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Speaker 3: It's Sax and Kate's and AM on this Wednesday morning,
Speaker 3: October sixteenth, twenty twenty four. Thanks for being with us
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Speaker 3: seventy LA Sports as the Dodgers and Met square off
Speaker 3: tonight at City Field in New York, Game three of
Speaker 3: the National League Championship Series, which is tied at one
Speaker 3: game a piece. Dodgers on deck will get started at
Speaker 3: four pm. First pitch at five oh eight, powered by
Speaker 3: Zenci Sushi, Fast, Fresh and Easy. Walker Bueller and Luis
Speaker 3: Severino the pitching matchup in Game three. Walker Bueller going
Speaker 3: into Tonight's is the man and they need him to
Speaker 3: be the Walker. Bueller of Old out on the mound
Speaker 3: tonight for Game three and sixteen starts in the postseason
Speaker 3: eighty four and two third innings, a three forty rray
Speaker 3: for the Dodger right hander who is looking to build
Speaker 3: on what he did in his start in San Diego
Speaker 3: outside of that one big inning then put up zeros afterwards,
Speaker 3: and looking to continue to do that tonight in New York.
Speaker 3: It's just thinking about this game, the series sacks, he
Speaker 3: the stage that it's on La versus New York. This
Speaker 3: is what Shoho Tani wanted. He wanted to get out
Speaker 3: of baseball purgatory that was Anaheim for six years. He
Speaker 3: signs with the Dodgers. Wants to be with the biggest
Speaker 3: franchise on the West Coach, one of the biggest franchises
Speaker 3: in sports. He's here with the Dodgers on the biggest
Speaker 3: stage now in the NLCS with the chance to go
Speaker 3: to the World Series. It is time for the greatest
Speaker 3: player on Earth, the Goat, to be on full display tonight.
Speaker 3: This is his moment, this is the time he needs
Speaker 3: to shine.
Speaker 1: Yes, there's no other way to put it. I mean
Speaker 1: expect it, and he's putting that on his shoulders. He's
Speaker 1: gladly accepting it. There's only one show, hey, Otani, and
Speaker 1: you know he can do this, There's no question about it.
Speaker 1: He's got Severino coming from the right side, which should
Speaker 1: really help Otani. I like the fact that they're facing
Speaker 1: the workhorse of the New York Mets that sever Reno was,
Speaker 1: because they're very familiar with what he's going to bring
Speaker 1: to the table. He's pitching on an inordinate amount of rest,
Speaker 1: which I'm not so sure that's always great. But he's
Speaker 1: got nine in in nine days where he hasn't pitched,
Speaker 1: and I think it's gonna line up pretty good for
Speaker 1: the Dodgers Right now.
Speaker 3: I just think this is it show, Hey, this is
Speaker 3: what you wanted. You wanted to be on the biggest stage.
Speaker 3: You wanted to be in the playoffs. You wanted to
Speaker 3: be on full display for the world to see you
Speaker 3: in a Dodger uniform, putting up numbers and being the
Speaker 3: best that there ever was. And now it's time to
Speaker 3: put that on display tonight in game three of this
Speaker 3: nldn LD NLC has excuse me, when they need him
Speaker 3: to be the biggest and to shine the brightest.
Speaker 1: This is that night.
Speaker 3: And if he can do that, the guys around him
Speaker 3: could just give him something. I mean, this team, look,
Speaker 3: look they did in game one. They put up nine
Speaker 3: runs against the New York Mets in that game one.
Speaker 3: But again, the top of the lineup, and it all
Speaker 3: starts with showeo Tani, the head of the snake, so
Speaker 3: to speak. If he doesn't perform, you go, oh for
Speaker 3: nineteen at the top of the lineup, and now you
Speaker 3: find yourself tied to the gamafiees.
Speaker 1: And that's you know what. Look if that continues, if
Speaker 1: we get an over nineteen from the top the top
Speaker 1: five guy, well you know we know it's gonna happen.
Speaker 1: No matter how good of a pitching performance you have,
Speaker 1: you have to score runs. There's no getting around it.
Speaker 1: And so they know what they got to do. It's
Speaker 1: a two tier thing. Walker's got to come out and
Speaker 1: shove and you know, and the offense has got to
Speaker 1: put it out. But we can break that down the
Speaker 1: keys of the games later on. That'll be more detailed
Speaker 1: than that, but that's basically the overall, you know, synopsis
Speaker 1: I have for this thing. They just got to play
Speaker 1: their game.
Speaker 3: Joining us now from New York City, he is our
Speaker 3: Dodger inside of the best of the best, The one
Speaker 3: and only.
Speaker 1: David Vasse joins us.
Speaker 3: David, good morning, I Dodgers going a workout yesterday at
Speaker 3: City Field.
Speaker 1: You were there for the entirety.
Speaker 3: What was the mood of this Dodgers team anticipation for
Speaker 3: Game three to night?
Speaker 4: Yeah, just about a lot of confidence from this team. Guys.
Speaker 4: They understand that they have an opportunity here to take
Speaker 4: two out of three. It starts tonight with Walker Buehler.
Speaker 4: And that's the one thing that Dave Roberts always talks about,
Speaker 4: the momentum of a series starts with your starting pitcher,
Speaker 4: and walk ker Bueller was really, as always Walker Bueller
Speaker 4: type of confident getting ready for this game.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Hey, David, I wanted to ask you, certainly back
Speaker 1: in New York, another huge media capital, what is the
Speaker 1: what has the intensity been like? Has it been crazy
Speaker 1: more or is it has been just kind of more
Speaker 1: of the same, because as years go on, it seems
Speaker 1: to get more and more in depth and intense. And
Speaker 1: I can only imagine what it was like back there
Speaker 1: playing against the Mets.
Speaker 4: Yeah, honestly, Steve, yesterday, while the workout was going on,
Speaker 4: the Yankees and Guardians were playing Game two in the Bronx,
Speaker 4: So that's where all the New York media was. And
Speaker 4: you know, here on the streets of New York that
Speaker 4: seems to be the focus of every fan that is
Speaker 4: a sports baseball fan. They're all in with the Yankees,
Speaker 4: and you know there are some Mets fans here, but
Speaker 4: it's all about the Yankees out here in New York.
