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

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Speaker 2: It's hard to repeat seasons.

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Speaker 3: It's winning it again.

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Speaker 1: This Yearning is not trying to win a championship, They're

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Speaker 1: trying to repeat. It's October baseball for your world champion

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Speaker 1: 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 3: Sax and Kate's 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.

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Speaker 5: Sacks reacting, taking your phone calls, talking Dodgers playoff baseball

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Speaker 5: all postseason long.

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

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Speaker 3: Steve Sacks, Tim Kaits, Tim.

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Speaker 1: Kates and World Champion Dodger Steve Sacks.

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Speaker 5: Ready or not, Here we go, Happy Halloween, Los Angeles, Saxon,

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Speaker 5: Kates and AM on this Friday morning, October thirty, twenty

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Speaker 5: twenty five. As the Los Angeles Dodgers their backs up

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Speaker 5: against the wall, do or die must win Game six

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Speaker 5: of the World Series tonight from the Rogers Center in Toronto, Canada.

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Speaker 5: Dodgers Blue Jays Yoshinobu Yamamoto on the.

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Speaker 3: Mound for the Dodgers.

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Speaker 5: Kevin Gosman will go for Toronto as the Dodgers need

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Speaker 5: to win to force a decisive Game seven. I am

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Speaker 5: Tim Kates, joined by two time World Series Champion, Rookie

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Speaker 5: of the Year and hands down our favorite number three

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Speaker 5: all time to wear a Dodger uniform, the one and

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Speaker 5: only Steven Sacks Saxy.

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Speaker 3: Good morning, Tim Kates.

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Speaker 6: Hey, you sound up ready and expecting something big tonight.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm on cup of coffee number two already and

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Speaker 5: it's at six oh one am Pacific. I see you

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Speaker 5: got your cup of Joe as well. So we are

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Speaker 5: off and running on this Friday morning, and we got

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Speaker 5: a fun show coming up here between now at nine

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Speaker 5: o'clock this morning. We'll be on YouTube x and Facebook

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Speaker 5: beginning at seven am. Looking forward to that all the

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Speaker 5: great comments and people chiming in via that way.

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Speaker 3: Of course.

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Speaker 5: We're here for three hours on a FI seventy LA

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Speaker 5: Sports Live Everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Coming up at

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Speaker 5: the bottom of the hour, David Veasego's one on one

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Speaker 5: with keyk Hernandez at the team workout last night, so.

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Speaker 3: We'll hear from Kei K.

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Speaker 5: We'll hear from the manager Dave Roberts in just a

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Speaker 5: couple of minutes. David will join us in the final hour.

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Speaker 5: We've got a little trick or treat segment coming up

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Speaker 5: on this Halloween in the second hour of the show.

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Speaker 5: So we got a lot to get to, including your

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Speaker 5: phone calls at eight six six nine, eight seven, two

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Speaker 5: five seventy, how you feel and going into Game six

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Speaker 5: tonights with Yoshinobu Yamamoto on the mound. A lot of

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Speaker 5: things in play tonight for the Dodgers, which we will

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Speaker 5: get into over the next three hours eight six six

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Speaker 5: to be a part of this show this morning, as

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Speaker 5: from the field to the work side. Strauss Powers our

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Speaker 5: World Series coverage right here on AM five seven the

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Speaker 5: LA Sports All Right, Zachy. A day off yesterday for

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Speaker 5: the Dodgers and the Blue Jays. The Dodgers had a

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Speaker 5: workout last night as a player, a day off after

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Speaker 5: everything that's happening in the shifting the series back to Toronto.

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Speaker 5: You know where you stand as a player as the Dodgers.

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Speaker 5: You're a backup against the wall. A day off a

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Speaker 5: good thing to just kind of reset, recalibrate. I guess

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Speaker 5: you will going into a Game six if you're the Dodgers.

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Speaker 6: Yes, Tim, I think it's a good thing. Dodgers sound good.

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Speaker 6: I like the race from you know, Dave Roberts probably

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Speaker 6: the most famous stolen base in Boston history when you

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Speaker 6: a Kim yesterday. And I don't think it turned out

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Speaker 6: too good. I don't think they've really kept his balance

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Speaker 6: too well. But that's okay. Look, that's a good thing.

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Speaker 6: It kind of breaks the monotony up a little bit.

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Speaker 6: They're in Toronto, they're away from the friendly fans here

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Speaker 6: That's what yesterday's off day was for this team. And

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Speaker 6: I think it's a good thing. It kind of, you know,

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Speaker 6: start fresh tomorrow. That's where they are right now.

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Speaker 5: Dave Roberts made it an optional workout last night at

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Speaker 5: the Rogers Center and every player showed up, which was good.

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Speaker 5: You heard David Vassat's report show Iotani took batting practice

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Speaker 3: It was a loose workout.

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Speaker 5: It wasn't anything demanding, It wasn't anything that you know,

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Speaker 5: after an overnight travel from Toronto to Toronto from Los

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Speaker 5: you know, it is a reset, and I think it's

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Speaker 5: perfect for this Dodgers team mentally to get out of

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Speaker 5: LA mentally, to get away from Dodger Stadium for the

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Speaker 5: last three games that they played there in that marathon

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Speaker 5: game three. You can go to Toronto, a place you

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Speaker 5: know where you mentioned basketball analogy there in a time

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Speaker 5: out to reset and to get together and collectively, you know,

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Speaker 5: to get away from LA and circle the wagon, so

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Speaker 5: to speak. And all right, we're in a hotel by ourselves,

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Speaker 5: families away from us, team playing. It's all by ourselves.

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Speaker 5: You know, it's literally us against the world, and you know,

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Speaker 5: you don't have to go home, and you know, deal

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Speaker 3: You know, we're on the road, we're isolated.

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Speaker 5: We're at a team hotel, we're working out as a team,

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Speaker 3: This is us against the world.

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Speaker 6: Literally, yeah, and it's you know, certainly it's great to

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Speaker 6: what we're looking at here. And this is a time

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Speaker 6: much the whole world knows what's at stake, and that

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Speaker 6: is the bats have to come alive. And it's been

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Speaker 6: you're gonna see that collective bomb, you know, like everybody's

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Speaker 6: that's been the overriding factor. I mean, they could win

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Speaker 6: But it's been the bats that's been lacking.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, we're all talking about Yamamoto and what he's done

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Speaker 5: in two complete games year in the postseason, and that's great,

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Speaker 5: and that's something we don't see very often, certainly as

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Speaker 5: Dodger fans haven't seen since nineteen eighty eight in oral

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Speaker 5: her Seizer. In baseball, we haven't seen a complete game

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Speaker 5: in a World Series since twenty fifteen. Okay, that's great,

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Speaker 5: but if the Dodgers can't hit, they're still gonna lose

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Speaker 5: a one nothing game, even if Yama Modo just gives

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Speaker 5: narrative the last twenty four hours has been how do

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Speaker 5: they get out of this slump? Where do they find

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Speaker 5: the offense? I mean, you go anywhere online right now,

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Speaker 5: these baseball riders and pundits LA's bats have gone cold.

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Speaker 5: But here's how they can heat back up in Game six, Dodgers,

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Speaker 5: how to fix in Game six? Everybody's trying to give

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Speaker 5: the answer to the Dodgers is it really just as

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Speaker 5: simple as I mean, I don't even know what the

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Speaker 5: this because I don't know what the answer to. This

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Speaker 5: team collectively can't figure it out offensively is. It's just

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Speaker 5: one guy getting a base hit in the first inning

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Speaker 3: I mean, how do we explain this.

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Speaker 6: Well, hitting's contagious, tim and you're right about that. It

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Speaker 6: could be like a bloop hit here or there. It

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Speaker 6: could be somebody comes up with a big hit that

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Speaker 6: Somebody's got to come up and get a big hit.

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Speaker 6: That's I think the main thing that's missing from this

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Speaker 5: Kiki Hernandez after Game five said, the at bats are

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Speaker 5: we're just missing them, and then we're expanding the zone

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Speaker 5: hands down, they know it. It's something that could be fixed.

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Speaker 5: It's something they know what the problem is. But what

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Speaker 5: a sudden the approach seems different. I mean, it's just

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Speaker 5: and all these at bats, I find it hard to

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Speaker 5: One through nine. They can't scratch together five, six, seven hits.

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Speaker 5: Even if they don't string him together, there just doesn't

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Speaker 3: The last couple of.

