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Speaker 1: Every day, David Vasse.
Speaker 2: We are live an American family field in Milwaukee. After
Speaker 2: Blake Snell pitches the Dodgers to a game one win
Speaker 2: in the NLCS, Welcome the Dodger Talk David Vasse with
Speaker 2: you until ten o'clock tonight here on AM five to
Speaker 2: seventy LA Sports. As the Dodgers, behind a dominant performers
Speaker 2: from Blake Snell, beat Milwaukee two to one, and Snell
Speaker 2: faced the minimum amount of batters in his eight shutout innings.
Speaker 1: Remarkable.
Speaker 2: We just got that stat from optastats that he became
Speaker 2: the first pitcher in baseball since Don Larsen pitched his
Speaker 2: perfect game in the nineteen fifty six World Series to
Speaker 2: face the minimum amount of batters through eight innings of
Speaker 2: a postseason game, and the reason why he faced the
Speaker 2: minimum number of batters despite giving up one hit was
Speaker 2: because he picked off Caleb Durbin trying to steal in
Speaker 2: the third inning for the second out, then came back
Speaker 2: and got Joey Ortiz to ground out to end the
Speaker 2: inning and the Dodgers hold on for a two to
Speaker 2: one win in Game one of the NLCS. The Dodgers
Speaker 2: are just three wins away from returning to the World Series.
Speaker 2: Eight six six two five seventy is the phone number
Speaker 2: we will hear from Dave Roberts, we will hear from
Speaker 2: Blake Trining, and we will hear from Freddie Freeman, who
Speaker 2: hit his first postseason home run tonight in the sixth
Speaker 2: inning to break a scoreless tie. I thought, obviously Snell
Speaker 2: was fantastic. You could pick any one of the innings
Speaker 2: that stood out to you the most the fourth inning
Speaker 2: where he got Churio and Yelich got Cheerio looking and
Speaker 2: then struck out Yelich. Yelich has no chance against Blake. Snell,
Speaker 2: by the way, knew that coming in, and that was
Speaker 2: evident by the results tonight. As far as what I
Speaker 2: thought was the biggest inning, it was that fourth inning
Speaker 2: because after the Dodgers had a comedy of base running
Speaker 2: mistakes on the ball that Salfrellick caught from Max Munsey
Speaker 2: actually didn't catch, Taascar Hernandez was thrown out at the
Speaker 2: plate force play, and then also Will Smith unwisely went
Speaker 2: back to second base despite the left field umpire Chad
Speaker 2: Fairchild calling it a ball in play. The Dodgers should
Speaker 2: have remembered what took place earlier this season at City Field,
Speaker 2: because it was a similar play. The ball goes off
Speaker 2: the glove, it's in play, it's not a catch, and
Speaker 2: same thing here. Sal Frelick rob Max Mounsey what would
Speaker 2: have been a grand slam, but the ball came out
Speaker 2: of his glove and came back into play. The Dodgers
Speaker 2: have got to know that Tiascar Hernandez has got to
Speaker 2: go back to third base. So after the inning ends,
Speaker 2: when the Dodgers thought they may have had a big
Speaker 2: inning against Quinn Priester, the momentum is on the Brewer's side,
Speaker 2: but Blake Snell got it back immediately by retiring the
Speaker 2: brewers in order in that fourth inning, getting Cheerio looking
Speaker 2: striking out Yelich and then a comebacker from William coom
Speaker 2: Treis and Snell did a good job of fielding his position.
Speaker 2: Freddie Freeman made an even better scoop on the other end.
Speaker 2: It was in the dirt, and that could have got
Speaker 2: this crowd back into it. But after everything that unfolded
Speaker 2: in that top of the fourth inning, where you know,
Speaker 2: things went really sideways on the Dodgers and it was
Speaker 2: still a scoreless tie, Blake Snell went back out there
Speaker 2: like nothing ever happened. And that's why you need a veteran,
Speaker 2: That's why you need a two time Cy Young Award
Speaker 2: winner on your side, where things like that don't rattle,
Speaker 2: you don't get in your mind. You're just worried about
Speaker 2: getting the next hitter out, and that's exactly what he did.
Speaker 2: So to me, that fourth inning was the biggest of
Speaker 2: the eight that Blake Snell pitched. Tonight eight six six
Speaker 2: seven two five seventy is the phone number. We will
Speaker 2: get more postgame reaction, but we do have a full
Speaker 2: board of calls, so you know, I'll just say this
Speaker 2: before we go out to the calls.
Speaker 1: Many of you you know.
Speaker 2: I understand you want to take shots and say I
Speaker 2: suck up to Snell. I've been sucking up to Snell
Speaker 2: for the last two or three years. But here's something
Speaker 2: to keep in mind. I don't advocate for a player
Speaker 2: unless I believe in them. I believed in Blake Snell.
Speaker 2: I believed he could have helped the Dodgers last year.
Speaker 2: He's one of the best pitchers in baseball in the
Speaker 2: last five or six years, only one of seven pitchers
Speaker 2: in baseball history to win a Cy Young in both leagues.
Speaker 2: Don't act like this guy's a rookie that just showed
Speaker 2: up out of nowhere. This guy's one of the best
Speaker 2: pitchers in baseball. That's the reason why I advocate for him.
Speaker 2: That's the reason why I said, just wait when he
Speaker 2: comes back, You're gonna see Blake Snell carry the Dodgers' rotation.
Speaker 2: And that's what he has done in this postseason. He's
Speaker 2: allowed just three runs in his last forty innings. He
Speaker 2: is one of the best pitchers in baseball. That's the
Speaker 2: reason why I advocate for him. That's the reason why
Speaker 2: I've been telling everybody around the Dodgers they need this
Speaker 2: guy broadcasters, anybody that would listen. The Dodgers needed Blake
Speaker 2: Snell and you can't argue that anymore. He pitched the
Speaker 2: Dodgers to a win tonight against the best the team
Speaker 2: with the best record in the National League. So say
Speaker 2: what you want. You want to take shots at Snell,
Speaker 2: you want to take shots at me, I'll send you
Speaker 2: the apology letter as well. Eight sixty six seven two
Speaker 2: five seventy is the phone number. Let's go out to Westwood.
Speaker 2: Sassan lead us off on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 7: Hey, Daar, thank you so much for taking my call.
Speaker 7: I just wanted to say I wanted to issue a
Speaker 7: public apology for me and the rest of the Dodgers
Speaker 7: can base about our takes about Snell.
Speaker 8: Zia.
Speaker 7: I was completely wrong. You know, I was one of
Speaker 7: those people that wanted us to get match freed and
Speaker 7: not Snell. And you know I have to to live
Speaker 7: with that. I was completely wrong, and you were. You
Speaker 7: were one hundred percent correct, David.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 7: You know Salesoe is unbelievable for another times and I
Speaker 7: you know, we don't win this game without you know,
Speaker 7: his performance today, just you know, he's he's looking incredible
Speaker 7: and if he teases up. You know, I don't see
Speaker 7: why we can't uh repeat this year. My second point was,
Speaker 7: I think we just hopefully we can get a meeting
Speaker 7: with the team, uh the coaching staff and explain the
Speaker 7: uh when base runners can advance when a ball is
Speaker 7: hit to the outfield, because you know, crazy play and all.
Speaker 7: But you know, I think there we really missed an
Speaker 7: opportunity to cash in a few guns.
Speaker 5: Anyway, thank you so much.
Speaker 7: For taking Yeah, for sure, calling you tomorrow, David, Thank you.
Speaker 2: All right, Sissan, thank you for the phone call. Eight
Speaker 2: six six seventy. No way to get around it. That
Speaker 2: was uh, it wasn't It wasn't good. In the fourth inning,
Speaker 2: you got to know a little bit more of the
Speaker 2: rules and understand where you're supposed to be as a
Speaker 2: base run Taascar Hernandez needed to tag up. Even if
Speaker 2: he thought Max Muntsey hit a grand slam, He's got
Speaker 2: to be on the bag. And as soon as that
Speaker 2: ball hits Felix's glove, he's got to be on the
Speaker 2: move because even though it popped out and he caught
Speaker 2: it again, it's the first time it touches the glove
Speaker 2: that he's able to tag up. And like, like I said,
Speaker 2: this play happened earlier in the year at City Field.
