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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.

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Speaker 4: 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 5: The twenty twenty five Dodgers are the National League's Western

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Speaker 5: Division champions.

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Speaker 1: And you know what that means.

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Speaker 6: Saxon Kates and AM is back.

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

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Speaker 1: and former World Champion Dodger Steve Sacks.

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Speaker 6: Reacting taking your phone calls, talking Dodgers playoff baseball all

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Speaker 6: 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 6: Uh oh, we got ourselves a series. Good morning, Southern California,

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Speaker 6: Rises Shine, thanks for being with us on this Thursday morning,

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Speaker 6: October nine, twenty twenty five. Sax and Kate to the Am.

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Speaker 6: Tim Kats along with two times World Series Champ, Rookie

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Speaker 6: of the Year, one hell of a guy, our favorite

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Speaker 6: number three Steve Sack Saxy. Good morning, Tim Kates. How

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Speaker 6: are you, Tim? Oh, I've had better day, Saxy. I've

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Speaker 6: had better days.

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Speaker 2: It's okay, It's okay, man, It's it's fine. It's fine.

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Speaker 6: Now you sound like David Vasse and his top of

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Speaker 6: the Hour report. There, don't panic. Everything's gonna be okay.

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Speaker 6: He's not panic or he's not gonna pack for Philadelphia.

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Speaker 6: I'm sorry, I'm panicking after what I saw last night.

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Speaker 6: This series has completely shifted. The momentum is now in

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Speaker 6: favor of the Philadelphia Phillies. And I do not like

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Speaker 6: the way this thing is looking going into Game four,

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Speaker 6: because certainly do not want to go back to a

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Speaker 6: Game five on Saturday at the Bank in Philadelphia. This

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Speaker 6: is not a good sign for the Dodgers. After what

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Speaker 6: happened last night. Yamamoto got roughed up, Clayton Kershaw got

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Speaker 6: absolutely torched last night. We got to get into that.

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Speaker 6: We'll hear from Clayton Kershaw. But just last night a disaster. Offensively,

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Speaker 6: what has happened to show? Hey o Tani, where is

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Speaker 6: the Big Three? Where's Andy Pott? Has? What happened to

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Speaker 6: the big hit for the Dodgers? With two outs, everything

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Speaker 6: has flipped saxy.

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Speaker 2: Yes, it's foot for one day, that's okay. I mean, look,

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Speaker 2: you saw all of it go into one pot yesterday.

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Speaker 2: You know we didn't have you didn't have an effective

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Speaker 2: Yamamoto to start out, and he just was missing his spots.

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Speaker 2: On the other hand, you know, you did have some

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Speaker 2: good spots out of the out of the bullpen, which

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Speaker 2: was something to look forward to. But for the most part,

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Speaker 2: you know, Dodgers could not get a big hit. They

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Speaker 2: had traffic on the base pass, not any two out

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Speaker 2: efficiency with the bat, and that's what hurt him. And

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Speaker 2: then of course Clayton had a tough outing, so you know,

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Speaker 2: it is what it is. Did anybody expect really for

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Speaker 2: Aaron Nola to come out and pitched the way he did.

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Speaker 2: He pitched the two great innings which really shortened the

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Speaker 2: game for Swatis, and that was it. I mean they look,

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Speaker 2: here's another thing too, and I'm not trying to be

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Speaker 2: a homer here because I'm not, but the Dodgers didn't

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Speaker 2: have had no luck in the line drives that were

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Speaker 2: caught by the Phillies. They had plenty of those, and

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Speaker 2: it just seemed like every time the Phillies ball hit

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Speaker 2: the bat. It was a base hit. It's one of

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Speaker 2: those games and it happens all the time. Baseball has

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Speaker 2: a little bit of luck in it too. I'm not

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Speaker 2: saying that the Dodgers were unlucky in losing. They didn't

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Speaker 2: play as well as the Phillies. The Phillies came and

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Speaker 2: they rocked. Schwarber was, you know, killing the baseball real

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Speaker 2: muto as well. And they deserve to win. It's only

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Speaker 2: one game, and the Dodgers got the advantage coming in

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Speaker 2: here tonight.

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Speaker 6: They woke up a sleeping bear in Kyle Schwarber, who

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Speaker 6: hit a ball last night and I was in the

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Speaker 6: left field pavilion when he hit it to the right

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Speaker 6: field pavilion and he absolutely crushed that baseball, hitting the

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Speaker 6: top of the roof and hitting it out of Dodger Stadium.

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Speaker 6: It was an absolute monster blast off of show off

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Speaker 6: of Yamamodo last night in the fourth inning, and it's

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Speaker 6: almost like it took the lid off the top for

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Speaker 6: the Phillies, Steve, because that then open things up for

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Speaker 6: the rest of the lineup after him, Guys get hits,

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Speaker 6: guys got on base. The Dodgers defense kind of imploded

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Speaker 6: uh oh. Things unraveled quickly there in that fourth inning

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Speaker 6: to allow three runs to score. And despite all that,

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Speaker 6: the Dodgers were still in the game until they made

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Speaker 6: the decision to leave Clayton Kershaw in the game in

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Speaker 6: the eighth inning, and he just got absolutely hit around

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Speaker 6: out there was it was hard to watch that eighth

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Speaker 2: Yeah it was. And you know that we don't know

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Speaker 2: how much more Clayton's going to pitch, but you know,

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Speaker 2: it's been a phenomenal career, no question about it. And

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Speaker 2: you know, last night was a tough one to watch

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Speaker 2: for him. I felt for him because this was a

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Speaker 2: this is a bad game to come into, you know,

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Speaker 2: and so it is what it is. But really, when

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Speaker 2: I look at the top four guys for the Phillies,

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Speaker 2: they had nine hits the top four guys before that,

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Speaker 2: it was like goose eggs. These guys weren't doing anything.

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Speaker 2: And tonight, yes, last night, they just they just woke

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Speaker 2: up nine hits in the in the top four guys.

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Speaker 2: When you talk about Turner, Sharb or Harper or Harper

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Speaker 2: one night. Maybe that's what it'll be and tonight it'll

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Speaker 2: be different.

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Speaker 6: I was impressed with the crowd. Great job Dodger fans

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Speaker 6: last night, fifty three thousand, six eighty nine, a sellout crowd,

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Speaker 6: and that stock Kevin. I did not but I got

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Speaker 6: a picture from him for his seat, so he sent

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Speaker 6: and said thank you for the tickets. So he was

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Speaker 6: fired up about that. The crowd was fired up from

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Speaker 6: the get go, and they did a great job getting

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Speaker 6: behind you. I'm a when he had two strikes on

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Speaker 6: a hitter and again a three run fourth inning wasn't

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Speaker 6: the end of the world. The Dodgers' bullpen came in

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Speaker 6: after Yamamoto and Anthony Bonda was absolutely lights out, netting

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Speaker 6: to the Phillies in a crucial situation with the game

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Speaker 6: teetering in that spot, Jack Dryer came in and the

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Speaker 6: game was still in reach. You mentioned it, some unlucky

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Speaker 6: hits right out guys. Bam makes a great leaping stab

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Speaker 6: base hits they just hit him right to the phillies

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Speaker 6: where they did make good contact and barrel it up,

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Speaker 6: and that's unlucky, certainly. But the things unraveled when Clayton

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Speaker 6: Kershaw got back out there in the eighth inning, and

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Speaker 6: it was so deflating to see that. And there's a

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Speaker 6: lot of questions from people as to why Clayton Kershaw

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Speaker 6: won't back out there in the eighth indiot, and quite

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Speaker 6: frankly we found out afterwards is because the Dodgers didn't

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Speaker 6: have Tanner Scott, another left hander. They already used Bonda,

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Speaker 6: they already used Dryer, they used Kershaw on the seventh

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Speaker 6: he got hit around, he got out of it without

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Speaker 6: a run of the seventh and in the eighth inning

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Speaker 6: it was still a three to one game. Dave Roberts

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Speaker 6: high leverage guys, and Tanner Scott was not at the

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Speaker 6: ballpark personal reasons, couldn't be at the game, so they

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Speaker 6: didn't have the left tander out of the bullpen, and

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Speaker 6: because of that, they were forced to go back out

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Speaker 6: to Clayton Kershaw in the eighth inning, and that's when

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Speaker 6: the eighth inning just absolutely got away from Clayton Kershaw.