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Speaker 5: Games, there just isn't anything collectively offensive from the Dodgers.

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Speaker 5: I mean, top to bottom, they're scratching four hits out

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Speaker 6: Fifteen strikeouts and fifteen strikeouts. You know, you can nothing

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Speaker 6: productive from a strikeout. We all know that. But you know,

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Speaker 6: and also Tim, it's hard to single out just any guy.

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Speaker 6: You know, it's it's up and down the lineup. Nobody's

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Speaker 6: you know, I everybody's talking about Mookie Betts this and that,

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Speaker 6: and you know that's part of being a great star.

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Speaker 6: And Mooky is a great star, and I'm a huge

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Speaker 6: main thing that if he can get it going that

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Speaker 6: sometimes it wakes everybody else up. But you know, Mookie

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Speaker 6: can't do it by himself. Moo can go out and

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Speaker 6: probably lose. You got to have a collective two, three,

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Speaker 6: four guys that are that are on it, moving the ball,

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Speaker 6: guys on and boom, somebody like Tommy Edmund hits one out.

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Speaker 6: It's like, WHOA, I didn't expect Tommy Edmund to do it.

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Speaker 3: This is an old team and they look, oh, they're

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Speaker 5: They went to Japan to start up this season, one

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Speaker 5: Let's hear from the manager, Dave Roberts. He spoke to

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Speaker 8: Could you see any more lineup changes to try to

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Speaker 6: All right.

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Speaker 6: Everything's been said at this point, right yeah, yeah, And

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Speaker 5: And let's not forget the Toronto Blue Jays went to

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Speaker 6: That's right. So that's right.

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Speaker 5: Everything is all square. Everything is evened out here amongst

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I'll look to dall you all look was they

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Speaker 5: us at eight thirty this morning from Toronto. As the

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Speaker 5: Which Dodger will it be, Which Dodger will get the

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Speaker 5: in Game two he was really good against him. I

435
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Speaker 5: just can't think. I can't I'm thinking about that. It's

436
00:21:01,040 --> 00:21:03,480
Speaker 5: not like, oh Wow, Gosmine's gonna be so much easier

437
00:21:03,560 --> 00:21:06,359
Speaker 5: than Treyy sevinch and they're just gonna light up Kevin

438
00:21:06,359 --> 00:21:08,159
Speaker 5: Goswin's like, no, no, no, pump the brakes. He was

439
00:21:08,200 --> 00:21:09,160
Speaker 5: pretty good last time.

440
00:21:09,359 --> 00:21:11,479
Speaker 6: He was great. And and then I think you hit

441
00:21:11,480 --> 00:21:13,520
Speaker 6: the nail on the head when you talk about the Dodgers.

442
00:21:13,560 --> 00:21:15,600
Speaker 6: They've seen him. The more you see a pitcher tim,

443
00:21:16,440 --> 00:21:18,159
Speaker 6: the more you kind of can get a chance to

444
00:21:18,160 --> 00:21:20,439
Speaker 6: bleed him out a little bit. You know, if you

445
00:21:20,440 --> 00:21:22,560
Speaker 6: haven't seen a guy like you say, you savage. They

446
00:21:22,560 --> 00:21:24,639
Speaker 6: haven't seen him a lot. He only had three starts

447
00:21:24,680 --> 00:21:27,520
Speaker 6: in the regular season, more starts in postseasons, so they

448
00:21:27,560 --> 00:21:30,160
Speaker 6: you know, they they're not that aware of him. They

449
00:21:30,200 --> 00:21:32,000
Speaker 6: certainly are now they've seen him a couple of times.

450
00:21:32,040 --> 00:21:34,360
Speaker 6: They know what he's got, But look, this team has

451
00:21:34,359 --> 00:21:38,679
Speaker 6: the ability to break out and it doesn't matter who's pitching.

452
00:21:38,880 --> 00:21:42,000
Speaker 6: When the Dodgers are right, the pitcher is almost insignificant

453
00:21:42,280 --> 00:21:45,200
Speaker 6: because what really matters is the guys are hot. When

454
00:21:45,200 --> 00:21:49,000
Speaker 6: the guys get hot, you can handle anybody. But again,

455
00:21:49,080 --> 00:21:51,880
Speaker 6: I think the fact that they've seen Gosmen quite a bit.

456
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Speaker 6: If they can neutralize his best pitch, which is a splitter,

457
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Speaker 6: then you know they're gonna be in good shape. I think.

458
00:21:58,960 --> 00:22:02,000
Speaker 6: So one thing that stands out I think I've been

459
00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:04,160
Speaker 6: thinking about this a lot in the last couple of days,

460
00:22:04,240 --> 00:22:09,080
Speaker 6: is there's since it's Halloween, there's really a ghost in

461
00:22:09,119 --> 00:22:12,840
Speaker 6: the room. And we all know it. You can feel it.

462
00:22:12,960 --> 00:22:16,359
Speaker 6: There's a ghost in the room. What's the ghost? The

463
00:22:16,400 --> 00:22:21,439
Speaker 6: ghost is the fact that everybody, including the Toronto Blue Jays,

464
00:22:22,160 --> 00:22:26,240
Speaker 6: know that the Dodgers haven't broken out yet. They have

465
00:22:26,400 --> 00:22:31,760
Speaker 6: been stymied, They have been neutralized and mitigated by really

466
00:22:31,800 --> 00:22:35,080
Speaker 6: good pitching, by the fact that Toronto really hasn't made

467
00:22:35,119 --> 00:22:39,840
Speaker 6: a mistake and the Dodgers haven't played near their best.

468
00:22:40,760 --> 00:22:43,720
Speaker 6: Is it time? Is it just a chance that that

469
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Speaker 6: ghost is going to reveal itself maybe today? And if

470
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Speaker 6: that happens, and this is a blowout. Toronto was in

471
00:22:52,400 --> 00:22:56,359
Speaker 6: huge trouble because now they're saying I've awoken, I've awakened.

472
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Speaker 6: However you want to say that, I don't know the

473
00:22:58,400 --> 00:23:03,359
Speaker 6: correct the correct turn there, but you have awakened a

474
00:23:03,400 --> 00:23:06,600
Speaker 6: sleeping giant and that's dangerous. So we'll see about if

475
00:23:06,600 --> 00:23:09,159
Speaker 6: that ghost is gonna show itself tonight.

476
00:23:09,560 --> 00:23:12,280
Speaker 5: I hope it does. I've been waiting for that ghost

477
00:23:12,280 --> 00:23:16,040
Speaker 5: to show op. I've been Uh if this were if

478
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Speaker 5: this were me lying in bed in a dark room

479
00:23:18,560 --> 00:23:20,919
Speaker 5: waiting for the ghost to come, I'd be trying to

480
00:23:20,960 --> 00:23:23,920
Speaker 5: talk to the ghosts, which is the Dodgers offense, and saying.

481
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Speaker 3: Come here, ghost, come here, come out.

482
00:23:25,760 --> 00:23:28,119
Speaker 6: I should do a thing about about who's gonna be

483
00:23:28,200 --> 00:23:31,359
Speaker 6: the the revealing ghost. Who will be the ghost that

484
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Speaker 6: shows up?

485
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Speaker 5: Let's do it eight six, six, nine, eighty seven, two

486
00:23:33,960 --> 00:23:37,080
Speaker 5: five seventy. Who will be that revealing ghost for the

487
00:23:37,119 --> 00:23:40,960
Speaker 5: Dodgers tonight? Offensively, Yeah, we can talk about Yamamoto all

488
00:23:41,000 --> 00:23:43,840
Speaker 5: we want and how great he's been, and they hope

489
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Speaker 5: that he's just as good tonight in his second World

490
00:23:47,280 --> 00:23:49,240
Speaker 5: series start against the Toronto Blue Jays.

491
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Speaker 6: Yeah, we take that for granted. Tim Now Yamamoto, he's

492
00:23:53,200 --> 00:23:55,800
Speaker 6: he's got to go out and shove one more time

493
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Speaker 6: like he's done the last two times. Can he do

494
00:23:58,040 --> 00:24:00,399
Speaker 6: three in a row? Is he that good?

495
00:24:00,600 --> 00:24:00,800
Speaker 3: Yeah?