Speaker 2: I'm surprised the Dodgers didn't remember that. Let's go out
Speaker 2: to Anaheim, Hector. You're on Dodger Talk with David vasse
Speaker 2: Hi Hector.
Speaker 9: Hey, Dave, I gotta continue and also issue my apology
Speaker 9: because with Blake back in what was it januarys everyone
Speaker 9: maybe December when the Dodgers signed him, I had no
Speaker 9: idea we were going to get this super performance in October.
Speaker 9: And I want to just issue my apology. Blake's the guy.
Speaker 9: He's the guy moving forward. Two other things, the Bats
Speaker 9: need to wake up. The last three wins the Dodgers
Speaker 9: have won on Freddy scoop on that error and then
Speaker 9: by today strikeout. I mean, these games are very stressful.
Speaker 9: I don't know how you're doing it in the dugout
Speaker 9: or wherever you're standing, but I can just imagine the
Speaker 9: amount of stress that we're all going through as other fans.
Speaker 9: The last thing, I'll just say, it's a good thing
Speaker 9: that the Dodgers attacked or got through the Milwaukee Brewers'
Speaker 9: bullpen today. They got to see a lot of good arms.
Speaker 9: I think they got to see all their best arms.
Speaker 9: So I think it sets up nicely for tomorrow as
Speaker 9: long as they can get par Alta out by the fourth,
Speaker 9: maybe third inning.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think they can handle Parolta tomorrow. I think
Speaker 2: they're getting at least three or four runs off Paralta tomorrow.
Speaker 2: And thank you for the phone call. Look, I'm not
Speaker 2: asking for anybody to grovel, but just acknowledge that you
Speaker 2: were wrong and you doubted a guy that was a
Speaker 2: two time cy Young Award winner. There's a reason why
Speaker 2: Andrew Friedman signed him to that contract even though he's
Speaker 2: thirty two years old. That change up is a difference maker.
Speaker 1: Nobody can hit it. And this guy is committed.
Speaker 2: You heard him after the game, You have heard him
Speaker 2: in the past starts. This guy's all in. He's very committed.
Speaker 2: He has a lot to prove. He's pitching with a
Speaker 2: chip on his shoulder because people have not given him
Speaker 2: his due and have doubted him. And that's a good
Speaker 2: thing for the Dodgers. But he's channeling it in the
Speaker 2: right way. And look, that is what it comes down to,
Speaker 2: Blake Snell versus Max Freed. Max Freed had a better
Speaker 2: regular season, but this is when it counts the most.
Speaker 2: And I'm not going to name players, but the Yankee
Speaker 2: game when they were playing in the first round before
Speaker 2: they were knocked out, Max Freed was pitching, and I said, yeah,
Speaker 2: you know, Max Freed had a really good year, maybe
Speaker 2: his best year. And the two or three Dodger veterans
Speaker 2: around me when I said that, they both said, we
Speaker 2: still rather have Blake Snell. So that says enough. Let's
Speaker 2: go out to Texas.
Speaker 1: Ross. You're on Dodger Talk. How you doing Ross?
Speaker 5: I'm doing good, Dave. I just got a couple things
Speaker 5: to say here.
Speaker 10: If you love baseball, this was a great game to watch,
Speaker 10: But if you love Dodger baseball.
Speaker 5: This was amazing.
Speaker 10: I'm gonna have to disagree with the previous coller. I
Speaker 10: think our hitting was doing pretty good. I mean we
Speaker 10: were making the Brewers make good plays, and when they
Speaker 10: made good plays, I mean, Blake's now came out and
Speaker 10: threw an amazing game. That game could have gotten out
Speaker 10: of hand, but Blake just shut it down. He pitched
Speaker 10: the best game I've seen since he pitched in Game six.
Speaker 5: Of twenty twenty, and I just we got to get
Speaker 5: props to him.
Speaker 11: And I think we hit well too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm with you. At some point you got to
Speaker 2: give the other team some credit. You're right, the Phillies
Speaker 2: made outstanding defensive plays in Game four and tonight so
Speaker 2: did the Brewers. Or that fourth inning is a three run,
Speaker 2: four run inning against Quinn Priester if Frelick doesn't keep
Speaker 2: it in the ballpark, and unfortunately for the Dodgers, they
Speaker 2: came up with the zero. But you're right, and I
Speaker 2: like what I saw from Ote in his first at
Speaker 2: bat of the game. He did not chase like he
Speaker 2: has been chasing in the previous series.
Speaker 1: So that's a good thing.
Speaker 2: Thank you for the phone call, Ross, and I feel
Speaker 2: like we all have really focused on Otani. Freddie Freeman
Speaker 2: didn't do a lot against those Phillies pitchers. I thought
Speaker 2: he had the biggest walk of the NLDS, a two
Speaker 2: out walk to set up Key k Hernandez in Game one,
Speaker 2: his two out, two run double. Without Freddy's two out walk,
Speaker 2: that inning doesn't materialize. So he's doing things to help
Speaker 2: the Dodgers win. His defense has been amazing, but this series,
Speaker 2: I feel like this is a good matchup for Freddy
Speaker 2: and he'll do what he did tonight and get it
Speaker 2: going offensively. Eight six six nine eight seven two five
Speaker 2: seventy is the phone number. Speaking of Freddie Freeman, he
Speaker 2: was in the interview room. Let's head downstairs to hear
Speaker 2: from the Dodgers World Series MVP.
Speaker 12: Freddie, You've been fortunate to play in so many postseason games.
Speaker 12: If this wasn't the most dominating pitching performance.
Speaker 13: What was?
Speaker 14: I mean?
Speaker 15: I can't think of one enough at the top of
Speaker 15: my head. That was just so good from the start.
Speaker 15: You know, sometimes it'll take an ending or two for
Speaker 15: someone to settle in, and it was from the get go.
Speaker 15: Just what he can do with the change u against
Speaker 15: right handed hitters. I think that's from eighty two to
Speaker 15: eighty eight. You can throttle it whenever he wants. It's
Speaker 15: not just one pitch he's thrown. It's like a three
Speaker 15: different pitches when you throw at three different speeds for hitters,
Speaker 15: and then when you think you're gonna sit on something,
Speaker 15: here comes ninety six nineys.
Speaker 13: It was just it was a masterpiece.
Speaker 14: Tonight, Russell, Freddy, you have about twenty five abs against Blake,
Speaker 14: so you kind of touched on a little bit. What
Speaker 14: isn't it bat like against especially left on left.
Speaker 15: I think I talk about gray hair a lot, and
Speaker 15: that's that's where some of them come. When you face
Speaker 15: guys like him and Jacob de Gram and those kind
Speaker 15: of pictures, you know when the minute you wake up,
Speaker 15: it's gonna be a battle that night. And when you
Speaker 15: face a power picture that can locate three plus pitches,
Speaker 15: you know it's gonna be tough.
Speaker 13: And that's the thing.
Speaker 15: It's like, just like you mentioned earlier, it's how he
Speaker 15: pitched the night is not probably going how he pitches
Speaker 15: the next time. And so it's hard to scout. It's
Speaker 15: hard to feel good against someone. You might have success
Speaker 15: in one game and it'll be completely thrown out the
Speaker 15: door and you're gonna strike out three times. And I've
Speaker 15: done it, you know, And it's just he knows what
Speaker 15: he's doing on the mound. I am so happy that
Speaker 15: we are sitting next to each other now and doing
Speaker 15: press conferences together and not having to be a part
Speaker 15: and walking by each other and talking about how he
Speaker 15: beat us again, because he did it a lot and
Speaker 15: he's amazing. There's a reason he's a two times Young
Speaker 15: Ward winner. He's on the biggest stage now and he's
Speaker 15: just doing what he's always done.
Speaker 13: Anthony's second round them back to Bill.
Speaker 16: Freddy. This probably goes without saying to a certain extent,
Speaker 16: but especially given the way this game got late, how
Speaker 16: important was it just to get this one and escape
Speaker 16: here with a win and you know, sort of establish
Speaker 16: yourselves now as the favorite.
