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Speaker 1: Welcome to off day Dodger Talk. In between games two
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Speaker 1: the wildcard series. I understand the buzz. There wasn't the uh,
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Speaker 1: honors that is going to call in. Just want to
Speaker 1: recap Blake Snell and what he did last night. I
Speaker 1: felt like he again was completely overlooked because of the
Speaker 1: dramatics of what took place in the ninth inning last night.
Speaker 1: Blake Snell was the guy that helped the Dodgers win
Speaker 1: that game last night, especially with the way Jesus Lozardo
Speaker 1: was pitching and holding the Dodger offense down at one
Speaker 1: point retiring seventeen in a row. Without Blake Snell matching
Speaker 1: zeros and holding down Bryce Harper and Kyle Schwarber, the
Speaker 1: Dodgers may not even be talking about the ninth inning
Speaker 1: and talking about having a two games to nothing lead,
Speaker 1: So I couldn't believe. Also in the postgame press conference
Speaker 1: that there were only two reporters that asked Blake Snell
Speaker 1: a question. I mean, how do you do that? The
Speaker 1: guy pitched six scoreless innings, allowed just one hit, and
Speaker 1: had nine strikeouts, and only two reporters asked him a question.
Speaker 1: At some point you got to acknowledge that he's one
Speaker 1: of the best starters in Major League Baseball, and without him,
Speaker 1: the Dodgers do not have a two games to nothing lead.
Speaker 1: All right, So we do have our special guest on
Speaker 1: the line. He was at Dodgers Stadium, So let's bring
Speaker 1: on his Dodger Talk intro music. This is not his
Speaker 1: warm up pitcher music. We are joined right now by
Speaker 1: three time Cy Young Award winner National League MVP in
Speaker 1: twenty fourteen, one of the greatest competitors you have ever
Speaker 1: witnessed in the last eighteen years, and is waiting for
Speaker 1: that bullpen phone to ring so he could prove to
Speaker 1: everybody that truck still works in the playoffs. That is
Speaker 1: number twenty two himself, Clayton Kershaw. Clayton, thanks a lot
Speaker 1: for calling in appreciate it.
Speaker 3: Thanks Dave.
Speaker 4: How are you.
Speaker 1: I'm doing great. I'm doing great. I assume that you
Speaker 1: have a shirt on, and yes, you do have your pants.
Speaker 5: On, I do I have fully closed at the moment.
Speaker 6: Thank you for having.
Speaker 1: Clayton. I'm sure this has got to be a special
Speaker 1: time for you. At this time last year you weren't
Speaker 1: able to participate in the postseason, but even just being
Speaker 1: down in the bullpen, how much does it mean to
Speaker 1: you to be available whenever the team needs you.
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's been fun to be down there with the guys.
Speaker 5: You know, the bullpen's almost like a different it's like
Speaker 5: a different group, you know, it's like a different club
Speaker 5: within a club, you know. So it's been Uh, it's
Speaker 5: been fun to be a part of it. And it's
Speaker 5: a different animal down there. Man, that phone rings, you
Speaker 5: feel about adrenaline start flowing, and you just it's a
Speaker 5: very underappreciated job to be a bullpen pitcher, so learning
Speaker 5: that on the fly, just watching all these guys, and
Speaker 5: it's it's been fun to be a part of.
Speaker 1: Last night, we saw you starting to get hot in
Speaker 1: case things did go into extra innings. What was it
Speaker 1: like when that phone rang and Josh Bard called out
Speaker 1: your name? Do you did you get that type of
Speaker 1: I guess, for a lack of better analogy, like a
Speaker 1: fireman like having to go down the pole and get
Speaker 1: ready quickly.
Speaker 5: No, I wasn't a bad and called for me.
Speaker 4: We had Rokie.
Speaker 5: We had Rokie do it last night. He got it done. Oh.
Speaker 1: When I was in the tunnel, they were saying that
Speaker 1: you were moving around a little bit.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm moving around for three hours.
Speaker 6: I'm old.
Speaker 5: I gotta stay loose, k.
Speaker 1: I guess so. But I mean when you're when you're
Speaker 1: in that position, how do you how do you change
Speaker 1: your routine? Because you're such a routine oriented guy, how
Speaker 1: do you how do you keep the body ready?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 5: You know, I just try and do some of the
Speaker 5: stuff I do as a starter and just try to
Speaker 5: space it out throughout the game. And it seems to
Speaker 5: be working well. You know, I feel loose enough and
Speaker 5: just can't sit down for too long. You know, you
Speaker 5: just kind of move around enough, and then if that
Speaker 5: phone phone call is hopefully the adrenaline just takes over
Speaker 5: and you're ready to go.
Speaker 1: Hey, Clayton, Emma Sheen and Jack Dryer down in the
Speaker 1: bullpen with you. They did let me know that you
Speaker 1: allowed them to stay with you for a week while
Speaker 1: the family was out of town during the month of September.
Speaker 1: What does it mean to you that, I know, guys
Speaker 1: that watched you pitch are now your teammates. But to
Speaker 1: be able to just talk baseball with them and allow
Speaker 1: them to hear you talk about the game.
Speaker 5: Oh no, I don't know about all that. They're just
Speaker 5: good guys, you know. And it's no fun to live
Speaker 5: in a hotel all year, and that's what those guys
Speaker 5: have been doing, so, you know, no family around. It
Speaker 5: would be fun for them to get down to the
Speaker 5: beach and hang out. And you know, we had fun.
