WEBVTT 1 00:00:03.200 --> 00:00:04.400 The right fart. 2 00:00:04.440 --> 00:00:10.320 Dodgers Playoff Baseball is back, and with it an annual 3 00:00:10.439 --> 00:00:12.160 postseason tradition. 4 00:00:12.279 --> 00:00:13.439 Scam is back. 5 00:00:13.560 --> 00:00:14.119 Baby. 6 00:00:14.320 --> 00:00:17.800 This is Sax and Cakes in the A app Go 7 00:00:18.039 --> 00:00:22.359 with Broaway Dodger legend Steve Sacks is joined by your 8 00:00:22.519 --> 00:00:26.679 favorite Dodger pregame host, Tim Kats. If you want to 9 00:00:26.719 --> 00:00:29.239 talk Dodgers, get in on the show on eighty six 10 00:00:29.399 --> 00:00:32.159 six nine, eighty seven two five seven now. While the 11 00:00:32.240 --> 00:00:35.759 Dan Patrick Show streams on the Ihearts radio app. We've 12 00:00:35.759 --> 00:00:39.640 been banished to the Internet until this Dodgers playoff run concludes. 13 00:00:39.799 --> 00:00:43.159 Here they are broadcasting live on AM five to seven 14 00:00:43.200 --> 00:00:47.240 e LA Sports. It's Tim Kats and Steve Sachs. 15 00:00:48.880 --> 00:00:53.200 It's Game Dame Winner go home Game five of the 16 00:00:53.439 --> 00:00:58.280 NLDS tonight right here on AM five to seventy LAS Sports. 17 00:00:58.280 --> 00:01:03.200 Dodgers Padres Yoshinobu Yamamoto on the mound for the Dodgers. 18 00:01:03.240 --> 00:01:07.159 He's been announced as the starting pitcher. You darvish, We'll 19 00:01:07.200 --> 00:01:10.239 go for the Padres and this must win game winner 20 00:01:10.239 --> 00:01:12.640 advances to the NLCS to take on the New York 21 00:01:12.719 --> 00:01:16.319 Mets beginning on Sunday. He is Steve Sax I'm Tim Kate, 22 00:01:16.400 --> 00:01:19.359 thanks for being with this hour two here on Saxon 23 00:01:19.480 --> 00:01:21.680 Kates and the am. David Vesse is gonna join us 24 00:01:21.680 --> 00:01:23.920 here in just a couple of minutes thanks to Ryan 25 00:01:24.000 --> 00:01:27.319 Dempster from Intentional Talk on the MLB Network joined this 26 00:01:27.439 --> 00:01:30.760 last hour breaking down this pitching matchup and looking ahead 27 00:01:30.760 --> 00:01:32.719 to game five tonight. I had a cup of coffee 28 00:01:32.799 --> 00:01:35.560 during the break, Saxy, starting to feel a little bit better, 29 00:01:35.599 --> 00:01:39.040 but still the stomach still hurts, still turning a little bit. 30 00:01:39.040 --> 00:01:41.680 As I'm anxious about this game five tonight. I think 31 00:01:41.719 --> 00:01:45.480 the things that's got me the most anxious, Saxon is Yamamoto. 32 00:01:45.000 --> 00:01:46.760 On the mound. Yeah. Unknown. 33 00:01:46.840 --> 00:01:49.439 I just tell you're thinking that it is the unknown 34 00:01:49.480 --> 00:01:51.959 of what we're gonna get from him, But you never 35 00:01:52.280 --> 00:01:53.840 The thing about that is you never know. 36 00:01:53.959 --> 00:01:57.879 You don't really know. Hey, there's there's a reason they 37 00:01:57.920 --> 00:02:00.840 gave him all that de Naro. Okay, the guy qualified, 38 00:02:01.000 --> 00:02:03.799 there's no question about it. Now it's time to find 39 00:02:03.840 --> 00:02:05.719 out in the biggest game of his life. Can he 40 00:02:05.799 --> 00:02:09.199 come through you Darvish. We know he's qualified, he's been there, 41 00:02:09.199 --> 00:02:11.879 but you know he's had some mix ups too. When 42 00:02:11.919 --> 00:02:14.479 the game's been on the line. So you know what, 43 00:02:14.639 --> 00:02:16.719 nothing's for sure, and I know you're a little bit 44 00:02:17.560 --> 00:02:19.599 You got a little bit of trepidation in your voice 45 00:02:19.639 --> 00:02:21.479 when I heard you this morning, and then you know what, 46 00:02:21.800 --> 00:02:23.719 just chill out. The Dodgers aren't gonna let him go 47 00:02:23.759 --> 00:02:26.039 a long way anyway if he does start to, you know, 48 00:02:26.080 --> 00:02:30.280 get into some trouble. So I think either way it's good. 49 00:02:30.400 --> 00:02:32.960 My question is, well, I can't tell you my keys 50 00:02:32.960 --> 00:02:34.759 to the game. That's gonna say that for later. 