WEBVTT - Dodger Talk (10-21-25) 0:00:00.040 --> 0:00:02.400 Well with me, guys, have a few shows. Just thank you. 0:00:02.680 --> 0:00:04.640 We are your attention, your firing. 0:00:05.760 --> 0:00:09.760 This is world Champion, Dodgers, World champion for. 0:00:09.800 --> 0:00:10.400 A small song. 0:00:10.520 --> 0:00:12.400 Time they get up people what they want to die too? 0:00:12.440 --> 0:00:13.920 In a row two is special. 0:00:14.000 --> 0:00:16.800 I'm like, yeah, it's not a headache, O host one 0:00:16.800 --> 0:00:17.840 of them. 0:00:18.200 --> 0:00:19.240 This balls gone. 0:00:19.800 --> 0:00:23.439 You ready to go. 0:00:23.120 --> 0:00:25.319 Grab your phone to get in on the show called 0:00:25.400 --> 0:00:28.440 eight six six nine eighty seven two five seven. 0:00:28.520 --> 0:00:31.680 Come to the show and now your host of Dodger Talk, 0:00:32.280 --> 0:00:33.080 David Vasse. 0:00:35.000 --> 0:00:39.600 We are on the eve of the Dodgers leaving for Canada. 0:00:39.080 --> 0:00:41.720 For Game one of the World Series. 0:00:41.920 --> 0:00:45.760 Welcome the Dodger Talk David Vase with you until eight 0:00:45.800 --> 0:00:48.919 o'clock tonight here on AM five to seventy LA Sports 0:00:48.920 --> 0:00:51.360 and we have phone lines open at eight sixty six 0:00:51.880 --> 0:00:54.960 nine eight seven two five seventies. So many of you 0:00:55.040 --> 0:00:58.800 say you can't get in uh during or after a game, 0:00:58.920 --> 0:01:02.560 So this is a great time to get in and 0:01:02.720 --> 0:01:06.080 talk Dodgers as your Dodgers are headed back to the 0:01:06.080 --> 0:01:09.280 World Series for a second straight year, looking to become 0:01:09.840 --> 0:01:13.480 the first team in a quarter century to win back 0:01:13.520 --> 0:01:17.200 to back World Series championships. That was the three peat 0:01:17.280 --> 0:01:22.560 Yankees of Jeter Pasada, Bernie williams Andy Pettitt, those guys, 0:01:22.720 --> 0:01:27.000 and the Dodgers certainly would carve out some history for 0:01:27.080 --> 0:01:30.480 themselves if they're able to win this World Series and 0:01:30.560 --> 0:01:34.320 go back to back, because not many teams have done 0:01:34.400 --> 0:01:38.320 that over the course of baseball's history. You go back 0:01:38.319 --> 0:01:41.200 to the sixty one and sixty two Yankees, the seventy 0:01:41.240 --> 0:01:45.119 two seventy four A's that was a three peat. Seventy two, 0:01:45.280 --> 0:01:48.920 seventy three, seventy four, they beat the Dodgers back to 0:01:49.000 --> 0:01:52.400 back years. The Reds the Big Red Machine, went back 0:01:52.480 --> 0:01:55.160 to back in the seventies, as did the Yankees beating 0:01:55.200 --> 0:01:57.400 the Dodgers back to back years. 0:01:57.560 --> 0:01:58.919 And these Blue Jays. 0:02:00.120 --> 0:02:03.000 Last time the Blue Jays were in the World Series 0:02:03.240 --> 0:02:05.880 was when they went back to back in ninety two 0:02:06.000 --> 0:02:10.800 and ninety three Joe Carter's famous World Series ending walk 0:02:10.880 --> 0:02:14.880 off home run in nineteen ninety three. So not many 0:02:14.960 --> 0:02:19.640 teams in baseball's history have won back to back championships, 0:02:19.680 --> 0:02:23.519 and the Dodgers are looking to become just the first 0:02:24.080 --> 0:02:27.760 Dodger team ever to win back to back championships. That 0:02:27.800 --> 0:02:31.919 has never been done in franchise history. So we got 0:02:31.919 --> 0:02:34.959 a lot to talk about between now and eight o'clock. 0:02:35.040 --> 0:02:38.880 Of course, your Dodger coverage begins at six am here 0:02:39.000 --> 0:02:42.520 on a five to seventy LA Sports with Tim Kats 0:02:42.560 --> 0:02:47.399 and Steve sax scam every weekday morning during the postseason 0:02:47.800 --> 0:02:50.880 and back to back years. They have new life, extended 0:02:50.919 --> 0:02:54.920 life to be able to take it deep into October. 