496
00:24:00,840 --> 00:24:02,800
Speaker 5: I mean I don't take it for granted, but I

497
00:24:02,800 --> 00:24:05,359
Speaker 5: know a lot of Dodger people are and Dodger fans

498
00:24:05,400 --> 00:24:08,679
Speaker 5: are because I look at Blake Snell, Steve uh. He

499
00:24:08,760 --> 00:24:11,040
Speaker 5: is a postseason pitcher. You know, he didn't pitch a

500
00:24:11,080 --> 00:24:14,439
Speaker 5: lot during the regular season because of a shoulder injury. Okay,

501
00:24:14,560 --> 00:24:17,040
Speaker 5: so he's rested and ready to go. He is the

502
00:24:17,160 --> 00:24:19,840
Speaker 5: ace of this postseason roster as far as the rotation

503
00:24:19,920 --> 00:24:20,440
Speaker 5: is concerned.

504
00:24:20,680 --> 00:24:21,400
Speaker 3: And his two.

505
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Speaker 5: Starts in the World Series, eh, you know, they haven't

506
00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:27,520
Speaker 5: been dominating. Yamamoto has been more dominating than Blake Snell

507
00:24:27,960 --> 00:24:29,040
Speaker 5: in this postseason.

508
00:24:29,240 --> 00:24:31,840
Speaker 3: But can it keep going? You know, can he string

509
00:24:31,920 --> 00:24:32,840
Speaker 3: together another one?

510
00:24:32,920 --> 00:24:34,480
Speaker 5: I mean, you know, I hate to be the guy

511
00:24:34,520 --> 00:24:37,800
Speaker 5: that's you know, glass half empty, but I do a lot.

512
00:24:37,880 --> 00:24:40,760
Speaker 3: I remember a lot of Yamamoto stinkers this year.

513
00:24:41,920 --> 00:24:43,639
Speaker 5: You know, he goes to Milwaukee, can't get out of

514
00:24:43,680 --> 00:24:46,520
Speaker 5: the first inning outings where you know, he can't get

515
00:24:46,560 --> 00:24:49,119
Speaker 5: past the fourth inning. You know, there are some of

516
00:24:49,160 --> 00:24:54,960
Speaker 5: those outings in Yamamoto's you know record, this stinkers stinkers,

517
00:24:55,040 --> 00:24:58,360
Speaker 5: They're stinkers, Yeah, and that's that's what they are. And

518
00:24:58,440 --> 00:25:00,560
Speaker 5: you know, I just don't want that to rear. It's

519
00:25:00,600 --> 00:25:04,040
Speaker 5: ugly ahead tonight. And just to assume that he's gonna

520
00:25:04,040 --> 00:25:06,760
Speaker 5: go out and throw another complete game, I mean, come on,

521
00:25:07,400 --> 00:25:10,879
Speaker 5: it has two complete games in a postseason hasn't happened

522
00:25:10,880 --> 00:25:12,920
Speaker 5: for a Dodger starter since eighty eight.

523
00:25:13,359 --> 00:25:15,240
Speaker 6: And now you have to throw a complete game for

524
00:25:15,320 --> 00:25:16,880
Speaker 6: this to be a victory for the for.

525
00:25:16,920 --> 00:25:18,800
Speaker 5: LA, That's one of the narratives as well, is that

526
00:25:19,280 --> 00:25:22,200
Speaker 5: it's gotta be so on point that he basically needs

527
00:25:22,200 --> 00:25:23,560
Speaker 5: to throw a perfect game.

528
00:25:23,680 --> 00:25:25,560
Speaker 6: Can he go six or seven and they win?

529
00:25:26,320 --> 00:25:28,280
Speaker 5: Well, then we start talking about how do you piece

530
00:25:28,320 --> 00:25:30,399
Speaker 5: together the final nine outs of the last six out?

531
00:25:30,480 --> 00:25:33,080
Speaker 6: Well, yeah, I mean it's possible. I mean, if it's

532
00:25:33,160 --> 00:25:36,399
Speaker 6: five to three and he's got one hundred and twelve

533
00:25:36,400 --> 00:25:38,560
Speaker 6: pitches in the you know, six or seventh? Is he

534
00:25:38,640 --> 00:25:40,120
Speaker 6: out and you got somebody else in there?

535
00:25:40,200 --> 00:25:40,320
Speaker 3: No?

536
00:25:40,359 --> 00:25:42,440
Speaker 5: How do you feel about that? I think he empties

537
00:25:42,480 --> 00:25:46,399
Speaker 5: the tank and what does that mean? I don't know,

538
00:25:46,440 --> 00:25:48,560
Speaker 5: one hundred and twenty till his arm falls off.

539
00:25:48,920 --> 00:25:52,159
Speaker 3: I don't know what that number is until he you know,

540
00:25:52,560 --> 00:25:56,160
Speaker 3: collapses on the mount in exhaustion. I don't know. If

541
00:25:56,200 --> 00:25:59,199
Speaker 3: he's dealing and he's getting out, you have to keep

542
00:25:59,280 --> 00:25:59,720
Speaker 3: him out there.

543
00:26:00,480 --> 00:26:03,040
Speaker 6: Oh I think so too, Dave. Look, this is the

544
00:26:03,040 --> 00:26:06,119
Speaker 6: world title. I think if he's over one hundred and

545
00:26:06,160 --> 00:26:09,480
Speaker 6: twenty pitches and he's in the he's getting into the ninth,

546
00:26:10,200 --> 00:26:12,680
Speaker 6: I'm running him out there. If it's if it's three

547
00:26:12,720 --> 00:26:15,560
Speaker 6: to one and he's dealing, he's out there. He's out there.

548
00:26:15,840 --> 00:26:19,159
Speaker 6: I mean, guys used to throw one to win fifty

549
00:26:19,359 --> 00:26:21,480
Speaker 6: all the time. No problem.

550
00:26:21,560 --> 00:26:23,960
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, all I've heard, at least, you know, in

551
00:26:24,040 --> 00:26:28,120
Speaker 5: listening to MLB radio and other baseball people. Well, okay,

552
00:26:28,160 --> 00:26:30,800
Speaker 5: if we can get to six innings for Gamamoto and

553
00:26:30,800 --> 00:26:33,520
Speaker 5: then he can pass the baton to yoga rookie Sasaki

554
00:26:33,800 --> 00:26:36,600
Speaker 5: for the final nine out to the final six outs. Oh,

555
00:26:36,680 --> 00:26:39,400
Speaker 5: that's the that's the recipe you want. Well, I don't

556
00:26:39,440 --> 00:26:41,959
Speaker 5: just assume rookie Sasaki is gonna go out there and

557
00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:44,520
Speaker 5: put up zeros as well. He's been really good, but

558
00:26:44,560 --> 00:26:46,439
Speaker 5: he's also now gotten a little bit of traffic on

559
00:26:46,480 --> 00:26:48,439
Speaker 5: the base bats. He's gotten out of a jam his

560
00:26:48,520 --> 00:26:52,280
Speaker 5: last time out. I I just I don't want to

561
00:26:52,359 --> 00:26:55,280
Speaker 5: assume that since the Dodger pitching has been really good,

562
00:26:55,720 --> 00:26:57,879
Speaker 5: it's gonna be that way. And we're just gonna assume

563
00:26:57,960 --> 00:26:59,800
Speaker 5: zero is gonna be put up on the board, because

564
00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:02,840
Speaker 5: next time I looked, Blake Snell got lit up for

565
00:27:02,960 --> 00:27:05,320
Speaker 5: two home runs in his first three pitches, and we

566
00:27:05,359 --> 00:27:08,000
Speaker 5: all thought Blake Snell was gonna be darned in. You're

567
00:27:08,040 --> 00:27:10,639
Speaker 5: perfect in the last game, right, Oh, don't worry about it.

568
00:27:10,680 --> 00:27:12,959
Speaker 5: Blake Snell's gonna put up zeros. We just gotta get

569
00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:16,440
Speaker 5: the ad Dodgers' offense going. Always happened now three pitches into.

570
00:27:16,240 --> 00:27:18,560
Speaker 3: The game, the Dodger's down two to nothing. What if

571
00:27:18,560 --> 00:27:19,560
Speaker 3: that happens tonight?

