Speaker 1: Now your host for playoff Dodger Toss sound Off Angelinos
Speaker 1: David Vasse.
Speaker 2: We are live at Dodgers Stadium after Game one of
Speaker 2: the NLCS as the Dodgers shut out the Mets nine
Speaker 2: to nothing. Welcome the Dodger Talk David Vasse with you
Speaker 2: until ten o'clock tonight here on AM five to seventy
Speaker 2: LA Sports phone lines are open at eight six six nine,
Speaker 2: eight seven two five seventy. We will hear from Jose
Speaker 2: Mota at nine forty tonight. Also we'll head downstairs to
Speaker 2: the Dodger Clubhouse to hear from Mookie Bets and Freddie Freeman.
Speaker 2: But when you look at this game tonight, it starts
Speaker 2: and ends with Jack Flaherty. With the way Jack Flaherty
Speaker 2: came out in the top of the first inning, and
Speaker 2: how much of a feel he had for his slider
Speaker 2: and his curveball, and the way he attacked the Mets hitters,
Speaker 2: you felt like it was going to be a good
Speaker 2: night for the Dodgers. And when the Dodgers loaded the
Speaker 2: base is against CODEI Senga in the bottom of the
Speaker 2: first inning and we're not able to score until they
Speaker 2: got two outs, it was a little bit of nervous time,
Speaker 2: and you felt like, Okay, here we go. We're letting
Speaker 2: Senga off the hook right here if you're the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: But Max Munsey delivered a clutch base hit to drive
Speaker 2: in the first two runs of the game, and Jack
Speaker 2: Flarity and the Dodgers were off to the races. The
Speaker 2: Mets did not get a hit until the fifth inning.
Speaker 2: Jack Flerty had a no hitter through the first four
Speaker 2: innings of this game. Tonight, a leadoff single in the
Speaker 2: fifth inning by Jesse Winker. The dh was the first
Speaker 2: hit the Mets had, and basically the fifth inning was
Speaker 2: the only sort of offense the Mets even materialized, and
Speaker 2: it wasn't much of anything. After Jesse Winkers singled the
Speaker 2: right field, Jose and Glacias singled Winker to second base,
Speaker 2: but Winker was going first to third and for whatever reason,
Speaker 2: stop between second and third and Keik A Hernandez heads
Speaker 2: up high baseball, IQ through to second base to keep
Speaker 2: the double play in order and through behind Winker, who
Speaker 2: for whatever reason stopped. The Dodgers were able to get
Speaker 2: Winker out, and all of a sudden it was one
Speaker 2: out with a man at first base instead of first
Speaker 2: and third and nobody out, and from there Taylor flied
Speaker 2: out to right and Alvarez lined out to center. That
Speaker 2: was it. That was the Mets offense, and it wasn't
Speaker 2: much of anything. The Dodgers, now, with Jack Flaherty pitching
Speaker 2: seven scoreless innings, Daniel Hudson and Ben Casparius closing it
Speaker 2: out with zeros, have pitched thirty three consecutive scoreless innings
Speaker 2: using twelve different pitchers. In contrast, the nineteen sixty six
Speaker 2: Orioles in the World Series that year sweeping the Dodgers
Speaker 2: used only four different pitchers to pitch thirty three consecutive
Speaker 2: scoreless innings. The Dodgers are doing it with a pitching staff.
Speaker 2: It's a lot different than what it used to be.
Speaker 2: And like I mentioned during the Clubhouse Show, the last
Speaker 2: time any team had a pitch or throw a complete
Speaker 2: game in the postseason was all the way back in
Speaker 2: twenty seventeen when Justin Verlander pitched a complete game for
Speaker 2: the Astros in Game two of the ALCS. So it's
Speaker 2: not just the Dodgers. Everybody just wants to focus on
Speaker 2: the Dodgers because they are on this stage more than others.
Speaker 2: This is the way most teams are doing business these days,
Speaker 2: and there's only a handful of starters that probably could
Speaker 2: pitch a shutout or a complete game. At the very least.
Speaker 2: Jack Flaherty probably could have. He probably could have gone
Speaker 2: nine innings tonight, but seventh scoreless was more than enough.
Speaker 2: Did the job. And not only did Flerity do his
Speaker 2: job in a big way. Not only did the Dodgers win,
Speaker 2: but with the offense score nine runs and Flaherty pitching
Speaker 2: seven scoreless innings, it allows the Dodgers to go with
Speaker 2: a bullpen game tomorrow. They were going to have to
Speaker 2: pitch at least one bullpen game in this series, and
Speaker 2: they were hoping they would get what they got tonight
Speaker 2: to be able to pitch a bullpen game tomorrow, a
Speaker 2: day game going up against Sean Manaiah Walker Buehler. Game
Speaker 2: three at City Field eight six six nine, eight seven
Speaker 2: two five seventy is the phone number. Let's head downstairs
Speaker 2: to Mookie Betts, who all of a sudden now is
Speaker 2: not getting criticism for not being a postseason player anymore.
Speaker 3: I mean, at the end of the day, if you
Speaker 3: want to win win a row series, you'll figure out
Speaker 3: how to do it, and we all, everyone in here
Speaker 3: wants to win, and so uh, honestly, I don't think
Speaker 3: it's that hard. Maybe, you know, your energy may be
Speaker 3: down a little bit, but then then I mean, if
Speaker 3: you want to win a Row Series, you got to
Speaker 3: figure out a way to get it up. So you know,
Speaker 3: it wasn't really that tough.
Speaker 4: We're just trying rejected for just with his performance on
Speaker 4: the mound and what he did for this team today.
Speaker 3: I mean, he definitely I think that's where our energy started.
Speaker 3: You know, he came out Scolers first. That was huge.
Speaker 3: We were able to strike first, and then he was
Speaker 3: able to give us a shutdown any right after that.
Speaker 3: So I think our energy all started with left with
Speaker 3: Jack and I mean, he know everybody saw what else
Speaker 3: what he did after that, But I know that those
Speaker 3: first two innings were really when the energy started.
Speaker 4: I know you kind of hit on it, but just
Speaker 4: how important was it to come into this series not
Speaker 4: taking your foot off the gas, especially just considering you know,
Speaker 4: of a talk with Max looking back to twenty twenty
Speaker 4: one and leaving the emotions of the NLDS going into
Speaker 4: the CS against Atlanta, Just how do you guys, how
Speaker 4: did you think you'll manage that a little bit differently
Speaker 4: this year?
Speaker 3: I think we just stayed on that high, you know.
Speaker 3: I think we didn't try and reset, you know, I
Speaker 3: think we were We're like, no, we just want would
Speaker 3: be a really really good ball club. We know another
Speaker 3: the ball club is coming in and so we have
Speaker 3: to stay there.
Speaker 5: We have to stay that.
Speaker 3: We can't go down and then try and recreate it,
Speaker 3: you know, we have to stay, stay up. And like
Speaker 3: I said, Jack really really gave it to us today.
Speaker 1: Every year is different, and obviously this team is different
Speaker 1: than the one in twenty one.
Speaker 6: But how much did you guys learn from kind of
Speaker 6: that experience of going to Atlanta after after that five
Speaker 6: years set against the Giants?
Speaker 2: Stay year, we learned a lot.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 3: We beat a really good team then and then obviously
Speaker 3: played a really good team after that and lost. Thinking
Speaker 3: that we can reset and then get back into the flow,
Speaker 3: but it doesn't really work that way, you know. And
Speaker 3: I think it was a great learning experience for all
Speaker 3: of us, especially myself, and so we're able to take
Speaker 3: that and apply it to today and we are we
Speaker 3: come out to.
Speaker 2: Win, all right, there's Mookie Betts after the Dodgers shut
Speaker 2: out the Mets nine to nothing in Game one of
Speaker 2: the NLCS eight six six, seven two five seventy is
Speaker 2: the phone number coming up. Later in the show, you'll
Speaker 2: hear from Freddie Freeman and Tommy Edmond, who played a
Speaker 2: big part in this game as well. Let's go out
Speaker 2: to Whittier. Tony, You're on Dodger Talk Live from Dodgers Stadium.