51 00:02:34.879 --> 00:02:37.520 I think I still have scar tissue from twenty seventeen 52 00:02:38.080 --> 00:02:40.879 in that I remember Game seven and I was so 53 00:02:41.000 --> 00:02:44.560 excited about you Darvish on the mound Game seven against 54 00:02:44.599 --> 00:02:47.840 the Houston Astros, being at home, the crowd, the excitement. 55 00:02:47.960 --> 00:02:50.319 Maybe I got ahead of myself thinking about a parade, 56 00:02:50.639 --> 00:02:53.439 and then the first inning happened, and then the disaster 57 00:02:53.560 --> 00:02:56.719 that was Game seven at home against the Houston Astros 58 00:02:56.960 --> 00:02:58.639 happened in front of our eyes, and I think I 59 00:02:58.639 --> 00:03:01.120 got a little bit of scar tissue still built up 60 00:03:01.120 --> 00:03:04.000 from that just going into this decisive Game five tonight 61 00:03:04.360 --> 00:03:05.639 with Yamamoto on the mound. 62 00:03:05.879 --> 00:03:07.719 Yeah, you might you might need to do some of that, 63 00:03:08.240 --> 00:03:11.719 you know what, that scar removal stuff scraping, right, yeah, scraping. 64 00:03:12.199 --> 00:03:16.960 You know, sometimes they have that what do they call it, cupping? Yeah, yeah, 65 00:03:17.000 --> 00:03:19.319 cupping can get maybe rid of that, maybe some uh, 66 00:03:20.319 --> 00:03:23.719 some electronic probes or whatever. It may be. Stem treatment huh, 67 00:03:23.759 --> 00:03:25.639 stem treatment might do it. Yeah, yeah, they call it 68 00:03:25.800 --> 00:03:27.120 stem machine, you know, the stems. 69 00:03:27.199 --> 00:03:30.479 Mike might do that. So anyway, I feel good about it. 70 00:03:30.520 --> 00:03:32.800 I feel completely the opposite. I think I think this 71 00:03:32.879 --> 00:03:35.280 is an oh no, this is an opportunity. This is 72 00:03:35.280 --> 00:03:38.360 a chance for the Dodgers to really set a new 73 00:03:38.439 --> 00:03:41.759 course with this team that over the last twelve years 74 00:03:41.879 --> 00:03:44.439 has been kind of good and not so much all 75 00:03:44.439 --> 00:03:47.000 the way in postseason. But this is a new way 76 00:03:47.039 --> 00:03:50.800 to start the new venture for the Dodgers in this postseason. 77 00:03:51.120 --> 00:03:53.759 I'm feeling great about it, better than the usual. 78 00:03:53.879 --> 00:03:56.159 Well, a guy who's not good but great in what 79 00:03:56.199 --> 00:03:59.319 he does is our own Damon vas say, our Dodger insider. 80 00:03:59.560 --> 00:04:02.120 He's in with the team for over a decade. He 81 00:04:02.319 --> 00:04:05.280 knows everything before it happens. He is the guy to 82 00:04:05.360 --> 00:04:08.280 go to as far as Dodger information is concerned. He 83 00:04:08.360 --> 00:04:11.080 was at the Dodger workouts yesterday out at the stadium, 84 00:04:11.080 --> 00:04:14.039 Padres and Dodgers both went through workouts. There was media 85 00:04:14.080 --> 00:04:17.319 availability as well, with both managers and players and David 86 00:04:17.399 --> 00:04:20.680 vast noa joints this year on Saxon Kate's and Am David. 87 00:04:20.879 --> 00:04:24.240 Last night, after the media availability, we find out that 88 00:04:24.680 --> 00:04:29.079 Yoshinobu Yamamoto will in fact be the Game five starter tonight. 89 00:04:29.399 --> 00:04:32.040 Your take on that, surprised? Is that what you expect to? 90 00:04:32.040 --> 00:04:32.560 What do you think? 91 00:04:34.120 --> 00:04:37.600 I am a little bit surprised, but then looking at 92 00:04:37.759 --> 00:04:41.759 a little deeper of what Yamamoto has done this year. 93 00:04:42.399 --> 00:04:45.240 If you look back at the Dodgers using Ryan Brazier 94 00:04:45.279 --> 00:04:48.480 as an opener, he was really good against right handers 95 00:04:48.759 --> 00:04:52.800 and last year pretty good against lefties. So he's a 96 00:04:53.000 --> 00:04:57.079 kind of a neutral type of opener. The Dodgers are 97 00:04:57.120 --> 00:05:01.040 not looking for more than three or four innings at 98 00:05:01.079 --> 00:05:05.399 the most from Yamamoto tonight, is my understanding. We all 99 00:05:05.399 --> 00:05:09.439 know how good their bullpen has been against the Padres. 