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Speaker 6: He had control issues in the seventh and then the

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Speaker 6: eighth inning things just completely snowballed for him and the

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Speaker 6: Dodgers and put the game out of reach. But again,

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Speaker 6: just I'm so disappointed, Steve. I am just absolutely so

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Speaker 6: disappointed in seeing the Phillies get off the mat. If

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Speaker 6: this was a fight, the Dodgers were looking over him,

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Speaker 6: they were in control, they had knocked him down, it

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Speaker 6: wouldn't have been a complete Mike Tyson knockout. But they

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Speaker 6: did enough in the first two games to get control,

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Speaker 6: looking on top of their opponent and had a chance

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Speaker 6: to finish him off. And it's like they helped them

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Speaker 6: back up, let them back into this series, and all

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Speaker 6: of a sudden, now we got to fight again.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we do have one. And uh, the good thing

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Speaker 2: about the Dodgers situations, they've already faced Sanchez recently, which

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Speaker 2: is a nice thing. It's not like we faced them

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Speaker 2: back in June. I mean, they faced them just last week.

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Speaker 2: So this is this is a this is still uh

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Speaker 2: in favor of the Dodgers. I feel. Look the way

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Speaker 2: it is and the way it was before yesterday's game,

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Speaker 2: So include yesterday is the Phillies got to be just

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Speaker 2: about perfect to to to win this series. They really

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Speaker 2: got to be perfect for four games. They really can't

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Speaker 2: have one significant part of their game that goes down,

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Speaker 2: Like they have their starting pitcher that just you know,

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Speaker 2: uh just can't can't get out of bed and he's

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Speaker 2: just he's terrible, or you know, you have a bullpen collapse,

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Speaker 2: have some base running blunders, you have guys throw onto

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Speaker 2: the wrong, wrong base, or whatever it may be. But

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Speaker 2: if you have anything that that that's blaring and in

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Speaker 2: big you know they're not gonna win. And that's the

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Speaker 2: thing is, they got to be perfect for four games

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Speaker 2: in a row. I don't know if that's gonna happen.

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Speaker 6: We'll find out tonight with Game four, actually this afternoon,

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Speaker 6: with Game four and three to zero, wait first pitch

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Speaker 6: out of Dodgers Stadium. We had a lot to dissect

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Speaker 6: from this game, including the struggles of the Big Three.

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Speaker 6: We're gonna get him more too that eighth inning and

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Speaker 6: Clayton kershaw Yamamoto star David Vassi joins us in the

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Speaker 6: eight o'clock hour. Let's hear though from the manager. Dave Roberts.

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Speaker 6: Here he is postgame last night, and listen to his tone.

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Speaker 6: Everybody not a happy Dave Roberts.

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Speaker 7: I thought we had an early opportunity in that first

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Speaker 7: situational at bet versus Nolan. Then they you know, after

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Speaker 7: Tuo inings, they went to Ranger. You know, Tommy leads

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Speaker 7: off that you know, gets that first homer, and then

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Speaker 7: after that, I just felt that we just couldn't put

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Speaker 7: anything together versus Ranger. The cutter, the sinker, the changeup

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Speaker 7: mix and just obviously really didn't threaten in any capacity,

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Speaker 7: and he threw the ball well tonight.

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Speaker 4: Why do you think show Hayes struggled at the plate

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Speaker 4: so much series? And as part of it just the

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Speaker 4: number of lefties he's see and the kind of looks

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Speaker 4: he's getting there.

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Speaker 7: I think the lefties is part of it. But I

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Speaker 7: just think that his his his plate, his decision making

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Speaker 7: hasn't been good. You know, you can see, you know,

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Speaker 7: it's it's balls in off and he's really not given

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Speaker 7: himself a chance to you know, hit a mistake. I

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Speaker 7: just think that he's in between a little bit, but

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Speaker 7: the swing decisions are just not where they need to be.

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Speaker 8: Right now.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, that's kind of what I say, swing decision making.

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Speaker 4: And then you guys used a lot of the relievers tonight.

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Speaker 4: Tanner Scott wasn't one of them. Is he an option

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Speaker 4: for you right now?

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Speaker 7: No, Tanner was. He was not at the ballpark today.

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Speaker 7: There was something going on personal, so he and it'll

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Speaker 2: And you know, Tim in a macro view of this thing,

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Speaker 2: It's it's hard to hit when you're behind on the count.

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Speaker 2: He's got him right where he wants them. But he's

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Speaker 2: I think because he just cut down on his wing

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I think he's best when he goes the other way.

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Speaker 2: you know. So he can be pitched to. We saw

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Speaker 2: Glasnow pitch to him really well with that big hook.

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Speaker 2: Change the eye angle on this guy, up and down,

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Speaker 2: in and out. You can be pitched to. But if

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Speaker 2: you leave him something he's looking for, he's gonna crush it.

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Speaker 2: And he does it with regularity. Yeah.

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Speaker 6: His I don't know if it's his bats bey, his hands.

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Speaker 2: Phenomenal batspeed too. He's strong, dude, man, he really is.

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Speaker 6: Oh he he Every swing is a hard swing and

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Speaker 6: that's why he's swing or miss. Like you mentioned, he's

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Speaker 6: that ultimate slug guy in baseball home runner strike out in.

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Speaker 2: His approached him. He's up there to do maximum damage

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Speaker 2: every single time. And you know, you talk about some

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Speaker 2: of the slumps that guys go through, and oh, Tany's

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Speaker 2: really not hitting it right now. I looked up yesterday

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Speaker 2: because I love I love the history of the game,

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Speaker 2: and I looked at Mickey Mantle's stats. Okay, you go

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Speaker 2: to Baseball Reference and look at Mickey Mental his stats.

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Speaker 2: The emboldened numbers just jump off the page. They're everywhere.

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Speaker 2: You know, this guy was a ridiculous baseball player. But remember,

448
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Speaker 2: Mickey Mental had tremendous of slumps that he went through

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Speaker 2: in his career, many many deep slumps that he went through.

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Speaker 2: But when he was good man, he was unbelievable. And

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Speaker 2: just look at the numbers. But he had tremendous amounts

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Speaker 2: of slumps and they were deep.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, Dodgers right now, offensively are in a hole. The

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Speaker 6: Dodgers need to figure it out and figure it out fast.

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Speaker 6: With Game four coming up this afternoon, we'll take a break.

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Speaker 6: We're gonna come back, as we're often running here on

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Speaker 6: Saxon Kates in the am. Coming up, David Vestaking our

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Speaker 6: eight o'clock hour. You're gonna hear from Mookie Betts coming up.

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Speaker 6: You're gonna hear from Clayton Kershaw coming up at seven

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Speaker 6: o'clock this morning, and we want to hear from you.

