1 00:00:03,520 --> 00:00:07,120 Speaker 1: So the Dodgers lost Game two of the National League 2 00:00:07,160 --> 00:00:11,080 Speaker 1: Division Series against the Padres on Sunday by a score 3 00:00:11,280 --> 00:00:15,360 Speaker 1: of ten to two, And that is a pretty bad score, 4 00:00:15,920 --> 00:00:20,759 Speaker 1: but it does not come close to encapsulating how truly 5 00:00:21,480 --> 00:00:25,560 Speaker 1: awful an experience it was at the ballpark on Sunday night, 6 00:00:25,960 --> 00:00:29,760 Speaker 1: and just how low the vibes got at Dodger Stadium. 7 00:00:30,200 --> 00:00:33,360 Speaker 1: I was there, so I speak from experience, and I 8 00:00:33,479 --> 00:00:36,080 Speaker 1: have to say I think it was the worst baseball 9 00:00:36,120 --> 00:00:40,160 Speaker 1: game I have ever seen in my entire life. Personally, 10 00:00:40,200 --> 00:00:43,159 Speaker 1: I'm still just part of the way through a attempt 11 00:00:43,240 --> 00:00:46,559 Speaker 1: at some type of emotional cleanse. But you know, I'm 12 00:00:46,600 --> 00:00:49,440 Speaker 1: here to do the show, and so on this episode, 13 00:00:49,520 --> 00:00:51,800 Speaker 1: we'll go through a bit of what happened in my 14 00:00:51,920 --> 00:00:56,080 Speaker 1: experience of it, and then we'll move on. Okay, cool, 15 00:00:56,960 --> 00:01:00,680 Speaker 1: Welcome to Dodger Blue Dream Daily. I'm Richard Parker the Third. 16 00:01:01,240 --> 00:01:05,040 Speaker 1: It is Tuesday, October eighth. I'm headed down to San Diego. 17 00:01:05,200 --> 00:01:08,320 Speaker 1: That's where the Dodgers and Padres will play Game three 18 00:01:08,319 --> 00:01:11,959 Speaker 1: of the NLDS at six oh eight Pacific time. The 19 00:01:12,040 --> 00:01:15,800 Speaker 1: series is split at one game apiece. Thanks for listening. 20 00:01:20,240 --> 00:01:27,679 Speaker 1: I wasn't always like this just before game time five 21 00:01:28,040 --> 00:01:31,399 Speaker 1: three pm Pacific yesterday, I was meeting up with my 22 00:01:31,520 --> 00:01:35,720 Speaker 1: friend Wesley Avila and his lovely wife Tanya, and we 23 00:01:35,720 --> 00:01:38,080 Speaker 1: were making our way into the stadium. How are you guys, 24 00:01:38,120 --> 00:01:40,960 Speaker 1: feeling really excited, super excited? 25 00:01:41,120 --> 00:01:42,640 Speaker 2: This is it, We're gonna win it. 26 00:01:42,920 --> 00:01:46,280 Speaker 3: Let's go, because that's what's in dude's We're gonna beat 27 00:01:46,280 --> 00:01:49,480 Speaker 3: them today, send them back down South and hopefully beat them. 28 00:01:49,360 --> 00:01:53,160 Speaker 1: In three NLDS Game two, Dodgers Stadium. 29 00:01:53,440 --> 00:01:53,960 Speaker 2: That's what. 30 00:01:58,680 --> 00:02:01,120 Speaker 1: I got to my seat in time for the national anthem, 31 00:02:01,280 --> 00:02:04,440 Speaker 1: and with hometown boy Jack Flaherty on the mound and 32 00:02:04,520 --> 00:02:07,040 Speaker 1: the Dodgers ahead in the series one to zero, at 33 00:02:07,080 --> 00:02:10,079 Speaker 1: five oh three, the game got underway. I was feeling 34 00:02:10,160 --> 00:02:13,200 Speaker 1: good if we go at game two, but then. 35 00:02:14,360 --> 00:02:16,959 Speaker 4: That is a fastball pubble down the line. If it's 36 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:21,440 Speaker 4: Ferret's gone, it is gone. A home run for Tatus. 37 00:02:22,280 --> 00:02:26,359 Speaker 1: Tatis just hit a home run on the fourth pitch 38 00:02:26,639 --> 00:02:27,240 Speaker 1: of the game. 39 00:02:27,919 --> 00:02:30,080 Speaker 2: So it's one nothing and it's five oh five. 40 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:34,280 Speaker 1: Tatis, who you might know just served a long suspension 41 00:02:34,360 --> 00:02:38,919 Speaker 1: for taking performance enhancing drugs, did his signature stutter step 42 00:02:38,919 --> 00:02:41,560 Speaker 1: where he kind of stops before third base. It's a 43 00:02:41,680 --> 00:02:44,400 Speaker 1: very annoying signature home run celebration. 