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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 1: It's winning it again.

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Speaker 3: This year.

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Speaker 2: 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 2: The twenty twenty five Dodgers are the National Leagues Western

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Speaker 2: Division champions.

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Speaker 1: And you know what that means.

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Speaker 4: 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 4: Reacting, taking your phone calls, talking Dodgers playoff baseball.

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Speaker 1: Saxon Kates in the Morning is presented by Daniels Jewler's

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Speaker 1: official sponsor of every trip around the Diamond own.

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Speaker 5: The Dram all postseason.

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Speaker 1: Long now Here they are on AM five to seventy

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Speaker 1: LA Sports and the iHeartRadio ass.

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Speaker 5: Steve Sacks, Tim Kates.

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Speaker 1: Tim Kates and world champion Dodger Steve Sacks.

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Speaker 5: Here we go.

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Speaker 4: We're off and running on a Tuesday morning, October seventh,

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Speaker 4: twenty twenty five. It's Sacks and Kates in the Am,

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Speaker 4: live and local on your home of the Dodgers am

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Speaker 4: five seventy LA Sports. I am Tim Kates, along with

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Speaker 4: two times World Series champion, from a Rookie of the

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Speaker 4: Year and one hell of a guy The What and

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Speaker 4: Only Number three Steve Sacks Saxy, good morning, what's up?

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Speaker 6: Tim?

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Speaker 7: And I know you're in good good spirits today, feeling

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Speaker 7: Dodger victory, come down to the last second, the last play, Mat.

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Speaker 7: I'll tell you what you kind of getting a little

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Speaker 7: tightened up there, liftien a lot.

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Speaker 5: I was tightened enough last night, Steve Sacks.

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Speaker 4: I had the postgame show following Game two of the

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Speaker 4: NLDS and feeling good, strutting around the studio for nothing lead.

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Speaker 4: Then it was four to one, and next thing you know,

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Speaker 4: uh oh, we have ourselves a ballgame and the tye

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Speaker 4: run ninety feet away. What a game last night in

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Speaker 4: Philadelphia as the Dodgers escape with a four to three

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Speaker 4: win over the Phillies to take a two to zero

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Speaker 4: series lead. We are here for three hours this morning,

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Speaker 4: taking your phone calls, reacting to game two, looking ahead

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Speaker 4: to Game three as the Dodgers come back home, taking

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Speaker 4: the first two games at Citizens Bank Park. First, it

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Speaker 4: was a big outing from show. Hey o'tani last night.

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Speaker 4: It was Blake Snell's shoving for six innings and Steve.

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Speaker 4: Last night, to me was a story of three acts.

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Speaker 4: If this were a play, it was the first act,

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Speaker 4: the first six innings was a pitchers duel. The middle

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Speaker 4: act was the seventh and eighth inning, with the Dodgers

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Speaker 4: scored four runs and Immachian had two innings of relief.

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Speaker 4: And you could probably do a whole thirty for thirty

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Speaker 4: on that ninth inning at Citizens Bank Park, especially that

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Speaker 4: bottom half of the ninth inning in which one, two,

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Speaker 4: three Dodger relievers had to come in to close it out.

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Speaker 4: And then on top of it, it took Freddie Freeman

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Speaker 4: being a witch over it first with the glove to

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Speaker 4: save a throw from Tommy Edmund to win the game.

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Speaker 4: I mean, we could have spent three hours talking about

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Speaker 4: the pitching performance. We could spend three hours talking about

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Speaker 4: with Imachin and that four run seventh that he meant

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Speaker 4: for the Dodgers. We can spend a whole day talking

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Speaker 4: about that bottom half of the ninth inty. Last night

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Speaker 4: was October baseball, and I loved every part of it.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, and I knew you were you're kind of squirming

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Speaker 7: but you know, you got to kind of peel the

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Speaker 7: you what, I know you talked about. It took all

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Speaker 7: these relievers to come through. I thought she did a

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Speaker 7: pretty darn good job. I mean, he was attacking the

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Speaker 7: on his part. He made one bad pitch. He made

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Speaker 7: the one bad pitch to real Muto got a sinker

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Speaker 7: that didn't sink. He was up in the strike zone.

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Speaker 7: When that happens, the ball flattens out and it's right

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Speaker 7: there for him to hit, and he did what a

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Speaker 4: Yeah, in the end, people remember the Dodgers going to

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Speaker 4: Philadelphia and winning both those games. But last night I

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Speaker 4: had full phone lines for an hour talking about really

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Speaker 4: the ninth inning and Dave Roberts' decision to go to

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Speaker 4: wrong decision, and now Rookie Sasaki and Dodger fans minds

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Speaker 4: should close out every single game. And quite frankly, it

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Speaker 4: was up to Dodger fans, he would pitch every game.

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Speaker 4: Every time the starter came out of the game, he

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Speaker 4: that Dodger bullpen would ever touch a baseball of the postseason.

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Speaker 4: If it went up to Dodger fans, That's just not

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Speaker 4: the case. But wow, it was a thrilling game in Philadelphia.

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Speaker 4: The Dodgers had an opportunity to, you know, kind of

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Speaker 4: squash the Phillies early. A twenty fourth pitch first inning

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Speaker 4: from hayes us Lozardo, Dodgers had runners on base with

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Speaker 4: he retired seventeen in a row, while on the other side,

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Speaker 4: Blake Snell was snell Zilla yesterday, absolutely dominating for six innings,

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Speaker 4: nine strikeouts, twenty three swing and misses those first six innings.

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Speaker 4: The pitcher's dual part of Game two last night was

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Speaker 4: so fun to watch. And if you were a baseball

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Speaker 4: a beautiful thing to watch that pitching performance.

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Speaker 5: Those two go toe to toe, Steve.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I loved it. These were a big matchup right here.

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Speaker 7: This is what you want to see as far as

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Speaker 7: the pitching dual goes. Both got exceptional stuff, a lot

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Speaker 7: of swing and miss, a lot of balls that these

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Speaker 7: was great. The game was moved along very very quickly. Yeah,

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Speaker 7: we have the act that you saw the act too.

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Speaker 4: Rick Monday said it as the game was going on

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Speaker 4: a few times did Dodger hitters look like they were

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Speaker 4: Did you maybe feel like that was the case, especially

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Speaker 4: We've seen it before. Dodger pitching has been good and

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Speaker 4: there's just no offense. It's a game in which Yamamoto

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Speaker 4: all season long, guy you know, no run support, should

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Speaker 4: season and probably could win the sny Young Award. If

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Speaker 4: he gets more run support, it has more wins. But

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Speaker 4: last night kind of felt like, is the second, third, fourth,

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Speaker 4: fifth innings going along, where's this Dodgers offense? Meanwhile, Blake

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Speaker 7: Yeah, and well, you got to give credit to a

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Speaker 7: Lozardo to he was He was dynamite. And you know,

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Speaker 7: good pitching will usually beat good hitting, as it was

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Speaker 7: brought this guy in or that guy in. Does Dave

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Speaker 7: Roberts get any kudos for bringing in Will Smith, who

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Speaker 7: Does he get any kudos for that?

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Speaker 1: Changed the game?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it absolutely did, as the Dodgers finally got on

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Speaker 4: the board in the seventh inning with a four run

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Speaker 4: seventh inning, as they take a four to nothing lead

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Speaker 4: in the eighth. She and could he have gone back

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Speaker 4: of time to break that down because I was talking

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Speaker 4: postgame last night. I would have gone back to Immachian

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Speaker 4: in the ninth inning after just twenty seven pitches he

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Speaker 4: stretched out. He's a starter. He's gone two innings for you.

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Speaker 4: The way he got out of the eighth Inny, which

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Speaker 4: and then the PopOut of uh Bryce Harper. But you know,

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Speaker 4: the Dodgers offense got that spark in the seventh. Blake

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Speaker 4: Snell was fantastic for six innings, now four career postseason

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Speaker 4: outings with nine strikeouts or more and no more than

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Speaker 4: two hits allowed, the most by any pitcher in MLB history.

