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Speaker 1: They say, the hardest thing in sports isn't winning a title.

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Speaker 2: It's hard to repeat seasons.

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Speaker 3: It's winning it again.

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Speaker 4: This year.

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Speaker 5: Is not trying to win a championship, They're trying to repeat.

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Speaker 1: It's October baseball for your world champion in La Dodger.

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Speaker 6: The twenty twenty five Dodgers are the National League's Western

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Speaker 6: Division champions.

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Speaker 1: And you know what that means.

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Speaker 3: Saxon Kates and AM is back.

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Speaker 1: This is Saxon Kates in the Morning with Tim Kates

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Speaker 1: and former World champion Dodger Steve Sacks.

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Speaker 3: Reacting taking your phone calls talking Dodgers playoff baseball all

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Speaker 3: postseason long.

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Speaker 1: Now here they are on AM five to seventy LA

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Speaker 1: Sports and the iHeartRadio app.

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Speaker 3: Steve Sacks, Tim Kads, Tim.

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Speaker 1: Kates and World Champion Dodger Steve Sacks.

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Speaker 3: Oh, Saxon Kates in the Am on this Friday morning,

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Speaker 3: and it feels so good as the Dodgers are going

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Speaker 3: back to the National League Championship Series. With a two

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Speaker 3: to one win over the Philadelphia Phillies and eleven innings

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Speaker 3: yesterday out at Dodgers Stadium, won a pitching matchup for

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Speaker 3: six innings Phillies scored in the top of the seventh

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Speaker 3: Dodgers scoring the bottom half of the seventh inning on

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Speaker 3: a Mookie Betts bases loaded walk to bring in the

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Speaker 3: tie and run. And then in the bottom of the

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Speaker 3: eleventh inning, with the bases loaded and two out, Andy

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Speaker 3: Pohez gets sawed off, but O'Ryan Kirkering throws the ball

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Speaker 3: home instead of first and overthrows JT. Realmuto. Ballgame over,

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Speaker 3: Dodgers walk off the Phillies two to one. A great

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Speaker 3: pitching performance from both sides, the starters, the relievers. Phillies

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Speaker 3: went all in. Dave Robers pushed his chips to the

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Speaker 3: middle of the table, going three innings of relief with

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Speaker 3: Roki Sasaki, who we're gonna hear from coming up in

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Speaker 3: just a little bit. You can't say enough about what

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Speaker 3: Inimachion and Alex Vessi did for this Dodgers team. I mean,

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Speaker 3: just a great baseball game with the defense outside of

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Speaker 3: the last play of the game, the defense from Ray

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Speaker 3: Turner and the Phillies. The Dodgers just missing on some

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Speaker 3: big hits and some big opportunities, straining the bases loaded

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Speaker 3: a couple of times. Just an all around, great game.

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Speaker 3: How about the home played umpire yesterday? We were texting

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Speaker 3: about the balls and strikes wow in the game yesterday

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Speaker 3: and Mark Wegner was the home play to umpire and

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Speaker 3: I was just watching MLB Network and I guess after

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Speaker 3: the game he apologized to Christopher Sanchez for a two

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Speaker 3: to two pitch and the seventh thing that he called

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Speaker 3: the ball and I think it was against Alex call him,

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Speaker 3: not for sure, but it should have been a strike three.

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Speaker 3: And it kind of felt like that all day. He

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Speaker 3: had a weird zone. It was up, then it was out,

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Speaker 3: then it was all over the plays, and then he

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Speaker 3: was calling inside pitches off the plate, and then he

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Speaker 3: wasn't calling strikes right down the middle. Thank goodness. He

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Speaker 3: kind of didn't affect this game too much. But yeah,

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Speaker 3: that was some interesting strikes and balls calls yesterday.

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Speaker 7: So he apologized to Christopher Sanchez after the game.

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Speaker 3: That's what it said. I saw a little blurb just

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Speaker 3: now on the MLB Network that Christmas I said the

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Speaker 3: home play umpire apologized to him for that to call.

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Speaker 7: He should have also apologized to the Dodgers for the

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Speaker 7: seventeen freaking pitches he missed on them too.

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Speaker 3: This guy was horrible, horrible.

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Speaker 7: And I don't mind saying it, but he was awful.

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Speaker 7: Thank God for the ABS, that guy'd be out of it.

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Speaker 7: This guy's gonna be out of a job the ABS

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Speaker 7: comes up, because he's he's gonna get shown up really bad.

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Speaker 7: He missed, he missed balls on every sequence. It seemed that,

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Speaker 7: you know, he called one in favor of the Dodgers.

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Speaker 7: I will say that was a foot out of the

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Speaker 7: strike zone. Maybe maybe he I don't know what he

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Speaker 7: did on that, but there was a low pitch and

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Speaker 7: it was at least a foot out of the strike zone,

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Speaker 7: and he called it.

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Speaker 8: He called it a strike. And I and I could.

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Speaker 7: I was, you know, I'm sitting there, you know where

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Speaker 7: though I wanted it to be a strike, it wasn't

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Speaker 7: close to a strike. Yeah, and he called it a

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Speaker 7: strike for the Dodgers. I mean, this guy was awful. Sorry,

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Speaker 7: I'm I'm not, you know, bringing anything new that people

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Speaker 7: didn't see. Yeah, I'm just you know, I'm just saying

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Speaker 8: This guy was not even close.

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Speaker 3: In the seventh inning, Alex call came up facing Sanchez

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Speaker 3: one out. Will Smith had just grounded out to short

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Speaker 3: on a two to two sinker. The game cast shows

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Speaker 3: exactly what we saw. A strike on the inside part

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Speaker 3: of the play, no doubt about it. He called it

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Speaker 3: even further out of the zone, ball four to Alex

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Speaker 3: call than Keiky. Hernandez comes up in singles and that's

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Speaker 3: when they went to the pitching change, with Deran to

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Speaker 3: come in two pitches later or two batters later. Otani's

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Speaker 3: intentionally won. How about that? By the way, Otani, who's

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Speaker 3: won for the series, looks completely lost at the plate

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Speaker 3: against left handers, and you intentionally walk him. Still steve

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Speaker 3: to get to Mookie Beds. I mean, if the guy's struggling,

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Speaker 3: wouldn't you want just finish him off and pitched to him.

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Speaker 3: But I guess that's the threat that O'tani brings. Even

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Speaker 3: with his struggles here in the NLDS, they still walked

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Speaker 3: him with first base opening the seventh inning, and guess

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Speaker 3: what if batfired again as Mookie Bets drew the walk

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Speaker 3: off of Duran to tie the game. But again, it

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Speaker 3: goes back to that missed strike three call against Alex

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Speaker 3: call with one out and then unraveled for Sanchez. Duran

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Speaker 3: walks in bets and that leads to the tye and run.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, and you know, as far as the walk to Otani,

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Speaker 7: h if it was almost anybody else, maybe Judge, maybe Schwarber,

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Speaker 7: guy that I could see them walking, even if he's struggling.

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Speaker 7: Because remember these two guys, and there's probably a couple

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Speaker 7: other But I'm just mentioning, you know, Tani and say Judge,

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Speaker 7: these two guys don't have to be exactly right. They

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Speaker 7: can They can be off and still hit the ball

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Speaker 7: out of the ballpark. That that's how powerful and good

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Speaker 7: they both are. So I understand, you know, go ahead

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Speaker 7: and walk in Otani. I probably would have done it too.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm just looking up real quick as you were talking.