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Speaker 6: What's your sense of panic now after the Game three

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Speaker 6: loss last night? Yeah, I'm a Moto fellow part Clayton

463
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Speaker 6: Kershaw got shelled and the Dodgers Big three are not

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Speaker 6: producing the worst time for the Dodgers to not produce

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Speaker 6: was last night in a closeout game. They got to

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Speaker 6: get out of the funk. Game four this afternoon or

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Speaker 6: else it's back to els for a Game five on

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Speaker 6: Saturday night eight sixty six, nine eighty seven two five seventy.

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Speaker 6: He is Steve Sacks. I am Tim Kaids. Dodgers Game

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Speaker 6: four the NLDS coming up this afternoon right here on

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Speaker 6: M five seventy LA Sports. Thanks for being with us,

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Speaker 6: SAX and Kate's and AM Live and local on your

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Speaker 6: home of the Dodgers a M five seventy LA Sports.

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Speaker 6: Dodgers need to pick themselves up, put last night behind them,

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Speaker 6: and get ready for Game four of the NLDS this afternoon.

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Speaker 6: A three to oh eight first pitch from Dodger Stadium

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Speaker 6: right here on NFI seventy LA Sports. Tyler Glass now

478
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Speaker 6: gets to start. Dodgers had a chance to closings out

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Speaker 6: last night in a game three of two games to

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Speaker 6: nothing in the best of five series, but could not

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Speaker 6: close the door. As the Phillies will rup for five

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Speaker 6: runs off of Clayton Kershaw on the eighth inning and

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Speaker 6: go on and win it by final of eight to two.

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Speaker 6: We're gonna get into Clayton Kershall. We'll hear from cursh

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Speaker 6: coming up at seven o'clock. But the offense last night

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Speaker 6: was a problem. And it's not like the offense really

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Speaker 6: has been tearing the cover off the ball this whole

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Speaker 6: series to these sacks. I mean, the Dodgers get to

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Speaker 6: win in Philadelphia on Saturday and on Monday in the

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Speaker 6: second game of this series, and it wasn't like it

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Speaker 6: was an offensive eruption from the Big three or the

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Speaker 6: bottom of the lineup, or like they're putting up all

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Speaker 6: these crooked numbers on the scoreboard. They won the games,

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Speaker 6: and maybe we overlooked the fact that some of these

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Speaker 6: guys in the lineup have been struggling, Like show hey

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Speaker 6: o Tani, who has got just one hit in this series.

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Speaker 6: But last night, in a tight game, the Dodgers couldn't

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Speaker 6: get those big hits. They were one first seven with

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Speaker 6: runners in scoring position, and they had some opportunities early,

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Speaker 6: and they had a golden opportunity against Aaron Nola in

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Speaker 6: the first inning. We heard Dave Roberts allude to that

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Speaker 6: opportunity when Mookie Betts tripled the second batter of the

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Speaker 6: bottom of the first and the ball gets past Marsh

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Speaker 6: he slides into third, one out, Mookie Betts standing at

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Speaker 6: third base, the Dodgers knocking on the door. Tayoscar Hernandez

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Speaker 6: comes up and strikes out on four pitches and swings

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Speaker 6: at two pitches outside the zone. Not a great at

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Speaker 6: bat by Taoskar Hernandez. The last thing you can do

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Speaker 6: is strike out, put the ball in play, sack, fly somewhere,

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Speaker 6: ball to the right side. You cannot strike out, and

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Speaker 6: he did. Freddie Freeman gets hit by a pitch. Will

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Speaker 6: Smith strikes out looking. Dodgers can't score a run. Fourth inning,

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Speaker 6: Dodgers get across, have another opportunity to you know, to

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Speaker 6: get some something going. They had runners on first and second.

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Speaker 6: Andy Pajis pops out to Indi inning. In the sixth inning,

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Speaker 6: Dodger's still only down three to one. They get a single,

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Speaker 6: They get a single, runners on first and second, Max

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Speaker 6: Munty up three to one. Game in the six and

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Speaker 6: Monthy grounds in to a four to six to three

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Speaker 6: double play. The last night, the Dodgers could not get

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Speaker 6: the key hit. They had opportunities, they did, but the

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Speaker 6: guys that they've been counting on all season long to

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Speaker 6: deliver with two outs, to come up with a base

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Speaker 6: hit to put the ball in play somewhere just didn't happen.

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Speaker 6: You chalk that up to just a one game where

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Speaker 6: the other team got the best of you, Or is

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Speaker 6: there a problem here with this offense?

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Speaker 2: These first game, no problem, it's it's it's one game. Look,

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Speaker 2: I think this is true. So that up to yesterday,

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Speaker 2: for teams that were involved in the you know, the

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Speaker 2: first round as well, they didn't have a bye. I

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Speaker 2: think the Dodgers were the last team standing that didn't

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Speaker 2: have a loss. Okay, so yesterday was their first loss. Okay,

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Speaker 2: you have to win thirteen games, being that the next

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Speaker 2: round is best of seven and then the World Series

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Speaker 2: round is the best of seven, so you got to

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Speaker 2: win thirteen games all the way through. Did anybody really

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Speaker 2: think that you're going to go thirteen and oh, I mean,

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Speaker 2: it's not gonna happen. It's it's almost impossible because you're

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Speaker 2: playing the elite teams now, it's not it's not like

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Speaker 2: you're playing the you know, it's not like you're playing

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Speaker 2: the worst team in baseball. You're playing the best of

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Speaker 2: the best. And so you're not going to go thirteen

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Speaker 2: to Oh probably not. I would bet that that's not

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Speaker 2: going to happen. So it's I mean, you come back today,

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Speaker 2: you washed this one out. You had some good points

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Speaker 2: from yesterday. I mean, you got he showed the bend

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Speaker 2: it can be really effective. Band I was really impressed

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Speaker 2: with his with his outing yesterday and trying got a

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Speaker 2: clean inning too. So yeah, you know, confidence was being

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Speaker 2: restored back in the bullpen. That's that's a plus from yesterday.

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Speaker 2: You got to take that and run with it.

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Speaker 6: I think the confidence going into last night's game, at

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Speaker 6: least for me and maybe Dodger fans agree. Eight sixty six,

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Speaker 6: nine eighty seven, two five seventy. You had a two

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Speaker 6: nothing lead. You didn't necessarily, you know, go crazy offensively

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Speaker 6: in Philadelphia to win those two games. Your bullpen was great,

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Speaker 6: You're starting pitching was great. You felt like there was

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Speaker 6: a lot of room for improvement with the offense, and

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Speaker 6: if WHOA, they get going, look out, they're gonna score

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Speaker 6: runs in bunches. And you got Yamamoto on the mount.

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Speaker 6: I mean, Yamamoto's been the guy all season long. Those

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Speaker 6: two factors, A sleeping giant in the offense that really

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Speaker 6: hadn't got going, and Yamamoto, it felt like the right

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Speaker 6: combination to just absolutely take off, and Dodger fans, at

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Speaker 6: least around me, felt, oh, this is a win. I mean,

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Speaker 6: they haven't played their best baseball yet and they're up

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Speaker 6: to nothing, look out, Phillies. And the problem is when

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Speaker 6: Yamamoto is not on, and last night one is one

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Speaker 6: of those nights. You know, he struggled to get ahead

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Speaker 6: and he got hit around, couldn't get any swinging missus.

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Speaker 6: We've seen it this year. When he's good, he's good,

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Speaker 6: and when he's not, he's hit able.