Speaker 13: In this series. I mean, we knew coming into the series.
Speaker 15: They play great defense, they pitch, they just they get
Speaker 15: the big hits when they need to.
Speaker 13: That's just who the Brewers are.
Speaker 15: It's gonna be a tough series from the beginning, and
Speaker 15: you saw it tonight. Every ball we seem to hit,
Speaker 15: they caught it. And they pitched great, and we knew
Speaker 15: from the bat from the get go is gonna be battling.
Speaker 15: And when you get one for Blake, you're feeling good,
Speaker 15: but you always want to get more. We had some
Speaker 15: opportunities we didn't get it, but that running the top
Speaker 15: of the ninth was huge obviously twenty twenty hindsight, but
Speaker 15: getting on the road in an environment and taking the
Speaker 15: first one, it's huge. It's you can't understate that at all,
Speaker 15: just kind of how we did it in Philly, and
Speaker 15: to get the first one and you turn it over
Speaker 15: to Yoshie tomorrow. We obviously feeling pretty good, so hopefully
Speaker 15: we can score some more runs tomorrow.
Speaker 13: It's up to the fifth throw on the left side. Breddy,
Speaker 13: It's not just Blake.
Speaker 17: You've guys gotten good starting pitching throughout this postseason. You
Speaker 17: got guys going six seven innings pretty much every outing.
Speaker 17: How comforting is that just knowing that you don't have
Speaker 17: to do what the Brewers did the night and you know,
Speaker 17: throw six different guys out there.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 15: I think people that cover us, you know every day.
Speaker 15: I think we've been saying it for about a month
Speaker 15: now going into the postseason. Our starting pitching is what
Speaker 15: has made this US played better going into October.
Speaker 13: We always were talking about how we're.
Speaker 15: Playing our best baseball leading up to this postseason, and
Speaker 15: it started with our pitching staff. It seems there is
Speaker 15: a stretch there. It felt like six seven no hit innings.
Speaker 15: Every single guy was doing that. And when you as
Speaker 15: an offense you have those guys taking the ball every
Speaker 15: day and doing that and giving us a chance to win.
Speaker 15: As an offense, you just want to do everything you
Speaker 15: can to support them, and you do feel confident when
Speaker 15: you're not scoring runs at the beginning of the game,
Speaker 15: because you know our starting pitcher is going to keep
Speaker 15: us in that and you know with our offense we're
Speaker 15: going to find a way and scrap.
Speaker 13: And do anything we can.
Speaker 15: I mean, it was a little different tonight, but these
Speaker 15: are the games you need to win, the close ones
Speaker 15: in the postseason because you're not going to have these
Speaker 15: massive blowouts and usually and that you'll find one here
Speaker 15: and there, but you got to win these close games.
Speaker 15: And our starting pitching for the last time, I would say,
Speaker 15: I mean, you guys would know more seven eight weeks
Speaker 15: has been and I mean, I don't know if you
Speaker 15: can write enough words in your stories about our starting pitching.
Speaker 15: It really has been amazing, and they seem to feed
Speaker 15: off each other, and as an offense, we're just trying
Speaker 15: to do everything we can to support.
Speaker 2: All Right, there's Freddy Freeman certainly singing the praises the
Speaker 2: Blake Snell and the Dodgers starters. They have had the
Speaker 2: best dlra in baseball as a group since the beginning
Speaker 2: of September and that has continued in the postseason, led
Speaker 2: by Blake Snell, who was marvelous tonight, eight shutout innings
Speaker 2: with ten strikeouts, allowed just one hit, and pitch the
Speaker 2: Dodgers to a two to one win in Game one
Speaker 2: of the NLCS over the Brewers. And I agree with Freddy,
Speaker 2: you can't take this for granted. Winning game one of
Speaker 2: the series on the road again. The Dodgers did that
Speaker 2: against the Phillies, and now they have a chance with
Speaker 2: Yamamoto on the mount tomorrow night against Freddie Peralta, to
Speaker 2: do what they did against the Phillies and win the
Speaker 2: first two games on the road. That would be huge,
Speaker 2: especially since in the best of seven format it's two
Speaker 2: three two, so they will have three home games at
Speaker 2: Dodger Stadium already, they have a great chance of closing
Speaker 2: it out at Dodger Stadium having three home games they
Speaker 2: win tomorrow, they are in the driver's seat against a
Speaker 2: team that cannot slug with the Dodgers, and it was
Speaker 2: apparent they can't pitch with the Dodgers either. Their defense
Speaker 2: saves their pitching, that's for sure. Let's go out to
Speaker 2: Sherman Oaks. Eric, you're on Dodger Talk with David Vasse.
Speaker 1: Hi.
Speaker 5: Eric, Hey, how you doing. David vasse good to hear you.
Speaker 5: Just you know, you know Blake Snell wears the size
Speaker 5: thirteen shoe and every time he steps on the mound
Speaker 5: he acts like that. You know what I mean, big
Speaker 5: shoe energy. I love to see it out of Blake
Speaker 5: SNeW the night he's coming through again. I never had
Speaker 5: a doubt when we signed him in the offseason. I
Speaker 5: never had a doubt. Two times Young Award winner in
Speaker 5: both leagues. Come on, come on, eight shutout innings, that's huge.
Speaker 5: I love the guy. He's a He's a Dodger legend already.
Speaker 1: All right, Eric, thank you for the phone call.
Speaker 2: I feel like Blake Snell's signature moment with the dodgers
Speaker 2: was when he pitched those seven innings against the Phillies
Speaker 2: and fought to stay in to get the final out
Speaker 2: of that seventh inning. And I feel like now Dodger
Speaker 2: fans have really embraced Blake Snell as one of theirs
Speaker 2: with the way he's pitched in the postseason.
Speaker 1: And that's how you do it.
Speaker 2: That's how you build credit with a new fan base,
Speaker 2: and he certainly is. He's a big part of the Dodgers'
Speaker 2: run to the World Series, and if they win it,
Speaker 2: he will be a huge part of that as well,
Speaker 2: and that's what he wants. That's the reason why he
Speaker 2: signed here. He has said it repeatedly. He wanted to
Speaker 2: challenge himself to be able to be this guy in
Speaker 2: the postseason for the Dodgers, and so far he he
Speaker 2: has met those challenges. Eight six six nine, eight seven
Speaker 2: two five seventy is the phone number. Blake's now ten
Speaker 2: strikeouts in eight shutout innings helps the Dodgers beat the
Speaker 2: Brewers tonight two to one in Game one of the NLCS.
Speaker 2: Let's go out to Rosemead JP. You're on Dodger Talk
Speaker 2: Live from Milwaukee.
Speaker 5: Hi, JP, Hey, what's up, Dave?
Speaker 18: How you doing?
Speaker 4: Man?
Speaker 11: Hey?
Speaker 2: Couldn't be better? And you know, just feeling good about
Speaker 2: Blake Snell. I knew he he could do this. He
Speaker 2: has done it, and I believe he's got more in
Speaker 2: the tank. And hopefully Dodger fans are appreciating what they're
Speaker 2: seeing now.
Speaker 18: Absolutely. And here's the thing. Do you remember a couple
Speaker 18: of years ago when they put him on on the Originals,
Speaker 18: when he was showing his shoe collection and all that.
Speaker 18: I knew Blake Snell was going to be a Dodger.
Speaker 18: Then he was with the San Diego Padres, and you know,
Speaker 18: I crenched every time we played him against the Padres.
Speaker 18: But when I saw that episode, I knew he was
Speaker 18: going to be a Dodger. And I'm so grateful that
Speaker 18: he's on our site now. And man, what a performance
Speaker 18: he did tonight.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he was amazing. And look, he's a fun loving guy.
Speaker 2: In some ways, he's a big kid. He reminds me
Speaker 2: of when I used to cover Shaquille O'Neal. Shaq was
Speaker 2: a big kid off the court and sometimes on the court,
Speaker 2: but when it came down to business, he was locked in.