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Speaker 3: Mark Wegner did. In fact, according to Christopher Sanchez after

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Speaker 3: the game, was telling the media that came up to

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Speaker 3: him and apologized for the missed strike three call on

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Speaker 3: Alex's call there with one out in the seventh inning

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Speaker 3: should have been a strike. He called it a ball

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Speaker 3: and that would be the eventual tye run that would

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Speaker 3: come around and score in that seventh inning, but el

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Speaker 3: Dodgers take advantage of that again. Next year probably not

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Speaker 3: going to be an issue with the ABS being implemented.

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Speaker 3: I'm sure the Afhillies would have challenged that and it

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Speaker 3: interesting to see how games change next year. Of course,

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Speaker 3: of the course of a regular season, Okay, we'll see

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Speaker 3: a lot of it, and it'll affect some games, But

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Speaker 3: in the playoffs when there's a judgment called strike three

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Speaker 3: or a ball four Zaxy, I think we're gonna be

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Speaker 3: talking about this a lot. Yeah, next October. The challenge system.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, inasmuch as you know, I'm a purist, I don't

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Speaker 7: liked all these you know, intrusion of you know, just

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Speaker 7: let the game do what it is. But you know,

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Speaker 7: in this case, it's like the NFL, you know, to

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Speaker 7: go into the go unto the hood for you know,

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Speaker 7: just a quick second, and you want to get it right.

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Speaker 8: That's the main thing. You want to get it right.

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Speaker 7: And uh, I think it's it's kind of a good

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Speaker 7: thing because the umpires are not going to be able

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Speaker 7: They're going to have to They're gonna have to atone

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Speaker 3: Last night, kek Herd Nandez was part of that seventh

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Speaker 3: inning to tie the game. He had a single to

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Speaker 3: get on base. He was one for four. Drell walk

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Speaker 3: as well. He is mister October he has been his

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Speaker 3: entire Dodger career. And afterwards in the clubhouse, David Vase

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Speaker 3: caught up with keyk here and Nandez, who gave a

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Speaker 3: very candid interview about this Dodgers team as a whole.

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Speaker 2: What's it like to be able to beat a team

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Speaker 6: A lot of people believe it was going to be

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Speaker 6: your biggest challenge in a pitching time before game series.

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Speaker 2: How were you able to be able to as a

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Speaker 2: group stick with it?

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Speaker 9: Well?

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Speaker 10: For for for first, we scored more runs than them

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Speaker 10: three out of the four games, so we won those

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Speaker 10: three games.

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Speaker 3: For celebrating, but.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that was That's an unbelievable team.

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Speaker 10: On the other side, you know, I thought this series

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Speaker 10: again doing it again against them.

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Speaker 2: You know, they they had some really good pitching.

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Speaker 10: And they had some mosses at the top of that

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Speaker 10: that they got over there, And it was a gritty series.

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Speaker 10: We had to earn every single one of the those

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Speaker 8: And I'm really glad we came out on top.

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Speaker 4: KK.

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Speaker 6: There's been a lot of talk about your bullpen for

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Speaker 6: those guys to come out of there tonight and keep

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Speaker 2: How much confidence do you have in those guys.

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Speaker 10: I've always that confidence, man, Blizard, my guys, I trust them.

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Speaker 3: You know, it doesn't even really matter if things don't

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Speaker 10: They in the postseason, you know, everybody starts at zero,

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Speaker 10: and yeah, you can say whatever, like one inning year

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Speaker 10: winning there.

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Speaker 3: But you know, we got some really.

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Speaker 2: Good arms back there.

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Speaker 3: We got some stuff back there, and in.

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Speaker 10: The postseason, that's that's all you need.

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Speaker 3: You need stuff. You need strikes, and I were throwing strikes.

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Speaker 10: We're gonna be all right, And I mean, our our

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Speaker 10: pitching was a I think our pitching deserves all.

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Speaker 2: The credit in the series.

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Speaker 10: If it wasn't for this pitching that we had throughout

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Speaker 10: four games, we wouldn't be in this position right now celebrating.

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Speaker 5: It seemed like they were only.

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Speaker 10: Able to score in like one hitting every game. They

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Speaker 10: only scored in two innings. Last night, say night, they

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Speaker 10: only scored one run. So that that just that's the

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Speaker 10: testament of our pitching. Man, I think we we could

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Speaker 10: have won these games a little more easier. But you know,

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Speaker 10: they did a great job on their pitching side, and

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Speaker 10: our bats didn't really do much. But all credits are pitching.

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Speaker 10: If it was a word pitching, we wouldn't be celebrating

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Speaker 10: right now.

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Speaker 6: You deserve to get credit for being don't as knock

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Speaker 6: over player? Well, what can you say about the other

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Speaker 6: guys like ta Oscar and Tommy. Seems like you have

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Speaker 10: You know, we had a When you look at the

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Speaker 3: We'll take a Frank will come back. We're gonna hear

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Speaker 3: off to the NLCS. Sax and Kates and am on

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Speaker 3: ANFI seventy Light Sports. Dodgers are back in the NLCS

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Speaker 3: and it'll start on Monday here on am FI seventy

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Speaker 3: LA sports. Who will the Dodgers play. We'll find out

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Speaker 3: in an eliminate game elimination game tomorrow in Milwaukee between

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Speaker 3: the Cubs and the Brewers, Dodgers get the winner of

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Speaker 3: that series. Cubs win a third straight elimination game to

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Speaker 3: force a game five, as the Dodgers will now find

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Speaker 3: out if they'll start at home against Chicago on Monday

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Speaker 3: night or will they start the NLCS the first two

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Speaker 3: games in Milwaukee against the Brewers on Monday night. That'll

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Speaker 3: be all he decided tomorrow, depending on who wins that

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Speaker 3: best of five NLDS Game five tomorrow in Milwaukee, Brewers

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Speaker 3: and the Cubs. Roki Sasaki has been absolutely fantastic for

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Speaker 3: the Dodgers, and we saw him in April. What he

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Speaker 3: did as the starter got hurt was around the team

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Speaker 3: a little bit, but mostly rehabbing, and then on a

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Speaker 3: rehab assignment in Oklahoma City. He rejoined this Dodgers team

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Speaker 3: late in September in a new role, a new attitude,

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Speaker 3: had that one hundred mile an hour fastball back, and

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Speaker 3: since returning from the IL, a combined seven and the

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Speaker 3: third innings no runs, two hits, nine strikeouts and zero

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Speaker 3: walks for Rokie Susaki, who yesterday had three innings of

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Speaker 3: shutout relief for Dave Roberts, continuing to put zeros on

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Speaker 3: the board while they waited for the offense to do something.

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Speaker 3: The Dodgers would eventually win an eleven innings. But one

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Speaker 3: of these stories in baseball, and you love him, Steve

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Speaker 3: come October, a guy who hadn't been around, maybe a

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Speaker 3: guy who gets called up, maybe a guy who was hurt.

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Speaker 3: And that's exactly what Rokie Sasaki is. One of these

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Speaker 3: great October stories here at twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, love Roki's presence on the mound. He's not a

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Speaker 7: big dude, but he is quite the Anan mile, isn't he.

