WEBVTT 1 00:00:03.200 --> 00:00:04.320 The right quot. 2 00:00:04.440 --> 00:00:10.359 Dodgers Playoff Baseball is back, and with it an annual 3 00:00:10.480 --> 00:00:12.240 postseason tradition. 4 00:00:12.279 --> 00:00:13.960 Scam is back. Baby. 5 00:00:14.359 --> 00:00:17.839 This is Saxon Cakes in the a app BA Go 6 00:00:18.039 --> 00:00:22.399 with Proway. Dodger legend Steve Sacks is joined by your 7 00:00:22.559 --> 00:00:26.719 favorite Dodger pregame host, Tim Kates. If you want to 8 00:00:26.760 --> 00:00:29.280 talk Dodgers, get in on the show on eighty six 9 00:00:29.399 --> 00:00:32.159 six nine, eighty seven two five seven now. While the 10 00:00:32.280 --> 00:00:35.759 Dan Patrick Show streams on the Ihearts radio app. We've 11 00:00:35.799 --> 00:00:39.679 been banished to the Internet until this Dodgers playoff run concludes. 12 00:00:39.840 --> 00:00:43.200 Here they are broadcasting live on AM five to seven 13 00:00:43.240 --> 00:00:47.679 e LA Sports. It's Tim Kates and Steve Sacks. 14 00:00:47.719 --> 00:00:50.280 Sax and Kates in the AM and it feels so 15 00:00:50.520 --> 00:00:53.759 good on this Tuesday morning as the Dodgers have a 16 00:00:53.920 --> 00:00:58.640 three zho series lead in this twenty twenty four World Series. 17 00:00:58.880 --> 00:01:02.399 Tim Kats, How long was Steve Sacks here on your 18 00:01:02.520 --> 00:01:05.560 home of the Dodgers AM five to seventy LA Sports. 19 00:01:05.840 --> 00:01:08.599 Dodgers a four to two win last night over the Yankees. 20 00:01:09.040 --> 00:01:14.680 Fat Joe couldn't get the Yankee fans excited or fired up, 21 00:01:15.680 --> 00:01:18.000 and then the air came out of Yankee Stadium in 22 00:01:18.040 --> 00:01:20.519 the first inning thanks to Freddie Freeman and that two 23 00:01:20.560 --> 00:01:22.359 run home run. And then when you've got a dog 24 00:01:22.400 --> 00:01:25.159 on the mount in Walker Buehler with five shotout innings, 25 00:01:25.200 --> 00:01:26.840 and then you open up the kennel and the rest 26 00:01:26.879 --> 00:01:29.000 of the dogs from the bullpen come out for the 27 00:01:29.040 --> 00:01:31.959 next four innings. The Dodgers get a Game three win, 28 00:01:32.079 --> 00:01:35.439 and now they are twenty seven outs away from a 29 00:01:35.480 --> 00:01:40.120 World Series championship, the eighth in franchise history. And for 30 00:01:40.159 --> 00:01:42.599 this Dodgers team to be the second in the last 31 00:01:42.640 --> 00:01:46.359 four years, having won in twenty twenty. Another World Series 32 00:01:46.439 --> 00:01:48.400 run for this Dodgers team. I know a lot Dodger 33 00:01:48.480 --> 00:01:52.400 fans expected this Dodgers team to beat in this position Saxy, 34 00:01:52.480 --> 00:01:55.760 but to be in this dominating position against the Yankees, 35 00:01:55.799 --> 00:01:57.760 I mean, we all wanted the East Coast, West Coast 36 00:01:57.879 --> 00:02:01.359 Yankees Dodgers all time ever they're meeting. Nineteen eighty one 37 00:02:01.640 --> 00:02:04.159 was the last time they squared off. Oh, Aaron, Judge, 38 00:02:04.239 --> 00:02:08.479 Soto and Stanton versus Freeman, Bets and Otani. It's been 39 00:02:08.520 --> 00:02:09.039 all Dodgers. 40 00:02:09.120 --> 00:02:12.599 Yeah, hey, look head down and just pound, just pound 41 00:02:12.639 --> 00:02:15.560 these guys right now, all right, don't don't wake anybody up. 42 00:02:15.680 --> 00:02:18.599 We don't want any you know, weird things happening. Nobody 43 00:02:18.639 --> 00:02:19.159 go out there in. 44 00:02:19.159 --> 00:02:22.000 The press and say these guys suck or anything like that. 45 00:02:22.599 --> 00:02:25.120 Just leave them be and just go do your thing 46 00:02:25.639 --> 00:02:27.960 and pound them. I mean, really, do not let this 47 00:02:28.039 --> 00:02:29.759 thing come back to Los Angeles. You don't want to 48 00:02:29.759 --> 00:02:32.080 go there, Tim, No, just just do what you're doing. 