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Speaker 3: It's Game Dame Winner go home Game five of the
Speaker 3: NLDS tonight right here on AM five to seventy LAS Sports.
Speaker 3: Dodgers Padres Yoshinobu Yamamoto on the mound for the Dodgers.
Speaker 3: He's been announced as the starting pitcher. You darvish, We'll
Speaker 3: go for the Padres and this must win game winner
Speaker 3: advances to the NLCS to take on the New York
Speaker 3: Mets beginning on Sunday. He is Steve Sax I'm Tim Kate,
Speaker 3: thanks for being with this hour two here on Saxon
Speaker 3: Kates and the am. David Vesse is gonna join us
Speaker 3: here in just a couple of minutes thanks to Ryan
Speaker 3: Dempster from Intentional Talk on the MLB Network joined this
Speaker 3: last hour breaking down this pitching matchup and looking ahead
Speaker 3: to game five tonight. I had a cup of coffee
Speaker 3: during the break, Saxy, starting to feel a little bit better,
Speaker 3: but still the stomach still hurts, still turning a little bit.
Speaker 3: As I'm anxious about this game five tonight. I think
Speaker 3: the things that's got me the most anxious, Saxon is Yamamoto.
Speaker 4: On the mound. Yeah. Unknown.
Speaker 3: I just tell you're thinking that it is the unknown
Speaker 3: of what we're gonna get from him, But you never
Speaker 3: The thing about that is you never know.
Speaker 4: You don't really know. Hey, there's there's a reason they
Speaker 4: gave him all that de Naro. Okay, the guy qualified,
Speaker 4: there's no question about it. Now it's time to find
Speaker 4: out in the biggest game of his life. Can he
Speaker 4: come through you Darvish. We know he's qualified, he's been there,
Speaker 4: but you know he's had some mix ups too. When
Speaker 4: the game's been on the line. So you know what,
Speaker 4: nothing's for sure, and I know you're a little bit
Speaker 4: You got a little bit of trepidation in your voice
Speaker 4: when I heard you this morning, and then you know what,
Speaker 4: just chill out. The Dodgers aren't gonna let him go
Speaker 4: a long way anyway if he does start to, you know,
Speaker 4: get into some trouble. So I think either way it's good.
Speaker 4: My question is, well, I can't tell you my keys
Speaker 4: to the game. That's gonna say that for later.
Speaker 3: I think I still have scar tissue from twenty seventeen
Speaker 3: in that I remember Game seven and I was so
Speaker 3: excited about you Darvish on the mound Game seven against
Speaker 3: the Houston Astros, being at home, the crowd, the excitement.
Speaker 3: Maybe I got ahead of myself thinking about a parade,
Speaker 3: and then the first inning happened, and then the disaster
Speaker 3: that was Game seven at home against the Houston Astros
Speaker 3: happened in front of our eyes, and I think I
Speaker 3: got a little bit of scar tissue still built up
Speaker 3: from that just going into this decisive Game five tonight
Speaker 3: with Yamamoto on the mound.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you might you might need to do some of that,
Speaker 4: you know what, that scar removal stuff scraping, right, yeah, scraping.
Speaker 4: You know, sometimes they have that what do they call it, cupping? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: cupping can get maybe rid of that, maybe some uh,
Speaker 4: some electronic probes or whatever. It may be. Stem treatment huh,
Speaker 4: stem treatment might do it. Yeah, yeah, they call it
Speaker 4: stem machine, you know, the stems.
Speaker 3: Mike might do that. So anyway, I feel good about it.
Speaker 3: I feel completely the opposite. I think I think this
Speaker 3: is an oh no, this is an opportunity. This is
Speaker 3: a chance for the Dodgers to really set a new
Speaker 3: course with this team that over the last twelve years
Speaker 3: has been kind of good and not so much all
Speaker 3: the way in postseason. But this is a new way
Speaker 3: to start the new venture for the Dodgers in this postseason.
Speaker 4: I'm feeling great about it, better than the usual.
Speaker 3: Well, a guy who's not good but great in what
Speaker 3: he does is our own Damon vas say, our Dodger insider.
Speaker 3: He's in with the team for over a decade. He
Speaker 3: knows everything before it happens. He is the guy to
Speaker 3: go to as far as Dodger information is concerned. He
Speaker 3: was at the Dodger workouts yesterday out at the stadium,
Speaker 3: Padres and Dodgers both went through workouts. There was media
Speaker 3: availability as well, with both managers and players and David
Speaker 3: vast noa joints this year on Saxon Kate's and Am David.
Speaker 3: Last night, after the media availability, we find out that
Speaker 3: Yoshinobu Yamamoto will in fact be the Game five starter tonight.
Speaker 3: Your take on that, surprised? Is that what you expect to?
Speaker 4: What do you think?
Speaker 5: I am a little bit surprised, but then looking at
Speaker 5: a little deeper of what Yamamoto has done this year.
Speaker 5: If you look back at the Dodgers using Ryan Brazier
Speaker 5: as an opener, he was really good against right handers
Speaker 5: and last year pretty good against lefties. So he's a
Speaker 5: kind of a neutral type of opener. The Dodgers are
Speaker 5: not looking for more than three or four innings at
Speaker 5: the most from Yamamoto tonight, is my understanding. We all
Speaker 5: know how good their bullpen has been against the Padres.
Speaker 5: To duplicate nine perfect innings the way they did in
Speaker 5: Game four, even the Dodgers realize that's highly unlikely to duplicate.
Speaker 5: So Yamamoto has been good against the left east He's
Speaker 5: held them to a five to twenty six ops. He
Speaker 5: has struck out thirty percent of the left handed batters
Speaker 5: he's faced. That's in the top ten as well. So
Speaker 5: I am a little surprised. But the Dodgers are not
Speaker 5: expecting or wanting more than at least three or four
Speaker 5: innings from Yamamoto before they start to go to their
Speaker 5: bullpen to match up against the Padres.
Speaker 4: Okay, hey David, good morning buddy, and listen, I get it.
Speaker 4: I know what you're saying. But my question is, let's
Speaker 4: say Yamamoto is just shoving and he's just got to
Speaker 4: go on. He's got their number. You're coming up with
Speaker 4: a third time around, you're the fifth inning. Do you
Speaker 4: let them dip into that? Or do you say Nope,
Speaker 4: that's it. You've done a great job, but you're out.
Speaker 6: No.