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Speaker 7: I mean, he just wants the ball and says, here

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Speaker 7: it is, here's one hundred, go ahead and hit this,

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Speaker 7: and they can't do it. The splitter is off the table,

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Speaker 7: and his assortment of pitches, especially coming out of the bullpen,

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Speaker 7: is more than enough to his plenty and he's got

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Speaker 7: more than that. So Roki Sasaki brings another element to

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Speaker 7: this team that they've been desperately missing, some comfort down

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Speaker 7: in the bullpen that knows that this ninth and he's

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Speaker 7: gonna get locked down. And if I need to go

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Speaker 7: before the ninth I can do that too, So and

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Speaker 7: his ability to want to go out there and do

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Speaker 7: that and not say, well, I'm a starter and that's

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Speaker 7: all I do here. No, No, this is a team

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Speaker 7: player and he's been a godsend to this team and

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Speaker 7: no reason to say it's going to stop now.

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Speaker 8: He's just throttling it up right now. I think he's

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Speaker 8: getting stronger.

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Speaker 3: He was highly thought of and sought after last off season,

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Speaker 3: and the Dodgers won the bidding war and signed him

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Speaker 3: as a free agent. He elected to sign with the

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Speaker 3: Blue and struggled early on. Had the electric fastball we

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Speaker 3: saw in Japan the first couple starts, and then got hurt,

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Speaker 3: and we saw him get emotional in the dugout, and

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Speaker 3: people had to remember this is a twenty three year

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Speaker 3: old coming over and playing in the United States. Didn't

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Speaker 3: have the early success. Probably that in his mind he

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Speaker 3: thought he was going to have. He's on a team

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Speaker 3: already with two Japanese superstars in sho Heyo Tani and

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Speaker 3: Yoshinobu Yamamoto gets hurt, probably deflated, could have lost him

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Speaker 3: psychologically and emotionally for the rest of the season. But

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Speaker 3: to his credit, bounce back, went through the rehab on

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Speaker 3: his arm, went through the rehab of his mechanics as well.

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Speaker 3: Over at Camelback Ranch in Arizona, went out to Triple

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Speaker 3: A Oklahoma City. Didn't initially have the success that he wanted. Steve,

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Speaker 3: he was still throwing mid to high nineties. He was

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Speaker 3: looking to touch one hundred something. Click in mid September,

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Speaker 3: gets called up a couple of appearances late in the season.

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Speaker 3: He's blowing one hundred miles an hour and he's now

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Speaker 3: this Rokie Susaki two point zero that we all know

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Speaker 3: and love. It's been an absolute tremendous turnaround for the

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Speaker 3: young man. And here he is post game on the

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Speaker 3: field with David Vat say, right after the win yesterday.

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Speaker 6: Rokie, what a night for you? What a postseason for you?

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Speaker 6: What does it mean to you to be such a

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Speaker 6: big contributor tonight and in this series going to.

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Speaker 2: Post a season?

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Speaker 4: Hold on.

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Speaker 12: Mascot, It's like, whatever contests, I must see it, And well,

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Speaker 12: it's been the ball mons I'm a little deck. Well

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Speaker 12: He's like, I'm na tak It's not many contest.

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Speaker 4: Says Now, first of all, I'm really glad that I'm

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Speaker 4: healthy and be able to perform.

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Speaker 2: And you know, I'm really you know, I'm really thankful.

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Speaker 4: For all the support staff, all the people who really

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Speaker 4: supported the way during my rehab progression, and most of all,

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Speaker 4: just all the coaching staff from you know, top to

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Speaker 4: bottom organizationally. They've been such a help to me and

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Speaker 4: they're the reason why I'm back here.

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Speaker 6: Rookie, how have you been able to embrace this role

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Speaker 6: and be so dominant?

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Speaker 11: I touched it, du up, slows them up almost look

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Speaker 11: up the it's a little bit goal.

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Speaker 3: It's all in this over nation. David call with us.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, my fastball velo is out. My splitter feels really good,

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Speaker 4: so I've been able to attack.

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Speaker 6: His own congratulations, Go get some champagne.

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Speaker 13: Thank you.

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Speaker 6: There he goes Rookie Sasaki and Will Ironton such a

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Speaker 6: big part of the Dodgers' postseason plans.

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Speaker 3: All right, great stuff from David Vasse there. Will Ironton

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Speaker 3: translating does a great job a part of this Dodger

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Speaker 3: run as well. And I love how he credited the

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Speaker 3: guys who helped him get back, the coaching staff in

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Speaker 3: the minor league level, the athletic training staff at the

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Speaker 3: minor league and major league level, and of course Mark

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Speaker 3: pryor Connor McGuinness at the major league level helping him

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Speaker 3: get back to his form, get his mechanics back, and

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Speaker 3: I'm blown away. And at this point I'm at a

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Speaker 3: loss for words really to see what rookie Sasaki has

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Speaker 3: turned into, because I remember what he looked like in

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Speaker 3: spring training. Now I remember the hype, and I remember

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Speaker 3: the disappointment, I guess, and seeing him go on the

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Speaker 3: injured list and the velocity ticked down, and it was

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Speaker 3: just frustrating to see him not be a part of

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Speaker 3: this team for a majority of the regular season and

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Speaker 3: to come back like RoboCop two point zero, a different guy.

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Speaker 3: It's truly remarkable. I'm trying to think of other examples

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Speaker 3: we've seen in a baseball season of a guy looking

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Speaker 3: one way to start the season and looking completely different

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Speaker 3: in a new role at the end of the season

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Speaker 3: in postseason. You just don't see it.

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Speaker 7: And before that, all the expectations that were, you know,

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Speaker 7: that preceded him coming here, right, So, so, tim is

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Speaker 7: was this a shoulder injury or an elbow injury?

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Speaker 3: It was a shoulder for rookie much.

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Speaker 7: More difficult and complex than than an elbow, no question

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Speaker 7: about it.

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Speaker 8: Shoulder injury is a lot more dangerous, a.

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Speaker 7: Lot more tenuous, and trying to, you know, figure out

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Speaker 7: what's wrong in there.

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Speaker 8: It's just a lot harder.

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Speaker 7: But for him to come back, and that's why he

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Speaker 7: was out so long, for him to come back and

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Speaker 7: figure it out, get back to where he was before,

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Speaker 7: and be happy with with where he is, because sometimes

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Speaker 7: when you come back from these injuries like this, you're

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Speaker 7: just not satisfied with it.

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Speaker 8: It's just not you feel like you're just not yourself

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Speaker 8: still for quite a while.

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Speaker 7: But it seems that he's regained all that back in

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Speaker 7: his confidence to boot and his stuff's electric. Man, He

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Speaker 7: just he just he just freezes people in the batter's box.

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Speaker 7: He's he's got an extremely uncomfortable at bat to to

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Speaker 7: face this guy, and you can see it all over

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Speaker 7: the body language with the hitters. They don't react to

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Speaker 7: his pitch as well at all.

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Speaker 3: It was eight starts and then a stint on the

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Speaker 3: injured list for the rest of the season for the

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Speaker 3: most part, finally coming off the eye well the last

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Speaker 3: week and a half in September, but it was right

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Speaker 3: shoulder impingement that put him on the injured list, and

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Speaker 3: we mentioned it a couple of weeks, like a week

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Speaker 3: ago when we were talking about him. I remember his

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Speaker 3: start to start the season and Rick Monday alluded to

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Speaker 3: it that he kept looking back at the radar gun

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Speaker 3: on the jumbo tron and looking to see how his

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Speaker 3: velocity was and after every pitch, kept looking back. He

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Speaker 3: kept looking. It seemed like he was more worried about

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Speaker 3: that than anything. And that's the guy who can throw

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Speaker 3: one hundred miles an hour, and you got the feeling

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Speaker 3: he's looking back and wondering, where is it? Well, why

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Speaker 3: am I not throwing one hundred? Why is it saying

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Speaker 3: ninety six? Why is it saying ninety four? I'm one

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Speaker 3: hundred miles an hour? Yeah, Pitcher wasn't there. Yeah, Yeah,

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Speaker 3: that's his barometer. He knows if he's hitting a hundred

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Speaker 3: that things are where they should be. And there's going

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Speaker 3: to be a point in time, not for an awful

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Speaker 3: long time, but a point in time where that's going

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Speaker 3: to come off one hundred and the norm is going

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Speaker 3: to be, you know ninety five, asked Clayton Kershaw and

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Speaker 3: all the other guys that have gone through it. It's

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Speaker 3: the normal evolution of a pitching arm. But right now,

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Speaker 3: at twenty.

