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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. It's winning it again this

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Speaker 2: yearning is.

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Speaker 3: 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 4: The twenty twenty five Dodgers are the National League's Western

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Speaker 4: Division champions.

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Speaker 1: And you know what that means.

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Speaker 5: 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 5: Reacting taking your phone calls talking Dodgers playoff baseball all

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Speaker 5: postseason long.

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

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Speaker 2: Steve Sacks, Tim Kats.

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Speaker 1: Tim Kates and World Champion Dodger Steve Sacks.

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Speaker 5: Huh two down, two togo for your Los Angeles Dodgers

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Speaker 5: as they beat off on the Milwaukee Rarers to take

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Speaker 5: both games that American Family Field, and the Dodgers head

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Speaker 5: home up two games to nothing, two wins away from

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Speaker 5: going back to a World Series. Tim Kats joined by

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Speaker 5: two times World Series Champion Rookie of the Year and

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Speaker 5: our favorite number three of all time with the Dodgers.

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Speaker 5: And he's live and in studio here at AMPHI seventy

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Speaker 5: LA Sports. So one and only Steve Sacks Saxy who

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Speaker 5: good to see you, buddy, A good to.

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Speaker 2: Be with you, Tim. And I mean when I say

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Speaker 2: it's good to see you, I mean it's good to

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Speaker 2: see you.

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Speaker 5: It has been a while that we have been face

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Speaker 5: to face, nose to nose, if you will, and here

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Speaker 5: we are back together again and it feels so good

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Speaker 5: as we are live in our am FI seventy LA

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Speaker 5: Sports studios on this Wednesday morning, a day off in

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Speaker 5: the NLCS is the Dodgers and Brewers head back to

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Speaker 5: Los Angeles for Game three tomorrow, Game four on Friday,

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Speaker 5: and now we can say it if necessary, on Saturday night,

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Speaker 5: Game five of this National League Championship Series. After the

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Speaker 5: Dodgers took care of business in the first two games

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Speaker 5: of the NLCS, Blake Snell did it in Game one,

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Speaker 5: and last night Yoshinobu Yamamoto with a.

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Speaker 2: Complete Game three hitter.

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Speaker 5: Yes, I said it, Steve a complete Game three hitter

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Speaker 5: for the Los Angeles Dodgers, the first complete game for

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Speaker 5: a Dodger pitcher this season, the first complete game for

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Speaker 5: Yamamoto in the big leagues in the last two years.

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Speaker 5: And how about this the first complete game in a

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Speaker 5: postseason game since twenty seventeen in the ALCS and some

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Speaker 5: guy named Justin Verlander who did it back in twenty seventeen.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he's pretty good, okay, and the first complete game

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Speaker 2: by a Japanese pitcher ever. So great job by Yoshi

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Speaker 2: Yoshi Nobu Yamamoto was in it last night and he

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Speaker 2: was fantastic, especially tim he gives up a home run

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Speaker 2: of the first pitch, very first pitch, first pit doing Okay,

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Speaker 2: you think, oh, here we go, they're coming back. No,

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Speaker 2: you know, it's freaking out saxy. What did you think

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Speaker 2: about his body language after he gives up the home

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Speaker 2: run of the first pitch, You know, to me, he's like, okay, yeah,

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Speaker 2: what okay, we got we got to scratch on the car.

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Speaker 2: Now we don't have to worry about parking it and

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Speaker 2: all the worries and stuff. Let me just go out

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Speaker 2: here and start getting some chaps out. Yeah, And that's

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Speaker 2: exactly what he did. He was phenomenal. Gave up two

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Speaker 5: Freddie Peralto, who was under stress early on. Even though

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Speaker 5: count was already up. Meanwhile, Yamamoto, despite the one pitch

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Speaker 2: And it's something we obviously talked about at nauseum about

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Speaker 2: It's a big difference. And and I'll tell you what

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Speaker 2: I think, what you're starting to see here, tim is

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Speaker 2: hitting home runs off the Brewers, that's something they can't match.

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Speaker 2: This is not a home run hitting team. One hundred

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Speaker 2: year and the Dodgers were two. It's not even close.

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Speaker 2: But what you're starting to see is the Dodgers are

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Speaker 2: and you know they're finally started to say, Wow, the talent,

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Speaker 5: And what's scary is last night the Dodgers had five

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Speaker 5: runs on eleven hits. And you look at where the

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Speaker 5: production came from last night. It was the five through

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Speaker 5: nine hitters for the Dodgers. And when I read off

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Speaker 5: the names for you for the five through nine hitters

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Speaker 5: hitting top four in anybody else's lineup. Sure, Max Bunsey, Ty,

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Speaker 5: Oscar Hernandez, Tommy Evan, who, by the way, was the NLCS.

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Speaker 5: Two more hits yesterday, mister October, keyk Hernandez and Batty

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Speaker 2: Wow, you're seeing it percolate a little bit now. Your

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Speaker 5: Are those guys I just mentioned last night that combined

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Speaker 5: they scored four of the five Dodgers runs. The production

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Speaker 5: and the Dodgers still banged out five runs on eleven

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Speaker 5: scared to thing. They were two for eleven with runners

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Speaker 5: the top four aren't even doing anything yet, aren't even

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Speaker 5: They haven't even scratched the surface of what they can do.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Otani and Freddy aren't hitting two to fifty. Otani's

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Speaker 2: you know, Mookie Bets is getting his hits. He didn't

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Speaker 2: that's right, Come on, yeah, that's right. And so you know,

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Speaker 2: remember this too is all the talk. The narrative out

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Speaker 2: there was, oh, the Brewers beat the Dodgers six straight

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Speaker 2: always I've said it's too many times, Tim, there's three

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Speaker 2: seasons in baseball. This team was not six and oh

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Speaker 2: better than the Dodgers. We know that's that's just a fact.

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Speaker 2: When the whole team gets together and is healthy and

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Speaker 2: worm has turned. I guess you could say, going from

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Speaker 2: their worth and you know they're up to two zero.

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Speaker 5: You mentioned it after Game one. A lot of hard

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Speaker 5: potential hits for the Dodgers that are out there. They

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Speaker 5: just weren't falling, weren't finding green grass right They were

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Speaker 5: going right to Milwaukee for plays and whatnot. Absolutely, that

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Speaker 2: Last night.

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Speaker 5: You saw Otani bang went to the right side in

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Speaker 5: the seventh inning for a basin, Tommy Eman in the

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they are. And you know they also got a

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Speaker 2: couple of little dunk dunkers in there too, which are good.

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Speaker 2: You never apologize for a base hit, that's for sure.

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Speaker 2: We've seen too many times where you hit the ball hard. Hey.

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Speaker 2: One time, I was on first base against the Reds.

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Speaker 2: Pete Rose is playing first base, and I hit two

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Speaker 2: balls hard previously that were caught. So I finally get

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Speaker 2: Rose says hey, and then the pitch was thrown, and

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Speaker 2: I was curious of what he was going to tell me.

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Speaker 2: I walked back to first He says, you heard that

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Speaker 2: whole thing about how they even out right? I said, well, yeah,

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Speaker 2: he says, bullshit, they don't ever even out any right.

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Speaker 2: That's exactly what he said. Excuse my language, but that's

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Speaker 2: what he said. Yeah, And he's right, Tim, I mean,

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Speaker 5: And last night the Dodgers again, bottom half of the

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Speaker 5: Otani actually starts getting going. He was one for nineteen

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Speaker 5: some strikeouts again last night, just hitting.

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Speaker 2: The ball hard, but right at guys.

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Speaker 5: Again last night, he hit a ball one hundred and

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Speaker 5: hit it right at a Milwaukee Brewer, and you're like, okay, Eventually,

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Speaker 2: Tim and I were having an opportunity to break a

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Speaker 2: left hander, I said, Otani looks a lot better. He

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Speaker 2: looks like he's geared more left central. Does mean he's

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Speaker 2: He hit that ball to the right field with some

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Speaker 2: pretty good juice on it. I mean, you would know this.

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Speaker 5: All it takes is one hit to fall, one ball

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and your confidence through the roof all goes through

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Speaker 2: major league players, how fickle that that confidence can can grow.

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Speaker 2: People from the outside thinking, oh boy, you you know

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Speaker 2: Sometimes you got to manufacture those hits.

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Speaker 5: I think baseball Not to go on a tangent here,

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Speaker 5: This is a game of failure. He goes, you go

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Speaker 2: And that's that's the mind games at place. You got

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Speaker 2: It did. But you had to do something different, right

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Speaker 2: ever seen a guy choke up and just foull it

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Speaker 5: And as you said, hey, I count three line drives

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Speaker 5: He had fifteen ground ball out last night, right, he

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Speaker 2: Yeah. And usually sometimes you see the Brewers when they're

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Speaker 5: He had ninety seven pitches through eight innings last night,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and he didn't get to go out and pitch

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Speaker 5: Ninety seven pitches. He sends Yamamoto back out there. Were

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Speaker 2: On Yama Moto. I think that was a big factor.