Speaker 5: I had to wake them up a little earlier, so
Speaker 5: I got to have a little more time. You know,
Speaker 5: get down the bees, hang out. We'll grab some breakfast.
Speaker 5: But you know, when you're twenty five, you just sleep
Speaker 5: till noon every day. So but it was it was
Speaker 5: good to happen around and I think they appreciate it.
Speaker 5: And it was fun for me too.
Speaker 1: They said you would wait up for them because you
Speaker 1: would get home before before they got back from the stadium,
Speaker 1: So you were waiting up for them.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm just like the that was like the room dad,
Speaker 5: you know, make sure they get home okay, and you know,
Speaker 5: have the fire on for him and yeah, ready to
Speaker 5: go put them in bad it.
Speaker 1: Took him in. Yeah, I get you. Clayton Kershaw is
Speaker 1: joining us on Dodger Talk Game three tomorrow night at
Speaker 1: Dodgers Stadium. Incredible, Clayton, that you guys were able to
Speaker 1: win two games in Philadelphia. You know what that environment
Speaker 1: was all about back in two thousand and nine for
Speaker 1: you guys to have this type of lead. Do you
Speaker 1: feel like you you guys are in a good position
Speaker 1: to close this out tomorrow?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 5: I mean we should great. I mean we got Yama
Speaker 5: on the mound at our in Dodger Stadium. You know
Speaker 5: that's been a pretty good recipe before us this season.
Speaker 5: But uh, you know, it's a short series, five game series,
Speaker 5: so you know, they they somehow win a game, it
Speaker 5: gets quick, it gets uh, it gets close fast. So
Speaker 5: we gotta, uh, we gotta make sure not to let
Speaker 5: up at all tomorrow and try to close this thing
Speaker 5: out in three.
Speaker 1: I know we've talked about this before. Is Yama Moto
Speaker 1: and Blake Snell maybe two of the most underappreciated guys
Speaker 1: out there, Clayton, because it seems like a lot of
Speaker 1: other pitchers get the attention, but they've been such a
Speaker 1: big part of the rotation for you Yama all year
Speaker 1: and Snell since he came back from the I L.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean Yama, Yama's going to be second in
Speaker 5: the cy Young, you know, and I think if it
Speaker 5: wasn't for Paul Skans. You know, he's he's a cy
Speaker 5: Young winner, So for for him to do what he
Speaker 5: did all season, and you know, I don't know about
Speaker 5: what other people think about appreciated or underappreciated or whatever,
Speaker 5: but on our team, you know, those two guys have
Speaker 5: been unbelievable for us. And you know, Blake, we've all
Speaker 5: known he's one of the best in the game. You know,
Speaker 5: obviously he was hurt a lot this year, but he
Speaker 5: is a two time cy Young Award winner. You know,
Speaker 5: he's he's pretty solid and man, he stepped up in
Speaker 5: a big way yesterday in Philly, and he just seems to,
Speaker 5: you know, bring out the best when it's a big
Speaker 5: moment for him. So huge for both of those guys. Obviously,
Speaker 5: we got show, Hey, we got Glass, We got a
Speaker 5: lot of guys throwing the ball really well. So it's
Speaker 5: a it's a fun time to be on the Dodger
Speaker 5: staff right now.
Speaker 1: When you're in the bullpen. Roki Sasaki obviously new to
Speaker 1: that bullpen. What's his demeanor like? And I mean it's
Speaker 1: been incredible to see his transformation from the last time
Speaker 1: we saw him to be this, this killer in the
Speaker 1: ninth inning.
Speaker 5: He's been great, man.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 5: I think he's probably learning the bullten on the fly too,
Speaker 5: just like some of us. And he's handling it super well.
Speaker 5: You know, I think he would tell you that he's
Speaker 5: got some nerves with it, but uh, he's keeping it
Speaker 5: under control. He's handling it well. And I think the
Speaker 5: greatest thing he's just coming in and attacking hitters, coming
Speaker 5: right at guys and getting the head, throwing a hundred
Speaker 5: right by guys, and then it really sets up his split,
Speaker 5: which is, uh, you know, if he if he's able
Speaker 5: to throw that and get ahead of guys and be
Speaker 5: able to throw that split, it's going to be pretty
Speaker 5: much impossible because that thing is special, so obviously we
Speaker 5: need it. It's fun to see him out there, and
Speaker 5: you got to give him a lot of credit. You know,
Speaker 5: it's been a hard year for him and for him
Speaker 5: to just learn the bullpen like this on the fly
Speaker 5: and all of a sudden start closing games for US
Speaker 5: is super impressive.
Speaker 1: What do you think it is with the newer generation
Speaker 1: of pictures. Do you feel like confidence comes from the
Speaker 1: velocity or do you feel like their confidence is predetermines
Speaker 1: how they're going to pitch and and be able to
Speaker 1: throw one hundred miles an hour. Do you feel like
Speaker 1: pictures today need to throw that hard to have confidence
Speaker 1: on the mound.
Speaker 5: Chicken or the egg Dave? You know, I don't know,
Speaker 5: you know, I think I mean, honestly, it's confidence first.
Speaker 5: You know, there's a lot of guys that throw a
Speaker 5: hundred out there that aren't confident to get whacked around
Speaker 5: out there, you know, So you know, it obviously takes
Speaker 5: a little bit of success at times, but sometimes it
Speaker 5: takes a mind shift. Sometimes it takes a role shift
Speaker 5: like starter a bullpen. I don't know, but younger generation,
Speaker 5: older generation, it's all about how you mentally prepare and
Speaker 5: how confident you are, and whether you throw ninety or
Speaker 5: one hundred. What's in between the years?
