WEBVTT - Dodger Talk- NLDS Game 2 (10-6-25) 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:01.000 Got the falls up. 0:00:02.360 --> 0:00:06.359 You're welcome to the playoffs, Dodger fans. 0:00:06.400 --> 0:00:11.319 Playoff time when your favorite show thirteen wins is all 0:00:11.320 --> 0:00:14.520 it takes on half and escape for you. 0:00:14.760 --> 0:00:18.680 Welcome to a playoff edition of Dodger Talk. Get it 0:00:18.720 --> 0:00:25.919 on the action at eight six sixt Breeze sleeps Baseball. 0:00:26.000 --> 0:00:30.520 Here's your host of Dodger Talks as everybody wanted to 0:00:30.520 --> 0:00:31.360 be a part of it. 0:00:31.560 --> 0:00:35.440 Tim Cats, Oh, about. 0:00:35.280 --> 0:00:39.479 Nine months ago I started taking blood pressure medication. Yeah, 0:00:39.640 --> 0:00:43.520 that's where my life is right now. Tonight I took 0:00:43.600 --> 0:00:48.559 two just to be careful the way this Dodger bullpen 0:00:48.640 --> 0:00:51.680 has been pitching. And a good thing I did is 0:00:51.720 --> 0:00:56.320 the Dodgers tonight almost gave it away in the ninth Inny, 0:00:56.560 --> 0:01:00.040 but almost as good for darts and horseshoes because the 0:01:00.080 --> 0:01:03.120 Dodgers win it four to three over the Phillies day 0:01:03.200 --> 0:01:05.960 hang on for the win to take a two to 0:01:06.080 --> 0:01:11.000 zero series lead. What a game, nine innings of thrilling baseball. 0:01:11.360 --> 0:01:15.360 He had a great pitchers duel between Blake Snell and 0:01:15.440 --> 0:01:19.960 Hayes SEUs Lozardo. Lozardo one point retired seventeen Dodgers in 0:01:20.040 --> 0:01:23.080 a row after they gave up, almost gave up a 0:01:23.160 --> 0:01:25.720 run in the first inning. He threw twenty four pitches, 0:01:25.760 --> 0:01:29.920 but bounce back and shut down the Dodgers through the sixth. Meanwhile, 0:01:30.000 --> 0:01:33.679 Blake Snell was fantastic for six shutout innings, just the 0:01:33.760 --> 0:01:38.480 one hit, nine strikeouts through ninety nine pitches. He held on 0:01:38.600 --> 0:01:41.200 long enough until the Dodgers offense was able to get 0:01:41.240 --> 0:01:44.720 to hay sus Lozardo. In the seventh inning, Tascar Hernandez 0:01:44.720 --> 0:01:46.920 starting it off with the single. He would score on 0:01:46.920 --> 0:01:49.440 a fielder's choice to run single for Will Smith and 0:01:49.640 --> 0:01:52.680 showey Otani the RBI single a four spot for the Dodgers, 0:01:52.720 --> 0:01:54.920 and the seventh should have been enough. And you know 0:01:54.960 --> 0:01:57.560 what happened the seventh and eighth Imachian He gives up 0:01:57.600 --> 0:01:59.960 one run. The ninth inning, Dave Roberts goes to Blake 0:02:00.760 --> 0:02:03.880 and oh boy buckle up for Blake. Trying in the 0:02:03.960 --> 0:02:08.480 ninth inning because it was almost disaster. A leadoff single, 0:02:08.560 --> 0:02:11.920 a double, and then a two run double from Nick Costianos. 0:02:12.000 --> 0:02:15.120 He was the tying run standing at second base. And 0:02:15.160 --> 0:02:18.600 then what a great defensive play by the Dodgers infield, 0:02:18.680 --> 0:02:22.480 started by Max Muntsey, finished off by Mookie Betts on 0:02:22.520 --> 0:02:25.440 the wheel play on the bunt attempt by Stotts, they 0:02:25.480 --> 0:02:30.720 get Costiano said third. I cannot underestimate or I cannot 0:02:30.760 --> 0:02:34.720 tell you how big that play was to get Costiano 0:02:34.800 --> 0:02:38.440 said third. Because the next batter, Harrison Vader singled to left, 0:02:39.080 --> 0:02:41.440 that would have tied the game. You had the tying 0:02:41.520 --> 0:02:44.639 run ninety feet away. Instead, you get the first out 0:02:44.680 --> 0:02:48.240 of the inning. Fast forward, a couple at batters. Vessie 0:02:48.360 --> 0:02:51.480 comes on relief, first and third. Still now the tye 0:02:51.560 --> 0:02:55.840 run at third base and Roki Sasaki comes in to 0:02:55.919 --> 0:03:00.520 get the ground ball out of Trey Turner ends the game. Well, 0:03:00.760 --> 0:03:03.560 if that weren't enough, how about the throw from Tommy 0:03:03.720 --> 0:03:08.160 Edmond to get Trey Turner at first, a one hop 0:03:08.240 --> 0:03:12.000 that Freddie Freeman saves. I mean, you talk about the dramatics. 