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Speaker 7: Three years old, I believe he does have to worry

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Speaker 7: about that and he can't expect a hundred. Maybe a

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Speaker 7: little more sometimes, but he can go get a hundred

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Speaker 7: when he needs it and that split or to go

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Speaker 7: with it. You got up in the zone, down on

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Speaker 7: the zone, watchout hitters. He's he's healthy and he's scary.

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Speaker 3: David Masse is going to join us in just a

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Speaker 3: little bit on his birthday, by the way, so y'all

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Speaker 3: make sure we wish him a happy birthday. Seth in

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Speaker 3: Long Beach is next up here on Saxon Kate to

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Speaker 3: the am while you're home with the Dodgers, am FI seventy.

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Speaker 3: How you doing, Seth?

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Speaker 13: Yeah, doing good. Thanks boys. Hey, it's the best time

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Speaker 13: of year. One of the reasons is because I get

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Speaker 13: to have my morning commune with you two. So thanks

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Speaker 13: for what you do up barely Sacksy. I'm an eighties

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Speaker 13: kid and you're always You're always part of part of

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Speaker 13: my October, So thanks so much. I have a tip

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Speaker 13: part Question one, do you see Immachien coming out of

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Speaker 13: the pen? Continuing in the next series, or do you

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Speaker 13: think Dave ro So have him the spot spot starter there.

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Speaker 13: It seems like he gets stronger the longer he goes.

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Speaker 13: And the second part is any word on Kek's ankle.

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Speaker 9: He looked, he looked.

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Speaker 13: Tender, and you know without his quality at bats, you know,

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Speaker 13: Piees doesn't even get up yesterday.

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Speaker 5: So thanks again, guys.

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Speaker 3: All right, Seth, thank you for the nice words. Imma,

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Speaker 3: she and I no doubt will believe he'll be in

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Speaker 3: the bullpen for the NLCS now the way it lines

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Speaker 3: up here, and just to kind of give you everybody

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Speaker 3: a look at the schedule. Game one is Monday, Game

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Speaker 3: two is Tuesday, day off on Wednesday, then they play Thursday, Friday, Saturday,

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Speaker 3: three four five, so three days in a row. So

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Speaker 3: you play two games, day off, three games in a row,

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Speaker 3: and then if he needs to go back to Dodger

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Speaker 3: Stadium or back to Milwaukee, whoever's got home field, it

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Speaker 3: will be a day off on Sunday the nineteenth, and

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Speaker 3: then back for game six in whatever city that's going

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Speaker 3: back to. So it's a two three form and they'll

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Speaker 3: have a day off for travel in between games two

652
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Speaker 3: and three, and in between the game five and six.

653
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Speaker 3: So that's how it stacks up as far as the

654
00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:12,760
Speaker 3: days off for concerns. So the Dodgers, I'm sure are

655
00:31:12,800 --> 00:31:15,800
Speaker 3: already game planning if it's at home at that the road.

656
00:31:16,120 --> 00:31:18,760
Speaker 3: Who's going to be the game one starter? Now? Is

657
00:31:18,800 --> 00:31:21,680
Speaker 3: Shoeotani maybe going to be the game to starter on

658
00:31:21,800 --> 00:31:24,800
Speaker 3: even more extended rest because he can pitch on Tuesday,

659
00:31:24,880 --> 00:31:27,760
Speaker 3: Steve and then have the day off on Wednesday like

660
00:31:27,840 --> 00:31:29,920
Speaker 3: he did throughout the second half of the season. That

661
00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:32,440
Speaker 3: built in day off that the Dodgers usually had on

662
00:31:32,520 --> 00:31:34,760
Speaker 3: Thursdays when he would pitch on Wednesdays. I know it's

663
00:31:34,760 --> 00:31:36,520
Speaker 3: a lot of days were thrown out, but my point

664
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Speaker 3: is the day off after Game two could be the

665
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Speaker 3: factor for him going in Game two and having Blake

666
00:31:42,680 --> 00:31:44,720
Speaker 3: Snell go in Game one on Monday night.

667
00:31:45,160 --> 00:31:46,000
Speaker 8: Yeah, that's true.

668
00:31:46,040 --> 00:31:48,760
Speaker 7: And so the Dodgers have choices and they're going to

669
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Speaker 7: have these guys at their top, So no worry's there.

670
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Speaker 7: The schedule is a blessing for them and it's just

671
00:31:57,440 --> 00:31:58,920
Speaker 7: figuring out who they're going to play now. I don't

672
00:31:58,920 --> 00:32:03,320
Speaker 7: think they really care that much who they play.

673
00:32:01,880 --> 00:32:03,560
Speaker 8: Either way, it is what it is.

674
00:32:03,600 --> 00:32:06,440
Speaker 7: But sure having home field advantage would be would be

675
00:32:07,280 --> 00:32:10,640
Speaker 7: most appealing to them since they were, you know, a

676
00:32:10,680 --> 00:32:14,120
Speaker 7: better team, uh this year at home, but it's gonna

677
00:32:14,120 --> 00:32:16,240
Speaker 7: be what it is, and uh, you know they'll attack

678
00:32:16,280 --> 00:32:16,880
Speaker 7: it no matter what.

679
00:32:17,400 --> 00:32:19,840
Speaker 3: Dodgers during the regular season. Something to keep in mind.

680
00:32:20,520 --> 00:32:23,840
Speaker 3: Winless against the Milwaukee Brewers and they're head to head

681
00:32:23,880 --> 00:32:27,000
Speaker 3: matchups this season. Let's weak in another call. Alex joins

682
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Speaker 3: us next year on I seventy l A Sports, I

683
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Speaker 3: do an Alex.

684
00:32:31,120 --> 00:32:35,840
Speaker 9: Hey, what's up, guys, Good morning morning, Thanks again. It's October.

685
00:32:36,520 --> 00:32:39,160
Speaker 9: Uh shout out my daughter first, real quick, it's her

686
00:32:39,160 --> 00:32:42,640
Speaker 9: birthday today, Trin's Day, Happy birthday.

687
00:32:42,680 --> 00:32:43,160
Speaker 8: I got her.

688
00:32:44,360 --> 00:32:47,960
Speaker 9: I got her at NLCS Dodgers birth for her birthday.

689
00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:48,920
Speaker 9: So she's welcome.

690
00:32:50,480 --> 00:32:51,360
Speaker 5: Check it out, guys.

691
00:32:51,520 --> 00:32:55,280
Speaker 9: I wanted to talk about it again. We we talked

692
00:32:55,320 --> 00:32:56,760
Speaker 9: about it last week. I don't know if you remember.

693
00:32:56,800 --> 00:32:59,920
Speaker 9: I called in. They let my boy off the leash.

694
00:33:00,280 --> 00:33:02,720
Speaker 9: They let Ropie off the leash, dude, and look what happened.

