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

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Speaker 2: It's hard to repeat seasons.

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Speaker 1: It's winning it again this yearning is.

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Speaker 3: Not trying to win a championship, They're trying to repeat.

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

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Speaker 2: The twenty twenty five Dodgers are the National League's Western

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Speaker 2: Division champions.

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Speaker 1: And you know what that means.

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Speaker 4: Saxon Kates Am is back.

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

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Speaker 1: and former World Champion Dodger Steve Sacks.

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

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Speaker 4: postseason long.

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

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Speaker 1: Sports and the iHeartRadio app. Steve Sacks, Tim Kaits, Tim

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Speaker 1: Kates and World Champion Dodger Steve Sacks.

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Speaker 4: We're off and running on this Wednesday morning, October eighth,

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Speaker 4: twenty twenty five. It's Saxon Kate Tonay. I am Tim Kaks,

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Speaker 4: joined by two times, two times World Series Champion, Rookie

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Speaker 4: of the Year and one hell of a guy, our

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Speaker 4: favorite number three, the one and only Steve Sack Saxy.

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Speaker 5: Good morning, Tim Kaits, what's up, Tim.

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Speaker 4: Oh getting ready for Game three of this NLDS potential

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Speaker 4: close out game for the Dodgers, a wild NLDS round.

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Speaker 4: Watching the two American League games yesterday in New York

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Speaker 4: and Detroit's and if those if those games were anything

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Speaker 4: like we're gonna see tonight, it's gonna be a wild

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Speaker 4: night out of Dodgers Stadium. At what we saw the

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Speaker 4: first two games in Philadelphia, We're pitching performances that were fantastic.

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Speaker 4: I think we're gonna see more of the same. But

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Speaker 4: I cannot wait to get to six eight pm tonight

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Speaker 4: to see Dodgers in Phillies and see the Dodgers come

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Speaker 4: out and absolutely take care of business.

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Speaker 6: Tonight's saxy And just when you think we have it

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Speaker 6: all planned out, yeah, it doesn't go that way. I mean,

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Speaker 6: Citizens Bank Park is a lunch tim that is built

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Speaker 6: for slug And how many home runs have we had

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Speaker 6: thus far in the playoffs?

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Speaker 4: Game one we had zero, Game two we had zero.

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Speaker 5: So we've got a total of zero.

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Speaker 6: Okay, home run so that's going to change somewhere because

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Speaker 6: the teams are just meant to hit the ball on

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Speaker 6: the other side of the fence. We know that you

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Speaker 6: like golf, don't you. Okay, yeah, I don't play it

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Speaker 6: because I'm no.

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Speaker 5: Good at it.

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Speaker 6: I'm terrible at it and I hate it anyway. So

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Speaker 6: this is what you call being teed up tonight. Okay,

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Speaker 6: this is this is a tee up tonight. Now, I'm

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Speaker 6: not saying this is an easy game by any stretch.

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Speaker 6: No way, I'm saying the opposite. It's not going to

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Speaker 6: be easy. But Aaron Nola's going He had seventeen starts

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Speaker 6: this year, he had two injuries, His era was double

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Speaker 6: what it usually is. The Dodgers should really take it

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Speaker 6: to this guy and just slam these guys. I know

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Speaker 6: they've got Ranger Suarez right behind them and to piggyback,

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Speaker 6: but I guess it's tough to find a way to

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Speaker 6: warm up if you're gonna come out of the pen, right,

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Speaker 6: So he's gonna start.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Rob Thompson, the manager, Saint Aaron Nola is going

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Speaker 4: to get the start because he's never come out of

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Speaker 4: the bullpen before. And all we've been talking about the

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Speaker 4: last week is how adaptive the Dodger pitchers have been

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Speaker 4: to different roles in October. And I think exactly, and

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Speaker 4: I think the experience of the last few years October

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Speaker 4: for Dodger baseball, and moving deeper into October a year

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Speaker 4: ago for a World Series run. Guys realize they got

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Speaker 4: to be adaptive. Guys realize they have to have new

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Speaker 4: roles and be okay with transforming into a reliever or

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Speaker 4: an opener or whatever role is called upon them. This

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Speaker 4: could be a little new for Philadelphia, especially their starters

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Speaker 4: rotation and not used to different roles. This is also

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Speaker 4: a tip of the cap to the future Hall of

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Speaker 4: Famer Clayton Kershaw and guys like Tyler Glass now and

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Speaker 4: certainly rookie Sasaki, guys who are saying, Okay, we'll do

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Speaker 4: whatever we need to do to pitch in this game,

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Speaker 5: In the game.

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Speaker 4: It says a lot about this Dodgers team. And you know,

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Speaker 4: for Philadelphia tonight, they're gonna try anything and everything. They're

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Speaker 4: Dodgers to get after him, and it's gonna be all

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Speaker 4: all hands on deck for them, and so much so Steve,

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Speaker 4: they went to their manager and said, we want to

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Speaker 4: wear the old baby blue Philadelphia Road uniforms, and so

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Speaker 4: that's what they're gonna wear tonight. They want to switch

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Speaker 4: it up. They feel more comfortable in that whatever the.

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Speaker 5: Case may be.

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Speaker 4: They think they just need a change of change of

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Speaker 4: pace and a change of look in this NLDS.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, and and sometimes those little gimmicks will work for

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Speaker 6: a while, and it's just it's just a way to

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Speaker 6: perspectives are always great in baseball because they can happen

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Speaker 6: just immediately. And that's what the kind of Phillies are

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Speaker 6: looking at here. Uh So, I think, all in all,

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Speaker 6: you know, this is this is the time, though the

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Speaker 6: Phillies are really looking for some edge that they can find,

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Speaker 6: like you know, the powder blue uniforms, whatever it may be.

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Speaker 6: But they're looking for a way to find a different

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Speaker 6: perspective coming in here to Chavez Ravine, I I don't

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Speaker 5: I think this is the time.

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Speaker 6: For the Dodgers right now to really slam the door

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Speaker 6: But uh, you know it's it's still you got to

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Speaker 6: like they did last time. You got to execute that's

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Speaker 6: the main thing, and pulling that rabbit out of the

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Speaker 6: hat like they did with that wheel play. To execute that,

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Speaker 6: especially when they don't work on it, as Muki said,

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Speaker 6: is really astonishing to me to be able to have

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Speaker 4: You know, I think back till a year ago the

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Speaker 4: NLDS and Yoshinobu Yama. Moto's first start was a little

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Speaker 4: bit of a rocky start against you.

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Speaker 6: Like saying that name right, and I know you do,

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Speaker 6: and it's a great name. It is, man, that is

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Speaker 6: a fantastic baseball name.

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Speaker 4: There are people who are trying to find nicknames, like

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Speaker 4: I've heard you hear Yoshi a lot. You know, they

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Speaker 4: try cheesy and I've heard Yama. You know people and

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Speaker 4: the Dodgers call me Yama. They just short it up.

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Speaker 4: I still love going Yoshinobu Yamamoto. I'm a traditional name.

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Speaker 4: I'm going to say his whole.

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Speaker 5: Name, you know.

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Speaker 6: You know Bob Sheppard for the Yankees, he was the

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Speaker 6: voice of God that you call it? Can you imagine

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Speaker 5: Name, Yoshinobu Yamamoto picture. Can you imagine him doing that?