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Speaker 4: And of course you know after the game last night,

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Speaker 4: Blake Snell's number one fan, David Vaz said, I bet

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Speaker 7: Just slobbering on him.

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Speaker 5: Oh he caught up with Snell Zilla and here it was. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: let's ruin all right, Tim.

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Speaker 2: We are with the one and only two times Cy

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Speaker 2: Young Award winner Blake Snell. Six shutout innings, ninth strikeouts.

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Speaker 2: I guess, after all, you can handle the East Coast stage.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, that's crazy, But no, I was looking forward to

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Speaker 8: this start. This meant a lot to me and definitely

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Speaker 8: meant a lot to the team. We're two and out

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Speaker 8: going back to La and man, that's a good feeling.

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Speaker 8: What was liking the dugout in the ninth inning.

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Speaker 2: Obviously high tension there, but Vessia and the play months

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Speaker 2: he made on the wheel play was incredible.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean, you practice play so much and for

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Speaker 8: it to come to light in the postseason is awesome.

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Speaker 8: It just it just shows the discipline of the team,

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Speaker 8: and you know, we're gonna be relentless, We're gonna find

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Speaker 8: a way to win. And you know, even with the

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Speaker 8: lead was I was never worried. I knew what I

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Speaker 8: knew what we can do.

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Speaker 2: Blake, it seemed like early on, you were trying to

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Speaker 2: establish the fastball up in the zone and also your slider,

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Speaker 2: especially those dangerous left handed hitters. Were you happy with

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Speaker 2: the execution? Were you happy with the way things went down?

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Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean there were there were some misses, but overall,

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Speaker 8: I was, you know, attacking the zone. And it shows

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Speaker 8: four walks, but you know those are good pitches and

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Speaker 8: and those don't bother me. You know, I just keep attacking,

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Speaker 8: keep learning, keep getting better. And uh yeah, we got

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Speaker 8: ya'm a mooto in two days and I can't wait

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Speaker 8: to watch them pitch.

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Speaker 2: Congratulations on another great night. You just keep I'm stacking

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Speaker 2: in the postseason, another great one.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, only five, you know, that's what they tell me.

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Speaker 2: Only five, That's right, But tonight six shutout innings with

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Speaker 2: nine punchies for Blake Snell.

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Speaker 5: We'll send it back to you. Tim.

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Speaker 7: Wow, Dave did you carry his books home from school?

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Speaker 4: Snell Zilla and David Mass post game. It is something special.

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Speaker 4: And snell Zilla may has said he felt comfortable in

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Speaker 4: the ninth inning, but I don't think anybody else watching

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Speaker 4: starting to play out in the ninth inning. And we're

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Speaker 7: That's it and that and you know when you change

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Speaker 7: But it's a philosoity.

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Speaker 4: Tim thirty five miles an hour, got it?

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Speaker 7: Did it work?

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Speaker 1: It worked?

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Speaker 4: Okay, it worked, and it took the lid off the

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Speaker 4: nothing sexy about it. It wasn't a four hundred and

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Speaker 5: To score the fourth run of the game.

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Speaker 4: Sometimes you just need something to go right for you,

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Speaker 7: Did you see the butts come off of the bench

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Speaker 7: Did you see that? Oh yeah, that was a that

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Speaker 5: Now here we come.

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Speaker 7: I mean, if that if Trey Turner gets a little

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Speaker 5: It absolutely did.

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Speaker 4: And the Dodgers, again, they're known for grinding out the

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Speaker 4: The Dodgers have figured it out in the first two games,

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Speaker 4: But I loved the fact that Dave Roberts, who could

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Speaker 7: Yeah, and that's right, And Emmett really took a big

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Speaker 4: They are panicking in Philadelphia and they're looking to point

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Speaker 7: I'll tell you what he did. One of the one

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Speaker 7: He took it? Oh, why are you taking pitches that

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Speaker 5: And now you're down?

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Speaker 7: One can anybody in the world ex playing to me,

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Speaker 7: You may not get another pitch like that to hit.

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Speaker 7: I mean, you know it's uh and I see it

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Speaker 2: We're here with them, Mige. She and Emmett pitched two

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Speaker 7: It feels good.

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Speaker 5: Are you having fun in this new role?

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, we'll seeing in La see there he goes Imachi

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Speaker 4: out of the bullpen. The Dodgers, with the abundance of starters,

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Speaker 4: have the luxury of sending these guys to the bullpen,

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Speaker 4: and they have adapted to their roles. And Imachian adjust

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Speaker 4: one of those examples, and he has been fantastic coming

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Speaker 4: in in long relief and really a guy who's been

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Speaker 4: asked to do everything this year. He's been an opener,

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Speaker 4: he's been a starter, he's been a bulgeting guy from

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Speaker 4: behind Clayton Kershaw and Liszt is a guy a year

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Speaker 4: ago wasn't around because he was recovering from Tommy John surgery.

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Speaker 4: In fact, he talked about the last October he was

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Speaker 4: with the group of guys coming back from injury over

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Speaker 4: a camelback ranch in Arizona and they were all watching

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Speaker 4: the postseason together around a TV as they rehab their

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Speaker 4: arm injuries and different injuries they were coming back from,

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Speaker 4: and he said it was so tough to sit and

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Speaker 4: watch what the Dodgers were doing and have nothing to

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Speaker 4: be a part of it and couldn't do anything to

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Speaker 4: help out that Dodger team that he desperately wanted to

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Speaker 4: be a part of So when he said he came

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Speaker 4: back this year, he knew he wanted to be a

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Speaker 4: part of this October run at whatever role he could do,

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Speaker 4: which was awesome.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, and just this one little tiny part right here,

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Speaker 7: this little tendon right here is just not going to

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Speaker 7: cooperate and you know, can shut your whole world down.

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Speaker 7: But you know, look, I just think that this guy's

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Speaker 7: a huge weapon. He's an extension of Rokie, or he

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Speaker 7: preempts Roki to go in there. This is a starter

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Speaker 7: who's not, you know, not phased by the moment. It

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Speaker 7: seems that the experience that he's had before and postseason

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Speaker 7: really got him to the bridge became a big bridge

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Speaker 7: to where he is now. And this is going to

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Speaker 7: be a bridge till later. And it's just fantastic. These

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Speaker 7: What I like about the Dodgers and these starters that

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Speaker 7: go in the bullpen is they're not they're undaunted. They

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Speaker 7: go in there and they give their best stuff. Here's

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Speaker 7: ninety eight, go ahead and hit it, and I think

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Speaker 7: the opposition knows it's coming and they can't to it.

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Speaker 7: Then you drop that hard slider that split on him

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Speaker 7: and forget it, man. It's two pitches and a two

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Speaker 7: pitch combination that's working really good, and you can use

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Speaker 7: that out of the bullpen to your advantage. Only a

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Speaker 7: two pitch combination can work. If you're a starter, you

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Speaker 7: need three. Sometimes guys need four pitches, but coming out

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Speaker 7: of the bullpen, two will work. And it seems to

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Speaker 7: be that remedy that's been good for the Dodgers.

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Speaker 5: So far, so good. Dodgers back home with a two

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Speaker 5: O series lead.

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Speaker 4: Game three is tomorrow night in this NLDS coming up

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Speaker 4: between now and nine o'clock. Your phone calls eight six

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Speaker 4: six ninety seven, two five seventy. Alana Rizzo will join

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Speaker 4: us next. Get her perspective on this Dodgers team. As

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Speaker 4: a Dodgers win last night four to three. They hang

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Speaker 4: on and beat the fighting Phills. Took three relievers in

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Speaker 4: the ninth inning. Roki Sasaki comes in for the final out.

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Speaker 4: Dodgers two oh series lead, one went away from going

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Speaker 4: back to the NLCS. He is Steve Sacks. I'm Tim Kates.