100 00:05:09.480 --> 00:05:13.759 To duplicate nine perfect innings the way they did in 101 00:05:13.839 --> 00:05:19.439 Game four, even the Dodgers realize that's highly unlikely to duplicate. 102 00:05:20.160 --> 00:05:23.759 So Yamamoto has been good against the left east He's 103 00:05:23.800 --> 00:05:26.839 held them to a five to twenty six ops. He 104 00:05:26.920 --> 00:05:30.319 has struck out thirty percent of the left handed batters 105 00:05:30.360 --> 00:05:33.680 he's faced. That's in the top ten as well. So 106 00:05:34.560 --> 00:05:38.399 I am a little surprised. But the Dodgers are not 107 00:05:38.959 --> 00:05:43.600 expecting or wanting more than at least three or four 108 00:05:43.600 --> 00:05:46.920 innings from Yamamoto before they start to go to their 109 00:05:46.959 --> 00:05:49.920 bullpen to match up against the Padres. 110 00:05:50.160 --> 00:05:53.160 Okay, hey David, good morning buddy, and listen, I get it. 111 00:05:53.199 --> 00:05:56.600 I know what you're saying. But my question is, let's 112 00:05:56.600 --> 00:05:59.639 say Yamamoto is just shoving and he's just got to 113 00:05:59.680 --> 00:06:02.439 go on. He's got their number. You're coming up with 114 00:06:02.439 --> 00:06:04.720 a third time around, you're the fifth inning. Do you 115 00:06:04.800 --> 00:06:07.040 let them dip into that? Or do you say Nope, 116 00:06:07.040 --> 00:06:09.279 that's it. You've done a great job, but you're out. 117 00:06:09.319 --> 00:06:09.399 No. 118 00:06:09.439 --> 00:06:10.240 Three time around? 119 00:06:11.160 --> 00:06:15.439 Yeah, I would say no, Steve. Considering that the Padres 120 00:06:15.480 --> 00:06:20.720 have scored thirteen runs against Yamamoto this season, the Dodgers 121 00:06:20.759 --> 00:06:25.519 are not ignoring that. But there's was some speculation, and 122 00:06:25.560 --> 00:06:29.800 even Dave Roberts said this in his postgame press conference 123 00:06:29.920 --> 00:06:32.240 that they were going to look to see whether or 124 00:06:32.279 --> 00:06:35.680 not Yama Moto was tipping. I would imagine with the 125 00:06:35.759 --> 00:06:41.519 Dodgers making this announcement yesterday, they dove deep into the 126 00:06:41.600 --> 00:06:45.000 video to see if the Padres had his pitches, because 127 00:06:45.480 --> 00:06:50.879 this wasn't just a NLDS tipping situation. If you go 128 00:06:51.000 --> 00:06:54.600 back to South Korea, they lit them up. They seem 129 00:06:54.639 --> 00:06:57.920 to know what was coming. They had very comfortable at bats. 130 00:06:58.000 --> 00:07:02.519 So maybe the one or two of these Padres players 131 00:07:03.120 --> 00:07:06.319 saw something that he was tipping and spread the news 132 00:07:06.360 --> 00:07:09.920 to the rest of the team. My guess is the 133 00:07:09.959 --> 00:07:15.480 Dodgers corrected whatever they thought the Padres had in that department, 134 00:07:15.879 --> 00:07:18.600 and that's another layer to why they're deciding to go 135 00:07:18.639 --> 00:07:19.879 with Yamamoto tonight. 136 00:07:20.199 --> 00:07:22.319 David, we talked to you before Game four and you 137 00:07:22.360 --> 00:07:25.399 talked about the team's morale and the attitude around this team. 138 00:07:25.399 --> 00:07:27.759 The day before at the workouts was really good. You 139 00:07:27.879 --> 00:07:29.920 liked what you were seeing and hearing, and even the 140 00:07:30.000 --> 00:07:32.480 day of you alluded the same thing. What was the 141 00:07:32.560 --> 00:07:35.240 vibe yesterday at the workout of Dodger Stadium? Do you 142 00:07:35.240 --> 00:07:37.199 get that same feeling that this team is loose and 143 00:07:37.240 --> 00:07:39.240 feeling good before Game five tonight? 144 00:07:40.600 --> 00:07:41.519 Yeah, without a doubt. 145 00:07:41.600 --> 00:07:45.519 I think their confidence is at an all time high 146 00:07:45.519 --> 00:07:48.920 point in this series after what they accomplished in Game 147 00:07:49.000 --> 00:07:53.079 four in San Diego to force the Game five. I 148 00:07:53.199 --> 00:07:57.399 really believe they proved something not to you or Steve 149 00:07:57.879 --> 00:07:59.959 or the fans that are going to be at Dodger 150 00:08:00.120 --> 00:08:05.480 Stadium tonight, they proved something to themselves that all the talk, 151 00:08:05.720 --> 00:08:09.800 all that time together leading up to this series, you know, 152 00:08:09.839 --> 00:08:15.480 it wasn't just going through the motions. They actually held 153 00:08:15.519 --> 00:08:18.759 each other accountable to not give up on the series. 