Speaker 8: Hi, Tony, Hey, what's up.
Speaker 9: Thanks for taking my call. I just want to make
Speaker 9: a quick observation. I feel that the Dodgers are getting
Speaker 9: hot at the perfect time. In past Pool seasons, we
Speaker 9: seen teams come in they just write lightning to the
Speaker 9: World Series. But I think the Dodgers are writing that
Speaker 9: right now. Everything's clicking.
Speaker 10: I don't know.
Speaker 9: I just have a good feeling about this team.
Speaker 2: Would you agree that feeling? Was it thirty three consecutive
Speaker 2: scoreless innings, their pitchers are throwing. I think you're right, Tony,
Speaker 2: and I know what you're saying. Usually the Dodgers in
Speaker 2: recent history are facing the hot team. Well, it feels
Speaker 2: like the Dodgers are that hot team and peaking at
Speaker 2: the right time. Thanks for the phone call. And a
Speaker 2: big reason why is they're playing for each other. We
Speaker 2: saw that. I feel like talking to people around the Dodgers,
Speaker 2: they told me that NLDS series turned in a loss
Speaker 2: when they were losing in Game three. Walker Bueller giving
Speaker 2: up six runs in that second inning comes back to
Speaker 2: the dugout, throws the cooler of bubblegum and lets everybody
Speaker 2: know that was not acceptable. I'm holding myself accountable and
Speaker 2: holding you accountable. And then Taoscar Hernandez with the Grand Slam.
Speaker 2: People around the Dodgers believe that was the turning point,
Speaker 2: and the Dodgers have started to play for each other tonight.
Speaker 2: You know we get calls about small ball, Well, the
Speaker 2: Dodgers played small ball tonight. Gavin Lux and Tommy Edmund
Speaker 2: each laid down sacrifice bunts to put runners in scoring position,
Speaker 2: and they got key base hits from the big boys,
Speaker 2: Freddie mooki Otani Munci. But they are playing for each other,
Speaker 2: key a Hernandez getting base hits, not having big swings.
Speaker 2: Here was Tommy Edmund after the game when I caught
Speaker 2: up with him. Tommy Edmund, you had a big part
Speaker 2: in this. It felt like you guys played a complete
Speaker 2: game tonight.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it was an awesome game. You know. Obviously Jacks
Speaker 6: did a great job of throwing seven. Shout out at thanks,
Speaker 6: keeping the street going, and our offense came out banging
Speaker 6: and we just did a good job in all fastest of.
Speaker 2: The game, thirty three consecutive scoreless innings. Now for your
Speaker 2: pitching staff, what does that say about everybody top to bottom?
Speaker 6: Man, they've been locked in. You know, it's too good
Speaker 6: offense we've gone up against too, so to do that
Speaker 6: it against anybody is impressive, and against these guys even
Speaker 6: more so.
Speaker 2: Tommy. I know the Dodgers have the identity of slugging,
Speaker 2: but man, you and Gavin Lux really returned the favor
Speaker 2: of advancing the runner. How important is that going to
Speaker 2: be for you guys?
Speaker 6: Yeah, playing a little small ball. You know, we've both
Speaker 6: got some buns down and you know both times it's
Speaker 6: set up an RBI single, So you know, didn't just
Speaker 6: rely on the homer today and still put up nine runs.
Speaker 2: Tommy, love watching you play baseball, not only what you
Speaker 2: do physically, but you're always thinking the game. Thank you
Speaker 2: for stopping.
Speaker 11: Thank you, I appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Tommy. Edmund had the uniform dirty and really it as
Speaker 2: a really smart baseball player. And like he said, the
Speaker 2: Dodgers put up nine runs tonight without hitting a home run.
Speaker 2: During the NLDS that five game series, the Dodgers hit
Speaker 2: sixteen home runs to score twenty four runs. Let's go
Speaker 2: back out to the phones. Mark was at Dodgers Stadium tonight. Hi, Mark,
Speaker 2: you're on Dodger Talk hither day.
Speaker 12: If yes, it was a great game, and I hope
Speaker 12: it sets the tone for the rest of the games
Speaker 12: of the series. So my question has to do with
Speaker 12: Ben Kispirius. I was very happy to see Roberts give
Speaker 12: him a chance to pitch in the ninth inning. I
Speaker 12: have seen him one other game a few weeks ago.
Speaker 12: I was very impressed with him. I know he's very young.
Speaker 12: He was lights out in that game. He was very
Speaker 12: mature in the interview afterwards, and I was wondering going forward,
Speaker 12: do you see a place for him with the Dodgers,
Speaker 12: And if so, what do you think he can contribute?
Speaker 12: You think they'll hold on to him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I do. And Ben Caspira's as that edge and
Speaker 2: that nastiness that the rest of those relievers have, and
Speaker 2: the Dodger bullpen. I think he's going to get more
Speaker 2: opportunities in this postseason. That was low leverage nine to nothing,
Speaker 2: but he serves the purpose and look if the Dodgers
Speaker 2: need him again in this series. I don't think Dave
Speaker 2: Roberts is going to shy away from him. He's going
Speaker 2: to be part of this pitching staff, whether it's as
Speaker 2: a starter or a reliever moving forward. He's got it.
Speaker 2: He's not intimidated and certainly has great mound presence. Eight
Speaker 2: six six nine, eight seven, two five seventy is the
Speaker 2: phone number. Let's go out to Oscar in Baldwin Park.
Speaker 2: You're on Dodger Talk. Hi, Oscar.
Speaker 7: That's say how you doing brother?
Speaker 10: Hey man?
Speaker 7: This is the This is the best I've seen him
Speaker 7: in the stretch, had been in the past twelve years
Speaker 7: with with the fretch, HA been making the playoffs and stuff.
Speaker 7: This is the best team. This is definitely the best.
Speaker 7: He just they got. They got a lot of emotion
Speaker 7: in the man. I think it's like we said all
Speaker 7: year with the stretch, with tany and stuff, and so
Speaker 7: the first college said, I feel good about this team.
Speaker 7: The one thing about the scoreless innings, man, I think
Speaker 7: it's more impressive in this day and age, and it
Speaker 7: was back then with all the long ball down and
Speaker 7: everything like that. But then the whole teams like this
Speaker 7: cord Us in the playoffs in this day and age,
Speaker 7: that's impressive, man. So you know what, one last team, man,
Speaker 7: I want to see a Dodger Yankee World Series. The
Speaker 7: last I hadn't seen one of my last and the
Speaker 7: last thing to say, eighty one was a year before
Speaker 7: I was born. I want to see it, man, I
Speaker 7: want to see it.
Speaker 2: Hey, there's a good chance it's going to happen, Oscar.
Speaker 2: I feel like the Dodgers are going to hold up
Speaker 2: their end of the bargain. And like I said, during
Speaker 2: the NLDS, a lot of fans seem to worry about
Speaker 2: more about what the other team can do instead of
Speaker 2: realizing how good the Dodgers are. The Dodgers are a
Speaker 2: really good team, and the Mets are riding this magic wave.
Speaker 2: Actually since the Dodgers swept them in New York all
Speaker 2: the way back in May. They swept a doubleheader and
Speaker 2: won the first game of that series. And after that,
Speaker 2: Francisco Lindor and JD. Martinez held a team meeting to
Speaker 2: just get everybody relaxed, and from there they went on
Speaker 2: to win eighty nine games this season, but they just
Speaker 2: don't have enough to beat the Dodgers. The Dodgers are
Speaker 2: better top to bottom, and they're playing really well. They're
Speaker 2: playing for each other, as was evident tonight. Eight six
Speaker 2: six nine eighty seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 2: In fact, I can't remember a Dodger team that was
Speaker 2: playing for each other as much as this team is.