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Speaker 2: Yes, and you know, he was behind in the count

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Speaker 2: a lot. He was missing. A lot of his pitches

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Speaker 2: were glove side, so it looked like he was pulling

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Speaker 2: a lot of the pitches, you know, to his glove side,

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Speaker 2: and you know he only walked one. But that's not

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Speaker 2: the point. That's it doesn't show the real essence of

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Speaker 2: what his outing was about. And that's when he was

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Speaker 2: pitching up hill because he was behind on a lot

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Speaker 2: of the hitters. Give up six hits and four innings

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Speaker 2: and three earned runs, but you know he was He

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Speaker 2: was behind on a lot of hitters. And when you

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Speaker 2: get behind, they shorten the strike zone up. They look

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Speaker 2: for one pitch. They do what's called key holing, and

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Speaker 2: they look for a pitch that's about in the size

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Speaker 2: of a key hole and if if it's not there,

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Speaker 2: they take it. And that's the one Schwarmer hit. So

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Speaker 2: you know, it's it is what it is. It's only

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Speaker 2: one game. But I think the Dodgers are going to

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Speaker 2: come back today and have a little more strength and

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Speaker 2: confidence in their bullpen because they showed that they could

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Speaker 2: do it. And you know, good luck and hitting glass.

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Speaker 7: Now.

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Speaker 2: I mean that curveball he throws is wicked, and we

597
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Speaker 2: saw what he did to Schwarber with that great, big curveball,

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Speaker 2: doing it right in the middle of the plate. The

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Speaker 2: bad part of that is it starts out over your head.

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Speaker 2: He's got a curveball like Nolan Ryan. It's just it's

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Speaker 2: almost impossible to it.

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Speaker 6: Coming up at the eight o'clock now or we're going

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Speaker 6: to get into the S word, and it's a word

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Speaker 6: that nobody wants to talk about. It's something that gets

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Speaker 6: brought up every October, the S word shadows at Dodger Stadium,

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Speaker 6: because at three o'clock game, we're going to get into that.

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Speaker 6: Since you played in many of Dodger games in the

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Speaker 6: postseason and in the afternoon and what the shadows are

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Speaker 6: all about at the ravine, We're going to get into that.

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Speaker 6: Coming up your phone calls eight sixty six ninety seven,

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Speaker 6: two five seventy Edgar and Lamarada. Good morning, Edgar sends

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Speaker 6: a panic from you right now after the Dodgers lost

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Speaker 6: Game three last night in the NLDS.

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Speaker 5: Hey, good morning, good morning scam. Oh no, no panic.

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Speaker 5: Maybe years ago I would have been a little panic.

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Speaker 5: But you know, with the Dodgers coming back against San

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Speaker 5: Diego and the DF last year and winning it all,

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Speaker 5: I mean, they're they're battle tested. So like Saxy saying, Saxy,

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Speaker 5: great to hear your points from a from a player

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Speaker 5: point of view. Yeah, like the Dodgers aren't going to

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Speaker 5: be panicked. Dave Roberts said it in the presser after

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Speaker 5: the game. No panic, flush it out and be ready

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Speaker 5: to go. And you know, if you if you look

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Speaker 5: at it from the beginning of the series, for the

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Speaker 5: Dodgers to take two in Citizens Bank and then come

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Speaker 5: up two, oh, you know, and then lose the first one.

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Speaker 5: Dave Roberts said, you'll take two to one all day,

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Speaker 5: especially knowing you would have took the two and Citizens Bank.

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Speaker 5: So all they got to do is just go out today,

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Speaker 5: flush it down, offense, come out, put some runs up,

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Speaker 5: support Glass and hopefully Glass will be on his game.

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Speaker 5: Hopefully the bulleten and will be on their game, and

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Speaker 5: we'll be celebrating tonight. So go Dodgers.

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Speaker 6: Thanks appreciate the phone call. Look, I did hear a

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Speaker 6: little bit of timid cautiousness in Dave Roberts in his

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Speaker 6: post game last night. He did say, yes, let's flush

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Speaker 6: this away and we got to get ready for Game four.

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Speaker 6: But the way I interpreted Dave Roberts, and this is

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Speaker 6: just me. Maybe I'm wrong, maybe I'm right, I don't know,

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Speaker 6: but I interpreted it is Dave Roberts coming out and saying, yeah,

641
00:31:33,080 --> 00:31:35,360
Speaker 6: we gotta flush this out. But man, I really don't

642
00:31:35,480 --> 00:31:38,040
Speaker 6: like the way my team has approached at swinging the

643
00:31:38,040 --> 00:31:40,440
Speaker 6: bat right now. Our offense isn't too good, but hey,

644
00:31:40,520 --> 00:31:42,840
Speaker 6: we got Tyler Glass now on the mountain game four

645
00:31:42,880 --> 00:31:45,280
Speaker 6: and feel really good about that. But our offense and

646
00:31:45,360 --> 00:31:49,200
Speaker 6: Showy Otani and the big three just aren't producing right now, Gosha,

647
00:31:49,280 --> 00:31:50,840
Speaker 6: one of these guys are gonna start swinging the bat.

648
00:31:50,960 --> 00:31:53,480
Speaker 6: This can't be one of these situation we saw funks

649
00:31:53,480 --> 00:31:56,760
Speaker 6: this year by this offense and certain players going to ruts. Obviously,

650
00:31:57,160 --> 00:31:59,600
Speaker 6: come on, guys, this cannot be the time where they

651
00:31:59,640 --> 00:32:02,680
Speaker 6: have one these ruts where all three of them aren't producing.

652
00:32:04,080 --> 00:32:07,000
Speaker 2: I think I'm gonna push back on that. I read

653
00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:10,760
Speaker 2: that differently. I read that Dave Roberts is being respectful

654
00:32:10,960 --> 00:32:14,480
Speaker 2: to these megastars that he has. Honestly, it's kind of

655
00:32:14,520 --> 00:32:18,240
Speaker 2: hard to rip Clayton Kershaw. I mean that's like throwing

656
00:32:18,280 --> 00:32:20,600
Speaker 2: snowballs at Santa Claus right, I mean that like the

657
00:32:20,640 --> 00:32:24,360
Speaker 2: Philadelphia fans did years ago. It's hard to rip that

658
00:32:24,400 --> 00:32:29,480
Speaker 2: guy because you have so much deference for him. So

659
00:32:29,640 --> 00:32:33,200
Speaker 2: I think that he was trying to couch the right

660
00:32:33,240 --> 00:32:37,640
Speaker 2: words and and not make too much of Otani in

661
00:32:37,680 --> 00:32:39,560
Speaker 2: a slump. It's you know, it's part of the game.

662
00:32:39,920 --> 00:32:43,280
Speaker 2: I mean, look, you're going two games to start at

663
00:32:43,360 --> 00:32:45,640
Speaker 2: the team that had the best record at their own park,

664
00:32:46,080 --> 00:32:48,160
Speaker 2: and what happens the Dodgers going there and they take

665
00:32:48,200 --> 00:32:51,280
Speaker 2: both of them. Now you come back and you have

666
00:32:51,960 --> 00:32:55,840
Speaker 2: Yamamoto on the hill who was just lights out during

667
00:32:55,880 --> 00:32:58,360
Speaker 2: the season, and so you're gonna come back here. And

668
00:32:58,400 --> 00:33:00,680
Speaker 2: the Dodgers had a great home wreck as well, the

669
00:33:00,720 --> 00:33:03,760
Speaker 2: second the best next to the Phillies. So you put

670
00:33:03,760 --> 00:33:06,440
Speaker 2: that on the table and what happens They get beat

671
00:33:06,600 --> 00:33:09,280
Speaker 2: And it makes no sense at all. And that's why

672
00:33:09,280 --> 00:33:12,320
Speaker 2: it's great about baseball. It makes no sense at all.

673
00:33:13,360 --> 00:33:16,880
Speaker 6: Well, it better makes sense this afternoon for Game four,

674
00:33:17,080 --> 00:33:20,040
Speaker 6: because the Dodgers do not want to go back to

675
00:33:20,120 --> 00:33:25,080
Speaker 6: Philadelphia for Game five. Titus Titus in Inglewood since a

676
00:33:25,200 --> 00:33:28,360
Speaker 6: panic this morning after the Game three loss last night, Titus,

677
00:33:28,360 --> 00:33:31,800
Speaker 6: we got ourselves a series, now.