Speaker 1: Wow, David, I thought you had a great question.
Speaker 3: We heard it earlier in Showyotan's press conference that we
Speaker 3: played for the listeners and asking him about his confidence
Speaker 3: and you know, you reference Mookie Betts needing reassurance and
Speaker 3: you know, you know, being up and down mentally, hitting wise,
Speaker 3: and does he ever get like that?
Speaker 1: And he had an answer where.
Speaker 3: Sounded very much like a confident showy Otani and almost
Speaker 3: like a robotic showy Otani and what he had to
Speaker 3: say to you tell us what he had to say
Speaker 3: and what the vibe you got from what he described
Speaker 3: as how he just is even keel all the time.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and he really knows himself really well as a hitter,
Speaker 4: and that's what he was saying. He said he only
Speaker 4: doubts himself when he doesn't feel great at the plate.
Speaker 4: Even if he's not getting the result, and he feels
Speaker 4: good at the plate, he's not going to deviate from
Speaker 4: whatever he's doing. Remember earlier this season, when he wasn't
Speaker 4: feeling great at the plate, he started to swing a
Speaker 4: cricket bat, and that helped him keep his bat in
Speaker 4: the strike zone longer and maybe on an even plane.
Speaker 4: So I'm wondering if he's gone back to that because
Speaker 4: he's had some mixed results so far in this postseason.
Speaker 4: And you can hear it in my voice and you
Speaker 4: could hear it in Showy's voice. There's a little cold
Speaker 4: going around the team these days, so everybody's fighting a
Speaker 4: little something, and you heard it in Showy's voice, and
Speaker 4: I felt like maybe he got a little bit of
Speaker 4: it too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Hey, David, in matching up against Luis Severino, you
Speaker 1: know he kind of pointed out some of the things
Speaker 1: about him. On the plus side, as far as the
Speaker 1: Mets outlook goes, he is well rested. He was their workhorse.
Speaker 1: He has a sub four ERA throughout the year. But
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what, this is a guy. I think
Speaker 1: that no matter what his numbers are, I think he's
Speaker 1: right in the target for the Dodgers. This this guy
Speaker 1: is a kind of a guy. A left handed team
Speaker 1: like the Dodgers could feast on.
Speaker 4: What say you, Steve, I think the biggest thing the
Speaker 4: Dodgers are realizing is they can't give the opposing pitcher
Speaker 4: too much credit. A lot of them were talking to
Speaker 4: out how much credit they gave Sean and I a
Speaker 4: maybe through a fault.
Speaker 1: I agree.
Speaker 4: So I think the Dodgers have to recalibrate again like
Speaker 4: they did during the Padres series, and remember how good
Speaker 4: they are and not get the starting pitcher that much credit.
Speaker 3: David Veasse is live in New York City ahead of
Speaker 3: Game three of this NLCS. First pitch right here in
Speaker 3: a FI seventy l A Sports is coming up at five.
Speaker 3: Oh A, David, you talked about Will Smith all season long.
Speaker 3: You talked about it in the series last week time
Speaker 3: against the padres As as a possible X factor and
Speaker 3: a guy if he gets going, look out, he hasn't
Speaker 3: got going yet. He's two for the postseason. What what
Speaker 3: is the what's the psyche around Will Smith right now?
Speaker 3: Is he just gonna just fight his way through this?
Speaker 3: So what's the what's the fiber getting from him?
Speaker 4: Yeah? You know, it's hard to really get a beat
Speaker 4: on Will He's really a stoic type of guy. But
Speaker 4: the facts are he hasn't hit fastball as well the
Speaker 4: last two years. Uh, he really hasn't made the adjustments
Speaker 4: to what pitch are doing to him now. So I
Speaker 4: think he's got to be a little less stubborn on
Speaker 4: what he's trying to accomplish at the plate and realize
Speaker 4: that he does need to make adjustments. You know, this
Speaker 4: is not a small sample size now, and pitchers have
Speaker 4: figured out that he loves the fastball inside and he's
Speaker 4: getting hurt by fastballs away from him. So I think
Speaker 4: he has to realize that and be a little less stubborn.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Dave, Basically, a team is going to come back
Speaker 1: to what makes them great, and this team is a
Speaker 1: built for slug ball club, but they have been relying
Speaker 1: on the seven, eight, and nine for this club to
Speaker 1: kind of give it a different flairity, hit the ball
Speaker 1: the other way, to steal the base and those type
Speaker 1: of things. How long can they ride that wave as
Speaker 1: opposed to getting back to what really makes this team great,
Speaker 1: and that's the ability to slug.
Speaker 4: Well. You know, in the NLDS Steve they scored twenty
Speaker 4: four runs on sixteen home runs, So that's a big
Speaker 4: part of the identity of the Dodgers. And City Field
Speaker 4: is not really a great hitters ballpark. I was talking
Speaker 4: to JD. Martinez before Game two and he was just
Speaker 4: telling me how the ball really doesn't fly there, especially
Speaker 4: to the opposite field. So if you're going to hit
Speaker 4: a home run, you're going to have to pull it,
Speaker 4: especially if you're a right handed hitter. So, you know,
Speaker 4: I don't know, you might know how to relate to
Speaker 4: this better, but if you're trying to hit a home
Speaker 4: run in a ballpark that it's hard to hit home runs,
Speaker 4: you're going to be in a bad spot. And I
Speaker 4: just feel like the Dodgers are going to have to
Speaker 4: rely on what they did in Game one to be
Speaker 4: successful offensively here.
Speaker 3: All Right, Dan the big question for you is Deavante
Speaker 3: Adams goes from the Raiders to the Jets. How excited
Speaker 3: is New York right now? And how disappointed is a
Speaker 3: Raider fan? Are you to see DeVante leave?
Speaker 4: Tim? I'm telling you again, last night was game two
Speaker 4: of the ALCS. It's all Yankees twenty four to seven year.
Speaker 4: I know it got a little bit of a solar
Speaker 4: flare of excitement, but everybody in New York is talking Yankees,
Speaker 4: especially since they're in the playoffs too. Wow.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, let me tell you how I feel about it.