49 00:02:32.120 --> 00:02:32.280 Now. 50 00:02:32.520 --> 00:02:35.919 Notice you don't hear anything about you know, any anything's 51 00:02:35.960 --> 00:02:38.599 off to the side, that's happening. Robert says, Oh god, 52 00:02:38.680 --> 00:02:41.120 he's not the problem, you know. It's just they're just 53 00:02:41.199 --> 00:02:44.120 humming right now. And this is a nice place to be, 54 00:02:44.199 --> 00:02:46.719 a nice zone to be in right now. Just let 55 00:02:46.759 --> 00:02:49.159 it continue, and you know, take this thing back to 56 00:02:49.319 --> 00:02:52.560 LA because you're coming back. Why not for a game? 57 00:02:52.840 --> 00:02:54.520 What are you coming back for a parade? 58 00:02:54.599 --> 00:02:57.159 That's it. You want to parade and you want it now, 59 00:02:57.400 --> 00:03:00.319 keep it simp Los Angeles and the Dodgers are one 60 00:03:00.960 --> 00:03:04.919 win away from having a parade here in southern California. 61 00:03:04.919 --> 00:03:06.400 And how sweet it will be him. I want to 62 00:03:06.400 --> 00:03:07.080 see that parade. 63 00:03:07.199 --> 00:03:11.000 It's gonna be really exciting to see the intensity with 64 00:03:11.120 --> 00:03:13.639 the Dodger team tonight. You're not gonna see a team 65 00:03:13.639 --> 00:03:15.759 that's gonna be laying back and say, well it'll come. 66 00:03:16.240 --> 00:03:18.319 You know it's gonna come. We'll get it. You're gonna 67 00:03:18.319 --> 00:03:21.120 see them go out and demand it that they win. 68 00:03:21.159 --> 00:03:25.840 This intensity or pressure on the Dodger team, No, there's pressure. 69 00:03:25.960 --> 00:03:28.919 No, there's pressure on the Yankees like you've never seen before. Okay, 70 00:03:28.960 --> 00:03:30.280 it is just immense. 71 00:03:30.680 --> 00:03:30.919 I know. 72 00:03:31.000 --> 00:03:33.439 The other thing, well, the wounded animal with his back filt. Now, 73 00:03:33.479 --> 00:03:35.960 this team is, this thing is gouged right now, and 74 00:03:36.039 --> 00:03:37.479 the Dodgers have to finish him off. 75 00:03:37.479 --> 00:03:39.879 I know Aaron Judge can probably squat a lot of weight, 76 00:03:40.280 --> 00:03:42.599 but man, the pressure and weight on his shoulders right 77 00:03:42.599 --> 00:03:44.960 now in New York, I don't know if it's enough 78 00:03:44.960 --> 00:03:48.479 for him to have. No, hey, you know what, I'm 79 00:03:48.520 --> 00:03:51.560 not gonna say the Dodgers are fortunate because they created 80 00:03:51.599 --> 00:03:55.560 their own fortune. Okay, But the thing is, it would 81 00:03:55.560 --> 00:03:59.280 be much tougher for the Dodgers to come in to 82 00:03:59.400 --> 00:04:02.439 this series when Aaron Judge was in mid season form 83 00:04:02.560 --> 00:04:05.599 just crushing, you know, because he is the crusha and 84 00:04:05.680 --> 00:04:07.639 if you bring him in what he does, if he's 85 00:04:07.680 --> 00:04:10.840 in that zone, he makes everybody else around him a 86 00:04:10.879 --> 00:04:13.039 lot better he really does. You know what, I'm gonna 87 00:04:13.039 --> 00:04:15.759 take the other side of this, all this national media saying, 88 00:04:15.800 --> 00:04:19.560 where is Aaron Judge. Why isn't Aaron Judge performing? Why 89 00:04:19.600 --> 00:04:22.120 isn't Aaron Judge hitting the home runs? Where is Aaron 90 00:04:22.199 --> 00:04:25.120 Judges offense? Hey, how about some credit to the Dodger pitching. 91 00:04:25.800 --> 00:04:30.000 How about great job Dodger starters wait to outpitch the 92 00:04:30.120 --> 00:04:33.120 Yankee starter giving up a one point six two ERA 93 00:04:33.519 --> 00:04:35.839 for the first sixteen to two thirteens that they've combined 94 00:04:35.839 --> 00:04:37.800 through three games. How about a great job to the 95 00:04:37.800 --> 00:04:39.959 Dodgers bullpen and shutting him down. 96 00:04:40.240 --> 00:04:42.360 Where's the rest of the Yankee team? I mean he's 97 00:04:42.399 --> 00:04:45.120 not just there a Judge. I mean where's everybody else? 98 00:04:45.199 --> 00:04:47.639 I mean, this is a tough you know, this is 99 00:04:47.680 --> 00:04:50.839 a tough a team to face. The starting pitching is 100 00:04:50.920 --> 00:04:53.199 coming through. Like you said, the bullpen has already been 101 00:04:53.240 --> 00:04:55.199 one of the best bullpens in baseball. So what I 102 00:04:55.199 --> 00:04:57.399 got to say to that is they're just coming up 103 