Speaker 2: Since twenty seventeen. I wasn't around the team in the clubhouse,
Speaker 2: around them on an everyday basis. In twenty I was
Speaker 2: relegated to the press box for every game, and when
Speaker 2: we were in the bubble, I was in my own bubble.
Speaker 2: I was in a broadcast booth for that entire three
Speaker 2: and a half weeks while the players were downstairs. My
Speaker 2: only communication with them was over text, phone calls, zoom
Speaker 2: and interviews from the clubhouse to where I was. So
Speaker 2: they were really tight because they had to be. They
Speaker 2: were together twenty four But in these type of normal circumstances,
Speaker 2: this is the first team I have seen since twenty
Speaker 2: seventeen playing for each other and quite honestly doing the
Speaker 2: unselfish team at bats that we saw tonight to set
Speaker 2: up nine runs without hitting a home run. Let's go
Speaker 2: out to Brayden, who is at Dodger Stadium tonight. Hi, Braiden,
Speaker 2: you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 5: Hey man, Hey, I just wanted to say Jack Clarity,
Speaker 5: he's a dog. He went out there. He is it
Speaker 5: all night. He went out and shoved it all night.
Speaker 5: And you know I wouldn't. I wouldn't go and say
Speaker 5: the Mets don't have enough to beat us. I mean,
Speaker 5: but hey, I'm.
Speaker 2: Gonna they don't have a crow.
Speaker 7: But you don't.
Speaker 5: You don't want to be too cocky. You want to
Speaker 5: just they could.
Speaker 2: Be as cocky as I want. I'm not playing.
Speaker 5: Hey, I love it. I love it bat day. Hey,
Speaker 5: I just want to say they they went out there
Speaker 5: and proved it tonight. They did everything right the right way.
Speaker 5: Clarity went out there and set up the bullpen for tomorrow.
Speaker 5: He set up the rotation for the red the series,
Speaker 5: and hey, let's go. Let's keep it going. Let's keep
Speaker 5: it going all the way through the rest of the series.
Speaker 5: Thanks Dave.
Speaker 2: All Right, Braden, thank you for the phone call. Look,
Speaker 2: if you go back to the NLDS. When you were
Speaker 2: listening to this show, I told you whoever won Game
Speaker 2: one had a really good chance of winning the series.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers won Game five. I predicted a five game
Speaker 2: NLDS with a Dodger win. I'm saying the same thing here,
Speaker 2: a five game series win for the Dodgers over the Mets.
Speaker 2: I believe the Dodgers may lose a game in New York.
Speaker 2: Remember the format is two, three to two. But I
Speaker 2: just don't see the Mets having enough to be able
Speaker 2: to beat the Dodgers, especially when you're getting a start
Speaker 2: like that from Jack Flaherty. Nine to nothing, shut out
Speaker 2: win for the Dodgers over the Mets. Freddie Freeman again
Speaker 2: going out there, not only being out there, but actually
Speaker 2: being an impact player. He was with Kirsten Watson on
Speaker 2: Sports and at LA.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I mean I thought we did a great job.
Speaker 11: I mean, we got great day yesterday here. You know,
Speaker 11: we were about the intensity early on, even in our
Speaker 11: hitters meetings, we were pretty intense. So I thought we
Speaker 11: just came out with a great attitude. And obviously Jack,
Speaker 11: I mean, it's all Jack tonight. So glad we get
Speaker 11: some runs and let him go deep in the game.
Speaker 4: You like at just what he's able to do. What
Speaker 4: kind of made you see that you know he had
Speaker 4: it going.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I mean just a fast hid curiots the bottom
Speaker 11: of the zone and then you can throw the slider
Speaker 11: off of it. As a hitter, when you when you
Speaker 11: can tunnel pitches off like that, it's very hard to hit.
Speaker 11: And you can just tell Jack had it going from
Speaker 11: the from the first inning and we needed that especially
Speaker 11: going into tomorrow. So things are things are looking good
Speaker 11: at the start, Brady.
Speaker 2: How about you guys scoring runs in three of the
Speaker 2: first four innings and not hitting any home runs.
Speaker 11: Yeah, that's good. It's very hard to do in the
Speaker 11: postings and you're facing the best pictures in the game,
Speaker 11: so to score runs multiple runs, Uh, made a good approach.
Speaker 11: We walked a lot, capitalized in some mistakes, and I
Speaker 11: thought we did a good job overall as a whole,
Speaker 11: as a group.
Speaker 13: As a local value yourself, Howey you relate to see
Speaker 13: him help here form able to do this in front
Speaker 13: of the home plays and phone.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I mean he's been pitching Dodger Jallimes since he
Speaker 11: was in high school, so it's not nothing new to him.
Speaker 11: If you know Jack at all, He's got a nice
Speaker 11: demeanor about him. Nothing seems too big for him. With
Speaker 11: his mom in the stands, I think he wanted to
Speaker 11: go out there and do great. So overall, great day
Speaker 11: for the plarities.
Speaker 14: Pready, the more you.
Speaker 8: Play on my equal, like, is it getting easier just
Speaker 8: to day here a game, knowing.
Speaker 13: What to expect, how it's gonna do.
Speaker 11: That's a tough an answer. I would say, when I
Speaker 11: wake up, I know if I'm gonna be able to
Speaker 11: make it through. Now, we've got a good plan. We've
Speaker 11: got a tight window tomorrow. I mean, it takes me
Speaker 11: about four and a half hours to get ready for
Speaker 11: a game, so me and Bernard Lee might be sleeping
Speaker 11: here tonight, but we I mean, I'm getting used to it.
Speaker 11: I know what to expect day in and day out,
Speaker 11: and I mean, it's obviously not going to get better,
Speaker 11: but I think we're at a good point where it's
Speaker 11: not gonna get worse unless I roll it again. But
Speaker 11: that's why I'm bating on the outside to keep it
Speaker 11: from because hitting bases, you just never know if it's
Speaker 11: going to roll. So that's why we're spatting right now.
Speaker 11: But We're in a good spot where it's not getting
Speaker 11: worse when I'm playing on it, but it's obviously not
Speaker 11: getting better at either.
Speaker 2: All Right, there's Freddy Freeman on sports Net LA and
Speaker 2: I loved in the first inning when Mookie Bets and
Speaker 2: Freddie Freeman scored on month Sea's two out single. Mooki
Speaker 2: scored first, and he was there to catch Freddy Freeman,
Speaker 2: who was hustling digging around third base. Scored standing up,
Speaker 2: but with a bad right ankle, it's really hard to
Speaker 2: put on the brakes, even when after you've scored, so
Speaker 2: Mooki was there to catch and hold up Freddy Freeman
Speaker 2: after he scored. That was I think that image is
Speaker 2: going to be shown a lot when history reflects on this.
Speaker 2: NLCS eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy
Speaker 2: is the phone number. Dodgers shut out the Mets nine
Speaker 2: to nothing without hitting a home run. Let's go wat
Speaker 2: to Hosey. Who is that Dodger Stadium tonight? Hi, jose
Speaker 2: you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 14: Hey Dave, nice to hear from you, but I just
Speaker 14: wanted to piggyback on what you have been saying. The
Speaker 14: Dodgers are playing such cohesive, unselfish baseball, and it's so
Speaker 14: refreshing to see after all these NLDS exits that we've
Speaker 14: been faced with. But I also want to give a
Speaker 14: really big shout out to Dave Roberts. I feel like
Speaker 14: he is such a big part of that confidence and
Speaker 14: how he instills that in the guys, and you know,
Speaker 14: like how he managed that bullpen game in Game four,
Speaker 14: and you know, really trusting him for tomorrow. I'm wondering
Speaker 14: if you know those high leverage arms are going to
Speaker 14: come in and pitch, you know, according to the hitters,
Speaker 14: or kind of let the offense dictate how long of
Speaker 14: a leash. You know, each bullpen guy has.