Speaker 2: And same with Blake and last night at the workout,
Speaker 2: usually Blake will come over and talk to me, but
Speaker 2: he was locked in. He did not want to talk
Speaker 2: last night, and that showed me where his head was at.
Speaker 2: And I've really enjoyed being around him every day now
Speaker 2: compared to just seeing him when the Dodgers played the
Speaker 2: Padres or the Giants. Just to see him when he's
Speaker 2: getting into his five day routine gives you a peek
Speaker 2: into what makes a guy tick and how they're successful
Speaker 2: every fifth day. And I've been privileged to be around
Speaker 2: the Goat himself for the last fourteen years Clay and Kershaw,
Speaker 2: and that's how you know when you see him on
Speaker 2: the mound, what goes into it and how much he cares.
Speaker 2: So yeah, it's been special and I don't see anything
Speaker 2: stopping Snell from continuing to build upon these starts. Thanks
Speaker 2: for the phone call, JP appreciated. Eight sixty six nine
Speaker 2: eight seven two five seventy is the phone number. Now,
Speaker 2: as the eighth inning was ending, I feel like you
Speaker 2: and I and many others were saying leave him in,
Speaker 2: let Snell finish this game, but Dave Roberts had Roki
Speaker 2: Sasaki warming up with that in mind, bringing in Sasaki
Speaker 2: after Snell got the first twenty four outs of the game.
Speaker 2: I would have led him in, left him in to
Speaker 2: finish it out, but obviously Roki's been really good tonight.
Speaker 1: It was not.
Speaker 2: It was not the ideal Sasaki matchup because these Brewers
Speaker 2: don't chase, and a lot of the pitches that he
Speaker 2: was throwing were not appearing as strikes out of the hand.
Speaker 2: They were we were looking like outside the strike zone,
Speaker 2: and that's what gave him problems. Let's head downstairs right
Speaker 2: near right now to hear from Dave Roberts to hear
Speaker 2: what his thought process was and letting Sneill know eight
Speaker 2: shutout innings was enough.
Speaker 19: Otani and trying on two guys that you really need
Speaker 19: and have been both scuffed a little bit, you know,
Speaker 19: not great performances, but show hey got the three walks,
Speaker 19: set up what proved to be the winning run, trying
Speaker 19: did get out of that inning, did close the game out.
Speaker 13: Is this moving in the right direction? Are these positive signs? Absolutely?
Speaker 20: I think obviously it was a tight ball game to
Speaker 20: the end. But I thought offensively we were very good tonight.
Speaker 20: I thought we took good at bats all night long.
Speaker 20: We put the bomb, play, didn't strike out. Obviously, there
Speaker 20: are some crazy things that happened that they weathered some innings,
Speaker 20: But offensively I thought we were great. I thought the
Speaker 20: defense played really well, and to see Blake come in
Speaker 20: and close it out was big for his confidence and
Speaker 20: us going forward. Oh yeah, I thought, sure, he's at
Speaker 20: batsal great tonight.
Speaker 13: Babian, Yeah, Dave, what do you see from Rookie in
Speaker 13: the night?
Speaker 21: Thanny?
Speaker 22: Do you think there might have been some carryover just
Speaker 22: from going three innings in Game four of the DS there?
Speaker 20: You know, I don't know he had three days off.
Speaker 20: Everything I heard he felt great and there was some
Speaker 20: near misses, but you know, you walk through guys, and
Speaker 20: so he was just off a little bit. But I
Speaker 20: thought stuff was still good, but just missing. And I
Speaker 20: don't know, you know, if there was carryover from the
Speaker 20: from the three innings, just kind of betting on you know,
Speaker 20: how he's saying he feels, and the coaches and training staff,
Speaker 20: and you know, with threes three days off, I felt good.
Speaker 22: With him and with Blake obviously, see you've seen a
Speaker 22: lot of good postseason pitching performances, but what do you
Speaker 22: think of where do you think Blake stills outing ranks
Speaker 22: among those?
Speaker 13: Tonight?
Speaker 20: This was This was as good as I can remember
Speaker 20: in the postseason. Against a very you know, gritty team,
Speaker 20: puts the ball in play, the change up was the
Speaker 20: pitch of the night. His command was great, and yeah,
Speaker 20: you're not going to see too many performances like that,
Speaker 20: certainly in the postseason. This was this was pretty Special's go.
Speaker 13: Over to the left side, Russell Doc.
Speaker 14: When you're seeing the change up, you know, get so
Speaker 14: much swinging miss as they're a feeling first second inning
Speaker 14: where you know he has the full Marsinal working.
Speaker 20: Yeah, I did, and he just has an ability to
Speaker 20: kind of manipulate the change up within the change up,
Speaker 20: and I thought his command, I thought, you know, his delivery.
Speaker 20: He was just sort of in that zone tonight. And
Speaker 20: so I saw that early on, and you know, had
Speaker 20: no hesitation obviously running up through six through seven and
Speaker 20: through the eighth.
Speaker 13: Inning Anthony second row and then back to Bill.
Speaker 16: Just what is going through your mind in the ninth
Speaker 16: when you know, not that there was ever a large
Speaker 16: margin in this game, but a game that was relatively
Speaker 16: secure suddenly becomes not so much.
Speaker 13: You know that that seem's gonna fight. They're going to
Speaker 13: fight to the end.
Speaker 20: We know we're up again, and you just want to,
Speaker 20: you know, hope, guys make pitches, keep making pitches, and
Speaker 20: you got to give credit to those guys. They took
Speaker 20: the walks, they kept the line moving, and ultimately we
Speaker 20: had to put the ball over the plate and blake.
Speaker 20: You know, fortunately I had a good at bat versus terrain.
Speaker 20: But it's not going to come easy. You know, this
Speaker 20: is going to be a grind. It's going to be tough,
Speaker 20: and you know, no one expects expects it.
Speaker 13: To be Bill.
Speaker 12: I just wonder what you saw on that kind of
Speaker 12: weird double play. Did you figure it out as it
Speaker 12: was going on, or it happened so fast you didn't
Speaker 12: even realize what was happening.
Speaker 13: It happened fast.
Speaker 20: I didn't know he didn't catch it. To be quite honest,
Speaker 20: we go over that rule tail nose the rule. I
Speaker 20: think right there he just had a little bit of
Speaker 20: a brain fart, appreciating that when it does hit the glove,
Speaker 20: it's going to you can tag there. But then he
Speaker 20: tagged it correctly.
Speaker 13: Then saw you know, he.
Speaker 20: Didn't actually didn't went back and that was the mistake.
Speaker 20: But he owned it, and you know, after that, there's
Speaker 20: nothing else you can do about it.
Speaker 22: Fabian, it seemed like even after they reviewed it, you
Speaker 22: sort of went out for an explanation. What sort of
Speaker 22: were you looking to get from the umpires? There was
Speaker 22: it just about who relaid what to wear in terms
Speaker 22: of like THEA.
Speaker 20: I just wanted clarity, Honestly, I didn't know that they
Speaker 20: ruled it a no catch, So I just wanted clarity
Speaker 20: on the whole situation and then kind of making sure
Speaker 20: that they got a couple forceouts, which they did, and
Speaker 20: ultimately those guys and replaying the guys on the field
Speaker 20: got it right.
Speaker 1: They nailed it all right. There's Dave Roberts in the
Speaker 1: interview room.
Speaker 2: I guess nobody else was thinking along with us on
Speaker 2: why he took out Blake's now after one hundred and
Speaker 2: three pitches, eh shutout innings, facing the minimum number of
Speaker 2: batters and going to face the bottom third of the order.
Speaker 1: Look, it's a question to be asked.
Speaker 2: I just want to know what was going through his
Speaker 2: mind or did he have his mind set on Sasaki
Speaker 2: closing out the ninth inning no matter what was happening.