Speaker 4: Three time around?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I would say no, Steve. Considering that the Padres
Speaker 5: have scored thirteen runs against Yamamoto this season, the Dodgers
Speaker 5: are not ignoring that. But there's was some speculation, and
Speaker 5: even Dave Roberts said this in his postgame press conference
Speaker 5: that they were going to look to see whether or
Speaker 5: not Yama Moto was tipping. I would imagine with the
Speaker 5: Dodgers making this announcement yesterday, they dove deep into the
Speaker 5: video to see if the Padres had his pitches, because
Speaker 5: this wasn't just a NLDS tipping situation. If you go
Speaker 5: back to South Korea, they lit them up. They seem
Speaker 5: to know what was coming. They had very comfortable at bats.
Speaker 5: So maybe the one or two of these Padres players
Speaker 5: saw something that he was tipping and spread the news
Speaker 5: to the rest of the team. My guess is the
Speaker 5: Dodgers corrected whatever they thought the Padres had in that department,
Speaker 5: and that's another layer to why they're deciding to go
Speaker 5: with Yamamoto tonight.
Speaker 3: David, we talked to you before Game four and you
Speaker 3: talked about the team's morale and the attitude around this team.
Speaker 3: The day before at the workouts was really good. You
Speaker 3: liked what you were seeing and hearing, and even the
Speaker 3: day of you alluded the same thing. What was the
Speaker 3: vibe yesterday at the workout of Dodger Stadium? Do you
Speaker 3: get that same feeling that this team is loose and
Speaker 3: feeling good before Game five tonight?
Speaker 6: Yeah, without a doubt.
Speaker 5: I think their confidence is at an all time high
Speaker 5: point in this series after what they accomplished in Game
Speaker 5: four in San Diego to force the Game five. I
Speaker 5: really believe they proved something not to you or Steve
Speaker 5: or the fans that are going to be at Dodger
Speaker 5: Stadium tonight, they proved something to themselves that all the talk,
Speaker 5: all that time together leading up to this series, you know,
Speaker 5: it wasn't just going through the motions. They actually held
Speaker 5: each other accountable to not give up on the series.
Speaker 5: And frankly, the last two seasons we have not seen
Speaker 5: that kind of resolve from this team. So that's the
Speaker 5: reason why their confidence is high. And if you're talking
Speaker 5: about one guy in particular, Mookie Betts, his confidence is
Speaker 5: back after the way he performed in each of the
Speaker 5: last two games. So I would imagine Mookie Betts is
Speaker 5: going to have a big impact on this game tonight.
Speaker 4: And that's dangerous when we can say that with some confidence.
Speaker 4: I agree with you, David. And the other thing is too,
Speaker 4: the structure of the lineup tonight. I'm assuming no Rojas.
Speaker 4: I don't know about center field, we don't know about Freddie.
Speaker 4: Unless you can tell us something, you are the insider,
Speaker 4: and I'll tell you what. Having that little mix up
Speaker 4: and a little change of pace that was great for
Speaker 4: the Dodgers through a whole another perspective that the Padres
Speaker 4: had to deal with and they couldn't do it. Tommy
Speaker 4: Edmund was big in that game.
Speaker 5: He was, And I'm sure you love the safety squeeze, Steve.
Speaker 7: He laid that, Yeah, I bet you did.
Speaker 5: Yes, Freddy's going to start tonight unless something changes right
Speaker 5: before first pitch where the ankle is not responding. But
Speaker 5: right now, the Dodgers and Freddie have all the intentions
Speaker 5: of him starting tonight. And come on, Freddie Freeman, a
Speaker 5: guy that prides himself on being out there. There's no
Speaker 5: way he's going to miss a Game five, so he'll
Speaker 5: be out there.
Speaker 7: Miguel Rojas more of a question mark.
Speaker 5: And frankly, I don't believe Miguel Rojas should start. It
Speaker 5: should be Tommy Edmund at shortstop. It should be Keiky
Speaker 5: Hernandez in center field. This is why you signed key
Speaker 5: K a Hernandez for games like tonight, For games like
Speaker 5: Game four. He sparked the Dodgers bottom of the order
Speaker 5: in Game four. There is no question key K a
Speaker 5: Hernandez should be starting over Miguel Rojas.
Speaker 3: Tonight David, we know the Padres are an emotional team.
Speaker 3: They wear it on their sleeve, good or bad tonight
Speaker 3: for this game five? You know these guys very well.
Speaker 3: Will fans see an emotional team, a professional team in
Speaker 3: that dugout when they score? Will it be an eruption?
Speaker 3: Will we see a little bit more flamboyant Dodger dugout
Speaker 3: tonight or is this gonna be status quo for this
Speaker 3: game five?
Speaker 4: What do you think?
Speaker 5: I believe you've seen the emotion you know from the
Speaker 5: Dodgers when they score or do something good. They're not
Speaker 5: directing it towards the Padres dugout, but they're directing it
Speaker 5: to each other's dugout. So I feel like you the
Speaker 5: Dodgers have shown emotion. They're not gonna show emotion when
Speaker 5: they strike out, that's not what they do. But when
Speaker 5: things went well, they did show emotion. And you even
Speaker 5: saw the video that went viral, Otani even screaming at
Speaker 5: the third base umpire for being in the way of
Speaker 5: the ball getting further behind Machado. So I feel like
Speaker 5: Otani has lifted this team spirits in more ways than one.
Speaker 5: And there is the language barrier, but the game of
Speaker 5: baseball is a universal language, and when they're between the
Speaker 5: lines on the field, it feels like the Dodgers have
Speaker 5: looked to Otani to not only lead them with his
Speaker 5: incredible offensive prowess, but also emotionally. They've looked to Otani
Speaker 5: to lead them.
Speaker 4: Yeah, David, I look at that last game and I
Speaker 4: see so many obstacles that the Dodgers had to overcome,
Speaker 4: starting with the personnel is, starting with the great plays
Speaker 4: that the padres are making. How about the umpire deflecting
Speaker 4: the ball and keeping it in play, and then you
Speaker 4: know Machado making a bad throw, Higashioka being able to
Speaker 4: pick it with the catcher's glove and still making the tag.
Speaker 4: I thought, what is this stuff gonna end? And the
Speaker 4: worm's gonna turn? I think the Dodgers have overcome so
Speaker 4: much right now, and I see a surge coming the
Speaker 4: other way.
Speaker 5: Well, you sound like Tommy la Sorda right there, Steve.
Speaker 4: Well, let me tell you what, David is sixty six
Speaker 4: times it's just happened in the past, It's shot to
Speaker 4: happen tonight.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know what Game five in your home ballpark.