00:04:57.439 --> 00:05:00.519 against a real juggernaut. They're looking at this thing as saying, man, 104 00:05:00.600 --> 00:05:02.680 the nationally had to face these guys all year long. 105 00:05:02.759 --> 00:05:04.920 I know we have Interleague, but man, this is something 106 00:05:05.160 --> 00:05:09.399 that's really devastating. Yeah, it has been a domination, unbelievable 107 00:05:09.439 --> 00:05:13.600 team that all fronts, pitching, bullpen, offense, defense, which you've 108 00:05:13.600 --> 00:05:17.480 talked about last hour and again when when Max Monty 109 00:05:17.519 --> 00:05:19.720 makeshi play like he did at third base last night, 110 00:05:20.120 --> 00:05:23.839 it looks routine. It's it's not five to three put 111 00:05:23.839 --> 00:05:27.399 out in your score book there. Just please don't underscore, 112 00:05:27.639 --> 00:05:31.480 don't underestimate what he's bringing at third base. I mean, 113 00:05:31.560 --> 00:05:33.279 that's a tough position. You got to have a guy 114 00:05:33.319 --> 00:05:35.360 over there that can do it, that's dependable. You remember 115 00:05:35.399 --> 00:05:37.759 what Greg Nettles did in that you know, the World 116 00:05:37.839 --> 00:05:40.360 Series before that, when the Dodgers couldn't get over the hump, 117 00:05:40.600 --> 00:05:42.680 it was all about third base in Greg Nettles, that's 118 00:05:42.720 --> 00:05:45.600 a very important position, and he's handling it with grace. 119 00:05:45.759 --> 00:05:49.160 Yeah, And albeit it hasn't had to happen a lot, thankfully, 120 00:05:49.480 --> 00:05:51.639 Freddie Freeman is a witch over at first base with 121 00:05:51.680 --> 00:05:53.560 that glove. And it's still I'm gonna say it again, 122 00:05:53.639 --> 00:05:56.160 it is still a flat out shame that he is 123 00:05:56.160 --> 00:05:58.839 not a finalist for a goal glove. That's ridiculous Nationally, 124 00:05:58.879 --> 00:06:00.680 that's ridicous. You're telling me he's not one of the 125 00:06:00.720 --> 00:06:04.920 best three first baseman defensively in the National League. I 126 00:06:04.920 --> 00:06:07.279 can tell you he's the best first baseman of baseball. Yeah, 127 00:06:07.319 --> 00:06:08.879 for all the plays that he has had to pick 128 00:06:08.959 --> 00:06:12.600 up for Mookie Betts, Max Munty, Chris Taylor, Gavin Logs, 129 00:06:12.639 --> 00:06:15.399 Miguel Rojas and everybody has had to play the infield 130 00:06:15.399 --> 00:06:19.040 around him. He's had to save their butt all season 131 00:06:19.120 --> 00:06:21.240 long at some point or another, and yet he's not 132 00:06:21.279 --> 00:06:23.360 considered one of the top three in the National League. 133 00:06:24.000 --> 00:06:26.759 Just ask all those infielders about Freddy Freez exactly and 134 00:06:26.839 --> 00:06:29.000 they'll tell you, Yeah, it's amazing to have a guy 135 00:06:29.000 --> 00:06:30.040 over there that can pick it. 136 00:06:30.240 --> 00:06:32.639 Unbelievable, and he's so natural at it, you know, I mean, 137 00:06:32.680 --> 00:06:35.360 it saves him time after time. So it's it's a 138 00:06:35.439 --> 00:06:37.240 huge benefit for the Dodgers. We're gonna get to your 139 00:06:37.240 --> 00:06:38.839 phone calls in just a minute. We got a full 140 00:06:38.839 --> 00:06:40.759 board of calls, and we love it. Dodger fans, you 141 00:06:40.800 --> 00:06:43.079 are fired up, and I love it. I am fired 142 00:06:43.160 --> 00:06:45.839 up right there with you because I see the end 143 00:06:46.399 --> 00:06:47.240 of the rainbow. 144 00:06:47.279 --> 00:06:49.879 Here. The pot at the end of the rainbow is 145 00:06:49.920 --> 00:06:53.800 a championship trophy with the Dodgers name already starting to 146 00:06:53.839 --> 00:06:55.920 be inscribed on it. They've already got the loss in 147 00:06:56.000 --> 00:06:56.800 there for Los Angeles. 