Speaker 1: I think it sucks because the Raiders need so much.
Speaker 1: I mean, they lost their running back to free agency
Speaker 1: this year. They don't have a quarterback and now they
Speaker 1: don't have Davante Adams. Look at Thank God for.
Speaker 4: The forty nine ersul knowledge right there from a great baseball.
Speaker 1: Player, right, thank you? Well?
Speaker 4: It is what it is, a games. Did you go
Speaker 4: to Sacks when you were in la?
Speaker 1: Oh? I love the Raiders. I mean they're my second
Speaker 1: favorite team and uh you know I I've gone to
Speaker 1: games in Oakland with a black hole was there? And
Speaker 1: let me tell you, I gotta I gotta, I gotta,
Speaker 1: I gotta knock out some of these, uh, some of
Speaker 1: these you know, bad things they say about the black Hole.
Speaker 1: Those people were so nice. There were no fights, there
Speaker 1: were no bad things. They get they look mean and
Speaker 1: they're ferocious looking, but they were some of the nicest people.
Speaker 1: I went down there. I was great. I had a
Speaker 1: great time. So no problem with the black Hole there
Speaker 1: in Oakland.
Speaker 4: As long as you're wearing silver and black, you're okay.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, No, Dodger or LA uniforms, you can't. You
Speaker 1: can't do that. That's that's dangerous territory.
Speaker 3: But well, Dave, rest up, get the voice right, and
Speaker 3: we'll check with you in a couple hours and look
Speaker 3: forward to all your great coverage from New York later today.
Speaker 5: All right, guys, thanks, all right, thanks Dave.
Speaker 3: There he goes David Vasse or Dodger insider. Yeah, a
Speaker 3: cup of tea little chi tea latte, a little cup
Speaker 3: of coffee, something for Dave.
Speaker 1: Get that throat right, yes, yeah, hey, can you see that.
Speaker 1: That's usually what happens coming down the stretch. I remember
Speaker 1: World Series year. Everybody on our team when the when
Speaker 1: the World Series is over, more than half of the
Speaker 1: team had the flu.
Speaker 6: Bad.
Speaker 1: We were on the we were on the parade, and
Speaker 1: everybody was sick. And that's generally what happens with the stress,
Speaker 1: the moment, the the travel, all that stuff. I man,
Speaker 1: every somebody's gonna get sick and then it's gonna go
Speaker 1: throughout the team.
Speaker 3: So is that why it's better to keep riding momentum
Speaker 3: and keep playing and not have a long layoff, Because
Speaker 3: as soon as you do, as you mentioned, guys start
Speaker 3: getting sick, your body wears down, maybe the grind of
Speaker 3: a season. All of a sudden, you come to a
Speaker 3: holt even for a day, a day and a half,
Speaker 3: and then start to ramp it back up, and even
Speaker 3: a day and a half out and between between games
Speaker 3: two and three, you know, your body slows down, your
Speaker 3: mind slows down. All of a sudden, though, those colds
Speaker 3: start catching up with you.
Speaker 1: Defenses get down, and that's the thing is, it's so
Speaker 1: much intensity, it's so much that that you kind of
Speaker 1: override that and the defenses kind of kick in and
Speaker 1: hold that stuff off. But then when you let it down,
Speaker 1: you know, everybody's going to get sick. And that's no
Speaker 1: question that's going to happen with the team. Once this
Speaker 1: is all over.
Speaker 3: Now, David didn't mention it, but when they flew from
Speaker 3: la to New York after Game two on Monday afternoon evening,
Speaker 3: there was two flights that went from lax to New York.
Speaker 3: One plane had the team on it and the other
Speaker 3: plane had the traveling party and family on that plane.
Speaker 3: This is a business train. Now, this is a business
Speaker 3: trip for this Dodgers team sexy going down to San Diego.
Speaker 3: Remember they had their own team bus. They didn't want
Speaker 3: the distractions of the family. They want to make sure
Speaker 3: they were a cohesive unit together focus, no outside distractions.
Speaker 3: And the same as going in New York. There was
Speaker 3: two planes going in to New York. So the players on
Speaker 3: that flight can get rest. Most importantly get a little
Speaker 3: shut eye if andy'd be because they weren't getting ntil the
Speaker 3: middle of the night. Last thing you need is, you know, distractions.
Speaker 1: Of a family screaming kids. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, so I thought that was a great idea. Hey, family,
Speaker 3: you're on that plane. Players, you're on this plane, and
Speaker 3: glad you know, when you land, you get to hotel,
Speaker 3: you're with the family, which is great. I mean, I
Speaker 3: think that's a plus. But on the way there, I
Speaker 3: don't want screaming kids. I don't want to have to
Speaker 3: watch movies. I don't want to watch I want to
Speaker 3: just go to sleep. And that's great, that's fantastic the
Speaker 3: organization does that. Yeah, no doubt, this is something that
Speaker 3: they needed. Going to New York was rest and a
Speaker 3: little isolation from everybody and all the distractions of the
Speaker 3: out side world is certainly going to New York and
Speaker 3: all the distractions that you're gonna get there and all
Speaker 3: the media covers and now you're gonna have for for
Speaker 3: Game three tonight. There is no ALCS tonight, that's an
Speaker 3: off day as the series there goes to Cleveland for
Speaker 3: Games three, four, and five. So all eyes will be
Speaker 3: on Game three of the NLCS tonight from Queens, New York.
Speaker 3: Will take a break, we'll come back. We'll get to
Speaker 3: more of your phone calls. How you feeling going into
Speaker 3: Game three? Walker Bueller on the mound, it's been a
Speaker 3: big game picture before. Does he have it in him
Speaker 3: again for Game three tonight, a pivotal game three to
Speaker 3: take a two to one series lead. He is Steve Sax,
Speaker 3: I'm Tim Kates. Thanks for being with us on this
Speaker 3: Wednesday morning on a FI seventy l.
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Speaker 3: All right, Saxy, A lot of Dodger fans. You've been patient.
Speaker 3: You're on hold, and I appreciate that. Saxy appreciates that.
Speaker 3: Let's go out to the phones, Ish in Riverside.
Speaker 1: You are next up.
Speaker 3: Keep things rolling here on this Wednesday morning.