Speaker 1: Usually as a separator, Clayton kersh eyes our guest before
Speaker 1: I let you go, Clayton, everybody's still talking about that
Speaker 1: wheel play in the ninth innc. I mean that's not
Speaker 1: something that you see a lot. You don't see teams
Speaker 1: bunt as much as they used to. Oh what was
Speaker 1: your vantage point in? I mean, are you what does
Speaker 1: that say about Mookie Betts? Now is a shortstop to
Speaker 1: be so forceful to insist on, you know, being ready
Speaker 1: for that type of play?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean the wheel play is typically with runners
Speaker 5: on first and second right, So I don't know if
Speaker 5: that's ever really been a thing. Is like a wheel
Speaker 5: play was just a runner on second base because the
Speaker 5: runner can stop and then you're kind of screwed, you know.
Speaker 5: So I think with all that into consideration and knowing
Speaker 5: how important that run was pretty amazing and obviously a
Speaker 5: lot of things had to go right. But yeah, like
Speaker 5: you said, Mooki's kind of takeing ownership of that infield.
Speaker 5: You know, he's been a goal glove shortstop. He might
Speaker 5: even win the Gold Glove this year, which is pretty
Speaker 5: amazing when you think about it. And so for him
Speaker 5: to do that, get to get the infield in order
Speaker 5: months to execute it, him to get the tag down. Obviously,
Speaker 5: it was the play of the game, and you just
Speaker 5: you need that stuff in the postseason. You need guys
Speaker 5: to come up huge, and that was one of those
Speaker 5: moments right there.
Speaker 1: Well, thank you for calling in. Looking forward to more
Speaker 1: of those type of moments moving through October, and can't
Speaker 1: wait to see you come out of the bullpen tomorrow night.
Speaker 5: All right, don't sign me to the mountain, Dave. My
Speaker 5: job is going to be slow, so don't sign me.
Speaker 1: All right, I will There is a clock now. You
Speaker 1: gotta get to the infield dirt at a certain point.
Speaker 5: All right, Hopefully I'll get a couple warm up pitches
Speaker 5: then at least.
Speaker 1: Okay, we'll see you tomorrow. Thank you for calling in.
Speaker 5: Hey, anytime, Dave, We'll see you.
Speaker 1: Okay, see you tomorrow. There he goes Clayton Kershaw. Great guy,
Speaker 1: down to earth guy, maybe the most down to earth
Speaker 1: superstar you will ever meet. Eight six six nine seven
Speaker 1: two five seventy is the phone number. We're gonna take
Speaker 1: a time out here on Dodger Talk. When we come back,
Speaker 1: your phone calls and we'll get deeper into last night's
Speaker 1: game and what's ahead for Game three of the NLDS
Speaker 1: between the Dodgers and Phillies. David vassay with you until
Speaker 1: eight o'clock right here, on five seventy LA Sports.
Speaker 7: Both MONSI a third, I mean his events is going
Speaker 7: over to third from a short stop position.
Speaker 8: Bessie A kicks and fire Stott gets the bunt down
Speaker 8: to third. Picked up on Munsie, he goes to third
Speaker 8: and Castianos is gonna be out execute the play two
Speaker 8: perfession Rick.
Speaker 7: Munday, absolute gutsy play by Max Munsey. He had his
Speaker 7: body in position to begin with. I think the Phillies
Speaker 7: gonna challenge this, have really nothing to lose to challenge it.
Speaker 7: And Mookie Betts stood his ground because Bets he got
Speaker 7: knocked over on that tag, but for months he the
Speaker 7: good throat of Bets. Bets got there in time, and
Speaker 7: what an athletic catching tag by Mookie Betts. Terrific play
Speaker 7: on the fundamentals of the game in the ninth and again.
Speaker 1: Play of the game last night to help the Dodgers
Speaker 1: hold on for a four to three win and take
Speaker 1: a commanding two games to nothing lead in the NLDS.
Speaker 1: The Dodgers can close out the Phillies tomorrow night at
Speaker 1: Dodgers Stadium, first pitch at six oh eight, right here
Speaker 1: on AM five to seventy LA Sports. Thanks again to
Speaker 1: Clayton Kershaw for calling in, and thanks to Juanderrado from
Speaker 1: the Dodgers delivering it was it was. I was out
Speaker 1: there since two o'clock this afternoon waiting to talk to
Speaker 1: somebody and had a leaf, had a leaf, had to
Speaker 1: get back to the studio here in Burbank to host
Speaker 1: an off day Dodger talk. The team landed at LAX
Speaker 1: around two thirty two o'clock in the morning, and both
Speaker 1: teams were out there today having a workout before Game three.
Speaker 1: The Phillies, from what I gathered, actually left Philadelphia this morning,
Speaker 1: landed and went directly to Dodger Stadium, and the Dodgers
Speaker 1: left immediately after last night's game, got whatever rest they needed,
Speaker 1: and were back out at Dodger Stadium around one or
Speaker 1: two o'clock this afternoon, and the workout probably ended around
Speaker 1: five or six o'clock tonight, or actually six or seven
Speaker 1: o'clock tonight. Clayton Kershaw was I think he was just
Speaker 1: about leaving Dodger Stadium or was at Dodger Stadium. So
Speaker 1: thank you to him for calling in. Appreciated and still
Speaker 1: waiting for him to throw a pitch in this year's postseason.
Speaker 1: Looking forward, to that. And look, you know it's a
Speaker 1: sensitive subject right now when it comes to the Dodger relievers.