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Speaker 5: I mean, that would be amazing, That would be awesome.

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Speaker 4: Shepherd was the guy that he still can continue to

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Speaker 4: use his voice right for Derek Jeter. For as long

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Speaker 4: as he played, he recovered.

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Speaker 5: He hated he hated my name. He told me one time.

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Speaker 6: He says, you know, there's just no there's no uh,

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Speaker 6: you know, there's nothing good about saying your name. It's boring.

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Speaker 6: It's just one syllable. He's got to have a double

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Speaker 6: it's it's not good. If he did my first name

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Speaker 6: and called me, you know, Steven, it could have been better.

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Speaker 6: But just one syllable is not good.

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Speaker 4: Did you suggest that, you know? I mean, I didn't.

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Speaker 6: You know, Hey, you know, he's the voice of God.

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Speaker 6: You don't want to trench on that. You don't want

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Speaker 6: to trudge on that territory. You just say, Bob, you

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Speaker 6: do what you do best. I mean, I'm not going to.

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Speaker 5: Give that guy any advice.

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Speaker 4: Ya Momoto is gonna go tonight. And I think back

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Speaker 4: to last year and how up down he was. But

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Speaker 4: then cad that coming out party in Game five of

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Speaker 4: he just absolutely took it to the padres and the

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Speaker 4: Dodgers won that best of five series. And after that

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Speaker 4: he was a different pitcher. And after that there was

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Speaker 4: this no in the back of my mind. There was

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Speaker 4: no more what ifs or I don't trust him, or

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Speaker 4: we don't still know yet about this guy because it's

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Speaker 4: his first year. I have thrown that all out all

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Speaker 4: season long, every time he has taken the mound. I've

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Speaker 4: been all in with the Yoshinova Yama model. I trust

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Speaker 4: him one hundred percent. Yeah, sometimes that splitt finger isn't dancing,

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Speaker 4: but he has figured out a way to go to

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Speaker 4: other pitches when that's not working and become a whole

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Speaker 4: pitcher and work through it and then on the nights

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Speaker 4: where it's working, and it's part of that whole arsenal

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Speaker 4: that he's got. That's why he is gonna finish second

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Speaker 4: or third in the National League Cy Young voting this

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Speaker 4: year behind Paul Skeins, because he was that good for

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Speaker 4: for all the twenty twenty five regular season. That's why

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Speaker 4: going into Game three tonight and the way they line

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Speaker 4: this up Steve with with Otani in Game one and

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Speaker 4: they're down oh two, if they're up to oh, this

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Speaker 4: Game three, whatever the scenario was, coming back to Dodger.

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Speaker 5: State, no question.

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Speaker 6: And you know what I like about the whole You know,

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Speaker 6: the whole Dodger staff is first of all, they're loaded

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Speaker 5: What this team is.

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Speaker 6: Extremely toolsy on the pitching department all the way through.

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Speaker 6: Really the athleticism on this team is off the chart.

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Speaker 6: But when you look at this pitching staff, they've got

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Speaker 6: great stuff. I mean, look at Otani and Snell, look

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Speaker 6: at the stuff they have. And then you look at Yamamoto.

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Speaker 6: Glasnow six foot eight and throws that curveball you know,

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Speaker 6: you know, about twelve feet in theyear and it still

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Speaker 6: breaks down to the bottom of the zone. They've got

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Speaker 6: great stuff on this team, they put it on display.

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Speaker 6: You know what, you know exactly what gonna throw at you,

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Speaker 6: and you know they've got deception there, of course, but

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Speaker 6: but it's not They're not gonna throw any mystery at you.

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Speaker 6: You know what you're gonna get between each pitcher Yamamoto tonight,

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Speaker 6: you're gonna get fastball, slider and a filthy splitter. Okay,

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Speaker 6: you know you're gonna get it, but you just can't

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Speaker 6: hit it. And you could probably tell them, you know,

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Speaker 6: some of the time, hey, here comes the splitter. I

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Speaker 6: got one two count on you. Here comes the splitter.

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Speaker 6: And a lot of times, you guys, still is not

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Speaker 6: gonna hit it. That's how effective that splitter is.

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Speaker 4: The split finger is a pitch that I think has

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Speaker 4: seen a reassurgence here in Major League Baseball. And whether

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Speaker 4: it's the Japanese pitchers bringing it over, I don't know.

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Speaker 4: But Yamamoto, at least for the Dodgers, has brought that

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Speaker 4: split finger fastball and the way it dances and the

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Speaker 4: way it fools hit her it is absolutely nasty. Now

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Speaker 4: we see Roki Sasaki throw it. It is a pitch

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Speaker 4: that a lot of former players say it's more like

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Speaker 4: a forkball. Some say I've even heard that depending on

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Speaker 4: the grip some of these pictures, it's almost like a

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Speaker 5: To win and went at home.

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Speaker 7: But we just got to go one to know and

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Speaker 4: Hearing Bryce Harper worries me a little bit. Steve Sacks

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Speaker 6: Yeah, they are dangerous because they're wounded. A couple of

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Speaker 5: And it has good points and bad points.

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Speaker 6: You hit more home runs, but you strike out as much.

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Speaker 6: The game is, you know, not as exciting when you

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Speaker 6: don't have any speed in it, but you know that's

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Speaker 6: it's where it is.

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Speaker 4: He is Steve Sacks, I am Tim Kats. We are

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Speaker 4: Sacks and Kates in the am here all October long

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Speaker 4: during the Dodgers playoff run nine years in a row

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Speaker 4: and still going strong. As the Dodgers are one win

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Speaker 4: away from moving on to the NLCS yet again. They

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Speaker 4: are up two games to nothing in this NLDS against

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Speaker 4: the Philadelphia Phillies, a big decisive game three tonight and

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Speaker 4: a chance to close out Philadelphia. Won't be easy, though.

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Speaker 4: Aaron Nola on the mound for the Phillies, Yoshinobu Yamamoto

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Speaker 4: for the Dodgers. Your phone calls coming up between now

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Speaker 4: and nine o'clock this morning, David Vass, we'll join us

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Speaker 4: later in the show. And we got a pair of

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Speaker 4: tickets for Game three of the NLDS for one lucky

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Speaker 4: Dodger fan between now and the end of the show.

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Speaker 4: Eight six, six, nine eighty seven, two five seventy. Coming up,

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Speaker 4: you're gonna hear from Rob Thompson, manager of the Phillies.

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Speaker 4: You'll hear from the manager Dave Roberts. You'll hear it

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Speaker 4: from David Vass. Coming up next, a special off night

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Speaker 4: Dodger Talk. Last night, right at the beginning of the show,

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Speaker 4: a special guest called in to David Vass to start

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Speaker 4: off the hour. You'll hear from that when we come back.

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Speaker 4: Your phone calls as well. We're just getting started. We're

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Speaker 4: off and running on this Wednesday morning Scam saxon k

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Speaker 4: toon AM on FI seventy LA Sports. Game three of

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Speaker 4: the NLDS is tonight out at Dodgers Stadium. Aaron Nola

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Speaker 4: will go for Philadelphia. Yoshinobu Yamamoto on the mound for

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Speaker 4: the Dodgers. He has been their horse during the regular

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Speaker 4: season and he is hopeful tonight to get the Dodgers

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Speaker 4: one more win and move on to the NLCS where

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Speaker 4: either the Brewers or the Cubs awaits in the next round.

