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Dodgers Take 2-0 NLCS Lead vs. Brewers Behind Yamamoto’s Complete Game | MLB on TBS · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: They seem to be on their way behind another sterling
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  Speaker 1: pitching performance from the Los Angeles Dodgers. The Brewers have
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  Speaker 1: not had a an at bat with a runner and
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  Speaker 1: scoring position against the Los Angeles Dodgers starter. They've led
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  Speaker 1: this series for eleven minutes, two pitchers, and back to
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  Speaker 1: back games go eight plus innings. We haven't seen that
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  Speaker 1: since twenty sixteen. It was Bumgardner and Quato. So I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna start with you, Paedro, what are we watching right now,
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  Speaker 1: because I don't think I've ever seen this.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, I know we've never seen it.
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  Speaker 3: Well, what I'm watching here, it's a very complete Dodger
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  Speaker 3: unit that's out there.
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  Speaker 4: With the mission.
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  Speaker 3: And if that guy was talking today in an interview,
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  Speaker 3: I said, for this theme, regardless of all the all
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  Speaker 3: the money and all the things that people want to
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  Speaker 3: really bring out about the Dodgers, they understand what they're into.
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  Speaker 4: They understand their business. They put everything aside.
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  Speaker 3: You know, the stottom in Hollywood, you know the fame, everything,
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  Speaker 3: you know where they're from, and they come to the
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  Speaker 3: field to play that such a lot about the character
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  Speaker 3: that they have in that clubhouse and how those guys
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  Speaker 3: behave they don't really pay attention to anything else but
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  Speaker 3: the game. Because this team, that Milwaukee Brewers is a
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  Speaker 3: really good team.
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  Speaker 4: So was the Philadelphia Phillies, and we have.
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  Speaker 3: Seen them just take over in tight games, in any situation,
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  Speaker 3: playing out standing defense. That's us a lot about how
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  Speaker 3: professional those guys are in that clubhouse, and that goes
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  Speaker 3: from top to bottom.
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  Speaker 1: Before the game, Jimmy, you talked about the importance of
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  Speaker 1: not chasing. Yamamoto pitches one hundred and eleven pitches, eighty
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  Speaker 1: one strikes, and he got those guys chasing all night.
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  Speaker 5: Long, definitely, and then we saw the first pitch of
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  Speaker 5: the game. Their game plans to stay aggressive on a fastball.
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  Speaker 5: After that, Yama Mota made the adjustment. And we always
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  Speaker 5: talk about it. Pitching can neutralize. It's a good offense.
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  Speaker 5: If the pitcher's throwing stripe one and he's gotten it,
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  Speaker 5: not just throwing meat, you know, meat balls over the
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  Speaker 5: middle of the plate, and then he can get you
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  Speaker 5: to chase with his off speed, he's going to dominate.
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  Speaker 5: We've seen that tonight. We're talking about a team that
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  Speaker 5: doesn't chase much, but they don't put anything and play hard.
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  Speaker 5: After that first in and because he was dominating stripe
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  Speaker 5: one never in the same zone, pitching up, pitching down,
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  Speaker 5: the big slow curveball, and that pitch right there that
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  Speaker 5: split fingers devastating.
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  Speaker 6: And when you get that going, I gets a team
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  Speaker 6: that is struggling. They really are that. I mean, even
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  Speaker 6: the last seas they scored some runs early and then
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  Speaker 6: they just fall off. It happened tonight.
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  Speaker 5: They scored in the first and there's nothing going on,
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  Speaker 5: and we have a pitcher that can go out there,
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  Speaker 5: especially after performers like Blake's now and make them look
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  Speaker 5: just as I guess normal, the average Joe Stamon give me.
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  Speaker 5: It's a bad combination.
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  Speaker 3: Let me tell you something. I don't think they're struggling, really.
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  Speaker 3: I think the Milwalkee Blu trying to do what they
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  Speaker 3: normally do. What they ran into is great pitching. And
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  Speaker 3: Jemmota tonight will south standing. He stopped what's electric and
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  Speaker 3: that's probably why he was able to pinpoint control the
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  Speaker 3: entire game with his fastball, and then when he needed
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  Speaker 3: to he went to the slow breaking ball, which is
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  Speaker 3: a surprise to me that he was in such a command.
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  Speaker 3: And also the wipeout split that we saw strike out
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  Speaker 3: the last hitter. I think they have been pitched so
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  Speaker 3: well that it makes them look like they're struggling, But
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  Speaker 3: I don't think they are. They just were overmatched by
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  Speaker 3: Blake Snail and Jemmoto.