Speaker 1: I feel like that's a fair question to ask. It
Speaker 1: worked out.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers held on for the two to one win,
Speaker 2: but it was a little bit higher stress than what
Speaker 2: many of us thought Blake Snell would have handled in
Speaker 2: the ninth inning. But obviously Dave Roberts knows more about
Speaker 2: his picture and what's going on with him, and what
Speaker 2: the Dodgers' plans are for later in this series if
Speaker 2: it goes longer, and what may be ahead for Blake
Speaker 2: Snell in the World Series. If the Dodgers can get
Speaker 2: three more wins eight six, six, nine, eight seven, two five,
Speaker 2: seventy is the phone number David Vase live at American
Speaker 2: Family Field in Milwaukee. After Blake Snell pitches the Dodgers
Speaker 2: to a game one win, and I guess everybody that
Speaker 2: wants to say, yeah, yeah, but he only goes five
Speaker 2: innings or yeah, yeah, he only goes six innings, Well,
Speaker 2: tonight he went eight eight shutout and he probably could
Speaker 2: have finished this game. So that's a moot point as well,
Speaker 2: and has been since that seven inning dominant performance where
Speaker 2: he fought to stay in for the final out of
Speaker 2: that seventh inning back in September against the Phillies. Let's
Speaker 2: go out to West Lake Village. David, You're on Dodger
Speaker 2: Talk Live from Milwaukee.
Speaker 21: Hi, David, Hey, dv thanks a lot for taking my call. Wow,
Speaker 21: what a game. And I'm not gonna apologize to you
Speaker 21: because I was a believer in Snell since twenty twenty. Man,
Speaker 21: when my family and my buddy Dave were at the
Speaker 21: World Series and when Kevin Cash went and got Snell Zilla,
Speaker 21: my buddy Dave and I were hugging each other and
Speaker 21: jumping for joy because we knew we actually had a
Speaker 21: chance to win the game. So that guy is a
Speaker 21: stud And you know what, if he wants to go
Speaker 21: to Cancun in the summer and sip on some tequila,
Speaker 21: or he wants to go to Hawaii and sip on
Speaker 21: some my ties all summer long and come back and
Speaker 21: pitch in August in September, I'm okay with that.
Speaker 5: He deserves that.
Speaker 21: He's amazing, And look, that's.
Speaker 2: Not what he was trying to do. He was actually
Speaker 2: trying to make a great first impression and pushed it
Speaker 2: a little bit too hard as he was getting ready
Speaker 2: for spring training.
Speaker 1: But go ahead, what else you got, David.
Speaker 5: It's great.
Speaker 21: I want to just talk about you're putting a lot
Speaker 21: of the blame and people are on too, and I agree, Looked,
Speaker 21: it's it's about seventy percent his fault. But but Dino
Speaker 21: Evil has a job.
Speaker 12: To do as well.
Speaker 21: And to me, you know, when I was a third
Speaker 21: days coach at West Hill's Baseball, shout out to West
Speaker 21: Hills Baseball. You have to get in that player's ear
Speaker 21: and a second that ball goes to the air, you
Speaker 21: tell you yell tagged. And then when he's on the back,
Speaker 21: when that ball touches the glove, you scream as loud
Speaker 21: as you can go, go, go, go go, and you
Speaker 21: got it.
Speaker 23: Got of getting those players ear.
Speaker 1: He did that.
Speaker 2: He did that where Dino what lost was he was
Speaker 2: so focused on ti Oscar Hernandez that he did in
Speaker 2: direct traffic with Will Smith.
Speaker 1: That's what it appeared like from here.
Speaker 2: But he was telling Taoscar Hernandez to tag, and he
Speaker 2: was telling him to go go go, So thank you. Yeah,
Speaker 2: a little bit different at West Hills Baseball than it
Speaker 2: is in Game one of the NLCS in a major
Speaker 2: league Ballpark's I mean, come on, you can't even compare it.
Speaker 2: What am I supposed to say there? West Hill's baseball,
Speaker 2: Little League baseball compared to the Game one of the
Speaker 2: NLCS with fifty thousand fans in a stadium and you
Speaker 2: have a major league player that should know to tag, well,
Speaker 2: dino Ebel was telling him to do that, and pre
Speaker 2: pitch is what dino Ebol is so good at. With
Speaker 2: that runner at third base, what kind of went sideways?
Speaker 2: Is Will Smith running back to second? He had to
Speaker 2: come to third. If anybody looks at the at the
Speaker 2: left field umpire Chad Fairchild, then things are a little
Speaker 2: bit easier. But I don't Dave Roberts just said ta
Speaker 2: Oscar Hernandez had a brain fart. He did, and you
Speaker 2: know that created the havoc and miscommunication with Will Smith
Speaker 2: going back to second base. Eight six six seven two
Speaker 2: five seventy is the phone number. Dodgers do get the
Speaker 2: winning game one of the NLCS two to one. We
Speaker 2: are going to take a time out when we continue
Speaker 2: more of your phone calls. We have a full border calls.
Speaker 2: We're going to ten o'clock tonight. Plus you'll hear from
Speaker 2: Blake Trenton, who was in some ways just as big
Speaker 2: as anybody else to this game because he found a
Speaker 2: way to get the final out. After Roki Sasaki got
Speaker 2: the first two outs, led a run in, Blake Trenton
Speaker 2: had to come in and put out the rally that
Speaker 2: the Brewers had going there. We'll get into that ninth
Speaker 2: inning as well, after the Dodgers hold on for a
Speaker 2: two to one win in Milwaukee for a one nothing
Speaker 2: lead in the NLCS.
Speaker 1: David Vasse live from.
Speaker 2: Milwaukee at American Family Field on a five to seventy
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Speaker 1: Basse, will count Patrick's payoff.
Speaker 6: Freeman's went high in the air, right field, drifting back
Speaker 6: Curio on the warning track.
Speaker 1: He's at the wall. It is gone.
Speaker 24: Freddie Freeman with a sky scraping home.
Speaker 1: Run here in Game.
Speaker 2: One, Oh Paul, that just kept gon carrying and carrying
Speaker 2: and carrying out. Freddie Freeman with his first postseason home run,
Speaker 2: gives the Dodgers a one nothing lead in the sixth inning.
Speaker 1: They would load the bases.
Speaker 2: In the top of the ninth inning, Mookie Betts would
Speaker 2: draw a bases loaded walk and that would be the
Speaker 2: difference in the game as the Dodgers hold on for
Speaker 2: two to one win in Game one of the NLCS.
Speaker 2: David Vassey Dodger Talk with you until the top of
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Speaker 2: in the next game. Daniels Jewelers own the dream. Blake's
Speaker 2: new tonight outstanding. Uh, maybe the best pitched game by
Speaker 2: any pitcher in the postseason this year. He goes eight
Speaker 2: shutout innings, strikes out ten, and faces the minimum number
Speaker 2: of batters because he did pick off Caleb Durbin in
Speaker 2: the third inning after he led off that inning with
Speaker 2: a single, and Blakesnell becomes the first pitcher in postseason
Speaker 2: history with multiple outings of six or more innings and
Speaker 2: one or no hits allowed in a single postseason. He
Speaker 2: joined Zach Wheeler, Max Scherzer, and Anna ball Sanchez. How
Speaker 2: about that in doing so, and those guys did it
Speaker 2: twice in their postseason careers. So Blake Snell is having
Speaker 2: the postseason the Dodgers needed, the postseason of his life,
Speaker 2: and he wants more. We had a chance to catch
Speaker 2: up with snail Zilla. Moments after the final out, Blake,
Speaker 2: how did it feel last night to deliver in such
Speaker 2: a tight game?
Speaker 25: I mean, it feels good. We got we got one win,
Speaker 25: especially here. I mean, this crowd is amazing. It was
Speaker 25: a lot of fun to pitch in front of. So
Speaker 25: I'm to be able to get this one is amazing.
Speaker 25: That team it's a tough team, so I mean, yeah, I.
Speaker 1: Did really good.
Speaker 25: They're tough, they put together good at bats. They kept
Speaker 25: me up all night trying to figure out, you know,
Speaker 25: how do I want to attack, when do I want
Speaker 25: to change?
Speaker 1: Stuff like that.
Speaker 25: So very excited that we were able to get this one,
Speaker 25: and then, you know, look forward to tomorrow.
Speaker 2: When I saw you yesterday, you were already having your
Speaker 2: game phase on.
Speaker 1: It seemed like this was different for you.