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Speaker 4: What an exciting day of baseball is yesterday Saxon. In

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Speaker 4: the American League. It was an off day in the

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Speaker 4: National League Divisional Series, but you had both games taking

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Speaker 4: place yesterday, a long, long rain delay in Detroit between

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Speaker 4: the Tigers and the Mariners, and it was a rough

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Speaker 4: outing for former Dodger Jack Flaherty and the Tigers as

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Speaker 4: they got ruffed up by the Seattle Mariners. Eight to

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Speaker 4: four is the Seattle Mariners take a two to one

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Speaker 4: series lead. They're one went away from going back to

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Speaker 4: the Alcs for the first time since two thousand and one.

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Speaker 4: And then in the Bronx last night, the Blue Jays

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Speaker 4: a two to zero series lead. They were up six

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Speaker 4: to one in the fourth inning, and at that point

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Speaker 4: I literally turned the game off and said, all right,

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Speaker 4: it's gonna be the Blue Jays moving on. The Yankees

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Speaker 4: are done. And by the time I turned the TV

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Speaker 4: back on, Aaron Judget hit a ball off the foul pole,

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Speaker 4: Jazz chishom To hit a home run to give him

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Speaker 4: the lead, and the Yankees have stayed alive with a

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Speaker 4: ninety six win. So the Yankees aren't done yet.

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Speaker 6: In the Bronx, man, I'll tell you what I did,

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Speaker 6: the same thing Tim I was talking to some of

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Speaker 6: my a couple of my friends back in New York,

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Speaker 6: and he told his girlfriend, he said, yeah, turned.

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Speaker 5: The TV off the dumb all right, the dumb I mean,

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Speaker 5: you know that love that New York attitude.

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Speaker 6: And she was upset because she's a huge Yankees fan.

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Speaker 6: She's almost crying in the background.

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Speaker 5: That turned it off.

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Speaker 6: The terrible and then hits the bomb off the pole

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Speaker 6: and he just turns the thing around one swing of

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Speaker 6: the back and change things, you know how it is

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Speaker 6: in New York with Judge. But yeah, a big win

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Speaker 6: for them. And I just think on the other side,

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Speaker 6: the uh, the Mariners are really good team. Mariners are

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Speaker 6: an exceptionally good team.

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Speaker 5: They remind me.

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Speaker 6: A lot of the Brewers. You know, these these two

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Speaker 6: teams here. Brewers don't slug as much, but these are

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Speaker 6: two really good teams.

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Speaker 5: Uh. I think it's gonna be a fantastic finish. You

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Speaker 5: know what. I think I think we could have.

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Speaker 6: I think we might have Dodgers and Toronto. Is a

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Speaker 6: possibility for to see that in the World Series. You

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Speaker 6: get two countries involved, you get East and West. You

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Speaker 6: know that that might be a good kind of uh

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Speaker 6: spread out if you will and I think the networks will.

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Speaker 4: Love it absolutely to have an East Coast team against

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Speaker 4: the West Coast team. As you said, two countries going

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Speaker 4: at it. It has been so fun for baseball on

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Speaker 4: a daily basis. And today we'll have four divisional games,

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Speaker 4: all four in Action two and the American League and

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Speaker 4: the two in the National League, and the Dodgers and

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Speaker 4: the Phillies will be the fourth and final game of

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Speaker 4: the day when it's all said and done well. Last

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Speaker 4: night a special edition a off night Dodger Talk during

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Speaker 4: this NLDS and it was a late night for David

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Speaker 4: Vase went out to the workouts yesterday at Dodger Stadium

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Speaker 4: for both the Dodgers and Phillies. Came back to the

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Speaker 4: studio last night, I said hi as he was coming

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Speaker 4: and I was leaving from the Petros and Money Show,

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Speaker 4: and seven o'clock the show started, and all of a sudden,

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Speaker 4: the hotline started ringing here in the studio and guess

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Speaker 4: who was on with DV last night.

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Speaker 2: One of the greatest competitors you have ever witnessed in

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Speaker 2: the last eighteen years, that is number twenty two himself,

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Speaker 2: Clayton Kershaw.

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Speaker 3: Thanks Dave, how are you.

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Speaker 2: I'm doing great. I'm doing great. I assume that you

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Speaker 2: have a shirt on, and yes, you do have your

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Speaker 2: pants on.

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Speaker 3: I do I have fully closed at the moment.

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Speaker 5: Thank you, Brov Clayton.

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Speaker 2: I'm sure this has got to be a special time

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Speaker 2: for you. At this time last year year you weren't

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Speaker 2: able to participate in the postseason, but even just being

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Speaker 2: down in the bullpen, how much does it mean to

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Speaker 2: you to be available whenever the team needs you.

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Speaker 5: Oh?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's been fun to be down there with the guys.

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Speaker 3: You know, the bullpen is almost like a different it's

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Speaker 3: like a different group, you know, it's like a different

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Speaker 3: club within a club.

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Speaker 5: You know.

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Speaker 3: So it's been it's been fun to be a part

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Speaker 3: of it. And it's a different animal down there.

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Speaker 5: Man.

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Speaker 3: When that phone rings, you feel out, adrenaline start flowing,

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Speaker 3: and uh, you just it's a very underappreciated job to

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Speaker 3: be a bullpen pitcher. So learning that on the fly,

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Speaker 3: just watching all these guys, and it's it's been fun

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Speaker 3: to be a part of.

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Speaker 2: When you're in that position. How do you how do

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Speaker 2: you change your routine? Because you're such a routine oriented guy,

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Speaker 2: how do you how do you keep the body ready.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I just try and do some of

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Speaker 3: the stuff I do as a starter and just try

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Speaker 3: to space it out throughout the game. And it seems

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Speaker 3: to be working well. You know, I feel loose enough

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Speaker 3: and just sit down for too long. You know, you

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Speaker 3: just kind of move around enough, and then if that

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Speaker 3: phone phone calls, hopefully the adrenaline just takes over and you're.

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Speaker 5: Ready to go.

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Speaker 2: Incredible Clayton that you guys were able to win two

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Speaker 2: games in Philadelphia. You know what that environment was all

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Speaker 2: about back in two thousand and nine for you guys

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Speaker 2: to have this type of lead. Do you feel like

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Speaker 2: you guys are in a good position to close this

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Speaker 2: out tomorrow?

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Speaker 5: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: I mean we feel great. I mean we got Yama

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Speaker 3: on the mound and our in Dodger Stadium. You know,

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Speaker 3: that's been a pretty good recip before us this season.

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Speaker 3: But uh, you know it's a short series, five game series,

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Speaker 3: so you know, they they somehow win a game, it

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Speaker 3: gets quick, it gets it gets close fast, So we

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Speaker 3: got we gotta make sure not to let up at

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Speaker 3: all tomorrow and try to close this thing out in three.

