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Speaker 1: That's what.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, and welcome to Dodger Blue Dream Daily, the

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Speaker 2: quick turnaround format of my documentary made in real time

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Speaker 2: as the baseball season unfolds. I'm Richard Parks the Third

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Speaker 2: and it is Sunday, October twentieth, twenty twenty four. The

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Speaker 2: Yankees beat the Guardians last night and they are advancing

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Speaker 2: on from the Alcs to the World Series, which means

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Speaker 2: that if the Dodgers win tonight or tomorrow night, we're

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Speaker 2: going to get a Yankees Dodgers World Series, something I

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Speaker 2: have wanted my entire life. But let's not get ahead

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Speaker 2: of ourselves. We've got a baseball game to play tonight

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Speaker 2: at Dodger Stadium at five oh eight, very specifically Pacific time.

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Speaker 2: It's Game six of the National League Championship Series, Dodgers

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Speaker 2: versus Mets. This episode will give you everything you need

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Speaker 2: to know about that game, plus a little bit of.

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Speaker 1: My take, in five ish minutes.

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Speaker 2: So let's get into it with a focus on the

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Speaker 2: pitching situation, because that's what's in You can just feel it,

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Speaker 2: I can just taste it. It's in the air. Here's

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Speaker 2: the deal. The starting pitching matchup for today's game is

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Speaker 2: a repeat of what we saw for Game two of

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Speaker 2: this series on Monday. It's left hander Sean Mania for

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Speaker 2: the Mets and for the Boys in Blue, it's a

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Speaker 2: bullpen game that means we don't have a traditional starter going.

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Speaker 1: We're just throwing the kitchen sink at it.

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Speaker 2: Dave Roberts described it as an all hands on deck scenario.

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Speaker 2: The only guys being held back.

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Speaker 1: Are Walker Buehler, who will.

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Speaker 2: Start Game seven if it gets there, and Yoshinobu Yamamoto

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Speaker 2: because our expensive little baby prince needs his rest. And

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Speaker 2: if you recall, Monday did not work out. That game

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Speaker 2: ended in a seven to three loss, and Manaia was

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Speaker 2: very good. The MV three Shoheo Tani, Mookie Betts, and

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Speaker 2: Freddie Freeman all went for that day.

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Speaker 1: On our side.

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Speaker 2: On Monday, Ryan Brazier, our opener, gave up a leadoff

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Speaker 2: home run to Francisco Lindor, and Landon Nak, who was

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Speaker 2: meant to eat up most of the innings that day,

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Speaker 2: gave up a grand slam to Mark Vientos. It was

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Speaker 2: a disappointing loss, and we had a handful of big

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Speaker 2: opportunities with runners on base, but we didn't cash in

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Speaker 2: it was like we were a swing away from getting

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Speaker 2: back into that one and it just didn't happen. And

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Speaker 2: you might be thinking, why are we throwing a bullpen

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Speaker 2: game again if it went so poorly the first time around.

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Speaker 2: This is a super important game. We got to win

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Speaker 2: this one. I want the Yankees in the World Series.

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Speaker 2: And to that, I say, it doesn't sound like you've

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Speaker 2: been listening to this show or following the Dodger season

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Speaker 2: very closely or for the past few years. Because A

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Speaker 2: Number one, most of the starters we went into this

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Speaker 2: season expecting to see in October are all on the

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Speaker 2: injured list. Tyler Glass, Noow, Clayton Kershaw, Gavin Stone, even

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Speaker 2: rookies like River Ryan, not to mention Dustin may Tony Gonsolin,

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Speaker 2: all these guys are hurt and b number two.

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Speaker 1: Bullpen games have become.

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Speaker 2: An important piece of our winning strategy this postseason, and

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Speaker 2: it's something that goes back a few years with the Dodgers.

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Speaker 2: You might remember that we pitched a bullpen game in

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Speaker 2: Game four of the NLDS against the Padres and it

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Speaker 2: went fantastically. That was an elimination game for the Dodgers,

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Speaker 2: and our bullpen pitched a shutout, and in fact, it

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Speaker 2: was the twenty fifth bullpen game the Dodgers have used

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Speaker 2: since the start of the twenty twenty two season, and

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Speaker 2: we've won seventeen of those games. This is also an

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Speaker 2: emblem of just where the game is at across baseball.

