1 00:00:00,600 --> 00:00:03,600 Speaker 1: A quick hello to all of our new listeners. It's 2 00:00:03,640 --> 00:00:06,360 Speaker 1: great to have you here. Yes, it's that moment when 3 00:00:06,400 --> 00:00:09,239 Speaker 1: baseball is getting really interesting, but you need to get 4 00:00:09,280 --> 00:00:11,720 Speaker 1: caught up on all of the storylines that have been 5 00:00:11,760 --> 00:00:14,960 Speaker 1: developing over the course of the entire season, and Dodger 6 00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:19,960 Speaker 1: Blue Dream has your back. Our carefully written, tightly edited 7 00:00:20,040 --> 00:00:24,880 Speaker 1: episodes are evergreen in nature, as fresh and relevant today 8 00:00:25,120 --> 00:00:27,600 Speaker 1: as they were the day they were released. So check 9 00:00:27,600 --> 00:00:35,240 Speaker 1: out our back catalog. Let's get back to this one 10 00:00:36,360 --> 00:00:44,480 Speaker 1: bitch time for Dodger Baseball. It was one of those 11 00:00:44,600 --> 00:00:48,320 Speaker 1: perfect nights at Dodger Stadium. Started out with the sun 12 00:00:48,400 --> 00:00:51,600 Speaker 1: on the San Gabriels and with the darkness came the 13 00:00:51,680 --> 00:00:56,920 Speaker 1: cool breezes, a familiar setting for so many magical moments. 14 00:01:04,319 --> 00:01:08,200 Speaker 1: And then there was this two outs autumn of the 15 00:01:08,280 --> 00:01:10,920 Speaker 1: ninth inning bases loaded. 16 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:15,319 Speaker 2: Show. 17 00:01:15,440 --> 00:01:19,920 Speaker 1: Hey O, Tommy at the plate and Joe Davis on the. 18 00:01:19,880 --> 00:01:24,760 Speaker 2: Call any bass it'll do first bits? 19 00:01:30,040 --> 00:01:30,600 Speaker 1: Are you ready? 20 00:01:30,600 --> 00:01:31,040 Speaker 2: You're ready? 21 00:01:33,680 --> 00:01:34,560 Speaker 1: Here we go? We go? 22 00:01:37,640 --> 00:01:38,199 Speaker 2: What's set? 23 00:01:38,360 --> 00:01:38,640 Speaker 1: Feel? 24 00:01:38,959 --> 00:01:41,760 Speaker 2: Series? Going back? He's at the truck, He's at the. 25 00:01:41,880 --> 00:01:49,240 Speaker 3: Low forty forty walk off Grasslab. No way, what a 26 00:01:49,280 --> 00:02:00,120 Speaker 3: moment history. 27 00:02:08,280 --> 00:02:12,519 Speaker 1: Welcome to Dodger Blue Dream. The title of today's episode 28 00:02:13,160 --> 00:02:18,480 Speaker 1: forty forty Vision. I'm Richard Parks the third forty home 29 00:02:18,560 --> 00:02:25,239 Speaker 1: runs and forty stolen bases, speed and power history being 30 00:02:25,280 --> 00:02:29,280 Speaker 1: made in front of our very eyes. Sho Hey O'tani 31 00:02:29,400 --> 00:02:33,000 Speaker 1: has become just the sixth player in Major League history 32 00:02:33,360 --> 00:02:37,200 Speaker 1: to go forty forty. He got there quicker than anybody 33 00:02:37,400 --> 00:02:41,480 Speaker 1: ever has before him, by a margin of twenty one games. 34 00:02:42,200 --> 00:02:45,959 Speaker 1: And show hey did it in the most dramatic fashion imaginable, 35 00:02:46,120 --> 00:02:49,120 Speaker 1: hitting a grand Slam in the bottom of the ninth 36 00:02:49,120 --> 00:02:52,079 Speaker 1: inning with two out to win the ballgame in front 37 00:02:52,120 --> 00:02:56,040 Speaker 1: of a sellout crowd at Chavez Ravine. Talk about a 38 00:02:56,160 --> 00:03:00,720 Speaker 1: Dodger blue Dream. It's literally the moment that you about 39 00:03:00,800 --> 00:03:03,680 Speaker 1: when you're a kid, falling asleep with your baseball glove 40 00:03:03,760 --> 00:03:07,280 Speaker 1: underneath your pillow, cradling your twenty seven inch