Speaker 2: No when it's a bullpen game, Jose, they each have
Speaker 2: groupings of hitters that the Dodgers kind of map out
Speaker 2: before the game. What really, I mean, I've said this
Speaker 2: a lot today and since Game four, I have never
Speaker 2: seen a bullpen game go as perfect as it did
Speaker 2: for the Dodgers in Game four. Not only did every
Speaker 2: pitcher put up a zero, they used eight different pitchers
Speaker 2: in that bullpen game, but the Dodgers got an early
Speaker 2: five nothing lead. It makes it so much easier to
Speaker 2: be able to execute that when you have a five
Speaker 2: to nothing lead, and I don't know if they're going
Speaker 2: to be able to be perfect again. But it's hard
Speaker 2: to doubt those relievers back there. But you know, it's
Speaker 2: I would find it very hard to believe that it's
Speaker 2: going to go as perfect as it did in Game four.
Speaker 2: That's the epitome of a bullpen game.
Speaker 14: Yeah, you know, and Dave Roberts, I trust.
Speaker 2: All right, and Andrew Freeman. Andrew Freeman has a big
Speaker 2: hand in the mapping out all that as well. He
Speaker 2: Dave Roberts has to execute it in real time.
Speaker 15: Yeah, make out to both of them.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Dave, all right, Jose, thank you. Eight six
Speaker 2: six nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 2: Let's keep it rolling. Javier, was that Dodgers Stadium tonight?
Speaker 2: Hi Javier, Hi.
Speaker 10: David, thank you so much for taking my call. Man,
Speaker 10: you're the best. Just want to say, don't want to
Speaker 10: get too cocky, but like you said, we can't because
Speaker 10: we're not playing. We're gonna sweep. So get your brooms ready,
Speaker 10: go to home depot by two. The Meds look week, Grimace.
Speaker 10: I don't know what happened to the McDonald's eating cheeseburgers.
Speaker 10: Who cares. That's there we go. We got petrols, a
Speaker 10: money baby, that's right, we got David No, but all Seriously,
Speaker 10: I like how the Dodgers are playing that small ball.
Speaker 10: I took my youngest art to the game. I said, look,
Speaker 10: that's a butunt. That's how you move runners in scoring
Speaker 10: position back in my day. So the Dodgers looking great
Speaker 10: playing that small ball. Love it looking like eighty eight.
Speaker 10: We're gonna sweep. Bring on the Yankees, bring on Cleveland,
Speaker 10: the Indians, the Guardians, whatever they're called. Let's do it.
Speaker 2: David, all right, Javier, I love it. I love it.
Speaker 2: There's a guy that understands the Dodgers have a really
Speaker 2: good team and they're playing their best baseball of the season.
Speaker 2: And remember, coming into the postseason, so many doubters. He
Speaker 2: can't do it with just Flarity and Bueler and kind
Speaker 2: of Yamamoto. Well, the Dodgers are doing it, and their
Speaker 2: offense is making it really I shouldn't say easy, but
Speaker 2: it's really helping out the Dodgers game plan for their
Speaker 2: pitching and to get a start like tonight from Jack
Speaker 2: Flaherty seven scoreless, innings. I mean, you couldn't ask for
Speaker 2: anything more. And I love seeing Jack going over to
Speaker 2: see his mom after we spoke. I mean that was
Speaker 2: a special moment as well, because she was sitting at
Speaker 2: Dodgers Stadium when Jack flarerity led Harvard Westlake to their
Speaker 2: high school championship. And here he is. That was twenty thirteen.
Speaker 2: He was here at Dodgers Stadium pitching Harvard Westlake to
Speaker 2: the championship. And here he was tonight in twenty twenty four,
Speaker 2: pitching the Dodgers to a nine to nothing game one
Speaker 2: NLCS win two five seventy. Let's go out to Mark
Speaker 2: in Huntington Beach. You're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 10: Hi Mark, Hi David again.
Speaker 16: And you know, for once, I can tell anyone and
Speaker 16: everyone how all the so called experts and talking heads
Speaker 16: have said all the Dodgers don't have a rotation. They're
Speaker 16: not gonna even make it past San Diego.
Speaker 17: They're not even gonna have a bulletin that can hold
Speaker 17: up the batter's mookie's not gonna do anything again, not
Speaker 17: especially those idiots on ESPN.
Speaker 12: But anyway, what they don't realize is this Dodger.
Speaker 17: Team has the heart of a champion, and tonight was
Speaker 17: no less showing that they had a heart of a
Speaker 17: champion tonight. They've had all series all year, and when
Speaker 17: you have a heart of a champion, you not only
Speaker 17: go to the World Series, you win the World Series.
Speaker 2: I love that, Mark. I don't see anybody stopping the
Speaker 2: Dodgers at this point, but there's still a lot of
Speaker 2: nlcs left and I like the Dodgers' chances. Thanks for
Speaker 2: the phone call, appreciate it. You know, when can he
Speaker 2: talk about the heart of a champion? How about Freddie Freeman,
Speaker 2: who he heard from earlier, not only out there at
Speaker 2: first base, but he also drives in a run, scores
Speaker 2: a run on a bad right ankle, and who knows
Speaker 2: what else has added up the toll of you know,
Speaker 2: just this time of year on Freddie and here he
Speaker 2: is out there. I don't feel like it's a stretch
Speaker 2: to say he is the most inspirational person in the
Speaker 2: postseason right now for what he's doing, how he's going
Speaker 2: out there and really sending a message to the rest
Speaker 2: of this team that he believes they can win a
Speaker 2: World Series. He wouldn't be out there if he didn't
Speaker 2: believe they could win a World Series. Trust me. The
Speaker 2: Dodgers scored nine runs tonight without a home run, but
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Speaker 2: eight seven two five seventy is the phone number. Freddy
Speaker 2: Freeman is not only the is not the only question
Speaker 2: mark for the Dodgers tomorrow. Gavin Lux may be a
Speaker 2: question mark tomorrow as well. He had to leave this
Speaker 2: game midway through with a hip flexer tightness. Key Key
Speaker 2: Hernandez moved from center to second base at that point,
Speaker 2: so we'll see whether or not Lux is in the
Speaker 2: starting lineup. The Dodgers are going up against a lefty
Speaker 2: and Sean Manaia, so if Lux can't go, you will
Speaker 2: probably see Taylor in center, Kei k at second, or
Speaker 2: a combin one combination of the either. So with a
Speaker 2: lefty on the mound, it might not be a stretch
Speaker 2: to believe that the Dodgers would give Lux a day
Speaker 2: off tomorrow. They have a day off the day after tomorrow.
Speaker 2: I forgot what day of the week. It is Tuesday.
Speaker 2: They'll have a day off on Tuesday after tomorrow. So
Speaker 2: with the lefty Shanmanaya on the mound, I could see
Speaker 2: the Dodgers starting Kik and Taylor and Lux getting that
Speaker 2: hip flexer right. Eight six six, nine, seven two five
Speaker 2: seventy is the phone number. Dodgers shut out the Mets
Speaker 2: nine to nothing in Game one of the NLCS CODEI
Speaker 2: singa only through ten strikes in an inning and a
Speaker 2: third Tonight, let's go out to Hollywood. Eric, who is believing?
Speaker 2: Now you're on Dodger.
Speaker 18: Talk, Doctor day shut I don't know, Dave, but they
Speaker 18: say we don't have any pitches for this postseason. Captain
Speaker 18: Jack Flake killed it lived up to the moment. I
Speaker 18: am glad he got to share that with his mom.
Speaker 10: That was that was dope. That was cool.
Speaker 18: Ke K love you, Poppy, love you, Tydy edmund ball today,
Speaker 18: but anything small ball, I'll take it. Maxie, What's why
Speaker 18: you fit that baby big in? At the first Indies,
Speaker 18: every Dodger player is accepting their role at executing. Just
Speaker 18: like Friedman and just like Doc have put them into
Speaker 18: position to execute humid rally, Powell says, let's go.