0:02:55.360 --> 0:02:58.960 And look, you could come up with all the different 0:02:59.040 --> 0:03:04.079 reasons why the Blue Jays can beat the Dodgers, similar 0:03:04.200 --> 0:03:07.640 to how you could come up with your nine reasons 0:03:07.680 --> 0:03:10.720 on how the Phillies can beat the Dodgers or your 0:03:10.800 --> 0:03:15.040 nine reasons why the Brewers can beat the Dodgers. The 0:03:15.160 --> 0:03:19.919 reality is these are two the top five payrolls in baseball. 0:03:20.360 --> 0:03:25.440 These are heavyweights in each coast. Just like last year, 0:03:25.560 --> 0:03:30.640 Yankees Dodgers, Blue Jays Dodgers both have a lot of 0:03:30.680 --> 0:03:37.320 heavyweights and superstar power in this series. And arguably the 0:03:37.360 --> 0:03:41.760 hottest player, hottest hitter in this World Series is not 0:03:41.960 --> 0:03:46.200 wearing a Dodger uniform. And no he's not George Springer. 0:03:46.280 --> 0:03:50.400 That's Vladimir Guerrero Junior, who has been red hot this 0:03:50.520 --> 0:03:55.680 postseason getting the J's to the World Series. So that's 0:03:55.800 --> 0:03:58.280 one guy you have to watch out for. If the 0:03:58.320 --> 0:04:02.400 Dodgers are able to execute their pitches. I already know 0:04:02.520 --> 0:04:05.320 they have a game plan and they actually showed it 0:04:05.600 --> 0:04:09.240 how to pitch Vladimir Guerrero Junior earlier in the summer 0:04:09.360 --> 0:04:13.280 because he didn't do much of anything against the Dodgers 0:04:13.280 --> 0:04:15.880 when the Dodgers took two out of three. And you 0:04:15.960 --> 0:04:20.039 may be wondering, why do the Blue Jays have home 0:04:20.080 --> 0:04:23.320 field advantage over the Dodgers. And it's not just because 0:04:23.360 --> 0:04:27.480 the Dodgers were a division wildcard team. That's not the 0:04:27.520 --> 0:04:32.040 reason why. The reason why is that the Blue Jays 0:04:32.720 --> 0:04:36.240 won one more game than the Dodgers did during the 0:04:36.320 --> 0:04:40.599 regular season. So you think back to the Angels sweeping 0:04:40.680 --> 0:04:43.960 the Dodgers, you think back to leads that were blown 0:04:44.000 --> 0:04:47.200 in the eighth and ninth innings this season, well, they 0:04:47.200 --> 0:04:51.400 do matter. It cost you home field advantage. But the 0:04:51.440 --> 0:04:56.120 Dodgers have gone into very hostile environments. The Phillies and 0:04:56.240 --> 0:04:58.960 Blue Jays have two of the best records at home. 0:04:59.360 --> 0:05:02.360 The Dodgers won the first two there and they won 0:05:02.440 --> 0:05:05.480 the first two in Milwaukee as well, so they're no 0:05:05.560 --> 0:05:09.440 stranger to not having home field advantage and shocking the 0:05:09.520 --> 0:05:13.640 other team quite frankly, and going back to Dodgers Stadium 0:05:13.760 --> 0:05:17.000 up two games to nothing, and that's something that they're 0:05:17.000 --> 0:05:20.320 hoping to do this time. It's gonna be, in my estimation, 0:05:21.400 --> 0:05:25.560 just as challenging as it was to win two in Philadelphia. 0:05:25.680 --> 0:05:29.400 This is the Dodgers' biggest test this side of the 0:05:29.440 --> 0:05:33.279 Phillies in this postseason, with the Blue Jays right in 0:05:33.320 --> 0:05:35.680 front of them and in their way of trying to 0:05:35.720 --> 0:05:37.919 win four more games to win. 0:05:37.760 --> 0:05:42.320 The World Series. Similar to the Brewers. 