home runs.
Speaker 4: And this is what I think most of them are
Speaker 4: focused on. Let me just go back to last night
Speaker 4: about that pickoff play at second base in the Yankee
Speaker 4: Cleveland game. It was the second pickoff of that inning.
Speaker 4: I remember the guy comes halfway, the ball goes to second.
Speaker 4: They got him in a rundown and he just the
Speaker 4: throw was so lucky that it was wide of the
Speaker 4: base runner and short hopped the third baseman. He picked
Speaker 4: it and tagged out the runner. But you know, a
Speaker 4: rundown isn't throwing the ball back and forth where you are.
Speaker 4: It's forcing the runner to commit to one of the bases,
Speaker 4: either second or third, and then throwing the ball at
Speaker 4: the last second and tagging the die out. But that's
Speaker 4: throwing it back and forth like they were doing. It
Speaker 4: was an accident waiting to happen. They got away with
Speaker 4: it this time. But you can tell there's nothing about
Speaker 4: keeping the double play in order. When you're behind home plate,
Speaker 4: you cannot afford to let a blockable ball get by
Speaker 4: you or allow that runner to get the second base.
Speaker 4: You have to block it. And sometimes you got to
Speaker 4: go two or three feet to your right or your
Speaker 4: left to block those wild breaking balls stuff like that. So,
Speaker 4: like I say, they're taking a a great part of
Speaker 4: the game away from the catchers by going to one
Speaker 4: knee because you're locking them into a space. Let me
Speaker 4: just go back and talk one second, Saxy about a
Speaker 4: guy that I caught from the White Sox who got
Speaker 4: traded to the Oriel Steve Stone. Steve never won more
Speaker 4: than twelve games in his life. He's in his first game,
Speaker 4: he's up three to two in the ninth and he
Speaker 4: got men on second and third, and for some reason
Speaker 4: they're leaving them in the ball game. You got a
Speaker 4: right handed batter up and he's a right handed pitcher.
Speaker 4: Two strikes and no balls, and I called for a
Speaker 4: curveball in the dirt. He gets all mad and calls
Speaker 4: me out to the mound. I said, what do you want, Steve?
Speaker 4: He says, Man, if you think I'm going to throw
Speaker 4: a curveball there, it's going to go to the backstop,
Speaker 4: the time run's going to score, the winning runs, going
Speaker 4: to second phase. I'm just not going to do it.
Speaker 4: There's no way I'm going to do that. I said, listen, Saxy,
Speaker 4: you're not that good.
Speaker 3: No, no, stony.
Speaker 4: He looked at me. What are you talking about? I said,
Speaker 4: you're not that good to throw your curveball by me. Okay,
Speaker 4: so you just throw the curveball in the dirt and
Speaker 4: I'll block it. You'll get strike three and we'll go
Speaker 4: get the last out together. He says, okay, but if
Speaker 4: you mess this up, he says, you're going to be
Speaker 4: the one talking to the media. So he throws the
Speaker 4: curveball on the dirt. The hitter swings at it. I
Speaker 4: block it, I pick it up, and I throw it
Speaker 4: back at him as hard as I can. What the
Speaker 4: hell is wrong with you? I said, you haven't gotten
Speaker 4: the third out yet. He gets a fly ball and left.
Speaker 4: You know, he wins his first game with the Orls.
Speaker 4: How many games do you think he won that season
Speaker 4: in nineteen eighty Somebody take a quick guess.
Speaker 3: Fifteen z.
Speaker 4: He won more games than Palmer ever won in a season.
Speaker 4: He was twenty five and seven most. He started the
Speaker 4: All Star Game and he got the Cy Young Award,
Speaker 4: and he has been ecstatic ever since. But he learned
Speaker 4: how to pitch out of the strike zone. In today's game, sexy,
Speaker 4: they do not know you guys, you know how to
Speaker 4: pitch when they're ahead in the count. You got to
Speaker 4: throw some ball in the dirt sacks. You know they
Speaker 4: did it to you on purpose. They did it to
Speaker 4: me on purpose. All they tried now is throw the
Speaker 4: ball up in the strike zone by everybody. Some guys
Speaker 4: will swing at it. But you know, look how many
Speaker 4: more walks they have in the game now. It's ridiculous.