Speaker 2: Love it. Eric, thank you for the phone call. Eight
Speaker 2: six six nine eight seven two five seventy is the
Speaker 2: phone number. By the way, Key a Hernandez, with his
Speaker 2: home run in Game five of the NLDS, gave him
Speaker 2: fourteen career postseason home runs. He has more home runs
Speaker 2: in the postseason than guy's name, Miguel Cabrera, Chipper Jones,
Speaker 2: and Alex Rodriguez. I saw Major League Baseball on Fox
Speaker 2: post that. How about that, KEYK a Hernandez with more
Speaker 2: home runs in the postseason than a rod Miguel Cabrera,
Speaker 2: and Chipper Jones, three Hall of famers in my book.
Speaker 2: Eight nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 2: We're gonna take a time out here on Dodger Talk
Speaker 2: when we come back. More of your phone calls. Plus
Speaker 2: you'll hear the story of Blake Trining going to be
Speaker 2: with his wife out of state for the birth of
Speaker 2: their third child in between Games four and five, and
Speaker 2: then getting back in time to shut down the Padres
Speaker 2: in the ninth inning to be the last man standing
Speaker 2: on the mound in that series. An incredible story. We'll
Speaker 2: share it with you when we continue. After the Dodgers
Speaker 2: shut out the Mets nine to nothing on a five
Speaker 2: seventy LA Sports.
Speaker 1: Dodger Talk is available on AM five seventy LA sports
Speaker 1: dot com, hand on the iHeartRadio app. Back to more
Speaker 1: Dodger Talk with Dodger insider David Basse.
Speaker 2: Here's the two one pitch.
Speaker 1: Ooky Bets hits it on the ground.
Speaker 2: Beyond the diving man.
Speaker 19: We'll sit third down the line at bear kiy Kson
Speaker 19: here mars so by coming around no players a play
Speaker 19: a three run double from Bookie Bets. He unloads the
Speaker 19: faces and makes it nine nothing Dodgers.
Speaker 2: The game was in the refrigerator at that point. Eggs
Speaker 2: were cool and butter was getting hard. As the legendary
Speaker 2: chick Hern would say. Dodgers take Game one of the NLCS,
Speaker 2: shutting out the Mets nine to nothing. David Vassey live
Speaker 2: at Dodgers Stadium with you until ten o'clock right here
Speaker 2: on a five to seventy LA Sports. I was actually
Speaker 2: just watching Max Munsey's appearance with the guys on Fox
Speaker 2: down on the Field, Big Poppy, Jeter and a Rod,
Speaker 2: and Mounsey checked David Ortiz, MONSI was keeping the receipts
Speaker 2: on the people that were picking the Padres and the
Speaker 2: ones that were picking the Dodgers. And Big Poppy picked
Speaker 2: the Padres to beat the Dodgers in the NLDS. And
Speaker 2: Monsey called him out on it. He said, hey, did
Speaker 2: you really pick us? And Poppy Poffy started lying. He
Speaker 2: did not deny it. He denied the Dodgers three times
Speaker 2: in front of Max Munsey. But Big Poppy, we know
Speaker 2: you picked the San Diego Madres. Okay, you're a red Sock,
Speaker 2: You're a Boston guy. We don't like you. LA don't
Speaker 2: like Boston. So you know what those guys Jeter, David Ortiz,
Speaker 2: A Rod, you guys don't move the needle for us
Speaker 2: in LA. You guys are Yankees and Red Sox. Actually
Speaker 2: the guy I like the most out of those three
Speaker 2: is Alex Rodriguez.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: You know, I've gotten to know Alex pretty well and
Speaker 2: I like him and he's more down to earth than
Speaker 2: those other guys. But I mean, come on, David Ortiz,
Speaker 2: you're going to deny the Dodgers three times in front
Speaker 2: of Max Munsey, who knew you picked the Padres in
Speaker 2: the NLDS. Come on, let's go big Poppy, your Mookie's
Speaker 2: big brother supposedly, and you picked against him and his team.
Speaker 2: Eight six six nine seven two five seventy is the
Speaker 2: phone number. Let's go back out to the phones. Coyle,
Speaker 2: you're on Dodger Talk. Where are you being, Coyle?
Speaker 13: I'm doing good. Thank you for taking my call.
Speaker 2: Okay, great to hear that.
Speaker 13: I've got to give a big shout out to Jack Clarity.
Speaker 13: Me and my dad yesterday drove down from the Bay
Speaker 13: to go see this game. And he pitches, you know,
Speaker 13: he pitched his heart out, So I just got to
Speaker 13: give him a big, big congrats. You know, I think
Speaker 13: he could have come out there and been be saved
Speaker 13: by what happens against the Padres, but he lost in
Speaker 13: he picked his heart out and he helped he bought
Speaker 13: this to the wins.
Speaker 15: So I just want to give him a big shout out.
Speaker 2: Hey, there you go, Flarerty and his family are listening,
Speaker 2: no doubt about it. In the Grade one eight Hey,
Speaker 2: By the way, the Dodgers tonight scoring nine runs without
Speaker 2: hitting a home run. That was special as well, but
Speaker 2: you know, when when you score nine runs, you would
Speaker 2: expect the story to be about the offense. It wasn't.
Speaker 2: It was about Jack Flaherty and couldn't be happier for him.
Speaker 2: Now Tomorrow, don't forget. Game two of the NLCS is
Speaker 2: not a five o'clock game. Game two is at one
Speaker 2: oh five. So if you're coming to the game tomorrow
Speaker 2: and you have tickets for Game two one oh five,
Speaker 2: and the auto gates open three hours before first pitch,
Speaker 2: so get here early. I know there's morning rush hour traffic.
Speaker 2: I believe it's a holiday tomorrow, Bankers Holiday, so maybe
Speaker 2: traffic won't be as bad. But a weird start time
Speaker 2: for a LA New York playoff series, no doubt about it.
Speaker 2: After the game, the Dodgers are going to fly to
Speaker 2: New York and work out at City Field on Tuesday.
Speaker 2: But don't forget tomorrow, Game two of the NLCS, first
Speaker 2: pitch at one oh five here at Dodgers Stadium. Let's
Speaker 2: go out to Diane, who is at Dodgers Stadium tonight.
Speaker 18: Hi Diane, Hi David, how are you.
Speaker 2: I'm doing pretty good, Diane. The Dodgers are making me
Speaker 2: look good and making it good at the same time.
Speaker 20: They sure are. So I've been at all the games
Speaker 20: and it's been full of energy, and I just love
Speaker 20: that the crowd did that. I took a gamble and
Speaker 20: I booked a flight about a week and a half
Speaker 20: ago to go to New York. So I'll be leaving
Speaker 20: on Wednesday to go watch the Dodgers clench the series
Speaker 20: in New York.
Speaker 2: Look at you, Diane, I love that. Good for you. Yes,
Speaker 2: we'll see you out at.
Speaker 5: City I met you and Philly.
Speaker 20: I met you in Philly eating a Shilly cheese steak sandwich,
Speaker 20: and I look forward to seeing you in New York.
Speaker 2: Oh, you caught me red handed that day.
Speaker 7: I did all right, Diane.
Speaker 2: Look forward to seeing you on New York. Thanks a
Speaker 2: lot for the phone call. Now Tomorrow, that one oh
Speaker 2: five game for the Dodgers is going to be a
Speaker 2: bullpen game. The way the offense scored and the way
Speaker 2: Jack Flaherty allowed the Dodgers to go with a bullpen
Speaker 2: game tomorrow instead of Game three at City Field. Blake Trinon,
Speaker 2: you can be sure, is going to be a big
Speaker 2: part of tomorrow's game. And Blake Trinon, in case you
Speaker 2: didn't know, a five out save in game one of
Speaker 2: the NLDS, and then came in and slammed the door
Speaker 2: on the padres in game five and was the last
Speaker 2: pitcher on the mound of that series. In between games
Speaker 2: four and Game five, Blake Trnon went out of state
Speaker 2: back to his home to be with his wife, Katie,
Speaker 2: who was giving birth to their third child. Blake Trnon
Speaker 2: left the Dodgers on the workout day to go be
Speaker 2: with his wife, be there for the birth of their child,
Speaker 2: and then came right back to La to be ready
Speaker 2: to close out Game five. Blake was our pregame guest,
Speaker 2: and here's part of our conversation and the story on
Speaker 2: how all that went down.