Speaker 1: And that's a big reason why the Dodgers have turned
Speaker 1: to Roki Sasaki, They've turned to Emmitshian, They've turned to
Speaker 1: Tyler Glass. Now it's time to turn to Clayton Kershaw.
Speaker 1: I have no hesitations to go to Kershaw. I know,
Speaker 1: I feel like everybody treated his last start in Seattle
Speaker 1: like that was it. But he's got a lot left
Speaker 1: in the tank. And one thing that you need coming
Speaker 1: out of the bullpen is that competitive spirit and not
Speaker 1: being scared. And you know Kershaw will not be scared.
Speaker 1: Eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy is
Speaker 1: the phone number. By the way, tomorrow the Phillies are
Speaker 1: going to throw Aaron Nola at the Dodgers. He has
Speaker 1: not had a good season, he has not had a
Speaker 1: good September, and the Phillies are still going with him
Speaker 1: because they like what they saw in his last start.
Speaker 1: And then from there they're bringing in Rangers Suarez. And
Speaker 1: also a note, as far as the Phillies go, Harrison
Speaker 1: Bader is going to be a game time decision. Remember,
Speaker 1: he injured his groin in the first game of this series.
Speaker 1: Was not able to start last night, but did come
Speaker 1: off the bench as a pinch hitter. And the Phillies thing.
Speaker 1: Changing uniforms is going to change their mojo because they
Speaker 1: have lost nine of the last eleven postseason games that
Speaker 1: they have played. They're going to wear those throwback seventies
Speaker 1: baby Blues and just a reminder, the last time they
Speaker 1: were wearing those uniforms, the Dodgers beat them in the
Speaker 1: seventy seven and seventy eight NLCS. And Steve Garvey is
Speaker 1: going to throw out the ceremonial first pitch tomorrow night.
Speaker 1: He was the nineteen seventy eight NLCS MVP. Eight six
Speaker 1: six nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 1: Let's go out to Jim in Menefee. You're on Dodger
Speaker 1: Talk with David vasse Hi.
Speaker 9: Jim, Hey, Dave, thank you so much for taking my call. Buddy,
Speaker 9: I really loved your show. I've been following you for
Speaker 9: a long time. Great show, best show on the radio.
Speaker 1: Thank you much.
Speaker 9: Yesterday, all right from me. Yesterday, there was a guy
Speaker 9: that got ticked off by Blake Snell in about the
Speaker 9: fifth inning. I don't know the Phillies player. But he
Speaker 9: got picked off. And I'm looking at the game and
Speaker 9: I'm seeing the picture used both of his disengagement, especially
Speaker 9: the second one, was a really lazy throw over the
Speaker 9: first basis.
Speaker 4: Of man, he wasted his disengagement.
Speaker 9: But if you notice he hesitated on the mound a
Speaker 9: longer time than he normally does and got the guy
Speaker 9: in the rundown and got him out. Do you think
Speaker 9: that Blake Smail did that on purpose? Was that planned
Speaker 9: or maybe just off the cuff.
Speaker 1: Well, I could tell you this, even Kershaw, I've seen
Speaker 1: him where they manipulate the clock. They know they've got
Speaker 1: a clock, and they have two disengagements to use, and
Speaker 1: even sometimes you'll see like a fake throw, it's just
Speaker 1: to regroup and be able to catch your breath because
Speaker 1: a lot of times with the pitch clock, sometimes he
Speaker 1: could wear you out and you could get fatigued out there.
Speaker 1: So that's a way to buy yourself some extra time
Speaker 1: if you're a starting pitcher.
Speaker 9: Okay, but did you notice he really took a long
Speaker 9: pause before the next pitch and runner went knowing that
Speaker 9: the two dist engagements were gone. I thought that Blake
Speaker 9: every showed the close up of Blake. It looked like
Speaker 9: the look on his face like I got this fool.
Speaker 6: Him.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean his move was great. He picked off
Speaker 1: Marsh in that inning, and yeah, he picked off Brandon Marsh.
Speaker 1: I mean he had a pretty good pickoff move there,
Speaker 1: and you know he had Trey Turner dead to rights.
Speaker 1: If Mookie Betts is able to catch the ball that
Speaker 1: was low and Turner in the sixth inning would have
Speaker 1: been out. So yeah, I mean that's part of a
Speaker 1: lefty got to have that move. Thanks for the phone call,
Speaker 1: appreciate it. Let's go out to Manny and Guardina. You're
Speaker 1: on Dodger Talk Live on an off day, Manny, how
Speaker 1: you doing? Manny? What do you got? Oh many swung
Speaker 1: and missed? I mean that I feel like Manny has
Speaker 1: not been on his game lately. Let's go out to
Speaker 1: Westlake Village. John. You're on Dodger Talk. How you doing, John?
Speaker 6: Yeah, David, great coverage is always. Uh. You know, there's
Speaker 6: one thing you had a great interview on PMS on
Speaker 6: Petros and Money Show today. But the question that Petro's
Speaker 6: asked about Aaron Nola, I just have to disagree with
Speaker 6: your answer. I think Aaron Nola. He's he's a star.
Speaker 6: I mean he was hurt for three months. He had
Speaker 6: a tough, uh, you know, a tough return to the mound,
Speaker 6: but his last outing eight innings nine k's. The guy's
Speaker 6: a clutch performer. You want Nola on the mound over
Speaker 6: Suarez for sure if you're Affilly. And the last time
Speaker 6: that Philly was at Dodgers Stadium, I think they won three,
Speaker 6: you know, three out of four or two out of
Speaker 6: three or whatever. They three they killed the Dodgers. Yeah, three.
