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Speaker 1: Good morning, Los Angeles. Welcome to Dodger Blue Dream, a

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Speaker 1: documentary about the baseball season, made in real time as

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Speaker 1: the season unfolds. I'm Richard Parks, the third and it

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Speaker 1: is Tuesday, October twenty ninth, twenty twenty four. The Dodgers

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Speaker 1: beat the Yankees last night in Game three of the

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Speaker 1: World Series in New York City, and they now lead

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Speaker 1: the best of seven series three games to none. It

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Speaker 1: is a beautiful fall day in Los Angeles, crisp and cool,

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Speaker 1: warm sunlight spilling down out of a clear Dodger blue sky.

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Speaker 1: And it also happens to be my mother's birthday. If

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Speaker 1: you take a look at your phone and the logo

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Speaker 1: for this show, my mother painted that logo and she

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Speaker 1: also played catch with me when I was a little kid.

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Speaker 1: I love you, mom. Game four of the World Series,

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Speaker 1: a possible deciding game should the Dodgers sweep, will be

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Speaker 1: played tonight at five oh eight, very specifically Pacific time

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Speaker 1: in the Bronx. Thank you for being here today on

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Speaker 1: the show. First, I'll recap what happened last night, and

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Speaker 1: then we'll look forward to tonight's game. That's what's in.

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Speaker 2: That's what it is.

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Speaker 1: A fastball, it's ricked down the line.

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Speaker 3: It is gone.

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Speaker 1: A fifth consecutive World Series game with the Freddie Freeman

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Speaker 1: homer run, and the Dodgers are on the board first.

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Speaker 1: In Game three, Freddie Freeman continued his dominance, silencing a

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Speaker 1: sellout crowded Yankee Stadium by blasting his third home run

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Speaker 1: in three consecutive World Series games against the Bronx Bombers.

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Speaker 1: Breaking pitch to finish off Rizzo and Dodgers' starter Walker

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Speaker 1: Bueller was dealing up and six down for Walker Bueller,

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Speaker 1: his fastball had more life than it's had since before

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Speaker 1: his second Tommy John surgery, which he underwent in twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty two. I just know for you all that you've

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Speaker 1: been through, you know, multiple surgeries.

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Speaker 3: How much are you enjoying this offer me?

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Speaker 1: I think the playoffs are big games.

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Speaker 3: Has kind of always been the only thing I really

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Speaker 3: cared about.

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Speaker 4: And I've also never been on a team that's up

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Speaker 4: three on the World Series.

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Speaker 1: The bullpen was nails, high fly ball to deep right field,

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Speaker 1: pets goes back at the truck at the wall and

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Speaker 1: gone Alex Verdugo And if it weren't for one swing

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Speaker 1: by the Yankees nine hole hitter Alex Verdugo in the

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Speaker 1: bottom of the ninth. This game would have been a

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Speaker 1: shutout instead. The final score was four to two, but

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Speaker 1: the Yankees showed no fortitude. They played pretty flat and

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Speaker 1: now we've got them on the ropes. Like seriously, the

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Speaker 1: vibes at the stadium were bad. The crowd was mostly silent.

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Speaker 1: The New York rapper Fat Joe gave a performance that

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Speaker 1: was much maligned online and paled in comparison to ice

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Speaker 1: Cube's energizing set before the game on Saturday at Dodger Stadium,

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Speaker 1: and in the broadcast close ups of the Yankees players

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Speaker 1: and the dugout in the later innings, they look lost.

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Speaker 2: There you w Yugi Holme when you talk about the

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Speaker 2: batty lambs.

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Speaker 1: This is David Ortiz aka Big Poppy, a former Major

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Speaker 1: League player for the Red Sox who, like Dodgers manager

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Speaker 1: Dave Roberts, was a part of the two thousand and

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Speaker 1: four Red Sox team, the only team in Major League

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Speaker 1: history to return from a three zero deficit in a

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Speaker 1: best of seven series and win. They did it in

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Speaker 1: the ALCS. It's never been done in the World Series.

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Speaker 1: With former Yankee stars Alex Rodriguez and Derek Jeter. Big

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Speaker 1: Poppy is now an analyst for Fox. This is him

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Speaker 1: on the postgame show last night.

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Speaker 2: Ugi Holme. When you talk about the batty Lambs, even

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Speaker 2: when Fight Joe came out, their body language from the

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Speaker 2: fan was like, now, I'm like, what's going on? Here?

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Speaker 2: Are we in the funeral already? You know what I'm saying,

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Speaker 2: what's going on? I'll tell you what, man, your body

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Speaker 2: language had to be there all the way into the

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Speaker 2: last out, even when, uh, even when the home wrong

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Speaker 2: way was hit, it wasn't even celebrating. You know what

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Speaker 2: I'm saying, Like, no, you got to come back with

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Speaker 2: the body language.