0:03:12.440 --> 0:03:16.120 It had it all tonight in this Dodgers win, and 0:03:16.200 --> 0:03:18.800 it was an all around really good win for this 0:03:18.919 --> 0:03:23.160 Dodgers team, a must win game that in my opinion, 0:03:23.600 --> 0:03:27.680 now you have a huge advantage over Philadelphia going into 0:03:27.680 --> 0:03:30.959 Game three on Wednesday night, flying across the country, coming 0:03:31.000 --> 0:03:34.399 back home, hanging on for that win. You held off 0:03:34.440 --> 0:03:37.640 any momentum that they possibly could have brought with them 0:03:38.040 --> 0:03:41.440 they left it in Philadelphia. They were starting to get 0:03:41.440 --> 0:03:44.640 mo on their side. They were starting to feel themselves 0:03:44.680 --> 0:03:47.200 standing up on the top step of the dugout, hanging 0:03:47.240 --> 0:03:49.640 over the railing, banging the top of the railing. The 0:03:49.680 --> 0:03:52.640 crowd was back into it. At the bank in Philadelphia. 0:03:53.040 --> 0:03:55.680 You had runners on base, you had traffic, you had hits, 0:03:55.720 --> 0:03:59.160 you had the time run ninety feet away. It was 0:03:59.280 --> 0:04:03.480 getting very interesting. And if the Dodgers don't win this 0:04:03.600 --> 0:04:05.760 game and it comes back tied to one to one, 0:04:05.840 --> 0:04:09.840 the momentum is all Philadelphia. You have them confident, you 0:04:09.920 --> 0:04:12.920 have them feeling good, and you have them having positive 0:04:13.160 --> 0:04:16.799 thoughts now coming back to Dodger Stadium for Game three instead, 0:04:18.040 --> 0:04:21.480 you basically cut them off at the knees. By getting 0:04:21.480 --> 0:04:25.000 this win, you chop down any momentum they had in 0:04:25.040 --> 0:04:27.800 that ninth inning. By coming back with a two to 0:04:27.800 --> 0:04:32.839 oh series lead. It was a huge win for the 0:04:32.920 --> 0:04:38.520 Dodgers tonight. Cannot say it enough. A huge win for 0:04:38.640 --> 0:04:41.360 the Dodgers to come back two to oh in this series. 0:04:41.920 --> 0:04:43.560 Let's get out to the phones. We'll be here till 0:04:43.600 --> 0:04:45.119 the top of the hour. We'll hear from tai Oscar 0:04:45.160 --> 0:04:48.120 Hernandez and we'll hear from Mookie Betts coming up throughout 0:04:48.160 --> 0:04:50.479 Dodger talk. But what a night for the Dodgers. And 0:04:50.560 --> 0:04:54.160 I know, just based on social media, and that's how 0:04:54.200 --> 0:04:56.560 we gauge everything in life right now, social media, right 0:04:56.920 --> 0:05:00.160 but based on the reaction on social media, I got 0:05:00.200 --> 0:05:02.119 a feeling, I know what everybody wants to talk about. 0:05:03.240 --> 0:05:08.880 Logan Actually at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia, Logan, how 0:05:09.000 --> 0:05:11.880 was it experience it in person tonight as a Dodger fan? 0:05:13.400 --> 0:05:21.640 It was electric, absolutely electric atmosphere, crazy volume them fans, 0:05:22.720 --> 0:05:23.839 There's something else. 0:05:23.960 --> 0:05:24.520 It's true. 0:05:24.560 --> 0:05:27.680 Philly fans are just different. It was a battle for 0:05:27.760 --> 0:05:29.760 me in the stands, and I can only imagine what 0:05:29.839 --> 0:05:32.280 it's like up in the dish. Oh my lord, it 0:05:32.360 --> 0:05:33.200 was insane. 0:05:34.240 --> 0:05:36.560 What about the momentum of this game? Could you feel 0:05:36.600 --> 0:05:39.160 it there in the ninth inning? Going back to Philadelphia 0:05:39.360 --> 0:05:41.320 and the Philly is starting to feel pretty confident in 0:05:41.360 --> 0:05:42.599 the fans back in this game. 0:05:43.880 --> 0:05:46.120 I gotta tell you, I was sitting and this one 0:05:46.160 --> 0:05:48.000 I liked about Dodgers fans in general. 