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Speaker 1: This is world champion, Dodgers world champion.
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Speaker 3: your host of Dodger Talk, David Vasse.
Speaker 1: Welcome to a special off day Dodger Talk. David Bass
Speaker 1: Day with you until eight o'clock tonight here on AM
Speaker 1: five to seventy LA Sports. Thanks again to Petro some
Speaker 1: money for a great Oh it was Damascheck and Jonas Knox.
Speaker 1: How about that. I'm in here on an off day
Speaker 1: until eight o'clock after the Dodgers clinch the nlds and
Speaker 1: Fred and Rodney are at home. Jonas and Danischek are
Speaker 1: in for Petros and money. But here I am here.
Speaker 1: I am not on a flight to Philadelphia on my birthday,
Speaker 1: hosting Dodger Talk until eight o'clock. That's how much I
Speaker 1: love the Dodgers. That's how much I want to talk
Speaker 1: about them going to the NLCS, and certainly I am
Speaker 1: very happy the Dodgers are not headed to Philadelphia for
Speaker 1: a number of different reasons. Yes, number one, it's my
Speaker 1: birthday and I want to enjoy it, and I did
Speaker 1: enjoy it with my family, and I'm going to enjoy
Speaker 1: tomorrow as well. But more importantly, I told you I
Speaker 1: wasn't packing the Dodgers were not going back to Philadelphia,
Speaker 1: and I know it was a lot closer last night
Speaker 1: than a lot of you would have liked. I know,
Speaker 1: seeing Andrew Freeman and Stan Casten in the celebration yesterday,
Speaker 1: they were as relieved and trying to decompress from the
Speaker 1: high tension late in that game. But certainly a lot
Speaker 1: of relief and excitement amongst everybody at Dodgers Stadium last
Speaker 1: night when Oriyan Keckering threw the ball away in a
Speaker 1: weird situation. We'll get to that in a moment, because
Speaker 1: there's a few things last night on postgame Dodger Talk.
Speaker 1: In the moment of celebration, we're trying to celebrate the
Speaker 1: Dodgers advancing to the NLCS, so we do have time
Speaker 1: to unpack certain key moments but in a clinch situation
Speaker 1: like last night, you don't really have a chance to
Speaker 1: see all the angles, and you really want to celebrate
Speaker 1: the fact that the Dodgers beat a really good Phillies
Speaker 1: team and may have beat the toughest opponent that they
Speaker 1: are going to see in this year's playoffs. I don't
Speaker 1: subscribe to that necessarily. I know a lot of other
Speaker 1: people around baseball that I spoke to before the series
Speaker 1: believed whoever was going to win this series was going
Speaker 1: to win the World Series. I'm a firm believer in
Speaker 1: the Dodgers. I have been, even when they may have
Speaker 1: hit rock bottom in September or August. I believed in
Speaker 1: the talent. I believe they would be able to reconstruct
Speaker 1: their bullpen to be able to be more effective than
Speaker 1: what it was during the regular season. And without Roki Sasaki,
Speaker 1: obviously none of this is happening. I'm having a post
Speaker 1: mortem Dodger talk tonight instead of a celebratory Dodger talk.
Speaker 1: With the Dodgers headed to the NLCS, We're gonna replay
Speaker 1: relibs some of the celebration interviews from last night. In
Speaker 1: case you don't know who the Dodgers are playing in
Speaker 1: the NLCS. Neither do we, because Game five between the
Speaker 1: Brewers and Cubs is tomorrow. The winner of that will
Speaker 1: play the Dodgers on Monday, either at Dodgers Stadium or
Speaker 1: in Milwaukee. That's right. The Dodgers have home field advantage
Speaker 1: against the Cubs. They do not have home field advantage
Speaker 1: against the team with the best record in the National
Speaker 1: League in the Milwaukee Brewers. So that's what's at steak
Speaker 1: Cubs versus Brewers, the opportunity for them to have a rematch.
Speaker 1: Both teams have lost to the Dodgers in the NLCS
Speaker 1: in previous years. The Cubs beat the Dodgers on their
Speaker 1: way to their only World Series title in the last
Speaker 1: one hundred plus years back in twenty sixteen. The Dodgers
Speaker 1: beat the Cubs the very next year, Game five in
Speaker 1: Wrigley Field. Keyk Hernandez became October keyk with three home
Speaker 1: runs in Game five of the twenty seventeen NLCS at
Speaker 1: Wrigley Field, And of course twenty eighteen, the Dodgers beating
Speaker 1: the Brewers in a seven game series, beating Milwaukee in
Speaker 1: Milwaukee for Game seven to advance to the World Series
Speaker 1: that year, and they played the Red Sox. Eight six six,
Speaker 1: nine eighty seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 1: Before we get to Oryan Keckering and how that went sideways,
Speaker 1: Let's talk about another key moment in last night's game,
Speaker 1: and that was the chess match between Dave Roberts and
Speaker 1: Rob tom. Rob Thompson, the Phillies manager, last night, made
Speaker 1: a controversial decision no not to bring in uh Orian
Speaker 1: Keckering in the eleventh inning, but with his best reliever
Speaker 1: on the mound in the seventh inning, holding on to
Speaker 1: a one nothing lead and first base open, with runners
Speaker 1: at second and third and two outs, he opted to
Speaker 1: walk sho Hey O'tani to face Mookie Betts. Here's why
Speaker 1: that was a huge gift from the Phillies manager. First
Speaker 1: and foremost, he's your best reliever, and we all know
Speaker 1: about otani struggles. But did Rob Thompson realize that Joan
Speaker 1: Duran this season was much better against left handed hitters
Speaker 1: than he was against right handed hitters. You wouldn't expect
Speaker 1: that right a right handed, heart throwing reliever better against
Speaker 1: lefties than righty's. That's part of the reason why the
Speaker 1: Dodgers were not going to mortgage the farm system to
Speaker 1: acquire Duran. Duran this year against left handed hitters limited
Speaker 1: them to a one sixty eight batting average, and lefties
Speaker 1: only hit one home run against Duran. Right handed hitters
Speaker 1: hit two seventy eight with a one thousand ops against
Speaker 1: Duran this year. Not to mention, Otani struggling, and Mookie
Speaker 1: Betts is locked in and has been locked in for
Speaker 1: the better part of a month. That was a huge
Speaker 1: gamble and it backfired. Mookie Bets, not chasing because he's
Speaker 1: locked in, takes the bases loaded walk to tie the game.