Speaker 6: Ish.
Speaker 1: How are you feeling, hey, man, I'm doing pretty good.
Speaker 7: Tim good, good, all right on, right on. Well, hey, listen,
Speaker 7: I gotta give you shout out whoever signed up that
Speaker 7: Rick Dempsey interviewed. Man, that was such a breath of
Speaker 7: fresh air. Just the baseball knowledge, the IQ, the acumen. Amazing, man, amazing,
Speaker 7: especially you know, with what's going on the game.
Speaker 6: I totally agree with that he says.
Speaker 7: You know, but in terms of our chances, man, honestly,
Speaker 7: I just want to let everybody know I'm putting on
Speaker 7: my Istra Domas Hatter.
Speaker 6: Domas has nothing to be worried about. You guys, We
Speaker 6: are going to the World Series. Keep your PTO, get
Speaker 6: your vacation time, whatever you gotta do. We are going
Speaker 6: to the World Series. Thank you, fellas.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 3: I love the confidence somehow, some way, I don't know
Speaker 3: how they get there, but it's just confident they will.
Speaker 3: It'll start with the Walkerbealer tonight in this game three starts,
Speaker 3: Richard and the OC down in Orange County.
Speaker 1: Richard, good morning, Good morning, sir.
Speaker 8: I'm not a Dodger fan.
Speaker 9: I'm just a baseball fan. If the Doctors don't win
Speaker 9: the World Series, would you consider this a a loss
Speaker 9: or just a wash or would you consider this a
Speaker 9: good year?
Speaker 1: Appreciate it?
Speaker 3: Rich I would consider it a good year, but a
Speaker 3: failed year, because anytime you don't win a championship, it's
Speaker 3: the ultimate goal that every team sets out for in
Speaker 3: spring training. Saxee, that's what you guys gather around the
Speaker 3: clubhouse and hear the managers raw rob beginning of the
Speaker 3: year's speech about how we're gonna come together as one
Speaker 3: and go win a World Series championship.
Speaker 1: And if you don't, only one team.
Speaker 3: Gets to do it, it's a failure. But you can
Speaker 3: still have a good season, right Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well said, well said. And you know there's some internal
Speaker 1: parts that they're gonna come and they're gonna pay dividends
Speaker 1: for your team later, like getting maybe signed up healthy
Speaker 1: Walker Bueller and free agency. Maybe that'll help you. Maybe
Speaker 1: you know, you got guys like Pajes that are coming
Speaker 1: along and his career starting, and you got a lot
Speaker 1: of good things coming up through the pipeline that are
Speaker 1: gonna be great for years to come. But the goal
Speaker 1: is to win that World Series. And nothing better than
Speaker 1: the team that was plus one point fifty seven in
Speaker 1: the run differential throughout the course of the EUAR. This
Speaker 1: is an offensive juggernaut that has to be put out
Speaker 1: there and on display starting tonight. We haven't seen the
Speaker 1: most of it yet, but I think we're going to.
Speaker 3: Whether you want to call it luck, good fortune, whatever
Speaker 3: you want to describe it as, there is some part
Speaker 3: of that that comes into the equation of winning. In October,
Speaker 3: it turns into a tournament. It's the first team to
Speaker 3: win eleven games in the divisional round, the CS in
Speaker 3: the World Series combined wins that World Series trophy. And
Speaker 3: again you mentioned injuries are a big part of it.
Speaker 3: Who's healthy, who's hot again, Whether it's luck or you
Speaker 3: call it whatever you want to describe it as fortune, fortune, yeah,
Speaker 3: it's a big part of it.
Speaker 1: Right Listen, If anybody out there thinks that luck isn't
Speaker 1: part of this, you got another thing coming it is.
Speaker 1: You have to have stalwarts have their great years. You
Speaker 1: have to have a couple surprises. You gotta be really
Speaker 1: mitigate as much as you possibly can the injuries, and
Speaker 1: you've got to have some luck. If all those components
Speaker 1: don't come together, you're probably not going to win the
Speaker 1: World Series. And that's why it's so hard to repeat.
Speaker 3: Danny in La is next up on Saxon Kates and
Speaker 3: the am Hi Danny.
Speaker 10: Hey, good morning guys. I wanted to actually just jump
Speaker 10: on top of that Rick Dempsey. I love that you
Speaker 10: guys got him on. I've had such great times with
Speaker 10: a lot of the old school Dodgers. I used to
Speaker 10: play golf with them at tournaments. My old boss, Ike
Speaker 10: Sanders was the chief of radiology at one of the
Speaker 10: hospitals here in Boil Heights, and he was a Brooklyn guy.
Speaker 10: Knew mister Merritt Willie. And when Merritt Willie passed away,
Speaker 10: he started this golf tournament. And I mean I was
Speaker 10: playing with like Don Nukea, you know, Tommy David. I
Speaker 10: was playing with these guys before I even knew how
Speaker 10: to play golf. Amazing guys. But mister Dempsey, why did
Speaker 10: we not mention that he decked Lenny Dykstra in his accolades.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that could have been a good feather in his
Speaker 1: cap that he had put out there, right. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: remember that. There was the Lenny front row was what
Speaker 1: was he doing? He was cadillacing around around the home
Speaker 1: run or something like that, and he came to home
Speaker 1: plate and Dempsey thought about it. Yeah, at a home
Speaker 1: plate and then there it went.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, oh my gosh, I love that.
Speaker 10: I was sitting in front row and I just thought,
Speaker 10: oh my god, look at this guy just taking him out.
Speaker 1: That's right. Loved it. Awesome, Danny. Appreciate that.
Speaker 10: I loved it, man, I mean amazing. Mister Tommy Davis
Speaker 10: came to visit the hospital I work at now, and
Speaker 10: I'll never forget telling him. I'm like, you need me,
Speaker 10: mister Davis. I was in your force and when you
Speaker 10: had that hole in one at Spanish Hills, well.
Speaker 3: Good luck on the golf course. Appreciate it, Danny, thanks
Speaker 3: for checking in.
Speaker 1: It was.
