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The MLB Postseason Report with Greg & Paul (Guest: Michelle Garmon, 2.54.2) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

• 0:00
  [SPEAKER_00]: Welcome baseball fans of the Central Indiana Sports Report for today's MLB Post Season Report with myself, your host Greg Mendoe and our baseball expert Paul Tippedon.
• 0:12
  [SPEAKER_00]: It will be joined a little later by Tippedon's Review and an L. Wood Call leader, Sports Editor Michelle Garman, if she's still awake, we don't know for sure.
• 0:22
  [SPEAKER_00]: She said she'd try to get here we hope she does.
• 0:25
  [SPEAKER_00]: The Paul is a national league day and what a day it was.
• 0:29
  [SPEAKER_02]: It was very exciting, that was about the first game at Dodger Stadium was about the most tense and pressure-filled and interesting game that you could wish for.
• 0:46
  [SPEAKER_00]: Crazy, you know, no runs through 6 in and both run scored in the 7th, including a basis load and walk that they finally get out of, only to go 11 innings and have the game finish like it did.
• 0:59
  [SPEAKER_02]: But of course, all the drama was in the seventh inning.
• 1:04
  [SPEAKER_02]: And I hesitate to say this.
• 1:10
  [SPEAKER_02]: But we needed the ABS system to work.
• 1:16
  [SPEAKER_02]: The home plate up higher.
• 1:19
  [SPEAKER_02]: I made a note of who that was at a long time ago, and now it's a god's one.
• 1:22
  [SPEAKER_02]: But the home plate on fire had an excellent, excellent game.
• 1:26
  [SPEAKER_02]: One of the best games behind the plate that you could have.
• 1:30
  [SPEAKER_02]: But on a three-two pitch in the seventh inning, the Dodgers put on a lead off-iron win that ball was clearly in the strike zone.
• 1:41
  [SPEAKER_02]: And that turned out to be the run through
• 1:46
  [SPEAKER_02]: through Philly's miscuse later on, not errors, but they save that for the, for the ending, obviously.
• 1:56
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, one of the strangest ways a game can end, bases loaded, two outs, ball gets hit back to the picture, he bobbles and decides to go home with it.
• 2:11
  [SPEAKER_02]: Why in the world would he throw that ball to home?
• 2:15
  [SPEAKER_02]: He clearly had pie his out at first base.
• 2:19
  [SPEAKER_00]: He wasn't a third of the way down the line when he had the ball in the sand.
• 2:22
  [SPEAKER_02]: You know that every in-fielder and the catcher for the fillies were yelling a one-one-one for him to throw it to first base.
• 2:33
  [SPEAKER_00]: I've never got real mooto was definitely pointing.
• 2:36
  [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, I've never seen anybody to spazz throw into the wrong basis one thing, but then to flip the ball 40 of just the if the Yankee fans felt like last night they were suffering.
• 2:51
  [SPEAKER_02]: I can only imagine what filiphans are going through tonight that was.
• 2:58
  [SPEAKER_02]: Besides that game too, where they almost had it and then had it taken away from them.
• 3:04
  [SPEAKER_02]: To give the Dodgers that, and of course they walked in the tying run in the seventh inning.
• 3:11
  [SPEAKER_02]: Two.
• 3:13
  [SPEAKER_00]: And then got out of it, look like, oh, hey, it looked like it was gonna be a really bad situation for the Phillies.
• 3:19
  [SPEAKER_00]: They did walk bets to load the bases.
• 3:23
  [SPEAKER_00]: Um, then got out of it to get the extra innings and had their chances, man.
• 3:28
  [SPEAKER_00]: They just had their chances.
• 3:29
  [SPEAKER_02]: They had they definitely had some chances and they were walked a few times, too.
• 3:34
  [SPEAKER_02]: But both both of those teams struck out so many times.
• 3:37
  [SPEAKER_02]: You start to wonder if the pitching is that good or not.
• 3:42
  [SPEAKER_02]: I was listening to the Philly's announcers for a while and they kept talking about the, um,
• 3:47
  [SPEAKER_02]: the conditions, the shadows.
• 3:50
  [SPEAKER_02]: Even when the home plate to pitcher's mound was covered in shadow, you had background, and they kept giving excuses.
• 3:57
  [SPEAKER_02]: But of course, then the next standing, the Dodgers had two hits.
• 4:00
  [SPEAKER_02]: So...
• 4:01
  [SPEAKER_00]: I don't want to divert too much here from the topic, but couldn't you explain to me why the game of Chicago was played in the game in Los Angeles was played at four?
• 4:10
  [SPEAKER_00]: I can't begin to tell you.
• 4:11
  [SPEAKER_02]: If you're going to have a day, if you're going to have the earlier game, then have the game in Los Angeles earlier and not have the Cubs game.