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Speaker 2: one for Yama Moto. When you talk about stressful, you know,

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Speaker 2: same thing with Blake Snell. I didn't see Blake Snell

434
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Speaker 2: even sweat when he was pitching. I know it was

435
00:19:47,560 --> 00:19:50,359
Speaker 2: probably seventy two and dry, you know, in the dome,

436
00:19:50,680 --> 00:19:52,520
Speaker 2: but I didn't see him sweat at all. And he

437
00:19:52,600 --> 00:19:55,159
Speaker 2: was just going about his stuff like he was just

438
00:19:55,240 --> 00:19:57,280
Speaker 2: kind of practicing kind of run, doing a run through

439
00:19:57,520 --> 00:20:00,480
Speaker 2: Yamamoto the same thing. I don't see any you know,

440
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Speaker 2: any any stress going on there. And and you know,

441
00:20:04,080 --> 00:20:06,520
Speaker 2: along those same lines too. And I don't want to

442
00:20:06,560 --> 00:20:09,119
Speaker 2: say this too soon, Tim, because it's all it's two victories.

443
00:20:09,160 --> 00:20:11,159
Speaker 2: They still got to win two more before they go

444
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Speaker 2: into the World Series. But my point is, I'm looking

445
00:20:14,280 --> 00:20:16,680
Speaker 2: at body language and body language. I think you can

446
00:20:16,720 --> 00:20:22,160
Speaker 2: tell so much about it individuals, team wise, whatnot. I'm

447
00:20:22,200 --> 00:20:25,719
Speaker 2: looking at the Brewers, Tim, and I'm looking at body language,

448
00:20:25,760 --> 00:20:29,439
Speaker 2: and I'm thinking, I think these guys are dead. They

449
00:20:29,480 --> 00:20:32,399
Speaker 2: they are looking with their heads down, they're resting with

450
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Speaker 2: their hands on their knees, they're they're were kind of

451
00:20:35,440 --> 00:20:38,320
Speaker 2: rolling their eyes. I mean, to me, they look like

452
00:20:38,320 --> 00:20:41,240
Speaker 2: they're already beat up. And I don't know if it's

453
00:20:41,320 --> 00:20:45,360
Speaker 2: kind of going in backwards of motion when their manager's

454
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Speaker 2: talking about, well, we're just happy to be here. And

455
00:20:47,440 --> 00:20:50,560
Speaker 2: we're happy to go lucky guys oschucks. Maybe they're starting

456
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Speaker 2: to believe that stuff because they look a little dead

457
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Speaker 2: to me. I don't blame them, though.

458
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Speaker 5: You've thrown everything at the Dodgers in the first two games.

459
00:20:59,080 --> 00:21:01,720
Speaker 5: You've thrown it, really did you throwing a young right

460
00:21:01,760 --> 00:21:04,280
Speaker 5: hander who locked up the Dodgers back in July, and

461
00:21:04,359 --> 00:21:07,600
Speaker 5: Priester didn't work. You had six pitchers in game one.

462
00:21:07,920 --> 00:21:10,120
Speaker 5: You come back in game two with your horse, your

463
00:21:10,160 --> 00:21:13,960
Speaker 5: guy Freddie Peralta and Freddy Peralto in five or two thirty,

464
00:21:14,400 --> 00:21:17,440
Speaker 5: great year, but this is the postseason. And he went

465
00:21:17,480 --> 00:21:20,080
Speaker 5: out there and the Dodgers finally got to him and

466
00:21:20,119 --> 00:21:23,600
Speaker 5: started tacking on runs. Six more pitchers last night for

467
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Speaker 5: the Brewers. Two games. Twelve different pitchers have thrown or

468
00:21:28,040 --> 00:21:31,199
Speaker 5: throw Twelve pitchers in general have thrown for the Milwaukee Brewers.

469
00:21:31,359 --> 00:21:34,320
Speaker 5: Your offense isn't generating anything. You're not getting the kind

470
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Speaker 5: of production you thought of the base pats. You haven't

471
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Speaker 5: done anything right in the first two game. What leads

472
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Speaker 5: you to believe if you're the Milwaukee Brewers, things are

473
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Speaker 5: gonna change all of a sudden.

474
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Speaker 2: They don't have any starting pitching now who's gonna start.

475
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Speaker 2: There's gonna be another pen another opening game. Good luck

476
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Speaker 2: with that. And remember when you do that sequencing of

477
00:21:51,400 --> 00:21:53,920
Speaker 2: all these different pitchers coming in after one, two, and eg,

478
00:21:54,119 --> 00:21:55,760
Speaker 2: try to get a bulk guy for three or four.

479
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Speaker 2: But what you're doing is you're saying every person and

480
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Speaker 2: that change has got to be phenomenal. They have to

481
00:22:02,800 --> 00:22:05,920
Speaker 2: have a great outing. They have to be right every time.

482
00:22:06,440 --> 00:22:09,040
Speaker 2: You know what tim against this chain. The Dodgers have

483
00:22:09,119 --> 00:22:12,479
Speaker 2: to be right once against one of these guys and

484
00:22:12,520 --> 00:22:14,440
Speaker 2: it blows it out. That's why it's so important to

485
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Speaker 2: have that starting pitching. I'll tell you what. I think.

486
00:22:16,760 --> 00:22:19,240
Speaker 2: They're looking over there at the other side and they're thinking, Wow,

487
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Speaker 2: we didn't face this team during the season.

488
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Speaker 5: I mean, the only thing left at the Milwaukee Brewers

489
00:22:24,359 --> 00:22:27,000
Speaker 5: I think have to throw at the Dodgers and it

490
00:22:27,040 --> 00:22:31,280
Speaker 5: could neutralize the Dodgers offense is Jacob Miserooskie because he

491
00:22:31,320 --> 00:22:33,439
Speaker 5: throws one hundred and four miles an hour and you

492
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Speaker 5: just don't know with him. But he can come out

493
00:22:35,200 --> 00:22:38,000
Speaker 5: and pitch every inning though right he may walk six guys.

494
00:22:38,040 --> 00:22:39,760
Speaker 5: You just don't know what you're gonna get out of him.

495
00:22:39,800 --> 00:22:42,000
Speaker 5: But the Dodgers saw him back in July when he

496
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Speaker 5: was the hot thing in baseball and going to the All.

497
00:22:44,240 --> 00:22:45,760
Speaker 2: Stars four games and went to the All Stars.

498
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean they saw him at his peak. And

499
00:22:48,119 --> 00:22:50,320
Speaker 5: now that he's come back down to Earth, we haven't

500
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Speaker 5: even seen him in the first two games. So that

501
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Speaker 5: leads me to believe we're gonna see him. Whether they

502
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Speaker 5: go with an open or probably a left hander to

503
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Speaker 5: get at the Dodgers' top of the lineup, probably, but

504
00:22:59,760 --> 00:23:03,000
Speaker 5: I think Jacob Mizerowski is the last bullet they have

505
00:23:03,480 --> 00:23:05,640
Speaker 5: to go after the Dodgers in Game three or four.

506
00:23:05,880 --> 00:23:07,720
Speaker 2: He's not gonna He's not gonna win four games, I

507
00:23:07,760 --> 00:23:09,439
Speaker 2: can tell you that. And it's and it's like the

508
00:23:09,480 --> 00:23:11,840
Speaker 2: Dodgers attitudes bring it, you know, we'll just kind of

509
00:23:11,920 --> 00:23:14,359
Speaker 2: we'll just kind of, you know, cheer, you know, chew

510
00:23:14,400 --> 00:23:17,560
Speaker 2: on him for a while, making make make him. You see,

511
00:23:17,560 --> 00:23:19,399
Speaker 2: the Dodgers got so many guys that can change it

512
00:23:19,440 --> 00:23:21,240
Speaker 2: with one swing of the bat. They can chew on

513
00:23:21,320 --> 00:23:23,280
Speaker 2: a guy for a while, like Max Munsey does. He's

514
00:23:23,320 --> 00:23:25,800
Speaker 2: really good at it. It's nice to have a couple

515
00:23:25,760 --> 00:23:27,720
Speaker 2: of guys like that in the lineup that don't mind

516
00:23:27,760 --> 00:23:30,000
Speaker 2: going deep. You know they're gonna strike out sometimes, but

517
00:23:30,040 --> 00:23:31,760
Speaker 2: they also put in a big thump once in a

518
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Speaker 2: while like Munsey did. Then you have the rest of

519
00:23:33,880 --> 00:23:35,840
Speaker 2: the guys that you know play the game and you know,

520
00:23:35,920 --> 00:23:37,919
Speaker 2: jump a guy if you have to, or ambush him

521
00:23:37,960 --> 00:23:39,960
Speaker 2: as you call it. But they have a mix of

522
00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:42,840
Speaker 2: all these different guys. But the threat of always hitting

523
00:23:42,840 --> 00:23:44,760
Speaker 2: a home run is there, and that's that's the great

524
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Speaker 2: thing about this team.

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Speaker 5: As you were just talking, a mental video just went

526
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Speaker 5: off in my mind. And I don't know why it did,

527
00:23:51,760 --> 00:23:56,040
Speaker 5: but it's Dodger Stadium, late afternoon, so my mind's probably

528
00:23:56,040 --> 00:23:58,600
Speaker 5: telling me this is game three, uh, because it was

529
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Speaker 5: still light outside to three o'clock. First pitched on Thursday,

530
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Speaker 5: and I see Jacob Mizerowski pitching, and I see show

531
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Speaker 5: Heyo Tani at the plate, and all I see is

532
00:24:06,600 --> 00:24:08,919
Speaker 5: one hundred and four in and one hundred and twenty

533
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Speaker 5: out into the right field pavilion.