Speaker 5: I really do encourage the Dodger fans to let the
Speaker 5: teams decide this between the lines. But as I told
Speaker 5: Petro some money yesterday, Steve, you remember this in Pittsburgh
Speaker 5: during a Wildcard Series game, Johnny Quato on the mound.
Speaker 5: The Pittsburgh fans really rattled him. I would encourage Dodger
Speaker 5: fans to do the same thing to you, Darvish. Just
Speaker 5: chant his last name and see if you can rattle
Speaker 5: him the way he was rattled in Game seven of
Speaker 5: the World Series back in twenty seventeen.
Speaker 4: Oh the words out, it's gonna happen tonight. Watch there'll
Speaker 4: be fifty six thousand, doarbish. It's down there, we go, Saxy,
Speaker 4: it's gonna have we get out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we gotta get dieta rule behind that, David. So
Speaker 3: if you see him out there, put it in his ear,
Speaker 3: get that organ going, get it started. Helen del with it.
Speaker 3: I know that absolutely, David. We appreciate you jumping on
Speaker 3: this morning. It's gonna be a long, but hopefully great
Speaker 3: day for the Dodgers. We appreciate it, and we'll see
Speaker 3: you later on today.
Speaker 4: Thanks David.
Speaker 5: Nope, no problem, And Saxy, maybe we should send over
Speaker 5: some Italian sub sandwiches to the Umpire's room like Tommy
Speaker 5: used to do tonight.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Nice, nice little preemptive before the game.
Speaker 7: Thanks guys, Thanks David.
Speaker 3: There he goes our Dodger Insider, the best of the best.
Speaker 3: David Vez say, eight sixty six, nine eighty seven two
Speaker 3: five seventy is the number. We'll come back. We'll get
Speaker 3: to your phone calls the rest of the way. How
Speaker 3: you feeling going into game five of this n LDS
Speaker 3: Yoshinobu Yamamoto on the mound. I'll be honest, a little
Speaker 3: uneasy about him taking the mount in game five tonight.
Speaker 3: Convince me otherwise you got a parachute, bro, got a parachute.
Speaker 3: Convince me otherwise. Dodger fans, are you with Steve Sacks
Speaker 3: You're feeling good? Or are you leaning towards me? A
Speaker 3: little questionable about it? Get to your phone calls coming up?
Speaker 3: He is Steve Sacks on, Tim Katson sax and Kate's
Speaker 3: and am leading you up to Dodgers padres right here
Speaker 3: in your home of the Dodgers a FI seventy light
Speaker 3: sports saxon Kates and Am. I got a good feeling
Speaker 3: we're gonna be hearing this tonight. Batting third, playing first
Speaker 3: base for the Dodgers. Freddie Freeman, his walk up song
Speaker 3: did not play in Game four because of the ankle.
Speaker 3: Fully expect him to go in Game five tonight, five eight,
Speaker 3: first pitch, Dodgers padres out at the ravine, Your phone
Speaker 3: calls coming up the rest of the way. Thanks to
Speaker 3: David vaz Say. Thanks to Ryan Dempster from Intentional Talk
Speaker 3: on MLB Network joining us Last hour, Great show daily
Speaker 3: on the MLB Network, and they'll be doing so throughout
Speaker 3: the postseason. Eleven am this morning an earlier start because
Speaker 3: of the coverage of the DS's in the American League
Speaker 3: and the National League. I got a text from a
Speaker 3: buddy Tom and he wanted me to bring this up
Speaker 3: to you, Saxy. He says, you Darvish and he approach
Speaker 3: the Dodgers' hitters. She'd have with him. He's like fifty
Speaker 3: percent breaking balls nowadays. Do you cheat as a hitter
Speaker 3: knowing the off speed stuff is probably what you're looking
Speaker 3: at and just be able to adjust fastball?
Speaker 4: No, no, never, absolutely not. I gotta tell you can't
Speaker 4: adjust to a faster pitch. You gotta look fastball and
Speaker 4: adjust to the offs pitch.
Speaker 3: Even he's only throwing ninety two, ninety three, ninety four.
Speaker 3: He's not upper nineties anymore. You don't doesn't matter. No,
Speaker 3: Look at Hendricks from the Cubs. He never breaks ninety
Speaker 3: he breaks bats. He breaks bats. He pitches inside why
Speaker 3: because people sit on this changeup, which is his best pitch.
Speaker 3: Then he throws in a two seamer at about eighty
Speaker 3: seven and he's breaking people's bats.
Speaker 4: So no, you can't. Look. I mean, sometimes you can
Speaker 4: cheat and look for a certain pitch once in a while,
Speaker 4: but you can't sit on a slow pitch and change
Speaker 4: to the fast pitch. It doesn't work that way. You
Speaker 4: cannot do it. The ball is coming too fast. You
Speaker 4: have to do it the opposite.
Speaker 3: Eight six, six ninety seven, two five seventy is our number.
Speaker 3: It's continue on the phone, Saxy Paul and Huntington Beach Paul,
Speaker 3: Game five tonight. How are you feeling going into this
Speaker 3: decisive game?
Speaker 1: Well, dude, I'm not going to be very productive at
Speaker 1: the office today, I'll tell you that much.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 1: I came in early so I could bail out early.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean. Listen, I was thinking about it, obviously.
Speaker 1: You know I'm with you. Tim you can't feel super
Speaker 1: great about young Moto given sort of the data and
Speaker 1: the stats and all the things. But at the end
Speaker 1: of the day, to Sax's point, you know, you gave
Speaker 1: the guy a boatload of money, and let's be honest,
Speaker 1: he has shown signs, you know, throughout the course of
Speaker 1: the year of being dominant in stretches. So let's see
Speaker 1: how it plays out. That dude better have a very
Speaker 1: very short leash. But you mentioned something, you know, two
Speaker 1: segments ago that I wanted to sort of build on. Dude,
Speaker 1: I'm an Orange County guy, right. I've been at the
Speaker 1: Dodger Stadium a couple hundred times, I'm sure, and a
Speaker 1: buddy that called to me, you know, the day of
Speaker 1: Game seven of twenty seventeen World Series and said, hey, man,
Speaker 1: I got an in. I can get you into the yard.
Speaker 1: I went up there. It was like the crowning moment
Speaker 1: of my baseball life. I could not wait to get
Speaker 1: my butt up to the ravine. I was fired up. Man.
Speaker 1: I got in there, had to sit by myself because
Speaker 1: he got me in, and that was fine. And it
Speaker 1: was like a morgue. Dude, like fifteen minutes into that
Speaker 1: game and it never got better. You know, all year
Speaker 1: long the Dodgers had to overcome, they had to exercise demons.