572
00:27:19,920 --> 00:27:22,159
Speaker 6: Doesn't always happen that way. That's why you've got to

573
00:27:22,200 --> 00:27:25,680
Speaker 6: be prepared to have the cavalry come in and uh

574
00:27:25,720 --> 00:27:28,960
Speaker 6: and be good to see. Look, there's no chance, uh,

575
00:27:29,040 --> 00:27:31,439
Speaker 6: if you're gonna go on and play Game seven, that

576
00:27:31,560 --> 00:27:34,680
Speaker 6: you have to have a week leak, a week link

577
00:27:35,240 --> 00:27:39,000
Speaker 6: in the pitching lineup tonight. You can't. I mean, this

578
00:27:39,160 --> 00:27:41,199
Speaker 6: is it. You can't have one of those. And so

579
00:27:41,640 --> 00:27:43,720
Speaker 6: we'll see if that is the case or not, let's

580
00:27:43,760 --> 00:27:45,160
Speaker 6: go to a game at north Ridge.

581
00:27:45,160 --> 00:27:47,960
Speaker 3: Thanks for being patient, Gabe. Welcome to Sax and Kate today.

582
00:27:48,040 --> 00:27:51,400
Speaker 4: How you doing, Hey, Steven Saxey, Yo seven Saxy.

583
00:27:51,440 --> 00:27:52,720
Speaker 6: How are you? I'm good?

584
00:27:52,720 --> 00:27:57,320
Speaker 4: How are you good? So I'm following up on what

585
00:27:57,359 --> 00:28:01,520
Speaker 4: you said yesterday where uh, you may not be a

586
00:28:01,520 --> 00:28:05,240
Speaker 4: baseball player this this day and age like you were before.

587
00:28:05,320 --> 00:28:08,520
Speaker 4: And I totally agree. It's a whole different ballgame.

588
00:28:08,960 --> 00:28:09,480
Speaker 6: I agree with that.

589
00:28:10,440 --> 00:28:13,440
Speaker 4: And the hitting, the hitting is just not what I

590
00:28:13,640 --> 00:28:16,160
Speaker 4: don't understand what the hitting coaches are doing. I mean,

591
00:28:16,760 --> 00:28:19,200
Speaker 4: you've got the hitting coaches in the dugout. You see

592
00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:22,439
Speaker 4: the players talking to them during the game, and you

593
00:28:22,520 --> 00:28:25,240
Speaker 4: see they're just hitting home They're trying to hit home runs.

594
00:28:25,920 --> 00:28:26,880
Speaker 4: Where's the approach?

595
00:28:27,280 --> 00:28:32,400
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, I just don't see it. I hear you, and.

596
00:28:33,600 --> 00:28:35,520
Speaker 4: Maybe you know, thank you.

597
00:28:35,520 --> 00:28:39,640
Speaker 5: I appreciate the phone call. That's what we keep talking about. Approach, approach, approach,

598
00:28:39,920 --> 00:28:42,719
Speaker 5: got to a changed approach. Dave Roberts. We've heard him

599
00:28:42,760 --> 00:28:46,200
Speaker 5: now three straight press conference, including uh last night, talking

600
00:28:46,200 --> 00:28:48,840
Speaker 5: to the media in his final one before game six tonight.

601
00:28:49,120 --> 00:28:51,360
Speaker 5: We got to change our approach. I mean, what was

602
00:28:51,400 --> 00:28:53,760
Speaker 5: the quote he said? Here, we got to quote compete

603
00:28:53,840 --> 00:28:56,920
Speaker 5: and fight in the batter's box. Yeah, I mean that's

604
00:28:56,960 --> 00:28:59,920
Speaker 5: the approach tonight. Go out to meet fight, fight fright.

605
00:29:00,080 --> 00:29:02,959
Speaker 6: By the way, I did a little investigation here on

606
00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:09,760
Speaker 6: my trustee Mac computer, and I found out that the

607
00:29:09,760 --> 00:29:12,040
Speaker 6: most pitches in a game by a guy like Earl

608
00:29:12,080 --> 00:29:18,040
Speaker 6: Herscheizer fifty three, no problem, no problem, one one hundred

609
00:29:18,040 --> 00:29:20,800
Speaker 6: and fifty three pitches. And I'm looking at somebody like

610
00:29:20,800 --> 00:29:23,520
Speaker 6: a Sandy Kofax or Nolan Ryan, you know, some guy

611
00:29:23,560 --> 00:29:26,480
Speaker 6: that had some violent arm action, because I wanted to

612
00:29:26,520 --> 00:29:30,080
Speaker 6: see what the most egregious example would be for a

613
00:29:30,120 --> 00:29:32,840
Speaker 6: guy that really could get hurt because of the violent

614
00:29:32,960 --> 00:29:35,000
Speaker 6: arm action. Right, So I'm going to check that out,

615
00:29:35,400 --> 00:29:38,800
Speaker 6: and I'll bet you it's in the one seventies. I'm

616
00:29:38,800 --> 00:29:39,440
Speaker 6: better than it is.

617
00:29:39,680 --> 00:29:43,680
Speaker 5: Well, if he gets to one thirty, I think you

618
00:29:43,760 --> 00:29:46,840
Speaker 5: may see Yamamoto's agent run out of the field and

619
00:29:47,120 --> 00:29:48,480
Speaker 5: take him out of the game.

620
00:29:49,240 --> 00:29:49,360
Speaker 1: There.

621
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Speaker 5: I don't think there's any chance he gets past one

622
00:29:52,160 --> 00:29:55,880
Speaker 5: twenty as far as pitch counts tonight. If he does,

623
00:29:56,400 --> 00:29:59,760
Speaker 5: that's because something special is happening, or he's pitching so

624
00:29:59,800 --> 00:30:02,080
Speaker 5: good and dealing and they want to keep him out

625
00:30:02,080 --> 00:30:05,480
Speaker 5: there late in this game. Uh, and have no trust

626
00:30:05,480 --> 00:30:09,000
Speaker 5: in the bullpen? Which which could happen? Which could happen?

627
00:30:09,040 --> 00:30:09,360
Speaker 6: All right?

628
00:30:09,600 --> 00:30:12,320
Speaker 5: Uh? Yesterday the Dodgers worked out at the Rogers Center,

629
00:30:12,760 --> 00:30:15,200
Speaker 5: our own David Vasse had a chance to sit down

630
00:30:15,320 --> 00:30:19,520
Speaker 5: with keyk Hernandez mister October leading up to tonight's Game six.

631
00:30:20,160 --> 00:30:22,520
Speaker 2: All right, Game six is upon us, and we're here

632
00:30:22,600 --> 00:30:24,680
Speaker 2: right now with the man that's been with the Dodgers

633
00:30:25,200 --> 00:30:28,160
Speaker 2: longer than anybody else this side of Clayton Kershaw. And

634
00:30:28,200 --> 00:30:30,760
Speaker 2: that's the one and only Key k Hernandez. Key K,

635
00:30:30,920 --> 00:30:33,400
Speaker 2: thanks a lot for the time and appreciate it and

636
00:30:33,480 --> 00:30:34,560
Speaker 2: great to catch up with you.

637
00:30:34,880 --> 00:30:36,040
Speaker 6: Thank you, Key K.

638
00:30:36,280 --> 00:30:38,719
Speaker 2: When you look at the situation you guys are in,

639
00:30:38,800 --> 00:30:42,400
Speaker 2: you've been in this spot before, as recently as last

640
00:30:42,480 --> 00:30:45,920
Speaker 2: year in the NLDS. Do you guys draw upon that

641
00:30:46,040 --> 00:30:47,719
Speaker 2: feeling and the way you responded?

642
00:30:48,560 --> 00:30:51,880
Speaker 9: I mean, yeah, you you got to try to find

643
00:30:51,880 --> 00:30:54,040
Speaker 9: a positive way to think about things. And you know

644
00:30:54,520 --> 00:30:56,560
Speaker 9: what better way to think about that. We've been here before,

645
00:30:56,600 --> 00:30:59,680
Speaker 9: and we've gotten out of this hole before, and I

646
00:30:59,680 --> 00:31:03,720
Speaker 9: thinkunder even tougher circumstances, you know, going into Game four

647
00:31:03,800 --> 00:31:06,280
Speaker 9: last year, down two to one against the Padres at

648
00:31:06,280 --> 00:31:09,600
Speaker 9: their place with no starting picture kind of put us

649
00:31:09,640 --> 00:31:12,280
Speaker 9: in a tough spot. But uh, you know, knowing that

650
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Speaker 9: we came from we came from behind from that and

651
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Speaker 9: we were able to you know, to to do it.