Speaker 1: And here we go into the eleventh inning, and here
Speaker 1: is the way. The eleventh inning, the final play sounded
Speaker 1: with Rick Monday and Steven Nelson on the call.
Speaker 3: The old one pitch. Patz grounds it back to Kirkery.
Speaker 3: He can't find it.
Speaker 4: He ten scores and the Dodgers are going to the
Speaker 4: Championship Series.
Speaker 1: All right, Ryan Keckering, We'll have to live with that
Speaker 1: the rest of his life, similar to Bill Buckner having
Speaker 1: to live the rest of his life after booting the
Speaker 1: ball or letting the ball go between his legs in
Speaker 1: the eighty six World Series against the Mets, Orian Keckering
Speaker 1: is going to see that replay the rest of his life,
Speaker 1: and he's going to see it a lot in his
Speaker 1: own mind during the off season. But like I mentioned
Speaker 1: at the beginning of the show, last night was a
Speaker 1: celebration of the Dodgers advancing to the NLCS and obviously
Speaker 1: putting the ball in play by Andy Pa has forced
Speaker 1: Oriyan Keckering to make a play which he couldn't. But
Speaker 1: here's a couple of issues I had on the Dodgers
Speaker 1: side that they got away with. Number One, where was
Speaker 1: Sho Hao Tani. Sho Hao Tani was worried about shoe
Speaker 1: Ha Otani getting out of his own slump and coming
Speaker 1: to the plate next against Orion Keckering. When the ball
Speaker 1: is put into play and you have a runner at
Speaker 1: third base with two outs, he's coming home automatically. Otani
Speaker 1: should be sprinting to the other side to the right
Speaker 1: handed batters or excuse me, left handed batter's box vision.
Speaker 1: Otani needed to be there to coach up Kim to slide.
Speaker 1: Kim came to home plate standing up, and did you know,
Speaker 1: looking at the replay this morning, hay Sung Kim never
Speaker 1: stepped on home plate. Initially, he had to go back
Speaker 1: to home plate and step on home plate. I mean,
Speaker 1: this is baseball one oh one. You have to slide
Speaker 1: at home plate. Standing up at home plate is never
Speaker 1: a good idea because if Rio Mudo makes an incredible
Speaker 1: stretch and catch, you're an easier target for him to
Speaker 1: tag out instead of you being down sliding past him.
Speaker 1: Otani needed to be there, Kim needed to have the
Speaker 1: baseball instincts to slide at home plate. I would love
Speaker 1: to see it feed first because at home plate a
Speaker 1: lot of things can happen. You could get your handstepped on.
Speaker 1: But that was a major, major miscalculation by both Kim
Speaker 1: and Otani. So I wanted to bring that up and JT.
Speaker 1: Real Mudo was pointing to first base. Keckering did not
Speaker 1: realize in his panic after he did not feel the
Speaker 1: ball cleanly how many outs there was, and it was
Speaker 1: Pa has running and Pa Haz said after the game,
Speaker 1: I looked back and when he didn't feel the ball,
Speaker 1: I kept running and running harder. So keep that in
Speaker 1: mind the little things of baseball. Baseball is not just
Speaker 1: about throwing one hundred miles an hour and getting the
Speaker 1: maximum spin rate on your pitches. That's what makes Clayton
Speaker 1: Kershaw so special. When he pitches, he's a pitcher. When
Speaker 1: he releases the ball, he becomes an infielder. That's what
Speaker 1: separates the great ones from the Orion keckerings. Frankly, but
Speaker 1: go back and watch that the replay. Kim did not
Speaker 1: step on home plate and Otani was nowhere to be
Speaker 1: found to direct traffic. That's got a change, and if
Speaker 1: I'm Dave Roberts, it's a teaching experience, even to the
Speaker 1: great Otani. When we continue on Dodger Talk, we will
Speaker 1: hear from Teoscar Hernandez. We will hear from Roki Sasaki,
Speaker 1: who arguably was the most valuable pitcher for the Dodgers
Speaker 1: in the NLDS and who had the best start in
Speaker 1: the NLDS. Don't just think about the games at Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 1: Glass now is phenomenal, but Blake Snell, in a hostile environment,
Speaker 1: had the best and gutsiest start of any Dodger in
Speaker 1: the NLDS. So you'll hear from all those guys, plus
Speaker 1: Freddie Freeman and Keik Hernandez. A lot to get to
Speaker 1: between now and eight o'clock right here on five seventy
Speaker 1: LA Sports you're home for the defending World Series champion Dodgers,
Speaker 1: AM five to seventy LA Sports. It was a big
Speaker 1: time achievement for the Dodgers to be able to beat
Speaker 1: that Phillies pitching staff. This was a series of pitching
Speaker 1: and defense. The teams that made mistakes in these four
Speaker 1: games lost. The Dodgers made big mistakes in Game three,
Speaker 1: they lost big time, eight to two. In Game two
Speaker 1: in Philadelphia, the Dodgers were able to overcome some poor
Speaker 1: defense to hold on for a four to three win
Speaker 1: and steal the first two games in Philadelphia. And I
Speaker 1: really do believe this when you see a game and
Speaker 1: the way it ended last night. To end a series
Speaker 1: in such an unorthodox type of way where O'Ryan Keckering
Speaker 1: throws the ball away with two outs instead of just
Speaker 1: going to first base, you forget about some of the
Speaker 1: players and some of the moments that took place in
Speaker 1: the previous three games of the series. You only think
Speaker 1: about that game. And for me, there's a couple of
Speaker 1: certain players and certain moments that I really wanted to
Speaker 1: point out. I know a lot of people only talk
Speaker 1: about keyk Hernandez when it comes to October and rightfully,
Speaker 1: so we'll hear from Key k in a moment. But
Speaker 1: the Dodgers have a few of those type of players.