Speaker 6: Hold on, John, Dodgers.
Speaker 1: John, let's talk about Aaron Nola. Aaron Nola, I mean
Speaker 1: outside of that one start, the last start that he made,
Speaker 1: you kind of sound like the Phillies, by the way,
Speaker 1: that's the whole reason why they're going with him. And
Speaker 1: somebody even asked their manager, Rob Thompson, if Nola did
Speaker 1: not pitch as well as he did in his last start,
Speaker 1: would he even be making this start tomorrow night? And
Speaker 1: he said, oh, I can't. He stumbled and said, I
Speaker 1: can't answer you know, hypothetical questions, which tells me a
Speaker 1: guy with a five ERA in the month of September
Speaker 1: is not a sure thing. The guy that they miss
Speaker 1: is Zach Wheeler. Sounded like you were describing Zach Wheeler
Speaker 1: more than Aaron Nola.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but you have to understand the history of Nola. Listen,
Speaker 6: I hope that I hope the Dodgers proved me wrong tomorrow.
Speaker 6: But I think Nola sends this to you know, a
Speaker 6: game four.
Speaker 1: So why do you think that he has a six
Speaker 1: cra in seventeen starts this year.
Speaker 6: Because he's a clutch performer. Nola has been great his
Speaker 6: entire career, and he's a guy you can rely on.
Speaker 6: Yamamoto is amazing too. I think Yamamoto could easily outpitch
Speaker 6: Nola tomorrow one hundred percent. But I don't think this.
Speaker 6: I don't see sweep. The Phillies are a good team.
Speaker 6: They are they are in Nola's LEA team, and.
Speaker 1: I think they're really good. John and close out games
Speaker 1: are tough against good teams. But the fact is the
Speaker 1: Phillies are being reminded constantly about their failures. And Aaron
Speaker 1: Nola is so good that he gave up four runs
Speaker 1: in five innings in last year's one playoff game that
Speaker 1: he pitched against the Mets that the Phillies needed to have.
Speaker 1: John I feel like you're giving Aaron Nola a little
Speaker 1: bit too much credit. I don't think it's gonna go. Well.
Speaker 6: Hey, I hope you're right, you know, I really do.
Speaker 6: I I hope you're right. You know what I've I've
Speaker 6: been so impressed by the Dodgers defense has been unbelievable
Speaker 6: behind their pitching staff. It's really I mean that play
Speaker 6: from Munsey to Bets, it's a classic, you know, for eternity,
Speaker 6: it's one of the best plays maybe in MLB history.
Speaker 6: You know, it had to be perfect, and that's what
Speaker 6: they needed in the ninth inning. I mean, you know,
Speaker 6: this team, it's a special team. Otani on the mound.
Speaker 6: It doesn't matter if he strikes out four times, because
Speaker 6: he's going to strike you out nine times. So it's
Speaker 6: it's a special team. I hope they sweep tomorrow, but
Speaker 6: I think you have to give a little bit more credit.
Speaker 1: Uh No, I don't. I don't know the starting I
Speaker 1: know that he's not the same guy that you're thinking about,
Speaker 1: maybe from even last year where he made thirty three
Speaker 1: starts and was pretty good, but he wasn't good in
Speaker 1: the playoff game.
Speaker 6: Let's make make a deal if if he has seven
Speaker 6: solid or six solid innings, seven aks.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll take the under on seven. John, go ahead,
Speaker 1: call me tomorrow night. I guarantee tomorrow he won't even
Speaker 1: go six.
Speaker 6: I'll call tomorrow night, and you bet it. Call you'll
Speaker 6: you know.
Speaker 1: I guarantee he won't even go sick.
Speaker 6: He'll put me on.
Speaker 1: I will put you on.
Speaker 6: I mean, will Ronnie. Will Ronnie be working tomorrow?
Speaker 1: No, no, Ronnie, don't worry about it.
Speaker 6: John.
Speaker 1: Just call back tomorrow and I can guarantee you Aaron
Speaker 1: Nola is not going six innings tomorrow. I can guarantee it.
Speaker 1: The Dodgers, by the way, are one of the hottest offenses.
Speaker 1: Nobody wants to acknowledge this either that the Dodgers have
Speaker 1: won nine games in a row dating back to u
Speaker 1: September twenty fourth in Arizona. The Dodgers have a nine
Speaker 1: game winning streak. Did you know that, you and mister
Speaker 1: Aaron Nola, did you know that you're gonna have to
Speaker 1: cool off a really hot team right now? And look,
Speaker 1: I'm not the guy that's saying, oh, if the Dodgers
Speaker 1: beat the Phillies, they're going to the World Series. I'm
Speaker 1: not that guy. I've talked to a lot of people
Speaker 1: that believe whoever's winning this series is going to the
Speaker 1: World Series. I'm not one of them. I think the
Speaker 1: Dodgers are going to have their hands full in a
Speaker 1: seven game series against the Brewers, who beat the Dodgers
Speaker 1: all six times this year in the regular season. Now,
Speaker 1: I know that's a different time and place, but people
Speaker 1: just continue to discount the Brewers, who had the best
Speaker 1: record in baseball, who do a lot of the little
Speaker 1: things right similar to the Dodgers last year. They don't
Speaker 1: make mistakes on defense, they're really good at base running.