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Speaker 4: Your phone calls till nine o'clock this morning. Your reaction,

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Speaker 4: Good morning, Los Angeles. Dodgers continue to win here in

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Speaker 4: October right you're on Anti seventy LA Sports, Sax and

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Speaker 4: Kates in the AM All Dodger postseason long right here

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Speaker 4: on your Home with the Dodgers AM five seventy LA

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Speaker 4: Sports Live Everywhere on the iHeart Radio app. Dodgers return

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Speaker 4: home with a two to ozero series lead in this

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Speaker 4: best of five nlds. Last night, Blake Snell six shutout

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Speaker 4: innings the Dodgers. He rubbed for four runs in the

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Speaker 4: seventh image she and pitches the seventh in the eighth.

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Speaker 4: Things got a little dicey in the ninth inning before

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Speaker 4: Rokie Susaki came in and pitched the ninth We're going

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Speaker 4: to get into the wheel player. They ran Steve Sacks.

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Speaker 4: We're going to get into that bottom half of the

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Speaker 4: ninth inning. That took three Dodger relievers to get through

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Speaker 4: it and included a great pick from Freddie Freeman to

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Speaker 4: end the game in the final out there in the

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Speaker 4: ninth inning at the Bank in Philadelphia. But joining us now,

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Speaker 4: you see you're on Dodger Territory, part of the four

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Speaker 4: fair Turret Time Network and of course eight years at

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Speaker 4: Spectrum Sports Net LA. You see on sports Net in Toronto,

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Speaker 4: with the Blue Jay Central. You see on Nesson as well,

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Speaker 4: the one and only a lot of Rizzo joins us

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Speaker 4: here on Saxon Kates in the am on this Tuesday morning.

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Speaker 5: A lot of good morning, how you.

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Speaker 11: Doing, Good morning guys, great to do, how are you doing?

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Speaker 5: Great?

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Speaker 4: Great to talk to you again. And the Dodgers making

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Speaker 4: a run again here in October. And I was watching

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Speaker 4: your post game last night talk about this game to win,

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Speaker 4: a lot of questions, certainly as you can imagine about

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Speaker 4: Dave Roberts's decision to go to Blake trying, but we

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Speaker 4: were talking about it earlier a lot. This game last

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Speaker 4: night was like a movie, three part movie. The first

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Speaker 4: six innings, a pitcher's duel, the seventh and the eighth inning,

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Speaker 4: the run scored by the Dodgers and Immachian, and that

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Speaker 4: ninth inning alone. You can probably do a thirty for

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Speaker 4: thirty on just how it all played out and the

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Speaker 4: three different relievers and the pick by Freddie Freeman. It

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Speaker 4: was a dramatic game that the Dodgers needed to win

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Speaker 4: and they got to win.

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Speaker 11: Well that's what you want, right, I mean, maybe not

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Speaker 11: as a fan. You want it to be an eleven

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Speaker 11: to nothing laugher, So you just don't have to keep

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Speaker 11: pumping the tombs and the role aids. But I mean,

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Speaker 11: if you're going to have a dramatic movie in Hollywood,

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Speaker 11: that's the way it goes down a little bit of stress,

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Speaker 11: but then you end up coming out on top.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it was awful.

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Speaker 11: It was an awful ninth inning. But you know, I

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Speaker 11: think Tommy Edmund Owes, Freddy Freeman, massive bottles of wine

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Speaker 11: and a good steak dinner. The way that they executed

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Speaker 11: that wheel play was beautiful late in the game. You know,

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Speaker 11: I know everybody wants to get on Dave Roberts about

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Speaker 11: putting Blake Trynon in there, and I know that he

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Speaker 11: won't say that Roki Susaki is our closer perhaps, you know,

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Speaker 11: and Clinton and I were talking about this last night

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Speaker 11: on Dodgers Territory. It's like, you know, perhaps they don't

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Speaker 11: want to overexpose Roki just yet. I don't know why

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Speaker 11: you don't go to Roki in that situation. Thank goodness

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Speaker 11: that it worked out. But you know, we have to

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Speaker 11: remember too. I understand it's what have you done for

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Speaker 11: me lately? But Blake Trynon was huge for the Dodgers.

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Speaker 11: Last season in the twenty twenty four World Series, so

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Speaker 11: obviously he has the experience. Yeah, it didn't work out.

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Speaker 11: He didn't have the best stuff, but thankfully his teammates

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Speaker 11: were able to back him up and get him out

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Speaker 11: of that jam. And I tell you what, being able

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Speaker 11: to I would have been satisfied, guys with the Dodgers

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Speaker 11: going to Philadelphia, going to Citizens Bank Park by taking

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Speaker 11: one game, but the fact that they go back to

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Speaker 11: Chavez Ravine and they have a two to nothing lead,

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Speaker 11: that's awesome. I mean, honestly, they could have they could

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Speaker 11: have lost either of those games, right, but they come

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Speaker 11: home with a two to nothing advantage and there's no

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Speaker 11: reason to believe that the Dodgers won't advance to the CS.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, a lot of good to be with you this morning.

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Speaker 7: And there's a lot of different places that we could

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Speaker 7: kind of scrutinize here and talk about there were difference makers.

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Speaker 7: But one that just really stands out to me, and

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Speaker 7: it's like last year he did it, this year he's

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Speaker 7: doing it is ta Oscar Hernandez hitting in that three hole.

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Speaker 7: This guy just really started to get things unraveled by

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Speaker 7: the base hit to center field. He comes up in

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Speaker 7: big times. He's a man of the moment and he

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Speaker 7: just has a flare for standing on that big stage

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Speaker 7: making it happened again last night, a couple of hits.

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Speaker 7: This guy's a run producer and he keeps doing it

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Speaker 7: in postseason.

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Speaker 11: Zaxly great to be with you as well. Of course,

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Speaker 11: I tell you what, it's the Hernandez brothers in October

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Speaker 11: that have really shined. And I don't know if it

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Speaker 11: then they joked about it in very much tongue in cheek,

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Speaker 11: and he didn't do it in any sort of nefarious way,

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Speaker 11: but he talked about how the regular season is kind

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Speaker 11: of boring for Kik and for Ko and on the

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Speaker 11: other side of the equation there, Nick Castellanos has talked

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Speaker 11: about that too, guys where it's like one hundred and

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Speaker 11: sixty two, let's just pretend you have add like it's

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Speaker 11: hard to focus for one hundred and sixty two games.

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Speaker 11: And I'm not making excuses for these guys. I know

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Speaker 11: they get paid a lot of money. I know that

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Speaker 11: the fans pay a lot of money to go see

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Speaker 11: these games. But it's just a different form of intensity, right,

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Speaker 11: It's just a sex you know better than anybody. It's

595
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Speaker 11: just a different style of play. It's a different adrenaline rush.

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Speaker 11: And I know that folks want to get on Tayo

597
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Speaker 11: for not necessarily running out of the box hard or

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Speaker 11: you know, taking interesting routes or not hustling, you know,

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Speaker 11: perceptively not hustling in the outfield and going for balls

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Speaker 11: in the outfield. But then he comes up clutch in

601
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Speaker 11: such huge situations, obviously the home run in Game one

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Speaker 11: to give them the lead, obviously scoring on the play

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Speaker 11: with you know, keiyk hernandez Is at bat, he makes

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Speaker 11: really good decisions and he seems to come through when

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Speaker 11: it matters the most. So I guess he's kind of

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Speaker 11: atoned for what people perceive as lack of hustle in

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Speaker 11: the first two games. But I tell you what, he's

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Speaker 11: come up huge and both of the hernandez Is. I

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Speaker 11: was screaming off of the rooftops last season that they

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Speaker 11: better bring them back, both of them. I mean, I

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Speaker 11: don't care if Kik is oh for the regular season.