148 00:06:56.839 --> 00:06:59.319 I'm wincing when you're saying this, you know, listen, like 149 00:06:59.519 --> 00:07:02.240 I like them mentality, I like the forethought and the 150 00:07:02.319 --> 00:07:03.439 positivity and all that. 151 00:07:03.439 --> 00:07:06.720 That's all great and wonderful things. But just temperate until 152 00:07:06.759 --> 00:07:09.319 we see what happens after game. After this game, Saxy, 153 00:07:09.399 --> 00:07:15.759 this thing is Oh, it's naive e r wow over 154 00:07:16.040 --> 00:07:18.839 are you serious? Now? I've got to ask you, what 155 00:07:18.959 --> 00:07:21.839 if they come out in the Yankees start shoving tonight 156 00:07:22.120 --> 00:07:24.000 and the bullpen's done in an inning and a third, 157 00:07:24.120 --> 00:07:25.920 then what are you gonna say? It's time to get 158 00:07:25.959 --> 00:07:28.519 to my thumbs, It's time to get to my prolosack, 159 00:07:28.759 --> 00:07:32.600 whatever I need to take to get that heartburn, that's 160 00:07:32.600 --> 00:07:34.800 not gonna happen. That's not gonna happen. I don't think 161 00:07:34.879 --> 00:07:37.240 that's gonna happen. Let's hope not. Let's let's hear from 162 00:07:37.240 --> 00:07:40.240 the manager Dave Roberts after the game last Night's certainly 163 00:07:40.399 --> 00:07:43.720 happy about where his teams at, but cautiously optimistic at 164 00:07:43.720 --> 00:07:44.199 the same time. 165 00:07:44.920 --> 00:07:47.000 Doc, that couldn't have gone any better for you guys 166 00:07:47.160 --> 00:07:50.399 or for show, right, I mean, what was your assessment 167 00:07:50.600 --> 00:07:55.319 of how he was able to weather through swinging at 168 00:07:55.360 --> 00:07:57.639 the plate and what you saw and all of it. 169 00:07:59.160 --> 00:08:01.240 I thought he did a really nice job of competing. 170 00:08:02.079 --> 00:08:06.959 I don't think that you know, it got any worse obviously, 171 00:08:07.160 --> 00:08:09.720 just him in the batter's box starting the game off, 172 00:08:09.839 --> 00:08:13.319 getting on base by way of walk, and yeah, I 173 00:08:13.480 --> 00:08:16.839 just really appreciate him, you know, posting tonight. 174 00:08:17.040 --> 00:08:18.839 Dave, what can you say about what Walker did tonight 175 00:08:18.879 --> 00:08:20.839 and really what your rotation has done all series. 176 00:08:20.879 --> 00:08:22.480 When I think some people on the outside considered it 177 00:08:22.560 --> 00:08:25.720 maybe a weakness coming into it, Walker was fantastic. 178 00:08:26.160 --> 00:08:27.879 I think, if you know, if you take out that 179 00:08:28.079 --> 00:08:30.439 second inning where we didn't play good defense behind him, 180 00:08:30.480 --> 00:08:34.039 he would have thrown up nothing but zero's in the postseason. Tonight, 181 00:08:34.080 --> 00:08:36.720 I just thought his stuff was as good as it's 182 00:08:36.759 --> 00:08:40.679 been all year. I thought the fastball had life, the 183 00:08:40.759 --> 00:08:43.480 cutter was good, the curveball was good. He pitched all 184 00:08:43.600 --> 00:08:46.159 quadrants and kept those guys on is, kept Hm at bay. 185 00:08:47.159 --> 00:08:50.360 There was no stress. So just to get through five 186 00:08:50.440 --> 00:08:52.840 innings the way he threw the baseball, I thought that's 187 00:08:52.879 --> 00:08:54.720 all he had. Obviously, there was a little bit of 188 00:08:54.840 --> 00:08:58.039 kind of emotions, adrenaline, and I couldn't have asked for 189 00:08:58.039 --> 00:08:59.240 anything more from Walker tonight. 190 00:09:00.159 --> 00:09:04.039 I mean, given all the conversation about your rotation all. 191 00:09:04.039 --> 00:09:07.799 Postseason, I mean, how did you realistically expect that you'd 192 00:09:07.840 --> 00:09:11.360 be getting over eleven innings from your starters, you know, 193 00:09:11.440 --> 00:09:13.440 in Games two and three of the series. 194 00:09:13.600 --> 00:09:15.559 Yeah, you know what, I think that certainly there was 195 00:09:15.600 --> 00:09:18.600 a lot said about the rotation, given the injuries that 196 00:09:18.799 --> 00:09:21.799 we accrued coming into the postseason, But I think that 197 00:09:22.519 --> 00:09:26.879 we just kind of came together collectively feeling the thirteen 198 00:09:26.960 --> 00:09:30.159 guys on our roster as far as pitchers, we're going 199 00:09:30.240 --> 00:09:32.559 to do a good job of preventing runs and so 200 00:09:32.840 --> 00:09:35.519 obviously it doesn't matter, you know how you get them, 201 00:09:35.919 --> 00:09:38.159 and we're doing a nice job of kind of piecing 202 00:09:38.200 --> 00:09:38.639 it together. 