Speaker 1: Who was the best hitter last year in the World Series,
Speaker 1: It was Freddie Freeman that carried the Dodgers. Tommy Edmund
Speaker 1: was the NLCS MVP. Tommy Edmund was a top five
Speaker 1: player in this series that nobody talks about. And tae
Speaker 1: Oscar Hernandez to me, had the single biggest home run
Speaker 1: in this NLDS and it happened in the very first game,
Speaker 1: and it changed the series completely. In the seventh inning
Speaker 1: of Game one, with the Dodgers being shut down basically
Speaker 1: by Christopher Sanchez, they bring in Matt Strom. Matt Strom,
Speaker 1: who is one of the most ordinary lefty relievers out there,
Speaker 1: left a pitch for Taoscar Hernandez to hammer to right
Speaker 1: field and that completely silenced the crowd in hostile Philadelphia
Speaker 1: at the Bank. If ta Oscar Hernandez doesn't hit that
Speaker 1: go ahead three run home run, I'm not sure the
Speaker 1: Dodgers win this series either. And I had a chance
Speaker 1: to catch up with another October Hernandez, the one and
Speaker 1: only ta Oscar.
Speaker 5: All right, we are here at Taoskar Hernandez. Before we
Speaker 5: talk about anything else, let me touch the goatee again.
Speaker 1: Let's go ta Oscar. You were so big from the
Speaker 1: first game into the last game. How rewarding is you
Speaker 1: performing on this stake?
Speaker 5: I mean, what's the team need?
Speaker 1: For team credit?
Speaker 2: The move?
Speaker 3: And today it was amazing.
Speaker 1: This guy right here incredible. Hello, So look a little
Speaker 1: dry there? Okay, this kind of shit, that's Blake Snaw.
Speaker 1: I got dang.
Speaker 3: You know we're ready.
Speaker 1: You know we want some more Mason, we got a
Speaker 1: lot more budget, Das.
Speaker 3: Lets you go, Tayl.
Speaker 5: I feel like you guys have accomplished so much, but
Speaker 5: there are so many doubters still. It's somebody that's turn.
Speaker 2: Out.
Speaker 1: They love you, Your teammates love you.
Speaker 3: I love them too.
Speaker 5: How excited are you to move on to the LCS again?
Speaker 5: This is why we play this and you know, uh,
Speaker 5: exciting game today and god we got to win.
Speaker 1: So h now fucus in the next row. I love
Speaker 1: that you let people see your eyes. You have it, burn,
Speaker 1: Let's go. Let's go thought you Hey, don't.
Speaker 5: You can't spell tale, you can't spell October without tail here.
Speaker 1: You heard him? There is Taoscar Hernandez, who hit the
Speaker 1: biggest home run in this series for the Dodgers, and
Speaker 1: that came in Game one in the seventh inning off
Speaker 1: of Matt Strom to give the Dodgers the lead and
Speaker 1: seriously put big time doubt in the Phillies mind that
Speaker 1: you know what, they aren't the best team in this series.
Speaker 1: The Dodgers have more firepower up and down their lineup
Speaker 1: than what the Phillies had. And Taoscar Hernandez, I know
Speaker 1: at times you questioned the effort or you wish he
Speaker 1: could play better right field. This is the player that
Speaker 1: he is. He plays the game with a lot of joy.
Speaker 1: He did go first to third, he did run the
Speaker 1: bases hard in this series. Uh, he's a guy that
Speaker 1: can change a game and a series in this case
Speaker 1: with one swing. I mentioned this after the game, ta
Speaker 1: Oscar Hernandez, al right, I just defined it. He had
Speaker 1: the biggest home run of this series. Who would have
Speaker 1: said before the NLDS Dodgers Phillies that Roki Sasaki would
Speaker 1: be the best Japanese player on the Dodgers in this
Speaker 1: series against Philadelphia. All of you would have picked Otani.
Speaker 1: The other half of you are the last five percent
Speaker 1: would have said Yamamoto. It turned out to be Roki Sasaki,
Speaker 1: who pitched in four these games or three of the
Speaker 1: four of these games and four and a third innings,
Speaker 1: allowed just one hit, including last night where he pitched
Speaker 1: three perfect innings for the Dodgers, and in the postseason
Speaker 1: going back to the Red Series, Sasaki has pitched in
Speaker 1: four of the six games the Dodgers have played, two saves,
Speaker 1: three strikeouts, has not walked a single batter, but specifically
Speaker 1: in this series, comes in to rescue the Dodgers in
Speaker 1: a Game two win that was looking a little doubtful
Speaker 1: until they brought him in and was able to get
Speaker 1: Trey Turner to end Game two and go back to
Speaker 1: LA with a two games to nothing lead. And then
Speaker 1: last night, as it was tied one to one, neither
Speaker 1: team could get a hit or a run off the
Speaker 1: other team's pitchers, they go to Roki Sasaki. Roki Sasaki
Speaker 1: against Hezus Lozardo, and Sasaki out pitched Lozardo because he
Speaker 1: pitched three perfect innings. Without Sasaki, the Dodgers don't win
Speaker 1: this series. Without Sasaki, the Dodgers don't have as much
Speaker 1: optimism to be able to run the table this year
Speaker 1: and win a back to back World Series championship. Coming
Speaker 1: into the postseason, that was the biggest question, who is
Speaker 1: getting the last three outs? Well, I feel like we
Speaker 1: have the name. We had the answer, and it's resounding.
Speaker 1: It's Rokey Sasaki. Roki, What a night for you? What
Speaker 1: a postseason for you? What does it mean to you
Speaker 1: to be such a big contributor tonight and in this series?