Speaker 1: They have a really good bullpen, and the Dodgers are
Speaker 1: going to have to dip into their bullpen to a
Speaker 1: certain extent in a best of seven game series in
Speaker 1: the Championship Series and if they're fortunate enough to get
Speaker 1: to the World Series. So you know, this is a
Speaker 1: big hurdle and it's going to help the Dodgers big
Speaker 1: time if they can sweep the Phillies to set up
Speaker 1: their rotation for the NLCS, which likely is going to
Speaker 1: start in Milwaukee. I don't see the Cubs coming back.
Speaker 1: It would be nice that the Cubs could make it
Speaker 1: a series, but I see a Dodgers Brewers NLCS beginning
Speaker 1: Monday in Milwaukee. Eight six six nine eight seven two
Speaker 1: five seventy is the phone number. We're going to take
Speaker 1: a time out here on Dodger Talk when we continue
Speaker 1: more of your phone calls. And I do want to
Speaker 1: get into how the Dodgers were super fortunate to win
Speaker 1: that game. Even before the ninth inning. There was some
Speaker 1: questionable defense last night that the Dodgers cannot repeat tomorrow
Speaker 1: night or moving forward, Dodgers are going to sweep the
Speaker 1: Phillies tomorrow. Be ready. First pitch at six oh eight
Speaker 1: right here on a five to seventy LA sports.
Speaker 8: Part of the miss playing right field, and the Phillies
Speaker 8: scored three runs in the second inning. He can make
Speaker 8: up for it with one swing. The pitch get high
Speaker 8: in the air right center field, bait her on the
Speaker 8: run on the warning track. He's at the wall.
Speaker 1: It's gone.
Speaker 2: Tayo time.
Speaker 8: In game one, he flips the scoreboard with a three
Speaker 8: run bomb.
Speaker 7: Then all of a sudden, Citizens Bank Park resembles a library,
Speaker 7: nice and quiet. Den Bo just continued to travel and travel.
Speaker 1: Te Oscar Hernandez coming up big in the first two
Speaker 1: games of the NLDS in Philadelphia. That one the goal
Speaker 1: I had backbreaker, three run home run in the seventh inning,
Speaker 1: and the Dodgers return home with a chance to close
Speaker 1: out the Phillies tomorrow night at Dodgers Date in a
Speaker 1: three game sweep. It will be Yoshi Yamamoto going up
Speaker 1: against Aaron Nola and Ranger Suarez in some form or fashion.
Speaker 1: The Phillies are gonna throw everything they have at the
Speaker 1: Dodgers tomorrow night to try to extend this series. But Yamamoto,
Speaker 1: you heard Kershaw say it. If it wasn't for Paul Skenes,
Speaker 1: Yamamoto would be this year's National League Cy Young Award winner.
Speaker 1: And thank you again to Clayton Kershaw for calling in.
Speaker 1: Thanks again to Wanderrado from the Dodgers for making that happen.
Speaker 1: Eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy is
Speaker 1: the phone number, you know. I kind of believe the
Speaker 1: Dodgers need to tighten some defense up. I was not
Speaker 1: happy with some of the plays and lack up plays
Speaker 1: that they made last night in Philadelphia. They were very
Speaker 1: fortunate to come away with that win. Needless to say,
Speaker 1: Blake Trinon not sharp last night. But the defense wasn't
Speaker 1: sharp either. Even on the Nick Castellanos double in the
Speaker 1: ninth inning, Tommy Edmond missed the tag where Castellanos would
Speaker 1: have been out. He wouldn't have even been at second
Speaker 1: base to be thrown out at third on that wheel play.
Speaker 1: All Edmund had to do was drop the glove in
Speaker 1: front of the base. Instead, he swipe tag missed Castanos
Speaker 1: and that was a big miss. Tommy Edmund did not
Speaker 1: have a great game last night. Even the bad throw
Speaker 1: to Freddie Freeman to end the game on Trey Turner's
Speaker 1: routine grounder. He was fortunate Freddy Freeman was his first
Speaker 1: baseman where that ball's going into the Phillies dugout and
Speaker 1: in the first inning, all he needed to do was
Speaker 1: get a base sit. He struck out on three pitches
Speaker 1: in the first inning with runners at first and third
Speaker 1: and two outs. So you know, Tommy Edmond has come
Speaker 1: up big for the Dodgers in the postseason. That may
Speaker 1: have been his most disappointing game as a Dodger in
Speaker 1: the postseason. I don't expect that to repeat it. Andy Pahez,
Speaker 1: who has fallen in love with throwing out runners, he
Speaker 1: had a misplaying the eighth inning on Mex Kepler's triple
Speaker 1: no need in right field to try to throw out Kepler.
Speaker 1: He picked up his head and the ball went to
Speaker 1: the wall behind him, and Kepler was at third base
Speaker 1: for the first run. And Miguel Rojas almost cost the
Speaker 1: Dodgers in the third inning. He was playing deep on
Speaker 1: the edge of the dirt at third base. Alec Bohm
Speaker 1: hits a ground ball to him, hard hit ground ball.
Speaker 1: All he needs to do is throw it across the diamond.
Speaker 1: I know he hasn't played a lot of third base. Instead,
Speaker 1: he tried to beat Trey Turner to third base, and
Speaker 1: it may have cost him the rest of the series
Speaker 1: because Dave Roberts said, Miguel Rojas now is nursing a
Speaker 1: left hamstring now on that play. After that play, he
Speaker 1: was fortunate he beat Turner by this much, but he
Speaker 1: came away with it thirty six years old, with a
Speaker 1: strain left hamstring and is not going to be in
Speaker 1: the lineup tomorrow. So that was almost a very costly mistake,
Speaker 1: and he admitted that after the game. But he's thirty
Speaker 1: six years old. I mean, he's been a big part
Speaker 1: of the Dodgers this year and hopefully he'll be ready
Speaker 1: to go for the NLCS. And you know, the Dodgers
Speaker 1: saved themselves with that wheel play, or you would have
Speaker 1: just gave them an F on defense last night. Eight
Speaker 1: six six nine eighty seven two five seventy is the
Speaker 1: phone number. Let's go out to Londale. Jose. You're on
Speaker 1: Dodger Talk with David vasse Hi Jose.