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Speaker 2: In this postseason, relief pitchers have pitched more innings than

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Speaker 2: starting pitchers. Have. Only one starter, Corbyn Burns of the

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Speaker 2: Baltimore Orioles, pitched into the eighth inning in this postseason,

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Speaker 2: and only seven pitchers have completed seven innings, including our

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Speaker 2: own Jack Flaherty, who did it in Game one of

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Speaker 2: this series. So it's both a trend across the game

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Speaker 2: and a situation that the Dodgers are specifically in this

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Speaker 2: season with their starting pitching rotation. Pitching a bullpen game

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Speaker 2: is actually our best shot at winning this one and

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Speaker 2: moving on to the World Series. The key is how

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Speaker 2: manager Dave Roberts deploys his bullpen. If you listen to

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Speaker 2: our last episode, you know some were critical of Dave

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Speaker 2: Roberts managing in the last game of this series on

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Speaker 2: Friday Night. He left in a very ineffective Jack Flaherty,

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Speaker 2: who gave up eight runs in just three innings when

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Speaker 2: the bullpen, the high leverage guys like Michael Kopek, Blake Trinin,

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Speaker 2: Daniel Hudson, and Evan Phillips to shut down the Mets

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Speaker 2: offense and stop the bleeding. The following is from dB

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Speaker 2: the nineteen sixties, Willie Aaron.

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Speaker 3: It's the night before Game six between the Dodgers and

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Speaker 3: Mets in the NLCS. If I told you that I

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Speaker 3: was absolutely confident that the Dodgers would pull out the victory,

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Speaker 3: I would be lying through my teeth. Dave Roberts missed

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Speaker 3: a golden opportunity to close the game out when in

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Speaker 3: the bottom of the third inning it was quite clear

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Speaker 3: that Jack Flaherty didn't have it, and as a fan

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Speaker 3: and defender of Doc over the years, I found that

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Speaker 3: to be borderlined egregious. I thought it was a bad

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Speaker 3: message to send to the team and a bad message

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Speaker 3: to send to the fans that hey, we're essentially punting

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Speaker 2: The silver lining of the questionable choices Dave Roberts made

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Speaker 2: Friday night, since none of the Dowgs appeared in that game.

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Speaker 2: All of the Dogs are now well rested. And not

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Speaker 2: only that, these Mets hitters have not really seen much

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Speaker 2: of our dogs at all. None of our high leverage

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Speaker 2: relievers have pitched in this series since Game four. That's

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Speaker 2: in contrast to the Mets, ooh facing elimination, use their

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Speaker 2: best two relievers, Ryan Stanek and Edwin Diaz to help

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Speaker 2: secure their twelve to six victory in Game five. And

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Speaker 2: our lineup has seen Sean Maniya as recently as Monday

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Speaker 2: several times. So let's hope, given this imbalance, that the

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Speaker 2: Dodger bats can come to life and early on, and

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Speaker 2: that our dogs can overpower the Mets hitters and send

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Speaker 2: this Dodgers team to the World Series. That is today's

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Speaker 2: Dodger Blue Dream. Dodger Blue Dream is written and produced

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Speaker 2: by me Richard Parks the third and I don't mean

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Speaker 2: to get greedy, but delving into the history, the last

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Speaker 2: time the Dodgers clinched the anal pennant and won the

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Speaker 2: NLCS at home, it was nineteen eighty eight against the Mets,

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Speaker 2: and so thinking of nineteen eighty eight, one more thing

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Speaker 2: to mention about this game today is that Freddie Freeman

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Speaker 2: will not be in the lineup. He's gone one for

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Speaker 2: fifteen in this series, and it's clear that his ankle

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Speaker 2: is bothering him, so he's going to get some rest.

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Speaker 2: You could see a scenario where this situation sets Freddy

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Speaker 2: up for his Kirk Gibson moment. A big pinch hit

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Speaker 2: home run by a left handed hitter hobbling around the bases.

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Speaker 2: I don't know, something to dream about. Also, Tao is due.

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Speaker 2: He's gone zero for seventeen in this series, and since

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Speaker 2: that super clutch Grand Slam in San Diego, it doesn't

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Speaker 2: it's his time to turn it on. Come on, Teo,

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Speaker 2: you're so clutch. Andy Pajes has been hot. Good to

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Speaker 2: see that he's in the lineup. Those two Hommers the

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Speaker 2: other night looked amazing. And hey, our boy Chris Taylor

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Speaker 2: batting ninth. Let's get on base for show. Hey CT three,

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna go light that candle. Ooh, Michael Kopek is starting.

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Speaker 1: I love that.

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Speaker 2: Very aggressive. He's a dowg. All right, have a good game, everybody.

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Speaker 2: I'll talk to you soon,