Speaker 1: The quest for the three peat has begun.
Speaker 2: Only four teams in Major League Baseball history have won
Speaker 2: three consecutive titles. The Dodgers are the favorites to become
Speaker 2: the fifth.
Speaker 3: This is World Champion Dodger Talk.
Speaker 1: Here we go again. We get ready running back.
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Speaker 3: now your host, here's Tim Kakes.
Speaker 2: Happy Easter Sunday, Everyboddy. Thanks for making us a part
Speaker 2: of your afternoon. Wherever you may be, we appreciate you
Speaker 2: taking us with you. Whether you're at the beach like
Speaker 2: my wife and daughter listening right now in Carpenteria, if
Speaker 2: you're in the South Bay.
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Speaker 1: Thanks for being with us. No matter where you may be.
Speaker 2: Hope you're enjoying your Easter Sunday and certainly enjoying a
Speaker 2: Dodgers win eight to six over the Washington Nationals. Rookie
Speaker 2: Sasaki had a rough day. The Dodgers six to one,
Speaker 2: scores seven unanswered runs to get the victory. Today I
Speaker 2: said it to Jose and the Clubhouse show. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: repeat it, and this is not gonna be the last
Speaker 2: time I say it. I'm sure we're gonna be talking
Speaker 2: about it and saying this all season long. This Dodgers lineup,
Speaker 2: when they get going, it is like a freight train.
Speaker 1: It is hard to stop.
Speaker 2: And the prime example is what the Dodgers were able
Speaker 2: to do after Dalton Rushing's home run the sixth inning,
Speaker 2: gave him a little life, cut into a six to
Speaker 2: one deficit, made it a six to three game. In
Speaker 2: the eighth inning against the reliever Perez, Freddie Freeman singles
Speaker 2: to right, pa Has doubles to left. Alex call not
Speaker 2: asked to go up there and hit a three run
Speaker 2: home run. Just move the line, keep it going, draws
Speaker 2: a four pitch walk. Espinal comes up, not asking you
Speaker 2: to club it up and hit the driver four hundred feet.
Speaker 1: Huh huh. Just move the line.
Speaker 2: Single decent score, two runs, keep the line moving. Will
Speaker 2: Smith comes up as a pinch hitter, draws a walk.
Speaker 1: Pitching change.
Speaker 2: Kyle Tucker Dodgers down six to five, don't need a
Speaker 2: grand slam, don't certainly want a double playball, but grounds
Speaker 2: into a fielder's choice, tying run comes in. Then show
Speaker 2: hey Otani with only one out, sack fly, the loft,
Speaker 2: go ahead run comes in. The line just keeps moving,
Speaker 2: The offense just keeps going. The depth of this team
Speaker 2: and what they can do to an opposing pitcher or
Speaker 2: bullpen is scary.
Speaker 1: That's how good they are.
Speaker 2: And so when we talked about the first home stand
Speaker 2: in which the top four hitters of the Dodgers weren't
Speaker 2: doing anything, all hitting below one seventy five, it wasn't
Speaker 2: gonna be that way all season long. Is andony Pia
Speaker 2: is gonna hit five hundred all year? No, the numbers
Speaker 2: are gonna level out. But certainly he's off to a
Speaker 2: great start, and the Dodgers win clicking. And when the
Speaker 2: big four are producing, you know, Tani's hitting home runs
Speaker 2: and Freddie Freeman's guys and get in on base, and
Speaker 2: then you add in the bottom of the lineup.
Speaker 1: Look out. This is why a team down six.
Speaker 2: To one, you can't say, all right, all right, fold
Speaker 2: up the tents, let's pack it up, and let's head
Speaker 2: to Toronto so we can make our dinner reservation tonight.
Speaker 1: It was good.
Speaker 2: We'll take two to three we'll settle for that. Let's
Speaker 2: go to the north of the border. Though they got fight,
Speaker 2: it's never a team that's out. Even though they're down
Speaker 2: six to one, they make it a six to three
Speaker 2: game in the six and then they just chip away
Speaker 2: at you and they just tack on runs and then
Speaker 2: they take the lead and then Taskar Hernandez with the
Speaker 2: run home run.
Speaker 1: The ninth in.
Speaker 2: It's just how good this team is, how talented this
Speaker 2: lineup is even a lineup today. Dodger fans who many
Speaker 2: of you and I heard from a free people text
Speaker 2: to me saying what lineup is Dave Roberts thrown out
Speaker 2: there today? No Will Smith, no Kyle Tucker, no Max Munsey,
Speaker 2: all three scheduled day offs, and the injury to Mookie
Speaker 2: Betts placed on the il before the game. Four starters
Speaker 2: not in the lineup today, doesn't matter. Santiago Espinal, Alex Call,
Speaker 2: Kyle Frielan, Miguel Rojas, Dalton rushing when their numbers called.