695
00:33:02,800 --> 00:33:06,040
Speaker 9: Let him go, let the adrenaline pump, and and I

696
00:33:06,120 --> 00:33:09,720
Speaker 9: feel like, uh, you know when that happens and you

697
00:33:09,840 --> 00:33:14,480
Speaker 9: let them navigate just like he did. I think good

698
00:33:14,480 --> 00:33:16,840
Speaker 9: things are gonna come from that. And same thing with

699
00:33:16,920 --> 00:33:19,800
Speaker 9: she hand man, you know, whenever he had the hiccup,

700
00:33:19,880 --> 00:33:23,000
Speaker 9: but his first s outing against the Phillies, when when

701
00:33:23,040 --> 00:33:25,520
Speaker 9: he stepped up to the plate the first time, I

702
00:33:25,520 --> 00:33:30,160
Speaker 9: think the good outweighs the bad for sure, and yeah, man,

703
00:33:30,240 --> 00:33:33,120
Speaker 9: crazy win. Uh it was a nail bier. I'm not

704
00:33:33,120 --> 00:33:36,360
Speaker 9: gonna lie. I'm I'm I'm like, yeah, I'm stressing kind

705
00:33:36,360 --> 00:33:39,160
Speaker 9: of too much, but no doubt, but no, man, overall

706
00:33:39,240 --> 00:33:41,920
Speaker 9: good Win and hey, dude, the Phillies brought it. And

707
00:33:41,960 --> 00:33:44,880
Speaker 9: I really expected nothing less because.

708
00:33:44,560 --> 00:33:45,160
Speaker 5: I grew up.

709
00:33:45,400 --> 00:33:48,880
Speaker 9: Uh, I'm thirty four, and man, the Phillies have always

710
00:33:48,920 --> 00:33:51,320
Speaker 9: kicked our bud dude from the Chase Sutley days, you know,

711
00:33:51,480 --> 00:33:53,480
Speaker 9: and I just feel like we're spoiled to have this

712
00:33:53,560 --> 00:33:55,960
Speaker 9: Dodger team right now. My daughter's always like, oh Dad,

713
00:33:56,080 --> 00:33:59,560
Speaker 9: this Dad. I'm like, baby, it wasn't always uh, it

714
00:33:59,600 --> 00:34:02,040
Speaker 9: wasn't all always ice cream and rainbows over here. I

715
00:34:02,520 --> 00:34:04,800
Speaker 9: had to deal with a lot of stuff. So so,

716
00:34:04,960 --> 00:34:08,520
Speaker 9: you know, super grateful. I'm glad of my boy Rokies going.

717
00:34:09,560 --> 00:34:13,360
Speaker 9: And again, guys, thank you. Let's enjoy this weekend. And

718
00:34:13,480 --> 00:34:15,640
Speaker 9: like you guys said, let's watch the game and let's

719
00:34:15,640 --> 00:34:18,439
Speaker 9: see who who the Boys and Blue are gonna face. Yep,

720
00:34:18,520 --> 00:34:21,160
Speaker 9: it's a team effort over here. And then even though

721
00:34:21,200 --> 00:34:26,640
Speaker 9: people have been struggling, Hey, it's behind us. Everybody needs

722
00:34:26,680 --> 00:34:28,440
Speaker 9: to step up. There's no I in team.

723
00:34:28,600 --> 00:34:31,640
Speaker 3: So you know, all right, Alex, appreciate it. Man, let's

724
00:34:31,680 --> 00:34:34,759
Speaker 3: go great to hear from you. Yeah, yeah, it's a

725
00:34:34,920 --> 00:34:37,359
Speaker 3: it's a new series for show. Hey, o Tani, it's

726
00:34:37,400 --> 00:34:39,640
Speaker 3: a new series for Freddie Freeman. They're not gonna see

727
00:34:39,640 --> 00:34:42,279
Speaker 3: these devastating left handers like they just saw from the

728
00:34:42,320 --> 00:34:44,520
Speaker 3: Philadelphia Phillies. But coming back real quick to what he

729
00:34:44,520 --> 00:34:48,319
Speaker 3: said about Rookie Sasaki and unleashing Sasaki and let him

730
00:34:48,360 --> 00:34:51,520
Speaker 3: do his thing, there was a trust issue there. I

731
00:34:51,680 --> 00:34:56,440
Speaker 3: have to believe from Dave Roberts to Sasaki in his mind. Okay,

732
00:34:56,719 --> 00:34:59,040
Speaker 3: I know what he was. I know what we think

733
00:34:59,080 --> 00:35:02,279
Speaker 3: we have now in this Superstar Reliever. We saw it

734
00:35:02,280 --> 00:35:04,240
Speaker 3: a couple of times at the end of the regular season.

735
00:35:04,719 --> 00:35:07,279
Speaker 3: I still feel like Dave Roberts wanted to see it

736
00:35:07,320 --> 00:35:11,560
Speaker 3: before he believed it with Rookie Sasaki. Now, yesterday three

737
00:35:11,600 --> 00:35:15,120
Speaker 3: innings shut out baseball. There's no doubt now, I mean

738
00:35:15,320 --> 00:35:18,200
Speaker 3: if there was a little bit of like, Okay, when

739
00:35:18,320 --> 00:35:20,880
Speaker 3: is Cinderella gonna turn back into her? And when is

740
00:35:20,920 --> 00:35:23,120
Speaker 3: that carriage going to turn back into a pumpkin sort

741
00:35:23,160 --> 00:35:26,720
Speaker 3: of thing for Sasaki. Those kind of questions and doubts

742
00:35:26,880 --> 00:35:29,160
Speaker 3: are done with Sasaki.

743
00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:32,560
Speaker 7: Yes, and and the Dodgers are in a phenomenal position

744
00:35:32,640 --> 00:35:35,160
Speaker 7: right now, not only because they disposed of two really

745
00:35:35,200 --> 00:35:38,360
Speaker 7: good teams, but look at the way things are trending

746
00:35:38,440 --> 00:35:41,080
Speaker 7: right now. Question of marks that you just put out

747
00:35:41,080 --> 00:35:44,000
Speaker 7: to him about Sasaki, in this one person that's been

748
00:35:44,040 --> 00:35:48,200
Speaker 7: so instrumental in the victories, he's got a lot probably

749
00:35:48,239 --> 00:35:52,040
Speaker 7: that he feels that he wants to prove. He's very,

750
00:35:52,280 --> 00:35:54,799
Speaker 7: very hungry after being you know, out of the game

751
00:35:54,840 --> 00:35:58,239
Speaker 7: for so long, and now he's really stepping it up

752
00:35:58,400 --> 00:36:01,359
Speaker 7: huge time because he wants to prove and he's very

753
00:36:01,400 --> 00:36:04,279
Speaker 7: hungry right now. A lot can be said in the

754
00:36:04,360 --> 00:36:08,160
Speaker 7: same manner on maybe a smaller scale, uh with uh,

755
00:36:08,560 --> 00:36:11,239
Speaker 7: with Shoheyo Tani, and you know, the top of that

756
00:36:11,440 --> 00:36:16,000
Speaker 7: order hasn't been exactly you know, uh, you know, as

757
00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:18,319
Speaker 7: good as they were throughout the season, So they in

758
00:36:18,320 --> 00:36:20,279
Speaker 7: a sense have a lot to prove. They want to

759
00:36:20,280 --> 00:36:23,120
Speaker 7: get after it. Big time and and this is kind

760
00:36:23,160 --> 00:36:26,560
Speaker 7: of like a renewment for them with this new series.