Speaker 3: Post the season sols them off. It's like muzzle must
Speaker 3: see home.
Speaker 1: Well, it's been the ball Monks' a little mother. He's
Speaker 1: think I'm gonna take a good.
Speaker 3: It's not what the contest says.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 6: First of all, I'm really glad that I'm healthy and
Speaker 6: be able to perform, and you know, I'm really supporting
Speaker 6: you know, I'm really thankful for all the support staff,
Speaker 6: all the people who really supported the way during my
Speaker 6: rehab progression, and most of all, just all the coaching
Speaker 6: staff from you know, top to bottom organizationally, They've been
Speaker 6: such a help to me and they're the reason why
Speaker 6: I'm back here.
Speaker 5: Roki, how have you been able to embraced this role
Speaker 5: and be so dominant?
Speaker 3: D I thusted it to du up?
Speaker 1: He sews them up on.
Speaker 3: The it's a little Benngal. He's all on this over
Speaker 3: the day god Limas.
Speaker 1: Yeah, my fastball Vla is out.
Speaker 6: My splitter feels really good, so I've been able to
Speaker 6: attack his own.
Speaker 1: Congratulations, Go get some champagne. There they were Will Ireton
Speaker 1: and Roki Sasaki. Sasaki and maybe Tyler Glass Now were
Speaker 1: the two most doubted pitchers coming into this series. I
Speaker 1: wasn't doubting, but I know there were still some doubters. Okay, Yeah,
Speaker 1: Susaki did it in Arizona. He did it in Seattle
Speaker 1: when it didn't matter the reds. Okay, yeah, he got
Speaker 1: one hitter Trey Turner in Game two. Really you still
Speaker 1: weren't buying after that? I feel like now there are
Speaker 1: no doubts. Three perfect innings to get the ball to
Speaker 1: Alex Vesia, who we I know is a bullpen dog
Speaker 1: and a huge part of the Dodgers' bullpen. We've seen
Speaker 1: him in all but one game in this postseason. Alex
Speaker 1: Vesia gets the win last night. Like I said, Roki
Speaker 1: Sasaki one of two Dodger pitchers that were the most doubted.
Speaker 1: The other Tyler Glass Now, who thought he would be
Speaker 1: able to come in last night, make his first start
Speaker 1: of the postseason, first postseason start as a Dodger, and
Speaker 1: pitch six scoreless innings and have nine strikeouts eight eight
Speaker 1: or nine strikeouts last night. Nobody, nobody was expecting that,
Speaker 1: and I would venture to say that Tyler Glass Now
Speaker 1: may not have even known that he had that in him.
Speaker 1: Tyler Glass Now last night eight strikeouts and six scoreless innings,
Speaker 1: allowed just two walks. He was a guy that a
Speaker 1: lot of people doubted because you weren't sure if you
Speaker 1: could trust him. In Philadelphia earlier this year, the man
Speaker 1: was wet, he melted down. But Dave Roberts was constantly
Speaker 1: in his ear after he came off the eel and
Speaker 1: challenged him to be more of a competitor. Here was
Speaker 1: Tyler Glass Now. He was the first guy I grabbed
Speaker 1: on the field because he deserved a lot of the credit,
Speaker 1: because a lot of people doubted whether or not he
Speaker 1: could deliver on such a big stage. Yesterday.
Speaker 5: What a start for Tyler Glass Now, the postseason start
Speaker 5: of his life. How did it feel to go out
Speaker 5: there and be such a big contributor?
Speaker 3: Fuck great?
Speaker 7: It was a little shaky at first, but then just
Speaker 7: got out there gotting some rhythm, and my stuff felt
Speaker 7: great the whole night.
Speaker 5: It felt like after the first inning you really did
Speaker 5: get into some sort of rhythm.
Speaker 1: Were you and Will clicking after that?
Speaker 7: Yeah, for sure, I think we're on the same page.
Speaker 7: A lot of good pitch calling, a lot of really
Speaker 7: good defense, had some pretty hard hit balls, some great plays,
Speaker 7: and we just we got a rolling after that.
Speaker 5: Tyler, at this time last year you were not part
Speaker 5: of the playoffs. How does this feel in your own
Speaker 5: backyard to be such a big part of the Dodgers
Speaker 5: going to the NLCS.
Speaker 3: It's incredible.
Speaker 1: I mean it's what every kid dreams of and I
Speaker 1: got to live it.
Speaker 3: And it's just to be out.
Speaker 7: On the field and watch everyone participate and do such
Speaker 7: a good job.
Speaker 1: Now we're here, go to the next round. It's incredible.
Speaker 1: You're like the keik pitchers, reliever and starter. Yeah, who knows,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'll do whatever you want. Let's do it. Congratulations,
Speaker 1: Thank you, Bro, appreciate it.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 1: There he goes Tyler Glass. Now he relieved in Game one,
Speaker 1: and he pitched six scoreless innings last night as the
Speaker 1: Dodgers go to the NLCS. He matched Christopher Sanchez. Pitch
Speaker 1: for pitch he was. He was outstanding. And look, I'll
Speaker 1: say it, I doubted whether or not, actually I didn't doubt.
Speaker 1: I just didn't know what the Dodgers were going to get.
Speaker 1: And I feel like even Dave Roberts didn't know. You
Speaker 1: just didn't know what you were going to get from
Speaker 1: Glass now and from here on out, he should have
Speaker 1: the self confidence to never look back and realize that
Speaker 1: he can do it on this stage and certainly proved
Speaker 1: that he could help the Dodgers win the World Series.