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Speaker 2: I know we've talked about this before. Is Yama Moto

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Speaker 2: and Blake Snell maybe two of the most underappreciated guys

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Speaker 2: out there Clayton, because it seems like a lot of

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Speaker 2: other pitchers get the attention, but they've been such a

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Speaker 2: big part of the rotation. Were you Yama all year

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Speaker 2: and Snell since he came back from.

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Speaker 3: The I L Yeah, I mean Yama. Yama's going to

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Speaker 3: be second in the cy Young, you know, and I

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Speaker 3: think if it wasn't for Paul Skans, you know, he's

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Speaker 3: he's the cy Young winner. So for for him to

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Speaker 3: do what he did all season, and you know, I

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Speaker 3: don't know about what other people think about appreciated or

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Speaker 3: underappreciated or whatever, but on our team, you know, those

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Speaker 3: two guys have been unbelievable for us. And you know, Blake,

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Speaker 3: we've all known he's one of the best in the game.

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Speaker 3: You know, obviously he was hurt a lot this year,

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Speaker 3: but he is a two time cy Young Award winner.

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Speaker 3: You know, he's he's pretty solid and man, he stepped

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Speaker 3: up in a big way yesterday in Philly, and he

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Speaker 3: just seems to, you know, bring out the best when

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Speaker 3: it's a big moment for him. So huge for both

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Speaker 3: of those guys, obviously we got show. Hey, we got glass,

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Speaker 3: We got a lot of guys throwing the ball really well.

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Speaker 3: So it's a it's a fun time to be on

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Speaker 3: the Dodger staff right.

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Speaker 2: Now when you're in the bullpen. Roki Sasaki obviously new

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Speaker 2: to that bullpen. What's his demeanor like? And I mean,

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Speaker 2: it's been incredible to see his transformation from the last

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Speaker 2: time we saw him to be this this killer in

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Speaker 2: the ninth inning.

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Speaker 3: He's been great, man. You know, I think he's probably

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Speaker 3: learning the bullpen on the fly too, just like some

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Speaker 3: of us. And he's handling it super well. You know,

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Speaker 3: I think he would tell you that he's got some

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Speaker 3: nerves with it, but he's keeping it under control. He's

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Speaker 3: handling it well. And I think the greatest thing he's

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Speaker 3: just coming in and attacking hitters, coming right at guys

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Speaker 3: and getting the head, throwing a hundred right by guys.

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Speaker 3: And then it really sets up his split, which is,

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Speaker 3: you know, if he if he's not able to throw

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Speaker 3: that and get ahead of guys and be able to

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Speaker 3: throw that split, it's going to be pretty much impossible

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Speaker 3: because that thing is special, so obviously we need it.

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Speaker 3: It's fun to see him out there, and you got

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Speaker 3: to give him a lot of credit. You know, it's

632
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Speaker 3: been a hard year for him, and for him to

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Speaker 3: just learn the bullpen like this on the fly and

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Speaker 3: all of a sudden start closing games for us is

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Speaker 3: super impressive.

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Speaker 4: All Right, there's Playton Shaw last night calling in to

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Speaker 4: Dodger Talk to start off the hour at seven pm

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Speaker 4: with David Vese. A nice, pleasant surprise to have the

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Speaker 4: future Hall of Famer call in and talk a little

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Speaker 4: Dodgers baseball on the eve of Game three of the NLTS.

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Speaker 4: And I liked what he had to say, Saxy about

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Speaker 4: the bullpen. He said, it's a club within a club.

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Speaker 4: How true is that that group of guys that sits

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Speaker 4: down there by themselves during a baseball game all season long.

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Speaker 5: It's it's it's.

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Speaker 6: A great way to to kind of put it, to

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Speaker 6: describe it, I think. And you know, Clayton, When Clayton

648
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Speaker 6: Kershaw talks, people listen, because that's the man right there.

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Speaker 6: He's a first ballot Hall of Famer, and you know

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Speaker 6: he can he can discern the difference. He can explain

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Speaker 6: that between being a starter and a reliever, and it's

652
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Speaker 6: all about mindset.

653
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Speaker 5: You know that and you know, I think he.

654
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Speaker 6: Described it pretty well, trying to space that out and

655
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Speaker 6: keep his mind sharp within the game. But uh, you know, also,

656
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Speaker 6: you know he's going to bring up David Vassie's going

657
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Speaker 6: to bring up Blake Snell.

658
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Speaker 5: That's his bromate, all right, I mean the bromance there

659
00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:01,640
Speaker 5: is just.

660
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Speaker 4: Under floriated Blake Snell.

661
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Speaker 6: Yeah, he's got to be unappreciated taking care of his guy, right,

662
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Speaker 6: So he's got to put him out there. But you know,

663
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Speaker 6: I was looking at the internal numbers for Yamamoto, Yoshinobu Yamamoto.

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Speaker 5: Like I love saying his name too. His numbers were

665
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Speaker 5: ridiculous this year.

666
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Speaker 6: I mean he took the ball every time basically because

667
00:30:22,400 --> 00:30:26,200
Speaker 6: he had thirty starts, but his hits per nine inning

668
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Speaker 6: were the best in the National League. He gave up

669
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Speaker 6: less than six hits per nine his whip, which is

670
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Speaker 6: the internal metric that I like very very much. I

671
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Speaker 6: think it's describes a lot. And the acronym for whip

672
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Speaker 6: is walks and hits per innings pitched. If you're right

673
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Speaker 6: about one point two, you're doing really good. Anything under

674
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Speaker 6: that is better. He was under one point ninety nine,

675
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Speaker 6: which is sick. How good that is? Now, if you

676
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Speaker 6: can kind of put this in context, he had one

677
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Speaker 6: hundred and seventy three innings pitch, he only gave up

678
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Speaker 6: one hundred and thirteen hits. I mean this guy just

679
00:31:00,480 --> 00:31:04,920
Speaker 6: dominated people all throughout the year. He wasn't on the shelf.

680
00:31:05,280 --> 00:31:07,480
Speaker 6: He took the ball thirty times, he was twelve and eight.

681
00:31:07,520 --> 00:31:10,800
Speaker 6: I mean this the numbers he has all the way through.

682
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Speaker 5: Are you know?

683
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Speaker 6: This is cy young material right here. Unfortunately for him,

684
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Speaker 6: Paul Skeens is there too, who is off the chart.

685
00:31:17,440 --> 00:31:20,920
Speaker 6: So but Yamamota, what a fantastic here. This is a

686
00:31:20,960 --> 00:31:24,320
Speaker 6: guy you want in this situation, going against Aaron Nola

687
00:31:24,360 --> 00:31:26,840
Speaker 6: who only had seventeen starts with you this year and

688
00:31:26,920 --> 00:31:29,760
Speaker 6: a couple of injuries and not a good year. I

689
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Speaker 6: will put it in the back of your mind though,

690
00:31:31,960 --> 00:31:35,560
Speaker 6: that Aaron Nola has had a tremendous amount of success.

691
00:31:35,640 --> 00:31:38,240
Speaker 6: It wasn't just last year. Remember where he signed a

692
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Speaker 6: contract for one hundred and seventy three million dollars. This

693
00:31:41,400 --> 00:31:43,880
Speaker 6: guy is no chump. He's he and he can come

694
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Speaker 6: out there and throw some zeros at you in a hurry.