678
00:33:31,200 --> 00:33:31,680
Speaker 8: Yes we do.

679
00:33:31,920 --> 00:33:34,680
Speaker 9: I'm a little nervous and I just want to know

680
00:33:34,760 --> 00:33:38,040
Speaker 9: your thoughts on the possibility the Dodgers come out to

681
00:33:38,120 --> 00:33:40,200
Speaker 9: early leads and maybe by the maybe by the sixth

682
00:33:40,240 --> 00:33:43,720
Speaker 9: to seventh inning when glass Night was out, that Blake

683
00:33:43,760 --> 00:33:45,520
Speaker 9: Snell would come in to close it out, not to

684
00:33:45,560 --> 00:33:47,040
Speaker 9: take any chances of going back to.

685
00:33:48,520 --> 00:33:49,440
Speaker 8: Philadelphia.

686
00:33:50,400 --> 00:33:54,280
Speaker 6: That is, that's one of those hypothetical scenarios that we

687
00:33:54,320 --> 00:33:56,800
Speaker 6: talked about yesterday. If the Dodgers were leading Game three,

688
00:33:56,840 --> 00:33:59,240
Speaker 6: would they go to show Hey O Tania to close

689
00:33:59,280 --> 00:34:02,600
Speaker 6: things out just to put the nail in the Phillies season.

690
00:34:03,360 --> 00:34:06,680
Speaker 6: I don't know, Steve, with Game five looming in this

691
00:34:06,760 --> 00:34:09,880
Speaker 6: Phillies offense, even if you're leading in the fifth, sixth,

692
00:34:09,880 --> 00:34:13,160
Speaker 6: seventh inning, I'm still not going to Blake Snell for

693
00:34:13,239 --> 00:34:15,960
Speaker 6: a close out situation. You've got to keep him in

694
00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:18,080
Speaker 6: the barrel, so to speak, ready to go, locked and

695
00:34:18,080 --> 00:34:22,319
Speaker 6: loaded for a Game five, just in case you have

696
00:34:22,400 --> 00:34:25,120
Speaker 6: to feel confident about the three guys you didn't use

697
00:34:25,200 --> 00:34:28,560
Speaker 6: last night, and Immitt she and Alex Vesia and Roki

698
00:34:28,640 --> 00:34:31,759
Speaker 6: Sasaki who are still fresh for tonight's Game four.

699
00:34:32,080 --> 00:34:36,279
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's your you know, there's your team that you're

700
00:34:36,280 --> 00:34:38,840
Speaker 2: going to use out of the bullpen, especially in a

701
00:34:38,840 --> 00:34:42,080
Speaker 2: tight situation. That'll do. I mean, you know, Sasaki's the

702
00:34:42,120 --> 00:34:44,520
Speaker 2: best thing going right now coming out of the bullpen.

703
00:34:44,600 --> 00:34:46,440
Speaker 2: I think you ride that, and you know, if you

704
00:34:46,520 --> 00:34:48,560
Speaker 2: have to even have him go two innings, he can

705
00:34:48,600 --> 00:34:50,760
Speaker 2: do it. He's a starter and this is what he does,

706
00:34:51,280 --> 00:34:54,200
Speaker 2: so You've got plenty of backup tonight. I'm not worried

707
00:34:54,200 --> 00:34:58,000
Speaker 2: about the bullpen, and it's just about the offense getting

708
00:34:58,040 --> 00:35:00,359
Speaker 2: the big hit. They had traffic on the basis that's

709
00:35:00,440 --> 00:35:03,400
Speaker 2: not that's not the deal. They had some opportunities that

710
00:35:03,520 --> 00:35:05,640
Speaker 2: sometimes you need a big hit. And the Dodger team,

711
00:35:05,680 --> 00:35:09,360
Speaker 2: as no More had so so rightly pointed out yesterday,

712
00:35:09,640 --> 00:35:12,359
Speaker 2: the Dodgers are really good. Any team is good when

713
00:35:12,360 --> 00:35:14,400
Speaker 2: you get two out hits, big hits with two outs,

714
00:35:14,440 --> 00:35:17,800
Speaker 2: crushed the opposition, and that's what the Dodgers were missing yesterday.

715
00:35:18,040 --> 00:35:20,960
Speaker 6: Let's go out to Eric and Marino Valley next up

716
00:35:20,960 --> 00:35:22,879
Speaker 6: here on Sax and Kate's and the am your sense

717
00:35:22,880 --> 00:35:25,600
Speaker 6: of panic after the Game three loss last night, Eric, go.

718
00:35:25,520 --> 00:35:33,160
Speaker 3: Ahead Buenos Los Angeles, o ericty viper, I'm good, I'm good.

719
00:35:33,200 --> 00:35:35,840
Speaker 3: Can you play that viper alarm? Because I am panicked.

720
00:35:36,760 --> 00:35:41,359
Speaker 3: I don't really trust the last now. I don't think

721
00:35:41,400 --> 00:35:46,560
Speaker 3: he's a tough minded If the hitters come out with

722
00:35:46,680 --> 00:35:48,759
Speaker 3: the game plan like they did against Jelomoto where they

723
00:35:48,760 --> 00:35:52,839
Speaker 3: were just swinging hacking on first page following off those fastballs,

724
00:35:52,880 --> 00:35:55,719
Speaker 3: and then Yelomoto felt like he couldn't set them up.

725
00:35:57,440 --> 00:35:59,920
Speaker 3: I I if they have that same game plan, I

726
00:36:00,280 --> 00:36:01,799
Speaker 3: I don't know what Glasshow's gonna do.

727
00:36:02,360 --> 00:36:03,200
Speaker 5: That's thanks guy.

728
00:36:03,280 --> 00:36:06,440
Speaker 6: That's a great point, Eric, and I've I've been dreading

729
00:36:06,520 --> 00:36:09,680
Speaker 6: bringing it up all morning long. But Tyler Glass now

730
00:36:09,840 --> 00:36:13,600
Speaker 6: is really good. But when faced in adversity, Tyler Glass

731
00:36:13,600 --> 00:36:16,640
Speaker 6: now to me may not be the guy you necessarily

732
00:36:16,680 --> 00:36:18,640
Speaker 6: want out there on the mount. And it's just the

733
00:36:18,719 --> 00:36:21,600
Speaker 6: fact when we've seen him in trouble in the rain,

734
00:36:21,960 --> 00:36:23,839
Speaker 6: he falls apart a little bit of mud on the

735
00:36:24,080 --> 00:36:27,600
Speaker 6: on the on the mound, he fell into problems pitching

736
00:36:27,600 --> 00:36:29,400
Speaker 6: and had to come out of the game. He cramps

737
00:36:29,480 --> 00:36:31,960
Speaker 6: up in games when facing a little adversity. That's that's

738
00:36:31,960 --> 00:36:35,240
Speaker 6: sort of been the knock on him when things aren't perfect.