154 00:08:19.319 --> 00:08:23.079 And frankly, the last two seasons we have not seen 155 00:08:23.240 --> 00:08:27.120 that kind of resolve from this team. So that's the 156 00:08:27.199 --> 00:08:30.240 reason why their confidence is high. And if you're talking 157 00:08:30.279 --> 00:08:35.000 about one guy in particular, Mookie Betts, his confidence is 158 00:08:35.159 --> 00:08:38.240 back after the way he performed in each of the 159 00:08:38.279 --> 00:08:41.879 last two games. So I would imagine Mookie Betts is 160 00:08:41.919 --> 00:08:45.240 going to have a big impact on this game tonight. 161 00:08:45.000 --> 00:08:47.919 And that's dangerous when we can say that with some confidence. 162 00:08:47.960 --> 00:08:50.440 I agree with you, David. And the other thing is too, 163 00:08:50.519 --> 00:08:54.879 the structure of the lineup tonight. I'm assuming no Rojas. 164 00:08:55.279 --> 00:08:58.320 I don't know about center field, we don't know about Freddie. 165 00:08:58.360 --> 00:09:00.960 Unless you can tell us something, you are the insider, 166 00:09:01.320 --> 00:09:04.080 and I'll tell you what. Having that little mix up 167 00:09:04.759 --> 00:09:07.639 and a little change of pace that was great for 168 00:09:07.759 --> 00:09:11.799 the Dodgers through a whole another perspective that the Padres 169 00:09:11.840 --> 00:09:14.039 had to deal with and they couldn't do it. Tommy 170 00:09:14.159 --> 00:09:15.279 Edmund was big in that game. 171 00:09:16.600 --> 00:09:19.600 He was, And I'm sure you love the safety squeeze, Steve. 172 00:09:20.200 --> 00:09:22.279 He laid that, Yeah, I bet you did. 173 00:09:22.440 --> 00:09:29.159 Yes, Freddy's going to start tonight unless something changes right 174 00:09:29.200 --> 00:09:33.000 before first pitch where the ankle is not responding. But 175 00:09:33.200 --> 00:09:37.159 right now, the Dodgers and Freddie have all the intentions 176 00:09:37.200 --> 00:09:40.720 of him starting tonight. And come on, Freddie Freeman, a 177 00:09:40.759 --> 00:09:43.840 guy that prides himself on being out there. There's no 178 00:09:43.919 --> 00:09:46.279 way he's going to miss a Game five, so he'll 179 00:09:46.279 --> 00:09:46.960 be out there. 180 00:09:47.360 --> 00:09:50.320 Miguel Rojas more of a question mark. 181 00:09:50.399 --> 00:09:54.679 And frankly, I don't believe Miguel Rojas should start. It 182 00:09:54.720 --> 00:09:57.879 should be Tommy Edmund at shortstop. It should be Keiky 183 00:09:57.960 --> 00:10:02.559 Hernandez in center field. This is why you signed key 184 00:10:02.639 --> 00:10:06.120 K a Hernandez for games like tonight, For games like 185 00:10:06.200 --> 00:10:09.519 Game four. He sparked the Dodgers bottom of the order 186 00:10:09.600 --> 00:10:13.159 in Game four. There is no question key K a 187 00:10:13.279 --> 00:10:16.240 Hernandez should be starting over Miguel Rojas. 188 00:10:15.840 --> 00:10:19.159 Tonight David, we know the Padres are an emotional team. 189 00:10:19.240 --> 00:10:22.120 They wear it on their sleeve, good or bad tonight 190 00:10:22.200 --> 00:10:25.120 for this game five? You know these guys very well. 191 00:10:26.320 --> 00:10:30.000 Will fans see an emotional team, a professional team in 192 00:10:30.080 --> 00:10:33.000 that dugout when they score? Will it be an eruption? 193 00:10:33.159 --> 00:10:36.159 Will we see a little bit more flamboyant Dodger dugout 194 00:10:36.159 --> 00:10:38.480 tonight or is this gonna be status quo for this 195 00:10:38.600 --> 00:10:39.120 game five? 196 00:10:39.320 --> 00:10:39.919 What do you think? 