Speaker 1: Let the phones on a home run friend, ready to go.
Speaker 2: Welcome to the Playoffs, Dodger fans.
Speaker 3: Is playoff time when your favorite.
Speaker 4: Show thirteen wins is all it takes on half and
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Speaker 5: Welcome to a playoff edition of Dodger Talk. Get in
Speaker 5: on the action at eight six.
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Speaker 6: Now we go to your award winning broadcasters of the
Speaker 6: world champion Dodgers.
Speaker 5: Here's your host of Dodger Talk.
Speaker 2: It's only been fourteen years. Every day, David Vasse. We
Speaker 2: are live at Dodgers Stadium. After the Dodgers sweep the
Speaker 2: Brewers in the NLCS in advance to the World Series
Speaker 2: for a second straight year, David Vasse with you until
Speaker 2: I don't know eleven o'clock. We'll see how this goes.
Speaker 2: But I honestly don't want to go anywhere. You shouldn't
Speaker 2: want to go anywhere either. This is the only play
Speaker 2: to talk Dodgers. To celebrate Dodgers. As the Dodgers are
Speaker 2: in an unprecedented time in the history of their franchise,
Speaker 2: going to the World Series five times in the last
Speaker 2: nine years, they're looking to really separate themselves as one
Speaker 2: of not only the greatest teams and Dodger franchise history,
Speaker 2: but also one of the greatest teams in baseball history,
Speaker 2: and they certainly can separate themselves from almost every other
Speaker 2: team out there in the last twenty years. If they're
Speaker 2: able to run the table and win their second consecutive championship,
Speaker 2: it would be only the it would be the first
Speaker 2: time in twenty four years anybody has repeated as champions
Speaker 2: in baseball. Remember the Yankees did a three peat from
Speaker 2: ninety eight to two thousand, the Blue Jays went back
Speaker 2: to back in ninety two and ninety three, and the
Speaker 2: Dogs have never done that in their franchise history. Not
Speaker 2: to mention, the Dodgers have only lost one game in
Speaker 2: this postseason. There's been other teams that have only lost
Speaker 2: one game in the postseason, but they all won seven games,
Speaker 2: like the Big reg Big Red Machine, and teams during
Speaker 2: the expanded Championship Series play won eleven games, but no
Speaker 2: team has won thirteen games on their way to the
Speaker 2: World Series championship. And that's what the Dodgers would accomplish
Speaker 2: if they're able to get four more wins. That's right
Speaker 2: with the two wildcard wins over the Reds that would
Speaker 2: give the Dodgers the most wins of any world champion
Speaker 2: in postseason history. With this expanded postseason play, we got
Speaker 2: a full border calls eight six, six, nine, eight seven,
Speaker 2: two five seventy. What a night to be here? Two
Speaker 2: people responded, or two groups of people responded. Number One,
Speaker 2: Show Haotani responded because he was getting very annoyed and
Speaker 2: was hearing a lot of the criticism that he was
Speaker 2: not a postseason player. Trust me, he heard it, and
Speaker 2: he also heard the questions the day before yesterday about
Speaker 2: the fact that is pitching bleeding into his hitting. And
Speaker 2: look at him tonight. He leads the Dodgers with ten
Speaker 2: strikeouts in six plus innings tonight, allowed just one hit
Speaker 2: and hits three home runs. One of them went over
Speaker 2: the right field pavilion. O'tani becomes just the third player
Speaker 2: ever to hit a home run over the right field roof,
Speaker 2: joining Willie Stargel and Kryle Schwarber, who did it during
Speaker 2: the NLDS. So what a night for Show Haotani and
Speaker 2: you The Dodger fans that showed up and sold out
Speaker 2: Dodgers Stadium tonight responded and were heard all night long.
Speaker 2: And how could you not be when you witness one of,
Speaker 2: if not the greatest performance in Championship Series history. I'm
Speaker 2: not going to say postseason history, but certainly it's right
Speaker 2: up there with the greatest performance in playoff history. Eight
Speaker 2: six six nine eight seven two five seventy is the
Speaker 2: phone number. Let's head downstairs again to the press conference room.
Speaker 2: That's where the NLCS MVP Sho hal Tani is with
Speaker 2: Will Ireton fielding questions.
Speaker 7: Showy, A lot have been made about your performances offensively
Speaker 7: this postseason coming into tonight with you starting, did you
Speaker 7: want to make a statement in this game tonight?
Speaker 8: She's in.
Speaker 7: My schedule?
Speaker 9: Can I say not to you?
Speaker 2: Too much?
Speaker 8: Of the.
Speaker 9: Mom got sensors, this ship, he got cool, That's all
Speaker 9: you now.
Speaker 10: I really focused on, first of all, first and foremost
Speaker 10: as a starting pitcher, to make sure I'm an effective
Speaker 10: starting pitcher on the hitting side, you know, just looking
Speaker 10: at the whole entire team, we'll see that at times
Speaker 10: the right handed hitters picked us up, and on the
Speaker 10: flip side sometimes the left handed hitters picked us up.
Speaker 10: So I think, in a sense, we're just trying to
Speaker 10: find the right balance.
Speaker 2: Let's go to build straight back in the middle.
Speaker 11: Yes, sure, hey, Andrew and a lot of your teammates
Speaker 11: are calling this the greatest postseason game ever played.
Speaker 10: What do you think the SNT wants?
Speaker 9: It's Moki Tail sometimes.
Speaker 12: Mmmm.
Speaker 13: Then I.
Speaker 9: Took what I told you.
Speaker 10: And as I stayed before. You know, there were at
Speaker 10: times during the postseason where Tail and MOOKI, you know,
Speaker 10: picked me up. And you know, this time around it
Speaker 10: was my turn to be able to perform. And I
Speaker 10: think just looking at looking back over the course of
Speaker 10: the entire postseason, I haven't performed to the expectation. But
Speaker 10: I think today we all what you know, what the
Speaker 10: left handed hitters.
Speaker 14: Could do j P on the left Typically you are
Speaker 14: at your best as a hitter on the days that
Speaker 14: you don't pitch. This was one of your best hitting
Speaker 14: performances ever. I'm wondering if you made any mental adjustments
Speaker 14: or adjustments to your preparation as a hitter prior to
Speaker 14: this game.
Speaker 10: Then I then I do the Moss taking.
Speaker 9: Man. You know.
Speaker 10: M uh, you know, I felt like the last couple
Speaker 10: of days, I felt pretty good at the play. And
Speaker 10: you know, just because of the postseason, the simple size,
Speaker 10: the lack of and it's just that I think the
Speaker 10: the lack of performance really skews in this short period
Speaker 10: of time.
Speaker 7: So because you're two more in English up here on
Speaker 7: the front and then back to Paul on the side.
Speaker 2: Pitching wise, what was working well for you tonight.
Speaker 5: Of comit.
Speaker 10: The last several days, we did a pretty good job
Speaker 10: as a starting pitcher, being able to get out and
Speaker 10: be effective, and just looking at the entire line of
Speaker 10: my impression that I had was that it's a very tough,
Speaker 10: effective lineup. So talking with Will Smith, we had a
Speaker 10: pretty good game plan going to the game and we
Speaker 10: were able to execute it.
Speaker 2: All Right, there's show Heo Tani and Will Ireton. Obviously
Speaker 2: an incredible once in a lifetime performance from a remarkable
Speaker 2: player that we have never seen the likes of. I
Speaker 2: don't care what you say about Babe Ruth. We have
Speaker 2: never I never saw Babe Ruth play. You never saw
Speaker 2: Babe Ruth play. This guy is on another planet and
Speaker 2: you know, trust me. He heard all the critics leading
Speaker 2: up to this game. He heard about the fact that
Speaker 2: he was struggling this postseason. He obviously fielded questions about
Speaker 2: how pitching maybe affecting his hitting He answered three consecutive
Speaker 2: questions about that when he was in the press conference
Speaker 2: room a couple of days ago. He is very aware
Speaker 2: of what is said about him, and he wanted to
Speaker 2: come out tonight and dominate on the mound, and he
Speaker 2: was determined to be able to make a statement offensively.
Speaker 2: And it kind of helped. With the pictures that the
Speaker 2: Brewers were throwing tonight, Jose Cantana was not going to
Speaker 2: hold the Dodgers down. He gave up three runs right
Speaker 2: away in the first inning, including Otani's first home run.
Speaker 2: So this had sweep written all over it. After the
Speaker 2: Dodgers beat Jacob Mazerowski and the Brewers last night. Eight
Speaker 2: six six nine eight seven two five seventy is the
Speaker 2: phone number just before we go out to the phone calls.
Speaker 2: Keep in mind what you're watching. You're watching individual greatness,
Speaker 2: and you're watching greatness that the Dodger franchise has never experienced.
Speaker 2: This has never happened before. My son was born in
Speaker 2: twenty fifteen. I told him this afternoon, can you believe
Speaker 2: that the Dodgers will be going to their fifth World
Speaker 2: Series since you've been born? I was born in nineteen
Speaker 2: seventy six. The Dodgers went to two World Series during
Speaker 2: my lifetime before this stretch of time. And Mark Walter,
Speaker 2: who was here tonight, was on stage addressed the crowd.