Speaker 4: It puts too much pressure on the starting pitchers. That
Speaker 4: puts way too much pressure on the bullpen guys coming
Speaker 4: in because they're only there for three or four hitters.
Speaker 4: And if you have a couple of walks, you're in
Speaker 4: serious trouble. But that's the name of my game.
Speaker 5: You can find out more about Rick Dempsey what he's
Speaker 5: doing now on Twitter at rig Dempsey twenty four Rick
Speaker 5: Dempsey twenty four dot com. Talk a little bit about
Speaker 5: the baseball warehouse, You're involvement and what's what you're doing
Speaker 5: with you on baseball players out there.
Speaker 4: Well, we're trying to teach a good catching mechanics factor.
Speaker 4: I have a lot of catching clinics and everything with
Speaker 4: young kids starting out eight, ten, twelve years old. You know,
Speaker 4: I'm just teaching them how to give a good target,
Speaker 4: how to catch the ball back there. The footwork that
Speaker 4: it takes to throw a ball to the bases is
Speaker 4: going to take a couple of years before they get
Speaker 4: that lockdown because you know, Zacho that they don't even
Speaker 4: hold the ball yet at that age properly. So we
Speaker 4: work on little things like that so that they don't
Speaker 4: hurt their arm and join that percentage of players today
Speaker 4: have had so many Tommy John operations, it's ridiculous. We're
Speaker 4: trying to spread that out. But we work on some hitters.
Speaker 4: There's some great hitters in the game, but you can
Speaker 4: tell but saxy they are just so hell bent on
Speaker 4: swinging as hard as they can. They need to learn
Speaker 4: to hit first, and then when they get older they
Speaker 4: can adjust to swinging harder.
Speaker 6: Yeah, hey, Rick, my last one for you. I wanted
Speaker 6: to ask you just about that. The approach to hitting today.
Speaker 6: You know, I see so many players they don't even
Speaker 6: try to move the ball over to the right side.
Speaker 6: We saw a great example of doing it the right
Speaker 6: way with Mookie when he punched that ball to right
Speaker 6: field and playing Pepper with tattoos. But you don't see
Speaker 6: a ton of that today.
Speaker 3: I see it in.
Speaker 6: Triple A when it all the games here. You know,
Speaker 6: in the Sacramento Triple A team is a guy in
Speaker 6: second base, nobody out. They're not even trying. They got
Speaker 6: the second basement behind second. They're not even trying to
Speaker 6: hit the ball to the right side. What about that
Speaker 6: approach and what about swinging up on everything?
Speaker 4: It's not good, Brooks, I mean, Saxy, it's not good
Speaker 4: because you know, you've got to learn how to have
Speaker 4: back control. Today, all the scouts tell these kids just
Speaker 4: swing hard, swing hard, see how far you can hit it.
Speaker 4: You know that it's not playing the game the way
Speaker 4: it should be paid more games are won by getting
Speaker 4: guys over and getting guys in than by hitting home runs.
Speaker 4: And they're never going to understand that because it's all
Speaker 4: about the money. Saxy. Oh my god, would you be
Speaker 4: like to be playing second base doing what you did
Speaker 4: as a leadoff hitter making about three hundred million?
Speaker 3: Ugh, don't tempt me.
Speaker 4: Wes them. They make the money. That's okay with me.
Speaker 4: I wish, but gosh darn it. You know, do the
Speaker 4: little things you need to do to win baseball games,
Speaker 4: and then I'll be okay with all of them making
Speaker 4: it ye.
Speaker 5: Rick Dempsey twenty four seasons in the Big Leagues, a
Speaker 5: World Series MVP, remember of the Orioles Hall of Fame,
Speaker 5: Three seasons with the Dodgers, including that magical nineteen eighty
Speaker 5: eight World Series title, catching the final out from Oral
Speaker 5: Hrshcheizer in Oakland to win that World Series. Rick, great
Speaker 5: catching up with you. Fans listening can find out more
Speaker 5: at Rick Dempsey twenty four dot com. Thanks for the
Speaker 5: time and joining us this morning.