• 4:19
  [SPEAKER_02]: So I can't imagine.
• 4:21
  [SPEAKER_02]: Why you would start a game in Chicago after the game in Los Angeles?
• 4:28
  [SPEAKER_02]: I guess I just wanted to have the late night midwest people happy, but then again, they're all asleep.
• 4:36
  [SPEAKER_02]: That's exactly right.
• 4:37
  [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know.
• 4:38
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's so, well, the bro.
• 4:40
  [SPEAKER_00]: I still understand it at all.
• 4:41
  [SPEAKER_02]: All right, back to baseball because that's your role in the, the bro, the bro is helped with that situation because they fell asleep early and look like
• 4:57
  [SPEAKER_02]: except for exuberant cubs fans who wanted to revel in this comeback to go to bed early.
• 5:04
  [SPEAKER_02]: Everybody could have gone to bed after that first inning really.
• 5:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: It seemed like it all though the Cubs did do that another game and then couldn't yesterday and then couldn't score the rest of the game and you didn't know what I thought for a while.
• 5:18
  [SPEAKER_02]: But then the brewer's put in a guy named Gasser and that didn't seem to help in at all for the two late by that point.
• 5:25
  [SPEAKER_02]: They were the brewer's tonight vindicated your take on the brewer's for a month ago that the brewer's were going to get here and underperform.
• 5:36
  [SPEAKER_00]: So they were going to get there and they were going to bring her all over the place.
• 5:41
  [SPEAKER_02]: They definitely blew it.
• 5:42
  [SPEAKER_02]: Brewer tonight.
• 5:43
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yes.
• 5:43
  [SPEAKER_00]: And I think they're going to brewer on Saturday.
• 5:46
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think the cubs are going to beat him.
• 5:48
  [SPEAKER_02]: Well, the cubs have a more definite plan of attack.
• 5:52
  [SPEAKER_02]: Rose, I was listening to the brewer's announcement tonight and they said that Imanaga they thought would probably start for the, um,
• 6:00
  [SPEAKER_02]: for the Cubs, and they had no idea.
• 6:04
  [SPEAKER_02]: They were sure that Miserowski was gonna be used.
• 6:07
  [SPEAKER_02]: But they didn't know if they would dare start him or hold him back or what to do.
• 6:15
  [SPEAKER_00]: You think if you're the brewers and you got Perlta against Boyd, you're in really good shape.
• 6:20
  [SPEAKER_00]: Five Cubs pitcher, some of them have really struggled throughout the year, and they couldn't produce anything.
• 6:26
  [SPEAKER_00]: It was so brewer.
• 6:29
  [SPEAKER_02]: the look on Paralty's face when Habs ball went over the, but just a price list like that cannot be happening.
• 6:39
  [SPEAKER_02]: I'm the brewer ace and I'm supposed to be nailing this down.
• 6:44
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and you think if you get shot out, it's against an ace through seven strong innings, but it was really just a bunch of relievers and they couldn't get past them and now we've got to game five
• 7:01
  [SPEAKER_00]: Everyone's been saying this about the brewers and they've been out to prove us wrong and here we are again You wonder if Saturday that'll be on their minds.
• 7:09
  [SPEAKER_02]: How can every year resemble the last one?
• 7:12
  [SPEAKER_02]: I just it's um, it's insane.
• 7:14
  [SPEAKER_02]: Well, the drama's gonna be great for the for tomorrow game five and Saturday a game five So that'll be excellent.
• 7:22
  [SPEAKER_02]: You won't have to worry about who starts which game win and and at what time
• 7:27
  [SPEAKER_02]: They won't be competing with each other or on the same day.
• 7:31
  [SPEAKER_02]: Sorry, I'm back on the topic of scheduling these games.
• 7:36
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
• 7:36
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
• 7:42
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's a scuba against Kirby in game five in Seattle on Friday.
• 7:47
  [SPEAKER_00]: You would think that as we talked about yesterday, the advantage of pitching wise would go to scuba, although I think most people think the Mariners are favored in this game.
• 7:58
  [SPEAKER_02]: Well, it's it's going to be interesting.
• 8:01
  [SPEAKER_02]: I bet Scooble will be pretty gas by the time he leaves because they're going to leave him out there for for a long time.
• 8:08
  [SPEAKER_02]: You can't imagine the Mariners scoring too many runs off them, but I can also imagine the Tigers not scoring many runs against Kirby.
• 8:16
  [SPEAKER_00]: And the both teams are going to throw out everybody that they can.
• 8:20
  [SPEAKER_00]: This is one of those games that you.
• 8:24
  [SPEAKER_00]: you don't take.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: There's no tomorrow.
• 8:26
  [SPEAKER_02]: That is correct.