Speaker 2: I mean, this guy has transformed this franchise, and I
Speaker 2: bet a lot that he's going to transform the Lakers
Speaker 2: as well. He's that type of guy and that type
Speaker 2: of visionary. And here the Dodgers are on top of
Speaker 2: the baseball world. I know, I know, they haven't won
Speaker 2: the World Series yet, they still have to prove it
Speaker 2: on the field. The World Series is not starting until
Speaker 2: a week from tonight. Brew the Mariners and Blue Jays
Speaker 2: are headed back to Toronto, with the Mariners up three
Speaker 2: games to two, but I like the Dodgers' chances against
Speaker 2: either one of those teams. All right, let's go out
Speaker 2: to the phones. Mike in Irwin Dale lead us off
Speaker 2: tonight on Dodger Talk the night the Dodgers head back
Speaker 2: to the World Series.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Dave, thanks for taking my call the greatest game
Speaker 3: ever in postseason history. I've been born since seventy one,
Speaker 3: and this is by far even more than Gibbe's Grand
Speaker 3: Slam and Freddy's Grand slamming last year. The pitching, the
Speaker 3: hitting by show. Hey, and then you know what, has
Speaker 3: this ever happened where a team swept the Dodgers in
Speaker 3: the regular season and for the Dodgers to sweep them
Speaker 3: right out? Has that ever happened? I'd like to find
Speaker 3: that out.
Speaker 2: The closest thing I could tell you, Mike is when
Speaker 2: the eighty eight Dodgers lost ten out of eleven to
Speaker 2: the Mets and then beat them in a seven game series.
Speaker 2: But no, there is nothing in Dodger history that would
Speaker 2: reflect a team beating them all six times and then
Speaker 2: the Dodgers sweeping them in the postseason. That has not happened.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And then yeah, and by the way, it takes
Speaker 3: more than money to win championships as a total team effort.
Speaker 3: There's more to it.
Speaker 13: And then Dave, what do you think.
Speaker 3: The nosebleed for the World Cheries will cost a nosebleed?
Speaker 2: Thanks with a phone call, Mike appreciated. Get your tickets now.
Speaker 2: Eight sixty six, nine eighty seven, two five seventy. I
Speaker 2: tried to tell you in Colin, we've got to find
Speaker 2: these calls from June and July. At some point we've
Speaker 2: got to play those calls back. I got to have
Speaker 2: the receipts on all of you, and the receipts of
Speaker 2: my belief in this team. If you were listening to
Speaker 2: this show, you should have bought your World Series tickets
Speaker 2: right when they were available, because I believed in the
Speaker 2: track record of these players. I believed that their starting
Speaker 2: pitchers were going to get healthy at the right time.
Speaker 2: And it's all come together as the Dodgers envisioned.
Speaker 15: Now.
Speaker 2: Was it always looking like it was going to head
Speaker 2: into this direction? Obviously not. This is the best of
Speaker 2: all worlds here where you have all four of these
Speaker 2: starters not only healthy, but on a heater at the
Speaker 2: same time. That doesn't happen. And even John Smoltz said,
Speaker 2: at this point in time, with the way these four
Speaker 2: starters are pitching, it's better than his starting staff that
Speaker 2: many consider the best that they had ever seen with Glavin, Smoltz,
Speaker 2: Maddox and Steve Avery. He said it himself, this staff,
Speaker 2: these four are better than what those Braves had, and
Speaker 2: that says a lot. So at some point you're going
Speaker 2: to have to come to realize that the Dodgers are
Speaker 2: that team. The team you root for is that team,
Speaker 2: and you're gonna have to believe that these guys are
Speaker 2: far superior players that have great experience, great work ethic,
Speaker 2: and that's the reason why they're separated themselves from other
Speaker 2: large payroll teams because they picked the right guys to
Speaker 2: give big contracts. Two eight six six seven two five
Speaker 2: seventy is the phone number. The Dodgers beat the Brewers
Speaker 2: tonight five to one and sweep the NLCS. Let's go
Speaker 2: back out to the phones. Woodland Hills. John, You're on
Speaker 2: Dodger Talk Live from Dodgers Stadium. Hi, John, Yeah, DV.
Speaker 11: Way to take it man.
Speaker 8: You were amazing in the clubhouse as always.
Speaker 2: That's one way to put it in.
Speaker 8: That champagne seriously, and you had that great interview almost
Speaker 8: with Kershop.
Speaker 16: But then you saved the day.
Speaker 8: It was fantastic.
Speaker 17: You.
Speaker 8: You literally are the OG of the Dodgers. They love you,
Speaker 8: every single player.
Speaker 14: You know.
Speaker 8: Mookie Betts gave an interview to Kirsen Watson and then
Speaker 8: he decided to give you an additional interviews. See that's
Speaker 8: who you know. You're the MVP of the media for
Speaker 8: the Dodgers. Seriously, I'm not just blowing smoke up here,
Speaker 8: you know, it's the truth. Man. You're the man, dude,
Speaker 8: thank you.
Speaker 2: All I want to do is bring the personalities of
Speaker 2: these players to life for you and for every Dodger fan.
Speaker 2: It's not about me. It's about just showing you who
Speaker 2: they are and what makes them tick. And I believe
Speaker 2: you see not just relief, you see the excitement and
Speaker 2: the love they have for each other down there.
Speaker 8: Well, let me just tell you the true turning point
Speaker 8: in this game tonight, in the bottom of the fourth inning,
Speaker 8: t k Hernandez shruck out looking hahz, struck out looking
Speaker 8: the pitcher. Patrick made the Dodgers' hitters eight and nine
Speaker 8: look silly, and then show hey, Otani the unicorn steps
Speaker 8: up on the fifth pitch, he hits an eighty nine
Speaker 8: mile per hour or cutter four hundred and sixty nine
Speaker 8: feet into literally oblivion. He literally hit the ball out
Speaker 8: of the out of the stadium. And that was the
Speaker 8: statement moment of the game.
Speaker 10: I mean it was.
Speaker 8: I mean, everyone that I was texting with all over
Speaker 8: the world could not believe what we just saw. That
Speaker 8: was the moment in history, in playoff history, you can
Speaker 8: agree with that, right.
Speaker 2: One one hundred percent, John, I would say, in Dodger
Speaker 2: playoff history, I mean, when you talk about walk off
Speaker 2: Grand Slams and Kurt Gibson's walk off home run in
Speaker 2: nineteen eighty eight, that's in a different category. But in
Speaker 2: a close out game to try to sweep in advance
Speaker 2: to the World Series. Hard to imagine another game where
Speaker 2: a player was able to pitch six scoreless, strikeout ten,
Speaker 2: and then hit three home runs. It's just nobody can
Speaker 2: do that. It's just not possible, because nobody can do
Speaker 2: what Show Hayotani can do. Thanks for the love, John,
Speaker 2: appreciate it. See a full board of calls. We're headed
Speaker 2: to eleven o'clock tonight, so let's get to it. Let's
Speaker 2: go out to Long Beach. John, You're on Dodger Talk
Speaker 2: with David Vasse. How you doing, John?
Speaker 16: Oh my god, sir, I can't even believe what I
Speaker 16: just watched tonight. It's unbelievable. It blows me away to
Speaker 16: this guy.
Speaker 2: I mean, just when you think that's why Freddie Freeman
Speaker 2: was warning everybody, this guy can break out at any moment.
Speaker 2: Did anybody believe it would be a breakout of three
Speaker 2: home runs on a night that he strikes out ten
Speaker 2: and pitches six scoreless innings. I don't believe anybody could
Speaker 2: have imagined this type of game from Otani, but you
Speaker 2: have to expect the unexpected because there is no player
Speaker 2: on this planet like show Hao Tani.
Speaker 3: I just I'm speechless.
Speaker 16: It's just it's so beautiful for the game. I just
Speaker 16: can't that's great for the game.
Speaker 2: It's great for the game. It's great for the game
Speaker 2: that the Dodgers are at the top of the game,
Speaker 2: and it's great for everybody to take interest to have
Speaker 2: this team with that player in the World Series for
Speaker 2: a second straight year.
Speaker 16: I took my wife, took my wife and I took
Speaker 16: him into the game last night, and I know she's
Speaker 16: at work right now. Her uncle was a lifelong Dodger
Speaker 16: fan and he lived in Nevada, so he never got
Speaker 16: to go to a game. So, you know, we just
Speaker 16: want to say, Uncle Lenn, you know they did it.
Speaker 2: Buddy, love it, John, I love John. It runs deep.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers run deep. It's an emotional connection. And that's
Speaker 2: why I'm always a believer that whoever owns this team
Speaker 2: owes the city their best efforts to try to put
Speaker 2: a winner on the field each and every year and
Speaker 2: be able to make this a great fan experience. Guggenheim,
Speaker 2: Mark Walter, Stankasten, Lonrosen, Todd Bowley, the rest of the group.
Speaker 2: I do believe they understand that, and I feel like
Speaker 2: they have showed their commitment to the city to put
Speaker 2: out a winner every year that they have owned the team.