197 00:10:40.879 --> 00:10:43.399 I believe you've seen the emotion you know from the 198 00:10:43.480 --> 00:10:46.480 Dodgers when they score or do something good. They're not 199 00:10:46.960 --> 00:10:50.679 directing it towards the Padres dugout, but they're directing it 200 00:10:50.759 --> 00:10:55.639 to each other's dugout. So I feel like you the 201 00:10:55.720 --> 00:10:58.960 Dodgers have shown emotion. They're not gonna show emotion when 202 00:10:58.960 --> 00:11:02.399 they strike out, that's not what they do. But when 203 00:11:02.600 --> 00:11:05.480 things went well, they did show emotion. And you even 204 00:11:05.559 --> 00:11:09.480 saw the video that went viral, Otani even screaming at 205 00:11:09.480 --> 00:11:12.759 the third base umpire for being in the way of 206 00:11:12.799 --> 00:11:16.720 the ball getting further behind Machado. So I feel like 207 00:11:16.799 --> 00:11:21.240 Otani has lifted this team spirits in more ways than one. 208 00:11:21.519 --> 00:11:25.679 And there is the language barrier, but the game of 209 00:11:25.759 --> 00:11:29.159 baseball is a universal language, and when they're between the 210 00:11:29.200 --> 00:11:32.639 lines on the field, it feels like the Dodgers have 211 00:11:32.759 --> 00:11:36.399 looked to Otani to not only lead them with his 212 00:11:37.960 --> 00:11:43.759 incredible offensive prowess, but also emotionally. They've looked to Otani 213 00:11:43.759 --> 00:11:44.399 to lead them. 214 00:11:45.080 --> 00:11:47.720 Yeah, David, I look at that last game and I 215 00:11:47.759 --> 00:11:51.600 see so many obstacles that the Dodgers had to overcome, 216 00:11:51.639 --> 00:11:55.519 starting with the personnel is, starting with the great plays 217 00:11:55.519 --> 00:11:58.799 that the padres are making. How about the umpire deflecting 218 00:11:58.840 --> 00:12:01.519 the ball and keeping it in play, and then you 219 00:12:01.559 --> 00:12:05.000 know Machado making a bad throw, Higashioka being able to 220 00:12:05.080 --> 00:12:08.159 pick it with the catcher's glove and still making the tag. 221 00:12:08.399 --> 00:12:10.559 I thought, what is this stuff gonna end? And the 222 00:12:10.559 --> 00:12:13.360 worm's gonna turn? I think the Dodgers have overcome so 223 00:12:13.440 --> 00:12:16.399 much right now, and I see a surge coming the 224 00:12:16.440 --> 00:12:16.879 other way. 225 00:12:18.320 --> 00:12:21.120 Well, you sound like Tommy la Sorda right there, Steve. 226 00:12:22.279 --> 00:12:25.000 Well, let me tell you what, David is sixty six 227 00:12:25.159 --> 00:12:27.519 times it's just happened in the past, It's shot to 228 00:12:27.639 --> 00:12:28.279 happen tonight. 229 00:12:32.240 --> 00:12:35.000 Yeah, you know what Game five in your home ballpark. 230 00:12:35.559 --> 00:12:39.879 I really do encourage the Dodger fans to let the 231 00:12:39.960 --> 00:12:43.480 teams decide this between the lines. But as I told 232 00:12:43.559 --> 00:12:47.200 Petro some money yesterday, Steve, you remember this in Pittsburgh 233 00:12:47.399 --> 00:12:52.000 during a Wildcard Series game, Johnny Quato on the mound. 234 00:12:52.120 --> 00:12:56.840 The Pittsburgh fans really rattled him. I would encourage Dodger 235 00:12:56.960 --> 00:13:00.279 fans to do the same thing to you, Darvish. Just 236 00:13:00.399 --> 00:13:03.720 chant his last name and see if you can rattle 237 00:13:03.799 --> 00:13:07.039 him the way he was rattled in Game seven of 238 00:13:07.120 --> 00:13:09.480 the World Series back in twenty seventeen. 239 00:13:10.039 --> 00:13:12.840 Oh the words out, it's gonna happen tonight. Watch there'll 240 00:13:12.840 --> 00:13:17.720 be fifty six thousand, doarbish. It's down there, we go, Saxy, 241 00:13:17.919 --> 00:13:19.240 it's gonna have we get out. 242 00:13:19.799 --> 00:13:22.879 Yeah, we gotta get dieta rule behind that, David. So 243 00:13:22.879 --> 00:13:25.200 if you see him out there, put it in his ear, 244 00:13:25.320 --> 00:13:30.960 get that organ going, get it started. Helen del with it. 245 00:13:31.440 --> 00:13:34.200 I know that absolutely, David. We appreciate you jumping on 246 00:13:34.240 --> 00:13:36.200 this morning. It's gonna be a long, but hopefully great 247 00:13:36.279 --> 00:13:39.039 day for the Dodgers. We appreciate it, and we'll see 248 00:13:39.080 --> 00:13:39.799 you later on today. 249 00:13:39.919 --> 00:13:40.600 Thanks David. 