• 8:27
  [SPEAKER_02]: And this has to be so enjoyable for the blue jays and now the Dodgers to watch these gamefives with with either team that wins will be a vast underdog.
• 8:42
  [SPEAKER_02]: against Toronto or Los Angeles, and they're using up all their pitchers.
• 8:48
  [SPEAKER_02]: They can't be starting with anybody that they'd like to start off in game one of the LCS.
• 8:55
  [SPEAKER_02]: It shapes up to be a great LDS.
• 8:57
  [SPEAKER_02]: It's been a very nice, interesting, un-sort of unpredictable LDS.
• 9:03
  [SPEAKER_02]: But sadly, it looks like the LC-S is going to be a lot less dramatic and less somebody comes up with a big surprise.
• 9:13
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think Seattle and Toronto would be very good.
• 9:16
  [SPEAKER_00]: Do you?
• 9:17
  [SPEAKER_00]: I do.
• 9:18
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think there are two similar teams.
• 9:22
  [SPEAKER_02]: We'll see if Seattle gets by Detroit tomorrow, but it's possible, but I can also see the Mariners not winning that game.
• 9:32
  [SPEAKER_00]: If it's Detroit and Toronto, it'll feel like the 1989 minute race or division race.
• 9:40
  [SPEAKER_00]: I don't think they've ever played each other in the playoffs before.
• 9:44
  [SPEAKER_00]: No.
• 9:45
  [SPEAKER_00]: And I think that BlueJays would handily win that one.
• 9:48
  [SPEAKER_02]: What would it feel like with the Cubs or the Brewers against the Dodgers?
• 9:53
  [SPEAKER_00]: You know, Dodgers and Brewers played each other last few years.
• 9:57
  [SPEAKER_02]: The Cubs have a certainly overperformed on this podcast.
• 10:02
  [SPEAKER_02]: Everybody, you know, a lot of people were picking them not to win and not to win and not to win.
• 10:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: So when they went down to, oh, I said they were done.
• 10:11
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yes, it's amazing what's happened.
• 10:14
  [SPEAKER_02]: They were just so out performed in those first two games.
• 10:18
  [SPEAKER_02]: So.
• 10:19
  [SPEAKER_00]: and really that's what makes baseball unique.
• 10:22
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's really a day-to-day game.
• 10:24
  [SPEAKER_02]: It really is and it depends on the pitchers, but I bet there's going to be a lot of cubs fans who try to get to Milwaukee on Saturday and try to turn that into a really field north as it's sometimes it does.
• 10:38
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's a short walk.
• 10:41
  [SPEAKER_00]: How's that in Milwaukee?
• 10:43
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yes.
• 10:47
  [SPEAKER_00]: We now as we were about to finish, if we were about to close out the podcast, we welcomed Michelle with her thoughts, Michelle, two game fives.
• 10:58
  [SPEAKER_01]: What a treat for baseball fans, at least they get some, at least they get some game fives, right?
• 11:05
  [SPEAKER_01]: Should be good ones.
• 11:06
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think I think Seattle Detroit's going to be a great game on Friday.
• 11:11
  [SPEAKER_01]: I picked the Mariners.
• 11:14
  [SPEAKER_01]: Because I want the mirrors to win, and I still want them to win, and I still think they will.
• 11:18
  [SPEAKER_01]: But like you were saying at the night call, I think it's going to be a low scoring game.
• 11:25
  [SPEAKER_01]: You know, it's so funny because we were talking about how mistakes, you know, air is based running airs or just feeling air can turn the tide of a game and that happened tonight.
• 11:37
  [SPEAKER_01]: And, you know, my heart goes out to that young pitcher in Philadelphia because he's going to relive that moment for a very long time.
• 11:46
  [SPEAKER_01]: And we were talking on our high school, pretty good.
• 11:49
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, we were just talking.
• 11:51
  [SPEAKER_01]: I made the comment about I thought that one of the worst fan bases as far as the way they usually treat opposing players is Philadelphia.
• 12:01
  [SPEAKER_01]: And I hope those fans aren't as nasty to their own as they would be to somebody else.
• 12:10
  [SPEAKER_00]: People at a new post is blame on that picture is kind of an idiot because they had every opportunity to win a game.
• 12:17
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yes, that game I thought was great.
• 12:20
  [SPEAKER_01]: Great pitching duel early.
• 12:21
  [SPEAKER_01]: The starters went into the seventh inning.
• 12:24
  [SPEAKER_01]: So fantastic work, but the Dodgers, when you get opportunities, great teams take advantage of them.
• 12:31
  [SPEAKER_01]: They drew a basis loaded walk to tie the game and then then when the game on an error and they were able to win the game on the air because they were able to get the basis loaded even with two outs and then they got lucky.
• 12:44
  [SPEAKER_01]: I mean Philadelphia had its opportunities.