203 00:09:38.720 --> 00:09:41.320 Though, how important was that sequence with Mookie's catch and 204 00:09:41.360 --> 00:09:43.120 then Tao's throw in the next step at. 205 00:09:43.600 --> 00:09:50.000 Yeah, the the Tao throw was huge. It obviously killed 206 00:09:50.039 --> 00:09:53.159 the momentum, and then Mookie's play on the sinking liner 207 00:09:53.200 --> 00:09:56.720 from Jazz it just kind of, you know, I thought 208 00:09:56.799 --> 00:09:58.799 Walker was starting to feel it a little bit. There 209 00:09:58.799 --> 00:10:00.559 were starting to be a little bit more hard contact, 210 00:10:00.679 --> 00:10:03.159 so to make a defensive play on a sinking liner 211 00:10:03.200 --> 00:10:05.000 and then net play at the home at home play 212 00:10:05.200 --> 00:10:06.720 was just huge for all of us. 213 00:10:06.799 --> 00:10:08.960 Yeah, you're one of the few people on earth who 214 00:10:09.039 --> 00:10:10.840 know what it's like to come back from a three 215 00:10:10.879 --> 00:10:11.639 to zero deficit. 216 00:10:11.799 --> 00:10:15.440 Don't talk about it wrong, guy, way too early. 217 00:10:16.000 --> 00:10:18.480 What do you remember about your mindset going into that, 218 00:10:18.600 --> 00:10:20.279 and what maybe did you learn from that that you 219 00:10:20.320 --> 00:10:22.000 can take into it now that you're on the other side. 220 00:10:22.759 --> 00:10:27.360 From the other side, I don't want to divulge any secrets, 221 00:10:27.480 --> 00:10:29.639 but from the other side, I just think that we 222 00:10:29.759 --> 00:10:37.759 have got to stay focused, stay urgent, I think offensively, 223 00:10:37.879 --> 00:10:40.360 to be quite honest, we left a lot of runs 224 00:10:40.360 --> 00:10:44.320 out there tonight. Still found a way to win a 225 00:10:44.360 --> 00:10:47.600 ball game, and there's just got to be urgency. I 226 00:10:47.759 --> 00:10:49.279 just don't want to let these guys up for air. 227 00:10:49.600 --> 00:10:52.000 All right, there's David Robbers last night. The first thing 228 00:10:52.080 --> 00:10:54.679 I took away from that was he was absolutely spot on. 229 00:10:54.840 --> 00:10:57.639 Walker Buehler was really good through the three eddies, even 230 00:10:57.679 --> 00:10:59.919 though he was going deep into pitch counts. The fourth 231 00:11:00.840 --> 00:11:02.960 they started to square him up a little bit. You 232 00:11:03.080 --> 00:11:05.720 saw the Stanton double, the left, the hard hit ball 233 00:11:05.799 --> 00:11:08.440 by Chisholm and when a starting pitcher all of a sudden, 234 00:11:08.679 --> 00:11:11.120 maybe you know, start to give it up a little bit. 235 00:11:11.279 --> 00:11:14.600 Dave Roberts said, our defense was there to pick him up. 236 00:11:14.720 --> 00:11:17.200 Look I love hearing that. Yes, okay, a couple things 237 00:11:17.240 --> 00:11:20.919 about that. They've seen him a couple of times. They 238 00:11:21.000 --> 00:11:24.159 get that. Also, Walker Bieler was getting a little bit 239 00:11:24.240 --> 00:11:26.919 more ballsy, if you will, to get meaty parts of 240 00:11:26.960 --> 00:11:28.799 the plate because he was starting to feel a little 241 00:11:28.799 --> 00:11:30.200 bit more. And that's okay, that's okay. 242 00:11:30.240 --> 00:11:32.519 There's nothing wrong pitching the contact and lots of times 243 00:11:32.559 --> 00:11:35.480 you'll see guys that have really good stuff they depend 244 00:11:35.519 --> 00:11:36.240 on the fastball. 245 00:11:36.480 --> 00:11:39.320 Hitters will time it up. And that's why guys like 246 00:11:39.440 --> 00:11:42.080 Max Scherzer have led the league and given him home runs, 247 00:11:42.320 --> 00:11:44.879 but they give him up when nobody's on. So there's 248 00:11:44.919 --> 00:11:48.639 a nuance to that about you know, barreling up anyway quickly. 