Speaker 2: A lot of other owners take the profits and put
Speaker 2: it in their pocket and don't put it back into
Speaker 2: the team. This ownership group, yes, they have made a profit,
Speaker 2: but they have put a greater percentage of that profit
Speaker 2: into the team than any other owner out there for
Speaker 2: what fourteen years running. I mean, that's something to be
Speaker 2: said there, and they have nobody to apologize too for
Speaker 2: doing that. Let's go out to Oz, who is at
Speaker 2: Dodgers Stadium tonight. Hi, Oz, you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 16: What's going on?
Speaker 18: Dave?
Speaker 19: Thank you so much for taking my call. I just
Speaker 19: wanted to say, I think you hit the point right
Speaker 19: on your head on the head right now. Every single
Speaker 19: owner in and Major League Baseball is a billionaire and
Speaker 19: they can spend however much money they want. They could
Speaker 19: have offered show Hey or anybody else on the Dodgers
Speaker 19: the same contract, and I just want to say that
Speaker 19: the Dodgers are the class act of MLD to be
Speaker 19: able to do all, to be able to do what
Speaker 19: they did, and it showed it tonight by sweeping the Brewers,
Speaker 19: holding them to one run in each and every single game.
Speaker 19: I mean, come on, what else, doumore do you want?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I mean nothing more. I feel like this team
Speaker 2: is giving us everything and more that you could want.
Speaker 2: But that's the whole point. We do this show every
Speaker 2: single night, one hundred and sixty two games, and there
Speaker 2: are people that are going to put way too much
Speaker 2: emphasis on a game in June, and you can call
Speaker 2: me whatever you want, but when you understand the team
Speaker 2: that you have and the team that has a greater
Speaker 2: goal in mind, I'm not going to overreact in a
Speaker 2: game in June. I'm just not. And even when the
Speaker 2: Dodgers were struggling in the beginning of September, you kind
Speaker 2: of felt like it was temporary. Was it ugly when
Speaker 2: Yamamoto lost his no hitter and the Dodgers lost that game?
Speaker 2: Of course it was. But even though this bullpen was
Speaker 2: not very good this year, the Dodgers have tweaked it.
Speaker 2: And a big reason why they've been so successful is
Speaker 2: because Roki Sasaki appeared out of thin air seemingly to
Speaker 2: rescue this bullpen and to be their closer. But now
Speaker 2: you got him. It Shehan down there. Blake Trenton, even
Speaker 2: though he gave up a run tonight, is pitching better.
Speaker 2: Alex has pitched phenomenal all year long. Anthony Bonda has
Speaker 2: been outstanding. So they got guys to shorten the game.
Speaker 2: But it's all predicated on their starting pitching, and they
Speaker 2: needed these starters to be able to perform at this
Speaker 2: level or they were not getting this far. The big
Speaker 2: difference is they have performed and given the Dodgers at
Speaker 2: least six innings all but twice. Yamamotos disappointing starting the
Speaker 2: NLDS and last night Tyler Glass now going oh five
Speaker 2: and two thirds innings. That's it. Every other starter, every
Speaker 2: other start this postseason has gone at least six innings.
Speaker 2: And I know, since we're focused on tonight three home
Speaker 2: runs one of, if not the greatest performance by a
Speaker 2: player in the postseason. Let's not forget about what Blakesnell
Speaker 2: and Yamamoto did in the first two games of this
Speaker 2: series on the road to set the tone for this series.
Speaker 2: To basically you know, squeeze any sort of life the
Speaker 2: Brewers may have thought they had in this series. Those
Speaker 2: two guys may have pitched the two greatest games in
Speaker 2: the Championship Series that we have seen in quite some time.
Speaker 2: Snow was almost perfect in Game one, and Yamamoto pitched
Speaker 2: a complete game for the first time in Major League
Speaker 2: Baseball postseason since Justin Verlander in twenty seventeen. So it's
Speaker 2: all about the starting pitching, and that's why the Dodgers
Speaker 2: are in such a great spot going into the World Series.
Speaker 2: The World Series doesn't begin until a week from tonight.
Speaker 2: Whether it's in La or in Toronto, all these guys
Speaker 2: are going to be well rested now. The only concern
Speaker 2: is how do the Dodgers keep their offense going with
Speaker 2: a week off. That that's the only concern. But with
Speaker 2: that starting pitching, you don't have to be able to
Speaker 2: score four or five runs every single night. The Dodgers
Speaker 2: know that these guys are going to put up zeros
Speaker 2: and if they just scratch across three runs at a
Speaker 2: certain point in time, they have a very good chance
Speaker 2: of winning the game. Eight six, six, seven, two, five
Speaker 2: seventy is the phone number. Let's head back downstairs to
Speaker 2: hear from Tao Oscar Hernandez. Many of you were down
Speaker 2: on ti Oscar Hernandez. He came up big for the
Speaker 2: Dodgers already in this postseason. Let's hear from the great Tao.
Speaker 2: I want to get one more and then buy.
Speaker 7: More next year, and then buy more than next year.
Speaker 2: And hopefully three more after this. I'm sure if you,
Speaker 2: like a little kid, didn't come in here and troll
Speaker 2: and around.
Speaker 7: Yeah, this is the only time that you can get
Speaker 7: to celebrate something, to be free, not thinking about your job,
Speaker 7: not thinking about what you gotta do tomorrow, you know,
Speaker 7: and we get to enjoy this one and then get
Speaker 7: to work.
Speaker 4: Again as gretty as you know, Show hay Ends does
Speaker 4: a game like this even shock him.
Speaker 20: A little bit, a little bit.
Speaker 2: Yes, he's amazing.
Speaker 5: Show is incredible.
Speaker 7: He's been working, he's been going through a lot, sloan wise,
Speaker 7: he feels like he can, he has to contribute more
Speaker 7: to the team, and he did today. So hopping for
Speaker 7: him and grateful that he can do that.
Speaker 2: Is there any other human that could do what he
Speaker 2: did tonight?
Speaker 7: Series, Well, now that I can think about.
Speaker 4: Three homers, ten straighthats, it's fall out of the stadium
Speaker 4: and you.
Speaker 2: Go to the World Series.
Speaker 5: It's incredible.
Speaker 7: It just I'm happy to be in his side against him.
Speaker 2: Hey, Oscar, you came back to have a chance to
Speaker 2: do this again. How happy are you that it worked
Speaker 2: out for you and the Dodgers? And how much you
Speaker 2: mentioned this team emotionally all year.
Speaker 7: I mean, there's there's I don't think there's anything I
Speaker 7: can describe how happy I'm am I right now, super grateful,
Speaker 7: thanks to God that I would make me the opportunity
Speaker 7: to get back and do a special things with this
Speaker 7: special group.
Speaker 2: You have a lot of the same players from a
Speaker 2: year ago. But what makes this group so special to
Speaker 2: be able to go through the adversity of the regular
Speaker 2: season and be able to turn it on at the
Speaker 2: right time. It just, uh, we hungry to win.
Speaker 7: All the new players that came this year, they want
Speaker 7: to win, and that's why they sign here.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 7: They reject a lot of offers from other teams, and uh,
Speaker 7: you know, we're just happy that we get all of
Speaker 7: those guys, and all of those guys are contributing to
Speaker 7: get wins right now.
Speaker 2: The goatee is a little dry, that's all. It's other
Speaker 2: way congratulations, Thank you good there is Taascar Hernandez. Love
Speaker 2: seeing that smile, and I have no doubt that he
Speaker 2: is going to come up big at a point in
Speaker 2: time in the World Series. And how about this fun
Speaker 2: fact about Taoscar Hernandez. In this year's World Series, he
Speaker 2: will be playing against one of his former teams, either
Speaker 2: the Blue Jays or the Mariners. So maybe ta Oscar
Speaker 2: will be up a little bit more for this World
Speaker 2: Series against one of those former teams that he played for.
Speaker 13: Let's go out to Laura Hambra.
Speaker 2: Ricky, you're on Dodger Talk. How you doing, Ricky?
Speaker 12: Hey David, I've been listening for a long time. Man,
Speaker 12: I'm gonna say you've got the single best postseason performance
Speaker 12: we've ever seen. How did you even get a question
Speaker 12: out with all that Budweiser and champagne flowing over your head?
Speaker 2: I have no idea. I had to regroup for a
Speaker 2: couple of times there, Ricky, before I got back on
Speaker 2: the saddle. But yeah, it's fun, and you know it's
Speaker 2: it's all in love. If those guys, if I'm dry
Speaker 2: in that clubhouse, then I know those guys are upset
Speaker 2: with me.
Speaker 12: Thanks Dave for being a professional because we couldn't do it.
Speaker 12: We we we definitely couldn't see as right as you can't.
Speaker 2: Yeah you could, you could do it. I've seen somebody
Speaker 2: do it in the backyard over there, you know. Sometimes
Speaker 2: during the pandemic World Series, I saw a lot of
Speaker 2: Dodger fans on social media having uh having uh, you know,
Speaker 2: their own champagne celebrations. Where were you watching this game tonight?
Speaker 12: We actually had a little party and we we had
Speaker 12: to find sports at LA after TNT and we just
Speaker 12: had to We had to see what you were doing. Man,
Speaker 12: you are you know what a show?
Speaker 8: Hacking three?
Speaker 11: He had three home runs.