Speaker 1: Really rewarding for Tyler Glass. Now Sasaki and Glass now
Speaker 1: two of the most doubted pitchers on this staff, and
Speaker 1: maybe the most underappreciated two time Cy Young Award winner,
Speaker 1: Blake Snell. I'm handing him the award for having the
Speaker 1: gutsiest pitching performance of this series going into Philadelphia and
Speaker 1: keeping that Philly crowd down when they were winning to
Speaker 1: erupt for anything, and he never allowed it to happen
Speaker 1: in his start in Philly when he went six scoreless
Speaker 1: innings as well. He was absolutely dominant in Game two
Speaker 1: of this series. Another example of how we forget what
Speaker 1: takes place earlier in the series. When you're in the
Speaker 1: euphoria of a game like last night, Blake Snell six
Speaker 1: scoreless innings, allowed just one measily hit, and had nine
Speaker 1: strikeouts to help the Dodgers beat the Phillies in Philadelphia
Speaker 1: and have a two games to nothing lead.
Speaker 5: Hello, we're here with Blake's now will have pitched an
Speaker 5: incredible game two in this series? Blake, what does it
Speaker 5: mean to be part of this group? You guys took
Speaker 5: a picture together, all the starters. You guys carry the
Speaker 5: weight in this series. Yes, special, it's special, this group,
Speaker 5: the starters. We all care about each other, we love
Speaker 5: each other, and we want to accomplish something together. And
Speaker 5: then I can't say no about the team and just
Speaker 5: everyone just pushing each other, loving on each other, making
Speaker 5: sure we can find.
Speaker 1: A way to win. That's a that's a good vaut
Speaker 1: it and Philly is really good.
Speaker 5: So for us to get the win and win this
Speaker 5: series as huge. When you're able to do what you
Speaker 5: guys did as a group, is it more special.
Speaker 1: Than just being one guy? Say that again? Almost gotten?
Speaker 5: Yeah, we saw we got a sniper over here to
Speaker 5: be able to pitch your game but also have everybody
Speaker 5: else pitch as well as they did. Does it make
Speaker 5: it more special to do it as a group, Yeah, it's.
Speaker 1: The group's the most important thing for us to come together.
Speaker 5: And when this series as a group is everything and
Speaker 5: the starters to get innings, I mean, that's that's the
Speaker 5: number one thing that we can get innings. And I'll
Speaker 5: pitch their starters. We're gonna we're gonna be in a
Speaker 5: really good position. So if he did that, he ended
Speaker 5: up win this series. He's a really good team. Before
Speaker 5: I'll let you go, I thought they said you cann't
Speaker 5: pitch on the big stage.
Speaker 1: I thought you cann't pitch in the big cities.
Speaker 5: Well you got more you know. I've got more time
Speaker 5: to figure that out if it's true or not. But
Speaker 5: I'm ready to go, and I'm excited about it.
Speaker 3: Love it.
Speaker 5: Congratulations, I'm happy again this celebration with these.
Speaker 1: Group of guys. I said, me too. At Goch's looking nice. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there he is Blake Snell. And got a call from Snell.
Speaker 1: He actually facetimed me while I was in the supermarket
Speaker 1: this morning, but he was looking dressed and fresh. I
Speaker 1: was expecting he was gonna call me, you know, in
Speaker 1: his pajamas, but he was dressed and ready to go
Speaker 1: at nine am. So he's turning into an adult in
Speaker 1: some ways, but certainly a guy, an adult and a
Speaker 1: man on the mound. He is going to be huge
Speaker 1: for the Dodgers. And we'll get into the Dodgers pitching
Speaker 1: plans for the NLCS when we continue on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 1: And also we'll hear from Freddie Freeman and Keith a Hernandez.
Speaker 1: They were big parts of this Dodger four game win
Speaker 1: over the Phillies in the NLDS. The Dodgers are headed
Speaker 1: to the NLCS. They're playing either the Brewers or Cubs
Speaker 1: on Monday. It could be in LA, it could be
Speaker 1: in Milwaukee. We'll get into all of that as we
Speaker 1: continue right here on a five to seventy LA Sports
Speaker 1: the Dodger Talk. The day after the Dodgers beat the
Speaker 1: Phillies in Game four the NLDS in advance to the NLCS,
Speaker 1: and we're all wondering who are the Dodgers going to play,
Speaker 1: Brewers or Cubs. Who's the better matchup Brewers or Cubs. Well,
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. I know the Brewers beat the Dodgers
Speaker 1: all six times that they played each other, but that
Speaker 1: was a different Dodger team, a team that was not
Speaker 1: healthy completely, that had not flipped the switch yet. And
Speaker 1: as far as the Cubs go, it would be somewhat
Speaker 1: full circle if the Dodgers and Cubs played each other
Speaker 1: in the NLCS, because they already have done it twice
Speaker 1: in the last ten years, in sixteen and seventeen, and
Speaker 1: the Dodgers lost in sixteen beat the Cubs in seventeen.
Speaker 1: Not to mention, these two teams started the Major League
Speaker 1: season in Tokyo, Japan. Yeah, remember that. And Justin Turner
Speaker 1: is a member of the Cubs who was one of
Speaker 1: the heroes of the twenty seventeen NLCS when the Dodgers
Speaker 1: beat John Lackey and the Cubs in Game two. Justin
Speaker 1: Turner had that magical walk off home run on the
Speaker 1: same day that Kirk Gibson back in nineteen eighty eight
Speaker 1: hit his walk off home run. So a lot of
Speaker 1: different things and subplots into play if the Dodgers and
Speaker 1: Cubs meet up, But the Cubs and Brewers will decide
Speaker 1: that tomorrow the Brewers are going with a bullpen game,
Speaker 1: and Jason Mazerowski is supposed to be coming out of
Speaker 1: the bullpen as a bulk starter for the Cubs, They're
Speaker 1: going to have Lefty showta Imanaga on the man who
Speaker 1: has been hurt by the home run ball, and I'm
Speaker 1: not sure how it's gonna go for him in a
Speaker 1: hitters ballpark like at American Family Field in Milwaukee. I'm
Speaker 1: leaning towards Brewers in their home ballpark to win that game,
Speaker 1: and the Dodgers then would open up the NLCS in Milwaukee.