695
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Speaker 4: People forget that Yoshi this year had a lot of

696
00:31:49,840 --> 00:31:52,840
Speaker 4: games in which he got zero run support. The day

697
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Speaker 4: before the day after the Dodgers would he erupted offensively.

698
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Speaker 4: But for whatever reason, the days that Yoshinobu Yamamoto pitched

699
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Speaker 4: during the season, he just didn't get the run support.

700
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Speaker 4: You look at his game log. You go through the

701
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Speaker 4: month of April, a start against Texas, seven shutout innings.

702
00:32:10,360 --> 00:32:12,560
Speaker 4: He pitched well, was able to get the win. But

703
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Speaker 4: then you go to the month of May, he went

704
00:32:14,920 --> 00:32:18,080
Speaker 4: seven shutout innings against the Diamondbacks, got a no decision.

705
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Speaker 4: You go to the month of June, he had a

706
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Speaker 4: six shutout innings against the Saint Louis Cardinals. The Dodgers

707
00:32:23,320 --> 00:32:25,520
Speaker 4: end up blowing the game, he gets a no decision.

708
00:32:25,720 --> 00:32:28,040
Speaker 4: You go to the month of July, seven shutout innings

709
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Speaker 4: against the Giants, no decision. You go to the month

710
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Speaker 4: of August, and in that month of August he was fantastic,

711
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Speaker 4: got no run support. And in September. I think the

712
00:32:36,240 --> 00:32:38,440
Speaker 4: cherry on top is that game in Baltimore on a

713
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Speaker 4: Saturday night in which he had a no hitter for

714
00:32:40,440 --> 00:32:43,040
Speaker 4: eight and two third innings. It gives up a home

715
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Speaker 4: run to Jackson Holiday and gets a no decision for

716
00:32:46,760 --> 00:32:49,960
Speaker 4: almost throwing a no hitter. Fall that up with seven innings,

717
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Speaker 4: one run against the Giants, no decision, fall that up again,

718
00:32:53,320 --> 00:32:56,520
Speaker 4: five and a third, shutout innings, seven strikeouts, no decision

719
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Speaker 4: against the Giants. He had one win in the month

720
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Speaker 4: of September and four starts and he gave up a

721
00:33:01,400 --> 00:33:06,320
Speaker 4: combined two earned runs and struck out thirty four and

722
00:33:06,360 --> 00:33:08,400
Speaker 4: got one win out of it. So the win loss

723
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Speaker 4: record is a number. I don't like to look at

724
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Speaker 4: it anymore because it's not indicative of how good a

725
00:33:12,680 --> 00:33:16,160
Speaker 4: pitcher can be. But the numbers you talked about are

726
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Speaker 4: really indicative about what he was able to do this year.

727
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Speaker 6: Yeah, and that's why you got to look at those

728
00:33:20,800 --> 00:33:24,880
Speaker 6: internal numbers to really get the best description of what

729
00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:27,280
Speaker 6: kind of a year he had. And you're right, the

730
00:33:27,320 --> 00:33:30,920
Speaker 6: one loss doesn't show it, although you know, you ask

731
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Speaker 6: anybody about the one loss, and because of these reasons,

732
00:33:33,920 --> 00:33:36,280
Speaker 6: they'll say it doesn't matter. But I think in the

733
00:33:36,320 --> 00:33:40,160
Speaker 6: long run, it does matter, because there's times where guys

734
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Speaker 6: will stick it out when they're not having their best stuff.

735
00:33:43,440 --> 00:33:45,480
Speaker 6: They'll get past five innings, they get a little bit

736
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Speaker 6: of run support, and they wind up winning a six

737
00:33:47,920 --> 00:33:51,680
Speaker 6: to four game, So it can mean something about and

738
00:33:51,760 --> 00:33:54,640
Speaker 6: say something about intestinal fortitude by staying in the game

739
00:33:54,680 --> 00:33:57,360
Speaker 6: and battling it out and getting past that five inning

740
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Speaker 6: mark and keeping your team in the in the in

741
00:34:00,560 --> 00:34:03,360
Speaker 6: the you know, in the hunt to win. But on

742
00:34:03,400 --> 00:34:05,880
Speaker 6: the other hand, you can have a year like Yamamoto

743
00:34:05,920 --> 00:34:08,799
Speaker 6: had where you just got nothing to show for it.

744
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Speaker 5: So it can cut both ways.

745
00:34:10,760 --> 00:34:13,960
Speaker 6: But it can also show a lot of intent and

746
00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:15,920
Speaker 6: a lot of intestinal fort to just stay in a

747
00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:18,879
Speaker 6: game and keep your team in the hunt until they can,

748
00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:20,960
Speaker 6: you know, get over that hump of not scoring any

749
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Speaker 6: runs like Yamamoto had to suffer through.

750
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Speaker 4: I look at how well he's done pitching into games

751
00:34:26,520 --> 00:34:29,080
Speaker 4: the second half of the season, in particular, when these

752
00:34:29,080 --> 00:34:31,480
Speaker 4: guys got lengthened out and they were really starting to

753
00:34:31,520 --> 00:34:33,799
Speaker 4: get that rotation in order, and they were pitching once

754
00:34:33,840 --> 00:34:35,879
Speaker 4: a week, no doubt, so they're going a little deeper

755
00:34:35,920 --> 00:34:38,600
Speaker 4: into games. But he had four different times in which

756
00:34:38,640 --> 00:34:40,640
Speaker 4: he threw over one hundred pitches since the All Star

757
00:34:40,680 --> 00:34:42,959
Speaker 4: I mak that's six times since the All Star breaks,

758
00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:44,960
Speaker 4: so he gave him some length as far as outings

759
00:34:45,080 --> 00:34:47,400
Speaker 4: the innings pitched only twice did he not go past

760
00:34:47,400 --> 00:34:49,920
Speaker 4: the fifth inning? So he pitched deep into games for

761
00:34:49,960 --> 00:34:52,640
Speaker 4: this Dodgers team, and again just the victim of no

762
00:34:53,280 --> 00:34:55,719
Speaker 4: run support in most of these starts here in the

763
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Speaker 4: second half of the season.

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Speaker 6: So and Tim wasn't wasn't you know, I'm and I'm

765
00:35:00,360 --> 00:35:02,600
Speaker 6: just asking this because I don't know for sure. I've

766
00:35:02,600 --> 00:35:05,960
Speaker 6: never even been to Japan before, But aren't there workouts

767
00:35:05,960 --> 00:35:10,160
Speaker 6: there in Japan? The amount of pitches they throw and

768
00:35:10,480 --> 00:35:14,080
Speaker 6: the workload that you have as a pitcher is a

769
00:35:14,080 --> 00:35:15,319
Speaker 6: lot more than it is here.

770
00:35:16,760 --> 00:35:18,839
Speaker 4: I think per game it is, but they only they

771
00:35:18,840 --> 00:35:19,800
Speaker 4: only e pitch it once.

772
00:35:19,680 --> 00:35:21,600
Speaker 5: A week over there, once a week. Yeah, but when

773
00:35:21,640 --> 00:35:23,440
Speaker 5: you're out there, their splits.