761
00:36:26,600 --> 00:36:28,160
Speaker 7: They want to go out there and show what they

762
00:36:28,200 --> 00:36:31,560
Speaker 7: can do. And that's what Sasaki's feeling in a bigger sense.

763
00:36:31,960 --> 00:36:34,239
Speaker 7: And the top of this order is feeling it too.

764
00:36:34,680 --> 00:36:35,640
Speaker 8: No home one home.

765
00:36:35,600 --> 00:36:37,640
Speaker 7: Run in four games. That's not the that's not the

766
00:36:37,640 --> 00:36:39,960
Speaker 7: way this team matches. So they're going to go out

767
00:36:39,960 --> 00:36:42,439
Speaker 7: there and get after it. I mean, I think the

768
00:36:42,480 --> 00:36:45,759
Speaker 7: Dodgers are in a really good position internally with this

769
00:36:45,840 --> 00:36:49,040
Speaker 7: team as far as how hungry they are, and that's uh,

770
00:36:49,400 --> 00:36:50,680
Speaker 7: that can be a great thing for them.

771
00:36:50,840 --> 00:36:53,080
Speaker 3: We'll come back. We'll talk to David vad Say when

772
00:36:53,120 --> 00:36:56,040
Speaker 3: we come back. We'll also hear from Dave Roberts coming

773
00:36:56,120 --> 00:36:57,719
Speaker 3: up at the top of the hour. Your phone calls

774
00:36:57,719 --> 00:36:59,839
Speaker 3: as well. Eight sixty six, nine eighty seven, two five.

775
00:37:00,680 --> 00:37:04,000
Speaker 3: The Dodgers winning eleven innings last night. They eliminate the Phillies.

776
00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:06,719
Speaker 3: Now it's onto the NLCS to await the winner of

777
00:37:06,800 --> 00:37:09,319
Speaker 3: the Brewers and the Cubs, who will play Game five

778
00:37:09,360 --> 00:37:12,600
Speaker 3: in their DS series tomorrow night in Milwaukee. Your phone

779
00:37:12,600 --> 00:37:15,800
Speaker 3: calls coming up, David vas next, the birthday Boy joins

780
00:37:15,840 --> 00:37:30,920
Speaker 3: us here on an FI seventy LA Sports, Saxon Kates

781
00:37:30,920 --> 00:37:33,920
Speaker 3: in the am f I seventy LA Sports. You're a

782
00:37:33,920 --> 00:37:38,760
Speaker 3: home of the Dodgers who are advancing to yet another NLCS.

783
00:37:38,800 --> 00:37:40,960
Speaker 3: They await the winner of the Brewers and the Cubs,

784
00:37:41,040 --> 00:37:44,240
Speaker 3: who will wrap up their series in the NLDS tomorrow

785
00:37:44,239 --> 00:37:47,960
Speaker 3: in Milwaukee with a Game five. Winner moves on, loser

786
00:37:48,080 --> 00:37:51,319
Speaker 3: goes home. Dodgers are moving on, Phillies are going home.

787
00:37:51,360 --> 00:37:54,360
Speaker 3: And what was a wild game at a Dodger stadium yesterday?

788
00:37:54,560 --> 00:37:57,839
Speaker 3: It ended in eleven innings on a misfire from Ryan

789
00:37:58,719 --> 00:38:01,799
Speaker 3: Kirkering there in the even thinning. Dodgers get the win,

790
00:38:02,080 --> 00:38:05,080
Speaker 3: they move on, and what a celebration it was after

791
00:38:05,120 --> 00:38:07,080
Speaker 3: the game. And you heard it all right here on

792
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Speaker 3: a five to seventy LA Sports with the one and

793
00:38:09,320 --> 00:38:14,240
Speaker 3: only birthday boy himself, David Vasa. Dave, Happy birthday, my friend.

794
00:38:15,520 --> 00:38:18,520
Speaker 5: Oh thank you, Sam, I appreciate it. It was a

795
00:38:18,560 --> 00:38:21,920
Speaker 5: great birthday gift from the Dodgers, not only to advance

796
00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:25,319
Speaker 5: to the NLCS, but to allow me to enjoy it

797
00:38:25,360 --> 00:38:27,120
Speaker 5: with my family as much as I can.

798
00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:29,879
Speaker 3: Yeah, no doubt. You get to stay home. You don't

799
00:38:29,920 --> 00:38:32,160
Speaker 3: have to go back to Philadelphia. You get a couple

800
00:38:32,160 --> 00:38:34,759
Speaker 3: of days now to kind of exhale and as the

801
00:38:34,800 --> 00:38:37,760
Speaker 3: Dodgers do as well. And I brought it up earlier, David,

802
00:38:38,320 --> 00:38:40,560
Speaker 3: I think right now this is a good forty eight

803
00:38:40,600 --> 00:38:43,120
Speaker 3: hour window for the Dodgers to wait to see who

804
00:38:43,120 --> 00:38:45,080
Speaker 3: they find out they're going to play in the next round,

805
00:38:45,080 --> 00:38:48,719
Speaker 3: but also kind of decompress, kind of get reset if

806
00:38:48,760 --> 00:38:53,240
Speaker 3: you will, for the NLCS, guys like Shoe Otani, Freddie Freeman,

807
00:38:53,320 --> 00:38:56,720
Speaker 3: this pitching staff, maybe just to get mentally and physically

808
00:38:56,840 --> 00:38:59,240
Speaker 3: right after this grueling series with the Phillies.

809
00:39:00,320 --> 00:39:03,480
Speaker 5: Well, Dave Roberts would disagree with you, Tim, because his

810
00:39:03,640 --> 00:39:09,880
Speaker 5: message after the last two celebrations has been don't lose

811
00:39:09,920 --> 00:39:13,960
Speaker 5: your edge. He doesn't want them to decompress. He doesn't

812
00:39:13,960 --> 00:39:16,960
Speaker 5: want them to reset. And that's the mindset of the

813
00:39:17,000 --> 00:39:20,080
Speaker 5: team after they beat the Reds. That was the mindset

814
00:39:20,360 --> 00:39:23,279
Speaker 5: of the Dodgers after they clinched the division, and that

815
00:39:23,440 --> 00:39:25,759
Speaker 5: was the message from Dave Roberts. You go back to

816
00:39:25,840 --> 00:39:28,520
Speaker 5: listen to what he said. He said, I need it.

817
00:39:28,600 --> 00:39:32,200
Speaker 5: I asked you for four weeks, don't lose your edge.

818
00:39:32,719 --> 00:39:36,799
Speaker 5: So maybe Tim Cats would be at Don Kucko's every

819
00:39:36,920 --> 00:39:39,600
Speaker 5: night in between rounds. But that's not what Dave Roberts want.

820
00:39:39,760 --> 00:39:46,160
Speaker 8: Wow, Wow, okay, I'll be there, David. How many Happy birthday, David?

821
00:39:47,520 --> 00:39:50,480
Speaker 5: Oh hey, thank you Steve Sachs. You gave me a

822
00:39:50,480 --> 00:39:52,640
Speaker 5: great birthday president in nineteen eighty eight.

823
00:39:54,040 --> 00:39:55,000
Speaker 8: All right, buddy, thank you.

824
00:39:55,040 --> 00:39:55,160
Speaker 5: Now?

825
00:39:55,200 --> 00:39:56,080
Speaker 8: How many is it, Dave?

826
00:39:56,200 --> 00:40:00,359
Speaker 5: Just so we all know, one shy the big five?