250 00:13:40.960 --> 00:13:44.519 Nope, no problem, And Saxy, maybe we should send over 251 00:13:44.600 --> 00:13:48.639 some Italian sub sandwiches to the Umpire's room like Tommy 252 00:13:48.720 --> 00:13:49.559 used to do tonight. 253 00:13:49.759 --> 00:13:52.799 Yeah. Nice, nice little preemptive before the game. 254 00:13:54.480 --> 00:13:55.600 Thanks guys, Thanks David. 255 00:13:55.600 --> 00:13:58.120 There he goes our Dodger Insider, the best of the best. 256 00:13:58.559 --> 00:14:01.679 David Vez say, eight sixty six, nine eighty seven two 257 00:14:01.759 --> 00:14:04.519 five seventy is the number. We'll come back. We'll get 258 00:14:04.519 --> 00:14:06.639 to your phone calls the rest of the way. How 259 00:14:06.720 --> 00:14:10.279 you feeling going into game five of this n LDS 260 00:14:10.399 --> 00:14:17.399 Yoshinobu Yamamoto on the mound. I'll be honest, a little 261 00:14:17.519 --> 00:14:20.440 uneasy about him taking the mount in game five tonight. 262 00:14:20.559 --> 00:14:23.639 Convince me otherwise you got a parachute, bro, got a parachute. 263 00:14:23.759 --> 00:14:27.399 Convince me otherwise. Dodger fans, are you with Steve Sacks 264 00:14:27.639 --> 00:14:31.360 You're feeling good? Or are you leaning towards me? A 265 00:14:31.399 --> 00:14:35.000 little questionable about it? Get to your phone calls coming up? 266 00:14:35.240 --> 00:14:37.840 He is Steve Sacks on, Tim Katson sax and Kate's 267 00:14:37.879 --> 00:14:41.000 and am leading you up to Dodgers padres right here 268 00:14:41.000 --> 00:14:43.399 in your home of the Dodgers a FI seventy light 269 00:14:43.440 --> 00:14:55.559 sports saxon Kates and Am. I got a good feeling 270 00:14:55.559 --> 00:14:59.200 we're gonna be hearing this tonight. Batting third, playing first 271 00:14:59.200 --> 00:15:02.679 base for the Dodgers. Freddie Freeman, his walk up song 272 00:15:04.200 --> 00:15:06.279 did not play in Game four because of the ankle. 273 00:15:07.159 --> 00:15:10.559 Fully expect him to go in Game five tonight, five eight, 274 00:15:10.600 --> 00:15:14.360 first pitch, Dodgers padres out at the ravine, Your phone 275 00:15:14.360 --> 00:15:16.919 calls coming up the rest of the way. Thanks to 276 00:15:17.000 --> 00:15:20.759 David vaz Say. Thanks to Ryan Dempster from Intentional Talk 277 00:15:20.840 --> 00:15:25.720 on MLB Network joining us Last hour, Great show daily 278 00:15:25.759 --> 00:15:28.279 on the MLB Network, and they'll be doing so throughout 279 00:15:28.279 --> 00:15:31.879 the postseason. Eleven am this morning an earlier start because 280 00:15:31.879 --> 00:15:35.120 of the coverage of the DS's in the American League 281 00:15:35.159 --> 00:15:37.080 and the National League. I got a text from a 282 00:15:37.080 --> 00:15:40.080 buddy Tom and he wanted me to bring this up 283 00:15:40.080 --> 00:15:43.480 to you, Saxy. He says, you Darvish and he approach 284 00:15:43.600 --> 00:15:48.639 the Dodgers' hitters. She'd have with him. He's like fifty 285 00:15:48.679 --> 00:15:52.799 percent breaking balls nowadays. Do you cheat as a hitter 286 00:15:53.639 --> 00:15:57.240 knowing the off speed stuff is probably what you're looking 287 00:15:57.279 --> 00:15:59.799 at and just be able to adjust fastball? 288 00:16:00.200 --> 00:16:05.080 No, no, never, absolutely not. I gotta tell you can't 289 00:16:05.120 --> 00:16:09.360 adjust to a faster pitch. You gotta look fastball and 290 00:16:09.440 --> 00:16:10.639 adjust to the offs pitch. 291 00:16:11.080 --> 00:16:13.200 Even he's only throwing ninety two, ninety three, ninety four. 292 00:16:13.320 --> 00:16:15.600 He's not upper nineties anymore. You don't doesn't matter. No, 293 00:16:16.360 --> 00:16:20.519 Look at Hendricks from the Cubs. He never breaks ninety 294 00:16:20.919 --> 00:16:24.080 he breaks bats. He breaks bats. He pitches inside why 295 00:16:24.320 --> 00:16:26.960 because people sit on this changeup, which is his best pitch. 