Speaker 1: The Brewers had the best record in the National League
Speaker 1: this year, and the Cubs would come to Dodgers Stadium
Speaker 1: on Monday if they pull off the upset tomorrow in Milwaukee.
Speaker 1: So that's the way things line up. And for the Dodgers,
Speaker 1: they're in a great spot. They're saying, thank you very much,
Speaker 1: Cubs for forcing a game five. Whether or not you
Speaker 1: win it or not, you've already done a great job
Speaker 1: forcing a game five. Because both team, no matter how
Speaker 1: they come into the NLCS, they're not going to have
Speaker 1: their ideal and optimal pitching rotation set up, and I'm
Speaker 1: sure you know they're Bullpender's going to be a little
Speaker 1: bit fatigued, especially with the Brewers going to a bullpen
Speaker 1: game today. As far as the Dodgers go, I'm a
Speaker 1: firm believer that Blake Snell should start Game one of
Speaker 1: the NLCS on Monday, whether it's in LA or if
Speaker 1: it's in Milwaukee. To me, it's a no brainer because
Speaker 1: Otani who struggles when he pitches, and during the regular season,
Speaker 1: the Dodgers try to line up as many Otani starts
Speaker 1: the day before and off day, and there is going
Speaker 1: to be a day off, a travel day after Game two,
Speaker 1: whether it's LA to Chicago or Milwaukee to LA. So
Speaker 1: to me, I'm pitching Blake Snell on six days rest
Speaker 1: in Game one of the NLCS, and I'm pitching Otani
Speaker 1: in Game two on nine days rest. And how about this,
Speaker 1: when the series goes to Game three or Game four,
Speaker 1: Yamamoto and Glass now both will be pitching on seven
Speaker 1: days rest. The Dodgers are in a great spot right
Speaker 1: now going into the NLCS with their pitching. Their pitching
Speaker 1: is set, and we all know how important their starting
Speaker 1: pitching is to the Dodgers winning a second consecutive World Series.
Speaker 1: If there was a Game five, not only would that,
Speaker 1: you know, not be ideal going back to Philadelphia, but
Speaker 1: if the Dodgers were to win a Game five all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, Now you've used Otani. There was a
Speaker 1: possibility Snell may have been used out of the bullpen.
Speaker 1: Now you got both those guys on extra rest. So
Speaker 1: for me, I would go Blake Snell Game one, Otani
Speaker 1: Game two on nine days rest plus a travel days slash,
Speaker 1: no game after game two. That's the way I see it.
Speaker 1: We'll see the way the Dodgers line it up up.
Speaker 1: They're going to work out probably Sunday in La or
Speaker 1: in Milwaukee. So that's the way things stand right now.
Speaker 1: We'll have to wait and see how the outcome of
Speaker 1: tomorrow's Brewers Cubs Game five comes out in Milwaukee. Going
Speaker 1: back to last night and the entire series, I know
Speaker 1: Freddie Freeman did not have a huge offensive series. A
Speaker 1: big reason is because of Christopher Sanchez, Ranger Suarez, and
Speaker 1: of course Jesus Lozardo. But I really do believe Freddie
Speaker 1: Freeman had the biggest walk of the series in Game
Speaker 1: one when he drew a two out walk to allow
Speaker 1: Keikey Hernandez to come up with a big two run
Speaker 1: double with two outs against Lozardo. And also Freddie Freeman's defense.
Speaker 1: He makes it look easy, and I think a lot
Speaker 1: of times we take it for granted just how good
Speaker 1: he is. I know, Tim Kats and Steve Sacks earlier
Speaker 1: this week we're praising Freddie Freeman's defense. I mean, when
Speaker 1: you're that good, you get overlooked defensively. And Freddy is
Speaker 1: so long, long legs, long arms. There is a wide
Speaker 1: target there for all the Dodger infielders. But he made
Speaker 1: a great save on a poor throw a lawn dart
Speaker 1: as they like to say, a worm killer by Tommy
Speaker 1: Edmond to end Game two, and also just a lot
Speaker 1: of throws throughout the game. Go back and watch the games.
Speaker 1: Freddie Freeman stretching to the left, stretching to the right,
Speaker 1: going down to one knee. He makes life a lot
Speaker 1: easier for all these infielders. And I know Mookie Betts
Speaker 1: has done a great job at shortstop, but you better
Speaker 1: give some credit to Freddie Freeman for making Mookie Betts
Speaker 1: look as good as he has at shortstop. I had
Speaker 1: a chance to catch up with Freddie as always the
Speaker 1: first guy in the clubhouse. That is part of our
Speaker 1: postgame interview celebration.
Speaker 5: Hey, we are here with Freddy Freeman, the anchor of
Speaker 5: the Dodgers. Without this guy, they are going nowhere. Freddy,
Speaker 5: just describe what you were seeing in that eleventh inning
Speaker 5: and how you guys pulled this out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was incredible.
Speaker 4: Just grindy at bass. Tell me getting started again. Kind
Speaker 4: of reminds us of last October when you got that
Speaker 4: huge in that that Tenny Lawrel series game on. So
Speaker 4: a lot of great at batsk work in the walk
Speaker 4: and that's what happened to you.
Speaker 3: We about playing good things.
Speaker 1: That happened.
Speaker 4: Just a great game to a great team going out
Speaker 4: at all series and thankfully we came wealth.
Speaker 1: This was all about pitching this serial.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, I mean they have they have a great pitching.
Speaker 1: Staff over there on the reason why one of.
Speaker 3: The best seams in baseball soon a week, you know,
Speaker 3: so we.
Speaker 4: We fished our butts off today a whole series.
Speaker 3: We're starting pitching, like we've been talking about for.
Speaker 1: About a month now.
Speaker 4: I've been I ain't with this team and why we're
Speaker 4: going the way we are.
Speaker 3: And you know, class was amazing today.
Speaker 4: Our open roady, i mean, Rogis was absolutely incredible.