827
00:40:00,400 --> 00:40:00,879
Speaker 5: Oh sack?

828
00:40:00,960 --> 00:40:03,560
Speaker 7: Okay, Hey, hey, no big deal, don't worry about five.

829
00:40:03,600 --> 00:40:05,879
Speaker 7: Oh it's just a number, brother, doesn't mean a darn thing.

830
00:40:06,320 --> 00:40:08,719
Speaker 5: Look at you, you're a stud. Still look at this.

831
00:40:08,880 --> 00:40:11,319
Speaker 3: Come on, and I'm one hundred and four of those.

832
00:40:11,480 --> 00:40:14,799
Speaker 5: I believe I'm five years younger than Petros when it's

833
00:40:14,840 --> 00:40:15,520
Speaker 5: the other way.

834
00:40:15,360 --> 00:40:17,479
Speaker 8: Around, Dave.

835
00:40:17,560 --> 00:40:21,600
Speaker 7: This team, you know, this team was out of sorts.

836
00:40:21,960 --> 00:40:25,160
Speaker 7: It seems not really out of sorts, but they found

837
00:40:25,239 --> 00:40:28,520
Speaker 7: ways to win. They scratch out two runs to get

838
00:40:28,520 --> 00:40:31,359
Speaker 7: this victory. They hit one homer in four games. This

839
00:40:31,440 --> 00:40:35,440
Speaker 7: team slugs, but still they got They got rid of

840
00:40:35,440 --> 00:40:38,640
Speaker 7: a team that is really really formidable here and they

841
00:40:38,680 --> 00:40:40,880
Speaker 7: did it in four games. I mean, I think the

842
00:40:40,960 --> 00:40:43,319
Speaker 7: Dodgers have to be elated where they are right now,

843
00:40:43,800 --> 00:40:46,400
Speaker 7: Wait till they get back to some sense of normalcy

844
00:40:46,800 --> 00:40:49,719
Speaker 7: and start slugging. I mean, it's like nobody has seen

845
00:40:49,760 --> 00:40:52,360
Speaker 7: anything yet and yet here they are. They're going to

846
00:40:52,360 --> 00:40:53,960
Speaker 7: the NLCS.

847
00:40:54,880 --> 00:40:57,480
Speaker 5: Without a doubt, Steve, and that's what the message was

848
00:40:57,600 --> 00:41:02,120
Speaker 5: from all the players yesterday. They're talented, Yes, they have

849
00:41:02,200 --> 00:41:05,760
Speaker 5: a great group of hitters, but this was a pitching series.

850
00:41:06,000 --> 00:41:09,320
Speaker 5: Freddie Freeman said it to me. It was a pitching series.

851
00:41:09,560 --> 00:41:14,240
Speaker 5: And the Dodgers pitchers outpitched the Phillies in this series

852
00:41:14,280 --> 00:41:17,799
Speaker 5: to be able to have the opportunity to force a

853
00:41:17,880 --> 00:41:21,359
Speaker 5: mistake like that from Orian Keckering in the eleventh inning.

854
00:41:21,640 --> 00:41:27,160
Speaker 5: And everybody was praising Tyler Glassnow and Roki Sasaki because

855
00:41:27,440 --> 00:41:31,160
Speaker 5: let's be honest, it's been a not smooth ride for

856
00:41:31,239 --> 00:41:34,719
Speaker 5: Tyler glass Now since he joined the Dodgers, but all

857
00:41:34,719 --> 00:41:38,680
Speaker 5: of a sudden, he has found something since he returned

858
00:41:38,680 --> 00:41:41,759
Speaker 5: from the injured list this season. And you have to

859
00:41:41,760 --> 00:41:44,160
Speaker 5: give Dave Roberts a lot of credit because he's been

860
00:41:44,160 --> 00:41:46,879
Speaker 5: in his ear and he's been very upfront with him

861
00:41:46,920 --> 00:41:50,080
Speaker 5: that he needed more compete out of him. And I

862
00:41:50,120 --> 00:41:52,799
Speaker 5: feel like glass Now saw what was going on with

863
00:41:52,840 --> 00:41:56,520
Speaker 5: the other pitchers, and in particular Clayton Kershaw, who at

864
00:41:56,800 --> 00:42:00,239
Speaker 5: this stage of his career, still competes even though his

865
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Speaker 5: body doesn't feel the best, but goes out there and

866
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Speaker 5: has a ten win season. Don't discount that fact as

867
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Speaker 5: far as the impression it has left with some of

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Speaker 5: these younger guys on the staff. And I feel like

869
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Speaker 5: Tyler Glass now and Roki Sasaki may have been the

870
00:42:18,000 --> 00:42:23,520
Speaker 5: two most doubted pitchers coming into the postseason, and it's

871
00:42:24,360 --> 00:42:27,080
Speaker 5: baseball to see them be able to be two of

872
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Speaker 5: the biggest reasons why they won last night.

873
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Speaker 3: Now, the pitching was really good, no doubt the left

874
00:42:32,920 --> 00:42:35,920
Speaker 3: handers for the Phillies this series. Freddie Freeman told you

875
00:42:36,000 --> 00:42:38,080
Speaker 3: that post game he was so glad to be done

876
00:42:38,120 --> 00:42:40,960
Speaker 3: with these guys and moving on for show. Hey, Otani,

877
00:42:41,080 --> 00:42:44,719
Speaker 3: the struggle was real in this NLDS. How concerned are

878
00:42:44,760 --> 00:42:47,879
Speaker 3: you about it continuing maybe in the NLCS and whether

879
00:42:47,920 --> 00:42:49,040
Speaker 3: it's the brewers of the Cubs.

880
00:42:50,440 --> 00:42:54,520
Speaker 5: Not concerned at all, because, like we talk about, styles

881
00:42:54,600 --> 00:42:58,640
Speaker 5: make fights, and the Phillies had not only really good

882
00:42:58,760 --> 00:43:01,759
Speaker 5: left handers they were throwing at Otani and the Dodgers,

883
00:43:02,239 --> 00:43:06,160
Speaker 5: but also I saw something that you know, MLB Network

884
00:43:06,239 --> 00:43:10,600
Speaker 5: sends out a research package that I'm able to see

885
00:43:11,040 --> 00:43:15,320
Speaker 5: and they pointed out that not only were these Phillies

886
00:43:15,360 --> 00:43:19,160
Speaker 5: pitchers really good, but their arm angle was not over

887
00:43:19,239 --> 00:43:22,480
Speaker 5: the top. And Otani does much better against lefties that

888
00:43:22,600 --> 00:43:25,040
Speaker 5: throw over the top. If you look at all the

889
00:43:25,040 --> 00:43:30,839
Speaker 5: Phillies lefties like Christopher Sanchez, Ranger Suarez, jezus Lozardo, they

890
00:43:30,880 --> 00:43:33,520
Speaker 5: come a little bit three quarters and he just doesn't

891
00:43:33,520 --> 00:43:36,040
Speaker 5: pick up the ball well. He has a history of

892
00:43:36,520 --> 00:43:40,640
Speaker 5: not doing well against those pictures and against pitchers similar

893
00:43:40,960 --> 00:43:44,440
Speaker 5: to that arm slot. So he's going to see completely

894
00:43:44,600 --> 00:43:48,959
Speaker 5: different pictures, a lot more right handed pitchers, and he's

895
00:43:49,000 --> 00:43:52,080
Speaker 5: the best player on the planet. I don't expect him

896
00:43:52,080 --> 00:43:55,279
Speaker 5: to be held down offensively like he was in this

897
00:43:55,440 --> 00:43:56,560
Speaker 5: series by those.