534
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Speaker 2: I don't know, it's lost in my mind.

535
00:24:13,040 --> 00:24:16,560
Speaker 5: The ball just disappears into the skyline in southern caliform.

536
00:24:16,800 --> 00:24:17,680
Speaker 2: Sun is coming down.

537
00:24:17,800 --> 00:24:17,960
Speaker 3: Yeah.

538
00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:20,760
Speaker 5: It just feels like tomorrow we may see a missile

539
00:24:20,880 --> 00:24:22,640
Speaker 5: leave Dodger Stadium.

540
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Speaker 2: From show heyo Tani. Yeah, we're due for some missileage. Yeah,

541
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Speaker 2: I really believe that he is.

542
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Speaker 5: Steve Sachs, I am Tim Kates. Thanks for being with

543
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Speaker 5: us on this Wednesday morning. As the series heads back

544
00:24:33,359 --> 00:24:35,679
Speaker 5: to LA and the Dodgers up two games to nothing

545
00:24:35,920 --> 00:24:39,080
Speaker 5: in this NLCS coming up, you're gonna get to your

546
00:24:39,119 --> 00:24:42,080
Speaker 5: phone calls. We're gonna hear from Oral Herscheizer, who joined

547
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Speaker 5: me on the postgame show last night after the Dodgers win.

548
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Speaker 5: Mike Shoshia will join us in the eight o'clock hour.

549
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Speaker 5: A busy morning here on a five seventy ELA Sports,

550
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Speaker 5: and we want you to be a part of it.

551
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Speaker 5: Oh did I mention in the seven o'clock hour we're

552
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Speaker 5: giving away a parent take kids to.

553
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Speaker 2: Game three of the NLCS.

554
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Speaker 5: Yes, nowhere else are you gonna get that opportunity except

555
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Speaker 5: for Scam sax and Kates and am right here. Thanks

556
00:25:10,359 --> 00:25:18,359
Speaker 5: for being with us on this Wednesday morning. Saxon, Kates

557
00:25:18,400 --> 00:25:22,320
Speaker 5: and am a five seventy LA Sports with you on

558
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Speaker 5: this Wednesday morning. The storm is blown through just in

559
00:25:26,160 --> 00:25:29,760
Speaker 5: time for the Dodgers to return back to Southern California

560
00:25:29,920 --> 00:25:31,920
Speaker 5: up two games to nothing in this Best of seven

561
00:25:32,080 --> 00:25:36,119
Speaker 5: NLCS coming up next seven. You're gonna hear for Oral Hrscheizer,

562
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Speaker 5: who joined me on postgame last night, called in after

563
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Speaker 5: all the buzz of Yoshinovo, Yamamoto and Rifley so as

564
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Speaker 5: Yamamoto last night with a complete game, three hitter, just

565
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Speaker 5: to put into context the number what he did last

566
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Speaker 5: night and how many people have done it recently, because it's.

567
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Speaker 2: Mind boggling to me in your air, Steve complete games

568
00:25:56,920 --> 00:25:58,040
Speaker 2: all the time, all the time.

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Speaker 5: I mean Oral Herscheiser, I keep rattling off. He's the

570
00:26:01,240 --> 00:26:04,000
Speaker 5: He had three of them in the nineteen eighty eight

571
00:26:04,040 --> 00:26:06,920
Speaker 5: postseason and the NLCS in the World Series, he had

572
00:26:07,160 --> 00:26:11,399
Speaker 5: three complete games. And we're talking about Yamamoto having the

573
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Speaker 5: first one for the Dodgers since two thousand and four

574
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Speaker 5: and the first one in baseball since two thy and seventeen,

575
00:26:18,200 --> 00:26:21,239
Speaker 5: and justin Verlander. It's truly amazing where the game has

576
00:26:21,320 --> 00:26:24,520
Speaker 5: gone now and how much we're now celebrating a complete

577
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Speaker 5: game in the postseason.

578
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Speaker 2: We just don't see it anymore. No, And you look

579
00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:32,080
Speaker 2: back at it and look at how Oral had come

580
00:26:32,119 --> 00:26:34,119
Speaker 2: out of the bullpen as well in New York to

581
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Speaker 2: help save a game. So he did everything, and it

582
00:26:38,080 --> 00:26:41,760
Speaker 2: was it was commonplace for these guys to go the

583
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Speaker 2: full tilt the nine innings, and that's what they expect

584
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Speaker 2: to do. Their mindset was, I'm gonna go out there

585
00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:48,280
Speaker 2: and I'm gonna carry the mail. That's my job for

586
00:26:48,400 --> 00:26:51,200
Speaker 2: the for the whole whole day, and I'm gonna pitch

587
00:26:51,280 --> 00:26:53,280
Speaker 2: nine innings. That you don't see that now because all

588
00:26:53,320 --> 00:26:55,520
Speaker 2: the numbers and sabermetrics and they say, oh, you know what,

589
00:26:55,600 --> 00:26:58,120
Speaker 2: that's no good. A third time through the lineup, we're

590
00:26:58,119 --> 00:27:00,280
Speaker 2: gonna we're gonna cut down and all the injuries. There's

591
00:27:00,280 --> 00:27:02,240
Speaker 2: more injuries now than there ever has been, you know,

592
00:27:02,600 --> 00:27:05,200
Speaker 2: So I don't get where this whole thing is going.

593
00:27:05,280 --> 00:27:07,879
Speaker 2: And I mean, how are you going to pitch a

594
00:27:07,880 --> 00:27:09,639
Speaker 2: full game, a complete game? How you going to pitch

595
00:27:09,680 --> 00:27:12,679
Speaker 2: a no hitter? If you never experience going through the

596
00:27:12,880 --> 00:27:15,200
Speaker 2: through the you know, hitters the third time and pitchers

597
00:27:15,200 --> 00:27:18,280
Speaker 2: don't pitch the same way each sequence when they go

598
00:27:18,400 --> 00:27:22,320
Speaker 2: through the lineup. The first time through, maybe they're fastball dominant.

599
00:27:22,359 --> 00:27:24,960
Speaker 2: The second time through, maybe they're throwing that slider and

600
00:27:24,960 --> 00:27:27,040
Speaker 2: that change up a little bit more. Third time through,

601
00:27:27,040 --> 00:27:29,080
Speaker 2: maybe they have a mix of both. So it's not

602
00:27:29,160 --> 00:27:31,240
Speaker 2: always the same way you pitch, so I don't know

603
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Speaker 2: how they got that narrative. The third time through is dangerous.

604
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Speaker 5: I was reminded by somebody yesterday because they said, well,

605
00:27:38,520 --> 00:27:41,000
Speaker 5: I didn't play Snell go out for the ninth I said, well,

606
00:27:41,040 --> 00:27:43,760
Speaker 5: you're got to keep in mind, this is just, you know,

607
00:27:43,840 --> 00:27:46,320
Speaker 5: the first start of the NLCS. He could be asked

608
00:27:46,320 --> 00:27:48,560
Speaker 5: to come back and pitch later in this series, and

609
00:27:48,720 --> 00:27:51,439
Speaker 5: we're looking ahead and projecting he'll probably make two starts

610
00:27:51,440 --> 00:27:53,320
Speaker 5: in the World Series. You got to keep him ready

611
00:27:53,320 --> 00:27:55,320
Speaker 5: to go for that. And the person looked at me

612
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Speaker 5: and said, keep him ready for that. What was a

613
00:27:58,160 --> 00:28:00,960
Speaker 5: regular season for They load men in all these guys.

614
00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:03,640
Speaker 5: Now he was hurt and missed four months, he made

615
00:28:03,760 --> 00:28:08,000
Speaker 5: thirteen starts, He managed well over six months. He should

616
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Speaker 5: be fresh.

617
00:28:08,800 --> 00:28:09,439
Speaker 2: And ready to go.

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Speaker 5: Yamamoto is the only Dodger starter who had thirty starts,

619
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Speaker 5: and he would out pitched a complete game last night.

620
00:28:15,840 --> 00:28:18,879
Speaker 5: Everybody else should be healthy, should be good to go.

621
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Speaker 5: Don't having a lot of you know, mileage underneath that

622
00:28:21,760 --> 00:28:23,639
Speaker 5: arm here in twenty twenty five, And I was like,

623
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Speaker 5: you know what, you're right. All we talk about is well,

624
00:28:27,040 --> 00:28:29,720
Speaker 5: let's let's let's pace it out here. Let's let's let's

625
00:28:29,720 --> 00:28:31,600
Speaker 5: figure out how to get ready for October. We don't

626
00:28:31,640 --> 00:28:33,440
Speaker 5: want to peak too soon. We want to you know,

627
00:28:33,520 --> 00:28:35,640
Speaker 5: don't gotta get too many innings underneath our belt here

628
00:28:35,840 --> 00:28:39,280
Speaker 5: during July, August, and September, because for bid, it's October.

629
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Speaker 5: Worried about. Well, hey, we're here in October. There's no

630
00:28:42,840 --> 00:28:46,000
Speaker 5: holding back. Now, it's full go. It's go out there

631
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Speaker 5: and empty the tank every single start because he only got.