296 00:16:27.320 --> 00:16:29.720 Then he throws in a two seamer at about eighty 297 00:16:29.759 --> 00:16:31.679 seven and he's breaking people's bats. 298 00:16:31.759 --> 00:16:35.200 So no, you can't. Look. I mean, sometimes you can 299 00:16:35.279 --> 00:16:38.000 cheat and look for a certain pitch once in a while, 300 00:16:38.519 --> 00:16:42.000 but you can't sit on a slow pitch and change 301 00:16:42.039 --> 00:16:44.600 to the fast pitch. It doesn't work that way. You 302 00:16:44.639 --> 00:16:47.440 cannot do it. The ball is coming too fast. You 303 00:16:47.519 --> 00:16:48.919 have to do it the opposite. 304 00:16:49.519 --> 00:16:52.519 Eight six, six ninety seven, two five seventy is our number. 305 00:16:52.559 --> 00:16:55.559 It's continue on the phone, Saxy Paul and Huntington Beach Paul, 306 00:16:55.919 --> 00:16:58.159 Game five tonight. How are you feeling going into this 307 00:16:58.240 --> 00:16:59.080 decisive game? 308 00:17:00.639 --> 00:17:02.480 Well, dude, I'm not going to be very productive at 309 00:17:02.480 --> 00:17:04.119 the office today, I'll tell you that much. 310 00:17:04.160 --> 00:17:04.319 Man. 311 00:17:04.359 --> 00:17:06.519 I came in early so I could bail out early. 312 00:17:06.640 --> 00:17:09.720 You know what I mean. Listen, I was thinking about it, obviously. 313 00:17:09.920 --> 00:17:13.279 You know I'm with you. Tim you can't feel super 314 00:17:13.319 --> 00:17:16.160 great about young Moto given sort of the data and 315 00:17:16.200 --> 00:17:18.359 the stats and all the things. But at the end 316 00:17:18.359 --> 00:17:20.559 of the day, to Sax's point, you know, you gave 317 00:17:20.599 --> 00:17:23.119 the guy a boatload of money, and let's be honest, 318 00:17:23.160 --> 00:17:25.799 he has shown signs, you know, throughout the course of 319 00:17:25.799 --> 00:17:28.839 the year of being dominant in stretches. So let's see 320 00:17:28.880 --> 00:17:31.279 how it plays out. That dude better have a very 321 00:17:31.400 --> 00:17:34.200 very short leash. But you mentioned something, you know, two 322 00:17:34.200 --> 00:17:37.039 segments ago that I wanted to sort of build on. Dude, 323 00:17:37.200 --> 00:17:39.559 I'm an Orange County guy, right. I've been at the 324 00:17:39.599 --> 00:17:42.279 Dodger Stadium a couple hundred times, I'm sure, and a 325 00:17:42.599 --> 00:17:44.480 buddy that called to me, you know, the day of 326 00:17:44.519 --> 00:17:47.960 Game seven of twenty seventeen World Series and said, hey, man, 327 00:17:48.000 --> 00:17:49.839 I got an in. I can get you into the yard. 328 00:17:50.160 --> 00:17:53.240 I went up there. It was like the crowning moment 329 00:17:53.519 --> 00:17:56.279 of my baseball life. I could not wait to get 330 00:17:56.319 --> 00:17:59.599 my butt up to the ravine. I was fired up. Man. 331 00:17:59.799 --> 00:18:01.960 I got in there, had to sit by myself because 332 00:18:02.079 --> 00:18:04.759 he got me in, and that was fine. And it 333 00:18:04.880 --> 00:18:08.279 was like a morgue. Dude, like fifteen minutes into that 334 00:18:08.319 --> 00:18:11.480 game and it never got better. You know, all year 335 00:18:11.519 --> 00:18:14.640 long the Dodgers had to overcome, they had to exercise demons. 336 00:18:14.680 --> 00:18:18.039 It was injuries, it was drama, it was this series. 337 00:18:18.119 --> 00:18:21.960 Everything they've overcome. Tonight, they've got to exercise some demons 338 00:18:22.000 --> 00:18:25.440 and send Darvish packing and and remember what he was 339 00:18:25.480 --> 00:18:28.920 in twenty seventeen, and let's right the ship. Send that 340 00:18:28.960 --> 00:18:31.640 guy out of there, and let's pack up a win. 341 00:18:31.759 --> 00:18:32.000 Man. 342 00:18:32.240 --> 00:18:34.039 I'm fired up. I can't wait to get it on. 343 00:18:34.400 --> 00:18:36.960 And and by the way, I cannot wait for another 344 00:18:37.480 --> 00:18:41.799 NLCS against the Mets and listen to more Steve Sacks 345 00:18:41.839 --> 00:18:44.200 and Saxy. I want lots of stories from the eighty 346 00:18:44.200 --> 00:18:46.839 eight LCS. All right, boys, have a good one, man, we'll. 347 00:18:46.680 --> 00:18:47.359 Talk to Paul. 348 00:18:47.759 --> 00:18:50.759 Paul appreciated. I think that's I think he kind of 349 00:18:50.799 --> 00:18:52.599 hit it on the head. And I mentioned it earlier. 