0:05:48.720 --> 0:05:49.640 You ride it out. 0:05:49.880 --> 0:05:52.680 You don't start booing your players. You don't start, you know, 0:05:53.360 --> 0:05:56.640 booing your closers when the game is still within reach. Baseball, 0:05:56.640 --> 0:06:00.600 it's a funny game. But tonight Philadeli had kind of 0:06:00.640 --> 0:06:03.240 turned on their team and going forward in this playoff, 0:06:03.640 --> 0:06:06.680 the Dodgers, they're not going to win every game. Us 0:06:06.720 --> 0:06:10.279 as fans, we gotta know this, and the Dodgers also 0:06:10.279 --> 0:06:11.080 got to know his players. 0:06:11.120 --> 0:06:12.160 They can't win it all. 0:06:12.960 --> 0:06:14.560 So you just got to ride it out. You know, 0:06:15.279 --> 0:06:17.320 it was tough trying it in there. It was tough 0:06:18.200 --> 0:06:20.680 in the moment. I was really heated about it. Give 0:06:20.760 --> 0:06:22.760 them back out there in LA in a friendly spot. 0:06:23.320 --> 0:06:25.120 It's it's tough dial out here. 0:06:25.120 --> 0:06:29.320 But as fans, I felt like I was remaining holding 0:06:29.440 --> 0:06:30.760 strong with LA. 0:06:30.960 --> 0:06:31.839 Billy gave up. 0:06:32.400 --> 0:06:33.680 Billy gave up on their team. 0:06:34.360 --> 0:06:36.680 It'll be interesting to see if they show up for 0:06:36.760 --> 0:06:38.320 Game three. You know they're not going to go down 0:06:38.320 --> 0:06:40.680 without a fight. A lot of tough guys on that team, 0:06:40.680 --> 0:06:42.320 a lot of pride on that team, and this is 0:06:42.560 --> 0:06:45.680 the last goal round for this group in Philadelphia. Logan, 0:06:45.800 --> 0:06:47.359 glad you made it out of there, Okay, as a 0:06:47.360 --> 0:06:50.520 Dodger fan, and I know the Dodger nation is happy 0:06:50.800 --> 0:06:53.760 to be up to own this series against Philadelphia. Thanks 0:06:53.760 --> 0:06:55.920 a lot Logan, appreciate you checking in here on Dodger 0:06:55.960 --> 0:06:58.080 Talk eight sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy 0:06:58.120 --> 0:07:00.160 Solomon in long beat your next up here you're on 0:07:00.200 --> 0:07:05.080 postgame dodg you talk. Oh sorry about that, Solomon? Go ahead, 0:07:05.080 --> 0:07:06.800 how you doing any buddy? Good to hear voice. 0:07:07.000 --> 0:07:10.200 I'm good, Thank you man. I appreciate it. You know, 0:07:11.280 --> 0:07:14.200 a little too close for comfort tonight. Thank god they 0:07:14.360 --> 0:07:16.800 won because, like you said, if they had not won 0:07:16.880 --> 0:07:20.600 tonight and Philly comes back to La, all they need 0:07:20.640 --> 0:07:23.320 is to split and then they're going home feeling good. 0:07:23.840 --> 0:07:26.040 So you've just about put the dagger in them with 0:07:26.120 --> 0:07:29.880 this one. But don't expect necessarily the doctors will wrap 0:07:29.920 --> 0:07:32.840 it up Wednesday, because Phillip's got some fight in them 0:07:33.280 --> 0:07:35.520 and they may have one win. They may have one 0:07:35.560 --> 0:07:39.520 win left. But I did want to mention about Dave Roberts. 0:07:40.000 --> 0:07:43.520 You know you went to Sasaki anyway, right, So don't 0:07:43.520 --> 0:07:46.720 play with your food. You know, Blake trying to God 0:07:46.760 --> 0:07:50.400 bless him. It's not the picture that he was last season. 0:07:50.640 --> 0:07:53.240 He's just not so you can't put him in those 0:07:53.320 --> 0:07:56.640 high loveing situations. As much as Dave wanted to, he 0:07:56.680 --> 0:08:00.520 said he trust them. Well, you know, we'll see going forward. 0:08:01.240 --> 0:08:02.720 You know. That's all I got to say about that. 0:08:03.080 --> 0:08:04.680 To me, it's just just just as the ninth inning 0:08:04.720 --> 0:08:07.400 it gets to Sasaki and you know the game is good, 0:08:07.520 --> 0:08:09.440 but just get me to the ninth inning, no doubt. 