739
00:36:35,280 --> 00:36:37,680
Speaker 6: And it kind of gets joked about Saxy. It's got

740
00:36:37,680 --> 00:36:39,719
Speaker 6: to be seventy eight and Sonny with no win for

741
00:36:39,800 --> 00:36:42,239
Speaker 6: Tyler Glass now, and if it is, he'll have a

742
00:36:42,280 --> 00:36:45,400
Speaker 6: perfect doubting But there's a little bit of weather issue

743
00:36:45,560 --> 00:36:49,279
Speaker 6: or things aren't absolutely right around him. The conditions you

744
00:36:49,320 --> 00:36:51,920
Speaker 6: don't know which Tyler Glass now you're gonna get because

745
00:36:51,960 --> 00:36:54,080
Speaker 6: he's just been so up and down. Now it's a

746
00:36:54,080 --> 00:36:56,799
Speaker 6: three to zero eight first pitch. Looking at weather dot

747
00:36:56,800 --> 00:36:59,040
Speaker 6: com and looking at my app on my phone, looks

748
00:36:59,080 --> 00:37:01,800
Speaker 6: like it's gonna be sunny this afternoon, maybe in the

749
00:37:01,840 --> 00:37:05,200
Speaker 6: low eighties, high seventies. So maybe it will be perfect

750
00:37:05,480 --> 00:37:08,719
Speaker 6: conditions for Tyler Glass. Now it better will be, and

751
00:37:09,520 --> 00:37:11,960
Speaker 6: it better be for him. In again, it's reality. You

752
00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:15,480
Speaker 6: go back and look at cramping he's got when Philadelphia

753
00:37:15,520 --> 00:37:17,719
Speaker 6: had a start. I think it was in Philadelphia, ironically,

754
00:37:18,360 --> 00:37:20,719
Speaker 6: a little bit of rain and it just threw him off.

755
00:37:20,760 --> 00:37:23,520
Speaker 6: He couldn't get his bearings, who couldn't get his landing

756
00:37:23,560 --> 00:37:26,840
Speaker 6: spot down? Then all of a sudden things unravel because

757
00:37:27,600 --> 00:37:30,400
Speaker 6: whatever it is between the years, and again, I'm not

758
00:37:30,520 --> 00:37:35,680
Speaker 6: picking on him. This is just the fact the surroundings

759
00:37:35,719 --> 00:37:39,080
Speaker 6: about him somehow get him off kilter and he gets

760
00:37:39,120 --> 00:37:39,760
Speaker 6: off his game.

761
00:37:40,480 --> 00:37:44,359
Speaker 2: Okay, I don't know. I you know, I'm pushing back

762
00:37:44,400 --> 00:37:46,920
Speaker 2: a little bit on this one. You really got to

763
00:37:46,960 --> 00:37:50,399
Speaker 2: document that stuff, the external factors that throw him off

764
00:37:50,400 --> 00:37:52,000
Speaker 2: his game. I guess. So you're trying to say little

765
00:37:52,040 --> 00:37:54,799
Speaker 2: mud that'll win. You know, the elements hurt. You know,

766
00:37:55,120 --> 00:37:57,320
Speaker 2: I don't know about that. I know his last doubting

767
00:37:57,600 --> 00:37:59,880
Speaker 2: he was you know, look, the elements weren't good with

768
00:38:00,080 --> 00:38:05,720
Speaker 2: a very hostile environment, and he rushed, Okay, he shoved, Okay,

769
00:38:05,880 --> 00:38:09,840
Speaker 2: So I don't know. All I gotta say is, you know,

770
00:38:10,360 --> 00:38:13,920
Speaker 2: with all due respect, and the last caller, Eric, you know,

771
00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:15,920
Speaker 2: grab a bat and go up there and see what

772
00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:19,920
Speaker 2: you think about Tyler Glass. Now, this guy's philthy, Okay,

773
00:38:19,960 --> 00:38:23,600
Speaker 2: he's nasty as hell, and uh, you know, look what

774
00:38:23,640 --> 00:38:25,600
Speaker 2: he did to Schwarber. He just sliced him up and

775
00:38:25,640 --> 00:38:26,960
Speaker 2: minced him up and put him away.

776
00:38:27,160 --> 00:38:29,040
Speaker 6: That is a good point. Though. He did have a

777
00:38:29,080 --> 00:38:32,840
Speaker 6: really good outing under pressure out of the bullpen in Philadelphia.

778
00:38:32,960 --> 00:38:34,839
Speaker 6: So I will give him that as a bounce back,

779
00:38:35,080 --> 00:38:37,080
Speaker 6: as a game that he's now got underneath his belt,

780
00:38:37,120 --> 00:38:40,280
Speaker 6: that he could go out there under Yeah, stringuous conditions.

781
00:38:40,560 --> 00:38:43,319
Speaker 6: I guess it's the best fairy very hostile, I think, yes,

782
00:38:43,400 --> 00:38:45,960
Speaker 6: hostile conditions. You at the bank in Philadelphia.

783
00:38:45,960 --> 00:38:47,920
Speaker 2: I mean, we're just trying to be fair as journalists, right,

784
00:38:47,960 --> 00:38:50,080
Speaker 2: We're just trying to be across the board fair, absolutely,

785
00:38:50,080 --> 00:38:52,080
Speaker 2: and it just got it. You got to mention that too,

786
00:38:52,120 --> 00:38:54,160
Speaker 2: that you know he shoved in a hostile environment.

787
00:38:54,200 --> 00:38:56,759
Speaker 6: Great point. Great point by U Steve Sacks. Eighty six

788
00:38:56,840 --> 00:38:59,240
Speaker 6: six nine eighty seven two five seventy is the number.

789
00:38:59,280 --> 00:39:02,080
Speaker 6: Come back more your phone calls. We'll hear from Clayton

790
00:39:02,160 --> 00:39:03,799
Speaker 6: kersh off the top of the hour and get more

791
00:39:03,840 --> 00:39:06,880
Speaker 6: into his seventh and eighth inning. Last night, things unraveled

792
00:39:06,880 --> 00:39:09,520
Speaker 6: in the eighth as the Dodgers lose Game three of

793
00:39:09,600 --> 00:39:13,120
Speaker 6: the NLDS. Last night, they fall to the Phillies eight

794
00:39:13,200 --> 00:39:15,960
Speaker 6: to two, now a two to one series lead, and

795
00:39:16,080 --> 00:39:18,799
Speaker 6: Game four this afternoon. First pitch three to oh eight

796
00:39:18,880 --> 00:39:26,160
Speaker 6: right here on NFI seventy LA Sports, Sax and Kates

797
00:39:26,160 --> 00:39:28,919
Speaker 6: in the am on this Thursday morning. Thanks for being

798
00:39:28,960 --> 00:39:31,319
Speaker 6: with us here on M five seventy LA Sports as

799
00:39:31,360 --> 00:39:34,880
Speaker 6: we are live in local They're the Dodgers postseason run.

800
00:39:35,800 --> 00:39:38,720
Speaker 6: Game four this afternoon of the NLDS. As the Phillies

801
00:39:38,760 --> 00:39:40,960
Speaker 6: win last night eight to two to force at Game four,

802
00:39:41,040 --> 00:39:43,520
Speaker 6: Dodgers still a two to one series lead. First pitch

803
00:39:43,560 --> 00:39:46,080
Speaker 6: at three toho eight on Moroco Casino. Dodgers on deck

804
00:39:46,120 --> 00:39:49,160
Speaker 6: beginning at two o'clock in the afternoon. Good news is.