774
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Speaker 6: Are like I mean, you know, like when they when

775
00:35:25,480 --> 00:35:28,480
Speaker 6: they throw you know, on this on a side in

776
00:35:28,520 --> 00:35:31,480
Speaker 6: the bullpen. I mean, from what I understand, it's a

777
00:35:31,520 --> 00:35:35,439
Speaker 6: lot of pitches, yeah, and the workload is huge. Once

778
00:35:35,480 --> 00:35:38,640
Speaker 6: a week pitching, yes, on the bump, but outside of that,

779
00:35:38,760 --> 00:35:40,160
Speaker 6: there's a lot of pitches that are thrown.

780
00:35:40,280 --> 00:35:40,440
Speaker 5: Well.

781
00:35:40,520 --> 00:35:42,200
Speaker 4: I don't know if you've seen the video, but when

782
00:35:42,200 --> 00:35:45,080
Speaker 4: he came over last year in spring training, there's the

783
00:35:45,120 --> 00:35:47,880
Speaker 4: workouts of him on the field and it wasn't throwing

784
00:35:47,880 --> 00:35:50,840
Speaker 4: a baseball. It wasn't throwing a football, which has gotten

785
00:35:50,880 --> 00:35:53,000
Speaker 4: a big play in baseball over the years. It was

786
00:35:53,040 --> 00:35:56,160
Speaker 4: throwing a javelin. And then really the way he throws it,

787
00:35:56,200 --> 00:35:58,000
Speaker 4: the way he can grip it, the way he can

788
00:35:58,000 --> 00:36:01,160
Speaker 4: get extension, It loosens up his back, It helps him

789
00:36:01,200 --> 00:36:03,520
Speaker 4: with his technique and his follow through. He throws a

790
00:36:03,600 --> 00:36:06,759
Speaker 4: javelin down a field to get his arm right and

791
00:36:06,760 --> 00:36:09,279
Speaker 4: to get to his mechanics right. So, yeah, interesting way

792
00:36:09,280 --> 00:36:11,160
Speaker 4: of doing things. And he kind of caught people by

793
00:36:11,200 --> 00:36:13,520
Speaker 4: surprise on what the world's this guy doing. We've never

794
00:36:13,520 --> 00:36:15,359
Speaker 4: seen this before, but that, you.

795
00:36:15,320 --> 00:36:17,719
Speaker 6: Know, the the football thing was kind of a and

796
00:36:17,719 --> 00:36:21,000
Speaker 6: that was that was a Tom House invention, wasn't it.

797
00:36:21,120 --> 00:36:24,520
Speaker 6: Yeahlin Ryan started doing it first, Yeah, and then uh

798
00:36:24,640 --> 00:36:26,920
Speaker 6: and and then now you got a javelin thrower.

799
00:36:27,200 --> 00:36:29,480
Speaker 5: Hey, if it works, I'm out for it, man. I

800
00:36:29,520 --> 00:36:32,600
Speaker 5: mean that's the that's the the way it goes. Things

801
00:36:32,600 --> 00:36:34,680
Speaker 5: evolve and you find new ways to make things work.

802
00:36:34,719 --> 00:36:37,080
Speaker 6: And if that's if that's I can see that because

803
00:36:37,120 --> 00:36:38,520
Speaker 6: a javelin, you know, you're throwing a javelin.

804
00:36:38,520 --> 00:36:40,239
Speaker 5: I've ever thrown one, but I see him on.

805
00:36:40,200 --> 00:36:41,920
Speaker 6: TV throw it, and you've got to have a lot

806
00:36:41,960 --> 00:36:44,600
Speaker 6: of extension, you know, got to get your shoulder really extended.

807
00:36:46,719 --> 00:36:48,919
Speaker 5: It makes sense to me from what I've seen.

808
00:36:49,080 --> 00:36:51,759
Speaker 4: Yeah, and according to Yamamoto, just quickly looking at an

809
00:36:51,840 --> 00:36:54,080
Speaker 4: article of him talking about it, uh when he first

810
00:36:54,120 --> 00:36:55,880
Speaker 4: got here, he said, part of that training is to

811
00:36:55,920 --> 00:36:59,560
Speaker 4: alleviate elbow pain, improve pitching mechanics since you talked about,

812
00:36:59,560 --> 00:37:02,840
Speaker 4: and build arm strength by focusing on lower body power

813
00:37:02,920 --> 00:37:06,799
Speaker 4: and proper sequencing. So it's more of a mechanics thing,

814
00:37:06,880 --> 00:37:09,279
Speaker 4: and to get the pressure off of the elbow in

815
00:37:09,320 --> 00:37:13,320
Speaker 4: between starts and doing his exercises. So interesting, Hey, it works,

816
00:37:13,800 --> 00:37:16,759
Speaker 4: more people will start doing it, and so it's been

817
00:37:16,800 --> 00:37:20,520
Speaker 4: successful for Yoshinobu yamamotos He gets to start and make sure.

818
00:37:20,320 --> 00:37:22,800
Speaker 6: Nobody gets in and make sure nobody gets impaled in

819
00:37:22,840 --> 00:37:27,000
Speaker 6: the stands. You don't want to see anything like that.

820
00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:30,600
Speaker 4: That's the important thing. Whoever is fifty yards away, heads up, boy, he.

821
00:37:30,640 --> 00:37:32,960
Speaker 6: Can really throw that javelin. The problem is we've got

822
00:37:32,960 --> 00:37:34,920
Speaker 6: two people in the hospital with spears in their neck.

823
00:37:35,080 --> 00:37:35,520
Speaker 1: Javelin.

824
00:37:35,640 --> 00:37:38,879
Speaker 4: Want to see that incoming? Heads up, everybody, that's right,

825
00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:41,040
Speaker 4: we'll come back. We'll come back. We'll get to your

826
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Speaker 4: phone calls eight sixty six, nine eighty seven, two five seventy.

827
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Speaker 4: We'll hear from both managers, Rob Thompson of the Phillies

828
00:37:46,040 --> 00:37:51,280
Speaker 4: Dave Roberts of the Dodgers. We'll also hear from Mookie Betts.

829
00:37:51,440 --> 00:37:53,760
Speaker 4: We'll check in with David Vets staying at eight o'clock hour.

830
00:37:54,080 --> 00:37:56,799
Speaker 4: A one lucky Dodger fan between nine and between now

831
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Speaker 4: and nine o'clock is going to Game three of this NLS.

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Speaker 4: Nowhere else are you getting tickets to the biggest sporting

833
00:38:03,200 --> 00:38:09,040
Speaker 4: event in LA tonight, Game three of the NLDS Dodgers

834
00:38:09,080 --> 00:38:11,319
Speaker 4: and Phillies. And we got them for you right here

835
00:38:11,480 --> 00:38:14,600
Speaker 4: on Saxon Kate's and am on NFI seventy LA Sports.

836
00:38:20,200 --> 00:38:25,000
Speaker 4: Maybe we'll hear this tonight. With Clayton Kershaw coming through

837
00:38:25,040 --> 00:38:28,640
Speaker 4: the gates of the Dodger bullpen as a Dodger reliever,

838
00:38:29,520 --> 00:38:32,239
Speaker 4: we'll find out he'll be just the next in a

839
00:38:32,320 --> 00:38:34,799
Speaker 4: line of Dodger starters who have made their way down

840
00:38:34,840 --> 00:38:38,160
Speaker 4: to the bullpen and helped out this Dodger team in relief.