Speaker 1: It was injuries, it was drama, it was this series.
Speaker 1: Everything they've overcome. Tonight, they've got to exercise some demons
Speaker 1: and send Darvish packing and and remember what he was
Speaker 1: in twenty seventeen, and let's right the ship. Send that
Speaker 1: guy out of there, and let's pack up a win.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 1: I'm fired up. I can't wait to get it on.
Speaker 1: And and by the way, I cannot wait for another
Speaker 1: NLCS against the Mets and listen to more Steve Sacks
Speaker 1: and Saxy. I want lots of stories from the eighty
Speaker 1: eight LCS. All right, boys, have a good one, man, we'll.
Speaker 4: Talk to Paul.
Speaker 3: Paul appreciated. I think that's I think he kind of
Speaker 3: hit it on the head. And I mentioned it earlier.
Speaker 3: I've got scar tissue still from twenty seventeen.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and let that go, bro, Yeah, let her go.
Speaker 4: Let it go. It's still built.
Speaker 3: I haven't worked out yet.
Speaker 4: How are you sleeping.
Speaker 3: I'm not sleeping much. I'm gonna be honest with you.
Speaker 3: And then at the same time, I'm afraid to take
Speaker 3: something to sleep. You know you don't want to do
Speaker 3: that either, because I won't wake up and it'll be
Speaker 3: no scam. It'll just be sacks in the morning.
Speaker 4: Here. Well, hey, I won't wake up. Well, we've got
Speaker 4: to scam it, that's for sure. Uh yeah, Tim, just
Speaker 4: you gotta let that go. And you know it's it's
Speaker 4: gonna be Uh, it's gonna be an awakening. I think
Speaker 4: for Dodger fans to see just exactly how they're gonna
Speaker 4: jump on and shove tonight. I got a great feeling
Speaker 4: about it. I'm not I'm not posturing. I'm not trying
Speaker 4: to bring in some fake enthusiasm because I don't like
Speaker 4: that stuff. I don't like the eye wash. But I'm
Speaker 4: telling you I think I think they've got it. I
Speaker 4: think they've right where they want to be. They've changed
Speaker 4: the narrative. They can do it now. Mookie's hot in
Speaker 4: front of their home fans. It's time for Yoshiobu yamamotive
Speaker 4: to do some of some of his own shoving and
Speaker 4: get this thing on track and look forward to to
Speaker 4: dominating the Mets. Now.
Speaker 3: It won't feel as good, but I think it will
Speaker 3: make up for a little bit of what you Darvish
Speaker 3: did in Game seven of the twenty seventeen World Series,
Speaker 3: giving up those runs early, putting them in a hole,
Speaker 3: and the Astros winning that twenty seventeen World Series championship
Speaker 3: on the field the Dodgers Stadium. It won't replace it.
Speaker 3: I'll never forgive necessarily one hundred percent, but I think
Speaker 3: it would certainly help the wound that I still have.
Speaker 3: It'll help break up the scars issue a little bit
Speaker 3: if the Dodgers could get after you, Darvish, and I
Speaker 3: can watch tonight at some point having to see Shilt
Speaker 3: come out of the dugout and take the ball from you, Darvish,
Speaker 3: because the Dodgers are just putting up crooked number after
Speaker 3: crooked number and have bait guys on the base pass,
Speaker 3: and the Dodgers have more runs than the Padres, and you,
Speaker 3: Darvish is being chased in the game. It'll make me
Speaker 3: feel a little bit better.
Speaker 4: Saxony, Okay, does the scar tissue just blow out or
Speaker 4: does it slowly kind of fade?
Speaker 3: No, I start to feel better. It's like I take
Speaker 3: a tile and all of a sudden you feel a
Speaker 3: little bit better, but you can still feel it. That's
Speaker 3: all always been that's car tissue is not going anywhere.
Speaker 3: That's a reminder. Some guy's got the Tommy John surgeries,
Speaker 3: you know, and you see the scar there, and it's
Speaker 3: a reminder of what they've been through and the rehab
Speaker 3: that they have to go through for sixteen to eighteen months.
Speaker 3: It's something to never forget. And you look at as
Speaker 3: a reminder. This car tissue I suffered from Game seven
Speaker 3: of the twenty seventeen World Series. It'll never go away, Saxy.
Speaker 3: It's gonna be a reminder every time I feel this,
Speaker 3: it's gonna be a reminder of that Game seven, and
Speaker 3: you darbish, it'll make me feel just a little bit
Speaker 3: better temporarily.
Speaker 4: Let me let me get out feel a little bit
Speaker 4: better right now too, because after the Dodgers just thwart
Speaker 4: the opportunity for the Padres to move on, it'll be
Speaker 4: the Dodgers moving on, and it'll be reminiscent back in
Speaker 4: nineteen eighty eight League Championship Series Mets Dodgers, right, I mean,
Speaker 4: would that be prolific to have Mets Dodgers again?
Speaker 3: I think Paul hit it on the head and I gosh,
Speaker 3: I don't want to look ahead. I don't know just
Speaker 3: a little bit.
Speaker 4: He's right.
Speaker 3: If they if they get past the ponder, is going
Speaker 3: to be next week. We have to have stories. We
Speaker 3: have to have stories, millions of them of the national
Speaker 3: champillions of them.
Speaker 4: I've got millions of them, including inside the clubhouse with
Speaker 4: some funny things that went on inside the clubhouse with
Speaker 4: some of the pitching staff and whatever. We'll get to
Speaker 4: that as soon as the Dodgers just roll over these guys.
Speaker 3: That's that that right there, isma weak enough for the
Speaker 3: Dodgers to win Game five. Tonight.
Speaker 4: I will be documenting this weekend all of the stories
Speaker 4: and they'll be they'll they'll be enumerated. You can just say, hey,
Speaker 4: how about number seven, give me number two, whatever, and
Speaker 4: we'll we'll do it.
Speaker 3: And that was a series. You guys were heavy underdogs, Yes,
Speaker 3: and we're gonna throw them out. He's gonna be throwed out. Okay,
Speaker 3: cannot wait. The scar tissue is real, Dodger fans. Do
Speaker 3: you feel it too? Do you still have it from
Speaker 3: twenty seventeen? And will you feel better if the Dodgers
Speaker 3: were able to get after you Darvish tonight? I'll be honest,
Speaker 3: being at the game tonight, doing the pregame show right
Speaker 3: up until first pitch when when Yamamoto takes them mount,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna be like, eh. And then when you Darvish
Speaker 3: gets on the mountd I'm gonna be like, just get
Speaker 3: it after him, get after him right now.