632
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Speaker 2: A few left. That's it exactly right. And Tim, I

633
00:28:51,440 --> 00:28:54,160
Speaker 2: was looking up, uh, you know, it's kind of peruising

634
00:28:54,600 --> 00:28:56,640
Speaker 2: the website here a little bit, and I was looking

635
00:28:56,720 --> 00:28:59,080
Speaker 2: up some of the innings pitched by some guys that

636
00:28:59,120 --> 00:29:01,800
Speaker 2: had what you would call violent arm action. And I

637
00:29:01,840 --> 00:29:03,600
Speaker 2: went to the to the number one guy, went to

638
00:29:03,600 --> 00:29:06,960
Speaker 2: Nolan Ryan and checked his out. So check out this

639
00:29:06,960 --> 00:29:10,560
Speaker 2: this when he's starting twenty four years old. Okay, let's start.

640
00:29:10,640 --> 00:29:14,840
Speaker 2: Let's start Nolan Ryan when he's twenty five years old. Okay.

641
00:29:15,280 --> 00:29:17,920
Speaker 2: Two hundred and eighty four innings, three hundred and twenty

642
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Speaker 2: six innings, three hundred and thirty two innings, one hundred

643
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Speaker 2: ninety eight two eighty four two ninety nine, two thirty four, two,

644
00:29:25,240 --> 00:29:30,400
Speaker 2: and on and on it goes, never hurt, never on

645
00:29:30,440 --> 00:29:34,640
Speaker 2: the DL violent arm action. And look at all those

646
00:29:34,640 --> 00:29:37,280
Speaker 2: innings he put. Guys don't get a third of those

647
00:29:37,320 --> 00:29:39,280
Speaker 2: innings nowadays. Heck no, heck no.

648
00:29:39,640 --> 00:29:41,000
Speaker 5: I don't think I'm trying to figure outf we had

649
00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:43,760
Speaker 5: anybody go over two hundred innings this shot. I don't

650
00:29:43,840 --> 00:29:45,360
Speaker 5: think we did. If that was it, that was a

651
00:29:45,400 --> 00:29:48,640
Speaker 5: down year for him, three hundred innings. Will never know,

652
00:29:48,960 --> 00:29:51,560
Speaker 5: I mean, might as well be a dinosaur. We'll never

653
00:29:51,640 --> 00:29:53,760
Speaker 5: see that again. No, in Major League base how.

654
00:29:53,680 --> 00:29:56,600
Speaker 2: Many how many years did he pitch? Well, Nolan Ryan

655
00:29:56,680 --> 00:30:01,200
Speaker 2: was in the league for twenty seven years, twenty seven

656
00:30:01,280 --> 00:30:05,400
Speaker 2: years of that action going on. And I gotta think

657
00:30:05,480 --> 00:30:08,040
Speaker 2: tim that well, first of all, he's a freak. That's

658
00:30:08,080 --> 00:30:11,000
Speaker 2: one thing. The other thing is maybe there's something to

659
00:30:11,080 --> 00:30:13,640
Speaker 2: this when they call it quote stretching the guy out,

660
00:30:13,760 --> 00:30:16,640
Speaker 2: you know, make you know the more you pitch whatever.

661
00:30:16,760 --> 00:30:18,760
Speaker 2: I mean, there's a right way to do it. But

662
00:30:18,800 --> 00:30:20,920
Speaker 2: these guys didn't have any problem doing it. Nope. And

663
00:30:21,280 --> 00:30:23,160
Speaker 2: I don't know. There's more injuries now than ever.

664
00:30:23,280 --> 00:30:25,480
Speaker 5: No, they managed to do it over the course of

665
00:30:25,480 --> 00:30:28,640
Speaker 5: one hundred and sixty two and the postseason, and now

666
00:30:28,880 --> 00:30:31,440
Speaker 5: we got these guys who kind of tiptoe through the

667
00:30:31,440 --> 00:30:33,800
Speaker 5: post the regular season, and here we are in the

668
00:30:33,800 --> 00:30:36,400
Speaker 5: postseason and they should be ready to go, and we're

669
00:30:36,440 --> 00:30:38,520
Speaker 5: seeing it, you know, with the Dodgers in the first

670
00:30:38,560 --> 00:30:42,520
Speaker 5: two starts. Two starts, two really good outings from Blake

671
00:30:42,560 --> 00:30:45,240
Speaker 5: Snell and Yoshinobu Yamamoto. And I think the bar has

672
00:30:45,280 --> 00:30:48,720
Speaker 5: now been set for Tyler Glass now in Game three tomorrow.

673
00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:51,080
Speaker 5: He doesn't want to let his team down. And I

674
00:30:51,120 --> 00:30:52,880
Speaker 5: love it. I was talking to Orl about it last night.

675
00:30:52,920 --> 00:30:54,840
Speaker 5: You'll hear the conversation coming up in a few minutes.

676
00:30:54,880 --> 00:30:57,360
Speaker 5: But you know, as a starting pitcher, do you do

677
00:30:57,400 --> 00:30:59,160
Speaker 5: you challenge each other? Do you look at the guy

678
00:30:59,240 --> 00:31:01,760
Speaker 5: next to you and say, well, you did it eight

679
00:31:01,800 --> 00:31:02,640
Speaker 5: innings last night.

680
00:31:03,400 --> 00:31:04,280
Speaker 2: I gotta match that.

681
00:31:04,560 --> 00:31:05,680
Speaker 5: I don't want to be the guy to let the

682
00:31:05,720 --> 00:31:08,360
Speaker 5: team down. And then okay, I did my job tonight.

683
00:31:08,400 --> 00:31:12,280
Speaker 5: I'm Yamamoto. I went nine innings. Tyler Glass, Now your turn, buddy.

684
00:31:12,360 --> 00:31:14,440
Speaker 2: Yeah. And he may not have to say it, but

685
00:31:14,680 --> 00:31:17,520
Speaker 2: you know what, I'm looking at you, and I'm kind

686
00:31:17,520 --> 00:31:20,200
Speaker 2: of kind of cross crossways over here, and I'm seeing

687
00:31:20,200 --> 00:31:22,080
Speaker 2: what you're doing. Now, Okay, this is what I put up.

688
00:31:22,200 --> 00:31:25,280
Speaker 2: I don't have to say anything. If I'm Yamamoto or Snell,

689
00:31:25,320 --> 00:31:27,720
Speaker 2: they know it. Let's see how that trickles down to

690
00:31:27,800 --> 00:31:30,240
Speaker 2: the next guy. Let's see Tyler Glass. Now take a

691
00:31:30,240 --> 00:31:31,760
Speaker 2: little bit of that bait, and I'll tell you what

692
00:31:32,240 --> 00:31:35,480
Speaker 2: coming from as a former hitter and looking at Tyler Glass, Now, Tim,

693
00:31:35,840 --> 00:31:39,720
Speaker 2: this guy is filthy. I'm telling you. He is nasty,

694
00:31:40,080 --> 00:31:43,600
Speaker 2: he is powerful, He's got tremendous action. You know. He

695
00:31:43,800 --> 00:31:46,280
Speaker 2: who reminds me a lot of a lot of is

696
00:31:46,360 --> 00:31:50,640
Speaker 2: Dwight Gooden. Tall guy right over the top, you know,

697
00:31:50,760 --> 00:31:53,040
Speaker 2: fastball that has a lot of giddy up on it,

698
00:31:53,920 --> 00:31:58,560
Speaker 2: a nasty, nasty, freaking curveball, and he's got he's got

699
00:31:58,600 --> 00:32:01,000
Speaker 2: tremendous stuff that com that could.

700
00:32:00,920 --> 00:32:03,560
Speaker 5: Just slaughter you. And so you better be ready to

701
00:32:03,600 --> 00:32:05,560
Speaker 5: hit off of this guy. That is a really good compent.

702
00:32:05,600 --> 00:32:07,680
Speaker 5: Why good And I'm looking at the twenty twenty five

703
00:32:07,800 --> 00:32:10,200
Speaker 5: regular season. Uh, we want to take a guess at

704
00:32:10,200 --> 00:32:15,840
Speaker 5: how many pitchers broke two hundred innings this season in

705
00:32:15,920 --> 00:32:19,120
Speaker 5: baseball come by American League nationally, how many total pitchers

706
00:32:19,600 --> 00:32:21,040
Speaker 5: pitched over two hundred innings.

707
00:32:21,040 --> 00:32:25,160
Speaker 2: I'm saying maybe three. Bingo was right? Was it right?

708
00:32:26,280 --> 00:32:28,680
Speaker 5: That was a guest of the Giants, Garrett Crochet, their

709
00:32:28,680 --> 00:32:32,000
Speaker 5: Boston Red Sox, and Christopher Sanchez, who the Dodgers just

710
00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:35,400
Speaker 5: saw with the Philadelphia Phillies. The only three pitchers to

711
00:32:35,520 --> 00:32:38,760
Speaker 5: get north of two hundred Innings's a guess.