0:05:42.480 --> 0:05:46.479 I mentioned this with Petros and Money earlier today, I 0:05:46.600 --> 0:05:49.480 kind of feel like the Blue Jays, I'm not going 0:05:49.560 --> 0:05:53.719 to say, are satisfied by going to the World Series, 0:05:53.920 --> 0:05:56.920 but it is the first time in what thirty three 0:05:57.000 --> 0:06:01.359 years that the Blue Jays Canada has an American League 0:06:01.440 --> 0:06:05.320 Championship team, and they will have World Series games for 0:06:05.360 --> 0:06:10.080 the first time since Joe Carter. I mean, it felt 0:06:10.120 --> 0:06:13.760 like that was the big victory. Similar to what Pat 0:06:13.839 --> 0:06:19.800 Murphy conceded after Game five excuse me after Game four 0:06:20.279 --> 0:06:24.720 of the NLCS, where he said playing the Cubs and 0:06:24.800 --> 0:06:28.440 that rivalry and just everything that was going on between 0:06:28.839 --> 0:06:33.440 Craig Council leaving and just how badly both cities wanted that. 0:06:34.120 --> 0:06:39.000 To me, it kind of feels like the Blue Jays 0:06:39.640 --> 0:06:43.520 might have emptied the tank to be able to get 0:06:43.520 --> 0:06:47.400 to the World Series. Certainly the empty the tank on 0:06:48.040 --> 0:06:52.120 a few pitchers, and all of their pitchers Chris Bassett 0:06:52.760 --> 0:06:56.240 Kevin Gossman were used last night in Game seven. Also 0:06:56.839 --> 0:07:01.680 Louis Varland, who has been used in ten postseason games already. 0:07:02.120 --> 0:07:04.560 I mean, he's on track to be used just as 0:07:04.600 --> 0:07:08.160 many times or pretty close to it, as Brandon Morrow 0:07:08.360 --> 0:07:12.600 was by the Dodgers in twenty seventeen. Brandon Morrow pitched 0:07:12.640 --> 0:07:17.480 in every single World Series game that year and through seventeen, 0:07:17.920 --> 0:07:22.080 and pitched in seventeen postseason games that year. Think about that, 0:07:22.400 --> 0:07:25.760 and Louis Varland is one of, if not the most 0:07:26.200 --> 0:07:29.400 relied upon reliever for the Blue Jays. So here's my question, 0:07:30.600 --> 0:07:33.000 how much do the Blue Jays have left for the Dodgers, 0:07:33.000 --> 0:07:38.080 who are extremely well rested. They will have their starting 0:07:38.160 --> 0:07:42.560 rotation on extra rest starting with the Game one starter 0:07:42.800 --> 0:07:47.120 in Blake snell Sneil Zilla again will start Game one, 0:07:47.680 --> 0:07:50.680 and this will be his first World Series since the 0:07:50.720 --> 0:07:55.520 Dodgers beat the Rays in twenty twenty and game two Yamamoto. 0:07:56.120 --> 0:07:59.320 And when the series comes back to LA, whether it's 0:07:59.400 --> 0:08:02.720 Game three or game four for Tyler glass Now and 0:08:02.760 --> 0:08:07.080 show hey Otani, certainly for glass Now because the Dodgers 0:08:07.080 --> 0:08:10.160 have been fortunate that glass Now has pitched at home 0:08:10.280 --> 0:08:14.400 number one and the start times were when the shadows 0:08:14.520 --> 0:08:18.080 were a big factor. All of these World Series games 0:08:18.160 --> 0:08:22.640 are starting at five o'clock Pacific time. Once this series 0:08:22.680 --> 0:08:26.000 returns back to Dodgers Stadium and glass Now is on 0:08:26.080 --> 0:08:29.240 the mound and show he Otani is on the mound, 0:08:29.800 --> 0:08:34.720 they are going to have a huge advantage with those 0:08:34.760 --> 0:08:38.040 shadows and that start time of five o'clock. And by 0:08:38.080 --> 0:08:40.960 the way, Rick Mundane, Stephen Nelson will be on the 0:08:41.000 --> 0:08:44.080 call right here on AM five to seventy LA Sports, 0:08:44.400 --> 0:08:47.360 and Joe Davis and John Smoltz will be on. 0:08:47.360 --> 0:08:49.240 The call for Fox Sports. 