841
00:38:38,160 --> 00:38:41,440
Speaker 4: We've already seen it from Tyler Glass. Now imachean rookie

842
00:38:41,480 --> 00:38:44,920
Speaker 4: Sasaki who is now emerged as the Dodger closer and

843
00:38:44,960 --> 00:38:49,080
Speaker 4: now Clayton Kershaw awaiting an opportunity to pitch in this

844
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Speaker 4: nl DS Game three tonight out of Dodgers datium. He

845
00:38:52,040 --> 00:38:54,520
Speaker 4: is Steve Sacks. I am Tim kats in here on

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Speaker 4: m five seventy, LA Sports Live in local all postseason long.

847
00:38:58,400 --> 00:39:01,000
Speaker 4: During the Dodgers playoff run eight six nine eighty seven

848
00:39:01,280 --> 00:39:05,000
Speaker 4: two five seventy, we mentioned the Phillies wearing their baby blues,

849
00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:08,600
Speaker 4: their powder blues of the nineteen seventies and early eighties. Saxie,

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00:39:08,920 --> 00:39:11,840
Speaker 4: I kind of like those uniforms. You got the the

851
00:39:11,880 --> 00:39:14,680
Speaker 4: p on the front, you got the baby blue uniforms.

852
00:39:15,280 --> 00:39:17,319
Speaker 4: I just kind of pitcher Pete Rose wearing those back

853
00:39:17,320 --> 00:39:20,880
Speaker 4: in the day. They like these uniforms because they've been

854
00:39:20,920 --> 00:39:24,520
Speaker 4: successful in these uniforms, and they're looking for anything they

855
00:39:24,560 --> 00:39:28,080
Speaker 4: can do right now to get a win. Down two

856
00:39:28,239 --> 00:39:31,880
Speaker 4: in this NLDS not hitting home runs, the pitching hasn't

857
00:39:31,880 --> 00:39:35,080
Speaker 4: been there through the first two games, and they're six

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Speaker 4: and one in the twenty twenty five regular season wearing

859
00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:41,240
Speaker 4: their powder blues as opposed to forty one and forty

860
00:39:41,800 --> 00:39:47,440
Speaker 4: wearing their traditional gray road uniforms. So the Phillies trying

861
00:39:47,520 --> 00:39:51,920
Speaker 4: anything they can right now to change the mojo, change

862
00:39:51,960 --> 00:39:54,000
Speaker 4: things up as far as the way this series has

863
00:39:54,040 --> 00:39:57,759
Speaker 4: gone so far through two games, and including their uniforms.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, and that's fine.

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Speaker 6: And you know you'd expect a team to want to

866
00:40:02,360 --> 00:40:04,000
Speaker 6: kind of change things up, get it to get a

867
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Speaker 6: different look, if you will. And so going to the

868
00:40:07,200 --> 00:40:10,480
Speaker 6: Powder Blues, you know, I didn't care about, didn't make

869
00:40:10,520 --> 00:40:11,719
Speaker 6: a difference to the opposition.

870
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Speaker 5: We faced the Powder Blues a lot.

871
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Speaker 6: I will say that in eighty three when we dowsed

872
00:40:18,400 --> 00:40:20,440
Speaker 6: the Phillies the whole year, I believe, and we can

873
00:40:20,480 --> 00:40:23,680
Speaker 6: look this up. I think we won every game twelve

874
00:40:23,719 --> 00:40:27,560
Speaker 6: and oh against Philadelphia during the season. Not sure, they

875
00:40:27,600 --> 00:40:29,480
Speaker 6: may have won one game, but I think it was

876
00:40:29,520 --> 00:40:32,640
Speaker 6: twelve and oh. So we destroyed these guys during the season.

877
00:40:33,200 --> 00:40:34,719
Speaker 6: We face these guys.

878
00:40:34,480 --> 00:40:36,960
Speaker 5: They are our foes, our first.

879
00:40:37,080 --> 00:40:42,080
Speaker 6: Tiered flow in a foes in the postseason, and they

880
00:40:42,120 --> 00:40:45,520
Speaker 6: beat us four straight. They beat us fourth straight after

881
00:40:45,560 --> 00:40:47,080
Speaker 6: we just slaughtered them during the year.

882
00:40:47,239 --> 00:40:49,520
Speaker 4: You guys won eleven of twelve during the regular.

883
00:40:49,239 --> 00:40:52,200
Speaker 6: Season, eleven of twelve, and then they beat us four straight.

884
00:40:52,280 --> 00:40:57,479
Speaker 6: So that's that's how this can happen. I mean, it's crazy,

885
00:40:57,560 --> 00:40:59,400
Speaker 6: but you know that wasn't the case with the Dodgers.

886
00:40:59,400 --> 00:41:01,880
Speaker 6: I don't think the you know, did that great against

887
00:41:01,880 --> 00:41:04,680
Speaker 6: the Phillies through throughout the season, right, I mean yeah,

888
00:41:04,760 --> 00:41:07,160
Speaker 6: So so this is a different This is kind of

889
00:41:07,160 --> 00:41:09,400
Speaker 6: a flip. And you see this a lot. It happens

890
00:41:09,480 --> 00:41:12,719
Speaker 6: where a team can dominate one go to postseason and

891
00:41:12,760 --> 00:41:16,239
Speaker 6: it's a different script man that Listen. I guarantee you

892
00:41:16,360 --> 00:41:19,560
Speaker 6: we were not eleven and one better than the Phillies

893
00:41:19,640 --> 00:41:22,799
Speaker 6: during that year, and it showed up in postseason and

894
00:41:22,840 --> 00:41:26,680
Speaker 6: the Phillies were not that dominant over the Dodgers. Uh,

895
00:41:26,920 --> 00:41:29,759
Speaker 6: you know whatever the record was throughout this year. So

896
00:41:29,800 --> 00:41:31,120
Speaker 6: it's kind of showing up.

897
00:41:31,160 --> 00:41:31,399
Speaker 5: Now.

898
00:41:31,640 --> 00:41:34,360
Speaker 6: This this thing has a way of evening out, and

899
00:41:34,719 --> 00:41:37,759
Speaker 6: postseasons included in that that whole lump, if you will,

900
00:41:37,840 --> 00:41:40,359
Speaker 6: So it comes back in this it'll show up. You know,

901
00:41:40,400 --> 00:41:41,920
Speaker 6: the teams aren't that big of a difference.