712
00:32:38,920 --> 00:32:42,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought maybe there was. Well, I knew there

713
00:32:42,200 --> 00:32:45,000
Speaker 2: was very few, but I thought that was just a

714
00:32:45,040 --> 00:32:48,000
Speaker 2: good number. And you, like, I think that changed ups

715
00:32:48,080 --> 00:32:50,240
Speaker 2: the saver for him. It's an easy pitch to throw.

716
00:32:50,480 --> 00:32:52,080
Speaker 2: It doesn't put a lot of stress on the on

717
00:32:52,080 --> 00:32:55,240
Speaker 2: the elbow like a splitter does. And they can they

718
00:32:55,280 --> 00:32:56,760
Speaker 2: can go up there and throw it time after him.

719
00:32:56,800 --> 00:32:59,000
Speaker 2: Some of these guys can throw it like Sanchez. Yeah,

720
00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:00,680
Speaker 2: and you still can't hit it. You can tell him

721
00:33:00,680 --> 00:33:03,360
Speaker 2: it's coming, here comes, here comes a change up, and

722
00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:04,240
Speaker 2: they still won't hit it.

723
00:33:04,280 --> 00:33:06,680
Speaker 5: Paul Skins, by the way, through one hundred and eighty

724
00:33:06,720 --> 00:33:10,280
Speaker 5: seven and two third innings this year, ten and ten record,

725
00:33:10,560 --> 00:33:13,959
Speaker 5: but a one ninety seven ERA and thirty two starts

726
00:33:14,280 --> 00:33:16,200
Speaker 5: with two hundred and sixteen strike He's.

727
00:33:16,080 --> 00:33:19,040
Speaker 2: A common day Nolan Ryan, That's what he is. He

728
00:33:19,080 --> 00:33:21,160
Speaker 2: can he can blaze the fastball up there over one

729
00:33:21,200 --> 00:33:24,640
Speaker 2: hundred consistently, and he's got like near a five hundred record.

730
00:33:24,640 --> 00:33:29,360
Speaker 2: That's what Nolan Ryan had. Nolan Ryan's career record, Let's

731
00:33:29,360 --> 00:33:31,600
Speaker 2: see what his career one loss record was.

732
00:33:31,640 --> 00:33:34,960
Speaker 5: I'm gonna guess just north of five hundred. It wasn't

733
00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:36,160
Speaker 5: anything special.

734
00:33:35,840 --> 00:33:38,280
Speaker 2: Right, three twenty had three hundred and twenty four wins

735
00:33:38,920 --> 00:33:41,400
Speaker 2: and two hundred and ninety two losses. Get a five

736
00:33:41,360 --> 00:33:43,840
Speaker 2: to twenty six. Okay, so right over five hundred. You're right,

737
00:33:44,040 --> 00:33:44,440
Speaker 2: You're right.

738
00:33:44,640 --> 00:33:47,800
Speaker 5: That's a great comp too for Paul Skins. Nolan Ryan. Yeah,

739
00:33:47,800 --> 00:33:50,280
Speaker 5: you know, win loss like that, I mean a ten

740
00:33:50,320 --> 00:33:53,560
Speaker 5: and ten record and he's gonna win the cy Young Awards.

741
00:33:54,400 --> 00:33:57,320
Speaker 5: That tells you wins losses don't mean anything anymore. That

742
00:33:57,360 --> 00:33:59,520
Speaker 5: As far as the starting pitch, sure as that goes, right,

743
00:33:59,640 --> 00:34:03,400
Speaker 5: it is Skeens his era, his whip and his two

744
00:34:03,520 --> 00:34:07,160
Speaker 5: hundred and sixteen strikeouts, which are unbelievable.

745
00:34:07,240 --> 00:34:09,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think the whip is you know, I know

746
00:34:09,400 --> 00:34:11,640
Speaker 2: it's been around a while, but that acronym is a

747
00:34:11,680 --> 00:34:14,120
Speaker 2: walks and hits per innings pitch. I think that one's

748
00:34:14,560 --> 00:34:16,759
Speaker 2: maybe the most relevant because it tells you what kind

749
00:34:16,800 --> 00:34:19,319
Speaker 2: of traffic you're going to have on the basis, you know,

750
00:34:19,400 --> 00:34:22,040
Speaker 2: so if you got a low whip, your chances of

751
00:34:22,080 --> 00:34:25,520
Speaker 2: giving up runs are much less, of course. And yeah,

752
00:34:25,800 --> 00:34:28,920
Speaker 2: Nolan Ryan's whip in his career was one two and

753
00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:31,200
Speaker 2: if you got one two or lower, you're doing great.

754
00:34:31,360 --> 00:34:34,120
Speaker 5: Let's hear from the manager Dave Roberts last night after

755
00:34:34,239 --> 00:34:38,120
Speaker 5: Yamamoto's complete game, and of course the Dodgers erupting for

756
00:34:38,200 --> 00:34:40,959
Speaker 5: five runs, three of which came after the fifth inning

757
00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:43,960
Speaker 5: Max Muntzi's home run. Show Heo Tani's RBI single than

758
00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:46,279
Speaker 5: Tommy Edmund with a cherry on top of the eighth

759
00:34:46,280 --> 00:34:47,919
Speaker 5: inning to put the Dodgers of five to one.

760
00:34:48,040 --> 00:34:49,720
Speaker 2: Here's a manager Dave Roberts postgame.

761
00:34:50,360 --> 00:34:53,840
Speaker 6: Just having starting pitchers go as deep as Snell and

762
00:34:54,239 --> 00:34:56,080
Speaker 6: gelln Loto have done for the last two gas's something

763
00:34:56,120 --> 00:34:58,840
Speaker 6: that doesn't really happen in today's game anymore. How and

764
00:34:58,920 --> 00:35:00,759
Speaker 6: why have you guys been able to pull it off?

765
00:35:01,920 --> 00:35:02,120
Speaker 3: Well?

766
00:35:02,320 --> 00:35:04,799
Speaker 4: I think if you look at the construction of our

767
00:35:04,920 --> 00:35:10,920
Speaker 4: roster currently, you know the strength is starting pitching, and

768
00:35:12,040 --> 00:35:15,000
Speaker 4: you know, when you can have your most talented pitchers

769
00:35:15,920 --> 00:35:18,600
Speaker 4: get the most outs, then you're in a good spot.

770
00:35:18,800 --> 00:35:22,040
Speaker 4: And right now, you know, all four of those guys

771
00:35:22,080 --> 00:35:25,759
Speaker 4: are in a really good headspace physically, they're sound, and

772
00:35:26,520 --> 00:35:28,239
Speaker 4: you know, you feel good about those guys starting a

773
00:35:28,280 --> 00:35:30,520
Speaker 4: game and pushing them in they're prepared for this.

774
00:35:31,880 --> 00:35:33,560
Speaker 2: Good to Jared into the second row.

775
00:35:33,960 --> 00:35:36,080
Speaker 6: You've you've had a lot of good starting pitchers here

776
00:35:36,120 --> 00:35:39,560
Speaker 6: for the time you've been in this job. But throughout

777
00:35:39,560 --> 00:35:41,839
Speaker 6: your playoff career there's certainly been games you've had great

778
00:35:41,840 --> 00:35:44,600
Speaker 6: starting pitchers and you did take them out before the eighth,

779
00:35:44,640 --> 00:35:47,040
Speaker 6: before the ninth. What do you think has gotten you

780
00:35:47,080 --> 00:35:49,920
Speaker 6: to the point where you're just maybe more comfortable pushing

781
00:35:49,920 --> 00:35:51,960
Speaker 6: these guys to one hundred and five one hundred and

782
00:35:51,960 --> 00:35:53,760
Speaker 6: ten pitches where maybe you weren't in the past.

783
00:35:54,560 --> 00:35:59,520
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I think it's a combo of I

784
00:35:59,640 --> 00:36:02,120
Speaker 4: just think that right now, each one of these guys

785
00:36:02,239 --> 00:36:07,280
Speaker 4: is throwing the ball incredibly well, and you know, obviously

786
00:36:07,560 --> 00:36:10,319
Speaker 4: you know there's been things with the bullpen, but just

787
00:36:10,400 --> 00:36:13,400
Speaker 4: trying to find the right you know, spots for those guys.

788
00:36:13,440 --> 00:36:16,080
Speaker 4: But again, I think for me, it's it just goes

789
00:36:16,120 --> 00:36:20,439
Speaker 4: to you know, given your just kind of weighing out,

790
00:36:20,880 --> 00:36:23,080
Speaker 4: whoever's behind them has got to be a better option,

791
00:36:23,520 --> 00:36:26,920
Speaker 4: you know, given where those guys are at, and I

792
00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:31,520
Speaker 4: believe in all of our pitchers, but I think in

793
00:36:31,600 --> 00:36:34,319
Speaker 4: each moment, I got to evaluate each game and how

794
00:36:34,320 --> 00:36:37,239
Speaker 4: they're throwing the baseball, and you know, the last two

795
00:36:37,320 --> 00:36:41,000
Speaker 4: nights and even this postseason, I just feel really confident

796
00:36:41,680 --> 00:36:45,480
Speaker 4: in the way the starters are attacking hitters, the efficiency,

797
00:36:46,520 --> 00:36:51,360
Speaker 4: the way they're able to mix and give hitters different looks.