long bat, 41 00:03:07,720 --> 00:03:11,600 Speaker 1: and a Hollywood ending for baseball's biggest star in this 42 00:03:12,120 --> 00:03:16,040 Speaker 1: his first season in La. So Hey, what an incredible 43 00:03:16,080 --> 00:03:18,679 Speaker 1: achievement to be now a part of the forty block, 44 00:03:22,480 --> 00:03:25,560 Speaker 1: complete with the ice cold gatorade shower on live TV. 45 00:03:32,840 --> 00:03:36,480 Speaker 1: A walk off win for the Dodgers seven to three 46 00:03:36,960 --> 00:03:39,680 Speaker 1: in the first game of a three game series against 47 00:03:39,720 --> 00:03:45,880 Speaker 1: the Tampa Bay Rays. The best show Wink in town 48 00:03:46,040 --> 00:03:50,000 Speaker 1: on Friday night. You just can't make this stuff up 49 00:03:50,520 --> 00:03:52,760 Speaker 1: because that is baseball. 50 00:03:53,440 --> 00:03:54,440 Speaker 2: So how did he do it? 51 00:03:55,840 --> 00:03:58,000 Speaker 1: Let's take you through the events that led there. 52 00:04:00,240 --> 00:04:02,680 Speaker 2: One of the top prospects in baseball. 53 00:04:02,280 --> 00:04:05,880 Speaker 1: Junior Camonaro, the Ray's twenty one year old top prospect, 54 00:04:06,080 --> 00:04:09,000 Speaker 1: in an opposite field home run off of Bobby Miller 55 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:09,720 Speaker 1: in the first inning. 56 00:04:09,920 --> 00:04:12,480 Speaker 2: Well, they say the ball sounds different coming off his back. 57 00:04:12,640 --> 00:04:14,960 Speaker 2: My ear drums are sore. Two outs and a chance 58 00:04:15,040 --> 00:04:16,120 Speaker 2: for Christopher. 59 00:04:15,680 --> 00:04:18,800 Speaker 1: Morel, and then Christopher Morrell added a two run shot 60 00:04:18,839 --> 00:04:19,680 Speaker 1: in the third. 61 00:04:19,640 --> 00:04:22,200 Speaker 2: God home run Christopher Morel. 62 00:04:22,320 --> 00:04:24,359 Speaker 1: So it was three to nothing. In the bottom of 63 00:04:24,400 --> 00:04:28,160 Speaker 1: the fourth inning when Showhy came up a little Q 64 00:04:28,279 --> 00:04:30,360 Speaker 1: shot on the left side and he legged out an 65 00:04:30,360 --> 00:04:31,280 Speaker 1: infield single. 66 00:04:31,360 --> 00:04:32,560 Speaker 2: Well, ty, he also doubted it. 67 00:04:32,720 --> 00:04:35,080 Speaker 1: Fid sing and he starts dancing off of. 68 00:04:35,080 --> 00:04:39,640 Speaker 2: Firsts O tany and he's gonna steal for so hey. 69 00:04:39,880 --> 00:04:43,880 Speaker 1: That was his fortieth steal thirty nine forty So he's one. 70 00:04:43,920 --> 00:04:46,839 Speaker 2: Swing away at this point for the history. The way 71 00:04:46,880 --> 00:04:48,800 Speaker 2: he makes things happen with his legs. 72 00:04:48,880 --> 00:04:51,320 Speaker 1: In the bottom of the fifth it was still three zero. 73 00:04:51,480 --> 00:04:54,120 Speaker 1: Rays ke K came up with two men. 74 00:04:53,960 --> 00:04:57,440 Speaker 2: On your dande off side of the airlock center field. 75 00:04:57,520 --> 00:04:59,800 Speaker 2: Lowe's doing back. He'sze, that's Rocky's out. 76 00:05:00,440 --> 00:05:04,760 Speaker 4: Next Carny days lunch as a foe. 77 00:05:04,640 --> 00:05:06,440 Speaker 2: Run home barn Storing to three. 78 00:05:06,480 --> 00:05:09,839 Speaker 1: In the fifth, show Hay was the next batter up 79 00:05:10,040 --> 00:05:12,400 Speaker 1: and came to the plate with a chance to give 80 00:05:12,400 --> 00:05:13,400 Speaker 1: the Dodgers a lead. 81 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:16,080 Speaker 2: He stolen his fortieth bag of the season. 