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Speaker 11: You have to have him in the postseason roster without

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Speaker 11: a doubt.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, A lot of you were around this team a

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Speaker 4: long time, and Dave Roberts gets scrutinized every single movie

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Speaker 4: he makes in October, and they win a World Series,

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Speaker 4: and he still gets criticized from makes moves he makes.

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Speaker 4: In last night Dodger Talk, all we were doing was

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Speaker 4: hearing from fans about the plague trying to move and

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Speaker 4: not going to Roki Sasaki. I have to wonder at

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Speaker 4: what point Dodger fans are just gonna stop getting on

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Speaker 4: Dave Roberts. I mean, he pushes the right buttons. It's

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Speaker 4: not his fault. Blake tried and went out and couldn't

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Speaker 4: execute the first three batters that he faced. You are

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Speaker 4: around Dave a lot, traveling with this team for eight seasons.

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Speaker 4: Do you think it takes a toll on him? Do

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Speaker 4: you think he hears this outside noise that is constantly

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Speaker 4: after him for the way his team plays, and he

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Speaker 4: really has nothing to do with it.

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Speaker 11: It's so frustrating because I made the mistake last season

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Speaker 11: guys where I said I questioned Dave. I think it

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Speaker 11: was after Game two of the DS against the Padres,

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Speaker 11: where it just kind of seemed like it's either Game

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Speaker 11: two or Games three. I don't remember, honestly, I don't

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Speaker 11: even remember what I did yesterday but it was like,

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Speaker 11: you know, basically, it almost felt like he was punting.

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Speaker 11: And we don't know what's going on in the background, right,

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Speaker 11: We don't know everything that's going on behind the scenes.

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Speaker 11: We didn't know at the time that Freddy was had

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Speaker 11: that bum ankle and the messed up rib and you know,

641
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Speaker 11: everyone's like massively injured and all of those things. You

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Speaker 11: assume everyone's hurt at this point in the season. But

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Speaker 11: I will never question Dave Roberts again. And what I

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Speaker 11: mean by that is he has pushed all of the

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Speaker 11: right buttons at the right time. He cannot He's not

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Speaker 11: the guy out there throwing the pitches. You don't expect

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Speaker 11: Blake trying to give up three hits back back to

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Speaker 11: back or whatever it was. You know, you don't expect

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Speaker 11: that in that in that role, just based on the resume.

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Speaker 11: I mean, you have to consider all of the different things, matchups, usage,

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Speaker 11: you know, Roki it can't I mean, maybe he didn't

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Speaker 11: want Roky to pitch back to back to back date.

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Speaker 11: You know, you don't know what the situation is. Rokey

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Speaker 11: was on witness protection for four months, did I know it?

655
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Speaker 11: I didn't know where the heck he was so you know,

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Speaker 11: there's there's certain situations that maybe we're not privy to.

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Speaker 11: And I know that, Dave, And that's the expectation of

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Speaker 11: being you know, with with great with great reward and

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Speaker 11: great responsibility, or with great expectations, comes a lot of scrutiny.

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Speaker 11: And I understand that, and I don't think it's ever

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Speaker 11: going to end. But that just also shows me a

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Speaker 11: fan base that cares, and a fan base that has

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Speaker 11: expectations of winning every single year. We are massively, massively spoiled.

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Speaker 11: I mean, we just assume that every year the Dodgers

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Speaker 11: are going to win the National League West, because they

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Speaker 11: have for the last thirteen, you know, thirteen the last

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Speaker 11: fourteen years or whatever. We expect them to go to

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Speaker 11: the postseason every year and go deep into the postseason.

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Speaker 11: One thing Dave Roberts has expressed to us is that

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Speaker 11: he just doesn't he's not on Twitter, you know, he

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Speaker 11: doesn't listen to that type of stuff because it's got

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Speaker 11: to take a toll on you. And moreover, for Dave,

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Speaker 11: it's like he can shake it off, but it affects

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Speaker 11: the family too. Like you know, when I questioned Dave

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Speaker 11: last year, you know, we had to have a heart

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Speaker 11: to heart conversation. He was bummed about it because I

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Speaker 11: was in the in the circle of trust type of thing.

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Speaker 11: You know, I know better than to question certain things,

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Speaker 11: and you know, but it bothers his family, his wife, Tricia,

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Speaker 11: and the kids and all of those things. So I

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Speaker 11: don't think it's ever going to go away. But he's

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Speaker 11: the winningest active manager in the game. I mean, what

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Speaker 11: do you want from the man? He's taken this team

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Speaker 11: to the World Series in seventeen, eighteen, twenty twenty four,

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Speaker 11: very easily go back in twenty twenty five. And I

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Speaker 11: understand everyone's like, oh, you know, the.

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Speaker 1: Dodgers a payroll blue blah blah.

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Speaker 11: Well, you know what, the Mets are at home, and

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Speaker 11: so are the Padres, and the Yankees are probably gonna

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Speaker 11: get bound. So I don't want to hear it about

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Speaker 11: payroll because you can guarantee getting good and great players

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Speaker 11: with money. It doesn't guarantee wins, and it doesn't guarantee championships,

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Speaker 11: and it.

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Speaker 7: Doesn't guarantee culture, which is a great, big thing that

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Speaker 7: this team has over other teams.

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Speaker 1: Uh.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, you pointed it out very well there, Alana. The

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Speaker 7: money isn't always what does it? And sometimes managing the

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Speaker 7: team that has such high expectations year in year out,

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Speaker 7: the bar of expectancy is constantly being raised, and sometimes

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Speaker 7: that's a harder job to do than just, you know,

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Speaker 7: the run of the middle team with average expectations. So

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Speaker 7: I totally get that. But my question to you, Alana,

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Speaker 7: looking at the you know the Phillies right now, it's

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Speaker 7: only two games, but the Dodger pitching is gone after

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Speaker 7: the top four in the UH in the Phillies lineup

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Speaker 7: three zero, one forty three and one sixty seven respectively

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Speaker 7: for the top four, and it's only two games. I

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Speaker 7: get it. But the main thing they're doing is they

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Speaker 7: are shoving on Schwarber right now, They are throwing fastballs

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Speaker 7: right by him, and people don't do that. I mean,

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Speaker 7: this guy hunts fastballs and he had to be able

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Speaker 7: to handle anything in this Dodger repertoire so far. So

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Speaker 7: what's working is being aggressive and hunting down the hitters

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Speaker 7: instead of the other way around.

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Speaker 11: I think I couldn't agree with you more. And obviously

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Speaker 11: you know better than anybody sacksually as long as you

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Speaker 11: played in this game in the caliber at which you

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Speaker 11: played it. But It's like, you look at Schwarber and

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Speaker 11: this is not just a postseason slump. If you look

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Speaker 11: back at the end of the regular season for Kyle Schwarber,

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Speaker 11: he's been slumping offensively. And that's the thing about great players,

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Speaker 11: right the slumps don't last a long time. And I

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Speaker 11: do expect him to come out of it. But being

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Speaker 11: that the Dodgers have been able to neutralize, you know,

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Speaker 11: those two massive lefties at the top of their order

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Speaker 11: in obviously Kyle Schwarber and Harper, you know, I feel

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Speaker 11: like that's been so unbelievably effective. And you know, when

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Speaker 11: you look at the fact that you have, you know,

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Speaker 11: Blake Snell, who is everyone was very work as was

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Speaker 11: I when Blake Snell went on the shelf, and we're like,

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Speaker 11: oh my gosh, you know, they paid this guy all

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Speaker 11: this money and he's not pitching, and he had two

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Speaker 11: starts and then he was on the shelf forever. But

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Speaker 11: he is rafted and he's not fatigued, and we don't

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Speaker 11: have to worry about that. And you see what he

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Speaker 11: did last night. I mean, it was such an unbelievable

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Speaker 11: pitching jewel. And give credit to Hissus fuz Ardo. He

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Speaker 11: was amazing.