0:08:09.520 --> 0:08:11.560 Salmon. Great to hear your voice. I hope you're doing well, 0:08:11.600 --> 0:08:14.680 my friend. It was a decision that I know Dave 0:08:14.760 --> 0:08:17.360 Roberts is going to get second guests on all night, 0:08:17.480 --> 0:08:20.040 all day leading up to Game three and until the 0:08:20.080 --> 0:08:23.600 Dodgers finished off this series. I understand the move because 0:08:23.680 --> 0:08:27.360 Roki Sasaki is not pitched two times in three days. 0:08:27.600 --> 0:08:30.640 But with that being said, you know the schedule, you 0:08:30.720 --> 0:08:32.520 know what's ahead of you. You know what it takes 0:08:32.559 --> 0:08:34.679 to win a best of five series. You know how 0:08:34.720 --> 0:08:36.600 it all lays out. You know you're off days, you 0:08:36.640 --> 0:08:39.240 know the days you're playing. You have to have known 0:08:39.320 --> 0:08:42.920 that he'd either he's available or he's not. And the 0:08:42.960 --> 0:08:45.560 fact that you did go to him in that crunch 0:08:45.600 --> 0:08:48.800 time in the ninth inning means he was available and 0:08:48.880 --> 0:08:51.160 maybe you wanted to stay away from him. Okay, all right, 0:08:51.200 --> 0:08:53.160 we don't really want to go to him. It's a 0:08:53.200 --> 0:08:56.079 four to one lead. We like trying it. I get it. 0:08:56.280 --> 0:09:00.680 Play tryning was nails for you last October. Trying it 0:09:00.760 --> 0:09:04.240 still one of the really good closers, back end bullpen 0:09:04.360 --> 0:09:07.480 guys in baseball. He's had an up and down season. 0:09:08.200 --> 0:09:11.160 He's had a rocky twenty twenty five. There is no 0:09:11.480 --> 0:09:15.040 arguing that. But I see where Dave goes to him. 0:09:15.040 --> 0:09:17.160 In the ninth inning, he had one of the I 0:09:17.200 --> 0:09:19.480 think one or two of the three hits that he 0:09:19.520 --> 0:09:22.040 gave up, flared out to the left, kind of an 0:09:22.040 --> 0:09:25.200 office away, just making contact, punched it into left field 0:09:25.200 --> 0:09:27.840 for a base hit. Good piece of hitting. I think 0:09:27.920 --> 0:09:30.280 one of the three balls was actually hit hard against it. 0:09:30.400 --> 0:09:32.800 But hey, nonetheless, he gave up hits and he gave 0:09:32.840 --> 0:09:35.360 up at Harbi double, And with that being said, he 0:09:35.400 --> 0:09:37.840 got himself into trouble and he had to get bailed 0:09:37.840 --> 0:09:41.400 out by some great defense Alex Vesia and then rookie Sasaki. 0:09:42.040 --> 0:09:44.920 But again, I understand where Dodger fans you're gonna come with. 0:09:45.120 --> 0:09:47.720 If Sazaki wasn't available, then why did you go to 0:09:47.800 --> 0:09:50.280 him in that emergence situation. Should have just gone to 0:09:50.360 --> 0:09:54.800 him to start off the ninth inning. I get it now, 0:09:54.840 --> 0:09:56.320 how many of you are with me because I know 0:09:56.400 --> 0:09:58.520 Colin ee and social media. Matt were in here, Tim 0:09:58.559 --> 0:10:01.040 Conway Junior from kfive, I was in here and we 0:10:01.040 --> 0:10:02.920 were all talking about this and kind of, you know, 0:10:03.000 --> 0:10:06.680 dissecting it. In the moment, you had runners on first 0:10:06.679 --> 0:10:10.200 and third and you have Trey Turner coming up as 0:10:10.240 --> 0:10:14.480 the lineup flipped over for Philadelphia. How many of you thought, Okay, great, 0:10:14.520 --> 0:10:17.839 Rokie Susaki is coming in. But rookie Susaki has never 0:10:17.880 --> 0:10:21.280 been in this situation. Rookie Sasaki has never been under 0:10:21.320 --> 0:10:23.760 this much pressure in the major leagues. I don't want 0:10:23.760 --> 0:10:25.800 to hear from you that are going after comments on 0:10:25.840 --> 0:10:27.960 social media. Well you pushing in the world Baseball