0:08:49.559 --> 0:08:52.720 Eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy is 0:08:52.760 --> 0:08:56.040 the phone number before we go to break and coming 0:08:56.120 --> 0:08:58.080 up on the show tonight, your phone calls, we have 0:08:58.120 --> 0:08:59.000 two lines open. 0:08:59.480 --> 0:09:02.280 We will hear from Dino Ebol who had one. 0:09:02.080 --> 0:09:05.360 Of the best views of the best game ever played 0:09:05.400 --> 0:09:09.680 by a single player. Shoe a Otani's incredible Game four 0:09:10.240 --> 0:09:14.319 and also coming up later in the show, Keik Hernandez 0:09:14.640 --> 0:09:19.280 will share his emotional feelings about being on the verge 0:09:19.320 --> 0:09:23.560 of tyme Justin Turner for playing the most playoff games 0:09:23.559 --> 0:09:26.720 in Dodger franchise history. And we had a chance to 0:09:26.800 --> 0:09:31.280 also catch up with Pedro Martinez and he had incredible 0:09:31.360 --> 0:09:35.280 things to say about the Dodgers Game one starter Blake Snell. 0:09:35.920 --> 0:09:38.800 But here's something to consider, and this kind of hit 0:09:38.880 --> 0:09:45.920 me earlier today. Isn't it about time Los Angeles embraces 0:09:46.000 --> 0:09:50.840 Dave Roberts. I know you have one foot in, but 0:09:51.120 --> 0:09:56.040 isn't it time for you to call in and really 0:09:56.080 --> 0:10:02.280 praise Dave Roberts. He's going to his second consecutive World Series. 0:10:02.960 --> 0:10:06.880 He did that in seventeen and eighteen. He's managing a 0:10:07.000 --> 0:10:12.120 veteran team that at times didn't give you everything you wanted, 0:10:12.920 --> 0:10:16.320 and he never panicked. And he had a couple of 0:10:16.360 --> 0:10:19.720 meetings with the hitters with a bullpen and with the 0:10:19.880 --> 0:10:25.200 entire team in September in Baltimore. It doesn't sit right 0:10:25.280 --> 0:10:28.560 with me if you're going to blame Dave Roberts for 0:10:28.679 --> 0:10:32.400 everything when it goes wrong and not give them credit 0:10:32.960 --> 0:10:37.640 for when things go right. And look, I've been pretty 0:10:37.640 --> 0:10:40.720 fair with Dave. I'm not just Dave does everything right 0:10:41.280 --> 0:10:44.640 type of guy. There have been times since he took over, 0:10:44.679 --> 0:10:48.000 since twenty sixteen where I have been critical and I 0:10:48.040 --> 0:10:53.559 feel fairly but at some point ever since twenty twenty, 0:10:53.720 --> 0:10:56.720 he has taken it to another level. And it just 0:10:56.720 --> 0:10:59.600 seems like him and Andrew Friedman are more on the 0:10:59.600 --> 0:11:03.280 same page in the last five seasons than they were 0:11:03.280 --> 0:11:06.160 in the first four years. And I think at a 0:11:06.200 --> 0:11:09.240 certain point in time you have to give Dave Roberts 0:11:09.240 --> 0:11:12.720 some credit. Eight six six nine eighty seven two five 0:11:12.840 --> 0:11:16.000 seventy is the phone number when we continue on Off 0:11:16.080 --> 0:11:21.360 Day Dodger Talk on this NBA Opening Night Tuesday, we'll 0:11:21.360 --> 0:11:23.800 hear from Dino Ebol, We'll hear from Key k Hernandez 0:11:23.840 --> 0:11:27.280 and Pedro Martinez, and we'll hear from you. Eight sixty 0:11:27.280 --> 0:11:30.920 six nine eight seven two five seventy David vass with 0:11:30.960 --> 0:11:33.880 you until eight o'clock right here on AM five seventy 0:11:34.000 --> 0:11:38.559 LA Sports advass a with you until eight o'clock right 0:11:38.600 --> 0:11:42.600 here on AM five to seventy LA Sports Off Day 0:11:42.679 --> 0:11:47.560 Dodger Talk World Series Week Edition, Game one will be 0:11:47.760 --> 0:11:52.520 Friday at five o'clock Pacific time from the Rogers Center 0:11:52.720 --> 0:11:56.439 in Toronto. Rick Monday and Steven Nelson will be on 0:11:56.520 --> 0:11:59.800 the call, Tim Cats. We'll get you set with Morongo 0:12:00.120 --> 0:12:04.400 Sino Dodgers on deck at four o'clock and game two 0:12:04.559 --> 0:12:09.160 Saturday night in Toronto, same time, same bat channel, all 0:12:09.200 --> 0:12:12.840 of that Dodgers Radio and five to seventy LA Sports 0:12:13.280 --> 0:12:15.520 coming up in a moment. I can't wait to share 0:12:15.559 --> 0:12:21.160 with you what Dino Ebel told me about his perspective 0:12:21.400 --> 0:12:24.360 in the third base coaching box when Shoe he Otani 0:12:24.800 --> 0:12:28.440 hit his three home runs, including one over the right 0:12:28.480 --> 0:12:29.319 field pavilion. 