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, And you know what they're they'll set the
Speaker 4: stage early. You'll be able to tell. And Yamamoto, I think,
Speaker 4: is gonna be Obviously he's going to be the key,
Speaker 4: I think more than Darvish because you know, there's a
Speaker 4: lot more skepticism out there. Darvis has got a lot
Speaker 4: more you know, history here in the United States, and
Speaker 4: we don't know about Yamamoto yet. We don't know, you know,
Speaker 4: what the heartbeat is going to be for him when
Speaker 4: he gets out there and he's facing this tough lineup,
Speaker 4: and these Padres are a good lineup, no question about it.
Speaker 4: But we're gonna find out tonight. It's gonna be epic
Speaker 4: and five oh eight, be in your seats and be
Speaker 4: ready to go.
Speaker 3: I'm not smart enough to do the time difference, but
Speaker 3: I imagine they'll be up whatever time it is. Over
Speaker 3: in Tokyo and in Japan, watching this game with Darvish Yamamoto,
Speaker 3: all playing.
Speaker 4: Their their national countrymen going at it. This is phenomenal.
Speaker 4: This is gonna be great. And I don't even know
Speaker 4: what time is. I don't even know what day it'll
Speaker 4: be over there. It's probably a different day, isn't it.
Speaker 3: Maybe they already know the results since like a day
Speaker 3: ahead and behind. Maybe we can find that right.
Speaker 4: Maybe we're in a time warp and they've already played
Speaker 4: and we don't even know it yet.
Speaker 3: I love yeah, I would love to know. It would
Speaker 3: make me feel a lot better. This ulcer would certainly
Speaker 3: go away. Kenny and Tarzana is next up here on
Speaker 3: SAX and Kate and am Kenny.
Speaker 4: How you doing?
Speaker 8: I'm doing great, doing great? That an ultimate collar there.
Speaker 8: Paul as one sports type guy who's now a national guy,
Speaker 8: used to say, rack him. He stole Mines thunder. I
Speaker 8: was at that game in nineteen eighty eight when Steve
Speaker 8: he hit the two runs single off Ron Darling and
Speaker 8: twenty and he's very modest about it, and of course
Speaker 8: bulldog led us to that victory and we got the
Speaker 8: Mets that year. Twenty nine years later, fast forward, I
Speaker 8: was at that board in twenty seventeen and Tim you
Speaker 8: are just absolutely right. We owe darbish. Seems like a
Speaker 8: nice enough guy, but you know, there was talk back
Speaker 8: then and he darbish was tipping his pitches in twenty seventeen.
Speaker 8: What a letdown that was for clearly, I'd actually blew
Speaker 8: out to Houston and went to game took my daughter
Speaker 8: to Game five. I told her something was wrong. So
Speaker 8: really long was going on. Couldn't quite put my figures
Speaker 8: on it, but we owe them. And I got to
Speaker 8: tell you, you know, I'm a little bit apprehensive about
Speaker 8: Yoshi too. But I'm going back to June this year,
Speaker 8: and you'll recall that the Dodgers faced the Yankees. He
Speaker 8: pitched seven scoreless innings, had seven k's, and of course
Speaker 8: there are man po came through and the Dodgers won
Speaker 8: that game. But at the time, the Dodgers had the
Speaker 8: best record and the Yankees had the best record in
Speaker 8: their respective league, and there was just all this talk
Speaker 8: after the game, how Yoshi just bared down. He was
Speaker 8: showing intense and he really had his games that he's on,
Speaker 8: and they were talking about what the anticipated that he
Speaker 8: was going to be able to do in October. So
Speaker 8: right now is the time. Loved the old time references
Speaker 8: couldn't go back to Helendale and he got really great.
Speaker 4: All right, thank you, so thank you.
Speaker 3: Kenny, appreciate the phone call. Yeah, he referenced to the
Speaker 3: start back on June seventh at Yankees Stadium. It was
Speaker 3: the Friday night opener of a three game set between
Speaker 3: the Dodgers and Yankees. The game would go eleven innings,
Speaker 3: but Yoshinova Yama Moto wins seven shutout innings. Yeah, allowed
Speaker 3: two hits, struck out seven, walked to through one hundred
Speaker 3: and six pitches, and yeah, a lot of people want
Speaker 3: to point to that game is maybe he stretched out
Speaker 3: too much and exerted too much that he hurt his
Speaker 3: shoulder and it was ended up going on the iel
Speaker 3: A couple starts later for three months. But yeah, that
Speaker 3: was a high stakes pressure game in the Bronx that
Speaker 3: he rose to the occasion and showed a lot of
Speaker 3: toughness out there. If he could just channel that a
Speaker 3: little bit, Saxy and we can get a little bit,
Speaker 3: little bit Yamamoto from June, I'll feel better.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And you know, look, all the build up is
Speaker 4: mostly all of this anxieties before the game. Naturally, when
Speaker 4: the game starts, you're in the flow, and you know,
Speaker 4: like I said the other day on the broadcast, it's
Speaker 4: it's like another game. It really is, because nothing's really
Speaker 4: that unfamiliar. There's a little more bunting on the on
Speaker 4: the on the stands of the you know, the flags
Speaker 4: everywhere and whatever. That's a little bit. But other than that,
Speaker 4: I didn't notice a ton of difference in the game.
Speaker 4: Maybe probably because we had, you know, guys like Worl
Speaker 4: on the mound that were just locking them down and
Speaker 4: it felt pretty comfortable. But yeah, I mean, you know,
Speaker 4: before the game, lots of intensity, lots of anxiety. When
Speaker 4: the game starts, it's another game.
Speaker 3: Andrew and Marietta joins us here on Saxon Kates in
Speaker 3: the am on this Friday morning as we lead you
Speaker 3: up to game five. Hi, Andrew, how you feeling.
Speaker 1: I'm really good.
Speaker 7: I think we're gonna get done tonight. And I'm glad
Speaker 7: you brought up twenty seventeen to the I have a
Speaker 7: little suggestion for the Dodger Clubhouse. I don't know if
Speaker 7: anybody remembers that game two twenty seventeen World Series, the
Speaker 7: Astros had only scored like one run through six innings
Speaker 7: and the camera panned to the dugout and Justin Verlander,
Speaker 7: who had started that game, was yelling at all his
Speaker 7: play like with this big intensity. And then they ended
Speaker 7: up scoring like six runs after the seventh inning and
Speaker 7: they won the game. And then in twenty eighteen Game four,
Speaker 7: I don't know if you guys, remember Rich Hill is dealing,
Speaker 7: you only give it like one hit through six innings,
Speaker 7: and same thing. They panted the dugout and Chris Sale
Speaker 7: for the Red Sox was like screaming at all his
Speaker 7: players saying like, oh, he only has one freaking pitch, like,
Speaker 7: let's do it. And they ended up scoring like seven runs.