Speaker 2: They are coming through and performing. And it's not just
Speaker 2: home runs. It's not coming through with four for five days.
Speaker 2: It's just producing and doing the little things to help
Speaker 2: this Dodgers team win and That's exactly what helped happened today.
Speaker 2: It was a thing of beauty to watch the Dodgers
Speaker 2: what they did in the eighth inning, and to see
Speaker 2: that engine start with the Freddie Freeman single. The pot
Speaker 2: has double. You could just feel it. It's building. It's
Speaker 2: like a snowball rolling downhill. There's no way to stop it.
Speaker 2: And they scored four runs on three hits, a couple
Speaker 2: of walks in there, get back and take the lead
Speaker 2: and go on to win the game. Now, Roki Sasaki
Speaker 2: pitched well early on. It was getting swinging missus. Had
Speaker 2: some strikeouts on the slider, which he is now incorporating more.
Speaker 2: He had the fourth ball or splitter, whatever you want
Speaker 2: to call it, getting bite on it and getting swings
Speaker 2: and misses. Now, when you leave the ball up on
Speaker 2: his split finger, it's gonna get hit hard because they're
Speaker 2: basically throwing an eighty eight mile an hour pitch over
Speaker 2: the heart of the plate. Luis Garcia tagged him for
Speaker 2: a two run home run the third on a mistake.
Speaker 1: In the fourth inning, it was his own.
Speaker 2: Doing control issues, a walk, then a strikeout and with
Speaker 2: two outs, Hey, the baseball God's just not with Sazaki.
Speaker 2: On this play, a ball hit by caber Luiz hits
Speaker 2: the first base bag, goes up in the air over
Speaker 2: six foot six Freddie Freeman's extended glove in down the
Speaker 2: right field line to score a run.
Speaker 1: I mean, come on, there's nothing you could do about that.
Speaker 2: That should be ground ball, third out of the inning,
Speaker 2: still a two to one game. Instead, Ruiz gets to
Speaker 2: single off of it, and then what happens? Another single
Speaker 2: and then a three run home run on a splitter
Speaker 2: left up on an two pitch from James Wood makes
Speaker 2: it a six to one game. Baseball can change quickly.
Speaker 2: Dodgers flipped it their direction in the eighth inning, scoring
Speaker 2: four runs like they did the same thing happened to
Speaker 2: them though in Roki Susaki on a two out ground
Speaker 2: ball that hits the first base back.
Speaker 1: Are you kidding me?
Speaker 2: Of all the things the baseball gods are gonna do
Speaker 2: is have the ball hit the bag and go up
Speaker 2: and over like ski ball, up and over Freddie Freeman
Speaker 2: into den right field, down the line. Just a freak
Speaker 2: playing baseball you don't see very often. And it happened
Speaker 2: today to the Dodgers, and it ended up costing them
Speaker 2: with a big inning from the Washington Nationals. As it is,
Speaker 2: the Dodgers just too good. They come back and they
Speaker 2: win the game. Eight to six, eight six six, nine
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Speaker 2: actually north of the border in Toronto where the Dodgers
Speaker 2: are getting ready to ahead. I would return to the
Speaker 2: scene of the crime where the Dodgers won the World
Speaker 2: Series last year. Bob, how you doing, Welcome to Dodger Talk.
Speaker 4: Doing great and great to talk with you again. Yeah,
Speaker 4: My wife and I got into town on Friday night
Speaker 4: and have had an absolutely wonderful time. Toronto is a
Speaker 4: great city. People have been exceptionally nice to us, and
Speaker 4: we've watched the World Series games over and over and
Speaker 4: over again, and so we thought we would be here
Speaker 4: for the first of the three game series. The one
Speaker 4: caveats everything is we went out to dinner pretty late
Speaker 4: on Friday night. She had her Dodgers sweashed on I
Speaker 4: had my Dodgers hat on and I noticed a table
Speaker 4: next to us of six people staring and pointing at us.
Speaker 4: And I called my weight over and said, those guys
Speaker 4: looking at me, and he goes, yeah, it's your hat,
Speaker 4: and I go, I had a little trouble serving you
Speaker 4: as well. So I think they're still a little testing
Speaker 4: about the World Series. But looking forward to the game
Speaker 4: to brow.