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Speaker 1: But you have.

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Speaker 11: Guys that are in position now and are healthy. I mean,

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Speaker 11: the Dodgers starting staff came together at the right time, right,

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Speaker 11: everyone's healthy and everyone's available at the right time, and

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Speaker 11: they were able to maintain throughout the regular season. You know,

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Speaker 11: it wasn't this massive lead in the division, but they

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Speaker 11: ended up what all you have to do is win

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Speaker 11: the division by one game. You don't have to win

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Speaker 11: it by fourteen, and they did that, and yeah, would

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Speaker 11: they have liked better seating, probably, but it's worked out.

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Speaker 6: Okay.

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Speaker 11: You know, they won the wildcard around against the Cincinnati

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Speaker 11: Reds and they're about to come home and I would

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Speaker 11: not be surprised if they won tomorrow with Yamamoto on

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Speaker 11: the hill and and swept the Phillies out of the DA.

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Speaker 11: So neutralizing those top two guys at the top of

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Speaker 11: the order is exactly what the Dodgers have needed to do.

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Speaker 11: The offense for the Dodgers has come up big in situations,

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Speaker 11: and honestly, if you can continue to get your starters

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Speaker 11: through six and then you know, be able to manage

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Speaker 11: the bullpen seventy eighty nine yesterday, notwithstanding nobody expected that,

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Speaker 11: I get it but I think the Dodgers are in

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Speaker 11: a very good position to be exactly where they want

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Speaker 11: to move on to the championship series.

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Speaker 4: You can see her on Dodgers' Territory, Fair Territory on

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Speaker 4: the Foul Territory TV network.

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Speaker 5: She has a lot of rizzo. Alana, thank you so

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Speaker 5: much for your time this morning.

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Speaker 4: Great watching you on the podcast and on YouTube doing

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Speaker 4: great stuff and appreciate the insight and talking little Dodgers

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Speaker 4: baseball this morning.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, thank you, Alana always.

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Speaker 11: It's my pleasure to miss you guys very much. And

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Speaker 11: Joe Dodgers we'll talk.

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Speaker 5: So all right there she goes a lot of rizzo.

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Speaker 4: Check her out again on Dodgers' Territory along with Fairtriitary

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Speaker 4: with Ken Rosenthal on the Foul Terror.

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Speaker 7: Alana knows her stuff, Tim.

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Speaker 5: Absolutely around this team for eight years.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, knows Dave Roberts and this coaching staff, this uh,

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Speaker 4: this team very very well.

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Speaker 5: So he in her insight.

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Speaker 4: Eight six six nine eighty seven two five said we

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Speaker 4: will come back. We got one line open Dodger fans

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Speaker 4: if you want to jump on board. A lot of

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Speaker 4: fans weighing in last night on postgame Dodger talk about

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Speaker 4: the decision to go to Blake Trient, and we're gonna

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Speaker 4: dive into that. We're gonna get into the wheel play.

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Speaker 4: What does that involve? How did they pull it off?

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Speaker 4: How often does it happen in baseball? Now, we'll get

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Speaker 4: Steve Sacks as a take on that. We'll also get

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Speaker 4: into the Dodgers Game three possibility of knocking off the

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Speaker 4: Philadelphia Phillies with a win tomorrow night. It'll be Yoshinobu

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Speaker 4: Yamamoto on the mound. Your phone calls, will we come back?

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Speaker 4: Thanks for being with us. He is Steve Sacks. I'm

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Speaker 4: Tim Kates. It's Sacks and Kate's and am right here

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Speaker 4: on an FI seventy l I Sports. Dodgers coming back

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Speaker 4: home with a two to zero series lead and the

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Speaker 4: best of five nlds. They're cut coming back to Cali

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Speaker 4: after a four to three win over the Phillies last night.

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Speaker 4: Blake Snell gets the victory, Roki Sasaki gets the final

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Speaker 4: out of the ninth inning that what turned out to

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Speaker 4: be a wild, thrilling ninth inning in Philadelphia as the

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Speaker 4: Dodgers hang on for the win as they have a

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Speaker 4: two zero series lead. Game three is tomorrow at a

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Speaker 4: Dodger Stadium Oceanobu Yamamoto and Aaron Nola, the pitching matchup

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Speaker 4: ranger Swarez will be there to back up Aaron Nola

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Speaker 4: and what is a must win game for the Fighting

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Speaker 4: Phills and a game in which the Dodgers can eliminate

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Speaker 4: Philadelphia with a win Tomorrow night out at Dodger State.

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Speaker 4: Thanks to Alan a Rizzo from foul Territory Forms sports

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Speaker 4: Net LA Dodger reporter joining us here on a five

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Speaker 4: seventy LA sports Let's get out to the phones. A

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00:37:44,520 --> 00:37:47,600
Speaker 4: lot of Dodger fans went away and certainly understand that

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Speaker 4: the way things played out last night. Let's go out

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Speaker 4: to Edgar and Lamarada is going to start things off

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Speaker 4: here on this Tuesday morning with Saxon Kate today.

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Speaker 5: Am Edgar, how you doing, Buddy Dick, you're being patron good?

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Speaker 1: Good?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, for sure. Good to be on with you guys.

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Speaker 6: Scam Man, what a game, oh man, good thing they

821
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Speaker 6: got to win. Let's think positive. You know, it could

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Speaker 6: have unraveled in the ninth, but they got it done.

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Speaker 6: I think they're gonna learn that training can't be trusted now.

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Speaker 6: So we're gonna be seeing a lot of the other

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Speaker 6: starters and and Sosaki going there in the ninth, so

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Speaker 6: that'll be good. But let's put a positive spin on today.

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Speaker 6: We got the win, We're up to zero coming back

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Speaker 6: to la U. Yamamoto is gonna shove on Wednesday, and

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Speaker 6: I think they're gonna get it done in three and

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Speaker 6: keep that offense at Bay and the hitters are gonna

831
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Speaker 6: come out and they're gonna be hot still, and so

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Speaker 6: we're gonna get this done in three.

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Speaker 4: Thanks guys, All right, Edgar, appreciate the phone call. Can

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Speaker 4: you still trust Blake trying Steve? I feel like you

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Speaker 4: got to be able to go to him if necessary

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Speaker 4: in a game here in the postseason. You just can't

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Speaker 4: rely on two or three guys, including rookie Sasaki, to

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Speaker 4: pitch every single game out of the pen. You I

839
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Speaker 4: didn't need another right hander. And Blake Tryning is going

840
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Speaker 4: to be have to be called upon at some point

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Speaker 4: right the rest of this October. He just can't not

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Speaker 4: go to him anymore.

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Speaker 7: Right, And Blake tryn and gave up one legitimate hit. Listen,

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Speaker 7: they're all legitimate hits. There are major league games, and

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Speaker 7: they got hits. He made one mistake to Reo Muto,

846
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Speaker 7: who deposited that ball in the corner like he should

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Speaker 7: Costiano's barely got the bat on it and got a

848
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Speaker 7: little dunker in there for a hit. The ball hit

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Speaker 7: up the middle was because of the shift that you know,

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Speaker 7: did he Did he give up any hard hit balls? One?

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Speaker 7: I guess you'd say, would I go back to trying? Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 7: maybe in the not in the most leverage situation, but

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Speaker 7: he's going to be in the game again because he

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00:39:43,719 --> 00:39:46,200
Speaker 7: has to link in the bullpen. This guy's pivotal to

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Speaker 7: you winning and you got to trust it that not

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Speaker 7: every game is going to be perfect. It's just the

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Speaker 7: way it is. But would I go to him, Yes,

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Speaker 7: I would.

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Speaker 4: In four of his last five outings previously Blake Trining

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Speaker 4: had put up zeros. He did so twice against the Reds.