Speaker 4: Hey, David, how are you? Thanks for taking my call,
Speaker 4: My pleasure, first time calling. Hey, letst I just wanted
Speaker 4: to call and say that I really like the way
Speaker 4: you show you actually present things like they are. You
Speaker 4: don't kiss anybody's butt, and you say it like this,
Speaker 4: So I really appreciate that. And also I get that
Speaker 4: out of all the Dodger managers calling in or the
Speaker 4: French people that are always saying we we we.
Speaker 1: Hey, there you go.
Speaker 4: Fans. Yeah, that's right, fans, watch the show, enjoy it.
Speaker 4: When we win, celebrate if we lose, the sun will
Speaker 4: come up tomorrow. I think the Dodgers just need to
Speaker 4: play tomorrow like they're down to nothing and that will
Speaker 4: be okay. They'll be okay.
Speaker 1: I'm with you have that urgency close them out, don't
Speaker 1: you don't want to give them air. You want to
Speaker 1: put them away. Tomorrow night at Dodgers Stadium, you do
Speaker 1: not want to give them air. And if there is
Speaker 1: a Game four, you would have Tyler glass Now starting
Speaker 1: that game. How sweet would it be if the Dodgers
Speaker 1: win tomorrow and then you have uh Otani fresh ready
Speaker 1: to go. And look, the Dodgers aren't going to tip
Speaker 1: their hands, but if they have the lead in the
Speaker 1: ninth inning tomorrow night, I would say it's on the
Speaker 1: table that show. Hey, Otani closes out that game because
Speaker 1: you wouldn't need him until Game two of the NLCS.
Speaker 1: Blake SNeW would be on regular if not an extra
Speaker 1: day of rest for Game one on Monday. After pitching
Speaker 1: last night in Philadelphia. You can have Otani close out
Speaker 1: Tomorrow night and be ready to start Game two of
Speaker 1: the NLCS, and then you come back home and have
Speaker 1: Yamamoto and Glass now And that would allow the Dodgers
Speaker 1: to deploy glass Now out of the bullpen again in
Speaker 1: one of the first two games of the NLCS. So
Speaker 1: for the Dodgers to be set up perfectly and be
Speaker 1: able to use their starters, Sheehan and glass Now out
Speaker 1: of the bullpen in Milwaukee, which I believe is going
Speaker 1: to happen. I'm sorry, Justin Turner. I don't see the
Speaker 1: Cubs coming back to win the NLDS over there. But
Speaker 1: winning tomorrow night is not just about closing any hopes
Speaker 1: for the Phillies to come back in this series and
Speaker 1: force a Game five, but also set you up perfectly
Speaker 1: to be in a position to win the NLCS against
Speaker 1: maybe the most overlooked opponent in the Milwaukee Brewers. I know,
Speaker 1: I know they got to win one more game, but
Speaker 1: I just don't see it happening. Eight six, six nine
Speaker 1: eight seven two five seventy is the phone number. Don't forget.
Speaker 1: Game three of the NLDS is tomorrow night at six
Speaker 1: to eight. If there is a Game four, which I
Speaker 1: don't believe there will be, but if there is, first
Speaker 1: pitch at three to zero eight, all right, let's try
Speaker 1: our guy, Manny and Guardena. I like this guy too
Speaker 1: much to shut him out after not being there being ready,
Speaker 1: I mean, many, you gotta be ready. You gotta be
Speaker 1: ready in during playoff time.
Speaker 10: My bad, my bad, A days you know, just wanted
Speaker 10: to command you on an excellent show as usual, bringing
Speaker 10: Kershaw to talk to the Dodgers fam base.
Speaker 11: And uh yeah, I'm with you, man. You know, while
Speaker 11: we need to be happy and see how well this
Speaker 11: team comes together, they're playing like a family, but at
Speaker 11: times they are very sloppy, you know, the defense rearing
Speaker 11: its odd of the head, the bullpen throwing up you know,
Speaker 11: blue tips with the gas can instead of putting out
Speaker 11: the fire, and just so it's tough. But one thing, man,
Speaker 11: we got to give credit to Doc Roberts and Freedmen
Speaker 11: and all the guys that have been selected, you know
Speaker 11: that got their name called on these rosters because again, man,
Speaker 11: even though they've had their hiccups, they have shown the
Speaker 11: heart of a champion. And I love what I see
Speaker 11: in this team. They're gelling at the right time, like
Speaker 11: you've been saying, you know, the nine grade straight winning streak,
Speaker 11: and it's going to continue.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 10: I really think that this Dodger team is just the
Speaker 10: best as far as when it comes to crunch time,
Speaker 10: Milwaukee looks good. They had our number during the year,
Speaker 10: but let's see if they could do it right now,
Speaker 10: because I know the boys are going to show up
Speaker 10: back to back world champions. Baby God, Dodgers, all.
Speaker 1: Right, Mannie, Thank you for the phone call closing it out.