Speaker 21: Not many people have probably had that off opportunity. So
Speaker 21: I'm not going to say that I'm like I had
Speaker 21: this superhero scenario. It was just it's what we were dealting.
Speaker 21: We made the most of it, and you know, as
Speaker 21: we got to witness a mini miracle and our daughter
Speaker 21: being born healthy and my wife being healthy, and and
Speaker 21: then God blessed me with an opportunity to finish the
Speaker 21: game the next day. So but yeah, your question about hours,
Speaker 21: we had a scheduled you know, induction for that day,
Speaker 21: and we went in at six am, and so I
Speaker 21: got back at like one in the morning, and then
Speaker 21: slept for about four and a half hours and.
Speaker 3: Went in and then I was there all day.
Speaker 10: And then.
Speaker 2: It's weird.
Speaker 21: You get to go home and be with your kids.
Speaker 21: So I got to sleep in our bed because we
Speaker 21: can't have the kids in the room. So I went
Speaker 21: home and was with the kids, and then got up
Speaker 21: the next morning and went in and was with Katie
Speaker 21: and Quinn, and yeah, I was there for a few hours,
Speaker 21: and then I had to get a flight and come
Speaker 21: back here.
Speaker 2: So it was, it was, It was nice, incredible, incredible
Speaker 2: for Blake trying into leave the team on the off
Speaker 2: day they induced their daughter's birth and he gets back
Speaker 2: on a plane four or five hours later to be
Speaker 2: back and ready for Game five and closes out Game
Speaker 2: five in that type of emotional setting. Just remarkable. And
Speaker 2: to hear the full conversation with Blake Trnon, just to
Speaker 2: hear all of it, you can find it on the
Speaker 2: iHeartRadio app. All right, let's get to our guy, Jose Moda.
Speaker 1: It's time to go around the horn with Jose Moda.
Speaker 2: Well, Jose Modi and I spent some quality time with
Speaker 2: Many Ramirez before the game today and before he threw
Speaker 2: out the first pitch. You could see that video on
Speaker 2: Jose and Mine's Instagram. Man, Jose, great to see Many
Speaker 2: Ramirez and great to see him just hanging out in
Speaker 2: your Spanish radio booth with you and your dad, Matt.
Speaker 10: He was just chilling out.
Speaker 22: But you know what, he is so appreciative of what
Speaker 22: the Dodgers have done with him the last couple of
Speaker 22: weeks brought him to a game and then throw another
Speaker 22: first pitch, and when they aligned this, he was like, man,
Speaker 22: we got to get that team to the second round
Speaker 22: and out of the World Series, because I really want
Speaker 22: to make sure I'm make an appearance, not just on
Speaker 22: the seats as it did a couple of weeks ago,
Speaker 22: but on the field and bro and the fans.
Speaker 23: That interact so many people around them. Benny's appreciate out
Speaker 23: of your fans. It's time here, honey would But also
Speaker 23: I got that brings a mentality and one where he told.
Speaker 22: Me actually today Dave, he goes. Dave Roberts is a
Speaker 22: guy I love so much because when he was with
Speaker 22: me in Cleveland.
Speaker 10: He's one of.
Speaker 22: Those guys that we all went to get some knowledge
Speaker 22: in little wisdom here and there. He goes, look who
Speaker 22: he is today, And I passed the messages on today.
Speaker 22: But he was quite happy that man he was going
Speaker 22: to be around today.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it wasn't the first time they were teammates. And
Speaker 2: four Dave Roberts spent eight years in the minor leagues
Speaker 2: with the Cleveland Indians when Manny was coming up, so
Speaker 2: that makes sense. Thanks for reminding us of all that, Jose.
Speaker 2: And then once the game started, Jack Flaherty looked like
Speaker 2: the best version of himself.
Speaker 22: Yeah, Jack was on and I'm glad to have spoken
Speaker 22: with him recently about that urgency of you know, pitch
Speaker 22: number one in the playoff and the fact that things
Speaker 22: did not go as well as he planned and wanted
Speaker 22: to deliver in the first time he pitched against the pottery,
Speaker 22: So you know, like, yo, I'm alatively.
Speaker 10: He takes that and said, well, I need to be
Speaker 10: better at this. And what did he do better today? Well,
Speaker 10: the fact is, I think.
Speaker 22: There's velocity differential, Dave. He was twenty miles an hour
Speaker 22: of difference between pitches, Okay, between ninety five and seventy five.
Speaker 22: What I like also besides that is the fact that
Speaker 22: I mean Jack didn't miss much out over the plate.
Speaker 22: He had consistency from Jeremy Rehact behind the plate, and
Speaker 22: he had the ability to pitch backwards. This Mets team
Speaker 22: could ambush you very quickly, but he just had him
Speaker 22: thinking and jumping around and guessing so many times where
Speaker 22: he was able to establish a sinker inside which had
Speaker 22: nice run inside. Today the swings and missus were a
Speaker 22: pitcher that he wanted to have swings and missus. But
Speaker 22: I think there's a little baffling also going back and
Speaker 22: forth because they just cannot get a note as to
Speaker 22: which way he's going to go with a baseball and
Speaker 22: what veloci they were going to see.
Speaker 2: The favorite part of this game for me, offensively, Jose,
Speaker 2: was how the Dodgers were able to score nine runs
Speaker 2: without hitting a home run. We know the home run
Speaker 2: ball came in in a big way during the NLDS,
Speaker 2: but I just love seeing guys knowing who they are
Speaker 2: at the bottom of the lineup. We saw Gavin Lux
Speaker 2: and Tommy Edmund laid down sacrifice bunts to put runners
Speaker 2: in scoring position for show Hao Tani. That's what the
Speaker 2: Dodgers need to do and something we didn't see a
Speaker 2: lot during the regular season.
Speaker 22: No, I mean ten sacrifice bunts overall as a team,
Speaker 22: and most of them went to one guy. Right today,
Speaker 22: you know one thing for sure, and you know, having
Speaker 22: played playoff mode baseball those last couple of weeks of
Speaker 22: September just opens out that mentality of who we are
Speaker 22: and what is expected from me. What is expected from
Speaker 22: the bottom of the lineup is not this slug, is
Speaker 22: to get them and turn the lineup around. And also
Speaker 22: here's something to consider. There's many managers that will think, well,
Speaker 22: I don't want you to bun in front of joehial
Speaker 22: TONI because they're going to walk him.
Speaker 5: So what let him walk?
Speaker 22: Joehiltani. You got Bokie Bets and Freddie Freemer right behind it.
Speaker 12: So I'm glad that.
Speaker 22: Dave allows his coaches and to delegate enough to tell
Speaker 22: the players this is what we're gonna do and stick
Speaker 22: with it because I believe in you. But Dave, it's
Speaker 22: something to be said about since the last laws in
Speaker 22: San Diego, the swings and misses, we all brought it up.
Speaker 22: There is something said about that to the group to say, listen,
Speaker 22: we are a powerful team. We can now slug anybody,
Speaker 22: but also we got to cut down. We've seen some
Speaker 22: very good pitching and I think the Dollers have gotten
Speaker 22: into that contact mode that you and I have discussed
Speaker 22: a lot to strike approaches using the other side of
Speaker 22: the field, and in October it is the thing that
Speaker 22: bothers the most on the opposing side because the line
Speaker 22: keeps moving, You're pressuring the defense and you have also
Speaker 22: the other managers saying who and how I'm going to
Speaker 22: match up and the valuers again see big pieces out
Speaker 22: of the book an early in the game, early in
Speaker 22: the series, which is going to be beneficial for them
Speaker 22: in the long run.