Speaker 7: So I kind of want to see like a mookie
Speaker 7: that's yelling at somebody or something like. I don't know, Steve,
Speaker 7: did you ever yell at anybody in the digout to
Speaker 7: get them going?
Speaker 4: H Did I ever yell anybody all the time? But
Speaker 4: I didn't do it on the field.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 4: I would yell at our own players to get us going,
Speaker 4: but not not talking trash the other players. Now I
Speaker 4: never liked that.
Speaker 7: Yeah, now the pitchers were they were yelling at their
Speaker 7: own players in the dugout.
Speaker 3: Like, oh, yeah, all the time, all the time.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's fun to do.
Speaker 7: I like the intensity that the Dodgers have been bringing
Speaker 7: from the past. It's a little bit higher this year,
Speaker 7: but I just want to see someone yell at their
Speaker 7: own players in the deagout just to pump each other.
Speaker 4: Up even more. And I appreciate it.
Speaker 3: See Clayton Kershaw had off yelling at guys. Being a
Speaker 3: vocal leader.
Speaker 4: It's mostly it's mostly in a positive way. It's not like, hey,
Speaker 4: good your button. Guys like our our our our chant,
Speaker 4: our yell, our rebel yell for our team was Ashley Kirk.
Speaker 4: Gibson was the one that was doing it, and that
Speaker 4: was a guy who was supposed to be all serious
Speaker 4: and everything. When we got Gibby to loosen up and
Speaker 4: he would, you know, Tommy, after one of the games
Speaker 4: came in, we won a game, we came from behind.
Speaker 4: It must have been like in the you know, like
Speaker 4: in May or something, when things really started to become
Speaker 4: apparent that we were a good team. And Tommy came
Speaker 4: in the in the clubhouse and he said, what a
Speaker 4: blank in team. I can't say it. This is the
Speaker 4: family show. And so from that point on, every time
Speaker 4: we won a game, it was Gibby leading the yell
Speaker 4: in the locker room. What a blank in team? And
Speaker 4: that was our yell throughout the whole season, especially when
Speaker 4: we played the Mets. And we'll talk about that next
Speaker 4: week once we were in this series with them, But
Speaker 4: that's the thing that was always said all the time,
Speaker 4: what a a team?
Speaker 3: It was great love I love it, I absolutely love it.
Speaker 3: Eight sixty six nine eighty seven two five seventy eight
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Speaker 3: this morning at eight six six nine eighty seven two
Speaker 3: five seventy Andrew Fullerton, how you feeling before Game five
Speaker 3: to night first pitch at five oh eight.
Speaker 8: I'm feeling good because I have you darbish on the
Speaker 8: mound against us right now, because I definitely still feel
Speaker 8: that Game seven back into twenty seventeen as well.
Speaker 3: Where is your scar tissue? Mine stored on the left
Speaker 3: side upper body. It hurts to this day every time
Speaker 3: I think about you. Darbish. Where does it affect you?
Speaker 8: Well, it's actually in a positive light right now because
Speaker 8: I love this, you darbish chant of the darbish sarvice.
Speaker 7: As Dodger fans, we need to be on every single pitch.
Speaker 1: If he throws a ball, we need to cheer like
Speaker 1: it's a three unshot.
Speaker 8: We got to get into his head and be relentless.
Speaker 3: I hope so, I hope so, Andrew, I hope so.
Speaker 3: I hope you're right. And again, the more and more
Speaker 3: I think about this, we gotta get it going. That's
Speaker 3: say it was right and bringing this up yesterday, he
Speaker 3: talked about it again this morning, Saxy. I gotta get
Speaker 3: a hold of Diet Rule. I got to reach out
Speaker 3: to him. I got his number. Here's the Dodger Stadium
Speaker 3: organists and does a fantastic job. And he's so brilliant
Speaker 3: and so witty and so quick as far as the
Speaker 3: music he plays. Got to get him the message. If
Speaker 3: he's listening right now, Diet, we got to get you
Speaker 3: the message. We got to get a darvish chant going.
Speaker 4: Everybody's listening to scam right, so everybody in the ballpark.
Speaker 4: How about everybody brings a sign that said let's go
Speaker 4: Darvish and on the bottom of him say put just
Speaker 4: like a little asterisk in there and say courtesy of scam.
Speaker 4: You know what I mean. So we know that our
Speaker 4: listeners are taking it not only in their drive, but
Speaker 4: they're gonna take it to the yard tonight. I think
Speaker 4: we should do that.
Speaker 3: You know, one of the fun things to do at
Speaker 3: Dodger games.
Speaker 4: And I did this.
Speaker 3: They're in the Posty and runs. I think it was
Speaker 3: seventeen eighteen twenty one. Wasn't twenty because that was COVID year,
Speaker 3: but I remember specifically I saw Steve Sacks jerseys and
Speaker 3: I text you the pictures of the guys walking around.
Speaker 3: I'm looking forward to doing that again tonight. Yeah, that
Speaker 3: was my That was my parents and my relatives. No,
Speaker 3: come on, come on, they don't look related at all
Speaker 3: to your sex. Okay, but it's always fun to walking
Speaker 3: around see number three and I see Taylor on the back,
Speaker 3: but to see Sacks.
Speaker 4: Yes, he's got my number.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 3: I'll tell you what, did you give him permission? Because
Speaker 3: it should be retired. It's not retired.
Speaker 4: It should be no. No, well thanks, but no, I
Speaker 4: know he wears it. Well, I'm proud to have Taylor
Speaker 4: wearing that NUMBERK. He wears it.
Speaker 3: Well, let's take another phone call before the break here,
Speaker 3: let's go to We got to go to San Diego, Jeff,
Speaker 3: san Diego, a FI seventy LA sports. How you doing, Jeff.
Speaker 6: Good?
Speaker 3: Doing good? Jeff broke up man, go ahead.
Speaker 1: All the night and spray it everywhere, and I think
Speaker 1: we win it.
Speaker 3: How are you feeling about you, darbish Yamamoto the pitching
Speaker 3: matchup tonight? How you little little nervous about Yama Moto
Speaker 3: based on how he's pitched.
Speaker 1: Yes, I just will teat it like he's a reliefer
Speaker 1: and kick butt tonight.