Speaker 2: All right, Bob, appreciate the phone call. Be safe up
Speaker 2: there north of the border, and represent the Dodgers tomorrow
Speaker 2: at the Rogers Center. That's not surprising. Rick Monday talks
Speaker 2: about it, how he's not welcome in Montreal after the
Speaker 2: Blue Monday home run in Game five of the NLCS
Speaker 2: back in nineteen eighty one to beat the Montreal Expos. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that kind of stuff happens when you break the hearts
Speaker 2: of a fan base, like the Dodgers did to the
Speaker 2: Toronto Blue Jays last November. First, This kind of stuff happens,
Speaker 2: and fans don't forget. They won't forget in ten years
Speaker 2: or twenty years, and certainly they haven't forgotten what six
Speaker 2: months ago when the Dodgers won Game seven and extra innings.
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Speaker 2: Mark of a Fighter. Well well, well, my guy Blake
Speaker 2: in Colorado, a friend of the show here on Dodger Talk,
Speaker 2: and he checks in today on this Easter Sunday.
Speaker 1: Hello Blake, how are you my friend? Good? Hell have
Speaker 1: you been?
Speaker 2: I've been fantastic celebrating the Dodgers World Series all off season.
Speaker 2: Long back at it here on this road trip and
Speaker 2: a sweep of the Washington Nationals.
Speaker 1: How is life in the Colorado?
Speaker 5: Good's been really, really good. I'm really happy about the
Speaker 5: all magic bout and strike system. I think this has
Speaker 5: been coming to Maja League Baseball for.
Speaker 4: A while now.
Speaker 5: And I know it's not about your team as about
Speaker 5: the sport of baseball, but like I really like it.
Speaker 5: And the dog has been doing fun mom Ando these
Speaker 5: past couple of days.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, thirty one run, scored a couple more home
Speaker 2: runs today. Oh Tani goes deep, Rushing goes deep, ta
Speaker 2: Oscar Hernandez goes deep.
Speaker 1: Blake, they scored thirty one runs in three days. How
Speaker 1: about that?
Speaker 3: Wow?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, Now it's off to Toronto. We all knew
Speaker 2: what happened there in AASO November one, Game seven, the
Speaker 2: heroics of Mickey Rojas and then winning an extra innings
Speaker 2: to beat the Blue Jays. You just heard Bob in Toronto, Blake.
Speaker 2: He's up there right now, and they're not liking Dodger fans,
Speaker 2: and certainly they're not gonna be too happy to see
Speaker 2: the Dodgers the next three days.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they're not gonna be happy, but we're gonna sweep
Speaker 5: the Blue Jays.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I hope so, Blake, great to hear your voice.
Speaker 2: Don't be a stranger, and we'll talk to you soon.
Speaker 5: Well, are you going to be back?
Speaker 2: I will be back on Wednesday as the Dodgers wrap
Speaker 2: up the series in Toronto after show. Hey, Tani's appearance
Speaker 2: on Sunday or Wednesday at the Rogers Center. So I'll
Speaker 2: be back on Wednesday after the finale.
Speaker 6: Okay, sounds good.
Speaker 2: My man Blake calling in from Colorado. He knows my
Speaker 2: schedule and he checks in and I love it. Thank you,
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Speaker 3: How you doing?
Speaker 1: Maxwell?
Speaker 6: Hate Tim? How are you doing?
Speaker 1: I'm doing good.
Speaker 2: Feeling a lot better after that four run eighth inning
Speaker 2: and the Dodgers comfort behind win. I don't like these
Speaker 2: comfery behind wins. I like them to jump out to
Speaker 2: a lead and make it a little easier.
Speaker 6: How impressive was that sweep in Washington, MD? You think
Speaker 6: it says more about the offense clicking or the team's
Speaker 6: overall death.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I think that's a great point. You bring up the
Speaker 2: D word, Maxwell, I appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Depth.
Speaker 2: This Dodgers team has depth, and today was a prime
Speaker 2: exam of it. You know, ninth game of this season,
Speaker 2: Mookie Betts goes on the injured list. It's a day
Speaker 2: off scheduled for three other starters, Will Smith, Kyle Tucker,
Speaker 2: and Max Muncy. That means four guys in the lineup
Speaker 2: today are your non everyday players, but guys who are
Speaker 2: gonna get a lot of playing time. The Alex calls
Speaker 2: the Dalton Rushings, the Santiago Espinals, Kyle Frielan's getting a
Speaker 2: lot of opportunity. And today because of the Mookie Bets
Speaker 2: injury and because Hayson Kim was getting there this morning
Speaker 2: from Triple A. You saw Rojas and Freeland up the
Speaker 2: middle together playing in this same game. It was one
Speaker 2: of those days where you're like, Okay, this is a
Speaker 2: Dodgers team. Let's see what the other guys can do.