Speaker 3: So that's and man, everyone, it was just you know,
Speaker 3: all around. We needed everything go on to guy with
Speaker 3: every single.
Speaker 5: Guy that without Freddy Freeman's defense, you guys don't win
Speaker 5: this either. How are the legs, I mean, they're really
Speaker 5: stretched out.
Speaker 3: They're good, They're good. I'm just happy with Eagle for it.
Speaker 4: It was a tough series, so and I'm facing those lefties,
Speaker 4: those loves things are really really good over there.
Speaker 3: So we're trying to do.
Speaker 4: Everything we could have gone face with these, Randy.
Speaker 3: But hopefully next series is our series.
Speaker 5: All right, that's good, Freddy, thanks a lot for stopping
Speaker 5: and congratulations and let's do this.
Speaker 1: Again a couple of more times.
Speaker 3: It's fun a couple more times. Thanks David.
Speaker 1: There he goes Freddy Freeman. Without him, there is no
Speaker 1: Dodgers hey, And I mean that, I know offensively, the
Speaker 1: numbers don't stick out to you like they did in
Speaker 1: last year's World Series. But he drew the biggest walk
Speaker 1: of this series, and that was well, I would say
Speaker 1: the second biggest walk Mookie Bets bases loaded walk last night,
Speaker 1: the biggest against Joe on Duran and Freddie Freeman's two
Speaker 1: out walk really helped the Dodgers line keep moving to
Speaker 1: get this guy Keith a Hernandez an opportunity to get
Speaker 1: the Dodgers back in the game in Game one in Philadelphia,
Speaker 1: going from a three to nothing deficit to a three
Speaker 1: to two deficit and allowing ta Oscar Hernandez to have
Speaker 1: the big moment in Game one with the biggest home
Speaker 1: run of the series. Key a Hernandez, I mean, thankfully,
Speaker 1: the Dodgers have started him in every single playoff game
Speaker 1: this year, going back to Game one of the Wildcard Series,
Speaker 1: whether it's at third base or left field, Key k
Speaker 1: is invaluable. Nobody. I've asked so many different managers, coaches, players,
Speaker 1: have you ever seen a player like this go from
Speaker 1: being a role player in the regular season, a guy
Speaker 1: that hits somewhere between two hundred and two fifty turn
Speaker 1: into this superhuman clutch player and one of the best
Speaker 1: players on the field in October. And to a man,
Speaker 1: everyone tells me they have never seen it. Keiy a
Speaker 1: Hernandez was still locked in after the game last night,
Speaker 1: and I know everybody's a little concerned about why he
Speaker 1: needed the trainer to come out in the eleventh inning
Speaker 1: during his a bat. Maybe he just tweaked his left
Speaker 1: or right ankle a little bit. I know Dave Roberts
Speaker 1: mentioned it, but now that the Dodgers have a few
Speaker 1: days off, it's not going to keep KEYK Hernandez off
Speaker 1: the field. It's going to take a lot more than that.
Speaker 1: And Kei k was still very much locked in. He
Speaker 1: wasn't a wild and crazy Key K after the game
Speaker 1: last night because he understands, as does Freddie Freeman and
Speaker 1: the others, there's two more rounds to go to be
Speaker 1: able to achieve what the Dodgers have set out to achieve.
Speaker 1: We live.
Speaker 6: I don't know.
Speaker 3: You tell me, oh, I don't know.
Speaker 1: What's it like to be able to beat a team
Speaker 1: like this the Phillies.
Speaker 5: A lot of people believe it was going to be
Speaker 5: your biggest challenge in a pitching time before game series.
Speaker 1: How were you able to be able to as a
Speaker 1: group stick with it?
Speaker 2: Well? For for for first, we scored more runs on
Speaker 2: them three out of the four games, so we won
Speaker 2: those three games.
Speaker 3: For celebrating, but yeah, that was That's an unbelievable team.
Speaker 2: On the other side, you know, I thought this yeriar
Speaker 2: is gonna happen last year. It didn't happen because the
Speaker 2: mess got the best of them and here we are
Speaker 2: again doing it again against them. You know, they they
Speaker 2: had some really good pitching, and they had some mosses
Speaker 2: at the top of that lineup and throughout that lineup.
Speaker 2: That's a pretty deep line up that they got over there,
Speaker 2: And it was a gretty series. We had to earn
Speaker 2: every single one of th those three wins, and uh,
Speaker 2: you just saw a really good baseball for four games
Speaker 2: on both sides, and I'm really glad we came out
Speaker 2: on top.
Speaker 6: Kyk.
Speaker 5: There's been a lot of talk about your book and
Speaker 5: for those guys to come out of there tonight and
Speaker 5: keep the game where it was, to give you another opportunity.
Speaker 1: How much confidence do you have in those guys.
Speaker 2: I've always that confidence, man, Blizard, my guys, I trust them.
Speaker 2: You know, it doesn't even really matter if things don't
Speaker 2: go their way.
Speaker 3: They in the most season.
Speaker 2: You know, everybody starts as zero and yeah, you can
Speaker 2: say whatever, like one inning year winning there.
Speaker 1: But you know, we got some really good arts back there.
Speaker 3: We got some stuff back there, and in the postseason,
Speaker 3: that's that's all you need. You need stuff. You need
Speaker 3: strikes and you never thrown strikes.
Speaker 2: We're gonna be all right, and I mean, our our
Speaker 2: pitching was a I think our pitching deserves all.
Speaker 3: The credit in the series.
Speaker 2: If it wasn't for this pitching that we had throughout
Speaker 2: four games, we wouldn't be in this position right now celebrating.
Speaker 3: It seemed like they were only.
Speaker 2: Able to score in like one hitting every game. They
Speaker 2: only scored in two innings. Last night, say night, they
Speaker 2: only scored one run. So that that just that's the testament.
Speaker 3: Of our pitching.
Speaker 2: Man, I think we we could have won these games
Speaker 2: a little more easier. But you know, they did a
Speaker 2: great job on their pitching side, and and our pats
Speaker 2: didn't really do much. But all credits are pitching. If
Speaker 2: it was we're pitching, we wouldn't be celebrating right now.