805
00:39:49,160 --> 00:39:52,880
Speaker 6: The weather will be eighty degrees and sunny at Dodgers

806
00:39:52,920 --> 00:39:56,239
Speaker 6: Stadium as Tyler Glass now will take on Christopher Sanchez

807
00:39:56,600 --> 00:39:59,400
Speaker 6: in a late afternoon game at Dodgers Stadium. If the

808
00:39:59,400 --> 00:40:02,879
Speaker 6: Dodgers win, they'll await the winner of the other NLDS

809
00:40:02,920 --> 00:40:06,640
Speaker 6: series between the Cubs and the Brewers. If the Dodgers lose,

810
00:40:06,880 --> 00:40:10,040
Speaker 6: they will now head to Philadelphia for a Game five

811
00:40:10,239 --> 00:40:14,000
Speaker 6: on Saturday night. Eight sixty six, nine eighty seven two

812
00:40:14,080 --> 00:40:17,479
Speaker 6: five seventy is the number the Yankees got eliminated last

813
00:40:17,560 --> 00:40:20,800
Speaker 6: night by the Toronto Blue Jays Steve Sachs after winning

814
00:40:20,800 --> 00:40:23,600
Speaker 6: the game to force a game four. We saw the

815
00:40:23,640 --> 00:40:26,400
Speaker 6: Cubs rally to win a game yesterday to force a

816
00:40:26,480 --> 00:40:29,680
Speaker 6: game four in their series against the Milwaukee Brewers, who

817
00:40:29,719 --> 00:40:33,320
Speaker 6: look dominant in their first two games of that NLDS series.

818
00:40:33,520 --> 00:40:36,239
Speaker 6: The other ALDS series is going back to Seattle for

819
00:40:36,360 --> 00:40:40,280
Speaker 6: Game five after the Tigers beat the Mariners in Detroit

820
00:40:40,360 --> 00:40:43,319
Speaker 6: yesterday nine to three. Again, I love this time of

821
00:40:43,360 --> 00:40:45,319
Speaker 6: the year, and I love seeing these battles in these

822
00:40:45,320 --> 00:40:46,200
Speaker 6: divisional series.

823
00:40:46,320 --> 00:40:49,399
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're great, and uh, it's gonna be a great

824
00:40:49,520 --> 00:40:51,960
Speaker 2: World Series no matter who's in there. Hopefully, it'll be

825
00:40:52,000 --> 00:40:56,359
Speaker 2: the Dodgers and and it's you know, maybe Toronto or

826
00:40:56,520 --> 00:40:59,000
Speaker 2: you know, one of the one of the other teams.

827
00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:01,120
Speaker 2: But it's gonna be great because they're all good, you know,

828
00:41:01,200 --> 00:41:03,319
Speaker 2: So it's going to be fun to watch. It's going

829
00:41:03,360 --> 00:41:06,000
Speaker 2: to be a great extended baseball season this year, no

830
00:41:06,200 --> 00:41:07,960
Speaker 2: question about it. Uh.

831
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Speaker 6: Looking at the Dodgers in Game four this afternoon, I

832
00:41:11,600 --> 00:41:15,239
Speaker 6: feel good about the bullpen. I feel good about them

833
00:41:15,280 --> 00:41:18,640
Speaker 6: being set up to carry at least three four innings

834
00:41:18,920 --> 00:41:21,560
Speaker 6: if need be, because you've got Image Sheen down there,

835
00:41:21,600 --> 00:41:24,080
Speaker 6: Alex VESSI is that left handed will come in and

836
00:41:24,120 --> 00:41:27,120
Speaker 6: get get you out of a situation and maybe get

837
00:41:27,120 --> 00:41:30,040
Speaker 6: you out of a jam if necessary. Face those big

838
00:41:30,080 --> 00:41:33,919
Speaker 6: three left handers for the Phillies if necessary, win called upon.

839
00:41:34,239 --> 00:41:37,080
Speaker 6: But I feel good in particular because Image Sheen is

840
00:41:37,160 --> 00:41:40,640
Speaker 6: down there and a starter who can give you multiple innings.

841
00:41:40,840 --> 00:41:42,600
Speaker 6: You don't have to piece it together with four or

842
00:41:42,600 --> 00:41:44,080
Speaker 6: five relievers in this game.

843
00:41:44,120 --> 00:41:44,680
Speaker 2: For today.

844
00:41:44,880 --> 00:41:46,880
Speaker 6: All you need is Glass now to give you five,

845
00:41:47,000 --> 00:41:51,000
Speaker 6: I mean minimum minimum five, get me six and that

846
00:41:51,040 --> 00:41:55,040
Speaker 6: will bridge Ima Shean to Vesia to Sasaki and that's

847
00:41:55,160 --> 00:41:58,040
Speaker 6: all you need down there is those three relievers who

848
00:41:58,080 --> 00:42:00,000
Speaker 6: did not pitch last night for the Dogs.

849
00:42:00,560 --> 00:42:03,719
Speaker 2: Yeah, and remember it's it's how this all works. It

850
00:42:03,719 --> 00:42:06,560
Speaker 2: all works together. You know, the offense takes the pressure

851
00:42:06,880 --> 00:42:10,200
Speaker 2: off the pitching staff and vice versa. But you got

852
00:42:10,200 --> 00:42:12,480
Speaker 2: to get those big hits. That's what makes this whole

853
00:42:12,520 --> 00:42:15,759
Speaker 2: thing go. Put that team at a deficit, at a

854
00:42:15,840 --> 00:42:18,000
Speaker 2: bad start early in the game, and then they can't

855
00:42:18,000 --> 00:42:20,520
Speaker 2: do other things. They can't, you know, go first to

856
00:42:20,560 --> 00:42:23,040
Speaker 2: third is freely, They can't steal bases. They gotta they

857
00:42:23,080 --> 00:42:24,600
Speaker 2: got to kind of hold back. And I know this

858
00:42:24,640 --> 00:42:27,600
Speaker 2: is more of a station to station type of a team,

859
00:42:27,800 --> 00:42:30,359
Speaker 2: but you know they have to improvise sometimes as well.

860
00:42:30,719 --> 00:42:33,160
Speaker 2: And uh, you know the Dodgers have been doing that

861
00:42:33,280 --> 00:42:37,640
Speaker 2: so so good this uh this postseason and this one,

862
00:42:37,880 --> 00:42:40,400
Speaker 2: you know, this one setback right here. One game and

863
00:42:40,440 --> 00:42:43,319
Speaker 2: I know every game is big, but I mean, did

864
00:42:43,320 --> 00:42:45,279
Speaker 2: anybody really think that they're going to go thirteen and

865
00:42:45,320 --> 00:42:47,400
Speaker 2: oh to win the World Series? That's like it's not

866
00:42:47,440 --> 00:42:47,960
Speaker 2: gonna happen.

867
00:42:48,600 --> 00:42:51,560
Speaker 6: I didn't think they'd go thirteen and oh. But again,

868
00:42:51,680 --> 00:42:54,280
Speaker 6: the way they won games one and two, not clicking

869
00:42:54,320 --> 00:42:57,160
Speaker 6: at all cylinders, you felt like, all right, yamamodel on

870
00:42:57,200 --> 00:43:00,400
Speaker 6: the mound. And if this offense does start clicking, which can,

871
00:43:01,120 --> 00:43:03,480
Speaker 6: they're gonna put up some big numbers and they should

872
00:43:03,520 --> 00:43:06,759
Speaker 6: close the door on the Phillies. Now, the offense, to me,

873
00:43:06,920 --> 00:43:09,520
Speaker 6: the first three games last night wasn't just a one

874
00:43:09,560 --> 00:43:11,640
Speaker 6: time thing. The first two games of the series, Otani

875
00:43:11,680 --> 00:43:14,719
Speaker 6: hasn't produced. Mookie Bets is a couple of base hits,

876
00:43:14,719 --> 00:43:19,400
Speaker 6: but hasn't been you know, Mookie of old and certainly

877
00:43:19,440 --> 00:43:22,160
Speaker 6: when Pajaz isn't doing anything and the bottom of the

878
00:43:22,160 --> 00:43:25,319
Speaker 6: lineup isn't you know, flipping it over for Otani who's

879
00:43:25,320 --> 00:43:28,400
Speaker 6: inn not producing again, It's just not been a great