Speaker 2: And we saw exactly what they can do. They could
Speaker 2: hit home runs like a Dalton rushing. They can do
Speaker 2: like Alex called it, and get on base four times.
Speaker 2: They could do like Santiago Espinal and you know, base
Speaker 2: hit the left center field with the bases loaded and
Speaker 2: extend that eighth inning.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is a this is.
Speaker 2: Just a deep, deep Dodgers team. And we mentioned it
Speaker 2: with Jose. You take it to the pitching side of
Speaker 2: things and how deep this Dodger's bullpen is.
Speaker 1: You cannot say it enough.
Speaker 2: Having Edwin Diaz, having a closer in general like a
Speaker 2: Kelly Jansen for so many years, right, and Eric Gagne
Speaker 2: for so many years. Having a guy you can go
Speaker 2: to as that guy to get the final three outs,
Speaker 2: like today with Edwin Diaz, it makes what you do
Speaker 2: before that a lot easier for a manager and a
Speaker 2: pitching coach and a coaching staff to come together with
Speaker 2: a plan. How are we gonna How are we gonna
Speaker 2: get twenty seven outs?
Speaker 6: All right?
Speaker 2: Well, our starter win five innings today, put us in
Speaker 2: a hole, give up six runs. Okay, So now we're
Speaker 2: responsible for the final four innings the bullpen. Those are
Speaker 2: the final twelve outs. How are we gonna get those
Speaker 2: twelve outs? Well, you piece it together with Alex Vesi
Speaker 2: again three Jack Dryer comes in against three Tanner Scott's
Speaker 2: responsible for three innings. In the eighth innings, there's nine
Speaker 2: out and all of a sudden, during that time, you've
Speaker 2: retaken the lead. Okay, So now we're going to our closer.
Speaker 2: This is the ideal situation. A starter that can go
Speaker 2: five and you can piece it together for nine outs
Speaker 2: to get to that closer for the final three. I mean,
Speaker 2: you ask any manager in baseball. I mean this is
Speaker 2: from the beginning of time. That's how you'd like to
Speaker 2: draw it up ideally, and the Dodgers today, thankfully, we're
Speaker 2: able to score those four runs in the eighth, tacking
Speaker 2: of one more in the ninth is the two run lead,
Speaker 2: and Edwin Diaz comes in and did what Edwin Diaz
Speaker 2: is doing, getting saves, getting strikeouts, getting ground ball outs,
Speaker 2: getting the fly ball d in the game and a
Speaker 2: one two three ninth inning for Edwin Diaz and the
Speaker 2: Dodgers get the sweep in Washington, d C. We're gonna
Speaker 2: have Morongo Casino Dodgers on deck tomorrow at three o'clock Pacific,
Speaker 2: first pitch at four oh seven from Toronto, Canada. I'm
Speaker 2: starting to get excited at you know, we've been talking
Speaker 2: about it, Rick and Steven, We're talking about it all
Speaker 2: weekend long, anticipating what it's going to be like to
Speaker 2: go back to Toronto. You've heard some of the players
Speaker 2: talk about it, but nobody wants to get ahead of themselves.
Speaker 2: You know, baseball is all about living in the moment,
Speaker 2: playing that game's day. But now that they get the
Speaker 2: three games sweep in Washington DC behind them, they can
Speaker 2: look now to north of the border, the Toronto and
Speaker 2: it'll be interesting to see how they are welcomed and
Speaker 2: treated in Toronto.
Speaker 1: Over the next three days.
Speaker 2: Does it start with a long time getting through customs.
Speaker 2: We'll find out. But the Dodgers will be there Monday, Tuesday,
Speaker 2: and Wednesday, with Justin Robleski going on Monday, Tuesdays, Yoshinobu
Speaker 2: Yamamoto and then show Hey Otani.
Speaker 1: Will go on Wednesday.
Speaker 2: Remember David Bassa mentioned it during rain delay Dodger Talk earlier.
Speaker 2: The last time Otani started in Toronto didn't go well,
Speaker 2: did not go well for him, so you know he's
Speaker 2: wanting to go back out there, and even in a
Speaker 2: regular season game here in early aprils don't want to
Speaker 2: prove that that was something behind him. Turns out Dodgers
Speaker 2: got the win, he's got the ring, got the World
Speaker 2: Series Championship and now returning to the scene of the
Speaker 2: crime on Monday.
Speaker 1: Thanks to Colin y Thanks everybody for being the part
Speaker 1: of the show.
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