249 00:11:48.679 --> 00:11:50.440 What I want to say about Dave Roberts, I like 250 00:11:50.519 --> 00:11:53.360 the urgency fact that he's in there, there's one game 251 00:11:53.399 --> 00:11:55.799 to go, and he's still breaking it down, he's still 252 00:11:55.879 --> 00:11:58.720 managing the team. He also pointed out that, hey, we 253 00:11:58.799 --> 00:12:00.399 won a ball game tonight, but we left a lot 254 00:12:00.440 --> 00:12:02.639 of runners on It's a point that you made earlier 255 00:12:02.720 --> 00:12:05.519 in the broadcast today, So there is there's still the 256 00:12:05.639 --> 00:12:08.840 urgency there, keeping them hungry, pointing out deficiencies that they 257 00:12:08.919 --> 00:12:10.799 need to fix, and they're up three to oh. That's 258 00:12:10.840 --> 00:12:13.480 a great base to have. Just a couple of other 259 00:12:13.559 --> 00:12:15.759 nuggets for you. The World Series hasn't ended in a 260 00:12:15.919 --> 00:12:20.279 sweep since twenty twelve, when the Giants beat the Detroit Tigers. 261 00:12:20.360 --> 00:12:24.279 The Dodgers have won a best of seven series in 262 00:12:24.360 --> 00:12:28.200 a sweep. The last time they did it nineteen sixty three, 263 00:12:28.360 --> 00:12:31.120 the Dodgers beating twins the New York Yankees. Oh, the 264 00:12:31.240 --> 00:12:35.519 Yankees nineteen sixty three. So in a best of seven series, 265 00:12:35.600 --> 00:12:37.559 the team that takes a three to oh series lead 266 00:12:37.919 --> 00:12:40.679 has gone on to win the series thirty nine out 267 00:12:40.720 --> 00:12:44.720 of forty times, a ninety eight percent clip, including thirty 268 00:12:44.759 --> 00:12:47.639 one sweeps. The one time a team down three to 269 00:12:47.720 --> 00:12:51.440 OHO came back and won a series in the postseason, 270 00:12:52.879 --> 00:12:55.759 Dave Roberts stole a big base for that team. Red 271 00:12:55.840 --> 00:12:59.039 Sox two thousand and four, Boston Red Sox against the 272 00:12:59.120 --> 00:13:01.080 New York Yankees. I grew up three nothing on the 273 00:13:01.120 --> 00:13:03.840 Red Sox in the ALCS. Yeah, that's about one time. 274 00:13:03.919 --> 00:13:04.960 That's what all the pundit's reup. 275 00:13:04.960 --> 00:13:07.639 They're saying about billy ball, which by the way, never works, 276 00:13:08.200 --> 00:13:10.159 And they were saying, yeah, well, you know the Red 277 00:13:10.240 --> 00:13:12.000 Sox used billy ball and did the work. 278 00:13:12.120 --> 00:13:15.720 Yeah, you had Verteg and Dusts and Pedroia, big Poppy Geez. 279 00:13:15.759 --> 00:13:17.559 I had a team like that. I could probably win too. 280 00:13:17.840 --> 00:13:20.840 Dave Roberts was on that team. So anyway, let's go 281 00:13:20.919 --> 00:13:23.360 to Bob and Covina next up here on a five 282 00:13:23.399 --> 00:13:25.679 seventy LA Sports. Thanks for Bob for taking with us 283 00:13:25.799 --> 00:13:26.879 on your drive. How you doing today. 284 00:13:28.240 --> 00:13:31.080 I'm good, but I'm done driving. I'm excited. I've been 285 00:13:31.120 --> 00:13:34.240 a Dodger fan almost sixty years. I remember when Steve 286 00:13:34.360 --> 00:13:38.600 was a rookie. Anyway, and everything that's been said so far, 287 00:13:38.679 --> 00:13:40.200 you said a lot of what I want to say. 288 00:13:40.799 --> 00:13:42.919 I'm going to tell you what I wrote on Facebook 289 00:13:42.960 --> 00:13:44.759 this morning. I want him to bat around in the 290 00:13:44.840 --> 00:13:48.039 first inning, score about five runs. Do not take your 291 00:13:48.080 --> 00:13:51.440 foot off the gas and crush the Yankees. Let's sleep them. 292 00:13:51.639 --> 00:13:53.840 Yeah, no doubt. That's a good point, Bob. Thanks Bob, 293 00:13:53.879 --> 00:13:56.039 appreciate that. Let's sqeeze in another ones go to Julio 294 00:13:56.639 --> 00:13:59.720 La Puente. Julio, you're next up on Saxon Kates and 295 00:13:59.759 --> 00:14:00.720 the How you doing. 296 00:14:00.639 --> 00:14:02.840 Julio doing good? 297 00:14:02.919 --> 00:14:03.600 Good morning guys. 298 00:14:04.320 --> 00:14:05.039 A couple of things. 