44 00:02:44,680 --> 00:02:45,880 Speaker 2: And it was just one run in. 45 00:02:45,919 --> 00:02:47,840 Speaker 1: The top of the first, but this is a theme. 46 00:02:48,240 --> 00:02:51,079 Speaker 1: The Padres jumped on Yamamoto for three in the first 47 00:02:51,240 --> 00:02:54,080 Speaker 1: during Game one, and here we were again in the 48 00:02:54,080 --> 00:02:56,680 Speaker 1: hole before coming to the plate. The Padres had the 49 00:02:56,720 --> 00:03:00,000 Speaker 1: momentum in their favor during Game one. It was Showhad 50 00:03:00,320 --> 00:03:03,520 Speaker 1: who reversed that momentum by hitting a three run home run. 51 00:03:04,200 --> 00:03:06,480 Speaker 1: But show Hey let off the game by striking out 52 00:03:06,480 --> 00:03:10,360 Speaker 1: against his boyhood idol you Darvish. When Mooki came to 53 00:03:10,400 --> 00:03:13,520 Speaker 1: the plate, he was hitless in the series and hitless 54 00:03:13,520 --> 00:03:17,000 Speaker 1: in the postseason. Since twenty twenty two, we've all been 55 00:03:17,040 --> 00:03:19,720 Speaker 1: hoping and waiting for it to get going for Mooki. 56 00:03:20,480 --> 00:03:22,680 Speaker 1: I was so pumped when this happened. 57 00:03:22,960 --> 00:03:25,639 Speaker 4: The Mookie bats, it is lifted in the air to 58 00:03:25,680 --> 00:03:28,079 Speaker 4: laft field. It since p far back, its o to 59 00:03:28,120 --> 00:03:30,880 Speaker 4: the corneries at the wall. It is. 60 00:03:35,280 --> 00:03:38,400 Speaker 1: They start playing the home run music over the loud speakers. 61 00:03:38,680 --> 00:03:41,720 Speaker 1: Mooki is signaling out to the bullpen, the traditional thing 62 00:03:41,760 --> 00:03:44,080 Speaker 1: you do when you hit a home run. Everybody's on 63 00:03:44,120 --> 00:03:47,240 Speaker 1: their feet, cheering, and we're all so jazzed that our 64 00:03:47,280 --> 00:03:51,200 Speaker 1: guy Mooky has finally been able to deliver in the postseason. 65 00:03:51,480 --> 00:03:54,000 Speaker 1: He's picked up Show Hey, he's picked up his starter, 66 00:03:54,160 --> 00:03:58,240 Speaker 1: Jack Flaherty. He's taken the momentum back tie game, bottom 67 00:03:58,280 --> 00:04:02,480 Speaker 1: of the first. But then I look down on the 68 00:04:02,520 --> 00:04:06,560 Speaker 1: field and around second base, Mookie has gotten off course 69 00:04:06,680 --> 00:04:10,480 Speaker 1: and he's running not towards third base, but rather towards 70 00:04:10,520 --> 00:04:13,080 Speaker 1: the dugout across the infield. 71 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:21,760 Speaker 4: Nobody's sure yet now that say he caught it, he 72 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:25,640 Speaker 4: caught it. Mookie Bets is round in the bases thinking 73 00:04:25,680 --> 00:04:29,159 Speaker 4: that it's a home run. Jerkson Profar says, ah, I 74 00:04:29,320 --> 00:04:29,800 Speaker 4: got it. 75 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:30,400 Speaker 1: He was. 76 00:04:30,720 --> 00:04:33,720 Speaker 4: He was doing the old I'm gonna just melk this 77 00:04:34,320 --> 00:04:36,040 Speaker 4: for about fifteen seconds. 78 00:04:36,720 --> 00:04:37,200 Speaker 2: Watch this. 79 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:40,000 Speaker 4: He goes in. I thought he caught it the first time, 80 00:04:40,200 --> 00:04:43,359 Speaker 4: but the way he was reacting, I'm with you. So 81 00:04:43,440 --> 00:04:44,279 Speaker 4: he catches that ball. 82 00:04:44,360 --> 00:04:44,920 Speaker 2: Now he's just. 83 00:04:44,800 --> 00:04:45,560 Speaker 4: Gonna play huff. 84 00:04:45,800 --> 00:04:46,160 Speaker 1: You don't know. 85 00:04:47,040 --> 00:04:48,839 Speaker 4: I'm gonna talk to the fans a little bit, bounce 86 00:04:48,920 --> 00:04:50,479 Speaker 4: up and down. I'm not even gonna let my teammates 87 00:04:50,520 --> 00:04:52,480 Speaker 4: know I've got it, Jerkson Profar. 