Speaker 12: You can take three, three Budweis and two champagnes to
Speaker 12: the face, right, we are. We're really proud of you.
Speaker 2: Dave Hey, thank you, Ricky. I love all Hambro. Thank
Speaker 2: you for the phone call. And I have a feeling
Speaker 2: I'll be drenched again when the Dodgers win the World
Speaker 2: Series for a second straight year. I don't want to
Speaker 2: sound like that guy, Ricky, but I just have so
Speaker 2: much confidence in the way this team is playing and
Speaker 2: with this pitching, it's gonna be tough to beat them.
Speaker 2: If you're the blue Jayser Mariners.
Speaker 12: Hey David, it's gonna be tough to beat you, so
Speaker 12: let's go Dodgers.
Speaker 2: All right, Ricky, thank you for the phone call. Appreciate it. Wow,
Speaker 2: my family doesn't even love me this much. I'm staying
Speaker 2: here all night. Eight six six nine eight seven two
Speaker 2: five seventy is the phone number. Dodgers beat the Brewers
Speaker 2: tonight five to one and sweep the NLCS behind one of,
Speaker 2: if not the greatest performance by a player in postseason history.
Speaker 2: Show Hey Otani answers all the critics tonight, strikes out
Speaker 2: ten and six scoreless innings and hits three home runs,
Speaker 2: including hitting his second home run over the right field pavilion,
Speaker 2: joining Willie Stargel and Kyle Schwarber as the only other
Speaker 2: players in Dodgers Stadium history to hit it over the
Speaker 2: right field roof. And I'll say this, when I was
Speaker 2: out here for the workout on Monday Night, Show Hey
Speaker 2: Otani hit four home runs over the right field pavilion,
Speaker 2: and he hit a couple off those signs that are
Speaker 2: hanging from the bottom of the pavilion, So he was
Speaker 2: getting ready. And we have never seen Otani take batting
Speaker 2: practice on the field as a Dodger, and to our knowledge,
Speaker 2: he has only taking batting practice once on the field
Speaker 2: in the last three years, and that was here at
Speaker 2: Dodger Stadium in his final season with the Angels. So
Speaker 2: he was changing the routine and Andre Ethier keeps texting
Speaker 2: me you're welcome. He was the one that told me,
Speaker 2: as a player, you want to come out on the
Speaker 2: field and see the ball travel. You can only see
Speaker 2: so much in the cage, and you want to get
Speaker 2: some confidence when you come out on the field and
Speaker 2: see the ball travel. And even Freddie Freeman echoed that
Speaker 2: when I was talking to him before the game today.
Speaker 2: So Andre Ethier and Freddie Freeman, they understand another fellow lefty,
Speaker 2: one that may not be from this planet. In show,
Speaker 2: Hey Otani, let's go out to Palm Desert. Dave, you're
Speaker 2: on Dodger Talk on the night Otani has a historic
Speaker 2: game sending the Dodgers to the World Series.
Speaker 15: Hi Dave, Hey, my friend, thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 16: Dodger Nation loves you.
Speaker 13: You do so much for us.
Speaker 6: I'm an old school radio guy.
Speaker 15: I would rather listen to the radio than watch the
Speaker 15: TV all day long. And God bless you and your team.
Speaker 15: So I wanted to just say it's a great, great,
Speaker 15: great time to be part of Dodger Nation. But part
Speaker 15: of Dodger Nation is dealing with everybody else saying we
Speaker 15: buy our championships, and to me, that's an insult to
Speaker 15: every other player that plays the game. We're on another
Speaker 15: level right now, but we had so many up and downs,
Speaker 15: and I think the big part of it is our
Speaker 15: team just mentally rises to the occasion in the postseason.
Speaker 15: It's like I think even like with the Brewers, first
Speaker 15: of all, like Philly's a great team and the Brewers,
Speaker 15: I think they got too caught up in beating the
Speaker 15: Cubs and just how we're like, the job's not done yet.
Speaker 18: They flew that l flag and I just think that's
Speaker 18: a great point.
Speaker 2: I felt that way too, because Pat Murphy even kind
Speaker 2: of hinted at that in one of his pregame press conferences.
Speaker 2: I mean that that runs deep Brewers Cubs, with Craig
Speaker 2: Council leaving the Brewers to manage the Cubs. That was
Speaker 2: the biggest victory for the city of Milwaukee, beating the Cubs.
Speaker 2: And yeah, they would have loved to go to the
Speaker 2: World Series, but it feels like that was a good
Speaker 2: consolation prize.
Speaker 15: You're right, Dave, and it's like San Diego. With us,
Speaker 15: it's like we're just stronger mentally than all the other teams.
Speaker 15: And it's like saying we buy our champions ships is
Speaker 15: an insult to Philly, and it's an insult to every
Speaker 15: team that plays well.
Speaker 2: Look, well, look, the Phillies had a payroll that was
Speaker 2: right up there with the Dodgers. Their players just didn't perform,
Speaker 2: and the Dodgers, you know, do I have to do
Speaker 2: this again because I did it last night. I could
Speaker 2: do it again if you want, I can go through
Speaker 2: and thank you for the phone call, Dave. I don't
Speaker 2: really want to get into what other people are saying
Speaker 2: about the Dodgers buying their championship. Yes, they have the
Speaker 2: highest payroll in baseball. Yes they are playing paying a
Speaker 2: very hefty luxury tax that, by the way, gets distributed
Speaker 2: to every other small market team out there. To the
Speaker 2: spirit of that is to reinvest in your on field payroll,
Speaker 2: which some teams don't do. But the reality is the Dodgers'
Speaker 2: three best players were players that their original teams could
Speaker 2: have kept. They chose not to, and they weren't Pittsburgh
Speaker 2: or Cincinnati or Milwaukee. They were big market teams. Atlanta
Speaker 2: didn't want Freddy Freeman anymore, Boston didn't want Mookie Betts anymore,
Speaker 2: the Angels, the La Angels didn't want sho Heo Tani anymore.
Speaker 2: And the Dodgers were opportunistic and gave themselves the roster
Speaker 2: of flexibility to be ready to sign those type of players.
Speaker 2: It's just that simple. There's a lot of fomo and
Speaker 2: a lot of regret from a lot of teams out there,
Speaker 2: especially the ones that let those players get away. Eight
Speaker 2: six six nine seven two five seventy is the phone number,
Speaker 2: Josh in Ontario. You're on Dodger Talk Live from Dodgers Stadium.
Speaker 13: I Josh, Hey Dave.
Speaker 21: First off, I just want to thank you and your
Speaker 21: team because actually was the winner for the wild card
Speaker 21: game on game one.
Speaker 2: All right, congratulations, I'm glad you made it.
Speaker 21: Yeah, I just want to appreciate it. I haven't been
Speaker 21: able to call in, so I just want to give
Speaker 21: thanks to you. But h this was just honestly, I'm
Speaker 21: just impressed out of my mind the way Dodgers are playing,
Speaker 21: because I don't think anybody could say Brewers are gonna
Speaker 21: get swept, that we were gonna have a three to
Speaker 21: one series against Phillies, like everybody was saying Game five
Speaker 21: against Phillies.
Speaker 18: Like it's just honestly, like this whole week that we're
Speaker 18: gonna get off.
Speaker 11: Yeah, that's a topic.
Speaker 21: But nothing gets past this team right now.
Speaker 18: Like they're playing out of their minds right now, no.
Speaker 2: Doubt, and they're well prepared. From Dave Roberts. I haven't
Speaker 2: had one phone call yet given Dave Roberts his kudos.
Speaker 2: All regular season long, we had at least one caller that,
Speaker 2: you know, put down Dave Roberts. At some point, you're
Speaker 2: going to have to give this man his due, because
Speaker 2: Dave Roberts tonight with the Dodgers going back to the
Speaker 2: World Series passed Tommy Lesorda and his only second behind
Speaker 2: Walter Ralston as a manager, winning five National League pennants.
Speaker 2: At some point you're going to have to recognize that
Speaker 2: he has turned into this great manager and a guy
Speaker 2: that understands the pulse of his team. Everybody wants meetings.
Speaker 2: He had meetings, He had hitters meetings, he had bullpen meetings,
Speaker 2: and he had a team meeting and a lot of
Speaker 2: those meetings sunk in with a lot of players in
Speaker 2: different ways. How about last year when Tyler Glassnew sim
Speaker 2: game did not go the way the Dodgers thought it
Speaker 2: was going to go. A lot of guys were down
Speaker 2: and thought they were in a bad spot going down
Speaker 2: the stretch and into the postseason. Dave Roberts felt that
Speaker 2: and had a meeting and directly called out Walker Buehler
Speaker 2: to get going on his season. And Walker Bueller responded,
Speaker 2: he knew which guy to point out, and he knew
Speaker 2: how he would respond. And looking last year the way
Speaker 2: things finished for the Dodgers and Walker Buehler, at some
Speaker 2: point you're going to have to concede Dave Roberts is
Speaker 2: doing something right here. Eight six six nine seven two
Speaker 2: five seventy is the phone number. Also, want to give
Speaker 2: a lot of credit to the Dodgers advance scouts because
Speaker 2: they have been deployed across the country to get little things,
Speaker 2: little tips about these teams the Dodgers are playing. And
Speaker 2: what separates the Dodgers from other teams is that their
Speaker 2: coaching staff and their scouting staff is really good at
Speaker 2: filtering that infram to make it simplified for the players.