299 00:14:05.519 --> 00:14:09.360 I love the show. The lady in the first call 300 00:14:09.440 --> 00:14:12.159 talking about celebrating. I was six years old when sax 301 00:14:12.240 --> 00:14:14.559 and the Dodgers won the World Series, and it's been 302 00:14:14.600 --> 00:14:17.279 a lot of heartache, a lot of tough years since 303 00:14:17.320 --> 00:14:20.240 eighty eight. We won it in twenty twenty, but now 304 00:14:20.320 --> 00:14:23.320 it's time for us to really celebrate. Once we get 305 00:14:23.320 --> 00:14:25.879 to his w tonight and you know what, Roberts, Once 306 00:14:25.919 --> 00:14:28.919 he wins tonight or tomorrow, whenever it is, it's time 307 00:14:29.000 --> 00:14:32.240 to some men. I'm up there with Leasorda and the 308 00:14:32.320 --> 00:14:35.679 other managers that you know, he's been doing great. There's 309 00:14:35.720 --> 00:14:38.480 a transformation that has been going on with them, and 310 00:14:38.720 --> 00:14:39.639 it's great to see. 311 00:14:40.120 --> 00:14:45.279 No doubt about it. Julio appreciate that. Tommy Losorda love him. 312 00:14:45.480 --> 00:14:45.679 Yeah. 313 00:14:46.120 --> 00:14:50.159 Hall of Famer Yo, Yeah. Dodger number two retired Icon, 314 00:14:51.120 --> 00:14:53.480 two time Nationallygue Manager of the Year nineteen eight three, 315 00:14:53.600 --> 00:14:57.240 nineteen eighty six, two time World Series Champion nineteen eighty one, 316 00:14:57.320 --> 00:15:00.720 nineteen eighty eight. If Dave Roberts wins tonight or wins 317 00:15:00.799 --> 00:15:02.799 this series, which we expect the Dodgers to do, the 318 00:15:02.919 --> 00:15:05.480 ninety eight percent clip behind them in the history of 319 00:15:05.519 --> 00:15:09.200 the series, he'll have two World Series championships, just like 320 00:15:09.279 --> 00:15:13.720 Tommy Lasorda. Think about four World Series appearances in nine years, 321 00:15:14.399 --> 00:15:16.360 gone to the playoffs. In all nine years as a 322 00:15:16.399 --> 00:15:20.240 manager of the Dodgers, He's won eight divisional titles in 323 00:15:20.320 --> 00:15:25.039 those nine years. That's pretty darn good. Is that Hall 324 00:15:25.120 --> 00:15:28.240 of Fame worthy? Yeah, of course that's a hell of 325 00:15:28.240 --> 00:15:31.279 a resume. I mean Tommy's got two. Yeah, Tommy's an icon. 326 00:15:31.440 --> 00:15:33.639 The heck of a resume. Dave Roberts is about to 327 00:15:33.679 --> 00:15:35.559 have too. Yeah, I don't care what people say, like, well, 328 00:15:35.639 --> 00:15:37.639 it's the team and it's only the team that does it. 329 00:15:37.720 --> 00:15:40.279 And you know, it's a thankless job as a manager 330 00:15:40.320 --> 00:15:42.000 because you only screw it up. I mean, if you 331 00:15:42.039 --> 00:15:44.440 got good players are gonna win whatever. You know what, 332 00:15:44.799 --> 00:15:47.120 if he's got the resume, then of course he should 333 00:15:47.159 --> 00:15:50.440 go in. Look, Tommy and Dave, lot of differences between 334 00:15:50.480 --> 00:15:54.600 the two as far as personality part. And that's really 335 00:15:54.919 --> 00:15:58.480 the most important art because look, all the managers and coaches, 336 00:15:58.519 --> 00:16:00.519 the x'es and o's. They got that figured out. They 337 00:16:00.559 --> 00:16:02.240 know what they know what calls to make pretty much. 338 00:16:02.639 --> 00:16:04.360 Managers got his finger to the pulse. He knows what 339 00:16:04.440 --> 00:16:06.879 the guys like walking into the locker room. Something that, 340 00:16:07.159 --> 00:16:09.679 of course, all the sabermetrics aren't going to tell you. 341 00:16:09.799 --> 00:16:12.159 You know, the guy's sick this day, is he's having 342 00:16:12.200 --> 00:16:14.639 problems with his family ors how about when Freddy Freeman 343 00:16:14.679 --> 00:16:15.799 had his little boy that was sick. 344 00:16:15.840 --> 00:16:18.279 I mean, the sabermetrics aren't going to tell you those things. 345 00:16:18.399 --> 00:16:21.519 Dave Roberts gets it now. He may do it in 346 00:16:21.559 --> 00:16:23.799 one way and Tommy was another way with all the 347 00:16:23.879 --> 00:16:27.240 ra ra right, but nonetheless they get the most out 348 00:16:27.279 --> 00:16:31.159 of their players. They understand and and the team goes along. 349 00:16:31.519 --> 00:16:34.240 When you're not talking about the manager, that's when the 350 00:16:34.279 --> 00:16:35.080 team is doing great. 