82 00:05:16,120 --> 00:05:18,839 Speaker 5: He's sitting on thirty nine home runs, one swing away 83 00:05:18,839 --> 00:05:19,839 Speaker 5: from the first forty to. 84 00:05:19,880 --> 00:05:26,120 Speaker 1: Forty seas, but Showhy grounded out to short. 85 00:05:27,480 --> 00:05:29,520 Speaker 2: It was a rifle off the bat, but fortunately it 86 00:05:29,560 --> 00:05:29,960 Speaker 2: wasn't out. 87 00:05:30,160 --> 00:05:30,880 Speaker 6: Now. 88 00:05:31,480 --> 00:05:34,760 Speaker 7: I had listened to your forty to forty podcasts that 89 00:05:34,839 --> 00:05:38,200 Speaker 7: I look for. You said, this is something that's gonna 90 00:05:38,279 --> 00:05:41,279 Speaker 7: take a day or two, not a week. He's gonna 91 00:05:41,320 --> 00:05:41,920 Speaker 7: do it. 92 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:45,440 Speaker 6: I was obviously kind of keeping my eye on forty forty, 93 00:05:45,880 --> 00:05:49,200 Speaker 6: knowing that he so often will hit a homer and 94 00:05:49,360 --> 00:05:51,039 Speaker 6: steal a base in the same night. 95 00:05:51,279 --> 00:05:52,440 Speaker 4: Everyone was waiting. 96 00:05:52,520 --> 00:05:57,040 Speaker 1: Everyone knew the game remained tied at three to three 97 00:05:57,640 --> 00:06:01,240 Speaker 1: into the bottom of the seventh inning, when with two outs, 98 00:06:01,560 --> 00:06:05,039 Speaker 1: Keik Hernandez hit a single, bringing show Hey to the 99 00:06:05,080 --> 00:06:08,119 Speaker 1: plate once again with the chance to give his team 100 00:06:08,160 --> 00:06:11,280 Speaker 1: the lead, and once again with a chance to go 101 00:06:11,440 --> 00:06:12,200 Speaker 1: forty forty. 102 00:06:14,600 --> 00:06:17,360 Speaker 5: The table is set for show Hay, sitting on thirty 103 00:06:17,440 --> 00:06:21,760 Speaker 5: nine home runs in forty stolen bases. Ozani chops one 104 00:06:21,760 --> 00:06:24,480 Speaker 5: to second and that'll do it for the Dodgers in 105 00:06:24,520 --> 00:06:25,680 Speaker 5: the seventh. 106 00:06:25,920 --> 00:06:28,600 Speaker 1: But show Hey grounded out to second, you know. 107 00:06:28,560 --> 00:06:30,760 Speaker 7: And then he got like grounded out. You're like, okay, man, 108 00:06:30,800 --> 00:06:32,560 Speaker 7: he might not do it, but whatever, it was still 109 00:06:32,600 --> 00:06:33,159 Speaker 7: a great game. 110 00:06:33,440 --> 00:06:35,680 Speaker 6: I kind of thought that he was done for the 111 00:06:35,839 --> 00:06:37,800 Speaker 6: night after his second. 112 00:06:37,560 --> 00:06:39,120 Speaker 2: To last at bat. 113 00:06:39,160 --> 00:06:40,960 Speaker 6: I just didn't think they were going to go through 114 00:06:41,120 --> 00:06:42,040 Speaker 6: the order again. 115 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:46,719 Speaker 1: The game remained tied at three to three, and show 116 00:06:46,760 --> 00:06:51,159 Speaker 1: Hey remained one home run shy of forty forty. As 117 00:06:51,200 --> 00:06:54,280 Speaker 1: the game went from the seventh to the eighth and 118 00:06:54,400 --> 00:06:56,440 Speaker 1: the eighth to the ninth. 119 00:06:56,480 --> 00:07:00,680 Speaker 6: Gridlocked, It's tied going into the bottom of the. 120 00:07:00,720 --> 00:07:03,920 Speaker 5: Ninth, Dodgers, looking for a walk off win open this 121 00:07:04,040 --> 00:07:05,520 Speaker 5: series against Shampa. 122 00:07:05,240 --> 00:07:05,720 Speaker 8: Bed. 123 00:07:08,040 --> 00:07:12,240 Speaker 1: Manuel Rodriguez with a one eighty eer on to pitch 124 00:07:12,320 --> 00:07:15,720 Speaker 1: for the Rays. With five, six and seven d up 125 00:07:15,720 --> 00:07:18,520 Speaker 1: for the Dodgers, they'd have to get at least two 126 00:07:18,600 --> 00:07:20,880 Speaker 1: on to make it to show Hey in the leadoff 127 00:07:20,920 --> 00:07:24,080 Speaker 1: spot and Rodriguez has great stuff. 