Speaker 4: Thanks Rick, Thank you guys very much too. Take care
Speaker 4: of my boys. Saxy man, he knows the game.
Speaker 3: He does, he does. We appreciate it.
Speaker 5: Rick, Thanks for joining us this morning here on AM
Speaker 5: five to seventy LA Sports. It's amazing all your former
Speaker 5: teammates like you, Saxy.
Speaker 6: Hey, it's amazing what bribes will do?
Speaker 4: You know what I mean?
Speaker 5: Serious, Well, come back and get to more of your
Speaker 5: phone calls. Thanks to Rick Dempsey. David Vassa will join
Speaker 5: us in about thirty minutes from New York. We're leading
Speaker 5: you up to Game three the National le Champion Chip Series.
Speaker 5: You're a home of show A, Tani and the Dodgers.
Speaker 5: Hef I seventy EL Sports, Sax and Kates and AM
Speaker 5: on this Wednesday morning. Thanks for being with us. Thanks
Speaker 5: for Rick Dempsey talking baseball twenty forty years in the
Speaker 5: big leagues. Alleged has got Baltimore Ores got some stories.
Speaker 5: If you got you know, six seven hours and you.
Speaker 6: Want to listen, he's got some. He's man, he's got
Speaker 6: a lot of them, and they're really good. I mean,
Speaker 6: just think great storyteller.
Speaker 5: The players that he came across, played against, played with
Speaker 5: from the sixties and you know, from from Thurman Munson's
Speaker 5: to the to the Dodgers of the eighties to any
Speaker 5: everybody in between.
Speaker 3: You know, with the Baltimore oril is A.
Speaker 6: Used to ask him all the time, what was it like,
Speaker 6: you know, against this picture, what was it like to
Speaker 6: you know, who is quiet at plate? Which is a
Speaker 6: great trait for a hitter. That's really good. Guy's really
Speaker 6: quiet at the plate, you know. And he would tell
Speaker 6: me and go through these renditions and these these little,
Speaker 6: you know, nuances about all these players, and I was
Speaker 6: like fascinated to hear all these stories, you know, because
Speaker 6: I don't care how long you play. You can talk
Speaker 6: to Derek Jeter or whoever you want. They're all fans
Speaker 6: of the game still. They they love to hear these stories,
Speaker 6: and you know, I love to hear him too.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Absolutely so we appreciate him catching up with us. David
Speaker 5: Bastable joy us after the top of the hours. Go
Speaker 5: out to the phones. Thanks for being patient, Bob and
Speaker 5: long beach Sean x A five seventy LA Sports.
Speaker 7: Hey doing Bob, I'm doing great, guys. How you guys
Speaker 7: doing good?
Speaker 3: Hey?
Speaker 4: Just real quick?
Speaker 11: Ah, good man, I'm feeling good, just really real quick.
Speaker 4: I feel like the Dodgers need a sense of urgency.
Speaker 11: Man. We know what happened last year with Arizona. We
Speaker 11: know what happened with the Padres two years ago. I
Speaker 11: feel like the Dodgers, they're just like we were here.
Speaker 4: We're gonna show up.
Speaker 11: Everything's gonna walks out, believe it or not. These guys
Speaker 11: are stealing slumps, man, Old Tony bets that even though
Speaker 11: they've been hitting a couple times. Man, so so like
Speaker 11: we need to put it on man, because I don't
Speaker 11: want to happen again with the mess. The Mets are serious, man,
Speaker 11: this thing may not get back to La.
Speaker 3: I appreciate it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, a little fire your belly, I see where he
Speaker 5: is going with this, A little excitement out there, base hit,
Speaker 5: get the doug out excited. Do your old hand waves
Speaker 5: to the the dugout and the bullpen, get you know,
Speaker 5: get everybody fired up. I need something out of somebody
Speaker 5: besides ta Oscar Hernandez as far as excitement, and I'm
Speaker 5: not just talking about the waving back and forth and
Speaker 5: the hand gestures they do. I need a little yelling,
Speaker 5: a little fire in the belly, and a little a
Speaker 5: little primal scream after a double to the wall or
Speaker 5: a home run or something. Get the bench and get
Speaker 5: this team fired up and keep as Rick Dempsey said,
Speaker 5: keep that crowd out of the game tonight from the
Speaker 5: get go.