Speaker 3: I'm looking at the video right now. August twentieth, nineteen
Speaker 3: ninety Lenny Dykscher and the Phillies in town taking on
Speaker 3: the Dodgers at the Ravine. Lenny Dyscher didn't like a
Speaker 3: call from the homeplate umpire and steps out of the
Speaker 3: box and starts barking back at the home plate umpire. Now,
Speaker 3: in doing so, it looks like he ticked off R. Dempsey,
Speaker 3: who must have said something like, hey, shut up, get
Speaker 3: in the box. It was the seventh inning of the game.
Speaker 3: Him and the umpire going back and forth. Demsey looks
Speaker 3: up and says something. Dyksher says something back to him.
Speaker 3: Dempsey then gets his glove with his left hand, hits
Speaker 3: him in the face with his glove, and the two
Speaker 3: of them are on the ground wrestling around until the
Speaker 3: bench is cleared. And then there's a big dog pile
Speaker 3: there right at home play.
Speaker 1: That's what guys do. Love it. They weren't making plans
Speaker 1: for dinner. I can tell you that they were that.
Speaker 1: That didn't happen that day and probably not the next. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Rick and Wittiers next up with Steve Sacks Tim Kates
Speaker 3: here on a FI seventy l A Sports leading up
Speaker 3: to Game three of the NLCS.
Speaker 5: Hi, Rick, what happen you guys? Saxy good?
Speaker 8: Let me talk to you guys. Hey, big game, big
Speaker 8: game tonight. Dodgers should pull it off four to one games? Hey,
Speaker 8: s actually I just want to ask a question. In
Speaker 8: the World Series, when Tommy pulled pulled Mickey Hatcher for
Speaker 8: a pinch hitter, Mickey Hatcher was yelling and Tommy lasorda.
Speaker 8: I think it was forgive me. But what was he
Speaker 8: telling me, Tommy?
Speaker 10: Do you know? Uh?
Speaker 1: No, I don't. I think I was. You mean the
Speaker 1: time when Gibby came up.
Speaker 8: To hit, I think yeah, I think yeah. He said, you're.
Speaker 1: About to make huge, huge, monumental history. Gibby's gonna hit
Speaker 1: a home run. That's what happened. No, I don't actually
Speaker 1: don't know what he says.
Speaker 8: Favorite ballplayer. I want to tell you that, Taxy.
Speaker 1: What's that?
Speaker 8: My buddy Carmona, you always win?
Speaker 6: His favorite?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 1: Thank you? Tell him? I said, hello, thanks, Bud, right,
Speaker 1: I appreciate it. I'll be honest with you.
Speaker 3: I'm I'm a little hesitant about this nonchalant kind of
Speaker 3: flipping attitude amongst Dodger fans right now. But well, we
Speaker 3: got the game that I have four to one, four
Speaker 3: to two win. We got this in the bag. This
Speaker 3: isn't going to be an easy series. I think this
Speaker 3: flippant attitude Dodger fans had after the game one win
Speaker 3: is so more to what I'm hearing this morning. I
Speaker 3: don't like it, Saxy. Yeah, this is a series tied
Speaker 3: one one. The Mets are a good team.
Speaker 1: Yeah. The thing is you've got some You've got some
Speaker 1: play here because it's a seven you know, it's a
Speaker 1: seven game series. So you know, the intensity really hasn't
Speaker 1: it's not pinching him yet, but you know, you know,
Speaker 1: you wait until you get the game after today, you'll
Speaker 1: you'll start to see that thing ramp up a little bit.
Speaker 1: But this is a big game. And you know I
Speaker 1: mentioned it before, almost seven to seven out of ten
Speaker 1: go on to win the World go go on to
Speaker 1: the World Series after they win game three. So this
Speaker 1: is a very pivotal game. Get off to a good start,
Speaker 1: get some get some shutdown with with Walker Bueler, and
Speaker 1: things will look a lot better. But this is an
Speaker 1: extremely important game tonight.
Speaker 3: I don't like that attitude either, Saxy, about this is
Speaker 3: a long seven game series. We can start cranking it up.
Speaker 3: Game two is important, just like a Game five or
Speaker 3: Game six is important. That's why I'm still ticked off
Speaker 3: about the pitching performance in game two and the plan
Speaker 3: that they had with the bullpen game, because that, to
Speaker 3: me was a pivotal game. You go up to nothing
Speaker 3: in a series and you put the pressure. You're on
Speaker 3: a Mets team that was the red hot New York
Speaker 3: Mets in the postseason until they ran into the Dodgers,
Speaker 3: and now they're in an O two deficit. All the
Speaker 3: pressure in the world is on them to win at home,
Speaker 3: and you've you've just got to go in there and
Speaker 3: win one to get it back to Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 1: I don't I don't know.
Speaker 3: I'm not liking this Dodgers fans flipping attitude, right, I
Speaker 3: don't know.
Speaker 1: You know what, I don't know how good of a
Speaker 1: professional athlete that you would beat tim because professional athletes
Speaker 1: got to have the biggest amount of amnesia. They have
Speaker 1: to certainly at one point remember all the things and
Speaker 1: learn from each loss, because you know, failure is the
Speaker 1: fastest way of learning as far as I'm concerned. But
Speaker 1: you got to look forward. You gotta not dwell on
Speaker 1: that what just happened, because it'll get in the way
Speaker 1: of what's going on right now. So you got to
Speaker 1: really have some amnesia in some respect. And so you
Speaker 1: know what that's uh, I know, we got to point
Speaker 1: it out here. But those guys in the locker room mark, well,
Speaker 1: I'm very reactionary.
Speaker 3: I'm very overreactionary, I guess, and sometimes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, ask me.
Speaker 3: This is Kate's Oh yeah, well she knows, she knows
Speaker 3: I overreact on everything. Sleep last night anyway, well, thanks
Speaker 3: to some medication, I slept very well last night, Thank you, sa.
Speaker 1: I slept very well, which is concerned about your health
Speaker 1: because I know you you work a lot.
Speaker 3: Well, I know, and somebody, it's funny, somebody called yesterday
Speaker 3: in the Petrol some Money show off air and said, hey,
Speaker 3: I heard you're not feeling well, a little anxiety about
Speaker 3: this series, and started giving me tips off the air
Speaker 3: for some homemade recipes and remedies as far as start
Speaker 3: burn and you know, some acid reflex maybe or whatever
Speaker 3: has happened to me right now.