Speaker 1: Strong love hearing that. And look, the Dodgers have more
Speaker 1: talent than any other team in baseball that is still
Speaker 1: left in the postseason. But what the Brewers do so
Speaker 1: well is they execute. That's what they do. They execute,
Speaker 1: and they don't make mistakes. And they've got no pressure
Speaker 1: on them. Nobody is still buying the Brewers despite them
Speaker 1: having the best record in the National League this year.
Speaker 1: And speaking of the postseason picture, the Mariners beat the
Speaker 1: Tigers and Jack Flaherty tonight to take a two games
Speaker 1: to one lead in that ALDS matchup. The Mariners beat
Speaker 1: the Tigers eight to four. Jack Flerity started that game
Speaker 1: for Detroit. And how about the Yankees at Yankee Stadium.
Speaker 1: They were down six to one in the third inning,
Speaker 1: and the Yankees have come back and they now have
Speaker 1: a nine nined a sixth lead in the seventh inning
Speaker 1: over the Blue Jays. So they're trying to stay alive.
Speaker 1: If they lose this game, they are done. The Blue
Speaker 1: Jays have a two games to nothing lead in that
Speaker 1: ALDS series. One other thing to keep in mind about
Speaker 1: this matchup between the Dodgers and Phillies. Two of the
Speaker 1: best slugging teams in the National League this year and
Speaker 1: Major League Baseball is we've only seen one home run
Speaker 1: from these two teams, and that one was from te
Speaker 1: Oscar Hernandez in Game one of the series. Haven't seen
Speaker 1: a home run since then. And Dodgers Stadium growing up,
Speaker 1: if you've been a Dodger fan for a long time,
Speaker 1: you've known that Dodger Stadium has long been held as
Speaker 1: a pitchers ballpark, keeps the ball inside the ballpark. Back
Speaker 1: in the day before the renovations and adding extra seats,
Speaker 1: there was a lot of foul territories, so that also
Speaker 1: made it a pitcher's ballpark. But since the there's not
Speaker 1: a lot of foul territory behind home played and down
Speaker 1: the lines, it's given hitters new life and all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, I remember Don Mattingly talking about this in
Speaker 1: twenty fourteen, that Dodgers Stadium all of a sudden was
Speaker 1: a hitters ballpark and the ball was flying. There was
Speaker 1: no more you know, marine layer in April and around
Speaker 1: this time in October, and interesting enough, Mike Petriello from
Speaker 1: MLB dot Com brought this up. And it's something that
Speaker 1: everybody's aware of but didn't have the exact number until
Speaker 1: today that eighty nine more home runs were hit in
Speaker 1: Dodger home games than in Dodger road games. And that's
Speaker 1: combined between both teams. So tomorrow night, if today's weather
Speaker 1: was any indication, the ball is going to be flying.
Speaker 1: And really, whoever outslugs the other team is probably going
Speaker 1: to win Tomorrow Night's game. And I have a feeling
Speaker 1: that Dodgers are going want to hit at least two
Speaker 1: home runs tomorrow night against Aaron Nola and Ranger Suarez.
Speaker 1: Let's go out to Eagle Rock. Emilio, you're on Dodger
Speaker 1: Talk with David VASEI Hi, Emilio.
Speaker 9: Full it's up, David.
Speaker 12: How's it going, man?
Speaker 1: Great? How are you?
Speaker 6: I'm doing well.
Speaker 12: I'm doing well man. So I just wanted to say, Man,
Speaker 12: the Phillies fans think that they're loud, wait till they
Speaker 12: come to Dodgers Stadium. I live in Eagle Rock, and
Speaker 12: I swear I feel like I can hear the crowd
Speaker 12: when it's a home game. But yeah, I can't wait
Speaker 12: for tomorrow. I hope we close it out. I got
Speaker 12: a lot of respect for the Brewers if we do
Speaker 12: face them. I know we will.
Speaker 6: I went to.
Speaker 3: The stadium earlier this year and it's a beautiful stadium.
Speaker 3: You know, the fans are always engaged, but there's nothing
Speaker 3: like that Dodger blue, that love that we got for
Speaker 3: La Baby. But just wanted to show some love and
Speaker 3: I hope we close it out tomorrow. You think we
Speaker 3: got it tomorrow?
Speaker 5: What do you think do I.
Speaker 1: Think the Dodgers got it tomorrow. I think there's a
Speaker 1: lot of pressure on the Phillies. Their offense has not
Speaker 1: woken up in this series. It hasn't been good in
Speaker 1: the postseason, and the Dodgers have got Yamamoto on the mound.
Speaker 1: I think everybody's got to recognize that the Phillies are
Speaker 1: not looking forward to facing Yamamoto after facing Otani and
Speaker 1: Snell to keep their season alive. He's going to set
Speaker 1: the tone early.
Speaker 6: Yes, sir, I love that.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 12: Hey, thanks for the time and go Dodgers.
Speaker 1: All right, Emilio, thank you for the phone call. And yeah,
Speaker 1: I heard Milwaukee's got a pretty good slide out there
Speaker 1: as well. You know that's part of the charm. All right.
Speaker 1: That'll do it for us on Dodger Talk tonight. Thanks
Speaker 1: to Ronnie Fossio for his help, and thank you again
Speaker 1: to Clayton Kershaw for calling in. In case you missed
Speaker 1: that conversation, you can find it on the iHeartRadio app.
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Speaker 1: and don't forget. Tomorrow morning, Tim Kats and Steve Sachs
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Speaker 1: in the morning throughout the entire postseason with scam As
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Speaker 1: at six oh eight between the Dodgers and Phillies with
Speaker 1: Yamamoto on the mound going up against Aaron Nola. Thanks
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