Speaker 13: Yeah.
Speaker 25: I mean my whole life I've dreamt at this moment
Speaker 25: and to be able to go, Hey, it was probably
Speaker 25: the best part for me because I've always the seventh
Speaker 25: was pretty special. I've always wanted to be out there
Speaker 25: for God bless America, So to be able to be
Speaker 25: out there for that was special for me. You know,
Speaker 25: I always want more for you. Did you want more
Speaker 25: for yourself? Did you ever think about pushing back on
Speaker 25: Dave taking you out there? Not trust him? He knows
Speaker 25: how bad I want it, But he's the manager of
Speaker 25: the sist team, so we're gonna trust him and keep going.
Speaker 2: Hey, the Dodgers will trust Blake Snell snail Zilla delivering
Speaker 2: stacking those chips.
Speaker 25: Come on.
Speaker 2: There, he is Blake Snell. Hey, you gotta love that.
Speaker 2: He wanted to go deeper into games. He wanted to
Speaker 2: be standing out there for God bless America. He did,
Speaker 2: and he got more eight shutout innings, and he becomes
Speaker 2: the first Dodger pitcher to pitch eight innings in a
Speaker 2: postseason game since Clayton Kershaw. The goat twenty twenty Wildcard
Speaker 2: Series Game two against these Brewers. The Dodgers clinched the series,
Speaker 2: sweeping Milwaukee.
Speaker 1: With the three nothing wins. So I'll let snail Zilla
Speaker 1: know about that.
Speaker 2: He loves to be mentioned in the same sentence as
Speaker 2: Clayton Kershaw. Eight six six nine eight seven, two five
Speaker 2: seventy is the phone number. Let's go out to Redondo Beach. Steve,
Speaker 2: You're on Dodger Talk Live from Milwaukee.
Speaker 11: How you doing, Hey, Thanks Dave for having me on.
Speaker 11: I was looking for the right word about Blake's performance tonight,
Speaker 11: and Freddy said it in his clip. It was a
Speaker 11: magnificent performance. I was even there for Kershaw when he
Speaker 11: had a fifteen strikeout game no hitter. But this is
Speaker 11: a championship series, so it's a whole other level. But
Speaker 11: I know hindsight's twenty twenty, but I feel so strongly
Speaker 11: he should have been left in to pitch the ninth.
Speaker 11: And I know we ended up on the right side
Speaker 11: of that stuff, but at this level, it seems like
Speaker 11: every decision needs to be based on what gives us
Speaker 11: the best opportunity to win. And I know where you stand,
Speaker 11: so I guess I'll now pose this question to Dave
Speaker 11: and all the naysayers out there. I wanted to take
Speaker 11: it to a philosophical level. There was an ancient sage
Speaker 11: named Helll the Elder who said, if not now, then
Speaker 11: when when does it get any more opportune to let
Speaker 11: a guy who's obviously in a zone of perfection get
Speaker 11: that complete game? Because I think he was there and
Speaker 11: there was absolutely no reason to bring Sasaki in.
Speaker 1: You're not alone. You're not alone in that line of thinking, Steve.
Speaker 2: I think in today's baseball everybody gets so caught up
Speaker 2: in the number of pitches and just thinking your way
Speaker 2: out of what is happening right in front of you
Speaker 2: and Roki Sasaki. I'm sure gave Dave Roberts the confidence
Speaker 2: to be able to take Snell out after EH shutout,
Speaker 2: But I agree with you, why not just let him
Speaker 2: get the CG right there. Things were going really smoothly
Speaker 2: for him. And the last Dodger to have a complete
Speaker 2: game was Jose Lima in the postseason, the NLDS Game
Speaker 2: three against the Cardinals. So that's how long it's been
Speaker 2: since two thousand and four, over twenty years, Steve. And
Speaker 2: look at what happened in the Blue Jays game yesterday.
Speaker 2: For whatever reason, the manager there, John Schneider, took Gosman
Speaker 2: out after six innings and seventy six pitches. That was
Speaker 2: ridiculous too. So I don't know what was going on
Speaker 2: and what Dave Roberts and Mark Pryor were seeing, but
Speaker 2: obviously they felt like eight innings was enough.
Speaker 1: But it's risky.
Speaker 2: Let's be honest, it's risky with that bullpen, no matter
Speaker 2: if it's six outs, three outs, nine outs, it's risky.
Speaker 11: Agreed. Yeah, you got to ride the rings that seems
Speaker 11: to be taken into the shore. And at that point
Speaker 11: it probably was smell no.
Speaker 2: Doubt, Steve, I'm with you. But luckily the Dodgers held on.
Speaker 2: Roki Sasaki was able to get two outs and then
Speaker 2: all of a sudden, the velocity started to dip.
Speaker 1: Not sure what was happening with him.
Speaker 2: Maybe a little self doubt because the Brewers were not
Speaker 2: chasing his pitches. They're not a team that's going to
Speaker 2: chase And maybe this is not the best match for
Speaker 2: Roki Sazaki, But I'm I think the biggest thing for
Speaker 2: Rokie is that he wasn't close to the strike zone
Speaker 2: when things started to unravel on him. And luckily for
Speaker 2: the Dodgers, a couple of breaks went their way. Jake
Speaker 2: Bowers ground rule, double the center field if that ball's
Speaker 2: in play and not over the wall, all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: it's a tie game. Bryce terrang Blake Trenton almost hit
Speaker 2: him and he got out of the way unwisely. Some
Speaker 2: old school or just baseball guys would have said, just
Speaker 2: stand in there, let it hit you.
Speaker 1: Instead, he got.
Speaker 2: Out of the way unwisely and he struck out to
Speaker 2: end the game. So those were a couple of interesting
Speaker 2: things that took place in the ninth inning to allow
Speaker 2: the Dodgers to hold on for this two to one win.
Speaker 2: Speaking up, Blake Trning, let's head downstairs to the Dodger
Speaker 2: clubhouse to hear from the guy that got his first
Speaker 2: save this postseason.
Speaker 8: Well prayer first, you know, it's just Rookie's been so
Speaker 8: great for us and to have an opportunity to pick
Speaker 8: him up. Just think God for the opportunity and trusting
Speaker 8: the talent he's given me in a in a stage
Speaker 8: like that, and then just you know, trying to execute
Speaker 8: that team's very well prepared. I feel like I made
Speaker 8: some really good pitches against Wilson Contrarass's brother William Jimi Hee.
Speaker 8: Uh yeah, and he you know, made he hit a
Speaker 8: great at bat and thankfully got trying to swing. So
Speaker 8: uh yeah, it's great win. Smell through amazing. Our offense
Speaker 8: did a great job grinding out some at bats and
Speaker 8: pushing across the runs that we needed. So just a
Speaker 8: good team win.
Speaker 26: Meeting before that strike out, after the walk, what was
Speaker 26: kind of shared with you as to what you all
Speaker 26: were looking to achieve?
Speaker 8: You know what Mark came out. I mean just kind
Speaker 8: of you know what we're looking to do, Maybe a
Speaker 8: couple of back and forth about what pitch selection so
Speaker 8: and it worked out well.
Speaker 6: So when made you get the call for like going
Speaker 6: to the mond like the goal?
Speaker 8: Ye honestly, I don't know, is uh maybe after the
Speaker 8: third batter, I just told me to be ready for contrast,
Speaker 8: time to well up.
Speaker 26: Yeah, yea, you know, a very relentless team. Pitching in
Speaker 26: the postseason is also a different level of intensity. What
Speaker 26: makes them so hard to navigate and game plan against.
Speaker 8: I think they're just well prepared, well coached. They're they're there,
Speaker 8: they know what they're good at, and they don't come
Speaker 8: outside of that lane. So just trying to keep them
Speaker 8: off balance because they're not a team that really strikes
Speaker 8: out much. I think Blake did such a great job
Speaker 8: of just pitching so differently, and his strengths right now
Speaker 8: are just amazing. So his field for the zone kept
Speaker 8: them off balance. And then being alrighty, I mean late
Speaker 8: after they've seen left the all day, I think probably helped.