0:12:29.520 --> 0:12:31.760 We'll get to that. We'll also get to keyke. 0:12:31.520 --> 0:12:35.920 A Hernandez and Pedro Martinez. And just in case you 0:12:35.920 --> 0:12:39.880 were wondering who the special guest may have been calling in, well, 0:12:41.080 --> 0:12:42.480 that special guest got. 0:12:42.360 --> 0:12:43.120 A better offer. 0:12:43.800 --> 0:12:46.160 He got tickets to the Laker game and that was 0:12:46.600 --> 0:12:51.000 the game one starter himself, Blake Snell. He's probably courtside 0:12:51.080 --> 0:12:54.040 right now, hob nobbing it up with Luco over there. 0:12:54.600 --> 0:12:57.520 Eight six six, nine eighty seven, two five seventy is 0:12:57.520 --> 0:13:00.240 the phone number. Let's get out to the calls. Let's 0:13:00.280 --> 0:13:03.640 go out to Manuel and Guardina. You're on Dodger Talk. 0:13:03.720 --> 0:13:11.080 Lead us off, Oh, DV Man just excited, brou What 0:13:11.200 --> 0:13:14.120 can we say not only about Roberts, about Freedman, but 0:13:14.200 --> 0:13:20.000 first off, Man Am five seventy, from scam, from working 0:13:20.120 --> 0:13:23.880 Kate's twenty five hours a day, from you being so 0:13:24.080 --> 0:13:28.400 accessible down there, you know, in the champagne showers and 0:13:28.440 --> 0:13:31.760 all that. Man, none of it would be possible without 0:13:31.800 --> 0:13:34.440 Am five seventy. And that's why I always say, man 0:13:34.679 --> 0:13:37.480 La is lucky to have Am five seventy. As far 0:13:37.520 --> 0:13:39.520 as smells Hiller Man, who could blame him? Right? I 0:13:39.520 --> 0:13:42.480 mean Opening Night or calling into Dodger Talk. 0:13:42.880 --> 0:13:45.679 You know, are you saying that's a better offer than 0:13:45.720 --> 0:13:48.160 calling into Dodger Talk and talking to his boy? 0:13:50.320 --> 0:13:52.320 Well, he could talk to you all the time, man, 0:13:52.440 --> 0:13:54.200 so you know, yeah it is, Dave. 0:13:54.320 --> 0:13:54.839 You know that. 0:13:54.960 --> 0:13:56.440 You know you would have done the same thing. 0:13:56.720 --> 0:13:59.360 You'd be right. But I'm stuck here. I'm stuck here 0:13:59.400 --> 0:14:00.840 talking to Mana. 0:14:01.520 --> 0:14:04.160 Yeah, I'm stuck here talking to Manny and Guardena instead 0:14:04.200 --> 0:14:06.120 of being with snell Zilla at the Laker game. 0:14:07.240 --> 0:14:09.960 I'm an egginget. But aye, that's why we appreciate you. 0:14:10.080 --> 0:14:10.320 DV. 0:14:10.800 --> 0:14:15.240 Hey, five five games. This thing's gonna go tops. You know, 0:14:15.280 --> 0:14:18.559 the Dodgers are primed right now. They're running on all cylinders. 0:14:18.840 --> 0:14:21.120 Like you say, They're that free train coming down the 0:14:21.160 --> 0:14:24.880 track that you can't avoid. And uh, I'm just hyped 0:14:24.960 --> 0:14:28.640 up for it. Man Let's kick Canada's ass, Baby Gold 0:14:28.800 --> 0:14:30.720 Dodgers back to back. 0:14:31.120 --> 0:14:33.080 Love it, Manny, Thank you for the phone call. I 0:14:33.080 --> 0:14:35.200 guess like his order was coming up right there. We 0:14:35.240 --> 0:14:38.080 heard the drive through in the background. Eight six six 0:14:38.240 --> 0:14:41.000 nine eighty seven two five seventy is the phone number. 