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Speaker 2: I'm recording myself because he could hit fifty right now.

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Speaker 2: Yesterday September nineteenth, twenty twenty four was a dream. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: let's watch. Let's start here with Shohei Otani on the

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Speaker 2: precipice of baseball history.

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Speaker 1: On a one two Otani six one there oay, fuck you, Jos.

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Speaker 3: John one of the Guam player one.

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Speaker 1: Of a joint season.

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Speaker 2: So, hey O, Tommy starts the fifty fifty club. Really,

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Speaker 2: he's done it, that thing that only he knows how

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Speaker 2: to do. Again, fifty home runs and fifty stolen bases

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Speaker 2: in the same season, the first baseball player in the

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Speaker 2: history of the game we've seen thirty thirty, forty Forty's

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Speaker 2: cool too, A fifty to fifty. That's a new club,

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Speaker 2: and it is a club of one Ichi Bond And

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Speaker 2: who's on the list only the best baseball player that

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Speaker 2: the game may ever see show, Hey O, Tommy. And

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Speaker 2: it's not just that Shohy did this during what will

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Speaker 2: go down in history as perhaps the best offensive baseball

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Speaker 2: game ever played, one of the greatest displays of athletic

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Speaker 2: prowess ever. Yeah, so how did he do it? What

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Speaker 2: does it all mean, why am I crying sitting on

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Speaker 2: my couch in the middle of the day, crying at

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Speaker 2: the TV, screaming. Welcome to Dodger Blue Dream, a documentary

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Speaker 2: about the Los Angeles Dodgers twenty twenty four ball season,

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Speaker 2: made in real time as the season unfolds. I'm Richard Parks,

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Speaker 2: the Third, I'm a writer, I make soundscapes, and I

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Speaker 2: love the Dodgers. Today's episode shohy Otani fifty to fifty

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Speaker 2: itchy bye. If you're looking for broad context about how

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Speaker 2: rare the combination of speed and power that we see

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Speaker 2: in show hay Is, check out our episodes. This is

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Speaker 2: almost forty forty and forty forty vision about show hay

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Speaker 2: Is becoming just the sixth player ever to go forty forty.

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Speaker 2: Today we're telling the story of the fifty to fifty game.

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Speaker 2: Let's get into it.

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Speaker 1: Chance at a winning trip and a chance to clinch

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Speaker 1: a postseason birth today with a win. If you have

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Speaker 2: Going into the game. Yesterday, show hay had forty nine

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Speaker 2: stolen bases and forty eight home runs, two dingers, and

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Speaker 2: fifty to fifty. And even though we've become accustomed to

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Speaker 2: expecting the impossible, when it comes to Show Hay, two

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Speaker 2: homers in a game is a lot, and combining that

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Speaker 2: with a steal suffice it to say that I was

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Speaker 2: tempering my excitement. Humbly. I prayed for a Dodger win,

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Speaker 2: because with a win, the Boys in Blue would clinch

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Speaker 2: their twelfth consecutive postseason.

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Speaker 1: Never been to the playoffs, eight hundred and sixty five games.

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Speaker 1: That will change, Marlins.

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Speaker 2: Give the ball to and for Show Hay. It would

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Speaker 2: be his first postseason ever. In fact, going into this game,

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Speaker 2: Show Hay had played in more games than any other

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Speaker 1: Show. Of course, I'll lead off the lineup for Dave

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Speaker 2: First inning, Show Hay leading off, getting closer and closer,

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Speaker 1: Oh, Tony smokes the squad, a right center field off the.

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Speaker 2: A rocket off the center field wall that missed going

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Speaker 2: Blink of an eye, Show Hay was on second told

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Speaker 1: If he gets the third, he's picking the bag up.

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Speaker 1: I'll bet that'd be kind of great, like Rickey Henderson

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Speaker 2: Show Hay is fast, but he's not the fastest baseball

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Speaker 2: player around. He's not even the fastest Dodger in terms

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Speaker 2: this year. This year, while he's rehabbing from elbow surgery,

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Speaker 2: The Marlins catcher threw a bullet to the third baseman,

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Speaker 1: How he got his dad.

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Speaker 2: The fifties for Otani fifty stolen bases.

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Speaker 1: Gotta grab that base one that Otani touches for his

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Speaker 2: And of course they get the base and authenticated. It's

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Speaker 2: But in general, it's kind of an understated moment. First inning,

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Speaker 2: There's a baseball game to play, and show Hey was

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Speaker 1: Show Hey, who hit his forty eight home running Game one,

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Speaker 2: And it's one zero Dodger is when show Hay comes

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Speaker 1: That's a base. It's a right field o. Tani's two

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Speaker 2: And he belts one to right, knocking in Max Monthly.