Speaker 2: Jose Mota is joining us on Dodger Talk after the
Speaker 2: Dodgers take Game one of the NLCS with a nine
Speaker 2: to nothing shutout win. Tomorrow one oh five game Jose
Speaker 2: Day game, the Dodgers will be facing Sean Manaia, but
Speaker 2: they will be going to another bullpen game that worked
Speaker 2: to perfection in Game four against the Padres. How do
Speaker 2: you see this working out? Can it get any better?
Speaker 2: Can they duplicate that? It seems that was the epitome
Speaker 2: of the perfection of what you could expect from a
Speaker 2: bullpen game.
Speaker 22: I mean, honestly, you expect him to continue to play
Speaker 22: well and pitch well. But also you know the other
Speaker 22: team has the notes that they've taken on the opposing pictures.
Speaker 22: We don't want thing. When it comes down to confidence,
Speaker 22: and that is a big word here as we move
Speaker 22: along through October. These guys know they can get anybody out.
Speaker 22: I am the most out of the bullpen is this Okay.
Speaker 22: They're not chasing punch outs, they're chasing good pitches, and
Speaker 22: they're putting the ball in good spots. Nobody's overthrowing, nobody's
Speaker 22: gone out of control to give the other team opportunities
Speaker 22: to score. And if you continue that mentality knowing that
Speaker 22: you do have the punch out if you need it,
Speaker 22: it just makes you a better picture. And then guys
Speaker 22: following that and scouting in game is important. And in
Speaker 22: all those days, we got to give a lot of
Speaker 22: credit to Will Smith. I mean to parade all these
Speaker 22: guys in playoff situation for them to throw zeros. His
Speaker 22: targets are much better, his game calling much better, his
Speaker 22: blocking much better. I think overall he's done a very
Speaker 22: good job gutting these guys along, and if they've done
Speaker 22: it so far, there's good. There's no doubt that keeping
Speaker 22: an offense down as they have done, you know so
Speaker 22: far in this playoffs, it's doable.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no doubt about it. Hopefully Will Smith is part
Speaker 2: of those pregame meetings and conversations to come up with
Speaker 2: a game plan because he's the guy executing it and
Speaker 2: catchers need to be a big part of that. Jose,
Speaker 2: thanks a lot for the time. We'll see you tomorrow.
Speaker 2: A quick turnaround for Game two of the NLCS. Very
Speaker 2: unusual day game like this.
Speaker 22: Well, somebody's gonna take a little prime time sometimes, so
Speaker 22: the Dodgers don't take your business day game.
Speaker 10: Hey.
Speaker 22: By the way, I had a big game against the
Speaker 22: Mets in a day game, something like ten to nothing
Speaker 22: when glasshow was on the mount.
Speaker 10: So all was gonna say, is.
Speaker 22: This word has worked for you?
Speaker 8: Good?
Speaker 22: Well, I know it's your socio.
Speaker 2: Okay, thanks a lot O say yes that or that
Speaker 2: is the magic words, I guess eight six six nine
Speaker 2: eight seven two five seventy is the phone number. Dodgers
Speaker 2: shut out the Mets nine to nothing in Game one
Speaker 2: of the NLCS. Game two tomorrow at one oh five
Speaker 2: here at Dodgers Stadium with Rick Monday and Stephen Nelson
Speaker 2: on the call. Let's go out to Las Vegas. Sergio,
Speaker 2: you're on Dodger Talk. Hi Sergio, where'd you watch the
Speaker 2: game tonight? Mirage, Sportsbook, Bellagio? Where'd you watch the game tonight?
Speaker 14: BV.
Speaker 8: I was in my living room.
Speaker 2: Nobody stays in their living room in Vegas.
Speaker 8: When I watched the Dodgers.
Speaker 10: I don't know.
Speaker 8: I have to be basically alone. Even my daughter was
Speaker 8: in a different room walking in a different TV.
Speaker 10: But here, I have two.
Speaker 8: Quick comments and then two apologies. All right. First, tremendous
Speaker 8: stress free game from Jack Clarity. Amazing, great job.
Speaker 24: And then the play on Winker by Kika hit the
Speaker 24: bass hit. He came up and it looked like he
Speaker 24: if you look at the replay, it looked like he
Speaker 24: deeked a winker kind of paused and made him pause
Speaker 24: and he threw back like a you know, like a
Speaker 24: like like a quarterback that.
Speaker 8: Like a stafford. He's looking one direction and he passes
Speaker 8: it in a different direction. Tremendous play by Kik. Now,
Speaker 8: my apologies. I've been a fan since nineteen seventy.
Speaker 2: Six, Dave I was born great year.
Speaker 8: My apologies to Mookie Bets and Dave Roberts.
Speaker 12: Shame on me.
Speaker 8: Earlier in the Padre series, I was doubting them, and
Speaker 8: I'm mad enough to apologize, just like a lot of
Speaker 8: people were doubting Mookie Mooky's come through. Dave Roberts. I
Speaker 8: was never somebody that criticized Dave Roberts. I would actually
Speaker 8: defend Dave Roberts. And I don't know I went to
Speaker 8: the dark side there for a minute, but you know,
Speaker 8: you know, you know, I'm eating my words, and I'm
Speaker 8: glad that I'm eating my words. Shame on me.
Speaker 2: Hey, it's good. These players, managers, they all need to
Speaker 2: be held accountable and know that people are out there.
Speaker 2: I feel like Dave Roberts has gotten a little bit
Speaker 2: unfair criticism over the course of the last especially four years,
Speaker 2: you know. And Mooky. Look, I feel like he needed
Speaker 2: to be held accountable the last two years coming into
Speaker 2: this season, and he has responded. So I hear what
Speaker 2: you were saying, But no apology. Boston holds their people accountable.
Speaker 2: New York holds their athletes accountable. All good If LA
Speaker 2: does it as well.
Speaker 8: Yep and MLB network host radio hosts. Uh, we're all
Speaker 8: over the Padres. They need to be eating their words
Speaker 8: tomorrow when I'm singing at six in the morning Pacific time.
Speaker 2: Hey, everybody that picked the Padres are very lucky. I
Speaker 2: just don't call them out right now by name. I
Speaker 2: may do it when the Dodgers win the World Series.
Speaker 2: I may just out everybody that picked the Padres to
Speaker 2: win the not only beat the Dodgers, but to win
Speaker 2: the World Series. Uh so, well, I'm sure Max Muntsey
Speaker 2: has those receipts too. We could go through it together.
Speaker 2: Thanks for the phone call, Sergio Viva Las Vegas eight
Speaker 2: six six nine eight seven two five seventy. Let's come
Speaker 2: closer to home see me, Valley Mark, You're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 15: Hi Mark, Hey David, how are you.
Speaker 2: I'm doing great, I know you are.
Speaker 15: We've made We've plugged many times over the years, and
Speaker 15: this series is just very very special to me because
Speaker 15: I grew up in the Jersey for my first thirty years,
Speaker 15: and I remember eighty six and taking shaving cream of
Speaker 15: my parents who are deceased, and shaving putting shaving cream
Speaker 15: on a mister Metdal. I remember coming out of surgery. Yeah,
Speaker 15: it's crazy. I remember coming out of surgery when when
Speaker 15: Walker through Game one sixty three, and the first thing
Speaker 15: I said at a surgery that could have caused my
Speaker 15: life was did the Dodgers win? So this series, I
Speaker 15: have a med hat, a Dodger hat. Obviously being here
Speaker 15: for twenty years, I'm rooting for the Dodgers. But when
Speaker 15: Mookie hit that run, you know, I clapped. I clapped
Speaker 15: and cheered for the Dodgers. It's it's it's just an
Speaker 15: amazing series for me, lifelong dream of mind to see this,
Speaker 15: and I hope it goes. I hope it goes a
Speaker 15: long time, you know. But the Dodgers are looking really
Speaker 15: really good, David.