Speaker 6: Yeah, hey, look how many stars are on this team?
Speaker 6: I mean, would we be really surprised if all of
Speaker 6: a sudden it wasn't a star. Well, let me say this,
Speaker 6: let me rephrase that. Not biggest star, not a biggest name,
Speaker 6: but sure somebody like Will Smith, who I think he's
Speaker 6: a star.
Speaker 3: But Will Smith.
Speaker 6: Could come up and have a two home run night
Speaker 6: and Mookie steals three bases and then all of a sudden,
Speaker 6: here we go. You know, but maybe the main person
Speaker 6: on the docket here that's doing a great job is
Speaker 6: somebody like Will Smith. Maybe it's a Tommy Edmund, somebody
Speaker 6: that's u you know, not the biggest name on the team,
Speaker 6: but certainly very very capable of turning this thing around.
Speaker 6: I mean, how long can you hold down a whole
Speaker 6: team of just really good players. I don't see the
Speaker 6: Mets having the ability to do that. Whether it's Sean
Speaker 6: Maniah or whoever else is out there, somebody's gonna click
Speaker 6: on this team, and I would put my confidence in that.
Speaker 5: Reggie in La Reggie joins us here on a FI
Speaker 5: seventy LA Sports.
Speaker 3: Good morning, Reggie, Good morning, guys.
Speaker 1: First of all, I want to say, whoever thought of
Speaker 1: having you guys on during Dodger season deserves a race.
Speaker 1: The second thing is when I heard you guys talking
Speaker 1: to the Dempsey over there about defensive plays, I think
Speaker 1: you're just seeing guys not going after fundamental plays, but
Speaker 1: they're looking for that highlight defensive play to get highlight
Speaker 1: cliffs maybe on social media or ESPN. And the last thing,
Speaker 1: what does sex think about the Dodgers having a goal
Speaker 1: you know, going versatility of Oways switching out who this
Speaker 1: shortstop is versus having a specialty crew that you know,
Speaker 1: who is your shortstop and your second basement and things
Speaker 1: like that.
Speaker 4: Just want to hear what you guys think on that.
Speaker 3: Thanks guy, Thanks Regie, appreciate it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they've got utility players that can play multiple positions.
Speaker 5: Tommy m and Chris Taylor, Keyky Hernandez Miguel Rojas is
Speaker 5: primarily a shortstop. The Dodgers would love to have, I guess,
Speaker 5: at everyday shortstop that they can have out there for
Speaker 5: one hundred and sixty two games, but they just don't
Speaker 5: have that. They've got guys that can play multiple positions
Speaker 5: and it hasn't been a problem yet.
Speaker 3: Sex.
Speaker 5: You haven't seen a huge meltdown Defensively, you haven't seen
Speaker 5: mis cues because of the lack of playing time together,
Speaker 5: So it hasn't been an issue yet.
Speaker 3: No, it won't be.
Speaker 6: They come to spring training with three different Doug gloves
Speaker 6: for three different positions. That's the way it's played today,
Speaker 6: and you don't really sacrifice anything on the defensive side,
Speaker 6: so it's working. Ninety eight Games Speaks Volumes.
Speaker 5: Two hours down, one to go, Your phone calls coming up.
Speaker 5: David Vasse will join us from New York City, Dodgers
Speaker 5: and Mets from Queens, New York. All eyes will be
Speaker 5: on this game three tonight. Will the stars show up?
Speaker 5: Will show Hey Otani on the biggest stage yet of
Speaker 5: his career, be a player in Game three tonight, a
Speaker 5: difference maker, a home run hitter, an X factor, a
Speaker 5: major contributor for this Dodgers team. Tonight, we'll break it
Speaker 5: on down. It's Steve Sacks, Tim Cats and you on
Speaker 5: this Wednesday morning. Thanks should be with us. A FI
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