898
00:43:56,360 --> 00:44:01,160
Speaker 8: Guys, Yeah, David and Andy Payez. You know, even though

899
00:44:01,160 --> 00:44:04,080
Speaker 8: he's hitting nine, he came up in this series in

900
00:44:04,160 --> 00:44:06,200
Speaker 8: some crucial points of the game.

901
00:44:06,800 --> 00:44:09,719
Speaker 7: It looks to me like he's he's at every pitch

902
00:44:09,719 --> 00:44:15,640
Speaker 7: out of the Ballyard, having home runs during the year,

903
00:44:16,719 --> 00:44:19,640
Speaker 7: great arm in the outfield. I think it's just a

904
00:44:19,680 --> 00:44:21,440
Speaker 7: matter of him relaxing and have a little bit of

905
00:44:21,480 --> 00:44:24,040
Speaker 7: success and then the game will come to him. But

906
00:44:24,239 --> 00:44:26,520
Speaker 7: I think he's trying to force it and hit everything

907
00:44:26,560 --> 00:44:30,560
Speaker 7: out of the park right now, What do you see there, Steve?

908
00:44:30,680 --> 00:44:32,719
Speaker 5: I agree with you one hundred percent. He was trying

909
00:44:32,760 --> 00:44:35,719
Speaker 5: to do way too much in this series, and at

910
00:44:35,760 --> 00:44:39,759
Speaker 5: times they cost the Dodgers, not only offensively with some

911
00:44:39,880 --> 00:44:44,080
Speaker 5: poor at back qualities, but also in the outfield. You

912
00:44:44,120 --> 00:44:46,560
Speaker 5: think back to Game three, a bad throw instead of

913
00:44:46,640 --> 00:44:50,080
Speaker 5: just getting it to the cutoff man and maybe even

914
00:44:50,200 --> 00:44:52,560
Speaker 5: just going to second base to keep the double play

915
00:44:52,560 --> 00:44:55,879
Speaker 5: in order. You think about the game in Game two

916
00:44:55,880 --> 00:44:58,680
Speaker 5: in Philadelphia where he was moved to right field and

917
00:44:59,360 --> 00:45:03,000
Speaker 5: was so inten on trying to throw out Nick Castiano

918
00:45:03,080 --> 00:45:06,399
Speaker 5: said second base that he allowed the ball to get

919
00:45:06,400 --> 00:45:10,280
Speaker 5: by him and sorry, that was Max Kepler in Philadelphia

920
00:45:10,320 --> 00:45:12,480
Speaker 5: where he was trying to throw him out and he

921
00:45:13,360 --> 00:45:15,920
Speaker 5: ended up at third base. So all of those things

922
00:45:16,719 --> 00:45:18,680
Speaker 5: was a product of Andy pater Has trying to do

923
00:45:18,800 --> 00:45:21,080
Speaker 5: too much, trying to throw out runners, trying to hit

924
00:45:21,080 --> 00:45:23,680
Speaker 5: a home run. But as you know, I'm sure you've

925
00:45:23,719 --> 00:45:26,360
Speaker 5: seen this with some of the big boys or just

926
00:45:26,560 --> 00:45:29,440
Speaker 5: guys that are having big swings are in a slump

927
00:45:29,880 --> 00:45:33,759
Speaker 5: when you have something happened like last night where you

928
00:45:33,840 --> 00:45:37,800
Speaker 5: hit a dribbler to the pitcher and the game ends

929
00:45:37,880 --> 00:45:41,239
Speaker 5: and you're moving to the NLCS. Just by making contact.

930
00:45:41,840 --> 00:45:45,719
Speaker 5: Sometimes that changes getting out of a slump. And I'm

931
00:45:45,760 --> 00:45:48,520
Speaker 5: not saying it happens every time where the series ends

932
00:45:48,560 --> 00:45:51,560
Speaker 5: that way, but just in the regular season, you hit

933
00:45:51,600 --> 00:45:54,440
Speaker 5: a little tapper and somehow, some way you beat out

934
00:45:54,480 --> 00:45:56,720
Speaker 5: an infield ground ball, and then all of a sudden

935
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Speaker 5: you're back to yourself. Hopefully that happens for Andy Potts.

936
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Speaker 3: Dave, great job last night in the clubhouse post game,

937
00:46:03,400 --> 00:46:05,880
Speaker 3: on the field as well, talking to all the different

938
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Speaker 3: Dodger players in the celebration as the Dodgers celebrate yet

939
00:46:09,680 --> 00:46:12,520
Speaker 3: again inside that Dodger Batty and cage, and they hope

940
00:46:12,520 --> 00:46:14,320
Speaker 3: to do it a couple more times after beating the

941
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Speaker 3: Phillies last night in this divisional round. Enjoy your birthday

942
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Speaker 3: today and we'll talk to you on Monday. Whoever the

943
00:46:19,800 --> 00:46:22,239
Speaker 3: Dodgers may play, wherever you may be, it's gonna be

944
00:46:22,320 --> 00:46:25,560
Speaker 3: Game one on Monday night, either at Dodger Stadium or

945
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Speaker 3: in Milwaukee. So enjoyed, Dave. Thanks for coming on this morning, Dave.

946
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Speaker 5: Happy birthday, guys, Thanks a lot, have a great weekend.

947
00:46:31,160 --> 00:46:34,560
Speaker 5: It'll be a sunny day in Philadelphia always, Sonny in

948
00:46:34,719 --> 00:46:38,319
Speaker 5: La and sad and gloomy in Philly right now, right

949
00:46:38,400 --> 00:46:39,120
Speaker 5: believe though.

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Speaker 8: I was gonna tell you you're not going to Philly, just

951
00:46:41,760 --> 00:46:42,600
Speaker 8: like you said.

952
00:46:43,200 --> 00:46:45,640
Speaker 5: Hey, I told you I'm not packing, Sacks. I still

953
00:46:45,680 --> 00:46:48,640
Speaker 5: got the same Para underwear on from yesterday. Wow.

954
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Speaker 3: Okay, all right, day, thanks buddy, have a great.

955
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Speaker 8: Day, Thanks Dave.

956
00:46:52,840 --> 00:46:55,080
Speaker 3: All right, guys, there he goes the one and only

957
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Speaker 3: birthday boy himself, David Fast Save one.

958
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Speaker 8: Hour ago, as are finally playing it.

959
00:47:01,680 --> 00:47:03,640
Speaker 3: We know you love the beat a little base though.

960
00:47:03,640 --> 00:47:05,359
Speaker 8: Like to go when it goes down, like to go.

961
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Speaker 3: He has Steve Sachs. I have Tim Kats one hour

962
00:47:10,560 --> 00:47:13,080
Speaker 3: to go here on Saxon Kate to the am Data

963
00:47:13,200 --> 00:47:17,839
Speaker 3: celebrate yet another Dodger chance to move on to the

964
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Speaker 3: NLCS as they beat the Phillies last night in dramatic

965
00:47:21,520 --> 00:47:24,120
Speaker 3: walk off fashion with a two to one win and

966
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Speaker 3: eleven Indians coming up your phone calls, we'll hear from

967
00:47:27,080 --> 00:47:29,760
Speaker 3: John Hartong as well. He's Steve Sacks. I'm Tim Kates.

968
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Speaker 3: Thanks for being with us on this Friday morning here

969
00:47:32,280 --> 00:47:34,720
Speaker 3: in southern California on a FFI seventy l a Sports