351 00:16:35.360 --> 00:16:38.000 Eight six, sixth, ninety seven, two five seventy will come back. 352 00:16:38.039 --> 00:16:40.440 We'll get to more of your phone calls. The Dodgers 353 00:16:40.919 --> 00:16:45.159 one win away from their eighth World Series championship, their 354 00:16:45.279 --> 00:16:48.639 second in the last four years. They've got a commanding 355 00:16:48.720 --> 00:16:52.039 three to zero series lead, Game four to night five 356 00:16:52.120 --> 00:16:54.519 oh eight. First pitch from Yankees Stadium. We of course 357 00:16:54.720 --> 00:16:57.279 you're a home of the Dodgers, AM five seventy LA 358 00:16:57.360 --> 00:16:59.600 Sports At sax and Kates and Am. Thanks for being 359 00:16:59.639 --> 00:17:11.680 with us Saxon Kate's in the AM on this Tuesday morning, 360 00:17:11.720 --> 00:17:13.920 October twenty nine. Thanks for being with us. Thanks for 361 00:17:14.000 --> 00:17:16.799 taking us with you as you take the kids to school, 362 00:17:16.799 --> 00:17:18.640 as you made the commute to work, as you head 363 00:17:18.680 --> 00:17:20.759 into the office. You know you got a lot of 364 00:17:20.839 --> 00:17:23.079 choices out there. We appreciate you taking us with you 365 00:17:23.480 --> 00:17:25.759 as you make that drive. Saxon, Kates and the AM. 366 00:17:25.839 --> 00:17:28.519 Steve Sax, Tim Kates and you. David vat Day joins us. 367 00:17:28.559 --> 00:17:30.839 Next hour we heard from Dave Roberts. We heard from 368 00:17:30.880 --> 00:17:33.079 Walker Buehler. Coming up, we'll hear from Freddie Freeman and 369 00:17:33.119 --> 00:17:37.279 shoey Otani as well. Shoey Otani been very quiet in 370 00:17:37.440 --> 00:17:40.720 this World Series, certainly the shoulder injury last night. Do 371 00:17:40.839 --> 00:17:44.160 you think it affected him at the plate? He said 372 00:17:44.240 --> 00:17:46.440 it didn't. He was over for last night. He got 373 00:17:46.519 --> 00:17:49.200 hit by a pitch he walked to lead off the 374 00:17:49.559 --> 00:17:52.160 game there in the first inning. What did you see 375 00:17:52.319 --> 00:17:54.400 in is it bats? What did you see with him 376 00:17:54.440 --> 00:17:56.319 on the base bats? Do you think it was affecting 377 00:17:56.359 --> 00:17:57.839 him a lot? Out there that shoulder injury. 378 00:17:59.400 --> 00:18:01.960 I think he was more in a precautionary mode and 379 00:18:02.400 --> 00:18:05.000 you know, on the base holding a holding his elbow 380 00:18:05.039 --> 00:18:07.400 so it wouldn't get you know, extended like we talked 381 00:18:07.400 --> 00:18:10.000 about with the with doctor Chow and so I think 382 00:18:10.079 --> 00:18:11.000 that was what he was doing. 383 00:18:11.039 --> 00:18:11.319 Mostly. 384 00:18:11.559 --> 00:18:14.119 I don't think, you know, Showy does have a tendency 385 00:18:14.200 --> 00:18:18.119 to to to chase, and you know it's been maybe 386 00:18:18.160 --> 00:18:20.079 exploited a little bit in the series because it's natural. 387 00:18:20.160 --> 00:18:22.039 There's a little very much of a heightened awareness of 388 00:18:22.079 --> 00:18:24.880 what's at stake and whatnot. So maybe there's some of that, 389 00:18:25.079 --> 00:18:26.839 But uh yeah, I think it's okay. But I do 390 00:18:27.000 --> 00:18:29.000 have a little revelation I wanted to tell you about 391 00:18:29.039 --> 00:18:30.799 really quickly because I know we're on a track here. 392 00:18:31.359 --> 00:18:31.519 Look. 393 00:18:31.559 --> 00:18:35.200 Look, when he's on first base, he's chatting it up 394 00:18:35.759 --> 00:18:38.079 with the guy at first he's got to speak English 395 00:18:38.279 --> 00:18:42.200 and Anthony Russo were full on talking about it. I'm thinking, 396 00:18:42.279 --> 00:18:45.160 you know what, he can talk a little bit better. 397 00:18:45.400 --> 00:18:49.400 Maybe Anthony Ruzzo can speak Japanese. Maybe maybe I don't know, 398 00:18:49.799 --> 00:18:51.960 I'm thinking it's a little bit easier to to that. 399 00:18:52.160 --> 00:18:54.759 Maybe show Hey knows some English that we don't know 400 00:18:54.799 --> 00:18:57.720 about Yeah, I think it's the English of baseball English. 401 00:18:57.880 --> 00:18:59.599