Speaker 1: The new version of Zantech is good. I believe they've
Speaker 1: really fixed that issue that they had, that cancer issue whatever.
Speaker 1: And yeah, Zan Tack will do it.
Speaker 6: Bro.
Speaker 1: I mean, you take a little tiny pill and you'd
Speaker 1: be good.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna I'm gonna probably start taking some of it
Speaker 3: because this is OK. This Dodgers team has giving me the.
Speaker 1: I think you're gonna I think you're gonna have no
Speaker 1: heartburn and sleep well after what you see tonight. And
Speaker 1: it's what a five oweight start, right, So five aways
Speaker 1: going to be good. I think you're gonna be good.
Speaker 3: Bro Anthony and Burbank keep things rolling here on this
Speaker 3: Wednesday day morning leading up to Game three.
Speaker 1: Anthony, how you doing?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm a first time caller. I'm two quick questions
Speaker 5: and number one Tony Gonsolin. He was supposed to be
Speaker 5: back in Colorado the last series. Obviously avoid for that
Speaker 5: fourth starter. The guy's forty one and fourteen lifetime and
Speaker 5: he had four gift starts in Triple A. I believe
Speaker 5: he can you know, for about two or three innings.
Speaker 5: I would prefer him over landon NAC. What's the status
Speaker 5: on him? My first question? Number two, Yamamoto, he should
Speaker 5: be pitching today on normal days rest, four days rest.
Speaker 5: That's really giving the Dodgers another bullpen games. So yeah,
Speaker 5: I'm a moto pitch today, you have dueler the next day,
Speaker 5: then you possibly avoid the bullpen game in this series.
Speaker 3: Thanks a lot, all right, Anthony, appreciate it. You need
Speaker 3: five days rest for Yamamoto. That's what his normal rest
Speaker 3: is in between starts, not the traditional four days rest.
Speaker 3: So he is going on quote unquote normal normal Yama
Speaker 3: Moto rest by going in Game four tomorrow. As far
Speaker 3: as Tony Gonsol was concerned, Gonsolin had the elbow surgery
Speaker 3: last year and wasn't expected to pitch in twenty twenty
Speaker 3: four recovering from the surgery. Now, he started to ramp
Speaker 3: things up in early September, and by ramping it up,
Speaker 3: meaning his bullpens saxy. He started getting up to throwing
Speaker 3: sim games and he even went to Triple A Oklahoma
Speaker 3: City and pitched in a couple of minor league rehabit
Speaker 3: assignment outings out there and went two three. I think
Speaker 3: he got to four innings. I know he got to
Speaker 3: three innings in a minor league rehabit signment. It's sort
Speaker 3: of like what happened a year ago Walker Bueller. We
Speaker 3: started to see him go to Oklahoma City and Triple A. Oh,
Speaker 3: maybe there's a chance, maybe he's gonna help out this
Speaker 3: team in the National League Divisional Series against the Diamondbacks,
Speaker 3: and then they shut him down and said no, we're
Speaker 3: gonna wait TI twenty twenty four. I don't know what
Speaker 3: they're gonna do with Tony Gonsolan. I'm kind of with
Speaker 3: Anthony in that you kind of got the feeling Tony
Speaker 3: Gonsolon himself was going into warp speed and trying to
Speaker 3: come back to help out this team because he saw
Speaker 3: the injuries happening one after another to this rotation.
Speaker 1: Saxon and I know Gonsolin.
Speaker 3: Is kind of I do on the outside looking in,
Speaker 3: you kind of got the feeling like he looks saw
Speaker 3: what was happening and said, I can help this team,
Speaker 3: even if it's two or three innings. Let's go get
Speaker 3: me ramped up. But he hasn't been on the roster
Speaker 3: yet in the postseason, so we'll see if they make
Speaker 3: it to the World Series if he's available, But I mean,
Speaker 3: I think he's kind of ramped up to give you
Speaker 3: a couple innings.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And we get a little bit spoiled because we
Speaker 1: want to see what the same guy that we saw
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty two, right sixteen and one with a
Speaker 1: two fourteen making the All Star Game and just sho Oven.
Speaker 1: It was amazing, but uh, you know, look all these
Speaker 1: guys that have these surgeries, all these all, they're all
Speaker 1: a little different. They're all on their own program. Like
Speaker 1: I said, some guys are going to be really quick.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, he's already back. You know. Another guy's
Speaker 1: what the heck has taken so long? Walker Bieler was
Speaker 1: an example of that, right, taking a long time, and
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean it was the second one, but gosh,
Speaker 1: whenn't they gonna be ready? And so all these guys
Speaker 1: are different. It's very nuanced, it's very intricate, and they're
Speaker 1: all different, and so you can't ever put them all
Speaker 1: on the same time timeline. It is tempting. Same thing
Speaker 1: with Otani. I mean, Otani's had some stints down there
Speaker 1: where he's been throwing and people are saying, wow, could
Speaker 1: we maybe see him is a part in here? No,
Speaker 1: I don't think. So. You gotta really be careful. You
Speaker 1: got to air on this side of caution because it's
Speaker 1: too long and there's too much at stake to bring
Speaker 1: them back just a little bit too soon.
Speaker 3: He was ramped up to fifty pitches Tony Gonsolin in September,
Speaker 3: but Dave Roberts about a week and a half ago,
Speaker 3: maybe it was right before the NLDS was asked about
Speaker 3: Gonsolin's availability in the postseason. His quote was, something really
Speaker 3: unforeseen would need to happen in order for Tony Gonsolin
Speaker 3: to pitch for the Dodgers this year in the postseason. Now,
Speaker 3: certainly a lot of injuries happened. Those are unforeseen things
Speaker 3: that have hurt this Dodgers team. But I don't think
Speaker 3: that he gets at this point. He's not going to
Speaker 3: get added to the NLCS roster, right. It would have
Speaker 3: to take an injury for another pitcher for that to happen,
Speaker 3: and I would not expect that.