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  Speaker 1: And if we were coming in today's game and say
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  Speaker 1: that the Dodgers won through three hitters were two for
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  Speaker 1: thirteen with four k's Paralta did his thing, but the
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  Speaker 1: bats the bottom of the lineup.
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  Speaker 2: You mentioned it to ta Oscar, boy, were they alive?
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  Speaker 7: It's amazing that we have these MVPs at the top
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  Speaker 7: of the lineup that still haven't.
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  Speaker 2: Really got it going.
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  Speaker 7: They've got a couple of hits here, a couple hits there,
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  Speaker 7: But even though it'shiny single to score run there, you
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  Speaker 7: can see the excitement on his face because they're trying
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  Speaker 7: to go ahead and know the things that they can deliver.
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  Speaker 2: But as ta Oscar.
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  Speaker 6: Mentioned, their lineup is so deep.
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  Speaker 7: And even after you get through one through three half
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  Speaker 7: and face them, you can't take a breath because the
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  Speaker 7: rest of the lineup can hurt you.
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  Speaker 6: The Hernandez brothers can get you.
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  Speaker 7: Even pies at the bottom getting the buntdown, which was
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  Speaker 7: huge in this time of the game at this time
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  Speaker 7: of the year, executing on all different areas. Otani with
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  Speaker 7: the stolen base, a sacrifice Bun homers from Taaskar, homers
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  Speaker 7: from Max Munsei, name a guy. Everyone in this lineup
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  Speaker 7: can hurt you at any time, and they've been doing that.
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  Speaker 1: At bats with runners in scoring position. In this series,
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  Speaker 1: Dodgers twenty one, Brewers won. That's why the Dodgers have
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  Speaker 1: now won seventeen of their last twenty one postseason games.
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  Speaker 1: The question is can they do it at home. We're
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  Speaker 1: gonna find out. We already know it's gonna be glass
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  Speaker 1: now on the mount for the Dodgers. They're gonna wait
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  Speaker 1: until probably an hour before the game.
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  Speaker 2: To give us the starter.
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  Speaker 1: For the Brewers, snelling Amamoto looking like a go shack
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  Speaker 1: at Kobe right now. I have to worry about the
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  Speaker 1: Dodgers' bullpack if they never get into the game.
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  Speaker 2: That's smart.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, though, you'll remember two.
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  Speaker 1: Aces on the mound, Freddy Peralta and Yamamoto.
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  Speaker 2: What a performance it was from him.
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  Speaker 1: We start off first pitch of the game from Yamamoto,
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  Speaker 1: Dean Don Johnson, Ding Dong.
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  Speaker 2: Jackson, Churio. This place was going nuts. You put in
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  Speaker 2: the bass for a better start than that. Play right there?
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  Speaker 4: Oh you saying, ding dong Jackie ding donk.
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  Speaker 1: Jackson, cheerio top second now, one out and ti Oscar
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  Speaker 1: Hernandez answers back with a towering dean dog Jackson his
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  Speaker 1: fourth home run of the postseason.
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  Speaker 2: And then how about this.
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  Speaker 1: Andy Pajas came into tonight one hit in twenty seven
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  Speaker 1: at bats, and this one was enormous.
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  Speaker 5: Jimmy, I've said it before, only takes one to swing
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  Speaker 5: and Charlie said this all the time.
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  Speaker 6: Jimmy, it's not about how many you get swims on man.
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  Speaker 6: You get that count and that will count.
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  Speaker 3: Right there.
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  Speaker 6: That put the Dodgers in the head and they did
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  Speaker 6: not look back.
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  Speaker 1: Gave him the lead, moved out top six, two outs,
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  Speaker 1: two strikes. Matt Munksey on a three to two count
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  Speaker 1: to center field. We saw this one turn into a
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  Speaker 1: double play last night. It was about a foot taller
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  Speaker 1: and that also made Munsey the Dodgers all time postseason
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  Speaker 1: home run leader with fourteen.
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  Speaker 2: Passing Justin and Corey c He's got to stay away
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  Speaker 2: from center field.
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  Speaker 7: The auto's bottle a little too close, but hey, once
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  Speaker 7: you get it over it still counts.
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  Speaker 2: Ashby now pitching show.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, Otani gets that long lost single that we've been waiting.
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  Speaker 2: For, another run for keyk Hernandez.