652
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Speaker 9: And for me, you know a few of the guys

653
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Speaker 9: here we're here in twenty twenty when we came from

654
00:31:23,440 --> 00:31:25,440
Speaker 9: behind three to one. Uh, there's some of us that

655
00:31:25,440 --> 00:31:28,680
Speaker 9: have been been there, done that, So you know, you

656
00:31:28,800 --> 00:31:30,920
Speaker 9: just got to find a way to you know, flesh

657
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Speaker 9: it out. And I think today's stay off came at

658
00:31:33,600 --> 00:31:36,360
Speaker 9: a perfect time. And you know we were here, you know,

659
00:31:36,840 --> 00:31:38,640
Speaker 9: tuning in when we need to tune in for to

660
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Speaker 9: show up ready tomorrow, to you know, to to leave

661
00:31:41,600 --> 00:31:43,280
Speaker 9: it all on the field when.

662
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Speaker 2: You have a picture like Yoshinobu Yamamoto on the mound.

663
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Speaker 2: For you guys, is that where some of this confidence

664
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Speaker 2: comes from that you can force a game seven?

665
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Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean I think with our starting rotation, no

666
00:31:53,240 --> 00:31:55,960
Speaker 9: matter who's on the mound, we feel really good about it. Obviously,

667
00:31:56,240 --> 00:31:57,600
Speaker 9: you know who was probably the guy that throwing the

668
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Speaker 9: ball the best and no better guy to take the

669
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Speaker 9: maut and again than than him with a season on

670
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Speaker 9: the line, and obviously we know as an offense that

671
00:32:06,480 --> 00:32:08,160
Speaker 9: we need to we need to pick it up and

672
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Speaker 9: we need to do our job. So here we are,

673
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Speaker 9: you know, like I said, tune and fine tuning what

674
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Speaker 9: we need to find tune.

675
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Speaker 6: Too, so that we can show up tomorrow and do

676
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Speaker 6: what we need to do.

677
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Speaker 2: I've seen a lot of your Playoffs series before. There's

678
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Speaker 2: been times where there's been a lot of overthinking, trying

679
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Speaker 2: to play that chess game with the other pitcher the

680
00:32:26,800 --> 00:32:29,320
Speaker 2: other team. Do you feel like you're at that point

681
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Speaker 2: in this series where at some point you guys just

682
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Speaker 2: got to find a way to compete in the batter's

683
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Speaker 2: box and and not worry about what they're trying to

684
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Speaker 2: do to you, but play to your strengths.

685
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Speaker 6: Yeah.

686
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Speaker 9: Man, I just we need to be better overall. I

687
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Speaker 9: mean just not one thing or the other. We just

688
00:32:45,600 --> 00:32:46,120
Speaker 9: need to be better.

689
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Speaker 6: We need to fight.

690
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Speaker 9: We need to find that fight, and uh, you know,

691
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Speaker 9: I I'm confident that we're gonna We're gonna show up

692
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Speaker 9: and we're gonna do that tomorrow. Because obviously it's a

693
00:32:53,840 --> 00:32:56,960
Speaker 9: it's a winner go home, So uh, you just gotta

694
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Speaker 9: leave it all in the field and and compete to

695
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Speaker 9: the best of your ability.

696
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Speaker 2: You guys said that you Savage did some different things

697
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Speaker 2: in game five than what you saw in game one.

698
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Speaker 2: Do you expect Kevin Gosman to do anything differently or

699
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Speaker 2: is it going back to what we talked about just

700
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Speaker 2: seeing what he has that night in ad justin game.

701
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Speaker 1: No.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, I think we're gonna do a better job adjusting

703
00:33:16,960 --> 00:33:19,959
Speaker 9: in game. It's just I don't necessarily think that Gosman

704
00:33:20,040 --> 00:33:22,840
Speaker 9: is gonna come out differently. He h he had really

705
00:33:22,880 --> 00:33:25,560
Speaker 9: good stuff his last time out. He had really good command,

706
00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:29,080
Speaker 9: and I think that was the biggest difference with Y Savage.

707
00:33:29,360 --> 00:33:33,000
Speaker 9: Game one, he his command wasn't wasn't very sharp, and

708
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Speaker 9: last night he was on last night, he had every

709
00:33:35,880 --> 00:33:37,680
Speaker 9: pitch working for him. His slider was a lot better

710
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Speaker 9: than when it was here, he was throwing his split

711
00:33:40,160 --> 00:33:42,920
Speaker 9: for strikes. He was, you know, hiding his fastball well

712
00:33:43,040 --> 00:33:47,440
Speaker 9: enough to work eat surprise guys with it. And you know, Gossman,

713
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Speaker 9: he's he was. He threw a great game Game two.

714
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Speaker 9: Is just we were able to get to him in

715
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Speaker 9: the seventh inning, so hopefully we can get to him

716
00:33:54,840 --> 00:33:56,920
Speaker 9: before before the seventh this time through, You're.

717
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Speaker 2: One of the more direct guys. So I'll ask you

718
00:33:58,520 --> 00:34:02,080
Speaker 2: this direct question. A lot of people are speculating and

719
00:34:02,200 --> 00:34:04,720
Speaker 2: talking about whether or not that eighteen inning game took

720
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Speaker 2: a lot out of the team these last two games.

721
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Speaker 2: Do you feel like that's just something people are trying

722
00:34:10,800 --> 00:34:13,680
Speaker 2: to grasp to or is there something to it?

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Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean obviously people were going to talk about

724
00:34:17,640 --> 00:34:19,960
Speaker 9: they got to you know, you got to find when

725
00:34:19,960 --> 00:34:23,400
Speaker 9: things are not going well, they're gonna speculate about X

726
00:34:23,480 --> 00:34:26,319
Speaker 9: and ys. And I think we go out, we win

727
00:34:26,400 --> 00:34:29,560
Speaker 9: Game four, nobody was going to be talking about you know,

728
00:34:30,239 --> 00:34:33,279
Speaker 9: that took a lot of out of us. You know,

729
00:34:33,320 --> 00:34:36,360
Speaker 9: it's just, you know, even in game five, even in

730
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Speaker 9: Game three, in that eighteen in any game, we were

731
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Speaker 9: just not really doing much as an offense, and the

732
00:34:41,840 --> 00:34:45,879
Speaker 9: only difference was that their offense wasn't doing anything as well.

733
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Speaker 9: So the last couple of days or their offense has

734
00:34:48,640 --> 00:34:52,120
Speaker 9: been able to capitalize on when they when they've had traffic,

735
00:34:52,160 --> 00:34:56,080
Speaker 9: they've hit some key homers, and we haven't been able

736
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Speaker 9: to do that. I think for us it's just a

737
00:34:57,600 --> 00:35:00,800
Speaker 9: matter of you know, going back to bases and just competing.

738
00:35:00,960 --> 00:35:03,200
Speaker 2: Does anything need to be said before the game. Where

739
00:35:03,400 --> 00:35:06,080
Speaker 2: was anything said on the plane ride here? Or does

740
00:35:06,120 --> 00:35:07,240
Speaker 2: nothing need to be said?

741
00:35:07,480 --> 00:35:07,760
Speaker 3: Uh?

742
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Speaker 9: I think things that happen in locker room should stay

743
00:35:09,840 --> 00:35:12,560
Speaker 9: in the locker room. I don't think that's uh, you know,

744
00:35:12,600 --> 00:35:15,640
Speaker 9: I'll let you guys create narratives, but I think locker

745
00:35:15,719 --> 00:35:19,560
Speaker 9: room is his a Zoro private space, and what happens

746
00:35:19,560 --> 00:35:21,560
Speaker 9: in there should probably stay in there.

747
00:35:21,760 --> 00:35:22,879
Speaker 3: All right, sounds good.

748
00:35:22,880 --> 00:35:25,000
Speaker 2: I love it. Thanks k k Thank you for the time.

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Speaker 9: Cool.

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Speaker 6: Thanks there, he.

751
00:35:26,680 --> 00:35:30,239
Speaker 2: Goes Key k Hernandez, great vibes before Game six of

752
00:35:30,280 --> 00:35:31,200
Speaker 2: the World Series.

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00:35:31,520 --> 00:35:35,040
Speaker 5: All right, thank you, David Key k Hernandez. No stranger

754
00:35:35,400 --> 00:35:38,160
Speaker 5: to October baseball. He of course now setting the record

755
00:35:38,239 --> 00:35:42,560
Speaker 5: for most postseason games played in Dodger history. So he

756
00:35:42,680 --> 00:35:44,400
Speaker 5: knows what this time of year is all about. He

757
00:35:44,480 --> 00:35:47,200
Speaker 5: knows how to perform on the biggest of stages. He

758
00:35:47,320 --> 00:35:49,680
Speaker 5: knows that it feels like the Dodger team knows that.