Speaker 1: I think what he was saying, for the most part,
Speaker 1: something unforeseen, not necessarily with another pitcher that was really
Speaker 1: heard in injuries there. I think it's with the surge
Speaker 1: that you might see with the Gonsolin like, for instance,
Speaker 1: oh my god, there's no restrictions at all, and then
Speaker 1: why is he up to seventy five pitches now? And
Speaker 1: something like that that could shoot him forward. But I
Speaker 1: think they're going to air on the side of caution.
Speaker 3: Terry and Ventura next up here on Saxon Kates and
Speaker 3: the AA, and thanks for being patient this morning.
Speaker 1: Terry, Hey, welcome. HOI you doing.
Speaker 11: I'm fine. Number one, Steve, I think I loved your
Speaker 11: animation when we were talking about sabermetrics and you went
Speaker 11: crazy on some of the concepts that they go by.
Speaker 11: Now the ball did hard and his heart was over
Speaker 11: the fence. Who cares about all that crap? Number two,
Speaker 11: when we're done talking right now, could you relive I
Speaker 11: remember when you hit a trip off of Bruce Souter,
Speaker 11: which was an amazing hit, if you can relive that situation.
Speaker 11: Number three. I met Dave robertson they have these things
Speaker 11: in Beverly Hilton every year to raise money for the
Speaker 11: Baseball Scouts, and I asked him why he took out
Speaker 11: Rich Hill that game years ago. And if you remember,
Speaker 11: Rich Hill just walked off the mountain and Dave Roberts
Speaker 11: wasn't going to take him out. And every time Roberts
Speaker 11: goes out there, the feeling is from Hill's point of view,
Speaker 11: he was taking me out. And so Dave Roberts is
Speaker 11: the best guy ever, the way he deals with the
Speaker 11: press and his players and everything. I disagreed that he
Speaker 11: put in land and neck. You know, he does make
Speaker 11: some mirrors, but he's such a superior person and I
Speaker 11: think he's a great manager. And lastly, if you could
Speaker 11: answer me this question. I played high school baseball a
Speaker 11: little bit of college, and the strike zone was the
Speaker 11: letters to the knees and now it's two inches above
Speaker 11: the belt button and two inches below the knees. Can
Speaker 11: you tell me when that changed, because I think it's
Speaker 11: a bunch of crap.
Speaker 1: All right, Terry appreciate it. So I got nine questions
Speaker 1: from Terry. All right there, Okay, So first of all,
Speaker 1: the land and Knack thing. You know, you're not a swami.
Speaker 1: You don't know that land and Knack's not going to
Speaker 1: go out there and hit the fringes of the plate
Speaker 1: and strike everybody out. You gotta go with what's the
Speaker 1: obvious thing. And he had to get some innings in.
Speaker 1: So it is what it is at that one out.
Speaker 1: The next one about the strike zone that changed, I
Speaker 1: think probably when they started doing the automatic balls and strikes.
Speaker 1: Its changed a bit. But you know, really, the strike
Speaker 1: zone is the letters to the top of the knees.
Speaker 1: That's that's what the strike zone is supposed to be. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but lots of times you don't get that Bruce Souter triple.
Speaker 1: I probably got real lucky on that guy because he
Speaker 1: was devastating. The approach to him real quick was, you know,
Speaker 1: get him an account where you have to throw the
Speaker 1: fastball because probably not going to hit the splitter and
Speaker 1: make him get the ball up. Always got to make
Speaker 1: him get at least belt high if it's not. If
Speaker 1: it's not at the belt, don't even offer at it
Speaker 1: because it's probably going to be in the ground. And yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what I got.
Speaker 3: I was gonna look up on Baseball Reference a triple
Speaker 3: Steve Sacks against Bruce Sooter. So I went to your
Speaker 3: your baseball reference and why even bother asking you had
Speaker 3: forty seven triples in your career Sacks.
Speaker 1: That's a lot of triples. Is it feels like him We.
Speaker 3: Don't see the triple part of the game very much anymore,
Speaker 3: Yeah nowadays. And I don't remember he getting.
Speaker 1: Seven people off off a Bruce suiter though I don't
Speaker 1: remember that, but if it happened, it was, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: it's you can't ever plan a triple, you know, it's
Speaker 1: got to be something weird happened, Like it hits hits
Speaker 1: the wall and goes to the right and then nobody's
Speaker 1: over there, and you know it doesn't happen that much
Speaker 1: because they they're positioned so well, it's hard to hit
Speaker 1: a triple.
Speaker 3: You hit ten home runs in nineteen ninety one. What
Speaker 3: were in your weedies that year? What's going on in
Speaker 3: New York that you're hitting ten home runs?
Speaker 1: I want to know, was a grown man by then?
Speaker 3: You are thirty one in a grown ass man?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Grown right, It's about time you got in double digits
Speaker 1: with home runs, right.
Speaker 3: He and Steve sacks On, Tim Kates and Saxon Kates
Speaker 3: today and when we come back, we're gonna get Sax's
Speaker 3: keys to a game three win. Tonight it's Game three
Speaker 3: the NLCS Dodgers and Mets. That's coming out next Ry
Speaker 3: your NI seventy Leaning up to Game three of the
Speaker 3: NLCS tonight from City Field in New York. It's the
Speaker 3: Dodgers in New York, Mets. First pitch at five oh
Speaker 3: eight Morogo Casino, Dodgers on deck. We'll get it all
Speaker 3: started at four o'clock, Walker Bueller and Luis Severino the
Speaker 3: pitching match out.
Speaker 1: Thanks to Rick Dempsey. You joined us in the second
Speaker 1: hour of the show.
Speaker 3: David Veasse joined us from New York about forty five
Speaker 3: minutes ago. You can podcast Saxon and Kates and Am
Speaker 3: on AM five seventy LA Sports on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 3: You can find that as soon as the show is over.
Speaker 3: We're gonna get to Steve's keys in just a couple
Speaker 3: of minutes. But Mitch is in New Jersey. Mitch, I'm
Speaker 3: assuming the area of New York and New Jersey buzzing
Speaker 3: right now. What's the vibe li where you're at?
Speaker 7: Hey?
Speaker 12: Hi, you there in Tim, Steve. Thanks for all as
Speaker 12: we recall one, but I hope our bats can heat up.