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  Speaker 1: It was for one Dodgers and of course the story
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  Speaker 1: Padro Yamamoto his shortest stitt in the Majors against the
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  Speaker 1: Brewers this year in July and now his first complete
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  Speaker 1: game in the postseason against the foot But you know what,
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  Speaker 1: with that.
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  Speaker 3: Kind of stuff that you throw there, I'm not surprising
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  Speaker 3: when from the shutters through the longest gongrass to him
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  Speaker 3: and that was diffent outstanding out.
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  Speaker 4: In Wow, in Breson.
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  Speaker 3: We have been throwing with the Dodgers pitching continuous.
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  Speaker 4: I'm sorry to say it.
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  Speaker 3: I have a little faith in the Brewers, but I
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  Speaker 3: don't think it's gonna last too long. They continue to
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  Speaker 3: pitch the way they have.
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  Speaker 2: They still have show. Hey, they still have glast.
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  Speaker 1: Now let's hear some post game talk from this incredible
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  Speaker 1: performance from me Imamoto.
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  Speaker 8: Both great. You know, both those pitchers were as dominant
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  Speaker 8: as two pitchers have been. You know, we chased way
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  Speaker 8: more than then We've chased all year. We've been the
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  Speaker 8: best in baseball at not chasing. Uh, these pictures brought
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  Speaker 8: out the worse than us. Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: If I would have told you that the Dodgers are
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  Speaker 8: going to score seven runs in two games and what
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  Speaker 8: was the outcome in the first two games, I'd say
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  Speaker 8: there's a chance we won one.
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  Speaker 2: Of them, for sure. You know, our pitching is beat up,
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  Speaker 2: you know that.
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  Speaker 8: I mean, it was an emotional series with the Cubs,
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  Speaker 8: and then our pitching has been so we weren't as sharp.
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  Speaker 8: But I thought Freddie pitch well, and you know, I
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  Speaker 8: thought Ashby came in and did a great job. Gasser
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  Speaker 8: came in and did a great job. Anderson came in
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  Speaker 8: and did a great job. So we had some we
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  Speaker 8: had some good performances. But offensively, you've got to grind
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  Speaker 8: out at bats and that's that's what been our forte.
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  Speaker 8: The ball strike has been really at the core of
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  Speaker 8: our offensive success, and sometimes great pitching brings out the
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  Speaker 8: worst in you.
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  Speaker 1: Twenty eight times in the postseason the road team has
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  Speaker 1: won the first two games in a best of seven series.
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  Speaker 1: Twenty five times that team has gone on to win,
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  Speaker 1: so just under ninety percent. Jimmy, what is it going
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  Speaker 1: to take for the Brewers' bats to come alive? Other
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  Speaker 1: than they don't have to face Snell and Yamamoto for
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  Speaker 1: the next two matchup.
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  Speaker 6: Well, they got a glass now and Otani.
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  Speaker 5: I don't think there's any hope of them coming a live,
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  Speaker 5: but they can find a way to add pressure. Having
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  Speaker 5: good at bets, as mervh said, they've chased a lot,
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  Speaker 5: and great pitching will do that for you because you're
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  Speaker 5: trying to get something going with someone's trying to step
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  Speaker 5: up and get that big swing, which we saw early,
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  Speaker 5: but then nothing. They fell flat because you'm will motivate
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  Speaker 5: the adjustment. But if you can keep pressure on a pitcher,
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  Speaker 5: get them in a stretch, get runners in the scoring position,
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  Speaker 5: eventually somebody will start to cross the play. But if
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  Speaker 5: you're not even getting yourself in position and the only
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  Speaker 5: thing you're doing is driving ball out the yard against
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  Speaker 5: this pitching staff, it's going to be a long night.
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  Speaker 6: And it's been tough.
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  Speaker 5: You know.
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  Speaker 6: He had less than twenty pitches from the stretch. We're
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  Speaker 6: trying to put pressure on.
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  Speaker 7: They're not drawing the walks, they're not getting along at bats.
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  Speaker 7: He had less than one hundred pitches going into the
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  Speaker 7: ninth inning, But that's credit to the Dodgers' pitching staff
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  Speaker 7: Doc Roberts. I talked to him when I got a
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  Speaker 7: chance to cover that Philly series, and he mentioned, we're
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  Speaker 7: set up as a traditional playoff team than we've ever
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  Speaker 7: been before.
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  Speaker 6: The year before, it was all the bullpenchs.