880
00:43:28,480 --> 00:43:31,759
Speaker 6: offensive series for the Dodgers, outside of a Taoscar Hernandez

881
00:43:31,920 --> 00:43:34,880
Speaker 6: home run in early in this series in Philadelphia. It

882
00:43:35,239 --> 00:43:38,520
Speaker 6: just left me so much room for optimism that, gosh,

883
00:43:38,560 --> 00:43:41,360
Speaker 6: they're up to nothing against the Phillies and Otani hasn't

884
00:43:41,400 --> 00:43:44,640
Speaker 6: done nothing. Freddie Freeman's barely done anything, Mookie Betts is

885
00:43:44,640 --> 00:43:47,279
Speaker 6: stringing together hits. I mean, gosh, we're gonna we're gonna

886
00:43:47,320 --> 00:43:49,879
Speaker 6: dominate that series. That's where I think that optimism come

887
00:43:50,400 --> 00:43:53,359
Speaker 6: came yesterday going into Game three, and that optimism has

888
00:43:53,480 --> 00:43:57,799
Speaker 6: throttled back significantly now, Steve secks as I look at

889
00:43:57,800 --> 00:44:01,320
Speaker 6: this this series. Now, uh oh, okay, where is this offense?

890
00:44:01,360 --> 00:44:03,040
Speaker 6: I mean, guys, you want to join the party or what?

891
00:44:03,560 --> 00:44:06,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, here's the way I look at this, Tim, Do

892
00:44:06,160 --> 00:44:08,480
Speaker 2: you really think they're gonna completely shut down show? Hey

893
00:44:08,480 --> 00:44:12,600
Speaker 2: o Tani, I hope that's not gonna happen. He's gonna

894
00:44:12,640 --> 00:44:15,319
Speaker 2: have his time. And look the Phillyes top four guys

895
00:44:15,360 --> 00:44:18,719
Speaker 2: after being absolutely shut down put the blanket over him,

896
00:44:19,880 --> 00:44:24,160
Speaker 2: you know, yesterday or day before yesterday. Yesterday, they come

897
00:44:24,200 --> 00:44:27,120
Speaker 2: back and those guys get But let's see the fives.

898
00:44:27,280 --> 00:44:29,560
Speaker 2: They had nine hits between the top four guys. I mean,

899
00:44:29,760 --> 00:44:33,960
Speaker 2: a complete turnaround off of arguably the best pitcher on

900
00:44:34,000 --> 00:44:37,360
Speaker 2: the staff for the Dodgers in Yamamoto. Does that make sense?

901
00:44:37,520 --> 00:44:38,080
Speaker 6: Not at all?

902
00:44:38,239 --> 00:44:40,600
Speaker 2: And that's why it happens. That's what baseball brings to us.

903
00:44:40,600 --> 00:44:43,440
Speaker 2: So we don't know what's gonna happen tonight, but I

904
00:44:43,480 --> 00:44:45,480
Speaker 2: think the Dodgers got a great chance, and they got

905
00:44:45,480 --> 00:44:48,080
Speaker 2: their home crowd behind him. And look before that, they

906
00:44:48,080 --> 00:44:51,480
Speaker 2: go into the most toughest environment, the most hostile environment,

907
00:44:51,560 --> 00:44:55,880
Speaker 2: the chance for least amounts of wins in that ballpark

908
00:44:55,880 --> 00:44:58,439
Speaker 2: against that team, and what do they do? They take

909
00:44:58,480 --> 00:45:01,120
Speaker 2: both games? It doesn't make makes sense. We can only

910
00:45:01,160 --> 00:45:04,359
Speaker 2: speculate what's going to happen. But who knows. I mean,

911
00:45:04,440 --> 00:45:06,360
Speaker 2: it's you know, it could be anything.

912
00:45:06,680 --> 00:45:08,880
Speaker 6: Let's go to Franco and Pomona's next up with us

913
00:45:08,920 --> 00:45:12,560
Speaker 6: here on Saxon Kates in the am. You'll a little nervous, Francott,

914
00:45:12,680 --> 00:45:15,200
Speaker 6: little panic in you now that the Dodgers dropped Game

915
00:45:15,239 --> 00:45:15,960
Speaker 6: three last night.

916
00:45:17,520 --> 00:45:19,959
Speaker 8: Uh, you know, I feel pretty good. I feel pretty good,

917
00:45:20,840 --> 00:45:23,640
Speaker 8: Thanks for having me again. And then I don't know,

918
00:45:23,719 --> 00:45:27,160
Speaker 8: I would just like to question, honestly, the sustainability of

919
00:45:27,200 --> 00:45:29,520
Speaker 8: our bulk and moving forward. You know, we have a

920
00:45:29,560 --> 00:45:31,720
Speaker 8: good game coming up right now, but you know, moving

921
00:45:31,760 --> 00:45:34,600
Speaker 8: forward into the NLCS, you know our starters have been

922
00:45:34,600 --> 00:45:37,640
Speaker 8: carrying the load coming out as relief pitching. And you know,

923
00:45:38,040 --> 00:45:41,040
Speaker 8: Kershaw last night did the best you can. But you know,

924
00:45:41,040 --> 00:45:44,440
Speaker 8: you got a question. You know, his last postseason relief

925
00:45:44,520 --> 00:45:48,760
Speaker 8: appearance back in twenty nineteen, when Juan Soto Anthony Rendaut

926
00:45:48,800 --> 00:45:50,960
Speaker 8: went back to back on him when Bueler pitched a gem.

927
00:45:51,000 --> 00:45:53,799
Speaker 8: And it's moving forward, I got a question, wonder if

928
00:45:53,840 --> 00:45:56,080
Speaker 8: you know, maybe he'd be better off as a starter

929
00:45:56,200 --> 00:45:57,360
Speaker 8: than a relief pitcher.

930
00:45:57,880 --> 00:46:00,319
Speaker 6: I appreciate Franko. We're going to get into Kershaw up

931
00:46:00,360 --> 00:46:02,040
Speaker 6: after the top of the hour. We'll hear from him

932
00:46:02,320 --> 00:46:05,200
Speaker 6: postgame last night and his reaction because it just was

933
00:46:05,239 --> 00:46:07,120
Speaker 6: not a good outing. But I'm I'm not gonna put

934
00:46:07,160 --> 00:46:09,959
Speaker 6: it all on Clayton Kershaw. We'll get into that coming

935
00:46:10,000 --> 00:46:11,120
Speaker 6: up after the top of the hour.

936
00:46:11,520 --> 00:46:13,640
Speaker 8: Uh.

937
00:46:14,120 --> 00:46:16,520
Speaker 6: Eight sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy. We'll

938
00:46:16,560 --> 00:46:18,080
Speaker 6: take a break, we'll come back, We'll get to more

939
00:46:18,080 --> 00:46:20,919
Speaker 6: of your phone calls. We'll hear from Clayton Kershaw. As

940
00:46:20,920 --> 00:46:24,200
Speaker 6: the Dodgers lose Game three last night eight to two

941
00:46:24,680 --> 00:46:26,719
Speaker 6: to the Phillies, is Dowding now have a two to

942
00:46:26,719 --> 00:46:29,319
Speaker 6: one series lead in this best of five series. David

943
00:46:29,400 --> 00:46:32,160
Speaker 6: Veasse joins us in the eight o'clock hour, and you

944
00:46:32,160 --> 00:46:35,480
Speaker 6: your sense of panic now as the Dodgers find themselves

945
00:46:35,719 --> 00:46:38,839
Speaker 6: in a fight with the fighting Phills Game four this afternoon, Right,

946
00:46:38,840 --> 00:46:40,200
Speaker 6: you're an anti seventy l a sports