class. Okay, 0:10:27.960 --> 0:10:31.760 it's different. This is a playoff game, sold out, crowded 0:10:31.800 --> 0:10:34.960 Philadelphia RB, one of the toughest places to play, and 0:10:35.040 --> 0:10:37.840 it's a ninth inning time run ninety feet away and 0:10:37.920 --> 0:10:41.560 you have to come into this mess. You inherit this mess, 0:10:42.400 --> 0:10:44.000 but you got to get out of it. And he 0:10:44.080 --> 0:10:46.319 did to his credit. But how many in the back 0:10:46.320 --> 0:10:48.280 of your mind were thinking, we've never seen him do 0:10:48.320 --> 0:10:50.559 it before. We kind of in the back of our 0:10:50.559 --> 0:10:52.839 mind know the Rokie Susaki at the beginning of part 0:10:52.840 --> 0:10:55.920 of the season that you know was emotional out there. 0:10:57.040 --> 0:11:00.240 I mean it's it came into my mind, it came 0:11:00.280 --> 0:11:03.240 into several of ours mind talking about, Okay, how's he 0:11:03.240 --> 0:11:05.680 getting ahead of the pressure. All right, if you're gonna 0:11:05.679 --> 0:11:08.400 give the ball, and you guys are all wanting Sasaki. Here, 0:11:08.640 --> 0:11:12.680 here's Sasaki. Two outs, first and third, get it out, 0:11:12.960 --> 0:11:18.360 and he did. He was great at sawing off Trey Turner, 0:11:18.760 --> 0:11:22.960 who hit a three hopper at a second base to 0:11:23.040 --> 0:11:29.160 Tommy Edmond. Under pressure. He showed poise, he showed control, 0:11:29.520 --> 0:11:31.480 and he was able to do it in two pitches 0:11:32.080 --> 0:11:36.800 and get the Dodgers a win. Huge, huge performance from 0:11:36.880 --> 0:11:40.960 Roki Sasaki. In my mind, not any more questions. I 0:11:41.080 --> 0:11:45.240 have no problem putting him in in any situation, home 0:11:45.360 --> 0:11:48.560 or road. He just checked all the boxes and in 0:11:48.559 --> 0:11:52.000 my mind, in my mind, he is good to go. 0:11:52.440 --> 0:11:54.840 I have no problems of putting him into a situation. 0:11:55.240 --> 0:11:57.560 Whether he inherits a mess or he goes in for 0:11:57.600 --> 0:12:00.360 a clean inning, he goes in a blowout, or goes 0:12:00.360 --> 0:12:03.840 in a one run game, doesn't matter to me. I've 0:12:03.840 --> 0:12:07.600 seen enough out of rookie Sasaki. He's it. He's the guy. 0:12:08.320 --> 0:12:12.280 He's the guy. Now. Can you use him every single game? No, 0:12:13.800 --> 0:12:15.959 but it'll be interesting to see how he's deployed now 0:12:16.040 --> 0:12:18.800 moving forward, and certainly at the day off on Tuesday, 0:12:19.160 --> 0:12:21.000 he should be good to go since he only threw 0:12:21.040 --> 0:12:24.600 two pitches, should be good to go for Wednesday. And 0:12:24.600 --> 0:12:27.320 think about who the Dodgers then will have on Wednesday. 0:12:27.400 --> 0:12:32.840 Yoshinobu Yamamoto good to go, and pretty much Clayton Kershaw 0:12:34.040 --> 0:12:36.559 and who else is down there? You use she in 0:12:36.800 --> 0:12:42.240 So you've got Jack Dryer, You've got Anthony Banda that 0:12:42.280 --> 0:12:44.600 you can go do down the bullpen. You know, if 0:12:44.920 --> 0:12:46.800 it's a game once the Dodgers are up with Dave 0:12:46.880 --> 0:12:50.280 roberts have the you know what to go to Tyler 0:12:50.320 --> 0:12:52.000 Glass now to try to close it out. 0:12:52.840 --> 0:12:53.319 I don't know. 0:12:53.640 --> 0:12:54.920 I mean, you want to keep your starter for the 0:12:54.920 --> 0:12:56.839 next day in your back pocket. But if it's a 0:12:56.880 --> 0:13:01.160 close out, oh about this close out situation? Show Hey 0:13:01.160 --> 0:13:04.600 o Tani, I know Dave Robertson in his pregame today, 0:13:04.920 --> 0:13:07.120 they're not using show he out of the bullpen. He's 0:13:07.120 --> 0:13:11.760 a game five starter. But what if? What if? Let's 0:13:11.800 --> 0:13:14.960 play the what if game? What if the Dodgers are leading, 0:13:15.280 --> 0:13:17.360 and then Dodgers