0:14:41.400 --> 0:14:41.640 Look. 0:14:41.720 --> 0:14:45.280 The best part of the Dodgers not having home field 0:14:45.280 --> 0:14:49.240 advantage in this year's World Series is that with the 0:14:49.280 --> 0:14:54.080 two three two format, it gives them an opportunity to 0:14:54.240 --> 0:14:58.400 do something that they have only done once in their 0:14:58.480 --> 0:15:03.720 franchise's history, including Brooklyn in nineteen fifty five. 0:15:04.720 --> 0:15:06.320 The Dodgers have. 0:15:06.280 --> 0:15:10.320 Only won the World Series clinched the World Series at 0:15:10.360 --> 0:15:15.920 home once. Can you believe that nineteen fifty five? That 0:15:16.040 --> 0:15:19.280 was at Yankee Stadium. It wasn't at Ebbitts Field. The 0:15:19.480 --> 0:15:25.160 only time the Dodgers celebrated a World Series championship in 0:15:25.200 --> 0:15:28.640 front of their home fans was when the Dodgers swept 0:15:29.160 --> 0:15:34.160 Mickey Mantle Roger Maris in the nineteen sixty three World Series. 0:15:34.720 --> 0:15:38.600 That's the last time and only time the Dodgers have 0:15:38.760 --> 0:15:42.200 ever won the World Series on their home field. 0:15:42.600 --> 0:15:43.280 Think about it. 0:15:44.360 --> 0:15:48.000 Nineteen fifty nine, that was against the Twins, Game seven, 0:15:48.040 --> 0:15:51.960 they beat them in Minneapolis. Nineteen sixty five, same thing, 0:15:52.040 --> 0:15:56.160 they beat the Twins in Minnesota. Fast forward to nineteen 0:15:56.200 --> 0:16:00.920 eighty one. That was at Yankee Stadium, Game six. Nineteen 0:16:00.960 --> 0:16:03.680 eighty eight, the Dodgers beat the A's in Oakland in 0:16:03.720 --> 0:16:09.040 Game five, famous photo of Oral Herscheizer being hoisted up 0:16:09.040 --> 0:16:14.320 by Rick Dempsey in their road grays twenty twenty, the 0:16:14.360 --> 0:16:20.520 pandemic obviously in Texas, and last year at Yankee Stadium 0:16:20.600 --> 0:16:25.120 Game five. So with this format of two three to two, 0:16:25.200 --> 0:16:28.600 if the Dodgers can win at least one game in Toronto, 0:16:29.200 --> 0:16:32.040 they will have a chance to do something that they 0:16:32.080 --> 0:16:36.080 have only done once in their franchise's history, and that 0:16:36.320 --> 0:16:40.040 celebrate winning the World Series on their home field. 0:16:40.480 --> 0:16:43.480 Let's go out to Northridge. Jd. You're on Dodger Talk 0:16:43.560 --> 0:16:44.680 with David basse I. 0:16:44.800 --> 0:16:49.240 Jd oh, Dave, Hey, it's great to hear your show. 0:16:49.320 --> 0:16:51.480 I've been living in New York the last couple months 0:16:51.480 --> 0:16:55.120 and following the Dodgers late night. But then the playoffs 0:16:55.120 --> 0:16:57.880 come around, and I had to be with my people 0:16:57.880 --> 0:17:01.000 and I'd go what games and bars and for Godden 0:17:01.040 --> 0:17:04.680 Friendly And that's been awesome now that the playoffs started. 0:17:05.359 --> 0:17:07.840 I watched that gut wrencher in Game one against the 0:17:07.880 --> 0:17:13.120 Brewers and in a bar called Tuckeria Grammercy and high 0:17:13.200 --> 0:17:16.800 fives all around after trying got that last out, and 0:17:16.840 --> 0:17:20.159 then the barkeep handed out free victory shots, and that 0:17:20.280 --> 0:17:22.439 great night to be a Dodger fan in Manhattan. 0:17:22.720 --> 0:17:25.000 Where are you gonna watch Game one this year? Maybe 0:17:25.000 --> 0:17:26.520 Monty's and Woodland Hills. 0:17:28.280 --> 0:17:30.840 You know, I'm it's good to be home. I may 0:17:30.920 --> 0:17:33.600 just be here in my living room, but you never know. 0:17:33.960 --> 0:17:37.760 HQ Grow Pub in Woodland Hills. Those would be my 0:17:37.920 --> 0:17:40.160 top choices in the valley right there. 0:17:40.200 --> 0:17:43.080 Hey, you're making a great case. I also have to 0:17:43.119 --> 0:17:46.600 tell you this yesterday, because I just got home. I 0:17:46.680 --> 0:17:51.160 went to the final resting place of George Herman Ruth Alien. Really, 0:17:52.359 --> 0:17:54.840 I just had to go there because of all of 0:17:54.880 --> 0:17:58.800 the comps to Otani and just at one hundred years apart, 0:17:58.880 --> 0:18:01.920 these two guys, the only two men of the what 0:18:02.000 --> 0:18:04.600 more than twenty two thousand have played Major League baseball 0:18:04.640 --> 0:18:06.440 that could be compared to each other at the top 0:18:06.480 --> 0:18:09.320 of the heap, and it was. 0:18:09.000 --> 0:18:09.200 It was. 0:18:10.200 --> 0:18:12.320 It was an important pilgrimage for me being a Dodger 0:18:12.359 --> 0:18:14.680 fan and a baseball junkie. 