Speaker 2: Case in point. You know in Game one, the one
Speaker 2: little blemish Blake Snell had in the third inning, Caleb
Speaker 2: Durbing getting a single off of him and then was
Speaker 2: promptly picked off. That was a lot of credit to
Speaker 2: the Dodgers pro scouting staff and to Blake Snell to
Speaker 2: be able to have the presence of mind in that
Speaker 2: moment to remember what they told him was a tip
Speaker 2: on when Durbin is going trying to steal second base,
Speaker 2: He saw it, he threw over and that was it.
Speaker 2: He faced the minimum number of batters. So you got
Speaker 2: to give the Dodgers organization, from Andrew Friedman to the
Speaker 2: pro scouts, to Dave Roberts and his staff, de know Ebol,
Speaker 2: Chris Woodward, Mark Pryor, Connor McGinnis. All those guys put
Speaker 2: in a lot of time. Aaron Bates, Rob van Zoyak,
Speaker 2: even the bullpen coach Josh Bard a big part of it,
Speaker 2: Bob Garren. You got to give all these guys a
Speaker 2: lot of credit for being out here available to work
Speaker 2: with their superstars and getting the information to them and
Speaker 2: putting them in the right spot to win. It's the reality.
Speaker 2: It's what separates the Dodgers, from the Yankees, from the
Speaker 2: Red Sox, from the Phillies, those things. All these teams
Speaker 2: have talent, they have big payrolls, but they don't have
Speaker 2: the superstars that put in the work day in and
Speaker 2: day out, five hours every day before the game starts.
Speaker 2: Mookie Bets, Freddie Freeman, Andy Pa Haz They're all out here.
Speaker 2: Can't say that about a lot of these other teams.
Speaker 2: Eight six six, nine, seven, two five seventy is the
Speaker 2: phone number. Let's go out to Baldwin Park Oscar. Thanks
Speaker 2: for being patient. You're on Dodger Talk. How you doing
Speaker 2: Oscar day?
Speaker 13: That say? What brother doing?
Speaker 2: Great to hear from you?
Speaker 13: Yeah, Man, Hey, bro, Hey all tani, Hey, what'll there
Speaker 13: to say?
Speaker 8: Man?
Speaker 13: Greatest performers I've ever seen? We won't We've alas seen
Speaker 13: anybody's seen in our lifetime. You know, there's not much
Speaker 13: said about that. And you know I'm gonna be the first.
Speaker 13: I'm give Roberts's credit. Man, he does get bagged down
Speaker 13: a lot. And you know, Dave Robertson, he's a good manager.
Speaker 13: And I think I think we're seeing now he's in
Speaker 13: he's in his prime of managing. Now heos comfortable. He's
Speaker 13: his guys, go his pictures. Go and this team right now.
Speaker 13: I caught him Scandia, I was signed case. I compare
Speaker 13: this the great thing I see the Lakers of the
Speaker 13: early two thousands, Shack and Kobe when they got they
Speaker 13: won the first one. The second year they kind of
Speaker 13: came back, you know, they it wasn't a good year,
Speaker 13: but they got hot at the end. They went on
Speaker 13: that run in the playoffs and then they want you know,
Speaker 13: they probably shockedkobeh probably want four more whatever, a few more.
Speaker 13: But I compare them to that team. You know, they
Speaker 13: get to this one, they've maybe going to run with.
Speaker 13: They went four or five and six years like that.
Speaker 9: Man.
Speaker 13: But I do all my Dodgers, all the Dodger homies
Speaker 13: out there, and hey man, it's our to win. Is
Speaker 13: I don't see Seattle Toronto being this team to beat
Speaker 13: at Rose the start of two days earlier. They're two earlier.
Speaker 13: But amen, maybe not to be stopping this season. We're
Speaker 13: gonna get it, man. So we're back to back. So
Speaker 13: that's all I got, man, I'm good. Neither say keep
Speaker 13: up to good work too, Homi doing good out there,
Speaker 13: Keep up to good work.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Oscar, I appreciate the encouragement. Eight six six
Speaker 2: ninety eighty seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 2: And look, we are looking at possibly the greatest teams
Speaker 2: in Dodger franchise history last year and this year's team
Speaker 2: with a lot of the same players that will be
Speaker 2: back for a reunion. If they can win this championship,
Speaker 2: they would go down as the greatest teams in Dodger
Speaker 2: history to win back to back championships. And look, I'm
Speaker 2: not going to say they're sweeping Seattle or Toronto, but
Speaker 2: if somehow, some way they do, they would join the
Speaker 2: five White Sox and the ninety nine Yankees for only
Speaker 2: losing one game in the postseason. Those teams were eleven
Speaker 2: and one the Big Red Machine in nineteen seventy six,
Speaker 2: where it was win your division and then be able
Speaker 2: to head to the LCS and then the World Series.
Speaker 2: They were undefeated seven to zero. But this team would
Speaker 2: have the most postseason wins to get to a championship
Speaker 2: with them having to play that extra Wildcard round and
Speaker 2: sweeping those two games against against the Reds. Eight six
Speaker 2: six nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 2: Let's go out to Todd and Calabasas, who's been holding
Speaker 2: for a while. Hi, Todd, you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 6: Okay, So as a great a to BA Dodgers fan,
Speaker 6: they are very healthy right now. Everybody's firing on full cylinders.
Speaker 6: The one star who wasn't had an incredible game tonight
Speaker 6: like we've never seen before. The only thing I'm worried abuse.
Speaker 6: I think they're going to blow through the World Series
Speaker 6: and kill whoever makes it through. I think it's be
Speaker 6: four zero, four to one something like that. So if
Speaker 6: they do that, is this going to cause a problem
Speaker 6: in twenty twenty seven when there's the labor talks And
Speaker 6: this season, especially this postseason, might be cited as an
Speaker 6: example as to why there needs to be a salary cap.
Speaker 2: I read Jeff Passing's story as well, and if that's
Speaker 2: the reality around baseball, it's ridiculous. And look, was anybody
Speaker 2: talking about that when the Yankees won three in a
Speaker 2: row in ninety eight, ninety nine, and two thousand. Maybe
Speaker 2: they tweak the luxury tax and you know, just some
Speaker 2: of the penalties of going over the luxury tax since then.
Speaker 2: But the Dodgers are good for baseball. I'm sorry the Dodgers,
Speaker 2: the Yankees, the Red Sox, the Cubs. When they're winning,
Speaker 2: it's good for baseball. Do you really believe people would
Speaker 2: have interest in the World Series if Milwaukee and I
Speaker 2: played in the World Series this year?
Speaker 18: Todd, Well, obviously, the Dodgers, I think, you know, I
Speaker 18: agree with you.
Speaker 6: They're good for baseball, and I love watching this team.
Speaker 6: And of course in the twenty tens, when they weren't
Speaker 6: winning World Series, they weren't spending as much money as
Speaker 6: they could have. In fact, it was disappointing to me
Speaker 6: that they didn't spend as much as they could and
Speaker 6: they were succeeding on the backs of a lot of
Speaker 6: players who did not cost very much at all, guys
Speaker 6: like Max Munsey. So I don't feel guilty at all
Speaker 6: as odderstand that they are doing as well as they are.
Speaker 6: Just my uh, I'm just concerned of what might happen
Speaker 6: in the future. That's the one downside to them just
Speaker 6: blowing through the postseason here and going something like, yeah, they're.
Speaker 2: Gonna try to They're going to try to change the
Speaker 2: rules to make it more difficult for the Dodgers to succeed.
Speaker 2: But here's the catch. They have the most unique player
Speaker 2: with the most unique contract. There's nothing anybody can do
Speaker 2: to change the fact that Shoho Tani structor structured his
Speaker 2: contract in a way that allows the Dodgers to go
Speaker 2: out and sign other players because he's only making two
Speaker 2: million dollars. That's the reality of what's on the books. Yes,
Speaker 2: the Dodgers do have to pay him, and they will,
Speaker 2: but it's the third and right now. The reality is
Speaker 2: it's two million dollars on the books. There is nothing
Speaker 2: anybody can do to change that contract. So that's what
Speaker 2: makes it so unique. And the reality is the Angels
Speaker 2: could have had this contract structure, they could have had
Speaker 2: that player, and they passed on it. So there's nothing
Speaker 2: anybody can do to change the uniqueness of the construction
Speaker 2: of this team because of that player. Thank you for
Speaker 2: the phone call, Todd. It's so ridiculous. It's so ridiculous.
Speaker 2: There are so many other teams that spend a lot
Speaker 2: of money that have high payrolls. The Mets did it
Speaker 2: work for them? It did not. There was a time
Speaker 2: where we had the Diamondbacks and Rangers. Not so long ago,
Speaker 2: the Cardinals were going to the World Series the Dodgers
Speaker 2: were not there. This is just a new narrative to
Speaker 2: try to, I guess, to warn people that there may
Speaker 2: be some changes to try to alter the way the
Speaker 2: game is played and structured for big market teams. But
Speaker 2: if baseball is smart, you're not going to change anything.