• 12:48
  [SPEAKER_01]: It didn't come through.
• 12:49
  [SPEAKER_01]: I will say this.
• 12:51
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think the Dodgers are playing very well and I won't be shocked at all and I kind of think they're going to make it to their second straight world series.
• 13:00
  [SPEAKER_01]: Not sure the winner, but I think don't make it there.
• 13:02
  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm afraid they're going to win it all again, Paul.
• 13:06
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yes, sadly.
• 13:08
  [SPEAKER_02]: No, I, I think there's a secret weapon, but I'm not going to talk about that tonight, but yes, I agree.
• 13:13
  [SPEAKER_02]: And I'm not so sure they deserve to win that game today, but
• 13:21
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think I think to your point, Michelle, about Kirkering, the players were fine.
• 13:27
  [SPEAKER_02]: They were in the dugout, consoling them, they'll say the right things.
• 13:32
  [SPEAKER_02]: And the fans next year will, if he's still on the Philly roster, will be fine, they'll forget.
• 13:40
  [SPEAKER_02]: But it's going to be a brutal week for him on less enlightened talk shows than this one.
• 13:48
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yes.
• 13:49
  [SPEAKER_01]: He, well, that replay, I mean, he's going to be sports radio, other pot national, national podcast.
• 13:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: He's, he's probably going to hear some of it.
• 14:00
  [SPEAKER_01]: And, um, like I said, I, my heart does.
• 14:04
  [SPEAKER_00]: I'll part of it.
• 14:04
  [SPEAKER_00]: And then I'll help me cast Diana, it's also here's from the strike and out all the time.
• 14:10
  [SPEAKER_00]: The guy made the play, but they had, how many times did they have runners on base with the chance to add a run?
• 14:19
  [SPEAKER_01]: If I think the burrs will win against the cubs, I do think they'll pull it out tomorrow, but I think L.A.
• 14:26
  [SPEAKER_01]: doesn't matter who wins, because like I said, I think Los Angeles is going to make it back to the world series.
• 14:31
  [SPEAKER_01]: I will say this.
• 14:32
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to pull for the Mariners.
• 14:35
  [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, I'm not a brewers team that chokes every single year.
• 14:38
  [SPEAKER_01]: I know, but I think they'll get to that.
• 14:40
  [SPEAKER_01]: I don't think they'll get beyond the next series.
• 14:43
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think right now, the only team might be capable of beating Los Angeles truly is Toronto, because the way they hit the ball, they score a lot of runs.
• 14:53
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think Seattle's just as good as Toronto.
• 14:57
  [SPEAKER_02]: I agree with you, Michelle, and I against Greg.
• 14:59
  [SPEAKER_02]: He's not convinced about Toronto, but.
• 15:04
  [SPEAKER_02]: To wrap up the Kirkering throw, the people who'll be glad to see this will be anybody related to Bill Buckner.
• 15:12
  [SPEAKER_02]: He took more than his shared credit of make, you know, he made an error after they'd lost the lead and it was the last play of that game, but to make an error that badly for your
• 15:31
  [SPEAKER_02]: with, you know, to end their season, that throw could have been made, even if he threw to the wrong basic, at least it might have been a straight throw.
• 15:43
  [SPEAKER_02]: That was great.
• 15:44
  [SPEAKER_00]: He was over three in possibilities of getting that out.
• 15:47
  [SPEAKER_00]: That is great.
• 15:49
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think when he bobbled the ball, everything flew out from his mind and he panicked, and he just totally forgot everything, and he's like, oh, so he just threw home.
• 16:01
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yep, you panic.
• 16:02
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yep.
• 16:04
  [SPEAKER_00]: But like I said, they had 12 strikeouts.
• 16:06
  [SPEAKER_00]: They had lots of runners in scoring positions.
• 16:08
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yes, they did.
• 16:09
  [SPEAKER_01]: They had opportunities.
• 16:10
  [SPEAKER_01]: They lost that game.
• 16:11
  [SPEAKER_02]: Correct.
• 16:12
  [SPEAKER_02]: And they walked the tying run in the seventh inning with the bases loaded.
• 16:17
  [SPEAKER_02]: Sir, they decided to walk O'Connie, who was hitting 150 to face rookie bats who was batting 400.
• 16:26
  [SPEAKER_02]: It's just a bad decision.
• 16:31
  [SPEAKER_02]: before they walk, every but a lot of people, including Otoni, were swinging at balls that were not strikes tonight, but mooky bats in that situation is not going to do it.
• 16:45
  [SPEAKER_02]: Now point.
• 16:46
  [SPEAKER_02]: Thanks, guys.
• 16:48
  [SPEAKER_02]: Enjoy Games 5.
• 16:52
  [SPEAKER_00]: Thanks Paul and Michelle, thank you for listening.
• 16:55
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