759
00:35:49,960 --> 00:35:52,279
Speaker 5: But it's interesting, Steve to hear the word thrown around

760
00:35:52,320 --> 00:35:56,120
Speaker 5: again the Dave Roberts throw around fight fight exactly.

761
00:35:57,120 --> 00:36:00,360
Speaker 6: That's that's where it comes down to sometimes just to

762
00:36:00,400 --> 00:36:02,520
Speaker 6: be a dog, and you got to go out there

763
00:36:02,560 --> 00:36:05,040
Speaker 6: and fight these guys. And I felt that that's what

764
00:36:05,080 --> 00:36:07,640
Speaker 6: they were doing when they were going against Philadelphia. They

765
00:36:07,640 --> 00:36:11,080
Speaker 6: weren't generating big home runs, they weren't weren't having big

766
00:36:11,160 --> 00:36:16,040
Speaker 6: outbursts of offense. They just were scratching enough to do

767
00:36:16,160 --> 00:36:18,600
Speaker 6: all the things that it could to manufacture a run

768
00:36:18,640 --> 00:36:20,600
Speaker 6: here there, and do all the other things, play defense,

769
00:36:20,680 --> 00:36:23,880
Speaker 6: pitch well, uh and you know, rise to the occasion

770
00:36:24,160 --> 00:36:26,680
Speaker 6: other than going out and you know, having it be

771
00:36:26,920 --> 00:36:29,719
Speaker 6: bombs away, because it really hasn't been that way at all.

772
00:36:30,640 --> 00:36:32,839
Speaker 6: But Tim, I wanted to ask you this real quick,

773
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Speaker 6: if I could have ten seconds here as long as

774
00:36:35,400 --> 00:36:38,319
Speaker 6: you want, Steve listen to this. So I did a

775
00:36:38,320 --> 00:36:41,800
Speaker 6: little research here on my you know, on my trusty computer,

776
00:36:42,160 --> 00:36:45,320
Speaker 6: and got a little evidence for you I wanted to

777
00:36:45,360 --> 00:36:47,480
Speaker 6: share with you really quick. So you talked about, you know,

778
00:36:47,520 --> 00:36:50,839
Speaker 6: how far can you push pitchers today? Have we seen

779
00:36:50,960 --> 00:36:53,640
Speaker 6: de evolution in the human being as far as the

780
00:36:53,719 --> 00:36:58,839
Speaker 6: uclgs the only collateral ligament? Has it just been exploited

781
00:36:58,920 --> 00:37:03,120
Speaker 6: so much where it can't perform like it used to

782
00:37:03,440 --> 00:37:06,160
Speaker 6: maybe one generation ago. I don't believe that. I think

783
00:37:06,200 --> 00:37:10,000
Speaker 6: it should be even better. So here's a couple of examples.

784
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Speaker 6: What's the most pitches that some of these guys have thrown.

785
00:37:13,600 --> 00:37:17,160
Speaker 6: And I've taken examples of pitchers that had hard, violent

786
00:37:17,320 --> 00:37:21,400
Speaker 6: arm action, more than probably most guys that you'd see today. Okay,

787
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Speaker 6: so I got number one for Nolan Ryan. He's the

788
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Speaker 6: most egregious example I could find, because you know, the

789
00:37:27,440 --> 00:37:30,880
Speaker 6: guy struck out over five thousand hitters, right, Nolan Ryan.

790
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Speaker 6: On June fourteenth, nineteen seventy four, in a game, Nolan

791
00:37:35,719 --> 00:37:41,120
Speaker 6: Ryan threw wait for it, two hundred and thirty five pitches.

792
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Speaker 5: Oh, you'd be arrested for that nowadays, in one game,

793
00:37:44,520 --> 00:37:47,279
Speaker 5: in one game, in one game.

794
00:37:47,320 --> 00:37:50,400
Speaker 6: Two hundred and thirty five pitches. How about Don Sutton

795
00:37:50,640 --> 00:37:53,720
Speaker 6: on April twenty six, nineteen eighty eight. He wasn't exactly

796
00:37:53,760 --> 00:37:57,920
Speaker 6: young now latest twenty six eighty eight. Okay, two hundred

797
00:37:57,920 --> 00:38:02,200
Speaker 6: and one pitches for Don Sutton. How about Fergie Jenkins? Okay,

798
00:38:02,239 --> 00:38:05,919
Speaker 6: another Hall of Famer on September ninth, nineteen seventy four.

799
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Speaker 6: That's when the season has been along now, Okay, September ninth,

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Speaker 6: nineteen seventy four. One hundred and ninety seven pitches for

801
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Speaker 6: Fergie Jenkins. And lastly, I'll finish with this one, Tom

802
00:38:16,680 --> 00:38:21,520
Speaker 6: sever Okay, everybody loves Tom sever on May fifth, nineteen seventy,

803
00:38:21,960 --> 00:38:25,920
Speaker 6: two hundred and one pitches, So don't tell me that

804
00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:29,160
Speaker 6: a guy can't pitch one hundred and forty today. I

805
00:38:29,320 --> 00:38:31,839
Speaker 6: just don't believe it. Some of these guys did one

806
00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:33,000
Speaker 6: hundred more than that.

807
00:38:33,440 --> 00:38:36,960
Speaker 5: Well, police, you obviously have not seen Nolan Ryan lately

808
00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:39,440
Speaker 5: because he is just walking around with one arm. That

809
00:38:39,520 --> 00:38:41,759
Speaker 5: right arm fell off about ten years ago.

810
00:38:41,960 --> 00:38:42,880
Speaker 6: Well, he doesn't need it.

811
00:38:45,239 --> 00:38:46,800
Speaker 3: So you're saying it could be done.

812
00:38:47,040 --> 00:38:48,520
Speaker 6: I'm saying it could happen.

813
00:38:48,560 --> 00:38:50,840
Speaker 5: So you're saying, you can get past one hundred pitches

814
00:38:51,120 --> 00:38:52,560
Speaker 5: and you're gonna be okay.

815
00:38:52,680 --> 00:38:54,920
Speaker 6: You're gonna be okay, pro trusty.

816
00:38:55,200 --> 00:38:58,799
Speaker 5: Interesting, empty the tank. The Dodgers need to do that

817
00:38:58,880 --> 00:39:03,480
Speaker 5: in all fastest tonight, great defense, good at bats, team

818
00:39:03,520 --> 00:39:08,400
Speaker 5: at bats, and great pitching tonight from Yoshinobu Yama Moda.

819
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Speaker 5: It's Steve Sacks, Tim Kates on this Halloween Friday, Dodgers

820
00:39:13,480 --> 00:39:16,320
Speaker 5: Blue Jays, your phone calls coming up, and Dave Roberts

821
00:39:16,480 --> 00:39:19,839
Speaker 5: a little morale boost yesterday at the team workout. We'll

822
00:39:19,840 --> 00:39:22,760
Speaker 5: get into that. Eight six six ninety seven, two five seventy.

823
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Speaker 5: It's Saxon Kate's in the am Dodger fans, how you

824
00:39:26,600 --> 00:39:30,640
Speaker 5: feeling on this spooky Friday? Will the ghost of the

825
00:39:30,680 --> 00:39:35,480
Speaker 5: Dodgers offense reappear hopefully? And who will be eight six

826
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Speaker 5: six two five seventy will be the ghost of Mookie Bets,

827
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Speaker 5: will be the ghost of Freddie Freeman, the ghost of

828
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Speaker 5: Max Muncie or the ghost of Andy Pats which we

829
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Speaker 5: haven't seen since Hayley's comment eight six sixth ninety seven

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Speaker 5: two five seventy. Your phone calls next, sax and Kates

831
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Speaker 5: and the am I love you know you love.

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Speaker 3: This drum beat, don't you.

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Speaker 6: It's a nice one, Tim.