need just a couple outs late in 0:13:17.400 --> 0:13:21.680 the game, close it out, finish off the series, put 0:13:21.679 --> 0:13:23.760 the final nail in the coffin on the series in 0:13:23.800 --> 0:13:26.839 the season for Philadelphia, why not? There won't be a 0:13:26.880 --> 0:13:29.560 game five anyways, Finish it off in three. I'm just 0:13:29.559 --> 0:13:31.840 playing the what if game. We all love to play it. 0:13:32.320 --> 0:13:36.000 What if We'll find out? On Wednesday with Yoshinoba Yamamoto 0:13:36.080 --> 0:13:37.920 on the Mound, George in La is next up on 0:13:37.960 --> 0:13:40.800 Dodger Talk. Dodgers a two zero series lead after a 0:13:40.840 --> 0:13:42.800 four to three win over the Phillies. What's going on, George? 0:13:43.720 --> 0:13:46.079 Well, just like you said that, you know this is 0:13:46.120 --> 0:13:47.959 a huge win, but it could have been a huge 0:13:48.000 --> 0:13:52.079 blunder very easily. I mean roberts Man, I mean god, 0:13:52.640 --> 0:13:54.960 sometimes I feel he's like he's part of the opposition. 0:13:55.400 --> 0:13:58.280 I mean, to overthink this thing. We know what Blake 0:13:58.320 --> 0:14:01.920 Trenton has been like this year. Okay, And I don't 0:14:02.000 --> 0:14:04.960 understand when you have Sasaki and why would you even 0:14:05.000 --> 0:14:06.959 do this. There should be a rule that if you're 0:14:07.000 --> 0:14:08.800 gonna bring in trying and it can't be in a 0:14:08.840 --> 0:14:11.200 clean any there's got to be at least one out, 0:14:11.559 --> 0:14:15.400 because the psychological edge between a clean enning and just 0:14:15.520 --> 0:14:18.960 meeting two outs with someone who's struggling, like trying to 0:14:19.080 --> 0:14:23.480 even Vesia. Sometimes, like, I don't understand why they would 0:14:23.480 --> 0:14:26.040 make it this close. There was no reason for it. 0:14:26.080 --> 0:14:29.120 I mean, Susaki it was clear to me already. I mean, 0:14:29.120 --> 0:14:32.360 he's our really only option where you make do with 0:14:32.440 --> 0:14:35.000 what you have, and the guy's like been nails for us, 0:14:35.040 --> 0:14:37.880 at least for us small sample size. Yes, but my god, 0:14:37.920 --> 0:14:40.920 look what Trinin's been doing. So I'm glad we want 0:14:41.000 --> 0:14:43.240 but you know, like, let's stop coddling these guys with 0:14:43.240 --> 0:14:46.040 Susaki's in great shape. You haven't played the whole year 0:14:46.080 --> 0:14:48.400 he's lasted. He's twenty three years old. He's in better 0:14:48.400 --> 0:14:51.120 shape than anyone listening to this show right now. So 0:14:51.240 --> 0:14:54.600 I don't understand. I hope we've learned our lessons, But 0:14:54.760 --> 0:14:57.760 with just Roberts, sometimes, my god, I feel like like 0:14:57.840 --> 0:15:00.240 we were back to square one sometimes. So I just 0:15:00.280 --> 0:15:03.120 hope he learned from this and just really plays it 0:15:03.160 --> 0:15:06.400 like it should be played. It's don't overthink it, he says. 0:15:06.400 --> 0:15:08.720 That's what the playoffs sometimes can make a manager do. 0:15:09.960 --> 0:15:11.440 That's my only comment, right. 0:15:11.400 --> 0:15:14.520 George, I appreciate the phone call Eather in Utah checking 0:15:14.600 --> 0:15:17.760 in on Dodger Talk after a Dodgers four to three 0:15:18.000 --> 0:15:20.400 win over the Phillies and a two to oher series lead. 0:15:20.480 --> 0:15:22.440 Now in this NLD is how you do it? Heather? 