798
00:36:52,400 --> 00:36:54,359
Speaker 7: Chelsey, you on the far right in the front, Hey,

799
00:36:54,480 --> 00:36:57,760
Speaker 7: dave Yamamoto had some big games for your last October.

800
00:36:57,800 --> 00:36:59,760
Speaker 7: So it's not like this is totally coming out of nowhere.

801
00:36:59,800 --> 00:37:01,680
Speaker 7: But in the last year, what have you kind of

802
00:37:01,680 --> 00:37:04,520
Speaker 7: seen come out of him that has allowed him to

803
00:37:04,560 --> 00:37:06,720
Speaker 7: be the guy he was on this stage tonight.

804
00:37:07,960 --> 00:37:13,040
Speaker 4: I see a real confidence. I think that's what it is.

805
00:37:13,680 --> 00:37:17,440
Speaker 4: I think that, you know, last year, certainly there's a transition,

806
00:37:17,600 --> 00:37:19,360
Speaker 4: and even in the postseason I didn't give him a

807
00:37:19,360 --> 00:37:22,880
Speaker 4: whole lot of leash, and we also had a really

808
00:37:23,200 --> 00:37:26,480
Speaker 4: talented bullpen, which we clearly leaned on and have talked about,

809
00:37:26,680 --> 00:37:30,439
Speaker 4: you know, a lot. But I think this year he's

810
00:37:30,480 --> 00:37:35,520
Speaker 4: got true confidence. For me, that third time through at

811
00:37:35,600 --> 00:37:40,160
Speaker 4: pitch ninety, he feels that he's the best option, and

812
00:37:40,200 --> 00:37:42,880
Speaker 4: so I think for me, that just gives me that confidence.

813
00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:45,400
Speaker 5: All right, there's a manager, Dave Roberts a couple of

814
00:37:45,400 --> 00:37:48,399
Speaker 5: things said the C word there, confidence and how much

815
00:37:48,400 --> 00:37:52,560
Speaker 5: he has in Yoshinobu Yamamoto, and how much confidence Yamamoto

816
00:37:52,719 --> 00:37:55,520
Speaker 5: is pitching with right now. And he also said pushing

817
00:37:55,560 --> 00:37:58,600
Speaker 5: his starters past one hundred pitches is because there's got

818
00:37:58,640 --> 00:38:02,040
Speaker 5: to be a guy behind this that is better than

819
00:38:02,080 --> 00:38:05,480
Speaker 5: those starters. And quite frankly, I can't think of anybody

820
00:38:05,520 --> 00:38:07,480
Speaker 5: in that Dodger bullpen right now that would be a

821
00:38:07,480 --> 00:38:09,719
Speaker 5: better option than Blake Snell going late in the game.

822
00:38:09,800 --> 00:38:12,359
Speaker 2: And ya'm a moto pitching deep into a game.

823
00:38:12,640 --> 00:38:15,239
Speaker 5: Not that he doesn't trust his bullpen, but this time

824
00:38:15,280 --> 00:38:17,040
Speaker 5: of the year, you go with your best arm. And

825
00:38:17,080 --> 00:38:19,200
Speaker 5: if your best arm is your starting pitcher in the

826
00:38:19,239 --> 00:38:22,959
Speaker 5: seventh inning, sitting on ninety pitches, you stay with him, right,

827
00:38:23,120 --> 00:38:26,520
Speaker 5: Rather than say, you know what, it's July, let's let's uh,

828
00:38:26,600 --> 00:38:28,719
Speaker 5: let's let's wait and see how this parcel's out here.

829
00:38:28,840 --> 00:38:31,080
Speaker 5: Let's let's go to our bullpen. Huh huh, yo, Let's

830
00:38:31,080 --> 00:38:33,560
Speaker 5: see how we can use this guy to avoid using

831
00:38:33,560 --> 00:38:34,279
Speaker 5: our bullpen, and.

832
00:38:34,239 --> 00:38:37,000
Speaker 2: How about a little bit of humility in there too

833
00:38:37,120 --> 00:38:39,399
Speaker 2: as a manager. And I like that about Dave Robbers.

834
00:38:39,480 --> 00:38:42,920
Speaker 2: He's a very humble, humble man. And I mean, I mean,

835
00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:45,879
Speaker 2: are they are these guys absolutely that prescient to know

836
00:38:46,320 --> 00:38:49,600
Speaker 2: that if if we go with a bullpen guy, well

837
00:38:49,760 --> 00:38:52,120
Speaker 2: they're gonna go out there and just roll steamroll. I

838
00:38:52,160 --> 00:38:54,920
Speaker 2: don't know how they know this, but it's it's obviously

839
00:38:55,000 --> 00:38:58,000
Speaker 2: just a gut instinct. But what I like about it

840
00:38:58,080 --> 00:39:01,680
Speaker 2: is the starting pitchers been there, They're in the moment.

841
00:39:01,880 --> 00:39:04,279
Speaker 2: They they they've read in the room, if you will,

842
00:39:04,760 --> 00:39:08,319
Speaker 2: and they're they're rolling with the momentum. That's why I

843
00:39:08,440 --> 00:39:11,160
Speaker 2: like the starting pitcher better than anybody else really, because

844
00:39:11,160 --> 00:39:13,920
Speaker 2: you're you're having you're having to rejigger the whole thing

845
00:39:14,320 --> 00:39:16,719
Speaker 2: once you bring in a reliever, and they got to

846
00:39:16,800 --> 00:39:19,239
Speaker 2: start the whole thing over again. I like the guy

847
00:39:19,280 --> 00:39:21,520
Speaker 2: that's been there and has been doing it the whole night. Well,

848
00:39:21,760 --> 00:39:24,160
Speaker 2: how often do we talk about the last few years,

849
00:39:24,560 --> 00:39:27,480
Speaker 2: and we've been doing this now nine Octobers, the Dodger

850
00:39:27,560 --> 00:39:31,279
Speaker 2: hitters wear down the opposing starting pitcher. Okay, let's let's

851
00:39:31,320 --> 00:39:34,360
Speaker 2: wear down this guy. So we can get to the bullpen.

852
00:39:34,640 --> 00:39:34,960
Speaker 2: All right.

853
00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:37,120
Speaker 5: We may not get five runs off this guy over

854
00:39:37,160 --> 00:39:39,359
Speaker 5: six innings, but we're gonna get his pitch count up

855
00:39:39,640 --> 00:39:42,600
Speaker 5: and we're gonna get him out of here in the fourth, fifth,

856
00:39:42,640 --> 00:39:44,920
Speaker 5: sixth inning, so we can get to those arms that

857
00:39:44,960 --> 00:39:47,040
Speaker 5: we feel a little bit more confident about. If you're

858
00:39:47,080 --> 00:39:49,120
Speaker 5: the Dodgers, the last thing you want to do is

859
00:39:49,160 --> 00:39:52,919
Speaker 5: stop momentum. Blake Snell's dealing six seventh d eighth inning.

860
00:39:53,200 --> 00:39:55,440
Speaker 5: Why stop that? If you got your foot on the

861
00:39:55,480 --> 00:39:58,120
Speaker 5: throat of the Brewers and a game, not the series,

862
00:39:58,160 --> 00:40:00,640
Speaker 5: but just a game, why let them up for air

863
00:40:01,239 --> 00:40:03,520
Speaker 5: and go to your bullpen finish him off.

864
00:40:03,560 --> 00:40:05,000
Speaker 2: But you know what, the you know what, the the

865
00:40:05,040 --> 00:40:08,759
Speaker 2: collective sayah is on the bench for the opposition. Oh man, God,

866
00:40:08,840 --> 00:40:10,960
Speaker 2: thank god, that guy's out of it. He's gone and

867
00:40:10,960 --> 00:40:14,200
Speaker 2: he's not coming back. And so now we got a

868
00:40:14,200 --> 00:40:16,480
Speaker 2: different perspective, We got a new look. He just gave

869
00:40:16,520 --> 00:40:18,160
Speaker 2: us a shot in the arm. That's a great thing.

870
00:40:18,280 --> 00:40:21,120
Speaker 2: That's called waking up the opposition. Don't do that. Just

871
00:40:21,200 --> 00:40:24,120
Speaker 2: let that sleeping dog lie keep packing up the outs

872
00:40:24,120 --> 00:40:26,600
Speaker 2: and pretty soon the game's over. Oh okay, you know

873
00:40:26,719 --> 00:40:29,680
Speaker 2: I understand that and as far as wearing down the picture, Look,

874
00:40:29,800 --> 00:40:32,360
Speaker 2: I'm all for wearing down the picture, especially if the

875
00:40:32,360 --> 00:40:34,399
Speaker 2: pitcher is the one that's dictating it. He's gonna pitch

876
00:40:34,440 --> 00:40:37,640
Speaker 2: on the fringes of the plate, not throw strikes. I'm

877
00:40:37,640 --> 00:40:39,680
Speaker 2: not up for taking cookies right down the middle of

878
00:40:39,719 --> 00:40:42,680
Speaker 2: the plate. I mean, first time up, I can understand

879
00:40:42,719 --> 00:40:45,560
Speaker 2: that after that game on, the gloves are off, you're

880
00:40:45,560 --> 00:40:47,279
Speaker 2: gonna throw me something right down the plate that I'm

881
00:40:47,280 --> 00:40:50,240
Speaker 2: looking for. I'm jacking, Okay, there's nothing wrong with getting

882
00:40:50,280 --> 00:40:52,319
Speaker 2: on base, wearing him down, and oh, by the way,

883
00:40:52,600 --> 00:40:54,279
Speaker 2: hitting a three run homer if he throws me a

884
00:40:54,320 --> 00:40:56,280
Speaker 2: cookie down the middle. Okay, so you can do both.