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Speaker 1: He's got a stolen base, he's got a run scored,

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Speaker 2: Show Hay's got a double and a single. That means

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Speaker 2: He just needs a homer, which would be his forty

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Speaker 2: Hay gets to bat again for the third time, already

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Speaker 1: He's got two hits, two stolen bases, are run scored,

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Speaker 2: But Shohy gets thrown out trying to stretch it into

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Speaker 2: Today, this is where things kind of take a turn.

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Speaker 2: No Dodger in the history of the Dodgers has ever

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Speaker 2: stood for twenty three years now. So as Showhy stands

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Speaker 2: he has a chance to tie an all time Dodger

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Speaker 2: do you think he does?

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Speaker 1: Suns one in the air bag right field. He's in

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Speaker 1: a rule of his own.

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Speaker 3: It's a two run hover. The Dodgers lead at ninety three.

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Speaker 3: Shaw hell Tony is now tied for the all time

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Speaker 3: Dodgers single season home run record.

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Speaker 1: With forty nine.

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Speaker 2: This gargantuan home run, hit very hard and very high

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Speaker 2: gave me the distinct sensation that's something special was going

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Speaker 2: on all right. He just hit his forty ninth home

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Speaker 2: My goodness, we're going to the postseason. Wow. But as

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Speaker 2: I kept pumping my fist, I realized, Holy, it's just

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Speaker 2: I think he's gonna do it today.

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Speaker 1: Three runs Shriven in good. Here we go here, he comments.

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Speaker 2: And as luck would have it, Shohey came up to

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Speaker 1: He's matched the franchise record for a single season with

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Speaker 1: forty nine. He's won away from the first fifty to

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Speaker 2: Ever, there were runners on second and third, which posed

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Speaker 2: an interesting question should the Marlins walk Show Hay to

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Speaker 2: The TV cameras showed a close up of Skip Shoemaker,

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Speaker 1: For that.

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Speaker 2: He says, I've got too much respect for the guy.

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Speaker 2: Or maybe he said I've got too much respect for

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Speaker 2: the first time ever, he had a chance to hit

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Speaker 2: his fiftieth home run. Michael Bauman is on the mound

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Speaker 2: fouls it off. It's zero and two. Third pitch knuckle

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Speaker 1: On a one two too.

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Speaker 2: Aman looks in, gets the sign come set, kicks and

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Speaker 2: deals another knuckle curve. This one floats out over the

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Speaker 2: Miami felt like they were being piped straight into my

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Speaker 1: Time sex one of the air the other way. Fuck

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Speaker 1: it goes, God of curin where won of a giant season.

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Speaker 1: So hell time starts to fifty fifty clop.

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Speaker 2: In those knotty feeling moments in which I had allowed

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Speaker 2: myself to dream that show Hey would reach fifty to

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Speaker 2: fifty this year, I thought about him hitting it at home,

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Speaker 2: maybe in a high stakes situation, winning the ball game

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Speaker 2: the bases loaded, like he did for forty forty. But

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Speaker 2: you know what, the way he got to fifty to

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Speaker 2: fifty in Miami was perfect. He hit that knuckle curve

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Speaker 2: But because it's show Hay and he swings so hard

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Speaker 2: like a classic show Hey home run. It's like a

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Speaker 1: He achieves history with a one day rampage. September nineteen,

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Speaker 2: Four officials from Major League Baseball came into the dugout

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Speaker 2: But whatever history has been made, the games in the bag,

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Speaker 2: He was already five for five with seven RBIs. It

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Speaker 1: Now Otani waits on deck, Taylor's gotta reach. Let's go

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Speaker 3: Yes, and we will see show hey Oltani one more

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Speaker 1: You all are watching this guy? Yes, so the greatest

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Speaker 3: Fifty one home runs or show Hey.

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Speaker 2: Sho Hay finished the day six for six, three home runs,

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Speaker 2: In Japanese, ichibon means number one, but it also means

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Speaker 2: hit fifty right now. Yeah, let's watch. I'm going to

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Speaker 1: He did it.

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Speaker 2: Oh. When you see something like this happen, something that

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Speaker 2: to think of life's impermanence. Wow, how you emotional? Because

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Speaker 2: I watched it all happen and I'm pretty sure it's

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Speaker 2: you for listening to Dodger Blue Dream. I'm Richard Parks.

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Speaker 2: The third Dodger Blue Dream is written and produced by

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Speaker 2: me Richard Parks. Original music in this episode by Jonathan Snipes,

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Speaker 2: William Ryan Fritch, The Blasting Company, and by me. This

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Speaker 2: episode was story edited by Caitlin esh Special thanks to

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