0:18:15.040 --> 0:18:17.840 All Right, well, it's great to visit a dead person. 0:18:18.320 --> 0:18:21.600 Thanks for the phone call, JD. Appreciate it. Let's celebrate 0:18:21.640 --> 0:18:24.920 the people that are living, including show Heo Tani, who 0:18:25.000 --> 0:18:27.840 is doing things that not even Babe Ruth was doing 0:18:27.920 --> 0:18:31.400 back then. And speaking of show Heo Tani, I did 0:18:31.400 --> 0:18:34.440 have a chance to speak to Dodgers third base coach 0:18:34.520 --> 0:18:38.119 Dino Ebol last night at the workout and had to 0:18:38.200 --> 0:18:41.240 ask him he was there. He was the one high 0:18:41.280 --> 0:18:45.240 fiving show Hao Tani when he rounded third base. He 0:18:45.480 --> 0:18:49.600 had a great vantage point along with Chris Woodward at 0:18:49.640 --> 0:18:53.359 first base in the coaching box there of Otani's three 0:18:53.400 --> 0:18:57.439 home runs, and I was wondering what it was like 0:18:57.640 --> 0:19:00.720 to be on the field as history was being made. 0:19:01.600 --> 0:19:04.480 Is that the single greatest performance by any player in 0:19:04.520 --> 0:19:05.479 postseason history? 0:19:05.640 --> 0:19:06.320 Absolutely? 0:19:06.359 --> 0:19:09.399 And of like you said, been in a lot of 0:19:09.440 --> 0:19:13.520 postseason games and World Series and just in and that 0:19:13.720 --> 0:19:16.400 you know, the normal uh one hundred and sixty two 0:19:16.440 --> 0:19:19.240 game season. Anybody who goes deep three times in one game, 0:19:19.240 --> 0:19:21.679 that's special. But to go out there and pitch the 0:19:21.720 --> 0:19:24.639 way he did, had ten punch outs. And you know what, David, 0:19:24.680 --> 0:19:26.680 I could honestly sit sit here and tell you today 0:19:26.720 --> 0:19:29.280 that in the box, in the moment, and it's first 0:19:29.320 --> 0:19:31.840 at bat, the way he started taking pitches, I knew 0:19:31.840 --> 0:19:34.760 he was locked in because he wasn't flying out. He 0:19:34.880 --> 0:19:38.240 was staying in himself. It looked like now the head 0:19:38.280 --> 0:19:41.840 was more you know, steel, He wasn't moving. And after 0:19:41.880 --> 0:19:44.360 that first homer, I said, this is what the show, hey, 0:19:44.800 --> 0:19:47.879 you know is about, because once he wasn't moving a 0:19:47.880 --> 0:19:50.240 whole lot with a body movement. I said, he's locked 0:19:50.280 --> 0:19:52.480 in and his strength is to left center. I know 0:19:52.520 --> 0:19:55.320 he hit some bombs to right. Both the show, hey, 0:19:55.400 --> 0:19:57.800 I know is when he's hitting the ball, well, you know, 0:19:57.920 --> 0:20:00.520 he's staying in there and driving that battle left center field, 0:20:00.520 --> 0:20:02.159 which he hit a home run and his lastly. 0:20:01.960 --> 0:20:04.240 Bat, the one that he hit over the right field 0:20:04.280 --> 0:20:07.480 pavilion four hundred and sixty nine feet, could you tell 0:20:07.520 --> 0:20:09.360 it was going over the roof and when it did 0:20:09.400 --> 0:20:11.439 go over the roof, did you have to do a 0:20:11.480 --> 0:20:14.520 double take? And I'm just curious from your standpoint, could 0:20:14.560 --> 0:20:15.360 you tell it went over? 0:20:15.480 --> 0:20:17.600 I could honestly sit here today and tell you the 0:20:17.600 --> 0:20:19.840 ball was so high I knew it was gone, And 0:20:19.960 --> 0:20:23.239 when it was hit, it was so high. When I 0:20:23.320 --> 0:20:26.120 looked up in the bill of my helmet, I got 0:20:26.160 --> 0:20:27.439 like a blur in the lights. 