834
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Speaker 5: I see you doing the air drums pretty soon. Everybody's

835
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Speaker 5: gonna able to see you do in the air drums

836
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Speaker 5: as we go live on YouTube, Facebook and acts at

837
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Speaker 5: the top of the hour, looking forward to that. It's

838
00:40:17,680 --> 00:40:21,000
Speaker 5: been a great time all week long since we've been

839
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Speaker 5: started doing that, of course, with you and turn nine

840
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Speaker 5: o'clock this morning here on ANFI seventy LA Sports, as

841
00:40:26,320 --> 00:40:28,520
Speaker 5: we lead you up to Game six of this World Series,

842
00:40:28,560 --> 00:40:31,120
Speaker 5: a must win for the Dodgers down three games to

843
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Speaker 5: two to force a Game seven. Brought to you by

844
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Speaker 5: Strauss from the field to the work side. Strauss Powers

845
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Speaker 5: our World Series coverage on Anti seventy LA sports from

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848
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Speaker 5: You got your tissues out, don't don't.

849
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Speaker 6: Bring it up, Tim, don't even bring it up. As

850
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Speaker 6: I woke up this morning at at four o'clock because

851
00:40:54,360 --> 00:40:57,759
Speaker 6: you know, it's been that way the whole month, it

852
00:40:58,280 --> 00:41:01,680
Speaker 6: kind of dawned on me and I don't even want

853
00:41:01,719 --> 00:41:03,239
Speaker 6: to talk about it. You talked about a ghost in

854
00:41:03,280 --> 00:41:05,799
Speaker 6: the room. I don't even want to talk about it. No,

855
00:41:05,960 --> 00:41:07,760
Speaker 6: I don't even want to discuss it. Nope.

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00:41:08,239 --> 00:41:09,480
Speaker 3: I know where you're going. I don't want to talk

857
00:41:09,480 --> 00:41:10,280
Speaker 3: about it either.

858
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Speaker 6: Okay, Okay, Yeah, I don't want to talk about Nope.

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Speaker 6: Our listeners know what we mean.

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00:41:15,680 --> 00:41:20,280
Speaker 5: Yeah, they can read between the lines. Yesterday the workout,

861
00:41:20,719 --> 00:41:24,000
Speaker 5: Dave Roberts had a little fun. Hey son, Kim was

862
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Speaker 5: working on run of the bases and he's not on

863
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Speaker 5: this roster, but you know he's he's a guy that's

864
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Speaker 5: what that's still working in, you know, prepared in case

865
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Speaker 5: they need him. Yeah, And yesterday Dave Roberts elected to

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Speaker 5: race him, and the two of them started at first.

867
00:41:42,080 --> 00:41:44,360
Speaker 5: They were doing a little first to third racing, and

868
00:41:44,760 --> 00:41:47,120
Speaker 5: I Sung Kim got a good lead and he actually

869
00:41:47,120 --> 00:41:50,120
Speaker 5: gave Dave Roberts head start, by the way, was nice. Yeah,

870
00:41:50,160 --> 00:41:52,400
Speaker 5: like halfway to second base because Dave's old. He's not

871
00:41:52,400 --> 00:41:55,320
Speaker 5: the same Dave Roberts as he was spry and fast

872
00:41:55,840 --> 00:41:58,320
Speaker 5: stealing second base for the Red Sox, you know, twenty

873
00:41:58,320 --> 00:42:02,560
Speaker 5: some of years ago, and rounding seconds he got passed

874
00:42:02,800 --> 00:42:07,840
Speaker 5: by I Sung Kim and also rounding second, he fell

875
00:42:08,440 --> 00:42:10,440
Speaker 5: and did a face plan and sort of kind of

876
00:42:10,719 --> 00:42:11,600
Speaker 5: dove head first.

877
00:42:12,080 --> 00:42:14,640
Speaker 6: It doesn't during it looked like more of a lipstand.

878
00:42:15,360 --> 00:42:16,040
Speaker 3: A lip stand.

879
00:42:16,400 --> 00:42:17,800
Speaker 6: Yeah, he was standing on his lips.

880
00:42:17,960 --> 00:42:23,279
Speaker 3: Ah, it was exactly that. It was exactly that.

881
00:42:23,360 --> 00:42:26,000
Speaker 5: And he got up and everybody's laughing and having a

882
00:42:26,000 --> 00:42:29,560
Speaker 5: good time that stuff, And Freddie Freeman said that's exactly

883
00:42:29,600 --> 00:42:32,960
Speaker 5: what we needed, ye and and got me thinking like

884
00:42:33,040 --> 00:42:36,640
Speaker 5: this is perfect, you know, uh, you know comedy relief, right.

885
00:42:37,040 --> 00:42:41,680
Speaker 6: You gotta you gotta, you gotta de escalate the puckering. Yeah,

886
00:42:41,800 --> 00:42:43,399
Speaker 6: if you know what I mean, I can't have any

887
00:42:43,480 --> 00:42:47,200
Speaker 6: puckering going on out there. Okay, you gotta you gotta

888
00:42:47,480 --> 00:42:48,840
Speaker 6: flatten that stuff out.

889
00:42:48,800 --> 00:42:50,880
Speaker 3: And that's the job of a manager. I think at

890
00:42:50,880 --> 00:42:51,880
Speaker 3: this point.

891
00:42:51,800 --> 00:42:53,760
Speaker 5: You could sit there and do the x's and o's

892
00:42:53,840 --> 00:42:56,239
Speaker 5: and look at all the analytics, and you've got you know,

893
00:42:56,280 --> 00:42:59,080
Speaker 5: assistant coaches that can go over hitting and pitching and

894
00:42:59,120 --> 00:43:02,040
Speaker 5: really dive deep in that with the players. The bench

895
00:43:02,080 --> 00:43:03,960
Speaker 5: coach can help you with the strategy and all that

896
00:43:04,040 --> 00:43:06,239
Speaker 5: in the lineup. But for Dave Roberts, and this is

897
00:43:06,280 --> 00:43:08,600
Speaker 5: what makes him so good, and it drives me crazy

898
00:43:08,920 --> 00:43:10,080
Speaker 5: when I hear people bash.

899
00:43:10,200 --> 00:43:11,799
Speaker 3: Dave Roberts is a.

900
00:43:11,760 --> 00:43:16,680
Speaker 5: Great communicator with his team, and he's great at massaging

901
00:43:17,400 --> 00:43:20,640
Speaker 5: his team whether things are going good or going bad.

902
00:43:20,719 --> 00:43:24,319
Speaker 5: He knows how to read the room and adapt to

903
00:43:24,320 --> 00:43:27,799
Speaker 5: that and get his players to how they're supposed to be,

904
00:43:27,920 --> 00:43:31,080
Speaker 5: get them back to that. Even you know, keel attitude,

905
00:43:31,400 --> 00:43:33,840
Speaker 5: especially like guys Mookie Betch who maybe are stressing a

906
00:43:33,880 --> 00:43:38,279
Speaker 5: little bit, maybe a little tight. Loosen them up, you know,

907
00:43:38,400 --> 00:43:41,000
Speaker 5: and there's ways of doing it. And for Dave Roberts,

908
00:43:41,080 --> 00:43:43,360
Speaker 5: a little comedic relief yesterday, I thought that was great.

909
00:43:43,520 --> 00:43:48,040
Speaker 6: It was great, And it's those interpersonal relationships that people

910
00:43:48,120 --> 00:43:51,919
Speaker 6: love about managers. It's really important. I think you said

911
00:43:51,920 --> 00:43:53,960
Speaker 6: it will very well. When you talk about he can

912
00:43:54,040 --> 00:43:57,319
Speaker 6: read the room, I think just as important, maybe more so,

913
00:43:58,040 --> 00:44:01,400
Speaker 6: is the players can read him. The players read the manager.

914
00:44:01,560 --> 00:44:05,359
Speaker 6: They they see his transparency, and that's what you want

915
00:44:05,440 --> 00:44:07,800
Speaker 6: because they know that things aren't going to be perfect

916
00:44:07,840 --> 00:44:10,160
Speaker 6: throughout this season. But you know what, I know one thing,

917
00:44:10,880 --> 00:44:14,560
Speaker 6: I can go into the manager's office. The door's always open,

918
00:44:14,640 --> 00:44:17,319
Speaker 6: and i can have a conversation with him, and I'm

919
00:44:17,320 --> 00:44:20,759
Speaker 6: going to get an honest answer. That's what players want.

920
00:44:20,840 --> 00:44:23,719
Speaker 3: And that's a player. That's what you want. Is it's big,

921
00:44:23,760 --> 00:44:25,920
Speaker 3: tell me the truth, speak tru.