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  Speaker 7: Now they actually have starters that can come out there
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  Speaker 7: and be called upon, and they're delivering to have truly
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  Speaker 7: four starters ready to roll. They're unlike any other team
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  Speaker 7: in the postseason, and they're relying on them and they're
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  Speaker 7: all coming up big.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone's waiting to announce their starting pitching an hour before
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  Speaker 1: the game. Meanwhile, Roberts is, here's what we got for
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  Speaker 1: the week, So don't ask me anymore.
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  Speaker 2: But I don't know what.
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  Speaker 1: This has been your brew crew all year, and they've
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  Speaker 1: been a phenomenal to watch. These fans have been great.
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  Speaker 1: But it's looking like too tall of a mountain of
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  Speaker 1: climb now.
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  Speaker 3: Well at this point, yes, I'm hoping that they get
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  Speaker 3: an opportunity to find one of those starters, maybe on
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  Speaker 3: a little bit weaker day than they had the last
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  Speaker 3: two days. And plus you have to credit the Dodgers.
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  Speaker 3: We're playing great defensive games. They have cam clutch when
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  Speaker 3: they need to, they have hit enough homers to actually
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  Speaker 3: make it past the Milwaukee Brewers. The Milwaukee Brewers, I
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  Speaker 3: think did not execute as much as they wanted to.
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  Speaker 3: But with that kind of pitching, I mean, all you
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  Speaker 3: have to do is just say, like I once said,
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  Speaker 3: tip your.
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  Speaker 4: Hat and let them go.
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  Speaker 3: Because I'm not gonna say other things, but tip your
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  Speaker 3: hat and let them go. Because the Dodgers are playing
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  Speaker 3: almost perfect, perfect baseball and that's very mutual at this
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  Speaker 3: time of the year.
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  Speaker 6: Another thing that happens.
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  Speaker 5: Another thing that happens is and Pedro knows us and
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  Speaker 5: I've seen it when our pitchers got on the roll.
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  Speaker 5: You see that guy through the night before, Oh, I
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  Speaker 5: have to match that. It's it's it's a competition. They
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  Speaker 5: want to look at each other like, yeah, you did it,
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  Speaker 5: I did it too, And it goes on and on
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  Speaker 5: and on and right now, these guys are at the
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  Speaker 5: top of their game.
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  Speaker 6: It's not like, well, I've been struggling. I'm hoping to
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  Speaker 6: coming back that up.
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  Speaker 5: It's like, no, as good as you were, I want
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  Speaker 5: to go out there and be as just as dominant.
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  Speaker 7: And they've done that in back to back nights and
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  Speaker 7: speaking of being as good as you were, could it be?
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  Speaker 7: And I'm gonna bring it to both of y'all. The
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  Speaker 7: Dodgers lost six games out of the six they played
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  Speaker 7: to the Brewers. Y'all, Momoto got beat up bad. Here
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  Speaker 7: are they looking at it? Going all right, y'all got me?
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  Speaker 7: Then I'm gonna try to come back and get you.
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  Speaker 4: Now, well, I'm gonna I'm gonna answer. First. You heard
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  Speaker 4: the interview for Blake Snail.
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  Speaker 3: He says, hey, they're not regular Joe's They beat us
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  Speaker 3: in the in the in the sixth regular season games.
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  Speaker 3: So they were well aware that that they had their
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  Speaker 3: number during the regular season. But once again, you take
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  Speaker 3: you know, the regular season, throw it out of the back,
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  Speaker 3: and you start brand new games in the postseason. So
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  Speaker 3: this is what the Dodgers came to do. They're not
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  Speaker 3: taking them for granted or any lightly. They're coming after them.
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  Speaker 6: And going with that.
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  Speaker 5: Sometimes you take a team too lightly, like you know
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  Speaker 5: where the Dodgers at of Brewers. You come to a
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  Speaker 5: city which you call those sleeper cities. He come out
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  Speaker 5: here and get your butt handed to you. You go
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  Speaker 5: back next time serious, and they came out serious this series.
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  Speaker 1: Now we did see this twenty fifteen Cubs Mets. Cubs
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  Speaker 1: swept the season series and the regular season, Mets swept
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  Speaker 1: them in the NLCS, and you might say, hey, at
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  Speaker 1: least it's no Snell and Yamamoto. We did see Glass now,
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  Speaker 1: Game four against the Phillies, six scoreless, two hits. They
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  Speaker 1: just keep coming, and we're not even talking about sho
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  Speaker 1: hel Tony