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Speaker 4: I feel confident going to him. You have to be

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Speaker 4: able to trust the guys in that bullpen. You know,

863
00:40:07,200 --> 00:40:10,200
Speaker 4: the situation will dictate how much you trust him. Certainly

864
00:40:10,280 --> 00:40:13,040
Speaker 4: is Steve just alluded to. But you have to at

865
00:40:13,080 --> 00:40:15,520
Speaker 4: some point be able to call upon the veteran Blake

866
00:40:15,560 --> 00:40:17,840
Speaker 4: trying to Andy in la is next up. Here on

867
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Speaker 4: Saxon Kates and them. Andy, Good morning, how you doing.

868
00:40:21,600 --> 00:40:23,040
Speaker 9: You're good? Hi, good morning guys.

869
00:40:23,280 --> 00:40:25,719
Speaker 3: So my thoughts is, I've been having this thoughts of

870
00:40:25,800 --> 00:40:28,360
Speaker 3: that Sasa Sockey come out the bullpen. It really reminds

871
00:40:28,400 --> 00:40:31,080
Speaker 3: me of of k rod when the Angels made their

872
00:40:31,160 --> 00:40:34,399
Speaker 3: run and just thinking back in on what Alana said

873
00:40:34,440 --> 00:40:37,000
Speaker 3: he was. He's been out for like most of the season,

874
00:40:37,360 --> 00:40:40,960
Speaker 3: so people don't really have an idea of how he

875
00:40:41,040 --> 00:40:43,360
Speaker 3: looks the pitches, and I think it's gonna be a

876
00:40:43,360 --> 00:40:45,440
Speaker 3: real weapon for us as a closer. And it reminds

877
00:40:45,440 --> 00:40:47,200
Speaker 3: you of I don't know, what do you guys think?

878
00:40:47,280 --> 00:40:47,839
Speaker 5: Yeah, it does.

879
00:40:47,880 --> 00:40:49,719
Speaker 4: Two thousand and two the Angels, he was in the

880
00:40:49,719 --> 00:40:52,520
Speaker 4: minor leagues, came up late in the season. He was new,

881
00:40:52,600 --> 00:40:55,160
Speaker 4: he was a fresh arm, he was exciting. He bought

882
00:40:55,200 --> 00:40:57,359
Speaker 4: a jolt to that bullpen for the Angels in two

883
00:40:57,360 --> 00:41:00,000
Speaker 4: thousand and two and certainly helped Mike's Soshan that career

884
00:41:00,160 --> 00:41:03,200
Speaker 4: win a World Series. A lot of similarities again, a

885
00:41:03,280 --> 00:41:05,880
Speaker 4: new fresh arm for the Dodgers to work with in

886
00:41:05,960 --> 00:41:10,000
Speaker 4: the bullpen. And if Dodger fans remember the Roki Sasaki

887
00:41:10,520 --> 00:41:13,799
Speaker 4: from late March and early April when he pitched over

888
00:41:13,800 --> 00:41:16,000
Speaker 4: in Japan in the series and made a couple of

889
00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:19,120
Speaker 4: stars before going on the injured list. That picture to

890
00:41:19,200 --> 00:41:22,200
Speaker 4: this picture. Even mechanically, and I love the breakdown of

891
00:41:22,239 --> 00:41:24,560
Speaker 4: sports do at LA and MLB Network and even TBS

892
00:41:24,640 --> 00:41:28,080
Speaker 4: last night was showing it. You can see an obvious

893
00:41:28,280 --> 00:41:33,759
Speaker 4: difference in his mechanics, his wind up, his delivery, everything

894
00:41:33,920 --> 00:41:37,160
Speaker 4: is different about it, and that's why you're seeing different results.

895
00:41:37,160 --> 00:41:40,360
Speaker 4: I believe there's a reason why he's a completely different pitcher.

896
00:41:40,560 --> 00:41:42,239
Speaker 4: And you add on top of that a twenty three

897
00:41:42,320 --> 00:41:45,160
Speaker 4: year old that now he's got confidence again, he's got

898
00:41:45,200 --> 00:41:47,319
Speaker 4: it between the years again, feeling good about the way

899
00:41:47,360 --> 00:41:50,480
Speaker 4: he's pitching. This is a right time, right place, right guy,

900
00:41:50,600 --> 00:41:53,839
Speaker 4: right now, as you mentioned yesterday, next year, who knows

901
00:41:53,880 --> 00:41:57,080
Speaker 4: what happens, but right now, in the moment, he's the guy.

902
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Speaker 7: And the advantage again the I'm a denominator of Shehn

903
00:42:02,480 --> 00:42:05,040
Speaker 7: and Roki and and you know, these guys have been

904
00:42:05,080 --> 00:42:09,560
Speaker 7: starters before and so they're always you know, thrust into

905
00:42:09,600 --> 00:42:12,560
Speaker 7: the moment of the big build up, the crescendo of

906
00:42:12,600 --> 00:42:15,040
Speaker 7: the game, and then you know, you know, being able

907
00:42:15,040 --> 00:42:17,200
Speaker 7: to go in there and knock that thing down and

908
00:42:17,400 --> 00:42:19,799
Speaker 7: the build up and all the excitement is what kind

909
00:42:19,840 --> 00:42:21,759
Speaker 7: of gets to guys even on the bench. But these

910
00:42:21,760 --> 00:42:25,799
Speaker 7: guys being starters, they know what that's like, and you know,

911
00:42:26,160 --> 00:42:30,440
Speaker 7: going there multiple innings again another factor that leads to

912
00:42:30,760 --> 00:42:33,799
Speaker 7: how you know, productive these guys can be, especially when

913
00:42:33,840 --> 00:42:36,120
Speaker 7: you have an alien bullpen or one that you're not

914
00:42:36,200 --> 00:42:39,480
Speaker 7: trusting one hundred percent. But that's starting to come back

915
00:42:39,520 --> 00:42:41,920
Speaker 7: now and I and I don't think that this this

916
00:42:42,080 --> 00:42:46,000
Speaker 7: outing by by trying in yesterday should have an effect

917
00:42:46,000 --> 00:42:48,160
Speaker 7: on the fact that that he can be a very

918
00:42:48,239 --> 00:42:51,080
Speaker 7: very good weapon for the Dodgers in the next coming games.

919
00:42:51,360 --> 00:42:54,040
Speaker 7: I think, like Alana said, I think I expect the

920
00:42:54,040 --> 00:42:56,240
Speaker 7: Dodgers to come back and win this thing in game

921
00:42:56,320 --> 00:42:59,320
Speaker 7: one in Dodger Stadium, which is game three of the series.

922
00:42:59,360 --> 00:43:01,320
Speaker 7: Of course, I think that they can do this and

923
00:43:01,640 --> 00:43:03,879
Speaker 7: knock these guys out, and of course you don't want

924
00:43:03,880 --> 00:43:05,400
Speaker 7: to give them life. That's the best thing to do

925
00:43:05,480 --> 00:43:07,839
Speaker 7: is to come over here to La and beat these

926
00:43:07,840 --> 00:43:08,839
Speaker 7: guys down and get rid of them.

927
00:43:08,920 --> 00:43:11,920
Speaker 4: Yeah, you mentioned it. They've kept Kyle Schwarber Adbay. They

928
00:43:11,920 --> 00:43:14,640
Speaker 4: have held him down the first two games of this series.

929
00:43:14,680 --> 00:43:16,279
Speaker 4: The last thing you want to do is give him

930
00:43:16,280 --> 00:43:18,719
Speaker 4: a little bit of life in this series and he

931
00:43:18,760 --> 00:43:22,359
Speaker 4: can maybe jump start that Philadelphia offense. So we'll find

932
00:43:22,360 --> 00:43:25,200
Speaker 4: out Game three tomorrow. David in La on the six

933
00:43:25,360 --> 00:43:28,600
Speaker 4: oh five heading around southern California on this Tuesday morning.

934
00:43:28,640 --> 00:43:30,400
Speaker 5: Thanks for taking us with you, David. How you doing.