88 00:04:52,680 --> 00:04:56,880 Speaker 1: Jerkson Profar had made a leaping catch, reaching his glove 89 00:04:56,960 --> 00:04:59,680 Speaker 1: arm up and into the seats and left field to 90 00:05:00,400 --> 00:05:03,159 Speaker 1: a home run from Mookie Betts. But then he did 91 00:05:03,160 --> 00:05:06,080 Speaker 1: the strangest thing. I watched the video later, and after 92 00:05:06,120 --> 00:05:09,200 Speaker 1: he catches it, he's staring at the fans in the 93 00:05:09,240 --> 00:05:11,920 Speaker 1: first couple rows who were right there when he made 94 00:05:11,920 --> 00:05:14,960 Speaker 1: this leaping grab, and he's saying something to them, and 95 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:17,799 Speaker 1: then he starts hopping up and down on both feet 96 00:05:17,960 --> 00:05:20,159 Speaker 1: and he's still holding the ball with his back to 97 00:05:20,240 --> 00:05:20,760 Speaker 1: home plate. 98 00:05:21,080 --> 00:05:22,360 Speaker 2: It was just super weird. 99 00:05:22,560 --> 00:05:27,000 Speaker 1: A psychout a deck in baseball parlance, and this interaction 100 00:05:27,480 --> 00:05:30,039 Speaker 1: was a turning point. It set the tone for the 101 00:05:30,080 --> 00:05:32,680 Speaker 1: rest of the game, and it led to some ugly 102 00:05:32,760 --> 00:05:35,920 Speaker 1: behavior a little later. Long as we'll get to Profar, 103 00:05:36,080 --> 00:05:38,680 Speaker 1: you might remember is the guy who Will Smith called 104 00:05:38,800 --> 00:05:42,440 Speaker 1: irrelevant earlier in this season. Like his teammates Tatis and 105 00:05:42,520 --> 00:05:46,600 Speaker 1: Manny Machado, Profar has a pension for this type of performativity. 106 00:05:47,440 --> 00:05:50,080 Speaker 1: In a video i'll see of this later, Profar has 107 00:05:50,120 --> 00:05:54,160 Speaker 1: a direct interaction with a fan wearing an Alex Vesia jersey. 108 00:05:54,440 --> 00:05:57,160 Speaker 1: The fan would have caught Mookie's home run ball, but 109 00:05:57,240 --> 00:05:59,760 Speaker 1: Profar makes the catch, snatching it right out of this 110 00:05:59,800 --> 00:06:02,240 Speaker 1: guy his hands, and then his Profar is hopping up 111 00:06:02,279 --> 00:06:04,760 Speaker 1: and down. He says something to this guy, and the 112 00:06:04,800 --> 00:06:08,320 Speaker 1: guy smiles and nods and points at Profar like you 113 00:06:08,480 --> 00:06:12,800 Speaker 1: got me all right, onto the next weirdness. Later on, 114 00:06:12,960 --> 00:06:15,599 Speaker 1: in the top of the sixth come out. 115 00:06:15,440 --> 00:06:18,320 Speaker 4: Tatis gets hit and the leadoff man is on. 116 00:06:18,440 --> 00:06:21,280 Speaker 1: Here are the six I had left my seat up 117 00:06:21,279 --> 00:06:23,920 Speaker 1: in the reserve level. I had a lot of nervous energy. 118 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:26,400 Speaker 1: My seat wasn't great, and sometimes you just got to 119 00:06:26,480 --> 00:06:29,080 Speaker 1: change the vibe up. And I was headed to centerfield 120 00:06:29,080 --> 00:06:31,960 Speaker 1: plaza because Wes and Tanya had texted me that Wes 121 00:06:32,040 --> 00:06:33,919 Speaker 1: was going to be on the jumbo tron. They just 122 00:06:33,920 --> 00:06:35,600 Speaker 1: picked him out of the crowd because he had a 123 00:06:35,640 --> 00:06:37,839 Speaker 1: sweet looking jacket on. That's the type of thing that 124 00:06:37,920 --> 00:06:41,720 Speaker 1: happens to Wes. He's like the where's Waldough of Dodger Stadium? Anyway, 125 00:06:41,720 --> 00:06:43,880 Speaker 1: I'm making my way past the concessions and I see 126 00:06:43,880 --> 00:06:46,560 Speaker 1: a small group of Padres fans pointing at a TV 127 00:06:46,680 --> 00:06:51,320 Speaker 1: broadcast behind the counter, which showed Tatis very slowly making 128 00:06:51,360 --> 00:06:53,920 Speaker 1: his way to first base. This was his third at 129 00:06:53,960 --> 00:06:56,360 Speaker 1: bat and he had homered and also hit a double. 