Speaker 5: You deserve to get credit for being known as an
Speaker 5: October player. Well, what can you say about the other
Speaker 5: guys like the Oscar and Tommy.
Speaker 1: Seems like you have a lot of those type guys.
Speaker 4: You know, we had a When you look at the position.
Speaker 2: Player side, a lot of us are back from last year.
Speaker 2: A lot of us are back from a couple of years.
Speaker 2: So you know, two years ago we went through the worst.
Speaker 2: Last year we went through the best. So when you
Speaker 2: go through the worst and you can go through the best, you.
Speaker 3: Know, you you learn a lot about each other.
Speaker 2: You you you learn to care more and more about
Speaker 2: about each other as teammates, as a team and uh,
Speaker 2: you know, we're just a team that we're gonna find
Speaker 2: a way to figure out how to win a ball game.
Speaker 2: And you know, we we didn't really have to sluck
Speaker 2: this series, but we found ways to score a run,
Speaker 2: whether it's an.
Speaker 3: Air or kick or whatever it was.
Speaker 2: But putting the ball in player, it's just a good
Speaker 2: thing since it happened.
Speaker 3: And that's kind of what we did.
Speaker 2: We took the league game too by putting the bond play.
Speaker 2: We we won the game by putting the ball play
Speaker 2: in a night. Yeah, we we've gone through a lot
Speaker 2: together as a group, so we we just we there's
Speaker 2: this trust in each other that we have that you know,
Speaker 2: if you don't get it done, then the guy behind
Speaker 2: he's gonna do it. I think that speaks volumes about
Speaker 2: our group. And again, all credits, we're pitching.
Speaker 1: Congratulations.
Speaker 5: We'll see you either here with Chicago or in Milwaukee.
Speaker 3: Fast day.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Key k there he goes Key k Hernandez.
Speaker 1: You never know which keyk you're gonna get in those
Speaker 1: locker room celebrations, but certainly he gave some very thoughtful
Speaker 1: and insightful answers and love hearing that he doesn't get
Speaker 1: enough credit for having the highest baseball IQ on that field.
Speaker 1: I mean him and Miguel Rojas, those guys. Baseball IQ
Speaker 1: is next level, and that's why they're invaluable on the infield.
Speaker 1: Because even Key k Hernandez, after Image Shean did not
Speaker 1: catch the relay throw back for the double play when
Speaker 1: the Phillies scored their only run of the game yesterday,
Speaker 1: Key k Hernandez went straight out to the mound to
Speaker 1: settle she Hen down. That's the type of presence and
Speaker 1: captain leadership you need on the infield, and he's that guy.
Speaker 1: So Kik did a number of different things in this
Speaker 1: series to help the Dodgers win, and he's gonna be
Speaker 1: big again for the Dodgers moving forward. The Dodgers are
Speaker 1: looking to become Let's not lose sight of this. They
Speaker 1: are looking to separate themselves from every other Dodger World
Speaker 1: Series team and win back to back championships for the
Speaker 1: first time in Dodger franchise history. And become the first
Speaker 1: major League team to win back to back World Series
Speaker 1: championships in twenty five years the Yankees twenty five years ago,
Speaker 1: Jeter Pisada, those guys, last major League team to win
Speaker 1: back to back World Series championships. I think at this
Speaker 1: point you realize and maybe you don't, but it's really
Speaker 1: hard to win a World Series. Everything has to go
Speaker 1: your way. And to win back to back World Series championships,
Speaker 1: I mean, that is something special that shouldn't be taken
Speaker 1: for granted. And the Dodgers have fought a hard road
Speaker 1: to this point and know that it's not going to
Speaker 1: get any easier. Despite what you or others think. The
Speaker 1: Dodgers are going to have a tough opponent in the
Speaker 1: Brewers and Cubs. Both those teams nobody has really bought
Speaker 1: into all season long, and they're really good. And for me,
Speaker 1: the tiebreaker as far as who I would want the
Speaker 1: Dodgers to play are the Cubs because the Dodgers would
Speaker 1: have home field advantage and the Brewers have a lot
Speaker 1: more and deeper talented pitching. So that's the way I
Speaker 1: see it. Stacking up, it should be a great series
Speaker 1: between the Dodgers and Cubs or Dodgers and Brewers, and
Speaker 1: we need Dodger Stadium full. There were a lot of
Speaker 1: empty seats, understandably against the Reds. There were a lot
Speaker 1: of empty seats yesterday because of a three o'clock start,
Speaker 1: but the forty seven to fifty thousand that were at
Speaker 1: Dodgers Stadium yesterday made it feel like there were sixty
Speaker 1: thousand at Dodge. We need Dodger Stadium filled for the NLCS,
Speaker 1: whether it's the first two games here or games three, four,
Speaker 1: and five at Dodgers Stadium. Tickets are available right now
Speaker 1: at Dodgers dot com slash postseason. That'll do it for us.
Speaker 1: Tonight on Dodger Talk. In case you missed any of
Speaker 1: the show or last night's show, Brad Paisley called in.
Speaker 1: You can find it on the iHeartRadio app. Thanks to
Speaker 1: Ronnie Fossio for all his help. Thanks to you for listening,
Speaker 1: and we'll talk to you on Monday, either from Dodgers
Speaker 1: Stadium or from Milwaukee. Enjoy the rest of your weekend.
Speaker 1: And man, I am so so sonny. On a day
Speaker 1: that Philadelphia is not so sonny. The Dodgers beat the
Speaker 1: Phillies in the NLDS the Eagles lose two straight games.
Speaker 1: Trust me, I am so happy. Those people are so
Speaker 1: upset after being there. Do not wish anything but nothing
Speaker 1: for Philadelphia sports fans. We'll talk to you on Monday.
Speaker 1: Have a great rest of your night. Happy birthday to me.
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