922
00:44:26,719 --> 00:44:29,040
Speaker 6: Just tell me nothing's gonna go in a straight line. No,

923
00:44:29,320 --> 00:44:31,600
Speaker 6: nothing's going straight up. And that's what they want for

924
00:44:31,680 --> 00:44:33,839
Speaker 6: the manager. And you get that from Dave. I've known

925
00:44:33,920 --> 00:44:38,880
Speaker 6: him decades and he's he's a lot like Don Mattingly,

926
00:44:38,960 --> 00:44:43,440
Speaker 6: you know, same guy. Uh, the real deal. UH, steeped

927
00:44:43,440 --> 00:44:47,160
Speaker 6: in principles and you know, an honest man. And and

928
00:44:47,200 --> 00:44:48,120
Speaker 6: that's what people want.

929
00:44:48,400 --> 00:44:52,680
Speaker 5: Is that something Tomylussorta did back in the day. Did

930
00:44:52,680 --> 00:44:54,360
Speaker 5: he feel like he needed to do it or was

931
00:44:54,400 --> 00:44:57,800
Speaker 5: his approach maybe a little different as far as getting

932
00:44:57,800 --> 00:45:00,160
Speaker 5: a message to you guys, getting you to loosen up

933
00:45:00,160 --> 00:45:00,960
Speaker 5: and play a certain way.

934
00:45:01,040 --> 00:45:04,080
Speaker 6: Yeah, well he was always doing that, but it was different.

935
00:45:04,320 --> 00:45:08,040
Speaker 6: I mean, you know, Tommy was brash and but he

936
00:45:08,160 --> 00:45:10,440
Speaker 6: was transparent. I mean, you knew exactly where he was

937
00:45:10,480 --> 00:45:13,759
Speaker 6: coming from. Yeah, and sometimes he would say stuff that

938
00:45:13,920 --> 00:45:16,160
Speaker 6: just came right out, right out of his heart, right

939
00:45:16,160 --> 00:45:17,600
Speaker 6: out of his gut. He would just say, you know,

940
00:45:18,120 --> 00:45:21,120
Speaker 6: and you know, today I think you sometimes have to

941
00:45:21,120 --> 00:45:23,560
Speaker 6: guard what you say. But I mean, here's Tommy that

942
00:45:23,600 --> 00:45:26,719
Speaker 6: would sit there ask have a question asked about him,

943
00:45:26,800 --> 00:45:30,040
Speaker 6: mm hmm, and he would, you know, reverse the question,

944
00:45:30,640 --> 00:45:32,759
Speaker 6: ask the guy in the spot. Is that the stupidest

945
00:45:32,760 --> 00:45:34,479
Speaker 6: thing you could ever ask me? And he would start

946
00:45:34,600 --> 00:45:37,120
Speaker 6: swearing at the guy, dropping f bombs at him.

947
00:45:37,480 --> 00:45:39,360
Speaker 3: You can't do that today, he'd be gone.

948
00:45:39,440 --> 00:45:42,279
Speaker 6: But Tommy said it all the time. He remember when

949
00:45:42,280 --> 00:45:44,719
Speaker 6: they asked him, what did you think about Kingman's performance today?

950
00:45:44,760 --> 00:45:47,120
Speaker 6: When Dave came and hit three home runs? What'd you

951
00:45:47,200 --> 00:45:50,520
Speaker 6: think I thought about his blank and performance? What the

952
00:45:50,560 --> 00:45:53,040
Speaker 6: blank do you think I thought about? He was just

953
00:45:53,080 --> 00:45:55,600
Speaker 6: giving it back to him. Can't do that today? He

954
00:45:55,840 --> 00:45:56,239
Speaker 6: was He a.

955
00:45:56,200 --> 00:46:00,760
Speaker 3: Manager that would take the heat if needed, deflected him.

956
00:46:02,080 --> 00:46:06,080
Speaker 6: Good or bad. You know, especially ever saw him one time.

957
00:46:06,160 --> 00:46:10,920
Speaker 6: Tim ever rip a player in the press. Never when

958
00:46:10,960 --> 00:46:13,919
Speaker 6: Steve Howe was going through his issues with drugs. He

959
00:46:14,000 --> 00:46:16,880
Speaker 6: never ripped Steve Howe in the paper ever. Now I

960
00:46:16,880 --> 00:46:21,560
Speaker 6: can tell you personally, there were times when players needed

961
00:46:21,560 --> 00:46:23,440
Speaker 6: to be ripped for whatever they were doing, of course,

962
00:46:23,840 --> 00:46:26,840
Speaker 6: including me, But he never did it in the press.

963
00:46:27,640 --> 00:46:30,400
Speaker 6: He I tell you a couple of times, you know,

964
00:46:30,520 --> 00:46:33,040
Speaker 6: he Tommy took me in the office, closed the door

965
00:46:33,400 --> 00:46:35,200
Speaker 6: and was letting me have it. One time we almost

966
00:46:35,200 --> 00:46:38,520
Speaker 6: got a fight. Really, Oh yeah, what was he yelling

967
00:46:38,520 --> 00:46:41,120
Speaker 6: at you about. I think it was an eighty four.

968
00:46:41,160 --> 00:46:42,920
Speaker 6: I was just having a bad year. I mean, it

969
00:46:43,000 --> 00:46:44,880
Speaker 6: was just such a subpar year the Olympics.

970
00:46:45,080 --> 00:46:45,920
Speaker 3: That's why you're having a bit.

971
00:46:46,840 --> 00:46:49,040
Speaker 6: Yeah. But I'll tell you another thing we didn't do

972
00:46:49,080 --> 00:46:50,839
Speaker 6: as players. We didn't blame the manager of the coach.

973
00:46:50,880 --> 00:46:53,200
Speaker 6: That's for darn sher, you know. And I knew. And

974
00:46:53,320 --> 00:46:55,800
Speaker 6: it was like, I was like, Mookie right now is lost.

975
00:46:55,840 --> 00:46:59,480
Speaker 6: And it wasn't because of a lack of trying. And

976
00:46:59,680 --> 00:47:01,880
Speaker 6: you know, in the office, he closed the door and

977
00:47:01,920 --> 00:47:04,399
Speaker 6: he was ripping me, and which was better than doing

978
00:47:04,400 --> 00:47:06,319
Speaker 6: in the press. And I just had enough of it. Man.

979
00:47:06,360 --> 00:47:09,520
Speaker 6: I just I was ready to go, but we never did.

980
00:47:09,640 --> 00:47:12,239
Speaker 6: And when it was all over, you know what does

981
00:47:12,280 --> 00:47:15,120
Speaker 6: he do? He gives you a hug, He kisses you

982
00:47:15,120 --> 00:47:18,319
Speaker 6: on the cheek. It's over. Love it go bring the

983
00:47:18,360 --> 00:47:21,920
Speaker 6: guys in here and uh, let's just have some food. Yeah, exactly,

984
00:47:22,719 --> 00:47:23,120
Speaker 6: there you go.

985
00:47:23,239 --> 00:47:25,000
Speaker 3: He is Steve Saxon, Tim Kates.

986
00:47:25,120 --> 00:47:27,920
Speaker 5: It's sax and Kate's and am on this Halloween Friday

987
00:47:27,960 --> 00:47:29,399
Speaker 5: morning coming up.

988
00:47:29,520 --> 00:47:31,719
Speaker 3: We're gonna be on YouTube x Facebook.

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Speaker 5: Join us there, you can listen, you can watch, and

990
00:47:34,400 --> 00:47:36,279
Speaker 5: of course right here on a FI seventy LA Sports

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Speaker 5: Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Which Dodger ghosts is

992
00:47:40,400 --> 00:47:44,200
Speaker 5: gonna reappear tonights on offense? Eight sixty six nine eight

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Speaker 5: seven two five seventy. We'll do a little trick or

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Speaker 5: treat next hour with Steve David say in the eight

995
00:47:49,120 --> 00:47:52,400
Speaker 5: o'clock hour, But we want to hear from you which

996
00:47:52,680 --> 00:47:56,560
Speaker 5: ghost reappears for this Dodgers offense. Which one needs to

997
00:47:56,600 --> 00:48:00,200
Speaker 5: reappear tonight for this Dodgers team to even up this series,

998
00:48:00,320 --> 00:48:04,360
Speaker 5: enforce a Game seven, big one tonight winner, go home

999
00:48:04,880 --> 00:48:07,680
Speaker 5: season is on the line. Eight sixty six ninet eighty

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