130 00:06:57,360 --> 00:06:57,760 Speaker 5: Come out. 131 00:06:57,800 --> 00:06:58,800 Speaker 4: Tatis gets hit. 132 00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:01,120 Speaker 1: And in this at bat, Flarity was trying to go 133 00:07:01,240 --> 00:07:03,719 Speaker 1: inside with a pitch and it hit Tatty on his 134 00:07:03,800 --> 00:07:08,919 Speaker 1: front leg. By sauntering so slowly to first base, Tatus 135 00:07:09,080 --> 00:07:12,600 Speaker 1: was performatively indicating that he thought he was thrown at 136 00:07:12,640 --> 00:07:15,480 Speaker 1: as retribution. I don't think you have to be a 137 00:07:15,480 --> 00:07:19,320 Speaker 1: baseball documentarian to Grock that if it's a postseason game 138 00:07:19,560 --> 00:07:21,760 Speaker 1: and you're down by two, you've got the heart of 139 00:07:21,760 --> 00:07:24,800 Speaker 1: the lineup coming up, the three, four and five hitters 140 00:07:24,920 --> 00:07:28,120 Speaker 1: following Tatus. If you're Jack Flarerity, you're not looking to 141 00:07:28,160 --> 00:07:29,840 Speaker 1: put men on base in that situation. 142 00:07:31,760 --> 00:07:34,440 Speaker 4: Well, he tried to get a fastball inside and he 143 00:07:34,520 --> 00:07:37,760 Speaker 4: did just I'm out off the leg, not trying to 144 00:07:37,800 --> 00:07:39,680 Speaker 4: hit him in a playoff game when it's three to one, 145 00:07:39,720 --> 00:07:43,560 Speaker 4: you're losing. So that's just doesn't feel good for Tatus. 146 00:07:43,600 --> 00:07:44,520 Speaker 4: But that's three times now. 147 00:07:44,840 --> 00:07:47,960 Speaker 1: But the Padres dugout well aware that they're being shown 148 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:51,960 Speaker 1: on national television double down. This leads to a bunch 149 00:07:51,960 --> 00:07:56,240 Speaker 1: of trash talking between the Padres, mostly Manny Machado and 150 00:07:56,280 --> 00:07:59,560 Speaker 1: the Dodgers, mostly Jack Flarerty, who by the time that 151 00:07:59,600 --> 00:08:01,880 Speaker 1: I got to say centerfield Plaza a few moments later, 152 00:08:02,120 --> 00:08:05,440 Speaker 1: with striking Manny Machado out for the first out of 153 00:08:05,440 --> 00:08:08,840 Speaker 1: the sixth inning. The broadcast cuts to a close up 154 00:08:08,840 --> 00:08:11,480 Speaker 1: of Jack Flarity. And you don't need to be John 155 00:08:11,520 --> 00:08:15,960 Speaker 1: Boy to lip read this one. Sit the down, mother, 156 00:08:16,800 --> 00:08:19,480 Speaker 1: he says to Machado. 157 00:08:19,880 --> 00:08:21,800 Speaker 4: Jack Clarity, Manny Machado. 158 00:08:22,120 --> 00:08:25,080 Speaker 1: Several minutes later, as the bottom of the sixth is starting, 159 00:08:25,280 --> 00:08:28,280 Speaker 1: the broadcast comes back from a commercial break. Manny's at 160 00:08:28,280 --> 00:08:30,920 Speaker 1: his position at third base and Jack Flarity is at 161 00:08:30,920 --> 00:08:34,160 Speaker 1: the top of the dugout steps mere feet away, and 162 00:08:34,240 --> 00:08:35,800 Speaker 1: they are getting into it. 163 00:08:36,520 --> 00:08:38,559 Speaker 4: They're still chirping, John, how are we going to get 164 00:08:38,559 --> 00:08:41,280 Speaker 4: through this series without things boiling over? I don't know, 165 00:08:42,120 --> 00:08:42,679 Speaker 4: I don't know. 166 00:08:43,800 --> 00:08:47,160 Speaker 1: I'll meet you outside. Jack says, you want to meet outside? 167 00:08:47,160 --> 00:08:50,600 Speaker 1: Many says, shrugging, chewing his gum, I'll meet you. Yeah, 168 00:08:50,679 --> 00:08:53,600 Speaker 1: let's meet here. I'll point outside, I'll meet you there, 169 00:08:54,240 --> 00:08:55,000 Speaker 1: something like that. 170 00:08:55,960 --> 00:08:56,600 Speaker 2: Good TV. 171 00:08:56,920 --> 00:08:59,680 Speaker 4: Right, They're here for the people. 