902
00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:44,440
Speaker 4: Well, the games are managed different in October than they

903
00:41:44,440 --> 00:41:47,200
Speaker 4: are during a three game series in July. You know,

904
00:41:47,280 --> 00:41:49,759
Speaker 4: you're you're you're maybe not going to go to a

905
00:41:49,760 --> 00:41:53,800
Speaker 4: certain guy in August or July of a series because

906
00:41:53,840 --> 00:41:55,400
Speaker 4: you don't want to use them because you've used them

907
00:41:55,400 --> 00:41:57,080
Speaker 4: too out of the last three games, So you stay

908
00:41:57,080 --> 00:41:59,839
Speaker 4: away from a certain reliever roll in October. You gotta

909
00:41:59,880 --> 00:42:01,839
Speaker 4: have all hands on deck, and maybe you are going

910
00:42:01,840 --> 00:42:03,879
Speaker 4: to that guy out of the bullpen that you weren't

911
00:42:03,880 --> 00:42:05,480
Speaker 4: going to go to in a regular season game and

912
00:42:05,480 --> 00:42:08,400
Speaker 4: you lost that regular season game. So it is managed differently,

913
00:42:09,239 --> 00:42:11,600
Speaker 4: and the styles are different certainly between regular season and

914
00:42:11,680 --> 00:42:15,279
Speaker 4: road games. It's going to be postseason games. But the uniforms.

915
00:42:15,520 --> 00:42:18,680
Speaker 4: Is there anything you ever did a team you're on

916
00:42:18,719 --> 00:42:22,640
Speaker 4: that that ever needed to change the mojo, change the

917
00:42:23,520 --> 00:42:26,040
Speaker 4: situation of a series, or the way I thought something

918
00:42:26,120 --> 00:42:28,960
Speaker 4: was going, the way a season was going, a losing

919
00:42:29,000 --> 00:42:31,360
Speaker 4: streak that you guys needed to do to kind of

920
00:42:31,440 --> 00:42:36,279
Speaker 4: change things around, whether it's a routine uniform, something that

921
00:42:36,400 --> 00:42:38,319
Speaker 4: just needed to change the way things were going for

922
00:42:38,360 --> 00:42:38,760
Speaker 4: you guys.

923
00:42:39,080 --> 00:42:42,719
Speaker 6: Yes, And sometimes you would come to the ballpark if

924
00:42:42,719 --> 00:42:45,600
Speaker 6: you guys are slumping whatever, the manager will come in

925
00:42:45,640 --> 00:42:49,200
Speaker 6: the in the locker room and say, okay, tomorrow it's

926
00:42:49,200 --> 00:42:51,120
Speaker 6: going to be just one of a They call it

927
00:42:51,160 --> 00:42:55,080
Speaker 6: like a cold start, where you come in, you get loose,

928
00:42:55,120 --> 00:42:58,480
Speaker 6: and you play the game. No batting practice, no infield practice.

929
00:42:58,880 --> 00:43:01,400
Speaker 6: None of that don't come early because we're not Gonnave.

930
00:43:01,440 --> 00:43:03,040
Speaker 6: The locker room won't even be opened. If you hear

931
00:43:03,040 --> 00:43:05,640
Speaker 6: for treatment, you can do that, But other than that,

932
00:43:05,800 --> 00:43:08,200
Speaker 6: I just want guys showing up, putting on the uniform,

933
00:43:08,239 --> 00:43:09,799
Speaker 6: stretch out, and go get them.

934
00:43:09,920 --> 00:43:12,160
Speaker 5: That's how we're gonna do it. And sometimes it you know,

935
00:43:12,239 --> 00:43:13,720
Speaker 5: it changes it up. It helps.

936
00:43:14,000 --> 00:43:17,120
Speaker 6: Do you know that there are times when players have

937
00:43:17,239 --> 00:43:21,480
Speaker 6: gone through their career and they're sick and they still play.

938
00:43:21,920 --> 00:43:25,239
Speaker 6: I've had several times where I know, one time in

939
00:43:25,760 --> 00:43:28,759
Speaker 6: Saint Louis, I had like walking pneumonia and I still

940
00:43:28,800 --> 00:43:32,080
Speaker 6: played the game and I had you have some of

941
00:43:32,120 --> 00:43:36,200
Speaker 6: your best games when you're sick and you know you

942
00:43:36,239 --> 00:43:38,759
Speaker 6: have like a touch of the flu, whatever it may be,

943
00:43:39,480 --> 00:43:42,279
Speaker 6: and you go out there and you're just thinking, I

944
00:43:42,440 --> 00:43:45,239
Speaker 6: just want to think about getting through this game and

945
00:43:45,280 --> 00:43:49,120
Speaker 6: getting to the hotel and turning everything off, taking my

946
00:43:49,200 --> 00:43:51,040
Speaker 6: phone off the hook so it doesn't ring, and I

947
00:43:51,120 --> 00:43:52,560
Speaker 6: just want to go to sleep. I want to get

948
00:43:52,600 --> 00:43:54,560
Speaker 6: something to eat quick, and I want to go to

949
00:43:54,600 --> 00:43:57,160
Speaker 6: bed and just sleep. Take some Nike will whatever it is,

950
00:43:57,280 --> 00:43:59,359
Speaker 6: and I just want to go to sleep. And you

951
00:43:59,440 --> 00:44:02,920
Speaker 6: have some of your best games that way, and again

952
00:44:03,000 --> 00:44:04,840
Speaker 6: this one stands out for me. In Saint Louis, I

953
00:44:04,880 --> 00:44:08,600
Speaker 6: was facing the former fellow Sacramento It was Bob or

954
00:44:08,680 --> 00:44:11,480
Speaker 6: ken Forsch. They were both pitching, I believe on the

955
00:44:11,480 --> 00:44:13,520
Speaker 6: team at the same time had one of my best

956
00:44:13,520 --> 00:44:16,200
Speaker 6: games because I just wanted to get out of there.

957
00:44:16,280 --> 00:44:17,799
Speaker 5: And you don't think about things.

958
00:44:17,800 --> 00:44:19,919
Speaker 6: You don't think about, Oh, I gotta wait on the ball,

959
00:44:19,960 --> 00:44:22,320
Speaker 6: I gotta do all those things, see it first and whatever.

960
00:44:23,800 --> 00:44:25,560
Speaker 5: You just go up there and just play and get

961
00:44:25,560 --> 00:44:27,040
Speaker 5: through it. You have some of your best games, man,

962
00:44:27,280 --> 00:44:28,959
Speaker 5: So sometimes that can happen.

963
00:44:29,480 --> 00:44:31,719
Speaker 4: We'll see if the Dodgers tonight can put a final

964
00:44:31,840 --> 00:44:36,719
Speaker 4: nail in this Philadelphia Phillies team who got nothing to lose,

965
00:44:37,200 --> 00:44:40,600
Speaker 4: changing up their uniforms, playing loose as they say, they

966
00:44:40,680 --> 00:44:43,160
Speaker 4: will be going in tonight and the Dodgers need to

967
00:44:43,200 --> 00:44:45,840
Speaker 4: be ready for that. Game Three of the NLDS is

968
00:44:45,840 --> 00:44:48,720
Speaker 4: tonight right here on five seventy La Sports Rogo Casino

969
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970
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Speaker 4: So wait, coming back with your phone calls. We'll hear

971
00:44:52,440 --> 00:44:54,560
Speaker 4: from the manager, Dave Roberts. We'll hear from Rob Thompson.

972
00:44:54,760 --> 00:44:56,719
Speaker 4: David bats joins us in the eight o'clock hour. A

973
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Speaker 4: lot to get to over the next two hours. Who

974
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Speaker 4: want you to be a part of his?

975
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Speaker 3: Well?

976
00:45:00,719 --> 00:45:03,400
Speaker 4: One lucky Dodger fans going to tonight's Game three of

977
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