0:20:27.520 --> 0:20:28.520 I actually had to. 0:20:28.440 --> 0:20:31.119 Put my hand in front of me to block the 0:20:31.200 --> 0:20:33.800 lights because it was so high. And I go, this 0:20:33.840 --> 0:20:36.480 ball has a chance to hit like in that upper 0:20:36.520 --> 0:20:38.919 tank there where the people are walking. And when I 0:20:38.960 --> 0:20:40.919 saw it go over the roof, I said, I cannot 0:20:40.920 --> 0:20:41.359 believe it. 0:20:41.400 --> 0:20:42.160 I just witnessed. 0:20:42.200 --> 0:20:44.920 I mean, nobody even does that in batting practice, which 0:20:44.960 --> 0:20:47.160 he did when he took batting practice out. 0:20:47.240 --> 0:20:48.320 Like a few days earlier. 0:20:48.359 --> 0:20:51.159 But to go that far over the pavilion something that 0:20:51.240 --> 0:20:52.400 I'll never forget. 0:20:52.600 --> 0:20:55.280 What was it like before the game, when you maybe 0:20:55.320 --> 0:20:57.920 passed by him in the cage or in the dugout. 0:20:57.960 --> 0:21:00.600 Could you sense a different look about him? 0:21:00.800 --> 0:21:03.680 Yes, because one he's he is a little different when 0:21:03.720 --> 0:21:06.119 he pitches. He's more locked in on the pitching side 0:21:06.119 --> 0:21:08.760 of it. Again, we need him as an offensive player. 0:21:08.800 --> 0:21:12.399 But there's something about that first at bat that I 0:21:12.440 --> 0:21:14.399 even told our guys in the dugout. I said, I 0:21:14.480 --> 0:21:16.280 like what I'm watching right now with show Hey. And 0:21:16.320 --> 0:21:18.600 I'm not a hitting coach. I'm that's not one of 0:21:18.640 --> 0:21:20.479 my lanes that I ever get involved in. But as 0:21:20.560 --> 0:21:23.600 standing out here all the years I've been watching good hitters. 0:21:24.040 --> 0:21:26.240 That's when I saw show Hey in his first at bat, 0:21:26.280 --> 0:21:28.880 the way he was taking pitches, I said, look out, 0:21:28.920 --> 0:21:30.920 he's he's going to run into one, but to run 0:21:30.920 --> 0:21:33.920 into three something I'll never forget something in the world, 0:21:33.960 --> 0:21:34.520 would never. 0:21:34.440 --> 0:21:36.000 Forget anything extra. 0:21:36.119 --> 0:21:38.119 When he came around third base on any one of 0:21:38.119 --> 0:21:39.440 those three home runs. 0:21:39.200 --> 0:21:41.720 Nope, same same show Hey. He gives me the little 0:21:41.760 --> 0:21:44.560 you know, you know, high five, and I just saw, 0:21:44.640 --> 0:21:46.320 you know, I saw a little smile as he looks 0:21:46.320 --> 0:21:47.040 in our dugout. 0:21:47.119 --> 0:21:48.720 But what a moment. 0:21:49.560 --> 0:21:53.160 One for himself, one, two for the Dodgers, and three 0:21:53.200 --> 0:21:55.359 to do it at home and here at Dodger Stadium. 0:21:55.480 --> 0:21:57.360 See our fans, I mean, just. 0:21:57.359 --> 0:21:58.719 As loud as you can get. It was. 0:21:58.800 --> 0:21:59.760 It was a special night. 0:22:00.320 --> 0:22:00.480 There. 0:22:00.520 --> 0:22:03.439 He is the Dodgers third base coach, Dino Ebol with 0:22:03.520 --> 0:22:07.240 a front row seat to history in Game four the NLCS, 0:22:07.600 --> 0:22:10.800 when shoe Heotani not only pitched six scoreless innings and 0:22:10.840 --> 0:22:14.560 had ten strikeouts, but also hit three home runs, and 0:22:14.680 --> 0:22:18.679 the second one over the right field pavilion four hundred 0:22:19.119 --> 0:22:22.840 and sixty nine feet, And Janet Marie Smith, who does 0:22:22.880 --> 0:22:25.840 a great job at Dodgers Stadium and has been an 0:22:25.880 --> 0:22:32.760 integral part of the renovations at Dodgers Stadium, I'm sure 0:22:32.840 --> 0:22:36.399 she'll have a four to sixty nine home plate sign 0:22:36.960 --> 0:22:40.280 attached to that right field pavilion. And that's a place 0:22:40.320 --> 0:22:43.600