Speaker 4: Yeah, all right, Jeff, good advice.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know what, pretty simple.
Speaker 4: After that, we got to make sure that Yosha doesn't
Speaker 4: listened to the game. He's gonna think we don't have
Speaker 4: any confidence in him.
Speaker 3: Well, if he's listening, I'm gonna have a little message
Speaker 3: for him. Right and okay, put your big boy pants on. Yeah,
Speaker 3: go out there and deal. Be aggressive. Let's see a
Speaker 3: little emotion after a punch out. After you get to
Speaker 3: tea some merichado and you got a little splitty action happening,
Speaker 3: and they swing and miss for a strike three? How
Speaker 3: about a little primal scream? How about a little let's go?
Speaker 3: How about how about Yoshi just slams his glove down
Speaker 3: and and squares.
Speaker 4: Off, gets a little bit of a bend in the knees, yes,
Speaker 4: and does does the double draw from the holster and
Speaker 4: shakes the finger like, oh my god, you dig that?
Speaker 4: And then the primal scream, the double holster draw little
Speaker 4: with the guns shooting, and then puts them back in
Speaker 4: and goes, yeah, how about that?
Speaker 3: I would lose my mind and Dodgers Stadium would be
Speaker 3: shaking like it's a nine point zero earthquake if he
Speaker 3: did gouds.
Speaker 4: Wouldn't that be the funniest thing you ever saw in
Speaker 4: your life?
Speaker 3: It would love that. The stadium would not stop shaking.
Speaker 3: It'd be so excited, crazy if he were to go
Speaker 3: out and do that tonight. I got a line open
Speaker 3: eight sixty six nine eighty seven two five seventy eight
Speaker 3: six six nine eighty seven two five seventy. It's game five, Yamamoto, darvish,
Speaker 3: how you feeling going into this?
Speaker 4: Winner?
Speaker 3: Take all? Eight sixty six nine eighty seven two five seventy.
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Speaker 3: pitch at five oh eight. Again, it's an early first pitch.
Speaker 3: It's not at seven o'clock. It's not at six o'clock.
Speaker 3: A five h eight first pitch, Dodger Fanti. If you're
Speaker 3: going to the game, get there early, give yourself plenty
Speaker 3: of time to park. At yourself a Dodger Dog, a
Speaker 3: nice cold beverage, and get into your seat ready to
Speaker 3: stand for nine innings and chant at you Darvish as
Speaker 3: soon as he gets to the mound, it's gotta be
Speaker 3: in Unison fifty thousand chanting. Doish, Doari get in his head,
Speaker 3: get after him, be that be that tenth man for
Speaker 3: the Dodgers on the field to help him out through
Speaker 3: this game five tonight.
Speaker 6: Isn't there?
Speaker 4: Isn't there something like they have like a picture of
Speaker 4: his face on like a stick, you know, like a
Speaker 4: little stick flag or something, and they have like a
Speaker 4: cutout of his face. You've seen those before, right, Yeah,
Speaker 4: I'm a little sick they should have that and going
Speaker 4: and swaying it back and forth in unison, so you
Speaker 4: have fifty six thousand doing it. It looks like a
Speaker 4: giant wave going darbish. I mean that would be that
Speaker 4: would kind of get in your head a little bit,
Speaker 4: I would think absolutely. I mean the darves on the
Speaker 4: mountain's got to be thinking they can't all be wrong, right.
Speaker 3: I hope it would get into his head. I think
Speaker 3: that he's a veteran who's been through a lot in
Speaker 3: his long career in baseball now thirty eight years old.
Speaker 3: But I'm hoping they can get after him and rat
Speaker 3: them a little bit tonight, and the Dodgers can get
Speaker 3: to him on the scoreboard early and take an early
Speaker 3: lead and help out Yamamoto and his nerves. I think
Speaker 3: the top of the first is going to be huge Saxony.
Speaker 3: For him to go out there and put up zeros
Speaker 3: and really show that he's out there and can pitching
Speaker 3: a big game like this tonight, I think that will
Speaker 3: send a positive message to the Dodger fans and I
Speaker 3: think to the Dodgers players. Really, if he can go
Speaker 3: out there, get Luisa Rise, go out there and get
Speaker 3: those first three batters that he's gonna face, it's gonna
Speaker 3: be monumental for him.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and he's got to he's got to work on
Speaker 4: the fringes of the plate too, because I mean, you
Speaker 4: look at his fastballs. It's decent, but it's it's not
Speaker 4: one hundred and four, you know. And so he's gotta
Speaker 4: he's got to work on the thigh to the ground.
Speaker 4: When his off speed pitches are working from the letter
Speaker 4: to the thigh, that's problematic. And that's what we saw
Speaker 4: in his last doubting. If he works the fastball up
Speaker 4: and down, works all four quadrants and changes the eye
Speaker 4: level of the hitter and then is able to work
Speaker 4: as secondary stuff from the thigh to the ground and
Speaker 4: sometimes use the ground bury that bury that splitter in
Speaker 4: the ground with two strikes and and let will Smith
Speaker 4: block it and throw them out at first. I mean,
Speaker 4: that's a big, huge pitch for them for him, But
Speaker 4: work them that thing up in the strike zone. He's
Speaker 4: gonna get tattooed. He's got to make that thing between
Speaker 4: the thigh and the ground. That's a great point. And
Speaker 4: you mentioned Will Smith a couple of times in Game one.
Speaker 4: He had to get down on his knees there and
Speaker 4: block balls. One of them five passed him. That's gonna
Speaker 4: be big.
Speaker 3: Will Smith's gonna have to be a wall back there tonight,
Speaker 3: and defense is gonna have to be something that he
Speaker 3: is really on top of with Yamamoto and that split finger,
Speaker 3: like you said, in order to keep it down to
Speaker 3: the zone, maybe get some chases and some swing and missus.
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Speaker 3: in the eight one a bill? How you doing? How
Speaker 3: you feeling going at a game five to night?
Speaker 9: Well, I just want to just say this, this is
Speaker 9: still the year of Otani.
Speaker 8: This is going to be laying all on him.
Speaker 6: Man, It's not all the pressure on.
Speaker 4: Him, but this is his year.
Speaker 1: This is not gonna end tonight.