172 00:09:00,960 --> 00:09:03,560 Speaker 1: And the bottom of the sixth inning is about to start. 173 00:09:05,360 --> 00:09:09,079 Speaker 1: This is when, for the first time in this chronological account, 174 00:09:09,400 --> 00:09:13,440 Speaker 1: a ball is thrown in somebody's direction and not as 175 00:09:13,520 --> 00:09:17,680 Speaker 1: part of the baseball game. Manny Machado takes the baseball 176 00:09:17,800 --> 00:09:20,800 Speaker 1: he was using to warm up between innings and fires 177 00:09:20,800 --> 00:09:22,880 Speaker 1: it into the Dodgers dugout. 178 00:09:22,760 --> 00:09:26,040 Speaker 3: Dave, last night, did the ball that Machado threw into 179 00:09:26,080 --> 00:09:27,880 Speaker 3: your dugout almost hit you? And did you? 180 00:09:28,040 --> 00:09:32,000 Speaker 1: Manager Dave Roberts answered questions about this the following day. 181 00:09:32,040 --> 00:09:32,880 Speaker 5: Well, did you know that? 182 00:09:33,160 --> 00:09:33,640 Speaker 6: I didn't know. 183 00:09:33,679 --> 00:09:35,600 Speaker 5: I didn't notice it at the time. I really didn't. 184 00:09:35,760 --> 00:09:39,680 Speaker 5: I did see the video. It was it was unsettling. Obviously, 185 00:09:39,679 --> 00:09:42,079 Speaker 5: I have a relationship with Manny from from years past. 186 00:09:42,840 --> 00:09:45,720 Speaker 5: There was intent behind it, barking. 187 00:09:48,360 --> 00:09:52,280 Speaker 1: This is Manny Machado in a postgame interview into their dugouts. 188 00:09:52,280 --> 00:09:54,800 Speaker 3: I mean both dugouts. I mean they have bob Bays. 189 00:09:54,840 --> 00:09:56,160 Speaker 3: You know, you throw the ball back in there. 190 00:09:56,200 --> 00:10:00,160 Speaker 1: So in the next breath, Manny insinuates the Tatisse was 191 00:10:00,240 --> 00:10:01,720 Speaker 1: hit on purpose, trying to. 192 00:10:01,720 --> 00:10:04,520 Speaker 3: Hit our best hitter, right, don't hit him right. We 193 00:10:04,559 --> 00:10:06,200 Speaker 3: don't go out there trying to hit Ale Tony, trying 194 00:10:06,200 --> 00:10:08,559 Speaker 3: to get him out right. I thought there trying to 195 00:10:08,640 --> 00:10:10,240 Speaker 3: hit my one, now one for sure. What were you 196 00:10:10,240 --> 00:10:13,160 Speaker 3: gut saying with each other? Just going back and forth competition, right, 197 00:10:13,200 --> 00:10:15,560 Speaker 3: and things that happened in between the lines. People people 198 00:10:15,559 --> 00:10:16,840 Speaker 3: were just going going going. 199 00:10:16,600 --> 00:10:17,200 Speaker 7: Back and forth. 200 00:10:18,400 --> 00:10:20,280 Speaker 3: You know, he's competing for the back club and I'm 201 00:10:20,280 --> 00:10:21,880 Speaker 3: trying trying to get to play hit for my team. 202 00:10:21,920 --> 00:10:25,080 Speaker 3: So yeah, man, I mean, this is the beauty of 203 00:10:25,080 --> 00:10:26,440 Speaker 3: post season base Why you. 204 00:10:26,640 --> 00:10:30,880 Speaker 7: Warn death on education with chatter to Nate, there's a 205 00:10:30,920 --> 00:10:32,600 Speaker 7: lot to say. 206 00:10:32,679 --> 00:10:35,840 Speaker 1: Jack Flaherty spoke post game about the pitch to Tattoos. 207 00:10:36,080 --> 00:10:37,520 Speaker 7: There's gotten no reason to hit a guy there to 208 00:10:37,520 --> 00:10:39,160 Speaker 7: start off the six like as good as he's been 209 00:10:39,160 --> 00:10:42,160 Speaker 7: swinging the bat, but we're down in the game and 210 00:10:42,880 --> 00:10:45,240 Speaker 7: trying to go in for effect and he didn't get 211 00:10:45,240 --> 00:10:46,000 Speaker 7: out of the way it hit. 212 00:10:46,000 --> 00:10:49,439 Speaker 1: Him yelling that epithet at Manny after striking him out. 213 00:10:49,640 --> 00:10:52,960 Speaker 7: It's fired up after getting Manny out a big spot 214 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:56,920 Speaker 7: in the playoffs, that's what happens, Like that's fired up. Hey, 215 00:10:57,120 --> 00:10:57,760 Speaker 7: oh well. 216 00:10:57,800 --> 00:11:00,040 Speaker 1: The ball getting thrown into the dugout. 