Speaker 2: You want these teams to be good. You want these
Speaker 2: jewel franchises to be good because it brings interest to
Speaker 2: the game. It's going to be bring interest to the
Speaker 2: World Series again that the best team in baseball has
Speaker 2: the best player and a transcendent player like sho Hao
Speaker 2: Tani on its biggest stage. Eight six six nine eight seven,
Speaker 2: two five seventy is the phone number. We have a
Speaker 2: full border calls. We will get to you. We're gonna
Speaker 2: take a time out our first one and check in
Speaker 2: with Jose Mota as well. Dodgers are headed back to
Speaker 2: the World Series and it's a great thing for the
Speaker 2: city of Angels and Dodger fans all across the globe
Speaker 2: as they sweep the Brewers and are headed back to
Speaker 2: the Fall Classic for the second straight year. Show Hey
Speaker 2: Otani ten strikeouts and six scoreless sinnings, and oh, by
Speaker 2: the way, he hit three home runs. One of them
Speaker 2: went over the right field pavilion roof. Dodgers beat the
Speaker 2: Brewers five to one on a five to seventy LA Sports.
Speaker 5: Dodger Talk is available on AM five seventy LA sports
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Speaker 5: Dodger Talk with Dodger insider David Basse.
Speaker 2: So Oltani has to take time. He steps back in.
Speaker 6: One ball, in two strikes, the big Righty McGill sets
Speaker 6: on the mountd here's the pitch, and Ol'tani drives one
Speaker 6: cleft center field.
Speaker 1: Dig You done, show Hey old Tani, the stuff of.
Speaker 2: Legend Rick Monday is not easily impressed. He was impressed tonight.
Speaker 2: Him and Steven Nelson admitted they were even fans tonight
Speaker 2: watching three home runs in a game that saw show
Speaker 2: Hey Otani lead the way on the mound and at
Speaker 2: the plate ten strikeouts and six scoreless sinnings and three
Speaker 2: home runs, including one that cleared the right field roof
Speaker 2: to lead the way to a Dodgers victory. In Game four,
Speaker 2: the NLCS over the Brewers by a final score a
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Speaker 2: the Dream. We'll get back to your phone calls in
Speaker 2: a moment. We'll hear from Mookie Betts, but first.
Speaker 5: It's time to go around the horn with Jose Mota.
Speaker 2: Jose Mota has broadcast every single one as show Haled
Speaker 2: Tawi's games in Major League Baseball. Jose, did you believe
Speaker 2: he had this in him tonight?
Speaker 16: Yes?
Speaker 18: And no no, because I mean after Miami, you go, wow,
Speaker 18: is there more in that tank? You know, six for
Speaker 18: six and three home runs Anton Rbi and you go,
Speaker 18: But it's just amazing to me what he does. It's
Speaker 18: just what he does is just not human. And but
Speaker 18: for show, I know one thing too is and his
Speaker 18: mind was more actually based on pitching tonight, Dave. And
Speaker 18: you're right about the comments earlier, as Freddie Freeman told you,
Speaker 18: because I know he did not want to be the
Speaker 18: missing link or the weakest link in this rotation. So
Speaker 18: think about that in a way, okay, in a way,
Speaker 18: the pitching side kind of off senses his hitting side
Speaker 18: and takes some pressure off of that because he comes
Speaker 18: to stress on one thing. It's not just about the
Speaker 18: at paths. It's about the guys on the mound in
Speaker 18: front of me. Snell Yamamoto last had done a great job.
Speaker 18: I need to do the same thing. And by the
Speaker 18: way too, I'm not going to be upstage, so I
Speaker 18: can also do about So how about three home runs?
Speaker 18: Not surprised?
Speaker 2: I mean which home run? Well? Number one? We talked
Speaker 2: about this when Schworber hit that home run off of
Speaker 2: Yamamoto in the NLDS that you remember seeing Willie Stargel
Speaker 2: doing and your dad remembered that as well. I mean
Speaker 2: that one when it goes over the pavilion. You have
Speaker 2: to take a double take, don't you that it actually
Speaker 2: cleared that roof? Did you? Could you see it clean?
Speaker 2: That it went over the roof.
Speaker 18: I'd be lying to you what I knew was would
Speaker 18: not land with the fans, and I just my call
Speaker 18: was pretty much, where's this gonna land? And after that,
Speaker 18: I'm like it covered everything. It just went over everything.
Speaker 18: It's just where's the baseball? And to have that type
Speaker 18: of leverage on that to a pitch eighty nine down
Speaker 18: an end with a smooth swing. By the way, where
Speaker 18: as you and I have talked to me Moore about
Speaker 18: he brought a different club today and was it the
Speaker 18: big club or you know, the driver, it was a
Speaker 18: little three wood that he was able to go out
Speaker 18: there and just put the best swings together, compacted and
Speaker 18: hit the ball with such authority. But my goodness, so
Speaker 18: you had that top of backspin on a ball like that.
Speaker 18: It's just amazing and just continues to show us this
Speaker 18: guy is truly an absolute beast when it comes down
Speaker 18: to coming on the field under the big lights.
Speaker 2: Jose Mode is joining us after the Dodgers sweep the
Speaker 2: Brewers in the NLCS and are headed to the World Series.
Speaker 2: When you look at this rotation, Jose, the way all
Speaker 2: four of these guys are pitching at the right time.
Speaker 2: Have you ever seen a rotation hit on all cylinders
Speaker 2: the way these four guys are doing at the right time.
Speaker 18: At least in my broadcasting days. No, even as a fan,
Speaker 18: I never saw that. And you were talking about the
Speaker 18: comparisons with John Spoltzen. I mean, what the difference with
Speaker 18: those guys is they did it for a very long time,
Speaker 18: you know, and that's that's you good appreciate. But now
Speaker 18: consider that Molta I never made more than twenty six
Speaker 18: stars in Japan. He made thirty this year. He was
Speaker 18: hurt last year, he was, you know, kind of a
Speaker 18: question mark going to last postseason. He answered the belt right.
Speaker 13: And then when you.
Speaker 18: Consider the way the way the Dodgers treated these injuries,
Speaker 18: it's also fascinating because they're never pushed to say this
Speaker 18: guy needs to be back on this date for us to.
Speaker 2: Have a chance.
Speaker 18: It was pretty much we believe in our depth, Dave Roberts.
Speaker 18: Medical staff coaches understand along with the minor league staff
Speaker 18: what they needed to bring in to plug those holes.
Speaker 18: Now the young players get an opportunity while the other
Speaker 18: ones wait. Now, when the younger players respond, it makes
Speaker 18: it a lot easier for the guys that are coming
Speaker 18: back to say I don't need to be rushed or
Speaker 18: I don't need to push it, because at least the
Speaker 18: team's maintaining their position right now. So, David, it's just
Speaker 18: a combination of things that the Dodgers have found a
Speaker 18: formula for that. I know is it's envy sometimes around baseball,
Speaker 18: and it's not based only a money decisions or resources.
Speaker 18: It's people with hearts that understand that the game is
Speaker 18: still being played, not by robots or machines or on
Speaker 18: a computer or laptop, is being played by human beings
Speaker 18: and even insect those human beings. And now this rotation
Speaker 18: the way you see it, it's understanding where these human
Speaker 18: beings were, what they needed to do in order to
Speaker 18: be stronger and pushing back a little bit more because
Speaker 18: you know at some point you're going to be the
Speaker 18: best team matter what.
Speaker 2: All right, Jose Motor, Let's look ahead here. The World
Speaker 2: Series Game one will not begin until a week from tonight,
Speaker 2: whether it's here in la or in Canada in Toronto.
Speaker 2: What do you think about how these this next week
Speaker 2: works for the Dodgers or works against the Dodgers having
Speaker 2: this much of a layoff between series. They went from
Speaker 2: the regular season into the Wildcard series, which we all
Speaker 2: agreed was the best for this team. How about now
Speaker 2: having a week off.
Speaker 18: I think the little reset comes at a right time
Speaker 18: because this is a team that cannot have this happened
Speaker 18: Dave in my opinion, early in the postseason, this team
Speaker 18: continued and they needed to continue to play to find
Speaker 18: this identity I have today. This doesn't leave you. You
Speaker 18: know who you are, you know what's coming. You know
Speaker 18: you're the last team standing in the National League. You
Speaker 18: know the opponents that are coming, and you got to
Speaker 18: go out and just keep your mind set and focus
Speaker 18: and understand what your body needs at this point is
Speaker 18: not a little extra hitting. It's just to maintain where
Speaker 18: you are. But there's nothing compared to when the bell rings,
Speaker 18: it's the World Series. Competences are going to take over.
Speaker 18: Even though you might be auto a little bit more
Speaker 18: timing ones and things like that. This team knows and
Speaker 18: they understand when needs get ready because they're full of
Speaker 18: veterans and young players that really feed off of each
Speaker 18: other and not basing only on what's happening now, but
Speaker 18: also what's going to happen in the future, which is
Speaker 18: be ready when the bill rings. Because the other teams,
Speaker 18: I'm gonna care whether you off or not.
Speaker 2: Who do you believe matches the best against the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: Is it the Blue Jays or the Mariners.