Speaker 9: The Padreies have not scored in fifteen innings. The pressure's
Speaker 9: on them. If we can score early, I think they're
Speaker 9: gonna feel the pressure. They're in big trouble. The only
Speaker 9: thing that makes me nervous about tonight's game is the
Speaker 9: starting time. Just from playing watching football for football baseball
Speaker 9: for sixty years, twilight always makes me nervous because it's
Speaker 9: hard to score in the twilight. I don't know what
Speaker 9: you guys opinion of it is on that score, but
Speaker 9: it makes me nervous this time. I don't know at
Speaker 9: the time, but let's see. I think the Dodgers pull
Speaker 9: it out.
Speaker 3: All right, appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Bill.
Speaker 3: You brought up the start time. We'll get to that
Speaker 3: in a second. But also, yeah, the Dodgers have not
Speaker 3: given up a run to the Padres since the second
Speaker 3: inning of Game number three, so yeah, they consecutive streak
Speaker 3: here is for no run score by the Padres is
Speaker 3: gone on from Game three of the second inning and
Speaker 3: of that game all the way through Game four with
Speaker 3: the shutout win for the Dodgers going into Game five tonight,
Speaker 3: So that's pretty impressive. Also, the five o'clock first pitch Saxy, Yeah,
Speaker 3: you Levet, same for both teams. You've played it the Shadows.
Speaker 4: Is it real?
Speaker 3: Is it problem?
Speaker 4: Sure? Yeah it is, but not for a long time.
Speaker 4: It is for a little bit, but it's the same
Speaker 4: for both teams. My biggest my biggest problem or question
Speaker 4: is that how long can you keep Luis a rise down? Now,
Speaker 4: thankfully he's not a guy that really goes deep very much,
Speaker 4: only four home runs during the season, but boy, he
Speaker 4: sure sets that table. Think about this and put this
Speaker 4: in context. This is a guy that won three batting
Speaker 4: titles the last three years with three different teams. Okay,
Speaker 4: this guy can flat out. H I T no doubt
Speaker 4: about it, and to keep him down for this long, Hey,
Speaker 4: one more game, you gotta do it. But but you
Speaker 4: know what, sometay it works for both teams that dude's
Speaker 4: gonna rup to but hopefully not to.
Speaker 3: Yeah, keep him down for as long as possible. Joe
Speaker 3: in Ontario, next up here on SAX and Kate's and
Speaker 3: am on a FI seventy Ola Sports. Good morning, Joe,
Speaker 3: how you feeling Yamamoto Darbash game five to night.
Speaker 7: I'm a little nervous, not gonna lie man.
Speaker 1: First of all, good morning guys.
Speaker 6: Darvish Is has had our number ever since we didn't
Speaker 6: re sign him back in what twenty seventeen. Yes, it's
Speaker 6: he's he he You gotta get him early because I
Speaker 6: believe I heard where he works on all his pitches
Speaker 6: and whatever works towards the middle innings or the middle yeah,
Speaker 6: middle innings. He starts, he starts throwing. It's it's nervous,
Speaker 6: you know, and then you know you have the kid Yama,
Speaker 6: which is he's.
Speaker 7: Really young to be throwing in a critical game like this,
Speaker 7: so at least twenty six it's just want to get
Speaker 7: your takes.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I appreciate Joe signed his twenty twenty five year
Speaker 3: old righthander now twenty six, and if you're going to
Speaker 3: sign him to a deal light they did to make
Speaker 3: him the highest paid pitcher right handed pitcher, and they
Speaker 3: history of baseball saxy. You have to be able to
Speaker 3: throw him out there in a decisive game five. Then
Speaker 3: why did you sign him to the biggest deal ever
Speaker 3: not to have him pitching one of the biggest games.
Speaker 4: Hey, he's twenty six, he's a grown you know what, man, Okay,
Speaker 4: he forget that. I don't get this today. Well he's
Speaker 4: only twenty eight. Really, that's it, man. I was in
Speaker 4: sixth grade buying my own clothes. Okay, get off of it.
Speaker 4: So anyway, I don't think that matters. Look, it's gonna
Speaker 4: come down to what we talked about before. Either you
Speaker 4: do or you do not. And I think if Yamamoto
Speaker 4: is mowing him down, he's giving up one run in
Speaker 4: four innings, maybe you stretch him another inning. I get
Speaker 4: Ryan Depster talking about it, and I know I don't
Speaker 4: argue with his point. He's right about that, But I
Speaker 4: think momentum is such a huge thing, especially in postseason.
Speaker 4: You know what if he's If he's going and getting
Speaker 4: guys out, I'm gonna stay with him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I think tonight it's gonna be imperative. That
Speaker 3: first inning put up a zero. We'll see what he
Speaker 3: could do moving forward. As you keep talking about Saxony,
Speaker 3: you mentioned that leash is gonna be short. Yeah, Dodgers
Speaker 3: bullpen on the other end of it, sure, and you
Speaker 3: know what happens guys rolling, You take him out because
Speaker 3: of the pitch count. Reliever comes in and just gives
Speaker 3: it up. We've seen that a million times. So if
Speaker 3: he's rolling, let him roll, let him roll. If he's rolling, absolutely,
Speaker 3: eight six six ninety seven, two five seventy two hours down,
Speaker 3: one to go. We're getting closer and closer to the
Speaker 3: first pitch. Dodgers and Padres. What is your gut feel,
Speaker 3: Dodger fans, We'll be we'll be texting to talk to
Speaker 3: to night tim. It is gonna be back and forth,
Speaker 3: and I don't know if I can take it. I
Speaker 3: am nervous. I am nervous right now. My stomach is churning.
Speaker 3: You need a TCB or whatever they call it, TBD.
Speaker 3: What are those things called? Those little CBD.
Speaker 4: CBD Okay, yeah, you need maybe need one of those.
Speaker 3: I need something to calm me down right now because
Speaker 3: I'm nervous.
Speaker 4: Feel sorry for missus Kates.
Speaker 3: Yeah me too, Me too. I've been a wreck all week.
Speaker 3: Last forty hours have been really a wreck for me.
Speaker 3: Like I didn't sleep much last night.
Speaker 4: Saxy dude, Okay, you gotta you gotta get over that threshold.
Speaker 4: D it all right once you once you hit the hay,
Speaker 4: put the cell phone down on the car so you
Speaker 4: don't even think about answering it and get some get
Speaker 4: some z's, bro, you deserve it.
Speaker 3: Well, here's the problem. I went to bed. Look, I
Speaker 3: looked at my phone because I couldn't sleep, and I
Speaker 3: saw that the Dodgers announced Yama motive was gonna start.
Speaker 3: And then I really couldn't sleep last night. Eight six, six,
Speaker 3: nine eighty seven, two five seventy one hour to go.
Speaker 3: Your phone calls the rest of the way came five.
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