Speaker 2: They are. I feel like the Dodgers are the team
Speaker 2: playing their best baseball at the right time. Eight six, six,
Speaker 2: nine eighty seven, two five seventy is the phone number,
Speaker 2: and I can relate to that to a certain extent. Obviously,
Speaker 2: I grew up in the San Fernando Valley Woodland Hills.
Speaker 2: Did not have many opportunities when I was growing up
Speaker 2: to get to Dodger games. My uh my uncle Sal
Speaker 2: used to have company tickets and used to hook me
Speaker 2: up once in a while and would be able to
Speaker 2: go to a handful of games. But you know, when
Speaker 2: the Dodgers and Mets last played in the NLCS nineteen
Speaker 2: eighty eight, uh, it just seemed like Dodgers Stadium was
Speaker 2: so far away, even though I was in Woodland Hills,
Speaker 2: it just seemed unreachable to be able to even consider
Speaker 2: getting a ticket to come to one of those games.
Speaker 2: And even Game seven of the NLCS, there was no
Speaker 2: chance my mom could afford even buying a ticket to
Speaker 2: that game, let alone even think about taking me. So
Speaker 2: watching those games on TV after school and then when
Speaker 2: they were home games obviously on the weekends, it just
Speaker 2: it just seems so unreachable. And to be here doing
Speaker 2: this show during this series with this team, it's it's
Speaker 2: a pinch me moment growing up here in La Dodgers
Speaker 2: Mets NLCS. The last time they faced off against each other,
Speaker 2: Mike Sooshia hit one of the biggest home runs and
Speaker 2: Dodger postseason history off of Dwight Gooden to give the
Speaker 2: Dodgers life in Game four. Kirk Gibson hit a home
Speaker 2: run in the twelfth inning of that game, Soshia's tied it.
Speaker 2: Dwight Gooden was about to put the Dodgers down three
Speaker 2: games to one, and then they had to turn around
Speaker 2: hours later after that early morning win in New York
Speaker 2: and play Game five, and they forced a seventh game,
Speaker 2: and Oral, herscheiser, as he did all season long that year,
Speaker 2: carried the Dodgers to the Promised Land. I can still
Speaker 2: see Oral taking a knee after he struck out Howard
Speaker 2: Johnson in Game seven of the NLCS to send the
Speaker 2: Dodgers to the World Series. Still have the newspaper, the
Speaker 2: old Herald Examiner still have it. So really this is special,
Speaker 2: but completely different scenario. I mean, those were the Mighty Mets.
Speaker 2: What they want one hundred and seven, one hundred and
Speaker 2: eight games that year. Nobody gave the Dodgers a chance
Speaker 2: that year to beat them. This year, the Dodgers, like
Speaker 2: I said, you have to take inventory of what you
Speaker 2: have as a fan and realize that the Dodgers are
Speaker 2: really good and the Dodgers are the team nobody wants
Speaker 2: to play right now, including those Mets. Eight six, six, nine,
Speaker 2: eight seven two five seventy is the phone number. Let's
Speaker 2: take Evan in LA. You're on Dodger Talk. How you doing, Evan, Say,
Speaker 2: what's up?
Speaker 15: This is Evan from LA in a minute.
Speaker 10: Always appreciate what DLA in a minute?
Speaker 2: Right there, Evan? Are you kidding me? I just watched
Speaker 2: your v with Oral Herscheiser. You're a legend.
Speaker 25: Thank you, Thank you, Bro, You're a legend. You're doing
Speaker 25: a great job. But this all about the Dodgers, top
Speaker 25: to bottom. Everybody's contributing, Freedman, Roberts. Honestly, some of them align,
Speaker 25: some criticism, but this team's coming together in the right time.
Speaker 25: You're saying everything right. But this call is about the fans.
Speaker 18: This is the energy.
Speaker 2: Get to your point. Can you say, let's get into it.
Speaker 25: Lat's get into it all right, Jo, So listen. I
Speaker 25: gotta give props to the fans.
Speaker 10: Man.
Speaker 25: These callers today have been on point, every one of them.
Speaker 12: The stadium.
Speaker 25: I was there for Game five. I wasn't there today.
Speaker 25: I've never felt energy like that. I've been to World
Speaker 25: Series games twenty seventeen, twenty eighteen. The city is focused,
Speaker 25: the city is excited. I got text threads that were
Speaker 25: that are popping off that I haven't heard from people
Speaker 25: in years. Everybody is vested. In this Dodgers and like
Speaker 25: you said, it always seems like we run into the
Speaker 25: team that gets We are the team that's right at
Speaker 25: the hot, that are hot at the right time, and
Speaker 25: this is the Dodgers year. I love your confidence what
Speaker 25: you're saying that we are better than the Mets, and
Speaker 25: you know what, we're better than the Guardians and the Yankees.
Speaker 25: But one other thing too, Again, fans are making it happen.
Speaker 25: That energy is real throughout the city. But two other things,
Speaker 25: Jack Flowerdy, they always talk about high school, Studio City, Harvard, Westlake.
Speaker 25: Gotta get props to Sherman Oaks Little League, which is
Speaker 25: where it all started for him. Little league baseball is
Speaker 25: still the core of youth baseball and he is such
Speaker 25: an example and it's so great to see him growing
Speaker 25: up Dodger fan doing what he's doing for the Dodgers.
Speaker 25: And one other very important point I know Dave Roberts
Speaker 25: said this in his postgame interview today, Prayers go out
Speaker 25: to Fernando vealnzuela man that I grew up with, Fernando
Speaker 25: Fernando Mania. You know this run, I feel that it's
Speaker 25: partially for him, it's for the fans. It's for the city.
Speaker 25: It's for the players. I love the energy that's coming out.
Speaker 25: But let's do this for Fernando. Whatever's going on. I
Speaker 25: know they're trying to keep it discreet, but it's really important.
Speaker 25: He did so much for this organization, for this city,
Speaker 25: for this fan base, and you know he's here.
Speaker 2: Hey, we hear you here.
Speaker 10: We got to hear him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Fernando is the man. He's the wind beneath the
Speaker 2: Dodgers wings right now spiritually, and he I'm sure he's
Speaker 2: watching wherever he is getting right. So Fernando, we're thinking
Speaker 2: about you. And thanks Evin, and uh La in a
Speaker 2: Minute is one of the best follows on Instagram. Thanks
Speaker 2: even cool having you call.
Speaker 10: In bye buddy bye by say there he.
Speaker 2: Goes Evan La in a Minute. How about that. That's
Speaker 2: a nice surprise right there. All right, that's a good
Speaker 2: way to end the show tomorrow. Like I said, Game
Speaker 2: two of the NLCS Sean Manaia on the mound for
Speaker 2: the Mets. He's been very good lately. In two postseason
Speaker 2: starts this October, he has pitched to combine twelve innings,
Speaker 2: allowed just three earned runs, and has ten strikeouts. Dodgers
Speaker 2: are going with a bullpen game, looking to repeat the
Speaker 2: magic from Game four of the NLDS. Morongo Casino. Dodgers
Speaker 2: on Deck begins at noon tomorrow with first pitch at
Speaker 2: one oh five with Rick Monday and Steven Nelson. That'll
Speaker 2: do it for us tonight from Dodgers Stadium, thanks to
Speaker 2: Colin Ye back at our Burbank Studios, Thanks to Dwayne
Speaker 2: McDonald out here at Dodgers Stadium, and thanks to you
Speaker 2: for listening. In case you missed any of the show,
Speaker 2: you can find it on the iHeartRadio app. That's also
Speaker 2: where you could hear our full conversation with Blake Trinin
Speaker 2: on pitching and also how he balanced the being there
Speaker 2: for the birth of his daughter and then being back
Speaker 2: in time to close Game five of the NLDS. And
Speaker 2: you'll be on the mound at some point tomorrow afternoon
Speaker 2: as well. Once again the final score from Dodgers Stadium.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers shut out the Mets nine to nothing in
Speaker 2: the NLCS behind a great pitch game from the great
Speaker 2: one to eight zone. Jack Flaherty, We'll talk to you tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Have a great rest of your Sunday. See you