Speaker 8: But they're just from top of the bottom of one
Speaker 8: of those complete teams.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Obviously, your job description is to come into high leverage
Speaker 3: situations to get that win.
Speaker 14: In that situation, describe what it felt like and what
Speaker 14: it meant to get to win.
Speaker 8: I mean, we have a you know, a goal in mind,
Speaker 8: and I just I want to do my job and
Speaker 8: I want to do it well, and I'm just grateful
Speaker 8: that it worked out.
Speaker 1: That way today.
Speaker 8: A little situation any less stressful because you've been a
Speaker 8: number four, or is that still as nerve wracking?
Speaker 13: No matter what I think.
Speaker 8: At times this year when it hasn't gone well, they
Speaker 8: can they can speed up a little bit in your mind.
Speaker 8: And I think that's the hard part as a professional
Speaker 8: is trying to, you know, bury the thoughts and focus
Speaker 8: on what you're good at. Today I had a lot
Speaker 8: of peace, and I'm grateful to God for that.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 8: I believe in the power for her. So but today's fun.
Speaker 8: I think We've been putting in a lot of work
Speaker 8: to try to get some things in a better place,
Speaker 8: uh with myself, And today I thought I executed almost
Speaker 8: every pitch. I just will William had a great bat
Speaker 8: against me. I thought he laid out some really good
Speaker 8: pitches and forced him up on that slider and they
Speaker 8: ended up working out well to the.
Speaker 2: Next that that all right. There's Blake Trining. I don't
Speaker 2: think he was alone as people saying prayers during that
Speaker 2: ninth inning. Eight six six nine, eight seven two five
Speaker 2: seventy is the phone number. What I'm sure a lot
Speaker 2: of people were praying during that ninth inning. There is
Speaker 2: no doubt about it. Let's go out to Julian and Southgate.
Speaker 2: You're on Dodger Talk. How you doing, Julian? Were you
Speaker 2: saying prayers Julian during the ninth inning?
Speaker 27: Oh yeah, I pray, I pray, I pray. I play
Speaker 27: every Dodger game, you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, how many times? And what inning?
Speaker 13: Oh?
Speaker 5: Three times?
Speaker 27: For three times for good luck?
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, what else you got?
Speaker 27: I was want to say that, you know, the players
Speaker 27: that the players that we signed in Cree agency, the
Speaker 27: players that we treated for they're Bill for October. Shout
Speaker 27: out to Padres for giving us Blake snow too, and yeah,
Speaker 27: these players are Bill Frock Cober like. They don't they
Speaker 27: don't fan away.
Speaker 2: Hey, the Padres had a chance to extend Blake snell
Speaker 2: as last year there before he became a free agent.
Speaker 2: They decided to give that money to Jill Muskgrove. They
Speaker 2: decided to give that money to j Croninworth. They decide
Speaker 2: to give that money to you, Darvish. So in some
Speaker 2: ways you're right, Julian. They let him get away, and
Speaker 2: that two years later he's a Dodger, and he's a
Speaker 2: Dodger for four or five more years after this season.
Speaker 2: Eight six six nine seven two five seventy is the
Speaker 2: phone number.
Speaker 1: Let's go out to Santa Monica.
Speaker 2: Greg, you're on Dodger Talk Live from American Family Field.
Speaker 6: Hey, I just wanted to shout out the pickoff play.
Speaker 6: That sent a huge message. Honestly, Snow was so good
Speaker 6: tonight you probably didn't even need it. He probably would
Speaker 6: have gotten the next guy, but it.
Speaker 1: Sends a message.
Speaker 6: You know, the Brewers are advertised as kind of scrappy,
Speaker 6: small ball. They'll kind of catch you off your guard.
Speaker 6: But the Dodgers their experienced. They not only have the
Speaker 6: talent and the raw horsepower, but they also have the
Speaker 6: poise and the experience, and you're not gonna throw them off.
Speaker 6: If you're gonna get the Dodgers, you gotta play well.
Speaker 2: Hey, Greg, I agree with you, and that goes back
Speaker 2: to the poison that Blake Snell had on the mound
Speaker 2: all night long. He never was rattled, and I agree
Speaker 2: with you, that was huge to pick off Chad Durbin.
Speaker 2: By the way, that's the second straight start Blake Snell
Speaker 2: has picked off a runner. Remember he picked off Brandon
Speaker 2: Marsh trying to steal in Game two of the NLDS,
Speaker 2: and then he picks off Durbin to face the minimum
Speaker 2: number of batters through eighth shutout innings.
Speaker 1: So that was huge.
Speaker 2: And like I said, that fourth inning, after things went
Speaker 2: sideways for the Dodgers on that wild play to end
Speaker 2: the top of the fourth inning, the momentum really could
Speaker 2: have turned into a tidal wave in the bottom half,
Speaker 2: but Blake went back out there, established his fastball, did
Speaker 2: not blink, struck out the first two batters, and you know,
Speaker 2: the momentum was gone. So I believe what Blake Snell
Speaker 2: did tonight was huge. But just his calmness and his poise,
Speaker 2: I think set the tone for the entire game.
Speaker 6: Yeah, exactly, And you know that's going to have a
Speaker 6: lasting effect. Blake Snow won't be on the mount tomorrow,
Speaker 6: but you know, maybe the runners next game are going
Speaker 6: to be thinking twice before they seal again because the Doughters,
Speaker 6: you know, they know what they're trying to do.
Speaker 2: Hey, the biggest thing, Greg is they didn't have any
Speaker 2: base runners to try to steal outside of Durban tonight
Speaker 2: so until the ninth inning. So that's a good way
Speaker 2: to control the running game. Don't let them on the field,
Speaker 2: don't let them on the bases. Thanks for the phone called, Greg,
Speaker 2: appreciate it, and look tomorrow night. I find it hard
Speaker 2: to believe that Yoshi Yamamoto is going to have two
Speaker 2: back to back poor starts. It's coming off one of
Speaker 2: his poorest starts in over a month against the Phillies
Speaker 2: in Game three. I just don't see that happening again tomorrow.
Speaker 2: So the Brewers have got their hands full again against
Speaker 2: one of the best pitchers, maybe the runner up to
Speaker 2: Paul Skeins and the Cy Young race. So it doesn't
Speaker 2: get any easier for Milwaukee moving forward. Let's go out
Speaker 2: to long be Tomah, Doug Crecoryan, Bob, you're on dodgery talk.
Speaker 1: How you doing, Bob?
Speaker 5: Oh, I'm doing great? How about yourself?
Speaker 6: David?
Speaker 2: Hey, David, start during the game or during the ninth
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, what you just diving in?
Speaker 1: Bob? You don't want to talk? Huh? You diving right in? Gohead,
Speaker 1: dive right in, Bob.
Speaker 3: I'm so dexcided.
Speaker 5: Okay, David, I'll tell you why.
Speaker 3: Because a lot of people don't know, like the Phillies
Speaker 3: and now Milwaukee, they giving the note they see o
Speaker 3: Tani up there. Let's walk on, Connie but they messing
Speaker 3: with the wrong guy because they've got Mookie Best, one
Speaker 3: of the best eyes in baseball. Man be for the
Speaker 3: last two or three games, what he's been winning by walks,
Speaker 3: you know. So my point is this, they should keep
Speaker 3: Mookie Best hitting number two, which I'm sure they will
Speaker 3: because he has so much great discipline. If you get
Speaker 3: some of the other guys like you know, maybe Pias
Speaker 3: or whatever, he's a good, great player, but they be swinging.
Speaker 3: But this guy has a beautiful eye, and the other
Speaker 3: teams that's all they want to do. Okay, Old Tani
Speaker 3: was Old Tana get the Mookie?
Speaker 18: What do you think about that?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean Pat Murphy kind of set the tone
Speaker 2: for the rest of the series. If first base is
Speaker 2: open and there's a right handed pitcher on the mound,
Speaker 2: he may be holding up the four fingers for Otani
Speaker 2: and Mookie Betts has made opposing managers pay for that,
Speaker 2: going back to last year when Ron Washington did it,
Speaker 2: and now in back to back games he has forced
Speaker 2: in a pivotal run by not chasing. So I'm with you, Bob,
Speaker 2: talk about risky. That's risky with the way Mookie Betts
Speaker 2: is swinging the bat these days. Eight six six nine
Speaker 2: seven two five seventy is the phone number. Dodgers beat
Speaker 2: the Brewers in Game one of the NLCS two to
Speaker 2: one the final score. Let's take a couple of more
Speaker 2: calls before we say good night. Mark and Huntington Beach.