885
00:40:56,640 --> 00:40:58,560
Speaker 5: He and Steve Sacks. I'm tim kase. We'll come back.

886
00:40:58,600 --> 00:41:00,399
Speaker 5: We'll get to your phone calls. Come on the top

887
00:41:00,400 --> 00:41:02,520
Speaker 5: of the hour. You're gonna hear from Oral Herscheizer, but

888
00:41:02,600 --> 00:41:04,560
Speaker 5: your phone calls next. I got a couple lines open

889
00:41:04,560 --> 00:41:06,640
Speaker 5: if you want to jump on board. Reacting to the

890
00:41:06,719 --> 00:41:14,000
Speaker 5: last night, Yamamoto was absolutely amazing, amazing for nine innings,

891
00:41:14,239 --> 00:41:17,280
Speaker 5: a complete game, three hitter, the first complete game pitch

892
00:41:17,480 --> 00:41:22,120
Speaker 5: in the postseason by a Dodger in twenty one years

893
00:41:22,560 --> 00:41:25,600
Speaker 5: two thousand and four. The late great Jose Lima did

894
00:41:25,600 --> 00:41:29,439
Speaker 5: it in the NLDS back in two thousand and four.

895
00:41:30,360 --> 00:41:33,919
Speaker 5: Yamamoto doing the day after what Blake Snell was able

896
00:41:33,960 --> 00:41:36,640
Speaker 5: to do, and that's dominate the Milwaukee Brewers. Your phone

897
00:41:36,640 --> 00:41:38,839
Speaker 5: calls when we come back eight sixty six, nine eighty seven,

898
00:41:38,880 --> 00:41:41,200
Speaker 5: two five seventy be a part of the show. It's

899
00:41:41,239 --> 00:41:48,520
Speaker 5: Sacks and Kate today about ANFI seventy LA sports. All

900
00:41:48,600 --> 00:41:51,000
Speaker 5: the Dodgers are doing right now is winning. That is

901
00:41:51,040 --> 00:41:53,280
Speaker 5: for sure, up two games to nothing in this best

902
00:41:53,320 --> 00:41:57,640
Speaker 5: of seven and LCS after a complete Game three hitter

903
00:41:57,760 --> 00:42:01,759
Speaker 5: last night for Yoshinovu Yamama, as the Dodgers win five

904
00:42:01,800 --> 00:42:04,399
Speaker 5: to one over the Milwaukee Brewers. Now they head home

905
00:42:04,480 --> 00:42:07,359
Speaker 5: for games three, four, and now I can say it

906
00:42:07,560 --> 00:42:11,640
Speaker 5: if necessary, game five on Saturday night, and the way

907
00:42:11,719 --> 00:42:14,279
Speaker 5: this series has gone so far in the first two

908
00:42:14,320 --> 00:42:18,600
Speaker 5: games in Milwaukee, I would be shocked if there is

909
00:42:18,640 --> 00:42:20,719
Speaker 5: a Game five on Saturday night. You don't want to

910
00:42:20,719 --> 00:42:22,680
Speaker 5: put the car before the horse here, but the way

911
00:42:22,719 --> 00:42:25,719
Speaker 5: the two starters have gone for the Dodgers and Snelling Yamamoto,

912
00:42:26,080 --> 00:42:28,480
Speaker 5: you'd like to think that Tyler Glass now will take

913
00:42:28,520 --> 00:42:31,800
Speaker 5: that Baton in Game three tomorrow at a Dodger stadium

914
00:42:31,840 --> 00:42:33,160
Speaker 5: and continue this dominance.

915
00:42:33,239 --> 00:42:36,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's a you know, he's watching with all intent

916
00:42:37,400 --> 00:42:39,920
Speaker 2: and watching what the Dodger starters have done. Now it's

917
00:42:39,920 --> 00:42:42,080
Speaker 2: your turn, right to go up there and do that

918
00:42:42,120 --> 00:42:43,959
Speaker 2: as well. The great thing about when you have great

919
00:42:43,960 --> 00:42:46,200
Speaker 2: pitching like this team does, it's always going to keep

920
00:42:46,200 --> 00:42:48,439
Speaker 2: you in the game and give you an opportunity any

921
00:42:49,000 --> 00:42:51,920
Speaker 2: sense that all of offense is is gonna do it.

922
00:42:52,120 --> 00:42:54,719
Speaker 2: The scary thing that I think the Brewers are looking

923
00:42:54,760 --> 00:42:57,600
Speaker 2: at is the offense is really starting to perk up.

924
00:42:57,640 --> 00:43:00,000
Speaker 2: Now you start seeing some of these balls that are

925
00:43:00,080 --> 00:43:02,719
Speaker 2: at hard find some grass that their balls are now

926
00:43:02,760 --> 00:43:07,560
Speaker 2: going over the fence, and it's becoming a widespread epidemic,

927
00:43:07,680 --> 00:43:11,280
Speaker 2: if you will, throughout this Dodger lineup, that these guys

928
00:43:11,320 --> 00:43:15,040
Speaker 2: are starting to to really click offensively. And that's that's

929
00:43:15,080 --> 00:43:16,960
Speaker 2: a great thing for this team because you know, the

930
00:43:17,000 --> 00:43:17,640
Speaker 2: pitching's great.

931
00:43:17,719 --> 00:43:19,759
Speaker 5: Yeah, and it's scary that the top four have not

932
00:43:20,040 --> 00:43:22,319
Speaker 5: done a whole lot. I know Freddie Freeman homert in

933
00:43:22,360 --> 00:43:24,960
Speaker 5: Game one, and you know, certainly Mookie beds through a

934
00:43:25,000 --> 00:43:27,319
Speaker 5: basis loaded walk, But you think of what the big

935
00:43:27,360 --> 00:43:30,360
Speaker 5: four collectively including Will Smith and Shoe ol Tani have

936
00:43:30,560 --> 00:43:33,839
Speaker 5: not done in the NLDS and now in the NLCS

937
00:43:33,880 --> 00:43:35,799
Speaker 5: through two games, and the Dodgers are still six and

938
00:43:35,880 --> 00:43:39,520
Speaker 5: one in the postseason two games sweep of the Cincinnati Reds,

939
00:43:39,520 --> 00:43:42,160
Speaker 5: a four game series win over the Phillies. Now to

940
00:43:42,360 --> 00:43:45,120
Speaker 5: wins so far in this NLCS eight sixty six, nine

941
00:43:45,160 --> 00:43:47,279
Speaker 5: eighty seven, two, five seventy. It's going to Brian and

942
00:43:47,280 --> 00:43:49,920
Speaker 5: Burbank starting things off here on this Wednesday morning on

943
00:43:50,000 --> 00:43:51,200
Speaker 5: saxon K today and how.

944
00:43:51,160 --> 00:43:53,240
Speaker 2: You doing fine?

945
00:43:53,600 --> 00:43:56,640
Speaker 3: Thank you for taking my call year after year. I

946
00:43:56,680 --> 00:43:58,880
Speaker 3: look forward to hearing both of you gentlemen in the

947
00:43:58,880 --> 00:44:02,040
Speaker 3: morning during your playoff season. I just wish you guys

948
00:44:02,040 --> 00:44:06,239
Speaker 3: were there throughout the whole year, but you're welcome. The

949
00:44:06,280 --> 00:44:08,600
Speaker 3: best part of the last night's game for me was

950
00:44:08,719 --> 00:44:11,000
Speaker 3: hearing from my two grown sons, who are in their

951
00:44:11,040 --> 00:44:14,560
Speaker 3: twenties and living on their own. They were so excited

952
00:44:14,920 --> 00:44:17,680
Speaker 3: to witness something they had never seen before in their lifetime,

953
00:44:18,040 --> 00:44:21,040
Speaker 3: a complete playoff game by a Dodger pitcher, and once

954
00:44:21,120 --> 00:44:24,160
Speaker 3: untold they he said, Dad, it's so weird to see

955
00:44:24,160 --> 00:44:27,320
Speaker 3: a picture end a game and still be there shaking

956
00:44:27,360 --> 00:44:30,480
Speaker 3: the Catcher's hand. So the father made me feel so

957
00:44:30,600 --> 00:44:34,240
Speaker 3: good that my son's experienced that, and many other fans

958
00:44:34,239 --> 00:44:36,759
Speaker 3: were given that gift thanks to Dave Roberts having the

959
00:44:36,840 --> 00:44:40,120
Speaker 3: courage to let Yamamo to finish it. So I just

960
00:44:40,200 --> 00:44:42,160
Speaker 3: I think this team is on a mission. They're seven

961
00:44:42,200 --> 00:44:44,600
Speaker 3: and one right now in the playoffs, and I can't

962
00:44:44,600 --> 00:44:47,480
Speaker 3: wait to see what they do next. So thanks for taking.