128 00:07:24,400 --> 00:07:26,880 Speaker 5: Yeah, no runs the last twelve games. He gets strike 129 00:07:26,960 --> 00:07:28,280 Speaker 5: one on will Smith. 130 00:07:28,080 --> 00:07:31,480 Speaker 1: And very quickly Rodriguez went zero to two on Smitty. 131 00:07:31,800 --> 00:07:35,800 Speaker 5: But then two pitch almost got hit. In fact he 132 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:40,560 Speaker 5: did what a gift. Will Smith is hit on an as. 133 00:07:40,560 --> 00:07:43,080 Speaker 1: Past getting to the thin part of the lineup. Now 134 00:07:43,080 --> 00:07:44,480 Speaker 1: it's Tommy Edmond. 135 00:07:44,400 --> 00:07:47,800 Speaker 5: Slashes a well into finer found base hit went in 136 00:07:47,920 --> 00:07:48,640 Speaker 5: order to start a. 137 00:07:48,680 --> 00:07:55,560 Speaker 4: Position first and second and now Rojas. That is Johnny 138 00:07:55,640 --> 00:07:58,960 Speaker 4: left side. Well done by Rojas, winning run up to third. 139 00:08:00,240 --> 00:08:03,640 Speaker 1: A sacrifice bun from Miguel Rojas. Now we've got second 140 00:08:03,640 --> 00:08:05,840 Speaker 1: and third. One out for Gavin. 141 00:08:05,600 --> 00:08:09,640 Speaker 5: Lux a massive four on the left side of the 142 00:08:09,640 --> 00:08:10,880 Speaker 5: infield here two to one. 143 00:08:11,720 --> 00:08:15,400 Speaker 2: That is a diving stop at second base by Lao. 144 00:08:16,040 --> 00:08:19,400 Speaker 1: Two out. Dave Roberts decides to pinch hit for Keik 145 00:08:19,880 --> 00:08:24,800 Speaker 1: with Max Munsey braised manager Kevin Cash counters with left 146 00:08:24,800 --> 00:08:27,640 Speaker 1: handed pitcher Colin Posche. 147 00:08:27,280 --> 00:08:31,040 Speaker 2: The one o pitch and the dirt for ball. 148 00:08:30,920 --> 00:08:33,199 Speaker 1: Two, who's having trouble with his control. 149 00:08:33,120 --> 00:08:35,240 Speaker 2: A months you can dig back in. Look going to 150 00:08:35,320 --> 00:08:36,040 Speaker 2: be the hero. 151 00:08:36,040 --> 00:08:44,720 Speaker 8: Saidai and mons he walks instead passes the batonda shohey 152 00:08:44,760 --> 00:08:49,440 Speaker 8: o Toddy, and it's his term to try and put 153 00:08:49,440 --> 00:08:56,480 Speaker 8: on a cape. 154 00:08:59,679 --> 00:09:03,000 Speaker 1: Every buddy at Dodger Stadium rises to their feet. 155 00:09:03,960 --> 00:09:04,880 Speaker 2: Is this really it? 156 00:09:04,960 --> 00:09:08,240 Speaker 6: Is he really gonna hit forty forty on a walkoff 157 00:09:08,320 --> 00:09:11,480 Speaker 6: Grand Slam? And I'm kind of thinking, like, there's just 158 00:09:11,520 --> 00:09:14,040 Speaker 6: no way. It's it's too good to be sure that 159 00:09:14,120 --> 00:09:15,120 Speaker 6: that's how he do it. 160 00:09:16,120 --> 00:09:18,640 Speaker 7: And then I don't know if the bases are loaded, 161 00:09:18,960 --> 00:09:21,880 Speaker 7: it's the ninth and thing, are you kidding me? 162 00:09:26,440 --> 00:09:28,600 Speaker 2: But the pressure on here, there's no where to put it. 163 00:09:28,679 --> 00:09:30,040 Speaker 2: You've got to come after it. 164 00:09:31,360 --> 00:09:34,320 Speaker 1: And Showy has to approach it like that too, knowing 165 00:09:34,400 --> 00:09:36,000 Speaker 1: that they got to. 166 00:09:35,960 --> 00:09:38,000 Speaker 2: Come over the place. You don't have to be a hero. 167 00:09:38,840 --> 00:09:44,240 Speaker 2: Shoot the ball the other way any base it'll do first, bitch. 