Speaker 2: You're on Dodger Talk Live from Milwaukee.
Speaker 5: Hi, Mark, Hey David, Hey David.
Speaker 23: I was watching the game at my favorite sports barn,
Speaker 23: Honeying Beach is called my place, Bar and Girl. And
Speaker 23: after that play in the fourth, I mean, they had
Speaker 23: a screen up on the TV showing where the oscar
Speaker 23: had actually started running in and then went back to
Speaker 23: tag like, yeah, I thought the ball was going to
Speaker 23: get by, And it's like, well, he should have just
Speaker 23: stayed there. Why would he start running in thinking that
Speaker 23: he wasn't going to catch it, you know? But then
Speaker 23: the other fatal thing. I thought that no one told
Speaker 23: him he slid into home. He didn't know what was
Speaker 23: a force play. I think if he had just run
Speaker 23: like hell, he would have beat the throw.
Speaker 18: In just because you know, you slowed down.
Speaker 23: When he hit a slide compared to running over the base.
Speaker 5: What do you think?
Speaker 2: Yeah, actually that's what Haesan Kim told Dodger bench coach
Speaker 2: Bob Garrin the reason why he didn't slide to score
Speaker 2: the winning run in Game four the NLDS is because
Speaker 2: of what you just said. He knew it was a
Speaker 2: force play, so he didn't want to slow down and
Speaker 2: ran through home plate. I'm a big advocate of sliding
Speaker 2: at home plate mark because it's a slippery it's the
Speaker 2: slipperiest bass or plate or surface out there. So I'm
Speaker 2: a fan of sliding feet first at home But the
Speaker 2: biggest mistake is what you said. When he had to
Speaker 2: go back to third base, that's when things really went sideways,
Speaker 2: and that's where that's where he got caught. He should
Speaker 2: have been on the bag ready to tag when it's
Speaker 2: you know, it's a not a no doubter to straightaway
Speaker 2: center field, and I can guarantee you won't see that
Speaker 2: happen again.
Speaker 23: Yeah, I hope not. But you know, I'll give him
Speaker 23: a little defense. He probably thought the ball was caught.
Speaker 23: He probably didn't see it hit the wall not knowing
Speaker 23: it was in play, and he actually thought he actually
Speaker 23: caught it, you know, instead of it bobbling it.
Speaker 5: So I'll gi him a little defense either way.
Speaker 2: You still tag either way, You're still on the bag.
Speaker 2: Even if he caught it clean. Let's say he caught
Speaker 2: it clean, he's got to do what you said, Mark,
Speaker 2: he's got to be on the bag ready to tag.
Speaker 2: But that was not a catch, as we know by
Speaker 2: the rules and what we saw earlier this season.
Speaker 23: Yeah, okay, well better than tomorrow, Lego Dodgers.
Speaker 1: All right, Mark, thank you for the phone call.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, either way, Tae Oscar Hernandez needed to
Speaker 2: be on the third base bag ready to tag.
Speaker 5: Up.
Speaker 2: Turned out the ball was in play after the ball
Speaker 2: came out of Frelick's glove and hit the wall. Now,
Speaker 2: if it hits the wall and goes over the wall,
Speaker 2: it's a grand slam that it's in play. So just
Speaker 2: think about it that way. If Frelick catches the ball,
Speaker 2: it bounces out of his glove and goes over the wall,
Speaker 2: is it a catch. No, it's a home run. It's
Speaker 2: a grand slam for Max Munsey, same idea, except this
Speaker 2: time it bounced into play and he was able to
Speaker 2: catch it on the Kreum eight six six seven two
Speaker 2: five seventy is the phone number. Let's go out to
Speaker 2: j and ply at Delray. I bet they don't teach
Speaker 2: that at West Hills Baseball.
Speaker 24: Hello there, David, how are you?
Speaker 2: I'm doing great? Were you a Blake Snell, Dowd or Jay?
Speaker 2: Are you calling to apologize?
Speaker 24: Oh? Guess what I am. I am not calling to
Speaker 24: apologize because when I heard we got Blake Snell, I
Speaker 24: was thinking, isn't it isn't it kind of cheating? I mean,
Speaker 24: we win the championship and then we get that guy,
Speaker 24: you know the Lakers, Remember they win a champion and
Speaker 24: then they got James Worthy and I thought, that's not
Speaker 24: how it's supposed to work. So it was like that.
Speaker 24: I do have a question, was do you know evil there?
Speaker 24: Or was somebody shouldn't the third base coach have been
Speaker 24: yelling at Taoskar no go go go?
Speaker 1: He was?
Speaker 26: He was, oh, he was.
Speaker 7: Oh.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I mean Taosky, you know.
Speaker 2: And when that happens, Jay, the game gets really fast
Speaker 2: on you. And they got really fast on will Smith,
Speaker 2: they got really fast on ta Oscar Hernandez, and uh,
Speaker 2: I don't know what happened there, but uh yeah, do
Speaker 2: you know? Ebel was shown on the broadcast that he
Speaker 2: was telling Taoscar go go go like they used to
Speaker 2: chant for morey Willis at the Coliseum, Go Go Go,
Speaker 2: Thank you for the phone call.
Speaker 12: Jay.
Speaker 2: Tomorrow the Dodgers Game two of the NLCS here in
Speaker 2: Milwaukee before Game three back at Dodgers Stadium on Thursday.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers have an opportunity to come back home up
Speaker 2: to zero against the Brewers.
Speaker 1: Yamamotos on the mound.
Speaker 2: I don't see him, like I said, having back to
Speaker 2: back subpar starts, going up against Freddy Peralta, who the
Speaker 2: Dodgers saw earlier this year and scored four runs off
Speaker 2: of him. Like I said, you got to play the games.
Speaker 2: The Brewers are a tough team. They don't make mistakes.
Speaker 2: They are going to try to get on base and
Speaker 2: create havoc and cause havoc. But the Dodgers are in
Speaker 2: a good spot in a good matchup against right hander
Speaker 2: Freddy Peralta.
Speaker 1: Marongo Casino.
Speaker 2: Dodgers on Deck begins at four o'clock tomorrow with first
Speaker 2: pitch at five oh eight with Rick Monday and Stephen
Speaker 2: Nelson on the call from American Family Field in Milwaukee,
Speaker 2: and the Dodgers are in a great spot to come
Speaker 2: back home up two to oh in a best of
Speaker 2: seven series and look the Dodgers. The Dodgers are are
Speaker 2: feeling pretty good. And how about this Tonight's win in
Speaker 2: Game one of the NLCS not only gave the Dodgers
Speaker 2: a one tozero lead in the series, but it's the
Speaker 2: first time the Dodgers beat the Brewers this season, first
Speaker 2: time in seven games. But like we talked about leading
Speaker 2: up to this game, those six games in July was
Speaker 2: a completely different Dodger team. Blake Snell wasn't even pitching
Speaker 2: at that point. Key k was out months he was out,
Speaker 2: Mookie Betts was still in the middle of a horrible
Speaker 2: slump in the first three months of the season. So
Speaker 2: this is a completely different Dodger team than what the
Speaker 2: Brewers saw in July, and they're gonna get more of
Speaker 2: it tomorrow night here in Milwaukee. That'll do it for
Speaker 2: us tonight. Thanks to Colin Ye back at our Burbank Studios,
Speaker 2: Thanks to dwayn McDon ronald out here at American Family
Speaker 2: Field in Milwaukee, and thanks to you for listening and
Speaker 2: calling in.
Speaker 1: Without you, there is no show.
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Speaker 2: from Milwaukee. The Dodgers win Game one of the NLCS.
Speaker 1: Two to one over the Brewers. We'll talk to you tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Be safe, see you