0:15:23.640 --> 0:15:25.560 Oh my gosh, how are you? How are we doing 0:15:25.600 --> 0:15:30.160 Dodger Nation? That was absolutely insane, crazy game, screaming with 0:15:30.280 --> 0:15:32.920 excitement that we want. There are so many things that 0:15:33.000 --> 0:15:35.240 I could say that we've already kind of all talked 0:15:35.240 --> 0:15:38.240 about that I'm so excited about. Like the will play 0:15:38.320 --> 0:15:42.520 from Mooki to Mounsey to Mooky was insane. I loved 0:15:42.560 --> 0:15:46.240 how the game ended from Roki say coming to Freddy 0:15:46.440 --> 0:15:48.640 for the say. It helped Freddy skips that up, Like 0:15:49.360 --> 0:15:52.280 who is Freddy? Like he's insane? We need to retire 0:15:52.360 --> 0:15:56.000 his jersey. He is an incredible Hugger player. I mean, 0:15:56.040 --> 0:15:58.480 this man is on fire in the postseason, even if 0:15:58.480 --> 0:16:00.440 it's bad asn't I mean that man will dive for 0:16:01.120 --> 0:16:04.040 all these players were diving to sacrifice. It was a 0:16:04.080 --> 0:16:06.760 great he win. And I hope, I hope Mickey Roond's 0:16:06.800 --> 0:16:10.200 okay diving at third. There was just so many good plays. 0:16:10.240 --> 0:16:12.920 But I also we got to give Blake smell as flowers. 0:16:12.960 --> 0:16:17.080 He did an amazing tonight nine strikeouts, and his last 0:16:17.080 --> 0:16:19.360 two games he's pitched as the doctor in the postseason, 0:16:19.680 --> 0:16:23.400 He's had eighteen strikeouts, two point ninety two era. He 0:16:23.600 --> 0:16:27.040 is delivering. He is smell Villa. And the final thing 0:16:27.040 --> 0:16:29.440 that I want to say is welcome back Will Smith. 0:16:29.520 --> 0:16:32.320 I think, for as much crap as Dave Roberts gets, 0:16:32.640 --> 0:16:35.280 you got to give him props for putting Will Smith 0:16:35.280 --> 0:16:37.840 in at the right time and making sure that that 0:16:38.040 --> 0:16:40.720 Ren came in and that Will was up to that. 0:16:40.720 --> 0:16:44.600 That was huge having wils back. So just overall, I'm 0:16:44.640 --> 0:16:46.640 so proud of this team. That was a gritty win 0:16:47.040 --> 0:16:49.040 and we really needed it. That was not easy to 0:16:49.080 --> 0:16:51.800 go in and get two games and wins coming too 0:16:51.920 --> 0:16:56.040 up coming home at Philadelphia. So I'm just super super 0:16:56.040 --> 0:16:56.520 punked for. 0:16:56.480 --> 0:16:58.440 Our team, no doubt about it. Heather, I appreciate the 0:16:58.480 --> 0:17:02.520 phone call. Eight six two. Blakes now now has four 0:17:02.560 --> 0:17:06.160 career postseason outings with nine plus strikeouts and nor more 0:17:06.200 --> 0:17:09.440 than two hits allowed. That's the most by any pitcher 0:17:09.960 --> 0:17:13.000 in MLB history. And by the way, the Dodgers have 0:17:13.080 --> 0:17:17.480 scored four runs in thirteen consecutive postseason games, now tied 0:17:17.840 --> 0:17:21.480 with the nineteen seventy and seventy one Baltimore Orioles for 0:17:21.560 --> 0:17:25.960 the longest streak in postseason history. So yeah, tonight an 0:17:26.000 --> 0:17:28.640 all around really good win for the Dodgers and they 0:17:28.640 --> 0:17:32.880 get out of Philadelphia with a two nothing series lead. 0:17:33.080 --> 0:17:35.920 Colin in Long Beach next up here on Dodger Talk 0:17:35.920 --> 0:17:38.920 on an FI seventy. How you doing Colin, Hey, I'm 0:17:38.920 --> 0:17:39.360 doing great. 0:17:39.359 --> 0:17:40.760 Thanks for taking my call. 0:17:40.840 --> 0:17:41.119 Guys. 0:17:42.040 --> 0:17:45.960 Obviously quite obviously the biggest win of the season for 0:17:46.040 --> 0:17:50.000 the Dodgers. As you spoke about the momentum, they can't 0:17:50.040 --> 0:17:53.200 they can't lose that game being up like that. And 0:17:54.480 --> 0:17:56.840 Dave Roberts is an excellent manager. He's got a World 0:17:56.880 --> 0:18:00.879 Series ring, well two if you count twenty twenty. He 0:18:01.080 --> 0:18:04.800 uh just plays the fire. He really plays the fire 0:18:04.840 --> 0:18:07.880 at the end in the bullpen. Roki showed us enough 0:18:08.880 --> 0:18:11.920 in the first game when he closed it out. Period. 0:18:12.280 --> 0:18:13.800 He's the closer. 0:18:14.320 --> 0:18:15.080 He's the closer. 