168 00:09:47,080 --> 00:09:50,400 Speaker 1: I'm going to leave the broadcast behind and play audio 169 00:09:50,600 --> 00:09:55,800 Speaker 1: recorded at the game because it tells its own little story. 170 00:09:56,000 --> 00:10:04,520 Speaker 1: When show Hey first connects, you can hear a roar 171 00:10:04,559 --> 00:10:11,600 Speaker 1: from the crowd, which then fades as the ball soars 172 00:10:11,720 --> 00:10:20,600 Speaker 1: up into the sky towards right center field, but then 173 00:10:20,920 --> 00:10:24,640 Speaker 1: another eruption of cheers as the ball sails over the 174 00:10:24,679 --> 00:10:28,040 Speaker 1: fence just beyond the mid of Jose Siri, who made 175 00:10:28,040 --> 00:10:43,320 Speaker 1: a leaping attempt at it. Listen, listen here here, and 176 00:10:43,440 --> 00:10:47,320 Speaker 1: the loud speakers blast, I Love LA by Randy Newman. 177 00:10:50,559 --> 00:10:51,280 Speaker 2: Dodgers win. 178 00:11:21,160 --> 00:11:25,520 Speaker 1: In that beautiful moment between the initial roar and the 179 00:11:25,559 --> 00:11:31,079 Speaker 1: full blown eruption, that moment of uncertainty, fifty thousand people 180 00:11:31,520 --> 00:11:36,440 Speaker 1: anticipating the same thing, fifty thousand hearts skipping a beat. 181 00:11:37,240 --> 00:11:43,880 Speaker 1: Shohey was striding confidently towards first base, his eyes still 182 00:11:43,960 --> 00:11:46,679 Speaker 1: fixed on the ball that had just come off his bat, 183 00:11:47,240 --> 00:11:50,319 Speaker 1: which he was now holding at his side with both hands, 184 00:11:50,760 --> 00:11:54,840 Speaker 1: like a sword that just struck a mighty blow or 185 00:11:55,160 --> 00:11:59,040 Speaker 1: an oversized pen he had just used to write the 186 00:11:59,120 --> 00:12:03,360 Speaker 1: final sentence in a breathtaking chapter in the story of 187 00:12:03,440 --> 00:12:07,880 Speaker 1: the twenty twenty four Los Angeles Dodgers baseball season. Forty 188 00:12:08,080 --> 00:12:13,400 Speaker 1: forty the first Dodger and just the sixth player ever. 189 00:12:14,080 --> 00:12:17,680 Speaker 1: And he's not done yet. Show Hay is on pace 190 00:12:18,160 --> 00:12:21,960 Speaker 1: for fifty to fifty and if he got there, he 191 00:12:22,000 --> 00:12:25,079 Speaker 1: would be the first and only ever to do so. 192 00:12:25,920 --> 00:12:28,560 Speaker 1: And the night after he went forty forty, he took 193 00:12:28,559 --> 00:12:32,160 Speaker 1: his first step in that direction, blasting his forty first 194 00:12:32,200 --> 00:12:39,679 Speaker 1: Homer into the right field bleachers. What comes next? Show Hey, 195 00:12:40,640 --> 00:13:03,800 Speaker 1: show us first Bitch. Dodger Blue Dream is written and 196 00:13:03,920 --> 00:13:09,000 Speaker 1: produced by Me Richard Parksid. This episode was story edited 197 00:13:09,040 --> 00:13:13,000 Speaker 1: by Caitlin Esh. Original music in this episode by William 198 00:13:13,080 --> 00:13:17,280 Speaker 1: Ryan Fritch The Blasting Company, and by Me. Special thanks 199 00:13:17,320 --> 00:13:21,360 Speaker 1: to Tyler Hill and to Sarah Finnerty whose voices helped 200 00:13:21,440 --> 00:13:25,079 Speaker 1: tell this story. Please rate and review Dodger Blue Dream 201 00:13:25,200 --> 00:13:28,280 Speaker 1: however you can. I have a modest goal to reach 202 00:13:28,360 --> 00:13:31,040 Speaker 1: one hundred ratings before the end of the season, and 203 00:13:31,120 --> 00:13:35,400 Speaker 1: I can't get there without your help. Thanks again for listening. 204 00:13:36,800 --> 00:13:37,680 Speaker 1: See you next time.