963
00:44:47,280 --> 00:44:49,799
Speaker 5: My call, Brian, appreciate that. Thanks for checking in. Yeah,

964
00:44:50,200 --> 00:44:53,480
Speaker 5: it's amazing. We're talking about the fact that kids in

965
00:44:53,520 --> 00:44:56,279
Speaker 5: their twenties have never seen a dodge or something throw

966
00:44:56,320 --> 00:44:58,640
Speaker 5: a complete game in the Bus's been twenty one years,

967
00:44:58,640 --> 00:45:02,000
Speaker 5: two thousand and four, jose Lima lima time back in

968
00:45:02,040 --> 00:45:03,200
Speaker 5: the nld S for the Dodger.

969
00:45:03,239 --> 00:45:05,439
Speaker 2: They haven't seen they haven't seen roller skates, they haven't

970
00:45:05,440 --> 00:45:08,800
Speaker 2: seen DVD players, and they haven't seen complete games. Yeah,

971
00:45:08,840 --> 00:45:10,600
Speaker 2: it's a good way of putting it. I mean kind

972
00:45:10,600 --> 00:45:12,280
Speaker 2: of you know the things that we saw all the time,

973
00:45:12,719 --> 00:45:15,719
Speaker 2: but the complete game was was an afterthought. Of course,

974
00:45:15,719 --> 00:45:17,719
Speaker 2: they're gonna go the whole way. You remember laser disc.

975
00:45:18,400 --> 00:45:20,760
Speaker 2: Yeah that's right, Yeah, that's right, good.

976
00:45:20,640 --> 00:45:22,520
Speaker 5: Cool way of watching things. Laser disc was the next

977
00:45:22,520 --> 00:45:25,560
Speaker 5: big thing, but till it wasn't. James and al Monte

978
00:45:25,560 --> 00:45:27,640
Speaker 5: your next up here on Saxon Kates today.

979
00:45:28,040 --> 00:45:35,560
Speaker 2: Good morning, James, morning guys. At James, it's on your mind.

980
00:45:36,160 --> 00:45:42,360
Speaker 8: Okay, uh uh dot.

981
00:45:42,680 --> 00:45:44,399
Speaker 2: Little little talk time this morning. James.

982
00:45:44,400 --> 00:45:48,400
Speaker 8: All right, Yeah, I'm good. I'm good. I'm just glad.

983
00:45:48,480 --> 00:45:50,360
Speaker 8: The Dodgers are two wins away from going back to

984
00:45:50,360 --> 00:45:51,040
Speaker 8: the World Series.

985
00:45:51,080 --> 00:45:51,239
Speaker 7: Man.

986
00:45:51,760 --> 00:45:54,360
Speaker 8: I just wanted to raise the point that what Steve

987
00:45:54,400 --> 00:45:57,200
Speaker 8: mentioned yesterday that the Brewers are not facing the same

988
00:45:57,280 --> 00:45:59,279
Speaker 8: Dodger team that they swept during the season. This is

989
00:46:00,080 --> 00:46:02,400
Speaker 8: this isn't the same Dodger team from the postseason from

990
00:46:02,480 --> 00:46:04,680
Speaker 8: last year. I mean Dave Roberts had two aces that

991
00:46:05,160 --> 00:46:08,080
Speaker 8: he relied on heavily to carry him through the postseason,

992
00:46:08,080 --> 00:46:11,680
Speaker 8: which was Clarity and Yamamoto. This time he has four aces.

993
00:46:11,719 --> 00:46:17,000
Speaker 8: He has Otani, last Snow, healthy Snow, and Yamamoto. Now

994
00:46:17,040 --> 00:46:20,040
Speaker 8: he can rely on those guys to go further further

995
00:46:20,120 --> 00:46:23,000
Speaker 8: into the game, like seven eight innings, unlike last year

996
00:46:23,000 --> 00:46:25,759
Speaker 8: when he has Clarity gone five six innings and then

997
00:46:25,760 --> 00:46:28,680
Speaker 8: he went to the bullpen. I mean, he has Kershaw

998
00:46:28,760 --> 00:46:33,279
Speaker 8: and Sosaki another two aces. You know, if he if

999
00:46:33,320 --> 00:46:36,280
Speaker 8: his four starters can't go far. I mean, this Dodger

1000
00:46:36,320 --> 00:46:39,880
Speaker 8: team is a lot, a lot deeper and a lot scarier.

1001
00:46:40,440 --> 00:46:43,399
Speaker 8: And the Brewers are definitely definitely in trouble this year.

1002
00:46:44,120 --> 00:46:46,759
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, they are in serious trouble because they have

1003
00:46:46,840 --> 00:46:50,000
Speaker 5: faced two really good starting pitchers and on the flip

1004
00:46:50,040 --> 00:46:52,160
Speaker 5: side of it, they have run out of starting pitching

1005
00:46:52,440 --> 00:46:53,760
Speaker 5: going into Game three tomorrow.

1006
00:46:53,800 --> 00:46:55,600
Speaker 2: You know, you know what's a you know, if you

1007
00:46:55,719 --> 00:46:57,640
Speaker 2: kind of step back and look at this thing, Tim,

1008
00:46:58,160 --> 00:47:01,000
Speaker 2: we kind of get you know, you kind of get

1009
00:47:01,080 --> 00:47:03,800
Speaker 2: used to the fact that the Dodgers have are stacked

1010
00:47:03,800 --> 00:47:07,000
Speaker 2: in starting pitching. Most teams, you got a number one

1011
00:47:07,000 --> 00:47:09,560
Speaker 2: on the team, you got a two guy, You got

1012
00:47:09,760 --> 00:47:12,160
Speaker 2: a guy that's a three pitcher, you need a you

1013
00:47:12,200 --> 00:47:14,560
Speaker 2: need a guy that's a five pitcher that can gobble

1014
00:47:14,600 --> 00:47:17,040
Speaker 2: up bettings and have a five hundred record, and you

1015
00:47:17,040 --> 00:47:18,560
Speaker 2: have a four guy in there too. So you have

1016
00:47:18,920 --> 00:47:22,520
Speaker 2: the kind of slot down in the importance line there.

1017
00:47:23,640 --> 00:47:29,080
Speaker 2: The Dodgers have four number ones. These these guys could

1018
00:47:29,120 --> 00:47:32,799
Speaker 2: be the number one on most teams. Scary any one

1019
00:47:32,840 --> 00:47:37,520
Speaker 2: of these guys. They have four number ones, and that's ridiculous.

1020
00:47:37,560 --> 00:47:41,439
Speaker 2: That doesn't happen some teams don't even have a one.

1021
00:47:41,760 --> 00:47:43,799
Speaker 2: They have like a they have a three, a four,

1022
00:47:43,920 --> 00:47:47,560
Speaker 2: and a seven whatever, they have four number ones.

1023
00:47:47,800 --> 00:47:49,920
Speaker 5: How'd you like to be Pat Murphy right now, stretching

1024
00:47:49,960 --> 00:47:52,680
Speaker 5: your head thinking I just threw my guy. I threw

1025
00:47:52,760 --> 00:47:54,480
Speaker 5: my best stuff at him, the guy who led the

1026
00:47:54,560 --> 00:47:57,480
Speaker 5: National League and wins. Freddy Pralta. I'm out of I

1027
00:47:57,520 --> 00:47:59,839
Speaker 5: can't use him for the next two to three possibly four.

1028
00:48:00,200 --> 00:48:03,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, they just beat him. I mean really, they've got

1029
00:48:03,560 --> 00:48:05,280
Speaker 2: nothing left as far as starting pitching.

1030
00:48:05,600 --> 00:48:08,680
Speaker 5: Meanwhile, the Dodgers haven't even touched Otani and they're gonna

1031
00:48:08,719 --> 00:48:10,479
Speaker 5: give the ball to Glass now for the first time

1032
00:48:10,760 --> 00:48:14,200
Speaker 5: in this NLCS tomorrow Game three. Who will also be

1033
00:48:14,360 --> 00:48:17,080
Speaker 5: touching the ball on the mound are own Steve Sacks,

1034
00:48:17,320 --> 00:48:19,880
Speaker 5: thrown out the first pitch tomorrow, along with Mike Soshi.

1035
00:48:19,920 --> 00:48:21,680
Speaker 5: Micha will join us in the eight o'clock hour. You'll

1036
00:48:21,680 --> 00:48:24,799
Speaker 5: hear from the Bulldog Oral Herscheiser coming up next hour

1037
00:48:24,880 --> 00:48:27,680
Speaker 5: as well. One hour down, two to go, and here

1038
00:48:27,719 --> 00:48:30,080
Speaker 5: in the seven o'clock hour, one lucky Dodger fan is

1039
00:48:30,120 --> 00:48:32,919
Speaker 5: going to Game three of the NLCS.

1040
00:48:33,280 --> 00:48:34,200
Speaker 2: Keep it with us.

1041
00:48:34,600 --> 00:48:37,520
Speaker 5: It's Sacks and Kate's and Am on this Wednesday morning,

1042
00:48:37,560 --> 00:48:40,399
Speaker 5: Dodgers two wins away from going back to the World Series.

1043
00:48:40,440 --> 00:48:42,560
Speaker 2: On he You're Home with the Dodgers AFI seventy l

1044
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Speaker 2: A Sports