217 00:10:59,600 --> 00:11:03,320 Speaker 7: Between he did something in between innings or has to 218 00:11:03,360 --> 00:11:05,760 Speaker 7: throw the ball at our dugout and everybody kind of 219 00:11:05,760 --> 00:11:08,000 Speaker 7: catches the tail end of it, which is me and 220 00:11:08,080 --> 00:11:08,800 Speaker 7: him going at. 221 00:11:08,679 --> 00:11:11,640 Speaker 1: It, and then the altercation between him and Manny with 222 00:11:11,720 --> 00:11:14,000 Speaker 1: Manny at third base and Jack at the top of 223 00:11:14,080 --> 00:11:15,120 Speaker 1: the dugout steps. 224 00:11:15,320 --> 00:11:17,959 Speaker 7: Really, I was sitting there for my team wasn't that 225 00:11:18,120 --> 00:11:20,600 Speaker 7: wasn't there to go at him, but you know, you'll 226 00:11:20,640 --> 00:11:22,760 Speaker 7: throw the ball on at our dugout, and our dougout 227 00:11:22,840 --> 00:11:24,760 Speaker 7: was fired up, because is there any reason for that? 228 00:11:26,840 --> 00:11:30,160 Speaker 1: And in the meantime, Fernando Tattist Junior is putting on 229 00:11:30,240 --> 00:11:33,560 Speaker 1: a show for the fans and for the camera, taunting 230 00:11:33,600 --> 00:11:37,160 Speaker 1: them by blowing kisses, wagging his tongue in one moment, 231 00:11:37,360 --> 00:11:40,959 Speaker 1: and shaking his head like and there's also some footage 232 00:11:40,960 --> 00:11:44,080 Speaker 1: of him out in right field pumping his pelvis back 233 00:11:44,120 --> 00:11:53,520 Speaker 1: and forth suggestively. I guess things were getting weird. And 234 00:11:53,559 --> 00:11:55,160 Speaker 1: by this point I had met up with Wes and 235 00:11:55,200 --> 00:11:57,520 Speaker 1: Tanya in the center field plaza and we were going 236 00:11:57,559 --> 00:11:59,959 Speaker 1: to go up to the left field pavilion behind where 237 00:11:59,800 --> 00:12:02,520 Speaker 1: j and profile players to watch the rest of the game. 238 00:12:02,800 --> 00:12:04,960 Speaker 1: And once we got up there, Wes tapped me on 239 00:12:05,000 --> 00:12:07,920 Speaker 1: the shoulder and I turned around and he said, we're 240 00:12:07,960 --> 00:12:11,760 Speaker 1: getting out of here, really, I said yeah. He said, 241 00:12:12,160 --> 00:12:15,280 Speaker 1: it just doesn't feel good tonight. And if you listen 242 00:12:15,360 --> 00:12:17,520 Speaker 1: to the show, you know that Wes has trouble watching 243 00:12:17,559 --> 00:12:20,360 Speaker 1: close games involving the Dodgers. I'm the type of guy 244 00:12:20,360 --> 00:12:23,319 Speaker 1: who will watch any Dodger game, no matter how stressed 245 00:12:23,320 --> 00:12:26,360 Speaker 1: out it makes me feel. But his intuitive decision to 246 00:12:26,440 --> 00:12:29,760 Speaker 1: flee the ballpark at that moment proved to be a 247 00:12:29,840 --> 00:12:30,480 Speaker 1: wise one. 248 00:12:30,600 --> 00:12:32,079 Speaker 7: The energy to stadium felt off. 249 00:12:32,120 --> 00:12:35,040 Speaker 4: If there was something in the air, anger frustration. 250 00:12:35,559 --> 00:12:38,080 Speaker 1: Things got a whole lot worse from there on out, 251 00:12:38,559 --> 00:12:43,839 Speaker 1: baseball wise, and also just vibes wise. You might have 252 00:12:43,920 --> 00:12:46,440 Speaker 1: heard something about this already. I'm going to tell you 253 00:12:46,480 --> 00:12:52,120 Speaker 1: what happened from my perspective. You know, when you're at 254 00:12:52,160 --> 00:12:55,400 Speaker 1: the ballpark, you only have a narrow view of what's 255 00:12:55,600 --> 00:12:59,520 Speaker 1: happening around you. It's very different from the supposedly omniscient 256 00:12:59,559 --> 