935
00:43:31,880 --> 00:43:32,120
Speaker 3: Good?

936
00:43:32,200 --> 00:43:32,560
Speaker 12: Thank you?

937
00:43:32,640 --> 00:43:34,719
Speaker 5: How are you doing great? Doing great?

938
00:43:35,360 --> 00:43:35,520
Speaker 3: Right?

939
00:43:36,560 --> 00:43:36,719
Speaker 10: Hey?

940
00:43:36,760 --> 00:43:38,799
Speaker 12: I want to give a shout out to the best

941
00:43:38,840 --> 00:43:43,600
Speaker 12: manager in baseball, Dave doc Roberts. These guys come out

942
00:43:43,600 --> 00:43:45,640
Speaker 12: of their basement every time we have a bad half

943
00:43:45,680 --> 00:43:49,600
Speaker 12: inning and forget everything this guy does. He's absolutely incredible.

944
00:43:50,040 --> 00:43:53,400
Speaker 12: Emt Sheehan his last time out fished a third of

945
00:43:53,440 --> 00:43:57,960
Speaker 12: an inning, two hits, two walks, two earned runs, and

946
00:43:58,040 --> 00:44:00,279
Speaker 12: yet they don't make a peach when he comes out

947
00:44:00,320 --> 00:44:03,120
Speaker 12: and dominate things. Give Dave Roberts credit for taking him

948
00:44:03,160 --> 00:44:05,600
Speaker 12: by the shoulders and saying, hey, you're coming right back

949
00:44:05,640 --> 00:44:07,799
Speaker 12: in there. Take your stud we're gonna be believing you.

950
00:44:08,000 --> 00:44:10,040
Speaker 12: And he goes out there and dominate. They don't give

951
00:44:10,080 --> 00:44:13,320
Speaker 12: him any credit that our pitchers are all completely fresh

952
00:44:13,400 --> 00:44:16,200
Speaker 12: right now? Why is that? Because he takes him out

953
00:44:16,200 --> 00:44:18,080
Speaker 12: of the game with the right time during the regular season. Now,

954
00:44:18,120 --> 00:44:22,440
Speaker 12: they're ready to dominate another n West championship, undefeated in

955
00:44:22,480 --> 00:44:25,080
Speaker 12: the playoffs. Dave Roberts is the best manager in baseball,

956
00:44:25,120 --> 00:44:27,000
Speaker 12: and these guys will go back into hiding when we

957
00:44:27,080 --> 00:44:29,839
Speaker 12: come out and dominate this week the next game, all right.

958
00:44:29,800 --> 00:44:34,360
Speaker 4: David Well said, I appreciate the phone call. You couldn't

959
00:44:34,360 --> 00:44:36,719
Speaker 4: have said any better. He pushes the right buttons, and

960
00:44:36,760 --> 00:44:39,160
Speaker 4: when he does, he gets no credit for it. It's

961
00:44:39,200 --> 00:44:42,160
Speaker 4: all his fault though when things go south, you're right

962
00:44:42,160 --> 00:44:44,000
Speaker 4: about that's a good analogy with the imagine in there

963
00:44:44,040 --> 00:44:46,600
Speaker 4: bringing that up. He struggled last time out, and Dave

964
00:44:46,680 --> 00:44:48,960
Speaker 4: Roberts said, after that struggle against the Reds, I have

965
00:44:49,040 --> 00:44:51,040
Speaker 4: full confidence in him, and we'll go back to him

966
00:44:51,040 --> 00:44:52,960
Speaker 4: and we're gonna need him at some point moving forward.

967
00:44:53,080 --> 00:44:55,120
Speaker 4: And lap point was last night, and he goes out

968
00:44:55,160 --> 00:44:57,560
Speaker 4: there and gets into a little bit of trouble. But

969
00:44:57,719 --> 00:45:00,960
Speaker 4: I love the fact that Dave Roberts left him out

970
00:45:00,960 --> 00:45:04,120
Speaker 4: there and had the trust to leave him out there

971
00:45:04,160 --> 00:45:06,560
Speaker 4: in the eighth inning and when things could have unraveled,

972
00:45:06,560 --> 00:45:09,440
Speaker 4: Steve and all of a sudden a runner on and

973
00:45:09,520 --> 00:45:11,839
Speaker 4: it's a four to two game. The next guy gets

974
00:45:11,880 --> 00:45:14,000
Speaker 4: on and boom, Harper, it's a three run home run

975
00:45:14,120 --> 00:45:15,319
Speaker 4: and we're tied in four.

976
00:45:15,840 --> 00:45:17,799
Speaker 5: It could happen that quickly, you know that.

977
00:45:17,880 --> 00:45:20,800
Speaker 4: And the fact that they let Immachian get to Schwarber

978
00:45:20,880 --> 00:45:24,240
Speaker 4: strike him out, and then Roberts had the tenacity to say, Okay,

979
00:45:24,520 --> 00:45:26,040
Speaker 4: I'm not going to pull the trigger on a lefty

980
00:45:26,120 --> 00:45:27,600
Speaker 4: just to get the final out. I'm not going to

981
00:45:27,640 --> 00:45:31,040
Speaker 4: go to alex Vestia. I've got trusted Immachian to battle

982
00:45:31,239 --> 00:45:34,920
Speaker 4: one guy left. And that was a flyout from Bryce Harper.

983
00:45:35,160 --> 00:45:37,279
Speaker 4: I love the confidence he's showing in this young guy.

984
00:45:37,400 --> 00:45:41,719
Speaker 7: And the added bonus to this whole thing is those

985
00:45:41,760 --> 00:45:44,279
Speaker 7: two guys are lefties and she and zarrighty and that's

986
00:45:44,320 --> 00:45:47,400
Speaker 7: advantage to the hitter and it didn't matter. You know

987
00:45:47,400 --> 00:45:50,520
Speaker 7: what I liked is is these guys also didn't have

988
00:45:50,600 --> 00:45:53,200
Speaker 7: to bury that curveball in the dirt. They were throwing

989
00:45:53,239 --> 00:45:54,920
Speaker 7: it for strikes and they were swinging and missing at

990
00:45:54,960 --> 00:45:58,839
Speaker 7: that thing because the brake on it was violent. When

991
00:45:58,880 --> 00:46:02,120
Speaker 7: you have a violent break on a curveball, after seeing

992
00:46:02,120 --> 00:46:05,560
Speaker 7: the fastball in all different sections of the strike zone,

993
00:46:05,800 --> 00:46:09,680
Speaker 7: different quadrants of the plate, the breakball, the breaking of

994
00:46:09,719 --> 00:46:12,719
Speaker 7: the of the pitch becomes all that much harder to hit,

995
00:46:13,040 --> 00:46:14,759
Speaker 7: and so you can throw that ball for strikes. You

996
00:46:14,760 --> 00:46:16,880
Speaker 7: don't necessarily have to full them and bury it in

997
00:46:16,920 --> 00:46:19,719
Speaker 7: the dirt if it's advantageous. If you can do that

998
00:46:19,800 --> 00:46:21,120
Speaker 7: and you got to catch her back there, they can

999
00:46:21,160 --> 00:46:23,360
Speaker 7: block it. But if you can throw it for a strike,

1000
00:46:23,560 --> 00:46:25,520
Speaker 7: maybe they don't even offer at it because they're fooled

1001
00:46:25,719 --> 00:46:27,920
Speaker 7: and you get it called. So it's a it's a

1002
00:46:28,000 --> 00:46:30,239
Speaker 7: double whammy when you can throw that curveball with that

1003
00:46:30,320 --> 00:46:31,520
Speaker 7: much break on it for a strike.

1004
00:46:31,760 --> 00:46:34,200
Speaker 4: Adam in La joins us here on Saxon, Kates and

1005
00:46:34,200 --> 00:46:36,040
Speaker 4: the Am as the Dodgers come back home with the

1006
00:46:36,080 --> 00:46:38,000
Speaker 4: two to zero series leading the NLDS.