0:18:16.000 --> 0:18:18.639 And I can't say enough about the defense. As Heather said, 0:18:19.040 --> 0:18:21.679 we hope Miggy's okay. But that dive into third the 0:18:21.720 --> 0:18:24.440 wheel play Freddie's pick. That's why those guys get paid 0:18:24.440 --> 0:18:27.120 big bucks. It's not just the bat, and they haven't 0:18:27.119 --> 0:18:32.560 had to necessarily flash the glove as much, but they 0:18:32.600 --> 0:18:38.040 did tonight, and you know, it was just fantastic pitching 0:18:38.080 --> 0:18:40.480 Lizardo and Snow. I mean, that's that's about as efficient 0:18:42.000 --> 0:18:46.520 as you'll ever see two starters pitch, and really two 0:18:46.560 --> 0:18:48.919 of the best teams. It's not the best teams in baseball, so. 0:18:51.400 --> 0:18:54.520 Tonight and the offense taken over late in the game 0:18:54.520 --> 0:18:56.960 call and I appreciate the phone call. It was certainly 0:18:57.200 --> 0:19:01.480 great postseason back and forth baseball between these two teams 0:19:01.480 --> 0:19:04.480 who are both really good teams, and two teams that, 0:19:04.560 --> 0:19:06.879 over the course of one hundred and sixty two games, 0:19:06.960 --> 0:19:09.520 won a lot of games, won their division. And we 0:19:09.600 --> 0:19:12.400 knew this was going to be a battle in the NLTS. 0:19:12.400 --> 0:19:15.159 That's why so many baseball people wanted to see this 0:19:15.240 --> 0:19:18.240 series in a best of seven series in the NLCS, 0:19:18.280 --> 0:19:20.320 because these are just two good teams. But you know 0:19:20.359 --> 0:19:22.760 what if the best of five and the Dodgers had 0:19:22.760 --> 0:19:25.160 to go into Philadelphia for the first two and they 0:19:25.200 --> 0:19:28.840 get great pitching performances from Blake Snell and show Hey 0:19:28.920 --> 0:19:33.800 Otani and the bullpen. Well, they walk that tightrope oh 0:19:33.880 --> 0:19:38.000 so high tonight, and as it is, Rookie Sasaki brings 0:19:38.040 --> 0:19:41.879 them home with a two out ground ball out to 0:19:41.960 --> 0:19:44.640 get Trey Turner to grind out to second and end 0:19:44.640 --> 0:19:48.040 the game in the Dodgers hang on, hang on for 0:19:48.160 --> 0:19:51.720 a four to three win. Let's head back out to Philadelphia. 0:19:51.800 --> 0:19:53.959 Mookie Betts, who was a part of that great wheel 0:19:53.960 --> 0:19:56.880 play in the ninth inning to tag out Costianos at 0:19:56.920 --> 0:20:00.239 third on the attempted bun attempt from Bryson Stott. Here 0:20:00.280 --> 0:20:01.320 from Mooki after the win. 0:20:01.960 --> 0:20:05.160 Mukie, obviously the play in the ninth inning was huge 0:20:05.200 --> 0:20:08.560 to get Castianos out. Max months he said during the 0:20:08.560 --> 0:20:12.199 pitching change, it was your idea, your insistence to go 0:20:12.280 --> 0:20:14.719 to the wheel play. Where did that come from? And 0:20:14.760 --> 0:20:17.080 where were those instincts to know that was the play. 0:20:18.160 --> 0:20:20.800 It's just another learned behavior. I got to give that 0:20:20.880 --> 0:20:22.240 credit to Mickey Rojas. 0:20:22.280 --> 0:20:23.760 We I think we did it. 0:20:23.800 --> 0:20:27.680 We did it earlier in the year in Anahei, and 0:20:28.600 --> 0:20:31.000 I remember asking him, like, you know, when's a good 0:20:31.000 --> 0:20:33.120 time to do it, he said, in a door die situation. 0:20:33.240 --> 0:20:36.560 And he's really been him and what have really helped 0:20:36.600 --> 0:20:39.159 me a lot just learning situations, and I hadn't been 0:20:39.160 --> 0:20:41.679 in that situation in a game like this, so I 0:20:41.800 --> 0:20:45.000 just trusted it and made a decision and they worked. 0:20:45.080 --> 0:20:47.520 Does that just showed the growth that you've had at 0:20:47.520 --> 0:20:50.600 that position because it is a take charge kind of 0:20:50.640 --> 0:20:54.920 captain position For you to feel that comfortable to insist 0:20:54.960 --> 0:20:57.200 on it, I mean that kind of shows where you're at. 0:20:57.400 --> 0:20:59.679