Speaker 18: They just had a great series against the Mariners, and
Speaker 18: you know that could be a little deceiving. I would
Speaker 18: say they match up best against the Mariners because of
Speaker 18: Toronto and what they can do. Obviously, Mariners have very
Speaker 18: good pitching. But these two teams, you got to respect
Speaker 18: the way that they responded here. Nobody expect their Mariners
Speaker 18: to be out there and keep banging the ball the
Speaker 18: way they are right now. But you know what Dave
Speaker 18: as I said, was since the Mets back then, whoever comes,
Speaker 18: I know the Dodgers will have an answer for him,
Speaker 18: and I hope that it becomes one of the most
Speaker 18: globally watched World Series ever.
Speaker 2: That would be amazing. They got the best player on
Speaker 2: the planet on the biggest stage. That is only good
Speaker 2: for the game and the popularity of baseball. Jose, awesome night.
Speaker 2: Great to have you back out here again and be
Speaker 2: able to be on this ride with us. And we'll
Speaker 2: see you a week from tonight Game one of the
Speaker 2: World Series.
Speaker 18: Time tonight. Sah yo, not a baby, no doubt, there
Speaker 18: it goes.
Speaker 2: Jose Mota part of the Dodgers Spanish radio broadcast. All
Speaker 2: three home runs right there in English and in Spanish,
Speaker 2: and of course NHK Japanese being broadcast back to Tokyo, Japan.
Speaker 2: Eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy is
Speaker 2: the phone number. Let's go out to the phones again.
Speaker 2: Ira Craig in Long Beach. You're on Dodger Talk with
Speaker 2: Dave Advt.
Speaker 22: Say how you doing, Craig, Davy, I'm doing great, man,
Speaker 22: I am doing great. The game, man, just history made.
Speaker 22: I mean, we're going to look back at this. People
Speaker 22: are going to look back at this in twenty thirty
Speaker 22: fifty years and say, you know, that was gained.
Speaker 3: For the eighties.
Speaker 23: I mean, the guys just fu stud I mean that
Speaker 23: home runs we did out of the park. You know,
Speaker 23: Willie Stargule, he did it twice.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's right. But you know, after all that,
Speaker 2: I feel like the most impressive part of this most
Speaker 2: impressive performance from Otani was the fact that he strikes
Speaker 2: out the side in the first inning and then leads
Speaker 2: off the bottom of the first inning with a home run.
Speaker 2: To me, that is just as impressive as anything we saw,
Speaker 2: including him hitting the ball out of the ballpark. This
Speaker 2: guy just struck out the side and then leads off,
Speaker 2: puts on his gear and homers. I mean to me,
Speaker 2: that was the most impressive part of just the two
Speaker 2: way player and sensation that he is. Let's go out
Speaker 2: to Indianapolis, Indiana. Jack listening on the iHeartRadio app. You're
Speaker 2: on Dodger Talk. How you doing, Jack, I'm doing great.
Speaker 13: Thank you for taking my call.
Speaker 18: I listened to you on the Tim Conway show, Ding Dong.
Speaker 2: Jack appreciate that.
Speaker 13: Yeah, a big fan.
Speaker 11: Hey reiterate what you said earlier.
Speaker 18: Dave Roberts to be the manager of Dodgers as long
Speaker 18: as he wants job.
Speaker 2: Right. Nobody seen when the Dodgers win, Nobody calls and says,
Speaker 2: you know what, Dave Roberts. He really did a great
Speaker 2: job tonight. He really did a great job this series.
Speaker 2: All I hear is his complaints about Dave Roberts. At
Speaker 2: some point you have to concede he's doing something right
Speaker 2: and he's a big part of the Dodgers' success.
Speaker 18: Yeah, and the Dodgers had a long history of solid managers,
Speaker 18: and he's fit right in.
Speaker 13: With the names of Austin and Lasorda and those guys.
Speaker 2: Well, his name is right there with those two. With
Speaker 2: the success he said, no doubt. Thanks for listening, Jack,
Speaker 2: appreciate it. Let's go back out across the country to Tennessee. Robert,
Speaker 2: thanks a lot for being patient. You're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 11: Oh thanks Dave, third time calling in. Appreciate you taking
Speaker 11: the call. The you know, I gotta say, regardless of
Speaker 11: o'tawne's personal performance and magical as it was, and I've
Speaker 11: been a Dodger fan for fifty five years, never seen
Speaker 11: anything like this in baseball history. If there was a
Speaker 11: way to actually give the MVP Award, I would want
Speaker 11: to give it to the entire team, the coaching staff,
Speaker 11: I mean, the defense, what Munsey did, what Mooki did,
Speaker 11: that double play ball from Kiki today fantastic And whoever
Speaker 11: decided to have Otani take BP on the field.
Speaker 2: That was I could tell you whose idea that was.
Speaker 2: It was sho Hey Otani's idea. I asked Freddy Freeman
Speaker 2: before the game went. We were talking about a lot
Speaker 2: of different things, and I was curious, when did you
Speaker 2: find out he was taking BP? He said. I ran
Speaker 2: into Otani and he said, I'm taking BP because I'm
Speaker 2: not very good at baseball jokingly right there. So, yeah,
Speaker 2: it was Otani's idea to take batting practice on the field.
Speaker 11: Well, that was miraculous because it obviously changed up everything.
Speaker 11: And you know, I'm with you. Roberts needs a lot
Speaker 11: of credit. And somebody else that doesn't get enough mentioning
Speaker 11: credit is Mark Pryor. He is a fantastic pitching coach.
Speaker 11: He really knows these guys.
Speaker 2: He has to juggle so many different personalities and high
Speaker 2: maintenance schedules with Sasaki, with Otani, with Yamamoto. He really is.
Speaker 2: And Connor McGinnis are two of the most unsung heroes
Speaker 2: on this coaching staff for sure. Thanks for the phone call, Robert,
Speaker 2: appreciate you listening. Gotta move on. We got a full
Speaker 2: board of calls. People are still very excited about their
Speaker 2: Dodgers headed back to the Fall Classic for a second
Speaker 2: consecutive year. How could you not be. The Dodgers not
Speaker 2: only have dominated the postseason by only lose one game.
Speaker 2: Let's go through it. They beat the Reds in the
Speaker 2: Wildcard Series two games here at Dodger Stadium. They go
Speaker 2: to Philadelphia, win the first two games on the road,
Speaker 2: and then dispatch of the Phillies in four games. And
Speaker 2: here they are in the NLCS, going up against the
Speaker 2: team with the best regular season record, and the number
Speaker 2: one seed in the National League postseason. They go to
Speaker 2: Milwaukee and then beat them twice in their own house
Speaker 2: to set up this sweep. And after the Brewers couldn't
Speaker 2: win a game with the Shadows yesterday and Jacob Mizarowski
Speaker 2: on the mound, you knew today was a formality. You
Speaker 2: knew Otani was going to come out at the very
Speaker 2: least and put up a zero for five or six innings.
Speaker 2: But for him to pitch six scoreless innings, have ten
Speaker 2: strikeouts and allow just one hit and then hit three
Speaker 2: home runs. I mean, this guy went from everybody you
Speaker 2: know taking shots at him for not being a good
Speaker 2: hitter in this year's postseason to the NLCSMVP. I had
Speaker 2: a vote for the NLCSMVP. I was leaning towards Snell
Speaker 2: Zilla before today. You know, there really was no clear
Speaker 2: cut guy. You might have said, split it up between
Speaker 2: Snell and Yamamoto, But then you have a performance like
Speaker 2: this in a game that sent you to the World Series.
Speaker 2: After yesterday's triple, there's just nobody that can compete with
Speaker 2: this type of player. When he hits three home runs
Speaker 2: and strikes out ten and six shutty, come on, it's
Speaker 2: just another world. It's video game stuff. Like Rick Monday suggested,
Speaker 2: let's go out to Culver City, a very loyal Dodger
Speaker 2: fan who never lost faith, the one and only Kevin
Speaker 2: in Culver City.
Speaker 3: How you doing, Kevin, David, my man, let me tell
Speaker 3: you something you knew.
Speaker 20: I was always calling this show trying to get Blake
Speaker 20: snail Zilla here. That's your guy. That was a huge
Speaker 20: effort performance, he had said in the tone. Remember that
Speaker 20: Brewers team scored seven runs against the Cubs in one inning.
Speaker 20: They were on fire, and he set them down and
Speaker 20: he just put the fear in them that they couldn't
Speaker 20: hit our pitching staff. Now, let me say something about
Speaker 20: this man, Showy Showtime Otani with the man Magic Johnson
Speaker 20: there watching the game tonight. This was one of the
Speaker 20: best epic performances not only in baseball history, but sports history,
Speaker 20: sports playoff history. Tonight, this was Kobe and Shaky out
Speaker 20: of youth against Portland in Game seven. It had that
Speaker 20: Showtime luster. Every home run, the fans were elevated. It
Speaker 20: was on that level, that magnitude.
Speaker 13: And let me tell you something.
Speaker 12: You could just feel it.
Speaker 20: You can see that, you can see that the start
Speaker 20: them in it in that home run. Now, what Shoy
Speaker 20: did was you're talking about three home runs after intent
Speaker 20: strike outs in one game.