00:13:05,800 Speaker 1: perspective of the broadcast. Uncertain plays, delays, disagreements, you usually 257 00:13:05,880 --> 00:13:08,360 Speaker 1: just get a faint whiff of unless you happen to 258 00:13:08,400 --> 00:13:10,720 Speaker 1: be super close to the action, and then there tends 259 00:13:10,800 --> 00:13:13,520 Speaker 1: to be a game of telephone amongst fans trying to 260 00:13:13,559 --> 00:13:16,640 Speaker 1: figure out what's actually going on. This is one of 261 00:13:16,679 --> 00:13:20,400 Speaker 1: the reasons why I always bring a transistor radio to 262 00:13:20,520 --> 00:13:24,000 Speaker 1: the ballpark. And since I had my radio, I knew 263 00:13:24,080 --> 00:13:25,760 Speaker 1: something other people didn't. 264 00:13:29,960 --> 00:13:30,840 Speaker 2: Let you see what happened. 265 00:13:31,559 --> 00:13:32,240 Speaker 7: You know what happened. 266 00:13:33,160 --> 00:13:39,480 Speaker 2: Somebody's throwing something at jokes and PROFI yeah. 267 00:13:37,720 --> 00:13:40,960 Speaker 1: On the broadcast, Stephen Nelson said that somebody threw a 268 00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:44,400 Speaker 1: baseball in Jerks and Profar's direction as he was getting 269 00:13:44,400 --> 00:13:45,840 Speaker 1: into position in left field. 270 00:13:46,080 --> 00:13:46,959 Speaker 2: Tell me what happened. 271 00:13:48,640 --> 00:13:51,760 Speaker 1: And here I was in the left field pavilion, historically 272 00:13:51,960 --> 00:13:55,160 Speaker 1: a raucous section of Dodger Stadium and just about as 273 00:13:55,160 --> 00:13:57,560 Speaker 1: close to the action as you can get Sunday night. 274 00:13:57,720 --> 00:14:00,040 Speaker 1: But nobody around me seemed to know what was going on. 275 00:14:00,480 --> 00:14:01,880 Speaker 1: But things were getting tense. 276 00:14:05,920 --> 00:14:11,000 Speaker 2: Objeck to ache. If you throw objects onto the field, 277 00:14:11,080 --> 00:14:13,920 Speaker 2: the vocals are getting restless. They all came out, sort 278 00:14:13,960 --> 00:14:16,120 Speaker 2: of mob mentality taking over. 279 00:14:22,400 --> 00:14:25,800 Speaker 1: All the Padres players had huddled near the infield, someone. 280 00:14:25,760 --> 00:14:30,000 Speaker 2: Throwing trash into the right field. In the broadcast, they 281 00:14:30,040 --> 00:14:32,400 Speaker 2: keep talking about how embarrassing this is. Well, now there 282 00:14:32,720 --> 00:14:34,520 Speaker 2: someone throw a ball that one of the buggers there. 283 00:14:34,800 --> 00:14:36,400 Speaker 4: Yeah, I think they detective one of those. 284 00:14:36,440 --> 00:14:39,000 Speaker 2: They didn't already. 285 00:14:40,440 --> 00:14:43,080 Speaker 1: They had thrown out the guy in the Vesia jersey, 286 00:14:43,400 --> 00:14:46,240 Speaker 1: the one who almost caught the Mookie home run ball 287 00:14:46,400 --> 00:14:49,640 Speaker 1: in the first inning. There's an interaction between this guy 288 00:14:49,680 --> 00:14:53,040 Speaker 1: and Jerks and Profar that you can find online. Honestly, 289 00:14:53,280 --> 00:14:56,720 Speaker 1: it's fairly innocuous, but it doesn't matter. It was the 290 00:14:56,800 --> 00:14:59,840 Speaker 1: domino that fell that got all this weird stuff going. 291 00:15:02,720 --> 00:15:06,160 Speaker 1: It was still just four to one Padres, but somehow 292 00:15:06,280 --> 00:15:07,800 Speaker 1: the lead felt bigger than that. 293 00:15:08,560 --> 00:15:12,240 Speaker 2: All right, things I've gotten super dark at Doctor Stadium. 