350 00:18:52.640 --> 00:18:55.559 I've got scar tissue still from twenty seventeen. 351 00:18:55.759 --> 00:18:58.480 Yeah, and let that go, bro, Yeah, let her go. 352 00:18:58.680 --> 00:18:59.960 Let it go. It's still built. 353 00:19:00.720 --> 00:19:01.920 I haven't worked out yet. 354 00:19:02.720 --> 00:19:03.480 How are you sleeping. 355 00:19:03.960 --> 00:19:05.799 I'm not sleeping much. I'm gonna be honest with you. 356 00:19:05.839 --> 00:19:07.559 And then at the same time, I'm afraid to take 357 00:19:07.599 --> 00:19:09.240 something to sleep. You know you don't want to do 358 00:19:09.279 --> 00:19:11.200 that either, because I won't wake up and it'll be 359 00:19:11.480 --> 00:19:13.519 no scam. It'll just be sacks in the morning. 360 00:19:13.559 --> 00:19:17.039 Here. Well, hey, I won't wake up. Well, we've got 361 00:19:17.039 --> 00:19:19.960 to scam it, that's for sure. Uh yeah, Tim, just 362 00:19:20.000 --> 00:19:22.160 you gotta let that go. And you know it's it's 363 00:19:22.200 --> 00:19:24.920 gonna be Uh, it's gonna be an awakening. I think 364 00:19:24.960 --> 00:19:28.000 for Dodger fans to see just exactly how they're gonna 365 00:19:28.079 --> 00:19:31.519 jump on and shove tonight. I got a great feeling 366 00:19:31.599 --> 00:19:34.319 about it. I'm not I'm not posturing. I'm not trying 367 00:19:34.359 --> 00:19:37.240 to bring in some fake enthusiasm because I don't like 368 00:19:37.279 --> 00:19:39.839 that stuff. I don't like the eye wash. But I'm 369 00:19:39.839 --> 00:19:42.279 telling you I think I think they've got it. I 370 00:19:42.279 --> 00:19:44.640 think they've right where they want to be. They've changed 371 00:19:44.680 --> 00:19:47.680 the narrative. They can do it now. Mookie's hot in 372 00:19:47.720 --> 00:19:51.839 front of their home fans. It's time for Yoshiobu yamamotive 373 00:19:51.920 --> 00:19:54.799 to do some of some of his own shoving and 374 00:19:55.400 --> 00:19:57.599 get this thing on track and look forward to to 375 00:19:57.720 --> 00:19:59.000 dominating the Mets. Now. 376 00:19:59.119 --> 00:20:02.839 It won't feel as good, but I think it will 377 00:20:03.319 --> 00:20:05.960 make up for a little bit of what you Darvish 378 00:20:06.039 --> 00:20:09.160 did in Game seven of the twenty seventeen World Series, 379 00:20:09.240 --> 00:20:11.240 giving up those runs early, putting them in a hole, 380 00:20:11.319 --> 00:20:14.880 and the Astros winning that twenty seventeen World Series championship 381 00:20:14.960 --> 00:20:17.599 on the field the Dodgers Stadium. It won't replace it. 382 00:20:18.039 --> 00:20:21.720 I'll never forgive necessarily one hundred percent, but I think 383 00:20:21.759 --> 00:20:24.680 it would certainly help the wound that I still have. 384 00:20:24.839 --> 00:20:27.480 It'll help break up the scars issue a little bit 385 00:20:27.759 --> 00:20:29.759 if the Dodgers could get after you, Darvish, and I 386 00:20:29.839 --> 00:20:33.559 can watch tonight at some point having to see Shilt 387 00:20:33.680 --> 00:20:37.240 come out of the dugout and take the ball from you, Darvish, 388 00:20:37.319 --> 00:20:40.119 because the Dodgers are just putting up crooked number after 389 00:20:40.279 --> 00:20:42.920 crooked number and have bait guys on the base pass, 390 00:20:42.960 --> 00:20:45.759 and the Dodgers have more runs than the Padres, and you, 391 00:20:45.920 --> 00:20:47.839 Darvish is being chased in the game. It'll make me 392 00:20:47.920 --> 00:20:49.000 feel a little bit better. 393 00:20:49.119 --> 00:20:53.039 Saxony, Okay, does the scar tissue just blow out or 394 00:20:53.119 --> 00:20:55.319 does it slowly kind of fade? 395 00:20:55.680 --> 00:20:57.519 No, I start to feel better. It's like I take 396 00:20:57.559 --> 00:20:58.839 a tile and all of a sudden you feel a 397 00:20:58.839 --> 00:21:00.839 little bit better, but you can still feel it. That's 398 00:21:00.880 --> 00:21:03.079 all always been that's car tissue is not going anywhere. 399 00:21:03.200 --> 00:21:05.799 That's a reminder. Some guy's got the Tommy John surgeries, 400 00:21:06.039 --> 00:21:08.079 you know, and you see the scar there, and it's 401 00:21:08.119 --> 00:21:10.680