Speaker 12: Keep the time you best played for now leading off
Speaker 12: and I'm looking forward to you know, Walker, I think
Speaker 12: he's leave down there hopefully. And thanks taking a course
Speaker 12: all right.
Speaker 3: Mitch, appreciate it. Thanks for checking in this morning. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's gonna be uh, it's gonna be the first inning again.
Speaker 3: You can't say it enough. Is so pivotal for this
Speaker 3: Dodgers team either to put up a zero if you're
Speaker 3: a Walker Bueller, or for the Dodgers to jump on
Speaker 3: Severino and another guy who, like Walker Bueller, has dealt
Speaker 3: with injuries, has gotten you know, some up and down
Speaker 3: starts over the last year, but has become a really
Speaker 3: good pitcher. When he was with the Yankees Sacks, he
Speaker 3: was a guy who threw hard, more of a young
Speaker 3: thrower per se. But now, like Walker Bueller, because of injuries,
Speaker 3: has turned into a pretty all round good pitcher with
Speaker 3: a really good sweeper that he throws.
Speaker 1: Yeah, eleven and seven with a sub for e r
Speaker 1: A three nine one, I believe something like that. That's good.
Speaker 1: That's that's all finding dandy. He's he's not pitching on
Speaker 1: normal rests. He's pitching on abnormal amount of rests with
Speaker 1: nine days, which not necessarily is good. But look, the
Speaker 1: Dodgers got an opportunity, like you talk about the first
Speaker 1: inning show, Hey, Otan, he's got an opportunity to really
Speaker 1: really kind of be aggressive in his zone and really
Speaker 1: tighten up that zone a bit. He's got the ball
Speaker 1: coming at him now instead of away from him like
Speaker 1: he did with Manaia. He's got the fastest he's got
Speaker 1: all those pitches coming toward him, so he's got a
Speaker 1: comfort zone in there where he's not going to have
Speaker 1: to go out and reach for the ball. So this
Speaker 1: is the advantage to have the lefty on righty combination.
Speaker 1: So he's gonna be able to sit right there in
Speaker 1: his zone keyhole a lot of these pitches, and I mean,
Speaker 1: really put it on this guy. Put it on him often,
Speaker 1: and put it on him early. But just make sure
Speaker 1: that you try to try to try to try to
Speaker 1: tighten say that five times, try to tighten up that
Speaker 1: zone where you're not, you know, fishing out of there
Speaker 1: and giving the advantage to the pitcher. Be aggressive in
Speaker 1: your zone, and thrive on the fact that you got
Speaker 1: the righty and lefty combination going tonight.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think the guy who I'm really going to
Speaker 3: zero in tonight is Will Smith. If he can get going,
Speaker 3: if he can get extend innings, if he can come
Speaker 3: up in situations with runners on base. Guys before him
Speaker 3: are getting on base, and maybe they're not driving in runs,
Speaker 3: but Mookie's on, Freddie's on, tay Oscar Hernandez can get
Speaker 3: on base. If if Will Smith can get it going
Speaker 3: and be a threat in that lineup and get it
Speaker 3: to the second half of the lineup behind him and
Speaker 3: let those guys do the work. He's a catalyst. I mean,
Speaker 3: the guys at the top can do their thing. The
Speaker 3: big three can put up numbers. Yeah, but Will Smith
Speaker 3: has got to be that X factor for this Dodgers team.
Speaker 1: In the middle of that lineup. He's big tim You
Speaker 1: hit the nail on the head. And here's another thing too.
Speaker 1: If Alvarez, who's I don't think he's the greatest throwing
Speaker 1: catcher back there. A lot of it has to do
Speaker 1: with the pitchers and what's the time going to be,
Speaker 1: you know, delivering to the plate if it's a if
Speaker 1: it's a one to three and above to home plate.
Speaker 1: I want to see those guys burning on the bass
Speaker 1: pass including third base. This guy's also on his knee.
Speaker 1: I mean, run on this guy all the time.
Speaker 11: Run.
Speaker 6: Now.
Speaker 3: We saw the ball, you know, leaving the Bronx yesterday
Speaker 3: in New York and cold weather, cold weather in the fifties.
Speaker 3: But the ball was flying last night. I'll be in
Speaker 3: from Aaron Judge who could make the ball fly anywhere.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that he plays, that don't matter with him again exactly,
Speaker 1: But same thing with Otani didn't matter.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, but I just don't want these guys
Speaker 3: to get so locked into launch angle. You know, this
Speaker 3: is just gonna be a perfect time to find the gap,
Speaker 3: you know, play smart ball. I like I was described
Speaker 3: not small ball, it's smart ball.
Speaker 1: I get so sick of launch angle. Let me tell
Speaker 1: you something. If you hit a ball at a thirty
Speaker 1: seven degree launch angle whatever, and you don't hit it
Speaker 1: on the meat of the bat, you know it's gonna
Speaker 1: be it's gonna be a perfect launch angle.
Speaker 7: Out.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter. Barrel up the ball, that's all you
Speaker 1: gotta do. Let it go in the gap, let it
Speaker 1: go over the let it go over the fence, let
Speaker 1: it go through right through the middle of the endfield.
Speaker 1: I don't care. Just barrel it up. That's what matters.
Speaker 1: Feeling good about tonight game for you. I'm feeling really
Speaker 1: good about it. Bring it on. There comes a time
Speaker 1: where players like I'm getting right now, you bring back
Speaker 1: the old kind of feelings that they do, they get
Speaker 1: kind of ticked off. They said, just bring it, man,
Speaker 1: Let's let's get it on and find out. That's what
Speaker 1: they're gonna get to.
Speaker 3: We'll get it on at four o'clock with Morongo Casino
Speaker 3: Dodgers on deck, first pitcher, City Field at five oh eight.
Speaker 3: Sacks he will do it again tomorrow morning, looking forward
Speaker 3: to it all right, there he goes, Steve Sacks. Thanks
Speaker 3: to Zach, thanks to Michelle. Thanks to Dodger fans for
Speaker 3: being a part of the show during this Dodger postseason run.
Speaker 3: We love doing it, love talking Dodger baseball and getting
Speaker 3: you ready for all the games right here on a
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