Speaker 3: That is legendary.
Speaker 20: Dave Roberts challenging Phil Jackson, pat Riley, Yes, this was
Speaker 20: showtime and Magic will tell you the same thing. And
Speaker 20: I'm gonna tell you another thing too. This man showing
Speaker 20: a showtime Otani. I put him on the Mount Rushmore
Speaker 20: with Kobe and Magic in this town, in Kareem and Shack.
Speaker 20: I put him up there because.
Speaker 13: I knew he would deliver.
Speaker 3: And that man delivered.
Speaker 20: When they talk about the documentary of the back to
Speaker 20: Back Dodgers, they're gonna talk about him taking bad and practice.
Speaker 20: But on the field, you're gonna be a part of that.
Speaker 20: David and this team, we're battle tested. If you want
Speaker 20: to play Seattle will play them. It's gonna play Toronto,
Speaker 20: will play them. Because nobody's gonna have the will to
Speaker 20: win this world series like we will because we are
Speaker 20: built for this. And in the words of Magic Johnson,
Speaker 20: back to back.
Speaker 3: Yeah, go Dodgers, love it.
Speaker 2: Kevin, thank you for the phone call. Couldnt in the
Speaker 2: half said it better myself? Uh yeah, I agree with you.
Speaker 2: This is one of those games in an iconic career
Speaker 2: with an iconic player in Sho Heotani. And if you
Speaker 2: remember those Shaq and Kobe teams when they won their
Speaker 2: second straight championship, they only lost one playoff game, and
Speaker 2: right now these Dodgers have only lost one playoff game.
Speaker 2: Eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy is
Speaker 2: the phone number. Can't forget about Mookie Betts. Mookie Betts
Speaker 2: has been a big part of the Dodgers' run since
Speaker 2: the beginning of September. Remember his season, where it started
Speaker 2: and where it's at right now. He changed his entire
Speaker 2: season because he never gave up on his season and
Speaker 2: he knew the Dodgers would be playing deep into October
Speaker 2: and they needed him to turn it around. Had a
Speaker 2: chance to catch up with Marcus Linn Betts in the celebration.
Speaker 2: How proud are you of the season you've had and
Speaker 2: the scrup has had so far? You know the boys,
Speaker 2: that player Rady.
Speaker 7: You know, I'm just proud that I was the wan
Speaker 7: to help help the boys as a team.
Speaker 2: You know, we had our ups in our nails and yeah,
Speaker 2: you're a little too dry right now, Mookie.
Speaker 7: You know everybody we're playing good at the right time,
Speaker 7: and but we still have four more.
Speaker 11: Wins to go.
Speaker 4: Rookie, yesterday you said Jordan hadn't showed up yet. Do
Speaker 4: you think show Hey, Jordan showed up tonight. He showed
Speaker 4: up tonight, you know, assuming it's left and the fourth
Speaker 4: and uh he took the ball and told us a.
Speaker 15: Good out of the way.
Speaker 2: And uh, I'm glad. I'm glad I was able.
Speaker 4: To Winness kooky, You guys are four wins away from
Speaker 4: separating yourselves from every other Dodger team went back to
Speaker 4: back championships.
Speaker 2: Can you taste it that it's that close? I mean yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean you can taste it. But you got to
Speaker 2: make sure we stay hungry, you know, make sure we
Speaker 2: stay hungry, rest up for this week, and be ready
Speaker 2: to go. Do you enjoy this? Absolutely?
Speaker 15: Always?
Speaker 2: It never gets old. Thanks Marky, Pooky, Marcus Hooky, call
Speaker 2: of the whatever you want to collident about it, I'll
Speaker 2: call you mtang.
Speaker 15: Hey.
Speaker 2: That's what's special about this Dodger team. Otani could be
Speaker 2: that guy for the Dodgers. It could be Freddy Freeman.
Speaker 2: On another night, it could be Mookie Betts. All of
Speaker 2: these guys are capable of having huge impact on games,
Speaker 2: obviously not like this one tonight. But you know, I
Speaker 2: have a feeling that even Mookie Betts kind of was
Speaker 2: sending out a message challenging Otani last night when he
Speaker 2: was saying, we're doing this without Jordan's showing up. And
Speaker 2: I'm sure Otani heard that as well, because after Mookie
Speaker 2: stopped with us, he went on to the national television
Speaker 2: set with Pedro Martinez and the crew of TBS and
Speaker 2: he said it again. You're telling me that Otani did
Speaker 2: not see that, and he did not want to let
Speaker 2: his teammates down. He has such great accountability to his teammates,
Speaker 2: more than anybody else, and he showed up and showed
Speaker 2: out for them. Tonight. Eight sixty six nine seven two
Speaker 2: five seventy is the phone number. The Dodgers are on
Speaker 2: their way back to the Fall Classic. Let's get some
Speaker 2: divine intervention again, Father Gary in Burbank, How you doing,
Speaker 2: Father Gary? The Dodgers delivered, and I'm sure Broadway is
Speaker 2: bright tonight.
Speaker 17: Mister Vasa, we got a little watch party going over there.
Speaker 15: Day.
Speaker 17: Dodger, Dodger, Dave, Dave, Dave, listen real quick, I'm with
Speaker 17: my buddy, shir Uh, I want to say something. I
Speaker 17: saw something tonight that.
Speaker 8: We've never seen before. There's something that we're never going
Speaker 8: to ever ever see.
Speaker 17: And if the guy can make this happen, then I'll
Speaker 17: be really impressed. But see show Hail Tani pitched to
Speaker 17: show Hailkhani. That would be an amazing thing to see.
Speaker 2: I don't I don't know if he could do that
Speaker 2: in the simulator machine that they have in the die
Speaker 2: your batting cage. That's as close as he'll get to
Speaker 2: hitting off himself.
Speaker 16: Dave.
Speaker 17: I think the man can walk on water.
Speaker 8: I would know, let's see.
Speaker 2: All right, Wow, that says a lot from you, father Gary.
Speaker 8: Okay, all right, take care of this. I had my
Speaker 8: boys for me.
Speaker 2: All right, all right, boys, see you later. Have a
Speaker 2: good time.
Speaker 13: Wow.
Speaker 2: A priest saying that Otani can walk on water, how
Speaker 2: about that? That'll do it for us. I think that
Speaker 2: that's how we walk it off right there. It was
Speaker 2: an incredible night, a historical night, one of those games
Speaker 2: that if you were listening, you'll never forget where you
Speaker 2: were when you were listening. If you were here at
Speaker 2: the stadium tonight, you'll never forget it. And if you're
Speaker 2: at home watching it, You'll never forget who you were
Speaker 2: with watching that game. And something I'll never forget. It's
Speaker 2: one of those surreal games that you can't believe took place.
Speaker 2: One man striking out ten batters and six scoreless innings
Speaker 2: and then hitting three home runs to send the Dodgers
Speaker 2: the World Series and a clinching game. Just unreal. And
Speaker 2: these four starting pitchers are going to go down in
Speaker 2: history as the greatest four man rotation in Dodger playoff
Speaker 2: history if they can get the job done. Jobs not finished.
Speaker 2: They got four more wins to go. Game one of
Speaker 2: the World Series, whether it's Toronto or Seattle, will be
Speaker 2: a week from tonight. We will have it for you
Speaker 2: exclusively on Dodgers Radio and five to seventy LA Sports.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers will have home field advantage if the Mariners
Speaker 2: can close it out. If somehow, some way the Blue
Speaker 2: Jays force Game seven and win that, then the Dodgers
Speaker 2: would not have home field advantage. They would open up
Speaker 2: in Toronto a week from tonight. So from my point
Speaker 2: of view, i am a Mariners fan. Let's have the
Speaker 2: Mariners come back all the way back to the West Coast.
Speaker 2: And open up at Dodgers Stadium for Game One of
Speaker 2: the World Series from tonight. Coming up next week, we
Speaker 2: will have Dodger talk shows for you. We'll have full
Speaker 2: coverage with Tim Kats and Steve Sachs beginning at six
Speaker 2: am on Monday morning, Rogan and Rodney, Petros and Money.
Speaker 2: We got it all for you, wall to wall coverage
Speaker 2: of Otani, Mookie, Freddie and the rest of the Dodgers
Speaker 2: on their way to what I believe will be back
Speaker 2: to back World Series Championships for the first time in
Speaker 2: Dodger history. Thanks to Colin Yee back at our Burbank Studios,
Speaker 2: Thanks to Dwayne McDonald out here at Dodger Stadium, and
Speaker 2: thanks to you for listening. Thanks for the crew at
Speaker 2: sports Net LA for having me part of their celebration
Speaker 2: coverage as well, and thank you for listening and being
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Speaker 2: the final score front Dodger Stadium. In Game four, the
Speaker 2: NLCS the Dodgers, behind an incredible performance from sho Heo Tani,
Speaker 2: beat the Brewers five to one and sweep their way
Speaker 2: back to the Fall Classic. Have a great rest of
Speaker 2: your night. We'll talk to you next Friday when the
Speaker 2: World Series begins. Have a great rest of your weekend.
Speaker 2: See y'all. Let's just stand