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Speaker 1: And for Yankees fans, things are getting dark.

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Speaker 4: But what have you seen to give you any sense

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Speaker 4: of hope in these three games?

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Speaker 1: John Boy, Yankees fan from our World series preview episode.

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Speaker 4: If this is taken and putting on documentary ones, that'd be.

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Speaker 1: Awesome, But the baseball gods are fickle and you never

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Speaker 1: know what's going to happen. Next Pride Goes Before the Fall.

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Speaker 3: I Dave, you're one of the few people on earth

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Speaker 3: who know what it's like to come back from a

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Speaker 3: three to zero deficit.

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Speaker 4: Don't talk about wrong guy way too early.

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Speaker 1: This is the Ros manager Dave Roberts in his postgame interview.

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Speaker 1: Not only was Doc a part of the two thousand

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Speaker 1: and four Red Sox team that made that comeback from

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Speaker 1: three zero to beat the Yankees in the ALCS, his

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Speaker 1: pinch run stolen base in the turnaround game was the

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Speaker 1: moment things changed, the spark that started the fire that

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Speaker 1: burned it all down. And we still talk about that

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Speaker 1: series every postseason to this day, two decades later. It

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Speaker 1: comes up on the Fox coverage every single day.

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Speaker 3: Literally, what do you remember about your mindset going into

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Speaker 3: that and what maybe did you learn from that that

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Speaker 3: you can take into it now that you're on the

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Speaker 4: From the other side, I don't want to divulge any secrets,

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Speaker 4: but from the other side, I just think that we

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Speaker 4: have got to stay focused, stay urgent. I think offensively,

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Speaker 4: to be quite honest, we left a lot of runs

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Speaker 4: out there tonight.

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Speaker 1: Perhaps the most oft invoked quotation throughout the entire twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty four Dodgers postseason run has been one from Los

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Speaker 1: Angeles sports icon Kobe Bryant, who in two thousand and

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Speaker 1: nine when the Lakers were up two to zero in

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Speaker 1: a championship series, was asked this question, you're up to old.

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Speaker 3: What's the story?

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Speaker 2: Are you not happy or you're only half happy?

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Speaker 3: Here instead to be happy about you're up too old.

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Speaker 3: Job's not finish, job finish, I don't think so.

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Speaker 1: Okay, that is the attitude of a champion. So we

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Speaker 1: stay humble. Now let's look forward to tonight's Game four

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Speaker 1: because our starting pitching rotation is so badly depleted. We've

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Speaker 1: already run through the best case scenario, three solid starts

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Speaker 1: in a row in the first three games from Jack Flaherty,

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Speaker 1: Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Walker Buehler, and tonight we pitch a bullpen game,

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Speaker 1: no starting pitcher. We're just throwing the kitchen sink at it.

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Speaker 1: Bullpen games are always dicey. It only takes one week

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Speaker 1: link to break the chain. But our bullpen did pitch

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Speaker 1: a shutout against the red hot Padres lineup in the NLDS.

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Speaker 1: But this Yankees lineup is due for a big game,

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Speaker 1: especially Aaron Judge, the presumptive American League MVP, who has

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Speaker 1: not hit at all in this series, but who hit

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Speaker 1: fifty eight home runs during the regular season and they're

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Speaker 1: Three of our dogs, Michael Kopek, Anthony Bonda, and Alex

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Speaker 1: Vesia have all pitched in all three games of the

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Speaker 1: World Series already, and Blake Trinan went long in both

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Speaker 1: Games one and two. Nothing has been announced by the

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Speaker 1: Dodgers organization, but in all lifelihood to get through this

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Speaker 1: Game four, we will probably see a lot of either

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Speaker 1: Ben Casparius Land and Knack, both rookie call ups this season,

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Speaker 1: or mister Turtleneck Brent Honeywell junior. All of these guys

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Speaker 1: are essential. None of them is what we call high leverage.

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Speaker 1: One last thing. During the pregame ceremonies last night, Shohei

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Speaker 1: Otani had his left arm in a sling. He dislocated

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Speaker 1: and while he was cleared to play and was in

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Speaker 1: the lineup last night, his swings looked a little different,

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Speaker 1: holding his jersey almost to use it as a sling

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Speaker 1: or a support for that arm. Probably about everybody is

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Speaker 1: playing with some kind of injury. I know for me,

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Speaker 1: I've had a lot of late nights working on this show,

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Speaker 1: and there've been a lot of tears shed Let's stay

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Speaker 1: together now as a team and stay focused one more win.

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Speaker 1: Dodger Blue Dream is written and produced by Me Richard Parks,

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Speaker 1: the third production assistants on this episode from Tyler Hill.

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Speaker 1: Original music by Jonathan Snipes, William Ryan Fritch, the Blasting Company,

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Speaker 1: and by me. Special thanks to Caitlin Esh and Elizabeth

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