294 00:15:12,440 --> 00:15:15,240 Speaker 1: When the game finally got back underway for the bottom 295 00:15:15,280 --> 00:15:18,760 Speaker 1: of the seventh inning, our offense fails to score, and 296 00:15:18,800 --> 00:15:21,160 Speaker 1: then in the top of the eighth we give up 297 00:15:21,360 --> 00:15:25,160 Speaker 1: two more home runs, making the score seven to one 298 00:15:25,280 --> 00:15:28,600 Speaker 1: Padres in the bottom of the eighth inning, I'll never 299 00:15:28,680 --> 00:15:32,280 Speaker 1: forget this. I end up in conversation with a young fan, 300 00:15:32,840 --> 00:15:37,960 Speaker 1: one a recent UCLA graduate. This happens every year, he says, 301 00:15:38,360 --> 00:15:41,200 Speaker 1: and he starts sobbing, and he puts his head on 302 00:15:41,280 --> 00:15:46,000 Speaker 1: my shoulder, and I wrapped my arms around him. I 303 00:15:46,040 --> 00:15:48,720 Speaker 1: can remember a time when this team didn't even make 304 00:15:48,760 --> 00:15:52,160 Speaker 1: it to the postseason. I tell him, by way of constellation, 305 00:15:52,520 --> 00:15:56,560 Speaker 1: as the greatest baseball player alive on planet Earth. Shohei 306 00:15:56,600 --> 00:15:59,640 Speaker 1: o Tani strikes out swinging for the second out of 307 00:15:59,680 --> 00:16:02,880 Speaker 1: the eighth inning, and then Mookie Betts grounds out, still 308 00:16:02,960 --> 00:16:06,880 Speaker 1: hitless in the postseason since twenty twenty two. Now your 309 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:07,720 Speaker 1: top of the nine. 310 00:16:07,880 --> 00:16:15,120 Speaker 4: Dam I Gusha a registered one run days eight to one. 311 00:16:16,040 --> 00:16:22,360 Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, Tatis Junior just spit a two run 312 00:16:22,400 --> 00:16:24,480 Speaker 1: and run ten to one. 313 00:16:25,680 --> 00:16:26,680 Speaker 2: Everyone is leaving. 314 00:16:32,120 --> 00:16:36,760 Speaker 1: The late great Dodgers broadcaster Vince Scully once said, losing 315 00:16:36,880 --> 00:16:41,880 Speaker 1: feels worse than winning feels good. Being a baseball fan 316 00:16:42,160 --> 00:16:47,360 Speaker 1: is emotionally taxing. But today is a new day. We 317 00:16:48,080 --> 00:16:52,120 Speaker 1: the team and the fans have an opportunity to write 318 00:16:52,160 --> 00:16:56,520 Speaker 1: the ship for Game three later this evening. So I'm 319 00:16:56,520 --> 00:16:59,600 Speaker 1: gonna go down to Petco Park in San Diego with 320 00:16:59,640 --> 00:17:02,520 Speaker 1: my friend and Wes, and I think we're gonna dress up. 321 00:17:03,120 --> 00:17:06,800 Speaker 1: I'm considering my seersucker suit from Paul Smith, and Wes 322 00:17:06,800 --> 00:17:14,720 Speaker 1: has a boater hat that he's gonna wear to close 323 00:17:15,040 --> 00:17:18,840 Speaker 1: all play a recording from Vince Scully's final broadcast. 324 00:17:20,240 --> 00:17:23,600 Speaker 6: May God give you for every storm, a rainbow for 325 00:17:23,760 --> 00:17:27,919 Speaker 6: every tear, a smile for every care, a promise and 326 00:17:28,040 --> 00:17:32,480 Speaker 6: the blessing in each trial, for every problem life schemes, 327 00:17:32,800 --> 00:17:36,760 Speaker 6: a faithful friend to share for every shy, a sweet 328 00:17:36,840 --> 00:17:39,760 Speaker 6: song and an answer for each prayer. 329 00:17:42,200 --> 00:17:44,840 Speaker 1: Let's go get him today, and let's do it the 330 00:17:44,960 --> 00:17:53,840 Speaker 1: right way. Dodger Blue Dream is written and produced by 331 00:17:53,880 --> 00:17:59,040 Speaker 1: me Richard Parks. Original music in this episode by Jonathan Snipe's, 332 00:17:59,320 --> 00:18:03,440 Speaker 1: William Ryan and Fritch and The Blasting Company. This episode 333 00:18:03,600 --> 00:18:07,440 Speaker 1: was story edited by Caitlin Esh with production assistants from 334 00:18:07,560 --> 00:18:13,000 Speaker 1: Tyler Hill. Special thanks to Jordan Bass and Elizabeth Parks Kibbie. 335 00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:17,240 Speaker 1: If you like Dodger Blue Dream, please rate and review 336 00:18:17,280 --> 00:18:19,879 Speaker 1: the show if you haven't yet, or share it with 337 00:18:19,920 --> 00:18:24,680 Speaker 1: a friend. Help me spread the word. Thank you for listening.