1007
00:46:38,000 --> 00:46:39,320
Speaker 5: How you doing, Adam?

1008
00:46:40,440 --> 00:46:41,800
Speaker 9: You mean, what how are you? Good morning?

1009
00:46:41,800 --> 00:46:44,080
Speaker 7: Good morning, Adam.

1010
00:46:44,280 --> 00:46:47,280
Speaker 9: A couple of things I wanted to ask mentioned first,

1011
00:46:47,760 --> 00:46:50,960
Speaker 9: I miss Alana's voice. She was great with us all

1012
00:46:51,000 --> 00:46:53,680
Speaker 9: those years, and glad the year she had always had

1013
00:46:53,719 --> 00:46:56,560
Speaker 9: some great insight on the on the Dodgers.

1014
00:46:57,040 --> 00:46:57,279
Speaker 3: Now.

1015
00:46:57,400 --> 00:47:00,279
Speaker 9: The one thing I wanted to ask is I feel

1016
00:47:00,320 --> 00:47:03,279
Speaker 9: like everybody's talking poorly about Blake Trinon and all and

1017
00:47:03,400 --> 00:47:07,440
Speaker 9: the bullpen sex as a as a former baseball player,

1018
00:47:08,640 --> 00:47:12,040
Speaker 9: is it a psychological thing or what what causes a

1019
00:47:12,320 --> 00:47:15,239
Speaker 9: pitcher to just not have it? I mean, he still

1020
00:47:15,239 --> 00:47:17,839
Speaker 9: has stuff. He's the same pitture as he was last year.

1021
00:47:18,280 --> 00:47:19,920
Speaker 9: What what does he need to do in the rest

1022
00:47:19,960 --> 00:47:22,719
Speaker 9: of the bullpen to gain that confidence to you know,

1023
00:47:22,840 --> 00:47:26,080
Speaker 9: shut guys out because I really think if if our

1024
00:47:26,160 --> 00:47:30,600
Speaker 9: six seven eighth inning guys can tire those outs, I

1025
00:47:30,760 --> 00:47:33,239
Speaker 9: just really don't see anybody beating this team. I think

1026
00:47:33,280 --> 00:47:35,600
Speaker 9: we're stronger this year than we were last year. That's

1027
00:47:35,640 --> 00:47:37,719
Speaker 9: all I have. Thank you guys for your work.

1028
00:47:37,880 --> 00:47:40,000
Speaker 7: Thanks Adam, Yeah, thank you for the call. Adham and

1029
00:47:40,239 --> 00:47:43,600
Speaker 7: uh I. Like I said about Blake Trynon, I believe

1030
00:47:43,600 --> 00:47:46,320
Speaker 7: in this guy. I know as a hitter how filthy

1031
00:47:46,360 --> 00:47:49,480
Speaker 7: his stuff is, that bowling ball sinker he has in

1032
00:47:49,560 --> 00:47:52,399
Speaker 7: the slider when you know when he's on his best game,

1033
00:47:52,880 --> 00:47:56,840
Speaker 7: he's really really a very difficult at bat, especially for

1034
00:47:56,880 --> 00:48:01,040
Speaker 7: a right hander. The only pitch he really gave up

1035
00:48:01,080 --> 00:48:03,160
Speaker 7: that was hit well was the one to Real Muto.

1036
00:48:03,280 --> 00:48:05,239
Speaker 7: And for a guy that throws a slider like this,

1037
00:48:05,320 --> 00:48:07,600
Speaker 7: I want to want to tell our audience when the

1038
00:48:07,640 --> 00:48:11,520
Speaker 7: ball's above the waist it or the sinker, I'm sorry,

1039
00:48:11,600 --> 00:48:13,919
Speaker 7: when the ball's above the waist. The sinker doesn't really

1040
00:48:13,960 --> 00:48:16,080
Speaker 7: do anything. It just kind of hangs in there, kind

1041
00:48:16,080 --> 00:48:18,319
Speaker 7: of like a like a slider that doesn't break. It

1042
00:48:18,400 --> 00:48:20,799
Speaker 7: just kind of spins in the area and it's there

1043
00:48:20,840 --> 00:48:23,319
Speaker 7: for the hitting. When it's down on the zone, it's

1044
00:48:23,320 --> 00:48:26,319
Speaker 7: got tremendous action, and that ball dives into a right

1045
00:48:26,320 --> 00:48:28,839
Speaker 7: hander and his back leg, and it's really hard to hit.

1046
00:48:28,880 --> 00:48:30,600
Speaker 7: If you hit the ball, it's going to break you

1047
00:48:31,200 --> 00:48:33,640
Speaker 7: somewhere around the label, maybe even closer to your hands,

1048
00:48:33,840 --> 00:48:35,800
Speaker 7: and it's gonna be a terrible feeling, you're saying, not

1049
00:48:35,880 --> 00:48:39,160
Speaker 7: gonna be a good outcomes. That's the goal what Blake

1050
00:48:39,239 --> 00:48:41,239
Speaker 7: wants to do. And then of course the slider on

1051
00:48:41,280 --> 00:48:42,840
Speaker 7: the other side of the plate gets You know, you

1052
00:48:42,880 --> 00:48:46,000
Speaker 7: can't cover seventeen inches of plate, it's just too big.

1053
00:48:47,040 --> 00:48:48,840
Speaker 7: But you can't give any of it up on the

1054
00:48:48,880 --> 00:48:50,799
Speaker 7: other end either because he can hit both sides of it.

1055
00:48:51,239 --> 00:48:54,200
Speaker 7: So this guy's this guy's a very difficult at bat,

1056
00:48:54,280 --> 00:48:58,040
Speaker 7: very uncomfortable, and so I'm gonna take my chances with him.

1057
00:48:58,400 --> 00:49:01,120
Speaker 7: And what I see yesterday, he gave up one pitch

1058
00:49:01,200 --> 00:49:03,000
Speaker 7: that was up in the zone that got hit. Those

1059
00:49:03,040 --> 00:49:05,160
Speaker 7: other pitches were not hit well at all they could

1060
00:49:05,160 --> 00:49:07,399
Speaker 7: have been outs, and that's what you want. You want

1061
00:49:07,440 --> 00:49:10,640
Speaker 7: soft contact or a strikeout, and that's basically what Blake

1062
00:49:10,680 --> 00:49:11,000
Speaker 7: gave you.

1063
00:49:11,360 --> 00:49:13,440
Speaker 4: He is Steve Sacks, I am Tim Kates. We are

1064
00:49:13,520 --> 00:49:15,520
Speaker 4: Sax and Kate's in the am here on MFI seventy

1065
00:49:15,640 --> 00:49:18,360
Speaker 4: LA Sports. One hour down, two to go. We appreciate

1066
00:49:18,440 --> 00:49:20,719
Speaker 4: you being with us. Your phone calls coming up eight

1067
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Speaker 4: sixty six ninety eighty seven, two five seventy. We'll hear

1068
00:49:23,280 --> 00:49:25,839
Speaker 4: from the manager Dave Roberts after the win last night.

1069
00:49:26,120 --> 00:49:28,040
Speaker 4: Coming up, the wheel play?

1070
00:49:28,719 --> 00:49:29,319
Speaker 5: What is it?

1071
00:49:29,920 --> 00:49:32,839
Speaker 4: Why are we talking about it? And how well did

1072
00:49:32,840 --> 00:49:36,399
Speaker 4: the Dodgers execute it last night? And why was it important? Yes,

1073
00:49:36,440 --> 00:49:40,720
Speaker 4: we're talking the wheel play in October. Next Steve Sacks,

1074
00:49:40,800 --> 00:49:45,799
Speaker 4: Tim Kates and you breaking down Dodgers baseball all postseason,

1075
00:49:45,880 --> 00:49:46,160
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